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HILLSVILLE - A Mount Airy, N.C., man faces two felony charges and eight traffic offenses after running from police in both Carroll County and in Surry County, N.C., Thursday.
At about 1 p.m. Carroll Sgt. Bobby Lyons was traveling south bound U.S. 52 near the old tavern and observed a white BMW traveling north bound at a high rate of speed, according to Sheriff J.B Gardner. Lyons turned on the car, activated his emergency equipment and the BMW increased his speed in an effort to pull away.
Two suspects wanted by the Grayson County Sheriff's Department have been arrested in Washington County.
The suspects, Adam Franklin Ashby, 40, of Mockingbird Lane in Galax; and Alma K. Prescott, 29, of Radford; were wanted in connection with the alleged armed robbery at a residence in the Oldtown community near Galax.
The Grayson County Sheriff's Dept. released the following information on Monday night's incident: "On April 29, at approximately 5:51 p.m., the Grayson County Sheriff's Office received information that a known fugitive by the name of Randy Lee Anders, 32, of 2264 Grassy Creek Road was seen walking on Grassy Creek Road, near Mouth of Wilson. Two on-duty deputies, along with two off-duty deputies responded to the area to search for Anders because of previous threats that Anders had allegedly made against law enforcement.
HILLSVILLE — Investigators trying to find a Fries woman missing since April 15 are expected to announce a reward from the family in the case on Tuesday.
Family members of Desia Rae George intend to inform the news media about the reward at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, according to Investigator Donnie Spangler.
HILLSVILLE — Carroll County deputies are searching for a 48-year-old Lambsburg man as their latest "most wanted."
Tulsa Wayne Bobbitt is wanted for violation of probation and failure to appear in court on drug related as well as habitual offender charges.
HILLSVILLE — A missing 15-year-old and a 22-year-old male wanted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor had not made a run for the border after all, as police found them still in Galax early Wednesday morning.
Authorities had been searching for Desiree Travers since her family reported she had run away April 19, thinking she might be in the company of Carlos Enrique Reyna, 22, of Galax.
The Galax Fire Department responded to a structure fire at the Ivy Wood Apartments on West Stuart Drive on April 19.
Approximately 28 firefighters and five trucks responded to the scene that evening, where they remained for two hours, Hankley said.
On arrival, the department found a heavy fire coming from the upstairs bedroom of a two-story duplex apartment owned by Dr. James Williams and occupied by Tom Simms, according to Fire Chief David Hankley.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Both Middlebury in Division I and Mount Abraham in D-II suffered one-goal losses in first-round high school field hockey playoff games, while Otter Valley, the only team to earn a first-round home game, will swing into action on Friday.
On Tuesday, the No. 9 Tigers lost at No. 8 Rutland in D-I, 2-1. Host Rutland improved to 5-7-2 after getting unassisted goals from Sophie Tanen and Marina Rotella and five saves from goalie Emily Lanzillo.
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ADDISON COUNTY — All local high school girls' soccer teams were defeated in Wednesday playoff games, mostly in highly competitive matches.
Mount Abraham had finished strong in the regular season to become the only local soccer team to earn the No. 7 seed and a home game, but was upset by No. 10 Harwood, 3-1.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College field hockey team concluded its regular season at 12-3, 7-3 in NESCAC play with two recent wins, but despite being ranked No. 5 in NCAA Division III the Panthers were not assured of hosting a NESCAC quarterfinal on this coming Saturday.
There were four games on the docket to be played on Wednesday, with three involving four teams in a logjam in the NESCAC standings. Wednesday games were played after the deadline for this edition of the Independent.
VERGENNES — Both boys' soccer coaches came away pleased after Friday's game between host Vergennes Union High School and Middlebury, but one was happier: The Tigers withstood a second-half Commodore surge to win, 3-1.
Coach Reeves Livesay's Tigers finished the regular season at 6-5-3 after a 1-3 start, a turnaround that started with the program's first victory over Champlain Valley in 20 years.
That record betters 2015's 6-7-1 despite a tougher schedule and further improves on 2014's 2-11-1.
ADDISON COUNTY — In the past two weeks, black and gold became temporary colors of choice for many Addison County students, teachers and school employees.
Sadly, it was not a fashion trend: They were rallying around their peers at South Duxbury's Harwood Union High School, who are reeling after the unspeakable Oct. 8 tragedy that claimed the lives of four current and one former Harwood students, all either 15 or 16.
Black and gold are Harwood's school colors.
ADDISON COUNTY — Mount Abraham defeated Middlebury to highlight local field hockey action as the regular season ended last week. In other action, the Eagles and Tigers each dropped road games, while Otter Valley's final two games were both canceled due to poor field conditions.
The Vermont Principals' Association was set to release playoff pairings on Monday morning.
MIDDLEBURY — The Vergennes Union High School girls' soccer team gave itself a needed shot in the arm on Saturday, defeating host Middlebury, 2-1, to snap a five-game skid and finish the regular season on a high note.
The 5-8-1 Commodores were competitive vs. tough teams — Division I MUHS once, and D-I Rice and improving D-II Mount Abraham twice each — in that slide.
But a victory as the Commodores head into the D-II playoffs should give them a lift, said Co-Coach Dwight Irish.
ADDISON COUNTY — The Middlebury and Otter Valley union high school football teams won key games this weekend, but the Mount Abraham-Vergennes squad could not hold a first-half lead.
The Tigers picked up their biggest win of the fall, knocking off visiting Champlain Valley, 14-7; denying the Redhawks, the top seed in Division I; improving to 5-3; and upgrading their playoff seed from No. 7 to No. 5.
ADDISON COUNTY — Mount Abraham bested Vergennes to highlight local high school girls' soccer play in the latter half of last week as the regular season concluded. In other games, Middlebury picked up a win, the Eagles dropped a road contest, and Otter Valley lost two close games.
The Tigers also visited the Commodores on Saturday morning; see story.
The Vermont Principals' Association will release playoff pairings on Monday morning.
FAIR HAVEN — The Otter Valley Union High School boys' soccer team wrapped up its regular season on Wednesday with a 4-2 victory at Fair Haven.
The Otters improved to 5-8-1, a two-win improvement over the program's 2015 mark and a three-win gain over 2014.
OV will apparently enter the Division II postseason as the No. 11 seed, and a first-round matchup with Hartford (8-4-2) is possible. The Vermont Principals' Association will release playoff pairings on Monday morning.
