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"Exploring Flores: More Than Just Komodo Dragon" Top 5 Page for this destination Pulau Flores by Rinjani
Pulau Flores Travel Guide: 97 reviews and 227 photos
If you asked many Indonesian, what is the most famous in Flores? I found their most three common answers:
1) Komodo dragons
2) Kelimutu, a three-colored-lake
3) Soekarno (indonesia?s first President) exile house in Ende.
While many foreigners? top answer would be either diving or Komodo, or both.
The existence of Komodo Dragon (Varanus Komodoensis), a pre-historic giant lizard is considered as the most attraction factor that make people come to visit Flores. This was also my original intention to visit Flores. But, the special coverage ?Ring of Fire? in national newspaper Kompas in June 2012 featuring Flores with full interesting information, then my original plan changed completely.
Flores Island has more to offer. Come to Flores if you are into exploring the off-beaten-paths and the road less travelled. The natural beauty of mountain, jungle, waterfalls, craters, beaches, underwater world are there to explore. Then you also have list of ?hidden? villages with their rich cultural traditional living and buildings are waiting for you.
The pre-historic story of Flores is also interesting and most of them are remain mystery, waiting to un-earthen and to re-tell to the world. The discovery of ?Hobbit? in 2003 in Liang Bua cave in Ruteng is one of the relatively recent discoveries that continue to draw scientists to flock to the cave.
If pre-historic tales won excite you, maybe the beautiful beaches and number of secluded beaches and islands in Flores will, suitable for those beach bums and divers.
The name of Flores is originally coming from Portuguesse language, Copa de Flores or Flower Island. In general, East Nusa Tenggara has 566 islands, where some of 134 islands have no name. The eight big islands in East Nusa Tenggara are Flores, Timor, Rote, Sumba, Komodo, Adonara, Solor and Alor. Flores Island consists of 14 districts.
There are 10 local languages spoken in Flores, namely Lamaholot, Bahasa Kedang, Bahasa Nagi, Bahasa Sika, Bahasa Palue, Bahasa Lio, Bahasa Ngada, Bahasa Rembong, Bahasa Manggarai dan Bahasa Komodo (refence: Negara Flores di Mata Saya, Mansyur Kahrudin)
Flores Island is the second island in Indonesia which has most of volcanoes. With its 14,300 km wide, there are 24 active volcanoes in the island. The first is Java island with its 35 active volcanoes with the size of the island is 132.107 km. Comparing size to Java, volcanoes in Flores are considered packed!. The volcanoes are affecting interior land of Flores. It means beautiful mountains and scenery (my touristy view). The road in Flores was built following the topographic of the mountains. As the result, there is rarely straight road in the Trans Flores highway!
The Flores trip is one of my memorable journeys. This is like a small solo expedition packed with curiosity and impulsive decisions.
I should say, if you share similar curiosity and love to explore, traveling with rental car is preferable in Flores. This is quite expensive, but it is more convenient and you have total control of time and places to visit.
My 10 Travel Highlights:
1. Watched and observed Komodo Dragons
2. Visited and spent night in Wae Rebo Village
3. Visited Liang Bua Cave, where skeleton of ?Hobbit? was discovered.
4. Visited two archeological sites in Soa
5. Hiked two times to Kelimutu crater
6. Dressed in Bena custom in Bena village in Bajawa
7. Visited Snake cave
8. Swam in beautiful waterfall Cunca Wulang
9. Bird Watching and hiked in Sano Nggoang, another volcano crater
10. Enjoyed natural ?spa?, hot spring and waterfall in Soa
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I wish to share information about Flores based on my trip in August-September 2012. You will find references, useful links and websites, simple guides for directions in my travel pages. I hope can help you to plan your travel. At the end, I wish you will have opportunity to enjoy beautiful Flores.
Happy readings and Happy travel!
- Pros:Beautiful scenery and fascinating rich cultures
- Cons:Lacking infrastructure, especially in villages
- In a nutshell:A Hidden Paradise
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February 20, 2014 by David A. Brown
This labyrinth may lack the menacing Minotaur, but an ill-suited approach to the often confounding fields of stumps and standing timber in which bass hide can leave you trampled by an even more relentless threat - the clock. Indeed, you can't hit every piece of wood and you probably don't need to - you just need to look for the ones with the greatest potential and use the tools most likely to produce.
Success starts with understanding what you're looking at; and water depth plays a big role. For example, in the Red River your stump field might be 3 to 5 feet with visible structure, whereas on Table Rock Lake, the standing timber may be 30 feet tall. Different specs equal a different approach.
In a stump field, FLW Tour pro Brent Ehrler said he'll looks for some type of bottom contour. Recognizing that it's rarely just one homogenous flat with a smattering of solid objects, he tries to pinpoint a ditch running through the area and then targets those stumps sitting along the edge of the ditch.
"In a shallow stump field, like the Red River, those fish are going to group up somewhere near where it rolls off into deeper water," Ehrler said. "There's a good chance it could be next to some kind of point. Let's say that a creek channel ends and forms a little point; those fish tend to group up in areas like that."
Texas standout Stephen Johnston explained a similar point during a past trip on Lake Amistad. The creek channels leading into spawning bays typically wind through fields of huisache brush with hardwood trees seemingly scattered randomly through the area. Actually, closer inspection reveals replicable patterns.
"When a creek makes a bend to the left or a bend to the right, that's an intersection for those fish," he said. "Those fish swim in so far and they'll get in a bend and sit there. I can look at the mapping area (of my fishfinder) and see where those bends are."
Complementing the electronics, Johnston identified a surface level indicator.
"The hardwoods will be on the inside bend of a where the creek was," he said. "A lot of people just come in, put the trolling motor down and start fishing without taking just a few minutes to look around and see what they're looking at. You can look for the hardwoods and look for the gaps between the mesquite trees going through here - that's where the creeks make the swings."
For Johnston's fellow Texan Russell Cecil, identifying particular depth zones weighs heavily in his timber plan. For example, a few bites midway down the edge of a slough reaching from the main channel into a stump field gives him a scenario and depth zone to look for. If the bite fizzles, he'll move up or down on those edges to see if the fish relocated. Learning to mentally breakdown a bunch of trees, Cecil said, will save you a lot of time.
"The ability to read this timber and know how these sloughs and ridges are running is the key," Cecil said. "You have to understand what trees grow in what kind of areas. The cypress trees traditionally grow in the lower areas, so you have cypress trees that are actually in the sloughs. The hardwoods grow on the ridges or the creek banks. You're trying to look at these (dead) trees and determine which kind they are and have some kind of mental picture of what was going on out here before it flooded."
