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Agriculture and Farming
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News about Agriculture and Farming, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Dec. 8, 2014
Conservation groups announce plans at conference on climate change in Peru to restore degraded land across Latin America with financing from private investments; project is effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions by improving productivity of current farmland. MORE
Dec. 7, 2014
Maca, vegetable heralded as cancer-fighting superfood and aphrodisiac, continues to boom in Peru, leaving some Peruvians fearful that they are losing control of valuable crop; buyers in United States, Europe and Japan says prices of processed maca has shot up, with some suppliers asking more than $20 a pound. MORE
Dec. 4, 2014
T M Luhrmann Op-Ed article examines research showing differences between Western cultures, which tend to be individualistic, and Asian cultures, which tend toward interdependency; points out study by journal Science showing rice farming in Asia and wheat farming in West created different orientations to their societies. MORE
Dec. 1, 2014
Technology has become a lifeline for many American farmers like Kip Tom, seventh-generation family farmer in Leesburg, Ind; Tom's Farms has expanded to 20,000 acres, from 700 in the 1970s, in part because by adapting technology like sensors on combines and iPhone apps for irrigation; those farmers who can afford the costly tools say they are helping them grow to compete with corporate agribusinesses. MORE
Nov. 28, 2014
Crop swaps around the country are like farmers markets that operate on barter system; neighborly exchanges of goods reflect food trends, with San Francisco Bay Area arguably center of crop-swap culture. MORE
Nov. 27, 2014
Two years of record cranberry harvests in Wisconsin, which has nation's highest production of the fruit, have sent prices plummeting, and millions of pounds more than usual are in storage; with only a fifth of country's supply used between fall and winter, cranberry industry is trying to expand market beyond America's holiday season, and even beyond America itself. MORE
Nov. 27, 2014
Op-Ed article by author Liz Carlisle suggests fair-trade paradigm created for tropical commodities like coffee must be applied to crops grown in rural America if sustainable food movement is to have serious impact on issues like climate change and the American diet; argues that local food movement is misguided and that smartest national strategy is to support food grown responsibly, no matter where it is produced. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
Dr Fahu Chen study in journal Science concludes that ability to grow barley at high altitudes allowed ancient human civilization to exist on Tibetan Plateau, over 3,000 meters above sea level. MORE
Nov. 19, 2014
Boris Akimov, Russian founder of organic farm cooperative LavkaLavka, hopes ban on food imports from the West will boost Russia's fledgling farm-to-table movement; Akimov found himself flooded with requests from grocery chains after Pres Vladimir Putin imposed ban in retaliation for Western sanctions. MORE
Nov. 13, 2014
Op-Ed article by Professors Jacob E Gersen and Benjamin I Sachs holds country needs new labor laws for restaurant, farm and slaughterhouse workers, who play a critical role in nation's economic and public health systems; warns without such laws, country runs risk that workers, charged with producing our food, will be unable to protect public safety. MORE
Nov. 8, 2014
Department of Agriculture announces that potato genetically engineered to reduce amounts of potentially harmful chemical called acrylamide has been approved for commercial planting; new potato also resists bruising. MORE
Oct. 27, 2014
Op-Ed article by former North Carolina Rep Eva M Clayton calls on Congress and the Defense Dept to mandate that a percentage of military food come from small- and mid-scale farmers; holds initiative will allow millions of soldiers to share in the wide range of nutritional, environmental and economic benefits that many Americans have come to enjoy from local foods. MORE
Oct. 21, 2014
Iowa is undergoing economic transformation that is challenging its rural character and its political order; scale at which people and power have shifted from its rural towns to its urban areas is emerging as potent undercurrent in very close race between Joni Ernst and Bruce Braley as Iowans prepare to elect new United States senator (Series: States in Play). MORE
Oct. 15, 2014
Eduardo Porter Economic Scene column contends that price consumers pay for water rarely reflects true costs or scarcity; points out that farmers consume 80 percent of nation's water for virtually free; says higher prices are essential to induce conservation and investment in water-saving technology and to steer water to where it is valued most. MORE
Oct. 13, 2014
Fillmore, Calif, farmer Tony Dighera has created 'pumpkinstein,' pumpkin grown in shape of Frankenstein monster's head with use of plastic mold; Dighera, who has sold his entire crop of over 5,000 of pumpkins, is capitalizing on $7 billion Halloween business. MORE
Oct. 13, 2014
China's most able farmers, frustrated by how little they earn, have migrated to cities, hollowing out rural districts in Chinese heartland; farm output remains high, but rural living standards have stagnated compared with cities, and few in the countryside see their future there; agriculture has become burden for country; government reform gives farmers rights, but not ownership. MORE
Oct. 13, 2014
Competition from synthetic fibers has damaged earnings for New Zealand's wool exporters, and sheep farmers are retooling their operations in response; on many of country's 17,000 sheep farms, meat has replaced wool as primary profit maker. MORE
Oct. 6, 2014
Record household debt and signs of drought are squeezing Thailand's economy; country's farmers are expected to bear the brunt as central bank predicts economic growth of 1.5 percent for 2014. MORE
Oct. 3, 2014
Proliferation of unmarked towers used by wind energy companies poses threat to pilots crop-dusting fields and has led to calls for more regulation; at least five people, including three crop-duster pilots, have died after hitting the towers since 2003. MORE
Sep. 28, 2014
Adirondack Grazers Cooperative, type of co-op for grass-fed cows, helps members with farms from the Adirondacks to the Pennsylvania border market and sell their beef; organization goes beyond logistical support, providing sense of hope and community for small farmers in state where family farms are rapidly vanishing. MORE
Sep. 25, 2014
Israel is experimenting with alternative observances of shmita, traditional rest period for farmers that comes every seventh year. MORE
Sep. 23, 2014
Scientists are growing crops under conditions designed to mimic future climate change in effort to study effects of global warming on food production. MORE
Sep. 18, 2014
Agriculture Dept has approved commercial planting of corn and soybeans genetically engineered to survive being sprayed by herbicide 2,4-D; critics say cultivation of the crops, developed by Dow AgroSciences, will mean a sharp increase in the spraying of 2,4-D, chemical they say is more damaging to the environment, nearby non-engineered crops and possibly human health. MORE
Sep. 7, 2014
Public health experts say hundreds of children continue to work in America's tobacco fields, where they are exposed to hazardous conditions due to exposure to nicotine and other chemicals; opponents of child labor are hoping to revive proposal quashed by Obama administration in 2012, which sought to make this work illegal for children under 16, after midterm elections are over. MORE
Sep. 4, 2014
Dacian Ciolos, European Union's agriculture commissioner, says he will double funds available for promoting the sale of farm goods; move is effort to counteract the effects of boycott by Russia, important export market for European producers. MORE
Sep. 1, 2014
