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Earthwatch volunteers study hyenas and jackals in South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park, helping to develop a long-term conservation plan.
This study focuses on the carnivore species that are typically scavengers in South Africa: the brown hyena and the black-backed jackal. Scavengers play a vital role in the environment by maintaining the balance of ecosystems through their specialized feeding habits; however, they also regularly come into conflict with people. Around the globe, conflict between humans and wildlife is growing due to increased pressure on land use and resources. It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,700 brown hyenas left in South Africa, and black-backed jackals are the most persecuted carnivore in the region.
As part of this Earthwatch team, you'll help assess carnivore populations in areas with different levels of protection and management in order to help develop our understanding of the ecology of these animals, their role within ecosystems, the threats they face, and how they are viewed by locals, to aid future conservation strategies.
As a volunteer, you'll be involved in many different aspects of the project, including survey work and education. But for all of your hard work, there will also be exciting opportunities to experience and learn more about other wildlife, enjoy the local cuisine and traditional activities, and relax and take in the African sunset.
Natural scavengers are essential, but their role in maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity and reducing disease is little understood.
To protect South Africa's scavenger species, we need to understand their value and the risks they face.
Natural scavengers are essential to the functioning of their ecosystems, but their role in maintaining ecosystems and biodiversity and reducing disease is little understood. People tend to regard them with disdain and to subject them to treatment leading to population declines. The loss of these species could have serious consequences. This project aims to determine the role and importance of scavengers in human-dominated areas, to ensure that people recognize their importance, and to aid their long-term survival.
Only small regions of South Africa are protected, so most scavengers live in unprotected areas where they are subject to persecution. To ensure the survival of these species, we must understand the ecology of wildlife in unprotected compared with protected areas. This project focuses on brown hyenas, jackals, and dung beetles living in unprotected areas of the North West province, but it will also include other carnivores that live alongside them.
Conduct wildlife surveys looking for hyenas and jackals.
Fewer than 1,700 free-ranging brown hyenas remain in South Africa. Jackals also face persecution. Dung beetles play a key role in ecosystems and can indicate the health of mammal populations in an area; their diversity is closely linked with the diversity of mammal species.
The study sites are within 30 miles (50 kilometers) of the Pilanesberg Massif, northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. The landscape is part of the Southern African bushveld, a classic African savannah of mixed grasses spotted with trees.
Pilanesberg National Park lies in an extinct volcano, providing a dramatically scenic park. The area is surrounded by an electric fence that prevents large mammals from entering or leaving the park. You'll find mixed acacia trees and broad-leaved bushveld, ranging from thickets to open grassland. There is a large artificial lake in the center of the park, and smaller permanent areas of water are scattered about.
Over 6,000 individual animals have been reintroduced into the park, including zebras, impalas, white rhinos, elephants, and wildebeest. The park's reintroduced predators include lions, cheetahs, and wild dogs. Leopards and brown hyenas were present when the park fence was constructed, and both populations are now thriving.
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Your team will explore a wilderness teeming with animals, particularly looking for brown hyenas and other scavengers, species that are critically important to the ecosystem. To study these fascinating animals, you will help:
Look out for scavenger tracks, droppings, feeding sites and dens.
Dr. Dawn Scott speaking with Earthwatch scientists Dr. Russell Hill and Iva Kovacic.
Dr. Dawn Scott specializes in mammalian predator and prey ecology. She has more than ten years of research experience and expertise in mammal ecology, biodiversity, and behavior.
You'll be based at a field camp in the heart of the Mankwe Wildlife Reserve, a classic bushveld landscape just east of the rugged, mountainous Pilanesberg Massif. Mankwe is about a 15-minute drive from Pilanesberg National Park's entrance and about 40 minutes from Kgaswane Mountain Reserve. The reserve is home to white rhinos and a range of other endangered wildlife.
You'll sleep in either a small field station or a walk-in safari tent, each with its own shower and flush toilet. The camp has a generator, solar-powered lights, and wood-fire-heated water.
Team members will share meals in a group dining area, with a local chef preparing international and local cuisine, including poitjiekos (game stew) and braai (South African barbecue).
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Jennifer Lauer | Thursday, February 06, 2014
This was my first animal expedition, and all in all I had a blast. Since I was on a winter team, we didn't do any dung beetle research or vulture work. We did do a lot of camera trapping and spotlighting, some scat and dung surveys, and a den survey. The large mammal survey we did in Mankwe was the highlight of the expedition for me: we got to walk through the reserve on a set path with the guards, and count all the large mammals and ostriches we could see.
We also spent a lot of time in Pilanesberg National Park, which was also very interesting--and had lions and elephants, too.
The accommodations were good, but it did get very cold some nights. It was important to have lots of layers, because it could be quite warm during the day and drop down to freezing at night. A warm sleeping bag was a must, as were good gloves. The food was delicious and plentiful. There was vegetarian fare, but it's a pretty meat-centric food culture in general.
Working with Lynne (camp manager) and Rob (grad student) was fun. Lynne had a very well-organized setup that varied the tasks and late-night activities pretty well. Campfires on the nights that we weren't spotlighting were very pleasant.
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Behold our favorite muffins.
You want to know why? They are are almost entirely whole grain — with good fiber and protein from flours such as quinoa, corn, sorghum, and brown rice — and therefore packed with a punch of nutrition for the morning.
They are slightly sweet, not the blaring sugar fix of the holidays, but a faint sweetness in the mouth, a slow sunrise of a smile. They have a tender crumb, without a touch of the hippy denseness of whole-grain gluten muffins. These muffins sing.
These muffins have apricots and pecans in them, surprises in several bites. Or they have figs and walnuts, on other mornings. Once you learn the backbone of the recipe, you can flesh it out with any spice or dried fruit or crunch you wish. You can make these yours immediately.
We are never using another muffin recipe than this one.
Oh, and did I mention that you can make these gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free without sacrificing anything of that tender crumb or crowd-pleasing taste?
You're going to want to make these muffins too.
I found this muffin recipe because our friend Shuna, who is an extraordinary pastry chef, wrote something on Facebook about missing cranberries when they are out of season because she so loves them in her muffins. When I asked for her recipe, she sent me one a) completely in grams and b) written in pastry-chef shorthand, which made me happy. I think she adapted them from Martha Stewart, although knowing Shuna, she made them her own. This is what she wrote me:
"this is my standardized recipe for everything. i add cranberries by look– enough :}
i add a lot of orange zest into the melted butter :}
sometimes i use olive oil or olive oil and melted butter :}
would be great with toasted walnuts too.
i don't know how to make it GF but I will leave that to …you."
