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China's hungry cattle feasting on alfalfa grown on Utah farm
It's easy to find the largest Chinese-owned hay farm in the United States. It sits 189 miles east of Salt Lake City, on a stunningly scenic bend of the Green River. After driving past the only gas station in Jensen, population 400, a visitor crosses the river, turns left and is soon surrounded by a meticulously managed, 22,000-acre ranch, lush with green alfalfa.
Nearly all of it is destined for China. Three years ago, a pair of Chinese entrepreneurs purchased this alfalfa farm for a discount price of less than $10 million. Each year since, they've shipped about 22,000 tons of super-compacted, ranch-grown alfalfa to China, where it's highly prized by the nation's growing dairy industry.
China has long depended on the U.S. breadbasket, importing up to $26 billion in U.S. agricultural products yearly. But increasingly, Chinese investors aren't just buying from farms abroad. They're buying the farms.
When a Chinese conglomerate paid $4.7 billion last year for Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer, it assumed control of vast tracts of farmland in North Carolina, Virginia and other states _ possibly 100,000 acres or more. Chinese private businesses and state-owned industries have also purchased farmland in Australia, Ukraine and parts of Africa and South America.
While China still ranks far behind the United States in foreign agricultural investments, its interest in farms abroad has prompted concerns about putting too much of America's food supply in foreign hands. Missouri is one U.S. state where the farm bureau is pressing for lawmakers to reinstate a ban on foreign ownership of farmland. Other states and countries are considering similar bans.
Simon Wen Shao, a Chinese-born U.S. citizen who's a co-owner of the Utah alfalfa farm, acknowledged that locals had acted warily when his company purchased the ranch. Friends of his farm manager, Frank Biggs, immediately chided Biggs for "working for the communists."
Shao said those concerns had eased as his company had attempted to build ties in the community, buying new farm equipment and modernizing the ranch. One of his first steps was to rename the historic property "Escalante Ranch" after the previous owner had dubbed it "Thunder Ranch."
"I think local people liked that decision," he said during a tour of the farm. "It sounds better than Red Dragon Ranch."
Bespectacled and a bit of a wisecracker, Shao seems like an unlikely rancher, and he admits that he is. He got into the business when an old college buddy, Zhang Renwu, started a feed firm in 2007 called Lu Tian Yuan Ecological Farm Co. in Beijing, where Zhang continues to live.
Lu Tian Yuan also owns an alfalfa farm in Zhang's home province of Inner Mongolia, in northern China. But Zhang quickly learned it would never produce enough premium alfalfa to meet the needs of his customers in China.
"To grow high-quality alfalfa, you have to have certain growing conditions," Zhang said during an April interview in Beijing. The Western United States offers those conditions, with reliably warm, dry weather. In northern China, rain falls during much of the growing season, resulting in hay that can quickly rot.
Shao, who lives in Los Angeles, agreed to join Zhang in developing an alfalfa import business through a U.S. entity, Green Pasture International. Over the last decade, he and Zhang have partnered with Bailey Farms, an alfalfa company based in Ephraim, Utah. According to Shao, it was Bailey that alerted him to Thunder Ranch when it went on the market following the real estate bust of the late 2000s.
"They said to me, 'Hey, Simon, this ranch is for sale,' " he said. "So I came out to visit it and I knew right away this was a super-good spot. And at that time, the price was so good."
Just on the other side of the Green River from Dinosaur National Monument, Shao's ranch is regal in size, with more than 3,000 acres of irrigated fields and a large expanse of rolling hills and wetlands, frequented by ducks and migrating elk herds.
Along with visual splendor, the historic ranch comes with generous water rights, essential for growing alfalfa in the high desert. Lu Tian Yuan pays nothing for water it pumps from the river, other than electricity costs, which Shao says comes to $20,000 yearly. With mechanized pivot sprinklers and modern farm equipment, a crew of four employees can run the ranch year-round, whereas in China _ where hundreds of million of people are still dependent on farm employment _ it would involve hundreds of workers, Zhang said.
Shao and Zhang said they often heard two questions about their business. The first is: Why is the United States allowing its valuable water to be shipped to China in the form of alfalfa?
"This is so ridiculous," said Shao. He noted that the United States and many other countries ship a variety of water-intensive crops abroad. "Why does alfalfa get so much attention?"
The other: How could it possibly make economic sense to ship a bulky product such as alfalfa hay 7,000 miles to China?
The answer, said Zhang, involves the enormous U.S.-China trade imbalance. Because China ships so many goods to West Coast ports, freight companies offer relatively low rates on container ships that might otherwise return to China empty.
Shao said his company paid a hefty price _ about $177 a ton _ to compact the hay and truck it to Long Beach, Calif., and other ports. Even so, he said the alfalfa commanded such a high price in China that sales more than covered the costs of production and transportation.
Daniel Putnam, an agricultural economist and alfalfa specialist at the University of California, Davis, said he had little doubt the Escalante Ranch made a healthy profit. Milk prices in China are several times higher than in the United States, he said, prompting dairy farms in China to pay up to $480 a ton for imported alfalfa. In addition, he noted, China puts a priority on reserving its remaining farmland for wheat, corn and other crops consumed by humans. That forces dairies and livestock farms to look elsewhere for alfalfa and other feed.
"There's a real advantage for a Chinese (export) company that has bought a ranch in Utah," said Putnam. "They don't have to compete in buying alfalfa at a high price."
Until the 1990s, most Chinese dairy farms were small, and largely indifferent to what they fed their cows. In 2008, a major health crisis erupted in China when it was found that some dairies were using melamine, a material used in plastics, to artificially boost the protein in milk and milk powder.
Since that scare, the Chinese dairy industry has scrambled to fend off foreign competition and secure more and more alfalfa. From 2009 through 2013, U.S. exports of alfalfa hay to China rose eightfold, to nearly 635,00 tons, according to the Denver-based Livestock Marketing Information Center. Nearly all of that came from seven Western states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
Shao sees demand staying high for at least another decade. Business is so good that he and Zhang recently purchased another 1,500-acre alfalfa ranch not far from Jensen.
