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A rooster also known as a cockerel or cock, is a male gallinaceous bird. The term usually refers to a male chicken (Gallus gallus).
Immature male chickens less than one year old are called cockerels. The term "rooster" originates in the United States,[1] and the term is widely used throughout North America, as well as Australia and New Zealand.[2] The older terms "cock" or "cockerel", the latter denoting a young cock, are used in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[3]
"Roosting" is the action of perching aloft to sleep at night, which is done by both sexes. The rooster is polygamous, but cannot guard several nests of eggs at once. He guards the general area where his hens are nesting, and will attack other roosters that enter his territory. During the daytime, a rooster will often sit on a high perch, usually 3 to 5 feet (1 m to 1.5 m) off the ground, to serve as a lookout for his flock. He will sound a distinctive alarm call if predators are nearby.
(The term "cock" is also used generally to refer to a male of other species of bird, for example "Cock sparrow".)
The rooster is often portrayed as crowing at the break of dawn ("cock-a-doodle-doo") and will almost always start crowing before 4 months of age. Although it is possible for a hen to crow as well, crowing (together with hackles development) is one of the clearest signs of being a rooster.[4] He can often be seen sitting on fence posts or other objects, where he crows to proclaim his territory. However, this idea is more romantic than real, as a rooster can and will crow at any time of the day. Some roosters are especially vociferous, crowing almost constantly, while others only crow a few times a day. These differences are dependent both upon the rooster's breed and individual personality. He has several other calls as well, and can cluck, similar to the hen. Roosters will occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks.
A capon is a castrated rooster. In the caponization procedure, the bird's testes are completely removed; a surgical procedure is required for this as the rooster's sexual organs are internal. As a result of this procedure, certain male physical characteristics will experience stunted development:
- The comb and wattles cease growing after castration, giving a capon's head a dwarfed appearance.
- The hackle, tail and saddle feathers grow unusually long.
Caponization also affects the disposition of the bird. Removal of the bird's testes eliminates the male sex hormones, lessening the male sex instincts and changing their behaviour: the birds become more docile, less active, and tend not to fight.
This procedure produces a unique type of poultry meat which is favoured by a specialized market. The meat of normal uncastrated roosters has a tendency to become coarse, stringy and tough as the birds age. This process does not occur in the capon. As caponized roosters grow more slowly than intact males, they accumulate more body fat. The concentration of fat in both the light and dark areas of the capon meat is greater than in that of the uncastrated males. Overall, it is often thought that capon meat is more tender, juicy, and flavorful than regular chicken.
A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock (denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment) appearing in 1646.[5] after the term "cock of the game" used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607. Gamecocks are not typical farm chickens. The cocks are specially bred and trained for increased stamina and strength. The comb and wattle are removed from a young gamecock because, if left intact, they would be a disadvantage during a match. This process is called dubbing. Sometimes the cocks are given drugs to increase their stamina or thicken their blood, which increases their chances of winning. Cockfighting or more accurately secular cockfighting is considered a traditional sporting event by some, and an example of animal cruelty by others and is therefore outlawed in most countries.[6] Usually wagers are made on the outcome of the match, with the surviving or last-bird-standing being declared the winner. There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.[7] Similarly within the religious schema of Christianity and the cockfight within a religious, spiritual and sacred context, there are numerous representations of the rooster or the cock and the cockfight as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period[8] as well as similar illustrations of cocks in fighting stance[9] taken from the Vivian Bible.
The cockerel "waltz"[edit]
The cockerel "waltz", when the cockerel struts in a half circle with one wing extended down, is an aggressive approach signifying to females his dominance, and usually, the female will submit by running or moving away from the cockerel in acknowledgement. On rare occasions, the hen will attempt to fight the cockerel for dominance. Once dominance is established, the cockerel will rarely waltz again. When other cockerels are in the hen yard, this waltz is used significantly more and most cockerels will waltz together if dominance has not been established; either one will back off, or the two cockerels will fight. Note also that the cockerel will waltz again if he is taken out of the pen for a period, usually 24 hours, and put back.
Some more aggressive cockerels will drop and extend both wings and puff out all their body feathers to give the hens and/or other cocks the impression of a larger size, and charge through the hen yard like a bull.
Religion and spiritual belief systems[edit]
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Since antiquity the rooster has been, and still is, a sacred animal in some cultures[10] and deeply embedded within various religious belief systems and religious worship. The term "Persian bird" for the cock would appear to been given by the Greeks after Persian contact "because of his great importance and his religious use among the Persians",[11] but even long before that time, in Iran, during the Kianian Period, from about 2000 B.C. to about 700 B.C., "the cock was the most sacred"[12]
Animism, shamanism and tribal religions[edit]
In Southeast Asia, as in Mexico, understandings and interpretations of indigenous beliefs of the veneration of spirits and deities remain strong and for many who are practicing Christians there is still the veneration of the traditional spirits (anito) as in northern Philippines. Animist beliefs extend to the rooster and the cockfight, "a popular form of fertility worship among almost all Southeast Asians"[13] further considered by some within the Judeo-Christian ethic as a form of Baal or Baalim.
Aluk or Aluk To Dolo a sect of Agama Hindu Dharma as a part of religion in Indonesia, within the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight is an integral part of the religious ceremony and considered sacred within that spiritual realm.[14] In several myths the cock has the power to revive the dead or to make a wish come true and is well known in Torajan cosmology.[15]
Kaharingan, an animist folk religion of the Iban branch of the Dayak people, accepted as a form of Hinduism by the Indonesian government, includes the belief of a supreme deity as well as the rooster and cockfight in relation to that of the spiritual and religious and some with the belief that humans become the fighting cocks of god, with the Iban further believing the rooster and cockfight was introduced to them by god.[16] Gawai Dayak a festival of the Dayaks includes the cockfight and the waving of a rooster over offerings while asking for guidance and blessings with the rooster being sacrificed and the blood included in spiritual offering,[17] while the Tiwah festival involves the sacrifice of many animals including the chicken as offerings to the Supreme God.[18]
Ikenga, an alusi of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria requires consecration before religious use with offerings which include the sacrificial blood of a rooster or ram for the spirit.
