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A simple stroll down the streets of Kinshasa reveals how precarious life has become in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This city of ugly half-finished buildings radiates both the optimism and the paranoia of a gold-rush town. Government banners strung across main avenues urge the citizens to stay cool: no more violence, no more hatred, no more manipulation and change your mentality. On the sidewalks below, the Congolese look sharp in their colorful dresses and short, wide ties (this was a Belgian colony, after all), but that only makes it sadder to watch them disappear down Kinshasa's muddy lanes and into its scrofulous shantytowns. In the city's center, traffic is so implacable that drivers are pushed relentlessly forward, sometimes peeling the doors off of parked cars when their owners try to squeeze inside. As I walk along a sidewalk near the headquarters of Congo's mining ministry, hands reach out of nowhere to unzip my attaché case. Sitting for a moment on a bench outside a major supermarket, I'm greeted by the shop's friendly security guards, who sit beside me and, within moments, rub their fingers together in a request for money.
White UN trucks and aid-group vehicles are everywhere. "Ninety percent of the NGOs appeared here when the World Bank, IMF, and European Union decided to give Congo money," says A.L. Kitenge, a local businessman and publisher of Entreprendre, a well-regarded investigative magazine. "We call them 'sucking pumps.' This is the common feeling of the Congolese about these NGOs." That may be, but experts say that the only real commercial drivers of the economy in recent years have been the NGO and UN communities. Pull them out, and the economy does a nosedive.
Outside of the fortified U.S. Embassy — the State Department warns Americans not to come to Congo at all — lies a swirl of beggars, barbed wire, homemade tin shacks, and one-legged soldiers limping on crutches. Hawkers materialize at the sight of me, shoving one item after another into my face — counterfeit Chinese watches, leather cases, towels, jeans, muffins, peanuts, eggs, even the live chickens that lay them. At night, I accompany a French businessman to a stylish club filled with wealthy and welcoming Congolese, only to be confronted upon leaving by a cop demanding the inevitable payoff. "Whites are not allowed in that bar," he claims.
At Kinshasa's airport, doctors stand beside immigration officials; travelers arriving without proof of yellow-fever vaccination get jabbed on the spot. It's understandable: Congo has perhaps the most extensive collection of known and emerging infectious diseases in the world. And the State Department warns that "outbreaks of deadly viruses and other diseases can occur without warning and many times are not rapidly reported by local health authorities." Plague, malaria, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, river blindness, Eh, hookworm, typhoid. I showed up in the middle of one of the worst Ebola outbreaks in years and left just before a cholera epidemic arrived. The few studies that have been done indicate that many citizens in the sub-Sahara are polyparasitic, or harboring two or more parasites, which, if not fatal, appears to affect cognitive function and wage-earning capacity. Intestinal parasites alone cause an "incalculable loss in human productivity," says the World Bank.
At Kinshasa's public general hospital, which hasn't received government funds for 25 years and where the yellowing walls are covered with cobwebs, it's commonly believed that citizens aren't allowed inside unless they can pay. "The situation is getting worse every day," says its longtime deputy director, Jean Marie Buana Ali. While he insists that doctors will dip into their own pockets to pay for medicines, many locals claim that patients die alongside their doctors if the cash isn't there. Meanwhile, private Chinese hospitals are springing up. "They're very expensive," Buana Ali says, "and use medicines we never learned about in school."
Chinese shops are abundant in the city, most selling counterfeit brands and employing the Congolese to do the peddling. "They pay them monkey-money," says Billy Mbudi Butshianga, who works as a consultant for Western companies. "How can you pay someone $50 a month when they have a family to feed? So employees steal without them noticing."
Inside the corridors of the mining ministry, federal police officers sit barefoot at desks by the elevators, eating meals brought to them in unsanitary pots. While driving his car out of the parking garage, a senior ministry official waves at an attendant who — while nonchalantly pissing into a bucket — waves back with his free hand. Just another day in the Congo.
"If we can take the Congo," Mao said in 1964, "we can have all of Africa." While Mao had revolution on his mind, today's party leaders understand that Congo's soil has every mineral known to man: 10% of the planet's known copper; 30% of its cobalt; 80% of its coltan (used in everything from PlayStations and iPods to magnets, cutting tools, and jet engines); and untold quantities of bauxite and zinc, cadmium and uranium, gold and diamonds. "Geologists just go into raptures about Congo," says Tara O'Connor, founder of Johannesburg's Africa Risk Consulting, one of the continent's leading corporate intelligence agencies. "The copper just bursts through the earth, and geologists wander around in a haze of ecstasy."
Congo should be one of the world's richest countries. Joseph Conrad's 1899 classic, Heart of Darkness, was inspired by the discovery of its fabled mineral wealth — and the horror unleashed as those reserves were plundered. What the novelist couldn't know was that the looting would continue for another century and beyond. Always a troubled state, Congo has been systematically stripped by a succession of slave traders, Belgium's brutal King Leopold II (who made Congo his personal possession and a showcase for "civilizing the Negroes"), and a homegrown dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, who presided over three decades of kleptocracy, using the state's mining monopoly as his personal kitty.
Today, the death toll in Congo — "the world's forgotten crisis" — stands at more than 10 times that in Darfur, according to the International Rescue Committee. Nearly 5.5 million Congolese have died since 1998 in the country's two civil wars and their aftermath, mainly from starvation and epidemics. Ongoing, rampant smuggling and corruption continues at all stages of the mining process, resulting in direct benefits to the state of a paltry $32 million in 2006. Of Congo's 65 million inhabitants, 80% live on 50 cents a day.
To understand how things got this bad, one must go back to when Congo was known as Zaire — back to the reign of Mobutu, the leopard-skin-fez-wearing strongman who styled himself "the cock who leaves no hen untouched." Mobutu almost single-handedly destroyed an economy that was one of Africa's best in the 1960s. Then, while his starving people looked on, he bragged to 60 Minutes in 1984 that he was the world's second-richest man. Two years later, at the White House, President Reagan praised Mobutu (a useful Cold War ally) as "a voice of good sense and goodwill." Many Congolese will never forget those words.
Mobutu essentially replaced the country's formal, mineral-based economy with an utterly corrupt machine. "The parallel economy was not a simple substitute for the official economy," concludes Koen Vlassenroot, a Belgium-based professor and an expert on Congo's wars. "The official economy stopped functioning almost completely." When Mobutu was forced into exile, the network of graft he left behind was transformed into a minerals-based war economy run by invaders, rebels, and warlords — and abetted by Western companies. Neighboring nations were willingly used as transshipment points for the contraband minerals.
