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From Cautley Meadow
Watercolour and crayon
©2010 Charlene Brown
Since horses are no longer allowed into this sensitive alpine region, there are only two ways into
Pictures (said to be worth 1000 words) plus 150 words – about watercolour and computer painting.
From Cautley Meadow
Watercolour and crayon
©2010 Charlene Brown
Since horses are no longer allowed into this sensitive alpine region, there are only two ways into
Arrival at
Watercolour, background for Chapter 5 of graphic novel
©2010 Charlene Brown
Under cover of darkness,
Photoshopped watercolour
©2010 Charlene Brown
I'm using Tina Mammoser's January 2008 post on Achievements, Mind maps/Concept maps, Goal setting as a guideline to review progress on My Plan for 2010,
Achievements: In the first six months of 2010, I wrote 32 blog posts. However, if I only count posts where I really feel I've achieved something – by which I mean I've done something different – there are only six! BTW – I noticed this reflects the Pareto Principle (roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes) as I only spent about 20% of my time on these projects.
Mind Map/ Concept Map: This is a great way to 'diagram' your plans! First you draw radial Mind Maps around your main areas of concentration (mine are landscape painting, graphic novel and archaeology) then connect various permutations and combinations of techniques, venues and target groups – all the usual blogging concepts – to generate and visualize ideas. Tina Mammoser's June 29 post highlights a new, creative twist on mind mapping – the PIP Personal Idea Pad developed by Todd Henry, who writes the Accidental Creative. PIP broadens your horizons by adding multiple perspectives (and a unique framework to contain them) to maximize your chances of generating brilliant, often tangential, ideas.
Goal Setting: Do the goals I posted in My Plan for 2010 need to be adjusted?
· Paint more spontaneously: This remains elusive, but I will continue trying.
· Do more journaling: This is going well. Haven't tried 'blogging on the road' yet, though I love it when other people, like Mary Paquet, do!
· Continue to participate in group blogs such as Virtual Paintout Plein Air Artists, and The Art of the Landscape.
· Write more 'how-to' articles for Empty Easel. I added The Extreme Sport of Watercolour Painting (which is not so much how-to as how-I-did-it).
· Finish graphic novel - learn how to use tablet: I added three 2-page spreads in the first half of the year, but as for learning to use the tablet… I've discovered outsourcing! The figures in my comic book are much better now that my grandson, Philip Hogg, is doing them. I did discover that sketching people in very roughly, and then erasing the lines that aren't right works for me, so there's been a little progress with the tablet.
· Paint more videos - learn how to use Adobe Flash: I don't need the interactive capability of Flash right now, so am sticking to my old method of creating animations. I've started a computer painted video about archaeology – another PIP idea.
The final step is to define what needs to be done NOW – well, NEXT anyway. Right now, I'm taking a couple of weeks off to gather more painting subject material sketching in the Rockies, and confer with my grandson about the drawings he's doing for my graphic novel. My next blog posts will be near the end of July, and will be about the real Rockies and virtual


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The three-story brick buildings at the northeast corner of 13th and Alabama streets were constructed in the late 1800s, and were originally known as The Arletta and The Hartwell. The buildings have a total of about 20,000 square feet of living space.
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The purchase price was about $300,000, since the buildings needed a complete overhaul and units were only about 40 percent occupied, said Kurt Flock, who is a principal in the company alongside his wife, Kate.
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The downtown apartment market has been on fire for a few years. For 2011, downtown led all central Indiana apartment submarkets with a record occupancy rate of 95.7 percent, according to research from locally based Tikijian Associates.
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Monday's edition of The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor reminds us that Clara Wieck Schumann was born on that day, September 13, 1819. Clara vied with Franz Liszt for the title of preeminent concert pianist of the 19th century, though her role as wife of composer Robert Schumann and mother of their eight children required her to cut back on performing for a time as well as to leave off composing.
Legal issues permeated the Schumanns' lives. To marry, they had to file a lawsuit, for Clara's controlling and grasping father/teacher/agent/producer opposed their relationship. After their marriage, Clara writes in her diary and correspondence of further legal disputes with her father over her earnings and property. And Clara eventually had to commit Robert to an institution because of his insanity, the result of his syphilis.
The Schumanns' lives show that truth is far stranger and more complex than fiction! For more, you can read "The Marriage Diaries of Robert and Clara Schumann" as well as your choice of several juicy biographies.
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Latest SportsCars News and Commentary
Bentley debuts Continental GT3 race car in the US
GT Speed, Bentley's fastest-ever road car, makes US debut
Bentley today unveils its Continental GT3 race car in the US for the first time as the company forges ahead with its plans to return to motorsport towards the end of 2013. Bentley is also showing its new 205 mph (330 km/h) Continental GT Speed performance flagship, the sister car upon which the GT3 is based and the Mulsanne Mulliner Driving Specification, a highly distinctive and sporting interpretation of its flagship Mulsanne.
Muscle Milk, Level 5, Rebellion Reign at Petit
Lola-Toyota wins Petit Le Mans on drama-filled day
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing, Level 5 Motorsports and Rebellion Racing were the big winners Saturday at Road Atlanta and Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda. Neel Jani, Andrea Belicchi and Nicolas Prost won the 1,000-mile race for the first time with a three-lap victory in their Lola-Toyota. Muscle Milk Pickett Racing captured the big prize though with the P1 drivers and team championship in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron. Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf finished second in class but completed enough laps to sew up both titles.
America's Lost Hobby & the Salvation of Our Youth
by Stephen Cox
I have figured out what is wrong with America's youth and their disconnect with racing. They don't race slot cars anymore. In addition to being overly tattooed, body pierced and not pulling their pants up, most of them couldn't define "HO scale" if you held a gun to their iPad. Racing HO scale Aurora AFX slot cars with the greatest man I've ever known – my dad – in our garage in the summer of 1969 taught me pretty much everything I needed to get through life. After slot car racing, formal education was anticlimactic.
A Muscle Milk Victory and Championships Galore at VIR
Gavin, Milner, Popow and MacNeil claim class titles
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing returned to its winning ways Saturday in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron, the same day where three class driver championship battles ended at VIRginia International Raceway. It marked a magical day for the ALMS in its debut at VIR. Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr teamed for a three-lap victory in the four-hour race driving Muscle Milk's Honda Performance Development ARX-03a.
Graf, Muscle Milk in the History Books at VIR
Record-setting qualifying lap headlines track's first official ALMS action
Klaus Graf and Muscle Milk Pickett Racing cemented their place in the history books Friday at VIRginia International Raceway. Graf set an all-time track record en route to pole position for Saturday's VIR 240 – the first race at the circuit for the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr¢n. His lap of 1:35.434 (123.352 mph) bested the previous record: a 1:36.3 from a Benetton ex-F1 car in 2004. Graf was 0.932 seconds quicker than Dyson Racing's Guy Smith in the No. 16 Lola-Mazda that is running a flywheel KERS hybrid system for the first time this season.
Spirit of Daytona wins at Laguna Seca
For Jeff Segal and Emil Assentato, the GRAND-AM Rolex Series Continental Tire Sports Car Festival Powered by Mazda was a battle that enabled them to win the season-long war for the Rolex Series GT championship. For Richard Westbrook and Antonio Garcia, Sunday's race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca represented their Rolex Series-leading third Daytona Prototype victory of the season.
Scenes from Grand-Am at Laguna Seca
by Bob Heathcote
Richard Westbrook and Antonio Garcia raced their series-leading third Daytona Prototype class victory of the Grand-Am Rolex Series season Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Garcia, in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP, beat Alex Gurney's No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette DP by 3.878 seconds. Our Bob Heathcote was there to capture all the action in these photos.
GRAND-AM and ALMS Announce Historic Merger
Grand-Am buys out ALMS
The most significant development in the history of sports car racing in North America was announced today, with plans for a landmark merger of GRAND-AM Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) unveiled at Daytona International Speedway. Under terms of the merger, the following entities will combine with GRAND-AM: the American Le Mans Series; the International Motor Sports Association, which sanctions ALMS events; the Road Atlanta race track facility in Braselton, Ga.; the Chateau Elan Hotel and Conference Center in Sebring, Fla.; and Sebring International Raceway.
ALMS and IndyCar Scenes from Baltimore - Saturday
by Adriano Manocchia
Saturday on the streets of Baltimore ALMS ran their race late in the day and finished just before the rains hit. Level 5 finished 1-2 with their LMP2 cars. The IndyCars qualified with Will Power taking pole comfortably and support series saw Indy Lights and USF2000 in action. Adriano Manocchia was there and captured all the action with these captioned photos.
