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Alternate name: Narrowleaf Gayfeather
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description This perennial's stiff, upright, unbranched stems, 1-3 ft. tall, grow in wide-spreading clumps. The tufted, purple flowers are densely congested in a long spike on the upper part of the stem. The leaves are narrow and crowded, becoming progressively smaller upward.
Flower August - December (in south); August - September (in north).
Flower August - December (in south); August - September (in north)
Habitat Open fields and woods; calcareous uplands.
Range C. Great Plains, south to Texas and adjacent Mexico.
Discussion Liatris species attract butterflies.
Comments Tolerant of alkaline soils.
Exposure Preference Sun.
Native Distribution C. Great Plains, s. to Texas & adjacent Mexico
Site Preference Open fields & woods; calcareous uplands
Soil Preference Calcareous, rocky soils.
Wildlife Value Liatris spp. attract butterflies.


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Popular TV Competition Replicated at RIC: "Smart Dancing with the Stars of RIC"
RIC students Miguel Alcantara and Gretchen Hanson. Photo credit: Jose Rodriguez.
One of the most popular entertainment shows on television was replicated at RIC – "Smart Dancing With the Stars of RIC." This ballroom dance competition drew such "star power" as Karen Bordeleau, senior vice president and executive editor of the Providence Journal, and a distinguished panel of judges: Alex and Ani's Carolyn Rafaelian and Giovanni Feroce, Tony Lepore aka "The Dancing Cop" and RIC President Nancy Carriuolo.
The "stars" (faculty, staff and friends of RIC) partnered with members of RIC's Ballroom Dance Club, a 32-member organization that recently came away with Bronze, Silver and Gold at a Yale ballroom dance competition. Gretchen Hanson, who took Silver at Yale, partnered with Rob Franzblau, RIC professor of music and conductor of the RIC Wind Ensemble.
Franzblau said that he is not a complete neophyte when it comes to dance. In fact, more than 40 years ago, he performed in high school and college musicals. Moreover, he said, "My wife loves to watch 'Dancing With the Stars.' So, I'm in this to win this."
A total of 10 partners competed against each other for judges' points. Each couple's dance style was selected randomly from a hat. Franzblau drew the Hustle and had to revisit the disco era. He said, "I was bummed when I drew the Hustle card. I would have loved to have performed an Argentine Tango." When asked if he would costume himself in the clothing of the disco era, which included shirts unbuttoned down to the navel, gold chains, skintight bell bottoms and platform shoes, Franzblau's face visibly whitened.
As far as preparing for the contest, Franzblau said the most challenging aspect has been remembering the choreography. "I also have a hard time remembering to move my upper body. Guys don't dance above the waist." He is getting help on this move from a member of the Ballroom Dance Club, freshman Shane Crellin who took Silver at the Yale competition.
Franzblau admits that he hasn't told any of his students about his upcoming performance and even waited to tell his son – a senior music major at RIC. "It's not something you go around bragging about," he said. "I'm trying to keep all of this top secret."
On the night of the competition, the dancers were judged on such criteria as poise, their hold or frame, posture, musicality and expression, timing, body alignment and shape, floor craft, foot and leg action and presentation.
This event was sponsored by RIC's Ballroom Dance Club and the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. Half of the ticket proceeds will go toward hosting the New England Ballroom Competition at RIC on March 30, 2014.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
BRAD LOCKE: The passing game is not a strength for Notre Dame, but Alabama's secondary has been vulnerable at times this season.
The Crimson Tide is very tough against the run, and with a 3-4 defense featuring speedy linebackers, that defense can cover the field. Notre Dame has to somehow be the more physical team and mitigate some of that speed.
Notre Dame has one of the nation's top defenses, but it's facing a very disciplined, well-rounded Alabama offense. Irish linebacker Manti Te'o is a playmaker and needs to find a way to throw QB A.J. McCarron off his game.
PARRISH ALFORD: Odds are not with the Irish tonight, but if Notre Dame is going to win, it's going to win with its front seven on defense.
Along those lines, the Irish must be ready to wrap up against Alabama running backs Eddie Lacy and T.J. Yeldon.
Yeldon, a freshman, is stronger than than he looks and has great vision and change of direction.
Lacy, though, is the bull. The Irish have to gang tackle and be prepared for Lacy's signature spin move.
After they defend the run the Irish have to remember freshman receiver
Amari Cooper, who is under-valued as a deep threat.
BCS Championship Preview Capsule
The Associated Press
Alabama (12-1) vs. Notre Dame (12-0), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Site: Sun Life Stadium, Miami
Line: Alabama by 9½
Series Record: Notre Dame leads 5-1
Alabama is going for its third national championship in four years and trying to become the first school to win back-to-back BCS titles. Notre Dame is seeking its first national championship since 1988. Both schools are trying to take over the lead for the most times finishing atop The Associated Press rankings, coming into the game tied at eight.
Notre Dame's stifling defense, which has allowed only two rushing touchdowns all season, against Alabama's bruising ground game. The Crimson Tide has a pair of 1,000 yards rushers in Eddie Lacy and freshman T.J. Yeldon, who combined for 334 yards in a 32-28 victory over Georgia in the Southeastern Conference championship game. Notre Dame has surrendered only 92.4 yards per game on the ground, and just two players rushed for more than 100 yards against the Irish. LB Manti Te'o leads the team in tackles (103) and interceptions (seven).
Alabama: WR Amari Cooper may become the Crimson Tide's best weapon if the running game bogs downs. The dynamic freshman had 53 receptions and nine touchdowns, averaging nearly 17 yards per catch. Look for Alabama to work off play-action and take some shots down the field.
Notre Dame: QB Everett Golson, essentially a redshirt freshman, has developed from a timid play-caller at the start of the season to a seasoned leader who has earned the respect of his teammates. While coach Brian Kelly has scaled back some parts of his spread offense to cut down on potential mistakes, Golson has the ability to move the ball with his arm (59 percent completions, 2,135 yards passing, 11 touchdowns) and his legs (305 yards rushing, five TDs).
The teams first met in the 1973 Sugar Bowl, a classic matchup in which Notre Dame claimed its second national title under coach Ara Parseghian with a 24-23 victory over Bear Bryant and the Crimson Tide. … Their last meeting was in 1987, when Notre Dame romped to a 37-6 victory in South Bend. … The Fighting Irish won five times this season by a touchdown or less, including overtime triumphs over Stanford and Pittsburgh. … Alabama had four shutouts (Western Kentucky, Arkansas, Western Carolina, Auburn). … Notre Dame has a streak of nine straight bowl losses from 1995-2007, but the Irish have won two of their last three postseason games. … Alabama athletic director Mal Moore coached at Notre Dame in the 1980s under Gerry Faust. … The Crimson Tide has three All-Americans on its offensive line: first-teamers Barrett Jones at center and Chance Warmack at left guard, and second-teamer D.J. Fluker at right tackle. … Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will be going for his 200th career victory.


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Supporting Latin American Farmers
With much expectation and several years of inspiration Latin
Organics has now extended its product line following the company's
passion and drive to continue using Direct Trade with farmers as an
important tool towards bringing Social Equality to Colombia. After
tasting all the amazing cocoa in Colombia, Latin Organics decided
to go with Cocoa beans that are being grown between the Andes and
the Amazon. This particular bean is a 65% Cocoa with pronounced
rich chocolate flavor combined with delightful fruity and floral
notes well known to the Fino de Aroma cocoa quality. It is Kosher,
Vegan and Gluten Free so that there is no guilt at all. Use your
imagination as this product is versatile on how to enjoy it. If you
feel like having the best hot chocolate made from scratch without
all the fuss -use Latin Organics Cocoa. If you want to get up in
the morning and have a healthy smoothie- pour some of this goodness
to the blender and get a boost of anti-ox. If you love to bake or
cook, explore your senses using Latin Organics cocoa. If you just
want to have some right now- just open the bag, sit back and let
the Love Affair begin.
