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FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Canadian pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his seven-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine pulley, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators found anabolic steroids in the house and want to know whether the muscle man nicknamed "The Canadian Crippler" was unhinged by the bodybuilding drugs, which can cause paranoia, depression and explosive outbursts known as "roid rage."
Authorities offered no motive for the killings, which were spread out over a weekend, and would not discuss Benoit's state of mind. No suicide note was found.
"In a community like this it's bizarre to have a murder-suicide, especially involving the death of a seven-year-old," District Attorney Scott Ballard said. "I don't think we'll ever be able to wrap our minds around this."
The Montreal-born Benoit was one of the stars of America's WWE wrestling circuit and was known for his wholesome family-man image. His wife, Nancy, was a wrestling stage manager who worked under the name "Woman." They married in 2000.
When he won the world heavyweight championship in 2004, Benoit hoisted the belt over his head and invited his wife and child into the ring to celebrate. Asked by the Calgary Sun that same year to name his worst vice: Benoit replied: "Quality time with my family is a big vice. It's something I'll fight for and crave."
Nevertheless, Nancy Benoit filed for a divorce in 2003, saying the couple's three-year marriage was irrevocably broken and alleging "cruel treatment." She later dropped the complaint, as well as a request for a restraining order in which she charged that the 5-foot-10, 220-pound Benoit had threatened her and had broken furniture in their home.
In the divorce filing, she said Benoit made more than US$500,000 a year as a professional wrestler and asked for permanent custody of Daniel and child support. In his response, Benoit sought joint custody.
The bodies were found Monday afternoon in the house, situated off a gravel road in this suburb about 30 kilometres south of Atlanta.
Benoit's 43-year-old wife was killed Friday in an upstairs family room, her feet and wrists were bound and there was blood under her head, indicating a possible struggle, Ballard said. Daniel was killed shortly afterwards and the body found in his bed, the district attorney said.
Benoit, 40, apparently hanged himself at least several hours and as long as a day later, Ballard said. His body was found in a downstairs weight room, hanging from the pulley of a piece of exercise equipment.
A closed Bible was placed next to the bodies of the wife and son, authorities said.
The prosecutor said he found it "bizarre" that the WWE wrestling star spread out the killings over a weekend and appeared to remain in the house for up to a day with the bodies.
Ballard said Benoit had sent two text messages to acquaintances, one saying his wife and son were sick. The other, to a neighbour, said the door to the house was open and the pets were outside. The prosecutor said the messages appeared to be an attempt to bring someone to the home to find the bodies after his suicide.
The boy had old needle marks in his arms, Ballard said. He said he had been told the parents considered him undersized and had given him growth hormones.
"The boy was very small, even dwarfed," Ballard said.
Toxicology test results may not be available for weeks or even months, Ballard said. As for whether steroids played a role in the crime, he said: "We don't know yet. That's one of the things we'll be looking at."
Benoit received drug deliveries from a Florida business that sold steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone on the Internet, said the Albany County, N.Y., District Attorney's Office, which is investigating the business, MedXLife.com.
Six people, including two of the pharmacy's owners, have pleaded guilty in the Albany investigation and 20 more have been arrested, including doctors and pharmacists.
Steroids have been linked to the deaths of several professional wrestlers in recent years. Eddie Guerrero, one of Benoit's best friends, died in 2005 from heart failure linked to long-term steroid use.
The father of Curt (Mr. Perfect) Hennig blamed steroids and painkillers for Hennig's drug overdose death in 2003. Davey Boy Smith, the "British Bulldog," died in 2002 from heart failure that a coroner said was probably caused by steroids.
The WWE, based in Stamford, Conn., issued a statement Tuesday evening saying steroids "were not and could not be related to the cause of death."
"The physical findings announced by authorities indicate deliberation, not rage," the company said, adding Benoit tested negative April 10, the last time he was tested for drugs.
Benoit was a quiet, roughhewn figure amid the glitz and bluster of pro wrestling. He performed under his real name, eschewed scripted personas and did not bother to fix a gap where he had lost one of his front teeth. (According to the WWE website, he lost the tooth while roughhousing with his pet Rottweiler.)
