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Dave Murphy is up to his neck in ag policy issues—and that's a lot considering he's 6'5". The native Iowan is a founder of Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots community on a mission to establish a sustainable food system in order to address the problems created by industrial agriculture. When I called Dave, he was waiting anxiously by the phone for word from Des Moines, Iowa on the state's ag-gag bill that that many believe is an attempt by agribusiness to hide inhumane and harmful factory farm practices from the public. Dave gave me the inside scoop on the bill and the details of his plan of attack. He was also waiting on word from Washington regarding a piece of legislation that would regulate antibiotic use. Life is full of 16 to 20 hour work days for Dave—you can call it an obsession, but Dave knows the power of the sustainable agriculture movement—and he knows exactly how to harvest it.
How did Food Democracy Now! start?
Basically it started with a conversation between friends. In 2006 I became pretty frustrated with how legislators were not responsive to the needs of the average citizen. I met Paul Willis [hog farmer, Manager of Niman Ranch Pork Company and owner and operator of the Willis Free Range Pig Farm in Thornton, Iowa] and some others, one of who was Lisa Stokke [co-founder and associate director for Food Democracy Now!] and we reserved the URL for Food Democracy Now! in the summer of 2007. In 2007 and 2008 I worked very closely with Democratic candidates in Iowa trying to get sustainable agriculture ideas in front of their policy teams. I tried to get them to implement ideas that would be more beneficial to family farmers and sustainable ag practices. About a month before the election, Aaron Woolf [director and producer of King Corn] called me and said I think we really need something, a website or forum, where we can talk about these cultural issues on a national level but from a Midwestern standpoint but try to explain these issues to a larger urban audience and legislators.
I emailed Paul and said we should set up a call with the Obama transition team about why they had to pay attention to sustainable ag and the growing local food movement. It was him, myself, Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, Dan Imhoff and some others. Paul, Lisa and I felt that it was important that a very progressive slate was recommended for positions at the USDA and because of that I came up with a list of six people that should be considered for secretary of agriculture with an understanding that those people had a background in sustainable agriculture and had grassroots understanding of the issue. Then I knew, they're going to have a conference call, they're going to be polite and listen to us and then they're going to put our list in a filing bin and pay no attention. So then I thought maybe if we put the list online for people to sign in support of, we can show that these people have a broader base constituency. That was right before Thanksgiving and we had seven to ten people who signed it right away, then by December we put the letter online and within a week we had like 55,000 signatures.
I've been in politics for over 20 years. Politics is really my first love, more than anything else. And I'm a former conservative republican. When I was in college I was an editor of the Dartmouth Review which was the original conservative college newspaper. I was a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. So I know how the other team plays ball. This was our opportunity to come up with a plan and strategy to influence the administration to make really solid choices, to have people in office that have at least an understanding of how sustainable agriculture works and why it's important.
So really, it all started when Paul, Lisa, Aaron and I got together and talked about the fact that Iowa has been plowed under, that our state legislature had really never written any rules to protect farmers or the environment. Living in these small town communities, we talk about the local food movement, and it's something we have a great deal of hope for as well as desperation when it comes to what it means for health and also for farmers.
We know that you grew up in Iowa and left for a while, and then came back. You've said that you never thought farming was your calling—what exactly led you back to agriculture?
I was raised a conservative republican and evangelical. If I was sick on a Sunday I had to watch Jerry Falwell. I knew neo-cons when they were larva and I didn't like their close-minded attitude. And I figured out in college that I wanted to write fiction and then I got my MFA writing fiction from Columbia. I moved down to Washington DC and then I eventually got a job at the department of labor. I got a call in June 2006 from my sister who lived on a farm with her husband and four kids and she was frantic saying "You're not going to believe this: they're going to build a 5,000-head hog confinement half a mile from my farm." It's an environmentally sensitive watershed, she has four kids and her two youngest boys have severe asthma. So I did some research and wrote some things for her. I helped her get through town hall meetings she would speak at. She said that after these meetings were over, these farmers in the area would intimidate her and be angry with her at the fact that she was trying to stop this one "farmer" – I mean this guy wasn't really a farmer; he owns a gravel extraction business, so he owns land in that area. She kept asking me to come home, and I said I can't really do that, I have loans to pay. And about six weeks later my dad called, and my dad is a very conservative, fiscally responsible guy, and goes, "Well you know, can you come home? We're going to need you." I had a job, was paying my bills and student loans, I had a girlfriend there and we had a house together, so I figured I'd come back there after two months and forget about it. Needless to say that did not happen.
So I got back [to Iowa], and took a look at the situation politically. Republicans have always been for hog confinements and against any laws allowing for local elected officials to have a say as to where these hog confinements are in the county or community. Democrats had always basically run on the idea that local control was a good idea. So in 2006, Iowans elected a democratic governor and they won the house and senate. It seemed like we would get something we'd been fighting for for 15 years: local control and for county officials to have some direct authority over CAFOs. So I stayed in Iowa and worked in the Iowa legislature. So then Iowa democratic leadership refused to allow a vote on local control. Even though several bills were on the table in the house and senate, they still failed to really push for local control. And the governor failed to push for it.
Basically, I stayed in Iowa because I was outraged because of the lack of democratic input that rural Iowans had in terms of how these buildings, these factory farms, were going to be placed in our communities. I saw how every time one of these buildings was going to be built in a community, 90% to 95% of people in that town were against it. Yet every time it got proposed, despite the objections of people in that community, the local officials always approved it because they did not have any reasonable authority to oppose it. So there is major loss of democratic rights here in Iowa, and I think more than anything that's what keeps me involved.
Here's a question that stems from the curiosity of a food advocate working in NYC—what is it like to be in your line of work in the Midwest?
The opportunities and the challenges in rural and urban America are the same. I lived in New York for five years, a block south of Harlem for year, and I would say there is no difference in terms of what we're fighting for. The minor details might differ, but it's about access to healthy food; it's about having your rights as a democratic citizen in the United States of America being respected or being trampled upon by multinational corporations and about your elected representatives either going along with that or standing up for you. The problems that are impacting inner city mothers are the same problems that are affecting mothers in small towns in Iowa – access to healthy fruits and vegetables and foods that aren't processed; having grocery stores where you can buy healthy food for your family outside of the ubiquitous nature of fast food chains everywhere.
You've said that it's important to turn the battlefield from being on moral grounds to economic ones—why is this the road to take?
I think every issue that we work on is a moral issue and the same is true on budget choices. Those are moral decisions that they're making in Washington. Who gets what amount of money to pay for what, whether tax breaks go to large corporations, or smaller business on main street, or families, or if it's an extra six cents for school lunch. Those are ultimately moral decisions. When I said that I'm certainly aware of that fact, I think it's important for people in our movement to realize that people who are farming are doing it to make a living. It's not a lifestyle, it's a business. I would say the moral and economic arguments are on our side. If you produce local, regional food economies, they are going to have an added economic benefit and a more rich economic life than any type of commodity agriculture based on high concentration and monopolies. Dozens of studies prove that if you have Walmart or a big box store, that dollar only turns around in the economy one or two times. Less than two times in the local economy. But if you have a local business or local farmer paying people in the town to work for him, that dollar turns around in the community seven times. Now that's an important economic factor that local economies have that industrial agriculture can never replicate.
How do grassroots organizing and big-media type strategies intersect and what are the advantages of this collaboration?
