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The 12 Ingredients for Transition encourage us to "build a bridge to local government." I used to think that "building bridges" was lovely British poetic language, but recently I'm learning how that pretty phrase brings with it some fairly serious guidance.
Building a bridge across a river is quite different than trying to merge the two banks. That pretty British poetry reminds us that Transition Initiatives need to be lead by the people, the citizens, the neighbors -- not by politicians, government, or any political party.
In the Transition Primer, (page 36-38 of Version 26 currently online) there is a nice piece on "the role of local government." This piece gives some of what has worked/didn't work about Transition Initiatives and government. It offers the idea that the role of local government should best be "supporting, not driving."
Here in Los Angeles our initiating group has had solid relationships with our L.A. city councilman, our California State Representative, and our U.S. Representative, plus name recognition with our State Senator's office. We definitely have had a "supporting, not driving" relationship. Staffers from our government officials' offices have attended the occasional one of our meetings, or our community garden opening. They have helped us with street closing permits, listened to our position on proposed legislation, and helped out when we got in a bureaucratic pinch.
This relationship has worked. It has worked well. As we have been going through the early stages of awareness-raising and group-formation in L.A., we have had support for our activities. We have felt embraced and accepted within the community. But these staffers and government officials weren't part of the core leadership of the budding T.I.
Certainly we educate and we enlighten, but I'm certain that the government representatives I listed don't fully comprehend peak oil or its socio-political repercussions yet. However -- like dripping water onto a rock over time -- they've certainly been exposed to it.
In the UK, Ed Milliband, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, has demonstrated in his speeches (at least those reported on Hopkins' blog) that he understands the forecasted repercussions of peak oil and our need to prepare.
We also saw a fantastic example of local government and Transition Initiative working together in "Transition Glastonbury's Submission to Mendip District Council's Future Planning Document." Transition Glastonbury submitted a document that offered answers, a Plan B when the government had no fallback.
These sample "bridges" show how T.I.s and government can work together well. But these examples are quite different from attempting to merge the two riverbanks. My intent in writing this piece is to explain why it doesn't work to populate your T.I. steering group with candidates for city council. It doesn't work for your T.I. to merge events with a political party's local support group, no matter how "progressive" they might be. T.I.s are -- by definition -- grassroots organizations, and they needfully must preserve their independence from the current political process.
Why would the Transition Network use that particular phrase "supporting, not driving"? Why shouldn't we just get our politicians and political parties on board, get them to see the light, and have them lead us there?
It is important to remember right here that Transition isn't "greening." We might be able to convince our existing politicians and political parties to do a bit of greening of our current lifestyle patterns, within the current political and economic constraints. However the Transition process and Transition understanding go far, far deeper than surface greening. Transition understanding is that the crises we face -- peak oil + climate change + economic contraction, combined -- demand root-level rethinking and systemic change.
I can see a few reasons why the connections between a Transition Initiative and local government must be bridges, rather than attempting to merge the two banks.
1. Government can't afford backup plans
To start out with, most of our political leaders will be like Mendip District Council: completely without a Plan B backup plan. While they are in office, government officials have a stated job to fulfill, and that usually doesn't involve designing a total overhaul of the system.
Even if we are successful in getting our government officials to understand the need for a systemic redesign, in this economy few governmental agencies will have budget to develop fallback plans. Right now, they're strapped to simply keep the existing structure in place and (somewhat) functional.
The few post-petroleum plans which have been created outside the Transition Network – including Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; and Ventura, CA – seem to have been created by citizen task forces or university classes, on either volunteer or independent grant basis. It is unreasonable to expect existing governmental departments to remove staffers from existing tasks to dedicate them to such projects. And in this economic climate, they certainly won't be hiring staff to do it. In the words of the Transition Network, "if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late."
Transition Initiatives offer a critically-needed public service by creating/facilitating an independently researched societal backup plan.(1) The task is far too important to be subjected to the vagaries of government budget shortfalls, furlough, and staffing cuts.
2. Conflict of interest
Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy, in her discussions of The Great Turning, emphasizes that we need to "create new structures." Our political leaders and our political processes are deeply entrenched in the old structures; it is hard enough for them to make minor alterations to those old structures let alone create entirely new ones.
Plus, our political representatives typically come to the job with obligations to the businesses and organizations that have gotten them there, businesses and organizations which are heavily vested in the status quo.
Perhaps it's easier to see with an example: We wouldn't ask industrial agriculture factory-style farmers and chem-ag business leaders to design an organic, diversified, locally based urban food system. Firstly, their training, experience, and world-view would be completely mismatched for the task. And secondly, what would motivate them to do a good, responsible, and conscientious job in designing a structure that would undermine their personal livelihoods?
In this way our present-day politicians' hands are tied; they cannot possibly create the magnitude of change that current circumstances demand.
3. Differences at the foundation
Thom Hartmann, in The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, gives us an idea of the magnitude of change that will be required. He reminds us of the Older Culture view, the tribal culture, of which Native Americans are an example. These cultures held a different notion of the place where humans stand in the order of creation: We are part of the world. It is our destiny to cooperate with the rest of creation. This is what it will take to achieve a sustainable society.
According to Hartmann, tribal or Older Cultures have five primary traits:
• political independence,
• egalitarian structure,
• they get their resources from renewable local sources,
• they have a unique sense of their own identity, and
• they respect the identity of other tribes.
Hartmann contrasts this with the structure and nature of Younger Culture city/states: political dominance, hierarchical/clear authority structures, get their resources through trade and conquest, absorb other cultures into their own identity, genocidal warfare against others.
Hartmann points out that the Older Culture was in place for more than 10,000 years of human history before our current Younger Culture came through and wiped out much of Older Culture, yet the Younger Culture hasn't been all that successful, hitting "peak" within a comparatively short span of time.
Our government is inextricably the Younger Culture: Political dominance, hierarchical and clear authority structures, trade and conquest, and homogenization of cultures are what defines it.
We can't simply pick and choose and expect to attain a sustainable society. We cannot select "get resources from renewable sources" from the Older Culture list, while retaining political dominance, hierarchical structure, and conquest from the Younger Culture paradigm. It's going to take much greater fundamental change.
That is why, as we create new structures for the Great Turning of society, the road forward won't be lead by existing government or political parties. It must be lead grassroots, by the people.
