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Hidden history about Madrid 1995: a look at the conference that changed the world
Summary: Today we have an excerpt from a longer work describing one of the key global diplomatic meetings shaping the early 21st century world, our equivalent of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the era of 4GW State-to-State wars are replaced by global conferences setting policy about currencies, trade — and climate change.
Excerpt from Madrid 1995: The Last Day of Climate Science, posted by Bernie Lewin at Enthusiasm, Scepticism and Science musings on the origins and impacts of global warming alarmism in the history and philosophy of science (for more see their About Page). Reposted with their generous permission.
I recommend that anyone interested in climate change go to Lewin's website and read this series in full. These excerpts give just a flavor of the rich detail he provides on this important and fascinating story.
These links go to these chapters at Lewin's website.
- Introduction
- MADRID 1995: Tipping Point?
- The Quest – Part II
- The Last Day – Part I
- The Last Day – Part II: A shambolic Victory of the Virtuous
- For more information
(1) Introduction
When Ben Santer arrived in Madrid in the late autumn of 1995, did he know that this conference would change his life forever?
Undoubtedly ambitious, a rising star in the climate modelling scene, he was doing well at age 40 to be leading the writing of a key chapter in the IPCC Second Assessment Report. In fact, the convener of this IPCC Working Group, John Houghton, had asked him to take it on quite late in the day, only after more established scientists had turned down the offer. Perhaps they had a hunch of what was about to unfold, for it would be Santer's fate that great forces of history would bear down on the lead author of his chapter at this conference.
When he was through with it, when Houghton had accepted the final draft a few days later, climate science would be changed forever. After a long struggle, the levees of science gave way to the overwhelming forces of politics welling up around it, and soon it would be totally and irrevocably engulfed.
The story of Ben Santer's late changes to Chapter 8 of the Working Group 1 Report is familiar to most sceptical accounts of the climate change controversy (e.g. here & here and a non-sceptical account). However, it is often overshadowed by other landmark events, and so it is usually not put up there in the same league with Hansen's sweaty congressional testimony of 1988, with the establishment of the IPCC nor with the Hockey Stick Controversy. Yet, if one looks at the greater controversy in terms of its impact on science, then this conference in Madrid might just surpass them all.
This was the tipping point. This was climate science's Battle of Hastings, when political exigencies — the enemies of science — broke through the lines and went on to overrun all its institutions.
John Houghton writes of it under the heading Meetings that Changed the World. Here we consider whether this meeting in Madrid was the moment when climate science gave way under the monumental pressure of politics. It culminated in famous and controversial statement in Chapter 8 Second Assessment Report:
"Viewed as a whole, these results indicate that the observed trend in global mean temperature over the past 100 years is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin. More importantly, there is evidence of an emerging pattern of climate response to forcings by greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols in the observed climate record. Taken together, these results point towards a human influence on global climate."
{Here we} continue our quest for how human attribution was first established by the IPCC with a close look at the dramas on the final day in Madrid 1995 using the Australian Delegation Report (published by the Bureau of Meteorology) as our guide.
The first and second essays on the Chapter 8 Controversy will help readers follow the story, but the main tip for new readers is to read this summary about the importance of Barnett 1996: "Estimates of low frequency natural variability in near-surface air temperature", T.P. Barnett, The Holocene, September 1996 — Ungated large pdf here.
Also helpful will be this key to drafts and meetings:
- SAR 18Apr95 draft: the version of the Working Group 1 Second Assessment Report (SAR) sent out for review before the deadline for comments on chapters in early July 1995
- Asheville Meeting of Lead Authors (25-8 July 1995): convened primarily to redraft the Working Group 1 Report's Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM) in the light of comments and in preparation for Madrid
- SAR 9Oct95 draft: the version of the Working Group 1 Report circulated to the governmental delegates prior to Madrid
Madrid Working Group 1 Plenary (27-29 Nov) convened primarily to give line-by-line approval to the Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM) and to accept the underlying Report.
- Rome IPCC Plenary (11-5 December 1995): convened to accept all the Working Group Reports and give line-by-line approval to the Synthesis Report.
- SAR: The IPCC Second Assessment Report as published in June 1996, the Working Group 1 part of which is also referred to as the 'Scientific Assessment' [pdf here].
(2) Excerpt from MADRID 1995: Tipping Point?
Late in the belated preparations of its 3rd report (the 'Second Assessment'), the IPCC Working Group 1 was still saying that the science was inconclusive, uncertain and disputed. Moreover, despite enormous pressure, including his own personal interests and opinion, Ben Santer's chapter continued to proclaim that the evidence for the detection and attribution of a catastrophic warming trend was in many ways uncertain and certainly inconclusive — hardly the bases for a legally binding global commitment to radical reform.
Climate science did not just roll over under the pressure of politics. Until the Madrid meeting, IPCC science had managed to keep on doing its thing mostly uncorrupted by the monumental political forces building up around it. In this view, one is drawn to speculate that if only somehow the whole turnaround in and after Madrid had not happen, what then? What of Kyoto? What of all the rest? Would this episode in the history of the UN have become as forgettable after 1996 as the Ice Age Scare after 1976?
But it did happen. The Assessment delivered just enough of what was needed for Kyoto. In the realpolitik of the situation, it could hardly be otherwise. In another post I will explain why.
(3) Excerpt from "The Quest – Part II"
The nitpicking of the Doubters was as nought to the damaging critique coming out of an unpublished investigation conducted by the Chapter 8 lead authors themselves.
This investigation [pdf] is an exploration of how to properly establish the 'yardstick' of natural climate variability. … they set out to explore how to establish the variability in the longer centurial and millennial timeframes necessary to give some perspective on the multi-decadal warming trend in question, and to establish the pattern of this warming as a background to the pattern studies now being employed to solve the D&A question. Circulating under the title 'Estimates of low frequency natural variability in near-surface air temperature,' the account of this investigation is an extraordinary tale of how every toehold collapses into dust.
When they investigated the models they found that models tend to vary widely in their estimates of climate variability on longer time scales, and they tend to under-estimate this variability. This latter is perhaps understandable because the models 'do not incorporate changes in solar output or changes in volcanically induced aerosol inputs to the atmosphere.'
