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Skip to comments.It's a ga$! New study fuels fracking backing (Cuomo Supports It)
Posted on 07/24/2011 2:25:53 PM PDT by Coleus
Gov. Cuomo is hailing a new Pennsylvania study showing that the huge Marcellus Shale natural-gas field on the New York border could supply 25 percent of the nation's gas needs and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Cuomo -- who's weighing a late-June report by the state Department of Environmental Conservation concluding that controversial "hydrofracking" gas drilling could be done safely in most parts of the Southern Tier -- said the Pennsylvania report showed the enormous potential for job creation and economic development that the drilling offered New York.
"Assuming it can be done safely and is properly regulated, the economic reports from Pennsylvania show the potential financial and economic rewards from developing this industry," said Cuomo spokesman Joshua Vlasto. The new report, prepared by Penn State University researchers at the behest of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry-funded group, found that investment and production in the Marcellus Shale fields -- adjacent to New York's Southern Tier -- has been skyrocketing.
It found that gas production had quadrupled from 2009 to 2010 and that the number of wells brought into operation grew by 77 percent. The study estimated that gas production this year would rise by an additional 250 percent and that during the next nine years, Marcellus Shale production could
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Make that he's not stupid anymore. As Secretary of HUD (Dept of Housing & Urban Development) he pushed hard for increasing home ownership, which is code for forcing banks to accept dodgy borrowers. It was a factor (one of several) in the housing/debt boom and subsequent financial disaster which we are still digging out of.
He's also looking for ANY excuse to close Indian Point, the NY area's lone Nuclear Power Plant. It reportedly generates anywhere from 30-40 percent of the NYC area's electricity but was built way to close to densely populated areas. Closing it would be disastrous for consumers, but he still talks about it. Perhaps he thinks this will balance public opinion.
I think he's grooming himself to be president. The homosexual marriage law may hurt his chances.
It's the best job market up the road....particularly since we're FINALLY thinking twice about ethanol subsidies.
"Cuomo isn't stupid, this will help NY's economy by creating jobs and generating taxes. Like Chrisite, he instituted a 2% tax cap and cut the budget. "
Interesting...the Dems in NY and even nationally will have a much tougher time trying to stop a certified liberal from trying to help out this country than they'd ever have trying to stop a Republican. This may be fun to watch.
That 2% cap can be easily set aside by local TAX needs.
Interesting video on how fracking is done.
And people wonder why oil companies need so much money to produce oil and gas!
He see Wall Street moving people overseas and needs revenues.
"which is code for forcing banks to accept dodgy borrowers. It was a factor (one of several) in the housing/debt boom and subsequent financial disaster which we are still digging out of."
How come it's only here that I see somebody write that forcing banks to accept dodgy borrowers (a) happened, and (b) was a factor in the financial disaster?
Surely there must be more people than that who are aware of those facts, but the only thing I ever see or hear is "greed" — bankers, Wall Street, Republican fat cats, whatever.
Some very large portion of our population believes a lot of stuff that is just crap, and in a representative republic that is a recipe for disaster.
We must, absolutely must, start doing what the leftards did: get the word out by hook or by crook. Pamphleteer, pass out leaflets, have actual rallies, etc.
Hey, no one says we like him -- or even trust him. But he ain't stupid. New York needs the jobs and the tax revenue badly.
I am heartened at this. Upstate is desperate. Several thousand drilling jobs would be a real blessing.
And, as an extra added bonus, the inner-city liberals will be furious!
The best book I've read (and I've read several) about the buildup to and details of the crash is "The Sellout" by Charles Gasparino. It's out there, it's readily available, but to answer your question, it requires that a person be willing to obtain it and read 400 or so pages. The average voter's attention span won't allow that; neither will that of most MSM pundits.
Cuomoo is trying to set himself up for a run for the Presidency. He is a die hard liberal punk, pretending to be a pro-business pol.
A REAL stimulus would be giving people in the Northeast a tax credit to convert their dinosaur heating oil houses to natural gas. Cut a big chunk of our dependence on foreign oil, create an instant market for frack gas and increase the sales value of NE property-a win, win, win.
Wouldn't that cut Chavez out of his "charity" gig?
NE libs wouldn't want that to happen.
Actually, even better will be the heads exploding in Ithaca because Cornell (Berkely of the East) is right in the middle of the drilling area!!!!!!!!
I love it when liberals go violently insane!
Thanks Coleus.
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Yes it is... I have friends their and listen to Quinn and Rose in the neck of the woods on the web and the crime their is unbelieveable. Giving some of these kids that are ruff around the edges some of this hard work wouldn't be a bad thing at all....
Yes the dumb @$$ libs in the city think the fuel that cooks the steak at the high end resturants they eat at is from some magical place or are to shallow to see where and how and how much work is envolved as to how it got to the resturant. All they know is right now Fracking is bad. My gosh we have a nation devoid of critical thinking skills....
"My gosh we have a nation devoid of critical thinking skills...."
The typical liberal doofus may be dumb as a box of lead drinking cups, but the ones behind them are doing it on purpose to "coerce them out of their cars."
I've started reading "Control Freaks," and it's documenting that right out of the mouths of the leftards.
For all the cold satisfaction it gives me, I saw it coming back in about 1970 or 71.
Of course, whenever I brought it up everybody moved away from me on the "Group W" bench.
"The average voter's attention span won't allow that; neither will that of most MSM pundits."
I only have one functioning brain cell left, and there's quite a long waiting list to use it.
Tomorrow at 1300 I'm scheduled to remember the appointments I missed last Friday.
Crap links in that story. The link for the State study just returns to the story.
The EIA has updated that map showing larger fields.
I'm in the field or I would post the updated one.
you're welcome, what ping list is that of your?
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For Shale Gas only:
There is absolutely no reason for us to continue to struggle for energy in this country. Looks like the Antrim and Utica plays are being merged into one. (I'm in Michigan so that's my focus)
I'd love to see those maps overlayed with coal and oil as well.
It's called "The Usual Suspects", it's a.k.a. "It's News to Me". The lack of specific focus leads me to think, when I think about it and not something else, that it's a way of harnessing my undiagnosed ADHD.
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Representative Dan Benishek recently shared in the paper his views on firearms, a subject of considerable discussion across the country these days.
He spoke up forcefully for northern Michigan, noting that the responsible use of guns for sport and hunting is a way of life up here. The tradition of responsible gun handling and safety is handed down from each generation to the next and with such respect for firearms we can year after year have generally very safe hunting seasons with tens of thousands of people in the woods and very few gun injuries.
The key element of this activity is the proper emphasis of marksmanship, of developing the keen eye and steady hand in order to be able to drop a target with one round or two. Marksmanship is the essential skill for all shooting sports from hunting game to birds to skeet to trick shooting. This also holds true for people who simply wish to have a pistol for personal and family protection, being able to stop an intruder accurately if forced into such a situation.
Gun knowledge, training, and safety should be paramount across the country, as they are here in northern Michigan.
It is therefore disconcerting to know that 154 rounds in about two minutes was the firepower unleashed on 26 people in Newtown, Conn.
That rate of fire for a weapon system does not fit into any shooting sport or other lawful gun-related activity, including personal protection, so far as I can see. That kind of firepower properly has a place in only one human activity, namely, combat.
It has no place in civil society and such weapons systems (semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines) ought to be removed from the marketplace.
Of course, their ban would not eliminate the large numbers of them already out in society which have been aquired legally, but their elimination from the marketplace could contribute over time to fewer opportunities for tragedies like Newtown to recur.
In the hands of responsible owners and gun collectors, such systems as remain in society would be expected to pose minimal threat to anyone.
The Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 overturned the District's overreaching ban on handguns, and did affirm the individual's personal right to keep and bear arms.
The decision went on to note that the Second Amendment is not an absolute right but is subject to limitations by government with regard to types of weapons available to civilians, and to reasonable regulations to try keeping such weapons out of the hands of felons or citizens with mental impairments.
Machine guns have been banned since 1934 and some styles of 'assault rifles' were banned from 1994 to 2004. The Toomey-Manchin bill which recently failed to receive sufficient support in the Senate to be brought to the Senate floor would have expanded background checks for virtually all proposed gun purchases as part of the process to keep weapons from those who should not have access to them.
