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|1. Lockside Trading Company
Your Host(s): Mike Matucci,
Phone: (705) 652-3940
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Also 183 Highland Street Haliburton, ON Canada K0M 1S0 Tel: (705)457-5280
|2. Big Cedar
Your Host(s): Youngs Point Post Office,
Phone: (705) 652-3731
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In Harvey & Smith Ts., Peterborough C. on Hwy. 28, 35 km N of Peterborough, named for the indigenous large cedar trees.
|3. Kawartha Park
Your Host(s): Youngs Point General Store,
Phone: (705) 652-3731
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In Peterborough C., on the SW shore of Stony L., 1 km E of Hwy. 28, 24 km NE of Peterborough.
|4. McCrackens Landing
Your Host(s): Young's Point General Store,
Phone: (705) 652-3731
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In Dummer T., Peterborough C., on the S shore of Stony L., 2 km N of C. Rd. 6, 33 km NE of Peterborough.
|5. Mount Julian
Your Host(s): Young's Point General Store,
Phone: (705) 652-3731
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Pop. 7. In Burleigh T, Peterborough C. on the N shore of Stony L., 38 km NE of Peterborough.
|6. Youngs Point
Your Host(s): Old Bridge Inn Hotel,
Phone: (705) 652-8507
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Pop.262. In Smith T., Peterborough C., on the Otonabee R at the foot of Stony L., Hwy 28 and C. Rd. 20, 24 km NE of Peterborough.
|7. Blue Mountain Lodge (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Marlene and Darryl Fraser and Family,
Phone: (705) 877-2159
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|8. Burleigh Falls (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post, Lakefield,
Phone: (705) 652-7122
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Pop. 98. In Harvey & Smith Ts., Peterborough C., on the Trent Canal and Lovesick and Stony Ls., on Hwy 28 just S of its junction with C. Rd. 36, 32 km N of Peterborough.
|9. Carveth's Marina (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Randy Hauth, Owner,
Toll Free Phone: (800) 572-9472
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|10. Crowes Landing (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Irwin Inn,
Phone: (705) 877-2243
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Pop. 27. In Dummer T, Peterborough C. on the SE shore of Upper Stony L., 1.5 km N ofC. Rd. 6, 47 km NE of Peterborough.
|11. Doughty Aggregates (Sand Stone Gravel) (Lakefield, 7km)
Phone: (705) 652-3016 FAX: (705) 652-3461
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|12. Drain Bros Excavating Limited (Lakefield, 7km)
Phone: (705) 653-5530
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|13. Gail Burton Sales Representative (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Gail Burton,
Phone: (705) 761-3165 FAX: (705) 652-0579
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|14. Gilchrist Bay (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Wildfire Golf Club,
Phone: (705) 877-9453
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Pop. 11. In Peterborough C. on Gilchrist Bay on the SE shore of Stony L. and C .. Rd. 6, 35 km NE of Peterborough.
|15. Hall Glen (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Lakefield Post Office,
Phone: (705) 652-7122
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In Dummer T, Peterborough Con C. Rd. 6, 31 km NE of Peterborough. The place is shown on an 1879 map.
|16. Harbour Town McCrackens Landing Stony Lake (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Dean Armstrong,
Phone: (705) 868-0385
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|17. Jay Burton Sales Representative (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Jay Burton,
Phone: (705) 927-0682 FAX: (705) 652-0579
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|18. Kawartha Adventure Rentals (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Jay,
Phone: (705) 559-7368
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Sea-Doo & Jet Ski Rentals
|19. Killins Kindling and Firewood (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Thaddeus Killins,
Phone: (705) 768-1466
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|20. Lakefield (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post Lakefield,
Phone: (705) 652-7122
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Pop. 2,456. In Douro T., Peterborough C., on the Otonabee R. just below Katchewanooka L. and Hwy 28 and C. Rds. 18 & 32, 13 km. N of Peterborough.
|21. Lakefield Fair (Lakefield Agricultural Society) (Lakefield, 7km)
Phone: (705) 772-6568
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Enjoy the Fair season throughout Ontario and congratulate the organizers on the hard work and dedication of showcasing rural Ontario.
|22. McLean Berry Farm (OFFMA) (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): McLean, Sam and Erin,
Phone: (705) 657-2134
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Pick Your Own strawberries, rhubarb and tomatoes.
|23. OPS (Ontario Propeller Service) (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Art Guest, president O.P.S.,
Phone: (705) 652-0227
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At OPS, we're dedicated to providing high quality products, reasonable prices and fast service (often with same-day service or a two-day turn-around time). Our mission is to provide the best value for our customers' dollar with fast turn-around.
|24. R & J Machine (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Katie Peet,
Toll Free Phone: (800) 461-7638
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Our quality workmanship, specialized materials and innovative design is what makes us the industry leader for Docks of all shapes and sizes.
|25. The Irwinn Inn (Lakefield, 7km)
Toll Free Phone: (800) 461-6490
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|26. Town and Country Marine (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Tony Brundle,
Phone: (705) 657-1299 FAX: (705) 657-3950
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We don't just sell you a boat. For over 30 years we have been working with families to determine the right type of boat based on their needs and budgets.
|27. Village Pet Food & Supply (Lakefield, 7km)
Your Host(s): Kevin Kelly,
Phone: (705) 652-9494
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We always get terrific service and excellent advice for feeding our pups and the wild birds, too.
|28. Lovesick Lake RV Sales (Burleigh Falls, 8km)
Your Host(s): Scott Purves,
Phone: (855) 458-8787
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Welcome to Ontario's most exciting premier RV dealership - Lovesick Lake RV. With over 30 years' experience in the RV business, and as owners of Lovesick Lake Park
|29. Cherished Upholstery (Warsaw, 10km)
Your Host(s): Allan Pyche,
Phone: (705) 652-3500
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Based in Warsaw, Ontario, Cherished Upholstery, formerly Cullen R E Upholstery, offers over 30 years of superior quality and service.
|30. Kawartha Buttertart Factory (Warsaw, 10km)
Your Host(s): Cathy Smith,
Phone: (705) 313-4190
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A bakery specializing in butter tarts. Other products include Apple Fritters, Cinnamon Rolls, Pie, Squares and sweet loaves too.....a cafe as well !!
|31. Township of Douro-Dummer (Lower Tier Peterborough) (Warsaw, 10km)
Your Host(s): Municipal Administration,
Phone: (705) 652-8392 FAX: (705) 652-5044
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|32. Warsaw (Warsaw, 10km)
Your Host(s): Dummer Community Centre,
Phone: (705) 652-3617
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Pop. 49. In Otonabee T., Peterborough C., on the Indian R. and C. Rds. 4 & 38, 20 km NE of Peterborough.
|33. Douro (Douro, 13km)
Your Host(s): Dourodummer Public Library,
Phone: (705) 652-8599
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Pop. 100. In Douro T., Peterborough C. on C. Rd. 8, 17 Ian NE of Peterborough. This area was settled in the 1820s by Irish immigrants and the township was named in 1823.
|34. Buckhorn (Buckhorn, 11km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post Buckhorn,
Phone: (705) 657-1633
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Pop. 69. In Harvey T., Peterborough C., on C. Rds. 23, 36 & 507 between Buckhorn and Stony Ls., 30 km N of Peterborough.
|35. Curve Lake (Curve Lake, 11km)
Your Host(s): Curve Lake Community Ctr,
Phone: (705) 657-3432
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Pop. 470. In Smith T., Peterborough C., in Mud Lake Indian Reserve on Chemong L. and C. Rd. 22, 33 km. NW of Peterborough. The post office opened in 1968. The community derives its name from the Curve Lake Indian band.
|36. Direct Visual Care (Indian River, 18km)
Your Host(s): Vanessa Brown,
Phone: (705) 559-1202
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Hi there local friends I am so happy to announce that I have now been able to start providing a trustworthy and cost effective way of ordering eyeglasses in and around the area.
|37. Indian River Family Resort (Indian River, 18km)
Your Host(s): Gerry and Jackie Murison,
Phone: (705) 957-2777
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Escape to Indian River Family Resort. A place where your mind, body, and soul will relax and become one with nature.
|38. Indian River Reptile Zoo (Indian River, 18km)
Your Host(s): Ted Loyst,
Phone: (705) 639-1443
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Over 200 reptiles See species from all over the world as well as those native to Canada; Meet the zoo keepers; LIVE educational demonstrations; Nature Walk and Pond; Hiking Trail
|39. Bridgenorth (Bridgenorth, 17km)
Your Host(s): Canada Post,
Phone: (705) 292-7333
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Pop. 1,671. In Smith T., Peterborough C., on the E shore of Chemung L. and C. Rd. 18, 9 km NW of Peterborough.
|40. Lakehurst (Lakehurst, 16km)
Your Host(s): Lakehurst Post Office,
Toll Free Phone: (866) 607-6301
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Pop. 65. In Peterborough C., 30 km N of Peterborough.