That they do not incorporate other external forces is a problem for detection studies because it is 'likely to inflate the statistical significance of typical detection metrics by under-representing the air-temperature variance that one should expect in nature.' The models also tell us very little about the natural spatial patterns of climate variability and what they do tell varies widely. 'This result is particularly worrying', says the paper, 'since most modern sophisticated detection methods try to find predicted spatial patterns of change' — and here referring directly to key pattern studies used in the Second Assessment.
All these facts make it difficult to say if observed spatial changes in climate are 'normal' or due to anthropogenic effects. One or both of these model flaws [in spatial distribution and understated variability] might bias the results of an objective detection study and lead us to believe confidently that an anthropogenic signal has been found when, in fact, that may not be the case.
If the models are left aside then there is no recourse to the instrument record because it is too short for this purpose, and anyway likely contaminated by the human impact. So the only place to establish the long-range background climate variability is in the proxy data records across the last millennium. And this is where the critique really bites, slamming available proxy reconstructions as inaccurate, contradictory and evidently tending to underestimate variability. The conclusion of the paper heralds a warning:
Our results should serve as a warning to those anxious rigorously to pursue the detection of anthropogenic effects in observed climate data.
And the warning is:
The spectrum of natural variability against which detection claims, positive or negative, are made is not well-known and apparently not well represented in early CGCM [model] control runs.
In other words: with the question of natural variability unresolved 'it is hard to say, with confidence, that an anthropogenic climate signal has or has not been detected.'
More than anything else cited in Chapter 8, this paper is the spoiler of all attribution claims, whether from surface pattern studies, or from vertical pattern studies (with almost no prospect of paleo proxy data), or from the analysis of the global mean. Indeed, references to it remain in the published version of Chapter 8, but the more explicit elaborations of its implications are contained in a number of the famous passages deleted after Madrid. Read it and there is no wonder that the drafts of the IPCC D&A {Detection & Attribution} chapter had concluded that 'no study to date has both detected a significant climate change and positively attributed all or part of that change to anthropogenic causes.'
And then there are the closing words of the entire Chapter. The final paragraph of the deleted 'Concluding Summary,' reads as though a summary of the paper's chief warning:
Furthermore, the large differences between the internally-generated noise estimates from different CGCMs translate into large uncertainties in estimates of detection time, even for a perfectly-known time-evolving anthropogenic signal. These noise estimates are the primary yardsticks that must be used to judge the significance of observed changes. They may be flawed on the century time scales of interest for detection of a slowly-evolving anthropogenic effect on climate. The burden of proof that this is not the case lies with climate modellers, experts in the analysis of paleoclimatic data, and with the scientists engaged in detection studies.
(4) Excerpt from "The Last Day – Part I"
It was at Madrid, and even more so at Rome two weeks later, that the lobbying by the NGOs was stepped up to unprecedented levels, including such veiled threats, and supported by newsletters, flyers and pamphlets. When arriving and departing from the conference centre in Rome, a delegate would pass through a public demonstration, a flyer showing Rome as a wasteland thrust into his hands. If he were unfortunate enough to be identified as sceptical he might even find himself surrounding by a group chanting Climate Criminal!
… just before the conference is about to begin the US State Department indicates that it is not happy with the conclusion of Chapter 8 and tells Houghton that 'it is essential' to prevail upon the chapter authors to make changes according to the outcome of 'the discussion.' Although not entirely explicit, there remains a strong suggestion that this is a formal request for Houghton to direct Santer to revise Chapter 8, and especially the Concluding Summary.
If that is what is being requested, and we take into account the US delegations strategic influence upon the direction of 'discussions' in Madrid, then there appears to be a striking similarity between the desired outcome of the US State Department and what in fact occurred. That is, following the completion of 'the discussions' in Madrid, this text of the D&A section of the Executive Summary would be revised and expanded as giving the 'current understanding' of the Chapter's science, and the Chapter would be 'revised' accordingly.
… it is hard to avoid a number of political realities, like the US domination of global politics and that there was a strong lobby keen to exploit the new Clinton Administration's strident support for global action on climate. It is also hard to avoid the fact that Santer is employed by the US government and that many of the other Lead Authors and Contributors are also dependant on the vastly inflated funding for climatology emanating from the coffers of USA and those countries (UK, Canada) aligned in the push for a positive and consistent attribution claim.
(5) Excerpt from "The Last Day – Part II: A shambolic Victory of the Virtuous"
Bert Bolin had been moving around the room consulting with various delegations in an attempt to find a resolution. Finally, at 10.30pm he interrupts proceedings, 'took over the meeting' and declares that…
… he had decided, as an extraordinary measure, to overrule the agreed text because of the extreme importance of the wording to the way the IPCC findings would be interpreted. He said he did not wish there to be any discussion but he believed the meeting would accept, as the 'bottom line' on detection and attribution: "Nevertheless the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate."
No one dissented from this ruling and so this is how this famous line came into being. For Zillman this is more than another admission of the failure to reach accord. He is surprised and taken aback by the decisive way Bolin resolves a matter of no small import to the whole assessment process.
…It is now a real scramble for the finish. The Executive Summary approval is hurriedly wrapped up during the final hour while delegations pack up and leave. Past midnight, with minutes to go, the only thing left to do is to 'accept' the underlying chapters. This would not have been of much concern if it weren't for the (now even more glaring) inconsistencies between (the body and conclusion) of Chapter 8 and (the newly drafted) D&A section of the Summary.
The story goes that this Working Group 1 Plenary did indeed give consent for the Lead Author to revise Chapter 8 according to the consensus it had finally achieved. For example, here is Houghton again in a 'Justification of Chapter 8′:
The plenary meeting finally 'accepted' the draft chapters (including Chapter 8) subject to their revision by the lead authors to take into account the guidance provided by the meeting and in particular the need for overall consistency. [Nature 382, 22 August 1996].
How explicit was this acceptance and how specific was this guidance is hard to establish. The matter would not be raised at Rome (where only the 9 October 1995 draft appeared) and precious little has been obtained recording or discussing the problem before we come to the justifications proffered months later when the controversy broke. But anyway, perhaps it doesn't matter what was actually said or not said, agreed or not; for, by all accounts, at this stage the meeting had degenerated into a shambles.
