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All of them because I want them all!!!
What new KA-BAR Knives are you most excited for and why?
All of them because I want them all!!!
The green Mule, Machax, and BK16 are must-buys for me. Everything else is a probably-buy.
Machax. Super stoaked!
To many I want, none I need, will get most likely, especially the BK's but have to start thinning the hurd first or wife will do it for me. Maybe we can get a list going as who wants what and make a big purchase to either save some coin and or get some freebee's what you think moose also how about a stickie for selling some kabar's or trading like the buck,becker, forum's do, asked in beginning never got answer and thanks for helping with the thread up top.The thread up top will look like this in awhile. OKB HOW ABOUT A GROUP DISCOUNT, A FORUM DISCOUNT, AND OR A SPECIAL SHEATH OR SOMETHING FOR YOUR DEDICATED FAN"S ?
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Machax. Need something like it for yard work. WHEN???
I very much support nutoknives' suggestion of a Buy/Sell KA-BARs sticky. I sure hope the rules allow it.
Also, I missed OKB's comment about why we want the new KB toys.
Mule: Mostly because it's a cool looker. I've wanted one since I found out about 'em, but the green/black color combo sealed the deal. It will be nice to have a folder that fits my very large hands, plus it will be nice to have a hard-use beater folder (I don't want to beat on my Phat Bobs).
Machax: I have land in northern AZ covered in ponderosa pines, and the FS and fire department recommend trimming low dead branches. We're talking hundreds of trees and probably several years worth of weekends. A lot of the branches are on the small side, and I'd rather not burn a lot of gasoline using a chainsaw when I can take a good chopper to 'em, have some fun and get some exercise. Machax looks like the perfect tool for this. The original KB kukri also looks like a perfect tool, and I want one of them too (not all that interested in the new kuk). The Cutlass *is* a perfect tool but that stays in Phoenix to do fire prep for the barbecue and firepit. ALSO, the Machax will probably be my backpacking chopper for longer trips. It's gotta be better than the Cutlass though, which is stiff competition. Oh hell, I also want a BK9 to see how that competes as well.
BK16: Simply put, this looks like the perfect multi-use belt knife. Carcamping, backpacking, house chores on any given weekend, day hikes, boating... the list goes on.
Looking forward to purchasing and using both the BK4 Machax and BK16.
I'm most excited for the BK17, it looks great, and the size is perfect.
Other than that, I can't say that I'm genuinely excited about any of them. Not that they are bad in any way, but I'm not waiting for them to come out like I am the BK17.
The Machax is likely the closest I am to being "excited" for, but that excitement level is actually below some other current production models (BK7 to be exact). I really like the 9 as my chopper, and I'm not sure yet that the machax will be a huge improvement for me. I'll of course eagerly await reviews and comparisons to prove myself wrong though (Passaround?).
The Combat Kuhk looks pretty cool, but I'm not sure what I personally would do with it.
I not a huge fan of large folders, so while the ZK Mule folder looks sweet (can't deny it, I totally agree with you BRL), I don't know what I would use it for either. The little chinese folder doesn't look too bad though. And seeing how its MSRP is so low, it might be REALLY cheap, and I might end up picking one up, who knows.
Honestly, I'm most likely going to end up with the BK17, and either the BK7, or the JAB Potbelly in the coming months.
Oh, and are all of the US made Kabar blades going to get the new laser engraving and coating?
Yes!!! To all And because I like sharp pointy things.
i want a becker tweener with the clip point, a zk mule and been wanting a leather handle mark 1.
i wish i would of bought the d2 impact before they were discontinued. i keep kicking myself for that.
i ordered myself a g-10 mule to give it a try.
Combat Kuk, BK16, and maybe the Machax. I haven't decided yet, cause I don't really like the way it looks.
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Alas, no, not in the general forums. We can however, have a Kabar sales forum in the Sales forum, if Kabar permits it. Thats all it would take, Kabar would give the nod, Spark works his magic, and we have us a Kabar for sale forum, like Buck and Busse have.
Best we can do.
If Ka-Bar says OK then that would make it alot easier for the people looking for some nice folder's, fixed blade's, without having to read through all the rest that we have to now. I found it hard to have to choose which knife to let go but it did help letting go of my first knife to a collector verses someone trying to make a dollar(not that I am against making a dollar). I would like to get that going just as I have let go of a couple Bucks on the forum, not from the monetary end of it, but it is a better feeling letting a fellow collector get your knife and I have bought a few and so far all member's have been great. So here is a big Hell Yeh Mr Moose let's see how fast Mr Spark's and Mr Official Ka-Bar can get this going.
I am waiting for the bk16 and the machax.
I like the looks of the ZK Chop stick it's got a really cool blade profile.
Sorry BRL got caught up with us getting a kabar trade-sale area,
those are toenail's a limited set 1 of 250 with Ka-bar releasing only a total of 6 toenail's through the 30 years I believe they were made by Case as they are very similar and some nice jigged bone, smooth, simulated ivory and such 1 more bottom of that set and 1 right behind the USMC in front of picture. Love them new BK's just got to get and hope Mr Official Ka-Bar and Spark geter done as it is alot easier to look in one area of the brand you are looking for.
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Never have I seen a company recycle so much content. In fact, it's
gonna get really old if everything is always the same. However,
give it time and I'm sure we'll see some new stuff.
You have to trust that a company as big as Blizzard has something up its sleeve.
Up until the news of the re-release of ZG and ZA, I
never thought I'd see them again. I should say I hoped that would be the case anyhow.
Gonna be fun to see how they changed the dungeons and mechanics. Hopefully, it will
let us get the mounts a bit easier this time, though I seriously doubt it.
You have to wonder though, what else is going to be recycled? Will we see MC version two?
Down to even lower dungeons such as stratholme version 2? If that's the case I can say I'm
NEVER – ever gonna be really motivated to run them. Seriously, who's really
gonna want to do that all again? I certainly don't. In fact I'd be happy to
run any new themed dungeon that's introduced. You think we'll see any new dungeons
around path 4.2 as well? I really hope we do, because if the content doesn't hold my interest
and burn out starts to set in, it would be a really big shame to
desert this game after so many hours put into it.
You can't take things too seriously though.
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Personally I'm looking forward to the remakes! I'm already rerunning old instances on a regular basis, to me it's kind of running through Mario. It doesn't really matter that it's the same, the challenge is still always different ^^ Especially if you try out different alts.
I'm not sure what I'd think about a new acholomance/stratholme though... those instances are pretty pesty.
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Hiller says he's heading in "right direction"
ANAHEIM -- Jonas Hiller isn't ready to ride in on a white horse to carry the Ducks into the playoffs but he is starting to make it out to the stable more often.
The club's star goalie has virtually been sidelined since the All-Star break because of mysterious symptoms of dizziness that doctors have only been narrow down to those possibly caused by a case of vertigo. But Hiller is feeling a bit more optimistic these days as he's been able to face shots from his teammates, at least on a limited time frame.
Hiller has been on the ice daily and took part in some specific shooting drills during Wednesday's morning skate after working out on his own with assistant coach Mike Foligno before the team joined him.
"I definitely felt better on the ice," said Hiller, who's played only one game since the symptoms first surfaced during a Feb. 2 home game against San Jose. "I was able to see the puck better. Still not the way I want it to. I can definitely see an improvement.
"I kind of want to definitely push but I guess I have to pace myself also a little bit, not to over-do it. It's a little tough to pace myself when I feel better. Just mentally knowing that it's going in the right direction is definitely a huge relief."
Hiller said the dizzy feeling that was plaguing him at it worst is largely gone but that "it's more like not being able to keep up with the puck kind of thing."