Agiripalli Journal; farmers in belt of villages near Krishna River delta in Agiripalli, India, are trying to fend off rush of land buyers who seem to have appeared overnight; farmland along corridor of recently divided state of Andhra Pradesh has been bought up by real estate speculators hoping to profit from creation of new capital in delta. MORE
Sep. 1, 2014
Alaskan advocates for local food, boosted by state programs and incentives, are pushing back against commonly held notion that eating food grown or raised in Alaska is impossible or too expensive; Alaska now has its first food co-op, offering 50 percent locally grown produce in the summer to its thousands of owner-members, and is ranked 16th in national 'Locavore Index' created by a Vermont-based advocacy group. MORE
Aug. 30, 2014
United Nations World Food Program says as many as 2.8 million people are struggling to feed themselves in Central American because of severe drought; Guatemala declared state of emergency after 256,000 families lost their crops. MORE
Aug. 30, 2014
Behold! New Lebanon festival in Columbia County, NY, reimagines struggling Hudson Valley town as living museum of contemporary rural American life; festival is being packaged as deliberate contrast to nostalgia-fueled reenactments elsewhere; if effort succeeds, New Lebanon will join an emerging rural renaissance in which small towns are reinventing themselves by embracing local skills and artisanship. MORE
Aug. 28, 2014
Thieves have struck two farms in Bristol and Wethersfield, CT, taking more than $1,200 worth of corn and leaving farmers to debate ways to better safeguard their crops; two suspects have been charged for stealing corn from Anderson Farms in Wethersfield. MORE
Aug. 28, 2014
Work on New York's nearly 900 food gardens and urban farms is primarily done by women, raising questions of whether it is stereotypes or willingness to nurture communities that are reason for such uneven staffing; advocates of urban farming wonder how gender disparity will affect movement's farming model, mission and pay structures. MORE
Aug. 26, 2014
Energy exploration in North Dakota is creating a crisis for farmers whose grain shipments have been held up by vast new movement of oil by rail; Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, North Dakota's largest railroad, reportedly has a backlog of 1,336 rail cars waiting to ship grain and other products; farmers say backlog is only going to get worse, leading to million of dollars in losses from agricultural waste. MORE
Aug. 26, 2014
Partnership between nonprofit Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and Rockefeller State Park Preserve uses privately owned ewes to mow and maintain publicly managed land in New York's Westchester County; partners view arrangement as model for use of public lands by young farmers stymied by limited accessibility and high real estate prices. MORE
Aug. 18, 2014
Noteworthy names such as Zakary Pelaccio, April Bloomfield and Sean Brock got together for a culinary hoedown in the Hudson Valley that was all about turning up the heat. MORE
Aug. 17, 2014
Number of Latinos who own or operate a farm has grown dramatically, as many go from working in the fields to sitting in head offices; number of farms run by Latinos has grown by 21 percent from 2007 to 2012, to a total of 67,000; shift turns on classic American bootstrap stories of grit, determination and luck. MORE
Aug. 16, 2014
Letter from New York Rep Louise Slaughter responds to July 31 Ruth Reichl Op-Ed and August 6 letters about agriculture's contribution to antibiotic-resistance crisis. MORE
Aug. 10, 2014
Op-Ed article by shellfish and seaweed farmer Bren Smith maintains that dirty secret of food movement is that much-celebrated small-scale farmer is not making a living; describes how hard it has been to make ends meet as a farmer, and how he has had to work other jobs to keep his business afloat; underscores need for small-scale farmers to organize. MORE
Aug. 8, 2014
Advocates for New York State farmworkers feel they are close to securing passage of law to protect wages of state's estimated 60,000 to 100,000 farmworkers, most of whom are Latino migrants; many hope that Democratic control of State Senate after November election will help chances of bill's passage. MORE
Aug. 7, 2014
Missouri voters narrowly approve amendment to state's Constitution allowing for a right to farm, measure that has deeply divided state; supporters say proposal is necessary to preserve state's agricultural heritage, which some farmers feel is under attack from groups that advocate measures regulating livestock conditions and genetically modified crops. MORE
Aug. 5, 2014
Town of Southampton on Long Island pays $12.5 million for development rights to farmland in Water Mill to protect and maintain its agricultural heritage, practice pioneered by Suffolk County in 1970s; in addition to buying development rights on 33 acres, town has also bought equestrian rights, vineyard rights and restrictions on leaving land fallow for more than two years. MORE
Aug. 3, 2014
Missourians will vote on proposal to change State Constitution to guarantee rights of its people to engage in farming and ranching practices'; while amendment would not affect federal laws governing agriculture, its possible effect on local and state laws is unclear. MORE
Jul. 27, 2014
Growing number of New Yorkers are turning their personal plots into micro farms, raising hens for eggs, rabbits for meat and bees for honey; they have turned tiny slivers of open space into productive vegetable gardens and depending on their own yards for sustenance, embracing an ethos that calls for local, sustainable agriculture to lessen impact upon the environment. MORE
Jul. 24, 2014
Participants in Jewish fellowship program Adamah live and work on a Connecticut Jewish farm, experiencing enlightenment through firsthand work with food, farming and sustainability; program has turned out around 300 graduates in past 11 years of existence. MORE
Jul. 21, 2014
With its steady income stream, farmland is proving to be a ripe offering for sophisticated investors. MORE
Jul. 12, 2014
Comprehensive review of earlier studies to be published in British Journal of Nutrition finds substantially higher levels of antioxidants and lower levels of pesticides in organic fruits, vegetables and grains compared with conventionally grown produce; findings stop short of claiming that eating organic produce will lead to better health. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
Political crisis in Crimea has disrupted virtually every aspect of farming in the area, and help from Russia following annexation has been minimal; tourism, foundation of Crimea's economy, has been in disarray as well. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
Kern River oil field in California is one of the nation's largest, but for every barrel of oil extracted by its owner Chevron, about 10 barrels of water are produced and then sold to local water district that distributes it to farmers; it is one of the more unusual sources of water, one whose importance has increased in a year when drought has forced farmers to fallow acres of land. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
United States and El Salvador say they have settled their differences over compliance with fine print of trade agreement that threatened to delay aid to small Central American country; timing of dispute is embarrassment for United States, as haggling over program to help poor farmers makes nation's leaders appear tone-deaf. MORE
Jun. 29, 2014
Portugal's low minimum wage and relatively generous unemployment benefits make tough agricultural labor a hard sell, forcing companies to import workers from as far away as Thailand; most of Europe faces the same problem as it struggles to gain economic traction and foster opportunities, especially for its younger generation. MORE
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A Ban on Child Labor in Tobacco Fields
The Obama administration should act on its own to restrict children from working on tobacco farms.
