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Dead of winter Friday, booted writer holed up by stove, the window shows monochrome for miles.
Its been a quiet week here in Minnesota. Seldom above zero. The oak goes in and the smoke comes out, ashes get sprinkled on ice underfoot. Most sounds and sights are puffled under a foot of snow. At night the trees crack and coyotes howl in packs. Those hours pass with the bittersweet speed of blackstrap. Suns seemed kind of shy - out with a pair of dogs just one day lately, then blurred back over the hill by flurries and nightfall. Sundogs are important omens. But one forgets, the whole skull becomes numb with cold and darkness.
The real dog is out just long enough to track her circle by mailbox, bridge over steaming creek, pasture fence, shed, woods edge, cornshock, rabbit lair, junk trunk, perimeter of smelly yellows. She gnaws at frozen venison swinging from a tree, a salvaged buck too far gone for me. Then back to scratch at the door, pine fibers pile up from the pawing, someday shell be through without my help. Someday well all be in and out of the cold.
Crows on snow. Is it true they live to be 100? Is it true they assassinate a bad crow in the band? A bunch last fall had one down, pinned and pecked, on the ground. I followed my binoculars down to find just a spot of blood, no body, few feathers. Its not the first time Ive witnessed this.
A crow on snow is like a dotted i or period on a page pretty much vacant. Trees, their stumps, fenceposts and angry wire stand stark out on the white sheet. The margins move in slow, like cold in bones, to see if something black can escape, take wing. The crow, no dummy, does.
The suns a joke in Minnesota until the Equinox. Its up late and weak, bleary with hangover from the bluffs, needs a couple dogs to brave a flurry. The dogs just hang there on East and West, no bark or bite, drooling uselessly into the pink sunset. Crow flies as close as she wants. Nothing melts. Her feathers are a veritable solar collector and from up here shes hot to spot brunch.
At 20 below smoke rises slow and straight. Creeks steam. Semis on I-90 whine frozen tires for miles. Cattle hunch with frosted muzzles. Coyotes curl up on a goat prairies yellow sandstone. Bright schoolbuses shift the inclines of country roads, growl on toward the big river. A shotgun blast on the ridge is a red oak finally fractured by this cold. All this the crow knows.
Theres corn and plenty of it. Standing fields are shopping malls open 24 hours for wildlife. Snow tells the tale in tracks of all configurations. The farmers ink those tracks on their 1040s, hope for the best. But corns boring to a crow with class, black as a briquet in a cave, savvy as a snakes patience. The last snake I saw taken by a crow was a big one, 30 inches or so. The bird worked for altitude, the garter snake writhed for leverage, they went fighting out of sight over the ridge. I bet the bird won, sort of a dinosaur itself, using wits instead of cutlery of raptors. Probably called a friend, cah, cah.
Except for snow snakes, yuk, and the same old frozen field corn or warm manure spreader corn, theres not much out there except that possum from last Tuesday. Most crows watch their diet. They discuss food at length. They ignore microwaves and calories. Proteins nice but what about variety? Taste?
At 800 feet its obvious, a deer crumpled up by a pickup late for work. The crow drops down, no falcon by far, but fast enough. Good, its dead. Its a real drag waiting around for canines or the elements to finish off breakfast. Crows arent much equipped for killing meals over 8 ounces. But theyre real social: friends and neighbors! Guess what! I found a whole bunch of bank bags from a leaky Brinks truck, come on down! I cant count the sacks, but the first ones full of 100s.
The crows converge and descend, just like commuters streaming into a business. The boss gets the easy eye looking at the sky side of winter, yum. The crows discuss the feast of the week, nibbling all the while at each end featuring tender parts. They rejoice, in a dark knot full of anticipation, the damage the Chevy did to the chest cavity, the neat wreckage exposing mushies theyd never get to with blunt beaks. And the absence of pushy vultures too stiff this icy morning to get there in time.
Time is nothing to a crow. You freeze, you sweat, you enjoy the interim. Thats a year marked mostly by an event all local crows can relate to: fireworks over Lake Winona. They agree its ridiculous, most of them have been shot at, albeit in daylight. Uncle Bens left wingtip was lost to a long-range sniper. Catherine carries a few BBs in her breast. After dark its worse, horned owls come out of nowhere and, thump, Junior or Sis cry under silent wings off through the woods to erehwon, a winter without end or even an inkling.
But the crows are stoics. They stay in the neighborhood, learn the vagaries of air and lush buffet of summer and sparse tidbits of the Hunger Moon. This roadkill is a real windfall, but secretly during the feast they dream of tasting one of them people, maybe me.
A guy worn down by the season, sick and tired of this climate, in a black mood. Hes done everything dark there is to do for months. Crows have been watching with drainoil eyes from the corners of winter. They wait for a mistake or slipup on the ice slope. Tougher than buzzards, they perch there on the fingers of stiff trees.
February clenches its fist to wring out the last of color. It grips the yellow trucks engine. It pinches the woodpile down to sticks so the last red ember will be soon. It scoops snow in huge handfuls packed against doors and windows. It squeezes the guy until plaids and paisley, even blaze orange are all gone. Snow drifts higher. Hes out kneedeep in greasy gray hacking at the last of pallets to keep the fire alive. His hands have memorized the rough oval of axe handle until they cant forget. They wont work to open the door of this feverish cabin. They cant carry coals to heat the frozen engines oil. The black dog is no help whatsoever.
Hes skiing. The crows laugh to each other. The dog romps ahead but the skier is slow. His hands are rusted wrenches on the ski poles, his feet go South in strides instead of glides. At this rate, with the wind picking up, its going to take longer than he thought.
Thinking of winter takes a lot of experience. There are the hard ones of cold spells and snow depth, the forgettable and memorablelike blood red aurora smearing the whole sky for hours when even the springs froze down to burbles.
Or skidding accidents on ice, tongues stuck to steel, ducks locked in by their webs, snow burying the heifers, Buicks breaking through en route to the fishing shack, black flesh of frostbite, pheasants stuck under the crust, long nights.
