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Ward 2 City Council member Germaine Simpson requested he do so after the council heard complaints from three men contending African-American males allegedly being targeted by Eunice police.
Noting similar complaints had been received over the past four years, she said, "We can't just put it under a rug." She noted she has a family member who was stopped three times in one day by Eunice officers.
"I've heard large numbers of young people are being pulled over. Profiling is against the law," she said.
Chief Ronald Dies said enforcing the law and keeping the community safe is why he was elected last November. "People complain, but we'll continue doing it to the best of our ability," he said in reviewing the department's arrest record in his first six months in office.
Under ordinary circumstances, the budget is the only Police Department issue within the council's authority.
Activist Clifton Lemelle, outlining alleged shortcomings and abuses in the city jail, claimed the department's independence ends where alleged civil rights violations begin.
He urged Moody and the council to create a committee to investigate conditions in and operation of the jail. Otherwise, he said, his group will contact the Department of Justice and the FBI, asking them to step into the city's affairs.
After the council meeting, Moody indicated he was uncertain whether he and/or the council could take such action under the separation of the branches.
Lemelle in his five minutes of comment talked about inmates sleeping on the floor, cold or skipped meals, inconsistent cooling, unduly shackled prisoners during lockdowns and insufficient medical treatment.
Responding, Dies said the jail has been inspected by the State Fire Marshal's Office and the Board of Health because of recent complaints and has been evaluated as one of the best in the area.
"I'm running a jail, not a Motel 6," he said.
Dies also told activist, educator and night club owner George Fisher he is not resigning. "I've got three-and-a-half years to go," he said.
Fisher, who organized a July 4 march demanding that the chief step down, told the council Dies unnecessarily sent "an army with loaded shotguns and dogs" into his Club Escalade to break up a trail ride after party.
Fisher said his club was within fire code occupancy limits and that no undue disturbance was going on when a host of officers summoned by Dies arrived there.
"I've got the cleanest business in town," Fisher said, reflecting the scrutiny he acknowledges police place on it. "Not one arrest was made," he noted.
"The council needs to do something," he added.
Joseph "Jo Jo" Reed, a radio and television personality, said he was giving a cousin a ride home before going to work on July 6 when a squad car began following him.
When he stopped to let the cousin out, the officer, who is also black, pulled up beside him and, as Reed told it to the council, matters went downhill from there.
"For no reason, he asked for my license and registration. Then he asked for proof of insurance, which I gave him. He said the card was expired. I told him my insurance was up to date and I could get it to him.
"I tried talking to him, telling him I knew what he was up to and everybody in the community is talking about him and he had no reason to stop me. Then he took the keys, pulled the plate and asked me who did I want to tow the vehicle," Reed said.
Reed said he elected Robbie's Wrecker Service. A summary from that point on is things went from bad to worse and Reed, though he subsequently provided proof of insurance, wound up working his way through DMV in Lafayette before he could retrieve his tag and vehicle.
"People need to know that this is going on, and something needs to be done," Reed told the council.
Dies reiterated to the council and the audience that Reed "couldn't produce proof of insurance. State law says you have to have it in your vehicle."
Louisiana Revised Statutes do required proof of current insurance be in a vehicle at all times.
They also prohibit, effective Aug. 15, 2010, impoundment of a private passenger car, pickup truck, van, recreational vehicle or motorcycle that is stopped, while being operated by a Louisiana resident, where such vehicle or operator, or both, present no imminent danger to the public and where such operator is unable to provide proof of insurance.
Under that law, which was Act 82 of the 2010 Legislature, a Louisiana resident shall be issued a notice of non-compliance, a citation or violation ticket, and allowed to proceed, assuming it is a first violation.
The officer is entitled to seize the vehicle's license plate, with it confiscated until proof of insurance is produced.
There are several exceptions to the non-towing stipulation, none of which evidently were in play in the Reed incident.
As it turned out, the truck was properly insured by Reed's father, John Reed, and premium payments were current.
Dies contended state records showed insurance on the vehicle had lapsed in 2009. Reed's agent, David S. Roberie, provided John Reed a letter saying that was not so, that there had been no lapse in coverage of the truck in 2009 or otherwise.


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On Monday, the Kentucky State Police was called out to Russellville to the home of Adairville principal Paul Sansom and when they arrived they found him dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Jonathan Biven, the public affairs officer for Post 3 in Bowling Green.
Biven said that when Sansom was found, he had a firearm in his hand.
Biven added that an autopsy was requested, per KSP policy in a shooting death, but when a note from Sansom was found as part of the investigation, the autopsy was deemed no longer necessary.
Logan County schools superintendent Marshall Kemp called Sansom's death "a tragic loss."
"And it's not only for the school district and the school students and staff, but also for the community and certainly his family," Kemp said. "He was a highly effective principal, who had a good school and worked with everyone to build the right relationships to get good results. Adairville school always had good results, everybody there took pride in what they did."
School was not in session either on Monday or Tuesday because of Election Day, and school resumed at Adairville as normal on Wednesday, but there were several counsellors on hand for those that needed it.
"Wednesday we had considerably more there than Thursday," Kemp said. "We will try to get through the rest of the week with the help of the counsellors."
Kemp added that the students have "done remarkably well under the circumstances."