"In the end, it's still about seeing the puck well," he said. "I'm still don't think I can see the puck as well as I used to and stay on the puck the way I want to. Definitely it doesn't bother me that much anymore. I can stay longer out there without having any issues."
The Ducks have just 13 games left in the regular season, including tonight's contest at home against St. Louis. Hiller's status for any of them is still a major question that remains unanswered and he said Wednesday that he wouldn't feel comfortable playing even in an emergency situation.
But the netminder appears to be in a better frame of mind, even when his days are still filled with visual and physical exercises in addition to the regular consultations with team doctors and visits to a physical therapist.
"The endurance part is still the part that has to improve right now," Hiller said. "But we're working on that. Doing exercises every day besides the ice. I'm still going and having treatments and everything. I'll be working on that.
"I'm glad it's going in the right direction but I also know it's not going to come from today to tomorrow. It will take another couple of days or weeks. I don't know. I stopped putting pressure on myself. I just want to kind of go my way and see how it goes day by day."
Before he was shut down following his fifth shutout of the season against Edmonton on Feb. 13, Hiller was 26-16-3 with a 2.50 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage -- numbers that helped earn him his first All-Star game appearance.
The Ducks' goaltending has been in relative disarray since, though Dan Ellis has brought some stability to the position by going 5-2-1 with a 2.54 goals-against average in his eight starts since being acquired on Feb. 24.
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The money would prevent the layoff of 75 officers announced Friday and also pay for 75 additional police officers.
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and Police Chief Mike Navarre held a press conference in the early evening to announce they filed for the federal bailout dollars and are optimistic they'll receive it.
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Fri Jun 29 2012 11:49 Month of Kickstarter?:
July, my birth month, approaches, and the question on everyone's lips
is, "Question on my lips? Who uses that kind of archaic
construction?" I do, and now that we've gotten that question out of
the way, let's talk about last July's project, Month
of Kickstarter.
My plan was sheer elegance in its simplicity. Every day I would go
to Kickstarter's
list of recently launched projects, scan the ~50 new projects,
bookmark the interesting ones and then put money behind 1-3 of the
interesting ones. Then I wrote about the projects I'd backed on News
You Can Bruise. This was a) a birthday present to myself and b) a
great source of experimental data. Would it be fun? (Yes!) Could I could drive my readers to
contribute to Kickstarter projects? (Not really!) What would Kickstarter's official
stats look like if they only covered projects I, personally, cared
about? (Quite different!) Most importantly, what about the backer
The backer rewards are great. It's like being pen pals with the
Internet. I'm still getting rewards. Yesterday I went and picked up my
ice cream for July 17's Milk Not Jails
project. My laid-back, experimental attitude towards the whole thing
has saved me from nerdrage when the shipment schedule slips, or the project owner flakes out altogether, or the
reward arrives and is just disappointing or lousy.
BTW, flakeouts are very rare, but I gotta name-and-shame Keith
Kritselis of the tesselated cookie cutter project because I did a whole detailed analysis of
his project and now he's flaked out and not delivered anything. Didn't see that coming! I hope he's just flaked out, and not dead or in prison.
Anyway, the actual question I've been thinking about: how about repeating Month of Kickstarter this July, to get a
new data set, a new bunch of rewards, and see how things have
I can tell you right off that I've changed. I am a lot pickier about Kickstarter rewards now than I was last year. I'll like a book/movie/album (preferably electronic), or some food, or a game, or a nice piece of art I can frame and hang up, but that's about it. I don't get any great satisfaction from having my name in the credits, and I'm tired of stickers and patches. I thought those would be great rewards because they're easy to mail and don't take up much space, but turns out I don't use 'em.
And one thing about Kickstarter has changed: usage has exploded. After last year's MoK I kept checking the new
projects page every day, but I stopped after a few months because it was
just too much stuff. I don't have time to read that firehose, so I backed a Kickstarter project to do it for me.
My estimate as of today is that there are
150 new projects posted to Kickstarter every day. I need to
double-check this number tomorrow and possibly update this post,
because it's a statistic Kickstarter doesn't provide. (Update: The actual total is more like 125.)
And here we come to the problem. Kickstarter's UI has not changed. Not in any way that would make
Month of Kickstarter easier to do, and it wasn't that easy to
begin with. 50 projects/day was kinda doable, but I'm not going to look through three times that many, and there's no way of filtering out the ton of projects I almost certainly won't be interested in.
UI is very carefully designed, so after a year of seeing it not change
in ways I think are pretty obvious, I'm starting to think the
absence of certain features is deliberate.
Forget Month of Kickstarter for a minute. Imagine that you, like
me, are really into board games. You want to track all the new board
game projects added to Kickstarter. You can't. There's no way to do this except by going
through the global "new projects" page every day and picking out the
board games. You can see "staff
picks" and "popular
this week" and "recently
successful" and "most
funded" but not "new". (Feel free to prove me wrong--I'd rather
have this functionality than be right about its absence.) It's like a
bookstore that has all the sections you'd expect, biography and horror
and so on, except the "new releases" are all jumbled together and
ordered by release date.
I have a hypothesis: there's some basic incompatibility between
browsing, which is what I want to do, and Kickstarter's user model or
business model. Over the past year, instead of doing things that would
make Month of Kickstarter easier, Kickstarter created a site-internal
social network so that your pals' activity would filter
through to you and you'd find out about new projects that way. I think that's
their user model: money flows to a Kickstarter project through a social
network rooted at the project's creator. Social networks
driven by Facebook and Twitter and just plain advertising (the board
game podcasts I listen to have a ton of advertising for Kickstarter
projects), but also now possible through Kickstarter itself.
Apart from the "Recently Launched" page and a couple others that
aren't as useful ("Ending Soon" and "Small Projects"), every project
discovery mechanism on Kickstarter (and there are a ton) is
based on finding projects ratified by someone else: Kickstarter staff,
or people in your social network, or someone operating
under the name of a trusted brand, or (as with "most funded") just
an unusually large number of random backers.
And sure, this works. I back my friends' crowdfunding projects all
the time. But it means that your Kickstarter project is
guaranteed to to sink without a trace unless you can get someone
else's attention outside of the site. If I'm right, this is
the point of the whole design. We learned from the last Month of Kickstarter that your project will fail if you don't
hustle. Kickstarter makes it clear that hustling is your job by
effectively hiding all but the most-hustled projects. Most site
visitors aren't interested in backing sixty projects to see what
happens. They want to back one or two projects from a curated list. So the system
works for them.
The problem for Month of Kickstarter is that while hustle may or
may not bring success to your individual project, it will not show your project to me unless our social networks intersect. That's not good enough. I need to see a list. But the list needs to not have 150 items in it every single day. I've spent the last eight months doing a project (the Constellation Games author commentary) that forced me to do a big context switch every week. I'm not really feeling the need for a daily context switch, and I certainly don't want to look at 150 projects a day. Last year "Recently Launched" did the job, but this year it won't.
They must have these advanced mechanisms. Whoever puts
together the curated O'Reilly page doesn't trawl through 150 projects
a day seeing if there's one they want to add to the list. But without
access to those mechanisms I can't really do this.
Like I said, I'm gonna give it a shot anyway. But it may descend into me backing projects without writing about them, or I may give up altogether. I've got other stuff I need to work on, and the thrill of gathering another MoK dataset to compare against last year's is probably not worth the time.


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Tustin residents protest council conduct
On Nov. 2, Tustin resident Charles Horvath visited the podium at the Tustin City Council meeting to speak about a mailer endorsed by Davert opposing council candidate David Waldram. Watch the YouTube video below.
About 50 residents rallied outside the Tustin Community Center in what they called a "rally to restore civility." prior to a Tuesday night council meeting.