Its morbid business, being a Minnesotan this time of year. Immortality spent the summer and fall like a roommate, then borrowed the keys to go for candles. In Tallahassee it turns out. The long-distance call came unexpected, collect, like the blizzard. Mounts up by the minute to bad news.
The bends of ski tips demarcate the drifts, a two-track filling in behind the escaping skier. He unwinds the miles of valley toward Iowa. The saved string, knotted in past winters, runs out in scant mile and a yard. Crumbs take up the trail in measured pinches from two crusty loaves in his heavy pockets.
Thats where the crows come in. From the black North, behind his back, they flock down to eat the bread, hop and cavort, cah, cah.


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Winterreise : Work information
- Composers
- Franz (Peter) Schubert ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- José van Dam (Baritone), Dalton Baldwin (Piano)
This work
- Work name
- Winterreise
- Work number
- Key
- n/a
- Genre
- Composed
- 1827-00-00 02:00:00
This recording
- Label
- Forlane CI
- Producer
- Ivan Pastor
- Engineer
- Francois Brillet
- Recording date
- 1990-01-01 00:00:00
The Composers
Franz (Peter) Schubert
In his short life, Viennese-born composer Franz Schubert made significant contributions to orchestral, chamber and piano music that were to influence generations of composers. His most telling contribution, however, was probably in the field of German art-song or Lied, of which he composed more than 600 examples.
Born the son of a music-loving schoolteacher on 31 January 1797, Schubert received his first piano lessons from his older brother, Ignaz and his first violin lessons from his father. He began composing his first songs and string quartets soon after. Early training with Salieri and a solid education at the Imperial and Royal City College, where he met lifelong friend Josef von Spaum, followed.
In 1813 Schubert began to train as a teacher and in 1814 he became an assistant to his father. Throughout this time, he continued to compose prolifically, writing 150 songs alone in his eighteenth year. Having failed to win the post of music teacher at the teachers' training college in Laibach, he became dissatisfied with his vocation and in 1816 refused to return to his father's school.
Schubert never married, but it's possible that he was in love with Theresa Grob, a young soprano, and his application for the Laibach post was a precursor to a proposed union. In any case, he failed to win the post and renounced the possibility of marriage soon after.
Although by this time the young Schubert had written over 300 songs, 5 symphonies, 4 masses and 7 string quartets, there had still not been a single public performance of his music in Vienna. In 1818 this started to change, transforming Schubert's fortunes and finances.
By 1821, Schubert had been tutor to the Esterházy children at Zselitz, had found brief employment as a répétiteur at the Hofoper, and had seen many of his works performed and published. In January of 1821, the first documented Schubertiad, a gathering of Schubert's friends at which the composer would play his latest works, took place.
1822 was another highly creative year during which Schubert earned enormous sums from his frequent publications. However, in order to maintain his prolific output of music, the composer lived an intense, bohemian lifestyle: writing solidly from 6 am to 1pm everyday, he would eat unhealthily, drink and smoke prodigiously, and engage in sexual excesses. In early 1823, Schubert contracted syphilis and for the next six years suffered from the symptoms that would eventually lead to his death.
Despite his illness, the pace and quality of his musical productions continued unabated. 1824 saw a return to Zselitz, possibly because he was in love with Caroline Esterházy, and the summer of 1825 saw Schubert accompany Vogl on an extended trip around Austria. Coming in the middle of a prolonged symptom-free period of good health that lasted until July 1826, this was undoubtedly the happiest time of Schubert's life and produced the Great Symphony No. 9 in C major.
The remaining three years of Schubert's life would see a down-turn in the composer's health, fortunes and finances. On 28 January 1828 the last Schubertiad took place and in March, the composer felt confident enough to present a grand concert of his works. Despite netting Schubert a great deal of money, the proceeds seem to have slipped through his fingers.
Now suffering badly from the symptoms of syphilis, Schubert moved in with his brother Ferdinand in September 1828, but the damp air of his house only compounded the illness. Still, Schubert kept up the pace of his composition, completing his great song-cycle, Schwanengesang. On 19 November, Schubert died, probably from the advanced state of his illness.
Although between 1821 and 1828, over 100 opuses had been published, less than a quarter of Schubert's total output was published during his lifetime. Of those works that were, more than two thirds were songs; the famous Unfinished Symphony, for example, was not performed until 1865.
Yet Schubert's influence on the remainder of the 19th century was immense and arguably rivalled or exceeded that of Beethoven. Based on the traditions of the Viennese Classicism of Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven, he developed his own uniquely expressive style, particularly suited to song, but equally effective in instrumental works.
His works were catalogued by O E Deutsch in 1951 and are therefore prefixed with the letter D.
Related composers: Beethoven, Mozart, Rossini, Weber
Also influenced: Brahms, Franz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wolf, Mahler
- MIDI FILE - "Serenade" (3'36'')
- MIDI FILE - Ave Maria (2'04'')
- MIDI FILE - Wander Fantasie for piano (complete) (20'45'')
Track listing
- Gute Nacht 5:39 min
- Die Wetterfahrne 1:57 min
- Gefrorne Tränen 2:38 min
- Erstarrung 3:04 min
- Der Lindenbaum 5:09 min
- Wasserflut 4:59 min
- Auf dem Flusse 4:09 min
- Rückblick 2:16 min
- Irrlicht 3:47 min
- Rast 3:54 min
- Frühlingstraum 4:12 min
- Einsamkeit 3:02 min
- Die Post 2:15 min
- Der greise Kopf 3:28 min
- Die Krähe 2:11 min
- Letzte Hoffnung 2:40 min
- Im Dorfe 3:21 min
- Der stürmische Morgen 0:53 min
- Täuschung 1:27 min
- Der Wegweiser 4:41 min
- Das Wirthaus 3:49 min
- Mut 1:25 min
- Die Nebensonnen 3:10 min
- Der Leiermann 4:30 min
Schubert's penultimate song cycle, Winterreise D911 (Winter's Journey) is possibly his greatest achievement in song writing. A setting of 24 texts by Wilhelm Müller, book 1 was composed in the spring of 1827 with book 2 following in October.
