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There are 3 tribal casinos in Alabama. They are owned by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama and operated by PCI Gaming, the Gaming Authority of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.
Poarch Band of Creek Indians
5811 Jack Springs Road
Atmore AL 36502
Phone Number: (251) 368-9136
Fax Number: (251) 368-1026
|PCI Gaming
303 Poarch Road, Atmore, AL 36502
PO Box 1027, Atmore, AL 36504
Phone: (251) 368-3085
Fax: (251) 446-9386
Creek Casino Montgomery
1801 Eddie Tullis Drive
Montgomery, Alabama 36117
(334) 273-9003
Wind Creek Casino & Hotel Wetumpka
100 River Oaks Drive
Wetumpka, Alabama 36092-3084
Wind Creek Casino & Hotel
303 Poarch Road
Atmore, Alabama 36502
08.26.2013 New Judge appointed
in Case against VictoryLand Casino
04.15.2013 Lawsuit to Stop Poarch Band Casinos
08.30.2012 Hiring to begin at Victoryland
07.11.2012 Wind Creek Wetumpka opening in 2013
08.10.2010 Victoryland closes temporarily pending court fight
03.09.2010 VictoryLand reopens after judge blocks raid
02.04.2010 Wind Creek celebrates first year
02.03.2010 VictoryLand and White Hall casinos temporarily shut down
12.07.2009 Casinos reopen in Alabama
11.03.2009 VictoryLand opens 300-room hotel
10.26.2009 Judge rules all electronic bingo gambling halls closed
04.02.2009 Sweet Home Alabama Bill – Questions and Answers
04.01.2009 Bill may legalize electronic bingo
02.21.2009 Upscale bingo set for key
07.28.2008 $260 million Wind Creek Casino and Resort is rising at Atmore
04.10.2008 Alabama sues Fed to block Indian gambling expansion
12.24.2007 Wind Creek Casino Hotel and Resort (2009)
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I was just surfing with some free time on my hands and I thought I would pull what I saw together for my fellow BTSCers.
Pouncey got stepped on by 330 pounds of Trai Essex yesterday and was out for only a short while before showing his toughness and resuming the center position with the first team O. Hmmm...Maybe Essex is not ready to relinquish the starting right guard position. Look for him to "Accidentally" cripple Ramone Foster in the near future. In the same article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10147/1061155-66.stm , Rashard Mendenhall has some interesting comments about the running game. I find them a little troubling. It seems, B.A. is still B.A.
I have often talked about Steelergurl's blog: http://www.tailgate365.com/steelers/ . I found two nice pieces at the top today (Alright, I haven't been there in a while) you should check them out. She always has a well written and thoughtful prospective. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find where to comment since she changed the format. Anyone?
Steelers.com has a quick piece (Do they ever have a long one?) about Mike Wallace http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Wallace-comfortable-in-offense/fc0cfe3e-547e-4380-845d-7f7133975aec, the subject of a lot of talk and speculation this off season. Everything I read gives me the sense that he is really taking advantage of Hines Ward's advice. So many young people today have a hard time with learning from the older guys. I think it is just another indicator of how mature this young man is. That is until I see his haircut! It just cracks me up. Originally, I thought it was helmet head, but now I'm beginning to realize he doesn't own a mirror.
Big Ben finally get some good press from an ex-girlfriend: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10147/1061101-66.stm . I had never heard of their relationship, and I have to ask: What was he thinking? She is the perfect girl for our franchise quarterback. She is attractive, and an athlete in a sport he likes to play. What more could he ask for? I mean, with her he wouldn't have to sneak out to the golf course. And, She has respectable written all over her. I say it's time for Ben to explore a reconciliation.
Non Steelers football related news:
It appears that Jared Allen has, gasp, cut his mullet for his wedding: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/nfl/05/26/vikings.allen.ap/index.html . Included in the article are a couple of priceless quotes about that most impressive of hair styles. Now, don't get me wrong, I had a mullet for a while in college (It did me right too. One of the prettiest girls I ever dated introduced herself by walking up behind me and running her hand through it), but I never considered keeping it and never considered it a life style.
Jeremy Shockey was taken to the hospital with "cesure-like symptoms": http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8185ab2b&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true . I hope he is all right. That guy just can't stay healthy.
Philip Merling, a defensive end for the Dolphins has been charged with battery of a pregnant woman (Boo-hiss): http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8185910a&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true . There isn't much information there so we will have to wait and see. The reason this caught my eye was the pregnancy aspect, as I'm sure it influenced the media to report it, because, you may be able to get away with a lot of things in this world, but harming a pregnant woman seems to still hold some serious negative consequences. If he is convicted or pleads, does the NFL go harder on him?
This little article caught my eye: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/report%3A-pregnant-exotic-dancer-suing-nfl-star . Not because of it's connection with Albert, but because of the use of the word "Exotic". What happened to calling a stripper a stripper? I worked, once upon a time, as a bartender in a strip club in Miami, and I can tell you there is nothing "Exotic" about them. More like crazy. How did we get so PC sensitive as to worry whether not a stripper would get upset by using her rightful title? By the way, you know how black people can make fun of blacks, or Jewish people can tell Jewish jokes? You guessed it, I can make fun of strippers because one of my sisters was one. And, yes, she is bats**t crazy.