The bill also very specifically prohibited anyone from attempting to establish any kind of registry of gun owners. I am absolutely floored by the odd logic which attempts to morph this proposal for universal background checks (for which no notes or records can be kept by anyone once the check is completed) into a national registration system for guns and owners (expressly prohibited in the legislation) to the paranoid outcry that 'the government is coming to take our guns.'
Perhaps Rep. Benishek could explain or clarify further his views with regard to this line of reasoning.
I agree with Rep. Benishek about generating a conversation in this country with respect to enforcement of current gun laws and the state of mental health care.
Current laws certainly should be enforced to the fullest extent possible and I trust he is an advocate for full funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, including confirmation of a Director for the Bureau which has been without one for about six years.
This advocacy should extend to any and all other agencies, federal or state or wherever, which also have jurisdiction in this area.
None of the ideas which have been proposed during this national conversation or mentioned here would by themselves or taken collectively assure or guarantee there would never be a recurrence of a tragedy like Newtown.
Nor would any of them impair law-abiding responsible gun owners from their continued enjoyment of the various shooting sports or the individual desirability or necessity for personal protection.
However, such discussions could lead to a better balancing of Second Amendment rights with the rights of society to seek and establish better standards for public safety. By all means, let's keep talking.
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Finns learn trap net fishing
ALPENA – After spending six hours on Lake Huron, a group of visitors from Finland returned to port Wednesday with their haul: 5,500 pounds of whitefish and new knowledge about trap nets.
The group of eight went out with John Gauthier and Tom Spaulding to observe their methods for catching fish. Fisherman Sami Veneranta was among them, and said he was pleased to see the day's catch.
"It's really nice to see how things are going in this part of the world," he said.
The group watched how Gauthier and Spaulding handle their trap nets, which are different from the ones Finnish fishermen use, Veneranta said. They also discussed some of the shared problems fishermen in both countries have, as well as possible solutions to them.
Maria Saarinen, Livia College program director, arranged the trip after a Finnish fisherman asked about Great Lakes commercial fishers around two years ago. While Great Lakes trap nets are completely submerged, Finnish trap nets have nets leading up to the "pot" that extend all the way to the surface. This makes fishing in deeper waters impractical, and the netting material is expensive.
Saarinen contacted Ron Kinnunen, a Michigan Sea Grant extension educator for the Upper Peninsula.
"I found his name on the Internet," she said. "Because 'Kinnunen' is a Finnish last name, I thought I should email him."
Kinnunen called Gauthier and Spaulding to see if they'd be willing to show the visitors how they fish, he said. He also told them about how commercial fisheries market their whitefish, as well as food handling methods and safety standards.
Saarinen also needed to find a way to fund the trip, she said. It took her about a year and a half to do so, and some opposed them traveling so far when they could observe trap netters in closer locations. However, fishermen wanted to see the kind of traps Gauthier and Spaulding use, so the European Union financed the trip.
Trap netting also could help Finns who fish an inland lake to save an extremely rare kind of seal. Lasse Hyytinen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment fishery biologist, said gill nets, a different kind of fishing method, can kill the seals if they're caught in them. By switching to trap nets, commercial fishermen can help the seals and save their livelihood.
Fishermen in Finland have a shared problem with Michigan anglers: cormorants eating tons of fish, Hyytinen said. He was impressed to hear about efforts to control Michigan's double-crested cormorant population.
"Nowadays in the Baltic Sea, we have lots of problems with cormorants," he said. "You have a nice solution for that."
After Gauthier, Spaulding and their crew trucked the fish up to their processing plant in Rogers City, the group got to see how their machinery automatically cuts the fish into two perfect fillets, Spaulding said.
"They fillet by hand in Finland right now, so that's why they're interested in the machinery," he said.
Over the course of their visit, which lasted a few days, the group also visited the Department of Natural Resources' Alpena Fisheries Research Station, Saarinen said.
This wasn't the first time Gauthier and Spaulding shared their knowledge of trap net fishing with a group of foreign visitors. Last year, they took out a group from Norway to show them much of the same things.
"We like to advance our trap net fishery business in other areas, especially on the other side of the earth," Gauthier said. "It's so cool, especially because they don't fish our kind of nets (in Finland), so it's a great opportunity."
Gauthier and Spaulding enjoyed meeting more people from other cultures, they said.
"It's a pleasure to meet these folks. We're glad they could come over; they're welcome back to come and see us any time," Spaulding said.
Saarinen said she and her group were glad to come, too.
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Financing delays sale of power plant
ESCANABA – The company buying the Escanaba power plant underwent a recent financial setback but continues to work to close the sale as soon as possible.
An update on the power plant sale was presented to the public by City Manager Jim O'Toole during council's regular meeting Thursday. Council and the Electrical Advisory Committee had been informed on the status of the sale during a joint meeting the night before.
O'Toole said the company purchasing the facility – Escanaba Green Energy (EGE) – lost 10 percent of the project's funding when a financer backed out recently. EGE representatives are securing replacement funding and are confident they will get the deal closed in short order, O'Toole said .
For nearly a year, EGE has been negotiating with the city to buy the power plant for $1.6 million. EGE will also purchase the coal inventory. The company is seeking a $30 million loan to purchase the property and convert the coal-fueled facility to burn biomass.
EGE's site plan to convert the plant and construct a fuel storage yard and a processing facility was approved by the city planning commission in November.
Escanaba is selling the power plant because it is less costly for the city to purchase energy from a supplier compared to generating its own electricity by burning coal.
A special meeting of council and the EAC will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, to discuss the power plant issues.
In other business Thursday, council approved areas in the city being used for the Escanaba Sesquicentennial Celebration July 5-13. A variety of entertainment, activities, parades, and other events will be among festivities being organized by the Esky 150 Planning Committee.
Council approved Delta County entering into a fiber network service agreement with the city to provide data communication between the county and the county airport. The agreement is a savings to the county and is no cost to the city, said O'Toole.
The first public hearing on the city's upcoming preparation for the 2013-14 budget took place during Thursday's meeting with no public input. The next two public hearings will be held Feb. 21 and March 21 during council meetings at city hall.
In other business, council approved a three-year advertising contract with the Escanaba Daily Press.
During committee reports, council member Ron Beauchamp gave an update on Tuesday's meeting of the task force addressing homeless needs in the county. He said the committee received statistics on the area's homeless, reviewed zoning requirements, and discussed needs in the community.
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I'm new to this, so I'm not expecting that anyone tell me how to do it, just whether it's possible. If so, I'll continue to melt my brain with the docs.
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the steel cut about a minute off my bake time on a 18" NY style pie, not really a big deal, and at the very real risk of burning the bottom , YMMV. I'm not a broiler fan, so take that into consideration!
Looks good from above, any undercrust shots?
What's your typical bake time on the steel? Why don't you like the broiler?
Bake time on steel was in the 6-7 minute range for a large NY style pie. I don't like the broiler because it just adds another variable to the bake, and I make NY stlye pies which I don't want charred. I've never seen a NY style pie bake in a pizzeria under a broiler.


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I´ve done it bought my first car. Well I´m 43 and if I ever should get myself a car it should be now. The last 10 years I have ridden my bike to work every day (I guess it is 10 kilometer or so) in all kinds of Weather.
In Denmark half the year it is so dark and cold and humid. I never thought I should have this luxus in my life. Cars are very expensive in my country with taxes and everything. If so many people can take loans and buy the selves a car why not me. Off course in the summertime I will still ride my car.
Also I can a little longer in the morning.
Now I only need a woman in my life. I don´t think you can buy that anywhere.


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Garner, Alan
Alan Garner 1935–
British author of novels for children and young adults.
Garner's powerful novels demonstrate the enduring vitality of the themes of ancient myths. Though he recasts the time frame of the legend, he tries to convey its spirit intact so that "the life of the myth is handed forward." The Owl Service provides perhaps the best-known example of his technique: in it the three teenage protagonists find themselves trapped in an old pattern of passion, jealousy, and revenge, represented by the ominous flower/owl design on a china plate. The symbolism in the novel comes from the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh tales; the actual details of the plot are modern, Garner's own.
Some reviewers see more to reject than to praise in Garner's work. They point, for example, to the rather undeveloped characters in his stories who sometimes seem to exist merely to advance the plot. Some wonder whether Garner's books are not really written for adult critics. The response to Red Shift, a highly wrought story set in three different centuries and done almost entirely in dialogue, indicated that many readers did indeed think Garner would no longer publish for young adults. To such questions about the ability of young people to understand his work Garner has replied that he "[tries] to write onions," books that can be read at many levels of experience.
