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Hello, and welcome back to this week's mini monster marathon. Today's monster is in celebration of that most atrocious of creations, the turducken, but this one is undead and can explode into its components to wreak further havoc.
I hope you enjoy the murducken. I'll wrap things up tomorrow with an actual Friday monster. Happy Thanksgiving! I am truly thankful for my readers.
This denuded turkey oozes rotting flesh. Its herky-jerky movements belie its speed and adroitness.
Murducken CR 5
NE Small undead
Init +8; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +5
AC 19, touch 15, flat-footed 15 (+4 Dex, +4 natural, +1 size)
hp 52 (7d8+21)
Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +6
DR 5/good or piercing; Immune fire, undead traits; Resist electricity 10
Speed 30 ft., fly 20 ft. (clumsy)
Melee 2 slams +10 (1d6+3 plus ghoul fever and grab)
Special Attacks bursting split
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 7th; concentration +10)
1/day—grease (centered on murducken only)
Str 17, Dex 19, Con —, Int 3, Wis 12, Cha 16
Base Atk +5; CMB +7 (+11 grapple); CMD 21
Feats Improved Initiative, OutflankAPG, Precise StrikeAPG, Weapon Focus (slam)
Skills Acrobatics +10, Disguise +7, Escape Artist +14, Fly +2, Perception +5; Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics, +8 Escape Artist
Environment any land
Organization solitary, pair, or feast of death (3–6)
Treasure incidental
Bursting Split (Ex) Once per day as a standard action, a murducken can burst into its necromantic poultry components with an attendant spray of gore and bones. All creatures within 20 feet of the murducken must attempt a DC 16 Reflex save. On a failed save, a victim takes 4d6 points of piercing and slashing damage, is nauseated for 1d4 rounds (and sickened for an additional 1d6 minutes afterwards), and subject to the murducken's ghoul fever. On a successful save, a victim takes half damage and is sickened for 1d6 rounds.
This ability replaces the murducken with three component creatures. A component creature is the same as the base murducken but has half its hit points and takes a –2 penalty on attack and damage rolls, saving throws, ability checks, and skill checks.
Disease (Su) Ghoul Fever: Slam—injury; save DC 16; onset 1 day; frequency 1/day; effect 1d4 Con and 1d4 Dex damage; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Charisma-based. A humanoid who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight, while a humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast. An animal or magical beast with 4 or more Hit Dice rises as a murducken. A creature who returns as an undead creature in this way is independent of other undead creatures and retains none of the abilities it possessed in life.
Grease (Sp) A murducken is immune to its own grease spell-like ability and can move through greased squares without penalty. This immunity does not apply to other castings of grease.
Terrifying abominations created from terrifying abominations, murduckens are ghastly creations seeking to spread disease and directly destroy the living. The duplicitous creatures look like ordinary turkeys filled with duck and chicken meat, but their lack of intellect and impatience usually lead to them blowing their disguise before they can fool potential victims. In ghoul enclaves, murduckens are created and hunted as part of a horrifying unholy day, where powerful murduckens usually lay waste to dozens of ghouls before being wrestled down and devoured.
Murducken Creation
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lay the boned chicken skin-side down on a platter and season liberally with salt, pepper, Creole seasoning, and pureed ghoul flesh. Lay the boned duck skin-side down on top of the chicken and season liberally with salt, pepper, Creole seasoning, and pureed ghoul flesh. Cover and refrigerate.
- Lay the boned turkey skin-side down on a flat surface. Cover with a layer of cold Flesh and Oyster Dressing and push the dressing into the leg and wing cavities so they will look as if they still have bones in them.
- Lay the duck on top of the turkey skin-side down and cover it with a layer of unnaturally cold dressing. Lay the chicken on top of the duck skin-side down and cover it with a layer of unnaturally cold dressing.
- With the help of an assistant, bring the edges of the turkey skin up and fasten them together with toothpicks. Add the bones back to the unholy mass of flesh. Use kitchen string to lace around the toothpicks to help hold the stuffed turkey together. Carefully place the murducken, breast up in a large roasting pan.
- Roast covered for 4 hours or until the murducken is golden brown. Continue to roast uncovered for 1 hour or until a meat thermometer inserted through the thigh registers 180 degrees F. and a thermometer inserted through the stuffing registers 165 degrees F. Check the murducken every few hours to baste and remove excess liquid. There will be enough pan juices for a gallon of gravy.
- Cast animate dead and enjoy!
(Base recipe courtesy of http://allrecipes.com/recipe/13874/turducken/)


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It's great to see one of the media heavyweights involved in promoting the need for folks to join!
Sunday, 2 August 2009
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Hope it all helps the cause.....Vx
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OG Aristotle up in this blogpost trynna continue my analysis of ricky ross the boss. The kind people of Schooled of Athens let me write a pt. 2 cuz no one likes cliff hangers and not that this is a big surprise or anything but i prefer my pockets fat. jussto recap in the case ur lazyass is too lazy to click the back button and read another 300 word or-so post (seriously ive seen about 100 generations and u millenials or the worst in terms of work ethic)… rick ross thinks hes magnificent cuz he spends his paper on things he really doesnt need and i think that he isnt magnificent for the exact same reason. aight now that we got that outta the way lets get busy and talk about what it means to be a human being which we will then connect with the idea of means (maybe in pt 3?) which we will finally connect back to the idea of what it means to be magnificent and decide once and for all if rick ross is in fact magnificent. its a process yo deal with it. lets go
step one: who is a human being
if ur reading this then congratulations ur a human being. if u look outside ur window and see the neighbor mowin his lawn then congratulations thats a human being. if ur fightin with ur homie cuz he jus cheated on your girl then congratulations ur homie is a human being…no less a decent one. everyone u see walkin and talkin and bickerin and fightin is a human being the same way that the person at the traphouse sellin bags of weed is a drug dealer…but…if the drug dealer starts to sell bags of pizza herbs every time he breaks the ten crack commandments (#4) then is he still a drug dealer? i guess you could say he is a drug dealer since hes still sellin drugs at least some of the time but he forsure isnt actin fully as a drug dealer…that is…because he sometimes dosent sell drugs and breaks away from the duties of his job then he isnt fulfilling 100% of his total drug dealin capabilities yafeelme. he just a half-ass drug dealer. same thing with human beings. to be a full human being we gotta use our full capabilities. we gotta let the love flow thru our viens but we also cant forget to use our heads at the same time. that' what keeps us in a different category from cats and dogs and giraffes and chimpanzees and rick ross and drake. animals can only use their emotions, they juswanna drink eat and reproduce until the sun goes down yafeelme. humans can rise above this. they can eat drink and reproduce too but they also can use their brains to make rational decisions like coppin a jacket when it snows out instead of payin for a new Kanye West mixtape that you can just stream for free. so if u a human being who only uses ur emotions then you kinda like that drug dealer who has to sell bags of cilantro and parsley whenever he burns out his own supply. u still a human being yo you just not actin as a full human being cuz if it isnt clear at this point ur not using your brain and to be a full person, to actualize ur fullest human potenial u gotta be using ur brain cuz thats what makes u a human being in large part
so we should prob amend the original question a lil..instead of who is a human being we should ask..who is the most human being... and the answer, as this brief analysis has shown, is the person who feels and thinks at the same time
aight take a breather, listen to that new joey bada$$ album and make yourself a vegan omlet. Pt. 3 comin up which means more paper for me and more knowledge for you. once again its a win-win
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By Charles Olken Happy Bastille Day. If we were in Paris today, we would be standing ten deep along the Champs Elysee watching France celebrate its equivalent of July 4, Independence Day. And we would almost certainly be drinking wine made from a well-known, widely appreciated variety. No unheard of varieties for Parisians. They aren't drinking Ribolla Gialla or even Tannat. So, why are we in California chasing our tails trying to make everything under the sun and accepting, at least in part, the argument that our interests are limited, narrow-minded and front-running. Diversity? Who needs it? I am certainly not sure that I do, and so I offer you three views of diversity because they are at the heart of my own inner thoughts over this past weekend as I have looked at what varieties I want to drink and want CGCW to cover in the next six to twelve months. ARGUMENT # 1: The "Same Old, Same Old" is Boring This is the strongest argument in my kit bag for why CGCW might go in hunt of the limited supplies of Arneis, Vermentino, Verdelho, Torrontes, Nebbiolo, Trousseau Gris and Trousseau Noir (also known as Bastardo)—not to mention a whole host of other varieties that exist more or less in viticultural limbo here but which are not totally unheard of. California long ago became a place of Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Those varieties account for 45% of all wine grapes standing in California, fetch the highest prices in the marketplace and, if one looks at coastal vineyards, make up something like 70% of the total in those places best known for higher quality wines. And that is before we even begin to count Merlot, Zinfandel, Syrah and Sauvignon Blanc. I am not sure how to count sparkling wine as a category, but since the ones we like here at CGCW are primarily, if not entirely, made from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, we can pass on that topic for the moment.