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November 5, 2016
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July 23, 2016
QotD: Separatism and the EU
All the current nationalist parties of small nations in Europe — the Scots, the Welsh, the Basque, the Catalans, the Flemish — strongly support membership in the European Union, which is dedicated to, and even predicated upon, the extinction of national sovereignty. One would have thought that these parties wanted, at a minimum, national sovereignty. The contradiction is so glaring that it requires an explanation.
The human mind is not a perfect calculating machine, and no doubt all of us sometimes contradict ourselves. Perfect consistency tends to be disconcerting — but so does glaring inconsistency. It's possible that the nationalist parties' leaders don't perceive the contradiction, being so blinded by ideology that they are simply unaware of it. But another possible explanation exists: by leading their nominally independent countries, they forever will be able to feed at the great trough of Brussels and distribute its largesse in true clientelistic fashion. The nationalist leaders certainly lead their people, but by the nose.
Oddly enough, I have not seen the contradiction between current nationalism and support for remaining in the European Union referred to in the press, though I don't read every paper in every language. This is surely one of the first times in history, however, that the expression, "Out of the frying pan into the fire," has become not a warning, but the desired destination of substantial proportions of whole populations.
Theodore Dalrymple, "Nationalist Contradictions in Europe: Why do breakaway political parties want to remain in the European Union?", City Journal, 2016-06-27.
July 4, 2016
The SNP manages to be "a party of protest and a party of government at the same time"
John Kay discusses the differences between the English anti-EU vote and the Scottish anti-English vote:
As a schoolboy in Edinburgh, I was taught that, long before the union with England, Scotland had been a cosmopolitan country. The ports on the east coast showed the influence of trade with the Netherlands and the Hanseatic League. The Scots language demonstrated continental influences. The citizens of Edinburgh would shout "gardyloo", supposedly from the French "gare de l'eau", before throwing their slops into the streets from the windows of the tall tenements of Edinburgh's Old Town.
Even then, this example of early Scots sophistication did not convince. And the claim that their vote to stay in the EU — all districts of Scotland voted Remain in the referendum, and 62 per cent of the nation's voters as a whole voted to stay in the EU — is the product of a broad-minded outlook not seen south of the border also misses a crucial point.
The reality is that the discontent with established politics that erupted in the Leave vote elsewhere in the country has found expression in other ways. As one student of Scottish politics, explaining the UK Independence party's lack of traction north of the border, put it to me two years ago: "People in Scotland who are disgruntled and suspicious of foreigners [the English] already have a party they can vote for."
The fracturing of the opposition Labour party's traditional support in depressed areas of the north of England, which was decisive in securing an Out vote, paralleled the collapse of Labour's vote in the west of Scotland in favour of the Scottish National party in the general election of 2015.
The great achievement of the SNP, now in government in Holyrood and with MPs in Westminster, has been to be a party of protest and a party of government at the same time. This is an achievement Brexiters will find hard to emulate.
H/T to both Colby Cosh and Tim Harford for the link.
June 12, 2016
Cossacks – Cavalry – Wolves I OUT OF THE TRENCHES
Published on 11 Jun 2016
Indy sits in the Chair of Wisdom again and this week we talk about Cavalry on the Eastern Front, Cossacks and wolves.
May 7, 2016
QotD: The Borderers (aka the "Scots-Irish")
The Borderers are usually called "the Scots-Irish", but Fischer dislikes the term because they are neither Scots (as we usually think of Scots) nor Irish (as we usually think of Irish). Instead, they're a bunch of people who lived on (both sides of) the Scottish-English border in the late 1600s.
None of this makes sense without realizing that the Scottish-English border was terrible. Every couple of years the King of England would invade Scotland or vice versa; "from the year 1040 to 1745, every English monarch but three suffered a Scottish invasion, or became an invader in his turn". These "invasions" generally involved burning down all the border towns and killing a bunch of people there. Eventually the two sides started getting pissed with each other and would also torture-murder all of the enemy's citizens they could get their hands on, ie any who were close enough to the border to reach before the enemy could send in their armies. As if this weren't bad enough, outlaws quickly learned they could plunder one side of the border, then escape to the other before anyone brought them to justice, so the whole area basically became one giant cesspool of robbery and murder.
In response to these pressures, the border people militarized and stayed feudal long past the point where the rest of the island had started modernizing. Life consisted of farming the lands of whichever brutal warlord had the top hand today, followed by being called to fight for him on short notice, followed by a grisly death. The border people dealt with it as best they could, and developed a culture marked by extreme levels of clannishness, xenophobia, drunkenness, stubbornness, and violence.
By the end of the 1600s, the Scottish and English royal bloodlines had intermingled and the two countries were drifting closer and closer to Union. The English kings finally got some breathing room and noticed – holy frick, everything about the border is terrible. They decided to make the region economically productive, which meant "squeeze every cent out of the poor Borderers, in the hopes of either getting lots of money from them or else forcing them to go elsewhere and become somebody else's problem". Sometimes absentee landlords would just evict everyone who lived in an entire region, en masse, replacing them with people they expected to be easier to control.
Many of the Borderers fled to Ulster in Ireland, which England was working on colonizing as a Protestant bulwark against the Irish Catholics, and where the Crown welcomed violent warlike people as a useful addition to their Irish-Catholic-fighting project. But Ulster had some of the same problems as the Border, and also the Ulsterites started worrying that the Borderer cure was worse than the Irish Catholic disease. So the Borderers started getting kicked out of Ulster too, one thing led to another, and eventually 250,000 of these people ended up in America.
250,000 people is a lot of Borderers. By contrast, the great Puritan emigration wave was only 20,000 or so people; even the mighty colony of Virginia only had about 50,000 original settlers. So these people showed up on the door of the American colonies, and the American colonies collectively took one look at them and said "nope".
Except, of course, the Quakers. The Quakers talked among themselves and decided that these people were also Children Of God, and so they should demonstrate Brotherly Love by taking them in. They tried that for a couple of years, and then they questioned their life choices and also said "nope", and they told the Borderers that Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley were actually kind of full right now but there was lots of unoccupied land in Western Pennsylvania, and the Appalachian Mountains were very pretty at this time of year, so why didn't they head out that way as fast as it was physically possible to go?