A bleak and tragic work dealing with the pains of unrequited love, the cycle is also a soulful and profound emotional journey. The opening darkness of Gute Nacht reaches the despair and anguish of Erstarrung and Der stürmische Morgen, and ends with the resigned fatalism of Der Leiermann.
Perhaps only Der Lindenbaum looks back to the easy comfortable melodiousness of Schubert's earlier works. Though many songs of the cycle start positively with rememberances of past happiness (e.g Frühlingstraum, Die Post), they turn sour as realisation of the poet's lost returns.
This epic musical and emotional journey is a masterful work that brings Müller's poetry to life. Its significance for later composers of German Lieder (eg Schumann and Wolf) is incalculable.


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Girls Trip!!
I stayed at Breezes Resort & Spa in September with 4 other females. We had a lovely time. On arrival we had adjoining rooms on the 3rd floor ...the only downside was that we could not all sit on the balcony together as they were just too small. After discussing this with management the next day we were given adjoining rooms on the ground floor near the pool area where we could all sit outside together. Breakfast was a full buffet where everyone's choices were catered for...the choices were really huge and the food good. The gym is very well equipped and included good music cold towels and cold water. We used the information service and found the staff informative and helpful. Internet connection was good. The room cleaners did an amazing job of animal characters with the towels. We organised our driver for the week through the front staff and also used the departure lounge area as our checkout time was 12 and we didn't leave till 7:30pm. We found this service to be clean, tidy and saved the cost of late checkout. Deck chairs were available whenever we needed them...towels were not dumped on them early in the morning like other places. Overall all the staff were very friendly, the rooms clan and tidy, the pool bar fun especially at bingo and trivia times. I would recommend this to young people and groups more than couples. We all enjoyed our stay here.
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Breezes was a great place to stay for a short or long time. We stayed for the last week of our holiday and we were well looked after. The pools were great and the swim up feature was very lovely. The restaurant was much better than I expected.


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Poggio Trattoria is celebrating 10 years with 10 nights of celebration over a month with a couple of guest chef dinners each week, starting with "A Family Reunion" on Oct. 9.
Poggio veteran Peter McNee will come back for the reunion as will the original wine director Nick Nahigian. Together with chef Benjamin Balesteri, the chefs will make the night shine with Northern Italian flavors.
There will be a different $45 prix-fixe menu each night of celebration.
The final evening, Nov. 14, kicks off the start of Poggio's Festa di Tartufo Cominica, a weeklong celebration of truffles.
Poggio is at 777 Bridgeway in Sausalito. Call 332-7771 or go to www.poggiotrattoria.com.
Party at the patch
There's a party at the Nicasio Valley Farms pumpkin patch Oct. 20.
Make mozzarella cheese with SF Milk Maid, bake your own flatbread pizza with Mike the Bejkr and press your own apple juice with Nana Mae's Organics Nicasio Valley Farms while supporting Marin Agricultural Land Trust by donating 10 percent of its pumpkin sales from come 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The pumpkin patch will be open every weekend in October. Nicasio Valley Farms is at 5300 Nicasio Valley Road in Nicasio. For more information, call Marin Agricultural Land Trust at 663-1158 or go to www.malt.org or www.nicasio valleyfarms.com.
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Learn about Tequila Mañana and how to pair it with food at a special three-course tequila-fused dinner Oct. 12 at Saylor's Restaurant and Bar in Sausalito.
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The dinner costs $37 and is at 6 p.m. Saylor's Restaurant and Bar is at 2009 Bridgeway in Sausalito. Call 332-1512 or go to www.saylorsrestaurantandbar.com.
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Pioneer winemaker Bob Lindquist will be at Bungalow 44 for a dinner featuring pairings of premium Qupé wines from Santa Maria Valley with a four-course dinner in its private fireplace room at 7 p.m. Oct. 16.
Dinner costs $85 and includes Dungeness crab and scallop ceviche; grilled chanterelle mushrooms; a choice of entrees, Liberty duck breast or beef short ribs; and a Cowgirl Creamery cheese plate. Bungalow 44 is at 44 E. Blithedale Ave. in Mill Valley. Call 381-2500 or go to www.bungalow44.com.
Give us blood
It's time for Marin Brewing Co.'s biannual blood drive; give a pint to Blood Centers of the Pacific and get a free meal from Marin Brewing Co.
Show up between noon and 5 p.m. Oct. 19 at Marin Brewing Co. at 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle in Larkspur. Call 461-4677 or go to www.marinbrewing.com.
Open only since late March, San Rafael's Sana Marin has recently closed.
We'll be watching for what's next in the 2200 Fourth St. location.
Anna Haight is a longtime Marin resident and an even longer foodie who blogs at Anna's Cool Finds, www.annascoolfinds.com. Her bread and butter column appears Wednesdays. Have news about chefs, restaurants and other foodie goodies? Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/annahaight.


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114 Mr S.M. Bruce, High Commissioner in London, to Mr R.G. Menzies, Prime Minister
Cablegram 262 LONDON, 29 June 1939
Prime Minister [1] sent for me last night to ascertain the reactions of Australia to the present situation at Tientsin.
After making clear to him that anything I said would be mainly surmise on my part we had about an hour's conversation.
Broadly what I conveyed to him was as follows:-
(1) That Australia considered the position had not been very happily handled in its inception and elaborated to him the views given in my telegram of 17th June. [2]
(2) That Australia would desire every effort to be made to relieve the present tension that was possible, having regard to the necessity of maintaining our prestige, not encouraging the Japanese to further and more far-reaching action, and not antagonising American opinion by the appearance of abject surrender.
(3) That we agreed that the best means to this end would be conversations now arranged between the British Ambassador [3] and Arita [4] in Tokyo.
(4) That if the Japanese were intransigent, refused localisation of the issue and endeavoured to force a change in United Kingdom policy we would recognise the necessity of taking a stand.