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Nelson: The most difficult part of Taco night is buying all the ingredients. I don't normally use sour cream. It's sometimes difficult to have ripe avocados on hand. And buying tortilla shells usually results in having too many. But it's easy to put together. This time I tried doing the seasoning for the beef myself. I didn't have the right spices so I ended up using a small sample of tobasco sauce I had gotten for free somewhere that completed the recipe. I have since bought the taco seasoning spice mix so I can make it at home more easily. I prefer soft tacos, but also enjoy hard tacos to mix it up. An easy dinner and delicious!
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Later this autumn I'm really excited to have a Member's Showcase exhibition at Craft In The Bay in Cardiff. It coincides with the Christmas exhibition so it will be well worth a visit. November 10th - January 7th.
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Earlier Event: November 3Made By Hand 2017
Later Event: November 19Hay Makers Christmas Exhibition


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WITH NEW YEAR'S celebration long over, and Monday 15th January being designated 'Blue Monday', the most depressing day of the year, the Signet Library contrasts this seasonal gloom as part of the month long 'Message from the Skies' event. Told through projections on 12 Edinburgh landmarks, leading writer Val McDermid created the story 'New Year's Resurrection', inspired by her admiration for nineteenth century Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier. In her lifetime Ferrier was more popular than her contemporary Jane Austen, and this year Virago reprint her most celebrated work Marriage, with a new foreword by McDermid.
RUNNING FROM New Year's Day until Burns Night on 25 January, McDermid's short story is the basis for the free event. Audiences move from location to location in the heart of the city, with each building or landmark telling one chapter. The opening chapter is projected onto the front of the Signet Library, and all the projections run daily from dusk at 5pm until 10pm. The project can be enjoyed either as a whole story in one evening or over a longer period of time and was inspired by the nineteenth century convention of publishing novels chapter by chapter in fortnightly or monthly instalments.
BEFORE the snowfalls on Wednesday the Court of Session car park in parliament Square was as efficiently and comprehensively gritted as ever. Elsewhere in Scotland, those concerned about the state of local roads checked online with the Transport Scotland 'Gritter Tracker' app and, as social media posts soon attested, were greatly cheered to discover all the vehicles have been given names. From the force being strong with the people of Ayrshire thanks to 'Luke Snowalker' and the excellent work of 'Gritty Gritty Bang Bang' near Perth, not forgetting 'Ready Spready Go' or the 'Golden Great Gritter' in Fife, the fleet was out in force. Some had apparently even been knighted for their service, including 'Sir Andy Flurry' on the A9, and there could be no question which vehicle would be the WS Society's preferred choice – 'Sir Salter Scott' of course.
MEANWHILE the dates for the WS Society's comprehensive CPD programme for the year are available, beginning with the Charities Conference on 1st March, this year built around the theme of modern and responsible business practices for charities and social enterprises. Details and booking are available here. As an example of the varied events the library hosts, the same day also sees the return of last year's sell-out event in collaboration with The Cycling Podcast and with the recent popularity of both events, early booking is definitely recommended.
— "Writer"
Writer's Week is not intended to represent the views of the WS Society or its members.


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Grocery Shopping in Japan
Some quick notes:
Fruit is expensive
Microwave popcorn does not exist (in my experience)
Be very cautious when using Google Translate's photo translation feature
Learning katakana, or the alphabet Japanese uses to spell out foreign words, will save you time
"Well... that doesn't smell right."
I mumbled this to myself after I poured what I thought was laundry detergent into the washing machine. Unbeknownst to me, it was bleach. You may be wondering how one confuses detergent for beach, the answer comes from the 3rd bullet point above.
I was shopping for laundry detergent at the Seiyu near my share house and there was an aisle with a wall of what looked like cleaning supplies. But I wanted to double check, so I used my Google Translate app to take a picture and translate the characters on the bag. Google came up with "Laundry Soap." Which sounded a lot like a literal translation of detergent to me.
Yeah… I was super wrong. It was bleach. Let this story serve as a warning not to cheat the translation process. In a much less damaging - but equally confusing - situation, I bought grapefruit juice assuming it was orange juice.
Grocery shopping is a confusing experience in a foreign country, but if you go in with some pre-researched translations of the important items you need (or pictures from Google if all else fails), you can easily avoid the bleach and grapefruit juice.
- Tabitha


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We are capable of fixing all types of drywall issues and our trained professionals will ensure that everything gets done properly the first time. Our experienced and professional staff also installs drywall for remodels, renovations and additions. With virtually all drywall repair projects, painting is expected to be on the agenda. Hometime explains the basic and advanced tools needed to hang drywall and tape and finish drywall joints.
Drywall Repair Estimates Cary NC. No matter what problem you are having with your drywall I have the finishing experience to handle the job. To install the patch, you'll need to install a couple of pieces of blocking, like one by twos, into the hole and attach them with drywall screws, so that half of the block is visible in the hole.
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When a crack appears, it is usually on a seam where two drywall sheets meet, and it is easily fixed. Allprodrywallllc is an association for drywall new construction, remodeling and plastering. First, You need to learn how to duplicate a few common textures, which is easy once you figure out which tool was used to make it. You will also get repairs for common drywall holes of all sizes, which includes plaster (thin set and lathe).


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A newly married man shares an unusual relationship with his wife as they decide to live separately as strangers. He sets out to win her heart.
- Running Time:
2h 17m
- Genre:
Comedy, Romance Film, Drama
- Director:
Amberdeep Singh
- Cast:
Neeru Bajwa, Ammy Virk
- Release Date:
9 March 2018


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French electronic record producer, composer and DJ Agoria has so far released four albums, his unique sound has almost become a religion to his many fans around the world .
Recently though, the artist has been rethinking his process and further exploring the connection between emotion and machine, resulting in his new genre known as 'drift' – a music without limits where emotion, technology and art intertwine and meld.
To celebrate this, Agoria has created a playlist that has drift at its heart, featuring music from Groove Armada, N.E.R.D and Anderson .Paak.


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The Lao Xi Men 老西门 or Old West Gate area of Shanghai is full of homes, temples, and treasures dating back to the Qing Dynasty if not earlier. Recently, Tina Kanagaratnam and Katya Knyazeva co-wrote an article on the demolition of this area for SupChina. Katya is a real expert in this part of town and its history. I've been on her tour which she runs for Shanghai Flaneur. It was a while ago, but I remember we visited several homes that dated back to the Qing Dynasty.
Since I'm on Christmas vacation now in Shanghai, between ferrying my daughters to their various appointments and engagements, I had a window of opportunity today to visit the area and see for myself what is going on there. I spent around two hours today plodding through the cold rain amongst a warren of alleyways and passages. I've been to this area before, many times over the past twenty years or so, but the impending destruction forced me to look at these alleys and homes with new eyes.
Sure enough, a big swath of land has been taken over by a construction site, just north of Fangbang Road. The first thing you notice (that is, if you can read Chinese) is the proliferation of propaganda posters, banners and other materials put up by the CCP with the key words hexie 和谐 and wenming 文明 or 'harmony and civilization.' These are particularly associated with the XJP government, yet I've seen these sorts of messages and banners for decades now.
Shao Qin, author of Shanghai Gone, relates in her book what has been happening to the residents of these old neighborhoods as they get demolished and turned into office parks, fancy apartments, and shopping malls.
This was formerly the westernmost part of the so-called Old Walled City, which dates back to the mid-1500s when merchants banded together to fund the building of the city walls during the Ming Dynasty. They did so because of predatory attacks by coastal pirates. Around 1912, those walls were knocked down to make way for modernity, but this part of the city still bears the name of the gate that once opened its doors to the hoi polloi in the surrounding bustling neighborhood outside the western wall.
No need for me to go into any more detail about the historic significance of this neighborhood--you can find plenty of info in Katya and Tina's article or in Katya's wonderful book on the Shanghai Old Town.
While touring the old neighborhoods, I did talk to several people who confirmed that these old alleyway homes are slated for imminent destruction. They just don't know exactly when that will happen. One woman told me she'd been living there for 60 years. This is a very typical Shanghai story. The only difference is that many of these old homes are older and more historical than most of the lilong neighborhoods that have been knocked down over the past two decades.
To be sure, most of these are not very attractive properties. The alleys are crisscrossed with a cacophony of wires, and the people appear to be living in gentile poverty to say the least. But these are lively and very alive neighborhoods, full of small shops, some of which, like the butcher shops, look like they date back to the Late Qing period.
As I walked around, I looked for architectural features that seemed to be special or unique to the neighborhood. I found some courtyards with old trellises and windows and door arches decorated with figures that you don't see in other neighborhoods in town. There is a craftsmanship to these buildings and homes that is quite unique to the city. To see some of the hundreds of photos I shot, just click on the gallery below.
This wanton destruction of the old has been happening in China since the 1980s, if not earlier. While the Cultural Revolution may have purported to destroy the four olds, ironically a lot was preserved during the Mao years due to a combination of poverty and inertia. It was the onslaught of capitalism since the reform era started in the 1980s, and the influx of foreign capital from abroad, that led to this rampant destruction of the old ways, old buildings, and old neighborhoods in Shanghai and other cities, towns and villages in China.
Fortunately there are those who have struggled to preserve these old folkways, if not in reality then at least in photographs and other documentation. I'm thinking in particular of the work of Shanghai photographer Deke Erh and of his partner Tess Johnston, whose wonderful books of photographs and information on Old Shanghai and other places in China are simply irreplaceable. And then there's Katya's book, beautifully researched and written before this old town area got the axe.
I don't have the expert eye of Katya and some others, and so I wasn't sure if some of the neighborhoods I saw dated from the Qing or Republican Era (mostly Republican I guess). There were a few alleys whose dates of origin were prominently displayed. One was from 1924, another from 1935. Hard to imagine the folks who occupied these buildings and neighborhoods dancing to the rhythms of the jazz age. They were most likely living in another era and another set of folkways more intimately connected to the heritage of the Jiangnan region from whence most of them came.
To be continued...