(6) For More Information
For an eye-opening look inside the IPCC see Donna Laframboise's The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert. See these excerpts at the Financial Post: part one, part two.
For more information about climate change see these FM Reference Pages:
OldSkeptic permalink13 September 2012 9:17 am
I always said I'd never argue with you again about climate change. And I wont now, I'll just make a US$100 bet with you. That by Sept 2017 (5 years) you will change your mind. If by then you haven't, then I'll pony up. We can inflation adjust the $100 if you want.
This is about in line with my prediction (here and elsewhere) a few years ago that "in 10 years everyone will panic". So 5 years is roughly in line with that time frame.
I simply download the raw data (as I did with the entire IPCC stuff, including model projections, etc) and do my own analysis. And come to my own .. and quite different conclusions. In fact some of mine are ..well …. quite more 'scary' than what most people read in the press (especially the US press).
Pluto permalink13 September 2012 11:52 am
I don't follow FM's articles on climate change very closely, but I think he has already changed his mind after reading a recent well-done study on the topic.
Read the article more closely, FM isn't decrying the science. He is attempting to document the moment when politics overcame the science and some scientists started making politically-motivated inaccurate statements about what they knew (and could prove) about climate change.
gazelle permalink13 September 2012 6:44 pm
Glad to see you admit the reality of global warming! While I'm sure you can find an outlier in a variety of fields who claim that global warming is not driven by humans, can you find any scientific group or scientific organization that disagrees about the human component of climate change?
gazelle permalink13 September 2012 7:56 pm
an outlier would be one of your recommended bloggers, Steve McIntyre. See, eg, this response to McIntyre "Yamalian yawns", Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate, 11 May 2012
Gavin permalink20 December 2012 2:54 am
A few years ago the hospital where I work was audited by our feds. I messed up right from the off by letting them in without closely inspecting their photo IDs – their posse could have been any old hatchet-faced federal goons, who would not have had the statutory right to enter a clinical area. Breach of data protection act, badda boom. Our nurse was more on the ball and just responded to their attempt at small talk "So, how are your clinical studies going at the moment?" with "Lovely day, isn't it!". They laughed – remember, as with the police, nothing is off the record and anything you say can be used in evidence against you. They were just fishing.
They found lots of things wrong, amounting to several Major Findings. None had affected patient care or the scientific integrity of our studies. In other words, we passed inspection. Auditors will always "find something wrong with it". Always. But that does not mean a reasonable person or the courts would find it actually important, scientifically or ethically.
I don't know Prof Jones, have never been to UEA, but do know auditors and audit. McIntyre is by his own description an auditor, not a scientific researcher. He is using FOI to go fishing, and this is a controversial area in law and ethics, especially in the UK where our FOI act is very recent so his actions may end up as a test case. A lawyer would surely tell you never to talk to the police without a lawyer present, and the same applies to auditors. If I was a juror listening to prosecution present this at a trial, I know I couldn't possibly convict Jones on this comment. His mistake was not to pass this self-appointed auditor's requests straight to legal affairs.
14 September 2012 6:18 am
What is so difficult about acknowledging that climate science is filled with known unknowns and unknown unknowns? When people comment here on climate science they're as rigid as those that comment on economics. Another similarity between them is you get the data you pay for.
I swear I need to read The Closing of the American Mind…


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Where and When We Play
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Peace Arch Park
Crumac joined by dancers of the Tara Academy!
100 'A' St
Blaine, WA
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Wilde Rover Irish Pub and Restaurant
111 Central Way
Kirkland, WA
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Carnation Tree Farm
An acoustic set in an agricultural setting!
31523 NE 40th St
Carnation, WA
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Conor Byrne Public House
McSorley's Reeks and Crumac celebrate 20 years of the Conor Byrne pub!
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle (Duh!), WA (Double Duh!)
Saturday, May 18, 2013 to Sunday, May 19, 2013
Greenwood United Methodist Church
Tom and Dale join choral director Fred West in a presentation of the Irish legend of Diarmud and Grainne!
6415 1st Ave NE
Seattle, WA
Sunday, March 3, 2013
House Concert
A house concert in a lovely and unusual private home on Vashon Island. Suggested donation $20. Call for location.
Vashon Island
Vashon, WA
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Fremont Abbey
Tom Creegan and Dale Russ open for the Colleen Raney Band
4272 Fremont Ave N
Seattle, WA
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Port Orchard Concerts By The Bay
6:30 pm
Mike and Dale will be doing the opening "Concerts By The Bay" on the Port Orchard Waterfront, downtown Port Orchard. Outdoor concert with covered seating!!
Waterfront Park
Port Orchard, WAshington
Friday, May 20, 2011
PPAA Hall
7:00 pm
Crumac plays for the Portland Ceili Club monthly dance.
Portland, Oregon
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Bell Harbor International Conference Center,
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Crumac will be at the Seattle Garden Club Flower Show
2211 Alaskan Way,
Sesattle, WAshington
Thursday, April 14, 2011 to Sunday, April 17, 2011
Alaska Folk Festival
Crumac will be the featured guest artists at the Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau, thru the 17th.
Centennial Hall
Juneau, Ak
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Highline Community College
7:30 pm
A Crumac concert at Highline Community College,2400 S.240th St., Des Moines. $15 Adult, $5 Student, $30 for three tickets at the door or in advance. Call Des Moines Parks and Recreation at (206)870-6527 for tickets or information.
Des Moines, Washington
Saturday, March 27, 2010
North Hill Community Center
8:00 pm
We regret to announce that this concert has been cancelled. Please stay posted for re-scheduling.
(west of SeaTac airport) @ 20827 3rd AveS.
Des Moines, Washington
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Lake City Community Center
7:30 pm
Dale Russ drives the Lake City Contradance with Mike Saunders helping to push the rhythm. It's only fitting to dance to Irish Music in March, no?
12531 - 28th Ave NE
Seattle, WAshington
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Fairwood Public Library
6:00 - 7:00 pm
A one hour show of traditional Irish Music
Renton, WAshington
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Conor Byrne Public House
3:00 - 6:00 pm
Crumac returns to familiar territory for our usual musical mayhem.
Come and say hello. Who knows how long we can keep this up.
