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Day 112 – E.K. Johnston
April 22, 2018 November 30, 2019 Amy Richau365 Star Wars Women / Behind the Scenes / Books / Interview / Writers1 Comment on Day 112 – E.K. Johnston
E.K. Johnston is the author of Ahsoka and the short story “By Whatever Sun” that was a part of the anthology From a Certain Point of View. Her other books include A Thousand Nights and The Story of Owen. She was kind enough to answer a few questions via email for 365 Days of Star Wars Women.
When were you introduced to Star Wars? What appeals to you the most about the galaxy far, far away (favorite characters/movies, etc.)?
When I was very little, I started listening to the Return of the Jedi on vinyl. It was kind of a radio play type thing, with the voices and sound effects and whatnot. I really don’t have memories before I knew what Carrie Fisher and Darth Vader’s respirator sounded like. My favourite character has always been Leia Organa, with Padmé, Hera, Sabine, and Ahsoka rounding out my top five (not necessarily in that order!). Clearly I’m in it for the Rebel Girls.
Did you read many Star Wars Expanded Universe (now Legends) books? If so any favorites? How about canon books? Any favorites or favorite time periods?
I think the only two Legends books I’ve ever read are KENOBI and RAZOR’S EDGE, both of which I absolutely adored. I’ve read most of the new canon (at least, the ones about the good guys). LOST STARS has my heart forever, though I also love THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER and the plot of Battlefront II pretty dearly. For me, it’s less an era than it is the characters: I want to read about the women.
How did you find out you were going to write Ahsoka? Were you looking to write a Star Wars book or was it a happy surprise? Were you a fan of The Clone Wars (and specifically Ahsoka) before you started writing this book?
I had asked my agent if he could look into getting me a Star Wars contract, so I had my hopes up! Eventually, I did get a very exciting phone call, and then we were off to the races. I loved the Clone Wars, and Ahsoka. For various reasons, I didn’t watch the show until after it was done, but it was certainly love at first sight.
What kind of guidelines or guidance did you get from Lucasfilm about the outline of events in Ahsoka?
They asked for a YA story about Ahsoka becoming Fulcrum, which put me on a pretty tight timeline (YA books are, generally speaking, YA because they’re about a teenage character, and Ahsoka was already 18 when I started). Aside from that, everyone was so generous with their time, making sure we stayed away from both A NEW DAWN and KENOBI in terms of the beats Ahsoka hit as another “Jedi, Alone”.
How excited were you to see Ahsoka return near the end of Star Wars Rebels and see that her character survived long past the events of the end of that series? Did you have any idea that was the case?
FUNNY STORY, so Rebels airs a week later in Canada, which meant I basically deleted my Twitter for a bit, and then ended up watching the finale in a subway station parking lot in Toronto almost two weeks after it aired in the US. I cried actual rainbows in the car, and probably shouted at the screen a bit, and then I pulled myself together—or so I thought, because halfway across the parking lot, I had to sit down on a bench and cry again. I was so excited. And no one spoiled me. And I am SUPREMELY grateful for that.
You also wrote the short story “By Whatever Sun” that featured a character you created for the novel Ahsoka, Miara Larte, with Ashley Eckstein in FACPOV. How did you hear about this project and how did the team up with Ashley come about? Did you know right away you wanted to write something about Miara for this project?
All of that actually began with Ashley. She told me she had an idea, and asked if I would write it. She wanted to put female pilots in the front row of the medal ceremony, and she wanted to use Miara. Obviously I said yes! Collaborating with Ashley was awesome, and working on the FACPOV anthology was soooooo much fun.
This is more of a reader question. In “By Whatever Sun” Miara is at the medal ceremony in Yavin at the end of A New Hope. I got the feeling that she wasn’t a part of the Battle of Yavin but had gathered there with other rebels a short time afterward. Is that correct? Any chance Miara was in the Battle of Scariff or another famous rebel battle from a different film or TV show?
To be honest, I have avoided thinking about it. You know, just in case. 😉
(I have thought about it SO MUCH. She’s not in the Battle of Scariff because, uh, reasons *coughs*, and Miara no longer flies single-pilot craft, so she wasn’t in the Battle of Yavin either.)
Would you enjoy writing more Star Wars books in the future? If so, are there any specific characters or time periods you’d love to get a chance to write about? If you could write another story about one of the new characters you created for Ahsoka what character would you choose? More Miara or a different character?
I would love to. I’d love to write Sabine Wren (before Rebels, not after. Okay, maybe after too.) or, for something completely different, Palpatine. Kaeden and Miara are the two characters I hold closest to my heart, of course, and I’d love to see them in the wider Rebellion.
Can you talk about any books/comics you have coming out soon or are working on now? For fans that have only read your Star Wars stories is there a book of yours you feel like is the most obvious to recommend?
I have a new YA out next year called THE AFTERWARD. It’s an epic fantasy set post-quest, when the knight and thief who fell in love while saving the world have to readjust to normal life and deal with things like student loans and the crushing weight of expectation.
If readers found me via Star Wars, I would recommend THE STORY OF OWEN for a follow-up. It’s not a space adventure, but it is about a dragon slayer and his bard (or, perhaps more accurately, a bard and her dragon slayer), living in modern southwestern Ontario.
You can find E.K. Johnston on Twitter @ek_johnston or at her personal website.
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Excerpt from PEACHY PRINCESSES anD IMPETUOUS PRINCES - A Book for GIRLS ONLY!
BOOTS WHO MADE THE PRINCESS SAY, "THAT'S A STORY"
Once on a time there was a king who had a daughter, and she was such a dreadful story-teller that the like of her was not to be found far or near. So the king gave out, that if anyone could tell such a string of lies as would get her to say, "That's a story," he should have her to wife, and half the kingdom besides. Well, many came, as you may fancy, to try their luck, for everyone would have been very glad to have the Princess, to say nothing of the kingdom; but they all cut a sorry figure, for the Princess was so given to story-telling, that all their lies went in at one ear and out of the other. Among the rest came three brothers to try their luck, and the two elder went first, but they fared no better than those who had gone before them. Last of all, the third, Boots, set off and found the Princess in the farm-yard.
"Good morning," he said, "and thank you for nothing."
"Good morning" said she, "and the same to you."
Then she went on
"You haven't such a fine farm-yard as ours, I'll be bound; for when two shepherds stand, one at each end of it, and blow their ram's horns, the one can't hear the other."
"Haven't we though!" answered Boots; "ours is far bigger; for when a cow begins to go with calf at one end of it, she doesn't get to the other end before the time to drop her calf is come."
"I dare say!" said the Princess. "Well, but you haven't such a big ox, after all, as ours yonder; for when two men sit, one on each horn, they can't touch each other with a twenty-foot rule."
"Stuff!" said Boots; "is that all? why, we have an ox who is so big, that when two men sit, one
on each horn, and each blows his great mountain-trumpet, they can't hear one another."
"I dare say," said the Princess; "but you haven't so much milk as we, I'll be bound; for we milk our kine into great pails, and carry them in-doors, and empty them into great tubs, and so we make great, great cheeses."
"Oh! you do, do, you?" said Boots. "Well, we milk ours into great tubs, and then we put them in carts and drive them in-doors, and then we turn them out into great brewing vats, and so we make cheeses as big as a great house. We had, too, a dun mare to tread the cheese well together when it was making; but once she tumbled down into the cheese, and we lost her; and after we had eaten at this cheese seven years, we came upon a great dun mare, alive and kicking. Well, once after that I was going to drive this mare to the mill, and her back-bone snapped in two; but I wasn't put out, not I, for I took a spruce sapling, and put it into her for a back-bone, and she had no other back-bone all the while we had her. But the sapling grew up into such a tall tree, that I climbed right up to heaven by it, and when I got there, I saw the Virgin Mary sitting and spinning the foam of the sea into pigs'-bristle ropes; but just then the spruce-fir broke short off, and I couldn't get down again; so the Virgin Mary let me down by one of the ropes, and down I slipped straight into a fox's hole, and who should sit there but my mother and your father cobbling shoes; and just as I stepped in, my mother gave your father such a box on the ear, that it made his whiskers curl."
"That's a story!" said the Princess; "my father never did any such thing in all his born days!"
So Boots got the Princess to wife, and half the kingdom besides.
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THE SILENT PRINCESS
THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF KING O' HARA
THE SLIPPERS OF THE TWELVE PRINCESSES
BINNORIE
THE LAD WITH THE GOAT-SKIN
THE PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY
THE OUTCAST PRINCE
THE STORM FIEND
THE LAIDLY WORM OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH
THE MAJIC TURBAN, THE MAJIC WHIP AND THE MAJIC CARPET
WHITE CLOUD'S VISIT TO THE SUN-PRINCE
ARA AND SEMIRAMIS
HOW THE RAJA'S SON WON THE PRINCESS LABAM
THE GOLDEN SLIPPER
THE IVORY CITY AND ITS FAIRY PRINCESS
THE FIRE-BIRD, THE HORSE OF POWER, AND THE PRINCESS VASILISSA
SIGURD AT THE HOUSE OF THE NIBELUNGS
ONE HUNDRED HARES
THE TWELVE DUCKS
THE PRINCESS AND THE FORESTER'S SON
THE PRINCESS ON THE GLASS HILL
GAMMELYN, THE DRESSMAKER
THE SEA KING AND THE MAGIC JEWELS
THE GREEN BIRD
THE TALKING BIRD, THE SINGING TREE, AND THE GOLDEN WATER
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[Esper] Yamaguchi Hiromi
A Certain Alternate Universe :: Player's Lounge :: Profiles :: Inactive Characters :: Character Adoption
Yamaguchi Hiromi on Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:35 pm
Yamaguchi Hiromi
LEVEL 3 Mass Teleport
"Being optimistic doesn't make me naïve, nor does being kind make me an idiot. Hope and kindness are a proof of wisdom in their own way."
FULL NAME: Yamaguchi Hiromi
OTHER ALIAS: Hiro, Hiro-chan
OCCUPATION: Trainee in a certain hospital
SCHOOL: Dangai University (Medical courses)
FACTION: The Yamaguchi Yakuza Clan
APPEARANCE: Hiromi has short purple/black hair and large hazel-colored eyes.
She prefers to wear modestly; often opting for comfortable clothes too. She is usually wearing a light colored long-sleeved blouse or shirt with a dark-colored vest sweater over it. She also prefers wearing trousers, but if she was obliged to wear a skirt or a dress, she would wear shorts underneath. However, her friend and roommate Sayaka would always tease her about this habit, saying it was no need to wear shorts if the skirt was already "ten meters long" (In reality it just reaches slightly past her knees).
Hiromi also has a relatively small chest compared to girls her age. Though she never seemed to care or to be bothered by it. This joins her general attitude to not care about looks: she never uses make up, always has a totally natural hair aside from brushing it a bit, and never wants to follow the clothing trend if it was at the expense of her comfort in those clothes. For her, physical and psychological comfort in what you wear comes first. Other girls sometimes tease her about this attitude, but she always replies that it's the least of her concerns, saying that looks shouldn't determine how people look at you, and that she prefers to be herself rather than to show off to others with fabricated and sophisticated looks.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Her somewhat childish and cheerful attitude make it so that she is often mistaken for being a high school student.
She is also smiling most of the time without any real reason, so a lot of people -who have yet to know her in person- find her somewhat weird or just simply ridiculous.
A Kind Heart
She is nice, kind and generous. She wants to help people as much as she can. That's why, she finds herself usually unable to say no when asked a favour. And so, people tend to exploit her, thinking she is naïve and stupid. However, they don't know that in reality, she is fully aware of their intentions. She just finds it bothersome to start a quarrel because of something this trivial. It isn't worth the trouble. As long as they don't overdo it, she's ok with being exploited if it is to help them.
Optimistic and Hopeful
She always thinks the best out of people. Always trying to look at the bright side of things, she believes every tragedy has a solution. If someone does something bad, she always tries to think of a possible reason for why he did it. She wants to believe in the good inside of them, and that no matter how much a person is evil, he only became like that because of an accumulation of mistakes he did along his life path. If she was able to become a better person herself, then everybody could too. However, she didn't blame the world for the individuals' missdeeds. She believed it was their own choice to become like that. And that's precisely why she believes people can always correct themselves and improve to the best. On the other hand, she knows that the world is no perfect place, and that society is cruel and unfair. But for her, it's the individuals who made it that way, not the other way around. So by helping the individuals become better people, the world as a whole would improve too. She believed that such a dream was definitely not out of reach.
Hard-working and persevering
Her strong patience and optimism have allowed her to do her best at everything she did. Even if she failed, she would try again, and again, until she finally succeeds. She was a person to never give up.
Extremely curious, she has always been interested in the different rumours going around, to the extent of investigating them herself. This has caused her a good amount of trouble in the past though.
Another aspect is that she would try to understand other people. She wanted to know how everyone around her was thinking. But in the face of her inability to do so, she would just take the most positive course of things and would assume a person’s intentions are often good ones, unless the opposite was clear.
Very attentive... Or not
She was someone to be quickly distracted, often seen day-dreaming, specially when she was bored. However, when serious, she shows a frightening degree of concentration.
Hot-headed yet calm
She would generally control her anger and bother in front of strangers and show off a calm collected face. But when it comes to close people, she would show her true colors, and just how much Hot-headed she actually is. She was a person to get angry and the slightest and most trivial things.
Strong sense of Justice
She is a person who stands up to the week and defends the oppressed. Her dream is to change the world to a better place, where no one is a victim. She hated unjustice afterall.
Quickly embarrassed, Overly Sentimental
She gets embarrassed about the smallest and most insignificant things. She also has a problem voicing out her feelings. She finds it awkward to say them openly, even to close people.
+ Her family
+ Good & nice people: She respected such people, and has high esteem of them.
+ Her best friend: Itou Sayaka
+ A world without tragedies: That was the dream she wanted to achieve.
+ Cute things
- Insects: She hates all kinds of insects. It is not a matter of simple disgust. She has a genuine fear towards those small creatures.
- People who swear as if it was nothing: Even though she doesn't really hate such people, she still finds herself extremely bothered when someone curses in front of her. What annoys her the most are people who say vulgar words while really believing it is no big deal. 'At least when you curse, be aware that it may not be such a "normal" thing to other people!'
- To betray other people's expectation: She thinks she had to live up to everyone’s expectations because she didn’t want to disappoint other people or bother them. She had many insecurities concerning this.
- Misunderstandings: Specially those regarding serious problems.
- Unjustice and opression: She didn’t like how people always turn blind eyes to such things.
- Physical Contact: Unless it’s shaking hands. She was ok with that.
+ Sports: She’s an athletic person
+ Keeping the spirits of those around her high
+ Music :She has always been fond of musical studies. She plays the Violin for seven years now.
- Cooking
- Understanding People’s Behaviour
- Jokes And Non-logic Based Riddles
HISTORY: Hiromi is the daughter of a Yakuza Oyabun (Boss), Yamaguchi Yamato, and his wife, Yamaguchi Rina.
The Yamaguchis had been a small Yakuza group in Japan. But less than a decade ago, they witnessed a surprising ascension, thanks to the efforts of its new Oyabun: Yamaguchi Yamato, and his spouse -who was still his fiancée at the time- Rina. Unlike other Yakuza groups, Hiromi's family had some strict values and morals when it came to using their power : They should only use it to help people, not to hurt them. They also had to avoid involving innocents in their world. They prohibited any business whose victims would be the civilians, such as drug deals for example. Yamato believed in the importance of keeping their territory "clean" to gain the citizens' trust. And it worked. Added to the fact that the couple were pretty much charismatic and trustworthy people, these rules encouraged the "honest" people to put their faith in this clan. In exchange for their trust, the clan was responsible for the safety and well-being of the people living in their territory. Nowadays, the Yamaguchi Yakuza Group, despite its small territory compared to other groups, has one of the most efficient information network and stable economic incomes and deals thanks to the support of the "honest" people, but also thanks to having very loyal followers despite their small number.
Even though it wasn't a "job" to be proud of, the parents were pretty much open about it with their daughter since her early childhood. As for Hiromi, she accepted the fact with open arms, having an unwavering trust in her parents after noticing how they maintained their values in that world tainted with blood. Her parents are her Heroes to whom she looks up.
When Hiromi was eight, the Yamaguchi Clan encountered a crisis when the other clans of Yakuza united to destroy it. Concerned about their daughter’s safety, Yamato and Rina sent her to Academy City, fully knowing they wouldn’t be able to take her back if things ever calmed down on their end. Two years later, Yamato became the new Oyabun of the Clan; and thanks to his efforts alongside his loyal followers, the Yamaguchi Clan achieved victory and gained a lot of allies down the road, gaining more power in the underground of Japan as a result. When things finally settled down, the parents tried to have Hiromi back nonetheless, but in vain. They didn't have any influence over Academy City afterall. Not wanting to draw more enemies when the clan was still recovering, and seeing that their daughter was happy with her new lifestyle, the Yamaguchi Oyabuns left her there.
Some years later, she joined Tokiwadai Middle School. In Tokiwadai, she met her best friend and roommate since then, Itou Sayaka. After her graduation from middle school, Hiromi had already made up her mind. She wanted to pursue medical studies in college. To increase her chances, she had to study in an elite high school. So she enrolled in Nagatenjouki Academy. Being one of the best five, if not the best, and most prestigious schools in Academy City, it offered her all the opportunities she was looking for.
Right now, she’s a medical student at Dangai University. Her dream is to be Heaven Canceller’s, the Legendary Doctor, trainee and student.
MASS TELEPORT:
As it's name suggests, it is, like any other kind of Teleportation powers, an ability to transport matter through space instantaneously.
The theory behind teleportation is to move the target away from the 3rd dimension, find its coordinates in the 11th dimension, and then calculate the vectors to teleport it. She can't teleport herself yet though.
She has any teleporter's normal weaknesses: If she is in pain, anxious, confused, or unable to remain calm, she becomes unable to do the necessary calculations and thus won’t be able to use her powers. Also she cannot teleport other teleporters as it might lead to contradictions in their respective calculations.
However, it is called "Mass" Teleport for a reason. It offers her the possibility to teleport several items at once, as long as it is within her weight limits. However, the things she teleports have to be in direct contact with her skin or within a range of 2,37 metres radius, meaning 5.58 metres diameter.
If the objects are in direct contact, she can teleport them to a distance varying between 20 and 30 m. Her maximum weight limit is around 100 Kg, all targets included.
With physical touch, she can teleport items simultaneously. As for those teleported from distance, it would require a bit more focus and she would have to point with her fingers at the object and the direction it's should be teleported to.