They bring great talent to the Canadian business arena and to
the medical and technological field from Coast to Coast.
Latin Organics, CEO& Founder, Martha Lucia Bowen, has been
nominated to receive the 6th annual edition of the "10 most
influential Hispanic Canadians". This year's winners may be invited
for a private meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada, Rt. Hon.
Stephen Harper in 2013 as it was the case in 2010. The awards
ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, November 21, 2012 in Toronto
with the confirmed keynote speaker His Excellency Guillermo
Rishchyinski, Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations and 2008
winner of our program. Specifics on the awards ceremony will be
sent in a few weeks and we will blog about this. Martha Lucia Bowen
is certain that the work that Latin Organics is doing on Canadian
soil has a positive impact in the lives of all the farmers in the
countries of origin where we do trade as well for local consumers
that have the opportunity to support Latin Organics premium
products. Latin Organics not only works with coffee farmers and
cocoa farmers but also crafters that make eco friendly products for
everyday use following ancestral traditions. The "10 most
influential Hispanic Canadians" is the only national annual
Hispanic program celebrating the achievements of Hispanic
Canadians- a group known as Canada's Creative Class. The fifty past
winners come from Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia,
Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan, representing thirteen countries
of origin. The program is organized by the Canadian Hispanic
Business Association. Judges include past winners as well as
executives and journalists from the National Post, Globe &
Mail, Toronto Star, CBC, Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance,
Canadian Council for the Americas, Canadian Aboriginal &
Minority Supplier Council and the University of Ottawa.- Three of
the winners were from British Columbia.
Keep an eye out for Green Zebra's Coupon Book- where you can
find local savings for sustainable living. In the 2012 edition you
will be able to find some neat offerings to use at Latin Organics
flagship store. All things that are sustainable and good are
offered through Green Zebra's coupon book. Green Zebra first started in
San Francisco- in the bay area with the goal to make San Francisco
a more sustainable place to live and work. From this idea, Green Zebra Vancouver was
started. Green Zebra Vancouver is supported by Nester's Market,
Choices, Market Place IGA, David Suzuki Foundation and Van City to
name a few- so purchase yours as soon as it comes out.
Another place to find Latin Organics Coffee this new season-
will be in the well known Vancouver magazine Edible
Vancouver in their Fall Edition as well as on line. You can get
more info on their
blog. Phil Solomon is publisher of Edible Vancouver magazine
and his reward is to taste-test all the local food and beverages-
and yes that does include Latin Organics coffee ! For sure this is
a Foodie magazine. Latin Organics flagship store will be receiving
a magazine rack- so that you can come in and grab a copy to take
home and while you delight on Latin Organics Colombian coffee you
can have a sneak peak.
Look out for the roads- as you will be seeing Latin Organics car
zooming in and out as we get busier brewing our coffee to reach
hundreds of folks. Latin Organics cars once spotted will bring a
smile to your face- they are bright and happy looking ! What would
you expect- we have the sun in our hearts.
This month, Latin
Organics Coffee helped the Burnaby Hospital Foundation
with their 13th annual community run and walk, raising much needed
funds and support for Burnaby's Hospital most urgent medical
equipment needs.
The Rhythm of Life highlights included a 10 km run, 5 km
run and walk, and 1 km Family Stroll. There was a BBQ lunch, Latin
Organics Coffee freshly brewed- keeping spirits happy, outdoor
stage with live entertainment and many other activities.
Latin Organics coffee will be
placed under a beautiful white tent for all guests to delight on.
Latin Organics will be brewing it's 2011 coffee harvest that
arrived to Vancouver on June 5th. This years Feast of Fields will take
place on Sunday, September 11, 2011 at the Krause Berry Farms in
Langley. For the last 16 years, Feast of Fields has brought the
best of BC's culinary masters to an inviting, relaxed farm setting
to enjoy summer's many food gems. All the food and coffee artisans
participating share their passion and knowledge of our local fare
to local consumers. The proceeds from Feast of Fields provide
critical funding for project development, community outreach
and daily operations. Farm Folk/City Folk has , since 1993,
worked throughout British Columbia protecting farmland and
providing opportunities for new farmers and strengthening the
connection between farm and city with education, communication and
celebration.Here at Latin Organics we are really looking forward in
connecting with all these food lovers- who enjoy their coffee with
the same passion that we have when we bring the best coffee beans
possible to Canada from Colombia.
Interview with Martha Bowen, CEO Latin
Interview by Manny
With three young children, a husband, community work, and a
thriving local Vancouver based business, this is one CEO driven to
make a real change in the coffee industry and the world for that
matter. Today's interview is with Martha Bowen, social entrepreneur
and founder of Latin Organics.
Q: Good morning Martha. First things first, thank you for the
cappuccino. It's very smooth. Please tell us about Latin Organics
and the story of how you started the company?
A: Well, just over five years ago, I decided that it was time
for me to make a difference and after much thought, I came up with
the idea of a company that would truly contribute to the world in
an ethical manner. I wanted a company that would generate local
employment, but at the same time, improve the lives of my fellow
Colombians. The result is Latin Organics.
Q: Your last name is Bowen. How did a Colombian end up with a
European sounding name?
A: My grandfather on my father's side immigrated to South
America and he was Irish.
Q: Why start a coffee company and not, say, a clothing
A: We're more than a coffee company, we also market hand crafted
accessories that are 100% biodegradable made by indigenous women
from Colombia. We also plan on bringing exotic Colombian
cocoa/chocolate to North America. But, to answer your question, it
made sense to start Latin Organics with coffee because it's a major
export of Colombia and coffee is a major source of employment.
Q: As an entrepreneur, what did you find most challenging about
starting a company?
A: The most challenging was all the up front work at the very
beginning. When I decided that I wanted to start Latin Organics, I
was still working full time and I had two young children. I had to
do my research and business plan on my day off - Mondays back in
2002. Also, as I was getting ready to launch the company, I became
pregnant with my third child, Sara, who is now as old as Latin
Organics. It was definitely an exciting, but very challenging time
in my life.
Q: What is the most rewarding part of being an entrepreneur?
A: Making a difference in the world and seeing consumers excited
as they hold a bag of Latin Organics coffee in their hands - in
this moment, I know that we are doing the right thing and it feels
so good. I find inspiration in the hard work of our farmers, as
well as I am fully aware of all the hardships in Colombia. I like
to think that we're helping to take "greed out of the equation" and
that will help in alleviating poverty.
Q: What do you mean by taking "greed out of the equation"?
A: What I mean is that our farmers need to be dealt with
directly and paid a fair price so they can continue to grow great
organic coffee. Direct trade is one step above any other type of
trade out there because there are no middlemen involved or any fees
that farmers need to pay out of their pockets. Farmers do not need
charity they need social equality.
Q: What makes Latin Organics different?