Long ago, the ABC (Anything But Chardonnay) meme became widely heard because Chardonnay was everywhere, and its success was driving out other varieties thus effectively limiting our white wine choices to a precious few. The argument that the mass of Chardonnay was boring, too similar and stifling in its lack of choice is strong and persuasive. Yet, I will admit that I still drink more Chardonnay than any other white at home regardless of my listing Riesling as my favorite white variety. And since I tend to be a red-wine person, because I am "meat" person in restaurants, I tend most often to Cabernet Sauvignon and more recently to Pinot Noir because it offers so much more for the money these days than does Cabernet.
Increasingly, however, especially in restaurants, Mrs. Olken and I will choose something other than Chardonnay for our white, and often not something from California unless we see one of those limited edition Chenin Blancs or Gewurztraminers from favored producers. Those wines are few and far between for all of us, including yours truly, however, but their existence is at the heart of my weekend thoughts about diversity and the problem, such that it is, of California, and thus CGCW, becoming repetitive, boring and closed-minded.
ARGUMENT #2: There Are Reasons Why Chardonnay And Friends Are Winning
When so many of our good friends in the wine-drinking world are out there looking for and making limited quantities of Chenin Blanc, Torrontes, Tempranillo, Roussanne, it is not because they are necessarily looking angry at Chardonnay. They are adventurers and they like the discovery, the chase. Some of these folks even count the number of varieties they have tasted and secretly strive to reach triple digits, in part because of the thrill of the quest, but mostly because they enjoy all kinds of flavors and are happy to seek them out.
But there are reasons why the leading grapes have become the leading grapes and that is because their wines taste good. Cabernet Sauvignon would not boast 75,000 acres or Chardonnay nearly 100,000 if the wine drinkers in this country did not like them. It is not so long ago at a Ribolla Gialla tasting that two of the most broadly interested wine people I know, one a collector and the other a maker of wines so broad in scale and so out of the main stream that he has achieved iconic fame for that very trait, came up to Steve Eliot and myself and confessed that they are still Chardonnay drinkers.
I personally wish it were not so, but Chenin Blanc, Riesling and Gewurztraminer did not get chased out of vineyards because people loved them but because people loved Chardonnay more. And red wine grapes like Tannat, Grenache, Sangiovese, Nebbiolo, Tempranillo have barely gained footholds here because they have yet to challenge the majesty of our best Cabernets and Pinots, Zins, Merlots and Syrahs.
Diversity is a good thing, but wine quality is the thing. And as long as wine quality is the primary driver of interest in wine, the reasons why the big three are winning will keep those other varieties at bay even as all kinds of grapes hang around on the fringes. It matters not that the NY Times writes articles celebrating two acres of Bastardo as a sign of change in California or Decanter publishes articles proclaiming Grenache as the savior of California wine. The truth is that diversity is for the geeks, not for the mainstream.
ARGUMENT #3: Hurray For The Geeks And The Adventurers
I guess it all comes down to this. There is no denying that there is a part of us, all of us, who find fascination in difference. Yes, not all of us in all things. My father-in-law grew up on a farm in Kansas and never ate fish as a kid and rarely ate fish as an adult even though he later lived in England and Scotland for years. But, he did build his own experimental airplane.
It would be a boring world if we were all cut from the same mold, and it would be a boring wine world if we get stuck drinking half a dozen wine varieties at the expense of the next most interesting dozen or two dozen—or ten dozen if you are one of those in search of the 250 different varieties identified in Italian vineyards.
Perhaps I am not geeky enough to really care about orange wines or varieties in Greece I have never heard of, but that does not mean that they are to be dismissed out of hand. My new favorite grapes are Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio, blended together on the slopes of Mount Etna in the form of Etna Rosso. Go search out one from Benanti or Biondi Santi. But, my conclusion is that diversity for diversity's sake is not the be all and end all in my wine world. Hurray for those who search, strive, bring us the next big thing and the next big thing and the next big thing after that. They do things like invent polio vaccines and bring us grape varieties to consider.
Along the way, however, I would appreciate it if they would help me find more top-quality Chenin Blanc, Sangiovese, Riesling and Grenache here in California. I am not against diversity. I just want it to start with a few of my old friends that have been forgotten or never quite reached the same levels of quality here that they have achieved in the old country.
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Wow, Charlie....that was definitely NOT the article I was expecting to read....railing against the interest winemakers are showing for some of these alternate varieties. In your past posts, I felt like you were just giving lip service to the increasing diversity in Calif wines. But, from this post, not only can you talk the talk, you can walk the walk. Well done, Charlie.
Like I mentioned at RibollaFest several yrs ago, I'm not a member of the ABC coterie and I'm finding more & more to like in the current crop of Chards. I would say that I've probably had more Calif Chards in the last yr than I'd had over the previous 4-5 yrs. There's plenty out there to attract my interest.
Not sure I would view Cabernet/Chard/Pinot (and Zin/Syrah as well) as "winning" out over these alternate varieties. As you point out, it's because they can, consistently & reliably, make good/great wines throughout Calif. In the past, that capabliity as driven some grapes to disappear from the Calif wine scene.
As you well know, Charlie, I'm a big fan of these alternative varieties and delighting w/ the interest they're starting to attract in Calif. At the end of the day, when I go home to make dinner and cast about my house (you don't wanta know!!) for what to drink, it'll be a Ryme skin-contact Vermentino that I sieze, not the SequoiaGrove Cabernet. I know that the SequoiaGrove will be a better wine..but it's not (always) quality I'm seeking. I want something that will engage my mind. That's the burden I must carry for being a wine geek, I guess.