So far, the presence of a growing Chinese alfalfa-export enterprise has stirred just smatterings of reaction in nearby Vernal, the county seat of Uintah County, home to 32,000 people.
Michael J. McKee, a Uintah County commissioner, said that many local growers recognized that foreign demand for alfalfa helped raise the price for their crop, aiding the county's farm economy. Still, McKee acknowledged he'd heard from a few constituents who want "our land here to be held by American farmers."
On Memorial Day weekend, Shao and Zhang triggered a kerfuffle when they hosted a "Sino-U.S. Alfalfa International Forum" at Escalante Ranch. The timing of the event, which featured more than 30 visiting Chinese dairy leaders, offended some veterans who'd fought against Chinese-supported forces during the Korean War, according to Steven Evans, a local radio station manager who also heads the Vernal Chamber of Commerce. The veterans called the radio station to complain.
"It raised some eyebrows," said Evans, who was quick to note that he and most others in the community have welcomed the ranch's new owners.
The optics of a major Utah farm in the hands of a Chinese company aren't lost on Shao and Zhang. Right up until early May, worried about "exposure," they wavered on whether to let a McClatchy reporter visit the ranch. At the last moment, the 48-year-old Shao agreed to meet a reporter and allow photographs. At one point, he posed for a photo against a backdrop of green fields and golden cliffs with a rainbow above them.
"That rainbow's a good sign," said Shao, who says he dreams of turning part of Escalante Ranch into a year-round lodge for hunters, rafters and outdoor adventurers.
After dragging on his cigarette, he then popped into his farmhouse kitchen, where one of his assistants was preparing a new dinner dish on the Escalante Ranch menu: stir-fried elk meat with garlic and chilies.
McClatchy special correspondent Tiantian Zhang contributed to this report.


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LISLE, Ill. - The Benedictine University football team opened the conference portion of its schedule by falling to Concordia Wisconsin 6-0 on Saturday afternoon.
Benedictine moved the ball on offense but struggled with turnovers. The Eagles turned the ball over six times in the defeat. Four of the turnovers came deep in Concordia territory. The first turnover came on the second possession of the contest following a 32-yard pass play from Cyle Schultz to Artie Monaco which placed Benedictine inside the redzone.
The second turnover came on fumbled snap on first and goal from the five yardline. Despite the problems, the defense held strong. Concordia Wisconsin mustered only one first down in the first half and just 51 total yards compared to 265 for Benedictine. Benedictine missed a 35-yard field goal early in the second.
To begin the second half, Concordia Wisconsin turned the ball over at the Benedictine six yardline when Ben Lockton recovered a fumble. The Eagles were unable to capitalize and after a punt, the visitors marched 83 yards to score the lone touchdown of the afternoon. A screen pass enabled a big gainer for 44 yards to setup a four yard touchdown pass. Ben Lockton was able to block the point after.
Benedictine had plenty of attempts to tie or take the lead. The turnover problems continued with a fumble on the Concordia side as well as an interception. Benedictine had two chances inside the final four minutes but could not score against the feisty defense.
Benedictine racked up nearly 400 yards of offense in the defeat. Schultz finished 21-of-42 for 253 yards. John Borsellino was limited to just 37 yards rushing but did haul in seven passes. Monaco finished with 115 yards receiving on five catches. John Alessi gained 51 yards on the ground to lead the team. Lockton amassed 12 tackles to lead the defense with a pair of sacks, three tackles for loss, a fumble recovery, and a block. Mike Theriault, Joe Dickert, and Stefan Herron all boasted double digit tackles.
Benedictine (2-2, 0-1), who has dropped back-to-back conference games dating to last season, travels to Aurora on October 6 for a 1:00 p.m. affair.
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LISLE, Ill. - The Benedictine University football team opened the conference portion of its schedule by falling to Concordia Wisconsin 6-0 on Saturday afternoon.

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If Newt Gingrich has become the leading challenger to Mitt Romney, then a basic question is pertinent to their looming duel for the Republican presidential nomination: Where do they diverge on policy?
For all the talk about Mr. Gingrich as the new "anti-Romney," gaining traction with voters who see the former Massachusetts governor as failing the true-conservative test, the two have some major similarities when it comes to the economic issues that are central to the 2012 election campaign.
Both have staked out staunch conservative positions on some fronts: keeping the Bush tax cuts in place, repealing Obama's health-care reforms, eliminating the estate tax.
Yet both face some doubts from core conservative voters in their party. Mr. Romney takes heat for supporting a Massachusetts law mandating that individuals buy health insurance, but Gingrich has voiced support for that basic idea. Gingrich has caught flak for supporting a path toward legal status for many illegal immigrants, yet Romney also opposes blanket deportation.
The point of these comparisons isn't that the two offer carbon-copy platforms. Big differences do exist (coming in a moment).
But to the degree that primary voters focus on similarities, that could work in Romney's favor as he seeks to fend off Gingrich's rise. He can use the parallels to argue for his credentials as someone in the conservative mainstream of his party. And his campaign can argue that Romney's perceived flaws are shared by his rival.
Romney can count on other candidates, hoping for their own spot in the electoral sun, to put up their own opposition to the newly ascendent Newt. Some already have, with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas making news Thursday with an ad calling out the former House speaker from Georgia for "serial hypocrisy."
Gingrich's prospects, by contrast, may grow brighter the more he can be a salesman for policies to the right of Romney.
Here are some of the main differences on economic policy:
First and foremost, Gingrich comes off as the bigger tax-cutter, notably for businesses and wealthy Americans.
He proposes reducing the income-tax rate to zero on capital-gains and dividend income. Romney would also exempt such investment income from taxes, but only for households with incomes of $200,000 or less.
Gingrich also wants to offer taxpayers a radical choice: Pay taxes in the current system or opt for a flat 15 percent tax on income. That option would be particularly appealing to high-income households.
Still, Gingrich isn't proposing to scrap the current tax code entirely, as Gov. Rick Perry of Texas would do (with a 20 percent flat tax) or as business leader Herman Cain would do (with his so-called "9-9-9 Plan" and his longer-term goal of reliance on a national sales tax).