It turns out that making them gluten-free was remarkably easy.
You see, I have been realizing this lately: if you bake by weight in grams and you have a recipe based on the solid ratios that work for the different baked goods, you have a great gluten-free recipe waiting to be made. Simply substitute 140 grams of gluten-free flours for 140 grams of gluten flours, and you have it.
In most cases, it really is that simple.
And better yet, it seems you don't need xanthan or guar gum to make them work either.
. . .
Last month, after the weeks of cookie baking, and my intestines feeling in a twist, I gave up the gums. For 18 months, off and on, I've been having… (how do I say this delicately for a food blog?) digestive issues. Pain, cramping, uncomfortable bathroom experiences, bloating, gas. Okay, that's enough. You get the idea. Last January, it was bad enough that I went to our doctor and talked out every possibility. I went through a colonoscopy to make sure it wasn't cancer, since celiac is correlated with colon cancer. Nothing. We ruled out all the possibilities that scared us. We were left with low vitamin D and not enough exercise.
I took care of both. I started taking higher doses of vitamin D (everyone in Seattle has to be on higher doses of vitamin D) and started running. The spring and summer were glorious.
Curious, I also removed foods that are common allergens from my diet, in case I was allergic or intolerant to corn or potatoes or dairy. Nothing seemed to make any difference. I felt just as good with those foods in my system as without. I thought I had this figured out.
And then the fall came. All that wonderful traveling and eating the baked goods made by gluten-free companies who wanted us to try their foods. Eating the baked goods from our cookbook at events. And whenever the weather cools, my heart returns to baking.
My intestines returned to cramping.
By Christmas day, I was in such pain that I could barely enjoy the holiday. Something in me knew this wasn't vitamin D.
I always wondered about the gums. I mean, they're odd, right? Xanthan gum "…derives its name from the strain of bacteria used during the fermentation process, Xanthomonas campestris. Xanthomonas campestris is the same bacteria responsible for causing black rot to form on broccoli, cauliflower and other leafy vegetables. The bacteria form a slimy substance which acts as a natural stabilizer or thickener. The United States Department of Agriculture ran a number of experiments involving bacteria and various sugars to develop a new thickening agent similar to corn starch or guar gum. When Xanthomonas campestris was combined with corn sugar, the result was a colorless slime called xanthan gum."
Guar gum is derived from the seed of a guar plant, so it at least sounds closer to nature. However, along with xanthan gum, guar gum in large doses is used as a laxative. According to WebMD, "There is some interest in using guar gum for weight loss because it expands in the intestine, causing a sense of fullness." Hm. Someone I trust once told me, "Be sure to not use more than 2 teaspoons in a recipe, because that can cause explosive diarrhea."
Nothing says love like explosive diarrhea.
So I always wondered. Could these strange substances used as thickeners and binders in nearly every single gluten-free baked good and product on the market (along with foods like salad dressings and ice creams) be causing me this much upset? I stopped using them to see.
After a couple of days, I started noticing a difference. I decided to ask on Facebook. Anyone else have an issue with these? As you can see if you read these voluminous comments, I'm not the only one.
I went two weeks without eating anything with either one in it. Almost immediately, every single intestinal upset went away. After two weeks, I felt better than I had in 18 months.
Last week, I tried something with guar gum in it, thinking that it was xanthan that bothered me. Within a couple of hours, I felt bloated and bothered again.
So, no thanks. At least for now.
Now, I want to make this clear. I'm not telling you to stop using xanthan and guar gum. They are gluten-free (I have heard a few rumblings about cross-contamination with xanthan gum, but I haven't seen substantiation). Not everyone has problems with them. And it's entirely possible that baking and testing and tweaking baked goods for nearly two years, for both our cookbook and the many, many baked goods we created for this website took its toll on me with all that xanthan and guar gum. Eating some occasionally may not affect me at all. And eating lots of them may not affect you at all.
All I know is that I'm not using them in the baked goods for this website anymore. For the past five years I have used xanthan and guar gum because every gluten-free recipe I had ever seen included them. I believed, from what I read, that they were necessary for binding. But after I started baking by weight and ratios, I started to wonder. And so, in those weeks we took off from blogging, I was baking. I baked these muffins, quick breads, some cookie recipes, biscuits, flatbreads, pizza dough, and a new multi-grain bread. Not only were every one of them free of xanthan and guar gum, but every one of them was better without the gums.
Gluten-free baked goods are better without the gums.
. . .
Think of this. Have you seen a recipe for muffins or cookies or quick breads that ends with "Do not overmix. Stir until just combined and then stop." Do you know why? That's because those wonderful recipe writers want you to avoid activating the gluten in regular all-purpose flour. Those recipes need as little gluten as possible.
In fact, I'm convinced that muffins and cookies and quick breads don't need gluten at all. They're better with gluten-free flours for the lightness and texture than with gluten flours.
Yes, you heard me right.
Here's something else I have realized lately.
You know how whole-grain baked goods made with gluten flours can be heavy, dense, an "I should eat this but I really just want white flour and sugar"? Whole-grain gluten-free flours don't have that problem. Whole wheat flour is a high gluten flour. Just a touch too much stirring and that muffin turns out dense. Whole-grain gluten-free flours? No gluten. No need to worry about tenderness. That muffin can be nutritious and a pleasure to eat at the same time.
And so, we have been happily baking everything with a new whole-grain flour mix. We're happy to report that, other than a difference in color, baked goods made with whole-grain flours are fairly identical in texture to the starchy AP mix we used for the cookies. That means the protein of quinoa, the iron of teff, the goodness provided by these different flours? They can show up in everything you bake.
Want to make a whole grain AP mix in your kitchen? Here's how.
We're working with 70% whole grains/30% starches. We might someday go to all whole grains for some baked goods, but this blend works well for us now.
If you want to make a big batch for all the baking in your kitchen?
Choose 700 grams of any combination of the following flours:
Brown Rice
Sweet Brown Rice
Almond is not a grain, but it is a whole flour, so I've thrown it in there. You might notice that I have not put in garbanzo (I don't like it) or coconut (I don't like the way it tastes or the way it sucks all the moisture out of a baked good) or soy (I'm having a hard time finding a good gluten-free one). You might like those. Substitute if you want.
This means that you can make your own blend. If you are allergic to corn, and you know you can't eat the certified gluten-free oats, blend up 100 grams each of almond, brown rice, buckwheat, corn, millet, sorghum, and teff. (I want to write more about this later, but the flavor you find by blending all these different taste is fascinating. It's amazing how boring regular AP flour seems after you use this.) Find your own favorite combination.
