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Sally ‘Gays are Worse than Terrorists’ Kern’s Husband Hopes to Join Her in the Oklahoma Legislature
June 18, 2014 by Andy Towle
Oklahoma Rep. Sally "gays are worse than terrorists" Kern's husband wants to join her in the legislature, the AP reports:
A familiar name is on the ballot in a Republican primary for the open Senate District 40 seat in northwest Oklahoma City that includes portions of Nichols Hills, Bethany, The Village and Warr Acres. Steve Kern, a 67-year-old evangelical pastor, is the husband of state Rep. Sally Kern, who made national headlines in 2008 when she said homosexuals pose a greater threat to the country than terrorism.
A vocal critic of gay marriage, Steve Kern didn't distance himself from his wife's comments, saying that "they were true in the sense that the (gay) agenda was more stealthy than the terrorists' agenda."
In a separate incident two years ago, Sally Kern was reprimanded and delivered an apology on the House floor after denigrating blacks and women during debate on an affirmative action bill.
Kern has five other Republican competitors in the June 24 primary.
Also in Oklahoma's primary is Paula Sophia, a 48-year-old transgender Army combat veteran and ex-police officer. Sophia is running for the open House District 88 seat in central Oklahoma City and would be Oklahoma's first transgender elected official if she won.
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A Sad End For A Beloved Kitten
By NPR Staff
Published September 10, 2014 at 10:59 AM CDT
Peat the kitten kept Scotland's Glenturret Distillery free of mice that are attracted to the grain used in production. The 6-month-old kitten was also an ambassador who was featured in public relations photos. But Peat died Monday, apparently after being hit by a car.
Peat the kitten quickly made a name for himself at the Glenturret Distillery in Scotland.
Officially, his job was to kill the mice attracted to the grain used in the making of whisky. And he had big paws to fill. One of his predecessors at the distillery, Towser the Mouser, is in the Guinness Book of World Records, credited with killing 28,899 mice.
There aren't many mice around the distillery anymore, but the photogenic Peat has been warming hearts with his appearances in public relations photos for Scotland's oldest distillery.
So much so that NPR featured Peat in a story Tuesday about the role that felines have played at distilleries over the years.
But on Wednesday, Glenturret announced that Peat had died after he was found on the side of the road Monday. He was apparently hit by a car, according to the distillery.
NPR wasn't aware of Peat's accident until the distillery made the announcement Wednesday.
"He was inquisitive, fearless and a social cat, and we will all miss him terribly," said Lesley Williamson, the business development manager of The Famous Grouse Experience. "The Glenturret Distillery team are heartbroken."
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Paper Ballots Could Ease Election-Hacking Fears, But Computers Will Always Be Part Of Counting Votes
KUT 90.5 | By Kristen Cabrera
UT Computer Science Professor Hovav Shacham discussed voter security with Texas Standard Host David Brown at the 2018 Texas Tribune Festival.
From Texas Standard:
There’s a question that moves in parallel with the increased use of computerized voting machines – can your vote be hacked? It’s a question that was put to the test in the 2016 presidential election cycle, when Russia was found to be influencing voters in the election, but not the voting machines themselves. Some say the risk of vote-hacking could be reduced by using paper ballots in addition to electronic vote-counters.
Hovav Shacham is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has specialized in computer security and the voter security for over a decade.
“I think the question we need to ask is not just how vulnerable the actual systems are, but how much confidence can voters have that their vote really is recorded and counted just as they cast it,” Shacham says.
Voters shouldn't be allowed to take home a paper receipt showing how they voted, because that could lead to coercion, Shacham says.
“If you could take [a receipt] home then you could prove to somebody else that you voted a particular way,” Shacham says. “At that point someone could come to you before the election and say ‘vote this way or I will break your knee,’ which is something that we don’t want.”
Voting machines and the state voter database are vulnerable to hacking, but computers will not cease to be used in the election process.
“We use computers in elections,” Shacham says. “We use them from voter registration and ballot definition all the way to counting and reporting and auditing. Different computers induce different risks in the election process.”
Even if Texas returned to a paper ballot system, those ballots would still be brought in and counted by a computer or scanner, because of the expectation voters and the media have that election results should be available quickly.
“The main thing that we need is we need is for voters to be able to tell at the time that they cast their ballot that it was recorded the way that they intended, in a way that can’t be changed after the fact,” Shacham says. “The technology that we have for doing that is paper. Voters see a voter verifiable paper trail, whether that’s a ballot or a receipt printer under glass attached to an electronic voting machine. Having that paper record, we can compare the electronic records that we can tally quickly and report quickly, against the paper and we can audit and check that the machines are functioning correctly.”
Written by Brooke Vincent.
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We’ll show you all the wonderful places to visit in Zimbabwe, from the magnificent Victoria Falls to the thousands of elephants in Gonarezhou National Park.
Be amazed by the stunning natural wonder of Victoria Falls
A visit to the Victoria Falls is a monumental experience. Not only is it the most incredible Zimbabwe waterfall, but it’s the world’s largest waterfall and a Natural Wonder of the World. We’ll reveal every astonishing angle, and you’ll feel the spray as you watch the water thundering into the gorge below.
Explore the ancient city walls of Great Zimbabwe
Our Zimbabwe holidays reveal the history of the country, and we’ll take you to the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe, once the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the Late Iron Age. It was built between the 11th and 15th centuries and we’ll explore the ancient stone walls of this UNESCO-listed site.
Take a helicopter flight over Victoria Falls and the Zambezi
Take an exhilarating helicopter ride over the mighty Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River, for a breathtaking view of the water crashing into the gorge. You’ll zigzag along the winding Zambezi, see the Batoka Gorge, and have the unrivalled opportunity to snap some spectacular pictures of this natural wonder.
Dive in Devil's Pool
A dip in Devil’s Pool is one of the most thrilling things to do in Zimbabwe. This natural pool was formed by centuries of erosion, and has a natural barrier that allows you to swim to the edge of the waterfall without getting swept over. You’ll have striking views of the waterfall and it’s a true pinch-me moment.
See elephants at Gonarezhou National Park
Set in a remote corner of the country, Gonarezhou National Park is one of the top Zimbabwe attractions. It’s name means ‘The Place of Elephants’, and you can spot some of the 11,000 elephants that roam these beautiful plains. We’ll also discover the park’s striking landscapes, from woodlands and rivers, to soaring sandstone cliffs.
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Located in the Centenary Park in Bulawayo, the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe is one of the biggest and most significant museums of science and natural history in all of Africa. It was built in 1962 and is filled with collections on archaeology, entomology and paleontology.
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Visit the Bulawayo Railway Museum to learn the story of the Rhodesian Railway. This locomotive museum is located next to Bulawayo railway station, and houses collections which include original trains dating back to 1897, and the personal railway coach of Cecil Rhodes.
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The Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences showcases the human history of Zimbabwe, from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. It houses a vast collection of historical artefacts, including the 700 year old ngoma lungundu, the oldest wooden object found in sub-Saharan Africa, believed to be a replica of the Ark of the Covenant.
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Dovi is a tasty peanut stew, and one of the most well-loved dishes in Zimbabwe. It’s made from crushed peanuts, meat, okra, tomato, carrot, garlic and onion, stirred together with a rich stock. Our Local Specialists will show you the best places to try this comforting dish.
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Similar to ugali (cornflour porridge) found in eastern Africa, sadza is made using boiled cornmeal. It’s mashed into a potato-like consistency and can be served as a side dish to mop up saucy curries, or eaten on its own with peanut sauce.
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Mapopo candy is a papaya candy, and a favourite of all Zimbabweans. It’s made from strips of papaya, lemon and mint which are dissolved in a sugar syrup, before cooling and being reheated to mold into soft cubes. It’s similar to Turkish delight and you can find it in markets across Zimbabwe.
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Whether you’d like to go white-water rafting in Batoka Gorge, or take a dip in Devil’s Pool at Victoria Falls, pack a swimsuit for your trip to Zimbabwe.
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Tuxachanie National Recreation Trail
State: MS
Dauphin Island is a quaint, beach town located on a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. The island is known as a resort town, with tourist attractions including its white sandy beaches and...
AL 3.5 mi Asphalt
The Eastern Shore Trail runs along the east side of Mobile Bay from Spanish Fort to Weeks Bay, passing through the communities of Daphne, Montrose, Fairhope, Battles Wharf and Point Clear along the...
AL 24.7 mi Asphalt, Concrete
On the southern end of Mobile, a short paved trail runs from Doyle Park, along the edge of the city's airport, to the waterfront. The park makes a nice place to begin with parking, restrooms, and...
The Tuxachanie Trail is a National Recreation Trail offering a 12-mile hike through southern Mississippi's Desoto National Forest. A portion of the trail follows an old abandoned railroad that once...
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October, 2020 by housanna_tl
Loved the tall pine trees. Trail was awesome!! We had time to only walk 6 miles. One of the best we’ve walked. Looking forward to coming back soon and walking the entire trail!!
Casual trail ride
August, 2020 by pete.moore
Just rode the trail from Village Point Park Reserve to downtown Fairhope, about 8 miles one way. Not much change from what previous reviews describe regarding the condition of the trail and obstacles/traffic you'll encounter. It's a beautiful ride but you just have to be prepared to NOT have a smooth ride, and to ride at a casual pace (unless you're on a mountain bike). Fairhope is a great stop-over with some good restaurants, but beware of Monday closures. Also a nice area to go off trail and explore.
Limited recreational trail
March, 2020 by chanceyj
The section of the trail between Fairhope and Daphne is broken and heaved concrete and dangerous! Beware. East of Barnwell we made a wrong turn and eventually dead ended in Weeks Bay. That mistake proved to be the best part of this ride - scenic along with a bike lane.
confusing.
February, 2020 by silverandchocolate9140
Not well marked beginning. Bathroom was locked!
Not a Good Recreational Trail
March, 2019 by nmoskal
Fairhope north to Daphne was one of the worse biking trails we have been on. Long inclines and descents on broken and dangerous sidewalk. Fast traffic prevented us from riding on the road-there is no bike lane. Fairhope South is a flatter option on sidewalk and some bike lanes. There’s always traffic.
July, 2018 by jirokomyoji
This trail runs along the perimeter of the Brookley airport. It is quiet and secluded as it runs behind houses. Most riders extend it by riding along the bay road to the park. It has little to no traffic and is perfect for road bikes.
Busy areas and beautiful areas.
April, 2018 by jlogan107
For the record, I live a couple of blocks from the trail on the northern end in Daphne. I have ridden the trail many times and twice all the way from Daphne to the end of County Road 1 south of Point Clear (around 25 miles one-way). It definitely has its share of positives and negatives. But if you come knowing what to expect, it can be a nice ride. The southern end has been lengthened it appears all the way from scenic 98 to Weeks Bay to the east, although I have not been on this section.
First of all, this is a very busy area for traffic. The trail runs right along scenic 98, along the shoulder of the road. In most places, it just replaced the sidewalk which was already there. The concrete was widened to 6 feet in these areas I suppose to qualify for the funds for a trail.
Most of the negative comments people have said is true. People will park on it, even though they are not supposed to. They leave their garbage cans on it. There are places where there may be short areas of sand or gravel across the trail to traverse. There are many street crossings, some very busy, depending on the time of day. Some places there are bad sections of concrete that need attention, but I have noticed most of these have been fixed. There are also a few significant hills, mostly near Alligator Alley, south of Montrose and north of Fairhope. South of Fairhope is fairly flat.
The trail is also very beautiful in many places, mostly around Montrose, Fairhope and Point Clear, with many large oak trees hanging over the road, nice views along the bay, rolling hills with nice bridges over the creeks. Also the trail runs right through the middle of Fairhope which has many interesting shops and restaurants. You might also want to check out the pier in Fairhope, which is one of the most photographed areas in the county. That is if you can make it back up the hill!
I think since this trail was first certified, the section from the USS Alabama Park to Alligator Alley in Daphne has been dropped since it was too dangerous riding across the bay on the shoulder of the causeway. It appears the official starting point is now at Alligator Alley since the mileage markers now begin at this point. If you do start your ride at this point, be forewarned. There is a steep 70 foot hill you will immediately have to deal with! Another option would be to start at Lott Park in Daphne and head south to avoid the hill and traffic.
This trail is used a lot by locals, so watch for walkers, runners and other bikers.
Also, just as a note, this trail is probably not best suited for a road bike, because of curbs and gutters, unless you ride from Fairhope south. There, it is mostly asphalt. I would recommend a hybrid bike instead.
Some interesting points along the trail include Alligator Alley, the United States Sports Academy, Bayfront Park, Village Point Park Preserve in Daphne, the tiny 1890 post office in Montrose, the floral clock, downtown Fairhope, the Fairhope Pier and Beach, the Grand Hotel in Point Clear and Weeks Bay Preserve.
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January, 2018 by lbobbitt
The pavement is broken, heaved and in serious need of repacking. Our trails in Illinois are in better shape. On the trail today was sand, soil, broken glass, pine needles, grasses, horse manure, (I saw six horses on the paved trail yesterday, trash cans and parked vehicles. I’ve complained to police to no avail since it isn’t a priority. One truck pulled onto the trail in my path climbing an incline to retrieve his mail. There are no markings at intersections or to alert motorists to keep off of the trail. It would appear that the trail was built to say they have a trail but, they choose to not maintain it or do anything about violators. It’s a real shame and embarrassment.
Trail Therapy
January, 2018 by rozaskevin
Woke up by 0600. I ate 3 eggs with spinach, finished it with a nice up of coffee. I started trail by 0945. The route from the trail head to lake airey was good. Got to lake airey and had a 30 minute lunch. Got back on trail by 1200. The first few miles towards POW lake were flat and easy at about the 11.5 miles it will get dense but nothing hard. The trail will go from 4 feet wide to about a foot wide. After the 12 mile marker, just know you will need to hike about .7 miles untill POW.. It was a great trail and worth every step
It's A Shame
September, 2017 by judy23
I was raised in Alabama, what a shame that the State, County or City does nothing to improve this trail. Lots of people would love to ride or walk this but it appears the State nor the Local Government could care less about it.
May, 2017 by munsung1075
I bike from weeks Bay on 98 to about 15 miles heading from there along route 1 into the city and I always enjoy it. There are some rough patches and one place where you have to cross the street to get to the other side to continue on the trail but overall it's worth it. The roads around the neighborhood are usually not that bad and you can easily switch to randomly using the roads to go through neighborhoods. There are a few nice slopes and I really enjoy the landscaping and scenery there. Yes sometimes a vehicle is half parked on it but it's easy to go around. I drive from Foley , about 10 miles away, a few times a week to bike it. It's a community pedestrian path and of course kids are out on it so it's not for racing on. But you can definitely go fast enough to get in a great workout if you want.
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March, 2017 by cherylb@firelit.com
Sorry it was poorly maintained, and the cement was cracked and upheaved or sunk in several areas, not like Michigan! We also had to dodge constructions trucks etc.. parked on the trail! The was garbage strewn in and near the trail.. ? Spring pick up never picked up. But we did make it all the way from the weeks bay Nature center, and the town of Fairhope is beautiful!
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MAY 5, 2020 By Ofer Tirosh
While the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the way we live upside down, not every business has ground to a halt. Indeed, companies in certain sectors have been busier than ever. Online shopping and grocery retailers, couriers, video call software providers, home education businesses… all of these and more are experiencing incredible demand for their services right now.
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Would you believe that Wheeler Dealers has graced our screens for just over 14 years now? The show first aired on October 7th, 2003, which saw host Mike Brewer purchase an old Porsche 924 for just £700.
His new co-presenter, Edd China, then spent an additional £310 fixing the car’s problems before the duo made a profit of just £490 upon sale. In fact, the combined profit from the first six cars they flipped during Series 1 was just £1,518.50. My, how things have changed.
All in all, Mike and Edd flipped some 135 cars in the years which followed and amassed a global audience of more than 138-million people. It is understandable then, that any changes made to the show’s winning formula after all that time would no doubt be met with fierce criticism and an outpouring of grief from fans – which is unfortunately exactly what happened earlier this year. I am of course talking about Edd China’s decision to leave Wheeler Dealers.
In a video posted on YouTube, Edd revealed his decision to leave centred around suggestions that the workshop aspects of the show were set to be reduced for Series 14.
Edd’s announcement came as a huge shock to Mike: “I’m obviously upset and gutted that Edd’s decided to leave the programme because we’ve got a very strong relationship and a close bond after 13 years and 135 cars,” he said at the time.
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“The past year has been very difficult for me and my family due to the manner in which the public believe Edd China left the show,” Mike says. “Edd posted numerous videos explaining his reasons for leaving – he has in effect shown his hand and declared his position. The reasons he talks about are clear, concise and now out there. These are Edd’s reasons whether I agree or not.”
“The abuse that me and my family have suffered as a result of Edd’s statements effects more than just me. It affects the crew, my friends, the fans, the charities and my employees and employers. I have been abused in the street, restaurants, supermarkets and at car shows because Edd made the decision to leave and quit the show? His reasons are clear and out there for people to draw their own conclusions.” – Mike Brewer
In the months following Edd’s announcement, Mike has struggled in vain to try and reassure fans that contrary to what was said, the upcoming series of Wheeler Dealers would be ‘business as usual’.
“They feared, based solely on Edd’s statement, the worst for the future of Wheeler Dealers, a car show the fans care deeply about,” he says. “It has taken some months and some patience against a continued tide of abuse to reach where we are today. Now that the public can finally see the show, it was in fact as I had said all along.”
“I wish to make it perfectly clear that at no point was Edd ever asked to have his role in the program reduced. And please remember I never even knew he was going. Edd never told me.” – Mike Brewer
Mike also took a moment to discuss the infamous video which emerged online earlier this month of him talking about Edd at a classic car show in the US, suggesting it appeared to be far more damning than it was in reality.
“The video was shown out of context as it is just an edited shorter clip from a much longer video in which I actually praise Edd,” Mike maintains. “I of course stand by what I said in the shorter edited version. I echoed a fact, which is well known within production, that in Edd’s world he had become a star so he had the ability to pick and choose what he wanted to do on the program.”
“I also went on to explain that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the last 13 years working with him and I wish him all the best. If Edd took offence to this then he knows he can contact me,” Mike added.
Whichever side of the fence you currently sit on, one thing you can be sure of is that Mike’s fierce defence of Wheeler Dealers reveals just how important the long-running show is to him.
“I live and breathe this show I nurtured over the past thirteen years,” he says. “Wheeler Dealers is in effect my baby, but above that the show is my job, my livelihood, my bread winning support for my family and my career that I have proudly built over the past 20 years entertaining people on car shows.”
“Going forward, Discovery and Velocity channel have placed huge faith in me and the global brand of Wheeler Dealers. And I wish to thank them. Ant Anstead has entered the show as my new sidekick, and he is amazing, hard-working, skilled and a real orator who knows his craft exactly. The network is rightly thrilled with the results and it is through hard work, determination and pure passion for what we do that we have delivered yet another record audience show. Wheeler Dealers continues to grow.”
“I hope now the show is out that we will build on the success of the reboot and continue to deliver this amazing show that’s to be enjoyed by car fans.”
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Paul October 5, 2020 at 1:35 pm
The move from Britain to the US for Wheeler Dealers will be it’s death knell and very likely something that Mike Brewer will live to regret. For a very simple reason – the show’s content.
The British version featured everything from a 3 wheeler Messchermitt and Amphicar to a Polish Sorina and VW Corrado, plus a Jaguar XJ6 Coupe and E-Type, Aston Martin, Maserati, Triumph Stag, Mini Moke, Jensen and many other unique cars from Britain and Europe. All that will be gone and what we will no doubt be fed now is a succession of yank tanks.
I was so looking forward to a continuation and perhaps seeing more Morris, Austin, Hillman, Daimler, Rover and Rootes Group vehicles among others. We already have Counting Cars, Kindig Customs, Full Custom Garage, Overhaulin’ and Garage Squad, etc., etc. – all featuring nothing but US vehicles! Oh yawn! They are watchable and enjoyable for what they are worth of course, but enough is enough. Wheeler Dealers served up a variety of cars that we rarely see but we won’t see them anymore.
We have seriously lost something if WD is just going to join this throng of US car restorers. Others have said that Edd China made the show and I strongly agree. Ant Anstead is capable but he is NOT Edd China. Mike Brewer comes across as the typical car salesman which I put in the same category as real estate salesmen – brash, arrogant and generally dislikeable, and giving Edd sometimes huge amounts of work while brushing aside Edd’s very reasonable concerns and criticisms.
Edd’s concerns about the shows direction were surely not unfounded – it seemed that he was already worked to death by Brewer and Edd probably spent 12 hour days in the workshop while Brewer did little more than run around to fetch parts, or sometimes making a pitiful token effort to the task – pushing a button here or cleaning a piece of upholstery there. We never saw him actually get his hands dirty and help Edd in the workshop with the hard jobs. And if WD is going to make a greater number of shows at the behest of the producers then Edd surely saw that he would not be able to keep up.
Just like Top Gear went down the plughole with the departure of Clarkson, May and Hammond and subsequently had a succession of hosts, Wheeler Dealers is headed the same way. Top Gear is no longer worth the bother to watch it and it is a shadow of its former self. It’s very sad to see Wheeler Dealers follow the money – as is surely Brewer’s desire and intention. But therein lies a serious loss to viewers given that British and European cars will no longer be featured which we can take as a given. WD was unique for that reason alone, but now that Brewer has effectively killed the show by making it yet another US car restoration program (which it surely will be) to compete with the many others then we can only lament the sad loss.
Chris Mortimer October 8, 2020 at 10:17 am
I love this show and agree that the line up of cars chosen is interesting. I don’t want to see repeated old US tanks but a range of cars like they have featured all along. There are so many interesting cars from the UK and Europe that are great to see restored or “sorted”. I’m into cars that are realistic and obtainable by the common man, including some of their exotics like Lamborghini, Jensen and Aston Martin. Lovely seeing Fiesta XR, Citroen 2cv, Escort, Kombi, Stag, MGA, Mini Moke and Morris Traveller. I haven’t seen the new Ant episodes but will reserve judgement until then. The chemistry between Edd and Mike, in my opinion is great. Remember to keep a sense of humor as I can see Mike in particular “bungs it on” and pokes a bit at Edd who is always cool and not overly reactive or confrontational. I love the fusion of their personalities and really wish it were still possible to have USA and UK versions of the show, and the producers went of of their way to bring Edd back, let him have his format, and carry on with the show. I find Mike amusing and highly entertaining and love the guy. Getting cars must take time, inspecting prospective cars, getting them in, sourcing parts and then selling – all time consuming and a hassle. I cannot get enough of the show and am repeat watching it now and don’t get sick of it. Edd’s departure is a MONUMENTAL LOSS.
Erik WP September 13, 2020 at 10:21 pm
The show is now at a point where Ant can carry it without the cringy, scripted antics of Mike. If Mike says he didn’t knew Edd wanted to leave, he should have paid more attention. Edd was always treated as the hired help, not as a valued partner. Ant is much more assertive, although Mike is still trying to play the boss. As a matter of fact, Mike is redundant, you could just as well redesign the show by letting viewers bring in cars instead of pretending to buy them.
Erik September 13, 2020 at 10:19 pm
John Wildman July 12, 2020 at 5:18 pm
I watched a few episodes of the new wheeler dealers and thought Ant did a bloody good job.
What I feel spoils the show is Mike Brewer.
Buying a car with him should be much shorter and do away with the ‘Jack the Lad’ attitude.
He’s a middle age overweight car dealer not a mechanic. It’s clear by the new programmes he is not fit for the heat in America.
We need more time focussed on Ant fixing and renovating the cars. We don’t need a mature mechanic from Mike
Last the test drive….what a waste of programme time. Once again we have Mike back in the driving seat of the cars that Any had fixed.
Mike Brewer acting and driving like a boy racer…..we don’t realky need this.
Let Ant drive a put porky Mike into the passenger seat.
I feel sorry for Ant as he is a good mechanic like Edd but Mike Brewer and the TV company have ruined the show.
Thank good ness that I can still watch the old wheeler dealers with Edd . Even though it has Mike in it but thankfully he is only the (go for it). and you don’t see a lot of him so that’s good.
Carl July 16, 2020 at 8:27 pm
Ant is excellent if you like children presenters!
Ron Howard July 4, 2020 at 11:07 pm
If wheeler dealers is an American show then surely there is room for a British version. The British version to be in the old tried and tested format. Find a new front man and bring back Edd.
john morgan June 15, 2020 at 4:07 pm
Mike is a grandstander you can see in the previouse episodes with edd that he always likes to take the stage, It`s all about mike ,he was portraying edd as the worker while he was the king pin of the show, Having been associated with the motor trade for 40 + years and can truthfully tell you that car dealers are the top of the pile lyers and mike brewer is no exception.I used to enjoy the show with edd as he was an extremely skillfull guy.Brewer is just another car dealer that you wouldn`t trust. he does not know what he is buying just another tyre kicker.And the part that gets me is when he takes a component round to another workshop to be repaired,instead of leaving it there for the guy to repair he wants to get involved in the repair,these workshops should give him marching orders and tell him to come back when the job is done.I for one wouldn`t bother watching the show again,With edd gone so is the magic of the show and i would put my money on the saying that brewer back doored edd if the truth be known.
IanB June 20, 2020 at 11:03 pm
I think you forgeting its a TV show at the end of the day. So when Mike wants to see how its done, it part of the program wanting to show some the repair services that are available along with good publicity for the companies involved. Being a TV program all will not what it seems and expect the costings are manipulated to show a small profit, I have seen it suggested elsewhere that many of the buyers at the end of the program are not real. Why Ed really left we will probably never know there appeared to be some tension in the last series they did but being a TV show how much of that was staged? I have watched most of the episodes for the first time while in lockdown and enjoyed them, most of the early episodes without much money to spend look like real bodge jobs, not a fan of the new ones with Ant who looks like he should be a personal trainer rather than a mechanic and the mostly American Cars don’t appeal to me.
James Hoey June 7, 2020 at 2:11 am
My wife and I are planning on moving to Ireland, my ancestral homeland sometime in the next year. I am a muscle car enthusiast and trying to decide if it is worth shipping my cars to Ireland or selling them before we move.
The cars are concourse quality 1967, 68 & 69 Camaros. The 67 & 69 are both RS/SS. The 67 is a 327, 300hp. The 69 is a 396, 350hp and a convertible. The 68 is a SS 350. All the cars are extremely original matching numbers etc. etc.
I would like very much to discuss this with Mike Brewer, any suggestions or advice other contacts would be most appreciated. Thank you.
Carl May 11, 2020 at 7:22 pm
Love of cars sucked hard mate, Ant would be better suited to childrens tv!
GavinJM May 11, 2020 at 12:32 pm
I actually like the new show. I have been a fan of Ant since he made an excellent series called “for the love of cars”.
I also like Mike Brewer, he is after all the dealer and Ant the wheeler.
But in saying that i also liked and admired Ed China, i would love to see see Ed’s pilot show turned into a full program. I for one would watch both programs.
Come on Ed get it together, you have a lot of fans out here waiting for more.
Lets all move on and make great telly
Brian Peters April 12, 2020 at 9:39 pm
You could see from the last two British WDs that Mike wanted to be the star trying his hand at working on little bits on the car, not only that what about his sole show WDs trading up without Ed and now being in America permanently. So who stabbed who in the back ?
Tim Stevenson April 4, 2020 at 5:01 am
Pity Edd couldn’t team up with someone else and start a new show – sounds like there’s plenty of demand.
stuart April 4, 2020 at 4:11 am
I will not watch the new series as I have no interest in American cars. Fine for those who like them. I have no time for those who abused Mike but for me the show is so much poorer for being exclusively set in the USA and Ant may be a good mechanic but he is not Edd. Please now move back to the UK and bring back Edd.
Luciano November 21, 2019 at 11:55 pm
We will never know the real reasons that made Edd to leave, and, of course, only mad people could offend Mike and his family for this reason. But life goes on and Ant makes an excellent work, very fine mechanic and explains in an extraordinary way all thing he does.
Putty Cat November 21, 2019 at 11:47 am
I watched and enjoyed WD for years, but when Edd disappeared and Ant Antstead came in instead I was thoroughly surprised. It was very obvious to me that the new mechanic had a much more polished approach, he would just casually glanc over complicated fixes, while Edd would take extra time and effort to explain all the tiny details, ah well, in detail. Having watched most of the old episodes of WD, I can certainly see that the show has lost much of its charm even as it was nearing the 13th season and especially when it moved to the USA. Then one day I saw Mike on TV in full combat armor, going somewhere where there’s a war, following the British GIs and it was obvious – the man is a showman, a self-made star, who has to keep running his show(s) at any cost, so sorry Edd, but you don’t fit in the new format. I for one believe Edd’s reasons for leaving the show and feel very sorry for he will probably never reach such a wide audience as he has with WD. On the other hand, it’s probably best for him this way. He has his principles and I can respect that. It was good while it lasted.
Mood July 20, 2019 at 5:28 pm
If something i working well then WHY CHANGE IT? I think some people feel insecure when one person in their team is favoured by fans more than themselves. Just do your job well and let the fans choose.
John September 5, 2020 at 9:32 pm
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
PORSCHE928CRAZY July 16, 2019 at 6:48 am
I stumbled across Wheeler Dealers back in early 2012 with the Jaguar XJS episode; I was immediately hooked due to the chemistry between Mike & Edd and the ‘everyday bloke’ vibe of the show. This was at a really difficult time in my life when I was seriously ill with a severe neurological illness that kept me confined in the house. Mike & Edd on Wheeler Dealers gave me a reason to keep faith with my life and made me enthusiastic about vintage cars again. I watched the show all day from hereon and always looked forward to their new series. I even ended up buying a 1989 Porsche 928 S4 and by watching Edd, used lots of his ideas/tips to fix problems on the car and bring it back to a decent level. One thing led to another, and I now have a lift in my garage and maintain the Porsche 928 myself. Wheeler Dealers was a life saver for me; no shit!
So, like many other fans of the show, I was gutted to learn Edd had left and the show would now become 100% Americanised in presentation, location and vibe. I have watched the new show and think like everything, it has pro’s and con’s. I don’t think it has the same ‘funky’ vibe as the UK show had but I think Ant is a good mechanic and some of the work is interesting to watch; it was always going to hard to step into Edd’s shoes. I think Mike is still the same as he was and has taken some unnecessary wrap in recent times. He always had the bigger ego; he’s a car dealer! I think it’s a shame Mike seems to have got the blame for WD’s problems.
The original WD was about a relationship between Mike and Edd. It was their contrasting personalities and approaches that made the show so great. Without one or the other it wouldn’t have been so successful or popular. Things changed due to an increase over the years of the show moving away from ‘everyday blokeness’ to more ‘lights, camera, action’; increased scripting and contrived nature of the show. The peak of which now seems to be the US made show. This unfortunately seems to be the case with so many things that become popular as big money then gets involved and egos grow which then often pushes people apart.
Personally, even though it’s a real shame the original WD is now dead, as fans we should just be grateful for the great shows they made over the years. They inspired me to buy a vintage Porsche and spend the last 5 years working on it and driving it. Who knows, maybe the US shows will do likewise for someone else who’s into the new series. I wanna say a personal thanks to Mike & Edd! Good Luck with your new projects.
AFTER May 26, 2019 at 12:12 am
AFTER SEEING ONE SHOW I CAN’T BELEAVE ANY ONE WOULD WATCH MORE THAN ONE SHOW THE SHOW SHOULD BEEN SEEN IN ENGLAND
Woolyballs August 15, 2020 at 1:09 am
Try. Spelling. And. Punctuation.
D guppy December 21, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Ed said when they started they had only a few people working in production ,but now it’s grown to over 40 , there’s your problem go back to the start . You want to save money sometimes less is more
Joe tart May 1, 2019 at 10:58 am
The new show cant be doing very good because they have a commercial every 15 minutes, I’m getting sick of them!
Martin Mulligan March 22, 2019 at 10:57 am
The big joke about wheeler dealers is the supposed profits they make, they never put any overheads for tools, equipment ,premises etc factor those in and the time involved and most of Mike Brewers supposed profits would be losses, I ve a garage and restoration business, it is hard earned cash!
Quite right? I had noticed that Edd’s extensive labour times were never factored into the final costs, and at normal mechanic labour rates it would have been huge! And I always wondered how Edd got paid – a salary or did he share in the profits? Though they were often so small that it wouldn’t be worth all the effort for Edd. He worked tirelessly on restoring the cars, often doing extra work and fitting new parts that could have been left undone. I think I would have gladly bought any car that he worked on. But Brewer just never appreciated any of that and it’s no wonder that Edd had enough of it. I have viewed his reasons for leaving on YouTube and Edd now has a new show and I wish him all the best with it.
Ian March 10, 2019 at 1:50 am
I think that the show is miles better with Ant. I watched Edd’s Garage Revival, it was really tedious.
Planet February 23, 2019 at 11:08 pm
For all you that think WD belongs to UK and you don’t,t like it now because it is American, you,re entitled to your opinion, but don,t let hate get in the way of enjoying what is still a good show. I am not British, but would still watch if it went back to the UK. In fact, I discovered the show in 2013 while living in Spain. Before that, I was never really interested in European cars, it was enlightening to learn what Brits and others considered to be their classics and muscle cars. I,ve seen shows where they drive shny Jags and Ferraris around…boring. WD showed me what the regular person liked and what made the vehicles tick. I,m glad to see the show, at least, has kept the same non-dramatic format that has ruined shows like American Chopper. Too bad Edd had a midlife crisis, but Ant is carrying on smartly. We all live in the world now, not just our own country, but if you want “your UK” show back, you can have it. Those limey bastards should,nt be diddling with real classics anyway. (I didn’t mean the last sentence, just an exaggeration to make a point about prejudice).But seriously, you can have Clarkson back.
For all you that think WD belongs to UK and you don’t,t like it now because it is American, you,re entitled to your opinion, but don,t let hate get in the way of enjoying what is still a good show. I am not British, but would still watch if it went back to the UK. In fact, I discovered the show in 2013 while living in Spain. Before that, I was never really interested in European cars, it was enlightening to learn what Brits and others considered to be their classics and muscle cars. I,ve seen shows where they drive shny Jags and Ferraris around…boring. WD showed me what the regular person liked and what made the vehicles tick. I,m glad to see the show, at least, has kept the same non-dramatic format that has ruined shows like American Chopper. Too bad Edd had a midlife crisis, but Ant is carrying on smartly. We all live in the world now, not just our own country, but if you want “your UK” show back, you can have it. Those limey bastards should,nt be diddling with real classics anyway. (I didn’t mean the last sentence, just an exaggeration to make a point about prejudice).
James Jack December 10, 2018 at 5:18 am
If I’d been Mike and on the show for all these years with a brilliant spanner man like Edd I’d be a fair mechanic myself by now. Mike still seems to be clueless about the oily bits.
B. Willis October 26, 2018 at 10:14 am
The more I view Wheeler Dealers the more detestable M.Brewer becomes. This sawn-off Del-Boy parades his ego by often taking much of the praise for conversions when Edd China should have had far more of the Kudos. His absolute skill in dealing with any problem was often buried in Brewer’s Blarney. The star of Wheeler Dealers the original versions was always Edd China whereas Brewer always put himself in the forefront -it should have been Edd & Me. Brewer’s Ego seemed to no bounds & criticism of China after that series finished just about summed him up!!
Kragujevac September 2, 2018 at 4:08 am
To me, the show was not only about renovation of cars.More, it pointed questions of value, of fidelity, of tradition and of excellency, Although the show is not the same without ” Young Eddie ” basic principles remained the same. That`s because I will continue to watch it and to enjoy new episodes that I learn a lot of from all above.
Ted August 28, 2018 at 7:36 pm
I enjoyed the new series I enjoy the show. But its a TV show and its changed. Be interesting to see what Ed China does next. If it all stopped people would just watch something else. Not a matter of life or death.
nekko cooper August 7, 2018 at 12:57 pm
Why not cut out the workshop segments all together? They don’t seem to have any relevance to the concept. Especially NOT labour. Just watch the Morgan episode there Wanker Mike paid $13 grand and sold it for $21 grand. Original cost plus parts. The 150 hours of labour Eddie put in is, apparently, not significant enough to alter the asking price. I need an oil change on my Bugatti Veyron. If I pay for the oil and filter will China boy do it at his going rate ($0)?
Francy July 31, 2018 at 10:57 pm
Honestly i really don’t like the new format…afrer 13 years is really difficult to see WD without ED.. i don’t think to see again WD season 14… sorry to say this but it is not the same show, is something else… and this is exactly what happened to Top Gear… now is the worst show ever.
Hammer Dog April 14, 2018 at 12:37 am
All I am going to say is that I gave the new format of WD with them using Ant aa the cosen gearhead and I find it not worth losing a minute of my life watching. Mike was only tollerable because I knew the show would swing to the shop and see Ed give some real shop talk and shared knowledge that only a true gearhead can understand. I gave the new show three viewings and after the first one I felt Vrlocity dropped the ball and am still questioning why I gave it two more viewings. To much hollywood for me now. Good luck Ed.
Leslie Beaumont March 25, 2018 at 9:30 am
Personally for me . I lost interest when it became Trading up. . I used to really look forward to seeing how Ed China put his technical and mechanical skills into fixing cars that were well past their sell by date. Sorry Mike . I know your good at what you do, but for me Edd China was the main Star of the show..
The show is dead. You could feel it coming. To bad for
Mike. Edd was a great partner and your support would
have been nice Mike. But then the show is really all about you
Mike isn’t it…The show is dead………What a waste.
Don March 16, 2018 at 12:29 pm
I’m a US viewer, and WD was one of my favorite shows when it was set in the UK. Unfortunately, the show lost its charm when it moved to the US, and then it lost its soul when Ed departed. While It seems like Mike was the ‘boss’ in the very early episodes, WD was at its best when Mike and Ed were working as partners on the various projects. In hindsight, the contrast between Mike (the somewhat crass and sometimes obnoxious wheeler dealer) and Ed (the smart and quirky mechanic who brought integrity and a real DIY feel to the show) was a key aspect of WD’s unique appeal. The new show feels staged and pretentious, with no chemistry between Mike and Ant, and I have absolutely no interest in watching current episodes….What a shame!
tim February 28, 2018 at 8:22 pm
One of the main reasons I liked the show with Edd in it was the contrast in Mike ‘s and Edd’s personalities. In the new show Mike and Ant seem too similar with thei gung ho attitudes
Mike Smith February 28, 2018 at 11:12 am
I agree with a lot of the people on here WD was originally a UK show and should have stayed that way, it was ok having the odd Yank tank but moving the show to the US was a bad move .
I think Edd China has been very dignified throughout all furore since he decided to leave the show and I hope he goes on to make a success with a new motoring show .
As for the new WD it is not as good as the past shows that Ant guy comes across a bit of a know all, I can see him and Brewer falling out, you get the impression they both want to run the show and that will only end in tears. The show won’t last long you get that impression from the reviews it’s had.
Endrik February 25, 2018 at 11:04 pm
When Jeremy Clarkson got sacked from Top Gear Richard Hammond and James May left with him even though the BBC asked them to stay on showing true loyalty and friendship. Mike Brewer could have easily said he’s not doing the show without Edd instead he backstabbed Edd and brought in a poor substitute instead! Show is now pretentious. Awful show 👎
Jerry Andersch February 18, 2018 at 7:28 am
As a long time fan of the show I am greatly disappointed to find Edd gone. I watched an episode with the new wrench today & it’s no where near as interesting or entertaining. The show is no longer a program I’ll be watching.
Maddy February 14, 2018 at 1:17 am
Nope the new guy is too “flash” or “showy” a know it all. it will never be the same but since the relationship was under some strain it was inevitable. But, if the programme is crap we won’t be watching. Car sos is good.
Sean McKellar February 22, 2018 at 8:52 am
I haven’t seen Car SOS yet – I’ll have to look it up.
Ian February 13, 2018 at 6:19 am
Nope I find ant annoying ,car sos it is then
Geoff Kenny February 9, 2018 at 9:45 pm
it was a great show and i think both Ed and Mike played their different roles well. But when the public gets used to a combination the new boy will never be as good as the original. Look what happened with Top Gear. They had 13 good years – going through a messy divorce but as with many couples will probably find their friendship again and who knows maybe even a reunion show at some stage.
Jerry Karl February 8, 2018 at 11:58 am
The last couple of shows seemed that Ed and Mike wasn’t on the same page.Some of the shows had Mike doing the work and the absent of Ed seemed that he wasn’t happy with the changes starting to take place. The show now doesn’t seem to have the same flow as it had with Ed. Compare the older shows on how Mike and Ed worked together I was hoping their friendship would last forever not so. Maybe Mike should have change the name of the show and kept a close format to the Wheeler Dealer RIP.
There did appear to be a bit of friction between them for sure – so really it is probably for the best that they went their separate ways.
Andrew Davis February 5, 2018 at 4:39 am
How does anyone know his family have even been threatened I wouldn’t believe a word the guy said
Sean McKellar February 5, 2018 at 12:25 pm
Well I guess we have to take his word for it. There were a lot of angry people who didn’t receive the news very well, so I’d certainly believe him.
Bill L February 1, 2018 at 1:31 pm
It’s probably fair to say W-D is Mike’s show and Edd the sideman, although they came across as equals. Remember that Edd wasn’t a part of Trading Up and Mike was really the one who did the wheeler-dealing. For his part, Edd added colour and expertise. Maybe Ant will do the same – he knows he has a tough act to follow. Break-ups often come with regret, misunderstanding and hurt feelings. Just as when a married couple separate and we try to remain friends with both of them, we should do the same with Mike and Edd. They’ll move on and do other things and we ought to wish them both well. Affixing blame and getting upset or angry with one or the other (or their loved ones) won’t help at all. Maybe one day they’ll reconcile and we’ll all be pleased for them. But let them be for now. Life goes on for them just as it does for us.
Egil January 30, 2018 at 8:53 pm
I am really sorry you’re long lasting partnership with Edd China seems to end on a bad note, together you seemed to be a great team, and I have had many good times watching the show. Remember this: Be really careful about what you say about each other in public, once it’s said, it cannot be unsaid!! Be grateful for the time you spent together, praise each other, and maybe, one day,,we’ll,,you never now. Just don’t burn all your bridges, I promise, you’ll be sorry, eventually. I wish you both the best of all, for the future.
Anne January 12, 2018 at 6:39 am
Mike is taking this personally when I don’t believe for a second it was meant that way. I don’t believe Edd said what he did expecting fans to go sending death threats to Mike and his family. I do believe though that Mike was scared “his” precious show wouldn’t continue without Edd or if it did, be a success. In the latter respect he may be right, we will have to wait and see but it definitely isn’t the same whatever he says. I also doubt Edd will bother about his nasty, petty, unnecessary comments. Edd appears to have moved on. Mike should try doing the same because he’s not doing himself any favours with his constant whinging and mud slinging.
Top Gazza January 10, 2018 at 3:33 am
The new show is OK. Shame its based in the US, I understand why but It just makes it bland and predictable. Ant is more than OK but its clearly been Americanised and it no different than many other US shows only without the tattoos and fake arguing. I suspect that both Ed and Mike’s egos got in the way which is inevitable after 13 years and it had certainly become a bit repetitive. All things must end and 13 years is a good long run by any measure. The best shows are the middle ones in series 4 onwards. Hopefully Car SOS comes back soon and rectifies its own issue with little focus on the actual work which is what the Brits enjoy the most
Philip Morris January 9, 2018 at 8:40 pm
Just watched new Wheeler Dealer , boy have they got it wrong . I have seen every previous episode that was made and recorded them to watch time and time again . The mechanical process is quickly skipped over no explanation of how the end result has been achieved .
When Edd China was doing the spannering he explained how and why he was doing things in
an understandable and methodical way .
I cannot understand why it’s been changed and why Edd has been replaced , I certainly won’t be watching the rest of the series such a shame .
J Giles January 3, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Without wading through most of the previous posts – I’m a UK viewer and the new show aired on the 1st of January here really is poor. It’s appallingly bad to be honest.
And they ruined a very rare car. Well done. What idiot thought that one up.
Sean McKellar January 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Change can be very hard to accept and get used to, but we think Ant is doing a decent job. The third spoiler thing is also pretty controversial – whether it was part of the original design or not it still looks odd.
I guess they had to do something else to the car to fill the time. Maybe stick to buying cars that need some real work not that it matters to me. I won’t be watching anymore.
Mikael January 2, 2018 at 3:20 am
I think Mike Brewer is the only reason this show is a huge success. He is enthusiastic, really good at picking the right classic car and it is he who runs the show. The part when he seeks the right car, looks in ad´s, makes phone calls, test drives (always in a good mode), makes the deal and then try to convince Edd that it is going to be a good profit is the best in the show. Afterwards he always is the cheerful lad who says “You did it again…”, “Wonderful..” and so on
Edd China is interesting to watch but mostly reminds of a boring high school teacher who lectures day in and out. It´s better when Mike sums it up and sells the car. If the program only should be Edd repairing cars I would fall asleep after 5 minutes and all the programs should be the same (one pea of…).
I think it is easy to replace Edd, there are a lot of good mechanics, but cheerful and enthusiastic show-hosts with the love and know-how of classic cars is hard to find.
To be fair Edd has the part in the show to be the “boring, negative, realistic type” and Mike is the “happy, positive type” that thinks everything is going to work, like yin and yang.
I can´t understand why people think that Edd´s working cost should be in the calculation. The whole idea is to show that you can restore cars on your own and make a small profit on it, a lot like Property ladder with Sarah Beeny.
I think the real reason Edd choses to quit are that he wants to be in the UK. The program manager’s want´s to do more shows in one season and if Edd is going to do all mechanics it takes to much time. He already has some assistance and he would have to have more to be able to flip the cars around faster and therefore they don´t want to film this in detail. That’s ok by me, I want to see more about Mike dealing cars and being enthusiastic about old classic and forgotten car models.
If I want to see instruction videos with Edd I can see his new brake videos on YouTube. This is a lot like when the beard left Fast n Loud, it is still Richard searching for barn finds that is the interesting part. The restoration is fun, but I don´t need to see every detail.
My favorite episodes are the E-type and the Volvo PV.
/Mikael in Sweden
And some of us skip the bits of Mike.
Laurence June 5, 2020 at 6:31 pm
‘Mikael’ in Sweden indeed.
Alan Robertson December 18, 2017 at 11:18 am
Near the end I lost respect for brewers with his lord of the manor attitute.i started to wonder if he was actually the boss ..
The series was always a UK show
The American side is lost to me since I’m a fan of UK classic and learned a lot from edd
Hope edd comes back on tv with his own informative ways.
grahame robson December 1, 2017 at 5:00 am
i can understand most of the emotions out there,mike is fair game on his comments but not his family,my background is similar to edd but main dealer high end vehicles,it baffles me when people like me and edd do all the hard work go to school college /university further training within the dealer start on next to no money work your way up still buying every tool known to man and yet the suits or ‘brewers’ take all the credit,not fair at all and that balance needs to be addressed on wd and in real life,its easy to see why people move on i have seen it many times,one thing i dont understand fully is why is it mikes baby? is it his idea / show, why not edds baby, he did all the work, edd is an interesting man with talent but after watching up to season 14 episode 6 i haven’t seen anything good, its American alright,naff !
I’ll miss Edd and don’t believe a word that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, sure he’s “honest” whilst the cameras are present but I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him! Ant, the new car seems ok, I’ll still watch because of the cars and the mechanical explanations, Brewer? No thanks.
Ray Howes October 23, 2017 at 3:46 am
On the series for the love of cars Mikes new man did not restore any of the vehicles personally they went to a restoration company.
Will he use the same company for his job with Mike. ?
Richard Bickerstaff October 16, 2017 at 4:55 am
Personally, I really liked it before & with not having DiscoverTV (come on you repeats) I will like it just as much, as Ant is a class act in his own right & one day he will be missed as well, but hopefully not for a very long time. Keep it going Mike.
MHK October 14, 2017 at 12:45 pm
To be honest, I enjoyed watching the show, but it NEVER made any sense. There was never enough profit made on a vehicle to make it worth the effort. I was impressed by Ed’s ingenuity and common sense ideas and efforts, and wondered why he’d stick with Mike, who wasn’t even covering costs on each of his semi-profitable ideas. Almost NONE of the cars purchased made any sense as an investment opportunity. Mike struck me as a shady used car dealer who lived off Ed’s back as a competent mechanic. I am NOT surprised at all the Ed left. I briefly met you both at SEMA a few years ago, and I think the popularity swamped your common sense. I’m sad to see Ed go. I like the show premise, BUT try to focus on projects that support the premise that you can make a living flipping interesting cars. You guys never made enough (from strictly the car flips) to live on….NOT realisttic And Ed did ALL THE WORK! Mike was only mildly annoying. I’d rather watch a show about Ed, then Mike….just saying….
Peter October 14, 2017 at 7:01 am
You could tell in the last series something wasn’t quite right between Ed and Mike the magic seemed missing as was Ed from a lot of the series….
I personally think that Ed was home sick and not happy at working for so much of the year away from home and this much more than anything is his main reason for leaving.
Mario October 13, 2017 at 5:07 pm
so preconceptions about used car dealers are not wrong 🙂 maybe they are really suspicions and dishonest people who “sometimes” lies 🙂
Garry October 13, 2017 at 2:28 am
Mike do not blame yourself with Eds exit all good things eventually come to an end..I am sure he is not bitter with you but like any business things do happen. I am ashamed that you are getting abuse off fans who are not aware of the full story. As with most changes people don’t like change but after a while it will be business as usual. Keep up the good work!
John Donaldson-Allen October 12, 2017 at 3:10 pm
Very sad to hear about the abuse and upset caused by some people. I joined your show late in the series and thoroughly enjoyed every episode I watched. I also envied the people able to purchase some lovely cars after you had completed them. I look forward to the new show and you and your family have mine and many others support.
Liam O’Connor October 12, 2017 at 7:30 am
It’s just a good car program so why all the hate it’s not as if The Jam split up again get over it & stop the bullying grow up enjoy the new show I will
Brad October 12, 2017 at 6:58 am
It’s showing on Velocity first because it’s a Velocity show now. Discover sold it to them and if you paid attention to Edd’s video, that was a main ingredient to the breakdown between him in and the show. Velocity wanted to make changes he didn’t agree with. This was more out of Mike’s hands than it looks. It’s no excuse for any bad behavior on his part though. He did have a right to be upset for awhile, but carrying it on is silly.
Gary October 12, 2017 at 5:50 am
How Come its showing on Velocity 1st? This is where the money is coming from, when they began making shows and telling you the cost is dollars, the show was geared for the US, there would have been no show without Mike and Edd but I feel its now an American Focused show and I will give it a go,and lets see where we go from there
Dave October 12, 2017 at 3:31 am
Wow, that’s a different side to the story! I believe the truth is, as always, somewhere in the middle! lol It’s really unfortunate that he’s gotten the hate that he’s gotten on Facebook as Mike seems a genuinely nice, albeit goofy, guy! I’m definitely going to give this new season a try, although I’m already asking myself, “What kind of a name is Ant?”
David October 13, 2017 at 8:46 pm
Short for ‘Anthony’, perhaps?
Stevie_T October 12, 2017 at 3:03 am
The 2 issues for me are the way in which Edd China left the show and the taking the show to the American market. This does not excuse the haters who are abusing Mike and his family – no one deserves that sort of abuse over a car show however it does leave a bitter taste in the mouth especially for the UK audience and followers. I’ve seen Mikes tweets comparing taking the show to a global audience and your favourite band going on tour – this doesn’t compare Mike – the show was always a British show from your Auto Trader days to present. If you want to do your favourite band global tour comparison does that mean the next series will be in Australia, the following in Japan, next again in India etc. Yes you are a breadwinner and have to make a living but in my opinion you sold out for the money and money alone. Good luck Mike and I hope you and Edd can reunite on amicable terms one day.
Ray Little October 12, 2017 at 1:38 am
I do think it’s a shame to take Wheeler Dealers over the pond. The show in the UK was just right with Mike’s skill as a buyer/seller and Ed’s ability as a mechanic/engineer.
I do believe that the American show will make Mike very rich. Money always does win in the end.
I just believe that this is a shame for the UK.
Kevin Shepherd October 12, 2017 at 1:28 am
I just wish there was no ill feeling between you both, for me Edd made the show.You have gone your separate ways be friends life is to short. I think the failing was taking it to the states.
Jason edwards October 12, 2017 at 12:01 am
I totally agree that for me wheeler dealers was a British show. I absolutely love the show and have watched every episode multiple times, I’ve followed mike and edd long before wheeler dealers with auto trader. I think they made a fantastic partnership. But you could see in the last series edd clearly wasn’t happy, the series looked staged and it was no surprise to me that edd left. I total agree with mikes decision to continue wheeler dealers and why wouldn’t you just because edd didn’t want to continue then there’s no reason for Mike not to. I think that people should never judge some one for carrying on with something on there own. To treat someone in the street the way mike has, is not acceptable and down right childish if you ask me. The man deserves to make a living like all of us.
I have watched the first episode of the new series with ant and I thought the episode was excellent. Ant did a fantastic job and him and Mike worked well together. In fact it felt more like the original uk series than the last few USA series ever did. Good on you Mike , continue to make this show. Tv for me would not be the same without wheeler dealers. Good luck with the new series, if the first episode is anything to go by it will be fantastic.
Jason October 11, 2017 at 10:58 pm
Wow! Mike has really messed up this time! I’ve seen comments on YouTube videos about the split and Mike’s version has changed more times than he has changed his socks! If anyone actually believes what Mike has said previously (and in this article) at face value, then I do feel sorry for you! To be a good liar Mike, you need to have a good memory. Maybe if you try and remember some of the things you have been telling people, which turned out to be completely untrue, you might find it a lot easier to move on. Until then, you won’t regain the respect you are desperately searching for. It’s very clear to see that Edd was pushed from the show rather than leave of his own accord. The sooner you stop deleting nasty tweets and comments, the sooner this whole mess will clear up, but if you carry on making false claims, what do you really expect?
And if Mike is lying, is he lying about the extent of the “abuse” that he has been getting. BTW, 3 years down the line even in a lock-down, I would not watch 1 minute of the new show.
Andrew Henson October 11, 2017 at 10:32 pm
we all know that mike is only in for the money, Ant Anstead was rubbish on his previous shows, and having seen clips of new wheeler dealers I am in no doubt that the show is worse without Edd China.
David October 11, 2017 at 10:03 pm
I’d ask both Mike and Edd to do what the rest of us have to do in our daily lives and work at their relationship. If they really care about the viewer, they’ll put their personal feelings aside, stick together and bring us more of what we love.
Andrew October 11, 2017 at 9:05 pm
And when has Mike bad mouthed Edd? By saying Edd never told him he was leaving the show? To be honest I think that’s poor on Edd’s part and quite disrespectful. I would have thought the first person you would tell is the colleague you’ve worked so closely with over the years. As for egos, I think that’s rubbish too. What I saw were two people who had grown into the role but who were also being directed by the TV company and to be honest who can blame them? I find it bizzarre how people feel it’s ok to abuse Mike and his family over a TV Show and over something that wasn’t in his control. If people don’t like Mike or the show, turn over. Get a life for goodness sake. I respect both Mike and Edd and it was this very show that got me into restoring cars and actually ‘turning a profit’!
I’m guessing you didn’t watch the video Mike refers to, or the deleted tweets and comments from Mike? You really shouldn’t make assumptions without making sure you turn up here with some facts. Compare all the above to Edd’s social media and YouTube comments, and it’s pretty clear to see who is consistent with the truth!
Gandalf606 March 18, 2018 at 9:59 pm
Well said Jason.
mark October 11, 2017 at 8:46 pm
since the news broke of the split. I have watched both parties through social media and you tube, and I must say that Edd is the only one who comes out of this with any credit. Mike as seemingly at any opportunity ad digs at Edd.meanwhile Edd maintains his dignity. I agree the timing of this suggests that it’s all about promoting the new series? it was evident in the last series that tensions were growing between the pair, I for one will not be watching it when it arrives over here as it as sold it’s soul to the USA.
Bill Matthews . October 11, 2017 at 8:03 pm
It was a UK based show and should have remained a UK show ,finding and restoring vehicles found in and around the British Isles and Europe , .we have enough car restoration programmes from America . WHeeler Dealers is uniquely British or was , now it’s like so many others from others from the US . ED was and is a fantastic mechanic ,with a make do and mend attitude ,which struck a cord with the guys in the garage,trying to restore their cars on a budget ,that now appears to have been lost . That said although I can see his point over leaving ,it should not have led to Mike his family and friends receiving abuse. That is so wrong ,but I think now WD will suffer the same fate as Top Gear , might have the old name ,but no where near as good . If Ed ,pulls a show together based on repairing Brit Classics in a small back st garage on a budget ,he will soon have his UK following back .The new WW is ok ,but it just hasn’t got the common individual hands dirty feel any more . A sad mistake to take it over the pond in so many ways .
Gary Stubbs October 11, 2017 at 5:25 pm
What Mike frequently leaves out of all his statements nd social media posts. Is that Edd has never publicly said or posted anything negative about Mike. Edd has been open and honest and a true gentleman throughout. He even posted a video on his YouTube channel asking people not to abuse or threathen Mike or his family. Edd just wants to get on with his life (hardly acting like a supposed superstar)
Mike has continued to bad mouth Edd at every opportunity he gets.
I’m extremely disappointed n Mike’s behaviour. He should take a leaf out of Edd’s book, and show some dignity.
Jerry October 11, 2017 at 11:40 pm
Very true 👍
Aussiefan November 5, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Here here. Mike has taken every opportunity to bag Edd, yet i have not seen or heard one bad word from Edd about Mike. I can see who the Prima Donna is on the show and it wasn’t Edd. I have just watched the first show with Ant and it is crap. I wont be watching anymore Wheeler Dealers as Edd was the reason i watched the show. Good bye and good luck.
Tony b April 16, 2018 at 4:03 am
Eddy was the best and for long was put on by the waste of space Mike who acted like a child most of the time
Am sure both have regrets.
Show not what it was, fixing up and saving old cars.
But its still good, thought there was enough American resto shows tho.
Ant will be great, Edd will have some kind of show that suits his excellent skills.
And theres always Fuzz Townshend and Car SOS for Brit resto.
Paul Duck October 11, 2017 at 4:54 pm
I’ve lost a heap of respect for mike over this latest video which seems aimed more at stoking the fires just to promote the ‘convenient timing’ of the new series of wheeler dealers which just happens to be airing now!
Personally, I think mike’s killed the whole premise of the show now – how can it be about 2 mates doing up cars to sell on and split the profits when he’s now also seemingly coming across like he’s the boss who gets his current ‘sidekick’ to do all the dirty work…… if it’s going to be like that then labour charges have to be included in the builds and craftsmen like Ant Anstead or Ed China don’t come cheap!
It’s Mike’s show. The mechanic is his sidekick.
If they include the labor in this show about fixing up your own car to resell at a profit, maybe they should include the TV production costs, too. Maybe the electricity bill?
David Mcmanningwell September 6, 2020 at 9:24 pm
Brewer is the reason car dealers -some – are held in such disregard l. He’s a lier, tries to manipulate, exagerate, and has a lack of humility, no customer service skills and scene stealer. Ed is always gonna be impossible to replace. Ed and Ant would do a better job presenting the show between themThere’s car shows that appeal to most people, Car SOS, Drew Pritchard show, which Brewer should watch his buying/bidding skills chasing classic cars, for American car lovers. End of the day you can turn that off switch, it’s not THAT important, although Brewer can always blame Covid 19 on Ed
Adrian October 11, 2017 at 4:37 pm
The contempt this programme has for its viewers is clear by the fact they are showing it in the USA but the UK has to wait 5 months!
The programme makers and probably Mike as well are driven by one thing – the money available in the states.
My opinion is that Edd stood by his principles, something Mike should have done. Others may have a differing opinion which is fine and is their right, but this is what I believe from the obvious tensions that have built up within the show.
Tim October 11, 2017 at 9:42 pm
You do know the show is a for profit venture don’t you? Since when is finding more profitable venues a sin? To listen to you one would think Wheeler Dealers was a charitable enterprise.
I don’t understand how you and so many other people think they know what was going on behind the scenes. You have no idea!
Geof Leech February 28, 2018 at 1:04 am
Viewers will vote with their feet, and it is my opinion that they went to America on a large upgrade to themselves but the programme has lost a lot of the English spirit that launched it. I cannot connect with the American cars, hyper businesses et al now portrayed as part of the programme. It probably appeals to Americans now so maybe it will just fade away from the UK if many others think like me.
Michael November 16, 2018 at 3:22 am
Interesting how US viewers didn’t have the same issue connecting to the cars or the hosts, my understanding is that the show is more popular in the US than in the UK. Plus, it’s a show my wife enjoys as well, which gives us something in common that we can sit for an hour and enjoy.
Personally, it doesn’t matter to me where they are or what they’re fixing up, it’s a great show with two great hosts. But, I do especially enjoy it when they get their hands on an old muscle car. But whether they’re fixing up a Mustang or an Opel, it doesn’t really matter, it’s just a fun show to watch and I hope it sticks around for many years to come.
Rob October 11, 2017 at 4:32 pm
AT the end of the day it’s a job, and it pays the bills
Ian October 11, 2017 at 1:33 pm
What a load of old Codswallop Mike, it was clear for all to see that peoples respect for Edds ability made you feel inferior which in a technical sense you are. There was obviously tension and incidents that were never mentioned, which is why the friendly banter between you guys got so bitter toward the end, it is also strange that Edd didn’t appear in certain episodes until late in the day and when he did there was a bad atmosphere on camera thinking here of the chevy pick up in the states. I guess every show runs its course its a massive shame that both of your ego’s got in the way.
Michael S October 12, 2017 at 12:57 am
Says the man on the outside looking in. Must be nice to be so absolutely certain of events which you know nothing about. Codswallop indeed.
Wayne January 3, 2018 at 12:06 pm
You are so wrong… Ian is right, series 13 was cringworthy to watch as there was anamosity between them from the start…. but maybe you haven;t watched the programmes at all !
There was definitely some tension between them…..!
Carl April 16, 2019 at 8:13 pm
Shows a joke now. That Ant Anstead is one of the worst presenters in any genre I have ever seen!
Will Stewart November 14, 2019 at 8:33 pm
Sadly I agree with Ian, it was obvious that there was tension between Mike and Edd in their last series. For me, the pleasure in the programme was predominately watching Edd’s skill in the workshop, not Mikes lack of bartering skills in selling the cars. But by then my interest was waning with the set being in the States and with American lumps.
When in the UK we saw cars that we knew and could appreciate the problems more, not staring at some massive Dodge V8 block that was alien to us, but that’s just my opinion.
Ringo February 23, 2019 at 10:15 pm
Let,s face it. Edd,s demise began with his treatment of the AMC Pacer. Ugly made uglier for way too much money.
Francis pierce March 19, 2018 at 2:01 am
Think ed got to big for his boots.And for all those cretins threatening mike and his family GET A LIFE
Terry Turitl February 13, 2019 at 2:02 am
Mike Brewer is a fucking idiot–rude and fucking ignorant–everything that happens to his personal life looks good on him..what a fucking jerk
Timothy Stevenson February 13, 2019 at 10:28 am
This sort of verbal vitriol has no place on this website. You should be ashamed of yourself.
BILL SIMPKINS October 11, 2017 at 11:55 am
This story leaves out the incident where Mike “requested” Ed to remove a transmission Ed felt wasNOT AT FAULT. It seems that egos have gotten in the way of a very seemingly genuine working friendship!
peter cafone October 11, 2017 at 11:10 am
i want edd back he was the best
Gary Clark October 11, 2017 at 11:00 am
I can’t believe the abuse some “fans” have been giving out,I’m sure Mike can take it but against his family is just plain wrong
I’ve been a fan of the show from series one.I worked security on the airfield where filming took place and it was interesting seeing how things were edited together-though quickly started to enjoy the actual point of the show !
Havnt seen new series yet(my only real complaint as shown later in uk)so keeping an open mind and hoping the mechanical bits stay,not just bolting on shiny new bits on expensive motors
Fingers crossed and good luck
Chuck Mayfield October 11, 2017 at 10:57 am
So sorry to hear the torment that has aimed at you. You and Ed were a rare and wonderful combination of talent and meshing personalities. I sorely miss Ed and his informative presentation of procedure. I am happy to hear that the new format was accepted by your audience. I will continue to watch but it will never be the same for me. Best of luck!
Piet van Oeveren June 12, 2020 at 12:46 am
I have seen many episodes any both mechanics were top notch, I am a painter with as much money as a poor man. When I got my ford I got it as I thought it would explod. It has a Dana front dif the 8.8 dif with independent discs. I got the car with 200.000 miles (Arizona) original paint no rust ever. At 62 I likely won’t be able to buy another . As a Chevy would be my choice. I have never even installed a unjoint. It has been a very reliable unit and with a few repairs it would be new. I will never be able to buy anything else as now the motor is new . My first new motor ever. If this car would be made new for me I will drive the car with your name forever and I would be forever in your debt. I know it’s newer but it’s the last of the years with chrome bumpers and a mustang v8 factory headers and 373 gears in an awd . This is a tough truck and I would owe you. I am in Winnipeg and wou love to let the folks know on this side of the pond . Please consider this.
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Two University of Toronto researchers from Munk School of Global Affairs Citizen Lab have uncovered an iPhone-based attack on Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent United Arab Emirates human rights defender.
Bill Marczak and John Scott-Railton, with the collaboration of Lookout Security, discovered the attack, which used Zero Day exploits against Apple’s iOS operating system. Citizen Lab shared the preliminary findings with Lookout Security for verification and further analysis and undertook an immediate responsible disclosure of the zero days to Apple Inc.
The report, The Million Dollar Dissident: NSO Group’s iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender, is being published today in conjunction with Apple’s release of iOS 9.3.5, which patches the vulnerabilities. Lookout is also publishing a technical analysis.
Ahmed Mansoor is an internationally recognized human rights defender, and a 2015 laureate of the Martin Ennals Award (sometimes referred to as a “Nobel prize for human rights”), based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On August 10 and 11, he received SMS text messages on his iPhone promising “secrets” about detainees tortured in UAE jails if he clicked on an included link. Instead of clicking, Mansoor sent the messages to Marczak and Scott-Railton who recognized the links as belonging to NSO Group, an Israel-based “cyber war” company that sells government-exclusive “lawful intercept” spyware. NSO Group is owned by an American venture capital firm, Francisco Partners Management.
The ensuing investigation, a collaboration between researchers from Citizen Lab and Lookout Security, determined that the links led to a chain of zero-day exploits (“zero-days”), which we are calling the Trident, that would have remotely jailbroken Mansoor’s stock iPhone 6 and installed sophisticated spyware. Once infected, Mansoor’s phone would have become a digital spy in his pocket, capable of employing his iPhone’s camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording his WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps, and tracking his movements.
“We had been tracking what appeared to be NSO’s infrastructure for several months, but had not seen any spyware that talked to it until Mansoor forwarded us the links he received,” said Marczak. “Activists like Mansoor are the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for targeted digital attacks -- the advanced threats they face today will face us all tomorrow.”
Once the researchers confirmed the presence of what appeared to be iPhone zero-days, they quickly initiated a responsible disclosure process by notifying Apple and sharing their findings. Apple responded promptly releasing the iOS 9.3.5 patch, which closes the vulnerabilities that NSO appears to have been supplying to remotely hack iPhones.
The cost of a chain of zero day exploits, the use of NSO Group's government-exclusive exploit infrastructure, and prior known targeting of Mansoor by the UAE government provides strong circumstantial evidence that the UAE government is once again likely responsible for this attack. Remarkably, this case marks the third commercial spyware suite employed in attempts to compromise Mansoor (see illustration, below). In 2011, he was targeted with FinFisher’s FinSpy spyware, and in 2012 he was targeted with Hacking Team’s Remote Control System. Both Hacking Team and FinFisher have been the subject of several years’ of revelations highlighting the use of these tools to target civil society groups, journalists, and human rights workers. The attack the Citizen Lab researchers describe in their report may be the most expensive effort yet to compromise Mansoor.
“We have never worked with someone who has been targeted with so much expensive commercial spyware. First Finfisher in 2011, then Hacking Team in 2012, and now NSO Group. Mansoor is a million dollar dissident.” said Scott-Railton.
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“That a country would expend millions of dollars, and contract with one of the world’s most sophisticated cyber warfare units, to get inside the device of a single human rights defender is a shocking illustration of the serious nature of the problems affecting civil society in cyberspace. This report should serve as a wake-up call that the silent epidemic of targeted digital attacks against civil society is a very real crisis of democracy and human rights,” said Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab and professor of political science at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
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General Assembly 2008 Event 3043
Presenters: Rev. William Sinkford, Maria Rodriguez, Rev. Jessica Vasquez Torres, Rev. Kim Crawford Harvie
"Who is my neighbor?" asked Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) president William Sinkford in his introduction to this session. "It's a question each generation of Americans must answer."
And, he goes on: we are, so far, answering it badly. Nobody, on any side of the political discussion, thinks the current system is healthy or effective. There are 12 million undocumented immigrants living here—and the policies that govern them are creating decades-long backlogs, separating families, and landing people in jail for the simple crime of being here.
Immigration has been a special concern of Unitarians ever since the very first General Assembly (GA) in 1961, when the assembly passed a statement supporting immigrant rights. Unitarian Universalists (UUs) were active in the sanctuary movement in the 80s, and were the first denomination to join the New Sanctuary Movement. And here in Fort Lauderdale, under the watchful eye of Homeland Security and being attended to by immigrants, we are dealing with this issue yet again.
Sinkford stressed that "the role of religious communities is not to develop public policy. That's the job of our political leaders. But it is our job to ask questions and point out where our actions fall short of our ideals."
"Knowing who our neighbors are and getting to know them is a critical first step." Immigrants are often invisible to the public life of the country. Most importantly, he continued, we need to tell some hard truths. One of these is that the term "illegal aliens" is unconscionable. Another is that walls don't prevent them from entering the country—and won't, as long as business continues to profit from the current system.
And finally: immigration is governed by laws that are more complex than our tax laws—but from the beginning, our quotas for legal immigration have always been skewed toward white-skinned Europeans. As Sinkford noted: "The Statue of Liberty faces east, toward Europe ."
After Dr. Sinkford's opening remarks, Maria Rodriguez, the founding director of the Florida Immigration Coalition, outlined the three issues that her group finds most critical.
The first is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There's been a 70% increase this year in the number of people in Florida who have been arrested, detained, and deported. As a result of this and similar crackdowns, there are 23,000 immigrants in detention in America on any given day, almost all of whom were arrested for no criminal act. The cost to taxpayers averages $95 a day per immigrant.
Rodriguez brought along Gabriella, a young activist whose home was raided in 2006, resulting in her entire family being detained. Her family members were released on the condition that Gaby stop speaking out. This week—two years later—the case went to immigration court. The result of the day was that Gaby's parents and pregnant sister will have to wear ankle bracelets until a second hearing in September.
Rodriguez and Gaby also told the story of Emmy, a 19-year-old Bangladeshi girl who immigrated with her parents when she was three. The family went through what they thought was a legal immigration process, but the attorney mishandled the case. So, ten years later—having bought a house and a gas station, and paying taxes for a decade—their home was raided. Now, ICE considers them fugitives. Emmy has been at the Broward County detention center for over a year; Maria encouraged the audience to call her field officer at 305-762-3350 and ask him to release Emmy.
The second issue is youth. Rodriguez introduced a well-spoken young man named Juan, who emigrated from Colombia when he was six. Juan worked hard, did well in high school, and graduated fourth in a class of 500 students. But because he's undocumented, he cannot get a driver's license, apply to college, take a job, or accept any of the scholarships he's been offered. Worse: he's at constant risk of being discovered, put into detention, and deported to a country he's never really called home.
Rodriguez estimates that 65,000 similar students graduate in the US each year. Juan's friend Felipe did get into a Florida university, and even became the student body president—but even though he was raised in Florida, he has to pay international tuition fees, which are several times higher than in-state tuition.
Rodriguez is focused on reforming in-state tuition laws, as well as passing the federal Dream Act, which allows undocumented students to begin the immigration process if they've been here since before 16, have never broken laws, can demonstrate good character, and are willing to go to college or join the military. "These kids have learned English and become culturally American," she said. "Most don't even realize they're undocumented until they want to get a job or learn to drive."
The third issue Rodriguez discussed is worker's rights—particularly wage theft, which she said has become epidemic in every part of the country. Now that 20% of low-income workers in the country are immigrants, employers are becoming more aggressive about paying sub-minimum wages, shaving hours off time cards, and paying these employees with rubber checks. In Florida, these crimes go unenforced, since the state department of labor was abolished by Gov. Jeb Bush, and the federal Department of Labor has just six staffers in the state—none of whom are lawyers.
Dealing with wage theft is taking some creative politics. So far, these cases have responded best to informal case-by-case intervention: the employers tend to settle up quickly once they know a third party is watching. But that doesn't solve the systemic problem, so Rodriguez' group is looking at ways they might leverage the Equal Opportunity and Living Wage boards in Miami and Palm Beach.
Churches have a useful role to play here, she noted. Wage theft cases are usually brought to local worker or day labor centers, so forming a partnership with a local center is an effective place for a congregation to provide some real help fast. Often, simply getting a fax from a church—or a few church members-- has been enough to get an employer to comply. Rodriguez said, easy as this is, it's very effective: millions of dollars have been recovered simply because of pressure from interested third parties.