December 29, 2014, Monday
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Water Source for Almonds in California May Run Dry
The business of growing almonds has thrived in California despite drought because of a federally controlled project that allowed for Sacramento River water flows, but the law requires that that source nurture salmon as well during scarcity.
December 28, 2014, Sunday
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What We're Reading
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from John Branch, Damon Darlin and others.
December 26, 2014, Friday
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A Long History of Exploitation in the Cotton Industry
A new book details the human toll that extends to today.
December 25, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON AGRICULTURE AND FARMING AND: Editorials , Native Americans , Editorial Observer , Cotton , Books and Literature , Beckert, Sven , Factories and Manufacturing , Third World and Developing Countries , Human Rights and Human Rights Violations , Agriculture and Farming , Workplace Environment , Slavery (Historical)
Restored Forests Breathe Life Into Efforts Against Climate Change
Driven by a growing environmental movement and mounting pressure from Western consumers, corporate and government leaders are making a new push to slow the cutting of rain forests.
December 24, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON AGRICULTURE AND FARMING AND: Forests and Forestry , Global Warming , Greenhouse Gas Emissions , Series , Amazon Jungle , South America , Brazil , Costa Rica , Indonesia , Agriculture and Farming
Cargill Abandons Pursuit of Dutch Animal Feed Supplier Nutreco
The decision by Cargill removes a rival to a $3.65 billion bid by SHV Holdings of the Netherlands for Nutreco, a Dutch supplier of feed for livestock and fish farms.
December 23, 2014, Tuesday
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Courtesy of the Gravedigger
After 38 years of raising horses, deciding when and how to euthanize one hasn't gotten any easier.
December 21, 2014, Sunday
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In Final Spending Bill, Salty Food and Belching Cows Are Winners
The $1.1 trillion package that cleared the Senate over the weekend was, like many of its predecessors, filled with provisions to satisfy special interests.
December 15, 2014, Monday
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After Barren Years in Somalia, Signs of Growth by the Bunch
During the civil war of the 1990s, irrigation systems were damaged, plantations were abandoned, farmers were displaced and storage facilities and ports destroyed. Now, the banana is making a tentative comeback in Somalia.
December 14, 2014, Sunday
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Cargill Remains Interested in Dutch Supplier of Animal Feed
The American food and agriculture giant is weighing a revised offer for the feed company Nutreco, which is already the subject of a $3.7 billion cash bid from SHV Holdings of the Netherlands.
December 11, 2014, Thursday
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With a Vegetable in Vogue, Peru Wonders How to Control a Native Species
Many regard maca as a nutrient-dense super food possessed of wondrous properties, including the ability to prevent cancer or reinvigorate the body.
Bushels and Bytes: The Data-Driven Farm
The Toms in Indiana have seen farming advance from horse-drawn plows to self-guiding tractors. They say innovation has been the key to their success.
Flying Low, Dodging Towers
Crop-duster pilots working around wind farms are encountering a new and proliferating hazard camouflaged among the fields, one that has already led to several deaths.
Germany's Grass-Roots Energy Revolution
A visit to the Aller-Leine-Tal, one of many energy cooperatives that have contributed to the success so far of Germany's Energiewende, or energy transition.
Behold! New Lebanon
A new tourism project in the Hudson Valley town of New Lebanon, N.Y.
From Field to Front Office
Sergio Silva is one of a growing number of Hispanics who own or operate farms in the United States.
High and Dry in Pot Country
California's drought is affecting agriculture including marijuana. Illegal growers are being blamed for stolen water and environmental damage. Small-scale farmers say the crop can be grown green.
Challenges of the City Chicken
Robert McMinn, an urban homesteader in New York City, worked to be sure his neighbors and landlords were happy with his chickens.
California's Extreme Drought, Explained
The state is experiencing the worst drought in its history. Find out just how bad the situation is getting and what it means for you.
'This Isn't About Farmer Brown Anymore'
Dan Brown is a Maine farmer who was sued by the state for selling milk without a license. On Tuesday, Mr. Brown lost an appeal he had made to the state's highest court.
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Thirty high school students who worked with Stony Brook faculty were named yesterday among the 300 semifinalists in the national 2012 Intel Science Talent Search competition. The mentors come from a range of departments and disciplines throughout SB, including: Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Ecology & Evolution, Geosciences, Materials Science & Engineering, Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Neurobiology & Behavior, Pharmacological Sciences, and Physics & Astronomy.
The semifinalists will each receive awards of $1,000; their schools will also receive $1,000 for each Intel semifinalist named. The Intel STS finalists will be announced on January 25 and will compete for additional awards in Washington, D.C. in March.
A number of the Intel STS semifinalists participated in summer research programs at Stony Brook, including the Garcia Center: Polymers at Engineered Interfaces – Research Scholar Program, and the Simons Summer Research Program. Twenty-one of the 22 semifinalists who worked with SB mentors are from NY (Long Island had 61 semifinalists); other semifinalists working at Stony Brook included students from California (3), Massachusetts, and Michigan.
A listing of Intel awardees who worked at SB, with project titles/mentors, is available at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/simons/intel

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Greg shares the wonder of Yosemite with two hikers who have never visited the park. While the popular ways of seeing the park are great, the group doesn't rule out something a little out of the ordinary to add to this amazing experience.
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TechMedia Network Lines Up Tom's Brand Editors
Earlier this summer, NYC-based TechMedia Network (TMN) acquired Bestofmedia Group. The addition of the Tom's brand of Web destinations (Tom's Hardware U.S., Tom's Guide U.S., Tom's IT Pro U.S.) helped push TMN, home of SPACE.com and laptopmag.com, to a comScore metered reach of 72 million international monthly readers.
