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By Ken Piper
When things are going about as bad as they can, a big buck might be just around the corner.
Few hunts go perfectly, so most of us learn to deal with life's interesting twists and turns while pursuing whitetails. Sometimes, though, it seems like everything is working against you.
The one good thing about rock bottom is there's only one direction to go. Jackie Bushman's one and only trip to the stand in Montana in 2010 is a perfect example.
Jackie usually kicks off hunting season with a Montana bowhunt. With the Buckmasters Expo taking place in late August every year, he routinely skips the first week of the season to recover and let the Montana weather cool down before he heads out.
That was the plan last year until he got an interesting phone call.
"Jackie, I think you might want to get out here as soon as you can," said Buckmasters cameraman Jimmy Little. "We've been seeing some giant bucks, and there's a double drop-tined monster that's been doing the same thing a few days in a row."
Jimmy and fellow cameraman Chris Chastain had been in Montana on an antelope hunt. Having tagged out early, they decided to spend a few days scouting the property where Jackie hunts whitetails.
"I could tell they were excited," Jackie said. "The big difference last year from any of the other 30 years or so that I've been hunting there was rainfall. Montana's average rainfall is only 12 inches, but they had already gotten 18 or 20 by hunting season, and it made a big difference in the bucks' antlers. The bucks were probably 15 to 20 inches bigger than normal, and Chris and Jimmy had seen several giants. In addition to the double drop-tined buck, they saw another 12-pointer and a 10-pointer in the 170s. I knew I needed to get out there as soon as possible."
Jimmy returned to Alabama to get his camera equipment and pack for the hunt while Jackie scrambled to change his plans.
One a.m. of Sept. 8 found the pair in a car on the way to the Atlanta airport for the first leg of their many connections on their journey to Montana.
"We actually made it to Denver on time, so I should have known things were about to go bad," Jackie said.
The connecting flight from Denver to Gillette, Wyo., had mechanical delays for about an hour and a half. When that plane landed, Jackie and Jimmy were the only two who remained on board for the last leg over to Montana. With only two people on the plane, Jackie thought it was a joke when the pilot came over the speaker and said there was a problem.
"The pilot came on and said there was a weight restriction and we would have to let most of our luggage there for a later flight," Jackie said. "I thought he was kidding, but apparently the main runway in Montana was closed, and the backup runway had a strict weight limit. We had to leave all our clothes and camera equipment there. The only thing we took was my bow case."
They got to the Montana property at 3:30 with hopes to be in the stand by 5. Jackie rushed around trying to get some old clothes washed and ready while Jimmy prepared the small backup camera that was still at the ranch from the antelope hunt. While his clothes were in the dryer, Jackie decided to shoot his bow a few times.
"It was really windy, so I was shooting out behind an old shed," Jackie said. "I put the first arrow in the wood step below the target. The next one went in the door. I looked at the bow and thought, 'That can't be good.' "
Any time you're bowhunting out of state, it's a good idea to take a backup bow, and Jackie had an identical Mathews Z7 rigged up and ready. Two shots in the bull's-eye from bow No. 2 sent him scurrying back to the house to put broadheads on two more arrows and get dressed for the hunt.
"You might wonder why we were in such a rush, but I really wanted to hunt that particular treestand," Jackie said. "Looking at the weather forecast, that was the last day we were going to have an east wind. The buck had been coming out past that stand during an east wind. Jimmy had two other stands set up, but neither one was as predictable as the treestand near the bedding area."
Had they not been able to get to the treestand that afternoon, Plan B was a ground blind out in the middle of an alfalfa field. The buck had a habit of moving through cover to the edge of the field and then dashing out into the middle of the alfalfa where it felt safe.
"The ground blind and the other treestand Jimmy had set up were real hit-or-miss propositions," Jackie said. "I just had a feeling that if we were going to get a shot at this buck, it was going to be from the stand by the bedding area."
The pair were set up and ready by 5:30 p.m. There was a strong and constant east wind of 18 to 20 mph, but stiff wind is pretty normal for Montana, and neither man was concerned about it.
"It's windy out there pretty much all the time, so the deer are used to it," Jimmy said. "My big concern was trying to keep the camera steady. Since I didn't have my camera support arm, I rigged a strap to a Realtree EZ Hanger and tied it to the camera."
Around 6:15, a doe and a spotted fawn emerged from the bedding area and went by on a trail downwind of the stand. Between the hunters' Scent-Lok and the strong wind, the deer never knew Jackie and Jimmy were there. That was probably the first thing that went right all day.
"At about 7 o'clock, I was looking behind me and saw the rear end of a deer at about 25 yards," Jackie said. "All of a sudden, I saw a big drop tine poking out and I said to Jimmy, 'Get ready because the drop-tined buck is right behind us!"
Jimmy turned the camera around and got on the buck, which was heading right at them. It was following a trail Jimmy had tried to block off when he hung the stand.
"That trail came way too close to the setup," he said. "Five yards is just too close for two people to get away with any kind of movement or scent, and I couldn't believe he was coming down that trail after all I had done to try to block it." Even worse, it was approaching left-handed Jackie from the left side.
"I had already drawn my bow when he went behind a tree, but I was not about to take that quartering-to shot," Jackie said. "He was standing there about 5 yards from the tree, but I've seen too many bad things happen from shots taken at that angle, so I wanted to let down my bow and hope he would eventually offer a better shot."
Unfortunately, pumped full of adrenaline and tired from holding the bow so long, Jackie's easy let-down turned into more of a low-power shot.
"That string just snatched my arm forward like there was nothing there, and my arrow flew out and stuck in the tree about 10 inches above the buck's back," he said. "The buck took off, and I thought, 'You just blew the shot at one of the biggest bucks you've ever seen with a bow. That's the perfect ending to what has been one bad day.'"
Rock bottom had arrived.
And that's usually when things start to turn for the better.
"I couldn't believe it when I realized the buck had run only about 10 yards and was looking around trying to figure out where the noise came from," Jackie said. "With the wind blowing and all the leaves still on the trees creating noise and movement, I was able to nock another arrow and draw. When I hit the release, everything felt really good."
Not wanting to take any chances, they waited until dark before getting down to look for the big buck. They found it just 30 yards from the point of impact.
Jimmy had already used the 12 minutes he had left on the camera, so they made a quick dash to the airport, where their luggage had finally arrived. Then it was back to the woods with the main camera and fresh memory cards to finish filming everything needed for TV.
By the time they finished filming and got the deer back and hung in the cooler, it was exactly 24 hours since their exploration of Murphy's Law had started.
"Funny thing is, I had told Jimmy, 'Man, when things are going this bad, something good might just happen,' and it obviously did," Jackie said. "Besides, I hit everything I shot at that day — a staircase, a door, a tree and a double drop-tined buck."
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Broccoli, Cauliflower, Chicken Quinoa Bowl 蔬菜烤鸡藜麦主食沙拉
Store-bought or roasted at home; freshly cooked or leftovers; thigh meat, or breast meat. You can work in any meat (or meatless) protein options into this platter or bowl of food which is often gloriously called - salads; or simply a one-dish meal.