Most of the residents who attended and spoke at the council meeting were responding to comments made during the Nov. 2 council meeting by Mayor Jerry Amante and Councilman Doug Davert after a resident shared his thoughts on a campaign mailer endorsed by Davert during election season.
Watch the video of the Nov. 2 meeting here.
Davert said he stands by the mailer.
"Sometimes politics is a messy business," Davert said on Wednesday.
"We had more people come out to talk to us about the water rates public hearing or, certainly, more people come out to talk about parking in the city," Amante said. "You just have to sort of look at it in context."
Eighteen people spoke during public comments Tuesday night about the actions of Tustin city council members. Some were responding to the Nov. 2 meeting, and others were sharing their support for the council members and the city staff members. Council members did not respond to the comments during the Tuesday night meeting.
"We debated the issue at the previous meeting," Davert said. "If people are unhappy with the decorum I'd be happy to sit down with them and explain why I do what I do."
The Tuesday night rally, and a video of the Nov. 2 council meeting, had been publicized on the Liberal OC blog by Dan Chmielewski.
"This was a political act and political rally by partisans who don't like the outcome of the race," Amante said.
On Nov. 2, Tustin resident Charles Horvath visited the podium to speak about a mailer endorsed by Davert opposing council candidate David Waldram.
After Horvath spoke, Davert and Mayor Jerry Amante responded to the comments. A video of each meeting is published on the city's website. A clip of that section of the meeting was aired on YouTube and the Liberal OC blog, and its popularity spread.
Horvath said he came to the meeting because he found the accusations in the mailer to be "horrendous." Numerous people called him after the meeting, he said, and e-mailed him in support of his comments.
"(Amante) could have just said 'Thank you for your time, Mr. Horvath.' And instead of doing the smart thing, he went off on me in a way I haven't been talked to in all my life," Horvath said.
"I'm just an average guy, a citizen of this city more than half my life," he said.
Former council candidate David Waldram took the podium to say that he chose not to respond to the accusations in the mailer because he believes in a clean campaign and sticking to his message. Fellow Tustin High teacher and Model United Nations adviser Linda Levine and some Tustin High students, also came to the meeting in support of Waldram.
"I felt that this campaign was a defining moment for me," he said. "It gave me a chance to evaluate who I am."
Kristin Gallagher was one of those who saw the YouTube video of the Nov. 2 council meeting.
"Whether the City Council agreed or not, the citizens deserve to be heard and treated with respect," she said.
Marilee Nielsen, a county resident and teacher, attended the rally because she wanted council members to know people keep track of local politics, she said.
"I want to send a message to the council that we're watching them," said Tustin resident Charles Cha.
Former Mayor Tracy Worley Hagen said she was protesting the way "Amante and Davert have treated organizations and individuals in this city over the last four years." And former council candidate Sherri Loveland said she wanted the council members to be more respectful of the residents who speak at the meetings.
"I'm hoping we restore some level of respect for the citizenry and some fair election practices where sitting council people would have enough class to sit by the sidelines and watch rather than tear people down," Horvath said.
Watch the council meeting online here.
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By The Urban Hikers, Peter Hartmann & Stacey Wright
This week we continued our quest to walk all 256 miles of public streets within the city limits of Santa Barbara, and walked parts of town that many confuse as being Montecito. In reality, with the exception of Coast Village Road, these neighborhoods are and have always been a part of the City of Santa Barbara.
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Back in the day - as in the 1960's, 70's and even into the 80's - we can recall that the residents of our town often identified their neighborhoods in much more specific terms. If asked where you live, the response would often include the street you lived on, or the closest recognizable street to most people. So for example if you lived on or near Barker Pass you would simply reply "Barker Pass". Or you might refer to your neighborhood as "Arcady". Or "Sycamore Canyon". Or "Picacho"....Today, many people living in the tony 93108 zip code generally report that they live in Montecito. And you know what? That ain't always the truth. We hate to admit it, but it bugs these urban hikers, who like the old-fashion, more modest (and truthful) distinctions.
The fact of the matter is, the area involving the 93108 zip code boasts some of the most spectacular real estate in the world. The views are often the most prominent feature, but the pads usually aren't half bad either. And this is a tradition that goes way back. In other words, if you have an address on Cima Linda, there should be absolutely no shame in admitting that you live in Santa Barbara. In fact, back in the day, you wouldn't have found a true Montecitoan claiming to be one. Instead, the genteel amongst us simply used a return address of "Santa Barbara, 93108". That was sufficient.
The neighborhoods of the 93108 have a variety of spectacular ocean views and beautiful rural areas, and we've thoroughly enjoyed them during our required travels of this vicinity. We think they're definitely worth experiencing firsthand, and are certain many of the urban hikers amongst us include these routes in their regular hikes.
And then there's Coast Village Road. We enjoyed this part of Santa Barbara so much that we devoted an entire column to it. So for now, we'll share with you a few of the Coast Village addresses that actually lie within the city limits, thanks to its annexation back in the 1950's.
There are now hundreds of incredibly impressive homes in the area of Santa Barbara adjacent to Montecito. But, around the turn of the century there were just a handful. Some of the present day mansions are those same old homes which sat on the impressive estates, while others are more modern. Either way, we delighted in the properties we saw, although catching a glimpse inside the hedges or gates was often difficult if not downright impossible.
But speaking of the handful of magnificent estates from the end of the last century, we'll now share a bit about three of the most prominent of their day, as well as something about a beautiful park. We'll also give you a bit of history about the Montecito Country Club, which ironically has never spent even a day of its existence within the boundaries of Montecito.
Perhaps the most interesting and well documented estate among our "top three" is the C.K.G. Billings Estate. Originally 188 acres in size, the property was located at what is now Cima Linda Lane, and extended all the way to Salinas Street.
Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings was an interesting character. Born in New York in 1861, and named after his father's business partner (later to be called "Ben" by his father after a break-up of the partnership), he first "wintered" in Santa Barbara around the turn of the century. An "Eastern financier", he had a fascination for matinee riding, which is akin to harness racing. As such, he bought his most prized horse, a mare named Lou Dillon, from a breeder in Santa Ynez. Lou Dillon was the first horse to trot a 2-minute mile, and after spending some time in New York, she came home to Santa Barbara when the Billings family relocated here in in about 1917.
A bit of an eccentric whose estate consisted of a main house and five guest houses, Mr. Billings named nearby streets in honor of his favorite horses and had lavish dinner parties to celebrate them. There is a story about a dinner party that Mr. Billings threw in 1903 to celebrate the opening of his New York stable, during which he and 36 of his best friends sat atop horses inside a New York mansion. As the story goes, the host and his guests ate from specially fashioned trays
which attached to the saddles of their mounts, and drank chilled champagne from rubber hoses that extended into champagne bottles stowed in the horses' saddle bag. Don't believe it? Mr. Billings didn't think you would, so luckily he hired a photographer to document the event.
The Billings home and guest houses were designed by Carlton Monroe Winslow, the architect of the SB Natural History Museum and other notable buildings in Santa Barbara. Oddly, there are very few photos of the home. We found one in the late David Myrick's "Montecito and Santa Barbara; The Days of Great Estates", as well as a very sweet drawing, by a local artist dated 1938.
Fredrick Forrest Peabody, a shirt and collar tycoon from the East Coast also made Santa Barbara his home at the turn of the century. Designed by local architect and bon vivant Francis Underhill, Solana sat on a hill to the east of Eucalyptus Hill Road. The very impressive home served as the abode of Mr. Peabody, of a local philanthropist who built Peabody Stadium (home of Don's football) and donated the property for what is now Peabody Charter School. Today the gates of the home still bear the name "Solana" which translated means "sunny place."