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Burien Public Library
5:00 - 6:00 pm
A one hour show of traditional Irish Music
Burien, WAshington
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Kirkland Public Library
A one hour show of traditional Irish Music
Kirkland, WAshington
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Bothell Public Library
7:00-8:00 pm
A one hour traditional Irish Music Show.
Bothell, WAshington
Monday, March 8, 2010
Maple Valley Public Library
7:00 - 8:00 pm
A one hour Traditional Irish Music show.
Maple Valley, WAshington
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Bellevue Public Library
2:00-3:00 pm
A 1 hour Crumac concert.
Bellevue, WAshington
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Gig Harbor Grange
3:00 pm
Crumac Concert in Gig Harbor
Gig Harbor, WAshington
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Gig Harbor Grange
3:00 pm
Crumac Concert in Gig Harbor
corner of Wollochet Dr. & Artondale Dr.
Gig Harbor, WAshington
Friday, January 15, 2010
PPAA Hall
Dale and Mike hold forth at the Portland Ceili
Alder St
Portland, OR
Saturday, January 9, 2010
South Bay Grange
7:00 pm
Olympia Contra Dance
Dale and Mike rip it up for contra dancers in the Olympia area.
3918 Sleater Kinney Road NE
Olympia, WA
Sunday, December 20, 2009
St Benedict's Church
The City Cantabile Choir Celtic Christmas Concert, featuring beautiful choral arrangements from the Irish, Welsh and Scottish traditions, with Tom Creegan (uilleann pipes), Dale Russ (fiddle), and Jeri Howe and Claudia Walker playing Celtic Folk Harp
1805 N 49th St
Seattle, WA
1-800-838-3006 for tickets
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Tacoma Ethnic Fest at Wright Park
1:00 pm
Crumac will play a set at the Tacoma Ethnic Fest, on the main stage this year. This event features music and dance from many ethnic communities in the Tacoma area, as well as booths with food and cultural displays.
501 South I Street
Tacoma,, WAshington
Saturday, July 18, 2009
SeaTac Mariott Inn
8:00 PM - they throw
Crumac plays for the ceilidh at the Seattle Feis. The dancing usually ends this evening of fun.
3201 South 176th Street
Seattle, WAshington
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Lake City Community Center
7:00 pm
Dale and Mike play for the Lake City Contra Dance, at
Lake City Community Center
12531 - 28th Ave NE
8:00pm till 11:00pm,
with beginner instruction at 7:30
12531 - 28th Ave NE
Seattle, WAshington
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Conor Byrne Public House
$7 cover
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Mike and Dale at F X McRory's
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
One of Seattle's premier pubs, McRory's has been hosting Irish Music on St. Patrick's Day since it opened, in the grand tradition of it's predecessor Jake O'Shaunnesy's from as far back as 1975. Mike and Dale will open the festivities at 11:00 AM.
419 Occidental Avenue South
Seattle, Washington
(206) 623-4800
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Conor Byrne Public House
Crumac At Conor Byrn
Crumac plays from 4:00 - 7:00PM at Seattle's legendary Irish Music Venue, Conor Byrne's Pub in Ballard.
5140 Ballard Ave
Seattle, Washington 98194
(206) 784-3640
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tractor Tavern - St. Pat's Ceilidh Dance
8:00 PM -the end
The Annual St. Patrick's public Ceilidh dance at he tractor Tavern.
A fine way to finish the night and drive yourself into the pavement. Just a short crawl home if you live in the NW section of town,
5213 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
Tel: (206) 789-3599
Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Ballyhoo Irish Pub
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Getting the jump on the season with a nice evening in a lovely pub.
Olympia area folks take heed, we'd love to see you all come out.
316 Schmidt Place
Tumwater, Washington
360 - 534 - 9557
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Cherry Valley Elementary School Multi-purpose Room
Crumac in Duvall, WA - Saturday March 7
A local Irish group, Susan Burke & Friends, will open from 6:00-6:45 p.m.
Crumac's starting time: 7:00 p.m.
Crumac will play a 45-minute concert set (7:00-7:45)
Dance caller Erin Raney will join Crumac at 8:00 for a round of Irish set dancing.
26701 NE Cherry Valley Rd.
Duvall, WA
Friday, March 6, 2009
Edmonds Center For the Arts
Edmonds Center for The Arts
Zing Go the Strings featuring Crumac and The Tallboys Friday March 6, 2009, 8PM
To thank our community for their support, this event is FREE, although tickets are required. Call the ECA box office at (425) 275-9595 for tickets.
This performance will provide audiences with a unique experience in the ECA facility. Crumac will open the evening performing on the ECA stage; after their set and a 20-minute intermission, the audience will be directed to the ECA gymnasium for the Tallboys performance which will be immediately followed by a square dance.
Edmonds, WA
Thursday, January 15, 2009
PPAA Hall - Portland
The Portland Monthly Ceilidh Dance
Dale and Mike hold forth for set dancing and wild times.
Portland, Oregon
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Seattle Municipal Tower, Level 6 Plaza
Lunchtime concert - and outdoors! Can you believe it???
700 5th Ave
Seattle, WA
no phone
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Seattle Center
CRUMAC at the NW Court stage!
Seattle, WA
no phone
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Seattle Center
Our compadre, cohort and current guitar player Mike Saunders is involved in a tribute set to Murdoch MacDonald, a Cape Breton fiddle player (brother of the late Charlie MacDonald), who will be playing some of his favorite tunes with Mike, Sue Truman and Bill Boyd. 11:40 at the NW Court stage.
Seattle, WA
no phone
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Seattle Center
Dale will be doing a solo set at the Fiddler's Showcase at the Intiman Theater. Check out nwfolklife.org for a listing of other fiddlers in the Showcase and complete schedule of the weekend.
Seattle, WA
no phone
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Seattle Center
Tom will be performing on his fabulous undulating, quivering, pulsating Uilleann Pipes with the Irish Pipers Club at the Bagley Lawn Stage.