I just think that it's vital. We have 250,000 people that are members of Food Democracy Now!, more than a quarter million farmers and American citizens that that we can reach when an important issue comes up and their voice can make a difference. I think it's vitally important to be able to broadcast info, whether it's a call to action, or a problem, to as many people as possible to call them to the table to express their voice. It can make people aware of what's happening in one community and have it broadcast around the world. One of the reasons we started Food Democracy Now! was to have a group from the Midwest, specifically in Iowa, because the power agribusiness has here, and because what happens in Iowa doesn't stay in Iowa – it impacts people in Brooklyn and Berkeley, in India and Mexico.
Who do you think are the people in politics now who are really going to go to bat for small farmers?
My first answer would be not enough. I would say that most of our representatives, and most people, have no idea how food arrives on their plates or agriculture. They know something, it's not enough. There is a core group of legislators that understand it and from very different points of view, but there are a group of people in congress. The first people I would rattle off are Rosa DeLauro, Marcy Kaptur, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jon Tester, Sharon Brown and Chuck Grassley. Chuck is a Republican and a commodity guy and farmer, but he understands basic economic unfairness and he has worked trying to get fairer marketing livestock rules passed. Tom Harkin is always great on child nutrition and also conservation issues. There are people that are good on specific issues in agriculture, but you know, it is not a large body.
Who are some of your heroes?
I am really fortunate to know Paul Willis and Lisa Stokke and a lot of farmers in Iowa. Denise O'Brien, Francis Thicke, Ron Rossman and Jan Libbey, the farmer that does my CSA. People that stir things up in a state where industrial agriculture is not just the norm and status quo, but also the way that things are done. And they said you know what, this is not good enough and we can do better. And they made a difference in Iowa. I've drawn a lot of inspiration from Lisa, Paul, Jan Libbey and Denise O'Brien. They stood up to the belly of the beast and said no. No more. It's people I hear from every day on our list, trying to figure out how to improve things in their own community. Obviously a lot of my intellectual heroes in the movement would be Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Fred Kirschenmann, Joan Gussow, Francis Moore Lappe—people that have been part of the movement, people who have really formed the intellectual basis of the kind of work that we're trying to do here on the ground. Our movement for me is full of a lot of great voices for inspiration and I see it every day on listservs, like Comfood, or when I read stories on other organizations or blogs like Grist or Civil Eats, or Huffpo or Alternet – those are the people and those are the voices that are going to make sure that we're going to win. The food movement for me is a democratic movement, and I am really inspired by the people who are making these hard choices on a daily basis. My heroes are basically anyone that picks up a fork and decides to change the way they eat.
After talking to you for a while this seems like a silly question to ask, but what do you do in your free time? What do you do to relax?
Well I don't honestly have free time. I get in trouble from Lisa and my mother all the time and I lock myself in my room and work 12 to 16 hours a day, six and seven days a week. Since we started three years ago, I've probably slept less than five hours a night. It's critically important work and we have a chance in this administration, a very narrow window from when Obama was elected; four to eight years to get changes made. The other side's prepared. They have billions of dollars to stop every reform we want. They have all the money to undo any small minor change we can get—and they work day and night; they have a stadium full of lobbyists to lie to the American public and elected officials. So I'm not unique in the fact that I'm obsessive about this work, I'm pretty dedicated to it. I do take time off, and when I do I like to read and go for a walk, I like to kayak; it's good to be outside in nature. I like to garden, I'm good at that and watering but not so good at weeding—but you gotta do it. Lisa's pretty good at it and I've tripled the size of her garden in the past three years.
Do you have a favorite food?
I like vegetables and salads. I was a vegetarian for seven years in my 20s and early 30s. Kale and Brussels sprouts are probably my favorite vegetables, nothing very sexy. Kale is one of the most nutritious things you can eat. I like bacon—I never used to like bacon, this is so weird, until I moved back to Iowa and I tried Paul's bacon and farmers who raised their pigs on pasture. It's such a remarkable difference.
What is it that keeps you optimistic about the future of sustainable agriculture?
At all times I switch between extreme optimism and a great deal of disappointment—in elected officials and the people that are running these corporations. These people running these corporations are human beings, they're just like us – the problem is they have the wrong value system and they have the wrong beliefs. They're operating on a short term benefit basis, and they're not willing to look at the broader picture and the long-term effects of the decisions and the operating processes that their mode of actions are having on the planet. One thing that keeps me optimistic is having been a history major in college and knowing my family's history – my ancestors first came here in the 1630s to Virginia. So I have an understanding of power and how abuse of power works. And from a historical standpoint, and I realize that the local food movement or sustainable ag movement, whatever you want to call it, is the extension of the environmental movement—and we are just gathering steam. And the other side is running scared, in fact they are panicked. We have them on the run. That's why you have these ag gag bills being placed in MN, IA, FL, NY – it's because they know people see those practices, that they are outrageous, unfair inhumane and unjust. You can only hide lies and injustices for so long. The American people do have an innate sense of fairness and justice. Right now we're seeing industrial agriculture unravel much sooner than they can imagine or than anyone on our side can imagine. The wheels are falling off industrial agriculture faster than the mainstream media can write about it.


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THE UK government's consultation on plans to change copyright law - dubbed "Consultageddon" by the Creators' Rights Alliance - was published in December. The deadline for responses to the 171-page document is 21 March. It outlines plans to implement all the recommendations of the Hargreaves review last year - which means it is a powerful symbolic attack on the rights of creators - including those who produce journalism in words and pictures.
Work continues feverishly to decipher what the proposals would actually mean for journalists' incomes and set priorities for campaigning.
One late addition - not recommended by Hargreaves - that has caused much alarm is a proposal to widen the "exception to copyright" under which educational establishments may use parts of works without permission or payment.
The existing "British model" of an exception that applies only until there is a licensing scheme to collect payment from schools is held up internationally as good practice - but the consultation leaves open the possibility of killing it, and depriving those who create books and other works used in schools and colleges of an important source of income through their collecting societies. The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society is collecting evidence of the effect this would have - see www.alcs.co.uk
Another proposal which is wrong in principle and, probably, in Eropean Union law is finally to legitimise the common practice of "private copying" of works - but with the mandated "fair compensation" to authors set to zero. (Photographers are "authors" for this purpose.)
There are plans to set up schemes to license use of individual "orphan works" (those whose creators cannot be identified) and - much more significantly - for "exctended collective licensing". ECL would allow organisations such as the BBC and the British Library to write one cheque to each collecting society for permission to use, for example, works in its archive - without inquiring who held rights in them.
Neither of these is acceptable unless (among other things) at the same time the law is amended to give all creators the right to be identified and to defend the integrity of their work - rights which current law denies to journalists, whether textual or visual.
Both are tied to government regulation of collecting societies. We will support the suggestion from officials that if ECL is to happen, a collecting society should need a vote of its members to approve a scheme.
Then there are the frankly sarcastic proposals - such as an exception allowing use in parodies (which would appear to require legislation to define the meaning of "funny") and to deprive anyone who writes hymns of any income at all.
The NUJ will be responding in the strongest possible terms and activists are booked up solidly with meetings with officials for the foreseeable future.
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LNG plays an important role in our strategy to meet the growing demand for safe, reliable natural gas in the states served by its utilities. Pivotal LNG, a wholly owned subsidiary, is at the forefront of bringing an environmentally friendly, cost-effective alternative fuel to companies and industries that today rely primarily on liquid fuels such as diesel and propane. Pivotal LNG currently owns and operates six liquefaction facilities and sells LNG as an alternative fuel for transportation and other high horsepower applications in the wholesale market. We also use each of our LNG facilities for peak-shaving, which supply gas when customer demand is highest.
