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Beat Happening was among the truly seminal and influential American bands of the post-punk era, a paragon of pop minimalism, rebellious innocence, and indie defiance. The linchpin of the Olympia, Washington-based International Pop Underground, they adopted a stance in direct opposition to the accepted norms at the heart of rock music; ignoring all notions of pretense, professionalism, and stardom, Beat Happening created an unorthodox, raw sound that democratically rotated vocal, guitar, and drum duties between members while jettisoning bass altogether. Dropping their last names to further emphasize their everyman approach, members Calvin (Johnson), Heather (Lewis), and Bret (Lunsford) expressed simple truths and simple emotions with simple music, favoring off-key, tuneless vocals and three-chord primitivism over slick, processed packaging; implicit in their work was also a rejection of major-label trappings, as the group steadfastly remained with K Records, Calvin's self-owned imprint and a model of D.I.Y. indie success.
Beat Happening formed in the early '80s; Calvin, a longtime fixture of the Olympia scene who also helped establish the original Sub Pop fanzine (the basis for the subsequent label), had already founded K, originally a cassette-only project started to release music no other company would touch. An alumnus of the short-lived Cool Rays, Calvin teamed with Heather and assorted friends in the first incarnation of Beat Happening, playing shows whenever and wherever they could as long as the performances were held at all-ages venues; his canyon-deep baritone quickly became as much a group trademark as their sardonic, even juvenile songs. After Bret joined in mid-1983, Beat Happening issued their debut five-song cassette a year later; a sightseeing trip to Japan followed, and while in Tokyo, the trio recorded its second effort, 1984's Three Tea Breakfast EP. Their 1985 eponymous full-length debut, produced by the Wipers' Greg Sage, brought Beat Happening their first widespread exposure, as well as a number of comparisons to the burgeoning British twee pop scene spearheaded by the Pastels. A long layoff followed prior to the release of 1988's remarkable Jamboree, co-produced by Mark Lanegan and Gary Lee Conner of the Screaming Trees.
The four-song joint release Beat Happening/Screaming Trees surfaced a few months later, trailed by 1989's Black Candy. With the release of 1991's Dreamy, Beat Happening's influence on the indie community became increasingly pronounced; not only did the blossoming cuddle-core movement owe the trio a huge debt, but in the summer 1991 Calvin masterminded the International Pop Underground Festival, a now-legendary concert spotlighting over 50 bands — among them Bikini Kill, Fugazi, Scrawl, the Fastbacks, L7, and Mecca Normal — all aligned in their opposition to corporate music. The sublime You Turn Me On followed, but apart from "Not a Care in the World," a track contributed to a 1992 Sub Pop sampler given away free to readers of Sassy magazine, Beat Happening spent much of the decade in limbo as Calvin focused on his Dub Narcotic Sound System project as well as the Halo Benders, a band founded with Built to Spill's Doug Martsch. Despite its absence from the stage and the studio, the trio maintained that it had not disbanded, and reportedly continued practicing on a monthly basis. Ten years after its last release, the band became the unlikely focus of a box set, Crashing Through. The set featured a newly recorded song, "Angel Gone," but nothing else new. In 2015, Domino Records released the career-spanning, band-selected collection Look Around, which served as a reminder to anyone who may have forgotten just how good and influential the band was. ~ Jason Ankeny
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Shopping for the Right Homeowner's Insurance Policy
If you're currently shopping for insurance for a new home, or if you haven't done any comparison shopping in a long time, you should spend a little time finding out what the marketplace has to offer. Insurance companies often offer discounts on your homeowner's insurance if you qualify in certain categories, or you may be able to adjust your deductible to make ends meet.
Insurers reward loyalty. If you've been a loyal customer with the same insurance company for 10 or 20 years, you're less likely to be dropped or see a drastic increase in your premium in the event of a legitimate claim than if you'd been with the company for only one or two years.
J.D. Power and Associates provides an annual National Homeowner's Insurance Study and ranks companies based on customers' ratings in the following categories:
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To do some research and compare policies on your own, obtain premium quotes from different insurance companies. Be careful to compare policies with identical features and benefits. You want to look for the financially strongest companies, with great claims payment history, where you can obtain all the required and desired coverage for the best price.
If you're considering lowering your deductible (the part you pay before your insurance policy kicks in), keep in mind that insurance is intended to cover risks that you can't afford to bear on your own. The higher the deductible, the lower the premium. By raising your deductibles to $1,000 from $250, you may be able to reduce your premium by as much as 25 to 30 percent. Just make sure that you don't raise your deductible so high that you can't pay that amount in case of an emergency.
Ask yourself the following important questions, which may save you money on your homeowner's insurance:
Are your home, auto, and liability insurance policies with the same company? And if not, would you be willing to change in order to save money?
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Have you made any mechanical or structural upgrades to your home?
In an emergency, could you comfortably afford to pay your deductible if you raised it?
The answers to these questions may uncover some discounts. Contact your current or prospective insurance company to see whether you can save yourself a little bit o' money while obtaining top-quality and adequate insurance coverage. Be sure to also ask the insurance agent whether any other discounts are available to which you may be entitled.

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JACKSONVILLE� Organizers say Saturday�s Wreaths Across America was the largest yet.
JACKSONVILLE� Organizers say Saturday�s Wreaths Across America was the largest yet.
Active duty, retired military, dependents, and local community members gathered at noonfor the 6th annual event in Jacksonvilleat the CoastalStateVeteransCemeteryfor a special ceremony placing wreaths on the graves of veterans to remember veterans and those who serve, said 2nd Lt. Kimberly Morton of the Civil Air Patrol NC 160 at Cherry Point air station.
�It�s something to behold,� said Morton of the event. �It touches home for many of us here today and leaves many feeling very somber.�
The event was hosted by the Civil Air Patrol NC 160 at Cherry Point, with support from NABVETS, the Montford Point Marines, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation, Blue Star Mothers, local chapters of the Cub Scouts and the Young Marines, the Veterans Enforcers Motorcycle Association, Rolling Thunder Chapter 5 of Jacksonville and other active duty and retired military members.
Beginning at the ArlingtonCemetery, Wreaths Across America grew into a nonprofit program, placing wreaths on the graves of veterans nationwide.
The event hosted at the Jacksonvillecemetery was one of 500 hosted across the nation Saturday.
The service honored each branch of the military service, including the Merchant Marines and POW/MIA servicemen and women, by dedicating seven wreaths during the ceremony. Following the playing of taps, attendees were invited to assist in placing 400 wreaths on the graves of veterans.
Wreaths were also placed at other area memorials including the Freedom Fountain.
�It was exciting to see more of the community involved in the event this year,� said Morton, who said that Saturday�s event was the largest yet.
Paul Levesque, president of Rolling Thunder, agreed that Saturday�s ceremony was much larger than years past.
�We�ve participated every year,� Levesque said. �It�s been a real good day, with nice weather, and we�re honored to be here remembering those who sacrifice so much.�
Rolling Thunder, participated in the ceremony, placing the wreaths for the Merchant Marines and POW/MIA servicemen and women.
