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Christian Ponder Should Feel No Pressure Saturday. Cause Its All On Aaron RodgersThis is what Rodgers is up against: A legacy of recent home playoff futility that is actually rather frightening. Besides last years collapse, youve got the NFC title game Tom Coughlin Red Face Bowl loss. Go back a couple more years and youve got the first round fail against the Vikings and Randy Moss. And a couple years before that, the fail against Michael Vick and the Falcons.
Yes I realize those last three losses were not on Rodgers. But they do loom large in the minds of Packer fans. Packer fans might deny this but theyre lying. They feel the sting from those home playoff failures. It has built up over the years. Right now it is making them a little nervous. It used to be The Packers never lose in the playoffs at Lambeau. Now its The Packers often lose in the playoffs at Lambeau. The fans would like to see this reversed.
The pressure to reverse this trend and get the Packers back to home dominance is on Rodgers. Hes the QB. Hes the legend-in-the-making. Even if the loss isnt his fault, it will be on his legacy. And fans realize what the deal is with this team. The defense is once again not that good. They couldnt stop Adrian Peterson to save their lives. And they gave up big third down conversions to Christian Ponder and the Vikes less-than-vaunted passing game. Its on Rodgers head to make this bad feeling go away.Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
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" Yes I realize those last three losses were not on Rodgers. But they do loom large in the minds of Packer fans. "
That would be great if the fans were playing. Doubt the players could care less about what happened before most of them were on the team.
Truth is, the Vikings have little or no chance to win if you look at history.
Packers have only lost 2 out of their last 28 home games during the regular season and the Vikings are something like 0-6 outdoors with a dreadful away game record.
But there is another truth emerging. Vikings and their fans, realize they were dominant last time in Lamblow, and if not for 2 crucial interceptions, would have walked away a winner.
That would have also made the Vikings the NFCN champs.
This Vikings team has a different vibe than previous Vikings teams. If healthy they may be well suited to play in cold conditions.
With a fundementally physical game, they can win providing they limit turnovers.
This game is an opportunity to once again take control of the NFCN and send the Packers to a crushing one and done defeat for the second consecutive year.
The time is now.
I think all the talk about pressure on Rodgers is a little silly. There is NO CHANCE that he is not going to be the starter in Green Bay for the next 5 + years.
He already has one Super Bowl ring. He already has an MVP award. He has a ridiculous amount of statistics that show him going toward being one of the all time greats. He replaced a legend. There is little pressure on him.
Sure, he has never won a playoff game in Lambeau (he has only played one). But the loss to the Giants in the 2007 playoffs, the loss to the Vikings in the 2004 playoffs and the loss to the Falcons in the 2003 playoffs do not fall anywhere near Rodgers feet.
As the top dog on a team you obviously feel the pressure, but to act like there is any real pressure on Rodgers here as if it will even slightly effect his legacy is a bit of lunacy. His legacy is already secure and he has a bunch of years left to continue past this.
There is a ton of pressure on Ponder ... not necessarily to WIN the game ... but to not be the reason the Vikings lose the game. He is already feeling the "bust" label ... and can go a long ways toward keeping that wrapped around his throat or removing it this weekend.
Now, all that said ... the Packers are definitely going to be feeling some pressure as an organization because they know that this is the fourth-straight year that they are near the top of the conference and if they cannot capitalize then that window just keeps getting smaller and smaller.


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Wi-Fi Available
This comfortable home is situated minutes from Windsor Beach Boat
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This property is a three bedroom, two bathroom split floorplan with
the master at one side and two bedrooms at the other side.
The living room, dining, and kitchen make up a grand room.
At the rear is a covered patio with lake view. This patio
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The bedrooms consists of: Mstr - one king bed/TV; Bed1 - one king
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Kitchen if fully furnished with built-ins. Besides the dining area
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Indoor laundry room with washer and dryer. Towels provided.
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by Jonathan Singer, Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 04:10:23 AM EDT
Take as look at these impressive numbers, per a release from the Democratic Governors Association:
New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish is leading both potential Republican opponents by a commanding margin, according to statewide polling released today by the Democratic Governors Association.
In head-to-head matchups, Denish is leading both Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson by 22 points, with 57 percent of voters supporting Denish and 35 percent the Republican.
There was a time at which New Mexico looked like a genuine swing state. Indeed, back in 2000, Al Gore carried the state by just 366 votes. But in 2008, Barack Obama carried the state by 15 percentage points in an election that also saw the Democrats picking up a Senate seat (by more than a 20 percentage point margin!) and two House seats, suggesting the state may not be as balanced as we once thought it was. These numbers showing the state's Democratic Lieutenant Governor simply thumping two potential top-notch Republican competitors only back up this sentiment.
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Obama on Thursday announced insurers can continue to sell coverage to existing customers. The announcement follows problems with the federal website intended to offer new coverage that meets requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act.
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EFFINGHAM — Effingham County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has approved a resolution opposing Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed minimum wage increase.
According to a release by the chamber, s poll of its members found that 92% of those responding are against the proposal to increase the minimum wage to $10 per hour or more over the next three years, with future annual increases indexed to inflation. Senate bill 68 would increase the the wage by 50 cents per hour.
The release also states the bill would remove many of the current exemptions for agricultural workers, teenage laborers and wait staff, and would increase other employment insurance and taxes paid by businesses and withheld from employee paychecks.
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We very rarely get snow down here,
and this was the first snow in over 10 years.
Pay for a month in advance and receive this very special
Winter Get-Away Deal
Come and be warm in a home from home with fun and laughter, company and loads of good food
You are not limited to your room and we share a movie in the evening, a walk in the daytime with the dog and even a trip round Tesco's ( exciting huh ...) Occasionally we try and get out for the day - maybe a day trip to Weymouth, or some other local beauty spot, and with our 8 seater mini bus, you are welcome to join us. ( A small contribution to petrol and lunch out may be asked )
Hot and cold refreshments freely available 24/7 - FREE OF CHARGE
2 course dinner served every evening and plenty of it.
There is no need to spend the winter months alone when you can share good company. No age limit - as we do enjoy the company of the more mature gay men here. If you are elderely, then you appreciate this is cheaper than many Care Homes - although we do not offer the services or facilities if you need a carer or special equipment although we do go so much further than other hotels.
We will ask that - as part of the family - you help out a bit - make your own bed and help wash up... you can use the washing machine for your clothes - and we all chip in and help out if and when needed... and it all adds to the fun and besides, at these prices, it is not much to ask. Don't worry, you are not expected to clean the gutters or sweep the car park...
Private Rooms or room sharing may be offered - Not available over Christmas & New Year periods when - depending on how long you are with us, we will offer a sizeable discount - otherwise the full tariff for the Festive Season applies. ( Various discounts available if booked in advance )
Normal Terms and Conditions apply.
The winter months can be a lonely time, with the windows and doors shut tight, expensive heating on and other than the telly, there can be long solitary evenings alone - and yet there is an alternative. Hamilton Hall will welcome you with BB&EM at this hugely reduced price for the winter period and the longer you stay, the more friends you will make. It is never dull around here and every day we meet interesting and fun guys and have great chats over meals and even throughout the day.