His signature move was the "Crippler Crossface," in which he would lock his hands around an opponent's face and stretch his neck.
He met his wife in the 1990s when she was married to rival wrestler Kevin Sullivan. As part of the scripted rivalry, Benoit and Nancy were supposed to act as if they were having an affair. A real romance blossomed, and she left Sullivan for Benoit.
Jimmy Baswell, who was Benoit's driver for more than five years, placed a white wreath at the Benoits' gate. "They always seemed like they were the happiest people," he said.
World Wrestling Entertainment said on its website that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who had received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning."
"He was like a family member to me, and everyone in my family is taking it real hard," said fellow Canadian Bret Hart, a five-time champion.
The WWE cancelled its live "Monday Night RAW" card in Corpus Christi, Texas, after the bodies were discovered.
It also postponed its Canadian tour, which included shows in Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary and Edmonton, scheduled for July 14-17. New dates will be announced later on its website, the WWE said in a statement Wednesday.
WWE Canada president Carl DeMarco was among mourners offering condolences to Chris Benoit's surviving family at their home near Sherwood Park, just east of Edmonton, a source close to the family told the Edmonton Sun.
DeMarco flew out from Toronto late Monday and visited the family Tuesday.
Chris Benoit's father, Michael Benoit, was stoic when reached by phone, vowing the family would cope.
"We'll be fine...We'll make it."
Chris Benoit also leaves two children from a previous marriage - David, 14, and Megan, 10, who live in Strathcona County, east of Edmonton.
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"It's been almost 19 years. I wouldn't think that kind of a memory would flood back for me like it did."
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1A kind of knotted lace made by hand with a small shuttle, used chiefly for trimming: she sat making tatting
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1.1The process of making knotted lace with a small shuttle.
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Drunk-driving charges against an Ottawa woman were stayed after a judge ruled her Charter rights were violated when she was filmed using the toilet in a Toronto OPP holding cell.
Ontario Court Justice Paul Reinhardt found there was "no legitimate basis" for recording Angela Smith, an Ottawa chiropractor, according to his written decision released Monday.
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Smith told the judge she was "surprised and embarrassed, and immediately became upset" when she spotted the camera.
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In 2012, a woman in York Region, Stephanie Mok, had her charges stayed when she was filmed on the toilet in a holding cell following an impaired driving charge. The trial judge in that case called it a "degrading, humiliating, abhorrent, and demeaning invasion of privacy."
Earlier this year, Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell overturned that decision on appeal from the Crown, but maintained Mok's Charter rights had been breached.
Boswell also had words for York Regional Police on changing their practices for monitoring people in custody.
"I would hope, and expect, that with the Court's guidance, the YRPS executive will make the decision to effect change in the way they monitor detainees in their cells," Boswell wrote in an earlier decision. "It can be achieved either with repositioning the video cameras, or by installing modesty screens that cover the lower part of a person's body while using the toilet."
York Regional Police now uses masking software on video surveillance to ensure detainees' privacy.
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Reinhardt's reasons found Smith's case differed from Mok's in several ways, "the most important of which is that this is no longer a new phenomenon," Sabsay said.
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Slight advance
That represented a slight advance in a series of talks to resolve the 32-year dispute for control of the Western Sahara that have ended in stalemate, but no progress on fundamental claims of land ownership.
The UN-mediated talks, which followed earlier rounds in January as well as in June and August last year, brought together Morocco, the Algiers-backed Polisario as well as representatives of neighbouring Algeria and Mauritania. Morocco has offered broad autonomy to Western Sahara, a mainly desert territory in north-west Africa, but the Polisario Front is seeking a referendum with the option of full independence. On the eve of the fourth round of talks, Chakib Benmoussa, the Moroccan interior minister, made it clear that Rabat "only accepts autonomy and nothing but autonomy" for the Western Sahara.