Fixing this, says Rodriguez, begins with being clear about the root causes. She grants that anti-immigrant TV host Lou Dobbs is right: our schools, health care, and employment prospects are all worse than they once were. But the immigrants are not to blame—they're just another set of victims of the same policies. Neoliberal economic policies, encoded in treaties like NAFTA, create economic adjustments and reorganizations that displace people—much as happened after the industrial revolution. National debt, foreign aid policies, and military policies all play a role in turning people into immigrants.
Rodriguez draws hope from the alliances that are being made around these problems—particularly with unions, which are concerned about wage theft—ending years of isolation within the movement.
The next speaker was Disciples of Christ minister Rev. Jessica Vasquez Torres, one of the founders of the New Sanctuary Movement that's organizing churches to aid families that are facing division and deportation—and, they hope, change the terms of the debate.
Torres stressed that immigrants come here for one thing: work. And the work landscape is changing in America due to offshoring, the expansion of low-paying service sector jobs, poverty-level wages, the erosion of benefits, and the co-optation of the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board by business. She pointed out that neoliberal economic and trade policies have created low government investment, fueled deregulation and privatization, and eroded the public good.
Torres also took on a common cliché about immigration—that it's all OK as long as newcomers "play by the rules, like my grandparents did." This statement ignores the fact that the rules have always been different for non-European immigrants, who have usually been excluded or exploited—and often enslaved—by immigration law in the past.
At the heart of it, said Torres, is NAFTA, which has greatly increased immigration pressure by devastating the rural economies of Mexico and Central America . The agreement sends heavily-subsidized American corn to Mexico, collapsing the market for locally-grown corn. Impoverished farmers have no choice but to come north to the border to work in the American-built maquiladoras (factories) that sprang up there in the 1990s. When the maquilas went to Asia in search of even cheaper labor, the immigrants living along the border started coming to the United States .
According to Torres, 12 million people are trapped in our broken immigration system, locked into a political game that benefits employers, creates family separations that can go on for decades, militarizes the border, lowers working standards for everyone, and creates a permanent underclass that supports our lifestyle. To correct the problem, we need to regularize the status of the people already here, reunify families, enforce and strengthen labor laws, eliminate guest worker programs, end workplace raids, and advocate for economic justice.
Churches can help through their participation in the New Sanctuary movement. "In the face of injustice, we cannot in good conscience comply," said Torres. While some churches stick to education, solidarity, advocacy, and organizing, some take the final step and offer themselves as sanctuaries, giving material aid to fugitive immigrants a way of living out the values of their faith community. Torres closed her talk with a quote from Cesar Chavez: "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce or laws—the fight is always about people."
The final speaker on the panel was Rev. Kim Crawford Harvie of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, who told of her church's experiences in becoming a New Sanctuary congregation. "New Sanctuary isn't just radical hospitality—it's prophetic hospitality," she said. To dramatize the idea of "prophetic hospitality," the church performed a Christmastime re-enactment of Las Posadas, a Latin American holiday tradition in which people playing Mary and Joseph (and, preferably a live donkey) wander through town caroling from house to house, asking to be let in. Arlington Street's version (which did include a live donkey) took a very pregnant young Mary recruited from a local immigrant center, accompanied by a thousand other participants, around Boston Common on a Sunday night.
They first went to the statehouse, which was closed—so the answer was, "No." The next stop was the FOX news headquarters, where the answer was, "No—you must be kidding." At the Episcopal Cathedral, the answer was, "Yes, you can come inside and warm up for a while." Finally, at the Catholic Paulist Center, everyone went inside for a pre-arranged meal.
The event got massive press coverage. Most importantly, said Harvie: Absolutely don't forget the donkey.
The connections the church made from this event led to the establishment of permanent Sanctuary organizations. The church is working with other groups to protest ICE raids in the Boston area. They've formed a rapid response team that can show up during or just after raids, arranging for legal services, the care of children whose parents have been arrested, and other necessary aid. They're also there as community witnesses to the proceedings: as Harvie pointed out, "It means a lot to have white faces watching as these things go down." They've conducted workshops on immigration reform for a wide variety of public groups, and are now gathering signatures on a petition to the Massachusetts legislature asking for sensible immigration laws.
Concluded Harvie: "When we say all are welcome, let's be that."
Still, Dr. Sinkford concluded: this is not a decision congregations should make lightly. Becoming a sanctuary church means making a commitment to be there when needed—and, almost certainly, putting the church across some very difficult legal lines. Churches that don't choose to do this can still serve in a great many useful ways. Those that do, need to be very sure that they intend to follow through all the way.
Reported by Sara Robinson; edited by Jone Johnson Lewis.
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by Monalisa Saha on Thursday, Jul 19 2018
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi has just given its flagship SUV model Pajero a new facelift in the international markets. The new updated Mitsubishi Pajero (which was earlier called the Montero in India) has come with a few new styling changes and has got added new equipments. The refreshed new SUV that is preparing to hit the car market of China is just one of the refreshed and special edition models, such as the Final Edition for the car markets of Europe, for the Mitsubishi Pajero in the global markets. These refreshed, special edition models of the Pajero are simply meant to keep the sales of the SUV moving and to keep customer interest alive till Mitsubishi brings in the next generation model of the popular and capable SUV.
Speaking on the exterior styling updates of the new refreshed Mitsubishi Pajero SUV, the vehicle has received an extensive cosmetic change on its front fascia. Mitsubishi has endowed a new grill in chrome finish with more number of slats with vertical intakes. The SUV also gets chrome décor on the centre of the front bumper, while the hood flaunts the Pajero moniker in flashy gold that is accompanied by a gold finished Mitsubishi insignia on the radiator grille. The side profile of the Pajero is almost the same as that of the outgoing model, but does get some new body decals. The rear design of the SUV is again spruced up with an additional dose of chrome finish, while there’s also the flashy gold on the tail lights as well as the badges.
On the inside, the updated new Mitsubishi Pajero comes with upgraded and added new features. The SUV comes with an updated infotainment unit along with wireless charging system for the smartphones. The Japanese auto major is also offering heated seats as optional feature. The facelift SUV for the Chinese market also gets faux wood trim on the dashboard, which is the same that is offered in the car market of India.
When the under the hood mechanical specifications are concerned, the refreshed Pajero SUV for the Chinese market will not receive any updates. The SUV will continue to get powered by the same 3.0 litre V6 petrol engine that is capable of churning out a max power output of 174 hp along with a top torque of 255Nm.
Mitsubishi relaunched the Pajero SUV’s version in the Indian market, named as the Montero last year, although it has been also discontinued. The India-spec Mitsubishi Montero used to pack in a 3.2 litre, direct-injection diesel motor that delivered 192 hp of peak power along with 441 Nm of top torque. The model couldn’t survive the competition in India, as it came with a steep price tag being a CBU model, which made it comparable with luxury SUVs such as the Audi Q7, Jaguar F-Pace, BMW X5 and Volvo XC90, but the Montero lacked the long features list offered by its rivals.
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The ‘Harry Potter’ actress, Emma Watson has always been in the headlines for her dating speculations. The actress was often seen indulging in major PDAs with her male friends and that’s how her dating speculations made the buzz. From Tom Felton to Will Adamowicz, the actress was speculated to be dating these top celebrities. Check out the list here.
Top Celebrities Who Dated Emma Watson
For a very long time fans were speculating that Emma and Tom might be dating each other. The pair were often seen giving hints to their fans. The speculations rose to buzz when Tom shared a picture of Watson, where both of them could be seen having a gala time with a guitar in her hands. Dressed up pajamas, both of them made their fans believe that they were dating. However, none of them actually confirmed about it.
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Netizens were surprised when the pictures of Emma Watson and Brendan went viral on social media. Both of them could be seen getting cozy while they were at a restaurant. Brendan is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision.
Chord and Emma were said to have dated each other in early 2018. Soon, there were reports that both of them parted their ways. Emma was seen giving some major PDA’s to their fans with Chord. He is an American actor and musician. He is known for his role as Sam Evans on the Fox television series ‘Glee’.
The dating speculations of Emma Watson and Robert Pattinson rose to buzz in January 2018. Both of the surprised everyone when they presented the Golden Globes together. Robert and Emma were reportedly dating by then and there are also reports that state they would meet each other secretly.
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American businessman William Mack Knight and Emma Watson were said to have dated from Oct 2015 to Nov 2017. While much is unknown, the speculations started making buzz about their relationship when both of them were seen hanging out together.
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COVID-19 in Grand Rapids: Monday, March 23 updates
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Gov. Whitmer issues "Stay Home, Stay Safe" order, Spectrum Health hospital reports first COVID-19-related death, The Rapid implements reduced service schedule, and more statements from local organizations issued March 21-23, 2020.
Spectrum Health reported the first Kent County death related to COVID-19 at one of its hosptials on Friday, March 21, 2020. /Spectrum Health
Today, March 23, marks the beginning of the state of Michigan joining fellow states such as California, New York, Illinois, and Ohio in issuing and enforcing a stay-at-home, or shelter-in-place, order. This "Stay Home, Stay Safe" order in Michigan, affecting residents statewide, comes on the heels of many local developments that have unfolded over the weekend.
Shared in this Monday, March 23, 2020 update are statements impacting Grand Rapids residents from Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Kent County Health Department, Spectrum Health, The Rapid, and local music journalism resource Local Spins.
Governor Whitmer's "Stay Home, Stay Safe" Executive Order (EO 2020-21), signed today, March 23, directs all Michigan businesses and operations to temporarily suspend in-person operations that are not necessary to sustain or protect life. The order also directs Michiganders to stay in their homes unless they’re a part of that critical infrastructure workforce, engaged in an outdoor activity, or performing tasks necessary to the health and safety of themselves or their family, like going to the hospital or grocery store.
The order, effective at 12:01am on Tuesday, March 24, will remain in place for at least the next three weeks.
“In just 13 days, we’ve gone from 0 to over 1,000 COVID-19 cases,” said Governor Whitmer. “This is an unprecedented crisis that requires all of us working together to protect our families and our communities. The most effective way we can slow down the virus is to stay home. I know this will be hard, but it will be temporary. If we all come together, get serious, and do our part by staying home, we can stay safe and save lives.”
Executive Order 2020-21 prohibits all businesses and operations from requiring workers to leave their homes, unless those workers are necessary to sustain or protect life or to conduct minimum basic operations. Businesses and operations are to designate the workers that meet those criteria, and must adopt social distancing practices and other mitigation measures to protect workers and patrons in the performance of that necessary in-person work.
Workers that are necessary to sustain or protect life include those in health care and public health, law enforcement and public safety, grocery store workers, and more.
More details about the order and a full list of those designated “critical infrastructure workers” are available on the Executive Order page of the state’s website. More information about the state’s overall COVID-19 response plans is available at michigan.gov/coronavirus.
Kent County Health Department
The Kent County Health Department has announced over the weekend the first death in Kent County linked to COVID-19, as well as the signing of a Public Health Order to mitigate the spread of the disease.
On Saturday, March 21, the Kent County Health Department confirmed the death of a 71-year-old male with underlying health issues.
"Our hearts go out to the family of this patient and everyone who is impacted by this illness in our community," said Kent County Health Department Director Dr. Adam London. "This death underscores how important it is for all of us to do what we can to help mitigating the spread of this virus, so it doesn't impact any more residents."
In light of this and all other unfolding developments, Dr. London signed a Public Health Order yesterday, March 22, requiring any individual providing childcare services for compensation to develop and implement a daily screening program for all staff, children, parents entering the facility, and other visitors entering the facility. This order is effective immediately and shall remain in effect until rescinded.
"I understand this Order may cause an inconvenience in our childcare facilities," said Dr. London. "However, we need to take more aggressive mitigation actions to protect the health and safety of our residents in order to stop the community spread of this virus."
More information about these major developments is available on the COVID-19 page of the Kent County Health Department's website.
Spectrum Health
Spectrum Health has released a statement on the death of the 71-year-old Kent County male that the Kent County Health Department confirmed, who passed away at a local Spectrum Health hospital.
“On behalf of Spectrum Health and the clinical team dedicated to caring for this patient, we extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of this individual,” said Joshua Kooistra, DO, chief medical officer, Spectrum Health.
“We were saddened by his death and realize it is difficult news for our community as we face the reality of the COVID-19 outbreak. All of our team members, from clinicians to support staff, are committed to caring for our COVID-19 patients. We are united with our communities in fighting this virus together.”
Spectrum Health has taken several steps to help fight the spread of COVID-19, which include increased promotion of prevention efforts practices, free virtual screening for COVID-19 to those in Michigan who have symptoms, Emergency Department triage tents at several of their hospitals, and downloadable community information and resources available on the COVID-19 page of Spectrum Health's website.
The Rapid
The Rapid has announced that, effective Tuesday, March 24, they will implement a reduced service schedule for all seven days of the week. This schedule will remain in place until further notice and aims to help slow the spread of the disease.
"The reduced service schedule was created with the goal of continuing to provide critical transit access to medical destinations including local hospitals, pharmacy and grocery service, and employment centers for individuals that are still reporting to their place of work," The Rapid said in a Sunday, March 22, statement.
"In addition, core ridership locations and travel patterns have been tracked for the last 10 days and have been factored into this schedule to ensure that it matches current demand to the greatest extent possible."
More information about the reduced service schedule is available on the COVID-19 page of The Rapid's website.
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On the lighter side of recent local developments, local music journalism resource Local Spins has begun listing all live-stream concerts by Michigan musicians on their website for residents and viewers to enjoy during this continuing chapter of social distancing in Michigan and American life.
The "Viral Virtual Venues" listing aims to keep residents and viewers up to date on all upcoming live-stream sessions.
"If you're a band or solo artist staging a live-stream, enter info about the show [on our Viral Virtual Venues page]," Local Spins shared on their Facebook page. "If you're a fan, scroll the list for links to upcoming performances."
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The Rapidian will continue to report on all major local developments related to the spread of COVID-19 and the community's prevention and response methods. Local residents are encouraged at this time to share their own stories and perspectives related to the COVID-19 situation on The Rapidian's platform.
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Are Horses Livestock or Companion Animals?
Pets or Farm Animals?
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Are horses companion animals or livestock? Now that horses are no longer needed for transportation and farm work, they are often regarded as companion animals. But are they truly companion animals, in the same way, that dogs and cats are?
Definitions of Companion Animal
A companion animal, as defined by the ASPCA is a "domesticated or domestic-bred animals whose physical, emotional, behavioral and social needs can be readily met as companions in the home, or in a close daily relationship with humans."
The ASPCA also specifies “species suitable to be companion animals include dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, ferrets, birds, guinea pigs, and select other small mammals, small reptiles and fish. Where they may be kept legally and responsibly, domestic-bred farm animals can also be maintained as companions.”
However, many other governmental agencies, associations and interest groups insist that horses are livestock. The Missouri Horse Council maintains that horses are livestock and “supports the
legal definition of all domesticated equines to remain as livestock and opposes the current social trend of referring to them as pets or companion animals.” This is a stance taken by many similar associations in the United States and Canada. That horses are livestock is a stand taken by the American Veterinary Medical Association, National Animal Identification Act, American Horse Council, and many others.
What difference does it make to the average horse owner if horses were legally regarded as companion animals and not livestock? Many horse lovers believe that designating horses as companion animals rather than livestock would guarantee no horse would be sent to slaughter. However, as it turns out, the benefits of keeping horses as livestock rather than companion animals may be greater than the disadvantages, including the potential of a horse becoming part of the food chain.
Taxes and Funding Benefits
Some of the benefits have to do with farm tax exemptions many horse owners can take advantage of. Those who make their living as trainers, breeders, dealers and running boarding stables and schools may lose the benefit of being an agricultural endeavor if a horse were regarded solely as a companion animal.
Livestock Research
A good deal of research into equine diseases, vaccines and husbandry is government funded. A change from livestock to companion animal could jeopardize this funding as research into similar issues pertaining to companion animals is largely privately funded.
Laws and Standards
Husbandry and humane treatment laws might not apply if horses were designated companion animals. Because some states have somewhat complicated laws regarding the conditions companion animals can live in, horses too might come under these laws—many of which would be difficult to fulfill when keeping a horse. These laws are good for the animals they were intended to protect, but horse owners might find it onerous to comply, or laws would have to be created or re-written to accommodate horse keeping. This, of course, would require time and expense. Also affected would include anti-cruelty laws, which may no longer protect horses as current livestock law now does.
Liability Law Benefits
But, treatment and maintenance of horses are not the only issues at risk by regarding horses as companion animals. Many states are passing limited liability laws, which protect livestock owners and livestock event organizers (like cattle and horse shows) from lawsuits from anyone who is injured by a potentially large and dangerous animal such as a cattle-beast or horse.
So while it may seem like we are protecting our horses by calling them companion animals, the opposite may be true. Considering that most of us do regard our horses not just as companions, but family members, our ultimate goal should be the best possible care, in addition to protecting ourselves. At this time, that 'best' includes a designation of livestock.
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Florida Scenic Highway: Old Florida Heritage Highway for a Great Gainesville Getaway
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By Dalia Colon
Where: Just south of Gainesville along U.S. 441, spoking out from Micanopy
Length: 48 miles.
How to get around: Car or high-end bicycle.
Best time to visit: Fall or winter, for mild temperatures and a slew of events including the Micanopy Fall Festival and Evinston Plein Air Paintout in October, First Day Hike on every Jan. 1 or Stargazing at Paynes Prairie each February.
Fun fact: Author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the small town of Cross Creek, where she penned several novels including the 1939 Pulitzer Prize winner The Yearling. Today, visitors can tour her home at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.
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Every year, thousands of football fans pour into Gainesville to cheer on the University of Florida Gators. But just a few miles south of the college town is a gem of “older, untouched Florida.”
That’s how Sean Plemons describes the town of Micanopy, about a 15-minute drive from Gator Country.
“It is close, but it is so different,” said Plemons, content manager for Visit Gainesville.
Away from the roar of the crowd at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium awaits a chorus of oak trees swaying in the breeze and more than 270 bird species. Off the beaten path in Paynes Prairie, keep your eyes peeled for bison and wild horses.
"When you slow down, Paines Prairie puts on quite a show,” said Kathleen Pagan, Alachua County’s liaison to the highway and recording secretary for the Friends of Old Florida Heritage Highway.
When you’re ready for a bite to eat, head back to civilization in quaint downtown Micanopy. The Yearling Restaurant serves cracker-style seafood, while Pearl Country Store is the go-to barbecue joint. Save room for pastries at Mosswood Farm Store and Bakehouse, and wash it all down with a made-to-order lemonade at Coffee ‘n Cream.
To walk off the calories, take a jaunt around downtown Micanopy, a historic town where most of the antique shops still close at 5 p.m. And save time for a photo op outside Wood and Swink Old Store and Post Office. Built in 1882, the humble pine structure is the oldest operating post office in Florida located along the old Florida heritage highway.
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14 Love Lessons From Classic Literature, From ‘Hamlet’ To ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’7 min read
You can read self-help books or call in and ask Dear Sugar about your relationship woes, or you can dig into some literary classics to get your head straight about romance this Valentine’s Day. There are plenty of love lessons hidden inside classic literature — and not just the obvious ones like Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, or The Notebook. Maybe that last one isn’t really a highbrow literary classic, but it is romantic — in an over-the-top, life-will-never-be-this-sexy way.
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For many, February 14 either means roses and champagne or agony and pain, depending on how cynical you’re feeling that year. Sure it’s a “manufactured” holiday that’s all about consumerism and Hallmark cards, but it can also be about celebrating your own fine self, going out with your friends, or staying in and reading Madame Bovary. If you pick the latter, just watch out for passages like this:
“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings — a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionizes it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”
I don’t really want my heart swept into an abyss, but some hurricane-like passion is great, in doses. This is real life after all, not a French novel. Still, you can learn a thing or two about romance from characters like Emma Bovary. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are 14 love lessons from classic literature.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Love Lesson: Don’t fall for an indecisive commitment-phobe
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was the ultimate brooder. His family was loco so he had plenty of reasons to be consumed with feelings and angst, but come on. Ophelia drowned herself in a brook because of this guy. Stay away from the dark, introspective brooders who can’t give you anything because they’re too distracted by their own baggage. Find a nice Earl or blacksmith instead.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Love Lesson: Sometimes you have to follow your passion, no matter what the neighbors say
Constance Chatterley tried to be true to her injured, humdrum hubby, but the woman had needs. Plus, her husband was emotionally withdrawn and closed off, so Connie had to go off and get hers. Her sexy tryst with the gamekeeper Mellors was passionate and life affirming and… hot. Sometimes following your passion is the only way to go.
The Odyssey by Homer
Love Lesson: Then again, if your true love is off fighting the good fight, might be wise to keep the suitors at bay
Normally I wouldn’t condone waiting around like a fool for someone who has been off sailing around the world for 20 years, but Odysseus’ über-patient wife Penelope did just that, and it paid off. She had suitors galore trying to marry her, but she had faith in her man and she knitted and did her thing until he returned. Good for her. If you have the patience of a saint and your love is true, let Penelope be your guide.
Love Lesson: Don’t act like a diva
Scarlett O’Hara was a stone-cold diva. She flirted, acted coy, married for all the wrong reasons — and she ended up in a tattered dress with mud all over he face, alone. We all love Scarlett, but the woman had issues.
Love Lesson: Watch out for exes
In Rebecca, a painfully shy assistant to a mean old rich lady falls madly in love with the dashing Maximillian “Maxim” De Winter (who is played by Laurence Olivier in the film —hottie). After a whirlwind romance they marry, and she finally gets a name: Mrs. De Winter. Things aren’t so cozy at Maxim’s mansion, though. His dead ex-wife Rebecca haunts their lives — and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers torments the new Mrs. De Winter by constantly bringing up Rebecca. The moral is: Don’t get involved with someone who has baggage with an ex. It’ll suck.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Love Lesson: Love yourself, first and foremost
In Angelou’s triumphant memoir, she goes from trauma, heartache, and pain to self-acceptance, courage, and love. Learn to love yourself no matter what — that should be what Valentine’s Day is actually about.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Love Lesson: If they don’t love you back, walk away
Hemingway’s protagonist Jake Barnes isn’t exactly a catch — in fact, he has a touch of Hamlet Syndrome. He can’t make a move and he’s pretty mopey. He pines for Lady Brett Ashley, and she, like Scarlett O’Hara, is a stone-cold diva who leads him on and then rebuffs him. Of course, there are many interpretations of Jake’s behavior, but the lesson is: Don’t waste your time pining for someone who treats you like crap. Move on.
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Love Lesson: Do not date anyone with Peter Pan syndrome
Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Love Lesson: Don’t be superficial
If you’re like, “I’ll only date people 6’2” or taller” or “I’m only attracted to people with perfect teeth and an 8-pack,” you need to check yourself. We all shrink and get old and wrinkly. It’s what’s inside that counts, and if they have an 8-pack, that’s just a (temporary) bonus.
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Love Lesson: Don’t settle
Isabel Archer was so strong and independent and feisty. She even turned down some marriage proposals because she was afraid of sacrificing her freedom. But then she goes and marries an egomaniacal American and life quickly starts to suck. So don’t settle for someone just because society says to or everyone else is getting married. It’s better to do your own thing.
Love Lesson: Open your eyes!
If you met Emma in real life, you’d probably think she was a prissy, clueless busybody, but she’s also a little lovable. She schemes and scams to get people to fall in love, and little does she know her own true love is right there in front of her face. So open your eyes and your mind. If life is like a rom-com, we’ll all fall for the person who drives us crazy… eventually.
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Love Lesson: Don’t manipulate people just because you’re bored!
Bored, wealthy, elite people play mind games with each other in this fun but WTF story. The end result is pain, agony, and women who run to the convent because they can’t take it anymore. So don’t manipulate people just because you’re bored. Um, just don’t manipulate people, period.
Love Lesson: Absence makes the heart grow fonder (or more obsessive)
Talk about pining for years: Jay Gatsby built his whole life around Daisy Buchanan, even though she’s a married woman and their relationship is long over. But still, distance does funny things when it comes to love. All that time apart can amplify the emotions, so if you really just mildly dig someone, but you haven’t seen them in like five years, you might suddenly not be able to live without them. It’s a tricky equation.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Love Lesson: Don’t read too many romance novels
Emma Bovary believed a little too much in the soaring, bodice-ripping love stories she was reading, and her high expectations lead to her being blinded by her feelings. Not that she deserved a listless marriage, but she got so swept away in the romance of her affairs that she couldn’t see that the dudes were players.
It’s always fun to get swept away in romantic fantasies of being passionately kissed in a snowstorm on Valentine’s Day, so if that’s your thing, have at it. Just don’t get too swept up, like Emma Bovary. Or Jay Gatsby or Mrs. De Winter or Ophelia. You know how those stories ended.
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APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (VVNG.com) — Deputies arrested the owner of High-End Smoke Shop in Apple Valley after discovering over 50 illegal marijuana plants inside the business, officials said.
It happened just before 10:00 am, on Thursday, April 30, 2020, in the 22100 block of Highway 18 in Apple Valley.
Deputy Loup was conducting extra patrol in the Property Business Improvement District (PBID), when he observed suspicious activity at the smoke shop prompting the deputy to author a search warrant, officials said.
According to a sheriff’s news release, “during the search, 57 marijuana plants and several containers of THC were seized.”
Dennis Mathew Anderson, 52, a resident of Apple Valley, was arrested for the cultivation of marijuana. However, in compliance with the statewide Emergency Bail Schedule, Anderson was released from custody following the booking process due to $0 bail for most misdemeanor and felony offenses amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Carat Trends 2021: The year of emotionally intelligent marketing
Article • Research on WARC, January 2021
This paper provides a starting point for you to think about ways that you can build smart, emotionally intelligent experiences for people in 2021.
Changing gears for the post-COVID shopper
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Article • Euromonitor Strategy Briefings, December 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of e-commerce, with many consumers experimenting and even becoming reliant on the digital channel while in isolation.
Shopping reinvented in home and garden
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Article • Christophe Castagnera, WARC Exclusive, December 2020
For brands hamstrung by a lack of live events during COVID-19, ‘hybrid’ events can offer a way forward.
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Article • Rico Chan, WARC Exclusive, December 2020
Shoppable content provides a frictionless ‘browsing-to-buying’ window for brands.
How augmented reality is set to transform retail
Opinion • Faisal Galaria, December 2020
AR has been around for a while but, apart from the brief Pokémon Go craze, has never quite caught on with the public. The current shift to online shopping is about to change all that, says Blippar CEO Faisal Galaria.
Frisian Flag Indonesia: “Catch to Grow”
Case Study • Yoohyun Kim, WARC Media Awards, Entrant, Effective Use of Tech, 2020
Frisian Flag 123, the toddler milk, captured the attention of a mobile-savvy audience with an augmented reality game in Indonesia.
P/S: The Adventure With King Leo and Friends
Case Study • Soumya Ranjan Panda, Sang Lam, Anish Appukuttan, WARC Media Awards, Silver, Effective Use of Tech, 2020
Toothpaste brand P/S harnessed the power of AI to encourage kids to brush their teeth, increasing consumption and boosting growth in Vietnam.
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Case Study • Paloma Ho, WARC Media Awards, Shortlisted, Effective Use of Tech, 2020
Car manufacturer Audi used AR technology and Yahoo! TV to showcase the Audi e-tron, its first pure electric car in Taiwan.
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Article • Oliver Botti, WARC Exclusive, November, 2020
This article explores the new technology enabling more interactive and immersive sports content experiences.
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Case Study • APG (AUS), Creative Strategy Awards, Bronze, 2020
The Australian Defence Force (ADF), a military organisation, addressed three pain points in its recruitment process, which led to innovative breakthroughs.
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Case Study • Kurush Dastur, WARC Media Awards, Entrant, Effective Channel Integration, 2020
Cadbury Celebrations, the confectionary brand, used in-store augmented reality to surpass its Diwali sales target in India.
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News • 04 November 2020
With the pandemic having driven more retailers and brands online, innovative packaging is creating new marketing opportunities for savvy brands in China.
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Case Study • SABRE Awards, APAC, South-East Asia, Gold, 2020
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Article • WARC Best Practice, November 2020
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Rob Hollands, MD, SharpEnd outlines the opportunities and watchouts for brands looking to engage consumers through connected packaging.
Connecting through packs that matter: Innovative digitally-printed packaging in China
Article • Victoria Andersen, WARC Exclusive, November 2020
Innovative packaging can help businesses engage consumers with enhanced brand experiences through personalisation, interactive technology, such as QR codes, and 'unboxing' rituals.
The future of live sport – how brands can make an impact with new digital possibilities
Opinion • Mark Melling, October 2020
Digital fan experiences like the NFL’s ‘Watch Together’ synchronised livestream are reinventing the way in which consumers enjoy live sports content.
Augmented reality: An ally for digital marketing research
Research Paper • Cristina Leo and Francisco Calixto, ESOMAR Conference papers, Latin America, 2020
This paper examines the use of augmented reality (AR) to enhance a study into the price perception of products when viewed online as opposed to in the flesh.
What's working in AR and VR
Article • WARC Category Intelligence, October 2020
Global strategies, campaign updates and trends in AR and VR.
Is this the time for VR marketing?
With people spending less time in store and more time online, there would seem to be potential for using virtual reality (VR) technology to acquire and engage consumers.
The future 100
The reign of Big Tech is coming to an end and as we look at the year ahead, 2020 will see irresponsible companies and figureheads being held accountable for wider social and environmental issues.
Future 100 Update by Wunderman Thompson Intelligence
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After the release of The Future 100 annual trend report in January 2020, news of a novel coronavirus started making headlines – this report tracks the new behaviours, cultural shifts and industry changes stemming from these sudden changes.
Advertising in 2030: Expert predictions on the future of advertising
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With so little certainty around what brand marketers should expect over the coming decade, this research sets out to identify the boundaries of expectation and the areas of conventional wisdom and agreement.
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Governments from around the world admit they’ve used the bully’s trick … attack first, and then blame the victim:
Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this
A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War, and Putin
Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this)
The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister
The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence
The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change
The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960′s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
2 years before, American Senator George Smathers had suggested that the U.S. make “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]“.
And Official State Department documents show that – only nine months before the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan was proposed – the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The 3 plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals
The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war
A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists
A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”
The German government admitted (and see this) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing
An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author)
An Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked”.
Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion)
According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.
The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings
As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”
Senior police officials in Genoa, Italy admitted that – in July 2001, at the G8 summit in Genoa – planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer, in order to justify a violent crackdown against protesters
Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials (remember what the anthrax letters looked like). Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country
Similarly, the U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war. Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction (despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the state which backed the hijackers)
Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”
United Press International reported in June 2005:
U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.
Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians
Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and see this)
At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence
Egyptian politicians admitted (and see this) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts in 2011 to try to discredit the protesters
A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat
U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants
The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently admitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists
High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government – a fellow NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government
The former Ukrainian security chief admits that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others
Britain’s spy agency has admitted (and see this) that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on targets, framing people by writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the target
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Case study: A water retailer and consultant approach to delivering customer satisfaction
Chris Quinn, Water Services Director, Kinect Energy Group
The Energy Live Consultancy Conference was an exciting event for us as we had the opportunity to share the stage with one of our partnership consultants Kinect Energy Group.
Chris Quinn, Water Services Director for Kinect Energy Group shared with a busy theatre insight into a customer project his firm is currently delivering with us, bringing to life the way water retailers, broker, consultants and TPIs can work together to deliver value in this tight margin market.
A little bit about Kinect Energy Group
Kinect Energy Group are a global leading Energy and Risk Management consultancy. They purchased the business of Orchard Energy October 2017, which Chris explained was the company he worked for previously.
A multisite retailer, one of the top 10 retailers in the UK put pressure on their national appointed water retailer, Water Plus, to deliver a full forensic analysis of their historic water and wastewater charges for all their sites across the UK. Typically this wouldn’t be a project a water retailer would usually deliver, but Chris explained that the challenging conditions of the water market meant that it wasn’t unusual for customers to put retailers under pressure to deliver more value over and above the standard retailer services.
Water Plus agreed to deliver this project for their customer but knew that they would need external support to do so. After a careful diligence process, Water Plus appointed Kinect Energy Group to deliver the revenue recovery part of the customer project.
Chris went on to say that he believed Kinect Energy Group were chosen for a number of reasons. Firstly, his teams experience within the water marker, they understand the processes, procedures and regulation of the industry and because of this are well placed to challenge the status quo of how a customer has been charged in the past. Chris’s team had also delivered many revenue recovery projects, just like this in the past and up to that point had generated £2 million worth of refunds for their customers. These factors gave Water Plus the confidence they needed to know that Chris’s team would be best fit to deliver for their customer.
Why Water Plus
Having looked at why Water Plus had chosen his team he went on to review Kinect Energy Group process when agreeing to work with Water Plus.
Having previously carried out over 2500 of revenue recovery projects over a 4-5year period Chris explained that his company had never partnered up with a water retailer to deliver a project before. He explained that as a consultancy Kinect Energy Group wanted to retain their independency within the market – which meant they took careful consideration when deciding to partner up with Water Plus. Chris said that their reasons for partnering up was due to the fact they saw a lot of synergies with Water Plus:
As the largest in the market with up to 30% market share, Water Plus feel like a safe pair of hands with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the industry.
Water Plus have always embraced the broker channel as a route to market. They understand the important role brokers and consultants play and that respect has carried through as we work together.
Their investment into innovation. Water Plus are willing to think outside of the box to deliver best value for their customers.
Benefits of the partnership
For Chris, he said he saw the following as the main customer benefit of the retailer, consultant partnership his team had built with Water Plus:
Single provider for provision of water and wastewater service across the UK. In extension to this the customer also has a single provider of historic invoice analysis and Advanced Services such as water efficiency and contingency planning.
Water Plus are fully accountable to the customer, for all services that both they deliver and Kinect Energy Group deliver.
The customer can be certain that their retailer appointed and independent consultant that can manage all aspects of the revenue recovery part of the project to ensure best value is delivered back to them
When it came to discussing the benefits for Kinect Energy Group, Chris could speak with certainty.
Their partnership with Water Plus had given them access to a type of customer that in the past they wouldn’t have been able to reach. Chris went on to say that the consultancy were excited to explore the opportunities and customers that working in partnership will bring them in the future.
Ease of project delivery was another area where Chris said he’d seen a positive impact from working alongside a retailer. If they were to deliver a project similar to the example given, a national organisation with sites across the UK independently, his team would have had to be in contact with anything up to 20 water suppliers in order to deliver the project. This would involve collecting invoices and data from each supplier, reviewing and raising claims / enquires with each independent retailer. Chris explained that the way they’ve agreed this project to work with Water Plus meant that they can drive all of these activities through one Water Plus channel with agreed Service Level Agreements and clear lines of communication. Helping the Chris and his team to deliver the project far more time efficiently for the customer.
Chris’s final comment was that he believed that between water retailer and consultant, Water Plus and Kinect Energy Group had come up with a pioneering stance, which he is certain will be replicated between retailer and consultants in the future. But, Water Plus and Kinect Energy Group can always say they came up with this concept for customers.
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President Trump, Kim Jong Un lookalikes at Olympics 'want peace'
Impersonators got booted from the opening ceremony for drawing too much attention
Updated: 12:36 PM CST Feb 9, 2018
The Winter Olympics' opening ceremony was all about unity: North and South Korea marched under one flag, the South's president shook hands with the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and even U.S. Vice President Mike Pence sat mere feet from the North's delegation.And before all of that, Kim and President Donald Trump were hanging out with each other. Kinda.A pair of impersonators played the roles of the rivals, surprising visitors to South Korea and becoming internet celebrities by the time they appeared at the opening ceremony. Unfortunately for them, the attention they drew also got the kicked out of the event.According to The Telegraph, Trump was played by a 67-year-old American musician, Dennis Alan, while the Kim lookalike was a Hong Kong-based Australian musician named Howard.As the dopplegangers moved around Seoul, bumping fists and smiling like old friends, it was a sharp contrast from how the real Trump and Kim have interacted over the past months. As Kim's regime has tested a series of ballistic missiles and threatened nuclear way, Trump famously vowed "fire and fury" against the North if the provocations continued.Their lookalikes weren't in a war of words."What we'd like to achieve by coming to South Korea at the Winter Olympics," Howard told the newspaper, "is that to show the world this is what peace could look like when two leaders get along. I mean, we get along personally, so I believe Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, they will, if they talk, they'll probably get along, because in my opinion, they're much the same people."Let's start talking and stop with all the missiles and everything else. We want peace, everybody wants peace, nobody wants war."
The Winter Olympics' opening ceremony was all about unity: North and South Korea marched under one flag, the South's president shook hands with the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and even U.S. Vice President Mike Pence sat mere feet from the North's delegation.
And before all of that, Kim and President Donald Trump were hanging out with each other. Kinda.
Highlights from the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics
A pair of impersonators played the roles of the rivals, surprising visitors to South Korea and becoming internet celebrities by the time they appeared at the opening ceremony. Unfortunately for them, the attention they drew also got the kicked out of the event.
Trump and Kim Jong Un (impersonators) meet at the Olympics! Hilarious. #VPinASIA pic.twitter.com/jf9rCQUsTK
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) February 9, 2018
According to The Telegraph, Trump was played by a 67-year-old American musician, Dennis Alan, while the Kim lookalike was a Hong Kong-based Australian musician named Howard.
People in Seoul were surprised to see what appeared to be U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un taking selfies. Of course it was two impersonators who took the opportunity to cause a sensation before the opening of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games pic.twitter.com/YPSVvMK28B
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 9, 2018
As the dopplegangers moved around Seoul, bumping fists and smiling like old friends, it was a sharp contrast from how the real Trump and Kim have interacted over the past months. As Kim's regime has tested a series of ballistic missiles and threatened nuclear way, Trump famously vowed "fire and fury" against the North if the provocations continued.
Their lookalikes weren't in a war of words.
"What we'd like to achieve by coming to South Korea at the Winter Olympics," Howard told the newspaper, "is that to show the world this is what peace could look like when two leaders get along. I mean, we get along personally, so I believe Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, they will, if they talk, they'll probably get along, because in my opinion, they're much the same people.
"Let's start talking and stop with all the missiles and everything else. We want peace, everybody wants peace, nobody wants war."
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Venice: The City and its Architecture
By: Goy, Richard J.
Book Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1997 Large Hardcover. 320 pp.An illustrated survey of the architecture and urban development of Venice. Goy's work includes sections on some of the best-known buildings, including the Basilica of San Marco, the Palazzo Ducale and the Rialto bridge, providing an introduction to the historical background of the city. The author examines the the way in which Venice's unusual topography has influenced the form and type of the city's buildings - discussing important building types such as churches and palaces and examining the middle-class and working-class districts of the city. The buildings are set in historical context with photographs and paintings and prints by some of the artists who have recorded the city from Carpaccio and Bellini to Ruskin. This text traces the origins of the city, from the end of the Roman Empire when it was no more than a few scattered villages to the built-up city we see today.
Title: Venice: The City and its Architecture
Author: Goy, Richard J.
Categories: Architecture, European,
Publisher: London, Phaeton Press Limited: 1997
Binding: Large Hardcover
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Keywords: VENICE VENETIAN ARCHITECTURE CITY HISTORY URBAN DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURAL STUDY TOPOGRAPHY BUILDING TYPES CHURCHES PALACES DISTRICTS HISTORICAL CONTEXT CARPACCIO BELLINI RUSKIN,
Venice: Its History, Art, Industries and Modern Life
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Wisconsin Humane Society, HAWS need foster homes to assist Texas shelters
Updated: 6:20 PM CDT Sep 1, 2017
The Wisconsin Humane Society and HAWS, the Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County, are looking for foster homes in order to help out Texas shelters after Hurricane Harvey.Wisconsin Humane SocietyThe Wisconsin Humane Society has been asked by a partner agency to assist in the sheltering of animals affected by Hurricane Harvey. These will be animals who were already in-shelter, not pets actually displaced by flooding, as those animals may have owners looking for them.The Humane Society needs help in creating shelter space for these incoming animals.It is looking for foster parents willing to open up their hearts and homes immediately to dogs and cats who are currently in our care so it can make room for the new arrivals. They are asking for a minimum commitment of at least until Sept. 15.If anyone is able to foster, please let them know at foster@wihumane.org and someone from the foster team will follow up with you as soon as they can. In the meantime, you can get started with the process by taking a few short steps online to become a WHS foster parent, here: http://www.wihumane.org/foster.HAWSAn alert from the organization said the first animals are expected to arrive from Texas on Sept. 4. Executive Director Lynn Olenik said the animals were already in Texas shelters, waiting for homes, before Hurricane Harvey arrival. "Texas and other southern shelters need to make space for those animals that are in need of temporary and emergency shelter, whose owners are known and/or are local, to ensure they can be reunited," she said in a statement provided to WISN 12 NEWS. Olenik said those interested should be able to commit to fostering an animal for 60 to 90 days. Most of the pets needing foster care will be dogs, although HAWS may receive cats and small animals as part of the transport.Veterinary care and behavior support, along with any care supplies will be provided by HAWS. "You provide the love, HAWS will provide everything else," Olenik said. To register as a HAWS Foster Home, call the shelter at 262-542-8851, x0. Once HAWS has a complete idea of the number and types of foster situations, they will hold a basic foster training session and place the animals.Other efforts:Woof Gang Rescue of Racine is heading to Texas to save displaced animals.They loaded two vans with pet carriers Thursday. They plan to bring back around 60 dogs Monday morning and they need foster homes for all of those animals.Wild Planet Hospitality Group is running Howl for Houston at their six downtown bars and restaurants through Monday."We thought something like this would help families with these animals," said JJ Kovacovich, of Wild Planet Hospitality Group. "They're basically looking for dog food, beds, crates, pee pads, any slightly used toys."The donated items will be packed up Tuesday and sent down to Houston.The rescue group taking it down there will also be bringing animals back to shelters in Wisconsin.Click here to find out more information.Get breaking news alerts with the WISN 12 mobile app or with our email newsletters.
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The Wisconsin Humane Society has been asked by a partner agency to assist in the sheltering of animals affected by Hurricane Harvey. These will be animals who were already in-shelter, not pets actually displaced by flooding, as those animals may have owners looking for them.
The Humane Society needs help in creating shelter space for these incoming animals.
It is looking for foster parents willing to open up their hearts and homes immediately to dogs and cats who are currently in our care so it can make room for the new arrivals.
They are asking for a minimum commitment of at least until Sept. 15.
If anyone is able to foster, please let them know at foster@wihumane.org and someone from the foster team will follow up with you as soon as they can.
In the meantime, you can get started with the process by taking a few short steps online to become a WHS foster parent, here: http://www.wihumane.org/foster.
An alert from the organization said the first animals are expected to arrive from Texas on Sept. 4.
Executive Director Lynn Olenik said the animals were already in Texas shelters, waiting for homes, before Hurricane Harvey arrival.
"Texas and other southern shelters need to make space for those animals that are in need of temporary and emergency shelter, whose owners are known and/or are local, to ensure they can be reunited," she said in a statement provided to WISN 12 NEWS.
Olenik said those interested should be able to commit to fostering an animal for 60 to 90 days. Most of the pets needing foster care will be dogs, although HAWS may receive cats and small animals as part of the transport.
Veterinary care and behavior support, along with any care supplies will be provided by HAWS.
"You provide the love, HAWS will provide everything else," Olenik said.
To register as a HAWS Foster Home, call the shelter at 262-542-8851, x0. Once HAWS has a complete idea of the number and types of foster situations, they will hold a basic foster training session and place the animals.
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Other efforts:
Woof Gang Rescue of Racine is heading to Texas to save displaced animals.
They loaded two vans with pet carriers Thursday. They plan to bring back around 60 dogs Monday morning and they need foster homes for all of those animals.
Wild Planet Hospitality Group is running Howl for Houston at their six downtown bars and restaurants through Monday.
"We thought something like this would help families with these animals," said JJ Kovacovich, of Wild Planet Hospitality Group. "They're basically looking for dog food, beds, crates, pee pads, any slightly used toys."
The donated items will be packed up Tuesday and sent down to Houston.
The rescue group taking it down there will also be bringing animals back to shelters in Wisconsin.
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Heavy rain leads to slick surfaces, minor flooding
Monday morning brought more rain to Granite State
Updated: 9:20 AM EDT Mar 31, 2014
Renee Anderson
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Meteorologist Kevin Skarupa with the latest weather webcast.
Heavy rain continued to fall across the Granite State on Monday morning, leading to some slick surfaces and minor flooding.Watch the latest forecast.State police responded to several spinouts on Interstates 89, 95 and 101.A state police cruiser was hit on Interstate 89 near exit 14 while an officer was trying to protect another crash scene involving a tractor-trailer and a car. No one was hurt in the crash, and the cruiser sustained minimal damage.Auburn police said Route 121 was closed from King Street to the center of town because the road flooded and officials were concerned it might collapse.In Pittsfield, Route 107 was down to one-lane traffic in the area of Deer Meadow Road due to water on the road.In Salem, Westchester Avenue by Route 28 and Millville Street by Millville Circle were closed due to flooding.The rain was expected to taper off mid-day, with temperatures climbing into the mid-30s and 40s.The remainder of the week will likely bring sunshine and highs in the 40s and 50s. 12986246
Heavy rain continued to fall across the Granite State on Monday morning, leading to some slick surfaces and minor flooding.
Watch the latest forecast.
State police responded to several spinouts on Interstates 89, 95 and 101.
A state police cruiser was hit on Interstate 89 near exit 14 while an officer was trying to protect another crash scene involving a tractor-trailer and a car. No one was hurt in the crash, and the cruiser sustained minimal damage.
Auburn police said Route 121 was closed from King Street to the center of town because the road flooded and officials were concerned it might collapse.
In Pittsfield, Route 107 was down to one-lane traffic in the area of Deer Meadow Road due to water on the road.
In Salem, Westchester Avenue by Route 28 and Millville Street by Millville Circle were closed due to flooding.
The rain was expected to taper off mid-day, with temperatures climbing into the mid-30s and 40s.
The remainder of the week will likely bring sunshine and highs in the 40s and 50s.
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TMZ Covers CM Punk/WWE, Ugly Matt Hardy-Reby Sky Story, WWE Reschedules Tour
- TMZ.com has picked up on the situation with CM Punk and WWE at this link. They report Punk was upset when he learned he would be facing Triple H at Wrestlemania XXX but we're told that's not completely true. We've covered the situation extensively here, here and here.
- Speaking of TMZ, the news regarding Matt Hardy and Reby Sky is about as unflattering as possible. Brooks covered the initial story here but TMZ updated their coverage with graphic mug shot photos and audio of the 911 tape. According to the call, an employee of the Hampton Inn in Emporia, VA claimed a guest came into the hotel and said "somebody's beating the hell out of his wife a girl or something." You can follow the story at this link.
- WWE has rescheduled their upcoming tour of Saudi Arabia from February to April. The new dates are April 17, April 18 and April 19. The change was made to accommodate the annual ceremony for the national Al Janadriyah Heritage and Cultural Festival, which will also take place from the Green Halls Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the former dates. Click here for more.
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Wildcat Esports Program Enjoys Success in Inaugural Season
Published on Monday, January 18th, 2021 in News Center news
With two teams making the championship round and the program winning the ECAC's first Commissioner Cup, the Wildcat esports athletes captured significant success in its first season.
Wayne State Creates Shotgun Sports Team
The new shooting team is a part of the Prairie Circuit Conference and will compete in trap, skeet, and sporting clays events.
Benthack Hall Renovation Aims to Serve Regional Mental Health Needs
Renovated facility will offer space to train students in human service and counseling, while also providing mental health care for the surrounding community.
Wayne State to Offer In-State Tuition Rates to Out-of-State Students
The new universal in-state tuition rate, which begins Fall 2021, will save out-of-state students nearly $6,000 per year on tuition costs.
Get to Know Some First-Generation Students at WSC
Five current students and President Marysz Rames, who was also the first in her family to go to college, share their stories.
Wayne State College to Celebrate First-Generation Students
About half of Wayne State’s students are classified as first generation in any given year. A variety of activities are planned for the first week in November to recognize these students.
State Colleges to Guarantee Affordability and Access Through New Program
Free tuition will be available for Pell-qualified Nebraska students at Wayne State College.
WSC Welcomes Second Largest Freshman Class in College’s History
Total enrollment is at 3,865 students, a 4.77% increase from Fall 2019. WSC's total enrollment has grown 20% in the past three years.
Homecoming Cancelations, Postponements, and Schedule Changes
Several events have been postponed for spring or the next Homecoming celebration. Others have been canceled or modified.
WSC, Northwestern College Partner for Athletic Training Program
The partnership includes two pathways to a Master of Science in Athletic Training, including a 3+2 option and a reservation agreement.
Covid-19 Cases at Wayne State College
Published on Monday, January 18th, 2021 in COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) news
View the latest information on COVID-19 cases at WSC.
WSC Film Professor Wins 3 Awards at Iowa Motion Picture Awards
Dr. Michael White's "Ever Fallen" and "The Ghost in Her" were recently honored at the 29th annual ceremony.
Career Scholarship Program Provides Support for Wayne State Scholars
The newly created program will provide funding for students pursuing careers in critical workforce areas and will help support WSC's Cooperative Education program.
COVID-19 Update: Academic Plans and Health Guidelines for Fall 2020
July 6, 2020 - Wayne State College intends to offer as many face-to-face opportunities as possible while following established guidelines to protect public health.
Important Announcement About Spring Graduation
Wayne State regrets to announce it will not hold a summer ceremony for spring graduation, due to COVID-19 complications and restrictions.
President Marysz Rames Addresses Juneteenth and Equality at Wayne State
WSC will begin a series of conversations to help us understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of the educational experience of students of color and other groups.
ACTE Announces Carol Erwin as a 2020 Region V Excellence Award Winner
Dr. Carol Erwin, associate professor of family and consumer sciences, was chosen as the Region V Teacher Educator of the Year by the Association for Career and Technical Education.
Wayne State Prepares Curt Ott ’77 for Coast Guard Pilot Career
Published on Monday, January 18th, 2021 in Alumni and Giving news
Curt Ott reflects back on his career with the Coast Guard and how he drew from what he learned while at WSC.
Lynn Dobson ‘71 Creates Pipe Organs
WSC grad Lynn Dobson is president and artistic drector of Dobson Pipe Organ Builders in Lake City, Iowa.
State Colleges Decrease Undergraduate Online Rate
The undergraduate online rate for the 2020-21 academic year is now $299 per credit hour for all three state colleges.
Spring 2020 Dean's List
More than 1,200 students made the Wayne State College dean's list for Spring 2020.
Fall Schedule Altered at Wayne State College
On May 26, 2020, NSCS Chancellor Paul Turman announced the following adjustments to the fall academic schedule.
Dr. Don Hickey Receives Teaching Excellence Award
Dr. Donald R. Hickey, professor of history, has been named the State Nebraska Bank & Trust Teaching Excellence Award winner for the 2019-20 academic year.
Dr. Alison Boughn Receives 2020 Dissertation Excellence Award
The Professional Counselor, the official electronic journal of the National Board for Certified Counselors, chose Wayne State College professor Dr. Alison Boughn for the annual nationwide award.
While the May 9 ceremonies have been postponed, 578 degrees are being conferred by President Marysz Rames.
COVID-19 Update: Summer Course Delivery
May 1, 2020 - All face-to-face summer courses will shift to remote delivery due to continued restrictions and guidelines for social distancing from the Nebraska DHHS.
Wayne State College Reveals New Visual Identity
New logos - including a cat, W, and re-imagined wordmark - reflect the College’s return to its visual roots. The logos launch today, April 29, 2020.
College Hires First eSports Coordinator
WSC will launch competitive eSports with a new arena in fall 2020.
Scholars Selected for Wayne State’s New Cooperative Education Program
Thirty-one students have been selected for the Northeast Nebraska Growing Together Cooperative Education Program and will begin their education at Wayne State in the fall.
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Startup CEO Wields Small Antenna In TV Streaming Battle
By Dan Bobkoff
Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia
A top executive at News Corp. dropped a bombshell this week when he said the company is considering taking Fox's over-the-air network to cable. The announcement follows a court win for a startup company that streams broadcast channels online.
That startup's CEO, arguably the most feared man in television right now, is soft-spoken and rather techy.
Chet Kanojia launched the service Aereo about a year ago. It's only in the New York City area right now. For a monthly fee, Aereo takes broadcast TV signals and streams them over the Internet. With a tap on an iPad, the local Fox station pops up on the screen.
This is what has networks like Fox up in arms. For $8 a month, Aereo will provide a high-definition feed of the basic over-the-air channels: CBS, NBC, Fox and the like. If you're tech savvy, you can even watch it on your TV. Kanojia says he saw a demand for a cable alternative.
"Most people watch seven or eight channels, even though they have 500 channels, and a third of the households effectively just watched network television," he says.
The problem, the stations say, is that they don't get a penny of Aereo's monthly fees.
"The fear is that if Aereo is allowed to continue, really, the new economic foundation of the broadcast business is threatened," says Robin Flynn, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan, which researches the media business.
That new economic foundation is something called a "retransmission fee." It used to be that cable companies didn't pay anything to deliver you the basic broadcast channels. That changed about five years ago. Flynn says as part of their cable bills, customers now pay about $1 a month for each station.
That's turned into a big source of revenue for local affiliates, totaling $2.3 billion last year, on top of all the money stations get from advertising.
"The networks have really started to depend on the dual revenue stream to enable them to pay for programming, including sports programming and scripted dramas," Flynn says.
Of course, if you had rabbit ears on your TV, you wouldn't pay anything for the stations, either. That's the loophole Aereo thinks it's found. Aereo actually assigns subscribers their own dime-sized antennas in its data center. Each one sends a signal over the Internet to just one user.
So when the networks say Aereo should be paying them fees just like the cable companies do, Kanojia says his service is no different than having an antenna at home.
"We're not a cable company. We're an antenna technology," he says. "Ever since broadcasting started, no antenna manufacturer, no television manufacturer has been required any kind of transmission fee."
So far, an appeals court agrees with Kanojia. A consortium of networks tried to block Aereo, accusing the company of profiting off the copyrighted shows it spent millions to produce and air. But Aereo prevailed in the case.
It was after that ruling that News Corp. President Chase Carey called Aereo a pirate and threatened to take Fox off the airwaves in retaliation. Soon, Univision said the same.
Most think this is saber-rattling, but media lawyer Matthew DelNero says there's some precedent for the stations' argument. He was not involved in the Aereo case, though he does work with some of the networks that filed suit. He says, years ago, cable companies made similar arguments to the ones Aereo makes now.
"They said, 'We're simply delivering broadcast signals that someone could get just as easily over the air.' And Congress looked at that and said, 'Well, wait a minute, you're obviously delivering some value with that because subscribers are willing to pay you monthly fees for that,' " DelNero says.
It was then that over-the-air stations gained the right to charge for their channels.
If Aereo continues to prevail in court, DelNero says cable companies could copy its model and free themselves from the fees. And after another court ruled against a similar service in California, all this may ultimately end up in the Supreme Court.
Dan Bobkoff
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Back in the '80s when cars started getting relatively simple computers to control essential functions like the ignition spark timing and the fuel delivery, a common belief, or complaint, was that they'd be harder to repair and work on than the ol' carby-fed and distributor-ignited engines of yore. The thing is, I've always found computers and harnesses much easier to work with than carbies and points. I guess it's just a question of being willing to learn something new. The first car I owned was a Mitsubishi Sigma, and so I did start out playing with carby cars. With a bit of fiddling with the secondaries (if you don't know what they are, that probably just means you're young), and a new distributor to replace a dud one, according to the stock tacho I had that Astron 2000 spinning up to 7000rpm (I wasn't exactly mechanically sympathetic in my teens). All I needed was a workshop manual to tell me how to rebuild a carby. However, the modifications were a lot of guesswork with trial-and-error on my part, because my first efforts only introduced a noteworthy flat spot to the middle of the RPM range. My next vehicle was a base model VL Commodore. And I do mean base model, an SL manual with not a single factory option. It didn't even have power steering (one of my favourite things about it, actually). I wrung its aspirated RB30E up to 7000rpm as well, but tuning wasn't a DIY option for me at that time. It didn't really need it though, and what it did offer was self-diagnostics. On the side of the ECU, tucked away behind the left kick panel, were two coloured LEDs that, when put in diagnostic mode, would flash in a specific sequence to say what piece of electronic hardware on the engine was in need of checking or replacement. All you needed was a workshop manual to find out what each sequence represented. Later I started playing with '90s-era Ford V8s (and still do), and I found having more than one at a time to be beneficial (specifically, the tow car and the race car being fundamentally the same as each other). Diagnostic mode was less convenient to initiate, and so I used (and still use) the same basic method that a lot of mechanics used, that being swapping parts between the two cars until the opposite one plays up. I've identified several dud parts over the years without having to replace all of them each time. I also learned how to DIY tune them with a reprogrammable chip, allowing me to give them bigger injectors, remap the ignition timing, and then run them both on either E85 (85 percent ethanol) or ordinary petrol. I've played a bit with WRX tuning as well, but I'll save that for another story later. My current daily (which seems like the wrong phrase to use this year) is an Alfa 147 diesel. When I bought it a few years ago, a mechanic mate of mine was absolutely sure it would fall to bits almost immediately. Happily, despite being about the same age at the time of purchase (10-ish) as the Commodore and Falcons that did daily duties before it, it's had far fewer issues. In fact, nothing has gone wrong that I wasn't able to diagnose with my phone. Nope, not by calling for help, but by using an app that asks the engine's management computer to report any fault codes, and then it tells me what they mean. It's like the ol' VL, only better. There's a cheap scanner plugged into the diagnostic port (that most cars have), and it communicates with my smartphone via Bluetooth. The app, in this case Torque which also has lots of other neat features that can turn your phone into a multi-gauge display, reads the fault codes, and once I've rectified the issue, I can also use it to clear that code. The first issue was with number 3 injector. Its connection plug had some minor corrosion typical of this engine family, and some contact cleaner fixed it. It later identified other things that just needed cleaning like the EGR valve. The only part I've had to replace on the Alfa so far is a burst intake hose. Apart from the lost power and over-rich exhaust, various fault codes including the boost sensor were big clues to the real problem. And each of these was way less fiddly to clean or fix myself than the Sigma's old carby. Sam Hollier is an ACM journalist and a motoring fanatic who builds cars in his shed in his spare time.
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Our cars keep getting smarter, especially their diagnostics
Sam Hollier
Back in the '80s when cars started getting relatively simple computers to control essential functions like the ignition spark timing and the fuel delivery, a common belief, or complaint, was that they'd be harder to repair and work on than the ol' carby-fed and distributor-ignited engines of yore.
The thing is, I've always found computers and harnesses much easier to work with than carbies and points. I guess it's just a question of being willing to learn something new.
The first car I owned was a Mitsubishi Sigma, and so I did start out playing with carby cars. With a bit of fiddling with the secondaries (if you don't know what they are, that probably just means you're young), and a new distributor to replace a dud one, according to the stock tacho I had that Astron 2000 spinning up to 7000rpm (I wasn't exactly mechanically sympathetic in my teens).
All I needed was a workshop manual to tell me how to rebuild a carby. However, the modifications were a lot of guesswork with trial-and-error on my part, because my first efforts only introduced a noteworthy flat spot to the middle of the RPM range.
My next vehicle was a base model VL Commodore. And I do mean base model, an SL manual with not a single factory option. It didn't even have power steering (one of my favourite things about it, actually).
I wrung its aspirated RB30E up to 7000rpm as well, but tuning wasn't a DIY option for me at that time. It didn't really need it though, and what it did offer was self-diagnostics.
On the side of the ECU, tucked away behind the left kick panel, were two coloured LEDs that, when put in diagnostic mode, would flash in a specific sequence to say what piece of electronic hardware on the engine was in need of checking or replacement. All you needed was a workshop manual to find out what each sequence represented.
Later I started playing with '90s-era Ford V8s (and still do), and I found having more than one at a time to be beneficial (specifically, the tow car and the race car being fundamentally the same as each other). Diagnostic mode was less convenient to initiate, and so I used (and still use) the same basic method that a lot of mechanics used, that being swapping parts between the two cars until the opposite one plays up. I've identified several dud parts over the years without having to replace all of them each time.
I also learned how to DIY tune them with a reprogrammable chip, allowing me to give them bigger injectors, remap the ignition timing, and then run them both on either E85 (85 percent ethanol) or ordinary petrol.
I've played a bit with WRX tuning as well, but I'll save that for another story later.
Bluetooth scanner (glowing orange in the Alfa's diagnostic port) that apps can connect to.
My current daily (which seems like the wrong phrase to use this year) is an Alfa 147 diesel. When I bought it a few years ago, a mechanic mate of mine was absolutely sure it would fall to bits almost immediately.
Happily, despite being about the same age at the time of purchase (10-ish) as the Commodore and Falcons that did daily duties before it, it's had far fewer issues. In fact, nothing has gone wrong that I wasn't able to diagnose with my phone. Nope, not by calling for help, but by using an app that asks the engine's management computer to report any fault codes, and then it tells me what they mean. It's like the ol' VL, only better.
There's a cheap scanner plugged into the diagnostic port (that most cars have), and it communicates with my smartphone via Bluetooth. The app, in this case Torque which also has lots of other neat features that can turn your phone into a multi-gauge display, reads the fault codes, and once I've rectified the issue, I can also use it to clear that code.
The first issue was with number 3 injector. Its connection plug had some minor corrosion typical of this engine family, and some contact cleaner fixed it. It later identified other things that just needed cleaning like the EGR valve. The only part I've had to replace on the Alfa so far is a burst intake hose. Apart from the lost power and over-rich exhaust, various fault codes including the boost sensor were big clues to the real problem. And each of these was way less fiddly to clean or fix myself than the Sigma's old carby.
Sam Hollier is an ACM journalist and a motoring fanatic who builds cars in his shed in his spare time.
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The Sports Ministry has approved the inclusion of four indigenous Games to be a part of Khelo India Youth Games 2021, scheduled to take place in Haryana. The games include, Gatka, Kalaripayattu, Thang-Ta and Mallakhamba.
Speaking about the decision, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said, India has a rich heritage of indigenous sports and it is a priority for the Sports Ministry to preserve, promote and popularise these games. He said, there is no better platform than the Khelo India Games where athletes of these games can compete. The Minister said, the games have huge popularity and is telecast across the country by Star Sports. He expressed confidence that in the 2021 Khelo India Youth Games these four disciplines, along with Yogasana, will get their much deserved attention among sports enthusiasts and youth of the country. Mr Rijiju said, in the coming years we will be able to add more indigenous sports at the Khelo Games.
The four selected games represent different parts of the country. Kalaripayattu has its origin from Kerala and has practitioners all over the world. Mallakhamba has been well-known across India and Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have been the hotspots of this sport. Gatka originates from Punjab and this traditional fighting style of the Nihang Sikh Warriors is used both as self-defense as well as a sport. Thang-Ta, a Manipur marital art has passed into oblivion in the recent decades, but the sport will get national recognition again with the help of the Khelo India Youth Games 2021.
India vs Australia: Captain Ajinkya Rahane's fine century puts India in driver's seat against Aus.
MELBOURNE: Ajinkya Rahane played a captain's knock with a workmanlike century that steered India into a dominant position and took the sting out of Australia's potent bowling attack in the second Test
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UML Group recorded a profit of Rs.366 million for Q2 compared to Rs.13.5 million in Q2 for the financial year 2019/20. The recorded Group revenue was Rs.4.3 billion for the quarter, up from Rs.3.06 billion in the comparable period last year. The year to-date Group profit recorded was Rs.140 million compared to a loss of Rs.185 million during the comparable period, the previous year. The second-quarter EPS was Rs.3.63 while NAV as of 30th September 2020 has risen to Rs.128.24.UML Group recorded a profit of Rs.366 million for Q2 compared to Rs.13.5 million in Q2 for the financial year 2019/20. The recorded Group revenue was Rs.4.3 billion for the quarter, up from Rs.3.06 billion in the comparable period last year. The year to-date Group profit recorded was Rs.140 million compared to a loss of Rs.185 million during the comparable period, the previous year. The second-quarter EPS was Rs.3.63 while NAV as of 30th September 2020 has risen to Rs.128.24.
Group CEO, Chanaka Yatawara said that the profit growth was driven by all-round performance from the increase in revenue and margins in vehicle sales, aftersales, and lubricants supported by uninterrupted business operations. On the expenses front, there was a significant reduction in finance cost due to the improved cash position and favorable interest rates. It is noteworthy that, despite strict cost control measures undertaken across the organization, employee salaries remained unchanged.
Considering the challenges at the moment with the import ban on vehicles in place, UML will focus mainly on expanding its after-sales revenue, lubricant business, and the construction equipment sector. While employee safety was the priority in these trying times, the Group continues to take all precautions to protect its employees and the customers’ health and wellbeing.
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Rea victorious in World Superbike opener
Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea prevailed in a spectacular season-opening 22-lap Superbike World Championship race at Phillip Island in which Australian wildcard Josh Brookes was forced to retire after just six laps.Reigning world champion Rea's third win in a...
Kawasaki's Jonathan Rea prevailed in a spectacular season-opening 22-lap Superbike World Championship race at Phillip Island in which Australian wildcard Josh Brookes was forced to retire after just six laps.
Reigning world champion Rea's third win in a row at Phillip Island -- and his fourth victory in the past five races at the island -- came after a ding-dong scrap with arch-rival Chaz Davies in a "really tactical race".
In typical Phillip Island style, it all came down to the last lap, with Ducati's Davies managing to get his nose in front briefly before Rea, 30, returned the compliment. Davies then stalked Rea for the remainder of the lap but the Northern Irishman held on down Gardner Straight to win by just 0.042 seconds.
"It was a little bit like a bicycle race and no-one wanted to put their nose in front," Rea said.
"But instead of conserving energy like in a bike race, on the track it was all about conserving tyres.
"The pace should have been much faster but we did what we had to do in the end to get 25 points."
Kawasaki's Tom Sykes flashed across the line 1.050 seconds behind teammate Rea to complete the podium.
It was Rea's 39th WorldSBK win in a resume that continues to grow into legendary status, while Welshman Davies' six-race winning streak from 2016 was brought to an end.
"It's hard to get the strategy right to creep across in front of Rea," Davies said.
"He's pretty easy to follow but to actually beat him is something else in itself.
"Still, we'll do a bit of study tonight and see if we can go one better tomorrow."
Alex Lowes produced his most impressive performance in Yamaha colours to finish fourth ahead of Leon Camier (MV Agusta) and privateer Xavi Fores (Ducati).
The top 10 was rounded out by Jordi Torres (BMW), Eugene Laverty (Aprilia), Michael van der Mark (Yamaha) and rookie Randy Krummenacher (Kawasaki).
Italian Marco Melandri's return to WorldSBK competition after a two-year absence ended with a crash on lap 15 with Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia) another to go down.
Race two of the weekend is on Sunday afternoon.
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Documents reveal New Zealand's Pacific spy role
New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau has targeted the entire communications of nearly two dozen countries, new documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest.
By Rob O'Neill | March 4, 2015 -- 16:25 GMT (08:25 PST) | Topic: Security
New Zealand spy agency the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has collected the entire email, phone, and social media communications of its close Pacific neighbours, new revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest.
The communications, from nearly two dozen countries, were reportedly harvested and shared with the US National Security Agency (NSA), helping flesh out that agency's global spying agenda.
The GCSB was focusing on what is referred to as "full take" collection, allowing the NSA to use its XKeyscore search engine to trawl the communications content and metadata for intelligence.
The latest reports, which reveal an escalation in New Zealand's Pacific spying role since 2009, are the product of cooperative reporting by journalist Nicky Hager from the The New Zealand Herald and Glenn Greenwald's website The Intercept.
Glenn Greenwald fronts media at the "Moment of Truth" event in Auckland, New Zealand, last September. Photo: Rob O'Neill
The spying activity reportedly centred around a spy base in the top of the South Island at Waihopai. The New Zealand Herald reported a British intelligence document as saying:
"GCSB have given us access to their XKS [XKeyscore] deployments at Ironsand [Waihopai], a GCSB comsat [communications satellite] site which is rich in data for the South-Pacific region. Specifically, we can access both strong selected data and full-take feed from this site."
Earlier reports suggested that two New Zealand Sunday newspapers were also involved in the reporting, meaning further revelations are likely.
However, if New Zealand has been spying on some of its closest friends -- countries such as Tonga and Samoa that do not pose a security threat -- then the government has some explaining to do.
One motivation for the so-called "Five Eyes" spying alliance to target the Pacific could be that China has been steadily building its presence in the region.
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The reports further suggests that the communications of government agencies, ministers, officials, and international organisations in the region fall into the dragnet.
On Wednesday, New Zealand's prime minister attempted to pre-empt fallout from the anticipated reports.
John Key said the fact that New Zealand agencies gather intelligence is obvious, and that New Zealanders expect them to in the interests of security.
He advised New Zealanders not to believe Hager.
"Last time he came out with all this stuff, he was categorically wrong. He'll be wrong this time as well, because information changes, we review things all the time, different actions are taken," he said.
Key said he isn't going to go into detail, but such intelligence information has been gathered over successive governments and "for really, really good reasons".
"We don't do that loosely or randomly, and actually, those situations change dramatically."
Last September, Greenwald travelled to New Zealand to headline a pre-election event dubbed the "Moment of Truth" alongside Kim Dotcom; however, the attacks on the New Zealand government's spying programs largely misfired.
Instead of mass surveillance, Dotcom's failure to produce evidence to support his claims that the prime minister had lied and colluded with Hollywood to get him extradited to the US dominated media attention.
Greenwald accused the government of implementing a plan to intercept New Zealanders' communications.
Top-secret documents appeared to show that the GCSB and NSA cooperated to implement Phase I of the surveillance program code named "Speargun", involving the installation of cable access equipment into the Southern Cross Cable, New Zealand's main cyberlink to the rest of the world.
Phase II of Speargun was to involve the insertion of metadata probes into those cables, a report on The Intercept said.
In response, Key has declassified documents to show, he said, that no such mass surveillance program was ever launched. He said Speargun had been aborted and replaced with a cybersecurity system called Project Cortex.
"Claims have been made tonight that are simply wrong, and that is because they are based on incomplete information," Key said.
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Carrie Underwood Just Got Her First Haircut in Six Months — See Pictures!
Carrie Underwood turned to social media to share pictures of her new hairstyle after getting her hair done for the first time in six months.
The country superstar turned to her Instagram Story on Saturday (Aug. 15) to post two photographs. The first shot depicts Underwood sitting in a chair in a salon with a mask on, draped with a gown and with her hair wrapped up.
"It's been 6 months since I've done anything to my hair ..." she writes to accompany that photo.
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Underwood subsequently shared a picture of the finished product, showing off her long blond hair with highlights and thanking her stylist, Marissa Martin at Parlour Three in Brentwood, Tenn., an affluent Nashville suburb. She also tagged the salon's owner, Melissa Schleicher, thanking both women "for making me feel pretty."
Underwood has been in quarantine with her husband, Mike Fisher, and their two sons at their home in the Nashville area since March, when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began in earnest. She's been keeping busy with workouts that she occasionally shares online, and she's given a few from-home performances to promote her most recent single, "Drinking Alone," but the singer has spent most of the time bonding with her family. Underwood has turned to social media on numerous occasions during the pandemic to share the highs and lows of life in isolation.
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Brian Fallon Release Show at Starland Ballroom for Emotional Debut Solo Album ‘Painkillers’
by Ed Magdziak • March 14, 2016 • Music, Photography • Comments (0) • 1625
Brian Fallon & The Crowes played a homecoming show to an enthusiastic sold-out crowd at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville Saturday night. The concert was a release party for his debut solo LP Painkillers which was came out on Island Records last Friday. Fallon was in great spirits being in front of the New Jersey crowd as he referenced being home many times. He even mentioned pork roll at one point. With his band The Gaslight Anthem on indefinite hiatus, the show was a chance for fans to experience Fallon’s sparser solo Americana music.
Creating Painkillers allowed Red Bank native Fallon to go back to the basics of songwriting to see what he could do now with all the experience he has gained. The engaging album shares a tone with other strong singer-songwriting artists like Jackson Browne and fellow New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen.
Opener “A Wonderful Life” is upbeat and anthemic and has Fallon’s unmistakable gravely vocals. “Don’t you want a life like we saw on the picture show?” displays his longing for simpler times. He doesn’t want to live life just getting by. He wants something more here. Title track “Painkillers” has single written all over it. Is love the antidote for many ills? That is what Fallon wants to find out. Elsewhere on the album there are more echoes of Springsteen as on “Rosemary” and the great closer “Open All Night.”
The quieter “Steve McQueen” is a nice change of pace as is the fun and funky “Mojo Hand.” The country tinged “Long Drives” is another standout highlight on the record. The slide guitar is wonderful and the vocal harmonies are exquisite.
The album, recorded in Nashville, was produced by Butch Walker and it is top-notch. Fallon revisits similar themes he has written about before but Painkillers shows he is growing and branching out as a songwriter.
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Caring for the Mentally Ill
By Temma Ehrenfeld @temmaehrenfeld
Psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia are far less rare than you’d expect.
You’re in good company — many people have taken on care for someone with a mental illness. Sadly, in any year, only about 40 percent of the mentally ill receive professional treatment in the United States, while millions of Americans live with a serious condition. So partners, siblings, parents, and friends step in.
You may have noticed the symptoms slowly. Even people who suffer psychotic episodes will often perceive the world normally and show no signs of illness visible to outsiders. Often sufferers keep their troubles secret — to protect their reputation or for fear of rejection from those they love. As a caregiver, you may be keeping that secret too to avoid conflict. You don’t want your loved one to clam up and resist help. Find someone to trust and help you. Without a confidante you can easily become overwhelmed.
