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- Football news
Seven injured as Beckham visit causes stampede
A public appearance by David Beckham in China prompted a stampede from fans which left seven people injured, including five security personnel.
Three police officers, two security guards and two students were hurt in a surge among the 1,000-strong crowd when the former England captain visited Shanghai Tongji University in his capacity as an ambassador for Chinese football, local police confirmed.
The clamour to get close to the global sporting icon led to a police cordon being stormed, while video footage and photos show people being crushed, pushed to the ground and one uniformed woman being carried away with her face covered in blood.
Beckham was attending to visit the university's football team, and one of the players described the scenes as "too crazy".
"We didn't expect so many people showing up here," Chu Dan told the Associated Press. "Too many fans of Beckham."
In an earlier part of his visit to Shanghai, Beckham insisted the nation's reputation for corruption in the sport is a thing of the past.
Since the turn of year, Shanghai Shenhua have been docked points and stripped of their 2003 Chinese Super League title for match-fixing and two high-level administrators have been handed lifetime bans for accepting bribes.
However, Beckham believes the professional game in the world's most populous country is looking forward to a cleaner future.
"When I first came on as ambassador of the Super League, I was well aware of what has happened in the past, and people question why I wanted to be involved in something that in the past had a bad name or corruption involved," he said. "For me, the past is the past, this is the future."
The Chinese Super League's deputy general, Zhu He Yuan, backed up Beckham's claim that corruption is being rooted out of the sport, and believes appointing the recently retired midfielder in March has already reaped rewards.
"Obviously everyone pays attention to Chinese football, we know that it is going through a rough time, but we are working very, very hard," Zhu said. "We invited David Beckham to inspire kids to participate in the game and to inspire more people to watch the game and from his last two trips we have achieved this goal."
Beckham's week-long tour will continue with a visit to Hangzhou.


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A 2016 RM Wrap Up & 2014 RMC Vids
With the end of year we wish to say our thanks for the many highlights of the past 12 months. This year was a big one for Radical Mycology. February saw the birth of the book Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy and April followed up with a few videos to help condense key points from the text—two efforts we hope will excel the growth of myco-literacy currently developing around the world. Following on the book's many positive responses, Peter took the book on tour across the U.S. during the summer and fall, making over 45 stops at a range of independent books stores, non-profits, community gardens, infoshops, galleries, art archives, and festivals.
(Left) Peter at Interference Archive, a Brooklyn-based depository for the art of social movements.
(Right) Installing a mushroom garden in Washington, D.C. as part of a 20-hour
Mushroom Cultivation & Application Course.
As the mushroom season took its turn of the year, October marked our fourth and most successful Radical Mycology Convergence, this time in Wingdale, NY. Despite being the first time the event made its way to the East coast, over 400 people were in attendance, making this year's RMC the largest to date. As with every prior RMCs, all who came camped together, learned together, worked together, and, in a myriad of ways, fostered a unique space to share their connection to the lands we inhabit as well as to the fifth kingdom that fills their innumerable niches and recesses.
(Left) Volunteers help prepare the land at Fertile Substrate, a pre-RMC work-n-learn party.
(Right) Nance Klehm on Reading the Landscape for patterns of disturbance at the 2016 RMC.
The land hosting the RMC was also an amazing backdrop to the event. Set on a 120-acre homestead bordering the Appalachian Trail and three hills of mushroom-rich mixed forests, attendees found fungi poppin' all weekend. Maitake, Chicken of the Woods, and various Laccaria and edible Boletus species were well represented, as were an array of conks, lichens, and resupinate fungi.
Morning circle at the RMC (Credit: Michael Place).
On the info front, this year's RMC took the myco knowledge offered to a whole other level. As impromptu forays filled the woods, the dense schedule offered some pretty killer workshops and discussions, including many mycoremediation and mushroom cultivation focused talks. In between, new friendships were forged among the many passionate and incredibly knowledgeable mycophiles, as demonstrated at the steadily laughter- and rap-filled talent show on Saturday night. And at night massive bonfires raged late, filling the air with warmth, kinship, and stories of epic fungi recently found or long since gone.
Dinner crew on duty. Philip shares his passion in the Amadou.
On the final day, as with all RMCs, we closed by working to enrich the land with various fungal partnerships and earth repair practices. Erosion-mitigating and nutrient load-reducing plants were planted along sensitive waterways, while various mushroom gardens were installed across the property.
Installing a four-species mushroom garden on the final day of the RMC.
As the year winds down, the Radical Mycology Collective is taking some time to reflect as we proceed into an ever-brighter fungal future. Next year is sure to bring some big changes and new projects to the fore for us. But for now, we wish to give our deepest gratitude to all those who made this year one of our most inspirational yet.
A HUGE thank you goes out to everyone that helped organize, show up, throw down, support, donate, cook, serve, share, and grow with us and the Radical Mycology movement this year. A special HUGE HUGE thank you goes to this year's presenters: Alanna Burns, Zaac Chaves, Cornelia Cho, Willie Crosby, Samuel David, Steve Gabriel, Alexander Jones, Erwin Karl, Fern Katz, Scott Kellogg, Nance Klehm, Elli Mazeres, John Michelotti, Lupo Passero, William Padilla-Brown, Jason Scott, Danielle Stevenson, Olga Tzogas, Chris Wright, Sue Van Hook, Roo Vandegrift, and Marina Zurkow, as well as to the amazing folks in the Seeds of Peace Collective, who did all the cooking at the RMC this year.
In return, and as a belated Solstice gift to everyone, we've made a playlist of the workshop videos from the 2014 RMC—a taste of the videos we have in the editing queue from this year's RMC.
Enjoy and mush love,
The RM Collective
Radical Mycology Convergence Workshops and Schedule Announced
The schedule for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence has been announced! This year the Convergence is leveling up in a number of ways. For the first time we are on the East Coast. We are going a full 5 days instead of 4. And on the Saturday night of the Convergence we will be hosting an Myco Art Gallery with international submissions (the Gallery is still open for submissions here).
The confirmed workshops for this year's RMC are right in line with these evolutionary leaps. There are some incredible myco- and bioremediation talks, a range of ethnomycological presentations, and some amazing fungal ecology talks.
See the 2016 RMC schedule here
Read the detailed workshop descriptions here
Want to help the RMC?
We rely on support from attendees to make the RMC a success. You can help add to this grassroots effort in a variety of ways. Consider registering to volunteer here. Or join the Pre-RMC work party, Fertile Substrate, here. Or simply bring some food or raffle item donations. Every hyphal addition to our support web helps this event's network grow deeper and stronger. Whatever you can do to add to this underground effort is greatly appreciated!
Announcing the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence
This October, join hundreds of mycophiles, artists, and Earth activists for a unique 5-day, volunteer-run gathering to learn how to work with fungi to support your community and environment.
The Radical Mycology Convergence (RMC) is a weekend long event consisting of workshops, presentations, and various mycoremediation installations. Beyond the skills shared, the RMC also works to build a community among like-minded mycophiles (aka mushroom lovers) and community-based Earth healers to collaborate on remediation and restoration projects during and after the RMC.
The RMC organizers feel strongly that these skills need to be shared and we want to make information on the fungi and their unique healing abilities accessible and tangible for as many people as possible. By creating an encouraging and welcoming space we hope to "be-mushroom" all who attend in an effort to bring about greater planetary health.
We would like to invite anyone interested in participating in this event to come and learn, help out, or teach! The RMC is family friendly, non-discriminatory, and is donation-based to provide open access to people of all backgrounds.
For more information visit RadicalMycologyConvergence.com.
