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Holding court over 36 frequencies from his throne at WXRK-FM in Manhattan, Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed "King of all Media,'' is chatting on-air with an anonymous caller from New Jersey, a soft-spoken, slow-witted professional wrestler who says he's called for advice. Stern, who's just put the fork in a week-old bit about the feminine hygiene habits of Ellen DeGeneres, is initially invigorated by the Friday morning call. It affords him a chance to shift gears, take aim at a fresh target. Improvise. But the wrestler refuses to be turned into a two-bit shtick. He has questions. He wants answers. "I think I'm going to kill someone,'' he confesses to Stern with chilly calm. "Killing women. It's all I think about, day and night. What do you think I should do?''
An intrepid shock jock, reportedly worth well over $100 million, Stern is uncharacteristically tongue-tied. His co-host, Robin Quivers, giggles uncomfortably, mutters "My God," then pulls away from her microphone. Jackie (The Jokeman) Martling and Fred Norris, on-site writers who tirelessly infuse Stern's four-hour morning show with wacky sound effects, are frozen silent at their state-of-the-art sound board. Suddenly Stern is wrestling with a broadcaster's worst nightmare.
Dead air.
"What do you think I should do?" the caller demands. Stern shakes off his brief stupor and gets into character. His voice drops into the soft, soothing baritone that got him into commercial radio in 1976. He prods for weaknesses by asking leading, personal questions. He toys with the caller's fragile sense of right and wrong. Then, under the guise of getting to a commercial break, he cuts the call short. "Call me on Monday," Stern says. "And try not to kill anyone over the weekend." Quivers, Martling, and Norris roar in relief.
The conversation, precariously poised between tasteless humor and indigestible horror, evokes the tightrope that Howard Stern routinely walks. That's enough to keep certain advertisers and urban markets out of the Stern camp--his show is not aired in such prominent locales as Atlanta, Seattle, and Houston--but it hasn't prevented his building a formidable media empire. One day Stern will go too far. Or he won't go far enough. For now, though, the critic-proof movie star, best-selling author, and late-night staple on E! Entertainment Television is on a hot streak. His show is number one in, among other cities, New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, and he has spent the past year adding new markets to his résumé, including Memphis, Syracuse, Detroit, and Minneapolis.
Dallas-based Chancellor Media, which owns seven stations locally, is said to be paying somewhere between $650,000 and $1 million a year to air Stern in the Twin Cities. It's a carefully considered gambit that signals a new era in radio--one in which mega-buck media consolidation demands high ratings; high ratings demand huge audiences; and huge audiences require increasingly rigid and predictable formats.
A good deal of the flux in local radio stems from the loosening of ownership rules that accompanied 1996's Telecommunications Act. In the ensuing year, two companies--Chancellor and ABC/Capital Cities--have consolidated their dominance in the Twin Cities. ABC, a division of the Disney juggernaut and parent company of KQRS-FM and KEGE-FM, acquired REV 105 this past spring and turned it into a hard-rock station. According to most observers, they had two goals in mind: to eliminate the competition for their alternative rock station, the Edge (93.7 FM), and to block a hard-rock move by one of the Chancellor stations that would bring Stern into the market and thus pose a threat to KQ's Tom Barnard. Chancellor wasn't fazed; it rejiggered formats and refocused its energy on morning drive, pulling country music from their just-acquired KBOB, changing the call letters to WBLB (Real Rock 100) and launching a heavy-metal format anchored by Stern's R-rated antics.
The ensuing radio war, front-page fodder since Stern's show first aired in the Twin Cities on April 16, has already been a kick for radio junkies. Stern has gone out of his way to target Barnard, calling him a phony, challenging his manhood, wondering out loud what it would be like to have sex with his wife. In response, Barnard and his "morning crew'' have been conspicuously silent, pretending from day to day that Stern doesn't exist.
In the eyes of the press, this is a numbers war. If Stern makes inroads among male listeners ages 18 to 34, he'll make headlines. If Barnard holds down the fort, the story writes itself. The real news, however, is behind the lines. The battles that matter are being fought underground.
Because win or lose, "The King of All Media" is here to stay.
In writer David Remnick's obsequious New Yorker profile of a couple of months back, Stern takes pains to insist that the over $3 million in fines the FCC has levied against his show have not added to its notorious reputation and have, in fact, been bad for business. The 43-year-old Stern also says he's not interested in being lumped in the same category as Larry Flynt. "Look,'' he tells Remnick. "My life isn't about the First Amendment.''