The largest, the Riverdale LNG plant located in Riverdale, Ga., has storage capacity of 31 million gallons or 2.56 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas in its two storage tanks. Located south of Atlanta, the plant is supplied by two interstate pipelines. It is connected to Atlanta Gas Light's beltline pipeline system for distribution of gas to the Atlanta market. The plant is able to deliver 400,000 Dth/day of gas during peak send-out.
The Cherokee LNG plant, located north of Atlanta in Ball Ground, Ga., has a single storage tank with a capacity of 24.4 million gallons or 2 Bcf equivalent of natural gas. The 934-acre site was designed to accommodate a second tank of equal capacity if warranted. This plant receives supply from three pipelines and can deliver an equivalent of 625,000 Dth/day of peak send-out to Atlanta Gas Light's Atlanta market.
Southern Company Gas also owns and operates an LNG plant in Macon, Ga. This plant's single tank storage capacity is 18 million gallons or the equivalent of 1.5 Bcf, although the plant is capable of delivering up to 140,000 Dth/day. The Atlanta Gas Light distribution system has been constructed in a way to allow this plant's send-out to be sent into the Atlanta area of the system if demand requires it.
In Tennessee, Chattanooga Gas receives peak day supplies from its Chattanooga plant, which holds the equivalent of 1.2 Bcf. This facility is supplied by two pipelines and can currently deliver up to approximately 62,000 Mcf/day to the Chattanooga Gas market, a load limited amount.
We also own an approximately 60,000 gallon-per-day liquefied natural gas facility located in Trussville, Alabama. The Trussville facility is our first LNG facility dedicated solely to the merchant market.
In Virginia, Virginia Natural Gas has access to the Columbia Gas Transmission Company's Chesapeake LNG facility. This plant is located at the end of the Columbia Gas pipeline on the south side of the Virginia Natural Gas service territory. Access to this facility provides Virginia Natural Gas with a send-out capability of up to 52,090 Dth/day and a storage capacity of 778,500 Dth.
The estimated total capacity of LNG storage facilities in the lower 48 states as of mid-2001 (excluding marine facility storage) was 86 billion cubic feet (Bcf). Our storage capacity accounts for more than 8 Bcf or more than 9 percent of that total. The 7.3 Bcf of our storage also comprises 33 percent of the existing LNG storage in the Southeast.
In addition, we own two portable vaporization units that can be transported to any location in the our system. When coupled with tractor-trailer LNG tankers, these units can supplement our utilities' pipeline system. This service is critical to avoid loss of service to customers in times of peak demand.
To learn more about LNG and how Pivotal LNG can help meet your fueling needs, please visit pivotallng.com or contact Tim Delay at email@example.com.
Propane-air storage is also a common choice for utilities to meet their short-term peak demand energy needs. However, unlike LNG, propane is not pipeline-quality gas. It must be blended or mixed into a flowing gas stream.
One advantage of propane-air plants is their ability to be refilled via supplies that are trucked in, eliminating the need for a directly connected pipeline. In times of critical need and without other cost-effective options, propane-air plants can be a valuable supply option.
Southern Company Gas owns and operates three propane-air plants. Two are located in the southern part of the Virginia Natural Gas system. The first propane plant is capable of supplying up to 40,032 Dth/day, with a storage capacity of 247,171 Dth. The second is capable of sending out up to 28,800 Dth/day, with a storage capacity of 288,000 Dth. The third propane air plant is located in the northern part of the Virginia Natural Gas system. It has a storage capacity of 213,019 Dth equivalent and send-out capability of up to 18,348 Dth/day.
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Unofficial Jelly Bean Update on Xperia Active Via CM10
Android Jelly Bean 4.1 is the talk of the town these days. Sony Mobile does not give any sort of official confirmation that whether Sony 2011 handsets will get official Jelly Bean update. But you don't have to worry much. You can get flavor of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on Sony Xperia Active via CM10 ROM. Thanks to FXP team that this ROM came into life. It is good for those who love experimenting. The only issue with this ROM is, just like any other CM ROM this does not come with GAPPs. But you can flash this separately and later on Google Now and other apps would work.
If you wish to try CM10 Jelly Bean ROM on Xperia Active you need to follow the instructions and guide that are given below. But before that it would be better if you go through the pre-requirements and disclaimer below.
Pre-Requisites for Installing CM10 on Sony Xperia Active
- You need to root the phone.
- You must unlock the bootloader.
- Install CWM Recovery.
- Nandroid back up.
- Install ADB drivers.
Disclaimer: Even though while installing CM10 Jelly Bean on Xperia Active rooting the phone and unlocking the bootloader are the pre-requisites, it should be noted that these acts are risky and takes away the warranty of the phone. Also, rooting, unlocking bootloader, CWM recovery along with installing custom ROM on an Android handset can be risky. You must take these things up at your risk.
Note: We would also recommend that you should take up such things only if you have enough technical knowledge and Android exposure. Those who are quite new in this area should avoid taking such risks. This is because any small mistake can brick your phone or you may lose your data. Also, it would be wise to take a detailed back up of your phone first so as to avoid any mishap.
However if you have made up your mind that you want to install Android Jelly Bean 4.1 on Xperia Active then you can go through the procedure as given below:
1. Install a Recovery
2. Flash Rom
3. Flash gapps
4. Wipe (only required 1st time)
5. Flash kernel (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
2. Flash Rom
3. Flash gapps
4. Wipe (only required 1st time)
5. Flash kernel (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
Now, you will ask where is the link from where we can download unofficial Jelly Bean update for Xperia Active? Well, just below where the article ends we have provided the source link. From there you can download the required files. But kindly read the entire post carefully first.
Meanwhile, we would like to thank FXP team which has provided WT19i users a chance to have Jelly Bean on Active. Do let us know how you found this post. Also, share your doubts and comments here in the comment section. We will try our best to get your issues solved as soon as possible.


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Hawks-Spurs Preview
The San Antonio Spurs are trying to avoid their first
consecutive losses of the season. They should have a good chance to
do it against an Atlanta Hawks team they've dominated over the
The Spurs look to bounce back from their first home loss when
they go for their 16th straight victory over the Hawks in San
Antonio on Monday night.
This game also marks the return of Atlanta first-year coach Mike
Budenholzer to San Antonio, where he spent nearly 20 years as a
video coordinator and assistant coach.
After winning their first seven home games, the Spurs (14-3)
trailed by 23 before coming back to take a late three-point lead
against Houston on Saturday. The Rockets, however, scored the final
nine points in a 112-106 win.
Tony Parker returned from a one-game absence because of an ankle
injury and finished with a season-high 27 points. Tim Duncan had 20
and Marco Belinelli added 18 with four 3-pointers for San Antonio,
which has dropped two of three.
The Spurs will try to get back on track defensively after
allowing a season-high point total at home. They had given up an
average of 89.3 in their previous seven in San Antonio.
"It's a great lesson for us," coach Gregg Popovich said. "When
you play a good basketball team, you've got to come with passion,
an edge and aggressiveness for 48 minutes – and we did that for a
Parker appeared to be fine after missing Friday's 109-91 win at
Orlando, hitting 13 of 27 from the field. The five-time All-Star,
though, has averaged just 12.6 points and 40.9 percent shooting in
his last five home games against the Hawks (9-9). He missed the
most recent meeting April 6 because of a neck injury.
Duncan led the way with 31 points and 14 rebounds in that
contest, while Kawhi Leonard scored 23 in the 99-97 home win.
Duncan has never lost to the Hawks at home in 14 career
Atlanta seeks its first win in San Antonio since Feb. 15, 1997,
having lost the last 15 visits by an average of 17.5 points. The
Hawks have averaged 85.7 points and 41.5 percent shooting during
that skid, and they're slumping heading into this matchup.