Following the ceremony Rolling Thunder also placed a wreath for former member Ron Relay as well as two others.
Staff Sgt. Robert Hofmann, of 8th Communication Battalion aboard CampLejeune, was part of the ceremony�s honor guard, placing the wreath in honor of the Marine Corps.
�Today is important in remembering those who have given their lives, especially in the last 10 years,� Hofmann said.
Hofman and his son Cadet Capt. Karl Hofmann, who both are part of the Civil Air Patrol at Cherry Point, said that the event was also a good chance to set an example for today�s youth by teaching them the cost of freedom.
�Through this event we�re setting an example for today�s youth by showing them how to be good Americans,� Hofmann said. �We encourage them to volunteer at events like this to show respect for those who gave all for our country.�
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VILLIERS-STUART, Charles Herbert Major 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) attd. H.Q. Staff Australian and N.Z. Army Corps.
Age: 40 Date of Death: 17/05/1915 Cause: Killed in action (Courtney's Post).
Previous Military Service: Entered the Military on 16/1/1895 and served in the Tirah Campaign, 1897, with the 21st Madras Pioneers. He exchanged into the 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) in 1898, and served with them in the Mahsud Weziri blockade of 1901.
Awards: Mentioned In Despatches
*Family Notes: Son of Col. Henry John Richard Villiers-Stuart and Jane (nee Rigby Murray) Villiers Stuart, of Castlane, Carrick-on-Suir; husband of Joan (nee Lascelles Shepley) Villiers-Stuart, of Troquhain, Balmaclellan,
Killed in action – Major Villiers Stuart son of the late Colonel Villiers Stuart, Castlane, Carrick on Suir has been killed in action at the
Major C. H. Villiers-Stuart, 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force), who was killed in the recent fighting on the
Census notes: The 1911 Census shows Major Villiers-Stuart's parents, Henry John Richard (Colonel Retd., Territorial J.P., aged 74) and Jane Rigby Villiers-Stuart (aged 61), residing at, Whitechurch, Kilkenny; they stated that during their marriage they had seven children, six of whom were alive at the time of the Census.
Other Memorials: Major Villiers-Stuart is commemorated on The Great War Memorial in St Canice's Cathedral, The Close Kilkenny; he is also named in the Scottish Roll of Honour in the Scottish National War Memorial,
Irish War Memorial Records Page No: Volume VIII, Page 223.
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Microsoft opens new video game studio in Vancouver
While console video game companies have been shutting their Vancouver studios, a handful of Microsoft game developers have been quietly building a presence in Yaletown.
Today they are taking the wraps off the venture, which started with five people and grew to 55 before getting the official go-ahead from Microsoft's head office to launch as a separate game studio, Black Tusk.
"It is a good news story for us," said studio manager Mike Crump. "We're excited about the opportunities here, we think Vancouver has a bright future."
The launch should also spell good news for job seekers in Vancouver's hard-hit console video game sector. The division's website, blacktuskstudios.com, includes job listings for everyone from engineers to designers, and Black Tusk plans to double its numbers within a year.
"We are actively recruiting," said Crump, who added the studio has outgrown its Cambie Street location and will be moving to take over two floors on Beatty Street, where Microsoft's Big Park studio is located.
Black Tusk had its start when Crump and four others, all alumni of Electronic Arts, took over a floor at Microsoft's Cambie Street location about a year ago and started planning for the studio, which will focus on the Xbox 360 video game console.
Studio staff have an average of 12 years experience in triple-A games, the industry's equivalent of Hollywood summer blockbuster movies — "big games, big teams, big budgets, long timelines," said Crump.
"What that means is we are working on Microsoft's next big entertainment franchise," he said. "We're not working on an existing franchise, we're looking to build the next Halo here in Vancouver, for example, which is really exciting. We are building something from the ground up."
The launch comes only a few months after Microsoft halted development of two games — Microsoft Flight and Project Columbia, a move that came shortly after announcements by Rockstar Vancouver and Radical Entertainment that they were closing their Vancouver operations.
Crump said the Black Tusk group wanted to operate in stealth mode until it recruited enough talent to reach critical mass and got the go-ahead from Microsoft head office.
"We have been officially green-lit by Microsoft executives to go ahead with the project that we're on," he said.
"That's the way game development works — it's just like making a movie, you go through pitching and concepting and then at some point you have a very large meeting with the executive team and present your full pitch with the business plan and you get the green light, so that's happened for us."
Crump said Vancouver's proximity to Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters is a factor but it is not the only attraction.
"First and foremost is its heritage, there is a history of gaming in Vancouver that goes back decades and what that has left us with is a pool of talent that is really unparalleled, I think, most anywhere in the world," said Crump.
"And the last piece of it is — the reason we really believe in Vancouver is it's such a great place to live that when we are going out and we're recruiting, whether it's California or Frankfurt, it is never a tough sell to convince somebody to move to Vancouver."
Named for the iconic pinnacle between Vancouver and Whistler that attracts hikers, the studio is opening at a time when several video game companies have headed east to take advantage of more favourable tax credits in Toronto.
While Crump said he can't comment on what other companies in the sector are doing, he noted that Microsoft has all its Canadian gaming studios in B.C.
"Tax credits, for sure, are a challenge here in Vancouver," said Crump. "But Microsoft's commitment to Vancouver goes way beyond tax credits.
"Microsoft has opened two studios in the Vancouver/Victoria region this year and now there is investment in Black Tusk here in Vancouver, so there is a deep commitment to Vancouver and a belief in the potential of this region, what it can be in this space."


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October 5, 2008. The Packers just lost their third straight game – this time to the Falcons. I was searching for answers at Stadium View, unable to consume any cheese curds whatsoever.
It would've taken a crowbar pry me from the bar stool, but when the tube-topped vixen in the Packers hat dropped her keys, I sprinted over to give them to her. There was another guy competing to be her surprise hero, but he was no match for my cat-like quickness that day I tell you!
"Excuse me," I said. She ignored me. This was the type of Babraham Lincoln that probably gets hit on a lot, so that kind of non-reaction was expected. I put on my cool Don Driver smirk and confidently a-nun-ci-ated, "You dropped your keys." That got her attention.
"Oh my god, thank you so much! I am always losing those things." she giggled. I couldn't tell if there were real thoughts being processed behind those big brown eyes, but it didn't matter. Damn she was hot. "It's not a problem, really." I said.
A blond beauty in jeans and a #12 shirt came up and sat on a stool by us, sizing me up. "Who's this?" her friend asked. "I don't know. I dropped my keys again and he picked them up for me." She said.
"I am Robert of the clan Greenfield," I said, drunkingly trying to be clever. They shot each other a look of "O-Kay..." The awkwardness was getting awkward. "I'm Robert," I corrected myself. "Nice to meet you."
"Hi. I'm Jackie and this is Erica," the friend said. "Erica is always losing her keys, so thanks a lot. What's your drink of choice? We got it."