Well--yes and no. Stern hasn't shown up at the Supreme Court wrapped in a flag, but he's a shock jock's shock jock who, from day one, has found success by being more crass, more crude, more "anti-establishment" than his peers. The fact remains that if he hadn't spent a decade flipping off the FCC's Standards of Decency, he would still be spinning Top 40 in Hartford, Conn., where he worked his first full-time radio job. Jim Riffel, a New Jersey-based filmmaker who just released a documentary titled Shut-Up and Listen! The Self-Proclaimed King of All Media & The First Amendment Wars, takes the view that the FCC has become just another public relations tool for Stern and his recently co-opted parent company, Infinity Broadcasting.
Says Riffel: "The FCC is the best thing that ever happened to Howard Stern. When they fine him, his ratings go up. Infinity Broadcasting dips into their little damage-control fund, pays the fine, then turns a $10 to $20 million profit in increased advertising. When he was fined $1.7 million by the FCC in 1987, Stern put out a double CD called Crucified by the FCC and made an enormous amount of money."
In fact, according to Paul Colford's 1996 book, Howard Stern, King of All Media, it was Stern's patented, potentially libelous irreverence--perfected over a six-year period--which led to an iron-clad partnership with the most powerful executive in radio, Mel Karmazin.
As a DJ at WWWW-FM in Detroit from 1979 to 1981, Stern had a dominatrix deliver the weather forecast and organized a bra-burning demonstration to coincide with the Republican National Convention. Stunts such as these earned him a Billboard award for best AOR (album-oriented rock) disc jockey, then landed him a job at WWDC-FM in Washington, D.C., where he quadrupled the morning audience. In 1982 Stern was signed at WNBC-FM in New York City for an annual salary of $200,000. There he spent most of his tenure playing second-fiddle to NBC's morning man, Don Imus, and fighting with management over content: a skit depicting the Virgin Mary being chased around a singles bar; jokes about AIDS; fake calls to the KKK; an in-studio faith-healing for a paraplegic. But before he was ousted in September 1985 over "conceptual differences," Stern was outperforming Imus and getting better ratings than the station as a whole.
In the wake of the high-profile firing--and increased attention from the FCC--Stern embarked on a strategy that is now a staple of his marketing attack. He started to use other media to promote his visibility. He appeared on CNN's Larry King Live, wrote humorous essays for national magazines, and appeared on late-night TV. He even did stand-up. In the meantime, Infinity Broadcasting CEO Karmazin decided to sign Stern for $500,000 a year--not because he would deliver the largest audience, but because he would guarantee supremacy with regard to a specific demographic, men from 18 to 34. By May 1986, Stern was paying his first fees to the FCC while helping Infinity trounce WNBC. A year later he was number one in Philadelphia. By the fall of 1991, he was number one in New York among all listeners.
Over the next year Stern was splitting hefty syndication fees with Infinity in Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Dallas, and Los Angeles (reportedly in excess of $400,000 per year per market). Then, in October of 1992, Stern hit a wall. For over a year he tried in vain to make inroads in the Chicago market, but was bounced from station to station and beaten back by the market's popular local talent.
Again he healed his wounds by profiting from other forms of expression. His autobiography, Private Parts, became a best seller in the fall of 1993, selling over a million copies and earning its author $3.5 million. A cable special released the same year, The Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve Pageant, was the most popular nonsports event in the history of pay-per-view, paying Stern over $4 million.
In 1995, E! started shelling out $1.5 million a year to rebroadcast Stern's show on the tube. In 1996 his second book, Miss America, became a best seller and a movie version of Private Parts went into production. In 1997, coinciding with the film's release, he and Karmazin have set out to sign up additional affiliates. Last month his ratings improved in Chicago.
"He's working so many elements now, he can't lose,'' Riffel says. "He's like McDonald's. Even though a home-cooked burger may be cheaper, even taste better, he's there; whether you like or not, whether I like it or not, whether the FCC likes it or not.''
In February 1996, lawmakers in Washington said they wanted to encourage across-the-board competition in the broadcasting industry. For players such as Stern's Infinity Broadcasting, the resulting legislation--just like the FCC fines--turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 lifted most media-ownership restrictions and led to a dizzying array of broadcast mergers, totaling somewhere in the neighborhood of $37 billion. The biggest deals involved ABC, which was gobbled up by Disney, and Westinghouse, which purchased Infinity for a whopping $4.9 billion just seven months after swallowing CBS. (In the fallout, Karmazin was named boss of CBS radio.) "If you think competition is about my engulf-and-devour company engulfing and devouring your engulf-and-devour company, then I guess we have more competition," says Steven Randall, senior analyst for the New York-based Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). "Because all we've had happen in the last year is an orgy of mergers. And there's probably no area of media that's been affected more than radio."
