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Polearms: Differentiation Analysis
- It feels a little thin, but I suppose that's to be expected. If you consider a number of the other reviews I've conducted here at Disenchanting Azeroth, the sheer number of models existing in game for swords, daggers, staves, etc. seem to dwarf that of Polearms here. That said I suppose it makes sense because we're really only talking a few classes that would equip one. It will be interesting to see how this landscape changes come Mists of Pandaria (MoP).
- Wrath and Cataclysm pumped up the volume. That's a pretty fair increase in model design after the Burning Crusade, which is really interesting to see. Typically in other reviews we've seen a bit of a drop after the Burning Crusade because there was such a surge of new models in 2.0. Here we see the opposite, where Polarms were actually a bit thin in TBC (though some truly standout models were born) but they grew significantly as a category in Wrath and that growth was sustained through Cataclysm.
- Where are the truly exclusive Cataclysm Polearms? One. Just one exists, and it's a low level item that bears a striking resemblance to a low level caster staff. This is really unfortunate because we've seen this before from Cataclysm's column in other reviews where the exclusive models introduced were very few in numbers. So lots of new stuff in Cataclysm, but unfortunately nothing truly unique. Sure, Kiril, Fury of Beasts is an amazing looking weapon. But it's been reskinned three times and as such now we see it everywhere. The result is its visual value can become diluted.
|Polearms: Visual Positioning Analysis
The vertical axis here is a continuum of INTROVERTED forms (singular geometry, quiet) such as the Impaling Harpoon (1, 98) to EXTROVERTED forms (multiple, intersecting geometry, loud) such as the aforementioned Kiril polearm currently positioned at (60,5). Basically weapons at the bottom of the matrix are visually much quieter than those at the top.
|Cross-Referencing Charts
- To be honest, it's a bit tight. The problem with Polearm uniqueness is there just aren't many to go around. And here we see that issue compounded by the fact that many of the models look so much like their peers, particularly from Vanilla. So even though there are roughly 50 individual models to choose from, really you could probably reduce that to about 40 given what I see here.
- Very little consideration for organic forms. It's interesting, Polearms suffer from the same issue I believe 2H Swords did, if I recall correctly. Everything is wide left or in the middle, with very few models opting for a more fluid design that incorporates curvatures or fluid transitions. So much for my big theory that Blizzard was progressing into a more organic, fluid art style in the next expansion. What I thought for sure would be aquatic and woodsy is actually going to be quite stable and introverted from what I observed at Blizzcon with MoP. That assessment will likely evolve over time though because so far they've only shown the starter zone weapons and shields. Hard to say, hard to say. Looking forward to the conversation though, and I'll be kicking off some theory and analysis in the new Disenchanting Azeroth forums in the Design of Mists of Pandaria forum.
2. Shivering Felspine, a potential random drop from Sunwell Plateau. A potentially challenging skin to match with, this Polearm is truly one of the most unique models among all Polearms in-game. I've not seen it yet at any of my in-game events or at the WoW Factor shows and I suspect it's a result of the complementary yet opposing use of green and red. Nonetheless this Polearm deserves some popularity because its model is just that good.
3. Saliva Coroded Pike, a potential drop from Moragg (the floating eyeball boss) in Violet Hold. What's great about this model first of all it's exclusive, 100% unique. There is a slightly similar design that is more common but what's working here is a strong, stable base of color. These hues cold blend very nicely into an outfit. Another thing about this Polearm is it's not extremely overbearing. It's a more introverted form, but it has some really elegant detailing going on that when paired with the right armor it could really blow the look out of the water.
4. Hell Reaver, a potential drop from the chest that appears after defeating Nazan and Vazruden in Hellfire Ramparts. This weapon needs little introduction, as it's long been a fan favorite for years. Well here's your validation that it is, indeed, one of the best possible Polearms to transmogrify. Not only is its form entirely separated from the rest of the pack, but the fluid, flowing particle effect that traverses the sword in-game is absolutely stunning. We've seen some pretty amazing transmogrifications during The WoW Factor shows using this weapon. I've provided a good one from a recent show on Tichondrius below.
5. Banner Slicer, a world BoE drop from Wrath of the Lich King content. I personally have a love/hate relationship with this design, and it was only fitting that it revealed itself as an obvious choice for the top ten - or should I say "WELL THAT FIGURES." Look at that banner wrapping itself around the model! Where's the artist that came up with this - sir, more banners like this please. This weapon is one of the few in the entire game that instantly conveys there is a story there behind it, and it's entirely due to that banner. We just saw this used recently during the WoW Factor, Earthen Ring show where it was combined with a burnt umber blend of Northrend leather. It looked great. Some of my Twitter followers have also seen me talk about the black-skinned model that is currently in the game files as being the ideal skin for this model, and I still believe in that. So in a way, this weapon wins my Jerry Maguire Award for being the weapon I love for what it wants to be and for what it ALMOST IS.
7. Halberd of Smiting, no longer available but was a former drop from the original Zul'Gurub. Painful, I know. I went nuts when I first came across it, and then my stomach dropped when I realized it was no longer available. Will we see it again? Perhaps. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see it reprised during an expansion highlighting Sargeras and the Burning Legion (don't get me started again, I'm 0 for 1). The blade itself is very reminiscent of others from ZG, but this weapon retains its own unique twist with the length of the Polearm and the protruding spikes. If I had it, I would make it one of my top two Polearms I would use for looks and build an entire outfit around it. It's that good.
8. Sonic Spear, a potential drop from Murmur in the Shadow Labyrinth. Were you one of those players back in TBC that ran SL again, and again and again for this item? I wasn't, but I was a Priest and my robe dropped from Murmur as well which took forEVER. So I remember seeing the same players again and again running the instance to get this item, and when they did it was always a celebration. History aside though, this is another blade that gets three dimensional with the four major axis covered. The design itself is somewhat similar to others in the mix but it separates itself just enough. And it's just dying to be the centerpiece of a Nexus-inspired, transmogrified look.
9. Witch Hunter's Harvester, an epic crafted item introduced in Cataclysm. I'm never big on crafted items because they're looks that can become too easy to replicate, and my goal is to find you ways to really stand out in a crowd. But there's no denying this model is an absolute BEAST. Similar in nature to some other scythe models in game, but just unique enough to warrant its own attention this Polearm is likely going to get more popular for transmogrification once we move into MoP. It's just too current right now, and so many players leveling up their alts are still using it as a stat-stick and not for looks. But I'll say this now, the first player I see at a WoW Factor show sporting this look as part of an endgame transmogrification, I'll straight up tip them 1,000g because the look is valid and is incredibly unique. Don't buy the hype that you have to transmogrify your weapon from something pre-Wrath, because this one is relevant simply because it's awesome.