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Editor's note: The race for the 30th District seat in the N.C. Senate, which represents Surry and other area counties, originally pitted Democratic nominee Ric Marshall against incumbent Republican Don East, who died on Oct. 22. East's name will remain on the ballot for Tuesday's election, and in the meantime area GOP officials are meeting to pick a replacement. Background information on Marshall and his responses to a series of questions relative to state government are being presented here today.
Name: Ric Marshall
Age: 51
Place of residence: Ararat
Educational background: Graduate of Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, Va.
Occupation: Is the president of Southland Logistics, a general freight trucking company headquartered in Boonville.
Previous political experience/public service: Has been a candidate for state legislative and county commissioner seats in the past; serves on the boards of directors of Yadkin Valley Economic Development District Inc. and the Uptown Gallery; is a founder of the group Matthew 25:35 Inc., which supplements the work of area food banks.
Question: Why are you the best candidate for this office?
Answer: Because I've been in the community and I have my finger on the pulse of the community. I've worked as a volunteer and am aware of what our area needs.
Folks are out of work and some don't even have enough food on the table and we're playing party politics in Raleigh and Washington. I want to be a senator for all the people. I've been campaigning for quite some time, sometimes covering the entire district in a day. Campaigning is not only a time for people to get to know you, it's also a time for you to get to know the people.
You can't just sit in Raleigh and know the needs of your district. When legislation is proposed, I will ask teachers, business owners and others, "how does this affect you?" I will represent everyone. Right now, we're not getting that — we're not getting that at all. The people of the 30th District are not getting the representation they deserve. I have been endorsed by the N.C. Association of Educators and N.C. Voters for Animal Welfare.
Question: What is your assessment of the present condition of state government?
Answer: I see it as disabled. The N.C. General Assembly has a 16-percent approval rating right now. If you and I had a 16-percent approval rating, what would we have? We'd be unemployed. We're at a stalemate in Raleigh and nothing is getting done that is helping the 30th District. We've seen no jobs come to Surry County and we've not seen anything that's helped the 30th District in the last two years.
Question: Along with jobs, what are the most urgent needs in this district?
Answer: Education is the main one. The N.C. General Assembly cut $1.6 billion out of education and said, "we're not cutting teachers." But when you're cutting funding to the counties, it ends up cutting teaching jobs and education is the key to everything. Our children are our future and their future depends on education. It is going to bring in new jobs.
Let me give you a quick example: Wilkes County's biggest employer went to the school officials there and said, "the county needs new schools and we'll even help you with the costs." The school officials played partisan politics and said no and their biggest employer picked up and moved to Mooresville. That was Lowe's hardware. This is a prime example of how education is the key to everything, because you have to educate your work force.
Question: Assuming creating jobs in the district would be your top priority if elected, how would you bring that about?
Answer: Well, first of all I would be an active partner in trying to get folks to take a look at North Carolina and at Surry, Stokes and Wilkes counties. I would get them to come to our area and take a look at our interstate highways and other resources. You can't just sit in Raleigh and say "I'm the senator for the 30th District." You have to get out and work. I also would help small business, not just by giving them tax breaks but providing a helping hand in other ways that will allow them to grow.
Question: The state budget is tight; what areas do you think should be cut, or on the other hand, which might be in need of more funding?
Answer: Well, of course, education needs more funding to make sure we're teaching the children. The first thing you've got to do is agree where wasteful spending is occurring. You've got public servants going to Raleigh and getting paid $45,000 for a part-time job, then they turn around and reduce funding to education and lay off people. Educating our children is not wasteful spending.
We've got to look at the budget for each state agency and stop practices such as making sure funds left over at the end of the year are spent by those agencies rather than going back into the revenue pool. They should be returned, with the understanding that spending less won't cause the agencies to be shorted for the next year if the same level of funding is needed. We need leadership for that kind of thing.
Question: Other than more money, what should be done to improve public education in North Carolina?
Answer: I personally would like to look at ways to address the teaching of our children that are not just focused on testing, so they know more about history, more about math, more about English — so they're not just being taught to take tests. We need to make sure students know what they have to in order to survive in a global economy.
But with the devastating cuts the N.C. General Assembly has made in the last two years in education, North Carolina is now 49th in the nation behind Mississippi. We are losing one out of eight teachers to different careers and some people will come here to be trained, then go to other states such as Pennsylvania where they can be paid more.


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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Just a Bad Year
In truth, it was a bad year.
Looking back now, I can see where and when it all began, and I can see where it ended too.
Christmas 2009. We went away for the holidays, just for a few days. My daughter was fifteen months old and yes, she was hard work, but no harder than she'd ever been, no harder than any other child. No different to how a child should be.
To me, that marked the time something clicked in my mind. I'd suspected it for a while, but right then it became real. That being a mother wasn't all sweetness, that it was going to take some work, that I wasn't always going to do things easily and naturally the way I had when she was a baby. And that, despite all our talk, being a mother and being a father are two different things, loaded with different expectations and responsibilities.
While my husband packed up at the end of that trip, I watched our daughter. And I cried and cried. All the way home, I yelled at my husband and I cried.
I felt trapped.
By the time we left, 2010 was just beginning, and I spent the rest of that year feeling the same.
I cried every day of that year. I spent hours at a time shut in my bedroom, just wanting to sleep or lie down. No energy. I'd put things against the door so that my daughter couldn't come in, and I'd lie there and listen to her calling for me, banging against the door screaming for her mum.