The layers of experience belonging to Garner himself seem to encourage him to write "onions." The child of country people in northwest England, Garner was the first of his family to attend grammar school and university, where he studied classical languages. He has felt his break from tradition very keenly; thus the theme of dislocation figures importantly in his work. Yet his linguistic training has made him more sensitive to the dialects his people speak, and has enabled him to give greater depth to his own language. His understanding of the social and natural history of his native Cheshire has only heightened the love of place which comes through vividly in those books he has set there. And his familiarity with myths of all cultures and ages has undoubtedly intensified his fascination with the elusive boundaries of time.
Among Garner's more recent works is the Stone Book quartet, a series told in a blend of modern standard English and the old Cheshire dialect, which follows certain members of a family across generations. Each of the four stories highlights a particular moment in its protagonist's life; each contributes to the appreciation and comprehension of the others, with the same love of land and of the cycle of life through them all. These books show the level of skill Garner has attained in writing modern myths, integrating all parts of his knowledge. He was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1967 and the Guardian Award in 1968 for The Owl Service. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76, and Something about the Author, Vol. 18.)
[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is Alan Garner's] first book and his great enthusiasm permeates his writing, making the book rich and sparkling with movement and people. The folk-lore of his native countryside forms a background for a jostling crowd of characters and drama. This is an all-round book where reality and fantasy are intertwined until they are indistinguishable. In his enthusiasm, however, the author conjures forth too many characters and too many names, and while some of the latter are mellifluous and haunting, others are ugly and confusing. The children's long chase and subsequent long drawn out flight tire and perplex the reader. Mr. Garner should, perhaps, have restrained himself a little and deleted some of the repetitive action and a few of the characters. (pp. 363-64)
"'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'," in The Junior Bookshelf, Vol. 24, No. 6, December, 1960, pp. 363-64.
Naomi Lewis
Elidor is the third long novel by a writer much involved with the meeting of ancient world and new: this, if the least wildly poetic, is also the most skilful of the three. It is ambitiously imagined and worked out with a hard economical tension: the reader is kept—except for some dazzling visionary moments—well on the present-day human side of the arena. It is, you might say, a reanimation of the Roland/Burd-Ellen legend in a modern industrial setting. There are cracks where the fabric of time and place is weak—and a Manchester bomb-site with a ruined church, already on the eve of demolition, is such a one…. The climax, a peak after chapters of mounting terror, is brilliant. The threads of myth make a nice unravelling. (pp. 748-49)
Naomi Lewis, "Other World," in New Statesman (© 1965 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. LXX, No. 1809, November 12, 1965, pp. 748-49.∗
[It] is clear that The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath have created for the author a reputation which will take a lot of keeping up. It will not be kept up by such hastily germinated hybrids as Elidor in which four Manchester children "break through" into a benighted kingdom in which, it seems, "light" can be restored only through their agency as the chosen. The individual incidents are exciting and stimulating but the balance of elements is less certain than before. One feels not only that the magic is too thinly and too...
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Roger Lancelyn Green
[The] technique of the great adventure with spiritual or allegorical undertones breaking through into everyday life has been employed …, with considerable success, by Alan Garner in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) and The Moon of Gomrath (1963). But here the adventure tends to grow too titanic, the powers to belong to a greater and more heroic world, such as that created by Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings; and exciting though the stories are, they tend to lose that sense of the actual and the credible…. (p. 272)
Roger Lancelyn Green, "New Wonderlands," in his Tellers of Tales (copyright 1946, 1953, 1956, © 1965 by Edmund Ward (Publishers) Ltd; reprinted by permission of Kaye and Ward Ltd), revised edition, Franklin Watts, Inc., 1965 (and reprinted by Kaye and Ward Ltd, 1969), pp. 269-79.∗
Margery Fisher
Holly from the Bongs is, to put it simply, a nativity play. It was written for the Cheshire village of Goostrey and performed at Christmas 1965 in the stable of the Crown Inn…. The effect of the book as a whole is overwhelmingly sincere and beautiful. You get the impression of a small, interdependent community with the freedom of the fields, of children being themselves and yet being partly translated by the feel of unfamiliar language and heightened emotion…. It is in the text … where Alan Garner has used local place-names freely. Cheshire is a county where mummers' plays still flourish, and he has offered such a play … as the shepherd's "present" to the infant Jesus—a bold stroke which links pagan and Christian stories in an extraordinary beauty of rhyme and prose. There is a delightful immediacy of local history here…. Everything is relaxed, friendly and yet hallowed—there is really no other word—by the depth of traditional feeling.
Margery Fisher, "After Christmas: 'Holly from the Bongs'," in her Growing Point, Vol. 5, No. 8, March, 1967, p. 864.
Timothy Rogers
[Holly from the Bongs] is one of the most delightful books I have looked at, read, listened to, for a very long time…. [It includes] the full text of the play, in which Alan Garner has skilfully included a Mummers' play based on traditional sources…. How lucky are the children of Goostrey; but how lucky are we also to share in this experience.
Timothy Rogers, "Fiction: 'Holly from the Bongs'," in The School Librarian and School Library Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, March, 1967, p. 106.
Some of [Elidor] is hilarious … some is harrowing, but it rarely rises above the level of formula fantasy. The obvious weaknesses are a...
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Philippa Pearce
Alan Garner's writing is marked by hard thinking and hard, fierce imagining. These have been brought to bear upon a distinctive choice of subject: the meeting-plane of two contiguous worlds. One is the world that most of us agree to describe, however inadequately, as ordinary, everyday, or by some such term. The other is the world of folklore and myth, dream and nightmare and vision. The wall between these two worlds is tough, but of less than tissue-paper thinness. Where the thinness can be worn into a transparency or where the unusual pressure of one world bursts its way into the other, there is the beginning of a Garner story.
In The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath,...
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Margery Fisher
On one level [The Owl Service] is a story of possession, in which accidents take on dual meanings and the Welsh landscape adds its own shut-in, brooding atmosphere. Alison's mother and Roger's father hope to consolidate their recent marriage and see their children making friends here in the valley. So quickly does the author establish these characters, particularly through subtly diversified class idiom, that you can see the stresses which will threaten the holiday hopes…. These stresses might have upset the surface amiability of the four in a week of wet days: the owl plates precipitate personal crisis and, as well, actual, frightening, inexplicable happenings. The real and the supernatural interchange,...
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Andrew B. Myers
In Alan Garner's story the moon of Gomrath rises over an unmistakably British countryside and over a hidden, ageless underworld of frighteningly evil powers and almost equally fearsome champions of the good…. ["The Moon of Gomrath"] jumps abruptly from one Tolkienish shiver to another, but there is a gripping power to these episodes of creeping horror, reminiscent of those in Charles Williams' adult novels of the occult.
Andrew B. Myers, "New Books for Young Readers: 'The Moon of Gomrath'," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1967 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), October 22, 1967, p. 62.
With his latest...
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Margaret Meek
Around [the children in The Owl Service], growing out of the wild countryside, its heroic ancient legends and its recent grim past, is woven a fantasy as moving as any in the tradition of imaginative literature. For younger readers the plot is a sequence of curious happenings consequent upon the finding in the loft of dinner plates with an owl pattern. A mystery, an historical fable, the interacting of past and present and a grim, tragic element involving the relationship of parents and children evoke in older readers the deepest responses of which they are capable and point to the superficialities of current formula fiction. Mr. Garner's chosen style is a balance of elliptical conversation and poetic imagery....
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Eleanor Cameron
Alan Garner's The Owl Service … reveals that he is not a man to rest on the laurels awarded him by those enthusiastic children who read with pleasure The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, and Elidor. For The Owl Service … is entirely different from his other three, having in common with them only that it is fantasy and takes off from legend. But because certain of Garner's tendencies as a writer are noticeable in all of his books and because these tendencies play an important part in the final effect of The Owl Service, it is rewarding to go back to the beginning and consider his work as a whole.
Garner is one who, from the start, has found his...
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Tony Watkins
Alan Garner's four novels find the source of their inspiration in non-classical mythology and all contain elements of fantasy….
For Alan Garner there are no original stories: 'originality now means the personal colouring of existing themes, and some of the richest ever expressed are in the folklore of Britain.' (Note to The Moon of Gomrath.) For example, Elidor combines the story of Childe Roland with, among other things, the Irish myth of the Tuatha Dé Danaan who came from the 'southern isles of the world'. The four treasures of Elidor closely resemble Nuada's sword, Lugh's lance, Dagda's cauldron, and the Stone of Fal which they brought with them to Ireland. But Alan Garner takes...
