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KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, Fla., May 29, 2012 — Last weekend, I had the privilege of attending the 53rd US Masters Water Ski and Wakeboard Tournament at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia. While there, I had the opportunity to commentate the live webcast of the slalom event. The competition brought with it lots of excitement as the world's top water skiers fought their way through the course in hopes of becoming the 2012 Master's Champion.
As the commentator, I had the best view of anyone attending the event; I sat on top of the pavilion and looked down over the skiers as they navigated their way through the course. I also had a great view of the water conditions and, as usual, the waters of Robin Lake served up quite a challenge to the world's best.
Unless you've navigated your way through the waters of Robin Lake, it's hard to understand why they are so difficult to compete upon. When you look out on the water, everything looks perfect. White sand surrounds most of the lake, green trees and plants outline the banks, and the water is a beautiful greenish color. But when skiers take to the water, they quickly realize that the water isn't as "perfect" as it looks. Concrete pylons and a rocky shoreline on the far side of the lake create walls that boats' wakes bounce off of. This "backwash" creates rollers that pop up unexpectedly in skiers' paths, bringing with it the potential of knocking them right off of their skis.
Unfortunately, I saw this happen to many skiers over the weekend. It is so sad to watch a skier sit in the water in disbelief as he tries to figure out what knocked him down. I know from experience the pain, disappointment, anger, and frustration that can rise up in the athlete's heart as all her dreams of becoming the Master's Champion come to an abrupt end.
From my "birds eye" view, I could often tell if a skier was going to survive the challenging waters. Rollers were present for every skier, but the skiers who successfully ran the course were the ones who were in the most solid position, centered over the top of their skis.
I don't know about you, but I often feel like life can serve up some "rolly" waters, just like Robin Lake. I can be running my course of life and out of nowhere, "rollers" can pop up that throw me off my rhythm or stop me dead in my tracks. Like the skier, we need to make sure we are in a solid position so that we can "ski" through these "rollers" victoriously.
Matthew 7:24-27 says, "Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse because it is build on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash." (New Living Translation)
If you read these verses carefully you'll see that "rollers" come into everyone's life, whether they are Christian or not. The verses say "when the rain comes," "when the floodwaters rise," and "when the wind beats," not if these things come. We will all face a course of life filled with challenges. Relationship issues will come. Sickness and death will come. Financial challenges will come. Career issues will come. Dreams will be challenged.
Whether we remain standing or fall flat on our face depends on our position spiritually … it depends on our foundation. If we build our lives on a relationship with God and center them on His Truth (The Word of God), no matter what comes into our lives, we will remain standing because we have built on a foundation that will not fail us, a foundation that can weather any storm, a foundation that is sure and true.
Unfortunately, many people choose to build their lives on a foundation of "sand." They build their lives on their successes, passions, relationships, money, fame, outward appearances, performance, education, and their careers, all of which are temporary, earthly things. When the "rollers" of life come, their life foundations are shaken. If they aren't centered in Christ, what they've built gets knocked down. They end up like the skier in the middle of the lake whose dreams have just come crashing down all around her.
Have you ever wondered why some people are able to keep moving forward in life with peace, joy, and hope, while others seem paralyzed by emotions caused by the "rollers" that surround them? The difference lies in their foundations. Those grounded in Christ have hope which serves as an "anchor to their soul" (Hebrews 6:19).
You don't have to be tossed about by the "rollers" of life. If life has caused you to feel a bit shaky lately, I encourage you to check out your foundation. Make sure your life is built on "rock" and not "sand." And if you have found yourself in the water, don't lose hope and don't give up. Unlike the boat drivers of the Masters Tournament, God will not leave you in the middle of the lake to swim to shore in defeat. He is right there with you, offering you hope, joy, and peace in the midst of the storms of life. He has an answer to life's biggest issues. Nothing is too hard for Him.
Grab hold of Him today and let Him pull you back on top of the waters. Get grounded in Him and no matter what comes into your life's course, He will navigate you to victory.