Older gentlemen very welcome and encouraged.
So tell your friends who need to get away for the winter - and come stay on the south coast where the weather - usually - is milder... for we rarely get snow... despoite the picture above, which wa staken because we were amazed to se snow here as it really is a very rare occasion we see any white stuff, maybe once a decade or so...
We are not offering Care Home facilities and do not have trained care assistance or nursing staff. We are a hotel where you can be part of the family and share of yourself with others. If you need help with some things, that's fine., but not personal hygiene things that need trained and experienced staffing which we do not provide.
BOOK NOW and have a great winter period.
This is me, John, waking the dog last winter, I think it was probably about October - November time.
Comment from John, your host.
I shall be 60 next April ( 2015 ) and value and respect the older man. When I was 16 I lived with a lover for 8 years who was 26 years older than myself and he had tons of friends his age and older, and as a youth, I grew up surrounded by 'older men' and was always understanding to their lifestyle compared to my own. I know how easy it is to find yourself shut up for the winter and lonely, and we are hoping to get a good group of guys here at these very low prices - to help us stay afloat and to offer something special for you.
I can guarantee - it will not be dull. Hamilton Hall has a wonderful welcoming atmosphere and is well appointed for shops, seaside, the town centre and bus routes. I have a ' people mover' for day trips out and to drop you in town ( staff and time permitting ) and you can live as 'one of the family' and be involved - or be peaceful and oblivious - the choice is yours and we respect you for your choices. I do hope you will be joining us and we welcome anyone who values what we offer here to help in whatever way they can, and offering this long winter break - to be honest - is something I would personally LOVE.
There is a doctor and dentist just 2 minutes walk from us - just aropund the corner and Bournemouth Hospital is a 10 minute drive away - on the way to Tesco and we will certainly be there as much as we can, like a family, to check you are okay and be there for you. You do not need to be alone over these long dark evenings when the wind and rain / snow is blowing and there is bugger all on telly and you are at a loss as to what to do with yourself. Come and share a laugh, a joke, anything - with people who care.
If I could afford it and I was not working here, I would thoroughly love living with a friendly group of gay men in a hotel with my meals prepared for me and share the fun and laughter while still having my own room. It sounds like an Agatha Christie story ( just with no murder ) So who wants to be Maggie Smith - or Judy Dench,- as I want to be Julie Walters... ha ha
I do hope you will want to join us.
John Bellamy
Hi John,
I have heard of marginal costing but I must congratulate you on this one.If you do not get any visitors when you are offering home living at a fractionof rates elsewhere all I can say this world is a funny place.
I do hope this latest offer of yours is a great success as you deserve it!!!
Sorry I cant enjoy the offer as regretfully I still have to work, if I had stoppedI would jump at a long break in Bournemouth. Your offer is even lower thanstudent accommodation prices. My niece has to pay £650 a month without foodor utility bills for her one room near the University
Best wishes - Steve
Wow John. Your special winter 4 week deal is amazing. I have several elderly friends who live alone and I shall certainly be telling them of this deal as its too good to miss. On those cold winter with you guys - how amazing and what fun that will be for someone who lives alone and hybernates all winter, it's a wonder you are not packed out. Well done. Richard.


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The Gathering begins Sunday June 29. On-campus housing (including camping) during the Gathering is available only for full-time and half-time Gathering attenders. Prior to Friday June 27, housing is only available by special arrangement. On campus housing is not available after Saturday morning, July 5.
All the Cal U dorms are air conditioned, have elevators, and have accessible entrances. All rooms have private baths or are in small suites with a one or two bathrooms in the suite. There are no "traditional" dormitories with large communal bathrooms. Both singles (rooms for one person) and doubles (shared rooms with two beds) are available. (See special notes if registering for half of the Gathering.) All beds are in private rooms or are in small suites.
Doubles with private or semi-private baths: 80% of the beds in campus are in a double with a private bath, which means if you sign up for a double you are likely to have a private bath. Most of the other doubles are in suites with two rooms and two baths. If you want to guarantee a private bath, you must choose that housing option when registering.
Singles with private or semi-private baths: Some single rooms come with private baths, some are in two-room suites with one bath, and others are four-room suites with two baths. If you want a single with a private bath, you must choose that housing option when registering.
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All registrants (except High School Program participants) are assigned to general housing unless they choose a specific housing cluster. Read more about housing clusters.
Friends with concerns about accessing housing, bathrooms, or other Gathering facilities appropriate to their gender identity and expression are welcome to contact Kody Hersh, email@example.com,786-246-2566, for information and support.
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The "on-campus" campground is located at Roadman Park, two miles from the Gathering dorms and programming on the main campus. The road to the campground is extremely steep and does not have shoulders -- it is not safe for walking and only appropriate for very experienced and strong bicyclists.
The tent area at Roadman park has lots of shade. Port-a-potties will be provided, and showers and plumbed toilets will be available during prime hours in the morning and evening at the Adamson Stadium, about 300 yards from the tenting area.
Tenting and RV registrants must chose an on-campus meal plan (they may not choose the "no meals" option).
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A "camper" is a Friend in a tent or RV at the Cal U campground.
- Campers with vehicles will drive daily to and from the campground. On the main campus, there will be a parking lot designated for campers' vehicles; these vehicles will be provided parking passes. Friends needing to drive an RV daily between campus and campground may be in a special on-campus parking lot.
- In the campground, there will be a morning "get a ride" spot where Friends without vehicles will wait to be picked up by those driving to campus. All campers with vehicles are asked to help give morning rides, to the extent that seats are available.
- There will be a "camper lounge" on campus, available between the hours of noon and 11 pm. At this time, we expect this to be an unlocked lounge in a Gathering dorm.
- FGC expects that the camping community will be able to get all campers back to campus at the end of the day. However, the Conference Coordinator will identify a back-up driver who will be on call between 10 and 11 pm in the event that a camper is unable to find a ride to the campground.
The closest hotels to campus are 10 miles away. Click here to see a list of some of them.
The Gathering meals will be all-you-care-to-eat. Read more about meal plan choices and special diets.
Go to the Gathering Fees page for meal prices.
Early Arrivals
Early housing: Friends choosing to arrive before Sunday June 29 pay Early Arrival Room Fees.
Early meals: The Gathering meal plan begins with dinner on Sunday evening June 29. The Cal U cafeteria will be open starting with dinner Friday June 27. Early cafeteria meals may be pre-purchased by June 10 via your on-line registration form.
High School early arrival: Please read special arrangments and responsibilities regarding early arrival by High Schoolers.
Early Fees: See the fees for early arrivals.
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NEW YORK (AP) - New York's largest cemetery is the subject of a museum exhibition as it celebrates its 175th anniversary.
Green-Wood Cemetery is known as the pastoral final resting place for luminaries such as New York Tribune founder Horace Greeley, conductor Leonard Bernstein and Cooper Union founder Peter Cooper.
The 478-acre site has rolling hills, ponds, winding paths and vistas of the New York Harbor. More than 500,000 people are interred under or within 100,000 monuments or tombs.