Today, the company announced a pair of related EIC moves. Fritz Nelson has been brought in to oversee Tom's Hardware U.S. and Tom's IT Pro U.S., while Mark Spoonauer will add Tom's Guide U.S. to his other current editorial duties. From today's announcement:
Nelson joins TechMedia Network with over two decades of editorial leadership in business technology media. Previously, he served as senior vice president and editorial director of the InformationWeek Business Technology Network at UBM Tech, managing 12 media properties—including InformationWeek and Dark Reading.


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The 1995 shutdown in Newt Gingrich's alternate universe
Politicians often take more credit than they deserve. But they don't often try to rewrite history. And then there is Newt Gingrich — onetime speaker of the House and current wannabe presidential candidate.
In an effort to appeal to the tea party element of the Republican Party, Gingrich recently wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post and then did a series of interviews in which he claimed that the liberal media had it all wrong. Closing down the government in 1995 was a good thing, he insisted, and had desirable results.
Understanding what really happened in 1995 is important as the two parties jockey for position over which gets the blame if the government is closed down this spring. They had talked about closing shop on March 4, but this has been postponed.
I was in Congress in 1995, when all this happened. Newt is engaging not just in revisionist history but in a fairy tale.
When the House Republicans, under Gingrich's leadership, forced a three-week government shutdown in the fall of 1995, it was generally viewed as a disaster for his party. He, not President Bill Clinton, got all the blame. And his little adventure almost cost the Republicans control of the House in the 1996 elections.
I was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 1996 midterm elections. We picked up nine seats and clearly had the Republicans on the run after the government shutdown.
In fact, many political analysts say Democrats would have taken back control of the House in 1996 but for the Chinese money scandal that plagued the Clinton administration in the campaign's closing weeks.
While we are on the subject, here's a little firsthand history about the government shutdown controversy that demonstrates how out of control Gingrich was at that time. Gingrich's state of disorganization — something even his friends have often raised — was apparent again Tuesday, as two members of his staff issued conflicting statements about timing on his 2012 presidential announcement.
Gingrich and I were both part of the U.S. delegation to the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during the fall of 1995. Gingrich later complained bitterly about how poorly he had been treated by Clinton during the trip. One celebrated story was that he — along with a number of other people — had to exit through the rear of the plane.


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"Disaster! Very, very, very scared!" Off-Ramp for January 11, 2014, marks Northridge 20th
Northridge Earthquake Anniversary: Are quakes the price Californians pay for paradise?
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Two men inspect damage to cars and apartment complex after Northridge earthquake, on January 21, 1994, in Canoga, California. Federal inspectors report that several hundred homes have been condemned and as many as 40,000 will need repairs. The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in Reseda, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a 'strong' moment magnitude of 6.7, but the ground acceleration was the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America.
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The Lopez and Garcia families camp out in a city park after their homes were heavily damaged by the Northridge earthquake which killed at least 28 people. Thousands of southern Californians were forced to evacuate their homes following the quake which measured 6,6 on the Richter scale.
It's worse when it's dark, and it was dark at 4:31 in the morning on Jan. 17, 1994.
Sometimes you hear an earthquake before you feel it, that grind and rumble that wakes you up just a moment or two before the bed starts to dance beneath you — for 10 seconds, 20 seconds — and if you can grab a lamp and switch it on, then you can see the pictures banging against the walls, and everything around you is a cacophony of creaking and popping and jingling, the sirens and the dogs start wailing at the same moment, the wine glasses are smashing themselves in the kitchen, and the alarms on a million cars are going nuts.
Then it stops, 20 seconds or 30 or a minute later. And that's our trade-off. A half-minute of hell every now and then for a lifetime of paradise.
And then the moralizing begins. From the East Coast, from abroad, from the envious and the smug, we hear that earthquakes are divine retribution for the California lifestyle — payback for backyard swimming pools and sunshine and Hollywood, our souls' ransom paid to a devil in Ray-Bans.
They say that a California earthquake is penance — the one in 1994 killed at least 57 people — and yet no one looks at the brutal winters that torment the East and the Midwest every year. No one says those people were asking for it. The frozen pipes, the paralyzing cold — that's their punishment for having lilacs in the spring and fireflies in the summer and brilliantly colored leaves in the autumn.
Oh, no. The long, predictable slog of winter miser — of people dying from the cold, from icy car crashes and snow-shoveling heart attacks — that's just weather. The haphazard terror of an earthquake? Now that's the punishing hand of Providence.
And it's true that in a tornado, you go to the cellar. In a flood, you go to higher ground. In an earthquake, we just go along for the ride. Afterwards, we tell ourselves we'll be better prepared the next time, and to paraphrase Winston Churchill, we find a kind of exhilaration in coming out of that primal shaking unscathed. When two earthquakes rattled the Portola expedition on the same day in August 1769, Juan Crespi coolly noted in his diary that the soldiers bagged an antelope for dinner. Quote — it was not bad.
A couple hundred years later, Steve Martin was just as blasé in his movie "L.A. Story." When an earthquake strikes a group during brunch, the conversation goes on — Martin's character casually estimates the quake to be about a 4.0 on the Richter scale.
But here's the paradoxical thing about the '94 earthquake: Somehow, it helped L.A. to recover from the riots of less than two years before.
The riots shook the civic spirit in a way the earthquake didn't. The earthquake gave L.A. a way to pull itself back into shape, to push itself toward a shared purpose. The earthquake wasn't Providence punishing us, but in the riots, we punished ourselves.
The state's historian, Kevin Starr, told me back then that, "there's something depressing about an urban riot because that shows human failure. But an earthquake is an act of God."
And it gave L.A. the chance to show its nobler self in a natural disaster, so soon after the failings of a man-made one.
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REDMOND WA – Today, Nintendo of America announced plans to bring social networking to their popular Wii console. The new feature will be named WiiTogether and will become available for download by September of 2009. The Japanese video game giant hopes to bring a compelling social experience to the Wii console in order to compete with the social experience offered by Sony and Microsoft.
The press conference was attended by Nintendo's President, Saturo Iwata, and his menacing henchman Reggie Fils-Aime. Mr. Iwata excitedly discussed how Creative Executive, Shigeru Miyamoto, designed the feature saying, "The idea came to him in the same way all his wonderful ideas come to him." The executive then continued with an anecdotal story about how Miyamoto's new hobby of conversing with people inspired the social network, WiiTogether.
Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America President, then took time to inform all in attendance how the social experience will work. According to Reggie, WiiTogether will integrate all the beloved online features the Wii already has, including Friend Codes, and excluding WiiSpeak. The first step a user will need to complete is registering their Wii serial number, all owned games, personal address, great grandmother's maiden name, and scanned image of a government issued photo ID into their Club Nintendo account. After this they will have access to print the WiiTogether application form, which will need to be completed in triplicate - twice. After completing the application six times the gamer will then be required to gather all the Friend Codes he intends on connecting with onto another form (which will also need to be completed six times) and have each friend sign and date beside their respective friend code. Also, a government issued photo ID will need to be provided with each friend's signature.
This IS what you wanted...right?
The process continues with Nintendo demanding attachments showing proof of residence, citizenship, existence, and proof that the applicant is not a registered sex offender. The final step is to have a Notary Public stamp all six application packets and send them to the following recipients: the Federal government, the applicant's State government, the applicant's local government, the State of Washington's government, and Nintendo of America, while the last one remains with the applicant. "It's that easy!" exclaimed Reggie Fils-Aime. Forge News immediately commented that the process seemed more convoluted than 'easy', to which Reggie responded by punching me in the face.
Mr. Fils-Aime continued discussing the social network by saying, "We have created a social experience the Nintendo way! First, we have created a world that fits the Wii console's graphical power and themed as the Mushroom Kingdom. Then we designed a new avatar system. Since a pedophile can certainly identify a target by their Mii, a new avatar creator was needed. In WiiTogether we went with a more vaporous aesthetic, meaning you will create unidentifiable clouds of different colors, but the colors are customizable." While looking at the early demonstration build Reggie was presenting, we counted 10 different colors. "Finally, we made a compelling new way to converse with your friends. Instead of using WiiSpeak, a player can assign text messages to the four buttons on the directional pad." As every reporter in the audience stood in stunned silence, the Nintendo of America President concluded with, "We look forward to the over 50 million Wii customers signing on to this new service, but please allow 3-4 weeks for your application to be processed."
*Forge News is a satire feature that the Vgchartz editorial team is happy to present. These pieces will be strictly written as good humor, sarcasm, and satire of everything video game related. They do not represent our views and opinions of anyone or any company that will be written about. It is our sincere desire that our readers will enjoy this new creative feature for what it is and not read any deeper meaning of bias into it.
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Sky and Kenny... perhaps you are taking this a little too seriously?
Ah come on would you just google it before we go any further? It's a specific term and it has a specific meaning. Take the sony forge news. For it to be applied there the article would have had to have been about sony's PR getting worse and worse until something absurd happened whereas it was actually about them stopping their PR altogether. You can't just take the literal English translation of these things. De facto literally means in fact but used in English it means the way things really are. Same sort of deal here. Geddit? Sorry to get so pissy about this but it's just stupid when people drop these unnecessary phrases just because they think they add a certain je ne sais quoi to their posts, especially when they're unsuitable, and I hate when people point out typos when it's obvious what the other person meant. You did both.
I'm sorry your perspective of reality doesn't allow for you to be wrong. And I think it worthwhile to note that, short of practicing extreme pedantry over the meaning of "reduction", any situation where an overly-simple statement or idea about something is blown up to unreasonable proportions which follow the logical trend of said statement can be described as "reductio ad absurdium", as it quite literally fulfills the conditions stated by the term: it reduces the whole thing to absurdity.
So the logical conclusion of product failure is an announcement about product failure? Nope. Or the logical conclusion of bad PR is stopping the PR people from making announcements? Also nope. (In fact that one's more or less the exact opposite of Reductio ad absurdum). I only pointed out your typo because you whinged about tolu's.
Quite the vehement reaction to a simple typo, one in Latin no less. Also, the entire running theme of Forge News is taking existing stereotypes about these companies ("Sony has bad PR!", "MS makes faulty hardware!", "Nintendo is security-paranoid!") and following their logical path to a point that it just gets absurd. Which is pretty much a textbook example of how to do reductio-ad-absurdium.
lol kenny you're so angry about this aren't you?
Its Reductio ad absurdum smartass, no "i" in it. Also there was nothing really reductio ad absurdum about the sony or MS ones. At least tolu's post made sense . . .
tolu: It quite clearly says "Forge", not "Forbes", news. Also, it's spelled "that"; no d in there. Unless you're trying to impersonate having a broken nose, in which case, brilliant imitation. Anyway, this one was about as reducto-ad-absurdium as the rest, though perhaps a bit more ridiculous than even the MS one, if only because Nintendo's security measures have far less public notoriety than MS' hardware failures (or Sony's PR blunders).
Change the name from Forbes to Joke so the few people dat don't notice its a joke will know dat even b4 clicking on it.
Is this for real? That is just... weird.
I think if you're doing parody articles you should probably put them in a separate section from the main articles. Having front page spoofs on days other than April 1 hurts credibility.
Sony shoots its mouth off! 360 had high failure rate! Wii has relatively poor online service! The originality is just phenomenal. Why don't you really push the boat out and do one about mother-in-laws or airline food?
you guys forgot about blood samples =o!
well, wii fans are taking this well
It started strong and had a good hook. I actually clicked on it, thinking it was true until I noticed the source -- Forge News. The details were a bit overkill though because not even Nintendo would require triplicate twice. Triplicate or duplicate twice but not triplicate twice. Mike from Morgantown
Not funny and also a waste of our time.
funny , but still the one about sony is the best
The 360 failure rate was better, but this one was good too. Nice (y)
Hmm... not that funny. It's definitely a topic that deserves making fun of it, but this was uninspired.
This is great! lol.
hahahahaha I love the Wii and Nintendo but this was fun !
@Senseinobaka: You've wrote Saturo Iwata, but it's Satoru!! XDXDXDXDXD After that, i think that if good used this will be the tomb for the Friends Codes, finally.
lol WhaaT?
Doesn't explain what WiiTogether is, just how you get it.
A sense of humor is apparently lost on some people.
I can't believe how humourless some people are.... or how dim-witted so much that they can actually think this possible even if they don't find it funny.
Hey April ended a week ago.
please stop the forge news.... it needs its own place else where not in the new/ headlines.... it makes our site feel cheap
So you went to all this trouble just to baw about friend codes?
Meh... you tried too hard on this one guys.
nice try....
Humor and entertainment? Lighten up a little. :P
so whats the point of this if its not april fools day??? seems pointless
@JUG: Forged news. Not real news.
That seems a bit much... I'm a fan of Nintendo but this just sounds ridiculous. Oh well... we shall see.
ROFL That almost had me fooled until i read to the part of the registration. good one.