10. Black Ice, a potential drop found in the cache of Alexstrasza's Gift after defeating Malygos in the Eye of Eternity. This Polearm needs no introduction, has long been a fan favorite and as such I'm not going to dwell on it. I suspect, though, it's probably a tricky weapon to blend with the rest of your armor. Just know that if I had to select a top 5, it would be in there. This is one of the best Polearm models in-game in terms of uniqueness and WoW Factor!
Last but not least, two brief Special Mentions and a word on Kiril, Fury of Beasts.
First, on Kiril. Yes, it's phenomenal. Yes, it's by far the most extroverted Polearm here and undoubtedly one of the most extreme designs in the entire game. But it was copy/pasted THREE TIMES. I love what Blizzard did with Heroics in TBC and Raid Finder in Cataclysm, but I have never been happy about the way they treat weapon models as rewards from these "more / less difficult encounters". By reskinning Kiril three times, they've diluted the visual value of the model. Simple. That's not to say it's not valid for transmogrification, it is. In fact we just had a brilliant example on Tichondrius (see below). But this is about identifying the top ten picks I can comfortably recommend for immediate impact, and due to the fact it's so contemporary and has arrived in 3 versions, I just can't make that call. Ask me again come MoP and I'll probably have changed my mind.
Grand Marshal's Glaive, an Alliance-only legacy PvP reward only eligible for transmogrification by players who earned the legacy title of Grand Marshal. Same as above, and just so cool. It's capturing a bit of the same spirit as the Halberd of Desolation and the Sonic Spear in terms of the blades on a four-point axis, but what you have here that you don't have there are the fluid transitions and elegant curvature of the blades. Just awesome. Grats if you can sport this!


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest to resolve.
Scalia calls himself a "textualist" and, as he related to a few hundred people who came to buy his new book and hear him speak in Washington the other day, that means he applies the words in the Constitution as they were understood by the people who wrote and adopted them.
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So Scalia parts company with former colleagues who have come to believe capital punishment is unconstitutional. The framers of the Constitution didn't think so and neither does he.
"The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state," Scalia said at the American Enterprise Institute.
He contrasted his style of interpretation with that of a colleague who tries to be true to the values of the Constitution as he applies them to a changing world. This imaginary justice goes home for dinner and tells his wife what a wonderful day he had, Scalia said.
This imaginary justice, Scalia continued, announces that it turns out "'the Constitution means exactly what I think it ought to mean.' No kidding."
As he has said many times before, the justice said the people should turn to their elected lawmakers, not judges, to advocate for abortion rights or an end to the death penalty. Or they should try to change the Constitution, although Scalia said the Constitution makes changing it too hard by requiring 38 states to ratify an amendment for it to take effect.
"It is very difficult to adopt a constitutional amendment," Scalia said. He once calculated that less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, residing in the 13 least populous states, could stop an amendment, he said.
In a lengthy question-and-answer session, Scalia once again emphatically denied there's a rift among the court's conservative justices following Chief Justice John Roberts' vote to uphold President Barack Obama's health care law. Scalia dissented from Roberts' opinion.

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Adobe Flash Builder 4 is still in beta and is not yet available to purchase.
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Flex 4 should be released in Q4 2009 (according to http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo), although dates are subject to change.
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For me the same. Phone supoort couldn't help me either.
I was half way a project, any help would be appreciated
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Please try the following steps found in the Flash Builder Release Notes:
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Hi Robert,
Please start a new thread. I don't think the relevant folks will find your question here as the initial question in this thread was already answered.


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Looks like Apple, Google and others will have to put a stop to their handshake deals over not hiring each others employees, thanks to the US Justice Department:
According to the complaint, the six companies entered into agreements that restrained competition between them for highly skilled employees. The agreements between Apple and Google, Apple and Adobe, Apple and Pixar and Google and Intel prevented the companies from directly soliciting each other's employees. An agreement between Google and Intuit prevented Google from directly soliciting Intuit employees.
"The agreements challenged here restrained competition for affected employees without any procompetitive justification and distorted the competitive process," said Molly S. Boast, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. "The proposed settlement resolves the department's antitrust concerns with regard to these no solicitation agreements."
The government was concerned that the deals prevented employees at the companies involved from getting competitive salary and job offers via "cold calls" aka poaching or active solicitations.
The proposed settlement between the DOJ and the companies prevents them entering into any no-poaching agreements, or any agreements against cross-hiring, for 5 years.
So we pretty much figure the iOS teams' phones are going to be ringing off the hook from now until 2015, right?
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Friday, August 22, 2008
The Pulse: Style File 4
Today's question: In a few words or a few sentences, how would you describe your artistic style? The following is the last of four posts to answer this question.
Judy Wilkenfeld My artistic style has to be fluid, meaning the style is dependent on the type of Visual Anthology™ I am telling. It can certainly be termed eclectic mixed with some grunge yet with my use of fabrics and textures I try to take some of the harshness out of it. If you are looking for one word then maybe "psychotic" would be the answer as I like to blend the harsh with the soft, the simplistic with the highly detailed, the static with the fluid – a true reflection of the lives of those I am trying to tell the story of.
Judy Wise I really try to draw as well as I can and it comes out as 'style'. The magic is that I really can't draw very well but I accept that; it's unique.
Kelly Kilmer Fun. Free. Open. Honest. True. Real. Me.
Sarah Fishburn motley, polychromic, tender
Roxanne Stout How to describe my style? Such a hard question...In college I majored in Biological Illustration and I loved details, the tinier the better; stippling, cross-hatching and my super sharp ink pens. Now I still love nature but am much more impressionistic. I am always trying to loosen up, relax and paint or create more from my heart. Sometimes I squeeze and blend my paints right on my canvas and work fast and obsessively using large messy paint brushes, other times you can find me sketching and painting birds or plants with my watercolors and tiny brushes. Like many other artists, I love to use paint brushes that were passed down from my mother. She was a painter too, and I hope some of her talent and ability to capture beauty has passed down to me.
Kelly Parker I made up my own movement/style for this…LOL, I like to use bright colors and simple compositions for all my work and they are generally created on a square or rectangular base, so I call it Expressionistic Minimalism. I have been toying with the idea to use only squares for my next set of work. I just finished a series of 5 titled "Poppies" on 8" by 8" stretched canvas. I like working smaller and square, so I want to explore this avenue a bit further.
Kathy Wasilewski I love working with vintage images and elements, incorporating such items as rusted metal, vintage lace, and soft colors. A friend of mine once termed my artwork as "time-worn elegance", and I have deemed that term as the ideal way to describe my work.
Linda Woods My style changes with my mood! My art is really a mixed media story of my life told with images, bold dripping color, and words.
Roben-Marie Smith This have been changing lately as I have been trying my hand at digital art. I find that I have been enjoying scanning my altered work into PhotoShop and then digitally creating something totally new. I even decided to go back to school and take some digital design classes to further this pursuit.