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16th July 2011, 16:18
2011 Wales Dragonhearts 34 Scotland Bravehearts 22
Wales Dragonhearts second game match report in the 2011 Home Nations.
By Sian Couch at Caerphilly RFC
The Wales Dragonhearts cemented their place at the top of the Conference Home Nations table after beating Scotland Bravehearts 34-22 at Caerphilly's Virginia Park on Saturday. The win was made even sweeter by the news that Ireland had beaten their English counterparts in their own back yard later on that day, therefore the game against England is all to play for in order to clinch the title at Caerphilly in three weeks time.
Simon Green, team manager for the home side, was pleased with today's outcome 'Scotland are a much better team than Ireland therefore we expected a tougher match. We have a completely different team than the one that was playing last year and the youngsters have shown great promise. Nick Clancy had a stormer in his first game, scoring a great try. ' When asked about the upcoming England game, Green stated 'England are a tough team, so we will have to perform our best rugby. They beat us last year at the last minute'.
Green also stated that many of the team hailed from Bonymaen Broncos and was extremely pleased by their efforts.
The game started evenly, with the opposition scoring tries soon after the other side grounded. No side looked dominant and long periods passed without numbers being put on the board. It was the Welsh who opened the scoring when Gareth David grounded as he collected a pass from Dale Tucker. A pendulum of attacks followed with both looking to score. Scotland had their first points when Dave Vernon passed to Dominic Pullen who flew over the line taking the score to 6-4 with a missed conversion by Andy Grodynski of the Bravehearts.
Scotland went in the lead for the first time in the game a few minutes later when Stewart Fee battled through the Welsh defence to score in the corner but the advantage was a narrow one. The home side hit back with a good charge through the Scottish defence by Ian Brooks. With ten minutes to go of the first half the Scots were on the attack again, this time Andy Grodynski crashing over the line; the advantage swinging back to the Braves. Half-time beckoned and no side was caving into pressure, leaving plenty of motivation to do in the changing rooms during the break.
The second half could not have been more different as the Welsh powered through the visitors defence scoring 5 unanswered tries taking the game beyond the reach of the opposition. A brace by Richard Williams including a fantastic individual effort across the field following tries by Gareth Howells, Nick Clancy and a second try by Gareth David. One may wonder exactly what was said in the dressing room during half time!
The visitors clawed back tries with efforts by Dominic Pullen and Mike Stewart but the damage had already been done by Dragonhearts' fire in the opening 5 minutes.
The home side will now face England for a title decider at Virginia Park, Caerphilly, on Saturday August 6th 2011 (kick off 2.00pm). This will be a tough game for the youngsters but this victory puts them in pole position to lift that trophy at the end of the game in three weeks time.
Teams List
1. Gareth David (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
2. Richard Williams (Bonymaen Broncos)
3. Lloyd Ryland (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
4. Gareth Howells (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
5. Grant Epton (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
6. Ian Brooks (Bonymaen Broncos)
7. Kristian Hawkes (Newport Titans)
8. Charles Stevenson (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
9. Rhys Meredith (Newport Titans) (20)
10. Rhys Miller (Torfaen Tigers)
11. Jamie Williams (Torfaen Tigers)
12. Richard Brooks (Bonymaen Broncos)
13. Dale Tucker (Newport Titans)
14. Craig Fox (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
15. Andy Milne (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
16. Nick Clancy (Bonymaen Broncos)
17. James Allen (Valley Cougars)
18. Nathan Hawkins (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
Tries: Gareth David (5, 53), Ian Brooks (25), Richard Williams (50, 65), Nick Clancy (52)
Goals: Gareth Howells (3/8)
1 Nick Broere (Edinburgh Eagles)
2 Calum Cockburn (Edinburgh Eagles)
3 Patrick Coupar (Edinburgh Eagles)
4 Nathan Crichton (West London Sharks)
5 Stuart Fee (Hemel Stags)
6 Ray Festorazzi (Ayrshire Storm)
7 Andy Grodynski (Edinburgh Eagles)
8 Colin Jarvis (University of Hull)
9 Rich Johnson (Edinburgh Eagles)
10 Giles Lomax (Edinburgh Eagles)
11 Matthew McNee (Hull Dockers)
12 Thomas Murray (Fife Lions)
13 Niall Parkinson (Edinburgh Eagles)
14 Gordon Powrie (Ayrshire Storm)
15 Dominic Pullen (UWIC)
16 Mike Stewart (Lincoln City Knights)
17 Dave Vernon (Edinburgh Eagles)
18 Greg Wallace (Fife Lions)
Tries: Dominic Pullen (22, 65), Stewart Fee (22), Andy Grodynski (30), Mike Stewart (75)
Goals: Andy Grodynski (2/5)
Referee: Ian Curzon
Half-time: 10-12


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Old Chicago Pizza
Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom
Everyday 11:00am – 2:00am
3190 New Center Pt, Colorado Springs, CO 80922
Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom delivers Chicago style pizza and a a large selection of craft beers that you are unlikely to find anywhere else.
We step it up with every new tap, working to constantly discover new craft brews and specialty dishes to add to the longstanding favorites we're known for. What started with Chicago-style pizza and beer 40 years ago by a few friends in Boulder, CO—adoringly named after the classic pinball game—has grown into an incredible discovery of new craft brews and savory menu offerings. 46 million pizzas and nearly 300,000 World Beer Tours later, we're the craft beer authority, and a proud member of the CraftWorks family, the largest operator of brewery restaurants in the U.S.
After drawing our first pint in 1976, we've continued to pull some impressive local and international beers at over 100 locations. We still build our pizzas and taproom fare from scratch—one delicious, fresh ingredient at a time. And we serve it all up with a genuine smile. That's why Old Chicago is the go-to friendly place to grab a great beer and bite for lunch, a big game, a special date, family night with kids, or just meeting friends. Old Chicago promises an unforgettable time, which is why people love to come back again and again.