A: Well, we are from Colombia - just like our coffee beans and
we have a true passion for bringing social equality to Colombia so
that someday we can feel that it is safe to live there again. This
is the passion and energy that supports us to deal directly with
the farmers through DIRECT TRADE and pay the price that they need
for their hard work. I believe that this empowers our farmers. In
this way, their earnings, which is what Latin Organics contributes
to, stay in the local economy and will help to achieve social
equality in Colombia. Latin Organics premium certified organic
Colombian Arabica coffee beans are grown in the shade, which is
bird friendly and in balance with nature. We respect Mother Earth
and understand best practices for growing true organic coffee. We
believe this will ultimately help keep the fertility of soil and
its ability to produce food for future generations.
Q: What advice would you give a would be entrepreneur?
A: Follow your passion. Be persistent and strong. Don't take
shortcuts. And enjoy the climb.
Q: Please finish this sentence, "What is the one thing you
cannot live without?".
A: My Family.
Read full interview
2011 Feast of Fields Preview
Article by: Ariane
On Wednesday, I was invited to a Feast of Fields preview on-site
at Krause Berry Farms in Langley, BC. The event itself will take
place on Sunday, September 11, 2011. It's FarmFolk CityFolk's 17th
annual event that will help raise funds for the organization.
Feast of Fields is a four hour (1 pm to 5 pm) gourmet wandering
harvest festival and FarmFolk CityFolk's annual fundraising event.
With a wine glass and linen napkin in hand, you can taste the very
best of BC from chefs, vintners, brewers, farmers, fishers,
ranchers and food artisans from across the province - some think of
it as a 40 course meal paired with wine and beer! Feast of Fields
highlights the connections between producer and chef, field and
table, and farm folks and city folks. Feast of Fields is a
gastronomic journey towards a sustainable, local food system.
FarmFolk/CityFolk has been vocal since 1993 in spreading the
word about a BC-wide sustainable food system. This growing movement
of community farms and food systems is key for maintaining a
healthy supply of products for British Columbians.
FarmFolk/CityFolk creates seed security, develops community farms,
and provides resources for those looking to eat BC-sourced
The organization is also concerned with loss of farmland and
aging farmers, not to mention the growth of industrialized food
systems and ultimately, safety issues in our modern day food
supply. By attending this event, we can all help FarmFolk/CityFolk
to keep doing the vital work they've been doing for nearly two
Our preview started right here in town with a stop at the Latin
Organics café in East Vancouver. CEO/founder Martha Bowen had a
dream of living a traditional life that her grandmother enjoyed in
her hometown of Valledupar, Columbia. "I wanted to be like a matron
who, through my social help to people and to society, would set a
goal for other women and other people," according to Martha.
In 2005, she realized her goal when she opened Latin Organics, a
fair trade, organic coffee company whose beans are purchased
directly from the Arhuaco Indians, located near her Columbian
hometown, some of whom even once traded with her grandfather.
Martha Bowen has also been recently nominated for a 2011 RBC Canadian
Women Entrepreneur Award.
Read full article here
Latin Organics CEO & Founder, Martha
Bowen has been nominated to receive the 2011 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur
The purpose of the award is to provide recognition to
Canada's Women Entrepreneurs whose successful business and
achievements contribute so much to the Canadian and global
economies -as well as the communities. 98 awards have been
presented for outstanding entrepreneurial achievement in
different categories since 1992. This event is presented by the
Royal Bank of Canada and it is sponsored by Bell, Deloitte,
National Post, Hello Canada, Argyle, Profit Magazine, TPH and
Cassels Brock.
"We are very excited and humbled by the nomination.
Immigrating to Canada and starting Latin Organics Inc. has been one
of the most life changing experiences that I have had. Being a
Canadian is an opportunity to excel and give back. Being an
Entrepreneur is the perfect platform to achieve this. Growing a
company in Canada is a lot of hard work, persistence, determination
and vision- more so in these uncertain times. For me it is all
about creating social equality for our farmers/crafters, while
caring for our planet and providing Canadians with the best
possible product." stated Martha. Should Latin Organics win-
there will be for sure a lot of happy people in
To see Latin Organics Nomination to the 2011 RBC Canadian
Women Entrepreneur Award click
The level of insecurity
and corruption seen in the zone where Latin Organics coffee is
grown is a clear reflection of the critical situation that Colombia
is living.
This area is not only home to coffee farms but to cattle
operations that produce revenue for its owners. A shocking contrast
when you drive along the outskirts of Valledupar and see people
living in slums built on eroded dirt.
The fact that here in Colombia you are able to buy any
brand of vehicle manufactured on planet Earth or purchase any of
the latest gadgets- fashion, wines, etc- does not mean that the
country has moved forward when there are still large levels of
corruption that do not allow funds for education, social housing,
medical care- to arrive to the most vulnerable -creating social
There are more than 74.000 homeless people due to the
internal conflict and violence suffered at present in Colombia- as
well as to the natural disasters- in this zone alone. This
immigration of homeless people to this area- has generated a series
of criminal activities- from petty cash theft to street
murders. The average of deaths is at the 2.5 mark per
Direct Trade through Latin Organics helps to generate
revenue and funds that stay in this region. It can be used for
social projects improving the day to day life of these
It is worrisome to see this situation that is almost out
of control. None the less Latin Organics Canada is opening a branch
in Colombia called Latin Organics Colombia. "We have no doubt that
our dedication and efforts through our new branch- will continue to
foster Direct Trade and social equality." stated Martha Bowen in
Latin Organics brand goes beyond its amazing organic
Colombian premium coffee beans roasted with in Canadian borders- it
reaches out to Colombia supporting a region and country in need.
That is an amazing and unique cup of coffee to support !
Valledupar is the Capital city of the
department of El Cesar, located in the Northern part of Colombia
where Latin Organics roots started. It is a valley where the Sierra
Nevada de Santa Marta- area where Latin Organics coffee is grown-
stretches out to rest. Martha Bowen's family owns a cattle farm
only 15 minutes away from Valledupar. This cattle farm has been
dormant for three decades. In November, 2010 - 80 homeless family's
tried to invade four hectares of this private land- stating that
the owners did not need the land because they live "abroad". The
irony of all this is that the Bowen family left Colombia due to
kidnapping and other security issues. Latin Organics is a company
incorporated in Canada and founded by Martha Bowen- precisely with
the vision to alleviate poverty in Colombia. In the same way that
Latin Organics has taken care of its coffee beans- a plan has been
laid out for the farm. At present this family owned farm presents a
unique offering of flora and fauna not found in any other nearby
locations. This farm continues to protect ancient trees and native
plants-an oasis of oxygen for the region. An organic grass fed
cattle operation will be started on this land- in the same way that
Martha Bowen's grandfather Jacob M Luque operated. This will make
Latin Organics existence a little bit more exciting as this cattle
farm will provide jobs for many people and their family's so that
they may work towards having a home. We all need to strive for
social equality, zero tolerance towards corruption in our leaders
and an end to the brutal man made race called "greed". Here is a
Latin Organics espresso to that!


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A one vehicle accident injured three people early Friday morning. At around 1am, a sedan driven by 22-year-old Alberto Zapata of Columbus Junction was eastbound on G36 when it lost control about a half mile west of the Washington/Louisa County Line. The vehicle entered the south ditch, ending up on its top.
Zapata and his passengers, 23-year-old Nazario Castillo and 23-year-old Ivan Solis, both of Columbus Junction, were injured in the accident. Solis was transported from the scene by Air Care to the University of Iowa Hospital, while Zapata and Castillo were taken via Washington County Ambulance. Charges are pending as the accident remains under investigation.
The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Washington County Sheriffs Office, Louisa County Sheriffs Office, Ainsworth QRS, Washington County Ambulance and University of Iowa Air Care.