OTHER ABILITIES:
Efficient Medical Knowledge
Being a medical student, she has acquired the basics of said science. However, as her dream was to train under the Legendary Doctor, she wasn’t content with what she learned at school and made her own progress in medical studies.
Quick Thinker
She is smart and has a solid logical thought pattern, showing an incredible ability to come to the right conclusions in a brief amount of time, giving the said problem follows a logical pattern. But if it was random, she wouldn’t be able to predict it, like people’s emotions, or jokes, etc…
High Adaptation Ability
Thanks to often getting into trouble because of her curiosity, she has learned to be always mentally ready for any sudden situation changes.
As a past student of Tokiwadai, she knows some other languages aside from Japanese. They are mainly English, French, Arabic and Spanish.
CHARACTER THEME:
Reminiscene, Old Innocent Times - Axel And Roxas
Resolve, A Decision To Make - Will
Monsters And One Human, In The Face Of Death - Enfin apparu!!
Promise, An Owth To Keep With A Last Breath - Sis Puella Magica!
What Is Left In The End, Emptiness - Trisha's Lullaby
Despair, No Hope Is Left - Soundscape To Ardor
Tragedy, A World Where People Are… - Decretum
Embarassingly Embarassing Situation - Mr. Hibbit
Angelic Ruins, Demonic Battlefield - Exorcist
Struggle, Lost In A Dark Labyrinth - Rap Wa Kan No Tamashii.... Datta..... Yona
Fight, Fight, Fight Back And Stand Up - Pride
If You Need Help, Don't forget You Have Friends - Standing Friends
Big Dreams, I Can See A Gentle Light - Sora e No Michi
Trouble Trouble! Run Run Run! Hahaha! - Guns & Roses
A Strong Fist, A Firm Foot, A Sure Victory - Tsuna Awakens
A Crying Heart, A Lonely Smile - Hoshi No Namida
Farwell, Every Story Has An End - Parting Song
Urban Legend, Doors To Mystery - Kaiketsunagara Mo Anze
Challenge, Conquer The Impossible - The Very Very Very Strongest
Home, Yakuza Head-Quarters - Alveare no Bruce
Easy Going, Happy Everyday Life - The Sought-after Extraordinary
PLAYER'S NAME: Yamaguchi Hiromi
CHATANGO NAME: YHiromi
FACE CLAIM: Yukinoshita Haruno, Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Come Wa Machigatteiru
OTHER CHARACTERS: N/A
MISC. INFORMATION: N/A
Last edited by Yamaguchi Hiromi on Sat Jun 27, 2015 6:30 pm; edited 14 times in total
Level 3 Mass Teleporter
Location : Dangai University/A Certain Hospital, Academy City
Re: [Esper] Yamaguchi Hiromi
Yamaguchi Hiromi on Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:50 pm
So, this is the test post :
TEST POST:
"Hiro, Wake up~ Hiro! Come on wake up! Hi-Ro-Mi! Hey! HIII~ ROO~MIII~ Ugh! JUST WAKE UP ALREADY YOU LAZY SPOILED GIRL!!!" Screamed the long-haired young lady who was now shaking off her roommate violently.
"Wh-What’s happening here?!" The other one who had been sleeping, woke up terrified. She then saw her friend in front of her.
"Oh it’s just you Sayaka? I thought there was an earthquake for a second."
After a moment of silence, and as if finally realizing what her friend had been doing just now she added "Wait... Hey! What was that for? Can’t you just wake me up calmly like any civilized human being on this earth would do?!"
When hearing this, Sayaka stopped. Hiromi, who thought that she hit the nail, let out a sigh.
"Heh. Hehehe." Sayaka suddently started laughing with a weird grin on her face.
"Oi. Why are you laughing like that? Just stop it. It’s creepy." The yet-sleepy girl said slightly norrowing her eyes, fully knowing that this is not the end of it.
"Hehehehehehehe. Civilized? You, of all people, are talking about civilized behavior? You nearly got me there, Hiromi~", she stopped again for some seconds, then started shouting, "I WAS TRYING TO WAKE YOU UP FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR NOW YOU BLOCKHEAD IDIOT!!! LIKE ANY CIVILIZED WAY WOULD ACTUALLY WORK WITH YOU!!!"
"Fine, fine, fine. Just calm down would you! I’m sorry okay?" Hiromi, startled, put her hands on her ears to cover them. Unlike her, Sayaka wasn’t someone to get angry easily, so if she ever did, Yamaguchi Hiromi knew better than to push things too far, because it was most likely that she was the one at fault, as always.
So, as if trying to change the topic, Hiromi asked:
"Now that I think about it, isn’t today a Week-end? Why are you wearing your uniform? Do you have extra classes?"
"Ah. No. It's just Judgement Work as usual."
‘Eh… That quarreling this morning left me with a headacke.’
It was nearly noon at Academy City. Hiromi was bored after being left by herself, so she went out to breathe some air. Something made her regret her decision though: It was way hotter than she expected.
She thought about going back. But as bored as she was, she just continued in her tracks, not bothering to turn around.
"Get lost you loser!"
"Why are you even in this city!"
"Yeah! Get lost already!"
"Hiiiiiiik! Please, stop it! I beg you!"
‘Hmm? What was that?’
She heard kids yelling. She turned around searching for where the sounds came from.
‘There!’
She saw a bunch of kids gathered around a young boy, most probabely slightly younger than them, judging from the looks. She wondered what was going on there. The words of the children didn’t seem that friendly afterall. After approaching a little bit more, she saw it, and her fears came true. Her suspicions were spot on : Those older kids were bullying that younger boy.
She hated it when stronger people gathered around a weaker opponent to just put him in misery. That was unfair. She couldn’t stand it. She couldn’t understand it either. She had to help that child, now!
"Hey! You! What do you think you’re doing to him?" She yelled at them, in a fierce intonation. She did it on purpose to scare them. Because any leniency on her part towards them would be taken for a weakness. So she had to be strict, even if they were kids. No, it’s precisely because they were kids, they needed someone to teach them to respect others.
"Oh no ! We were found out! Run!"
"You’re not running anywhere!" She said as she teleported three nearby boxes in front of them. "Don’t think you’ll be escaping from me today. So just be good kids and wait here with me quitely until…"
"Until what ?" Asked one of the bullies, scared and shivering in his place.
"You’ll find out when they arrive."
About twenty minutes later.
"You’re late, too late. I was bored to death. Are you sure judgement is doing well if it’s taking your members this long to get to a place this close to your departement?" Complained Hiromi.
"We’re doing good. No need to worry about us." Answered Sayaka, slightly annoyed by her friend’s comment.
"Hooo? Fine then…" Hiromi wasn’t really in the mood for another quarrel, so she didn’t insist further. It was too hot to be wasting effort on a such a trivial matter.
"More importantly, what do-"
Hiromi ignored her, because she knew she was just going to start grounding her for something or the other, and she would like to avoid that. So she headed to the young child who had been attacked instead. He looked about seven. It was painful for her to see such an innocent face with bruises all over it. She thought she would try conforting the boy somehow, even though she was horrible at it.
"Hey. Are you alright ? Do you have any serious injuries ? Are you hurt ? Do you need some-", she started asking questions one after the other, not knowing exactly what she should be saying.
"Um, onee-chan, you don’t have to ask that much, you know? People will think you’re weird. No, the correct word for it is a weirdo." Replied the boy.
"Huh ?" She said with a blank look. It took her few more seconds to fully take in the boy’s words.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, BRAT?!!!" She started shouting, her face as red as a tomato.
"Fufu, serves you right~" Sayaka was now making fun of her too.
"SH-SHUT UP SAYAKA !"
And this was just another ordinary day from the life of the girl called Yamaguchi Hiromi.
Thanks a lot for reading it, and I hope it is ok! ^^
Last edited by Yamaguchi Hiromi on Fri Jun 19, 2015 5:01 pm; edited 2 times in total
Misaka Mikoto on Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:43 pm
Right, time to tackle this profile. First, let's do the main character.
While it's an interesting character what I immediately see is the non-sensical Yakuza power. Firstly, I don't really see how a yakuza group like them would manage to overtake every single other yakuza group when back-stabbing's a thing in the business; not everyone would go along with their pacific and kind-hearted ways towards other civilians and it'd cause at some point a complete internal war. Personally I don't believe things would be smooth and they'd somehow make it to be the absolute best yakuza group in the entire country if they even restrict their own business.
Which leads me to my second point, so far we've refused that people give themselves the rank or family of the “absolute best in X field” so I'm afraid that for fairness's sake we'll have to keep that up. Especially as I don't really see the importance behind them being the most powerful group in Japan for the actual character; it mostly sounds like a powered history for the sake of it, and since you know the Raildex verse you'll know that families aren't exactly the most recurring of themes so here I don't really see the need for all of this powered-yakuza trait (which is why The Oyabun's Daughter wouldn't even apply as a rank; in AC she's just another student amongst many others and the yakuza don't exactly have influence over AC).
Next in the profile is her schools. I'm moderately okay with Tokiwadai as a middle school, the only problem I see is that Tokiwadai refused the application of a princess, so I can't fathom why they'd accept a yakuza's child considering the social taboo in Japan concerning the yakuza and considering the School Garden is a foster for sheltered girls.
However, I'm going to have to refuse A Certain Highschool as her highschool for the very simple reason that no character who's had enough class to attend Tokiwadai's Middle School would want to attend a low-level school like A Certain Highschool. It just feels like justification for her to meet Seria, and we don't really fancy the easy routes in terms of involvement with those kind of things that can easily lead to the dark side.
Not only that, but it wouldn't be beneficial for her as a medic student. There's not much prestige in saying you're from that Level 0~2 A Certain Highschool compared to the prestige you get for attending the Elite Tokiwadai Middle School that has two of the seven Level 5s.
"Mikoto speaks"
'Mikoto thinks'
Misaka Mikoto
Level 5 Electromaster
Location : Tokiwadai's Middle School, Academy City
Yamaguchi Hiromi on Sat Jun 13, 2015 1:56 am
Misaka Mikoto wrote: Right, time to tackle this profile. First, let's do the main character.
Yeah, I understand. You’re right, I gave them too much power. I will tone it down, specially that, as you said, it doesn’t add anything to the character herself.
Also, about the rank, I thought it meant the rank in the Faction she belongs to? I didn’t think it was a rank that had to apply inside AC too. So I misunderstood it, sorry.
I changed it it.
Misaka Mikoto wrote: Next in the profile is her schools. I'm moderately okay with Tokiwadai as a middle school, the only problem I see is that Tokiwadai refused the application of a princess, so I can't fathom why they'd accept a yakuza's child considering the social taboo in Japan concerning the yakuza and considering the School Garden is a foster for sheltered girls.
Ah I was actually thinking that the school wouldn’t know about her Yakuza background. (Specially that after the edit, they are a small group, so they wouldn’t be that known to the outer world).
Also, about that princess, I thought they refused her because her level wasn’t enough even though she was a princess, not refused her because she was a princess, no? I thought Tokiwadai didn’t discriminate with student and only took their level as the single criteria.
About A Certain High School, you’re right, I was just thinking to make her not like being in a prestigious school that’s overprotective. The Seria idea came afterwards. But yeah, it would make it too ease as you said, so I’ll change the school. Is Nagatenjouki Academy fine? It’s an elite school that would give her a better chance to be a medical student.
I edited it as you said.
3/ I also changed the reflexes part (in the abilities) as you told me in PM. Now her physical ability should be fine, she no longer has the strong reflexes, just an ability to adapt mentally and psychologically to sudden situation changes.
4/Also, I didn’t change the Glove & Heat Sensor as you told me in PM because I didn’t understand what I was supposed to change, sorry. I would appreciate if you explained this point again. I apologize.
Finally, thanks a lot for taking the time to read it and for giving detailed notes ^^
& I hope the edits were ok
Misaka Mikoto on Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:10 pm
Alright, I see no more problems with the yakuza background so we can move to the next parts after a slight reply on the points you've made.
I have to say in regards to the Tokiwadai paragraph of yours though, that Tokiwadai is an Elite school hand-picking their students; there's no way they wouldn't know about her family.
But regardless fair point, though I was kind of talking about the impact on their students moreso than the actual school's acceptance of her, so it's probably a problem in how I expressed it. If Tokiwadai accepted her, she might have gone through pretty bad social exclusion (possibly even being an object of fear) by Tokiwadai's students from her yakuza daughter status even if the school found Esper worth in her compared to that princess, since girls usually don't take to the Japanese mafia kindly and rumours can spread like fire.
Though as long as you keep the risks of her past of social exclusion in mind (or heck, even use it to your advantage IC for bonus character development), I personally don't mind her past as a Tokiwadai student, so it was merely just a mention to keep in mind.
Nagaten sounds all right, so I'll approve of that as well.
Additional Abilities
The edits are all right, but I'm going to have to ask to remove the additional equipment of her friend. It sounds like pretty advanced Academy City technology and personally I don't think it'd go well in the hands of a medic student even if her geek friend decided to give them to her rather than expose them to the city. Plus, it kind of sounds like equipment just for the sake of having more cards at hand when I can't really see what a supposedly now passive girl like her would do with that.
And we overall much prefer small machines for everyday use than actual equipment for combat in terms of character-created machines.
I could understand if it were equipment somehow related to her status as a medical student, but what is a medic student going to do with super-powered punching so it's a no for me.
For her heat sensor, the reason I'm going to have to refuse it as well because even if it serves her as a teleport user, it's going into the territory of clairvoyance and ideally we want each Esper to stick with the moveset their ability grants them.
Yamaguchi Hiromi on Sun Jun 14, 2015 3:26 pm
Edits done
I removed the part about Tokiwadai not knowing about her family and removed the gadgets.
Thanks again for your reply ^^
Misaka Mikoto on Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:09 pm
Alright. With that out of the way, since we've discussed the ability already to make the appropriate changes, I'll mention what changes need to be made to the ability now.
Mass teleport will not allow her greater range or weight, but will allow her a range of 2,37 metres radius (5.58 metres diameter) with a bit more focus. However, to teleport without physical touch, she will be required to point at the item and the direction it's supposed to be teleported at (she may also use all of her fingers for that purpose if she's able to control all of them flawlessly, or risk messing up the teleportation's coordinates).
Her range with physical touch is about 20 to 30 metres for a weight limit of 100KGs (all items included), and because it's a tough feat for teleporters to teleport herself; she will not be able to teleport herself.
Yamaguchi Hiromi on Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:00 pm
Misaka Mikoto wrote: Alright. With that out of the way, since we've discussed the ability already to make the appropriate changes, I'll mention what changes need to be made to the ability now.
I understand. I edited the power as we've discussed and by extention as mentioned here
Misaka Mikoto on Thu Jun 18, 2015 11:12 pm
Alright, besides a slight issue I have with her being in Nagaten despite not really being elite (though I'm going to blame Kamachi's lack of introduction of high schools that would fit the middle between low-class and elite, so let's ignore that), I see no more glaring problems.
As such, this character is now:
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Anthrax >
Ian Confirms Baby News, Pulls Out Of Anthrax Dates
By WENN on 17 March 2011
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Anthrax star Scott Ian has confirmed his wife Pearl Aday's pregnancy in a letter to fans, explaining his absence from much of the group's summer (11) tour.
The rocker will be sitting out of dates at the beginning of July (11) so he can be at home with his wife, the daughter of Meat Loaf, when his child is born.
But the baby news won't affect the Big 4 show, featuring Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer, in Indio, California in April (11) or upcoming shows in Thailand and Japan.
Ian writes, "I know there's been a lot of rhetoric out there regarding upcoming Anthrax shows, Big 4 and otherwise. I've been debating on whether or not to make a public statement about this as it really pertains to my personal life and I generally like to keep that personal. Because this is affecting my band life, I feel like you, my friends, deserve to hear from me personally.
"I will be playing the Big 4 show April 23 in Indio, CA as well as the shows in Manila, Bangkok, and Japan that will follow the Indio show. I won't be playing the shows scheduled from July 2 - 16 in Europe and the U.K. My wife Pearl and I are expecting our first child and she is due literally the day of the Big 4 Sonisphere show in France.
"This decision to miss these shows was a deeply personal one. I co-founded this band on July 18, 1981 and for almost thirty years, I have been there for everything we've ever done. I have never been faced with anything that would make me even question being there for anything Anthrax related. Becoming a father is the biggest, best thing that's ever happened to me and it made the decision relatively easy. My priority is with my wife and the birth of our first child."
Sepultura star Andreas Kisser will step in for Ian when he takes his paternity leave.
Ian states, "We chose Andreas because we feel he can do the gig better than anyone. He has the fire, the attitude, and the crushing right hand to do the gig."
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We deal in irony here in Britain as our default mode, so it should be...
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Yemeni people inspect rubble in Sanaa, Yemen for usable household goods inside the debris of their houses, destroyed after airstrikes as a part of the 'Decisive Storm' operation carried out by Saudi-led coalition against Houthi fighters on April 04, 2015. Mohammed Hamoud / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
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Russia, Red Cross appeal for 'humanitarian pause' in Yemen
Russia's UN ambassador says pause is necessary to help diplomats and civilians caught in the war
April 4, 2015 3:41PM ET
Russia and the Red Cross appealed on Saturday for a military pause in Yemen to allow urgent humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuation of civilians after 10 days of Saudi-led air strikes and fighting in which hundreds of people have died.
Russia distributed a draft resolution at the United Nations pressing for suspensions of the air strikes to allow evacuation of foreign civilians and diplomats, and demanding rapid and unhindered humanitarian access.
After the meeting, Jordan's U.N. Ambassador Dina Kawar, the current council president, said members "reiterated concern over the grave humanitarian situation" and again called for implementation of a resolution demanding an end to the fighting in Yemen and a return to negotiations.
She said council members need time to consider the Russian draft resolution.
Russia's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told reporters as he headed into the closed meeting that a pause is "very important" to help diplomats and civilians caught in the war.
A Yemeni-American man was killed in Aden this week, his family told Al Jazeera, in the first reported U.S. citizen fatality of this latest rash of violence.
Jamal al-Labani, a father of three, from Oakland, California was fatally hit by mortar shelling, according to his cousin Mohammed Alazzani. The incident underlined the plight Yemeni-Americans face in trying to escape the bloodshed, said community advocates, who have called on the U.S. State Department to better help U.S. citizens get out of the country.
Echoing Russia’s call for calm, the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday also called for an immediate pause in hostilities to deliver life-saving medical aid, saying three of its shipments remained blocked.