Gingrich would also reduce the tax rate on business income from 35 percent to 12.5 percent. Romney would set the corporate tax rate at 25 percent.
Another difference is on Social Security: Gingrich has proposed fixing the program's coming shortfall by empowering Americans with the option to invest in personal savings accounts. Romney has said possible reforms could include raising the retirement age or changing the way benefits are inflation-adjusted for high-income retirees.
The Gingrich campaign argues that Americans will opt into the personal-account system, because of its promise of higher lifetime benefits, in the process "drastically lowering [Social Security's] burden on taxpayers."
In all, Gingrich appears to occupy ground well to the right of Romney on several fronts.
As New York Times political blogger Nate Silver put it recently, Gingrich's score on a conservatism meter "would be fairly close to that of Gov. Rick Perry, which in my view represents something of a sweet spot for the Republican primary electorate: solidly conservative but not in Michele Bachmann territory."
What about positions on health care and immigration?
Gingrich says that, in supporting an individual health insurance mandate in the early 1990s, he was teaming up with the conservative Heritage Foundation against Clinton administration health care proposals.
But as recently as four years ago, though, he wrote approvingly of requiring "anyone who earns more than $50,000 a year to purchase health insurance or post a bond." That was in a larger commentary, which also espoused "market-based reforms," written in his role as founder of the Center for Health Transformation.
And this year he ruffled conservative feathers by joining liberals in criticizing a radical overhaul plan for Medicare proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin.
Instead of phasing out Medicare in its current form, Gingrich would allow seniors to choose a private-sector insurance system. "This would create price competition to lower costs," as well as giving individuals "greater options for better care," his campaign website says.
On immigration, Gingrich drew criticism from Romney and others for arguing for a kind of "amnesty" (the critics' word) for illegal immigrants. Gingrich's proposal, however, focuses on legal residency and stops short of flinging the doors of citizenship wide open.
"I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century ... and expel them," Gingrich said. Fox News anchor Bret Baier recently asked Romney to clarify how his view differs from that of Gingrich. Romney didn't answer Mr. Baier directly.
At least one conservative pundit, former Education Secretary William Bennett, has rushed to defend Gingrich's position.
"Newt Gingrich's immigration plan could be a breakthrough moment for conservatives," he said Tuesday in a column for the CNN website. "It could be a new kind of signal from conservatives that we are not bound in an absolutist straitjacket when it comes to immigration reform."


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I just back from Florida, and I would like to share a story about watching the debacle against Tampa Bay. Thankfully, I chose not to attend the game live. However, I did have the misfortune and enjoyment to watch the game with a gentleman named, Everglade Gary. Misfortune, as I was supposed to take "Everglade Gary's Kick Ass AirBoat Tour" and then be back to civilization in time for the 1:00 pm kickoff, however his motor conked out, and we ended up at his mechanic/gator-wrestler/interior designer brother's house in the middle of the Everglades. You ask 95% of people, and being stranded with a guy named Everglade Gary in the middle of Florida swampland is not how they would choose to spend their Sunday. However, this misfortune quickly turned to enjoyment, as I got to drink ice cold beer and watch football with a genuinely cool guy as his brother got to work fixing the boat.
By gametime, we were each eight beers deep, and he was explaining to me about the skunk ape. If you've never heard of the skunk ape, you are missing out on one of the greatest pieces of local lore this country has to offer. You see, the skunk ape is Florida's version of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or Yeti or Abominable Snowman. It is similar in size to very large man, covered in hair, and, because "it sleeps in empty gator dens full of methane gas and sweats a lot without bathing," it smells terrible. Gary was pretty sure he smelled one once, but then again, he said, it could have just been his dog who has a habit of rolling in alligator carcasses. Gary was quick to inform me that he was not an expert on the skunk ape, but that he liked to pass on the story for an acquaintance, Dave Shealy, Director of the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters.
Maybe not an expert on hairy, reeking humanoids, but what soon became apparent was that Everglade Gary was an expert on football. He would be deep into a story about how he got into a bar fight in Fort Meyers with six college guys on Spring Break because one of them said alligators couldn't climb trees (Look it up. They can...if you don't believe me, Gary has something he'd like to talk to you about), and then he would quickly make an incredibly insightful observation about the game. I began to realize that Gary's boat breaking down may have been the best thing that could have happened to me that day. 1) I got a taste of local Florida culture 2) I got to watch football with an incredibly knowledgeable football fan 3) it's always good to be reminded that beers taste better when it's hot, humid, and it smells vaguely of methane and sweat…
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Meet Everglade Gary and His (Elusive) Neighbor
3 comments:
- pashawwNovember 13, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Thank you for shedding light onto the oft derided topic of the Skunk Ape or Swamp Ape; also known as the Swamp Logger, it is a member of the hominid cryptid genus.ReplyDelete
(a message to the Florida Dept. of Wildlife; THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!!!!)
- For ShizzleNovember 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Warning: The Swamp Ape has also been known to sleep on abandoned mattresses in your living room for weeks at a time, turning your living room into a den full of methane gas.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 3, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Man, really want to know how can you be that smart, lol...great read, thanks.ReplyDelete
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At SwellColors, we have designed and created hundreds of custom stained glass windows. One of our accomplishments that we are most proud of is owner and artist Mary Tantillo's prolific "Year in Glass". Mary has been inspired to create a unique stained glass window design to correspond with every date of the year, energized by our local waves. We are currently facing the winter season head on- so check out our Winter Sol Stained Glass Collection.
These windows make very special anniversary gifts, birthday gifts, or Valentine's Day gifts for that special someone! Truly one of a kind, and made with love: Our design for today, February 5th, is called "Sunset".
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Winter can be so cold and dark. The wind blows through the mainland, over the bay, under my jacket, into my home, chilling my bones. It makes me want to hibernate and withdraw from everything; lull myself into a deep sleep like a sailboat in the doldrums. That would be easy but also it would be lonely, limiting, and I would be stuck like a wave in a bucket of water.