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No Future
April 19, 1994
People couldn't believe the photograph. The day after Kurt Cobain shot himself faceless in his million-dollar home, his friends and the hundreds of rosy, downcast kids who mourned him found a nasty slice of evidence on the front page of the Seattle Times: a shot taken from above the glass doors of the garage where Cobain died, revealing the suicide scene. Two detectives hover like shadows. But what's cruelly fascinating is the body. The image is only a fragment: one dirty-jean-clad leg with a white sock and a badly tied Converse, one arm from the elbow down in a light blue thrift-store shirt, one clenched fist. Near a detective's foot, another photograph can almost be seen, an official snapshot on a driver's license. The body and the license, both so small they don't seem real, feel unknowable, the definition of not enough.
"That picture was so tacky, I was shocked," says Kim Warnick on Sunday afternoon, as she bides her time until five, when the candlelight vigil would begin. Warnick fronts the longtime Seattle band the Fastbacks, and she works as a sales rep at Nirvana's former label, Sub Pop; we're discussing the media frenzy, the possible motives, the usual stuff. "But you know what really got me about it? His ID. You can see his wallet opened up to his driver's license, right by his body. Kurt didn't want any mistakes about what he was doing. He wanted to be perfectly clear."
It's a strange bit of the typical that Kurt Cobain would worry that killing himself with a shotgun was an act that might be misinterpreted. Suicide, especially one as violent as Cobain's, is the loudest possible invocation of silence; it's a perfectly clear way of turning your life into a mystery. His commitment to contradiction got him in the end, but even as he cut himself off forever he was trying to make himself speak.
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Here are some facts: Kurt Cobain, 27, singer/guitarist/writer for the world's most successful "alternative" band and Seattle's current favorite non-native born Native Son, killed himself Thursday, April 7, at his home near Lake Washington. He was not the first rock star to commit suicide at the top of his game. His body was discovered by electrician Gary Smith the next morning. Cobain is survived by an angry widow, Hole singer-songwriter Courtney Love, and a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Frances Bean, as well as his divorced parents, bandmates, and various friends in the local and national music scenes. Immediately before his suicide, he had fled from a Southern California drug-treatment facility; his path up the coast to death remains unclear. Six weeks before his death, Cobain had been hospitalized in Rome after entering a coma brought on by a mix of alcohol and prescription drugs. Shortly after that, Love called the police to Cobain's and her home because, she claimed, he was trying to kill himself. The police found four guns and 25 boxes of ammo on the premises. Six days before his body was found, Cobain's mother, Wendy O'Connor, filed a missing persons report with the Seattle police. After his death, O'Connor was quoted as saying, "I told him not to join that stupid club," a media favorite later surpassed by the last words of Cobain's suicide note: "I love you, I love you."
And now, here are some rumors, flickering around and beyond the facts: Kurt Cobain killed himself because Courtney had finally given up on him and was filing for divorce. Courtney had been in L.A. or even Seattle the day before Kurt's death, not London, as reported. Cobain had spent at least one of his last nights at his and Courtney's country house with an unidentified companion. The band had broken up at least a week before the death. He'd never really kicked heroin; the supposedly accidental overdose in March was actually a suicide attempt. He killed himself because of writer's block.
There are other facts, and other rumors. And then there is the wall. It's made of friends' grief, fans' confusion, journalists' embarrassment, and what several writers call a "veil of silence" created by Gold Mountain, Nirvana's and Hole's management company. Above all it builds off the special Northwest penchant for keeping things in. The wall looks like another photograph of Kurt, this one torn into pieces and pasted back together, nothing left intact or clear.
"Kurt Cobain is not a person," says Daniel House, owner of Seattle independent record label C/Z. "He's turned into something that represents different things for different people. I understand the press is going to be all over it, but I wish they would leave it alone completely. Because that attention is why Kurt died. He had no life, no peace, constant chaos. He had become a freak." House's view, which was duly cited in Time magazine the Monday after Cobain's death, is very popular in Seattle: Kurt had his troubles, but if his band had never exceeded normal expectations, like maybe headlining the thousand-seat Moore Theatre once a year, he could have been saved.
In our century, "fame kills" is almost a mantra; add Cobain's name to the pantheon and sign him up for a page in Hollywood Babylon. But it's hard, especially in a hometown, to pinpoint the moment when a star like Cobain slips into that nether realm, becomes flat and reproducible, something read instead of someone known. And Cobain spent his short career pulling away from this transformation, jumbling his statements, turning his back. For most stars, even the tragic ones, the transformation magnifies; for Cobain, it worked as erasure. His death can be viewed as the final step on a chain of denials that are echoed in the story of his adopted town, his scene, his generation, every one radically unwilling to speak for itself. So it's no surprise that in the days following Cobain's death, nobody emerges to speak for them. Even the journalists hesitate in the face of such grief-benumbed wordlessness.
"It's a much different thing here, with the rock scene," says Sub Pop publicist and former Nirvana fan club head Nils Bernstein about the process of mourning. "It's one thing to suffer these losses on your own, and another to do it with MTV in your face. People who didn't know Kurt feel like they did. His death is an ongoing event."
Bernstein, who holds to the Sub Pop view that Cobain was "suicidal forever," is tired and would like to retreat to Linda's Tavern and drink a Red Hook with a tight circle of friends. But in a painful coincidence, this is the Saturday long since scheduled as the date of Sub Pop's sixth anniversary party. "Yesterday, everyone was pretty dazed," he says. "Everyone just got drunk." They'll do the same tonight at the Crocodile Café, at a party that becomes a wake in a sideways manner well after the camera crews have abandoned their positions outside the windows: no speeches, no photographs held aloft, just old buddies getting around to the subject gradually.
"There was a great vibe there," says Warnick the next day. "It would always come into the conversation, but everyone was very respectful of everyone else. It was really insulated very well." Warnick's rightthe party felt better by far than any other moment in the weekend following Cobain's death. For a semi-outsider like me, born and raised in Seattle but now a decade gone, it felt like a welcome earned by my willingness to be cool. Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows, Jonathan Poneman from Sub Pop, Warnick's husband Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, and numerous other band members, label types, and writersall would smile, give a brief hug, murmur, "Weird day, isn't it?" and move on to more manageable subjects.
The jovial skepticism, downing another microbrew and telling a joke rather than analyzing or grieving too obviously, was pure Seattle. Native Northwesterners cultivate this say-no-more attitude, the roots of which I always identify in the historic drive toward seclusion that pushed the area's pioneers across the map. It's not the rainit's the mountains. A full, snow-capped range on either side of the municipal area. They hold us in.
Seattle's indie-rock scene reenacts, on a smaller level, the balancing act inherent in every Northwest community, whether as big as Seattle or as small as Cobain's native Aberdeen, between the interdependency of an isolated group and solitary individuals' preference for total self-reliance. "It's a really tight community," says one local scenester, "but when it comes right down to it, I'm not sure how much people will help each other." Her words make me think about the phrase that I've come to consider Kurt Cobain's motto, from "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter": "Hate, hate your enemies, save, save your friends." This phrase means to build a fortress around a group of like-minded people; the problems come when you find yourself at odds with your friends and thrown into contact with strangers who may or may not be enemies (and if you fear the world it's very hard to tell).