Score! I couldn't help but get ahead of myself and began to feel this day would turn out good after all. I imagined that I was the rich, cream-cheese frosted filling between two delicious warm chocolate-chip cookies. But not for long.
As the bartender was bringing back my Spotted Cow, Jackie whispered something into Erica's ear. They giggled and then kissed. Jackie handed me the beer and said, "See ya later!" They exited the bar holding hands, on their way to a place only the Internet has seen.
And that's the way the cookie crumbles…
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Your story is like a metaphor for the entire 2008 season. High hopes, but in the end just standing on the sidelines watching as all the great action passes by.ReplyDelete
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It's possible that your Rudyard Kipling love interfered with your gay-dar. Every time I read the Jungle Book mine goes fuzzy for about two weeks.ReplyDelete
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December 6, 2003-Leaving the Solomons
Today at 13:00 we passed out of the Vela Gulf, where Kennedy became a hero after the sinking of PT109, where last month nature gave us a wake-up call in the form the white squall, and where we have often sailed on this Solomons cruise, but today we only motor.
There are no white squalls today. This is a windless day, a hot and humid and airless day, through which we drone under the power of our diesel engine, sails remaining furled or stowed below still in their bags. What slight breeze there is is with us, at our exact speed and heading, and the cups of the anemometer have hardly turned a single revolution the whole day. We swelter. Below decks we lie around naked in front of a pitifully weak fan, on deck, wearing little more, we find a shady spot, and wish for wind.
WINGS is ready to sail, ready for sea. The anchor is stowed and the chain pulled aft, this dingy is put away, and the lee clothes have been rigged. Even the jack lines are attached to the deck ready for our safety harnesses. All we need is some wind, any wind.
But no, we continue to motor.
After Vela Gulf we turn left, into The Slot, where the Tokyo Express steamed at night in 1942 and 1943 to assault and harass the American forces on Guadalcanal. Today there are no warships or even any canoes steaming The Slot, just WINGS plodding slowly to the Northwest towards Bougainville, on her way out of the Solomons.
During the afternoon we pass the Ulo Thermal Zone on Vela LeVella Island, and see the gray steam and smoke rising from the jungle up at the crater where once we slogged, ankle deep, and sometimes knee deep in sticky red, rainwater cool mud on our way to see the bubbling hot red volcanic mud and smoldering trees of the thermal zone, where the guides watched our every move lest we stray more than a foot from the path and step onto the softer surface where we would instantly sink into the super heated slime, ruining everyone's day.
Behind us, fading from view, is Gizo, that wild west town we learned to love, and the cluster of cruising boats which remain there, VELELLA, DJAPANA, CALIFIA, and NATIVE DANCER, the crews of which are friends of ours whom we are now leaving, and who we will dearly miss. Also behind is JOLIGA II, anchored safely where we left her at Liapari Island, waiting for John Sloboda to recover from his illness and return, or sadly, to perhaps await a new owner…we don't know the answer to that one.
Gizo Dancing Group
Also behind us are our new friends among the expat community in Gizo, Danny and Kerrie from the dive shop, Joe and Lisa from Lola Resort, and Gareth and Rebecca, and Patrick and the other westerners who choose to live in this out-of-the-way corner. Behind us is the Gizo Hotel and happy hours spent there drinking Sol Brew beer.
And most of all, behind us are the Solomon Islanders, those dark and usually happy Melanesians who laughed and sang while they paddled past our boat in their dugout canoes, or drove their long boats with the big Yamaha motors at reckless speeds while standing at the back with shirts or hats blowing in the wind, or walking, standing sitting, lying all over the town of Gizo, filling the market with fresh food, their canoes with freshly caught fish, and the air with their pidgeon words and laughter. We'll miss the Solomon Islanders, and the Solomon Islands, as we move on westward, on our continuing trek.
Kolombangara, The Solomons
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, at sea.
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Habitats of the Carleton Arboretum
The Arb has been a State Game Refuge for decades, and it serves a valuable role in providing habitat for species of diverse natural communities. As ecological restoration proceeds in the coming decades, the conservation value of the Arb will be substantially increased. Small populations of two rare turtles are found in the Arb: wood turtles (Clemmys insculpta, a threatened species in Minnesota) and Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii, a species of special concern). Two threatened plant species were discovered in the Arb in the 1990's: ovate-leaved skullcap (Scutellaria ovata) and kitten-tails (Besseya bullii). Other rare species may remain undiscovered.
The Carleton Arboretum is located on a natural border between prairie and forest habitat. In the time before human settlement, when fires rolled across the prairie in the Southern part of the state, the Cannon River habitat acted as a natural fire break. The flame tolerant species of the prairie and oak savanna communities evolved to thrive with fires, while the fire intolerant species of the maple-basswood deciduous forests were set back. As a result of this process, the species found throughout different sections of the Arboretum today serve as reminders of the historic locations of native plant communities. In restoring the Arboretum to native systems, these trees and plants are used as clues in identifying what species grew and reproduced in a given area.
To see locations of the different habitats throughout the Arboretum look at the Arboretum map. The map also provides details on the restoration of former agricultural areas to prairie and forest. Listed below are links to the management plans and natural history for each habitat found within the Arboretum.


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"Mitford writes with a profound sympathy for the 17th and 18th century, and Voltaire in Love caps her career as the nonpareil popular biographer of that era" – Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
"Voltaire in Love is Nancy Mitford's most searching book. On the surface it is all polish and wit: underneath it is solid history." – Time
"In this substantial but wonderfully gay and gossipy book, Miss Mitford details with a zest that is wholly engaging the idyllic moments and the hectic hours that marked the long association of these enormously intelligent lovers." – The New Yorker
"A superb, if somewhat bawdy, tale, a true story surpassing mortal invention." – Chicago Sunday Tribune
"A polished and entertaining piece of work." – Atlantic Monthly
"For anyone who relishes historical fiction and high romance, Nancy Mitford's Voltaire In Love is a modern classic. ." – The Spectator
"In Voltaire in Love Miss Mitford contributes much of her own. Her style is, as always vivacious, the narrative headlong, the incidental humor often suitably wry….Miss Mitford is not concerned in her biographies with the inner motivations of her subjects. They enact their story upon her pages, they speak their lines, and they keep the reader absorbed and awake. In their way, because they are stamped with the creator's individuality, Miss Mitford's books are works of art." – The New York Times
"There are many accounts of their stormy, and highly productive, ménage à trois. Nancy Mitford once wrote a diverting book about it, Voltaire in Love (1957), which she described as less of a biography and more 'a Kinsey report on his romps with Mme du Châtelet.' Both sexually and intellectually, it was a time of high stimulation." -- Richard Holmes, The New York Review of Books
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Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was born into the British aristocracy and, by her own account, brought up without an education, except in riding and French. She managed a London bookshop during the Second World War, then moved to Paris, where she began to write her celebrated and successful novels, among them The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, about the foibles of the English upper class. Mitford was also the author of four biographies: Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970)—all available as NYRB Classics. In 1967 Mitford moved from Paris to Versailles, where she lived until her death from Hodgkin's disease.
