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Yield-seeking investors shouldn't forget to check the charts.
By Tom Aspray, MoneyShow.com
For most of 2011, with Treasury yields so low, the search has been on for safe, sizable dividends. This explains why the SPDR Diamond Trust (DIA), which tracks the Dow Industrials, is up 4.3%, while the Spyder Trust (SPY) is down 1.2%.
Of course, dividends are not included in these performance numbers, but the demand for large-cap, high-yielding Dow stocks has been strong. In many cases, those who went for the highest yields this year have fallen further behind because many high-yield stocks have dropped sharply in price.
Many dividend seekers don't use technical analysis as part of their decision-making process, but they should. If investors had looked at major trend lines and levels of support, as discussed in "How to Get Started in Chart Reading," they might have stayed out of these three high-yield disasters.
Chart Analysis: Frontier Communications Corp. (FTR) is a $4.9 billion telecommunications company that currently yields 14.6%. At the end of 2010, FTR closed at $9.66. With a dividend of $1.00, it was yielding 10.3% -- a figure that on the surface looked attractive. However, the stock is down 45.5% for the year.
- The weekly chart shows a very long-term negative pattern, as the rebound in 2008 just tested the former support (now resistance), line a, before turning lower
- The long-term downtrend, line b, is clearly intact, and the two-year continuation pattern (lines 1 and 2) was just an interruption in the downtrend
- The relative performance, or RS analysis, broke key support in 2007, line c, and has formed lower lows (line d) ever since
- The stronger relative performance of the on-balance volume (OBV) likely reflects the high-yield buying frenzy this year
- First resistance now stands at $5.60 to $5.80 with further resistance at $6.40
Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (IVR) is a $1.7 billion mortgage investment company that currently yields 17.9%. It is down over 35% so far in 2011 and the weekly chart shows a short-term flag formation (dashed lines). This is likely a continuation pattern, which suggests a further decline.
- The Fibonacci targets from the flag formation are at $11.80 with further targets in the $9.60 to $10 area (see "Using Fibonacci to Trade Flag Patterns")
- The weekly chart shows that IVR completed its top formation in June when it closed below major support at line e
- The RS line has been making lower lows since 2009 (line f), indicating it was underperforming the S&P 500. It dropped sharply this fall
- The weekly OBV dropped sharply in March and shows a well-established downtrend, line g
- Short-term resistance now stands at $16.20 with key support at $14.20
Nokia Corporation (NOK) is a well-known, $18.5 billion communications company that currently yields 9.7%. The stock has also had a miserable ride, down 49.9% for the year.
- NOK has really never recovered from the break of key support during the summer of 2008
- The RS analysis topped out in April 2008 and then broke long-term support, line b, in November 2008
- Since 2008, the RS analysis has been in a well-established downtrend, line c, and shows no signs yet of bottoming
- The OBV broke support, line d, ahead of prices, line 1, and has been forming lower highs over the past few years
- NOK formed a bear flag formation in 2009 and 2010, which set the stage for a further decline
- There is initial resistance at $5.40 to $6.00
What It Means: Even basic fundamental investors simply must employ some elements of technical analysis in their investing decisions.
Those who don't use technical analysis often face the difficult decision of whether or not to sell because while they bought the stock for yields of over 10%, the stock price has since dropped much more than the yield has paid them.
How to Profit: Clearly, I have no recommendations to buy any of these three stocks, but those who own any of them should be certain to pick a level in advance where they will cut their losses.
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Catherine's career took off when illness befell both the lead actress and understudy in the Drury Lane production of 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal. Cast in the leading role of Peggy Sawyer, Catherine wowed the audience - including one of the show's producers, who cast her permanently in the role shortly afterwards.
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Catherine's feature film debut came a few years later, when she appeared in the cheeky French comedy Le 1001 Nuits as the character Sheherazade, who re-lives the legends of the 1001 nights helped along by a genie watching her ancient adventures on television in 1990. With that synopsis, we can understand why the producers thought it a good idea for Catherine to appear in that particular outfit.
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Obviously bitten by the adventure-film bug, Catherine followed up Les 1001 Nuits with a role in the New World pioneer drama, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, alongside Hollywood heavy-weights Marlon Brando, Benicio Del Toro and Tom Selleck.
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Catherine's striking beauty lent itself easily to the role of the glamorous Kitty Farrant in the complicated British comedy of errors, Splitting Heirs, about a cursed aristocratic family that loses its heir and then finds him again.
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From Kent to the Cornish coast - Catherine joined Sean Pertwee and Ewan McGregor in British surfing film Blue Juice, playing Pertwee's fiesty girlfriend Chloe who attempts to get him to grow up and ditch his loser friends in favour of a committed relationship.
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Once in Hollywood, Catherine ditched her good girl persona in order to play a baddie in the superhero action-adventure, The Phantom. Starring alongside Billy Zane in the title role, Zeta-Jones appeared as Sala - the leader of a group of air pirates who kidnap the Phantom's love interest, Diana Palmer (Kristy Swanson).
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Positively thriving in leading lady territory, Catherine threw herself wholeheartedly into the role of Elena Montero in the first instalment of the swashbuckling adventure series Zorro. Starring alongside Antonio Banderas and Antony Hopkins, she learnt to sword-fight, ride horses and she even took elecution lessons to master her character's accent.
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The physical demands of Zorro put Catherine in good stead for Entrapment, where she played an insurance agent put through her paces by master thief Sean Connery. Taking her on as an apprentice, there's suspicion and distrust in the air, plus, with a highly valuable art piece ripe for the stealing, it becomes difficult to tell who is trying to trap whom.
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Catherine starred alongside Liam Neeson, Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting - a remake of the 1963 horror film of the same name - playing bisexual character Theo (Theodora). Invited to take part in a sleep study at a huge mansion, Zeta-Jones, Wilson and Taylor's characters they get more than they bargained for when Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) tells them of the house's ghostly past.
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Adpated for the big screen from the Channel 4 TV show Traffik, the film version - directed by Steven Soderbergh, of Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven fame - was no less hard-hitting. Told from different perspectives, the film explores the illegal drug trade, with Catherine playing Helena Ayala, the pregnant wife (Catherine was also pregnant in real-life with her son Dylan) of a dangerous drug lord. Her role earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and later in the year Catherine married fellow Traffic star Michael Douglas.