Miao (i.e. Hmong) are animists, shamanists and ancestor worshipers with beliefs being affected in varying degrees by Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity. At the Miao New Year there may be the sacrifice of domestic animals and there may be cockfights.[19] The Hmong of Southeast Guizhou will cover the rooster with a piece of red cloth and then hold it up to worship and sacrifice to the Heaven and the Earth. In Shamanism in the Hmong culture, a shaman may use a rooster in religious ceremony as it is said that the rooster shields the shaman from "evil" spirits by making him invisible as the evil spirits only see the rooster's spirit. In a 2010 trial of a Sheboygan Wisconsin Hmong that was charged with staging a cockfight, it was stated that the roosters were "kept for both food and religious purposes"[20] resulted in an acquittal."[21] In Viet Nam fighting roosters or fighting cocks are colloquially called "sacred chickens".[22]
Santería which originated in Cuba from native Caribbean culture, Catholicism, and the Yoruba religion of West Africa "ritually sacrifices chickens".[10]
Khasi people believe the rooster is sacrificed as a substitute for man, it being thought that the cock when sacrificed "bears the sins of the man"[23] (See also similarity of Kapport in Judaism)
Yoruba oral history tells of God lowering Oduduwa down from the sky, the ancestor of all people, bringing with him a rooster, some dirt, and a palm seed. The dirt was thrown into the water and the cock scratched it to form land, and the seed grew into a tree with sixteen limbs, the original sixteen kingdoms.[24]
"The sacrifice of a cock and a ritual cockfight was part of the Imbolc festivities in honour of the pan-Celtic goddess Brighid".[25] In the 20th century, Imbolc was resurrected as a religious festival in Neopaganism, specifically in Wicca, Neo-druidry and Celtic Reconstructionism.[26][27]
It is understood that the constellations of the Zodiac within the belief system of Astrology, "the religion of the stars",[28] originated in the ancient land of Babylonia (including modern day Iraq). The lore of the True Shepherd of Anu(SIPA.ZI.AN.NA - Orion and his accompanying animal symbol, the Rooster, with both representing the herald of the gods, being their divinely ordained role to communicate messages of the gods.[29] "The Heavenly Shepherd" or "True Shepherd of Anu" - Anu being the chief god of the heavenly realms.[30] On the star map the figure of the Rooster was shown below and behind the figure of the True Shepherd, both representing the herald of the gods, in his bird and human forms respectively.[31]
Nergal, an idol of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Persians, whose name means, "a dunghill cock."[31] (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Brewer, 1900) Astrological mythology of the Assyrians and Babylonians was that the idol "Nergal represents the planet Mars, which was ever the emblem of bloodshed".[32]
The Rooster is the tenth of the twelve animal symbols in the Chinese zodiac.
See also Kukkuta Sastra in Divination.
Bayon Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple that also incorporates elements of Hindu cosmology includes "a depiction of a cockfight" within the walls of the temple.[33] which continues today within a debate of "religious sanctity"[34]
With the rambling strutting roosters of the Buddhist temple of Wat Suwankhiri[35] on a Payathonsu cliff near by, during April, Three Pagodas Pass becomes a site of the Songkran Festival with cockfights.[36]
Sacred Buddhist amulets are made within that religious schema, created and blessed in various temples in Thailand, many depicting Buddha with cocks in fighting stance, sacred within that religion.
Divination, a part of many religions is derived from the Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god"[37][38] and as a part of divination comes alectryomancy, which means rooster and divination respectively, with the intent of communication between the gods and man in which the diviner observes a cock, pecking at grain, with Judaism forbidding acts of divination in the Hebrew Bible Deuteronomy 18:10-12. Alectormancy though is also sacrificing a sacred rooster, with the use of the sacred rooster through alectryomancy further understood within that religious character and likewise defined as the rooster fight or cockfight or cockfighting[39] with the intent of communication between the gods and man.
Kukkuta Sastra (Cock Astrology) is a form of divination based on the rooster fight and commonly believed in coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is prevalent in the state, especially in the districts of Krishna, Guntur, East Godavari and West Godavari and the Sankranti festival.
Balinese Hinduism also includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the religious and spiritual cockfight of the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah. The altar and deity Ida Ratu Saung may be seen with a fighting cock in his hand[40] with the spilling of blood being necessary as purification to appease the evil spirits. Ritual fights usually take place outside the temple proper and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.[41]
Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to the Theyyam gods. Despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.,[42] Theyyam deities are propitiated through the rooster sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.
Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival dependent on the position of the sun and celebration of Sankranti who is considered a Deity for Hindus and is celebrated in many ways including worship for the departed ancestors and to worship Saraswati. In the western Indian state of Gujarat, an event of the Makar Sankranti festival is kozhi kettu, the rooster fight. Kozhi kettu is an ancient ritual of Tulunadu and an ancient ritual associated with the 'daivasthanams' (temples) there.[43] Kozhi kettu organized as part of religious events are permitted.[44]
In 2011 the Madras High Court Bench ordered the rooster fight at Santhapadi and Modakoor Melbegam villages permitted during the Pongal religious festival.[45] Again in 2011 a public interest litigation petition caused the Madras High Court Bench to grant permission to villagers of Kodaioor village to conduct a rooster fight during Deepavali coinciding with a local temple festival from the claims that the "villagers' religious sentiments would be hurt if the cockfight was not allowed ".[46] In many parts of India, tribal or folk deities are propitiated through cock sacrifice.[47]
The Samaritans or 'Cutheans' were a very early ethnic group, widely distributed and powerful. From Assyria they extended to India, China, Arabia Petraea and Abyssinia. They were also introduced by the Assyrian Empire into Samaria, in a policy of mass deportations. They had their Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim, opposite the Temple in Jerusalem, and they worshipped the Mesopotamian deity Nergal: his emblem was a cock (rooster).[48][49]
The Zohar (iii. 22b, 23a, 49b), the book of Jewish mysticism and collection of writings on the Torah written by first century tannaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi), tells of a celestial manifestation, which causes the crowing of the roosters; known also in the Talmud, is "blessed be He who has given the cock intelligence,"(Ber. 60b).[50] and as well as Job 38:36 in the Douay-Rheims Bible.
Not only "In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marking of time",[51] but also some of the Sages interpreted the "cockcrow" to mean the voice of the Temple officer who summoned all priests, Levites, and Israelites to their duties and used as such because the Hebrew gever was used also to mean a "rooster" in addition to the meaning of "man, strong man".[52]
The Talmud likewise provides the statement "Had the Torah not been given to us, we would have learned modesty from cats, honest toil from ants, chastity from doves and gallantry from cocks"[53] - (Jonathan ben Nappaha. Talmud: Erubin 100b), which may be further understood as to that of the gallantry of cocks being taken in the context of a religious instilling vessel of "a girt one of the loins"(Young's Literal Translation) that which is "stately in his stride" and "move with stately bearing" within the Book of Proverbs 30:29-31. Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon(Saadia Gaon) identifies the definitive trait of "a cock girded about the loins" within Proverbs 30:31(Douay–Rheims Bible) as "the honesty of their behavior and their success",[54] identifying a spiritual purpose of a religious vessel within that religious and spiritual instilling schema of purpose and use, within Judeo-Christian traditions.
The Hebrew term zarzir, which literally means "girt"; "that which is girt in the loins" (BDB 267 s.v.) is recognized in the Targum as well as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, LXX and Vulgate with all referencing the fighting rooster of fighting cock as the religious vessel. The ancient Hebrew versions identified the Hebrew "a girt one of the loins" of Proverbs 30:31 as a rooster, "which most of the old translations and Rabbis understood to be a fighting cock",[55] with also the Arabic sarsar or sirsir being an onomatopoeticon or onomatopoeia for rooster(alektor) as the Hebrew zarzir of Proverbs 30:31. "Rooster (Gallus domesticus) bones were identified at Lachish dating to early Iron II",[56] but even earlier not to be ruled out, which corresponds was well with "as for Palestine, the earliest chicken bones are present in Iron Age I strata in Lachish and Tell Hasben".[57] Further we see the rooster placed within the Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David and recognized of Jewish identity and Judaism. In excavations at Gibeon, near Jerusalem, dating to the seventh century B.C., potsherds were found incised with cocks and "some of them placed within the six-pointed star of the Magen David."[58] The seal of Jaazaniah carries the insignia of a rooster from the ruins of the biblical Judean kingdom at Mizpah, with the inscription of "belonging to Jaazaniah, servant to the king".,[59][60] the first known representation of the chicken in Palestine, and from II Kings 25:23, we know of one Jaazaniah the Maschathit, who was an official under Gedalish at Mizpah.
Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B.C "the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions"[61] and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason "the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks".[62] It is Carites in 2 Kings 11 who were used by Jehoiada to protect Joash son of Ahaziah of the line of David, ancestor to Christ from Athaliah.
In the Jewish religious practice of Kapparos, a rooster as a religious vessel is swung around the head and then sacrificed on the afternoon before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The purpose of the sacrifice is the expiation of sins of the man as the animal symbolically receives all the man's sins, which is based on the reconciliation of Isaiah 1:18. The religious practice is mentioned for the first time by Natronai ben Hilai, Gaon of the Academy of Sura in Babylonia, in 853 C.E., who describes it as a custom of the Babylonian Jews and further explained by Jewish scholars in the ninth century by that since the Hebrew word geber(Gever)[63] means both "man" and "rooster" the rooster may act or serve as a palpable substitute as a religious vessel in place of the man with the practice also having been as a custom of the Persian Jews.
In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia (the Philippines being the other), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and "many tais designs include the cock".[64] Reverend Dr. Kosuke Koyama's thoughts and words spreading the Christian gospel while in Indonesia of, this morning I say to myself, "I will try to bring the gospel of Christ through the medium of cockfighting!"[65] may be further understood not only in the spiritual understandings of many in Indonesia but further in the light of numerous representations of the rooster or cock as a religious vessel found in the Catacombs from the earliest period[8] including a painting from the Catacomb of St. Priscilla (mentioned in all the ancient liturgical sources and known as the "Queen of the Catacombs" in antiquity) reproduced in Giovanni Gaetano Bottari's folio of 1754, where the Good Shepherd is depicted as feeding the lambs, with a crowing cock on His right and left hand.[66] Likewise as well within the Christian "Tomb of the Cocks" in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, "we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch".[67] Similarly a multitude of sarcophagi are found with the rooster and the sacred cockfight with the understanding of striving for resurrection and eternal life in Christianity. This sacred subject carved on early Christian tombs, where the sepulchral carvings have an important purpose, "a faithful wish for immortality, with the victory of the cock and his supporting genius analogous to the hope of resurrection, the victory of the soul over death".[68] Similar illustrations of cocks in fighting stance[9] are found within the Vivian Bible as well as the fighting cocks capitals in the Basilica of St. Andoche in Saulieu[69] and the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun provides "alternate documentation"[70] of the rooster and the religious, spiritual and sacred cockfight.
