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Jesus Garera Garcia's Mr Its Country Time began his sophomore year a maiden despite a solid 5-race freshman campaign in 2013. But now it's been his time to shine at Los Alamitos.
The Lousiana-bred gelding by Country Chicks Man has been outstanding in four starts in 2014, his most recent outing resulting in a wire-to-wire 1 ¼ length victory over El Primero Del Ano Derby runner-up Fire Cliff in Saturday's $25,000 Dillingham Handicap. Mr Its Country Time came into this race fresh off a victory in the James Smith Memorial Handicap and earlier this season he broke his maiden in a trial to the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby. His only blemish was a fifth place finish to the iron-tough Viva Mi Corazon in the Winter Derby final on February 15.
Sent off as the 6-5 favorite, Mr Its Country Time was at his finest in the Dillingham, as he left the gate sharply from post number seven on the way to increasing his lead with each stride. Bred by Grant Farms LLC, Mr Its Country Time covered the 400-yard distance in :19.622 while posting a flying final 1/8th of a mile time of :09.44.
"He won it out of the gate," said winning rider Raul Valenzuela. "I felt that we had to beat Spirit Leader because he had finished second to us in the James Smith. My horse had a great start and the way that he was running from there I felt that we would prevail. He didn't miss a step. He just keeps getting better and better."
Mr Its Country Time's current form will give his connections some scheduling options for the second part of the year.
"The way he ran tonight, I will need to talk to the owner and see if he'd like to make the late payment to make him eligible to the Los Alamitos Super Derby," said trainer Juan Aleman. "It's a lot of money to make him eligible ($30,000 due on July 1), but the race offers a big purse and a chance to win a lot of money if he makes it to the final. To be honest, I was a little concern about how he would handle the last 50 yards of this race, but he broke great and his final 1/8th time was like that of the good ones. He finished the race fast."
Aleman added that "after this effort, I'll talk it over with the owner to see if he wants to roll the dice and pay him into the Super Derby. It's an option. If we do not go in the Super Derby trial (October 12), then we'll keep looking for handicap races and wait for the races for older horses next year."
Mr Its Country Time earned $13,750 for his Dillingham win to take his career earnings to $48,216. Ed Allred's Fire Cliff earned $5,625 for running second to take his earnings to $54,908. Carlos Huerta piloted the Walk Thru Fire gelding for trainer Scott Willoughby. Fire Cliff has finished third or better in 10 of 11 career starts.
Kolleen Ledgerwood's Stel Just Me finished in third place for trainer Roberto Dominguez and jockey Cruz Mendez. Smithy, Solo Jess Senor, More Than Wild, Mesa Marvel, Spirit Leader and She Forgives completed the field. Conquer All was scratched earlier on Saturday.

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Apples in the Walled Garden
Apple wants its users to have an optimal experience using its devices. That's what attracted people to the Macintosh and created the cult-like following that defined Mac Users and PC Users.
But it is interesting that not until Apple made the Intel Transition, changing the CPU of Macintosh computers from PowerPC processors to Intel x86 processors, in 2006-2007, that sales really took off, especially for laptop sales. The gate to the walled garden was opened to all who might wonder in to take a gander.
Arguably, many of these new users were like me, intrigued by Apple products, functionality and usability but hesitant to commit because of the high price to pay in terms of leaving behind the years of investment and familiarity in Windows.
What sealed the deal for me was the Mac now appeared to be more open, at least a little more open than before. Now I could install VMWare Fusion and have access to Windows and all the software I use for business, but still be able to use the Mac OSX and all of it's software. I was a new customer and I have to say it will take a lot to get me to switch back.
So why does Apple act so guarded against anyone entering its Walled Garden, is it really so that the user will have an optimal experience? Because I have to say I probably would not have become a user unless they opened the gate the way they did in 2006, intentionally or not.
Recently Apple has been making the case that Adobe Flash is an inferior, evolutionary 'dead-end' technology that won't be allowed entrance into the Walled Garden, i.e., Flash Videos and Flex/Flash Applications will never run on an iPhone or iPad. As Steve Jobs stated at the 2010 D8 Conference "We don't think Flash makes a great product, so we're leaving it out...Instead, we're going to focus on technologies that are in ascendancy. If we succeed, people will buy them and if we don't they won't."
In his now famous memo "Thoughts on Flash", Jobs writes, "Flash was created during the PC era -- for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards -- all areas where Flash falls short."
But what's most interesting about the memo is the definition of 'openness'. Steve Jobs writes that "Adobe's Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system."
He goes on to admit that "Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript -- all open standards." We might also point out here that there is currently only one way to develop and publish an iPhone Application today, and that is to use Apple products.
John Warnock and Chuck Geschke in their rebuttal "Our Thoughts on Open Markets" state "If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind walls, some indeed may thrive -- but their success will come at the expense of the very creativity and innovation that has made the Internet a revolutionary force."
They continue to argue for the consumer "We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs. No company -- no matter how big or how creative -- should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web."
This view of the world is reiterated at the "Open Screen Project" an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe and backed by other industry leaders such as Google, RIM, Intel and Nokia, who as the site says "all share one clear vision: Enable consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere."
The Open Screen Projec asserts that "The number and diversity of devices in our lives is exploding. Consumers want and demand the total Internet, with open access to websites, applications, and services using all devices. The challenge is that fragmentation across devices, operating systems, and browsers hinders innovation. The result? Consumer demands are not being met. The Open Screen Project was established to meet these challenges and expectations. It is an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe with the participation of other industry leaders, to enable the delivery of rich multiscreen experiences built on a consistent runtime environment for open web browsing and standalone applications."
The Open Screen Project goes on to make an appeal to developers "With a consistent and broadly adopted runtime, stakeholders can focus more closely on developing the next-generation experiences that will differentiate their devices, software, and services. Consumers ultimately win with richer, more interactive, and universal user experiences across devices."
Steve Jobs makes his appeal to developers in the final paragraphs of his memo "Our motivation is simple -- we want to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to our developers, and we want them to stand directly on the shoulders of this platform and create the best apps the world has ever seen. We want to continually enhance the platform so developers can create even more amazing, powerful, fun and useful applications. Everyone wins - we sell more devices because we have the best apps, developers reach a wider and wider audience and customer base, and users are continually delighted by the best and broadest selection of apps on any platform."
It is impossible to say how all this will play out, what is certain is that portability between devices, at least between Apple devices and everything else will be an issue for developers in the coming years, at least until Apple owns the market.


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The left must be getting uncomfortable with Obama's extravagant vacations (In India, it's estimated the first family wracked up a $200 million a day tab). Recently, regardless of what I type into Google, up pops a page proclaiming that Bush took 77 vacations. Even if that were true, I'm not sure how that negates Obama's lavish trips...wasn't Bush President for FIVE more years than Barack?
To my knowledge the Obama's have to cover the vacation house rental and food, but the taxpayer foots the bill for most everything else...