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This playful rom-com saw Catherine take up the leading lady mantel once again, starring as Gwen Harrison - one half of the Hollywood golden couple, known as 'America's sweethearts'. While the public sees a sizzling on-and-off screen romance between Gwen and husband Eddie (played by John Cusack), the reality is an acrimonious split. Unfortunately movie publicist Lee Phillips (played by Billy Crystal) needs to get the two back together in order to sell the pair's last film to their adoring fans.
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Combining her two specialties, theatre and film, Catherine played murderous vaudevillian Velma Kelly in the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago, alongside Richard Gere as her lawyer Billy Flynn and Renée Zellweger as fellow Cook County jailbird, Roxie Hart. The film was a worldwide success and netted Catherine an Oscar and a BAFTA, amongst other awards, in the best supporting actress category.
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Starring opposite George Clooney in the Coen brothers' black comedy Intolerable Cruelty, Catherine played beautiful gold digger Marilyn Rexroth, who marries womanising divorce lawyer Miles Massey (Clooney) to inact revenge on him after he scuppers the divorce settlement of her previous marriage to a millionaire.
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Inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri who stayed in the Charles de Gaulle International Airport in France for 17 years, The Terminal tells the tale of Viktor Navorski, played by Tom Hanks, an immigrant from eastern Europe who takes up residency at JFK airport and is befriended by Zeta-Jones, who plays flight attendant Amelia Warren.
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Playing opposite George Clooney once again, Catherine joined the celeb-heavy ensemble cast of Ocean's Twelve, which featured Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and Andy Garcia. The Ocean's Eleven sequel sees Zeta-Jones play Europol detective Isabel Lahiri, who is trying to prevent high-stakes thief Danny Ocean (Clooney) from pulling off three major European heists in order to pay $160 million back to casino owner Terry Benedict (Garcia), which was stolen in the previous film.
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Getting a feeling for sequels, Catherine reprised her role as Elena Montero in the follow-up to swashbuckling adventure, The Mask of Zorro, alongside on-screen husband Antonio Banderas.
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Catherine received a People's Choice Award nomination for her role in rom-com drama, No Reservations, in which she played hard-nosed chef Kate Armstrong, whose life is turned upside down when she takes in her young niece, played by Abigail Breslin (star of indie flick Little Miss Sunshine), following a tragic accident that killed Kate's sister.
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Catherine cultivated an impressive Scottish accent for her role in mystic thriller Death Defying Acts, also starring Guy Pearce and The Lovely Bones actress Saoirse Ronan. The film tells the story of escapologist Harry Houdini (Pearce) who, 13 years after his mother's death, offers $10,000 to anyone who can quote her dying words to him in an attempt to unmask fraudulent psychics. Zeta-Jones plays Edinburgh con-artist Mary McGarvie, who sets her sights on Houdini's big prize.
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The coming year marks Vancouver Opera's golden anniversary! At a time when some opera houses are closing their doors, the VO is celebrating 50 years of outstanding success.
Under the dynamic leadership of James Wright, the Vancouver Opera has operated in the black for the last 10 years, and has much to celebrate in the 2009-2010 season.
In his own words, Jim is "looking at our golden anniversary season and beyond with excitement, confidence and pride. We'll salute the company's future . . . and pay tribute to the illustrious past."
Opera is an intriguing art, combining visual drama with some of the most beautiful music ever written. And for all its theatrical majesty and musical heights, opera is fully accessible to everyone.
You don't have to recognize a tenor's high C to be transported by the sheer glory of the music. And there may be
that magical "aha" moment, when you do recognize a famous aria – a melody woven into the fabric of your unconscious.
With the inevitable flux in public opinion and theatrical tastes, why has opera endured? Quite simply, the music is sublime.
The composer dominates, with music that in some cases has stood the test of centuries, and in other cases is a more
contemporary gift. Though the music is constant, opera productions vary in staging and in costuming.
Unforgettable in my memory was Bizet's Carmen, staged during Vancouver's Expo '86. When Escamillo entered stage left as a swaggering, hip-swiveling Elvis, the audience was captivated. Anything goes in opera, when anchored by a composer's genius.
This will be a superlative season for the Vancouver Opera. It's all here during the fiftieth year – comedy, tragedy, pathos, political commentary, brilliant productions, gorgeous sets and, of course, gifted artists. On November 5, an inaugural gala ushered in the year, featuring soprano, Liping Zhang and other international soloists.
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President Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi duked it out on the front pages again today over the Iraq War. Many editors twinned coverage of the president's news conference with Pelosi's visit — characterized as "controversial" in several headlines — to Syria. The two top Pennsylvania dailies represented typical coverage decisions. The Philadelphia Inquirer went with a Bush lead — "Bush slams Democrats on war bill" — and a Pelosi photo op. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also ran a Pelosi photo (showing her in a headscarf) and tied the two items together in an action-reaction head: "Pelosi visit to Syria irks Bush."
Other Page One editors took a break from politics and put some ball games out front. The end of March Madness for women's college basketball got heavy coverage in the teams' local newspapers. The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., had the dejected players of Rutgers University and a headline that may have been an attempt to soften the blow of the 59-46 loss to the University of Tennessee: "So Close to Glory." The News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tenn., had an easier time of it — under the headline "Champs," reporter Mike Strange banged out a happy lede: "The University of Tennessee returned to the pinnacle of women's basketball Tuesday night."
Newspapers elsewhere had already moved on to the boys of the summer. Baseball's opening day got top coverage in various regions, but not every hometown could trumpet a win: "Game Spoils Opening Day," San Francisco Chronicle. Other sports reporters got ready to hit the links with golf's biggest players as they dreamed of the prestigious green jacket at the Masters in Augusta, Ga. The Augusta Chronicle's top story focused on one of the greatest golfers of all time: "Palmer will take the lead again. Honorary starter role now fits Arnie to a tee."
Today's Tabs: The Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times' banner headline may induce a reader double-take: "THE END IS NEAR." Turns out it's just a story on hurricane-season predictions. But in New York, it would be hard to overstate the bizarre nature of a report that Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards once mixed his father's cremated ashes with cocaine — and snorted them. The Post went with clever: "Father Nose Best." But the Daily News decided this story was crazy enough to play straight: "I SNORTED MY DAD." Richards' publicist told the media that Richards was just joking.
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the greatest ripoff in the history of man .. these oil companies have paid so much money thru the lobby industry that all those in washington are nothing but puppets for big oil . we need to get them out and elect those who will make changes to laws about prices they can charge and profits they can make . these people prove that allowing them to run wild is the blueprint to failure of our country as we know it . sorry to say it but- GREED on their part has made it time to put controls back on them . the same can be said for the medical industry also . what we pay for drugs is way out of reason . we pay high so foreign countries can buy cheap . time to change folks .