Was that too much? More than you wanted to know. Is it time for me to go? Okay.
Stay sane BTSC nation.
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Valdosta State head coach David Dean has been named the Division II coach of the year by American Football Coaches Association.
Dean earned the award after leading Valdosta State to a third DII national championship and his second as the Blazers head coach.
It is second national coach of the year award for David Dean.
David Dean is 54-17 in six seasons at Valdosta State.
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It may be September, but Francisca Roel is already 20 percent done with her Christmas shopping.
"I shop all yearlong. When I see the right thing for the right person, I just put it away," said Roel of Montreal.
She says she'll be opening up her wallet this year just as much as any other year.
St. Michael's College business professor Robert Letovsky says Roel is unusual because economists predict most people will be spending less. Letovsky says there are a number of factors making this holiday season a perfect storm, starting with a 14 percent unemployment rate, that includes many people who have given up looking for work.
"Any person who someone knows who's given up looking for work, that's a living, breathing warning to be careful with spending this Christmas," Letovsky said.
Letovsky also points to largely stagnant wages and a payroll tax change that hit worker's paychecks by 2 percent this year. It all adds up to less disposable income.
Reporter Gina Bullard: What's your plan?
Hannah Harrington/Burlington: I'm going to try to make a lot of gifts, spend some money on materials.
Letovsky says beyond the concrete there are a lot of questions that will cause people not to spend, like health care reform and changes to college loan programs. He says consumer confidence is shaky and people don't want to take on more debt given budget debates in Washington over the deficit and spending.
"People realize to get the problems under control you have two ways to get that done: cutting services or increasing taxes. People look ahead and they're saying this could impact me," Letovsky said.
Maureen Short disagrees. She says sales are up at her business, Wear it Well Jewelry in Burlington. And she expects the trend to continue into the holiday season.
"People are over all their worries about the recession and how it was going to unfold," Short said. "It's been five years now, so I find people are more willing to part with their money."
Whether you are planning to spend or save this holiday season, you'll have to decide soon. Last year, shoppers had 31 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year, they only have 25.
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|It often intrigues me how time changes what one takes for granted.
Sourcing what I refer to as "high quality foods" is an enjoyable preoccupation for me and what the "land" has to offer can be amazing.
What I thought as an inexhaustible supply in recent years has become somewhat exhausted. Two of my favorite patches southeast and southwest of Grande Prairie have been sprayed with broadleaf herbicide by the local forestry companies to eliminate willow and poplar competition in coniferous stands...too bad for me and my furry friends...I would not of thought...
I'm always interested when someone mentions fruit/berry picking and I heard that there was a cherry orchard on the north side of the Peace River near Berwyn, Alberta. So I decided to pay a visit.
Was I impressed...I had been conditioned, as a northerner, that you drive south for cherries...a long ways south...to the Okanagan valley of British Columbia. This far north, well maintained orchard had five or six cultivars of hardy cherries and they were loaded...I would not of thought...
This photo is from a Cupid cherry bush...so we picked 33lbs, travelled home, and over the next two days pitted and stored them in the freezer...a wonderful experience in high quality food procurement.
This time of year we reap the rewards of our labor:
And I must say that the cherries are excellent in every way...as good as the wild blueberries...I would not of thought...
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|That is sad about the blueberries being destroyed.
And interesting that there is a cherry orchard so far north.
My Carmine Jewel is still small.
My neighbour has two cherry trees which were just loaded this year.
I'm really looking forward to my collection of ten cherry bushes coming into production! I just wish there was a good blueberry patch nearby and that the commercially available mid and highbush varieties were fully hardy, to which I've given up on them.
- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 22:11
|Dang! I just broke my fork trying to get at those pies.
|Is that a custard topping on the pies in the last picture?
Looks yummy!
|Oh my gosh, yum, yum, and yum.
now I want pie
- Posted by rosecavalier 3 AB (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 9:15
|Caroline: Yes, that is a long ways north to have a large cherry orchard, and a real testament to the Stuart family's persistence to get it established...a Herculean task...I'm sure it took a decade of TLC. And, of course, I'm grateful to the fertile mind(s) that developed the hardy cherry cultivars in the first place..that likely took two decades of TLC or more...would you or some of our readers know what individuals were involved in this breeding program?
Terrance: Ten cherry trees...that will yield a lot of fruit...have you tried to get them established before? My son-in-law has had 2 Evans trees die back to the ground and has given up...to me, it looked like they were not hardening off before winter...perhaps because of excess nitrogen...they were planted on an old barnyard site.
Konrad: In the photo below you will see the brand of pitter I use...recommended and sold by the Stuarts (orchardist)...and you are absolutely correct on the pitter not working so well on the smaller cherries.