"All air, land and sea routes must be opened without delay for at least 24 hours to enable help to reach people cut off after more than a week of intense air strikes and fierce ground fighting nationwide," the ICRC said in a statement.
The United Nations says more than 500 people have been killed in the last two weeks in Yemen and nearly 1,700 wounded. Residents in Aden say parts of the southern port city have been without water or electricity for two days.
There was no sign of a halt in the fighting.
Aden residents said ships from the Saudi-led coalition bombarded Houthi forces who have taken over districts close to the center of the city despite Riyadh's military campaign in support of their foe, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Hadi loyalists managed to push the Houthis and their allies from central Aden's Crater district on Friday, a rare victory after more than a week of gains by the Shia Houthis, who are backed by soldiers loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Jets from the Saudi-led coalition parachuted weapons into Aden for a second day to bolster fighters loyal to Hadi, who fled Yemen 10 days ago and has watched from Saudi Arabia as the Houthis advanced on his supporters' last major foothold.
A military spokesman for the Saudi coalition said it was providing substantial logistical support for Hadi's fighters. He declined to confirm or deny reports that Saudi special forces were operating in Aden.
But a fighter in Aden, Khaled Ahmed Saif, appealed on local television for the coalition to send ground troops as soon as possible, saying the city was being subjected to a "genocidal war" by the Houthis.
Residents said life was becoming unbearable. "How long can people live without water or electricity?" said Mohammad Fara'a. Another Crater resident, Hassan Abdallah, said people were using a long-disused well at one of the mosques to get water.
Near the capital Sanaa, an air strike on the village of Okash killed a family of nine people on Friday night, residents said.
Coalition spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, asked about the calls for a humanitarian pause, said only that the military was ready for any instructions from its political leadership. He said aid agencies and governments should coordinate aid shipments with officials in Riyadh.
Tribes against Al-Qaeda
The conflict in Yemen has turned the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state into the latest theater for predominantly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia's proxy war with predominantly Shia rival Iran, a struggle which is also playing out in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
Tehran denies Riyadh's charges that its arms the Houthis, who emerged as the country's most powerful faction when they took over the capital six months ago together with supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Saudi Arabia, unnerved by the growing power of the Shia Houthis on its southern flank, launched military attacks on March 26. Saudi jets have been backed by planes from its Gulf Arab neighbors.
The latest fighting is one of many conflicts in Yemen, where mass demonstrations inspired by the wider Arab uprisings of 2011 led to Saleh's resignation after three decades in power plagued by southern separatism, tribal unrest and Al-Qaeda attacks.
U.S. military officers conducting a covert drone war against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group's powerful regional wing, were withdrawn from Yemen last month, and the turmoil may provide the armed group with the chance to entrench or expand in the country's remote east.
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An American missing for over a year in Yemen used a guard's cell phone to call his lawyers and plead for help
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Music and drama brought them together
Charitha talks about life with singer Edward Jayakody:
'Ahas gange tharu keta gane
Polothale weli keta gane
Nilsayure rala pela gane
Aadarai man aadarai.....'
The number of stars in the sky,
The number of sand molecules in the earth
And the number of waves that emerge in the ocean
Are uncountable...
Likewise, my darling,
I have no words to express my love to you,
As it is so great, grand and wonderful ......
Charitha Priyadarshini Peiris
Many readers know it's all about Edward and Charitha, not merely seeing their pictures on the page, but when your eyes catch the beautiful verse, which expresses her benevolent, worldly love and compassion towards her husband.
So much to talk about Edward and Charitha... "Well?" begins Charitha leaning against a cosy chair in her spacious living room which is occupied by her students who come to learn music during the weekends. "Little busy these days as I'm registering new students to my 'Seri Sara' music monastery which is for those who want to learn music and do exams.
The 'Rasa Vindana' class which I conduct for music enthusiasts in any walk of life has no age limit. Anybody who likes to have voice training is welcomed," says Charitha who got through her 'Visharada' exam last year.
Charitha begins to talk. People are blessed with many things. And most of them are gifted with one single thing. But Charitha's story is different as she is blessed with many; beauty and brains, wit and a melodious voice.
"I'm Charitha Priyadarshini Peiris," she laughs. "And I was born on October 19 in 1967;" she has no intention of hiding her age. "I'm getting grey. But I'm not worried. It's a sign of maturity," she says. But I (the writer) personally feels she still leads. "No...no... both Edward and I lead a very normal, simple and down-to-earth life," she smiles.
Charitha still lives at her birth place at Mirihana, Nugegoda adjoining the Mirihana Police Grounds, which is the ancestral home of her mother Pushpa Wijeratne. "My mother died in 2001 after a brief illness. It's a great void," she sighs. Charitha's father, Ariyadasa Peiris was also one time a famous radio artiste who had introduced many young, up and coming singers to the nation. And Edward Jayakody was also one such young singer who stepped into the field through these programmes.
Charitha is the youngest of the family. Her sister, Malika was never interested in stepping into the field of arts. Nor did their father Ariyadasa like the idea when Charitha showed interest in becoming an announcer.
But even when she was at school at Anula Vidyalaya, Nugegoda, not a single school ceremony passed without it been compered by Charitha. "Hmm... school days were fabulous. Our class was one of the best classes in the grade comprising nine senior prefects and students with aesthetic talent.
Even Deepika Priyadarshani Peiris who has been among the top singers in Sri Lanka was also in our class. Ours was a very united class. Even if we saw somebody in a bad mood, we would crack a joke to make her smile. I studied Kandyan dancing under Mrs. Daya Nellampitiya and Christine Dissanayake at school. But I took part in musical programmes through out. I was in the Eastern band and played almost all the instruments. I did guiding and netball..hmm.. that's all," she says.
"The biggest mistake I did in my life was deciding to do Bio science for my A/Ls. My father wanted me to become a doctor and never liked me stepping into the field of art. But since 1984, I have been getting involved with programmes the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
It was my father's younger brother, Jayantha Peiris who gave me a helping hand to enter SLBC. And my mother was also with me through out encouraging me. So after A/Ls I joined SLBC full time. 'Sonduru Sevena' in 1985, was my first programme.
I lent a voice cut for. It was a live programme. I became a Relief Announcer in 1994, a News Reader in 1995 and then a Drama Artiste after a few years. I studied music under Edward and then under late Victor B. Perera and passed the SLBC test as a 'Grade A' singer as well," she reminisces.
Charitha has been conducting the lottery programme 'Shanida Vaasanava' for the Development Lotteries Board and has been at ITN for the past 21 years. "When I started it I was just 19 years old. Apart from that I presented 'Kala Rasanga', a weekly news in the arts field with Francis Wanniarachchi on ITN. At present I present 'Mathakaye Randunu Gee' on Saturday from 3.00 to 4.00 pm, and 'Eda Api Dutu Chithrapatayakin' on Sunday at 4.30 pm.," she says.
"Dalmalamu Api Eka Iti Pahanak" composed by Pushpa Ramlani and the melody by Charitha was sung by more than 100 popular female singers in Sri Lanka - both young and old on the International Women's Day in 1998. And since then this song is the theme song of the International Women's Day up to day.
Question: How did you meet Edward?
Charitha: He is from Hettimulla, Kegalle. His first music teacher Mr.H. Samarapala at Bandaranaike Central College, Hettimulla was known to my father. So they used to visit our place, and my father used to help Edward to sing in his radio programmes and we became family friends in no time. So, I don't know how it happened, we fell in love even without our knowledge.
Edward Thimothi Jayakody was born to Victoria and Don Rafial Jayakody at Hettimulla. There were seven in his family. Edward studied at Bandaranaike Central College, Nugawela Central College and St. Mary's College, Kegalle.
He did Commerce for his A/Ls although he was studying music privately. Edward entered the Aesthetic University attached to the University of Kelaniya and passed out with Honours. He obtained a 'Visharada' in music. With all this Edward has mastered many modes of music including Indian classics, western and local Sinhala village folk, which is an extremely rare opportunity a musician would get.
Edward's elder sister, Charlotte and her husband helped him in a great way to up in music. He was just 14 years when he first stepped in to Radio Ceylon (SLBC). Since then Edward took part in numerous musical programmes at the SLBC and subsequently became a 'Grade A' singer.
He worked as the music teacher at Nalanda Vidyalaya,Colombo, Gurukula Vidyalaya, Kelaniya and as a Circuit Education Officer attached to the Education Ministry. Today, he is the Education Director-Music at the Ministry of Education. Apart from that he is the member of the National Music Council and the Intellectual Property Council. He was the President of the All Ceylon Singers' Association for a long time.
Though many do not know both Edward and Charitha are into acting. Charitha had taken part in small roles in a few tele-drama while Edward had taken part in about ten stage dramas like 'Angara ganga gala basi', 'Sekkuwa' and 'Nari Bena'... He won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Youth Drama Festival for his role in the stage drama 'Muhandiram Haamuduruwo' directed by Premalal Gange in 1977. He had also won the best music director awards at many State Drama Festivals.
Question: Edward as a husband?
Charitha: Sober and quiet personality. He rarely gets angry, but once he gets it , he takes time to cool down. He has come from the village, and is very contended about his present position.
One way that's a weak point as well, because he rarely initiates a thing of his own. Even when he loses an award after being nominated, he would just ignore it. He is self content. Edward always says he has been helped by everybody whom he has encountered in his life. He is very grateful to everyone of them.
Question: What do you look forward to in the future?
Charitha: We don't have very high aspirations. Our son Chandeepa is in Grade -9 and daughter Sharanya is in Grade 3 at the Lyceum International School, Nugegoda. Our son was the Best Supporting Actor at Jerome de Silva's 'Oliver Twist' stage drama staged at Lionel Wendt in 2006.
Our daughter took part in Somaratne Dissanayaka's newest film 'Siri Raja Siri' which will be released shortly. Both of them took part in Udayakantha Warnakulasuriya's film 'Hiri Poda Vessa'. Both are talented, and we would help and bless them to choose whatever path they want to excel in life.
Apart from that we are quite content with what we have. I'm a Buddhist and he is a Catholic, hailing from a very orthodox and flexible family background. All his siblings got married to Buddhists.
At first, though my mother liked him, my father took time to give his consent to our marriage due to religious differences, but later everything went on well. My children mainly follow Buddhism, but we all go to the temple and church, and celebrate both Wesak and Christmas.
If I'm told to ask for something from God, I would say 'I would not' as I am, blessed with many things. What else should I ask for. We are not very rich people, but a family who loves yet happy. That's all that matters.
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DOE funds available for tribal renewable energy
The U.S. Dept. of Energy is making up to $10 million available this year through the DOE’s Tribal Energy Program "to support the evaluation, development and deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects on tribal lands that will help save energy and money, expand the use of renewable energy resources, and promote economic development for tribal communities."
Arizona tribes have received support for a dozen projects since the mid-'90's. One is the Hualapai Valley Solar project in Mohave County [right].
Ak Chin Indian Community 2004
Fort Mojave Indian Tribe 2003
Hopi Tribe 2005
Hualapai Tribe 2010
Navajo Nation 1999
Navajo Nation - Navajo Tribal Utility Authority 2005
White Mountain Apache Tribe 2002
Yavapai-Apache Nation 2004
Solar manufacturing plant opens in Phoenix
Another renewable energy boost for Arizona with a major plant opening in Phoenix today.
The news release by Power-One, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of solar power inverters for the renewable energy industry, announced that they opened "its first North American manufacturing facility in Phoenix that will eventually employ 350 people. Power-One’s Phoenix facility will produce its photovoltaic (PV) and wind inverters that convert renewable energy into a usable form of electricity for distribution on the utility grid.
The facility will reach a capacity of 1 gigawatt of product by the end of the year with available site capacity reaching 4 gigawatts, which would generate enough electricity to power up to two million homes. The inverters manufactured at this facility will be installed in residential, commercial and utility settings."
And geothermal, Mr. President!
President Obama did not say the words "geothermal energy" explicitly in his State of the Union speech, but his intent could not be clearer. Geothermal runs 24/7, is one of the cleanest energy sources, is economically competitive already, and electricity is being produced at lower and lower temperatures. Beyond that, the use of geothermal for heating and cooling directly rather than production of electricity is still in its infancy.
So, Mr. President, I accept your challenge and humbly suggest that geothermal energy is one of our greatest resource opportunities for meeting America's goals of clean domestic energy.
From the President's speech:
"So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: by 2035, 80% of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources. Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas.
This is our generation’s Sputnik moment. Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven’t seen since the height of the Space Race. In a few weeks, I will be sending a budget to Congress that helps us meet that goal. We’ll invest in biomedical research, information technology, and especially clean energy technology – an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and create countless new jobs for our people.
Already, we are seeing the promise of renewable energy. Robert and Gary Allen are brothers who run a small Michigan roofing company. After September 11th, they volunteered their best roofers to help repair the Pentagon. But half of their factory went unused, and the recession hit them hard.
Today, with the help of a government loan, that empty space is being used to manufacture solar shingles that are being sold all across the country. In Robert’s words, “We reinvented ourselves.”
That’s what Americans have done for over two hundred years: reinvented ourselves. And to spur on more success stories like the Allen Brothers, we’ve begun to reinvent our energy policy. We’re not just handing out money. We’re issuing a challenge. We’re telling America’s scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we’ll fund the Apollo Projects of our time.
At the California Institute of Technology, they’re developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, they’re using supercomputers to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities. With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
We need to get behind this innovation. And to help pay for it, I’m asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but they’re doing just fine on their own. So instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy, let’s invest in tomorrow’s.
Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they’re selling. So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: by 2035, 80% of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources. Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all – and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen."
New legislation covers water, aggregate, trust lands, etc
There's a swath of new bills introduced today in the Arizona Legislature. As usual, I see some that may be of interest to the geoscience community:
SB1427 - flood control districts construction projects
SB1432 - trust land exchanges
SB1470 - county water authorities, section repeal
SB1496 - aggregate resources
SB1522 - harvested water
SB1531 - state parks director and board appointment
SB1533 - renewable energy and water harvesting improvement districts
SB1545 - intrastate nuclear reactor fuel production
Red rocks of Utah and Mars - talk this Friday
My long-time friend and colleague, Margie Chan, professor at the University of Utah, will be in town this week and is giving a talk at the Univ. of Arizona on Friday, entitled “Red Rock and Water on Earth and Mars.” The talk will take place on campus in Gould-Simpson Rm 209 at 12:30pm.
Margie is a stratigrapher-sedimentologist, who has worked extensively in southern Utah. When the Mars Rovers landed and sent back photos of small "blueberry"-like concretions from the red planet, she immediately recognized them as identical to prolific "Moqui marbles" concretions formed by groundwater precipitation of hematite in Utah [right, credit Univ. of Utah].
Her work helped convince scientists of the existence, at least in the geologic past, of the importance of water on Mars.
She tells a great story about the science and the thrill of discovery.
She also introduced my wife and I to each other.
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Chinese negotiating use of Mt. Hopkins telescope
"The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is negotiating with four world-class optical and infrared facilities in Chile and the United States to give Chinese astronomers around 50 nights of observing time per year at the telescopes," according to a post on ScienceInsider blog.
As part of the $3 million, 3-year deal, the Chinese astronomers would get 10-12 nights per year of use of the 6.5 meter MMT on Mt. Hopkins in southern Arizona, as one of 4 observatories in the Telescope Access Program deal.
The Multi-Mirror Telescope is a joint venture between the Smithsonian Observatory and the Univ. of Arizona.
Transfer of Nevada mining commission to environmental agency
Digging into Nevada Governor Sandoval's budget proposal, Mineweb.com reporter Dorothy Kosich found the following language:
"As part of the State of Nevada's reorganization efforts, the Mineral Resources budget account will be merged into the Division of Environmental Protection within the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to take advantage of the unique skill sets and synergies that exist between the two agencies".
The Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources s is funded entirely by fees on the mining industry, with a biennial budget for 2009-2011 of $18,297,915. For comparison, the joint budgets for the Arizona Geological Survey, AZ Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources, and State Mine Inspectors office for the past two years was about $5.8 million, or less than one-third what Nevada spent. In 2010, Nevada's mineral production amounted to $7.55 billion compared to Arizona's value of $6.7 billion. [right, NV mines, and oil and geothermal fields. Credit, NV Bur. Mines & Geology]
Pangea supercontinent breakup rifting in Arizona
AZGS senior geologists Jon Spencer and Steve Richard (and 3 co-authors) have a new paper published online in the GSA Bulletin, that describes a Jurassic-aged rift basin that came close to breaking apart Arizona, during the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent [right, credit, C.R. Scotese]. Jon offered the history of their work on this project:
This study began in the early 1980s with Steve Richard’s Master’s thesis (1982), continued with mapping the Little Harquahala Mountains (OFR 85-09), Granite Wash Mountains (OFR 89-04 and AZGS Map 30), Plomosa Mountains (OFR 93-9), and New Water Mountains (94-14). That work did not answer basic questions about the origin of the McCoy Mountains Formation, including its age (Upper Jurassic or Upper Cretaceous?) so we went after the geochemistry of the interbedded basalts (OFR-99-1). When detrital-zircon dating became affordable, Steve and I did a sample collecting trip in 2004. We even got a date on a basalt from samples collected on that trip, which, along with the detrital zircon data, solved the big problems of age and origin of the McCoy Mountains Formation.
These new results led to the paper which looks at the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent, which consisted of all the earth's continent, by late in the Paleozoic Era (at about 250 Ma). "Africa separated from the eastern North America, and northern South America separated from southern North America. Arizona almost broke apart too in the late Jurassic (at about 155 Ma). At that time the McCoy Mountains Formation was first deposited in western Arizona (mostly La Paz County) and the Bisbee Group was deposited in southeastern Arizona. These two formations filled the rift valley that stopped rifting before southernmost Arizona was carried away by plate tectonic drift. The new study identified distinctive geochemical characteristics of rift-related basalts in the McCoy Mountains Formation, reported the first geochronologic date on the basalt (154 Ma), and determined the basic sources of the sands that were shed into the basin.
Ref: Spencer, J.E., Richard, S.M., Gehrels, G.E., Gleason, J.D., and Dickinson, W.R., 2011, Age and tectonic setting of the Mesozoic McCoy Mountains Formation in western Arizona, U.S.A.: Geological Society of American Bulletin, (electronic version published on January 26, 2011, doi:10.1130/B30206.1)
Energy, utility, and environment conference underway in Phoenix
The Energy, Utility, & Environment Conference is "an annual energy, utility and environment conference where over 3,000 delegates including environmental business leaders, energy executives, NGO’s and government policymakers converge to collaborate on the various issues facing energy generation, the future of utility and its impact on the environment.