And then throw in 300 grams of any combination of the following:
Potato Starch
Tapioca Flour
White Rice Flour
We like using 150 grams each of arrowroot and potato starch, at the moment.
Combine the 700 grams of whole-grain flours with the 300 grams of starches in a big container. Shake it all up. You have whole-grain flour mix.
. . .
And now you are ready to start baking.
Make some muffins, everyone.
GLUTEN-FREE WHOLE GRAIN MUFFINS, adapted from Shuna Fish Lydon's muffin recipe
One of the reasons I love this muffin recipe is that it is endlessly adaptable. As long as you bake by weight (do you have that scale yet?), you can replace any of the following with your favorite new ingredient of the moment: the flours, the sweetener, the milk, the oil, and the figs and walnuts.
We've made these muffins for weeks, with a slightly different multi-grain flour blend each time. We have made them with sucanat and coconut sugar instead of dark brown sugar. We have tried soy milk and rice milk instead of buttermilk. We have used olive oil, coconut oil, and melted butter in place of the grapeseed oil. In the latest batch, we used a chia seed slurry (1 teaspoon of ground chia seeds and 3 tablespoons of hot water for every 1 egg) to make these egg-free for a friend. And we have enjoyed apricots, raisins, and apple chunks, along with pecans, pine nuts, and pistachios.
Each muffin has a slightly different flavor for the interesting combinations, which makes eating whole-grain muffins interesting. But the texture has been the same, every time: a tender crumb, a strong structure that yields to the teeth, and gone in only a few moments.
350 grams whole-grain flour mix
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
180 grams deark brown sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 eggs
300 grams buttermilk
100 grams grapeseed oil
handful dried figs
handful walnuts
Preheat the oven to 350*. Grease a large muffin tin thoroughly.
Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk them together to combine and aerate.
Whisk together the eggs, buttermilk, and grapeseed oil until they are combined well. Add them to the dry ingredients. Use a rubber spatula until the batter is almost fully combined. Throw in the figs and walnuts and continue stirring until all trace of flour is gone.
Fill the muffin tins 3/4 full. Slide the muffins into the oven. Bake until the muffins are browned with a bit of a crunch, the top springs back to the touch, and a knife goes through cleanly, about 25 minutes to 35 minutes.
Makes about 15 muffins.

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"[Lucy Wainwright Roche's] clear, steady voice feels like a beacon of sorts, slicing straight through the room" The New York Times
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Set out to explore indie singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche, and you'll discover her unforgettable voice, smart, arresting songwriting, and her stellar stage presence. If you dig a little deeper, you'll find an artist with a colorful musical pedigree who is expanding her sound with an ambitious new recording There's A Last Time For Everything, and is hell-bent on creating a meaningful career in this post-music business era.
Born into a musical family Greenwich Village, NYC, Lucy Wainwright Roche is deeply steeped in the musical world. In addition to her parents (Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche of The Roches) and her siblings, (Martha and Rufus Wainwright), Lucy's various aunts, uncles and cousins are all musicians. After a childhood of touring in vans, and hanging out backstage at clubs and theaters around the country, Lucy went off to college and grad school a twist on the classic rebellion and became a school teacher in NYC. She had very little to do with the music world. Then in 2005 on a whim, she spend a few weeks out on the road with her brother Rufus which reignited her deep connection to life on the road. Shortly, Lucy left her teaching job to pursue music full time.
Fast forward to 2013. With two EPs (8 Songs and 8 More) and one full-length album entitled Lucy (2010) under her belt, she's traveled thousands of miles, and armed with a just a guitar and a huge angelic voice, she's performed solo and with countless musicians from Neko Case to the Indigo Girls in this country and internationally.
There's a Last Time For Everything was recorded in Nashville with her friend, collaborator and producer, Jordan Brooke Hamlin. Hamlin and Roche worked together to create a dreamy landscape for the album's 11 tracks. Lucy's distinct voice and dead-on songwriting serve as the centerpiece of this rich tapestry. After 10 days in the studio, the entire album was recorded, and ready for post production.
"Jordan and I crafted these tracks over long summer days that stretched into late, late nights." says Roche, "We were gloriously swept up in the process, like kids working on a secret project. Because we were working with a limited time frame, we went with out gut on every decision. There wasn't time for us to second guess or retrace our steps. The urgency of working that way was exciting and freeing and also a little bit terrifying" LWR
There's A Last Time For Everything includes musical performances from an array of musicians from Chris Donahue to Allison Miller as well as several appearances by guest singers who hail from various ends of the troubadour world.
Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) adds harmonies to "Seek And Hide", which Lucy wrote while watching a man walk up and down the block outside of her building one afternoon, and is the album's upbeat and fleshed out second track.
Roche recalls, "It was a song that I wrote kind of mysteriously and about a stranger. I knew that I wanted a male voice that was very distinctive to join me on that song. My very first choice was Colin and although I don't know him well, he graciously agreed to sing on the track and really hit the nail on the head and added just the touch I was hoping for."
The album also includes a precise and expertly executed harmony part sung by Mary Chapin Carpenter on the lilting duet, "A Quiet Line". Both Lucy and Mary get to demonstrate their gift for harmony singing on this track.
Robby Hecht lends his soulful, meditative voice to the final track on the album, "Under The Gun". Also featured on this track, is a mournful clarinet line played by producer Jordan Hamlin.
The song "Last Time" (from which the album gets it's title) is an exploration of the way a relationship changes over time, and the pain and resignation that go hand in hand with those changes. In it's sadness, the track has a playful quality to it
"We had fun building the track for that one we recorded zippers zipping, spoons clanging, empty yogurt containers filled with beans shaking, anything we could find. We liked the idea of cobbling together the percussion from various objects around us."
There is one cover song on the record: a reinvention of Robyn's dance hit "Call Your Girlfriend". Roche and Hamlin's version is stripped down to voice and guitar and fleshed out with harmonies, and strikingly different.
After the whirlwind recording process, a couple of weeks were spent in post production where Hamlin and Roche continued to fine tune the tracks with the help of additional recording and mixing by Stewart Lerman (grammy winner producer), who also recorded and produced Lucy's first three recordings and editing and mixing by Joshua Moore.
"By the end of recording, I was sitting there with 11 tracks that I really loved and I need ask myself, 'How am I going to get this record heard'?
Knowing that she would be working without a record label, Lucy set out to find a way to finance the album and publicize it.
"I thought a lot about doing a kickstarter campaign to raise the funds but I worried that people are burnt out from all the fundraising that's going on these days. I was interested in finding a slightly different approach."
In the end, Lucy decided on two strategies. The first, to offer the record for pre-order and include a few previously unreleased duets recorded by Lucy and her mother Suzzy. In the process of recording these extra tracks, the pair decided to continue recording an entire album, Fairytale and Myth, collaboration with the late great Rob Morsberger.