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Paul Heins
First published nine years ago, [The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderly] wears well and continues to reveal new riches…. The tense and often horrifying episodes of the plot are centered around the attempt, finally successful, to restore the weirdstone to Cadellin. As in Elidor, but perhaps not with the same balance, reality and fantasy are played against each other. The feeling for terrain and dwelling, for Gowther's dialect and humor, are earthy and of this world. But the inrush of beings familiar from Germanic and Celtic mythology and folklore add the richness as well as the terror of a bygone world to the everyday surroundings of the children…. However, "beauty and terror" are presented...
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Frank Eyre
[In The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, Garner] made use of much of the material of earlier attempts at creating contemporary sagas and it seemed likely at first that he was planning a sustained series. These stories of the knights bound in sleep until they can be wakened to fight the forces of evil have moments of strength, but are marred by uncertainty in their organisation, roughness in the writing and a general sense of unsureness of touch…. [They] are clearly prentice work and the author abandoned this vein when he moved on to stronger work. He is at his best with the natural surroundings of the stories, which are set at Alderley Edge in Cheshire, and at his worst with the...
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John Rowe Townsend
[Alan Garner's] books, though few, have had an extraordinarily powerful impact; they have been felt and not forgotten. (p. 108)
Because Garner's four novels came out at intervals of two and three years, they show their differences—and the author's development—more clearly than do the works of more prolific writers. Alan Garner has never stood still. His stories have become less complicated but more complex, less crowded but more intricately ramified. Action has become less crude but more significant. The later books are finer. Admittedly, even fineness has its price. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) was Garner's first book; it is complicated, crowded, full of crude action; and of its...
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Marcus Crouch
[The Weirdstone of Brisingamen] was a remarkable first book by a young writer but hardly a successful one. The narrative is confusing and confused, always whipping itself into a further frenzy of activity. The terms of reference are Norse rather than Celtic, and the Norse gods were always a complicated lot. There are some fine moments, mostly marred by a turgid style. Where the book excels is in the use of an actual landscape whose topography plays an essential part in the action and in relating the nightmares of the story to commonplace figures of the everyday world. (p. 126)
This skill in harnessing the modern scene and its inhabitants was more marked in Garner's Elidor (1965) where...
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Aidan Chambers
[Red Shift's] top tune—the main plot and the easiest to follow—tells of an intelligent, oversensitive teenager, Tom (his wit saves him from being an emotionally spotty bore), who lives in a trailer with his disagreeably possessive mother and weak-willed army pa (overworked stock characters in teenage fiction, but given some vitality and individuality here). Tom is in love with a better-balanced, equally intelligent girl, Jan.… The plot begins with Jan preparing to move to London, and Tom toiling in an emotional panic that reaches a volcanic climax when his parents ask if he and Jan have "had any occasion to do anything to make us ashamed of you."
In order to solve their separation the...
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Clara M. Siggins
"Red Shift" is a stranger than strange composite novel blending illusion and reality in a peculiar technique. Three stories are superimposed in a time-spliced, tension-packed package dealing with lovers and lunacy in what well may rival the mystery of a [Samuel] Beckett tour de force.
If a novel is supposed to be news about people, the news is garbled. The plot lines are as jagged as a flash of lightning in the distance and as illuminating. The nomenclature confuses too. The story goes back and forth among three men in three different periods of time. The most easily understood segment of the story is the twentieth-century Tom…. Tom is in love with Jan, who has had an affair with another man before...
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Michael Benton
Red Shift expresses the significance of place and the insignificance of time…. The significance of place is established through setting the narrative in three different periods in the history of a few square miles of Cheshire countryside around the village of Barthomley, Mow Cop and Crewe: the insignificance of time is suggested by the way the author interweaves the narrative's contemporary strand about the relationship of Tom and Jan, with the story of Thomas and the other villagers from the seventeenth century and that of Macey and his splinter group of Roman soldiers from the Ninth Legion. The shifts from one strand to another are managed skilfully such that while one is kept busy associating characters...
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Expect a lot, and you won't be expecting too much, of The Stone Book by Alan Garner…. It is a miniature masterwork and, like all great miniatures, is staggering in what its limits contain….
[It] re-establishes the boundaries of what can be done in the pre-novel form, and it shows Garner to be totally in command of his art. The prose is assured, precisely right, without flaw; the story itself has an emotional poise that up till now has not been present in Garner's writing.
Pelorus, "Notebook: 'The Stone Book'" (copyright © 1976 Aidan Chambers; reprinted by permission of the author and The Thimble Press, Lockwood Station Road, South Woodchester, Glos....
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Lance Salway
The Stone Book is rich with detail of the stonemason's craft and with the eloquent dialect of its Cheshire setting. But, unlike the stone which is its theme, this is a bleak, austere story; one may admire the precise style and even the self-conscious parade of unfamiliar vocabulary, but one remains unmoved by the characters and their preoccupations.
Lance Salway, "Little Boy Found," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1976; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 3890, October 1, 1976, p. 1241.
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Penelope Farmer
[Short] though it may be, this small precise poem of a book [Tom Fobble's Day], is not simple.
In the past I have found Alan Garner too conscious of his own brilliance. Here his cleverness is nearer understanding. The book is about doing and becoming (and not always avoiding danger in the process); about belonging—to people, to landscape, to their shared past; above all about that total loving attention to substance that is not only the beginning of poetry, meditation even, but also the beginning of true making, whether of a building, or as here, of a sledge.
The import of Tom Fobble's Day, as of The Stone Book, is that to see substance properly is to...
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Aidan Chambers
Something has happened to Alan Garner. He is never a predictable writer, and one can never be sure just what he will produce next. But one thing has so far been common to all his work: It has been emotionally overcharged. (With the exception, I hasten to say, of his nativity play, Holly from the Bongs, all too little known, and a gem.)
To put it in crude critical shorthand, Garner's work has so far lacked balance. One always felt the tremble of incipient hysteria: all those dark elemental forces about to break out and swamp one in their destructive power. And usually they did so at some point in each book….
[I've] noticed before that Garner has the knack of confounding his...
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Margaret Meek
Rarely have I been more moved by a story [The Stone Book] and the telling of it. To hold a class—any age—absolutely spellbound you read the passage where Mary climbs the church steeple to the top where her father, a stonemason, sets the weathercock and she swings round on it. Mary's lesson lies under the landscape she sees from the spire, in the stone quarry. She learns from men moulded by their craft. The language is like the theme, hewn out of the wisdom of use. A quite remarkable book….
Margaret Meek, "Seven to Eleven: 'The Stone Book'," in The School Librarian, Vol. 25, No. 3, September, 1977, p. 241.
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Margery Fisher
Alan Garner's stories, The Stone Book and Tom Fobble's Day, are not poems but they have the overtones, the power to stir and engage the imagination, which we expect from poetry….
The simplicity of Tom Fobble's Day is a matter of uncomplicated syntax and a direct, concrete vocabulary. At the most obvious level this suits a story of one winter day in which a boy whose sledge is Tom Fobbled [a ritual borrowing] and then broken, visits his grandfather, the local "whitesmith and locksmith, and blacksmith too", and achieves a new and far better sledge, the last of the old man's handiwork. (p. 3207)
[The theme of the book is] the continuity of work, family and the...
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Peter Fanning
[Despite] the odd suspicion that Mr. Garner is showing off …, there remains the sense of an age gone by, that still lives on in the Garner Quartet.
Granny Reardun forms the lynchpin between its predecessors. Poised between worlds of quarry and forge, it traces a progress from Stone Age to Iron; from stone getters to brick setters, from monoliths to machines. The world is changing and Iron's "aback of everything".
But the view is tinged with retrospective irony. For the young Promethean who tells his grandfather "I'll not cut stone" is surely the grandfather who closes his smithy two generations later in Tom Fobble's Day. Time and tide wait for no man, but nor do they...
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Margaret Meek
To distil the message from Alan Garner's quartet of books which, so far, includes The Stone Book, Tom Fobble's Day, and now, Granny Reardun, the reader has to locate himself in the landscape at a point in time. Chronologically Granny Reardun comes before Tom Fobble's Day, but each, in Alan Garner's terms, is its own onion of craft, time, place and family. Time is caught in stone walls and steeples made by Joseph's grandfather, so that when Joseph at the beginning of Granny Reardun lies on a hill and watches a family moving out of its house, which later provides stone for his grandfather to finish a wall, history turns. Joseph's decision to be a smith ushers in a new era....