Since scoring 101.8 per game and shooting 47.3 percent during an
8-5 start, they've averaged 90.4 and 41.8 while dropping four of
Atlanta cut an 18-point, third-quarter deficit to 81-79 with
9:42 left before falling 108-101 in Washington on Saturday. Paul
Millsap had 23 points and 10 rebounds while Al Horford scored 16
and Jeff Teague added 15.
"We're trying to find ourselves as a team, trying to put it
together," said Horford, who has missed two of the last three
meetings with the Spurs due to injury. "Hopefully we can get it
going. I think we will."
Teague, averaging a team-high 17.3 points, has scored 11.5 and
shot 30.2 percent in his last four road games. He finished with six
points while going 3 of 11 in last season's loss in San
Backcourt mate Kyle Korver may not be able to play after missing
the past three games with a bruised rib. He has made at least one
3-pointer in 88 consecutive games, one shy of Dana Barros' all-time


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More solar projects in the forecast
BRATTLEBORO -- A Windham County company is planning to open at least four new community solar farms in the coming few years.
Soveren Solar, a Westminster company, is going to start construction in the spring on a 150 kilowatt solar farm in North Springfield, and company founder Peter Thurrell said he is finalizing land leases in Townshend and Westminster, and at least one other location, for his other community solar farms.
Under the community solar model, any Green Mountain Power customer can purchase panels in the solar array and the credit the panels generate are used to pay for the electricity that is consumed in the customer's home or business.
"Vermont has the best net metering legislation in the country," Thurrell said. "Solar power has never been this affordable. For the first time ever it is cheaper to invest in solar panels than it is to pay for electricity every month."
Thurrell said he has the North Springfield site secured and is finalizing deals in Westminster and Townshend.
Each farm will produce enough electricity for about 25 households.
An average household needs between five to 10 kilowatts.
He said Soveren hopes to find additional locations as more customers look to be involved with the community solar projects.
Along with the state's net metering law, which allows customers to generate electricity off any solar array and use those credits against the electricity used at the home or business, the cost of solar panels has also dropped.
"There are no more hurdles for people to get around. Any GMP customer, including former CVPS customers, can be a part of this," said Thurrell. "The strong state support for renewable energy is making this possible."
Customers who purchase the solar panels can also use a 30 percent federal tax credit to help bring the price down on their investment.
Vermont also offers a 7.2 percent investment tax credit.
Thurrell said Soveren is donating 10 percent of the total credits from the community solar farms to a non-profit organization in the community where the farm is located.
The Springfield Food Co-op will receive the first donation from the North Springfield solar farm.
All maintenance and upkeep is included in the purchase price.
Depending on the size of the home or business, payments on the investment can be about equal to the average GMP bill.
It will take about 15 years to pay down the equipment, after which the power generated is free.
"Community solar makes it possible for anyone to have solar power, even if they don't own their own home," Thurrell said.
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Handed down to myself was that the kenny name was indeed English , The people themselves were of irish origin , the Kenny name was given to distinguish them from other clans,, Any information greatly appreciated, thank you,,,
john joe kenny dingle kerry ire
Update: Leitrim Genealogy Centre confirmed that Ó Cionnaoith were predominant in Connacht when compared to Mac Cionnaoith.
Is it correct that the McKenny's of Roscommon were descended from the Kenny clan probably much more so than McKenna clan of Monaghan? According to P. Woulfe, McKenna "family" was a client clan of O'Connor in Roscommon, which hardly sounds like that line would be responsible for any major proliferation.
Is it probable that most McKenny's in Roscommon descend from the Kenny clan rather than McKenna clan of Monaghan? Patrick Woulfe stated that a "family" of McKenna's were clients/followers of O'Connor's, which doesn't sound like they would proliferate in big numbers.
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Family tree of Herde, Ratcliff, and Lemons families. Other family names are George, Herde Porter, Key, Jones, Lemons Parker, Lincycomb, Johnson, Ratcliff, Ross, Schooler, Hawkins, VanSkyke, Wharton, Bourne, Pagel, Preusner, Preussner, Brewer, Bartholmew, Williams, Emery, Price, Daniels, Broadwell, Richards, Pardon, Bogardus, Searing, Whitehead, Wilmot. Is all this information exactly right? Probably not, but I try.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Bonnel, Bunnell, Broadwell, Brooks, Bygote,Daniels, Price, Searing, Williams, Wilmot, Brewer, George, Herde
Thomas Bonnell (Boonell), born 1540 Hondschoote, Ypres, Flanders France; died 1607 Norwich England. Married Jacque Marei Bygote (alternate middle name: Niarie). Jacque was born 1540 Hondschoote, Ypres, Flanders, France.
Thomas Bonnell (b 1540) and Jacque had a son named Benjamin Bonnell, born sometime between 1580-1510 in London England. Died after July 1655 in London England. Thomas Bonnell married Rebecca Brooks, born 1595 Cheshire England.
Thomas Bonnell and Rebecca Brooks had a son named William Bunnell, born 1610 in Cheshire England. Died 18 August 1699 New Haven CT. William Bunnell married Annie Wilmot, born 1614 in New Haven CT, died May 1654 New Haven CT.
Some reference note that William Bunnell came to America about 1630.
Nathaniel Bonnel (Sr.) b: BET 1600-1610 in England, d: sometime after 1654; and Ann Wilmot, b: BET 1610-1619 in England. Married Susanna Whitehead, born 1648 or 1650, died 12 February 1778 in Springfield NJ. (Alternate first names for Susanna are Suzanna and Susannah)
The house that Nathaniel built at 1045 East Jersey Street was built before 1682 and may be the oldest house in Elizabeth NJ. It has been renovated and was headquarters for the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at one time.
Nathaniel Bonnel (Sr) and Susanna Whitehead's son's name was Nathaniel Bonnel Jr., born in 1669. Nathaniel Bonnel died 4 September 1736. Nathaniel Bonnel Jr. married Mary Searing. Mary Searing was born about 1682 in Elizabethtown NJ. Mary Searing was the daughter of Thomas Searing, born about 1646 in Southwork England.
Nathaniel Bonnel Jr. and Mary Searing had a son named James Bonnel. James was born in 1710 in New Jersey. James Bonnel married Sarah Broadwell. Sarah Broadwell was born sometime between 1712 and 1716. Sarah Broadwell Bonnel died 274 March 1791. James Bonnel died on 27 September 1788 in Scotch Plains, NJ.
James Bonnel and Sarah Broadwell had a son named Stephen Bunnell (Sr).(I have seen Stephen listed as Stephan in some sources) born 1731 in Union County New Jersey. In 1754 in Essex County NJ, Stephen Bunnell married Mary Daniels, born 1734.
STEPHEN BUNNELL Military Information:
from: www.WilliamBunnellFamily.org: Year: 1776, NJ, REV WAR, SERV NY MIL, CAPT SAM JONES CO., HASEBROUCK REGIMENT.
I also found from another source: NY Militia, Captain Samuel Jones' Company, Hasbruck's Regiment. Note spelling difference between Hasebrouck and Hasbruck.
Stephen Bunnell and Mary Daniels had a son named David Bunnell.
David Bunnell was born in 1764 in Scotch Plains New Jersey and died 10 February 1816 in Ohio. David Bunnell was married to Elizabeth Price in 1796 in Mason County Kentucky. Elizabeth Price was born in 1778.
David Bunnell and Elizabeth Price had a son named Barzilla Bunnell, born in 1801 in Mason County KY. He died sometime between 1840 and 1849. Barzilla Bunnell married Nancy Sarah Williams, born 1805 in NJ.