"It's amazing how having to think on your feet about funding one record can result in an entirely different recording coming to life."
Roche's second fundraising strategy was to offer house concerts shows in private homes. The idea has proved very successful and has enabled Lucy to raise money for promotion and production.
"It's a great way to get to know your fans better," she says. "A real point of connection, because you're entering into their world and both parties are taking a chance, not totally sure how it will turn out. It's been a thoroughly rewarding way to raise money and it feels like a very equal exchange, which is something I like about it."
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IDF Like today's Core i5 and i7 processors, Intel's 'Sandy Bridge' architecture, their successor, will incorporate TurboBoost, a technology that allows the chip to temporarily run at a higher clock speed than the one it's rated at. But the new chip design's implementation of the technique improves on the old one in a number of important ways.
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- Ron: "An Unbreakable Vow? Nah, he can't have...Are you sure?"
- Harry: "Yes, I'm sure. Why, what does that mean?"
- Ron: "Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
- Harry: "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough. What happens if you break it, then?"
- Ron: "You die."
- — Ron and Harry discuss the spell.[src]
An Unbreakable Vow is a magical spell of unknown incantation, in which one witch or wizard makes an oath to another. If either of the two break their terms, they die.
Casting and effectsEdit
- "A thin tongue of brilliant flame issued from the wand and wound its way around their hands like a red-hot wire."
- —The light of the spell after the first clause.[src]
The Vow is cast by having two parties kneeling opposite each other and clasping right hands. A third must hold their wand, standing quite close to the pair holding hands, and place the tip of their wand onto the linked hands, as Bonder. Then, the first will ask a certain number of vows of the other, with the second accepting those terms; it is unknown what happens if he or she declines. Each time a term is accepted a thin stream of fire will be emitted from the Bonder's wand, weaving around the hands of the pair taking the vows.
Known usesEdit
- "Fred and George tried to get me to make one when I was about five. I nearly did too, I was holding hands with Fred and everything when Dad found us. He went mental, only time I've ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since."
- —Ron describing his brothers' attempt to make him use the spell.[src]
In either 1985 or 1986, Fred and George Weasley attempted to convince their then five-year-old brother Ron to make an Unbreakable Vow with them. They were in fact poised to do so, with their wands out, holding hands and ready to cast the spell when their father discovered them. It was described as the only time he was as angry as his wife, and it is said that he did something which left Fred's left buttock never feeling the same way again; however, luckily their brother Ron was left unhurt, although he remembered the incident at least eleven years later.
- Snape: "You will need your wand, Bellatrix, and you will need to move a little closer."
- Narcissa: "Will you, Severus, watch over my son, Draco, as he attempts to fulfill the Dark Lord's wishes?"
- Snape: "I will."
- Narcissa: "And will you, to the best of your ability, protect him from harm?"
- Snape: "I will."
- Narcissa: "And should it prove necessary... if it seems Draco will fail... will you carry out the deed that the Dark Lord has ordered Draco to perform?"
- Snape: "I will."
- — Severus and Narcissa's vow.[src]
In the summer of 1996, Severus Snape made an Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa Malfoy, the wife of Lucius Malfoy. Their Bonder was Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa's sister and a Death Eater. He promised to protect Draco Malfoy from harm and guide him whilst he attempted to perform the task the Dark Lord had asked him to do: kill Albus Dumbledore.
See alsoEdit
Behind the scenesEdit
- It is unknown if this spell has an incantation; although the Bonder has to hold their wand to the participants' hands, it would seem at first as though the vows themselves may have been the incantation. However, it is also possible it was merely cast non-verbally.
- In the sixth film, the three rings of fire appear all at once, rather than appearing individually whenever a term is accepted. Whether or not more rings would appear if there were more terms to the vow remains unknown. They also leave a mark on the skin once they disappear.
- Several fans of the series have proposed to their significant others by cutting out pages of the book down to the chapter titled "The Unbreakable Vow", hiding an engagement ring inside the cutout, and giving it to them.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7


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John Calver has been making stoneware pottery from white stoneware clays since 1981. Many forms are altered dynamically while the clay is soft.
He has exhibited widely, both in the UK and Overseas. He is represented in a number of public collections.
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Percy House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria.
and from the pottery at Yealand Redmayne.
Functional forms are thrown using white firing stoneware clays. Many forms are altered dynamically while the clay is soft. Pulled or wire-cut handles, and textured feet may be added. Techniques used in decoration include chattering, impressing fabric, rope and clay stamps, and brushing, trailing, inlaying and sponging slips onto the surface. After biscuit firing the pots are glazed by pouring overlapping layers of up to six glazes on to any one piece. The work is reduction fired to 1310 degrees centigrade in a 35cu.ft. oil kiln.
I studied Civil Engineering at London University and worked as an
engineer for five years in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Kingston, Jamaica.
Attendance at an adult education class in Newcastle aroused an interest
in clay. That interest became all-consuming, and, on my return to
England from Jamaica in 1973, I established my own work-shop at Yealand
Redmayne in North Lancashire. From 1973 to 1978 I produced a range of
burnished and glazed earthenware. 1979 saw another opportunity to
travel abroad and I spent two years in Egypt. On returning to my
workshop in 1981, I began making stoneware, work which I continue to
the present.
1989 Northern Arts Grant to partly fund a three month study tour of Australia.
Professional Societies:
1986-1988 - Director of Lakeland Guild Galleries.
1989-1990 - Committee member for 'Northern Potters Association'.
1990 - Appointed Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain
1989 - Northern Potters Association (one day); Krempl Keramik, Munich,
Germany (half day); Four demonstrations & lectures to Potter Groups
in Australia
1991 - Chiltern & Decoram potters (Guest potter); Australian Tour (3 months of one and two day demonstrations to 15 Potters Groups);Ceramic Study Group of Sydney (one week residential school).
1992 - Southern Ceramics Group (one day); Northern Potters Association ( Guest potter).
1993 - Scottish Potters Association (Guest potter); Northern Potters Association (two one day demonstrations in my own work-shop); Australia - one month tour and demonstrations to seven Potters Groups; New Zealand - two month tour, two day demonstrations to six Potters Groups.
1994 - CPA Potters Market at Rufford; CPA of Ireland (Guest potter at annual two day event)
1995 - University of Central Lancashire (Visiting lecturer for 2 weeks); National Festival of Ceramics; East Anglia Potters Association; The Barnet Collection (one day).