At the time, the Appalachians were kind of the booby prize of American colonization: hard to farm, hard to travel through, and exposed to hostile Indians. The Borderers fell in love with them. They came from a pretty marginal and unproductive territory themselves, and the Appalachians were far away from everybody and full of fun Indians to fight. Soon the Appalachian strategy became the accepted response to Borderer immigration and was taken up from Pennsylvania in the north to the Carolinas in the South (a few New Englanders hit on a similar idea and sent their own Borderers to colonize the mountains of New Hampshire).
So the Borderers all went to Appalachia and established their own little rural clans there and nothing at all went wrong except for the entire rest of American history.
Scott Alexander, "Book Review: Albion's Seed", Slate Star Codex, 2016-04-27.
February 27, 2016
In Scotland, singing a song can get you sent to jail
In Spiked, Kevin Rooney tells the tale of a young soccer fan who faces jail time for joining hundreds of other fans in singing a song:
Imagine the scene: a young man is led away in handcuffs to begin a prison sentence as his mother is left crying in the courtroom. He is 19 years old, has a good job, has no previous convictions, and has never been in trouble before. These facts cut no ice with the judge, however, as the crime is judged so heinous that only a custodial sentence is deemed appropriate. The young man in question was found guilty of singing a song that mocked and ridiculed a religious leader and his followers.
So where might this shocking story originate? Was it Iran? Saudi Arabia? Afghanistan? Perhaps it was Russia, a variation of the Pussy Riot saga, without the worldwide publicity? No, the country in question is Scotland and the young man is a Rangers fan. He joined in with hundreds of his fellow football fans in singing 'offensive songs' which referred to the pope and the Vatican and called Celtic fans 'Fenian bastards'.
Such songs are part and parcel of the time-honoured tradition of Rangers supporters. And I have yet to meet a Celtic fan who has been caused any harm or suffering by such colourful lyrics. Yet in sentencing Connor McGhie to three months in a young offenders' institution, the judge stated that 'the extent of the hatred [McGhie] showed took my breath away'. He went on: 'Anybody who participates in this disgusting language must be stopped.'
Several things strike me about this court case. For a start, if Rangers fans singing rude songs about their arch rivals Celtic shocks this judge to the core, I can only assume he does not get out very much or knows little of life in Scotland. Not that his ignorance of football culture is a surprise — the chattering classes have always viewed football-related banter with contempt. But what is new about the current climate is that in Scotland, the middle-class distaste for the behaviour of football fans has become enshrined in law.
H/T to Natalie Solent for the link.
November 18, 2015
Adam Smith – The Inventor of Market Economy I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Published on 22 Feb 2015
Adam Smith was one of the first men who explored economic connections in England and made clear, in a time when Mercantilism reigned, that the demands of the market should determine the economy and not the state. In his books Smith was a strong advocator of the free market economy. Today we give you the biography of the man behind the classic economic liberalism and how his ideas would change the world forever.
November 2, 2015
A different view of Macbeth
Anthony King looks at Macbeth as a PTSD sufferer:
Although the descriptions are graphic, Shakespeare's play itself includes few on-stage battle scenes. Only at the very end does Macbeth actually fight on stage, a last stand in which he kills the young Siward (his last victim) and is in turn killed by MacDuff. For the rest of the play, all of Macbeth's violence is set off stage, described but never seen. The audience imagines his violence — they do not witness it.
Justin Kurzel's striking new adaptation of Macbeth, released on October 2, 2015 to critical acclaim and starring Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender, represents a cinematographic inversion of the original. In his film, battle predominates. The film begins with an extended combat sequence. Macbeth and his army are gathered on a bleak moor as they prepare for battle against Macdonaldwald's army, unseen in the dense fog. The camera pans across the black-striped war-painted faces until, initiated by Macbeth, the host issues a war cry and plunges toward their enemies, who appear spectrally in the distance through the murk. In ultra-slow motion, the two armies clash and brutal fighting follows. Most notably, one of Macbeth's boy soldiers, on whom the camera dwells tellingly before the battle, has his throat cut during the fighting and bleeds out darkly on screen. Eventually, Macbeth charges Macdonaldwald and slashes him to the ground. The scene is followed by a long sequence in which the dead are gathered and prepared for cremation, including the boy soldier, whose image haunts the rest of the film.
Macbeth's apparently fearless heroism and remorseless violence is on display throughout these sequences. Yet the sequences highlight an aspect of Macbeth's character normally absent from adaptations of the play and presumably from the original play, but highly relevant to a 21st-century audience. Macbeth is a combat veteran and, despite his courage, he is plainly severely traumatized by his war experiences. Kurzel and Fassbender construct him as a victim of PTSD, and he displays the classic symptoms of this perturbing condition.
September 7, 2015
New Lanark
In The Register, Bill Ray takes a geek's-eye-view of the town of New Lanark, a key place in the early industrial revolution:
Nestled in the Clyde Valley the village owes its existence to the falls that were harnessed to refine raw cotton sent in from the colonies: a picture-postcard image from a time when Britain was the factory of the world.
But for all its industrial heritage New Lanark is a long way from being a typical "dark satanic" mill, as it marks the end of that time and the dawning of a better age.
Visit the village today and you can see the big machines that kept the empire running. Enormous water wheels; later supplemented by steam engines, connected by belts and ropes to machines which turned raw cotton into usable thread and fabric. However, it's not industrial history that is celebrated at New Lanark, rather a social revolution, and one driven by one man whose ideas created the working life as we understand it today.
The man was Robert Owen, who, in 1799, bought New Lanark and immediately embarked on his "grand social experiment". His radical ideas, such as refusing to employ children, providing medical insurance, and educating the workforce, were ridiculed by his competitors who couldn't see the value in teaching children, let alone adults. But Owen believed that industry should serve the betterment of all men, not just those who owned the factories.
It worked too, rather to the surprise of his peers. New Lanark was a successful mill and profits rose steadily under the beneficent command of Owen. It could be argued, perhaps, that New Lanark would have been even more profitable without the social agenda, but every afternoon at five we should all be grateful for his reforms that made our working lives what they are:
"Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep"
Not that the workers at New Lanark did quite as well as we do; their working day ran ten and a half hours, but once mealtimes had been deducted it was approaching eight and certainly much better than the conditions in other mills around the country.