Pointing the way
Now a point is a point, regardless of where it occurs and fish like points for several reasons. For one thing, points present natural reference locations that fish use when traversing to and from deeper water. They're also great feeding areas because of their ambush potential and current-blocking benefits. And, of course, there's always the simple explanation of something different in the contour - a place fish can slide up or down to suit their comfort and practical needs.
In deep standing timber, Ehrler might fish over the tree tops, but prefers to look for points because bass relate to the sides much the same as they do with the edges of a shallow stump field ditch. Graphing the area, he'll look for the spots with a void of timber, as this indicates the point's deeper drop-off edges.
"The fish will use that timber as backing," Ehrler said. "They'll sit up against it look out at the void - the deeper water - and use that as ambush points.
"Those are two completely different scenarios, but he fish are doing relatively the same thing. They're using that stump field or they're using those trees as their backdrop, or their home and they're looking out so when something swims by, they can dart out, eat it and go right back to where they feel comfortable and safe."
Signs of promise
As Ehrler notes, voids in deep wood cover means a significant depth increase, whereas a void in a shallow stump field usually indicates a skinny spot. With the latter, anglers often take advantage of low-water conditions to remove some of the shallowest structure to improve navigational safety. This, and any other feature distinguishing an area from its surroundings, merits attention.
"In shallower water, it seems like any irregularity is a good thing," Ehrler said. "In a field of (emergent) timber where all the trees are standing up, if you see one that's laying over, there's a chance that a bass will be sitting under that (different tree). It's just something different out of the norm that those fish will hold on.
"You have way too many targets to hit and the one that's odd is usually the one that has fish on it."
Modern sonar products greatly improve your chances of finding something cool. Using his Humminbird 360 on his bow allows Ehrler to snoop around with a view of everything he's approaching or passing.
"That's where you can find those trees laying down," he said. "If you're looking at the surface and you see all that pole timber, well now I have the ability to see those laydown trees that are under that water.
Maybe someone cut down a tree when the water was low, or maybe it snapped in an ice storm. Well, now you have a laydown on the bottom. I'm not looking for a visible tree that's laying from dry land into the water. Now, I can fish those for those subsurface laydowns that you wouldn't find unless you saw it on your Side Image."
Also, peaking into a field of emergent trees and brush, you might spot strands of hydrilla hanging from the wood when the water's down. Take this as a good sign of grass growth - a great complement to wood cover and a slam dunk pre-spawn scenario.
"That grass will give pre-spawn fish a place to stage before they move up," Johnston said. "The grass provides warmth, cover and feeding opportunities."
Birds standing on timber - Cecil points said this indicates bait in the area. Herons, egrets and the like do this for a living, so if they're investing time to balance on a piece of wood, you can bet there's food in the area. You can also bet that this won't go unnoticed by the big green bullies below the surface.
Throw what you know
During a recent stump field mission, Chevy pro Jay Yelas noted: "A lot of times, I'll start by fishing a crankbait through stumps to see if I can trigger those fish to bite. The key is to make that bait deflect off the cover."
Ehrler agrees and adds this: "I want to use a search tool, like a Lucky Craft 1.5 and find a sweet spot where those fish are going to be grouped up.
"With a search bait, I can wind through there and fish effectively until I get a few bites and tell if there are a few fish in that area."
From the deeper edges of a ditch or slough running into a South Texas bay bristling with visible wood, to those deep water points with barren sides, a jerkbait offers profound bass-tempting appeal - and not only for the chilly months. No doubt, this is a solid bet for early spring, but a minnow profile hanging there all by its lonesome is mighty tempting to a bass throughout the calendar.
ChatterBaits are an effective option for working around hydrilla growth within your stump field or standing timber. Johnston likes a V&M Lightning Blade with a swimbait trailer, but if the fish are short striking and just grabbing the tail, he'll ditch the plastic and go with a more compact package. And if the fish slow down on that bite entirely, try the more subtle presentation of a swim jig.
Once you identify a pattern for where the fish are holding, or if you simply notice more response on certain types of trees - overhangs, twin trees with fish-friendly gaps, hollowed-out stumps, etc. - slowing down and picking apart such targets is a good bet.
Here, flipping or pitching Texas-rigged worms and creature baits affords the weedless benefit, but don't hesitate to send a jig into the target zone. The compact package with flaring skirt raises that craw trailer in defensive position and that's just too much for most bass to handle.
The standard rules of thumb for color selection hold their traditional wisdom here, but Cecil won't hesitate to intentionally mismatch his jig and trailer colors to effect a strong contrast that sometimes pushes indecisive bass over the edge. A green pumpkin/brown jig with a black/blue trailer blends some different tones of the bluegill look, but if a bass eats it, who's gonna question it?
Get it back
When fishing in stump fields or shallow stands of timber, consider the fact that tangled root systems laid partially bare by time and water wear love to collect fishing tackle. Popping the line often loosens the snare, but attempting this mission without a lure knocker is a just a guaranteed tackle donation at some point in the day. In water less than your rod length, you might reel the tip tight to your bait and push it free.
This is probably not the preferable method any time before late spring - unless you have antifreeze in your veins. It's also a less popular tactic in the south, where interaction with gators, moccasins and copperheads looms constantly.
However, if all else fails, there are other options you can employ to attempt to retrieve your bait. In fact, Cecil has perhaps the most innovative cure for the deep snag: Grabbing his line between the reel and the first guide, he'll pull backward to shuttle the rod into the water and down to the ensnared bait. Rather than reeling the bait to the rod, he sends the rod to the bait.
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In the sweltering 110-degree Dallas summer, sweat poured from Erwin C. Reid under his Doodles the Chicken costume. As a junior at Augusta College on a 1982 summer internship, Reid was the featured attraction as he cruised to a local movie theater in a limousine with the winner of a Chick-fil-A "Date with Doodles" contest.
The contest was just one of many marketing tools that Reid (BBA, Management, '83) and the internship "Blitz Team" used as they traveled to low performing Chick-fil-A restaurants at malls throughout the country. In some stores, their efforts boosted sales by as much as 60 percent.
Now, as the company's Vice President of Real Estate, Reid finds his efforts much more widespread. He's had a hand in opening more than 1,000 new restaurants across the country.
"It's unreal how much Chick-fil-A has grown, and I've been fortunate to be involved with it since it was a small, upstart company," Reid said of the restaurant chain, which opened its first location in an Atlanta mall in 1967. "It's remarkable to think that I've been able to contribute to its growth, and it all started with [my alma mater]."