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After three days of intense heat, a thunderstorm moved through Mont-Ste-Anne last night and heavy rain has drenche the course.
The woods are now very treacherous so the organizers have decided to change the early part of the course adding the long traditional gravel climb and omitting some of the woods at the beginning this allows the field to spread out before entering the new singletrack section.
Canadians are by far the largest contingent today, headed by newly minted National Champion, Leandre Bouchard. Others are: Mitchell Bailey, Evan McNeely, Evan Guthrie, Jeremy Martin, Antoine Caron, Andrew L'Esperance, Steven Noble, Alex Lavertu, Philippe Depault, Patrick Chartrand, Samuel Tremblay, Felix Wilberg and Daniel Varga
Lap 1
The U23 men are on course and have completed their first full lap of 4.
Evan Guthrie is the first Canadian sitting 14th and Mitchell Bailey sits 16th, both over 2 min back of the current race leader Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Tx Active Bianchi). Ondrej Cink (Merida Biking Team) had been the leader during most of the first lap, but seems to hae run into some problem, as he has not come through to start the next lap.
Lap 2
Partway through the 2nd lap and Michiel van der Heijden (Rabobank Giant Offroad Team) has taken over the lead with Kerschbaumer now 2nd at 7 sec back. Markus Schulte-Luenzum (Focus MIG Team) 3rd at 35 sec.
USA's Russell Finsterwald (Subaru - Trek) is top N American in 13th, but Guthrie is moving on him sitting 14th just 8 sec back
Lap 3
Up the climb on the 3rd lap, van der Heijden is extending his lead, now 15 sec over Kerschbaumer. Guthrie has moved into the top 10.
Midway, into the lap. van der Heijden leading with Kerschbaumer managing to hold the gap to under 20 sec. Schulte-Luenzum still 3rd but falling back
Guthrie is riding with a group of 5, who are all battling it out for 10th spot. Also in that group is Finsterwald, Julian Schelb, Matthias Stirnemann (Thoemus Racing Team), Olof Jonsson (Team Fujibikes Rockets)
Last Lap
van der Heijden leading with Kerschbaumer still 2nd, and he has closed the gap to just 12 sec. Schulte-Luenzum still 3rd at 46 sec.
The group of 5 has now spread out, and Finsterwald claims the 10th spot, but Guthrie is 11th.
Bailey 17th, , Bouchard 22nd, Caron 23rd
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Brick Wall Solutions - Still Looking for James Henry Trevaskis (1839-?)
In previous Brick Wall Solutions blogs, I have written about my success stories. This time I am writing about a brick wall that has yet to crumble. I certainly hope that someone reading this blog has the answer or clues that I can follow up on. Other family members, as well as myself, have tried many times over the last thirty plus years to solve it but without success.
My gg grandfather was James Henry Trevaskis born in St Hilary Cornwall in 1839. He married Ann Semmens in 1859 in Perranuthnoe, Cornwall and they had three children James Henry Trevaskis (1859), Nicholas William (1861) and Annie (1863).
In 1864 they decided to emigrate to Australia and arrived in South Australia on 20 December 1864 on board the Rockcliff. They went to live in Moonta where James Henry found work in the copper mines. Less than three months later his wife Ann died in March 1865 leaving him with three young children.
Six months later he married Elizabeth Rosewarne in Wallaroo in September 1865. Their first child, Dorcas Trevaskis was born in Moonta in June 1866.
Some time after Dorcas' birth the family made the decision to move to the new copper mines in Queensland at the appropriately named Copperfield, near present day Clermont in central Queensland. Here their second child John Trevaskis was born in June 1868.
Financial reports of the Copperfield Committee of Works published in the Peak Downs Telegram, Clermont, Copperfield and Springsure Advertiser in October 1868 mention a contractor named Trevaskis employed sinking a well.
Assuming this is my James Henry, then these are the last references to him. Searches for his death certificate or a record of burial have been unsuccessful despite a number of descendants researching this family. No one has been able to confirm his death or explain his disappearance.
We assume his death between October 1868 and November 1873 because his wife Elizabeth remarried as a widow to George Guy in Copperfield in November 1873. So somewhere in that five year period James Henry Trevaskis died in Copperfield. The Copperfield cemetery records have no record of a James Henry Trevaskis being buried there and, as Elizabeth remarries in Copperfield, we assume that the family did not move from there during the five years in question.
Searches of post office directories, electoral rolls, probate and inquest records were also unsuccessful.
We don't believe that he simply left his wife and family and if that were the case, could Elizabeth have remarried as a widow without an inquiry into his disappearance.
With the release of the Queensland BDMs online, I tried again with all sorts of name and spelling variations but no luck.
A search of the World Vital Records Australasia database reveals one entry for him in the Queensland Government Gazette, confirming the work for the Clermont and Copperfield Municipality.
The answer is out there somewhere, but where?
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Thanks for all the comments - now to follow up all the clues.
This is an added thought
Check for Mining Accidents between September 1867 and November 1873 where there is a potential that not all bodies were recovered and they not knowing how many remain underground.
Look for possible contracts to dig wells but not paid for as he may have gone to a location to dig a well on his own but had an accident. eg : well walls caved in and no one knowing location to go check on him.
Without a body a death certificate may (would) not have be issued.
Death Certificate may have been issued but unable to read it to be able to transcribe it.
Also look for any deaths of John Does in the above period.
eg : May have died in a location with no id.
Also look for any John Does that were Hospitalised or Insitutionalised.
eg: May had a stroke or accident with no id or not able to communicate id.
Death may not have been Registered but if a religious service was held that record may still be in existance.
Taking into account Financial Reports are for the previous Financial Year then are shown to the Board of Directors and Share Holders then it is published in the papers so your search should start between 1st July 1867 and 30th June 1868 as the WELL was paid for in this period.
To narrow down the starting point for search even further the second child (John Trevaskis) was born June 1868 so you count back 9 months to find the approx. starting point and that would be about September 1867.
So now the search period is from September 1867 to November 1873.
Now seeing that his work was involved around the mining industry of the time you need to look in all places that did Mining at that time.
James Henry Trevaskis could have travelled to Kapunda (or other Locations) to see what work there is available leaving his wife and family behind then send for them later.
There were other Trevaskis families living around Kapunda (Copper Mining) at that point in time and could have been related to James Henry Trevaskis so he could have stayed with them.
Now then looking in the "South Australian Deaths Registrations 1842 to 1915" there is a death recorded of a
Henry TREVASKIS
died : 5th January 1868 Kapunda , dist Kap ( book 30 page 540 )
age : 43y status : not known relative : not recorded
This one is a possibility taking into account they may not have known true birth date to be able to give correct age.
Possibility that 1839 is not the true birth of James Henry TREVASKIS
I have found in marriage records that ages can be reduced anything up to 20years so that age difference is not notice by anyone that see's marriage certificate eg : Parents
Now that will take some
Now that will take some beating - keep at it - just one day someone somewhere will anser your question and open up a whole new query
Have you tried any Police Gazettes for the period, not necessarily in Qld? They're full of misery and desparation, but still interesting.