Seattle, WA
no phone
Sunday, August 26, 2007
The Tractor Tavern
8 pm $10
Traditional Irish Music in Seattle comes to a Crossroads
Finn Mac Ginty Finale
For the last two decades or so Seattle has enjoyed a vibrant Irish cultural scene. Traditional music has played a big part - the music of a small community of top-notch performers, operating mostly under the radar. Starting in the 1970's at Jake O'Shaughnessy's in lower Queen Anne and in the 80's at Murphy's in Wallingford, the "trad" scene has thrived in its adopted home. Until now, in changing times, one of its leading exponents, Finn Mac Ginty, is departing Seattle to return to his native Ireland.
Cast up on the shores of Puget Sound in 1989, after a spell in Japan, Finn very quickly rose to prominence, joining the most misspelled band in the Northwest, "The Suffering Gaels". He's partaken of many Irish Week proclamation lunches, St. Patrick's Day Dashes, KIRO TV appearances, and other celebratory Irishness; he's played for Charlie Royer, Ted Kennedy, and the ! odd republican (John Spellman).
But things change…….Finn - singer, guitar-player, actor and performer par excellence, is moving on to greener pastures (40% greener according to the European Union). He's off to the old country
In his own words:
"I am heading home to Ireland. There are a lot of endings going on as we wind down our time here. Last visit to the San Juan's....last pint at Conor Byrnes'……… last gig with Crumac ………… last Magners at Molly Maguire's."
"Shortly after arriving in Seattle in 1989 I heard Dale Russ play at the session in the original Murphy's in Wallingford....next thing I knew I'm playing guitar with The Suffering Gaels. My first gig was a live Folklife concert broadcast on KUOW. The Suffering Gaels begat The Gaels (after Conor Byrne's departure for Ireland), with a side trip through Setanta with Dale and Hanz Araki; and for the past couple of years we've been Crumac "Creegan, Russ and Mac Ginty!"
"Now it's all coming to an end as I follow the string I've always had connecting me to Ireland."
Please join Finn and his band Crumac for a last concert bash at The Tractor.
Ballard, Washington
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Municipal tower
Crumac in concert for those who like a little Irish music with their lunch-ables.We'll be on the plaza on the west side of the building.
700 5th Ave # 600
Seattle, WA
(206) 628-9042
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Conor Byrne Public House
Usual time........
Do join us for a night of Summer merriment as we take you down memory lane with a selection of your Crumac favourites.
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Friday, April 6, 2007
Conor Byrne Public House
Getting close to the end of Finn's seventeen year visit to Seattle......
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Moon and Sixpence
We're doing New Years Eve in Portland this year at the Moon. We'll be joned by Banjo Legend, Seamus Egan.
2014 NE 42nd Ave
Portland, Or.
503) 288-7802
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Third Place Books
Please join us for the last gig of the year.
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA
Saturday, December 16, 2006
The Owl and Thistle
Tom and Finn join with singer extraordinaire Jack Geary and flute player Leo Mc Namara for a blow- out song and tune fest.
808 Post Avenue
Seattle, Wa. 98104
Saturday, December 9, 2006
Molly Maguires
Finn and Tom will be doing their piping and guitar thang at Mollys,a cozy little Irish bar .
610 NW 65th St.
Seattle,, WA
(206) 789-9643
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Mulleady's Pub
8 -10pm
Mulleadys is a gorgeous Irish pub with great
food. This is also an early show
3055 21st Ave. W.,
Seattle WA 98199, WA
(206) 283-8843
Friday, October 13, 2006
Conor Byrne Public House
Yes......Conor's again !
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Conor Byrne Public House
It's that time of the bi-month again. Join us for sweltering tunes in Ballard.
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Monday, July 24, 2006
Columbia Tower
Forget about work for an hour and join us at the Columbia Tower,you can't miss it as it's the tallest black building in the NW. We will be playing right at the front doors of the Columbia Center. This is the 5th Ave. side of the building and the stage faces out towards the street (5th Ave.) and the Municipal Tower. Irish music aids digestion and cures all known ills.
Brought to you by The Downtown Business Association
701 4th Avenue
Seattle,, WA
Saturday, July 22, 2006
McMenamins Edgefield
A great venue for all sorts of events...including us !
2126 S.W. Halsey St.
Troutdale, OR 97060
(800) 669-8610
Friday, July 21, 2006
The new and re-vamped Skamania Folk Festival gets under way with live music by the dynamic trio for the ceili dance. Your caller will be the intrepid Sam Keator.
Skamania County Fairgrounds
Stevenson, WA
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Join us in Salem, Oregon for this great world music festival
Riverfront Park
Salem, Oregon
Friday, June 23, 2006
Conor Byrne Public House
Midsummer tunes from CRUMAC at your favourite hostelry
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Friday, May 19, 2006
Conor Byrne Public House
Tom, Seamus Egan & Cary Novotny will hold down the fort at Conor's while Dale & Finn cavort in St. Louis.
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Conor Byrne Public House
Hear the band at one of Seattle's finest live music venues....and enjoy the full bar!
5140 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Ballyhoo Irish Pub
Crumac at the Ballyhoo Irish Pub - Tumwater, WA
Olympia area residents will enjoy this rare opportunity to catch Crumac displaying their great musical chops and barely forgivable humor in this area. Join us for a chance to bare your "Irish souls" (along with anything else you'd care to) at a wonderful warm pub "down south".
316 Schmidt Pl
Tumwater, WA 98501
(360) 534-9557
Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Greenwood United Methodist Church
Tom and Dale join choral director Fred West for a presentation of the Irish legend of Diarmud and Grainne!
6415 1st Ave NE
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Phinney Neighborhood Center
Mike and Dale play for the Emerald City Contra Dance!
6532 Phinney Ave N
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Phinney Neighborhood Center
Mike and Dale play for the Emerald City Contra Dance!
6532 Phinney Ave N
Seattle, WA


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Perhaps the most interesting municipal election last week in the Southland was in Crestwood, where voters for the first time in decades had a real choice for mayor amid the lingering effects of the town's alarming water scandal.
They elected Trustee Lou Presta, a longtime ally of former Mayor Chester Stranczek, whom federal prosecutors believe jeopardized the health of his residents for more than 20 years by ordering the use of polluted well water in the drinking supply. Presta easily defeated Trustee John Toscas, who ran on a platform of reform after nearly 45 years of rule by the Stranczek family, in a three-way race that included a pizzeria owner making his first run for public office.