I didn't want to hurt myself and I didn't want to hurt my little girl. I just wanted to run. Shutting myself in a room was the only way I could physically stop myself from running out the front door.
I couldn't handle anything out of the ordinary. One conversation about a decision for the house would have me in bed with a migraine. I yelled and I snapped, and I made my husband make all the decisions, because my mind couldn't handle one more thought. I cried.
I dreamt of running away. Of freedom.
I thought life had turned on me, that I was forced to be somewhere I didn't want to be. I thought I had no control over anything.
And I felt self-indulgent. I had a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, family and friends who love me, a nice house being improved, a new direction in life. There were terrible things happening to others in the world, and I had everything.
But the negativity. I couldn't shake this cloud hanging over me, this feeling of being useless and helpless. The complete lack of joy.
And then came the end of the year. We went away on holidays again, to the same place, did the same things. I dreaded going, picturing the year before and knowing by then, that was the place it all seemed to begin. But we went anyway.
I found I had come full circle. Life hadn't changed, but that thing that clicked in my mind clicked back again.
As suddenly as that, I knew. I knew I was free. I knew I had made decisions to be where I was, and I knew I was happy with those decisions. I knew I had control, and choices.
I know.
Looking back now, I can't label it. Was it depression? Was it just a bad time? Was it me being melodramatic? Was it that it was a year of change? Me, who had always thought of herself as a career woman, staying at home? Us renovating?
I don't know. But it wasn't right.
Should I have talked to someone about it? That, I can answer. To that, I can say with absolute certainty: yes. But there was - and is - always an excuse. I feel better today. It was nothing. Life is good, I have everything. It was just a bad day. I'm okay now.
Now I understand how easy it is for those negative thoughts to turn bad, to become constant. I've learnt that yes, being a mother is different to being a father, but rather than feeling the weight of that responsibility I once again feel privileged. (Most of the time.)
I remember how life was before that year. I feel like that again. That life is good, there is promise and joy and laughter and happiness. The feeling of being ready for anything it throws at me. The knowledge that a bad day is okay, but it doesn't make me unhappy or remove all hope from my mind.
Life is good.
And happiness isn't dependent on what's happening around you (within reason). It comes from somewhere else entirely.
39 comments:
- Life In A Pink Fibro said...
Great post Megan. Glad the circle went all the way around for you.
- February 2, 2011 at 1:19 PM
- BabyMac said...
Here's to 2011! So glad you came full circle and thanks for sharing with us.
- February 2, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- Through the looking glass said...
Beauty shines through in honesty. Thank you for sharing. *clinks glass* Here's to an amazing 2011 x
- February 2, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- Michele said...
Great post and yes sadly have been there too (minus the holiday at either end). Had all the excuses - just tireed, sick, sleep deprived, two small kids, a business (and a busy husband), missing work, hate the heat, just this stage blah blah blah *hmmm yes a LOT of blaaaahhhness. Yelled and cried a lot well not a lot really more of a constant ongoing inner scream mostly and lots of muttering and cursing and (looking back) JUST NOT HAPPY! Glad you are on the up and up. PS one of the best things I came across was to not treat your husband like the enemy. Simple advice but I remember so often just thinking awful negative things about him at times v unfounded but from grumpiness and a sense of unfairnesss and inequality. 1) he was the man I loved and married and want to be with for rest of life and 2) he is no mind reader. Anyway off my soap box now : ) Rant over
- February 2, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- Mrs Woog said...
I too suffer from this type of feelings now and again. xo
- February 2, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- anjwritesabout.com said...
Have been there - may find myself there again. I am so glad, though, to read that you found your way back. xo
- February 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- Cat said...
Sweetest, most wonderful friend, I really understand. I suspect that it's this for me still to a degree. There are good days & not so good ones. I can't function properly at the moment that's for sure. I'm proud of you for sharing these inner workings out. I'm thrilled that the light is back and I salute the beauty of your words. xxxx ps. yes, I'm crying. x
- February 2, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- Wanderlust said...
Megan, wow. This is beautiful in it's honesty (if not in the feelings it describes). I went through something similar, if less intense. I would imagine most mothers do. The reality of parenting is so different from the fantasy. But once we let go of that fantasy and accept the reality, we do begin to appreciate the absolute gift of motherhood. I'm glad you came full circle and feel in control again, like you have choices. We always do. Thanks for having the courage to blog raw! xo
- February 2, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Jeanette said...
I know from whence you've come, I am yet to know where you are now. With 7 & 4 yr olds I still find myself in despair, wondering why I chose to have children, when I can't seem to care about them...not that I don't love them, just seem to be emotionally detatched! Waiting for my full circle....hoping it's before they grow up & leave the house. Hmmmm, great post Megan. Dearly love your instagram pics of your adorable daughter!
- February 2, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Rachel said...
i think we have all been there at some point in motherhood that feeling trapped sensation. well done for talking about it! i think many of us can relate with what you were feeling.
hope 2011 is a great year for you with no tears! - February 2, 2011 at 1:50 PM
- Jacki said...
Great post! I'm going through a similar process myself and have only just started to feel like I'm coming back to the original me. Thank you for sharing!
- February 2, 2011 at 1:53 PM
- Thea said...
I really understand the 'not asking for help' bit!