Because of the heavy crop, I had the wasteful luxury of picking the large cherries. In the photo you can see the transparent pit catch compartment at the bottom...instead of disposing of the pits, I stewed them for 15 minutes and made pancake syrup...I mix that with wild chokecherry syrup...mmm..mmm.
The photos of your fruit and subsequent pie are exquisite...maybe we should have a pie cook-off! Are the yellow plums the same as Mirabellan plums? How do you get your grapes to ripen?
- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 12 at 14:55
|Thank you Rose, ...I had the same or similar pitter some years ago from Bosch Kitchen Center but returned it because of the odd misses. Now we use single pitter, there you can physically feel the pit in your hand,..just because it's safer on your teeth.
The yellow sprouts sunshine is larger, needs pollination, super hardy, probably you can grow them too. The Mirabelle is a European and self fruitful, [needs shelter, not that hardy] super sweet, needs a longer season, did well this year and last, picked around mid Oct, same with grape.
North,..custard topping is made from 4 eggs, mixed with some milk, wife adopt it from my Mom's recipe.
I put a little Cupid in this year...will see how they compare to Evans.
Here a Evans and Sprout's Sunshine Plum
|I think this thread should come with the warning that it is NOT to be viewed while on an empty stomach!
rosecavalier, I no longer grow 'Evans', my trees had previously grown wonderfully to about 10 ft, then were killed nearly outright by a very hard spring frost while breaking dormancy. My aunt's large thriving trees have gone into steep decline and will soon perish.
My U of S collection appears to be about a year behind the bushes shown above. There was a few cherries this year that I have to say were rather very good.
- Posted by konrad___far_north 3..just outside of E (My Page) on Mon, Nov 12, 12 at 19:11
|LOL CLBlakey & Terry
I have lots of Evans...perhaps we can trade, can you spare some waterlilies?..I only have one left, [white] in the pond which survived the last winter, I know,..suppose to take them out in the fall, hopefully when the root cellar is complete next year I'll be more attentive.
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J'Covan Brown signed his LOI today to play for Rick Barnes.
J'Covan Brown, the guard from Port Arthur Memorial who committed last fall to play for Texas coach Rick Barnes, finally signed Monday, according to his father, Johnny Ray.
Johnny Ray Brown said the national letter of intent binding J'Covan to Texas was sent to Austin by Federal Express, not by fax. Johnny Ray Brown said he and J'Covan provided the required signatures on the letter.


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Awards for blood donors who have helped nearly 8,000 patients (From Darlington and Stockton Times)
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Crystal awards for six County Durham blood donors reaching their 75th donations
Updated 4:13pm Monday 10th February 2014 in News By Helen Russell, Reporter (Wear Valley)
BLOOD donors who may have saved or improved nearly 8,000 lives have been rewarded for rolling up their sleeves.
Six donors from County Durham were presented with crystal awards from NHS Blood and Transplant for reaching their 75th blood donation.
Every donation saves or improves the lives of up to three people, meaning the donors have helped up to 7,950 casualties between them.
Those receiving awards were: Steven Hunter, from Darlington, Ruth Hawken, from Hurworth, Eric Wilson, from Bishop Auckland, June Kneller, from Middleton in Teesdale, Brian Lyall, from Darlington, and Peter Sowerby, from Darlington.
Donna Batty, Lead Donor Relations Manager at NHS Blood and Transplant, thanked them for their commitment and dedication.
She said: "They are an inspiration to us all and we hope that others will follow in their footsteps to save and improve the lives of many people.
"We always need new donors. The more people who register and donate, the easier it is for us to collect the blood the NHS needs."
Donors must be aged between 17 and 65, weighing more than 7st 12lbs (50kg) and in general good health.
For information, or to book an appointment, call 0300-123-2323 or visit blood.co.uk.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton on Environment
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Sen. CANTWELL. I reintroduce today the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007. This legislation has won the unanimous approval of the Senate several times, but unfortunately has not yet reached the finish line.
There is no doubt, animal fighting is terribly cruel. Dogs and roosters are drugged to make them hyper-aggressive and forced to keep fighting even after suffering severe injuries such as punctured eyes and pierced lungs. It's all done for "entertainment" and illegal gambling. Some dogfighters steal pets to use as bait for training their dogs, while others allow trained fighting dogs to roam neighborhoods and endanger the public.
The Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act will strengthen current law by making the interstate transport of animals for the purpose of fighting a felony and increase the punishment to three years of jail time. This is necessary because the current misdemeanor penalty has proven ineffective--considered a "cost of doing business" by those in the animal fighting industry which continues unabated nationwide.
These enterprises depend on interstate commerce, as evidenced by the animal fighting magazines that advertise and promote them. Our bill also makes it a felony to move cockfighting implements in interstate or foreign commerce. These are razor-sharp knives known as "slashers" and ice pick-like gaffs designed exclusively for cockfights and attached to the birds' legs for fighting.
This is long overdue legislation. It's time to get this felony animal fighting language enacted. It's time for Congress to strengthen the federal law so that it can provide as a meaningful deterrent against animal fighting. Our legislation does not expand the federal government's reach into a new area, but simply aims to make current law more effective. It is explicitly limited to interstate and foreign commerce, so it protects states' rights in the two states where cockfighting is still allowed.