1996 - Christchurch College, Canterbury (one day); Kent Potters Association (one day); New Zealand - two month tour (demonstrations to four Potters Groups, seven days including kiln firings with Canterbury Potters, Christchurch)
1997 - Bromley Adult Education, London (one day); Northern Potters Association (Guest potter); CPA Potters Market at Bloxham; U.S.A. visit - The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, D.C. (two days), Middlesex County College, Edison. N.J. (one day); Canada - Richmond Potters (five day school plus two day demonstration); Delta Potters (five day school)
1999 - University of Central Lancashire (Visiting lecturer, 6 days); Midland Potters Association; Wirral Potters Association; Royal Scottish Academy (Lecture); Canada - Red Deer College Summer School, Alberta (five days), Thompson Valley Potters Guild, Kamloops, B.C. (three days); U.S.A. - Wesleyan Potters, Inc. Middletown, C.T. (five days)
2000 - CPA Potters Market at Oxford (1 hour)
2001 - North Wales Potters (one day)
2002 - Sierra Nevada College (five days)
2003 - Sierra Nevada College ( five days ), Carolina Clay Guild ( two days )
2004 - Carolina Clay Guild, October 4/9
2007 - Scottish Potters' Association (Guest potter at annual two day event)
2007 - East Anglia Potters' Association (One day).
2008 - West Forrest Potters ( One day )
2009 - 'Earth and Fire', Rufford.
2011 - 2013 Annual 5 day workshop at the Solway Ceramics Centre
Featured in:
1989 - Pottery in Australia (December)
1989/6 - Monthly Crafts, Korea
1989 - Artists Newsletter 'Firing with Oil' (July)
1991 - Ceramic Review, 'A Potters Progress' (March)
1993 - Ceramic Art & Perception - 'My Other Layer';
1993 - Artists Newsletter 'Twice to Australia' (January);
1993 - New Zealand Potter, Vol 35, no.2
1994 - Ceramics and Print by Paul Scott, A&C Black (pages 42-45)
1995 - 'Advanced Pottery Techniques' by Doug Wensley, Crowood Press.
1996 - 'The Potters Palate' by Constant & Ogden, Chilton Book Co. (page 46)
1998 - The Potters Directory of Shape and Form, French & Neal, Krause
2000 - Ceramics Monthly, December.
2002 - 'Stoneware' by Richard Dewar, A&C Black
2002 - 'The Ceramic Surface', Matthias Ostermann, A&C Black.
2002 - 'The Potters Guide to Ceramic Surfaces', Jo Connell, Crowood.
2005 'The Teapot Book', Steve Woodhead, A&C Black
2014 'Firing Kilns' by Benedict Brierley, Bloomsbury Publishing.
1973 - John Peartree Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1985 - Linton Court Gallery, Settle
1986 - Lancashire Polytechnic, Preston
1987 - Post Office Gallery, Quernmore, Lancaster
1988 - Mid-Pennine Arts Association, Burnley
1989 - Broughton Place Gallery, Lanarkshire; David Holmes Ceramics, Halifax; South Bank Gallery, Hebden Bridge; Krempl Keramik, Munich, Germany; Lancaster City Museum
1991 - Amalgam Art, Barnes, London; Contemporary Ceramics, New Members Show; St. James' Gallery, Bath
1992 - Terrace Gallery, Worthing; Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Represented in the Fletcher Challenge Exhibition, Auckland, New Zealand (1992 and 1995)
1993 - Pyramid Gallery, York
1994 - Sark Gallery, Hethersgill, Carlisle; Broughton Place Gallery, Lanarkshire
1995 - Lowes Court Gallery, Cumbria; Laburnum Ceramics, Penrith, Cumbria
1997 - Anderson Gallery, Broadway, Worcestershire
1999 - Royal Scottish Academy, "Visual Arts Scotland" - Guest exhibitor
1999 - 2007 - Annual Exhibition at Stokoe House Gallery, Alston, Cumbria
2004 - Moring Arts Center, Asheboro, North Carolina.
2005 - Broughton Place Gallery, Lanarkshire
2009 - 2014 - Annual Exhibition at East Windy Hall, Reeth, Yorkshire.
- Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
- Lancaster City Museum
- Ceramic Study Group, Sydney, Australia
- The British Tea Museum
- City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum
- W.A.Ismay Collection, York City Museum


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Some say he was born with a microphone in his hand. That would explain why Pacific Coast Jazz artist Jonathan Poretz is so comfortable performing his brand of great American jazz standards to audiences large and small.
He has written and starred in several highly acclaimed shows, including "Sex, Swagger & Swing: Sinatra and Darin in the Concert That Never Was," and "Sinatra, Dino, Darin and Davis -- When Vegas Was VEGAS!", which made its bi-coastal debut at Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco and Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City.
His latest jazz CD, At Last… Songs For Elena, is scheduled for release on the Pacific Coast Jazz label in September 2018.
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* Feinstein's/54 Below, New York City
* SFJazz, San Francisco
* The Sound Room, Oakland, CA
* Yoshi's, Oakland, CA
* Yoshi's, San Francisco
* Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA
* Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA
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* Montgomery Theater, San Jose, CA
* Grand Theater, Tracy, CA
* The Arkley Theater, Eureka, CA
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Father's day is soon upon us and with this will come the last-minute induced panic from those who have forgotten to pick up a card or present to mark this occasion. But where did the annual tradition of father's day come from and why do we celebrate it?
Here's everything you need to know about the origins of father's day and the date it lands on this year.
When is father's day 2018?
Father's Day in the UK is held every year on the third Sunday of June, meaning this year Father's Day falls on Sunday, June 17.
This day now typically sees dads, step-dads and grandads all being showered with gifts and cards, with many families opting to celebrate this day by enjoying a day out together.
Younger children tend to make handmade gifts for loved ones at school and extracurricular clubs, including drawings, paintings or cards.
Where did father's day derive from?
In different parts of the world father's day dates back to different periods of time, with some countries in Europe celebrating it as far back as the Middle Ages, usually on March 19.
However, many countries in Europe and throughout other parts of the globe have adopted the U.S. date, which is the third Sunday of June.
There are two well-known and popular stories which circulate about the derivation of father's day in the US.
The first is that Grace Golden Clayton, from Fairmont, West Virginia, suggested to her pastor that fathers should be honoured. This was partly inspired by Anna Jarvis, also from West Virginia, who lobbied the government for a day which honoured mothers, Mother's Day then being first celebrated in 1908.
Clayton also campaigned for father's day after the Monongah Mining Disaster in December 1907, which left 360 men dead, including 210 fathers.
She argued that children in the town needed a time to remember their fathers and her own father, Methodist minister Rev. Fletcher Golden, had also died in 1896.