Level 5 Honda LMP2s 1-2 in Baltimore
Christophe Bouchut and Scott Tucker led a 1-2 finish for Level 5 Motorsports at the Baltimore Sports Car Challenge on Saturday, the team's second overall win in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron this year. Bouchut, the P2 pole-sitter in the No. 055 Honda Performance Development ARX-03b prototype, beat Luis Diaz in the No. 95 entry by 2.158 seconds as the two P2 cars led the way in an wild race on the streets of Baltimore.
ALMS and IndyCar Scenes from Baltimore - Friday
by Adriano Manocchia
Due to cars launching over railroad tracks on the front straight in Baltimore Friday track time for the ALMS and IndyCars was shortened. Lucas Luhr put his Muscle Milk car on pole for the ALMS race and points leader Will Power was the fastest IndyCar in afternoon practice. Even though track management didn't bother to cut any photo holes for the photographers, Adriano Manocchia was there and did his best to capture all the action.
Luhr Gives Muscle Milk Baltimore Pole Position
Practice crash doesn't deter Gavin from taking GT pole
After narrowly missing out on victory two weeks ago in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron, Muscle Milk Pickett Racing's Lucas Luhr took pole position for the Baltimore Sports Car Challenge presented by SRT on Friday. The German set a time of 1:25.174 (86.223 mph) in his No. 6 Honda Performance Development ARX-03a prototype.
It's About Time
by David Phillips
Time can be a funny thing. Consider eight hours, three minutes, 35.264 seconds. That's the total elapsed time of the past two ALMS races at Road America. Now consider .195 seconds. That's the total margin of victory in the P1 class the past two years at Road America, divided between last year (.112s) when Muscle Milk pipped Dyson Racing for the win and this year when Dyson's Guy Smith held off Lucas Luhr's furious charge to win by just 0.083s.
Scenes from the Silverstone 6 Hour race
by Gary Parravani
Over 35,000 visitors to Silverstone witnessed Audi being crowned as the inaugural FIA World Endurance Manufacturer Champions as they claimed a first and third placed finish at the 6 Hours of Silverstone. Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoit Treluyer in the nr1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro, followed up their victory at the 24 Heures du Mans in June with a win at the Home of British Motor Racing. Gary Parravani was there to capture all the action.
COLLECTOR CARS: Yesterday's Loss is Today's Gain
by Stephen Cox
I'd like you to conduct an experiment. Go to your local racetrack this weekend. Makes no difference if it's a drag strip, oval or road course, big or small. Just go. Look around, estimate the average age of the fans and let me know what you find. Did you see a lot of kids there? Not likely. Racing fans are aging and there aren't enough new, young fans to take their place. Which begs an interesting question...At the Mecum Monterey auction last weekend, someone coughed up 5.5 million dollars to purchase the L&M Porsche 917/10 that won the Can Am championship more than forty years ago.
What a Finish… Again! Dyson Racing Wins
Closest finish in ALMS history for Dyson/Smith – 0.083 seconds
Guy Smith and Dyson Racing were on the other end this time around at Road America. A year after missing out by 0.112 seconds, Smith delivered victory for Dyson Racing on Saturday in the closest overall finish in the history of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron – 0.083 seconds.
Pruett and Rojas score milestone win for Ganassi
Grand-Am in Montreal
A nifty pass, some quick pit work and a strong finish helped Chip Ganassi Racing achieve a lofty milestone Saturday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas pulled away to their second win of the season in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series' Montreal 200, clinching the Ganassi operation's 150th win in all forms of major motorsports.
Lucas Luhr wins Road America pole
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing picked up their fifth American Le Mans Series pole position of the season on Friday during qualifying for tomorrow's Road America Road Race Showcase. Klaus Graf, who was on qualifying duty for Round 7 of the 2012 season, posted a fastest lap of one minute 50.191 seconds on his second timed lap around the 4.048-mile 14-turn road course. Graf's best time was 3.2 seconds faster than the second place #20 Dyson car.
Marino Franchitti: Batting .500
by David Phillips - Mid-Ohio victory a much needed bright spot
Rarely has a race driver savored a victory more than Marino Franchitti after teaming with Rudy Junco to pilot the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA FLM09 to a Prototype Challenge win two weeks ago at Mid-Ohio. Not only was it Franchitti's first win of the season, it came in just the second time he actually raced an automobile in competition in 2012.
Dalziel outduels Bourdais at The Glen
Dalziel and Luhr prevail in Grand-Am
Starworks Motorsport appears to be hitting its stride at just the right time as Ryan Dalziel and Lucas Luhr led a 1-2 sweep for the team in the Continental Tire 200 presented by Dunn Tire, giving the team its second straight GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series victory. After building a comfortable lead, Dalziel pulled away from teammate Sebastien Bourdais on the race's final restart with four laps remaining to finish 0.817 seconds ahead of Bourdais.
NASCAR & Grand-Am scenes from The Glen - Saturday
by Adriano Manocchia
Carl Edwards, making his first Nationwide start of the season, beat Keselowski on a two-lap dash to the checkered flag on Saturday and won the Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International. In Grand-Am Ryan Dalziel outdueled Sebastien Bourdais to give Starworks a 1-2 finish.
NASCAR and Grand-Am scenes from The Glen - Friday
by Adriano Manocchia
Rain early in the day Friday canceled a scheduled Sprint Cup practice at Watkins Glen International, forcing NASCAR officials to add a final practice for Saturday morning. NASCAR has afforded teams an additional 85-minute session to prepare their cars. The Grand-Am cars were also in action Friday. Our Adriano Manocchia was there to capture all the action.
ALMS and IndyCar scenes from Mid-Ohio Saturday
by Adriano Manocchia
The Izod IndyCar Series' best road-course racer finally returned to the top of the qualifying chart Saturday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, ending a drought of seven sessions. Power ran a lap of 1 minute, 5.6474 seconds to win the Firestone Fast Six portion of qualifying. Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won the American Le Mans Series race Saturday at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Graf, from Germany, and Luhr, from Monaco, drove the Muscle Milk Aston Martin Racing entry.
Luhr, Graf Win Again at Mid-Ohio for Muscle Milk
Corvette's Gavin and Milner win in GT
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing's completed its drive for five Saturday with a victory in the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge and sixth round of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr¢n. Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the second year in a row and led for 108 of 123 laps in their No. 6 Honda Performance Development ARX-03a.
ALMS and IndyCar scenes from Mid-Ohio Friday
by Adriano Manocchia
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge & The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio doubleheader on August 3-5 highlight the summer schedule at Mid-Ohio. On Friday Team Penske driver Will Power, turned the fastest lap in opening practice for The Honda Indy 200. American Le Mans Series drivers Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won the pole position for the ALMS race to be run Saturday. Adriano Manocchia captured these photos.
Luhr, Muscle Milk Top Mid-Ohio Battle Royale
BMW's Muller takes GT pole at RLL's home track
Lucas Luhr stood tallest Friday in qualifying for the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge - a day of knockdown, drag-out fights throughout the five classes in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr¢n. The German set a time of 1:11.019 (114.460 mph) in Muscle Milk Pickett Racing's Honda Performance Development ARX-03a prototype to take pole position.
Scenes from 24 Hours of Spa
by Gary Parravani
Phoenix Audi won the 24 Hours of Spa 2012 this weekend with an Audi R8 LMS Ultra. The winning drivers were Frank Stippler, Rene Rast and Andrea Piccini. It was an Audi one-two with the WRT Audi R8 LMS Ultra coming a very close second. Over 53,000 fans came to view the race and our Gary Parravani was there to capture all the action.
Racing's Dilemma - Kids Don't Care About Cars
by Stephen Cox
A car was more than transportation when I was a kid. Your car represented who you were. Everyone knew what a car meant... freedom! The liberty to go where you want, to be with your friends and to get into mischief. An automobile was true, genuine freedom and every one of us wanted it. Not so anymore. The average high school kid is far more concerned with grabbing the latest iPad or the coolest cell phone than driving the right automobile.
Sebastien Bourdais
Brian Carroccio
Friday's inaugural Brickyard Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was one of the stranger races I remember watching. Whether it was the seemingly empty IMS grandstands, the rare Friday afternoon start, the cars going backwards down the straightaway (something I've yet to get used to) the constantly changing weather, or all of those things combined, I cannot exactly pinpoint. However, I can definitively pinpoint one thing I found odd yesterday: I was rooting for Sebastien Bourdais.