The last of our three "houses on the hills" was called Graholm, and was built by David Gray in 1920. It's perhaps best known to most as the last home of Brook's Institute in Santa Barbara. Designed by a little known architect, Roland Sauter, it's probably the most modest of the estates, and was part of a growing trend toward building Mediterranean homes and estates.
David Gray was the son of John Gray, a self-made man, who in 1903 took the opportunity to invest $10,500 with Henry Ford. Following his father's death in 1906, avid Gray sold the stock in Ford Motor Company back to Mr. Ford in 1919 for a tidy $26 million.
Following the 1925 earthquake David Gray, along with Bernard Hoffman and George Knapp, donated $10,000 apiece to establish the architectural review board, intended to promote the Spanish style reconstruction of downtown Santa Barbara. He also funded the Cabrillo Pavilion located at East Beach. Coincidentally the pavilion's first manager was Roland Sauter, the architect who he had earlier designed Grayholm.
Hale Park is a beautiful a 13-acre unimproved park, which sits at the border of
Santa Barbara and Montecito. Kathleen Hale, the widow and second wife of Fredrick Forrest Peabody, donated the land to the city in 1954 with the instruction that it be made into a public park. We're thankful for her generosity and are happy that it's been maintained in its unimproved state.
Last, but by no means least, we have a little bit of history to share with you about the beautiful Montecito County Club.
In 1916 construction began on the Colonial Revival clubhouse, which was designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, and by February 1918, the club was a going concern. But after only a couple of years, things got tough for the owners, and in 1921, five local men, Misters Billings, Peabody, Knapp, Rives and Edwards, incorporated and assumed ownership of the property. They immediately hired renowned architect George Washington Smith to renovate and expand the club, and in 1922 Max Behr reconfigured the golf course. In 1947 Avery Brundage, a local who had competed in the 1912 Olympics, purchased the club and updated it with a swimming pool, tennis courts, badminton courts and a remodeled club house. Mr. Brundage then sold the property to the Sozan Tsukamoto Company in 1973. In 1998, local architect Bob Easton was enlisted to complete another reconstruction project, and in 2006, the club was purchased by Ty Warner, owner of the Santa Barbara Baltimore, Coral Casino, San Ysidro Ranch, Rancho San Marcos and Sandpiper Golf Course.
There are many wonderful homes and hidden treasures that make up the neighborhoods of "the 93108", and although we have driven most of these roads countless times, it was only by walking them that we came to fully appreciate their unique beauty and rich history. Like so many other areas of town, to walk it is to love it.
As reported last week, our project of hiking every street in the City of Santa Barbara is nearly complete. So we are planning on finishing up with a final hike in November, to which you all are hereby invited. And while our mission of walking each street in Santa Barbara is coming to an end, our wanderings about town will continue indefinitely, as will our weekly Urban Hike submissions to Edhat. In one of David Powdrell's recent Edhat articles (May 2011) he mentioned the concept of "la flaneur", which literally translated means "the person who walks in the city to experience it". We identified with this notion and now happily consider ourselves among "les flaneurs" of modern day Santa Barbara. We will continue to be the urban observers that this project has taught us to become, and will persevere with our walking, observing, documenting and reporting. We've walked many of our city streets more than once, and on subsequent hikes we always see interesting things we missed the first time around. With all that Santa Barbara has to offer, we couldn't possibly stop now. Thanks for your interest, and be sure to join us next month when we finish up with the last of our un-hiked streets. Date, time and route to be announced as soon as we know it.
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I have always loved Hale Park and never knew the history of it - plus I always thought it was in Montecito. Thank you for the tour and interesting history lesson. Fun!
Thanks again. Parents live on Via Alicia and I will call them so they can read this too. Did a lot of "firsts" at Hale park thanks for jogging my memory.
Do you have any plans to turn this project into a book? It's been interesting to read and learn about local lore.
As per usual-- Thanks!
Interesting history - wish this had been parceled into smaller chapters. And also wish there were a prettier fence for the Montecito Country Club - seems odd that there's a common chain link fence there. Thanks for your stories.
Thank you, Urban Hikers, for pointing out all 93108 zips aren't in Montecito. The Real Estate people keep that myth going because a Montecito house will bring more money. They advertise "Montecito homes" nowhere near the community line (it's one of my pet peeves). Graholm, which Brooks called their "Montecito Campus" is not in Montecito, the line marking the community runs behind it. The Santa Barbara Cemetary is in Montecito. The honest defination of Montecito can be found on a map at the Montecito Community Hall. As for Billings' horses, I never heard he named streets after them. When his stable was demolished (after his death) and apts built, the developer named "Lou Dillon Lane" (off Salinas) and "Uhlan Place" in honor of the most famous of Billings' horses. Where are the streets Billings named?
Urban Hikers here - Well, 970, we never thought our hike project would turn ito a writing project, but it seems to have evolved into that...so at this point we are considering something. Not sure what yet, but we love SB, its history and as you mention, its "local lore". We'd like to help preserve it if posssible. And regarding FLICKA's question, we guess we got that wrong. We didn't realize it was the developer who came up with the idea to name the streets after Mr. Billings' horses - we thought Mr. Billings was the one who came up with that. Thank you for the correction. And yes, we have walked both of those streets, from top to bottom.
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Reducing energy consumption is on the agenda at the G8 summit in Japan. Gareth from BBC Radio speaks to Malcolm Johnson, from the International Telecommunication Union, about the global issues facing technology providers and users... [Interview]
ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008, the regional ICT showcase, is set for Bangkok, Thailand from 2 to 5 September. The first such event to be hosted by Thailand, Asia 2008 will promote information and communication technologies (ICT) both globally and within the Asia-Pacific region.
"New Generation, New Values" the theme for ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 sets the stage for both the Exhibition and the Forum. The Exhibition showcases a comprehensive range of ICT-related products and services, reflecting the ever extending reach of industry. Parallel to individual stands, a number of initiatives are underway to showcase national competitive advantages. Pavilions registered thus far include: China, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, Thailand and USA. ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 will be held at the modern IMPACT Challenger Centre in Bangkok. As ASIA 2008 coincides with the dates for Bangkok International ICT Expo that has been organized for the last four years by Thailands Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT), the entire central hall of the IMPACT Challenger venue is dedicated to showcasing the ICT industry in Thailand.
"Thailand is very supportive of this years event and has organized an impressive Pavilion that firmly establishes Thailand as an ICT hub," said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré. "The location is ideal because of its strategic and geographic situation in the Asia-Pacific region, noting the fast-growing markets in China and India and the huge potential of the rest of the region. At the same time, more developed markets in neighbouring countries continue to embrace cutting edge information and communication technologies." [More...]
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African regulators and policy makers met in Dakar, Senegal to address the challenges of connecting Africa to information and communication technologies (ICT). Achieving connectivity is seen as a catalyst for achieving the broader targets of the Millennium Development Goals.
The ninth Forum on Telecommunication/ICT Regulation and Partnership in Africa was held 4-6 June 2008 in the context of the Connect Africa Summit, which met in Kigali, Rwanda last October.
Opening the Forum, Mr Habib Sy, Minister for Infrastructures, Land Transport, Telecommunications and ICT of Senegal emphasized the importance of establishing a regulatory framework to build a modern and successful Africa perfectly integrated in the information society.
ITU was represented by Mr Yury Grin, Deputy Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau. He highlighted ITUs role as a facilitator in supporting African countries to establish effective regulatory frameworks. He said the creation of an enabling environment would foster investment and stimulate growth in the ICT sector.
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Speech from Dr Hamadoun I. Touré:
I am pleased to be with you this morning at this especially important TSAG meeting, the last before WTSA in Johannesburg.