Just consider these estimates on part of the costs of the latest Obama Hawaii trip:
* Mrs. Obama's early flight to Hawaii: $63,000 (White House Dossier)
* Obama's round trip flight to Hawaii: $1 million (GAO estimates)
* Housing in beachfront homes for Secret Service and Seals in Kailua ($1,200 a day for 14 days): $16,800
* Costs for White House staff staying at Moana Hotel: $134,400 ($400 per day for 24 staff) – excluding meals and other room costs
* Police overtime: $250,000 (2009 costs reported by Honolulu Police Department)
* Ambulance: $10,000 (City Spokesperson)
But that $1.47 million figure leaves out a number of significant costs that simply could not be calculated by Hawaii Reporter:
* Rental of office building in Kailua on canal
* Security upgrades and additional phone lines.
* Costs for car rentals and fuel for White House staff staying at Moana Hotel (Secret Service imports most of the cars used here to escort the president).
* Surveillance before the president arrives.
* Travel costs for Secret Service and White House staff traveling ahead of the President. (SOURCE)
"The unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans was 10 percent in November, compared with 9.1 percent for nonveterans, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment rates for combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been higher than the overall rate since at least 2005, according to the bureau." (SOURCE)
Vacations are a part of life, but just as President Bush forwent golf while men and women were in harm's way...maybe Obama should forgo extravagance while our nation's warriors are facing unemployment and foreclosures after returning from hell....


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I'm new to Sabayon, having just begun migrating my laptop from Gentoo.
Firstly, I had trouble installing the synaptics driver. The installation borked, telling me that no usable .config file was found in the kernel sources directory. Which, my Gentoo experience told me, was because the kernel sources weren't configured correctly. Under Gentoo I would fix this simply by doing
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ERROR: Failed to compile the "mrproper" target...
Could somebody please tell me what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something quite simple that I have overlooked. I've tried searching the forums but the only references I could find are in Italian (which stupid ignorant white boys like me can't read )
BTW - all software so far has been installed with equo. I haven't tried using emerge in this box yet!


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Retail Lessons from Las Vegas Vacation Part 3 of 3 – Selling the Experience
In Part 1 of the blog I wrote about video technology, part 2 on omni channel, for the third and last part of the blog series I would like to show what Las Vegas is doing in terms of selling the total consumer experience rather than just products and services.
In one sense Las Vegas has always been about selling the experience when it comes to gambling. You don't get a tangible product for your bets (unless you win) but people gamble for the experience. As gaming is legalized in many countries as well as states, Las Vegas has adapted itself to market the Las Vegas experience beyond gaming.
While I was on vacation I visited the Stratosphere hotel and casino which is the tallest structure in Las Vegas which features casinos, restaurants and thrill rides on top. Its latest offering SkyJump (package costs including video via wrist cam and photo) allows participants to jump off the tower at the 850 ft and free fall down and land via decelerator wire. Certainly a customer experience not easily forgotten 🙂
Other examples include
At the Fashion Show Mall Las Vegas, the mall enhanced the shopping experience of shopping with live fashion shows sponsored by vendors a few times in a day. I have visited many fashion shopping malls and many have hosted runway shows. In this case they have a permanant platform that rises from the floor for regular runway shows during the day. This one photographed above was sponsored by Guess brand
One of the signature experiences in Las Vegas is the Bellagio water fountain, not only has it been featured in movies, television shows, it drove the brand of the casino itself, it created a whole ecosystem of experiences in the surrounding properties. Hotels like Planet Hollywood charges a premium for rooms facing the water fountain and this picture was taken at the Eiffel Tower restaurant at the Paris hotel with special tables that face the water display.
As retailers look to consumers that are omnichannel and constantly looking to be entertained and distracted, selling products integrated with experience and service is one approach to success. Consumers today are more apt to share conversation about experiences than the ownership of the product: People talk about the driving experiences of a car rather than the car, latest music they heard rather than the music player they bought. Retailers who can tap into experience selling stands a better chance to drive brand awareness and customer retention.
This is the last of the blog series from Las Vegas. If you are visiting National Retail Federation Conference Expo in New York on January 16th and 17th, please drop by and visit me at Cisco booth #851 and Big Idea Session titled "Catch 'em and Keep 'em. Satisfying Today's Shopper" on omnichannel retailing.
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Introducing Rascal...
34 comments:
- Willowtree said...
I don't know what Mollie wants for her birthday, but I'll have a Ratsak gift pack thanks.
- 10:09 a.m.
- Steffi said...
Oh no,Mollie!That´s not a nice birthday gift to her!
I must laugh about willow´s comment...
- 10:41 a.m.
- ChrisB said...
Joules is very brave I think I would be worried it would poo all over me. If Mollie gets a rat will she look after it!!! Bet you end up with all the work.
Remember what happened when you had a guinea pig!!!!
- 12:05 p.m.
- Beccy said...
Willowtree how could you!
Steffi and Mum, she was gorgeous and so cute. Rats are actually quite clean...for all the time she spent out of the cage she only poohed and wee'd once, unlike the guinea pig.
- 2:26 p.m.
- john.g. said...
A Jack Russell, and a shotgun?
- 4:17 p.m.
- nikki said...
Very few people realize that rats are very clean animals and do make nice pets. He's a cutie.
- 4:24 p.m.
- thefoodsnob said...
Wow, you're braver than I am, I don't think I would want to take care of one even for a few days!
- 5:33 p.m.
- Catwoman said...
I wish you'd told me sooner, I would have sent you my cat! :)
- 7:58 p.m.
- Beckie said...
Yeah, very cute! I'm a little skittish around little animals like that, but he is very cute.
- 8:40 p.m.
- JoeInVegas said...
Hmm, regarding your recent post, I'll be she wants a block of tofu. And a cat.
- 9:00 p.m.
- Karmyn R said...
I'll stick with my rat attackers (cats)
- 9:25 p.m.
- Kila said...
I hear they make good pets. I'll let you go first ;)
- 3:33 a.m.
- lisa marie said...
Oh Rascal you are a cutie!
- 5:07 a.m.
- my4kids said...
I had a friend who had a couple of them and they were pretty clean. I just couldn't really get past the rat thing. They were good pets though.
- 7:26 a.m.
- Barbara said...
We minded the school rates once when the boys were little. They had babies and we were overrun with them.
- 8:25 a.m.
- Sam said...
Will it be a vegetarian rat?
- 6:08 p.m.
- Alison said...
he does look kind of cute!!
Welcome back!!
- 8:51 p.m.
- frannie said...
is she going to get it???
- 3:12 a.m.
- Pamela said...
- 5:55 a.m.
- Debbie said...
Well, he looks cute. But I don't know if I could get over the fact that he's a rat!
- 7:55 p.m.
- elena jane said...
once you get past the whole rat thing, they're supposed to be great pets!! rascal looks cute...we have a skittish gerbil who never gets out of the cage at all!! ;)
ps - welcome back!!
- 10:31 p.m.
- Misslionheart♥ said...
You've been tagged!
- 12:44 p.m.
- swampy said...
...a mouse trap?
- 6:27 p.m.
- Julie said...
Cheese? hahaha
- 2:06 a.m.
oh no no no dont do small furry creatures! hope you manage to talk Mollie out of having one of them!
- 7:03 a.m.
- Sally Lomax said...