4. We need a safety net
A sidebar quote at page 141 of the Transition Handbook reminds us that Transition Initiatives are creating "a shadow economic, social and even technological structure." Transition Initiatives are weaving together the safety net that will be ready and waiting as the existing system fails.
This is another portion of the "End of Suburbia moment": embracing the understanding that during this Transition to a more sustainable human lifestyle, during this time of energy descent, during this economic decline and upheaval, much of the existing Younger Culture will eventually crumble away to make way for the next era.
As we develop resilience, we prepare our local communities and neighborhoods for this inevitable crumbling. As we research and draft EDAPs (Energy Descent Action Plans), we're assembling the fibers and weaving together the cords that will become the safety net. As we publish those EDAPs we are letting others take security in the knowledge that the safety net exists. As we begin to implement the ideas of the EDAP; we begin to create the shadow economic and social structure that will become the culture of the new era.
The trapeze artist doesn't carry the safety net in her back pocket. She doesn't tie it to her body. It isn't part of her, nor integrated into her polished routine. It's separate and distinct, out of the spotlight, ready to catch her when she falls.
To be a functional safety net, the shadow structure woven by our T.I.s must develop independently from and parallel to the mainstream system. This is the ultimate reason why our T.I.s cannot be lead by today's politicians or government.
Hopkins explains to us why green tech/green growth cannot be the path of the future and why energy descent is the only possible path forward. (Transition Handbook Chapter 2) Thom Hartmann's work explains why continued use of a Younger Culture city/state model is similarly doomed. Our only possible path forward is to embrace more of the attributes, the paradigms, and understanding which have worked very long-term for humanity.
If you've been through a Training for Transition, you were probably shown org chart diagrams of the evolving structure of Transition Town Totnes. It is a bit unusual in this day of nonprofits structured pyramid-style like corporations: TTT has a decidedly circular rather than hierarchical structure. As I read Hartmann's characteristics of the tribal culture, I realized these characteristics are integrated into what Hopkins et al are encouraging us to build.
In a variety of ways -- from open space events, to "let it go where it needs to go", to cultivating the collective creativity, to the criteria which require a steering group of 5 or more rather than the boundless energy of a single individual -- our Transition Initiatives are being coaxed toward a method of organizing people which is much more like Hartmann's tribal/Older Culture description than the city/state one. Why? Because this Older Culture model is the way of long-term stability and survival.
As we journey deeper into the Transition era, the road forward will be lead by people who gather in tribe-like formats: in grassroots neighborhood circles and in open space gatherings, rediscovering their unique sense of their own identity. It will be lead by people who are politically independent of the corporate powers (corporations which grew out of the city/state and have now eclipsed it, yet continue to perpetuate its core assumptions). It will be lead by people gathering in steering groups with the group's demise designed from the outset, groups designed with rotating and egalitarian leadership.
The road forward will be lead by people who work together in collective creativity, invested in this work because they are bound together by a mutual desire for survival and for much more: a life which is better than the present. It will be lead by people who are thinking (and acting) in terms of the lifespans of their children, their children's children, and seven generations beyond.
People like you.
(1) regarding facilitation vs. creation of that societal backup plan, see the concept of "supplying the thread" here.


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This year was another of those blink and you'll miss it years, though it was packed with events and life decisions. All in all, even though I am guessing my 26 before 26 was not really a success... but it was a GOOD year. :) In a random order, the year that was ~
P.S: I am twenty-fucking-six. WOW.
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- Quit a job for the first time in my life... Moved on to something that does not fill my pockets, but fills my soul. Enviable, I am told.
- Almost got arrested. The seriously deranged.... people(?) I deal with, they are fun. It is fun taking down bullies and telling them, haan karle jo karna hai.
- I change the world as we know it. NOTHING beats this feeling. Nothing beats the feeling that I am making a difference to the world which is beyond just existing here, being a statistic.
- Home is home now. I went through the cycle of hiring hands to do their false ceiling, wall painting, making furniture business. Got to choose the color of the walls & got to be pseudo architect. I would have had a rocking career! (like most other things I like to do, but never took as a serious career option)
- On the flip-side, this left me no time or money to do the more expensive things on my list, so... well. You win some, you lose some yes?
- New blog was made. It did not die a premature death, and crossed the 500 posts marks.
- For the first time in years, no wishlist happened for the birthday. No "birthday" happened really, considering I was working (shooting a wedding in Ahmedabad).
- You know how you break up with someone, you spend a year or so just being resentful of them, of how things are, or life in general? And then you reach this state of... nothingness? Like nothing related to the person matters... you even start being benevolent about their presence. You get philosophical, and get into the live-and-let-live zone... because you realise your life is going pretty okay without them. I got that way for a bunch of people I lost(?) contact with. I don't resent life - or them - for having turned out this way. I only wish them the good in whatever they are doing.. and well, move on.
- Realised that there are some friends, that need NOT constantly called or hung out with. There are some friendships that simply by virtue of their age have transcended the usual dimensions of maintaining a friendship. School friends, for me, fell into this category. It was nice loosening the hold a bit, and growing along with the others.
- Got nostalgic for childhood a lot this year, simpler times, because life is just that overwhelming with activity these days.
- Attended someones funeral for the first time. Witnessed extreme pain for the first time. Thought I would never make it if I had to do this. People around me, please live forever? :(
- Met a host of Bollywood celebrities, it is wonderful to get to know famous people who are well... just regular people who love the next dog or cat just as much as you would! And most of them are really, really, good looking! :D
- Attended a Bollywood party, with a glittery attire I will otherwise not be caught dead in. Full on jhatang mode. So this counts as trying things, I wouldn't have otherwise. :P
- No matter how much I rock my last wedding, I am always nervous about my next one. It is scary as much as it is fun. So.. just cut the others some slack okay? It takes more than just a fancy camera and PR skills.
- Married life saw the ultimate drama test (as made popular by the movies and the TV shows) and.... I came out on the top. Bitches be damned! If you are reading this, which you probably are... get off the internet. And get a life. It is seriously NOT meant for people like you. Yes, this time, I actually DO mean you.
- Watching late night movies, and then getting a coffee became "our" thing. We have literally watched every movie that released this year, even the bad ones. :P (and by that, needless to mention, I mean Hollywood!)