Both of us remember well the GreenHungarian of Sebastiani and Weibel. They were, quite frankly, not particularly good wines. GH is, for all intents & purposes, extinct in Calif. Driven out by the tons of good Chard produced back then.
But not all is lost. A single vine of GH from LibraryVnyd has been propagated into a planting over in the SuisunVlly and, in a few yrs, will once again be being produced in Calif. And my expectation is that it'll be a much more interesting GH than Gus or Fred ever made. You will get a btl.
It'll be the talk of the blogosphere by these young/hip bloggers. Two ole geezers, trippin' down memory lane, sittin' there in the nursing home, over a glass of GreenHungarian and their bowl of oatmeal!!!
Hat's off to your great post today, Charlie.
I love it when the new breed of drinkers chases after all the obscure varieties and places but swears off Chardonnay. It is reverse snobbism borne out of prejudice against the past.
I remember well when I was young enough to say "Don't trust anyone over thirty". Then I turned thirty.
Their thirst for diversity will moderate and they will accept the currently popular varieties. Ultimately they will move us all forward. For the moment, though, they could do worse than to listen to a couple of dinosaurs who are a longway from the retirement home.
I have been very impressed by Napa cabernet over here in Australia, but then it is seldomnly seen, and so perversely, probably would be fairly regarded as a bit of a novelty. One person's diversity is another's routine, I guess.
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Betty Yates: Murder victim 'planned Bewdley move'
"When I last saw Betty she said she was thinking about moving, being so far out of town was getting to her."
Keith Wakefield, 58, is a former colleague of 77-year-old Betty Yates who was found stabbed at her remote home near Bewdley, Worcestershire, in January.
The retired teacher, who had worked at the then St. John's Middle School in Kidderminster, lived in a cottage by the River Severn near Dowles Road just outside the town.
Stephen Farrow, 48, has been convicted of the murder of Mrs Yates in Bewdley as well as that of the Rev John Suddards in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire.
Mr Wakefield, who knew Mrs Yates for 25 years, said: "I didn't keep in touch with Betty like I should have done but I know she was involved in so many things in Bewdley after her retirement.
"When her husband Ray died [seven years ago] not long after she retired, she'd wanted to stay in their home to keep the memories alive.
"But I saw her the June before her murder and she said she'd thought about moving to be nearer to the things she was involved with in the town."
Mr Wakefield, a maths teacher and head of the lower school at Baxter College, as St. John's is now called, said Mrs Yates was "fantastic".
He said: "I'd moved to the area from the Welsh Valleys for my first teaching post and and she was like another mother to me.
"She was very outspoken - she called a spade a spade - and didn't stand for any nonsense, but everybody respected her and she threw herself into everything."
Dr Jan Adams, Bewdley's mayor at the time, said she had also heard of Mrs Yates's plans to move.
'Very much missed'
Ms Adams said: "Betty was very well known and I'd heard she was beginning to feel it might have been sensible to move, which really makes what happened even sadder.
"She felt she was getting a bit old and needed to be able to access the services in the town more easily.
"She's still very much missed and her death was a tremendous shock."
Mrs Yates was a very active person who attended civic society meetings, the University of the Third Age and regularly went walking.
She also volunteered at the annual Bewdley Festival.
Marketing officer Carole Swingler said she had helped with front of house and distributed programme flyers around the town.
Mrs Swingler said: "I wouldn't describe myself as a close friend as such but I knew her to speak to.
"I also remember she was a very good swimmer and gave me a huge amount of encouragement when I was learning to swim at the age of 50.
"That's just what she was like - so helpful and outgoing.
"The effect on Bewdley was tremendous, we couldn't believe anything like that would happen to Betty."
Staff at the Merchants Tea Room, nestled on the riverside at the foot of the town's bridge, agree.
Assistant manager Jackie Salmon said Mrs Yates had first gone into the cafe three years ago when they started up a monthly group for people with coeliac disease.
She said: "We were interviewed a lot by the police after her murder, they reckoned this was possibly the last place she went into.
"It was New Year's Day, she'd been to the chip shop and popped in to wish us 'happy new year' and off she went."
Ms Salmon and her colleague Mandi Blakemore said the murder of Mrs Yates had frightened older members of the community.
Ms Blakemore said: "We definitely noticed a drop in customers until around Easter, we're open until eight in the evening and they said they worried about going out after a certain time in the dark.
"Even now people ask about it, it was the talk of the town for months."
Ms Salmon added: "Once something's happened people don't forget it - not here."


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For my second batch of orchid photographs (see the first here), I have chosen two pinks – hot pink, and a more purple, muted pink. I love the way this first one looks like a blossom explosion. It's as if, a second ago, these all could have been tiny buds, then you blink, and POW! they've blossomed. They look like they have only just stopped moving. They also look they like are whistling.
At the orchid show I experimented with taking photographs at more unusual angles, as in this next one:
I like how this angle highlights the little spiraling tendrils on each flower. The leaves in the background provide a contrast to highlight the delicate, precise shape of each flower. In addition to these photographs of orchids, I've been taking shots of new spring flowers, which I'll be sharing on my Facebook page.


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For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Use a 24 socket cupcake pan and line with paper liners. Set the pan aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a liquid measure, mix together the blueberry puree and buttermilk.
In a large bowl of an electric stand mixer using a paddle attachment, combine the butter and granulated sugar, mixing until blended. Add the eggs and egg yolks and beat on low speed until all the ingredients are smooth and blended.
Decrease the speed of the mixer to slow and add one-fourth of the dry ingredients. Mix for 1 minute, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. In two separate additions, add the liquid mixture to the batter, beating for 30 seconds after each addition, alternating with the dry ingredients, ending with the dry ingredients. Divide the batter evenly into the prepared cupcake liners and bake on the center rack until a cake tester inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove from the pans and cool the cakes completely on wire racks, about 30 minutes.
For the blueberry caramel: Heat together the sugar and 1/4 cup water, cooking until a medium caramel stage. Slowly add the blueberry puree, lemon juice and salt. Continue to cook together until smooth.
For the blue Devonshire cream: Mix together the cream cheese with the granulated sugar and salt with the paddle attachment in an electric mixer. Once thoroughly combined, slowly add the heavy cream. Continue to mix until evenly distributed and fluffy. Fold in the bleu cheese crumbles.
For the blue agave icing: Mix together the butter, powdered sugar and salt with the paddle attachment in an electric mixer. Once thoroughly combined, slowly add the blue agave nectar. Continue to mix until evenly distributed and smooth.
For the bleu cheese brulee: Place the bleu cheese crumbles into the freezer for about 10 minutes. Remove from the freezer, and, working on a metal surface, generously cover with sugar. Using a blow torch, quickly brulee the tops of each bleu cheese crumble. Allow to come to room temperature.
To assemble: Core each cupcake and drizzle a teaspoon of the blueberry caramel into the core. Generously fill each cupcake with the bleu Devonshire cream. Using a round tip and pastry bag, ice each cupcake with blue agave icing, encasing the generous amount of Devonshire cream, creating a combination of shells on top. Use blueberry caramel as a drizzle on top of cupcakes and place a bleu cheese brulee as garnish on top.