Mobutu's replacement, Laurent Kabila (father of Joseph, the current president), canceled the contracts Mobutu struck with mining houses and dished them out to new companies to finance his war chest. As Laurent marched across Congo in 1997, so the story goes, he used a satellite phone to drum up $500 million in deals. When Laurent faced his own rebellion the following year, the Zimbabwean government stepped in, demanding access to minerals in exchange for saving him. Laurent was assassinated in 2001.
Between 1998 and 2001, coltan was the most desired mineral in the warring Congo and the United States was the world's No. 1 importer — until China overtook it in 2002. Since then, cassiterite, a derivative of tin that is also used by the electronics and computer industries, has become the most coveted Congolese mineral (its use, ironically, makes devices more eco-friendly). Those booms have sustained a rebel occupation of two entire eastern provinces, where the bulk of those minerals are mined (in some cases by locals held at gunpoint by the rebels). Last June, after a decade of delay, the UN Security Council declared that its global peacekeeping operation should consider widening its mandate to prevent the illegal exploitation of resources from fueling violence. The Congolese representative pointed out that while "blood diamonds" might be better known, there was also "blood copper," "blood gold," "blood coltan," and "blood cobalt."
One UN report after another has laid out the wreckage from Congo's mineral-centric scrum: the looting of $5 billion of the state's mineral assets by an "elite network" of Congolese, Zimbabweans, and Belgian businessmen and politicians; rogue investors and their overseas bagmen, stretching from a company in Cleveland to tax-haven shells in the Caymans; and evidence of Rwanda, Uganda, and Zimbabwe "systematically exploiting" Congolese resources. As a Zimbabwean defense minister mildly noted of Congo, "A number of Zimbabwean businesses are taking advantage of the goodwill there. If they don't, others will."
"Put the Chinese in the bush," Victor Kasongo tells me, "and they survive with a bowl of rice. Europeans cost us too much. They need a satellite dish to watch rugby, casinos for the weekend. The Chinese just work, like soldiers."
I am sitting with Kasongo, Congo's most powerful mining official, in his office, which overlooks a squalid, windowless government building. An intensely focused technocrat in a square-cut suit, Kasongo was fresh from a trip to Beijing; scattered on the desk in front of him lay a dozen Chinese business cards. "Americans are focused on oil, but they're not focused on Africa for business," he tells me. "Americans are dormant economically."
I had arrived at a turning point for Congo. Kasongo and his colleagues were in the throes of a decision that will define the country's future for decades to come. The Chinese had recently offered up a then-secret multibillion-dollar mining-and-infrastructure package; Joseph Kabila's government was trying to decide whether to accept. If it did, the deal would mark China's largest single commitment in Africa up to that point, and in essence remake the economic map of the continent. If it didn't, Congo had the option of an alternative route devised by a Canadian mining lawyer who was installed by the World Bank in 2005 to rehabilitate the country's now-bankrupt mining monopoly. That plan envisioned a debt-clearing scheme leading to an eventual IPO on a Western stock exchange; it presumed major steps forward on transparency, as well as a two-year time frame to pull off. The Congo didn't have that kind of time.
By all accounts, Kasongo is a sharp and honest reformer. He alchemized a middle-class Congolese background into an engineering degree in Brussels and a job with Ernst & Young in South Africa before returning to rise in Congo's government. He knows how coveted Congo's minerals have become. "Rio Tinto is knocking on our door," he boasts to me, referring to the world's second-biggest mining giant. "But China sees those big companies — Tinto, Billiton, all of them formed in colonial times — and asks, 'Why make Tinto bigger?' "
"If China wants to dominate the world, it's not our business to stop them," Kasongo continues. "Who are we to close the door to them when we don't have water or electricity? If China doesn't come [to Congo], we're in big shit."
If Kasongo ever felt tenderness for China's competitors from the West, it has cooled considerably. On the day I arrived in Kinshasa, I watched a team of exhausted Congolese investigators holed up inside the mining industry until late at night. Stacks of yellowing contracts were piled high on the floor, representing 60 joint ventures the country had signed since 1997, mainly with operators from America, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Israel. With occasional help from Ernst & Young, Rothschild of Paris, and the U.S.-based (Jimmy) Carter Center, Kasongo's deputies were reviewing every detail, a process that has now taken a year. "Every contract is significantly flawed," a British adviser to Kasongo tells me. "Many of the deals were corrupt, and patently so."
Kasongo explains that only 5 of the 60 deals were producing minerals, while 6 projects were still in the feasibility-study stage. "And 49 are sitting there waiting for ... what, I don't know," he fumes. "Expertise? Financing? Investors? A better time to market?" Congo urgently needs those mines to come on line, he says, in order to keep the economy moving, however slowly. But 22 of these "partners" aren't actively mining at all — they're riding the spike in raw-material prices, "making a fortune with rising share prices" on stock exchanges from Vancouver to New York to London to Johannesburg. "They are mining the stock exchanges, not the mines!" Kasongo exclaims. "We can demonstrate that $17 billion of [stock-market value] is built on a lie to the world. People make their bucks and forget about us. We need water and electricity. The Chinese say, 'We need minerals for growing, and you need infrastructure.' So we have the same interests."
Kasongo despises the old-style patronage deals in Congo, but he's also a realist; and everyone knows there are protectors inside the government. "His political position is delicate," says one insider. "Half the mining world wants him dead. There is a limit to how far Victor can talk about corruption on his side. But he can change the deals."
After I returned to the United States, Congo announced that it had accepted China's $6 billion offer (later upped to $9 billion), creating not only an enormous new source of cash and support inside the country but also a serious challenge to the Western companies that had operated there with little or no competition. Since February, Kasongo has been trying to renegotiate the most egregious of the old contracts in the ministry's portfolio. He's besieged by the old guard on one side, which still has plenty at stake in the existing deals, and the World Bank on the other, which is expressing concern that the China deal is corruption-prone and may saddle Congo with still more unsustainable debt on top of the $14 billion already owed to the West. As Kasongo explains, "We asked the World Bank for roads," but it wanted to attach too many conditions. "Obviously, we want human rights," he goes on, "and we have a mechanism in place, thanks to the Europeans. But Asians listen more to our concerns without being patronizing."
The Chinese, in other words, are long on cash and short on rules. One can't help wondering if Westerners ever really had a chance to compete in Congo. After all, what Western nation (or company) could take on such gargantuan risk — especially in a country the World Bank ranks as the very worst place in the world to do business? As China's ambassador to Congo, Wu Zexian, has said, China won the contract because its no- strings offer was all upside for the Congolese government: "Unbeatable, one could say. Unbeatable by far. There won't be any competitors."