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Bob Dixon
The creation of other worlds … leads, naturally, to a preoccupation with landscape and terrain…. [This] is a natural development but in the case of Garner it's something more than this. All his work shows a strong, mystical sense of place….
Often, as in Garner and [Ursula K.] le Guin, there's a strong sense of a vague, disembodied but menacing force which is just hovering around waiting to be loosed, a process which might be as accidental as springing a trap. This is very noticeable in Garner. (p. 146)
[Class antagonism and manipulation] is in its most obvious and usual form in Garner's The Owl Service: it's strange that very few people seem to have noticed that this...
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Tony Watkins
In Red Shift (1973), pattern is all-important. The prose is lean and meaning elusive: the outline of patterns delicately traced (as in the axehead that links the levels of the story) is what remains in the mind after reading the novel, together with many questions and puzzles. Time past and time present mingle, resonate, and finally coalesce. As in the previous books, the past is never lost: it may be overlaid perhaps, but, looking carefully, one can still distinguish the old lines, the old tracks, and here they lead to the sacred places, the centres of energy at which people worship: sacred mound and church stand close by one another in Red Shift.
The forces at work are transmuted and...
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Margaret Meek
The order in which the stories of Alan Garner's quartet appear may confuse those who like their genealogies well ordered. But the young should be encouraged to read them as soon as they appear. Like memories, they are reworked in the head after their impact as events. The Stone Book is still for me the foundation of a literary experience of great power. Tom Fobble's Day and Granny Reardun keep the clarity and precision, particularly of time, place and persons…. Garner has made his text as clear as the sky and as hard as frost…. This is archetypal children's literature in our day. (pp. 41-2)
Margaret Meek, "Seven to Eleven: 'Tom Fobble's Day' and 'Granny...
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Ralph Lavender
There are many close encounters in store for the reader of Alan Garner's work, and this is certainly true of [The Aimer Gate]. The language is cut concisely, the style exact and easy like a kind of music….
These books [of the Stone Book quartet] stand somewhat like four movements of Vivaldi's music. And there is music in everyone, an ophicleide or a cornet, and always a song. Although appearing last, The Aimer Gate is third in time and even in classic sonata form, the story of Chorley 1860–1940. But there is far more time than 80 years aback of Chorley. Two of the first ages of men, stone and iron (the later in Granny Reardun), were long ago; and they run through the village...
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Edward Blishen
[The books in Alan Garner's quartet] are the longest short books I've ever read; and I mean that in their quite exhilarating concision they cover, and carry the delight of eighty years (from c1860 to c1940) in the life of a family in Alan Garner's own corner of the world, Alderly Edge in Cheshire. A succession of grandads, fathers, youths, Josephs and Roberts and Williams, they work in stone and wood and metal. Work, and the mysteries of work, are of supreme importance.
In the first book, The Stone Book, Mary's father is capping the steeple of the new St Philip's Church…. There's an account of working in stone, of the able magic of it, that's echoed in the last book, Tom Fobble's Day,...
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Samuel Pickering
In his Stone Book quartet, Alan Garner traces the lives of four generations of a working-class family in Chorley, a Cheshire village. Sentimental primitivism pervades Mr. Garner's books. His characters are by place possessed, and nostalgia for lost occupations and identities weighs heavy….
The Stone Book Quartet is gracefully written and at times wonderfully provocative. Frequently Mr. Garner uses old-fashioned words whose sounds convey their sense. Mystery abounds in the books, and events are frequently hazy. Mr. Garner's symbols are rarely clear, and he forever appeals to the creative imagination. At times his books resemble [William] Hazlitt's distant objects. Placed in shadows beyond the...
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PATRICIA McMAHON
[As William Butler Yeats] saw the gray and grimy streets of Dublin give birth to a "terrible beauty," so Alan Garner shows that the complacent lives in a Manchester suburb can be intertwined with a "terrible beauty" [in Elidor]. With deceptive simplicity, Garner tells of the battle for the good—the light—in the world called Elidor and how that battle can hinge on the tenacious belief of a Manchester child named Roland. (p. 328)
Alan Garner is celebrated for his use of mythology, which he calls "spiritual gelignite" and "distilled and violent truth," phrases which may be analogous to Yeats's "terrible beauty." Garner takes the background for Elidor from several sources. The name...
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Although jailbreak hackers of Apple's devices has proven that it is possible to use Siri on older iPhone, iPod and iPad devices, officially Apple only wants Siri on its latest iPhone 4S handsets. The limitation seems to be completely artificial, but it makes a lot of sense for Apple to not let Siri onto devices used by the masses.
Following reports about unauthorized enabling of Siri on older devices, a software designer proposed Apple to release a special version of iOS 5 for older smartphones, players and tablets with Siri support. The version was supposed to cost around $20 and add support for the highly-advertized Siri voice control capability of the iPhone 4S to older devices by Apple. However, the company does not want to do this.
"Engineering has provided the following feedback regarding this issue: Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices," an email sent by Apple to software developers Michael Steeber reads.
The limitation seems to be artificial as Siri could be enabled easily on the iPad 2, which has the same A5 system-on-chip as the iPhone 4S. But it looks like the company has reasons to limit the capability to only one device. Siri relies not only onto the internal hardware of the iPhone 4S, but also onto Apple's datacenters. In case there are too many requests to those datacenters, they may not be able to handle all of them and fail.


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The Chelsea's famous signage. (photo: Mr. Littlehand/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
"The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe. I wandered the halls seeking its spirits, dead or alive."
~Patti Smith, from Just Kids
The musician and poet lived in the hotel during the 1970s with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and called the place her "university." The Chelsea opened in 1884 as one of New York City's earliest cooperative apartment houses, and, two decades later, it was turned into a hotel. Other cultural icons like Sid Vicious, Dylan Thomas, O. Henry, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs, and Bob Dylan (who, in the lyrics of "Sara" wrote, "Staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel, writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you"), also called this historic New York landmark home.
Hotel guests were asked to leave on August 1st, and no new reservations will be accepted as ownership changes hands and their doors close on an era of art, poetry, and music. The future of current residents is uncertain.
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Feb. 17, 2003
NEWS: Ashley Ladlie, of Fort Dodge, received a $500 scholarship from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
SPORTS: Eagle Grove beat Clarion-Goldfield 51-40 in girls basketball.
Feb. 17, 1988
NEWS: The Fort Dodge City Council unanimously approved Ivan Metzger as assistant chief of police.
SPORTS: The Dodger boys won their 16th straight basketball game, 92-71 against Sioux City East.
Feb. 17, 1963
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Expert Comments:
Over the years, the PCGS Set Registry has grown from a mere 1,700 sets registered at the end of 2001, to over 63,000 today. With that, the number of awards we issue has grown. It's crazy for us to only recognize a few great collections, when there are hundreds of outstanding sets registered. And so, this year, 157 sets and collections are receiving major awards and 2,503 sets are receiving a "Best of the Registry" nod. To all winners we say, "Congratulations!" And to all participants in the PCGS Set Registry we admire your passion and hope that you continue to enjoy your pursuit of numismatic excellence. Thanks for sharing your wonderful collections with us!
David Hall
Collectors Universe President, PCGS Founder
Best Classic Sets (1792 to 1964) of 2012
Simpson - Lincoln Cents Off-Metal Strikes, Circulation Strikes (1943-1944)
This is a phenomenal set of coins, put together by the super-collector "Simpson" (who also owns the finest set of U.S. Patterns, $10 Indians, Half Dimes, and so much more). Simpson's Off-Metal Lincoln Cent Set includes six coins that everyone dreams of owning: 1943 Bronze Cent, 1943-D Bronze Cent (UNIQUE!), 1943-S Bronze Cent, 1944 Steel Cent, 1944-D Steel Cent, and 1944-S Steel Cent. No one in numismatic history has ever completed this short, but very sweet, set.
Best Modern Sets of 2012
Goldminer's Collection - Silver, Gold & Platinum Eagle Complete Set, Circulation Strikes and Proof (1986-present)
(Note that the award includes the 4 sub-sets in this collection which are ranked #1.)