The Museum of the City of New York exhibit features a giant Green-Wood map superimposed on the gallery's floor and walls. Important gravesites are marked by illuminated glass cases.
The exhibition opens Wednesday and runs through Oct. 13.
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Beautiful beach area pool house 1 block from beach in Fort Lauderdale
- bedrooms 3
- baths 3
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community Hillsboro Shores
rates (USD)
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$ 5,000 - $ 7,000 / month
vacation rental description
Beautiful beach house located one block from the one of the nicest public access beaches in South Florida located in the prestigious Hillsboro Shores area. Completely furnished and updated 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house with a tropically landscaped, large, completely fenced backyard. Brand new impact slider doors in each bedroom open up to large private backyard with a free form pool & jacuzzi that can be heated for an additional fee. Kitchen and bathrooms updated. Large great room and breakfast area.
UPDATE: We are currently undergoing a large scale remodeling. We are completely renovating the 3rd bathroom, installing a new washer/dryer, installing all new interior doors and base boards, new interior paint, all new living room furniture, new plantation shutters on each window, ceiling fans and a new fence around the entire backyard beginning on May 1st 2014.
6/16/14 Update. All remodeling has been completed! Wait to you see the upgrades!
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property availability
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Jon Zimmerman 954-647-4363
house rental amenities
Completely furnished house with central AC, 3 brand new flat screen TV's, 2 DVD players,
surround sound stereo system, updated kitchen with smooth top stove,
refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher,washer and dryer and local
phone service included. All towels, linens and kitchen pots pans and
utensils included. House is wired with high speed cable internet and a secured wireless modem as
Bed setup as follows:
1 king bed in master bedroom
1 queen bed in second bedroom
2 twin beds in third bedroom
1 pullout sleeper couch in living room
activities and attractions in Fort Lauderdale Atlantic Coast South
House located one block from Intercoastal waterway and one block
from one of the nicest and widest beaches in South Florida, in the Hillsboro Shores area located in north Ft. Lauderdale. 20 minutes from downtown Ft. Lauderdale and
15 minutes from downtown Boca Raton. 25 minutes from Ft. Lauderdale
International airport and 50 minutes from Miami International
airport. 50 minutes from South Beach.
Numerous golf courses, restaurants and shops located minutes away.
vacation rental rates
In Season : November 22nd to April 30th
$2700 per week
$7000 per month
Summer Season: May 1st to August 31st
$2000 per week
$6000 per month
Off Season: September 1st to November 21st
$1500 per week
$5000 per month
Christmas and New Years holiday weeks of 12/20 to 1/3:
$3500 per week (7 night minimum required)
*One time cleaning fee of $125
*11% state and local taxes apply
* 7 night stay minimum during 11/22 to 4/30 time period
*5 night stay minimum all other dates
Jon Zimmerman 954-647-4363
accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in Fort Lauderdale
- Visit the beach
- Snorkel
- Deep sea fishing
- paddle boarding
- tour the Everglades
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Ryan Whitney Still Out Of Work
"It's been a unique free-agency period. After initial signings on Day Oene, the secondary phase dried up very quickly. Would guess a lot of players will be waiting for find work up and including training camp."
--Paul Krepelka, Ryan Whitney's agent, on his client's inability to find work.
I wonder if Krepelka will start looking into the delusional phase when his client is passed by in the tertiary phase. Whitney will find work - 1st round picks always do.


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I found the gold frame at a flea market several months ago for $12 and had been waiting for something to house in it. The paint chip art was FREE, since I painted the matting and made
Our guest room houses my clothes and serves as my dressing room. Most old homes have larger bath tubs than closets, and ours is no exception. The Mister gets our closet, so I get the whole guest room. (Don't feel bad for him; he has full reign of the basement.) Since I'm in this room a lot, seeing it undecorated each morning was bumming me out. I had a few pieces that I loved and decided to work with them to build the room. It's not finished yet but getting there.
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COLLIER COUNTY: A day at Vanderbilt Beach comes with plenty of sun and sand, but some Collier residents say they'd like to have more amenities at the beach. Plans for a project at Vanderbilt Beach are moving forward, but not without controversy.
Collier County resident Emily Maggio knows what amenities she would like.
"Good bathrooms. Hopefully a concession stand where you can get something besides stale potato chips," said Maggio.
Collier County officials want to add that and more, but plans for a $1.2-million park facility aren't getting financial approval from county commissioners just yet.
"I would prefer to wait until after hurricane season is over, after oil is resolved, and then start making decisions of this type," said Collier County Commissioner Fred Coyle.
Tuesday, the commission voted 4 to 1 to move the conceptual plans for a restroom, concession, and viewing facility on to the Tourism Development Committee for further review.
Tourism tax dollars would pay for the 3800-square-foot building.
"I think they should build it. The money is available and it's compartmentalized so they have to spend it on beach facilities and they certainly would be an asset for tourists and the public as well," said Maggio.
While there's little argument the bathrooms need to be replaced, there are questions as to whether a concession stand and observation deck are necessary.
"I don't think the county should be in the business of competing with local entities," said Collier resident Duane Bellington.
"Is it needed right now? Can we put it off for a few years? Those are things for the TDC to consider," said Coyle.
The TDC will review the plans on June 28.
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Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon, but now he's setting his sights on a mission to mars.
Aldrin has authored the book, Mission to Mars, My Vision for Space Exploration.
He'll be signing copies of the book at Barnes & Noble - Union Square, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Also, you can meet Aldrin at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City on Saturday, May 11 at 2 p.m.


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DENVER - Denver police said Friday that ten people were arrested for scalping tickets to last Sunday's Broncos vs. Chargers game. Police said they recovered 39 tickets and $7,834 in cash.
Police said the scalpers advertised the tickets on Craigslist and met undercover officers in person. Among those arrested was Jeffrey Perreault, 40, the "main distributer of sports tickets" for Denver street ticket sellers, according to DPD.
"We'll have an additional number of officers out in an undercover capacity for [this Sunday's] game because it's such a big game," DPD spokesman John White said.
In Denver, it's illegal to sell a ticket for even one penny more than its face value.
"Any given game we have an average of seven to 10 individuals that are cited for ticket scalping," White said.
A citation could cost you up to $999 or even a year behind bars.
After tickets to the AFC Championship game between the Broncos and Patriots sold out in 13 minutes, sites like Craigslist have been teaming with people selling tickets. Police say in addition to the legal issues with scalping in Denver, counterfeit tickets are another problem.
"Some of these counterfeit tickets that we see are very, very good forgeries," White said.
Police said to help avoid getting ripped off, meet the seller in a public place, take a picture of that person and their license plate.
Even with those snapshots you still run a risk. 9Wants to Know caught a counterfeiter that goes by "Mike" on the 16th Street Mall earlier this season, and police still haven't tracked him down.
Those coveted seats at Sports Authority Field have people trying to strike a deal for tickets, too. 9News found a medical clinic offering a vasectomy for tickets, someone trying to trade airfare to Hawaii, and someone else using a new Xbox as a bargaining chip.
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Oakdale wrestlers made their presence felt at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom on Saturday, Feb. 22 as they claimed the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Championship. The Mustangs, much like they have all season, got out to a quick and dominant start and never looked back in having the most individual champions and nailing down the blue banner.