Just gassed up at Irving at $3.85 a gallon this Friday afternoon in CT. It was $3.79 this morning !! How can they raise prices for gasoline still in underground tanks that was delivered for less money?? It seems strange that when oil goes up today, the next day gas prices go up.. When oil goes down its a week later that the gas prices go down.. I guess it's common practice because there are no prices labled anymore on canned goods in a grocery store, they just change the price electronically for both old and new product on the shelf.. Seems like pastry and snacks have prices printed on the wrapper so they can't change anything..
What I find equal parts puzzling and laughable is how inflation is calculated, and perhaps one of you can explain why they do so for me, as it makes no sense.
They (the covernment) exclude fuel and food prices from reported inflation stating that their prices are far too volatile to figure in. To me, this seems like a case of them only wanting to report what they want to, as opposed to what the numbers truly say. Sort of like the reported, or should I say, government-approved unemployment numbers that are reported, instead of the U-6 under-utilization numbers which are a better gauge of un/under-employment.
My wife and I keep receipts just so we can look back and do some historical analysis on a yearly basis to figure out budgeting for the coming year; although, with two kids, ages 1 and soon-to-be 3, we're going to be revising those budget numbers more and more. But, getting back on point here, just looking at grocery receipts from a couple years back compared to now, and seeing the amounts of food we're bringing home spending comparable amounts of money, it's actually quite shocking how much food prices have gone up, and this is with pretty vigilant sale/coupon hunting as well. Also, looking at gas purchases, aside from short blips where prices dropped any apreciable amount, the only volatility in the past two years worth of receipts has been up, up and up...hardly what I'd call volatile, and simply just being inflationary due to poor monetary policy and other factors.
So, looking at our situation, and that of many people, the two things that eat up a lot of money every month are our food and fuel expenses; it's nice to have gas in the car to go to work, and food to put on the table for the family, and those two sure eat up a LOT of money every month, so having them excluded from inflation calculations is just puzzling to me...why do they really do this aside from manipulating numbers to their favor?
Here is something I just don't understand. When Bush was in Office OIL went up to $150. barrel and gas was around $3.50. NOW OIL is about $100. a barrel and Gas is at about $3.65 BUT I don't hear any CRYING from the LEFT. WHY??????
At least People were working when Bush was in , Now Few people are working and the GAS PRICES are going through the ROOF I am not working and I just laid off 15 Employees
My Son hasn't worked for THREE YRS , Has been on 150 Interviews but keeps getting the same ol, Well your Just what we are looking for ,BUT we are going to hire from WITH-IN
Exxon-Mobile has 2010 revenues of $387 Billion. Of that profits were $31 billion. About a 8% margin.The CEO only got $28 miliion? But you are OK with sports players and actors making more than that? For playing a game or pretending to be a character?
The CEO of Exxon Mobil has not created or done anything. Simply inherited an already monster company, and does very little that I would consider to be individually driving the company.
Not to mention what are has stock options worth? It's not just salary pay.
You know many sports figures our actors in the Forbes 400? There are barely any. Oprah, Tiger Woods, etc.
Almost all of them are CEOs or associated with stock investing.
*Most of which have done very little except politic there way into the CEO position and then skim golden parachutes and options that leverage company earnings into their pockets*
In terms of "talent" most Actors/Sports players have far more than CEOs. I mean CEOs, aren't even the smartest people. Most CEOs aren't engineers, or inventors, or have PHDs.
If you look at a lot of metrics, just ask what are they really doing to earn anything at all?
Exxon-Mobile has 2010 revenues of $387 Billion. Of that profits were $31 billion. About a 8% margin.
The CEO only got $28 miliion? But you are OK with sports players and actors making more than that? For playing a game or pretending to be a character?
Gasoline is very cheap in the US considering we have to import much of the oil we use to make it.
But look at all the commodities prices. Or food. It's called inflation. They are all much higher than a decade ago.
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What I find equal parts puzzling and laughable is how inflation is calculated, and perhaps one of you can explain why they do so for me, as it makes no sense.
That's easy. The two political parties that are ruining our government and our country Lie about virtually everything in their efforts to maintain power. What puzzles me is why we put up with it.
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Punctuating a regrettable week for the FIU football program, coach Ron Turner apologized Friday after several of his players disrobed at a public beach on Crandon Park earlier in the day.
The football team had a workout and barbecue on Crandon Park Beach to conclude it summer conditioning program, under the supervision of the strength and conditioning staff.
Turner, in a statement, said that following the workout, "some of our athletes went to rinse off at a designated public shower area and a few of them made a poor decision and changed their clothes in public. I want to apologize to the community and anyone who was at the beach this morning for this unfortunate incident."
Turner said: "We are committed to helping our student athletes grow as gentlemen while preparing them for their careers. We are looking into this incident, and if appropriate, will take disciplinary action."
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Hey! Want to hear a funny joke? Interruptions in the workplace take many forms. It could be an interruption from your boss, students, friends, coworkers, family, partner, and more.
"It's not just the people in your office. It's every piece of equipment you have around you," says Dr. Cooper Lawrence, a psychologist. She says that when she works from home interruptions walk on four shaggy legs looking for biscuits and a good scratching.
"It's hard to get started again and what happens is we do broad strokes," she says. "You don't get into the details of it."
Researchers at George Mason University recently concluded the same thing. Writers especially produce a better product when they can scribble uninterrupted.
"The older you are the more likely you are able to handle the interruption better," Lawrence says.
A study out of oxford reached that conclusion. Aging brains return to their work more seamlessly than their younger counterparts.
"Another study found that we are interrupted 73 times a day in a regular office setting," Lawrence says.
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Yield maps and aerial images, such as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) maps, make spotting problem areas in a field easier. "Inevitably, hybrid differences are the first thing that show up. Drainage is second," says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.
In other words, to make the biggest yield difference fastest, improve water management. Apparently, a number of farmers are acting on that advice.
"All the drainage contractors I've spoken with recently are quite busy," says University of Illinois ag engineer Richard Cooke. "There was a little lull a couple years ago, but drainage has picked up a lot because of the [wet] weather and the increase in the price of corn and soybeans. Higher commodity prices make drainage projects pay for themselves much faster."
The advent of do-it-yourself drainage, in the form of tile plows, has made drainage management easier for farmers. "Our sales are on track to be about triple last year—and that already was our best year ever," says Denny Bell, who manufactures Gold Digger tile plows.