Two Free Mycology Webinars With Peter McCoy
Next month, Peter McCoy will be offering two free webinars on many of groundbreaking topics discussed in Radical Mycology, one of the most comprehensive books on fungi and mushroom cultivation ever written. These unique talks will be live streamed with the ability for viewers to chat with Peter directly and ask him questions from anywhere in the world. There will also be free book giveaways and special discounts offered to all viewers. To register for this paradigm-shifting talk, click here.
April 14 at 6PM Pacific (9PM Eastern)
Fungi are everywhere around us, creating and maintaining whole ecological webs. For many, learning to recognize these relationships is one of the most incredible and inspiring aspects of working with the fungal kingdom. In this presentation, Peter will walk through the critical ecological roles that fungi fulfill from the poles to the oceans and from the forests to the deserts. Along the way, Peter will detail how fungal ecologies have influenced the development human cultures throughout time, including a wealth of incredible evidence that he has uncovered on the importance of fungi in the origins and evolution of life. Whether you are new to mycology or well versed in the topic, this talk will leave you overwhelmed with fascination for the incredible fifth kingdom!
April 28 at 6PM Pacific (9PM Eastern)
Mycology is proving itself to be a nearly inexhaustible field for innovation. As new discoveries are constantly being made, there seems to be no end to what fungi can offer humans, their communities, and the environments they touch. In this talk, Peter will explore the wide range of ways to cultivate fungi and integrate them into our lives, homes, and landscapes. Along with detailing some of the most appropriate mycotechniques currently being developed, Peter will also unveil unprecedented protocols for accessibly growing edible and medicinal mushrooms as well as new learning opportunities for advancing the future of human-fungal relations.
2014 Radical Mycology Convergence Reportback
The Radical Mycology Convergence (RMC) is a volunteer-run gathering that shares the knowledge and skills of working with fungi for personal, societal, and ecological health. A non-discriminatory and family-friendly event, the RMC welcomes people of all backgrounds to learn about and join the growing fields of sustainable mycology and bioremediation. The RMC teaches the means to work with fungi as a resilient food and medicine source as well a natural ally in efforts to help regenerate, remediate, and renew damaged environments. Emphasizing techniques that are low-cost, the skills and ethos presented at the RMC aim to support a wide range of grassroots efforts advocating for environmental protection, social justice, and local food autonomy.
In the fall of 2014, over 250 people from around the globe gathered at the 3rd Radical Mycology Convergence in Orangeville, IL to gain skills for working with fungi as personal, societal, and ecological medicine. Hosted on the private homestead of bioremediation expert Nance Klehm, the 2014 RMC built on the knowledge base laid at the previous 2 Convergences to further strengthen the emerging fields of community-scale mushroom cultivation and grassroots bioremediation. Hosting over 50 discussions and workshops and 8 edible and experimental remediation installations, this year's RMC provided new insights into how fungi can help address the increasingly complex challenges of today's world.
Film by Steve Zieverink
Fertile Substrate
Set up for the RMC began at Fertile Substrate, a 3-day pre-Convergence educational work party where volunteers and organizers prepared piles of substrates, germinated installation inoculum, cleared and designated installation sites, built seating and other infrastructure, and cultured several locally harvested mushroom species such as Elm Oyster (Hypsizygus ulmarius), Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor), Enoki (Flammulina velutipes), Chicken-Of-The-Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus), and Maitake (Grifola frondosa).
Sourcing and preparing substrates
The Workshops
This year's RMC hosted over 50 original workshops and discussions focused on one of the several major themes of the RMC: Fungal Biology & Ecology, Ethnomycology, Ecological Restoration & Remediation, and Fungal Cultivation. Many of the workshops intentionally covered topics and skills not typically addressed at mycological events such as using mushroom identification skills to help protect threatened habitats, cultivating mushrooms in arid and extreme environments/climates, the realities of running of a small mushroom farm, and teaching mycology to kids. Friday night's campfire hosted a challenging discussion addressing the idea "dark ecology," a theory proposed by author Timothy Morton that the pollution and destructive practices of modern living must be fully embraced in order to overcome them and move toward healthier lives and a healthier world. Also unique to the 2014 RMC teaching model was an expressed desire to increase the presence of women and trans mycologists at the Convergence. As a part of this effort, a discussion directly addressing the role and experience of women and trans people in mycological circles was held at the RMC. A summary of this conversation can be read here.
Descriptions of all the 2014 RMC workshops can be viewed here. Videos of the 2014 RMC's workshops will be made available online for free in the coming months. To see those when they become available, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here.
The Installations
Along with the cultivation workshops and theoretical discussions of the RMC another major component of the Convergence focused on putting theory to practice by facilitating hands-on remediative and regenerative fungal installations during the event. This year's RMC brought about several novel approaches to working with fungi in landscape to mitigate pollution and renew disturbed habitats.
Determining the sites for remediation work to take place at the RMC was a months-long planning process. Several RMC organizers worked to identify needs, giving preference to issues related to chemical remediation strategies and strengthening local soil and aquatic ecologies. Zones of concern were selected on the property and collaborative planning discussions were held to develop the most effective strategies for addressing these areas. The main issues identified and addressed included the following:
Brush Creek MycoFiltration – Water samples from the property's creek (Brush Creek) were sent to a local water testing lab prior to the RMC. The water was tested for a range of common chemical and biological contaminants and found to (thankfully) not contain concerning levels of pollutants. However, another concern to the water's quality had previously been identified: in the rainy spring months heavy rain causes the water table of Brush Creek to rise significantly leading to topsoil erosion and a significant depositing of silt and debris into the creek water. This murky water subsequently reduces available oxygen, choking out aquatic life and reducing the resilience and diversity of riparian communities downstream. To mitigate this issue a series of filters of mushroom mycelium were installed in the creek (in the form of burlap sacks filled with oak wood chips inoculated with Stropharia rugosoannulata [aka SRA]) to capture silt and increase water purity. The upper portion of the property's creek was scouted to identify sites that had access to shallow, slower moving sections of the water course where mycelium containers could be installed and easily observed, maintained, and replaced as needed. Two sites were identified.
Preparing bags of Stropharia rugosoannulata bulk spawn for MycoFiltration of silt
Site A was a preexisting natural dam built of fallen logs and branches. This area was an easy candidate for installation as it would readily retain the bags to be installed. In the coming months the landowner will observe the bags' health and determine whether they are getting "plugged" with debris, at which point they will need to be replaced.
Site A of Brush Creek's MycoFiltration installation
Site B was an overflow side channel in the water's course that is contained in a short, shallow trench. This shady area is above the water table for most of the year, only filling with water in the rainy season. A series of SRA bags were installed in this channel and secured with branches and stakes of various sizes. In the coming months the bags and surrounding soil will become infused with this mushroom's mycelium creating a productive mushroom bed. When the water raises next year, overflow from the creek will pass through this mushroom bed, filtering silt and debris as the mycelium is being hydrated (ultimately helping the bed produce more mushrooms). Another function of this mushroom bed is that it will serve to digest much of the property's Reed Canary Grass. The landowner can simply throw this plant into Site B's trench, feeding this edible mushroom to increase production while mitigating a common weed.
Site B of Brush Creek's MycoFiltration installation
Post-Ag Field Regeneration – The land that hosted to 2014 RMC was a 20 acre parcel that had been heavily cultivated for 70 years with GM corn. While some portions of the property had been left to return to a prairie for 20 years, much of the property had only been out of production for 4 years. Due to years of heavy tillage and chemical input, the diversity in the soil communities of these areas were significantly depressed. These "post-ag" portions of the property were covered in a small number of dominant weeds, a sign of poor soil quality. Our goal was to begin repopulating the soil in these areas by inoculating test plots with beneficial microbes and fungi, thereby kickstarting the natural soil web cycles and eventually leading to greater soil health and increased nutrient availability.