From start to finish, this delicious and nutritiously balanced meal took only about 30 minutes to complete, with the help of good-quality store-bought rotisserie chicken from Whole Foods Market.
Not only it saves time, store-bought rotisserie chicken is also budget-friendly if you regularly prepare meals for a small family of two to four. Typically, a whole roasted chicken can be used in two-three meals for a family of two. The drumsticks and wings consumed on the day itself, and leftover chicken (thigh meat and breast meat) used throughout the week in sandwiches/wraps and in dishes such as Asparagus, Cauliflower, Chicken Quinoa Bowl, and Asparagus, Chicken, Potato Bowl.
Steamed Vegetables, Roasted Potatoes with Quinoa and Rotisserie Chicken 蔬菜烤鸡藜麦主食沙拉
Chicken drumsticks, and thigh (store-bought rotisserie chicken from Whole Foods Market)
20 small organic fingerling potatoes, lightly rinsed and patted dry
1/2 organic red bell pepper, thinly sliced
6 servings of organic broccoli and/or cauliflower florets
2 servings of cooked quinoa
4-5 cloves garlic, minced - half for use in potatoes, half for steamed vegetables
1 tsp organic dried oregano
Salt and ground black pepper
Preheat oven 400F. On a baking tray, season potatoes with salt, pepper, garlic, dried herbs (oregano). Roast potatoes for about 30mins till cooked. With about 10mins remaining in roasting, set up the steamer and steam the vegetables with garlic for 5mins. Serve garlic-steamed vegetables, garlic oregano roasted potatoes with quinoa and rotisserie chicken.
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Tessellatum is an album and a film, with music composed by Donnacha Dennehy and animation by Steven Mertens, performed by violist Nadia Sirota and viola da gamba player Liam Byrne.
The film and the music both work with the idea of man vs. nature. Steven Mertens' electric animation toggles back and forth between man-made geometric perfection and the natural oddness of the deep ocean. Donnacha Dennehy's addictive timbres move between tuning systems created by humans and the ones found in natural resonance. As a result, the two works of art support and enhance each other, using the same form and structure to create an incredibly moving work of art.
Violist Nadia Sirota on Tessellatum
Tessellatum was commissioned in an acute fit of jealousy. The first time I heard Donnacha Dennehy's music I was seduced, I needed to be a part of that sound world, to inhabit it, even. Donnacha's work is almost cubist — he fractures sonorities and re-assembles them into intricate kaleidoscopes of sound, thrusting piles of animated drones and pulses next to ionized timbres derived from the harmonic series.
Tessellatum is an album and a film, with music composed by Donnacha Dennehy and animation by Steven Mertens, performed by violist Nadia Sirota and viola da gamba player Liam Byrne.
The film and the music both work with the idea of man vs. nature. Steven Mertens' electric animation toggles back and forth between man-made geometric perfection and the natural oddness of the deep ocean. Donnacha Dennehy's addictive timbres move between tuning systems created by humans and the ones found in natural resonance. As a result, the two works of art support and enhance each other, using the same form and structure to create an incredibly moving work of art.
For this piece, we settled on an odd and kind of unprecedented instrumentation: 11 bass viols and 5 violas. I had spent a loopy, jet-lagged morning reading renaissance duets with the viola da gamba player Liam Byrne in London, and become obsessed with the weird timbral pairing of viola and bass viola da gamba, which flips the darkest sounds to the highest register and the brightest sounds to the lowest.
Donnacha took this idea and spun gold with it, creating a kind of unrelentingly-beautiful wall of sound, which he deployed, along with harmonies derived from the harmonic series, to gradually un-moor the ear from its ingrained, equal-tempered references. For this record, Liam and I multi-tracked all 15 parts, producing a tapestry which moves from almost-medieval textures through spectral vales to nearly-Celtic passagework.
The animator Steven Mertens had a kind of crazy task: creating a way for audiences to absorb the structure of this tightly-woven work in real-time. Mertens solved for this in a completely unique way, creating his own syntax of abstracted deep-sea tabelaux, forming an alien but parallel world, structurally identical to the music but fully translated and adapted to his rich visual universe. The result is gorgeous, illuminating synergy- two works of art that support and enhance each other.
A note on tuning the viols
The viola da gamba is most often associated with early music, music written in the 500-year span from the thirteenth century onwards, so how do you make that instrument perform the very modern task of playing Donnacha's microtones — pitches that would be found in-between the keys of a piano?
It turns out that viols were kinda built for this. Back in their day, specifically the 16th-ish century, tuning systems were all over the place. Western music didn't completely settle on our neat-n-tidy 12-equal half-steps thing until something like 200 years ago, and even so, equal temperament's domination came about super gradually. So all this is to say: viols are actually pretty easy to modify. For Tessellatum, Liam split some frets and tied on a whole bunch of new ones. The tricky part was that, unlike oddly-tempered early music pieces, Tessellatum is constantly toggling between equal temperament and just (harmonic series) intonation. So this meant that Liam and Donnacha had to conspire pretty epically to make all these pitches physically possible. But they did it! And it's ingenious and gorgeous and completely unique.
Composer Donnacha Dennehy on Tessellatum
I think of Tessellatum as a kind of monumental mosaic full of shifting perspectives. I'd been waiting quite a while to write a piece like this, and I saw my chance when Nadia Sirota, a ferociously talented violist among other things, asked me to write something. We quickly settled on the seemingly crazy idea of my writing an extended composition around 40 minutes in lengthfor her and viol consort. She knew of a wonderful Irish/American violist based in London called Liam Byrne, who could lead this viol consort. Liam turned out to be a brave man, entertaining requests for various contortions of the frets so that I could produce a large palette of overtone-based, microtonally-tuned pitches, essential to the harmonic and timbral world that I was imagining.
I eventually settled on the unusual instrumentation of solo viola, 3 ensemble violas (functioning as ghosts of the solo viola) and a consort of 11 microtonally-tuned bass viols. It may seem grand, but the music required this instrumentation, although I've since made two performance versions for smaller subsets, complemented by the other parts on a surround-recording. On this recording, incidentally, all parts are played by Nadia and Liam. I long dreamed of being able to write something approaching the wall of sound that I encountered in various almost utopian Renaissance vocal pieces, such as Tallis's 40-part Spem in Alium or Ockeghem's Deo Gratias, pieces that veered between being finely detailed and singularly overwhelming almost simultaneously. In fact there are even small references to Deo Gratias in Tessellatum. Liam inspired another approach from Renaissance music, when I visited him at his strikingly opulent studio at the V & A Museum in London. (I never suspected that viol players worked in such conditions.) There he played me a surprisingly prescient little piece for five parts by Thomas Picforth in which each part moved according to a different rhythmic motor. That had an indelible influence on the way I layered material in this piece.