Or the digitised newspapers via the National Library of Australia: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
Maybe he was on a trip to NSW for some reason and died and was buried there.
Good luck!
Hannah Pedroja(Goodwill)
Do many others have an ancestor who seems to alternate between two names?
My gg grandmother came out here in 1851 as the convict Elizabeth James, married Thomas Ingham in Tasmania and had at least two children there before ending up in Melbourne a few years later and seems to have adopted another name Hannah Goodwill. But she also alternates between both these names and mixes both the first names with the second names at times.
She married a Pasquale Pedroja sometime in the late 1860's(I think) in what looks like Castlemaine on her death certificate in 1899. I have found a record on the 1841 UK census for a Hannah Goodwill with her family and she lives nearby to where I believe Elizabeth also lived as a girl. So I am thinking maybe she took Hannah's name when she came to Victoria and started afresh in a new environment.
What I would really love wuld be to find a descendant of Hannah or Pasquale Pedroja so I could know for certain if Hannah was really Elizabeth with a name change or maybe even if Thomas Ingham remarried.
Hannah Goodwill
A follow up; the ship was Lucie, not Dulcie (my error). My grandmothers birth cert lists her mother as Hannah James, her death cert as Hannah Goodwill. I think this confirms that she is one and the same, with other names to boot! Love to know more about Elizabeth; have some convict records but not the prison and where she came from.
Hannah Goodwill
My gg was Pasquale Pedroja and i've been trying to solve the riddle of the names. I have P's wife as both HG and HI so this sheds some light. PP was a miner who came from Switzerland on the Dulcie with his brother and father(?). As far as your specific q is concerned, i don't have the answer but I think your summation looks valid.
Hannah Pedroja(Goodwill)
I have a family where a woman was born Susan Bennett 1874 was adopted by a family called Ironside so became Susan Ironside then decided she liked the name Isabel or Isabella Ironside. Married Louis Pedro so became Isabel Pedro then Louis Pedro changed his name to Charles Lewis so she became Isabel Lewis.
I am interested in your Pasquale Pedroja the Louis Pedro I mention above was from Mauritius just wondered if there was any link as I have not found too many Pedro's. I was also told that it is common for Mauritians to have multiple Christian names and go by the second one and sometimes change anyway.


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I still love her. Still admire her. Am still down with her talent, her capability, her attitude, her work. But can we all concede she's not strong on vocals? On the night when she should have been backing up her wins and nominations with some vocals, the vocals totally sucked sh-t. Could barely stand to listen to it. Then Duana mentioned that she almost elbowed Stevie Nicks's head off and suddenly we were looking at a bit of a disaster.
Taylor Swift is now the youngest artist to win Album of the Year. But the performance last night left a lot of room for improvement. Maybe next year we'll grow out of the sparkly dresses too. It's sea foam mermaid prom worn by a giraffe. Seriously, she's so tall and lanky, that gown made her look freakishly long. See?
And then there's the "oh gosh surprise" reaction. That's it. After these Grammys, that reaction is getting retired. When you sweep every award show in a season, you're no longer allowed to be surprised. So today, now that it's behind us, that sh-t has expired. It's time.
Finally...about this business with Cory Monteith – they sat together at a pre-Grammy party on Saturday after being spotted out for dinner last week so now of course she's totally going to marry him.
Is our Swifty a manslinger?
I'm all for it.
More likely however – it's a conveniently cutesy coverup for the f-ckery that's happening with John Mayer. I'm told they went out for coffee together in Nashville, she and John, the morning after a group dinner with friends when he was alleged to have been seen at her house. If she's smart enough to stay away from that douchebag, all the offkey business is totally forgotten.
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First pictures emerge of Venezuela's ailing Hugo Chávez
After being off the radar for more than two months, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez reappeared, posing in a series of Valentine's Day snapshots in Cuba that sent his supporters to the streets and ramped up opposition criticism of the government's secrecy.
The administration released four pictures of the cancer-stricken comandante Friday and said he's conscious and alert but having trouble speaking because of a tracheal tube that is assisting his breathing. It was the first view that Venezuelans have had of the president since he was shown boarding the presidential aircraft Dec. 10 headed for cancer surgery in Havana.
The news that Chávez — who just a few months ago gave a nine-hour speech and is known for his verbosity — has been muted riled passions in Venezuela.
"Just a few days ago those liars said they were talking to the president," Miranda Gov. Henrique Capriles wrote on Twitter. "Now they say that he can't even speak. They are making a mockery of their own people."
In previous weeks, officials had described Chávez, 58, as laughing and cracking jokes from his hospital bed in Cuba, where he's recovering from a fourth-round of cancer surgery. Despite the upbeat reports, the president has not called into radio shows, as he's done in the past, and hasn't made any appearances.
The government said the pictures were taken Thursday, as Chávez's two daughters visited him for Valentine's Day. In the photographs, he's shown wearing a blue and white tracksuit and reading Cuba's Granma newspaper. His face looks full and he's smiling. There's no sign of the tracheal tube.
Jorge Arreaza, Chávez's son-in-law and minister of science and technology, described the bedside meetings with the president.
"When you're there, you have to pay attention, but he can communicate his decisions perfectly well; sometimes he writes things down," Arreaza told VTV television Friday. "He doesn't have the voice that he's known for, but this process is reversible and we hope to hear him again."
Arreaza also blamed the opposition, unscrupulous doctors and "foreign intelligence" agencies for the rumors that have been swirling around the president's health. Amid a dearth of official information, social networks and websites have been abuzz with reports that Chávez was unconscious, on life support or even dead.
Reading a statement Friday, Information Minster Ernesto Villegas said Chávez had overcome a post-operative respiratory infection, which had been previously announced. But he said lingering problems required the tracheal tube, "which makes it difficult for him to speak for the moment."
In December, Spain's ABC newspaper said Chávez had undergone a tracheotomy, but the administration had denied the report.
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PZ has a post up clarifying that the animation in EXPELLED is not Harvard/XVIVOs animation, 'Inner Life of a Cell.'
Hmm-- Now why would PZ, Dawkins, and dozens of EXPELLED viewers that have emailed me recently have been confused about the animation in EXPELLED and 'Inner Life of a Cell'?
September 17, 2007
William Dembski makes a presentation at the University of Oklahoma where he plagiarizes 'Inner Life of a Cell' to describe 'the cell as an automated city.'
November 20, 2007
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November 27, 2007
Dembski issues a stock standard notpology, but proclaims:I continue to this day to think that "The Inner Life of the Cell" is the best animation illustrating cellular activity. But there are other videos that make the same point. From now on, I will no longer use it and instead go back to using a clip from "Unlocking the Mystery of Life."This wonderful completely original animation that is currently in EXPELLED appears not to exist, at this point.
December 9, 2007
A professor of theology in Dallas gets invited to a pre-screening of EXPELLED. He makes a note of the animation, and positively identifies it as 'Inner Life of a Cell' without being prompted. Expresses concern that the producers have not obtained the appropriate rights.