Barzilla Bunnell and Nancy Sarah Williams were the parents of Hannah Maria Bunnell, born January 28, 1828 in Indiana.
Hannah Maria Bunnell married Abraham Brewer, a blacksmith, on 8 June 1843. Abraham Brewer was born 24 October 1823 in Green County, PA. Abraham Brewer died in 1906.
Hannah Maria Bunnell and Abraham Brewer's daughter, Annie Laura Brewer, (Alternate middle name Laurie) was born 24 May 1864. Annie Laura Brewer married Francis Marion George on 3 July 1879. Francis Marion George was born on 26 March 1855 in Ottumwa, IA. Francis Marion George died on 8 June, 1930.
Francis Marion George and Annie Laura Brewer had a daughter, Susie Elmira George. Susie was born on 29 September 1886 in Soldier, KS. NOTE: Susie Elmira George went by the name Susan in adult life, but Susie was her legal name. Susie Elmira George married August Ludwig Herde in 1905.
Susie Elmira George died in 1973 in Billings, Oklahoma. Her husband, August Ludwig Herde, lived to be 98 years old. He died on 16 December, 1974 in Billings Oklahoma. Some genealogists show August's name as Augustin. This is incorrect. August was his real first name. It is a German name and is pronounced "Ow-Goost."
2 comments:
- Dan Searing said...
Great blog..was able to go to the Searing references right away. The mentioned Thomas Searing is a sibling of a John Searing, who is in my line..I am looking into the Mary Searing as she is listed as a daughter in two places and your listing does not quite square with info I have...certainly not unusual going this far back....but I would not have known who she was unless I had seen your blog..the Searing name came up in a google alert I have. So we are related, but in a very distant way. Any other Searing info appreciated. And I may link this to blog.searingfamily.com, my own blog on the Searing family. Dan Searing
- January 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- TreeOfGenealogy said...
Hi Dan, I wish I had noted where I located this information on Searing. I'm sorry I don't recall. I think you should hold my information with suspicion for now. But I'm glad if it gives you more avenues to check out!
- January 2, 2010 at 7:11 AM


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The Mariano Misfortune
In so many ways, baseball is more than just some game. Sure, even when it's only May, records, standings, and stats matter. Even this early, insults are fired between fans of rival teams. And even this early when the Yankees look hopeless, I start to freak out. Sometimes I think I need to get my priorities in order…I mean what has gotten into me? I've been studying for finals over watching baseball? Something's wrong there. This isn't just some game – this is my life. Nothing should come between me and my Yanks. The few games I have been able to watch in their entirety, though, haven't been too fun. Watching them lose is one thing, but watching them look lifeless at the plate and fail to hit with runners in scoring position is another. And watching the so-called solid starting rotation crumble before my eyes isn't too enjoyable either. At least the bullpen is a strong point.
About that…
After my last day of classes of my first year in college on Thursday, I thought I would celebrate by watching a Yankee game and taking one night off from doing work. As soon as I put on the YES Network, I saw video clips of the Great Mariano Rivera crashing to the ground of the warning track in Kaufmann Stadium, desperately grasping his knee in pain.
All I could say was, "Great. Do I really curse them when I watch? WHY DO I BOTHER?" Initially, a "twisted knee" didn't sound too bad. But witnessing a wincing Mariano being transported off the field was worrisome.
The night just got worse and worse.
Not only did I remember that I had a biology paper due online by 11:55pm that I had to do all in that night – the bad part was the Yankees made me want to do it. Instead of procrastinating by watching the Yankees win, I actually did my work. They weren't playing well, and I missed their late inning comeback attempt because I was working. But it wasn't enough to win.
A normal loss in May doesn't make me cry. But after finding out the fate of the Great Mariano, it was tough to fight the tears. A torn knee ligament is not a twisted knee. Missing a year isn't missing a few months. And going out on a medical transport vehicle is not going out on the mound at Yankee Stadium. It just isn't right. It shouldn't have ended this way. Oh, this game can be so cruel. It's just like life – it's not fair.
I couldn't watch the postgame. I didn't want to hear or see Mariano in a state like that. I tried to distract myself by working on my communications final project after doing the bio paper. I thought I would feel good about getting stuff done, but no. All I could think about was Mo. Mariano Rivera is probably the most important component of the Yankees I've grown up with. He's the reason the Yankees have won 5 World Series in my lifetime. Rivera is a class act. I admire how honest, down-to-earth, and genuinely kind a man of his stature is. He is the epitome of what it means to be a Yankee: classy, successful, and above and beyond the rest. Rivera is the greatest of all his kind before, and will always be the greatest no matter how many players come and go, no matter how much time passes. He's a legend in my life, and will continue to be so for generations to come. As long as this game is played, Mariano Rivera's legacy will be admired.
Age doesn't matter when you're Mariano Rivera. At 42, he hasn't declined a bit. His skills will not diminish – but his desire might. He's at the age where many players decide to call it quits and devote themselves full time to their families. There was speculation that this would be his last season. But the injury made that seem definite. And that's the saddest part. Mariano has been on top of the world for his whole career – he shouldn't go out because something else made him. That's a decision Mo should have been able to make when he wanted to.
That's why I spent some time venting on facebook that night/early the next morning. Yankees fans – and baseball fans in general – were expressing their sympathies. Even Red Sox fans, who hours before may have been going at it with an enemy Yankees fan, admitted they felt sorry about it.
I was beginning to think 2012 was a lost cause for my Yankees. And I don't care if they don't win – I know you can't win them all. It was just that I felt that the team was lacking something, like that fire or passion that makes the team worth watching. They already lost the excitement of watching a sensational rookie learn and grow on their team, and they lost something that was supposed to be great that they received in exchange for that rookie. The offense didn't seem strong, and neither did the rotation (making the pain of that trade sting more and more). But the bullpen was supposed to be the one thing the Yankee surely had going for them. Losing Mo, especially in such a heartbreaking way, could only destroy the morale and ability of my team – and myself as a fan – even more.
But then again, it is early. Standings and stats really shouldn't matter in May. This silly game has a long way to go. No need to worry myself off the Dean's List yet, right? Have a little faith, girl.
Things seemed to turn around the next day.
"BIG LETTERS," Mo says.
Oh yeah. It's official.
"I'm not going down like this. God willing and given the strength, I'm coming back," declared the Great Mariano.
At this point, a lot of things can get better for this team. I think the tides will start turning now.
This game is crazy. Thank God Mariano Rivera is in better spirits. I'll continue to send my prayers his way.
God Bless you Mariano Rivera. I seriously can't imagine what I'd do without you.
Hopefully I don't have to think about that for many more years.


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Nyack College New Student Housing Application
- All full time Freshmen and Sophomores under the age of 21 are required to live on campus unless living at home with a parent or guardian.
- Moving off campus is only allowed during summer and winter breaks. If you decide to move off campus during the fall and spring semester, you will be responsible for full semester room and board charges that will be applied to your account. No prorated refunds will be processed during fall or spring semesters.
- Students agree to honor and be held accountable for all policies as listed in the Student Handbook, the college catalog, and the financial aid payment plan agreement. It is up to the student to read, know and understand these policies.
- The student will also be responsible for the information stated in the terms and conditions regarding the housing contract as found here.
- All incoming students have a default meal plan of 21 meals per week. Students will have the option to lower their meal plan to 14 meals at the beginning of their second semester. This must be requested prior to the end of the add/drop period.
- Students agree to vacate Nyack College housing during all scheduled closed breaks and holidays. Dates may be viewed online here.