How does this help Stern? Radio execs in New York and L.A. are more likely to use national talent to build local ratings because they have confidence in proven commodities such as Stern, Don Imus, and Rush Limbaugh. They also have deep enough pockets to ride out a slow transition. In short, according to Jeffrey Yorke, Washington bureau chief at the trade mag Radio and Records, the Telecommunications Act is helping to accelerate an already pronounced trend. "Radio, which has always been local, local, local will now emerge as a conduit for more and more nationally syndicated programming," Yorke says. "Experience proves there's just more potential for profit."
There's no question that telecommunication reform helped pave the way for Stern in the Twin Cities. Previously, no one company could own more than five separate signals in any given market; now they're allowed at least seven, and Randall believes loopholes in the legislation allow for even more. Consequently, last August Chancellor--which already owned KFAN, KDWB, KTCZ, KEEY and KTCJ--made an agreement to purchase Minneapolis-based Colfax Communications. The acquisition gave Chancellor control of KQQL-FM (KOOL 108) and WBOB-FM (now WBLB-FM). It was WBOB--a redundancy as Chancellor's second local country station--that became Real Rock 100, the Howard Stern vehicle.
The entire competitive calculus was based on a battle of the titans. According to Kevin McCarthy, the general manager in charge of Real Rock 100, Chancellor's research showed that three years ago, after ABC bought out the hard-rocking 93X and turned it into 93.7 The Edge, KQ softened its musical format, pushing the median age of its listener from 28 to 32 with a playlist featuring the likes of Billy Joel, America, and CCR. Before this move, one in five of KQ's listeners was a 35-to-44-year-old male. That number has grown to one in three, which convinced the programmers at Chancellor that there were listeners out there pining for more Guns N' Roses and less Rolling Stones. "Our research showed these 25-to-35-year-old guys could be moved off KQ,'' McCarthy says. "But the nuclear weapon was Howard Stern. Musical format alone was not enough. With Howard we can become a magnet.''
In the words of Mick Anselmo, another local Chancellor GM, "If you were an independent operator and decided to take on a behemoth like KQ, you'd have a hard time because of cost and ability to sustain an attack. They would flank you musically. But when you're holding multiple brands, you can beat them at their own game. It's a win-win for us.'' It's also a win-win for Stern, who reportedly got an enviable commitment from Chancellor: Sources at Real Rock 100 say he has a guaranteed deal through the year 2000.
The situation obviously augurs against real homegrown competition on the airwaves. Along with ABC and Chancellor, there are really only three other players in local radio: Hubbard Broadcasting, CBS, and Nationwide Communications. Station managers all over town, echoing corporate publicists nationwide, argue that if fewer owners are moving more money around the dial, listeners will be able to choose the best of the best. Both allies and enemies of Stern point to his show as a boon to the industry in general--raising the beam for all morning hosts and talk-show personalities.
Just outside the incestuous, self-congratulatory world of corporate radio, however, those who watch the industry are concerned that programming will lose whatever edge it has left. Jim Pounds, vice president and media director at Periscope Communications, a Minneapolis ad agency, says companies who've just spent millions to consolidate will not only have to increase ad costs, but they'll have to adopt lowest-common-denominator, no-risk formats with mass appeal.
"These trends may make radio more financially viable, but a far less interesting medium from a cultural standpoint. There's a risk that stations will become so homogenized that they'll be virtually indistinguishable,'' Pounds says. "Hopefully, the big chains are savvy enough to understand they can't do stuff by formula. Unfortunately, these people abdicate to consultants. And consultants haven't had an original thought in several years. They're just duplicating what they did in the last market. If consumers accept that, I suppose they deserve what they get.''
Already the limiting effects of consolidation can be felt in the Twin Cities. Two hard-rock stations are crowding the dial with virtually indistinguishable formats, a circus tent full of zany morning crews are trying to outclown one another, and programmers are already paring down their playlists. So far, though, no one's felt the effects more viscerally than fans of REV 105--the last community-minded radio station with the corporate resources to make the big boys sweat.