There's a quote from Alfred Schnittke that I love: "I set down a beautiful chord on paper and suddenly it rusts." Of course, Schnittke was concerned with a kind of polystylistic irony, whereas I'm more concerned with a kind of luminous resonance. In fact I am obsessed with luminosity in music. It influences most of my decisions: about harmony and timbre, process and even form. I think of the beautiful harmonies at the start of each of the three sections (which run into each other as part of a continuous whole) as rusting into timbre because I often think of both harmony and timbre in relation to the same phenomenon, the natural overtone series. I follow quite an extreme 'overtone' approach in this piece, due to the possibilities afforded by movable frets on each of the viols, allowing me at some points to make use of naturally played overtones up to the 32nd partial. All the sounds that you hear in this recording are played naturally by the way – nothing is electronic. An abiding influence on the way I thought about luminosity in this piece comes from the way the light changes radically through the seasons in Ireland. Despite living with this perennially until quite recently, this never ceased to fascinate me.
Tessellatum is dedicated to the memory of Bob Gilmore, a great friend and a wonderful musicologist who shone a light often on fascinating music that otherwise may have remained in the dark.
About the Artists
Violist Nadia Sirota's varied career spans solo performances, chamber music, and broadcasting. In all branches of her artistic life she aims to open classical music up to a broader audience. Nadia's singular sound and expressive execution have served as muse to dozens of composers, including Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, Missy Mazzoli and Marcos Balter. For the 2018-19 season, Nadia teams up with the New York Philharmonic as their first-ever Creative Partner, a position created for her. Nadia won a 2015 Peabody Award, broadcasting's highest honor, for her podcast Meet the Composer, which deftly profiled some of the most interesting musical thinkers living today. Nadia is a member of the chamber sextet yMusic.
Liam Byrne divides his time between playing very old and very new music on the viol. For several years he was a member of the renowned viol consort Fretwork, with whom he toured internationally and played an active role in commissioning new works. He has recently had works written for him by David Lang, Edmund Finnis, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurðsson and others. In April 2015, Liam became the first musician to be awarded a 6-month Artist Residency at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, in connection with the opening of their new Europe 1600-1815 galleries.
Composer Donnacha Dennehy has had work featured in festivals and venues around the world, including the Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Opera House (London), Carnegie Hall, The Barbican, and BAM. His Nonesuch release Grá agus Bás was named one of NPR's "50 favorite albums" (in any genre) in 2011. He has been on the music faculty at Princeton University since 2014.
Director and animator Steven Mertens has worked in many forms, from traditional stop motion animation to 3D motion graphics, live action and design. Steven has directed music videos for artists including Regina Spektor, Cedric Gervais and Dan Auerbach. Steven was a featured artist in the Tribeca Film Festival's New Online Work ("NOW") program, which recognizes creators of fresh online work and highlights the next generation of online storytellers.


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Or is it? I don't mean to dorkify myself by quoting Billy Joel (although I fully admit that I did really enjoy listening to his Live from the USSR CD in college) but I've been having some interesting discussions lately with people about whether or not it's prudent to be an opera singer who writes a blog about all her fears and vulnerabilities. Performers are supposed to be confident - confidence gets you hired - so who would be stupid enough to talk about being freaked out or insecure on the internet where everybody can read it??? Me, apparently.
Last week I was blogging about the "IT" factor and had a lot of interesting comments, many of which came from an anonymous source, whose only clue to their identity was that they are a "principal singer at the top level". Okay, so why would a famous singer feel the need to be anonymous when commenting on my blog? If that person is already at the top level, they should be able to relax and say whatever is on their mind without the fear of repercussions, right? No way! People who are savvy about the business know that you have to present an image from all angles, and that revealing your true thoughts can often do damage to this image, which you must protect because a lot of people's salaries now depend on YOU, the product! Yes, it's sad that singers are now products (which is partly what this commenter was noting) but of course that's the case in every entertainment industry, especially with the media playing such a huge role in any artists success in any field. So anonymous has to stay that way in order to protect him or herself and all the people whose salaries he or she might be helping to pay with their fame.
But what about me? I'm not paying anybody's salaries yet, that's for sure. I'm lucky if I'm paying my credit card bills (but that's more a result of my own addiction to shopping and not necessarily an indication of my earning potential) but there could be a time where I have to become more of a product to sell cd's or tickets or limited edition t-shirts with the slogan, "Trying to remain opera-tional - blogging for punny opera nerds!" So what do I do about this need I have to be honest with myself AND in my writing? Well, the honest answer is that I don't know. But what I'm hoping will happen is that this honest and open dialogue is able to become a part of my product. That one of the reasons people enjoy hearing me sing is that they have a little insight into who I am and what my innermost thoughts and fears are, and that insight actually gives them another angle on my artistry. I hope that I will both be able to continue to succeed in my career at a higher and higher level, and that I won't ever have a PR agent who says, "OH MY GOD SHUT UP!! STOP WRITING THIS DOWN FOR THE PUBLIC AND GO TELL IT TO A SHRINK!!!" Because my writing has become a creative outlet for me, and if I had to be something other than what I am, (which is a slightly neurotic if somewhat eloquent and ultimately relatively confident human being) I don't think I would be particularly inspired to write. So I just open up and let you see my beating heart, and hope that everybody is cool with that.
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Before the match against B.Levekusen, ultrAslan shows who's the Master!!! =)
While ultrAslan was going to Asia side from Europe side by boat for the fenerbahce Match in Istanbul!
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ultrAslan Opera =D They says '' Yarragimi Ye Fener!!! ''
It means, Suck My D*ck fener...And fener(Fenerbahçe) is rival team in Turkey...
Galtasaray ultras (ultrAslan) Sending cobs out of stadium! Should really watch head to toe..
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Occasionally, cooking feels delightfully feminine for me. That might be because most often, I'm stirring a hot pot in some sweaty yoga pants with my hair twisted into a knot and a dish rag tossed over my shoulder. So on the odd evening that I'm having friends over, I really like to buy into the whole homemaker thing. Well, sort of-- that mostly just means I'll wear real clothes and not take off my makeup. In my head, though, I've got the lipstick acumen of Betty Draper, the cheerful sass of Mrs. Cunningham and the brownstone of Claire Huxtable.... and the voice of Audra McDonald (sorry neighbors).
It's on those days when a great cooking playlist makes all of the difference. Over the past few weeks, I've cultivated a really fun, girls only playlist that'll help anyone get through the stress of having guests and making them lamb shanks. It stretches from Lena Horne to Taylor Swift and is extra fun if you've had a glass or two of Bordeaux by the time Stevie Nicks comes on. Happy cooking!


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There I was, at 9:30pm last night, trying to decide what to blog about for today. Inspiration was proving to be exceedingly difficult, as Millie was being super cute playing with a tennis ball, and I was trying to watch Frozen at the same time.
Speaking of Frozen, I can't watch this movie without comparing it to this:
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– Because I want to be able to walk Millie by just throwing on a pair of shoes, not taking two minutes to suit up in my cold weather gear.
– Because it's hard to keep my balance in the snow when Millie decides to go investigate a person/dog/tennis ball/flicker of movement.