IndyCar driver Bourdais wins at the Brickyard
Sebastien Bourdais and Alex Popow survived a rough-and-tumble round of the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series to win the inaugural Brickyard Grand Prix on Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bourdais, who drove the anchor leg for Starworks Motorsport in the No. 2 Soloson Ford/Riley, pulled away on the final restart on the 2.534-mile Indy road course to win.
Muscle Milk, Lizards Big Winners in Canada
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing won for the third straight year at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with a victory Sunday in the fifth round of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr¢n. Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport in the No. 6 Honda Performance Development ARX-03a by more than 10 seconds over Dyson Racing's Chris Dyson and Guy Smith in their No. 16 Lola-Mazda coupe
Muscle Milk Wins at Lime Rock
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing scored a victory for the ages at Lime Rock Park on Saturday. Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf came from four laps down to win the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix. It was the second victory at Lime Rock Park for the Muscle Milk team but first with Honda Performance Development's ARX-03a prototype. Jorg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won in GT for Flying Lizard Motorsports in a fantastic fight with Corvette Racing and Extreme Speed Motorsports.
Smith, Dyson Take Epic Lime Rock Qualifying Battle
ALMS at Lime Rock
The Lime Rock weekend's first battle went to the home-track team. Guy Smith put Dyson Racing on pole position Friday for the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix in an epic 15-minute session. Smith set a lap of 44.017 (120.553 mph) in Dyson Racing's Mazda-powered Lola coupe that he drives with Chris Dyson. All five classes set qualifying records on the 1.5-mile, eight-turn layout. The unquestioned highlight was the fast and furious fight between Smith and Lucas Luhr from Muscle Milk Pickett Racing. Luhr set a lap of 44.119 (120.275 mph) to end up just 0.102 seconds behind his chief rival.
Grand-Am Scenes from Watkins Glen - Sunday
by Adriano Manocchia
When all was said and done, Joao Barbosa and Darren Law earned their second Daytona Prototype victory of the 2012 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series season, while Robin Liddell and John Edwards celebrated their first GT victory of the season in the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen. Adriano Manocchia was there to capture all the action.
Grand-Am Scenes from Watkins Glen - Saturday
by Adriano Manocchia
Scott Pruett took his first Daytona Prototype pole position in two years and Jordan Taylor claimed the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen GT pole for the second consecutive year in Saturday's qualifying sessions at Watkins Glen International. Adriano Manocchia was there to capture all the action.
Chevy sweeps at Watkins Glen
Win both Grand-Am DP and GT
Driving the No. 9 Action Express Racing Corvette DP, Joao Barbosa held off Alex Gurney in the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Corvette DP to take the win and give Chevrolet a one-two finish today in the Rolex Sports Car Series at Watkins Glen International. In a thrilling finish to capture the Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen, Barbosa caught Gurney in traffic with 20 minutes remaining and used lapped cars to his advantage throughout the stretch run, to take the victory by a slim 0.238 seconds.
Scenes from Grand-Am at Watkins Glen - Friday
by Adriano Manocchia
Alex Gurney posted the quickest lap of Friday's three practice sessions at Watkins Glen International, lapping the 3.4-mile road circuit at 1 minute, 42.532 seconds/119.377 mph in the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance Corvette DP. Gurney's lap was just four hundredths of a second quicker than Ricky Taylor's best lap in the No. 10 SunTrust Corvette DP of 1 minute, 42.574 seconds/119.328 mph. Our Adriano Manocchia was there to capture all the action.
Pruett and Rojas win at Road America
Grand-Am Rolex Series
Corvette's Daytona Prototype winning streak wasn't the only thing that ended Saturday at Road America. So did the winless streak for co-drivers Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas. Pruett and Rojas ended the Corvette DP run of five-straight Rolex Series wins by taking the checkered flag in the Rolex 250 Driven by VISITFLORIDA.com. It snapped a nine-race winless streak for the defending Daytona Prototype co-champions.
Scenes from 24 Hours of LeMans
by Gary Parravani
Defending champions Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer overcame driving mistakes Sunday to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and give Audi its 11th title. Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander completed 336 laps to finish 17th overall in Ferrari No. 51 but first in the GTE class, three laps clear of Ferrari No. 59 driven by Dominik Farnbacher, Frederic Makowiecki and Jaime Melo. Our Gary Parravani was to capture these photos.
Audi take historic win at the 80th 24 Hours with R18
Lotterer/Fassler/Treluyer lead 1-2-3 finish
As the No.1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro of Andre Lotterer-Marcel Fassler-Benoit Treluyer took the checkered flag at exactly 1500 hours, Audi Sport today secured their 11th victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. But this was historic for a number of reasons as it was the first win at the world's most famous endurance race by a hybrid-powered car, it was on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the 24 Hours.
Le Mans 24 Hours - A glorious 80th event
Biggest sporting event in the world
The start of the 80th Le Mans 24 hours will be given tomorrow at 15h00. It looks like the greatest endurance race in the world, the third round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, will be a cracking event. A quick roundup before the pack is unleashed in the wake of the pole sitter, the no. 1 Audi. In February of this year the prestigious American Company, the National Geographic, again classified the Le Mans 24 Hours as the no.1 sporting event in the world which all sports lovers should attend at least once in their lives.
Team Spirit in LeMans: The Key to Success
Les 24 Heures du Mans is surely a trial of machine: cars are expected to race at top levels for 24-hours non-stop. But winning Les 24 Heures du Mans is really much more than a feat in mechanical engineering; it is an undeniable test of man and his limits. To stand on top of the podium in Le Mans, with the "24" trophy and the winning Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, demands not only hard work and sacrifice, but also true team spirit in order to come out on top.
Lotterer keeps Audi on pole for LeMans
Provisional pole sitter goes even faster Thursday night
Last year's Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer won the first pole position for a hybrid car on the 80th running of the 24 Hours of LeMans. The German's #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro set a blistering 3m23.787s lap as last year's winning teammates (Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer) will start up front in their quest to win two straight. Toyota's broke up Audi's dominance up front with Anthony Davidson setting an impressive third fastest time overall.
'67 Le Mans Winning Mark IV Celebrated 45 Years Later
The greatest USA victory on foreign soil
Forty-five years ago this past week, American racing history was made, and thus far has never been matched again. With the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, Racing in America reflects on the 45th anniversary of the Ford Mark IV claiming the second of four consecutive victories for Ford Motor Company cars at Le Mans, arguably the greatest American racing victory on foreign soil.
Westbrook and Valiante win in Mid-Ohio
Richard Westbrook and Michael Valiante put the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP in victory lane at Mid-Ohio Sports Course in the EMCO Gears Classic for the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series. It is the second victory of the season for the Troy Flis-owned team to give Corvette DP its fifth consecutive win in the first six races of the 2012 season.
Dressing: Group C Curtain Call
The glory days are born again at Le Mans this year
Three decades on, Group C still has a powerful hold on the imagination of sports car fans. To celebrate the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans ,the ACO has a 45-minute Group C race as an appetizer on Saturday morning. It did this before to rave reviews. As a special bonus, one Derek Bell – 962-star extraordinaire – will take to the Circuit Permanente du Sarthe in Martin Overington's Porsche 962 still wearing its Kenwood livery.
Scenes from Detroit - Saturday 2
by Adriano Manocchia
The weather was better on Saturday on Belle Isle for the Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle which saw Grand-Am, SCCA World Challenge, and Firestone Indy Lights race, while the IZOD IndyCar series qualified. Scott Dixon won the pole for the IndyCar race while Action Motorsports finished 1-2 in the Grand-AM race. Adriano Manocchia was on hand and captured these captioned photos.
Scenes from Detroit - Saturday 1
by Mark Scheuern
On Saturday Scott Dixon won his first IndyCar pole of the year and snapped Penske Racing's streak of having the fastest car in IndyCar qualifying this season. Dixon set a track record of 1 minute, 10.3162 seconds Saturday on the Detroit Grand Prix's slick and tight 2-mile course. Penske's Will Power, the points leader, will start Sunday's race second followed by Alex Tagliani and Simon Pagenaud.
Action Express Scores 1-2 Win For Corvette In Detroit
Portugal's Joao Barbosa led home an Action Express Racing 1-2 on the streets of Detroit Saturday night in the Chevrolet GRAND-AM 200, with teammate David Donohue in tow and helping to complete a dominant run for the Corvette Daytona Prototype team. Ganassi Racing's Scott Pruett crossed the finish line in third, just 3.9 seconds behind Barbosa in his BMW-powered Riley.
Scenes from Detroit - Friday
by Adriano Manocchia
The Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle is back this year after a couple of years hiatus with IndyCar, as well as for the first time - Grand-Am. Friday was practice day for Grand-Am, SCCA World Challenge, Firestone Indy Lights and the IZOD IndyCar series. Adriano Manocchia was on hand and braved the wet and damp conditions to capture all the actions for us in these captioned photos.