I've been in this cycle a few times, even before children, and have never seen anyone. You feel like it will all go away, you'll get through it, or you just don't want to tell anyone.
I'm so glad you're feeling better now. Hope 2011 is wonderful for you. xx - February 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Madmother said...
2010 was my Annus Horibilis. 2011 has already shown itself to be the year of positive.
I think we all encounter depression at some point in our lives, and some seem to work their way slowly out without seeking help, whilst others need aid in conquering the beast.
Glad you made it through, glad I did too. Now to hold out that hand to others who may be sinking in the new decade... - February 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Jackie@My Little Bookcase said...
Thanks for blogging raw. I don't do it because I don't consider myself to be a very good writer, but I certainly talk raw about being a mother.
Thanks for your honesty. I believe it makes mothering easier when you know you are not alone.
I felt a similar way when my daughter was a baby. Life is much easier for me now that she is a toddler. I have regained a little bit of control.
But early on I would talk about my feelings and other mothers would stare blankly at me. I felt like an odd-ball. Since finding the honesty within the blogosphere I don't think that so much anymore. - February 2, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- Lisa said...
I think all mother's experience these feelings at some point and to vastly different degrees.
I think you hit the nail on the head about our expectations. It is such a huge shift in thinking when you become a parent and the fantasy rarely matches up with the reality. When we are at a point where we can see clearly and adjust our expectaions a huge weight is lifted, nothing else will have changed but we can cut ourselves a bit of slack and see the world differently.
I know that I found my girlfriends to be an invaluable source of support at times like this and even though I sometimes felt like all I would do was whinge, the knowledge that I wasn't alone in feeling like that help enormously. Here's to a happier year for you and yours in 2011. - February 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM
- anidledad said...
It's the honest posts that resonate the most with parents I find. The 'everything is so wonderful' posts never quite ring true.
Sure, we have great days, wonderful days but all the time? No way.
I've had bad days, weeks, months. Maybe not years but I can see how it happens. But I've got good face-to-face vent options and I've found that blogging and genuine support does come from the tweeps and commenters.
I'm glad you've come back around and recaptured what's needed to be a parent.
If tomorrow's bad, though, I hope you speak out too.
All the best. - February 2, 2011 at 3:11 PM
- Lucy said...
Megan, you write raw, and you write so honestly and beautifully. About a topic very close to my heart. xxx
- February 2, 2011 at 4:25 PM
- MaidInAustralia said...
Wow ... thanks for your honesty. I'm glad you are back in the light now. xo
- February 2, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Jodie at Mummy Mayhem said...
As I tweeted earlier, I'm so proud of you for writing this. Do you realise how many other mothers this could help? I tell you - there are too many mums out there thinking that everyone else finds parenting easy. None of us do. Even whats-her-name who wrote those controversial articles about her baby being gorgeous and 'easy'...someday...
An important post, and I'm so, so glad you came out the other end ok. xxx - February 2, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Suz said...
I hear you and I empathise with you. I am so sorry you were suffering. I'm glad you have shared it now. We all need to do that. Big hug xx
- February 2, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- 4 kids, 20 suitcases and a beagle said...
I love your honesty Megan.
Kirstyx - February 2, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- Jane said...
Wow. I had no idea you felt this way. Thank you for sharing this...I'm sending lots of virtual high fives your way xxx
- February 2, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Your raw honesty is truly amazing. I suffered post natal depression with my first child although I did not know it back then. I am so glad you have come full circle and glad you could share this with us. I am so enriched from reading this.
- February 2, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Your raw honesty is truly amazing. I suffered post natal depression with my first child although I did not know it back then. I am so glad you have come full circle and glad you could share this with us. I am so enriched from reading this.
- February 2, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Claireyh said...
To hear you have cried so many tears and felt so alone is a surprise.
I am sorry to hear that what should have been a lovelynyear for you was not quite so wonderful. But hopefully 2011 is everything you deserve and more. - February 2, 2011 at 9:53 PM
- emlykd said...
I have felt this way too Megan... and yet I still haven't gone for help... I don't know why... I am glad to hear u have come full circle again... :D
your an amazing lovely girl! *hugs* - February 3, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Sarah said...
I'm late to this one Megan but understand exactly where you are coming from. For me, picking up the phone to get help was literally one of the hardest things I ever had to do. It took me far too long. I am glad you have come full circle.
- February 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Kylie D'Alton said...
Hi Megan. I have never left a comment here before but wanted to say that I thought that all of the feelings you have experienced were normal. After my first child I expected to go back to work straight away. It didn't happen, everything changed, I changed my mind, I wanted to be a stay at home mum, I felt conflicted. I struggled with all of these feelings and now just take it as an adjustment period - my whole life changed and things required redefining. Does this make sense? Three years later and another baby on the way I haven't returned to work but reset my goals and redefined my life. Being a mother is so much more difficult than I ever imagined. Thanks for the post.
- February 5, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Maxabella said...
It was a bad year. I'm so glad you've popped out the other end of the cyclone. x
- February 8, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- Lisa said...
Thank you for that post Megan, now the thoughts I've had for the last two years make sense and I feel less alone. I hope this year looks up for you (and me too).
- February 11, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Kathy said...
Thank you for sharing this. Like you, I've had such a year - two, actually - in my motherhood journey ... 2006, with two toddlers, then 2009, with a third baby and health dramas. Both those years had me feeling trapped, incapable, under a dark cloud, for a miserable majority of the time.