The 37-year-old Kabila, the first democratically elected leader since Congo's independence from Belgium in 1960, has staked his future — political and possibly physical — on the Chinese deal panning out. China's next trick will be to find a way to rip the treasure from the ground and move it out of a country the size of Western Europe but with scarcely 1,200 miles of decent roads, a decaying or nonexistent infrastructure, and an annual government budget of only $3.6 billion. But just as China has a coherent strategy for locking up raw materials, it now seems to be revealing a master plan for taking those materials back home. Of the $9 billion, one-third will be pumped into the Congo's war-ravaged mines. The other $6 billion will take the form of a soft loan (backed by some of the country's best mineral deposits) for new infrastructure, to be built by Chinese construction companies, primarily with Chinese labor. Indeed, when you study the outlines of the Sino-Congolese deal — it features roughly 4,500 miles of rail lines and roads — China's decision to launch its first "special economic zone," including a giant smelter, in adjacent Zambia makes perfect sense. The zone will serve as the hub of an industrial-distribution system linking Congo by rail and highway to Chinese-built networks in Zambia and Angola, and ultimately to ports on either coast.
China seems to be developing an extraction master plan for the sub-Sahara, linking Congo to Zambia and Angola.
Some critics fear the deal amounts to Congo's de facto colonization. But the package includes a mind-spinning 176 hospitals and health centers, a modernized sewer system for Kinshasa, two large universities, a new port, and 5,000 units of public housing. That kind of colonization might be worth thinking about. "What keeps me awake?" Kasongo asks. "If we fail to deliver water and electricity because we mismanaged our strong points [i.e., minerals]. Every day counts. We don't have means to deliver anything, but we can exchange what we have. If the Chinese are the solution, why not?"
In reality, China is part of the problem. Congo's official statistics show that its No. 1 export partner today is Belgium, followed by the United States. In truth, it's probably China — thanks to that still-thriving informal economy begun under Mobutu. Kasongo estimates there are 1.5 million artisanal "diggers" in Congo — black-market miners, many of them indentured to Chinese middlemen and financiers. These diggers currently produce about 75% of the minerals exported from Congo, he says, mostly by clawing for nuggets with pickaxes or their bare hands. The concentrate is typically loaded onto 30-ton flatbed trucks and smuggled to China on cargo ships via South African or Tanzanian ports. "Most of the Chinese are here illegally," adds Gaby Matshafu, one of Kasongo's deputies.
The government is trying to crack down on the smuggling, but policing Congo's gigantic border — like patrolling Mozambique's coast — is simply too big a challenge today. "We found 300 trucks lying in a queue along the border, with copper and cobalt to be processed in Zambia," fumes Kasongo. "Twenty-six smelters were waiting for it in China. We stopped it."
Kasongo seems destined to make more enemies still. One of the most controversial contracts he is examining, for example, involves a public Canadian-British entity called Katanga Mining. Congo's central bank governor sits on its board of directors and, until recently, so did the minister of portfolio. "There is no way we can run this country if people keep having conflicts of interest," says Kitenge, the local businessman and publisher. "Corruption at the top of the government is far beyond 70%. The economy is run by a mafia. And the poor are getting poorer every single day."
Like most China-Africa agreements, the fine print on the Congo megadeal has yet to be made public. But it's hard to believe that the standard pattern of corruption won't assert itself. Certainly the experience in the Congo of Frank He and Michael Huang isn't very encouraging. Before setting up their copper concession in Zambia, the Chinese brothers initially explored doing business in Congo. They left in the end, they told me, after finding the environment too chaotic and dangerous. At one point, according to Huang, Congolese immigration officials demanded a large bribe. Alarmed, the brothers called the Chinese embassy for assistance. This is the advice they received: "You came with money. Pay them."Back to China Storms Africa Homepage
A version of this article appeared in the June 2008 issue of Fast Company magazine.

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Synonyms for expectation
noun belief, anticipation
- prospectstar
- confidencestar
- truststar
- outlookstar
- possibilitystar
- predictionstar
- intentionstar
- chancestar
- expectancystar
- presumptionstar
- conjecturestar
- probabilitystar
- apprehensionstar
- suppositionstar
- reliancestar
- motivestar
Antonyms for expectations
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Concept Thesaurus for word expectations2. To the Future
Synonyms - noun
Synonyms - verbs
- expect
- hope for
- keep in view
- not wonder if
- watch for
- await
- watch
- count upon (believe in)
- prick up one's ears
- look for
- anticipate
- contemplate
- wait for
- bargain for
- stand at "attention
- foresee
- think likely (probability)
- hold one's breath
- look out for
- have in prospect
- promise oneself
- tarry for
- keep a good lookout for
- " abide
- prepare for
- lead one to expect (predict)
Synonyms - adjectives
Synonyms - phrases
we shall see; nous verrons; "expectation whirls me round" [Troilus and Cressida]
More words related to expectations
noun. taking something for granted; something expected
noun. putting regard in as true
- notion
- opinion
- persuasion
- position
- postulation
- presumption
- presupposition
- profession
- reliance
- supposition
noun. confidence, reliance
noun. fate
- the stars
- way the ball bounces
- way the cookie crumbles
- what is written
- wheel of fortune
- world to come
noun. fate, lot in life
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slapstickeulogist: Catwoman is awesome. GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR.
punkdc: Yeah, however could they make the Riddler darker than Jim Carrey in a children's film?
Done making fun of people. Here's what I thinked:
I was surprised at the Frank Miller comparison above; the story obviously doesn't follow that old Batman in the future storyline, but I think this movie topped The Dark Knight Returns in, um, darkness. DKR ended looking to the future in a hopeful way, but I don't know if you can say the same about the film. Gotham's martyr and Rachels' love for Bruce Wayne are both lies, and it implies that the people of Gotham and BW are better off believing a lie.
I don't know if that's too nihilistic a reading, but I thought the movie wrapped up in a way that only the audience knows what really happened (because of Alfred burning the note). Actually, I guess the audience and Alfred know the truth.
DaggerofChrist unmasked
There's spoiler stuff in here so read if you've seen it.
This film was fantastic. The scenes were riveting from the start and the different plots were woven together so seamlessly there was never a dull moment.
My favorite parts most often came from the Joker and his plans. From the first bank heist, where the thieves kill one another, to the detonators on the ferries, I was elated by the cleverness but disturbed by the situations. Making "the pencil disappear" was one of the best film murders I've ever seen. It was perfect for the Joker, simple, well executed, completely psychotic and pretty funny.