Reid's choice of college and, ultimately, his 35-year career with Chick-fil-A both happened because a bright-eyed teenager, fresh out of high school in Fort Campbell, Ky., came to Augusta to visit a friend. One week turned into two, and before long, he was searching for a job so that he could stay indefinitely.
So in 1978, Reid took a part-time job at the Augusta Mall Chick-fil-A, where he cooked, cleaned, and worked the counter. "Pretty soon after getting used to living on my own with my buddies, I realized I needed to get my act together and start school. I loved being in Augusta, and Augusta College was the logical choice," Reid said.
He liked the size of campus and classes that were small enough to foster meaningful interaction with his professors. So Reid spent five years balancing college with a 50- to 60-hour workweek at Chick-fil-A. His schedule didn't allow time for extracurricular activities, but most Sunday afternoons were spent on campus studying in Reese Library, thanks to Chick-fil-A's policy of not operating on Sundays.
Reid's five years working behind the counter at the Augusta Mall paid the bills, but he also enjoyed the work and the extra responsibility given to him through the summer internship and winning a one-year Chick-fil-A scholarship, which motivated him to stay his course.
In February of his senior year, Reid drove from Augusta to Atlanta in a snowstorm to interview with Bubba Cathy, son of Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy and the company's Senior Vice President, for a position in the company's career development program. He got the job. "My last quarter of college was nice knowing that I had a career starting right after graduation," Reid said.
He spent two years as a district manager in the operations department before settling into real estate. Chick-fil-A's restaurants were then limited to mall food courts, where Reid learned the ins and outs of mall lease negotiations. In 1986, the company opened its first stand-alone restaurant,and Reid's responsibilities, as part of a two-man real estate department, grew along with the company.
That growth extended overseas in the 1990s, when Reid helped establish Chick-fil-A's International Division. The division focused on Latin America, where no restaurants opened, and then post-apartheid South Africa, where Reid oversaw three restaurant openings. However, the country's economy was still in turmoil, and those restaurants, and ultimately the division, were short-lived. The experience taught Reid valuable lessons to bolster the company's growth strategy.
"We realized we had a long way to go in the U.S., and although international growth sounds intriguing, we found that it takes four or five times the amount of money and time that you think it will take before you start," Reid said. "It was a great learning experience for all involved."
Today, as the Vice President of Real Estate, Reid heads a 30-member team and oversees growth strategy and its execution for Chick-fil-A nationwide. His focus is finding new markets with significant population growth and a healthy business atmosphere with nearby shopping, bustling daytime population, and residential development. Reid's ability to execute the company's growth strategy is enhanced by his years of experience as a frontline team member and district manager, said Reid's colleague and friend of 35 years, Tim Tassopoulos, Executive Vice President of Operations.
"Erwin has a winning combination of experience, judgment, and business acumen," Tassopoulos said. "He's not only strategic in real estate, but he also brings perspective from the front-line customer service standpoint and not just what's good forcorporate. That's incredibly valuable."
When Reid started at the Augusta Mall Chick-fil-A 35 years ago, the company's annual revenue was around $80 million. It now hovers around $5 billion, and Reid's colleagues laud his role as part of the team that achieved that success.
"Erwin's contribution to Chick-fil-A is dramatic when you think of our growth," said Tassopoulos. "When he started, there were 70 or 80 restaurants and now there are 1,700. He's been accountable for much of that real estate."
And Reid sees a lot more expansion in the near future.
"We're opening more new markets in the next four years than we ever have. We'll pretty much be in every state besides Alaska and Hawaii by 2017," Reid said. Chick-fil-A restaurants currently operate in 39 states. Reid also thinks that at some point, the company will use lessons learned to revisit the international stage. While Chick-fil-A has grown tremendously, Reid also has come a long way since his days moonlighting as Doodles, the company's original mascot which was replaced in 1995 by cows convincing customers to "EAT MOR CHIKIN." Augusta College, Reid insists, paved the way.
"[My alma mater] has afforded me the type of career that lots of people from the finest universities might dream about," Reid said. "With a goal of education and a vehicle of hard work, you can accomplish things beyond your imagination without going to the most expensive school in the country. I got a great education while working behind the counter at Chick-fil-A."
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Definition of coco de mer in English:
coco de mer
1A tall palm tree native to the Seychelles. Also called double coconut.
- Lodoicea maldivica, family Palmae.
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- The huge seed of the coco de mer is unique to the Seychelles islands in the western Indian Ocean.
1.1The immense nut of the coco de mer tree, which is encased in a hard woody shell and is the largest known seed.
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The BBC is searching for republicans to attack the Queen in a film to be broadcast on the night she dies, it has emerged.
The corporation has already been rebuffed by the Left-wing playwright Sir David Hare, who once declared that the "monarchy is a historical absurdity".
He discloses today that he was approached by the BBC to record an interview for a film it was preparing for "the night the Queen dies".
He said: "They told me that everyone they had chosen to speak to had unsurprisingly turned out to be an admirer, and, in the fabled interests of balance, they needed the opposing point of view. 'Oh,' I said. 'You mean you want me to attack the Queen on the night of her death?'
"I declined, not because it was the Queen, but because it was anyone," he reveals in the New Statesman.
He says the BBC made the same request, which he also turned down, for a film on Margaret Thatcher.
David Davies, the Tory MP, said: "[The Queen] will go down in history as one of the greatest monarchs this country has ever had after her namesake Elizabeth I.
"By any standards, she has been outstanding. I can't think why the BBC would want an opposing view on the day she dies. I do not think people will want to hear that on the BBC."
Even Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, said it would appear in such a film only if it was transmitted at least a few days after the Queen's death.
A BBC spokesman denied that Sir David had been approached.
"We never discuss arrangements for obituaries or our planning in response to people's deaths as we do not think that this is in the best taste," he said.
"However, as Sir David has raised it, no one currently here at the BBC knows of any such approaches made to him."


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No Bully In The Pulpit: After Gun Control Failure, Maureen Dowd Says Obama 'Still Has Not Learned How To Govern'
For all the confused debate over the meaning of the climate bill's failure, the most salient lesson for climate hawks is that Obama is not "the one."
Obama isn't the Winston Churchill that this nation — and indeed all of humanity — so desperately need if we are to avoid a catastrophic 7°F warming, let alone the unimaginable 11°F warming we are currently headed toward.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd makes that key point about the gun control failure in her tough Sunday piece, "No Bully in the Pulpit":
President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston.