All four canonical gospels state that, during the Last Supper, Jesus foretold of Peter's denial (Saint Peter) and that he would deny Christ three times before the cock's crow.
Augustine of Hippo, Catholic saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the church understood "a visible sign of an invisible reality" of the rooster to include that as described by St. Augustine in DeOrdine as that which "in every motion of these animals unendowed with reason there was nothing ungraceful since, of course, another higher reason was guiding everything they did".[71]
In the sixth century, it is reputed that Pope Gregory I declared the cock the emblem of Christianity saying the rooster was "the most suitable emblem of Christianity",[72] being "the emblem of St Peter".[73][74] Some say that it was as a result of this that the cock began to be used as a weather vane on church steeples, and some a Papal enactment of the ninth century ordered the figure of the cock to be placed on every church steeple.[75] It is known that Pope Leo IV had the figure of the cock placed on the Old St. Peter's Basilica or old Constantinian basilica[76] and has served as a religious icon and reminder of Peter's denial of Christ since that time, with some churches still having the rooster on the steeple today. Alternative theories about the origin of weathercocks on church steeples are that it was an emblem of the vigilance of the clergy calling the people to prayer,[77] that it was derived from the Goths[78] and is only possibly a Christian symbol,[79] and that it is an emblem of the sun.[80]
The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, "a girt one of the loins" of Proverbs 30:31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through "A Dictionary of the Bible" which tells us that "Pindar (ca. 522–443 BC), mentions the cock, Homer (ca. 800–750 BC) names a man "gever" the word for a cock and Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC – ca. 386 BC) calls it a Persian bird."[81]
In the Bayeux Tapestry of the 1070s, originally of the Bayeux Cathedral and now exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, Normandy, there is a depiction of a man installing a rooster on Westminster Abbey.
The cornerstone is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation and over time it became a ceremonial stone with the laying of the stone being generally important metaphorically in sacred architecture. Frazer (2006: p. 106) in The Golden Bough tells us that, "In modern Greece, when the foundation of a new building is being laid, it is the custom to kill a cock, a ram, or a lamb, and to let its blood flow on the foundation-stone".
The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of "when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel".[82]
Shintoism is the indigenous spirituality of the people of Japan with many roosters being found around Shinto shrines, with the rooster being associated with the sun goddess Amaterasu.[83]
In Taoism, Hanshi and the spring Hanshi festival were when fires were not used and then relit. Since fire, like the cock a yang symbol and symbol of the sun, was temporarily extinguished and then relit. In a Tao religious aspect, to have a rooster fight another rooster, was the same in substance as a fire-renewal custom, where the rooster and the cockfight then takes its place as an indispensable spring ritual, and "Taoism, which assessed it positively in this form, can be thought to have guaranteed its continued existence".[84] The Hanshi festival was eventually moved to coincide with the Qingming Festival or the Pure Brightness Festival which still includes the rooster and cockfight.[85]
Zoroastrianism, claimed to be "the oldest of the revealed world-religions"[86] and founded by the Prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra) opposed animal sacrifices but held the rooster as a "symbol of light"[87] and associated the cock with "good against evil"[87] because of his heraldic actions. In Iran during the Kianian Period, from about 2000 B.C. to about 700 B.C., among domestic birds, "the cock was the most sacred"[12] and within that religion, the devout, "had a cock to guard him and ward off evil spirits".[88]
The cockerel was already of symbolic importance in Gaul at the time of the invasion of Julius Caesar and was associated with the god Lugus.[citation needed] Today the Gallic rooster is an emblem of France. The rooster is also an emblem of Wallonia and Denizli.
Among Roman deities, Priapus was sometimes represented as a cock, with its beak as a phallus and its wattles as testicles. The cock or a man with rooster attributes was similarly used as an erotic symbol, Priapus Gallinaceus[89]
A fighting cockerel on a ball is the symbol of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. The cockerel wears a pair of spurs which is a reference to the club's nickname. It has been present on their crest and shield since 1901. Additionally, the cockerel is the emblem of Turkish sports club Denizlispor, which was founded in 1966. Also, the supporters of the club are called cockerels. Another soccer club that uses a rooster as its symbol is the Clube Atlético Mineiro, from Brazil. The supporters of the club and the supporters of other Brazilian clubs, often refer to Mineiro as "Galo", which means rooster in Portuguese.
The "Crazy Rooster", a symbol of Clube Atlético Mineiro. Another sporting team that has adopted the cockerel as its emblem is the National Rugby League team, the Sydney Roosters, in Australia. The Roosters' emblem is a cock with its comb fashioned to represent the Sydney Opera House.
Jesus College in the University of Cambridge features roosters on its coat of arms.[90]
A black cockerel was believed in medieval times to be a symbol of witchcraft along with the black cat,[91] with the rooster "used as symbols of either virtue or vice"[92] until modern times.
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Hi Fodorites,
Hope you're all doing well and happily planning your next adventures. It feels like almost everyone on the Asia forum's going to Japan this fall - I cannot be more happy for you all. Japan is definitely one of my all-time favorite destinations, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
As some of you know, I'm scheduled to go to Asia, namely Singapore and Sri Lanka, in two weeks time. Unfortunately, I came down with an infection that's sidelining me for a few weeks, meaning I had to cancel my trip. On the bright side, I am recovering each day and will be able to travel in a month or so; hence, this post.
Even before I was planning my trip to Sri Lanka, I had plans for a return visit to Australia in the fall of this year (I visited in 2006 for my first and only time, and fell in love). With some idle time at home, I started doing research and am beginning to piece together the makings of a trip.