Over a three day period more than 650 of the world’s leading experts will speak on the diverse topics of clean air policy, legislation and technologies, multi-pollutant control, energy and climate policy, wind, solar, EV-PHEV, carbon markets and CCS, corporate greenhouse gas (GHS) strategies, biofuels, biomass, and biogas, sustainability and reliability, energy efficiency and management, renewable energy and operations and management."
Earth fissure at Powerline flood control dam
The Arizona Republic reports that Maricopa County Flood Control District officials are looking at repairing or replacing a series of flood control dams in the East Valley over the next 15-20 years but earth fissures [left picture in figure at right. Credit, MCFCD] found near the Powerline flood retention structure [right map in figure at right] will necessitate a 'quick fix' construction of a new dam segment in the coming months.
The District's website says the identification of the earth fissure at Powerline FRS led the Arizona Department of Water Resources to classify the dam as “unsafe, non-emergency, elevated risk.” The story says "District officials are hosting a public meeting Tuesday to provide information about the project and gather residents' opinions. The meeting, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., will be at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport administrative office, 5835 S. Sossaman Road, Mesa."
Mars "butterfly crater" formed by impacting moonlet?
Emily at The Planetary Science Blog has created a mosaic of images from the ASU Mars Global Data website, showing an unusually elongated crater on Mars, probably formed by a very low angle oblique impact (ie, less than 10 degrees from horizontal).
Emily makes the case that the impacting body was a tiny Martian moonlet that fragmented on entry in the atmosphere.
[right, "A mosaic of three images captured by the THEMIS instrument on Mars Odyssey in its daytime mode covers a very unusual elongated crater located north of Acheron Fossae on Mars. Source images: V13947003, V30669005, and V12100004. Image scale is 37.7 m/pixel; the crater is 10 kilometers long but only 7.5 wide. Credit: NASA / JPL / ASU / mosaic by Emily Lakdawalla"]
Talks and signings at Tucson gem, mineral, fossil show
The Tucson Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Showcase kicked off officially yesterday with tens of thousands of buyers and sellers filling the tent cities that have been erected all around town. But there are also a lot of fascinating lectures and other events going on during the two weeks leading up to the big Tucson Gem & Mineral Show at the Convention Center, Feb. 10-13.
Here are a few of the talks, etc I've noted:
"Collector Day": Wayne Sorensen of the Wayne R. Sorensen Family Trust Collection, in the lobby of Westward Look Resort, 10am-4pm, Saturday, Feb 5
"Demantoid and Tourmaline, Mineral Adventures from Madagascar": by Dr. Federico Pezzota, Curator of Mineralology at the Museum of Natural History, Milan, Italy, Westward Look Resort, Sunday, Feb. 6 (no time listed - www.finemineralshow.com)
Book signing - "Meteorite Hunting: How to Find Treasure from Space," by Geoff Notkin and Steve Arnold, stars of the Science Channel's tv series "Meteorite Men," Sunday, Feb. 6, 11am-1pm, Hotel Tucson City Center Copper Ballroom [right, credit www.meteoritemen.com]
"Time Bandits: Fossil Fakes, Frauds, and Copyright Infringements": Peter Lawson, Black Hills Institute and George Winters, AAPS, Thursday, Feb. 3, 7pm, International Wildlife Museum (4800 W. Gates Pass Rd - about 3-4 miles west of downtown). Free admission but tickets must be obtained from the AAPS booth a the Hotel Tucson City Center Copper Ballroom
Magmatic-hydrothermal origin of Nevada's gold
A new online paper in Nature Geoscience offers an explanation for the origin of the Carlin-type gold deposits in Nevada, the seconds largest concentration of gold after South Africa. The authors propose that
"...upwelling asthenosphere impinged on a strongly modified subcontinental lithospheric mantle, generating magmas that released gold-bearing fluids at depths of 10 to 12 km. The rising aqueous fluids with elevated hydrogen sulphide concentrations and a high ratio of gold to copper underwent phase changes and mixed with meteoric water. Within a few kilometres of the surface, the fluids dissolved and sulphidized carbonate wall rocks, leading to deposition of gold-bearing pyrite. We conclude that the large number and size of Carlin-type deposits in Nevada is the result of an unusual convergence of a specific geologic setting, together with a tectonic trigger that led to extremely efficient transport and deposition of gold."
Ref: "Magmatic–hydrothermal origin of Nevada’s Carlin-type gold deposits," John L. Muntean, Jean S. Cline, Adam C. Simon, & Anthony A. Longo, Nature Geoscience, (2011), doi:10.1038/ngeo1064
More potash core holes permitted in Holbrook basin
HNZ Potash, a joint venture of Hunt Oil and NZ Legacy Resources, an Arizona land and ranching company, have permitted ten more coreholes into the Holbrook basin potash deposit (AZOGCC permits 1000 - 1009). They previously permitted 10 wells that have yet to be drilled. It looks like they are waiting to carry out the combined larger drilling program at one time.
The HNZ permits are located to the southeast of Petrified Forest National Park lands, shown in purple at right. The company reports a land position of 74,000 acres.
The core holes are permitted by the AZ Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, which is staffed by AZGS. AZGS estimates 682 million to 2.27 billion tonnes of potash in the deposit.
Meanwhile, global demand for potash is surging, which bodes well for the Holbrook deposit, which could constitute as much as 25% of all the potash in the U.S., according to our published report.
Mineweb.com reports that PotashCorp of Saskatchewan announced that they are effectively sold out of potash for the first quarter of 2011. The company predicts the spot price will ramp up, with contract prices hitting $450 per tonne by year end, along with record company production. Global shipments,which hit 52 million tonnes in 2010, are expected to reach 55-60 million tonnes in 2011.
Two more Arizona bills - eminent domain over federal lands
Two more bills were pointed out to me that could be of interest to the geoscience community:
HB2472, allowing for the taking of federal land under eminent domain.
HB2313, another eminent domain, taking-of-federal-land bill.
A similar effort was passed in Utah last year, although I have not compared that bill with the Arizona ones.
New Arizona legislation
A couple weeks ago, the Arizona House introduced hundreds of bills. Now, the Senate is catching up. Here are a few new bills that caught my attention:
SB1237 Energy Authority of Arizona
SB1288 Free Exercise of religion, professionals, appointees
SB1393 Greenhouse gases - Freedom to Breathe
SB1394 Interstate Compact - Freedom to Breathe
UA Mineral Museum selling duplicate minerals to raise $3M at Tucson gem show
Word around the Tucson gem, mineral, and fossil showcase that got underway officially today, is that the University of Arizona Mineral Museum [right, photo credit UA Mineral Museum. These are not the minerals being sold] is selling some of its specimens. John Veevaert at Trinity Mineral Company, mentioned it briefly at the end of a long post on his blog Mineralshows.com about the show. I got hold of Bob Downs, UA geosciences professor, who also is the UA Mineral Museum director. Bob provided some corrections to Veevaert's post and more detail. I'm posting Bob's response below so as to not mis-state anything:
The state funding to the mineral museum has stopped. So, the museum along with the museum board decided to raise an endowment through the sale of lower quality samples and duplicate samples from its collection of roughly 20,000 pieces. A request for proposals (RFP) was issued by the university, and Dr Marcus Origlieri won the bid to sell on consignment, with 90% return to the museum. His contract currently runs through the mineral show. The endowment was kick started by a $750K gift from Freeport-McMoRan, with the understanding that the museum would raise $3M total. The endowment is earmarked solely for the support of a collections manager position, currently held by Mark Candee, and operations of the museum. Our intent is to ensure funding for the mineral museum without destroying the collection. We will gladly accept donations.
In addition, we currently have a total of $7M of minerals and funding in the form of estate gifts that are promised to the museum if it gets through this difficult time and shows that it is secure for the long term.
[Thanks to Mike at the Louisville Fossils blog, for pointing out the mineralshow post]
"Geospectrum" e-zine online
The Winter issue of AGI's electronic magazine Geospectrum is online now. I am impressed with the range of news about the geosciences covered in the 47 pages. It's a valuable read. Kudos to AGI.
GeoSpectrum is the free quarterly electronic newsletter of the geosciences. Originially launched as a newsletter for the American Geological Institute in 1995, GeoSpectrum has been reborn as the go-to source of information on AGI's 49 Member Societies. The American Geological Institute coordinates and edits the publication, but it is the result of contributed materials from socieities, geoscience organizations and others in the community.
While this version is published quarterly, AGI also hosts a blog with the latest information on meetings, events, awards, and more. To access the blog please visit http://www.agiweb.org/geospectrum-blog/.
Draft EIS for northern Arizona uranium lands set for Feb. 18 public release
The Arizona BLM office advised us late today that the Draft EIS for uranium exploration and development in northern Arizona has been delivered to BLM and is now at the printer. Barring a major event, they anticipate a public release on February 18th, which will begin the 45 day public comment period. The public comment period will end on April 4. AZGS is a cooperating agency in the EIS process. [right, map showing the withdrawal area of approximately 1 million acres of federal lands from exploration or mineral entry in green]
The public meeting schedule is now:
March 7, 2011 - BLM National Training Center, Phoenix, AZ
March 8, 2011 - High Country Conference Center, Flagstaff, AZ
March 9, 2011 - Fredonia High School Media Center, Fredonia, AZ
March10, 2011 - Homewood Suites, Salt Lake City, UT
All meetings are planned as an Open House scheduled to begin at 6pm, with an introduction and informational presentation from 6:30 to about 6:45, and scheduled to end at 8:30.
[taken in part from the BLM email]
U.S. mineral production values up 9% in 2010; Arizona #2
The value of Arizona mineral production in 2010 was $6.7 billion, putting us in second place behind Nevada with $7.55 billion according to the USGS Mineral Commodities Summary 2011 released today. Arizona produced 10.46% of the nation's mineral value, while Nevada produced 11.70%.
Arizona's mineral revenues came from copper, molybdenum concentrates, sand and gravel
(construction), cement (portland), stone (crushed).
Nevada's lead over Arizona is attributable to the soaring price of gold.
The MCS reports that copper and copper alloy products were used in building construction, 49%; electric and electronic products, 20%; transportation equipment, 12%; consumer and general products, 10%; and industrial machinery and equipment, 9%.
The news release about the MCS offers a summary of U.S. mineral production:
The value of mineral production in the U.S. increased 9 percent in 2010 from that of 2009, suggesting that the nonfuel minerals industries, particularly metals, were beginning to recover from the economic recession that began in December 2007 and lasted well into 2009.
The value of raw, nonfuel minerals mined in the U.S. was $64 billion in 2010, up from $59 billion in 2009, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s annual release of mineral production statistics and summary of events and trends affecting domestic and global nonfuel minerals.
"During the past year, we began to see increases in domestic mineral production, after significant declines in 2009," said USGS Mineral Resources Program Coordinator Kathleen Johnson. "This report allows for timely research and analysis of our nation’s minerals sector."
The metals sector was marked by higher prices across the board and a substantial increase in tonnage of iron ore mined. The metals industries supported the overall gains in the minerals sector, offsetting a 6 percent decline in the value of non-metals in 2010.
The non-metallic minerals sector continued to decline in 2010, but at a slower rate than in 2009. More non-metallic mineral commodities showed increases in mine production and value than those that decreased, but the production and consumption of dominant materials, particularly those used in construction, declined.
U.S. dependence on foreign sources for minerals increased, continuing a trend that has been evident for more than 30 years. The U.S. relied on foreign sources to supply more than 50 percent of domestic consumption of 43 mineral commodities in 2010. The U.S. was 100 percent reliant on imports for 18 mineral commodities in 2010.
Minerals are a fundamental component to the U.S. economy. Final products, such as cars and houses, produced by major U.S. industries using mineral materials made up about 13 percent (more than $2.1 trillion) of the 2010 gross domestic product. Domestic raw materials, along with domestically recycled materials, were used to process mineral materials worth $578 billion, such as aluminum, brick, copper, fertilizers, and steel. These products were, in turn, used to produce cars, houses, and other products.
The report, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2011, is an annual report that includes statistics on about 90 mineral commodities and addresses events, trends, and issues in the domestic and international minerals industries. The report is used by public and private sector analysts regarding planning and decision making for government and business.
Havasupai Tribe and FEMA sign disaster agreement today
FEMA officials are flying into Supai Village this morning to sign a formal agreement to implement federal disaster assistance to the Sovereign Tribal Nation of the Havasupai Tribe (Havasupai). This will release funds to assist the Havasupai with their recovery from flooding that occurred last October [right, photo by Brian Gootee, AZGS].
This is the first time a Native American tribe has received emergency disaster funds on their own, rather than as a partner to a state or county government. Tribal Council Chair Bernadine Jones said, “We are proud to be a grantee and to be able to receive FEMA funds directly to the Tribe. This action strengthens the sovereignty of the Tribe.”
AZGS geologist Brian Gootee has been working with the Tribe to help with the recovery, including assisting with preparation during the past few weeks of a comprehensive mitigation plan that was completed just yesterday in cooperation with FEMA and the AZ Div. of Emergency Management. That was key to getting the disaster funds released.
The famed Havasu Canyon has been closed to visitors since the flood but the emergency funds will be crucial in restoring tourist facilities that the are economic lifeblood of the Tribe.
Chandler student among Intel Science Talent finalists
A Chandler high school senior, Scott Paul Boisvert from Basha High School, is one of 40 finalists nationwide in the Intel Science Talent Search. The finalists were selected from 300 Semifinalists and 1,744 total applicants and "will come to Washington, D.C. in March to participate in final judging, display their work to the public, meet with notable scientists, and compete for the top award of $100,000." The 40 finalists come from 15 states.
The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) is the nation’s most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Since 1942, first in partnership with Westinghouse and beginning in 1998 with Intel, SSP [Science for Society & the Public] has provided a national stage for the country's best and brightest young scientists to present original research to nationally recognized professional scientists.
Boisevert's research project is titled, Influences of Environmental Chemistry on Growth and Chemotaxis of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Aquatic Habitats: Implications for Amphibian Decline.
It's too bad that a society that is glued to the tv to watch our kids on "American Idol," will largely ignore this collection of our best and brightest.
Valuing the water used to generate electricity
Electric generation is one of the largest users of water yet many utilities do not even report what they use nor calculate the "opportunity cost" of water over the life of the plant, according to a new report from Western Resource Advocates, Every Drop Counts: Valuing the Water Used to Generate Electricity. The report looks at water use in six western states, including Arizona.
One way they calculate water values is to use municipal tap fees [right, based on tap fees, the price of water is highest along the Colorado Front Range and Prescott, AZ]
The report came to 3 main conclusions:
At a minimum, utilities across the region should report water consumption for existing facilities, along with projected water consumption for different proposed portfolios, as part of their integrated resource plans.
In considering new water-intensive power plants, utilities and regulators should assess the value of water today, the potential value of water in the future, and the opportunity cost of using water for power generation over the lifetime of the power plant.
Regulators and electric utilities should consider the benefits of maintaining flexibility, and the role of water-efficient forms of generation and energy efficiency as a hedge against short- or long-term drought.
Arizona #15 in S&T, up two places
Arizona ranks 15th overall in a national comparison of states in science and technology, up two places from the last ranking in 2008. The Milken Institute report, 2010 State Technology and Science Index: Enduring Lessons for the Intangible Economy "looks at 79 unique indicators that are categorized into five major components: Research and Development Inputs, Risk Capital and Entrepreneurial Infrastructure, Human Capital Investment, Technology and Science Work Force, and Technology Concentration and Dynamism."
Reporter Patrick O'Grady, writing at the Phoenix Business Blog says "Dragging the overall ranking down, however, is what Arizona has done in terms of educating workers that can supply technology jobs. The state ranked 32nd on the human capital investment scale."
It's interesting to see that 3 of the top 5 states border Arizona.
The top ten (with previous Index rankings in 2008):
1.Massachusetts (1)
2.Maryland (2)
3.Colorado (3)
4.California (4)
5.Utah (8)
6.Washington (5)
7.New Hampshire (9)
8.Virginia (6)
9.Connecticut (7)
10.Delaware (14)
Rep. Quayle to chair House Technology & Innovation Subcommittee
Freshman Arizona congressman Ben Quayle is newly appointed chair of the technology and innovation subcommittee of the House Science Committee. Gabrielle Giffords is also a member of the subcommittee.
The subcommittee jurisdiction includes earthquake programs (except for NSF) and scientific issues related to environmental policy, including climate change.
Billion dollar loan guarantee for world's largest solar plant near Yuma
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has announced "the offer of a conditional commitment to Agua Caliente Solar, LLC for a loan guarantee of up to $967 million. The loan guarantee will support the construction of a 290-megawatt photovoltaic solar generating facility located in Yuma County, Arizona that will use thin film solar panels from [Tempe-based] First Solar, Inc. The project sponsor, NRG Solar, estimates the project will be the largest photovoltaic generation facility in the world when it is completed."
First Solar says "when fully operational, the 290MW Agua Caliente Solar Project will generate enough clean solar energy to serve the needs of about 100,000 average homes per year, displacing approximately 220,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year—the equivalent of taking about 40,000 cars off the road. Construction on the Agua Caliente Solar Project is planned to begin in late 2010. Pacific Gas & Electric Company has contracted to purchase the project's output for 25 years. "
Making Arizona the "Grand Canyon State"
Newly introduced House Bill 2549 will make it official: "the Grand Canyon state" is the official state nickname. [photo credit, National Park Service]
Summarizing the mines department transfer
I sent the following letter out today to many of our stakeholders:
Last Friday, the Arizona Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources shut down operations when they ran out of money. However, at the same time, the DMMR governing board transferred custody of the department’s files and physical resources to the Arizona Geological Survey for one year, or until the State Legislature acts on the Governor’s proposal to consolidate the two agencies or takes other action.
AZGS committed to keeping the doors open to the ADMMR offices in Phoenix and public access to their extensive records, maps, and reports, at least through the end of the state fiscal year, June 30, pending the Legislature’s decision. DMMR Director Dr. Madan Singh officially retired on January 21, but graciously agreed to come back as needed to help in the transition and to finalize any outstanding reports. All the other DMMR staff accepted offers of employment with the AZGS at their current status and were transferred without interruption.
AZGS did not assume the statutory duties of DMMR nor is this a merger of the agencies. DMMR continues to exist in statute and the Governing Board is responsible for the department assets and remaining funds. AZGS will report on our custodianship on a regular basis to the Board. The statutory duties of the mines department and the geological survey are complementary and the Survey's mission is written broadly enough that we all feel we can continue to meet the needs of the citizens, agencies, and businesses of Arizona with regard to the mines department’s assets, both physical and intellectual.