Sally Turlington Style? I have style? Thanks for the vote of confidence, Seth. As far as I'm concerned I'm still honing a definite style. My friends say they know when a piece of art is mine, but for the life of me, I don't know how they could. Someone once called my work "clever and thought provoking." If only it were always that, I'd take it! As far as a type of art, I do like to make grunge better than pretty and conglomerated better than simple but always, always, I want it to have at least a twist of humor or irony or make a point, teach a lesson, or in some way make a difference to the viewer.
Valerie Foster Well, it's hard for me to describe or pin it down. I'm sure I have my own, individual style, but putting it into words is difficult. I think I would use two words -- very textural and serendipitous. I majorly LOVE texture, and I rarely plan out my work in advance. So I never know what it will end up looking like, and quite often, the end result surprises even me. Most times I'm pleased, but sometimes, not so much! I love using different techniques, bold colors, and lots of different items in my art. Such as: fabric, fibers, all kinds of papers, rusted items, found items, and unusual embellishments. Also, I love using caulk, wallboard joint compound, and spackle for great texture. I try to use supplies and items not meant for art. It's kind of a challenge to me, that I enjoy experimenting with.
Sue Pieper Layered, textured, colorful. When doing collage work, the backgrounds typically have about a dozen layers to build up a history which will lead me to what image to use, and the story evolves from there. I really have to just let it happen, no matter what I plan in my head, what lands on the canvas seems to have a mind of it's own. But in the end, it all has to make sense-I won't add anything if it doesn't add to either the composition of the piece, or the story that it's telling. When making jewelry, it's all about technique in making something that will last, both in style and material. The design can be tricky as my necklaces are almost always asymmetrical, and have run into a few engineering issues because of that-it's all good though as it gives me a chance to learn something. Learning to make & design jewelry was a real challenge for me, so I don't take it lightly. I'm proud of the fact that I can do it, and I won't make anything that I wouldn't wear myself. In fact, I almost always wear each necklace for at least a few hours to make sure all is right with it in both comfort & construction.
Binky Bergsman I like to take everything down to it's most basic element. The simple shapes are what I like.
Mistie Jordan I love anything old. It pulls me like a magnet. No matter what I'm creating with or what the end result is, I have to convey some sense of history with what I've done. Or I need to make it look like it does. This usually includes words in some why as well, so I guess I'm rather narrative too. Okay, so a few words…collage, layers, rust and fabric pulled together to create a sense of history of some kind.
Stephanie Mcatee I love this question, and am asked it a lot! and my answer is this:edgy, not pretty, raw, realistic, deep, passionate; mystic.
Gina Petterson Bohemian eclectic. I haven't had an art class, I don't understand composition or coloring. I got started scrapbooking as a teen preserving photos of The Jackson 5, Osmond Brothers and David Cassidy. Later on, I began to use real items as embellishments ( concert ticket stubs, prom corsages and or buttons)... not the things that were archival or high on the agenda of some of the major scrapbook companies. Suddenly, I had an urge to work on just cardstock or a canvas.
Dina Wakley Organic, impulsive, messy, expressive.
Paul Sears I like to shoot what I see. Not a lot of setup, lighting, styling, etc. Being an advertising guy by day I see a lot of commercial photography, and I know how staged everything can get. For my personal work, I prefer to go a little more minimalist and just try and shoot it how I see it.
Kathleen Botsford I don't really know if I have a style. All of my art, jewelry included is inspired by my love of ancient cultures and spiritual traditions of every kind. I weave elements of sacred geometry, numerology and astrology into my work as well as symbology and mythology. Lot's of ologies huh? I am devoted to the Blessed Mother in all of Her many forms and guises. I rely most heavily on this connection to the Divine Feminine in most all of my work.
Lisa Call Modernism meets abstract expressionism in textiles
Lelainia Lloyd This is always such a tough question for me. I can never come up with a way to describe my work that I feel comfortable with. I think it has something to being too close to the work to see it as one thing or another. I suppose the hallmark of what I do is that the work is always balanced both in scale and colour and whenever possible, I am to honour my Canadian roots.
Kate Strickland Intuitive, organic, non-representational, emotive, spare. I strive to create work that is like a simple poem: economy of elements which are carefully assembled in a way that may evoke an emotional response yet be open to interpretation, and all the while celebrating beauty in the experience.
Trudi Sissons Style… I don't know if I have a style. I create best intuitively. I am drawn to vivid colors, weathered textures and the grouping of disparate images. I usually sense an absence of words traveling through my mind when I get into it.
Kathy McCreedy I'm a fairly unimaginative sorter of tiny bits of chaos, which is readily apparent in my collage work. I make what appeals to me... try as I might, I can't get much deeper than that. Same goes for my calligraphy... I
make what I like. And if I don't like it, I cut it up or tear it up and use in
Kelsey O'Mullane This is a difficult question as I don't particularly stick to a specific style. I do love odd, quirky, bizarre with a little bit of darkness thrown in for good measure but then a risqué or humorous quote might be just what a piece of work needs. I guess it depends more on my mood at the time as to whether I work with say "gothic" in mind or "renaissance style". I like vintage though too….. I'm a Gemini and I like to think it's the multiplicity of this personality that dictates my work. That's my excuse anyway!
Lisa Dalke Free. I move the brush the way my arms tell me to...I often think I paint from the gut...Not sure what style that is.
Sarah Whitmire Hrm, this is hard because my styles change depending on my moods and audiences. Generally my style is vintage, feminine and rich.
Joanna Olson I'm inclined to say eclectic, experimental, (I work in oil, acrylic, watercolor, collage, traditional,landscapes, portraits and abstracts), feminine, colorful.....(in fact I'd like to try and stretch my other senses by trying something more restrained in the near future)......there's the experimental part of me trying to come out! I have always enjoyed working in a diversity of styles and with a variety of subjects, exploring painting techniques, always trying to find an appropriate way of expressing the feeling that attracted me to a subject.
Doreen Grozinger I love color and tend to work with bold and bright color. My painting style leans towards the surreal and love symbolism in my work. I also love to experiment, using a variety of mediums in my work… For now, my passion is working with a pigma pen and twinkling H2O's. In whatever medium I am using, I love to bring some message or inspiration to the viewer. I feel art to be an easy way to communicate. I am a mural artist, and therefore love to paint big, but in the last few years, I've developed a love for working small as well. My style, whether large or small usually has a lot of detail to it.
Seth Apter My style is infused with texture, layers, and depth. I try to create pieces with a sense of their own personal history, often weathered by time, distressed and imperfect. I find inspiration in uncovering and revealing the details of the story.
10 comments:
- Stephanie said...
This is an amazing array of artists you are highlighting here...
Going to be a great ride!
- August 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- stephanie t. said...
new here, by encouragement from robyn...wonderful read! it's certainly given me an abundance of creative fuel!
truly love that you are asking questions that create this kind of catalyst for thought
- August 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- Bronwyn said...
What an amazing post! Thank you so much for putting this together.
- August 22, 2008 at 12:22 PM
- Judy said...
Hey Seth -you sre unbelievable!