The Northwest's growth over the past decade, attributable partly to rock's ascendancy but mostly to the encroachment of Microsoft and other software companies, has shifted the area's balance. It's become a mecca for the young, the affluent, a forest of espresso stands and specialty boutiques. Yet at heart, it remains a company townCobain's death was bumped off the top of the news Saturday morning by the unveiling of Boeing's newest jet, the 777. And it retains a working-class suspicion of pretense and opportunism that's shared by the musicians and even the businesspeople who dominate Seattle's rock world. So they find a way to stand outside themselves, as if all this success wasn't happening to them, almost as if they don't want it.
"People don't let each other cross over the line, away from reality," says Ken Stringfellow, whose own fine band, the Posies, embraces pop and polish much more readily than most Seattle acts. "What makes Nirvana interesting is that they didn't have to be unrealistic to be extraordinary." Later, though, he admits that the dichotomies don't always work out so neatly. "Sometimes people's skepticism overwhelms them, and they can't enjoy what's happened."
"We lived cloistered away for so many years and nobody gave a damn," Warnick adds. "And because of all the resources we have here, people are really against all the Guns N' Roses stuff. All that compromise."
Because of the city's growth and Seattle's current dominance, of course, compromise is unavoidable. But the way Seattle has become a mecca differs from the East Coast norm, in which small groups import their culture, take over a corner, and slowly integrate. There are plenty of new immigrants in the Northwest, many of them Thai or Vietnamese, but the city's self-conception obscures these communities. And among the young, Seattle isn't a place where you can come as you are: you come to integrate yourself into a vision based on affinities you believe you share. For someone like Kurt Cobain, the college community of Olympia and, later, Seattle represented a chance to go inside after a childhood in the cold as a small-town outcast. And perhaps inspired by his expression, kids have flocked here to join what he sardonically called "our little tribe."
From outsider to insider, though, is always a tricky move. It's the same jump that indie rock, the music Cobain claimed lifted him from the dung heap of conformity, keeps trying to manage. Indie never really did away with rock starsit just located them at eye level. As a young indie fan, Cobain idolized his own favorite bands, thought of them as the basis of his community. Just like the kids who now idolize him, he didn't perceive the gulf between artist and audience, and eventually he became part of the indie-rock elite, an elite that in many cases still denies its own elitism. But he was sensitive enough to be bothered by the distance now that he could see it between himself and the kids who thought he was lifting them out of their own shitty lives. And so he felt even more isolated.
"Kurt didn't have any friends anymore," says one close acquaintance. When people go over the edge, they've usually alienated even their most intimate companions, and at one level this remark doesn't reflect anything beyond Cobain's particular illness. But it also makes him an indie rocker to the core, deeply troubled by that shift into broader resonance that characterizes every successful artistic act. Rich Jensen, Sub Pop's general manager, views the problem as a struggle with the sacred. "Kurt viewed his favorite bands as icons," he says. "An icon is something you own, or it's a false idol."
The Seattle music community has been shattered by death many times in the past five years; part of the vigilant self-protectiveness I sense feels like the fear of yet another disaster. In 1990, Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose. In 1991, poet and longtime scene habitué Jesse Bernstein shot himself. Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch overdosed in 1992. And last July, Gits singer Mia Zapata was found strangled on a Capitol Hill side street. Wood, Sargent, and Zapata were all the same age as or younger than Cobain, and because they hadn't reached the level of stardom that separates people from their regular lives, their deaths were, in fact, much more directly felt among local artists. They're remembered, too: Andy comes up in conversation at least four times over the weekend's course; 7 Year Bitch's soon-to-be-released C/Z album features a song about Stefanie and one about Mia. It's even called Viva Zapata.
"Mia's death affected all of us so much," says Matt Dresdner, bassist for the Gits, who continue to play as a three-piece; their debut album, recorded mostly before Zapata died, is out on C/Z. "She knew so many people; so many would say, 'Mia was my best friend.' Person after person, and they really felt that way. She was very accessible always and very honest."
Partly because it was a murder, Zapata's death genuinely transformed the smaller, more local scene in which she was a leading light. A women's self-defense program is now in place, and friends continue to raise money to investigate her murder; Nirvana even played one of the benefits, last fall at the Kind Theatre. There were also negative effects on the scene. "A lot of bands, coincidentally I imagine, broke up after she was killed," says Dresdner. "I do think Mia was a catalyst and inspired people to do stuff." Talking about Kurt with people in clubs and cafés, I actually feel his presence less than Zapata's. She is mentioned over and over. Posters asking for information adorn the wall of the Comet Tavern and Moe's; on some street corners, you can see the flyers made by friends a long time ago. There's Mia's warm, big, charming face, and the words: "Damn! Damn! Damn!"
These intimate shocks, which don't draw jets full of confused rock critics and bill-waving TV tab reporters, have stayed with Seattle musicians in ways that seem to affect their daily lives. These griefs really do belong to them. Kurt Cobain's another story. The rage Zapata's friends feel is not for her, and it's not existential. It's a hopeful anger, one they can imagine doing something about.
"Fuck Kurt Cobain. I can't get a job."
Gregory Askew is slumped against the side wall at the Café Paradiso, Capitol Hill's grooviest late-night caffeine station, the night of the announcement. The 20-year-old moved here from New Jersey a year or so ago, but he's had it with bohemian utopia. "I'm going down to Eugene, just to find a mellow town where everybody's not competing."
Askew's hardly the only kid who's unimpressed with Cobain's departure from the world; this reaction has been so common on the West Coast that the San Francisco Examiner did a feature on it Saturday. Like every generation of cool teens, these young fans have invented their own strange style of tuning out. They wear the clothes, play in the baby bands, hang out at the bars and coffee houses, all the while perfecting the art of indifference. When that lackadaisical attitude is personified in figures like Winona and Ethan or Courtney and Kurt, the kids still look up. But they keep their glances quiet and speculative.
In Seattle, these teen-to-twentysomethings are major players in moving the economy from industry to service, working in the bars and record stores they frequent, maintaining the circular flow of cash. "They're making the town what they thought it would be," says Rich Jensen as he sits in one of the current hot spots, a laundromat-café called Sit & Spin. Sub Pop's inexhaustible entrepreneurship is just one example of the attitude: you want a job, open a store. It's indie at its most vibrant, a culture tossed up in storefronts and basement rooms.
But some kids, like Askew, remain discouraged. The recession hit Seattle a little later than the rest of the countryBoeing laid off 11 percent of its work force last year and there were quieter adjustments at Microsoft as welland although slacker jobs may seem unlimited, there are only so many gigs available pulling espresso. One Paradiso customer, 16-year-old Nathan Hatch, escaped from a dreary life much like the young Cobain's to find some people "even close to weird." He dropped out of school in Elma, near Aberdeen, in ninth grade, and moved to Portland with a skater dude named Paul. Now he's looking for janitorial work. "I'm hopeful," he says. "But I'm pretty drunk right now."
Busy with their own anxieties, Seattle's club kids don't seem interested in making Cobain a hero. Maybe, as Nils Bernstein thinks, they're already over the mystery that not long ago fueled much of the average outcast's passion for rock and roll. "I've seen 12-year-old kids on the bus discussing record deals, dollar amounts," says Bernstein. "The know way, way, way more than they should about the industry."
If an idol demands distance, an icon wants to be put inside a devotee's pocket. The kids I found who did mourn Cobain, hovering behind police lines at the house where he'd died or building shrines from candles and Raisin Bran boxes at the Sunday night vigil organized by three local radio stations, seemed to think of him more as a lost friend than as a candidate for that dreaded assignment, role model. In fact, they seemed a lot like he did: small, unsure, bowled over by the need to feel, but worried about what to say. "When we found out, my friend Blair and I went out to our fort and just played some CDs," says Dave Johnson, a blond boy from Puyallup who's in a baby band called Thrive. "Kurt took the wimpy way out. He could have gone somewhere to gather his thoughts. I know places like that to go."