"For what land sells for, a lot of farmers say it makes more sense to improve the productivity of land they already have, instead of buying more," Bell says.
Another factor contributing to drainage growth is yield monitors, Cooke says. By revealing the impact of wet soil on crop yield, "monitors have launched a trend toward more systemic tile systems, instead of random drainage or just running a line to a wet spot," he says.
Why drainage matters. The effects of wet soil in fields extend beyond the poor-yielding spots.
"Yield maps don't show the impact of poorly drained areas on an entire field," Ferrie says. "The field may average 140 bu. per acre. But when you look closely, you see that some areas averaged 200 bu., but others made from zero to 90."
Wet areas also determine the timing of every operation, from tillage through harvest. "That can be crucial in a wet year like 2009," Ferrie says. "Say you have 70% or 80% of a field ready to plant but the remainder is too wet. You save the field for later. If you had planted on time, maybe the best parts would have yielded 240 bu. per acre. But you sacrificed that opportunity, waiting for 20% of the field to dry."
Yield maps show the difference in yield between well-drained and poorly drained areas, but they can't tell you how much better yield would have been if you had planted four or five days earlier. "In 2009, waiting a few days for wet spots to dry out sometimes made the difference between planning in April or June," Ferrie says. "In the end, the field was still planted wet, but it was also planted late."
"If a field dries uniformly, it's easier to make the decision whether to plant or not," says Mike McLaughlin, who farms near Leroy, Ill. "It also makes it easier to set your tillage tools. A variation in moisture is just one more variable to deal with. The fewer variables there are, the easier it is to farm."
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Home: Democracy for the Many
The purpose of this site is to collect ideas that will help discover how we can move from having, in the United States, a democracy, science, and capitalism for the few, to a democracy, science and capitalism for the many.
It is also a place to learn. That is, by taking risks and writing and thinking well or poorly for the public I can seek out constructive criticism that can help me overcome any blind spots or cognitive biases that I may have in my thinking and opinion. So this blog will serve as a working paper.
George says it best, so I'll let George have the first word and set the theme for this blog.
Right on, George.
Now it's my turn:
What is the one thing?
There are real issues (which are seldom addressed by the corporate media nor by the political elite) to be addressed and this is where we Americans have more in common than we realize. These people, "on the other side," are us. We must stop the divisive "Us and Them" thinking and rhetoric. We have to love on them. We have to lead by example, compassion, tolerance, empathy (all are biological traits of the human species), and civil criticism and civil dialog. As Walt Whitman said, "That could be me." I know a few liberals who are former conservatives. We can't wake up our brothers and sisters by bashing them.
What is the one thing?
If we Americans want this then we have to find each other and connect. I am working at this — right here, right now.
Electoral politics is the game we are given to play between the two parties (duopoly) largely owned and controlled by the Corpocratic Party. The illusion of "choice" was made for the many, by the few — the shapers of public opinion, themanufacturers of consent.) Dwight Eisenhower called it the Military-Industrial complex. I call it the media-mercantile-military matrix. In the real world many people are asleep to the fact that the two parties are largely controlled by unelected powers, which means the game of electoral politics is extensively, but not completely rigged. While it remains important to ensure that the lesser of two evils is elected, this game is tantamount to moving deck chairs around on the Titanic. Wars, Wall Street kleptocracy, and environmental destruction continue no matter who is in office.
Of the progressive/liberal non-profit organizations that I have researched almost all are facing toward state houses and the US Capitol. That is, they are focused on lobbying, or protesting legislatures who have to spend two-thirds of their time fund-raising for campaign money, 90% of which comes from rich people and rich corporations. How far are Common Cause, Public Citizen, Democracy for America, or new organizations like RootsAction (all wonderful organizations with smart, hard-working people) going to get by spending our donated money (or money from foundations run mostly by the political elites) on lobbying a bought-and-paid-for legislature? Many of these organizations have been fighting the good fight for decades, and yet the electorate, and consequently "our" government continues to move to the Right. To be fair, maybe our NGO allies have slowed this sinister shift. The narrow focus on electoral politics and lobbying is not enough to save humanity from inevitable fascistic and environmental disaster. (How many non-profits with offices in DC pay big fat salaries and sweet benefit packages to lobby political elites with big fat salaries and sweet benefit packages? Beware, if movement building is not a focus, then cashing in may be the focus. Maybe. Buyer beware.) Progressive populists must innovate and change our tactic in order to curtail the creeping chance of calamity.
What is the one thing?
Movement politics (and addressing root causes, not symptoms) is where 80% — as my good friend, a wonderful thinker, Bradley puts it — of our collective progressive time should be spent. We have a lot of catching up to do, because the Right has been movement building like gangbusters for the last 30 years or more.
This is why the American political center has been steadily moving to the Right. This also explains part of the reason why American wealth, due to American working class productivity, has been moving up into the bank accounts of America's wealthiest 1% — families who mostly don't work at all, they just own. Once the foot is in the door we can fix our anti-trust laws.
Progressive organizations must, in my view, change their focus away (at least 80% of the focus anyway) from trying to speak truth to power. Power already knows the truth — as Chomsky put it. The truth must be sought, by critical thinking, together as a people. Consciousness raising, organizing, movement building, educating, awareness raising, community building: These are the only mechanisms that we have available — the others have been bought off, centralized, and consolidated, by the wealthy. Government is supposed to be our mechanism. Of, by, and for all of the people.
What is the way to get our "mechanism" to work for the "general welfare" as our constitution states?
What is the one thing?
As far as I know, a few progressive organizations are beginning to build the infrastructure needed to facilitate movement building, however, the focus tends to be on band-aid issues. Yes, we need to stop the bleeding cuts (symptoms and effects), but if we don't take away the sword (the cause) we will be changing bandages for the next thousand years — if our habitat lets us stay here that long. A democratic movement must build itself around a theme that addresses root causes of what is harming our anemic republic. Root causes are something that almost all Americans can get behind and gather around and work for. We will not all agree on every issue. None of us do. We don't agree on everything with our closest friends and family. But we can all agree that our republic is in dire need or repair. We can agree to argue the culture war issues along the way toward fixing our republic. With healing the republic as priority number one. And once our open society is secure we can continue arguing issues. Democracy is messy — but, as it has been said — it is the best political system we yet know.