Last fall, the Crazy Cabbie--a character on the Edge's morning show, played by Lee Mroszak--was making an appearance at the Mall of America for a special preview of the action-bomb Maximum Risk. An overgrown frat boy, the Cabbie has managed to carve out a living by showing up at public events to scream corporate catch phrases. At this particular event he finished his 30-second pre-screening pitch with the inspiring rallying cry "93.7 rules!" To which a fan in the half-full theater responded, "REV 105!"
To put it in theatrical terms, the Cabbie broke out of character. "Yeah, right, they rule,'' he scowled as his go-go swagger turned into an angry stomp up the aisle. "If you can hear them through the static. Because, y'know, they're not owned by a big company or anything. No! Cargill doesn't have a dime.''
The spectacle, while a tad surreal, was as revelatory as it was comical. Even though REV 105 was dwarfed by the Edge in every category of the most recent Arbitron ratings, the little station with the three separate signals made ABC palpably uncomfortable. On the air, in interviews, or in private conversations, outbursts like the Crazy Cabbie's were the norm. A full two months after REV 105 has been replaced by X105, employees at the Edge are still prickly about the subject. When I contacted one on-air personality from the Edge to talk about Howard Stern, the first thing he wanted to know--after making it clear his name wouldn't be used--is why ex-REV DJ Shawn Stewart was on the cover of City Pages' Best of the Twin Cities issue. "I mean, for Christ's sake," he said. "Can't we just let that whole thing die?"
On the surface, the Cabbie and his cronies got the glass slipper. On March 11, ABC signed a deal with Cargill Communications to acquire 105.3 Cambridge, 105.1 Lakeville and 105.7 Eden Prairie. All told, the stations went for $17.5 million, too much for Cargill's CFO, James Cargill, to turn down. Depending on who you talk to, REV was barely breaking even. Some contend it was losing money.
John Kuehne, who is the general manager at KLBB-AM, Cargill's remaining station, was in on the sale as general manager of REV 105. He says the Telecommunications Act made it nearly impossible for a stand-alone station such as REV to compete. "The reality was that with consolidation happening in the market, the bar got raised. Ratings that would have been OK prior to consolidation weren't OK," Kuehne says. "A station like REV, trying to feed at the advertising trough with the big boys, couldn't stand alone. To make matters worse, our Arbitron numbers weren't near what they needed to be. In fact, from the fall of 1995 to the fall of 1996, they'd gone down."
By buying REV, ABC hoped to accomplish more than eliminating an annoyance for the Edge. By changing REV's format to what they termed "active rock," they created a three-pronged assault on male listeners, 18 to 34, who have already given KQ and KEGE the edge in a majority of time slots. The Edge is programmed to attract young, urban males; X105 is aimed at young, suburban headbangers; KQ captures older, more affluent demos with their softer play list.
Now KQ's audience, by far the most lucrative of the three, is up for grabs. Asking local radio insiders to handicap the race between Barnard and Stern is a little like asking a bar full of football fans at the Wisconsin/Minnesota border who's going to win the next Packers/Vikings game. Barnard enthusiasts pooh-pooh Stern as a has-been, pointing to his subpar performance in markets such as Chicago, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Baltimore, and Phoenix, where audiences have been loyal to local talent. In Minneapolis, they argue, people will tune into KQ's morning crew because they'll be talking about the Twins game or making fun of Arne Carlson while Stern is rattling on about something in the Bronx.
In concert with Barnard's refusal to acknowledge the presence of a national competitor, no one on the payroll at ABC/Capital Cities will make an on-the-record comment about Stern. Steve Konrad, program director at Hubbard Broadcasting's KSTP, sums up their arguments succinctly. "The conventional wisdom is that Howard won't do very well, because listeners here are supposedly provincial and rigid," Konrad says. "General managers all over are saying they won't touch him, because he's a pox, a disease who will infect the whole station."
In the Chancellor camp, Stern fans such as Anselmo and McCarthy say it will take at least a year before his presence can be fairly judged. In the meantime, though, they reject the idea that Barnard has an advantage because he broadcasts from Golden Valley. "It's not about local or national, it's about compelling entertainment," Anselmo says. "Steve and Sharon had a local TV show. Remember? All of a sudden Oprah came to town. When viewers were given a choice between John Travolta on Oprah and the plant doctor on Steve and Sharon, they overwhelmingly picked Oprah. The same will be true of Howard." In markets where Stern is struggling, such as Chicago and Pittsburgh, McCarthy says the show's been shifted from station to station and faces a number of talented morning teams, not just one.