'Rigid positions'
Benmoussa blamed the continuing impasse on the Polisario Front's "rigid, outdated positions".
He said that Rabat remains committed to negotiations with the aim of reaching "a political solution that guarantees the return of all Saharawis to their motherland, Morocco".
Ahmed Boukhari, a Polisario representative, said that "there was no substantial progress unfortunately" because of Morocco's "rejection to the implementation to the right of self-determination".
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yeah they're not too persistant on updates. I know it's a long way off, but something would be nice. THey have an RSS feed you can follow
Here's there last update. looks like tickets will be done most likely.
"January 28th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
We're working on the details as far as Golden Ticket sales and registration goes. We'll update the site as soon as we finalize everything."
Seriously trying to get a trip together with a few friends to make Dark Lord Day an annual event.
Helps that Mid Country Malt is fairly close as well. That damn mini-van the missus had to have is starting to sound a bit better.
maybe we could organize a bulk grain buy and just split it all up when we're there!!
That would be a better idea, I could leave a bit early, drive the truck down and pick up the malt on the way there (Can't promise anything, but thinking about it). It'd have to be a dry day, no cap on the truck, under 20 sacks as well.
Edit: Probably can do more than 20 sacks, not sure what the payload capacity is on the truck, but I think it's closer to 1 ton.
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." - VPrimary: NothinSecondary: Shady Lord RIS, Water to Barleywine, Pumpkin wine, burnt mead Kegged: Crappy infected mildBottles: Apfelwein, 999 Barleywine, Oatmeal Stout, Robust Porter, Robust smoked porter, Simcoe Smash
I am planning on going this year(for the 1st time), and I think there will be a few guys from my homebrew club that will be going too.
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Munich Helles, Oatmeal Stout, !2% Russian Imperial Stout, Milk Chocolate Stout, Barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout, 12% Barley Wine(aging)
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I'd definitely be interested in a bulk grain buy. If you're interested in getting this going, we should probably start another thread for people to post their grain bills. I'll be keeping my eyes open.
So who's going to pick the order up the night before? Who is closest with money to front?


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text: The Library Times Avon, Connecticut Newsletter of the Friends of the Library & the Board of Trustees June 2008 President's Letter Expansion Update A big thank you to all of who helped make our 2008 Book The architectural firm of Tuthill and Wells continues to Sale a success! The Friends raised $17,500 for our make significant progress in the initial design phase of Library-- another record year. the library expansion. Working closely with the Library With the proceeds from the Book Sale, we will continue Building Committee, architect Peter Wells is refining both to publish the five newsletters, fund the summer intern posi- the exterior and interior designs, which address the key tion, the museum pass program and the Winter Music priorities for the building expansion and renovation. Series. Additionally, the Friends will sponsor the Nutmeg Interior flexibility is very important so that changing book discussion groups, children's summer stories and needs of the library can be accommodated. The com- crafts, as well as the popular ice cream social. Additional fall mittee has discussed the possibility of moving out of the programs will be offered. building during construction, so research on the Three years ago, the Friends started a special fund for cost/benefit of doing that is underway. monies to be distributed after the new addition to the Library The Board of Directors has hired the consulting firm of is completed. We were able to add an additional $10,000 to Clemow Associates to assist us in determining the fea- that fund this year from our profits. We are hoping that this sibility of conducting a capital campaign to raise funds fund will continue to grow and provide some special for certain expenses associated with the library expan- enhancements to the proposed addition. A special thank you to the volunteers who made the Book sion. This firm will conduct a series of