Fogarty Drives Corvette DP To Detroit Pole
Jon Fogarty made the most of the first dry track conditions of the day Friday, padding his GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series record by earning the top starting spot for Saturday's Chevrolet GRAND-AM Detroit 200 at Belle Isle and the TOTAL Pole Award. Fogarty, the Rolex Series' all-time leader in poles, notched his first top qualifying spot of the season and the 20th of his career.
DeltaWing Don Panoz Q&A
Wants to see DeltaWing race on after LeMans
The upcoming race debut of the Nissan powered DeltaWing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans completes a remarkable year of hard work and dedication by the team at DeltaWing Racing Cars. But according to Managing Partner, Don Panoz, the assault on this year's famous French enduro is not the finish line for 12 months of remarkable effort by the manufacturer and its partners including Nissan and Michelin, but the start of a unique future for the car's design.
Scenes from the 24 Hours of Nurburgring
by Gary Parravani
Audi vanquished the opposition at the 2012 Nurburgring 24 Hours with a dominant 1-2 finish courtesy of customer squads Team Phoenix and Mamerow Racing. The race included carnage from multiple punctures in the early laps, as many as 17 GT3 cars running on the lead lap with nine hours already run. Our Gary Parravani was there to capture all the action.
MECUM AUCTION: Live from Indianapolis
by Stephen Cox
The 25th edition of Mecum's Spring Classic was held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds last week, producing high-dollar sales on some of the most desirable automobiles in the world. The real news to come from this auction was the announcement that a pair of historic racecars will sell at Mecum's Monterey event in August. The first car is a massive blockbuster.
Audi heading for Le Mans with all-wheel drive
R18 e-tron quattro
In a month from now a prestigious success will be at stake for Audi. On June 16/17, a hybrid vehicle could be winning the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time. Electrified drive and quattro all-wheel drive - what looks like two different worlds at first glance has been merged into a technological synthesis by Audi. "Soon after the TDI phase had begun we started to think about the hybridization of a Le Mans sports prototype, when it was foreseeable that the regulations would open up this option," explains Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich.
Carroll Shelby was part of Ford Family for 60 years
Video talking about winning LeMans in the 60s
Carroll Shelby was a member of the Ford family for the better part of 60 years, producing stunning performance vehicles from concepts to production models. He once said his energy and passion for performance products were always strongest when he was working with Ford. Shelby most recently collaborated with the company on the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang, the most powerful production V8 in the world. Working with SVT engineers at Sebring and the Arizona Proving Grounds, at times he drove for more than eight hours – at the ripe old age of 88. He was having so much fun, he didn't want to stop.
SunTrust Racing Takes Corvette to Victory Lane
In New Jersey
Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor sent a message to their competitors in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series that they are contenders for the championship by taking the No. 10 SunTrust Racing Corvette Daytona Prototype (DP) to victory lane today at New Jersey Motorsports Park. The win was the third for the Corvette DP in the first four races of the 2012 season.
Scenes from ALMS Monterey race: Saturday
by Bob Heathcote
Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf were untouchable Saturday in their Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Le Mans prototype, running away with the overall title at the American Le Mans Series Monterey at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Luhr and Graf were not challenged in the P1 class, beating the Dyson Racing entry driven by Guy Smith and Chris Dyson by 20 laps.
What a Day at Laguna: Vette Wins as GT Steals Show
Graf, Luhr win overall for second straight ALMS race
Muscle Milk Pickett Racing cruised to its second straight victory in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron on Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. But another fabulous GT battle stole the show as Corvette Racing's Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner also took their second consecutive class win. The last 90 minutes of the GT race undoubtedly was the highlight of the race.
Scenes from ALMS at Laguna Seca: Friday
by Bob Heathcote
A home race for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing will see the team start on pole position. Klaus Graf was the fastest qualifier for the American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patr¢n on Friday with a lap of 1:13.573 (109.508 mph) in his Honda Performance Development ARX-03a prototype.
Monterey Pole Position for Graf, Muscle Milk
A home race for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing will see the team start on pole position. Klaus Graf was the fastest qualifier for the American Le Mans Monterey presented by Patron on Friday with a lap of 1:13.573 o(109.508 mph) in his Honda Performance Development ARX-03a prototype. He and Lucas Luhr will try to deliver Muscle Milk its first victory at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron.
ALMS scenes from Laguna Seca - Thursday
by Bob Heathcote
Lucas Luhr ended a damp practice Friday morning with the fastest time in a two-hour session for the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr¢n. The two-time ALMS winner at Long Beach set a time of 1:33.121 (76.082 mph) in Muscle Milk Pickett Racing's Honda Performance Development ARX-03a. Our Bob Heathcote was there to capture all the action in these photos.
Schumacher, Hight, Line, Arana No.1 at Atlanta
by Pete McCole
Topping their respective divisions during Friday's opening qualifying rounds, Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car), Jason Line (Pro Stock) and Hector Arana, Sr. (Pro Stock Motorcycle) remained atop the leaderboards following Saturday's qualifying for the 32nd Annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event at Atlanta Dragway.
The beginning of a new era at Audi
Audi R18 e-tron quattro to contest its first race
The race debut of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend signifies the beginning of a new era at Audi. For the first time ever, a Le Mans sports car with diesel hybrid drive and two driven axles will compete in a race. For Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, this is arguably the most challenging project in the more than 30-year history of Audi Sport.
Taylor and Angelelli win Homestead Grand-Am race
After a tough start to their season, luck was on SunTrust Racing's side at Homestead-Miami Speedway, as Ricky Taylor and Max Angelelli won Sunday's rain-shortened Grand Prix of Miami. The contest was shortened following downpours that resulted in a lack of visibility for drivers. It was the first victory of the season for the No. 10 SunTrust Corvette Daytona Prototype (DP) and 19th career DP win.
Scenes from Long Beach - Saturday
by Bob Heathcote
The weather returned to a normal day in Long Beach California - sunny and nice as the IZOD IndyCars qualified, the Indy Lights drivers qualified, ALMS ran their Saturday feature event and the Toyota Pro/Celebrity drivers bumped and banged their way around the 1.97-mile street circuit. Our Bob Heathcote captured these photographs.
Long Beach Repeat for Muscle Milk Pickett Racing
Graf, Luhr win again; Corvette takes landmark GT victory
Fuel strategy won out at Long Beach on Saturday with Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr winning the Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series at Long Beach for the second straight season. The Muscle Milk Honda Performance Development ARX-03a stopped twice during the race's sole caution period and ran the final 56 minutes without another stop to win over Dyson Racing. The Graf-Luhr pairing became the first to repeat at Long Beach in the ALMS' six visits.
Rain Silences ALMS' Roar By The Shore
Qualifying washed out, grid set by championship points
An unusual rainy day in southern California washed away qualifying for the Tequila Patr¢n American Le Mans Series at Long Beach. That left Dyson Racing's Mazda-powered Lola coupe on pole position for Saturday's second round of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron. As a result of the inclement weather, championship points set the grid for the Saturday's two-hour race on the 1.968-mile Long Beach street circuit. Thanks to their P1 victory in the season-opener at Sebring, Guy Smith and Chris Dyson will start on the inside of the front row.
Scenes from Long Beach - Friday
by Bob Heathcote
On an unusual (for southern California) wet, windy and cold day in Long Beach California the IZOD IndyCars practiced, the Indy Lights drivers practiced, ALMS practiced and qualified and the Toyota Pro/Celebrity drivers practiced but their qualifying was rained out. Our Bob Heathcote captured these photographs.
Scenes from Barber Friday and Saturday
by Scott Morris, Firestone and IndyCar
The IndyCar series qualified at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL and Helio Castroneves won the pole. Grand-Am held their feature race Saturday afternoon and the pole winning No. 90 Corvette DP went on to win. The weekend to date has been hindered by rain and fog, thereby limiting running time on the track.
Westbrook, Garcia Score First Win For Corvette DP
Grand-Am at Barber
After more than seven years of trying, everything came together for Spirit of Daytona in a near-perfect day at Barber Motorsports Park. Richard Westbrook and Antonio Garcia combined to lead all but 19 of the 103 laps to win the Porsche 250 in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP - the first Daytona Prototype victory for the team and the first victory for the new car in GRAND-AM Rolex Series competition.