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i did this one for a template challenge at SM:
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Community elders try to cover up rape of three Dalit girls in Jharkhand
Instead of taking action against the boys, community elders held several rounds of negotiations between the two parties through weekend. Exasperated, the three girls approached the Chatra Sadar police on Monday.ranchi Updated: Apr 11, 2017 16:50 IST
Three Dalit girls from Jharkhand's Chatra district have levelled rape charges against a group of boys from the same region, and accused community elders of shielding the accused when the matter was brought to their notice.
The girls said they were walking down the Chatra-Itkhori road on Friday evening when three boys accosted them near Trog More, 10 km from Chatra town. When the victims rejected their advances, the boys allegedly dragged them behind the bushes and took turns to rape them.
Community elders were informed about the incident, but they allegedly tried to cover up the crime. Instead of taking action against the boys, they held several rounds of negotiations between the two parties through weekend. Exasperated, the three girls approached the Chatra Sadar police on Monday.
Acting swiftly on their complaint, police nabbed the three boys – also Dalits – within a matter of hours.
The girls said their families were advised against approaching the police. "The community elders wanted us to resolve the issue without punishing the guilty," they stated in the complaint.
While the victims belonged to Amukatu village, the boys hailed from nearby Trog.
"We took prompt action after the girls complained to us on Monday. We are also looking into their allegations of community elders trying to cover up the crime. That is a serious offence too," said Chatra Sadar police station officer-in-charge Ram Awadh Singh.
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He made a luxury mall from a POW camp. Bal Harbour Shops' Whitman dies at 98
Stanley Whitman, the visionary who built an open-air mall on the site of a former German World War II prisoner-of-war camp in Bal Harbour when nearly everyone told him he was crazy, lived to see his grand idea become one of the country's most successful luxury shopping centers.
More than 60 years after his folly led to the Bal Harbour Shops, Whitman also lived long enough to see his family's long fight for a $400-million expansion win approval by the Village Council last week.
Whitman died Wednesday morning at his Miami Shores home, the same three-bedroom house he built in 1949. He was 98.
"He was the Walt Disney of the shopping center industry," said his longtime marketing director and friend Cheryl Stephenson. "He saw this salty parcel of 16 acres of land and envisioned magic and made it happen."
Whitman's powers of persuasion proved so infectious he managed to convince Stanley Marcus, the late colorful chief executive of Neiman Marcus, to open its first branch outside of Texas in 1971.
Whitman, one of the original 25 who, in 1946, pushed to incorporate what became the Village of Bal Harbour, believed so strongly in his concept for a high-end, open-air mall in steamy South Florida, he flouted convention. The Duke University graduate bought half of the land on the north side of 96th Street and Collins Avenue for $500,000 from developer Robert C. Graham in 1956. A year later, when Graham, who envisioned a mixed-use property on the site, opted not to partner with Whitman, he spent another $750,000 to secure the rest of the land.
Whitman's mother Leona and Dorothy, his late wife, believed in him. Everyone else, not so much.
So Whitman, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, took to the road, armed primarily with charm, a fierce competitiveness and some know-how. Whitman was in the last graduating class at Ida M. Fisher High School in South Beach in 1936 before the school relocated to the north and became Miami Beach Senior High. His family, which included his late brothers William and Dudley, owned retail space on Lincoln Road Mall.
He had made money flipping oceanfront properties along Miami-Dade's coastline. And he saw a void as luxury retailers such as Saks and Bonwits fled Lincoln Road.
On the road, Whitman visited luxury retailers from New York to Los Angeles. When the execs wouldn't see him, he hung out in lobbies, figuring if he could corner them, he could make his case.
"It was nothing to go and spend a half a day waiting for a big shot to come out," Whitman told the Miami Herald in 2013. "I was about as welcome as a skunk at a picnic. I got thrown out of more stores than anyone that ever lived."
Whitman, who grew up in a single-family home on the ocean at 32nd Street and Collins Avenue (future site of today's Faena Hotel), was unfazed.
It took the Evanston, Illinois-born Whitman several years to line up tenants, secure financing and build his $3.5-million project. He'd spent too much for that L-shaped plot of land — $2 a foot, at the time a record price for retail property. He fired the first two architects who advocated for an enclosed, air-conditioned mall. He ultimately hired the Miami firm Herbert Johnson.
Finally, in 1965, Bal Harbour Shops opened with tenants including the toy store FAO Schwarz, the men's clothier Maus & Hoffman and Abercrombie & Fitch. Neiman Marcus opened in 1971 and Saks Fifth Avenue in 1976.
"I broke all the shopping center rules. What I did not break was Economics 101. I was the first to charge for parking," Whitman told Women's Wear Daily in 2015. He didn't want employees or nearby hotel clerks to take up parking.
He put palm trees in the parking lots. He tapped a University of Miami expert in wind patterns so architects would design the mall to capture sea breezes.
The mall's mix today includes restaurants, luxury clothing retailers and specialty stores. As a philanthropist, he's opened the Shops to fund-raising events for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Buoniconti Fund and the University of Miami's Project: New Born.
"I'm very saddened at his loss but I was really very fortunate to have gotten to know him and to understand what kind of generous, open, creative person he really was," said Books & Books founder Mitchell Kaplan, who opened a branch at the mall more than 10 years ago. "We forged a friendship. He was a visionary in many ways. He understood the importance of books and community-oriented book stores and he made it possible for us to be there."
As the 450,000-square-foot mall approached its 50th anniversary in 2015, it smashed a record with sales of nearly $2,730 per square foot — some six times the national average. By then, in his mid-90s, Whitman, who ceded control of the mall to his son, Randall Alan Whitman, and grandson Mathew William Lazenby, still maintained an advisory role. He was a constant presence at at his office, three to five days a week.
His final years were marked by the family's battle to expand the mall. Some Bal Harbour residents fought the expansion, especially after the Church by the Sea, a 1940s structure, was sold to the Shops and torn down to make way for the revamped mall. Saks, too, opposes the expansion, arguing the retooled mall will rely too heavily on valet parking.
Whitman was still feisty at the end, but recognized his heirs would be the ones in charge.
"They're going to live with the expansion, not me," Whitman said in 2013. "I'll be very happy if I live to see it. I don't think a 94-year-old man has any business trying to control a business from beyond the grave."
Whitman's survivors also include his daughter Gwen Whitman Lazenby, grandchildren Lori Lazenby Faison, Riley Stanley Whitman and Katie Dorothy Ann Whitman, and four great-grandsons. A memorial service is being planned.
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Wow, what has happened since the last time I wrote?
Dear Sammy
You have turned 4 months old! And you're growing so fast!
The past few weeks have seen significant developmental milestones in you.
Firstly, you discovered that you have hands and feet! Ok, this sounds too basic to be something worth exclaiming over, but it was incredible!
Previously, you would move your limbs but never actually looked at them. One day however, you just started staring at your hands and moved them simultaneously. When you realized that you had motor control over what you were seeing, you had such a look of amazement and awe written all over your face! :)
Daddy was the first to witness that! He said that he had tears in his eyes when he saw you actively studying your moving arms and legs! It's like your little brain was making all this neural connections of your growing process!