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Once the family has been told, let other family members know that they can help and dispel any myths. Your loved one isn’t doomed to live in a mental hospital, or on the street. Your relatives may become afraid of irrational violence. Let them know that the mentally ill aren’t especially violent; more often they will appear frightened, confused, or in despair.
As a parent, don’t take all the blame or assign it to the child’s other parent, attributing the illness to bad parenting or bad genes. Mental illness usually arises from a complex mixture of genes, history, and current conditions that no one can pin down exactly. Schizophrenia, for example, occurs among roughly 10 percent of people who have a first-degree relative with the disorder, such as a parent or sibling. Someone with an identical twin with schizophrenia has a 50 percent chance of developing the problem. Exposure to viruses or malnutrition in the womb and smoking marijuana in adolescence increases the risk.
Diagnosing schizophrenia in teens can be tough because the first signs are common — bad grades, sleep problems, and irritability. They might seem depressed — speaking in a flat voice and becoming lethargic. Hallucinations, delusions, and confused thinking warrant immediate medical attention. Be proactive: People who receive good care during their first psychotic episode go on to have fewer hospital stays.
Often people with schizophrenia don’t realize they’re ill and may talk about their symptoms in confusing ways. Do your best to protect your loved one from feelings of shame by weeding out any stigma in your own mind. The basic communication rules are the same as you’d follow with anyone with whom you wanted a trusting relationship: be clear, direct, share the important feelings, and focus on the big picture.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness recommends that people with mental illness work with caregivers to create a Wellness Recovery Action Plan that lists daily actions to promote wellness and steps to take in an emergency. Make a list of phone numbers for doctors, psychiatrists and therapists, helpful friends and family, and a local crisis line; addresses for a walk-in crisis center; diagnoses, medications, history of psychosis or suicide attempts or drug use, triggers, and things that have helped in the past. Make copies and keep the list in several places: in a drawer in your kitchen, your glove compartment, on your smartphone, your bedside table, or in your wallet. Adults with an illness that causes psychosis should prepare a psychiatric advance directive while they are competent, authorizing a caregiver to make decisions on their behalf while stating their preferences. A court may appoint you as a conservator if your loved one attempts suicide repeatedly and refuses treatment for an underlying illness.
In a crisis, you can call 911 and speak to a dispatcher, explaining that your loved one is having a psychiatric episode. Trained officers can talk down a person who is upset and convince him to go voluntarily to a hospital or, in some states, take him involuntarily. The police will also do a “welfare check” if you can’t reach your loved one and want to know that he is safe.
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Mental Health America offers online screening tools and advocacy.
National Alliance on Mental Illness has an information helpline (1-800-950-NAMI (6264)) and structured in-person support groups for family members.
National Mental Health Information Center is a government-maintained database of mental health services including suicide prevention and substance abuse programs.
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Sarasota Tuesday, May 7, 2019 1 year ago
City approves permanent School Avenue closure
Despite objections from neighbors, the City Commission agreed to relinquish its control of a road segment that cuts through Sarasota High School’s campus.
by: David Conway Deputy Managing Editor
The City Commission voted 4-1 Monday to close a segment of School Avenue to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, citing concerns about student safety as it approved a request from Sarasota County Schools.
The vote authorizes the permanent closure of an 800-foot portion of the street that cuts through the Sarasota High School campus, extending from Tami Sola Street to Hatton Street. An earlier agreement between the city and school district, approved last year, closed the roadway between 6:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. on days school is in session.
Representatives for Sarasota High and the school district have argued the existing closure wasn’t sufficient, expressing fear the campus could be vulnerable at night, on weekends or during the summer. Sarasota High students supporting the proposal spoke at Monday’s meeting about the need for safety improvements at the school.
Some living near the school property, including residents from the Alta Vista and Arlington Park neighborhoods, objected to the proposed closure. Opponents have argued the closure would disrupt the transportation network in the area and questioned the safety benefits associated with the request. In March, the city’s Planning Board unanimously recommended denying the closure.
The commission, however, believed the school board was justified in its efforts to unite the bifurcated campus year-round. Mayor Liz Alpert said she believed the closure would inconvenience pedestrians, but she saw safety as a higher priority.
“I don’t want to be the one that is responsible if something did happen because we voted not to vacate this today and something happened at that school,” Alpert said. “I don’t know how I could live with myself.”
Vice Mayor Jen Ahearn-Koch was the lone dissenting vote. Ahearn-Koch did not think the city had adequately considered the ramifications of the proposed closure. Considering the prospect of future development in the area, she said it was important to preserve the road network when possible. She expressed concern diverting more traffic onto U.S. 41 and Bahia Vista Street would lead to more crashes.
“We have not looked at this in a big picture way,” Ahearn-Koch said.
She also questioned whether permanently closing the road would provide meaningful safety improvements at Sarasota High. She noted there are existing areas of fencing around the school that someone could reasonably climb over or crawl under. School Superintendent Todd Bowden said the district is committed to safety improvements at the Sarasota High campus, stating the planning process has been paused to wait for an outcome on the street closure request.
“When a plan is delivered to my desk, I’ll fund it in full without question,” Bowden said.
As part of the approval, the city will work with the school district on an agreement stipulating the return of the roadway if a school no longer exists on the site. The agreement requires the district to grant easements allowing utility companies, emergency services and waste collection to access the vacated roadway.
The district has committed to spending up to $3 million on bicycle and pedestrian improvements to mitigate the effects of the street closure. As the street closure moves forward, Commissioner Shelli Freeland Eddie was optimistic city and school officials could continue to work together on addressing neighborhood concerns about transportation.
“I don’t think vacation is the end,” Freeland Eddie said of the closure. “I think it’s the beginning.”
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Street Fighter V Trailer Introduces Dhalsim
Yu Alexius October 28, 2015 No Comments FeaturedGamesStreet FighterStreet Fighter VStreet Fighter V DhalsimStreet Fighter V Trailer
The new trailer for Street Fighter V was released by CAPCOM last Tuesday – October 27, 2015. The video introduces Dhalsim as part of Street Fighter V, the upcoming PlayStation 4 and PC game from CAPCOM. The trailer was unveiled by the company during the Sony Computer Entertainment’s press conference in at Paris Games Week 2015.
Aside from introducing Dhalsim, which is the newly-announced returning character in the game; the video also confirmed that Street Fighter V release date in North America and Europe is on February 16, 2016. In addition, the video also teased new characters that will be available in the game after its launching.
There will be a core of 16 playable characters in the game with four of which are brand new to the Street Fighter franchise. In addition, six more characters will be purchasable with the in-game currency; among the confirmed new characters in the game thus far are Necalli, Rashid and Laura.
So far, playable characters in Street Fighter V include:
Karin Kanzuki
Rainbow Mika
The game is the latest entry in the game franchise of Street Fighter. It contains new features including V-Reversal moves, and a special V-Trigger mode. Street Fighter V will be release on the PlayStation 4 as well as on PC (via Stream) in the spring 2016 release window.
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The Shabab has carried out suicide attacks and beheadings inside Somalia and threatened Kenyan malls before. This was the boldest attack yet.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Masked gunmen stormed into a fancy, crowded mall in Nairobi on Saturday and shot dead at least 39 people and wounded more than 150 in one of the most chilling terrorist attacks in East Africa since Al Qaeda blew up two American embassies in 1998.
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Parents hurled their bodies over their children, people jumped into ventilation shafts to save themselves, and shoppers huddled behind the plastic mannequins of designer clothing stores as two squads of gunmen believed to be linked to a Somali terrorist group moved through the mall, shooting shoppers in the head. Hours later, the mall’s gleaming floors were smeared with blood as police officers dashed through the corpse-strewn corridors, trying to find the assailants.
A standoff with the attackers, who were reported to be heavily armed and holding an unknown number of hostages, continued as the sun rose on Sunday.
The mall, called Westgate, is a symbol of Kenya’s rising prosperity, an impressive five-story building where Kenyans can buy expensive cups of frozen yogurt and plates of sushi. On Saturdays, it is especially crowded, and American officials have long warned that Nairobi’s malls were ripe targets for terrorists, especially Westgate, because a cafe on the ground floor, right off the street, is owned by Israelis.
Fred Ngoga Gateretse, an official with the African Union, was having coffee at that cafe around noon when he heard two deafening blasts. He cowered on the floor and watched eight gunmen with scarves twisted over their faces firing at shoppers and then up at Kenyan police officers who were shooting down from a balcony as panicked shoppers dashed for cover. “Believe me, these guys were good shooters,” Mr. Gateretse said. “You could tell they were trained.”
Several witnesses said the attackers had shouted for Muslims to run away while they picked off other shoppers, executing them one by one. The mall, one of Nairobi’s most luxurious, with glass elevators and some of the most expensive shops in town, is also popular with expatriates. It has served as the place for a power lunch, to catch a movie, to bring children for ice cream.
Four Americans were believed to have been injured in the attack, American officials said, and none were reported killed. Secretary of State John Kerry, who called the attack “a heartbreaking reminder that there exists unspeakable evil in our world,” said the wife of a local employee of the American government was among the dead. Two Canadians, one of them a diplomat based in Nairobi, and two French citizens were killed, their governments said.
A confidential United Nations security report on Saturday described the attack as “a complex, two-pronged assault” with two squads of gunmen dashing into the mall from different floors at the same time and opening fire.
The Shabab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia, took responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Kenya’s military operations in Somalia, which began nearly two years ago. “Kenya will not get peace unless they pull their military out of Somalia,” said Ali Mohamoud Rage, the Shabab’s spokesman, in a radio address. The Shabab also sent out a barrage of buoyant Twitter messages, bragging about the prowess of their fighters before Twitter abruptly suspended the account late Saturday. Later, a new one was set up.
Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, called the terrorists cowards and said Kenya would remain “as brave and invincible as the lions on our coat of arms.” He also sounded a somber note, pleading with Kenyans to give blood , and said he had lost “very close family members in this attack,” though he did not specify further.
In addition to the 39 people killed, who included women and children, Mr. Kenyatta said, more than 150 were wounded. Government officials said the wounded ranged in age from 2 to 78.
By Saturday night, Kenyan commandos had cornered several of the assailants on the third floor of the mall, witnesses said. Western officials said they expected that the assailants would fight to the death, though the Kenyan news media reported that one wounded gunman had been captured and died in a hospital. Several witnesses also said one of the assailants was a woman.
Throughout the day, as the police cleared sections of the mall, terrified shoppers emerged with their hands up and collapsed in each other’s arms.
Early Sunday, the government said that the mall’s upper levels had been secured and the gunmen contained in one place, but that hostages remained in several locations.
Witnesses described attackers using AK-47 and G-3 assault rifles and throwing grenades.
Vivian Atieno, 26, who works on the first floor of the mall, described “intense shooting,” starting around 11 a.m., before she escaped through a fire exit.
Haron Mwachia, 20, a cleaner at the mall, said he had survived by climbing over a wall. “I heard several gunshots and managed to run away,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Kenya serves as the economic engine of East Africa, and while it has been mostly spared the violence and turmoil of many of its neighbors, it has had other terrorist attacks. In 1998, Al Qaeda killed more than 200 people in an enormous truck bombing that nearly leveled the American Embassy in downtown Nairobi, while simultaneously attacking the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Islamist terrorists also struck an Israeli-owned hotel on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast in 2002 and fired missiles at an Israeli airliner.
More recently, the Shabab have put Kenya in its cross hairs, especially after Kenya sent thousands of troops into Somalia in 2011 to chase the Shabab away from its borders and then kept those troops there as part of a larger African Union mission to pacify Somalia. The Shabab have attacked churches in eastern Kenya, mosques in Nairobi and government outposts along the Kenya-Somalia border.
But this was the boldest attack yet. Within minutes, as the gunmen opened fire with assault rifles, Westgate was plunged into mayhem and carnage. People ran out screaming, and victims soaking in their own blood were wheeled out in shopping carts. Bodies were still sprawled on the mall’s front steps hours afterward, and woozy shoppers continued to emerge from the stores where they had been hiding.
“This is such a shock,” said Preeyam Sehmi, an artist, as she stumbled out of the mall, past a phalanx of Kenyan soldiers, after five hours of hiding. “Westgate was such a social place.”
Ilana Stein, a spokeswoman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the attack took place near the ArtCaffe, an Israeli-owned coffee shop and bakery popular with foreigners that is one of 80 businesses in the mall. Ms. Stein said that one Israeli had been lightly injured, that three others had escaped unharmed and that Israelis had not been specifically targeted. “This time, the story is not about Israel,” Ms. Stein said.
As night fell, hours after the attack began, Kenyan police helicopters hovered overhead while soldiers in flak jackets and helmets jogged single file into the mall, faces grim, guns cocked. The flashing lights of ambulances lighted up the mall’s facade. Gunshots continued to ring out well past dark, though the Kenyan authorities did not provide much information about what was happening inside the mall. Several Kenyan soldiers were later brought out grimacing from what appeared to be gunshot wounds.
Before its Twitter account was shut down, the Shabab sent out a message, saying the fighters in the mall would never give up.
“There will be no negotiations whatsoever at #Westgate,” the message said.
The Shabab, who have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, used to control large parts of Somalia, imposing a harsh and often brutal version of Islam in their territory. They have beheaded civilians and buried teenage girls up to their necks in sand and stoned them to death. But in the past two years, the African Union forces, including the Kenyans, have pushed the Shabab out of most of their strongholds. The worry now, current and former American officials said Saturday, is that this attack could be the start of a comeback.
“I think this is just the beginning,” said Rudy Atallah, the former director of African counterterrorism for the Pentagon. “An attack like this gives them the capability to recruit, it shows off their abilities, and it demonstrates to Al Qaeda central that they are not dead.”
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The US-Israeli war is coming into Africa. Africans were not suppose to be part of it.
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Local RCMP officer establishes lifesaving CPR program in remote Labrador community
Thanks to the leadership of RCMP Constable Peter MacIntyre, all high school students in the remote community of Mary’s Harbour, Labrador, are being empowered to save lives.
Like many remote Canadian communities, medical facilities are scarce in the community of Mary’s Harbour, and the nearest ambulance is stationed 50 kilometres away. Local health services consist of one small medical clinic with two nurses on call. So when Constable MacIntyre saw an opportunity to fill this need by training high school students to react in emergencies, he jumped at the chance.
“Coming from a family that has lost people to heart attack, I see firsthand how under-prepared we are as a society to try and help save our friends and loved ones,” said MacIntyre.
MacIntyre recognized the RCMP was in a great position to help the local school coordinate with a CPR trainer to set up the ACT High School CPR Program.
Through a basic Internet search, MacIntyre discovered the ACT Foundation, and approached the national charitable organization to join its campaign to establish CPR in every Canadian high school. He requested resources that would allow him to bring the program to St. Mary’s All Grade School students at no cost to the school.
CPR trainer Ted Rumbolt volunteered to teach the program to every student in Grade 9 through 12, and he said the program was received very well.
“The students were very interested and involved in the material,” says Rumbolt.
But Constable MacIntyre didn’t stop there.
After seeing the success in the program at St. Mary’s All Grade, he worked with ACT to extend the lifesaving program to two more schools in his jurisdiction: DC Young and St Lewis Academy.
More than 100 high school students are being trained each year.
“The CPR trained citizen becomes the critical first link in the emergency response system when an emergency occurs,” said Sandra Clarke, Executive Director of the ACT Foundation.
“With the leadership that Constable MacIntyre, his detachment, and Ted Rumbolt have shown, these CPR trained students can now make the difference between life and death,” she added.
RCMP officers who would like to follow MacIntyre’s lead should visit call the ACT Foundation at 1-800-465-9111.
The ACT High School CPR Program was made possible thanks to the generous support of ACT’s core partners, companies in the research-based pharmaceutical industry: AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada, Pfizer Canada and sanofi-aventis. They provide ACT’s sustaining funding and are committed to the Foundation’s national goal of promoting health and empowering Canadians to save lives.
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Opinion: So much for the Vibrant City
A peculiarity of the current government is that it appears to have two ministers for heritage – one for and one against. Ian Hunter oversees the Heritage Council which looks after places of importance to the State and occasionally adds some. John Rau, Minister for Planning, acts as the Minister Against Heritage, using veto power to prevent local councils from implementing their recommendations for the listing of Local Heritage Places. While I haven’t personally checked, it’s quite possible Minister Rau’s department employs more staff and consultants to quash heritage listings than Minister Hunter employs to protect heritage places.
Over the last five years the Adelaide City Council has gone to a great deal of trouble to identify places worth adding to its register. When they forwarded a list of 77 new places to the Minister for approval, he vetoed 41 of them. Many of the grounds listed for refusal appear dubious. For example, several were said to occupy ‘strategic sites’. Others were said to be of a type ‘over-represented’. These reasons have nothing to do with the legal criteria for heritage listing. Minister Rau is also on record as saying that too much heritage listing imperils his goal of making Adelaide a more vibrant city by raising the Council area’s population to 50,000.
Anyone who knows what goes on within our ring of Parklands knows this is hogwash. The most vibrant areas of the city – and the most populous – are to be found where old buildings abound. The most desolate and underdeveloped parts of the city are where heritage buildings have been wiped off the map.
Take a walk along King William Street south of Victoria Square and see for yourself. Where old buildings stand along the west side of the street there is life. Otherwise the streetscape looks like the postwar city of London, dotted by empty blocks.
Compare the bustle of Leigh Street with its bustling restaurant scene with nearby Peel Street or Bank Streets which are anything but vibrant. What makes the difference? Old buildings.
If what we want is more population, where do we find most people? Near the heritage clusters in North Adelaide, North Terrace and the southeast corner.
Where do we find the least? West of Morphett Street where old buildings are few and far between. As far as people are concerned the Parkland frontage of West Terrace is as dead as the cemetery across the road.
By vetoing the considered recommendations of the City Council, the Minister Against Heritage shoots down the prospects for a more vibrant city, and shoots himself in the foot.
-Professor Norman Etherington, President, National Trust of South Australia.
The 41 sites rejected for listing are mapped here. You can use Google Street View to see the buildings in question.
For the full details on each of the sites – listed in alphabetical street order- you can download the full report from the Adelaide City Council.
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Good on you Norm for your comments in support of heritage in the City, but don’t underrate the beautiful 19 C cottages of the SW Corner!
Ray Robinson says:
Dear Professor Etherington,
Just something else you may find interesting.
I had a dispute for almost two years with the Cemeteries Authority over my Great Grandparents headstone which had been resumed from Cheltenham Cemetery and was about to be crushed and turned into roadbase, which I found appalling and disgusting. I could not believe that this was what they were doing with the history of the state in the name of progress. (And I believe hundreds if not thousands of headstones have met this fate.)
Initially the Solicitor General wanted to pay a fee for it before they would release it to me. This I refused and argued that it did not belong to the State Govt. and had been paid for by my Great Grandmother, and was therefore the property of the family and the heritage of SA and they did not have the right to ask for payment.
Eventually the Board (which is under the control of minister Rau) decided that I could take possession of it and I received documentation to be signed and returned.
This I took to my Solicitor who is an Officer of the Supreme Court and had him sign off on it as a witness to my signature instead of the requested JP.
I came home, faxed it off at around 4pm and got a call at 9am the next morning saying I could pick it up from Enfield Cemetery.
I am now having it restored, and it will reside in my garden wearing a plaque stating that should I fall off the perch, it remains the property of the family, with three contacts who will hopefully ensure it is looked after for another 100 years and by then maybe our history will be appreciated.
I like the English idea of memorial walls in some cemeteries where head stones from resumed plots are built into a wall for perpetuity and also to allow ancestors to look into their family history.
In the case of my Great Grandfather, he was one of 12 children brought to SA in 1837 by his parents, and his father was a coachbuilder who owned a business in King William Street building coaches for arriving immigrants to travel to the mines in the mid north.
Search for William Laity Morris.
TheTaxPayer says:
Well done Mr Rau. Many councils use heritage laws to restrict innovation and development not protect heritage. Local council election are a joke. One may have just over 100 votes and become elected member. Small minds make big decisions and fail.
Tim Simpson says:
We should be wary of centralising planning powers. Council Development Assessment Panels may be imperfect, but they are well informed and their porocesses are relatively transparent.
The Minister’s office tends to be more accessible to the development industry than to small landowners. Consider the recent history of rezoning, for example at Mt Barker and at Gillman. In both cases it could be argued that the Minister was too much under the influence of major developers, and that as a result, the community came off second best. Be very careful that the ‘cure’ is not worse than the disease.
Wayne Morris says:
Can I have a contact for Ray Robinson in regard to the 2nd Opinion below.My Great Great Great Grandfather is William Laity Morris.
Hi Wayne, we have emailed you privately with Ray’s contact information.
Cate robins says:
Hi Ray William laity Morris was my great great grandfather and I would like to learn more about him and where his business is. It would be a shame if it was to be destroyed if it is still there in any form.
Hi Cate, we have emailed you privately with Ray’s contact information.
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Our Emulator has some decent Discord RPC integration which works not just over Team mode allows up to four players to play cooperatively through the game’s story mode. Oh my God, the combat simulator is just orgasmic and has yet to get old, even after all of the weeks I’ve played it. Official website for Net64, a Super Mario 64 mod for playing online. *Why it’s number ten:* It is without a doubt one of the best games of all time and the one everyone who had an early N64 had just because it was either this or Pilot Wings, but as a multiplayer game it could get very boring having to wait while your idiot friend Jeff blundered around, painfully unable to get that the last red coin.
The reason you forget it is that it wasn’t just exceptional, especially compared to the intense single player campaign. The riding player is then able to attack using melee and projectile weapons. Mario Party is basically a thinly-veiled board game utilizing the same classic characters Nintendo has been trotting out for everything they’ve done in the past fifteen years or so. A second player can assist Bomberman as Pommy, a small Kirby-like creature who can stun enemies and collect items. I don’t think you can go wrong making either one number one, but one of them has to be two, and that’s Smash Bros. It’s fun.
*Why it’s number eight:* Between the regular high score competition, tag, and horse, there was a lot to do with your friends in this game and whether you were a button masher like myself or someone who actually knew what they were doing like most of my friends, it still worked. Super Mario 64 Kirby Edition. learning curve isnt present. For it’s time, it was as good as it got and was the first major multiplayer game for the N64 that everyone wanted. No matter how many friends you had or how good they were, this game was and is still a blast, again, complete with ample material for taunting them. Those people are wrong, but the fact that they claim that says a lot. It’s good. Sure, only one person could actually hold the controller at a time, but everyone else in the room was actively engaged in shouting out suggestions, commands, and criticisms of how to control Mario and where he should go, until finally the person with the controller lost a life, and someone else got a turn. It is closed source and no longer maintaned. You need an N64 Expansion Pak to play with four players. This is better than just a quarter of the screen black for three players, but come on.
Turok: Rage Wars’ Two-Player Trials mode is a coop arena deathmatch experience in which both players face off against rival teams of bots and boss characters. Your primary weapon, the Vulcan Cannon, has unlimited ammo and each player can fire their cannon continuously and independently. Michael Owen’s WLS 2000 / Mia Hamm 64 Soccer / RTL World League Soccer 2000 / Telefoot Soccer 2000 (up to two players only). But it did it very well and in most of the games you had the ability to customize your own wrestlers and what moves they had, providing for a competition not only for who was the better player, but who could design a better wrestler. What makes Perfect Dark number one is that in addition to this absolutely orgasmic multiplayer game (with up to eight computer controlled simulants, multiple modes of play, and character and game customibility) it had Co- and especially Counter-Operative. It’s not a first down, and he just got damn near broken in half about a solid minute after he let go of the ball. But while the number or tracks available for racing were almost all very good, there was really only one appropriate for battling, and that was the aforementioned Block Fort. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Mario Kart 64‘s Grand Prix isn’t strictly designed as a coop experience – each player’s performance is scored individually, and you can very easily attack one another with items. You may not have liked skateboarding before these games came out, but pretty much everyone did after. The one and only thing I can hold against it is that there was only one kind of multiplayer, which doesn’t make sense until I explain my number one. *Why it’s number four:* Block Fort. It’s still a solid game, but go back and play it now and even if you’re still used to the era’s graphics, you’ll see it’s not as good as you remember. You will first need to go into 'Options' then 'Settings' and change the ROM directory to where the SM64 Multiplayer ROM is located. Up to four players can work through the story together. N64 Today uses cookies to anonymously track visits and measure the performance of this website through Google Analytics and Hotjar. WWF WrestleMania 2000 (Exhibition mode tag match only). Featuring a similar premise to the first game, Rampage 2: Universal Tour also supports cooperative play for up to three players.
Early in the series the games were fairly crude, and by the end they had gotten stale, but take the series as a whole and you’ve got something really special. Also, the grading scale is how good of a MULTIPLAYER game it is and how well that game lent itself to the the group experience, so naturally they're going to be biased by personal experience, but objectivity was the goal whenever possible. These games have coop modes that are different from their main story modes. Smash Bros. let you do a lot of things and was in a lot of ways a Nintendophile’s wet dream.
Public servers that you can connect to via the client. The only one for me is you, and you for me, so happy together…” If you remember this commercial, again, no other explanation is needed. Super Mario 64 (USA) Mario Kart 64 (E) Super Smash Bros. (USA) Super Mario Odyssey 64 V4. Domination is an abstract concept, and that’s the main thing holding this back. There are four playable characters (and five hidden characters, which are essentially skins for the standard cast), and you can play as the same character as another player. “Speed is dandy, but my red shell is candy.” I don’t know, we weren’t very good at rhyming back then. Two players means two boxes showing what’s going on, and two more showing what’s going on from another angle. Now before i start explaining let me just share how easy this is to use. Pretty much only worth it as a multiplayer game, this is series is the one responsible for my analog being so damn unresponsive these days. But it had many, many flaws and required a significant amount of time to play an entire game, even at the lowest setting. N64 games in which you can team up against AI bots in multiplayer, Xena: Warrior Princess – The Talisman of Fate, NFL Blitz 2000 (up to two players, arcade mode only), NFL Blitz Special Edition (up to two players), NBA Hangtime (up to two players, arcade mode only), NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC (up to two players, arcade mode only). If you remember this commercial, again, no other explanation is needed. Super Mario 64: Multiplayer.
1080 Snowboarding came first, but the THPS series came better and lent itself to more diversity as far as what it could do and how you could do it. The single player missions were well designed, the weapons and items provided good balance, and the secondary function on just about every weapon helped make them more versatile. of how bad Kailera Mupen64++ is and how outdated Mario Party Netplay's Project64 build is. By collecting food items, it’s possible to evolve Pommy into new forms and give it new abilities.
I know what you’re saying: “Mario 64 isn’t a multiplayer game”. Busting a massive air combo then connecting it in to an ungodly long grind received deserved “oooo” from whoever was watching or you were playing against.
To play online, click on 'File' then 'Start Kaillera...', enter your name, then click 'Master Servers List'. Provided you’ve both got the patience, you and a friend can work your way through Core Design’s painfully sluggish coop beat ’em up. Last added Nintendo 64 Games. It’s even better when you can team up. Knife Edge: Nose Gunner is an on-rails first-person shooter (imagine a light-gun game, but without the light gun!) Me, CrankySupertoon, but you cannot forget about the wonderful work from Zilmar, the lead To easily manage this we bundled a Batch Script to make you life easier. © 2020 GAMESPOT, A RED VENTURES COMPANY.
Completing theses challenges unlocks new features, weapons, maps and options in Perfect Dark’s deathmatch multiplayer. This was cartoonish, corny, and often moronic, but it brought crap talking to a whole ‘nother level. What's not to like? There are three different character classes to choose from, each with different strengths and weaknesses, meaning there’s some strategic value in players choosing different characters. So what if the quarterback throws for a ten yard gain? Project64 Netplay. I consent to N64 Today using my email address to send me blog post notifications.
If you don’t, shame on you. Throwing a laptop gun in sentry mode in to a room with one of my friends is just as cowardly and just as rewarding as it was five years ago. publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready. Double up on Duke across 30 levels in Duke Nukem 64’s story mode. There is a dedicated server to help the people who cannot forward their own port. Not so with the various incarnations of NFL Blitz.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ALMANAC TRIAL
WHEN LINCOLN TOOK A SIP OF WHISKEY
Abraham Lincoln had a reputation as a teetotaler, and so many of his Illinois friends attested to his abstaining from alcohol that we must accept his reputation as founded in fact. But there was one time at least when he took a drink.
When he was a youth in his twenties, living in Sangamon County, Illinois, Lincoln helped a friend escape a gambling debt by offering the creditor double or nothing on a wager that he could lift a barrel of whiskey and drink from the bung hole. An empty whiskey barrel weighs around 110 pounds. A full barrel contains 40 gallons. Assuming whiskey weighs about the same as water (8 pounds to the gallon), that means Lincoln would be lifting and drinking from a tankard which could weigh no less than 110 pounds and no more than 430 pounds. Some of the friends Lincoln made after he left Sangamon County could hardly believe that he performed such a feat. One of the unbelievers was a man who practiced law with him and later served as a bodyguard for Lincoln when he was president--Ward Hill Lamon. Lamon, a big strong man himself, could hardly believe Lincoln capable of such a feat. He probably thought that Lincoln's admirers claimed he could lift the barrel and drink from it as you or I would drink from a soda can. Such a feat would require superhuman strength
Of course, Lincoln didn’t lift and drink the whiskey in such a manner. According to those who witnessed the feat, he squatted, grabbed the barrel by its chimes, and hoisted it onto his knees, much as a World’s Strongest Man competitor begins to lift an Atlas Stone. The chimes of a whiskey barrel are the rims found at the top and bottom of a whiskey barrel.
Whiskey Barrels. The chimes are readily visible at the tops of the barrels
With the barrel resting on his knees, Lincoln was able to hoist it into a tilting position so that whiskey could pour out of the bung hole (located in the side) and into his mouth. The part of this story that I find hardest to believe is the claim that after he filled his mouth with whiskey, he spit it out. Teetotaler or not, he deserved a drink after such a display of strength.
Posted by George R. (Bob) Dekle, Sr. at 7:06 PM
Labels: Abraham Lincoln, Almanac Trial, Atlas Stones, Sangamon County, teetotaler, Ward Hill Lamon, whiskey, whiskey barrel, World's Strongest Man
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Category: alcohol hysteria
Yesterday I Binge Drank
It’s been a rough summer. Following a dreadful winter, the worst I can recall, I was hoping for a hot, beautiful summer this year, but it never arrived. Instead, we got rain, unseasonably cool temperatures and clouds, clouds, clouds.
And then came Labour Day. Nature being as perverse as it is, the weather since the unofficial start of fall has been more summery and beautiful than was any of the time in July and August. So yesterday, rather than working as I should have been, my wife and I decided to make a lazy Sunday out of a warm and sunny day, beginning around mid-afternoon.
I went out and bought some cheese, olives, crackers and other assorted victuals and then gathered together what we would need to enjoy our snacking repast on our condo building’s common outdoor area. We then repaired to the third floor with our food and some wine, all of which we enjoyed in the sun until a swarm of wasps eventually chased us back upstairs.
We continued our idyll on our balcony, switching from wine to gin and tonics, of which I had two over the course of an hour and a half or so. I then pulled together some more food, since hunger had once more reared its head following the sunset, and opened a beer as my final drink of the night.
Around 9:00 or so, I switched to carbonated water, having tallied a drink total of two and a bit glasses of wine, two G&Ts and one beer over the course of about six hours. Which meant that, according to most of the ‘expert’ definitions bandied about in the media these days, I had been binge drinking.
Oh, what an exceedingly pleasant “binge” it was…
The Food Babe Thought She Could Spread Paranoia Among Beer Drinkers. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!
There’s this pile of bullshit being spread around the Internet today courtesy of a presumed charlatan called the Food Babe. It involves ingredients in beer. Please don’t read her demented ramblings. Instead, read this and this.
Advice for St. Patrick’s Day
Okay, so evidently St. Patrick’s Day isn’t just a day this year; it’s a whole friggin’ weekend. Which means that the madness and mayhem will commence tomorrow.
While I’ll personally be laying low this year, as I do around March 17 every year, many others will be running riot over the next four days, drinking beer and whiskey that they seldom if ever otherwise drink, calling anything that’s green “Irish,” including bog-standard lager dyed with food colouring, and generally using the feast day of an Irish saint as an excuse to get plastered. Which is fine.
But if you’re going to “do” St. Patrick’s Day, at least do it right! Which means paying at least a bit of attention to the following:
1) If you must shorten the name, repeat after me, St. Paddy’s Day. Not St. Patty’s Day or plain Patty’s Day. “St. Paddy’s Day.”
2) There are many more Irish whiskeys out there than just Jameson. Try one or two. You might just find yourself drinking Irish whiskey more than just once a year.
3) What I said above about whiskey? It applies equally to Irish stout.
4) If you must do shots — and on a day that is sure to be filled with drinking, I would counsel strongly against them — limit yourself to just one or two. Five or six or more whiskey shots is a sure-fire route to drunkenness and eventual spewing.
5) Wear green, wear funny badges, wear silly hats if you wish, but accept that you are not, in fact, Irish. Not for a day or for a minute. (Unless, of course, you really are Irish.)
6) A cocktail made with crème de menthe is not by definition Irish. Neither is one made with Midori.
7) Imperial stout is not a beer built for all-day drinking.
8) The green-dye-in-lager thing? It shouldn’t need saying, but I’ll say it anyway: Just. Don’t.
9) Lining up to get into a bar is stupid. If there is a line-up, go somewhere else for a drink or two and return later to see if the line-up has dissipated. If it has not, just accept that it was never meant to be.. (The sole exception to this rule is when the line-up is covered, heated and licensed.)
10) That “Kiss me, I’m Irish” shirt? Leave it at home.
Shorts in Knots Over Glassware
If you’re read my previous post, the one about not stealing beer glasses, then likely you’ll also know that Sam Calagione and Ken Grossman and a few others have come up with a new glass designed, they say, for the drinking of IPA. And certain people, including my good friend Mr. Lew Bryson, have reacted rather badly to it.
“Jesus H. Christ,” Lew railed on his Facebook page, “More prescriptive bullshit about how we’re supposed to drink our beer.” That little post garnered, at last count, 76 “likes” and 83 comments in two days, the majority of which were in agreement. One commenter even went so far as to maintain that “(s)tuff like this is ruining the experience of enjoying the beer itself, I believe.”
Me, I’m of two minds. As anyone who regularly or even occasionally reads these missives will know, I’m a great proponent of glassware, but more on the side of aesthetics than function. I hate the “shaker” pint glass because I think it’s ugly and presents the beer poorly – any beer, from IPA to Trappist ale to mass-produced lager. I like the glasses I keep sequestered in a dedicated cabinet because they look good and thus enhance my beer-drinking – or cocktail sipping or wine supping or spirits enjoying – experience. In my occasional role as hospitality industry consultant, I advise against the shaker because I feel its use is a false economy and ultimately detrimental to beer sales.
Whether the shaker makes the beer inside taste inferior to, say, a chalice or a nonic pint or Lew’s favourite Willi Becher, I do not know. I should probably do some research into it, but how does one objectively analyze flavour out of glassware without at least laying one’s hand upon the glass and so influencing one’s perception in some small fashion?
(For the record, while I have not yet held the glass in question in my hand, my initial impression from the photos I have seen – like this one – is that it does not rate terribly high on the aesthetic scale. Better than the Boston Beer glass, for sure, but way below many other glasses, including pretty much every one currently residing in my cabinet.
However, the point is that its existence is harmless. No one is forcing anyone to drink out of it, and I seriously doubt that either Sam or Ken would refuse you a 60 Minute or Torpedo should you not have one handy. They are part of a trend I’ve been noting for some time, namely the fetishizing of beer drinking, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Does anyone need a fancy, flip-knife-style bottle opener when an ordinary church key or, in a pinch, a lighter or rolled up magazine will do the job? No. Do I need a cabinet filled with glassware, roughly two-thirds of which is devoted to beer? Definitely not. Should you feel bad because you want to serve IPA but only own pilsner and weissbier glasses? In heaven’s name, no!
Wine has been fetishized for years now – hands up everyone who owns a rabbit or rabbit-style corkscrew! – and the cocktail geeks are doing their best with that segment of drinks. And if you’re a whisky drinker, someone is trying to sell you rocks to put in your drink, for crying out loud!
Beer is no different, so enjoy it or not, as you wish. Buy the new IPA glass or ignore it, but don’t get bent so out of shape about it. It’s just a glass, not a massive conspiracy to take the joy out of beer drinking.
The Quite Bearable Lightness of Boozing
As I sipped last night on a dram of 46.1% alcohol Mackmyra First Edition Whisky, I mused on the nature of alcoholic strength and the unlikely conflict and confrontation it has caused of late. My thoughts left me wondering why so many members of a purportedly democratic group like drink aficionados – beer drinkers who can appreciate a powerfully hoppy IPA and an equally malt-driven Trappist ale, whisky fans who can take equal pleasure from a pot-distilled Irish whiskey and an aggressively peaty Islay malt – insist on seeing things in such stark shades of black and white.
Simply, in the situation I described yesterday or the scorcher that this afternoon is shaping up to be, a light ale or lager is precisely what fits the bill. Last night, with a bit of cheese at its side, the uncut beauty of the Mackmyra was an ideal tipple. Later tonight, on my condo balcony, it might be better a 10% alcohol double IPA or vanilla-soaked single barrel bourbon. Tomorrow, when I meet up with friends after work, I might reach for a chilled glass of 17% alcohol Lilley Blanc, or a bracingly dry Tanqueray martini.
Sometimes, lighter is better, and it needn’t be absolutely below a certain percentage of alcohol to suit. (Said he avoiding the use of the dreaded “s-word.”) Sometimes, big and beefy and boozy is better. Three pints of 6% alcohol pale ale might leave me feeling only mildly buzzed, while sending a lighter-weight, over-stressed soul over the edge. It depends on how I’m feeling, and the time of day, and the weather, and what I might be eating, and where and with whom I’m supping, and all the other factors that relate to the enjoyment of alcohol and make brand- or even booze-loyalty such a silly concept.
It’s all good, folks, unless, of course, it’s not.
The Difficulty of Definitions
Some want to define “session beer” as 4.5% alcohol or less. Others say that’s too high and it should be 4% alcohol or less. Yet others suggest that 5.5% is okay.
Me, I say that everything is relative.
I’ve written before that a “session beer” is, or at least should be, a beer you can drink over the course of a “session,’ that being a specific amount of time enjoyed with friends or family or strangers at a bar or pub or cafe. I’ve written about drinking strong beers and never getting drunk in Belgium, because I’ve been sipping at leisure, often with food, and also about “sessions” with low alcohol best bitters in the United Kingdom. Both, I think, are relevant.
But this post at Boak & Bailey reminded me of another occasion when “session” had a very different meaning, which led me to subsequently recall a separate and also very different instance with a most dissimilar result. These are the stories.
I flew into New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001. Yes, THAT September 11. Mine was one of the last planes to land at LaGuardia. I watched from the Long Island Expressway as the second tower fell. I eventually made my way to my hotel near Times Square, deposited my things and went out to drink. Heavily.
Although beer and whiskey were like water to me that night, my sobriety persisted no matter what I drank. It was the shock, you see, and like pretty much everyone I met that night, no matter how much we tried, drinking would not let us forget. A 12% Imperial stout would have been a “session beer” that night.
Forward to March, 2009, in Seattle. I was in town with my wife, Maggie, to judge at Brouwer’s Cafe’s 7th annual Hard Liver Barley Wine Festival. My wife who, a couple of month earlier, had nearly been killed (and was left injured) in an accident, and who subsequently had undergone unrelated surgery. I had filled many roles during the early weeks of that year – caregiver, provider, counsel – and I was stressed out to the max.
We sipped a bunch of barley wines, not an intemperate amount, and declared winners, adjourning after to socialize over a couple of beers. And I got drunk. Not just because of the alcohol, which really wasn’t that much, but because I was wound up tight as the proverbial drum.
Those are extreme instances, I admit, but ones nonetheless that I see as representative of the extremes of daily life. Sometimes we will be free and easy and the 6.1% alcohol IPA will flow down our throats to little effect, and at other times two pints of 4% bitter will have us feeling uncomfortably buzzed thanks to the stress of the week.
Session Beer: It’s not so easily defined.
Things REALLY Unsuitable for St. Patrick’s Day
I thought I had hit on the high points of St. Patrick’s Day unsuitability with this post. Turns out I wasn’t even close! Here are a few highlights from the current issue of Las Vegas magazine, all being promoted for St. Paddy’s:
– A place called Nine Fine Irishmen is offering free admission to their event to anyone wearing a kilt.
– The Rockhouse at the Imperial palace is featuring green frozen piña coladas!
– $5 Jäger bombs at the PBR Rock bar. Yep, nothing quite so Irish as Jägermeister.
– The Red Shamrock — yes, Red Shamrock — at Tabú Ultra Lounge, which is Jameson, amaretto, simply syrup and cranberry juice.
– But the best of the lot is a St. Patrick’s Day feature at Rice & Company in the Luxor, which will offer a green sushi roll called the Lucky roll. Green…Irish…sushi. Yum.
Things Unsuitable for St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is a week Saturday. I know this because as in years past, but with a ferociousness never before seen, drinks companies from all over are filling my inbox with press releases explaining why their beer/booze/cocktail is what everyone should drink on St. Patrick’s Day. (Thus far, at least, I’ve not received any such missive from a winery, but there’s still a week to go, I guess. Anything is possible.)
Now, I’m not a big St. Patrick’s Day fan, being someone who: a) fails to see the fun inherent in getting falling down drunk; and b) drinks because I like it and/or am enjoying myself with friends, rather than it being an arbitrary day on which a massive marketing machine tells me I must find some place Irish-looking and drink stout and Irish whiskey — or worse, lager adulterated with green food dye! — until I’m legless. Call me a killjoy in you must.
But I’m really not out to ruin anyone else’s fun, just to suggest that at very least the spirit of the day should as much as possible be observed. And that does not mean imbibing the following:
1) Heineken tapped from a home-dispense system. Yes, it’s true, I have actually received a press release explaining that THE thing to drink on St. Patrick’s Day is the famous Dutch beer poured from the ridiculous Krupps home mini-keg tapping device that works only with Heineken mini-kegs. Why someone would buy one of these things in the first place remains a mystery to me, but why someone would do so for an Irish celebration in beyond understanding.
2) Vodka. Multiple companies have sent me missives explaining why their vodka cocktail is THE one to drink this St. Patrick’s Day, but my favourite is the one which suggests making something called the Irish Gold Cocktail, which involves flavouring a sugar syrup with bay leaves and then blending it with vodka and sparkling wine. I suppose the pale green sheen is what’s supposed to make it “Irish.”
3) A Grasshopper. Dale DeGroff calls the Grasshopper a suitable after-dinner drink, and if it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me. But for sipping daintily while others around you are quaffing pints of stout? Not so much.
4) A Mojito. I’ve read the release three times now and I still don’t understand how they can possibly make the connection between St. Patrick’s Day, leprechauns and a Mojito, but they do.
Yet Another Insightful Study
As reported in The Guardian:
Parenting style is one of the strongest influences on how much alcohol a child will drink as a teenager and young adult, new research has revealed.
For this they needed a study?
Our Latest Nominee for Britain’s Most Idiotic Bartender
Take a look at this picture. Two delightful looking ladies, yes? Hardly the types to engage in drunken rowdiness, I would think.
So why do you suppose they were refused a drink when they recently visited a London pub called The Britannia?
The answer: They were with four children and the bartender thought it would be “inappropriate” for them to consume alcohol in front of the kids.
Greater idiocy I have not encountered for some time. The full story is over here.
Stampede For Beer
From the website of the British publication, Off Licence News (emphasis my own):
Tesco stores in Scotland have been selling three cases of beer for as little as £10 following an EPoS error which has led to customer stampedes at some stores.
News of the glitch spread rapidly over the internet yesterday (June 1) as consumers realised they had been charged £9 or £10 less than the £20 Tesco had been advertising.
Police were called to the company’s Greenock store after motorists caused congestion in the car park as they raced to take advantage of the error. One Twitter user reported that “tempers are flying”.
A contributor to the HotUKDeals website said he had managed to buy 15 cases for £55. The error affected a number of brands, including Stella Artois and Strongbow, which saw prices crash to as little as £7 a case.
Tesco has now corrected the error.
Still too expensive for Stella, if you ask me. Alan?
BS From the BA
The United States Department of Agriculture has released a new set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, something I would normally note with about as much interest as I would a statement from the Department of Health and Social Services. But then the forces of the Beer Institute, the Brewers Association and the National Beer Wholesalers Association combined to release a joint statement commenting on the Guidelines, and my BS detector went wild.
(You can find the dietary guidelines here. Most of the material regarding alcohol is in Chapter 2.)
Here’s what I see as the most offending part of the statement:
The idea of a ‘standard drink’ is misleading to consumers since it does not reflect how liquor is served or consumed. Not all alcohol is equal, meaning one alcohol beverage can have significantly more or less alcohol content than another. For example, depending on the proof of alcohol used, the mixer, and the bartender’s pouring habits, a so-called ‘standard’ mixed drink may contain 2, 3 or even 4 times more pure alcohol content and calories than the average light beer. It is common knowledge that two martinis consumed over the course of two hours could certainly produce a different effect than two light beers consumed over the same period. Furthermore, the false premise of a ‘standard drink’ is even more confusing considering that significant variations in alcohol concentration exist among the three product categories and even within each category. Beer remains the beverage of moderation with an average ABV of under 5%, compared to distilled spirits, which average between 35 – 40% ABV.
This kind of gobbledygook may be fine for the Beer Institute and the NBWA, since their members are primarily concerned with big-selling beers like Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite, each of which is below 5% ABV, as the statement suggests. But for the BA, whose members are responsible for the vast majority of the so-called “extreme” beers, this rings especially hollow.
Let’s look at some of the problems I see:
Not all alcohol is equal, meaning one alcohol beverage can have significantly more or less alcohol content than another.
Very true, and something that applies equally to beer, wine and spirits. Singling out a drink with spirits as having potentially 4 time the alcohol of a light beer, however, is ridiculous, as you would require close to 5 ounces of 40% alcohol spirits to hit that level, and how likely is that to happen, especially without the imbiber being aware of what’s going on in their glass?
(And incidentally, one pint of 12% alcohol barley wine will also meet that lofty mark of 1.92 ounces of pure alcohol.)
It is common knowledge that two martinis consumed over the course of two hours could certainly produce a different effect than two light beers consumed over the same period.
Assuming said martinis were 3 ounces apiece, of course! And the same could be said about two glasses of Californian cabernet or zinfandel, some of which hover in the realm of 14% – 15% ABV, or six 4 ounce tasters of high-octane craft beers.
Furthermore, the false premise of a ‘standard drink’ is even more confusing considering that significant variations in alcohol concentration exist among the three product categories and even within each category.
By which the statement is implying that alcohol content varies wildly among spirits, which are the main subject of the statement. In fact, spirits are without question the most consistent in their 40% ABV, while craft beer is almost certainly the least consistent and thus the most unpredictable in its effect. (Particularly given the habit most restaurants and bars have of not listing the strengths of the beers they carry.)
Beer remains the beverage of moderation with an average ABV of under 5%, compared to distilled spirits, which average between 35 – 40% ABV.
If you look at beer in terms of volume, yes. But if you count up all the individual brands of beer on the market today and work out the average alcohol content among them, I’m betting the picture would be much different. Further, comparing alcohol contents of beer and spirits is ridiculously disingenuous, since the former is normally consumed in 12 and 16 ounce portions — a bottle and a pint — while the latter is typically served in 1.5 or 2 ounce portions.
Now, I like beer, as I’m sure all visitors to these pages know, and I support the BA in its efforts to further the craft beer gospel across the United States and around the world. But considering the members’ products they represent, their signature on this release smacks more than a bit of throwing stones in glass houses.
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Category: beer terminology
It’s NOT “Belgian” or Even “Belgian-Style”
Hey, you! Over there, the brewer or beer sommelier or certified cicerone or just plain beer drinker. You know that beer you’re brewing/serving/drinking, the one produced in the USA but fermented with a yeast which, many years ago, had its origins in Belgium. There is something you need to know about it, so pay very close attention.
It is NOT Belgian.
Belgian beer is NOT beer fermented with Wyeast #1214 or White Labs WLP550. It is NOT beer affected by Brettanomyces or any odd variety of yeast or bacteria. It is NOT wheat beer spiced with coriander and orange peel. And it is NOT beer fermented with cherries or dosed with cherry juice.
Belgian beer is beer that is brewed and fermented in Belgium. Period.
Okay, so there’s that dealt with, now let’s move on to “Belgian-style.” There IS one sort of beer that may be properly termed “Belgian-style” and that is a wheat beer brewed with a significant portion of unmalted wheat and flavoured with coriander and orange peel. You may also call it a wit or a white beer or a bière blanche, if you wish. But if you’re going to use “Belgian-style” please be sure to include the “style” part – see above – and follow it with “wheat beer.”
As for all other beers brewed and fermented outside of Belgium, regardless of what they contain or how they have been fermented or conditioned, they are NOT “Belgian-style.” They may be “abbey-style” or “Belgian-inspired” but not “Belgian-style.” Here’s why.
Although a small country of 11 or so million people, Belgium is nothing if not a diverse brewing nation. It has been said, and not without some accuracy, that Belgian beers have no style, since each brewer crafts their brands in their own particular style or styles. If you really tried to sort it through, as my colleague Tim Webb does in his Good Beer Guide to Belgium, you can probably whittle it down to 30 or 35 very broadly defined sorts of ale and lager – with very few of the latter – but none of those can or should be solely defined as being of “Belgian-style.”
“Belgian,” as I recently noted on Facebook, is not so much a style as it is a huge mix of idiosyncratic brewing philosophies. (Sorry to quote myself, but I really like that line.) To describe a beer not brewed in Belgium as “Belgian” or “Belgian-style” is to do a great disservice to the country’s long brewing traditions and current diversity, not to mention the beer, the brewer and the drinker, the last because it necessitates an assumption that said individual is geographically ignorant.
So, to recap, Belgian beer is beer brewed in Belgium, and “Belgian-style” is a largely meaningless and belittling adjective. Now, get back to your beer.
THIS is the Definition of Craft Beer
People are stressing over craft beer these days. They’re saying it is irrelevant, or that it’s jumped the shark tank or gone mainstream. All of which is probably true, to greater or lesser degrees, but fails to address the central point. Which is that craft beer is simple to define.
But first, let us look at what craft beer is not. It is certainly not what the Brewers Association defines craft beer to be*, which is to say it has little to do with size or ownership or, saints preserve us, tradition. Craft was never the BA’s to define, so there is no reason we should arbitrarily accept their understandably self-serving definition.
(Two notes: “understandably self-serving” because, let’s face it, their raison d’être is to function as an industry representation and lobby group for small breweries, aka craft breweries. And it was never theirs to define because what is to my knowledge the first verifiable instance of its use, in Michael Jackson’s World Guide to Beer, was published in 1977, long before the BA came into being.)
It is also not “revolutionary,” “honest” or – spare me from this word, please! – “authentic,” as the fellows from BrewDog seem to think. And neither is it evil-in-a-keg, as the hierarchy of the U.K.’s Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) sometimes appear to believe.
Simply, craft beer is beer created from the perspective of producing great tasting beer. Not beer that will fit a certain market segment or beer that should appeal to males aged 21 to 29 or beer that will be at its best when served a degree or two above freezing temperature, but beer designed to be full of flavour and character. Period.
Craft beer = birra artigianale = bière artisanale = cerveja artisanal artesanal= cerveza artisanal = (I think) håndværk øl. It’s beer for the world of beer drinkers who care about the taste and character of what they’re drinking, whether it comes from one of the largest brewing companies in the world or the person brewing in their restaurant kitchen down the road.
Size and ownership and ingredients can have an impact on whether a beer might be defined as craft or not – big brewers such as Anheuser-Busch InBev have consistently proved themselves to be poor stewards of brands brewed for flavour rather than for perceived market appeal – but mostly they are matters of personal politics. Which is not to say that these factors are unimportant, just that they are not specifically what defines a beer as craft.
Centuries ago, brewers produced the best-tasting beers they could manage, hoping that others would agree and thus purchase their wares. When CAMRA fought back against the rise of bland keg ales and lagers, they were in effect defending that ethic, just as early American microbrewery operators were emulating their spiritual ancestors by brewing beers with greater flavour and character than what was flooding the market at the time.
And today, from Seattle to Singapore and Rome to Ribeirão Preto, craft brewers are still supporting that same idea, and in so doing shaking the very foundation upon which the modern beer market has been built. So I guess yes, maybe craft beer is a bit revolutionary, but it’s still principally about flavour.
* Paul Gatza of the Brewers Association wrote me to express the following: “One factual point–the Brewers Association does not define craft beer. The Brewers Association defines a U.S craft brewer.” I countered that it could be argued one begets the other, but his point is well taken. Essentially the BA is providing membership criteria rather than seeking to define craft beer as an entity. This note is added two days after the original post appeared.
Get the Message: Women Drink Beer!
The inestimable Melissa Cole dug into her bag of outrage earlier today and came up with a mighty fistful of sexist bullshit, and bless her for it! Her examples are exclusively British, but the issue with sexism in beer — even more than sexism in spirits, and it’s pretty friggin’ bad over there, too — is widespread and global, and while it’s not as bad as it used to be, it can be still pretty egregious in some quarters..
Go read Melissa’s story over here.
What the brewers of beers like Slap & Tickle don’t seem to understand is that: a) women are beer consumers, too; and b) some men take offense at being treated like adolescent boys.
On the former point, one only has to turn to almost any beer festival, where females often seem as numerous as are males. (Although, to be fair, this is less the case at most European festivals than it is at North American ones.) Go to bars that specialize in beer and you’ll see women enjoying beer, often choosing from the more unusual offerings while the assembled males stick with their chosen brand. Stand outside of any store specializing in craft beer and you will find women leaving with interesting six-packs, perhaps not with the same frequency as men, but in steadily growing numbers.
On the latter, well, before I get comments about what a hopeless stick-in-the-mud I am and how I can’t take a joke, let me say that among friends I have a rather no-holds-barred approach to humour. But that’s because they know me and we understand each other. Where public advertising and product naming goes, it’s far, far more difficult to direct meaning or deliver nuance. What is put on display, be it a suggestive, boys-will-be-boys advertisement or a ribald pumpclip, will be judged for what it is, and a large number of mature and reasoned folk of both genders will judge it in the negative.
Worth considering the next time the topic of branding comes up in the brewhouse.
Styles & Why They Do/Don’t Matter
Beer styles. God, but I’m tired of debating them. It’s gotten so we can’t even speak of something so simple as a “session beer” without some people getting the britches bunched up in apoplectic rage over the bar being set too high, or low. Certain folk want to quantify and categorize every last little ale or lager; others are free and easy and don’t really mind if you just call it “beer” and sod the stylistic nonsense.
Me, I’ll admit to freely vacillating between the two poles over the years, but more recently I’ve been steadily shifting away from categorization. Here’s why.
Beer styles help me educate others about beer, which is part of what I do to pay the mortgage. If someone knows nothing about, say, IPA, it is immeasurably helpful to have some sort of style guidelines to help them wrap their brains around it all, preferably mixed with a shot or two of history and a whole whack of context. Which is why I believe Michael Jackson defined two pages worth of “classical beer-styles” early in his seminal “World Guide to Beer,” first published in 1977.
Problems arise, however, when we attempt to create new categories for everything rather than defining them within the context of those style we already understand. Take the double IPA, for instance. A proper double IPA is a strong and very hoppy IPA, period. It doesn’t need any further definition, in this writer’s opinion, just as a coffee stout is a stout flavoured with coffee, rather than a singular entity on its own. A “session beer?” Well, that’s a lower alcohol beer suitable for drinking over the course of a “session,” which for me could be a 4% bitter or a 5.1% pilsner, or even a 7% Belgian ale, depending upon the time and context of the “session.”
In the end, there are probably two or three dozen or so styles we really need to acknowledge, with everything else slotting neatly into some variation on those themes. Experimentation? Innovation? “Moroccan” saisons? Bring ’em on, says I. Beer is about variety, and variety is, you know, the spice of life. I like it spicy and so I shall embrace all comers, unless, of course, they suck. But I shall not imagine that each and every one of them is deserving of its own new category.
More New Zealand Notes
As I flip through my notebook post-New Zealand, a few things stand out, such as:
Best Beer Name: Pernicious Weed by Garage Project
Best Beer Story: Red Zone Enigma by Twisted Hop — The Twisted Hop brewery was located within what is now the infamous “Red Zone” in Christchurch, which meant that a conditioning batch of their Enigma barley wine was necessarily left to mature from February, when the earthquake struck, to August, when the owners were finally allowed in to extract it and bottle it up! I didn’t have a chance to try it, but it is by all accounts very good indeed. (And I heard good news from Twisted Hop, too! Seems they’ll be reopening in not just one, but as many as three locations in Christchurch.)
Most Ridiculous Idea (That Actually Worked): The madmen behind Yeastie Boys thought it would be a wise idea to brew a beer with 100% peated malt, thus producing Rex Attitude, which strikes me as what Ardbeg might make if it were a brewery rather than a distillery. If that wasn’t foolishness enough, they then decided to up the alcohol content to 10% in an even bigger, peatier beer, Rex, which oddly enough seems more balanced and approachable than the 7% original.
Best Use of Non-Hop Local Ingredients: The Captain Cooker Manuka Beer from the Mussel Inn is flavoured with tips plucked from the manuka tree. The result is one of the most intriguing spice characters I have ever encountered in a beer.
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Arrow Brewing’s Hop in a Bottle, which, yes, actually contains a whole hop cone. One which flakes apart when the bottle is even slightly agitated, leaving significant flotsam floating in your glass.
Best Marketing Slogan: Moa Brewing’s “Dark and acceptable to all palates. The Will Smith of beers.”
10 Words NOT to Use When Writing or Talking About Beer, Pt. II
6. “Lovingly”: As a youthful scribe, I once wrote that a beer’s foam “clings lovingly to the side of the glass.” I still cringe when I think of it. (And as an aside, this applies equally to label and press release copy. I’ve seen bottling lines of all shapes and sizes in action and I am quite certain that no bottle of ale or lager ever released has truly been “lovingly” bottled.)
7. “Suds”: Is it soap? No, it’s beer. There is therefore nothing sudsy about it.
8. “Hoppy” (without further qualification): Forget that a generous proportion of the beer drinking public still doesn’t understand what “hoppy” means, to use it without adding a sense of what is meant delivers no information to the recipient. I had a “hoppy” beer on the weekend that was spicy and nutty bitterness wrapped in a comforting blanket of caramelly and mildly fruity malt, and another that was a citrusy, piney assault. Both were “hoppy,” but they could scarcely have been more different.
9. “Pretty Good for a…” (with further qualification): Good beer is good beer, period. If it’s only “pretty good for a big brewery beer/brewpub beer/beer from X country,” then maybe it’s not really all that good. (And yes, I know that technically this entry means that I have listed 13 words not to use, rather than 10. Call it creative licence.)
10. “Quad”: Where to begin? That it’s a diminutive referring to a beer that is presumed to be big, malty and alcoholic? That it derives from an ale first brewed in the 1990’s and is now used retroactively to describe beers developed decades before? Or that it’s simply a lazy shorthand with no real meaning? Okay, I’ll take all three!
10 Words NOT to Use When Writing or Talking About Beer, Pt. I
1. “Authentic”: Means next to nothing. Is it a real beer, of “undisputed origin” according to the dictionary? Fine, it’s authentic, and so is every other beer not claiming to be something else.
2. “Genuine”: See above. (Ironically, the one place where this word is most widely used, by Miller for its brand commonly known now as MGD, its use is bogus, since there is little doubt that bottled beer cannot be “genuine” draft.)
3. “Traditional”: There is a brewery in Toronto where barley and hops are grown, wort is air cooled and all fermentation takes place in wooden barrels. THAT is traditional. The ale made on a gleaming stainless steel, computerized brew kit? Not so much.
4. “Cold”: Yeah, like that’s an achievement.
5. “Drinkable”: You know what’s really drinkable? Water! I drink it all the time, but that doesn’t mean I want my beer to taste the same way.
Pt. II will arrive early next week.
Sh*t Beer Marketers Do (But Shouldn’t)
1. “Smooth drinkability”
2. “Pairs with foods of all sorts”
3. “Fresh, crisp flavor”
4. “Uniquely refreshing”
5. “Cold”
Sh*t Drinks Writers Do (But Shouldn’t)
1. Take a knowledge of one beverage and assume it automatically makes you qualified to write about another. Being an authority on wine doesn’t qualify you to offer “expert” opinions on single malt whisky, UNLESS you’ve done one hell of a lot of research and tasting.
2. Judge a release negatively on the basis of one or two sips. Everyone and everything deserves a second chance, so try it again before you lambaste it, or say nothing.
3. Get all attitudinal when someone calls you on a mistake or error of judgement. We all screw up from time to time. Take your lashes and move along.
4. Write your blog as if you are a ten year old because it makes it more “real.” You’re supposed to be a professional writer, even when doing something you’re not paid for. Typos are one thing, but frequent errors in grammar, punctuation and structure just reflect badly on you and your craft.
5. Use descriptive words no one is likely to understand. Noting underlying hints of some obscure Amazonian fruit doesn’t help North Americans to understand the flavours you’re describing; it just makes you look like an ass.
(I hope I’m not guilty of any of the above, but let’s face it, I probably am.)
More on Barking Squirrel
A while back, I wrote this commentary about the Hop City brew, Barking Squirrel Lager. Honestly, it was meant more as a commentary on what may or may not be defined as “craft beer” than it was a review of the brew, but as it also included a couple of not-so-complimentary notes about the beer itself, it understandably raised the ire of Hop City head brewer, Kevin Gray.
In addition to offering a rather uncomplimentary view of my own abilities — a position he seemed to modify, or at least soften, as our email discussion continued — Kevin made a pair of emphatic points. First, he assured me that Barking Squirrel contains no adjuncts, contrary to what I had guessed on the basis of the beer’s aroma. And secondly, he asserted that since Hop City has exactly two employees, its craft brewing bonefides were well in place.
Further along our email conversation, Kevin expressed his frustration with having to defend his brands simply because of the brewery’s owner, that being eastern Canada’s Moosehead Breweries, a fact he says they “have never tried to hide.” While understanding this irritation — in my long-standing view, beer should be judged by how it tastes, not who owns the brewery — I would counter that neither has Hop City made any attempt to disclose that fact, since the packaging of the beer is very much in the style of a local craft brewery, with nary a mention of the ultimate owner.
(Whether or not that even matters was part of the content of my previous post and an issue I intentionally left unresolved.)
So, what I wound up telling Kevin is that, when I next had a couple of days strung together at my office, I would reassess Barking Squirrel and see if I draw any other conclusion. Which is how I now find myself at noon on a Friday afternoon with a can of the beer in front of me.
In my previous tasting, I noted that the circumstances were ideal for a crisp, refreshing lager to show well. This time out, on the other hand, I’m in a less thirsty, more analytical frame of mind. So let’s see how it goes.
So far as colour and aroma go, my opinion remains unchanged. Despite Kevin’s assurances that there are no adjuncts used in the brewing of this beer — which I have no reason to doubt — I find the aroma to be thin and grainy, and not that far removed from what I would expect of a mainstream lager. The caramel notes seem tacked on, rather than integrated into the rest of the aromatics, and aside from what might be soft floral-citrus notes, the “hop aroma” noted on the can seems suspiciously AWOL.
With perhaps a fresher palate, however, I do find that the body offers more than I originally found. It’s still sweet, no doubt, and the “roasty” malt flavours mentioned on the can are quite absent, but I do find more in the way of well-constructed malt appeal and even a bit of drying, slightly lemony, nutty hoppiness appearing in the second half. The finish, as observed in my earlier essay, is less sweet and faintly bitter.
Kevin mentioned in his last email to me that “Barking Squirrel…is actually our least distinctive product” and that “We were trying to walk the line between over the top and saleable, which as you realize does need to happen to stay in operation.” I appreciate that it is the brewery’s least distinctive brand — I’ve sampled others which I’ve enjoyed much more — but in the second decade of the 21st century, I question the notion that a lack of distinction is any longer necessary in a flagship brand. When last I checked, Sierra Nevada was selling well in excess of 600,000 barrels a year of distinctive products, and Stone Brewing has as its flagship a 7.2% alcohol monster. Even in Ontario, where Barking Squirrel is sold, some of the fastest growing breweries make no apologies for the assertiveness of their main brands. The “entry level beer” is, I think, very much a 1990’s concept, and one to which I believe the wise craft brewery owner and manager need no longer subscribe.
Is Barking Squirrel craft? I still don’t know. Does it straddle unnecessarily the line between craft beer consumer and big brewery acolyte? On that front, I would answer yes.
The Origins of “Craft”
One of the hot topics of beer blogger and beer blog commentator conversation of late has been the origin of the term “craft beer.” On more than one occasion it has been suggested that this is purely a North American term — which will come as a complete surprise to all the Italian, Danish, Japanese, etc. breweries which employ it regularly — and it has also been described as a marketing term invented by Americans.
Thus, it was with great interest that this morning I came across the following lines from Michael Jackson’s The World Guide to Beer, first edition, circa 1977:
A weighty heritage…in the Region du Nord [of France] craft-brewing survives, and there are one or two superb top-fermented specialty beers.
There you have it, craft used in direct association with brewing by a British writer referring to a European country, in the book that served as introduction to the world’s greatest beers for an entire generation of consumers, yours truly included.
I hope that settles that.
Again with the Black Whatever
Yesterday on Facebook, I posted a tongue-in-cheek link noting the new “black kölsch” just released from the St. Arnold Brewing Company of Texas, and saying that somewhere Ron “Shut Up About Barclay Perkins” Pattinson was popping a blood vessel. (Just joking, Ron. I sincerely hope you weren’t.)
Turn out, it wasn’t Ron who threw a wobbler, but Velky Al. And I’ve got to add, with good reason. Al does note that there is a convention governing what may be called a kölsch, and that even though the U.S. is not bound by said convention, it is, like those governing Champagne and Bordeaux, a matter of respect to do so. More broadly, he duly observes that there is nothing in the convention about a beer being black.
Without getting bent out of shape about it — it is Friday, after all — I must agree wholeheartedly with not just Al’s words, but also what I infer is the sentiment behind them, specifically this obsession with defining new styles and “innovations,” even is such things involve only the addition of a bit of black malt. As Jon Stewart might say, “Brewers, come over and meet me at camera three.”
Listen, I understand that you want to make your beers stand out and that, in the wake of the “black IPA” juggernaut that is sweeping the land, using the word “black” in front of pretty much any traditionally blonde or amber style is one way to do it. But in so doing you are forgetting that the vast majority of the beer drinking populace doesn’t yet know all of the basic beer styles, much less the 100+ offshoots recognized by the Association of Brewers today. Thus, creating more styles, especially faux styles like “black kölsch,” makes matters more confusing for the beer buying public. In short, you’re not clarifying, you’re confounding!
I like new beers. I like weird beers. I like challenging beers. What I don’t like is the seemingly irrepressible need of some, perhaps most craft brewers to create a new beer “style” with every release.
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Nato Watch Strap
The more correct name for the “NATO” strap is actually the “G10. In 1973 the band made its debut in the British Ministry of Defence Standard 66-15. For soldiers to get their hands on one, they had to fill out a form known as the G1098, or G10 for short.
Issued G10 straps were nylon, only made in “Admiralty Grey” with a width of 20mm, and had chrome-plated brass buckle and keepers. Another key trait was a second, shorter piece of nylon strap attached to the buckle. Since the strap was to be used by the military, it needed to be functional and fail-safe. The extra nylon had a keeper at its end through which the main part of the strap passed through after it had been looped behind the watch . As long as the strap was passed through properly and snugly on the wrist, the case would stay exactly where it was needed.
Since 1973, the G10 strap has seen only slight modifications. The current version has been downsized to 18mm and now has stainless steel hardware. In 1978, a company known as Phoenix took over production of MoD-spec G10 straps, and would be the “real deal” if one was looking for it today.
The most notable feature of a NATO strap is its single-piece construction; most other straps are composed of two separate pieces, and can only be applied by removing both of the spring bars that attach to the watch. NATO straps are simply woven underneath the spring bars, so they can be removed or applied very easily. The addition of a watch keeper strap ensures that the watch case will remain firmly on your wrist even if one of the spring bars breaks. All of these characteristics make NATO straps an excellent choice for nearly any situation.
Not long after the simple “Admiralty Grey” G10 was issued, British military regiments began wearing straps honoring their respective regimental colors with stripes of all colors and combinations.
Bond NATO
One strap’s stripe pattern has become more famous than all the rest, but to call it a G10 or a NATO strap is actually a misnomer.
When Sean Connery’s Bond famously wrist-checked his “Big Crown” Submariner in Goldfinger, he revealed a striped nylon strap. The strap was notable because of its navy blue color with red and green stripes. Many watch enthusiasts have labeled this strap as the “Bond NATO”. Despite the strap’s similarities to a G10, Goldfinger began filming in 1964, nine years before the first MoD G10 strap was issued. It’s clear that the strap Connery wore had a very simple one-piece construction, and distinctly different than a true NATO.
G10s have been heavily trending upwards over the last five year. While it may be a fad that eventually fades, they don’t appear to be going away in the short term. Watchmakers like Tudor, Blancpain, Hamilton and Bremont have been either throwing in a G10 as an accessory to a watch purchase, or offering one as the main strap option. While they come in varying degrees of quality, a good one is a trustworthy piece of equipment with a rich history.
Tom nosker
Very cool. My father was on loan from AT&T to the Underwater Sound Lab in CT during ww2, to work on SONAR. At that time, he wore a waterproof Rolex on a nylon strap, and from then on, preferred to use those kinds of straps, whatever they were called. He received a very nice solid gold Swiss watch on his 40th anniversary with AT&T, and put even that on a nylon strap. I always thought that very strange, as a kid. When I got older, I was heavily involved with my own work with the military on military bases in the summertime, and saw everyone wearing watches on nylon straps in searing heat, and I got it. They are light, cool, and you wash them every so often and they last for years. Besides, both band pins need to fail for the watch to fall to the ground. These bands have everything practical in their favor.
Mark Morgan
you learn something new all the time. Thank you Mark
What a great story! I’m going to forward this to my grandson. I have always preferred the G-10 style watch band as it is stylish and can be easily removed for cleaning as they do get “stinky” after a while, especially in the summer.
WayneJ
Since my days as a Navy diver, I’ve always preferred nylon straps. I like what people often call a Zulu strap which doesn’t have the redundant piece of nylon that goes between the watch back and the wrist. Also the ones issued by the Navy with Benrus watches was black and had blackened brass buckles. They last a long time. I still have one in regular service since 1982.
Great blog Mark! I’ve never worn a nylon strap but will certainly consider this for some of the watches I wear when I’m more active.
Thanks, Mark ! This was a cool read. I have a Zulu and a few NATO’s myself, mainly worn on my BALL watch. Please do more of these in the future…
Peter Le MD
Very nice Mark. Thank you. Where can I get one of these? Haha.
Excellent and informative article, Mark! Thanks
Great article, Mark!
I’ve enjoyed switching straps for my Sub, and have a bunch of NATO (in my case I prefer ZULU – like Wayne).
I find tropical weave straps, particularly those made of “Perlon”, most comfortable for Summer use. There are no holes punched into these – the “poker” on the buckle slides between the weave just where you want it.
Informative and fantastic article! I really enjoyed this one!
Ben Joubert
another great one ! thanks Mark
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"It's Monday! What are you reading?" is a fun meme hosted by Kathryn @ The Book Date. This is where we share the books we have read the last week and our reading plans for this week.
Based on Charles Dickens’ famous character of the same name, the radiant ghost shines again when embarking on a spiritual adventure into its past in search of its extinguished flame.
The Ghost of Christmas Past has had its flame extinguished. Lost souls cannot find their way to redemption without the Spirit's fire illuminating their shadowed memories. Guided by the Christmas Angel, the Ghost of Christmas Past must search for its missing flame within the visions of a mortal life it had long forgotten and brave witness to the troubled child it once had been.
Justice Lonesome has enjoyed a life of bounty.
Even so, she’s inherited the curse of the Lonesome. A poet’s soul. Which means she’s still searching for something. Searching for peace. Searching for the less…that’s more.
And when the foundation of her life is pulled out from under her, grieving, she goes to the mountains to find her oasis. She hits Carnal, Colorado and decides to stay.
Deke Hightower lost everything at the age of two. He lost it again at fifteen. His life has not been about bounty. It’s been about learning to live with less, because there’s no way to get more.
Deke’s also watched all his friends go down to the women who gave them what they needed. He wants that for himself. But he knows that search isn’t going to be easy because he’s a rider. His home is the road. That’s the only place he can breathe. And the woman who takes her place at his side has to do it sitting on the back of his bike.
When Deke meets Justice, he knows she’s not that woman. She’s cute. She’s sweet. And she’s into him, but she’s got it all and Deke knows he won’t fit into that. So he holds her at arm’s length. Establishes boundaries. And Justice will take it because she wants Deke any way he’ll let her have him.
But when Justice finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game, Deke makes a decision.
When he does, he has no idea he’s just opened himself up to bounty.
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The bastard child of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 and Stephen King’s CARRIE, KAI explores how one innocent girl becomes the target of enormous rage living inside another girl-who is seemingly from another world.