Government springs naturally from humans. Humans are social beings who form cooperative/competitive groups with rules — ever evolving social norms and conventions. Even cooperative-competition (i.e., mixed-market economy) requires rules. As I define it: Government is where people get together to decide how we are going to get along. Government is where the rules of the playing field are decided ("playing field" aptly implies competition. There is a distinction to be made between benign competition and malignant competition — sport or war.).
That is, we can't get from here* to there, without first fixing "here*." (*State-sponsored, centrally planned [by corporations and their minions], Capitalism for the few.)
Our government reflects us — the electorate. Our elected officials come out of us, they are us — the body politic. We can best fix our government by fixing us.We must stop us from being molded by corpocratically controlled or influenced institutions, and by well paid political elites and pundits — who move through the revolving door of business and government. We must remake us, educate us, in order to create the government we deserve. We must democratize our social institutions.
What is the one thing? What's the first step, the foot in the door?
Tikkun, peace, empathy, science, democracy,
L. Shaw Mitchell
P.S. I have embedding a lot of links in this essay. These links lead to information that can help us to wake up to a more accurate perception of our reality and to the lies we've been told.
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
— Benito Mussolini
The Democratic and Republican Parties are the two wings of the Corpocratic Party.
— Consensus of those who have awoken from the Political Matrix (e.g., Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, et al.)
"We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class."
— Helen Keller
"We can have democracy in this country or we can have
great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we
cannot have both."
— Louis Brandeis
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
— Frederick Douglass
"THE SPIRIT of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will be heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."
— Thomas Jefferson
A Prophecy
(Written during the Revolutionary War)
"The only way to defeat organized money is with organized people."
– Bill Moyers
"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education."
— John Updike
"Education is the state-controlled manufactory of echoes."
— Norman Douglas
"To me the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, and the self-confidence of the pupil. It produces the submissive subject."
— Albert Einstein
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I found this very interesting. The debate over education is not new and nothing has changed over the past century. See below.
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Walter Lippmann and John Dewey debate the role of citizens in democracy
In 1922, Walter Lippmann published an influential book entitled Public Opinion. In this book, Lippmann was very suspicious and critical of any model of democracy that placed excessive faith and power in the hands of the public. For instance, he argued that participatory democracy was unworkable, that the democratic public was a myth, and hence that governance should be delegated exclusively to political representatives and their expert advisors. Based on empirical evidence about the efficacy of political propaganda and mass advertisement to shape people's ways of thinking, Lippmann contended that public opinion was highly shaped by leaders. Lippmann called this process of manipulation of consciousness 'the manufacture of consent', a concept that Noam Chomsky would popularize many years later in his writings. Lippmann argued, first in 'Public Opinion' and later in 'The Phantom Public', that since ordinary citizens had no sense of objective reality, and since their ideas are merely stereotypes manipulated at will by people at the top, deliberative democracy was an unworkable dogma or impossible dream. In his view, the most feasible alternative to such democracy consisted of a technocracy in which government leaders are guided by experts whose objectives and disinterested knowledge go beyond the narrow views and the parochial self-interests of the average citizens organized in local communities. Lippmann saw advocates of participatory democracy as romantic and nostalgic individuals who idealized the role of the ignorant masses to address public affairs and proposed an unrealistic model for the emerging mass society. He opposed such a model with his own model of 'democratic realism' based on political representation and technical expertise.
John Dewey, in his response to Lippmann, first in a review published in The New Republic (1922), and later in his book The Public and its Problems (1927), contended that democracy should not be confined to the enlightenment of administrators or to insiders like industrial leaders, and highlighted the importance of public deliberation in political decision-making. However, he was not an advocate of any type of deliberation. He contended that just letting discussion go, without eliciting facts of any kind, and without appealing to common meanings, was fruitless (Hart 1993). While Dewey did not dispute Lippmann's claim that social inquiry and policy design can be done by experts, he claimed that all the relevant facts and potential implications of such inquiry and proposed policies should remain a public trust which must not be manipulable by private interests. In The Public and its Problems (p. 365), he admitted that "it is not necessary that the many should have the knowledge and skill to carry on the needed investigations; what is required is that they have the ability to judge of the bearing of the knowledge supplied by others upon common concerns." For Dewey, once the relevant facts are made public (and in this regards he placed great emphasis on the need of a truly free press), the role of discussion is to determine the exact nature of the common good in that particular situation. Dewey recognized that intervention by the public is not possible without a better organized and educated public, but argued that lack of education, stupidity, and intolerance lead to bad governance not only in democracies, but in monarchies and oligarchies as well. Thus, argues Dewey, the democratic system is not responsible for the poor decisions of the public in local policy-making, such as the prohibition of the teaching of evolution in schools (which Lippmann cited as evidence of the inability of the public to govern). For Dewey, the weaknesses of democracy are symptoms, rather than causes, of the problems of modern society.
Dewey suggested that Lippmann gave up on participatory democracy mainly due to a lack of political imagination and to a lack of faith in the role of progressive education to forge a democratic public. Dewey argued that his position was not about idealizing people's knowledge, skills and attitudes, or their capacity for self-government, but about nurturing democratic institutions in which people would gradually educate themselves into the processes of deliberation and decision-making. He rejected Lippmann's contention that it was an impossible task, but admitted that it was indeed a very difficult enterprise. Dewey maintained that democracy is more than a technical system of governance defined by devices such as elections, universal suffrage, or checks and balances, although these are important manifestations. These devices are not even essentially democratic, but evolved from a sequence of historically contingent events. To Dewey, democracy encompasses how humans are to live, work, and learn together. An essential democracy, for Dewey, is rule by the people, and therefore a democratic government must serve the interests of the people, and the population must participate in the political process. However, Dewey did not address sufficiently the changes that would make the government more responsive to the interests of the public, and had little to say concerning which methods of political self-government were best.
In closing, whereas Dewey had a great faith in the public's capacity to learn how to govern itself, Lippmann was skeptical of the public's policy-making ability. Many current debates on the virtues and limitations of participatory democracy vis-a-vis representative democracy constitute, to a large extent, variations or reformulations of that debate between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey that took place in the early 1920s. Dewey's deep faith in the capacity of human beings for intelligent judgment and Lippmann's understanding of this faith as idealistic and unrealistic, reflect the split in twentieth century liberal democratic thought into participative and elitist factions, and this has important implications for the role and aims of citizenship education in modern democracies. Should citizenship education consists of education for leadership or of education for followership? The Lippmann-Dewey debate on the role of citizens in modern democracies continues to exist today, and it can be found both in philosophical arguments raised by contemporary authors like Richard Rorty, Cornel West, Jurgen Habermas and Benjamin Barber, and in the discussions around real experiments of participatory democracy such as the Participatory Budget that has been implemented in since 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Dewey, J. (1922). Review of Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann. In John Dewey: The middle works 1899-1924, Volume 13, 1921-1922, 337-344. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. First published in (1925). New Republic, 30, 286-88.