Lol, what famousringo said. :p I thought this was actually true too, for a minute. :p
Why? It's clearly marked.
OMG YES, Miyamoto finally read my email!
Reggie did the right thing when he punched you in the face, senseinobaka. That's why I love Nintendo.
This is unbelievable. I mean come on, we all know Nintendo would have a much more secure system than this. I mean who doesn't know my grandma's maiden name? Sure hope the sequel to this for WiiHD is safer for my 18 1/2 children to use. This is unacceptable. ... BTW, stuff like this is why I have about 0 credability for Vgchartz news.
@Truckosaurus. I agree with you 100%. On my next Forge News I plan on turning down the over-the-top-ness.
Do we really need fake new published on the front page? I mean it's not even funny just plain pathetic.
Couldn't the pedophiles just target the smaller, cuter-looking amorphous clouds?
What an excellent choice for a hobby... I didn't realize conversing with others could be a hobby though, guess that's what happens when everything you make prints money. I always like the first paragraphs, because you can't tell right away if it's true... but the last paragraphs were ok too, especially with Reggie punching you in the face.
Hehe, it's the way it will be in France soon on the internet ^^
Haha, a fitting end to forge news.
I liked the menacing henchman part and Shiggy's new hobby too but the bit about the application process was overkill, way too long. It killed the comedic effect.
lol... I wouldn't be that surprised if they actually did this...
I need to apoligize. I forgot to post the Forge News disclaimer at the buttom of the article. Just in case anyone actually believes this is true...its not. Well its not true because Nintendo is not making a social network, but if they were...this is how they would do it - no doubt.
Lol. but when are these joke news going to end? If there are too many it will get pretty old pretty quickly.
Wow what a rollercoaster ride. Excited, then appalled, then relieved, then upset. It was like having an entire relationship in two minutes.
That's awesome. :P
-.- do we really need this?
Reggie is no one's henchman! Menacing or not, Reggie is his own man. :-P Wfz, back me up here.
lol? somehow i think nintendo could pull something like that in japan, though.
for god's sake
That's stupid. Why the hell would they not include wiispeak. idiots.
My favorite was Shigsy's new hobby. Great stuff. Didn't you forget the disclaimer though? People might get disappointed if they hold their breath for this brilliance.
Why does Iwata look like he's about to shoot himself in the head? That's just depressingly hilarious. Is that even possible? Depressingly Hilarious? I'll continue this conversation to myself in my head so I don't take up any more space here.
I almsot had a heart attack lol
Haha, nice work!
Ha ha, Miyamoto's new hobby :-)
For a second, I thought this was genuine because it's rumoured that NoA was showing press an unannounced Wii game today. Then I got to the part that mentioned Miyamoto's new hobby of talking to people. :P
Funny as always Baka. Good to see you're swinging the fake news around to all the big three and keeping it fair. Perhaps it would be best to make the next few on 3rd party developers so that you can give the Sony, MS, and Ninty fans time to forgive you ^^
Nice try.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) â¿¿ Thousands of activists on Wednesday celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. Navy's departure from the Puerto Rican island of Vieques 10 years ago, despite concerns that progress has been slow in cleaning up and developing a place many hoped would flourish.
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But the cleanup of the bombing range on an island the Navy once called its "crown jewel" of live-fire training is expected to take another decade, and the mayor of Vieques noted the island of roughly 10,000 people still has no hospital to treat illnesses ranging from cancer to asthma that local residents blame on military activity.Mayor Victor Emeric said Vieques is battling an unemployment rate of nearly 20 percent and depends on a crippled ferry system that serves as the primary link to the main island of Puerto Rico. "Time passed and everyone forgot about us," said Emeric, who was born and raised in Vieques. "None of the development that we expected has occurred." George Withers, a senior fellow with the non-governmental Washington Office on Latin America, recently published a report calling on the U.S. to respond more aggressively to the cleanup and other problems in Vieques. He said the lack of care for ongoing health problems remain big concerns. "The overall impact on the quality of life for the people of Vieques has not really improved in the 10 years since the Navy left," he said. "They created a toxic legacy on their island." The island was once a cause celebre, with people such as singer Ricky Martin, actor Edward James Olmos and politician Jesse Jackson joining hundreds of other protesters to demand that the Navy leave Vieques after an errant 500-pound bomb killed a security guard in April 1999.
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Tony visits the Clever Crow at Circus where a young entrepreneur, Gary Robinette, serves up innovative pizzas.
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Tony and Michael Ruhlman sit at the sushi bar, while Chef Mike Kimura serves his traditional Japanese cuisine.
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Tony visits with Chefs Lawrence McGuire and Thomas Moorman at Perlas Restaurant, where they bring fresh oysters and premium seafood to Austin.
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Food trailer mania runs amok at Gourdoughs, where made-to-order gourmet doughnuts are prepared in both savory and sweet varieties.
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Tony learns more about Chef Bryce Gilmores farm-to-table movement.
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East Side Kings
Tony visits Chefs Paul Qui and Moto Utsanomiya. Both chefs serve up their version of Japanese fusion from a trailer in the back patio of the local favorite, Liberty Bar.
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Biker Jims Gourmet Hot Dogs
Tony has an order of reindeer, boar and duck bratwurst at Biker Jim Pettingers cart.
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Tony shares a meal with Chef Frank Bonanno at his award-winning restaurant Mizuna.
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Chef Brian Polcyn of Forest Grill teaches culinary-arts students the joys of charcuterie. Tony stops in for a chat and to enjoy an array of charcuterie -- venison terrine and venison sausages.
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Chef Adam Siegel serves Tony and Bacchus owner Joe Bartollota some of the best food Milwaukee has to offer.
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Strauss Veal
In preparation for his meal for Tony, Chef Adam Siegel ventures out to find a local purveyor of free-range veal.
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Spice House
Chef Adam Siegel continues his search for the final components for Tonys meal, by visiting a local purveyor of fresh spices from around the world.
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Sprecher Beer
Chef Adam Siegel visits Sprecher Beer to find a nice beer to accompany Tonys meal.
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Larrys Deer Market
Chef Adam Siegel visits Larrys Deer Market, which is his favorite spot to buy the best Milwaukee cheese.
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Starting on September 28, anyone with a Nintendo 3DS or DSi and an Internet connection will be able to download The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition for free. The original was as fun to play as it was difficult to manage – requiring each player to have not only a Game Boy Advance and a copy of the game, but a link cable to hook the Game Boys together. Technology has caught up with Four Swords, and not only will this version allow for more convenient play wirelessly between the 3DS and DSi, but it will feature a number of new levels based on classic Zelda areas.