What a fabulous set! Goldminer's Collection has an example of every single Mint State and Proof Silver, Gold and Platinum eagle in every possible denomination of $1, $5, $10, $25, $50 and $100. This set has definitely taken a lot of time and patience to complete, but in the end, it looks like it all paid off as this collector has one amazing set.
eyeappealing 1 - Lincoln Cents Complete Variety Set, Proof (1950-1958)
Eyeappealing 1 did a fabulous job of finding some great examples of Proof Lincoln cents from the 1950s. His set includes several of the finest coins of Proof Wheat Lincoln cents in existence. Some dates are very rare with Cameo or Deep Cameo surfaces including the 1953 Proof Lincoln cent. Eyeappealing 1 managed to acquire a 1953 in PR65 with the rare Deep Cameo designation for this very tough issue.
Best Mint and Proof Sets of 2012
Best Colonials, Private Issues & Territorial Gold and Patterns Sets of 2012
Best Low Ball Sets of 2012
Pocket Piece - Complete U.S. Type Set, Low Ball (1792-1964)
(Note that the award includes the 2 sub-sets in this collection which are ranked #1.)
While most collectors try to find the BEST coins, this collector seeks the WORST examples of each type. Since last year, the owner added a Gobrecht Dollar (a "shameful" Proof-6, now the highest graded coin in this set). If you know of a low grade 1792 Half Disme, you have a ready customer, as that is the one and only coin needed to complete this set. One of the biggest complaints we hear from collectors of Low-Ball sets is the difficulty in finding poor condition coins that are gradeable. To achieve a GPA of 2.03 is incredible.
Friends in Low Places - Liberty Nickels, Low Ball (1883-1912)
What a crappy set...and we mean that in a good way! Not only is this set 100% complete but it has an incredibly low GPA of 1.79, down from last year's 1.88. We like the owner's comment: "Imagine all the places these "Friends" have been and the happiness they gave when they were spent." Collecting is not just about coins, but the stories they tell.
Sourdough (End of the Trail) - Morgan Dollars, Low Ball (1878-1921)
(Note that the award includes the 5 sub-sets in this collection which are ranked #1.)
Sourdough has definitely taken low ball collecting to a new level. His Morgan sets are not only the lowest grade ever assembled, they are the lowest grade by a large margin. Not only does Sourdough have the "best" low ball Morgan dollar complete basic set (again by a large margin), he also has the best Carson City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco low ball sets. Morgan dollar low ball collecting is quite challenging and Sourdough has done a remarkable job of building his low ball sets.
Jimmy Austin's Best of the Worst - Peace Dollars, Low Ball (1921-1935)
Like the Morgan set, the Peace dollar set is very challenging when you get to the really low grades. This set has an average grade of 1.47 and no coins in the set are higher than FR02!
Best Everyman Sets of 2012
Mi¢hael Hassler, Master Sergeant, USAF, Retired Combat Air Crew Member & Vietnam Veteran - Everyman Indian Cents (1859-1909)
Everyman Sets are a relatively new category and include only circulated examples. A perfect score is a GPA of 58 (the highest grade assigned to circulated coins by PCGS). This set is 100% complete and 100% perfect. We know how difficult it is to complete sets like this...we've had customers tell us they would accept an AU58 grade on an otherwise Mint State coins (which, of course, we will not do). Sergeant Hassler has completed the very difficult mission of ferreting out the right coins. Congratulations.
Joseph M. Wojteczko (Beancounter I) - Everyman Barber Dimes (1892-1916)
Barber coins are very difficult to find in nice AU condition. Seems like all survivors are in either Good or Mint State condition, with very few in-between. Beancounter has done a great job of building a complete set of AU Barber dimes.
Best Asian Sets of 2012
Yomibro's Collection - Republic of China Silver Dollars, Circulation Strikes (1912-1934)
Republic of China Silver Dollars (Yuan) Design Set, Circulation Strikes (1912-1934)
(Note that the award includes the sub-sets in this collection which is ranked #1.)
Thanks to big improvements in the Chinese economy, collectors in China are eager to repatriate many of their coins. Because of their size, Silver Dollars are eagerly sought-after. Apart from a few issues that enjoyed large mintages, many of the types are very scarce to downright rare, especially in unmarred, choice condition. This combination of demand and rarity has created an explosion in prices and, frankly, finding worthy examples has become nearly impossible. The Yomibro's Collection is a standout.
GDH - Panda Gold 10 & 50 Yuan (1/10oz), Circulation Strikes (1982-present)
This is a complete set of 1/10 ounce gold Chinese Pandas, and every single one of them is either MS69 or better. Most of the coins were purchased out of the market, but this collector also "made" a few of his own.
Ted Wydeven, Sr. (T&JW) - Japanese Gold Denomination Set (1870-1932)
This is a complete denomination set of Japanese gold coins, ranging in denomination from the small 1 Yen to the larger 20 Yen. All of the coins are Gems and three are Top Pops. This is the seventh year this set has been honored. 100% complete with an upgraded GPA of 66.00.
Jerusalem Collection - Palestine Complete Set, Circulation Strikes (1927-1946)
(Note that the award includes the 6 sub-sets in this collection which are ranked #1.)
According to the owner, this set began almost 25 years ago, and the set is being improved at every available opportunity. This year, the completion level increased to 98.31% and the GPA increased slightly to 63.33. A beautiful set with every coin imaged by "Trueview Photography."
Best European Sets of 2012
Caranett - Belgium Gold 20 Francs Date Set, Circulation Strikes (1865-1882)
This is the third award for this impressive set. The Belgium 20 Franc has long been considered a bullion type coin, thus little attention was paid to collecting high grade examples. Every coin is a Top Pop except for the rare 1869, where only one coin is better.
Caranett - French 20 Francs Gold Angel, Circulation Strikes (1871-1898)
A wonderful set of 20 Francs from the last part of the 19th century. Many of these coins are difficult to locate in any grade, so achieving 100% completion is difficult and doing so with an overall GPA of 64.93 is an even greater feat. Congratulations!
Gray/Huber Dream Set - German States 3 Mark Type Set, Proof (1908-1918)
This is a virtually complete set of 3 Marks from the German States, lacking only the ultra-rare Saxony ("Frederick the Wise"). The overall condition is simply amazing. Virtually every coin is either a Top Pop, an extreme rarity, or both. This is one of those sets that would be impossible to replicate, even with unlimited resources. As of this writing, the set is 97.22% complete and the overall GPA is 67.48.
The Sheffield Collection XII - German 1/2 Mark Date Set, Circulation Strikes (1905-1919)
This is a date set, where collectors submit the finest date/mintmark combination for a given year. Germany utilized a lot of different mints each year, so a complete collection of Half Marks is very difficult to accomplish (but Sheffield is trying that, as well). This set is 100% complete, with an overall GPA of 66.35.
Larry Gray - German 3 Reichsmark Commemoratives Date Set, Proof (1925-1932)
From the team who built the incredible German States 3 Mark Type Set honored earlier, Larry Gray has now attacked the 3 Mark Proofs from the Weimar Republic. In typical fashion, he sought out the finest available examples of each type. In this case, the set is 100% complete, every coin except for two is a Top Pop, and many are unique for the grade. Each coin in this set has a different commemorative design, making it visually appealing.
Talmar12 - German 5 Reichsmark Potsdam Church without Date, Circulation Strikes (1934-1935)
This is a deceptively difficult set, not to complete, but to locate in high grade. In this set, 7 of the 12 coins are Top Pops, including an AU58. The 100% completion and the 62.65 GPA is going to be hard to beat.
Spencer Collection - British Gold Type Set, Elizabeth II (acc. 1952)
This is the fifth annual award for this remarkable collection of British gold coins bearing the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Included are many Top Pop coins, plus the incredibly rare VIP sovereign of 1958.
Caranett - British George V Sovereign Date Set, Circulation Strikes (1911-1932)
Sovereigns are very popular coins issued by Great Britain for several countries under the British Empire (one of which was Australia). This set contains one coin of every year from 1911 to 1932 inclusive. The average grade is a whopping 64.98, a stunning accomplishment given that virtually every coin in this set is a Top Pop – and many are quite rare, to boot.
The Threadgold Collection - British Elizabeth II Sovereign Date Set, Circulation Strikes (1957-present)
This is a fairly large set that requires constant attention because of the new issue that comes out each year. This set is 100% complete, with a GPA of 65.10. Some of the coins are unique, Top Pops!