I think your story is very important because it also highlights that this can end positively (it did for me too, both times). I've now been a parent for almost 8 years and I can honestly say it's been more joy than sorrow, but I acknowledge the darkness of those dark times too. - March 7, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Ms Styling You said...
It is difficult to pick up that phone - it's like another job on a list that is taking over your life. So happy for you that 2011 is looking a lot different for you. x
- March 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- Ashleigh said...
I've been in that place too. I'm so glad you have come away from there. I think we all end up there sometimes. Beautiful post, x
- March 7, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- DanniiBeauty said...
Thanks for sharing. Its so hard to go through these feelings, I have struggled with PND with both my kids. Glad to see things are looking better now.
- March 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Glowless @ Where's My Glow said...
It's such a dark place to be. Whatever you choose to call it, depression, a bad year, a speedhump on the road of life, I'm glad you've come through the other end and that the fog has lifted.
- March 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM
- Belinda said...
Thanks for sharing this Megan. I have felt this way on and off since having my boy 16 months ago.
For a long while I couldn't even admit it to myself so I was shocked when one day my husband said he felt that I would just take off and leave him and my boy.
I was shocked and offended that he could say such a thing, but then I realised he had picked up on the thing I couldn't admit. I did feel enormously trapped.
I am so glad to hear that the fog has lifted. - March 21, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- marissawritesablog.com said...
Thanks for writing this post. I believe a lot of us have felt the same way at some point. I also believe it has no reflection on how much we love our kids - it's more the loss of our own identity... Does that make sense? I adore my daughter and love being a stay at home mum, but that doesn't mean everyday is easy. Love you for sharing this xo
- March 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Dorothy said...
I'm so sorry you went through that alone. It definitely sounds like depression. I guess with my own history it is obvious. It's so hard to see it from the inside. It saddens me that most of us women don't like to admit that we're not coping and ask for help. I'm glad you were able to come full circle and work things out for yourself. And thank you for sharing. Hopefully someone reading this will recognise themselves in it and ask for help.
- April 11, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- NannaMel said...
How did I miss this post?!!
Yet again you amaze and inspire me with your honesty and bravery. AND most importantly, by being so open you help others by sharing. I know this to be true because you just did. Love you. xxx - May 12, 2011 at 8:48 PM


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Applejack's immediate familyEdit
Though the extended family is quite large, only four Apple family members regularly appear in Ponyville: Applejack, Apple Bloom, Big McIntosh, and Granny Smith. Each of the Apple siblings' coat color corresponds to another sibling's mane color: Applejack's mane corresponds to Apple Bloom's coat, Apple Bloom's mane to Big McIntosh's coat, and Big McIntosh's mane to Applejack's coat.
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Applejack's extended family is introduced as "The Apple family" in the episode Friendship is Magic, part 1, when Applejack invites Twilight Sparkle and Spike to brunch. Applejack sounds off the following ponies: Apple Fritter, Apple Bumpkin, Red Gala, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Caramel Apple, Apple Strudel, Apple Tart, Baked Apples, Apple Brioche, Apple Cinnamon Crisp, Big McIntosh, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith. Peachy Sweet, Apple Cobbler, and other ponies are also among those present, but are not referred to by name. Apple Strudel first appears in Family Appreciation Day, wearing a Bavarian hat and traditional dress.Applejack later explains to Twilight in Applebuck Season that her relatives had all gathered for the Apple family reunion, and had been working at their own farms at the time, and were unable to lend a hoof to Applejack. However, several of them, including Apple Cobbler, Apple Fritter, Apple Bumpkin, Red Gala, and Peachy Sweet, help prepare Applejack's surprise party in The Last Roundup, and Caramel Apple appears in the same episode. Applejack's aunt Apple Brown Betty is mentioned, but does not appear, in The Ticket Master. Another relative, Applejack's cousin Braeburn, is introduced in Over a Barrel. He lives in the frontier town of Appleloosa, along with many more apple farmers. The Cutie Mark Chronicles establishes that Applejack is related to the Oranges, who Applejack calls Aunt Orange and Uncle Orange; toys refer to the latter as Mosely Orange. Apple Bloom's cousin Babs Seed is introduced in One Bad Apple, mentioning that she has a "big sis". Babs Seed never told her "big sis" but in the end of One Bad Apple Applejack makes her promise that she'll tell her "big sis" when she gets bullied for not having a cutie mark. Great uncle Honeycrisp is mentioned by Applejack in issue 3 of the comic The Return of Queen Chrysalis.
The founding of PonyvilleEdit
Granny Smith recounts how the Apple family came to found Ponyville in the episode Family Appreciation Day. Ponyville sprang up around Sweet Apple Acres due to their crop of Zap Apples, whose seeds she found in the Everfree Forest. She describes how the Zap Apples grow after a series of strange events that take place near the Everfree Forest.