The back and forth between the 3 heroes Dent, Gordon and Batman vs. the criminals of Gotham were intense and extremely fun to watch. So many scenes started one way and then made a complete reversal putting the other side in control. I liked the multiple climaxes. Each revealed something intriguing that's important to the story and wrapped up different loose ends. I also liked Maggie in place of Katie because the Rachel role is a very strong character which Katie played pretty frail. The death was shocking but such an amazing twist I can't be disappointed in it.
There were some problems I had with it, but they were all outweighed by the good. I am not a fan of CGI when unnecessary and Harvey's face was definitely that. It would have been so much better to see a tangible make up job as opposed to the computer tendons. In a film so realistic the logistics of his wound was confounding. How is his left eye still functional? And how can his speech not be altered when missing half his lips?
Not to pile on but I also found the Batman voice too raspy and distracting. But with all the great dialog and the focus I was giving it, I didn't want to miss a thing and it was honestly hard to hear at points.
I'm half joking while I bring this up but they killed a lot of black characters. Gambol's thug with a pencil, Gambol with a knife, 2 of Gambol's men in a death struggle, the Judge is blown up, Comissioner Loeb is poisoned, Joker shotguns a street cop from the truck, and shoots another in the hospital. Once Gordon died I thought "finally, a big white death to even this all out", and then they brought him back! At least Deebo did the right thing and threw the detonator off the boat.
Overall a really fantastic film. The last time I was so transfixed on a screen was when I watched No Country for Old Men. These are two completely different films but the tension I felt in each is comparable. I hope to see it again soon.
Oh, that reminds me of a question I had: How did they explain Dent's death? I thought Batman was going to take the blame for the people Dent killed; but was he supposed to have killed Dent, too?* I mean, the cops were right there and actually chased B out of the warehouse.
*And Dent was still a good guy.
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are we still bitching about batman's voice? everyone is aware that it's the same as in "batman begins," right? you've had a few years to to get used to it, it shouldn't be an issue at this point. it's not going to change. just let it be. i don't really know what the alternatives would be, he has to use a different voice to protect his identity. what would be less distracting? a funny accent? a high-pitched squeal? stephen hawking voice? at least the raspy voice is somewhat intimidating. i think it works.
anyway, i thought the movie was great and the only problem i had was harvey's crazy terminator face at the end. everything else worked for me. awesome movie, great job!
In regards to the Batman voice, I think he sounded significantly raspier and more strained in TDK. However, I think it worked; with the way shit piles on in this movie, Batman's bound to get tired.
I liked this movie because going into it one must immediately believe that guy dressed as a bat furry is going to beat up and murderers, terrorists and corrupt landlords*.
A complete suspension of disbelief happens.
*and dogs.
I'd just watched batman begins, and not only does it sound worse, he speaks a lot more in Dark Knight, making it a lot more noticeable.
I thought that the Joker was so iconic he swallowed up the whole movie. I found myself waiting for scenes without him to be over so he'd be back on the screen.
Also, why didn't they cut some nose holes in the bat suit so batman could breath when he talks?
I liked this movie a lot. I thought it was pretty good when I saw it, and in thinking about it it's gotten better in my mind, which is the opposite of what usually happens. The biggest thing I still had a problem with was the cell phone/sonar thing. It may have been the way it was executed visually, but it seemed too much like Professor X's Cerebro. I don't really read comics, so someone more knowledgeable could correct me on this, but having that ability/power to know where everyone is in that situation seems to border on having a real superpower, which kind of goes against the purpose of Batman. That's me, though.
As for his voice, yeah it's annoying. It wasn't just him, though. 30 Rock watchers will know what I mean when I say that the end, with Batman, Two-Face and Gordon turned into a "talking like this" contest.
Great movie.
Great, great movie!
The cell phone thing, for me, goes in the bin with the "ferry full of convicts" next to things that didn't really make that much sense but implied interesting moral and ethical questions which are worthwhile regardless.
But the big display looked too cool.
A big part of Batman that was never explored in the earlier films was his reliance on technology. He is resourceful enough to beat up Superman, given enough preparation. Burton's Batman had bat-shaped jats and boats and crap but ultimately they were just vehicles. The Schumacher Batman threw all kinds of gadgets around but nothing was interesting or creative like the cell sonar. So I'll allow it.
As far as the fate of Dent- remember 9/11, when they were digging bone dust out and DNA testing it? So they didn't ID his body until the next day, so what. I don't think they'll imply Batman killed him, but people might blame him given the Joker was responsible for blowing up the hospital in response to the guy on TV threatening Batman's secret identity... convoluted, but within the realm of human behavior.
Still, Batman is on the run, and he's a suspect in five murders, two of whom were cops. The next movie is gonna suck for him!!
Also: that screechy noise they played during tense scenes was so perfect and DID ITS JOB. I almost peed myself when it got tense.
I was wondering if they'd show Dent steamin' and schemin' in Arkham as a little stinger on the end. If he died it was a very "indie drama" death, falling fifteen feet and all. In the comics you can survive anything.
As far as recasting the Joker, well, it may never come up. If they want people to pay attention to anything in the next movie, they won't do it.
Assuming all of that to be true (Which it isn't), the only question left is: Would Nolan ever consider having Two-Face and Riddler in a movie and risk comparisons to Batman Forever?
All of that aside, I dug this movie from beginning to end. Too many sequels make the mistake of making you wait for action, this was not one of those films. From there, the relentless pace just didn't let up, and I hoped it never would. The characters were [mostly] extremely deep and well-defined, with many levels to them. The Joker was probably the best example of this, acting as a funny character to the casual viewer, but becoming something entirely different, something dark to anyone who was fully engrossed in the movie.
Is it the best movie in the world? No. But was it a really good film? Damn skippy, and I can't wait to see what Nolan and Co. do in the third film.
I have a job now or something.


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Does this mean Chris Polian is under the employ of the Bills?
Sounds Like TMZ
That's the only way to make Bills games relatively watchable.
OOOPS meant to qute shauntas hitting the bottle too hard post
Haven't we been played with enough?
I know, the Bills have kicked Fitz to the curb and signed Mark Sanchez & Rex Ryan to be starting QB & head coach! LOL
it feasibly could be ownership... they could have had a preapproved list of owners in place... if it was a list then they wouldn't leak anything as they wouldn't have just 1.... i dunno... just throwing it out there.
Hopeful for this season and beyond... the Arrow is finally pointing up folks.
Any word???
When will the Bills find the heir to Losman?
thurman needs to sober up. or if he knows something than come out with it, do not act like a little girl about it.
He finally found his helmet ?