No...... I would definitley drqaw the line at rates and snakes...... Even watching ratatuoille gave me the shudders at times!!!!
- 9:33 a.m.
- tiger lamb girl said...
I just can't get past the rat on Joule's shoulder. My first instinct is to say 'Ick!'...but maybe rats are sweet. I dunno....
- 2:15 p.m.
- la bellina mammina said...
Rats!! I better let not let my boys see this and give them any ideas.....;-)
- 4:46 a.m.
- mjd said...
He doesn't look so bad.
- 4:19 a.m.
- Carla said...
I had a hamster once, and she was very cute, but rats have always made me a little squeamish. I hear they make great pets though.
- 6:58 a.m.
- Sally Lomax said...
No...Nothing would ever induce me to have a rat to stay. They have good pest controllers in the Forest of Dean though if you need some help when the first flush of romance on the rat front wears off....
- 11:13 p.m.
- Debbie said...
My Sister in Law had a rat and its red eyes kinda freaked me out. But apparently it was a very nice pet.
- 2:21 p.m.
- dawn said...
My girls are wanting a rat, or a mouse or a gerbil or any small rodent they can get their hands on. I have said nothing smaller than a bunny, which they each have outside.
- 4:27 a.m.
- karisma said...
Well, I clicked over here without knowing it and let me say Rascal is one groovy little guy! My Rupert and he would get along famously! I see a lot of my friends are regulars here! Please excuse me while I go and strangle WT. The shit! (He likes cats!) Really I don't mind cats either, but Ratsak????? He deserves a beating for that one!
Rats are the most wonderful loving little pets! You should so get one!
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Simmonds, Giroux power Flyers past Wildby Adam Kimelman
PHILADELPHIA -- Wayne Simmonds had two goals and an assist and Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist to lead the Philadelphia Flyers past the Minnesota Wild 4-1 on Monday at Wells Fargo Center.
Luke Schenn had a goal, Jakub Voracek had two assists, and goalie Steve Mason stopped 26 shots in the Flyers' ninth straight home win.
The Philadelphia win, combined with the New Jersey Devils' 5-2 loss at the Chicago Blackhawks, moved the Flyers back into third place in the Metropolitan Division.
Mikael Granlund scored for the Wild and Niklas Backstrom made 27 saves as the Wild were swept in their back-to-back set. They lost 4-1 to the New York Rangers on Sunday. They've lost three in a row overall and are 1-7-1 in their past nine road games.
The Wild played without leading scorer Zach Parise, who was scratched due to a lower-body injury. Wild coach Mike Yeo said Parise would be evaluated further Tuesday.
Parise's absence didn't help a team that has 24 goals in its past 15 games and has scored one goal or fewer in eight of those 15 games.
"I'm not going to paint a rosy picture, and I'm not going to make any excuses," Yeo said. "Flat out, we need to be better. It's every one of us. It starts with me. We have to be better. ... There's no way we can accept this. It's not us. We have to fix it. That said, this is the same group that will fix it. I have no doubt. Am I worried? No. Ticked off that we're in this funk. But I also don't have any doubts that we'll fix it."
The Flyers appear to have fixed whatever ailed them. The win improved them to 13-6-3 in their past 22 games after their 4-10-1 start.
They'll take that confidence home for the Christmas break and hope it's there when they return to action with a six-game road trip that starts Saturday at the Edmonton Oilers and includes games at the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and New Jersey Devils over an 11-day span.
"We got to take this show on the road," Flyers forward Scott Hartnell said. "You can't be homers and expect to make the [Stanley Cup] Playoffs and take the next step. We've got to take what we do at home and put it on the road."
Philadelphia led 2-1 after one period despite being outshot 11-5. Minnesota had a chance to tie the game with a two-minute power play to start the second after Simmonds was whistled for roughing at the final buzzer of the first period, but they failed to get a shot on net.
Instead, Philadelphia took advantage when Giroux skated through the slot to redirect a Braydon Coburn shot past Backstrom at 7:46 of the second for his 10th goal of the season to make it 3-1.
The Wild started the third period in a similar situation, with 1:32 of power-play time after a penalty on Voracek with 27.8 seconds left in the second. However, they again failed to capitalize on their chance and failed to get a shot on net.
"That's a critical moment," Yeo said. "I'm not going to sit here and say anything. ... The game wasn't good enough."
Philadelphia took its early lead by scoring on two of its first four shots.
Schenn opened the scoring 1:52 into the game with his third goal of the season. Hartnell took a pass in the Minnesota zone from Simmonds and carried the puck behind the Wild net. He tried moving out in front but lost the puck, which rolled into the right circle for Schenn, who one-timed the puck past Backstrom.
"It was a nice little play," Schenn said. "A chip by [Hartnell] right to me. I was just able to get a shot on net and get it through. I've been trying to get a couple of shots lately, and it's nice to see one finally go in."
The assist was the 500th point of Hartnell's NHL career. He's the 50th active player with at least 500 points.
Simmonds made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 10:51 of the period. With Marco Scandella off for interference, Simmonds finished a tic-tac-toe passing play that saw Giroux throw a puck across the Minnesota zone to Voracek, who threw it back across to the far post to Simmonds for a tap-in goal.
"It was a great play from [Giroux] over to Jake, and Jake found me back door," Simmonds said. "I had a wide-open net, so it was pretty easy."
The assists extended Giroux's point-scoring streak to a career-best seven games and Voracek's to a career-best eight.
The Wild got on the board on Granlund's third goal of the season with 3:17 left in the first. Back-to-back penalties on Brayden Schenn and Coburn gave the Wild a two-man advantage for 1:40. They took advantage when Jason Pominville whipped a pass through the slot to Granlund, who beat Mason with a one-timer for his first goal since returning Sunday from an 11-game absence due to a concussion.
Giroux's goal in the second was his fifth in six games, and Simmonds added an empty-net goal with 57.0 seconds remaining in the third for the final margin.
The Flyers are winless in their past five road games (0-3-2) as they prepare to head off on the six-game trip after the Christmas break.
"Obviously, we've been hot at home," Simmonds said. "We just have to carry it on the road and play like we've been playing at home, and we'll be fine."
Yeo said he's looking forward to some time off as a way for his players to clear their heads and come back better when they return Friday for a game at the Winnipeg Jets, followed by four in a row at home.
"I think the break comes at the perfect time, no question," Yeo said. "I think it's pretty much all between the ears with us right now. ... We have to battle through it. We come back and we get to it."


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Sun, packaged and tinted in a bright, lemony yellow, speaks toward traditional citrus splashes. With minimal sillage and unimpressive tenacity, it's really best for use as a summertime cologne — bright and juicy, like the bitter rind of an tangerine as you peel it, with its sticky-sweet flesh hiding just inside.
Mark Constantine (LUSH co-founder & one of the noses of Gorilla Perfumes) crafted Sun to remind him of "warmer, sunnier climates;" of a roadtrip he had taken down the East Coast, from the New Jersey Turnpike to Cape May. In all honesty, he did an amazing job: though this isn't my sort of scent, I'd have loved it when I was first getting into perfume, and it's well-composed in terms of its notes.
