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This story appears in the August 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine.
In the year 1551 a strange male animal was put on public display in Augsburg, Germany. He had humanlike fingers on his hands and feet, observers noted, and a "cheerful nature," although he also had a tendency to turn his backside to viewers. Based on an illustration of the creature, biologists think it was most likely a drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus), a baboonlike primate. Even today, more than 450 years later, drills are studied so infrequently in the wild that when a small team of biologists recently spotted a troop of them on Equatorial Guinea's Bioko Island, they collectively gasped, then sat down on the rain forest floor to watch.
The drills, the largest primates on Bioko, were climbing and feeding in a fig tree at the floor of the island's 7,000-foot-high Gran Caldera. Earlier that morning the scientists had spotted troops (each five to thirty strong) of chattering monkeys: red-eared, black colobus, and red colobus, the latter one of the most threatened of all primates.
Biologists regard Bioko Island as a living laboratory for studying how plants and animals evolve in isolation. It lies in the Gulf of Guinea, 20 miles off the west coast of Africa, one of four islands in an archipelago. The three others—São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón—are deepwater isles formed tens of millions of years ago and colonized by plants and animals from Africa that arrived on their shores by chance.
Bioko, however, was connected to the African mainland during each ice age, most recently about 12,000 years ago. Like an exclusive ark, the island shelters an isolated set of sub-species evolved separately from those on the mainland. There are seven species of monkeys, including the drills; four galagos (bush babies); two small antelopes (duikers); one species of porcupine; one species of tree hyrax; one species of pouched rat; and three species of scaly-tailed squirrels. There are catlike linsangs (but no lions or leopards). The roster once included forest buffalo, but they were hunted to extinction a century ago.
Add orchids, land snails, freshwater fish, amphibians, spiders, and insects—all evolving apart from their mainland relatives. In the island's interior, woodlands, grasslands, and rain forest remain much as they were when the first Portuguese explorers stepped ashore in the 15th century: largely untouched and beautiful.
"It's as close to pristine as any place I've seen," said Gail Hearn, one of the researchers leading the expedition into the Gran Caldera—her 13th trip into its forested depths. A primatologist at Pennsylvania's Drexel University, Hearn made her first trip here in 1990, intending to start a long-term study of the Bioko Island drills. Instead, "I just fell in love with the whole place," she said. "We've done so much damage to this planet. Here it's undamaged and impossibly beautiful. It feels like a place where one person could make a difference."
Hearn organized the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program (BBPP). Each January she brings together teams of scientists and American and Equatorial Guinean students for comprehensive biodiversity surveys. This year a team sponsored by National Geographic magazine, Conservation International, and the International League of Conservation Photographers joined her for a 12-day RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) to document as many monkeys as possible, along with the rest of Bioko's stunning variety of other species—a richness protected by the island's history but now threatened by rampant hunting.
Bioko's flora and fauna so impressed the first European visitor, 15th-century Portuguese explorer Fernão do Po, that he named the island Formosa, "beautiful." Europeans who followed wanted to plant their first African colony here.
The indigenous Bubi people, however, who had arrived from mainland Africa, refused to cooperate with the white-skinned arrivistes, scuttling every attempt at European settlement until 1827. That year Britain established a base at Malabo (now Equatorial Guinea's capital) to combat the West African slave trade. Spain, which later colonized the neighboring main-land region of Río Muni, ultimately gained control of both colonies. The two together, called Spanish Guinea, gained independence from Spain in 1968 and emerged as the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
Settlers from the mainland belonging to the Fang ethnic group took control from the Bubi, and since the Spanish left, Bubi separatists have clashed often with government forces. Neither the Fang nor the Bubi locals, accustomed to hunting the island animals for food, share the scientists' appreciation of Bioko's unique biodiversity. Further thwarting conservation efforts is a burgeoning offshore oil industry. Vast stores of oil and natural gas were discovered in the last decades of the 1900s, and now American corporations are pumping some 400,000 barrels of oil and natural gas a day, bringing new wealth to the island. More and more people who love the taste of monkey meat have the cash to buy it.
Primatologist Tom Butynski, senior conservation biologist on the expedition, first visited Bioko in 1986 in response to an International Union for Conservation of Nature report that identified the island as an important place to survey for monkeys. At the time, no biologist had visited for more than two decades, and Butynski expected to find the monkeys hunted nearly to extinction.
Instead, he found them thriving. It turned out that to prevent Bubi uprisings the Fang government had confiscated the islanders' shotguns from 1974 to 1986, which had given the primates a reprieve. Further, large tracts of lowland rain forest that the Spanish had cleared for cocoa plantations were returning to forest after the plantations were abandoned. Monkeys were busy recolonizing the forests.
"We saw about two troops a kilometer in the Gran Caldera transect," Butynski said. The monkeys were abundant, and they were fearless. "I remember thinking how naive they were. We were able to get good, close-up looks."
But there were ominous signs as well. During the same ten-week survey, Butynski spotted 14 Fang hunters with shotguns and saw numerous traps set for duikers, monkeys, and smaller mammals. Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it costs much more than chicken in local markets.
The steady slaughter of monkeys has taken its toll. By the time of this year's BBPP survey, hunters had wiped out many of the monkeys at the northern end of the 780-square-mile island, including those in a national park. They had also started shooting the monkeys in the Gran Caldera and Southern Highlands Scientific Reserve at the south end of the island, where villagers aided by the BBPP monitor monkey numbers.
Over the past decade BBPP staff have recorded the number of monkeys in the meat markets, and the tally had reached more than 20,000 by the end of March 2008. Tens of thousands of other animals have ended up there too. It is clear that all seven monkey species are in danger of becoming extinct, and that the Equatorial Guineans could well eat their way through the island's fabled biodiversity.
Documenting the carnage has had some effect. In October 2007 the BBPP convinced Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to issue a ban against the hunting, selling, and consumption of primate meat. It had been in place for two months when the BBPP team arrived in January. How were the monkeys faring? And how would they react to humans who wanted to count rather than shoot them? It didn't take long for the biologists to find out.
It was dusk, a time when monkeys chatter as they settle in for the night, but the caldera forest was oddly quiet. Butynski had anticipated an especially lively chorus because all seven monkey species live in the caldera. But there was little to hear aside from the trilling hum of insects and frogs. Butynski kept to a trail, stopping every 50 feet or so to look and listen. "Well," he said at last, clearly baffled, "maybe the monkeys have moved to another part of the forest for the night."
No sooner had he finished speaking than two fur bombs the size of large dogs hurtled overhead. They splashed into the leafy crown of a nearby tree and then plunged into another, as if diving from one green pool to the next. Finally, having uttered not a single call, they disappeared over the edge of a river gorge and into the forested twilight.
Butynski, who has made dozens of primate surveys throughout Africa, pulled out his notebook to record the sighting. "That's a surprise—two drills," he said. "They must have been in the trees sleeping when they heard my voice."
The next morning Butynski set out into the caldera again. The instant he spotted a troop of red-eared monkeys, they began to give hack calls and chirps, eyes wide with terror. Mothers clutched babies to their breasts; branches bounced and limbs heaved as the monkeys scurried to get away.
Such fleeting glimpses were all the scientists came to expect. In the first three days of the survey, as the team hiked from the island's southern shore 2,000 feet up the caldera, all the monkeys they spotted gave alarm calls before vanishing into one of the steep river gorges that cut through the caldera.