Westbrook, Edwards Prevail In Porsche 250 Qualifying
Richard Westbrook saved his best for last in qualifying for Saturday's Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park, capturing his first career GRAND-AM Rolex Series pole on his final lap of qualifying on Friday morning. Westbrook's last lap at 101.695 mph (1:21.420) in the No. 90 Spirit of Daytona Racing Corvette DP supplanted Jon Fogarty and brought the new Corvette DP program its first Rolex Series pole position.
12 Hours of Sebring Postscript
FIA WEC opener showed close competition in all classes
The 60th anniversary of the 12 Hours of Sebring, the opening round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, was an event full of tension all the way to the finish. After covering 325 laps at Sebring International Raceway, it was the Audi team of Tom Kristensen (DEN), Allan McNish (GBR) and Rinaldo Capello (ITA) that repeated their 2006 and 2009 victories.
McNish, Kristensen and Capello win 12 Hours of Sebring
Audi returned to victory at Sebring International Raceway for the first time since 2009 on Saturday with a convincing victory in the 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida. Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish completed 301 laps in their Audi R18 to win by four laps in the opening round of the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron and the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Audi, Muscle Milk Lead Sebring Qualifying
Grid set for 2012 opener for ALMS, FIA WEC
Andre Lotterer led an Audi sweep of the top three positions in qualifying Friday for the 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida. It was an expected result for the trio of diesel-powered prototypes, and Lotterer led the German factory squad with a lap of 1:45.820 (125.874 mph) in the Audi R18 he will drive with Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler. The three seek to add a Sebring victory to their win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans last year.
Kristensen Sets Pace During Hectic Night Practice
12 Hours of Sebring
Tom Kristensen's Audi R18 was the only one of the three diesel-powered factory prototypes to emerge unscathed from a hectic nighttime practice session Thursday at Sebring International Raceway. The Dane made his fortunes count with the fastest time on the evening – a 1:47.049 in the Audi R18 that he will share with Allan McNish and Dindo Capello in Saturday's 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida.
Excitement building for 60th 12 Hours of Sebring
Over 60 teams made their way to Sebring International Raceway for this coming Saturday's 60th edition of the 12-hour race, also the official opening round of this year's FIA World Endurance Championship. "We are honored to be the opening round of the new WEC," said Sebring International Raceway President and General Manager Tres Stephenson.
Kristensen, Audi Stay Strong in Sebring Testing
Audi Sport Team Joest ended Tuesday at Sebring International Raceway the same way it closed Monday – with the top three times in testing for America's greatest sports car race. The Audi R18 of Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish set the best time of the day at 1:48.138 (124.508 mph) as all of the German factory prototypes were under the 1:49 mark.
McNish, Audi Start Strong in Sebring Testing
Audi Sport Team Joest's Allan McNish set the best time of Monday's opening test for the 60th Anniversary Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. The three-time winner of America's greatest sports car race set a time of 1:47.187 (125.612 mph) in the Audi R18 he will share with Dindo Capello and Tom Kristensen. McNish led a trio of Audis at the top of the time sheets Monday afternoon.
Gianpiero Moretti - Witness to the times, Part 4 of 4
by Paolo D'Alessio and edited by Louis Galanos
On the eve of MOMO's return to a full time racing program in the American Le Mans Series with MOMO NGT Motorsport, MOMO is pleased to bring you the last installment of the original story of its founder's career. Gianpiero Moretti, the man who helped define the term "gentleman racer," passed away in January at the age of 71, in Milan, Italy.
12 Hours of Sebring is next weekend
ALMS' premier event draws a big field
On the 17th of March, Sebring International Raceway in Florida will host the opening round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, welcoming a large field of over 60 cars entered for the 60th anniversary of the prestigious 12 Hours of Sebring. 2012 marks a very memorable motorsport year as all three major sports car endurance races are celebrating an anniversary: earlier this year, the Rolex 24 At Daytona held its 50th anniversary and later, in June, Les 24 Heures du Mans will have its 80th running.
Gianpiero Moretti - Witness to the times, Part 3 of 4
by Paolo D'Alessio and edited by Louis Galanos
We are only less than a few days away from the return of MOMO to a full time racing program in the American Le Mans Series with MOMO NGT Motorsport. MOMO is pleased to share the original story of the career of its founder, Gianpiero Moretti. Gianpiero Moretti, the man who helped define the term "gentleman racer," passed away in January at the age of 71, in Milan, Italy.
Gianpiero Moretti - Witness to the times, Part 2 of 4
by Paolo D'Alessio and edited by Louis Galanos
With less than a couple of weeks to go before the return of MOMO to a full time racing program in the American Le Mans Series with MOMO NGT Motorsport, MOMO is pleased to bring you the original story of the career of its founder, Gianpiero Moretti. Gianpiero Moretti, the man who helped define the term "gentleman racer," passed away in January at the age of 71, in Milan, Italy. Part 2 of this original story was written by Paolo D'Alessio and edited by Louis Galanos in Sports Car Digest on 20 May 2011 and is re-published here with his kind permission.
Gianpiero Moretti - Witness to the times, Part 1 of 4
by Paolo D'Alessio and edited by Louis Galanos
Earlier this year, Gianpiero Moretti, the man who founded MOMO and helped define the term "gentleman racer," passed away at the age of 71 in Milan, Italy. Thanks to Paolo D'Alessio, here is Part 1 of the true original story of his racing career.
Allmendinger outduels Dalziel to win Rolex 24
by Mark J. Cipolloni
In a battle of ex-Champ Car drivers where the best drivers in American racing were produced, A.J. Allmendinger outdueled polesitter Ryan Dalziel to win the 50th running of the Rolex 24 classic at Daytona International Raceway Sunday afternoon. Years ago Michael Shank (who himself used to drive in Champ Car Atlantics and was a team owner) started a team and struggled for years making it into a winner and today he won the biggest Grand-Am race of the year.
Rolex 24 18 Hours: Ganassi and Shank teams battle
After 18 hours of racing in the 50th Anniversary Rolex 24 At Daytona, the stage was set for a final, six-hour battle between the No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford/Riley from Michael Shank Racing and the No. 01 TELMEX/Target BMW/Riley from Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates for overall honors. Driving the No. 60, ex-Champ Car driver Justin Wilson held a 36.586-second lead over ex-Champ Car Atlantics driver Joey Hand in the No. 01 with 18 hours and 569 laps in the books.
Rolex 24: Polesitting Teams Lead At Halfway Mark
Halfway through the 50th Anniversary Rolex 24 At Daytona things were still trending in the direction of it being anybody's race. At the 12-hour mark, nine different leaders had paced the field with the defending race and series champion No. 01 TELMEX BMW/Riley Daytona Prototype of Chip Ganassi Racing and its sister No. 02 Target BMW/Riley dominating large portions. Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Graham Rahal and Joey Hand piloted the No. 01 while Juan Pablo Montoya, Scott Dixon, Jamie McMurray and Dario Franchitti wheeled the No. 02. However, at 2:44 a.m. the No. 02 with Dixon at the wheel went to the garage to repair a broken shifter.
50th Rolex Parade of Champions
Historic Rolex 24 Grand-Am cars on the streets of Daytona
While much-needed rain showered Daytona International Speedway this morning, it in no way dampened the excitement of spectators and competitors who have assembled for this weekend's golden anniversary of the Rolex 24 At Daytona. With 2012 marking the 50th running of the twice-around-the-clock challenge, fans are not the only ones to have turned out in force to be part of this historic event.
Dalziel puts Ford on pole for 50th Rolex 24
Spoils Chevy Corvette DP Grand-Am debut
While already a Rolex 24 At Daytona champion, having won in 2010, today Ryan Dalziel (Orlando, Fla.), earned his first career pole in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series while driving the #8 Starworks Motorsports Ford Riley. The 2011 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series DP Champion, Dalziel, who is a native of Scotland, was not surprised with the DP qualifying position – even though he was at the wheel of the last new Riley to be delivered, which was run for the first time during the second practice today.
Daytona 24H Q & A with A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti
Two of racing's most celebrated names -- A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti -- said some of their most memorable moments of their careers happened in the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The race will commemorate its 50th anniversary this week. Several unique activities are planned to celebrate the history of the endurance race, recognized as one of the world's most significant motorsports events.
50th Rolex 24 Coming Up
In less than a week, an event 50 years in the making is set to take place as the motorsports world celebrates the golden anniversary of one of the most famous endurance races in the world – the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The historic endurance race is set for January 28-29, 2012, at Daytona International Speedway, and the excitement surrounding the race has never been greater. From a display of championship winning cars, to the participation of famous drivers, along with new GT entries from Ferrari and Audi and five new Corvette DPs, all indications are that the Rolex 24 At Daytona will deliver a high octane start as the season opener to the 2012 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
Rolex 24: SunTrust team tops Day 3
Two final on-track sessions at Daytona International Speedway closed out the third and final day of the Roar Before the Rolex 24 – the last test event leading into the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 28-29, 2012. Max Angelelli ran the fastest lap of the three-day session on Sunday morning with a lap of 126.712 mph in the No. 10 SunTrust Corvette DP.