Eight 2'x6′ plots were cleared and inoculated with various combinations of mycorrhizal fungi, compost tea, and biochar. The biochar was produced on-site and inoculated with fresh compost tea that followed standard and biodynamic compost tea practices. Compost tea breeds large quantities of beneficial aerobic microbes. The biochar performs several remediative functions while also serving as a "microbe hotel" where mycorrhizal fungi and other microbes can live. One bed was cleared but not inoculated to serve as a control.
Inoculating biochar with actively aerated compost tea
On the myco end of this installation, several plots were inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi that will help support the soil's health in numerous ways. The ideal practice for this portion of the experiment would have been to harvest locally-adapted mycorrhizal spores from on-site and culture them in association with plants over a season to amplify their spore load for inoculation. As this would have needed to been done a year in advance, we settled on using a commercial product containing various ecto and endomycorrhizal species. All plots were seeded with a commercial cover crop blend.
Prior to treatment the plots hosted various combinations of the following species (spontaneous vegetation):
In the coming years, the landowner will observe the plots to determine which regenerates the most effectively to host a larger variety of plant species. It is our hypothesis that the plot inoculated with biochar, compost tea, and mycorrhizae will perform the best. Time will tell.
Automobile Engine Point Source Remediation – Not all means of integrating fungi for pollution mitigation need to be complicated or large-scale. For example, a simple "point-source" remediation installation initiated at the RMC involved placing a Pearl Oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) woodchip bed below the landowner's parking site. As the mycelium of this well-known remediative species myceliates the wood-based substrate in the coming months, it will also likely absorb and digest the oil and chemicals dripping off the car's engine. This simple method of treating a common source of household pollution can be effectively installed in driveways around the world as this species and its relatives are quite common in most continents. Mushrooms that fruit from this bed should not be eaten however as they may harbor toxic elements.
Point-source remediation of automobile contaminants
Human Waste Disposal – The human "waste" stream produced over the course of the RMC was treated as a valuable resource. Several composting toilets (The Shiitakers) were installed around the property and the fecal and urine matter collected at these sites was placed in The Pilobolus Pile, a slow compost pile that will eventually turn this common "waste" stream into healthy compost. This pile was constructed with an abundance of sawdust to eliminate smell and the risk of disease.
Beyond the restorative installations, several functional mushroom beds were installed around the property as well:
Stacking the Funk-tions: Elm Oysters on Reed Canary Grass – Two things were abundant on the property that piqued our cultivation function stacking interests. The edible and remediative Elm Oyster (Hypsizygus ulmarius) mushroom was found growing prodigiously on the property as was the common weed known as Reed Canary Grass (RCG), which we found dominating the old pasture on site. We decided to make use of the RCG (seeing it as an abundant local substrate) by inoculating it with the Elm Oyster, a vigorous species known for its ability to consume a wide variety of substrates. We harvested a basket of these local mushrooms and collected their spores to make a simple "spore slurry" inoculum. Simultaneously, the RCG was harvested and prepared for inoculation by means of fermentation. Once the grass was prepared, the spore slurry was applied by packing the straw in plastic containers and pouring the spore slurry evenly throughout the packing process. In the coming weeks, the mushroom spores will germinate and fuse, forming numerous distinct genetic strains that will develop into diverse mycelial networks to digest the RCG. As these numerous strains grow out, some will stand out in the vigor and tenacity. The strains that fruit most heavily can then be isolated by the landowner. Repeating this spore slurry process with these superior strains in subsequent trials will essentially "speed up evolution" leading to the development of a "super-strain" of the Elm Oyster that will fruit exceptionally well on this locally abundant substrate.
Hypsizygus ulmarius spore prints Preparing Reed Canary Grass for fermentation
The Oak Leaf – A simple, symbolic King Stropharia mushroom bed was installed in a depression in the land downhill from a culvert. Designed in the shape of an oak leaf, this bed was created to honor the dominant tree species on the land and to reflect the value of this wood type in mushroom cultivation. (The density and richness of oak has long been noted to be a superior wood for cultivation of several species such as Shiitake).
Hypsizygus ulmarius was found in abundance on the property
Spawning Mycelial Networks
While workshops and installations are the central feature of the Radical Mycology Convergences, there is another, perhaps even more important theme that runs throughout the weekend as well: community building. Knowing the difficulty that can come with studying mycology and mushroom cultivation, the RMC organizers worked intentionally throughout the weekend to help encourage the development of friendships and alliances amongst attendees that will extend beyond the 5 days of the gathering. By camping, cooking, eating, learning, and engaging in discussions together, participants were readily able to meet future cohorts and know that others shared their excitement (and confusion) around working with the fungal kingdom.
On the Sunday of the RMC, a break out discussion was held where participants gathered by region to brainstorm how the skills they learned at the RMC could be applied in their communities. By the end of the discussions, several new Radical Mycology groups had formed to take the skills of grassroots mycology back to their home towns and bioregions. Spawning mycelial networks of collaboration amongst attendees, the 3rd Radical Mycology Convergence has helped increase awareness around the fact that anyone can grow mushrooms for food, medicine, and the benefit of environmental resilience. And there is no better time to join this movement than now.
Thank you!
A big thank you goes out to everyone who presented, supported, sponsored, volunteered, threw down, or otherwise helped co-create this year's Radical Mycology Convergence. This year's RMC would not have been such a success without all of your input and collaboration. Thank you to Shawndra Miller for writing up two great reviews of the RMC (here and here) and to Jessie Robertson for his write up here.
See you all at the next RMC!
Mush love getting served up in the Kit-Chanterelle Sunday night's barn dance
Radical Mycology featured on Permaculture Voices
Radical Mycology member Peter McCoy was recently featured on Permaculture Voices, a podcast that highlights voices in the global permaculture community. In this interview, Peter goes deep into the reasons why anyone with the means and spare time should be actively cultivating fungi and how the world of mycology is currently evolving to match the needs of an increasingly complex world. You can hear the interview by clicking the image below and consider donating to Permaculture Voices to support their great work.
Radical Mycologist Trains Mushroom to Remediate Cigarette Butts
Cigarette filters are the most commonly littered waste product in the world. Last year, nearly 1.7 billion pounds of cigarette filters were thrown into the globe's landfills and ecosystems. That's roughly 4.5 trillion cigarette butts littered each year! In the US alone, an estimated 135 million pounds of cigarette butts are thrown away annually.
Cigarette filters are made from a type of plastic called cellulose acetate. As cellulose acetate does not readily biodegrade, cigarette litter can persist in the environment for 10-15 years or longer before it begins to break down. The filters that aren't thrown into the streets and parks of the world find their way into landfills where they slowly leach toxic chemicals and heavy metals into ground water systems. Fortunately, fungi may provide a solution to this global issue.
As discussed in the Radical Mycology article, Fungi and The Plastics Problem, it has long been known that fungi can degrade various forms of plastic. However, a large-scale, real-world application of this ability has never been explored to any real depth. This may have been due to a variety of factors, one of which being that the chemical composition of many plastics is too complex for many fungi to readily digest. The plastic that composes cigarette filters, however, is of a rather simple composition and thus allows some common fungi to easily digest it.
Cellulose is the structural component in plant cell walls and is also one of the most accessible nutrient sources that fungi degrade in the natural world. Fungi use digestive enzymes to break down cellulose into simple sugars, which are then metabolized by the fungus. As the cellulose acetate that comprises cigarette filters is nothing more than a modified form of plant cellulose, it turns out that some fungi can break down this industrial plastic waste product.