On the fourth day, however, the monkeys were less afraid. After hiking up and down steep, muddy trails littered with rough lava cobbles, the team reached the caldera's northern end, its inner sanctum. Bioko receives more than 400 inches of rain a year, and although this was supposed to be the dry season, daily thunderstorms unleashed torrents. Between storms, the sun shone fierce and bright, and large beads of sweat rolled off everyone's foreheads and noses.
Despite increased hunting, the forest canopy in this distant part of the crater fairly exploded with monkeys. In their leafy shelter a dozen red-eared monkeys leaped in alarm, trailing their long copper-colored tails along the branches and shouting their nasal call of warning. Forty feet farther on, a smaller group of gnomelike black colobus interrupted their leaf breakfast to race away. Just beyond them, a single charcoal-colored Preuss's monkey jumped from a low bush where he'd been feeding into a towering mahogany tree, then leaped into a neighboring tree, his dark tail curled in a shepherd's crook over his back. In the distance troops of red colobus gave honk calls, and crowned monkeys made their throaty booms.
Occasionally, red Ogilby's and blue duikers crashed through the tangled undergrowth. Dozens of butterflies in brilliant hues and patterns to rival a Missoni gown flitted along the trail, while Jurassic Park–size earthworms and millipedes slithered into damp ravines, and pairs of gray parrots pirouetted in the sky.
Butynski jotted down each monkey troop and duiker, and stopped to inspect flowers, leaves, and fruits that monkeys had nibbled. Sometimes a strong, ammonia scent filled the air—the calling card of a troop of red colobus, one of the rarest of Bioko's monkeys. But it was the drills—even scared drills—that we all most wanted to see.
Finally we spotted a small troop of drills below us on the far side of a river feeding in a tree. The distance and rushing water extinguished the sounds and smells of our little clutch of humans, and the drills went about their business as if we weren't there. This was when we sat down to watch.
All had bushy, gray-brown pelts, and all but one were adult females or adolescents. The sole adult male was nearly twice as big as the others. He was simultaneously muscled and rotund, his Buddha belly at odds with his sharp-featured, obsidian black face. So sculpted were the angles of his cheeks, brows, and nose that he looked as if he wore a mask. White fur bristled around his face; his rump shone red, blue, and purple. Whenever he moved, the other drills got out of his way. At last, when they had eaten their fill, the troop clambered down the tree and vanished into the shadowy forest.
"Isn't it remarkable?" Butynski said after the last drill was gone. For nearly 30 minutes the biologists had been able to observe monkeys that weren't frightened of humans. "No one has studied the ecology and behavior of these animals in the wild," he said. "But that might be possible here now: Someone could habituate a troop of drills to humans and start a long-term study."
Even with the number of dead monkeys that the BBPP staff had counted in Malabo's market, the northern caldera survey revealed a substantial and healthy primate population. "They're certainly not naive anymore, and they're not as abundant as in 1986, but they're still in relatively good numbers," Butynski said. His calculations suggested that the caldera's forest shelters a little more than one monkey troop a kilometer. "It's a much lower rate of encounter than what we recorded in 1986," he noted. That year there were almost twice as many monkeys. Nevertheless, Butynski remains hopeful. "The forest is still intact, even in places where there aren't monkeys now," he said.
Intact habitat is key for Bioko's monkeys. Most species go extinct for one of two reasons: overhunting or loss of habitat. It's far easier to control the first problem, Butynski said, than to rectify the second. "Bioko is not like parts of East Africa, where people have cleared the forest to the mountaintops for agriculture. Even still, in East Africa people seldom hunt monkeys."
"I'm an optimist," he continued, taking a seat on a slope overlooking the caldera's rugged rim and vine-draped woods. Recent monsoon winds and rainstorms had left parts of the forest flattened like wilted salad. Above the rumpled greenery, red-brown African mahogany trees rose at random, their trunks tall and straight, their limbs sagging with the weight of orchids and ferns. "Just look at those mahoganies. Anywhere else, they would have been logged long ago. This place is just too remote and difficult for large numbers of hunters to get to. It's what keeps the monkeys relatively safe."
Hearn, who hiked into the caldera a few days later, is not so sure. "We used to think the monkeys were safe here, that it was just too far for the hunters to travel. But it isn't."
On a camp table she unrolled a topographical map of the Gran Caldera and surrounding area. "See this area? It's not that far from the northern edge of the crater."
Hearn thinks the hunters probably use some of the trails the BBPP has cut over the years. "They know it's a protected area, but there's no law enforcement, so they come right in and shoot monkeys and duikers," she said. "In the Malabo market they'll even tell you brazenly, 'It's a Gran Caldera monkey.' "
For the first two months after the ban on primate meat was announced, monkey carcasses vanished from the market. You could still buy all the duikers, pangolins, pythons, pouched rats, and porcupines necessary to make a fancy stew—but not monkeys.
Part of the presidential edict explains that monkey meat is unsafe because "primates are carriers of epidemics and other pathologies" that can infect people. (Indeed, epidemiologists have found several simian immunodeficiency viruses in western and central Africa primate species, among which the precursors of HIV-1 and HIV-2 have been identified.) Hearn thinks the health risk may have discouraged the trade. "No one is going to serve their family meat that could make them sick," she said.
Back in Malabo, Felix Elori, a former monkey hunter now employed in the oil industry, shook his head at Hearn's suggestion. "Monkey meat is something we've eaten since we were young; it has a good flavor and isn't bad for you," he said. "It's never made us sick."
Elori doesn't eat monkey meat himself, though. Two female drills he'd killed had had babies, a male and a female. He had nursed and raised them; now his sister keeps them in a cage. "I can't eat monkeys anymore. They look like people. And anyway, it's more economical to eat chicken."
Did we want to buy the two young drills? he wondered.
Elori thinks the whopping fine—as much as a thousand dollars—is the best reason to forgo hunting monkeys. But after the two-month lull, the trade in monkey meat may be resuming. The day after Hearn and Butynski returned with the expedition to Malabo, a drill and two red colobus went up for sale. They'd probably been killed near the caldera.
Hearn's face fell at the news. "It shows the ban alone is not enough. It's going to take law enforcement and armed forest patrols," she said. "At least they've taken the first step."
If the hunting can be stopped for good, monkeys may return to all of Bioko's forests. The caldera populations will serve as the source, Butynski says, and scientists, students, and the people of Bioko will have a rare chance to watch a natural experiment take place: monkeys reclaiming their ranges of old.
This research project was funded in part by your Society membership.
Author Virginia Morell writes regularly about science and natural history. Christian Ziegler specializes in ecology and conservation of tropical rain forests. Joel Sartore and Tim Laman are veteran shooters for the Geographic; Ian Nichols is currently on assignment photographing chimpanzees in Congo.


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Mercedes-Benz CLA Coupe
In second generation form, the four-door CLA Coupe continues to inject an extra dose of style into Mercedes' compact model line-up. Jonathan Crouch reports
Ten Second Review
The CLA Coupe - a rather different kind of Mercedes. This second generation version, like the model that inspired it, is compact and coupe-like, yet has four doors and a decent boot. And it'll set the neighbours talking far more than if you simply bought yet another mid-sized German-badged executive saloon. It's a model to challenge your preconceptions, that's for sure.