I plan on flying into Singapore, staying for 4 nights, before continuing on to Australia - that is until Kathie's recent trip report and some additional reading piqued my interest in Indonesia. Looking into flights, I found that it is relatively easy to travel from Singapore to Australia via Indonesia, and cannot resist the opportunity.
Here's where my friends here come in. Right now, my thought is to allocate 4 nights to Yogyakarta and 5 nights for Bali. I am interested in history, culture, hiking, and especially temples. While I understand that I won't be able to see "everything" in 9 nights, my goal is to get a good introduction to Central Java and Bali and see some of the key sights including Borobudur, Prambanan, and some of the Balinese Hindu temples. With limited time on Bali, I'm not looking for a beach fix, which I'll get in Australia.
My questions: Are 4 nights in Yogyakarta and 5 nights in Bali enough for a good introduction, knowing I'll return? What are some must-see sights, including temples? Would you recommend doing the sights on your own or using the services of a guide, and if so, anyone you would suggest? I'm thinking about staying at the Phoenix in Yogyakarta and am looking for a good boutique hotel in the Ubud area at around US$150-175 a night.
In total I have about 30 days beginning sometime in November. A very rough first attempt at an itinerary follows:
Singapore - 4 nights
Yogyakarta - 4 nights
Bali (Ubud) - 5 nights
Darwin - 3 or 4 nights
Uluru - 3 or 4 nights
Sydney - 7 nights
Thanks in advance for your advice and suggestions.
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So sorry to hear that your Sri Lanka trip got de-railed.
Indonesia is wonderfully accessible. I can't comment on your Australia time - haven't been there - but your Indonesia time looks good. With 4 nights in central Java, you can visit Borobudur and Prambanan, visit the Dieng Plateau and see the Ramayana Ballet at Prambanan. Five nights in Bali will give you time for relaxing and for visiting temples.
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Thanks for your feedback, Kathie. As for Bali, did you have any favorite temples that you would recommend seeing?
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Aside from the big temple complex at Besakih (the Mother Temple)and the sea temples (Petitenget, Tanah Lot, Ulu Watu) most of the temples in Bali are "working" temples, community oriented and in constant use for daily worship. They are everywhere; I doubt that you could walk 100 meters in Bali without passing a temple or shrine of some sort.
It's best to visit temples during a ceremony. These occur at irregular times -- especially at major Balinese holidays and full & new moons. I'd say the temple at the end of my road has a ceremony about once a week. Same for the beach area adjacent to Petitenget Temple. There's something being celebrated there most every day.
It's hard to get a ceremony, procession and cremation calendar, but if you ask your concierge or guide they'll be able to give you advice. You are welcome to attend as long as you wear a sarong and observe some other formalities that your guide could help you with.
Personally, I like visiting Besakih, but the approach is a gauntlet of aggressive hawkers which somewhat mars the experience. Again, your guide can run interference.
In September and November you should have a lot of choices in Ubud in your price range. October will be a busy month in Bali because of a big APEC conference followed by the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. Rates will go up during that time. But if you're interested in literature the UWRF is worth attending.
First decide if you want to stay in the town of Ubud itself or in the surrounding countryside. Both have merit, but I prefer the latter. I'd look at Alam Sari, the Komen Group. The Alila is a little bigger, but has a beautiful setting and good facilities. Kayu Manis and Samaya for villa style (though they may be a little higher than your target). -
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Thanks Marmot. I've made note of the temples you suggested and will look at the hotels you've named this weekend.
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Wow how lucky are you! You have a wonderful trip ahead of you. I think you have chosen the best village to stay at for your first visit to Bali. Ubud itself is a wonderful village and it is also located perfectly for day trips etc.
You have already received great information. But I can't resist suggesting a few things to do while you are in Ubud. Not far from Ubud you have Goa Gaja, Gunung Kawi (also known as Tempaksering) and Tirt Empul. These three themple sites are really beautiful and very different from each other. If you leave early in the morning you can avoid the crowds and you will be back for lunch.
Another great thing I alwasy recommend is doing a rice field walk in Ubud, in Campuhan area. If you drive from Jalan Ubud Raya towards Campuhan, you will see on your right side a sign Sari Organik. This restaurant is located right in the ricefields and if you continue to follow this path you will have a nice 1,5 hour stroll through the ricefield.
Additionally, if you want to see things of Bali in a fun way you should join a mountain downhill bike tour. It takes you to kintamani and from there on a easy way back to Ubud pass villages and ricefields. A great way to see Bali.
Alam Jiwa and Alam Sari are wonderful. You can also consider a suite a Ibah, Hotel Tjampuhan and Kori Ubud. The first two are near Ubud Center in Campuhan area. Have fun and save journeys...! -
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Marmot has, of course, given you some excellent suggestions. I'll have to see if I can find some of my old trip notes, but I enjoyed some of the mountain temples, like Batur.
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The Phoenix Hotel in Yogyakarta is having a sale. I just booked for 3 nights Aug. 29-Sept. 1 for $77 a night including taxes and breakfast. It's a superior city view room, but this is such a good deal I couldn't pass it up. The best rate Wiedy, who I have planned my 4 day tour with, could get is $83. I booked it on the Accor Hotels website. This is a prepaid rate, non refundable.
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Just to clarify: I didn't mean that you should only visit big name temples. What I meant to explain is that the temples in Bali are very different from the ancient monuments and temples in Java. In Bali they are in contemporaneous use and every community has its own temple. They are all lovely and much the same.
Alam Shanti and Alam Sari are two different, unconnected places, both very nice. Alam Shanti is near the center of Ubud and Alam Sari is about 30 minutes outside Ubud in the countryside. -
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Thank you all for the wealth of information you're providing me with. I've made note of all the recommendations and will do more research into them. In the meantime, any good guides you would recommend for Yogyakarta and for Bali?