Satsuki Takamoto is an invisible otaku teenager in Hiroshima. The only thing she has going for her is the upcoming birth of her sister. No longer will she be alone. But when her mother has a gory miscarriage right in front of her, Satsuki loses her one chance at happiness. She spirals into a deep depression, shutting out everyone and everything by locking herself inside her bedroom-for good. Her sadness, however, pales in comparison to her uncontrollable anger. It spreads like a nuclear fire, ambivalent to what or who it destroys, and won’t stop until Satsuki accepts her sister’s death.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Evanston, Illinois, Seul Bi Rissiello can’t sleep because every time she closes her eyes, she relives her adoptive parents’ gruesome deaths. Why is she thinking so much about them now, ten years afterward? As she struggles with working at a clinic for the mentally disturbed, Seul Bi starts to unravel under the weight of living a lonely life and being twice an orphan. Her life devolves into a series of ominous and dangerous hallucinations that threaten not only her sanity, but her very existence as well.
As both girls struggle to understand what is happening to them, their enigmatic connection comes into focus, raising the question: What if all the suffering in your life was carefully choreographed by somebody you’ve never met?
Olivia shouldn't be checking out the sexy older guy at the coffee shop. She should remind herself what happened the last time she was drawn to a man.
Olivia should know better than to start something that could ruin both their lives.
The trouble is, sometimes the things we shouldn't do become the hardest habits to break.
Lindsey Baker and Will Claxton had once been best friends, until betrayal drove them apart.
Now someone is sabotaging Lindsey’s ranch, and Will seems the most likely candidate. Although Lindsey wants to believe he’s innocent, he’s the one with the motive. Years earlier, her father had foreclosed on a loan that cost Will his family’s land. Still, he insists he had nothing to do with the ‘accidents’ plaguing Lindsey's ranch. He wants his property returned, but he plans to buy it fair and square.
Lindsey wants to believe the man she’s loved since childhood, but she fears he'll do almost anything to reclaim his family's ranch. His sudden interest in her as a woman is too convenient. Can she trust a man who’s never seen her as anything but a friend, when she knows he’ll do anything to regain his family’s heritage – including breaking her heart once again?
How about you? What are your reading plans this week?
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Kindle on Discount ($1.99): The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice
The Geometry of Sisters: A Novel
by Luanne Rice
The storm off Mackinac Island that engulfed Maura Shaw’s husband and elder daughter,Carrie, also swept away the illusion of her life as the perfect midwestern wife and mother. Now, after years away, Maura has returned to Rhode Island to teach English at the fabled Newport Academy and to seek a new beginning. Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mystery and hope, but ever since the accident, her younger daughter, fourteen-year-old Beck, has retreated into the safe, predictable world of mathematics. Without Carrie, Beck has lost half of herself—the half that would have fit into the elite private school she and her brother, Travis, will attend. The half that made things right. Sixteen-year-old Travis is also struggling to adjust—juggling a long-distance first love and an attraction to a girl with a wicked sparkle in her eye. And for Maura, ghosts linger here—an unresolved breach with her own beloved sister and a long-ago secret that may now have the power to set her free. . . .
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Free Kindle Download: Cowboy, It's Cold Outside by Katherine Garbera
Cowboy, It's Cold Outside
The Scott Brothers of Montana Book 4
by Katherine Garbera
Photo journalist Trey Scott comes back to Marietta for Christmas, only to find no one home... except for the enchanting Lucy DeMarco. Although Lucy isn’t crazy about the holidays, Trey does his best to restore her enthusiasm, starting with nestling her snug in his bed. But if he’s only in town until New Year’s...
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Book Spotlight with Excerpt: Becoming Johanna by C. A. Pack
Becoming Johanna:
A Library of Illumination Prequel Novella
by C. A. Pack
Publisher: Artiqua Press (April 6, 2016)
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Publisher: Artiqua Press (June 28, 2016)
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Since the age of three, the austere conditions and strict directives of Peakie’s Foundling Home have ruled 16-year-old Josefina Charo’s life. Her inquisitive nature and love of books underscore an intelligence that allows her to graduate two years early from secondary school. However, she is crestfallen to learn Peakie’s will not provide a higher education, nor will she be permitted to leave because she’s too young. Her spirit dampened, she searches for a way to escape her prison and grabs her chance when she sees it, but she soon discovers the harsh realities of being on her own. Life is difficult, at best, for a teenage girl with no real world experience.
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Free Kindle Download: For Love of the Duke by Christi Caldwell
For Love of the Duke
The Heart of a Duke Series Book 1
by Christi Caldwell
After the tragic death of his wife, Jasper, the 8th Duke of Bainbridge buried himself away in the dark cold walls of his home, Castle Blackwood. When he’s coaxed out of his self-imposed exile to attend the amusements of the Frost Fair, his life is irrevocably changed by his fateful meeting with Lady Katherine Adamson.
With her tight brown ringlets and silly white-ruffled gowns, Lady Katherine Adamson has found her dance card empty for two Seasons. After her father’s passing, Katherine learned the unreliability of men, and is determined to depend on no one, except herself. Until she meets Jasper…
In a desperate bid to avoid a match arranged by her family, Katherine makes the Duke of Bainbridge a shocking proposition—one that he accepts.
Only, as Katherine begins to love Jasper, she finds the arrangement agreed upon is not enough. And Jasper is left to decide if protecting his heart is more important than fighting for Katherine’s love.
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Prompt of the week
What are some of your favorite, hated, or memorable character names?
Love anything LOTR but my favorite is Eowyn. The most hated is Schuyler from Blue Bloods by Melissa dela Cruz and memorable? Hmm, I think it's Tatum - Kirsten Ashley's Sweetdreams. That name for me is sexy and manly.
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Wednesday Rewind: Guest Author│Annette Oppenlander's Escape from the Past: The Duke’s Wrath
I’d like to thank Jenai for allowing me to share the background story of my novel, “Escape from the Past: The Duke’s Wrath.” For this novel, inspiration firmly hit me in the forehead.
In 2012 a friend of mine suggested I visit the ruins of Castle Hanstein near Kassel, Germany. It was a beautiful day and I couldn’t believe my eyes when we drove up the mountain to park our car.
Castle Hanstein floats majestically above the valleys, its walls fused to the red rock it sits on. We climbed the rest of the way on foot, but once I stepped into the inner bailey and through the portcullis I knew I had found an amazing place. Most of the walls, six to nine feet thick, are broken and half torn down, thanks to the Swedes visiting during the 30-year war. However, you get a feel for the rooms, most windows still showing built-in stone seats. The great hall, recreated to house weddings and other events, is now situated in a different spot, but it is easy to imagine lords and ladies meeting here.
One of the towers was restored and used to serve as an observation point for the former East German military. Castle Hanstein is situated very close to the border between Thuringia and Hesse. You can still climb all the way to the top through an ever more narrow winding stone staircase. The view is breathtaking with gently sloped hills and valleys, farmland, the occasional church tower of a quaint village. It’s like looking at a painting. Wedged between two valleys flows the river, Werra which takes on an important role in my book.
Off to the side of the staircase I came across a kemenate, French for chimney room, meaning a room heatable by a fireplace. In the Middle Ages such rooms typically were occupied by the ladies and their small children. On the wall I found a short description of Werner von Hanstein, a knight who’d lived here in the late 15th century. For eight years he’d feuded with a duke over a beautiful woman.
After walking through the ruins, then reading about about Werner I was hooked. I knew I had to write a story about this castle.
The second part to the story came dealing with my two now adult sons. Both boys were and are avid gamers and at times it seriously bothered me, seeing them spend umpteen hours in front of the PC. So, maybe it was just natural that I imagined one of them being sucked into the game.
I hope you’ll enjoy gamer Max’s adventure in medieval Germany.
Escape from the Past:
The Duke’s Wrath
by Annette Oppenlander
Publisher: Lodestone Books (July 31, 2015)
When fifteen-year-old nerd and gamer Max Anderson thinks he's sneaking a preview of an unpublished video game, he doesn't realize that 1) He's been chosen as a beta, an experimental test player. 2) He’s playing the ultimate history game, transporting him into the actual past: anywhere and anytime. And 3) Survival is optional: to return home he must decipher the game's rules and complete its missions—if he lives long enough. To fail means to stay in the past—forever. Now Max is trapped in medieval Germany, unprepared and clueless. It is 1471 and he quickly learns that being an outcast may cost him his head. Especially after rescuing a beautiful peasant girl from a deadly infection and thus provoking sinister wannabe Duke Ott. Overnight he is dragged into a hornets' nest of feuding lords who will stop at nothing to bring down the conjuring stranger in their midst.
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Big and sweeping, spanning from the refined palaces of Osfrid to the gold dust and untamed forests of Adoria, The Glittering Court tells the story of Adelaide, an Osfridian countess who poses as her servant to escape an arranged marriage and start a new life in Adoria, the New World. But to do that, she must join the Glittering Court.
Both a school and a business venture, the Glittering Court is designed to transform impoverished girls into upper-class ladies who appear destined for powerful and wealthy marriages in the New World. Adelaide naturally excels in her training, and even makes a few friends: the fiery former laundress Tamsin and the beautiful Sirminican refugee Mira. She manages to keep her true identity hidden from all but one: the intriguing Cedric Thorn, son of the wealthy proprietor of the Glittering Court.
When Adelaide discovers that Cedric is hiding a dangerous secret of his own, together they hatch a scheme to make the best of Adelaide’s deception. Complications soon arise—first as they cross the treacherous seas from Osfrid to Adoria, and then when Adelaide catches the attention of a powerful governor.
But no complication will prove quite as daunting as the potent attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. An attraction that, if acted on, would scandalize the Glittering Court and make them both outcasts in wild, vastly uncharted lands.
It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, the Waverley women are made restless by the whims of their mischievous apple tree... and all the magic that swirls around it. But this year, first frost has much more in store.
Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley’s Candies. Though her handcrafted confections — rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds — are singularly effective, the business of selling them is costing her the everyday joys of her family, and her belief in her own precious gifts.
Sydney Waverley, too, is losing her balance. With each passing day she longs more for a baby — a namesake for her wonderful Henry. Yet the longer she tries, the more her desire becomes an unquenchable thirst, stealing the pleasure out of the life she already has.
Sydney’s daughter, Bay, has lost her heart to the boy she knows it belongs to.. if only he could see it, too. But how can he, when he is so far outside her grasp that he appears to her as little more than a puff of smoke?
When a mysterious stranger shows up and challenges the very heart of their family, each of them must make choices they have never confronted before. And through it all, the Waverley sisters must search for a way to hold their family together through their troublesome season of change, waiting for that extraordinary event that is First Frost.
What would you do if the love of your life doesn’t want the same life you do?
Hadley Beckett has failed in not only her career, but as a daughter, friend, and girlfriend. Hadley’s longtime boyfriend, Finn Wilder, who is Richmond, Virginia’s local daredevil and favorite sportscaster, isn’t afraid of anything…almost. Hadley desperately wants a marriage and kids with him, the two things Finn infamously dreads.
Finn pressures Hadley into moving in with him, but being traditional, she wants to be married first and she wants to stick to her beliefs, just as he clings to his own. On the other hand, Finn has tolerated Hadley’s stubbornness long enough and he’s reaching his breaking point.
Fearing at 33 that she will soon be too old to have kids, Hadley wants Finn to change his mind and marry her, yet her insecurities about his public life and from his constant rebuffs have her questioning her aspirations. With conflicting advice from her friends, Hadley concludes she should take things into her own hands.
But then again, Finn Wilder has his own story to tell.
She's about to walk on the wild side . . .
While filling the display case in her bakery, the bell over the door sounds and Tessa O'Hara looks up to see the man of her dreams. Within thirty seconds he asks her out for a beer. But after four months of dating, she discovers he's an undercover DEA agent-and he's investigating her possible role in her ex-husband's drug business. For Tess, this means their relationship is over.
Brock disagrees. He's committed to his anti-drug mission, but he's fallen in love with the beautiful woman who's as sweet as her cupcakes-and he'll do anything to win her back. Standing between Tess and Brock are their own exes, one of them a drug lord who's determined to get what he wants. Now as danger threatens, can Brock break the rules he's lived by and let loose his wild side to protect the woman he loves?
Kindle New Release ($0.99): Red Magic by JC Andrijeski
Red Magic: an Adult Dystopian Paranormal Romance: Sector 6
(The Othala Witch Collection)
by JC Andrijeski
"You're not white magic at all. Not a bit o' ye. You're red magic... like me."
Born to be successor to the Regent's throne, and the highest-ranked witch in the holy lands of District 6, Maia sees her birthright as little more than a genetic practical joke, and a source of constant worry. Unlike every other witch Maia knows, and certainly her mother, Maia is a hopelessly, terrible witch. She can't do magic at all, no matter how hard she tries.
Faced with the looming humiliation of being replaced as successor to the throne, Maia is on the verge of giving up when a chance meeting on a lonely pier changes everything for her.
A lone, angry warlock makes a deal with her that morning: he'll tell her who and what she really is, if she agrees to set him free. The fact that he's handsome, frustratingly familiar in some way she can't pinpoint, and seems to know more about her than she knows herself, causes her to take his questionable deal.
In doing so, Maia learns things about her perfect, idyllic kingdom that she never wanted to know, and nothing in her life will ever be the same again.
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IT DIDN’T OCCUR to me until after I’d thought it, to wonder how I could know him as a warlock with such certainty.
However that knowledge or certainty arose, once it reached my conscious mind, I could neither argue with nor shake it, though.
He was definitely a warlock, my mind told me––not human.
Whoever he was, he could not have been much older than me.
Half a dozen years at most. I guessed less than that, but it was hard to tell, given the condition he was in and the angry way he glowered at me.
He seemed to stare with particular anger at me, too, I noticed... not at the old woman, which struck me as a bit unfair under the circumstances.
He was filthy, so much so he must have come out of the river himself.
The mud and dirt smearing his neck, face and chest might have obscured his age and features somewhat, but it couldn’t disguise the defined muscles in his arms or abdomen, nor his thick, broad shoulders and back. His size alone distinguished him from the majority of the peasants I’d seen at the Water Market and living on the wooden piers.
For that matter, his size distinguished him from most of those I knew at the palace, and certainly from those warlocks I trained with at the monastery. I had a few friends among the Regent’s Guard who came close to his size, but that was it.
As noted before, the dirt he wore didn’t hide the fact that he was entirely naked, either.
From the looks of him, he’d also been in a least one pretty intense fight on his way to being caged.
I couldn’t help but stare at him in those few seconds after that first meeting of our gazes. I confess, I’d never really seen a naked man before. Not apart from in magic simulations, and certainly not up close like this.
Despite the dirt covering him, along with the blood and scratches and bruises, I found something about him very beautiful. Perhaps it was that same sense of life that struck me in the market above us, and in the giant lizard. Perhaps it was something else.
Either way, my admiration was definitely not reciprocated.
Throughout my appraisal he continued to glower at me through the bars of his cage with an intensity that almost suggested he knew me in some way.
Or perhaps he simply knew what––or even who––I was.
The thought made me tense.
It also brought me out of my curiosity-driven appraisal of him.
After all, a warlock might not be as ignorant about the features of a member of the royal family as the average dock dweller.
The realization finally penetrated the fog of my surprise at seeing him inside the crate at all.
I turned to the old woman next, as the shock of his imprisonment finally penetrated. My voice took on the imperious tone I myself never used, but heard used plenty by adult witches and warlocks in my life, particularly when they addressed me.
“What is the meaning of this?” I stared down at the old woman, my haughtiness dampened only slightly by the use of my stilted peasant’s tongue. “Why is he so caged?”
I glanced back at the warlock. I felt my face warm when I caught myself staring at his sex. Looking away sharply, I motioned at his lower body with my gaze averted.
“...And where are his clothes?” I snapped.
Once I’d said it, I glanced back at the warlock’s face.
A flicker of what might have been surprise altered his coal-black eyes, which held a strange light in their depths, despite their midnight color. Swiftly, however, that surprise was replaced by an even more intense fury than before.
“If you’re going to kill me, do it now, ye pious, toady bitch...” He hissed the words in a strange accent, once more glaring at me through the bars. “Don’t keep me in suspense!”
I jumped a little, staring at him in surprise.
Like before, he ignored the old woman. And despite the odd accent, he spoke perfect Regent’s tongue, his deep voice resonating somewhere in my chest.
“I haven’t the time for games from a baby witch,” he added sourly. “Nor the patience for ‘em. So earn your ass-lick for the day, and go scurrying back to your lying, hypocritical masters. Tell ‘em you’ve found a juicy prize to torture in their cells for a few days...”
Staring at him incredulously, I felt my cheeks flush in anger.
That was despite the fact that I didn’t really understand his insults.
I mean, yes, I understood them.
But I didn’t understand what he meant, aiming them at me.
“I was defending you just now,” I snapped. “Are you deaf?” At his continued glower, I raised my voice. “Why have they caged you, sir? And what happened to you? Why do you look... and smell... like you slept in a sewage tunnel after fighting rats the size of horses?”
I was shouting at him.
I bit my lip once I realized.
Another rule broken. Oh, well. I was too angry to care.
Still glaring at him, I growled, “...And why in Heaven’s Sky would I want to kill you? Or see you tortured by the Guard or anyone else? Haven’t I already established I have no idea who you are? I was just now trying to discern that very thing!”
Again, a flicker of wary surprise touched his face.
He seemed to be assessing me then, his dark eyes lingering down the length of me, even more intently than mine had over him. When he finished, he gripped the bars of the crate, twisting them in bruised fingers.
“Who are ye?” It sounded more like a demand than a question. “If they didn’t send you to kill me, then why’re you here, princess baby witch?”
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Book Spotlight: Geek to Glory by Laurie Roper
Geek to Glory
Adventures of Jackson Elderberry Monroe Book 2
by Laurie Roper
Earth is on the brink of being taken over by malicious, alien forces and propelled into a black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Due to the mentoring of TeTe, a quirky rule-breaking alien from the 6th dimension, Jackson Elderberry Monroe is thrown into very serious, life altering situations. At 15, he is hand-picked for this particular mission due to acceleration codes in his DNA. He is a special child known as an indigo and the Guardian groups that are the ‘watchers’ of planet earth understand that his unusual coding is imperative for the success of the mission. But, he needs the required training and who better to do this than the ridiculously implausible alien with a weird sense of humor, a propensity to defy authority, and paradoxically, great wisdom. TeTe won the honor of training Jackson in a cosmic lottery but he is not pleased about having to enter the dark earth density.
Jackson nervously agrees to go into training with his new mentor after a bit of prodding. It sounds a lot better than being stalked by the school bully and constantly humiliated by his awful sister. He enters into a life- altering journey that changes him psychologically and spiritually from an immature geek to someone who becomes self-sovereign, and somewhat discerning. But, there is trouble ahead. He gets a little too cocky about his new skills and takes matters into his own hands. He proceeds alone on an expedition he may never return from.
Jackson is in grave danger as the story begins. He has hyper-spaced to the moon without the knowledge of his mentors. The reader doesn’t know if Jackson will survive the oncoming onslaught of an alien race who has tracked him down to a lunar cave he is hiding in. We see him waiting to meet his death.
Jackson learns many truths about the history of the planet while interacting with TeTe and the Guardian Collectives. However, under the guise of fiction, it is up to the reader to discern what is truth and what is fiction. Links to topics covered and techniques/tools are offered which can help the readers connect to their more creative side and also help them understand some universal laws of how to use consciousness to create personal reality. Readers are left with a wider perspective of our place in the solar system, the inter-connection of all sentient beings and the idea that all is not what it seems to be in our world.
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Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney
From Camp Douglas topics include the continued improvement of Barney’s health, being busy with issues with the company including low morale and discipline, the good weather in Chicago and having received a photo of Maria.
Topics include the continued improvement of Barney’s health, having his attendant return to camp, his thinking of applying for a furlough to return home when he feels stronger, his outrage at the government for the continued poor living conditions for the men at camp in the sheds, his asking for...
Show moreTopics include the continued improvement of Barney’s health, having his attendant return to camp, his thinking of applying for a furlough to return home when he feels stronger, his outrage at the government for the continued poor living conditions for the men at camp in the sheds, his asking for more money from home and the lack of military pay the soldiers have received.
From Camp Douglas topics include good food for his dinner, the high standard of living while visiting Danby and Syracuse, living conditions at the camp, having coal stoves, rats and lice plentiful, the death of one of his men Alfred Burrows from diphtheria, paying Mrs. Snow owed, giving comment...
Show moreFrom Camp Douglas topics include good food for his dinner, the high standard of living while visiting Danby and Syracuse, living conditions at the camp, having coal stoves, rats and lice plentiful, the death of one of his men Alfred Burrows from diphtheria, paying Mrs. Snow owed, giving comment on theater ("love sick stuff"), having no word of a prisoner exchange and the hope to be able to send $500 home soon.
While in transport Barney writes of heading for Chicago along with others as prisoners, states he had a good breakfast that included much relished butter, speculates they are being moved West as it is cheaper than keeping them East, thinks they will not be exchanged any time soon, feels...
Show moreWhile in transport Barney writes of heading for Chicago along with others as prisoners, states he had a good breakfast that included much relished butter, speculates they are being moved West as it is cheaper than keeping them East, thinks they will not be exchanged any time soon, feels humiliated to be sold but proud of having done his duty. States the arrest of all the officers in the brigade except Colonel Stannard who has taken command. Mentions photographs he is sending home.
Writing from Chicago topics include the journey to an area 2 miles from Chicago, a description of the living quarters that include a good dinner, fixing up the sheds they are living in which are on the fairgrounds (the site of a Sanitary Fair to benefit soldier relief funds, Oct. 27, 1863), the...
Show moreWriting from Chicago topics include the journey to an area 2 miles from Chicago, a description of the living quarters that include a good dinner, fixing up the sheds they are living in which are on the fairgrounds (the site of a Sanitary Fair to benefit soldier relief funds, Oct. 27, 1863), the morale of the men, food of pork, bread, beef, talk of being relocated to Minnesota, and the disparate need for money.
Topics include arriving at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Lt. Erastus W. Jewett expects military pay to come through, and the good condition of the company.
Topics include receiving $10 from his father, the food supplies at camp, the health of the regiment which includes many men with jaundice, morale of the men, mentions telling his wife army life would be better than he knew it would be in order for her to feel better about letting him be in the...
Show moreTopics include receiving $10 from his father, the food supplies at camp, the health of the regiment which includes many men with jaundice, morale of the men, mentions telling his wife army life would be better than he knew it would be in order for her to feel better about letting him be in the military, reporting 2 of his men as deserters to Head Quarters, the false reports written in the papers and mentions prisoner of war camp Camp Douglas.
Camp guard house cleaned and fixed up so that the guards can rest when off the relief, how his company is eager to learn bayonet drill, what effect the draft will have on filling up his company, information on members of his company, inquiries about family, sending another photograph and speaks...
Show moreCamp guard house cleaned and fixed up so that the guards can rest when off the relief, how his company is eager to learn bayonet drill, what effect the draft will have on filling up his company, information on members of his company, inquiries about family, sending another photograph and speaks of letters to his daughter Carrie and son Fred.
Barney writes of how soldiers incarcerated in the guard house organize life while there, mimicking the rules of a regiment, including a “Colonel” (the Bully) who gets his position by fighting other soldiers, of extortion committed, of brutal beatings with one soldier not expected to live. He also...
Show moreBarney writes of how soldiers incarcerated in the guard house organize life while there, mimicking the rules of a regiment, including a “Colonel” (the Bully) who gets his position by fighting other soldiers, of extortion committed, of brutal beatings with one soldier not expected to live. He also describes how a soldier from his company (the 9th) deposed the "Colonel" and himself rose to the rank of “Major General” before escaping from camp, of Barney going to church worship, of Gen. Hooker granting furloughs and writes of family members.
Orlando S. Turner to Joseph and Louisa A. Turner
Topics include a brief account of the first Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, Virginia. Writes of the bravery of the soldiers, casualties and men killed, of his opinion that the officers were afraid to go where the soldiers were, damage to the American flag.
Henry A. Smith to Family
Topics include his hope to be released soon and his wish for news about the farm and the fall harvest.
A. [G.] Browne to John Wolcott Phelps
Topics include Lt. Col. A. G. Browne requesting Brig. Gen. John Wolcott Phelps' assistance in forwarding letters to Lieutenant Charles L. Pierson, Adjutant of the Massachusetts 20th Regiment who was taken prisoner along with Colonel Lee and Major Revere. Mentions Col. Lee and Major Revere, the...
Show moreTopics include Lt. Col. A. G. Browne requesting Brig. Gen. John Wolcott Phelps' assistance in forwarding letters to Lieutenant Charles L. Pierson, Adjutant of the Massachusetts 20th Regiment who was taken prisoner along with Colonel Lee and Major Revere. Mentions Col. Lee and Major Revere, the battle of the 21st near Leesburg and flags of truce.
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AGRICULTURE / TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT
Reversing fate through love for land, forests and water
Abhijit Mohanty brings us the story of certain tribal villages in Koraput district of southern Odisha that have successfully overcome the challenges posed by denudation and inadequate irrigation and have etched out a path towards food security and well-being.
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03 June 2015 -
“A good crop will last till June-July while a bad crop lasts till March-April. How can we survive? If only we had gold, bullock or land. But, we have nothing so. We can’t get even a loan. Once I had gone to the bank for a loan. The officer asked me if I owned land, you can get a loan only if you have land, otherwise not! This is what I was told at the bank. What can poor people like us do? Only continue living in dire poverty…what else?”
Such desperate questions from Bagajani, a farmer of Upargadla village mirror the plight of many tribal communities across Dasmantpur Block of Koraput district in southern Odisha. Ironically, the hilly terrain here gives rise to several perennial and seasonal streams that allow for a rich diversity of crops, and vegetation. Add to this, the bountiful rainfall that blesses the region, and yet, poverty and hunger afflicted the tribal communities of the block for major parts of the year.
This is because the fragile eco-system on the undulating upland terrain has been destroyed by unchecked felling of trees, denudation of the forests and rampant shifting cultivation. Years of exploitation have affected the wellbeing of the communities severely in most tribal districts in Southern Odisha, leading to chronic malnutrition and ill health, symptomized by annual epidemics and high rates of distress migration.
Things were not always this bleak, says Laxman Jani, a 64 year-old farmer of Dakamara village: “When there were trees on the hills, the crops were good. But now it is barren. Rains have washed away the top fertile soil. So we don’t get a good yield anymore.”
Sundei Saunta, President of Dasmantpur Mahila Sangha, shares how they have to cultivate in some of the most denuded and rocky lands. The lack of irrigation facility makes the situation worse and they have to depend on the vagaries of monsoon each year.
Farming for self-reliance in Kalahandi
A silent revolution brewing on our farms
One-man-army greens barren land
Saunta says, “Adivasi people like us plough our lands to sow millet. Millet is intercropped with turmeric. Both grow simultaneously and we weed them. Millet is harvested in the first year itself. Then we cover the field with straw and fence it to keep animals away. The turmeric has to be left in the field for the next two years. On the third year it is ready and we dig it out, after which it takes one to two months to dry. Finally, we fill the dried turmeric in sacks and bring it home. It takes a lot of time but that is how we have to do it. After all this time, one quintal of turmeric sells for Rs 3000. That is all we earn. Is that enough? Adivasi-Paraja people have to work very hard even to get such a paltry amount.”
A ray of hope
Things however may be looking up for the tribal agriculturists in the region, thanks to the efforts of the Ama Sangathan (AMS) – a federation of tribal women, constituting 1200 members and the tribal people of Dasmantpur. With the aid and guidance of AMS, many communities in this region have pushed the limits of human endeavour and overcome the crippling poverty of their lives.
In Dakamara village for example, AMS held a meeting to explain the benefits of earth and stone bunding. “They told us that bunding would check rapid soil erosion and recharge rain water as well as increase the productivity of the land. This would give us good crops,” says Laxman Jani. The villagers followed the advice and with technical support from the organisation, took to land development through levelling, earth and stone bunding. Neighbouring villages also followed the example.
Land development in Dakaramara village. Pic: Agragamee
Orchards in the upland
Once land development was done, villagers enquired about the best farming model to follow, which would not only provide them food security round the year but also equip them with the resilience to combat the harsh environmental circumstances. After deliberation and discussion with AMS, the Dakamara villagers decided to cultivate orchard plants along with intercropping of traditional millets on the common land.
Where trees had been cut and rains had washed the top soil away, cashew and mango saplings were planted. This was intercropped with varieties of minor millets like ragi, foxtail, proso and finger millet. The produce from these is generally used for household consumption, as these are some of the staple foods for Adivasi.
Sundri Jani from the village says, “They told us that if we don’t plant trees on the higher slopes, our lands will have no yield. So, we raised orchards on the common land of Government and fenced each sapling with stones.”
The women work collectively on these orchards on behalf of the Mahila Mandal (MM) of the village. Sundri is visibly pleased with the results as she says, “The trees have started yielding fruit and in the last year alone, we earned Rs. 48000 by selling cashew nuts and Rs. 31400 from selling mango. Out of these earnings, we distributed Rs.51400 among 32 members of the Mahila Mandal and deposited Rs 10000 in our MM bank account as savings. Thus the earnings per head from the common land was Rs.2168.75.”
The women are also growing garlic and tuber together. The garlic has been harvested and the tuber will soon be ready. Thereafter, they plan to sow maize, intercropped with beans and okra. In this way, they can harvest three to four crops at a time.
Rejuvenating land through Social Forestry
Yet another successful experiment led by AMS in the region is ‘social forestry’ – usually promoted in community land to meet the community needs for firewood, fodder, small timber. This also helps to conserve soil and water in the region.
A particularly successful model of this can be seen in Tentuliguda village, where trees such as acacia, karanjia, borda, jackfruit and many citrus fruits were planted with the the support of Forest Department in 10 acres of barren land under the Social Forestry Programme.
Social Forestry in Tentuliguda village. Pic: Agragamee
The project was designed in discussion with women and community leaders so that it could help meet community needs, stimulate local interest and bring about greater involvement than programmes with a top-down approach typically do. But the task was not as simple as it sounds.
Andharu Bhoi a community leader of the village narrates the long struggle to protect the forests from poachers. According to Bhoi, villagers from Katapiti logged the entire forest adjoining their village. On the other side, the people of Punishell also felled a lot of trees.
“We feared that the entire forest would be destroyed within no time. So we held meetings to protect the forest for our future generations. We decided that one person from each of the 50 families would guard the forest every day. But the loggers were armed with axes and choppers. They did not listen to us and continued felling the trees,” says Bhoi.
He goes on to narrate an incident, which though disturbing stopped the attacks on the forests: “One day our villagers caught a logger. They brought him to the village, stripped him completely and tied him up with ropes. After that, no one ever tried to cut any trees. Now we are getting firewood, medicinal herbs and a range of fruits and roots from the Social Forestry Programme.”
Apart from meeting basic needs, the initiative has also gone a long way in educating the community about the need to protect and conserve natural forests.
Innovation in irrigation
“During dry periods, there was nothing to eat. No vegetables, absolutely nothing. As we had no irrigation system, we could cultivate our lands only once a year. During the rainy season, there was no clean water to cook.” – These were common complaints of villagers from Tentuliguda. Faced with these challenges, AMS held a meeting in the village to discuss the problem of water scarcity. The villagers came up with suggestions on solutions to the problem.
Sobhini Muduli from the village says, “We thought about diverting water from the water source on the hill to our field. All 40-50 people of Tentuliguda worked for 15 days to dig the 3.5 km-long canal. All of us worked for free. But, bringing the water to the village was very difficult, since the canal had to be made over low land that was 25 feet wide.”
The villagers applied to the government for help. The engineers inspected the area and said it would cost the government Rs.10 to 20 lakh to actually bring the water to the fields. Eventually, they rejected the application.
Innovative way of irrigation in Tentuliguda village. Pic: Agragamee
“When we told them about this issue, AMS staff said that they would give us a pipe. But we would have to take care of the rest. We cut 10 eucalyptus trees from the eucalyptus plantations next to the village pond. Each one was 25 to 30 feet tall. We used them as pillars to support the pipe. That is how the pipe crossed the lowland,” recalls Muduli. “Our landless brothers also joined us. In return, we gave them some irrigated land for share cropping.”
The committed efforts of the villagers and the indigenous technology used to divert water from the hilly areas to the agricultural land caught the attention of the Government as well. Eventually, a diversion canal was constructed with the support of the block administration.
Today, the people of Dasmantpur dare to dream of a future – a future where their beautiful mountains will yield food, fruit and shade and not turn into agents of destruction, burying their crops and homes with rock and soil following rains. Guided by AMS throughout the journey, the tribal community has pulled itself out of a morass of poverty, dejection and misery. The positive energy created has rejuvenated the land as well as the people.
Abhijit Mohanty
The author is Fundraising Manager at Agragamee, Odisha. He also works in the areas of literacy, rights-based advocacy, social research and writes article on tribal development issues. AMS is a sister organisation of Agragamee.
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The stones of Venice - 2
278 SECOND PERIOD.
plained: it may be studied to advantage in our rows of new-
built houses, or rather of new-built house, changeless for
miles together, from which, to each inhabitant, we allot his
proper quantity of windows, and a Doric portico. The Venetian carried out his theory very simply. In the centre of the
archivolt we find almost invariably, in the older work, the
hand between the sun and moon in the attitude of blessing,
expressing the general power and presence of God, the source
of light. On the tympanum is the shield of the family.
Venetian heraldry requires no beasts for supporters, but usually
prefers angels, neither the supporters nor crests forming any
necessary part of Venetian bearings. Sometimes, however,
human figures, or grotesques, are substituted; but, in that
case, an angel is almost always introduced above the shield,
bearing a globe in his left hand, and therefore clearly intended
for the l Angel of the Lord,' or, as it is expressed elsewhere,
the ' Angel of His Presence.' "Where elaborate sculpture of
this kind is inadmissible, the shield is merely represented as
suspended by a leather thong ; and a cross is introduced above
the archivolt. The Renaissance architects perceived the irrationality of all this, cut away both crosses and angels, and.
substituted heads of satyrs, which were the proper presiding
deities of Venice in the Renaissance periods, and which in our
own domestic institutions, we have ever since, with much
piety and sagacity, retained."
§ lvii. The habit of employing some religious symbol, or
writing some religious legend, over the door of the house,
does not entirely disappear until far into the period of the
Renaissance. The words " Peace be to this house" occur on
one side of a Veronese gateway, with the appropriate and
veracious inscription S.P.Q.R., on a Roman standard, on the
other; and " Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord," is written on one of the doorways of a building added
at the flank of the Casa Barbarigo, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. It seems to be only modern Protestantism
which is entirely ashamed of all symbols and words that
appear in anywise like a confession of faith.
§ lviii. This peculiar feeling is well worthy of attentive
Title The stones of Venice - 2
Creator Ruskin, John
Publisher J. Wiley
Place of Publication New York
Transcript 278 SECOND PERIOD. plained: it may be studied to advantage in our rows of new- built houses, or rather of new-built house, changeless for miles together, from which, to each inhabitant, we allot his proper quantity of windows, and a Doric portico. The Venetian carried out his theory very simply. In the centre of the archivolt we find almost invariably, in the older work, the hand between the sun and moon in the attitude of blessing, expressing the general power and presence of God, the source of light. On the tympanum is the shield of the family. Venetian heraldry requires no beasts for supporters, but usually prefers angels, neither the supporters nor crests forming any necessary part of Venetian bearings. Sometimes, however, human figures, or grotesques, are substituted; but, in that case, an angel is almost always introduced above the shield, bearing a globe in his left hand, and therefore clearly intended for the l Angel of the Lord,' or, as it is expressed elsewhere, the ' Angel of His Presence.' "Where elaborate sculpture of this kind is inadmissible, the shield is merely represented as suspended by a leather thong ; and a cross is introduced above the archivolt. The Renaissance architects perceived the irrationality of all this, cut away both crosses and angels, and. substituted heads of satyrs, which were the proper presiding deities of Venice in the Renaissance periods, and which in our own domestic institutions, we have ever since, with much piety and sagacity, retained." § lvii. The habit of employing some religious symbol, or writing some religious legend, over the door of the house, does not entirely disappear until far into the period of the Renaissance. The words " Peace be to this house" occur on one side of a Veronese gateway, with the appropriate and veracious inscription S.P.Q.R., on a Roman standard, on the other; and " Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord," is written on one of the doorways of a building added at the flank of the Casa Barbarigo, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. It seems to be only modern Protestantism which is entirely ashamed of all symbols and words that appear in anywise like a confession of faith. § lviii. This peculiar feeling is well worthy of attentive
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The political economy of financing late development: credit, capital and industrialisation; Colombia 1940–67
Brando, Carlos (2012) The political economy of financing late development: credit, capital and industrialisation; Colombia 1940–67. PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Accounts of economic development during mid-twentieth century have been dominated by import-substituting industrialisation (ISI) and/or state-led industrialisation frameworks. is literature attaches considerable importance to such policy areas critical to manufacturing as: trade and tariffs, foreign exchange and the promotion of credit. According to this view, industrialisation became an official goal and in many developing economies governments committed to it seriously. Focusing on Colombia, this dissertation challenges conventional wisdom. It demonstrates that the Colombian state did not provide financial aid, or implement deliberate trade-protectionist support, for industrialists to the degree hitherto argued. A distinct political-economy configuration, in which small-scale agriculturalists, particularly coffee exporters, wielded significant power within the state, meant that the type of distortive pro-ISI macro policies pursued in other Latin American economies were eschewed. Industrialisation proceeded apace in Colombia, but this was chiefly a market- or private-led phenomenon. e methodology employed to substantiate this claim is not comparative, yet frequent references are made to other Latin American nations to serve as benchmarks and counterpoints. New archival material, both quantitative and qualitative, is combined in novel ways to substantiate the original, revisionist interpretations advanced in the thesis. Policy-makers, targeting the twin challenges of managing external-account pressures and sustaining fiscal revenue, rather than promoting inward-looking development, best explain moderate levels of tariffs and slight overvaluation of the currency observed in Colombian trade policy. e heretofore untold history of the Institute for Industrial Development, a direct supplier of venture capital, shows a government agency with major organisational weaknesses, incapable of fulfilling its legal mandate, least of conforming to the major role attached by the literature as key agent for industrialisation. Findings regarding credit demonstrate that neither ordinary nor subsidised credit flowed to manufacturing to the extent previously thought. Patterns of legislated credit, sector-targeted banking and privileged access to the Central Bank, all show that agrarian ventures, not industrialists, were the recipients of subsidised official financing. A growing incompatibility between the financial requirements of advanced industrialisation and the clientelistic nature of the domestic polity that had to cater for the needs of agrarian groups, prevented policy elites from adopting a pro-manufacturing stance in financial and credit policies, even had they so wished.
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Letters to the Editor: 7-24-2014
Letters by Letters EditorPosted on 07/24/2014
VAMPIRE PLANNING
Regarding the proposed Seavey Loop industrial zone land grab: I can’t believe the four Tea Party commissioners and the Springfield City Council are trying to ram this atrocious proposal past the citizens of Lane County, but I guess the success of the Parvin Butte murder has convinced them that they can do anything they want, including destroying our most popular county park, a community of several thousand people and hundreds of acres of farmland.
My friend’s backyard adjoins Oxley Slough. The industrial zone would cover Oxley Slough (divert it? put it in a pipe?) and threaten the homes that border the slough, which serves as flood control in the event of Willamette River flooding. The homes are probably safe with the slough undisturbed, although part of my friend’s yard is always underwater in February, but when they take that floodwater sponge away, who knows what will happen.
Does allowing this scam to go forward constitute illegal takings of private land for no public benefit, or will they get away with it as they did with destroying Parvin Butte and the city of Lowell, or the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, or any of hundreds of thousands of other robberies conducted by the 1 percent of the 1 percent?
Can we stop Aaron Jones and his relatives and friends from destroying Lane County, or are we doomed to watch helplessly as our lives are sucked away by the vampire class?
Ann Tattersall, Eugene
OCF-GMO BLUES
An open letter to the Oregon Country Fair: I have attended the Fair since 1974, including participating in food booths and entertainment. I still believe it is truly one of the most magical events of its kind. The Fair has always represented a visionary dream of peaceful coexistence, green sustainability and creative expression through art and a wide variety of entertainment. I have watched the Fair grow and overcome seemingly impossible odds to continue its improbable run.
One area the Fair vision doesn’t square with is the dream of sustainability and its blind eye to its lax food booth standards. This is a glaring weakness that the Fair needs to address over the next few years. The preponderance of genetically modified food ingredients in the majority of food booths runs contrary to the vision of true sustainability. Does green sustainability at the Fair end outside of the Community Village and Energy Park? In the case of most Fair food booths, it unfortunately does.
Why would the Fair support the use of these GMO ingredients? By allowing this practice, the Fair is, in effect, supporting chemical poison companies like Monsanto? The excuses for change are as weak as its food policy. I hear that “food costs will soar. How would it be policed? How do vendors know how to weed out GMO ingredients?” These problems can be overcome. The Fair needs to step up to the plate (literally) and make sustainable changes.
Andrew Harrison, Gold Hill
COHOUSING NOT HARMONIOUS
Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing (OMC) has half the members that it needs, partnered with Paradigm Construction, Essex as general contractor and Will Dixon as the project manager. The city of Eugene’s permit department has listed the permits as apartments, townhouses and commercial building, not condominiums. The planned unit development (PUD) application is for condos, which must be owner occupancy. Is the permit department allowing the permit to say apartments or townhouse because Paradigm is supporting OMC financially? The city has said the scope of work will change to condos after the application has been approved. OMC’s application is in appeal to Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), which set a hearing for July 24. This is all happening just down the road from the major development on River Road behind the old Goodwill in the Greenway.
Check out the meadow before it gets developed. Everyone has the right to hire a company to check for a water line. EWEB has proceeded to do more work than just locate a water line for OMC project without approved permits. This all seems to be more about money than land use change and being harmonious to the community.
Please visit saveoakleighlane.blogspot.com.
Anne Love, Eugene
A CARING COMMUNITY
Oakleigh Meadow Cohousing (OMC) has just about 75 percent of the homes spoken for and building plans have been submitted to the city as of June 30. The project was incorrectly titled “apartments” at that time, but it has since been taken care of and the records updated.
The LUBA decision should be rendered by mid-August. OMC is aiming to break ground and start construction this fall. Essex is our general contractor and Paradigm Properties is our partner. EWEB is helping us design the water and electrical facilities for our project.
There’s no big, bad developer from out of state trying to make a profit here. OMC members are the developers and the community will be member-managed. We care very much for the River Road area and want to strengthen and contribute to our neighborhood and its ties to the larger community and city.
Come join us. OMC is actively seeking folks to be a part of our growing community. We are a joyful, enthusiastic and caring bunch, excited to welcome others to share in the process. Top five reasons to join now: greater selection of homes; more discounts on purchase price the earlier you join; participation in the creation of community agreements and more; more time for building friendships before move-in; contribution of ideas for any final planning decisions.
Will Dixon, architect, OMC Project Manager
EVACUATION PLANNING
I had the pleasure of being told to evacuate the Springfield Station at 6 pm July 17 while watching a major fire a half mile away. The black toxic smoke was impressive and I can understand if that smoke came back down on downtown it could have life-threatening consequences. To err on the side of caution is good.
The R-G reported that the sightseers were not removed till 7 pm when the road was closed, which seems a little slow. I was more impressed that as I rode the LTD to Eugene we passed a busload of people heading to Springfield. I know the city and the county have their differences but on this issue they should have tried a little harder to communicate with each other.
Vince Loving, Eugene
BEER SHORTAGE
Is it just me, or isn’t it about time someone opened a decent brewery in this town!
Peter Tildesley, Eugene
THE NATIONAL INTEREST?
The Pacific Connector pipeline is the chosen route to bring natural gas from the shale oilfields of the mountain west to a not-yet-built natural gas compression plant at Jordan Cove on Coos Bay, just across the channel from the city of North Bend. Private pipeline developers have been granted the power of eminent domain to seize over 300 parcels of private property, which lie in the path of the 230-mile Pacific Connector route.
Jordan Cove developers argue in their application to FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) that building the plant and the pipeline are in the national interest because unless foreign markets are found for U.S. natural gas, fracking in the Rockies will slow down or stop.
Aside from the obvious one about exactly why it’s in our national interest for a Canadian developer to make massive profits selling U.S. gas to China, a more practical question has arisen concerning the Jordan Cove project. Developers are denying property owners along the route the ability to contact each other. Requests by property owners for the names of others along the route have been denied, because of “the threat of terrorism.”
A moment’s thought makes it clear that a 100-foot-wide scar on the landscape that extends for 230 miles across nearly the entire state of Oregon is not going to be very difficult for bad guys to locate. There must be another reason why the developers don’t want the property owners facing eminent domain claims to contact one another. Could it be the insultingly low prices ($300/acre) being offered for destructive easements and the prospect of having massive amounts of explosive gas running under their properties?
How about it, Jordan Cove? Why are you refusing to release the names of the property owners whose land you plan to seize?
Fergus Mclean, Dexter
WORSE THAN PRISON
We must demand that our government take good care of all children in America. They are failing to do so now! Videos of how the children escaping Latin American injustices are warehoused by the U.S. are without conscience. Of the 57,000 kids in custody, groups of hundreds of kids are sleeping together on cement floors.
We don’t allow our too many adult prisons to be run like this. This kind of custody is Nazi-like, not compassionate. It must be replaced by humane treatment.
Who the hell is our government these days? Our government is now ignoring 1.6 million American children who are homeless to live in even worse conditions of neglect.
Monstrous!
Jerry Smith, MSW, Eugene
STOP UGB GROWTH
Unbelievable! I just returned from the grocery store with empty pockets. It looks like every item has doubled in price. I guess when friends say farmland with water is worth gold they really mean it and the escalating price of food and food scarcity is beginning.
We are so fortunate to live in Oregon where we have wonderful farmers markets and the ability for our farms to flourish, but the national loss of farmland will escalate the cost everywhere. It’s time for me to start planting vegetables in my front yard. It is also time for Oregon to put a stop of any more extensions of UGB into valuable farmland.
I can’t believe the beautiful farmland on the way to Mount Pisgah may be destroyed for another polluting industrial park!
Ruth Duemler, Eugene
DICKS ON PARADE
You are what you eat: UOPD officers forced to eat their own words. Even though I agree with eight out of the 13 on the police blog published by The Register-Guard, if you bundle cyclists with fraternities, it is disconcerting that a major portion of the campus population is on the hate list. Their problem stems from presentation; if the hook line were “eat a bowl of soap” they would have avoided the whole controversy.
Since the shift commander is now the director of professional standards he should get in touch with the English department and put a wordsmith on his staff before endeavoring on any future literary endeavors.
P.S. Avoid “cake,” lest history repeat itself.
DESIGNED TO KILL
In light of the recent bee kill at the Jacobs apartments, it has become evidently clear of the harms of pesticides and how effective neonicotinoids are at killing bees. It’s as if these poisons were designed to kill bees. To witness the dying bees on the ground was disturbing, but to see bees foraging in the flowers of the linden trees unknowingly poisoning themselves broke my heart. Some of the trees that had “tree maintenance” or had been poisoned were city trees. In spraying these trees they violated city, state and federal law.
When I first heard the news of the bee kill I was worried for my bees. My bees were farther than three miles away, and I was relieved for them but concerned for the beekeepers who had bees closer to the kill site. They should not have to worry whether their bees will live or die from this pesticide exposure. From what I saw, though, I doubt many made it back to their hives at all. This stuff really kills bees.
I wonder how many other trees have they been spraying with these pesticides. Many of my fellow beekeepers’ bees died last year, and with the use of these poisons it’s no surprise. It’s legal for people to poison our landscape and kill our bees but legal doesn’t make it right. It’s time to stop your support of companies that poison our landscape and stop the use of pesticides immediately to save the bees.
Doug Hornaday, Eugene
TAXING POT
Cannabis. Weed. Pot. Marijuana. Call it what you like, and think what you will of its users. It seems to me that even the most cynical or moralistic Oregonian is forced to recognize the context in which we are asked to pass Measure 53, the latest measure forwarded to voters about whether to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana sales and consumption: 1) folks smoke it in defiance of the law and will continue to do so if the measure fails, 2) this is the direction the country is heading, 3) the measure borrows largely from the framework established by the Oregon Legislature, including a stipulation that 40 percent of taxes will be put directly toward K-12 education and 4) we need the tax revenue desperately to keep those programs most essential to a decent, functioning state and society.
I do not use marijuana, but I am excited at the prospect of securing stable funding for our kids’ education to the Quality Education Model’s mandated level — simply by allowing Oregonians to do what they’re already doing: buying and selling marijuana for personal use. I am also excited about the possibility of establishing workers’ associations among trimmers, growers and cashiers to fight for fair wages and safe working conditions.
In short: We either allow marijuana users to step into the sunshine and help pay for programs that are currently starving for revenue or we remain in a state of denial that continues to starve vital state programs.
Steve Coatsworth, Eugene
TOWERING TOWNHOUSES
Our neighborhood vs. Oakleigh Meadow Co-housing (OMC) development: LUBA court date is set for July 24. As we near this date, the community and neighborhood becomes more frustrated with the deceitful meadow plans along the West Bank bike path.
It turns out that OMC disrespects the existing community and has lost neighborhood support and friendship. Its plans to build monstrous townhouses will take up vast amounts of the meadow, including adding over 150 truckloads of gravel to fill the flood plain in the greenway. The development will tower over existing residential homes and will more than double the population on our lane. Its plans do not fit the character of the existing neighborhood and increase traffic and safety issues. OMC is not the green, friendly group that it pretends to be; it is just another development going after a river view.
Citizens are disappointed with the city approving building permits for their tax revenues, and not caring or supporting tax-paying homeowners. The city and developers are stepping all over the mandate to protect the Willamette Greenway here in Oregon. River Road wants to be known as the “Garden District”; sadly there will not be much garden space left.
Check out saveoakleighlane.blogspot.com or visit us on Facebook.
Rachel Stedman, Eugene
Regarding the Eugene City Council cracking down on illegal fire works and the “God-given” freedoms of hyperpatriots who like things that go boom and bang: My thought is that those who enjoy “the rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air” have never been shot at while actually defending those freedoms. In addition to traumatizing their neighbors’ dogs, it can’t be restful to those veterans who’ve heard loud bangs for real.
James L. Whetstine, Eugene
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Pacheco will face Pearl Harbor in first marquee matchup of the World Finals ~ Justin Felisko
Posted in [PBR], [Victoria] By Victoria Lynn
Pearl Harbor once charged through a fence so hard as a calf that he had to have his lip sewn back onto his black and white face.
World leader Kaique Pacheco hopes he can keep more than his lip when he takes on the 2016 World Champion Bull contender on Thursday night during Round 2 of the 2016 Built Ford Tough World Finals.
The showdown is a clash between two top championship contenders and the end result may play a big factor in determining the 2016 World Champion bull rider and which bovine superstar is named the World Champion Bull.
“He is a great bull,” Pacheco said with the help of Paulo Crimber translating. “He bucked me off once, but I am going to focus and try my best to stay on him this time.”
Pacheco and Pearl Harbor met in 2015 at the Springfield, Missouri, Built Ford Tough Series event. Pearl Harbor won that matchup by disposing Pacheco in 4.32 seconds.
However, Pacheco is a much stronger bull rider than the rookie that attempted him last year, and the 22-year-old believes he learned his lesson the first time around.
“He kind of had a bad step in the chute,” Pacheco said. “He just jumped in the chute and turned inside the chute and got me out of shape and turned around away from my hand and bucked me off.
“I expect to have a clean shot today.”
Pacheco will need more than a clean shot.
He will need to put forth a World Champion kind of effort, and a ride aboard Pearl Harbor at the World Finals would almost certainly go for 90-plus points.
Pearl Harbor is 16-2 on the Built Ford Tough Series, including 8-1 this season.
Two-time World Champion J.B. Mauney conquered Pearl Harbor for the second-highest ride of his career when he gutted his way to a 94.25-point ride on Berger’s bovine athlete to win the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 15/15 Bucking Battle.
“That will be a good matchup and he will probably ride him,” Mauney said. “He will be a lot of points on him, but it will be a good matchup.”
Pearl Harbor was marked a career-high 46.25 points against Mauney in Sioux Falls.
The 5-year-old bovine athlete’s second-best out this season came against Cooper Davis in Kansas City, Missouri. Pearl Harbor was marked 46 points for a 3.98-second buckoff.
Davis was 0-3 against Pearl Harbor this season and never got past the 4.2-second mark.
He agreed with Mauney though.
“He rides him,” Davis said. “I don’t think any of us three are falling off. Bull riding is bull riding. You can fall off the easy ones and stay on the hard ones, but if I had to put my bet on somebody, I would put it on Kaique or any of us. We are all riding really good. There is no reason to bet against us.”
2016 Stock Contractor of the Year Chad Berger said, “It is going to be a fighting match between two champs.”
The only other two riders to reach 8 seconds on Pearl Harbor in 31 outs at all levels of competition are Matt Triplett and 2004 World Champion Mike Lee.
Triplett rode Pearl Harbor for 87.25 points in 2014 during the bull’s World Finals debut. Lee made 8 seconds on Pearl Harbor for 89.75 points last year in Decatur, Texas.
Berger was ecstatic when he saw Pearl Harbor’s Round 2 matchup and wouldn’t be surprised one bit if fans got to see something special inside T-Mobile Arena.
“I really like the matchup,” Berger said. “It is going to showcase the bull as good as he can be showcased with a kid like him getting on him. That little guy can ride really good. I know he will go at him 100 percent.”
Handler Jeremy Walker said Pearl Harbor has been much more relaxed in Las Vegas than the feisty bull that is normally back on the ranch in Texas.
“Out here he has been hanging out,” Walker said. “I was cleaning his pen out the other day and he walked in there with me. That kind of made me nervous. He has never done that before.”
Pacheco leads the PBR with 49 qualified BFTS rides.
Berger believes the key for Pacheco is if Pearl Harbor decides to spin into Pacheco’s right-riding hand.
“If he goes away from his hand, I give Pearl Harbor the edge – a big edge,” Berger said. “My perfect deal is him blowing out of there and making clear of the gate going left. If he does, we will see a great score, not a ride, for the bull.”
Two-time World Champion Justin McBride said during a Thursday morning CBS Sports Network production meeting that Pearl Harbor was the favorite and that Pacheco cannot get caught sitting on his back pockets.
McBride also noted that Pearl Harbor wrecked out Mauney in the chute during the Springfield, Missouri, 15/15 Bucking Battle in September and that Pacheco cannot take as long inside the chute like in Round 1 at the Finals.
Nine-time World Champion Ty Murray made one thing clear:
Pacheco vs. Pearl Harbor is the marquee matchup of Round 2.
“Here is how I look at it. There are three riders that can ride Pearl Harbor, and Kaique is one of them,” Murray said.
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What Killed Nickelodeon's "SNICK" for You?
When did "SNICK" on Nickelodeon start to decline?
The big orange couch is retired
The SNICK House is born
The "Elevator Music" era
The "On Air Dare" segments
Poor quality of shows
Nick stops following the basic scheduling formula
Celebrity guest hosts like the Spice Girls
You grew up
Author Topic: What Killed Nickelodeon's "SNICK" for You? (Read 6637 times)
TMC1982
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SNICK for those who don't recall, was the Saturday night block on Nickelodeon spanning from 1992-2004. It was a key component in what I would otherwise consider to be the "glory days"/golden age of Nickelodeon. SNICK went hand and hand with TGIF on ABC (both were essentially, weekend appointment TV if you were a kid growing up in the '90s).
SNICK had shows such as (but not limited to) "Clarissa Explains it All", "Roundhouse", "Ren & Stimpy", "Are You Afraid of the Dark", "The Secret World of Alex Mack", "All That", "Space Cases", "The 100 Deeds of Eddie McDowd", "KaBlam!", "The Journey of Allen Strange", "Kenan & Kel", "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo", etc.
To me, SNICK started to go downhill when they got rid of the big orange couch (which around June of 1999). Believe it or not, the orange couch was the heart and soul of SNICK (and helped create SNICK's identity in the first place).
Another thing that hurt the block in my estimation was when Nickelodeon started to drift away from the formula (besides the couch getting tossed aside). SNICK worked best when the block was made up of one live-action sitcom (e.g. "Clarissia..." and "Kenan & Kel"), one Nicktoon (e.g. "Ren & Stimpy" and "Rugrats"), one musical-comedy-variety show (e.g. "Roundhouse" and "All That"), and one wild card show (e.g. "Alex Mack", Space Cases", "Allen Strange", "Eddie McDowd", etc.).
Things were only made worst, when Nickelodeon tried to take SNICK into a completely different direction, with the "SNICK House" concept (with Nick Cannon as the host). It seemed like Nickelodeon was trying to copy what MTV was doing at the time with "Total Request Live". What people seemed to forget was that the shows themselves are what made SNICK not celebrity guests or music videos.
By the time that the SNICK House had run its course around the summer of 2001, it seemed apparent that Nickelodeon wasn't really trying anymore. There were basically, throwing shows around at random, with the SNICK name attached. At this point, they were using "elevator music" in the background with still photos and "talking bubbles" of the various SNICK stars.
By the fall of 2002, SNICK introduced a segment called "The On Air Dare", in which the cast of "All That" would perform acts that resembled does seen on "Fear Factor". Once again (as with the case with the SNICK House), Nickelodeon seemed to be throwing stuff in the air to see if they would stick (instead of simply following the tried and true formula and essence of SNICK in the past).
By the fall of 2004, Nick got rid of SNICK completely in favor of a second night of their TEENick block (which with in itself, resembles the SNICK House concept). The problem that I have with TEENick (not just because, the purist in me wishes that Nickelodeon had kept a hold of the SNICK brand) is that a lot of the shows on their schedule are already overexposed (like "iCarly" and "Drake & Josh" for example). Nickelodeon's programming has become awfully homogenized by this time (virtually every note worthy live-action show has to be a tween-oritened sitcom, like those on the Disney Channel at the moment).
Re: What Killed Nickelodeon's "SNICK" for You?
The End of Ren & Stimpy ended my days with SNICK..
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When I out grew
"You Can't Do That on Television" TV series 1979-1990
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Quote from: Dankbuds on January 31, 2009, 06:37:52 PM
bratpop
Climbed El Capitan
Riff everything.
I'm going to have togo with "What is puberty?," Alex.
SaucyRossy
That's a good question Bratpop have you gone through that yet? Would explain a lot about you.
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LOL! I'd slap my knees, but I don't have any yet since I'm still a tadpole.
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im baaaack
when the original cast of all that was changed it all came crashing down plus i grew up
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RoninFox
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For me the entire reason to watch was Roundhouse and Ren and Stimpy. Roundhouse didn't last forever, and there's only so many re-runs and hiatuses a kid can take before giving up on Ren.
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Nickelodeon, like Saturday morning cartoons, never got any worse. It's just that children's programming doesn't appeal to you when you're not a kid any more.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Not true. TV is more shit now. The only Japanese cartoon on when I was a kid was Belle & Sebastian. And that's half French.
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Dragon Ryder
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Quote from: RVR II on January 31, 2009, 06:32:22 PM
The firing of Jon Krickfalusi ended Ren and Stimpy. That is all that matters.
Quote from: Dankbuds on February 01, 2009, 07:19:55 PM
Quote from: kodiakthejuggler on February 01, 2009, 07:15:42 PM
You got that right... after he left the episodes were garbage...
While there were some hidden gems within the crap that was Ren and Stimpy post-Jon K., they just lost so much life that the show couldn't be redeemed and the plug had to be pulled. No one likes life as a vegetable.
Sorry, but the John K getting fired argument when down the toilet when he brought the show back on Spike TV and made Ren & Stimpy have gay sexual intercourse without any ambiguity. It's like saying Return of the Jedi would have been better if George Lucas directed it... and then seeing Jar-Jar. John K is worse than Hitler. He literally raped beloved cartoon character. Not figuratively. Literally. He literally raped Ren & Stimpy. Way harder than whoever took over for him on Nickelodeon.
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Rapper Montaz examines darkness of the world with new album ‘D.A.M.N.’
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA – A lot of people are looking around the world today and seeing it filled with darkness. From diseases to wars, from natural disasters to social injustice – the world is filled with a lot of negative things. An exploration of that darkness and introspective lyrics that question how we got this state of despair are front and center on a new project from Southern Georgia artist Montaz.
The project is called “D.A.M.N.” which stands for Darkness Among Many Nations, and it is currently available across all streaming platforms. It’s an album that Montaz said relates with people from all walks of life through the shared experience of troubling times.
“It started as me telling my story through some of the songs I’ve made, with an entertaining vibe to it,” Montaz said. “I’m a fan of horror movies and some of the songs have a horror-based influence. But my whole vibe isn’t dark and I’m not saying that the whole world is entirely dark. I’m just saying that what we’re seeing today definitely gives the world a darker aspect, and this album explores that darker perspective while also sharing some of the stories – what I saw and heard – from growing up in Philadelphia.”
Montaz’s unique sound and style can easily be identified by its nod to old-school Hip Hop. He grew up as a fan of the underground Rap scene, and has developed his own spin on the raw and real lyricism of that true Hip Hop sound. He also brings a fusion of sounds from his wide-ranging heritage which includes everything from African American to Irish, Puerto Rican, Creole, Italian, Native American, Dominican and Welsh. His biggest inspirations include artists such as Big L, Eminem, WuTang, Common, Flatlinerz, Mobb Deep, Smooth Da Hustler, Onyx, Redman, Big Pun, Nas and Biggie.
“I grew up listening to a lot of that old-school Hip Hop music,” he said. “I would listen to Big L off and on religiously, and coming up I wanted to be rapping like that but with my own twist to it. I want to emulate them while trying to have my own voice and style to it.”
It wasn’t until age 14 that he realized creating music was his passion and should be something he pursues as a career. It happened in a flash while he was riding with his uncle in the car. His uncle had a bunch of old CDs, and when Montaz popped in WuTang’s second album, “WuTang Forever,” he stumbled across the track “Triumph” which brought back memories from the first time he’d heard it at age 3. It created such a powerful memory that he knew he wanted to do that for other people. He hasn’t looked back since.
“At the end of the day, I want to be known as being lyrical with a touch of horror,” he said. “I want to be known for telling a story and relating to folks who go through the same things I’ve gone through. I know that people like pure Hip Hop music with good lyrics and an entertaining sound, and that means they’ll like my music.”
Montaz is currently working on a third mixtape that should be released later this year. He said he has plans to release another album called “Addiction” in the summer of 2021.
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By Alex Mueller | Weekly Recaps | 06 January 2020 | Add Comment
Tagged in Bo Horvat Carey Price Chicago Blackhawks Columbus Blue Jackets Corey Perry Dallas Stars Edmonton Oilers Elias Pettersson Florida Panthers George Hainsworth James Neal Jarred Tinordi Jeremy Roenick Kyle Clifford Montreal Canadiens Nashville Predators NBC New York Rangers Patrik Laine Philadelphia Flyers Tampa Bay Lightning Tanner Pearson Toronto Maple Leafs Washington Capitals William Nylander Winter Classic
The 2020 Winter Classic emanated from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. It was nice to see different teams in the Winter Classic. And most people agreed because the game sold out in an hour. 85,000 tickets in an hour is not too shabby. But I really missed the snow. There’s something about watching a hockey game played in snow that’s magical. The game was kind of blah to watch. It was mostly grinding. The Dallas Stars put themselves into a two goal hole thanks to Corey Perry and his elbow and a delay of game penalty creating a 5 on 3. The Nashville Predators were happy to take advantage of it. It didn’t look like anymore goals would be scored after that either. Or certainly not on even strength. And that’s pretty much what happened because only one goal wasn’t scored on a power-play or directly after one.
The aforementioned after one is when the Stars scored their first goal at the end of the second period to make it interesting. And that must have given them momentum because they came out balling at the beginning of the third period. The produced waves of chances and three goals in the first six and a half minutes of the period. They were also aided by a bad delay of game penalty. I’m pretty sure the puck hit the glass before it went out of play. That’s something the NHL should really rectify. The ref can call the penalty and then Toronto can confirm or deny the penalty. After this run, the game was effectively over.
One thing that was sorely missed at the game was Jeremy Roenick who was suspended for his threesome comments. NBC made the right call suspending him but I hope he comes back at some point. And Jeremy, those are things you say in your head, not out loud.
Next year’s Winter Classic will be in Minnesota. I applaud the selection even though I find the Wild to be one of the more uninteresting and boring teams in the NHL. But at least it’s a new team and there’s a good chance there will be snow.
And we finally found out what former Dallas Stars head coach Jim Montgomery was fired for, alcohol abuse.
1. Never say never this season. The Washington Capitals were down 3-2 against the Sharks when they pulled their goalie. The Sharks scored an empty net goal with a minute left in the game and you’d probably think that would be it. Normally you would be right. But the Capitals attacked quickly, pulled their goalie and scored only 13 seconds later. Then about 30 seconds later, they score again with the goalie pulled. The Capitals ended up wining in overtime on a two on one started by their goalie. With an assist to all the Sharks on the ice being completely out of position.
Things I don’t
1. Now at the halfway point, the Eastern Conference standings is beginning to look exactly like last seasons. It took a while for them to get going, they weren’t in playoff spots a month ago, but the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning are now playing like we thought they would. The big three in the Atlantic Division are back and here to stay at the top of the division the rest of the season. The only difference in the standings is the Philadelphia Flyers and Florida Panthers are in instead of the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Western Conference is a little different but the Central Division is almost the same. Only the Pacific Division is vastly different. After what seemed to be an interesting start to the season has become less interesting by the game. Although the race for the last wild card spots should be intriguing, you’ll have to wait until the playoffs to get much drama.
2. I missed this last week because I was watching football but I have to say I agree with John Tortorella on his assessment of the ending of the Columbus Blue Jackets vs Chicago Blackhawks. And me agreeing with him says a lot because I think he’s a loon. The timekeeper let too much time run off the clock for the Blackhawks too many men on the ice penalty at the end of overtime. Nobody bothered to fixed. It looked like it was off by eight tenths of a second. That might not seem like much but it made a huge difference. The Blue Jackets scored at the end of overtime. Only it didn’t count because it went in the net about two tenths of a second after the horn. The eight tenths really would have came in handy there. To make matters worse, the Blue Jackets lost in the shootout and they lost their starting goalie Joonas Korpisalo for four to six weeks when he tore his meniscus making a save. But getting back to Tortorella he grilled the officiating after the game. His main point was we have all this technology and we still can’t get anything right. He’s right. They can’t. In hockey or football. It’s like clockwork. Instead of admitting they screwed up, the NHL fined Tortorella for his post game tirade. But it doesn’t change the fact that you screwed up NHL and rather than trying to get it right, you just try to silence the people pointing out your mistakes.
3. The Edmonton Oilers have been slowly sliding down the standings and out of a wild card spot. They currently reside in one now but they aren’t making it easy on themselves. They jumped out to a 6-0 lead against the New York Rangers only to see the Rangers score five unanswered goals themselves. The Oilers ended up scoring an empty net goal to ice the win but scoring one of those is not something you should need to do when you’re up 6-0.
Fights of the Week
Special thanks to hockeyfights.com for making this section a little easier to do.
Mikhail Sergachev vs Jake McCabe
This one was short and fast.
Jarred Tinordi vs Kyle Clifford
This one was a little different and definitely slower but it still had some good punches.
Goat of the Week
Carey Price – Montreal Canadiens
The Canadiens were sloppy on both Lightning goals in this game but this one was far worse. Price goes out to play the puck, always a recipe for disaster, plays it poorly and gets zero help from his defensemen. That was the game-winning goal in the first period. Nobody else scored in the game.
Stat Line of the Week
01/02/20 Vancouver 7 vs Chicago 5
Skater TOI G A +/- SOG Bks
B. Horvat 18:08 2 1 4 9 3
This was a wild game that the Canucks ended up barely winning. The Blackhawks scored three goals in about four minutes in the second period to go up 4-2. But the Canucks scored five of the last six goals. I don’t know if the Canucks will make the playoffs this season but they will be making them consistently shortly. Bo Horvat was just one of the young standouts in this game. He had two goals and an assist in this game and he has seven points in his last three games to go with his plus seven in those games. J.T Miller had four points in the game and Elias Pettersson and Tanner Pearson also had three points.
Numbers, Numbers
13 – Shots on goal by Patrik Laine in a loss against the Maple Leafs
3 – Hat tricks on December 31st (Kyle Connor, Zach Werenski, James Neal)
11 – Points in his previous five games for William Nylander
10 – Game point streak for the Maple Leafs
7 – Game winning streak for the Lightning
This Week in Hockey History
Special thanks to the Hockey Hall of Fame site for making this section a little easier to do.
December 30, 1989 Chicago rookie Jeremy Roenick scored his first career hat trick to lead the Blackhawks to a 7-5 win at Toronto.
December 31, 1921 Ottawa’s Harry “Punch” Broadbent began an NHL-record 16 game goal scoring streak during a 10-0 Senators win over the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
January 01, 1952 New York Rangers ended their team-record 16 game road winless streak (0-12-4) with a 2-1 win at Boston.
January 02, 1992 Jeff Hackett established Shark records for most shots faced (59) & most saves (57) in a game, and most shots faced (22) and most saves (21) in a period as the Sharks beat the Kings 7-2 at the Cow Palace to end their 13 game losing streak.
January 03, 1927 Montreal Canadiens goalie George Hainsworth and Alex Connell dueled to a 0-0 scoreless tie, in a game played at Ottawa. It was the 12th scoreless tie in NHL history and the first for the Montreal Canadiens.
January 04, 1977 Vancouver’s Curt Ridley became the first NHL goalie to shut out a touring Soviet team when the Canucks beat Moscow Spartak 2-0. Rick Blight scored both goals for the Canucks.
January 05, 1991 Detroit’s Bryan Murray became the ninth coach in NHL history to record 400 career wins, with a 6-4 victory at Chicago. The win gave Murray a record of 400-294-95 for his career.
The rankings are based on how the teams are currently playing.
1. Tampa Bay
4. Columbus
5. Pittsburgh
Bottom 5
30. Detroit
29. Montreal
28. Ottawa
27. NY Rangers
26. Anaheim
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Skills Devolution – Dividing Opinion or Delivering Opportunity?
The national landscapes of policy and practice in the realms of further education, higher education and skills have become especially volatile, uncertain and complex spaces in recent times, says Mandy Crawford-Lee, Director of Policy and Operations, University Vocational Awards Council.
Against a backdrop of broad political changes, the UK Government has initiated a large number of skills and educational reforms which are shaking up the national picture with the aim of generating longer term economic growth and supporting social mobility.
From Augar to Richard, from apprenticeship levy and devolution, to a review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below to a review into higher level technical education, the same themes emerge: How can we better address the needs of learners and employers?
How the education, training and skills system plays out at local level
Making sense of this landscape is the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Future Ready Skills Commission which has come about at a time when Government is making a more sustained commitment to devolution in England, including devolving skills powers and funding.
Its aim is to influence the national devolved approach with a chief interest in how the education, training and skills system plays out at local level with particular reference to the Leeds City Region (LCR) as the main case study.
I am delighted to be one of its Skills Commissioners representing higher education providers from my perspective as Director of Policy and Operations UVAC, a leading independent body for the field of higher education, skills and work-based learning in the UK with more than 90 HEIs in membership.
I also happily sit alongside other national representative bodies when, it is fair to say, we are more used to engaging in the vocational and technical education and training debate where our respective views are noticeably polarised and the language territorial.
So how is the Skills Commission brokering greater cooperation between us?
Well, firstly it recognises that people have genuine and passionate beliefs and will not change their views readily; but that there are also areas of common concern and interest.
Secondly, it accepts that the amount of skills budget to be devolved, on its own, limits the opportunities for transformation especially as each facet of the skills system has its own problem of fragmentation and competition which can act as a brake on local collaboration.
But ultimately it acknowledges that devolution can present a significant opportunity, not to acquire specific powers and budgets from central Government, but to influence the way organisations, sometimes on opposite sides of the debate concerning priorities for skills investment, can come together to define and implement local solutions.
Since becoming a Skills Commissioner I can see the positive effect of working with local representation from LCR and national interests in creating a new energy, a new narrative, around England’s long experience of reform and development in apprenticeships now partnered with unprecedented change in its vocational and technical education for more than a generation. And that new narrative is attempting to be both radical and bold to have the necessary impact on policy making.
HE engagement in apprenticeships, technical and professional skills
From a UVAC perspective I think it is important to ensure that universities and higher education providers remain a recognisable partner and interested stakeholder.
It is also important that the Skills Commission recognise that skills should not be considered in isolation from knowledge exchange, inward investment and business development.
Rather, now is the time to accept that the norm in UK skills delivery is being challenged. A new eco-systems is being formed where different ways of working are sought, and where new ideas are introduced, shaped and implemented.
In my view, the future for HE engagement in apprenticeships and the technical and professional skills system is positive if we ensure the employer remains central to developments and they are unhindered in deciding where to influence or invest in workforce development.
Blueprint for an education and skills system at local level
I also think on the basis of employer need we can all collectively work to support the development of work-based progression routes from entry and intermediate-skill level roles to higher technical, managerial and professional occupations as part of the Commission’s aim to develop a blueprint for an education and skills system that can contribute to the outcomes needed at local level.
While the Future Ready Skills Commission is still at an early stage of its review it has raised a number of important issues about how reduced inequalities and improved quality of delivery, including outcomes, can be achieved. There are already a number of promising future directions.
Mandy Crawford-Lee, Director of Policy and Operations, University Vocational Awards Council
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Pro-Bono Legal Aid in Armenia, 2015
In the Framework of the World Bank funded “Strengthening of Training Capacity of the School of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia” project Global SPC has conducted a survey on current status of pro-bono legal aid services and financing challenges in Armenia, including areas of law in demand for legal counseling and legal representation. The survey report provides also recommendations to state officials on actions necessary to improve the situation in Armenia.