This recipe was created by a contestant during a cooking competition. It has not been tested for home use.
Recipe courtesy of Julia San Bartolome, Sweet Arleen's, Westlake Village, CA


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Improving Breathing and Performance (Part 4): Breathing and Stress - How to Shut Down and Recover Your Nervous System
We've already discussed how to increase performance with breathing and bracing strategies during movements (I highly recommend checking out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 to get the whole picture), but what about when the training, competition, mission, or workday is over? An inability to shut down, sleep, and recover is not only frustrating to that individual which further amplifies the stress, but is also untapped potential for performance gains. Recovery may be the most important part of your workout.
In normal diaphragmatic breathing, the heart rate accelerates when breathing in and decelerates when breathing out. This Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a glimpse into the balance of the nervous system. When athletes are in a constant state of sympathetic dominance, the heart beats like a drum and does not have a normal variability. This is exacerbated by heavy upper chest and neck breathing (discussed in detail in Part 1) and poor diaphragmatic activity resulting in chronic over-breathing. Loss of HRV is even found to be predictive of mortality in those with heart conditions.
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Another Reason to Support Steve Laffey
Steve Laffey is the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, and is running against loopy Lincoln Chafee in that state's September '06 Republican primary. There are many reasons for the Rhoe Island GOP to oust Chafee, but one of the most persuasive is his utter inability to use his position to advance meaningful and necessary reforms of the federal Endangered Species Act. The House has already passed its package of long overdue changes, but Chafee subcontracted out the policy process to a closed-door group of 20 insiders dominated by environmentalists that still hasn't reported back –an obvious delaying tactic to kill of ESA reform for another year. From this morning's Wall Street Journal (subscription required):
As the issue heads to the Senate, direction for updating the law passes to one of Congress's most-ardent environmentalists. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R., R.I.) chairs the subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Water, and is skeptical of the House's far-reaching changes. A Chafee spokesman said the senator hopes to reinstate the critical habitat program, but with other senators he has asked a Colorado-based nonprofit group that specializes in collaborative problem solving to work with representatives of different business and environmental interests to come up with an acceptable compromise.
Chafee's elitism shows through in his approach to privatizing law making, and every landowner who has been burdened by the ESA and every open government advocate should be contributing to Laffey's campaign.


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Remember that this is a fake nomination session but the housemates don't know this.
Housemates have been voting for who they like the most, the housemate with the least likes will be up for eviction.
Below is a summary of which housemate nominated which housemate.
- ThinTallTony chooses Efe and Marvis
- CoCoIce picks Uriel and Bisola
- Kemen chooses Marvis and ThinTallTony
- Uriel chooses Soma and Bally
- Gifty chooses Uriel and ThinTallTony
- Marvis chooses Kemen and Efe
- Bally chooses Uriel and Efe
- Bisola chooses Efe and ThinTallTony
- TBoss chooses Miyonse and Bisola
- Efe chooses Marvis and ThinTallTony
- Soma chooses Gifty and Uriel
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From the first day of shemini 'atseret we begin reciting the prayer mashib haruah umorid hageshem. In this prayer we are not "asking" God for rain. We are just acknowledging Him as the One who controls the weather system that produces rain. The prayer in which we request rain barekh 'alenu is going to be said later on. But why aren't we asking for rain now, at the beginning of autumn season, when rain is expected and needed?
The answer is simple and inspiring. In ancient Israel the Jews came (walking!) to celebrate Sukkot in Jerusalem from distant places. After shemini 'atseret every one would come back home. The Rabbis observed that the farthest cities were close to the Euphrates river, today Syria-Iraq. And they calculated that it would take two weeks to walk back to those towns. The Rabbis did not approve that a Jew in Jerusalem would be asking God for rain, knowing that some of his brothers are still walking back home, and for them rain will not be a blessing at this time. They established then that the prayer for rain will be said two weeks after Sukkot. To give everyone the opportunity to get back home safe and sound.
This is why in Erets Israel, even in our days, the Tefila barekh alenu is not said now but on the 7th of Heshvan, exactly two weeks after shemini 'atseret.
Sometimes we might be praying to God for something that would be good for us but bad for somebody else. This is one of the reasons that we always pray in plural. For example: in the prayer where we ask God for our parnasa (livelihood) we don't say: bless
me. We always say: bless us. I'm asking God to give the same blessings to the person that might be my next door competitor, the one that sells the same merchandise to the same customers I sell to. Praying in plural reinforces our kindness and sensitivity for others. And strengthens our consciousness of collective welfare.
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As 2015 draws to a close, we wanted to take a look back at the images that helped define our year on the Central Coast.
It was a year of fire, storms, protests and tragic loss, with few shining moments. So as we head into 2016, we have selected some images that show not only the dark side of 2015, but also the amazing community spirit of the Central Coast as they come together in times of need.
A special thank you to our emergency services, who spent the year looking after us, and of course to the Central Coast Community for sharing their images with us.
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Dr. Michael Everett, as we begin our story, is still suffering from the death of his wife Hannah a year before. She was a young woman who died of cancer but left behind a very special gift for her beloved husband – a right to life. Hannah made a list of three women who she believed would be a perfect match for her husband; three women who he could choose from, so that he wouldn't live life alone and unhappy. Not only is this an example of the wonderfully understanding woman she was while on earth, but also a testament to how well she "knew" her husband inside and out – that he needed love in order to get on with his life after she was gone.
The list is made up of three very different women. The first is Winter; Winter is Hannah's cousin who owns her own bakery/café. Comfort food is what she knows best. Well…she also knows the power of love because her heart has already been given to Pierre, her partner and fellow chef. Now, Winter and Pierre are on a three-month-break because all they can seem to do is argue when they're with each other, so they've decided to see if they'd be better off alone. The second woman on the list is Leanne. Leanne is probably better-suited to Michael because she's an oncology nurse, so they have the same career-goals between them. Leanne, however, has just gone through a messy divorce. Her husband was put in prison and he told Leanne to go on with her life and find a "good" man.
Last, but not least, on Hannah's list is Macy. Macy is so completely different from Dr. Michael Everett that when they first meet, Michael is blown away that Hannah would have ever thought he could deal with this woman. Macy is what you would call a terminally happy person. When she walks into a room, man nor beast can't help but fall hopelessly in love with her sweet manner. Dr. Everett thinks she is beyond flighty and unreliable. In fact, everything about her seems to grate on his nerves. In order to meet her – and obey his deceased wife's wish – he hires Macy to paint a mural in his office. She agrees with the surly man, but only if he will go visit her next door neighbor – an older gentleman (and a complete hysterical riot) – named Harvey.
As time marches on, Michael finds himself going out on dates with the two more reasonable and acceptable women from Hannah's list, only to discover that he's mostly talking about Macy when he's supposed to be getting to know them. She is scattered; he's meticulous. She is the brightest sun in the sky, and Michael needs all the lightness and happiness he can get in order to move on with his life. Complete opposites who are the perfect match and Hannah…knew.
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Push!Music is a novel mobile music listening and sharing system, where users automatically receive songs that have autonomously recommended themselves from nearby players depending on similar listening behaviour and music history. Push!Music also enables users to wirelessly send songs between each other as personal recommendations. We conducted a two-week preliminary user study of Push!Music, where a group of five friends used the application in their everyday life. We learned for example that the shared music in Push!Music became a start for social interaction and that received songs in general were highly appreciated and could be looked upon as 'treats'.