So I force myself to go outside, to run on the beach, face the bay at sunset, to surf on sunny brisk days, to hike in the snowy woods. I rarely see anyone. I am usually lost in my thoughts, marveling at how beautiful everything looks. Winter, at first glance, seems grey, but with closer inspection, there is a spectrum that shines through the frozen hunter green branches and bright crimson holly berries. The ocean also reveals many colors such as stormy root beer brown and calm crystal azure. I become inspired by my surroundings. I feel free. I am moving like swells rolling toward the shore.
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It's been the easiest thing for everybody in the universe to say that Apple's Macworld 2009 keynote lacked not just Jobs but luster. We did feel a distinct absence of a Jobsian ZOMG hover-board-that-shoots-lightning-bolts reality distortion, a surge that is always followed by inevitable grumbling anyway. But the speech by able stand-in Phil Schiller wasn't without genuine news...
• Those who enjoy their iPhoto couldn't help marvel at the new features, including real bonafide face identification and new useful geographical organizing tools.
• People who hated last year's iMovie overhaul are now starting to realize that it might have been a necessary step in a whole new approach.
• We finally got the 17" MacBook Pro that had been projected for so long, though with a truly Apple-flavored twist: a long-lasting but non-removable battery.
• iWork got some improvements, but more importantly made its first lunge toward the cloud—for better or for worse.
• iPhone owners got the chance to impulse-buy songs directly over AT&T's 3G network (and even the EDGE network, at their own peril).
• And DRM—the reason I started buying all music from Amazon—finally got the boot, though under the condition that the four major record distributors get to charge higher prices on their tastiest licks.
It was an eventful day in the Apple-verse, even though Steve sat it out. But Macworld has come to an end (perhaps for all time), and we're already up and running at CES! [Macworld 2009; CES 2009]


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I wrote a non-fiction book called "Almighty." It's about nuclear weapons, the activists who resist them, and the bureaucracy that maintains them. It is part historical adventure, part courtroom drama, part moral thriller. You can order it here.
My appearances:
Video of my Sept. 18, 2017, lecture in Little Rock, Ark.
Video of my July 25, 2016, Q&A at Half King Bar in New York.
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Here's what critics say:
"A scrupulously reported, gracefully told, exquisitely paced debut." Kirkus (starred review)
"This is a strangely captivating book — dark and utterly frightening … Zak's narrative is a perfectly measured blend of biography, suspense, and history. He skillfully uses the small, finite story of the Y-12 protest to explore our national identity as a people whose culture is now intimately connected with things nuclear." Kai Bird, The New York Times Book Review
"This book is essential reading for any American. ... Zak is a terrific writer. His chronicle of our nuclear complex—from the bomb's creation to the present-day modernization of our nuclear arsenal—unfurls like a film, with drama, suspense and an eye for horrifying absurdities." Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, America magazine
"His sentences are spare, to the point and sometimes hard to forget. ... The book draws much of its strength from Zak's ability to present the trio with neither lionization nor ridicule. ... The challenge now, which 'Almighty' makes feel both urgent and nearly impossible, is to somehow prevent us — this very flawed and very brilliant species — from unleashing such destructive power, either by design or accident, ever again." Gabriel Thompson, Truthdig
"With nuns splashing blood, countries making pledges, diplomats working to reduce the size of world-destroying arsenals, suppliers cheering a new Cold War, Zak demonstrates that we're all in it together. And he's honest enough to report as well the hard truth that none of us yet knows how to get out of it alive." Richard Rhodes (author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"), The Washington Post
"Zak gracefully synthesizes the stories of the politicians and bureaucrats controlling stockpiles of weapons and those of the activists working to disarm them." Publisher's Weekly
"Zak takes the reader on a journey into the still-vibrant realm of the US nuclear arms complex. His guides are an aging nun, a house-painter and other everyday Americans who realize the senseless violence at the center of the nation's national security. A brilliant portrayal of these heroes of our time." Kate Brown, author of Plutopia
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Jason Bateman
William Peter Blatty
Sidney Blumenthal
Hillary Clinton in high school
Bob Costas
Whitney Cummings
Michael Cunningham
Paul Feig
Adrian Fenty
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Robert Gates
Jerry Herman
John Kasich
Megyn Kelly
Melissa Leo
David Letterman
Sen. Carl Levin & Rep. Sander Levin
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Janet Mock
Elaine Paige
Michelle Pfeiffer
Parker Posey
Ann Romney
Jerry Seinfeld
Harry Shearer
Penelope Spheeris
Ken Starr
Meryl Streep
James Taylor
Ginni Thomas
Alex Trebek
Eric and Don Trump Jr.
Kathleen Turner
People you don't
The longtime custodian
The photo interpreter
The shadow representative
The 10-year-old boy with autism
The antiquated booksellers
The youngest cameraman in Iraq
The lawyer/art collector
The daughter who re-booked her parents on Flight 77
The drive-in theater couple
The karaoke cab driver
The EMT siblings
The transsexual escort
The bat lady of Northern Virginia
The U Street photographer
The 24-hour tire mechanic
The first openly gay presidential candidate
The combat knitters of Kandahar
The anchorman off script
The gym king of Washington
The 94-year-old bureaucrat
The marrying artists
The Brightest Young Things
The assistant White House social secretary
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In the flesh, she does not have an aura. She's not lit from within. Heads do not snap in her direction when she walks through a hotel lobby in a baggy maxi-dress and brown calf-high boots, flanked by her dutiful makeup artist of 35 years and her imperious publicist — the few celebrity trappings of a woman who stubbornly considers herself a working actor, and nothing more.
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"Mid-winter. When I was about 7 years old. My sister and a couple of her friends were playing on a frozen creek that was not frozen entirely. And I told her, 'Get off the ice. It's not safe. It's too dangerous. I'll check it out for you.' And then the ice cracked under me, and I fell in."
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What does a young man do with a freshly framed law degree, a Harvard fellowship, an internship at Goldman Sachs and summer apprenticeships at two of the District's premier law firms?
He works overtime to get a job that doesn't pay.
"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."
That's Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," and I think she's right. I like to go places and write about what it feels like to be there, or live there. The model, of course, is Henry Allen's concept of "What It Felt Like."