Dewey, J. (1925). Practical democracy. Review of Walter Lippmann's book The Phantom Public. In John Dewey, Philosophy and Democracy: The later works 1925-1953, Volume 2, 1925-1927, 213-220. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. First published in (2 December 1925). New Republic, 45, 52-54.
Dewey, John. (1927). The Public and its Problems. New York: Holt.
Hart, Carroll Guen (1993). Grounding without foundations. A conversation between Richard Rorty and John Dewey to ascertain their kinship. Toronto: The Patmost Press.
Lippmann, Walter. (1922/1934). Public Opinion. New York: Macmillan.
Lippmann, Walter (1925). The Phantom Public. New York: Harcourt, Braace and Co.
Rorty, Richard. (1998). Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America. Boston: Harvard University Press.
Unger, Roberto & West, Cornel. (1998). The Future of American Progressivism. Beacon Press: Boston.
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Discourse on Acquiring Knowledge to Discovering the Truth in the Modern World
USA Media
By Herman, Philosopher (a Rather bad Philosopher but a Philosopher) and a Bad Writer
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." – Rene Descartes
What you see on TV, hear on the radio and read in newspaper and magazines is not true reality. What is being presented to the American public is a distortion of the true reality of today's world. The Media is owned and controlled by a hand full of large corporations. These large corporations are owned and managed by Elites. Elite is defined as a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, and access to decision-making of global consequence. The Media is used to shape public opinion. Public opinion is shaped and molded to the desires of the Elites. Some in the USA know and can see what is happening, but many do not.
Most can agree that the Soviet Union controlled its citizens through propaganda. The propaganda or "The News" was disbursed to it citizens through TV, radio, magazines and newspapers. The News was varied, different opinions and varied views were presented, some dissenting from The Soviet government position. An illusion of a free press was presented to the Soviet citizens controlled and managed by The Communist Party. The people never saw through the illusion and those who did were labeled as crazy or insane, the Soviet system policed itself.
I believe something similar is taking place here in the USA, but here the media is not controlled by government as in The Old Soviet Union, the media in the USA is controlled by a few large corporations that are owned and managed by Elites forming a business oligarchy. A business oligarchy is midway between a monopoly and a free market. One characteristic of oligarchies is collusion. Collusion is defined as secret cooperation between people in order to do something illegal or underhanded. Collusion unites the media Elites and they act as one, but giving the impression they are separate competing entities acting independently of each other. News is varied with different opinions and views creating an illusion of a free press. Elites can then shape and mold public opinion and attitudes and define what is normal and acceptable just like the Communist Party did in The Old Soviet Union.
What we have is Media control of opinion formation. The individual no longer participates in the formation of ideas. What matters to the individual is which opinion he will be allowed to hear and which opinion he will judge to be best. He feels he is free because he can analyze, judge and choose which Media chosen expert opinion he thinks is correct. Most individuals will never consider any other options or alternative solutions.
The Media chooses what information the public will see, hear or read and what information will be suppressed. On television, strong experts who support the media agenda will be chosen to debate weaker experts that oppose the media agenda. The stronger debater will win in the debate or present a stronger argument, molding public opinion toward the direction Elites want it to go. Public polling is the tool used to determine actual public opinion on specific issues, if public opinion is not in the desired Elite position, Elites will use the media to shift public opinion in the right direction through controlling news coverage and various media advertisements or marketing techniques.
The Media acts in unison. They report on the same stories. You can verify this yourself since this is something you have seen. Ask yourself or reflect on this question, with all the different news worthy events occurring in the world, why do the USA media cover the same stories? Wouldn't it be logical that the networks if acting independently would cover or report on differing occurring events in the world?
We as people living in the USA have been subjected to Media information (as apposed to intellectual knowledge) throughout our lives and as the results we have a massive education of Elite approved views and political positions.
I'm not trying to trick you into believing in something that does exist. I'm trying to create a crack in your bubble of reality so that may you doubt, as far as possible, all things and open your mind so you may seek the truth. Do not accept what you have been taught as absolutely true. If you really want to know the truth, it is up to you and only you to find it. You can only trust yourself, follow the evidence.
Chomsky, Noam & Herman, Edward S. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 1988
Ellul, Jacques Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, 1965
Grupp, Jeffrey Corporatism, 2007


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Now I know the series is about food and cooking – however the very last week of being in Vietnam has really changed me and my perspective in life.
Hoi An
Hoi An would have to be the most charming place in Vietnam, if you plan to visit this riverside town, make sure you spend a week there as three days is just not enough.
Quy Nhon
I found Quy Nhon by accident. I was in Nha Trang a few years ago and wanted to make my way up to Hoi An, but it was a good eight hours travel overland so I decided to break up the trip and stay overnight in a town in between. This in between town just happened to be Quy Nhon, a place I had never even heard of before.
Nha Trang
Nha Trang is one of those places you plan to stay for 3 days but end up staying for 2 weeks. The beaches are pristine and the many surrounding islands are incredibly beautiful.
The six hour drive from Phan Thiet to Dalat is just spectacular, the
landscape changing from blue ocean, to deep jungle, to dense forests
and rolling hills. When we reach Dalat, we all feel as if we have
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Phan Thiet
Phan Thiet is a small fishing town situated on the south central coast of Vietnam. There is over one hundred different species of sea life found here and it also happens to be where my half sisters and brother live.
Phu Quoc Island
I was told about Phu Quoc Island three years ago by a friend of mine who lives in HCMC; he told me that many locals from the city were beginning to take weekend trips over there to get away from all the noise and traffic of Saigon. The best part was that very few people knew about it.
The Mekong Delta
The Mekong River is the 11th largest river in the world and the third largest in Asia; it starts from Tibet through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and South Vietnam before reaching the South China Sea. Over 60 million people depend on the river and its tributaries for food, water, transport.
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The 2014 legislative session kicked off in Pierre today and part of the opening day ceremonies included Governor Daugaard's proclamation that we, as a state, need to do more to recognize our 75,000 veterans. He declared today as "Operation Reaching All Veterans Day" in South Dakota. The project aims to ensure veterans and their families are aware of the programs and services available to them. Governor Daugaard also gave his State of the State address today. He focused largely on South Dakota's success but he says there's also room for improvement.