Johnson and about a dozen friends sit around a heap of flowers, votives, notes, and Xeroxed photographs of Kurt. The girls don't say much; they look like they're about to cry. The boys are enjoying all the chances to be interviewed. Even though it comes so awkwardly, through the death of a loved one, they tentatively embrace this moment of prominence. But they agree that, like Kurt, they wouldn't be able to handle it full time.
"Being a rock star would be kinda stressful," says Johnson. "I'm not really looking for it. I'm in it for the enjoyment and fun." I wonder if he was inspired by Cobain's suicide note, which Love read to the 7,000 vigilgoers in a taped message. "I haven't felt excitement in listening to as well as creating music . . . for too many years now. The fact is, I can't fool you, any of you." And the weary, too-wise kids in the audience really don't seem fooled.
The speakers at the vigila preacher, a poet, a suicide prevention specialisthave nothing to do with why the kids were there. Even a brief taped message from Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic seems beside the point. Only Love's statement has a visceral effect. But the weirdness of 7,000 people standing around, looking at an empty stage, listening to a tape recording of a grieving widow and of the band they wouldn't hear new music from again, pushes the crowd out of its grief into an anger that soon turns playful. Near the end, a bunch of kids overrun the Seattle Center's biggest fountain, climbing on top, forming a mosh pit to no beats and no guitars. "Kurt Cobain!" they chant, then, "Fuck you!" when a security guard tries to move them along, then just "Music!" Would Kurt have felt honored by this action? Well, he was a punk, he liked disruption. But the spirit that moved these kids had nothing to do with Kurt Cobain. It was simply their own spirit, the only one they feel they can trust.
At first, after the suicide, Courtney Love tried to stay behind the veilnot simply out of decorum, but out of genuine grief. Love's been made into such a cartoon by malevolent rivals, gossip hounds, and media whores that her strength in this ordeal has been, in some ways, its biggest shock. Because Courtney, who knows fakeness well enough to make it the major theme of Hole's brilliant DGC debut, Live Through This (scheduled to be released, in the cruelest of ironies, today), refused in the end to play like a lady, and did something that finally made Cobain's deathand her survival of itseem real.
Strangely, Love performed her heroic act in absentia. The tape-recorded message she prepared for the vigil offered the weekend's only real catharsis and not only because it bore Cobain's pathetic, soon-to-be-famous last words. What Courtney did was argue with him, dispute the terms of his refusal; in doing so, she opened up a view of what he must have really felt, the disorder that consumed him. She would read a little from the note, then curse the words, then express her sorrow. "The worst crime I could think of would be to put people off by faking it and pretend as if I was having 100 percent fun." "No, Kurt, the worst crime I could think of was for you to continue to be a rock star when you just . . . hated it." Like some heroine from Euripides, furious at the gods, Courtney provided some guidance to escape the dark. Some of what she said was disturbing; she's clearly not anywhere near solid ground yet. After reading the note, she revealed her own remorse. "We should have let him have his numbness, the thing that helped his stomach and stopped his pain, instead of stripping away his fucking skin," she sobbed. "Just tell him he's a fucker, say fucker, he's a fucker. And we love him." Courtney was the only one who made the vigil's audience cry.
As much as the loss of Nirvana, the dissolution of the Love/Cobain partnership is an artistic tragedy. These two were exploring the male-female dynamic together, as musicians and as public figures, with insight, daring, and a sometimes fruitful incomprehension. Just as it's mercilessly unfair to blame Love for Cobain's death, it may be in bad taste to point out that he committed suicide the week her album was to be released. Whatever the particulars of his anger, if her career is stalled, that will also be a significant loss.
Listening to Love's tape at the vigil, I began to think about women's silence versus men's, and the balance of power that causes women to speak when men feel they can remain silent. Powerful men can keep their words to themselves; power speaks for them. Part of Cobain's personal tragedy was his inability to feel his own power; at this moment, Love's achievement is to be able, across the black expanse of her sorrow, to maintain a sense of her own.
In his painful last love letter to a world he couldn't grasp, Kurt Cobain quoted Neil Young: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." "That's bullshit," Courtney said to her ruined husband as she read the note aloud. Truth is, Cobain didn't even burn out. He fell out of our lives, unfinished. All the media attention, the vigil and the memorials in print and the endless rounds of MTV Unplugged, only recalls his absence, the lack he stood for and could never fill.
A few years ago, a friend of mine died of a heroin overdose. He'd been long gone before he actually left the earth. His old lover said, Ted died because he could never find the words to say what he really wanted. Kurt's whole struggle, the same one rock's going through in its most serious moments these days, was to cut into himself until he found a vocabulary that might offer those words. Sometimes a few of them would gush forth. In the end, though, silence swallowed him alive.
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Meat Over Mind
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The size and sophistication of the human brain, relative to body size, is a hallmark of Homo sapiens and a defining characteristic of the species. But how did we develop these big brains? Various theories exist as to how we accomplished this feat given the energetic requirements of our brains. Some say it was tool-use, some say it was group hunting and some say it was meat itself. None of these ideas are mutually exclusive, they all fit together to some degree. But recent work by scientists indicates that maybe it's all about meat.
Now that you've heard some of the reasoning behind how our diet led to our brains, read about the latest evidence that meat was the key.
Extension Investigation
- How is the size of a gut related to the quality (net caloric value in this case) of food? What happens to digestion time when an animal has a large gut?
- What organism has tapeworms most closely related to tapeworms in humans? What does this relationship suggest about past behavior of Homo sapiens? Do you find this evidence convincing? Why or why not?
- How much more energy does brain tissue use than muscle tissue on a pound per pound basis? What kinds of limitations does this represent for Homo sapiens?
- What do some scientists feel is a drawback of eating raw food? On average, how many hours a day does a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) chew?
- How does cooking meat make it easier to eat? Explain your answer as fully as you can.
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- http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0032452
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgWICoaIRU
- http://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/128849908/food-for-thought-meat-based-diet-made-us-smarter
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120420105539.htm
- http://www.pnas.org/content/99/16/10237.full
- http://neuroscienceupdate.cumc.columbia.edu/popups/pdfs/DarrylDeVivo.pdf


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Every morning I can, I go to the toy isles.
If I don't find something new, I make up some excuse as to why I need to buy more of what I already have.
I buy stuff like Star Wars and Transformers to feed a hobby addiction. I don't really need it.
If I buy toilet paper and laundry detergeant, I feel like I LOST money because need forced me to purchase these things and it wasn't very fun. It didn't feel priviledged, in other words.
Now, if I can't find new toys that I like, because quite honestly, it's the least mature, least necessary thing I could ever pick up, I go to find and collect movies, TV on DVD, or music.
This consumerism continues unless I find travel or another expensive activity like horseback riding or piloting lessons to fulfill an impulse to instantly gratify myself, or a cheaper alternative, like going to a movie, occupies my time.*
*Yes, I work and challenge myself with my writing projects and philanthropies, but I'm talking about my time and money I'm not spending on these activities. Everyone has or can force out some extra time and maybe some money.
Why do we feel powerful or potent, if we can constantly buy stuff?


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They really want to break decades of backward compatiblity and drop network transparency because of smoother bootup and user switching? In a world where there is always connectivity everywhere...