- Students are responsible for completing the housing process and are expected to share this information with their parent or guardian. All requests regarding housing or meal plans must come directly from the student.
- Students and their parents, or guardian, are urged to carefully read the terms and conditions of this contract.
I understand that upon completing this housing contract I will be subject to payment of all room and board fees for the current academic school year. This agreement does not constitute a commitment of admission to the college and may be terminated under the conditions specified herein and on the mentioned documents.
This contract application must be accompanied by a $150 Room Retainer Fee, separate from your $100 Tuition Deposit. This fee will hold a room for you and will be credited to your account with Nyack College. Please note that your Housing Contract will not be considered and you will not be housed until the $150 Room Retainer Fee is paid.
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- Rating:550 lb.
- Length:100 ft.
- Color:Green, Purple
- Model Number:RG1100H
- Brand:Atwood Rope
- Product Type:Paracord
- Country of Origin:USA
- Weight:0.50 oz.
A must have for surviving the zombie apocolypse, this 550 paracord from Atwood Rope Mfg. is excellent for everything from survival bracelets and camping tie downs to survival kits and bug out bags. Paracord use is limited only by your imagination and the number of zombies you encounter. Use it to tie down gear, hang a hammock, or keep backpacking supplies out of the reach of the undead and other creatures. This 550 lb., 7 strand core comes in a 100 foot length so you'll have plenty of slack to handle you tasks.


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by Shirley Tabata Ponomareff
In 1942, national League President Marguerite Wells cautioned that in times of crisis such as war, "the citizen loses sight of government and what government is doing, who is doing it, how it is being done." She summed up the League's objective in that wartime period: the support of democracy. Today, as our country wages a war against terrorism, the League continues in this proud tradition. From the time that the USA PATRIOT Act became law in 2001, the League has actively lobbied in support of legislation that would limit some of the law's extreme provisions. At the same time, it has promoted education through panels and workshops as well as its "Local Voices" project.
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A Three's Company Movie is in the Works – But Who Should Star?
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Three's Company might be taking its wacky high jinks to the big-screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, New Line is negotiating the rights to the late '70s series, and eying He's Just Not That Into's Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein to pen the sc… Read more


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Holiday gift guide 2012
Holiday gift guide 2012
When a disappointing gift shows up under the tree, the result is generally a forced smile and a tepid "Well, it's the thought that counts." But, as we all know, thought gets tossed out the window after hours of shuffling through stores while wearing an expression not so different from those seen on "The Walking Dead." Ideas are the key to a successful shopping expedition, and here are more than a dozen of them to help you finish off your list.
Light bright
Holiday collection candles, $68 by Diptyque, at Space NK at Bloomingdale's, 225 Boylston St., Newton, 617-630-6000, www.bloomingdales.com.
Game of thrones
Jeweled crown pillow, $148 at Patch NYC, 46 Waltham St., Boston, 617-426-0592, www.patchnyc.com.
Have a heart
Heart of Haiti set of two tea leaf nesting trays, $29.99 at Macy's, 450 Washington St., 617-357-3000, and Boston area locations, www.macys.com/haiti. Half of the proceeds from each set sold goes directly to the Haitian artists.
Dashing through the snow
Men's Custom Flying V by Burton, $529.95 at East Coast Alpine, 860 Commonwealth Ave., 617-232-9800, www.eastcoastalpine.com.
Close shave
Man O' the Hour men's grooming kit of shampoo, conditioner, and shave cream at Skoah, 641A Tremont St., 857-350-4930, www.skoahboston.com.
Give them the boot
Chuck Taylor All Star Made in Maine boot by Converse, $350 at Converse, 348 Newbury St., 617-424-5400, www.converse.com
Nailed it
Rococo "Modern Metallica" nail lacquers, $16.50 per bottle at Space NK at Bloomigdale's, 225 Boylston St., Newton, 617-630-6000, www.blooming dales.com.
Knit wits
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May 30, 2002Variation for P2. Instead of traversing right from the belay, head up and take the crack just left of the belay. Pop out of the chimney and make a few blank face moves. Head up to the slightly overhanging, right facing corner and jam through it to the summit.
Aug 3, 2002Question: does P2 of this route end with the East Slab crack? From the belay chair, I traversed 10 ft right and the logical finish was to jump into the East Slab crack (luckily, right where the fun climbing begins!) I looked around for another crack, but all I saw were small seams which looked pretty incipient, i.e. wouldn't take pro well. However, it seems like you could go almost anywhere, just banking on if you can get gear or not; any suggestions? P1 of East of Sun/Cozyhang is a full on one-move wonder---but definitely tricky and 7ish. Good route!
Oct 13, 2002Hey Scott, I think I ended up doing the same finish as you, didn't know that that was the East Slab crack though as this was my first time on the Dome. No matter what it was a blast!! I ended up going up and over the roof almost directly below the tree with the massive flake and a good right foot. You are correct where it looks like it all goes on the face, I think there was a smaller crack to the left that the actual route follows but who knows, it looked a bit shorter with a longer runout. Does anyone know where the correct P2 of this climb goes?
Gary Schmidt
Boulder, CO
Apr 23, 2005For those who may still be wondering I believe p2 goes as follows. From the first belay find a hand traverse crack and follow that a few feet north. Then head up the friction face(about 10 ft left of the east fact crack) with some nice finger pockets until you come to a narrow left rising ramp. Traverse left along the ramp about half way then head up the face on some smallist holds (5.7) until you gain the bigger ledge. Find the obvious crack through the overhang about 15 ft west of the East face (aka Disappearing Crack) roof and jam up the somewhat intimidating looking crack (5.7). From then head straight up to the top. Of course, variations are possible but i believe this is the standard route. Fun climb with some nice variety.
Jul 24, 2005I liked p2 quite a bit. Got in a few pieces of pro towards the start, plugged in a number 1 cam (I believe) at the left sloping ramp, and then scrambled up the slab to the top of the East Slab route. I didn't feel that slab climbing was 5.7, certainly it wasn't as hard as the crux on the first pitch. Rather than go up the fun flake at the top of the East Slab, I went up the crack to the [left]. Fun! Don't know what it was rated in Rossiter, but I've heard it was 5.7, and I'd guess it's around that level. Excellent pro and a fun problem.
Jason Shatek
Nov 21, 2005Did this one on Sunday and thought that it was really good! The first pitch was easy to figure out and the description of P1 above is great. P2 was a bit more ambigious. I followed Gary's recommended line and I though it was fantastic and not too runout. I was able to place a #2 and a #1 in the horizontal crack (at my feet) before going on to the face. Also, the crack at the end is awesome, don't take the easy way out and head over to the finish for disappearing crack, you'll miss some great climbing. I would recommend being solid at the grade as you'll have to do some hunting to find your way to the top, but you can always wimp out and do the disappearing crack finish. :)
Gary Schmidt
Boulder, CO
Nov 25, 2005In re-reading my p2 description above, it should read follow the hand traverse a few feet east instead of north. This traverse is found a few feet below the belay. Fun climb! A number 4 cam is also comforting for the final 5.7 crack/roof thing.
Scott Edlin
boulder, co
Jul 11, 2006Wow, lots of fun! If you belay from the base of the right-traversing handcrack that starts P2 and extend from the anchor, you can coach your second through the P1 crux. P2 climbs the handcrack up and right a short ways, then straight up a funky uneven crack until it ends (#8 Powercam fits here). Climb slab with pockets to the left angling crack (small cam fits here) then up more slab with smaller pockets. This pitch is completely distinct from East Slab. I've drawn the line (more or less) on a copy of Gary Schmidt's picture, showing its relation to East Slab.