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You will need a driver in Yogyakarta, and guides at Borobudur and Prambanam. We had Weidy set up our car and driver and he also arranged for guides and got us the best seats at the Ramayana at Prambanam.
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Southeast Asia and Australia, here I come!!! I'm pleased to report that my flights are all booked and I'm beginning to make some hotel reservations, as well as guides.
Susiesan, I went ahead and booked rooms at the Phoenix. I paid about $80 a night for them, taxes included.
Kathie, I took your suggestion and contacted Wiedy, who's available on my dates and confirmed him as well. He's very response and easy to communicate with.
I've also contacted Putu in Bali based on the suggestions of a few on this forum, and am about to confirm him as well.
As for accommodations in Bali, I contacted several of the properties that Marmot and Cocomoco suggested. The Komaneka properties turn out to be around $700 a night for the villas for those dates, and way beyond my price range (I usually budget $135-175 a night on my travels). At Alam Shanti, Lakshmi and Saraswati are available. Does anyone have experience with these? How do they compare with the other rooms? Would one of the Alam properties be a better option? Also available are rooms at the Danu and Telaga Mansions at Kajane Mua, as well as Bale Villa at Kajane Yangloni - any thoughts here? Have an inquiry into the Alila as well and am awaiting a response.
Thanks to you all for the guidance you've given me so far. I look forward to your input on my options in Bali.
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So I see StealthSim, TurboSim and a couple others. I don't mind doing any work arounds and putting time into hacking a phone. I just want to know the cheapest way to do it.
If anyone can help, thanks!
So I see StealthSim, TurboSim and a couple others. I don't mind doing any work arounds and putting time into hacking a phone. I just want to know the cheapest way to do it.
If anyone can help, thanks!
Stealth sim.
Iphonesimfreer could be cheaper, but didn't happen to see a thread about it actually working yet.
Next SIM seems to be selling for about 40$ + 30$ shipping on eBay... I have no experience with this product, YMMV.
Thank you everyone, except the guy that didn't need to post.
To the guy who needs to compensate for something: Maybe I didn't know about something and I couldn't find information about something that didn't exist. LIKE: Next sim, theres no info on this site and i wouldn't know to search for it if there was. So STFU and go be a dick to someone else. The point of forums is to be able to give and receive information.
Funny. If certain information for certain brands are that hard to get hold of, then that should be a hint that you should not even consider it. Common sense.
So since the point of the forum is to give and to receive information...then why do everybody get mad when somebody posts a new thread asking "how do I unlock my OTB 1.1.2 iphone?" If that's the case, then nobody should be getting mad at anybody.
Well then, here is my opinion. Stay with the popular and tested sim hacks (i.e. Stealthsim and Turbosim). Although you pay a bit more compared to the Next sim, you atleast know it has has been tested and works.
I don't mind failure if there is a possibility of progress. StealthSIM and TurboSIM were new technologies at one point. I know there was threads with skepticisms of our now "trusted" technologies. I mean, look at how fast this movement changes every week, is it really that improbable to assume there are other options that are cheaper out there? I think not, its quite probable.
I'm exploring information and hopefully will get a lead towards a path of progress from someone that has more talent than I. That is the point of threads: Progress
Please show me a thread with this same subject and something that I don't know already and I will praise you.


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I loved the Little Mermaid game, I think it was for regular old Nintendo!! Then there was the game too it took you around the MK looking for keys?? anyone remember this?
I could not find another section were this would fit but I thought I could start a discussion on Disney Video games. Old and new from Nintendo Entertainment System Game boy and Sega Genesis to Wii, PS3, 360, 3DS, DS, PSP, and more. To start it off what is your favorite Disney Video game? Mine is the 1998 Walt Disney World Explorer. Discuss!
I loved the Little Mermaid game, I think it was for regular old Nintendo!! Then there was the game too it took you around the MK looking for keys?? anyone remember this?
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It's relatively recent but I have to say that I am a HUGE fan of Epic Mickey for the Wii. It was by far one of the most enjoyable for me just because of it's ties to the Magic Kingdom and being able to play around in little Oswald versions of each land. Even if it was all screwy, drippy and anti-Mickey.
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I loved playing Aladdin and Lion King for Super Nintendo.
Also love Kingdom Hearts, though I've never finished a game. *embarrassing*
Am currently, slowly, getting through Epic Mickey. I keep trying to explore and view every nook and cranny of the place to get all the hidden goodies. I just wish the camera work was a little bit better. I get so frustrated with it sometimes!
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Loved that stupid NSES, including those two games.
As for Kingdom Hearts, I played it exactly once. Did the practice nonsense at the beginning and just couldn't get into it. I'm not a role-playing sort of person (never was) so throwing some Disney characters into a game isn't going to make it any more fun for me. Then again, that original Legend of Zelda game was neat, to a point.
The Lion King of SNES was a great game! Is still have it and keep my SNES hooked up. From time to time I put in the game, enter the password BARRY and go straight to fighting Scar.
Kingdom Hearts was a great game but only the first two. I didnt like any of the spin offs and hope they come out with a 3rd one for the PS3 sometime soon going back to the formula of the first game with Sora, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Rikku, etc.
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I enjoyed the 1998 Walt Disney World Explorer. That was fun! And I rocked the trivia part. Fun to play.
Have Toy Story Mania for the Wii. I really like it. However the one for the iPod Touch, I am no good at that one!
I'm not a big video game guy, but my kids have loved epic Mickey.