"When you go through the deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown … For I am the Lord, your God … your Savior … You are precious to me. You are honored, and I love you. Do not be afraid, for I am with you." Isaiah 43:2-5 (NLT)
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I have an MRI scheduled for Friday for this pain in my back. It calmed down for a few days and now it's as bad as ever. I'm not getting to much done. Our computer has been down for four days. Good to be back here anyway. Vicky |
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I have only had a back problem one time and to me it was like my entire body ached. Rest and just watch TV or read, I'll be praying for your speedy recovery. Rosa |
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Vicky, I'm sorry you're still in pain. I hope the MRI will determine something or they can at least help you with treatment and give you something for pain. SharonG/FL |
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Hi Vicky – I hope the MRI will find some answers that lead you to relief. Wishing you the best. Nina |
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Vicky, Has the doc called with results from the MRI????? Are you feeling any better?????? SharonG/FL |
I am feeling some better but I still feel something in there that is not right. I go this week to the dr to get the results. I let you know when I find out. Vicky |
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Thinking good thoughts for you! Gwen |
The MRI showed I have degenerative disc disease which I knew from the last MRI I had. It hasn't gotten worse since three years ago which it the good news. I just have to live with it until it gets so bad they replace the discs (hopefully never!) My dr told me to lose weight and exercise so thats my plan. I am feeling a lot less pain and have been doing things but I'm waiting still longer to start walking. Vicky |
- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Wed, Mar 26, 08 at 15:38
Vicky, We can be thankful for the good news and hope the discs will never have to be replaced....keep thinking healing thoughts to those discs. Thanks for the update...... SharonG/FL |
Vicky, Thanks for the update. Your KOKO team is with you now to encourage exercise and diet as tolerated. Does your chiro have a decompression table? I am finding some relief from that and able to increase my exercise again. Hope you are doing well. Deanna |
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Lists: Washington's best dressed musicians
By Chris Richards
Washington's own U.S. Royalty returned from New York City's annual CMJ Music Marathon with a new feather in its proverbial cap: Esquire magazine had named them the festival's best dressed band.
This might come as welcome news to a local indie rock community that's constantly slagging on itself for its supposed lack of great bands and its supposed lack of well-dressed people -- two attitudes around town that we've always thought were bunk. But U.S. Royalty weren't the first musicians in D.C. that knew how to get dressed. Click Track ranks the most stylish musicians in our fair city's history.
10. The Delta 72: If you've seen Cat Power on tour recently and wondered who that bespoke keyboardist is, it's Gregg Foreman, former frontman of erstwhile D.C. soul-punks the Delta 72.
9. Trouble Funk circa "In Times of Trouble": Breaking from their usual high-tops/tank-tops/sweatpants thing, Trouble are looking like the forebears to Dungeon Family on this 1983 album cover.
8. Wicked Witch: I actually saw a guy dressed like this at the Nicki Minaj show at D.C. Star on Saturday and now deeply regret not asking him if he makes distressed synth-funk, too.
(Riot grrrls and soulmen, after the jump)
7. Jonathan Fire*Eater: Before they morphed into lauded NYC band the Walkmen, and after they had graduated from the preppy halls of St. Albans, they were Jonathan Fire*Eater, one of our city's most dapper rock bands.
6. Juju: These guys looked as intense as the spiritual free jazz they created.
5. Vernon Burch: If you're going to wear a yellow velour sweater and pink leather pants, everyone is going to buy your album. Then everyone is going to discover that Deee-Lite sampled your slide whistle for "Groove is in the Heart."
4. The Make-Up: The best-dressed band in the history post-harDCore. Not a tall order, but still.
3. Bikini Kill: Everything about these riot grrrl superheroes was wildly influential, including their fashion sense. Without Bikini Kill, Karen O would probably be wearing Zubaz or something.