Walter Sabo, a national radio consultant based in Florida, has consulted clients who've syndicated Stern and advised stations on how to neutralize his presence. He says KQ's decision to avoid an on-air pissing match is dead-on. Because, across the board, those who've been most successful against Stern refuse to talk about him, don't try to copy him, and spend every second of their broadcast talking about things happening in their respective cities. Sabo also believes Stern will ultimately prevail. "It's the same interview in every city," Sabo says "The city is always in shock. They don't think he'll beat the number one guy. And he does. And he's number one in billing. It's a pretty consistent pattern."
Sitting on the fence in New Jersey is Joe Lenski, vice president of Edison Media Research. Armed with data from every city in which Stern's aired, he says--believe it or not--that talent will be the deciding factor. Whoever makes more people laugh will be king. According to Lenski, "Tom Barnard will have to put up or shut up, because this is Coke versus Pepsi, Burger King versus McDonald's. I don't think there's a guy in the market aged 18 to 35 who's not going to tune into one if they're listening to another. They're going to compare. People really love Barnard in our research. And it's more than him. It's the whole crew. And he has been on for 15 years. But if the local talent isn't up to the challenge, Stern will expose them. Sure, all things being equal, people tend to skew local. But Howard is way more talented than 99 percent of the DJs in the country. And if he makes people laugh, they'll come back. They always do."
In the short term, Stern's presence can hardly fail to shift ratings. He's arriving on the heels of a national media storm kicked up by the film Private Parts, a semiautobiographical soft-shoe designed to give his bawdy image a mass-market upgrade. Barnard is so dominant in this market--among men and women, 18 to 34, he's beating his closest competitor by a factor of two--Stern is sure to shake up the bottom-dwellers. And, as McCarthy points out, Chancellor to date hasn't spent a dime on publicity. Their big-budget blitz will come in the fall.
"The only thing that could've happened to Chancellor is if Stern came to the market and nobody noticed," Jim Pounds says. "At the very least, they've gotten attention out of it, and a fair amount of sampling on the part of prospective listeners, which isn't a bad thing. And there's no question that any kind of shift, even a small shift in either demand or numbers, will have a demonstrable effect on the bottom line."
Even if he doesn't overtake Barnard anytime soon, Stern seems certain to become a long-term presence in the market. "It's the Howard Stern Casino," Sabo says. "You can enter the casino with him, and play all the hands you want. But ultimately the house always wins."
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Book your room at Holiday Inn Express Leland - Wilmington Area
Get an overview of this hotelSuburban hotel with free breakfast and indoor pool
Located in the heart of Leland, this hotel is 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from Magnolia Greens Golf Plantation and within 6 mi (10 km) of Cape Fear National at Brunswick Forest and Battleship North Carolina. Children's Museum of Wilmington and Brunswick Nature Park are also within 12 mi (20 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features an indoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a 24-hour business center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a meeting room, and dry cleaning are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 105 rooms provide free WiFi and free wired Internet, flat-screen TVs with cable channels, and conveniences like sofa beds and sitting areas. Guests will also find pillowtop beds, refrigerators, and microwaves.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Holiday Inn Express Leland - Wilmington Area1020 Grandiflora Drive Leland NC 28451
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Hotel Amenities
Holiday Inn Express Leland - Wilmington Area features an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. Business-related amenities consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Event facilities measure 750 square feet (68 square meters). This Leland hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Holiday Inn Express Leland - Wilmington Area is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space size (feet) - 750
- Conference space size (meters) - 68
- Designated smoking areas
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free breakfast
- Free long-term parking
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Grocery/convenience store
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 3
- One meeting room
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 105
- Tours/ticket assistance
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Grocery/convenience store
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Sofa bed
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free local calls
- Free long-distance calls
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Microwave
- Phone
- Pillowtop mattress
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Separate sitting area
- Shower/tub combination
- Sofa bed
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A complimentary breakfast is offered.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 50 per pet, per stay
- 2 per room (up to 50 lb)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Pet fee: USD 50 per pet, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
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- Holiday Inn Express Leland Wilmington Area
- Holiday Inn Express Wilmington Hotel Leland Area
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Michelle Sugimoto
Hometown: Kentwood, MI
Major: Physics
Minor: Math
Concentration: Environmental Studies
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Cappuccino Chocolate Chip
Best Adjective to Describe You: Fetch
In 10 words or less, why should a student want to be involved in this department?
Having a space, like the MPC (Math & Physics Center), fosters a fun, collaborative community.
What initially drew you to this department? What keeps you coming back?