- I got mentioned in a bunch of newspapers, magazines, online columns, was made to bark and meow on national radio (as promotion for an event), phone no. got RTed by a bunch of famous people leading to creeps calling me up to ask, 'Yeh Sonam Kapoor hai kya?' .... *facepalm*
- This year was no good for family time. I realised what a fast paced life I live, because I literally spoke to my mother like 50 times this year. I am always working.. always on the go... phone keeps ringing all the time. I struggle to maintain that I like this, let me be, while mother dearest hates it with a passion. Sigh.
- I have a good feeling about the next year. 2014 don't let me down okay?
P.S: I am twenty-fucking-six. WOW.
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Putting a harness on ocean winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the vessel's propulsion and to conserve fuel.
BREMEN, Germany Putting a harness on ocean winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the vessel's propulsion and to conserve fuel.
The "SkySail", a 160 square-metre (191 square-yard) kite tethered to a mast, has successfully undergone years of trial runs and Bremen shipowner Beluga Shipping believes it will help its vessels cut fuel use by 15 to 20 percent.
The "MV Beluga SkySails", now being built and fitted with a paraglider-shaped sail and a "smart" central steerage unit, will make its maiden voyage in early 2007.
"I got the idea on a sail boat a few years ago," Stephan Wrage, inventor and founder of SkySails GmbH & Co. KG, told Reuters. "I love flying kites and found sailing rather slow. I thought the enormous power in kites could somehow be utilised."
The technology he has developed is a throwback to an earlier age of maritime travel when ships relied solely on wind. But it also addresses a key concern of the modern age: climate change.
Backers of "SkySail" call it a "green" project -- by cutting fuel use it could help reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Wrage, 34, said that depending on the vessel and the winds, fuel costs for shippers could be cut by more than $1,000 a day.
After four years of successful tests, it is anything but a pie-in-the-sky project.
The inventor first tested a prototype of the SkySail on a 3.5 metre (11.5-foot) boat, then gradually increased the size of the craft before testing it last year on a 55-metre (180-foot) vessel, the "Beaufort".
SkySail's price tag -- at between 500,000 euros and 2.5 million euros ($660,000 - $3.3 million) -- along with doubts it will deliver promised savings, and its reliance on fickle ocean winds could limit demand at first.
Wrage said ships will initially need to carry an engineer to operate the sail, which is about as big as a medium-sized passenger jet.
"It's going to save money in the long run and it's environmentally friendly," said Verena Frank, project manager at Beluga, a shipping firm with 40 vessels.
"We've integrated the system into our new ship from the start of construction but ships can also be retro-fitted," she said in an interview in this windswept northern port city with a rich seafaring tradition dating back to the 8th century.
"Ours will be the first commercial use in cargo shipping," Frank said. "There will be some teething pains," she added.
SkySails can use powerful offshore winds between 100 and 300 metres above the surface with the help of the high-tech control pod, but they would be useless with head-on winds and would not benefit ships travelling above 16 knots.
The sails are unlikely to make much of an immediate impact on the overall fuel and environment problems facing shippers. Shipping carries more than 90 percent of the world's traded goods. There are 30,000 merchant ships carrying everything from oil, gas, coal, and grains to electronic goods.
Wrage has a staff of 33 and in 2007 expects to equip three more ships with the SkySail. He projects 1,500 vessels will have the system by 2015, when he reckons he will have 800 employees.
"It was important for me to prove that you can make money working hand-in-hand with nature and not against it," he said.
"I think there could be a lot more linking of ecology and economy."
Beluga Chief Executive Niels Stolberg said market forces were the main reason he decided to enter a partnership with "SkySails" in 2002. He placed the first order almost a year ago.
He expects SkySails to cut the $7,500 daily fuel costs of his cargo ship by up to $1,500. And he said the positive impact on the environment was a welcome dividend.
"You've got to look at new ideas to cope with developments in oil prices," Stolberg said, adding it was not possible to pass along such steep fuel prices to customers.
If SkySails works as expected, he plans to add the system one vessel at a time.
"When energy prices double in such a short time, you've got to innovate. We won't be able to switch the engines off. But we're confident we can reduce fuel usage -- and cut emissions."
He said his fuel prices have more than doubled from about $150 per tonne in 2004 to between $300 and $400 per tonne this year and he fears prices may soon rise to $450. Prices have, however, retreated somewhat in recent months.
"We can't sit back and ignore the market pressures and wait until fuel hits $500," said Stolberg, whose nine-year-old firm ships everything from giant turbine engines to locomotives for customers including Siemens and General Electric.
On top of that, European Union restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions threaten penalties for those who fail to act to curb them, and the heavy fuels that ships use are deemed especially dirty.
"From the European Union point of view, you will have restrictions with CO2 emissions and they'll fine you," said Frank. "You've got to find ways to avoid that. As restrictions are coming, every shipper must rethink their strategy."
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NDSU on Fire Against Denver, Moves on to Championship
North Dakota State wasn't going to let anyone down, and routed Denver, 83 to 48 in the first game of Monday's men's semifinal.
Head coach Saul Phillips was all smiles, and added a few jokes in his post game press conference.
"We prepared with yoga, long walks, and soothing music. (laughs) We prepared with hard, quick reps at game speed, and even played a intrasquad game."
The Bison came out firing from the start, jumping out to a 14-4 lead that eventually was stretched to 20-6 with about ten minutes to go in the first half.
Oh, and NDSU wasn't done. The highlight of the first half was Taylor Braun hitting a three and beating the shot clock with under five minutes.
The Bison were shooting the ball lights out, and Denver was getting beat badly on the glass, and on the perimeter.
At halftime, the Bison led 42-15, and shot an astounding 73.9% from the field. Braun had 18 points in the half, more than the entire Denver team. Phillips said Braun, 'oozes with swagger, and was the alpha dog on the court,' in Monday night's game.
Denver, meanwhile, shot 30% from field, and did not hit a three in the first half.
In the second half, the Bison didn't take their feet off the pedal. NDSU was beating Denver in transition, and the Pioneers were missing easy lay-ups. Denver struggled to even hit a shot until the 15:58 mark in the second half.
That was the story of the game. The Bison were dominating, and Denver was simply outworked.
For the game, Braun led the way for the Bison, scoring 28 points. Denver's stars were held in check, as Brett Olson was held to just one field goal.
In fact, NDSU was so efficient, they scored on 35 of 44 possessions. Even more impressive, the Bison scored 42 points on 27 possessions in the first half. NDSU ended up shooting 62.5% from field, and 66.7% from long range in the game. Denver shot 41.3% from the field, and only made one of 13 three-point field goals.