Cody Munger
Carson City, NV
Aug 16, 2006I totally got off route the first time I tried this and went up the chimney instead. No pro in that but way easy. Tried again with the guidebook and found the line to be directly to the left of the crack on the East Slab. I've even placed gear on this route when doing some wandering leading the East Slab. The gear looks (and is) sparse, but there's placements in all the right places. Bring a red #1 Camalot for the hole you find halfway up. The crack at the first belay station ate one of my stoppers, rapped down, jumped on it, and it wouldn't budge. All in all, this is the easiest 5.7 on the Dome but very fun, on route or lost.
Matt Gates
Boulder, CO
Mar 25, 2008We did this in 1 long pitch (awesome!). Using longer slings on P1, I never felt any rope drag. Have your communication dialed as you most likely will not hear each other after the leader tops out. Medium nuts and hexes and small/medium cams work well on this one.
Boulder, CO
Jul 11, 2008I second Matt's comment. This is an excellent route done in one (nearly full) rope length pitch with a 60 meter rope. Also, the finish is the first major crack left of the East Slab Finish. The gear is good enough in the slabby sections to prevent serious falls. I placed a pink tri-cam in one of the huecos and a tiny bd nut in the horizontal (slightly inclined) crack midway up the "second" pitch.
John Korfmacher
Fort Collins, CO
Climbed the route on 3/21 with S. Costello. They are indeed small holds (mostly lichenous pockets and slopers) and there is no protection for a good 20-25 feet. It didn't look like anyone had gone that way in some time. The climbing on the East Slab crack a few feet away is better protected and, IMHO, a lot more fun.
However...the exit roof (not the East Slab flake exit) should not be missed. It involves a slightly wild move before groping for a big ole jug and is the highlight of the route. Mar 23, 2009
keith story
Boulder, CO
Jul 22, 2011Hmm. I ended up climbing directly to the right of the roof and into a squeeze chimney. Was pretty fun. Strongly recommend using long slings for this route as rope drag is a pain otherwise.
Jan 22, 2012Done in one long pitch today.
Wayne DENSMORE
Superior, CO
May 1, 2014WTF! I climbed this today, and when leaving the belay 'chair' after pitch 1 and starting the traverse, there are two saw marks! They form a V, slightly backcut, apparently for a small nut!


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Even after all this time, author Stephenie Meyer, the Mormon mother of three who became an overnight literary sensation with the 2005 publication of her young-adult novel "Twilight," can't explain the phenomenon that surrounds the grand romance between vampire Edward Cullen and human teenager Bella Swan, characters played on-screen by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
"I don't know what makes people love it, I don't know what makes people hate it," said Meyer, seated comfortably in a suite of a Beverly Hills hotel. "But I do know that the feeling of being in love is a good feeling. We want to feel that emotion."
"I've always said that," Stewart said to Meyer, sitting beside her. "It's so vicarious. It's not like you are watching two people or reading two people. You feel like you are doing it. It's rare."
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There's no question that "Twilight" is that rare gem: a book and movie property that stokes a kind of unquenchable fire among its largely female fan base. That following has been so sizable and so fervent that the "Twi-hards," as they're called, have helped transform Meyer's supernatural tale into a $2.5-billion business, proving that girl-centric tales can be powerful forces at the box office.
With the fifth and presumably final big-screen entry, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2," due to arrive in theaters Friday, Meyer and Stewart seem to share a bond reminiscent of the connection between Meyer's two protagonists.
Their closeness stems from the unlikely duo's joint goal of ensuring that the beloved material, for all its melodrama, remained intact as it was translated to the big screen. That required them to battle nervous studio executives who wanted Stewart's interpretation of Bella to be less tortured, hardened detractors who railed against overwrought story lines and pop culture satirists who often turned the franchise into its own punch line.
Meyer had already made the leap from Arizona housewife to bestselling author when she first met Stewart, then an up-and-coming actress building her career primarily through roles in indie films. In the intervening years, Meyer's stature and influence as a young-adult author became comparable to that enjoyed by J.K. Rowling or Suzanne Collins, though critics never responded to her writing the way enthusiastic readers did.
Stewart, however, has garnered plenty of acclaim — if not in the often tepidly reviewed "Twilight" movies, then in small challenging roles in films such as Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" or Walter Salles' upcoming adaptation of the Beat Generation classic "On the Road." She's also endured a tabloid celebrity she never planned for thanks to her on-again, off-again relationship with "Twilight" costar Pattinson.
Reaching the end of the saga was particularly satisfying for the actress, who seemed pleased to be able to take Bella to the happy if somewhat complicated conclusion of her journey — and to move on to the next phase of her career.
"I'm so ready to be done," said the 22-year-old.
Directed like its predecessor by Oscar winner Bill Condon, "Breaking Dawn — Part 2" begins with Bella Swan as a newborn vampire and a new mother, whose half-human daughter, Renesmee, threatens to spark a war among various tribes of vampires from around the globe. The ruling class in Italy, the Volturi, wrongly assume that Bella and Edward have transformed a human child into a vampire, something that is expressly forbidden, and gather forces to take down the entire Cullen clan.
The story line gave Stewart the opportunity to bring a new dimension to a character who'd always considered herself ordinary and clumsy; with her supernatural powers, she could be graceful and beautiful, lightning-fast and lethal.
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Directed like its predecessor by Oscar winner Bill Condon, "Breaking Dawn — Part 2" begins with Bella Swan as a newborn vampire and a new mother, whose half-human daughter, Renesmee, threatens to spark a war among various tribes of vampires from around the globe. The ruling class in Italy, the Volturi, wrongly assume that Bella and Edward have transformed a human child into a vampire, something that is expressly forbidden, and gather forces to take down the entire Cullen clan.
The story line gave Stewart the opportunity to bring a new dimension to a character who'd always considered herself ordinary and clumsy; with her supernatural powers, she could be graceful and beautiful, lightning-fast and lethal.
"I played her as human for so long, so the enhanced version of her made so much sense to me," said Stewart, her long limbs folded under her on the couch. "Everything so perfectly fit that I was so amped to do it."
Meyer recalled standing in front of the monitor on the set of the film when Stewart shot her first scene as vampire Bella, nervously anticipating the outcome.
"We were dancing by the monitors — 'Look at her go,'" Meyer said as Stewart pretended to leave the room, not wanting to hear the compliment. "It was such a huge weight lifted. It wasn't a different character. It was Bella, but it was a totally different Bella. It was so exciting."
Her newfound abilities also might help to dispel notions that Bella is too passive a character, a young girl too dependent on her boyfriend as a source of her happiness — though Meyer and Stewart flatly reject that view.
"Flop the roles. If Bella was a vampire and Edward was the human and you changed nothing but the genders, none of that criticism would exist," said Stewart. "It would be 'Wow, he just laid everything on the line for her. It's so amazing, and it must take such strength to subject yourself to that.' Also, the relationship is entirely equal."
"She gets what she wants," Meyer added.
"Plus, she's the one that keeps the bus going the entire time," continued Stewart. "If it was up to Edward, they would have given up at the first movie."
The 700-page-plus "Breaking Dawn" novel was released just a few months before director Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of "Twilight" reached theaters in 2008. The book was met with controversy, even among Meyer's loyal fans. Renesmee's birth is an especially gruesome sequence — one that Condon had to carefully navigate for the previous PG-13-rated movie — and some readers complained about Bella's choice to carry the child to term despite obvious risks to her own health.
There was also grumbling about an ending that felt too soft, too anticlimactic.