Based on this survey the company developed also the Free Legal Aid Services Guidelines – Operational Manual, which was provided to the School of Advocates for further use.
USAID/EDMC
Parmaceutical guide. Armenia 2014
Global SPC with the support of the USAID/EDMC project has developed “Parmaceutical guide. Armenia 2014”. The guide provides information about the country’s pharmaceutical and importing companies, as well as local representations of foreign pharmaceutical organizations. The guide exhaustively presents the drug market tendencies of the Republic, from the point of view of import, export and production, as well as the educational institutions.
Food processing guide. Armenia 2014
Global SPC with the support of the USAID/EDMC project has developed “Food processing guide. Armenia 2014”. It provides information about the food processing sector and producing companies of Armenia. Export opportunities and channels for processed food of Armenia are also included in the Guide.
Interactive map on customs procedures of the Republic of Armenia
Global SPC within the framework of USAID EDMC project has developed an interactive map on customs procedures of the Republic of Armenia. It describes all import procedures and export procedures for agricultural and non-agricultural products.
The interactive map gives an opportunity to learn about the above mentioned procedures through a few basic and simplified steps. Each of these steps describes also the activities to be carried out by an importer or exporter. The description of procedures is given according to the current Customs legislation of Armenia as of September 1, 2013.
European Commission | ECORYS Netherlands
Trade sustainability impact assessment (Trade SIA) under DCFTA
Global SPC is proud to be the part of the international team conducting a trade sustainability impact assessment relating to the negotiations of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between the EU and the Republic of Armenia together with Ecorys (The Netherlands) and CASE (Poland).
The objective of the study is to assess how the trade and trade-related provisions under negotiation could affect economic, social, and environmental issues in the EU and Armenia (as well as in other relevant countries, in particular neighboring developing countries). Furthermore, it should propose measures (trade or non-trade – the so-called ‘beyond the border’ dimension/issues) to maximize the benefits of the DCFTA and prevent or minimize potential negative impacts. It should also include a reference to the EU-Turkey Customs Union and assess the impact of the future DCFTA on the Customs Union's functioning.
Global SPC developed Investment Guide for the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia in the framework of USAID/EDMC project. It aims to guide foreign investors through the process of doing business in Armenia by providing useful information about Armenian business and regulatory environment, investment climate, industry and customs system, etc.
It could serve as a handbook for investors to discover businesses, to make proper and effective decisions and conduct business in Armenia.
Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness
Global SPC is proud to be part of international team implementing the USAID funded Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness program in Armenia.
The Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness (EDMC) program is a 5-year USAID-funded project with a total assistance budget of $17 million. The EDMC program will be implemented by a consortium of international and Armenian consulting companies under the leadership of the Pragma Corporation: the program will draw upon the international expertise of the Pragma Corporation, Shore Bank International, Sibley Associates, the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF), the Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Development (CEED), Associates in Rural Development (AIRD) and the unique knowledge and experience of Armenian experts with Global SPC and Grant Thornton Armenia.
The International Monetary Fund
Global SPC served the IMF Resident Representative Office in Armenia: a package of legal and advocatory services have been provided.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
USAID/HS-STAR
Healthcare System Strengthening in Armenia
Global SPC has provided legal services to famous company "Abt Associates Inc." The company is implementing the HS-STAR project financed by USAID.
The HS-STAR relies on an approach that simultaneously aims to strengthen the health system while improving the quality of care and increasing population knowledge in priority service areas, including maternal and child health, reproductive health and family planning, tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases and emergency medicine.
Website Development for the Armenian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre - Phase V (AEPLAC – V)
Global SPC together with the company Smart Systems has developed the website www.aeplac.eu for the Armenian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre - Phase V (AEPLAC V). The latter’s main goals are to contribute to the reinforcement of the capacity of the administrative bodies in relation with the EU integration through the programs Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and European Neighborhood Policy, to promote awareness of the EU in the RA, and to provide assistance to the EU Advisory Team.
Effective and important consultations, including those regarding the design and content of the website,
Conduct of trainings for the personnel of AEPLAC V in order to introduce the prepared website, its facilities, the electronic system for controlling the data included in the website, as well as creation of user/ administrator manuals and instructions for its use.
Website of the Program Management Agency of the RA Ministry of Economy.
The company Global SPC has taken part as an adviser of the Smart Systems LLC in the proceedings of the website development for the Program Management Agency of the RA Ministry of Economy within the bounds of the program “Assistance for the implementation of the programs Twinning and TAIEX”, which is carried out with the assistance of the European Commission. The website will present information on the programs Twinning, TAIEX and SIGMA which will be implemented under the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument.
Professional suggestions concerning the text and content of the website,
Holding a seminar for the respective persons assigned in the RA state government bodies, introduction of the developed website, the electronic system for the management of the information placed in the website and the conditions for their use.
“Hayastan” All Armenian Fund
Analysis of HATM LLC financial position and operations.
Global SPC conducted analysis and provided recommendations on:
Trade results;
Profitability, including cost of sales and other expenses structure and accounting;
Financial position;
Management and human resources;
Marketing activities and marketing plan.
Our team also assisted the management of HATM LLC business plan development and conducted financial projections of the Company.
Market research and survey of construction materials.
In frames of analysis of financial position and operations of HATM LLC, Global SPC conducted a general market research of construction materials sector in Armenia. Research included survey of over 40 companies in construction materials and construction sectors, desktop research, assessment of construction market, etc.
Delivering professional lectures and seminars for responsible employees of the ministries of the Republic of Armenia and other state bodies, as well as for students and other interested parties:
Organizing and delivering special lectures and seminars for governmental employees.
Study of institutional and legal systems of the Republic of Armenia and analysis of compliance to the WTO provisions:
Conduct of institutional researches in the ministries of the Republic of Armenia and other state bodies,
Research of the laws regulating trade sector of the RA and other laws concerned with the WTO agreements,
Analysis of the negotiation processes in the framework of WTO.
Collection, translation and printing of the information on suggestions, submitted by the WTO member countries, their positions and related discussions conducted within WTO negotiations current stage:
Study, collection and translation of technical documents,
Development and printing of books, covering issues of WTO negotiations current processes, suggestions and positions of member countries and related discussions.
Creation of the WTO Notification Agency website’s new design, its ongoing development and expansion of the sectors involved:
Development and preparation of a new design for the website, its functional fields and links,
Study, collection and translation of the data on the customs guides and trade policies of the WTO member countries,
Collection, processing and development of the laws and regulations governing trade and economic relations, as well as WTO current documents.
USAID/CAPS
Benchmarking of Armenian IT Policies from the Perspective of Increasing IT Cluster Competitiveness
Study and thorough analysis of countries that have succeeded to develop viable IT production sectors, such as Israel, Ireland, Estonia, South Korea, and Egypt, and their development ways.
Comparative analysis of the above mentioned countries to the current situation and potential development actions of IT sector in Armenia and provision of precise conclusions and suggestions.
IT Development National Strategy and Action Plan for the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Armenia
Development of “IT Sector Development Concept Paper” for the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia in support of its strategic goals to develop a robust Information Technology sector and to create a viable E-Society in Armenia.
Study and drafting of the main objectives of IT industry development and action programs, necessary for their achievement.
World Bank/CPCS Transcom Limited (Canada)
Transaction Advisory Services Implementing the Tender for the Concession of the Armenian Railway
Global SPC was the local agent of Canadian company CPCS Transcom, which mission was to advise the Government of Armenia on the concessioning of the state-owned Armenian Railway. Global SPC was responsible for any issue concerned with financial advisory requested by CPCS Transcom. In the result CPCS made recommendations to the Government of Armenia on the appropriate structure for the railway concession.
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Is That A Pinocchio Nose I See?
Take a look at Adam Green's guest, "Titus Frost"
Real Title: Jacob Wohl, Kushner, Genie Energy w/ Titus Frost & KMN
"i really dont give a fuck" Brendon O'Connell
Brendon deleted his own YouTube account. His famous last words before doing so? "i really dont give a fuck"
This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account.
Hour 1 - Trump in Hanoi, Taxes = Renting from the Government
Hour 2 - AIPAC/Israel agents smear Americans, Netanyahu’s government brings recognized terrorists into his government.
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Today: Guest, Rolf Lindgren
No Agenda Episode 1116 - "GND-MOU-ROI" - 2019.02.28
Pablo Escobar's Ghost Appears During Mansion Demolition? Coast To Coast AM Reports...
You have to admit, this is totally freaky...
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CPAC 2019 - SMASH THE PATRIARCHY!
Eddie Bravo Calls Alex Jones a "Zionist Shill"
Israeli Prosecutors Say They Plan to Charge Netanyahu in Corruption Cases
Israel’s attorney-general intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged corruption, the Justice Ministry said on Thursday.
The announcement, marking the first time a serving Israeli prime minister has been put on official notice of planned prosecution, deepened uncertainty over Netanyahu’s prospects in a tightly contested election to be held in April.
Netanyahu, who has denied any wrongdoing in the three long-running corruption investigations against him, was due to deliver a televised statement later in the day. He has already said he has no intention of resigning.
Israel Prohibits Anonymous Online Political Content Ahead of April Election
40 days ahead of the general election in the country, Israel’s Central Elections Committee has issued a decree on Wednesday extending existing propaganda law, which prohibits anonymous political publications, to content posted online.
The decision, made by the committee’s chairman Hanan Melcer, came following a petition filed in December by social activists, to which the ruling Likud party was the only party to explicitly object.
South Africa: ANC Will Seize White Property in Cities, Not Just Farms, Says President
White-owned property in South Africa’s cities and towns will be seized along with white farms in order to provide “high-density housing” for blacks, and whites are to blame for the country’s collapsing train services, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced.
Addressing a meeting of “traditional leaders” in the Cape Town City Hall on Wednesday this week, as part of the ANC’s election campaign, Ramaphosa also blamed Apartheid [read whites] for African backwardness and the fact that blacks are always poor.
“Land in cities and towns must be identified for seizure without compensation upon which high-density housing can be developed so that ordinary South Africans can live close to their places of work,” Ramaphosa told the meeting.
“Apartheid distributed people outside of the major cities. The poor lived outside the cities, and the rich inside them,” he continued.
“Just like other world cities, South Africa had to develop high-density housing in the city and town centers, and the government was going to use the seizure of land without compensation program to identity suitable land within the urban areas.
“This is going to reduce the living costs of the poor who will then not have to travel so far to their places of work,” he said.
This is the first open confirmation that it is not just farms which are going to be seized under the “no compensation” rules scheduled to be introduced in March 2019, but also white properties in urban areas.
Ramaphosa went on to blame whites for the collapsing railway infrastructure in South Africa, even though the ANC has ruled the country for the last 25 years.
He acknowledged that the public transport infrastructure was very poor and that it cost the South African economy dearly. He undertook to “pull the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) right” after a new series of criminal corruption scandals recently shook the state-owned rail transportation system.
“Some train stations in the townships [the black suburbs] are closed. People do not use them anymore because of crime and the unreliability of the train system,” Ramaphosa told the meeting, adding that this too was due to the “heritage of apartheid [read whites] which left us with poor public transport systems.”
The creep of censorship hits home
Published by Carolyn Yeager on Wed, 2019-02-27 22:14
IT CAN NOW BE TOLD. The company that has hosted my server for the past 10 years without a problem took me offline without warning on Sunday morning, Feb. 17. When I made contact with them on Monday, Feb. 18, I was informed that 1&1 (recently become 1&1 IONOS) had terminated my account. The best reason the “security” rep could give me was the vague word “hate.” We're all supposed to accept that as meaning something. He said they would send me a letter of explanation. Why didn't they send the letter first?
The letter that came contained the two “relevant” points from the Terms and Conditions, to wit: thou “shall not contain or link to any material which is harmful, violent, threatening, abusive or hateful.” Didn't seem to be relevant to me - my site is mild and factual - but it's all in how you define these words, right? It really came down to the most important point: We're a private company, headquartered in Germany, so we don't have to defend ourselves. They had received complaints, and that's enough.
Whistleblower-activist Robin Hordon on the 9/11 planes
Today: Dr. Duke and Patrick Slattery – Ann Coulter Dares to Say Jewish Elite Hates White Men & Christian Broadcaster says Zionists Kill Christians!
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Dr. James Tracy
On this edition of The Realist Report, we’re joined by Dr. James Tracy, a former professor at Florida Atlantic University who was forced out of his position as a tenured professor of media studies in 2015 largely as a result of his personal blog and research into the alleged “shooting” at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dr. Tracy and I begin by discussing his professional background and academic experience before delving into his research into various “conspiracy theories”. We also address the state of modern journalism, free speech and freedom of intellectual inquiry in America, and much more!
Memory Hole Blog – Reflections on Politics and Media
James Tracy Legal Defense Fund
Family that lost a son at Sandy Hook fights against various conspiracy theorists – The Times of Israel
The Conspiracy Theorist – What Happened to James Tracy Could Happen to You
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Blackbird9's Breakfast Club Podcast # 148 - 2019.02.27
Golden Templars From Hidden Hands
Frederick C. Blackburn (also known as BlackBird9) studied engineering to become an electrical engineer and had a career in IT. He had a Top Secret clearance in the USA. He gave lectures to: Military and Naval Intelligence personnel as well as NSA, CIA and FBI personnel about cell phone and other technologies.
Keeping you up to date - One Knowledge Sphere at a time
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Electoral Shift: Colorado Moving To Alter How Its State's Votes Are Allocated In Presidential Elections
Source: Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP
It’s only happened five times in our history. The winner of the presidential race wins the Electoral College but loses the popular vote. The elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016 saw a president be elected in this manner. And yet, we’ve survived. Also, this has only happened five times. It’s rare, but 2016 was different because of Trump. Democrats were lusting for Hillary Clinton to win. The media were hoping she would win, but she didn’t. She lost. She’s a two-time loser. She will never be president. Still, liberals were seething over the results. They still are. So, what do they do? Well, they start the ‘abolish the Electoral College’ mantra. The system in which we’ve picked our president was attacked as undemocratic and racist. Cue the eye rolls. In Colorado, they’re getting the ball rolling by trying to pass legislation that ties the state’s electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote (via Denver Post):
Your Wednesday Cartoons 2019.02.27
ADL Calls on Oman to Remove "Protocols" and Other Blatantly Anti-Semitic Titles from State-Run Book Fair
More than a dozen versions Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” listed
New York, NY, February 26, 2019 … The ADL (Anti-Defamation League) today called on the Sultanate of Oman to remove a number of virulently anti-Semitic titles that are being promoted for sale in the Arabic language through Oman’s annual state-run book fair.
According to ADL’s Arabic language experts, a number of blatantly anti-Semitic titles are currently listed on the web site for the 2019 Muscat International Book Fair. The listings include more than a dozen versions of the infamous anti-Semitic forgery, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” as well as a dozen copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” Also available is Henry Ford’s “The International Jew,” another seminal anti-Semitic tract. The government-organized book fair, which runs through March 2, has provided a platform for anti-Semitic texts in past years as well.
Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting,” “Troll Report,” & Political Targeting in Video Interview
- Insider, Formerly Responsible for Content Review in Facebook’s Intellectual Property Dept Speaks Out, Loses Job
- Facebook Engineers Plan to “demote bad content”
- Conservative Facebook Page Livestreams Secretly “deboosted,” No Notice to Page Owners
- Facebook Can Classify Users as Trolls Based on Their Vocabulary, Then Punish By Limiting Bandwidth, Blocking Comments…
- Facebook Engineer: “‘hateful’ content is coming from right-leaning sites.”
- “Special features” Triggered “leading up to important elections”
- Bizarre View of “hate speech” Includes Content from Conservative Commentator
View the documents here.
(Update: In the video, we said Steven Crowder’s “livestream was dethrottled,” when in fact his entire page was “dethrottled.”)
(San Francisco) Project Veritas has obtained and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan and go about policing political speech. Screenshots from a Facebook workstation show the specific technical actions taken against political figures, as well as “[e]xisting strategies” taken to combat political speech.
Today: Dr. Duke and Mark Dankof - Samson Option! – Israel is worst Nuclear Threat not N. Korea & Trump’s Lying Jewish Judas Testifies!
Muslim Skeptic Daniel Haqiqatjou on Islam vs. Victimolatry
Kamala Harris - Reparations Plan
Putting Evil Zionists in Wood Chippers
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Defendant Who Raped a Child Because of Philadelphia’s Sanctuary City Policies Is Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Reentry
PHILADELPHIA, PA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Juan Ramon-Vasquez, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today to 21 months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutive to his state sentence, for his federal crime of illegal reentry to the United States after deportation. The federal sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro. In May 2009, Ramon-Vasquez was deported from the United States to Honduras. In March 2014, he was found back in the United States by U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) officers. At that time, Ramon-Vasquez was in the custody of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons.
The City of Philadelphia thereafter chose not to comply with a detainer lodged by ICE for Ramon-Vasquez, who was instead released from custody by the Philadelphia Department of Prisons. After his release, Ramon-Vasquez proceeded to repeatedly rape a young child. The defendant is currently serving a sentence of 8 to 20 years in state prison for the rapes.
Radio Free South Africa with host Schalk van der Merwe 2019.02.26
Updates On The South Africa Situation
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Davis Lurmann’s ‘Right Perspective’ 2019.02.26
The role of Davis Lurmann’s ‘Right Perspective’ is to question the conventional narrative fed to us daily by the mainstream media (and some in the alt-media alike), unpack current events using key sound-bytes, media deconstruction, deep analysis & commentary, provide historical context & forecast what’s to come (given the trajectory we’ve been set upon by ‘the powers that shouldn’t be’ in the deep state).
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The Brian Ruhe Show 2019.02.26 (Audio Rip)
Brian is Playing this video on his show tonight. I joined tonight's intro of the show with the audio of the YouTube video witch sounds better.
The Deeper Side of National Socialism, Vril, UFOs and Adolf Hitler (Pete Papaherakles)
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Today: Latest political bullshit
Scientology Documentary: Going Clear and the Prison of Belief
Going Clear Scientology and the Prison of Belief from Rasec Nomar on Vimeo.
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BND warns of Nigerian mafia
The department TE of the Federal Intelligence Service deals with terrorism and organized crime. And also for migration, the analysts are responsible, they should investigate "causes and effects", as it is called on the homepage of the secret service.
In a confidential report, which the SPIEGEL has seen, the BND warns that mafia organizations from Nigeria could spread in Germany. The strong influx of Nigerian asylum seekers, who increasingly traveled from Italy to the Federal Republic, will lead to a sprouting of "extremely brutally acting Nigerian structures of organized crime," says the intelligence service, citing its own findings and those of other security agencies.
In 2018, more than 10,000 Nigerians applied for asylum in Germany, which represents an increase of 30 percent compared to the previous year. Experts from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) and the Federal Police attribute this development primarily to the so-called secondary migration within Europe. According to this, many Nigerian refugees, mainly from Italy, where more than 100,000 people are now registered from the African country, are moving further north. One of their main destination countries is Germany.
Criminal groups from Nigeria such as the Supreme Eiye Confraternity or Black Ax have formed in recent years in Italy already solid structures and act there sometimes "at eye level" with the domestic mafia, analyzed the BND. In Italy and Spain, the police and the judiciary regarded these gangs as a particular threat. The criminal organizations were now trying to expand their criminal activities to Germany. Among Nigerian migrants, according to the BND report, there are many victims of traffickers who bring huge profits to criminals.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that as many as 80 percent of Nigerian-born women who can reach Europe are sexually exploited. Smugglers force them into prostitution, often involving psychological violence and voodoo rituals . According to investigators, women have to work out enormous sums of money, which most of them members of criminal organizations lose again. More than 90 percent of women trafficked from Nigeria to Europe are from Benin City , according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
According to BND findings, Nigerian traffickers are now relocating refugees to Europe via the West Mediterranean route. However, more and more often papers from compatriots who are already in Europe are used to smuggle similar-looking people by plane.
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and has the greatest economic power of all Sub-Saharan countries. Yet almost two-thirds of Nigerians live in extreme poverty.
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Paul English – G. Ward Price – I Know These Dictators – Part 4
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West Coast Snowmen May Provoke Human Rights Complaint
by Tim Murray
Seattle resident James Sanchez reports that
Black Lives Matter events and marches and anti-White rallies are being held through the schools in western Washington State for the entire Black Lives Matter History Month. White kids in those schools are required to shout their hatred of White kids even as Black Lives Matter leaders are calling for killing of cops.
Sanchez believes that
The only thing that could possibly cancel these hate fests would be PURE WHITE SNOW. Quite a lot actually. So far, schools have been closed across the region for three snow days and it looks like more are coming.
We had a dump of beautiful white snow up here in coastal southern BC today as well. In fact I just finished shoveling 3 inches of global warming in my driveway. Since the snow was all white, I am waiting for a "Canadian of colour" to file a human rights complaint. Under Canadian human rights law, taxpayers pay for complainants' legal bills win or lose, while defendants usually have to mortgage their houses to mount a defence. These human rights actions are adjudicated by a kangaroo court (aka the Human Rights Tribunal) consisting of "judges" who lack juridical training. Then again, show trials really don't require knowledge of the law, do they? You just have to be a fat ugly hyper feminist replica of former Stasi agent and sunshine girl Anette Kahane, Angela Merkel's right hand "man".
David Icke Clashes with Studio 10 about being banned from Australia 2019
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Nick Mason on the Leo Frank and the Murder of Mary Phagan
Nick Mason returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his research on the murder of the Mary Phagan and the subsequent trial and conviction of Leo Frank for that crime.
Nick is a co-host of Myth of the 20th Century podcast and a frequent contributor to the American Sun.
Dr. Adrian Krieg – Almost Live With Adrian And Andy #65
Justin Garcia
On this edition of The Realist Report, we’re joined once again by Justin Garcia AKA Master Chim of The Pressure Project, one of the most powerful podcasts out there. Justin and I begin by discussing the mission and purpose of his work at The Pressure Project, the concept of masculinity, and the characteristics of a strong, healthy, masculine man. We move on to address racial relations in America, fake “hate crimes”, the war on White America, and the weaponized concepts of “diversity” and “multiculturalism”. We also address America’s disastrous immigration policies and get MC’s take on President Trump, the current political scene, and the Jewish Question.
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No Agenda Episode 1115 - "Truancy Crimes" - 2019.02.24
The Political Cesspool With James Edwards 2019.02.23
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Download Hour 1 - Hosts James Edwards and Keith Alexander talk about the fake outrage over an interview that John Wayne gave nearly 50 years ago and an interesting new lawsuit that rings a bell.
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Download Hour 3 - James dives into the TPC mailbag to read a sampling of listener correspondence from around the world before shifting gears and talking about the latest yearbook picture that has offended the sensibilities of chronic malcontents.
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Rock Solid Recrap: Money & Time Well Saved
Rock Solid Recrap: Going Out With A Thud
Rock Solid Recrap: Goodnight Everybody
Lineup Card: Rockies vs Dodgers
Rock Solid Recrap: Dead Team Walking
Rock Solid Recrap: That'll Just About Do It
Lineup Card: Rockies vs Giants
Rock Solid Recap: Satisfaction
Rock Solid Recrap: Giants Play Better, Win
Rock Solid Recrap: How Not To Manage A Must Win Game
Lineup Card: Rockies @ D-Backs
Rock Solid Recrap: Time To Refuel?
Lineup Card: Rockies vs D-Backs
Rock Solid Recrap: Snakes Make Awful Pets
Rock Solid Recrap: Can't Get Over The Hump
Lineup Card: Rockies @ Dodgers
If Jeter's A Cheater, Then So Is Clint Barmes
Rock Solid Recap: Alive And Well Enough
Lineup Card: Rockies vs Padres
Rock Solid Recrap: Needle Creeping Towards E
What These Two Games Mean
Rock Solid Recrap: We Miss Cook
Rock Solid Recap: A Good Enough 10
Lineup Card: Rockies vs Diamondbacks
Rock Solid Recap: That'll Do
Rock Solid Recap: Being Better At Baseball
Dusty O Dusty
Rock Solid Recap: That Happened
I hate to say it, but I'm glad I didn't commit any time or money into making the drive to St. Louis this weekend.
It looks like all the Rockies were willing to invest was the time and energy it takes to get on the plane. Anything beyond that is too much to ask at this point. What a shame. I thought this team had pride, but I think once you have to question a team's pride more than five times in a season, it's probably not there.
Some of the player's have it, don't get me wrong about that, but not nearly enough of them do to make the team competitive in the face of adversity. Not enough pride, too much apathy.
As David Martin said in his recap, I hope they find enough motivation within themselves to at least help Ubaldo Jimenez out on Saturday. That would give all of us something to feel good about as we head into what will be the most important winter of the Dan O'Dowd era.
I do need to acknowledge Dexter Fowler for notching 14 triples. To me anything over 10 is astonishing, even playing in Coors Field, and especially when you spent a good month in the minors. Great accomplishment for him. Hopefully he comes back next year looking to use the gaps to his advantage again, and who knows, maybe 20 triples are within reach.
Also, nice work by Manny Delcarmen, Edgmer Escalona and Samuel Deduno out of the bullpen. If the offense had actually decided to work some ABs and put a little pressure on Chris Carpenter, the door for a comeback would have been open thanks to their fine work.
Jorge De La Rosa vs Jake Westbrook
Could this be Jorge's final start with the Rockies? Only his agent knows.
Labels: Cardinals., Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
Back in business tonight. I was away last night working on a couple writing projects that I hope you will enjoy in the coming days.
2B Nelson
C Iannetta
RF Smith
P Hammel
My early thoughts and prayers are with Jason Hammel's arm as it appears to be one bad pitch away from falling off. Hang in there, arm.
RF Craig
3B Feliz
C Pagnozzi
The Colorado Rockies decided to say good-bye to their home field and their fans with their worst home series of the season -- a sweep at the hands of their division rivals from Los Angeles.
This was another tough one to sit through as the Rockies did more to beat themselves than the Dodgers did to beat them. Oh sure, Matt Kemp provided the power that sent a Jhoulys Chacin pitch over the wall for a Grand Slam, but it was the Rockies sloppiness that made it possible.
And it's not just the sloppiness of the fielder in this case. Yes, that's a play Ian Stewart has to make every single time. But guess what? He didn't make it this time (and at the time there was no damage done). So now you have a young pitcher in a situation where he has to pick up a teammate. How does he react?
He walks Loney, which is sloppy on his part. I understand the frustration and refocus factors, but he has to make pitches there. He gave the AB completely away. He then allows the Grand Slam to Kemp. He just couldn't collect himself in time to stop the bleeding.
Like Esmil Rogers, you take the good with the bad with a young pitcher. Chacin has shown far more good than bad so far, but there are still significant hurdles for him to get over before you can truly feel good about him as your #2 starter, which is where Chacin is likely to be slotted next spring.
He'll get there eventually. I have no doubts at all about that. I wouldn't even be surprised if he reached #1 status in the next 24 months, but there's a ways to go in many respects.
We all beg Dexter Fowler to hit more balls on the ground. Today. Dexter hit two on the ground about as hard as one can hit them, with nothing to show for either. Just stick with that approach, Dex, the hits will come. And maybe if you just hit them a little softer... or even bunt once.
That Tulo guy does alright though doesn't he? We saw the frustration shine through again at the end of last night's game, but he impressively shook it off to give his team a big game today. 4-for-4, a walk, and 4 runs scored. I think that's good enough.
Other positives: Ryan Spilborghs took advantage of his start as well with three hits and a couple RBI.
Franklin Morales, Manny Delcarmen, Edgmer Escalona and (the returning) Matt Daley each threw a scoreless inning of relief, which allowed the Rockies to crawl back into the game. Well done by those four.
Jason Hammel vs Chris Carpenter
I can't wait to see what we'll get from the Rockies in St. Louis. If these last ten games are any indication, and I don't see any reason why they would not be, then you can probably feel free to plan something else with your time. Maybe get some yard work done or something, unless you really really really need one last baseball fix before it's gone.
PS: Wouldn't it be something if the Rockies did a reverse 2007? Loss 13 of their last 14 instead of winning that many. Could happen.
Labels: Dexter Fowler, Dodgers, Ian Stewart, Jhoulys Chacin, Matt Daley, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki
Of course I'm not going anywhere, but the Rockies 2010 playoffs hopes were officially put to bed on Tuesday night.
I've already said plenty about what I believe got to the Rockies to this point, so I'll spare you another rant by taking a quick look at tonight's proceedings before slipping into a temporary baseball depression.
I told you we'd see a lot of Jim Tracy and Joe Torre tonight.
This could very well prove to be the final Jeff Francis start at Coors Field as a member of the Rockies. If so, he'll be leaving Coors with an awful taste in his mouth.
Regardless of what happens (I have no idea how it will play out), Jeff has been through the ups and downs with us over the past few years, and he has earned my respect. He suffered through a couple of those leaner years. He was the starting pitcher in the Rockies first World Series game. Then the injuries overwhelmed him and left him a shell of the reliable starter he once was.
He was never a true ace type, but Jeff Francis at his peak behind Ubaldo Jimeenz and Jhoulys Chacin would have made the Rockies a really damn tough team to beat. It would be a pipe dream to hope he could be that guy again. It may even be far-fetched to say he'll register a 20+ start season again in his career.
I wish him all the best in whatever happens. If he's back as a low-risk, high-reward guy next spring, I'll be pulling like hell for him to be healthy and be effective.
Tonight was a good night for Esmil Rogers (4 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 6 K) as he looks to regain some lost confidence. Of course it would have been impossible to not take a step forward after his last two outings. But still, you take the good with the bad with a young, developing arm. Rogers will be a wild card heading into 2011.
Huston Street has been throwing with side pain. I guess that explains why we didn't see him in some situations that made sense for him.
Chris Nelson's started quickly with a double, run and a fancy play at 2B. The rest of his evening was very quiet. We're all curious to see what he can offer over these last five games, but I hope he doesn't end up putting too much pressure on himself.
Good night at the plate for Dexter Fowler. A mere double shy of the cycle.
Carlos Gonzalez, Todd Helton and Melvin Mora each contributed a pair of knocks. No surprises there.
Jhoulys Chacin vs Clayton Kershaw
The final home game of the season and the final start for Chacin. I couldn't thing of a worse way to end the home schedule than being swept by LA. That's a hideous thought. Please don't let that happen!
Labels: Carlos Gonzalez, Chris Nelson, Dexter Fowler, Dodgers, Esmil Rogers, Huston Street, Jeff Francis, Melvin Mora, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Todd Helton
Six games remaining on the schedule. Let's try to make at least a couple of these fun... please?
LF Smith
Eric Young joins Jason Giambi on the list of Rockies done for the year. He's suffering from pain in the leg he missed months with earlier in the season. That doesn't sound good. Clint Barmes is also away from the team with his ailing father. We wish Clint and his family nothing but the best during these difficult times.
With misfortune comes opportunity, so we'll be seeing a lot of Chris Nelson at 2B the final week. Looking forward to seeing what he offers. We do he's fast and can steal home on confused Reds relievers.
Dodgers Lineup (76-81)
SS Furcal
3B Blake
LF Johnson
P Kuroda
The reality of the Rockies situation seems to have settled in on the players. That said, I was at least expecting energy and urgency tonight as Ubaldo Jimenez went after win #20.
Not to be.
Ubaldo was fantastic. Aside from a shaky first inning that saw him lacking in command and luck, he did everything he could to give the offense a chance. All they needed was one good inning, one crooked number on the board. Unfortunately, all they could muster was a Carlos Gonzalez solo HR into the center field forest.
But then you look at Roy Halladay out there for the Phillies taking matters into his own hands. He pitched a complete shutout tonight to notch his 21st victory. The win also clinched Philadelphia the National East title. That just shows that there is still a wide gap between the tier Ubaldo stands on, and the tier reserved for Cy Young candidates.
The Offense
This was the third time the Rockies have seen Ted Lilly since August 19th. He shut them out in LA on that date. The Rockies came home to rough him up not long after. Tonight looked exactly like the first time.
They had no answers whatsoever, and that's disturbing to me because like I said, they've seen him a lot in a short period of time. I don't know that there's anything he was doing tonight that they didn't see the first two times, but they were never able to make adjustments.
I don't think you can put everything on the hitting coach, the hitters have to take their own mental notes and adjust on the fly, but it's maddening how lost the offense can look on any given night.
Maybe Don Baylor isn't as awful at his job as it sometimes appears, but maybe his message (whatever it is) isn't fitting this team either. You can't overhaul the entire lineup, but I think the Rockies would be foolish to not consider a change at the hitting coach position. And to be perfectly honest, his return would put a significant dent in my optimism for 2011.
Once-In-A- Season Events
I counted three of them tonight between the Rockies game and Monday Night Football.
Ryan Theriot walked on four pitches.
Robbie Gould missed a FG.
Franklin Morales received a standing ovation. And it wasn't just because he was leaving. He earned it.
Jeff Francis vs Hiroki Kuroda
Of course you know this means the offense will give Francis 7-8 runs of support. Unfortunately, he'll probably need all of them. Expect to see a lot of Jim Tracy and Joe Torre.
Labels: Carlos Gonzalez, Dodgers, Franklin Morales, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Ubaldo Jimenez
Tonight is all about one man and one goal.
Ubaldo Jimenez.
20 Wins.
I know the win stat doesn't mean much to a lot of people. I understand why that is. But it's still a milestone to get there. It's still significant. So if and when this is accomplished, it should be recognized and even celebrated.
LF Payton
Chris Iannetta gets a rare start with Ubaldo on the hill. I guess Miguel Olivo's bells are still ringing after a rare catcher/shortshop collision on an infield popup.
LF Oeltjen
P Lilly
Of less significance to us, a loss for LA would clinch a losing season.
Even though I have been bracing myself for this moment since the Pittsburgh/New York road trip, it is still difficult to admit the 2010 Rockies won't be getting over the hump.
See... I can't even spell out the proper words here. I guess I'll save those for when it's official.
I admire the heart this team has shown to rise from the dead on more than one occasion. I stand it awe of the other-worldly seasons turned it by our three legitimate superstars. At the same time, when I look at those two factors, it just makes everything all the more frustrating. The Rockies were better than the results will show.
This team wasn't missing much. I know a lot of folks look back at the trade deadline as a missed opportunity. Maybe it was, I can't say for sure. But I do believe they could have and should have won with the group they had. It just never all came together for a prolonged period of time like we saw from May 28th until the end of last season.
Injuries, inconsistencies, lack of fundamentals (who saw that rundown today?), poor decision making in the dugout and on the bases, lack of urgency in the early months.
There were so many things this team did wrong, yet somehow they found themselves well over .500. Looking at the standings, I don't feel like the Giants or Padres stood in their way at all. The only thing stopping the Rockies was themselves, and far too often they couldn't out of their own way.
Giants 4, Rockies 2
Today was pretty simple, though. Matt Cain overwhelmed the Rockies from start to finish. He allowed an infield single to Jay Payton and a 2-run HR to Melvin Mora in the 8th inning. There was a walk and an error earlier, a Carlos Gonzalez single in the 9th, but the Rockies mounted no serious threat to even knock Cain from the game. It was complete and utter domination.
And it came at a time when his team absolutely needed it.
Jorge De La Rosa wasn't awful himself. He started slow, but bounced back to get the Rockies through six innings and within hopeful striking distance.
The decision on Jorge in the off season will be an interesting one. For the money he's likely to be demanding, I think I would rather have a guy that I know will be efficient. The five walks today are just not good enough. Though he has improved greatly from when he was acquired, I'm not sure Jorge can be the guy we saw late last season consistently.
What happens there will all depend on what he asks for and how the Rockies view him. But you already knew that, and I think we all already feel certain he'll price himself out of range.
I hear Cody Ross likes the city of Denver. You know, I kind of like Cody Ross, too. It doesn't matter which uniform he wears, he always has a monster game and series when he visits. He plays all three outfield position (though not always smoothly). I don't know, the Rockies could do worse for a platoon partner with Seth Smith should this be the off season Ryan Spilborghs is traded.
I have no knowledge that he will be traded. Just thinking out loud.
Ubaldo Jimenez vs TBD
Ubaldo goes for his 20th win. That gives us all something to look forward to. Of course in the back of my mind I wonder if he does with number 20, will this be his final start of the season. I guess we'll know all the answers soon enough.
Labels: Giants, Jay Payton, Jorge De La Rosa, Melvin Mora, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
Rockies were in full on survival mode last night. Too late? Very likely, but it's not too late to take the Giants down to Baseball Hell with us.
P De La Rosa
Giants Lineup (87-68)
CF Ross
2B Sanchez
1B Huff
C Posey
LF Burrell
RF Guillen
SS Uribe
3B Sandoval
P Cain
Labels: Colorado Rockies, Lineup Card, San Francisco Giants
To quote one of my favorite people on Twitter...
@Townie813 That is without question the most satisfying #Rockies victory of the season. For so damn many reasons.
Rockies 10, Giants 9 (10)
I have to start by giving Jason Hammel credit for attempting to pitch through his dead arm. It may not have been the smartest thing for him to do, or for the Rockies to allow him to do, but they almost had no choice in the matter. His performance was lacking, his guts were not.
The last 48+ hours have been a nightmare for Esmil Rogers. I don't know what has gone wrong there. It may be a confidence issue. Possibly a mechanical issue. Whatever the case, there's no reason to be concerned about his long-term outlook, but it doesn't look like he'll be a positive factor the final week. Disappointing, but understandable for a young guy.
Huston Street has been located. He was found alive and well in the Rockies bullpen tonight. He then went on to pitch two scoreless innings and found himself in the win column.
The Rockies offense was sensational tonight.
The usual suspects were involved...
Troy Tulowitzki: 4 hits, 2 doubles, home run, 5 RBI, walk-off hit. (webgem)
Carlos Gonzalez: 3 hits, 3 runs, scored the game-winner. (webgem)
Had to squeeze those webgems in there somewhere.
And the veteran role players were involved as well...
Jay Payton: 2 hits, triple, run
Melvin Mora: 2 hits, double, triple, 2 RBI.
In the span of four hitters in the 5th inning, those four men tripled, tripled, homered and then tripled, in four consecutive plate appearances. If anything deserves a "That Was Awesome" chant, that inning was it.
I even have praise for Jim Tracy tonight. Real praise, as I thought he managed almost every situation appropriately. Unfortunately he didn't get what he needed from Rogers again, but all the other buttons pushed made sense.
Now I have some fake praise. Warming up Franklin Morales in the bottom of 10th was his best strategic move of the season. Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki looked out there, saw that, and made damn sure we never saw an 11th inning. Excellent piece of managing right there.
Jorge De La Rosa vs Matt Cain
The Rockies will attempt to keep their fading playoff hopes alive... or at the very least play a roll in keeping the Giants from getting there themselves. I'd much prefer the former, but would learn to savor the latter.
Labels: Carlos Gonzalez, Giants, Jason Hammel, Jay Payton, Melvin Mora, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki
Tonight sure does have all the makings of something interesting happening now doesn't it?
The best way for the Rockies to defend themselves? Win. That's it. Just go out there tonight and beat the Giants. Score more runs. However they handle it from there would be their problem, not ours.
CF Torres
2B Fontenot
P Zito
Amazing isn't it?
Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants came into Coors Field, pitched nearly perfect baseball, and won a baseball game. Who would have thought the Rockies would allow such a thing to take place, especially with their season hanging by a thread.
There's no sense talking about the big picture right now. Too depressing. So let's look at some positives and negatives from this evening,
Positive: Jhoulys Chacin continues to prove himself. He's already on the cusp of top of the rotation status, and I think (hope) he will only get better as he develops better command and better pitch efficiency. When that happens, the Rockies 1-2 punch could rival any 1-2 combo in the league.
Negative: Chacin made one mistake tonight, which was sadly one more mistake than he could afford. Tim Lincecum was just better on the stage, and that's why he has two Cy Young Awards at home next to his other valuables.
Positive: No base running errors.
Negative: Only two base runners.
Positive: Jim Tracy managed a clean game.
Negative: Tim Lincecum and Brian Wilson were so good that it didn't matter.
Positive: Ian Stewart returned to the hot corner.
Negative: Only because Melvin Mora's pregame meal didn't agree with him.
Positive: Ummmmm... Matt Reynolds!
Negative: Huston Street received his 5th consecutive day off. And this rate we won't need him again until early July 2012.
Positive: From all accounts the fireworks show after the game was spectacular.
Negative: The in game show sucked.
Jason Hammel vs Barry Zito
So I guess that means Zito will be the one mouthing "Bleeping juiced ball bullbleep" under his breathe when the Rockies mount an offensive rally. Looking forward to that.
Labels: Giants, Jhoulys Chacin, Jim Tracy, Matt Reynolds, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
Here's to hoping Jim Tracy can find a role for his closer and setup man tonight. Preferably it'll be in those exact roles, but down a run or two might not be the worst spot either.
So much for the prevailing thought that red hot Ryan Spilborghs would receive another start.
P Lincecum
If you haven't heard, Pablo Sandoval has been demoted to a bench role for the Giants. Mike Fontenot takes over at 3B and the lead-off spot in the order.
This was awful. The way Jim Tracy handled the game tonight was embarrassing and bordering on asinine. You can't label a game a must win (which it was) and then turn around and manage like it's April 27th.
Why the hell are you saving Betancourt and Street and Belisle and Reynolds?
For when?
This was a game you absolutely had to have, and here are the arms our genius manager used.
Franklin Morales
Esmil Rogers (he actually made sense in his role, but was left out there to die. No excuse for that.)
Manny Delcarmen
Joe Beimel
Octavio Dotel
Either that's a manager saying I don't believe my offense has what it takes to turn this game around, or he's just clueless. Either freaking way, he didn't give his team the very best chance to win a must win game tonight.
Inexcusable. Unconscionable. Downright hideous managing.
Diamondbacks 10, Rockies 9
Because guess what? His team had fight in them tonight. His team battled their asses off to turn an 8-2 game into one run, one swing from taking the lead game. Not just one swing, but on two separate occasions they were mere feet or inches from taking the lead.
Yeah, I know Jeff Francis didn't give the team as much as they needed. Yeah Rogers didn't pitch well. The entire team obviously needed to play better tonight, the entire series, and at various points throughout the season, but if Tracy had just used the best arms he had available to keep the game from snowballing in the 6th-8th innings, the results could have been so much different.
He failed at his job. Miserably. No excuse.
He failed his players. He failed the organization. He failed the city of Denver and the state of Colorado. And above all he failed the diehard Rockies fans.
His legacy in Colorado will not be all the "Tracy is My Homeboy" nonsense that followed 2009. He was merely along for that ride just like the rest of us were.
His legacy now is how he unsuccessfully managed arguably the most talented roster in the NL (for sure the division) into a longshot playoff hopeful. A no doubt 95 win caliber team is very unlikely to even reach 90.
This tweet by Joe Sheehan last night will be forever remembered by me because it tells the story so well.
@joe_sheehan There's an alternate universe in which Jim Tracy retired before the season, the Rockies hired [anyone else] and went 98-64. #rockies
Of course now they will sweep the Giants and the Padres will manage to lose two of three over the weekend to make the final week interesting again. But even then it won't matter because as much heart as this Rockies team has -- and they DO have heart -- they don't have a brain in the dugout.
If they only had a brain.
Labels: D-Backs, Franklin Morales, Jeff Francis, Jim Tracy, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
-- Joe Sheehan No Likey Jim Tracy (Bugs & Cranks)
Well let's see what Jim Tracy has in mind for us tonight as the Rockies attempt to avoid an embarrassing sweep at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Well, it's nice to see Chris Iannetta is healthy and in the lineup tonight... if for no other reason than there was no way Jim Tracy could have justified playing Miguel Olivo again after some of that defense we've seen from him in this series.
Diamondbacks Lineup (61-91)
SS Drew
LF Roberts
2B Johnson
CF Young
1B LaRoche
3B Reynolds
C Hester
RF Gillespie
P Kennedy
I never really fully appreciated how long a baseball season was until just last season. Seriously. I just never fully comprehended how long six months of baseball was because It was the first time as a fan that all 162 games had meant something to me.
1995? Nope, that was a strike-shortened playoff run.
2007? Nope. I wasn't all in with the Rockies in 2007 until September. Sure they had hung around on the fringe of playoff contention most of the season, but we'd never experienced the things we've experienced since, so my focus wasn't as intense.
2008? We should have been, but that thing went belly up quickly.
2009 it finally happened. I finally experienced the ups and downs of the chase, the catch, the pass by, the being caught and passed again, and the recapturing and holding on.
It was exhausting for me as a fan emotionally and mentally. Fun as hell, but you feel it when you find yourself waking up on short rest night after night for that many months. One can only imagine how much it catches up to the players and coaches. And then you factor in the physical toll it adds on them.
So now you come back in 2010 thinking you know what to expect. You think you can pace yourself, maybe not expend so much energy early because you understand how much you'll need later, and then you find yourself dropping games to teams you should be dominating.
Suddenly you're 7-8 games back leading up to the all-star break. You make a strong push then to get within two. Now you've seen how quickly and easily you can make up ground, so you put things back in neutral to save some gas.
Next thing you know you're down 11 games on August 22nd.
Now you have to put your pedal to the metal for five weeks straight. .
That works perfectly for three weeks... and then you just flat run out of gas. It doesn't make a bit of difference how much you saved earlier, because you needed to use so much of it so quickly, that it's all just gone before you hit the finish line.
D-Backs 8, Rockies 4
Is there time for a refueling? There is, but whether or not it matters depends on how wisely the Giants, Padres and Braves have managed their fuel tanks. Do they have enough to get to the finish line, or will we see them tank it in the final laps?
Good lord I'm comparing baseball season to a Nascar race. Clearly I'm running on fumes as well.
Jeff Francis vs Ian Kennedy... Kennedy.
Labels: Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Rock Solid Recap
Three keys for tonight.
1. Ubaldo needs to be Ubaldo
I get the sense the offense is going through a scratch and claw phase right now where nothing will come easy. That leaves Ubaldo with little margin for error.
2. Better ABs from Dexter Fowler
For the offense to scratch, claw, or attain any type of success, they're going to need more from the top. I didn't like the poor swings from Dex in hitter's counts last night. I hope that's cleaned up this evening and he's willing to take a walk when the pitcher is willing to give one.
3. Rested Bullpen
Two full days off for everyone but Matt Reynolds. If needed, these guys have to come in and shut the door.
C Montero
LF Allen
RF Parra
P Lopez
Because there's always a chance they will jump up and bite you on the ass if you're not paying attention.
For about 7 innings on Tuesday night, the Rockies looked like a team that wasn't paying attention.
It looked like the team we saw far too often during the every month not named September.
The urgency appeared to be missing. The confidence we saw in LA Friday and Saturday was definitely missing. Plate discipline never made an appearance. That surely wasn't aided by an inconsistent strike zone, but that's also a hat tip to Joe Saunders for being around the plate all night.
The only thing that wasn't missing was bad Rockies base running. But that's only because they didn't have actual base runners very often.
So yeah... bad night at the yard. Bad night at the yard in Arizona. Bad results from all over the baseball world unless you're still holding on to Wild Card hopes. Bad Bad Bad.
I did like what I saw from Jorge De La Rosa though. He did his job. He kept a good offense down. He chewed up seven innings. He deserved a much better result in terms of the W, but overall everyone should be thrilled with his performance.
Generally when a pitcher only makes two mistakes in seven innings (like DLR tonight) things will work out, but that's not so much the case when the mistakes come on back-to-back hitters and your offense never shows up to support you.
And that really wraps up tonight's game. I could go in depth on specific ABs and openly ask why Dexter Fowler continues to put bad swings on pitcher's pitches in hitter's counts, but it's late and I don't want to throw another pen behind my desk. I'll just leave it alone and look ahead to...
Ubaldo Jimenez vs Rodrigo Lopez
The term "must win" seems to be fitting in this spot.
Labels: D-Backs, Dexter Fowler, Jorge De La Rosa, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
Here we go. 13 games in 13 days to decide the fate of the 2010 Colorado Rockies.
Standing in the way first are our old rivals from Arizona. The D-Backs aren't quite the team we expected them to be after 2007, but one look at the lineup below tells you how dangerous they are. Despite the relatively easy sweep at Coors Field recently, I'm not anticipating Arizona laying down and making things easy here.
Rockies will need good pitching and sustained offense if they want to leave Phoenix in a good position. I truly believe anything less will leave us frustrated like we were Sunday in LA.
Tracy playing the experience card again tonight with the Mora-Helton-Payton combo. I'm not opposed to that based on what we've seen so far from Payton. Very professional approach with solid results.
D-Backs Lineup (59-91)
1B LaRoches
P Saunders
The Rockies had an opportunity to apply more pressure to one NL West leader, while pulling even with another.
Unfortunately they allowed what should have been a commanding 6-1 lead in the early innings deteriorate into a devastating 11 inning loss.
Dodgers 7, Rockies 6 (11)
The Rockies did what I figured there were due to do to Clayton Kershaw. As great as Kershaw has been, he will always mix an erratic start in there every 3-4 weeks. It just hadn't happened in the Rockies favor yet... until today.
They took advantage early.
Three runs in the first. Three runs in the second.
Then they stopped taking advantage.
And then they basically called it a day at the bat rack.
It would have been nice if they had continued applying pressure because Jason Hammel looked like a tired man on the mound. Actually, aside from Jhoulys Chacin yesterday, the entire rotation has looked shaky at best this week. Even Ubaldo was battling for every last out.
Looking at this objectively, I have to tell you I'm very concerned that all of these of high stress innings and pitches over the past three weeks will catch up and play a major role in these last two weeks. There's almost no way around it. These guys are human out there and the mental and physical stress of having every pitch under the microscope is taxing.
So now you have to wonder where will the innings come from if Hammel is tired. If Francis isn't effective. If Ubaldo is wearing down. It's a dicey situation, and it won't get any easier against a D-Backs lineup that is dangerous.
On the bullpen. I felt like they did a solid enough job and Tracy did an okay job piecing it together. Unfortunately, the Rockies two best relievers were each touched for a run, which left him with nothing to choose from in the extra frames.
And yes, that's correct, Matt Belisle and Huston Street each allowed one run today. But guess which one will get raked over the coals?
I'm not saying Matt Belisle should, or Huston Street shouldn't, but it can't be one and not the other. Sorry.
There were other things in extra innings that were frustrating. Jim Tracy not sac bunting with EY is among the dumber things you'll see. Tie game, on the road, you play for a run. It's that simple. Bunt EY. Maybe he beats it out anyway and you have two runners on. Do something to increase your chances to take a lead.
And then there was the blown call at first base.
Yeah, it undeniably cost the Rockies the game in that half inning, but the game should have never gotten to that point. An umpire should never blow a call that easy, but good teams should never blow 6-1 leads to teams that quit weeks ago.
Beyond that, I didn't have a lot of faith in the offense scratching out another run, so I honestly don't feel IT cost the Rockies the game. I feel like the Rockies did it to themselves, and that their inevitable demise happened a little sooner than it was supposed to happen.
The Rockies have an off day to travel and sort out a game plan for the final 13 games.
The rest of us will attempt to go through our usual Monday routines while anticipating Tuesday night's first pitch.
You thought the nine day wait for the World Series was excruciating? I got a feeling these next 48 hours will make those nine days feel like the best 10-15 minutes you've ever had in your life. Maybe knock that down to five minutes for the ladies out there.
Labels: Dodgers, Huston Street, Jason Giambi, Jason Hammel, Matt Belisle, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
Sweep LA! Sweep LA!
C Phillips
C Barajas
P Kershaw
I saw nothing of today's Rockies game.
You didn't either.
But given the results, I wouldn't change a thing!
Rockies 12, Dodgers 2
I can't wait to see where Troy Tulowitzki's two home runs landed. Yes, the big man launched two more this afternoon off of Dodgers starter John Ely. That raised Troy September numbers from ridiculous to other worldly. Hell, just in his last three games he has totaled 5 homers and 13 RBI.
That sick enough for you?
If not, just imagine how the numbers would have looked had he connected with the bases loaded in the 8th inning. Oh well, can't hit'em all out. And that's okay when you have Todd Helton and Melvin Mora (4 hits, 5 RBI) behind you cleaning up.
Jhoulys Chacin threw a career high eight innings today. All eight of them were goose eggs. He did only strike out two while allowing nine hits, but again, goose eggs in the run column. Well done by the ace-in-training.
Well, without having seen the game I can't go into too much more detail about things I liked. I do like looking at the boxscore and seeing two walks next to CarGo's name though. Especially now that Tulo is hitting everything in sight out of sight.
Hell yeah CarGo, if they aren't challenging you, let the big man do his thing. Your runs scored will start adding as quickly your RBI total.
Jason Hammel vs Clayton Kershaw
Rockies are long overdue to knock Kershaw upside the head. Yeah, he's currently pitching maybe the best he ever has in his career, but the Rockies have seen him so much it only seems logical that they would figure something out and put a few dents in his ERA.
That, or Jason Hammel pitches the game of his life. I would accept either or both.
Labels: Carlos Gonzalez, Dodgers, Jhoulys Chacin, Melvin Mora, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki
The Rockies have both in abundance.
They just have to make sure they back those up with intelligence. They have to play smart, or those traits will be offset.
Tonight the Rockies came dangerously close to allowing something silly to wipe away all the good they had done in other portions of the game. A key base running error by Eric Young stands out. Jim Tracy pushing Ubaldo Jimenez seemingly past his limits would be another.
These are the type of things that have cost the Rockies several winnable games in 2010, but thankfully they ran into a Dodgers team that needs a lot more help than the Rockies were willing to give.
Rockies 7, Dodgers 5
@RockiesReview Honestly, I hate when Ubaldo pitches. I get so nervous. He's the best the #Rockies have, but I feel like getting wins is crucial with him.
Tonight was as nerve-wracking as it gets. Ubaldo didn't have anything close to his best stuff again. But somehow, some way, with his back against the wall, and with his intestinal fortitude being continuously challenged by a very loyal and trusting manager, Ubaldo Jimenez found a way to get six more outs than I honestly believed he had in him.
If Tracy had pulled him in the 5th, I wouldn't have complained. In the 6th, wouldn't have complained again. Especially since Tracy allowed him bat with two on and two outs in that inning. I don't like giving away scoring chances. Not on the road. And especially not when the pitcher you're allowing to bat for himself is battling for every pitch.
It worked out in the end. It worked out because Ubaldo Jimenez has talent and guts.
Does any one professional baseball player symbolize talent and guts better than Todd Helton? (Highlight)
He's not the baseball player he used to be, but he's still the man he always was. You just can't write him off. The second anyone tries to, he fires back. The second Mark Kiszla writes nonsense about him, he collects three or four hits.
He's a winner. He knows how close this team is to getting over the hump. If there's even just an ounce of gas left in his tank (I assure there's more than that), you can bet he's going to get the most out of it, because he knows how much his team needs it.
If I had to single out one more player tonight not named Troy Tulowitzki (Highlight), I would think long and hard about selecting Melvin Mora (Highlight), but in the end would have to select Matt Belisle.
What onions it takes to come in to a bases loaded situation to face two hitters that have taken you deep in that situation before, and to retire each without any damage being done.
The Rockies owe so much of where they currently sit to Matt. They simply wouldn't be here without him. That's not hyperbole, that's fact. He has been the glue that has held everything together, when it so easily could have fallen at any point during the last three months.
Dump truck.
Jhoulys Chacin vs John Ely
I'll just say this...
The Dodgers showed tonight that they need a lot of things to go their way just to compete. Show up tomorrow and give them nothing.
Labels: Dodgers, Matt Belisle, Melvin Mora, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki, Ubaldo Jimenez
The Rockies are fighting to survive in 2010.
The Dodgers are already looking ahead to 2011 (Joe Torre out, Don Mattingly in).
The Rockies have to take advantage of this dead team walking. Get them down early and hope they fold like they did last night against Jonathan Sanchez and the Giants. I'm serious, those hitters looked like they wanted nothing to do with standing in there against a hard throwing lefty. I doubt they would look anymore forward to taking ABs against Ubaldo down by 3-4 runs.
Gets on these guys. Stay on them.
Lots of people on their high horse today over the Derek Jeter HBP that wasn't really a HBP. All of the venom is directed at Jeter, who acted as if he was struck in the arm by a pitch when replays clearly showed it hit his bat, while almost no one is pointing out another moment of incompetence by an umpiring crew.
It's all on Jeter. Derek Jeter is just so evil for doing something each and every quick thinking athlete would have done in the same situation.
Heck, even the Rockies Clint Barmes would "cheat" to get an edge for the Rockies. I don't recall any Rockies fans being angry over this play that stole a victory over St. Louis last September.
There are four umpires out there. It's on them when these calls are missed. No baseball player is going to make a call easy for them if there's a way to gain an advantage for his team. For people to act like what Jeter was some sinful act that ruins the integrity of the game... it's just stupid.
I'm sure the majority of it has to do with Jeter being Jeter, and Jeter being the captain of the Yankees, but seriously, the Rockies aren't above doing the same thing. No team in Major League Baseball is above doing the same. Players don't tell an umpire they were out when they know a call was missed.
It's just the way it goes. Play on.
And you know what? The Rays did play on. They bounced back and found a way to win the game. That's how you play the damn game.
Labels: Clint Barmes, Colorado Rockies, Derek Jeter, New York Yankees
Thanks largely to Troy Tulowitzki.
(RBI Single) (Home Run #1) (Home Run #2)
Troy Tulowitzki is a strong man. Strong enough to put the entire Rockies franchise on his back and carry them towards the finish line.
The numbers are sick.
10 HRs in 13 games. The franchise record for a single month is 12. He already has 11 in September... and there are still 13 games left in the month. 27 RBI in his last 15 games.
He is not of this planet right now. Maybe he never was, but he certainly isn't now.
Oh, and yeah, he's still the best defensive shortstop in the National League.
As seen in the highlights above, Tulo did the bulk of the heavy lifting this afternoon. He did have some assistance though.
Jorge De La Rosa saw his value rise one more time with 7 1/3 innings of what ended up being five run baseball. (Joe Beimel served up a three-run to Adrian Gonzalez that inflated DLR's solid line.) Just getting into the 8th inning after this recent string of poor starting pitching was a major relief for Jim Tracy and his taxed bullpen. So statline aside, DLR was a winner in my eyes just based on that.
He was also rewarded with a stat W as Huston Street closed the door in the 9th.
You know what Carlos Gonzalez did today?
He broke another bat. He collected a couple knocks. He drove in two more runs (106). And he also scored a pair of runs.
But you already knew all that was going to happen before the game started.
Something I didn't know was going to happen? Jay Payton going 3-for-4. With Troy Tulowitzki cleaning up everything in front of him, and Miguel Olivo doing nothing behind, Payton didn't score or drive in a run, but THREE hits. Awesome story. And hey, good gut feeling by Jim Tracy to put him in the lineup today.
But then with Jonathan Herrera, we can't give Jim Tracy credit for playing a gut feeling, Instead we can openly question why Herrera doesn't play more. Many fans have been clamoring for just that, and Johnny didn't disappoint us today. Three hits (two singles, double), two runs scored and competent defense at the hot corner.
A professional pain in the ass offensively that can be play three infield positions. Yeah... no value in that guy.
Day off! I'm taking it right along with them! We'll chat at you folks again on Friday night.
Labels: Carlos Gonzalez, Jay Payton, Jonathan Herrera, Jorge De La Rosa, Padres, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki
Survival Mode: On
Rockies Lineup (79-66) (Courtesy @RockiesReview)
How about Jay Payton getting a start in a must win game? I like it. The pitching matchup should allow him 2-3 quality ABs before turning it over to Dexter Fowler defensively late in the game. That is assuming the Rockies are holding a lead at that point.
Padres Lineup (82-62) (Courtesy @RockiesReview)
CF Cunningham
SS Tejeda
RF Ludwick
3B J. Hairston
LF S. Hairston
P Richard
Labels: Colorado Rockies, Lineup Card, San Diego Padres
You know that knockout punch I was telling you the Rockies needed to avoid after the Philadelphia game two weeks ago? The Rockies have done everything in their power to avoid that punch. In the process, and you could clearly see this during the early innings of the last two games, the team has worn down.
You're not seeing that crispness in the field. The starting pitching is completely non-existent. That leads to a completely blown up bullpen. The offense hasn't hit the ground running in the early innings. It's a tired baseball team.
This is why my optimism was low two weeks ago. I realized the effort it was going to take to pull this off was going to be difficult to maintain. That's not to say they can't rebound tomorrow, or maybe on Friday after an off day, but the position they put themselves in with all those careless losses to bad teams is why we're seeing what we're seeing right now.
That makes it all the more frustrating and disappointing.
You also have to give credit where credit is due with San Diego. They did nothing but win from April through mid-August. They put themselves in a position where they could afford a slip up because they played with an urgency from day one. Now that they have survived their bad stretch, they look like a reborn and refreshed squad that smells the kill.
And despite everything, when push came to shove tonight, the Padres were only one run better. One run is plenty, but it just shows that the Rockies pure talent advantage would overwhelm them (the 11-4 record vs. San Diego this season before this series back this up) if the Rockies weren't running on fumes.
I also have to say Bud Black has managed a wonderful series. Brilliant even. Oscar Salazar in the 9th inning last night. Matt Stairs in the 8th tonight. Finding ways to maximize his limited bench options while setting up his world class bullpen for success.
There's nothing more you can ask of your manager. If the season ended today, he would have my Manager of the Year vote. And yes, that is based strongly just on these two games.
On the other side, Jim Tracy's bullpen options are pretty limited due to the fatigue factor, but there really is no excuse leaving Huston Street in the pen the last two nights while Franklin Morales and Edgmer Escalona allow critical insurance runs to be scored.
It's not an ideal time to use your closer, but the whole damn scenario isn't ideal. You have to adjust and give your team its best chance to survive. That was not accomplished in either situation.
The placement of his pinch hitters in the 9th inning wasn't something I completely disagreed with or thought was wrong, I just thought it was a little bizarre. Payton for Olivo? It worked there, yes, but did it work in the big picture? Would Payton have been more effective hitting for Young, or maybe even Herrera hitting for Young.
It's tough to be overly harsh of that, but there were certainly other ways to go about it. And really this game boils down to not getting anything from Jason Hammel. That's the first place you have to look.
Jorge De La Rosa vs.Clayton Richard
I swear Richard has pitched the final game of every Rockies/Padres series this season.
Labels: Jim Tracy, Padres, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
Can't overstate how important this outing is for Jason Hammel. The Rockies need innings. Not just innings, good innings. Good innings and damn good results. I feel good about Hammel delivering what is needed.
Padres Lineup (81-62)
LF Cunningham
SS Tejada
C Hundley
CF Venable
P Garland
Get to Jon Garland early. We saw pretty clear evidence last weekend that he will get rattled and lose focus when things start going against him.
My quick thoughts on what these next two games mean for both teams.
Split -- This does more good for San Diego mentally than it hurts Colorado mentally or in the standings. The Padres obviously leave town feeling good, but it doesn't really change either team's outlook.
San Diego wins both -- San Diego effectively knocks Colorado out of the picture. The Rockies would still have two plus weeks to recover, but one would have to assume their mental exhaustion would catch up to their physical exhaustion, thus making another extended winning streak unlikely.
Colorado wins both -- Then anything can happen. I would even lean towards suggesting San Diego is in serious danger of folding. They aren't nearly as talented as Colorado (or San Francisco), nor have they proven this year, or in recent past years, to be mentally tough enough to deal with late September stress.
That's what Coloado specialize in.
Labels: Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres
You don't have to like saying or hearing that, but it's true. The Rockies miss Aaron Cook.
And sadly, they will continue missing him for as long as they are fortunate enough to be playing in 2010.
That's not to say he was going to be a dominating pitcher down the stretch, but you can bet he was going to give you innings. Solid innings. Keeps you in the game innings. Doesn't look like we'll be able to count on that from Jeff Francis.
Now the question is: How do the Rockies piece together their #5 spot in the rotation?
I mean I'm sure Francis will get another start, and I'm sure his pitch count will be higher, but what if he can't be effective? What kind of plan will the Rockies have in place to combat that? They almost have to plan ahead, because you can't afford something like tonight where you're forcing Esmil Rogers to throw multiple innings on consecutive days.
That's just a brutal, bad, uncomfortable position to be in, so I'll be curious to see how things unfold over the weekend.
This one is very simple to break down.
The San Diego Padres played nine innings of really good defense. They combined that with just enough timely hitting. Their manager had a solid game using his bullpen, pinch-hitters and defensive replacements. They played as close to a perfect game as their capability allows.
The Rockies didn't.
The first 4 1/2 innings for the Rockies were brutal. It started with Francis not being efficient or effective. The offense was sleep-walking. Defensively there was sloppiness all over the field. It dug them a hole they just couldn't climb out of in this particular game.
It was bound to happen eventually. Unfortunate it had to come against the Pads, but all you can do it show up again tomorrow and make San Diego be the better team. I don't think they are if the Rockies play even a little better than the average baseball we saw tonight.
Jason Hammel vs Jon Garland
Labels: Aaron Cook, Esmil Rogers, Jeff Francis, Padres, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies
And so we begin another large Rockies/Padres series in the month of September.
That would be the Rockies "A" lineup against a left-handed pitcher. No problems there. Just have to hope Francis can be efficient with the 70 pitches he will be limited to this evening.
P Luebke
I suppose this qualifies are the Padres "A" lineup against a left-handed starter. I'll take ours over theirs.
I'm sure you'll read a number of "Perfect 10" headlines tonight and tomorrow. I would rather avoid such a cliched headline in favor of a more honest one.
Perfect? No.
Good enough? Times 10.
As Joey Nowak tweeted...
It’s the September #Rockies version of Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go right, will go right. Ten times in a row.
Rockies 4, Diamondbacks 2
Jason Giambi (Highlight)
Unreal. He wasn't the most popular Rockie on this blog or anywhere around Denver the first portion of the season, but as we get deeper into this playoff chase, he shows his worth as an aging source of instant power and late inning production.
Whatever you're paying him... it all becomes worth it when he wins you not one, but two baseball games with walk-off home runs.
Alright... so he needed a Kelly Johnson error to reach base in the 9th inning. But the bottom line? He reached base in the 9th inning and ultimately scored the winning run. He's always in the middle of something good. That's what happens when you understand your limitations and just put baseballs in play.
Jhoulys Chacin & Esmil Rogers (Highlight)
Definitely a bump in Chacin's road to pitching stardom. He will get there, but we can clearly see what is holding him back right now. Command and efficiency. But it's nice to have another young, talented arm like Esmil Rogers ready to back him up. His two innings were the key to the Rockies stealing the win.
Rest of the Pen
Joe Beimel, Matt Belisle, Rafael Betancourt and Huston Street = Splendid!
The Spilly Double (Highlight)
THAT right there is why Coors Field has high scoring games. All of these uninformed and whining writers/fans/players/windbag announcers for other teams need to learn that the humidor does what it's designed to do. It hasn't faltered once since it was put into service. What hasn't changed and what might never change (leaving open the possibility they move the fences in someday) is how large the outfield is.
Baseballs are going to drop in that you won't see at any other stadium. That's what adds up to more runs. Has nothing to do with the baseball itself. Please take the time to learn this!
Awesome. You folks who were out there today were absolutely awesome. Love that and I definitely appreciate that!
The San Diego Padres visit Coors Field. The same Padres that had about a touchdown lead on the entire NL West two weeks ago come in now tied for first, with another hungry and red hot squad right on their tails.
Wonder who that team is?
Jeff Francis vs Cory Luebke
Labels: D-Backs, Esmil Rogers, Jason Giambi, Jhoulys Chacin, Jonathan Herrera, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Ryan Spilborghs
Finish off the snakes!
Nice to see Gonzalez is feeling better.
This isn't the BCS.
Style points aren't necessary here.
Who you beat, how you beat'em, where you beat'em and why you beat'em don't mean a damn thing.
Win a baseball game.
The Colorado have won nine of them... in a row.
All fun has broken loose in Denver.
Rockies 2, D-Backs 1
Tonight's game was a perfect illustration of just how focused, confident, and red hot the Colorado Rockies are as we head towards September 12th. These are the games the Rockies were allowing to get away for the first five months of the season. The ones we said we'd look back at in frustration if this season didn't improve.
Well, it has improved, but we still run the risk of having those games bite us in the ass. That is why not allowing this one to get away was ultra important. That counts double when it's Ubaldo Jimenez on the mound.
It was an odd night for Ubaldo. He really never seemed to find a comfort level or real rhythm out there. The command was off. The efficiency was less than desirable. But in the end, the results were solid enough to keep his struggling offense in the baseball game.
Yes, I said struggling offense. Yes, Ubaldo was outpitched by Rodrigo Lopez. Yes, it doesn't matter, because the Rockies found a way to win.
It came down to four really productive at-bats in the bottom of the 7th
Melvin Mora pulled a single to left on an 0-1 pitch.
Ryan Spilborghs drove a 1-0 pitch to the oppo gap for a double. 2nd and 3rd one out.
Miguel Olivo broke the ice for Colorado with a first pitch RBI single through the left field.
And then the AB of the game from Jonathan Herrera. A sacrifice fly to deep center on a 1-2 pitch.
Again, what Jonathan Herrera gives the Rockies simply can't be measured in stats and charts. I spoke of style points at the top. There are no style points with Johnny. All he does is produce, make his team better, and give them a better chance to win baseball games by simply doing what's asked of him and understanding his role.
Yeah, you need your CarGo's and Tulo's and Helton's to have success. But what separates winning teams from losing teams are guys like Johnny.
Really all four guys involved in that inning (Herrera, Spilborghs, Mora and Olvio) fit the mold of role players who make the team better by understanding their role and excelling at them. Really is a nice mix of guys that all fit together perfectly after the release of Brad Hawpe.
Funny how that works sometimes.
Jhoulys Chacin vs Ian Kennedy
Time to go 1-0 and see where the chips fall by Sunday night. Gotta like your chances with Mr. Chacin taking the hill.
Labels: D-Backs, Jonathan Herrera, Melvin Mora, Miguel Olivo, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Ryan Spilborghs, Ubaldo Jimenez
Last night...
@Townie813 Observation: CarGo needs a night off. Missing some pitches he wouldn't typically miss.
No Carlos Gonzalez.
Did I expect that?
Not a chance. But I have to take my hat off to Tracy for observing and making the gutsy call to hit the pause button. Carlos Gonzalez has been in the lineup everyday he is physically able to play. Giving him a break now makes all the sense in the world, because if he's not fresh, you're limiting the effectiveness of your most important all-around position player.
3B Abreu
Brandon Allen in left field? That could be really fun! Hit the ball to left!
The Colorado Rockies have a job to do. They also currently have an opponent that quite frankly stinks, but for some reasons gives them fits in 2010.
Best way to remedy that? Show up with some focus and be better at baseball.
It's really that simple.
The talent level between the Rockies and Diamondbacks was pretty much even back in 2007. I expected it to stay that way for at least the next 4-5 years... but it hasn't. The two rosters aren't even close, and tonight, that difference in talent was on full display.
Rockies 13, Diamondbacks 4
This game was essentially over the moment Todd Helton laced this 2-run single in the first inning (Highlight). For real. The Diamondbacks could have packed their bags and headed back to the hotel right then and there.
One big reason for that? Jorge De La Rosa. Again, not the most efficient work from DLR, but he was inefficiently dominant with 10 Ks over 6 six innings of 2 run ball. Despite the 103 pitches in those 6 innings, he did not walk a batter. Several full counts are what led to an early departure. And he may have left early anyway because of the lopsided score.
Another big reason for that? Troy Trevor Tulowitzki. T Times 3, as in 3-for-3 with 2 bombs, 3 runs, 4 RBI and a token BB. That makes 5 HR in 3 games. That's what they call white hot in the baseball broadcasting business.
Ryan Spilborghs (2-for-3,2 R, 2 RBI, 2 BB), Eric Young (2-for-5, RBI, SB), Melvin Mora (2-for-3, 2 R, BB), Todd Helton (2-for-3, R, 2 RBI, BB) & Miguel Olivo (1-for-4, 3B, 3 RBI) all had big nights for the Rockies as well.
See what I mean? The talent differential is quite staggering.
And how about *cringe* Franklin Morales? Tonight made two excellent outings in a row. This one was actually dominant (1-2-3, 2 Ks).
I was the last one off the Morales bandwagon earlier in the season. I'm very hesitant to be the first one back on, but I do really like what I'm seeing. Granted he's been eased into two very low pressure situations, but I'm still praying to the Baseball Gods that some sort of switch has been flipped here.
All that hope aside, he would have to be absolutely insane for the next three weeks to even be a consideration for a playoff roster should the Rockies become that fortunate. But just having another reliable lefty arm for three weeks would be huge in aiding that process.
As pitching matchups go, this one appears slightly advantageous for our favorite baseball team. Regardless, the Rockies have more work to do. No time to start making any assumptions or losing focus. Just come out and be better at baseball for 9 more innings.
Labels: D-Backs, Eric Young Jr., Jorge De La Rosa, Melvin Mora, Miguel Olivo, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Ryan Spilborghs, Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki
Must. Stay. Focused.
Been a problem for the Rockies more than once against Arizona this season. Can't afford that to be a problem tonight or this weekend.
LF Ryal
Miguel Montero and Gerardo Parra are the two guys who makes this lineup more dangerous than any team with a 57-83 record should be. Respect the hell out of those two guys.
A shot of Dusty Baker just seconds after Chris Nelson stole home to give the Rockies a 6-5 lead and their eventual 7th straight victory.
I think he swallowed his toothpick... Dude.
Labels: Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Dusty Baker
How many times have we said we've seen everything, only to see something we've never seen before that blows everything we've already seen out of the water?
At least once a week with these Colorado Rockies.
Chris Nelson stole home plate today. (Highlight)
It was the first steal of ML career. It happened in the 8th inning. It was the game-winning run.