For tomorrow's Summit League championship game, Phillips is going to tell his guys to just play the next game.
"This season has been a storybook, and its felt like the only way to end it was to cut down the nets."
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One year ago today, I created this blog!
I never imagined I'd get the response that I have. Turns out there are a lot more people looking for their Latvian roots than I thought!
I know the past couple of months have been relatively slow on here. Between going on my trip to Latvia, then moving to a new city and starting school (in what is apparently the busiest and most stressful semester of my program), my attentions have been divided to say the least.
But I'm starting to streamline things. Prioritize things. And one of my priorities is to give this blog – and all of my projects – the attention they need.
Most importantly of all, I need to give you, my readers, the attention you deserve. I know there have been some unanswered comments and unanswered emails. I will hopefully get to them all in the next couple of days. I appreciate your patience, and hopefully my new priorities and organization will mean that I get to responses faster.
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This week PAN released Honey Bees and Pesticides: State of the Science, a 22-page report on the factors behind colony collapse disorder (CCD) with a sustained focus on the particular role of pesticides.
By collecting and presenting the findings of dozens of peer-reviewed scientific studies — including a series of damning studies published in the last year — we hope to provide concerned citizens and decisionmakers alike with a point of reference in the heated public debate over what is causing our pollinators to die off at unprecedented rates. All of the studies presented are annotated and most are linked so readers can explore the state of the science for themselves.
The science linking CCD and pesticides is complex, but it is not unclear.
I am beekeeper and I do not believe the good scientific studies link CCD to pesticides. Of course insecticides kill bees, always have and always will. After all they are only insects, not some noble creature. We depend on them to pollinate our food and provide honey. But to blame all bee losses on pesticides is ridiculous.
When you read the report you will see that it is a combination of multiple factors, including nutritional deficiency caused by habitat loss, as well as pathogens and pesticides. And these factors affect each other. Pesticides contribute to habitat loss, which leads to nutritional deficiency, which leads to weaker immunity, which allows pathogens to attack. It isn't just insecticides, but herbicides that kill the plants that the bees depend on for nutrition.
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COMMERCE CITY CO (ColoradoRapids.com) - The Colorado Rapids unveiled the club's five Hispanic Heroes of our local community at their annual Hispanic Heritage celebration on Sunday which occurred in conjunction with the Rapids' home match vs. the Chicago Fire at Dick's Sporting Goods Park as part of the club's "El Grito" Mexican Independence Weekend celebrations.
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OK - so now we know! Thanks for sharing.
I have wondered. But there's only one that I need...the cream of tomato soup. The remedy for sadness.
Ha - brilliant! Wherever did you find that?
Great pictures you've got there.
What you call the "NY Times loaf," I call no-knead bread. It's the standard loaf in my home, and like you, I haven't purchased bread in a few years. Just thought I'd mention a few tweaks I've made to the recipe over the years...I mix whole spelt flour, or occasionally a different whole grain flour, into my bread flour for this loaf. Typically I add 4-5 ounces of whole grain flour to the bread flour for a total weight of 1 pound of flour. I also add mixed rolled grains to the dough (rye, barley, oats, spelt, etc.) with some extra water to balance these dry ingredients. Finally, I use oat bran instead of flour to coat the dough during its final rise, so that's what we have on the outside of our loaf. It's very rustic looking, and I like the fact that bran doesn't turn rancid as germ will do. That means I can keep it around longer.


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This massive Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw tour you've been hearing all about didn't happen overnight. In fact, McGraw says it took years. According to The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, the two stars have been trying for years to make their schedules work to pull it off. In the interview, McGraw also revealed that he and Chesney will spend a good portion of the show onstage together, perhaps even singing each other's hits. That alone has me counting down the days — 15 — until the tour comes to Chicago. I can just hear McGraw doing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" or Chesney singing "Please Remember Me" (which I've heard him say is his favorite song of McGraw's). But before they get together for that part of the show, they each do their own thing. "I think probably everyone thought the most difficult thing was going to be who was going to go on last, and for me, that wasn't a difficulty at all," McGraw said. "Kenny has gone out and done this kind of tour for years, and it just made sense that I would go first." The Brothers of the Sun tour visits Nashville's LP Field on Saturday (June 23).


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Hi All,
I've been searching for a great forum to join for hotrodding and building up cars. From what I've seen so far, this site is great and all of the users seem to be extremely helpful. So I decided to join.
Let me start off by saying that I love muscle cars and hotrods and have for quite some time now. I have been only dreaming about owning / building one, one day. Lucky me, one fell into my lap recently, and I couldn't refuse. I'm a mechanical engineer with decent mechanical skills, or I would like to think so, but have not done much work on cars. I have zero experience with body work, welding and painting. I don't really plan on doing any of those, any time soon. I don't have a welder or compressor and don't really plan on taking up welding and especially not painting.
The car I acquired is a 67 camaro, no motor, no trans. My first request, for those willing, is an estimate as to how much you might think it would go for. I understand it's worth what someone is willing to pay, but I just want to see if I really got a good deal.
I have millions of questions, that I'm sure most of you can answer, but I'll keep it to a minimum. I'm mostly interested in WHERE TO START?? I plan on cleaning it up, removing all dirt and junk, and remove the few spare parts that are still on the body. Then I'm considering taking the front subframe off and stripping it to the metal with a DA sander. Can anyone recommend a good budget sander?? I'll then slap a few coats of POR15 on the entire subframe. However, I don't want to waste my time. Can anyone tell from the pics if it's even necessary or worthwhile??
Most of my other questions deal with the unibody and stopping / controlling any rust. Overall it's very clean, but there are a bunch of scratches and rust spots forming under the 2 separate layers of paint. I don't know how to stop or control it now, considering that I will not be painting it ever, and I won't be sending it out for paint any time soon. Is it against the rules to use spray paint primer to protect bare metal from rusting?? Basically, I don't know how to clean up all the rust and keep it that way til real paint.
I could just use some direction as to where to start, what to do and how to do it. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I plan on turning it into a mostly stock looking street rod.
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Welcome to the board. I feel this is the best site on the web. Jon has done a marvelous job creating a professional yet fun atmosphere here.
Your enthusiasm is obvious and infectious. Don't feel bad, we all started out just where you are. No problem, in hot rodding it is definitely the journey rather than the destination that is mos satisfying.