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MA-5:Ed Markey(D,to Senate)
MO-8:Jo Ann Emerson(R,resigned)
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MJD's comments on Jags' QB situation not helping anyone
Jaguars RB Maurice Jones-Drew's loyalty toward incumbent starting QB David Garrard isn't helping anyone — including Garrard.
Impact on Jaguars minimal if free-agency rules revert back to 2009
The impact of free-agency rules reverting back to 2009, meaning four- and five-year veterans are unrestricted, should have a minimal impact on the Jaguars.
Readers think Jaguars most likely to move to L.A.
Readers believe that the Jaguars will be leaving Jacksonville and heading to the West Coast after responding to the poll question, "Which NFL franchise is most likely to move to Los Angeles."
AFC South best bets to break through in 2011
PFW identifies four players from the AFC South who are ready for coming-out parties in 2011 (clockwise from left) — Connor Barwin, Donald Brown, Jared Cook and Mike Thomas.
Jaguars' Lewis happy with life - just not with franchise tag
Coming off his best season, Jaguars TE Marcedes Lewis tells PFW he is happy and content even though his job and the big payday that he deserves are on hold because of the lockout.
AEG CEO talks to five teams about move to L.A.
Tim Leiweke, CEO of the group trying to build a stadium in downtown Los Angeles, has spoken with representatives of the Vikings, Chargers, Raiders, Rams and Jaguars about the proposed venue.
DT Knighton's weight a concern for Jaguars during lockout
With the Jaguars' coaching staff unable to contact any of its players during the lockout, we hear it has to be concerned about the weight of DT Terrance Knighton.
Lockout opening new doors for MLB Morrison
Unrestricted free-agent LB Kirk Morrison is not letting the lockout get him down.
Wilford pleads no contest to charge of resisting arrest
Former Jaguars TE Ernest Wilford pled no contest in a Jacksonville court on Friday to charges of resisting arrest during an incident at a local bar in January.
Jaguars could target Chargers S Weddle in free agency
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Forsett had 19 carries for 65 yards in a 20-3 loss at St. Louis on Sunday.||||||| Forsett is getting most of the carries for the Seahawks, but with Seattle's offense struggling, he still hasn't found the end zone this year. He's unplayable in Week 5 anyway, with the Seahawks on bye.
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Hmmm, lemme check my wayback machine. Nope, not quite squaring up. Via HuffPo.
Reason #18 why Mitt is completely out of touch with 95% of the American public.
Mitt "The human flapjack" Romney's campaign is based on unabashed lies, frequent flip-flops, and blatant pandering that he believes will help him to get nominated … strategically planning to hit his reset buttonduring the general election.
However, Romney's team appears to unaware of YouTube --the online repository of instantly accessible video clips, providing evidence of the previous policy positions of Mitt v.1, Mitt v.2, Mitt v.3, etc.
Is that from 2008, with John McCain standing by looking uncomfortable like he always does?
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Gotta hope the Lions pass on him. Which they probably will for a DE and then gotta worry about Miami taking him too. We'll see how FA pans out but I'm not too concerned if we don't get him. Banks can be just as good.
If he doesn't fall I'm really not sweating it. There seems to be better value in the 2nd. Plus we could use help in the trenches on both sides.
Getting a stud DT with a good bull rush will FORCE offenses to double team him, leaving McCoy singled. That in turn allows our DE's to get more sacks off the edge. W/o that push up the middle, opposing QBs easily step up to escape our rushing DE's. When the QB can't step up into his pocket to escape our DE's, he's got a major problem... Getting a 'stud' CB only improves us marginally, as he can only cover ONE receiver. Getting a stud DT improves our whole defense. Would rather see us take CBs in the 2nd and/or 3rd, even the 4th.


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A Mega-Dam Dilemma in the Amazon
A huge dam on Peru's Inambari River will bring much-
needed development to the region. But at what cost?
By Clay Risen
Photographs by Ivan Kashinsky
Smithsonian magazine
March 2011
The town of Puerto Maldonado lies about 600 miles east
of Lima, Peru, but locals call it the Wild West. Gold-
buying offices line its main avenues. Bars fill the side
streets, offering beer and cheap lomo saltado-stir-fried
meat and vegetables served with rice and French fries.
Miners and farmers motorbike into the sprawling central
market to stock up on T-shirts and dried alpaca meat.
Garbage and stray dogs fill the alleyways. There's a
pioneer cemetery on the edge of town, where its first
residents are buried.
And Puerto Maldonado is booming. Officially, it has a
population of 25,000, but no one can keep up with the
new arrivals-hundreds each month, mostly from the Andean
highlands. Residents say the town has doubled in size
over the past decade. There are only a few paved roads,
but asphalt crews are laying down new ones every day.