For what it is worth, I have a family member who used to work for the Buffalo media and is still relatively well plugged into the bills and bills info, and the rumor he heard from Thurman and others is that we are going to make a big push for Saban. I know this will probably receive the usual "I heard from my brother's friends's neighbor's babysitter's..." joke that some comedian makes every time someone posts some speculative information, but I'm just telling you what I heard from a reasonably reliable source. He heard that Saban had made it known he wants to get back into the NFL and it was between us and the Browns as his landing spots. Both teams that have drafted key SEC players. I'm not saying believe every word I say, but take it for what it's worth I guess.


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GDB 46: Hello, Robert Nilsson!
Jason Gregor
January 20 2009 01:02PM
For the second straight game, the Oilers offence will get a boost; the fog has lifted and Robert Nilsson will play tonight with Gagner and Cole. Nilsson skated hard yesterday, and was cautious about a return tonight, but after the morning skate he was smiling and excited to play with his father in the rink tonight.
Nilsson's return means a shuffle: Reddox is off the second line, and based on practice he might be in the pressbox tonight. Reddox and Strudwick were the last two off the ice at the morning skate, normally a sign that they won't play tonight. The problem with that theory is that Strudwick has been the last player off on game day many times, yet still laced them up that night.
Reddox, Brule, Strudwick and MacIntyre are the options to flank Brodziak, and none of the players were saying who was playing. I would lean towards MacIntyre and Brule being in tonight.
Hall & Oates
Many of you were stunned watching the Oilers, specifically Ethan Moreau, clapping in unison to Private Eyes, after their win against Phoenix. Veteran Strudwick explains the reasoning behind this song:
Strudwick: First off, I really liked the '80s. There was lots of good music produced, synthesizers and bad hair were a good combination. As far as Hall and Oates, we're searching for a song and right now that seems to be the go-to after the game. I like the song a lot and I think we should stick with it.
Gregor: Is it because of the clapping sequence, the unison factor?
Strudwick: We had tried harder clapping sequence, but not everyone could get it, but now this song there is only three claps every two minutes so we can keep the pace.
Gregor: You've been around the league a long time -- are there any other songs that were this team-building-ish.
Strudwick: Most teams after a win play the same song. Last year in New York we had a song by Eminem -- Shake Your Ass -- not sure if you are familiar with it, but it is quite a good number. The other year we had Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond, which was Jagr's song. We've had quite the potpourri of music.
Moreau kicking out Pouliot
Many of you thought Moreau was a horrible leader for waving Pouliot out of the dot a few games ago, so I asked him why?
"I take it because then Cogs can stay on the left side, where he is more comfortable, and not go on the right. Really, Poulie and I laugh about it when we look at one another to see who will take it. It isn't a big deal at all, but the main reason is so that Cogs can stay on the left where he is more comfortable."
I asked Pouliot his thoughts on it, and if he felt being a centre he should take the draw.
"Cogs hates the right side, so it is easier for Chop (Moreau) to take the draw. If he loses it I bug him hard that I should take it next time, but we laugh about it. When he waved me out it was because Cogs yelled at him to take it so he could stay on the left. I don't think it is a big deal, other than I can bug him if he loses it."
Garon and contract
To clarify whether Garon got a contract offer from the team this summer, I made a phone call. Garon said he had never spoken to the Oilers about an extension, while I was told a few months back there was an offer.
The truth is that Garon's camp called the Oilers about an extension in the summer, and the Oilers said they would look at it during the season. So Garon never turned down an extension, but they did have contact with the Oilers about it. This according to Kevin Prendergast.
My original source was correct that talks had occurred, but it was, in fact, the Garon camp that started them not the Oilers.
January 20 2009, 08:32PM
I'm sure it's been commented on on this site.. But I have to say, that may rank in the top 10 of sports mustaches
January 20 2009, 08:32PM
chrisinbanff wrote:
Rangers beat Ducks? CHECK!
Kings beat Wild? CHECK!
Though someone should remind the Oilers they need to win for any of this to matter.
January 20 2009, 08:34PM
The Columbus broadcast crew is just livid at Moreau - they're replaying the Moreau pick from a couple of minutes ago, and there's no way that a penalty shouldn't have been called.
It'll come, and it's going to bother me when it does.
Not a good period whatsoever, especially for Roli. There's no excuse for letting in those goals.
January 20 2009, 08:36PM
*clap clap*
January 20 2009, 08:36PM
That Methot goal wasn't bad.
January 20 2009, 08:36PM
Cory Dakin wrote:
I'm sure it's been commented on on this site.. But I have to say, that may rank in the top 10 of sports mustaches
Gagner's is better.
January 20 2009, 08:36PM
For that matter, there really wasn't much he could do about the Boll goal either.
January 20 2009, 08:38PM
For that matter, there really wasn't much he could do about the Boll goal either.
Although being in net would have been a good start.
PIcked corners on the last two shots. they were actually quite lovely... only it was scored by the wrong team. I loved roli heading the puck...
January 20 2009, 08:39PM
I hope trading Garon didn't make Roli too comfortable at #1... He plays better when he has something to prove
January 20 2009, 08:41PM
@ Cory Dakin:
He can try proving that he doesn't suck.
January 20 2009, 08:44PM
"It's really tougg to put it in to words because it was spectacular"
That's a good word.
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@ Cory Dakin: He can try proving that he doesn't suck.
LMAO... Anyone know if Sabourin is still an Oiler?
January 20 2009, 08:45PM
January 20 2009, 08:47PM
@ Cam:
No word yet.
January 20 2009, 08:50PM
January 20 2009, 08:50PM
Ok boys.... Let's get it going.
January 20 2009, 08:53PM
January 20 2009, 08:53PM
Smid to Staios.. That had offensive juggernaut written all over it
January 20 2009, 08:53PM
Even Brodziak has a pimp stache
January 20 2009, 08:53PM
Why isn't Brodziak's mustache getting and coverage?
January 20 2009, 08:54PM
Jonathan Willis wrote:
The Columbus broadcast crew is just livid at Moreau - they're replaying the Moreau pick from a couple of minutes ago, and there's no way that a penalty shouldn't have been called. It'll come, and it's going to bother me when it does.
Well, imagine that. Moreau taking an "aggressive" penalty in the offensive zone.
Howis that a cross check...normally Moreau takes some bad penalties, but that was a BRUTAL call...he didn't even use his stick...embarrassing
January 20 2009, 08:55PM
It sounded Like Gene said "straight from the bong"
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Jonathan Willis wrote: The Columbus broadcast crew is just livid at Moreau - they're replaying the Moreau pick from a couple of minutes ago, and there's no way that a penalty shouldn't have been called. It'll come, and it's going to bother me when it does. Well, imagine that. Moreau taking an "aggressive" penalty in the offensive zone.