We are currently reviewing the external contracts and grants to DMMR to ensure we can complete the commitments made in them at which time we will request approval from the funding sources for us to manage them under the original terms.
DMMR holds the state’s most extensive collection of historical and technical mine and mineral resource files, including many from now-defunct companies or personal libraries. They are irreplaceable.
Yes, these files are invaluable to the small-mine operator as newspaper reports have emphasized, but they are also heavily used by other government agencies, by the bigger companies that have not worked in Arizona, and a variety of land owners, among others.
DMMR works with the Arizona Corporation Commission and the Attorney General to provide them with solid engineering and economic evaluations on the issuance and sale of mining securities. Selling phony mining stock has been a favorite of scammers and con artists for years.
DMMR’s customers are also other state and federal agencies, who need reliable information about mining projects across the state to understand the economic, planning, and environmental impacts that need to be dealt with. ADMMR, like AZGS, participates as a cooperating agency in numerous federal EIS processes, bringing their mining engineering expertise to bear.
DMMR’s state funds would have run out at the end of January. With the state’s dire fiscal situation and severe budget cuts being imposed everywhere, an emergency budget increase for them was just not realistic. Instead, Gov. Brewer recognized that consolidating our two small agencies with complementary missions makes sense. We can preserve their critical records.
Over the past three years, and in the midst of a nationwide recession, AZGS has grown at unprecedented rates due to our success in bringing in external funds to subsidize and underwrite our work on state issues that the state can no longer fully fund. We have a more stable funding base, greater infrastructure, and a support staff that we can bring to the consolidated agencies. The resulting economies of scale promises better service to you and our other customers and stakeholders at a lower cost.
This consolidation has all occurred in just three days, so the dust won’t be settling for a while, but I am confident that we will come out with an agency that can better meet the needs of all our constituents, whether it’s a weekend miner or the world’s largest producers, as well as the range of federal land management agencies and environmental organizations.
I expect you have questions or concerns about what this means. We’ll try to answer them the best we can but frankly, we’re breaking new ground here and we are still discovering, in some cases, just what the questions are. There are a lot of details that we continue to work out but the transfer overall was smooth and our combined operations are working as usual.
I want to personally thank Madan Singh, the DMMR Board members, and the former DMMR staff for their selfless cooperation during this wrenching time for them. Gov. Jan Brewer has put her senior staff to work on this, along with the heads of the finance, administration, and personnel agencies, to make sure the transfer was completed almost overnight to preserve DMMR’s records and maintain continued access to them.
Geothermal air conditioning talk set for Friday
AZGS is presenting two talks on new concepts in geothermal energy this Friday, Jan. 28 at our office in Tucson. We invite you to attend the talks on geothermal air conditioning and thermal profiles in wells.
Dr. Frank Horowitz, from the Geothermal Centre of Excellence at the University of Western Australia in Perth, is stopping by AZGS on his way to the Stanford Geothermal Conference, and offered to give talks on aspects of his current work.
At 10 am, Frank will talk on "Detailed thermal profiling of Perth Basin wells: a joint inversion for thermal conductivities and heat fluxes in active sedimentary aquifers"
At 2 pm he will present a more formal talk on "Geothermal air conditioning opportunities in hot sedimentary aquifers"
Both talks will be webcast nationally to participants in our DOE-funded State Geothermal Data project.
Asarco seems to confirm report of plans to expand Ray, Mission copper mines
A United Steelworkers official says Asarco told the union last week at a meeting in Tucson that the company plans on expanding the Ray [right, credit USGS] and Mission copper mines, according a report by Platts, that has been picked up widely by the mining and financial news media. There are no responses from Asarco so far, except the company has posted the Platts release on their website, under the headline, "Asarco tells USW of plans to expand two copper mines in Arizona."
That sounds like confirmation to me.
Reaction to mines dept consolidation
There have been a few news reports about the consolidation of the Arizona Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources into the Arizona Geological Survey last week, after ADMMR shut down because of lack of funds. I've posted comments or talked with the reporters at those publications. There's been some thoughtful comments back and forth about the developments.
UPDATE--AZ Gov. Brewer closes state department servicing world-class copper region
Arizona Cuts Mining Agency: A View of Future Tea Parties
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Report on newly discovered Little Chino fault
AZGS has released a map and report on the newly discovered “Little Chino fault” that borders the northeast margin of Chino Valley, north of Prescott.
AZGS geologists are now studying the geochronology along the Little Chino fault and continue mapping in the Prescott-Paulden area as part of our work on the USGS funded Statemap cooperative program.
The map and report are available in PDF format at the Arizona Geological Survey Document Repository: http://repository.azgs.az.gov.
Ref: B.F. Gootee, C.A. Ferguson, Spencer, J.E. and J.P. Cook, 2011, Geologic Map of the Chino Valley North 7½' Quadrangle, Yavapai County, Arizona. Map scale 1:24,000
Magnitude 3.5 quake strikes west of Sedona
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck at 5:16 am local time this morning, about 15 miles west of Sedona, Arizona. There are only a couple reports of it being felt with weak to light groundshaking, no reports of damage.
update, 1-27-11: the USGS has modified the quake size to 3.6 after reviewing the AZGS seismograph readings.
We have a deal - AZGS will keep mine files open to public
The Arizona Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources (ADMMR) and the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) finalized an agreement late this afternoon that turns over custody to AZGS of the ADMMR's extensive files and reports on mines and mineral resources. The ADMMR offices in Phoenix will open as usual on Monday morning, but under management of AZGS. We committed to keeping the ADMMR files open to the public through the end of the state fiscal year (June 30) or until the Legislature takes action on Gov. Brewer's proposal to consolidate ADMMR into AZGS.
Five of the six ADMMR staff accepted offers to transfer to AZGS and will continue to work from their offices in Phoenix. ADMMR Director Dr. Madan Singh is retiring today. The entire staff had received notices of layoffs last Friday effective today, when ADMMR was projected to run out of money.
ADMMR had been hoping for an emergency supplemental budget increase to continue operating through June but the states dire financial situation trumped that. When the Governor's budget was finalized last week, it became clear that ADMMR would not get the extra funds to stay open and would have a similar shortfall next fiscal year.
The proposed consolidation of our two small agencies should also provide some efficiencies of scale, allowing us to provide better service to our customers and stakeholders at a lower cost.
A lot of folks have been working almost around the clock the past few days to put together this agreement. I'll talk more later about how this complex deal was put together and what it means for Arizona.
Mines & Mineral Resources dept. out of money; shutting down Friday
The Arizona Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources (ADMMR) is running out of state operating funds and is being shut down on Friday.
The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix was transferred from ADMMR to the Arizona Historical Society last year to become the Arizona Centennial Museum. This left ADMMR with 3 state-funded and a couple of grant-funded positions. They moved out of the museum building into smaller space in nearby empty state offices. The department came to realize that their budget would not last through the year but it's now clear that the state's overall budget situation would not allow for supplemental state funding to carry them through until the new fiscal year in July.
Gov. Brewer, in her budget released last Friday, proposed that ADMMR be consolidated with the Arizona Geological Survey. If that proposal is approved by the Legislature, it would probably not take effect until July 1.
The immediate issue is to see what can be done between the closure at the end of the week and the pending consolidation.
Hundreds of bills filed today in Arizona Legislature
House members filed a few hundred bills in the Arizona Legislature today, while the Senate kept theirs to a couple dozen. After a quick scan, here are a handful that caught my attention:
HB2259 - Cut the salaries of state agency directors by 10% (hey, that's me!)
HB2265 - AZ Mining & Mineral Museum restoration
HB2295 - Renewable energy net metering
HB2317 - State Land Dept appropriation (but the amount is left blank)
HB2393 - Drought emergency groundwater transfers
HB2470 - LPG emergencies, liability
HB2527 - Well ownership, sale; registration
You can read the full bill, status, sponsors, etc, at http://www.azleg.gov/bills.asp
Regulatory oversight of uranium mine criticized
The Arizona (Flagstaff) Daily Sun ran a blistering story on the state's oversight of Denison Mines Arizona #1 uranium mine [right, head frame for Arizona #1. Credit, Denison Mines] saying it "has been largely left to regulate itself." The story appears to have been compiled from information in ADEQ files.
However, no one from Denison or the AZ Dept. of Environmental Quality is quoted in the story. We need to hear their responses, but reporter Cyndy Cole has raised concerns that have to be addressed.
Mohave County solar update
There are proposals to develop 6 commercial solar power projects in Mohave County, ranging from 1 to 1,200 megawatts each, and totaling over 1830 MW. But none has broken ground and only one has approval from the Arizona Corporation Commission.
The Kingman Daily Miner looks at the status of each project. [right, overlay of proposed Hualapai Valley Solar project, the first one approved by Mohave County]
Arizona GDP same as Thailands
Arizona's economy is about the same size as that of Thailand.
The Economist magazine has published an updated map comparing the gross domestic product (GDP) of each U.S. state to that of other countries. Arizona's GDP in 2009 was $256.36 billion vs that of Thailand at $263.98. The interactive map lets you check out each state.
"Here be dragons" - how is technology altering society and government?
Arizona State University is a partner in Future Tense, along with the New America Foundation and Slate magazine. They are hosting a conference in Washington DC next month titled, "Here Be Dragons: Governing a Technologically Uncertain Future."
Maps in the old days often included depictions of sea dragons or lions to connote unknown or dangerous terrain. Unfortunately, when it comes to a future that will be altered in unimaginable ways by emerging technologies, society and government cannot simply lay down a "Here Be Dragons" marker with a fanciful illustration to signal that most of us have no clue. How does a democratic society both nurture and regulate -- and find the right balance between those two imperatives -- fast-evolving technologies poised to radically alter life?"
Future Tense is convening at Google DC a number of leading scientists, Internet thinkers, governance experts and science fiction writers to grapple with the challenge of governing an unchartered future.
Among the confirmed attendees are George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School; Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University; Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania and Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues; Michael Specter, staff writer for the New Yorker covering science, technology, and public health issues; Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac; Robert Wright, Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Evolution of God, The Moral Animal, and Nonzero; and many more...
Applications invited for National Geothermal Academy
The National Geothermal Academy (NGA) presents an 8-week intensive summer course in all aspects of geothermal energy development and utilization. The course will be offered for either undergraduate or graduate credit. Funding from DOE will defray room and board costs, and possibly tuition costs, for up to 20 students to attend from across the nation. Space is limited and this is a competitive program. The NGA is intended for juniors or seniors and post-baccalaureate students in scientific and engineering programs. Priority will be given to those applicants who intend to take all modules of the NGA. Strong undergraduate preparation in quantitative
fields, such as mathematics, physics, geoscience, engineering or chemistry, is expected. Topics to be covered include the following modules:
1) Introduction to Geothermal Energy Utilization
2) Public Policy/Permitting/Environmental Issues
3) Resource Assessment and Exploration
4) Drilling Engineering
5) Reservoir Engineering and Management
6) Power Plant Design and Construction
7) Direct Use / Heat Pumps
8) Geothermal Business Principles and Development
9) Team and Independent Project Synthesis
[taken from the NGA announcement]
Organizing underway for Arizona Science & Technology Festival
Planning is moving quickly for a 2012 Arizona Science and Technology Festival intended to rival the best such events in the nation. Jeremy Babendure, who was co-director of the hugely successful San Diego Science Festival, has moved to Arizona State University to set up a major event for Arizona. Jeremy told me that in just under two months they have met with over 50 organizations in industry, academia, the community and K12 and now have over 100 concepts in the works and likely 200 by the end of February. The first USA Science & Engineering Fair, held on the Capitol Mall in Washington, DC this past fall, was an incredible success [right] drawing 500,000 visitors to over 1,500 free ehibits. 2012 is Arizona's Centennial year which should provide an incentive to make our event special.
AZGS will be assisting Jeremy and his team with engaging the Tucson community in the Festival. He graciously agreed to let me share their list of tentative concepts from the early meetings. Remember, these are all subject to change. And if you want to become involved, contact Jeremy:
Jeremy Babendure, Ph.D., Director, Arizona Science and Technology Festival
Office of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
Email: jbabendure@asu.edu, Phone: 480-250-7764
Here's the preliminary list of ideas:
In the field science and collaborator events - Interface with science professionals in the field at local companies, institutions, research centers and parks. Dozens of programs already proposed from organizations including Arizona Game and Fish, ASU, Barrows Neurological Institute, Botanical Gardens, CHW, Project Wet, Southwest School of Naturopathic Medicine
- Crayfish Boil - Arizona Game and Fish
- Highways and Wildlife – Arizona Game and Fish
- Discovery Day - Southwest School of Naturopathic Medicine
- Walk For Brain Tumor Research - Students Supporting Brain Tumor Research
- Arizona Water Festivals - Project Wet
- A Day at Barrows Neurological Institute - Barrows Neurological Institute
- FutureScape City Nanotechnology Tour - ASU’s CSPO
- A Mathematical Walking Tour of the Botanical Gardens - Carole Greenes, ASU Prime
Neighborhood Science Conversations - Experience science one’s own neighborhood with dozens of programs that highlight exciting careers in science, foster debate on pressing issues of the day, provide hands-on experiences for people of all ages
- Chandler – Innovations; Gangplank
- Glendale – Deer Valley Rock Art Center
- Mesa – Mesa Community College; Polytechnic Elementary
- Phoenix – University Public School; Benchmark Charter School
- Scottsdale – Skysong
- Tempe – ASU Museum of Anthropology, ASU Museum of Art, Barrett Honors College
- From Fish to Hook - Arizona Game and Fish
- Arizona Wildlife – Arizona Game and Fish
- Build Your Own Optical Illusion - Steve Macknik and Susan Martinez-Conde Lab
- Mind and Machine - Kinetic Muscles
- Toy Shop Engineering – EVIT
- Science of Collaboration - Gangplank
- The art of science – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Computer Programming Using Scratch – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Electronics – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Robotics – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Green Science – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Bioscience – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Space Exploration – Gangplank Junior
- Intro into Geology – Gangplank Junior
- Biotech Teacher Workshop - Adrienne Scheck
- Science is Fun – ASU CEEE
- GPA: Is it a plague on education? - ASU School of Business
- Big Brother and Technology - ASU College of Law
- Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship - ASU College of Law
- Health Care and Entrepreneurship - ASU College of Law
- Does My Dog Have Valley Fever? - ASU SOLS
- The Future of Health Monitoring – Biodesign
- Hohokam Canals and Long Term Water Use - ASU SHESC
- Soil Labs to determine prehistoric land use - ASU SHESC
- Uncovering Myths of 2012 - ASU SHESC
- Forensic Anthropology - ASU SHESC
- Model of Complex Systems - ASU SHESC
- Travelogues about Ethiopia, Tanzania, and South Africa - ASU SHESC
- Pandemics in Arizona - ASU SHESC
- Alternative Imaginations: Rethinking Knowledge Systems – ASU CSPO
- Science Debates –ASU CSPO
Science Cafe's
- Anne Stone, Neanderthals – ASU SHESC
- Brenda Baker, mummies – ASU SHESC
- CSPO will produce 3 science café’s, including one in Spanish
Signature Events - High energy, thought provoking events that draw crowds in the hundreds to thousands. Events already in development include:
- The Science of Magic – Steve Macknik and Susan Martinez-Conde
- Medical Careers of the Future – CHW
- Weird Science – Gangplank
- 2 Premiere Origins events - ASU Origins
World Premiere Conferences - Multiple world-class science conferences will be planned and draw visitors to Arizona during the Festival to experience the exciting events.
- International Conference of Sustainable Science, ASU GIOS
- Conference on Law and Sustainability, ASU College of Law
EXPO Booths and Performances - highly visible exhibition providing engagement and exchange opportunities for children, teens, families, and local science professionals with dozens of hands-on activities, performances, interactive demos, science challenges, and family-oriented science entertainment.