You heard me.
He stole home... off a right-handed pitcher. That just doesn't happen! It shouldn't happen. It should never happen, yet it happened today.
I have a new formula for the sabermetricians out there.
Situation + Circumstances + Atmosphere + Guts + Milestone in a young baseball player's career = The greatest stolen base of all-time! By my math, Nelson is the greatest base stealer of all-time.
Rockies 6, Reds 5
How did we get to that point?
Well, the Reds jumped all over Jason Hammel early, scoring one in the first and four more in the second. The Reds were aided in those innings by a couple blown calls and some sloppy Rockies defense.
From that point on Hammel was excellent. He wasn't brilliant by any stretch, but he battled through all the early stress and some middle inning traffic to end up with a 7 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 1 BB & 6 K line. Damn right I'll take that.
The Rockies began their comeback with a 2-run bomb to CF by Jason Giambi (Highlight) in the 4th. From there it was Dexter Fowler doubling home EY Jr. from first on a double that was actually cutoff off in the gap (Highlight). EY's speed proved to be a difference maker once again.
In the 7th, the Rockies mounted a rally on Logan Ondrusek. Dusty Baker turned it over to Aroldis Chapman. Jim Tracy countered with Jonathan Herrera, who did what he needed to do. He put the ball in play and the Rockies got their 4th run. Chapman rebounded to get CarGo to 6-4-3 DP.
Then came the 8th. Tulo tied with a towering blast to RF (Highlight). Jason Giambi drew a walk. Chris Nelson pinch ran. The wheels fell off the Reds. Baseball history was made.
Matt Reynolds did his job out of the pen. Matt Belisle did his and was rewarded with a win. Huston Street struck out the side in the 9th to earn his 17th save.
What an awesome day at Coors Field.
The Arizona Diamondbacks are in town and that makes me nervous. These guys have caused the Rockies some trouble. It's a classic situation where an emotional letdown takes place. The Rockies can't afford that. As well as everything is going right now, this team still has little to no margin for error.
Take care of business!
Jorge De La Rosa vs Joe Saunders
Labels: Chris Nelson, Dexter Fowler, Eric Young Jr., Huston Street, Jason Giambi, Jason Hammel, Reds, Rock Solid Recap, Rockies, Troy Tulowitzki
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Home / Corruption / Black Officer Edwin Raymond Slams NYPD With Lawsuit Over Quota-Based Policing And Discrimination
Black Officer Edwin Raymond Slams NYPD With Lawsuit Over Quota-Based Policing And Discrimination
Cadeem Gibbs February 19, 2016 Corruption, Discrimination, Law Enforcement, Police Misconduct Comments Off on Black Officer Edwin Raymond Slams NYPD With Lawsuit Over Quota-Based Policing And Discrimination 447 Views
Edwin Raymond, an eight year veteran of the New York Police Department, is heading a class action lawsuit involving 12 other black and latino police officers against ‘New York’s Finest,’ alleging that the NYPD is instructing its officers to satisfy predetermined numerary objectives for arrests and tickets every month. In other words, the quota system the department denies having is real and it is discriminatory. Raymond claims that quota-based policing practices are at the heart of the city’s apparent racial disparities in arrest and incarceration statistics.
Throughout William Bratton’s appointment as police commissioner of New York City, crime levels have reached historic lows. With a decrease in summonses and overall arrests, department mouthpieces have been quick to claim this positive turn to be a direct result of Commissioner Bratton’s newly implemented training strategy which piloted a new program aimed at offices spending more time familiarizing themselves with the community they serve and it’s residents.
However, minority officers have expressed disagreement that Bratton had in fact employed such new methods at all. Insiders in the department claim that any so-called new measures have actually been perpetuating the quota system.
Chief of Department James O’Neill is on record stating, “Whatever arrests we make, whatever summonses we write, I want them connected to the people responsible for the violence and crime.” The department has repeatedly stressed that is more focused on the quality of arrests and summonses rather than the quantity.
In the suit, Raymond attempts to provide alternative perspective:
The suit accuses the department of violating multiple laws and statutes, including a 2010 state ban against quotas, and the 14th Amendment, which outlaws racial discrimination. It asks for damages and an injunction against the practice. Although plaintiffs in other cases have provided courts with evidence suggesting the department uses quotas, this is the first time anyone has sued the department for violating the 2010 state ban against the practice.
The lawsuit claims that commanders now use euphemisms to sidestep the quota ban, pressuring officers to ‘‘be more proactive’’ or to ‘‘get more activity’’ instead of explicitly ordering them to bring in, say, one arrest and 10 tickets by the end of the month. ‘‘It’s as if the ban doesn’t exist,’’ Raymond says. Other cops agree. At a Dunkin’ Donuts in Ozone Park, Queens, a black officer who is not involved in the lawsuit (and who, fearing retribution, requested anonymity) spoke at length about the inconsistency between the department’s words and actions, her anger building as she spoke, the tea cooling in her cup, until she concluded, bluntly, ‘‘It’s like they’re talking out of their ass and their mouth at the same time.”
Public scrutiny of the practice from 2011 to 2013 triggered the NYPD to ‘outwardly’ discontinue the operation. Officer Raymond maintains that officers are still instructed to make a certain number of arrests for minor offenses.
Addressing this issue to a New York Times Reporter, ‘‘Every time I read the paper, I thought, Why do they think the problem is stop-and-frisk?’’ Raymond says. ‘‘Although stop-and-frisk is unlawful, and it’s annoying, you’re not going to not get a job because you’ve been stopped and frisked,’’ he says. ‘‘You’re going to get denied a job because you have a record.’’
As Injustice previously noted, the NYPD is still conducting regular stop-and-frisks, with many of them being unconstitutional, as it has already been determined unlawful:
A federal monitor tasked with overseeing changes and improvements to the NYPD’s stop, question, and frisk program said recently that out of the 600 stops they analyzed over the course of three months in 2015, nearly a quarter could be viewed as unconstitutional.
The findings, released Tuesday in a 72-page report, noted that “In almost every case in which the NYPD’s Quality Assurance Division found insufficient basis for the stop, frisk, or search, the supervisor in that command nonetheless had signed off on the report and noted there was sufficient basis for the stop, frisk, or search.”
Edwin Raymond intended to change the practices of policing from the inside, seeking a promotion to sergeant in order to do so. Sources say his promotion was declined because of his vocal position that policing communities of color be fair, just and effective.
Instead of Raymond, the NYPD promoted Kenneth Boss, the officer who fired 19 of the 41 shots in the police killing of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo in 1999. Every officer involved in that high-profile case was acquitted.
Edwin Raymond is a good friend of mine, who also happens to be one of the founders of PLOT (Preparing Leaders Of Tomorrow), a youth mentoring program that provides mentorship and resources to young men of color, where I am also a mentor. We share a collective passion for a fair and just society as well as the need to positively impact the lives and futures of young children of color.
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About Cadeem Gibbs
Cadeem is New York based Youth Justice Organizer, Youth Development Consultant, Youth and Social Justice Advocate, Peer Educator, Writer and Change Agent. He spends lots of time mentoring young men of color through a youth mentoring program called PLOT (Preparing Leaders Of Tomorrow). Cadeem is also a part-time Travel Agent.
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Featured2020 Local Government Elections Cancelled
Published on: April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020 by howie Category:All Events
As the 2020 Local Government elections have been cancelled, Kiama Greens have postponed their preselection process until 2021.
Click here for link to Elections NSW.
Andrew Sloan elected Deputy Mayor from Sept 2018 – Sept 2021
Published on: September 29, 2018 May 8, 2020 by howie Category:All Events
Congratulations to Councillor Andrew Sloan on his election as the Deputy Mayor of Kiama. Andrew paid tribute to the hard work and commitment of fellow Greens Councillor Kathy Rice who served in the role for the previous two years.
Kiama Independent Article
Illawarra Mercury Article
Kathy Rice elected as Kiama Deputy Mayor
Published on: September 21, 2016 by howie Category:All Events Comment
Photo courtesy of Kiama Council
Congratulations to Councillor Mark Honey on being elected Mayor and Councillor Kathy Rice Deputy Mayor. The next normal Council meeting is Tuesday 27 September at 5pm.
Results as of Saturday night.
Published on: September 11, 2016 September 11, 2016 by howie Category:All Events Comment
See below the results at the end of counting on Saturday. A guess for the new council ??
Way, Honey, Westhoff, Sloan, Rice, Brown, Steel, Reilly and ????
Click image to go to the elections website for the latest results
Patrick McDonald on why to vote for the Greens Team
Published on: September 6, 2017 September 7, 2016 by howie Category:All Events Comment
Andrew Sloan on why to vote for the Greens Team
Kiama Greens address gender imbalance on Council
Published on: August 25, 2016 August 25, 2016 by howie Category:All Events 1 Comment
With the 2016 Kiama council elections looming, women being under represented in local government is a concern.
For the first time in many years, Green’s Councillor Kathy Rice is the only woman among the nine Kiama Council members. Women make up fifty one percent of Kiama’s population and are key decision makers in families and in our community.
“More women on Kiama Council would balance the way that local community issues are understood by the Council” says Kathy Rice.
Click here for the full story of Kiama Greens approach to increasing the number of women Councillors
Kiama Greens have announced a diverse and experienced team for the 2016 Council elections.
Published on: July 10, 2016 August 12, 2016 by howie Category:All Events
Click image for the media release in a new window.
Back row: Patrick McDonald, Clr Andrew Sloan & Warren Holder
Front row: Jodi Keast, Clr Kathy Rice & Bethamie Woodstone
Biodiversity Legislation Workshop June 20
Published on: May 14, 2016 by howie Category:All Events 1 Comment
The Gerroa Environmental Protection Society will be holding a workshop in association with the NSW Environmental Defenders Office at the Gerroa Neighbourhood Hall on Monday June 20 at 6PM to inform residents about the new State Biodiversity and land clearing legislation.
The State Government is scrapping the Threatened Species Conservation and Land Clearing Acts and part of the National Parks and Wildlife Act and replacing them with a watered down Biodiversity Conservation and amended Local Land Services Acts. These changes will lead to extensive land clearing, loss of biodiversity and increase atmospheric CO2.
This ADO workshop is to inform people about these laws and to provide material and suggestions to help make a submission by June 28.
Further information can be obtained at:
http://www.edonsw.org.au/serious_backwards_step_for_biodiversity_laws
http://www.nature.org.au/media/172084/briefing-note-biodiversity-legislation-review_september-2015_final.pdf
State Government public consultation sessions
The State Government will also be holding public consultation session at Nowra Showground Pavilion, West St, Nowra on June 2nd between 5:00 and 7:30PM and we encourage people to attend this session and express their concerns.
NSW Government website https://www.landmanagement.nsw.gov.au/have-your-say/
Carmel McCallum selected to represent the Greens in Federal Seat of Gilmore 2016
Published on: April 8, 2016 May 16, 2016 by howie Category:All Events Comment
Greens: First Sign of Spring
The Gilmore Greens have announced their candidate, Carmel McCallum, for the upcoming federal election.
Carmel is a pharmacist and has been a Greens member since 2004 when she joined The Greens to support Andrew Wilkie in the Sydney seat of Bennelong after the Australian government invaded Iraq based on the weapons of mass destruction deception.
Carmel moved to the Shoalhaven area in 1978, to reside first in Vincentia and, later in North Nowra and Cambewarra. She is married to Howard, who served in the Navy as a helicopter pilot and they have four grown-up children. Howard’s naval postings took them to California in 1985-87, where one of their children was born, and then to the RAAF Headquarters in Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains in 1993 where they lived for almost 20 years. The McCallums returned to Cambewarra in 2012.
Carmel’s involvement in pharmacies has given her a wide range of business and social experience. She owned the West-End Pharmacy in Berry Street, Nowra for almost nine years and, as a result of her husband’s postings, has also worked in almost 50 pharmacies both as a casual and as a locum.
Currently, Carmel is Vice-President of Professional Pharmacists Australia (a division the union Professionals Australia) representing employed pharmacists. She also sits on the South Coast Labour Council representing the NSW Committee of Professionals Australia, and spent eight years as a councillor on the NSW Federation of P&Cs Associations, and was a board member on the Lower Blue Mountains Neighborhood Centre.
In 2007 and 2010 Carmel was The Greens candidate for the federal seat of Macquarie and campaign manager in 2011 for the state seat of Blue Mountains, where The Greens’ result yielded 17%. The local government areas in these electorates are similar to Gilmore, covering regional areas within a few hours of Sydney, having similar issues with lack of public transport, reduced services and beautiful fragile environments.
Of the coming Federal Election, Carmel says, “This is the most important election in my lifetime, with many of the wonderful things we take for granted, which have been built up over decades, now being undermined or diminished. My father and many others went to World War II to fight to keep our country the best it could possibly be. Our democracy is being threatened by a government that is portraying us as intolerant and unkind, always resorting to unreasonable treatment of those who are least able to defend themselves. There is a lack of honesty and transparency which exceeds any previous Australian government.
“I see living on the beautiful South Coast as a privilege. Seeing what’s happening in other parts of the country, where environmental protection is being sacrificed for short-term greed and permanent destruction is one of my greatest motivations.
“And it’s not leading to more jobs or better education opportunities. In the Shoalhaven we have recently seen our paper mill close and the Port Kembla Steel Works is now under threat. This government is taking away all levels of education and training opportunities for our youth and displaced workers: the role of TAFE has been drastically downgraded in the community and our universities are becoming unaffordable except for the very rich.
“The Australia I know can be so much more than this, investing in our future through education, training and job creation; nurturing health and wellness; growing renewable energy and greater innovation, while at the same time looking after and caring for the most vulnerable, including ‘those who come across the seas’ seeking our help.”
For more details contact Carmel McCallum on: Ph 4446 0828; M: 0414 392 660; Email: email hidden; JavaScript is required
Kiama Greens on Facebook
Check out Camila Rodrigues's video! #TikTok https://t.co/rzEe0NzMJG #,
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Medium sized blackbird with iridescent feathers
Brewer's Blackbirds look similar to the grackles and cowbirds. But Brewer's Blackbirds are smaller than Common Grackles, with shorter tails and a shorter, smaller bill and Brewers’ have a yellow eye instead of the Brown-headed Cowbirds’ dark eye.
They are a summer resident in Michigan but are not common. You may see them along roadsides looking for roadkill insects and weed seeds. You can also find them in other open habitats such as grasslands, riversides, meadows, as well as lawns, golf courses, and parks.
The males have iridescent black feathers that are shown off as they jerk their head back and forth when they walk. Audubon named the bird after Thomas Mayo Brewer, a friend and prominent oologist (someone that studies eggs).
- Keep blackbirds away with your seed selection http://keep-blackbirds-away-with-your-seed.html
- Choosing a seed blend to feed wild birds http://goo.gl/UxhVs
Weird Cardinal with black bill
Young kids today! The spiked hair, black lips, and all around strange ensemble. This is the normal (or abnormal) look of an immature Northern Cardinal. There is nothing wrong with them.
Young Northern Cardinals have ashy brown feathers and black bills rather than the orange-red of the adults. They change gradually to their adult coloration three to four months after hatching.
- Baby birds at the feeders http://goo.gl/UGCokz
- Cardinals mate for life http://goo.gl/Fz1CSR
- Cardinal Fun Facts http://bit.ly/twE6NV
- Cardinal Bird Feeders: http://bit.ly/qXJPFM
- How the Cardinal was named http://bit.ly/tSKZYs
- What can I feed the cardinals to make them redder? http://bit.ly/rAArXw
Photo Share: Trumpeter Swan in flight
Michigan Department of Natural Resources sent this bulletin
Early settlers and explorers in Michigan noted that Trumpeter Swans were found here in abundance. Starting in the late 1800s, however, an increase in European settlement brought with it the conversion of wetlands to farmlands. It also brought market hunters, who harvested swans to sell their meat to restaurants, fluffy down for pillows, feather quills for pens, and skins and feathers for the fashion and hat trade. Unlike today’s hunters, who provide conservation funding through their hunting license and equipment purchases and only take as many animals as can be replaced through reproduction, market hunters had few regulations and little care for ensuring the future of the species that they decimated.
Thanks to the passage of federal wildlife protection laws in the early 1900s, this unrestrained harvest was curtailed, but the bird’s habitat still was imperiled. By 1933, only 66 trumpeter swans remained in the United States. Through careful stewardship, the trumpeter’s numbers slowly increased. Today, over 750 trumpeter swans can be found in Michigan alone and 35,000 swans across the entire United States!
If you venture out to capture the magic of trumpeter swans, respect their privacy and enjoy them from a distance. These are the largest waterfowl in the world and can weigh more than 25 pounds. They are 4 feet tall and have a wingspan of over 7 feet – all in all, an intimidating bird. And adults are very protective of their young cygnets and may attempt to chase off or attack a person that they think may pose a danger.
The trumpeter swan remains in Michigan year-round and are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. To learn more about the Migratory Bird Treaty Centennial, visit www.fws.gov/birds/MBTreaty100.
Birds of Michigan Field Guide & CD set
You enjoy watching the birds and now you can enjoy listening to them too once you can name their tune. Birds of Michigan Field Guide and Audio CD set is a great tool for learning more about the common birds in our area.
The small compact book has full-page, color photos of birds. They include insets of winter plumage, color morphs and more. You don't need to know a bird's name or classification. The book is organized by the color of the bird. This is great for beginners. The CD in the collection will help you start recognizing birds by sound when you listen, featuring the highest quality digital recordings and approximately 120 minutes of bird calls.
The two best tools for enjoying birds in Michigan in one great, field-friendly package! This set is a must-have, and it makes a perfect gift!
Most common winter birds in Michigan http://bit.ly/rZG7mw
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What seed is best for attracting the colorful birds? http://bit.ly/vKhfMl
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Photo Share: Sharp-shinned vs Merlin
Merlin Falco columbarius
This merlin seemed to know he was being photographed.- Mark
What a very handsome hawk! I think it is a Sharp-shinned hawk. Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful photo! If anyone else would like to share a photograph of nature send it to bloubird@gmail.com with a description and permission to post it on the Friday Photo.
The Merlin is similar in size, but it’s a falcon—it has pointed wings and a shorter tail. Merlins are dark, streaky birds and they behave differently, flying powerfully and usually hunting out in the open. They also nest in the upper peninsula in Michigan.
Sharp-shinned vs. Cooper’s Hawks http://goo.gl/sBHwDY
Birds of prey: Hawk vs. Falcon http://birds-of-prey-hawk-vs-falcon.html
Hawks at Feeders http://bit.ly/zfOiVV
Cooper's Hawk http://bit.ly/ylsupp
Sharp-shinned Hawks http://bit.ly/zhi4Ng
Now is the time to feed the birds to help with feather growth
A regular resident of mid-Michigan backyards, the Northern Cardinals form one of the bird world's most faithful pair bonds. The male and female remain in close contact year-round, singing to one another through the seasons with soft, bubbly whistles. The female is known to sing while on the nest, and it is believed that she is informing her partner whether or not she or the young need food.
The red color of the cardinal’s feathers is the result of pigments called carotenoids. The amount of the pigment ingested, and then deposited in the feathers as they molt in the fall, influences the quality and depth of their red coloration. A study done by the Ohio State University found that juveniles, less efficient foragers than adults, often have a duller red feather coloration.
At the feeding stations the birds tend to prefer seeds that provide the most nutrients. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a landmark study of bird food preferences in 1980 for several bird species and found cardinals exhibited the greatest preference for fresh sunflower, peanuts, safflower, and millet. They avoid buckwheat, cracked corn, milo, oats, wheat, canary, flax, rapeseed, and rice.
Wild Birds Unlimited No-mess Blend is our best selling blend. It has everything the birds want and leaves no messy shells behind. The first ingredient is sunflower seeds with the black shells removed. You only pay for seed not the shells. Birds don't eat the shell. Those are just discarded below the feeder as waste. Because there is no shell, there is about twice as much seed in the bag. Pound for pound it is the better deal and it also should go down twice as slow in the feeder.
Whatever seed, seed cake, or suet you choose at Wild Birds Unlimited, we guarantee it will be fresh and a healthy choice for our local birds.
- Northern Cardinal Fun Facts http://bit.ly/twE6NV
- How the Northern Cardinal bird was named http://bit.ly/tSKZYs
- Cardinal Bird Feeders Made in the USA: http://bit.ly/qXJPFM
- How to Attract Cardinals: http://bit.ly/pjh7mO
Hummingbird moth on milkweed
These beautiful White-Lined Sphinx Hummingbird moths are sipping nectar with a formidable proboscis dipping deep into the flower of the milkweed.
National Moth Week, the last full week in July, provides a much-needed spotlight on moths and their ecological importance as well as their incredible biodiversity. Read more at: http://nationalmothweek.org/
-Tiger moths: What is that white moth with black spots?: http://bit.ly/rtneuz
-A Very Tiny Hummingbird (Moth)?: http://bit.ly/qtrAaV
-Moth With Twelve Inch Tongue: http://bit.ly/pcs0TV
-Why did I take a picture of bird poop?: http://bit.ly/o9APHb
-Where does the Woolly Bear go in the winter?: http://bit.ly/pB5L4V
Eastern kingbird facts
The Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) is a large tyrant flycatcher native to North America. Adults are grey-black on the upperparts with light underparts; they have a long black tail with a white end and long pointed wings. They have a red patch on their crown, seldom seen.
The scientific name Tyrannus means “tyrant, despot, or king,” referring to the aggression kingbirds exhibit with each other and with other species. When defending their nests they will attack much larger predators like hawks, crows, and squirrels. They have been known to knock unsuspecting Blue Jays out of trees.
Eastern Kingbirds are Common and widespread in Michigan from May until early September. They are most likely seen on the golf courses or in the country perched where they can wait for insect prey to fly by.
How to keep yellow jackets away from hummingbird feeder
The only sure defense against bees and yellow jacket wasps is to deny them any access to the nectar. I have replaced all my hummingbird feeders gradually with the problem free Wild Birds Unlimited saucer style feeders. The bees don’t like the flat style hummingbird feeders because the nectar is down low, there is no leaking or dripping, they have a built in ant moat and they are easy to clean and fill. There are also optional bee guards you can attach to allow only hummers and no bugs access.
There are different styles and sizes of the saucer style hummingbird feeders, even a window feeder! They all have perches (I love it when they stop to drink) and bright colored tops to attract the birds naturally. Both the cover and the clear bowl are constructed with UV stable poly carbonate, the most durable plastic available, are dishwasher safe, come with a lifetime guarantee, and are made in the USA.
If you choose not to try a new feeder right now, I have three tips to stop bees:
1. Deter Bees and wasps: I discovered bees don't like the smell of cherries. If you swab the ports with real almond or cherry extract (purchased at any grocery store baking isle), the bees will avoid the feeder. This really works but it wears off fast and you have to reapply the extract every day.
2. Distract Bees and wasps: Use a super-concentrated sugar water mix (two parts water, one part sugar), and pour it into a shallow plate, preferably a big yellow one (bees seem to be attracted to that color). Put the plate on a ladder or stool near the hummingbird feeder and they will probably move over to the plate. Once the plate is empty the bees should disperse.
3. Disinterest Bees and wasps: Reduce the sugar concentration to 1 part sugar in 5 parts water instead of the usual nectar recipe of 1 part white sugar to 4 parts water. This will make it less attractive to insects, but probably won't make the hummingbirds lose interest.
Do Honey Bees Migrate in the Winter? http://bit.ly/KIuKKv
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What’s the best bee-proof hummingbird feeder? http://goo.gl/PcLeyD
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Examining The Hummingbird Tongue http://bit.ly/HoaxsI
What is the nectar recipe for hummingbirds? http://bit.ly/H7xvp3
Photo Share: Ruby-throated hummingbird fluffed
Nesting season is over for the hummingbirds in Michigan by the end of June. Once breeding territories no longer have to be guarded, hummingbirds wander widely. This is a really good time to put out a hummingbird feeder.
Just before they answer the call to travel south, hummingbirds eat in excess to build a layer of rich fatty fuel just under their skin. You can notice the extra fat along the belly, back, and throat. A hummingbird actually gains 25 – 40% extra body-weight to have enough fuel to migrate thousands of miles south. You will notice them getting fatter and fatter and then one day they fly to their wintering grounds.
Photo by Ken Thomas. If anyone else would like to share a photograph of nature send it to bloubird@gmail.com with a description and permission to post it on the Friday Photo.
Decorative yet functional hummingbird feeder by Droll Yankees
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What bird sings cheeseburger?
“What bird says Cheeseburger?” My mom asked me that question a couple weeks ago. Chickadee is the answer. We were joking that Mrs. Chickadee was literally calling her mate a meathead. In the spring it is all, Sweetie, hey, sweetie as they choose mates and defend territories and now it has turned into name calling. I think the bloom is off the rose.
When I’m filling the feeders the chickadees sometimes give what seems like a friendly chick-a-dee-dee-dee which I always interpreted as a “hurry up, food is here”. Then when a Chickadee stops by my feeder they make a tseet, tseet “hello”, picks out a seed and zips away. And the soulful sweeeties chickadee parents call to gather their fledglings is one of the sweetest sounds of summer.
Black-capped Chickadees have a lot of vocalizations, adults can produce at least 16 different calls. Young chickadees usually produce 3 types of calls to beg for food, to talk to their parents, or alert them they are in distress.
Chickadees are well known for their distinctive calls which sound like chick-a-dee-dee-dee. Scientist are just beginning to decode some of the meanings. They increase the number of dee notes when they are alarmed, give a gargling call, often aggressively, when a lower-ranking bird gets too close. And a high pitched see is a serious alarm call, often when a fast-approaching predator is detected. When chickadees hear this call, they freeze in position until they hear a chickadee-dee call signifying “all clear.”
Further studies in communication in birds may provide insights into the evolution of structural complexity of human language.
What the 'dee' in Chick-a-dee means http://goo.gl/8rde3a
A closer look at the fee-bee song of the chickadee http://goo.gl/X4qLRV
Why don't chickadees stay to eat at the feeder? http://bit.ly/AkKThH
After chickadee babies have fledged http://bit.ly/yAYbP4
Fun Facts About Chickadees http://bit.ly/zIDkCi
Birds have evolved alarm signals to warn of danger http://birds-have-evolved-alarm-signals-to.html
There are no birdhouses for yellow finches
What feeders or flowers do goldfinches like? Can I put up a bird house for them? ~ East Lansing, MI
American Goldfinches are one of the loveliest songbirds to have gracing our yards. They are bright yellow and black birds, with a cheery song, and a wavy roller-coaster flight pattern that the great state of Michigan is lucky enough to have year round! They roam from garden to garden making the flowers dance as they eat seed heads until late summer when they choose a territory where they will nest.
Feeders are the easiest way to attract the American Goldfinch. We sell a variety of finch feeders. My favorites are the Mesh Finch Feeders. They not only let the finches land and feed in whatever position they choose, but they also allow air circulation to keep your Nyjer® (thistle) as dry and fresh as possible; something that's very important to these picky eaters. (Nyjer® (thistle) is the common name used to identify a tiny black birdseed but it does not sprout and is not related to the purple, prickly, Canada Thistle weed.)
Goldfinches eat a variety of seeds. Sunflower and Nyjer® (thistle) are two of their favorites, but it has to be fresh. One way to check your seed is to crush it with a spoon on white paper to see if any oil comes out. The finches use their bills to twist the seed and sip the oil and then drop the shell. If your seed has dried out, your feeder will be skipped. (Wild Birds Unlimited receives a fresh load of seed each week). Sunflower seed can offered in the shell or out of the shell like it is in the WBU No-mess Blend.
Gardening Trick for Goldfinches
Habitat can be a key to attracting Goldfinches. In this case you do less work, not more. Don't worry about dandelions and don't cut off the tops of your Marigolds, Zinnias, Cosmos, Brown eyed Susans or Coneflowers...Goldfinches love them. The birds make the flowers dance as they flit from flower to flower looking for seed heads.
The American Goldfinch begins its breeding season in late July. They don’t use bird houses but you can provide nesting material like cotton or pet hair. The female alone builds a bark, weeds, vines, and grass nest held together with spiderwebs 30 feet up in a deciduous tree. Finally she lines the nest with soft cottons, hair, milkweed, thistle, or cattail fluff.
Then it's my favorite time of year. By mid-August, after a couple weeks of incubating and a couple weeks in the nest, the first wave of baby goldfinches visit the feeder with their fathers. Their high squeaky baby calls are so adorable, but also a little sad because it marks the end of nesting season.
Prevent soggy seed in your bird feeder http://goo.gl/kfTpi
Nyjer (thistle) isn't related to Canada Thistle http://bit.ly/Nt8Xxu
Bird of the week: American Goldfinch http://bit.ly/PZum2a
How to Attract Goldfinches http://bit.ly/A6CwjB
How often do you clean a bird feeder? http://bit.ly/wTk0c7
Where do you place finch feeders? http://goo.gl/avIs2
Photo Share: Orange-crowned Warbler
Photo by George Gentry
From allaboutbirds.com:
Orange-crowned Warblers aren’t the most dazzling birds in their family, but they’re a useful one to learn. These grayish to olive-green birds vary in color geographically and have few bold markings. There’s rarely any sign of an orange crown. They might have you scratching your head until you recognize their slim shape, sharply pointed bill, and warmer yellow under the tail. These busy birds forage low in shrubs, and are one of the few warblers that's more common in the West than the East.
These warblers are seen in mid-Michigan in the late spring and late summer as they migrate through.
Osprey bird
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), also called fish eagle, sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a fish-eating bird of prey. The name "Osprey" made its first appearance around 1460, via the Medieval Latin phrase for "bird of prey" (avis prede). Some wordsmiths trace the name even further back, to the Latin for "bone-breaker"—ossifragus.
They are common sights soaring over shorelines and patrolling waterways for their exclusive diet of fish. Their white belly makes them hard for the fish to see them overhead and their dark eye-line of feathers blocks the glare from the water, enabling them to spot their prey.
Folding its wings, the Osprey dives toward the fish only to right itself and thrusts its feed forward to grab a fish just before striking the water. The Osprey's feet are specialized to prevent its catch from escape. They have two toes that face forward and two that face backward and the toes have sharp spines to help them clamp tight on even the slipperiest of fish. Over several studies, Ospreys success rates are sometimes as high as 70 percent.
The Bald Eagle as the National Symbol http://bit.ly/ythN8H
Attracting Michigan Songbirds http://bit.ly/A7TrNc
Why should we care about birds? http://goo.gl/4iD8a
Who Bird Watches http://goo.gl/vX9j5
Sports Illustrated Birdwatching edition http://goo.gl/RuJQQX
Effects of backyard bird feeding
I was worried when I began feeding the birds that the birds may become addicted to my feeders. Now I’m worried that I am addicted to bird feeding. Is there any harm in feeding birds all the time? Wild Birds Unlimited is my favorite shop! Thank you Sarah for answering all my questions!
I’ve been feeding birds year-round for decades and have been rewarded by babies in the summer, interesting migrating birds in the spring and fall, and cheery birds in the dreary winter. Based on personal experience, if you maintain your feeders, feed the appropriate food for the birds in your area, and clean the feeders frequently, there is no harm in feeding all the time.
Among the most popular reasons that people feed wild birds is that they want to help birds. The extent to which supplemental food helps birds was not well established until a study was done by the Millikin University, from spring 2011 to spring 2014. They examined how feeding wild birds influences the health of individual birds at forested sites in central Illinois.
Generally, the individual health of birds improved with supplemental feeding, reduced stress and more rapid feather growth. The difference among sites was not present 10 months after feeders were removed, suggesting that the impact on health was indeed related to supplemental feeding. One negative effect was the spread of disease from dirty feeders. They found in general, birds that had access to supplemental food were in better physiological condition. Moreover, the negative effects could be mitigated by hobbyists cleaning feeders.
In 2011, 52.8 million Americans over the age of 16 years fed birds and other wildlife around their homes and spent over $5 billion on bird food, feeders, houses, baths and other accessories according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Habitat alteration and destruction undoubtedly impose the greatest human impacts on bird populations, and many species of birds are in decline worldwide. A little supplemental food can help birds establish nests earlier, have better rates of nestling survival and fledgling success.
Feeders also allow breeding females to spend less time searching for food and more time selecting better nesting sites and constructing higher quality nests. The adults will also have more time available for protecting their nest, eggs and young from predators.
When abundant food is accessible to parent birds it means that more food is provided to their chicks. Studies have shown that this extra nutrition reduces aggression among nest siblings and increases their rate of growth. So go ahead and feed the birds and enjoy a hobby that also helps Mother Nature.
Meeting Your Birds' Nesting Needs http://meeting-your-birds-nesting-needs.html
What seeds do wild birds eat? http://what-seeds-do-wild-birds-eat.html
When should I feed the birds? http://feeding-year-round.html
Photo Share: Beautiful perched Turkey Vulture
Turkey Vultures are scavengers that feed almost exclusively on carrion. Their outstanding sense of smell allows them to detect gases generated by decay processes in dead animals. Turkey vultures limit the spread of carrion-borne disease since many pathogens such as anthrax and hog cholera cannot survive passage through their digestive tracts. In parts of the world where vultures are declining in number, rats and feral dogs are increasing.
The plumage of males and females are nearly identical. Body feathers are dark brown to black. In flight, white to grey feathers on the underside of their wings become apparent. Their heads are red and nearly free of feathers. They have a short curved, ivory colored beak.
What wrens do after they leave the nest
I wanted to know where my wren family went. The babies fledged and I heard and saw them with parents for 4 days and now they are nowhere to be seen or heard. Have they moved on to a different area and is it normal for them to do that? Could they by chance come back to my yard later? Thanks . I must say I miss them!
Your wrens are probably gone, but others still may find food in your yard.
When they hatch from their egg, wrens are just blobs of small pink skin and bones about the size of your thumbnail. The young are completely helpless and depend on their parents.
By day 15, they are almost fully feathered and capable of flight. They stretch and buzz their wings in the nest to build up muscles. All leave the nest within a few hours of each other.
Once baby wrens are out of the nest they fly-hop around bushes and trees, in the general area they hatched, to build up their strength. Their parents lead them to water and continue to feed them.
Gradually, the parents will take the young farther and farther from the nest site as they show them how to forage for food, water and shelter. Soon they are able to take care of themselves. Then the tight cohesive unit will disperse. Scientists aren’t sure what triggers the break, but the young take off suddenly in different directions.
When autumn arrives, these tiny birds will build up their fat reserves and begin heading south to spend the winter in the southern states and into Mexico. They don’t form migrating flocks like blackbirds and robins.
Nest of sticks in bluebird box http://bit.ly/vUB9v2
Question about House Wren Migration http://bit.ly/MMTgSh
Quick Fun Facts on Wrens http://bit.ly/v5XVoU
Hanging & Placement of Wren Bird Houses http://bit.ly/rBLsGQ
How long before baby wren birds can fly http://how-long-before-baby-wren-birds-can-fly.html
Why squirrels lie completely flat in hot weather
One obvious reason squirrels lie flat in hot weather is to cool off. It is common in the summer to see them flaked out on a shaded tree branch, the deck or a dusty little patch of earth. The increased amount of their body’s surface area that is in contact with a cool surface reduces their body temperature.
Another reason is a lot of these squirrels are baby mommas. A little cool pressure on the chestal area after nursing a half dozen toothy babies is just the thing required to refresh a body.
Why Chickadees Sunbathe http://why-chickadees-sunbathe.html
Dove flaked out in the sun http://dove-flaked-out-in-sun.html
Why are Squirrels Called Squirrels?: http://bit.ly/n5x4Wf
Squirrels Like to Work for Their Food: http://bit.ly/nhAAkK
How Many Species of Squirrels are in Michigan?: http://bit.ly/ptcjzi
Birds cleaning up after their babies
House Wren with Fecal Sac
Is it normal for parent birds to root around in the nest? Is she looking for waste? I have seen the parents taking something small and white out of the nestbox. What are they doing?
Small songbirds have a unique way to keep the nest clean. Not only would a nest full of baby poop be smelly and a bad place to raise young birds, it might also attract predators.
Nestling birds produce a little round white package of poo, encased in a tough gelatinous membrane. The parent grasps the Fecal Sac by the middle with their beak to dispose of away from the nest. Nestlings usually excrete one sac after each feeding, especially as they get older.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/NsOzfya3iSA
Goldfinch nesting habits
Raw Cotton Nesting Material
During July, long after most birds have completed nesting, the American Goldfinches are just beginning to nest for the first and only time of the year. They may have been absent from your feeders earlier when they were footloose and fancy free to eat grass or flower seeds. Now that they are tied down to one area to nest and once the babies fledge the numbers of birds hitting the feeders will multiply, literally! Make sure your feeders are clean and full of fresh birdseed.
You do not want to miss this exciting time of vibrant song and fascinating courtship behavior. A male establishes and marks his territory by warbling and flitting from perch to perch around his domain. He also circles and performs flying displays. First, a low flat flight, and then an exaggerated undulation and series of loops.
Goldfinch nesting coincides with the availability of plant down for nest construction and the abundant supply of their preferred food to feed their young. At the feeders they love to eat fresh, dry Nyjer® (thistle), and they also enjoy sunflower chips like we have in the No-mess blend.
Young goldfinches are dependent on their parents for at least three weeks after fledging. Their energetic begging, chasing and harassment of their parents for food at your feeders are truly some of the biggest payoffs of participating in the bird feeding hobby.
European Goldfinches http://bit.ly/Q2Cu37
Goldfinch Migration http://bit.ly/MzGSPD
Are Goldfinches here in the winter? http://bit.ly/PZu5ML
Goldfinches: The Last Birds Nesting http://bit.ly/PZuejj
Whip-poor-will Cool Facts
Eastern Whip-poor-will via Wikimedia Commons
In Michigan from April to early November, the Whip-poor-will is heard throughout many of the open woodlands in Michigan, but is rarely seen. Their camouflaged plumage, nocturnal hunting, and secretive nesting behavior make them hard to find.
The Whip-poor-will is a member of the nightjar or “goatsucker” family. The name goatsuckers comes from the ancient folk tale that they sucked the milk from goats, causing the goats to go blind.
Cool Facts from https://www.allaboutbirds.org/
- The male’s emphatic, chanted whip-poor-will, sometimes repeated for hours on end, is a classic sound of warm summer nights in the countryside of the East.
- Eastern Whip-poor-wills lay their eggs in phase with the lunar cycle, so that they hatch on average 10 days before a full moon. When the moon is near full, the adults can forage the entire night and capture large quantities of insects to feed to their nestlings.
- Eastern Whip-poor-will chicks move around as nestlings, making it difficult for predators to rob the nest. The parent may help by shoving a nestling aside with its foot, sometimes sending the young bird tumbling head over heels.
- The Eastern Whip-poor-will may locate insects by seeing the bugs’ silhouettes against the sky. Its eyes have a reflective structure behind the retina that is probably an adaptation to low light conditions.
How to keep your birds healthy in extreme heat
Hot, humid weather can make seed go bad if it sits in a feeder too long. I've found that if I clean my feeders regularly and mix Feeder Fresh in with the seed, my feed stays at its best.
When temperatures rise to extremes, many birds don't like to travel far to forage for food. They prefer to make a quick stop at your bird seed restaurant and then go back in to a sheltered location.
In order to keep healthy birds at your feeders, remember the following:
1. Feeders should be cleaned at least once a month. Wild Birds Unlimited - East Lansing- will clean your feeder for $5.00. Or you can purchase professional cleaners like Scoot at Wild Birds Unlimited, or use a mild one part vinegar to nine parts water solution to clean all of your feeders. Disassemble feeders and immerse them completely for three minutes. Scrub with brushes (we have these too), rinse thoroughly, and let air dry.
2. Check your feeders after a rain to make sure the seed is dry. If not, replace it.
3. Use Feeder Fresh to keep your seed dry in humid weather.
4. Store seed in a cool dry location. Wild Birds Unlimited has closed steel containers that work well to protect seed from unwanted seed thieves or bad weather.
5. When choosing a new feeder look for something easy to clean and fill.
Also right now there are still young birds around learning the ropes and unfortunately, many times it's the inexperienced birds that fall victim to window strikes. Birds also strike windows as they quickly try to escape predators, hitting glass in a moment of panic. And during spring and fall migration, window strikes increase as birds unfamiliar with the area pass through your yard. Window strikes are hard to eliminate totally, but there are ways to reduce them and/or reduce their severity:
1. Locate feeders and birdbaths within 1-2 feet of windows so birds can't gather enough speed to cause significant injury or about 20-30 feet from windows so birds have time to change direction.
2.Window feeders also alert birds to a window.
3. Window screens will reduce injury even if a bird flies into it. Use them where practical.
4. Decals like Window Alert placed on the outside of windows have had the most positive feedback from customers. Each decal contains a component which brilliantly reflects ultraviolet sunlight. This ultraviolet light is invisible to humans, but glows like a stoplight for birds.
If you do have a window strike and the bird is injured CALL FOR ADVICE! The best course may be no interference. For a list of licensed rehabilitators click HERE. Or visit the Michigan Department of Natural Resources at: http://www.michigandnr.com/dlr/
A Hobby for All Seasons: Bird Feeding in the Summer http://bit.ly/LpfHNd
Birds Don't Sweat: The Importance of Birdbaths http://bit.ly/KTWD2U
Do we stop feeding suet in the summer? http://bit.ly/GKWSRt
Feeding Baby Birds http://bit.ly/GSHKwY
Don't Forget The Water: Tips to Maintain a Birdbath http://bit.ly/zjg6Iv
Photo Share: Raccoon in tree during day
A wild North American Raccoon (Procyon lotor) hiding in the branches of a maple tree. The common name raccoon comes from the Algonquan Indian word aroughbcoune which “means scratches with his hands.” The species name Procyon lotor means “washing bear.” Raccoons have very clever little hands that can open just about anything and they often seem to wash their food before they eat it. Scientists aren’t sure why the animals go through the dunking motions even if there is no water.
The territory of a raccoon can be as large as ten miles. This means he'll usually stay in your yard for only a few days and then move on looking for different food, water, and shelter. Of course another one may replace the one that just left your yard or you may be free of raccoons for weeks. An exception to that is a nursing mother raccoon. Healthy mother raccoons are often active during the day foraging for extra food and can stay in the same area until her babies leave the den in about eight week s. Afterward the mother and young find a new place to sleep each night as she teaches them to survive.
Michigan has very long days during the summer months, nocturnal animals will often start to emerge from there dens before dark. This only means that they are hungry. If you are thinking of trapping an animal remember most raccoons or any wild mammal during spring and summer months are most likely nursing females!
To prevent successful raccoon raids:
1. Put a baffle around the bird feeder pole.
2. Try squirrel proof feeders.
3. Take your bird feeders down at night when raccoons are most active and store them in the garage, shed, or a secure container that the raccoon can’t raid.
Hot birds
We’ve several days without rain in mid-Michigan and it is hot and crunchy outside! A bird with an open mouth is one sign that a bird might be overheating and working to lower its body temperature.
Birds lack sweat glands, so they pant like dogs instead of sweat like people. By opening its mouth a bird increases the airflow and causes more moisture to evaporate and cool their body.
When the temperature is in the 90's, a bird’s body may start to overheat. Birds give off excess body heat through their unfeathered legs and can ruffle their body feathers so hot air close to the skin can escape. A bird will also pant, travel less, find a shady spot, or seek water to reduce its body temperature.
In this heat a refreshing dip in a birdbath is very effective in lowering their body temperature and rehydrating their body to beat the heat.
You will also significantly increase the number of birds visiting your yard by providing bird baths. Wild Birds Unlimited has a wide variety of baths to choose from. Birdbaths come in many shapes, sizes and materials. They can be placed on the ground, mounted on a pedestal or hung. If you have any questions come in to the store and we can help you find the best bath for your yard.
The best heated bird baths http://bit.ly/zCEn39
Why do birds poop in the bird bath? http://bit.ly/xZb3yQ
Why Birds Preen http://bit.ly/yja8ah
Why do crows and blackbirds dip their food in bird baths? http://bit.ly/zgpw2i
Do Birds Sip or Slurp? http://bit.ly/yAHTTV
The Best Bird Food in Town
We have tons of fresh, top-quality seed delivered every week to our Wild Birds Unlimited store in East Lansing, MI. Our no-waste bird seed blends are made from 100% edible seed and have been exclusively formulated for the feeding preferences of our local birds. No cereal fillers—just fresh, high-quality seed your birds will love!
We also carry a wide variety of other bird foods—suet, seed cylinders, mealworms, BirdBerry™ Jelly and more.
WBU Bird Seed and Seed Blends
All of our blends are made of the stuff birds like to eat! We learned long ago the better the blend, the better your bird watching! Bargain bird seed may have inexpensive seeds like milo and wheat mixed in to bulk up the bag. However, in most regions these seeds are not eaten by bird feeder birds and is left to sprout or rot on the ground. We also stock all the non-blended bird seeds like sunflower, safflower, Nyjer® (thistle), and peanuts.
WBU Suet Products
We carry a high quality line of suet products for birds like woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, wrens, mockingbirds, etc. Peanut Butter Suet cakes are the most popular.
WBU Specialty Feeders
Our Bird Seed Cylinders are an easy way to offer your birds a wide variety of food. They’re convenient, too. Try offering a Seed Cylinder on our Seed Cylinder Feeder or Dinner Bell Feeder.
WBU Nectar
If you don't want to make your own nectar from white sugar, we have ready to use nectar that provides the high calories the active hummingbirds and orioles need. It contains no dyes or additives and delivers wonderful results. Any leftover solution can be stored in your refrigerator for later use.
It's the goal of Wild Birds Unlimited for you to have the best possible experience from your bird feeding hobby. Backyard bird feeding is the most relaxing, fulfilling, educational and exciting hobby that everyone can enjoy.
How to stop birds from scattering seeds
Birds look for the very best seeds. First, fresh and heavy seeds full of oil are chosen over the dried up older seeds. Birds will shuffle through the seeds until they find what they are looking for. They'll pick a seed up in their bill to test the weight. If it's not heavy enough they'll pick up another to compare the weight of of the seeds. It's not worth their while to eat seeds that are dried out or bad.
Second, certain seeds are preferred over others. Nuts and sunflower seeds are chosen most often by backyard birds for their high calorie/ounce ratio due to its high fat and protein content. Cheap filler grains like oats, wheat and milo decrease the price per pound of a grocery store birdseed mix but aren't eaten by the birds in the east and will be tossed aside.
At Wild Birds Unlimited you will get the very freshest seed, blended regionally for your backyard birds, with no filler grains. This should limit the scattering problem. And we also have feeders that also deter seed flicking.
Seed Cylinders are our most popular no muss, no fuss feeders. Bird Seed Cylinders are just that! A cylinder made of 100% premium bird seeds, tree nuts and dried fruits and held together with a natural gelatin base. There is no seed spray from these cylinders. The whole block is completely edible.
The Seed Cylinder feeders are popular with people who have been bird feeding a long time and for beginners. It is one of the easiest feeders to maintain and attracts a wide variety of birds.
How to get the chickadees to stay at the feeder longer http://goo.gl/Bn5G2u
Birdfeeding doesn't have to be messy: 3 Solutions to a Tidy Yard http://goo.gl/5oBc8N
Best Large Capacity Bird Feeder http://goo.gl/fqmDby
How European immigrants of the late 1800s changed American society
Two of the most common birds at our American bird feeders, House Sparrows and European Starlings are reluctant European immigrants.
Juvenile European Starling and female House Sparrow via Wikimedia Commons
In the mid-1800's House Sparrows were released in New York and in the 1870's a few House Sparrows were brought over from England and released in Jackson and Owosso, Michigan to control insect infestations on crops. They quickly multiplied into thousands as they regularly raised three to five broods per year, each brood averaging around five babies.
Today due to these releases of a few House Sparrows across the US, they are the most abundant songbirds in North America and the most widely distributed birds on the planet. And the House Sparrows in your yard may be 200th generation Americans.
And in the 1890’s, 100 starlings were released into New York City’s Central Park. It is said that Eugene Schieffelin wanted all of New York to see the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare. Schieffelin belonged to the Acclimation Society of North America, a group with the aim of aiding the exchange of plants and animals from one part of the world to another. In the 19th century, such acclimatization societies were fashionable and the effect that non-native species could have on the local ecosystem was not yet realized. His attempts to introduce bullfinches, chaffinches, nightingales, and skylarks were not successful.
Since their introduction into North America, European Starling populations have grown to over 200 million birds and they can now be found coast to coast and in Alaska.
Sparrows and starlings have learned to thrive in close association with people, unlike the many other species that have declined or disappeared as a result of our activities. In fact, they actually owe much of their success directly to us.
Our challenge is to learn to live with them as well as they have learned to live with us by mitigating their impact on our native species, while fully understanding the niche they now occupy in our avian landscape.
Basic Instinct: Cardinal Feeds Goldfish http://bit.ly/Kgv2Mi
Starling and sparrow nesting together http://goo.gl/5aQftb
Bald eagle facts
The United States started the trend for national birds when it made the Bald Eagle its avian representative over 200 years ago. In 1789 George Washington became our Nation's first President and the American Bald Eagle became our Country's official bird.
President John F. Kennedy later wrote: "The Founding Fathers made an appropriate choice when they selected the Bald Eagle as the emblem of the nation. The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird aptly symbolizes the strength and freedom of America."
When America adopted the bald eagle as the national symbol, the country may have had as many as 100,000 nesting eagles. The first major decline of the species probably began in the mid to late 1800’s, coinciding with the decline of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other prey.
Although they primarily eat fish and carrion, bald eagles used to be considered marauders that preyed on chickens and domestic livestock. Consequently, the large raptors were shot in an effort to eliminate a perceived threat. Coupled with the loss of nesting habitat, bald eagle populations declined.
In 1940, noting that the species was “threatened with extinction,” Congress passed the Bald Eagle Protection Act, which prohibited killing, selling, or possessing the species. A 1962 amendment added the golden eagle, and the law became the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
Shortly after World War II, DDT was hailed as a new pesticide to control mosquitoes and other insects. However, DDT and its residues washed into nearby waterways, where aquatic plants and fish absorbed it. Bald eagles, in turn, were poisoned with DDT when they ate the contaminated fish. The chemical interfered with the ability of the birds to produce strong eggshells. As a result, their eggs had shells so thin that they often broke during incubation or otherwise failed to hatch. DDT also affected other species such as peregrine falcons and brown pelicans.
By 1963, with only 487 nesting pairs of bald eagles remaining, the species was in danger of extinction. In addition to the adverse effects of DDT, some bald eagles have died from lead poisoning after feeding on waterfowl containing lead shot, either as a result of hunting or from inadvertent ingestion.
Today, there are almost 10,000 nesting pairs of bald eagles in the contiguous United States. Bald eagles have staged a remarkable population rebound and have recovered to the point that they no longer need the protection of the Endangered Species Act.
For more information about Bald Eagles, visit All About Birds- the Cornell Lab of Ornithology online bird guide.
Bald Eagle Information http://t.co/o4ugzs2
Nesting Eagles http://t.co/vpj99ZV
Terrified Geese Have Eyes on the Sky http://t.co/pqsWQqE
Amazing moment bald eagle chases down and catches a starling in mid-air http://t.co/U3CT5Sh
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Best time to put out hummingbird feeders
I broke my hummingbird feeder. Is it too late in the season to get another feeder or should I just wait and start fresh next year?
I encourage everyone to keep their hummingbird feeders clean and change the nectar at least twice a week. Hummingbird feeding is most successful in late summer and early fall. Territories have now relaxed since nesting is over. The babies are out with their mommas which means the highest number of hummingbirds are feeding right now.
Late July some hummers may begin fueling up to migrate south. Some people fear that feeding hummingbirds into the fall may delay their departure and expose them to freezing but there is no evidence that feeding slows their migration. In fact hummers that are born late in the season are vulnerable. Leaving your feeders up may provide a critical opportunity for these hummingbirds to build reserves and “catch up.”
September is typically the most satisfying month to feed hummingbirds. As the days shorten, ruby-throats begin to migrate south. This occurs in Michigan in late August and by mid-October the they are usually gone. That's a good time to bring in the feeders and clean them for winter storage.
What is the nectar recipe for hummingbirds? http://goo.gl/MK3AU
Fun Facts about Ruby-throated Hummingbirds http://goo.gl/jcjcr
The Best Hummingbird Feeders http://bit.ly/L4yY3i
Why the color on a hummingbirds’ throat flashes http://bit.ly/JZ31qX
When did people start to feed hummingbirds?: http://bit.ly/o8Y8HR
Photo Share: Great Crested Flycatcher Perched in Canopy
A customer came in and told me a story about how the Great Crested Flycatchers were entertaining her by swooping high in the trees. While perching and pouncing on insects is a common hunting tactic, they also may swoop down and pursue prey if they missed it on the first dive.
From AllAboutBirds.com: A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatchers prefer breeding territories in open broadleaf or mixed woodlands and at the edges of clearings in Michigan. Its habit of hunting high in the canopy means it’s not particularly conspicuous—until you learn its very distinctive call, an emphatic rising whistle. These flycatchers may crash into foliage in pursuit of leaf-crawling prey. They are the only Eastern flycatchers that nest in cavities, and this means they sometimes make use of nest boxes.
During the non-breeding season, in fall and winter, great crested flycatchers may be found in southern Central America and northeast South America. Some great crested flycatchers are found in the southern tip of Florida and Cuba year-round.
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How to Build Brand Affinity with Influencers
July 22, 2016 Hlumelo
Brand affinity, brand perception, brand opinion, brand love—whatever you call it, the ability to positively influence how customers think and feel while they’re engaging with your brand is an aspiration for all marketers.
But, how do you do it?
We know for sure that it’s not easy to build brand affinity with ads—if people aren’t blocking them in the first place. Although many ads are effective at generating brand awareness, they’ve been known to backfire. Consider Michael Kors; the retailer generated massive awareness with its first Instagram ad, but that awareness came at a price to affinity.
We also know that the goals of brand affinity—long-term relationships, popularity, loyalty, likeability—map well to the outcomes of influencer marketing, which is why many top brands have turned to the strategy to get the job done. If you’re looking to put influence to work for your business, these six tips can help you get started. We hope this can spark ideas for how you can build brand affinity by tapping the authentic power of influencers.
Create a Digital “Hub” of Influencer Content
Affinity happens when consumers realize that you’re genuinely trying to help them, possibly at the expense of an instant sale.
Abbott—the diversified, global maker of branded generic drugs, medical devices, nutritional products, and more—uses influencer content to populate its magazine-style website, Life to the Fullest.
Although the brand also encourages user-generated content by asking consumers to share their definitions of a “full life”, it focuses most of its efforts on partnering with influencers such as Kelle Hampton and Nadine Sykora. These partners create and share videos that build brand affinity and drive traffic to the Abbott site.
Another example: General Mills’ Tablespoon, an online content portal that bills itself as “the place to feed your fix for recipes, food hacks, how-tos and party ideas.” Bloggers like Karly from Buns in my Oven and Bob from BS in the Kitchen regularly create, test, and share recipes—accompanied by gorgeous photos and instructional videos, of course.
Promote a Charitable Cause with Influencers
Cause marketing is powerful, especially among Millennials and Gen Z. Influencers can help brands promote their cause efforts in a way that feels relatable to everyday consumers.
Boxed Water is a great example of a company combining cause and influencer marketing to build brand affinity. First, the company teamed up with the National Forest Foundation to plant one million trees in areas of high need by the year 2020. Then, to spread the word about its mission and partnerships, the brand connected with influencers like Christen Press and Aidan Alexander. The influencers encouraged their followers to share photos tagged to #Retree. For every post with the hashtag, Boxed Water will plant two trees in Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest.
Coke provides another example. To support and build brand affinity among Muslim consumers internationally, the brand, in partnership with Ogilvy, launched the #OpenUp campaign. The effort, which ran during the month of Ramadan, featured celebrity Saudi chef Badr Fayez and Kuwaiti influencer Ascia AKF, creator of the Desert Baby line of baby slings and shoes. Both Badr and Ascia opened up to share their personal stories, addressing complications of living as a Muslim in today’s world.
You can read more about the #OpenUp program and see the influencers’ touching videos here, but in addition, we’d like to draw your attention to what Ogilvy called the most exciting result: A 42 percent increase in Coke’s Brand Love score during the campaign.
Promote your Customers as Heroes with Influencers
Deluxe, one of the largest check-printing companies in the US, turned to influencer marketing to celebrate its centennial and to raise its share of voice and build brand affinity through the 100 Small Business Stories Across America campaign, designed to help the brand connect with small businesses by featuring their stories.
The idea? Offer people across the country the chance to win a $100 gift card by nominating a small business in their community that they thought deserved to win $25,000.
The influencer? Small-business advocate and influencer Robert Herjavec from SharkTank partnered with Deluxe and promoted the campaign during Small Business Week.
According to a video on Herjavec’s website, the campaign generated 35 interviews with top-tier media, such as Good Morning America, Forbes, and Fox Business, and resulted in 47 stories.
Further pointing to the campaign’s success, a follow-up program called Small Business Revolution on Main Street (also promoted by Herjavec,) will award one winning town a $500,000 Main Street makeover in May, 2016.
Brand affinity? Boosted. To replicate this idea yourself, consider how you can champion your consumers while unobtrusively promoting your brand.
Partner with Influencers to Answer Customer Questions
Influencers played a major role in Canon’s Maxify Mentors program; part contest, part engagement effort designed to build brand affinity and support the launch of the Maxify printer series. During the campaign, small business owners used #MaxifyContest to submit questions to and chat about their largest business challenges with five business influencers, including Barbara Corcoran from Shark Tank and Ivana Taylor from DIYMarketers.com.
The influencers promoted the Mentors program through their blogs and social media channels, encouraging business owners to participate.
This set off a widespread conversation, spreading word of the campaign among people thinking about Canon and its products.
Staples is running a similar brand-affinity-building program, sans sweepstakes. To help small-business owners kick off a successful 2016, the company unleashed its #MoreSmallBiz squad, a group of business influencers who answer consumer questions submitted with the hashtag. As part of the program, influencers Chris Brogan, Melissa Stewart, and Melinda Emerson hosted a Twitter chat, and continue to create blog posts and other content to promote the effort.
Ask yourself: What questions do your consumers have? And which influencers could help you build brand affinity by answering them?
Influencers can create or promote content that helps your audience do more with less, look better, feel better, or become whatever it is they aspire to be.
Retail giant Target provides a great example with School List Assist, an online hub where parents can purchase one or more items from a curated list of must-have school supplies. Target either holds pre-purchased orders for in-store pick-up, or ships them to customers’ homes.
The hub is one component of a larger back-to-school campaign that, in 2015, featured child actor Maddie Ziegler and YouTube star EvanTube. It’s designed to make life easier for parents during the busy, stressful back-to-school season.
Bring Positive Change to a Community
Food brand Betty Crocker set out to make a positive difference by integrating influencers into its #SpreadCheer holiday campaign. They engaged a multitude of bloggers to spread cheer in their own hometowns by giving the gift of freshly-baked cookies while documenting their experience from shopping to baking to gifting. Bloggers encouraged followers to #SpreadCheer as well by providing a coupon for Betty Crocker cookie mixes.
M&M’s used a similar strategy with its #MakeMLaugh campaign, a program to support Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day, a biennial fundraiser for children and young people living in poverty.
The goal was to prompt consumers to make someone laugh, and to capture and share that moment. M&M’s, in turn, donated one dollar for every laugh shared using the hashtag during the campaign period.
To promote the effort, the brand partnered with celebrity influencers such as Howie Mandel and Josh Groban, and professional influencers such as Mikey Murphy and Sean O’Donnell.
After donating $750K to kick off the campaign, and after influencers helped generate 2.9 million engagements and 78,000+ hashtag uses, M&M’s had boosted the balance of the Red Day fund by $1,250,000.
How to find influencers to help you create positive change?
They’re out there, and many are actively looking for brands to partner with on those types of efforts.
Blogger Cathleen Slagle is one such influencer; in January 2016 she shared an article on Blogger Babes (a network by and for female bloggers) expressing how she and other teens like her now have an unprecedented opportunity to use their influence for good.
“How stupid would it be to take this power that we teen influencers have, then sit back and just watch things happen? Maybe you don’t understand just how easy it is to actually help. There are over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations out there and even more campaigns through big brands, corporations, and even smaller companies and businesses. It’s easy to donate earnings to a good cause. What’s holding you back from changing the world?”
If you’re ready to get out there and start building brand affinity with influence, we can help. Our Lokal Link network has access to 1000+ influencers who are eager to help you forge a positive connection with your consumers, and our complete Influencer Marketing Agency can empower you to execute potent influencer marketing campaigns at scale and with ease.
Want to learn more? Get in touch today.
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Boys’ soccer win their second league game
By Eugean Choi on January 11, 2020
The boys’ soccer team won against Alemany High School 6-2 on Jan. 10.
Midfielder Pablo Greenlee ’20 said that he had high expectations for this game, and he was ultimately able to fulfill his goal.
“Going into the game we knew that Alemany was at the bottom of the table, so it was up to us not drop our level to theirs, and ultimately we succeeded in that.” said. Greenlee.
This was also the game that midfielder Lucca Dohr ’20 scored his first goal.
“It was his first of the season and it was really cool to see that.” said Greenlee.
With the team’s next game on Jan. 15, Greenlee said that the team is practicing hard to achieve the results that they want.
“I think as a team we need to work on closing the spaces on defense because with a better team they will be able to play through those spaces,” said Greenlee. “Offensively we need to be more unpredictable in our attack.”
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Magnetohydrodynamics 54, 1/2 (2018)
Special issue:
Selected papers of the 6th All-Russian conference with international participation
``Physicochemical and Applied Problems of Magnetic Disperse Nanosystems''
Stavropol, Russia, September 2017
The physics of magnetic dispersed nanosystems is a modern, dynamically developing field of fundamental and applied research. The interest to this scientific field is determined by the possibility to control the properties and behavior of liquid magnetically soft and composite materials, such as magnetic colloids, magnetorheological suspensions, ferrogels, magnetic elastomers, etc. by a remote magnetic field. Such materials and media have been found to be promising in technological and biomedicine applications.
The All-Russian conferences on magnetic dispersed nanosystems (magnetic fluids) have a long history. Since 1977, the conferences have been held in Ivanovo, Perm, and Stavropol. The international scientific conference on Physico-Chemical and Applied Problems of Magnetic Disperse Nanosystems organized by the North Caucasus Federal University is traditionally held once every two years since 2007 in Stavropol. The conferences sum up the results of the topical studies on magnetic nanosystems and materials, discuss the most important and promising trends in this field.
The All-Russian scientific conferences on magnetic nanosystems by the North Caucasus Federal University emphasize the fact that the University is a recognized scientific centre in the field of magnetic nanosystems in Russia and has a notable position in the world scientific community. The scientific school of the physics of magnetic dispersed nanosystems in Stavropol exists and has been actively developing since the mid-1970's. V.V. Chekanov established a laboratory of magnetic fluids at the Chair of General Physics, which based the school foundation in 1977. The investigations performed there are focused on the study of structurally-kinetic, magnetic and optical properties of magnetic nanosystems. The scientific school has two research laboratories equipped with modern devices and is aimed at comprehensive studies of liquid magnetizing media, magnetic dispersed nanosystems and new composite magnetic nanomaterials. The scientific studies of the school are often supported by grants from different funds and organizations, including the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation, the programs of the Ministry of Education and Science, Human Capital Foundation, the fund for assistance to innovations.
The 6th All-Russian Scientific Conference held on September 6--9, 2017 in Stavropol addressed the fundamental and applied problems of disperse nanosystems, including physical-chemical problems of synthesis, and discussed the results of the investigations of magnetic, electric, optical, thermo-physical properties, micro-structural characteristics, magnetohydrodynamic problems, heat/mass transfer, convection and waves, the application of magnetic disperse nanosystems in technical engineering and biomedicine. The Conference program included plenary sessions, section meetings, round tables and excursions. More than 30 reports were presented at the conference; more than 40 participants attended the conference. After thorough peer-reviewing, 30 reports (papers) have been selected to be published in a Special issue of the international scientific Journal Magnetohydrodynamics.
The Conference Organizing Committee is grateful to the colleagues, who participated in the preparation of this issue and who have greatly contributed to the process of selection and reviewing of the submitted papers.
Yuri Dikansky
Conference Organizing Committee Chairman
S. S. Belykh and C. V. Yerin. Magneto-optic effect in water-based magnetic emulsions
[Abstract] [PDF] [DOI]
N. V. Kandaurova, V. V. Chekanov and V. S. Chekanov. Excitation autowave spreading modes in the near-electrode layer of magnetic fluid
D. V. Gladkikh, Yu. I. Dikansky and A. G. Ispiryan. Some features of the magnetization of thin layers of magnetic fluids with magnetized aggregates in magnetic and electric fields
A. N. Golubiatnikov. Non-linear waves in a thin layer of magnetic fluid
A. O. Ivanov. The influence of the concentration on the initial dynamic susceptibility of weakly interacting dipolar fluids: an analysis using theory and computer simulations
A. S. Ivanov. Some aspects of the surface tension temperature dependence of drop-like aggregates in magnetic fluids
C. A. Khokhryakova (Bushueva), K. G. Kostarev, A. V. Lebedev and M. O. Denisova. The effect of an oscillating vertically oriented magnetic field on the ferrofluid layer located on a perfluorooctane substrate
A. Kolesnikova and A. Zakinyan. Rotating magnetic field induced structure formation in a magnetic fluid emulsion
V. M. Korovin and V. A. Kazhan. Influence of longitudinal magnetic field on the Kelvin--Helmholz instability for two layers of ferrofluid at relative horizontal motion
V. M. Kozhevnikov, Yu. A. Larionov and I. Yu. Chuenkova. Features of electrical properties in a structured thin magnetic fluid layer
M. T. Krauzina, A. A. Bozhko, P. V. Krauzin and S. A. Suslov. The influence of uniform external magnetic field on heat transfer in ferrofluids
Yu. I. Dikansky, A. G. Ispiryan, S. A. Kunikin and A. V. Rodionov. Temperature dependence of ferrofluid susceptibility. Influence of particle size distribution
A. A. Kuznetsov, A. V. Lebedev and A. F. Pshenichnikov. Nonlinear response of a concentrated ferrofluid to a low-frequency magnetic field
D. Kvasov and V. Naletova. The form of the magnetic fluid drop in a uniform harmonic electric field with the concentration of surface charge transportations
Yu. A. Larionov, V. M. Kozhevnikov, I. Yu. Chuenkova and A. A. Antonova. Particle aggregation in magnetic fluid layer in electric field
M. S. Demin and T. F. Morozova. Modelling of electrical capacitance dependences of magnetic nanofluid layer in an electric field
D. Pelevina, O. Sharova, A. Vinogradova, V. Turkov and V. Naletova. Formation of bridges between non-magnetic surfaces via the magnetic fluid surface deformation in non-uniform magnetic fields
E. S. Pyanzina, E. V. Novak, D. A. Rozhkov, A. V. Gudkova and P. A. Sánchez. Influence of the particle shape on the equilibrium morphologies of supracolloidal magnetic filaments
A. Radionov. Magnetic fluid sealing complexes for bearing assemblies of mine main ventilation fans
I. A. Shabanova, A. M. Storozhenko, A. O. Tantsyura and I. M. Aref'ev. Azimuthal dependence of the acoustomagnetic effect in magnetic fluids
A. Yanovskii, A. Simonovskii and I. Chuenkova. Measurement of the vapor bubble formation frequency in boiling magnetic fluid by a two-layer medium method
A. P. Sizov, D. S. Repin, V. S. Elovsky, V. A. Komelkov and A. V. Toporov. Application of magnetic nanoscale dispersed systems in electromechanical devices operated at separations of gas and liquid fire extinguishing agents
I. M. Subbotin. Magnetic permeability of inverse ferrofluid emulsion: an influence of interdroplet interaction
V. M. Makarov, S. Z. Kalaeva, M. A. Kruchina, N. L. Markelova, I. N. Zakharova, A. A. Ezhov and A. M. Shipilin. Production of magnetite-containing composite based on iron hydroxide from underground waters to synthesize magnetic fluids
V. M. Makarov, S. Z. Kalaeva, N. L. Markelova, L. A. Tyukina and A. Yu. Dubov. Production of nanodisperse magnetite for polymer compositions to be used for various purposes
S. D. Turkin and Yu. I. Dikansky. Nanoparticles concentration influence on magnetic gyrotropy in ferrocolloids
A. Tyatyushkin. Drop of viscous magnetic fluid in a non-stationary magnetic field
C. V. Yerin, V. I. Lykhmanova and M. V. Yerina. Spectral dependences of the complex refractive index of concentrated magnetic fluids
A. Zakinyan. Electrical conductivity of inverse magnetic fluid emulsion
A. V. Zhukov. Stability of capillary--gravity waves in the presence of magnetic surfactant in an external magnetic field
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24. Chapter XXIV
"Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame;
Thy private feasting to a public fast;
Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name;
Thy sugar'd tongue to bitter worm wood taste:
Thy violent vanities can never last."
Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece, 11. 890-94.
Judith was waiting the return of Deerslayer on the platform, with stifled impatience, when the latter reached the hut. Hist and Hetty were both in a deep sleep, on the bed usually occupied by the two daughters of the house, and the Delaware was stretched on the floor of the adjoining room, his rifle at his side, and a blanket over him, already dreaming of the events of the last few days. There was a lamp burning in the Ark, for the family was accustomed to indulge in this luxury on extraordinary occasions, and possessed the means, the vessel being of a form and material to render it probable it had once been an occupant of the chest.
As soon as the girl got a glimpse of the canoe, she ceased her hurried walk up and down the platform and stood ready to receive the young man, whose return she had now been anxiously expecting for some time. She helped him to fasten the canoe, and by aiding in the other little similar employments, manifested her desire to reach a moment of liberty as soon as possible. When this was done, in answer to an inquiry of his, she informed him of the manner in which their companions had disposed of themselves. He listened attentively, for the manner of the girl was so earnest and impressive as to apprise him that she had something on her mind of more than common concern.
"And now, Deerslayer," Judith continued, "you see I have lighted the lamp, and put it in the cabin of the Ark. That is never done with us, unless on great occasions, and I consider this night as the most important of my life. Will you follow me and see what I have to show you - hear what I have to say."
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BMC Racing Cup
Women Elite
10 May 2014, Solothurn, Switzerland
BMC Racing Cup, BMC Racing Cup
Süss Esther 1 01:35:12 Switzerland
Lechner Eva 2 01:35:51 - 00:39 Italy
Moschetti Margot 3 01:35:54 - 00:42 France
Stirnemann Kathrin 4 01:36:40 - 01:28 Switzerland
Gantenbein Corina 5 01:37:38 - 02:26 Switzerland
Kleinhans Ariane 6 01:37:50 - 02:38 Switzerland
Waldis Andrea 7 01:39:13 - 04:01 Switzerland
Elferink Hielke 8 01:39:37 - 04:25 Netherlands
Schneitter Nathalie 9 01:40:06 - 04:54 Switzerland
Hediger Michelle 10 01:40:09 - 04:57 Switzerland
Bourdon Fanny 11 01:41:44 - 06:32 France
Groccia Marine 12 01:43:33 - 08:21 Switzerland
Darbellay Florence 13 01:43:42 - 08:30 Switzerland
Koba Sarah 14 01:43:50 - 08:38 Switzerland
Pastore Marta 15 01:43:54 - 08:42 Italy
Farner Céline 16 01:44:28 - 09:16 Switzerland
Macphee Kerry 17 01:45:12 - 10:00 United Kingdom
Tasca Serena 18 01:45:16 - 10:04 Italy
Wust Janina 19 01:46:35 - 11:23 Switzerland
Wenger Romaine 20 01:47:29 - 12:17 Switzerland
Kupferschmied Jennifer 21 01:48:31 - 13:19 Switzerland
Serrano Rodriguez Alexandra Gabriela 22 01:49:02 - 13:50 Ecuador
Brun Franziska 23 01:49:50 - 14:38 Switzerland
Metille Stephanie 24 01:49:54 - 14:42 Switzerland
Bulleri Alessia 25 01:50:08 - 14:56 Italy
Montani Katja 26 01:50:21 - 15:09 Switzerland
Eheim Chantal 27 01:53:14 - 18:02 Switzerland
Müggler Eliane 28 Lapped Switzerland
Nay Alessia 29 Lapped Switzerland
Baumgartner Sabrina 30 Lapped Switzerland
Barth Mallory 31 Lapped Switzerland
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OM English Speaking classes
OM Diagnostics Center
OM Physiotherapy Center
OM Charitable Dispensary
Budhrani Charitable Trust's Profile :
Budhrani Charitable Trust is a registered public trust established in the year 1984 with a prime motive “to provide medical and educational facilities to underprivileged members of the society”.
OM Computer Institute was established by Budhrani Charitable trust on the 14th day of March 2002, engaged exclusively in computer training for under privileged students residing in nearby Colaba , Cuffe Parade, Navy Nagar locality and slums which has the population of over 10 lakhs with a prime motive "To Enhance The Living Standard Of Underprivileged People By Providing Inexpensive Computer Training" yet very competitive.
OM English Speaking Classes were started by the trust in year 2010 for the children coming from the underprivileged families where children have to pay Rs. 1000/- 3 months. Communication skill training is also provided to these children which helps them when they appear for interviews for jobs.