(5) In the event of action being necessary by the United Kingdom herself, such as increased assistance to China, or economic reprisals, we would not offer opposition to anything that might be decided particularly if it were in conjunction with the United States merely on the grounds that it might lead to hostile armed action by Japan.
(6) That in the event of its being necessary to ask Australia's cooperation in any economic action, we would probably agree because such a request would only be made in face of extreme provocation by Japan involving dangerous repercussions which could only be met by determined and united action.
I raised with the Prime Minister the point as to Naval reinforcement in the Pacific in the event of action being necessary which led to hostile armed action by Japan.
I told the Prime Minister that I had seen exchange of cables which had taken place with late Prime Minister [5] and that I could not understand the suggestion of a new situation having arisen, as in all my conversations with the British Government last year on the subject of part of the Grand Fleet proceeding to the Pacific, the possibility of a combination of Germany, Italy and Japan had always been visualised.
He then told me of the exchange of cables with yourself recently and read me his reply. [6]
I told him that I thought the position was most unsatisfactory and that it needed greater clarification.
I suggest that you should authorise me to take this question up with the British Government.
Please advise me of your views on the above points so that I can inform the Prime Minister whether my impressions of Australian attitude were correct or otherwise.


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With his foot-high strawberry blond hair, loose-fitting tuxedo, white gloves and spats, 42-year-old clown Bello Nock is easy to recognize.
The Big Apple Circus made him a star and from there, he went to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he was a headliner for four tours. Ringling Bros. thought so highly of the performer that for the first time in its 140-year history, it named a show after one person — Bello.
Ringling Bros. Circus Producer Kenneth Feld called Bello "a once in a lifetime performer," while Time magazine named him "America's best clown."
Now, the famous clown is coming back to Queens, as the Big Apple Circus presents "Bello is Back!" in Fresh Meadows' Cunningham Park for performances beginning Saturday and running through June 6.
Heady stuff for someone whose livelihood depends upon making people laugh under a big tent. But then again, Bello can ride a motorcycle on wire 65 feet above the audience, perform acrobatic feats atop a steel sway pole at up to 80 feet in the air, juggle, perform on the trampoline and wow fans with death-defying feats in a motorcycle globe and a giant wheel of steel.
But his talents don't end there. Bello also plays 12 instruments and speaks five languages.
In a recent telephone interview, the likeable performer said he's not the typical clown. "I'm a mix of Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey," he said.
Bello described modern circuses as "ever changing and never changing." He believes the big top is relevant and innovative, but said that people still want to see traditional acts. "It's a balance," he added. "You have to learn that to be in a circus." The performer still practices to make his skills look easy, but as a daredevil, he never works with a net. "I have safety measures, but no devices," he said.
Sawdust is unquestionably in Bello's blood. He's a seventh generation circus performer, whose father's family started the Circus Nock in Switzerland in the 1700s and whose mother comes from a family of Italian circus stars. He's married to his high school sweetheart and is the father of three children, all of whom travel with him on the road.
Bello's parents married in Sarasota, Fla., where he continues to maintain his home. One of four brothers, Bello said his family has close connections to Flushing. His brother was born there while his parents were performing in the circus at the 1964 World's Fair. "All the rest of us were born in Florida, so when we see a replica souvenir of the Unisphere, we always get it for him," he said.
His parents have another historic connection to the area. They performed as an opening act for the Beatles when the mop-tops played at Shea Stadium in 1965. "Flushing is near and dear to my heart," Bello said.
Now about the hair. Bello said he grew his hair long as a kid because otherwise his scalp got sunburned when he waterskied. "I have very straight hair and I wanted to be the Fonz," he said.
Keeping to family tradition, Bello's children, ages 14 to 20, have learned some of their father's skills. "I never wanted them to feel obligated to be in the circus," he said. "But they gravitated toward it. All can ride the unicycle, walk the wire and juggle."
"I was taught at a young age that nothing is impossible," Bello added. "I absolutely taught my children the same. You have to methodically break things down — first you crawl, then walk, then run."
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Thank you Krystine and Lisa.. Your hugs and prayers mean so much.. I am so deeply sorry for your loss, Lisa *hugs to you* Yes, it does seem that we have walked the same path this past year. There has been so much both before and after my Mom passed away. I have absolutely no one to talk to and I wish that I had found this forum so much sooner. I made it through Mom's Birthday ok. Yes, I had a cry, but that only means that I love her and miss her. I made the day a quiet one, kept seeing my Mom's smile and it ended with the fulfillment of a promise to plant something pretty so that she could give back to the earth. |
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Hide and seek has become a popular custom game mode, unfortunately the rules have never really been put down in quality. So here we go.
Basic rules:
-this game mode is to be played on dominion and in draft mode .
- It lasts 40:00, for this is when hiders win.
-There are 5 hiders and 2 seekers. --The seekers get unlimited lives, hiders get five lives
-Recommended champs to ban,not mandatory, hiders ban, Warwick, twisted fate, lee sin and Ashe
-Seekers ban teemo, Evelyne, shaco and kassadin
-storm shields are allowed
-clairvoyance is not allowed ever for anyone
If you don't know what cc is here is a good link, http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/...FCrowd_control
Hider rules:
-Hiders can only use cc ,or crowed control, jumps, speedups or heals(as long as it doesn't deal damage).
-Only one warded ability allowed per bush ex.Teemo shroom, traps.
-Absolutely no auto attacking, this goes for Ashe and sejuani. Nautilus is the only exception. Auto attacking will be pardoned the first time, but after that it is -1 life.
-Killing a seeker is strictly prohibited, though a good tactic is to group up and do damage with just cc but killing a seeker is not acceptable and will result in loosing a life.
-Getting Rylia's and using abilities does Not count!
-You may not attack an enemy under 300 health but you can harass them if they are teleporting back and not under 300.
-If you loose all 5 lives you must go to the center of the map or at base, you cannot be on the outer ring or in the jungle.
-You must sell all your items *can keep/buy shoes, guardian angels, or warmogs*.