July 24, 2015
Glasgow Free Pride's inclusivity dilemma
Katherine Timpf on the beleaguered organizers of the annual Glasgow Free Pride event:
The organizers of Free Pride Glasgow in Scotland have hit a snag in their mission to plan a totally inclusive event: Some activists think drag queens are offensive to transgender people, others think banning drag queens is offensive to transgender drag queens, and still others think allowing only transgender drag queens is offensive to cisgender drag queens.
Although drag performances had been part of Free Pride Glasgow for years, the event organizers announced in a statement on Saturday that they would not be allowing them this year because some transgender individuals found "some drag performance, particularly cis drag," to be offensive because it "hinges on the social view of gender and making it into a joke."
In the original statement, the organizers maintained that since they felt it would "not be appropriate to ask any prospective drag acts whether or not they identified as trans," they would just cancel drag performances altogether. You know, just to make sure that no one would be uncomfortable. One problem: The attempt at appeasing transgender people who are offended by drag performers wound up offending transgender people who are drag performers. Whoops.
June 4, 2015
Installing the forward island on HMS Prince of Wales
The second of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy is still under construction. Here's a time-lapse video of the transportation and installation of the forward island:
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Timelapse video charting the incredible journey of the 680-tonne command centre of the Royal Navy's latest aircraft carrier – HMS Prince of Wales – as it left its construction hall in Govan, Glasgow this month before being installed on the under-construction carrier in Rosyth dockyard, near Edinburgh.
May 27, 2015
The dis-United Kingdom
Mark Steyn on the result of the British general election:
It would be churlish to deny oneself the pleasure of hooting at the politico-media establishment, but, when that's done, this is a deeply unhealthy electoral result. The Conservatives won because Labour got wiped out in Scotland and the Liberals got wiped out in England. But the reality is that, for a supposedly United Kingdom, the country no longer has any national political party. England and Scotland have taken on the characteristics of Northern Ireland — hermetically sealed polities full of weird, unlovely regional parties ("SNP", "Conservative", "Labour") that have no meaning once you cross the border, and whose internal disputes are of no relevance to the other three-quarters of the kingdom: Nobody outside Ulster cares about "official" Unionists vs the more red-blooded Democratic Unionists. And so it goes with the Scots Nats and Labour in Scotland: nationalist socialists vs unionist socialists; Likewise, with the Tories and UKIP in England: transnationalist conservatives vs nationalist conservatives.
Wales is the exception that proves the rule, where UKIP outpolled Plaid Cymru, albeit with no seats to show for it. The Scottish National Party got 4.7 per cent of the UK vote, and 56 seats. UKIP had nearly thrice as many voters — 12.6 per cent — but only one seat. That discrepancy is because there is no longer any such thing as "the UK vote". I far prefer the Westminster first-past-the-post system to European "proportional representation", but it only works if you have genuinely national parties. If the system decays into four groups of regional parties, the House of Commons will look less and less like a genuine national parliament, and more and more like some surly conditional arrangement — Scottish Kurds, Tory Shia and seething Labour Sunni triangles.
The composition of the new house would strike any mid-20th century Briton as freakish and unsettling. It's a bit like Canada in the Nineties — where Reform couldn't break out of the west, the Bloc Québécois dominated Quebec, the rump Tories clung on in the Atlantic provinces, and Ontario and a few seats hither and yon gave the Liberals their majority. The difference is that the Bloquistes are pretend separatists; the Scottish National Party are not.
And that's before you take into account the competing nationalist dynamics of the Anglo-Scottish victors: secession from the UK north of the border and detachment from the EU south. Cameron is a wily operator and one notices he uses the words "United Kingdom" far more than his predecessors. But saying will not make it so.
May 5, 2015
The weirdness of the British political situation
Charles Stross calls the current situation a "Scottish Political Singularity":
The UK is heading for a general election next Thursday, and for once I'm on the edge of my seat because, per Hunter S. Thompson, the going got weird.
The overall electoral picture based on polling UK-wide is ambiguous. South of Scotland — meaning, in England and Wales — the classic two-party duopoly that collapsed during the 1970s, admitting the Liberal Democrats as a third minority force, has eroded further. We are seeing the Labour and Conservative parties polling in the low 30s. It is a racing certainty that neither party will be able to form a working majority, which requires 326 seats in the 650 seat House of Commons. The Liberal Democrats lost a lot of support from their soft-left base by going into coalition with the Conservatives, but their electoral heartlands — notably the south-west — are firm enough that while they will lose seats, they will still be a factor after the election; they're unlikely to return fewer than 15 MPs, although at the last election they peaked around 50.
Getting away from the traditional big three parties, the picture gets more interesting. The homophobic, racist, bigoted scumbags of UKIP (hey, I'm not going to hide my opinions here!) have picked up support haemorrhaging from the right wing of the Conservative party; polling has put them on up to 20%, but they're unlikely to return more than 2-6 MPs because their base is scattered across England. (Outside England they're polling as low as 2-4%, suggesting that they're very much an English nationalist party.) On the opposite pole, the Green party is polling in the 5-10% range, and might pick up an extra MP, taking them to 2 seats. In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (who are just as barkingly xenophobic as UKIP) are also set to return a handful of MPs.
And then there's Scotland.
Having lived through a couple of near-national-death experiences here in Canada, I'm less than enthused that the country of my birth is now having similar threats from the Celtic fringe. I'm a fan of Charlie's writing, and I think he's someone who thinks interesting thoughts, but I hope he's wrong in this area.
April 22, 2015
Dog breeds in danger of extinction
Rosie Cima looks at the complex relationship between humans and dogs … dog breeds, that is:
Meet the Skye terrier. Named after the Scottish Isle of Skye, he's one of the oldest terriers in the world — with a lineage tracing back to the Middle Ages. He's also been a very popular dog in his day. Queen Victoria kept several as pets starting a fashion trend. Mary, Queen of Scots kept one, which hid under her skirt at her execution. Famously loyal, "plucky but dignified", and an important cultural icon, this is the kind of dog people erect statues of. In fact, they have.
Want one? Better act fast: the breed could go extinct in your lifetime.
Skye terrier breeders are doing their best to change the tide, but things don't look good. The global population is between 3,500 and 4,000, making the once-common breed one of the rarest in the world. Skye terriers are rarer than red pandas. In the UK, there were only 17 puppies of the Skye terrier breed registered in 2013. Breeders say they need 300 births a year to maintain a healthy population and avoid complications from inbreeding.
How did this happen?