Never underestimate the power of emotional appeal. It's brought us cars like this one, this second generation Mercedes CLA Coupe. We first saw the original version of this four-door coupe in 2013, that design followed by an equally trendy 'Shooting Brake' estate version a couple of years later. This replacement continues in much the same vein: so it's A-Class-based, which means that it's front-driven - unlike the kind of Mercedes C-Class saloon you could buy for very similar money.
A C-Class would give you much more rear seat room and boot space, but a CLA will make a much more overt car park statement - which for its intended audience will be all that really matters. This MK2 model is a little bigger and much more sophisticated than its predecessor. And, as before, it comes in the four-door Coupe form we're going to look at here - or in 'Shooting Brake' estate guise.
Driving Experience
Mercedes markets this car as a 'sporty' alternative to its more conventional C-Class saloon. The CLA Coupe's sporty styling leads you to expect that. Though this car shares its chassis, steering and braking architecture with A and B-Class models, it does get its own suspension set-up, with various changes made to improve comfort and make it a bit less crashy over poorer surfaces. There's torque vectoring to help with the handling and 'Direct Steering' to sharpen things up at the helm.
The range kicks off with CLA 180 and CLA 200 variants that both use a 1.3-litre petrol engine co-developed with Renault and are respectively capable of producing either 136hp and 200Nm of torque or 163hp and 250Nm. Next up is the CLA 220, which features a 2.0-litre petrol engine with an output of 190hp and 300Nm, this variant available in both two-wheel and four-wheel drive. Beyond that lies another petrol-powered front-driven variant, the CLA 250, which uses a 2.0-litre engine and can generate 224hp and 350Nm. You can also talk to your dealer about diesel-powered CLA 200d and CLA 220d variants. All models were initially launched with a 7G-DCT seven-speed automatic transmission, but you can also talk to your dealer about a 6-speed manual stick shift for lower-range variants.
Design and Build
By any measure, this is a handsome car. Purposeful, with sporting proportions and a potent long stretched bonnet. Hi-tech too, with jewel-like LED daytime running lamps fashioned to create a flare effect around the diamond-shaped grille. It's not just about aesthetics either. The combination of the long, stretched entry line above the windows and frameless doors give the CLA Coupe a sporty and elegant character. And the super-sleek drag factor makes this one of the most aerodynamic production cars you can buy.
The cabin's very similar to that of an A-Class - which these days is a very good thing indeed. The designers have completely dispensed with the usual instrument binnacle cowl, so as a result, the wing-shaped main body of the dashboard extends from one front door to the other with no visual discontinuity. The widescreen display is completely free-standing. And the lower section of the fascia is visually separated from the main body of the instrument cluster by what the designers call a 'trench', and it appears to float in front of the instrument cluster. The standard ambient lighting enhances this effect and the air vents, finished in a sporty 'turbine-look' are another highlight.
Market and Model
CLA Coupe prices start at around £30,500 and rise to around £37,000, which leave this car right in Mercedes C-Class saloon territory. Think in terms of a premium of around £1,000 to get yourself the Shooting Brake estate version you can ask your dealer about. There's a choice of three trim levels - 'AMG Line', 'AMG Line Premium' and 'AMG Line Premium Plus'. Even base 'AMG Line' models come decently equipped, standard kit including the MBUX multimedia system that includes 'Hey Mercedes' voice recognition and is accessed through a 10.25-inch centre-dash touchscreen. This incorporates navigation, a DAB radio and smartphone integration, including Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
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You'd expect such an aerodynamic production car to deliver an ultra-competitive set of running costs, so let's get to the figures. The CLA 180 and CLA 200 Coupe variants can deliver up to 47.9mpg on the combined cycle. The CLA 180 emits 123g/km of CO2 and the CLA 200 emits 124g/km. The CLA 220 4MATIC delivers 40.4mpg and emits 149g/km. And the CLA 250 can deliver up to 41.5mpg and emit 139g/km of CO2.
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Now a days its hard to find the time to put christmas lights on the house. At least for my family, if my dad doesn't do it no one will & poor papa is always tired. So, a couple of years ago I decided to take christmas around with me. I must say ever since I started this tradition its made my holidays all the more cheerful, even without the lights on our house. I feel that a car driving around with lights is much more special and silly. I love seeing the expressions of little faces looking up at my car, adults cracking a smile, and cars honking and waving. It makes everyone so much friendlier.
Here what you'll need:
#1. A car with a rack
#2. One or two 100 count color lights.
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#3. A car power adaptor
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Once your all done, you can either zip tie them so they are nice and secure. Or simply just tie the end together with the rest of the lights. Now its just time to wait for the sun to go away & light up!
Did I mention that it makes following your car so much easier?
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Game of the Week: Stanford vs. Oregon — The View from England
So that was a touch unexpected. The Ducks, used to clocking up around 55 points per game, managed 14 against a stalwart Cardinal which kept them to a round number of points in the first quarter. Round like the O in Oregon.
Stanford 17 — Oregon 14
So that was a touch unexpected. The Ducks, used to clocking up around 55 points per game, managed 14 against a stalwart Cardinal which kept them to a round number of points in the first quarter. Round like the O in Oregon. It would be tempting to bill this as a battle of the birds, an avian struggle in which one feathery flapper triumphed. But sadly I understand "Cardinal" is a reference to the colour, not to the bird, so we're left with other puns. "Oregon Quack Under Pressure"? "Stanford Displays Cardinal Virtues"? "Oh Oregon, Don't Be Biretta"? My personal favourite, given the fact that Oregon were ranked #2 and Stanford #14, is currently "Ordinal Disrupted By Cardinal Numerals". Which is about the only math-based joke you are likely to see in this column, so make the most of it.
Stanford didn't have it all their own way: they dropped behind in the third quarter, and the game eventually turned out on a shoot-out between the two kickers. The American variety of football quite properly avoids the barbarous custom of penalty shoot-outs as an unsuitable and unfair means of deciding contests, but some curious impulse deep within the game's lizard-brain, some crude and blunt twist of sporting DNA, arranged matters so that it came down to Alejandro Madonaldo and Jordan Williamson both taking a crucial kick apiece. Determined to make this as tense as possible, the ball hit the upright for Madonaldo and went clean through for Williamson. And that was it. Upset, reversal, "The Curial Case of the Collapsing Canards". (I'll stop now.)
As Gene Wojciechowski pointed out over at ESPN, galling on several levels for Oregon. Throws a spanner into their title plans, gives their rivals a bit of running-room, and for the players, a sod to lose at home on Senior Night. (For those unfamiliar with the term, Senior Day is the last home game of the season, during which the team are lauded and made much of. It is not, despite the name, a species of longer and murkier Senior Moment.) The last comment struck me because it reminded me what a lot of different perspectives people will have on this game, and how distinct they might be. For the players and students, the game is embedded in Senior Night, and somehow reflects, sums up or ironises the previous season. Like the couplet at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet, it has the potential to validate or twist away from the meaning which has been built up through the preceding weeks. And the game itself is only a few hours – though surely some of the most important – in the festivity that surrounds it. This may be one of the unexpected moments when cricket fans have more natural understanding than soccer fans of how football works. Despite the very obvious surface differences in tone, there's a sort of commonality of basic structure between the two experiences in their classical form: "Dispute not with the people of the picnic" etc.1
That's one context within which this game was watched and appreciated (or not appreciated, depending on what colour you were rooting for), but of course a much larger number of people will have watched it on TV. Philip Auslander's scholarship on the notion of "liveness" has cast attention onto the ways in which TV is perhaps the dominant medium in our culture – to the extent that it structures how we read non-TV events. So, to pick an obvious example, going to a concert will frequently involve being in a stadium with a few tiny figures on a stage half a mile away, whilst you watch them being projected onto massive video screens above your head, and possibly intercut with sections from their own music videos. Which occasionally will project pictures of the crowd, or particular people in it (particularly if they're sitting on someone else's shoulders and singing along whilst possessing physical features which suit the choices of the camera crew.) It's difficult to avoid a sense that at big concerts we're sometimes being shown a TV programme about the exciting experience of being at the concert we're at.