All of your questions are super and worthy of discussion. This is a great time to familiarize yourself with the "Search" feature of the board. Go to the "Advanced Search link at the button at the top of this column. Type in your topic and you will find a wealth of information. After you have done that and have questions, by all means ask them in the appropriate forum. By first doing the search, you will get a bunch more info than in a single thread like this plus us old timers will be spared answering the same question for the umpteenth time! Getting on in years you know!
I envy you about the camaro....as for its worth let me tell you that for the shape its in just for the frame and body shell if the minor rust was repaired correctly an easy 2-3 thousand for it...those camaros are highly sought after exspecially if its an original v8 car..then the prices start going thru the roof..good luck with that saweet ride..im jealous good luck,
Thanks for the responses.
I actually have searched the forums and didn't come up with exactly what I was looking for. Though I didn't search thoroughly or anything. Thanks for not hammering me, as I'm sure you get some of those questions quite frequently.
I'll be sure to document everything I do as I progress, if anyone is interested. Feel free to post any tips, tricks or points you feel are relevent.
Rust - Killer
That's gonna be a nice car some day.
I still have a clear recollection of nearly being humiliated by a car just like that one...
I had a 68 Mercury LeMoyne (land yacht) with a 390 4-bbl, that would lay about a 1/2 block of rubber ... tons of torque ... or so I thought.
(I was a real Ford fan in those days ... but I'm much better now! )
My little brother's friend pulls up with a grin on his face, and wants to race me with his 6-banger 68 Camaro. Yeah, right... OK.
Imagine my shock when he starts pulling away! He really had me until I got that old boat rolling, but I finally did get by him at around the 55 or 60 MPH mark (Whew! )
I learned a whole lot about power to weight ratios in a very short time!
PS ... Get some rust-killer and put it on those bubbled areas ASAP. Permatex and Plastikote both make some for sure, and there are several others (i.e. "Rust - Mort")
These chemicals react with the rust and turn into a black sandable / primable / paintable compound. Primer alone is not enough to prevent rust ... top it with some spray enamel, even if it doesn't match the color exactly.
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You've got a great first project. A little bit of everything to do but not so awfully bad as to discourage. The car is in great shape for the age. Take your time and do it up the way you want it done, there's nothing worse than tearing a project down because you took shortcuts you're unhappy about. Good luck, Dan
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Best indication the gods must be crazy: An August 28 gale brings down the big tent at the perennially weather-plagued Albemarle County Fair, trapping dozens and closing the event on Friday.
Best scoop: Daily Progress photog Andrew Shurtleff is on the scene as the tent collapses on fairgoers seeking shelter from the storm.
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Worst accidental shooting: Five-year-old Breanna Phaup is killed August 26 in Buckingham County when the gun her step-grandfather is carrying accidentally discharges, Austin Graham reports in the Progress.
Best windfall for local police: U.S. Representative Virgil Goode bestows almost $150,000 on Albemarle to put cameras and computers in squad cars, and $40,000 to Charlottesville police for in-car computers.
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Best time for delinquent taxpayers to pay up: Through November 3, Virginia is offering an amnesty to help recoup an estimated $48 million in unpaid taxes.
Worst goober: Virginia's peanut industry is under siege from drought, rain, and low prices, slicing by half the number of acres planted in this agricultural staple.
Best rinky deal: In the July 2 transaction, the new owners of the Charlottesville Ice Park pay just $2.6 million for the skating palace– a lot less than the $6 million reportedly spent building the seven-year-old facility.
Best sign dogs really are man's best friend: The reward for information on the abuser of the boxer now named Britta, who was thrown off a bridge around July 24, has risen to $17,500– almost as much as the $20,000 reward for the serial rapist who's been attacking women since 1997.
Best new fraternity name: "Out on Rugby" is UVA's first gay Greek organization, reports the Cavalier Daily.
Best chance to see a Charlottesvillian on Temptation Island: Local resident Eric Hurt and girlfriend Kristin Cobb, both Longwood University grads, put their relationship to the test for the third season of the Fox reality show.
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In his State of the Union message on Tuesday, Barack Obama promised "a year of action," inadvertently echoing Richard Nixon in both rhetoric and perhaps tone. Obama threatened that if Congress didn't come along on his agenda, he'd take unilateral action to impose it instead. This has the potential to backfire on Obama, Stephanie Simon argues at Politico, by firing up the Republican base even more in a midterm election year:
Obama's use of executive power could come back to haunt him.
Republicans in Congress, infuriated at being bypassed, are using every shred of authority they can muster to try to halt or delay the president's agenda. At the very least, they figure, they can whip up public outrage, drive down Obama's approval rating and perhaps persuade him to retreat.
The executive agenda outlined in the Politico Pro report — which described an administration eager to shape everything from the content of third-grade math tests to the recipe for Reese's Pieces to the fuel sources that power our homes — spooks voters, and not just Republicans, said Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah). "This is something that people react to viscerally," Stewart said. …
Republicans have also filed lawsuits and legislative amendments trying to rein in executive power. One resolution calling for the House to take stronger legal action is sponsored by Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.). He calls it the S.T.O.P. act – for Stop This Overreaching Presidency.
Big business and big industry have stepped in, too. They've sued to overturn regulations. They've also sought to delay the rule-making process by demanding more time to evaluate draft regulations — and then flooding agencies with comments.
Republican outrage has focused on executive orders, but that's a little too narrow and a bit misplaced. The White House has been careful to keep EOs within the boundaries of executive power, if perhaps testing it at the edges. The EO on the minimum wage for federal contracts, for instance, lives within those boundaries even if (a) it won't actually impact more than a handful of people anyway and (b) is bad policy nonetheless.
The real issue with the abuse of executive authority comes in sins of commission and omission that have nothing to do with EOs. For instance, the most egregious abuse is the war Obama launched against the Qaddafi regime in Libya without ever bothering to ask Congress for authorization. But there are plenty of other examples closer to home, especially in the arbitrary adherence to statute in the President's own favorite law, ObamaCare, and many other examples of regulatory adventurism, as noted by Simon. That, plus the defiance of Congressional oversight by lawless recess appointments and the abuse of executive privilege, have made this into a truly imperial presidency, and has set precedents that Democrats will almost certainly rue, and sooner rather than later.