There were positive responses from both Republicans and Democrats. Some commented on the length of the speech and even the Governor himself joked about how many words there were in his nearly hour long speech. But for some state leaders -- there were a few words missing.
No matter which side of the aisle they stood -- many of South Dakota's state leaders liked what they heard from Governor Daugaard.
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Yesterday at the National Working & Pastoral Breeds Society Championship Show, Sturtmoor had a fabulous day!
Foxy - Bernegarden's Reve Enka Av Sturtmoor (Imp Nor) won her FIRST CC!!
Lotto - Sturtmoor Destiny's Day won another puppy class and also was awarded Best Puppy in Breed!
It has been a long road with Foxy to get her to this achievement, between trips to back and forth to Norway, puppies, lack of coat and seasons, she has been shown very little, but has held her own. Yesterday was the best day yet!
To date, Foxy has won 1 CC, 1 RCC. And at shows without CC's she has 3 Best of Sex's (2 with Best of Breed) and 10 Reserve Best of Sex awards! Not too shabby for a little girl who hasn't been in the ring that much!
Lotto's win takes him to the current equal Top Puppy position along with his sister Louisa (Sturtmoor's Dream Maker at Gazenorth who is owned by Paul Glaholm).
Foxy is on her way at last!!
Show update to end May 2014
The year so far has been a good one! The babies are enjoying themselves in the ring with Lotto winning Best Puppy in Breed at two Championship Shows (out of 2) and also being short-listed in the Puppy Group at Bath Championship Show.
His sister, Louisa (owned by Paul Glaholm) won Best Puppy in Breed under Norwegian Judge Espen Engh while her dad (King) won the Reserve Dog CC under this renowned Norwegian judge who knows our breed extremely well.
The Bu club show saw a fantastic day for Sturtmoor with us winning Best Puppy Dog (with Leo), Reserve Best Bitch (with Foxy) and Best Dog and Reserve Best in Show with King. We also won the Breeders class (a first time event for the Sturtmoor Buhunds!).
With lots of shows still to attend, let's hope for a great year!
We had a super day at the Buhund Club Open Show yesterday. It was the first show for our Buhund litter at just 6 months old.
King - Best Dog, Res Best in Show and Best Opposite Sex in Show
Foxy - Reserve Best Bitch
Leo - Best Puppy Dog & Reserve Best Puppy in Show
Lotto - 2nd behind Leo in Minor Puppy Dog, and 1st in Puppy Dog, 2nd in Bred by Exhibitor
Eren - 3rd in Minor Puppy and 2nd in Puppy behind Lotto!
Louisa - 2nd in a strong Minor Puppy Bitch class (only beaten by the Best Puppy in Show winner who was also sired by King!).
Foxy - 1st in Not Bred by Exhibitor, and winner of the Progeny class with all 4 of her babies! :)
Super day for Sturtmoor! :)
At the Swansea Open Show on February 8th, King won Best of Breed which gave him the final point needed for his Show Certificate of Merit title (ShCM). He then celebrated in style by going on to win the Group under our judge Tim Ball (Kaitak).
This was the final title that King could win in the UK!
All puppies now have forever homes!
We are very pleased that all our babies have found forever homes already.
We have some fabulous owners, and are looking forward to the day they can take their new bundles of fun home to their new lives.
We wish them all a long and happy life together. :)
Foxy and Kings puppies arrived on 17th September 2013. We had 6 puppies, 3 dogs and 3 bitches. All are doing very well.
If you would like more information, please go to the litter page HERE.
Sturtmoor are having Buhund Puppies!
(subject to KC Confirmation)
Today at Bath Championships show, King finally got his final point which gives him his Junior Warrant title! Having shown Rare Breeds for many years, it is the first time we have gained a 'JW' on any of our dogs, despite several near misses!!
To top the day off - King then went on to win a Group 4 placement, such a huge achievement for a 17 month old Black Buhund! WAY TO GO KING!!
Buhund puppies planned for Sturtmoor!
Camille is planning her first Buhund litter since 1986!!
Following successful health testing, we can now officially announce our upcoming plans.
Please visit HERE for more information!
First UK Champion for Sturtmoor!
At Birmingham National Championship Show on May 11th 2013, King became Sturtmoor's first UK Champion! After many European Champs and some American Champs, at last we now have one in the UK! :)
Thanks to judge Marion Sargent for thinking so highly of our Black Buhund boy, at just 17 months old we are so proud of all his achievements.
What a fantastic year for our new boy King! He hit the show ring in June 2012 when he was 6 months old and didn't look back!
In only 10 shows with Champion Certificates (CC's) on offer (including Crufts 2013), King won 3 CC's with Best of Breed and 4 Reserve CC's (his last at Crufts 2013) as well as 6 Best Puppy in Breed's.
King finished the year as:
Top Buhund Male (Norwegian Buhund Club)
Top Buhund Puppy (Norwegian Buhund Club)
Top Black (Norwegian Buhund Club)
Top Puppy in Group (Our Dogs/Dorwest Herbs)
Runner-up Top Dog (Dog World)
We are so proud of our baby boy and all his achievements, we can only hope that he will gain is 4th CC to make him up to a Champion (as the previous 3 have all been won as a puppy,he is not yet a champion!).
Thank you to all those that have supported us throughout the year, and good luck to everyone for the coming show season which is due to start very soon!
Pending heath test results, we are planning a litter from King and Foxy (Bernegarden's Reve Enka Imp NOR) in the summer of this year.
King excels himself!
(Imp Nor)
Norwegian Buhund Club Championship Show
(51 Dogs entered, 38 dogs present)
Judge - Mrs Lynne Smith (Alkola)
Dog CC
This was King's 3rd CC from the Puppy Classes, we think he is the only Buhund in the UK's history to have achieved this! However, he still needs one more CC, taken after he is one year old to make him a UK Champion!
We are so proud of our young black boy - such a dream to own, in EVERY way!!
Richmond, Darlington & Driffield 2012
Well... what can I say! Our King (Svartkonge Av Sturtmoor (Imp NOR)), has had one hell of a start to his show career!!! The latest results.....
Richmond (8 September) - CC, Best of Breed & Best Puppy in Breed
Darlington (15 September) - Best Dog, Best Puppy in Breed and shortlisted in Puppy Group
Driffield (20 September) - RCC, Best Puppy in Breed
This last Best Puppy win has made him certain for Top Puppy in Breed as with only two shows left with CC's for the breed, he now cannot be beaten!