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Sweet Apple Acres is the family farm/orchard located near Ponyville, home to Applejack, Big McIntosh, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith. It primarily grows apples, though corn, carrots, and exactly 24,567,237 blades of grass grow there as well, (shown in The Return of Harmony Part 1, The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, and Spike at Your Service respectively.) Grapes may also grow there, often crushed by hoof for juice as shown in Sisterhooves Social. The property contains several apple orchards, depicted throughout the series, though the west orchard in particular was abandoned after flocks of fruit bats settled there (seen in Apple Family Reunion). One grove is dedicated to growing magic Zap Apples, as shown in Family Appreciation Day, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders have a clubhouse (which used to belong to Applejack) in a tree on a secluded part of the farm. According to Lauren Faust, Sweet Apple Acres was originally called "Big Apple Orchard".[3]
Two of the more popular products the family produces are Granny Smith's zap apple jam, and apple cider during cider season, both of which ponies are willing to wait in long lines for. Apples are also sold, but are less popular, as seen in Call of the Cutie.
Farm animals being raised are pigs living in the barn seen in The Show Stoppers, a chicken coop for eggs shown in Owl's Well That Ends Well, and sheep shown in Sisterhooves Social. Applejack owns a working dog named Winona who also lives on the farm.Every year, the farm hosts the Sisterhooves Social, a Rodeo-type, sisterly bonding event for older and younger sisters. In the episode Sisterhooves Social, Applejack and Apple Bloom take part in it, as well as Rarity and Sweetie Belle.
See alsoEdit
- This article's speculation page.
- ↑ Tweet about AJ's parents (2012-12-22). Retrieved on 2012 December 22.
- ↑ Lauren Faust deviantArt journal entry "FAQ" (2011-12-27). Retrieved on 2012 December 22.
- ↑ Lauren Faust on Twitter (2013-03-15). Retrieved on 2013 March 15.


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A shortened term which came about in the late 80s but stands for progressive rock music which dates back to the late 60s. It is rock based music that pushed boundaries beyond pop 'single' verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, four minute compositions.
Prog encompasses various styles dating back to the late 60s depending on influences and established music forms being blended together. Classical blended with rock is a style of prog called 'symphonic'. Jazz musicians that composed rock suites are called 'fusion' in the U.S.. In the U.K. jazz and rock combine in the style called 'canterbury'. In France it's called 'zuehl'. Freakout, jam style bands in Germany are called 'krautrock'; elsewhere they are called 'spacerock' and 'jambands'. Bands whos sound is dominated by synthesizers as both rhythm and lead instruments are called 'electronic'. There are many progressive style rock artists who are unclassifiable, who pushed the boundaries of rock in the late 60s and early 70s in completely unique ways such as Funkadelic, Frank Zappa and the early Santana band. Prog is a nebulous term applied to artists who play rock instrumentation without regard to commercial, pop radio format restraints of song length and/or improvisational content. Some examples of 70s prog artists beside those already mentioned are Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Soft Machine, Magma, Embryo, Osibisa, Gong and Tangerine Dream. Some examples of prog in the new millenium are The F... |
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Short for 'Proggressive rock'. A kind of music, usually typified by very long songs with complex structures and time signatures. It started with bands like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes, etc, and bands like Dream Theatre, Opeth, The Mars Volta and Tool all have strong prog influences, making the old prog stereotype of a middle-aged bearded man in a wizard outfit tediously wanking off his guitar pretty much redundant. Muse are better in their proggier moments...
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The style of music defined by odd time signatures and bizarre instrumentation. Shortened version of progressive. Pink Floyd is prog.
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1. An adjective denoting the complexity of a thing or event; when something seems far too difficult to undertake or complete; when one is involved in a "sticky situation." (Derives from the words "Progressive" and "Prog", used to describe certain types of rock/Metal music (e.g., Rush, Dream Theater, Genesis, Symphony X, Tool, etc.), which may use odd time-signatures and, at times, contain mind-blowing musicianship.)
2. My also refer to the manner in which one is dressed: One will usually sport a white button-down shirt and tight-fit pants (black jeans, leather, blue jeans, white pants). "My Advanced Quantam Physics exam was so prog that my heart almost stopped as I was trying to complete it."
"Did you see John Paul at the party yesterday? He was proggin' it up with his clean-ass white Calvin Klein button-down. He dressed mad prog." |
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Prog=Shit is a universal law discovered by Sir Isaac Newton, the noted Philosopher, Scientist and pioneering DJ. Prog is shit
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Abbrieviation for the word PROGRAM commonly used by Tech Geeks and Haxors. "Hey Man, I'm looking for that one prog to catch spyware, do u have it?"
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Also known as 'art rock'. The Mars Volta are a modern day prog band.


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Published by Canadean, Global Beverage Forecasts provides consumption trends 1999 to 2011 actuals and 2012 to 2017 forecasts for key beverage categories.
Introduction and Landscape
Why was the report written?
This bi-annual report from Canadean is designed to show past consumption trends for all commercial beverage categories and forecast trends five years into the future. Product analysis is broken down in to 21 categories: packaged water, bulk/HOD water, carbonates, juice, nectars, still drinks, squash/syrups, fruit powders, iced/rtd tea drinks, iced/rtd coffee drinks, sports drink, energy drinks, hot tea, hot coffee, beer, wine, spirits, fortified wine, dairy drinks (white milk, fermented milk, drinking yogurt, flavoured milk, soymilk, evaporated and condensed milk).
What is the current market landscape and what is changing?
Current economic environment remains gloomy in western markets and Eurozone countries are having a particularly turbulent ride. The signs so far in 2012 indicate more difficult times ahead for the global economy and on-going challenges for the beverages industry.