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As Peter of the Radical Mycology project demonstrates in the video below, fungi can not only be trained to digest used cigarette filters but possibly the toxic chemicals that they harbor as well. The methodology Peter used to accomplish this goal was based on an understanding of the skills needed to "train" a fungus to digest a foreign substance. Simply put, the mushroom cultivator must slowly introduce a new food source to a fungus so that the fungus can first determine and then produce the correct enzymes necessary to digest the novel substrate. The same concepts that Peter introduces in this video can be applied to a range of toxins and industrial chemicals, such as petroleum products, dioxins, dyes, and munitions. This is a concept known as fungal remediation. In recent years, skills such as these were coveted techniques used by professional mycologists and bioremediation firms. However, as the global grassroots bioremediation community has continued to grow in the last few years, these techniques have become increasingly more available to the common cultivator.
Skills such as this will be explored in-depth in the Radical Mycology Book. If you would like to learn more advanced mycological skills for reducing your pollution impact and to help clean up the environment, please consider backing the Radical Mycology Book Indiegogo campaign.
Radical Mycology featured on Punk Rock Permaculture
Evan Shoepke at Punk Rock Permaculture recently did an interview with Peter from the Radical Mycology collective about the ways that working with the fungal kingdom can influence and inform the work of effective biomimicry and permaculture design. Check out the interview below and then stop by Evan's site to check out the wealth of DIY & low-cost permaculture resources that he provides.
Radical Mycology Speaking Tour
Peter McCoy from the Radical Mycology crew will be hitting the road this summer to hold a few speaking events around the country on the following presentation. Come by and say hey if you are in the area!
Radical Mycology: Culture from the Leading Edge
In this presentation/discussion we will take a philosophical approach to the redefinition of human/fungal relationships in these changing times. Peter McCoy, co-founder of the Radical Mycology project, will share his perspective on the lessons exhibited by the fungal kingdom and their mycelial networks in relation to strengthening human societies and creating a more harmonious world. What can we learn from the fungi about longevity and resilience in the face of severe global challenges? How can we live our lives more in balance with nature and in greater symbiosis with each other? These questions and more can be answered by the fungi, if one takes the time to ask and observe. Come to learn, then stay to join the discussion and add to this growing dialogue.
August 2 | Forest Grove, OR | Northwest Permaculture Convergence
August 12 | 4PM | Seattle, WA | Black Coffee
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
August 16-18 – Telluride, CO – Shroomfest
Saturday the 17th – 1:30PM
Radical Mycology: Symbiotic cultures from the leading edge
Sunday the 18th – 9:30AM
Radical Mycology and Classical Mycology: A Discussion
August 20 | 6PM | Denver, CO | Denver Zine Library
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
August 22 | 5PM | Santa Fe, NM | Radical Abacus
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Sept 4 | 6PM | Portland, OR | Laughing Horse Books
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Radical Mycology featured in a book on DIY remediation
Radical Mycology co-founder Peter McCoy has co-authored a chapter on fungal remediation, Radical Mycology, and the Radical Mycology Convergence in the new book from Leila Darwish entitled Earth Repair. This book is an amazing guide to community-scale, DIY remediation and healing in disaster scenarios. Read the description below then head over to the book's website at earthrepair.ca to pick up a copy!
Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide To Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes
By: Leila Darwish
"Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States and Canada. Conventional clean-up techniques employed by government and industry are not only incredibly expensive and resource-intensive, but can also cause further damage to the environment. More and more communities find themselves increasingly unable to rely on those companies and governments who created the problems to step in and provide solutions.
How can we, the grassroots, work with the power of living systems to truly heal and transform toxic and damaged landscapes into thriving, healthy, and fertile places once more? How can we respond to environmental disasters in accessible and community empowering ways?
Earth Repair explores a host of powerful and accessible grassroots bioremediation techniques to assist with the recovery of the lands and waters that nourish us. These techniques include:
Mycoremediation – using fungi to clean up contaminated soil and water.
Microbial remediation – using microorganisms to break down and bind contaminants
Phytoremediation – using plants to extract, bind, and transform toxins
Packed with valuable firsthand information, recipes and remedies from visionaries in the field, Earth Repair empowers communities and individuals to take action and heal contaminated and damaged land and water. Encompassing everything from remediating and regenerating abandoned city lots for urban farmers and gardeners, to responding and recovering from environmental disasters and industrial catastrophes such as oil spills and nuclear fallout, this fertile toolbox is essential reading for anyone who wishes to transform environmental despair into constructive action.
The book also features inspiring mycoremediation contributions from Peter McCoy (Radical Mycology) and Ja Schindler (Fungi for The People), as well as interviews with Paul Stamets (Fungi Perfecti), Mia Rose Maltz (Amazon Mycorenewal Project), and Scott Koch (Telluride Mushroom Festival).
For more information about the book and upcoming workshops, or to order the book, go to http://www.earthrepair.ca.
About the Author:
Leila Darwish is a community organizer, permaculture practioner, educator, writer, grassroots herbalist, and urban gardener with a deep commitment to environmental justice, food sovereignty, and to providing accessible and transformative tools for communities dealing with toxic contamination of their land and drinking water.
Over the last decade, she has worked as a community organizer for different environmental organizations and community groups in Alberta, BC and the USA on campaigns such as tar sands, fracking, nuclear energy, coal, climate justice, water protection, and more. She is a certified permaculture designer and has also apprenticed on different organic farms across Canada and the USA."


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After nearly two decades as lead pastor at RiverTree Christian Church, the Rev. Greg Nettle is turning his sights on a bigger audience.
"I want to make it hard to go to hell in Ohio."
Under his tenure as lead pastor at RiverTree Christian Church, the Rev. Greg Nettle has grown the congregation from 100 members to more than 3,000, with campuses in Jackson Township, Massillon, Lake Township and Canal Fulton.
But after nearly two decades at the helm, Nettle is turning his sights on a bigger audience. At the end of the year, Nettle will step down to assume the presidency of Stadia, a global church-planting ministry based in Irvine, Calif.
A partner of Provision Ministries, Stadia works to connect struggling congregations, and helps them to re-emerge as healthy.
Nettle noted that, despite the plethora of churches, only about 18 percent of Ohioans attend services on a semi-regular basis. That statistic, he said, also disproves the belief that megachurches are seeing growth.
"When you're insulated in the megachurch world, you think it's doing so well in the U.S., but it's not," he said.
Nettle said that while megachurches do a lot of good, if leaders aren't careful, the effort required to maintain them can usurp ministry.
Stadia has planted 36 churches in Latin America, using indigenous leaders.
"We push ownership of new churches into the local hands," Nettle said.
Prior to coming to RiverTree, Nettle planted and pastored a church in Dublin, Ireland. RiverTree itself has planted 14 churches in Ohio and eight in Latin America.
Nettle said he was approached by Stadia two years ago.
"Five months before that, I was praying in my bedroom and writing my journal, and I told my wife that I was going to be leading Stadia someday," he said.
He accepted the offer and began a balancing act, working for both Stadia and RiverTree.
"The elders here at RiverTree graciously allowed me to operate in dual roles," he said. "But my pace became unsustainable."
In a statement, Provision President Larry Winger said very few people could have simultaneously sustained a church the size of RiverTree while running an international ministry.
"Greg took the long look of eternity and decided to throw himself fully into the work of Stadia for maximum impact on a global scale," Winger said in his statement.
Practically every community has half-filled churches. Why plant more?
"The most effective way to reach people is through new church plantings," Nettle explained. "We must raise the value of children in those church plants. I believe all children are at risk, be it from affluence or poverty."
Stadia also has strong partnerships with children's relief agencies.
"God has wrecked my heart over children at risk," Nettle said. "It's shifted from being interested in building my own kingdom, to building God's kingdom, through church planting."
Throughout his ministry, raising money for children has been a priority for Nettle. In August, he was part of a team that climbed Mount Rainier in Washington to raise money for the Christian Children's Home of Ohio. RiverTree's congregation has committed to supporting 2,000 needy children through Compassion International.