Originally, I was considering a chemistry major, which requires the introductory physics courses. I had a lot of fun in those classes, so I continued. Now, encouragement from my professors and the prospects of being part of sustainable change for the earth keep me coming back.
What's your biggest piece of advice to first years and sophomores in this department?
My advice is to let go of stereotypes. Most of the time, we are presented with super genius, white, male physicists. But physicists come in every shape and size. And it's important to remember that working hard and struggling sometimes is ok.
How does your department connect to your other interests and activities?
My interest in environmentalism connects to physics through renewable energy. The Physics Society has worked to install solar panels on the recycling cart, so keep an eye out for that around campus! Also, an understanding of physics has given me another way to connect to bells ringing at Stetson.
What's the most valuable thing you've learned at K?
This is something that I'm still working on, but I am learning that I don't have to be number one to be proud of myself.
What has been your favorite class at K? Why?
My favorite class at K so far has been American Environmental History. I feel like I accomplished a lot in this class. Also, it was really fascinating to gain a better understanding of my place within the environmental movement by learning the history of various "green" movements.
What is your SIP?
I'm not sure yet, but I plan to get an internship or REU at a lab to see if pursuing a career in research is what I really want.
What are your career aspirations/next steps after K?
I'm considering attending graduate school to get a research position in a renewable energy lab.


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A fantastic blend using tussah silk and subtlely multi-colored merino wool which creates a shimmering yarn with multi-faceted color.
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Lovely stuff indeed!
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I purchased this to spin in the 2012 Tour De Fleece. Not a fiber for a beginner, but offers a bit of a challenge and some fun surprises for the intermediate spinner. The colors spin up very subtly compared to the top -and has some decent size schlubbs in it that add visual interest to the yarn itself. Drafts nicely but can be a bit tricky to spin-but when spun and plied you get a buttery soft and subtly shiny yarn that has quite a bit of jewel like color that make this yarn just sparkle. The finished yarn has a lovely drape to it-perfect for shawls or a lovely fashion sweater.
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Camped in an RV Park about a block or so from the American Legion Post.Wind was blowing like hell, no fun…
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Sunday, it was planned to head home….Did not happen…We felt tired and lazy so just lounged around the RV for the whole day….
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That is it for the season….Drained the fresh water tank, opened all the faucets and the low point drains…Called it a day….Still blowing and raining off and on..


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- Pacific Ethanol (PEIX -5%) is merging with Midwestern ethanol maker Aventine Renewable Energy in an all-stock deal. Pacific is issuing 17.75M shares (current value of $181M), and assuming $135M in term loan debt.
- Aventine's production capacity (spread out over four mills) totals 315M gallons/year, handily eclipsing Pacific's 200M. After factoring Pacific's ethanol marketing ops, the company expects to sell 800M+ gallons of ethanol annually post-merger (#5 in the U.S.).
- Pacific: "With this transaction, Pacific Ethanol strengthens its unique production and marketing advantages by diversifying into two additional discrete markets and connecting its Western markets with Aventine's Midwest and Eastern markets." The deal is expected to close in Q2 2015.
- Shares have sold off after initially trading higher in response to the deal.
Dec. 31, 2014, 9:15 AM
Oct. 29, 2014, 5:36 PM
- Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX) -10% AH despite posting better than expected Q3 earnings and revenues.
- Q3 ethanol production sold totaled 46.8M gallons, up 26% Y/Y, and third-party gallons sold totaled 86.9M, up 28%, but the average sales price fell to $2.32/gal. from $2.62/gal.
- Ethanol suppliers such as PEIX can't sell more because the market already is taking all it can at a 10% blend of ethanol to gasoline, so the price is sure to fall and demand will be stagnant, according to 24/7's Paul Ausick.
Sep. 22, 2014, 10:31 AM
- Pacific Ethanol (PEIX +3.6%) bounces a bit after tumbling 30% from Sept. 10 to Friday's close.
- PEIX said last week at an investor presentation that margins have pulled back recently as demand has dropped, which ha led to price drops in ethanol; the company believes the price movement are an overreaction to a temporary market condition.
- PEIX also noted it has worked hard to de-lever its balance sheet and is now ne debt-free; it also says 2014 was the secon bumper crop for corn in a row, resulting in high yields and high inventories, which have helped on PEIX's cost side.
Sep. 11, 2014, 3:48 PM
- Pacific Ethanol (PEIX -7%) and other U.S. ethanol producers are sharply lower, apparently on fears that the industry in America could be hit by a surge of Brazilian imports.