Rolex 24: Action Express Tops Day 2
Day two of the Roar Before the Rolex 24 – the last test event leading into the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 At Daytona on January 28-29, 2012 – saw a larger than typical turnout of fans today at Daytona International Speedway. The chance to see motorsports stars and celebrity drivers, along with the exciting new GT cars, including the purpose-built Ferrari 458 Italia Grand-Am along with Audi's R8, combined with perfect weather to bring out the crowds which included lots of youngsters.


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Fifty years ago, the Chesapeake Bay was one of the most beautiful and productive estuaries on our planet. Water quality was good and extensive grass beds were an integral part of the Bay's ecology.
The aquatic vegetation provided habitat and sanctuary for many species of marine life and was a primary source of food for wintering waterfowl. The vegetation helped to stabilize the Bay's bottom, improve water clarity and increase the estuaries' dissolved oxygen. Waterfowl, finfish, shellfish, and the blue crab were all relatively abundant throughout the Chesapeake Bay at the middle of the 20th century.
During the past half century, most of the aquatic vegetation disappeared. The waterfowl that fed primarily on the Bay's underwater grasses and couldn't adapt to feeding on the land now fly over the Chesapeake Bay to winter farther south.
The Bay's common loon population has been reduced approximately 90 percent after almost a decade of poor recruitment of juvenile Atlantic menhaden, its primary food source.
Declining water quality has stressed the Bay's living resources and fish kills are becoming more frequent throughout most of the Chesapeake.
There are warning signs that indicate the bottom of the food chain has been affected by pollution. The number of ecologically less desirable species of phytoplankton, such as bluegreen algae and potentially toxic dinoflagellates (e.g. pfiesteria), is increasing. Bacteria levels in the Bay are among the highest known to exist in any estuarine environment.
The numbers of harmful algae blooms that are potentially harmful to humans, and have been proven lethal to aquatic life, are increasing in the Bay. These blooms also lower the Bay's dissolved oxygen and block sunlight, which prevents underwater grasses from growing.
Zooplankton, the food base for many fish species, are declining throughout the mainstem of the Bay during the summer growing season, and similar declines have been documented during early spring and fall in the lower Bay.
In contrast, the comb jellyfish, an important predator of zooplankton and fish larvae, has dramatically increased in the mid-Bay. The Chesapeake's commercial fisheries are but a remnant of what they were 50 years ago; even the forage fish are at historically low densities.
Data collected from 1985 to 1999 by the Chesapeake Bay Program indicate that blue crab larvae entering the Chesapeake Bay from our coastal waters have declined approximately 70 percent at the mouth of the Bay. Disease has decimated shellfish populations, and now one of the Bay's top predators, the striped bass, has been diagnosed with a disease that may significantly reduce its population.
Our elected officials and government agencies have failed to adequately regulate pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay.
The coal-fired power plants located in the Tennessee and Ohio valleys raised their smokestacks during the 1960s, sending their pollution eastward to the Chesapeake Bay region.
Atmospheric pollution from ammonia emissions related to agriculture, power plants closer to the Bay, auto emissions and other fossil fuel combustion combined to create a major insult to the integrity of the Chesapeake's fragile ecosystem.
Extensive land development along the Susquehanna River and other areas of the Bay's watershed has resulted in increased loads of nutrients and sedimentation flowing into the Bay.
Pollution entering the Bay from multiple sources, including agricultural runoff and wastewater treatment plants, cause health officials to close thousands of acres of shellfish beds.
The poultry industry on the Delmarva Peninsula has grown and become an additional threat to the Bay's water quality because of the excessive amount of manure that is being inadequately stored and spread on the land. An outbreak of pfiesteria in 1997 was attributed to the nutrient enrichment of several tributaries that enter the Bay from Maryland's Eastern Shore, a region of the Bay's watershed where the spreading of poultry manure on farmland has been the accepted practice for years.
The Chesapeake Bay was placed on the EPA's list of "impaired' waters in 1999. The EPA said it could require a mandatory cleanup plan known as Total Maximum Daily Load unless the Bay attains water quality standards that support the needs of its marine life by 2010.
The year 2000 left no doubt that the Chesapeake Bay was an ecological disaster: Water quality was so poor in some major tributaries that record-low dissolved-oxygen levels were recorded during the summer, after one of the most widespread mahogany tides ever observed in the Bay. There were numerous documented fish kills throughout many parts of the Bay.
Recent striped bass health studies conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources indicate that approximately 50 percent of the Bay's striped bass population is suffering from a slow-growing progressive disease linked to mycobacteria, which causes an infection that attacks the internal organs of the fish.
The 2000 blue crab harvest was the lowest on record, forcing many watermen out of business by the middle of the summer.
The Chesapeake Bay Program was created in 1983 to organize a cleanup effort in the Bay; it consists of a partnership among Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the District of Columbia, the EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Commission.
The 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement stated that its top priority was to provide for the restoration and protection of the Bay's living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships.
But no ecological management plan has been developed by the Bay Program, nor has a comprehensive ecological assessment for the state of the Bay has been conducted.
An annual ecological assessment should be made available to the public in accordance with the framework established in an ecological management plan. The plan should include biological indicators, such as the Bay's fisheries, submerged aquatic vegetation and forage fish, which could be used to assess whether the Bay is responding to the many initiatives developed by the Bay Program to improve water quality.
An ecological management plan for the Chesapeake needs to encompass adjacent Atlantic coastal waters, because our coastal waters are critical habitat during the early life stages for some of the Bay's important fisheries.
Because the Bay Program does not monitor coastal water conditions, it is uncertain whether good year classes of several species, including Atlantic menhaden, spot and blue crab, are determined offshore before they enter the Chesapeake Bay.
This creates a dilemma for scientists and fishery managers who are struggling to develop management plans for these declining fisheries.
The Bay Program has adopted individual fishery management plans for some of the Bay's fisheries; unfortunately, this has not resulted in successful fisheries management, nor has it focused on maintaining an ecological balance in the Bay.
The 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement stated that fishery management plans are needed for the Bay's most valuable ecological and commercial species, yet no fishery management plan has been developed for Atlantic menhaden. The Atlantic menhaden is the most abundant species of finfish commercially harvested in the Chesapeake Bay, and their harvest supports one of the largest commercial fisheries in the United States. Atlantic menhaden are also an important filter feeder, transferring enormous amounts of nutrients into forage biomass, and at the same time improving water quality with the potential to consume up to 25 percent of the Bay's nitrogen.
The Bay Program needs to work with Virginia and Maryland officials to develop an Atlantic Menhaden Fishery Management Plan for the Chesapeake Bay because of the importance this resource to the ecology and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission was established in 1942 and is composed of 15 coastal states from Maine to Florida with the main objective of promoting, protecting and conserving shared marine fishery resources along the Atlantic coast.
Fishery Management Plans are routinely approved by the ASMFC without considering the health of individual species, or their effect on entire ecosystems along the Atlantic coast. For example, the ASMFC didn't consider the ecological impact of setting a harvest quota or the raising of the minimum size limit could have on the health of the Bay's striped bass population.
The ASMFC doesn't attempt to coordinate their fishery management plans for the Atlantic coast with plans adopted by the Bay Program for the Chesapeake Bay.
This failure in fisheries management is exemplified by the current unhealthy condition of the Bay's striped bass population and how it has been adversely affected by the Bay's declining forage base. A report, "A Bioenergetics Approach For Determining The Effect Of Increased Striped Bass Population On Its Prey And Health In The Chesapeake Bay," can be found on the Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation's web site at www.chesbay.org.
Recently, the ASMFC amended their Atlantic Menhaden Fishery Management Plan, but they did not address the plan's ecological objectives, one of their primary concerns over allocation of the stock. The ASMFC should be required to review a Chesapeake Bay ecological management plan drafted by the Bay Program before developing new or amending existing plans that could have a negative impact on the ecology of the nation's largest estuary.
A successful effort to reduce pollution entering the Bay and surrounding ocean waters can help create favorable environmental conditions for the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
And, fishery managers need more education in the field of ecology, so they can manage our fisheries based on science not politics.
The public would be more interested and willing to support the restoration effort by the Chesapeake Bay Program if we had an ecological management plan that focused on the management of the Bay's living resources.