Unfortunately, he still has not learned how to govern.
Obama talks the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk, or, rather, he doesn't twist the wrist, as Dowd details in her piece:
How is it that the president won the argument on gun safety with the public and lost the vote in the Senate? It's because he doesn't know how to work the system. And it's clear now that he doesn't want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.
It's unbelievable that with 90 percent of Americans on his side, he could get only 54 votes in the Senate. It was a glaring example of his weakness in using leverage to get what he wants. No one on Capitol Hill is scared of him….
The White House should have created a war room full of charts with the names of pols they had to capture, like they had in "The American President." Soaring speeches have their place, but this was about blocking and tackling….
Sometimes you must leave the high road and fetch your brass knuckles. Obama should have called Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota over to the Oval Office and put on the squeeze: "Heidi, you're brand new and you're going to have a long career. You work with us, we'll work with you. Public opinion is moving fast on this issue. The reason you get a six-year term is so you can have the guts to make tough votes. This is a totally defensible bill back home. It's about background checks, nothing to do with access to guns. Heidi, you're a mother. Think of those little kids dying in schoolrooms."
Obama had to persuade some Republican senators in states that he won in 2012. He should have gone out to Ohio, New Hampshire and Nevada and had big rallies to get the public riled up to put pressure on Rob Portman, Kelly Ayotte and Dean Heller, giving notice that they would pay a price if they spurned him on this….
Couldn't the president have given his Rose Garden speech about the "shameful" actions in Washington before the vote rather than after?
There were ways to get to 60 votes. The White House just had to scratch it out with a real strategy and a never-let-go attitude.
Obama, of course, didn't do either the speechmaking or wrist-twisting for the climate bill.
He never kept Democratic Senators in line for the climate bill. He never made clear there was definitely going to be a vote on the bill, as they knew there would be for health care. This allowed moderate Democrats to publicly bad-mouth the bill and say that there was no path to 60 votes, which essentially sent the message to moderate Republicans crucial to the bill's passage that they would be taking a massive political risk supporting any bill.
He never forced a vote at all in the Senate, never framed the issue for moderate Republicans (and moderate Democrats) as the most important vote of their careers — a historic vote that would determine their legacy for all time. But then apparently Obama has failed to realize climate change will determine his legacy for all time (see "Obama Wins Reelection, Now Must Become A Climate Hawk To Avoid Dust-Bin Of History, Dust Bowl For America").
Indeed, on climate, Obama never gave one single major national speech on the most important issue of our time. He even muzzled his Cabinet and Administration from talking about climate. Worse, the Obama White House insisted on a communications strategy for everyone involved in pushing the climate bill that rejected any talk about the problem the climate bill was designed to address — see "The Sounds Of Silence: Team Obama Launched The Inane Strategy Of Downplaying Climate Change Back In March 2009."
Finally, after his reelection, Obama has started making some (relatively brief) national comments on climate. In his State of the Union address, he vowed, "If Congress Won't Act Soon To Protect Future Generations, I Will." His decision on the Keystone XL pipeline this summer will make clear whether even that pledge is true.
Dowd's bottom line:
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. He chooses not to get down in the weeds and pretend he values the stroking and other little things that matter to lawmakers.
After the Newtown massacre, he and his aides hashed it out and decided he would look cold and unsympathetic if he didn't push for some new regulations. To thunderous applause at the State of the Union, the president said, "The families of Newtown deserve a vote." Then, as usual, he took his foot off the gas, lost momentum and confided his pessimism to journalists.
The White House had a defeatist mantra: This is tough. We need to do it. But we're probably going to lose.
When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose….
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. But as Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, noted, senators have their own tough selling job to do back home. "In the end you can really believe in something," he told The Times's Jennifer Steinhauer, "but you have to go sell it."
The president said the Newtown families deserved a vote. But he was setting his sights too low. They deserved a law.
And what do all of our families and indeed all future generations deserve?
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While I agree with you about the climate bill, I thought Maureen Dowd's column was pretty badly off the mark on the gun bill. That one was always going to be a heavy lift, and there's pretty much nothing Obama can do if Republicans reflexively vote against anything Obama is for. TMP has a good summary here: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/nros-robert-costa-maureen-dowd-is-wrong
I agree that the climate bill was much closer and that Obama didn't really fight for it (and probably could have won if he did), but I think the Dowd column about the gun issue is just wrong.
It depends on whether or not you think he actually wanted this enough to do something about it. I'm skeptical.
Aside from the public posturing necessary to protect his carefully nurtured image, Obama is pretty good at getting what he really wants.
For instance, ask Denis Kucinich.
Obama can
(1) Sign a wide range of executive orders
(2) Control the implementation of new laws via "signing statements"
(3) Convene panels of the National Academy of Sciences to engage the public
(4) Present military and intelligence advisors to the public to talk about national security and climate
If Obama had the desire to do so, he could set the national agenda to put the threat of global warming amidst the top five issues in the national dialogue.
But nope.
He's letting others chart the course. What do they say of military generals who lose the initiative? ANSWER: They lose the war.
Where I live, there's a chain of good to great Democrats all the way up the hierarchy. From city mayor to congressman and governor, two senators, and President.
Problem is, not one of those electeds is framing the ask at a level where even if 100% of it was achieved, it would be close to getting the job done.
A state environmental leader I was talking with on Friday shared his sense that what most of these officials care about – are focused on – is winning. Not doing what's needed. Not finding solutions to real problems. Not doing the right thing. Doing what looks like it will win.
I realized that's really what our current political system selects for, over time.
Yeah, Obama blew it in 2009. You can go over it all you want but that was then, this is now. NOW Republicans, radical conspiracy theory believing Republicans, control the House. You can twist arms all you like in the Senate but a climate bill, and a gun bill and probably an immigration bill, will go nowhere in the House. The inmates control the asylum. The Americans who elected those Republican radicals are just as nuts as they are.
Anyone that thinks Obama is anything but center-right is fooling themselves.
That said, Dowd's commentary was written to sell newspapers. In her own schizo-affective manner, she swings from left to right herself, contingent on her target of the day.
Climate change will only be affected by YOU talking with YOUR congresscritters.
Have you done that today?
How about tomorrow?
Obama didn't get much help from liberal politicians, even ones who campaigned on global warming. Their websites generally focused on energy issues such as energy independence and green jobs. The major environmental organizations also played down the threat of global warming focusing instead on the low hanging fruit like compact fluorescent light bulbs and of course green jobs. Perhaps Obama is the most to blame but there I think there is a lot of blame to go around.