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The Forest by Stewart Edward White
IV. On Making Camp.
"Who hath smelt wood-smoke at twilight? Who hath heard the birch log burning? Who is quick to read the noises of the night? Let him follow with the others, for the young men's feet are turning To the camps of proved desire and known delight."
In the Ojibway language wigwam means a good spot for camping, a place cleared for a camp, a camp as an abstract proposition, and a camp in the concrete as represented by a tent, a thatched shelter, or a conical tepee. In like manner, the English word camp lends itself to a variety of concepts. I once slept in a four-poster bed over a polished floor in an elaborate servant-haunted structure which, mainly because it was built of logs and overlooked a lake, the owner always spoke of as his camp. Again, I once slept on a bed of prairie grass, before a fire of dried buffalo chips and mesquite, wrapped in a single light blanket, while a good vigorous rain-storm made new cold places on me and under me all night. In the morning the cowboy with whom I was travelling remarked that this was "sure a lonesome proposition as a camp."
Between these two extremes is infinite variety, grading upwards through the divers bivouacs of snow, plains, pines, or hills to the bark shelter; past the dog-tent, the A-tent, the wall-tent, to the elaborate permanent canvas cottage of the luxurious camper, the dug-out winter retreat of the range cowboy, the trapper's cabin, the great log-built lumber-jack communities, and the last refinements of sybaritic summer homes in the Adirondacks. All these are camps. And when you talk of making camp you must know whether that process is to mean only a search for rattlesnakes and enough acrid-smoked fuel to boil tea, or a winter's consultation with an expert architect; whether your camp is to be made on the principle of Omar's one-night Sultan, or whether it is intended to accommodate the full days of an entire summer.
But to those who tread the Long Trail the making of camp resolves itself into an algebraical formula. After a man has travelled all day through the Northern wilderness he wants to rest, and anything that stands between himself and his repose he must get rid of in as few motions as is consistent with reasonable thoroughness. The end in view is a hot meal and a comfortable dry place to sleep. The straighter he can draw the line to those two points the happier he is.
Early in his woods experience, Dick became possessed with the desire to do everything for himself. As this was a laudable striving for self-sufficiency, I called a halt at about three o'clock one afternoon in order to give him plenty of time.
Now Dick is a good, active, able-bodied boy, possessed of average intelligence and rather more than average zeal. He even had theory of a sort, for he had read various "Boy Campers, or the Trapper's Guide," "How to Camp Out," "The Science of Woodcraft," and other able works. He certainly had ideas enough and confidence enough. I sat down on a log.
At the end of three hours' flusteration, heat, worry, and good hard work, he had accomplished the following results: A tent, very saggy, very askew, covered a four-sided area--it was not a rectangle--of very bumpy ground. A hodge-podge bonfire, in the centre of which an inaccessible coffee-pot toppled menacingly, alternately threatened to ignite the entire surrounding forest or to go out altogether through lack of fuel. Personal belongings strewed the ground near the fire, and provisions cumbered the entrance to the tent. Dick was anxiously mixing batter for the cakes, attempting to stir a pot of rice often enough to prevent it from burning, and trying to rustle sufficient dry wood to keep the fire going. This diversity of interests certainly made him sit up and pay attention. At each instant he had to desert his flour-sack to rescue the coffee-pot, or to shift the kettle, or to dab hastily at the rice, or to stamp out the small brush, or to pile on more dry twigs. His movements were not graceful. They raised a scurry of dry bark, ashes, wood dust, twigs, leaves, and pine needles, a certain proportion of which found their way into the coffee, the rice, and the sticky batter, while the smaller articles of personal belonging, hastily dumped from the duffel-bag, gradually disappeared from view in the manner of Pompeii and ancient Vesuvius. Dick burned his fingers and stumbled about and swore, and looked so comically-pathetically red-faced through the smoke that I, seated on the log, at the same time laughed and pitied. And in the end, when he needed a continuous steady fire to fry his cakes, he suddenly discovered that dry twigs do not make coals, and that his previous operations had used up all the fuel within easy circle of the camp.
So he had to drop everything for the purpose of rustling wood, while the coffee chilled, the rice cooled, the bacon congealed, and all the provisions, cooked and uncooked, gathered entomological specimens. At the last, the poor bedeviled theorist made a hasty meal of scorched food, brazenly postponed the washing of dishes until the morrow, and coiled about his hummocky couch to dream the nightmares of complete exhaustion.
Poor Dick! I knew exactly how he felt, how the low afternoon sun scorched, how the fire darted out at unexpected places, how the smoke followed him around, no matter on which side of the fire he placed himself, how the flies all took to biting when both hands were occupied, and how they all miraculously disappeared when he had set down the frying-pan and knife to fight them. I could sympathize, too, with the lonely, forlorn, lost-dog feeling that clutched him after it was all over. I could remember how big and forbidding and unfriendly the forest had once looked to me in like circumstances, so that I had felt suddenly thrust outside into empty spaces. Almost was I tempted to intervene; but I liked Dick, and I wanted to do him good. This experience was harrowing, but it prepared his mind for the seeds of wisdom. By the following morning he had chastened his spirit, forgotten the assurance breathed from the windy pages of the Boy Trapper Library, and was ready to learn.
Have you ever watched a competent portraitist at work? The infinite pains a skilled man spends on the preliminaries before he takes one step towards a likeness nearly always wears down the patience of the sitter. He measures with his eye, he plumbs, he sketches tentatively, he places in here a dab, there a blotch, he puts behind him apparently unproductive hours--and then all at once he is ready to begin something that will not have to be done over again. An amateur, however, is carried away by his desire for results. He dashes in a hit-or-miss early effect, which grows into an approximate likeness almost immediately, but which will require infinite labour, alteration, and anxiety to beat into finished shape.
The case of the artist in making camps is exactly similar, and the philosophical reasons for his failure are exactly the same. To the superficial mind a camp is a shelter, a bright fire, and a smell of cooking. So when a man is very tired he cuts across lots to those three results. He pitches his tent, lights his fire, puts over his food--and finds himself drowned in detail, like my friend Dick.
The following is, in brief, what during the next six weeks I told that youth, by precept, by homily, and by making the solution so obvious that he could work it out for himself.
When five or six o'clock draws near, begin to look about you for a good level dry place, elevated some few feet above the surroundings. Drop your pack or beach your canoe. Examine the location carefully. You will want two trees about ten feet apart, from which to suspend your tent, and a bit of flat ground underneath them. Of course the flat ground need not be particularly unencumbered by brush or saplings, so the combination ought not to be hard to discover. Now return to your canoe. Do not unpack the tent.
With the little axe clear the ground thoroughly. By bending a sapling over strongly with the left hand, clipping sharply at the strained fibres, and then bending it as strongly the other way to repeat the axe stroke on the other side, you will find that treelets of even two or three inches diameter can be felled by two blows. In a very few moments you will have accomplished a hole in the forest, and your two supporting trees will stand sentinel at either end of a most respectable-looking clearing. Do not unpack the tent.
Now, although the ground seems free of all but unimportant growths, go over it thoroughly for little shrubs and leaves. They look soft and yielding, but are often possessed of unexpectedly abrasive roots. Besides, they mask the face of the ground. When you have finished pulling them up by the roots, you will find that your supposedly level plot is knobby with hummocks. Stand directly over each little mound; swing the back of your axe vigorously against it, adze-wise, between your legs. Nine times out of ten it will crumble, and the tenth time means merely a root to cut or a stone to pry out. At length you are possessed of a plot of clean, fresh earth, level and soft, free from projections. But do not unpack your tent.
Lay a young birch or maple an inch or so in diameter across a log. Two clips will produce you a tent-peg. If you are inexperienced, and cherish memories of striped lawn marquees, you will cut them about six inches long. If you are wise and old and gray in woods experience, you will multiply that length by four. Then your loops will not slip off, and you will have a real grip on mother earth, than which nothing can be more desirable in the event of a heavy rain and wind squall about midnight. If your axe is as sharp as it ought to be, you can point them more neatly by holding them suspended in front of you while you snip at their ends with the axe, rather than by resting them against a solid base. Pile them together at the edge of the clearing. Cut a crotched sapling eight or ten feet long. Now unpack your tent.
In a wooded country you will not take the time to fool with tent-poles. A stout line run through the eyelets and along the apex will string it successfully between your two trees. Draw the line as tight as possible, but do not be too unhappy if, after your best efforts, it still sags a little. That is what your long crotched stick is for. Stake out your four corners. If you get them in a good rectangle, and in such relation to the apex as to form two isosceles triangles of the ends, your tent will stand smoothly. Therefore, be an artist and do it right. Once the four corners are well placed, the rest follows naturally. Occasionally in the North Country it will be found that the soil is too thin over the rocks to grip the tent-pegs. In that case drive them at a sharp angle as deep as they will go, and then lay a large flat stone across the slant of them. Thus anchored, you will ride out a gale. Finally, wedge your long sapling crotch under the line--outside the tent, of course--to tighten it. Your shelter is up. If you are a woodsman, ten or fifteen minutes has sufficed to accomplish all this.
There remains the question of a bed, and you'd better attend to it now, while your mind is still occupied with the shelter problem. Fell a good thrifty young balsam and set to work pulling off the fans. Those you cannot strip off easily with your hands are too tough for your purpose. Lay them carelessly crisscross against the blade of your axe and up the handle. They will not drop off, and when you shoulder that axe you will resemble a walking haystack, and will probably experience a genuine emotion of surprise at the amount of balsam that can be thus transported. In the tent lay smoothly one layer of fans, convex side up, butts toward the foot. Now thatch the rest on top of this, thrusting the butt ends underneath the layer already placed in such a manner as to leave the fan ends curving up and down towards the foot of your bed. Your second emotion of surprise will assail you as you realize how much spring inheres in but two or three layers thus arranged. When you have spread your rubber blanket, you will be possessed of a bed as soft and a great deal more aromatic and luxurious than any you would be able to buy in town.
Your next care is to clear a living space in front of the tent. This will take you about twenty seconds, for you need not be particular as to stumps, hummocks, or small brush. All you want is room for cooking, and suitable space for spreading out your provisions. But do not unpack anything yet.
Your fireplace you will build of two green logs laid side by side. The fire is to be made between them. They should converge slightly, in order that the utensils to be rested across them may be of various sizes. If your vicinity yields flat stones, they build up even better than the logs--unless they happen to be of granite. Granite explodes most disconcertingly. Poles sharpened, driven upright into the ground, and then pressed down to slant over the fireplace, will hold your kettles a suitable height above the blaze.
Fuel should be your next thought. A roll of birch bark first of all. Then some of the small, dry, resinous branches that stick out from the trunks of medium-sized pines, living or dead. Finally, the wood itself. If you are merely cooking supper, and have no thought for a warmth-fire or a friendship-fire, I should advise you to stick to the dry pine branches, helped out, in the interest of coals for frying, by a little dry maple or birch. If you need more of a blaze, you will have to search out, fell, and split a standing dead tree. This is not at all necessary. I have travelled many weeks in the woods without using a more formidable implement than a one-pound hatchet. Pile your fuel--a complete supply, all you are going to need--by the side of your already improvised fireplace. But, as you value your peace of mind, do not fool with matches.
It will be a little difficult to turn your mind from the concept of fire, to which all these preparations have compellingly led it--especially as a fire is the one cheerful thing your weariness needs the most at this time of day--but you must do so. Leave everything just as it is, and unpack your provisions.
First of all, rinse your utensils. Hang your tea-pail, with the proper quantity of water, from one slanting pole, and your kettle from the other. Salt the water in the latter receptacle. Peel your potatoes, if you have any; open your little provision sacks; puncture your tin cans, if you have any; slice your bacon; clean your fish; pluck your birds; mix your dough or batter; spread your table tinware on your tarpaulin or a sheet of birch bark; cut a kettle-lifter; see that everything you are going to need is within direct reach of your hand as you squat on your heels before the fireplace. Now light your fire.
The civilized method is to build a fire and then to touch a match to the completed structure. If well done and in a grate or steve, this works beautifully. Only in the woods you have no grate. The only sure way is as follows: Hold a piece of birch bark in your hand. Shelter your match all you know how. When the bark has caught, lay it in your fireplace, assist it with more bark, and gradually build up, twig by twig, stick by stick, from the first pin-point of flame, all the fire you are going to need. It will not be much. The little hot blaze rising between the parallel logs directly against the aluminium of your utensils will do the business in a very short order. In fifteen minutes at most your meal is ready. And you have been able to attain to hot food thus quickly because you were prepared.
In case of very wet weather the affair is altered somewhat. If the rain has just commenced, do not stop to clear out very thoroughly, but get your tent up as quickly as possible, in order to preserve an area of comparatively dry ground. But if the earth is already soaked, you had best build a bonfire to dry out by, while you cook over a smaller fire a little distance removed, leaving the tent until later. Or it may be well not to pitch the tent at all, but to lay it across slanting supports at an angle to reflect the heat against the ground.
It is no joke to light a fire in the rain. An Indian can do it more easily than a white man, but even an Indian has more trouble than the story-books acknowledge. You will need a greater quantity of birch bark, a bigger pile of resinous dead limbs from the pine trees, and perhaps the heart of a dead pine stub or stump. Then, with infinite patience, you may be able to tease the flame. Sometimes a small dead birch contains in the waterproof envelope of its bark a species of powdery, dry touchwood that takes the flame readily. Still, it is easy enough to start a blaze--a very fine-looking, cheerful, healthy blaze; the difficulty is to prevent its petering out the moment your back is turned.
But the depths of woe are sounded and the limit of patience reached when you are forced to get breakfast in the dripping forest. After the chill of early dawn you are always reluctant in the best of circumstances to leave your blankets, to fumble with numbed fingers for matches, to handle cold steel and slippery fish. But when every leaf, twig, sapling, and tree contains a douche of cold water; when the wetness oozes about your moccasins from the soggy earth with every step you take; when you look about you and realize that somehow, before you can get a mouthful to banish that before-breakfast ill-humour, you must brave cold water in an attempt to find enough fuel to cook with, then your philosophy and early religious training avail you little. The first ninety-nine times you are forced to do this you will probably squirm circumspectly through the bush in a vain attempt to avoid shaking water down on yourself; you will resent each failure to do so, and at the end your rage will personify the wilderness for the purpose of one sweeping anathema. The hundredth time will bring you wisdom. You will do the anathema--rueful rather than enraged--from the tent opening. Then you will plunge boldly in and get wet. It is not pleasant, but it has to be done, and you will save much temper, not to speak of time.
Dick and I earned our diplomas at this sort of work. It rained twelve of the first fourteen days we were out. Towards the end of that two weeks I doubt if even an Indian could have discovered a dry stick of wood in the entire country. The land was of Laurentian rock formation, running in parallel ridges of bare stone separated by hollows carpeted with a thin layer of earth. The ridges were naturally ill-adapted to camping, and the cup hollows speedily filled up with water until they became most creditable little marshes. Often we hunted for an hour or so before we could find any sort of a spot to pitch our tent. As for a fire, it was a matter of chopping down dead trees large enough to have remained dry inside, of armfuls of birch bark, and of the patient drying out, by repeated ignition, of enough fuel to cook very simple meals. Of course we could have kept a big fire going easily enough, but we were travelling steadily and had not the time for that. In these trying circumstances, Dick showed that, no matter how much of a tenderfoot he might be, he was game enough under stress.
But to return to our pleasant afternoon. While you are consuming the supper you will hang over some water to heat for the dish-washing, and the dish-washing you will attend to the moment you have finished eating. Do not commit the fallacy of sitting down for a little rest. Better finish the job completely while you are about it. You will appreciate leisure so much more later. In lack of a wash-rag you will find that a bunch of tall grass bent double makes an ideal swab.
Now brush the flies from your tent, drop the mosquito-proof lining, and enjoy yourself. The whole task, from first to last, has consumed but a little over an hour. And you are through for the day.
In the woods, as nowhere else, you will earn your leisure only by forethought. Make no move until you know it follows the line of greatest economy. To putter is to wallow in endless desolation. If you cannot move directly and swiftly and certainly along the line of least resistance in everything you do, take a guide with you; you are not of the woods people. You will never enjoy doing for yourself, for your days will be crammed with unending labour.
It is but a little after seven. The long crimson shadows of the North Country are lifting across the aisles of the forest. You sit on a log, or lie on your back, and blow contented clouds straight up into the air. Nothing can disturb you now. The wilderness is yours, for you have taken from it the essentials of primitive civilization--shelter, warmth, and food. An hour ago a rainstorm would have been a minor catastrophe. Now you do not care. Blow high, blow low, you have made for yourself an abiding-place, so that the signs of the sky are less important to you than to the city dweller who wonders if he should take an umbrella. From your doorstep you can look placidly out on the great unknown. The noises of the forest draw close about you their circle of mystery, but the circle cannot break upon you, for here you have conjured the homely sounds of kettle and crackling flame to keep ward. Thronging down through the twilight steal the jealous woodland shadows, awful in the sublimity of the Silent Places, but at the sentry outposts of your firelit trees they pause like wild animals, hesitating to advance. The wilderness, untamed, dreadful at night, is all about; but this one little spot you have reclaimed. Here is something before unknown to the eerie spirits of the woods. As you sleepily knock the ashes from the pipe, you look about on the familiar scene with accustomed satisfaction. You are at home.