If you think that is a penalty you don't know hockey. JTotal Joke.
Good kill...
January 20 2009, 08:58PM
Not feeling it here....
I guess Gregor's they kill aggressive penalties was right.. anyone know how Columbus is holding a lead after 40?
January 20 2009, 08:59PM
Mike wrote:
If you think that is a penalty you don't know hockey. JTotal Joke.
It's the even-up call. Moreau got away with at least two legit penalties earlier in the game - the referees know that.
I hate watching games we should win...50% of the time we suck other times we score six goals
Roli tends to play better when he sees a lot of shots.
January 20 2009, 09:01PM
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I guess Gregor's they kill aggressive penalties was right.. anyone know how Columbus is holding a lead after 40?
Based on one kill - absolutely.
A penalty is a penalty. I don't care how it gets taken, the team doesn't drop to 85% PK rate when they are killing a lazy call and jump back up to 100% when they are killing an aggressive call.
And if Moreau's going to continue taking penalties, as he does, he deserves to be called on it.
January 20 2009, 09:01PM
@ freeze:
Roli tends to play better when he doesn't suck.
January 20 2009, 09:03PM
I think Columbus has outplayed Edmonton so far by a little bit... do you guys disagree?
January 20 2009, 09:04PM
@ Jonathan Willis:
He was talking about the team not minding to have to kill an aggressive penalty by someone playing with some mych needed edge as opposed to a lazy hooking penalty.
January 20 2009, 09:04PM
I think Roli, combined with his haircut and crazy eyes, would have the ultimate perv-stache.
January 20 2009, 09:05PM
Travis Dakin wrote:
@ freeze: Roli tends to play better when he doesn't suck.
he hehe hehe hehe...sucks!
January 20 2009, 09:05PM
@ Jonathan Willis: Hard to argue with that
wail on him Roli!!
January 20 2009, 09:07PM
Ok now things will happen.
Jonathan Willis wrote:
I think Columbus has outplayed Edmonton so far by a little bit… do you guys disagree?
Not at all,the oil can't get anything set up or keep pressure...the CBJ look like the Wild right5 now.
January 20 2009, 09:08PM
The Columbus commentators are saying "He's wailing on Boll, but Boll didn't do anything - he got pushed in!"
Nonsense. Boll better get taught why that's a bad idea.
@ Jonathan Willis: they are certainly dictating the play. Hitch said the winner will be the one that dictates their game. We seem to have trouble playing 'our game' against defensive, checking teams.
January 20 2009, 09:09PM
The question now is will MacT let MacI go out and do his job
January 20 2009, 09:09PM
@ Jonathan Willis: How do you and why do you have the columbus broadcast?
January 20 2009, 09:09PM
Okay, maybe Boll was pushed a little bit.
January 20 2009, 09:10PM
EVERYBODY has the stache. except for Reddox. He can't grow one.
@ Travis Dakin: he has a thick one, you just can't see it.
January 20 2009, 09:10PM
Travis Dakin wrote:
@ Jonathan Willis: How do you and why do you have the columbus broadcast?
I live in B.C., where all the Oilers games are blacked out (with the exception of HNIC and TSN national broadcasts).
Hence, I turn to the internet.


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Arnold Trachtman was born in the United States and is well-known for his incisive paintings and his critique of contemporary sociopolitical landscapes. His major works deal with the more subtle aspects of Nazism, especially the corporate culpability, what Hannah Arendt called the "Banality of Evil."
I was born in the United States, three years before the Nazis came to power in Germany. I was lucky. I grew up in the "Arsenal of Democracy." And yet it was not always safe. Anti-Semitism thrived here. At any time you could be attacked, verbally, physically or both, by kids your own age or older, and sometimes by adults. The end of the war came with newsreels of the camps and the infinite mounds of the dead being bulldozed into great pits. The survivors looked just barely alive. Their pain was palpable. When I found my direction as an artist, I made work about issues of the day. While pursuing these themes, I found myself continuously drawn to the history of Nazism. Yet it did not appear in my work. I wasn't ready. In late 1985, I was. What I wished to do was demystify the demonology of Nazism. I wanted to show the men behind this great engine of genocide: the major industrialists and corporations of Germany, such as Thyssen, Krupp, Daimler, Benz, Siemens, to name a few. Ten years after the war, all of them were back in business. Understanding the epoch of Nazism, economically, politically and socially, is part of the unfinished business of our era. As this century draws to a close, aspects of Nazism are manifesting themselves in various parts of the world. We must penetrate the darkness of our past in order to have a future.
The Aposteosis of Krupp,1988 Acrylic on canvas
Alfried Krupp, a member of the Krupp Family that ran Germany's largest armaments industry, was tried as a war criminal by the Allies at Nuremberg. Although he was found guilty and sentenced to a long prison term, he was restored to power because of the advent of the Cold War, threats of Soviet encroachment on Germany, and the need to rebuild Germany as a western ally.
Our Most Important Product,1987 Acrylic on canvas
Trachtman's paintings are in a pop art style and use images taken from film montage techniques. Here he shows Hitler's assumption of power on January 30, 1933. President Paul von Hindenburg sits on the right. The "most important product" of the Third Reich would eventually be the gas chambers, built by the TOPF Corporation of Erfurt, Germany.
Peace in Our Time, 1991-92 Acrylic on canvas
Trachman identifies who are the real culprits-not necessarily the Nazis, but the corporate CEOs who aided them, plus the false ambitions of politicians like Neville Chamberlain, who believe that through appeasement, "peace in our time" (Munich Agreement) was possible.
Eastern Tours,1988 Acrylic on canvas
Trachtman's painting raises the issue of corporate culpability during the Third Reich. I.G. Farben, the largest German conglomerate, owned Bayer, AG, Degesh (The German Insecticide Company) and other firms. They produced "Zyklon B" gas for use at Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps for killing inmates. They sold this chemical to the S.S. at a profit. Trachtman asks, "how could it happen?" and suggests that all of the perpetrators did not wear military uniforms.
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By JASON BAILEYSun Advocate/Progress Network Administrator
In last week's Tech Tips, download speeds were briefly discussed. Some of the points were not clearly explained and may be misunderstood by some, so some clarification is needed.
Within the scope of physics, speed is a comparison of distance traveled during a given period of time, like miles-per-hour, or feet-per-second. Download speeds, however, are quite different.
In all reality measuring download speed can be far more ambiguous than measuring how fast a car is moving, for example.
To computer users, download speed is simply a perception of how soon something transfers to their computer. This might mean new email email messages or simply a web page to loading completely.