Two- and three-story buildings are going up on every
Puerto Maldonado is the capital of Peru's Madre de Dios
region (similar to an American state), which abuts
Bolivia and Brazil. The area is almost all rain forest
and until recent decades was one of South America's
least populated and most inaccessible areas. But today
it is a critical part of Latin America's economic
revolution. Poverty rates are dropping, consumer demand
is rising and infrastructure development is on a tear.
One of the biggest projects, the $2 billion Inter-
oceanic Highway, is nearly complete-and runs straight
through Puerto Maldonado. Once open, the highway is
expected to see 400 trucks a day carrying goods from
Brazil to Peruvian ports.
Later this year a consortium of Brazilian construction
and energy companies plans to start building a $4
billion hydroelectric dam on the Inambari River, which
starts in the Andes and empties into the Madre de Dios
River near Puerto Maldonado. When the dam is completed,
in four to five years, its 2,000 megawatts of installed
capacity-a touch below that of the Hoover Dam-will make
it the largest hydroelectric facility in Peru and the
fifth-largest in all of South America.
The Inambari dam, pending environmental impact studies,
will be built under an agreement signed last summer in
Manaus, Brazil, by Peruvian President Alan García and
Brazil's then-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In a
joint statement released afterward, the pair praised the
deal as "an instrument of great strategic interest to
both countries." At first, most of the dam's electricity
will go to Brazil, which desperately needs power to feed
its economic expansion-a projected 7.6 percent in 2011,
the fastest in nearly two decades. Over 30 years, the
bulk of the electricity will gradually go to Peru to
meet its own growing power demands. "The reality is,
every year we need more and more energy," says Antonio
Brack Egg, Peru's environmental minister. "We need
But the dam will also change the Inambari's ecosystem,
already damaged by decades of logging and mining. The
river level will drop, and whatever water is released
will lack the nutrient-rich sediment on which the
lowland wildlife-and, by extension, the Madre de Dios
region-depends. Meanwhile, the 155-square-mile reservoir
created behind the dam will displace about 4,000 people
in at least 60 villages. And this dam is just one of
dozens being planned or built in what has been called a
"blue gold rush," an infrastructure spree that is
transforming the South American interior.
Development of the Amazon basin, managed correctly,
could be a boon for the continent, lifting millions out
of poverty and eventually bringing stability to a part
of the world that has known too little of it. But in the
short term it is creating new social and political
tensions. How Peru balances its priorities-economic
growth versus social harmony and environmental
protection-will determine whether it joins the ranks of
middle-class countries or is left with entrenched
poverty and denuded landscapes.
Madre de Dios claims to be the biodiversity capital of
the world. Fittingly, Puerto Maldonado boasts a Monument
to Biodiversity. It is a tower that looms over the
middle of a wide traffic circle near the center of town,
with a base ringed with broad concrete buttresses,
mimicking a rain forest tree. Between the buttresses are
bas-relief sculptures of the region's main activities,
past and present: subsistence agriculture; rubber,
timber and Brazil-nut harvesting; and gold mining-oddly
human pursuits to detail on a monument to wildlife.
I was in Puerto Maldonado to meet up with an old friend,
Nathan Lujan, who was leading a team of researchers
along the Inambari River. After getting his PhD in
biology from Auburn University in Alabama, Nathan, 34,
landed at Texas A&M as a postdoctoral researcher. But he
spends months at a time on rivers like the Inambari. For
the better part of the past decade he's been looking for
catfish-specifically, the suckermouthed armored catfish,
or Loricariidae, the largest family of catfish on the
planet. Despite their numbers, many Loricariidae species
are threatened by development, and on this trip, Nathan
was planning to catalog as many as possible before the
Inambari dam is built.
The river Nathan showed me was hardly pristine. It
serves many purposes-transportation, waste removal, a
source of food and water. Garbage dots its banks, and
raw sewage pours in from riverfront villages. Much of
Puerto Maldonado's growth (and, though officials are
loath to admit it, a decent share of Peru's as well) has
come from the unchecked, often illegal exploitation of
natural resources.
Antonio Rodriguez, who came to the area from the
mountain city of Cuzco in the mid-1990s in search of
work as a lumberjack, summed up the prevailing attitude:
"We are colonists," he told me when I met him in the
relatively new village of Sarayacu, which overlooks the
Inambari. Thousands of men like Rodriguez made quick
work of the surrounding forests. Mahogany trees that
once lined the river are gone, and all we could see for
miles was scrub brush and secondary growth. Thanks to
the resulting erosion, the river is a waxy brown and
gray. "These days only a few people are still interested
in lumber," he said. The rest have moved on to the next
bonanza: gold. "Now it's all mining."