As you know ITU's mission is to connect the world. I am proud of the strong resolve that TSAG has shown in supporting this number one goal of ITU.
In my address to TSAG in December last year I laid out the five key priorities that were identified by the new management team.
As a direct result of that last TSAG meeting ICTs and climate change has become an item to add to this list and is now very strongly fixed on our agenda. I am very appreciative of the drive that has come from TSAG and ITU-T on this topic and note with pleasure the excellent outcome of the recent symposiums in Kyoto and London... [Full speech...]
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met with ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré along with a high-level ITU delegation including the Director of the ITU Standardization Bureau, Mr Malcolm Johnson, Director of the Development Bureau, Mr Sami Al Basheer, and Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Chief of Strategic Planning and Membership.
The meeting in Redmond, WA, USA aimed at extending the collaboration between ITU and Microsoft. Discussions ranged from improving education through information and communication technologies (ICT), developing digital resources, providing access to low-cost ICT devices and building human capacity to expanding e-health services and other e-applications.
At the meeting, Mr Bill Gates emphasized that ICT is a key component for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
After the OECD Ministerial Meeting and on his way to Seattle, Dr. Touré visited Japan for the first time since the begining of his mandate as Secretary-General and met with high-level officials in Tokyo to discuss subjects such as Cybersecurity, Climate Change, and the Digital Divide, with the view to intensify efforts in these important areas. The Secretary-General also thanked the Governement of Japan for its generous support towards an ITU pilot study project on Wireless Broadband Technology. Within the framework of his mission, Dr Touré was received by Mr. K. Aritomi Kaníchiro, President of the ITU Association of Japan and emphasized the catalytic role of ITU to link the new technologies and services of the Japanese industry with developping countries and develop this through partnerships.
The OECD Ministerial Meeting that took place in Seoul, Korea was attended by more than 70 countries. Dr Touré, ITU Secretary-General met with Presidents and CEOs of prominent ICT companies from Korea where the developments and innovations of the ICT industry have brought a significant benefit to the region. The industry leaders shared initiatives at multilateral and bilateral levels. Many themes were tackled and "the Global Internet Economy" was the topic of roundtable 5 at which Dr Touré addressed the mobile success story of today and defended the priority of tomorrow which is the broadband Internet as a basic and vital infrastructure to the economy and social development. The Secretary-General urged participants to bring the broadband networks within easy reach of all in order to avoid creating a devastating new Digital Divide. In face of today's new threats, the task of ensuring the right infrastructure and empowering people to use the new tools will build confidence in Internet becomes an essential goal to global technology.
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Dr. Touré attended the GTM 2008 in Washington on 3 June 2008. Intelsat has been hosting GTM for the past 30 years where communications companies, satellite industry and organizations from all over the world gather in sharing their network and knowledge to address the benefit of ICT to people in the most remote places on the globe. This year GTM event opened its doors to corporate network operators, government services sectors and carriers. GTM 08 tackled the networking environment and focused on business and social issues affecting the world telecom industry. Connect the World having been the theme of this years GTM, Dr. Touré, a keynote speaker at this event, found this forum a perfect platform to share one of the principal missions of ITU to expand access and connectivity in a view to reaching its goal to connect the unconnected by 2015.
Geneva, Switzerland Ms Khédija Hamouda Ghariani, Secretary-General of the Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization (AICTO) visited the Geneva headquarters of ITU and met with Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré and Deputy Secretary-General Mr Houlin Zhao on 26 May 2008. Established in January 2008 to meet the goals of the Information Society in the Arab States through the development of ICT, AICTO has applied to become a Sector Member of ITU. Photos | AICTO website
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When officers arrived, they found a body. No foul is suspected.
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MASON CITY, Iowa – Several Police vehicles are responding to a parking lot near Southport Mall in Mason City.
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Montreal based extreme metallers KATAKLYSM have unveiled the complete track listing for their multidisc DVD entitled The Iron Will: 20 Years Determined. The DVD will be released on July 3rd and will feature a documentary and bonus CD materials. The set will depict the ups and downs of the band's long, turbulent career, as well as footage of KATAKLYSM's performance at last year's Summer Breeze festival, which took place August 18-20, 2011 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The cover art for the release was created by artist Colin Marks (ORIGIN, EXODUS, NEVERMORE) and can be viewed above.
The Iron Will: 20 Years Determined Track Listing:
IRON WILL Part I
The Early Years 1991-2004
1. Let's Start A Band 1991-1993
2. Signing to Nuclear Blast in 1994
3. Mexico in 1995
4. Max Leaves the Band
5. The Temple of Knowledge
6. The Reformation in 1997
7. Leaving NB in 1998
8. The Prophecy Returns to NB in 2000
10. In Shadows & Dust
11. Max Quits, Again
IRON Will Part II
The Rebirth 2004-2011
1. Serenity In Fire with Martin in 2004
2. Max Comes Back
3. In The Arms… 2006
4. Prevailing in 2008
5. 2010 Heaven's Venom
6. Ozzfest
7. Albano's & Saverio
8. The World Tour
9. Transylvania
10. SPQR Rome
11. Touring with Kids
12. New Orleans
13. 2 Decades of Congrats
14. Credits
Iron WIll
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1. Determined (Vows Of Vengeance)
2. Taking The World By Storm
3. The Awakener
4. To Reign Again
5. Manipulator Of Souls
6. As I Slither
7. At The Edge Of The World
8. As My World Burns
9. Drum Solo
10. Blood On The Swans
11. Astral Empire
12. Feeling The Neverworld
13. The Orb Of Uncreation
14. In Shadows And Dust
15. Crippled And Broken
16. Push The Venom
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2. Like Angels Weeping (The Dark)
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5. Manipulator Of Souls
6. Crippled And Broken
7. Prevail
8. As I Slither
9. The Awakener
10. The Resurrected
11. Let Them Burn
12. At The Edge Of The World
13. Taking The World By Storm
14. Blood In Heaven
15. The Ambassador Of Pain
16. Where The Enemy Sleeps
17. The Road To Devastation
18. Sorcery
19. The Orb Of Uncreation
Check out the music video for the new single "Iron Will" on YouTube: http://youtu.be/
KATAKLYSM also recently announced a North American summer headlining tour, METAL SUCKS presents: KATAKLYSM "The Iron Will Tour 2012." The run will kick off in mid-August, and features ORIGIN, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, VITAL REMAINS, ROSE FUNERAL and more in support. Head over to MetalSucks.net: http://www.
KATAKLYSM's new album Heaven's Venom was released on August 24th 2010 in North America and sold around 2,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 7 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart and #196 on the Billboard Top Current Albums chart, making it the bands highest charting album and their biggest first week sales to date. Heatseekers lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
Heaven's Venom was recorded by KATAKLYSM guitarist J-F Dagenais (MALEVOLENT CREATION, MISERY INDEX) and was mixed by Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, MNEMIC, DARK TRANQUILLITY).
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Taste Bud Tickler Chicken
So this was not a pin I was going to blog on, but after I ate this last night I just had to! This was absolutely AMAZING!!! I did make it a little bit different than Rachel Shultz makes because I didn't have everything on hand, but I will definitely make this again and again and again....yes, it was that good. The only bad part was that I did not make enough of this!!!! The original recipe called for boneless skinless chicken breast and to bake, but as you can tell by the picture above, I did not use chicken breast or bake this...I let my crock pot do all the work, I will post the oven recipe, but if you want to make it in your crock pot, just mix everything and pour it over your chicken, slow cook for 6-8 hours and let it melt in your mouth...