I'm no fan of Maureen Dowd's writing. I'll agree with her that the president could do more than he has to push these bills. But that still does not trump the reflexive opposition from Republicans in the Senate and especially in the House. The only cure for that is to make it clear that the reflexive opposition will result in a failure to be reelected. And only the public can do that.
How did a center-right politician win the WH on the DEMs ticket? Thank the Tea Party, who pulled the entire spectrum to the right.
So how do we treat Greens? Lynch 'em! Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The right knows how to control the story. The left should take some lessons.
Geez la weez….. why can't Obama gather up a few climate scientists and hold town meetings at the scene of extereme weather every two weeks? Live TV and Radio. Interest streams.
Obama could *completely* change the story on Main Street to Climate-Top-Three-Issue before the next election…… he simply chooses not to do that.
PS Of course, I meant where extereme weather has happened the last few years, not that it is regularly scheduled for every two weeks.
The right wing has had some mighty nasty things to say about Obama. Except for the birth certificate and Obama being a Muslim, I see no reason to disagree.
Own the mainstream media?
I agree about Dowd. She never gave Obama a fair shake anyway, and this is her just using another opportunity to take him down.
The key is not what happens, it is how you respond. Let us see what happens next.
About climate, well, Obama has never lived up to 2008.
President Obama will only respond as far as he is pushed. Are we giving him any indication we are pushing him? if not, what is the purpose of further analysis?
Don't blame Obama for not being courageous unless we are in the streets this summer, 1 million strong. Are you in?
President Obama was guilty of most of the inadequacies, style problems, missteps, and (I would suggest) of not even trying hard when it comes to addressing climate change, all BEFORE the months leading up to the recent Presidential election. Yet the Center for American Progress, including Climate Progress (although CP has long been critical of Obama, in writing) effectively supported, encouraged, and enabled his reelection unconditionally, in effect, by dismissing any idea that the movement would do better to place conditions on Obama's actions and words, in advance of the election, and be willing to not vote for him if those conditions went unmet. The "lesser of two evils" approach to voting enables (and even rewards) the sort of inaction that's being criticized here, yet most people in the movement seem to subscribe (and still do?) to the lesser-of-two-evils approach, election after election after election. What NEW and DIFFERENT philosophy and strategy, as it relates to which candidates to support, will CAP and CP, and Bill and 350.org, and etc. discuss and adopt prior to the midterm elections and then going into the next Presidential election. (Many Dems are saying that "Hilary is the One", but has she shown any signs that she will be different from Obama on climate; and will the movement be able and willing to make demands of her as a condition for voting for her, or anyone else for that matter?)
It is easy to critique Obama (and right to, of course), but CAP, CP, and (I would guess) a majority of the folks in the climate movement reelected him unconditionally, in effect, without hardly putting any REAL pressure on him of the type that counts … votes withheld or given. We are defeating ourselves with the "lesser of two evils" approach to voting and by giving our votes away cheaply, without condition, again and again and again. What's the NEW thinking, Joe and Bill and etc.?
(Sorry for the critique. But it becomes a bit hard to read how awful thing are going, and how ineffective Obama has been, when 'WE' reelected him only several months ago and still seem not to recognize that problem, a persistent one if we just continue it each election cycle without learning anything.)
Be Well,
Very well observed. Of course he'd need to beef up his security. There's nothing more troubling to the elite than a President with ideas above his station, like poor old JFK.
One million, ten million- it won't make a difference. The system is hermetically sealed from the influence of the rabble. If one hundred billionaires saw Obama, then he'd jump. 'We, the People' are dispensable. 'They, the Rulers' are not.
The 'lesser evil' scam is a bulwark of the sham democracy con-job. A lesser evil is still evil, and, often enough, it isn't even 'lesser'.
Yes, Obama has been weak. But let me speak my peace. I'm an evolutionist, and I bow down to no person or historical gods. In 2010, I read 12 books on the Civil War and it scared me. A great percentage still believe that war was just about states rights as the main reason. Slavery to them is secondary, but I will go one step further and say the religious convictions of those on both sides increased the probability of war. One has to have a deep moral conviction to accept slavery, and there is more than enough historical evidence to back this statement. Obama is our first black U.S. President, one should never forget this. I myself have had to adjust my thinking. The opposition has been baiting him since day one, and sooner or later he's going to have to bite that hook and fight them for all its worth. If he lets this pipeline go through I will drop him but wish him well.
Kindly explain all the environmental regulations that have been passed that the so called "corporate masters" keep complaining about. Are the complaints also a sham to fool everybody? Is the Clear Water Act a sham? Is the Clean Drinking Water Act a sham? Is the Clean Air Act a sham? Are the regulations to limit mercury emissions a sham? Is the National Park system a sham? Are protected wilderness areas a sham?
Who say's we're going to avoid catastrophic warming? It's already in the pipeline and is virtually unstoppable now.
The science completely supports this fact. Articles that continue to misrepresent this staggering truth are disingenuous (stop publishing them).
Jeff, nice to hear your clear, insightful voice again.
Richard Nixon signed the clean water and air acts not because he was an environmentalist, but because he knew that people would come out in the streets.
What is gained by saying nothing we do will work? What is the alternative? Will our refusal to try win us some "smart analyst" award from our grandchildren as the planet is destroyed? Do we want to go down fighting, or showing how our refusal to fight showed how smart we were?
Joe, thanks for this honest piece on Obama and especially what happened in 2009. I agree with Maureen Dowd's assessment completely and have done for some time; Maureen Dowd lite/condensed: "Obama is all gloss, no grit".
Jeff. I should have added: I voted for him once, but I'm no damn fool.
I love you super geniuses and arm chair quarterbacks that say Obama should have done this or that. Give me a break! What Obama needs is some help in Congress and let's get that for him by voting every last Republican out of office. Any lawmaker who denies climate change, accepts money from fossil fuel interests and doesn't listen to the overwhelming evidence from science, then that person is unfit for office. Any lawmaker who can't support common sense background checks for gun sales is also unfit for office. Vote these people out!!
All good, as far as they go, which is insufficient today. All achieved decades ago, by 'radicals' like Nixon, who was many things but not barking mad. All subjected to increasingly relentless attack by Rightwing ideologues who will, unless stopped, destroy them all in the name of 'Freedom'. All administered indifferently, depending on who occupies the White House. All being chiseled away at by the destructocrats, their lawyers and 'business-friendly' courts.