For most of human/canine history, dog breeds evolved gradually, alongside human society, to fill different functional roles as they were needed. If a society or economy shifted, and the role was no longer needed, the breed ceased to exist. Those dogs were either bred for a different purpose or were subsumed into the general dog population.
April 20, 2015
QotD: Mezcal and other "downmarket" drinks
I think the nastiest drink I've ever drunk in my life was some stuff called mezcal in a Mexican market town. It's made, I find, from the same aloe-like plant that gives us tequila, of which mezcal is a kind of downmarket version, if you can imagine such a thing. When I bought my bottle at the grocer's it had a small packet tied to the neck. Inside was what looked like a shrimp in talcum powder. "What's that?" I asked my American friend. "That's the worm," he said, "the best part. You can try it without." I tried it without. My head filled with a taste of garage or repair shop — hot rubber and plastic, burnt oil and a whiff of hydrochloric-acid vapour from the charging engine. When I sold Mack the rest of the bottle he emptied in the pounded-up worm, recapped, shook, and poured himself a tumbler of greyish liquid with little pink shreds in it. Give me Tizer any day.
I haven't yet sampled Ruou Tiet De, a North Vietnamese mixture of rice alcohol and goat's blood, or Central Asian koumis, fermented from mare's and camel's milk. Sake, a sweetish rice beer from Japan, goes well with Japanese food, so if you happen to like eating raw fish and seaweed this is obviously your tipple. You drink it warm. I may say that when I heated some on the stove recently to check that it was as horrible as I remembered, it took all the deposit off the lining of the saucepan.
You needn't go as far afield as that to find a drink offensive to any person of culture and discrimination, especially if mixes are on the agenda. In South Wales you're likely to find them throwing down Guinness with Lucozade and Ribena, or Mackeson and orange squash — not in the more refined areas, true. In Scotland they put fizzy lemonade in their whisky. Yes, in respectable places in the Highlands there are quart bottles of the stuff on the bar alongside the Malvern water and the siphon. The objection is not that it's vulgar, but that, of course, it kills the Scotch and tastes frightful.
Kingsley Amis, Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis, 2008.


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Cinema Q is the Denver Film Societys monthly nod to GLBT culture. But Cinema Q is also a once-a-year film festival designed to celebrate and kick off another year of those monthly screenings. The second annual Cinema Q Film Festival begins today at Starz FilmCenter with a 7 p.m. opening-night screening of I Killed My Mother, the surprisingly mature semi-autobiographical work of twenty-year-old Quebecois director Xavier Dolan, who also wrote, produced and acted in the film. A reception follows at Swallows Video Lounge and Bar, 3090 Downing Street.
The fest continues evenings through June 27 with what DFS programmer Keith Garcia describes as a sampling of world cinema covering gay relationships and issues before wrapping up Sunday at 7 p.m. with a fortieth-anniversary screening of Michael Sarnes 1970 black comedy Myra Breckenridge, based on Gore Vidals then-sensationalistic novel and starring Raquel Welch as the transsexual protagonist (also featured is a bawdy musical cameo by septuagenarian Mae West). You really cant beat Raquel Welch as the female version of Rex Reed, Garcia says. Were going to send out the fest with a bang.
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With the introduction of Google's Expanded Text Ads (ETA), marketers have a more robust ad format that allows for more text, and Google has the ability to manipulate the layout to fit the appropriate screen for display. While this is a strong shift toward mobile-first that levels the playing fields between natural search (SEO) ads and AdWords, it doesn't guarantee better performance.
Google reports that some advertisers could experience up to a 20% lift in CTR. The important word here is "some," as it indicates that simply expanding ads with no plan is not a guarantee of success. What follows is a set of scenarios you should test that will help guarantee the best possible performance lift for your brand.
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Sarah manages Content Marketing at Boost Media and leads a team of marketing professionals to drive revenue through complex B2B marketing campaigns in the ad tech industry. Prior to joining Boost, Sarah developed marketing and sales strategy at BNY Mellon, a top 10 private wealth management firm. In a former life, Sarah worked in journalism writing for magazines including Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, and Luxury Travel. When she's not writing engaging content, Sarah enjoys cooking, running, and yoga.
Boost Media increases advertiser profitability by using a combination of humans and a proprietary software platform to drive increased ad relevance at scale. The Boost marketplace comprises over 1,000 expert copywriters and image optimizers who compete to provide a diverse array of perspectives. Boost's proprietary software identifies opportunities for creative optimization and drives performance using a combination of workflow tools and algorithms. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Boost Media optimization platform provides fresh, performance-driven creative in 12 localized languages worldwide.
On Thursday, May 26th, we held our first-ever Executive Summit in San Francisco at the beautiful Box SF, where we brought back many of the great presenters from our New York City Executive Summit. Our group of digital marketing leaders gathered around what's reputedly the longest table in North America—crafted from centuries-old Chinese village gate doors.
This event, sponsored by Marin Software partner Bing, finished with a sommelier-led wine tasting.
Our Regional Vice President of Customer Success, Diran Hafiz, gave a presentation about our Customer Success team. It's a quick and interesting watch, both for customers interested in how things work behind the scenes at Marin, and anyone curious about the current, primary areas of consideration for the online advertising community.
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By now, you've heard about Google's Expanded Text Ads. This is big news for search engine marketers. Initial Google reports cite click-through rate increases of up to 20% for some advertisers. With more than nine billion ads impacted by Google's change, a massive amount of copywriting is required to adapt.
All advertisers will have to react quickly, and spend more marketing dollars to adjust and profit—or else miss out on a huge opportunity. What can you do now?
Advertisers who move fast and adapt to the new format stand to benefit in two ways:
The new format allows for an extra headline with more characters, a longer description line, and a customizable URL. Don't waste the extra space by employing Excel spreadsheets or ad templates to update ads. The traditional methods won't work for a seminal shift of this scope.
Mashing description lines one and two together will leave you with a confusing and disparate message. Most advertisers write the two lines of text as separate ideas, and when they're pushed together, they don't flow as a logical and cohesive message.
Advertisers need a solution that makes it possible to write and rewrite ads in the new format with speed, quality, and scale. Through an exclusive partnership with Boost Media, Marin Software has an automated tool that can rewrite your ads to be ETA-compatible. If you'd like to get up and running on ETA ads today, you can get started here.