The next year, after hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day, Sonora Smart Dodd from Washington, also told her pastor in 1909 that fathers should be honoured in the same way as mothers.
Dodd was one of six children and was raised by civil war veteran and single parent William Jackson Smart after her mother died during childbirth.
Alongside the local YMCA and the Ministerial Association of Spokane, a city near where she was born, Dodd began a campaign to have a day dedicated to fathers officially recognised.
The first 'Father's Day' was then held at the YMCA in Spokane in 1910, with various other towns and cities across America later following suit.
Where else is it celebrated and when?
Many countries celebrate this day on March 19, which is also St.Joseph's day. These countries include: Italy, where it is named the Festa del Papà, Spain, where it is known as Día del Padre, and Belgium, Croatia, Portugal and Switzerland.
In the Ukraine, it's celebrated on the third Sunday of September, whilst in Indonesia it is celebrated on the twelfth of every November.
Father's Day in Argentina is celebrated on the third Sunday of June, but it is believed that there have been attempts to change the date to August 24, in order to commemorate the day on which the Father of the Nation, José de San Martín became a father.
In Australia, Father's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September, which is the first Sunday of Spring in Australia.
In Germany, Father's Day (Vatertag) is celebrated differently from other parts of the world. It is always celebrated on Ascension Day, this being the Thursday which is forty days after Easter and is a federal holiday.
Regionally, it is also called men's day, known as Männertag or Herrentag, and it is traditional on this day for groups of men to do a hiking tour where they spend the day pulling wagons filled with an array of beverages together.


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COVER- Never mind the iTunes, here's Snocap
Shawn Fanning looked into the eyes of his trusted friends and asked where he had gone wrong. The date was June 4, 2002, and the previous day, the 21-year-old and his music industry-shaking company, Napster, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, buckling under the weight of nearly three years of litigation. Forced to vacate the company offices elsewhere in the city, he had called his four closest Napster associates to meet in a borrowed San Francisco conference room.
"The mood was definitely somber," recalls Ali Aydar, Napster's senior director of technology and the first employee Fanning hired. "When a company files for bankruptcy, you don't have anything left. I can speak for Shawn and myself and say we had a couple hundred dollars."
But now, thanks to some Charlottesville venture capitalists, they have a new business. It's called Snocap, and like Napster, it might change the multi-billion-dollar recording industry– and perhaps even help the beleaguered industry survive.
The pecking order
After going from the cover of Time magazine to the ranks of the unemployed, the only thing certain for Fanning after the collapse of Napster was that he had found the future of the music business on the Internet. Whether Fanning and his buddies would get a second act was no sure bet on that day four and a half years ago.
"We knew it wasn't over," says Aydar. "We knew we had a good idea."
Over the next eight hours, the five friends hammered out a revolutionary idea: an independent online clearinghouse through which artists and record labels could allow their music to be downloaded over the Internet but still retain their ownership rights.
Nearly 3,000 miles away in Charlottesville, Randy Castleman and Chris Holden were doing some searching of their own. As general partners in Court Square Ventures (along with cell phone pioneer Jim Murray), the two represent a combined 40 years in the media business– and they're always looking for the next big thing in communications technology.
"If we look at a thousand deals a year," says Holden, "we invest in two or three."
And when Castleman met with a colleague in California a year ago, he suspected he might have found a winner. "He told me there was this crazy new music clearinghouse," Castleman says. "It turned out to be Shawn Fanning's company, and it was a sweet spot for what we do. They were at the distinct stage in a company's life cycle where we like to get involved."
Castleman's hunch grew stronger when Fanning and company visited Charlottesville to give Court Square's technology analysts a glimpse of what they had cooking.
"It was breathtaking," Castleman says. "Our team told me, 'It shouldn't be possible to do what they're doing, but they've done it.'"
Today, Castleman represents Court Square's investment on the board of Fanning's new enterprise. He declines to reveal the amount of the investment or to offer revenue projections, but no calculator is required to see that as Snocap begins the process of rolling out its digital wares, it joins a crowded field.
Since Napster's demise, dozens of online music stores have opened along the information superhighway. Almost all work from the same model: they amass a library of music through agreements with record labels, and then allow users to download songs onto computers and portable music players at a price per song.
From Sony's Connect Music Store and Viacom's Urge to Richard Branson's Virgin Digital and Bill Gates' Zune Marketplace, it seems every big name in the biz is trying to turn a profit from Fanning's original idea.
However, these wannabes are like chicks pecking for a single piece of corn compared to the big rooster that is Apple's Steve Jobs. His iTunes Music Store domination of the online music world stems from the popularity of Apple's iPod music player (nearly 70 million units sold to date). Every iPod buyer gets iTunes software and the over three-million-song inventory in the iTunes Music Store– downloadable for 99 cents each.
Apple did not return requests for an interview, but the company reveals that it sold 25 million downloads in the first nine months after its April 2003 launch. In the last nine months, Apple sold upwards of half a billion, bringing the number of total downloads sold to nearly two billion.Such numbers give iTunes Music Store 88 percent of the online music market.
Why do Snocap and its Charlottesville backers think they'll succeed where billionaires Gates and Branson have failed? The same reason Napster set music and digital worlds ablaze in 1999: a fresh idea and a boatload of inventory.
"While it's been proven there's a market for buying music online," says Holden, "there are only three million songs available on iTunes. But there are over 25 million songs out there on the Internet."
According to Holden and Castleman, Snocap's success will come from providing the thousands of unsigned or small-label bands a user-friendly way to sell their music.
"A couple of clicks"
"Once [a musician] comes to our website, they go through a registration process," explains Aydar, the Snocap COO, "and then they're invited to upload their music for free. Once we determine nobody else owns it, we put it into a little store called a MyStore. The whole process takes an hour or two."
MyStore appears on computer screens as a box artists can put on their websites, listing each of their tracks and the price for each song. Snocap takes a 45-cent cut, so any price above that is the per-track revenue to the band. As with the iTunes Music Store, fans can preview any song and buy it via Paypal or a major credit card. Voila! The song downloads to the buyer's computer
"Say you saw a band on Friday and you want to tell your friends about them," Castleman says. "You can go to their MyStore, click 'share this store,' and put the HTML code into an e-mail or on your website, where your friends can buy the music. With a couple of clicks, the artist's fans have just become the artist's sales force."
That combination of user-friendly setup and easy dissemination had Snocap eager to give MyStore a test run with an independent group. So last August they chose the Arizona power-pop outfit the Format as their beta band. Thus far, Format guitarist and songwriter Nate Ruess has been impressed.
"I've heard from our fans about how easy it is to use," Ruess says, "and a lot of them say they've put our store on their blogs."