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The real Hummer: The Big Three were downsizing before the bailout.
Call it "lemon socialism'' - the auto bailout engineered by North America's two neo-con governments as the year ended is an exercise in putting deadbeat corporations on the dole.
So here's a New Year's resolution for us all: let's push politicians to end this sacrificial offering to the gods who deregulated markets - before the cupboard is bare.
What we really need is investment in local infrastructure for sunrise industries that make the things we need, thereby shifting the focus from mobility of goods to local provision and access.
By contrast, auto is a sunset industry from the horse-and-buggy age. Urban density, local food and extended public transit show us the future - and the private car is less and less in it. Nor is there any expectation that the $4 billion handout will guarantee jobs.
Downsizing was well advanced before the economic downturn. The Big Bailed-Out Three have shed 17,000 jobs since 2002, and plan to show the door to as many as 20,000 more in efforts to delay certain bankruptcy. This is an industry that's dumping, not creating good jobs.
Free marketers and free traders pooh-pooh the kind of government intervention that shaped the 1960s North American Auto Pact. This required car makers to divvy up the jobs in both countries in proportion to sales. It was called "managed trade'' and it could have spread to the global industry, guaranteeing good jobs equitably around the world and protecting taxpayers from having to pay incentives to lure manufacturers into their area.
Instead, we ended up with free markets, which meant incentives in good times and bailouts in bad.
According to a September United Nations Environment Program report on Green Jobs, car subsidies compare poorly to other kinds of industries. For example, giving $50 billion yearly to approximately 100,000 conservation areas worldwide "could secure $5 trillion worth of services while generating millions of new jobs and securing livelihoods for rural and indigenous peoples."
The folks at UNEP call for a Global Green New Deal that spends money on projects providing long-term public value and payroll, so all the money goes into job creation.
Spending on an auto industry joyride requires the public to close its eyes to the reality of overproduction. North American stats show that most car owners - a minority of the world's people, and a group that's not growing fast in an unequal world - already own two cars, many under warranty.
We may have hit the era of peak car before we hit the age of peak oil.
However much the Old Three try to catch up with the trend to smaller, alternative-fuel cars, they can only run, not hide, from a global crisis of over-production. And the future reality is that cars don't fit in a densely urbanized world. Rail and public transit are more effective for getting around than private cars in traffic jams. More important, getting around isn't as important as it once was.
New communications technologies mean we can move electrons without moving atoms, so we can telecommute, teleconference and attend webinars without having to get stuck in gridlock or spend hours at airports.
Local food enthusiasts are at the forefront of this paradigm revolution. Without the overhead expenses of bricks, mortar, freezers and parking lots that supermarkets have to pay, farmers' markets can situate in public spaces within walking distance of home.
Urban agriculture of the future will work on greening the one-third of civic space given over to car support: driveways, eight-laners and parking lots - enough to provide a city with many food basics.
Lest we forget, the most expensive, albeit invisible, subsidy to car manufacturers is in the tax-financed cascade of giveaways. All the parking lots taxed at virtually zero, all the roads widened, patched and quickly snowplowed (less wait-time there than in most hospitals) - these are subsidies that tie our public money up in mobility instead of access.
Ever more subsidies are the only things keeping car manufacture from riding off into the sunset.3


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Race 5 Spring Series (Rescheduled) - Results/
Race 5 (the Ladies Day Race) was postponed twice, but finally got underway in mid January, making it the final race of the Spring Series.
For the first time, BPYC held the Ladies Days Race as a point-scoring event, with all yachts welcome, but those without a female helm/skipper penalised two points.
Megisti Blue took a fine and convincing win, with Jen Bernard at the helm. Celete and Martela took out the other places on the podium.


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Greensand Country is being recognised as an important asset by the creation of a new brand.
The vision is for Greensand Country, which stretches from Leighton Buzzard to Gamlingay, to be recognised as a highly attractive landscape with a unique history, wildlife and culture that will encourage people to visit, enjoy, understand, value and look after it for the long term.
The new Greensand Country brand creates a single identity, telling a joined-up story of this distinctive landscape.
The brand, which was officially launched by the Greensand Country Landscape Partnership, depicts the Greensand Ridge that rises from the clay vales on either side. The heart-shaped logo represents that this is a cherished landscape, with colours of the parkland, heathland and, most importantly, greensand running through it.
Jon Boswell, chief executive of Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity, said: "The new brand signifies a huge step forward in the future of Greensand Country, making it a destination that local people are proud to be a part of and those further afield are excited to visit."
Visit greensandcountry.com for details.