Sarah manages Content Marketing at Boost Media and leads a team of marketing professionals to drive revenue through complex B2B marketing campaigns in the ad tech industry. Prior to joining Boost, Sarah developed marketing and sales strategy at BNY Mellon, a top 10 private wealth management firm. In a former life, Sarah worked in journalism writing for magazines including Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, and Luxury Travel. When she's not writing engaging content, Sarah enjoys cooking, running, and yoga.
Boost Media increases advertiser profitability by using a combination of humans and a proprietary software platform to drive increased ad relevance at scale. The Boost marketplace comprises over 1,000 expert copywriters and image optimizers who compete to provide a diverse array of perspectives. Boost's proprietary software identifies opportunities for creative optimization and drives performance using a combination of workflow tools and algorithms. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Boost Media optimization platform provides fresh, performance-driven creative in 12 localized languages worldwide.
On Thursday, April 28th, we held our first ever Executive Summit in New York City at The Standard Hotel.
The afternoon's talks were sponsored by Marin Software partner Yahoo and led by Marin Software's CEO, David A. Yovanno. We had a great roster of Marin presenters, who walked through our roadmap and shared their thoughts about the future of digital advertising.
We were also lucky to have Daina Middleton, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Twitter and former CEO of Performics, and Sonia Carreno, the President of IAB Canada, as speakers.
Daina spoke about the Power of Prediction in today's fast-moving marketing landscape. Sonia reviewed the current state of the nation in media usage, outlined major industry issues, and explained steps being taken to remove obstacles to growth.
The day's presentations were rounded out by a fabulous wine and cheese tasting in the afternoon, guided by The Standard's leading sommelier (you can catch him and his bowtie in the story below).
Marin CEO Dave Yovanno welcomes guests to our inaugural Executive Summit in New York City – #MarinExecSummitNYC pic.twitter.com/1xKFj7uE4C
— Marin Software (@MarinSoftware) April 28, 2016
Our Customer Success Team shares an early look at our new platform infrastructure. #MarinExecSummitNYC pic.twitter.com/em0XOFTUPV — Marin Software (@MarinSoftware) April 28, 2016
.@DainaMiddleton on the power of prediction. #MarinExecSummitNYC
"Only .06% of things that could be connected to internet currently are."
— Marin Software (@MarinSoftware) April 28, 2016
Way to go putting strong women on stage today @MarinSoftware ! https://t.co/yFORQtrsWc — Daina Middleton (@DainaMiddleton) April 28, 2016
Sonia Carreno @iabcanada on growth of social:
"Social media ads brought in $10.9 billion in 2015, up 55% from 2014." 🙌🏽 #MarinExecSummitNYC
— Marin Software (@MarinSoftware) April 28, 2016
Missy Schnurstein of @Yahoo: "60% of conversions now take place on mobile." #MarinExecSummitNYC pic.twitter.com/gI46saAyj2 — Marin Software (@MarinSoftware) April 28, 2016
Our sommelier-lead wine and cheese tasting has begun! #MarinExecutiveSummitNYC pic.twitter.com/JA2G6iYusW
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— David A. Yovanno (@DaveYovanno) April 28, 2016
In the old days of advertising, the name of the game was reach and frequency. Brands preferred mass media vehicles like television and radio, because they were the easiest means to reach large audiences and build brand awareness. Obviously, this meant the most effective advertising campaigns were dominated by the biggest brands with the largest marketing budgets.
If you've been reading our blog then you don't need to be sold on the ways retargeting can help your business. However, putting everything together – building audiences, managing campaigns, optimizing performance, etc. – can sometimes feel overwhelming. This is especially true when retargeting is just one of the many marketing strategies that you focus on.
To help you out, we've teamed up with HubSpot, the world's leading inbound and sales marketing platform, to bring you a free eBook, titled The Beginner's Guide to Retargeting. In addition to providing context on the types of retargeting and the different ways it can help your business, we've collected some of our favorite tips and best practices for getting started, running your campaigns, creating good ads, and measuring and optimizing your performance.
Download the free eBook now and start learning how to use retargeting to increase leads and traffic today.
A couple months ago, we announced a partnership with HubSpot. We've since been helping joint HubSpot and Perfect Audience customers connect their inbound and outbound marketing efforts more seamlessly. By automatically building retargeting lists based on HubSpot landing pages and Smart Lists, we've made it incredibly simple for HubSpot customers to build targeted, intelligent retargeting campaigns that help give more legs to their inbound marketing tactics.
Now, we're taking it a step further. At the INBOUND 2015 Conference, HubSpot announced the launch of HubSpot Connect. We're proud to have been introduced as a launch partner, and the only retargeting solution amongst their network of partners.
Today, marketers expect to interact as one cohesive company that shares data and customer information across departmental lines. They don't think about the different departments they're interacting with or who's responsible for what. Instead, they have the expectation that everyone in a company is able to work together to solve customer problems quickly and effectively.
Taking this even further – marketers are looking for ways to optimize their campaigns and reach the right audiences at the right time. For many HubSpot customers, though, outbound advertising and retargeting are new. It can be challenging figuring out how to set up the right types of campaigns, develop good creative, and determine how much to spend on your marketing efforts.
Because of the Perfect Audience and HubSpot partnership, all of this is now a lot easier. By creating audiences automatically from your landing page and Smart Lists, you can start your marketing efforts by targeting the audiences that are most valuable to you. From there, you can gradually test new campaign ideas by tagging the rest of your site and creating new audiences. So, not only do you have a cohesive, automated marketing experience – you're making it work even more for you, to grow your audience and achieve new and better outcomes.
If you're a HubSpot customer who uses Perfect Audience, make sure to try the integration and let us know what you think about how we can make it better. We've already received a lot of great feedback and will continue working on strengthening our partnership.
If you're reading this from HubSpot's INBOUND 2015 conference, stop by and say hello!
Boost Media is excited to partner with Marin Software, the leading cross-channel performance advertising cloud. Through the complementary nature of the two platforms, Marin customers will now be able to leverage Boost Media's curated marketplace of expert copywriters and testing technology to optimize creative across search, social, and display campaigns. The combination of Boost Media and Marin Software ensures the highest return on search marketing dollars and a scalable best of breed strategy.
Search results pages have become crowded collections of nearly identical ad creatives. Standing out in this crowd matters now more than ever. Consumers want more relevant and targeted communications from the brands they engage with and the current approach with search ad copy fails to deliver.