interviews this Sale happen! Under the very capable leadership of Martha summer with key people in Avon, and will also provide Dixon, chairperson, over 50 volunteers contributed their guidance to the Board in capital campaign planning and time (and hard work) at the Sale. Book Sale 2008 would not identifying the campaign committee. We are looking for- have been possible without the generous contribution of ward to the enthusiasm and broad participation of Avon sorting space by John Carmon. The use of the basement of residents in various aspects of the library campaign. In the Carmon Family Center provided the Friends with a addition, the town hopes to receive a significant state clean, dry, spacious place to sort and store our books. We grant to be applied toward the building costs and is are very lucky to have been invited back next year. As preparing to submit a grant application this summer. always, the crew from Avon Public Works moved truckload after truckload of books into the Senior Center in a timely –– Mary LaBelle Suter and efficient manner. This year several, very capable (and President, Avon Library Board of Directors strong) students from Avon Old Farms School lugged 830 boxes of books from the basement of the sorting space into the waiting trucks --- an arduous task, to say the least. Many, many hours are spent throughout the entire year: sorting, filing, lugging books. It's the volunteers who make the Sale, and we thank you all. –– Barbara Leonard President, Friends of Avon Library Author Luncheon - Save the Date Have lunch with popular author Elinor Lipman. The Friends of the Avon Library have invited Elinor Lipman to their fundraising luncheon on Friday, October 24 at the Golf Club of Avon. Check the library for ticket information. Thank you to Boy Scout Troop 274! 673-9712 www.avonctlibrary.info 673-9712 www.avonctlibrary.info 673-9712 www.avonctlibrary.info CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT SUMMER TEEN PROGRAMS JUNE A variety of summer programs for teens are planned. Please pick up a reading log at the Summer Reading Sat. June 14 and through July: All ages sign up for the Club KickOff on June 14th. A list of all summer activi- annual summer reading club, Catch The Reading Bug. Get your ties will be included. bookmarks, reading logs, and enter the raffles! *Tue. 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Throughout her twenty years access to genealogical resources, has of managing the cataloging of materials at Avon Library, recently begun a new project entering head- Susan witnessed a progression of technical changes: from stone inscriptions from the West Avon Cemetery into a the typewriter and card catalog to WIFI and downloadable new website findagrave.com. This website allows users audiobooks. She took pride in her role of maintaining the to access, maintain and expand an online database, cur- library collection, both in ordering new materials and weed- rently totaling over 22 million burial records of cemeteries ing out the old. Susan also worked on the Reference Desk and graves from around the world. Thousands use this and supervised volunteers. We honor her years of service site daily trying to locate long-lost ancestors. Using the and wish her well in this next phase of her life. cemetery transcription records Marian and Ruth Good luck Susan! Thompson complied in 1987, staff and volunteers have entered up to 400 records, each containing the head- stone inscription. Plans for the future include scanning VOLUNTEERS HONORED a photograph of each headstone into the database. On Wednesday, April 30 the Avon Library Check out the West Avon Cemetery entries at www.find- staff held a reception for the library volun- agrave.com. teers. Our volunteers include the Friends of the Library, the Library Board, and the newly created Expansion Committee. STAFF PICKS FOR They also include bakers, boutique atten- dants, book sale sorters (a few of which were working dur- SUMMER READING ing the Volunteer Reception!), VITA tax program assistants, Fiction and crafters. 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I am passionate about helping people unleash their feminine wisdom into the world. On my website www.sophialeadership.com, I invite people to ask the question "what could happen for the world if we all learned to trust our feminine wisdom more?" It's not a question of women taking over the world, but rather changing the paradigm so that we all (women and men) will be comfortable bringing our feminine wisdom into the way we lead and live.