Secondly, you're discovering you have a voice! You used to coo every now and then, but now you're almost singing!
Mummy tried to capture your lovely voice on video but you get distracted with the light from the iPhone whenever the video function is on, so Mummy hasn't been very successful in capturing those moments when you decide to practise your vocal chords!
Thirdly, you're learning how to grab things these days.
And boy, are you strong! Mummy has to pay attention to her hair whenever she carries you cos it would only take you a second to grab it with your iron fist!
Talking about hair, ohhhh..... Mummy's dropping hair these days! Apparently its due to the hormonal change that takes place around 3-4 months after a baby's birth. Mummy's thankful to have a lot of hair to begin with, but she can't wait for her hair to stop dropping, cos its getting pretty unsettling.
You don't seem to enjoy grabbing your toys though. Whenever Mummy tries to make you grab your toys on your bouncer, you would withdraw your hand like you were afraid of them. But when you think that nobody is watching, you would sometimes touch those toys with your fingers.
You seem to enjoy grabbing pole-like objects like the railing on your bed. That's quite cute to realize that you're developing your own preference for what you prefer holding.
Fourthly, you're really developing your own personality!
Previously your cries were easily separated into the normal, fussing cries to the escalating "I-wanna-be-carried-now" cries. The latter cries would take a long time to build up and usually happened when Mummy was busy in the kitchen or just unable to tend to you.
Now, you seem to have developed a 3rd type of cry which shouts "Oh man! Why isn't anybody attending to me cry", which can happen almost immediately. Its like there's this switch in your brain that gets turned on once you decide that you want to be picked up.
We try not to pick you up immediately whenever you cry, cos we want you to learn how to wait and to be patient. So whenever we do that, you tend to emit your 3rd type of cry, during which Daddy and I would look at each other and say, "Oh boy, that's new!"
Having said that, you are breaking out into such easy smiles these days!
Gone are the days when you would breastfeed with no distraction whatsoever. Now, you can even just take a sip from the boob, release it, look at Mummy in the eye and give me the widest grin ever before continuing on your feed.
I must say that I LOVE those smiles! Cos you seem to tell me, "Hey Mum, I love you! And I love you enough to stop drinking my milk just to tell you that I love you".
Ok, maybe I'm just reading in between the lines, but honestly why else would you give me those smiles by stopping your feed? :) So yeah! Continue giving me those smiles baby!
Alrighty, when I'm in a rush to get you to finish your feed, I do get a bit impatient with those smiles, but in general I absolutely adore them!
You're a true-blue extrovert! Over Christmas when we have visitors over, Aunt Bel and Uncle Kian as well as Aunt Sabrina, you simply enjoyed being with all the adults!
On the evening when we were spending time with Aunt Sabrina before she flew back to Australia the next day, you actually stayed up (wayyy past your bedtime) just so that you could spend time with Aunt Sabrina before she left!
You're such a true sport! You seem to realize when the days are special (like over Christmas) and when we were at your grandparents' place. You can sense the excitement in the air and just enjoy going out / hanging out with Daddy and Mummy.
Sleepwise, you're still doing great! Over the holidays, Mummy allowed you to sleep on her bed cos it was just oh-so-cosy when the whole family is on the same bed together.
Mummy thought you would continue to be the lovely baby who sleeps 8-hr stretches. But.....
You seem to have realized that you're on our bed and you woke up in the middle of the night! Or maybe you were just loud enough / moving around enough in the bed to wake Mummy up.
But its all fine, cos we still really enjoyed having you with us.
Oh and we are finally going to bring you with us to Singapore come January 2012!!! It will be your first Chinese New Year and you will get to meet your family and friends in Singapore! Mummy is so excited because so many people are so eager to meet you and get to know you personally. We try not to think about the 7-hr jet lag from the flight yet, but I'm almost 100% confident that you will adjust to the new time much faster than your Daddy and Mummy!
We love you sweetie and look forward to more memorable days with you in this new year 2012! May you continue to grow strong in the Lord!
Mummy & Daddy
And now that I've run out of things to say, I shall bombard my readers with an overdose of Sammy pictures!
You're getting so heavy that Mummy has to find new ways to carry you!
You little man who always want to be where the action is
How can one resist that cutsie face of his?
Yeah, your Daddy is truly your hero!
You in your Santa costume being held by Aunt Bel and Uncle Kian
That's your typical look whenever Mummy has to wrap you up for the cold weather outside
That's you hogging the table whenever Daddy and Mummy want to eat


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It's been a long time since Deadbird's last outing, but this latest full-length shows they haven't lost any of their powerful intensity or fearless delivery.
|It's been a while since I heard anything of Deadbird. Honestly, I figured they'd just disbanded or slipped into some form of Doomy narcosis, so I was delighted when their latest release landed in my mailbox. It's been eight years since they last released something, and I was a fan of their debut album 'The Head And The Heart' so I was curious to see what they'd offer on 'III: The Forest Within The Tree'.
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I love the way that the band displays such powerful anguish in their music via crashing cymbals, layered vocals, and fuzzy riffs. It aids Deadbird in creating an incredibly intense audio experience, and it's one that I've enjoyed a lot. Whether it's the slower, plodding bass sections, the odd acoustic piece, or their Sludge/Doom onslaught, my view is that Deadbird have produced something that is quite excellent to listen to. I'm finding it hard to list anything that I dislike about the album, which is very well presented in a colourful digipack. Aside from the odd typo, my sole critique would be that I wanted more than 39 minutes of music but I daresay that relates more to my insatiable lust for good Doom rather than it being the band's shortcoming!
Overall, I think that this is a truly excellent release that any Sludge/Doom fan would really enjoy because it contains all the necessary elements for a good album in this sub-genre with more on top of. The band has stuck to their roots but somehow improved upon what was already some very impressive Sludge/Doom in their back catalogue via additional sadness and anguish both rolled into one meaty mouthful of music. Hopefully this band will continue to put our more excellent releases, although I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be just a tad sooner next time around!
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The first draft of my sermon this week was originally nearly an hour long. Though some people would be willing to sit through that, I'm not sure the nursery workers would be my best friend! Below are the two sections I cut to help trim some of the fat from the sermon.
Mansions of Glory – John 14:2
In 1864, William Featherstone penned the words to the hymn "My Jesus, I Love Thee." One of the more infamous lines reads:
In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I'll ever adore thee in heaven so bright
The idea that we will all have a "mansion" in Heaven has floated around long before the hymn. Some Bible translations, notably the KJV, read in John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions" (emphasis mine). The translation of "mansions" has a weird history.