According to research published by Stadia, 85 percent of Christians decide to embrace Christianity between the ages 4 and 14.
"When you have kids raised in an environment of hope and caring in Jesus' name, their attitude changes," he said. "It's global-changing stuff."
Nettle, who has an adopted son, said if one family from every church in America would adopt a child out of the foster care system, it would eliminate the need for it.
"Kids have an inherent value to God," he said.
In a statement, Stadia Executive Director Tom Jones, said the ministry has seen its greatest growth under Nettle. Jones said Stadia is on pace this year to plant 44 churches; 23 in the U.S. and 21 in Latin America.
Nettle said he believes RiverTree can reach 100,000 people in Northeast Ohio.
Noting that the church will be debt-free in 2015, he predicts that its best days are ahead.
"They need a leader who can give them full-time attention," he said.
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If you can read this post, then you are fortunate enough to do something that nearly half a million adult San Diegans cannot do: read.
That's why renown local chefs have teamed up with the San Diego Council on Literacy to present a delicious fundraiser called "Eat. Drink. Read." that will be held on Wednesday, April 28th.
Guests will wine and dine at Sushi Performance and Visual Art Center while socializing with featured guests, Bernard Guillas and Ron Oliver, authors of Flying Pans: Two Chefs, One World and chefs at The Marine Room. Drinks will be provided by Cafe Moto, and appetizers will come from popular San Diego restaurants including Urban Solace, Starlite, Suite and Tender, The Marine Room, Ono Sushi, and Cafe Sevilla.
Eat. Drink. Read. will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28th with a silent auction from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $60 and include wine, beer and appetizers. All proceeds will go directly to the San Diego Council on Literacy by funding instructional books needed to train literacy tutors as well as providing children's books for low-income families. In the past year, the San Diego Council on Literacy has been able to serve more than 73,000 adults and children around San Diego County by offering partner literacy programs.
For more information or to purchase tickets, go to www.eatdrinkread.com.
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LYQ wrote:overtyped wrote:I hope germany invades france again. If this thread proves anything, it's that even the best people in france are just a bunch of cheese eating surrender monkeys.giggitygoo2221 wrote:Nostalrius, thanks for everything you did.
But you are why the entire world laughs at France.
wave the white flag!
you guys are so fucked up, I'd never wish to be in the same community as you. " 'murica fuck yeah".


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throw (some) shapes
slang To dance, especially to popular music. Primarily heard in UK. If I've had a couple of drinks and the music is good, I can't help but throw some shapes on the dance floor. The flash mob started throwing shapes in the train station to classic 1970s disco tunes.


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Williams thankful for his time in Arizona
Nationals' new manager has fond memories of playing and coaching for D-backs
PHOENIX -- The news conference introducing Matt Williams as the next manager of the Washington Nationals was done. He had taken care of all the one-on-one television and radio interviews, had met his new bosses and got a look at his new office.
It was a long but exhilarating Friday for Williams, and he was tired when he got back to his hotel room in the nation's capital, but there was one thing he still wanted to do.
So he picked up the phone and dialed a number with an Arizona area code in front of it.
"I want to say, 'Thank you,'" Williams said to the reporter on the other end. "I want everyone in Arizona to know how grateful I am for their support."
Williams' history in Arizona is a long one.
It began in 1987, when he played for the Triple-A Phoenix Firebirds, and continued from there as he chose to make Arizona his offseason home during his playing career.
"We still are members of the community there and will always consider ourselves that," Williams said. "I'm excited to be the manager of the Nationals, but at the same time, I wanted to make sure people back in Arizona know how thankful I am."
Williams was a member of the inaugural D-backs team in 1998, became one of the first recognizable faces on the roster and in 2001 he was waiting at home plate to greet Jay Bell as he scored the winning run in Game 7 of the World Series.
After finishing his career in a D-backs uniform in 2003, Williams bought a small interest in ownership, did some broadcasting for the team and eventually put the uniform back on as a coach.
"There are special memories with the D-backs," Williams said. "I was part of some fantastic teams, both from the playing standpoint and the coaching standpoint. I spent a lot of time there and have a lot of friends there that have supported me all along the way. So I wanted to say, 'Thank you.'"
Over the past couple of seasons as he began to think about becoming a manager, Williams would pepper Arizona manager Kirk Gibson and fellow coaches Don Baylor and Alan Trammell with questions about managing.
"I'm thankful for the tutelage I got from Gibby and Don Baylor and Alan Trammell," Williams said. "They were guys with managerial experience and they all were available to me to answer questions during this process of me wanting to be a manager. They were willing to sit down and talk and take time out of their day to give me advice and talk to me about it. That meant a lot."
Before his first-ever managerial interview with the Rockies last year, Williams sought the advice of general manager Kevin Towers as to what to expect.
"K.T. gave me some things to think about," Williams said. "It was a great perspective to get before going in there."
For Williams, saying goodbye to managing general partner Ken Kendrick and team president/CEO Derrick Hall was not easy.
"It starts at the top in that organization with Ken Kendrick and Derrick Hall," Williams said. "They've been great to me and my family and they run a first-class organization. They really do. The people that work there, it's a special place, and I just wanted to make sure that everyone knows how much I appreciated it."


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88 Fitch Road, Lancaster
Home size: 4,803 square feet
Rooms: Four beds, three full baths, one partial bath
Lot size: 9.11 acres
Year built: 1999
Taxes: $12,992
Asking price: $799,900
Vacation at home and enjoy the pool and cabana, fully fenced outdoor space with electric gated entry. Elegant entertaining space abounds with coffered ceilings, oak and mahogany floors. The kitchen boasts cherry cabinets and granite with an attached fireplaced family-room The separate,one-bed apartment is ideal for an au-pair or as studio space.
On arriving at 88 Fitch Road, you head up the long drive and push a button at the security gate, which sounds a distinct ring on the telephone inside the house and alerts homeowners Doug and Vicky Sagar to let you in.
The gate's there for swimming-pool safety, says Doug Sagar. "I hate having a pool corralled in with a four-foot fence," he says. So he decided to fence the entire yard of more than three acres - and the best way to do that involved an automatic gate. "I love it," he says. "The grandkids can ride bikes in the driveway with the gate closed with no worry they might go in the street."
The gate isn't the only unexpected feature of this private estate, which sits on 9.11 acres with six acres of woodland beyond the fenced landscaped yard.
On the grounds, next to the 700-square-foot free-form gunite pool and its cabana, sits a summer house, common in Europe. (Vicky Sagar is from Lithuania.) All pine, which gives it the scent and feel of a cabin in Maine, the summer house has electricity and its own half-bath.
The backyard offers a clear view of the octagonal solarium that's part of a wing added to the main house eight years ago. This thousand-square-foot in-law wing, attached to the main house by a connector bridge, has its own garage, kitchen and bath, and the mahogany-floored eight-sided sunroom, or solarium, ringed with windows. A "secret passage" in the wing's one bedroom leads back to the main house.
In the basement of the main house is a home theater room with Bose Surround Sound and a 65-inch HD TV they had to take the stairs out to install, according to Doug Sagar. (It goes with the house, he said.) Velour on the walls and permanently lowered lights give the feeling of being in a screening room at the cineplex.
Built in 1999, the house was one of three the Sagars built on 23 acres they had acquired and subdivided. (Their daughter and two grandchildren live in a house they built next door.) The now-4,800-square-foot Colonial "evolved" over the years with wings added on both sides, says Sagar.
The section containing a formal dining room and sitting area, with 14-foot- tray ceilings and a Palladian picture window overlooking the pool, is where the house once ended. Ten years ago, a wing was added with a formal living room with a floor of Santos mahogany from Brazil, a coffered ceiling with poplar beams and a walkout to a patio where the Sagars like to sip coffee and watch the birds.