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts (I used thighs this time)
1/2 cup Dijon mustard (I used horseradish mustard)
1/4 cup maple syrup (I used homemade buttermilk syrup)
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
Salt & pepper
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a small bowl, mix together mustard, syrup, and vinegar. Place chicken breasts into 9×13 baking dish. Season with salt & pepper. Pour mustard mixture over chicken. No need to marinate. I love that because I hate marinating/often forget to until it's too late.
2. Bake for about 35-50 minutes or until meat thermometer reads 165 degrees. Season with rosemary. Prepare for people to ask you to make it again.
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A Phase 2 Study to Investigate the Clinical Activity of IPI-504 in Patients With Hormone-resistant Prostate Cancer (IPI-504-04)
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To determine:
- Anti-tumor activity of IPI-504 in 2 groups of subjects with hormone resistant prostate cancer.
- Group A - subjects who have not previously received chemotherapy
- Group B - sujects who have received prior chemotherapy or could not tolerate chemotherapy.
- Clinical response will be determined by PSA and radiological response
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Neoplasms Cancer of the Prostate |
Drug: IPI-504 |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase 2 Open-Label Study to Investigate the Pharmacodynamics and Clinical Activity of IPI-504 in Patients With Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Stratified by Prior Chemotherapy |
- Correlate prior treatment status with clinical response as determined by PSA and radiologic response rate [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
- Assess the safety and tolerability of IPI-504 in patients with hormone resistant prostate cancer [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
Enrollment: | 19 |
Study Start Date: | November 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | July 2010 |
Primary Completion Date: | March 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: IPI-504: Group A
No Prior treatment for prostate cancer with cytotoxic chemotherapy (adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy is acceptable if completed >2 years prior to study)
Drug: IPI-504
IPI-504 at 400mg/m2, IV, 2 times a week for 2 weeks with 10 days off treatment. Twenty-one (21) day cycle
Experimental: IPI-504: Group B
Drug: IPI-504
IPI-504 at 400mg/m2, IV, 2 times a week for 2 weeks with 10 days off treatment. Twenty-one (21) day cycle
Detailed Description:
IPI-504 is a novel, water-soluble analog of 17-AAG and a potent inhibitor of Hsp90. Hsp90's role in the cell is to control the proper folding, function, and viability of various "client" proteins. Many of these client proteins (such as AKT, Her-2, Bcr-Abl, PDGFR-α, and c-Kit) are oncoproteins or important cell signaling proteins. Inhibition of HSP-90 leads to the proteasomal degradation of these proteins.
In patients with HRPC,there are several proteins that are important in the progression of HRPC, including AR, AKT and Her-2. All of these are client proteins of Hsp90 and in response to Hsp90 inhibition are degraded by their proteasome. Preclinical studies have shown that Hsp90 inhibition causes a dose dependent degradation of these client proteins and growth inhibition of prostate cancer in xenograft tumors.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adenocarcinoma of the prostate
- Resolution of acute toxic side effects of prior chemotherapy
- Castration resistant disease despite ongoing chemical or surgical castration
- PSA greater than or equal to 2
Group A -
- No Prior treatment for prostate cancer with cytotoxic chemotherapy (neoadjuvant, adjuvant treatment permitted if more than 2 years out)
Group B
- Radiographic evidence of metastatic disease
- Prior tx with docetaxel-minimum of 2 cycles with progression by RECIST or PSA or intolerant of tx
- Maximum of 3 prior chemotherapies
Exclusion Criteria:
- Small cell carcinoma of the prostate
- Treatment within 2 weeks with approved, investigational, or small molecule
- Treatment within 4 weeks with biologic or external beam radiation
- ANC <1,500 cells m3; Platelets <100,000 mm3; Hemoglobin <9.0g/dL
- Serum creatinine >3.0mg/dL
- Active keratitis or keratoconjunctivitis
- Previous treatment with 17-AAG, DMAG; or any other HSP-90 inhibitor
- Baseline Qtc >450 mses
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00564928
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San Bernardino Urological Associates | |
San Bernardino, California, United States, 92404 | |
Stanford University Medical Center | |
Stanford, California, United States, 94305 | |
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University of Colorado at Denver | |
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80045 | |
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MCG Cancer Center | |
Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30912 | |
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Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637 | |
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115 | |
Massachusetts General Hospital | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115 | |
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215 | |
United States, Michigan | |
Wayne State University | |
Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201 | |
United States, Texas | |
Parkland Hospital | |
Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390 |
Principal Investigator: | William Oh, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
Responsible Party: | Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00564928 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | November 27, 2007 |
Last Updated: | December 7, 2012 |
Keywords provided by Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.:
Hormone resistant prostate cancer castrate resistant prostate cancer HRPC CRPC |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Prostatic Neoplasms Genital Neoplasms, Male Urogenital Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site |
Neoplasms Genital Diseases, Male Prostatic Diseases |
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Book combines Denton art with Morton's poetry
Denton resident Karla K. Morton, 2010 Texas poet laureate, will release her latest book, Passion, Art, Community: Denton, Texas in Word and Image, on Aug. 30.
Morton was commissioned by the city's art committee and the Greater Denton Arts Council to write the history of Denton in poetry. After the poems were written, artists from Denton were commissioned to create art inspired by Morton's work.
The Greater Denton Arts Council will open an exhibition of the book's art Aug. 26 in the Meadows Gallery at the Center for Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory St. The exhibit includes paintings, photographs and collages, and the poems that inspired each piece. The exhibit will run through Oct. 28.
"I am proud to call Denton, Texas, home and so honored to have been selected to write its history," Morton said. "I am especially thankful to the Public Art Committee of Denton and excited that this book combines poetry with work by so many local artists."
Passion, Art, Community will be launched at an opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 30 at the arts center. Books will be available for purchase at the reception. The book can also be purchased at the Denton Civic Center and the Center for the Visual Arts through Sept. 7. After that, it will be available for purchase by contacting the city purchasing department.
Area wind ensemble invited to regional convention
The Lone Star Wind Orchestra has been invited to perform at the annual Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic Convention in Chicago in December. The Dallas orchestra is under the direction of Eugene Migliaro Corporon, regents professor of conducting at the University of North Texas.
The nonprofit wind orchestra is made up of volunteer musicians. Corporon announced last week that the orchestra has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money for the orchestra's travel and stay in Chicago.
The campaign will end Sept. 1. The policies of Kickstarter, a crowd-sourcing fundraising company, require that fundraisers raise all of the money needed — or more — by the deadline.
If the campaign succeeds, Corporon will lead the orchestra on the podium, and the ensemble will be guest conducted by Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra will premiere a new percussion trio accompanied by the wind orchestra with world-renowned soloists Mark Ford, Christopher Deane and Brian Zator.
To donate to the campaign, visit http://kck.st/SxHDfi.
Council announces conference speakers
The Greater Denton Arts Council has announced the speakers lined up for its inaugural symposium exploring interdisciplinary intersections within the arts.
The symposium, "Ekphrasis: A Collaboration Among the Arts, will run Oct. 11-13 at the Center for the Visual Arts.
The speakers and their subjects are:
■ Pat Porter, former CEO North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts, on arts advocacy and cultural tourism.
■ Michelle Kraft, on art and communities and arts education.
■ Martha Peters, public art director of the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, on public art and public policy.
■ Donna Howell-Sickels, cowgirl artist, on arts and heritage.
■ Craig Schaefer, associate executive director of membership, marketing and development at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, on arts and heritage.
■ Honor Moorman, on education and interdisciplinary connections.
The symposium's opening reception on Oct. 11 is free. Admission to the symposium on Oct. 12 will cost $50 for the full day, workshop and evening event, or $25 for students; or $10 for evening events only.
For more information, call the council at 940-382-2787 or visit www.dentonarts.com.
Gainesville-based choir seeks new voices
The North Central Texas Chorale is seeking more singers for the fall season.