What do you have to look forward to? Below are five things yelled out during our time with the game in a single dungeon, giving you an insight as to what to expect when you play the cooperative adventure.
...one player yelled while standing next to a ledge. One of the four Links (split up by the Four Sword) was already on the moving platform, and one other had already been tossed to the next area. Four Swords is more of a cooperative puzzler/platformer than a typical Zelda game, and relying on your allies to help you get to new locations is important – and that sometimes means being thrown. Once you have the ability to throw your allies it immediately adds the ability to grief, too, which is something we found ourselves doing every chance we got.
Four Swords also puts a spotlight on the items of the Zelda universe. Some, like bombs, have appeared in almost every game since the first. Others, like the magnet, are new to Four Swords' hectic co-op; it can be used to either pull or push Links toward each other, and after being thrown onto the graham cracker (which was actually a moving platform that looked strikingly like a graham cracker), there were still two Links that needed to get where they needed to go. After some discussion as to how to make it work, we figured it out:
Our puzzle-solving skills were on point. We figured it all out, but our plan still required the last player to take everyone from one place to another using the magnet while walking on a thin platform. He grabbed everyone like he was supposed to, but, well...
But we eventually made it past the platform. We fought some new enemies, played through more areas, and enjoyed the crap out of all of it. Eventually we found awesome boots that let us charge forward, which we used mostly to try to knock each other off of ledges. While we were working together, we were still competing to get the most Rupees, so, obviously, occasional Linkicide ensued. A few rooms later we found a cracked wall that proved impervious to our furious flurry of charges (believe us – we tried for a few minutes, despite being told on several occasions that we couldn't). Eventually one of the players seemed tired of watching us bounce off the wall.
...another player replied, continuing to bounce off the walls. Eventually he buckled and went back to get the bomb. We then came to a boss at the end of the level that required us to work together to knock him into a wall of ice. The combat worked perfectly despite not being the focus, and the four-player co-op shined during this battle.
We laughed, and had fun, and eventually beat the level. Once it was over we started sharing stories and recapping our favorite quotes from the experience, getting the most of the cooperative interactions. But even after we finished the game, one quote still stood out:
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Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba remained in a critical condition on Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest and collapsing during an FA Cup match at Tottenham that was later abandoned on Saturday.Bolton said in a statement on Sunday that the 23-year-old player's heart "started working again'' at a London hospital on Saturday night.The former England under-21 player fell face-down to the pitch near the halfway line during Saturday's FA Cup match and medics rushed onto the pitch to begin resuscitating him.Releasing more details of Muamba's condition, Bolton said that Muamba remains "in a critical condition'' in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital's heart attack unit."Fabrice received prolonged resuscitation at the ground and on route to the London Chest Hospital, where his heart eventually started working,'' Bolton said in a joint statement with the hospital. "As is normal medical practice, Fabrice remains anesthetized in intensive care and will be for at least 24 hours. His condition continues to be closely monitored by the cardiac specialists at the hospital.''
Muamba's heart attack prompted an outpouring of support and a warning from former footballer turned TV pundit Stan Collymore, who urged followers on Twitter on Saturday night to report anyone making racist remarks - an ongoing problem in FA football - about Muamba.
On Sunday, a 21-year-old man from south Wales was arrested after allegedly doing just that. South Wales Police say the man wrote racially offensive comments and is being held in custody in Swansea Central.
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Bolton manager Owen Coyle was joined by club officials and club captain Kevin Davies at the hospital.
Coyle told Sky Sports early on Sunday that the next 24 hours would be crucial for the 23-year-old midfielder, who collapsed on the pitch during the first half of Saturday's FA Cup clash.
Medics performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and attempted to revive him with a defibrilator, pumping his chest for about six minutes before rushing him to hospital in an oxygen mask.
"Fabrice is critically ill. The next 24 hours are going to be absolutely crucial,'' said Coyle, who accompanied the player to hospital.
"It's very serious. There's not getting away from that. He's critically ill and God willing he makes it through."
Match abandoned
Saturday's quarter-final match was abandoned after Muamba was carried off on a stretcher, with several players and supporters visibly distressed by the incident.
Bolton teammate Stuart Holden, who was watching the game on television, wrote on Twitter: "waiting anxiously for updates from teammates. Fab is a fighter!"
Arsenal defender Johan Djourou, a former teammate said on Twitter he had visited Muamba on Saturday night.
"Just left the hospital," he said. "Love you so much man! Keep fighting. Everybody please pray for him he's an amazing man and friend."
Muamba was born in what was then called Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, in April 1988.
His father left the country because of political turmoil and settled in England, and Muamba joined Arsenal's youth academy in 2002.
He made his debut at age 17 on October 25, 2005, in the League Cup at Sunderland, and was loaned to Birmingham the following season.
The loan was made permanent in May 2007, and he made his English Premier League debut for Birmingham in 2007, before moving to Bolton in 2008.
Muamba has been part of England's youth team system and was a member of its team at last year's European Under-21 Championship, when he came on as a substitute against Ukraine and started against the Czech Republic.
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Former major league baseball player Manny Mota is 75.
Director Istvan Szabo ("Mephisto," "Being Julia") is 75.
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Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen is 69.
Hall of Fame golfer Judy Rankin is 68.
Singer Dennis DeYoung (Styx) is 66.
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The J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway recently hosted the 6th Executive MBA Masterclass entitled "Customer Service as the Heart of Business". A panel of speakers shared their insights and personal experience of customer service, people and leadership in a discussion chaired by Dr Ann Torres. The panel discussed the critical role employees play in customer service delivery and that good leadership at all levels lies at the heart of successful organisations and effective customer service. Myles McHugh gave insights from his experience in a large semi-state organisation, Irish Rail while Oisin Browne gave insights on social media from the perspective of a fast-growing SME in the services sector with impressive internationalisation plans. Barry Walsh has worked for large MNCs and now provides specialised consulting advice and services to the SME sector. The chair, Dr Ann Torres, said "it was wonderful to learn from a panel of experienced practitioners about the role and importance of customer service as the heart of business and the importance of the human factor in delivering customer service excellence
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- The burls on Walnut trees grow underground. You won't know how valuable it will be until you unearth the entire burl.
- Walnut burls are rare and valuable. The Jaguar car company sponsors a 175 acre (72 hectare) planting within the National Forest of the UK.