- Brazil yesterday approved a tax credit for domestic ethanol exporters, which the government believes will help its domestic exporters "because it cheapens the Brazilian export and pays a devaluation of the exchange rate," the country's finance minister says.
- Ethanol demand has fallen in Brazil in recent years, with only 25% of flex-fuel cars there using ethanol in 2013 vs. 82% in 2009, according to Bloomberg.
- U.S. ethanol makers already have been pressured by the EPA's proposals to cut the amount of biofuels that refiners will be required to blend into gasoline, and moves by California regulators that have given Brazilian sugar ethanol a better greenhouse gas rating than corn-based ethanol produced in the U.S.
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Having visiting the area since he was a boy, Dunedin man
Bryan Young reckons Maniototo settlement Patearoa is the
perfect place to relax and unwind off the beaten track.
Nestled against the lower slopes of the Rock and Pillar
Range, Patearoa, originally known as Sowburn, was founded on
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Mr Young, who bought a piece of land in the township with his
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were passing through. This meant there was never much traffic
- which was exactly the way Mr Young liked it.
''If you stand here long enough and just listen, you don't
hear any man-made noise.''
Buying a section in Patearoa was a homecoming of sorts for Mr
Young as he had spent his boyhood years holidaying just down
the road.
''My father was a farming insurance agent and we used to come
to Stonehenge, which is down the valley a bit further, and
stay in their shearer's cottage.''
In the days when he first started coming to the area - about
40 years ago - the Patearoa store, which has now been
restored as a holiday house, was still in operation.
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still a sleepy hollow ... and hopefully it will stay that
The family section was ''just brilliant - there's lots of
trees around, it's sheltered, it's protected from the
roads'', he said.
Dotted among the trees and grass of the section, like many
others in the area, are also many varieties of gooseberry,
ranging from those with dark red fruit to those with yellow
ones and others with green fruit with spikes.
Mr Young said the fruit could be traced back to a gooseberry
farm run by a Chinese man not far from the settlement in the
late 19th century or early 20th century.
Since buying the section they had slowly improved it, getting
the grass - which was once higher than their waists - under
control, installing a gas-powered hot-water cylinder for an
outside shower and bath and putting in two small
dwellings''We were able to obtain a little hut locally and
move it on site and last year we built the other one from a
They came up from Dunedin as often as every second weekend
except for in the winter, when it was bitterly cold.
One of the best things about the spot was the fact Patearoa
was less than two hours' drive from Dunedin, meaning the
couple could come up for day trips.
There was also plenty to do when there, with a swimming hole
just down the road and another one a short walk away at
Dyke's Dam, where there was also the remnants of an old
Chinese gold-mining settlement.
The old school swimming pool was also kept up to scratch and
holiday-makers, or ''cribbies'' as the locals called them,
could visit as often as they liked for a $25 fee.
''Cribbies'' could also join the local golf club for a
reduced fee or make use of the town's historic library, which
was staffed by volunteers during the holiday period.
Mr Young and his wife were among the holiday-makers who
volunteered at the small library building, which opened in
the 19th century. Mr Young said Patearoa was a superb place
to relax, do nothing and enjoy the quietness and the view,
whether that was during the day or at night, looking up at
the stars.
''If it's really fine it's just wall-to-wall stars. You just
don't get that in town,'' he said.
The community spirit was also strong in Patearoa and
holiday-makers and locals got on well together.
''The farmers and so on put on a barbecue down at the hall
and they invite all the cribbies that come here, just to keep
it happy and keep in with everybody.''
There was also an annual ''crockery Bob'' sale, where both
locals and holiday-makers sold second-hand goods, the
proceeds going to the local community.
Mr Young said they would continue coming back to the spot and
adding to their section.
''We are toying with the idea of putting a small cottage in
here at some stage.''