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Intro Burst Angle is here to attempt to satisfy your need for western mech vs monster conspiracy action needs, and almost succeeds, But is to repetitive to keep long term interest. Story Meet Jo and Meg these two work for some secret mercenary organization that is on the verge of ...Reviewed by ThePsychoGamer on Dec. 6, 2009
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These manga is the journey of an anti-hero. The character is not only driven by a selfish motivation and using antihetical means, it also looks anti-heroic with a silly half-elf body. The asthetics of a childish boy with cute pointy ears, scars and the eyes of an assasin define the ...Reviewed by mareo2 on Dec. 6, 2009
Note: This review is of the English dubbed versionSetting: The earth orbits the world of Gaea.The story takes place on a parallel world called Gaea, which is populated by humans and animal people. The world is set in an industrial fantasy setting with a hint of Asian influenced design in ...Reviewed by crusader8463 on Dec. 5, 2009
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Intro Baccano tells the story about one train and the various groups that want something from said train, with a supernatural twist. While this may sound like a, lets say incoherent cluster f**k the makers fo a great job of making an inthralling orignal story. ReviewBaccano is more like a ...Reviewed by ThePsychoGamer on Dec. 5, 2009
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Note: The review processes for this series consisted of watching the English dubbed version from start to finish in three separate sittings over four days, without skipping any episodes or skipping ahead in the episodes themselves. Setting: Yomas:The story takes place in a very old medieval style fantasy setting, ...Reviewed by crusader8463 on Dec. 5, 2009
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Gurren Lagann Vol. 003
Gurren Lagann Manga v3 Vital StatisticsTitle: Tengen Toppa Gurren LagannFormat: MangaStory: GAINAXManga: Kotaro MoriOriginal Publisher: MediaWorks Release InfoRelease Date: 12/02/09 (volume 3)US Publisher: Bandai Entertainment Inc.Translator: Shoko OnoLength: 186-200 pages per volumeMSRP: $10.99 per volume Disclosure: This review is based on review copies courtesy of the publisher.The StoryOkay, I probably ...Reviewed by gia on Dec. 4, 2009
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Itazura na Kiss 1
Vital StatisticsTitle: Itazura na KissFormat: MangaCreator: Kaoru TadaOriginal Publisher: Shueisha US Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing Release InfoRelease Date: 11/04/09Translator: Sachiko SatoLength: 300 pagesMSRP: $16.95 The Story Look familiar? Itazura na Kiss was made into an anime in 2008. Itazura na Kiss is a classic shoujo series from the '90s, so the ...Reviewed by gia on Dec. 4, 2009
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School Days
School Days is probably one of the weakest titles I seen out of 2007 with its train wreck build up and shallow characters. Outside of the diverse musical tracks used in the ending of each episode and the decent looking character designs, everything about it just screamed 'meh' in my ...Reviewed by Dream on Dec. 3, 2009
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School Days
School Days well I truly feel this is a gut instinct review seeing as its 2:45 AM and I just finished the 12 episodes. OK let's get one thing straight if you enjoy life, feel love is blissful and true in any way or all the world is beautiful this ...Reviewed by Elfenlied1012 on Dec. 1, 2009
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MegaMan NT Warrior
Being a big fan of the Battle Network of the Megaman franchise, this series really attracted me. I was disappointed at some of the changes done, (I am not referring to the ones made in the English version). But overall, it was still entraining. The first season was abit dull ...Reviewed by SilverZeo on Nov. 29, 2009
Tsukuyomi Moon phase
Tsukuyomi Moon phase is badly categorized "Fantasy" written by Keitaro Arima. It surrounds the adventures of a boy named Kouhei age gestamated 15 and a vampire girl named Hazuki aka Luna age gestamtaed 12 (don't get ahead of me people). This being the most generic and overdone plot idea ever ...Reviewed by Elfenlied1012 on Nov. 26, 2009
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m working on a part of code where a label text should change value after getting a new value from a singleton class. Seems simple enough, and after testing the value it actually changes aswell, but its not updated in the view. In the view it stays the same as before. Ive tried the code both in -(void)viewDidLoad and
-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated, but with the same result.. Any ideas?
Here are my code:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
//get the new status value
sharedBarCodeValue = [BarcodeValues sharedBarCodeValues];
if([[sharedBarCodeValue storeBarCodeValue] isEqualToString:@"123456"])
[statusText setText:@"This is a new status text"];
//for testing, output status text
NSLog(@"status: %@", statusText.text);
[super viewDidLoad];
Edit: Oh, and I should mention that I´ve implemented a navigation controller, and the value should change when popping a 2. level view off the stack and going back to the root view.


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(v) The art of fingering a clit in a multiple back and forth swaying motion. It makes the girl cum so hard you can't touch her clit for at least 10 minutes.