This thesis contributes with insights into how aspects of the surrounding physical and social context can be exploited in the design of mobile media applications for playful use. In this work, context refers to aspects of the immediate surroundings – outside of the device – that can be identified and measured by sensors; for instance environmental aspects like sound, and social aspects like co-located people. Two extensive case studies explore the interplay between users, mobile media, and aspects of context in different ways, and how it can invite playful use. The first case study, Context Photography, uses sensor-based information about the immediate physical surroundings to affect images in real time in a novel digital camera application for everyday creativity. The second, Push!Music, makes it possible to share music both manually and autonomously between co-located people, based on so-called media context, for spontaneous music sharing.
The insights gained from the designs, prototypes, and user studies, point at the value of combining explicit and implicit interaction – essentially, the expected and unexpected – to open for playful use. The explicit interaction encouraged users to be active, exploratory, and creative. The implicit interaction let users embrace and exploit dynamic qualities of the surroundings, contributing to making the systems fun, exciting, magical, 'live', and real. This combination was facilitated through our approach to context, where sensor-based information was mostly open in use and interpretation, ambiguous, visible, and possible to override for users, and through giving the systems a degree of agency and autonomy. A key insight is that the combination of explicit and implicit interaction allowed both control and a sense of magic in the interaction with the mobile media applications, which together seems to encourage play and playfulness.
This thesis explores new mobile media sharing applications by building, deploying, and studying their use. While we share media in many different ways both on the web and on mobile phones, there are few ways of sharing media with people physically near us. Studied were three designed and built systems: Push!Music, Columbus, and Portrait Catalog, as well as a fourth commercially available system – Foursquare. This thesis offers four contributions: First, it explores the design space of co-present media sharing of four test systems. Second, through user studies of these systems it reports on how these come to be used. Third, it explores new ways of conducting trials as the technical mobile landscape has changed. Last, we look at how the technical solutions demonstrate different lines of thinking from how similar solutions might look today.
Through a Human-Computer Interaction methodology of design, build, and study, we look at systems through the eyes of embodied interaction and examine how the systems come to be in use. Using Goffman's understanding of social order, we see how these mobile media sharing systems allow people to actively present themselves through these media. In turn, using McLuhan's way of understanding media, we reflect on how these new systems enable a new type of medium distinct from the web centric media, and how this relates directly to mobility.
While media sharing is something that takes place everywhere in western society, it is still tied to the way media is shared through computers. Although often mobile, they do not consider the mobile settings. The systems in this thesis treat mobility as an opportunity for design. It is still left to see how this mobile media sharing will come to present itself in people's everyday life, and when it does, how we will come to understand it and how it will transform society as a medium distinct from those before. This thesis gives a glimpse at what this future will look like.
At the time of doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Submitted.


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Hawaii looks to be experiencing serious warming trend, and according to the climate change experts temperatures at Hawaii's higher elevations are rising faster than the global average, a clear sign of global warming.
Deanna Spooner, coordinator of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative, recently announced that "Hawaii is getting hotter faster than anywhere else in the world up in the upper elevations", and the another reason for worry is the fact that rainfall levels are falling. Less rainfall means that Hawaiian freshwater resources are decreasing.
Hawaii is one of the places in the world that is most vulnerable to climate change, and in order to help places like Hawaii federal task force is holding five meetings around the country to hear how climate change is affecting communities and how people are coping.
One of these five meetings will be held on Hawaii that was selected as a place for the meeting because federal officials recognized the Hawaiian communities are extremely vulnerable to the increased climate change impact.
Many officials have already realized that we can no longer talk about how to prevent climate change, and that we should instead learn how to adapt our lifestyles and traditions to this new climate. This definitely won't be easy, especially in places that are highly vulnerable to climate change like this is the case with Hawaii.


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Can Coal (Yes, Coal) Drive Duke Energy Stock Higher?
Duke Energy is one of the largest energy generators in the United States with over 57,700 MW of owned generating capacity. It has scrambled in the last few years to shift away from a coal-heavy portfolio and into the cheaper, cleaner arms of natural gas. In 2011 60% of the company's generating capacity was chalked up to coal versus 1.4% for oil and gas, which last year quickly changed to 46.2% and 16.6%, respectively.
No matter: the company's coal capacity is still one of the highest in the industry. It is much harder than it seems to make such a switch, so Duke Energy investors will be exposed to large amounts of coal for the next few years. Turns out that may not be such a bad thing after all.
Despite all of the hoopla surrounding natural gas it is still looking up to coal in the standings. With natural gas prices soaring over the winter and remaining higher this spring compared to the year-ago period, coal has actually regained some lost ground.
It may sound like a sick joke, but could coal actually send Duke Energy shares higher? Or is this just a short-term trend? Let's review.
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Calling this a short-term trend depends on your definition of the word "short term". It also depends on your faith in energy projections. However, it seems unlikely that natural gas prices will return to 2012 levels any time soon. I believe the industry learned its lesson from cranking the supply faucet too far open and saturating the market. Besides, once commercial-scale manufacturing plants and liquefied export facilities open to exploit reserves there will be more sources to stabilize and prop up prices.
Natural gas prices have roared back from the lows of last year to a more "normal" average. Here's how the EIA predicts prices per MMBtu and generation in kilowatt-hours per day through 2014 compared to historical averages.
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Two takeaways: coal generation was hurt by the severe price drop in natural gas in 2012, and coal prices are extremely stable. So as long as the price in natural gas continues to climb investors can have confidence that coal will continue to fight back into the nation's energy supply. That is good news for coal-heavy companies such as Duke Energy, Southern Company , and Dominion Resources .
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It is worth noting that natural gas will still likely be cheaper than coal due to efficiency and relative cleanliness. For instance, Southern notes that fuel costs per net kilowatt hour in 2011 were 4.02 cents for coal and 3.89 cents for natural gas -- despite the large difference in price per Btu reported above. That gap widened considerably last year to 3.96 cents for coal and 2.86 cents for natural gas, but it should close in the years to come. Just don't think coal is anywhere near snuffing out its new rival hailing from the shale fields.
Foolish bottom line
At the end of the day the rise in natural gas prices will likely only slow its eventual ascension to the top spot as a fuel source. Gas turbines are becoming increasingly more efficient and gas-fired plants do not require costly scrubbers. But the closing of the gap makes it much easier for Duke Energy to supply spot markets with coal generation, even if most power generation is allotted to long-term supply contracts. It should also alleviate pressure on management to make "the switch". That being said I think that this trend definitely has the potential to push shares higher. Until the market catches on investors can sit back and enjoy a 4.5% dividend.
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Turkey v Awadh [2005] EWCA Civ 382
Real property; test for presumed undue influence
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A Saudi Arabian couple purchased a home in London with the help of a mortgage. They rented the house to the wife's father who lived there with his wife. The young couple occasionally stayed there as well. At a later stage, the young couple agreed with the father that the house would be transferred to the father if he £93,000 immediately and discharged mortgage and other debts obligations for it. The father paid the requested sum and also discharged the mortgage and some debts. He demanded specific performance of the agreement – i.e. he wanted the house to be transferred to him.