It was a rough season for head basketball coach Justin Schwitters and the varsity Oakdale Lady Mustangs. In what got off to a promising start, winning five of their first six and going 11-5 throughout the first 16 games, including winning two Valley Oak League games (0-23 previously since 2012), things took a turn for the worse and the team members found themselves on a 10-game skid heading into Tuesday's season finale on Feb. 18. During the skid, Oakdale lost three of those games by four points or less, staying competitive but unable to nail down the wins.
On Saturday, Feb. 15 all eight high schools clashed for the Valley Oak League wrestling championship in Sonora. Oakdale, much like they have over the past seven years, dominated and claimed the title once again for an eighth consecutive year.
Since beating Weston Ranch on Feb. 5, the varsity basketball boys have fallen on hard times, suffering back to back road losses to Kimball (71-49) and Lathrop (65-34). The boys looked to bounce back on Valentine's Day, Friday night, when their rivals the Sonora Wildcats came to town for Oakdale's Winter Homecoming.
The weather may have been wet and wild outside the gym at this year's Section Dual Tournament, hosted at Lincoln High School of Stockton, but the Oakdale Mustang wrestling team shined inside of it. With over 35 schools from Northern California showing up, the Oakdale Mustangs put on a clinic and took care of business to claim a Section blue banner on Feb. 8.
For the Oakdale Mustang boys basketball program, Wednesday night was full of mixed emotions. The freshman boys played physical but fell short, 44-41, to visiting Weston Ranch to kick off the trio of contests on Feb. 5. That was followed up by a lackluster performance from the Junior Varsity team, the squad losing 60-30. However, the night was salvaged with a 61-50 victory put up by the varsity boys.
Wednesday night, Oakdale wrestlers completed a perfect campaign, the squads finished the Valley Oak League schedule with a win over Sonora in both JV and Varsity. Both teams finished 7-0 and claimed the VOL Championship.
The last time East Union and Oakdale got together, the Lancers' head coach Jim Agostini referred to it as one of the hardest losses the program has experienced, as Oakdale hit a 3-point shot to force overtime and then banked in another trey to win it in the OT session.
Taking on Lathrop and Manteca this week, the Oakdale varsity basketball boys gained a split of the Valley Oak League contests, with each decided by just a few points.
Two games, two losses, each by two points.
They needed two.
Three champions and the prestigious Most Outstanding Upperweight Wrestler honor came back to Oakdale from the weekend Lloyd C. Engel Tournament in neighboring Escalon.
Securing the first Valley Oak League victory in three seasons for coach Justin Schwitters, the Oakdale varsity Lady Mustangs basketball team took down Sierra by a 42-32 victory in recent play.
A furious fourth quarter saw Oakdale get close – but not quite close enough – as visiting Tracy walked off the Mustang gym floor with a 66-58 non-league victory in hand on Friday night.
Another Sierra Nevada Classic, another title for Oakdale junior Nico Colunga.
The long awaited Oakdale High School football 2014 season is under way. After spring and summer workouts, two-a-days once practices could officially begin earlier this month, and team meetings, the Mustangs hosted a home scrimmage against the Tracy Bulldogs on Saturday, Aug. 23.
With school starting up this week, the athletic programs don't waste any time, as many of the practices for the fall campaign will start on Monday, Aug. 11. Here is a brief rundown of the teams that will be hitting the playing fields and courts this fall.
Thirty-two local sports legends – including an Oakdale icon – will be inducted into the 2014 Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Fame later this month. Representing Oakdale High School is decorated basketball coach and athletic director Norm Antinetti.
Oakdale High School varsity softball teammates Lauren Sanders and Kindra Hackbarth were named to the Calhisports.com All-State Medium/Small School Softball Team for 2014. Sanders, who graduated from OHS in May and will continue to play softball for San Diego State, was named to the first team for her ability behind the dish as she was named to the top five catchers list. Hackbarth was named to the Second Team for both her glove and cannon of an arm in the outfield. Hackbarth will be entering her junior year, was one of only two sophomores to make the list ...
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Two faculty members at Rockford College have been honored with the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is presented annually to a full-time professor and adjunct professor.
Lynn Stafford, associate professor of education, received the award for the full-time professor. Her students note her enduring commitment to teaching explaining, "She is very understanding and I feel comfortable coming to her for professional advice."
Stafford says, "I feel the greatest accomplishment has been to develop the curriculum full circle so that students meet the criteria of Illinois State Board Standards and obtain licensure. On the last content test our students received 100% passage scores and I am so proud of their accomplishments."
The adjunct award went to Raymond James, associate professor of education, visiting lecturer, and first year advisor. A nomination from one of his students reports, "Mr. James makes a conscious effort to get to know his students on a personal level, taking the time to talk with them before and after class." James states that he plans on teaching for a long time and will continue with public presentations concerning North American land surveying during the 18th and 19th centuries in various venues when the opportunity presents itself.
Nominations for the awards come from throughout the college and winners are chosen by an ad hoc selection committee. The criteria for both awards are knowledge of his/her discipline, respect for students, creative course development, advising, and campus leadership.
9/12/2014 » 10/10/2014Fables & Fairy Tales: The Paintings of Stephen Warde Anderson
9/17/2014FORUM: Constitution Day Lecture
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9/20/2014Reunion: Regent's 5K Run/Walk
8/20/2014President's Opening Convocation marks start of Academic Year
8/18/2014Former residence hall slated for demolition
8/11/2014Denise Noe named as Assistant Vice President for Institutional Advancement
8/11/2014Fall courses start Aug. 20 and there is still time to enroll
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"I had ordered these tie dyed shirts from Customink.com for our family reunion cruise and they were a hit with everyone from our family members to the cruise ship crew ! We had remarks from the crew and other passengers as to how colorful we were to quips being made by the cruise director that we wouldn't get lost on our excursions! (They did come in handy when some family members did get separated on a shopping excursion and we were able to pick them right out of the crowd! :-) I have attached a picture of us taken at the beginning of the cruise. Even the ship's photographer complimented us! Thank you!"


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The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting that plans for a large-scale hotel will be unveiled in Lake George this week. According to the newspaper, local developer Dave Kenny is hoping to build a six-story chain hotel in the resort village that...
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APA: Controversial Hotel Approved in Lake George
Oct 31, 2002 — On Wednesday (Oct. 30) the Adirondack Park Agency staff approved a permit for a new 97-room hotel in Lake George. The project has drawn criticism from pro-environment groups, who say it was given fast-track treatment because the developer is a former state official. Brian Mann reports. Go to full article
APA: Hotel Controversy in Lake George
Oct 14, 2002 — A six million dollar resort project in Lake George is sparking fierce controversy inside the Adirondack Park Agency. At a meeting Friday, commissioners agreed to fast track the permit process for a new hotel, proposed by former Park Agency chairman Bob Flacke. Agency staff describe the process as "responsive government". But one commissioner says the plan is "favoritism" for a political insider. Brian Mann has our report. Go to full article
Lake George Hotel On Fast Track: APA Favoritism?