Such a mammoth task - done so beautifully. Just got artful blogger - nice piece about you and certainly well timed with the pulse 3 coming out.
Thanks for your amazing efforts
- August 22, 2008 at 12:23 PM
What a monster you've put together here, Seth! I can't believe how big this edition is!! I know this took so much time to put together…if it's any consolation, I am sure everyone is spending the same...if not more...amount of time pouring over all of the responses! Love it!
- August 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- Robyn said...
Seth, this really has been a wonderful way of discovering new blogs....and as lostluggage says, I'm spending far too much time exploring. Each post I read is my last one...then just one more. I got 4 hours sleep last night, thank you very much! :-)
- August 22, 2008 at 2:19 PM
- celeste said...
very interesting read. oh how i wish you had linked to the blogs of these folks...some of their responses really had me wanting to click on their name and get to see what they meant visually by their words.
- August 22, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- seth said...
Thanks for all the comments! I am so glad that you are all enjoying The Pulse. Celeste - although you can't click on the artists' names to get to their sites, at the top of each Pulse post is a link to the list of participating artists and their own links.
- August 22, 2008 at 3:23 PM
- Leslie said...
Nice work, Seth! It continues to fascinate me, and I have miles and miles to travel to visit everyone who is participating.
- August 22, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Oh I wanted to post earlier, but made myself wait until all the Style Files were complete. What an amazing project and this is just the beginning! Debbie
- August 25, 2008 at 4:29 PM


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Sister, Shayna, age 5, Sleepy Eye's first baby in 2007
For Randy and Dawn Sellner of Sleepy Eye, it's been a thrill to watch their third child, Jessalyn, reach all her physical milestones in the first year.
They had no doubt that she would reach those milestones at the appropriate time because she has always been on time.
That includes beginning with her due date, which was Jan. 10, and now her first birthday, Jan. 10
Baby's first birthday is always bound to be special, however the Sellner's said they have plenty of Christmas festivities to plan and attend first, before they begin planning Jessalyn's first birthday party.
Dawn said that their oldest daughter, Shayna, age 5, has a special bond with Jessalyn and takes on responsibilities of caring for Jessalyn like a second mom. The two girls also share a unique common bond. They were both Sleepy Eye's first babies, while having birthdays three months apart.
Shayna was born March 20, 2007, winning the first baby spot by only 17 minutes. Lindsey Baker, daughter of Steve and Vickie Baker of Sleepy Eye was a close second.
Both Jessalyn and Shayna weighed in with similar measurements. Shayna measured seven pounds eight ounces and was 20 inches in length.
Jessalyn measured seven pounds 10 ounces and was 19 and a half inches in length.
While both girls had many similarities at birth, there are some differences between the two. Shayna tends to be shy and reserved, while her sister has not yet begun to show any signs of shyness, their parents said.
Jessalyn is smiling, laughing, crawling, pulling herself up and has four teeth.
Shayna is a kindergartner at St. Mary's School.
Tyler, age 2, doesn't appear to mind being sandwiched between two sisters. Randy said he enjoys wrestling with his sisters and Dawn said Tyler and his sisters enjoying looking at books together.
While the Sellner's have two out of three children as Sleepy Eye's first babies, they said they have no plans for anymore "first babies."
Randy works at Chuck Spaeth Ford and Dawn works at the Sleepy Eye Medical Center and they say their family, while at times can be a bit hectic, is a perfect size for them.
Being parents three times over, the Sellners say their third child was the easiest, but adds an element of challenge.
"Three children makes things busier, but I thought going from one child to two was harder to learn to juggle," Dawn added.
A developmental milestone that Jessalyn has not mastered just yet is taking her first steps, which according to her mom, has them feeling a bit anxious.
"She already tries to keep up with the two older ones!" Dawn said with a laugh.


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Detroit, MI – Anaheim Ducks defenseman Toni Lydman will be unavailable for Monday's Game 4 of the team's Western Conference quarterfinal series against the Red Wings.
Lydman is still suffering from headaches and a sore neck after taking a hard hit from Detroit's Justin Abdelkader in the second period of Saturday's 4-0 Anaheim victory in Game 3.
Abdelkader left his feet to deliver a hit to the head of Lydman and was given a major for charging and a game misconduct. Abdelkader was subsequently issued a two-game suspension as supplementary discipline on Sunday.
Lydman, who had six assists during the regular season, played in the first three contests of this best-of-seven series.
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Simone de Silvestro rates her chances of joining the grand prix grid in 2015 with Sauber as "good".
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Sauber's February statement said de Silvestro will undertake "on track testing, simulator training, as well as mental and physical preparation", with the goal being "to gain her super license and prepare for a race seat in formula one for 2015".
The Swiss newspaper Blick said de Silvestro, from Thun in Switzerland, is set to make her F1 test debut at the end of April.
She said this week: "Formula one has always been my dream."
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The alternative media works as a source of memory and an archive helping to understand the historical and current structure of alternative politics in Turkey. IT also gives voice to alternative ideologies and politics and makes their political activities visible. In addition, the alternative media, which mainly represents the "otherised", oppressed and marginalised groups, forms the vanguard of struggle against the hegemony and barbarism of the oppressive, globalized neo-liberal society.
Alternative media, as an umbrella term, applies to those media organs which are typically bottom up organisations. In principle, their organizational structures and decision making processes are democratic, participatory, polyphonic and dialogic. Their opposition to the mainstream media finds its roots, in its form and content, in social and political struggles and is based in radical ideologies such as anarchism, radical democracy and Marxism. The existence of alternative media indicates the struggle to construct a truly democratic and free sphere of communication from a number of broad perspectives, varying from the idea of simply being independent from either the state or capital, to being completely opposed to them. In this context, it is also possible to claim that every organ of the alternative media, as a centre of subaltern resistance, is part of a greater alternative communication network.
This so-called alternative network (or networks) is/are the voice of different political or social groups, communities, minorities or even individuals at the grassroots level. Thus, they open the way for these groups to actively participate in political and social life, as either real "agents" or as "spectacles" in the field of symbolic struggle. Therefore, individuals or groups can find opportunities to get involved in both real and symbolic struggles for hegemony, not only as consumers, but also as producers; as active agents.
Therefore, alternative media institutions either on the micro- or macro-scale cannot be considered as combatants solely at the informational level. In addition to their struggle to gather, record and spread news and ideas concerning local, national and transnational problems, they also provide a response to the establishment through real political actions. It is not unusual to see their active participation in protests, or even note that they hold the leadership positions in the organisation of some of these dissident political actions. Therefore, their active struggle with the hegemonic powers can also be considered as an effort to create alternative political forms. More commonly however, alternative media operate as the symbolic production centre of alternative politics and as an incubation ground for the intellectual and ideological constructs of social movements.