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December 25, 2007
Peter Irons and Afarensis identify footprints in 'Design of Life' where screen-shots of 'Inner Life' were to appear.
January 11, 2008
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March, 2008
EXPELLED confuses viewers into thinking the animation they are using is 'Inner Life of a Cell', featuring Dembski blithering about 'the cell as an automated city.'
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The agency said Wednesday it will give certain taxpayers a six-month grace period on "failure-to-pay" penalties, which are typically assessed each month a taxpayer is late paying their taxes.
Without the grace period, a taxpayer who is late paying their taxes initially incurs a fee of 0.5% of their tax bill. That fee may increase the later they become -- with a cap of 25%. But now some taxpayers won't incur any fees until Oct. 15.
Even though taxpayers won't get hit with the penalty, they will still accrue interest during the six-month period. Over the course of a year, that amounts to about 3% of the annual tax bill.
Taxpayers who qualify for this grace period must have been unemployed for 30 consecutive days or longer during 2011 or 2012 -- up to the April 17 filing deadline this year. Self-employed taxpayers who saw their business income drop 25% or more due to the economy are also eligible.
There is an income limitation, however. Married taxpayers who file jointly cannot claim income that exceeds $200,000, while a taxpayer who files as single or head of household must not exceed $100,000 in income. Those who are still eligible for the relief will need to complete Form 1127A, available on the IRS website.
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Digital News, — April 15, 2012 18:06 — 0 Comments
Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style 'walled gardens'
This article titled "Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin" was written by Ian Katz, for guardian.co.uk on Sunday 15th April 2012 15.30 UTC
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned that there were "very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world. I am more worried than I have been in the past … it's scary."
He said the threat to the freedom of the internet came from a combination of governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the entertainment industry attempting to crack down on piracy, and the rise of "restrictive" so-called walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly controlled what software could be released on their platforms.
The 38-year-old billionaire, whose family fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union, was widely regarded as having been the driving force behind Google's partial pullout from China in 2010 over concerns about censorship and cyber-attacks.
He said five years ago he did not believe China or any country could effectively restrict the internet for long but he had been proven wrong: "I thought there was no way to put the genie back in the bottle, but now it seems in certain areas the genie has been put back in the bottle."
Although he said he was most concerned by the efforts of countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Iran to censor and restrict use of the internet, he also warned that the rise of Facebook and Apple, which have their own proprietary platforms and control access to their users, risked stifling innovation and Balkanising the web.
"There's a lot to be lost," he said. "For example all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can't search it."
Brin's criticism of Facebook is likely to be seen as controversial with the social network approaching an estimated $100bn flotation. Google's upstart rival has seen explosive growth, with more than 800 million members worldwide and one in two of all Americans with computer access signed up.
Brin said he and co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create Google if the internet was dominated by Facebook. "You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive. The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules that will stifle innovation."
He also criticised Facebook for not making it easy for users to switch their data to other services. "Facebook has been sucking down Gmail contacts for many years."
Brin's comments come on the first day of a week-long Guardian investigation of the intensifying battle for control of the internet that is being played out across the globe between governments, companies, military strategists, activists and hackers.
From Hollywood's attempts to pass legislation allowing pirate websites to be shut down, to the British government's plans to monitor social media and web use, the ethos of openness championed by the pioneers of the internet and world wide web is being challenged on a number of fronts.
In China, which now has more internet users than any country in the world, the government recently introduced new "real identity" rules in a bid to tame the country's boisterous micro-blogging scene. In Russia there are powerful calls to rein in a blogosphere that was blamed for fomenting a wave of anti-Putin protests. It has been reported that Iran is planning to introduce a sealed "national internet" from this summer.
Ricken Patel, co-founder of Avaaz, the 14 million-strong online activist network which has been providing communication equipment and training to Syrian activists, echoed Brin's warning: "We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realising the power of this medium to organise people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world."
Writing in the Guardian today, outspoken Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei says the Chinese government's attempts to control the internet will ultimately be doomed to failure. "In the long run they must understand it's not possible for them to control the internet unless they shut it off – and they can't live with the consequences of that."
Brin said he was not surprised by the effectiveness with which China had so far managed to create a technological barrier against the outside world. "I'm more surprised by the acceptance … I had imagined people would be more rebellious."
Amid mounting concern over the militarisation of the internet and claims (denied by Beijing) that China has mounted numerous cyber-attacks on US military and corporate targets, he said it would be hugely difficult for any government to defend its online "territory".
"If you compare the internet to the physical world, there really aren't any walls between countries. If Canada wanted to send tanks into the US there is nothing stopping them and it's the same on the internet: it's hopeless to try to control the internet."
He reserved his harshest words for the entertainment industry, which he said was "shooting itself in the foot, or maybe worse than in the foot" by lobbying for legislation to block sites offering pirate material.
He said the SOPA and PIPA bills championed by Hollywood and the music industry would have led to the US using the same technology and approach it criticised China and Iran for using. The entertainment industry failed to appreciate that people would continue to download pirated content as long as it was easier to acquire and use than legitimately obtained material, he said.
"I haven't tried it for many years but when you go on a pirate website, you choose what you like, it downloads to the device of your choice and it will just work – and then when you have to jump through all these hoops [to buy legitimate content], the walls created are disincentives for people to buy."
Brin acknowleged that some people were anxious about the amount of their data that was now in the reach of US authorities because it sits on Google's servers. He said the company was periodically forced to hand over data and sometimes prevented by legal restrictions from even notifying users that it had done so.
He said: "We push back a lot; we are able to turn down a lot of these requests. We do everything possible to protect the data. If we could wave a magic wand and not be subject to US law, that would be great. If we could be in some magical jurisdiction that everyone in the world trusted, that would be great … We're doing it as well as can be done."
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text: For a band that's been hinting at and then denying its breakup over the past few months, Ponytail is still racing along—or so its third album, Do Whatever You Want All The Time, would indicate. Grown from the stem cells of its predecessor, 2008's giddily precocious Ice Cream Spiritual, the new disc flits between art-punk sugar-buzz and hyperactive ambience. But the cracks are starting to show in the band's previously impervious candy shell. Do Whatever is far less dense and frantic than Ice Cream, and conjoined guitarists Dustin Wong and Jeremy Hyman don't operate in open space as well as when they're forced to dodge their own obstacles. The glitchy, empty "Beyondersville/Flight Of Fancy" is a six-minute placeholder that would fit better on one of Wong's more abstract solo albums for Thrill Jockey; on "Tush," chirpy singer Molly Siegel sounds less like Yoko Ono's understudy and more like a no-show, seeing as how most of her vocals on the song are clipped and sampled. But tracks like "AwayWay" distill everything Ponytail is about—and that bratty-Battles joyousness helps carry Do Whatever across the finish line.


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I've come to the conclusion through self-examination, soul searching and some stuff I read in a few really great books, that I am not the type of person who is content to just go through life day by day without any regards to what impact my existence had on the world around me. As a result of this self-realization I have made some changes in my life, some big, some small, all equally important.