It was first used in the Latin translation of the Bible called the Vulgate (written by Jerome around 400 AD). Here's the line from John 14:2:
John 14:2 in domo Patris mei mansiones multae sunt si quo minus dixissem vobis quia vado parare vobis locum
I don't know Latin, but you can clearly see the term "mansions" there. About a thousand years after Jerome wrote the Vulgate, a guy named William Tyndale translated the Bible into English. But even though he used some Greek manuscripts available to him, out of influence of the Vulgate he brought the word "mansions" over from the Latin. Here is Tyndale's translation, in old English:
John 14:2 In my fathers housse are many mansions. If it were not so I wolde have tolde you. I go to prepare a place for you.
In Latin, the word "mansiones" didn't refer to a huge house, like we would think of a mansion today, but it referred to a stopover place, a place you'd visit briefly on a journey.
What many don't realize is, when the KJV translation was written, over 80% of it was borrowed word for word from Tyndale's version. Can you guess what the KJV says in John 14:2?
John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
From here, the word stuck. The influence of the KJV can hardly be overemphasized. The idea of mansions in Heaven entered our hymns and our common thoughts.
But is it the best translation of the Greek?
This is where the sermon picks the conversation back up. In the sermon, I briefly explained that the Greek word for "mansions" is better translated "rooms." The term doesn't refer to a giant house, but to a room, or apartment, that was part of an existing larger structure. The picture is not one of Jesus building a whole bunch of different homes, but more similar to the way Jews would add an addition to their home to accommodate a newly-married son.
In the words of Audio Adrenaline, "It's a big, big house, with lots and lots of room!"
Believe and Believe – John 14:1
The ESV translates John 14:1 – "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me." There are three verbs in this verse. The translation of the first one is agreed upon by nearly all translators, as reflected in the first sentence in this verse. But the next two verbs – "believe" and "believe" – can yield four main possible translations.
In Greek, the verbal form used here for "believe" can be either an imperative (a command) or an indicative (the mood that describes something that is, as opposed to describing something that may or will be). The form is exactly the same for both imperative and indicative. This gives us four possible translations of Jesus' statement:
#1: Indicative + Indicative = "You believe in God; you also believe in me."
#2: Indicative + Imperative = "You believe in God; believe also in me."
#3: Imperative + Indicative = "Believe in God; you also believe in me."
#4: Imperative + Imperative = "Believe in God; believe also in me."
The decision must ultimately be based on the context of the passage. Since the thrust of Jesus' conversation with the disciples in John 14 focuses on His relationship with the Father and how they need to believe in Jesus (see especially 14:11), almost certainly the last verb of the phrase should be an imperative. This eliminates options #1 and #3.
#2 and #4 are very difficult to decide between. KJV leans towards option #2, ESV towards option #4. Option #2 may be a bit better, mainly because it would be hard to argue that the disciples didn't believe in God. However, this may be precisely Jesus' point in this passage, since He is arguing that they must believe in Jesus in order to believe in God!
Do you see the difficulty now?
(To make matters worse, the first phrase can also be translated as a question: "Do you believe in God?")
Perhaps the ambiguity with the first "believe" is purposeful. We are meant to ponder the difference in verbal mood because it serves to strengthen the point Jesus is making. Belief in Jesus is belief in God. You cannot have one without the other (14:6-7).


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Is there a way to copy my droplet so I can boot into it from vagrant?
I use Vagrant for local development before pushing to a heroku dyno currently - they good thing about this is that my vagrant vm is setup very similar to standard heroku dyno's
Is there a way to do this with OD? Preferably, I'd like to be able to setup a droplet for RoR how I like, then save it and use it locally in VM in vagrant for testing, before pushing to droplet


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Secondary Schooling and the Education Revolution
Secondary Schooling and the Education Revolution: looking for means towards the end?
Perspectives vol 2
Secondary schooling and the education revolution: Looking for means towards the end? by Professor Jack Keating, argues that a genuine education revolution cannot be achieved without structural reform of schooling in Australia.
Jack Keating asks just what the legacy of the Rudd Government's 'education revolution' will be. He concludes that structural reforms are needed and the central to these reforms is secondary schooling.
'The current structural arrangements are locked in to such an extent,' he states, 'that a systematic set of initiatives is needed across curriculum and qualifications, schools as delivery systems, and pathways systems.' Central to Keating's argument is his view that a real revolution lies in fundamental changes to the relationships across Federal and State governments, the government and non-government sectors, and the schools and tertiary education sectors.
Keating argues that fuller consideration of such structural issues is critical in overcoming the downside of experiments in the market liberalisation of schooling, which international evidence suggests has led to greater inequity.
Eric Sidoti, Director of the Whitlam Institute, sees Keating's essay as taking the debate around the future of schooling to a new level:
"Keating dramatically moves the debate beyond teacher, computers and school halls to challenge us all to re-cast the environment in which teachers and schools operate. That opens the door to changes in the federal settlement around schooling, school funding and the need to move further beyond senior schooling being an elaborate university selection system. Now, that strikes me as having the potential to be truly revolutionary."


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Across the nation "affordability" is still challenging buyers, especially in the detached bungalow market. Vancouver leads the pack with 82.3% of typical household income going to housing costs. Toronto is estimated at 53.8% while Calgary is seen as one of the most affordable cities in the county.
Overall sales and building starts have dropped, however prices remained consistent, with even some marginal increases.
Flaherty has announced is appreciation for the slow down, while CAAMP is projecting a drop of 150,000 direct and indirect construction related jobs by 2015.
And as of June 3, 2013 we have a new Governor of the Bank of Canada. Replacing Mark Carney, Stephen Poloz has inherited an economy of local uncertainty, but global strength.
More highlights from May's headlines:
• CMHC: Work started on about 174,900 homes at a seasonally adjusted annual pace in April, down 3.5% from March. Economists forecast a reading of 175,000 according to the median of 25 responses to a Bloomberg News survey. 31% below the year-ago pace • Finance Minister Jim Flaherty welcomes the slowdown of condominium construction in Toronto and Vancouver after signs of overbuilding there. He notes no need for further government intervention • Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced the new governor of the Bank of Canada would go to Stephen Poloz, an economist and head of the Export Development Canada, the Ottawa-based export credit agency. A surprise, but it should not have come as a shock. • CMHC: Multiple-unit housing starts in urban areas fell 3.5% in April to a pace of 93,500, a decline of 42% from the same month a year earlier. Single-unit work fell 0.9% to 60,100 units, down 16% from the year-ago month. • Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions: Considering new rules that would limit banks from issuing any mortgages at all with amortizations of more than 25 years. • Most mortgage holders said they expect to repay their loan 3.4 years earlier than the 25-year amortization period. • The costs of owning a detached bungalow in Vancouver take up 82.3 percent of a typical household's income, up 0.1 percentage points from the previous quarter. In Toronto, the largest city in Canada, that figure is 53.8 percent, up 0.8 points, according to a housing affordability report for the first quarter produced by Canada's largest lender. • Since then, home resale activity has fallen 8.3% and housing starts by 15%. They are likely to fall further, the report says. • CAAMP: predicts that by mid-2015, national home construction will fall to about 150,000 units annually, or about 25-30% less than the 205,000 average for 2011-2012. That will result in about 150,000 fewer construction and indirect jobs, such as in the real estate sector and support industries. • Across Canada, the costs of owning a standard two-story home take up 48 percent of a typical household's monthly pretax income, while condominiums eat up 28.1 percent, according to the index. Both figures are unchanged from the previous quarter. • RBC: Exceptionally low mortgage rates have been the chief factor in keeping homeownership costs relatively affordable. • Since that most recent change, home resale activity has fallen 8.3 per cent and housing starts by 15 per cent across the country. They are likely to fall further, the report says.