Certainly when watching a football game, TV seems curiously uninterested in replicating any pre-existing experience of the game: the angles it presents to the viewer aren't an attempt to give you the view of a spectator, or even of the players. You frequently find yourself watching the action from angles which are better (or at least clearer, more exciting and comprehensible) than those which could be got by actually being there in person. We seem sometimes to be watching the game from an invisible set of points swooping around above the players' heads. Which made me think this week that perhaps another mode of watching is becoming important – though perhaps not as significant as TV yet. Because when I replay bits of the game in my head, I find myself translating what I saw into the camera angles from Madden…
1 And, though this really is taking us away from the game in question, I have witnessed cheering common feeling between followers of the two sports. On quoting the opening lines from Redneck Woman about how "I ain't never/ Been the Barbie-doll type/ No, I can't drink that sweet champagne" but would rather drink beer at a tailgate, a cricket-watching friend of mine agreed heartily that sweet champagne was an abominable thing to bring to a game, and you wanted something dry and crisp, like a Freixenet. But I digress. (He's right, mind you.)
Dr. Jem Bloomfield studied at the universities of Oxford and Exeter and is currently an Associate Lecturer in Drama at Oxford Brookes. His research covers the performance of Early Modern drama and the various ways it has been adapted and co-opted throughout the centuries. His own plays include "Bewick Gaudy", which won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing, and he is working on a version of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy "She Stoops To Conquer". His writing on arts, culture, and politics have appeared in "California Literary Review", "Strand Magazine" and "Liberal Conspiracy". He blogs at "Quite Irregular" and can be found on Twitter @jembloomfield


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It is now September and, totally off my usual migratory schedule, I'm back in the north. Home in the Hammer, enjoying brilliant blue skies – even Hamilton Bay, the maligned body of water that shares its shores with steel companies and suburbia, has an aqua shine to it these days. I couldn't ask for a better homecoming. My buddy with a bosom, Cocky, was at the airport to meet me, after her own month of travels. A treat to come home to, but now she's gone too. I may get a chance to go for a sail on that same water if this weather holds for the Labour Day weekend which it is supposed to.
My last two weeks in Costa Rica were spent down in sweet calypsolandia, Cahuita. Although it rained lots in July on the Caribbean coast just as it had been up in Monteverde, I ended up being followed by beautiful weather from the green mountain to the seashore. There were some casual showers of course, and maybe one night of insistent rain, but the month of September in Cahuita means dry weather. Hard to fathom how, when it is hurricane season just to north, but I stopped trying to figure out weather a long time ago.
We got a lot of hot sunny days that sent us to the beach, but we mostly stayed at home. It was glorious to be back basking under those big trees, bathing in the cool water, being serenaded by the howlers and bailando with Roberto. I was amazed at how much the papaya seedlings we had planted in July had grown in the four or so weeks I was away. But then the growth of vegetation in Costa Rica always unnerves me a bit – you just don't want to sit in one place too long if there is a vigorous-looking vine nearby.
One afternoon we went up to the Port of Limon, a place I really only have known as a bus-changing town. We walked around the 'malecon', the boardwalk that follows the seaside. Limon is one of the oldest cities in the Americas, having been visited by Christopher Columbus in 1502, so if it seems a little worn that should be understandable.
Development in Costa Rica by the Spaniards took place from the Pacific side, and so the Atlantic coast was left to fend for itself against all that crazy rainforest vegetation. In the mid-1800s the government decided to build a railroad and connect Limon (particularly its port) to the rest of the country. They brought in Chinese and Jamaican workers to build the tracks and thus the Caribbean coast is very much an extension of Afro-Caribbean culture with lots of chop suey houses around.
There is no denying racist elements that existed (and unfortunately still do.) When the railroad was finished and the banana plantations became a major employer, the black population provided the workforce. They weren't encouraged to travel throughout the country, couldn't afford it anyway, and the fact that they were foreigners themselves made it able to control their movements through their documents. Eventually they went to work in other parts of Costa Rica as laborers were needed and Afro-Caribbean families settled elsewhere in the country. But the heart of the calypso-blooded community will always be Limon.
The city developed once the railroad took off, but government money was never pouring their way. In the last year or two, there has been a move by the Costa Rican government to bring economic development to the area although people are waiting to see the proof. There was an attempt at revitalizing the waterfront of Limon several years ago, but earthquakes and storms destroyed much of the expanded boardwalk as well as what must have been a great little outdoor concert theatre in its short life. As Limon grows into a bigger cruise ship port (it is already a large commercial harbor and a popular cruise ship stop) hopefully some of the wealth that visits its shores will be spread in the area. Although Limon is known for its poverty, its richness of spirit and culture is as much a part of life there. The biggest threat to that, after poverty, is the drug trade which feeds on the poverty and changes the spirit.
The city has a funky flair to it and lots of local color, from the bright hues of the buildings to the cacao skin of the residents. When you take the highway east of San José, over the mountains of Braulio Carillo National Park, and through the miles of flat banana and pineapple fields, over the wide rivers coming out of the mountains and arrive in Limon province, you know you are in a different culture than in the rest of Costa Rica. The food changes – instead of arroz y frijoles, you are now eating rice and beans cooked in coconut milk; the music changes – from salsa and merengue to calypso, soca and reggae; and the language is English-based Limonense-Creole rather than Spanish. It seems that most people are fluently tri-lingual – speaking Tico Spanish and British English as well as their own Caribbean-tongue. It is a disappearing language as are many of the indigenous languages that are being used by less and less natives of Costa Rica. My experience being there with Roberto is that every plant, bird and insect has a different name in Limon than elsewhere in the country. The words are English-based, but the names are distinct to this region. I can get very lost trying to follow the lilt and tilt of the language used in Cahuita.
We had some beautiful days and were out on the ocean as often as we could force ourselves to go for the walk through the forest to the beach. There was another hot night spent in Puerto Viejo, which has a number of bars that cater to different crowds – we go to Maritza's, which has a live band on Saturday nights and always plays a great variety of music for dancing from soca to salsa.
In the middle of all this it was my birthday and Roberto promised to go out in the sea and get me lobster for dinner. So we spent two fine mornings on the beach under a big sun, the sea a calm shiny turquoise stone. Roberto used to be a diver (snorkeler) and caught and sold octopus, fish and lobster, but quit a number of years ago as he saw the population of these sea creatures diminish. The banana plantations in the area have caused lots of pollution – from their chemical effluent to the silt run-off to the plastic bluebags that they put over the banana bunches – all this stuff ends up in the ocean and, along with a bad earthquake or two, things have never been the same.
But it didn't take him long to get four nice-sized lobster for dinner and we were thankful for the bounty. We were blessed with the warmth of the sun and the beauty of the sea and took advantage to walk through Cahuita National Park's shady trails, sharing our time with the monkeys.