Make it sway, sway...back and forth, swayclay. I've only been able to swayclay my girl 4 times in about 2 years...just so you get an idea.
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ErseSyllabification: Erse
Pronunciation: /ərs /
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The Scottish or Irish Gaelic language.
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One more: Folders to store related stuff in. Folders are an inevitability.
Enterprises need to have control of their stuff. icloud for storage of corporate data is not acceptable.
Also from a user's point of view you can't do a serious amount of work without a filing system. Google already tried a new paradigm with tags instead of folders. It didn't work for the masses, they went back to folders (which is really a hierarchical tagging system). Tags are great, but not a replacement for filing.
[QUOTE=Tricky_Dicky;981748]AirDrop looks brilliant. From a teaching point of view it would be great if you could send it to a group./QUOTE]
That, it can do.
You can send to anyone in the room with AirDrop on (if you choose).
There was an iOS 6 update last year (or was it even iOS 6 itself?) that had a bug in where most people who had installed it chose to restore the previous version. I'm not doing that on 130 devices.
WiFi Hotspot 2.0 !!
These things are just hidden from users unless you jailbreak or use other tools to view them. However, as Apple seems to be adding more and more higher level functions to iOS over time, it will begin to have more parity with OSX feature-wise even while OSX begins to look in appearance more like iOS.
Why not up just provide all of this power to users right from the start? Because just slapping OSX in a phone or tablet wouldn't have done anything to simplify computing for the average person and it would have required greater processing power than was possible for an iPhone size device and battery life would have been non-existent. People seem to forget that everything in life is a compromise. Choosing what can be compromised and what cannot be is never easy.
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population explosionSyllabification: pop·u·la·tion ex·plo·sion
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July 25, 2014 | Foraging, Permaculture, Permaculture Design | 26 comments | Author: Kirsten
Now that we're gardening in a frost-free area we have to get acquainted with a new bunch of sub tropical-ish weeds. This week, it's been all about the Madeira Vine. In our new garden, the stuff is everywhere.
Look up Madeira vine and you will find gazillions of references to its invasive and terrible habits. But did you know that it's edible?
Last weekend we got stuck into our new rental home's garden. Well, a corner of it, anyway. Small steps, obtain a yield, and all that.
Prettymuch every surface in the corner we started in was choked in the bright green, fleshy leaves of Madeira vine, a garden escapee which hails from South America.
Madeira vine (Anredera cordifolia) is a hardy perennial which climbs up trees and then proceeds to produce long tails of flowers followed by clusters of airborne bubils, which fall off, and make more Madeira vines.
It's considered a real problem all across subtropical Australia – choking the edge of rainforests and other native vegetation – like many resilient pioneer species, it's an aggressive little bugger.
And our new garden was choked with the stuff.
With the enthusiasm that only establishing a new garden can bring, I took on the madeira vine with gusto.
The tuberous roots were everywhere, and it trailed up the fence and the lemon tree, as well as thickly across the ground. I ripped and I ripped and I ripped it out.
During a pause in my ripping frenzy, I had a thought. And so I panted to Nick: "hey could you look up Madeira Vine and check what it's good for?"
It turns out that Madeira vine is highly edible. Medicinal, even.
So here I am, ripping out a perfectly adapted, naturalised and nutritious food crop that can be used like spinach so that I can, er, plant some spinach.
Oh the irony.
Our personal compromise? To meet the Madeira vine half way. We removed it from our intensive planting bed, But we left it be under the lemon tree, where it seemed happiest.
Our future strategy? Management and reduction, via eating it.
So we won't plant any more spinach. Until we run out of madeira vine, that is.
As I looked through the very many online articles and references to Madeira vine as a noxious pest, I was struck by the fact that only one article in twenty mentioned the vine's eminent edibility.
Don't you think that's crazy?
I mean, don't get me wrong. Native vegetation is essential to preserve, as are our remaining pockets of functional rainforest. And weed removal is a part of that.