Sun opens as a freshly-cut tangerine, and transforms over the next few minutes to reveal its sandalwood base. One thing I'd say about it is that you really need to treat it like a splash: expect it to be gone within an hour or two, and be prepared to apply both liberally and frequently.
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It's a bit like: A Marc Jacobs Splash or Guerlain Aqua Allegoria (though the Guerlains are really in a class of their own). The notes of Sun make it a good non-perfume perfume, but it's nothing you couldn't find elsewhere.
You might notice: Brazilian orange, tangerine, mimosa, sandalwood.
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- Ph.D., Geology, 1993, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- M. S., Geology, VPI & SU, July, 1989
- B. S., Geology, VPI & SU, 1987
- A. B., Latin Education, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1981
Research Interests
- Alkalinity and acidity measurement and theory in mine drainage
- Municipal solid waste ash characterization and alteration
- Fe(II) oxidation and iron and aluminum precipitation rates in acid mine drainage
- Mine drainage sediments for use as pigment
- Acid precipitation and interactions with geology
- Relating field kinetics to laboratory results
- Acid Mine Drainage Pictures
- Acid Mine Drainage Treatment
- Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling water-rock interaction
- GEOL 103 Physical and Environmental Geology
- GEOL 205 Introduction to Geochemistry - mainly physical inorganic chemistry
- GEOL 230 Environmental GIS
- CAPS 499 24 Acid Mine Drainage Treatment - a Capstone Course for students in several disciplines
- FN090 33 King Coal - an Environmental College Foundation Seminar
- BIOL/ENST/GEOL/UNIV 299 - a team-taught introduction to Watershed System Science
- FOUN 098 55 - Gas Shale: A Pandora's Box?
Selected Publications
Kirby, C. S., and J. D. Rimstidt, 1994, Interaction of municipal solid waste ash with water Environmental Science & Technology, 28, 443-451.
Kirby, C. S., and J. D. Rimstidt, 1993, Mineralogy and surface properties of municipal solid waste ash, Environmental Science & Technology, 27, 652-660.
Kirby, Carl S., and Elder, Jennifer A., 1998, Field determination of Fe2+ oxidation rates in acid mine drainage using a continuously-stirred tank reactor, Applied Geochemistry, 13, 4, 509-520.
Kirby, C. S.; S. M. Decker; N. K. Macander, 1999, Color, chemical and mineralogical composition of sediment from untreated and treated mine drainage: Comparisons to pigment, Environmental Geology, 37, 3, 243-254.
Kirby, C. S.; H. Thomas; G. Southam; R. Donald, 1999, Relative contributions of abiotic and biological factors to Fe(II) oxidation kinetics in acid mine drainage, Applied Geochemistry, 14, 4, 511-530.
Cravotta, C. A. III, and Kirby, C. S., 2004, Effects of Abandoned Coal-Mine Drainage on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Shamokin Creek Basin, Northumberland and Columbia Counties, Pennsylvania, 1999-2001, US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4311.
Kirby, C. S., Cravotta, C.A., III, 2005, Net alkalinity and net acidity in mine drainage 1: Theoretical considerations, Applied Geochemistry, 20, 1920-1940.
Kirby, C. S., Cravotta, C.A., III, 2005, Net alkalinity and net acidity in mine drainage 2: Practical considerations, Applied Geochemistry, 20, 1941-1964.
Kirby, C. S., McInerney, B., Turner, M. D., 2008, Groundtruthing and Potential for Predicting Acid Deposition Impacts in Headwater Streams Using Bedrock Geology, GIS, Angling, and Stream Chemistry, Science of the Total Environment, 393, 249-261.
Kirby, C. S., Dennis, A. and Kahler, A,. 2009, Aeration to degas CO2, increase pH, and increase iron oxidation rates for efficient treatment of net alkaline mine drainage, Applied Geochemistry, 24, 1175-1184.
Rowan, E.L., Engle, M.A., Kirby, C.S., and Kraemer, T.F., 2011, Radium content of oil- and gas-field produced waters in the northern Appalachian Basin (USA)-Summary and discussion of data: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5135, 31 p., (Available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5135/)
Chapman, E.; Capo, R.; Stewart, B.; Kirby, C.; Hammack, R.; Schroeder, K.; Edenborn, H., 2012, Geochemical and strontium isotope characterization of produced waters from Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, Environ. Sci. Technol., 46(6):3545-53.


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10th August 2017
Brigit Carlson reflects on the nature of influence.
It's become impossible to ignore social media. We live in a world where the nightly news spends time dissecting the latest tweets from our President. As communicators, we know that successful delivery of messages lies, largely, in the medium. So how much influence does social media have over people, exactly? And, where, amidst the clamor, does traditional media get its say? What is the interplay between the two?
Last night, in partnership with our friends at Techonomy, we sat down with experts from CNET, FT, Reuters and GE to discuss this.
One of these experts, Connie Guglielmo, editor-in-chief of CNET, immediately came out in strong support of traditional media. News organizations need to offer their readership a buffet, she said, rather than a steady diet of just vegetables or just meat and potatoes. The renaissance of long form journalism and continued support of print editions seem, indeed, to point to this. However, all the technology out there has changed the news cycle. How do you plan content for a print edition even 24 hours ahead of time when anyone can break the news in 140 characters or less?
Reuters technology reporter, Salvador Rodriguez, acknowledged that to be truly influential and engaged on Twitter, he has to think of himself as a 24-hour news channel. While this kind of citizen journalism has, on one hand, provided us with much more timely content and, arguably, pushed reporters to be faster, more accurate and more engaged with their readers, on the other, it has turned the news into a game of telephone.
The panelists agreed on this point – to the modern reader adrift in a sea of potentially fake news, what matters most is a careful handling of the facts and, above all, transparency. Readers want to feel like they have an inside look at what is going on in the media. The way we've seen this play out is evident in two ways: The first, as Hannah Kuchler of the FT put it, readers want to hear about how a journalist was sleeping on the Senate floor at two in the morning to be perfectly positioned to get the scoop. Second, readers want to know that their news is coming from a reliable, unbiased source.
In the age of social media, nearly every adult in America has the UVPM of a small trade pub, and news travels unfathomably fast. The previously mentioned game of telephone can result in not only fake breaking news – headlines like "Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President, Releases Statement", which got almost a million views on Facebook last year – but also fake brand news, the latest Blue Apron debacle being a perfect example. As a result of this, Hannah pointed out, brands are essentially having to become publishers, putting out their own, controlled, content to address any less than savory, or less than accurate, portrayals of themselves that may be out there. Continuing on the theme of the night, Jessica Taylor, Director of Communications for GE Digital, spoke to not only the consistency, clarity and authenticity that readers craved from these branded channels, but also the "inside view".
Readers now want to be invited into the conversation, rather than just reading about it. It is, as Connie said, a push and pull between fact and opinion. Jessica shared how one of the bigger challenges for brands in this regard is having to navigate the brave new territory of taking a tactful stand on things as divisive as political issues. As readers and consumers become more used to being able to broadcast their own thoughts and opinions, and even as they are demanding more accurate reporting, they've also come to expect "realness" and engagement from both brands and media entities.