Alternative media, along with other dissident institutions, are seen as paving the way for a brighter and more just future by being the voice of the voiceless and contributing to the imagining of a different world. Threatening so-called representative democracy by supporting participatory social, cultural and political activities is also deemed useful to this end. By engaging in such activities, they may be able to cause the transformation of political culture in general. More importantly, however, the ways in which subordinate constituents of the society interpret politics and their own means of participation could change in a positive manner. Moreover, such efforts may also lead to the construction of efficient counter-public spheres alongside the more common examples of alternative spaces.
Diverse anti-systemic, reformist and revolutionary ideological orientations, varied political discourses and different modes of action constituting the alternative media landscape mostly open up an opportunity for the "oppressed" to actively participate in these alternative political spaces that are, to a certain extent, diverse, colourful, vivid and, most importantly, innately dialogic.
In this context, we argue that the "duty" of academia should be to understand these alternatives without stigmatizing them as the source of conflicts within the prevailing social system. After all, we as editors, would like to study these initiatives since the imagining of an alternative world may only be possible by embracing the oppressed and their voice, even though the world around us is not particularly welcoming.
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However, it should be noted that the categories above do not refer to independent categories with clear differences. It is possible to say that; most examples of the alternative media operating in Turkey can be included under more than one of the rubrics mentioned above. Nevertheless, the alternative media organs in Turkey, despite a degree of permeability in the boundaries that separate them, may be seen as belonging more to one or another of the above-mentioned classifications, therefore, these categories will constitute the book's chapters.
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Throwing down in the Cricket Campus Rail Jam. Photo: Amanda Hankison
Boulder Freeride, the ski and snowboard club @ CU, put on the largest snowboarding event Boulder County has ever seen. They joined up with the Cricket Campus Rail Jam Tour and threw quite the shindig. The crowd was pumped, the competitors were throwing down, and The Hill district of Boulder came alive the evening of March 12th. With a cash purse of $3000 what could have gone wrong? That's right. Nothing.
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Damn. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what stargazers call a globular cluster — a spherical grouping of gravitationally bound celestial bodies, swirling about deep in the inky blackness of space. [Hi-res available here]
There are somewhere between 150 and 158 globular clusters in our galaxy (the exact number depends on who you ask), but the one you see up top — known to astronomers as "NGC 6752" — is one of the brightest in the entire night sky. It's also one of the most ancient collection of celestial bodies we've ever observed; at over 10 billion years old, the lights from NGC 6752 were shining more than five billion years before our solar system even existed.
NGC 6752 contains a high number of "blue straggler'' stars, some of which are visible in this image. These stars display characteristics of stars younger than their neighbors, despite models suggesting that most of the stars within globular clusters should have formed at approximately the same time. Their origin is therefore something of a mystery.
Studies of NGC 6752 may shed light on this situation. It appears that a very high number — up to 38 percent — of the stars within its core region are binary systems. Collisions between stars in this turbulent area could produce the blue stragglers that are so prevalent.
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Celtic Diary Friday March 17: It's All In The Planning
New Head of Recruitment Lee Congerton has been telling us the why's , the wherefores and whats it got to do with you of his new job at Celtic..
Of course, there's the Brendan Bonus…
"I was very fortunate to work with him at Chelsea, along with a lot of other very good people, including Glen Driscoll, who is Head of Performance here, and I'm looking forward to working with these guys again. Obviously Brendan's a big reason why I'm here but I'm also delighted to work for Celtic and I'm very proud.
and the Celtic effect…
"Celtic is known all over the world. I feel fantastic and I'm really looking forward to the challenge ahead."
So, whats the plan ?
"We will be looking worldwide, but we can't forget our roots and Scotland, Ireland and the rest of the UK are very important for us," he said. "But we'll be looking everywhere for talent that fits what Celtic is about.
"We took Moussa Dembele from down the road, and he's been a great signing, so we'll constantly be doing that, but we'll also be looking at other areas.
"I believe we can find the right players to fit the profiles that Brendan needs and wants, and without doubt Brendan will polish the diamond and make it sparkle a little bit more and hopefully allow the players to be successful for Celtic.
"As I said, I'm very happy to be here and I'm looking forward to working with Brendan and all the guys, but I am also attracted here because of Celtic, and that combination of Celtic and Brendan made it an easy decision for me."
No, no. I mean whats really the plan ?
Where recruitment is concerned we need the sort of planning that you get when you eat toilet paper so you can wipe your bottom on the way out.
Hanging around public football pitches with a Celtic top won't be enough.
Even if, er, as he says..
"Scouting is not about I. It's about the team. I like to smell the grass and see the player.
"Scouting is not about I ? "
Yes, he does like to smell the grass, and presumably inhale it as well.
But there was one significant thing he said, something that might actually point to a change in policy from the club…
"This club is one of the biggest in Europe and we want to be playing Champions League football. So, players we are recruiting need to be able to play Champions League football.
In the years BB -Before Brendan -we were recruiting players we could turn into champions League players-have we stepped it up a level ?
Congerton also points to his time working with Gen Driscoll and Brendan Rodgers in a previous life, and standing on the outside looking in, one could be forgiven for thinking that Brendan is, in fact , on a mission…
But for now, there's a league to be won.
Having had the weekend off last week, Celts will be determined to hit the ground running up at Dens Park on sunday.
Paul Hartley, who didn't used to have weekends off when he donned the hooped jersey, is ready and waiting.
"We've been good against the top four teams at times.
"We've always ran them close, we beat Hearts, we beat Rangers, had close games against Celtic.
"Aberdeen have probably been the team that's been the most impressive.
"It's the other games we've found difficult at times.
"It's such an important game for us, five games before the split but we know Celtic are an excellent team, there's no getting away from that.
"They've got some outstanding players but we've got to make sure we play to our maximum and see if we can get anything from it."
Hartley had a tremendous attitude on the pitch, and he has transferred it to his players. Sunday won't be easy, and we need to remember that the prize of being the first team to beat Celtic -purely notional-is still up for grabs.
Thats despite the bleatings coming from Ibrox. A sort of general euphoria at getting a point…
Which brings me to matters arising from the court case concerning the unique remuneration policy at the original Rangers..
The judges have now retired to have a wee chat about what they have learned, they will each go away and consider the evidence, then they will meet up again and have another wee chat, and then they will declare their decision.
It will probably take a few months. After all, they need to be spot on with what their conclusions, because our source at HMRC, at least he said thats where he was from, i personally doubt it becuase he was drunk and smelt of wee wee, said..
"Don't worry, we'll get our fucking bit "
Its not really a "bit ", though , is it.
There's a lot of people right now who must be wishing they'd been eating toilet paper to keep their bottoms clean on case of accidents..
And I'm intrigued by this letter, which at the very least hints at some sort of cover up…
Oddly enough, in September 2013, the badly spelt Bishopp appeared to change his mind..
'It was common ground before me that the presumption is that tax appeals are heard in public, and with no concealment of identity or detail. I accept that, in the past, there was good reason to fear that the personal safety of certain individuals was threatened; but the information now before me indicates that the threats have abated and have probably disappeared.