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Matthew Parris
Full name: Matthew Francis Parris
Area of interest: Politics, world affairs, history and travel
Journals/Organisation: The Times | The Spectator
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Website: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/matthewparris
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About: An ex civil servant at the Foreign Office who became an MP and then turned to a media career as broadcaster and columnist. As well as The Times he is a frequent contributor to many other publications, including The Spectator, and has been named 'Columnist of the Year' at the British Press Awards on numerous occasions.
Education: Clare College, Cambridge: Law (first class degree); Yale: International Relations
Career: Worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for two years; joined the Conservative Party Research Department CRD, becoming Margaret Thatcher's correspondence secretary, 1977/79; elected as the Conservative MP for West Derbyshire, 1979/86; surrendered his seat in 1986, commencing a media career: Presenter of London Weekend Television's Weekend World - taking over from Brian Walden - for two years; Parliamentary sketchwriter for The Times, 1988/2001
Current position/role: Columnist and diarist, with an opinion column every Saturday and a diary piece on Thursday for The Times
Other roles/Main role: Author
Other activities: Led expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro in 1967/1989, Zaire in 1973, Sahara in 1978, also to Peru and Bolivia; spent the Antarctic winter of 2000 on the French possession of Grande Terre (Desolation Island) in the Kerguelen Archipelago in the Indian Ocean
Broadcast media: Presents BBC Radio 4's biography series Great Lives (Wiki info), Great Lives (BBC Radio 4)
Video: BBC News - What lessons Gibbon may have for Britain, its politicians and its institutions? The Gibbon Test
Controversy/Criticism: Revealed Peter Mandelson was gay in Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman following the Ron Davies' scandal, consequently sacked as a columnist on The Sun by then editor, David Yelland
Awards/Honours: London Press Club's Edgar Wallace Outstanding Reporter of the Year Award, 1990; British Press Awards Columnist of the Year, 1991 and 1993; What the Papers Say Columnist of the Year, 1992; National newspaper category in the annual media awards given by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependency, 1994; Writer of the Year in Granada Television's What the Papers Say Awards, 2004; PG Poll: Matthew Parris voted top comment journalist, Press Gazette, 3rd February 2010
Other: In a civil partnership with political journalist Julian Glover
Books & Debate:
Subjects cover politics and travel, and his autobiography, Chance Witness, winner of the Orwell Prize, 2004: Coping with the Soviet Union (with Peter Blaker, Julian Critchley), (Conservative Political Centre Bookshop, 1977) ISBN 0-85070-599-1; Inca Kola: A Traveller's Tale of Peru (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990) ISBN 0-297-81075-8; So Far So Good...: Selected Pieces (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991) ISBN 0-297-81215-7; Look Behind You!: Sketches and Follies from the Commons (Robson, 1993) ISBN 0-86051-874-4; Scorn: A Bucketful of Discourtesy, Disparagement, Invective, Ridicule, Impudence, Contumely, Derision, Hate, Affront, Disdain, Bile, Taunts, Curses and Jibes (Hamish Hamilton, 1994) ISBN 0-241-13384-X; Scorn with Added Vitriol (Hamish Hamilton, 1995) ISBN 0-241-13587-7; Great Parliamentary Scandals: Four Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo (Robson Books, 1995) ISBN 0-86051-957-0; Read My Lips: A Treasury of Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said (Parkwest Publications, 1997) ISBN 1-86105-043-7; I Couldn't Possibly Comment: More Sketches from the Commons (Robson Books, 1997) ISBN 1-86105-095-X; Scorn with Extra Bile Matthew Parris (editor) (Penguin Books, 1998) ISBN 0-14-027780-3; The Great Unfrocked: Two Thousand Years of Church Scandal (Robson, 1998) ISBN 1-86105-129-8; Against the Law: The Classic Account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain Peter Wildeblood, Matthew Parris (introduction) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999) ISBN 0-297-64382-7; I Wish I Hadn't Said That: The Experts Speak - and Get It Wrong! Matthew Parris (foreword), Christopher Cerf, Victor Navasky (HarperCollins, 2000) ISBN 0-00-653149-0; Off Message: New Labour, New Sketches (Robson Books, 2001) ISBN 1-86105-479-3; The King's English (Oxford Language Classics Series) Henry Fowler, Frank Fowler, Matthew Parris (introduction) (Oxford University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-19-860507-2; Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics (Viking, 2002) ISBN 0-670-89440-0; A Castle in Spain (Viking, 2005) ISBN 0-670-91547-5; Mission Accomplished!: A Treasury of the Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said (with Phil Mason) (JR Books Ltd, 2007) ISBN 1906217351; Nobody's good fortune: the autobiography of John Lang (Introduction) (Grosvenor House Publishing, Ltd. 2008) ISBN 1906210977
Latest work: Scorn: the anthology OCLC 233788894, 2008
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"Psychedelic music will cover the face of the world and color the whole popular music scene. Anybody happening is psychedelic."
"Where artists of the past traveled to the ends of the earth, these new artists travel inward, to what Aldous Huxley called the antipodes of the mind---the world of visionary experience.
"About a year ago I had what I consider a very religious experience. I took LSD...And I learned a lot of things, like patience, understanding. I can't teach you, or tell you, what I learned from taking it. But I consider it a very religious experience."
'"On the deepest, integral level, the psychedelic experience is one of psychological integration, "illumination," and a sense of self-transformation. In our experimental work with psychedelics, only a small percentage of the subjects ever reached this deep level. How many artists have reached it, no one can say. Not in art or elsewhere do we find an entirely successful attempt to communicate experience that men of all times and places have tended to agree is essentially incommunicable.
"I think pop music is going to be spiritual...that's the direction I want to go. Not in the sense of churches, going to church; but like the essence of all religion. Yeah. The essence of all religion."
Like all frontiersmen, they are apt to stumble, but their effort is worthwhile and their direction is a right one for our time."
~Masters & Houston from Psychedelic Art (1968)
"A trip through the psychedelic years might more accurately be described as a historic, colorful, and consciousness-raising vista along the evolutionary highway of the human species. The psychedelic culture of the 1960s was arguably the most far-reaching and pervasive of all recorded quests for enlightenment."
"'In the same letter she urged me to read Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness, declaring that it contained brilliant accounts of the actual experience of illumination. I did and was astounded to discover that my experience actually paralled the illuminations listed and explained by Dr. Bucke. In the original draft of my brochure I had described in detail my experience with "brilliant white light,"...the memory of that signal experience will always remain, for in those few seconds I received more knowledge and understanding than I had ever received in my years of reading and studying.'"
-Claude M. Bristol from The Magic Of Believing
"Have you tried the mirror technique of the subconscious? I'm reading a book about it---I'm fascinated by the mind and hypnosis and things like that."
-Brian Wilson from Melody Maker October 8, 1966
The above quote indicates that Brian was reading The Magic Of Believing by Claude M. Bristol (chapter six is titled The Mirror Technique for Releasing the Subconscious) and the above picture shows Brian holding the book Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. Both of these titles are classified as self-help books and one could assume that Wilson used them to increase his personal happiness and achieve certain goals. But it is also possible that these books were used in order to communicate the spiritual psychedelic experience. They may very well have something to do with the SMiLE era's pictoral music, chants, repeated themes, and perhaps even "mind gangsters."
"By looking into the mirror, you increase the mental vibrations by which the force and meaning of your words will quickly penetrate to the subconscious minds of your audience."
-from The Magic Of Believing
"The subconscious mind is beyond space and time, and it is fundamentally a powerful sending and receiving station with a universal hookup whereby it can communicate with the physical, mental, psychic, and, according to many investigators, spiritual worlds, past, present, and future, as well."
-from The Magic Of Believing
"Perhaps the most effective method of bringing the subconscious into practical action is through the process of making mental pictures---using the imagination---perfecting an image of the thing or situation as you would have it exist in physical form. This is usually referred to as visualization."
-from The Magic Of Believing
"It is obvious that in all similar religions, cults, and orders there is a prescribed ritual in which the repetition of words, mystical or otherwise, plays an important part. And this brings us to the law of suggestion, through which all forces operating within its limits are capable of producing phenomenal results....It's the repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations that leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things start to happen."
-from The Magic Of Believing
"'This is the year that was actually. It blossomed....It was a great moment, you know, because about a half year of emotions alone went into the record ("Good Vibrations"). And everyone was sort of...had it in their minds and it was um, I think it has a lot to do with repetition. I don't know. When something is around for a long time it gets really emblazoned in your mind and becomes so visual that it really starts to happen...our next record's called "Heroes And Villains."'
-Brian Wilson from the "Heroes And Villains Piano Demo" November 4, 1966
"'It is no wonder that the art of "mental picturing" has in the past sometimes been associated with "magic."
However, the new science of cybernetics gives us an insight into why mental picturing produces such amazing results, and shows that these results are not due to "magic," but the natural, normal functioning of our minds and brains.'"
-from Psycho-Cybernetics
"'Many great thinkers of all ages have believed that man's "stored information" is not limited to his own memories of past experiences, and learned facts. "There is one mind common to all individual men," said Emerson, who compared our individual minds to the inlets in an ocean of universal mind.'"
-from Psycho-Cybernetics
"'Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to "practice" new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again---your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.'"
-from Psycho-Cybernetics
'"If you really mean business, have an intense desire, and begin to think intensely about all angles of the problem---your creative mechanism goes to work---and the "scanner" we spoke of earlier begins to scan back through stored information, or "grope" its way to an answer. It selects an idea here, a fact there, a series of former experiences, and relates them---or "ties them together" into a meaningful whole which will "fill out" the incompleted portion of your situation, complete your equation, or "solve" your problem. When this solution is served up to your consciousness---often at an unguarded moment when you are thinking of something else---or perhaps even as a dream while your consciousness is asleep---something "clicks" and you at once "recognize" this is the answer you have been searching for."'
-from Psycho-Cybernetics
The Magic Of Believing, Psycho-Cybernetics, and The Act Of Creation all deal with unconscious processes, pictoral thinking, and problem solving.
"Yeah, I used to see notes, I used to visualize notes on paper in my mind and after I visualized it I wrote it down as I saw it in my mind."
-Brian Wilson
"Thinking in pictures dominates the manifestations of the unconscious---the dream, the hypnogogic half-dream, the psychotic's hallucinations, the artist's 'vision'."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"The features on which the beam (of focal awareness) alights are images of a pictorial or verbal nature, memories in abstracted, conceptualized, or distorted shape; in a word, they are past experiences internalized. The inner landscape may be regarded as a kind of private, miniature model---or caricature---of the world in the subject's brain-mind."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"Thus in some of the cases we have discussed, the solution is arrived at by a kind of 'thinking aside', a shift of attention to some feature of the situation, or an aspect of the problem, which was previously ignored, or only present on the fringes of awareness. The humorist may stumble upon it (humour) by chance; or, more likely, guided by some intuition which he is unable to define. This gives us a first intimation of unconscious processes intervening in the creative act....the bisociative act, in humour as in other branches of creativity, depends in varying degrees on assistance from fringe-conscious or unconscious processes."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"...a very distinguished writer named Arthur Koestler. And he after a lot of careful research and study and all that, in his life, he discovered that the human mind is broken up into three areas, three categories. First is humor, second is science---which he calls discovery, and the third is art. Now, the one thing that really blew me out about that book was that the first rule of ego is humor. So in other words when people get together they're more apt to want to be funny, you know, out of instinct and ego, than they are artistic or scientific, like intellectual, you know."
-Brian Wilson from the film I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
"The first is intended to make us laugh; the second to make us understand; the third to make us marvel. The logical pattern of the creative process is the same in all three cases...But the emotional climate is different in the three panels: the comic simile has a touch of aggressiveness; the scientist's reasoning by analogy is emotionally detached, i.e. neutral; the poetic image is sympathetic or admiring, inspired by a positive kind of emotion."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"It explains that people attach their egos to their sense of humor before anything else. After I read it, I saw that trait in many people."
-Brian Wilson on The Act of Creation
"At first sight there seems to be a bewildering variety of moods involved in different types of humour....but whatever the mixture, it must contain one ingredient whose presence is indispensable: an impulse, however faint, of aggression or apprehension. I propose to call this common ingredient the aggressive-defensive or self-asserting tendency."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"...when governed by the self-assertive class of emotions the ego is experienced as a self-contained whole and the ultimate value."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"The key word for Brian was humor. He would see the solutions to all problems in terms of humor. If people could laugh about things or feel good about things, you wouldn't have violence. You can't have humor and violence, really. I think that's the essence of Brian. It starts with humor, happiness, love."
-David Anderle
"When we laugh...the pleasurable relief does not derive from a consummatory act which satisfies some specific need. On the contrary: laughter prevents the satisfaction of biological drives, it makes a man equally incapable of killing or copulating; it deflates anger, apprehension, and pride."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"He (Brian Wilson) felt that the moment somebody laughed, that while they're laughing,
that all control was gone. They cannot control themselves.
And at that moment they can have a spiritual experience."
-Michael Vosse
"Laughter, as the cliché has it, is 'liberating', i.e. tension-relieving."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"...it (laughter) could arise only in a biologially secure species with redundant emotions and intellectual autonomy. The sudden realization that one's own exitement is 'unreasonable' heralds the emergence of self-criticism, of the ability to see one's very own self from outside; and this bisociation of subjective experience with an objective frame of reference is perhaps the wittiest discovery of homo sapiens."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"The less suggestive and the more implicit the joke, the more will the consumer's reactions approximate the producer's---whose mental effort he is compelled to re-create. When the witticism is transformed into epigram, and teasing to challenge, the overflow reflex for primitive emotions is no longer needed, and de-tension assumes more individualized and sophisticated forms; the roar of Homeric laughter is superseded by Archimedes's piercing cry or Kepler's holy ravings."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
The listener must solve!
"All mythology is studded with symbols, veiled in allegory; the parables of Christ pose riddles which the audience must solve. The intention is not to obscure the message, but to make it more luminous by compelling the recipient to work it out by himself---to re-create it."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"The history of science abounds with examples of discoveries greeted with howls of laughter because they seemed to be a marriage of incompatibles---until the marriage bore fruit and the alleged incompatibility of the partners turned out to derive from prejudice."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"Let me now turn from the creative person's emotional reactions to those of the audience, to the 'consumer's' point of view. Whether he listens to a joke, or reads a scientific work, or visits an art gallery, he is supposed to participate in the intellectual and emotional experiences of the 'producer'---to relive or re-create them."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"...the dream operates with a type of logic which is inadmissible in the waking state, and which, for precisely that reason, proved useful in critical situations where the matrices of conscious thought are blocked. Thus the illogicality and apparent naïveté of visual associations, or the indifference of the dreaming mind to convention and common sense, turned out to be of great value in forging new combinations out of seemingly incompatible contexts. All the bisociative mechanisms of the comic we found in the dream freewheeling as it were, without being harnessed to any obvious rational purpose."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"He's off in his vision, on a trip. Reality is gone; he's creating it like a dream."
-Brian Wilson explaining "Surf's Up" lyrics
"In my mind, I saw a surrealist enigma with a dream-like situation."
-Frank Holmes
"And, as far as I see it, it was my opportunity to provide the proper number of syllables that gave him (Brian Wilson) the imagery that he wanted to project in his very, I say, anecdotal music---music that becomes a rapture, a dream."
-Van Dyke Parks
"I worked mainly with the metaphor and allegory used in the lyrics which were related to me by Van Dyke."
-Frank Holmes
"Van Dyke Parks had written the lyrics that were...The lyrics were so poetic and symbolic, they were abstract..."
-Brian Wilson
My plan was to avoid the obvious and find an equivalent alternate representation....I used anything that would contribute to the inherent enigmatic quality of SMiLE."
-Frank Holmes
"Manifest Destiny, Plymouth Rock, etc. were the last things on his mind when he (Brian Wilson) asked me to take a free hand in the lyrics and the album's thematic direction."
-Van Dyke Parks
"Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts, and also for putting them into storage of memory; but words can also become snares, decoys, or strait-jackets."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"If they don't get the words, they'll get the music, because that's where it's really at, in the music. You can get hung up in words, you know. Maybe they work; I don't know."
-Brian Wilson
"I thought see...that one of the failures of the 'Smile' period---our working together---was the fact that the words were maybe too important or something. Or were given unnecessary importance."
-Van Dyke Parks
"The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings---of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse---whose union will solve the previously insoluable problem. The search for the improbable partner involves long and arduous striving---but the ultimate matchmaker is the unconscious."
~ Arthur Koestler from The Act of Creation
"All the work representing the ideas in SMiLE is meant to encourage investigation and reflection of the content and to stimulate thought with the music....The intent is to challenge thinking as in a puzzle."
-Frank Holmes
"Brian made it clear to me that he wanted to do something without restraint, or apology, or explanation to the rest of the group."
-Van Dyke Parks
You should tell no one!
"It cannot be too strongly emphasized that you should tell no one just what the words on the cards mean (your goal) nor give anyone an inkling of what you desire. To do so may end disastrously for you. When you get a better understanding of this science, you can understand how thought vibrations, consciously or unconsciously, because of envy or some other cause, may be set up to counteract your own."
-from The Magic Of Believing
"'The truth is that when you talk about what you're going to do, you scatter your forces. You lose the close connection with the subconscious, and you will frequently find that unless you do as here directed, you will have to start all over again in your program of achievement.
"Go and tell no man" still holds true.'"
-from The Magic Of Believing
The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969
SMiLE In A Nutshell
Brian Wilson had a spiritual experience while under the dream-like influence of LSD. Arthur Koestler's book The Act Of Creation asserted that similar dream-like states offer the best way to yield similar results. SMiLE's creative process incorporated Koestler's concept of 'bisociation' (associating one idea with two different contexts; necessary for humor, natural in dreams) the use of which resulted in an enigmatic irrational one-of-a-kind body of work. The project's dream-like design provided the proper setting for a spiritual experience.
We create when we dream. It tends to be a highly visual type of creation where seemingly unrelated characters and events from one's memory form strange combinations. Logic plays absolutely no role in this process. SMiLE was created using this 'something reminds me of something else but I don't know how or why' style of creation.
Brian Wilson attempted to represent his spiritual/religious psychedelic experiences musically. A feeling of spiritual rebirth and transcendence might conjure something akin to the first time Brian heard "Rhapsody In Blue" as a child--a variation on which might yield something like the "Bicycle Rider" music. Van Dyke Parks would then attempt to represent this music and subject matter lyrically using the same unconventional associative processes. Lastly, Frank Holmes would use the same style of creation to visually represent Van Dyke's lyrics.*
Koestler's bisociative method of dream-like association allowed the incommunicable spiritual experience to be representated via the creative process. Van Dyke Parks' and Frank Holmes' work for SMiLE centered mainly on the creative aspect of the project. Brian Wilson appears to have additionally been invested in the possible real world consequences of releasing an experimental psychedelic work such as SMiLE. Reading The Act Of Creation, The Magic Of Believing, and Psycho-Cybernetics likely gave Brian the impression that virtually anything could be communicated using the proper methods.
"After such an experience there is likely to be a powerful wish to communicate what has happened. Some of the psychedic art may be thus motivated."'
~Masters & Houston from Psychedelic Art (1968)
Bill Tobelman
*Note the vast amount of symbolic meaning, in a sort of Freudian dream analysis sense, inherent in the creation of SMiLE. SMiLE is full of meaning. By some strange coincidence an acid flashback "riddle" found in Brian's ghostwritten biography is similarly "full of meaning."
"As the buzz subsided into a manageable burned-out sensation,
I remembered Loren once explaining that hallucinations were comparable to Zen riddles,
mysteries full of meaning.
What had mine meant?
I had driven to the bookstore, looking for what? Inspiration? Instead I'd seen books melting, unable to grasp the knowledge contained in them.
If that was a riddle,
I wanted to know the solution."
-Brian Wilson from Wouldn't It Be Nice (1991)