2. Duke Ellington: He tops a lot of Washington music lists, but not this one.
1. Marvin Gaye: He's Marvin Gaye.
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You forgot the Johnson Mountain Boys. Them fellas looked SHARP..http://www.amazon.com/Live-Birchmere-Johnson-Mountain-Boys/dp/B0000002G6
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Bamaca is one of the leading djs coming out of Latin America and bringing new and innovative sounds to the electronic scene. This dj/producer received top-nods from his peers and fans when he had an opportunity to play along side some of the biggest djs in the world like Paul Van Dyk, BT, Anthony Pappa, Jerry Bonham, Eddie Halliwell, John Tejada, and AngelAlanis. Bamaca is always striving to bring quality music through his dj sets. He continues to gather inspiration from various musical styles by incorporating deep, acid, soulful, tech, funky, tribal, and progressive house. Bamaca was born in Guatemala and raised in Los Angeles, Bamaca's love for house music began at the age of 12 with two classic house tracks Cajmere's " You got me Up" and Masters at Work's "I can't get no sleep." By 1999, Bamaca began djing a few underground parties then a year later he had his opportunity to play at clubs. Since then Bamaca has been playing for many clubs in Los Angeles, such as Gods Kitchen, Spundae, and Vanguard. Bamaca currently holds residency with us at Insomniac Events. We are proud to have him as a new edition to our organization. Bamaca continues to strive for perfection and determination though music.


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Sigma has long been known for the quality of their lenses, but their cameras have always taken a backseat. Although they should easily stand out of the crowd with their unique Foveon sensor and amazing image quality, Sigma cameras lack a few key elements that keep them from reaching the pinnacle of success.
The Sigma DP3 Merrill camera shares an almost identical spec sheet with the DP1 Merrill and the DP2 Merrill sans the large 50mm f/2.8 lens protruding from the front of the camera. Featuring a 46-megapixel three layer APS-C Foven sensor (15.6MP per layer), the DP3 Merrill offers users a bright 50mm lens that becomes 75mm with the 1.5x crop factor associated with these sensors. It unforgivingly lacks an anti-aliasing filter...giving the user a sharper, more resolute image. The DP3 Merrill is clearly designed for the high-end photographer who understands fine art photography and appreciates the amazing image quality of the Foveon sensor. And, as demonstrated with the other two DP cameras, Sigma is perfectly content to be defined only by their sensor. This segregation from the norm is not necessarily a bad thing. However, the Sigma DP series has a few major drawbacks that can make even the most discerning fine art photographer question buying this camera. The DP3 Merrill is currently available for $999.
Build and Design
Outwardly, the DP3 Merrill resembles a small black box. It is simplistic in design and larger than most compact cameras available today. The body is almost 4.8 inches wide, 2.6 inches tall and almost 3.2 inches deep including the lens on the front left side of the body. Shooting weight (without the battery, memory card, camera strap) is about 14.1 ounces. The camera body is metal, made in
Ergonomics and Controls
The body of the DP3 is finished in matte black paint that is smooth to the touch. It does not offer a grip of any sort, unless you count a patch of raised dots on the back of the camera where a thumb rest would go. Another set of raised dots on located on the right front of the camera body. It is imperative that you attach the camera strap and use it while you are shooting just in case you lose your grip on the camera.
I am not a fan of the camera's design. It feels way to boxy in my hands and the lack of a grip makes it uncomfortable to use for long periods of time. That being said, I don't feel that the DP3 Merrill was designed for extended use without a tripod. The camera was really designed for a patient photographer who can wait out a shot for the perfect lighting while the camera sits contently on it's tripod base.
The control layout on the DP3 Merrill is identical to the DP2 Merrill - - it is simple and well thought out. At the top of the camera body, the hot shoe, power and mode buttons and a shutter button surrounded by the command dial can be found. A 3 inch LCD monitor is housed on the back, left side of the camera. Next to the monitor are auto exposure lock/delete, quick set, menu and view buttons. To the right of these buttons is a four-way controller including "OK", focus point and focus mode buttons. A display button at the lower right rear of the camera body can display various data configurations on the monitor while shooting, including a histogram. The manual focus ring on the lens is smooth and consistent in its operation.
Menus and Modes
The menus in the DP3 Merrill are logically designed and easy to navigate. There are three main menus: capture settings, playback menu and camera settings. The menu button on the camera back takes you to the menu. Select any of these settings, and the camera takes you into the submenus.
The DP3 Merrill does not provide a retouch menu, solidifying the concept that this camera is meant for the fine art photographer. These photographers prefer to "nail the shot" in camera or use post processing software like Sigma's Photo Pro 5 to clean up their image. They know that in-camera retouching is simply not good enough.