Oct 10, 2002 — The Adirondack Park Agency meets today, to consider fast-track approval for a major new hotel on Lake George. The developer says a quick answer is necessary to save the project. But a pro-environment group claims that the Park Agency is showing favoritism to a former commissioner. Brian Mann has details. Go to full article
Fires Burn Across Region, Near Niagara Mohawk Corridor
Aug 15, 2002 — This week's heat wave - and a flurry of lightning storms - have spread forest fires across the north country. Forest rangers are battling a half-dozen blazes, from Willsboro in the east to Diana in the west. As Brian Mann reports, the latest fire is burning in Lewis County, near one of Niagara Mohawk's main power corridors: Go to full article
Hot Weather Brings Forest Fires To Eastern Adirondacks
Aug 14, 2002 — Hot, dry weather in the north country has brought a rash of forest fires to the eastern Adirondacks. New York forest rangers and crews from two state prisons are battling the blazes in rugged terrain near Lake George. Brian Mann has details: Go to full article
Milfoil in Lake Bonaparte
by Jody Tosti
Jun 13, 2002 — The Lake George Park Commission is seeking permits from the state DEC and the APA to use the herbicide Sonar to get rid of Eurasian Milfoil in Lake Gorge. But the Adk Council says the lake-choking weed is dying on it own. Bill Peters of the Lake Bonaparte Conservation Club is Jefferson County says his community faced the same problems with milfoil in their lake. Peters says they turned to using weevils to control the weed. Martha Foley reports. Go to full article
Eurasian Milfoil May be Dying Off
by Jody Tosti
Jun 12, 2002 — An environmental group says lake-choking Eurasian milfoil is mysteriously dying on its own at three of four targeted sites in Lake George. The Adirondack Council says the state should abandon its costly proposal to use an herbicide to rid lake of the weed. Acting council executive director Bernard Melewski said testimony from Department of Environmental Conservation experts showed milfoil is not spreading throughout the lake as had been feared. And he said the nuisance weed is disappearing from underwater beds that haven't been touched in years. In a press release, Melewski suggested increasing boat and dock fees to pay for herbicide application would be "overkill." But there's no agreement on the dieback, or the herbicide. Jody Tosti has more. Go to full article
Settlement Clears Way for Lake George Shoreline Development
Dec 13, 2001 — Developers in Lake George will build fifty-five new timeshare condominiums on the lakeshore. The move follows an out-of-court settlement, reached with the Lake George Association--a non-profit group that had fought to block the plan. Brian Mann has details. Go to full article
Finch Pryun Strike Talks Wind Up; No Deal in Sight
Oct 25, 2001 — Two days of talks have ended in Lake George, as Finch Pruyn and the paper mill's unions work to negotiate a new contract. After nearly five months, the unions are still on the picket line. As Brian Mann reports, both sides are offering concessions, but a deal is unlikely any time soon. Go to full article
Watermilfoil Herbicide Talks Underway in Lake George
Oct 24, 2001 — Private talks are underway over a plan to use a chemical herbicide in Lake George. The chemical--known as "sonar"--could help in the fight against Eurasian watermilfoil. Critics say it will also kill native plants that are already endangered. Brian Mann reports. Go to full article
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LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- They ran for office saying they'd serve New Albany -- but now three city council members have served the city with a lawsuit. The issue is so heated not even a local judge can decide the case.
New Albany City Council Members Kevin Zurschmiede, Robert Caesar, and City Council President Diane Benedetti are suing the city they represent. They want to have their health insurance coverage restored. As their attorney Bill Moyer puts it, "Obviously it's affected them a great deal. They're unable to obtain insurance."
In a 5-4 vote last October, the New Albany City Council eliminated the health insurance coverage option for all of its members, saying they're part-time employees. Zurschmiede, Caesar, and Benedetti are the only ones affected by the change.
They received the same coverage as full time workers, where taxpayers shoulder 90 percent of the premium.
The trio will only speak through Moyer, their attorney: "There have been three previous opinions already that says don't pass this ordinance."
The council members stand on the Indiana statute that says an elected official cannot be paid less than the prior year. They received $10,392 for their position in 2012, plus health insurance.
But New Albany Corp. Counsel Shane Gibson counters, "Their attorney is claiming that this was compensation to them. However, it's not part of their package, not part of their salary, not part of anything they were normally given or even approved in the budgetary process."
Health insurance only became an option for New Albany Council Members in 2008 after Zurschmiede, Caesar, and Benedetti helped pass a unanimous resolution granting the new benefit.
Digging deeper, WDRB found neighboring Jeffersonville and Clarksville councils do receive health insurance, while Georgetown members do not, though they have the option.
GIbson says, "Hopefully the council members will be able to contain this fight amongst themselves, look at the big picture, and keep things moving forward."
What's really at stake for the public -- according to the ordinance eliminating health insurance for those council members, it will save $80,000 over their four-year term.
A special judge in Scott County will handle the case. Both parties agreed there could be a conflict of interest in New Albany. A hearing date is pending.
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Oxford United game selected for television (From Herald Series)
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OXFORD United's trip to Cambridge United has been moved to a lunchtime kick-off after being selected for television.
Sky are screening the Sky Bet League Two game live on October 11, so it will begin at 12.15pm rather than 3pm.
It is United's first visit to the Abbey Stadium since March 2010, when the sides drew 1-1.
Cambridge are back in the Football League after nine seasons in the Conference, following a 2-1 win over Gateshead in May's play-off final.
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For an hour I battle with the helm. Unwilling to admit that I've made a mistake in ignoring the morning's forecast, I try to force the sailboat into breaking seas and keep her head to wind, but she won't respond. She heels over, spilling the wind out of her sails and making more leeway than headway. The Stinking Banks remain an obstacle that she can't surmount.
"I get the feeling that we might be spending the night out here!" hollers Amanda, her voice distorted by the wind as the boat hobbyhorses across crooked seas.
"Might be better than breaking the rig!" cries Nat.
"Or breaking ourselves," I mutter, realizing that the only sensible alternative at this point is to place the boat in a defensive attitude and wait out the gale in the mouth of Bonavista Bay.
Deteriorating Conditions
In a gale at sea, a sailor must learn how to move in concert with the forces arrayed against the boat. As the wind increases and the seas grow more chaotic, he or she must discover how to set aside personal desires and surrender to the agenda that nature has prepared, seeking a safe compromise with the conditions at hand.
Some sailboats manage best under such conditions when they're brought head to wind with a drogue or sea anchor fastened to the bow. Others ride most comfortably when they're left to lie ahull, drifting on their own in the trough of the swell with all the sails removed. And still others are best served when they're allowed to run off, powered by a tiny patch of sail to maintain steerage and dragging warps from astern, if necessary, to keep from running too fast down breaking seas and tripping over the bow.
Once I decide to stop fighting the wind, I have little doubt about which of these tactics will serve best, for Brendan's Isle can ride to a following sea better than any I've ever sailed. I ask Nat to steer downwind and put the seas on the quarter while Amanda and I rig the storm trysail. Right away, the boat stops laboring. The spray that had been driving across the bows abruptly ceases. The noise of the wind drops. The crash of waves sluicing down the decks is replaced by the hissing sound of water flowing past the taffrail. Even without warps, the boat settles into a comfortable rhythm. With almost no effort on the helm, she moves off on an easy reach, slipping down the backs of seas to make her way south and east.