They really want to break decades of backward compatiblity and drop network transparency because of smoother bootup and user switching? In a world where there is always connectivity everywhere...
3 of 3 installations of ubuntu failed for various reasons. Linux hardware support is getting worse since 1995.
Started working on a pseudonymous, secure and decentralized messaging system. Features:
Everybody is identified by the hash of his public key. Exchanging this identifier over a secure channel (in real life) or via trusted third parties ("If you need help with this, contact my good friend Bob (rsa-sha1:38484848)") is all that is needed to have secure communication. The local client will map those identifiers to (local) human readable nick names.
No peers communicate directly without prior negotiation via other peers. This has a lot of advantages: It is easy to implement downstream bandwith throttling; Peers can hide their participation in this network to the world (most other p2p networks will widely distribute your IP adress.) and even stay completely anonymous by the use of mix chains; and it makes it possible to implement DoS/Spam-defences which are impossible to implement in a network where everybody can send to everbody else without prior negotiation.
Message routing uses xor metric. This scales (a limited search horizon is acceptable in a file sharing network but not in a messaging system) and eleminates the use of central servers.
There are already portable VoIP phones which use 801.11b. And I read that there are chips in development which can do both 802.11b and GSM. (And Nokia already sells a PCMCIA card which can do both.)
I predict that telcos will soon be fighting free wireless networks like the RIAA is fighting file sharing networks today.
global namespaces
All global namespaces should really be built upon cryptographically secure hashes. Static content should be indentified by content hashes. (Even MSG-IDs of emails and usenet posts should be content hashes.) Every hash of a public key should be the root of a namespace which is owned by the owner of the public key. This would solve a lot of problems of the existing internet. A lot of 404s would never occur. All the problems of the domain name system would be solved too. And last but not least: All communication could be encrypted automatically and transparently to the user.
Bram: I don't think that using email addresses as identifier for instant messaging is a good idea. Email addresses change sometimes, leak information about your identity and depend on the evil DNS.
It is much better to use the hash of your public key as identifier. This has a lot of advantages: The protocol can be made secure very easily: somebody who wants to communicate with you can just look up your host key and check the hash. With email addresses he has to fetch the key and must somehow make sure that he has the correct key which isn't really easy. Another advantage is that you can have as many addresses (pseudonyms) as you like.
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And what does old people and palm trees have to do with anything? Have you been to parts of Sistrunk, Dania Beach, Lauderhill, Riviera Beach, Boynton Beach, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach? I know people from Miami that absolutely REFUSE to go in areas because they are just as poverty stricken and full of violence/AIDS as parts of Miami are. Who cares? Welcome to the real world and welcome to urban life in major cities. Doesn't mean as a English speaking man I have to be looked down upon because I don't speak a language that isn't even native to my country. If that is what makes Miami this Shang Ri La to you, you can have it. Throw in the corrupt politics and nepitism that runs rapid down there and I just don't see how anybody can call that place special.
Sure there is culture. I love the women in Miami, mainly because of the diversity, I love the many different kinds of food that are available. I love the weather and I love the women (yea I said it twice) . . . but my reason for being here is different from yours . . . I'm here because 90% of my family lives in Dade/Broward counties and I'm a family person . . . my wife and I also have degrees in business management and travel/hospitality and Fort Lauderdale is home to the 2 largest cruise ships in the world and an expanding airport along with approvals for big table gambling for downtown Fort Lauderdale and the largest Outlet Mall in the world . . . and I want to be in the middle of what is going to be a big scene in the upcomming years.
I have family in Colorado that absolutely love it there, I got family in Atlanta that loves it there and in North Carolina as well . . . nobody misses this place. All they miss is the warm winters and family.
What not to like ? Now just give me another superbowl win before I die and I'll be a happy camper.
I have traveled all over the United States. Lived in Kansas City and Philadelphia. Currently call Greenville, South Carolina home. I've spent time working in Washington, DC and seen all there is to see. I've been to Baltimore to Pittsburgh to amish country to Times Square to Boston to Providence to New Hampshire to Vermont and sat on the coast of Maine with incredible seafood dinners.
Climbed the mountains of the Appalachians, gamble in Biloxi, partied on Bourbon Street, celebrated New Year's in New Mexico, looked across the border into Juarez, Mexico from high rise mountains in El Paso.
Been all over Chicago and Detroit. Seen Mount Ranier on a clear day in Seattle from the top of the Space Needle, threw fish at Pike Place Market and done and seen a whole lot more.
But my heart & soul will forever stay in South Florida. You can leave South Florida but it never leaves you. There's nothing else like it in the entire world. It's an incredibly special place.
You don't solve anything by moving to a compromise location. That's the worst possible strategy. It guarantees you'll always be on the edge of the Everglades and therefore all but irrelevant. That area has no history and no pull. It reminds me of University of Miami leaders who looked at maps and lists of season ticket holders while trying to rationalize Sun Life as a positive switch, while conveniently ignoring that 25 miles removed from campus was a natural negative.
Make no mistake, the Dolphins would be in far better shape if Joe Robbie had relocated to the heart of the city. Attendance and otherwise. A great city always has opportunity to rebound, and the negatives are likely exaggerated to begin with. Quite often there's a natural lag. You'll read the most dire assessments when the area has already begun to reassert. It's like football or any sport, where a formerly great player has more chance to restore to that level than a mediocrity who has always been a mediocrity. Jeff Ireland seldom grasps that. He puts faith in Richard Marshall types. They perform on Everglades level, where they've always been. The auto industry debate was another example. There's always a big chunk willing to notice 30% efficiency and pronounce it will soon plummet to zero, instead of calmly recognizing there are foundational reasons the average has been above 70% for decades.
Every time I've been to SOFLA I've spent bunches of money and had a ****ing amazing time.
But I doubt I could live there though, something about it just doesn't appeal to me on a permanent basis.
I hate it when people who have a problem with minorities disguise it as having a problem with the language. It's Miami! Little Cuba! You learn the language you ignoramous. Public schools in all of the country offer spanish speaking classes to english speakers. Do not be mad because you are too simple minded to understand another language. When I went to South Korea I attempted to learn the language and I only went for 2 weeks and still to this day I know how to say hello "anyong-haseo" and thank you "camsamida."
If you have a problem with people speaking spanish then educate yourself or move because hispanics have only just begun to boom in south florida and the United States. There are statistics that say hispanics will be the majority in the entire United States by 2050.
The history of the United States is based on immigration and adaptation. It seems like some of you just don't know.
Did I really just read you calling people ignorant for not learning Spanish because people who are newcomers to the USA don't bother learning Spanish??
While using an example of some 2 week vacation you took where you had to learn the language of the culture you, the outsider, came into? Really? You don't see the issue with your logic?
I understand your point, but holy **** are you misplaced.


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Kerry, forgot to add:
The Corp of Eng. has increased the Lost Creek Lake/Dam flow from 700 cfs to 2704 cfs over the past several days. This should bring the little buggers up in a hurry.
Actual fish count past Gold Ray as of 5-4-2001 is 8930 winter steelhead (most will be downers by now) and 1065 Spring Chnk. All reports say that the Springers are charging over Ranie Falls area (30 miles below Grants Pass) in very large numbers. Think this must be true as the salmon count jumped almost 900 fish (over Gold Ray) in less than 5 days.
Think I know where I'll be come Saturday morning at sun up! Lower Touville here I come!! Weather here is running in mid to high 80's so fish early, sleep later.