Just like it's predecessor, touching the quick set menu button allows easy access to eight camera functions: ISO, metering mode, flash mode and drive mode on QS1 and white balance, image size, color mode and image quality on QS2.
Shooting modes are simple - the mode button on the top of the camera provides users to select from video, manual, shutter priority, aperture priority, program auto or three custom settings.
The 3-inch TFT color LCD monitor on the DP3 Merrill consists of 920,000 dots and is adjustable for seven levels of brightness. I used the camera in medium outdoor lighting and found the LCD display generally easy to use. However, I did not have the opportunity to shoot in extreme brightness. Even in medium brightness, the monitor seemed a bit washed out. When I used the camera indoors it was easy to see and use as a framing tool. It was a bit more difficult outdoors, but not impossible.
Sigma makes an optional optical viewfinder for the DP3. The viewfinder mounts on the camera's hot shoe and has no diopter adjustment for varying degrees of eyesight.
Patience is a key virtue that you must possess when photographing with the DP Merrill series of cameras. If you don't have patience, then it's best to move on. Wedding photographers, casual photographers and sports photographers need not apply. This is a tool for the serious fine art photographer who is patient enough to wait out that perfect image.
Shooting Performance
The DP3 Merrill is a hands-down winner in the image quality category, but will never win the speed race. In fact, it easily loses in the startup race to a DSLR, most mirrorless cameras and a large handful of point and shoots. It takes about two seconds to display a focus point on the monitor. Powering up and taking the first image took about 3.5 seconds. Single shot-to-shot times ran about two seconds, but this all depends of the memory card you use. We highly recommend a fast memory card for this camera. Pushing all of the Foveon's power and translating that to a final image takes a lot of horsepower. So be prepared! Write times for a single JPEG fine quality, high resolution image were at a snail's pace at about 8 seconds. The good news, however, is that you don't have to wait until the image is written to take another photo as long as there's room in the camera buffer (which is 7 images in JPEG fine, RAW, or RAW/JPEG quality at the highest resolution).
The DP3 Merrill offers 4 frame per second (fps) continuous shooting rates at high resolution. But again, write times are slow and it can take about half a minute to clear images when taken in high resolution mode. Even though write times are slow, the biggest problem with the continuous shooting mode in the DP3 is that there is no continuous autofocus. Whatever you focus on with your first shot, is what you get for the remainder of the burst. camera establishes focus with a first shot of a burst and maintains it for the rest of the burst. Again, this solidifies this cameras position as a fine art tool.
Autofocus times with the DP3 Merrill also creep at a snail's pace. The camera generally takes a full second or more to focus. In good lighting the camera stays around the one second mark, but in poor lighting conditions it can take up to two full seconds. Because there is no focus assist lamp on the camera, focusing - whether auto or manual, is much more difficult.
Sigma makes an optional flash for the DP3, but we did not have one available for this review. Instead, we used a studio lighting setup to test the camera's leaf shutter. And we are so glad we did! This camera produced amazing results with our lighting set-up. If order to test the high sync speeds of the DP3 Merrill we used an Alien Bee 800w light with PocketWizard Transceivers attached to both the strobe and the camera. With our set-up we were able to achieve 1/1000 second shutter sync. A Sigma rep told me that the camera would be able to sync even higher depending on the aperture used. For example, if the camera is set to f/5.6 I should be able to see 1/2000 second sync speeds or if the aperture is set to f/2.8 I should see 1/1250 second sync speeds. That's pretty amazing. Our images were super sharp and had great color quality when hooked up to the studio flash.
Sigma provides two lithium-ion batteries with the DP3 Merrill. Thank goodness they did.
Lens Performance
The 50mm lens on the DP3 Merrill is fixed and offers amazing image quality. I experienced outstanding performance from this lens. You can tell that this lens was optimized for this camera. It image maintained good sharpness throughout the entire frame with the auto settings. If you wish for a sharper image, you can adjust for that in the settings or choose to correct with post production software. Chromatic aberration and distortions (barrel or pincushion) do not seem to be an issue with the Sigma DP3 Merrill.
Video Quality
Well, what can we say? Honestly, I would prefer for Sigma to remove the video capability from their DP line of cameras. It offers poor quality and is not at all what we have come to expect from modern digital cameras. Unfortunately, the DP3 Merrill's video quality becomes a major downfall to buying this camera. There would be a lot less to complain about if Sigma simply did not offer it.