Indeed, with world prices up by some 300 percent over
the past decade, gold is a particularly lucrative
export. Peru is the world's sixth-largest gold producer,
and while much of it comes from Andean mines, a growing
portion-by some estimates, 16 to 20 of the 182 tons that
Peru exports annually-comes from illegal or quasi-legal
mining along the banks of Madre de Dios' rivers. Small-
scale, so-called artisanal mining is a big business in
the region; during our five-day boat trip along the
river, we were rarely out of sight of a front-end loader
digging into the bank in search of deposits of alluvial
Less visible were the tons of mercury that miners use to
separate out the gold and that eventually end up in the
rivers. Waterborne microorganisms metabolize the element
into methylmercury, which is highly toxic and easily
enters the food chain. In perhaps the most notorious
instance of methylmercury poisoning, more than 2,000
people near Minamata, Japan, developed neurological
disorders in the mid- 1950s and `60s after eating fish
contaminated by runoff from a local chemical plant. In
that case, 27 tons of mercury compounds had been
released over 35 years. The Peruvian government
estimates that 30 to 40 tons are dumped into the
country's Amazonian rivers each year.
A 2009 study by Luis Fernandez of the Carnegie
Institution for Science and Victor Gonzalez of Ecuador's
Universidad Técnica de Machala found that three of the
most widely consumed fish in the region's rivers
contained more mercury than the World Health
Organization deems acceptable-and that one species of
catfish had more than double that. There are no reliable
studies on mercury levels in the local residents, but
their diet relies heavily on fish, and the human body
absorbs about 95 percent of fish-borne mercury. Given
the amounts of mercury in the rivers, Madre de Dios
could be facing a public health disaster.
But Peru is eager to move beyond artisanal gold mining
and its hazards. Over the past few decades the country
has adopted a number of strict mining laws, including an
embargo on issuing new artisanal-mining permits. And in
May 2008 President García named Brack, a respected
biologist, to be Peru's first minister of the
At 70, Brack has the white hair and the carefully
trimmed beard of an academic, though he has spent most
of his career working in Peru's Agriculture Ministry. He
speaks rapid, near-perfect English and checks his
BlackBerry often. When I caught up with him last fall in
New York City, where he attended a meeting at the United
Nations, I told him I had recently returned from the
Inambari. "Did you try any fish?" he asked. "It's good
to have a little mercury in your blood."
Under Brack, the ministry has rewritten sections of the
Peruvian penal code to make it easier to prosecute
polluters, and it has won significant budget increases.
Brack has placed more than 200,000 square miles of rain
forest under protection, and he has set a goal of zero
deforestation by 2021. Thanks in part to him, Peru is
the only Latin American country to sign the Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative, an effort led by
former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to make the
mining industry more accountable to public and
government scrutiny.
Brack has also taken over enforcement of artisanal-
mining laws from the Ministry of Energy and Mining.
"There are now 20 people in jail" for breaking Peru's
environmental laws, he said. A few days before our
meeting, police had raided a series of mines in Madre de
Dios and made 21 arrests. He told me he wants to deploy
the army to protect the country's nature preserves.
But Brack acknowledged that it is difficult to enforce
laws created in Lima, by coastal politicians, in a
remote part of the country suffering from gold fever.
Last April thousands of members of the National
Federation of Independent Miners blocked the Pan-
American Highway to protest a plan to tighten
regulations on artisanal miners; the demonstration
turned violent and five people were killed. Brack said
several police officers involved in anti-mining raids
had received death threats, and the Independent Miners
has demanded that he be sacked. "I have a lot of enemies
in Madre de Dios," he said.
Unlike the leftist governments of Ecuador and Venezuela,
Peru and Brazil have been led, of late, by pragmatic
centrists who see good fiscal management and rapid
internal development as the key to long-term prosperity.
By aggressively exploiting its resources, Brazil has
created a relatively stable society anchored by a strong
and growing middle class. Dilma Rousseff, Lula's
handpicked successor as president, says she will
continue her mentor's policies.
Lula reduced Brazil's poverty rate from 26.7 percent in
2002, when he entered office, to 15.3 percent in 2009-
accounting for some 20 million people. Peru has done
almost as well: it has reduced its poverty rate from 50
percent to 35 percent, a difference of about four
million people. But farming and resource extraction
require lots of land and energy, which is why Brazil is
expected to need 50 percent more electricity in the next
decade, and Peru at least 40 percent more. In the short
term, both countries will have to keep pushing deeper
into the Amazon to generate electricity.
Meanwhile, they are under pressure from trading partners
and finance organizations such as the World Bank to
manage their growth with less environmental damage.
Brazil has a bad reputation for its decades of rain
forest destruction; it has little interest in becoming
known as a polluter, too. With the world's focus on
limiting fossil-fuel consumption, hydropower has become
the easy answer.
Until recently, Brazil had focused its hydropower
construction within its own borders. But a hydropower
facility works best near a drop in elevation; gravity
pushes water through its turbines more quickly,
generating more electricity-and Brazil is almost
completely flat. Which is why, over the past decade,
Brazil has underwritten mega-dams in Bolivia, Paraguay
and Peru.
In 2006, Brazil and Peru began negotiating an agreement
to construct at least five dams throughout Peru, most of
which would sell power to Brazil to feed the growth in
its southwestern states. Those negotiations produced the
deal that García and Lula signed last summer.
Although Peru relies primarily on fossil fuels for its
energy, Peruvian engineers have been talking about a dam
along the Inambari since the 1970s. The momentum of the
rivers coming down from the Andes pushes an enormous
volume of water through a narrow ravine-the perfect
place to build a hydropower plant. The problem was
simply a lack of demand. The region's recent growth took
care of that.