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Hi Kerry! Sorry for the delay responding. Been up on the Sandy River (east of Portland) for the "1st Annual Spey Clave." Wonderful time; at 100 spey casters on Saturday and 50 plus for sure on Sunday.
Anyway, your memory of the river is still dead on (you sound like you've been able to avoid "Sr. Moments"). Launching a drift boat right below Gold Ray, anchor out and do a (as I understand it) a fairly long dicey run down to the next takeout. There is a rough takeout towards the end of the run on the South side so guys probably launch here and motor up.
You can bank fish this area, the very top end below the dam deadline seems to get the most play (always drift rigs). Fly fishing is tough except in low water because it's pretty "heart-in-mouth" wading even with a staff.
Below this you have several easier fly access waters, etc. The Rogue River fishing map (costs about $6 bucks if memory serves) is a wonderful guide and the milage figures are dead on accurate. If you (others) want to hit the Rogue this is a must buy map. Will save you a lot of fiddling around on the who, what and where.
You say that below Gold Ray is a boat show. It has been a few years since I have fished the Rogue (about 30). I don't remember below the Gold Ray dam seeing any boats at all. I remember lots of rapids/pocket style water A few miles below (my distances are probably off) the dam I remember some big water that would be diffucult to put a boat through unless we are talking a raft. Anyway thanks very much for taking me down memory lane with your reports on the Rogue.
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Kerry, a quick update on your question of removing/breaching dams in the Rogue Basin.
Big blurb in yesterdays paper that funds have been requested to 'breach' the Elk Creek dam. Elk Creek flows into the Rogue at about mile post 20'ish on hwy 62 up from Medford to K Falls. As Elk Creek is a MAJOR spawing trib. this can't do anything but help.
Here's a nice map from www.rogueweb.com...
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Corp of Engnr's has officially now started to increase stream flow in Rogue and Applegate River systems to cool water and pull up the Spring Chnk.
Gather they've increased the water flow from 700 to 1000 something cfs in Roge. Don't know the number for the Applegate River but (visually yesterday) there was three times as much as there was the privious days.
This (as Martha would say) is a "good thing."
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Forgot to add the obvious: fly choice (as in whom you ask) ranges from (all deep sunk and on the bottom or FORGET IT) ranges from egg patterns (my preference) to black body/charturece hackle. The latter is a real go-getter on the Southern Oregon coastal streams.
Lead chuckers almost always are using heavy weights/red corkies (or eggs where permited) on 6 foot leaders. As they do well one has to assume luck is not part of the equation.
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Sorry forgeting to repond properyly to the tolo-goldray question. The "tolo" through me period; reference made zip impression in my mind.
Goldray (below the dam) is 99.9% a boat show; very, very tought to fish from the beach. But !! if you drop down a mile or two even a 'blind pig (like me) can find an (occational) acorn." Some water is worth pounding with a fly rod (above Gold Hill) there are a couple of BLM parks off the road and some other easy 'walk in' water that's fly water.
Best to wait a week and fish at/below Touville Park (here and up) you've got tons of fly water that's worth every bit of effort.
For more particulars shoot me an e mail at email@example.com or 'mono-a-mono' call me at the office (Hay, some one's got to pay for my fly fishing charge accounts) at 541 734 2714.
You're killing me Fred. I am familiar with that whole area. It has been over 25 years since I last fished the Rogue. I sure wish I could get there now. Again I ask how is the Tolo/Gold Ray area? I loved to fish below the Gold Ray dam. Used to be some very productive water down there. We would do pretty good above the dam fishing out of canoes for rainbows also.
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Well, the low water conditions (will continue throughout the summer, will slow the run down. Usually lots of fish in mid Rogue by mid-late April with run 'peaking' in May through June. Suspect we can add two to three weeks minimum to that range this year.
On the good note though (!) the winter steelhead are still coming up. YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO. As of 4-24-01 actual count was 8486, which is 400 more than the week before. Weather in the low 80's again today so I think I'll call the wife type and tell her not to hold dinner :>)
Best steelhead fishing is still at the very top end; in Touville area 'they' are taking fish but suspect most are 'downers' not new returns. Up at the hatchery area the two best bets are directly below the deadline (very nice series of runs) and at 'sand bottom' the next hole below. (Comparitively speaking) both are deeper runs with some speed so fish get cover to skulk around in.
Just below this is the main runs in Henry Park. Have beat the living heck out of this water without result on several of the past trips to the area. Exception to this is what's called the 'bridge hole.' This is at the bottom of the park NOT the water just above the main (hwy 62) bridge. The (old-only the abutments remain) road bridge is about a 1/4 mile upstream from the (new) highway bridge.
Use a two/three fly terminal and wted!! If you're not right on the bottom just forget it; you will do zip. On the bottom (heavy flys or beadheads with the airflow extra fast sinking leader material) is the road to smiles.
Fred -
How long does the spring season run? Would it be worth a three day sprint before the closer?
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Forgot to respond to a couple of the questions. 80% of my fishing is from lower Touville Park area and up. Will go down in the canyons below Galace occationally. Ranie Falls (and its 2 mile hike from the car park) seems to be getting most of the attention at this time from the Grants Pass guys. Salmon are beginning to show in some numbers. Ah well, keeps them out from under foot on the rest of the river.
Understand the 1/2 pounder run in Agness area was the 'year dreams are made of' and still lots of hook ups on light rods and dry flys. Bit of a trip (3 hours plus) from Medford so been too lazy to do the drive.
Interesting part of this whole season has been the very light pressure on the fish. A few days have seen a lot of people on the bank, but the norm has been you've pretty much got the river to your self. Go figure.
|Fred Evans
Sorry for the delay in responding but went 'blank in the head' on how to log in.
A couple of the dams on the upper river are, without doubt, problems and lots and lots and etc., talk about removing one or both. Major issue is with abutting homeowners who bought (in their minds anyway) "lake front property." They don't want to see Savage Rapids, etc., go away because the poor darlings want to be able to water ski. No kidding.
One will eventually come out but the question is when. The main thing the dams do is build a large slow moving lake behind them vs. free flowing water. Water heats up in summer and you can guess the rest.
Major issue this year will be the continuing low water conditions. Understand that (no hydo electric or irrigation issues I can think of anyway) Lost Creek dam will continue to release water at higher rates to assure at least 2300 cfs in mid-Rogue for the spring chnk run. Major issue with fish diseases if water gets up into the 60+ range. In 1992 (?) I guess they lost 60 some odd percent of the run to the high water temps.
Water flow is still at 700cfs from the dam but they're mixing the water outflow (bottom/mid water column) to keep it in the low 40's. As we heat up they will shift to water deeper in the lake to reduce water temps.
It will be interesting to see how they handle the two dam flows down stream as it's the impounding that really causes the higher water temps in my opinion.
Will keep you posted.
PS: Fishing is still good to HOT in the very top end of the river. Hooked/released 8 fish on Sat and Sunday morning. In the 'even a blind pig can find an acorn' dept. actually hooked three fish in my first 5 casts Saturday.
Fred Evans
Like Juro I wouldn't mind hearing how the dam has affected the fishing. As I said earlier I left the Rogue River Valley shortly after the dam was built and have not been back. I do remember that just above the dam site is where some of our best winter steelheading was. Also do you fish the Tolo/Goldbar area much? That was my favorite stretch of the Rogue.
That's sad that the Rogue got damned. How has it affected the wild steelhead populations and welfare?
On the sporting side of the discussion, that is a lot of steelhead and were I still on the west coast I would be deeply contemplating a short flight down the coast!
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