OM Diagnostics Center Managed by Budharani Charitable Trust (Regd.) was Inaugurated by the blessings of Reverend Dada Jashan Vaswani on 25th July 1989.To provide all medical consultation and Treatment to the socially downtrodden and economically weaker section of the society at a Highly Subsidized and Non-Profitable basis, which occupy area 1500sq. ft Ground Floor Fully Air-Conditioned, Computerized and well equipped Lab with latest machines and instruments and removing even Aids Strain Latest X-Ray Machine (brand New 300 MA- Siemens), highly Qualified and Experienced Doctors from various fields, Humble, Well Trained and Dedicated Staff
OM Charitable Dispensary was started by trust in the year 2000 to provide medical facilities to the patients of nearby slums in and around colaba and cuffe parade area. The patients are treated by well experienced MBBS doctors at bare minimum charges of Rs 10/ - which includes their medicines
OM Physiotherapy Centre was established by trust in the year 2015 to provide all non-surgical treatment without aid of medicines and with help of physiotherapy, acupuncture, acupressure and sujok(Free) treatment at highly subsidized charges to all the socially downtrodden and economically weaker section of the society.
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ordsall street gore
The scheme is currently out to tender, with tenders expected to be returned 18 June 2020. The proposed works will provide improved pedestrian and cyclist facilities along the Oldfield Corridor in order to: A three-week consultation on the proposed changes will be held from Monday 26 October to Monday 16 November 2020.
The proposed works will provide pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities at the junction of Trinity Way and Springfield Lane in order to: Trinity Way/Springfield Lane junction improvement consultation:A three-week consultation on the proposed changes was held from Friday 14 August to Friday 4 September 2020 (now closed). Chapel Street East Phase 1 consultation:A three week consultation on the proposed changes was held in summer 2019 (now closed). Are Home Bargains, B&M, B&Q and Argos allowed to open during lockdown? The project will cost in the region of £2.8 million with a £2.6 million contribution from the Mayor’s Challenge Fund and £200,000 in local contributions. This will include improvements to the junction with Blackfriars itself and facilities on Blackfriars Street. Ordsall Hall is a large former manor house in the historic parish of Ordsall, Lancashire, England, now part of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester.It dates back more than 750 years, although the oldest surviving parts of the present hall were built in the 15th century.
Your comments Monton is a thriving local centre with cafes and bars popular with families who visit Monton as part of a day out on the traffic-free cycling network. Enhancements informed by feedback from regular users and a stage four road safety audit have been proposed on the existing cycling and walking provision along the Broughton Cycleway to improve the quality and safety of facilities along the corridor.
The aim of this scheme is to make it safer and easier for people walking or on bikes to cross the busy Trinity Way corridor, providing a continuous route to create a complete bee network.
Incredible photographs showing a grim and desolate time in Salford’s history are to go on display.
Streets, places, amenities and neighbour areas of Ordsall Ward. A package of schemes to support the implementation of a strategic plan for walking and cycling in the city centre. As soon as we are able to provide more details on specifics, these will communicated to affected residents/ stakeholders, Reduce the severance impact of Trinity Way, Improve first and last mile access to public transport by walking and cycling (particularly to Victoria and Salford Central Stations and Shudehill bus station), Improve access to Manchester City Centre by walking and cycling, Enable the sustainable growth of the Regional Centre.
“These fantastic images document the changing street life for the people of Ordsall and capture the area as it underwent rapid social change as part of the slum clearance project. The RHS is opening its fifth national garden in Salford in 2020. Now a dozen of them will be displayed in a special photography exhibition.
So I've written this poem...", Horrornation Street can be viewed on YouTube click here, Dave's other YouTube offerings include a Jeremy Corbyn art show, THE SALFORD STAR COUNTDOWN TO NEXT REFERENDUM ON GETTING RID OF THE MAYORAL SYSTEM IN SALFORD:
The Oldfield Road Corridor plan is an integral part of Middlewood Loop creating improved cycling and walking connections to the University of Salford and the Meadows and Peel Park. Further information on the scheme and opportunity for you to have your say can be found on the Broughton Cycleway Enhancements scheme consultation page.
The shoppers out in force at the Trafford Centre, Shops are full of the usual Christmas decorations to lure customers inside - but the shutters will come down in days, Teen's diary provided key evidence for arrest - 17 years after her death, Exclusive: GMP have revealed the background to the arrest of the 41-year-old man, Man City vs Olympiacos: LIVE score and goal updates. A three-week consultation on the proposed changes was held from Monday 13 January to Friday 24 January 2020. There have been no new deaths at Salford Royal Hospital.
with attitude and love xxx. Star date: 2nd November 2020 SALFORD CASE RATE FALLS AGAIN TO 605Salford has 232 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to 9,103. FIRE BRIGADES UNION DEMANDS MORE FIREFIGHTERS FOR GREATER MANCHESTER.
The proposed plans will make it easier and safer for people travelling on foot or by bike by providing protected facilities for cyclists and improved crossing provision for pedestrians along this route.
; Two Parallel signalised crossings for cyclists and pedestrians; Improved quality of public realm with new paving, street furniture and lighting; Trees and planting including rain gardens and wildflower grasses; Proposed Electric Vehicle charging points; Loading bay facilities for local businesses; Cycling Parking stands and cycle repair hubs; Parking and waiting restrictions to ensure cycleways and footways remain clear. I read this in two days. See Bee Network map for Greater Manchester cycling and walking infrastructure proposals.
Today, the Fire Brigades Union, FBU, has launched its #FundTheFrontline campaign, demanding immediate funding for at least 5,000 new firefighters nationally, as they face new tasks, including the response to COVID-19.
We are currently expecting to start on site winter 2020, subject to business case approvals and with a 12 month construction programme.
Housing trust Salix Homes is hosting theone-day show - Our Salford: Bygones and New Beginnings – to celebrate the city’s social housing through the years. Meanwhile, Salford Credit Union has made £1million available to loan to local people in need of affordable credit, who may otherwise turn to loan sharks and high cost lenders. Do you think Johnny Clarke just arrived with punk? ... "This is one of the safest streets in Ordsall for children to play" says Jemma Harrison of the Save Our Safe Space campaign, which has organised a fun day on the site for next Saturday August 8th. The proposals will provide high quality cycling and walking connections including segregated facilities and the introduction of streets for all concepts from local centres to destinations within the Salford Innovation Triangle. This form allows you to give us your opinion on the quality of the content on this page. Marriage: 6 Aug 1862 St Bartholomew, Salford, Lancs. Ordsall Filtered Neighbourhood Early Engagement consultation: An early engagement for public to provide views and opinions was held from 15 November 2019 to 31 January 2020 (now closed). Lee Sugden, chief executive at Salix Homes, said: “We are very privileged to be able to feature photographs from the Laurie Asprey collection as part of our exhibition charting the changing face of Salford. "The CVA has now failed, as confirmed by a 'certificate of non-compliance' issued by a licensed insolvency practitioner on October 22, triggering the RFL Board sanction" states the RFL.
What would Tony Warren think of Coronation Street, 2017 style? The proposals will establish an integrated network of routes through the creation of new walking and cycling routes, public realm, green spaces, new bridges and opening up railway arches for public access. However, at present Gore Street doesn’t connect well with the wider walking and cycling network. Follow the latest match updates as Pep Guardiola's Manchester City side continue their Champions League campaign at the Etihad Stadium.
The proposed enhancements will include: Information showing more details of the proposals are available below: Broughton Cycleway Enhancements consultation: A four-week consultation on the proposed changes will be held from Wednesday 14 October to Wednesday 11 November 2020. JCCs encyc, You're right Darren. Junction improvements are also planned that will allow two-way traffic access between Gore Street and Trinity Way.
Providing new crossings on the A580, A572, A575, B5211, Occupation Lane and Birch Road to facilitate safe pedestrian and cycle access. This has been made possible thanks to the national government’s Transforming Cities Fund which is investing in public and sustainable transport to improve productivity and spread prosperity. Roads and Bus Routes in Ordsall Ward
This project will provide an additional £1.1 million enhancement from the Mayor’s Challenge Fund, to existing proposed improvements as part of the Local Growth Deal Salford Bolton Improvement Programme at two key junctions. There have been no new virus-related deaths at Salford Royal Hospital. Star date: 3rd November 2020 SALFORD CREDIT UNION PROVIDES £1MILLION FOR LOCAL PEOPLE IN NEED OF AFFORDABLE LOANSSalford has 137 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to 9,240. Reflecting real life?
The exhibition will also feature a collection of images from Salford Local History Library as well as photographs donated by the public and will run from 11am till 2pm. "Despite the poverty you can feel a real sense of community spirit in the pictures and it’s that Salford spirit that makes this city what it is today.
The project will cost in the region of £5.3 million with a £4.8 million contribution from the Mayor’s Challenge Fund and £500,000 in local contributions.
GREATER MANCHESTER LOST ALMOST ONE THIRD OF FIREFIGHTERS SINCE 2010. The cycleway will also form part of the Bee Network proposed for Salford City Centre Active Neighbourhoods that will ensure continuous, attractive, safe and connected routes to other MCF schemes. Although way down on yesterday's daily case number of 232, the latest number of cases over the last seven days of data is 1,597, up from the previous figure of 1,567, with the case rate per 100,000 people rising from 605.4 to 617. Back entry behind Dorset Street and Cavendish Street Ordsall (Image: Laurie Asprey). In total the RHS Bridgewater Walking and Cycling Links scheme will provide a 6.3km shared route, including: The scheme aims to promote sustainable travel and help to create healthier and more attractive neighbourhoods. Over the last decade, Greater Manchester has lost 629 firefighters, a 32% cut while the region has the second highest concentration of buildings with Grenfell-style flammable cladding in the country, and has faced flooding and wildfires. Although way down on yesterday's daily case number of 232, the latest number of cases over the last seven days of data is 1,597, up from the previous figure of 1,567, with the case rate per 100,000 people rising from 605.4 to 617.
Typical image of an off-road pedestrian and cycle route, Download the Swinton Greenway scheme consultation leaflet (Adobe PDF format, 933kb). Continuing the facilities proposed for Chapel Street East Phase 1, the scheme would support the achievement of a high quality route for pedestrians and cyclists along Chapel Street and adjoining roads between Blackfriars Street and Manchester. Further information on the scheme from the consultation exercise can be found on the Trafford Road scheme consultation page.
Increase the number of people cycling and walking along and across Oldfield Road Corridor; Improve safe and inclusive access to Central Salford by walking and cycling; Be part of an integrated city centre strategy and Bee Network that connects neighbourhoods and communities; Improve the quality of the immediate environment making it a better place to live, work and play; Improve and reduce the environmental impacts, while at the same time significantly improving the aesthetics of an urban area and quality of life/health benefits for residents. ), Clerk Salford City Council uses cookies which are essential for this site to work. The majority of the off-road path will be three to four metres wide, with lighting controlled by timers and/or movement sensors. Completing a key gap in the Bridgewater Way route, this scheme will link residential communities in Salford with major employment, retail and leisure opportunities in Trafford Park.
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Our location in Brushy Run, WV
Despite our rural location in the mountains, Peeper Pond Farm is easy to find, if you can use a map and follow written directions (the old fashioned way). Unfortunately, because our farm is accessed from two private roads, your GPS-based travel device may not be able to locate us. However, if you follow the landmarks and directions below closely, you will be able to find us without any problems. If you do get lost, you can simply call us for help–provided your cell phone service is still working. For your travel planning purposes, approximate driving times (under favorable travel conditions) to Peeper Pond Farm are about:
5 hours from Pittsburg, PA
4 hours from Baltimore, MD
3.75 hours from Washington, DC or Richmond, VA
2.75 hours from Roanoke, VA
2.25 hours from Winchester, VA
2 hours from Elkins, WV
1.75 hours from Cumberland, MD
1.25 hours from Harrisonburg, VA
Click here for Current Upper Tract Weather Conditions, Weather Advisories, & Long Range Forecast
Heading South on I-81 (from Winchester, VA):
Take Exit 307 for Stephens City, VA.
Turn right at the end of the ramp onto VA Route 631
Proceed all the way through downtown Stephens City, across the railroad tracks, and to a T-intersection.
Turn left (south) onto VA Route 628.
Proceed south on VA Route 628 to the intersection with VA Route 785 in Lebanon Church, VA
Turn right onto VA Route 785 to the stop sign and proceed straight onto U.S. Route 48.
Follow U.S. Route 48 into WV, through the village of Wardensville, WV and on until the route widens into a 4-lane divided highway (Corridor H).
Continue to follow U.S. Route 48 (now Corridor H) to Moorefield, WV.
Take the 2nd Moorefield exit for Downtown Moorefield/Petersburg/U.S. Route 220 – not the one for East Moorefield.
Turn left at the end of the ramp and follow it down to a stop light.
Turn left onto U.S. Route 220 south.
Follow U.S. Route 220 through Moorefield and south to downtown Petersburg.
Turn left at the stop light in Downtown Petersburg and continue south on U.S. Route 220.
Continue south on U.S. Route 220 past the Pendleton County line, roughly 10.5 miles south of the Petersburg traffic light.
Roughly 2.5 miles south of the Pendleton County line, look for a weathered red barn with an overhang on it close to the right side of the road.
After rounding the next curve after the barn, look for the first gravel road on the right, which is Twin Maple Lane.
Turn right onto Twin Maple Lane.
Take the first right fork onto Rose Patch Drive and proceed up the hill.
Peeper Pond Farm is the 3rd driveway on the right bearing a driveway sign that says “Goah Way.”
Heading West on I-66 from the Washington, DC area:
Follow I-66 past Front Royal to the interchange with I-81.
Take the left fork onto I-81 south.
Bear right onto the Exit 296 for U.S. Route 48.
Bear right onto U.S. Route 48 west.
Follow U.S. Route 48 through Lebanon Church, VA, Wardensville, WV and on until the route widens into a 4-lane divided highway (Corridor H).
Heading North/South on I-81 or West on U.S. Route 33 into Harrisonburg, WV:
From I-81, take Exit 247B onto U.S. Route 33 west.
If approaching I-81 from U.S. Route 33 east of Harrisonburg, continue west past I-81 on U.S Route 33.
Continue to follow U.S. Route 33 west through Downtown Harrisonburg (around the courthouse square), up and over Shenandoah Mountain and the WV state line, and on to Brandywine, WV.
In Brandywine village, U.S. Route 33 turns right. Continue to follow U.S. Route 33 into Franklin, WV.
At the stop light in Franklin Village, turn right onto U.S. Route 220 north.
Follow U.S. Route 220 north through Upper Tract village, and past the entrance to Smoke Hole.
About 2 miles north of the Smoke Hole entrance and bridge, you will see a large sign for the Brushy Run Church of God bearing an image of Jesus with his hands raised.
about 1 mile north of the Brushy Run Church sign, you will come to a large sweeping curve and pass an intersection with Mozer Road on the right and Jake Hill Road on the left.
Turn left onto the first gravel road (Twin Maple Lane) on your left AFTER Jake Hill Road. It will be immediately past a small, unpainted shed.
Heading East on U.S. Route 33 from Elkins, WV:
From the intersection of U.S. Routes 33 and 250 at the Minnehaha statue, proceed east on U.S. 33/WV 55 towards Harman, WV.
Continue following U.S. Route 33 east over Rich Mountain, past Harmon, and over Allegheny Mountain to Seneca Rocks.
At the T-intersection in Seneca Rocks, turn right following U.S. Route 33.
Continue following U.S. Route 33 past Riverton, Judy Gap, and over North Fork Mountain towards Franklin.
At the T-intersection just north of Franklin, turn left onto U.S. Route 220 north.
Heading South on U.S. Route 220 or North Main Street in Petersburg, WV:
From the Virginia Avenue/Main Street traffic light in Downtown Petersburg, head south on U.S. Route 220.
Heading North on U.S. Route 220 North into Franklin, WV:
Proceed north on U.S. Route 220 through Downtown Franklin.
Go straight (following U.S. Route 220 north through the Downtown Franklin stop light and straight through the intersection with U.S. Route 33 north of town.
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Could This Be the Year for Flying Turns?
The Lion King Moves at Animal Kingdom - For Avatar?
Aerial Antics: Cheetah Hunt at Busch Gardens Tampa
Long Time Cedar Point General Manager Retiring
From The Vault: Sesame Place 1999 Brochure
Casino Pier Opens Rides on New Boardwalk
Zamperla Opens New Volare Coaster at Flamingo Land
A New Euro-Fighter for Germany: Karacho
A Christmas in July Announcement from Disney Calif...
A New Plan for Playland With More Rides
Darien Lake Prepping for a new Lake Monster?
Aerial Antics: Silverwood Theme Park
From The Vault: Enchanted Forest Brochure 1995
Lake Compounce Enjoying New Space with Bayou Bay W...
Carowinds and Komen Team Up for the Cure
WhiteWater Builds New Fusion Waterslide in Japan
GateKeeper Hits 1,000,000 Riders
Grand Texas Theme Park Coming to Houston Area
Summertime at Lake Winnie's Soak Ya
Six Flags to Unveil 2014 Additions on August 29th
'New' Miracle Strip Lining Up Vintage Rides for 2014
From The Vault: Dutch Wonderland 1996 Brochure
Greezed Lightnin' Coming Down at Kentucky Kingdom
Tokyo Disneyland's Jungle Cruise to be Renovated f...
Aerial Antics: Silver Dollar City
Knott's Announces 2013 Haunt News to Park Fans
Guests Enjoying the New Aqua Twist at La Ronde
Schlitterbahn's Verruckt Reaches High Point
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Help Conneaut Lake Park... and Get on TV!
Expansion On The Way to Six Flags America?
Scott And Carol Present - A Kennedy Space Center W...
From The Vault: Canobie Lake 1998 Brochure + Map
NewsPlusNotes June 2013 Poll Results
New Thunderbolt Concepts + Astrotower is Gone
Saying Goodbye to the Astrotower at Luna Park
Premier Rides Proud to Show Off Full Throttle
Gold Striker Too Loud + A New Tunnel
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Well, the jury is still officially out, but Knoebels has been making some major progress on the unique coaster which is making the opening of Flying Turns more realistic than ever before.
A full seven seasons in the making - perhaps the longest construction period ever for a coaster - Flying Turns is now testing a new set of trains that are performing well, quite well according to the park.
Those latest trains that were designed are now running regularly on Flying Turns even during the park's operating hours, something they previously avoided. That gives many fans of the park hope that they will get to one day board the wooden bobsled coaster and experience a ride unique to today's world.
Most of the ride's delay is not structural at all, in reality construction ended years ago and just work on the trains has continued on. The blend of meeting modern safety standards while still preserving the bobsled feel of the coaster has presented the problems.
This news story, just recently published, talks about the progress being made on Flying Turns in detail. Even better - there are photos and video of the new trains running the course. While a 2013 opening is possible, the park is hoping that if they do not make that the coaster could open in 2014. Just tell me when and I'll get in line!
Labels: Knoebels
The popular show Festival of the Lion King will be moving to the Africa section of Disney's Animal Kingdom in 2014, the park has confirmed.
A brand new theater, designed much like the current one and expected the hold the same number of guests, will be built in the Western side of the Africa section, off a path leading from the Tusker House restaurant. There are no major plans to change any of the show's content when it opens in its new home. The park also isn't quite ready to say when the performance will move, or if there will be a period where the show is dark during the transition.
The current theater for the Festival of the Lion King is in Animal Kingdom's Camp Mickey-Minnie, which is said to be the future home of the Avatar land. Really the entire land as it is contains a bunch of meet and greet areas, and the Festival theater. Fans of the park have grown to love the show enough that they chose to build it a new home instead of retire it.
There has been some speculation that the Avatar project isn't moving forward with the steam that many thought it would have, and fans have had some seriously mixed reactions to the plan. However, it seems like it could still be in the works since they're spending the cash to move the Festival show. An interesting development, it will be even more interesting to hear more news of what Avatar may hold and see if the bulldozers start to roll in.
Labels: Animal Kingdom
Busch Gardens Tampa was featured in Aerial Antics quite a long time ago, and since then the park has added a major Intamin coaster we're all aware of: Cheetah Hunt. The unique ride stretches across a big section of the park, making it an interesting look from above.
Cheetah Hunt's station is actually wrapped by the coaster, as seen above. The refurbished building fits the dispatch area and much of the queue nicely and all under cover from the Florida sun. Right out of dispatch the trains are launched up and around the helix in the upper right. After a dive down below ground level the trains hit a second, much stronger launch, and then flies up into the one-of-a-kind aerial-figure eight seen in the center bottom.
A quick drop out of that sends trains down and over the landscape, including a jump over the park's skyride.
The middle of the ride is a series of low hills and curves, following the landscape closely. This section is to represent a Cheetah running along and hunting its prey, I would assume. It's not as intense as it might appear but a lot of fun. I also liked in this shot how they captured a train zooming along!
The far end of the ride utilizes the former river section of Rhino Rally. The trains barrel through an elevated corkscrew then dive down into a canyon complete with waterfalls. Soon there's the ride's 3rd launch which gives the trains the energy to cross the park back toward the station.
Cheetah Hunt is quite impressive from the air, I stitched together this large aerial of the complete ride for you guys to check out. A lot of zig and a bunch of zag later the trains make it back to the station and sadly, the ride is over. The coaster is a great family ride, much less intense that it would appear with all those launches, really a lot of solid fun overall.
These images came from Google's 45 degree views, you can click over to them here.
Labels: Aerial Antics, Busch Gardens Tampa
H. John Hildebrant, the long time Vice President and General Manager of Cedar Point will retire at the end of the season, Cedar Fair has announced.
"John began his career with Cedar Point as a seasonal employee in Rides in 1969. He joined the Company full-time in February 1974 as a staff writer in the Marketing Department and went on to serve in various marketing and leadership roles including, Communications Manager, Marketing Manager, Director of Marketing and Vice President of Marketing.
In 2004, John was given the opportunity to move to Allentown, Pennsylvania as Vice President and General Manager of Cedar Fair’s Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom. He returned to Cedar Point as Vice President and General Manager just prior to the 2005 operating season and has remained in this role for the past eight years."
Mr. Hildebrant will be replaced at Cedar Point by Jason McClure, the current Vice President and General Manager of Dorney Park. Mr. McClure has previously been the Vice President of Finance at both Carowinds and Kings Island.
The new Vice President and General Manager at Dorney Park will be Michael Fehnel, who has been with Dorney for twenty years.
Congratulations to both gentlemen on their new roles, and happy retirement wishes to Mr. Hildebrant!
Labels: Cedar Point, Dorney Park
Sesame Place is an adorable little theme park, located outside of Philadelphia, where families can take a trip into the world of the whole Sesame Place crew.
This brightly colored brochure is from 1999, right around when the park started to see some expansion. It is a part of the SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment family, which includes other large theme parks like Busch Gardens.
Sesame Place has a lot of water slides and rides, all aimed at being perfect for smaller kids. You won't find any extreme, trap door dropping, super speed sliding attractions at the park. What you will find is a selection of slides and water play areas for families that have appropriate Sesame Place theming. The park has also for a long time had a bunch of hands-on play activities and shows as well. And you can't forget the real life recreation of the actual Sesame Street!
While this brochure is from 1999, the previous season saw the addition of a pretty big ride, and that's still being advertised heavily here. Vapor Trail is a Vekoma family roller coaster that is neither very tall or very fast, but provides a smooth ride that's great for training future coaster fans. Super Grover is the ride's host, and he takes passengers on a voyage into outer space as they zoom over the edge of the park's boundaries.
Since the time when this brochure was created Sesame Place has added several more rides that have balanced out the dry/water attraction balance. Elmo's World alone features several rides that let guests take a spin on some of the lovable character's most imaginative creations. The park also added a nicely themed carousel that has plenty of custom characters for visitors to ride on. These additions do not mean that no new water rides were added, though, as we saw with the Count's Splash Castle - a huge water play structure that Sabrina and I checked out a few years back.
The park also debuted a new Christmas celebration last year, creating an even longer season for the park. Hopefully more additions are on the way in the future!
Labels: From The Vault, Sesame Place
It was a long road back, but the Jersey Shore's Casino Pier has officially reopened its collection of rides for the first time since Hurricane Sandy destroyed the amusement pier last Fall.
Just a couple weeks ago the park was still working hard to get rides open, watching as the busy Summer season slipped by. No longer do visitors have to wait to go for a spin, though the collection of rides isn't anywhere near as big as pre-Sandy. That's pretty understandable though since the majority of the pier had to be torn down and rebuilt!
© Casino Pier
In celebration of the grand reopening of the park last night they offered free rides, and starting today they moved back to the normal ticket system. So far the list of rides include a Disk'O, Car Combo, Motorcycles, Boats, Dizzy Dragon, Speedway, Car Combo and Pirate's Hideaway. The Wave Swinger and Tilt-a-Whirl are almost ready to go, and could open this weekend if things go well.
The park's new ride, called Superstorm, is not online just yet, but that could still take place this Summer as well. The photo above is of the newly build boardwalk where the rides are, which is the first level. By next year the park hopes to have the other level built and filled with attractions - so you could almost look at the rest of this year as a preview.
Congratulations to the park on their reopening!
Labels: Casino Pier
© Flamingo Land
The latest of Zamperla's Volare "hang gliding coasters" has opened at the United Kingdom's Flamingo Land theme park and zoo. The compact layout ride is called Hero at the park, and is themed as if riders are defending the Earth from an intergalactic attack. But mostly I think riders just get to have the sensation of flying in the individual four seater cars!
Flamingo Land had a big grand opening for the new roller coaster, which included a slew of local heroes to help with the celebration.
The above article quotes the investment of Hero at 9 million pounds, which converts into over $12 million. Flamingo Land has a couple of other new additions this year, so I can't help but wonder if that price tag includes more than the coaster. That seems pretty high for a Zamperla Volare!
Hero starts with a spiral lift hill to save space, and features a twisted layout with just under 1,300 feet of track. The individual cars treat the flying passengers to two heartline rolls at speeds approaching 30 miles per hour.
The coaster is the 8th Volare to open in the world, following three in North America (one relocated), three in Asia, and one in Europe.
Labels: Flamingo Land
There are many international amusement parks that I will admit I do not know much about, including Germany's Erlebnispark Tripsdrill. However, the brand new Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter than the park has recently opened could make that a different story!
The recent designs in the Euro-Fighter category each look better than the last, and this one is named Karacho. The coaster features a launch that sends the cars out of a darkened tunnel (which contains a heart-line roll to boot) up into a nearly 100 foot tall top hat element. After that there are several elongated inversions, including a great dive loop into a tunnel immediately followed by an oddly shaped corkscrew. At the end of the video make sure to check out the awesome theming on the back of the cars!
Tripsdrill, as the park is commonly referred to, is also home to Mammut, a large wooden coaster, and G'sengte Sau, a Gerstlauer bobsled ride.
I've said it before, but a ride like Karacho would fit so many mid-sized parks over on our side of the pond. You have to wonder why there haven't been more of them built?
Labels: Gerstlauer Amusement Rides
A Christmas in July Announcement from Disney California Adventure
Disney Parks have chosen to celebrate Christmas in July by announcing a special Winter version of World of Color for Disney California Adventure.
Named World of Color - Winter Dreams, the new version of the popular nighttime fountain show will be specially created for the holiday season. The updated performance will feature new animation from popular Disney films such as Bambi and Toy Story, but also new content from Frozen, a feature film that will be released around that time.
The show will be hosted by Olaf, a humorous character from Frozen. The animated comedy-adventure film will be in the vein of many of the company's classics: "Fearless optimist Anna sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom."
In the video above the show's designer, Steve Davison, hints that Winter Dreams will feature all new effects and other "ideas" which will differentiate it from the regular World of Color show.
Winter Dreams - World of Color will premier at Disney California Adventure on November 15th.
Labels: Disney California Adventure
© Rye Playland
The plan for the future of Playland Amusement Park has continued to evolve, and the latest news is good for fans of the amusement park's rides. Sustainable Playland, the organization that has been tapped to take over the park, has reversed their earlier decision to remove up to a third of the park's amusement rides.
The news that the organization plans to remove or relocate only a few of the park's rides came on the day they signed a lease to manage the Westchester Children's Museum for a period of ten years.
Sustainable Playland has replaced the previously selected ride operator, Mega Funworks, with Central Amusement International, the operations arm of Zamperla that runs Luna Park in Coney Island. Central Amusement had submitted a proposal to take over all of Playland (details can be seen here) and now state that their plan will be similar, though scaled back. Still, based off of the success they have found in Coney Island this development is a good one, indeed.
The latest plan also diminishes the size of the 'great lawn' that Sustainable had planned, which was the major cause of the removal of most of the rides seen above. The plan for a smaller great lawn is now on the books, with the Log Flume and most of the rides staying put. The large splash ride seen at the top of the photo will still be removed at some point in the future. Overall, the vast majority of the current rides will remain and if Central Amusement carries forward with even some of their plans new ones will be added.
The deal still is not 100%, however, as Sustainable Playland has yet to receive final approval for their plans and is currently reworking some details before a final submission. I'm glad to see that the outcry of folks against removing so many rides has taken hold, however!
Labels: Rye Playland
This is the time of year when attentions slowly start to turn toward next season as we park fans are an eager bunch. The latest big rumor/news is coming out of Darien Lake, which appears to be getting ready to put the Predator out of its misery in favor of a new Lake Monster extreme wooden coaster.
The park sent out a survey that in a very bold way made it clear they are thinking of creating Lake Monster (called that for now, at least) a new wooden ride that would appear to be in the style of Silver Dollar City's Outlaw Run.
It sounds like the plan would be to use a part of the Predator and then trash the rest, creating a brand new ride in the end. The survey mentions 3,190 feet of track including the first ever "wing over drop" which to me sounds like how GateKeeper and X-Flight start out. A "zero g camelback, hop reversal, & suspended corkscrew" round out the other intense sounding elements that are mentioned.
In the aerial of the ride above you can see just how close Predator sits to the actual lake, so if the new ride was able to go out over it that would add another layer of thrill. Screamscape reports that the survey mentioned a 2014 opening date, meaning that if true Predator's days are very numbered at this point.
While no manufacturer is confirmed, the fact that Herschend Family Entertainment also manages Darien lake makes it seem like Rocky Mountain would be a natural fit. However, the images the park used to demonstrate the Lake Monster also included one of Hades 360 at Mt. Olympus, a Gravity Group creation.
Sounds like everyone might have a very good reason to visit Western New York next year!
Labels: Darien Lake
Here is a new entry to the Aerial Antics category, Silverwood Theme Park. The park is located in Idaho, near Coeur d'Alene. Originally operated as an airstrip - which you can still see running the length of the ride side of the park, it turned into a full theme park in 1988. The park's authentic steam train was originally the big draw - and still is very popular - but many other rides and attractions have been added since.
The entrance to the park is in a bit of an odd location - you cross under a major highway to get there from the parking lot, and though the entrance area is very pretty, and quaint, it's sort of stuck out in the open by itself. I'm not sure what the park uses that enormous grassy area for - I would think it must serve some purpose other than to look nice.
Once visitors move into the theme park side of the property they encounter a wonderfully landscaped area filled with rides. The aerials do not zoom in too much, so you'll have to bear with me here. You enter the park from the bottom of this photo, and you can see how the rides and attractions spread out from that point.
The park's log flume takes up some land in the center of the area, and the Corkscrew coaster is also located here. The Corkscrew came to Silverwood from Knott's Berry Farm when it was replaced with the Boomerang.
As Silverwood expanded the park created Roller Coaster Alley, the midway that winds between these two wooden rides. This is also where this year's new thrill ride, SpinCycle, is located.
The first to have opened is toward the top of the photo, the out and back design named the Grizzly, or I should say Timber Terror. The name Grizzly didn't last too long due to coasters of the same name at the former Paramount parks. The ride opened in 1996 and was designed by Custom Coasters.
The bottom ride, a twisted layout that features a handful of underground tunnels, was also from Custom Coasters and opened in 1999. Oh, and it is named Tremors, which I've also though was just the perfect name for a coaster that roars underground.
If the park's latest roller coaster looks familiar, that's because it came to the park from Six Flags Great America where it operated as Deja Vu. The Vekoma designed Giant Inverted Boomerang is now located at the far end of Silverwood, where it has operated since 2008.
The park's train really has an amazingly large layout, especially for a theme park. The ride section we were just looking at is the tiny bit on the upper left - the red dots trace the entire path of the train's course. That's a really long ride though the woods! And yes, of course you do stop and the train gets robbed.
The park made a really big expansion in 2003 when they opened Boulder Beach, a full water park. I think they've found quite a bit of summertime success with the water area, and have worked to expanded it with new attractions. I wouldn't be surprised for a minute to see them continue to build into that open space surrounding Boulder Beach!
To check out Bing's aerials of Silverwood Theme Park for yourself, click here.
Labels: Aerial Antics, Silverwood Theme Park
This brochure, from Enchanted Forest in Salem, Oregon, is undated but was sent to me in 1995. The park was a labor of love for the man who created it, Roger Tofte, and when it finally opened in 1971 after many years of hard work, the twenty wooded acres soon became a haven for families in the area.
Oregon isn't exactly the land of massive theme parks, and Enchanted Forest is about as unique and opposite the big themers as it gets. The tagline for the park on the cover here, "Oregon's Most Unique Land of Fun and Scenic Beauty" is not only a mouthful, but also a different way of spelling things out. The park features many fairy tale themed attractions, all created specifically for the park over a long period of time.
There are only a handful of actual rides at the park, but plenty of interactive activities and displays to check out. Here you can see the giant Witches Head that you can enter, and you can also see Humpty Dumpty perilously on the edge of that wall... The Fantasy Fountains were originally a big draw for the park when they opened, but do not go expecting a World of Color sized production! The Haunted house is a walk through style that's three levels, though I doubt that there are any real intense scares in there since it is aimed at kids.
The center of the brochure features a map of the park, which is very simple but gets the job done.
In the upper right corner is a drawing of the Ice Mountain Bobsleds, one of the weirdest coasters I've seen. The oddness of it makes it quite interesting, though, at least to me. Check out this point of view video and you'll see what I mean.
If you study the rest of the park you'll see that there aren't many rides around, mostly static displays and buildings to explore. There's the Three Bears House, Alice in Wonderland, a Castle and the Seven Dwarf's Cottage, for example.
Since the time when this brochure was printed the park has kept expanding. Shortly after the Big Timber Log Flume opened, which is also quite unique and has a large coaster like drop out of the water. More recently a handful of more traditional kiddie rides were added, and a large shooting style dark ride, named the Challenge of Mondor. The ride uses neat trackless vehicles that send riders around the show building.
For more on this interesting little park, check out their official webpage. The history section on there is very detailed and worth a read.
Labels: Brochures, Enchanted Forest, From The Vault
Lake Compounce Enjoying New Space with Bayou Bay Wave Pool
Here's one attraction that we haven't followed up on here at NPN since it opened for the Summer, Lake Compounce's new wave pool named Bayou Bay. The large addition is located as part of the newly renamed Crocodile Cove water park. The park's water area recently received a massive amount of new room for expansion when a road was moved, freeing up acres and acres of space for the park to expand into.
Above is a photo shared by the park of the newly completed pool, before vegetation was able to grow in. The first thing I think of when I look at this, more so than even the wave pool itself, is look at all that free space around it!
Another perspective shared by the park is really telling about just how much room the water park can be expanded into. If you look at the larger photo you can see the former end of the water park on the left, followed by last year's addition - mat racing slides named Riptide Racer. Then further along is the new wave pool and beyond that and bordering the lake is just tons of free space.
Like most parks that have both rides and water attractions, the draw of the water park is just huge in the Summer, and I'm sure we will see plenty of continued expansion in that direction in coming years. I think a water coaster would do just great in some of that open area!
Labels: Lake Compounce
From July 22nd through August 18th Carowinds will be holding Carowinds for the Cure, a fundraising initiative for Susan G. Komen Charlotte. During the event guests can purchase a reduced ticket to the theme park for $41.99, with one dollar from each ticket sold going to Komen Charlotte. Additionally, special merchandise will be for sale at the park, with part of the proceeds going to the organization.
This year visitors will also be able to "adopt-a-duck" as part of a raffle that could result in winning a brand new car! Each duck can be purchased for $5 in the park and then be thrown in the pond underneath the Nighthawk rollercoaster. One luck duck (literally!) will be picked on August 18th and the owner of the duck will win either a 2013 Toyota Camry or a 2013 Honda Accord.
Carowinds and Komen Charlotte aim to raise funds and awareness to encourage those undergoing treatment, celebrate survivors, and educate visitors on the importance of mammograms and early detection. “We are proud to partner with Susan G. Komen Charlotte again this year,” said Bart Kinzel, Carowinds vice president and general manager. “Fighting this disease is a community effort and we’re committed to saving lives, and raising awareness.”
For more information on the events, check out Carowinds' 'pink' homepage at this link.
Labels: Carowinds
© WhiteWater
How cool does this new slide tower look? The "fusion" waterslide, called such because it blends two of the company's products into one attraction, has opened at Nagashima Resort in Japan. The park is home to the massive Steel Dragon 2000 - complete with new trains from B&M - which can be seen in the background of the image.
But back to the waterslide. Designed by WhiteWater, the attraction fuses together one of their thrilling Family Boomerango slides with one of their new Manta slides and then doubles the entire attraction! Using a mirror image duplicate, both slides start from the same launch platform but interact with each other the entire way down.
As described by WhiteWater, "the journey begins with the classic sensation of rafting, leading into a screaming, velocity-building drop that launches riders up the famous Boomerango wall, making them feel like they are “going vertical” then weightless all the while getting a bird’s eye view of what is coming next. They fall back and barely have time to catch their breath while racing warp speed across a flat section propelling them right into the rushing waters of the Manta where maximum oscillations and a plunge to the finish will leave them breathless and eager to ride again and again."
For more photos of the new slide, along with some point of view video, check out this page from WhiteWater. Add this one to the list of waterslides I'd like to see in our neck of the woods, indeed.
Labels: WhiteWater West
© Cedar Point
That was pretty fast! Just midway through July, Cedar Point's brand new Wing Coaster, GateKeeper, has welcomed its one millionth rider.
The lucky thrill seeker to mark the milestone was Maria Saenz of Milford, Michigan. It was really her lucky day, and as the lucky rider she received a $500 Cedar Point shopping spree, a VIP tour of the park, and Fast Lane access to GateKeeper for the rest of this season. Pretty cool prize pack just for riding a roller coaster!
GateKeeper opened at Cedar Point in May, and has developed a massive following since. With much of the season left for the park, could the new coaster reach two million riders? Quite possibly!
Labels: Cedar Point
I will admit that I haven't paid much attention to the plan for the Grand Texas Theme Park to open in 2015 just North of Houston, Texas. It seems that every so often a new theme park is announced for somewhere in the U.S. and it's extremely rare that they actually get built. I guess you could say I'm not quick to get excited about such projects.
Still, it's fun to dream, and some developments do seem to get further along than others. The Grand Texas project for instance, actually has purchased land (over 600 acres) to start developing on - though the investor factor, always so important, is not totally clear to me. One article mentions that work on investments has been ongoing for years, but I have not seen more detailed information.
If built, the park would be themed to the history of Texas, though that is a bit obvious from the name of the property. Included would be an assortment of rides, shows, activities, a water park and possibly an RV resort or hotel.
Another project, named EarthQuest, which was announced years ago and never got off the ground, was planned in the same area. Even if eventually built (and most doubt that) developers believe the two parks could coexist due to differences in theme and size.
One of the main developers behind Grand Texas is Chuck Hendrix, a former general manager of Six Flags AstroWorld. He current is the CEO of Innovative Leisure Partners, and from this interview it sounds like he would like to change his legacy from being the man that closed AstroWorld (though he himself certainly did not) to the one who built a brand new theme park for the area.
This story gives some additional details on the plans for the park's attractions, and it sounds like it won't be focused on only huge thrills. Calling the park "experimental" and "in tune with family entertainment," it seems to me that plenty of physical activities, such as the zip lines seen above, will round out the offerings.
Right now the plan is to open Grand Texas in 2015, with work starting by the end of this year. For now you can follow updates from the source on the park's official Facebook page.
Labels: Grand Texas Theme Park
© Lake Winnie
I was browsing through some photos that Lake Winnie has shared of their Summer season, and was really impressed at how nice their new Soak Ya water park turned out. The entire five acre area was added this season, a major undertaking for the "South's Favorite Family Amusement Park."
The Soak Ya water park features a variety of different attractions, including two sets of water slides (both tube and body slides) and the lazy river that you can see above. The park put extra care into the appearance of the area, including creating rockwork surrounding the pools and channels - a nice touch.
The lazy river empties at one point into a zero depth entry area, where guests can also relax in the water. There's an activity pool located nearby that will help use up the energy of excited kids, and for even smaller visitors there are kid-sized slides and play structures to keep them busy.
The best part is that Lake Winnie has plenty of room if they choose the expand Soak Ya!
Labels: Lake Winnepesaukah
Good news, just like for the past couple years all of the Six Flags parks will reveal their 2014 additions in one big event, this year on August 29th. That means in just six weeks we will all find out what new rides and attractions will be coming to our local parks - something to look forward to!
Six Flags Great Adventure confirmed the announcement date in their August news update: "Six Flags Great Adventure and its sister parks throughout North America will announce exciting plans for the 2014 season. Great Adventure will release details about a record-breaking addition that will surely top “must-do” lists next year."
There have been rumors of a drop tower being added to the side of Kingda Ka at Great Adventure, and that certainly would be "record-breaking" and without a doubt head to the top of my "must-do" list if it happens!
One rumor that also appears to be gaining more and more strength is the total renovation of Six Flags Mexico's Medusa wooden coaster. It has been said that the ride is next in line to receive the Rocky Mountain treatment, and the park has started to hint that the ride is going away. They posted "¿Sabías que Medusa ha tenido a más de 9 millones de pasajeros a lo largo de sus 13 años en Six Flags México? Este Verano dile #AdiósMedusa ¡te esperamos!" on their Facebook, which translates into "
Did you know that Medusa has had more than 9 million passengers during his 13 years at Six Flags Mexico? This Summer tell # AdiósMedusa you expect!"
Not sure about that last part of the translation, I'm sure something got lost in there. But using the hashtag ByeMedusa seems pretty clear to me!
Lots to look forward to!
Labels: Six Flags, Six Flags Mexico
Miracle Strip at Pier Park is moving ahead full steam on their plan to move and open a much larger amusement park in 2014. If you are not familiar with the park's plans, check out this story we did back in February explaining the relocation.
The next generation of Miracle Strip will feature a host of new "old" rides, as the park takes great pride in obtaining classic attractions and renovating them with a lot of TLC. Above is a photo the park shared of a Galaxy coaster that they just purchased. They also announced that they obtained a Chance Chaos ride, something that was once very popular at amusements parks across the globe.
But wait, there's more! Above is another classic ride they snatched up, I'm not sure exactly what this one is so if anyone knows by all means fill me in! They also mentioned a Loop-o-Plane - yes that crazy spinning flat ride you've seen around - and a nice set of bumper cars as other recent acquisitions.
Miracle Strip is still planning on renovating and rebuilding the famous Starliner wooden roller coaster, even showing off a shot of the train in storage. They're working on the funds for that large project, and we continue to wish them the best of luck! I'm looking forward to watching construction of this new park, filled with classic amusements, take place.
Labels: Miracle Strip Amusement Park
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Ais Identification Guide: Minnesota Handbook. Original CD-Rom as final report, images converted to pdf document. It happens to be an Archachatina marginata shell but it is as good as any to demonstrate them. These are the most common in Minnesota: For more species and definitions of regulations for each plant, see the MDA Minnesota Noxious Weed List or the MN DNR Invasive Terrestrial Plants list. The whorls are then counted following the direction of the coils. The snail is described as sociable, it does appear in large numbers. All species are being monitored and should be reported. This snail does not eat algae, but they will eat other dead matter and rotten things in the aquarium. Figure 6. Two undergrads, one mission: to determine what manner of freshwater snail lurks in the University of Minnesota Duluth's (UMD) Rock Pond. A … How do you know if you truly have a snail or a slug? The garden snail is a small species with a height up to 1.3 inches and a particular shell design that distinguishes it from other species. Before counting the whorls, an imaginary line should be drawn across the shell as This wallet-sized identification card has information and a color photo of Faucet Snail (an exotic animal). demonstrated in figure 7 below. it is usually small and is located on the posterior end of the mantle (see image below, far right). The genitalia (formed by the fusion of both male and female structure) are one of the most diagnostic characters used to distinguish The snail part of this website provides access to the list of freshwater gastropods (snails) in Canada and the United States as determined by the 2013 American Fisheries Society (AFS) Endangered Species Committee (ESC) on freshwater gastropods. Gastropods that possess an obvious shell are termed snails whereas gastropods that appear to lack an obvious shell are termed slugs. Typical snails, Shell very reduced or internal and if present, it has no definite coiling. 2 is a great example of what kind of picture to take because it illustrates so many of the most important points for identification. Typical slugs. This video is about Trapdoor Snails ~ for our pond, pond snails, Minnesota snails, freshwater snails, mystery snails, giant snails, herping, Minnesota herping. Basic steps: Answer one or more questions on right by clicking checkboxes. When waterfowl consume the infested snails, the adult trematodes attack the internal organs and cause lesions and hemorrhage. Discover Life's page about the biology, natural history, ecology, identification and distribution of Discover Life. A complete turn indicates between mollusc species. A narrow dark-colored band on the sole It is illegal to possess, import, purchase, transport, or introduce these species (including hybrids or cultivars) except under a permit or statutory exemption. Prohibited Control List: (MDA) These lists do not include every species being monitored by MN DNR and MDA. All land snails and slugs are hermaphrodites, producing both spermatozoa and ova, which means all individuals have the potential to lay eggs. Quarantined: (MDA) 12 Shell convex on both sides, lens-shaped. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. The width of the open umbilicus is taken at the widest part of the inner surfaces of the body whorl (Figure. That's the name given to three species of snails native to Africa that can grow to the size of a typical adult's fist. a whorl (i.e., every time the line is intersected when following the whorls). on the dorsal surface of the tail; behind the mantle. 2020 University of Minnesota Extension discovers science-based solutions, delivers practical education, and engages Minnesotans to build a better future. Weevils are in the superfamily Curculionoidea and are generally small-sized beetles.. One of the weevil species that is the most annoying garden bug is the black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus).This black beetle pest can’t fly because its wing cases are fused together. Shell obvious with definite coiling and animal may be able to retract into it. Translucent shells (see below) may be very pale when empty but nearly black with the animal showing through the shell. The basic arrangement is taxonomic, following that in Turgeon et al. Invasive: A non-native organism that causes harm to the environment, the economy or human health. The body whorl may not be complete, meaning that Results appear on left. This is not a complete list of all invasive or non-native species in Minnesota, nor does it include all those that may be a future threat to the state. The width should be taken at the widest part of the shell when the shell is oriented so that aperture Roman Snail – Helix pomatia. The snails imaged are from throughout the Great Lakes region of North America. Adults up to 7mm x 2mm with up to 4.5 whorls. Weeds may be native or non-native. Become an AIS Detector and get the book -- plus tons of hands-on training! Invasive insects are regulated by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Note the location, take clear pictures that include a common object for scale (such as a car key, coin or ruler), and then report it! 6). Gastropods that possess an obvious shell are termed snails whereas gastropods that appear to lack an familiar with the common characters that are used in the identification of terrestrial snails and slugs. Our helpful friend Peter Topley at the Conchological Society (that’s a posh word for the study of molluscs), has produced a 1-page Snail and Slug Identification Sheet showing pictures of some of the more common species that you’re likely to find in your gardens. The entities included in this tool are divided into two major categories Finding invasive species. The small center of the spiral of a snail’s shell is the original protoconch. Author: Extension. If a species is regulated in Minnesota, you’ll find that classification on its species page. See the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources recommendations for reporting invasive species. $39.95: Delivery * Pickup . Earthworms — There are thousands of species of earthworms. Types of umbilicus commonly observed in terrestrial snails. Ship . A snail breaks up its food using the radula inside its mouth. They are regulated by the MN DNR. All of the Survey and Manage taxa are freshwater gastropods (snails). Fact Sheet . Items that could transport this insect may not be moved without permission from the MDA.Â. 5). The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources provides detailed recommendations for reporting invasive species. Some freshwater and marine snails do have separate sexes. Figure 1. Origin: Southeastern Europe, Turkey Distribution: North America. If you purchase a book, it will be printed in full color on waterproof, durable paper and bound with an expandable binding in case additional pages need to be added. The snails were selected from the collections maintained at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UWGB). Then click any 'search' button. Unlisted Non-Native Species: (MN DNR) They are livebearing snails and they will reproduce quite quickly. They are native to the Mediterranean region, Western Europe, part of Asia and northern Egypt. section of this tool. By Land and By Sea: Identification guide to non-native species for Minnesota is a guidebook that includes a list of invasive and non-native species with their key identification traits. Invasive species cause recreational, economic and ecological damage—changing how residents and visitors use and enjoy Minnesota waters.Faucet snail impacts: 1. The following cladogram is an overview of the main clades of gastropods based on the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), with families that contain freshwater species marked in boldface: (Some of the highlighted families consist entirely of freshwater species, but some of them also contain, or even mainly consist of, marine species.) In Minnesota, slug eggs can live through the winter. If you're having a hard time spotting snails, you might have more luck if you search for their slime trails and follow a sticky streak to the snail itself. Binding: Paperback. Within seconds they were holding up the largest snail they had ever seen. Additional information on the genitalia (structure and function) can be found in the biology faces the observer; the width is measured from the side of the body whorl to the outermost side of the aperture (mouth). Shell sculpturing is one such character. This section of the tool was designed to assist the user in becoming By Land and By Sea: Identification guide to non-native species for Minnesota is a guidebook that includes a list of invasive and non-native species with their key identification traits. Some of these species have become common in parts of Minnesota with expanding ranges, while some are not yet present in the state. The umbilicus may be open or closed. Prohibited Eradicate List: (MDA) Terrestrial slugs are measured from the head, excluding the tentacles to the tip of the tail (Figure. In many groups (e.g., Veronicellids), a positive identification cannot be obtained without the use of the genitalia Confirmed Location(s): Harris County Habitat: gardens, broad-leafs, decks Description: The globular shell is brown or tawny with dark bands with light flecks. Restricted Noxious Weed: (MDA) It may be difficult, even for malacologists, to identify molluscs, simply because they Hairs/Bristles – projections on the shell that resemble mammalian hair, Pits – regularly shaped indentation in the shell, Dents- irregularly shaped indentations in a shell, Striae – groove-like indentations that follow the whorls, Lirae – raised ridges that follow the whorls, Ribs – raised ridges that run at an angle (usually transversely) to the whorls, Pleats/ Wrinkles – any type of ridging or creasing that appears to have been formed by folding or crumpling. Look for a slime trail. If the shell is partially external, Prevent the spread, maturation, and dispersal of plants; transportation, propagation, or sale of these plants is prohibited. Final report submitted to the Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. of amputation might not always be visible in species that typically possess one. All rights reserved. Regents of the University of Minnesota. obvious shell are termed slugs. The distribution area of the zebra snail covers Europe from south and south-east France over southern Germany and the Czech Republic as far east as Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. The Super Nassarius like its mini cousin (nassarius vibex), is non-aggressive towards all marine aquarium members. The card also provides information on what to do it you find Faucet Snail. Visit the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) site for information about University of Minnesota research. In snails, the length is taken from the apex of the shell to the base of the aperture (mouth). The leaf snails (Hygromiidae) are a very diverse family of terrestrial pulmonate snails (Stylommatophora), described by some (especially older) authors as a subfamily of the helicid snails (Helicidae).Leaf snails are small to medium sized snails, in general they are somewhat smaller than helicid snails. The Atlas focuses on Minnesota, the meeting place of three of the world’s largest terrestrial ecosystems: eastern broadleaf forests, tallgrass prairies, and coniferous forests. The umbilicus may be used as a diagnostic character when classifying snails. These plants have species-specific regulations governing their location and use. In the case of semi-slugs it may be debatable whether the animal should be considered a snail or a slug. The most commonly used method described by Specially Regulated: (MDA) Iowa Pleistocene Snail Five-year Review (August 2013) Iowa Pleistocene Snail Five-year Review (August 2009) Tumbling Creek Cavesnail (Antrobia culveri) Tumbling Creek Cavesnail webpage Another little snail we haven't yet been able to identify. Each whorl overlapping previous one only slightly, so most of each whorl can be seen from either side, and the two sides look similar. The Roman snail has a beautiful shell that it is almost a third of its total weight. Pilsbry (1939) will be discussed here. By Land and By Sea: Identification guide to non-native species for Minnesota, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Early Detection and Distributed Mapping System, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources site, Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) site, Aquatic invasive species detector program. among related species. Flat Valve Snail Valvata cristata 11 Looks like a typical ram [s-horn snail: shell flat-sided with rounded edges. Weed: A plant that is considered undesirable in a particular location or situation. One telltale sign of a snail is the viscous, sticky trail of slime it leaves in its wake. It can live in moist to dry habitats. There are many species of small snails like that and it is not easy to make a good identification. In the Alps it climbs to an altitude of up to 1600 m MSL. The snail grows new shell material, which also then hardens. Fig. A generalized diagram of the genitalia can be found in Figure 8. it may end in quarters or thirds (Figure 7). the key. Due to their size they are more suitable for relatively larger aquariums of 40 liter. Importation, sale, and transportation of plants is prohibited. The radula is a chitinous ribbon-like structure containing rows of microscopic teeth. Images of Minute Minnesota Land Snails Matt Barthel January 2000 This disk contains diagnostic images representative of minute land snail taxa from Minnesota. (1998). For more species and definitions of regulations for each plant, see the MDA Minnesota Noxious Weed List or the MN DNR Invasive Terrestrial Plants list. Check their complete list for updates on the status of these and others. Invasive and non-native aquatic plants and wild animals are regulated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR). Body covered by mantle (partly or wholly), Location of breathing pore on mantle (or on the body of the animal), Length (preserved specimens may shrink to approximately 70-80 % the length of living specimens), Body markings (spots, blotches, stripes, bands), Length of the slug (fully extended at maturity). Figure 8. Landowners should consult the MDA for specific regulations. Full document (3000 KB) Frest, T.J. 1987. of the animal can also represent the point of amputation.) This little snail is known as the Round Snail or Rotund Disc (Discus rotundatus). Species are legal to buy, sell, transport, and possess, but may not be introduced into a free-living state, such as release into public waters. We encourage you to become familiar with the reporting recommendations for a species of concern, but in general, you may submit a report through the Early Detection and Distributed Mapping System (EDDMapS) website or the Great Lakes Early Detection Network (GLEDN) app. Scanning-electron microscope imaging of minute land snails of Minnesota. Some of these species have become common in parts of Minnesota with expanding ranges, while some are not yet present in the state. do not usually possess many characters that are consistently useful for distinguishing Extension is expanding its online education and resources to adapt to COVID-19 restrictions. It looks like the Cellar Snail very much, except for the colour, which is brown and not amber. It's known as the giant African land snail. Plant must be destroyed, and transportation, propagation, or sale of these plants is prohibited. The colour of a shell, and any colour pattern, can be very helpful in identification, but beware that empty shells often look a very different colour from a shell with the snail inside. It is important that Tail constriction at the point of amputation (this is a faint groove that can be observed For others, better distribution knowledge is needed.Â. Taxonomy 2005 taxonomy. The snail is an intermediate host for three intestinal trematodes, or flukes, (Sphaeridiotrema globulus, Cyathocotyle bushiensis, Leyogonimus polyoon) that causes mortality in ducks and coots. DNR officials say Bowstring Lake in northern Itasca County is the latest Minnesota lake discovered to be invaded by faucet snails. There may also be reproductive structures that are present ISBN: 281000011458B. Slime is … The book is for sale through University of Minnesota bookstores.Â. Prohibited Invasive Species: (MN DNR) These species have no restrictions on sale, purchase, or possession, but they may not be introduced into a free-living state without MN DNR approval and thorough evaluation. be considered a snail or a slug. characters. There are several ways to count the number of whorls on the shell of a snail. S ize: 25-38 mm in diameter (shell). Find a comprehensive list of invasive aquatic animals on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources site. the animal is fully extended to in order to obtain an accurate measurement. Several morphological characters can be used to identify slugs. Slugs have a layer of slime to protect their skin from drying up. In Minnesota, invasive and non-native insects, plant diseases and terrestrial plants fall under the regulatory authority of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). 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Early detection of potentially invasive species is a critical first step in effective management and risk evaluation of non-native and invasive species. Citizens often are the first detectors when out enjoying Minnesota's great outdoors.Â. Faucet Snail WATCH Card. It was introduced into North America and now occurs across the continent. Purchase it through the University of Minnesota Bookstore! Once verified, your report will appear on the public distribution maps and may be used by natural resource managers or regulatory agencies to make appropriate management decisions. The canonical work on Minnesota's Ordovician snails is Ulrich and Scofield (1897), which is also the canonical work on Minnesota's Ordovician monoplacophorans, scenellids, and other such snail imitators because they weren't distinguished at the time. Iowa Pleistocene snail (Discus macclintocki) Status: Endangered, listed August 2, 1978 . Brown Garden Snail, Cornu aspersum* (Müller, 1774). Eggs hatch the following spring and slugs start feeding on strawberries in spring and early summer. Equipped with rain boots and a lofty cloth net, they waded into the shallows of the 2-acre pond on a crisp September day. A network of professionals verify reports. The EDDMapS website and GLEDN app make it easy to report locations of invasive species. In the case of semi-slugs it may be debatable whether the animal should Extension and MAISRC collaborated on the AIS Identification guide, available to download or buy. The Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas is a searchable, public map showing where Bell Museum animal, plant, and fungal specimens have been found and collected. Included species are regulated in Minnesota or in neighboring states, or have been reported in native landscapes at increasing rates. Pages are grouped by species type and listed alphabetically. Recent Additions : Gray field slug : Gray field slug (Deroceras reticulatum), also known as milky slug, is a common, exotic, terrestrial, smooth land slug.It is native to northern Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic islands. Pernickety snail enthusiasts can identify adult specimens by the shell’s white lip and the snail’s single ‘tooth’ – a tooth-like structure at the opening of the shell. The cards are water-resistant and durable- ideal for individuals and groups who want to be informed and help slow the spread of Faucet Snail. Click the 'simplify' button to get more questions. This is still an important work today. If you find any of these, report them to Arrest the Pest. A few of these include: Shells generally have a large number of characters that can be used to distinguish between groups of snails. 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Great data tools for R and Clojure, identifying shady Twitter memes, distributed data in Zambia, and cleaning mashed-up datasets
by Julie Steele | @jsteeleeditor | November 18, 2010
This edition of Strata Week is all about making things easy and tidy. If you’re eager to learn more tips and tricks for doing so, come to Santa Clara in February: check out the list of Strata conference speakers and register today.
Languages made easy: R and Clojure
Love “fruitful and fun” data mining with Orange? Wish you had an interface like that for R? Wish no more. Anup Parikh and Kyle Covington have created Red-R to extend the Orange interface.
The goal of this project is to provide access to the massive library of packages in R (and even non-R packages) without any programming expertise. The Red-R framework uses concepts of data-flow programming to make data the center of attention while hiding all the programming complexity.
Similar to Orange, Red-R uses a series of widgets to modify and display data. The beauty of Red-R is that it allows programming novices to leverage R’s power and to interact with their data in an analytical way. Such tools are no substitute for actual statistical modeling, of course, but they are a great first step in piquing interest and providing a visual conversation-starter.
Red-R is still in its infancy, but as with all such projects, testing and bug reports are welcome. Check out the forums to get involved.
If R is not your thing, perhaps you’ve jumped on the Clojure bandwagon (I wouldn’t blame you: Clojure is one exciting new language). If that’s the case, check out Webmine, a library for mining HTML written by Bradford Cross, Matt Revelle, and Aria Haghighi.
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A team at the Indiana University Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research has built the Truthy system to examine and classify memes on Twitter in an attempt to identify instances of astroturfing, smear campaigns, and other “social pollution.”
Truthy looks at streaming Twitter data via the public Twitter API, filters it to extract politically-minded tweets, and then pulls out “memes” like #hashtags, @ replies, phrases, and URLs. Memes that constitute a high volume of tweets, as well as memes that have experienced a significant fluctuation in volume, are flagged and entered into a database for further investigation.
The Truthy system then visualizes a timeline, map, and diffusion network for each meme, and applies sentiment analysis in order to better study and understand “social epidemics.” It also relies on crowdsourcing to train its algorithms. Users can visit the project’s website and are asked to click the “Truthy” button on a meme’s detail page when they suspect a meme contains misinformation masquerading as fact.
Check out the gallery for some fascinating network visuals and the stories behind them.
A clean bill of health
Kudos to Dimagi and CIDRZ for a creative solution to a serious problem. In order to provide standard interventions to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in rural Zambia for the BHOMA (Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessments) project, they needed a distributed system for capturing and relaying health data.
As in many other places in Africa, reliable internet is not easy to find in rural Zambian communities. But cell phones are nearly ubiquitous, and the best communication devices for relaying patient information from clinics and field workers and back again.
Enter Apache’s CouchDB, which saved the day with its continuous replication. A lightweight server in each clinic now replicates filtered data to a national CouchDB database via a modem connection, and two-way replication allows data collected on phones to propagate back to each clinic.
Read more details of the case study here.
Refinement rather than fashion
You may recall that among a spate of Google acquisitions over the summer was Metaweb, the company responsible for Freebase. Now, a nifty open source tool formerly called Freebase Gridworks has been renamed Google Refine, and version 2.0 was released just last week.
Refine is a powerful tool for cleaning up data. It allows you to easily sort and transform inconsistent cells to correct typos and merge variants; filter, then remove or change certain rows; apply custom text transformations; examine numerical columns via histograms; and perform many more complex operations to make data more consistent and useful.
Refine really shines when it is used to combine or transform data from multiple sources, so it’s no surprise that it has been popular for open government and data journalism tasks.
Also notable is the fact that Refine is a downloadable desktop app, not a web service. This means you don’t have to upload your data anywhere in order to use it. Best of all, Google Refine keeps a running changelog that lets you review and revert changes to your data — so go ahead: play around. A great set of video tutorials on Google’s blog can help you do just that.
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Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. Genesis 1:9 (HCSB)
Located on the far southeastern edge of the Indochinese peninsula, Vietnam as a country has a familiar ‘S-shaped’ boundary. Vietnam covers approximately 331,688 square kilometers (slightly larger than the state of New Mexico in the U.S.A.). With larger areas in the north and south, its shape is long and narrow in the middle. It stretches 1,650 kilometers from north to south (a little over 1,000 miles) and is only 50 kilometers (31 miles) across at its most narrow point.
Vietnam is bordered by Cambodia and Laos to the west and China to the north. The east faces the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea. Geographically, Vietnam can be seen as having four primary separate regions. The Red River Delta in the north, the Central Highlands in the middle, the narrow eastern coastline and the Mekong River Delta in the south.
The Red River Delta is a level region of about 3,000 square kilometers. It is smaller but more intensely developed and more densely populated than the Mekong River Delta. The highlands and mountain plateaus in the north and northwest are inhabited mainly by tribal minority groups. The Central Highlands (Tay Nguyen) cover approximately 51,800 square kilometers of rugged mountain peaks, extensive forests, and rich soil in the center part of the country. The narrow, flat coastal lowlands extend from south of the Red River Delta to the Mekong River basin. The Mekong River delta is approximately 40,000 square kilometers of a low plain barely above sea level in most places.
Vietnam has a tropical monsoon climate, with humidity averaging 84 percent throughout the year. However, because of differences in latitude and the marked variety of topographical relief, the climate tends to vary considerably from place to place. During the winter or dry season, extending roughly from November to April, the monsoon winds usually blow from the northeast along the China coast and across the Gulf of Tonkin, picking up considerable moisture; consequently the winter season in most parts of the country is dry only by comparison with the rainy or summer season. During the southwesterly summer monsoon, occurring from May to October, the heated air of the Gobi Desert rises, far to the north, inducing moist air to flow inland from the sea and deposit heavy rainfall.
Annual rainfall is substantial in all regions and torrential in some, ranging from 120 centimeters to 300 centimeters. Nearly 90 percent of the precipitation occurs during the summer. The average annual temperature is generally higher in the plains than in the mountains and plateaus. Temperatures range from a low of 5°C in December and January, the coolest months, to more than 37°C in April, the hottest month. Seasonal divisions are more clearly marked in the northern half than in the southern half of the country, where, except in some of the highlands, seasonal temperatures vary only a few degrees, usually in the 21°C-28°C range.
(portions of this page taken directly from Ronald J. Cima, ed. Vietnam: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1987. Found at this link: http://countrystudies.us/vietnam/33.htm )
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Innaugurated a year ago, the Metropolitan Arc – highway which connects the ports of Açu and Itaguaí, passing through Baixada Fluminense – has already attracted investments of R$ 5,3 billion to Rio de Janeiro state. According to the State Economic Development Secretariat (SEDEIS), 25 companies, among them P&G, Rolls Royce and Decahave already opened facilities in the highway corridor, generating at least 3.300 direct jobs.
The expectation for the next few years is even more promising, with an area of 58 km2 throughout the Arc’s surroundings have already been identified to house new industrial districts. “The Arc creates favorable conditions for consolidation of outside investments because it facilitates cargo transportation logistics. In parallel, it increases the competitiveness of industry located in the stat. Itaguaí port, for example, which moves around 150.000 containers per year, has the ability to increase that volume”, said the Secretary for Economic Development of Rio de Janeiro state, Marco Antônio Capute.