- Prehistoric Kids Zone - Deer Valley Rock Art Center
- The Egg Drop Challenge - Coyote Middle School
- Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Miss Science and Biz in a Boxx
- Hands-on displays of fossils and bones and/or “digging for fossils” display - ASU SHESC
- Letters to Lucy” as an interactive booth; hosted by becominghuman.org - ASU SHESC
- Legacies on the Landscape - ASU SHESC
- Solar Innovations – ASU Fulton School of Engineering
- Bioengineering (Robotic Arms, Man-Machine Interface) – ASU Fulton School of Engineering
- Aerospace and Mission – ASU Fulton School of Engineering
- Helping Blind with Imaging Tools – ASU Fulton School of Engineering
- “Ask a Biologist” - ASU SOLS
- Science is Fun - ASU CEEE
- One if By Land, Two if By Sea, Math in Our Nation’s History - ASU Prime
Zone 100 Presenters - pairing 100 of Arizona’s most inspiring leaders in science & technology with local secondary schools
- Mark Jacobs – Dean, Barrett Honors College
- Chuck Kazilek - “Ask a Biologist’s Dr. Biology” ASU SOLS
- Lawrence Krauss –Director Origins Initiative; Co-Director Cosmology Initiative
- Marty Schultz – Former VP of Pinnacle West Capital
- Quentin Wheeler – Dean, ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Neal Woodbury – CSO, Biodesign
Year Round Programs
- Junior Researcher Speaker Series – Barrows and ASU Undergraduate Researchers
- The Art of Water – ASU SHESC, SRP, Maricopa County Office of Education
- School Water Audit – Project Wet
- Pay it Forward Science – Benchmark Charter School
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804. $229,900 4 / 2 414 W Youngs Ave., Unit B, Wildwood (Condo - 1898)
805. $229,900 3 / 1 318 W Cresse, Wildwood Crest (Single Family - 1671)
806. $229,900 3 / 2 207 E Taylor, Wildwood (Condo - 1551)
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816. $225,000 Liquor License, Wildwood (Business Opportunity - 1638)
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824. $224,900 3 / 2 131 W Schellenger, Wildwood (Condo - 1566)
825. $224,900 3 / 1 7201 Pacific, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1562)
826. $224,900 3 / 2.1 114 E Leaming, Wildwood (Condo - 1492)
827. $224,900 2 / 1 407 E 12th, North Wildwood (Condo - 1421)
829. $224,900 2 / 1 304 Surf, North Wildwood (Condo - 1404)
830. $224,900 112 W Buttercup, Wildwood Crest (Duplex - 1404)
831. $222,000 3 / 1.1 105 E Crocus, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1657)
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835. $220,000 4 / 2 116 W Burk, Wildwood (Condo - 1629)
836. $219,900 3 / 2.1 210 E Spencer, Wildwood (Townhouse - 1596)
838. $219,900 4 / 2 137 E Wildwood, Wildwood (Condo - 1444)
839. $219,900 5 / 1.1 224 W Pine, Wildwood (Single Family - 1418)
840. $219,900 4 / 2 324 W Taylor Avenue, Wildwood (Single Family - 1418)
841. $219,000 2 / 2 6201 OCEAN, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1722)
842. $219,000 2 / 1.1 5000 Atlantic Ave., Wildwood (Townhouse - 1562)
843. $219,000 2 / 1 305 E Crocus, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1550)
844. $219,000 1 / 1 5301 Ocean Avenue, Wildwood (Condo - 1545)
845. $219,000 3 / 1 215 W Pine, Wildwood (Single Family - 1520)
846. $219,000 3 / 2 416 W Bennett, Wildwood (Condo - 1443)
847. $219,000 2 / 2 6201 Ocean Ave, Wildwood (Condo - 1722)
848. $219,000 3 / 1 215 Pine Ave, Wildwood (Single Family - 1520)
849. $217,900 2 / 1 102 E Primrose, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1626)
850. $217,000 3 / 2 508 W BURK AVE #A, Wildwood (Condo - 1566)
852. $215,000 3 / 1 445 W SPICER AVE, Wildwood (Single Family - 1933)
853. $215,000 2 / 1 1605 Ocean, North Wildwood (Condo - 1602)
854. $215,000 2 / 1.1 1400 Surf Avenue unit 302, North Wildwood (Condo - 1516)
856. $215,000 3 / 1.1 220 E Hollywood, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1461)
858. $214,900 3 / 2.1 403 W Hildreth, Wildwood (Townhouse - 1472)
859. $210,500 0 / 1 5301 BOARDWALK, Wildwood (Condo - 1621)
862. $209,971 1 / 1 600 Kennedy Drive, North Wildwood (Condo - 1400)
864. $209,900 1 / 1 500 KennedyDrive Unit 641, North Wildwood (Condo - 1475)
866. $209,900 3 / 2 416 26th, Wildwood (Fractional Ownership - 1696)
867. $209,900 3 / 1 309 17th Ave, Wildwood (Single Family - 1392)
869. $209,000 3 / 2 219 E Glenwood, Wildwood (Condo - 1408)
870. $208,999 2 / 1.1 1200 Kennedy Dr. #206, North Wildwood (Condo - 1520)
872. $208,000 2 / 1 428 E 20th Avenue, Unit 203, North Wildwood (Condo - 1610)
874. $205,000 3 / 2 220 E POPLAR AVE, Wildwood (Condo - 1621)
876. $205,000 3 / 2 216 E Roberts, Wildwood (Condo - 1485)
877. $200,000 2503 New Jersey Avenue, North Wildwood (Business Opportunity - 1458)
878. $199,971 1 South West Boardwalk, North Wildwood (Triplex - 1427)
879. $199,900 4 / 2.1 4016 Pacific, Wildwood (Single Family - 1745)
880. $199,900 2 / 1 143 E Andrews, Wildwood (Condo - 1644)
881. $199,900 208 W 2nd, North Wildwood (Duplex - 1566)
882. $199,900 3 / 1.1 124 W Magnolia, Wildwood (Single Family - 1562)
883. $199,900 3 / 2 312 Juniper, Wildwood (Condo - 1472)
884. $199,900 2 / 2 242 E Bennett, Wildwood (Condo - 1469)
885. $199,900 2 / 1.1 5804A Atlantic, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1456)
886. $199,900 2 / 1 419 E Miami, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1439)
887. $199,900 2 / 1 503 Central Avenue, Unit #3, North Wildwood (Condo - 1414)
888. $199,900 2 / 2 7100 Seaview, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1404)
889. $199,900 3 / 2 4211 Park Blvd., Wildwood (Condo - 1403)
890. $199,900 4 / 2 4016 Pacific, Wildwood (Single Family - 1565)
891. $199,000 141 E Wildwood, Wildwood (Office/Professional - 2196)
894. $199,000 3 / 2 203 W Taylor, Wildwood (Single Family - 1975)
895. $199,000 727 W Spruce Ave, North Wildwood (Vacant Land - 1883)
896. $199,000 5 / 1 124 W Glenwood Avenue, Wildwood (Single Family - 1735)
898. $199,000 3 / 2 4501 Pacific, Wildwood (Condo - 1549)
899. $199,000 3 / 1 2405 Central, North Wildwood (Condo - 1489)
900. $199,000 3 / 1.1 7005 Pacific Avenue, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1432)
902. $199,000 670 W 26th, Wildwood (Vacant Land - 1421)
903. $199,000 2 / 1 608 Ocean, North Wildwood (Condo - 1418)
905. $199,000 5 / 1.1 124 W 26th Ave., Wildwood (Single Family - 1402)
906. $199,000 3 / 2 4210 Arctic, Wildwood (Single Family - 1897)
907. $199,000 5 / 1 124 Glenwood Ave, Wildwood (Single Family - 1408)
908. $197,500 2 / 1 230 W 17th, North Wildwood (Condo - 1665)
909. $197,000 3 / 2 5200 Hudson Avenue Unit D, Wildwood (Condo - 2176)
910. $195,900 1 / 1 539 E 9th, North Wildwood (Condo - 1621)
912. $195,000 2 / 1 206 E Louisville, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1581)
913. $195,000 2 / 1 415 W Andrews, Wildwood (Single Family - 1550)
914. $195,000 1 / 1 1200 Kennedy Drive, North Wildwood (Condo - 1550)
915. $195,000 3 / 2 225 Davis, Wildwood (Condo - 1449)
916. $194,900 3 / 1 114 E Chestnut, North Wildwood (Condo - 1466)
917. $194,900 4202 Hudson, Wildwood (Duplex - 1450)
918. $194,500 1 / 1 8401 Atlantic, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1426)
923. $189,900 2 / 1.1 101 E Oak, Wildwood (Single Family - 1923)
925. $189,900 2905 Park, Wildwood (Duplex - 1666)
926. $189,900 333 W Andrews, Wildwood (Duplex - 1562)
928. $189,900 2 / 1 442 E 21 Unit 109, North Wildwood (Condo - 1510)
931. $189,900 2 / 2 5600 Seaview Ave. unit 10, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1408)
933. $189,000 2 / 1 442 E 21st, North Wildwood (Condo - 1626)
934. $189,000 2 / 1 216 E Hand, Wildwood (Single Family - 1506)
935. $189,000 1 / 1 600 John F Kennedy Beach Dr, North Wildwood (Condo - 1466)
936. $189,000 1405 new york ave, North Wildwood (Duplex - 1425)
939. $188,000 2 / 1 209 E Bennett, Wildwood (Townhouse - 1613)
941. $185,000 3 / 1.1 212 W 14th Avenue, North Wildwood (Single Family - 1748)
942. $185,000 1 / 1 406-10 E Monterey, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1596)
943. $185,000 4 / 2 306-308 W Glenwood Avenue, Wildwood (Single Family - 1477)
944. $185,000 306-308 W Glenwood Avenue, Wildwood (Duplex - 1477)
946. $185,000 306 Glenwood Ave, Wildwood (Duplex - 1477)
947. $184,900 3 / 1 405 W Pine, Wildwood (Condo - 1428)
948. $184,777 2 / 1 201A W 21st, North Wildwood (Townhouse - 1426)
950. $180,000 2 / 1 600 North, West Wildwood (Condo - 1408)
951. $179,950 3 / 1 1882 Bayshore Road, Villas (Single Family - 1596)
952. $179,950 1882 Bayshore, Villas (Commercial/Industrial - 1433)
953. $179,900 2 / 1.1 225 E Hand, Wildwood (Single Family - 1747)
954. $179,900 3 / 2 407 W Hildreth, Wildwood (Condo - 1594)
955. $179,900 2 / 1 315 E Topeka, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1574)
956. $179,900 3 / 1 2702 Ocean, Wildwood (Townhouse - 1466)
957. $179,900 3 / 2 117 W Spicer, Wildwood (Condo - 1418)
958. $179,900 3 / 1 232 W Juniper, Wildwood (Single Family - 1404)
959. $179,900 2 / 1.1 423 W Andrews, Wildwood (Single Family - 1404)
961. $179,900 2 / 1 114 Crocus Rd, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1404)
962. $179,500 3 / 1 101 W Walnut, North Wildwood (Condo - 1821)
963. $179,500 2 / 1 104 E Heather, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1402)
964. $179,200 1 / 1 200 E Marina Court, North Wildwood (Condo - 1506)
965. $179,000 138 E Spicer, Wildwood (Commercial/Industrial - 2440)
966. $179,000 3 / 2 315 W Pine Avenue, Wildwood (Single Family - 1583)
968. $179,000 3 / 1.1 137 W Spencer, Wildwood (Single Family - 1524)
969. $179,000 1 / 1 1000 Kennedy, North Wildwood (Condo - 1506)
970. $179,000 1 / 1 1900 Boardwalk, North Wildwood (Condo - 1431)
971. $179,000 1 / 1 501 Ocean Ave, Wildwood (Condo - 1537)
973. $175,000 220 E Lincoln, Wildwood (Vacant Land - 3718)
974. $175,000 203 W 26th Street, North Wildwood (Duplex - 1783)
975. $175,000 2 / 1 5804B Atlantic, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1729)
977. $175,000 2306-2308 Boardwalk, North Wildwood (Restaurant - 1510)
978. $175,000 1 / 1 406-410 E Monterey, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1394)
979. $175,000 2 / 1 113 Allen, North Wildwood (Condo - 1972)
980. $175,000 1 / 1 406 Monterey, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1394)
981. $174,900 2 / 1 241 E Cresse, Wildwood (Condo - 1644)
982. $174,900 1 / 1 510 E 14th Avenue, North Wildwood (Condo - 1535)
983. $174,900 1 / 1 100 W Marina, North Wildwood (Condo - 1477)
984. $174,900 2 / 1 7005 Pacific Avenue #6, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1399)
985. $174,900 2 / 1.1 130 W Andrews, Wildwood (Condo - 1392)
986. $174,777 4700 Arctic, Wildwood (Triplex - 1506)
987. $172,500 2 / 1 210 E Rambler Road, #102, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1444)
988. $171,900 2 / 1 1208 Delaware, North Wildwood (Single Family - 1660)
990. $170,000 2 / 1 317 Topeka, Wildwood Crest (Condo - 1442)
993. $169,900 3 / 2 4309 Mediterranean, Wildwood (Condo - 1647)
994. $169,900 2 / 1 717 W Rio Grande, Lower Township (Single Family - 1511)
996. $169,867 2 / 1.1 59 Anglesea Dr., North Wildwood (Townhouse - 1408)
999. $169,000 3 / 2 420 W ROBERTS, Wildwood (Condo - 1428)
1000. $169,000 1 / 1 1800 Ocean, North Wildwood (Condo - 1408)
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Missing longtime member Tom Pittman, but none of the knee-slapping fun, the Austin Lounge Lizards’ fizzy Home and Deranged takes on such typically topical subjects as airport patdowns, big-ego music stars, fat-cat bankers and government conspiracy theories.
It’s like mixing the hippie politics of Country Joe McDonald with the absurdist humor of Frank Zappa with the front-porch picker’s brilliance of Earl Scruggs, the result of which is a concoction that would perhaps only bubble up from Central Texas — where the state capital’s motto is “Keep Austin Weird.”
Vocalist Hank Card remains, well, a card — stringing together another series of delightful double entendres, notably “My Bonnie Johnson” (a Celtic tribute to a sailor’s, well, you get the idea). Meanwhile, Conrad Deisler, as per usual, offers some of the album’s sharpest elbow jabs, even while keeping it blessedly offbeat. The guitar/mandolin player joins in the songwriting of tracks like “Black Helicopters” (which connects 9/11 with a fake moon landing and, of course, the inside-job killing of JFK), the country-music spoofing “Got a Big Stupid On” and “Spelunking with Joe King Carrasco” (a brilliantly layered, corrido-inflected ballad about, well, you get the idea).
“Thank You For Touching Me There,” a brilliant send-up of the Transportation Security Administration’s handsy ways, combines both central impulses — puncturing government overreach even as it reaches for some place decidedly naughty. “Too Big To Fail,” meanwhile, follows a series of left-leaning, though somehow still universally hilarious takedowns from over the years, including “Gingrich the Newt” to “The Ballad of Ronald Reagan.”
Home and Deranged, due on May 7, 2013 from Houston’s Blue Corn, is the Austin Lounge Lizards’ first studio effort in seven years, and first since the departure of banjo/dobro ace Tom Pittman, who has retired to Asheville, N.C. — though he did co-write “Black Helicopters.”
Pittman is ably replaced, however, by fiddle/mandolin player Darcie Deaville and bassist Bruce Jones. Both make note-perfect contributions: for Deaville, it’s a poke in the eye of romance with tracks like “Who Needs You?” and “If I Saw You All the Time,” while Jones takes over for “I Lied,” “Dumb Dumb Dumb” (a kind of second chapter in the narrative started on their classic “Life is Hard, But Life is Hardest When You’re Dumb”), and the album-closing “Would You Like To Start a Band?”
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How DKT International Is Revolutionizing The Sexual Reproductive Health Care Market
Edna Ninsiima
Sex education in Uganda has long been a present discussion. By the time the 90’s kids were coming into adolescence, the Abstinence, Be Faithful and Condom Use (ABC) campaign was already popular. In fact, many studies have even attributed the decline in the rate of HIV prevalence to it. Yet even with the ABC; religious, cultural and political conservatives to-date continue to promote the A and B over condom use. In some churches, it is taught that condom use is absolutely forbidden and a sin in the eyes of God, not to mention the recent heated debate on providing 15 year old girls with contraceptives. A move that the leadership described as “morally wrong” saying that this was not the culture in Africa. Meanwhile, the 25% teenage pregnancy rate and inaccessibility to family planning remains largely unresolved. A DKT conducted study shows that 45% women in Uganda who would like to use family planning are not using it for the obvious reasons. Many women have neither the say in if they should use contraceptives (a gender and social inequality issue) nor the information on how and where to access these.
It is against this background that DKT International, a worldwide producer of family planning products has launched its brands on the market. Condom brands Kiss and Fiesta will be available in different variants and price points to meet the needs of consumers of different demographics whereas the contraceptive injectables, intrauterine devices and most notably; a single pill emergency contraceptive (Lydia Postpil) all of which will trade under the brand name Lydia are intended to address the unmet need among especially the youth and low socio-economic groups. DKT Managing Director Collin Dick, speaking at the launch last week said that they intended to revolutionize the private sector market by introducing a full method mix of high quality and affordable contraceptives.
Dr. Anthony Mbonye, the chief guest at the launch said the move was a very timely one as the government makes more contributions to family planning before emphasizing that it is a win-win for both health and wealth. “Family planning helps women achieve their human rights to health, education, autonomy and personal decision making about the number and timing of their childbearing,” he added. A colorful cocktail event held at The Sheraton Kampala Hotel had red as the theme color and the decor; from the lights, to the table clothes and the banners, everything was an intimate red. The chief guest was presented with a basket hamper of condoms which he in turn saw fit to share with the largely varied audience.
DKT International is a non-profit organization that promotes family planning and HIV prevention through social marketing. It operates in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Park Yard Market, My Trench Coat and A Story Pitch
A year ago on a trip to Fort Portal with a group of friends, I saw a one Patra wearing a beautiful and classy, ‘New York Week style’ black trench coat. My fashion instincts kicked in immediately so I had to ask where I could get myself one and at how much. Psychologically I’d prepared for a huge amount at a fancy town boutique but that didn’t phase me. I’ve known myself to invest more than permissible by the economy and my pockets, on fashion. I will have you know I’m not apologetic about that. Fashion is a huge part of who I am and I don’t intend to change that. But I’m not here to talk fashion today so let’s move on.
I learnt from Patra, to my surprise, that I could get that trenchcoat for about UGX 40, 000 from either Owino or Park Yard Market in downtown Kampala. Now, I ordinarily do not like to go downtown later on walk through it on a shopping mission- mainly because it is quite frankly as chaotic as can be. From trucks letting out car fumes, taxi touts screaming their heads off, boda boda riders like ants winding through every available space between the trucks, people walking everywhere not to mention some of those people, common thieves. Even with that knowledge, I was now willing to brave it all in search for a trench coat. I’d asked Patra to accompany me sometime so that I’d own this fine piece of clothing.
At the end of last week I’d hear media reports of strikes happening in Park Yard, strikes whose cause I hadn’t bothered to get knowledge on. For me, it had been an idea that occurred to me in which I was most interested. My storytelling instincts had kicked in; how about a story of the traders of Park Yard – a day in life? When do they wake up? How do they get to Park Yard? What are their encounters with customers, law enforcement and their colleagues? How much do they earn a day? Interestingly, I had an avenue through which to present my idea. I’d been applying for a writing opportunity that presented different stages like interviews, to participants. I was close to the end and the current stage assignment had asked that we pitch 3 story ideas. This for me would be one of them.
Fast forward to this morning. I saw the front page of the Daily Monitor newspaper: a visibly anguished man pointing out his index finger as in if in warning and in the background, the rubble from the demolition that according to the article had began at 4am in the night. Park Yard Market is no more.
I shall no longer make the trip to find my desired Trench Coat- in fact I am afraid that one day I will wake up and not be able to get that coat at an affordable price, I have since edited my to-be-submitted document for the writing opportunity and omitted the story pitch but most importantly, a MAJOR part of this city and nation- in history, people, representation, identity, blood and sweat, livelihood and economy; has been erased.
It’s a sad day.
Are We Any Better?
“They were our neighbors.” “My mother used to give them food.” “He was my father’s business partner.” “They were our friends…”
In October 2015 on my inaugural visit to a country which I’d come to love and frequent, I walked through the dimly lit corridors of a place with a lump on my throat and a knot in my stomach.With every step and stopped and watched the videos of recounts on the screens against the wall; and with every other video or picture, my heart dropped to the bottom of my rib cage.
The mood at the Genocide Memorial Center is damp, the history is dark as night. The grisly images of the bludgeoned human forms are horrifying and the beautiful pictures of some of the children ‘disappeared’ in the genocide will reach for your soul. In that moment, the fact that you have read and heard about the 1994 Genocide before does not help much to quell your shock; because now, there are no modifications and book characters. The people speaking from the screens are real, you hear the sadness in their voices with every word, you see their pain camped in the creases of their faces and their scars are a permanent reminder of the horror. It is disheartening to say the least.