A wood-burning fireplace in the formal living room is one of three in the house. A second is a flight below, in the billiard room, which has a ground-level view of the yard: Sagar says he once heard the noise of pecking, and looked out the window to find himself face to face with a flock of turkeys.
The back patio has a courtyard feel. The kitchen features solid cherry cabinets and a granite-topped island. An intercom system with a radio hookup pipes music throughout the main house. A Palladian window above the front door in the two-story foyer has a landing used for seasonal decorations, such as a Nativity scene at Christmas.
On the second floor, in a niche in the wall hung with flowers and ivy, Vicky Sagar has placed a statue of the Blessed Virgin. The master bedroom with tray ceiling is one of three bedrooms on this floor, not counting a bonus room. The master bath features a pocket door separating the water closet and shower from the double vanity and Jacuzzi. ("The grandkids love the Jacuzzi," says Doug Sagar.)
Sagar owns Hydro-Test Products, a Stow-based company that makes testing equipment for scuba tanks, fire extinguishers, the air packs used by firefighters and oxygen cylinders used by airline pilots. He makes it to work in Stow in 18 minutes, he said. The house in Lancaster also is minutes from routes 190 and 2, convenient to the Solomon Pond Mall in Marlborough and Interstate 495, and a half-hour from skiing at Mount Wachusett.
His favorite memories of the Lancaster house, Sagar says, include swimming in the pool and playing baseball and football in the yard with his grandchildren, and entertaining family and friends at holiday dinners at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Selling points of the home, he says, include quality of construction, with two-by-six framing that blocks sound and lowers heating bills, cedar sheathing on all the trim and clapboards, and a drainage system that directs all water from the gutters away from the house.
And the best part, to him: "The privacy."
To arrange a showing, contact Paul Hester, Prudential Prime Properties, 433 Main St., Hudson, 978-562-5677 cell or 978-562-5500 office.


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Girls wedding hairstyles
Today we will talk about girls wedding hairstyles.
girls wedding hairstyles for girls is, perhaps, one of the most important and difficult questions in terms of choice and to this issue the girls approach very seriously and responsibly.
Many girls (brides) give preference to girls wedding hairstyles from loose hair. This option is a win-win and perfectly suits almost everyone. Hair can be wound into locks of different sizes, or staple one strand and decorate with a veil and flowers.
Choosing a girls wedding hairstyles
An indispensable accessory in creating an impeccable girls wedding hairstyles is the hair ornament. Thanks to them, you can securely fix even the most complex hairstyle and also give your hair an attractive look. On the day of the wedding, every detail in the image of the bride must be carefully thought out and verified. Therefore, it is necessary to treat the choice of jewelry as responsibly as possible. Ornaments should correspond to the general image of the bride. Many today refuse from the veil and choose girls wedding hairstyles with ribbons.
Hairstyle is an element that allows you to make the image of the bride beautiful, happy and gentle. Lay the hair and pass it all through the hairstyle task of the masters. Professional master will help to create an original girls wedding hairstyles, which is ideal for a dress, will keep its shape to the end, will be unforgettable and unique. There is no universal hairstyle template for such an obligatory attribute of the bride.


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Shop for Purses
What is Couro Ecológico?
Couro Ecológico, or "ecological leather," is handmade by Amazonian artisans overlaying the extract of the latex of the Brazilian rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis ) onto cotton. This cotton-latex overlay is sun-dried and transformed into a waterproof, durable material with similar texture and durability to animal leather. The artisans stitch it together to make purses and other "leather" goods which are sold locally and internationally. The income earned by selling the finished products is significantly higher than could be earned from selling the raw latex. Since the latex can be harvested without harming the trees, the Couro Ecológico business is sustainable over the long term.
Eco-friendly Gifts Support a Great Cause
Couro Ecológico's products are unique with their authentic Amazonian design and they're made out of sustainably harvested materials. These bags and purses are waterproof and durable, making them perfect for the environmentally conscious, artistic, or outdoor sport lovers. All proceeds from the sales of Couro Ecológico's products go to the artisans who produce the bags, and to Community Empowerment Network (CEN), which enable CEN to continue to mentor Couro Ecológico artisans as they build sustainable livelihoods that preserve their proud tradition. To know more about CEN's role and about Couro Ecológico itself read more.
For more information
Couro Ecológico brochure (English)(596K PDF)


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Friday, January 21, 2011
Follow Friday - More Genea Angel Awards
First, last week I was on line looking in to the ancestry of my daughter's boyfriend. We had met his parents last month, and his Dad asked me to see what he could find on his immigrant ancestor. This particular ancestor arrived in Boston from Italy in 1880, and was a real stretch for me to research. I have very few immigrant ancestors after 1650, and no experience with Italian genealogy. But I found him in the censuses and vital records, even though every record has his name spelled a different way. I was very excited to find him in several early Boston newspapers (with a completely new spelling!) found via Google News Search. However, I could find no way to print or save the images.
I had put my complaint on the discussion wall at Facebook for the group "Genealogy Bloggers". To my rescue came Carol Yates Wilkerson from the blog "iPentimento". (Go there and ask to be part of the group. You have to ask to be invited, but it is well worth it!) I had 22 responses, but Carol stuck with me online as we tried to figure out the problem. Not only did she put her suggestions on the wall, but we emailed privately, too. She snagged the photo using "SnagIt", put it into a word file and emailed it back to me. Apparently, unless you use software such as "SnagIt" or perhaps the printscreen button there is no way to capture these old newspaper images. I'm looking into buying my own copy of "SnagIt" ASAP!
Secondly, last night I was burning the midnight oil to finish up today's post. Suddenly I got the message that I could not upload anymore images to my Blogger based blog because my 1024 MB of space had been used up! Panic ensued. This was Wordless Wednesday and I needed my photos. I posted my frustration on my Facebook wall, and Carol A. Bowen Stevens from the blog "Reflections from the Fence" jumped in to action. Many friends put in their 2 cents of advice, but Carol began to send me private messages with solid advice, and she held my hand online and virtually guided me through the process. By the next morning I not only understood the problem, but I was on the way to resolving it.
I had been blithely blogging along not understanding how the Blogger platform was working. All photos were going in a Picasa file limited to 1024 MB. I was taking photos digitally at 5 megapixels and popping them into my posts, which almost always feature one, two, three or more photos! After a year and half it was completely full at 808 photos. There were several solutions. I could pay for extra space on Picasa. I could use Flikr or Photobucket or another similar photo storage in the cloud. But I had to resolve my large file issues, and reduce the photo sizes at least on future posts or I would run into the same problem again.
Carol patiently walked me through understanding all this. I also learned how to downsize my photos first, and how to choose a link for a photo from another storage website, and how to copy the link into my blog. This was all new to me, and probably is getting snide guffaws of laughter from the more technically inclined geeks out there in Bloggerland. I also learned about the editing program "Picnik" which resides inside "Picasa" to reduce the size of the photos currently stored there.
Thank you Carol S. and Carol W.! You deserve golden halos this week!
Please visit the Carols blogs!