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UX 300e• Any passenger in the back seat that is not a child or a very short person will travel with their tighs mostly in the air, without support, which can be tiresome in long journeys. I surmise that if Lexus sold the UX EV to the U. And this will be more like 150ish hp with 200 mile range. Well for one thing, Lexus product planners were apparently concerned that the brand would face criticism for not having the flash, range, and performance of those scene stealers at. Interestingly, all its units are made in Japan, not in China, as we previously thought. Motivating the all-electric Lexus UX is a front-mounted 201 horsepower 150 kW electric motor whose maximum torque output is 221 pound-feet 300 Nm. Since introducing the RX 400h in 2005, LEXUS has been a pioneer in vehicle electrification technology, playing a leading role in offering products that possess both performance and environmental friendliness. UX 300e• UX 300e• Lexus has always focused on providing exhilarating performance, and the case is no different with development of a BEV. com, by clicking either "turn off for this site", "don't run on pages on this domain", "allow this site" or similar. We will use your information to ensure you receive messages that are relevant to you. By improving the performance of the entire system, the UX 300e's driving range is an anxiety-free 400 km. Yet, decided to have one in its , which is now for sale in Europe.。 At the recent 2019 Tokyo Motor Show, the company unveiled its global electrification strategy, Lexus Electrified, targeting a fundamental leap in vehicle performance, handling, control and driver enjoyment. The all-electric Lexus will be introduced in Japan in 2021. b1d6ca56dc43f107e7688ef6ae0a356c. Here's how to disable adblocking on our site. At the same time, UX 300e has one of the quietest cabins in its class, as befits the sound management heritage of the Lexus DNA. Lexus allowed us to drive on a gravel road and the silence the car presents is remarkable. UX 300e• The efficiency of the motor, inverter, gears and high-capacity battery was maximised, again with the benefit of the experience Lexus gained in developing hybrid vehicles. Lexus reliability and hybrid heritage In developing the UX 300e, Lexus made use of the knowledge it has gained in developing its industry-leading hybrid systems, applying the same level of quality and ease of operation it has achieved with all its vehicles in the past. The efficiency of the motor, inverter, gears and high-capacity battery were all maximized, utilizing the knowledge acquired developing hybrid vehicles. EV battery warranties also stipulate the level of degradation that can happen before it will be replaced. UX 300e• If the battery pack drops below that, it gets replaced for free. Don't know if the UX EV program will be separate and have different specs or supply chain. Engineers also focused on sound while driving to provide a natural feeling. On the car itself, the UX 300e features an electric motor rated at 204 PS 201 hp and 300 Nm of torque, which drives the front wheels through a two-stage reduction gear. If Toyota and Lexus plan to offer faster rates, liquid cooling will become more important to manage the temperature. Lexus Indonesia will install a wallbox that outputs 7. such as a misplaced roof rack. We have often written how air-cooled batteries are not a good idea for electric cars. You can either post as a guest or have an option to. Having this larger battery pack adapted to a car that was not designed to have it brings an unpleasant side effect: placing your feet not much lower than your tighs. Lexus continues to strive to make vehicles that are safer and enjoyable to drive. Sticking a whacking great big battery and hence upping the range might be psychologically appealing, but would add considerable physical weight - compromising the handling and efficiency - as well as jacking the price significantly. BTW, did I also mention these 'Tesla killers' are absolutely primitive compared to the Model X they claim to kill? If air-cooling was the best option for a larger battery pack,. The terrain there is pretty plain, without climbs or descents. 50 Distinctive design and high functionality Lexus carried over the distinctive styling and high functionality of the UX compact SUV to the new UX 300e, developing new aerodynamic wheel designs and an underbody cover. " The original article continues below. 6 cm higher, which makes the passenger have 1. Active Sound Control ASC transmits natural, ambient sounds to communicate the driving conditions to the driver and passengers. 3-kWh capacity and enough energy to last for 400 kilometers almost 250 miles based on the NEDC cycle, with the more realistic WLTP rating to follow. Once it's going, it is Lexus quiet, too, with amplified sounds of its electric powertrain piped in via the sound system. Fins are integrated into the light to reduce air pressure changes by about 16 per cent, contributing to excellent rear stability during cornering as well as in sidewinds. UX 300e• totalViewableTime;feAdSlotsConfig[adSlotId]. From its sleek LED headlights, signature spindle front grille, eye-catching LED taillights, and squared wheel arches, the electric UX is stylish and sophisticated. 3-kWh lithium-ion battery pack. UX 200 UX 250h UX 200e or 250e curious on what Lexus will name the EV version they are planning only 10k-15k per year for UX, so I dont expect it to be special. In the UX 300e, that is more likely if you get stranded in traffic than for running long distances. To create a feeling of seamless continuity, for the new UX 300e our designers sought to eliminate the traditional boundary between the exterior and interior. What Lexus aims to offer with the UX 300e is a clean luxury compact EV and its engineering team has made the best of what it had to deliver that. Locating the shift-by-wire system on the centre console contributes to the simplicity and functionality of the interior. Indonesia has become the first country in the ASEAN region to , which is being priced at 1. The new UX 300e delivers agile handling and pure, direct acceleration, giving you a greater sense of confidence and precise control. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe mechanism on any email you receive from us. The high-performance level of the GA-C platform is enhanced with additional braces and optimization of the shock absorbers' damping force to match the dynamic changes of electrification. The first car to be developed from the ground up as an EV is due early in the next decade when Lexus will also introduce its first PHEV model. UX 300e• So much so that it decided to give the UX 300e a ten-year warranty for the batteries because people would be afraid to buy it without the certainty these air-cooled pack will not lose performance. UX 300e• I wouldn't mind getting the UX 250h F Sport. spwolfwe already know from C-HR EV in China. UX 300e• UX 300e• 5625rem;line-height:1;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:. Actually, the Germans saw the similar problem with their supply chain, that's why the EQC, iX3, and e-Trons are all delayed. Lexus has added extra in the UX 300e, as well as active noise cancellation tech to try to keep unwanted drones to a minimum. It weighs about 1,900 kilograms 4,188 pounds and features a retuned suspension with revised dampers to handle the extra weight. Even more off the record, one rep suggested we'd be totally underwhelmed, as the vehicle was clearly not fit for the U. com comprehensively covers the industry with features, test drives, car show reports, technology and safety updates, motorsports, and a car buyers guide. 3-inch infotainment display, a 13-speaker Mark Levinson sound system, a head-up display, semi-aniline leather upholstery, keyless entry and start, a powered sunroof, a wireless smartphone charger, dual-zone climate control, along with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay support. 625rem;line-height:1;letter-spacing:. UX 300e• The Lexus UX sub-compact crossover will be the first full-electric vehicle from Toyota, according to Chunichi Shimbun in Japan. The high performance of the GA-C platform is enhanced with additional bracing and optimisation of shock absorber damping force to the match the dynamic changes that come with electrification. This makes the electric UX have a similar length, width, and wheelbase measurements as the standard model. Charging controls are also included such as timer function to inform the owner when the vehicle will be fully charged or to schedule the charging according to when the vehicle is expected to be driven next. Heating elements under each battery module minimize the impact of cold weather on the driving range, ensuring full power is available from the start. No, it isn't even close to looking like , but maybe that's not such a bad thing after all. UX 300e• There are some subtle changes compared to the standard , such as the new aerodynamic wheels, 20 millimeters 0. Anyway, the UX 300e preserves many of the attributes that make a Lexus recognizable: impeccable finishing, strong build quality, luxury, and silence. UX 300e• The automaker initially said the UX 300e would be able to travel up to 250 miles on a single charge of its 54. By linking to a smartphone using the LexusLink app, drivers can check battery charge and driving range. UX 300e• Related to this, new Prius in Japan is getting lion batteries on all models, coming soon, so this might mean that they will shortly start producing a lot of lion batteries. Please consider allowing Autoblog. Even if air-cooling fails to preserve these cells, Lexus customers will have the peace of mind to not worry about that for a decade. On the European scene, the UX 300e will go up against electric crossovers such as , the , and known as the Niro EV in the United States , as well as. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 restrictions, we did not have time to test that, hence the need for a longer contact with the EV. UX 300e• Principal features Lexus has always focused on providing a distinctive driving performance and that remains true in its development of its first battery-electric vehicle BEV. The new paddle shifters behind the wheel are expected to give drivers up to four levels of brake regeneration. But ads are also how we keep the garage doors open and the lights on here at Autoblog - and keep our stories free for you and for everyone. Production of the UX-EV will start in 2020, with an initial run of 15,000 units built at the factory. For higher output and driving range, the UX 300e features a compact new PCU, with all components engineered to handle the large currents associated with an EV. On the other hand, the fact that it is based on a car that was not meant to be electric is evident in more aspects, such as the lack of a frunk even with the electric motor seating low. UX 300e• 5625rem;line-height:1;font-weight:400;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:. C-HR EV is collab between Toyota and GAC. Engineers also addressed the sound generated when the vehicle is driven. Lexus and parent firm Toyota will together by the end of 2021. The UX 300e does gain new aerodynamic-influenced wheels, with the charging port located on the rear pillar where the fuel filler usually is. 2 s, which does not make the electric version much faster. Select the option to run ads for autoblog. UX 300e• When you do, it seems to be somewhere else, not in the car. All healthy, if not startling, numbers. For the UX 300e, Lexus developed a battery cell air-cooling system which is safer and lighter than water-cooled systems. UX 300e• Among the advantages of registering is once a name has been registered, a guest cannot post using that name. 245 billion rupiah RM358,767. UX 300e• What may seem so paradoxical actually makes a lot of sense: without the engine, all other noises become much more evident — and annoying — in an EV. On top of that, Lexus already has experience with air-cooled battery packs with its hybrid vehicles. I would guess they will sell it at good prices only in countries that have big incentives for EVs, and that other countries will get too high of the price for sales. Lexus is building this model for the Chinese market and will send the first shipments to China and then to the UK and Europe in 2021. The image below shows how they are 5. 3kWh battery that together are estimated to deliver up to 250 miles of range. 6 kW via a Type 2 connection, which takes about five to six hours using a wallbox or public charging stations in the country Stasiun Pengisian Kendaraan Listrik Umum or SPKLU. sales of the UX 300e: "The UX 300e has been designed specifically for the Chinese and European markets. TrexusThe UX will have sold for 2 years before the EV comes out. 3-kWh lithium-ion battery is good for 250 miles of range under the more lenient New European Driving Cycle NEDC standard, is hooked up to a temperature management system, and like pretty much all EV batteries, gives the UX 300e a low center of gravity. The Drive Mode Select function allows the driver to manage smooth acceleration and deceleration according the driving situation. Additionally, the air conditioning can be set for a planned departure time, ensuring maximum comfort when you reach your car. For extra transparency, owners receive a monthly overview of charging sessions. Inside, it's also a similar story as it features the brand's 'Human-Centered Cockpit'. Featuring daily headlines and breaking news from the Philippine auto industry and around the world. it will be nothing like Germans, and actually, what German vehicle is shipping? The defroster can also be activated remotely on cold mornings. Lexus has also fitted it with more aerodynamic wheels and a smoother underbody. October 23, 2019 Lexus has confirmed today, in an announcement corresponding with the Tokyo auto show, that it will introduce its very soon—in November 2019. It only differs in height as the standard UX is 25mm shorter. The batteries are equipped with a temperature management system that operates at low and high ambient temperatures. It's quiet, smooth, with no surprises. UX 300e• Lexus Link also gives you access to a pan-European network of public charging stations, allowing you to check availability, charging speed and price per kWh. On Higashi-Fuji's rainy, twisty handling course, the Lexus UX 300e drives like… well, a Lexus. 05rem;color: aaa;line-height:1;margin:1. UX 300e• UX 300e's Drive Mode Select function lets customers manage smooth acceleration and deceleration according to their situation. UX 300e• 4 centimeters higher than in a regular UX. Lexus engineers kept the distinctive design and the utility characteristics of the UX crossover intact, and focused on the opportunities to build on the performance advantages unique to EVs. Now it has followed through, in what appears to be a trend, as more and more automakers enter the arena with formats that are hot as all heck right now: crossovers. 5 seconds and a top speed of 100mph. UX 300e• 'yet' philosophy The UX 300e is scheduled to go on sale in the Chinese and European markets in 2020, and in Japan early in 2021. With Indonesia becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to get the UX 300e, it might only a matter of time before it makes its way to the Philippines. They can feel the powerful acceleration and instant torque delivery of the EV powertrain as they press the throttle pedal and use the paddle shifts in a manner similar to engine braking, through four levels of deceleration regeneration — all the while experiencing a natural on-road feel. Lexus has officially brought its first-ever electric car to the ASEAN region. Essentially, it is an electrified version of the Lexus UX. Once you arrive at a charging station, you simply identify yourself using the app or RFID card or Lexus Link app before charging. In particular, the technology of Lexus Electrified enables integrated control of powertrain, steering, suspension, and brakes, realizing the ultimate potential of the motor control technology cultivated in HV. Lexus engineers preserved the distinctive design and convenience characteristics of the UX compact SUV, while focusing on the opportunities to build on the performance advantages that are unique to EVs. The electric SUV did not have many opportunities to show how its low gravity center makes it a nice driving machine. Inside the cabin, the UX300e has a variety of updates, including a new shifter design and the addition of paddle shifters. If you have an account, please before commenting. It was a fast experience, but a telling one. Active Sound Control ASC transmits natural ambient sounds to allow for understanding of driving conditions, and provides a natural feeling for the cabin's occupants. This focus on sound management creates a comfortable and tranquil cabin environment. For charging, the UX 300e supports AC charging up to 6. Another factor is the 50kW rating for DC charging for the Lexus. Cookies are used to give you the best experience on our site, to deliver 3rd party services and tools, to help us understand and improve how the site works, and for advertising. Because China will be a key market for the UX 300e, but the electric will also be sold in Japan and Europe. 8 inches lowered ride height, and redesigned underbody cover to make the vehicle as sleek as possible in a bid to enhance efficiency. On a full charge, the UX 300e can travel for 300 km before needing a recharge. The Lexus engineering team delivered outstanding battery reliability, and also adopt the latest connectivity technology to maximize everyday usability and the functionality with smartphones. Braking is not efficient, and energy is lost. If you aim for an all-electric vehicle, love Lexus, and do not have kids — or they are too young to bother with the rear seats — the UX 300e may be a good option for your needs. In other words, easy to fit in a car that never meant to be electric in the first place. UX 300e• Nissan is also committed to its air-managed system, despite evidence that liquid-cooled batteries are better able to maintain their energy capacity. UX 300e• 3-inch media display with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless phone charging, and a 13-speaker Mark Levinson sound system. UX 300e. Another piece of evidence that the UX 300e was the best Lexus engineering teams could do with what they had available is pretty visible in the car — literally. , particularly one for the super-hot small CUV segment? 875rem;line-height:1;text-transform:uppercase;position:relative;top:. I managed to goose the electric throttle to over the requested speed limit, and found exactly the kind of EV response you'd expect; immediate, seamless, and effort free. The UX 300e's high-output motor provides a natural-yet-brisk acceleration character, and the high-capacity batteries located directly underneath the floor of the cabin deliver a low center of gravity and 400 km-driving range. 3kWh underfloor lithium ion battery offering a claimed range of 196 miles on the official WLTP testing regime. Lexus made little tests to show how fast, stable, and maneuverable the UX 300e. As the first production model under the Lexus Electrified banner, the all-electric UX 300e was developed for excellent on-road performance. We asked Lexus how many units of the EV are produced there, but the company preferred not to disclose that. It'll go on sale in China in the spring of 2020, reach Europe in the summer, and drop in its home country of Japan in early 2021. Also quite nice: There doesn't seem to be any kind of packaging penalty with the switch to an EV powertrain. This good-looking crossover SUV has a 201-hp front motor and a 54. Ensuring a refined drive under all conditions, the PCU delivers smooth acceleration even when your accelerator pedal operations are slightly erratic. Charging controls are included, such as a timer which indicates when a full charge will be reached, and a charging schedule according to when the vehicle is next expected to be driven or when energy prices are low. 3-kilowatt-hour battery will come with a 10-year, 1 million-kilometer 621,000-mile warranty. So much so that : both companies wanted to sell an electric compact SUV. The UX 300e only exists because needed an electric car in the Chinese market. simple-item-image:hover:after,. UX 300e• You can even set a timer to ensure charging is completed before your chosen departure time. Even still, Lexus gave us a quick drive of the new 300e, around the wooded and twisty handling track at its Higashi-Fuji proving grounds, just outside of Nagoya, Japan. We eagerly await seeing their approach applied to electric. In terms of equipment, the UX 300e comes with LED headlamps, 17-inch wheels, a powered tailgate with hands-free function, a digital instrument cluster, a 10. Part of that reality becomes very clear precisely due to its option for an air-cooled battery pack. Lexus endeavors to continue providing enjoyable and safer driving vehicles. Need to monitor its battery status remotely? Lexus has a dedicated smartphone app for the all-electric UX. If you wish to have a profile photo next to your name, register at using the same e-mail address you use to comment. both C-HR and UX will be sold in Japan, China, Europe in 2020. In addition to the bold and sophisticated exterior reminiscent of tough and agile driving, Lexus developed special aerodynamic wheels and underbody cover for the UX 300e. UX 300e• Starting from the refined Lexus driving signature of the UX, Lexus engineers were able to leverage the new electric drivetrain to even further enhance the vehicle's on-road performance. UX 300e• Geotab concluded that liquid-cooled thermal management provides better protection against degradation. To be more specific, all UX 300e are made at the Kyushu plant, whether they are destined fort China or Europe. It gets a digital instrument panel, a three-spoke steering wheel with media and cruise control function, power-adjustable seats, leather upholstery, a 10. As for its looks, the UX 300e doesn't look too different from its gas-engined counterparts. Hopefully, it won't be as expensive should Lexus Philippines release it locally. Its front-mounted electric motor produces 201 horsepower and 221 pound-feet of torque. Over in Indonesia, the electric UX currently retails for IDR 1,245,000,000 or about PhP 4,224,300. World debut at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition in China Lexus today introduces its first battery-electric vehicle BEV , the UX 300e, at the 2019 Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition, taking place in Guangzhou, China, from 22 November to 1 December. UX 300e• 6 kW for AC, with a 50 kW capacity for a DC quick charger. 3-kWh battery pack delivers a range of 315 kilometers under the WLTP cycle. Customer deliveries are set to get under way in 2021 and a final price list will be published in October. More Articles On The Lexus UX 300e: A vehicle meant to be electric — or even made in a platform that predicted an EV, such as and — would probably present Lexus in a more favorable light. Refresh the page you were viewing. UX 300e• The Japanese luxury company ensures 70 percent of capacity until the end of these ten years. It will have fast-charging capability at a rate of up to 50 kW which will restore its battery to 80 percent in 50 minutes. whose batteries will they use will likely depend on the market, but i suspect everything else is the same. In Portugal, that is almost exactly the distance between Porto and Lisbon. Instead, it's been expressly designed and engineered to cater to Chinese and European tastes. We notice you're using an ad blocker. All components in the UX 300e are well fitted, with no visible finishing flaws. And thanks for reading Autoblog. The places the driver and the passengers can reach are covered with soft-touch materials. 35kWh slab of battery mounted low, with a traditional 150kW permanent magnet motor up front where the internal combustion engine usually lives, driving the front wheels only. insertAdjacentHTML 'afterend','. Here, attention to detail is everywhere, from the beautiful hand-sanded paintwork to the cleanroom assembly of all-electric components. In terms of size, the UX 300e measures 4495mm long, 1840mm wide, and 1545mm tall. Location of the shift-by-wire system on the center console contributes to the simplicity and functionality of the interior design. Lexus says it will go on sale in China and Europe next year, with a Japan introduction in 2021. Use Lexus Link on your mobile to remotely check the charge level and range of your UX 300e and decide whether the battery needs topping up. UX 300e• Especially considering the ten years of warranty on the battery pack. , many potential shoppers would take it on a test drive and maybe even home, without realizing that it is powered by electrons and not gas. , this would likely equate to less on our EPA cycle. It's unlikely Lexus wants to take on the best-selling luxury brand and model on the market with this low-key EV. Intuitive to use, it offers bespoke EV services like remote charging, remote air conditioning and a charging station finder. The electric UX has a range rating of 400 km 248 miles on the NEDC cycle. 5sec and has a top speed of 100mph. Reliability was also to the fore in the development of the battery heating system. Reliability is further increased through the use of multiple monitoring systems to regulate charging and prevent issues such as overcharging. UX 300e• 日経新聞によると、年内に発売を予定しているSUV「」がベースになる模様で、トヨタ自動車九州で製造、中国・欧州向けに輸出する計画のようです。 。 。 。 。
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Minutes, Board of Directors Meeting
Call to Order: President Pat Hurt called the meeting to order at 1:03. Present were Pat, John Urbahn, Vice President; Debbie Little, Treasurer; Cathy Little, Member at Large; Kristin Donaldson, Webmaster; Susan Schubert, Secretary; and Wolfgang Schubert, Road Chair. Association member Annelle Urbahn was also present.
Approval of Agenda: A motion was made, seconded, and all agreed to approve the agenda.
Approval of Prior Minutes: A motion was made, seconded, and all agreed to approve the prior minutes of September 5, 2020.
Road Report: Wolfgang reported that two gradings have been done: September 20 all lower roads were graded except Canyon View, Buck Horn, and Deer Path; October 12 the steeper sections of Hammer Creek and Gregory Creek were graded. Wolfgang also reported that Robin will order diesel fuel for the year, and that the truck is set up to plow snow. A motion was made, seconded, and all agreed to approve the road report.
Treasurer’s Report: Debbie reported that there were no changes to the previous report other than an additional charge for recent grading. It was moved, seconded, and all agreed to approve the treasurer’s report.
Secretary’s Report: Susan had nothing to report
Update on Board Activity Relative to Covenant Violations: Pat reported on the status of the Board’s efforts to stop a covenant violation regarding an unapproved business operating on Association property. Several requirements were given to the property owner who has met some of the requirements but not all. It was moved, seconded, and all agreed to have the
Association lawyer send another letter to the property owner asking that the remaining requirements also be met.
Update on Board Activity Relative to Delinquent Homeowner Association Dues: Debbie reported on the Board’s attempts to collect delinquent dues from several owners. One owner has not paid dues since 2014. The Board had tried filing in Small Claims Court, but the Sheriff in the State and County where the owner’s last recorded address is has not been able to find the owner to serve the papers. It was moved, seconded, and all agreed to stop the Small Claims Court action and instead have the Association lawyer file a lawsuit. This owner owes $3,500 plus legal fees. We will almost certainly win a judgement which will include all legal fees; however, there are several judgements ahead of us against this individual. In addition, there are three other owners who are past due, two of whom are out of state. Pat will try calling the out of state owners who owe $600 plus $200 for 2021 plus legal fees. Debbie will call the third owner again. This owner owes $1600 plus $200 for 2021 dues plus legal fees. If these owners fail to respond to the phone calls and pay their dues, then further action will be taken against them. In addition to the delinquent dues, there is a fifth owner who has a limited assessment against them for $90 plus service and filing fees. The Sheriff has been unable to serve this owner, so an alternate method of serving will be used. It was moved, seconded, and all agreed to pursue collection of these past due amounts as described.
Shuck Creek/Hammer Creek Intersection Sign: This sign was removed without authorization this summer by either a property owner or someone trespassing on Association land. It was moved, seconded, and all approved to have Robin reinstall the sign with a metal signpost in concrete. This is a small section of unimproved road on Shuck Creek which can be difficult to traverse, so it was moved, seconded, and all agreed to add a yellow warning sign that says “Caution Unimproved Road, Travel at Your Own Risk”. Cathy will order the sign, and the Board will have Robin install both the road sign and the warning sign
Facebook: Susan had previously suggested to the Board that there was interest in a community Facebook page where Association members could post items of interest or for discussion. It was decided that, in the Board’s best interest, any community page should be created and maintained by a non-Board member. Board members can join the community page but cannot participate in discussions involving any Board or Association business. Discussions of Board or Association business are to be referred to the entire Board for discussion. Board members can offer to take an item of discussion to the Board but cannot discuss it, either on Facebook or any other social media platform or in person. A single Board member cannot discuss Board or Association business with anyone through any media or in person without the entire Board being present. If non-Board members create a Facebook page, they cannot use Twin River Ranch in the title and will be requested to add a disclaimer that the page does not represent the Board.
Twin River Ranch Website: A link will be added to the website for the trr-thisandthat.com blog that is maintained by Cathy and Susan and which contains useful information including non-Association news and events and a list of Association properties for sale. Kristin will also set up several email accounts associated with the Association website so that members and others can email the Board without using any of the Board member’s private emails.
Electronic Communications and Billings: Once the email accounts are set up by Kristin, owners will be given the choice of receiving communications from the Board, newsletters, and invoices electronically. Dues payments will not be done electronically as there is a cost associated with this. Also, proxies will not be done electronically and will remain paper proxies sent via USPS.
2021 Budget: Debbie presented the 2021 budget with some questions and recommendations. She also explained that items, such as the grader repair, estimated at $5000, would normally come out of reserves but since we know it is coming, we can budget for it instead of putting that money in the reserve account and then pulling it back out again. Some minor changes were made to the Road budget for 2021, including increasing Robin’s grading time from $2000 to $3000 and increasing the roller rental to $3000. It was moved, seconded, and all agreed to approve the 2021 budget.
Property Sales and Housing Starts/Finishes: Cathy reported four new sales – two of which have closed and two of which are pending. She also reported there are only five properties for sale – one by owner and four listed with a realtor. One property sale fell through because the buyer thought the CC&Rs were too restrictive. Only one of the four buyers is from Idaho.
Member Forum: There was only one member present and she had nothing to discuss.
Adjourn: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 3:00 PM.
Susan Schubert, Secretary
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Terry Febrey
The Most Beautiful Cars Of All Time
December 1, 2015 by Terry Febrey
Cars. How does one begin to categorize and distinguish the different kinds of cars? It would take a lot of knowledge about cars and a great deal of time, no doubt.
Here is one such list of cars that focuses on the aesthetic appearance as opposed to functionality and convenience.
If you’re lucky enough to be riding in one of these vintage automobiles, you will be stunning all who lay their eyes on you.
1971 Lamborghini Miura SV
This true classic was the FIRST exotic car. And, it was one of the fasted commercial cars produced and made available in 1971.
Stylish. Classic. It’s no wonder that this car has appeared in so many James Bond films; Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, Casino Royale, and Tomorrow Never Dies.
1961 Ferrari 250 GT California
Remember that car from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? The red one that belong’s to Cameron’s dad and he and Ferris take it for a joy ride? Well that was a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. What a beaut!
1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL
At the time of it’s production, this auto-masterpiece was the fastest car on the road. Originally meant for racing, this was the first user-geared Mercedes for sale with fuel injection.
This beautiful automobile has a lot of “firsts” in its history. Firstly, it was the first year of mid-year Corvettes. It also was the only of its kind to have “split window” rear glass. Additionally, it was the first Corvette to have secret headlights and free rear suspension.
How fast can this amazing car go? 165 miles per hour. 1. 6. 5! Not to mention that it was the first Ferrari to have integrated transmission and back axle balance.
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B-Movie Night double feature: Black Samurai and Black Ninja
This entry was posted in B Movie Night Review on March 14, 2013 by Ian Pattinson
Black men who know martial arts, a staple of seventies cinema (even though one of these films is from 2003).
Robert Sand (Jim Kelly) is The Black Samuraui, top agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations). When his old squeeze- the daughter of the Minister for the Samurai Code- is kidnapped so that her father can be blackmailed, Sand cuts short his holiday to take down the satanists who have snatched her.
Sand investigates the only way he knows how- by beating the shit out of a bunch of people and eventually getting caught. There’s an entertaining, if over-long, jetpack sequence, a sportscar with a gun hidden in its rear wheelwell and lots of fights of varying quality. It’s never explained why the satanists employ so many persons of reduced stature, or how their leader’s pet vulture turns out to be a better fighter- keeping the BS pinned for at least a minute- than his henchmen. The story, such as there is, exists merely to hang these bits and pieces on and, as such, doesn’t have to make much sense. Which is good, because it doesn’t.
Next to Black Ninja, however, Black Samurai is a masterpiece of plotting, acting, editing and fight choreography. Black Ninja is a really, really bad film, but some of the awfulness is the sort that’s hilarious.
Malik Ali is a high flying defence attorney whose power suits are almost as bad as his closing arguments. Somehow, he keeps getting obviously guilty crims off the hook. Then he goes out in the night wearing a face mask and Zorro outfit to beat up the guys he just got freed. It doesn’t make any sense as a plan, but he does get to castrate the rapist he got cleared on grounds of stupidity.
All the while, Black Ninja is tracking down the man who killed his family- a Japanese martial artist who dresses like Fu Manchu and has an accent and camp mannerisms that jump across the line into racism. When Malik falls for the key witness in a mafia murder case it all begins to come together, sort of.
The lack of budget shows. The sound is awful, lighting is murky, the scenes static and the acting stilted. The plotting is dire and the script mostly maudlin rubbish. But it’s worth it for the occasional moments where it appears to develop self awareness and is genuinely hilarious. If only the rest of the film could have maintained the standard of these few bits of brightness.
Buy Black Samurai from Amazon.
Buy Black Ninja from Amazon.
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Nedbank slammed for brazen negligence
Posted 18 August 2018 Written by Carmel Rickard
Category Banking
Ordinary bank clients are seldom legally successful against the giant banks to which they entrust their money, even when the banks make terrible mistakes. That’s why the Namibian case of Faida Trading has intrigued legal writer Carmel Rickard. In her A Matter of Justice column on the Legalbrief site, she wonders what caused Nedbank to resort to what looks to her like bullying tactics rather than owning up to an awful and unexplained error by their staff. In the end the judge slammed the bank for being ‘unreasonable’, ‘obdurate’ and ‘brazingly negligent’ – but the customer was put through the wringer in getting there. From GoLegal.
The dispute between Faida Trading and Clearing Enterprises and Nedbank begins with a truly alarming scenario in the bank’s Windhoek offices.
On 18 March 2013 a representative of Faida, Emmery Bizimana, went to Nedbank’s offices about a transaction and was attended to by Ravioli Kooper.
He wanted to make an electronic payment to the account of US company Amazing Grace Exports. As he filled in the form he realised he had not brought with him all the details he needed and that the form in front of him had the wrong information about Amazing Grace. So, he decided to scrap the application until he had all the right information. As Kooper watched, he tore up the incomplete transfer form and its associated invoice.
Later, after he obtained the correct bank account details he signed a new transfer form and sent this to Kooper who acknowledged receipt of the new instructions.
Kooper, however, did not send the money to Amazing Grace via the new details Bizimana provided. Instead – how was this even possible? – she sent the money to the very account reflected on the documents that Bizimana had torn up and thrown away.
She later said she had retrieved Bizimana’s initial transfer application documents, intact, from her photocopying machine.
Bizimana said she acted contrary to his instructions, and asked the court to order that Nedbank should pay him back the USD39 300 wrongly transferred from his account, plus interest.
Kooper, however, claimed that she had received further instructions ‘from his office, through emails’ that she should send the money to the account of ‘Alicia J Guiles’, the very account number wrongly reflected in the document he had torn up in her office.
There was some suggestion of account-hacking made in the bank’s evidence, and Kooper told the court that a forensic investigation had been carried out into the matter. But though Bizimana and his lawyers repeatedly asked for a copy of the results of this inquiry, it was never given to them.
In a judgment delivered last week Nedbank was ultimately ordered to pay up, with interest and legal costs, but along the way the bank attempted to get the case thrown out or to cause more legal costs for Bizimana.
The trial started in June 2016 and was due to continue six months later, in November. But Bizimana could not be there as scheduled since he had been arrested and was in prison. Although his lawyers explained the situation to Nedbank’s lawyers almost three weeks before the case was due to start again, the bank still opposed a postponement of the matter when it was called.
In his judgment on the postponement application the judge, Maphias Cheda, said there was no question of the ‘genuineness’ of Bizimana’s non-appearance and Nedbank was ‘being unreasonable’ in refusing to agree to a postponement which would have saved costs.
Nedbank had also been ‘unnecessarily obdurate’ in urging the court to order that Bizimana should pay punitive costs for the postponement hearing. Its legal team had known about Bizimana’s problem and that he could not attend court, but ignored the information apparently hoping that the court would agree to order that Bizimana pay for their wasted travel and accommodation costs. But the court was ‘not a boxing ring’ where victory could be won on ‘technical points’. The bank had been ‘unreasonable’ in opposing the postponement and would not be rewarded by higher costs against Bizimana.
The bank’s next move came some months later when it applied for absolution from the instance at the end of Bizimana’s case, arguing that there was no case to answer as he had signed an indemnity form as well as a ‘general agreement’ exempting the bank for liability.
The bank had to put its case, said the judge. The disputed transaction was ‘surrounded in mystery’ and Nedbank was ‘obliged to shed light as to what happened’.
Kooper then gave her evidence. But in his judgment, now delivered, Judge Cheda said she did not tell the truth. If she had received contradictory instructions through emails, she could easily have called Bizimana to clarify matters as she had dealt with him for a long time and had his contact details. Even more troubling, the alleged email instructions were received only after she had transferred the money to the wrong account.
Kooper’s evidence was not convincing, and was designed to cover up ‘her negligence and/or fraudulent activities’.
Banks were legally obliged to treat clients’ accounts with ‘meticulous care’ and to check for irregularities. Nedbank’s ‘negligence is patent’, breaching its contract to safeguard Faida’s funds. The bank could not rely on its indemnity clauses because courts were ‘loathe’ to let one party ‘wriggle out of a contract without just cause’. A party could not act ‘fraudulently or negligently’ and then still benefit from its own unlawful conduct.
An indemnity should be not used as a ‘shield’ where there was ‘flagrant and brazen dereliction of duty or negligence’. It could also not be used to cover fraudulent activities, and public policy would not allow genuinely innocent parties to become the victims of ‘such nefarious conduct’.
Kooper clearly used an unsigned form to make the transfer from Faida’s account and she did not give a satisfactory answer about why she did so. It was ‘inexcusable’ that the bank did not have proper checks and balances in the system to prevent such an occurrence.
What riled me, probably even more than Kooper’s initial behaviour, was the bank’s subsequent attempts to make it more difficult and expensive for Bizimana – a client of long-standing after all – to bring his claim. Adding insult to injury, this strategy speaks volumes about the bank’s real view of its customers.
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spices names in english with pictures
CorianderCoriander belongs to the family Apiaceae, also called cilantro. ©iStockphoto It is a pulp used to add flavoring tastes like sweet, sour, fruity odor. Rosemary. by Candace Keener & Marie Bobel. It is mostly used with non-veg food like meats, fish, etc. Cassia bark is an interesting spice. It has a bright yellow color and a distinctive taste; try it on rice and other bland starches. CardamomThe cardamom is a spice that contains seeds in a tiny pod. Star Anise is a small seed that comes from a star shaped pod of an evergreen tree. Mostly fresh, green leaves and dried seeds are used. Allspice is a berry that has combined flavors of pepper, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Here is the list for some of the essential spices of Indian cuisines with their English names: Tulsi - Basil; Tej Patta - Bay Leaf Jul 27, 2018 - Indian Spices â A list of Indian Spices in english, hindi, tamil, telugu and kannada with images for quick reference A fruit, root, bark, seed or a vegetable substance that is in the fresh or dried form primarily used for flavoring is a SPICE. The following is a list of Spanish language vocabulary for herbs and spices. These spices play a vital role in the Indian kitchen, if there are no spices in food, it is not considered as an Indian food. Most ⦠Malayalam name. Use only a little bit for a lot of flavor. Sumac is a berry with a tart flavor. It is a natural component grown in a pungent plant. Black pepper is a berry that has a distinctive spicy taste. Each of the spices on this list has its own distinct flavor and uses. Over the millennia, people have sought out certain spices, not only for culinary purposes but for medicinal uses as well. It is used as a spice and served by various means like grinding leaves with sugar, the taste of mint leaves is added to make a juice that provides a unique odor. Spice, a word that refers to any dried part of a plant, other than the leaves used as a flavoring content in making food, recipes, for taste purpose but not the main ingredient. Add it to stews, soups, and desserts for depth of flavor. Allspice. Ajwain. Cassia bark. Spices Names in English With Pictures, and Pronunciation Tips. Why wasn't this page useful? Spice name and images with relavent nacessary vocabulary notes, hope that way you will enjoy learning spice name and spice vocabulary Use it like you would traditional cinnamon. The entire plant of cilantro is edible in cooking food. Indian food and cuisines are known for aromatic spices. Each of the spices on this list has its own distinct flavor and uses. Spice and herb, parts of various plants cultivated for their aromatic, pungent, or otherwise desirable substances.Spices and herbs consist of rhizomes, bulbs, barks, flower buds, stigmas, fruits, seeds, and leaves. Most of Indian recipes on the Internet mention the spice name in hindi and english both. It is the second most popular spice in the world, which adds a unique flavor to dishes. Sprinkle black cumin seeds on a salad or combine them with lemon for a savory sauce. Fennel has a licorice taste similar to anise. 1. Caraway seeds have a slightly sweet flavor and are used in rye breads. Mace is the outer covering of the Nutmeg seed. English name. Frankincense is a sweet gum. Glossary of Spices, Herbs and Misc. It is mostly used to add some flavoring content to food, and it is known as traditional medicine. I Have Listed Everyday Used in Kitchen Basic Spices. Pictures. If you need help downloading the printable list, check out these helpful tips. Mustard comes from a seed that is most often ground into a paste. We have provided a list of some of the local names of your favourite Ghanaian spices and herbs. GarlicGarlic is one of the species in the onion genus, Allium sativum. Spices Name in English with Picture. This is a list of culinary herbs and spices.Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring.. Herbs and Spices in Spanish. It ranges from mild and sweet to spicy in flavor. Jalapeno peppers are a type of hot chili pepper. ... Allspice got its name because the flavor resembles those of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Use them in soups and stews to add a subtle hint of celery flavor. Horseradish is a bitter, spicy root. Reply. Keep this spice shopping list handy to create a well-stocked spice cabinet. Zeera, Elaichi, Ajwain, Kalonji, Dhanya meaning in English. These include mint, cumin, brown cardamom, black pepper, saffron, salt, coriander, turmeric, ginger, parsley, onion seeds, and bay leaf. Ajwain is a seed similar to caraway in texture. ... Spices- English/ Hindi / Malayalam names. Add it to savory dishes to deepen the flavor. Cayenne is a spicy red pepper related to hot peppers like jalapenos. TurmericTurmeric is a name spice that is obtained from the turmeric plant. If can give pronunciation for English words, Its better than this. Botanical Name of Spices, Common Name of Spices, Family Name of Spices, Part Used As Spice, List of Indian Spices, Names of Spices with Pictures, Hindi Names of Spices, Spices Names in Urdu Sunday , November 29 2020 Spices Name: Spices are the most important parts in our food but do you know all spices name in Hindi and English (मशालॠà¤à¥ नाम हिà¤à¤¦à¥ à¤à¤à¤à¥à¤²à¤¿à¤¶ मà¥à¤).Here you can learn about spices name with picture, 10, 15, 20, 50, 60, 80 spices name in English with Hindi meaning.So, to learn about the name of spices, Indian spices name list keep reading this post. But very often, especially in case of non-Indian recipes, Iâm at a loss when it comes to the ingredients (mostly spices) that they use. True cinnamon is softer and sweeter than the Cassia variety. All Rights Reserved. Home / Vocabulary / Spices Name: List of Spices Name with Pictures. 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How to Use Oregano Oil for Toenail Fungus, 25 Creative Ways of Remembering Loved Ones at Christmas, Other names: pimenta, Myrtle pepper, Jamaican pepper, ''Kurundu", newspice, Other names: carom seeds, bishop's weed, ajave seeds, ajvain, Ethiopian cumin, Other names: anise seed, aniseed, sweet cumin, Other names: Fennel flower, Roman coriander, Nutmeg flower, Black seed, Black Onion seed, Black caraway, Other names: wild cumin, Persian caraway, Roman cumin, Other names: Chinese cassia, Canton cassia, canel, cassia bark, Other names: red pepper, capsaicin, chili pepper, Other names: marsh water parsley, wild celery, smallage, garden celery, Other names: chili pepper, red pepper, capsaicin, Other names: true cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, Other names: cilantro, Chinese parsley plant, dizzycorn, Japanese parsley, Other names: dilly, garden dill, dill seed, Other names: large fennel, large cumin, sweet fennel, common fennel, Other names: foenugreek, goat's horn, bird's foot, Other names: Siamese ginger, galangale, greater galangal, galang, Laos, Other names: poor man's treacle, clown's treacle, Gousse d'ail, Other names: Jamaica ginger, East Indian pepper, Jamaica pepper, Other names: great raifort, mountain radish, horse plant, red cole, Other names: cuaresmenos, chiles gordos, huachinangos, Other names: sweetroot, liquorice, black sugar, licorice root, Other names: yellow mustard, brown mustard, grocer's mustard, Indian mustard, Other names: pimento pepper, Hungarian pepper, Other names: black pepper, green pepper, pink pepper, Other names: kesar, autumn crocus, hay saffron, crocus, gatinais saffron, Other names: summer savory, winter savory, Other names: semsem, simsim, bene seeds, beniseed, gingelly, gingili, Other names: Chinese anise, anise stars, badain, Other names: sumach, Sicilian sumac, Tanner's sumach, sumak, Other names: bird pepper, African pepper, chili pepper, Mexican chillies, goat's pod, Zanzibar pepper, Other names: yellow ginger, Indian saffron. They called twelve spices. Kerala style kothamara thoran / Gour beans (cluster beans) stir fry . PeppercornsPeppercorns are also called black pepper is a flowering vine used as a dried spice or seasoning. It has a sweet and sour flavor that works well in sauces. Also used as part of spice ⦠This spice is also known as the âQueen of Spicesâ ⦠Turmeric Turmeric is a name spice that is obtained from the turmeric plant. It is also known as Indian Saffron. This seed is considered a spice used in Indian cuisines as an ingredient and for medicinal purposes. PoppyseedIt is an ancient spice that has been used for years. Use it to add some kick to your meals. © 2006-2020 LoveToKnow, Corp., except where otherwise noted. Anyhow this blog is vital blog for learners⦠& good job. There are actually numerous varieties of chili pepper. It is produced from the Crocus sativus flower, which is a cousin of the lily flower. Cooking with spices or using them for medicinal purposes can take some getting used to, but it's fun to experiment. NutmegNutmeg is a spice obtained by crushing the fragrant nutmeg into powder, having a pungent smell and sweet taste. Licorice is a root that gives foods a particular flavor. These spice mixes, especially the ones that are specific to a dish, donât really have a corresponding English name except for translating that dish into English. Big sized cardamom is called the Amomum pods, which is dark in color. It is a well-known ingredient in Indian cooking. Spices are classified from herbs, like leaves, fruits, stems, flowers. India is home to a large variety of spices that find their way through into many cuisines. Cloves and sweet with a distinctive smell. It can be easily harvested throughout the year. Cardamom. Use it in both sweet and savory foods. AsafoetidaThe spice named Asafoetida is added to the food ingredient list. Always read the label to determine what type is going into your food. Download Indian spices stock photos. Cumin seedCumin seed is a spice and also a member of the paspaley family. Allspice is a berry that has combined flavors of pepper, nutmeg, and cinnamon. They are commonly divided into the categories of spices, spice seeds, and herbs.⦠It is also called Caraway. FenugreekThe fenugreek is a spice which is an annual plant cultivated worldwide as a semiarid crop. Learn a list of Spices with Urdu and Hindi with PDF. Indian food is unimaginable without spices. Saffron is a flower. But before that I want to make a post on list of spices used in most of the biryani along with pictures and names in different languages like English, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil for people to identify & buy them easily in your place. Submerge it immediately after grating in vinegar to keep it from getting too bitter. In the Indian subcontinent, the leaves and seeds are the common ingredient used in dishes and also used in traditional medicines. Mustard seedThe spice named Mustard is a combination of mustard seeds and mustard oil. Its roots are boiled and dried and turned into power. Spice Pictures. Add it to nearly any savory meal for some subtle heat. It has a spicy bite in flavor. Latin name: Elettaria cardamomum. Tabasco is a type of hot chili pepper most commonly made into hot sauce. Cardamom has a spicy-sweet taste that works well with cinnamon and honey. Ajwain, Thymol seeds, Carom seeds. Nutmeg is a seed commonly used with cinnamon in baked goods, but it also offers other benefits. Fenugreek has the surprising taste of maple syrup. Saffron is a dried stigma and styles of vivid crimson color called threads found inside the flower. Fenugreek, Coriander, Cardamom, Pepper, Clove meaning in Hindi and Urdu. These spices are individual spices, but a lot of times in the spice rack of your grocery store, you would find spice mixes like garam masala, chole masala, rajma masala, goda masala, nihari masala, 5-spice panch phoran spice mix etc. The spice coriander is the seed portion of the Coriander plant, from which Cilantro is derived. Spices are at heart to every Indian. Indian Spices-Glossary of Indian Spices in English,Tamil and Hindi-Indian Spices Names (list) ... Find below a list of basic Indian Spices and their names in Hindi and Tamil. It is often used like medicines, religious rituals, etc. Mentha piperitaMentha piperita is the most common mint used as a peppermint. It is used in food as the main spice in curry and to add color to the food. names in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. They were served lamb and rosemary and she surprised herself by eating greedily. Its roots are boiled and dried and turned into power. Use it in stir-fries or add it to sweet dishes for a little kick. It is used in food as the main spice in curry and to add color to the food. Use it as a less expensive substitute for saffron in recipes. We all have to struggle at some stage finding their names. This was mostly in Ga so I didn't really know their English names. Also known as Chinese cinnamon, it is a genus of ⦠Tej Patta. Onions are bulb vegetables that can be sweet or spicy depending on variety. Cloves â The twi names are Dadoa Amba or P3pr3 whiles the fante name is Mbr3go Amba . Because there is plenty of stuff on the internet and these spices are inclusive in their list of ingredients. Ayamodakam. Learn different types of Spices Name with pictures in American English. Use it with honey to make tasty baked goods. Add them to baked goods or to savory meats you wish to sweeten. It has a similar flavor to Nutmeg, but is more subtle and less intense. CarawayNigella sativa has been recognized as a spice by the US, Food and Drug Administration as it is a natural seasoning and flavor. Spice Details. Turmeric is a root with a slightly bitter, spicy flavor. Spices are very essential to learn especially if you are into cooking, we are going to focus on a list of spices which are commonly used [â¦] Poppyseeds are small kidney-shaped oilseed obtained from the opium poppy. Spices are known for their different flavor profile, taste, odor, and qualities. Most have varying degrees of spiciness. Juniper berries have a pine-like flavor and are used to flavor gin. Garlic is a bulb that can add a lot of flavor and potency to any meal. Indian spices include a variety of spices grown across the Indian subcontinent (a sub-region of South Asia).With different climates in different parts of the country, India produces a variety of spices, many of which are native to the subcontinent. Whether you're cooking with them or working on homemade remedies, these are spices that are definitely helpful to have on hand. Use it when making breads from rice as a flavorful binder. 2. Spices, like all foods, have a distinct shelf life and will go bad. It is also known as Indian Saffron. English to Hindi names, pictures or photos of herbs, spices and masala are given. We are gradually forgetting the traditional spices and choosing cubed seasoning which many at times are packed with MSG and other preservatives which arenât kind to ⦠this is ⦠I get mails from foreigners asking me about Indian spices, so I decided to introduce Indian spices, spice powder and few other ingredients commonly used in Indian cooking. Bay Leaf. Tamarind is the seed from an evergreen tree. Cassia is frequently sold as a type of cinnamon, but is actually a member of the pea family. GingerGinger is a flowering plant whose roots are fleshy and used as a spice and a group medicine. Others were imported from similar climates and have since been cultivated locally for centuries. Savory is an herb similar to mint. It has a more delicate flavor, so more can be used. With the vast number of spices available today, you're sure to find some that will complement your cooking tastes, your medicinal needs, and your lifestyle. Curry treeThe curry tree belongs to the family Rutaceae, whose leaves have been used in various dishes and adds a pungent taste. Note: At the end of this post you can download this lesson in the pdf file. I have also shared their health benefits so that you can enjoy your biryani without any guilt. The length of that shelf life depends on how the spices are cared for. Please help us improve. Use it in baked goods or beverages, or for your health. These are harvested by hand. Aromatic ingredient for rice and other Indian dishes. SaffronSaffron is the most expensive spice in the world. Peppercorns are the berries that black, green, and pink pepper are derived from. Names of Spices and Condiments in Hindi, English, Gujrati and other Indian languages (regional) Black Pepper: (Kalimirch) Black Pepper, also commonly known as Kalimirch in Hindi, is known to be very healthy for the body and offer many health benefits. CinnamonCinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees used as a sweet-smelling spice in various cuisines, dishes, snack foods, or traditional foods. The dried or ground asafoetida is mixed along with salt and raw salads. Use it in curry to add some sweetness to the meal. Use it to create your own tahini. A complete list of spices names with Images. Ginger is a root that has a spicy flavor to it. Galangal is a root that has a taste reminiscent of both pine and citrus. It may be a seed, fruit, bark, salt, steak, root, or another part of a plant used as a flavoring and coloring food. It has a citrus-like flavor and tang. Anise seed â The twi name is nkitinkiti and also locally known in Ga as Osu kon. Hindi Name. Paprika is a type of pepper. Affordable and search from millions of royalty free images, photos and vectors. Dill is a tangy herb that can be added fresh to salads or dried to stews and soups. So in this lesson, we will learn the names of spices with their pictures. Simply click the image below and it will open as a PDF document that you can save and print. Celery seeds are actually a member of the parsley family. It is also served with milk to children or after marriage. FennelFennel is a flowering plant species from the carrot family, having yellow flowers, its seeds are used as a spice for its sweet-smells and good taste. Use them fresh or dried to add heat and spice to any meal. Add it to stews, soups, and desserts for depth of flavor. CloveThe spice named clove is a sweet smelly flower bud of a flowering tree commonly used in cooking foods as a spicy item. TamarindTamarind is a sour spice that looks like a curved brown bean pod obtained from the tamarind tree. Use it in baked goods for depth of flavor. Carom seedTracy sperm umami is the botanical name for the carom seeds belonging to the family Apiaceae. But we often get confused in their names in English and Hindi. It's used all over the world, but is a main ingredient in Caribbean cuisine like jerk seasoning, mole and pickling. Muringayila Kadala Parippu Thoran / Drumstick Leaves Bengal Gram Stir Fry. I have realised how little we use some local spices in our cooking. Malabar leaf/bay leafThe bay leaf is a spicy, fragrant leaf which is commonly used for cooking. This list does not contain fictional plants such as aglaophotis, or recreational drugs such as tobacco.. Anise has a flavor similar to licorice. Indian spices names in English, This post help with learning Different Types of Spices names, it's most important for Indian foods, it's also called masala. 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SKETCH DIARY: Lady of May
Here we are finally at the merry month of May with the Ladies of the Months series! So many of my closest friends and loved ones are May babies, I knew that this month needed to be extra special!
Lady of May’s Mood Board
Lady of May’s Mood Board on Pinterest.
As ever, brainstorming begins with research. I start by looking into the meaning and namesake of the month of May. May is purportedly named for the Greek goddess Maia, meaning ‘the midwife’, with the month also the time the Romans venerated Bona Dea,”The Good Goddess”. I focused my research on cultures of the northern hemisphere, as they tend to celebrate similar seasons. For this series, I’ve focused much on the themes of the shifting beauty of nature, which reflects itself in countless ways in the way that people celebrate holidays around the year.
May Day, Beltane, and the May Queen traditions (among others) all informed the thematic image for Lady of May that was growing in my mind. The month of May conveys the start of Summer, blooming flowers, the celebration of youth, and the height of our abundant life before the harvest and the cold of winter begin to creep in.
In the end, I envisioned the Lady of May as a dancing, joyful young woman crowned with flowers, the May Queen who celebrates the height of summer.
So far, this particular Lady has gone even smoother than any of the past Ladies! The ideas have come together rather quickly and I’m excited to move forward. With my theme of a dancer chosen, I began by exploring different kinds of dancers in my reference hunt on Pinterest.
Lady of May’s fashion mood board on Pinterest.
For Lady of May, the imagery from the season that resonated with me from my research was the May queen’s crown of flowers and her connection with dancing, youth, and joy. My reference hunt led me to beautiful recreations of Slavic flower crowns and the dancers of the Bharatanatyam tradition. The wardrobe of the dancers and the idea that a dancer becomes an instrument for the expression of spirit resonated with my concept for Lady of May, who is in and of herself, an embodiment of the spirit of the month. The fresh flowers crowning the hair of Indian brides also made it onto my mood board as another lovely example of the tradition of crowning women with flowers for symbolic and sacred purposes.
While Lady of May is inspired by all of these themes, I still wanted her to represent a wholly unique interpretation that doesn’t tie specifically to any particular culture, as all of the Ladies in the series are meant to represent their own unique embodiments of spirit. As such, Lady of May’s fashion sketches combined inspiration from both Indian and Japanese dancers.
Lady of May’s Fashion Plates. Drawn on a pre-printed croquis sketchbook.
With each Lady, I try to tie their birth flower into their wardrobe. Notice the Lily of the Valley imprint on her belts and the Hawthorn in her ponytail and sash. The design on the trim of the dress on the right is indicative of the red berries that both Lily of the Valley and Hawthorn have. Fun Flower Fact: The Lily of the Valley’s berries are quite poisonous while the Hawthorn flower’s berries can actually be used to treat a number of ailments!
Window Design Elements
Next, it was time to design the window! I went a little overboard with detail on this design because I wanted to emulate the intricate designs of Indian mandalas, while bringing an Art Nouveau flair with the Hawthorn and Lily of the Valley motifs.
Left: First Sketch. Middle: Alternate design. Right: Final design.
The first sketch I made for the design was too simplistic while the next one was too detailed because of the layers of borders. In the end, the final design was a balance between the two.
References, Composition, & Color Test
With the window design and fashion of Lady of May figured out, it was time to bring it all together into a single drawing! I created a collage of reference photos to help give me a more grounded guideline to use for the line art. This collage includes things like bits of scarves, flowers, hair, jewelry, all cobbled together to make something vaguely similar to the final look I’m going for. From this collage, I create a line art base that I carefully tweak to match my own imaginary elements.
As for the composition, The Lady’s wardrobe elements, window, and foreground flowers are so complex that I decided to go with a very simple background that implies the trailing ribbons of the Maypole tradition. These ribbons also help reinforce the flow of her pose. There are some tangents I still need to fix in the line art (the way her left foot and left side of her skirt touch the background flowers), but I can fix those when I transfer the lines to paper. For now, the next step is a color test!
Making the choice for what colors to use for these paintings has been one of the most challenging tasks for creating this series. If the colors are off, she might not represent her birthstone well. Lady of May needs to represent Emerald, but also too much green in this composition will make it flat and uninteresting, while not providing good focus and flow for a viewer. I did quick color flats in Photoshop to test out different options before I put paint to paper. It’d be far too easy to mess this up by skipping this step!
Well, this didn’t help me out much because I love all of these choices! 2 and 4 are my favorite options because I like the clear silhouette of each one. The contrast between the dress and the sari in 2 is lovely, but is there enough green in this to represent Emerald? The contrast between the sari and dress in 4 is also nice, but is there too much green now? Ah choices!
The Final Painting
In the end, I chose the 2nd color scheme, but with a cool grey background to make the warm colors pop with contrast.
View Lady of May’s completed painting and mask set here.
[Time Lapse Video Coming Soon!]
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Ladies of the Months Series
SKETCH DIARY: Lady of April
My journey continues this month with Lady of April! Lady of March broke through creative boundaries with her unique imagery and presentation. That once again made the pressure high for Lady of April! I had to work through art block with this piece, but in the end, powering my way through equaled something grand!
Brainstorming:
My research began initially with some overlap with Easter, since Easter is a movable feast that can take place in March or April. I initially thought I’d make March and April inverted twins of sorts, but I moved away from this idea by the end, though you’ll notice both Ladies still stand in water, representing renewal.
Over the course of my research, I discovered the festival of Demeter which is a famous April celebration. Women dressed in white take torches into the dark of night, representing Demeter searching for her daughter, Persephone, the goddess of Spring.
I also noticed many cultures in the northern hemisphere take this time of year to honor trees with arbor festivals. In the end, the imagery of fire, light, and the growth of trees that came up during research helped April to emerge in her final form.
You’ll notice in some of the thumbnails pictured below, I represented Easter by including rabbits, symbols of fertility and light bringers, though I eventually moved away from this imagery in favor of focusing on the Lady holding a tree, evoking her as a giver of life and promoter of growth. In the end, I preferred this unique imagery over repeating Easter’s themes.
Reference Gathering:
A mood board helps organize my muse’s random visions into something I can translate into my painting.
A peek at a small section of Lady of April’s secret board on Pinterest. Read more
April birth flower
April birthstones
Lady of April
Lady of March Set
The Lady of March bears Daffodils and dons the stone of Aquamarine. The Daffodils represent chivalry and unrequited love. The Aquamarine will bring her foresight, courage, and happiness.
She ushers in a time of resurrection, renewal, and the bursting forth of new life.
Without further ado, here’s the final version of Lady of March from my Ladies of the Months series! Created with watercolors, sepia ink, and metallic liquid leaf on illustration board.
The Lady and her matching mask:
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– Sketch Diary for the Painting
– Design Diary for the Mask
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finished art
Lady of March
Sketch Diary: Lady of March Part 3
Last time, I talked about designing the narrative elements. Now, I’m excited to start pulling everything together into a cohesive piece! Working in Photoshop CC and using a Cintiq 21UX, I use a composite created from my reference photos as a basis for a rough line drawing. Sometimes, it’s impossible to find the perfect pose and that’s where Photoshop can be really handy.
I’ve used the body from the photos I took, the head from another photo whose facial angle I really liked, and other reference photos (not pictured) to help me change the look and features of the model. One of my intents for this series is that it should encompass all forms of beauty, including diverse women from different ethnicities. I don’t want every Lady to look like me, since I’m primarily the model (a fact I hope to change once I can afford more models).
I also wanted to share this screenshot of the reference I used to draw the skeletal reflection from Proko’s Skelly app for Apple and Android. It’s fairly easy to use and arrange with poses you can save. I’ll definitely be using it more for study!
With my line art figured out, I can finally move on to testing out a basic color palette for Lady of March. I know I want a theme indicative of Easter, so I’m mainly drawn to gold, yellow, and blue. The first thing I do with any of the paintings in this series is to make sure the birthstone is represented also through the color palette as well. Luckily, the greenish blue hue of Aquamarine suits my concept for this piece rather well! This color takes up the majority of the background and influences the rest as well. The only other element I’m sure about at this point is that I want the eggs to be the bright blue of robin’s eggs, which always make me think of Spring.
I use the Hue/Saturation slider in Photoshop on each element to see what color choices might surprise me. I explore different options, including a dark dress or a light veil. The 1st image is perhaps too monochromatic in the clothing so that the corset stands out too much. The contrast between the dress and veil in 2 works well while the bodice also brings out the beige of the trees from the background so there’s more color circulation throughout the piece. The 3rd and 4th images both have a nice clear silhouette that’s intriguing, but starts to get away from my liking of stronger blues and yellows in this piece. I should also note that I try to keep the yellows subdued throughout this piece, except for the flowers, which are the strongest focal elements.
Finally, I arrived at a color palette I consider to be the best of all worlds! The dark veil allows a strong silhouette for the figure while the pale corset and pale blue dress work well together, leaving the eggs and flowers as the most saturated symbolic elements in the piece.
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Part 1 – Conceptualization
Part 2 – Narrative Elements
Part 3 – Preliminary Drawing
Sketch Diary - Lady of March
I had a general idea of the symbolism while I was sketching thumbnails in the last Sketch Diary. Now, I get to tie it all together into something more tangible than scribbles! My fear with this piece is that I wanted to cram too in with the nest, eggs, branches, veiled woman, reflection in the water, etc. The key and main focus of this composition, however, needed to be first the Lady. I was onto something with the poses I previously compiled, but they weren’t where I wanted them to be yet for this image, so I took the time out to do a photo shoot to capture the subtle pose that I wanted.
Specifically, I didn’t like the flatness of the hands in my mockup. They weren’t as expressive as they could be in the original pose (and you’ll probably see me say this a lot while searching for the right pose for a Nouveau piece). The hands needed to be more gestural and graceful, which meant much of the photo shoot was spent trying out different hand motions and head tilts. The body is the most important narrative element in Art Nouveau pieces, since a stiff figure can make an image feel posed and disconnected rather than flowing and lively.
Plus an outtake for fun taken during hand gesture practice.
In the end, my final decision was a mix of the head tilt of the original pose plus the open hands of one of the poses I took. The head tilt evokes a sense of meditation and harkens back to portraits of saints in contemplation, which very much suits this Lady and her spiritual themes of rejuvenation, resurrection, and baptism. The upturned hands also speak of a deep breath, meditation, and more of a connection with the water and energy around her.
I also worked on the window design at this point, since I had a general idea of how much of it would be covered. A lot of the window was going to be revealed this time, which meant I could work on a design that covered more of the area of the window rather than focusing on accents in the outer boundaries that would need to peek out from behind the figure. I used a template of a circle I made for the previous Ladies and divided it up into sections to help make plotting out symmetrical elements easier. Once I had a small section of the design done, I copy and flip it to create the rest.
Notice my designs start out with really rough shapes first to give me an idea of how the space is used rather than jumping right into the detail of the flowers. Since I’m going with an Easter-inspired theme for Lady of March, I was inspired by faberge and decorative eggs for the window designs.
Next, I whipped out my trusty fashion croquis sketchbook and doodled a couple of quick designs to see how I wanted to handle March’s corset, which is the other key area for symbolism and decoration in this series.
As ever, Pinterest is always my first step when brainstorming for fashion (or anything else)!
Colored and inked with my warm and cool grey markers set.
I like to use greys so I can establish the values without being tied down to any particular color scheme just yet.I ended up favoring the design on the right for the visual interest a more complex design brought to the stomach, which is located in an open and central area in the overall composition.
My journey continues this month with Lady of March! I was very pleased with the outcome for Lady of February, which always makes the pressure high for the next piece in any series.
As ever, my journey with Lady March begins with research and writing! Wikipedia has excellently sourced articles for mythology of the months of the year that have been my go-to for this project thus far. March is a time of resurrection, renewal, and the bursting forth of new life. It is the time of the Spring Equinox. March also presented a unique challenge because this year’s March happens to include one of the most influential holidays of the Spring season – Easter.
Did you know that in some traditions, Easter eggs represent the empty tomb of Jesus and were painted red to symbolize the blood of Christ? Or that Easter was actually named for a lesser known goddess of Dawn, Ēostre? One of the aspects of creating this series that I’ve really enjoyed has been learning so many things about cultural traditions that I never knew before! For me, Easter has always been about chocolate bunnies and egg hunts from a childhood that didn’t focus much on the religious aspects. My fondest memories are decorating a forsythia ‘easter tree’ with little eggs with my mother.
Easter also provides an interesting challenge because it is a ‘movable feast’, which means that it happens based on a time of year that can change (the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March). I decided that with so much imagery to play with, I would extend the Easter symbolism across both Lady of March and April, which both have the potential to host the Easter celebration.
A peek at a small section of Lady of March’s secret board on Pinterest.
Thumbnailing:
Moving on to thumbnailing, I used a light table to trace a printed grid onto my toned paper, which saved me a bit of time (only took me 3 Ladies in to figure this out ha). As I sketched, I referred to poses I had previously found plus poses from my imagination. I also made the decision of which symbols from Easter that I wanted Lady of March to have, mainly easter eggs and the theme of resurrection and baptism/renewal, which the water evokes. However, I didn’t want my eggs to be too stereotypically easter, so I’ve kept them subdued as decorative elements that are naturally placed in the nests. In the final image, I already know I want the eggs to be the striking blue of robin eggs (though I may find a place to add blood red eggs, depending, we’ll see!).
Out of these poses, I was drawn to 4, 5, and 7 because she seems to be more engaged with the water, which is meant to be a symbolic source of renewal and resurrection in this piece. Pose 3, for example, seems more sensual and posed rather than emotive. The other poses also lack dynamism. This can be a highly intuitive process since I’m making decisions about what symbols to include at the same time. Lady of March, however, went far easier than Lady of February did at this phase!
Thumbnails created in pen, grey markers, and white color pencil on toned paper.
Composition Mockups:
Next, I drop some of my favorite poses using stock art as stand ins on a frame template I had previously made in Photoshop. At this point, I play around with different layouts and arrangements to test how the Lady will look in a more finalized form. In the end, poses 1 and 3 are my favorites because they have clear and interesting silhouettes and she feels more connected to the water.
Stock Credits:Lockstock, Kuoma-stock (for poses 2 and 4), and Senju-HiMe-Stock.
After all that, pose 3 is still my winner! Now, with my final pose chosen, I know how much of the window is showing and can finally start on the design for it!
SKETCH DIARY: Lady of February Part 3
In the last Sketch Diary, I made decisions about the narrative elements and wardrobe. I still haven’t left Photoshop while I gather reference and photo bash them in where needed. This helps me get a more realistic grounded base for elements like the hair, candles, etc. I use anything that’s useful. For instance, the hair comes from bits of someone’s bangs and at least four different photos of hair. The main pose comes from a set of stock photos I shot myself, which are available for other artists to use here.
These photos are just a guideline and are changed later to suit my needs. I also made a last minute change to her right hand (on our left). The original hand wasn’t elegant enough, so I took a quick photo with my webcam to replace the hand with fingers that are more interesting. The ankles and waist have also been thinned.
Next up, I do a digital color test! That’s right, I still haven’t left the prep phase.
After exploring different options, I find that I like 3 the best. The Lady’s silhouette is the clearest since the warm colors push her forward from the cool background and I like the way the purple and yellow play off of one another in a complementary scheme.
This is the last peek at Lady of February before I move on to putting paint on paper!
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Lady of February
Sketch Diary - Lady of February
Last Sketch Diary, I talked about the research and design process. Now, I’m diving into all the lovely details that make up the character and the mythos around her.
Before I could move on with this piece, I had to make a decision about the pose. I ended up choosing pose 3 because I like the playfulness of it. The other poses were too assertive or too tragic looking when February is meant to be more welcoming and playful. The subtle smile really sold me on this pose too.
With the pose figured out, my next big decisions involved sorting out the character and her setting. From the start, I knew I wanted to have clootie (hanging prayer cloths), a sacred well, and the beeswax candles, all which harken back to some of the most provocative imagery of February, mainly with saint and goddess Brigid and sacraments of purification involving the beeswax candles. February also clutches an arrow representative of Cupid’s Arrow and the season of love.
I had already established a common element of corset, head garland, and dress with the past Ladies. The corset, especially, is a nice area to include the birthflower element or other symbolic element. I’ve also included a candle crown much like Lady of December‘s, but February’s candles have burned down to represent the end of Winter. Her crown is also flowering, representing the presence of Spring. With all of this in mind, I did some sketching in my croquis sketchbook first:
Pen and marker on a croquis template.
With these basic costumes in mind, I blocked them in quickly in Photoshop and also explored more wardrobe combinations by cutting elements from each outfit and combining them.
Next, I block in the shape of the flowers at the bottom to make sure they work with the elements of the composition. This also helps me make a final decision about which outfit to go with, since I can see how all the elements work together to fill up the space. I don’t want it to be too busy, which is very easy to do in such a narrow space.
The arrangement on the right is my winner because it allows for some of the background elements (ie. the well, more of the candles) to be shown more clearly. With my major design decisions settled, it’s time to move on to refinement!
Next: Reference gathering, detail refinement, and color testing!
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It’s been about a year since I completed Lady of January. A tumultuous 2015 kept me from really indulging in this project, but I’m happy to be back at it full force now that the storm has passed!
I always begin the brainstorming for each month by examining the origin of each month’s name. February was named for the Roman festival of purification called Februa. Digging deeper into February revealed even more interesting symbolism with Brigid (both a goddess and a saint) and the martyred Saint Valentine, the namesake of Valentine’s day.
I like to jot down my notes and thoughts, along with symbolism in a list that helps my subconscious start absorbing and processing the imagery before I move on to making thumbnails. I also start a mood board on Pinterest, which is a great place for visual meditation on a topic.
Instead of typing this out, I like to physical write it out on paper. This helps me retain the information better.
An excerpt from my secret Pinterest board for Lady of February.
Once I’ve identified the imagery that resonates with me the most, I begin thumbnailing, usually in pencil with ink and white color pencil on toned paper so I can get a basic idea of my value structure and composition from the start. For February, I was very drawn to the imagery of Brigid, especially of the sacred wells and blessing ties (or clootie) that are left around her sites. I also feel that Cupid’s arrow is a strong symbol for this month, but I didn’t want to get too overdone as far as Valentine’s imagery goes.
I’ve also filled the background with what will be beeswax candles, which are often utilized in blessings for Candlemas and Imbolc during February. I’ve pictured February with a candle crown similar to Lady of December with the intent to mirror her symbolism, while also harkening back to the flame of Brigid. While Lady of December ushers in Winter, the Lady of January closes the door of Winter and welcomes Spring. I also like the idea that while Lady of December’s crown was metal, January’s will be blooming with flowers.
We’ll see what sticks as this image develops, however! It’s a very intuitive process when you’re working with such abstract concepts and themes.
Rough Compositions:
The poses that stand out the most for me were 1, 3, and 5, but I still couldn’t make up my mind! To help me out, I take the stock photos I’ve been referencing and, with a bit of photobashing, lay them all out next to one another to see how the poses look on the actual template of the window shapes I’ve already defined.
This time, 2 seems the strongest and fits the space well, though she bears a resemblance to January’s pose that might be too strong. I like how assertive this pose feels, while the others like 1 and 4 are more shy and submissive, while 3 is pensive and playful.
Window Design:
While I ponder on making up my mind about what pose to go with, I at least know that a good majority of the window design will be shown behind the figure instead of covered up (like it was in January with the veil, where I had to make sure the flower designs in the window were on the sides so that they were viewable).
Designing a window starts out very rough. I lay in where I want the main foci of the design to be, remembering to keep in mind the shapes of the flowers, like Violets, which bloom in tight bunches with round leaves. I sketch knotwork and design elements loosely, rotating as needed until it hits all the sweet spots.
Window #1 hit the right sweet spots, but then the celtic knotwork clashed with the weaving motif I’d been working with based on saint Brigid’s cross. The 2nd design feels more consistent with the interlocking star shape that echoes the woven design. I’ve also arranged the secondary circle of flowers in a way that I feel utilizes the space better.
Next: Creating narrative design elements and composition!
SKETCH DIARY: Lady of January
This series began as my annual Christmas card back in 2012 and as a homage to Mucha’s stunning series “The Precious Stones”! I’m a long time fan of Alphonse Mucha ever since I discovered his work years ago in college and fell in love with his graceful, intricate compositions. I thought it’d be fun to challenge myself to an entire series in this detailed and decorative mode of work. The Lady of December sat alone as the only entry into this series until I recently decided to pick it up again!
“The Precious Stones” Female figures embodying the gemstones Ruby, Amethyst, Emerald, and Topaz.
“Lady of December,” Digital Painting, 2012.
I had tried to do a monthly series before in the form of a series of angels, but I wasn’t quite satisfied with the layout of the composition of the first entry in this series. The window and the figure felt disconnected, while the background seemed too empty with too much wasted potential.
“Lady of January,” Digital Painting, 2011.
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Following the measures foreseen for the current situation of Confinement, due to COVID-19, ARTIS-IHA will be closed to the public and researchers in general until the 25th of January, when it will resume the schedule adopted in the state of emergency (Monday , Wednesdays, Fridays). The service will continue to be done preferably by email.
Conference by Vanessa Antunes
On Decemebr 19th, the researcher and professor Vanessa Antunes gave the conference "Artistic and technical Iberian influences on Goan paintings", which you can view or review HERE
"Goan Christian paintings began to be produced after the conquest of Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510. During their occupation, Goa became the centre of Portuguese India and many Churches were built here. Evangelization was important to the Portuguese Government and producing paintings was the means to attain this.
In this week's presentation, Vanessa will compare three paintings of the same time period and theme establishing a correlation between the materials used and artistic treatises of the same era, revealing similar procedures and ideological perspectives."
COLEÇÕES DE ARTE EM PORTUGAL E BRASIL NOS SÉCULOS XIX E XX: COLEÇÕES REAIS E COLEÇÕES OFICIAIS
The digital edition of the work "COLEÇÕES DE ARTE EM PORTUGAL E BRASIL NOS SÉCULOS XIX E XX: COLEÇÕES REAIS E COLEÇÕES OFICIAIS" is now available, by Maria João Neto and Marize Malta (eds.), and edited within the scope of the VII International Colloquium (October 2020).
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ULisboa / CGD 2020 Scientific Awards
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There are twenty-six "Scientific Awards University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos" that, in different areas, aim to reward the activity of scientific research and encourage the practice of publishing in international magazines and publishers of recognized quality. The Prize consists of a subsidy in the amount of 6,500 euros (six thousand and five hundred euros), delivered directly to the winner.
Applications will be open between November 20 and 12:00 noon on December 21, 2020.
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Grémio Literário Award
The book "O Culto a Camões e o Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. O restauro do monumento no século XIX" (Scribe, 2019), authored by art historian Clara Moura Soares, a professor at ARTIS, has just been awarded by the jury of the prestigious annual competition of the Grémio Literário.
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Post by tony » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:17 pm
Irish Times Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Ireland is on rebound from consumerism, says President
DENIS STAUNTON in Phoenix
IRELAND IS trying to find its way back to a more balanced approach to materialism after becoming “consumed by consumerism”, President Mary McAleese said yesterday during a visit to Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaking to reporters after a presentation at Arizona State University about a joint entrepreneurial project with Dublin City University, Mrs McAleese said Irish people were paying a big price for a radical shift in values.
“I think that everyone of us would have to say with our hands on our hearts that we were all consumed by that same element of consumerism,” she said. “Somewhere along the line, we began to think that we weren’t happy with deferred gratification.
“We had to have it now and in this moment and I think that we have paid a very, very big price for that very radical shift. And now the balance presumably is going to swing back the other way and it will be no harm. We clearly have come from quite unbalanced times and they have not been able to secure for us the kind of peace of mind, peace of heart, contentment that we would have wished for. Now we’re trying to find our way back to a more rooted and possibly more modest time.”
Earlier, the President lamented that some global financial leaders had been “overwhelmed by greed”, misdirecting their brainpower to produce a financial system “with all the stability of a pack of tarot cards”.
Mrs McAleese said she was referring to some in the corporate sector who ignored the consequences of their actions on vast numbers of people of more meagre means.
“In particular, I was talking there about those who made decisions about other people’s lives that had very devastating downstream consequences but may very well have been influenced by the chance for themselves to make [money], whether it was profits or bonuses. That’s the kind of mentality,” she said.
“It’s a wonderful thing to be able to help people have their own homes and to build up community in that way. But if you lose sight of the fact that that’s what you’re doing – that you’re building up community – if what you’re doing is building up your own bonus, it seems to me that somehow we’ve lost sight of what we’re all about here which is about helping one another to grow, to flourish, to benefit as human beings and to benefit widely as community.”
Mrs McAleese said she looked forward to Barack Obama’s inauguration as the next president of the US and suggested that Ireland was not far from being able to choose a member of an ethnic minority as head of state.
“Not far at all, I hope,” she said.
“I’d like to think that we’re building the kind of Ireland where that would be as easy, as normal, as natural as night follows day.
“It would be wonderful if it happened.”
This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times
This type of speak sounds familiar!!!!
But then again....
President tells of days spent living with nuns in Ennis
GORDON DEEGAN
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese each year spends a number of days in prayer with an enclosed religious order in Ennis, she revealed yesterday.
As she launched the Poor Clares' Golden Jubilee Celebrations in the town she reflected on the time she has spent with the nuns since becoming President in 1997.
In the monastery Mrs McAleese wished "a very happy birthday to all the Poor Clares for 50 wonderful years and I particularly thank you for 11 of those years".
She told the nuns: "You are great custodians of the traditions of Clare. . . I know from my time here that any time the phone rings, any time the bell goes - people come to ask you to go.
"You can't take the burden of sorrow from them and people do come in great sorrow, but you can go in a journey of light with them and that matters so much; the courage, the faith, the hope that your prayers give them. That little bit of energy to keep them focused for tomorrow - that is so important to bring the joy of Clare and the joy of Christ into their lives."
The Poor Clares established their enclosed monastery in Ennis in 1958 and today number 17 nuns. They dedicate their lives to God through the vows of enclosure, chastity, obedience and poverty.
The abbess, Sr Barnardine, said the President "is a close personal friend of ours and she comes to us every year. . . and we find her an inspiration and also a challenge to us.
"It is like welcoming a friend in here today, so it was very fitting that we would mark this special occasion, the start of our celebrations, with the President's visit."
A signed photograph of President McAleese hangs on the wall of the main corridor: "Much love to my dearest sisters, Mary."
In the visitors' book yesterday she wrote: "Congratulations on 50 years of prayful loving care of so many people whose sorrows you shared, whose joy you enchanced. God bless this lovely community".
Sr Barnardine said the President came to Ennis in 1997 to open a library "and it was a mutual friend of ours, local solicitor Michael Houlihan, who introduced her to us".
"It was while she was here having a cup of tea that she said that she would like to come back to us and this is where she would like to come for a retreat. Every year she comes here and her husband, Martin, jokes that it is a break for him and he can go off to play golf."
Sr Barnardine said the President normally stays around three days. "It is the only place she will come where her security won't stay with her all the time. Because we're enclosed . . . so it is perfectly safe."
Earlier the President and her husband joined the Poor Clares and local friars in a festive midday prayer in the monastery chapel where she read from the book of the prophet Hosea.
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Post by Colin » Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:02 pm
I don't think that the president saying we were seeking bonuses rather than building a community leads to the conclusion that we all must return to superstition and supernaturalism.
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Post by Ygern » Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:21 pm
Agreed, Colin.
Nevertheless, I find it hard to suppress the gag reflex when politicians who sat back and shut up when everyone was raking it in suddenly discover some sort of pop-morality tale now that the world has hit and recession and are trying to insinuate that somehow we all ought to feel guilty in our complicity in this new evil that has befallen western society.
Quite a lot of Christian ministers and priests have been careless enough to express public enthusiasm and glee recently as well in anticipation of the return of the despairing and suffering lapsed Christians to the pews (to say nothing of their long-absent contributions to the collection plate).
Its nothing more than unbridled opportunism.
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Post by lostexpectation » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:16 am
the idea that we have a choice is most galling
“with all the stability of a pack of tarot cards”.
is she a sceptic?
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Australia Now and Then
I’ve been listening to a lot of music which I should talk about, both live and on CD. The CDs will come up later; for starters I’ve been thinking about this concert at the BBC Studios in Maida Vale a couple of weeks ago.
Brett Dean was conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra on a programme of modern Australian composers. It’s the type of programme I’d normally shy away from – because of, not despite, being Australian and having heard concerts organised on the same premise back home. When a large institution is involved – an orchestra, a national broadcaster – things usually attempt to be overly safe and overly “representative”. The latter principle manifests itself in trying to cram in a number of slighter, lesser works by a broad variety of composers which don’t really gel together. Like new music in the UK, Australian music in Australia still needs to defend its own small space.
Regardless of any national slant, Dean’s programme of works was beautifully focussed, illuminating a particular thread of musical thought found in a group of diverse Australian composers working today. The introduction to the programme notes made this intent clear, to look beyond the customary identification of Australian art with the unique nature and landscape it inhabits. More importantly, the concert portrayed Australian music as being distinguished by an engagement with the rest of the world, building an increasingly complex dialogue with other cultures.
For a long time, the question of identity in Australian art was often framed as a debate between two sides, pro- and anti-. On one side, “internationalists” would deride parochialism (and imitate any new avant-garde trends in Europe and America) while “nationalists” would chauvinistically promote a local vernacular (and imitate one particular trend in Europe and America). It’s a mindset that’s hard to shake off, particularly if you make decisions for a funding body.
The concert opened with one older work, Richard Meale’s Clouds Now and Then from 1969. It’s a significant work, with its musical language derived from Messiaen and its static, contemplative form inspired by Basho’s poetry. Incorporating ideas from Europe and Japan, it floats between worlds rather than seeking dependence on one or the other. This give-and-take continued through the concert, both musically and biographically. Some of the composers – Thomas Meadowcroft, Anthony Pateras, Lisa Ilean – now live in London or Germany, while Georges Lentz was born in Luxembourg and moved to Australia in his twenties.
Ilean’s Land’s End drew upon a similar sound-world to Meale, enhanced with microtones. Meadowcroft’s Peacemaker Tattoo and Dean’s own Engelsflügel confronted European composers directly, Mahler and Brahms respectively. With Dean, it was a passionate exploration of musical ideas; with Meadowcroft, a modest, somewhat deflating side-step, equal parts deference and aversion. Lentz’s Caeli enarrant… III is an eclectic procession of disparate elements unified by the composer’s personal spiritual vision, combining Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, astronomy, serialism, chance and silence.
Both Meadowcroft and Pateras in his violin concerto Immediata appeared as performers, using an open-reel tape deck to record, play back and manipulate sounds in real time. (I’m an old friend of Pateras so I’ll try not to get too enthusiastic.) Immediata was built out of an eclectic, disruptive improvisation, elaborated by divergent combinations of instruments. Pateras recorded soloist Thomas Gould’s amplified violin and proceeded to speed, slow, warp and distort the sounds, at times going off into cadenzas of his own, in a manner reminiscent of the electronic interpolations of Varèse’s Déserts. There’s a tension between the music that’s fixed and that’s ephemeral, between the notated and improvised both in origin and performance, and of preservation and loss where, perversely, the tape recording is discarded and the piece must persist through performance of the written score.
I think BBC Radio 3 expects to broadcast this concert in August this year.
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