Download speed most certainly has a time factor. Some websites, for example, respond faster than others. But time is generally not the defining factor, nor is the distance the information travels to reach your computer. It's really a measure of capacity.
For example, when a consumer replaces their Internet connection with a "faster" connection, the speed in which the information travels (bit for bit, byte for byte) generally doesn't change. If there is a difference, chances are it's negligible.
What really changes is the amount of information that is transferred per second. The "faster" the connection is, the more payload the consumer will get.
Consider the following analogy:
A canal brings needed water to a farmer's crops. But because the canal is so small, it takes all day to water his field.
So the farmer spends some of his hard earned cash to double the size of the canal.
The water flowing down the enlarged canal flows at relatively the same speed as it did before. But because the canal can carry twice as much water as it did before, the farmer is able to water his crops in a far more reasonable time frame. The job is done faster.
Consider another analogy:
John Doe is relocating to another area. But the only vehicle John has is a midsize car. So, he stuffs what few belongings he can into his car and takes them to his new home.
Realizing that he's going to have to make many, many trips with his car to successfully move all of his things, he decides to rent a moving truck.
The truck certainly has far more capacity than his midsize car. He fills the truck and is able to move all of his property in far fewer trips than he'd originally anticipated. The job was done faster with the truck.
Similarly, most download speeds measure how much information is transferred within a given amount of time, which is generally in seconds.
Typically, most Internet service providers, or ISPs relate the speed of their service in "kilobits per second" or "megabits per second." This measurement explains how much data can be transferred per second over their network.
Kilobits and megabits should not be confused with kilobytes or megabytes. Kilobits and megabits measure the amount of bits, where kilobytes and megabytes measure the amount of bytes. In most computer systems, and particularly in the United States, eight bits are equivalent to one byte.
Additionally, kilobits and megabits are indicated with a lower case 'b' like Kb or Mb. In contrast, kilobytes and megabites are denoted by an upper-case 'B' displayed as KB or MB.
It's also important to remember that megabits and megabytes are larger units than kilobits and kilobytes. The difference between 'mega' and 'kilo' is a matter of 1,024 (1 MB = 1,024 KB; 1 Mb = 1,024 Kb).
So for consumers, faster Internet connections really are faster (for the most part) because they get the content (web pages, emails, etc.) they want in a shorter amount of time. But it's really a matter of increased payload, not necessarily snappier connections.
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Come see many unusual items, some you don't see every day -- and our prices are very fair. We always tell the customer go check the rest, come back to the best!
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts & Mitchell Museum
Exhibitions, a children's gallery, a permanent collection and special events. Grounds include 85 acres sculpture park, nature trails and bird sanctuary. Hosts annual Cedarhurst Craft Fair.
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The perfect combination of great collectibles, seasonal items and great food. On the main street of West Frankfort. Only 10 miles south of Rend Lake.
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Visit Downtown Mt. Vernon for a variety of shops, including a kitchen store, photography studio, musical instruments, clothing, fine jewelry, scrapbooking supplies, and gifts.
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Illinois State Museum-Southern Illinois Art Gallery
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Large golf outlet store plus clothing, brass, crafts and sporting goods store. Formerly Jent factory outlet mall.
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Southern Illinois Artisans Shop and Visitors Center
More than 25 categories of arts and crafts from fine art to the traditional crafts from more than 900 Illinois artisans. Also, home to the Southern Illinois Art Gallery. Special workshops and events throughout the year.
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Amazing collection of over 40,000 books, old and new. Historical, western, romantic novels, children's, and local lore. Also, CDs, music, some antiques, Nascar collection, and more.
Shopping mall with Sears, JC Penney, Peebles, and a variety of specialty shops.
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Enclosed mall with ten stores. Walkers welcome. Restaurants nearby.
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Who Will Get the First Bath?
Recently, I had the pleasure to travel to the rural Alaskan communities of Kwigillingok, Kasigluk, and Pitkas Point. The visit was made along with Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Jonathan Adelstein, Alaska State Director Jim Nordlund, and a few of our major program partners. As with other trips, the site visits to these communities were a reminder of why the Rural Alaska Village grant program and other Rural Development programs are so vital to rural communities.
The water and wastewater conditions in these three villages and other Alaskan communities are staggering. Drinking water is hauled from local watering points, which clearly do not meet safe drinking water standards. Wastewater is hauled by utilizing honey buckets. The same path that kids play and walk to and from school, is the same route that individuals routinely walk with their five gallon buckets of wastewater to honey bucket transfer stations. Read more »


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Biofuels Forum Held in Presque Isle, Maine, Seeks Input from Local Producers and Stakeholders
USDA Rural Development and the Farm Service Agency held a Forum on Expanding the U.S. Biofuels Market on October 15 at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. I participated in this important Forum, which sought input from local biofuels producers and stakeholders on the USDA's interim plan on how to develop a successful biofuels market. The plan outlines the development of a successful biofuels market capable of achieving the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standards mandate of producing and using 36 billion gallons or renewable transportation fuel per year by 2022. Read more »


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It's been an enormous struggle to get where I am … in art school, they kept telling me I had no ability … but it's a matter of how you see. It's an act of will, of force.
Sean Scully, cited in Amy Lighthill, 'Portrait of the artist as lightning rod', Sean Scully (exhibition catalogue), Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1985, pp. 6–16 (p. 10).


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By PATSY STODDARDStaff, Emery County Progress
The Hatt's Ranch, just 16 miles southwest of Green River, is the spot for upland game bird hunting at its finest. Rey Lloyd and LuJuan Hatt take care of the ranch and their son Royd and his wife Toni are involved with the hatchery end of the operation.
Rey Lloyd said, "The ranch has been in the family since the early 1930s. It was originally a cattle ranch. We have been raising birds since 1975. Our hatchery is the largest supplier west of the Mississippi. We originally started with the birds to supplement the cows, but the birds grew so fast that we sold off the cattle. Cows and pheasants can't run together because the cows graze the field down and the pheasants need the cover to hide in. Although some people do it.
"We raise all of our own birds. We set 500,000 eggs each year at the hatchery in Green River. We ship all over the western United States. We keep between 35-45,000 birds for our ranch. We sell day old chicks and a lot of people will come and pick them up. Sometimes we meet people halfway and deliver them that way. We do ship them by overnight delivery as well. You can deliver a healthy chick up to about four days. Royd has to turn orders away because we can't produce enough birds to fill them.
"We start gathering eggs March 20 and gather through July 24th. All of our family gets involved in gathering the eggs. The kids get tired of coming out and gathering eggs. The eggs are handled nine times before they hatch, it's quite an undertaking.