• CAAMP: Vancouver — the other municipality known for its hot housing market — starts are expected to fall by a third to about 13,000, resulting in a loss of about 7,500 jobs. • Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver: This April's sales were the lowest April total since 2001 and 20.9 per cent below the 10-year sales average for the month. • There were 2,627 home sales in Vancouver in April, a decrease of 6.1 per cent from last April and an increase of 11.9 per cent from March. • The home price index composite price in Greater Vancouver is now $597,300 for all property types, the board's numbers show. Although this is down 3.9 per cent from April 2011, it is up 1.6 per cent from this January. • Bob Rennie: Two markets will be downsizing, aging baby boomers on the one hand and their first-time-homebuyer kids and grandkids on the other hand. But in both cases, the purchases will be financed by the baby boomers, who will be selling their fully-paid-for single-family homes. • Colliers International: reported a 45-per-cent drop in sales of new multi-family homes in Metro Vancouver for the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year.' • In Vancouver, the slowdown could mean the loss of 7,500 construction-related jobs and a 30-per-cent drop in housing starts from 2011 to about 13,000 a year, said the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals chief economist Will Dunning.
• RBC Economics Research: Calgary's housing market renaissance has not been a steady process, as the overall improving trend in resale activity was inconsistent last year. • Calgary remains one of the more affordable housing markets in Canada • The RBC measures for Calgary in the first quarter of 2013 were: Bungalows: 38.7 per cent (up 0.8 points) - Two-storey homes: 38.8 (up 0.4) - Condominiums: 22.9 (up 0.8)
• CAAMP: In the Toronto area starts expected to drop 50% to about 22,000, leading to a loss of about 35,000 jobs. • Toronto Real Estate Board: numbers show listings were actually up as of mid-April by about 15 per cent with 8,770 new properties for sale across the GTA compared to 7,580 a year earlier • Sales of homes across the GTA slipped by 2.1 per cent in April, but prices were up 2 per cent, as the usually hot spring market suffered through another wet, cold month. • Sales plummeted by 55 per cent in the first three months of 2013 over the same period last year, as developers held back new project launches and took a wait-and-see approach in the face of a softening market and climbing inventory of condos for sale. • A total of 2,728 new units were sold up to the end of March, down 29 per cent just from the final three months of 2012. Totaling less than half the 6,070 units sold in the first quarter of 2012 when the condo market was starting to come down from a record year of sales — 28,190 units — in 2011. • House sales were down almost 10 per cent in the first half of May, but prices climbed by one of their highest levels in months — a 5.4 per cent gain driven largely by sales of detached homes. • While sales were down 13 per cent across the GTA, and the inventory of units for sale remains above historic norms, prices were up 1.1 per cent overall across the GTA — 2.1 per cent in the city. • Toronto Real Estate Board: Sales of all housing types took the biggest tumble in the City of Toronto where they slumped by 11.4 per cent year over year, fuelled largely by a 21.3 per cent drop in townhouse sales and a 13.6 per cent in condo sales, according to mid-May sales and price figures released.


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How to Deal with Broken Branches on a Bradford Pear Tree
A large limb has ripped off my Bradford pear tree, leaving a huge gash in the trunk. What should I do? -Carmen
Once a tree splits and damages the main trunk, it can be very difficult to heal. And unfortunately, because of their growth habits, Bradford pears are notorious for splitting in two.
Bradford pears grow extremely fast, and they tend to put out lots of nearly vertical branches that come off the tree at narrow angles. These types of branches are much less stable than branches with wide angles; and when they fall, they split and take a huge piece of trunk with them. Even though a Bradford pear should live for 30 or more years, the tendency to split reduces their span to more like 15 years.
If your tree has already split, there isn't a whole lot you can do. Many people decide to cut the whole tree down at this point. If the wound isn't too severe, or if more than half of the tree is OK, you can wait to see if the tree will recover.
Skip the tree wound treatment, and instead use a sharp saw to try to get a clean cut and to remove any dead wood, so that the tree can callus over on its own. Don't top the tree; instead thin out branches to reduce the strain.
Check out our article on Dealing With Storm Damage To Trees and How To Trim Large Tree Branches for help.
Prune Branches to Prevent Splitting
A good pruning can help prolong the life of a Bradford pear tree. While the main pruning is best done when the tree is young, it's never too late to try to save your tree. Bradford pears should be pruned to have a strong, central leader trunk; and well-spaced, widely angled branches of 45 degrees or more.
When pruning Bradford pear trees:
- Remove sucker limbs.
- Thin out rubbing or closely-spaced branches.
- Remove branches growing vertically against the trunk.
Because branch weight contributes to splitting, avoid topping or heading back these trees, since topping results in a flush of growth at the cut site that will make the branch that much heavier. Instead, thin out unwanted branches to open up the shape.
Your first pruning might be a doozy, but the tree will live longer if it's balanced and not too top-heavy.
Further Information
- How To Trim Large Tree Branches (article)
- Treating Cut Limbs With Wound Paint (article)
- Dealing With Storm Damage to Trees (article)
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Dee Says:
March 18th, 2018 at 12:38 pm
In a recent storm my purple plum tree was damaged a large limb broke off and caused substantial damage to the trunk it seems like the back part of the tree where it branches out broke off plus these part of the main trunk will this heal itself do we seal it with spray or just leave it and let it run its course and see if it survives .
MJ Gonzalez Says:
October 25th, 2016 at 11:26 pm
Great article here. Thanks for sharing!
Jacqui Alexander Says:
June 18th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
My 13 1/2 yr Bradford Pear broke a giant branch off during a tornado. That had a lot of little limbs. Sometime with the last few days another giant branch with alot of little limbs broke off. I have a BIG hole right in the middle of the tree. It was a gorgeous tree before that. It was fertilized, not overwatered but healthy. It was hard to water under it due to the lower limbs so I didn't water it as much as another one that is in the back but isn't anywhere near the size of this one and they're both the same age. I'm now deep watering with a root feeder and I give it 12-mo slow feeding and insect protection by Bayer Advanced. That alone cost $20 since it had a girth of 39″ and you feed it according to the size of the trunk. How on earth do I get this hole to grow back some branches so it doesn't look funny. It's like the whole front end that shows to the house is gone but the part we can't see facing the neighbor's house isn't. I know you said it wouldn't do much good to heal the wound but aside from sawing it off (it must weigh somewhere around 150-200 lbs.) I have pictures I took with the Digital Camera of what it looks like if you want to see. What I don't understand is why the second huge branch just broke off? There wasn't a wind storm or big rain storm within the last few days. It's made it through some really major wind storms without losing limbs until the tornado. That one was to be expected but this other I don't know. I did see some little red ants climbing on it but I don't think they're carpenter ants from the photos I saw. Those ants had got into my apricot tree and did damage, I saw queens and kings but this tree I didn't see any of that. I protect all my trees with Bayer Advanced products, especially the fruit trees. It would be a shame to cut it down after all these years plus I would have wasted all that money from the Bayer Advanced products, Superthrive I just started giving it, and deep watering.