I've also become somewhat of a vegetarian. Not a very strict one, but I do try and mostly succeed in abstaining from eating meat. My decision wasn't based entirely on any one reason, rather different levels of a few. I do believe that certain animals have, since the dawn of time, been raised for food. I don't however agree with the methods and treatment that "mass marketing" subjects those animals too.
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Chain Bar roundabout at junction 26 on the M62 will be closed overnight as work is carried out on part of the £5.6 million scheme to add an extra lane to the roundabout.
The work on Saturday July 4 will see narrow lanes and temporary road safety barriers installed.
The roundabout will be closed from 7pm Saturday until 9am Sunday July 5.
The closure is part of a Highways England project to widen the roundabout from three to four lanes.
During the closure there will be clearly signed diversions in place and all the existing lanes will remain open throughout the day to keep delays to a minimum.
Project Manager, Esref Ulas, said: "This overnight closure will allow us to install temporary safety barriers and narrow lanes which will minimise the disruption to motorists so we can maintain three lanes around the roundabout during the construction works and will also keep our workforce safe whilst they carry out this major improvement."
For further information on this scheme visit the project page http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/M62-junction-26-chain-bar-improvement-scheme


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Two running backs -- Reggie Bush and Rashard Mendenhall -- have wasted little time meeting with suitors at the outset of Tuesday's free agency frenzy.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday that Bush will meet with the Detroit Lions and also has interest from the Arizona Cardinals.
Mendenhall also will meet with the Cardinals, along with the Denver Broncos, according to NFL.com's Albert Breer, who said the former Pittsburgh Steeler also drew interest from the New York Jets, Miami Dolphins and Atlanta Falcons.
Bush has been linked to the Lions for weeks after it became apparent his days in Miami were over. He'd bring immediate juice to a Lions running game that has struggled amid Jahvid Best's inability to stay on the field. Bush isn't a power runner, but he would give Detroit an exciting weapon in the passing attack. He still possesses electrifying speed.
Mendenhall has been a streaky, disappointing pro. After a strong start in Pittsburgh, his checkered injury history and disciplinary issues soured the Steelers in keeping him. Despite all that, we don't expect either of these running backs to be out of work for long.
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The Ravens and Joe Flacco have a deal.
Jay Glazer tweets it. The Baltimore Sun confirms. It'll be finalized Monday. Terms aren't yet public, but it's going to be pricy. With star QBs restructuring their contracts across the AFC, it made sense for both the Ravens and the Super Bowl MVP to get a deal done quickly.


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Thanks to thirsty outdoors lovers, bustling Bend is awash in beer
The thirst of skiers, rock climbers and river rafters has made Bend, Ore., a craft-brewing capital of the West, and a new center for a fast-growing niche market: beer tourism.
Seattle Times Travel staff
Sipping and tripping on the Brew Bus
Tour the town's brew houses on your own with a copy of the Bend Ale Trail map, or — if the Cycle Pub is too daunting — sign up for a $45 guided tour and let the Bend Brew Bus be your designated driver.
The Brew Bus is a good way to spend a pleasant, beer-blurred afternoon as it visits four of the town's craft breweries. Included are tasting, appetizers and expanded tours, not just what the average tourist gets.
At Silver Moon Brewing, my group got a personal show-around from owner Tyler Reichert, who got his start as a beer maker when he was a forester at a remote post in Vermont "where skiing in and out with beer bottles got old fast."
At Deschutes Brewery, we crushed whole, sticky hop flowers in our fingers to sniff the lemon-zest aroma and gawked at the forest of 12,000-gallon fermentation tanks.
Some tour-goers came out of curiosity, some for education.
"It's completely different from home brewing," laughed home brewer Kenneth Toomey, 31, of San Diego. Added his brewing partner, Stephen Reasoner, 27, of Los Angeles, "We're working out of food containers and 5-gallon carboys!"
More info: 800-962-2862 or www.wanderlusttours.com
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Bend's Ale TrailWhere
Bend is on U.S. Highway 97 in Central Oregon, about 6 ½ hours by car from Seattle. Horizon Air, United Express, Delta and Allegiant fly to nearby Redmond, 20 minutes north of Bend.
Bend Ale Trail
To tour and taste at Bend craft breweries, pick up a brochure from the downtown Bend Visitor Center, or see www.visitbend.com/Bend_Oregon_Activities_Recreation/Bend-Ale-Trail
(which includes a link to a free Ale Trail app).
Cycle Pub
Bend's Cycle Pub offers two-hour tours for up to 14 people: $300 for a group rental. Coming soon to the Seattle area. 541-678-5051 or www.cyclepub.com.
If you want to walk to breweries, consider these downtown hotels:
• Phoenix Inn Suites, 300 N.W. Franklin Ave.; www.phoenixinn.com/bend.
• McMenamins Old St. Francis School Hotel (and brewery), 700 N.W. Bond St., www.mcmenamins.com/oldstfrancis.
• Oxford Hotel, 10 Minnesota Ave., www.oxfordhotelbend.com.
More choices: www.visitbend.com/Discover_Bend_Oregon
More information
Visit Bend tourism bureau: 877-245-8484 or www.visitbend.com.
BEND, Ore. — It was when the 20-something guest-of-honor in a beer-saturated bachelor party aboard the Cycle Pub mooned a passing limo that Bend really proved that, if anything, it's not boring.
If there's any doubt that this Central Oregon city of 81,000 has become the ultimate destination for combining outdoor recreation with beer tourism, the Cycle Pub should cinch it.
This common sight around downtown Bend combines the elements of a bicycle and — yes — a pub. Six bike seats, each with a set of pedals, face inward on each side of a bar counter. There's a big tire at each corner, a canopy overhead and a non-drinking driver. Bike meets beer.
Cycle Pub builder James Watts, a Bend local, saw a similar contraption in Germany two years ago, and "I just knew the minute I saw it, it was a perfect cultural match for Bend."
Among cities in beer-crazy Oregon, Bend now has the most craft breweries per capita. Some locals have started calling this "Beer City USA." More breweries are opening soon. What better way to visit a few?
"We had a blast," said Ian Berg, organizer of the bachelor party, which pedaled the town with AC-DC tunes blaring on the "Pub's" stereo in between stops to refill glass jugs — "growlers," as they're known in the trade — at some of the town's nine breweries.
And, hey, nobody fell off.
Cool brews in the desert
After Gary Fish opened Deschutes Brewery in a downtown storefront in 1988, brewing erupted here like the lava domes that formed this pretty high-desert country.
Having long-since added a big brewery overlooking its namesake river, Deschutes is now the fifth-largest craft brewer in the nation. But its beers retain local names, such as Mirror Pond Pale Ale, after Bend's little midtown lake, and Red Chair, commemorating a ski lift at nearby Mount Bachelor (and named "World's Best Beer" in the 2010 World Beer Awards). You get to see these places when you visit, beer hounds. Get psyched.