"The chicks stay in the brooder house for a week to 10 days and then they are taken to the little fly pens. When they are fully feathered, usually around 16 weeks of age, they are moved to the big fly pen. Around 20 weeks of age they are ready to hunt when they have all of their wing feathers. We harvest about 85 percent of the birds and leave 15 percent all of the time. After the birds are released to be hunted, if they aren't harvested they will stick around the ranch and feed outside of the pens. Sometimes they will fly out to the desert for a bit but they always come back because there isn't much feed out there.
"We are pretty isolated out here. We have 1,000 acres and the San Rafael River runs through the ranch it is one of the only rivers that originate and end in the same county. We have a good relationship with the Fish and Game and we supply them with chukars. We have installed a guzzler in the chukar pen so the chukars will get used to it because that is what the Fish and Game uses to get the water to them out in the wild. It's worked out really good.
"We encourage people to bring their own dogs but we do have some to rent as well. We are a membership club and members pay a joining fee and then a yearly fee. After they become members they can bring as many guests as they want if they accompany them. I start hunters out on a ditch and keep them going on different ditches. I direct traffic on my four-wheeler. People generally hunt about four hours and walk a long ways," said Rey Lloyd.
LuJuan said, "We have people from all over who come here to hunt. We can accomodate all sizes of hunting groups. There is a two-bird minimum. You only pay for harvested birds."
Rey Lloyd said, "We have people that just come for the day and those who come for a few days. Some people out of Denver come and pull their trailers down and camp and come over to hunt. Others stay in the motels in town and eat in the restaurants. We help out the Green River economy in the winter.
"Hunting season runs from mid-September through mid-March. We see about 3,000 hunters in five months. We have members in 15 states. We have five varieties of pheasants, the Ring Neck, Buff-Cinnamon, Whites, Blacks-Melanistic Mutation and the Manchurian Ring Neck. We also have cross breeds. There are 176 different varieties of pheasants in the world. Royd doctors the birds and develops the formula for their feed. He has talked to a lot of experts on what's best for the birds. He takes a lot of preventative measures and our survival rate is really high. We have first generation pheasants out of China. The eggs were brought from China. We are always trying to increase the quality of our stock.
"We offer a quality hunt as close to a wild hunt as possible," said Rey Lloyd.
A hunter from Utah County who was hunting the ranch said, "There are no birds or hunting opportunities up north. I've been a member for 13 or 14 years and come down here a few times a year. You could look for hours up north and maybe only see one or two birds, but down here you can get as many as you can hit or you can pay for. It's great fun."
Hunters can clean their own birds or for a small fee the Hatts will clean them for you. Other hunters at the ranch were from Grand Junction and they said, "It's only about an hour and a half drive over here and we come over every three weeks. I was out playing golf one day and somebody mentioned the pheasant ranch to me and we've been coming over ever since. They take good care of you here. You just walk and shoot and the dogs flush out the birds.
Barry Sovern comes to the ranch and stays in his trailer and trains his dogs. He also trains dogs for the Hatts to use on their ranch. Sovern believes the pheasants are very smart. Once they've been hunted, the dogs will have a tough time flushing them out. It's the dog's job to put the pheasant in a position where he has to fly. The dog smells out the birds. This is pretty tough for a dog when there are pens nearby with 10,000 birds in them and they are expected to find one in the bush. Pheasants can hide in almost no cover at all, according to Sovern who told the story of when they were out training dogs and a pheasant flew up from under the cover about two feet away and neither he or his friend knew it was there. He said, "I try to come over here every week it's the best bargain around."
Rey Lloyd said, "I really enjoy the people that we've met on the ranch. The repeat customers who keep coming back have become good friends. The business has been growing a bit every year and we sure enjoy being out here at the ranch."


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Just picture itóyouíre lying on a massage table with soft music and the soothing sounds of a fountain relaxing your mind. Outside, beautiful Colorado is bursting into season, filling every window with mountain views, snowy peaks, and sunny skies. This is spa-living in Colorado, a state that offers a huge variety of spa experiences. Whatever your budget, timeline, and location, thereís a spa just waiting for you.
Nearly every spa has its own unique focus, whether itís on yoga, massage, outdoor adventures, skin treatments, or steam rooms. A little advance research will help you pick the very best one. Once you arrive, you can sign up for a package that includes a number of treatments, or just sample things one at a time. For many people, the first trip to the spa can be intimidating, but it doesnít need to be. The spa employees will walk you through every step, tailoring the service to fit your comfort level. Many spas also offer superb classes in Pilates, Yoga, aerobics, spinning, and more, so be sure to ask about their fitness programs. Below, youíll find a few options organized by city.
Youíll find Ayurvedic treatments, body wraps, beauty treatments, and massage at the Aspen Club & Spa, set just three miles outside this gorgeous city. This spa has personal trailers, group fitness classes, pool classes, tennis, cycling, and a river to explore.
At the St. Regis Aspen hotel, the RemËde Spa has steam rooms, a vapor cave, an oxygen lounge, and a room with invigorating warm and cold waterfalls. Balance the high luxury treatments with outdoor romps in the snow, enjoying skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, or dog-sledding.
Outdoor thrills rule the day at The Gant Aspen Club and Spa, where you can enjoy river rafting, year-round tennis, swimming, a pro shop, meditation rooms, and their well-equipped fitness center. SpaAspen features their signature Alpine Rejuvenator and a range of refreshing treatments.
For skin care, hand and foot treatments, massage, and body treatments, visit the Denver Day Spa, also known a Changes of Cherry Creek. They offer a stone therapy massage, aromatherapy, deep tissue massage, and Cranio Sacral massage in this elegant facility.
At The Woodhouse Day Spa, a warm, luxurious setting forms the backdrop for treatments like Micro-Dermabrasion, Reflexology, scalp massage, and East Meets West Therapies. Take in the special two-hour Woodhouse Escape package and enjoy a full afternoon of soothing massage, reflexology, and facial acupressure.
The stunning ski-resort town of Vail paints a pretty picture behind the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort and Spa with its indoor and outdoor pool, whirlpool, and sauna. Special treatments at the Golden Leaf Spa include the Extreme Defrost (Healing Water Bath and massage) and the Golden Leaf Splendor (Healing Water Bath, massage, and facial).
For a unique blend of fitness and relaxation, head to the Spa at Vail Mountain Lodge, set on the banks of Gore Creek. The spa offers 13 therapy rooms and a soul-cleansing solarium, a fully-equipped gym, lap pool, indoor rock climbing wall, and relaxing massages and facials. Rooms are softly illuminated with candles and crystal lamps, creating a soft, rejuvenating glow.
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