Cahuita's beaches are stunning and the National Park is one of the most beautiful in the country. Between the white sand beach, the reef off the point, the hours of hiking, the constant presence of birds, insects and animals, and the fact that you can enter for a small donation from the town access point, it makes for one of the nicest parks to visit in Costa Rica. They have built bridges over some of the swampier areas (where before there were submerged wooden walkways), using the same recycled-plastic material that the Monteverde Reserve has been using on its trails and signage for a few years now. It was interesting that we could smell the plastic off-gassing in the very hot sun – something that I've never noticed up in the cooler cloud forest.
We also continued taking care of Roberto's little farm. We seeded corn and within three days it was two inches out of the ground – when I head back there in November I should be eating elotes, the young corncobs.
Roberto climbed up his castaña tree, the glamorous cousin of the breadfruit, to chop off the top limbs before it gets too tall and he won't be able to harvest the fruit.
This tree is also growing on the bank of his stream and, knowing that it will fall one day, he has been concerned that if it is too tall it will fall on his casita. So I took pictures as he shimmied up the trunk and took his machete to the big elegant leaves and chopped off the top.
Afterward he said he was getting too old to do this stuff – between the possibility of falling, wasps, snakes, and other risks he felt lucky to get the job done in one piece – but my guess is he'll keep climbing and chopping as long as he needs to, for as long as he is truly able. His age is just making him realize how vulnerable he is and that when it hurts, it hurts harder.
We went back through the mountains to San José for my last two days in the country. There was a full day of music awaiting us and we took advantage.
Wandering around the city, we caught the Lubin Barahona orchestra outside of the National Museum. It was big band music and boleros being sung by old timers.
The crowd was mostly older couples who were happy to be dancing on the street while the music played on and the rain held off. Like in most cities, there is live music playing for free to be found most weekends.
We then caught a gospel concert in the Melico Salazar Theatre at night – a contest between three local gospel choirs (won by the University choir) with Master Key (a five man acapella group from Costa Rica now working in the US)
with Manuel Obregon, a musician I've known for years in Monteverde (and seen him play here in Toronto twice). He's one of the most experimental composers in the country – here he was playing gospel with our friend Tapado, the country's top percussionist, at his side. Manuel never fails to amaze me with where his music takes him and he takes alot of other musicians along for his musical rides. The Let It Shine concert was presented by a gospel choir group and held to celebrate Black Culture Day, August 31. It was a great way to extend my time in the cultural richness of the Afro-Caribbean community.
The inevitableness of leaving woke me up early on the last day of August and when it is time to go, it is time. It makes saying goodbye easier when you know you are going to return within a couple of months (si dios quiere.) Heading to my happy home in the Hammer also makes things easier. I can still feel the Caribbean sun on my skin and if I listen hard enough, the gentle arrival of the waves lapping the beach and gently rocking my soul.
The mellowness of life in the jungle and on the sea exists in stark contrast to the busyness of my life back here in the city as I prepare for a trip to the northeastern US, continue overseeing the Spanish translation of Walking with Wolf, work on the historical record of Bosqueeterno S.A., and catch up with my northern friends.
Stay calm, Kay, stay calm – but keep that ball rolling, there is lots to do.


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It was bound to happen.
This season of "South Park," after all, has been nothing if not a mirror of current events, remarking on everything from the iTunes agreement clause to the death of Osama bin Laden.
Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker strayed away from the characters surrounding actual Royal Wedding, and instead, replaced Wills and Kate with thinly veiled (no pun intended) South Park Canadian doppelgangers.
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Obligatory jokes are made about the pageantry of the wedding (the two royals at one point dip their arms in a giant ceremonial urn of pudding), though the plot takes a bizarre turn from there, where a strange cave-dwelling creature abducts Canadian Kate.
What did Brits have to say about the episode? The Guardian's Stuart Heritage said the show has had its fair share of royal skewering, and it has a lot to live up to. "South Park's ire is as fleeting as it is indiscriminate," he writes, concluding that even the most offensive thing in any given show is usually trumped by the next episode.
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The fashion world will never be done mourning Alexander McQueen. But, according to PPR president Francois-Henri Pinault, the brand will go on. Before we witness McQueen's last Fall RTW collection at Paris Fashion Week, let's marvel at his pre-Fall pieces. Each one more stunning than the next, further solidifying the late designer's genius status. Tweeds, graphics, suits, coats, fur, lace — not to be missed, seriously.


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Dmitry Chaplin and Chelsie Hightower Join DWTS Professionals
I've been fascinated with the interaction of dancers between Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance for a while now. Not only do I have a website that covers So You Think You Can Dance, but my regular readers might remember my previous post that contained a video of Nigel Lythgoe talking about Chelsie Hightower possibly being on Dancing with the Stars. My favorite line from Nigel in that video was when he said, "these kids have to work, so yeah I'm ok with her being on Dancing with the Stars."
Well, it looks like Nigel Lythgoe (producer of So You Think You Can Dance) wasn't just saying that off hand. Now Chelsie Hightower and Dmitry Chaplin were both announced as part of the latest Dancing with the Stars professionals. You can check out what I've written about Chelsie on So You Think You Can Dance and of course Dmitry on So You Think You Can Dance.
Funny thing is I remember them both very well. Dmitry Chaplin was most well known for taking his shirt off. Cat Deeley (host of So You Think You Can Dance) always liked to point out his either lack of shirt or wide open shirt. I have a feeling that Dancing with the Stars will make the most of that feature as well. However, Dmitry has actually been back on So You Think You Can Dance (including the Canadian version I believe) as a choreographer. So, Dmitry knows how to choreograph as well as he knows how to dance. Dmitry and Jewel will make a fantastic looking pair that will be stunningly beautiful to watch with amazing lines.
Chelsie Hightower on the other hand was a really odd character on So You Think You Can Dance. No one can argue that she was stunningly beautiful with some of the most distinct moves I've seen on the dance floor. When she was on the dance floor she was incredible to watch. However, back stage she was quite a bit of a tom boy and if I remember right she loved to burp all the time. I might have to go back and watch the video to make sure, but I'm pretty confident it was her. I believe her partner described her as one of the guys backstage and then this sexy fireball on stage (definitely not an exact quote, but you get the idea). Chelsie and Ty Murray will be an interesting partnership. Ty better hope that Chelsie's fame from So You Think You Can Dance helps him get some votes, because I'm not sure many rodeo fans are going to be on the phones voting for him.
I'm very excited to see Chelsie and Dmitry on Dancing with the Stars. They are great additions to the show. Alongside Lacey Schwimmer, So You Think You Can Dance ballroom dancers are taking over as the professionals on Dancing with the Stars. Makes sense that the producers would want to do this. So You Think You Can Dance contestants bring their own base of fans with them and that can't do anything but help Dancing with the Stars be that much bigger.


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Speak Up
Answering pesticide-related questions from your customers and addressing their concerns has become an increasingly important and necessary part of your job. While it may seem easier to shut up than speak up, try not to feel like answering questions is a burden, but rather an opportunity to demonstrate pride and passion in your profession.
No matter where you might be located in the United States, there's probably an activist group with an agenda that includes severely restricting your freedom to choose the pesticides you rely on to get the job done. Misinformation and scare tactics promoted by these groups are often the source of your customers' questions and concerns about pesticides. These groups are nationally driven, well funded, networked and adept at preying upon people's fears and emotions. Their effectiveness has enabled them to extend their reach into the communities where you live and work — reaching your clients with their allegations about harm to people, pets and the environment.