This abuse erodes the basic fabric of a nation based on the rule of law, as Elizabeth Price Foley argued in the New York Times this week (via Instapundit):
The only strength gained by unilateral presidential lawmaking is raw speed: policies can be implemented more swiftly by unilateral presidential action than by congressional deliberation and debate. But the dangers are many, and should counsel any American — of whatever political persuasion — that such dispatch comes at a high constitutional cost.
When the president fails to execute a law as written, he not only erodes the separation of powers, he breeds disrespect for the rule of law and increases political polarization. The president's own party — for example, the current Democrat-controlled Senate — will face intense pressure to elevate short-term, partisan victory over defending constitutional principles. If partisan preferences prevail, Congress will be unable, as an institution, to check presidential ambition and defend its lawmaking prerogative.
Once such precedent is established, damage to the constitutional architecture is permanent. The next president of a different party will face similar pressures and undo all the previous actions. He will initiate a new round of unilateral lawmaking, satisfying his own political base. The law will fluctuate back and forth, and our legislature will become little more than a rubber stamp for a single elected individual, which is not how representative government is supposed to work.
The reason this will backfire is that imperial presidencies only impress the loyal base of the President's party, who mistake autocracy for wisdom. They tend to worry and frighten everyone else, especially when the result is the unmistakable incompetence of this administration on both domestic and foreign policy. Expect the backlash on all of these points this year.


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Model X Reservation Tally
In Canada, production Model X #228 (two weeks ago maybe)
P #5966 for my wife (I'm Vin 01267 Model S)just ordered this morning!
#5,996 Model X US Sept 28th.
#16 regular production Model X UK RHD ordered last week by myself. I presume I'm #1 for the Irish market.
#6015 Production Model X US Sept 30
10/1/2013 #6036
Just laid down 5k tonite on the model X #6057 , was told mine should be available Jan 2015. Took the P 85 for a test drive and loved it. But going with the model X for my growing family. :)
Just looking at the early reservations for the Model S. About 12 months before the first deliveries in June of 2012, the total number of reservations for all versions in all countries was 5663 (end of June, 20110. The Model X already has more than 6000 with 3 months to go before we reach the end of the year- first deliveries expected end of 2014. That looks good for the Model X and for Tesla!
Reserved #6068 general production Model X on 10/2/2013, located in the US.
In Canada, production Model X #246, Oct 3, 2013.
10/4/2013 US reserved #6807
Sorry, correcting prior post, #6087.
Just upgraded to a MX Signature RN318255, #795 simply to lend moral support to anyone that doubts the brand after the ridiculous fire.
I have a Model S and I'm never going back. Jump in with both feet, I swear you wont be sorry!
Forgot to post here, but I reserved #5966 a week ago. The X will be my wife's vehicle, primarily, to join my Model S S85. Go Tesla!
Ordered US #6101 earlier today! It's going to be a long wait...
Reserved today! US #6145. I even can't imagine how long should I wait to get mine!
Model X (EU), S#144 on 1. Oct.:-)
reserved #6221 Production Model X, 10/13/2013. USA
I just placed my reservation for Model X on Saturday, October 12, 2013
I am #6201
I just placed my reservation for Model X on Saturday, October 12, 2013
I am #6201
I just placed my reservation for Model X on Saturday, October 12, 2013
I am #6201
Heard you the first two times.
I just placed my order today.
I am #256 in Canada for a Production Model X
We reserved a Tesla SX #853 yesterday! We already have our TEZLA X. license plate waiting for us. We are in Northern California (Grass Valley).
I have reservation sequence number 158 in Canada, placed on May 22. So, roughly 100 Model X reservations in Canada in 5 months.
Just reserved a standard Model X on Oct 23, 2013,in the US, and ws assigned sequence number 6412.
got on the list today! Started my clock.
Xsig #870 - Miami Beach. Gonna be a loooong year!
Model X
Date = Oct 28, 2013
Region = San Francisco, CA, USA
Reservation Sequence # = 6,491
The wait begins :-)
Model X
Date = Oct 28, 2013
Region = San Francisco, CA, USA
Reservation Sequence # = 6,491
Version = Standard Production
The wait begins :-)
Model X
Date = Oct 28, 2013
Region = San Francisco, CA, USA
Reservation Sequence # = 6,491
Version = General Production
The wait begins :-)
Model x #6485. General production. Hey it will come when they are ready. Now is a great time to save and invest more money before plunker down 100k.
I heard you the first time. I heard you the first time.
Oct. 30, 2013
Model X General Production #6531
Model X Signature #889
I observed in the Norwegian EV forum from 23 October:
Model X Europe P888
Model X Europe P991 (ordered 30.October) reported in Norwegian EV forum. If this is right it means 103 European orders in the last week or even more amazing an 11% increase in total accumulated orders in just one week.. Time to go into the Tesla stock again?
XLust has begun.
Nov. 2, 2013
Model X reservation # 6,561 general production
I am 6563 on November 2. 2013
Latest from norwegian forum:
P1021 November 4th 2013
Signature #904 (Nov 4, 2013)
General Production #244 (Feb 2012)
Mountain View, California, USA
Ordered mine in Canada today #271
Just got my reservation number confirmed for my Signature X, the number is S911. Eerie number in these days but carwise of course evokes the Porsche 911. Either way I'm excited, I ordered from the Miami Dadeland store last week, just got the number today. How many other X's are here from Miami? I saw one from Miami Beach a little while ago. Congrats to all the Tesla owner's and I'm happy to be in the club, now if only delivery would be sooner...
Just got my reservation for a standard X yesterday - 6,652.
Quickly comparing numbers from Europe, Canada, US Sig and US P it looks like we are approaching nearly 9,000 reservations, give or take a couple hundred. On Schedule for 10,000 by the end of the year as reservations seem to be gaining momentum. While I could have made my reservation earlier, I am glad that I did not wait any longer. (It has been more than a year already.)
#1057, 10 november, EUR/Norway, General Production
"Quickly comparing numbers from Europe, Canada, US Sig and US P it looks like we are approaching nearly 9,000 reservations, give or take a couple hundred."
Tally on TMC puts the total at 9,113 known reservations up to this point.
In May of 2011, about a year before the first delivery of the Model S, there were about 5,000 reservations for the Model S. If this trend continues, there will be twice that number for the Model X by the end of 2013- one year before the first delivery of the Model X! That is impressive!
Signature Model X number 922. US. Ordered 11/10/2013.