The biggest opportunity to increase your search campaign performance is through improving your search ad copy. Boost Media is the leading Creative Optimization Platform and works with leading enterprise brands to scale the sourcing, testing, and optimization of search ad copy.
Writing and optimizing ad copy is a challenge for many marketers due to scale, constrained resources, and lack of insight into what drives ROI. Boost Media offers a platform that combines the power of a curated marketplace of human writers and designers combined with a SaaS platform for automated insight and analysis. With the Boost Creative Optimization Suite, organizations can marry the natural creativity of individuals with the automation and efficiency of a cloud-based platform, to generate ad copy at scale.
Download Boost Media's Creative Optimization one sheet here to learn more about optimizing your ad creative.
Sarah manages Content Marketing at Boost Media and leads a team of marketing professionals to drive revenue through complex B2B marketing campaigns in the ad tech industry. Prior to joining Boost, Sarah developed marketing and sales strategy at BNY Mellon, a top 10 private wealth management firm. In a former life, Sarah worked in journalism writing for magazines including Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, and Luxury Travel. When she's not writing engaging content, Sarah enjoys cooking, running, and yoga.
Boost Media increases advertiser profitability by using a combination of humans and a proprietary software platform to drive increased ad relevance at scale. The Boost marketplace comprises over 1,000 expert copywriters and image optimizers who compete to provide a diverse array of perspectives. Boost's proprietary software identifies opportunities for creative optimization and drives performance using a combination of workflow tools and algorithms. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Boost Media optimization platform provides fresh, performance-driven creative in 12 localized languages worldwide.
Click here to schedule a free demo of the Creative Optimization platform today.
One of Marin Software's big value propositions is our cross-publisher capabilities and our robust support for the world's leading publishers. We work closely with Google, Yahoo, Yahoo Japan, Bing, Baidu, and Yandex to ensure we're providing the latest features from each one, and that customers can easily see and compare performance across publishers within our platform. As an example, Marin was first to launch support for Yahoo! Gemini earlier this year. Now, we're excited to announce that we're taking our relationship to the next level as a Gemini Preferred Partner.
The Gemini Preferred Partner Program was created to bring advertisers, agencies, and technology partners together to find and develop innovative digital marketing solutions. According to Alex Mrazek, Senior Director, Partner Development, Yahoo, "Through a higher standard of Gemini product integration and client services, this program will drive advertiser performance, scale, and ROI." Check out Yahoo's new page for the program: https://advertising.yahoo.com/partners/Partners/Marin-Software/index.htm.
Yahoo selected Marin as a launching member of the Gemini Preferred Partner Program, as Marin is an established industry leader and is equipped to offer Gemini advertisers a top of the line solution. As a Gemini Preferred Partner, Marin is committed to delivering the highest standard of technology integration with Yahoo and client services. Customers can count on Marin to provide the latest updates from Gemini, and offer the best in class service that we're known for to help address any questions or issues.
An example of how Marin helps customers with Gemini is our recent launch of Cloner for Gemini. With Cloner, you can easily copy objects from your Google accounts into Yahoo Gemini, resulting in faster and easier onboarding. For more information on Cloner and other Gemini features, please contact us here: http://www.marinsoftware.com/contact-us.
To learn more about the Gemini Preferred Partner Program, read Yahoo's blog post on the program's launch: https://advertising.yahoo.com/Blog/SHOP-FOR-TECH-PARTNERS.html.
The Publisher Spotlight is a series in which we'll be introducing premium publishers who are using Partner Connect to develop business relationships with relevant and interested advertisers. In this post, we feature Carrie Lacina, Digital Advertising Manager at the Drupal Association. Drupal is a leading open-source Content Management System, and the Association supports Drupal.org and the Drupal Community. We spoke to Carrie about the unique benefits of Partner Connect and some best practices for communicating the program with a passionate user base.
Drupal is an open-source content management platform that powers millions of businesses, websites, and applications. At the heart of Drupal.org is a very engaged and diverse community consisting of hundreds of thousands of members ranging from developers, site builders, project managers, designers, themers, site owners, Drupal business owners, and more!
Drupal.org's audience is significant. We receive over 2 million uniques and 15 million pageviews monthly. We also have 50,000 registered users (mainly developers) who contribute to the Drupal project. Beyond the core registered users, Drupal.org also has a substantial email and social media following with over 40,000 email subscribers and nearly 130,000 social media followers.
Drupal.org offers a great opportunity for advertisers who are looking to tap into a target audience that is very tech, design, and business savvy. We already work with advertisers across a number of different industries, from companies that are looking to reach a design and business-savvy audience like web development shops; to companies that focus on Drupal-specific services like Drupal training, hosting or recruiting; as well as companies looking to tap into a more technically savvy audience like independent software vendors and development and design tool companies.
One of our initiatives for 2015 was to develop new advertising-based revenue streams. However, we traditionally haven't had much advertising on the site so it's been important for us to take a lot of care with user experience and be very careful about what types of advertising solutions to introduce.
Partner Connect is unique because it allows us to create an advertising revenue stream without having to compromise the user experience on drupal.org with ads. Because it allows advertisers to target audiences beyond just our web site, there's a lot of benefit for them as well.
Our relationship with our audience is unique in that Drupal is an open-source platform that's not only used by, but also built and supported by a very engaged community that is passionate about the project. It was important for us to properly communicate Partner Connect and help our users understand exactly what it is and isn't, especially since it's such a new concept.
We've been very proactive about informing our user base. We released a blog post that went in-depth about the program. During this process we worked closely with Brad Flora (co-founder and former CEO of Perfect Audience), who also used to be a Drupal.org member, to help explain some of the technical aspects and help address any community concerns. For example, Brad helped explain how Partner Connect targeting was anonymous and that no personally identifiable information was being collected or shared. We also communicated this message through our newsletters and social media.
Beyond communication, we took extra precautions from an implementation standpoint as well. While placing the tracking code was easy, we set up safeguards to ensure we were respecting our users' privacy preferences. For example, we were able to deploy Partner Connect with support for the "Do Not Track" request, so visitors with that feature turned on wouldn't get cookied.
I think the effort in being transparent has been very helpful because so far the response has been great. People understand the business needs for Partner Connect and have appreciated the steps we've been taking to ensure we're respecting our users' wishes.
Interested in targeting Drupal.org's audience? Learn more about audience extension with Partner Connect!
This is a guest post from Edwin Wong, Senior Director, B2B Strategic Research & Insights at Yahoo.