But conversely, in an age of food scarcity, of ridiculously wasteful and polluting industrial agriculture being promoted as the only way to feed Australia (because we couldn't possibly feed ourselves with localised small farm based food systems, apparently)…
In the middle of all this, we have yet another rampant food bearing plant that is everywhere, and which is being entirely ignored for the nutrient dense value to our communities that it represents.
In fact, we have a local food source dripping, literally, from the trees around us. And yet our only plan for it, no matter where it grows, is to eradicate it.
Does this mean we should let plants like Madeira vine strangle our local nature reserve? Hell no.
But this does mean that, yet again, we have an adapted, perennial, zero footprint and highly nutritious food plant right on our doorsteps, which we're trying our best to wipe out.
Because it doesn't fit our idea of food, our idea of nature.
But unlike many other edible weeds that are there for the foraging but which could be easily discounted from cultivation due to various factors, it's interesting to note that Madeira Vine ticks many of the boxes desired for a food crop…
And if that's not enough, Madeira vine is already successfully cultivated + eaten extensively in Japan, where it is called okawakame (land seaweed)
At any rate, I feel fortunate that we looked it up, and now know of another local food that can be used to nurture our family and friends.
Seeking sustenance by whatever means available, and necessary.
It's a pickle, isn't it – what do you make of this issue?
Actually, speaking of pickles, i rekon Madeira vine would make a good pickle or kraut addition…
**Update in response to the various folks who are determined to see the above post as a promotion of cultivating noxious weeds – people, read the post again. It's not.
What I am saying is that using the resources around you (even as you attempt to eradicate them) is a good idea, and an ethical approach to energy + food consumption.
Whether it's madeira vine, feral rabbits, whatever – eating it is an appropriate use of energy, and should be considered over the alternative of exclusively approaching the problem with glyphosate or pindone.
And if you really want to talk weeds and the destruction of the Australian landscape, let's start with the big ones – rice, wheat, canola, sugarcane and so on… it's a long list, if you look at it in terms of adverse and invasive impact on our ecosystems…
I look forward to hearing how you'll prepare it and how it tastes. It's not a plant I'm familiar with where I live in New Zealand
Reminds me of an invasive we have been fighting called "Kudzu (/ˈkʊdzuː/, also called Japanese arrowroot".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu
have the stuff in droves here ( Northern sydney). my solution is chooks. they love the stuff. I personally hate it with a passion. didn't find it very palatable when I tried using it like spinach, but maybe I have a psychological hang up about it. Very happy to eat my (vegetative) enemies, but can't come at this one. good luck with it!
If you'd like more to harvest do come to Mangerton Reserve
I lived in Saitama and never tried this. Interested to hear how it tastes. It should not be confused with the more commonly-known Japanese 'land seaweed' of okahijiki.
This is such good news! I have loads in my rental property garden too and each time I've gone to research it's goodness I've only discovered more of its evil. Thank you so much for this post and references. I will be experimenting tonight and indeed many nights to come:-)!
Kirsten, I thought I had read somewhere that tubers are toxic and can kill pigs and cattle. Did you come across this information?
Great post. I'm all for being able to eat anything especially if it saves me a 2 hr drive to the shops. I've just moved to the mid north coast so not much of a veggie patch yet. Anyone got any ideas for lantana recipes?!
such an interesting post! – have you tried eating it? – I want to hear about how it all tastes
GREAT news. I've been trying to wrestle it out of my yard here in Melbourne and now can give it a use, thank goodness
What have your edible experiments been like? Are the roasted tubers palatable? Would love a follow up on your Madeira eating adventures!
We're cooking up some tubers this week – will report back. The leaves are fine, they're just going in everything that needs greens – soups, casseroles, canneloni etc
It's articles like this one that makes me look forward to the regular emails. My friends are clearing this plant from their land; I'll be scrounging off them for a meal. I've seen this plant many times and didn't know its name. I suppose it won't taste like chicken huh?
No but it will taste good WITH chicken
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Really impressive article! I have worked in bush regen and this weed is a shocker in bushland….but of course in the garden an asset! Thanks for sharing all sides, esp the edibility!