Carol Yates Wilkerson http://ipentimento.com/
Carol A. Bowen Stevens http://www.reflectionsfromthefence.com/
Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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AHhhh, shucks, you are most welcome. Lets both thank my new air card! LOL From the desert SW to the snowy NE, we got er done! Glad I could help.ReplyDelete
I feel your pain. I started blogging about 5 years ago (not a genealogy blog though) and learned the hard way with the photo thing to!ReplyDelete
Both wonderful ladies! And I'm probably going to have to face that "space used up" issue at some point, too....ReplyDelete
Wonderful friends to have online...and I bet in person, if Carol S. ever stayed in one place for long. ;)ReplyDelete
You are most welcome Heather. I was very happy to help you out. When I first began writing blogs I had angels helping me. I can't pay them back, so I pay it forward. I doubt that anyone would ever laugh at you (maybe with you?) because we all had to learn too. P.S. When you get time, would you consider making your comments so we can leave them as name/url? :)ReplyDelete
I will need this too. I may have to look you up and you can be my angel.ReplyDelete
Angels indeed - and a common problem for bloggers. Nothing eats up space like those graphics files.ReplyDelete


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The hunt for a parts car unearths two super-rare hemi engines and a Sox & Martin '68 Super Stock Barracuda
It's been said that all the good cars are already bought up, smashed, or rotting away in some guy's backyard. While this trend persists, we at the Mopar Muscle office have been beating the "clone" drum and preaching the gospel of turning grandma's cruiser into the ride of a lifetime. Tech Editor Dave Young turned a plain-Jane '68 convertible Satellite into a 440-powered, low-12-second GTX for his wife. Randy took an Army-green Valiant and converted it into one of the most highly regarded project vehicles that MM has done in years, and this author is still breaking his knuckles on his '69 Charger with aspirations for low-10-second, Hemi-powered, quarter-mile times.
But regarding the super-low production Mopars, we've been guilty of giving up the ghost prematurely, as evidenced by Bruce Kepley's earth-shaking discovery of not one, not two, but three of the most desired Mopar machines ever. What began as an innocent trip to the Monroe, North Carolina, K-Mart parking lot to view the Fourth of July fireworks in 2003, ultimately led to the discovery of some of the rarest documented Mopar iron known to exist-a one-out-of-four '69 Hemi Road Runner four-speed convertible with its drivetrain, a long-forgotten elephant plant from a '64 Belvedere Super Stock coupe, and the few remaining bits of a battered '68 Sox & Martin Barracuda.
Bruce had been earnestly searching for the original engine for his '69 Hemi Road Runner, and since he knew the car originally was sold in North Carolina, it narrowed down his search significantly. A chance encounter in the K-Mart parking lot that July 4th lead Bruce to the doorstep of Carroll Hendrix of Pageland, South Carolina, a former competitive drag racer in the '60s and '70s, who supposedly knew of the fate of his estranged elephant. Genial and eager to welcome a fellow Mopar enthusiast, Carroll freely opened his paddock to Bruce. From his first glance of the private stash, Bruce realized he had stumbled upon one of the most sprawling Hemi-engine collections he'd ever seen. That first encounter was educational, though somewhat disappointing since Bruce was told of the fate of several Hemis, but not of his. Carroll said he had owned a '69 four-speed green Hemi Road Runner convertible that was purchased in 1972 in Chesterfield, South Carolina, for $1,200 from a used car dealer. At that time it suffered a burned clutch and required a tow home. Once the clutch was repaired, the Runner served as a fun-about-town driver, sending Carroll as high as 110 mph on one occasion. He kept it like this for another year and then removed the entire driveline and replaced it with a tame 383. His motive for the swap was based on his fixation with collecting the venerable Hemi plant. The 426-which he still had-was extracted from between the fenders and placed alongside the other hibernating 11 engines in his collection.
Bruce pleaded to be shown the engine, which was safely stored away and partially assembled, except for the camshaft, lifters, valve covers, intake, and carburetors (all of which were stored on a shelf). The date-coded Hemi engine had a June 10, 1968 casting date. Carroll still had the bellhousing, four-speed transmission with a late July 1968 assembly date, the Dana 60 that still wore the factory markings, and 11-inch brake drums, driveshaft, K-member, fresh air cleaner assembly, and motor mounts.
Carroll was friends with several of the vintage Hemi Mopar drivers, including the late Don Carlton, who had agreed to discuss a trade for Carroll's stock camshaft and lifters, so Carroll removed the valvetrain from the 426 and wrapped them in newspaper. Tragically, Mr. Carlton was killed in a racing accident before this transaction could take place, so the parts remained wrapped in the newspaper. At the same time, Bruce had rebuilt and fully detailed a '67 Hemi engine for his '69 Road Runner. Since Carroll's engine had the same casting date, rendering it more appropriate for his model year, they agreed to swap engines along with the remaining drivetrain.
Once the newly acquired running gear was at Bruce's home, the phone calls and e-mails began. Fully understanding the historical significance of such a find, Bruce knew he needed certified documentation. Bruce sent photos of the engine and serial numbers of all parts and date codes to a Mopar historian. Word came back that the four-speed Hemi Road Runner convertible was built only three days after Bruce's four-speed Hemi Road Runner hardtop.
Bruce was now faced with a dilemma: what to do with the driveline? It would be a perfect fit for his Runner hardtop, though not the original plant. But if the original car still existed, wouldn't the reunion of the car and running gear be more important? Bruce was in a quandary. He would again require the help of his historian, who provided the information to the current owner of the body. The B-Body was, in fact, intact and in the possession of Stephan Stehnij of New York, who was fully aware of his Road Runner's heritage as a piece of motoring history, and his pricing was commensurate. Since buying the car from Stephan was out of the question, Bruce offered to trade the original driveline. But as luck would have it, Stephan had a completely restored late-'68 casting Hemi drivetrain, whose casting date would match Bruce's '69 Runner. Since Bruce was interested in finding an engine correctly date coded for his hard-top Road Runner and had the original running gear for Stephan's Runner, the two came to a very reasonable (and quick) trade. Carroll Hendrix was present for the swap in January 2004 and met Stephan Stehnij, who had many questions answered that day.
In August 2005, Carroll wanted to weed out his collection of Mopars and elephant engines and gave Bruce a call. On Bruce's first visit, he had been shown Carroll's garage that was chock full of 426 parts and complete engines, of which the aforementioned '69 casting Hemi from the mysterious one-out-of-four convertible Road Runners belonged. Bruce's keen eye had also noticed a complete Hemi and 727 TorqueFlite hanging from a chain hoist next to an old stove. This time, much to his delight, Carroll offered the lynched engine to him.
Rolling up his sleeves, Bruce removed the starter, which had a casting date of April 6, 1964. Bruce immediately realized this engine belonged to a factory Super Stock machine. Carroll explained he bought the engine in a '64 two-door post car from a fellow named George Nesbit around 1966. Carroll had raced it in the late '60s and early '70s. After suffering a breakdown at the Wadesboro dragstrip in 1971, he tried to repair it with little success. So he sold the body and stored the engine for a project '68 Barracuda race car that he had begun to piece together.
Bruce, once again, began to do his homework. He discovered that George Nesbit, a novice racer during the heyday of NHRA, had employed Bruce's neighbor's brother-in-law, Don Duncan. Don had made a name for himself as a successful local racing legend widely known on the NASCAR circuit and had served as the engine man for George Nesbit. A dinner meeting was setup between Bruce, his neighbor, and Don. Don recalled the car well, as George Nesbit had bought it new. Yet the origin of the engine did not begin with the '64 two-door post that Carroll had pulled it from. Rather, the engine came from a turquoise-over-turquoise '64 Belvedere two-door hardtop, sporting a push-button automatic-a factory-true Super Stock car. During the '64 Daytona 500, George witnessed the infamous 1-2-3 Mopar finish, which converted him into a Hemi loyalist. Deciding he had to have the fastest Plymouth available, he promptly ordered a '64 Belvedere push-button Super Stock Hemi car from Walter Chrysler Plymouth. George had unsuccessfully tried to race the car, unable to get the factory lightweight sedan to hook up at the line. Not "technically minded," George decided to partner up with someone who was more apt with hand tools. He paired up with Don, who had a '41 Willys that was prime to race as a gasser. George employed Don to pull the engine from the turquoise '64 to go "A-Gas" racing with the Willys.