The main issue in the election was Crestwood's use of well water containing a carcinogen in its drinking water — a dangerous practice that led to the federal indictment of two top officials in the water department and a guilty plea by one of them last week. The feds didn't charge Stranczek, likely because he suffers from dementia, but made it clear they believed he had ordered the use of the polluted water to save water costs.
We don't know who would be the better mayor, but we want to see a more responsive and open village government — one that does away with the Kremlin-like secrecy that existed under Stranczek and his son.
Toscas pledged to do that — contending that electing Presta, a trustee for 23 years, would mean business as usual because he was a supporter of Chester Stranczek (mayor for 38 years) and his son Robert (mayor since 2007).
But just because Presta supported the Stranczeks doesn't mean he will blindly follow them now that they are out of power. He said he was unaware of the use of the well water, and after winning the election, he vowed to be his "own man. I have a whole new slate. ... We'll move the town forward."
That should include a transparent government, with easy access to village records, issues being discussed and decisions made in open meetings and residents encouraged to speak at public meetings.
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My mum loves getting Christmas cards, so I made her on with this sliding mechanism a few years ago (it is still standing on her desk). After stumbling over the files on my computer, I figured I could alter it and send it to the instructable team to thank them for all the awesome prizes I've won in the contests.
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You will need both of your images twice, so copy and paste them. Next press shift+ctrl+a to align your image, by first selecting your image and then the according image in the template (make sure it says "Last selected" under "Relative to"). Select "Center on vertical axis" and "Center on horizontal axis". Then send your image to the back by hitting "end" on your keyboard and delete the robot picture.
Do so with all of he images.The one on the top will be the one seen first.
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PITTSFORD A Brandon teen remained in a Rutland hospital Monday after a car crash on Route 3 Sunday afternoon, according to Vermont State Police.
Police say a 1996 Honda Civic slid off the road and into a telephone pole north of Stevens Road at just before 3 p.m.
The impact snapped the utility pole and heavily damaged the drivers side door of the Honda.
The driver of the car, Kobe Pinkham, 18, suffered broken bones and unknown internal injuries, police said. He was taken by ambulance to Rutland Regional Medical Center.
A spokeswoman for the hospital said Monday that Pinkham was listed in the hospitals directory but no status on his condition was available.
A passenger in the vehicle, John Thornton, 17, of Brandon, was uninjured in the crash. Police say Thornton was wearing his seatbelt while Pinkham was not.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation although police say speed was a factor. Several homes in the area lost power after the crash due to the downed power lines.MORE IN This Just InThe Associated Press Full StorySEOUL, South Korea North Korea has compared President Barack Obama to a monkey and blamed the U.S. Full Story
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Colder temperatures signal the return of stew weather, and we couldn't be happier. Slow-and-low cooking turns hearty vegetables and economical cuts of meat into tender, saucy stews worthy of company or a weeknight dinner. With these easy, satisfying vegetarian, chicken, and beef stew recipes from Martha Stewart, you'll be telling Jack Frost, better luck next time.
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Two Russian men were arrested for smuggling bear paws into China at a China-Russia land border in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Chinese customs police announced recently.
On the early morning of May 22 when three vehicles from Russia passed through the border city of Manzhouli, customs officers carried out a check to find something wrong with the tires of one old, worn minivan.
They immediately conducted an X-ray examination of the vehicle, which showed abnormal objects in the tires. They sent the vehicle to a repair shop and removed the tires, only to find dozens of bear paws hidden in them.
A total of 213 bear paws were found, worth about 2.8 million yuan. At present, two Russian nationals have been detained.
Customs officers said when they carried out the check, they noticed the van's driver looked very nervous.
They also said they have busted smuggling of animal skins hidden in tires before, but this is the first time they have found smuggled bear paws.
Bear paws are considered a delicacy in some parts of China and are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
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Wild Hog Baits
Baiting hogs is considered by many as the most significant step a hunter must do when pursuing these large animals. Caution must be taken when you do this because in some areas of the United States baiting is prohibited. The technique of baiting was designed in order to alter the patterns of the wild boar / hog so that they would match the hunters' needs and is accomplished by using corn or any other food substance that makes the animal come into a particular area chosen by the hunter.
Some recommend filling a bucket with corn and a couple of three skunded beers. After that, add some water in order to top off and then cover and let it cook in sun until the smell gets terrible. Others suggest using sweet feed for horses, the kind with plenty of molasses in it. Using sour mil bought from your local dairy also works wonders. Pour it into the ground and it should do the trick.
If none of the above has worked for you, another good move would be to get old produce from the local supermarket. Using the rinds of watermelons and cantaloupes also works like magic as hogs really love them. In addition, you could also get plums, grapes, avocados, apples, strawberries and pears. Run a couple of these fruits on the side of a few trees so that you get the scent out over the hunting area.
Some of the experts in this domain say that Kool-Aid pre-sugared powder in strawberry or cherry, with just about enough water to turn it into a paste, is one of the best hog baits. Maple waffle syrup and molasses also work well, give it a try. Basically, mixing any type of bait that you can find with diesel should work and will serve multiple purposes. First, hogs will definitely enjoy how it smells and it will also keep away other non-target animals, like raccoons, deer or live stock.
Other suggestions would be to use some types of baits near telephone pole cutoffs, keeping the hogs to come back to rub on the creosote oil. You could also try using 4-ounce packages of wildberry Jello. They are very easy to carry around in comparison to a 50-pound bag of corn. Just dust a few poles with this in the areas where you want to conduct your future hunting adventure. One package can be used to several areas if you are one of those hunters that like to move around.


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Plug in the pump and turn it on. The compost tea needs to brew for two or three days and should be stirred occasionally. The tea should have a pleasant, sweet odor. When it is ready, turn off and unplug the pump.