A new study delves into the native ad opportunity and offers marketers best practices for creating native campaigns with Yahoo Gemini, the first unified marketplace for mobile search and native advertising. With Yahoo Gemini, advertisers get the performance and ease of search, combined with the scale and creativity of native advertising. By bringing the two together, advertisers can now buy, manage and optimize their mobile search and native ad spend in one place — driving greater performance and higher impact for their businesses and brands.
Native ads are hot right now and it's easy to see why. According to our research, more than 60 percent of consumers have a favorable view of native ads.¹ Publishers have caught on to this, with 72 percent currently offering native ads, or planning to within the next several years.² So where does this leave advertisers? In 2015, 79 percent of advertisers plan to buy native ads.³ Yahoo's new study, The Native Advertising Frontier, digs deeper into this surging format, providing marketers with helpful insights and best practices.
According to the study, the three keys to native advertising success are:
1. Selecting the right platform: Make sure your content is aligned with the purpose, tone and visual style of the site you choose. Our studies show that an effectively integrated native ad generated three times more attention than a less integrated placement. People spent almost as much time looking at the native ad as they did on the actual articles.4
2. Adding value for users: If users find the content informative and in line with their interests, they'll read and share it, even if it is presented by a brand. This has been proven true on Yahoo Food, where 52 percent of users say promoted advertising content helped them learn more about cooking.5
3. Being transparent: Native content that is identified as sponsored, clearly branded and includes a distinct call to action performs best. When native ads are unmistakably denoted as advertising, they set the proper expectations for the user, and ultimately create a better experience. We tested the impact of adding a more prominent logo and stronger call to action to an ad, and saw significant improvements in favorability and purchase intent. Additionally, 66% of respondents said the native ad with prominent logo represented a great experience. 6
For all of the details, be sure to read the full study, and check out the infographic below.
To learn more about how Yahoo can help you drive business results with mobile search and native advertising through Yahoo Gemini, contact Marin. Thanks to recent enhancements, it's easier than ever before to create, optimize and track your Yahoo Gemini campaigns with Marin Software.
Edwin Wong is Senior Director, B2B Strategic Research & Insights at Yahoo.
1. Yahoo/Ipsos Consumer Perceptions About In-Feed Ads, August, 2013
2. Native Advertising Report: Native Advertising Perceptions & Trends, Advertiser Perceptions, July 2014
3. Mixpo "Native Advertising Survey," September 2014
4. Ad Environments- The Halo Effect, Yahoo & Innerscope, September 2014
5. Yahoo/MillwardBrown Digital Native Content Marketing Advertising Effectiveness Study, April 2014
6. Yahoo/Ipsos CPG Gemini Mobile Native Advertising Effectiveness Study, via Forced Exposure, October 2014
The second post in our series on must-haves for #social #advertising. Episode 2: #Targeting and #Bidding. ow.ly/mVpr3092WsI #socialads pic.twitter.com/x5jcJc7vNd
"One thing you certainly want to avoid is having campaigns that regularly cap out on budget." ow.ly/s94j3092pzu #SEM #SEO #searchads pic.twitter.com/5u1pNgjTMz
Advertisers stand to gain from an integrated #search and #social #advertising approach. Here's how. ow.ly/AxwI3090kBZ pic.twitter.com/ngXKCoAcB4


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- Meet the Community (/meet-community/)
- - Greetings from Tuscany, Italy (http://www.horseforum.com/meet-community/greetings-tuscany-italy-167113/)
Greetings from Tuscany, Italy
Hi there to Everyone,
I am a Italo-Hungarian horse lover and I'd love to talk about horsey experiences and matters with people all over the world.
I'm 35 and am a happy (sometimes more, sometimes less) horse-owner since year 2003 but have been riding since I was 10. My husband has a small yard here in Tuscany right under the medieval walls of the tiny village of Montopoli. I'm an employee in my spare time :wink:
I enjoy trail riding, dressage, groundwork, have dome few jumping (would like to improve it) and cross-country (really low levels eh!) and orienteering (TREC- anyone ever heard of it?), horseback archery (let me say that's really fun) and medieval games that my pair organizes yearly.
Breeds: My first horse was a beautyful friesian mare and I still adore friesians but have abruptly changed my mind when I got across Akhal Tekes... We own purebred and partbred Akhal Tekes. So my favorites are these two breeds plus any horse any size any color, I basically like them all. They're so different and there are so many different things you can do with them.
Kind regards to all,
Welcome! it's nice to have more members from Italy.
will you post some photos of your horse? maybe some photos of you doing horseback archery? there is actually a thread here about that. In the US there is a sport called Cowboy Shooting, and instead of shooting arrows, they shoot guns from a horseback.
Have you heard of the "Nez Perce horse?" this is a cross between the Appalousa and Ahkel Teke.
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mounted archery thread:
Hi! Welcome to the forum!
Thanks to you all!
Ok so now I'm trying to figure out how the image posting goes...gosh I'm so uneasy with this system.
if I'm doing it right, this is me and my beloved Flò who died two years ago in an accident. She was all that I had been dreaming of as a girl. Anyway she'll always live in our herats.
Love you Flò!
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Fló looks like a very gorgeous horse!
Ah ok got it. Now the archery part..... woooooooooooow gun shooting from horseback sounds really fantastic! I guess I'll have to try it once.
I only found the images of a show we did, my mount is an Italian Maremmano horse, a great horse second only to my Flò. Let me introdice you all to Frida, she has an incredible power... The arrows I shot here were wooden, the bow is mongolian, a relatively soft 27lb symmetric bow. Made in Hungary.
Thank you WhiteHorse for moral support :-) I guess you like Friesians??? Deduce it from your Avatar... Here's one I like of Flò, one of the last ones that were made of her, here is the beatiful back that brought me around for hundreds of kilometers....
She was standig up after a roll, shining as only a friesian can shine....
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Capistrano Valley High alumna remains on dean's list
Samantha Trippy, a former International Baccalaureate graduate from Capistrano Valley High School, has completed her second year at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Awarded with a full scholarship, Trippy has made the dean's list for two consecutive years. She is majoring in computer science and plans to study abroad at the Hong Kong University of Math and Science in the fall.
She is the co-president of Women in Computing on campus and leads a team of her peers implementing an early-education curriculum at a local preschool. To qualify, students must have at least a 3.7 GPA.
– Yolie Trippy
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