- If someone happens to go afk, one of his lives will be donated every five mins(chose among each of you who gets it).
-Lives can be given to each other freely, remember to state who gets it each time in the all chat. Seekers might want to mark down how many people have how many lives.
-You cannot go back to base, you can only buy items when you die
-Only two hiders can be in a bush at a time
-Remember that you can all gang together and do damage together
-you can go on the first and second segment of the stone path leading into the base
Seeker rules:
-Must wait until 2:00 mins before going out of their base
-Must recall at -300 health, if you kill while under 300 health the seeker will not loose a life, if you die, the hider will lose a life
-Only one slowing item is allowed for both seekers.
-Revealing items ex. Lightbringer,oracles and hextech sweeper are only allowed at 20:00 mins and only one seeker can have one.
-You cannot attack "dead" people in center.
-hiders get a 30 second grace period after respawning
If someone is a troll just be the better person and surrender, it's just a custom game. Explain why your surrendering and rehost a new game, when rehosting I found it useful to make the title: Hide and Seek rehost, [your champions name]
Banned hider stuffs:
Thornmail, guardian angel(see hider death), sun fire cape, rabadons, black cleaver
Ahri: charm and spirt rush allowed
Akali:twilight shard and shadow dance allowed
Alistar:all abilities allowed
Amumu:bandage toss and curse of the sad mummy allowed
Anivia:flash frost, crystallize, and glacial storm allowed
Annie: incinerate and molten shield allowed
Ashe: volley, hawkshot and enchanted crystal shot allowed (of course no autoattacking)
Blitzcrank: all abilities allowed
Brand: Conflagration, and sear allowed
Caitlyn: yordle snap trap, and 90 caliber net allowed
Cassiopeia:noxious blast, miasma, and petrifying gaze allowed
Cho'gath:rupture and feral scream allowed
Corki: phosphorus bomb* must be across over a wall* and Valkyrie are allowed
Darius: apprehend and crippling strike allowed
Diana:crescent strike*must be used across wall* and rest are allowed (of course no autoattacking)
Dr. Mundo: infected cleaver and sadism allowed
Draven:blood rush and stand aside allowed
Elise:venomous bite, cocoon, skittering frenzy and rappel are allowed (you cannot use venomous bite's or skittering frenzy's counterpart)
Evelyne: hate spike,dark frenzy and agony's embrace are allowed
Ezreal:arcane shift allowed
Fiddlesticks:fear, dark wind, and crowstorm allowed
Fiora:lunge and burst of speed allowed
Fizz:*due to large damage output urchin strike is disabled* playful trickster and chum the waters are however allowed
Galio:all abilities allowed
Gangplank:remove scurry, raise morale and cannon barrage are allowed
Garen:decisive strike, and courage allowed
Gragas:drunken rage, body slam and explosive casket allowed
Graves:smoke screen, quick draw allowed
Hecrim:devastating charge and onslaught of shadows are allowed
Hiemerdinger:H-28g evolution turrets,CH-1 concussion grenade and UPGRADE!!! allowed
Irelia:bladesurge and equilibrium strike allowed
Janna:all abilities allowed
Jarvin:all abilities allowed(dragon strike is only to be used to get to his flag, NOT for damage)
Jax:leap strike, counter strike and grandmasters might allowed
Jayce:to the skies, thundering blow, and acceleration gate allowed(to the skies counterpart,shock blast, not allowed)
Karma:all abilities allowed, heavily wave only allowed if healing(if an enemy happens to get in the way, their fault)
Karthus:wall of pain allowed
Kassadin:null void, force pulse and riftwalk allowed
Katarina:sinister steal, and blade waltz allowed
Kayle:reckoning, divine blessing and intervention is allowed
Kennen:electrical surge, lighting rush, and slicing maelstrom allowed
Kha'zix: leap and void assault are allowed and(of course no autoattacking)
Kog'maw:void ooze and living artillery allowed(living artillery only allowed across walls)
Leblanc:all abilities allowed(Sigil of Silence with chained Sigil of Silence from ultimate is not allowed however)
Lee sin:all abilities allowed(sonic wave only allowed across walls)
Leona:all abilities allowed
Lulu:all abilities allowed
Lux:light binding, prismatic barrier, and luminescent singularity allowed(luminescent singularity must cannot be pre-detonated)
Malfite:seismic shard, and unstoppable force allowed
Malzahar:call of the void and nether grasp allowed
Maokai:arcane smash, twisted advance and sapling toss allowed(only one sapling per bush)
Master yi:highlander and meditate allowed
Miss fortune:let it rain allowed
Mordekaiser:just... Don't use him... Just don't, trust me... None of his abilities are allowed
Morgana:dark binding, black shield, and soul shackle allowed
Nami:all abilities allowed*ebb and flow cannot be cast on an enemy first*
Nasus:wither and furry of the sands allowed
Nautilus:all abilities allowed *because staggering blow,his passive, is cc, it too is allowed. Be careful though, if the root does not land it will count as an basic attack. Also due to the fact that nautilus can use auto attacks, frozen mallet/entropy/phage/tri force is restricted.
Nidalee:bushwhack, pounce and primal surge are allowed (the other component of primal surge,swipe,is not allowed
Nocturn:all abilities are allowed
Nunu:all abilities allowed(remember that seekers can stand in your ultimate if they want, if you kill them,-1 for you)
Olaf:undertow and ragnarok are allowed
Orianna:all abilities are allowed (command:attack can only harm seekers if thrown across wall)
Pantheon:Aegis of Zeonian and grand skyfall allowed
Poppy:heroic charge, Paragon of Demacia and diplomatic immunity allowed
Rammusowerball, defensive ball curl, and puncturing taunt
Renekton:all abilities allowed
Rengar:battle roar, bola strike, and thrill of the hunt allowed
Riven:Broken wings, ki burst and valor is allowed
Rumble:scrap shield, electro harpoon, and the equalizer is allowed
Ryze:rune prison is allowed
Sejuani:all abilities allowed(basic attacks are allowed, due to the fact that sejuani can use auto attacks, frozen mallet/entropy/phage/tri force is restricted.)