When the pope visited Washington
Creech Air Force Base
Sanford, Fla.
The Vanity Fair Oscar party
Inauguration 2013
Newtown, Conn.
Thurmont, Md. & Camp David
The White House Correspondents dinner
Anbar province, Iraq
The U.S. Open
Election night 2010
Bladensburg Road
Leeville, La.
Snowmageddon 2010
24 hours at a Chick-fil-A
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Sanford is a brick-paved main street lined with antique shops. Sanford is a forlorn acreage of shuttered housing projects whose closure scattered residents across town. Sanford is a small galaxy of gated communities with names like "Plantation Lakes" and "Hatteras Sound." Which Sanford was Trayvon visiting in February 2012? Which Sanford was Zimmerman protecting, or protecting against?
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It's a 2.3-mile drive from the Newtown station to Sandy Hook Elementary School: A left, a right and another right. The first on the scene were nine Newtown officers, divided into three teams of three, including the police chief. They were the first, after the shooter, to force their way into the school, via the front lobby and the rear door.
Inside: silence. The air smelled like the department's firing range: spent gunpowder.
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This summer may mark the end of Leeville, a town birthed by a hurricane, then destroyed by one, resurrected by oil and now destroyed by oil. It isn't the only dying town outside the levee systems in south Louisiana. Subsidence, the sinking of delta land, has long been the existential enemy down here. Now wild crude has delivered what may be the final blow, choking off commerce. Some residents foresee an abandoned landscape, something right out of a Wild West movie, with empty slips instead of silent saloons, belly-up redfish instead of skittering tumbleweeds.
Sometimes I jump down rabbit holes and cough up a bunch of words on a particular topic or theme.
The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet
The Marshall Islands: A ground zero forgotten
The Prophets of Oak Ridge
The War Generation and Faces of Iraqi Youth
Night Lives
Photo by Chris Earnshaw, print by Joe Mills
Chris Earnshaw is an odd and brilliant and sloppy man who vibrates with great joy and grand melancholy. For decades he has ambled through bandstands, major motion pictures and demolition sites, searching for prestige and permanence, all while being ignored on the gray streets of a humdrum capital.
"You know, I believe in the inevitability of the spirit," he says. "I've heard about people gripping the rails of their deathbed, thinking the void awaits them. But that can't be it, can it? There must be something next, something beyond, for all of us. I don't want my life to end with people not knowing, or people saying, 'He could've been something!' "
So several years ago, he put rubber bands around some of his photographs.
Here's where I keep some of my narratives and other misadventures that fall under the vague definition of "feature."
The Jesuit Volunteers
The George Zimmerman jury
Election Day 2012
The Naval Academy's Halloween extravaganza
The end of men?
AIDS at 30 in D.C.
Freedom Radio in Iraq goes silent
A wonk's week in Oscartown
Behind the scenes of "The Daily Show" in D.C.
The Appleseed Project
Christmas in the slammer
The tweed ride
Lebowski in Bethesda
The exopolitics convention
The anti-circumcision march
Car bomb on parade
The good news safehouse
Swimming in spirit
And here is some straighter news:
In Newtown, an avalanche of altruism
Survival vs. citizenship between Hurricane Sandy and Election Day
Rob Portman's support of gay marriage puts him at odds with two-thirds of GOP voters
Iraqi province declares autonomy in symbolic move
Four killed when Iraqi insurgents attack police, government compound
E-cruzers and the ecosystem of Barracks Row and the ballpark
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Margaret is buried 1.4 miles from the pool, in Oakwood Cemetery, between her mother and her brother, who died in infancy in 1893. The stones are dateless and unadorned. During demolition and renovation this year, some community members visited the graves to pay their respects, to smooth out any karmic disruption between the distant memory of a girl's country home and the future vision of a waterslide and volleyball pit.
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The Stone, Bronze and Iron ages. The Middle Ages. The Renaissance. The Industrial Revolution. The Age of Consumerism. Or, the Storage Age.
The last several millennia, in two sentences: Man learns to make things. Things start to accumulate.
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Somewhere between the desert basins and craggy mountains of far west China, in the lonely expanse to which criminals and subversives have been exiled for generations, a human rights lawyer named Gao Zhisheng presumably sits in prison.
Meanwhile, 6,600 miles away, his wife peels a tangerine in the underground cafeteria of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill. She's been wearing the same beige blouse for three days. The bunkerlike eatery echoes with lunchtime chatter. She understands little of it.
"Tell him, you know, it's a think piece. About a mid-level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom. He'll wet himself."
— Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous"
These are deep dives and quick glances, appreciations and criticisms. Of people, places, things, you name it.
Goldman Sachs
The gay capital
Paddy Chayefsky's "Network"
"Arrested Development"
The snowquester
Ann Romney's $990 blouse
The month of August
K Street
Charlie Sheen
Christmas trees after Christmas
The aughts in D.C.
Lady Gaga, activist
"The Real World"
Bonnie & Clyde
"So help me God"
The iGeneration
Bergman & Antonioni
Photo by Bob Kotalik (AP)
I met him once. Rather, I ambushed him. It was in the thin air of Telluride, Colo., for the film festival, in 2004. He had just finished a conversation with New Line executive Bob Shaye and came out of the clock tower on W. Colorado Avenue. He was small in person, his face gaunt from skirmishes with cancer. I approached him, joined him in his quarter-mile walk to his lodgings, and spilled it.
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Photo illustration by Susana Sanchez-Young & Anne Farrar for The Washington Post
Facebook bought Instagram on Monday for one buh-buh-billion dollars, a tectonic lurch in the realm of social media, and what does this have to do with the real world — the chaotic world that surrounds us, not the orderly one that is contained in the tininess of our smartphone screens?
Nothing. Or everything.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show"
Photo by Charlie Knoblock (AP)
The cultural legacy of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is at once intensely personal and too galactic to fathom. Without "The Oprah Winfrey Show," where would we be? We wouldn't have T-shirt bedsheets, footless pantyhose or the "The Color Purple," the musical. We wouldn't have a council of chatty behavioral gurus upon whom Oprah has bequeathed fame and success: financial taskmaster Suze Orman, cooking sprite Rachael Ray, decor wizard Nate Berkus, and doctors Oz and Phil, who've made it their business to be in ours.