Waiting Games
The next 12 hours serve as a break in the progression of the journey — a hiatus in which there's nothing else to do but hunker down and wait for the gale to moderate. Beginning with Nat, each member of the crew agrees to take an hour's trick at the helm. Off watch, I remain below, on call in case of emergency but otherwise banished to the solitude of the cabins and the safety of my own bunk. For hour after hour I lie pinned against the leeboard, serenaded by the creak of the steering cable and the rush of water along the hull and confined to the company of my own thoughts.
For a time I entertain myself with a game I'd devised during other nights at sea when the swell was just as large and the noise of the wind just as shrill. The object is to make sense of the cacophony of thumps, creaks, and groans that the boat makes as she rolls across a deep seaway. First I create a mental inventory of all the sounds, ordering them from loudest to quietest. Ten I attach an appropriate description to each sound — a cockpit scupper clearing its drain, a squeaking bulkhead where an old glue joint has failed, a glass bottle shifting position in one of the galley cupboards, a halyard slapping against the mast, a bilge pump cycling on and off. Each time that I find a satisfactory description, I remove the sound in question from the general inventory and store it away in a kind of imaginary recycle bin. In this way, I'm able to eliminate sound after sound until — in my imagination, at any rate — both the boat and the sea beyond become dead quiet.
On this particular evening, with Brendan's Isle reefed down and running off in the approach to Bonavista Bay, I'm able to find a name for every sound I hear. Now I can close my eyes, breathe deeply, and let myself drift in and out of a kind of semidream state, confident — at least until the advent of some jarring new sound — that my young shipmate at the helm has the sailboat under control.
The sound game, of course, hasn't always proven so successful. Fifteen years ago, during the first transatlantic crossing that Brendan's Isle made, the boat was new and unfamiliar to those of us who sailed her — which meant that many of the sounds she made were still difficult to decipher. A clanking noise I'd never heard before would nearly drive me crazy until I'd risen from my bunk to search it out. The sound would usually be benign, but sometimes, often right about the time I'd decided that I could ignore it, it would prove to be the signal of a crisis in the making: a broken linkage on the steering vane, perhaps, or a loose drive wheel on the refrigerator's compressor pump.
Another source of worry on some of the early passages was that the new rig and gear were still untested under extreme conditions. Twice on that first Atlantic crossing I was awakened from a deep sleep to crashing noises on deck. The first time, when we were six days out of Chesapeake Bay and on the southern edge of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, I awoke to an explosion that sounded like a cannon's report. This was followed immediately by a sudden deceleration in the boat's forward momentum and a muffled cry from the cockpit. The first thing I noticed, as I scurried up the companionway steps, was the torn head of the spinnaker flying at the masthead like the tattered banner of some defeated regiment. The rest of the sail had been shredded into several long streamers now being dragged along the hull to leeward just beneath the surface of the water.


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The Bulldogs scored early and often against the Eagles. Addison led 14-0 after the first quarter and 28-0 at the half.
Franky Melson got the scoring started for Addison (5-0, 4-0), going into the end zone on a 10-yard run. Colby Kirk scored the Bulldogs' second touchdown on an 84-yard punt return as the team build a 14-0 lead.
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Dorset man dies in balcony fall at Butlins
5:10am Monday 26th November 2012 in News
AN East Dorset man died after plunging from a sixth floor balcony at a Butlins resort in Bognor Regis on Saturday.
Timothy Wall, aged 23, fell about 60ft from the balcony of the Wave Hotel in the early hours.
Mr Wall, from St Leonards, had been drinking in the hotel's bar before the tragedy happened at 1am.
Mr Wall, who worked at Sainsbury's, was pronounced dead at the scene.
He leaves behind girlfriend, Liz Weiland, and a devastated family.
A spokesman from the resort said: "There was a very sad incident where a man fell from the sixth floor balcony of a hotel on the complex.
"Our sympathies are with his family after this shocking incident."
Mr Wall, who loved drum and bass music, was a doting uncle to his nephew, and he had also once competed in a Tough Guy race.
The death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.
Detective Inspector Jim McKnight from Sussex CID added: "At the moment we do not know what happened. But this incident is not being treated at suspicious."
A South Coast Ambulance spokesman added: "We were called to Butlins shortly before 1am to reports a man had fallen six storeys from a balcony.
"We sent three ambulances but sadly he was pronounced dead at the scene."
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1:39pm Sat 24 Nov 12
tricky1007 says...
1:50pm Sat 24 Nov 12
martindf86 says...
R.I.P Tim you'll be missed by so many
2:09pm Sat 24 Nov 12
Hickery says...
tricky1007 wrote:Firstly, my sincere condolences to the family and friends of Timothy Hall. And thoughts also for the emergency services who dealt with this terrible accident.
sorry to hear this, but why were 3 ambulances needed? Thats alot of money spent for 1 person who was injured? Or are the cut backs so bad that ambulances only have a bit of equipment on each. Also 6 storey high building on a holiday camp where people drink and drink and drink! it was gonna happen one day, my condolences go out to the family though
When a life is in danger, I'm not sure that finances come into it 'tricky2007.' Three ambulances = six emergency service staff. I suspect that the first pair of staff to arrive at the patient requested back-up to help with CPR and with moving the patient to hospital - definitely more than a two man job, one would imagine!
2:48pm Sat 24 Nov 12
mansak_hunt says...
2:52pm Sat 24 Nov 12
fizzy2011 says...
3:02pm Sat 24 Nov 12
fizzy2011 says...
mansak_hunt wrote:why do you all always assume its down to booze?? have some respect
so many brit holiday makers die falling off balconies each year, sadly nearly always down to excessive booze hope that wasn't the case here
3:06pm Sat 24 Nov 12
tricky1007 says...
3:07pm Sat 24 Nov 12
tricky1007 says...
martindf86 wrote:where have i said he had it coming/ no one deserves to die, lets hope no one was at fault
Tricky!!?? are you a parent??? if this was your son/partner/brother, would you not take comfort within the fact that the best was provided. maybe you should give the family time to grieve before you decide he had it coming..
R.I.P Tim you'll be missed by so many
3:14pm Sat 24 Nov 12
klf2012 says...
my thoughts are with your family friends and your girlfriend R.I.P Tim one of the nicest blokes i met xx
3:21pm Sat 24 Nov 12
Letcommonsenseprevail says...
fizzy2011 wrote:I would imagine that the family would have much more important things to do at this time than to waste time reading any of these comments............
tricky1007 you are so rude,can you not read that he died he didnt have a minor injury,have some respect your lucky my sister cant see this,tim was her partner she is absolutely devistated,the family dont need to be looking at your comment either, R.I.P tim my thought are with your friend,family and my sister
3:21pm Sat 24 Nov 12
Letcommonsenseprevail says...
klf2012 wrote:Yes, we must wait for all the facts...............
to many people jump to conclusions just because it said tim was in butlins! you just assume it was drink related!! you never heard of accidents happen without having a drink inside you!!!
my thoughts are with your family friends and your girlfriend R.I.P Tim one of the nicest blokes i met xx
3:26pm Sat 24 Nov 12
stalisman says...
best you go back to your abacus!