But there are risks. By flooding 155 square miles of
land, the proposed dam will wipe out a big chunk of
carbon-dioxide-absorbing forest. And unless that forest
is thoroughly cleared beforehand, the decay of the
submerged tree roots will result in massive releases of
methane and CO2. Scientists are still divided over how
to quantify these side effects, but most acknowledge
that hydropower is not as eco-friendly as it might
appear. "It's not by definition cleaner," says Foster
Brown, an environmental geochemist and expert on the
southwestern Amazon at the Federal University of Acre,
in Brazil. "You cannot just say it's therefore a better
What's more, the dam may kill much of the aquatic life
below it. On my trip along the river with Nathan, he
explained that freshwater fish are particularly
sensitive to variations in water and sediment flow; they
do most of their eating and reproducing during the dry
season, but they need the high water levels of the rainy
season to have room to grow. The dam, he said, will
upset that rhythm, releasing water whenever it runs
high, which could mean every day, every week or not for
years. "Shifting the river's flow regime from annual to
daily ebbs and flows will likely eliminate all but the
most tolerant and weedy of aquatic species," Nathan
And the released water may even be toxic for fish. Most
dams release water from the bottom of the reservoir,
where, under intense pressure, nitrogen has dissolved
into it. Once the water heads downriver, however, the
nitrogen starts to slowly bubble out. If fish breathe it
in the meantime, the trapped gases can be deadly. "It's
the same as getting the bends," said Dean Jacobsen, an
ecologist on Nathan's team.
Others point out that if the fish are full of mercury,
the local people may be better off avoiding them. In the
long run, a stronger economy will provide new jobs and
more money, with which locals can buy food trucked in
from elsewhere. But such changes come slowly. In the
meantime, the people may face massive economic and
social displacement. "Locally, it means that people
won't have enough to eat," said Don Taphorn, a biologist
on the team. As he spoke, some fishermen were unloading
dozens of enormous fish, some weighing 60 pounds or
more. "If this guy didn't find fish, he can't sell them,
and he's out of a job."
Brack, however, says the benefits of the dam-more
electricity, more jobs and more trade with Brazil-will
outweigh the costs and in any case will reduce the
burning of fossil fuels. "All the environmentalists are
crying out that we need to substitute fossil-fuel energy
with renewable energy," he said, "but when we construct
hydroelectric facilities, they say no."
A demonstration against Brazil's proposed Belo Monte dam
in March 2010 brought worldwide attention thanks to the
film director James Cameron, who went to Brazil to
dramatize comparisons between the Amazon and the world
depicted in his blockbuster Avatar. In Peru, Inambari
dam critics are now accusing the government of selling
out the country's resources and violating indigenous
people's rights. Last March in Puno province, where most
of the reservoir created by the dam will sit, 600 people
turned out near the dam site, blocking roads and
shutting down businesses.
Nevertheless, development of the interior has become a
sort of state religion, and political candidates compete
to see who can promise the most public works and new
jobs. Billboards along the Interoceanic Highway, which
will soon link Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific
coast, some 3,400 miles, display side-by-side
photographs of the road pre- and post-asphalt and bear
captions like "Before: Uncertainty; After: The Future."
President García has spoken forcefully against
indigenous and environmental groups that oppose projects
like the Inambari dam. "There are many unused resources
that cannot be traded, that do not receive investment
and do not create jobs," he wrote in a controversial
2007 op-ed in El Comercio, a Lima newspaper. "And all
this because of the taboo of past ideologies, idleness,
laziness or the law of the dog in the manger that says,
`If I do not do it, then let no one do it' "-a reference
to a Greek fable about a hound that refuses to let an ox
eat a bale of hay, even though the dog can't eat it
Last June, García vetoed a bill that would have given
local tribes a say in oil and gas projects on their
territory. He told reporters he would not give local
people veto power over national resources. Peru, he
said, "is for all Peruvians."
Even in the Peruvian Amazon, the dam enjoys wide
support. A poll of local business leaders in the Puno
region found that 61 percent were in favor of it.
On my fourth day on the Inambari, I met Albino Mosquipa
Sales, the manager of a hotel in the town of Mazuco,
just downriver from the dam site. "On the whole it is a
good thing," he said of the dam. "It will bring economic
benefits like jobs and commerce," plus a new hospital
promised by the state electrical company. Mosquipa's
caveats were mostly procedural: Lima should have
consulted with local populations more, he said, and the
regional government should have pushed harder for
concessions from the dam builders. It was a line of
complaint I heard often. People questioned whether the
electricity should go to Brazil, but not whether the dam
should be built.
Eventually I made it to Puente Inambari, a postage-
stamp-size village of perhaps 50 buildings that will be
destroyed when the dam is built. I had expected to find
anger. What I found was enthusiasm.