This history presents lessons that have clearly moved Rwanda from a dark bottomless pit of machete severed heads to a lightening bolt development rate 23 years later. It is this same history from which guilt by the entire world arises especially from the statement; “The world withdrew and watched as a million people were slaughtered,” but most importantly it presents a challenge on us all. A challenge to be better human beings. It is easy to throw blame and distance ourselves. Many say; “they” killed each other,” “I can’t believe they did that to themselves” but in our hearts of hearts albeit not to that extent (yet) and hopefully never, are we any better?
In our seemingly small actions that have brought unimaginable physical, psychological and emotional pain on fellow human beings; for whatever reasons we have given ourselves in justification, have we stopped to assess the damage that we have caused, continue to cause- and sought to change that? To our relatives and friends and business partners, to the people with whom we share food; are we compassionate, loyal and truthful or are we the ones that will be referred to as in the first paragraph quotes?
Karamoja Shall Rise
Standing at the foothills of Mount Moroto in Karamoja region as the sun dissolves into the horizon, I catch myself thinking about the considerations put into selecting a location from where one proposes marriage to another person. Quickly I decide that this exact place in the Mount Moroto Hotel Gardens would be a more than ideal one for me. Then I am reminded of one of my favorite writers’ 2009 talk about the danger of a single story; most importantly that it is not untrue, but it is incomplete. The story of Karamoja is definitely incomplete. Whereas some situations reinforce that you shall indeed not wait for to Karamoja to develop, the region has one of the most beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen; not to mention, Moroto town has the most enviable road network. Also, make no mistake, you can actually get decent groceries and a hot water bath, room service too. Did I mention coconut cooked rice might be on your food menu? Good times…
View of the mountain from the road
Boma Grounds is semi-arid land expanse without a blade of grass- the closest you’ll see is scanty brown dry grass every about 50 meters. In the estimated 31 degrees of the hot afternoon, the ground residue occasionally marries the dry mountain winds to form an almost vengeful whirl of dust and wind combined. Towards the boundaries of the space are a couple of under fed Acacia trees which provide a reasonable shed nonetheless. It is under these trees that plastic chairs have been arranged to serve as resting space during water breaks. 10 feet behind, a child is squatting in the shrubs defecating- many a Karamojong have normalized open defecation, precisely why we’re here.
The little ones came out too
Now, football has for years been a huge cultural and socio-economic impact on the world; in the next 5 days, Viva Con Agua Kampala, an NGO that seeks to bring clean drinking water closer to communities, would use the game to sensitize pupils from 14 schools in different districts of the Karamoja region on safe drinking water, general sanitation and hygiene. The inaugural exercise, part of the ongoing project dubbed “Football 4 WASH” in partnership with Welt Hunger Hilfe and Watoto Wasoka, (a local NGO which uses soccer to impact positively the lives of children in slums) is aimed at passing on information to this young generation through basic football drills, which knowledge they will hopefully then pass on to their fellow pupils through existing WA(ter).S(anitation).H(ygiene) school clubs, as well as to their communities through community water committees.
The Red Cross Society took charge of the first aid department
Meals were served on location
Participants who were all housed at a nearby residence would arrive at grounds every morning and do warm ups before breakfast. After breakfast, two professional football players from Watoto Wasoka, tutors of the project together with coaches would then conduct the named drill sessions including “Toilet Hygiene” and “Risky behavior” in which poor hygiene practices were taught against. In the “True or False” drill, pupils knowledge on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene was tested while the “Forbidden Area” drill indirectly implied that open defecation was no longer permissible. At the end of the program was a friendly match between Moroto FC and Football 4 WASH FC which ended in a 2-1 win in favor of the Moroto Team.
One of the teachers conducting warm ups
So what do the pupils and their teachers have to say about the eventful week? Sarah Abura, a Primary 6 pupil at Kalotom Primary School in Napak wishes her little brothers were here too. Nevertheless, she’s determined to pass on this knowledge to them and other people back at home. Sarah who hopes to become a nurse in future says her mother will be happy she learnt these lessons. Teacher Paul who acknowledges that he didn’t know some steps of hygiene until now vows to spread the gospel knowledge back home where locals drink water straight from the same wells where they feed their animals. Is Karamoja region a work in progress? Absolutely. Are things looking up for the future especially with regards to safe water, hygiene and sanitation? I think you and I will agree that this too is an absolute yes.
DPC Moroto addressing participants
Participants strike a pose after receiving soap and sanitary towels
This blog post contains the photography of PapaShotIt.
Gerenge Landing Site
Geoffrey “Kampala” Muwonge is a University graduate and one of – if not the most – successful young man at this landing site.
While his wife runs a shop and takes care of their only child in Nansana on the outskirts of Kampala where he has built a house, he spends time here working for their future in the fishing business.
While we speak, 4 young men who he later hands some money approach him. These are the fishermen he employs to spend days and some nights on the lake catching silver fish widely known in Uganda as “Mukene.”
He seems to be doing well, so I ask about the young men his age; his main worry, they’re spendthrifts. Really? I wonder looking around wondering what could be extravagantly spent on here. Yes, he affirms saying they spend most of their earnings kubakazi (loose Luganda reference to promiscuity)
At Gerenge Fish Landing Site on Lake Victoria, the major commercial activity is evidently, fishing. From the boats out on the lake, the nets on the shore and the silver fish hanging out to dry in the sun, the lake shore is bustling with fishing activity.
There’s however another popular activity which aids the exchange of money; prostitution.
A peer educator walks around community with a megaphone calling residents for the services
Residents of Gerenge queue up for HIV Testing after counselling
It is within their mission of enabling universal access to rights based sexual reproductive health information and services to vulnerable communities that Reproductive Health Uganda has reached out to sensitize and create awareness on safe sexual activity as well as meet their diverse reproductive health challenges in a 2 day outreach dubbed #SRHROnWaves.
Many have warmed up to the services and are visibly interested. There’s a queue at the HIV testing tent, almost everyone has received a box of male condoms or and an excited crowd can be seen at the point where illustrations on female panty condom use are. The door to door home visits to preach the family planning gospel are ongoing and again, many residents are receptive. Others on the other hand have reservations and misconceptions.
Demos on how a panty condom is used
One woman, mother of 3, argues that child birth is easier than having a metal inserted into her vagina for cervical cancer screening and in a distance, I hear 2 young men tell a peer educator that condoms cause cancer. Nevertheless, at the end of the day the people are happy.Many walk around excitedly with a box of condoms tucked under their armpit folds. More women are being screened for cervical cancer and the registration lists at the HIV Testing tent have been exhausted.
Geoffrey asks, Naye mukomawo ddi? Translation: When will you people be back?
Try as we might, we can not ignore the glaring need to re-echo Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Education especially among the youth in Uganda. Whereas there has been a number of campaigns n the same issue before, among them the ABC method, many young people continue to engage, understandably so, in sexual activities and have unprotected sex. This has translated into wide spread of sexually transmitted diseases and most notably, unplanned for pregnancies and mostly dangerous abortions among the youth.
It is against this background that Reproductive Health Uganda seeks to empower young people with correct and accurate knowledge, accessible youth friendly services and available supply of emergency contraceptives amidst their challenging environment to reduce unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and above all enable them accomplish their academic careers. To execute this, they have an ongoing campaign dubbed: “The Sooner, The Better, The Right Way” and on Wednesday 16th March, 2016, they took it to Makerere University.
Linda Birungi of Reproductive Health Uganda led the session
The discussion was themed on proper use of all available emergency contraceptives to aid prevention of pregnancy should one engage in unprotected sexual intercourse, should a condom break during sexual intercourse or and after one is sexually assaulted/raped. Linda Birungi a health worker with Reproductive Health Uganda, in her talk focused on two common emergency contraceptive methods; The Pill which even if is 75 – 89% effective in reducing the risk of pregnancy, works best when taken as soon as possible after sexual intercourse and are in no way designed to terminate an already existent pregnancy and the Emergency Intrauterine Device: a small T-shaped device containing copper or plastic that is inserted into the uterus by way of vaginal canal and when used properly; is 99.9% effective. It can be left in place for up to 12 years.
The knowledge that was passed on to students was on how the contraceptives work as well as the side effects to be expected by user . The contraceptive blocks fertilization by inhibiting transport of of the egg or by trapping the sperm in thickened cervical mucus. It makes the lining of the uterus inhospitable for pregnancy and alters sperm movement, preventing the sperm from meeting and fertilizing the egg. The common side effects and how to handle them, (note that some women have none at all) include; nausea which can be reduced by eating as soon as the pill is ingested, vomiting which the emphasis lay on the warning that should it occur within two hours after taking the pill, one must immediately take another dose and the rest of which are not so common: headaches, breast tenderness, dizziness, fluid retention and irregular menstrual cycle. There are also cases in which one must not use emergency contraceptives and these are when one has; been confirmed pregnant, has had a heart attack or stroke before, has blood clots, cancer, epilepsy, kidney diseases, diabetes and hypertension.
To be noted also is that emergency contraceptives should not be used routinely to replace regular birth control methods but most importantly, that these offer no protection against sexually transmitted infections. Now you know that it is NOT TOO LATE to stop an unplanned for pregnancy even after you have had unprotected sex, have had a condom tear or in the unfortunate case of rape. You have a choice.
Avid Reader| Writer In My Own Right| Feminist| Communicator| Adventurer| Satirist; Views expressed are mine.
Guerillas vs. Millenials, and one conversation we haven’t had
We have handed guns to them whose deprival of the finer things in life is a result of our access thereof, and asked them to protect us
Tribute to my 12 year old self
This is what might make us incapable of the leadership we hope for
On A Road Trip West of Uganda
Being Edna (1)
In My Head (17)
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Exodus, Chapter 4
Ex 4:1-31. MIRACULOUS CHANGE OF THE ROD, &c.
1. But, behold--Hebrew, "If," "perhaps," "they will not believe me."--What evidence can I produce of my divine mission? There was still a want of full confidence, not in the character and divine power of his employer, but in His presence and power always accompanying him. He insinuated that his communication might be rejected and he himself treated as an impostor.
2. the Lord said, . . . What is that in thine hand?--The question was put not to elicit information which God required, but to draw the particular attention of Moses.
A rod--probably the shepherd's crook--among the Arabs, a long staff, with a curved head, varying from three to six feet in length.
6. Put now thine hand into thy bosom--the open part of his outer robe, worn about the girdle.
9. take of the water of the river--Nile. Those miracles, two of which were wrought then, and the third to be performed on his arrival in Goshen, were at first designed to encourage him as satisfactory proofs of his divine mission, and to be repeated for the special confirmation of his embassy before the Israelites.
10-13. I am not eloquent--It is supposed that Moses labored under a natural defect of utterance or had a difficulty in the free and fluent expression of his ideas in the Egyptian language, which he had long disused. This new objection was also overruled, but still Moses, who foresaw the manifold difficulties of the undertaking, was anxious to be freed from the responsibility.
14. the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses--The Divine Being is not subject to ebullitions of passion; but His displeasure was manifested by transferring the honor of the priesthood, which would otherwise have been bestowed on Moses, to Aaron, who was from this time destined to be the head of the house of Levi (1Ch 23:13). Marvellous had been His condescension and patience in dealing with Moses; and now every remaining scruple was removed by the unexpected and welcome intelligence that his brother Aaron was to be his colleague. God knew from the beginning what Moses would do, but He reserves this motive to the last as the strongest to rouse his languid heart, and Moses now fully and cordially complied with the call. If we are surprised at his backwardness amidst all the signs and promises that were given him, we must admire his candor and honesty in recording it.
18. Moses . . . returned to Jethro--Being in his service, it was right to obtain his consent, but Moses evinced piety, humility, and prudence, in not divulging the special object of his journey.
19. all the men are dead which sought thy life--The death of the Egyptian monarch took place in the four hundred and twenty-ninth year of the Hebrew sojourn in that land, and that event, according to the law of Egypt, took off his proscription of Moses, if it had been publicly issued.
20. Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass--Septuagint, "asses." Those animals are not now used in the desert of Sinai except by the Arabs for short distances.
returned--entered on his journey towards Egypt.
he took the rod of God--so called from its being appropriated to His service, and because whatever miracles it might be employed in performing would be wrought not by its inherent properties, but by a divine power following on its use. (Compare Ac 3:12).
24. inn--Hebrew, "a halting place for the night."
the Lord met him, and sought to kill him--that is, he was either overwhelmed with mental distress or overtaken by a sudden and dangerous malady. The narrative is obscure, but the meaning seems to be, that, led during his illness to a strict self-examination, he was deeply pained and grieved at the thought of having, to please his wife, postponed or neglected the circumcision of one of his sons, probably the younger. To dishonor that sign and seal of the covenant was criminal in any Hebrew, peculiarly so in one destined to be the leader and deliverer of the Hebrews; and he seems to have felt his sickness as a merited chastisement for his sinful omission. Concerned for her husband's safety, Zipporah overcomes her maternal feelings of aversion to the painful rite, performs herself, by means of one of the sharp flints with which that part of the desert abounds, an operation which her husband, on whom the duty devolved, was unable to do, and having brought the bloody evidence, exclaimed in the painful excitement of her feelings that from love to him she had risked the life of her child [CALVIN, BULLINGER, ROSENMULLER].
26. So he let him go--Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimulate the Hebrew legislator to enforce a faithful attention to the rite of circumcision when it was established as a divine ordinance in Israel, and made their peculiar distinction as a people.
27. Aaron met him in the mount of God, and kissed him--After a separation of forty years, their meeting would be mutually happy. Similar are the salutations of Arab friends when they meet in the desert still; conspicuous is the kiss on each side of the head.
29-31. Moses and Aaron went--towards Egypt, Zipporah and her sons having been sent back. (Compare Ex 18:2).
gathered . . . all the elders--Aaron was spokesman, and Moses performed the appointed miracles--through which "the people" (that is, the elders) believed (1Ki 17:24 Jos 3:2) and received the joyful tidings of the errand on which Moses had come with devout thanksgiving. Formerly they had slighted the message and rejected the messenger. Formerly Moses had gone in his own strength; now he goes leaning on God, and strong only through faith in Him who had sent him. Israel also had been taught a useful lesson, and it was good for both that they had been afflicted.
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☠ arrr ☠
Unicode Character 'SKULL AND CROSSBONES' (U 2620)[☠]. Some lubbers might 'ave ye thinkin that mean poison, but such scurvy dogs aren't to be listenin' to, me 'earties. Sure an' it means PIRATES, savvy?
photo: ultimo tafe
Sydney - TAFE building in Ultimo.
Also posted at lj:bestshot & lj:photographers.
Muppet Central News - "America's Next Muppet" mini-series in development
Archie: She's Goth To Have It. Betty goes goth to get attention. Ouch, the pain, my poor head.
Nissan GT-R is coming back - Top Stories - CARSguide storypage: The only Japanese car to conquer The Mountain is coming back and this time the Nissan GT-R is serious. After being mooted as a design concept in 2001 the new generation GT-R is still almost two years away, yet Nissan Australia says the model will return as a mainstream model. It just doesn't seem to have that spine-tingling Godzilla front end, sadly. Not that it matters with that pricetag - I'll need to win lotto to ever own one. ... I've always thought the GTR ban spelled the end of touring car racing in Australia. It was the turning point when it started becoming nothing but Ford vs. Holden, which came to its logical conclusion when it was rebranded V8 Supercar racing. It's a pity they were banned, not least because it was horrifically bad sportsmanship, but because it stopped any serious development of AWD cars. Years later we're finally starting to see AWD from manufacturers other than Subaru.
Boing Boing: Math proves you can stop table-wobble by rotating
Boing Boing: Giant convertible beanbag chairs
gitcher sedition, used to be called the news
'No real progress' in port clearance rate. 28/10/2005. ABC News Online: There are still major problems removing freight from Port Botany because of the new Customs computer system, despite signs of an easing in the backlog, the Road Transport Association (RTA) in New South Wales says. The build-up was caused by teething problems with a new computer system introduced by Customs two-and-a-half-weeks ago.
Australian IT - $260,000 electric sedan clocks 370km/h (Wires, OCTOBER 25, 2005)
Mediawatch: Seditious opinion? Lock 'em up (24/10/2005): An expert legal opinion obtained by Media Watch on the impact of the new Anti-Terrorism Bill says that journalists and the commentators they interview might be caught out by the new laws on sedition. To put it another way, if you discuss terrorism with anything less than a perfect alignment to the goverment's stance; you're spouting or reporting sedition. I simply cannot believe this is happening in my country! :( Thanks a fucking bunch, Liberal voters.
FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations. There's no real way to watch the FBI... and they know it. Just as there'll be no way for Australians to watch ASIO, since anyone who gets locked up can't tell anyone about it. Anyone who works out what happened has to keep their mouth shut or they'll be jailed too.
Govt amends counter-terror laws, Stanhope says. 28/10/2005. ABC News Online:
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says the final draft of the Federal Government's counter-terrorism legislation contains a number of significant amendments, particularly in relation to control orders and preventative detention.
The Federal Attorney-General's office has announced the counter-terrorism legislation will now not be introduced to Parliament on Melbourne Cup day.
In relation to preventative detention orders, he says the Commonwealth has widened the category of people able to issue orders, to include retired judges and the President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock had wanted to introduce the bill next Tuesday, prompting the Opposition to suggest it was using the public's obsession with the Melbourne horse race as a way of avoiding scrutiny.
Retired judges will be able to issue these bills? WTF?! Interesting to see them back down on the Melbourne Cup Day timing... that really was a bit fucking obvious.
and another quiz
You scored as Industrial Goth
Congrats! you're Industrial Goth! you probably listen to Skinny Puppy or Wumpscut. you like clubbing and you cant live without technology!
Industrial Goth 75%
Classic Goth 63%
Denial Goth 63%
Poser Goth 50%
Romantic Goth 38%
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silly quiz for a friday
You have Raven Eyes!
Positive Traits: Intellectual, Wise, Experienced, Honest, Trustworthy
Negative Traits: Pompous, Condescending, Withdrawn, Pessimistic, Depressed
Your eyes are the windows to your soul. What type of eyes do you have?
photo: dead trolley alley
Abandoned trolley in a dirty alley. Brisbane, Australia. One of those shots where I can't decide if I like it or think it should be shitcanned.
Boing Boing: Pix of gigantic heaps of discarded objects. This is t3h 4wes0me.