The young couple argued that the father made several misrepresentations and that the deed should be void on the basis of his presumed undue influence on them.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the young couple's appeal. The first limb of presumed undue influence is to prove the existence of a relationship of trust and confidence between the parties. Once this is established, the second requirement is that the transaction should be of a nature that "calls for an explanation" – i.e. the transaction was such that a presumption of undue influence should be raised –, or that the transaction cannot be explained in any way other than undue influence. If the presumption is raised, it is for the person accused of exercising undue influence to prove that undue influence has not in fact been present. Showing that the agreement was entered into by the claimant at his/her own free will would usually discharge this burden. In this particular case, father and daughter clearly had a close enough relationship and the transaction was such that it "called for an explanation". The father would have been unable to rebut a presumption of undue influence as the young couple had not had the benefit of independent legal advice. However, the transaction could be explained otherwise (in the given circumstances) so the father was entitled to the specific performance.
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The way Josh Shipp sees it, he and his UCLA teammates pretty much got what they deserved after a few too many losses this season.
"We didn't take care of business," Shipp said. "So we expected to get sent off."
Sent off down a rocky NCAA tournament road, all the way to Philadelphia, where the sixth-seeded Bruins will face a potentially dangerous 11th-seeded Virginia Commonwealth in the first round of the East Regional on Thursday night.
The next round -- if they reach there -- could bring a showdown with the home team, third-seeded Villanova, which played a handful of games at Wachovia Center this winter.
It's not exactly a road map for success, not for a team accustomed to a No. 1 or 2 seeding and a clear path to the last three Final Fours.


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Ismet Tamer, M.D., Ph.D., is a member of the Herbalife Nutrition Advisory Board.
Tamer, a leading health professional, has served in a variety of roles in medicine, including as associate professor at the Istanbul Training Research Hospital. He is a founder and trustee of the Turkish Family Practice, which is dedicated to enhancing the quality of primary healthcare in Turkey. He is a member of the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine and the Turkish Society of Cardiology, founding member and secretary general of the Academic Respiratory Society, a member of the World Organization of Family Doctors and co-founder of the Family Practice Research and Training Foundation. In addition to serving on many medical boards throughout Turkey and Europe, Tamer is an author and contributor to national and international publications and research on Family Practice, Preventive Medicine, Endocrinology and Cardiology.
Tamer received his medical degree from the Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical School, his Family Practice Specialty from Istanbul Kartal Training Research Hospital and his Ph.D. in Occupational Health and Safety from Istanbul University.
The Herbalife Nutrition Advisory Board is made up of leading experts from around the world in the fields of nutrition and health whose role is to educate and train Independent Herbalife Members on the principles of good nutrition, getting regular physical activity, and leading a healthy lifestyle.


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Welcome to the Community WikiEdit
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Scouts Canada, the country's leading youth organization, offers challenging programs for boys, girls and youth age 5-26 in thousands of individual groups in most cities and towns across Canada.
Each camp site comes with the following standard equipment;
Each site has a private telephone system that provides direct communications to the Administration Office and Program Facilities and is can be used for emergency purposes. The telephone should be used by Scouters only.
A plentiful supply of natural deadfall trees and branches are available at each campsite. Please be aware of the that only dead trees can be cut. Any damage to live trees will be charged to the Group at a substantial penalty. Chainsaws are not allowed at HSR, unless authorized by the Camp Ranger.


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Training >> Browse Articles >> Firearms
Major Lesson Plan: TASER® Applications for Learning
Major Lesson Plan:
Target Audience: Law Enforcement personnel who may be faced with the task of using an electronic control device
Objective: Provide officers with essential knowledge with respect to some of the current issues surrounding electronic control devices
Format: Roll-call/ supervisory training.
Time: Five to ten minutes, but this may be expanded where agency resources allow.
Materials: Law Enforcement Risk Management Legal Update, August 2005; agency policy relating to electronic control devices.
Hypothetical #1- Law enforcement personnel respond to a call of a suicidal man who is holding himself hostage with a knife. After applying several crisis intervention techniques, the man fails to comply and begins to become more self-threatening. Officers decide that they will attempt the use of a Taser®
Question #1-Do officers need to warn the man before discharging the device?
Answer #1- No, consistently with the cases and the IACP model policy concept paper, it may be wiser not to give the warning so that the man has no opportunity to take evasive action which would put the officers, as well as the man, at a greater risk.
Hypothetical # 2- The officer who discharges the device misses and the man runs into his garage where he douses himself with gasoline. The man pulls out a Bic lighter and threatens to light himself up.
Question #2- Should the officers make a second attempt at using the Taser®?
Answer: No, once the man doused himself with gasoline, the use of the Taser® would no longer be viable. Gasoline, when hit with an ignition source, such as the electrical current of the electronic control device may set off a fire or, in the case where the gasoline has vaporized, may actually cause an explosion.
Hypothetical #3- During roll-call, Sergeant Gibson notices that one of her officers; Deputy Tacklebury is wearing a new holster (personally purchased) for his shiny new Taser®. The Taser® holster is strapped, just below Tacklebury's .44 auto-mag. handgun (also personally purchased).
Question #3- What steps, if any, should the sergeant take?
Answer #3- The sergeant should prohibit Tacklebury from wearing the Taser®, in any fashion, on the strong-side and should require Tacklebury to wear it on the weak-side as recommended by the manufacturer due to the possibility of accidentally drawing his firearm due to "muscle-memory control."
Hypothetical # 4- 5 officers respond and are trying to control a bizarre-acting, naked man. The officers, in an attempt to avoid grappling with the suspect have discharged the electronic restraining device several times, but are having no luck at controlling the man who seems to be reaching a point of exhaustion.
Question #4- Should officers continue their use of the electronic control device?
Answer #4- No, officers should consider utilizing other options for several reasons. First and foremost, the continued use or multiple discharges of a Taser® has been shown to increase the likelihood of danger to health. Second, there are 5 officers present, thus, there is not the same level of danger to officers as would exist if one officer were trying to control this individual. Third, as a subject becomes more exhausted the potential for an excited delirium death increases, and finally, the electronic restraining device does not appear to be working on this individual.
Question # 5- When should a deputy or officer seek medical assistance for a person who has been subjected to the use of an electronic control device?
Answer #5- Department policies may require that all persons subjected to an electronic restraining device be examined, at a minimum, by emergency medical technicians who respond to the scene. Such policies, where the resources are available are extremely helpful to the agency. At a minimum, officers should provide for medical attention where: the person was struck in one of the sensitive areas; officer cannot safely remove the darts [where darts have penetrated the skin, medical removal is suggested]; persons are showing abnormal signs of physical distress [not those normally associated with electronic control device usage] or do not appear to recover after a short period of time; any persons falling in a vulnerable class such as pregnant women, elderly, juveniles or persons who are small in stature; and, any person who requests medical attention.


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Another Cyclist was seriously injured on Northbourne Ave in January at the Swindon intersection, this poses the question again about safety at intersections in the ACT , and whether we have the best design for bicycle safety.
Because of our free left turn slip lanes for motor vehicles, the bicycle lane continues between the car traffic and the motor vehicle has to cross the green marked bicycle lane to turn left.