Graciela Uscamaita, a young woman in a yellow long-
sleeved shirt, was sitting in a doorstep by the side of
the road. Her four young boys played beside her. Like
virtually everyone I had met on the trip, she had the
dark skin and prominent cheekbones of an Andean
highlander. And, like the other local residents I talked
to, she was happy about the hospital and the new houses
the government has offered to build them farther uphill.
In the meantime, there was the possibility of getting a
job on a construction crew. "It will be better for us,"
she said. "It will bring work."
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What's your favorite quote?The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them "grown up". The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world.
The creative adult is in essence simply that, a child.- Ursula K. Le Guin
the child who survived . free quotable poster
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Love it!!! Thank you. :) What a fun quote!ReplyDelete
I'd love you to link this up to my Monday Mantras Inspirational Linkup - such a cool quote :)ReplyDelete
My favourite quote is by Mahatma Ghandi, although I have been told it is now too common.ReplyDelete
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It's only common because it resonates with so many people. It's a wonderful quote! :DDelete
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies (please, notice the new url for my blog), under the Page 4 post on Jul. 29, 2012. Thanks again.ReplyDeleteReplies
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That's good stuff...so many kids are told they can't do what their heart desires...what their dreams and hopes are...So thankful for those children that survived.ReplyDelete
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Aubrey, I've seen it both ways, though it looks like it might be 'Le Guin.' The site I originally found it on spelled it 'LeGuin.' Either way, I don't think it'll prevent anybody from finding the proper author, but I'll try to remember to double-check and then change it next time I'm on Photoshop. :DDelete
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Thanks so much! I've been using stock images from photographers, but beginning this Saturday (08.11.12), I'll be using my own photos!Delete
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#digcult09 a few amusing stories of sociotechnical problems (I think!)
Posted on June 6, 2009 by Ben Light
Just finished up the digital cultures workshop for this year – some really great people and talks! I wanted to share a few of the stories I mentioned at the beginning of the workshop – my attempt at showing how … Continue reading →
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Original Title: Zona Sur
Directors: Juan Carlos Valdivia
Spanish, Aymara with subtitles
108 min. min
World Cinema
Cinema of the Americas
Brimming with visual splendor, engrossing performances, and Juan Carlos Valdivia's (American Visa) virtuoso direction, Southern District plants itself in the opulent mansion of a wealthy Bolivian family, steadily observing the rhythms of their excessively extravagant lives. They are not villains, but their careless hedonism and misguided sense of racial and social superiority lead them into deep waters when their money begins to dry up.
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Seong-Won Lee, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, "Throttling-Based Resource Management in High Performance Multithreaded Architectures," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 1142-1152, September, 2006.
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Joker says its wide open for starting quarterback next year.
Seems we'll get the suspense of who's going to be our quarterback again next season. Although all the competitors are on campus and two have started multiple games, we are still unsure who's the best.
If things go by the years old script, we will be uncertain until at least the week before the first game. That way we don't have anyone taking too many snaps, arm's getting tired, etc. I guess having some one comfortable at the positon, getting timing down on routes, and letting someone believe they have a leader at the position isn't as important as it was years ago,
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In possibly the most tasteless beauty news on the planet, I read a report on TMZ which stated that:
"An online survey is circulating by the folks over at Harris Interactive. The survey -- which we've learned was commissioned by Revlon -- features a Covergirl commercial for mascara. It then questions people if they are aware of the person in the commercial (without saying Rihanna's name), if they've heard about her in the news lately, if they have an opinion about the person and if they feel the person is "an appropriate spokesperson" for the product. The obvious implication here -- are women pissed off that Rihanna got back with Chris Brown and therefore would be less likely to buy Covergirl products? That's what we're thinking."
This has got to be possibly the sneakiest, most underhanded marketing strategy around at this moment. Regardless of how stupid I think Rihanna is, this study has to be the most insensitive, vile thing I have heard of in a long time. I do agree with others in that CoverGirl will probably end up dropping Rihanna as their spokesperson but Revlon's study is so classless that I actually feel like making sure no Revlon product comes my way ever again. While I'm not sure how strong my resolve will actually be, I'm curious to hear your responses about this.
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In possibly the most tasteless beauty news on the planet, I read a report on TMZ which stated that:
4 comments:
- Exotic Lady said...
I just discovered your blog yesterday and I must say spent about an hour looking through it. I love it! I am so proud that there are smart Indian woman who are willing to speak up and out about some long held racially prejudiced beliefs not only within Indian culture but in general. I find your blog well written and refreshingly candid (not to mention funny as hell at times!). I have spent a few years in Nepal and am very familiar (and in love) with East Asian/Indian culture overall (I have also been several times). Bravo!8:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
Agree , very tasteless and insensitive , cover girl dropping her is their prerogative8:45 PM
but I am not sure this will up revlon sales which I guess is what the are aiming at , may just have a negative affect
shows how murky sales pitches and business stakes can get
- Join the Gossip said...
Wow, that's a pointless survey for Revon....kinda sad.9:55 PM
- neha said...
I don't really find anything wrong with the study. I think that Rihanna is being an idiot and have no problem with a major company tell her that the general population thinks she's an idiot as well.6:16 PM