I'm not against protesting, Mark, but I know that polite marching in the streets will be laughed at. And direct action will be crushed, and any sort of violent resistance is what the Bosses want, and if the environmentalists do not oblige, they'll provide their own 'false-flag' nastiness. Of course it's good to march. It's healthy exercise, you meet nice people, exchange ideas, form alliances and get ready to face the disaster together, which will be beneficial. History tells us the steps by which a restive population removes a corrupt and insolent elite, and it's not a dinner party sort of thing.
Gun control failed because the Dems insist on abdicate power by continuing to support the filibuster rule. The US Constitution clearly specifies when a super majority is required; the ratification of treaties, impeachment, amendments to the constitution, etc.
Votes on gun control do not require a super majority. Somehow Dem politicians have this crazy idea that the people who vote for them want them to cede control to the T-pubs. They are mistaken.
When the T-pubs gain control the filibuster will be gone in a nanosecond.
One small oversight. 'Winning' requires giving the electorate what they want. Now, where's the problem in that scenario?
"President Obama will only respond as far as he is pushed." No different from any other politician. The reality is 'we', the seven billion inhabitants of this planet, don't want to make the sacrifices required to save the biosphere, and therefore 'we' don't exert any pressure on our political leaders to propose serious climate action.
Joe, I appreciate CP, a lot, and know that you've been appropriately critical of the President. My (looking-forward) point or question is this: Shouldn't genuinely 'progressive' folks who are serious about climate change make sure that there is an excellent Democrat candidate, or two or three, in the Democratic primary process to make sure the issue of climate change is a pivotal one next time around, and to make sure that no candidate (Hilary?) can get away with being luke-warm on the topic, noncommittal, vague, or likely to place words over actions once in office? AND, shouldn't real progressives who are genuinely concerned about climate change ALSO pay attention to, and potentially support, a third-party candidate who is serious about climate change, if the Democrat-party process doesn't result in one? These are the questions that should be asked and discussed now (even as the more important direct-activism ramps up in the meantime)! The movement traps itself by not seriously discussing these matters, not learning lessons from history very well, and only barely discussing them at a date when many people conclude that "it's too late this time around; maybe next time". The same pattern happens, over and over. IF we are serious, then these sorts of discussions should start to take place NOW. (McKibben's fairly recent article was perhaps a starting point, in that he at least recognized the problem.)
Be Well,
It is useful to stress a system with a less important problem to get a feel how things work and to get a lay of the land.
There's no success like failure and failure is no success at all, goes that Bob Dylan line.
Kill someone off in the first act if you want to get people's attention is another.
Climate change is the big one. Everything is at stake.
Positive & negative reactions on Senate gun votes less about background checks than overall attitudes on #GunControl http://t.co/ZTGP9G47Mz — Pew Research Center (@pewresearch)
Surprising the potential of how terribly nuanced that political cartoon might be.
Filibuster is part of the arsenal that the 'Indispensable Enemies' of the two Rightwing parties, pretend adversaries, use to ensure that change that threatens elite rule and power never occurs.


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Anti-gang efforts get $100,000 from state
Published: Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 4:30 a.m.
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Bill Harper Jr., owner of Harper Yamaha on Spartanburg Highway, has watched as businesses around him became the victims of vandalism.
MS-13 membership
The formation of MS-13 cliques is the result of MS-13 members relocation to new areas due to job availability, avoidance of law enforcement, family relationships and criminal activity. The arrest of a leader can disrupt MS-13 operations, especially in the recruitment of other members
Development trends
With the significant growth of the Latino population and the establishment of Hispanic gangs in North Carolina, an increase in the membership of these gangs continues.
The criminal activities of these gangs are likely to escalate as the memberships in these gangs grow.
Additionally, it is reasonable to expect gang rivalry will increase as the different gangs align themselves to become larger and more formidable.
Source: FBI intelligence assessment report Dec. 2006
When Harper heard about the Henderson County Sheriff's Office initiative to form a gang unit that would work to clean graffiti as part of its mission to eradicate gangs, he was pleased.
"Sounds good to me," Harper said. "I think it would help a a lot, but also they need to observe the people in the act. If they (the city police) would patrol undercover in the areas where the vandalism is happening they could accomplish more. I agree what the sheriff's department is doing is a good idea, but they have to see them doing it to be effective."
An FBI assessment said that Latino gang-related crime is growing in North Carolina, and Sheriff Rick Davis has mounted an effort to combat the problem.
"There are gangs in Henderson County," Davis said. "We have arrested several gang members on a federal drug indictment recently and they were true gang members."
The effort got a boost from a $100,000 state grant that will pay for two positions of an anti-gang unit.
One deputy already assigned to the unit, Sgt. Doug Hill, is working on the beginning levels of gangs.
"I have had to address gang problems with the school system," Hill said. "Recognizing the signs of possible gang activity needs to be one of the preventative measures, especially in the middle schools."
The placement of school resource officers in county middle schools, Davis said, is one way of keeping awareness at the forefront.
"We will be working in collaboration with the city police department as well as other agencies in the community," Davis said.
Hill said evidence of possible gang involvement in schools includes gang symbols on notebooks and certain clothing the students wear.
"I have done talks at Flat Rock Middle School and East Henderson High School along with other schools to tell staff and students what to look for," Hill said. "Without going into details, there are certain colors in clothing that are indicators and specific markings."
Hill said he did not want to go into details because that tends to create copycats who try to emulate the gang symbols and clothing.
Davis agreed, saying there are two types of gangs -- pseudo-gangs who simply try to emulate gang activities and actual dangerous gangs.
"The problem is if we see a link between the two types of gangs we need to put a stop to it because if they were to combine it would be difficult to break the cycle," Davis said.
The gang unit will have two officers in the beginning -- Sgt. Hill, who will be in charge of the unit, and a second position that will work on outreach.
"We have to make arrests of gang members for the crimes they commit from trafficking drugs to vandalism," Davis said. "The gang unit will allow us to have a comprehensive look at what's going on around the community as it relates to gang activity."
MS-13 is one of the fastest growing and most violent gangs operating both nationally and internationally, according to a recent FBI intelligence assessment report. North Carolina is among seven states where MS-13 is considered active and likely to expand.
In the past, law enforcement dealt with gangs by making arrests for crimes committed that were unrelated to gang activity. With this grant, Davis said, the unit will be able to develop intelligence to act against gang members and try to stop crime before it happens.
Davis said that vision of the gang unit is to create a community where youths and their families reject gangs and where gangs no longer exist.