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Data for 24 individual beverage categories, covering historical trends (1999-2011 actuals and 2012-2017 forecast provided in excel).
Data measures in million liters and liters per capita
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Canadean's Global Beverage Forecasts includes data tables for 93 markets in eight regions : Africa, Asia, Australasia, Latin America, East Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America and West Europe.
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Beverage Consumption Data Tables
Data Horizon 1999-2011 ACTUAL, 2012-2017 FORECASTS
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AFRICA: Nigeria, South Africa, Other Africa
ASIA: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Other Asia
AUSTRALASIA: Australia, New Zealand, Other Australasia
LATIN AMERICA: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Other Latin America
EAST EUROPE: Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Other East Europe
MIDDLE EAST and NORTH AFRICA (MENA): Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Other MENA
NORTH AMERICA: Canada, United States of America
WEST EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, (Republic of) Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Other West Europe
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For regions where it has not been possible to generate total market volumes by profiling each individual country, specifically Central and South America, Asia, Middle East/North Africa and Rest of Africa, we have taken a value judgment to arrive at a balancing "Others" figure. This is recorded as a separate entity, specific to the Region to which it belongs
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Main beverage category groups: Soft (standard), Soft (extended), Beer, Spirits (standard), Spirits (extended) and Wines.
Individual beverage categories within each main group are as follows:
Soft (standard): Packaged Water, Carbonates, Juice (100% pure juice), Nectars (products with a 25-99% juice content), Still Drinks (<25% juice content), Squash/Syrups, Fruit Powders, Iced/Ready To Drink (RTD) Tea, Iced/Ready To Drink (RTD) Coffee, Sports Drinks, Energy Drinks. Packaged Water excludes all water sold in large containers of >10 liters
Soft (extended): Bulk/HOD Water, Dairy Drinks (White Milk, Flavoured Milk, Soymilk and Cultured Dairy Drinks including Drinking Yogurt and Fermented Milk combined), Hot Coffee, Hot Tea
Beer: Beer, Sorghum Beer and Cider
Spirits (standard): Spirits (excludes Fortified Wine and Flavoured Alcoholic Beverages (FABs))
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ASIA: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
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Total revenues: 724 million euros (599 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +20.9%) EBITDA: 478 million euros (379 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +26.1%) EBIT: 320 million euros (230 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +39.1%) Group net income: 148 million euros (97 million euros as of March 31st, 2012, +52.6%) Net financial debt: 5,125 million euros (4,614 million euros as of December 31st, 2012,+11.1%) Net installed capacity: 8,188 MW (7,201 MW as of March 31st, 2012, +13.7%) Net generation: 7.4 TWh (5.9 TWh as of March 31st, 2012, +25.4%)
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fawk,fawken,fawked. basically means fuck. used in Counter-Strike, to get around Swear filters =D GUY:WTF your so gay dude you ****!
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fawk (noun); fawked, fawker, fawkin
1. used to address someone 2. da asian pronunciation to the word fuck (how my old man would say it...) 1. Aye, you fawk.
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the universally recognized way to get around a swear filter.... so just deal with it and leave me the fawk alone :P Person 1: XO I hate the *** filter!
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Used in many variations, most often as a synonym for word 'fuck'. Also used to address someone, but not meant insulting. Using word 'fawk' in most cases is not insulting. The most popular meaning for the word is to address someone who likes to pretend to be homo sexual. Oh shit, mainframe fawked up his bot.
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hybrid cross between a falcon and a hawk. Young fawks are known as fawklings. They live in large groups called fawklets. Look at the beautiful, new-born fawklet.
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The Fidonet Awk Utility; used for pattern matching regarding applications such as email and usenet. This utility provides the same capabilities as awk on unix system, which can be used to read flat-file databases or to make quick searches and replacements. Fawk is also compatible with grep syntax. I totally FAwked this spam! I am teh 13373$7! pwn3d Pfizer, pwn3d!
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These are pictures I took on a trip to Germany last year. I felt inspired by the nature as well as history that surrounds my hometown of Langenberg in North Rhine Westfalia. There is a great deal of NOSTALGIA involved in the reasons why I feel emotional about these pictures. Even though there are NO PEOPLE within the frame, the pictures speak to me mostly about the people I value most.
Artist: Hilla und Bernd Becher
Among the comparisons made in the Bechers typologies are those based on the structures' function (water tower, blast furnace, cooling towers, etc.), shape, size, location, materials, date, and multiple views of a single structure. As their archive expanded so did the types of possible comparisons. The water towers, in Typologies, unlike those described by Jappe, are a type specific to New York City. The two pieces depicting winding towers illustrate very different organizing principles—one large scale and durable, the other ad-hoc. The comparisons are not didactic, but in bringing together disparate views and distant objects they provide an entirety new experience. In 1974 the Bechers noted that they sought "to collect the information in the simplest form, to disregard unimportant differences and to give a clearer understanding of the structures. We wanted to provide a viewpoint or other a grammar for people to understand and compare different structures. This is often impossible in their natural setting."
The Bechers often go to great lengths to make their comparisons as clear and consistent as possible. They most frequently utilisze a high viewpoint (often erecting scaffolding), photograph the most planar view of a structure (its silhouette), and use the perspective correction controls of a view camera. They photography in even light and come close to filling the frame with the main structure; this not only minimizes temporal and geographic clues but provides an identical photographic scale to objects of disparate sizes.