The City. Cityscape in jelly (jell-o if you're american).
deadmachinery: (dead dryers)
photographers: (curves)
bestshot: (trees)
deadmachinery: Chernobyl
around the traps & news bits
Swedish feminism put to the test - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
Boing Boing: Top 100 toys of the 70s and 80s. I remember getting green slime for christmas one year. We have a video of everyone playing with this evil, toxic looking stuff... I think it fascinated the adults as much as the kids. I remember it smelled odd.
Boing Boing: Gorgeous Kees van der Westen-designed espresso machines . Combining art and caffeine addiction. Inspired.
Boing Boing: Liquid-nitro-dipped rose being shot, captured in high speed photos
The Abstract Factory: The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Phone operator 3 plans to sell advertising on mobiles
Hairdresser was misled on IR advert - National - theage.com.au: [Ms Grimwade] said she was told by the producers that the film shoot was to promote 'health and safety' - an issue that she is very passionate about. She said she was also told that she would receive a cheque of about $1000 for the shoot, which occurred more than a month ago. She said she was not told that the advertisement would be used to promote the Government's workplace agenda. She has still not be been paid. I've also heard the same story about other people in the ads. It seems nobody knew what their image was going to be used for. Apparently the guy on the forklift in another ad resigned over it.
Tunnel use up 20 per cent - NSW/ACT - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au: TRAFFIC through Sydney's Cross City Tunnel is up 20 per cent on its first day of a toll-free period, its operator says. ... But Mr Sansom said if patronage fell off again after the toll-free period, it would not support arguments to reduce the toll. Gotta love logic like that.
Nazi racoons on the march - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au: GERMANY is battling a new threat - 'Nazi' raccoons that are ruining the country's wine harvest half a century after Hermann Goering introduced them, saying they would 'enrich' the local wildlife. Here's hoping they're not related to killer attack squirrels.
Captain Cook also discovered surfing - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au: CAPTAIN Cook's status as the first European surfing enthusiast has been recognised by the arrival of a centuries-old surfboard at his museum in Britain.
HOW-TO: Map a drive to your FTP server - Engadget - www.engadget.com
seditious by definition?
How's this for sedition? - Opinion - theage.com.au:
The Federal Government proposes to amend the Crimes Act 1914 so as to be able to jail any body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, which by its constitution or propaganda or otherwise, advocates or encourages the doing of any act having or purporting to have as an object the carrying out of a seditious intention.
Seditious intention means an intention to bring the sovereign into hatred or contempt; or to urge disaffection against the constitution; the government of the Commonwealth; either house of the Parliament; to urge another person to attempt, otherwise than by lawful means, to procure a change to any matter established by law in the Commonwealth; and to promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth.
Here's a problem with law: it's not definite, it's not specific. It's left open in order to give judges some wiggle room when applying the laws - I think the legal term is "allowing interpretation". This is why two people committing the same crime may get completely different sentences - community service versus jail time, for example.
By the cited definition of "sedition", expressing discontent with the government and encouraging people to vote against them could be deemed seditious and with that you could be placed in jail or under house arrest. Under new laws if anyone else figures out that you've been placed under house arrest and mentions it to someone in the tea room at work, they could be jailed for seven years.
So, basically, if the current government feels like it, they can jail Labour, Green and Democrat voters; since they advocate voting against the government. People are often quite strident in their opinions on the matter and could very easily be described as expressing hatred for Johnny "Lying Bastard" Howard and his minions. It's seditious to express a strong opinion that the government are a pack of arseholes who doing horriffic things to our way of life.
An extreme interpretation? Not really. Punching someone several times in the face is "assault". So is putting a hand on their shoulder. That's legal interpretation.
aussies - turn on your tv!
International Rules is on right now! Piss funny! Best game ever!
afl.com.au | Aussies too quick, too good: The Australians, who incredibly went into the game as underdogs, produced their greatest ever victory over Ireland, as well as kicking the highest score in the history of the competition, in recording a 2.27.7 (100) to 3.11.13 (64) over the shell-shocked visitors in front of nearly 40,000 fans at Subiaco.
Heroic PETA Commandos Kill 49, Save Rabbit | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
urban_decay: fall[out]_asylum. A real standout image.
photographers: triptych
bestshot: Shot in bright day light (funky old car)
iPods to become theoretically legally usable in australia
iTunes hits Oz | Top stories | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (20-10-2005). Someone needs to remind Kathy McCabe that you're supposed to remove the superlatives and unsupportable claims before you publish a press release.
Hundreds of thousands of iPod users? Really? I know they're common, but how about some figures to back that up. A 500% increase in online sales? Compared with what? Services which nobody can even name? Based on predictions of how much money the iTunes execs expect to snort up their noses this year?
So, anyway, iTunes is finally getting released in Australia minus SonyBMG - obviously they didn't want to wait long enough to have a complete catalogue. Not that anyone should care based on the artists cited in this article (oh ok, Franz Ferdinand are pretty good).
congratulations, it's a meme
You haven't seen the movie, now buy the tshirt! TopatoCo Item Boutique: T SHIRTS: Snakes on a Plane!
Labels: meme
how to disable autoplay (windows xp sanity saver)
I've just got a new work computer and have been shifted to Windows XP after years of happy Win2k use. The autorun thing shits me to tears - what a waste of time, reading an entire CD and then asking me what to do with it...just in general. Gahh!
Thankfully you can disable it!
Method one:
Download and install Tweak UI via the Powertoys page
Run Tweak UI
My Computer → Autoplay → Types
Deselect all drive types in the 'autoplay drive types' box.
Apply, and you're done.
Method two:
Start → Run
gpedit.msc [enter]
Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System
Double-click the item "Turn off autoplay"
Select "Enable"
Select which drives from the dropdown, I went for "all drives" since I don't want it to search the entirety of our office's 20gig external hard drive whenever I use it.
Done! Windows preference handling really needs some work. It still can't handle font sizes in any sensible manner, nor does it display unicode characters out of the box.
Labels: windows xp
The Yamaha Gen-RYU hybrid motorcycle - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Too good to be bad - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au: A Hollywood film ["Snakes on a Plane"] starring Samuel L. Jackson has been ridiculed as "so bad it's good" by movie critics before it has even been completed. ... However efforts by executives to change the title to something more mundane, such as Pacific Air 121 were stopped by none other than lead actor and screen legend Samuel L. Jackson, who, according to one interview transcript, refused point blank to see the title altered in any way.
Boing Boing: Cramped movie marquee makes for funny titles
Boing Boing: Real people who have (un)real relationships with Real Dolls. I wonder how long ago this article would have surprised me...
Boing Boing: Knit-your-own fake breasts (warning: may piss off TSA agents). Sounds odd, but it's an interesting story. The creator had a breast removed and hated the prosthetic breasts she was given. So she knitted her own.
Boing Boing: Broken bookcases with staggered, slanted irregular shelves. Very cool. I'd love one of these.
urban_decay: Intersection of St Charles and Erato, New Orleans
cityscapes: Gifu (Japan) 2005.10.16
photographers: broken window
urban_decay: Various shots from this weekend in Toronto (and Georgetown, Ontario)
bestshot: (bobcat)
beware of local delicacies
This is hilarious :) The Power of Lutefisk: 'Lutefisk' is an infamous Norwegian dish composed of fish soaked in lye. Want to know more?
gamer humour
If you're going to sit in your basement pretending to be an elf, you should at least have some friends over to help.
perchance not to dream one fucking bit
Insomnia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: If an alarm has been set, avoid looking at the clock during the night and cover the display if necessary. This prevents mental calculations of how much sleep has been lost so far and how little sleep can be obtained before the alarm will sound. That's so true. You can end up unable to sleep from the stress of being unable to sleep. Blech.
List of Galleries of Drops and Splashes
photographers: Stairway To Heaven
cityscapes: Hamburg, Germany - Reeperbahn / St.Pauli
cityscapes: Tallinn, Estonia
Cheezblog | Panorama of Brisbane on a stormy night
photo: sydney juggler
Juggler balancing above the crowd; Sydney Harbour, August 2005. His feet are on the crossbar, not the pedals.
cat seeks minionshumans
Anyone in Melbourne have a good home for a ginger cat? drjon: Okay, we're looking for a home for Big Red.
around the traps & thoughts on new laws
I've been going through various draft posts I haven't had time time to publish over the last couple of weeks. I threw away some draft posts screaming about the new anti-terrorism laws, particularly the ones I wrote before the laws were passed.
All I can think of now is the reaction of the cabbie who took me to the airport a few days ago (muslim, bearded, fits-a-profile). He hadn't heard about it yet and when I mentioned it he immediately said 'I better tell my girlfriend if I don't come home, she should call the police and check...' and wasn't really joking. He was a really nice guy, very passionate about his religion and terribly sad that people think it's a violent religion. He said it promotes peace, that extremists 'aren't muslims and don't represent islam'. He then helped me get my bags out of the boot at the airport and bid me a good day.
I keep thinking about him when the new laws are mentioned. What could he do if somebody decided he might be a risk? He'd be detained, maybe put under house arrest for months on end for absolutely no reason and nobody would ever know about it. Maybe he'd be allowed to tell his family. Maybe.
I mean, sure, so he could be a terrorist. But then I could be a bank robber in my spare time. My next door neighbour could be a disguised alien being beamed over from Mars. Personally I thought we lived in a country where "could" and "might" weren't good enough to lock people up.
At least, that's how it was when I was growing up. I guess it's a different nation now.
drjon: Terror Laws and the Australian Blogger...
Women want their men at work | Business | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (29-09-2005): 'There's no conflict about this: Australian women don't like it when their men work part-time,' says Jan van Ours, an international researcher who will today present a paper drawn from Australia's HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey. 'Australian women want their men in full-time jobs. They are least satisfied when they, themselves, have a job of more than 50 hours, and most satisfied when they are working part-time, or not at all.'
Police stake-out bar, hoping to catch man drunk | The Register : The journalist in question, Edmonton newspaper columnist Kerry Diotte, wasn't suspected of involvement in any crime. But Diotte had written a column criticizing the police force's radar and camera technology as being more of a cash cow for the force than an effective measure against road fatalities - and the story enraged the local constabulary.
Herald Sun: I shot the big cat [09oct05]: A Victorian hunter believes he may finally have solved the state's big cat mystery. Kurt Engel shot dead what is believed to be a leopard or a puma in Gippsland. The perspective in the photo is really strange. I'd be waiting for the DNA before I got excited.
photo: tall ship Svanen
Bowsprit detail of the tall ship "Svanen". Sydney Harbour, August 2005.
Since I haven't actually posted a non-detail shot... here she is returning to dock after a cruise :)
blogger wishlist
Any Bloggers out there? Do me a favour and head over to Blogger Help | Wishlist and vote for categorisation :)
sydney, the shortishnot very short version
Vulcan Hotel was good, although there was a little confusion over the booking they quickly sorted it out. I found the first room a bit noisy (Wattle Street is very busy and I'm a light sleeper) but once L joined me they moved us to a room on the back street which was much quieter. Breakfast was fine except for the last morning when the owner /manager decided to run breakfast herself. She really couldn't make a good coffee ;)
Web Essentials 05 rocked amazingly. I met a lot of great people, was reminded that big names in my industry are humans, got called geeky by at least one of them ;), got a lot of ideas to ponder, gave and received lots of business cards. It was just about everything you'd want in a conference, basically. It seemed over in about five minutes.
After the conference... Saw lots of people. In fact, there was only one person that I knew to be in Sydney that I didn't catch. Did in fact catch up with someone I didn't know lived in Sydney until a day or two before I left to go down there!
Sydney can be a surprisingly difficult place to find good food that doesn't cost the earth, depending on where you are. Even if you can find food, finding a bloody ATM to pay for it.... yeesh! :)
Spent metric fuckloads of cash, have a lot of shwag to show for it (plus a lot of memories of hurtling around in cabs). All of the following are notably hazardous to your credit card's health:
House of Fetish (for the uninitiated, particularly the people from work who've found this blog, it's just a goth shop ok? stop being all squicked out, it's not necessary ;)) - they really looked after us, but then we did spend a lot. i now own a pair of jacques tchong pintripe pants!
Robert & Angelo (shop of Stuff up the road from HoF)
Paddington Markets
Powerhouse Museum gift shop
Sony Central bloody nearly got me, but I stayed strong and just bought new batteries for our cameras (they gave me a discount for buying two packs!). When I win lotto I'm going in there and shouting "one of everything, thanks!".
Not so good:
Gallery Serpentine turned out to be a waste of time unless you're a size 8 (quite literally, they only had one of most things and that one was size 8) or you're getting something custom made and you can come back in a few weeks. Their product is great, don't get me wrong, but we went all the way out there and couldn't buy anything. Stick to the website, basically.
Raben footwear's shop staff pissed me off completely, to the point where I basically decided I didn't feel like buying anything off them.
Public holiday Monday meant a lot of things were closed along Oxford Street. Plus a shop or two had closed/moved from Newtown.
Food... we had really mixed luck. Total disasters through to great success.
Xic Lo vietnamese noodle bar (Haymarket) was good, although a little caution turned out to be a good thing as far as the tea temperature goes ;)
Darling Harbour in general sucks arse if you don't want to spend $45 on a steak or you want to eat within two hours; although the Pumphouse was great (we didn't want to have pizza two nights running, although in hindsight i really wish we had just done so).
Zia Pina is now firmly established as a fucking brilliant place to eat. Six of us ate hugely, knocked off two bottles of wine and had ten gelati between us; all for less than $30 each.
Jury is still out on Wagamama. Food was ....weird, but to be fair I chose a strange option and should have stuck with yakisoba or something. Service was friendly and quick but the kitchen fucked up completely, leaving two of us sitting around waiting while everyone else was nearly finished. They did give us our drinks for free though.
Betty's Soup Kitchen has great food and wonderful entertainment watching their distaste at serving the heteros. Not to say their service isn't good, they'd just rather you were gay ;) I really enjoyed eating there, last time I was there I was feeling extremely ill and didn't get to enjoy it. For a cheap, hearty eat you can't really beat it; and yes, the bread is fantastic. Forgot to try their lemonade again though. Damn, guess I'll have to go back sometime.
Gelato Messina was gooooooood :) Their website is going straight to their webmail interface though. Oops!
Fratelli Paradiso do an excellent breakfast. Limited menu, yet I could have eaten nearly all of them very happily. The coffee was very good and service was attentive (so few places keep your water glass topped up - a little thing maybe but important on a hot day!). Not cheap though (although L's aunt shouted us as a birthday present anyway).
I took surprisingly few photos. Quite irritated that the day I planned to shoot a couple of specific buildings up the road from the hotel, the light was awful and I didn't get a chance anyway.
The seriously touristy stuff....
Powerhouse Museum gets two thumbs up - $10 and we were there for hours, yet we didn't see everything.
Maritime Museum gets the thumbs up as well - free for most of it! They're about to do exhibits on vikings and pirates too.
The Aquarium got the thumbs down before we even got in there - nearly $30 each? Not that keen.
Really wanted to do the Harbour Lights night cruise on the ferry, but we were so exhausted we decided to hold it over for next time.
I am incredibly sore. Have walked for miles over the past few days and finished up tonight dragging our over-weight luggage up the stairs. The two big bags came to 48kg, plus chunky laptop, plus jacket bag... ouch.
Still can't believe the range of weather... everything from hot as hell to chilly inside seven days. What gives with the heat - I'm from Brisbane damnit, I wanted cold weather ;)
Flight back was awful. Delayed takeoff, delayed landing with holding pattern over Gold Coast, multiple children in close vicinity (although the unattended kid in the seat next to me was actually very well behaved). Another bumpy landing in a crosswind, although nothing so spectacular as the QANTAS flight back last time.
wow. just... wow.
WE05 was awesome. Expect more details and a serious blogroll extension over at the 200ok weblog.
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Eagle Wurtz Still Soaring
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The last time we interviewed Tom Wurtz, in early 2006, he was president and chief operating officer of The Sheakley Group, and author of a book called The Eagle Within.
Since then he has surmounted a personal crisis, resigned from Sheakley after 30 years, and formed his own business, Tom Wurtz Consulting.
Q. When we published a story about you in 2006, you shared your near-death experience with a heart attack at age 37. What has happened since?
A. Well, five months after that article, I suffered a second massive heart attack at age 51. I was in the hospital for two weeks. Two days after my heart attack, my mom passed away, and I was not aware of her passing until I left the hospital, 12 days later. It was a tough time for my family, but everything is back on track. I’m exercising every day now, and I’m eating bacon only at every other meal.
Q. Many people in your situation would want full retirement. Why start a new business on your own? What was your wife’s reaction?
A. I love the challenge of building a business and the gift of accomplishment that comes from even the smallest business success. I’m still passionate about learning, as I still read two to three books per month. The great feeling of starting your own business is that you can call any play any time you want. The freedom to succeed or fail is why I love being an American.
Barb is very supportive. My family calls her “Saint Barbara.” As the story goes, Barb and I have been running together since the third grade and have been married for 31 years. We both just hold on tight to each other and try and enjoy the ride.
Q. Refresh our memories of The Eagle Within. What’s the difference between an eagle and a duck?
A. Every company has only three types of employees: Eagles (can-do achievers), Ducks (can’t-do underachievers) and the Undecided (not sure which team to join). There is a daily battle between the Eagles and the Ducks for the undecided votes. The winner determines the success of any company. At Sheakley, the Eagles won. My Eagle Leadership Academy teaches my clients how to achieve a 50 percent Eagle population.
Q. Which kinds of businesses, or business people, most need your brand of consulting?
A. I can really help those executives who don’t have the time or money to waste participating in superficial leadership training, such as mission statements, personality assessments, employee surveys, casual days, flex-time, boot camps, new slogans, tearing down office walls, jeans day (which is almost a religious experience now days), consensus building and personal vision statements. Once an executive realizes that those gimmicks will fail, I encourage them to attend one of my no-fluff, no-nonsense workshops. I teach the importance of strong leadership. If you don’t have strong leadership, everything else is just a waste of profits.
Q. You told us how you realized that you can not motivate anyone. “I can only help people who want to change.” Does that still hold true?
A. Yes. If a person does not want to change, there are no magic words or business manipulation gimmicks that will motivate someone without his or her permission. I just accept Ducks as Ducks and hope that Dr. Phil or someone smarter than I can help them. I encourage my clients to feed their Eagles and inspire the Undecided who want to change, to join the Eagle Nation.
Tom Wurtz Consulting and his free weekly “Eagle e-Lesson” are accessible at www.TomWurtz.com.
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