Davis said MS-13 actively recruits members from middle schools and high schools and this is why a major focus of the gang unit will be concentrating on educating youth.
"We have not seen that (gang recruitment) in schools yet, but we want to prevent it before it starts," Davis said.
The Sheriff's Office was granted nearly $100,000, requiring a local match of $33,000. Davis said the local money from the Sheriff's Office will come from federal drug seizure cash.
Grant breakdown
Amount allocated by gang prevention grant for personnel: $88,278.81
Gang enforcement officer (Feb. 19-June 30, 2008)
$41,682 annually for salary and benefits
$56,110.25 for salary and benefits for life of grant
Latino Outreach Coordinator (July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008)
$31,805 annually for salary and benefits
Personnel: $87,915.36
Approved budget for grant: $132,106.97
Amount provided by Governors Crime Commission: $99,080.23
Henderson County match: $33,026.74
$27,043.15 for a vehicle for gang enforcement officer
$2,500 for laptop for Latino Outreach Coordinator
$500 for a printer for the Latino Outreach Coordinator
$2,983.59 for informational literature on Gang Prevention Partnership
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The Manhattan Christian College volleyball team received several awards at the NCCAA National Awards Banquet in Kissimmee, Fla., including the naming of head coach Lauren Sanders as national Coach of the Year.
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Shelley Jameson, voice instructor at Nyack's School of Music, will perform the role of Musetta in Puccini's beloved masterpiece, La BohĶme, at the Los Angeles Opera on opening night, November 20. She will also be featured November 24 and 28 and December 2 and 11.
La BohĶme, a heartbreaking love story, is Puccini's most popular opera. Having previously coached with Placido Domingo, Shelley was personally cast by him for this famous role. He is the General Director of the Los Angeles Opera.
She has appeared with the New York City Opera, the Washington Opera, the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow, the Santiago Opera in Chile, Landestheater in Salzburg and a number of summer festivals nationwide and abroad.
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Bank Swaps Show Stress Fears Ebb as Bonds Rally: Credit Markets
Bond investors are gaining confidence in the ability of banks to ride out Europe's government deficit crisis, driving the difference in the cost of insuring financial and corporate debt from default to near the lowest in three months.
The Markit iTraxx Financial Index of credit-default swaps on 25 banks and insurers from Banco Santander SA in Spain to Germany's Deutsche Bank AG fell more than 25 basis points last week, the most in two months. The bank swaps index pared that decline today, though it's still just 19 basis points wider than the Markit iTraxx Europe Index of corporates, down from a record 55 basis points on June 4.
Investors are buying bank bonds at the fastest pace in six months on speculation the examination by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors will confirm lenders can withstand a shrinking economy and a drop in the value of government bonds. Europe's budget deficit crisis triggered concern banks would suffer crippling losses from sovereign debt holdings.
"There was a fear the financial system would collapse," said Philip Gisdakis, a Munich-based strategist at UniCredit SpA. "There's a high probability the stress tests will show the core of the financial system is healthy and sound in the sense it can weather the storm."
A weekly survey of money managers by Jersey City, New Jersey-based Ried Thunberg ICAP, a unit of ICAP Plc, the world's largest inter-dealer broker, found that 95 percent of the 22 respondents controlling $1.39 trillion said most major European banks will receive favorable test ratings.
Bond Sales Rebound
Financial firms in Europe sold the most bonds last week since the start of January, raising 11.4 billion euros ($14.4 billion), or 93 percent more than this year's weekly average of 5.9 billion euros, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Elsewhere in credit markets, the extra yield investors demand to own corporate bonds rather than government debt fell to the lowest in almost seven weeks. Spreads shrank 5 basis points last week to an average of 192 basis points, or 1.92 percentage points, the narrowest since May 24, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Broad Market Corporate Index. The gap reached a low this year of 142 on April 21 before expanding to as much as 201 on June 11. Yields fell to 3.97 percent, from 3.98 percent on July 2.
'Positive Outlook'
"Overall sentiment feels like it has shifted, giving investors a more positive outlook," Payden & Rygel, a Los Angeles-based investment firm overseeing $50 billion led by Joan Payden, said in a report to clients.
Oracle Corp. plans a benchmark sale of 10- and 30-year debt in its first bond offering in more than a year, according to a person familiar with the transaction. The Redwood City, California-based software maker sold $4.5 billion of debt in June 2009 to help finance its acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., which was completed in January, Bloomberg data show.
Toyota Motor Corp., through its finance arm, plans to sell $1.25 billion of bonds backed by debt on vehicles, a person familiar with the offering said. SLM Corp., the student lender known as Sallie Mae, plans to sell $869 million of bonds tied to private loans, or those that don't carry a government guarantee, another person said.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, started marketing five-year Samurai bonds, according to a person familiar with the matter. The retailer told investors it may price fixed-rate bonds to yield between 30 basis points and 40 basis points more than the yen swap rate.
Credit-Default Swaps
The cost of protecting corporate bonds from default in the U.S. rose for the first time this month. Credit-default swaps on the Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index, which investors use to hedge against losses on corporate debt or to speculate on creditworthiness, climbed 1.36 basis points to a mid-price of 111.8 basis points as of 11:26 a.m. in New York, according to Markit Group Ltd. In London, the Markit iTraxx Europe Index of 125 companies with investment-grade ratings increased 1.14 to 116.6, Markit prices show.
The indexes typically rise as investor confidence deteriorates and fall as it improves. Credit-default swaps pay the buyer face value if a borrower fails to meet its obligations, less the value of the defaulted debt. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.
Bermuda Offering
In emerging markets, the extra yield investors demand to own bonds instead of government debt rose 4 basis points to 315 basis points, according to index data from JPMorgan Chase & Co. The spread has ranged from as low as 229 on April 15 to as high as 359 on May 25.
Bermuda plan to sell as much as $500 million of 10-year bonds, according to people with knowledge of the offering. HSBC Holdings Plc is managing the issue, the people said.
Rising confidence in Europe's banks can also be seen in their so-called Tier 1 bonds, which are used by lenders to bolster capital ratios. The securities have gained 1.52 percent this month, compared with a loss of 0.07 percent for a global index of the debt maintained by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and 0.02 percent for corporate bonds in the region.
"There is a tendency from the outside to be excessively pessimistic," European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said at a news conference in Frankfurt after the ECB left its benchmark interest rate at a record low of 1 percent on July 8. "The figures don't confirm this pessimism."
'Encouraging' Signs
Europe's economy is showing "encouraging" signs, Trichet said, with exports and industrial production rising and employment stabilizing.