'Even if the identities of some individuals were concealed in the First-tier Tribunal's decision, the nature of the issues was not.'
'Perhaps because of such feelings, professional football clubs are often regarded as having a special status. In some respects that may be the correct view; but it should nevertheless not be overlooked that a modern professional football club is not a 'club', in the sense of an unincorporated association of members who join together in pursuit of a common purpose, but a commercial enterprise whose function is to generate profits for its shareholders.'
'Any application for privacy, anonymity or redaction of detail must therefore be supported by the same type and quality of evidence as would be required of another taxpayer, and will be granted only for the same reasons.
If only we had a couple of reporters north of the border prepared to dig into this story.
For years, Rangers lied about their remuneration policy, they amassed debts they couldn't pay, and as a result plunged into oblivion.
Its not that difficult to understand, and yet it seems beyond our media to ask the standard seven "w" questions…
What, Who, Why, When, Where, Which and How.
Okay, "how " doesn't begin with a "w" , but theres one in there.
Thats not all.
Look at this, which also needs investigating..
It's Friday again, it's also St. Patricks Day, so lets be careful out there…
but more importantly, its time to reveal this weeks Etims
Knob of the Week
But before we do, I'd like to ask, can a woman be a knob ?
Yes, she can.
In the week where Nicola Sturgeon has called for another referendum on Scottish independence, Allison Paerson, who seems to want to be Katie Hopkins when she grows up, has emerged from the shadows and used her Daily Telegrph column to offer her thoughts on the self determination issue for small nations.
Earlier in the week , she said that Nicola Sturgeon was a traitor, and demanded her execution by proclaiming
"Off with Her Head "
Having been reminded that MP Jo Cox had been murdered in the street by an extremist under a year ago, the bold Pearson changed her tune, sort of..
Nicola Sturgeon – another treacherous queen of Scots – has miscalculated
On that basis, Allison Pearson is the first female winner of the prestigious Etims award…
Knob of the Week
Caption time, and yesterday we had Nicola and Theresa deep in conversation,
which was overheard by
Nic : It would appear that the English Torries don't understand the legalities of campaign funding!!
Terry: Maybe, but unlike you Scots, we do know what fucking Liquidation means!!
Today, what are they looking at ?


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Intel donated silicon wafer polishing equipment and provided the funding to support research in the area of chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) to Professors S.V. Babu, Egon Matijevic, and Dipankar Roy, and in nanoparticle detachment to Prof. Cetin Cetinkaya.
The money also supported many graduate and undergraduate researchers, and led to the hiring of 12 Clarkson Ph.D. graduates in recent years.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Graphics Card Review - Kepler for $399
GK104 takes a step down
While the graphics power found in the new GeForce GTX 690, the GeForce GTX 680 and even the Radeon HD 7970 are incredibly impressive, if we are really honest with ourselves the real meat of the GPU market buys options much lower than $999. Today's not-so-well-kept-secret release of the GeForce GTX 670 attempts to bring the price to entry of the NVIDIA Kepler architecture down to a more attainable level while also resetting the performance per dollar metrics of the GPU world once again.
The GeForce GTX 670 is in fact a very close cousin to the GeForce GTX 680 with only a single SMX unit disabled and a more compelling $399 price tag.
The GTX 670 GPU - Nearly as fast as the GTX 680
The secret is out - GK104 finds its way onto a third graphics card in just two months - but in this iteration the hardware has been reduced slightly.
The GTX 670 block diagram we hacked together above is really just a GTX 680 diagram with a single SMX unit disabled. While the GTX 680 sported a total of 1536 CUDA cores broken up into eight 192 core SMX units, the new GTX 670 will include 1344 cores. This will also drop the texture units to 112 (from 128 on the GTX 680) though the ROP count stays at 32 thanks to the continued use of a 256-bit memory interface.
Continue reading our review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB graphics card!!
In fact, the memory system on the GTX 670 remains unchanged from the GTX 680 including a 2GB frame buffer running on the 256-bit bus at a reference speed of 6 Gbps totalling 192.2 GB/s of available memory bandwidth.
Reference clock speeds on the GTX 670 will be set at a base clock of 915 MHz and a Boost clock of 980 MHz - a delta of 65 MHz. That gap is a bit wider than what we saw on the original GTX 680 GPU of 58 MHz. Memory clocks will be operating at 1500 MHz or 6 Gbps at their stock settings.
The obvious benefit to this revision of the GK104 GPU is that NVIDIA can utilize parts that might have otherwise not been able to pass requirements to be labeled a full-speed GTX 680 and thus utilize die they have already paid for from TSMC. The GTX 570 was built with the same idea in mind, as was the GTX 470 and so on.
Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 2GB Graphics Card
Unlike both the GTX 680 and the GTX 690 launch, retailer cards will vary quite a bit on launch day as NVIDIA allowed their partners to have early access to the designs for the GTX 670 (hence the leaks obviously) and built their own custom solutions. Our testing today is based around a reference-clocked Galaxy GTX 670 2GB card as well as a reference card from NVDIIA - so we are going to show you base results. Of course we spend some time on overclocking later in the article.
The Galaxy card offers some familiar branding, but sadly, no "dispalyport" to be had...
The reference GTX 670 cards will share the same cooler design as the GTX 680 though there are some pretty substantial differences to the PCB and board design. Our Galaxy and reference cards are also MUCH lighter than the GTX 680 with a slightly less dense cooler required for this GPU.
Right away, something is different - the PCB doesn't actually go to the end of the card. The fan itself actually extends past the PCB and the power connectors can be found right on the end of the circuit board. NVIDIA did this to demonstrate that the GTX 670 could be built in very small form factors (think the Alienware X51 system) or be expanded to full size coolers for better performance.
With a TDP of 170 watts, the GTX 670 still requires a pair of 6-pin power connectors to operate but don't let the odd placement bother you.
The GTX 670 will support 3-Way
and 4-Way SLI as you can see from this pair of SLI connections!
Display configurations will vary more with each vendor's custom cards, but the reference design includes a pair of dual-link DVI connections as well as a full-size HDMI and DisplayPort connection.
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That will indeed hurt AMD as the last paragraph states. And just as I was planning to upgrade, here comes another option :)
For the review, Impressive like always. Can't wait to see multi screen testing. :)
It would seem that AMD's only saving grace right now is that Nvidia can't keep the Kepler parts in stock thus far. I wouldn't want to be an AMD executive when Nvidia finally does catch up though...
I do have to say though, a pair of GTX 670's in SLI does look mighty tempting considering the projected price of the cards.
Agreed, I wish I had the money, though my unlocked 6950 can still play darn near everything at 1080p.
Myself, I would likey start with one and add a second card afterward. Considering that I only have a 1920x1200 monitor there's little point in having two at this point.
Nvidia is certainly making my next system build choices interesting though. I do like AMD, but it's getting harder to justify going with an AMD part. Even price drops aren't really going to do it for me personally.