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The goal with the images was to combine some traditional aspects of race day photography alongside a documentary approach to give comprehensive coverage of the events.
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This episode features a Seasoned Athlete first: this is the first time a guest is featured on this show for the second time! This week we talk to 73-year old Spartan Racer Marla Sweeney. We first featured Marla in a short Everyday Seasoned Athlete segment in 2017. This time around, she sat down with us for a full interview. Marla ran her first Spartan Race at age 70, and from then on she was hooked on racing. In 2018 alone, Marla completed 19 races, including 11 Spartan Races. She earned the coveted Spartan Trifecta – which is the completion of their three different race lengths in the same calendar year. Scratch that, she earned THREE Trifectas in 2018. Marla was recently featured in Runners World, she's become known as an inspirational figure within the Spartan Race community, and is a fixture at West Coast races.
In this interview, Marla catches us up on what she's been up to, goes in depth and gets a bit emotional about what living an active life has done for her, and talks about a big step she was taking to "spread her wings" as an obstacle racer.
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Reconsidering Sustainability
Dana Walden, Opinion Columnist
November 2, 2018
A few weeks ago, the Wire published a letter written by a former Whitman student, Vivian Voth, in which Voth details why she left Whitman. In her view, the college is not as sustainable as it could be, and such inaction warranted her transfer. Voth places most of the Whitman community's apathy on the col...
Student and Community Activists Respond to Limits in Contraceptive Care
Christy Carley, News Editor
April 12, 2018
The closure of Walla Walla General Hospital (WWGH) in July of 2017 left a hole in the healthcare system of the Walla Walla Valley. Beyond increased waiting times at other facilities, WWGH's closure also means limited access to reproductive health services in town – an issue that senior Politics Major Meg Ri...
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Alasdair Padman, Staff Reporter
March 8, 2018
Activist and poet Reverend Daniel Berrigan visited Whitman campus twice, once in the 1970s and again in the early 1980s. Each time, he directed a dramatic reading of "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine." Two years after his death, his political theater has returned to the Harper Joy Theatre under...
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March 1, 2018
Cecilia Menjívar is the co-director of the Center for Migration Research and professor in the sociology department at the University of Kansas. She studies immigration, migration and how immigration laws affect the lives of immigrants and non-immigrants alike. The Wire: In your research, what are s...
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Christy Carley, News Editor
February 8, 2018
Whitman's annual Women in Leadership Symposium will take on an expanded form this year. Centered around the theme "Identity and Leadership" the event will include a networking lunch and the opportunity for students to talk one on one with the six panelists in a drop in session from 2-4 in Reid G...
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October 31, 2017
On the morning of Monday, Oct. 9, Prentiss Hall custodians arrived at work to find that the portrait of Narcissa Whitman hanging in the Great Room had been defaced overnight. Accompanying the black spray-paint covering Narcissa's face was an anonymously-written note which reads: "In 1836, Marcus...
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April 27, 2017
Whitman has a respectable tradition of social justice and activism. As Whitties, we aspire to create the most comfortable and accepting environment for our fellow students. It is that ability to change that makes our community so cohesive and empathetic. This willingness to put our opinions up for c...
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April 6, 2017
Whitman Alumnus Judge James Robart '69 made national and international headlines earlier this year for blocking President Trump's so-called "Travel Ban." The Wire wrote about Judge Robart a week after the decision, and the Honorable Judge visited campus last Friday, March 31. During his vi...
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February 9, 2017
Whitman professors put on a political activism workshop in Olin Auditorium on Monday. Yann Dardonville, a first year Whitman student involved with Divest Whitman, said before the workshop that, "I hope to learn initiatives that I can join that are in the region, ways to approach political issues, ...
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November 2, 2016
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ARM's Cortex A76 CPU Will Clock At 3.3GHz With A 35% Power Boost And 33% IPC Gain As Company Directly Targets Intel
This year, it's all about ARM powering Windows 10 PCs, as several manufacturers have started to move in the direction. As ARM's Cortex cores start to increase in power and decrease in size, their capabilities are starting to prove more than adequate to perform everyday computing for the majority of users.
With this trend starting to show signs of early maturity, ARM has now launched its latest Cortex A76 cores. These represent a completely new microarchitecture over their predecessors, as ARM makes some massive upgrades this year. In fact, the company describes the processor as capable of meeting desktop requirements with the power efficiency of mobile chips.
ARM Launches The Cortex A76 With 35% Performance Boost, 40% Power Efficiency, And 4X Machine Learning Improvement; Brand New Microarchitecture Allows For Smoother Performance Over Predecessors
The Cortex A76 launch from ARM opens up a lot of dimensions for the company's designs. However, before we get into these, it's relevant to take a look at what's changed on the core over the year. In terms of basic numbers, the ARM Cortes A76 will offer a 35% performance boost and 40% power efficiency over a Cortex A75 clocked at 2.8GHz. The CPU will also reach up to 3.3GHz in frequency.
ARM has also increased L3 cache on the A76, by 2MB. The new L3 for the core sits at 4MB and is expected to offer at least twice the performance of the A73. As the A76 is expected to utilize 7nm and clock above 3.3GHz, both of these will contribute significantly to its performance gains. In addition, as mentioned above, the A76 also introduces a new microarchitecture – with this also contributing towards the aforementioned gains.
The Cortex A76 features an all new branch prediction unit. The branch unit now has twice the IPC of the fetch unit. This gives it a significant performance edge and allows the processor and the fetch to continue operations in case of a mispredict. The A76's CPU is also able to reduce cycles on instruction latency over the A75 and stay at par with Samsung's Mongoose M1.
ARM Aims Directly At Intel With The Cortex A76; Mike Filippo, Lead Processor Architect Outlines Intel As His Company's Biggest Rival
One big avenue that the Cortex A76 will target (or satiate), is performance requirements for Windows 10 PCs. ARM's head of Intellectual property Rene Haas outlined the A76 2x performance gain over the A73 used on current Windows 10 Always Connected PCs. One major drawback of these devices is their power – a fact that has also led to friction between ARM and Microsoft as the latter hopes to take on Google's Chromebooks.
ARM's lead processor architect Miki Filippo highlighted the A76's IPC gains over the A75 and A73. The A76 has a decode width of 4 IPC, a gain of 33% over its predecessor. Additionally, Filippo also claims that the 35% performance boost advertised by ARM represents the minimum gain for the processor. The A76 is capable of a staggering 90% performance gain for software which requires fast memory access. Of course, since there's still a good 10 months left before we see the A76 in the flesh, don't take these claims as an absolute fact.
Alongside the Cortex A76, ARM also announced the Mali G76 GPU and V76 video processor. The GPU is able to offer a 30% speed increase over its predecessor while the V76 is able to support 8K displays. ARM's strict focus towards comparing the A76 with the A73 demonstrates the company's eagerness to establish a strong presence in the notebook market. The sharks smell blood, Intel.
ARM's Big Promises With The Cortex A76 Hope To Directly Take On Intel; Will The Company Succeed In This Goal?
Mike Filippo also expects that the Cortex A76 will match Intel Core i5-7300 in performance terms and can also match the higher end Core i7 if equipped with more cache. Intel's inability to move towards 10nm and its insistence to continue refining the 14nm node are well known. Right now, it's the Apple/ARM camp that continue to make gains and while TSMC or Samsung's 10nm node is not similar to Intel's, it can achieve parity over the next couple of years.
Even as Intel's (and x86) lead is solid when we talk performance, Santa Clara's processors are notorious power hogs. It's this segment which holds the greatest potential of entry by ARM into the mainstream computing space. While ARM claims to have demonstrated a laser-like focus on microarchitectural improvements and detail on the A76, it still shouldn't be able to match Intel in terms of performance at least.
Even if it does, backward compatibility for the x86 ISA will have to be emulated and you can imagine the performance hit there. Additionally, Intel has decades of semiconductor experience and while x86's drawbacks or ISA impact on performance are debatable, a large chunk of the current freeze is rightly attributable to physics. While ARM can tinker around microarchitecture all it wants, beating physics will prove to be truly miraculous and therefore, completely, if not highly improbable.
Thoughts? Let us know what you think in the comments section below and stay tuned. We'll keep you updated on the latest.