While our panelists and moderator, David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy, went back and forth on issues of whether social media or traditional press is the most influential, a few things were very clear and agreed on. The landscape is changing. Not only are there more platforms to get news from, there are more voices in the mix. Everyone wants to have a say and wants to know what's going on 'behind the scenes', no longer content to simply believe everything they read, because there is a mind-blowing amount of information out there. At the same time, however, readers are interested in the human element: how did reporting on a war zone personally affect the journalist? Where does a brand's leadership team come down on embattled social issues? Our job as communicators is to help our clients find the balance for their own content and to help provide journalists with the honest, engaging material their readers crave. It was clear that today's top influencers, regardless of their medium, are those who can pull back the curtain and still pull off the show.
Brigit Carlson is a senior account executive in Grayling's San Francisco team. A summary of Grayling's Inside Influence research may be downloaded below. Join the debate on Twitter, using #InsideInfluence.
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The Medical Board of California has launched an investigation into a string of 16 fatal overdoses tied to powerful narcotics prescribed by a prominent Orange County physician.
Dr. Van Vu, a pain management specialist in Huntington Beach, was featured in a Los Angeles Times article in November that detailed the 16 deaths.
A board investigator recently began obtaining signed releases from relatives of the deceased patients, authorizing the board to review their medical records.
"The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind," said Sally Finnila Sloane, whose brother Karl, 43, fatally overdosed on a cocktail of drugs in 2007, including two prescribed by Vu. "I was glad to see that somebody in charge was looking into this so it doesn't happen to anyone else."
IN DEPTH: Read the Times investigation
Charles Thurber, whose 22-year-old daughter Jennifer died of an overdose the same year, said he received a letter seeking permission to access her medical files.
She died after taking multiple drugs, including methadone and morphine prescribed by Vu, coroner's records show.
Thurber said he signed the form and sent it back to the medical board.
"It's definitely warranted," he said of the investigation.
Vu's attorney, Richard Wynn, said the doctor would cooperate fully with the investigation. He said Vu hopes that the medical board will form a committee to develop better protocols for treating chronic pain, and that he will be invited to participate.
"Dr. Vu is more than happy to assist in any way he can to make the system better," Wynn said. "We want not only to comply but to come up with a solution."
Fatal overdoses involving prescription painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs have risen sharply in the last decade, fueling a doubling of drug fatalities in the United States.
Authorities have focused on how addicts and dealers obtain such medications illegally, such as by robbing pharmacies or raiding family medicine cabinets.
A series of Times articles published last year showed that many patients overdose on medications obtained lawfully with a doctor's prescription. By studying coroners' records across Southern California, The Times identified 3,733 fatal overdoses from 2006 through 2011 and determined that nearly half stemmed from drugs prescribed for the deceased by a physician.
A small cluster of doctors — 71 out of tens of thousands practicing in Southern California — were associated with a disproportionate number of deaths. Each of those doctors lost three or more patients to overdoses. In each case, records show that medications prescribed by the physicians caused or contributed to the deaths. Vu was linked to more deaths than any other doctor, the Times analysis found,
Most of those doctors, including Vu, had clean records with the medical board, and there is no evidence that board officials knew about the deaths.
In interviews last year, Vu described himself as a conscientious, caring physician. He said patient confidentiality laws prevented him from discussing individual cases. But he said his practice includes many "very, very difficult patients" whose chronic pain often is complicated by substance abuse and depression, anxiety or other mental illness.
"I am doing the best I can in this very difficult field," he said. "I consider myself to be one of the best. But we have limits."
One of those limitations, he said, is his inability to control what patients do once they leave his office.
Vu said he was unaware of many of his patients' deaths and found the cases identified by The Times "eye-opening."
In addition to investigating the overdose deaths, the medical board recently filed a complaint accusing Vu of gross negligence, incompetence, and dishonest and corrupt acts for surgically implanting into a patient an expired medical device he "knew or should have known" was stolen.
In the complaint, filed Feb. 8, the board said Vu bought "spinal cord stimulator leads" and other equipment from a man he knew had been fired by a company called Boston Scientific Corp. He then improperly allowed the man, William Trujillo, to assist in a surgery in which he implanted one of the leads into a patient to see if it would relieve her back and hip pain.
Vu's records list another person as having assisted in the procedure, according to the complaint.
The board said Vu paid Trujillo "a small fraction" of the usual cost for the equipment. The complaint said Huntington Beach police recovered Boston Scientific equipment worth $143,980 from Vu's office.
When officers arrived at his office, Vu initially refused them access. After letting them in, he denied that he had any Boston Scientific equipment — until officers saw a box bearing the company's name, according to the complaint.
Vu "said he had lied to the officers because he was nervous and didn't know his rights," the complaint states.
Vu sued Trujillo in civil court, alleging that he had been duped into spending $15,000 on supposedly "surplus" equipment that turned out to be stolen.
Vu's attorney said it would be unfair to take the medical board complaint, which he characterized as containing false statements, at face value.
"It's just mere allegation right now," Wynn said.
In response to The Times' articles, the leaders of the California Senate and others lawmakers are pushing proposals to give the medical board greater authority to stop reckless prescribing and to require that coroners inform the board of all overdose deaths.
In December, medical board officials appealed to the public to contact them with information about reckless prescribing or other physician misconduct tied to overdose deaths.
IN DEPTH: Read the Times investigation


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In an unusually harsh report released yesterday, the government's Special Inspector General for TARP blasted the bailout program, charging that it has not only failed to meet its goals, but that — absent change — it may have made things worse.
Among other things, Inspector General Neil Barofsky concluded that because of the bailouts, the market is "more convinced than ever that the Government will step in as necessary to save significantly significant institutions." This, he says, creates a moral hazard, through what he calls a "heads I win; tails, the Government bails me out," mentality. The recent extension of TARP for another year only reinforced that moral hazard, by "permitting Treasury to maintain a war chest of potential rescue funding…"
The IG also expressed concern about the housing market, stating that the "Federal Government's concerted efforts to support home prices," in part funded by TARP, "risks re-inflating" the housing bubble.
In other words, the report concludes: "…even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform [which the report does not define], we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car."
The answer, however, isn't more regulation and protection of "too big to fail" institutions, as proposed by President Obama. Instead, policymakers should make failure a more feasible option for all institutions, reducing pressure for bailouts and forcing them to bear the cost of their own actions. In doing that, a good place to start would be a revised bankruptcy procedure.
Mountain roads are always dangerous. But by taking dangerous cars off the road, rather than paying for their repair bills, the highway can be made safer for everyone.


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Despite unending talk on Beacon Hill about the importance of early education, about 40,640 children continue to languish on the statewide wait list for financial assistance that could allow them to attend child care, preschool, after-school programs or summer camps.
Until last fall, Zilma Arroyo was spending more than a third of her $800 biweekly paycheck to put her 3-year-old son in day care while she was at work. Her older boys, 7 and 11, had to come home to an empty house after school.
But in October, after the state unfroze a statewide wait list for low-income families seeking child care assistance, Arroyo received vouchers that allowed her to get subsidized preschool for her youngest and after-school programs for the older two.