A photographic typology not only provides a new setting for the study of a subject, it visually preserves that subject. From the start the Bechers understood that the structures that interested them, those whose external form visually mirrored their function, represented a specific moment in the history of industrialization. Both the structures and the way of life they represented were in the process of disappearing as a result of technological obsolescence as well as depletion of natural resources. Thus the Bechers often find themselves in a race against the clock. Of mineheads reproduced in the 1985 book on the subject, forty-five were then in use, thirty-nine were abandoned, and eighty-eight were already destroyed, despite the fact that almost all were twentieth-century creations.
The Bechers have expanded and refined their project during the past decade. When exhibiting these prints they have used either a wall or a room as a typological unit. They have worked extensively with the more complex, often anthropomorphic, forms of blast furnaces. Certain works, such as the series of typologies depicting details of coke plants and hot blast stoves exhibited at Sonnabend Gallery in 1988, are overt in their biomorphic, even sexual, implications. The Bechers' stated admiration for the nineteenth-century photography and Flaubert seems more appropriate than ever. As Hilla Becher has noted, admiringly, "In the 19th century, you have both the object and the metaphor and if you use them in the right way it becomes so fascinating that in the end you can really say: this is a certain object, it has a name and so on, but it also stands for a certain historical condition.
In 1975 the Bechers were among ten artists included in the exhibition New Topograhics. Much attention was paid to this exhibition's concentration on suburban development and vernacular architecture. The Bechers' relation to the other photographers in New Topograhics was tangential, considering their historically specific choice of subjects, their participation as the only Europeans, and their use of multiple images to compromise a single artwork.
(In "Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers" by M. Freidus, 1991)
By placing photographs of similar subjects alongside each other, the individual differences emerge, making the fine details in each picture more noticeable, more distinct. Drawing on this, they began exhibiting the pictures as typologies; by the early 1960s they showed their work only in typological groups. Typically, a piece of work would comprise four small prints of, for example, water towers, adjacent to a larger print of one of the four. They would not supply prints of individual pictures; the typology was the work. Later, their typologies contained prints of equal size, measuring 30 cm by 40 cm. It could be three rows of five prints, a grid of nine or, in one case, 28 blast furnaces in three rows; a symphony of industrial structures.
The Bechers' pictures do not have to be viewed in typologies in order to make sense, as they have validity as individual images. The typology has been developed for two reasons. First, by amassing such a detailed survey of industrial structures they are revealing sets and subsets, much like 19th-century zoologists did. With water towers, for example, there are round steel ones with conical tops, like hats, and semi-circular ones. Others are circular with sloping roofs, or without roofs, or on steel derricks, or brick towers, and so on. The more fine the differences, the better they are illustrated by the typology.Second, the typology used by the Bechers emphasises the rewards of close scrutiny, and it is this that makes each and every one of their pictures fascinating. By presenting 15 water towers in a grid, the first effect is an imposing mass of industrial structures. You must stand back in order to take them all in as a group, but to look closer at an individual picture it is necessary to draw nearer.
Up close, only one tower is visible at a time. Isolated in pristine, black-and-white definition, this everyday object is revealed as an 'anonymous sculpture', an unostentatious but fabulous creation by mankind. To compare it with the others is to stand back again, and from here the impulse is to step up and examine another. Just as the beauty of the individual structure (for that is what they are) is there to see, so together as a typology they are a thrilling spectacle.
Apart from presenting them as typologies, the Bechers produced a series of monographs covering a range of industrial structures. In these finely printed books, the pictures are published one to a page. They are like portraits and the devotional aspect of their work becomes apparent. Photography, like film, has two specific properties. The first is that the photograph will record far more than the eye could see at the time of exposure. It traps details so finely on the negative that it would take the naked eye a long time to uncover the same amount of information. As with a view from a window, one can look and look and look, always seeing more.
(via Tate Magazine Issue 1)
It's like after years of walking around barefoot, I have finally found a shoe that fits - and it all falls into place. Hilla and Bernd Becher are in my eyes the masters of Typology. While obviously, Candida Höfer's images are easier to look at, if it wasn't for the Bechers, most German photographic talents would have never been born.
With photography and the Bechers as inspiration, for the first time have I found something that I can call my own and pride myself with. Even though I am German!
Artist: Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer's photographs reveal her interest in documenting collections of like things. Over the past twenty years, Höfer has created a systematic visual study of details within public spaces such as zoos, the interiors of office buildings, theaters, museums, and library reading rooms. Höfer's straightforward and detached style at first seems clinical and purely documentary. Since the early 1980s people have been noticeably absent from Hofer's photographs. Instead, she uses her camera to note repeated forms within public spaces such as furniture, lighting fixtures, ceiling or floor tiles, chairs, and tables, creating patterns and a sense of orderliness. Höfer also often emphasizes the ironic by drawing the viewer's attention to things out of place. In Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig IX, the presence of people is strongly implied by the empty desks and lights, as well as by the books at the end of the room, evoking a sense of their purpose as vehicles of collected human history and knowledge.
(via Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago)
Candida Höfer has continued where the Bechers stopped: She has turned typological work into something that broad audiences can enjoy. I think that's mostly the case because of her introduction of colour and cultural places (in comparison to the trist industrial sites we are confronted with in the Bechers body of work)


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