The Format has sold 1,000 downloads since launching the inaugural MyStore, and now that Snocap has reached an agreement with the popular social networking website MySpace.com (over 115 million members strong and counting), they could be the first of countless bands to profit from the new technology. On Thursday, December 7, MySpace made the MyStore technology available to the more than three million bands who have their own pages on the site.
"This makes a lot of sense for us," says Nate Dominy, bassist for Charlottesville instrumental rock group Gifts From Enola. "If it's that easy, we'd definitely be interested in doing it."
"If you can sell your music and have someone else run the service, I don't see why we wouldn't do it," says Stephen Barling, half of the vocal and cello duo B.C.
"Ten years ago, if you had a friend in San Francisco and you said, 'I heard this local band in a bar, check them out,' forget about it," says Mike Meadows, guitarist and singer for rockers MoneyPenny. "With MySpace, you can listen to any local band in any little town and buy their record. MyStore is another step in weakening the power of major record labels."
It's not just independent bands and mom-and-pop record labels who want in on MyStore. Snocap officials say they're in talks with major labels Sony, EMI, Universal, and Warner Music Group to make their content available through MyStore, too.
"They see see the power of this distinct channel," says Aydar. "They're not taking a wait-and-see attitude."
Court Square Ventures' Holden says that after a decade working for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (which owns Fox Television, Harper Collins publishing, and, as of last July, MySpace) to protect against piracy of the company's materials, this marks a significant breakthrough.
"Old media that have fiercely protected their content for 100 years," Holden says, "now own new content and are learning how to let go of it in order to profit. Old and new media are finally meeting, and Snocap is becoming part of that process."
One element critical to the evolution of "new media" is the online journal known as a blog. From the Internet-generated hype surrounding this year's surprise hit movie Snakes on a Plane to the "Macaca" video that changed the course of Virgina's senate race, blogs can spread information around the world and become a powerful media force.
Snocap hopes to use the so-called "blogosphere" to bring music to fans.
"It's a better alternative than just posting the song and having to worry about the legal implications," says UVA fourth-year John Ruscher who operates a music blog called NailgunMedia.com. "If a lot of bands sign up for this, it could work pretty well."
UVA second-year Derek Davies, who runs another music blog, goodweatherforairstrikes.com, sees a similar dynamic. "It's within reason I could use this on my site," he says. "I'd be interested to see how well MyStore catches on in the industry before I make a decision to embed it in my posts. But it's a brilliant idea in principle."
Even some companies that already offer downloaded music are welcoming Snocap. That's how Jim Kingdon, director of merchandise for Crozet-based MusicToday, sees it.
"The more music gets to fans, the more they can determine they have a connection to that artist," he says. "The greater that connection, the more fans are going to want to go to concerts and to the artist's official site to engage in that relationship."
Kingdon's company is so enthusiastic that it's offering prizes (including studio time with noted producer Bruce Flohr) in an online battle of the bands– a competition for downloads launching in January (and sponsored in part by the Hook).
So with unsigned artists, major label power players, bloggers, and even competitors bullish about Snocap's prospects, is there anyone to doubt the new company's inevitable success? Oh, yeah.
Free for all?
If first-hand research is an indicator, Snocap's greatest potential obstacle just might be the very demographic they hope to recruit as loyal customers. Last week, the Hook invited eight high school students to a demonstration of Snocap's MyStore.
All eight admit they have downloaded music illegally from Napster-like file-sharing networks such as LimeWire and Kazaa or from a friend's computer, usually as an mp3. The mp3 is universally playable, unprotected by copyright– and it just so happens to be the format in which MyStore sells music.
Seven of the eight say they get their music almost exclusively via free mp3s. Only one out of eight has ever paid to download music.
"It's just easier to get when you get it on LimeWire," says Rusty.
"When you can get it for free, paying for it seems kind of ridiculous," says Sarah.
"The last music I bought was the Spice Girls when I was six," says Belle.
The group reviewed both the Format's own MyStore and a blog-embedded MyStore where the band is selling tracks for 79 cents. Any chance the students would purchase mp3s that way?
"If it's an indie band I liked that nobody really knew about," says Hayden, "I'd use this to buy their music, because this is really easy. It's going to be really expensive if they get big, and I can always say I liked them before anyone else."
"Yeah, I guess if I really liked them," says Rusty, "I could say I helped make them big."
Other responses were cooler.
"If I couldn't get their music from someone else," says Hunter.
"I guess if it's my favorite song," says HaNee, "but if I had some other way of getting it, why would I pay?"
Sorry, Snocap brass.
And what of the new idea: being able to send friends MyStore in an e-mail?
"If I just paid for it, why would I make my friend pay for it?" asks Sarah. "Why wouldn't I just send it or burn it to a CD?"
"I guess I might put MyStore on my MySpace page or my Facebook [another online social network] profile," says Hunter, "but if my friend is sitting right next to me, I'll just send him the mp3."
Of the eight students interviewed, seven say they'd simply send the mp3.
Hearing such unpromising feedback, Aydar admits that illegal downloading is likely to continue to be a fact of life. But he still thinks there's enough profit to be made selling music by the download to make it worth doing.
"I think a lot of the reason why that behavior exists is that there hasn't been, thus far, an experience that allows consumers to find any content they can conceive of," says Aydar. "Once you provide that, people will get used to it, and behavior will change."
With the project in final countdown on the launch pad, the San Franciscans and Charlottesvillians are betting the event will mark the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the music industry and of the Internet: the Snocap era.
"It comes down to the philosophical question of 'Do you think people are going to do the right thing?'" says Castleman. "If you put up walls, you're squelching the consumption. You'll make more money if you go out there and say, 'We're selling this music; we think this is a fair price.' On balance, people will do the right thing."
If they're wrong to gamble on a new technology and people's virtuous impulses, it will mean one more music download service has bitten the cyberspace dust.
But if they're right, it could mean more than just huge fortunes for its principals, and perhaps even more than a new beginning for the music industry. It could mean a fundamental change in the way the media do business. It all depends on whether music fans are willing to start whistling a new tune.
Behind these walls, Court Square Ventures are quietly helping to plan what might be the next big thing in music.
Shawn Fanning created the file-sharing network Napster in 1998 when he was a freshman at Northeastern. Eight years later, he came to Charlottesville and persuaded Court Square Ventures that he had created a way to assure the music is legitimately sold.
"Without getting into specifics, I can say that all the major label groups are very positive about this," says Ali Aydar, Napster's first hire and chief operating officer of Snocap.
"The MyStore is another step in weakening the power of major record labels," says MoneyPenny's Mike Meadows.