Arroyo, of Brockton, who applied for the vouchers years ago, is one of the lucky ones.
Despite near-constant talk on Beacon Hill about the importance of early education, about 40,640 children continue to languish on the statewide wait list for financial assistance that could allow them to attend child care, preschool, after-school programs or summer camps. Some state officials, including Gov. Deval Patrick, are now pushing the Legislature to find more money for the programs, but some in the child care field say even those efforts won't keep up with the need they're seeing.
"I have wait-list applications come in every day," said Cyndi Couto, program director for P.A.C.E. Child Care Works, a referral agency that works with families in southeastern Massachusetts and south of Boston. "There is such a need for care in Massachusetts, it's crazy."
Meeting that need is an expensive proposition. After persuading the Legislature to allocate $15 million toward early education subsidies for more more than 2,000 children last year, Patrick is seeking to add another $15 million in the upcoming state budget to further expand "birth to preschool" programs – a move that the administration says would allow it to open access for an additional 1,700 children and move it closer to its goal of providing child care assistance to any family that needs it.
"We would like to have no wait list," said Thomas Weber, commissioner of the state Department of Early Education and Care. "We would like to be able to serve every child."
What's available: The state Department of Early Education and Care administers two kinds of income-eligible child care subsidies through the statewide wait list. Vouchers, the better-known type, can be used at any contracted child care provider, but those providers are not required to accept them. Contract slots, on the other hand, are guaranteed spots in a day care, but they're only good at the provider who holds the contract. The state also provides subsidies for families receiving services through the Department of Transitional Assistance, but they are not administered through the wait list.
Who's eligible: As a general rule, families are considered financially eligible for vouchers or contract slots if they have a gross household income at or below 50 percent of the state median income, currently $51,387 for a family of four. If a family's income increases, it will remain eligible until it passes 85 percent of the state median income.
Other requirements: In addition to meeting financial eligibility requirements, parents must demonstrate a "service need," such as searching for a job, working at a job, attending school or taking a job-training courses.
What the family pays: Parents may be responsible for a sliding-scale co-payment based on their family size and income.
What the provider receives: The reimbursement rate that providers receive for a voucher or contract slot is less than half the money they would get for an unsubsidized child, according to a semiannual survey by the Department of Early Education and Care. Last year, the state increased the reimbursement rates across the board by 2.3 percent. It was the first rate increase in four years.
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But some in the child care field say the state also needs to increase its reimbursement rates to encourage more private child care providers to accept vouchers, and allocate more money for referral agencies, whose coordinators are now struggling under more than twice the recommended caseload.
"Massachusetts was the leader in the country – recognized as the leader in the country – and that's no longer the case at all," said Sheri Adlin, executive director of South Shore Stars, the largest provider of state-subsidized child care in the Quincy area. "There has not been a serious commitment, an investment in quality or an expansion, in a very long time."
The push for increased access to subsidized care comes as child care costs continue to climb and more parents see the value of early education. Massachusetts ranks fourth in the nation in terms of the share of household income that goes toward child care for infants, with a year of care at a day care center costing an average of $16,430, according to a 2013 report from Child Care Aware of America.
The report found that married couples with an infant in Massachusetts spend an average of 15.1 percent of their income on child care, while single mothers with an infant pay, on average, 59.6 percent of what they make on care.
Child care providers say those costs are increasingly out of reach for families whose paychecks have not kept up. In some cases, parents who could increase their family income with a new job must stay home to care for their children instead.
"In order for a parent really to be a productive member of the workforce, they need to know their children are in a safe, secure, nurturing and academically enriching environment," said Laureen Browning, vice president for youth development at the South Shore YMCA.
The recent freeze on income-eligible child care assistance – which must compete for state dollars against transportation, public safety and mental health needs – has not helped.
At Community Care for Kids, the referral agency for Quincy and surrounding towns, the current wait list of 2,032 children dates back to March 2012 – meaning some families have waited nearly two years for a subsidy.
Now that vouchers are being handed out again, the state's child care referral agencies, which screen families to make sure they're eligible for child care subsidies and connect them with resources, say they need more money as well.
Beth Ann Strollo, executive director of Quincy Community Action Programs, which includes the Community Care for Kids referral agency, said referral coordinators in Massachusetts handle an average of 775 families, more than twice the recommended maximum of 350.
Strollo said the caseload makes a big difference when a coordinator needs to act quickly to help a struggling family that finds itself at a crossroads.
"They have a job offer, they're trying to start their new job and if they don't have their voucher in hand, they can't start," she said. "There are times when if you can't be able to turn that around and get everything in place quickly, they have to say no to a job, and we don't want that to happen."
For Arroyo, the Brockton mother, child care vouchers have made a difference. Instead of rushing home from her job as a classroom aide for the Boston Public Schools, the 36-year-old single mother now has time to do chores before picking up her three children for the evening.
Even better: Arroyo's youngest son, who has been struggling with delayed speech development, caught up with his classmates after just a few weeks in his new preschool program.
"My baby is talking like a big boy already," she said. "It was like a blessing."
Contact Neal Simpson at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @NSimpson_Ledger.


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Fripp Island joins the groundswell of support for those who bear our response to the 9/11 terrorists' attacks on the United States of America. In support of the Lt. Dan Weekend and the Independence Fund, a group of residents called the Fripp Island Independence Fund will host several fundraising activities for the benefit of our severely wounded veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A bridge tournament will be held at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 25 at the Fripp Island Community Center. Both social and duplicate bridge players are invited to this event. Masters can earn silver points. A $10 donation will benefit our severely wounded veterans through the Independence Fund, a nonprofit and all volunteer organization and sponsor of the Lt. Dan Weekend. Register by Aug. 24 by calling Betsy Koehler at 838-7755 or Teresa Hergert at 838-0125.
The Fripp Island Independence Fund Golf Tournament will be held
Aug. 29 the Ocean Point Golf Course. Greens fees of $15 will be donated to Independence Fund. Cart fees are $25 and tee-off times begin at 8:30 a.m. Call 838-1576 to register at the Ocean Creek Clubhouse no later than Aug. 26. Prizes will be available courtesy of the Fripp Island Men's and Women's Golf Associations. For details, contact Charlie Richman at 838-9889 or email@example.com.
A Fripp Island Tennis Tournament will be held Sept. 10 at the Fripp Island Racquet Club. Round Robin matches will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. An exhibition match will be held at 11 a.m. The $10 court fees will be donated to the Independence Fund. Food and beverages will be available courtesy of the sponsors. For details, contact Charles Davis at 838-1108 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Fripp Island Independence Fund group will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in the Ocean View Lounge at the Fripp Island Beach Club. A $30 donation entitles guests to an assortment of appetizers and desserts, live music, speakers from the 82nd Airborne, a silent auction and lively bidding auction … both fundraising events for wounded troops. Cash bar will also be available. Fripp Island residents and non-residents are cordially invited to participate. Call Charlie Richman at 838-9889 or email@example.com.