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Burls sometimes grow under ground. It is really region and soil specific. You get in rocky areas and you will not find burls under ground. You get in soft and loam dirt it is easier for burls to grow under ground. Most that I have dug up in my region it is what you see is what you get. The deepest in my region has been 12". Were in portions of California I have seen burl grow 4' under ground such as pictured above.


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Pancha Ganapati
December's Five-Day Family Home Festival
Pancha Ganapati is a modern Hindu festival of the Five-Faced Maha Ganapati--Lord of Categories. This festival falls during the thirty days of the Markali Pillaiyar home festival and lasts for five days--from December 21st through 25th.
The winter solstice has always been a festive time of year in all countries, religions and among Hindus especially, for it is a traditional season for the worship of Lord Ganesha. Hindus living in largely Christian countries often find it difficult to relate in a meaningful way to those who celebrate Christmas. Pancha Ganapati is a Hindu expression of this natural season of worship, gift-giving and celebration.
The Pancha Ganapati Shrine
Pancha Ganapati is a contemporary home observance. A festive shrine is created in the main living room of the home especially for the five-day event. At the center is placed a large wooden or bronze five-faced of Lord Pancha Ganapati. But if this is not available, then any large murtior picture of Lord Ganesha will do. The home shrine is decorated in the spirit of this festive season. Lord Ganesha is often depicted as coming from the forest; therefore, pine boughs (or banana leaves) may be used. Durvagrass, sugarcane, garlands of sweet modakaballs are used to decorate the home shrine. Flashing lights, tinsel and colorful hanging ornaments may also be added.
Pancha Ganapati is dressed anew each morning, preferably by the children, in a special color for that particular day. He appears in golden yellow on December 21st. A regal gown of royal blue is presented to Him on December 22nd and one of ruby red on the 23rd. On December 24th He appears in emerald green, and on the final day Lord Pancha Ganapati comes forth in brilliant orange to bless all who visit Him.
Pancha Ganapati is celebrated in a distinctly Hindu way, without Christmas trees, Santa Claus or symbols of other religions. Season's greeting cards should be Hindu in design and content. Season's greetings to friends in other religions can continue with thoughts of Hindu wisdom or quotes from Hindu scripture. If properly chosen they will be appreciated and cherished.
Pancha Ganapati Activities
Pancha Ganapati is a joyous time for the family and should include outings, picnics, holiday feasts, exchange of cards and gifts with relatives, friends and business associates. Each day a traditional offering tray of sweets, fruits and incense is offered to Pancha Ganapati. It may be prepared and presented by the children of the home. Gifts should be given to the children each of these five days. They place them unopened before Pancha Ganapati. After each puja,the sweets are given to them from the offering tray as prasada.
During the five days of Pancha Ganapati, chants, songs, hymns and bhajanasare sung in His praise. A different family sadhanaeach day is focused upon. Sadhanasto be performed can include the following.
The family sadhanafor the first day of Pancha Ganapati is to create a vibration of love and harmony among the immediate family members. The day begins early and the entire family works together to design and decorate the shrine with traditional symbols, rangoli,lamps and more. When it is finished, a grand pujais performed invoking the spirit of Pancha Ganapati. The sadhanaof the day now begins. The family sits together for the purpose of easing strained relationships that have arisen during the year. They make amends one with another for misdeeds performed, insults given, mental pain and injuries caused and suffered. When forgiveness is offered to all by one and all, they speak of each other's good qualities. Gifts are then exchanged and placed unopened before Pancha Ganapati. Family harmony is important to all Hindus.
The family sadhanafor the second day of Pancha Ganapati is to create a vibration of love and harmony among neighbors, relatives and close friends. This is the day for presenting gifts to next-door neighbors, relatives that live in the area and close friends. The sadhanaof the day is to offer apologies and clear up misunderstandings. Relatives and friends living in far-off places are written to or called, forgiveness is sought, apologies made and tensions released. As on the other four days, all gifts received today are placed unopened before Pancha Ganapati.
The family sadhanafor the third day of Pancha Ganapati is to create a vibration of love and harmony among business associates, the casual merchant and the public at large. This is the day for presenting gifts to merchants, customers and to honor employers and employees with gifts and appreciation. The sadhanatoday is the settling of all debts and disputes.
The family sadhanafor the fourth day of Pancha Ganapati is to create a vibration of love and harmony, bringing forth the vibration of joy that comes from music, art, drama and the dance. The family, relatives and friends gather for satsangato share and enjoy their individual artistic gifts. When the program is over, all sit together discussing the traditional values of Hindu dharma. Then, before Pancha Ganapati, Patron of the Arts and Guardian of Culture, plans are made for the year ahead to bring more of these refinements of living into the home.
The family sadhanafor the fifth and final day of Pancha Ganapati is to bring forth love and harmony within all three worlds. Because of sadhanaswell performed during the first four days, the family members are now more open and aware of His Grace. Their love for Him is now overflowing. On this day the entire family experiences a climax of an outpouring of love and tranquility from the God Himself. His blessings fill the home and the hearts of everyone within it, inspiring them anew for the coming year. This exchange of affection between all members of the family and the Lord is invoked and perpetuated through the day by performing five special pujas.The first pujais at 6am. Before the puja,personal offering trays are prepared and placed before His shrine. After the puja,each one gives verbal testimony about prayers that were answered during the past year. Then vows of sacrifice can be verbally made. Vows should improve the quality of the life of the individual, such as giving up smoking or correcting other harmful habits.
The second pujais at 9am, and the third at 12 noon. The fourth pujais held at 3pm. At 6pm the fifth and final pujaof the day is held. These five pujasto Pancha Ganapati solicit help from His devasin the home and establish the patterns for improvement in family life.
The evening pujais the long awaited time. The five sadhanashave been completed. Peace, love and harmony among everyone has been restored. After the pujaand before the great feast that follows, Lord Panchamukha Ganapati Himself gives His final darshanaand prasadato one and all. Gifts are distributed and joyously opened. Happy children. Happy parents. Happy God.
May we worship Ganapati, the Protector of Noble People, the Best Poet, the Most Honorable, the Greatest Ruler and the Treasure of all Knowledge. O Ganapati! Please listen to us and take Your seat in our heart. -- Rig Veda, 2.23.
There is nothing higher than dharma. Verily, that which is dharma is Truth--Shukla Yajur Veda, Brihadaranayaka Upanishad 1.4.14
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