Shaco:all abilities are allowed (remember jack in the boxes can easily kill)
Shen:feint, shadow dash and stand united is allowed
Shyvana:burnout and dragons decent is allowed
Singed:mega adhesive, fling and insanity potion are allowed
Sion:cryptic gaze and deaths caress are allowed
Sivir:spell shield and on the hunt is allowed
Skarner:Crystalline Exoskeleton and impale is allowed
Sona:Aria of Perseverance, song of celerity and crescendo are allowed
Soraka:astral blessing, infuse and wish are allowed
Swain:decrptify and nevermove are allowed
Syndra:dark sphere, force of will and scatter the weak are allowed(force of will can only harm seekers when cast across wall)
Talon:rake, cutthroat and shadow assault are allowed
Taric:imbue and dazzle are allowed
Teemo:blinding dart, move quick and noxious trap are allowed
Thresh:all abilities are allowed
Tristana:rocket jump and buster shot are allowed
Trundle:contaminate and pillar of filth are allowed
Twisted fate:gold card, red card and destiny are allowed(blue card is not)
Tryndamere:mocking shout, spinning slash and undying rage are allowed
Twitch:ambush and venomous cast are allowed
Udyr:bear stance and turtle stance are allowed(udyr can auto attack only to activate bear stance's stun)*due to the fact that udyr can use auto attacks, frozen mallet/entropy/phage/tri force is restricted.*
Urgot:terror capacitor and Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser are allowed
Varus:hail of arrows and chain of corruption are allowed
Vayne:tumble,condemn and final hour are allowed
Veigar:even horizon is allowed
Vi:vault breaker and assault and battery are allowed
Victor:gravity field and chaos storm is allowed
Vladimir:sanguine pool is allowed
Volivear:rolling thunder and majestic roar are allowed(volibear can use the flip from rolling thunder)* due to the fact that volibear can use auto attacks, frozen mallet/entropy/phage/tri force is restricted.
Warwick:blood scent is allowed
Wukong:decoy, nimbus stike and cyclone are allowed
Xe'rath:arcanopulse, locust of power and mage chains(arcanopulse is only to be used on someone with mage chains on them)
Xin zhao:audacious charge, crescent sweep are allowed
Yorickmen of pestilence and omen of death are allowed
Zed:living shadow and shadow slash are allowed(shadow slash can only be used on enemy by mimic)
Ziggs:hexplosive minefield and satchel charge are allowed
Zilean:rewind, timewarp and chronoshift are allowed
Zyra:rampant growth, grasping roots and stranglethorn are allowed (grasping roots cannot be used on rampant growth)
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INEX Legends: Champion Glen Huettl, Runner Up Spencer Wilson, Rookie of the Year Troy Speten, Most Improved Driver
Steve Pankowski, Sportsmanship Award Glen Hellebust
NOSA Sprint Cars: Champion Lou Kennedy Jr., Runner Up Greg Nikitenko, Rookie of the Year Austin Monson, Most
Improved Driver Nick Shirek, Sportsmanship Award Chris Burke
Nodak Speedway Awards:
Official of the Year Chuck Bullen
Sponsor of the Year Morgan Printing
Driver of the Year Nathan Burke
Achievement in Excellence Marlyn Seidler
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The 2007 Nodak Speedway Season in Review,
Nodak Speedway
The IMCA Hobby Stock Class would crown a new Champion in 2007 as Mike Swallers moved up the the Stock
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In the IMCA Stock Cars #97 Nathan Burke showed he has the Stock car down to a science. Burke won 9 of the
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#132 Chad Strachen went on to win 3 features. #99 Tyler Dosch won 2 features in 2007 showing a Ford can
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The Inex Legends had 24 Drivers take to the track in 2007. #51 Glen Huettl won the points title along with 2
features. #75 Spencer Wilson also won 2 features and was runner up in points. Cam Schafer showed it didn't
matter which car he drove as he won 6 features , 2 in the #54 and 4 in the #5c Machine. #4 Robert Huettl won
2 features in a year that he missed a few races. Robert handed the car over to Nathan Burke for 1 night and
Burke showed his versatility to drive anything as he went on to take the Checkered Flag first.
The IMCA Modified Class was still the Largest class at Nodak with 55 drivers scoring points and if you throw
in the Dakota tour and Motor Magic well over 85 different drivers were on hand for the 2007 Season. Not
much changed on the top as #7 Marlyn Seidler won yet another points Title. He won 2 features on his way to
the Championship. #25 Hank Berry won 6 features and was runner up in the points Battle despite missing 1
night during the season. #4j Wayne Johnson tripled up to win 3 features. #2k Troy Kittler notched 2 features
in 2007. Also winning a feature were c21 Aaron Turnbull, #34 Todd Lysne, #29 Drew Christianson, #19 John
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In the Nosa Sprint Car class #21k Lou Kennedy Jr. won his First points title along with a feature win. #6 Greg
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#8 Casey Mack showed he can carry the Mack name in the Future by notching 2 features this season. #22
Jason Linnell won the feature during the Rough Rider Classic. 31 drivers scored points in 2007
The Nodak Speedway ran a World of Outlaws show on August 14th, It was again a full house as everyone was
here to see the Outlaws all Back together under the same banner again. #21 Daryn Pittman went on to win the
race after he and #15 Donny Schatz had contact, knocking Schatz out of contention.
#17 Steve Pavlichek won the Midwest Modified Features During the Rough Rider Classic, #11 Jeremy Keller
won the NLRA Late Model Feature during the Roughrider Classic. #19 Kohlan Fedyk and #11 Mike Lucy were
feature winners in the Mini Sprint class during Motor Magic
The Nodak Speedway had 41 different feature Winners in 2007. 176 drivers scored points with over 250
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Devin Martinez was planning on going to Luna Community College this fall anyway.