The DP3 Merrill's 640x480 videos generate quite a bit of rolling shutter. Also, there is no continuous autofocus on the DP3 Merrill - focus is established with the initial pressing of the shutter button and does not readjust for the entirety of the video. Even in manual mode you can't change focus during video capture.
That being said, buying the DP3 Merrill for it's video capabilities is like buying a Ford Model T to race in the Indy 500. It simply can't compete. This comparison isn't as crazy as it sounds, though...both the Model T and the DP3 Merrill are cool collector's items with a specific purpose. The DP3 Merrill is unique with it's Foveon sensor and 50mm lens, it creates stunning images and can be a fantastic tool for the right photographer.
Image Quality
Here is where the DP3 truly shines. Default images out of the camera offer fantastic color rendition and sharpness even from the basic settings. Don't like these? Feel free to make some adjustments to these settings in the menu feature. This camera indisputably produces some of the best still images of any compact digital camera, with one itsy, bitsy caveat...you have to shoot with low ISOs.
Auto white balance was used across the board in this review due to it's consistent quality. The DP3 Merrill also offers daylight, shade, overcast, incandescent, fluorescent and flash preset values along with a custom setting.
High ISO noise performance with the DP3 was unimpressive.
100 and 200 ISO levels are have great image quality, and 400 ISO is pretty good, too. Noise begins to appear slightly at 400 and becomes a bit worse at 800 ISO. The DP3 Merrill's Foveon sensor struggles dramatically at 1600 ISO. 3200 and 6400 ISOs see a drastic degradation is image quality. Colors and details have diminished by 6400.
As we stated earlier, your best results come with low ISOs - 100, 200 and 400. We really don't recommend shooting at anything higher than 800 ISO. But at these lower ISOs, the image quality from the Foveon sensor is simply amazing. The color produced in these images can not be beat.
During our review we took advantage of using Sigma's proprietary software, Sigma Photo Pro 5. The software allows users to adjust elements of the image similar to a very simplified version of Adobe's Lightroom. Although I would not choose to utilize this software on a daily basis, it is not difficult to learn and it is the only way to get your Sigma DP3 RAW images into a usable .jpg format. Also, it can be a good tool to use to change these RAW images into a monochrome format - a new feature for the latest version of the software. Below are a few examples of enhanced images edited in the Sigma Photo Pro 5 software.
Original Auto Enhanced Image with SPP5
Original Monochrome Enhanced Image with SPP5
Original Monochrome Enhanced Image with SPP5
Additional Sample Images
I really do love the image quality from the Sigma DP3 Merrill. After spending time with three Sigma cameras: DP2 Merrill, SD1 Merrill and the DP3 Merrill, I really have become a major fan of the Foveon sensor. They produce some of the most beautiful images. And the 50mm lens creates a perfect portrait focal length for close-ups.
But, this image quality comes at a price. There are some major drawbacks to the Sigma DP line of cameras. The slow autofocus will easily turn off a majority of the working photographers - especially if they are working with moving subjects. The inability to produce a good, usable image above 800 ISO is also a major issue. Finally, a lack of battery life also cripples the user and requires that them to be fully aware of their remaining exposures.
I don't love the ergonomics of the DP3 Merrill. I would much prefer to have a less "boxy" feel to the camera. In addition, the simplistic design of the camera is a little too simplistic for my taste. Yet, neither of these are deal breakers for me.
The video functionality is sub-par and I would much prefer that the feature was removed so that it could be marketed as a still image camera only. You know, like the good 'ole days? Unfortunately, the video function on the SP3 Merrill only gives us more things to criticize.
Overall, this is a great camera for a patient photographer who loves fine art images. Portrait photographers who work in a studio may also be interested in the DP lineup due to it's leaf shutter and excellent image quality. It also stands to reason that the DP3 Merrill may also bode well with an up-and-coming group of photographers who have a love of compact, large sensor, fixed-lens cameras. In that case, the DP3 can hold it's head high and brag about it's exemplary image quality and optically excellent lens.