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bizdoc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 239 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small Lean bootstrapping start-up building new ways for people to track, manage and control their health. One of us is a physician with a lot of business experience, and the other is a big 5 management consultant - neither of us is happy with the way healthcare is distributed to people, and want to find more efficient ways to help as many people as we can.
We see this as the first of several logos that we will be building over time as we develop our products.
Our initial target audience are anyone that tracks their health using wireless devices - this ranges from health and wellness/exercise groups (i.e. someone that uses the Nike Plus or the FitBit), to people with diabetes and high blood pressure - we want to give them better ways to visualize, understand and manage their data to improve their health levels.
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2) a sense of high-technology, Web 2.0 - - we'll be visualizing the data in new ways similar to this website
3) a sense of empowerment, prosperity ("health" = "wealth")
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No cartoons
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Florida outlasts Arkansas in overtime to run win streak to 7
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Dorian Finney-Smith and Scottie Wilbekin weren't about to let a little thing like injuries get in the way for Florida.
The banged-up Gators, playing without leading scorer Casey Prather, overcame a host of ailments and earned an 84-82 overtime win at Arkansas on Saturday.
They did so behind a career-high 22 points from Finney-Smith, starting in the place of Prather, as well as a timely jumper near the end of regulation from Wilbekin — who scored nine points in overtime as Florida (13-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) completed its comeback.
Prather, averaging 17 points, missed the game because of a bone bruise in his right knee, but he was hardly the only Gator affected by injuries. Wilbekin missed two days of practice this week with a sprained ankle, and center Patric Young also missed time with a sore knee.
Wilbekin finished with 18 points for Florida, and Michael Frazier had 15 and Young 10.
Finney-Smith, starting for just the second time this season, added 15 rebounds — including nine offensive — while also connecting on three 3-pointers.
"You're going into this game not really knowing what you're going to get," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "… I think the one guy we, at least I tried to instill just a belief and confidence was in (Finney-Smith). Just to go, be aggressive, play through mistakes."
The Razorbacks (11-4, 0-2) had a chance to all but seal the win with 17.1 seconds remaining in regulation, but Alandise Harris missed the front end of a 1-and-1 to give Florida the ball back down 66-64.
Wilbekin answered with the game-tying bank shot with 2 seconds left for the Gators, who then took control quickly in overtime while snapping Arkansas' 23-game home winning streak.
"It means a lot to us," Finney-Smith said. "It tells you about our team. We play for each other. Any given night, it can be someone's night and tonight it was just me."
Ky Madden led the Razorbacks with a career-high 23 points, hitting 5 of 10 3-pointers. Coty Clarke added a season-high 16 points and 14 rebounds, but neither was enough for Arkansas — which has lost two straight for the first time this season.
"We just didn't finish the deal," Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. "We had opportunities at the free-throw line. We had some open shots we didn't make. We had some open shots we didn't make.
"… This one hurts. Why? Because we felt we played well enough (to win)."
Finney-Smith had nine points at halftime, and he continued to have the hot hand in the second half and overtime — where he scored five straight points to put the Gators up 77-69.
Following a pair of baskets from Harris, who finished with 11 points, the Razorbacks closed the Florida lead to 82-79 with 21.9 seconds remaining in overtime. However, Harris missed an inside attempt and Wilbekin — who had nine points in overtime — sealed the win with free throws with 5.4 seconds remaining.
Michael Qualls, who finished with 10 points, hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to pull Arkansas within 84-82.
"(Harris) didn't make the play, but we also didn't make the plays and execute and win the game," Clarke said. "So, it's not on him but us."
The Gators took a 23-22 lead midway through the first half after a floater by Kasey Hill, but Arkansas — which hadn't lost at home since a 91-82 defeat to Syracuse on Nov. 30, 2012 — responded with a 10-2 run to take its largest lead of the half at 32-25.
Clarke, who had 13 points in the first half, matched his career high with three 3-pointers, and he put the Razorbacks up 64-57 with a free throw.
However, Florida closed out regulation on a 9-2 run to tie the game — eventually winning it in overtime in Bud Walton Arena, where the Gators lost last season.
"We didn't want anything less (than a win)," Wilbekin said. "Us four seniors, with this being our last game here, we wanted to go out with a win."


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...this time in Microsoft Outlook. Could the programmer who was too lazy to write their code properly please go back to school? There is no excuse for this:
Another Microsoft UI Fail
...this time in Microsoft Outlook. Could the programmer who was too lazy to write their code properly please go back to school? There is no excuse for this:
Introducing: Sloecode
Bazaar is wonderful. It combines the right powerful features with a good dose of common-sense and a sprinkling of usability. Well okay, perhaps more than a sprinkling of usability. I use bazaar a lot in combination with launchpad. The client-side bzr-launchpad plug-in makes this a breeze: I don't have to remember user-names, passwords, project URLs, or anything else. However, occasionally I don't want my code to be visible by default. Sometimes I don't want my code leaving the building. I could easily host a simple bazaar repository locally, but creating teams of users quickly gets difficult. What I'd love is a system like launchpad, but with a few key differences:
Optimised for the most common use-case. Launchpad does an awful lot of stuff that I have never used, and probably never will. All this functionality makes launchpad a very large beast indeed. I want a system that's compact and easy to use; I don't need translations, build recipes, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc. etc.
Easily installed on my own server. It is technically possible to install launchpad wherever you want, but it's difficult.
A simple web app (written in python & pylons) that allows one to create users, teams, and manage both.
A bzr+ssh smart server that understands the accounts and teams created in the web-app.
A client-side bzr plugin that allows users to use shortened repo URLs (similar to the lp:projectname scheme the launchpad plug-in provides).


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Exhibition: Inspired photographs of poverty and hope in Africa
Seen through a camera lens is a world of extremes.