The Lt. Dan Weekend, an initiative created by the Independence Fund and area volunteers, takes place Sept. 14-18 in Beaufort. During this event, severely injured veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars come to the South Carolina Low Country where they can bond with fellow patriots. Four days of recuperative activities will include a benefit concert Sept. 16 at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park where film star Gary Sinise will perform with the Lt. Dan Band. For more information, go to www.independencefund.org and www.ldw2.com.


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Pentagon Could See Deep Cuts In Debt Deal
For several GOP lawmakers, the decision on whether to vote for the debt deal hinged on how the prescribed cuts will affect defense spending. In the end, enough Republicans in the House put their concerns about cutting the deficit over their concerns about cutting defense spending.
But no one really knows how much the Pentagon will have to cut as a result of the deal or when.
"We are in uncharted territory here," said David Berteau, an expert on budgetary issues with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He says the Pentagon hasn't had this much uncertainty about its budget since the end of the Cold War.
"We just don't know what the future looks like," he said. "What's the bottom? Where are we headed for here?"
Defense officials seemed just as confused about what the debt deal means for the future of the U.S. military.
"I don't think that we fully know yet," said Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan. "We're still looking through this to determine those impacts."
The debt package essentially calls for two phases of defense cuts. In the first, the Pentagon and other agencies, including the State Department, the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security, will be forced to collectively cut hundreds of billions from their budgets over the next 10 years. Senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill and defense officials were still unclear Tuesday about how deep those initial cuts would be.
"I think we can handle them, although they are fairly deep cuts," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We don't know the precise number. They're going to be pretty tough, but I think we can do it."
The Pentagon had already planned on cutting roughly $400 billion over the next 12 years, a figure President Obama asked for this spring. The initial cuts in this deficit plan are expected to be around that number. So for the Pentagon at least, these initial cuts are a wash. But it's the looming possibility of a second phase of cuts that raises big concerns.
Under the deal, a bipartisan commission will be appointed to come up with a combination of tax increases and spending cuts by the end of November — that could include more defense cuts or not. But if the commission can't reach a compromise, that first round of defense cuts could double — approaching $800 billion.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) asked Gen. Martin Dempsey about this at the general's confirmation hearing last week to be the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"What would an $800 [billion] to trillion-dollar cut in defense spending over the next 10 years do to our readiness, general?" McCain asked.
"Senator, I haven't been asked to look at that number, but I have looked — and we are looking at $400 [billion] and I will react in this way: Based on the difficulty in achieving the $400 billion cut, I believe $800 [billion] would be extraordinarily difficult and very high risk," Dempsey said.
Cuts that large would force the Pentagon to start making some tough choices. The size of the Army and Marine Corps was already expected to decrease in the next couple of years as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw down. Now those forces may have to be cut back even more.
"The only thing that's harder than cutting the force itself is cutting their benefits and cutting retirement," said Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's chief financial officer from 2001 to 2004.
"The biggest single part of the defense budget is being spent on personnel — the health spending, which is currently at about $52 billion [a year] ... You have a retirement plan that basically starts paying people if they've served 20 years as low as the age of 38," he said.
Adm. Mike Mullen, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked about the pending defense cuts when he visited U.S. troops in Baghdad on Tuesday. Mullen said he's not sure where the cuts will come from, but they are coming. And at this point, everything is on the table.


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Whakarewarewa - thermal and cultural attractions - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Whakarewarewa
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Whakarewarewa in the Video tab.
The Māori village of Whakarewarewa, with its geysers, hot springs and bubbling mud pools, became a tourist attraction in the late 19th century. Whakarewarewa was known for its female guides – Guide Maggie (Mākereti Papakura) later lived in the UK and studied anthropology at Oxford, and Guide Rangi (Rangitīaria Dennan) guided both the young Queen Elizabeth and US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Related web links:
Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
Around Rotorua city
Māori women cooking at Whakarewarewa
Penny divers at Whakarewarewa
Makereti Papakura
Rangitiaria Dennan
Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives. Sound files may not be reused without permission from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives (Reference number sa-t-2118-pm).
Roadside Stories are a series of audio guides to places of interest on major road trips in New Zealand. Each guide tells the story of an attraction along the way – its people, its history, its cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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Actress Lily Collins was left battered and bruised on the set of new movie "Mirror Mirror" after taking several blows from a sword while shooting fight scenes with Armie Hammer.
Collins, daughter of veteran rocker Phil Collins, plays Snow White in the adventure film and the script required her to clash onscreen with co-stars Hammer and Julia Roberts.
She was so determined to make their sword-fighting scenes look realistic, she took fencing lessons for four months – but she was still unable to effectively parry Hammer's blows when the cameras rolled.
Collins tells Stella magazine, "For one scene Armie and I were fighting… There were 150 sword moves and Armie smacked me several times. No blood was drawn, but I was so bruised. It doesn't matter how much padding you wear, those swords are lethal."
The actress also recalls an eye-watering incident when Roberts pulled out a chunk of her hair, adding, "In one scene my dress got caught in my shoe and she pulled some of my hair out. That's the take they used. It really hurt. Afterwards they yelled 'cut' and she said, 'I'm so sorry'. And I said, 'It's totally fine'. Because it's Julia."


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Cluedo: 3T's best value on CD-i
>> Sunday, September 30, 2007
Cluedo, known as Clue in the USA, is a popular board game with a murder mystery theme. The CD-i version makes full use of Digital Video to present the viewer with a challenging game. By interviewing real characters and using a process of deduction the viewers must play against each other to find the murderer, the murder weapon and the murder room, and correctly accuse the culprit. In 1994, 3T Productions developed one of the best games that were ever released on the Philips CD-i (but then it didn't have much competition!). The disc contained 3 mysteries - "The Hooded Madonna", "Happy Ever After" and "Deadly Patent" - in which you could move around the rooms, interview the suspects and try to work out who killed Mr. Boddy. A cut down version of "Deadly Patent" made it onto the PC in the Cluedo CD-Rom Computer Game (released in 1996).
The Cast:
* Mrs White - Joan Sims
* Mrs Peacock - Susan Wooldridge
* Professor Plum - David Healy
* Mr Green - Stuart Milligan
* Colonel Mustard - John Standing
* Miss Scarlet - Nicola Van Dam
* Mr Boddy - Angus MacInnes
* The Butler - Terence Harvey
There are quite a lot of CD-i game featuring a live cast, like The 7th Guest and Zelda's Adventure. Here the people are pasted in a virtual setting. Cluedo offered a full movie scene, just like the screens of the American laser Games, including Mad Dog McCree and The Last Bounty Hunter. The use of Digital Video is very suitable for a game like Cluedo, and you'll continuously watch for details along the way.
Due to the popularity (in CD-i terms) of the first set of mysteries; The Mysteries Continue was released in 1995 with the stories : "Road to Damascus" "Blackmail" and "Not In My Backyard". These used the same actors as in the first game and again was filmed at Arley Hall (where the British TV Series was also filmed). Cut down versions of "Road to Damascus" and "Blackmail" made it onto the PC in the Cluedo CD-Rom Computer Game. The CD-ROM version was also produced by 3T Productions, once it didn't get any money by Philips anymore to produce CD-i material. Still it's impressing how many titles 3T has produced for CD-i including an exlusive game for BP (The gas/oil company!)