When George left to serve his country, Don continued competing, winning again and again. Don recalled his most harrowing run, going through the traps with no brakes at 120 mph. A systematic brake failure had sapped the stopping power from the Willys, hurdling Don towards a dirt road that ran off the end of the strip. Don figured he skipped across the sand and gravel at about 110 mph, coasting to a gradual stop with little more than a bent front axle. Once George returned, he had no need for the Belvedere body, so it was sold to a body shop in Shelby, North Carolina, with less than 62 miles on the odometer in 1966. Finally having their fill of straight-axle mayhem, the duo pulled the engine and transmission from the Willys and dropped them into a '64 Plymouth two-door post car in 1966, and sold it to Carroll Hendrix shortly thereafter. It wasn't until September 2005, that Carroll agreed to sell the original elephant motor back to George for substantially more than what he had previously sold the whole car. The Willys today is found in a public museum in exactly the same condition as when it was raced, minus the legendary engine and transmission that remained in Carroll's garage since 1971. Carroll sold the Super Stock intake assembly to John Aruza in 1990.
Bruce called John to inquire if he had known about the '64 engine. John replied he was unable to purchase the complete engine, but was able to buy the cross-ram intake and carburetor setup, which he later assembled onto a Hemi for a street rod for Richard Petty. Unfortunately, the King was upset because he didn't like that particular setup. John not wanting the King unhappy with him, quickly changed it out and lost track of it.
The Super Stock '64 elephant was intended for a project Barracuda that also never came about. in 1971, when Carroll was racing the post car at the Wadesboro dragstrip, he noticed a peculiar '68 Hemi Barracuda. The engine was in bad shape, and extensive acid dipping to the fenders, doors, and decklid had begun to take its toll. Apart from the cosmetic woes, the Barracuda was well assembled with quality tube-frame fabrication and chassis modifications. But what drew Carroll to the Barracuda were the distinct raised letters spelling out Sox & Martin on the doors. He inquired about the painted-over paint scheme, and learned the owner had purchased the car from Buddy Martin about a year and a half earlier. Confirming this was the Sox & Martin name stamped on components found throughout the A-Body. On the last qualifying run before the quarter-finals, the owner of the former S&M Barracuda grenaded the Hemi, puncturing a hole through the block near the fuel pump with a wayward connecting rod. The owner was so infuriated he hastily sold the complete, though wounded, Barracuda to Carroll, even personally delivering it to his house. Over the next 16 months, Carroll would salvage what useable parts he could from the Barracuda and transfer them to a substantially more solid Barracuda with a more modern tube-chassis. Thinking nothing of it at the time, the unused portion of the body was trashed. All that remained was the decklid, fenders, engine throttle hardware, seats, and the Dana 60. Some other items were used as well, but for the most part, the rest of the legendary Sox & Martin car is lost to the ages.
Carroll became tangled in a series of personal dilemmas that impeded the progress of his '68 Barracuda, and it was left to sit outside his shop for over thirty years. When Bruce was walking through the paces of the Super Stock 426 Hemi's background, Carroll took him out back to show him the incomplete drag racer.
What started as a wild goose chase to hunt down an original engine evolved into one of the largest high-performance Mopar mother lodes in recent history.
But what struck us at Mopar Muscle-more than all the high profile names involved, rare production numbers, and big dollar potential of all this gear-was the fact they still exist. Many people think they have all been hoarded and/or eaten away by corrosion. Rather, Bruce's discovery should help us all have faith that there are still Charger 500s, four-speed Super Bees, 383 Barracudas, and Hemi GTXs out there. You just need to look.


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I have had the 'Ready' problem several times and your instructions have saved me several times now. Thanks to Jazzmandave
Todd B
I have had the 'Ready' problem several times and your instructions have saved me several times now. Thanks to Jazzmandave
Todd B
Jazzmandave kicks ass! Four years as a subscriber and I never ran into this problem until yesterday. After a day of googling with no success I decided to give google another try and stumbled across this thread a few hours ago; the problem is solved.
Thank you Jazzmandave!
Logging onto Sirius, my media player gets to READY, but nothing happens. I use IE8 and Windows 7, and probably Media Player 12. Sirius says they can't find out what is wrong either. Have tried many fixes with no luck. Media Player works otherwise and I can listen to Sirius as long as I log in as a different person from my main profile or on another computer. Before I try Jazzmandave solution I need to know if its for Win 7. Thanks
I tried you Found a Fix fix and it did not open the system drive folder.
My sirius online at work was working perfectly, until 2 days ago. When i login, it says, can not connect to media, and READY. Is it something than i can do (i'm a dummy in the pc world), and i have no music at work at all. Please help me.:
Maybe you work is blocking streaming music?
If not, try another browser and see if you have the same results.
Hi guys,
I've gone through this thread and tried ALL OF IT and still nothing works for me. I'm using IE 8 on Windows XP and I don't use Windows Media Player. I just use the Sirius player that pops up off the website. Here's a quick run down
-I selected NEVER under the Cache settings
-I've deleted my history
-I added .bak to end of the WMP11 folder
-Sirius IS now a trusted site on my computer
-My Abode Flash Player is updated and WMP11 is installed on the computer
-I ran the CMD registration
-This is a work computer, but I have listened to sirius on several other computers in my office, so it's not blocked. I called my IT department and they can't figure it out.
-Basically I've done everything on this thread (and many others) and am hoping somebody out there has another fix.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Sounds like you're in the same boat as me - it's not working for me either and I did pretty much everything you describe.
Here's a question for the Sirius people -> can Sirius' databases hold onto a token/key/whatever that makes it think it's in another state - that is causing the player to not stream? Is there anyway they can force their system to clear out their "caches" and restart us from scratch to see if this clears the browser problem?
I'm just saying (from a software perspective) something is being held somewhere that's turning off the streaming. So, logically, this has to be cleared/reset whatever - anyway we can get Sirius to check for us and clear this up?
Joe... still ->
Hey Joe,
I spoke with Sirius earlier this morning and I cannot get over how clueless they are about this problem. They told me to make sure my flash player and WMP were updated (which they are) and that was literally IT. They had nothing else to say. It's clear this is a widespread problem and they seem not to have researched it at all.
My annual subscription is up in a few weeks, so I'm going to call back to explain that I'm not renewing (because the only reason I subscribe is to stream online at work) and see if that motivates them in any way to work on it. I'll ask them about you mentioned and let you know.
I dont doubt that you are having an issue but, its not widespread. I can login with IE and Firefox both with no problem at all.
Typically, when some issue is widespread, I get killed with emails. So far, its just a couple of people on the forums... no emails yet.
Maybe instead of updating windows media and internet explorer you should roll them back. Do you have access to system restore? Roll your system back a week back to when it was working fine and see if it works.


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For many years I've participated in Pinecone Research. I enjoy being a panelist. They send you surveys and products to try and you get compensated for your time and energy by getting $5 per survey (unless it's household questions) and $5 for every product you try. Well, I guess I should say you used to. About a year ago, they changed new sign ups to get paid $3 per survey and entered into a drawing to win $500. They have recently sent out a study to current members that were still getting the $5 basically telling them that they are changing everyone to $3 per survey and sweepstakes.
I think it sucks. Sure, there are times you answer questions and don't get compensated for them, but they really aren't that bad. There is an option to leave it at $5 a survey, but it basically says if you do that you probably won't be getting very many surveys. I think I'm going to go ahead and change to the $3. Do I like it? No. But I enjoy being a panelist and a part of Pinecone Research and want to continue doing so.
Do you do Pinecone Research? What do you think of the recent changes? Is $3 good enough?


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