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Brendan Rodgers takes his men to Villa Park as Liverpool take on an in-form Aston Villa in the Premier League on Saturday. In the corresponding fixture last season, the Reds emerged as 2-1 victors.
Where to Watch Live
Kick-off is set for 5:30pm BST. Live coverage is on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 1 HD. Catch the highlights of the game on Match of the Day on BBC One and BBC One HD at 10:20pm BST.
Villa come into this game after an unlucky 2-1 defeat against Chelsea. An Antonio Luna own goal and a Branislav Ivanovic's header sealed victory for the Blues. Christian Benteke scored Villa's goal.
Minutes before scoring the winner, Ivanovic was seen elbowing Benteke, an offence that could have earned him a red card. Paul Lambert claimed his side did not deserve to lose. The defeat comes after the hosts started the league campaign on a brighter note, defeating Arsenal 3-1 at the Emirates.
The Belgian striker is currently the league's top scorer with three goals. He scored in both away and home fixtures against the Reds last season and Villa will be hoping he can continue that run.
Meanwhile, Brendan Rodgers' men also started the season with a win - a narrow victory over Stoke City in the season opener. Daniel Sturridge scored the only goal of the game before the Reds' stopper Simon Mignolet made a brilliant save from a spot kick in the final moments of the match.
Liverpool have been active in the transfer market this summer and have already added five players to their squad. The Northern Irishman has confirmed his side are still active as the Reds look to bring in further additions.
What Managers Say
Paul Lambert: "People talk about 'player-power' but sometimes you have to draw a line under it and say: "No, you can't go." Sometimes the reaction from them will be: "I don't want to be here." Okay, that's coming from me, an ex-player, so "pot and kettle" maybe springs to mind, but Brendan handled the [Luis Suarez] situation great."
Brendan Rodgers: "They are very much a counter-attacking team. They set up to defend half a pitch and then they break out with pace - Benteke and (Gabriel) Agbonlahor in particular. There is no doubt Benteke is the real reference point for the team. The ball goes up to him and he holds it up well. He is a big powerful boy."
Team Form
Aston Villa
- Last Five (all competitions, most recent first): L W W W L
- Last Result: Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa
- Last Five (all competitions, most recent first): W L W W W
- Last Result: Liverpool 1-0 Stoke City
Team News
Aston Villa
- Injured: Yacouba Sylla (knee), Charles N'Zogbia (Achilles)
- Doubtful: N/A
- Suspended: N/A
Probable LineUp: Guzan; Lowton, Vlaar, Clark, Luna; El Ahmadi, Delph, Westwood, Weimann, Agbonlahor; Benteke
- Injured: Sebastian Coates (knee)
- Doubtful: Martin Skrtel (knee)
- Suspended: Luis Suarez
Probable Lineup: Mignolet; Johnson, Toure, Agger, Enrique; Lucas, Gerrad; Coutinho, Henderson, Aspas; Sturridge
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Date: Jan 24, 2020 | Time: 8:00 pm
Kirkwood Theatre Guild - Other Desert Cities - at the Robert G. Reim Theatre. Performance Dates: January 17th-19th & 23rd-26th of 2020. See website for more details and to purchase tickets.
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The Robert G. Reim Theatre is located in the Kirkwood Community Center. It is a 380 seat performance theater that is the mainstage for the STAGES Performing Arts Academy and for the Kirkwood Theatre Guild, as well as for other performances and events. It is available for private or corporate meetings.
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Crawfish in the Capital City? Capital City Crawfish
Have you noticed? We haven't had any cold wintry weather down in south Louisiana this year and that means the crawfish are moving. That's right the crawfish are moving right into Farmer Boudreaux's crawfish traps and Capital City Crawfish is serving them up hot and spicy just the way you like them.
Bill and Will Boutté are constantly searching for the best sources for the biggest crawfish and other fresh seafood and boiling them up at their Capitol Heights Shopping Center location at Government Street and Community College Drive (next door to Superior Grill). They've been bringing in crawfish and other delicious Cajun and Creole delicacies for three years running.
It's a fact: crawfish like warm water and as long as the weather stays sunny and mild, the crawfish will keep coming.
Right now Capital City Crawfish has boiled crawfish for $4.99 a pound. If you think your boiled crawfish recipe is the best and want to cook your own, the Bouttés are selling live crawfish for $3.99 a pound. Tell Bill and Will you read about Capital City Crawfish on Crawfish Report and the boys will throw a little lagniappe your way. Come see us at Capital City Crawfish. The CRAWFISH HOTLINE is 225-636-2386.


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We ALL have our moments behind the wheel when traffic is awful (which is almost ALL THE TIME anymore) or when you get behind some goofball merging on the freeway going 35 mph or maybe some that cuts you off in traffic…you get the idea. Well according to this new study, road rage is WORSE for the ladies.
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We remember Hannah Weiss, who interned with Eating Matters and who we lost suddenly and tragically on December 31 st of 2017. At such a young age, she was poised to making meaningful and lasting changes to our food system that we desperately need and deeply committed to doing so. She was a joy to know and is sorely missed.
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After I returned from Canada late last year, I house sat in a small town in Queensland. There, I was reminded of everything I love about Australia which I had previously overlooked or took for granted.
An infusion of sea salt and chlorine envelops the bakery as wet backsides wobble in to join the queue . They've been to the packed beach nearby or chose the backyard pool instead, either way the vibrant colours of new swimwear will start their takeover of the streets in this small town near the coast; Its Christmas in Australia. "'Goin ?" "Yeah good mate…You?" "Yeah mate..have a good one" "Mate" Seasonal greetings in a land where each day formalities are shed with the climbing temperatures, words stripped from conversations like layers of clothing or the bark of a tree. Behaviours are shortened too, Local drivers summon the index finger salute instead of the full hand wave when passing on the road, carelessly parking over the lines and leaving the car running to keep the aircon on while nipping in to the shops. The main street of the small Australian town is elegantly lined with Royal Poinciana trees which were planted by the town elders for their filigree lime green leaves and soft orange flowers. From residents' gardens along the side streets where shoppers park their cars, the potent fragrance of old roses and boronia merges with the tang of ripe mangoes and yellow peaches from the fruit shop on the corner. Its a sensual cornucopia in a land and at a time when Christmas marks the seasonal entry into high summer. Located at the end of Main Street is the statue of a lone soldier painted in fungus resistant white. Dressed in the uniform of the ANZAC forces, the statue marks the war dead of the small town, a concrete tradition of remembrance started after the First World War which decimated the future of all small towns throughout Australia. In the midst of an iridescent parade of shorts, swimmers and tees, "We are in death. Lest we forget." Within cooee of the soldier stands the RSL Club. Positioned at the river's edge it provides members and visitors-most of whom have not returned from an overseas war-with views of the ferries, houseboats and pleasure craft, while they watch the cricket or dine at the restaurant, occasionally catching that foetid mangrove smell on the breeze. The chaos of informal dress stops at the club door where patrons are reminded that certain standards must be upheld. Remaining shirtless and wearing thongs will produce a stern rebuff from the club staff with an offer of a loan of acceptable clothing for those who apologise and seek to comply. All others are promptly dismissed. This building is embraced by the shade of the powerful Morton Bay Fig tree, a multi purpose and ancient fellow which continues to provide fruit, now eaten only by bats after sunset, deep shade in its glossy leaves and the capacity to strangulate any obstacle, sentient or not, in its path. Its protective coolness is valued by many retail sales workers at lunchtime during the post Christmas sales, and over-imbibers from the club taking shelter from the relentless sun. Occasionally, children will play in its roots and the more adventurous climb its branches, preferring this natural adventure playground to the Council constructed one nearby. Once it was a meeting place for local indigenous women who picked the ripe figs for food and medicine and used its bark to weave dilly bags for themselves and fishing nets for their men. A relative of the Banyan and Bodhi tree, its sacredness seems to have evaporated in the modern day Australian climate. A tall man in a large brimmed hat stands beneath the tree. "When I was a young lad,before that building was there, I used to come down here on the hot afternoons-we had some stinkers then you know- and hoped that I could grow one of them from the seed so that when I married my kids could play in its branches and roots. Best shade ever in the best spot; you caught the river breeze see. I' d just met Doris you see and knew she was the girl for me-was going to propose when that war broke out…had to do it quick like. Reception was at mum's, a knees up alright then shipped out next morning. Five years later I met m' son. " Reg will tell anyone that takes the time to sit under the tree;shop girls and local teenagers know the full story. Most are kind, give him the time to get to the final bit about his sons dying in the horror car smash and Doris' cancer ten years ago now. Christmas delivers a high tide of tourists, both interstate and overseas, bringing fresh eyes, holiday bonuses and insistence on having fun. The colours of the town change yet again as brazen hot pink tank tops meet city linens and leathers of neutral and natural hue. The locals don't mind the influx, they're proud of their place and besides there are not as many incomers as on the coast. The town, though busy, resists being inundated and Main Street retailers-there are only four shops off the shopping