J. Preidis RN - British Elizabeth II Half-Sovereign Date Set, Circulation Strikes (1982-present)
This set has been on our radar for quite some time, having won awards every year from 2005 to date. This year, the set gets a Gold Award for being 100% complete, with a GPA of 67. The owner does a good job of adding to the set each year and/or upgrading when possible.
Sulo Collection - British Complete Third Farthing Date Set, Circulation Strikes (1827-1913)
These tiny copper coins were issued in the 1800s and early 1900s to circulate in Malta. This set is not only 100% complete, but the GPA is 64.50, ranging in grade from MS62 to MS66. A very impressive set.
Kristoffer Dorado Zorilla (KDZ) - British Elizabeth II 2 Pounds Silver Britannia Date Set, Proof (1997-present)
This set consists of some very lovely "takes" on Britannia, all in Deep Cameo Proof, and virtually all in Proof 70. Every coin is a Top Pop.
Caranett - Italian 20 Lire, Circulation Strikes (1880-1897)
Caranett has award winning sets in other World gold categories, so a great set like this is not unexpected. As with Caranett's French 20 Francs set, this one is hard to complete and difficult to find in top grades. Here again, Caranett has accomplished 100% completion at a GPA level of 63.87. Most impressive!
The Sheffield Collection XIX - Swiss 1/2 Silver Franc, Circulation Strikes (1850-1967)
This is a remarkable, 100% complete collection in super-high grade. Many of the coins are Top Pops and quite a few are unique for their grade. Assembling this collection was quite an accomplishment. Last year, we predicted a higher GPA for this set, since the owner is still active and we were right. The GPA went from 65.24 to 65.28. Not much of a move, but it's hard to upgrade the best of the best.
The Sheffield Collection XX - Swiss 1 Silver Franc, Circulation Strikes (1850-1967)
This is a large, comprehensive set of Swiss 1 Francs, each coin the size of a US Quarter Dollar and often equated with the US Barber Quarter series. The owner has done a great job of filling in most of the holes with high-grade examples. As with Sheffield's ½ Franc set, we expect this set to get better every year.
Bill Goode (WJG Swiss Shooting Talers) - Swiss Shooting Festival Commemoratives, Circulation Strikes (1842-1939)
An outstanding set of Swiss "Shooters" that is one coin shy of completion and which has an overall GPA of 64.62. This is a remarkably high level considering that most of the coins are from the 1800s! If you're not familiar with these coins, check them out. They are good-sized coins that all have interesting designs.
Rod Moore Schützenfest - Modern Thalers - Swiss Shooting Festival Commemoratives 50 Francs (1984-present)
This set of Swiss "Shooters" reprises a tradition that began in the mid-1800s of celebrating shooting competitions. These are beautiful coins of very low mintage, made for sale to collectors. This set is complete and includes numerous Top Pops and unique condition-rarities. Overall GPA: an amazing 68.82, an improvement over last year's rating.
Tryzub - Ukraine Commemoratives Gold 2 Hryvni (2003-Present)
Ukraine, like many countries, has issued modern commemorative coins that are popular with collectors. This set is 100% complete and 100% Top Pop!
Caranett - Multi-Country British Commonwealth Sovereigns Complete Set Victoria (Jubilee Head ), Circulation Strikes (1887-1893)
Apart from being a complete set of Victorian sovereigns, this set deserves special recognition because of the difficulty in locating the Australian versions in Mint State. This year, the overall GPA increased slightly to 61.91.
Best North American Sets of 2012
Spencer Collection - Bermuda Hogge Set, Proof (1989-1990)
This modern set consists of eight gold coins, each with a mintage of only 500 pieces. This set caught our eye because the designs on the coin incorporate the rare Somers Island "Hogge" Money from Colonial times.
Northern Lights Collection - Canadian Complete Type Set, Circulation Strikes (1858-1967)
This is an impressive type set from a country with a very active collector market. This one is 100% complete, but even more impressive because of the high, overall quality. Many of the coins are Top Pops and unique for the grade. They are not only best for the date, but best for the type, as well.
Lantern Collection - Canadian Coins Complete Set, Circulation Strikes (1858-1952)
We've honored this set ten years in a row. A walk through this set is a journey through some of the most amazing Canadian coins ever assembled. Previous owners of some of the coins include Norweb, Pittman and Belzberg, all famous names in the Canadian market. The overall GPA is a remarkable 62.97, a slight improvement over last year's rating.
Willamette Collection - Canadian Large Cents, Circulation Strikes (1858-1920)
A phenomenal collection, 100% complete and replete with full Red Canadian Large Cents from 1858 to 1920. This set is a huge accomplishment that took a lot of effort, stealth, and appreciation for numismatics to complete. Many of the coins are pedigreed to Norm Pullen and the Belzbergs, both familiar names to collectors of Canadian Large Cents.
Lantern Collection - Canadian Elizabeth II Silver Twenty-five Cents, Circulation Strikes (1953-1967)
This set illustrates the difficulty of locating otherwise common coins in high grade, which is one of the important factors in evaluating Registry Sets. The overall GPA is nearly 66 and the set includes numerous, unique Top Pops.
Southern Cross - NF Complete Set, Circulation Strikes (1865-1947)
This set, now 100% complete, is a tribute to perseverance and determination. It's also proof that you don't need a million dollars to put together a meaningful collection of coins. This is a comprehensive set that should be even better next year (this year's overall GPA increased to 53.83 from 52.50).
Virginia Transplant- Cuban Peso, Circulation Strikes (1915-1953)
A nice set of the silver-dollar sized coins from this Caribbean island nation. Top grade examples are hard-to-find, but there are several exceptional coins in this set. At 100% complete, this set has an overall GPA of 63.64.
Virginia Transplant - Cuban Complete Gold Peso Set, Circulation Strikes (1915-1916)
This is a complete set of gold coins from Cuba, including all denomination from 1 Peso to the large 20 Pesos. More than half of the coins are Top Pops. An impressive accomplishment.
FABG - Dominican Republic Early Republic, Circulation Strikes (1844-1897)
This set gets an award for being 100% complete, and we're hoping to see improvement in the coming years. Many of the coins in this set appear to be common based on catalog values, but are surprisingly difficult to obtain in real life. That's the challenge of collecting.Best Mexican Sets of 2011
mission4906 - Mexican "Caballito" Peso Complete Variety Set, Circulation Strikes (1910-1914)
The "Caballito" Peso is a large silver coin issued by Mexico from 1910 to 1914. This set is complete, including the ray varieties of 1911 and the 1913 overdate. 100% complete with a GPA of 61.44.
Best Oceania Sets of 2012
Caranett - Australian Edward VII Sovereigns, Circulation Strikes (1902-1910)
This set caught our eye because 1) it is complete, 2) the GPA is an impressive 63.52, 3) most of the coins are Top Pops, and 4) there are a lot of gold coins in this set (27 to be exact). We're very impressed for the third year in a row.
The-M - Australian Silver Type Set, Circulation Strikes (1910-1964)
A great set from the land down under, 100% complete and full of Top Pops and condition rarities. This is a British Commonwealth set, so it has fans from both Australia and Great Britain, who appreciate the difficulty of locating many of the earlier types in Gem condition. This set will be very difficult to improve or beat.
ggfenton - Australian Pennies Complete Set, Circulation Strikes (1911-1964)
This is a big set that is very challenging because of the rarity of the earlier dates in top condition. There are a few coins that can be improved in this set, but the large number of Top Pops indicate the owner's determination to build a world-class set.
The-M - Australian Complete Proof Set (1955-1963)
In the past couple of years, Australian Proof coins of the 1955-1963 era have become some of the hottest items in numismatics, jumping dramatically in both demand and value. This set contains a complete set of all denominations and mints, and many of the coins are unique, Top Pops (this year, the overall GPA is 66.40). The significance of this set is that many of the Proof Australian coins on the market have been lacquered, making them essentially ungradable. This collection sets a new, high standard for this popular series.
lovemyfifties - Australian Federation Fifty Cents, Circulation Strikes (2001)
This modern set contains a number of interesting design types. Here, those designs are represented in superb condition, with all of the coins except one appearing in MS67.
Abuesnell - New Zealand Florin Complete Set, Circulation Strikes (1933-1965)
This is a surprisingly difficult set to complete, especially in high grades. The owner has done a good job of assembling an example of each date in this set, many in Top Pop condition. This appears to be a resurrection of the Mealin Collection (the source of many of the coins), and we expect further improvements in the future by this aggressive collector.