Extreme poverty, disease and death. And then there's the love, hope and courage it takes to remedy them.
These are displayed through the images of Josh Hester — Springfield photographer and videographer.
Hester's work is on display at the Robert Morris Gallery, with an opening reception on Jan 7. The show runs until Feb 19.
"The Valley of Mathare" is a visual representation of Hester's eight-day experience in the Mathare Valley — a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Using both photography and video footage, Hester says his intention is to represent the hope and pain that still exists in the Mathare Valley.
"I think what the show is attempting to capture is the extremes of Mathare," Hester said. "I think what people will see is the extreme poverty, disease . . . the circumstances these people are in." In spite of their pain, the people in the valley are full of faith, Hester added.
Hester not only works in photography, but also audio recording, documentary film and video and all are shown through his exhibit at the gallery.
The Springfield native had not yet seen much of the world and had a sense of longing to travel. Over a span of two years, Hester went through a self-reflection and began to "research opportunities."
Through his inquiry, Hester found Bright Hope International — a nonprofit organization whose mission is to "provide for the physical, economic and spiritual needs of people living at the lowest economic level through personal, empowering, holistic, local church partnerships," according to the mission statement on their Web site.
The organization helps Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, China, Haiti, India, Kenya, Peru, Philippines, Thailand, Uganda and Zambia to build education, promote health and spirituality through their various projects.
Part of what inspired Hester to help is the lack of education. Mathare Valley is the home to roughly 500,000 people. Of the total population, 300,000 are under the age of 15 and of those children and young adolescents, 296,000 are without access to education, according to Hester.
Hester volunteered his photos for the organization and was inspired upon arrival back into the U.S. to display them at the Robert Morris Gallery.
Hester said his intention for the show was to "maximize hope" and to shed light on a truth that we, as Americans, cannot always see.
"We get tunnel vision a lot here," Hester said in regard to getting caught up in everyday life and lack of awareness. "I think for me the story in a lot of ways is tragic, but also inspiring," he said.
"It has been a gift in that I think about my friends there often. It's very hard for me to go through a day and not think of those people and the experience I had."
The bigger picture for the photographer is to make a project of this scale a radical effort. "I'm not doing this alone," he said. "Not anything of this scale ever gets anywhere without other people. Those who are brave enough to be surrounded by those who are not afraid to walk the walk," Hester said. "There is a valuable connection here that we're building."
Optional donations of $5 will be accepted at the exhibit to benefit education in the slum.
Lyndsey Taylor of Springfield, a California native, won 10 statewide journalism awards while at Santa Barbara City College. Her goal is to graduate from a university in Illinois. Contact her at email@example.com.


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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - hobbies Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in hobbies Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message kaoruhungJoined: 02 Dec 2003Posts: 4 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 7:49 pm Post subject: hollo~ everyone~ My name is kaoru ,my hobby is bake cake and cookies~ It brings a lot fun and happy not only in the process of making cake and cookies but also when you share them with your good friends or family. If you think bake cake is a hard work to you maybe you should try cookies frist ,that`s more easier than bake a cake ~ gook luck!! Back to top Musashimaru123Joined: 04 Dec 2003Posts: 3 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:56 pm Post subject: Hi! Hello. I can play the guitar, too. But recently, I don't play. So, I have to practice again. Back to top firemanJoined: 04 Nov 2003Posts: 4 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 4:19 am Post subject: My hobbies hi !! My name is Elroy I like listening music very much! It is because i can ventilate my emotion ,my anxiety and pressure! I also like playing a soccer. I like to play soccer because it can make friendship with others. When I have free time I will play soccer with my friend. My team had got some reward from compettition. I play in position attack midfield. DO you play soccer like me?If not what is your hobby? [/quote] Back to top jameswongJoined: 12 Jan 2004Posts: 81 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject: learning english hello, everybody! my name is james. my hobbies is take a challenge myself. That's mean i like to take a challenge to myself. The thing is believe not to be done by other people and difficult to do. First of my challenge, i success to enter university by good grade. second challenge now is i want to speak well my english, write well, listern well my english. i like to make friend all around the world, we can discuss about the english and growth together, my e-mail is [email protected] keep in touch. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Hobbies All times are GMT - 8 HoursGoto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Page 3 of 3 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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For those of you fawning over our sneak peek of the Lumia 920 OS and firmware update, you can go to bed happy tonight because tomorrow is your day. AT&T is now notifying employees internally that the combo OS and firmware update will be going live tomorrow, December 19th for both the Lumia 920 and 820 (no word on the HTC 8X, sorry).
No time was given but our bet is 9AM PT/12PM ET is when the update will begin to be available...
The information comes via an internal AT&T email circulating around to employees that details the OS update, codenamed 'Portico'. The fix from Microsoft updates the OS to 10211 through a series of system patches, the main crux of which will fix a stability issue related to Bluetooth connectivity, causing isolated cases of OS resets or freezes. Portico will also deliver SMS call rejection, SMS mass delete and new firmware from Nokia that adds greater sharpening to the front and rear Pureview camera...
The email from AT&T states that
"The update will be processed over-the-air (OTA) via a Wi-Fi connection. This software update will improve the experience for a small number of customers who have reported issues with connectivity to Bluetooth devices, including times where an affected device appears to freeze."
You may notice the pop up notification for an OS update tomorrow and you are given the choice to postpone the update until you are over Wi-Fi or at another time, but not indefinitely
"They have the option to select postpone or install the update immediately to their device. If the customer selects to "postpone" installation of the update, the notification pops up again in two days. The notification cannot be postponed permanently. Customers can also check the availability of the update from the Start screen by scrolling down to and tapping Settings > Phone Update > Check for Update. All customers will be notified of the update by January 7, 2013."
T-Mobile and HTC are planning to update the 8X with a similar update starting tomorrow as well.
So far, the OS and firmware update have made our Lumia 920 even better than before. The update should also bring some fixes and enhancements for the Lumia 820, though we're not sure what exactly those are. We do expect, however, to get a full details about the Nokia's changes sometime tomorrow, so stay tuned to Windows Phone Central for all your Windows Phone needs!