Yeah, that would probably be the best way to go to get the most life out of such a setup.
Kepler is looking good though I've gone with AMD cards for my builds except for my first build which did use an NV card. Maybe it's time to go back to the green team heh.
You do realize AMD will just drop prices accordingly, right?
Soon enough 7950 will be priced at 399 or even 350. 7970 actually can probably stay where it's at, as relative to 680 it's pretty close. 670 puts as much pressure on 680 as 7970 imo.
The tahiti chip (7950/7970) is smaller/cheaper than Caymen (6970/6950). 6950's sold for $250 and less. AMD will have no problem selling Tahiti's at $300 and even below and making a profit. Dang, are you that unsophisticated?
Selling tahiti at $300? wow, that's gonna hurt anyone who bought it at $550 :D
All too often I see people say that prices are going to change and even accuse others of being dumb if they don't know the prices are going to change. The problem with the assumptions of future pricing is the part about the future. Some people want a video card right now.
Great review. After holding of for months I can finally be sure I made the right decision by not pulling the trigger on one of the new AMD cards.Oh how tempting it has been. Is there any official word on yields?Now i am truly excited.
NVIDIA doesn't release numbers on yields unfortunately :(. Let's hope they are better than the GTX 680 yields though ;)
A lot of these 670s were actually supposed to be 680s but had one unit that couldn't pass testing right?
I tell you what - I'll make a news post with a few graphs this afternoon for you.
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I think I might become a fanboy of nVidia, because its that damn good lol. No only joking, I hope AMD has something up their sleeves. Or Nvidia will just start charging what they want... Very tempted by the 670 though, my 460 is ok for the moment but could do with an upgrade soon.
Who won the crobar anyway? Or was that said IN the 690 live review? I couldnt watch the live review at work and keep forgetting to watch the replay at home :X
570=300, 670=400 680=500, 690=1000
the 670 IS the new 570 and provides a better price/performance ratio then 570 when it FIRST came out.
2x 560TI won't beat a 680 and it prolly equal to a 670 and the 670 is cheaper and ONE card...
The numbers don't lie, nvidia has an official winner.
Poor AMD they getting front and back on the CPU GPU market
Considering this little guys are 400 bucks and the 690's can be found for re-resale for around 1200 bucks I would love to see how 3 670 is SLI compare to 1 690.
Is this possible to test? Compare single 2560 x 1600 resolutions with the highest setting and multi monitor support and any stuttering drawbacks from SLI,
Thanks Ryan and Gang!
This would be nice to see if you could get hold of 3x670's
We should be getting a third in soon... We will test it!
I had upgrade my GTX8800 to a GTX 460 about a month or so after they came out. Even though I have a Q6600 processor, I saw huge improvements. I am wondering, would it better to buy another GTX 460 for SLI or buy a GTX 670? I think the perform of the GTX 670 will still beat the SLI configuration, but prices for a GTX 460 are about 135-150 on Amazon. This assume my Power Supply can handle the SLI load. What would be a better use case, considering I might upgrade my CPU/Mobo this summer.
Man , this card's made me go mad.But......
Nvidia has got all the equations right this time around(except for one) i.e. GK110
If it was GK110 we could have got another 50-60% performance at the same price.
Since its not ,I am going to buy a GTX 560 SE(my monitor res is 1600x900 @60 Hz) and wait for GK110 and when it comes out I'll go 3D Surround(hope there will be more 3d Vision 2 monitors then) and 2-way SLI
Great Review many thanks.
I might just buy one for my new system when I build it.
Gaming at 1920x1080? Meh. It's like we're going backwards.
I saw a small mention to it in the article. Is there anything on Alienware upgrading the X51 for this card any time soon?
i have a Gigabyte 670 with that huge ass cooler on it, makes the card 11 inches long with a air temp in the room of 74 degree's F, gpu is idleing at between 84-89 degree's F.
just bought this sweet piece of art should have it in the next 7days can't wait to test it


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For someone who's changing the way business is done in the Amazon, Kurt Holle is remarkably low key. Raised in Peru's capital, Lima, he seems happiest in knee-high rubber boots, walking jungle trails while the indigenous co-owners of his ecolodge help guests spot saddleback tamarin monkeys and scarlet macaws.
The Posadas Amazonas lodge he launched 13 years ago in a ground-breaking venture with a native Amazon community now is studied by business schools at Stanford and Harvard universities. It's won multiple awards. And it's seen worldwide as a model for protecting the rain forest while providing jobs – and careers – for indigenous people who would otherwise join the swelling ranks of illegal gold miners or loggers tearing up the jungle to strike it rich.
"This is a pioneer effort, not only in Peru, but in the whole region," says environmental activist Enrique Ortiz. "People are always talking about working with the Indians, but no one is actually doing it. We all talk about community-based approaches, but there are no other examples that have worked and lasted. [Mr. Holle's success] is extremely rare."
Holle might be forgiven for puffing out his chest while the accolades roll in, but that's not his style. He prefers to speak about the details of his business, and he likes to remind people he's not there for charity. "The market is giving us an opportunity to give value to the forest," he says matter-of-factly. "We've always been frank that this is a moneymaking operation."
His preference for action over talk is a big part of his success. Perhaps more important, though, is his ability to hear the concerns of his Indian partners and make unorthodox business decisions based on them.
"The project is running well, because [Holle] consulted with the community and we moved ahead little by little," says Federico Duran, the community leader in charge of relations with Holle. "It's a good example for other communities that want to do something similar."
Holle and his business partner, a fellow well-to-do white Peruvian named Eduardo Nycander, got into the ecotourism business in their early 20s using start-up money from friends and family. After founding Rainforest Expeditions in 1989, they built a couple of successful ecolodges aimed mainly at European tourists, whose longer vacations gave them time to get to lodges deep in the jungle. They wanted to build a lodge closer to the provincial capital, Puerto Maldonado, so they could attract Americans, who often had only three or four days to visit the Amazon while in Peru.
At about that time, they received a letter from a local chief asking them to build a lodge on his community's land to provide jobs.
In 1996, Holle and Mr. Nycander did the unthinkable. They formed a joint venture whereby the entire Eseeja community – whose communal values ran completely contrary to Western business concepts – would own a new lodge funded and initially run by Holle and Nycander. The community receives 60 percent of the profits until 2016, when it will completely run and own all aspects of the business.
"We said, 'You [contribute] the land and labor, and we'll fund the lodge. We need 20 years to recover the investment and to train you guys. We also need special zones where you do nothing else,' " says Holle, explaining that any hunting, fishing, mining, and logging would chase away wildlife and ruin the business.
The precedent-setting arrangement hasn't been easy. "There's always tension," Holle says. "It's difficult to establish trust with the community. We look different. We think different. Our objectives are different."
For example, Holle says, high job turnover is bad for business. But local chiefs wanted everyone in the community to cycle through all the positions at the lodge so that everyone would gain valuable skills. The rotation hurt the business. It took Holle months to explain the need for a highly qualified staff to make foreigners comfortable in the middle of the jungle.