"I had a lot of concerns about making 'Breaking Dawn' a movie," said Meyer, who holds final approval on the scripts for the "Twilight" films. "There were a lot of things they wanted to change. There were some serious problems."
Fealty to source material on beloved properties like "Twilight" is always a concern — deviate too much from the book and fans, even those who maybe weren't wild about what was on the page initially, will cry foul. But it was Meyer herself and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who has written each of the five scripts for the films, who devised a new ending over dinner one night in Vancouver while the second "Twilight" movie, "New Moon," was filming.
Of course, neither Meyer nor Stewart will reveal the new conclusion, but Meyer believes the solution is one fans will embrace. She and her star are somewhat less reserved in their elation for the digital trickery used for Renesmee, who in the book is born the size of a normal baby but whose unusual parentage results in rapid growth. (The character is played in the film by 12-year-old actress Mackenzie Foy.)
Stewart was initially asked to hold a robotic doll instead of a real baby for some scenes, but that approach didn't yield quite the right result.
"It was the most creepy, horrific horror doll you've ever seen — and it was mechanical," Meyer said with a laugh. "It's gouging her cheek and sticking to her hair. We reshot the whole thing. We didn't wind up using any of the footage, but that doll was so horrifying. I mean that doll comes to life and kills people."
"They should have had a real baby," Stewart said. "I really missed having a real baby. They were the scenes I looked forward to the most, and then I had this thing. It was really disheartening."
Instead, the filmmakers employed some techniques David Fincher and his team pioneered for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," projecting Foy's face on older and younger girls as the script required.
Stewart and Meyer are ready for "Twilight" to come to a close. Its years of pop culture dominance have taken a toll on the women, particularly Stewart, who appears resigned to the glaring spotlight, though no more comfortable with it.
The two discussed the public's desire to put celebrities on pedestals only to knock them down and the reality of the 24-hour news cycle as the mechanism that's destroyed the mystery of the movie star.
Stewart compared the need-to-know frenzy to the public wanting another movie, one played out in magazines, on the radio and on television, based on the actors' real lives. Things turned especially personal for Stewart last summer when photographs surfaced of the actress apparently cheating on boyfriend Pattinson with filmmaker Rupert Sanders, who directed Stewart in the fairy-tale adventure "Snow White and the Huntsman."
"People are just going to write the movie version of your life and consume it the way they please. I get the inclination to be entertained by that as well, so go for it. Have at it. Take it. Take it," Stewart said, pulling at her cashmere sweater. "But you knew nothing about my relationship before. You know less now. How could you?"
Meyer sympathizes with Stewart's plight. Until the teenage stars came along, the author, a self-described introvert troubled that people felt that they knew her without ever having met her, was the one in the eye of the storm.
For Meyer, life after "Twilight" will involve more movies — Open Road will release writer-director Andrew Niccol's adaptation of her novel "The Host" in March, and she recently produced her own indie film, "Austenland," based on her friend Shannon Hale's novel.
Stewart is moving on as well. She just signed on to join Ben Affleck in the lighthearted film "Focus," in which she'll play a woman who falls for a veteran con-man.
Meyer said new tales set in the "Twilight" universe continue to rumble in her head, but she's not sure she's willing to write them down and reignite the firestorm of publicity and attention.
"The stories are there. I'm just not sure I'd want to get into the hurricane again," Meyer said. "Maybe on my death bed I'll gather everybody around and tell them what happens: who dies, who turns into a bad guy. And then I'll breathe my last breath and be done."
"What a perfect way to end it," Stewart added.
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BRUNSWICK, Maine - Freshman Amy Magnuson captured two individual events and junior Allison Brown paced an impressive team performance in the pole vault as MIT women's track and field continued its strong start to the 2006-07 indoor season. MIT totaled 198 points with the host Polar Bears of Bowdoin finishing just back with 173. Colby finished six points ahead of Tufts for third overall in the team standings.
The MIT women's team showcased depth in every area, and although the Engineers orchestrated just five individual victories, they picked up points in every event. Brown and senior Christine Fanchiang pulled away early in the pole vault for the quick one-two finish, while sophomore Emily Hwang and first-year Margaret Leibovic finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
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A UCLA chemistry professor will face a rare prosecution when he stands trial for workplace safety violations in the death of a 23-year-old research assistant, who died of burns from a lab fire, according to county prosecutors.
Judge Lisa Lench on Friday ordered 43-year-old Patrick Harran to be tried on three felony counts of violating workplace safety standards in the death of Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji, according to a district attorney's statement.
Sangji was in Harran's organic chemistry laboratory Dec. 29, 2008, when she transferred a highly flammable material without wearing a protective lab coat.
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"The accident that took Sheri Sangji's life was a terrible tragedy for our campus, and I can't begin to imagine the devastation to her family. We must remember, however, that this was an accident, not a crime," UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block said Friday in a statement, after the trial was announced.
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Palestinian gunmen operating out of the Gaza Strip shot and wounded two Israeli soldiers patrolling the border fence on Wednesday, as the Palestinian Authority kept apace with efforts to incite future generations of local Arabs to take up arms against Israel.
The two soldiers wounded in the Gaza shooting, one of them an officer, were taken to Soroka Hospital in nearby Beersheva in stable condition. Other soldiers in the unit returned fire on their attackers.
Despite regular claims that true peace is possible, the continuation of Palestinian violence against Israel is inevitable, as the Palestinian Authority has systematically violated its obligation to educate its population for peaceful coexistence. In fact, it has done the opposite.
Yet another example of the Palestinian Authority inciting not only violence, but outright terrorism against Israel occurred recently when it named a local Boy Scout troop after Dalal Mughrabi, the female Palestinian terrorist who managed to kill the most Israelis in a single attack.
Over the past few years, the Palestinian Authority has named numerous streets, town squares, schools, soccer teams and summer camps after Mughrabi, who is seen as a Palestinian hero for her 1978 hijacking of an Israeli public bus and the subsequent massacre of all 37 passengers.
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Last night In "Not delusional" I quoted Prime Minister Olmert during a lucid interval with the Times of London. In her Jerusalem Post column this mornning, Caroline Glick assembles a set of quotes from him that more properly fall under the category of "delusional." I am afraid that Glick's conclusion will serve as a useful guide to the coming days:
As each day passes, Iran's threats and its actions become more and more extreme. Wednesday, the German newspaper Die Welt reported that Iran sent Osama bin Laden's son Sa'ad, who has been living in Iran since November 2001, to the Syrian-Lebanese border to mobilize Palestinian forces in Syria to fight against Israel.
On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made veiled nuclear threats against Britain, the US and Israel when he said, "Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter mistake. If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but then it will be too late."
This statement was followed Thursday by his address to the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Malaysia where he again called for Israel to be annihilated.
THE UNDENIABLE fact is that the nature of the war that Israel is now fighting in Lebanon is not local. It is not about territory. It is about jihad. Hizbullah is not simply a terrorist organization. It is the Iranian army. According to press reports, over the past six years, some 3,000 Hizbullah fighters underwent military training in Iran. Iran and Syria are not simply Hizbullah's patrons. They are active participants in this war against the West in which Israel is a frontline state.
Yet due to Olmert's weak and incompetent leadership and Rice's opportunistic laziness, both the US and Israel are pretending it is possible to see the war as a simple, isolated event. As a result, they are advancing purported solutions, like cease-fires, multinational forces and empty declarations of victory that only increase the dangers.
I think the derogation of Secretary Rice is regrettable; she is executing Bush administration policy for which the president should be credited or criticized. Glick's column — "Amateur hour is over" — otherwise seems close to the mark, if not on it.


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