The Oak trees have drought problems but this guy made it through just fine. It's the Oak Trees that I bought the Ross deep watering tool for. I can't reach the tree limbs that are dead that need to be cut off. They're just falling off. I regular water my trees every week. This one I didn't because it was getting enough water on its own. It was stunning before this happened.
Shirley Wainman Says:
June 6th, 2012 at 6:07 am
We had have a Bradford pear tree that the whole top broke off during an October smow storm. A tree cutter told my hasband that if he cuts a few inches off the top of the trunk, it will grow back. That's hard to believe. There are sucklins growing out the side. Will the ever become a tree again?
Thanks in advance.
mark tatum Says:
April 5th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
my green giants turned brown with last years heat and dry, they are still flexable and smell good .no new growth, are they dead ? they are about six years old
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THE DILL is a rock 'n' roller taking his time.
Over the past 20 years, Dylan "The Dill" Hudecki has co-founded the post-rock duo Junior Blue with Broken Social Scene drummer Justin Peroff; toured the world with Toronto power-pop perennials By Divine Right; fronted the Hamilton Music Award-winning band Cowlick; and played bass for High Kites. He's scored films and commercials, remixed songs, and recently made piano- and synth-based ambient music as Awesollator. Oh, and he's also managed to hold down a day job as a school teacher while raising three kids.
Now, he's finally made his first solo record—and to say it's been a long time coming would be a gross understatement. On the surface, Greetings From may appear to be a typical 12-song solo singer/songwriter effort—but it's actually the greatest-hits distillation of an unprecedented recording and visual-art project that stretches back nearly two decades. Since 2000, The Dill has been stockpiling songs that drew from personal experience, but were brought to life through communal improvisation. With a little help from his many friends—ranging from the unsung heroes in his hometown of Hamilton to some of the biggest names in Canadian indie-rock—The Dill had, by 2016, amassed a total of 52 songs, which he debuted online one at a time on a weekly basis over the course of that year. As for a physical release, well, that could only take one possible form—as a deck of playing cards, of course, with each of the 52 tracks represented by an original, thematic image created specially for the project by cast of 45 Canadian visual artists. "It's my magnum opus," says The Dill of his 52-storey tower of song. "It was a giant snowball I rolled down the hill with lots of my friends."
But now, that giant snowball is getting chiseled down into tidy, ice-cube-tray portions. Released on the new Elora, Ontario-based label, "Dead Radio, Love" (from the same folks who put on the annual Elora Riverfest), Greetings From selects 12 highlights from the playing-card project for a traditional release on vinyl. But even in condensed form, Greetings From covers vast musical terrain, from the cosmic, Air-style soft rock of "1000 Days" to the brassy, hand-clapped soul of "Emotional Guarantee" to the bossa-nova sway of "Our Favourite Song." And the guest list here reads like the nominee roll call at a Polaris Music Prize gala: Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene massages the banjo-plucked foot-stomper "Did I Drop the Ball or Miss the Boat" with warm Wurlitzer tones; Born Ruffians' Luke Lalonde contributes ghostly backing vocals to the drifting acoustic reverie "I Can't Read Your Mind (But I Can Daydream)"; and Sarah Harmer plays the June to The Dill's Johnny over the fuzzy twang of "I Love You in Kenora." And true to the project's collaborative spirit, The Dill cedes the spotlight on "Stop Time" to Arkells' Max Kerman, who sashays through this '50s-inspired doo-wop ballad like some bygone matinee idol.
But for all the playful eclecticism in effect here, the songs on Greetings From are united by The Dill's wry, sobering observations on navigating life's great disappointments. And as this whole experience has shown him, good things do come to those who wait.
"It's been a labour of love," The Dill says. "As fate would have it, it was a 16-year labour, so this baby is coming out an adolescent already."


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A kerbside lane is being trialled on Victoria Street between Vivian and Abel Smith streets
The transformation project includes better public infrastructure for an initial 2500 apartments, 600 of which have already been approved, and the planned new WelTec Whitireia downtown campus – and another section of Wellington City Council's recently approved Cycling Framework.
The new cycle lane – which includes a short kerbside section – begins in Dixon Street and connects with the shared cycle and walking path in Karo Drive and through Pukeahu National War Memorial Park.
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the Council is committed to improving cycling infrastructure.
"Modern progressive cities around the world make it easier and safer to cycle. The new Victoria Street section of Wellington's cycling network demonstrates our commitment to the 76 percent of residents who say they would cycle more if they felt it were safer to do so.
The cycle lane will be monitored to see how well it works and the Mayor says improvements will be made if they are needed.
She says the new cycle traffic lights, which allow cyclists to start ahead of traffic at Abel Smith Street, are a welcome addition.
The Council will monitor the cycle lane and work with the New Zealand Transport Agency and the Memorial Park Alliance, which built the transformed area, to ensure the safety of people on foot, on bikes, on buses and in cars.
To reduce potential road-user conflicts, signs and pavement markings have been introduced to help people adjust to the new street layout.
Cycle Aware Wellington Chair James Burgess says Victoria Street is a busy road, and cycle lanes – especially the protected part – should make it safer and more comfortable to ride along.
"We're interested to see the outcome of the bus stop design trial, and whether it works as well for pedestrians, bus passengers and cyclists as other design options available."
Councillor Andy Foster, Chair of Council's Transport and Urban Development Committee, says the Cycling Framework provides clarity in our delivery of a cycling network for the city which focuses on giving residents more choice of how to get around the city.
"As we build the city's new cycling network, we will be focused on road-user safety. Seeing how this short stretch works will help us in ongoing, safe implementation.
"The bus stop design on the section of kerbside lane between Vivian and Abel Smith streets is different to the proposed design of bus stop bypasses in the Island Bay cycleway.
"I've been using the new cycle lane almost daily, I think we can learn from it and continually improve as we roll out the cycling network. I will be very interested in the outcome of our monitoring activities but I think it is great that the Victoria Street re-development does recognise Councillors strong desire to provide for the continually increasing number of cyclists on our streets."
The Victoria Street cycle facilities are already in use apart from the kerbside section between Vivian and Abel Smith streets which is expected to be open from 3pm today. The final work and opening of this section was delayed due to earthquake-strengthening on an adjacent building. This building upgrade work is continuing and is likely to involve further off-peak lane closures.
The Victoria Street project – including the new southbound cycle lane, paved park areas and wider, tree-lined footpaths – will be blessed and officially opened this Friday 7 August at 12.15pm in the new Te Niho Park at the intersection of Vivian and Victoria streets.
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