We really did not expect him to acheive so much in such a short time. Our heartfelt thanks go to May Birkeland for allowing King to come to us in Wales, and to all the judges who have thought so
At the WKC Championship Show on Saturday 18th August 2012, King (Svartkonge av Sturtmoor) excelled himself! Thanks to Judge Mr Mike Vines for awarding King the Dog CC and Best of Breed as well as Best Puppy in Breed. What a little star our King is!! :0)
King does it again!!
For the second time in 7 days, King did us proud!!
At the National Working & Pastoral Breeds Championship Show, on 14 July 2012, under Judge Kerry Frost (Frostisen), king yet again won his class, Best Puppy in Breed and the Reserve Champion Certificate (RCC).
My good friend Laura Wilcox was kind enough to take this photograph of him at the show.
Our latest import from Norway, Svartkonge Av Sturtmoor (King) pictured at nearly 6 months.
This baby boy had a fanastic day at the East of England Championship Show on Sunday 8th July 2012, only his second Championship Show (and fourth show of any kind)...... aged just 7 months and 1 day........ he not only won his puppy class but also won Best Puppy in Breed and the RESERVE CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE!!!
King is now qualified for Crufts for life, as this award (once confirmed by the KC) gives him his Stud Book number!!. We are so proud of our little man, and hope he has a bright future!!
His other notable win was Reserve Best Puppy In Show at the Chepstow Limited Show on 17th June!! We all adore King, and thank May Birkeland for letting him come to live with us here in the UK. He truly is a
We had a fantastic day at CRUFTS yesterday with our Menna. She not only won her class, but also took Best Bitch and BEST OF BREED!! This was a very unexpected result, but a thrilling one!
Thanks to the judge (Mrs Sue Garner) for awarding Menna Best of Breed.
It was wonderful to see her on the television, I hope she did the breed proud!
New arrival imminent.......
We are very proud to announce that King (Svarte Konge av Sturtmoor) will be due to arrive from Norway at the end of March 2012! King is a black Norwegian Buhund (male) and has come to us via May Birkeland in Norway.
Thanks to Britt Marit Halvorsen for looking after King in the interim, and arranging for him to travel to the UK. What would we do without you Britt!
We are looking forward to meeting this young man and hope he can bring some new blood and black lines to the Buhund gene pool in the UK.
We are very proud to annouce that Menna (Int/Bel/DK Ch. Karabas Likande Lamenna Letta at Sturtmoor (IMP NL) Sh.C.M. WW'10 W'08, W'09) is the leader in the UK's Top Dog competition!
The winners of Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex are awarded points at all Championship shows in the UK that have breed classes. Top Dog is a very coveted award that most breeders will strive to achieve, but few will actually gain.
Menna has had a phenomenal career so far, winning some Top Awards previoiusly never won by an Estrela outside of Portugal!! In this particular competition, Menna was Top Dog in 2007 and 2008 but was them absent from the show ring for the majority of 2009 and 2010 due to maternal duties. Now - back in the ring after her two year absence, she came back with style!!
We are so proud of our baby, and cannot thank Sietske Christan-Luchsinger enough for allowing her to join us!!
If you wish to see a full list of the leaders in the Top dog Competition (all breeds) please follow this link: http://www.dogworld.co.uk/product.php/140
We are proud to announce another fantastic Sturtmoor day at the National Working & Pastoral Breeds Championship Show held near Malvern on 16 July 2011.
Our Menna (Int/Bel/DK Ch. Karabas Likande Lamenna Letta at Sturtmoor IMP NL) took her 6th Best of Breed for the year under judge Meg Purnell-Carpenter! She then went on to win BEST RARE BREED IN SHOW under Judge Jack Bispham!!!!
Also her son - STURTMOOR OMARI, at 11.5 months old and at his 3rd ever show, took his 2nd Best Puppy in Breed award and also Reserve Best Dog!! Congratulations to Kathleen Garey for doing such a fantsatic job with Rouge!!
Following her son's success at WELKS on Sunday 1st May, Menna (INT/BEL/DK CH. Karabas Likande Lamenna Letta at Sturtmoor (IMP NL) Sh.C.M) took her second BEST OF BREED of the year!
A fantastic start to the 2011 season for Sturtmoor!!
WELKS Championship Show - 1st May 2011
Only one Sturtmoor Dog was present at WELKS championship show on 1st May 2011 - and what a day he had!!
Rouge (Sturtmoor Omari) who is out of Menna x Jaydee was attending his first show ever with his owner Kathleen Garey, what a start to his career!
Kath took Rouge into his first Junior Class, aged just 9 months, where he was against 3 other puppies that were a little older than him. He was placed FIRST!!! Millie (Camille Pentland - co-breeder of Rouge) then offered to take over the handling where Rouge went on to win not only Best Male but also BEST OF BREED!! There was a total entry of 21 Estrela's, with only 4 being absent. This was all under judge Robin Newhouse.
Rouge didn't stop there! Millie then took him into the Group, where judge Zena Thorn-Andrews decided to shortlist our baby boy to the LAST SIX! The Pastoral group had a total of 1124 entries, and Rouge was one best six in that group!!
Well done to Kath on doing such a fantastic job with Rouge, and getting him so well socialised. We hope to see him at more shows in the future!
We are pleased to announce that Foxy (Bernegarden's Reve Enka) arrived safely in the UK in February 2011. She has settled in very quickly and is adored by all. She has attended a handful of small shows where she has gained two Best Puppy in Breed's and two Reserve Best of Breed's. Also, at a Limited Show in March, she was shortlisted in Best in Show and then won Reserve Best Puppy in Show!!
Foxy makes her Championship show debut on April 16th at Working & Pastoral Breeds Association of Wales, and although there are no CC's on offer at that show, we are really looking forward to getting her to a big show at last!!
We would like to announce that BERNEGARDEN'S REVE ENKA, a Norwegian Buhund called Foxy, will be arriving from Norway in February 2011 (all being well!).
Foxy is owned and bred by Britt Marit Halvorsen of the world famous Berngarden Saint Bernards, and will come to live with Camille (on breeding terms) for the foreseeable future.
We are very excited to have Foxy as part of the Sturtmoor kennels, and Camille is particularly looking forward to getting back to the Buhund ring on a more permanent basis. We wish all the best to Foxy's siblings, wherever in the world they may be!
This is Foxy aged approx 7 months.


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