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Scholtka, Bettina ; Kühnel, Dana ; Taugner, Felicitas ; Steinberg, Pablo
Inflammation does not precede or accompany the induction of perneoplastic lesions in the colon of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine-fed rats
Kurzfassung auf EnglischHeterocyclic aromatic amines (HCAs) are formed in meat cooked at high temperatures for a long time or over an open flame. In this context 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), the most abundant HCA in cooked meat, has been suggested to be involved in colon and prostate carcinogenesis. In the latter case it has been reported that: (1) roughly 50% of Fischer F344 male rats treated with PhIP develop carcinomas in the ventral prostate lobe at 1 year of age; (2) inflammation precedes prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia in PhIP-fed rats; (3) inflammation specifically occurs in the ventral prostate lobe of PhIP-fed rats. To test whether PhIP by itself leads to inflammation in the colon and whether a human-relevant concentration of PhIP is able to induce preneoplastic lesions in the colon, male F344 rats were fed 0.1 or 100 ppm PhIP for up to 10 months and thereafter the colon tissue was analyzed histochemically. In none of the experimental groups signs of acute or chronic colonic inflammation were observed. 0.1 ppm PhIP leads to the development of hyperplastic and dysplastic lesions in the colon of single animals, but the incidence of these lesions does not reach a statistical significance. In contrast, in rats fed 100 ppm PhIP for 10 months hyperplastic and dysplastic colonic lesions were induced in a statistically significant number of animals. It is concluded that: (1) the induction of preneoplastic lesions in rat colon by PhIP is not preceded or accompanied by an inflammatory process; (2) a human-relevant concentration of PhIP alone is not sufficient to initiate colon carcinogenesis in rats.
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My name is Ryan Richter and I am a transportation planner with Metra, the commuter rail agency in Chicago. My work primarily lies within the long-range planning realm of transportation planning with specific work done on corridor studies, transit-oriented development planning, and spatial analysis. The opinions on this blog are strictly my own.
I come to the planning profession by way of an undergraduate degree in geography with specialization in geographic information systems (GIS) from the University of Iowa and a graduate degree in urban planning and policy with specialization in transportation planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago. More information about my professional experience and qualifications can be found here.
Transport Nexus was developed out of a few questions that I have asked myself ever since I was a child, moving from my childhood home on the northwest side of Chicago to the far northern suburbs as a teenager: why do the suburbs feel less free? As in, why could I no longer ride a bike to visit all of my friends? Why could I not walk to school? Why could I not do anything without a car? As I have learned over the years, through both anecdotal personal experience and my academic and professional knowledge, the built environment, codified through land use zoning and transportation engineering have a symbiotic relationship. Thus, low density single family homes built on a quarter acre (typical land uses in modern suburbs) cannot adequately support public transportation and are almost exclusively served by private automobile. I seek to examine this relationship, this nexus, between transportation and land use, along with other transportation and urban planning related items in this blog.
I will strive to keep my personal hobbies, brewing beer and learning to play the ukulele, out of this blog unless I find a transportation and land use nexus between them.
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Wildwood, Florida (map) | (352) 748-1224
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Pay with cash or check only. This is mainly a snowbird destination with mostly older, but very well maintained, manufactured homes. We stayed here while visiting relatives in The Villages. Access roads a bit tight, but other sites available for even the largest rigs with multiple slides. Only downside is that some pet owners do not clean up their pat's messes, so watch where you step! We will stay here again. - thetravelkids
Wildwood, Florida (map) | (352) 748-3870
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Rate reflects a Coast to Coast rate. Would not be worth the full nightly rate. Stayed one night. Site was not level. Site was grass. Multiple large ant beds. Water leaked and made a large puddle outside. The site was long and level. Did have to unhook toad. Would not want to stay again. - dfw
One of the quietest and friendliest TT parks. Located in the country, west sites are next to a cow pasture, east sites are next to woods and hammock forest. Very popular campground with few open sites in early March. Some sites are narrow and deep, others are wider, very few paved sites. Large trees between sites, live oaks drop leaves all year on sites. Standing water close to sites to the west of the clubhouse during the dry season. Well kept clubhouse has pool tables and card room. Bathhouse and laundry $2./wash/dry are located in center of park. Men's shower has three plastic stalls with folding chairs in dressing cubicle, decorated in nautical motif. Small, older unheated pool is located next to highway with few chairs or chaises. No free WiFi, Tengointernet is pay as you go. Scheduled activities in season: bingo, musical jam session, ice cream social, church service, and craft sale bring residents together. Expensive laundry facilities - $2/ wash or dry. Several miles east to grocery and over a mile west to gas-convenience store and fast food by I-75 interchange. Only a few channels of over the air TV with weak signals. Acceptable broadband Verizon cellular. - travelin' guy
Price reflects C2C membership. When we arrived there was not a reservation on file (Coast to Coast had not given the reservation to campground). The lady working the office assured me they would get it taken care of and she worked very diligently and finally got us checked in. There are two sections of this campground. Good paved internal roads throughout. We were in the front section, sites are grass and mud. Sites are average size. Sites are mostly pull-through and are all very level. Very nice pool area. We used the laundry facilities, nice big room; however, $2/each machine is more than we generally have paid for campground laundry. Located near The Villages, so nice location for entertainment, dining out and shopping. Good Verizon cell phone coverage and easy to get DirecTV satellite connection. - GLPColorado
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This was definitely a no frills park. There were no knobs to turn the water on. The water had to be turned on with a pair of pliers. My brother and I both stayed here. His site was supposed to have 50 amp service, but the 50 amp did not work so he had to use the 30 amp plug in. The office was closed most of the time, so it was hard to get to talk to anyone about problems. We stayed here for a month. I had paid a deposit for the electric service for both sites. We had not used enough electricity to use up the deposits. The girl in the office when we checked out did not have the authority to issue a refund for the difference. She told me I would be sent a check for the refund due me. I have not received it as of yet. I have sent an email requesting this refund, but have not had any response again. I will not stay at this park again. - SunshineFullTimer
Ok so here's the way I see this. To be a five star in my book you have to meet certain requirements to a certain degree. 1. Kid friendly. 2. Good Wi-Fi. 3. Clean bathhouses. 4. On site laundry. 5. Near stores, but still quiet. 6. Friendly, comfortable atmosphere. 7. Pet friendly. Granted there is no pool or park which, even though I don't travel with kids, I like to see. However there are a ton of planned activities for the grown folks every week. These folks have a rec hall and they USE it. They have a Gazebo and they USE it. They foster a sense of community like no place we've stayed before. So I give them extra points for that. We came in here accidentally in emergency circumstances, and were welcomed with open arms. We have been made to feel like a part of this community and it IS a community. We hope to return here at least every couple of years for the snowbird season to visit with these amazing folks. - Gypsyroad
Tight roads and no TV or Internet. Will not stay here again. No one at office most of the time. - v35pilot
Wildwood, Florida (map) | (352) 748-2774
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A little pricy, but it does put you close to the Villages and is right off I-75. Sites are very small and short except for the front row. Our rig was too long to fit when connected to truck, but being there in October, there park was pretty empty so it really didn't matter to us. The pool is very nice and the park is clean, but very little grass. Mostly sand and lots of sand burrs. Had to make sure dog stayed on pavement or close to it. Dog run is OK, but just sand. Staff is very friendly. I'd definitely stay again, but not during a busy season unless just to overnight as I don't like camping so close to my neighbor that my awning almost touches them. All in all, I'd say its a typical KOA. - LovinFT
We stayed here one night as a stop over. Good experience overall. Staff were very friendly and helpful. Everything worked well and we had no problems. Would stop here again. - ALTraveler
Nice campground and friendly management. Price reflects military discount. Great location/easy access to the interstate. The bathrooms were spotless; although, not air conditioned. The sites are grassy with great hookups (no problem with 50 amp or cable). - nlove


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Today was a snowday! Wahoo I guess...since i was so excited for the play and all and couldnt sleep! But then again, i got to sleep in...hmm so 2dayy was pretty boring though. I sorta wished we had skool so i would get the play over with and it would b done...but last year the play was rescheduled on the account of snow and well i guess its a tradition..maybe we jynxed it last year by singing that song..TRADITION from Fiddler on the roof(that was the play last year)...watever at least we have it monday..but Fridayy would have been so much better! We have Barlow next week....yikes! Well anyway...ttyl!