The recent Mora High graduate and daughter of Peter and Wanda Martinez isn't sure yet what she wants to major in, but she wants to enroll in core classes and take a step toward a career. So it has been a summer of waiting for the jump to college academics.
Then came a phone call from her high school coach, Josh Garcia.
Well, I figure that if the commercial market can have Christmas in July, I could follow suit with New Year's Resolutions in August.
It's quite apropos, you know, as the latest monsoon weather has had me quite sequestered in my hermitage. It gave me time to think about changes I want to make in my activity or lack of it.
The Mora Rough Riders 4-H did very well as they competed in the 2010 4-H shooting sports contest at Raton's NRA Whittington Center.
Mora County took first place in the Junior Light Rifle and Target Rifle. The team members are Augustine Romero, Mae Torres, Abigail Aragon and Diego Olivas.
The Novice Rifle team took first place, and the members are Jennifer Romero, Ruben Maynes, Larisa Aragon and Roy Griego.
Superintendents and school board members who hold our politicians responsible for massive budget cuts in education are on the right track. These so-called progressives have jumped on the "cut taxes, small government" bandwagon that for some insane reason is still fashionable across our country.
The following are the latest scores and standings for city league softball. Playoffs are tentatively slated for next week at Rodriguez Park.
Scores, July 19-28: Hackers 24, Dream Team 5; Tecolote 21, Blaze 13; Buzzards 11, Chuggers 10; Milkmen 23, Vagas Boyz 16; Blaze 20, Hackers 16; Chuggers 26, The Best 24; Blaze 5, Dream Team 4; Vegas Boyz 21, The Best 19; Milkmen 23, Chuggers 12
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The city of Las Vegas is loosening its financial spigot.
Despite a tough economy, the city was within a percentage point of its projected revenue for the last fiscal year, which ended June 30. City officials said they had prepared a conservative budget for this year to prepare for difficult times.
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We're preparing for a boat tour of Portugal, the last leg of a trip to Copenhagen where we will visit our son Stan's family. The tour is a round trip, from Porto, in northern Portugal, back to Porto. It was my friend Pedro Carrico who encouraged me to travel to his homeland.
Wagon Mound's village hall was closed Monday because the only remaining office employee called in sick.
The only employee is an office aide. The former clerk-treasurer, who runs the village's day-to-day operations, left last Friday after only a few weeks on the job.
The utilities clerk's position has been vacant since the village terminated Gloria Mejillas a few months ago.
Meanwhile, Mayor Art Arguello has placed the utilities superintendent on unpaid administrative leave. Arguello didn't reveal the reasons in an interview.
Little did Nicholas Gurule know that when he launched the javelin on July 29, the object would slice out a piece of history.
Gurule, who competes as part of the Valley Track Club in nearby Villanueva, placed seventh in the turbo javelin throw, clearing a distance of 129 feet, 9 inches (39.56 meters) in the United States Track and Field National Junior Olympic Championships in Sacramento, Calif.
As one of the top eight throws among 11- and 12-year-old boys in the event, Gurule's performance earned the area native a USATF All-American honor.
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While the U.S. Senate considers background-check legislation as a means to stop gun violence, it should also do a background check on the war on drugs. The two unrelated deaths of youngsters reported in the Chicago newspapers last week were beyond the reach of gun control but were within the reach of a better drug policy.
Brian Carrick, 17, died from a single punch triggered by his failure to pay a small drug debt in 2002 in McHenry County, according to testimony in the trial of his attacker.
And 14-year-old Depree Mims died last month in his Merrillville, Ind., home of a single bullet wound, a shot allegedly fired in retaliation for a robbery during a drug transaction — with the robbery victim apparently mistaken as to the residence where the robber lived, police said.
Drug prohibition and the huge illegal profits it produces are the reasons why so many guns are being fired and so many killings are occurring. We need to take the profit out of drugs to get rid of much of the crime on our streets and the taxes (to pay for more prisons, police, courts and violence-related medical care) that are breaking our backs.
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Outrageous corporate pay
Boeing chief executive James McNerney got a 20 percent raise in 2012 to $27.5 million, even though the full fleet of 787 Dreamliners was grounded because of battery problems. Boeing still reported $81.7 billion in 2012 revenue. I wonder what his average employee earns.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally's compensation fell 29 percent to $20.95 million in 2012. I hope they don't think any of us are going to feel sorry for him. Certainly not while he is receiving close to $700,000 in "other compensation."
Ford reported billions in pretax profit in 2012 — all this while the middle class is suffering job losses and cuts in pay.
Republicans still try to justify destroying Social Security and Medicare so the wealthy don't have to pay their fair share in taxes.
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People in today's society have no manners. It seems as though the longer life goes on, the more we lose respect toward others and ourselves.
Kids and teenagers treat their elders with so little respect. They act so ridiculous in public and need to be taught correctly on how to act in public, how to treat people.
There are rare occasions when you find that stranger who smiles brightly, says "hello" or helps you out if you are in need.
It's not just the children who have no respect, it's also the adults. That's even worse because that's who the children learn from. I hope one day this can be resolved, and people can one day see how our world truly is becoming a "cruel world."
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I have a question about banana peels. Everyone knows they use really heavy pesticides on bananas they ship to the US, due to all the really nasty bugs which hijack ships sometimes, like fireants and tarantulas... is it really a good idea to put these skins into the worm bins? How does it affect them to have all those pesticides in there?
would like osme confirmation that worms tolerate them ok before I put in anymore. Thanks!