In some cases, these activists have been so successful in advancing their anti-pesticide agenda that many towns and cities in the northern United States and California already have enacted bans and restrictions for homeowner and professional use of such products. As an industry, we're facing more and more of these proposed bans each year with activists succeeding in a divide-and-conquer strategy that pits end-user groups against each other in the fight for exemptions from such bans.
As if that weren't enough, still other activist groups are determined to convince all of us that pesticides can be blamed for every possible illness known or as yet unknown. They urge a "precautionary" approach, which would prevent development and use of all substances and technologies that pose any possible risk — even if such risk is unknowable.
These doomsday tactics are successful fund-raisers and headline makers. Unfortunately, they also are helping to form your clients' opinions about pesticides. Taken collectively, activists' effective use of grassroots tactics and sensational media coverage has caused some segments of the specialty pesticide-applicator industry to seek exemptions from new restrictions and local ordinances while supporting them for other segments.
In reality, we all sink or swim together. If you are reading this issue of Grounds Maintenance magazine, you probably already realize that — and you probably belong to a professional association as well. Keeping current in your profession and actively participating in a state or national association can contribute greatly to your readiness and comfort level when answering questions from clients or the public, whether well-intentioned or hostile.
Also, the more we all speak with one voice on behalf of all pest management users, the greater chance we have of reassuring clients, balancing the public policy debate and ensuring the tools we all need remain available. We've learned the hard way that being proactive is the key and that local people must speak to local issues.
Those who are asking you about grounds maintenance products and practices have likely heard something in the news — positive or negative — about your profession, a specific product or your facility and are seeking to learn more. Whether on the golf course, in the park, at your child's soccer game or in a civic meeting, these questions offer an opportunity to become an educator and proponent for your profession.
You know pest management products are necessary, but how do you communicate proactively and effectively about how and why you use them? How do you debunk activists' myths that play to emotions, not science? A good start is to remember why you chose to become a professional in the first place. Listening thoughtfully to clients' questions and sharing your own personal experience will help develop trust, making you more effective in delivering your message. Also, stick to your areas of expertise and be honest — if you don't know something, say so. Even a chance encounter presents opportunities to build trust, share good information and provide follow-up.
Here at RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment), we're reaching out to all segments of pest management to encourage the users of our industry's products to speak up. We've been working with associations in states where activists are particularly aggressive, providing support and advocacy tools for professionals. Now we're reaching out to other professional and trade associations to extend our reach into cities and towns across the country. We know that today's ban on products used in grounds maintenance and horticulture will become tomorrow's ban on public health and structural pest control products. We cannot afford to sacrifice one segment of our industry for short-term gain or to continue only on the defensive. Local bans and use restrictions can turn into state and federal legislative initiatives from which no one will be exempted. One thoughtful conversation with a concerned client is the first step towards creating positive public opinion about pesticides and their benefits.
At RISE, our ultimate goal is to proactively share information rather than allow activists to drive the agenda and keep us on the defensive. Our combined industries employ tens of thousands of people just like you. They are passionate about what they do, have families they want to protect and they respect our environment, but perhaps just need a little coaching and encouragement to get out there and tell their stories.
Communicating proactively with your clients and the public about what you do and how you do it is the first step to challenging activist misinformation. It's not always easy, but it is necessary. As you prepare for the busy spring season, I urge you to identify opportunities to share information about your work and pesticides with your clients, neighbors and local policy makers. As an advocate for the job you know and love, your pride and professionalism will be evident and you'll have the confidence to answer pesticide-related questions rather than dodge them.
Note: Grounds Maintenance magazine and RISE have developed a helpful Q&A, which was included in the September 2005 edition. You can also find it online at www.grounds-mag.com. Look under Special Reports and click on RISE Q&A.
Allen James is president of RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment) (Washington, D.C.). RISE is the national trade association representing the specialty pesticide and fertilizer industries. Visit www.pestfacts.org to learn more.
We've always relied upon science to tell our story. While emotions, not science, currently sway public debate, it's important to know these facts:
All pesticides used to control weeds, insects and diseases have been thoroughly tested for effects on humans, animals and the environment to assure they do not cause undue harm. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the pri-mary federal agency regulating pesticides, requires that such products undergo some 120 health, safety and environmental tests before they can be registered for use in the U.S.
EPA's tests give special attention to a pesticide's possible effects on humans with extra requirements for protecting children's health. It is a scientific review process taking an average of nine years.
In addition to regulating new pesticides, EPA must monitor on an ongoing basis and evaluate human, animal and environmental effects from registered pesticides to ensure products already on the market meet current scientific and regulatory standards.
Becoming aware of anti-pesticide activism where you live and work.
Treating all client concerns about pesticides seriously and thoughtfully.
Talking about your credentials, training and expertise. Don't be modest — show you are an authority.
Delivering a clear, consistent message about your responsible pesticide use. You'll succeed by sticking with a few simple and understandable messages.
Talking about the benefits and value of pesticides to public health and well-being, the environment and your operation.
Remembering to let people know that pests are the problem, not the products that control and eliminate them.
Seeking facts and information from professional and trade association Web sites and referring your customers to these sites for additional information. [RISE Web site: www.pestfacts.org.]
Letting your enthusiasm show, especially when recounting personal experience on the market meet current scientific and regulatory standards.
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State of the Planet, Fate of The Dark
Sept. 23, 2009.
In his latest message (Sept. 21, 2009), Matthew Ward makes points that are central to our understanding of the situation with dark extraterrestrials.
Before Matthew's statement, I, at least, had no reliable information on whether dark beings could reach Earth any more or not. Matthew offers us the reassurance that they cannot. Whether or not some remain on Earth, no new recruits are getting in.
"Groups or individual souls immersed in darkness cannot approach the protective grid of Christed light energy that surrounds the planet—light is anathema to their dark essence. …
"The dark forces, a vast and powerful energy field that can roam the heavens and cause chaos, even the death of entire civilizations and their planet homelands, [are] no longer … near your solar system. When distant civilizations started beaming intense light to Earth, that force field left because it cannot tolerate light." (1)
If Matthew is right, and I think he is, there is no grounds for fear about our future. But will we remember that in the face of messages that come with differing information?
We have to decide what version we are going with and then remain with that until proof overturns it.
Matthew says in his message that we are intended to develop discernment in the face of conflicting information.
Interestingly, Matthew puts a date to the beginning of the current intervention of the Galactic Federation – around 70 years ago (so around 1940). I have not seen anyone so far attach a relatively-specific date to this present operation.
"The spiritually and technologically evolved civilizations that God authorized to start helping Earth about 70 years ago are unquestionably of the light.
"It was light from some of those powerful civilizations that drove away the dark forces. When it is safe to do so, some of the millions of light beings surrounding the planet in spacecraft will land to share their technology and otherwise assist Earth and her life forms, [and] then return to their homelands."
Obviously, at this point, no one has anything resembling proof. But until proof arrives, Matthew's view is persuasive to me.
Matthew comments further on the impact of the rising energies on us. His understatement is music to my ears, which have often been strained by accounts.
He uses a metaphor of two casts of actors on a stage, the one of the dark and the other of the light.
"The force that is driving both 'casts' to dominate the stage also is evoking the differing reactions of observers—that force is the vibratory level Earth has reached, and it is accelerating life itself.
"The vibrations are the cause of 'good' and 'bad'—the duality in human nature—becoming more obvious."