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Well Shelby is just one of the sweetest loveble and funny puppy I have, ever owned. She love to do cirlces whene we come home she swils and all she just loves me do death.;)
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Well those are some of my horse buddies I have added text on there to prevent anyone to use my image.:) Any way my camera is messed up and being fixed and should have Shelby's picture up soon!:)
"Happy 4th Birthday" Shelby! Have a pawsome day! xoxoxoxo Prince,Gabby & Angel
"Happy Belated 3rd Birthday" Shelby.. we were on vacation out of state, sorry we are late! Hope your day was extra special! xoxoxoxoox Prince,Gabby & Angel
Happy Birthday!
"Happy 2nd Birthday" Hope you have a great day! sending you "French Bulldog" xoxoxoox Prince from Roseburg,Oregon
Hi cutie, stopping by on our Easter egg hunt to say hi. Happy Easter You were one of our frist friends on DS. Thanks for your friendship
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Dropping by to say Happy New Year! and belated Christmas wishes! May the year ahead bring peace, good health and much happiness to you and yours! nice ponies! where is your photo? Sending you "French Bulldog" Kisses! & Hugs! Prince from Roseburg,Oregon xoxoxoxoxo
Wishing you and yours a very Happy Howlidays!
Hi Shelby: Thank you for adding me as a friend. I need to get my eys fixed you look like a horse in your top picture. he he
Hay Hay Hay shelby long time no talk :P when did u turn into a horse cause your profile picture is a horse???
Shelby....errr, ummmm....I don't mean to sound mean or anything, but your main picture looks a LOT like....well, hmmm....how do I put this? A couple of HORSES. Either that or you are THE biggest Yorkie I've ever laid eyes on! ;o)
hey shelby i love your picture.......... u look so cute.
hi shelby, um i dont want to sound mean which is a mistake i made with some other ppl, but did u just find a pic of a yorkie on the internet and use it as this account pic, bcuz thats what some ppl do and u can get sued for tht, soo.... bcuz i found the pic of "shelby" on the interbet..http://images.ask.com/pictures?l=dir&o=0&q=yorkshire%20terrier%20dog&qsrc=2352&qid=2B717A0792FE871AF6FFFC165EC3BBC3&pstart=192&page=17 soo if u did do tht u should delete tht pic right away!
Hi Shelby, it's Mokey! Thanks for being my new friend. I already introduced myself to Bailey. Glad to call you my pal too! Have fun at doggyspace! ~Mokey Pokey
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Manual fire alarm system with mutual aid connection to neighboring communities. Two-way radio systems for Newton and another system connecting Newton Fire Dept. Headquarters with 34 surrounding fire departments. 1100 fire alarm boxes, 142 police boxes, 6 engines, 3 ladder trucks, 1 emergency response unit, 1 special ops unit vehicle, and 21 other vehicles including reserve apparatus, mechanics truck, communications division vehicles, fire prevention, etc.


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Blast FC
Blast FC
Location: Columbus, OH
Website: Click here to view their website
Blast FC is dedicated to creating young passionate soccer players who truly enjoy and love to play the game of soccer. The Blast will also provide those dedicated and ambitious players the opportunity to have both a college and pro career through professional level training in all aspects of game, including technical, tactical and fitness.
Blast FC, a premier soccer club, was started in 1986 by Stan Clark and Lesh Shkreli. It has been in existence for over 20 years and is presently the longest running soccer club in central Ohio. Lesh Shkreli is the full time Director of Coaching. His passion and enthusiasm for soccer is well known throughout the region. Blast FC now have teams playing in the Midwest Regional League, Buckeye Premier Youth Soccer League, and the Mid-Ohio Select Soccer League. The Blast FC has won over 40 State and Regional Cups, and won First Place in over 80 Tournaments. Our teams have traveled to France, England, Holland, Sweden, Germany, and competed in 24 states. In addition, six players have come through the Blast FC program and had successful professional careers while many others went on to play at Division I, II and III colleges. The Blast FC Club is an active member of the USYSA.


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By: Richard Stevenson
Published by: MLR Press, LLC
Published by: MLR Press, LLC
Sixteen years after this 1992 story, and forced outing remains a hot button in gay politics. When an activist's claims that men he's outed are stalking him don't ring true, Albany's only gay PI drops his protection detail - and the client winds up dead. Strachey peels back the layers of his client's more...


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What's Your Candy Personality?
If you've got a sweet tooth, you probably love trick-or-treating, but did you know that each Halloween confection has a personality of its own? So what's your sugary alter ego? Take this quiz to find out!
By Sarabeth Sanders
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