"Consensus is more important [to the indigenous community] than making quick decisions," Holle says. "Nine times out of 10, we go with consensus."
The lodge is now managed by a woman from the community, and members with the most aptitude are now learning marketing and other business skills.
But one of the most promising signs of the success of the Posadas Amazonas lodge is that many of its employees used to make a living by damaging the forest. Javier Reynoldo Chambi, a groundskeeper at the lodge, used to hunt the forest's animals and sell illegal timber to a Chinese company. He now makes slightly more money while enjoying a steady income and good job security. And he doesn't have to worry about dodging the police.
Bus driver Ronaldo Salazar, who wants to be trained as a mechanic, used to illegally mine gold from the nearby Tambopata River. While his income from mining would sometimes dwarf what he makes now, he enjoys not going through the back-breaking work and long periods without income. "Before, I had no job security," Mr. Salazar says. "Now, whether it rains or not, I work and I'm paid."
Holle's ability to navigate the tensions between sound business practices and community values has been key to the company's success, says Gilberto Arrospide, the lodge's lead tourist guide. "Kurt [Holle] always has time to listen," he says. "He knows how to explain things."
Back in Holle's cosmopolitan circles in Lima, however, people have a simple explanation for the time he spends in the Amazon: He must be out of his mind. "I'm [considered] kind of a wacko in Lima," Holle admits with a shrug.
That doesn't bother him. As the son of a natural scientist, he has always been infatuated with the jungle and its creatures. Now he makes a living sharing that with the world.
"Imagine an 8-year-old kid looking at taxonomy books. I was nerdy – really nerdy – at least about animals," he says. "I loved stories about great explorers and tribes that had never been contacted. It's just ingrained in me."
Part of being an environmentalist now is tackling the daunting challenge of providing livelihoods for indigenous people, who will otherwise put food on the table by harming the rain forest. The makes Holle a man in demand.
"Kurt is my guru [of] whom I ask questions every time I have a problem with the native communities," says businessman and born-again environmental activist Roberto Persivale.
Holle's success still amazes him.
"When we started, we were way out in the bush," he says. "Now we're listed online next to Disney for vacations."
• Matthew Clark traveled to Peru on a Gatekeepers trip organized by the International Reporting Project.


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Grave Mapping
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- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM
When recording grave locations,in addition to the name, dates, etc., state the relationships between the deceased persons in the cemetery. Such as "Jane Smith, husband of John Smith and daughter of Tom and Linda Jones." I've done this for my relatives buried in our church cemetery.ReplyDelete
Wouldn't hurt to have GPS coordinates, too.
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2013 at 12:02 PM
I find this to be a good idea in small cemeteries but in large ones you can go to the office and request maps of the cemetery layout which they kindly offer for free. These maps give a complete layout of the cemetery and roadways within and lot number locations. I will mark plots on the map in blue for paternal lines and include name and death date, red for maternal lines. This gives an overall to the whole map when opened up fully and you can go back to the map when you find more relatives to add.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2013 at 6:51 PM
I do use GPS in addition to my maps, ID's, etc. There are just too many in my branches that do not have monuments. I do this for other so that they can use the coordinates to find the exact spot. It's always appreciated and adds a little fun for my husband to keep him interested on those buggy days.ReplyDelete


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I woke up on the floor of my living room, soaked in sweat. I could not stand, or even sit up. I could not raise my arms or control my hands enough to grasp anything. Forget reaching for the telephone, even if my brain could have formulated the thought to try. I could not speak, but I lived alone, so there was no one to hear anyway. I did not know what day it was, but the hot July 4th late afternoon sun was shining brightly through the windows. After an unknown period of time, my brain must have had a flash of coherence that I was having severe hypoglycemia.
Eventually I started dragging myself across the floor, on my elbows and arms with my face down, into my kitchen, and then into the pantry. It may have taken 30 minutes or an hour, I do not know. I ended up below an open 12-pack box of Sprite sodas that was on the shelf above me, about two feet off the floor. I lashed at the box with my hand and eventually pulled the box off the shelf, cans of soda falling on top of me and rolling. I must have managed to trap one and pry the tab open while my fingers and hands twitched and jumped. I lay on the floor and somehow poured the can of Sprite on my mouth, or in the general area of my mouth, much of it running off my face and onto the floor around me. Then I lay there and waited, barely able to understand what was happening. Waiting for my blood sugar to come up.
That was me very early in my racing career, years ago when I was just learning how to race bicycles and manage my blood sugar. Early that July 4th morning, I had cycled in a tough 60-mile bike race in the mountains of North Carolina, about three hours of very hard, hot exercise. I had no problems in the race, and I even drove approximately 40 miles home after the race with no problem. But late that afternoon I ended up on the floor, desperate and helpless, with severe hypoglycemia. I learned a scary lesson that day about post-event fueling. For any elite athlete competing in ultra-endurance sports like long-distance triathlons and cycling, post-event fueling is critical for recovery to prevent muscle soreness and to train or race the next day. But with type 1 diabetes, post-event fueling is even more important, even for the recreational athlete.
My pre- and post-workout and race fueling strategy is as much a part of my performance as my fitness. It does not matter if I am the fittest, fastest guy in the race if I do not fuel right. The night before a workout or race of over two hours, I eat a high-carbohydrate meal such as pasta and carefully dose my insulin to make sure that it covers the meal so that I do not awake with high blood sugar on race morning. It is very risky and dangerous to do a correction bolus (i.e., take extra insulin) on race morning. I eat a good carbohydrate breakfast such as a bagel or oatmeal, and then fuel during the race as I have practiced many times in training. You must practice fueling in training just like you practice your sport.
Immediately after a race or long workout, I begin my post-race fueling, both for muscle recovery and to stabilize my blood sugar. You may notice professional athletes drinking sport drinks immediately after competition. For a non-diabetic athlete, carbohydrate recovery drinks are great for replenishing and rehydrating muscles during that critical 30-minute window after a workout. For those of us with diabetes, it also starts stabilizing blood sugar for the rest of the day and night. At the finish line of an Ironman triathlon, there is a virtual buffet of carbohydrate foods, sport drinks, and water. Like the other athletes, I sidle up to that feed line and eat and drink everything, both to recover and because I am worn out. I also carefully bolus insulin to get the glucose into my weary muscles.
I check my blood sugar multiple times throughout the rest of the day and until bedtime, and I continue to "graze" on calories and carbohydrates in small portions, reducing my insulin dosing as my blood sugar tests indicate. Before bed I eat another high carbohydrate meal, and I usually reduce my meal bolus of insulin by up to 20 to even 40 percent from what I would take for that meal on a non-race or training day.
The key to avoiding post-event hypoglycemia is refueling with carbohydrates, testing your blood sugar frequently, and being careful with insulin dosage. Finish, feed, test, and think. You did the race, now you are ready for the next one!


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