Magical Racing was great, I had it on the PlayStation, it was also available on he Sega Dreamcast. I really enjoyed Epic Mickey there was some camera issues but if you are a Disney fan and own a Wii you should play it. For kids Club Penguin is great,I used to play it when I was younger, I still play the DS games on my 3DS though. I really think Disney should stop making so many licensed games for their Disney channel movies and tv shows and focus on making more quality titles. I think if that made more 2d downloadable games for wiiware, dsiware, psn,and xbla they would spend allot less money but more people will purchase them because of their fond memories as a kid. I would liuke to see a game set in Disney World or at least one of the parks and would be an open world game like L.A. Noir or GTA but have it being like saving the park or like a simcity but Disney. Also Disneyland Adventures for the Kinect does not look good at all it seems like you barely play it and the child actors they paid to pretend to have fun made me sad. Preview of "Disneyland Adventures" from E3 2011 - YouTube
I recently updated my blog, it is now more focused on Disney video games and the video game industry and how it effects Disney. I need some suggestion of what Disney Video Games I should write about . You can check out my blog here at thefourparksandmore.blogspot.com
I just did a post about magical racing tour on my blog thefourparksandmore.blogspot.com
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Ready for what? You tell us, Beliebers!
The 19-year old covers the latest issue of Rolling Stone (in a wife-beater) and tells the magazine that he feels a lot more mature now than he has in the past.
"I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy," the singer says.
How so? Justin cites the attention he pays to girlfriend Selena Gomez.
"I make sure to do the little things. Like noticing when they get their hair done, or when they change their nail color. Also saying things all the time - like, 'You're very pretty,' 'You're gorgeous,' things like that."
Are you taking notes, fellas? Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, dispels the notion that his client having a public romance will affect his standing with fans, saying in respond to that possibility:"I think that's all a bunch of bullsh-t. Yes, there's gonna be some girls that if they see him with a girlfriend, it kills the dream - but there's also gonna be girls that see him with a girlfriend, hear about the romantic things he does and want him even more."
Sounds pretty accurate to us, right, female Beliebers?
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I think the 'Hollywood Gossip' just made a mistake for saying tht he is 19 instead of 18, no need to mke a big deal out of it!!xxx
Justin ur amazing, nd ppl STOP calling him gay nd if u have a problem with the word 'STOP' then maybe u shud get a dictionary nd luk up thw word -stop- or ask ur mommy or daddy what it means...xxxx
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Vice President Joe Biden swore in the 12 new senators Thursday, as well as those who won another term.
Democrats tightened their grip on the Senate with 55-45 edge following the November elections.
Baldwin is Wisconsin's first female senator and also the first openly gay candidate ever elected to the chamber. She defeated former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who had never before lost a statewide race.
In a statement to FOX 11, Baldwin wrote, "I am grateful and humbled by the trust the people of Wisconsin have placed in me and will work as hard as I can to keep that trust. I ran for U.S. Senate to make a difference, and I intend to make a difference. We have big challenges to tackle if we want to move our nation in the right direction. I look forward to working across party lines to grow the middle class, pay down our debt without shortchanging our future, and move our economy forward for Wisconsin families and small businesses. Together we can build a path guided by fairness and opportunity where nobody gets to play by their own set of rules, where everybody pays their fair share and everybody gets a fair shot."
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Remember the nerd in the 2013 Super Bowl commercial who got to make out with Bar Refaeli for a Go Daddy ad? Of course you do! His name is Jesse Heiman.
And although he seemed to have risen to fame overnight, Heiman — for the past 12 years – has actually been an extra in what seems like nearly every movie and TV show ever! But now the curly haired 35-year-old reveals to RumorFix that he refuses to settle for 15 minutes of fame, and has instead embarked on a journey to land a serious long-time acting career, which he will document in the documentary The World's Greatest Extra.
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Jesse tells RumorFix that the doc will show what it's like to be an actor in Hollywood and what it will take for him to fulfill his dream of becoming an A-Lister. "I am excited to have this opportunity to be in The Worlds Greatest Extra documentary, which is all about me and my life and how goofy and honest and cool I am," he tells us. "I had no idea my experiences were so valuable, exciting, or funny. But being a part of this project is very humbling and cool. I am very excited!"
The film, which will follow Jesse's life for a year as he tries to make himself more than just a movie extra, is also a reflection of Jesse's passion to inspire other people to chase their aspirations as well. Heiman tells us, "I like to tell anyone that they can be an actor and that they don't have to be stuck on YouTube if they have a passion and want to be recognized," he adds, "I personify with so many audiences because I'm an average looking guy–people can identify with who I am so I hope I can inspire them to pursue whatever their dreams are."
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List any glitches. This is my personal favorite. the list is piling up man.
What no one noticed that during testing. Poor.
List any glitches. This is my personal favorite. the list is piling up man.
What no one noticed that during testing. Poor.
Disclaimer for this You Tube link: You would be Smart not to view this link it could drive you Cooky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdr-W775hk4
Just go to sidhe's forum! geez you should see how many glitches there are!!
What was the glitch in the video in the first post?
Looked fine to me
They loves an offload though, don't they?
It should've just been called - Sonny Bill Williams Rugby Challenge.
The offloads are insane.
The animations/cut scenes/replays are pretty good.
The scoring animation is really stupid.
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Ah yeah, didn't notice that before (was concentrating on the play thinking that it might be one of the glitches where the ball hovers in mid air and no one can touch it, or the scrumhalf disappears)
Play @ 4:46... ermm, offside anyone?
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offloads can be edited, love the rucking system! reminds me of JLR95 rucking system..cant wait for this game to come out in oz...by then the glitches a fixed and then i can finally throw RWC in the bin lol
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I don't care about gliches;just wana play that game,hope season/career is not like world league in 08 and more like madden or fifa
We've got a thread for reporting bugs over on our forums, which the development team are monitoring, and work on a new patch is going really well
2013 the year of the lions tour and a new rugby game! rugby challenge 2!