We are reportedly being uplifted by the Photon Belt, whose path we have apparently crossed. Added to the impact of the Photon Belt, if I understand matters correctly, is the cyclical pulsation of energy from the Galactic Center. Together, they are bringing on our spiritual transformation.
I listened to David Wilcock at the Awake and Aware Conference, reeling off names and numbers and simply marvelled that a human being could do that. I certainly cannot. I generally need a simple explanation of physical matters and, as the energy rises and with it my bliss, my need for a simpler and simpler explanation appears to grow.
"When Earth reaches still higher vibrations, the dissension [between dark and light] will be reconciled into harmonious cooperation for the good of all."
Meanwhile, dark beings who resist the light will be obliged to depart this world.
"As Earth rises into higher densities where the light is more intense, the dark ones—puppets of the dark forces—will embrace the light or their physical bodies will die and the souls automatically will be drawn to worlds where the energy density matches the energy of the physical lifetime."
I am reminded here of how it is on the astral side. A being who resists the light in the afterlife is by the Law of Attraction drawn down to the Dak Planes. Any being who cannot tolerate the light at any one level must retreat further down the planes. There is no mixing of dark and light beings on the other side as there is here. (2)
Matthew reminds us that we have a ways to go yet. The Illuminati have not totally given up. The rising energy is causing a clash in duality even as it is lifting up those who are receptive to it.
(1) Matthew's Message, Sept. 21, 2009, at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm.
(2) On the fate of dark beings after death, see "The Astral Plane – The Dark Plane," at http://www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/nmh/dark1.html.


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My Dad was beautiful this mothers day. I invited him over, finally to see my computer. My brother would have been more comfortable if the apartment had been cleaner; i was comfortable with it.
Dad brought Sheirly over (that is how he had had her name misspelled in his little brown address book, iirc), so apparently we were all comfortable with that as well. I handed Sheirly a stack of photos and sat my dad down at the computer. She had a hard time comprehending the photos in her hand, but dad was marveling at the quality of the sound of the oggs coming from the crappy speakers.
I grabbed an xterm, and showed him ls said "el ess". He got that. Then I told him to type sl "es ell". I showed him how to get to those other terminals, which interestingly enough, look much much fbetter than the others lately. "Dad, bb". Then I showed him my summer vacation plans. And described some of my recent challenges at my crap job.
Sheirly finds her voice. She suggests that I try to find state funding and perhaps some of those fda approved medicines (which i have yet to find the grading critereon for) that will help me to settle down, find a nine to five job, and probably be able to join her family at Thanksgiving this year to watch a nice football game. Admittedly, this was quite appealing. Since Democracy seems to be slipping away I have been considering getting a tv again to help me to get over it; this suggestion of hers might help me to be able to figure out what we are doing now and do it a bit better than I am.
I told her that I was glad she married my dad, since she had settled him down and did a lot of fun things. Encouraged him to make money and pay his bills and not buy other peoples garbage. She agreed with me that these were all good things and politely left my apartment.
Dad said, "What do you need?"
I told him I only needed a smile from him. That is the only thing he forgot to give me before he took off to figure it all out.
Then he told me something that made me reconsider Sheirly's idea again; he is getting too old to take care of the big yard, medium sized house and giant basement and would be moving to a condo. He told me that he wasn't ebaying his very cool stuff, that he was throwing it out. Hell, if he would have put it on eBay, my brother would have found it and paid good cash for it. I told him to stop throwing it out if it hurt him. He said that it all hurt to throw out. I told him to give it to me, and to tell me why it hurt to throw it out. He doesn't own garbage. He never did.
He told me that he would be going fishing until this Friday. I need to call his house and see if Sheirly went with him, because that is what made me like her and let her take him. They spent their honeymoon fishing. Not the catholic church honeymoon, but the courthouse honeymoon, the real one. She needs to be fishing with him now.
For her, for stepmothers day, I consider the other wedding, the one in the church. In order to consumate the marriage, she had to tell god that she wasn't really married when she had her four very wonderful children. I wonder what gifts you get from this sort of child.
I hope everyones step mother had a nice mothers day.


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Posts tagged 'Ned Kelly'
Google News Archive Search
I have used Google News for some time, but only recently discovered Google News Archive Search – available at http://news.google.com.au/archivesearch/
An Advanced Archive Search allows you to select a particular date range. You can choose a particular publication (or even just enter the word 'Sydney', to check publications with that word in the title). Once you have the search results, a timeline lets you focus on the particular decade of interest.
I searched for "hay simpson" – an ancestor who played Ned Kelly (in the 1934 film When the Kellys Rode) and then was lost at sea when he tried to sail from Lord Howe Island to Sydney. Most of the results found were from The Sydney Morning Herald in the 1930s, reviews of performances and then the search for the missing yacht. However one article was from 2003, when Simpson's niece found a suitcase of film photographs during a renovation.
Another useful search was for all of the words scriven and cooperstown. My husband descends from the SCRIVEN family, and one of that family (Elizabeth SCRIVEN) married Alfred Corning CLARK of Cooperstown (son of the founder of the Singer Foundation) and I thought that family were likely to be well-reported in the press.
You don't need celebrity ancestors to find them mentioned in newspapers, and Google's News Archive Search is another way to find interesting background stories about family members.


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Story highlights
- Agent tells breast-feeding mom she can't board flight with empty bottles, report says
- TSA blogger posts apology for snafu over breast-feeding at Hawaii airport
- The officer made a mistake and is "receiving remedial training," TSA says
- Confusion among agents over TSA's breast-feeding policy has happened before
Traveling while breast-feeding is no easy feat in the best of circumstances. When Transportation Security Administration officials don't follow the agency's rules, getting through the airport with the gear -- and a baby -- gets more difficult.
A breast-feeding incident that has had TSA critics buzzing since last week was addressed in an apologetic blog post Thursday from the agency's "Blogger Bob" Burns.
The controversy started when an agent at Kauai's Lihue Airport in Hawaii wouldn't allow passenger Amy Strand to board a plane February 29 with her breast pump because the milk bottles were empty, CNN affiliate KITV-TV in Honolulu reported. As a result Strand used her electric breast pump in a public airport restroom to fill the bottles and get them through security. She was traveling with her 9-month-old daughter, Eva.
"I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast, in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom," Strand told KITV.
TSA admitted its agent made a mistake shortly afterward, saying in a statement: "We accept responsibility for the apparent misunderstanding and any inconvenience or embarrassment this incident may have caused her. The officer in question is receiving remedial training."
Burns, the TSA blogger, announced Thursday that the agency has updated its website "to help clarify the procedures for traveling with ice packs, breast milk, juice, and water."
The policy explained on the site now explicitly says that ice packs and empty bottles are permitted through security.
"Mistakes such as this happen from time to time and for that we are truly sorry," Burns wrote. "However, we can and have learned from mistakes in the past, so please be sure to let us know when you think or know something could have been handled differently."
Burns advised passengers to ask for a supervisor in uncomfortable situations or to call TSA customer service numbers listed in his post -- 866-289-9673 and 855-787-2227.
Commenters on Burns' post weren't all satisfied with his advice. One said: "1) It has been frequently reported that TSA staff do not care whether or not something has been clearly stated on the website when they are imposing their own understanding of the rules; 2) It has been frequently reported that polite requests to speak with supervisors are treated as defiant behavior."
Those comments may refer to a 2010 incident involving a breast-feeding mother that resulted in a lawsuit against the TSA and Department of Homeland Security.