Uggh, I'm happy for the chooks to have it but then I don't think even they could keep it totally under control. Frost can and I for one would prefer to live with the frost than have this plant. Dandelion, on the other hand, the more you harvest the better they gets.
I'm in the Northern Rivers and it is a major pest , smothering the rainforest and choking the temperate forest , I have tried to get rid of it and it takes years and surprisingly the tubers will stay viable for 2 years ! As to eating it not for me , but i am interested to see how the tubers are roasted. the chooks are not that fussed , but I an persevering and hope they start to like it because the nearby forest has loads.
Madeira vine is the only thing screening our otherwise perfect view of the neighbours back deck so I've done little to control it other than keep it out of the trees. The growth is extremely fast, the tubers large and ubiquitous..plus it seems to flower at every opportunity. I imagined it robbing loads of nutrients from the nearby avacado and apple tree so I put a compost pile between them and try to keep the tubers out.
Last week I started adding them to our fresh juice in the morning and quickly realized they are a much stronger taste than spinach so I halved the quantity and use younger more tender leaves. Kids didn't complain so it's all good. I also used them in place of spinach in an omelette chopped finely without disclosing the ingredients to the kids. My son (7) proclaimed after his first bite that it was the best omelet he'd EVER had….so we've officially befriended our Madiera:-)…now for these tubers!
Rumour is, from the local ecologist, that permaculturalists are responsible for this particular problem weed. It's one of the main reasons we have a bad name with the 'experts'.
Hmm. I don't buy that – so your ecologist is saying all 'the permaculturalists' lobbed it over their back fence into reserves? Was it a mass co-ordinated nationwide action?
The dumbass actions of one or a few people based on misunderstanding of the basic premise that weeds can be useful (and, as always, context, context, context) doesn't equate to everyone using permaculture design theory, sorry.
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Just my own experiences with Madeira vine. I pulled out a row a shrubs along the back of our yard (10 or so metres) totally engulfed in this stuff last year. Despite making an effort to pick up all the bulbils, they are very easy to scatter and every single one grows into a new plant. We get mild frosts in my part of South Gippsland, and it certainly doesn't stop Madeira! The problem comes say if one was to leave a rental or to sell up, and then some regular Joe-backyarder moves in and decides to take a load of Madeira to the tip. All it takes is a couple of bulbils to fall off on the way and bam, it's in bushland. I am currently in the process of watching it choke out a patch of reveg bush that I helped plant about 15 years ago along a roadside. In an ideal world people wouldn't take Greenwaste to the tip but unfortunately this isnt an ideal world.
As for a spinach alternative, sure use it if you have it but I strongly discourage anyone from planting any more. The are plenty of other spinach weed alternatives that taste better and are less devastatingly invasive my 2 cents
As for my own garden I still can't get rid of the stuff, it is outcompetint my raspberries
yep, we're not encouraging anyone to plant it, just saying that, if it's edible, then maybe it should be seen for the resource it is rather than ripping it out while degrading other land to plant crops…
Oh definitely, I only wish we could eat ours but (un)fortunately we have an over abundance of better greens such as nettles, self seeded kale, fat hen, mallow etc. Now if only meat grew on trees (or vines) we'd be set!
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****Every 22nd of each month is $2 Drinks****
Wed Night Bags... fun weekly prizes starts 7pm
Tex Mex & Trivia Tuesdays 7pm ..Weds Rib Specials. .Thursday Pizza Night
Friday Fish Fry Specials..Sundays MONSTER Bloody Marys
Fridays are MARX Homemade Fish Fry & Weekly Seafood Specials
Sundays - Open at 10AM for Bloody Mary's
and Omelets available 10am to 2pm
Fridays our grill is open until Midnight!
MARX Happy Hour:
Mondays- All day! Tue- Thur 11-7pm Fri 11- 5pm
$2.50 Rails $2.25 Domestic Bottles $1.25 Domestic Mugs $2.00 Domestic Pints
Sat & Sun - $5 Salad in a Glass Bloody Mary Specials.