3:29pm Sat 24 Nov 12
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3:41pm Sat 24 Nov 12
mansak_hunt says...
fizzy2011 wrote:if you read my post you will see i assume nothing
mansak_hunt wrote:why do you all always assume its down to booze?? have some respect
so many brit holiday makers die falling off balconies each year, sadly nearly always down to excessive booze hope that wasn't the case here
the post mortem will reveal the facts anyway, so settle petal.
4:11pm Sat 24 Nov 12
sav_xx says...
5:14pm Sat 24 Nov 12
Capricorn 1 says...
So terribly sad.
10:51pm Sat 24 Nov 12
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charlie2004 says...
12:47am Mon 26 Nov 12
s-pb2 says...
Let family and friends make their tributes and express condolences and keep your speculations to yourselves.
3:01am Mon 26 Nov 12
portia6 says...
for the family.
7:54am Mon 26 Nov 12
pokesdown1 says...
2:27pm Mon 26 Nov 12
moonlyte says...
He was such a lovely young man, cannot believe I will not see that beautiful smile ever again.
So many people from work will miss you.
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In the bottom of the first inning, Willie Bloomquist got a single. Then he stole second base. This is because Willie Bloomquist is Tim Raines now. The Brewers had a detailed plan on how to pitch to Bloomquist, but an intern lost the index card.
Bloomquist scored on a Miguel Montero double to deep center that Nyjer Morgan couldn't haul in, giving Arizona an early 1-0 lead. Rookie Paul Goldschmidt singled to the opposite field to score Montero, who beat Corey Hart's throw even though he was running on a pair of catcher's legs.
The twist to the inning, though, is that Rickey Bloomquist was actually out on the stolen base. Or, at least, he should have been. It was a close play, so this isn't a slam on second-base umpire Jeff Kellogg, but the inning certainly would have gone quite differently if the correct call had been made.
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Climate change damage, the subject of a major Montreal 'Conference of Parties 11′ which aims to update the Kyoto Protocol from November 28-December 9, is apparent to anyone following the news.:
* The ferocity of recent Gulf Coast hurricanes was blamed by a leading British climate scientist upon a 3 degree (centigrade) rise in water temperatures.
* Frequent bleaching of Indian Ocean corals due to sea surface temperature rise is fast reaching lethal levels.
* Siberia's tundra is thawing, releasing unprecedented amounts of methane.
* Polar icecaps are melting, as are mountain glaciers across Africa.
* An estimated 37% of terrestrial species are likely to disappear due to global warming by 2050.
* Droughts and floods are intensifying.
Here in South Africa, society is slowly coming to grips with apartheid's responsibility for the world's worst relative overdose of greenhouse gases. Tragically, the post-apartheid government's neoliberal orientation has made the situation much worse.
The Kyoto Protocol aims to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions from 'developed' countries by 2012, at a level 5,2% lower than 1990 levels. That target won't be met, and most scientists agree that instead, a 60% reduction is needed to undo the severe climate damage now underway.
The 1997 Protocol came into effect in February 2005, but South Africa is not subject to emissions reduction targets at this stage. However, since we will be in future, some state officials, international financiers and local corporations – and even a few NGOs that should know better – are promoting a gimmick: Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which substitutes investments in carbon-reducing projects for genuine emissions reductions.
Critics include dozens of environmental justice networks that signed last year's 'Durban Declaration on Climate Justice' (http://www.carbontradewatch.org) against the CDM and especially trading carbon pollution rights.
Carbon trading justifies letting the US, European Union and Japan continue their emissions, in exchange for a small profit payout to dubious South African firms and municipalities for reductions in local carbonthat we should be making in any event.
For example, landfill gas (40-60% methane) that escapes from Africa's largest dump, at Bisasar Road in the Durban residential suburb of Clare Estate should be captured, cleaned and the methane burned safely and cleanly for energy. The neighbourhood's residents are Indian and African; the vast dump's location smack in the middle of a residential area typified racist urban planning under apartheid.
Instead, Durban officials aim to burn the unprocesses landfill gas on site – in the process, raising the level of gas flaring by a factor of fifteen. Moreover, the Durban plan entails keeping the dangerous dump open at least another seven years so as to make the venture profitable, even though the ruling African National Congress had promised Bisasar Road's closure in 1996 due to community opposition.
The Durban bureaucrats' goal is to sell carbon credits via the World Bank to big corporations and Northern governments. But a famous community activist, cancer-stricken Sajida Khan, appears to have frightened the World Bank off for now.
Unfortunately, South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism supports this form of carbon colonialism, which we term the 'privatisation of the air'. The government issued its National Climate Change Response Strategy in September 2004, arguing opportunistically that the 'CDM primarily presents a range of commercial opportunities, both big and small. This could be a very important source of foreign direct investment.'
Indeed, South Africa's five-fold increase in CO2 emissions since 1950 and 20% increase during the 1990s, can largely be blamed upon the attempt by state electricity company Eskom, the mining houses (led by Anglo American) and huge metals smelters (especially BHP Billiton) to brag of the world's cheapest electricity. Emitting twenty times the carbon tonnage per unit of economic output per person than even the United States, South African capital's reliance upon fossil fuels is scandalous.
Not only are vast carbon-based profits fleeing to the mining houses' offshore financial headquarters. There are very few jobs in these smelters, including the proposed $2.5 billion Coega aluminium project for which the notorious Canadian firm Alcan has been promised lucrative sweetheart deals from Eskom and other state agencies. Less than 1000 jobs will be created in the smelter, though it will consume more electricity than nearby Port Elizabeth, South Africa's fourth largest city.
Researchers at the University of Cape Town Energy for Development Research Centre confirm that South Africa is 'the most vulnerable fossil fuel exporting country in the world'; scores extremely poorly 'on the indicators for carbon emissions per capita and energy intensity'; suffers a 'high dependence on coal for primary energy'; offers 'low energy prices' which in part is responsible for 'poor energy efficiency of individual sectors'; and risks developing a 'competitive disadvantage' by virtue of 'continued high energy intensity' which in the event of energy price rises 'can increase the cost of production'.
Aside from carbon trading, the main answer to the climate question provided by South African public enterprises minister Alec Erwin is to fast-track dangerous 'Pebble Bed' nuclear technology rejected by German producers like Siemens some years ago. That reckless strategy will continue to be fought by the superb environmental advocacy NGO Earthlife Africa, which has won two important preliminary court battles against Erwin and former environment minister Valli Moosa in the past year.
(After leaving the South African cabinet in 2004, Moosa became chairperson of Eskom and also director of a local carbon trading company. He also won a tense vote to become president of the Geneva-based World Conservation Union (IUCN), where many officials are appalled by Valli's blatant conflicts of interest, especially given the body's anti-nuclear stance and Eskom's ongoing Pebble Bed investments.)