I will reserve as soon as I can design and test drive. I plan on making this my third tesla. If a gen2 comes out at a reasonable price point i'll consider getting them for my kids.


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text: As an ardent cricket fan, watching two of the three ATG batsmen struggle so much is very painful. They say cricketers know when to go, but do they really? Cricketers are but human, and human beings have never been good judges. Of course, it is not unreasonable of Tendulkar or Ponting to carry on in the hope that a big one is just around the corner, given how prodigiously skilled they are at what they do, but sometimes the mind just refuses to accept that the body cannot co-operate well enough for the skills to be executed anymore. Both batsmen have been going through extremely lean patches. Tendulkar scored a brilliant ton against us early last year but since then has been woeful. Admittedly, Ponting batted like a dream against India at home last year but that seems to have been a one-off, since before and after that there's pretty much nothing. More worryingly, these two are struggling not just against good bowling in hard conditions but also in relatively easy conditions, on flat decks. To add to their woes, both of them seem to be getting bowled in every innings - a sure shot sign of father time announcing his arrival. So what do you think? Do these two legends have a last hurrah in them? Or is it game over?


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Shades of green
Among cool-season turfgrasses, creeping bentgrass possesses only a medium amount of shade tolerance. On shaded tees, fairways and greens, this factor, coupled with traffic, divoting and increased disease pressure, often results in poor bentgrass performance. Plants grown in shade receive less light for photosynthesis and thereby store less energy (carbohydrates). This fact, coupled with an undesirable increase in leaf elongation and succulence in the shade (due to increased gibberellic acid (GA) production), imply that the plant has less stored energy, in terms of roots and stolons, to persist and recover from use. A common observation is that shaded bentgrass plants are top-heavy: they put all of their energy into maintaining a shoot system, resulting in a very shallow (less than 2 inches deep) root system. Due to decreased evapotranspiration (ET) in the shade, shallow roots, during adequate rainfall periods, may not pose a problem. However, if drought occurs, shallow roots, coupled with tree-root competition, can spell disaster.
Forestalling the decline of shaded creeping bentgrass will take an integrated approach. The list below details some standard and non-standard cultural and chemical approaches you can use to keep bentgrass healthy.
- Sunlight and air movement
Selectively remove trees, prune limbs and thin bushes to increase sunlight and reduce leaf wetness periods. Focus thinning efforts in a way that increases morning sun for faster removal of dew and frost.
- Tree roots
Trench or vibratory plow to a 3-foot depth to sever tree roots around the perimeter of affected greens, tees or fairways. Repeat every five years.
- Mowing
Moister soil and a shallow-rooted plant with softer, elongated leaves call for frequent mowing with lightweight equipment and sharp blades. Reduce sharp turns and cleanup lap frequency and raise mowing height by an eighth to a quarter of an inch to increase photosynthetic leaf area.
- Nitrogen (N)
Shallow roots imply less of an ability to efficiently use higher amounts (more than 0.5 lbs N/M) of soluble N at one time. Apply lower amounts of soluble N more frequently or utilize slow-release N sources.
- Phosphorus (P)
Many samples for soil tests are taken to a depth of 4 to 6 inches. These results over-estimate available P on a 2-inch rooted turf. Sample only to effective rooting depth and apply recommended P accordingly.
- Potassium (K)
Adequate K builds strong cell walls. Keep K levels high in shade to encourage tougher leaf blades.
- Iron
Shade-induced leaf-blade elongation dilutes leaf chlorophyll concentration. Spoon-feed with iron to increase leaf color (chlorophyll levels) and improve light-use efficiency.
- Irrigation and Drainage
Irrigate infrequently to moisten, not saturate, soil to a depth just deeper than the effective root zone. Install drainage to reduce the potential of standing-water events.
- Traffic and Divots
Move tee markers and cups daily and direct cart traffic away from shaded fairway areas. Implement a golfer and maintenance crew program of filling divots with sand.
- Disease
Implement a 7- to 14-day preventive fungicide rotation program, especially for leaf spot, dollar spot and brown patch diseases.
- Weeds
Poa annua and winter annual broadleaves may be present. Because there are no selective herbicides for Poa, discourage Poa infestation by utilizing a PGR program and by aerating, overseeding with bentgrass and topdressing in late summer. Control broadleaves with bentgrass formulations of auxin-type herbicides.
- Aeration and Topdressing
Aerify less frequently than you do for turf in full sun to relieve compaction or prepare area for overseeding. Thatch build-up should not be an issue. Lightly sand topdress as needed during cooler periods to retain smoothness and promote overseeding success.
- Insects and Earthworms
White grub populations are normally higher in moist soils, so preventive applications of halofenozide (Mach 2) or imidacloprid (Merit) are probably justified. These two insecticides will not injure earthworms. To kill earthworms you can use Carbaryl (Sevin), ethoprop (Mocap) and fonofos (Crusade), which are highly toxic to earthworms.
- Plant Growth Regulators (PGRs)
Multiple research projects have indicated that anti-GA PGRs sustain bentgrass density in the shade. Apply flurprimidol (Cutless) at 0.25-0.5 lb/A or paclobutrazol (Trimmit) at 16-32 oz./A every 2 to 4 weeks during spring and fall for sustaining density and Poa suppression. Apply trinexapac-ethyl (Primo Maxx) at 6-12 oz./A every 2 to 4 weeks during summer for sustaining density.
- Biostimulants
My research at Virginia Tech has indicated very minor to no benefits of bi-weekly applications of seaweed, humic-acid or amino-acid based biostimulant materials on bentgrass shade tolerance.
- Algae and Moss
You should be able to minimize problems with algae and moss by paying proper attention to the suggested cultural and chemical approaches above. However, extended periods of wet, cloudy weather may override even the best efforts. In these cases, careful use of products containing copper hydroxide, ferrous sulfate or potassium salts of fatty acids may serve to keep algae and moss in check.
Integration of these approaches into an annual shaded bentgrass management plan will not guarantee success. Further, one or two major mechanical damage events from poor mowing practices or lack of cart control on shade-weakened bentgrass can negate months of successful cultural and chemical maintenance. If this occurs, your only choice may be to close the area and start over by sodding or re-seeding. Finally, remember that with any turfgrass problem long-term success will only be realized by identifying the primary factors related to decline and minimizing their deleterious effects; otherwise, you'll have to convince golfers that they like to play off dirt!