Here is our lame TV advertisement regarding the green lanes a few years ago , which for 'added safety' the lanes are painted green for better visibility:
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Even at intersections where there is not left turn slip lanes the through bike lane treatment is employed.
So what is the better solution,well as always Mark Wagenbuur has an excellent video pointing out the Dutch solution, and that they stopped building this type of treatments a long time ago.
To update you on the Hindmarsh/ Melrose drive intersection proposal for safer intersection design, as expected ACT Roads have dismissed the safer solution as it would cause increase congestion apparently.Well we wouldn't want safer cycle facilities to impose on possible car congestion problems now would we.
With the construction of on road cycle lanes on 'high speed high volume roads' there certainly has been a marked increase in the number of serious accidents in the ACT since 2001. That's according to the Aus. Institute of Heath and Welfare report issued last week
Overall cyclist on road are certainly having a tough time in terms of serious injury.
So the call for sharing the road is too simplistic and needs an infrastructure overhaul to make the situation more safer particularly if we want to encourage more people to cycle.


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Guy Pollock was the gentlest person she had found here. He spoke of her new jade and cream frock naturally, not jocosely; he held her chair for her as they sat down to dinner; and he did not, like Kennicott, interrupt her to shout, "Oh say, speaking of that, I heard a good story today." But Guy was incurably hermit. He sat late and talked hard, and did not come again.
Then she met Champ Perry in the post-office — and decided that in the history of the pioneers was the panacea for Gopher Prairie, for all of America. We have lost their sturdiness, she told herself. We must restore the last of the veterans to power and follow them on the backward path to the integrity of Lincoln, to the gaiety of settlers dancing in a saw-mill.
She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers that only sixty years ago, not so far back as the birth of her own father, four cabins had composed Gopher Prairie. The log stockade which Mrs. Champ Perry was to find when she trekked in was built afterward by the soldiers as a defense against the Sioux. The four cabins were inhabited by Maine Yankees who had come up the Mississippi to St. Paul and driven north over virgin prairie into virgin woods. They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again. For treat they had wild plums and crab-apples and tiny wild strawberries.
Grasshoppers came darkening the sky, and in an hour ate the farmwife's garden and the farmer's coat. Precious horses painfully brought from Illinois, were drowned in bogs or stampeded by the fear of blizzards. Snow blew through the chinks of new-made cabins, and Eastern children, with flowery muslin dresses, shivered all winter and in summer were red and black with mosquito bites. Indians were everywhere; they camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures in the geographies. Packs of timber-wolves treed the children; and the settlers found dens of rattle-snakes, killed fifty, a hundred, in a day.
Yet it was a buoyant life. Carol read enviously in the admirable Minnesota chronicles called "Old Rail Fence Corners" the reminiscence of Mrs. Mahlon Black, who settled in Stillwater in 1848:
"There was nothing to parade over in those days. We took it as it came and had happy lives. . . . We would all gather together and in about two minutes would be having a good time — playing cards or dancing. . . . We used to waltz and dance contra dances. None of these new jigs and not wear any clothes to speak of. We covered our hides in those days; no tight skirts like now. You could take three or four steps inside our skirts and then not reach the edge. One of the boys would fiddle a while and then some one would spell him and he could get a dance. Sometimes they would dance and fiddle too."
She reflected that if she could not have ballrooms of gray and rose and crystal, she wanted to be swinging across a puncheon-floor with a dancing fiddler. This smug in-between town, which had exchanged "Money Musk" for phonographs grinding out ragtime, it was neither the heroic old nor the sophisticated new. Couldn't she somehow, some yet unimagined how, turn it back to simplicity?
She herself knew two of the pioneers: the Perrys. Champ Perry was the buyer at the grain-elevator. He weighed wagons of wheat on a rough platform-scale, in the cracks of which the kernels sprouted every spring. Between times he napped in the dusty peace of his office.
She called on the Perrys at their rooms above Howland & Gould's grocery.
When they were already old they had lost the money, which they had invested in an elevator. They had given up their beloved yellow brick house and moved into these rooms over a store, which were the Gopher Prairie equivalent of a flat. A broad stairway led from the street to the upper hall, along which were the doors of a lawyer's office, a dentist's, a photographer's "studio," the lodge-rooms of the Affiliated Order of Spartans and, at the back, the Perrys' apartment.
They received her (their first caller in a month) with aged fluttering tenderness. Mrs. Perry confided, "My, it's a shame we got to entertain you in such a cramped place. And there ain't any water except that ole iron sink outside in the hall, but still, as I say to Champ, beggars can't be choosers. 'Sides, the brick house was too big for me to sweep, and it was way out, and it's nice to be living down here among folks. Yes, we're glad to be here. But — — Some day, maybe we can have a house of our own again. We're saving up — — Oh, dear, if we could have our own home! But these rooms are real nice, ain't they!"
As old people will, the world over, they had moved as much as possible of their familiar furniture into this small space. Carol had none of the superiority she felt toward Mrs. Lyman Cass's plutocratic parlor. She was at home here. She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."
She hinted of her new enthusiasm. To find one of the "young folks" who took them seriously, heartened the Perrys, and she easily drew from them the principles by which Gopher Prairie should be born again — should again become amusing to live in.
This was their philosophy complete . . . in the era of aeroplanes and syndicalism:
The Baptist Church (and, somewhat less, the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian Churches) is the perfect, the divinely ordained standard in music, oratory, philanthropy, and ethics. "We don't need all this new-fangled science, or this terrible Higher Criticism that's ruining our young men in colleges. What we need is to get back to the true Word of God, and a good sound belief in hell, like we used to have it preached to us."
The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent of the Lord and of the Baptist Church in temporal affairs.
All socialists ought to be hanged.
"Harold Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good morals in his novels, and folks say he's made prett' near a million dollars out of 'em."
People who make more than ten thousand a year or less than eight hundred are wicked.
Europeans are still wickeder.
It doesn't hurt any to drink a glass of beer on a warm day, but anybody who touches wine is headed straight for hell.
Virgins are not so virginal as they used to be.
Nobody needs drug-store ice cream; pie is good enough for anybody.
The farmers want too much for their wheat.
The owners of the elevator-company expect too much for the salaries they pay.
There would be no more trouble or discontent in the world if everybody worked as hard as Pa did when he cleared our first farm.
Carol's hero-worship dwindled to polite nodding, and the nodding dwindled to a desire to escape, and she went home with a headache.
Next day she saw Miles Bjornstam on the street.
"Just back from Montana. Great summer. Pumped my lungs chuck-full of Rocky Mountain air. Now for another whirl at sassing the bosses of Gopher Prairie." She smiled at him, and the Perrys faded, the pioneers faded, till they were but daguerreotypes in a black walnut cupboard.