The chorale is a community-based chorus that has been in existence for more than 36 years and has presented music in Texas, New York and abroad.
The fall season will feature Handel's Messiah. The chorale has been invited to sing in concert Dec. 8 at the St. Peter's Catholic Church in Lindsay.
Most chorale members are from Gainesville, but singers come from Denton, Decatur, Pilot Point, Muenster and St. Jo, too. No audition is required, but previous choir participation is preferred. Singers must be able to sing on pitch and read music.
Daniel Banke is the director of the North Central Texas Chorale, and Carolyn Hook is the choir's accompanist.
Rehearsals are from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays at the First State Bank Center for the Performing Arts, on the North Central Texas College campus in Gainesville. Rehearsals start Aug. 28.
For more information, call Banke at 940-580-3004 or chorale President Phil Schenk at 940-387-1886.
— Staff reports


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Who's Supreme Court? Challenging Unjust Law and Corporate Power
Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 2nd February, 2011 | 2 Comments
If the Supreme Court had never granted "personhood" rights to corporations, would they still be trammeling the rights of citizens and riding roughshod over communities and nature? Would we have democracy?
By deciding 5-4 in the Citizens United case, the US Supreme Court expanded corporations' ability to spend money to influence our elections, and reignited the controversy over corporate personhood. A bevy of campaigns have emerged to challenge it, through litigation or via a Constitutional amendment. Abolishing corporate personhood is necessary, but our entire system of law is engineered to keep decision making out of the hands of the people.
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Spain's El Mundo newspaper is reporting that a document leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden shows that the NSA scooped up data from 60 million phone calls made in Spain over a four-week period in late 2012 and early 2013, The Associated Press writes.
As the AP notes, the El Mundo report:
"Comes a week after the French paper Le Monde reported similar allegations of U.S. spying in France and German magazine Der Spiegel reported that Washington tapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. The leaders of Brazil and Mexico are also reported to have been spied on. …
"There was no immediate reaction to the report from either the Spanish government or the U.S. embassy in Madrid. However, U.S. Ambassador James Costos had already been summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Monday to discuss reports that indicated Spain was a U.S. spying target."
Meanwhile, The Guardian noted over the weekend that "a report in Der Spiegel said [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel's mobile number had been listed by the NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) since 2002 and may have been monitored for more than 10 years. It was still on the list — marked as 'GE Chancellor Merkel' — weeks before President Barack Obama visited Berlin in June."
Also, The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama wasn't aware until his second term that the NSA had been spying on other world leaders. And, the Journal adds that the NSA:
"Ended a program used to spy on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a number of other world leaders after an internal Obama administration review started this summer revealed to the White House the existence of the operations, U.S. officials said."


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I live in an area where rain happens. There is a very small window of ideal dry conditions for putting up hay, if it isn't rain, then it's mist or dew. Even dry hay in the barn gets damp through our rainy winters. Since I've lived here, I 've wondered how these farms get by when their hay gets rained on or otherwise wet. I learn something new every day! We are buying our hay out of the field. The weather is cool, cloudy and misty. The hay is damp. Our 96 year old hay lady told us to sprinkle a handful of rock salt on each bale as we stack them, they won't spoil. She says they have always salted their hay no matter how dry or wet it is and did this back when the put up loose hay. all of the old farmers do this. She says in her memory, and she was born out there, they have never lost hay because of moisture. The condition of her farm and home, and those of the other old pioneer families, attest to the fact that they indeed never faced many losses on their farms. So we are salting the hay as we stack it. Any one else ever hear of salting the hay to keep it from moisture damage?
I never heard of it but thank you for posting about it! This year the man we buy from had to bale real quick before storms rolled in. The hay wasn't wet but could have used an extra day out in the field before baling. It's not moldy but some of it has that slight silvery "bloom" to it that rises up like dust. I'm afraid to feed it. We've had to discard a lot of it. Heart breaking because we thought we were stocked up for a good few months. pauline
We have salted hay before. If it was baled a little green or damp. The alfalfa will cure like tobacco instead of molding. It doesn't take a lot, just sprinkle each layer of bales.
Well I have to say I have done this just once. Unfortunately, I put down too much salt. Everyone knows what happens to salt when it's left out, right? Funny how it draws moisture, isn't it? LOL, lost a lot of hay that fall! No one had said anything about a "handful", we just poured it on. Oops!
Nothing wrong with making mistakes - they come from the innocence of ignorance (and we're all born with an infinite amount of ignorance). Live and learn... I have a new signature!!
My Dad always has us put salt down when we are stacking the hay in the barn. Usually we stack hay in a certain area, and before we stack hay on top of the hay we just put down, we throw handfuls of salt here and there. He ALWAYS has us put salt down. The salt absorbs the moisture, and helps so the hay doesn't heat up if put away with too much moisture.
How interesting! Well since we often use dry rice to absorb moisture, I wonder if any old timers ever used that.
Heard of it, never did it. I'd wonder about rusting the heck out of my hay storage area - nails in the floor, etc. A bit too wet bales, stack them on their edge. They keep a bit better. Be careful - too wet bales get into a heating cycle, the dampness drives microbes that create heat that spawn more microbes - the heat drives away the moisture, and the heat gets hot enough for the hay to start itself on fire. They make 2 types of preservatives to spray or shake onto hay as it's baled. Very common on the large square balers. One type is a microbe that sorta gets in the way of the other heating microbes so they don't cause problems. The other is a pickling juice, or sorta basically the salt you are using in a different form. --->Paul
We used to use bagged 50 pound bags of calcium. We would put down a hand full on heach layer. When that was not available we would go to the IGA na dbuy a case of table salt and sprinkle that. Now we use the commercial spray that you use in a small 2 gallon tank and spray on. We ALWAYS treat our hay. We do not feed much hay but sell a heck of a lot of it. We bring in hay from all over. EVERY bit gets treated. We quit using salt about 2 years ago as we switched to the spray. I do ask when I buy stored hay if it has been salted. Many times it has been. Most of our hay comes out of the field and is in large commercial bales. These are most times treated at baling as the baler has a sprayer on it. The dairy men us these bales and want easy to use feed.
An "old timer" shared this practice with me as well. She'd been putting up hay for over 80 years...I figured it was superstition more than anything but reading about it here, the science makes sense. Happy Haying everyone!
Moldy hay is one consideration for putting salt on hay. Burning down the barn because of lofting wet hay is another. You might have lost the hay but I would be willing to bet the barn didn't go up in flames. Wrapped up quite a few round bales of wet hay myself. After it goes through a heating cycle a week or two later we come back and wrap the bales with plastic. If wrapped too wet the core of the bale will turn into hay loggy, black as pitch and smelling like molasses. Cows love it. They would eat the core out before anything else.
Nothing better than wrapping round bales.....we always mowed, baled and wrapped the same day, but finding something to do with all that plastic is a pain. I hadn't ever heard of salting bales......If your a dairy farmer I would not recomend it. Too much salt in the diet causes the cows to have more bulls than heifers.
How would I know? I've been buying salted hay out of these barns for 7 years. I did notice my horses don't go through salt blocks like horses did when I was a kid in a dry climate, but I thought it was because we don't have extreme heat here, either.
We always ended up stacking it up until we had enough to fill a roll of dumpster. Looked bad laying around for a couple of years and then it ends up in a landfill
The folks who had their mare here to be bred brought her hay that had been salted in the row, then baled. Opening up each bale, there was some hot spots and mold to go along with the salt crystals. = not good horse hay.