Likewise in Nigeria, powerful advocacy work by Iwerekhan community activists led the Federal High Court of Nigeria to judge gas flaring in Delta State a 'gross violation' of the right to life and dignity as promised in the Nigerian constitution (http://www.climatelaw.org/media/media/gas.flaring.suit.nov2005/ni.shell.nov05.decision.pdf). Yet the World Bank may give flaring mitigation official status as an investment in its Prototype Carbon Fund.
According to the Climate Justice Programme, the proposed investments would justify flaring that should, in a just society, be outlawed outright, because they 'contain a toxic cocktail, including dioxins and (what particulates? ) particulates, and contribute to acid rain, respiratory illnesses, cancer and premature death', problems that the Nigerian court now considers a 'gross violation' of Iwerekhan people's human rights.
The most notorious carbon trade scam is the Plantar timber plantation in Brazil, which is meant to serve as a carbon sink but which in reality is having a devastating impact upon the local communities.
Whether in Nigeria, Brazil, South Africa or elsewhere, renewable energy sources like wind, solar, wave, tidal and biomass are the only logical way forward for this century's energy system, but still get only a tiny pittance of government support.
Meantime, because of alleged 'resource constraints', Durban communities like Kennedy Road bordering Bisasar landfill – where impoverished people rely upon dump scavenging for income – are still denied basic services like electricity.
Hence there has arisen a new generation of municipal protests in South Africa, including a march by several thousand residents of shack settlements here in Durban on November 14. The week before, Durban city manager Mike Sutcliffe banned the march, showing that neoliberalism and state repression are often two sides of the same coin. The community activists marched anyway, and the police attacked them, leading to more than 40 arrests and dozens of injuries from rubber bullets. The police also used live ammunition but fortunately no one was killed (http://southafrica.indymedia.org).
South Africa has witnessed nearly 900 illegal protests over inadequate municipal water, sanitation, electricity and housing services over the past year. President Thabo Mbeki passes the buck to local government, and hasn't yet shown any commitment to redirecting resource flows, which today so illogically favour the biggest corporate consumers of fossil fuels.
While Durban's Kennedy Road activists are promised a few jobs and bursaries by the municipality and World Bank, the plan to burn the landfill's methane gas on-site could release a cocktail of new toxins into the already-poisoned air. The generator's filters would never entirely contain the aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrous oxides, volatile organic compounds, dioxins and furans.
An even more dubious carbon trade is now being marketed in South Africa by another state agency, Sasol, which produces petroleum from coal. Sasol's attempt to earn carbon credits for its new Mozambique gas pipeline is based on claims that the huge investment would not have been viable without carbon finance. That this is a blatant fib was conceded offhandedly to researchers by a leading Sasol official in August, and is the sort of incident which discredits the idea of commodifying the air through unverifiable carbon reductions.
Aside from the World Bank, the cash-rich companies that most need these deals to protect future pollution profits are the oil majors, beneficiaries of windfall profits as the price per barrel soared from $11 in 1998 to more than $70 this year.
The Bank itself even admits in a new study that these and other extractive firms' depletion of Africa's natural resources drain the national wealth by hundreds of dollars per person each year (see Bond's analysis at http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-10/04bond.cfm).
In the process, the oil fields are attracting a new generation of US troops to bases being developed in the Gulf of Guinea. According to NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General James Jones, 'The carrier battle groups of the future and the expeditionary strike groups of the future may not spend six months in the Mediterranean Sea but I'll bet they'll spend half the time down the West Coast of Africa.'
Once again, Pretoria is amplifying the worst trends, as Human Science Research Council writers John Daniel and Jessica Lutchman recently concluded of sleazy oil deals that encompass the Sudanese and Equatorial Guinean dictatorships: 'In its scramble to acquire a share of this market, the ANC government has abandoned any regard to those ethical and human rights principles which it once proclaimed would form the basis of its foreign policy.'
Those ethical principles should be urgently revisited now, since our future generations' very survival is at stake. In South Africa, the National Climate Change Conference last month failed to engage seriously with these critiques, and will be looked back on by ecological historians as a large part of the problem.
At the world scale, the Montreal conference will probably also be considered a travesty by future generations. Tragically, although Friends of the Earth International has joined the critique of carbon trading, the other giant environmental NGOs -many of which like Greenpeace appear to have been coopted by their relationships with Big Oil – believe in market solutions.
Which ones are fighting carbon trading? The small, cutting-edge groups and networks we like are the Durban Group for Climate Justice, Chesapeake Climate Action Network,The Corner House, Energy Action, Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative, FERN, Global Justice Ecology Project, the Indigenous Environment Network, Sierra Youth, Sustainable Energy & Environment Network and Transnational Institute. They will be at Montreal, lobbying and protesting the carbon trade fiasco. They need more support, including endorsement of the Durban Declaration against Carbon Trading: http://www.climatewatch.org.
If you're not near Montreal, there will be 70 local US protests against the Bush regime's recalcitrance on climate change on December 3 (http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org). If you're not part of these, and if your taxes support the World Bank and your purchases of gasoline contribute profits to the oil majors which in turn trade carbon, then you're implicitly buying into the privatization of the air, in a way that will hasten – not mitigate – global warming, and prolong the lifespan of harmful dumps and similarly destructive projects across the Third World.
Bond ([email protected]) and Dada ([email protected]) are editors of a new book, Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Civil Society (http://www.nu.ac.za/ccs/files/CCS_ENERGYSERIES_1005_COMPLETE.pdf). Dada's documentary film on Bisasar Road aired nationally in South Africa last month.


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Flatbread Tacos with Ranch Sour Cream Recipe
"These tasty flatbread tacos, made with convenient refrigerated biscuits, are ideal for serving buffet style. Set out the toppings and let everyone make their own!" -Jennifer Eggebraaten, Bothell, Washington
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 2 teaspoons ranch salad dressing mix
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1-1/2 pounds ground turkey or beef
- 1 can (15 ounces) pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 envelope taco seasoning
- 1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce
- 1 tube (16.3 ounces) large refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
- Optional toppings: sliced ripe olives and shredded lettuce and cheddar cheese
- In a small bowl, combine the sour cream, dressing mix and lemon juice; chill until serving.
- In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Add the beans, tomatoes, taco seasoning and pepper sauce; heat through.
- Meanwhile, roll out each biscuit into a 6-in. circle. In a small nonstick skillet over medium heat, cook each biscuit for 30-60 seconds on each side or until golden brown; keep warm.
- To serve, spread each flatbread with 2 tablespoons ranch sour cream; top each with 2/3 cup meat mixture. Sprinkle with toppings if desired. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Flatbread Tacos with Ranch Sour Cream in Taste of Home October/November 2009, p59
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Reviewed Mar. 9, 2014
These were great and I love the idea of making biscuits into flatbread. They were so moist! I recommend the to anyone.it was so easy and fast to put together.
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2014
Used chicken instead of beef or turkey. Turned out fabulous!!!
Reviewed Jun. 5, 2013
This recipe is easy & delicious. We liked the change of pace to the typical taco & the biscuit makes this almost like comfort food. We ate them open face with forks instead of folding.
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Quick, easy, and tasty!
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