The stress tests will cover 65 percent of the area's banking industry and include 14 German lenders, six from Greece and four from the U.K., the European bank committee said July 7. The results will be disclosed July 23.
Yields on financial company bonds in euros have climbed 60 basis points relative to benchmark rates since April 30 to 250 basis points, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's EMU Financial Corporate Index. The spread on euro corporate securities widened 47 basis points in the same period.
Financial credit-default swaps approached an all-time high in Europe last month amid concern that Greece, Portugal and Spain may be forced to restructure debt to ease budget deficits that are more than three times the European Union limit.
Greek attempts to cut the budget deficit are "positive," indicating that 2010 targets may be met and reducing the medium-term risk of default or an imminent debt restructuring, Citigroup Inc. analysts wrote in a July 9 report. European government measures to curb government spending and boost taxes are also taking the pressure off banks.
"There is renewed faith in the banks," Suki Mann, a credit strategist at Societe Generale SA in London, wrote in a note to investors. "If the results of the impending earnings season prove strong, financials will continue to outperform corporates soundly."


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All students in grades 7 - 12 gather in the Student Center (3rd Floor - East Building) at 9:00 a.m. The first Sunday of each month is Breakfast Sunday, where students share a big meal and meet as a large group for worship and teaching. The rest of the month students split up into classes (Jr. High Guys, Jr. High Girls, High School Guys, High School Girls, Seniors Co-Ed) for the ELEMENTS bible study, where each month we look at a different core concept of Christianity.
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Welcome to the Surf's Up Achievement Guide. For your convenience I have divided the achievements up into sections. If you follow the road map above and the descriptions within in each achievement you should have very little problem getting all 1000
. Enjoy!
1) Unlockable and Miscellaneous Achievements
2) Trophy Related Achievements
3) Shell and Shell Related Achievements
4) Surf Idol Achievements
**** Unlockable and Miscellaneous Achievements
These achievements are gained either by completing the game's tutorial mode or unlocking certain items. Items in this game are unlocked by earning shells which are awarded for completing preset objectives given to you in each level. As long as you collect every shell, then you won't miss out on any of the unlockable achievements.
Quick Learner
Complete all the lessons in the tutorial.
After you begin Championship mode, choose your surfer and then choose Shiverpool. After the video you will have the option to choose Shiverpool 1, instead choose the circle down and to the left of Shiverpool 1 that says "Training." In total there are 9 lessons that must be completed for this achievement. They are as follows:
Basic Tricks
Advanced Tricks
Hold Tricks
Freestyle Tricks
Speed Boost
Stoke Mode
NOTE: After you complete each lesson there will be an "X" in the block next to it.
Fashion Freak
Unlock every accessory.
Much easier than it sounds. There are only two accessories that need to be unlocked for this achievement. Back accessories and Wrist accessories are both unlocked by earning shells for Shiverpool 1 and Pen-Gu South 3 respectively.
Board Collector
Unlock all the boards in the game.
In total there are 14 boards in the game. This is the glitchiest achievement in the game. Some people collect every shell, trophy and idol and still don't get all the boards to unlock. The best fix to avoid this problem is to not use cheat codes or move onto a new area until you have all the trophies, shells and idols. BP! did some research into the glitch; his result can be found
. The following is the list of boards:
Barnacle Board
Tiny Wonder
The Rock
Tidal Wave
Tiny Tornado
Sunny Day
The Boat
Tiny Storm
Carve Meister
Tiny Thunder
Nirvana (best board in the game)
First steps
Start surfing on the Pen Gu North Legendary wave!
The Legendary Wave area unlocks after earning the trophies for Pen-Gu North 1, 2 and 3. After that the area can be found just above the Pen-Gu North 3 area in Pen-Gu North. The achievement will unlock as soon as the level begins.
Trophy Related Achievements
Trophies are what the game uses to allow you to unlock different areas. All trophies require a certain amount of points be gained on a level for them to be awarded. For the most part, trophies are much easier to earn than shells.
Beginners Luck
Get 1 Trophy in Shiverpool area.
The first trophy in Shiverpool 1 requires you to earn 10,000 points. To do this simply perform advanced tricks with
or hold tricks by holding
until you can enter stoke mode. Once you have enough to enter stoke mode, grab a multiplier, press
and perform a couple tricks. You'll have 10,000 points before you know it.
Leaving Shiverpool
Get 2 Trophies in Shiverpool area.
The second trophy in Shiverpool 2 requires you to earn 12,000 points. Again, simply perform advanced tricks with
or hold tricks by holding
until you can enter stoke mode. Once you have enough to enter stoke mode, grab a multiplier, press
and perform a couple tricks. 12,000 points should come very early on.
Welcome to Pen Gu South
Get 1 Trophy in Pen-Gu South area.
The first trophy in Pen-Gu South 1 requires you to get 15,000 points. Follow the advice given in
Beginners Luck
and you should have no problems.
Leaving Pen Gu South
Get 4 Trophies in Pen-Gu South area.
To unlock this achievement you must earn the trophies for Pen-Gu South 2, 3 and 4. The requirements are as follows:
Pen-Gu South 2: Earn 15,000 points
Pen-Gu South 3: Earn 20,000 points
Pen-Gu South 4: Earn 20,000 points
Welcome to the Volcano
Get 1 Trophy in Volcano area.
The first trophy in Volcano 1 requires you to get 25,000 points. Simply use all the skills you've learned from the previous areas and this should be easy.
Leaving Volcano
Get 2 Trophies in Volcano area.
The second trophy in Volcano 2 requires you to get 20,000 points. This can easily be done by gaining multipliers and entering stoke mode and performing stoke tricks with
If you're having trouble, grabbing the multipliers while in the wave tunnels before doing stoke moves helps add up the points.
Welcome to Pen Gu North
Get 1 Trophy in Pen-Gu North area.
The first trophy in Pen-Gu North 1 requires you to get 25,000 points. No secrets here, just rack up points like you have been for the previous trophies and you'll have 25,000 in no time.
Leaving Pen Gu North
Get 3 Trophies in Pen-Gu North area.
To unlock this achievement you must earn the other two trophies for Pen-Gu North 2 and 3. The requirements are as follows:
Pen-Gu North 2: Earn 30,000 points
Pen-Gu North 3: Earn 30,000 points
King of Boneyards
Get 1 Trophy in Boneyards.
The Boneyards is the last level you unlock. There is only one area within it. To earn the trophy you will need to get 40,000 points.
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