Big thanks to Jeffrey, for the information!


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Sydney Spies, the former Durango High School student who gained international attention for her submission of a racy yearbook photo, was arrested early Monday in Durango, along with her mother.
Spies, 18, is suspected of obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor. She was released early Monday from the La Plata County Jail on $500 bail.
Her mother, Denise Miki Spies, 45, was arrested on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor a felony, and obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest both misdemeanors. She was released early Monday on $10,000 bail.
When contacted by The Durango Herald on Monday afternoon, Miki Spies declined to comment.
Police said numerous underage partygoers were drinking alcohol when they arrived about 11:20 p.m. Sunday at 1102 Oak Drive in northeast Durango.
Upon seeing police, several partygoers jumped a chain-link fence in the backyard and fled up a steep hill behind the house.
Miki Spies, who owns the house, was at home at the time, police said. Police said there was a keg of beer, bottles of liquor and numerous red plastic cups filled with alcoholic beverages.
Police continue to investigate who bought the alcohol, but when an adult provides a location for minors to drink, it is a crime, said Sgt. Geary Parsons, with the Durango Police Department.
Miki Spies refused to give her name, identification and date of birth, according to police reports. She attempted to herd the crowd of partygoers into her house, according to a report by officer Darrell Robertson.
Ms. Spies asked me why she needed to provide her identification, the officer wrote. I explained to Ms. Spies that her being the homeowner along with the copious amount of alcoholic beverages present, and with numerous underage persons in attendance, she was contributing to the delinquency of minors, a felony offense.
Police attempted to detain her for questioning, but she broke into a full sprint for her front door, according to an incident report.
Police chased her into the house and into her bedroom, where she attempted to slam the door on police. She was arrested after a brief struggle, Parsons said.
Her actions prevented officers from detaining minors who had not yet fled the scene, Robertson wrote in his report.
Due to the actions of Ms. Spies, by the time I was able to return to identify those who were under the age of 18, they had all fled the area and I was unable to identify them, he wrote.
Sydney Spies attempted to block a police officer from entering the house, Parsons said.
She also pulled and tugged against officers when they tried to place her in handcuffs, he said. She refused to walk on her own to a police car, where she was placed in the back seat. She later unbuckled the seatbelt and attempted to jump out, Parsons said.
She nearly kicked me in the groin, officer Robertson wrote in his report.
A neighbor who asked not to be identified said she could hear loud, pounding music, as if there were a DJ. I couldnt figure out what kind of party it was to make that much noise, she said. It must have been a big event.
On her Facebook page about 4 p.m. Sunday, Miki Spies wrote, Stop by the house and wish my Sydney girl luck. Oak ... in town.
Sydney Spies made headlines in January by protesting the omission of a photo she submitted of herself wearing a short yellow skirt with a black shawl that exposed her shoulders and midsection for the high school yearbook. Student editors deemed it too racy.
The story logged more than 1 million hits on The Durango Heralds website, and, within days, it was picked up by the Huffington Post, ABC News and Denver news stations. It also was published in international newspapers and websites.
Spies and her mother were invited to New York City to appear on the Today Show, where Spies called the photo artistic.
A few months after the controversy, Spies announced she landed a small role in a forthcoming SyFy channel movie titled American Horror House. The movie is scheduled to air on Halloween.
Mondays arrest was not the first for her mother.
Miki Spies was arrested June 24 on suspicion of trespassing, resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer.
In that case, Miki Spies is accused of trespassing at River Church, 860 Plymouth Drive. Someone reported that Spies and another woman were being loud and refusing to leave the playground, which is on private property, according to an arrest affidavit.
During an interview Monday, Steve Quisenberry, a pastor at the church, said Spies was making noise and being obnoxious early in the morning. He asked her to be quiet, and she started cursing and yelling, saying the park is public property, he said.
He told her it is on private property and belongs to the church. She started using obscenities about Christians and told him to call the police, he said.
Police responded to find Spies volatile and agitated, wrote officer Alex Hutchison, in an arrest affidavit. She said the only reason police were called was because she is a lesbian, he said.
I explained to her that her sexual orientation did not have any bearing on the situation and that the swing set was on private property, thus giving the owners the right to request that they leave, Hutchison wrote.
Police asked Miki Spies for her name, and she said, Spies, and began to walk away. Officer Alex Hutchison asked her to stay put, and she began backing away very quickly, according to the affidavit.
Officers grabbed her arms and she began to scream that they were hurting her. She also yelled, arrest me, arrest me.
After being handcuffed, Miki Spies struggled against officers, according to the affidavit. She went limp and refused to walk to the police vehicle. She accused police of misconduct and repeatedly demanded to speak with her lawyer, according to an arrest affidavit.
She claimed that the only reason I arrested her was because she was a lesbian and that she had never been arrested before, the officer wrote in his affidavit.
She asked how long I had been a police officer. I answered that I was approaching my seventh year. She then said, Well, you suck at it, the report said.
Miki Spies continued to comment about the way Hutchison was doing his job, he said.
The officer said her eyes were glassy and her behavior was consistent with someone under the influence of alcohol.
At the jail, Miki Spies said the only reason River Church called police is because she used to be a minister there, and she was forced to quit because she was gay.
She said she is now an atheist, the officer wrote.
Spies has never worked as a minister at the church, Quisenberry said.
We didnt even know who she was when we called police at 5:55 in the morning, he said.
Miki Spies remained uncooperative at the jail and was placed into a padded room for noncompliant detainees.
Hutchison concluded his report by saying Spies behavior suggests she had the intent of being arrested.
She told the officer she has more than 6,000 friends on Facebook and was going to write about the incident.
As of Monday, Miki Spies had 2,661 friends on Facebook.
A brief biography says she is a self-employed lifestylist who does decorating, organizing, remodeling and party planning.
Basically I STYLE the lives people want but dont have time for, she wrote.
She is set for a pre-trial conference at 9 a.m. today for the case involving the River Church and is set for 8:30 a.m. Aug. 28 in her most recent case.
Sydney Spies is scheduled to appear at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 22 in La Plata County Court.


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