Music bloggers will be key to the success of MyStores. John Ruscher of NailgunMedia.com says, "If a lot of bands signed up for this, it could work pretty well."
Will teenagers buy into MyStore the same way they flocked to MySpace? One focus group is less than thrilled with the idea.


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Americans staging "tea party" protests against President Obama are so angry that comedian/actress/activist Janeane Garofalo called them racist. And now they're apparently protesting her…by purchasing tickets to her upcoming comedy show. (Video after the jump.)
For a bunch of people who are so pissed off over having to dig into their pockets to pay higher taxes, tactics like this don't really make much sense. However, this was reported on Hannity's America, so who really knows just how many hecklers are planning on actually attending her performance.
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TORONTO — Canada has not sent a team to the World Cup in a generation. But that hasn't stopped Canadians from going a little Cup crazy.
The nation known more for shooting pucks than penalty kicks fields a national team that ranks 110th in the world, tied with Bahrain. But its fierce love for the beautiful game has been on display for all the world to see in Brazil. FIFA organizers say Canadians bought more than 29,000 tickets to World Cup matches, outranking all other nations that didn't qualify for the Cup and behind only 10 nations that did.
Canada was also the top non-competing nation in attendance at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, officials say. As a nation of immigrants, it should be no surprise that that Canadians are wild about the Cup. One in every five Canadians is born in another country.
That multi-ethnic society and the national team's struggles make it easy for fans of any nation to enjoy the World Cup in Canada.
"Where else in the world can you go to bars to watch every game and have people from the competing countries cheering on their team?" said British-born Scott Parr, 30, who delayed a vacation to Australia so he could watch the World Cup in Toronto. "Here, it's so fun because there are rabid fans for every game, not just for one team or game. If I watched it in Australia, after the Australian game was over, the excitement would have likely been over, too."
An estimated 2.9 million Canadians tuned in to CBC's English-language broadcast to watch Germany clobber Brazil 7-1 in Tuesday's semifinal, according to CBC figures. By comparison, 3.3 million viewers watched the deciding game of this year's Stanley Cup finals. The figures do not include French-language viewers.
And now Canada wants to take its turn as World Cup host. In January, the Canadian Soccer Association announced that it will bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Its chances of winning, given its lack of stadium infrastructure, are slim, analysts say.
Canada's chances could soon get a boost when it hosts the 2015 Women's World Cup.
"The day Canada makes it back to the World Cup, it'll be a beautiful day for the country on a whole," said Canadian-born and Trinidadian-bred Paul-Anthony Perez, 31. "We have a lot of talent, we have a lot of young players. We have Canadian-born players in the World Cup this year, one on Holland's team and one on Bosnia's. When the money is right and the focus is right, we'll start producing a World-Cup qualifying team. But until then, we'll still come out to watch the games and root for our 'home' teams."
Hosting the World Cup would mean an automatic bid for Canada, which has only qualified once — in 1986. Organizers hope it would spark a transformation similar to that in the U.S. after it hosted the tournament in 1994, giving Canada's diverse population a chance to become competitive at the world's most popular sport.
"This is one of the most multicultural countries in the world," said Globe and Mail journalist John Doyle, who just returned from Brazil after covering the first half of the World Cup.
"A quirk of Canadian culture is that hockey is our national game, but the multi-layers of the cultural makeup of Canada give breathing room for people to be interested in and to follow and play other sports that are anchored in their cultural background, their ethnicity, where they or their family comes from," said Doyle, who wrote the best-selling book "The World Is a Ball: The Joy, Madness, and Meaning of Soccer," about his travels covering the World Cup and European Championship.
Linda An, 36, whose parents were born in South Korea, booked multiple days off work to watch all of the games South Korea played.
"There's a level of pride in rooting for the country your parents call home, especially when the country you call home doesn't have a team to root for," said An, who's been watching with her Guatemalan boyfriend.
Canada also has a thriving youth soccer scene, and now has more kids playing soccer than hockey. But critics say a lack of professionally-run soccer academies leaves elite youth with limited opportunities to play against top competition in Canada.
The pro game, however, has exploded in Canada, which now has three Major League Soccer teams: Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact. All rank among the top MLS teams in attendance.
And when it's time for the World Cup, Canadians are eager to travel.
"I had to be in Brazil for World Cup, no question," said Angela Barham, whose parents are Jamaican. She traveled to Brazil on July 1, Canada Day, to attend games. "I remember the exact moment hearing that Brazil won the bid and deciding at that moment that I was going, do or die."


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BOSTON -- Red Sox closer Joel Hanrahan will be sidelined at least two months and is scheduled to visit Dr. James Andrews for an examination that could determine whether the pitcher needs surgery.
Boston transferred Hanrahan from the 15- to the 60-day disabled list Thursday with what the Red Sox said was a strained right forearm. It is the right-hander's second stint on the DL this season. He previously was on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring.
Manager John Farrell said Hanrahan was told he might need surgery.
Farrell said an MRI on Hanrahan's arm appeared to show no structural damage to the ligament that connects bones in the upper and lower arm but that hasn't been ruled out.
"That's where (Friday's) exam will be valuable," Farrell said of Hanrahan's visit to Andrews, a noted orthopedist.
Even if surgery isn't necessary, recovery from the injury should take at least two months, Farrell said.
"Once we got the initial MRI, it seemed that was a possibility," he said. "Not knowing the extent or total number of days, we felt it was still going to require some recovery time. Then, when you factor in the buildup back from that, we felt like this was going to be a couple months total at a minimum."
Hanrahan last pitched Monday night when he allowed a tying homer in the ninth inning to Brian Dozier. The Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5 in 11 innings.
In nine games during his first season with Boston, Hanrahan is 0-1 with a 9.82 ERA and four saves in six opportunities. The Red Sox acquired him from the Pittsburgh Pirates in a December trade after he went 5-2 with a 2.72 ERA and 36 saves in 40 chances last year.
An NL All-Star each of the past two seasons, Hanrahan is earning $7.04 million this year and can become a free agent after the season.
Andrew Bailey, who became the closer when Hanrahan was on the disabled list from April 14-29, went on the 15-day DL on Monday with a strained right biceps.
Farrell said Junichi Tazawa will take over the closer's role.
The Red Sox also called up Jose De La Torre from Pawtucket and optioned Allen Webster to the Triple-A team in moves involving right-handed pitchers. De La Torre, in the majors for the first time, was acquired from Cleveland last July. He was 1-0 with a 1.56 ERA in 10 relief appearances for Pawtucket this year. Webster was sent down one day after allowing eight runs in 1 2-3 innings in his second major league start.