In 1996, Hasbro Interactive released their first Cluedo PC CD-Rom game. This was a conversion of the Cluedo CDi and Cluedo : The Mysteries Continue CDi games. Three different mysteries were released - one on each of the 3 CD-Roms. Advertised as having 12 Mysteries; what they actually meant is that there were 3 "episodes" (Deadly Patent, The Road to Damascus, and Blackmail) with 4 skill levels (each having a different solution). Like the CDi originals, this version involved live actors and first- person 3-D views of Arlington Hall; but lost some features - for example the suspect interviews were changed from video clips to just sound samples.
Note: "Deadly Patent" is converted from Cluedo CDi. "Road to Damascus" and "Blackmail" are converted from Cluedo : The Mysteries Continue CDi.
3T Productions did not just develop the Cluedo games on CD-i (although these games were considered the best out of 3T's portfolio. 3T was also responsible for "Do you remember the '60s?" (1996), the rare "Kiss" (1993) and "Making The Grade". Unfortunately, I never managed to get in touch with some former employees from 3T Productions, but my eyes will be always open ;)
3T Productions still exists by the way, one of the few companies who produced CD-i titles. They received various awards for their CD-i titles, most notably the CD-i version of Cluedo was awarded during the "International Cdi Association Awards" in 1993 in the catagory "Best Adult Home Entertainment". This was a Gold Award for "Best use of Technology in a Home Entertainment Title". We'll have a review ready of Cluedo / Clue on CD-i soon!
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Is is just me, or does pretty much every news story about the Pope's latest emanations annoy you, too? No matter what he has to say, the media is there like hungry puppies eager to lap it up and puke it out in your local newspaper or TV news program. There's usually a whole series of puff pieces trying to add drama to his latest moral pronouncement. Rarely is there any real balance to the stories and the Pope is held up as some great expert on whatever he chooses to blather about.
This week, the media was all about the Pope's latest message about condoms being ok sometimes, but not others. Two stories have run in the Austin American Statesman about this "burning" issue.
Here are my list of gripes:
- The media consistently fails to point out that whatever the Pope/Vatican has to say is self-serving. In this case. using condoms to stem AIDS infections would certainly take a little heat off the Vatican from health experts who have rightly pointed out that its policies are tantamount to murder. Condoms also have the very helpful benefit of not leaving DNA behind in the behinds of boys molested by priests. Furthermore the Pope still frowns on any contraceptive usage that might reduce the number of potential future tithers. Self-serving "moral" pronouncements are nothing more than propaganda and they should not be repeated in the media.
- Neither the Pope nor anyone at the Vatican is qualified to speak on health issues. They just have nothing valid to say and health advice from anyone so blatantly unqualified should not be repeated in the media. To make matters worse, it's rare to see any news piece that will add at least a little balance by quoting a health expert. Even a junior trainee at a family planning clinic would be far more qualified. I have yet to see an acknowledgment in most articles about Vatican pronouncements that the they are on the wrong side of this issue by consensus of 99% of the people who DO have qualifications.
- I personally think the Pope is unqualified to speak on moral issues. I'm sure most atheists would agree. His moral sensibilities are hopelessly broken by his indoctrination in to a church that has perpetrated some of the most ghastly horrors conceived. The Christian holy book is a genocide manual and loaded with atrocities and immoral teachings.
- The Vatican is a criminal enterprise. I can't think of any reason why US media should serve as a mouthpiece for an organization that has systematically molested tens of thousands of children in dozens of countries over at least four decades. (This is just the tip of the criminal iceberg, but hopefully fresh enough for journalists to have some awareness.) The Pope himself authored some of the most odious policies and shuffled priests personally. Yes, the Vatican has yet to be brought to justice in the US. This is only because our "tough on crime" elected officials are whimpering pussies when it comes to the guys with the big hats and magic crackers. Even if you want to play the "guilty until proven innocent" card, there's no reason to actively promote the Vatican until they are properly tried. Don't hold your breath.
- The Vatican will never accept responsibility for its actions. The Pope's pronouncements are considered "news" because there is an assumption that many people will follow his bad advice. Publishing Papal pronouncements is a tacit admission by the media that a sizable fraction of Catholics are unwilling or unable to reason for themselves and take responsibility for their own actions. The media then completely fails to hold the Pope/Vatican responsible for the impact of its policies on the world. Either Ratzinger's opinion carries no weight and there's no reason to print it, or it does carry weight and the Church is responsible for the effect of their dogma. I see plenty of puff pieces promoting Catholic dogma, but very very few investigative reports on how many people have been negatively impacted by Catholic dogma. I would love to see some real reporting on how many people have become infected with AIDS as a result of the Vatican's condom policies, or the number of women who have become pregnant when they didn't want a child but followed Catholic "moral" teaching for whatever reason. The Vatican is creating victims without any moral accountability. I would like to see the Vatican compensate these victims–especially anyone who may have been impacted who is not Catholic. I think that municipalities should be taxing Catholic charities to recoup the expenses related to Vatican contraceptive misinformation.
If you agree with my complaints, perhaps when you see one of these puff pieces you can write a letter to the editor or provide other feedback pointing out one or more of these problems and ask why the media is so consistently doing the wrong thing. Trust me, until we do, little will change.


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They should be up there with the Nuns, comparable just cause they both had female singers. Was it cause their sleeves looked so dark and non punk, except on this debut, that people ignored them? Maybe I'm wrong and it's just my swedish perspective that fools me. They made two insanely great LPs: Death of Innocence and Your Weapon after that they released a couple of more that I haven't checked out.
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Saturday, May 30
Braised Leeks
10 comments:
- Grace said...
zoe, this looks delicious! truth be told, i've never had leeks by themselves, but that glorious browning and the thyme involved make me want to try it immediately!
- May 31, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- Karyn - (French Charming) said...
Thank your for sharing this wonderful recipe, can't wait to try it! I'm also loving the Cherry Tomato Bites in your previous post!
- May 31, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- Nancy White said...
The hardboiled eggs caught my eye on tastespotting, but the leeks look and sound amazing - i'm definitely going to put those on the menu at casa nancita this summer! thanks for sharing!
- May 31, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- Sophie said...
MMMM...Zoe: the braised leeks look so lovely & fabulous!! The whole filled plate looks excellent! yummie!
- June 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Marta said...
I'm there with you! Eating braised veg by the spoonful! I often do it with zucchs and eggplants... so soft and creamy! I hadn't thought about using my toaster oven for briasing! Great energy-saving tip Zoe!
- June 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Oh, these sound delicious! I love the flavor of leeks and this is a great recipe to showcase their flavor!
- June 1, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- My comfort food network said...
I generally don't buy leeks unless I am making soup. But this is a great recipe and would also work on BBQ along with some grilled chicken or fish. Yummm!
- June 1, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- FitFoodie said...
The leeks look SO good! I've never had them that way before...i'll have to try it :)
- June 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- Kristen said...
These look so delicious - I never would have thought to do this, thank you!
- June 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- Nutmeg Nanny said...
Ok this might sound weird but your eggs look fantastic. I have never seen a hard boiled egg that looked so good:)
- June 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM


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