According to the suit, Stacey Armato was traveling with breast milk for her 7-month-old son and requested alternate screening for the milk at a Phoenix International Airport checkpoint to avoid X-ray exposure.
The suit says the same TSA agents she had encountered in the security line at the airport the week before retaliated against her for filing a complaint when her request for alternate screening for her breast milk in that instance met with resistance. The suit alleges that on her second encounter with the agents, Armato was directed to a "special inspection" area, where her requests to speak to a manager were refused. A uniformed police officer was also called in, according to court filings.
Armato is suing on grounds of intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and false imprisonment. The suit alleges that screeners initially refused to review a printout that Armato provided of TSA guidelines pertaining to breast milk.
The TSA said it sent a letter of apology to Armato shortly afterward.
Despite some less-than-smooth incidents, many breast-feeding mothers pass through security with no trouble. One woman who said she's a nursing mother and hasn't had any trouble with security commented on the Strand incident: "Like several have said, this is not representative of TSA as an agency, but the stupidity of that particular agent."
Breast-feeding moms, what are your experiences of traveling while nursing? Please share your comments below.


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(Updated) Canucks run out of gas in third, drop 4-2 decision to Flames
Coach Alain Vigneault seething about third period bench penalty
Lee Stempniak of the Calgary Flames wedges himself between defenceman Jason Garrison and Vancouver Canucks netminder Roberto Luongo during Sunday's National Hockey League game at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary.
Photograph by: GERRY THOMAS , NHLI VIA GETTY IMAGES
CALGARY — Coach Alain Vigneault pinned the blame squarely on referee Kelly Sutherland, but really there was lots of it to go around Sunday night after the Canucks ended what was a crazy day with a 4-2 loss to the Calgary Flames.
His team, for starters, couldn't put more than two pucks behind a minor-league goalie. And then there was the little matter of Roberto Luongo letting in a soft goal on a shot that appeared to come from just north of Medicine Hat.
But Vigneault wasn't interested in really breaking down the loss. Thirty minutes after the game had ended, he was still seething about the bench penalty that was called on him midway through the third period by Sutherland.
It came after no call was made on what appeared to be an elbow by Calgary forward Matt Stajan on Canuck defenceman Chris Tanev.
One second after that penalty expired, Jarome Iginla bounced a pass intended for Jiri Hudler off Vancouver defenceman Jason Garrison and past Luongo to break a 2-2 tie.
"That penalty that was given to me in the third period, all I did was stand on the bench and say 'that's an elbow,'" a clearly angry Vigneault said. "If the same accountability that is demanded of players and coaches is demanded to referees that's not acceptable. There's no way we should lose this game on a call like that."
Vigneault insisted he said nothing more to the officials and used no profanity.
"Not one God damn word," he said. "Nothing, I didn't use the F word, didn't say a word. I stood on the bench for .5 seconds and said 'that's an elbow.' And that's how I got two minutes and that's how they scored their goal. I am done here."
Vigneault then stormed back into the dressing room area. There would be no other questions.
His outburst ended an unusual 24 hours for the Canucks, who for a time looked like they might never make it to Calgary.
They were originally scheduled to charter here immediately after Saturday night's 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings at Rogers Arena. But after boarding their plane late Saturday night, they got word that there were visibility issues in Calgary. The players were sent home and told to return for a noon-hour flight on Sunday, but a snow storm hit Calgary Sunday morning and dumped nearly 20 centimetres on the city.
The Calgary airport was shut down for a time and the Canucks didn't land until about 3:45. They arrived at the rink at about 4:15, less than two hours before the puck was dropped at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
For the players, it felt a little like their junior days, except this time they weren't riding a bus the whole way to their destination.
"I don't know, maybe, maybe not," captain Henrik Sedin said when asked if the crazy travel day played a part in the loss. "There are no excuses. I think we are all used to this from our time in junior or back in Europe. I thought our team felt pretty fresh out there. There wasn't a problem with our legs or anything like that.
"It was a little crazy, I mean going to the airport last night, thinking you are going to fly to Calgary and then having to drive back to our houses and come back after that. It was a little different, but that's the way it is."
For two periods, the Canucks were the better team. Chris Higgins, on a first-period breakaway, gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead, but Luongo gave that one back when he whiffed on a Mike Cammalleri shot from just inside the blue line later in the first.
"It just went off the tip of my glove and in," Luongo said. "There's no excuse for it. Just a bad goal."
Jannik Hansen, whose wife Karen delivered twin boys about 5 a.m. Sunday morning, gave the Canucks another lead early in the second. But Lee Stempniak beat Luongo glove side four minutes later to tie things up.
The Canucks were stymied for much of the night by Danny Taylor, who until recently was playing goal for the AHL's Abbotsford Heat.
"Tonight their goalie made the first save and the D-men were pretty good at shutting down our second opportunities and we came up short," said Vancouver winger Alex Burrows.
"I thought in the second period we took over the game, we should have had a few more in the second," added Henrik Sedin. "They have a solid team over there, they are going to battle each and every night and that's how they won the game tonight.
"I don't think we played our best game. We played good enough to win, but it wasn't close to being our best."
It was a disappointing end to what had the makings of a wonderful weekend for the Canucks, who played one of their best games of the season in Saturday night's 5-2 win over the Kings.
"I don't think it's a game that got away," Vigneault said. "I'm real proud of the way we competed and battled tonight. We came here under different circumstances, never used excuses, went out and played real hard and in my opinion we deserved a better outcome."
Cammalleri, who iced the game with an empty-net goal with 23 seconds remaining, had some sympathy for the Canucks.
"Hey, it's a tough circumstance for them," he said. "You've got to give some respect to their team. They came out with pretty good jump for a team that had to go through what they went through. To be honest, that's what you expect from them. They're a pretty good hockey team.
"We were able to try and keep pushing it in the third and try and wear them down a bit."
The loss was Vancouver's first in regulation against a Northwest Division opponent this season. The Canucks dropped to 11-6-4 on the season and are now just two points clear of the Minnesota Wild in the Northwest standings.
ICE CHIPS: The Canucks were scheduled to charter home after Sunday night's game and meet the San Jose Sharks at Rogers Arena on Tuesday night. . .Hansen's twins boys are named Daniel and Lucas. His wife Karen delivered the pair early Sunday morning after the Canucks' Saturday night charter had been cancelled.


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The following is from Fight Back! News:
Commentary by Hatem Abudayyeh
Israeli right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated that Israel did not "go far enough" in its 22-day invasion and massacre of 1400 Palestinians in Gaza earlier this year and who has never accepted even the possibility of an independent state for the Palestinians, is now the new prime minister. He was sworn in on April 1, after being asked in February by President Shimon Peres to form a coalition government.


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Photo Friday: Modern Life
I feel like every time I post a photo these days the word "juxtaposition" jumps to mind. It's become the running theme of my experiences here in Indonesia. The modern steel and glass architecture exists right next to the brick and mortar architecture of previous decades. Brand new vehicles drive past people pulling makeshift carts. Asian fusion restaurants with valet parking are situated in the background of an "Ayam Bakar" street cart.
I took this photo because she reminds me of a lady who never fails to greet me on my morning walk to work. I also like the vision of the Coca-Cola fridge in the background while the lady prepares a meal in a burned, old pot. Modern life in Jakarta looks a little different here than it does back in Canada.


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