I wouldn't say that - While RWC does have many glitches, RC has more game-breaking ones.
By that I mean, while RWCs glitches may be annoying, it seems that RC has more glitches that cause you to have to reset the game to play on (scrumhalf disappearing, ball randomly hovering and being unplayable)
However these are the ones that Sidhe are working on patching, so they'll be gone shortly
I think it's pretty even. There seems to be a lot of problems with subbing in rwc that at least are requiring people to quit out to the main menu. Then there are at least 3-4 posts of people saying the game is just straight crashing while in matches on tour mode.
anyway as you said sidhe are working on patching their bugs and I'm sure HB are watching the forum to fix bugs in rwc. end result both games will be better to play.
2013 the year of the lions tour and a new rugby game! rugby challenge 2!
This is not a comparison thread it is a glitch thread. Specifically aimed at pointing out issues about RC not RWC. RWC has its own thread and it has its fair share of bugs etc.
Milla, I know you have a bugs/glitch thread on Sidhe forums, but this is for the TheRugbyforum. My hope that both companies patch these glaring issues present as it is a game breaker for some.
This level of bugs is really not acceptable for any title.
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glitches for rugby challenge arent really gameplay breakers just the ball doing its tour with 3 players for 1 sec then back to footy...RC didnt have to worry with the rugby rules stuffin up like RWC. Gone a the days when you cant trust the game referees!
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I didn't realise having several glitches which need you to actually quit the game wasn't considered gameplaybreaking
LOL Ur right there is a glitch that makes you quit..happened to me yesterday but thats the only time its happened..i was fiji vs tonga in the WRC and when the 80min was up i kicked it out then, glitch!..(nightmares from RWC coming back again lol). Once they clean that up and the lineout glitch, RC will become the best rugby game out so far.
..and you know dis maaaaayn
if a team knocks the ball on in their own line, and the opposition score from it, the try will be scored but the game will give the other team a 5 metre scrum instead of a kick off. this has happened twice, once while i scored like that and once against me
Had the game a week and havent encountered much in the way of glitches apart from the lineout.
I'm into my 4th season in career mode on pro (ITM Cup only) with still the original roster (Taranaki) so have racked up a decent amount of games with the initial quick game fix to get my head around the game physics.
I've found the passing system to be very good once i got my head around the *cant hold sprint and expect every pass to find its target* philosophy, which in turn has definately increased the *feel* of actually constructing tries as opposed to merely outflanking the AI at every attack.
The offside factor from kicks does annoy me a tad as 99% of the time the AI is there when you field the kick and stifles the counter attack option and the offloads from the AI can frustrate but is imo a minor issue.
Kudos to Sidhe for laying the template for what i hope will be a series of exceptional rugby games(RC2 3 and 4 please ), and for keeping this old bugger entertained while mouthing my pre chewed steak and veg puree!
just made my RC game even better by editing all players "break tackle" attribute to 0.. but put it up to 50 on the 2-3 impact players per team and also edited all the forwards "speed" to 30.and 40. No more easy walkthrough tries anymore and makes for better goaline/general defense.
love it
peow peow!
I like the way ppl are editing the game already,by the time I get the game most ppl can give alota tips in editing the game or players,maybe even beter face editing
really? coz i've been getting so many glitches and i've only had it for a few days, another one is at the kick off where the player freezes and you can't move him, sometimes this happens during the free run where you're waiting for the game to load. Another one i've had is when you kick a conversion, sometimes it completely screws up and the aiming arrow goes the opposite way you move it and you end up kicking it way to the side
Got my game yesterday, played a couple of games, Really love the game!!
Just had one glitch though, i was playing with Pretoria, and Pierre Spies ran through to score a try, but was tackled in goal and knocked on before grounding. the try was still given.
PS3 with patch.
What was pierre spies's name before u edited it?
from this video
I think it's Swart
Even though I think they should have named Frans Steenkamp after Morné Steenkamp but as I can see, it's Frans Sneyd


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• With the Buncombe County's initial tax revaluation numbers in, the city of Asheville showed a two percent increase in property values. This means that if the city keeps it's current tax rate — 42 cents per $100 of property value — it will take in more money, though the average city property owner will see their tax bill go up.
However, Administration and Finance Director Lauren Bradley told Council's Finance Committee this afternoon that many of the underlying issues remain the same, and after tax revaluation appeals were done and increased costs in areas ranging from healthcare to elections were factored in, the city could find itself in roughly the same situation as last year, with revenues slightly behind expenditures. Further, proposals by some state legislators to abolish local privilege licenses (which would lose the city $1.7 million) and transfer the water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District (costing the city at least $1.8 million) might also complicate the budget picture, Bradley noted.
City officials will have more information in late February, when they find out how much sales-tax revenue the city will receive this year. Council will hold a special budget work session in late March.
• At its regular meeting, Council unanimously passed a controversial rezoning proposal for drive-thrus as part of a Harris Teeter development on Merrimon Avenue. The public hearing on the project was initially held Jan. 22, but the developers requested more time. They returned with proposals to change several aspects of the development, including more of a buffer zone and investing $30,000 in improvements to a nearby intersection.
Residents of the adjoining Five Points neighborhood said they still had reservations about the type of development. But some said that the changes had addressed enough of their concerns for the rezoning to go ahead.
• Council also passed, 5-2, a proposal for larger signs in Biltmore Park Town Square. The "urban village" style development has 30 percent of its retail space still vacant, and the Biltmore Farms company asserted the signs are necessary to ensure the development's success. Most of Council agreed, saying that the distance from the road and the need for denser development in south Asheville justified the move. However, Council members Cecil Bothwell worried about the precedent allowing such an exception to the city's usual signage rules will set. He and Council member Chris Pelly voted against the measure.
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