Livestock eating salted hay WILL go thru more water. More importantly you should adjust your mineral feed methods. For example if you are using mineral salt block as the deliever method. You may want to stop that method and use molasses with minerals. If the animals are getting salt in the hay, they will eat less of the mineral salt block. You can buy low cost fifty pound bags of salt for mixing with your loose minerals at any feed mill/store. Use that on your hay if needed. I wouldn't (don't) do it unless I felt it needed it. I find horse owners generally will NOT buy hay if they think it's been salted or sprayed. That maybe a regional thing. A lot of large round and large square bales are sprayed during baling in this area. That hay is mostly destine for bovine animals (cows & cattle). I prefer to set bales out on stem side down across pallets in only one layer. Make sure you put plastic tarps under the pallets to keep floor moisture from coming up. Takes a lot of room and pallets. Salt is not a cure all. Your hay can still get moldy or burn down the barn.
Around here, the salted hay is preferred for horses. We feed hay through the winter and can't measure the horses' water usage as the rain keeps the troughs full. We use a mineral block with molasses and selenium. One year we bought hay from another grower that didn't salt and quite a bit of the hay had the silver dust, mildew and core rot "slugs." Boy, did that mildew dust make the horses cough! We had to give them cough syrup all winter and spread a lot of wasted hay, then spent the next growing season pulling thistles from the yard. Quite a few people feed the yuck hay to their cattle because they can supposedly digest it better. Their cows have a low calving rate and tend to drop dead for no apparent reason. Our hay options out here are salted hay, bad hay or driving 160 miles round trip for $9+ a bale imported hay.


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From dictator's dream to democracy's home
Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a megalomaniacal creation of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, has emerged as an unlikely pillar of Romania's nascent democracy. It's also now a tourist attraction in the capital of Bucharest, visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year.
The palace opened its doors in early 1990, less than a year after Ceausescu was killed in a bloody pro-democracy revolution. Described by some as a giant Stalinist wedding cake, it's the world's second-largest administrative building after the Pentagon, at 3.77 million square feet.
Parliament and the Constitutional Court are housed inside, along with the South-East European Law Enforcement Center, which fights crime, smuggling and fraud. Just days before Christmas, Parliament members met inside to vote on a new government. But over time the palace has become as much a magnet for glamorous events and celebrity photo-ops as it is a site for government affairs.
Brides pose in front of the yellow-stoned facade, while weddings, balls, movies and fashion shows and shoots take place inside. It's hosted celebrities – Michael Jackson moonwalked in front of the building after a news conference, Colombian pop star Shakira sang outside in the pouring rain, and Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke attended a ball there to raise money for disadvantaged children. Visiting politicians have included former U.S. President George Bush, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and in October, German chancellor Angela Merkel, who made a speech to 16 European prime ministers.
On his 90th birthday in October 2011, former King Michael attended his first Parliament sitting there in six decades, calling on Romanians to continue to build democracy. British TV producers even drove cars in the palace's underground tunnels to show how cavernous it was.
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500 years
Construction on the grandiose project began in the early 1980s, when food rationing and power cuts were common. Some 9,000 homes were demolished, residents were given just days to vacate their homes, churches and synagogues were razed or moved, and two mountains of marble were hacked down for the 275-foot-high palace to be built.
Ceausescu designed the palace to house the government and Parliament after the devastating earthquake of 1977, when swaths of buildings crumbled in the capital and more than 1,500 people died. A semi-literate son of a peasant, Ceausescu was nothing if not ambitious: He wanted the new building to withstand any earthquake and last 500 years.
A million Romanians, including thousands of soldiers, were enlisted to work around the clock on the construction, painstakingly carving huge oak, elm and cherry doors and sculpting giant crystal chandeliers for marble rooms almost as big as athletic fields. Today's tours sample only parts of the building. It would take almost an hour just to walk around the perimeter.
The palace is perched atop a man-made hill at the end of the United Nations' boulevard that was built deliberately one yard wider than Paris' famous Champs-Elysées. Outside, the European Union, NATO and Romanian flags flutter.
Anca Petrescu, who was appointed chief architect of the project in 1978, recalled Ceausescu visiting one day, looking at some columns inside the building, and saying, "Those flowers decorating the columns are not equal."
"I never noticed that," Petrescu recalled. "I was exhausted and the others were petrified." The men in his entourage assured Ceausescu that the columns were identical, and Petrescu added, "We all swore that it was ok." But he ordered someone to climb a ladder and measure them, and determined that one flower "was one centimeter (half an inch) shorter than the others. We could not believe our ears."
Petrescu insists that Buckingham Palace and Versailles were her artistic inspirations, not North Korean architecture, even though Ceausescu sent architects on a visit to Pyongyang to study architecture there after he was inspired during a 1971 visit. She says it's Neoclassic in style, while others diplomatically call the style "eclectic."
"This building ended up such big due to a technical reason," she insisted. "There were supposed to be three big institutions in here: the presidency, the executive and the legislative corps, and round the back that's where the protocol and reception section were meant to be. It's basically a mega city; that's why it's this large."
From demagogue
to democracy
Petrescu says if Ceausescu – who was tried and executed Dec. 25, 1989 – were alive to see what had become of it, he "would make the sign of the cross" – a Romanian expression that means he'd be horrified.
But Valentina Lupan, one of 2,000 architects who worked on the project, says Ceausescu "was demented. Why did he want the biggest building? Like Hitler, like Mussolini, dictators love architects. Trust me on this. They, the dictators, imagine themselves as architects of the new world."
Tourists tend to rave about the sheer scale of the building rather than the architectural beauty.
"The inside is fabulous," said Dean Edgar, a resident British businessman. "You have no idea the immense size of the rooms inside, there's marble everywhere, ornate furnishing, ornate tapestry, truly an incredible building. I don t think it's particularly pretty but it's big, it's impressive."
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Sorry for the loss of your loved one. You are in our thoughts and our prayers. We love you and pray that God's love will give you stregnth to endure these difficult times.Close friends are dearly missed.
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I am so sorry for your loss. May God Bless you all and give yous strength to carry on.
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Sarah Byrd Alford was more than just my best friend. She meant the world to me and I did everything I could to help her get better but when it is your time there is not much anyone can do about it. I miss her phone calls and the time that we spent together. Not a day went by that we didn't talk on the phone or see each other. My life will not be the same with out her but I am glad her suffering is over and know that one day we will be together again. I miss you so much Sarah and I will forever love you.
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Urban Lanai
On a warm, sunny San Francisco weekend, you've got a good chance finding me and my husband lounging late afternoon in our folding beach chairs with the garage door open and cocktails in hand. We don't have a patio, a front porch or a backyard so we edge out to the sidewalk to take in the afternoon sun. We roll out the Weber on occasion, drawing friendly smiles and hellos from passerbys who get a passing whiff of the night's dinner. As habitual travelers to Hawaii, we crave the leisure and joy that comes with sitting out on the lanai after a day of surfing. It's this simplicity we've strived to replicate out of our garage "lanai" in the city. Much to our excitement it's now become a routine for the neighbors to drop by, with six packs to share, and join us in impromtpu happy hours.
Our ultimate goal is to build a brand centered on a community of like minded individuals. Our first step is a website and then later possibly into e-tailing or products that would appeal to this urban leisure community.
Our target audience truly enjoys city dwelling and constantly seek new ways to get to know the people and environment around them. They would find a group of people socializing on the garage-sidewalk-lanai as inviting or intriguing, a reason to stop and say hello, and can see the beauty and logic of why everyone is hanging out there.
Nothing cheesy or literal - so as an example, no generic hawaiian motifs (e.g., pineapple, hula girl, turtle) to convey Lanai or a building to convey Urban.
Nothing specific to San Francisco like the Transamerica building - it's meant for all urbanites.
Something simple, perhaps more symbol like - conveys the sophistication of urban living but the simplicity of lanai leisure.