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BUSINESS BRIEFS | April 12 - May 9, 2018
High Altitude Fitness Truckee Location up for Town Review
The Incline Village climbing gym is seeking to build an additional 27,500-square-foot facility in Truckee, with a planned 4,700-square-foot rope climbing gym, 3,620-square-foot bouldering area, fitness studios for classes, a children's play area, locker rooms, bike storage, and more. A development permit was submitted to the Town of Truckee Planning Commission, Nov. 17 and approved Dec. 13, which will examine the environmental impacts of building the facility at 11798 Donner Pass Road. The review period began March 16 and ends April 15, and a public hearing is scheduled for April 17 at the Truckee Town Hall. High Altitude Fitness will donate $25 for each supporter who attends to the American Alpine Club, in support of a re-bolting effort at Big Chief in summer 2018. Info: facebook.com/highaltitudefitness
Major Headway for Holliday's Factory OS Modular Homes
Factory OS, the brainchild of Rick Holliday (developer of the Truckee Railyard Project) was created to address the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area, as well as across the country, and has begun production of its modular style homes. Holliday said modular construction creates "smarter, better, greener housing," building each apartment-style home in a factory, and then transporting units to a final destination where they are arranged, stacked, and assembled into a larger apartment building. A 100-unit project purchased by an Oakland nonprofit began in March. Among other projects to begin this year are 300 housing units purchased by Google, with a projected 1,500 units completed by next March. Holliday believes this could significantly impact the Tahoe area, and also indicated that the Railyard project hopes to include 600 to 800 modular housing units within the next 5-8 years. 40,000 cold inquiries into the modular homes project have created "an indication for the demand for the kind of thing we're doing," Holliday said. ~ LG
Business Speaks! Kicks Off Second Round
The Truckee Chamber of Commerce will hold its second round of workshops aimed at progressive communication between business owners in Truckee, encouraging them to speak candidly about their greatest entrepreneurial challenges, and to develop creative solutions. Three projects were targeted during the first workshop series, and will now be addressed in the second round: "growing our own," "develop on employee coop," and "develop Truckee as an entrepreneurial ecosystem." These projects, respectively, focus on building the skillsets of employees, connecting employers to potential employees, creating work opportunities, and establishing incentives for independent entrepreneurs and tech start-ups.
Info: workshops April 24-26, truckeetomorrow.org
Michael Bettera Launches Effective Edge
Resort and action sports industry veteran and North Lake Tahoe local Michael Bettera launched his new venture, Effective Edge, on April 2. The company offers assistance to ski areas in the development of progressive, sustainable, business-driving programs designed to achieve and keep their competitive edge, particularly specializing in terrain parks. Effective Edge launched with an established relationship with Burton and a partnership with Snow Park Technologies (SPT), a consulting, snow build, and event management team for resorts and action sports events on and off the snow. Bettera served as director of the mountain division at SPT for 12 years. He has been working in the industry since 1988 when his career began as one of the first snowboard instructors in the country. Info: effectiveedge.com
Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship Program Resumes
The Sierra Small Business Development Center has announced the fourth round of their annual spring Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship Program, an educational workshop series that equips creative people with the knowledge and skills to start an Etsy business, enabling them to earn a supplemental income. Classes begin April 23 at the Truckee Roundhouse, a facility allowing artisans to expand their craft by utilizing tools available in the space. Participants must apply, show a reasonable interest in both creating and entrepreneurship, have a handmade item ready to sell, commit to attending all classes, and more. This year's series is taught by experienced Etsy seller and talented local jeweler Krista Tranquilla. Applications are due by April 16. Classes run April 23 to May 14. Info: sierrasbdc.com
Granlibakken Celebrates 95 Years with New Blog
To commemorate its 95th anniversary, Tahoe City's historic Granlibakken Lodge has launched a blog series based on first-hand accounts of people who have skied and spent time at Granlibakken through the decades. These moving pieces illustrate the resort's rich past through personal experiences, from tales of getting dressed up in costumes for Easter races in the 1950s to taking wild rides in the Tucker Snowcat, which was used to groom the hill in the 1970s. The first post, Growing Up Granlibakken shares childhood memories of the early days told by Binth Rustad, daughter of Kjell "Rusty" Rustad, who first commercially developed Granlibakken in 1947. Info: granlibakken.com
Chase Closes Sale for $13.1 Million
Star Brooks of Chase International coordinated the landmark sale of a 2.5-acre Glenbrook home and property in January. The estate includes a private cove, pier, boat lift, and expansive stretch of sandy beach. The main home and guesthouse offered a combined 4,692-square-feet of living space with five bedrooms, six-and-a-half bathrooms, and a five-car garage. The home closed for $13,145,000. "Luxury buyers and buyers seeking Nevada tax advantages continue to purchase at Lake Tahoe for the value and lifestyle amenities," said Kerry Donovan, Chase's vice president of luxury real estate.
Music Camp Coming to Sugar Bowl
Grass Valley based Whole Music Camp is offering a family friendly summer string music camp at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in the summer of 2018, including core string classes, general music jams, an assortment of elective classes, dances, and evening gatherings. Offerings are a blend of technical instruction, ear training, and jam sessions, designed for anyone with a basic proficiency or love of music to join. The program runs from July 16–21, and culminates with a finale concert and auction on Sugar Bowl's Village Lodge deck and lawn that are open to the public. Director Amie Ferrier is "beyond excited to bring this program to local families." Info: wholemusiccamp.com
PlumpJack Delays Rebuild; Open for Business as Usual
The planned PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn & Residences project will delay its breaking ground until April 1, 2019, with plans to complete the project by the 2020 holiday season. The existing PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn will remain in full operation until breaking ground on the new project, continuing to offer standard hotel and private event operations, as well as regular hours for their bar and restaurant. Once completed, the new project will replace old facilities with a 60-room inn and 34 exclusive slope-side residences, in what's been called "alpine luxe" style.
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Black & Veatch has been selected by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to assist in preparing water development and conservation plans for three of the state's regional water planning councils.
The project is part of Georgia's Comprehensive Statewide Water Management Plan.
Georgia's Comprehensive Statewide Water Plan hinges on the development of the water plans for the state's 10 regions. When complete, the plans will improve the quality of life for citizens by providing a proactive, sustainable strategy for water resource management with the growing state's long-term needs at the forefront. The plans will also support the economy of the state and region and protect public health and natural systems.
"This type of water planning is the foundation for providing sustainable solutions to effectively, prudently and proactively manage water resources today while accounting for future needs," said Dan McCarthy, President and CEO of Black & Veatch's global water business. "Our team is experienced in water and wastewater utility operation, power plant operation, agricultural water needs and environmental concerns. It will gain consensus around a program of actions that best balances the regions' needs within available water resources as the state of Georgia plans for sustainable future water supplies."
Black & Veatch will work with the Middle Chattahoochee, Upper Flint and Lower Flint-Ochlockonee Regional Planning Councils in using water resource assessments and population projections up to 40 years into the future to develop realistic estimates of future water use. To identify the gap between need and availability, those estimates will be compared to the availability of water resources. To bridge the gap, Black & Veatch will work with the councils to identify the right mix of new water source development and implementation of water conservation practices in the region to accommodate needs within the available resources.
The Middle Chattahoochee, Upper Flint and Lower Flint-Ochlockonee regions are located adjacently in the west and southwest portions of the state, and they include 38 of Georgia's 159 counties – approximately 24 percent – and two of the state's largest metropolitan areas: Columbus and Albany. The regions also include three of the state's 14 major river systems, four lakes or reservoirs and several groundwater aquifer systems.
Quarterly drafts of the WDCPs will be prepared later this year followed by a review of water management practices. By mid-2011, the Georgia EPD will seek to adopt the finalized regional plans for implementation.
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