Visitors will also find a thriving downtown with busy shops and restaurants, including the brewhouses that serve food (go for fish 'n' chips at Bend Brewing Co., crawfish cakes at 10 Barrel, or a great $10 Reuben at Cascade Lakes Brewery).
At the town's center is the 72-year-old, neon-bedizened Tower Theatre, renovated in 2004, offering bills such as a one-man show on Groucho Marx or a recent Leo Kottke concert. There's more shopping, too, at the Old Mill District (www.theoldmill.com), a renovated lumber-mill site just south of downtown with high-end shops and riverfront trails.
Nature came first
Before happiness was measured by hoppy-ness here, visitors came for skiing, river sports, hiking and mountain biking in nearby Deschutes National Forest, or rock climbing on world-famous Smith Rock, just up Highway 97.
Maybe it was natural that a town full of extreme skiers, crazy paddlers and rock jocks would take to beer.
"People are here to celebrate life, and in doing that everything is strenuous and physical ... and at the end of that experience, you want a beer!" said Larry Sidor, 62, who recently left after eight years as the brewmaster at Deschutes to start his own craft brewery, expected to open here in June (see www.yettobenamedbrewery.com).
"We're so accustomed to the spandex-clad outdoors person who's here to bike or ski," said Doug LaPlaca, president of Visit Bend, the tourism bureau. But since launching a promotional effort dubbed the Bend Ale Trail in 2010, "We've found the beer tourist looks very different — people with patches all over their vests, to show what breweries they've visited."
"I've had three couples come for their honeymoon, from places like Arizona, just to do the Ale Trail," said David Bafford, innkeeper at Bend's Mill Inn.
Don't know much about beer? In this town of Triple IPAs, India Brown Ales, Northwest Pale Ales, and porters and stouts and everything malty and hoppy — chances are, you'll learn before you leave.
A training ground
Through its growing years, Sidor said, Deschutes has acted as a de facto training ground for local brewers. Several went on to open their own craft breweries, such as the popular, off-kilter Boneyard brewery (www.boneyardbeer.com).
Housed in an old auto shop (37 N.W. Lake Place), it's called "Boneyard" because it started with used equipment from other brewers. A skull-and-crossbones logo helps set the snowboard-bum, biker-bar vibe, along with beers with names such as "Skunkape."
"It is dramatically opposite what most people think of in a craft brewery," LaPlaca said. "It's all tattoos and trucker hats."
Open just over a year, Boneyard had planned to start canning its beer by now, but delayed that because it can't keep up with demand for keg beer, said Maddy Wasserman, self-described "Beer Wench Extraordinaire," who shows visitors around. (Most brewers offer tours and tasting.)
Such wild popularity is typical for the newer generation of Bend's brewers. The 5-year-old 10 Barrel brewery has just expanded to a new 50-barrel brewhouse.
A happy place
One thing was evident among Bend's brewers: These are happy people.
"It's a very friendly, compatriot type of environment," said 28-year-old Ty Barnett, a former home brewer who is a partner in GoodLife Brewing (www.goodlifebrewing.com), which launched last year in a room-to-grow warehouse (with authentic German-style beer garden) at 70 S.W. Century Drive, on the road to Mount Bachelor.
"We grew up on Mirror Pond (ale). We grew up on the guys who started it all: Deschutes, Widmer, Sierra Nevada ... A dozen or so paved the way."
His crowd is helping to push beer lovers to the next horizon, paying greater attention to flavors and aromas. Visitors to GoodLife learn all about "hop bursting," a technique for extracting citrusy hop flavors without lemon-peel bitterness. Stop in at 10 Barrel and they talk about beer and food pairing ("We don't employ a cook, we employ a chef").
These guys sound a bit like, well, wine snobs — but with a sense of humor. Good-
Life's brew list includes the higher-alcohol "Pass Stout." (Say it fast.)
Another factor sets the grinning beer drinker apart from the cuff-shooting wine connoisseur, and makes a Bend getaway more affordable than Napa: "I can buy the most expensive bottle of beer in the world for $20," Barnett said with a smile.
Premium beers are easy to find here. Most supermarkets feature a cooler of ales like you won't find many places in the world. The take-home prize from my visit: bottles of The Abyss stout, a Larry Sidor creation from Deschutes that's aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels and flavored with licorice and molasses. At around $12 for a 22-ounce bottle, it's a bit like drinking alcoholic sipping chocolate.
It's also a souvenir that will go really nicely with pulled pork. You can't say that about a T-shirt.
Brian J. Cantwell: 206-748-5724 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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P&G Using Social Media To Initiate, Integrate Duracell's Role In NFL Deal
By Barry Janoff
June 12, 2012: In 2009, Procter & Gamble signed a deal with the NFL that made several of its brands official league "locker room" products.
P&G has now added Duracell to the list of brands working in marketing unison with the NFL, joining such siblings as Head & Shoulders, Gillette, Vicks, Old Spice, Dawn, Febreze and Tide, which recently expanded its role by signing to become the only brand besides PepsiCo's Gatorade to have an official product status with each of the league's 32 franchises.
P&G said the new deal would enable Duracell the use of official NFL marks, including Super Bowl XLVII, Pro Bowl, NFL Draft and NFL Playoffs. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The multi-year alliance will come with a marketing campaign featuring San Francisco 49ers all-pro linebacker Patrick Willis in multi-media efforts including retail, digital, social and event-based initiatives.
The activation supports the recent launch of Duracell batteries with "Duralock Power Preserve Technology," which are "guaranteed to stay powered for up to ten years in storage," according to the company.
"With this sponsorship, we're reaching millions of passionate and dedicated NFL fans that rely on battery power in their everyday lives," Volker Kuhn, GM for Duracell North America, said in a statement. "As an innovator in the category, we can provide peace of mind for consumers and the NFL."
P&G is also an official partner of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee and currently has several marketing campaigns aiming toward the Summer Olympics in London.
To jump-start the alliance, P&G enlisted Willis in a series of event throughout San Francisco to exemplify the power of Duracell. According to the company, people were asked to use Twitter to request Willis to use his "powerful arms and legs to help complete tasks or errands that require reliability and power. Willis and Duracell took to the streets to fulfill some of those wishes for help with seemingly mundane tasks, from hauling furniture to carrying groceries."
According to Willis, "I am thrilled to be able to work with a brand that prides itself on trust, reliability and power. These are traits that I take pride in and that I admire in a product. I also appreciate that the brand can have a little fun with it. It was exciting to help out the people of San Francisco with their personal 'power' needs."
P&G is also using Facebook to get the alliance up and running. As the 2012 NFL season approaches, Willis is expected to appear in multi-media marketing such as print and Internet ads.
"Patrick is an inspiring athlete and person and we are thrilled to be working with him to bring to life this partnership," said Kuhn. "When we think about a player that embodies Duracell's two greatest strengths – power and reliability – there is no one better suited than Patrick. Starting this fall, whether it is in a living room or an NFL stadium on Sunday afternoons, Duracell will provide the trusted battery power needed to enjoy or play the game on and off the field.
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