Erik H. Ervin, Ph.D., is assistant professor of turfgrass physiology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.).
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Bringing it all together: The Zombie Brain
Over the last ten days we've laid out our vision of the Zombie Brain. To recap, we've shown that zombies:
1) Have an over-active aggression circuit
2) Show cerebellar dysfunction
3) Suffer from long-term memory loss due to damage to the hippocampus
4) Present with global aphasia (i.e., can't speak, can understand language)
5) Suffer from a variant of Capgras-Delusion
6) Have impaired pain perception
7) Cannot attend to more than one thing at a time
8) Exhibit addictive responses to eating flesh
9) Have an insatiable appetite
Together, these symptoms and their neurological roots reveal a striking picture of the zombie brain.
Based on the behavioral profile of the standard zombie, we conclude that the zombie brain would have massive atrophy of the "association areas" of the brain: i.e., those areas that are responsible for the higher-order cognitive functions. Given the clear cognitive and memory deficits, we would also expect significant portions of the frontal and parietal lobes, and nearly the entire temporal lobe, to exhibit massive degeneration. As such, the hippocampuses of both hemispheres would be massively atrophied (resulting in memory deficits), along with most of the cerebellum (resulting in a loss of coordinated movements).
In contrast, we would expect that large portions of the primary cortices would remain intact. Behavioral observations lead us to conclude that vision, most of somatosensation (i.e., touch), and hearing are likely unimpaired. We also hypothesize that gustation and olfaction would also remain largely unaffected. We must further conclude that large sections of the thalamus and midbrain, brainstem, and spinal cord are all likely functioning normally or are in a hyper-active state.
Putting these elements together, we have reconstructed a plausible model for what the zombie brain would look like.
It is interesting to point out, from an historical standpoint, that many of the regions we hypothesize to be damaged in the zombie brain are part of what is generally referred to as the Papez circuit. James Papez first identified this circuit in 1936. Much like our current study, Papez was trying to unify a cluster of behavioral phenomena he had observed into a neuroanatomical model of the brain. He wondered why emotion and memory are so strongly linked. Thus, he hypothesized that emotional and memory brain regions must be tightly interconnected.
To test this theory, he injected the rabies virus into the brains of cats to watch how it spread and he made note of which brain regions were destroyed as a result of these injections. He observed that the hippocampus (important for memory formation) connects to the orbitofrontal cortex (social cognition and self-control), the hypothalamus (hunger regulation, among other things), the amygdala (emotional regulation), and so on. These experiments, conducted almost three-quarters of a century ago, may shed some insight into the nature of the zombie disorder today. We're not suggesting that some super, brain-eating rabies virus is responsible for zombies. We're just saying that it's not not possible.
The profile of damage we have outlined corroborates the behavioral observations we have made from zombie films. From a subjective standpoint, this pattern of cerebral atrophy represents a most heinous form of injury unparalleled in the scientific literature. It would lead to a pattern of violence and social apathy; patients thus affected would represent a grievous harm to society, with little chance of rehabilitation. The only recommendation is immediate quarantine and isolation of the subject.
However, as we learned in GI Joe "knowing is half the battle." Based on our observations, we leave you with a few strategies to maximize survival in the event of a zombie encounter.
1) Outrun them: Climb to a high point or some other place they will have trouble reaching. Practice parkour. The slow zombie variant can't catch up with a healthy adult human.
2) Don't fight them: They can't feel pain and aren't afraid of dying, so they've got the edge in close combat. If you can simply out run them, why risk the bite?
3) Keep quiet and wait: The zombie memory is so terrible that if you can hide long enough, it will mill around only until something else captures its attention.
4) Distraction, distraction, distraction: Throw something behind the zombie to capture its attention. Set off a flare, use a flashbang, or whatever you need to do to distract it to get away
5) If you can't beat 'me, join 'em: If you can't out run them (or are around the fast zombie variant) take advantage of their self-other delusion and act like one of them.
There you have it folks... scientifically validated safety tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse. Use them wisely the next time you come face-to-face with the living dead.


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Saundersfoot has ample hotels, guest houses, cafes, restaurants and shops and there are frequent summer shows in the village hall. The countryside around is also rewarding to visit, green, wooded and undulating with picnic areas and camping sites and walks through both inland and along the coast. One of the favourites is along the old coal tramway and through a tunnel to adjacent Wiseman's Bridge.
Saundersfoot is such a tranquil place in summer weather that it is difficult to understand why its harbour is protected by such stout stone walls. Built like a fortress with a narrow entrance facing inland, away from the direction of the waves, it seems to afford an excessive degree of shelter. But this harbour was built to accommodate far bigger and sturdier boats than the holiday craft which now packs the marina - the sailing colliers and fishing boats which served the village's original industry of coal export and fishing on a commercial scale.
The newly built harbour might have looked indestructible, but it had hardly been run in when a violent hurricane struck from the south-east in 1836, seriously breaching and damaging the harbour wall and wrecking two ships, which were torn from their moorings. It is difficut for present-day visitors to imagine such violence when they look out from the seafront at the calm waters of Carmarthen Bay and gentle waves lapping the golden sand.
Thank the Lord that in modern Saundersfoot hurricanes hardly ever happen. The beach is wide and child and family friendly, shelving gradually to provide lots of paddling space, although, like any beach parental suervision is necessary if children play with light plastic dinghies or Lilos which the lightest breeze can sweep seawards. Within the living memory of older folk best quality anthracite from Saundersfoot was being shipped out to far-flung places, brought down in trains of trams pulled by steam locomotives, the line running along the middle of the main street.
Known in medieval times as Llandussyllt and, after the Norman conquest, St Issels, both after the parish church of St Issels which nestles in the wooded valley half a mile inland to the north, it did not become Saundersfoot until Elizabethan times.
Its name is said by some historians to have been stemmed from the old English Stan Fyrs, or stony ground covered with furze or gorse. That seems to be the only explanation put forward for there is no record of anyone called Saunders having an influence in the area, although the locals call the village Sandersfoot, which suggests there may be some connection with the words "sandy" and "ford". There is certainly no shortage of sand and no doubt, before the building of the bridges and culverts, there would have been a ford.
The harbour was not built until 1834, following an 1829 Act of Parliament which set up the Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company. One local wag insisted that the original idea was to call the new company the Saundersfoot Harbour Improvement Trust, until the acronym was envisaged on the rolling stock.