strip-welcome the opportunities for increased transactions. Surprisingly during this time,older townsfolk still keep up their weekly ritual visit to their favourite café after doing the groceries. The local shoe store advertises its sale"Up to 50% off" but the locals aren't taken in, they know the owner's Scrooge-like ways and have seen the same yellow and orange sandals on sale for the past three years. Still,the tourists are pleased and never question the box labels for the "Italian " footwear. Holiday-brown feet leave the shop, walking along Main Street getting acquainted with their new coverings and feeling satisfied with their new look, a souvenir that may last as long as their memory of this time. For those with less to spend after the Christmas binge, recycle shops have their own sales. Entrepreneurial volunteers organise their racks according to iconic surfing brands,Billabong, Ripcurl,Quicksilver, Mambo; plenty to choose from for the canny shopper. The tropical climate used to ensure a daily storm or if not certainly a downpour. Some of the older locals could predict the time through the swelling of the finger joints or other means. When its twenty eight degrees at seven thirty in the morning, the expected change is an unspoken promise of the season. But the climate, like the town, keeps changing and some days remain dry. The persistent cough of frogs as they come alive after the rain is absent and even the base note of summer, that cicada tinsel chorus, seems lackadaisical and drowsy. The rain eventually comes and the storm season starts to brew again, but the locals will tell you its different;wilder, unpredictable and strangely more vicious. Three tourists are hit by lighting on a crowded tourist beach. "Crikey, hear this June? They had never seen anything like it! White sheets out on the ocean, next minute, two of them are thrown into the air, found metres away…bloke in the middle was burnt to the ground. A goner, the others in hospital. Reminds me of…" Laurie and June seated at the outdoor café, generously share memories of past storm traumas with their waitress and tourists nearby. The pattern of life in the small town by river and sea is changing somehow, locals can't put their finger on it but its there. Being only ninety minutes from the state capital means the town has been spared a sacrificial exodus of the young people- which towns to their west know well. Of course the youngsters move away but for a short time and regularly return.When they come back families learn a new language, less of the "mate" and more of the "guys" the universal franca lingua of youth. Still, they soon drop their city ways after a bit. No, its something else. Always busy, the town on the river enjoys continuous prosperity. Businesses come and go over the years, but most remain and some have a continuous commercial lineage back to the 1860's. Only Reg and Laurie and June and Miss Colleen and some of the other long term residents know that the life of the town is changing, but can't quite tell how or why. Yet should they be asked and if they ever cared to say, it would be something like the colours are changing.
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CurrencyTimes : Banking is a sphere of heightened responsibility, that is why each new development designed for asset's managing should get a registration card or license.
The first thing that needs to be mentioned is that getting license is rather difficult and long process, due to the extent and complexity of banking sphere. Each new company, that wants to get a registration should be ready for a rigorous audit, the results of which would confirm it's efficiency as well as compliance with all declared characteristics.
The World Bit Bank project main goal is creation a legal field for cryptocurrency managing. That is why getting a license – was primary and highly important task.
Now, the WBB team is proud and happy to announce that they've got two licenses.
- The first one allows «Providing a virtual currency wallet service»,
- The second one is for «Providing services of exchanging a virtual currency against a fiat currency».
The World Bit Bank project will create a group of cryptocurrency banks by acquiring existing banks in different countries (USA, Canada, Brazil, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Turkey, India, Japan, Australia) to service cryptocurrency customers.
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Loveland Housing Authority (LHA) Quality of Life (QOL) Team strives to enhance the quality of life for LHA residents by providing activities and events that develop pride and a sense of community.
The QOL Team, consisting of LHA employees, sponsors several annual events held throughout the year. Popular among the families are the Summer and Winter break Family Swim Parties. On November 11, veteran residents are recognized for their service at the annual Veteran's Day Commemorative Ceremony. Each summer the Maintenance Department coordinates a large item Trash Pick-up Day for residents convenience.
Resident gardeners delight in competing in the "Prettiest" Flowers Contest for gift awards. Outstanding residents are recognized by being awarded The LHA Tenant Appreciation trophy, along with other gifts.
Another QOL event consists of the Scholarship Program which provides residents with the opportunity to apply for an educational scholarship.
To support each Community Resident Council, QOL Team members assist to organize Councils and regularly attend Resident Council meetings. Members pitch in to flip burgers and pass out sodas for the exceedingly popular Summer BBQ's held at many of the properties.


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Language Bindings for the C++ API: Python partially working
I've just uploaded some files onto http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/perl-haiku-kits/files They are minimal implementations (window with a button) for Perl and Python. The Perl one works fine, but I'm still having issues with the Python.
Here are some of the issues with Python:
Apparently by convention packages start with a lower-case letter. The bindings are currently in the 'Haiku' package. This would be a trivial change; it depends on how important it is to Haiku's Python user community.
PyModules and PyTypes (= classes) cannot share the same name, as far as I can tell. Thus, in order to have constants and plain functions available from (for example) Haiku.Application, the Application PyType must be in a separate namespace, currently Haiku.Application.Application. Depending on what the community wants, I could move all the constants and plain functions into the ApplicationKit PyModule, and have the PyType be Haiku.Application.
The really big problem, however, is passing objects. BWindow::MessageReceived gets a BMessage object. In order to pass this to Python, I need to have a PyType. But the PyType in question is defined in the ApplicationKit, which is a separate package. So I don't have access to it.
In Perl, this was not a problem; I simply used a string containing the Perl class name, and as long as the user had loaded the relevant package, Perl took care of it. But Python wants the PyType, not just a string. I'm still looking into a way to get around this problem. I'm trying to do it by eval'ing some Python code, but so far I have been unsuccessful. If I can't do it any other way, I could export the PyType from the other package, but then Python would be loading the .so and I would be loading it a second time, in addition to the extra overhead of exporting and importing. It just seems like a waste of resources.
In any case, the Python test script displays the window, and calls event hooks on the Application object (ArgvReceived, ReadyToRun, QuitRequested), but when you click the button and it tries to call the Window's MessageReceived event, it dies.
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Lessons cover all aspects of keyboard playing, including technique, awareness and appreciation of different musical styles and genres, musical theory and reading music.
Where possible, students are given the opportunity to play along with other musicians in a band situation. This really adds an extra dimension to the lessons, it's great fun, pupils find it motivating and inspiring, and it often helps things to "click into place".


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The secret to living – is giving.
Tony Robbins has dedicated his life to giving to others. From initiating programs in over 1,500 schools and providing fresh water to 100,000 people a day in India to ensuring nuns in San Francisco have a place to operate their soup kitchen, Tony's actions demonstrate his belief that when we give more, we become more.
You've heard Tony talk about two of his recent philanthropic projects: Feeding America and Operation Underground Railroad. If you're interested in joining him on his mission to end hunger and stop child trafficking, donate to these organizations via the links below. Take action today!
Join Tony in his 100 Million More Meals Challenge with Feeding America. In just two years, Tony has helped provide a quarter of a billion meals to hungry American families. His goal? Feeding ONE BILLION in eight years.
Tony first heard about this organization through an eye-opening experience he had at a recent Business Mastery event – see the story here. Ever since that moment, he has been dedicated to O.U.R.'s mission to eradicate child trafficking.


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Located in the center of Langhorne Borough in Bucks County, PA, Saint James was established in the 1880's at a time when Langhorne was still referred to as Eden. Back then, 10 families gathered together to worship in the home of the Reverend W.G.P. Brinckloe. By 1888, the Diocesean Journal referred to this mission as "the Chapel of Saint James Parish, Bristol."
We've come a long way since the 19th century! Today, the Saint James parish actively reaches out to the wider community through our housing program, support of food programs, and many other initiatives. Even our buildings are used by several community self-help groups.


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Siamese Twins are a darkly-shaded Massachusetts dream pop trio who bring to mind early 4AD and Slumberland. "We Fall Apart" is a standout from their self-released demo cassette, living up to its very twee title with a mix of noisy, Black Tamb crunch and occasional bits of breathing guitar jangle, all pushed along by a quick beat and melodic 2-D vocal. It's by-the-books indie pop that's too well excuted to not garner repeat plays. (via I Could Die Tomorrow)