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- Posted by coach_grumpy 6a (My Page) on Sat, Mar 12, 11 at 16:16
here is a long discussion on the subject. it's probably better to precompost your peels first before adding them to the worm bin http://vermicomposters.ning.com/forum/topics/banana-peel-experience |
- Posted by SusanfromMontana 4 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 22:10
I have been putting banana peels in my bins for 6 months and the worms are doing great--they're multipying like crazy and I haven't noticed any strange looking worms that might have been affected by pesticides. I will have to check out the website mentioned, though. |
- Posted by SusanfromMontana 4 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 22:16
I should probably add that I don't peel the banana and toss the peels into the bins. I mix them together with my vegies and then freeze them. I have not found any peels (even the stem) left in the bins. |
- Posted by SusanfromMontana 4 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 22:33
I just read some of the comments in that thread on banana peels. Some of the comments were on the lack of their worms increasing like they thought they should. I started with 1000 worms in an 18 gal. bin in Oct. 2010 and now have 3 -18 gal bins which are loaded with worms--adults, juveniles, babies, cocoons. I tried an experiment with 20 adults in a small box. After 3 months I had over 400 adults and juveniles--and they ate banana peels. If you just don't know what to do because you're still leery of the peels, I'd add just toss the peels. |
- Posted by susanfromhawaii (My Page) on Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 23:59
I was the original poster of the discussion cited. After 2 years, I still had less than a pound of worms. I stopped adding banana peels and noticed and explosion. I haven't checked them in the 2 weeks since I initially posted because I don't want to disturb them. I'll check next week and post an update on vermicomposters. I think it very much depends on where in the world you are and where in the world your bananas come from. I froze my banana peels (fruit flies are in most peels in Hawaii) and added them with lots of other things. I like the fact that you checked it out with a small box. Based on hearing lots of stories like yours on the amazing growth of their worms, you can see why I might be frustrated after 2 years. Think of making your next bin a flow through. The harvesting is easier. |
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ABC's Once Upon a Time is expanding its kingdom to the publishing realm with a new book series.
In what seems like a natural pairing for the show, Once Upon is debuting a fantasy novel from Disney-owned Hyperion books.
The first title in what may be a series of books is titled Reawakened and it's novelization of the show's first season and promises to give "fans of the show a whole new look at their favorite characters and stories." The narrative will be told in alternating points-of-view—that of Emma Swan (portrayed by Jennifer Morrison in the show) in the real world of Storybrooke, and Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) in Fairy Tale Land.
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Pesticide Regulation Brings Laos in Line with World Standards Vientiane Times, 28 January 2011
Laos has made a significant step towards better pesticide control through new regulations set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry with support from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
A workshop was held yesterday in Vientiane to inform a broad range of stakeholders of the current pesticide management situation in Laos and introduce the new regulation and its implications.
"The regulation is an important tool for regulating activities related to pesticides including their import, export, transit, trade and use in Laos. Proper regulatory control of pesticides is an important factor in enhancing food safety and obtaining World Trade Organisation accession," said Director General of the Ministry's Department of Agriculture, Dr Monthathip Chanphenxay.
"This new regulation is another milestone in the implementation of government policies to bring the control of pesticide use in Laos in line with the international framework for the control of pesticides," United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Representative to Laos, Mr Serge Verniau, said at the meeting.
He added that it was time to renew the regulation to better reflect international development, broaden the context and address shortcomings from implementation of the first regulation.
The first regulation on the control and use of pesticides was promulgated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 1992, and revised in 1998 and 2000.
Pesticide management in Laos showed a need for strengthened legislation after assessment by a technical team from the Department of Agriculture with assistance from FAO.
An earlier draft was reviewed at a workshop to enable stakeholders to comment on the new text, and the final version was promulgated on February 10 last year.
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Control of pesticides in Laos has been placed in a broader context thanks to collaboration between relevant government sectors, notably departments within the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry, Health, Industry and Commerce and Justice and the Environmental Agency.
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Prompt the person to respond with these words:
My name is (person's name).
I love to (something that he/she loves to do).
Instruct the person to hold onto a piece of the yarn, pass the ball of yarn to someone else in the circle, and say:
The new person holding the ball of yarn repeats the process, saying "Hello," sharing his/her name, and telling something he/she loves to do before passing the ball of yarn along to someone new.
As the ball of yarn gets passed, the yarn will begin to form a web. Encourage children to gently toss the ball of yarn across the circle. If the ball of yarn is only passed and never tossed, no web will form.
When all participants are included in the web, invite everyone to stands up and hold onto their pieces of yarn. Then, gently tug on the yarn you are holding. Ask the group:
Then, drop the yarn you are holding. Ask:
Allow some children to drop their yarn to see what happens. After the children have offered a few observations, tell the group in your own words:
The Earth is a lot like this web. We are connected to everything in our world by a web just like this one — only you can't see the yarn. When we pull on the web or if we break it, all of the other animals and plants feel it, just as you could all feel it when I pulled on this yarn. Just like our web fell apart as some of us began to let go.
That's why we have a Unitarian Universalist principle that says we are all part of the interdependent web of all existence.
This exercise serves multiple purposes. It is fun, and it gives the children a tangible experience of the Unitarian Universalist Principle of interconnectedness along with a chance to practice using one another's names.
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Last updated on Thursday, October 27, 2011.
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Landry Harlan
Peer Advisor and International Business and Language student Landry Harlan spent the Spring of 2012 in Kunming with SIT Study Abroad China. Landry chose to go abroad to fulfill requirements for his major and improve his language skills in the process.
"I had honed my language skills through seven weeks of a small intensive class in Kunming," he said. "By the end of the program, my fear of communicating with my mediocre Chinese was gone and I had the confidence to purchase train tickets, conduct an interview, and even to write an independent research paper in Shanghai about advertising in China... Experiential learning is the only way to gain knowledge and understanding of our diverse world. The adventures and people I met while studying abroad in China taught me this and so much more."
All students majoring in International Business and Language (IBL) are required to study abroad. This is so students can not only increase their fluency in the language, but also gain an understanding of how to do business overseas. Landry even expressed an interest in writing a thesis on one of the topics he researched abroad.
To be successful in business abroad, one needs more than just the skills and knowledge acquired from formal classes. An understanding of the culture is key. With study abroad, students have the opportunity to be fully immersed in another culture. This experience gives students a leg up in the business world. Plus, exploring a new culture is what makes study abroad so fun. Landry had the opportunity to ride a bike through the rice fields of the rural village of Shaxi and play bongos at an open mic in a bar in Dali. You never know where your study abroad adventure will lead you.