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We examined the abundances of three common insect herbivores on pure and hybrid pinyon pines along a 250-km transect in west-central Arizona, United States. Using six morphological traits, we developed a hybrid index to classify trees as pure Pinus californiarum, hybrid, or pure Pinus edulis. The insects (the stem-boring moth, Dioryctria albovittella, the scale insect, Matsucoccus acalyptus, and several species of pitch moths that produce wounds on the trunk and branches) exhibited different distributional patterns across tree types. Stem-boring moths were significantly more abundant on trees at "hybrid" sites compared to trees at "pure" sites. In addition, within hybrid sites, hybrids supported significantly more moth larvae than pure trees of either species. These two patterns support the hybrid susceptibility hypothesis in which hybrid breakdown results in increased susceptibility to herbivory. In contrast to stem-borers, there were significantly more pitch moth wounds on trees at pure P. californiarum sites than at hybrid and pure P. edulis sites. Within the hybrid zone, pitch moth abundance was equal on pure P. californiarum and hybrids, and both were significantly greater than on pure P. edulis. These within-site comparisons support the dominance hypothesis where hybrid resistance differs from one tree species, but not the other. Scale insects exhibited the most restricted distribution; over the 250 km transect they were found only in the hybrid zone. This supports the hybrid susceptibility and/or the stress hypothesis (i.e., species at the edge of their range suffer greater stress and are more susceptible to herbivory). We summed the mean numbers of these three common herbivores across sites and found that hybrid sites supported 2.1 and 3.9 times more herbivores than pure P. californiarum and P. edulis sites, respectively. Furthermore, tree mortality was on average, 35 times greater within the hybrid zone compared to pure zones of each species and was associated with the cumulative abundance of herbivores (r 2=0.646). Regardless of whether this mortality is due to insect infestation, stress or a combination of both, these results suggest that hybrid zones are important arenas of natural selection.
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Spring Ramp Risotto
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It should be obvious by now how much I love spring onions in all their forms. This light, lovely Italian rice dish highlights whatever wild or store-bought green onion you have on hand, spiked with fresh spring green herbs.
Posted in Featured, Foraging, Italian, Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi, Recipe, Spring Recipes | Tagged fennel, Foraging, italian recipes, onions, ramps, risotto, wild greens | 3 Responses
Cardoon Risotto
By Hank Shaw on January 6, 2014 | 9 Responses
Cardoons are an old relative of the artichoke, tasting like a mash-up of artichoke hearts, celery and endive. They can be tricky to work with, so when I found a recipe for cardoon risotto I had to try it.
Posted in Featured, Italian, Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi, Recipe, The Garden | Tagged cardoons, italian recipes, risotto, The Garden, veggies | 9 Responses
Walleye Minot: Why Not?
By Hank Shaw on December 2, 2013 | 11 Responses
I call this recipe Walleye Minot because it is an ode to North Dakota, and because I caught the walleye on Lake Sakakawea near Minot, ND. Pretty much everything in it speaks to that state, which was so good to me when I visited in October.
Posted in American Recipes, Berries and Fruits, Featured, Fish, Foraging, Northern European, Recipe | Tagged fish recipes, Foraging, German and Scandinavian Recipes, risotto, wild food | 11 Responses
Fish Risotto
By Hank Shaw on April 15, 2013 | 6 Responses
If there is one episode of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" that sticks with me, it is his trip to Venice. In that episode he has risotto di go, an ethereal dish that hinges on a magical fish broth. I've remade this risotto here with striped bass. It will transport you.
Posted in Featured, Fish, Italian, Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi, Recipe | Tagged bass recipes, fish recipes, italian recipes, risotto, striped bass | 6 Responses
Morel Risotto
By Hank Shaw on June 10, 2012 | 9 Responses
I make a lot of risotto, but I love mushroom risotto most of all. This is what I do when life gives me a basket of pretty fresh morels, and life's been good to me this season.
Posted in Featured, Foraging, Italian, Mushrooms, Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi, Recipe, Spring Recipes | Tagged italian recipes, morels, mushrooms, risotto, wild food | 9 Responses
Crab Risotto
By Hank Shaw on January 30, 2012 | 12 Responses
We're in the thick of our Dungeness crab season here in California, and crab risotto is one of my favorite things to do with them.
Posted in Fish, Italian, Pasta, Risotto, Gnocchi, Recipe | Tagged crab, fish recipes, gluten free, italian recipes, risotto, wild food | 12 Responses
Porcini Bonanza!
By Hank Shaw on December 21, 2011 | 22 Responses
There's nothing quite like a porcini hunt. The mushrooms are huge, meaty and can go for $30 a pound or more, so finding them is like striking gold. And boy did we find them last weekend!
Posted in Foraging, Italian, Mushrooms, Recipe | Tagged Foraging, italian recipes, mushrooms, porcini, risotto, wild food | 22 Responses
Wild Turkey Risotto
By Hank Shaw on November 23, 2011 | 3 Responses
Today is a day for leftover turkey, domestic or wild. Whichever kind you ate yesterday, this risotto recipe is a great way to use leftover bits.
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