Best New Sets of 2012
Douglas M. Wright, Jr. - Small Cent Type Set, Circulation Strikes (1856-present)
While a type set of small cents may not appear particularly challenging at first glance, when you consider that aside from the 2009 Bicentennial issue, only 12 coins exist that could possibly upgrade this set, the accomplishment becomes considerably more impressive. Congratulations to Douglas on an excellent opening entry in this category.
The Twinight Collection - Silver, Gold & Platinum Eagles Complete Set, Proof (1986-present)
The collector has built a nearly perfect set only lacking a 1995-W $1 Eagle in PR70. Even the 2012 issues are filled. This keeps in line with his First Spouse $10 Gold with First Strikes collection. Nothing but the best for Twinight!
Douglas M. Wright, Jr. - Lincoln Cents Basic Set, Circulation Strikes and Proof (1909-Present)
The Lincoln Cent set is perhaps the most widely collected set in the world – certainly in U.S. numismatics. When you consider that over 40% of the coins in this extensive 329 piece set sit at the top of their population charts, you have a most respectable inaugural appearance for this timeless set. A weighted GPA of 68.50 doesn't hurt either!
Magic Star Collection - Scarsdale Coin - Three Cent Silvers, Circulation Strikes and Proof (1851-1872)
Three Cent Silvers with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes and Proof (1851-1872)
(Note that the award includes the sub-set in this collection that is ranked #1.)
Scarsdale Coin's opening volley comes in this gem set of trimes - 100% complete in both Proof and Business strikes, with a set rating of 65.18. While currently only a few of the coins sit at the top of the population charts, keep in mind this is a first appearance. Lots of upgrade potential exists, and we expect to see more from this set in future years.
High Desert - Jefferson Nickels FS Classic Set, Circulation Strikes (1938-1964)
High Desert has built a great set of circulation strike Jefferson Nickels from 1938 to 1964. Some of the highlights of the set are the 1939-D and 1942-D which are PCGS Secure Plus MS67+ with the Full Steps designation and none graded higher. In fact, there are numerous MS67 and MS68 examples that have been assigned the single highest grade for the date. This is a great collection which contains some of the finest examples of Jefferson Nickels in existence and the owner should be very proud of such an achievement.
MidwestRareCoins - Liberty Head $10 Gold with Motto Set, Circulation Strikes (1866-1907)
Due to extensive use and melting, quite a few $10 Liberties are unknown in full mint state. Consequently, the weighted GPA of 50.54 for this 96.58% complete set is pretty impressive! Can it be improved? Sure. And we anxiously await what the future has in store for this new set.
Far East Eagle - Indian Head $10 Gold Basic Set, Proof (1908-1915)
Proof Gold has long been the caviar of U.S. numismatics, and Far East's set of Proof $10 Indians is a most auspicious debut in the Registry. Complete, with a set rating of 65.47, it is already the current finest known set extant.
Bella Collection - St. Gaudens $20 Gold, Circulation Strikes (1907-1932)
St. Gaudens $20 Basic Set, Circulation Strikes (1907-1932)
(Note that the award includes the sub-set in this collection that is ranked #1.)
Containing coins pedigreed to the famous Duckor Saint Gaudens collections, this set is already off to a rather incredible start. Already 98% complete (lacking only the 1927-D) it boasts a weighted GPA of 65.5 and only has a very few coins that could be upgraded without a major, time-consuming search.
Bruce Young (Bearlyoung) - Silver Commemoratives 144 Piece Mintmark & Variety Set, Circulation Strikes (1892-1954)
Like the other new sets this year, here is a set that both debuts with an impressively high set rating (66.52) yet has quite a bit of "running room" to improve. With only about 10% of the coins at the top of the population charts, this outstanding new set has the potential to become one of the all time great commemorative sets of all time. And at that, it doesn't have far to go now! It's only about ½ grade point behind Bruce Scher's incredible set.
PMH - Presidential Bronze Medals
The PMH Presidential Bronze Medal White House Collections has a number of Medals in the highest possible grades with 11 being the single finest examples graded. 100% of these bronze medals are red. Every U.S. president is represented which makes this is an interesting and fun set to collect. Medals are seeing a surge in popularity and PMH is at the top of the game. He also owns all the varieties for this series which can be found in his Showcase set.
SunDevilPanda - Panda Gold 5 & 20 Yuan (1/20 oz), Circulation Strikes (1983-present)
(Note that the award includes the 2 sub-sets in this collection which are ranked #1.)
Chinese coins are now among the most popular of all world coins. Collectors fight tooth and nail for the gold pandas that were once exported from China but which are now being repatriated. This set is complete and virtually every coin is a Top Pop.
Mandate Mints! - Palestine Complete Set, Circulation Strikes (1927-1946)
This is a monster set of Palestinian coins that showed up suddenly on the PCGS Set Registry this year. The statistics show this as being 94.92% complete, but the owner has all the required coins and is simply waiting for a few to cross. This is a big set full of Top Pop coins, indicating a tremendous effort on the part of the owner.
Best Exhibited Sets of 2012
Best Young Numismatists Sets of 2012
Best of the Registry Winners of 2012
Collectors with the finest current set in each category with at a least 90% completion and in large set compositions those with 200 or more coins registered in one set, will receive a "Best of the Registry" icon by their set listings in the registry. Click here to view a list of those sets which were #1 and and at least 90% complete on 6/29/12 5:00pm EST.
Ten Year Anniversary Recipients
To celebrate collectors who have won awards for being number one in their category for at least ten years in a row, we recognize their sets with the 10 Year Anniversary icon. To these collectors, you have our thanks for your loyalty and friendship. We appreciate all you do for the PCGS Set Registry. To view a list of these award winning sets, please click here.


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Jaime Hernandez: The 2011-P Ulysses Grant Presidential Dollar was the second Presidential Dollar coin design issued in 2011. The official release date for the Uncirculated coins was May 19, 2011.
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Aston Villa's stand-in captain Ciaran Clark insists the players retain full faith in manager Paul Lambert and will reap the benefits of several experienced men returning to fitness.
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But Clark is confident Villa can escape from their current predicament - especially when players like captain Ron Vlaar return to the side after injury.
The Holland international was on the bench against Southampton after seven weeks out of action with a calf problem.
Clark said: "Are the players still fully behind Lambert? Definitely. Our luck is out at the minute as you saw with the penalty given against us which was not a penalty.
"In the next few weeks hopefully it will turn and we'll get a bit of luck and maybe put three or four goals past a team.
"We need to keep our heads up. We have West Brom to come next weekend and we need to stay positive and look forward to that.
"After the game, heads are down, but in the next couple of days we'll pick ourselves up in training and we'll get back together.
"We'll stick together, we are a close team and we'll look forward to the next game. There are enough characters, there's definitely enough togetherness between us all.
"Over the next few weeks it's important for us to pick up some points and, if we stick together, I'm sure we'll be able to do that."
In addition to Vlaar, striker Gabriel Agbonlahor and winger Charles N'Zogbia are returning to fitness after lengthy lay-offs while defender Richard Dunne is due to resume training this week.
Clark said: "We've got a few experienced lads coming back from injury who will obviously help the squad and team.
"Ron (Vlaar) has been out for a while now. It was good to see him back on the bench against Southampton.
"It's good for the team and squad to see players like that coming back.
"Having the experienced lads back gives the younger lads a boost, it gives them a bit of help to get through the games.
"Obviously those guys have been through it before and know what to do. It is nice to have them back but there's enough togetherness about the lads. We'll show that we're all right."
Manager Lambert has money to spend during January on possible newcomers and believes club owner Randy Lerner's investment in Villa should not be underestimated during his six years in charge.
The Villa boss said: "I always speak to Randy. I've always had a good relationship with him.
"If you look at the years he's been here, I don't know how much money he has put in but it's a lot of money.
"If a couple of players come in during January, then great. But you can't fault Randy for what he's done for this club, that's for sure.
"January always gives you an opportunity to bring people in.
"We have conversations all the time and it would be wrong for me to say there is 'X' amount available.
"You can work with what you've got and if one or two come in, then great."
Lambert remains confident Villa will survive and preserve their record of 25 successive years of top-flight football.
He said: "Do I still think Villa will be safe? Yes. Because? I just do. I said that from day one. I just do.
"If you look at the middle of that table, there is not much in it. There are about eight or nine teams all close."
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