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Cover Reveal - THE ROYAL RUNAWAY!
It's time to announce the secret that I've been carrying for so many months...
Yes, you may commence with the squealing and ooohs and aaahs. I won every book cover lottery, the stars were aligned, the feng shui was perfect, and my publisher clearly loves me the most of all the authors they've ever published, in the history of the world.
I'm not being cocky, my cover is just THAT GOOD.
Don't you want to instagram it? Model with it? Print it out and put it on a wall? (Believe me, you're welcome to do all those things!)
More than that, don't you want to READ IT???
Honestly, I can't wait for the world to read it. The early readers have been sent into a tizzy by this story of the aftermath of a #RoyalWedding gone wrong. THE ROYAL RUNAWAY is the story that I've always wanted to write - a perfect blend of suspense, romance and mystery.
THE ROYAL RUNAWAY is a princess story AND a spy story. It has kissing AND dead bodies. It has good and evil, tears and laughs. And kissing. Did I mention kissing?
Oh, you want to pre-order it? One-click here: Amazon. (And THANK YOU for pre-ordering. It helps my publisher know that people love my stories and want more of them!)
Make sure that you're signed up for The Inner Circle newsletter, where I will be sharing exclusive content and inspiration for THE ROYAL RUNAWAY in the months to come.
And as this will be a paperback book, I will also be doing book giveaways for my social media followers and newsletter subscribers so follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter!
As always, thank you for your support and excitement! I can't wait to see what the next few months bring!


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