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Has anybody had experience growing the blueberry variety Bonus? They make an extremely large berry and would be outstanding for u-pick. The only problem I'm having is 100% of the Bonus plants I planted in 2008 are struggling, and they are planted right next to three other varieties, all of which are doing quite well. |
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You might want to contact" berry-nut 4b-SouthWestWI " http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg0202381110877.html I didn't notice anything out of the norm for planting and growing instructions, water well, don't over-fertilize. It also, just may not be suited to the soil into which it was planted. Some like sand …some like clay, or at least tolerate it. -------------------------------------------------------- It's a new variety "Bonus shows promise as a large fruited, late type, but is little tested." http://www.therussellcorporation.com/OldSite/berries/blueberry_types.htm |
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Where did you get your Bonus plants from? I have some Chandler plants but wouldn't mind trying a couple of Bonous plants. |
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I planted a Bonus from DeGrandchamps on my property several years ago. It plugged in nicely. I also installed 4 other Bonus plants in various sites and never observed any problems with them. Elliot is my slow grower. It's a really good cultivar for a u-pick if you want to extend the late season for a month over other lates. But it is a slow establisher. |
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Bonus is a good variety for Mid-season. I love to plant some Elliot for late season production. We like to eat fresh blueberry and in the High season we have Blueberry coming out from our ears then suddenly none. I think Elliot will give us a late season supply. |
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Well, this is my first attempt of overwintering canna. I dug up 'Black Knight' in the fall, after the first frost. I placed the canna in the basement to dry out for a couple of days. I then proceeded to wrap the canna in newspaper, and place it in a paper bag. It was then placed in a dark, cool spot in the basement. When I went to pot up the canna a few days ago, I am not sure it looked too good. It had black, mushy (kind of) tips where I expected to see a bit of growth----although, I do see the smallest touch of red on one spot. Anyway, they just don't look "healthy". Like I stated, I may have one healthy eye, otherwise, I fear I have lost them. Is there something I should have done differently in storing the canna? Boy, I am sure I followed the advice I read on storing canna bulbs. |
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I pack my canna rhizomes after they have dried off in the autumn......in clean peat with a bit of sulfur mixed in. The combination retards fungal attack (the black mushy stuff is the result of that.)They go in loosely closed plastic bags in the basement where it is cool. You will always lose an odd one.....but after awhile you will have so many, it won't matter! |
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I just read today from ian cooke's book "the gardener's guide to growing canna" -(amazon.com) that "black knight" is NOT listed as hard to overwinter in a dormant state. 'Australia' and 'light of christ' are listed as difficult. I haven't read the whole thing yet. There are probably more. My friend just reported the same as you with his first black knight canna. You can pot it up and hope for the best. It should show root growth after 10 days near a heat register in a pot with soil and a tiny bit of water.- That last bit is advise from me- not the book. My first tuber of black knight was a very tiny tuber and I'm not sure if it made it yet or not.It's potted in a 60 degree basement and will stay there until a leaf appears. Karen |
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Archive: June 2006
One Vote Away From Limiting Freedom
It came so close to passing this time. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a sponsor of the flag desecration amendment, actually said this: "What we would be doing is sending a message to the [Supreme Court], you cannot usurp the power of the Congress of the United States." Astonishing in its arrogance, isn't it? In striking down statutes prohibiting flag burning, the judicial branch did not alter the Constitution; it lived up to its duty to ensure that no one -- most especially the federal government -- violates the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. The First Amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. By wasting time picking and choosing certain acts of...
By Emily Messner | June 28, 2006; 8:29 AM ET | Comments (356) | TrackBack (0)
Data Insecurity and the Potential for Mischief
Watching local TV news this evening -- something I rarely do -- I was reminded again of how fickle technology can be. We've recently learned that the personal information of 26,000 Department of Agriculture employees and contractors has been compromised. The Federal Trade Commission had some of its data nicked, too, but at least some humor could be found on that story: "Many of the people whose data were compromised were being investigated for possible fraud and identity theft." Consider also the serious data security breaches in the Department of Veteran's Affairs, college campuses and private businesses. Just because personal data is more accessible now than it was 20 years ago doesn't mean everyone's running out to commit the crime, but it does make identity theft easier, and thus more prevalent. Similarly, DRE technology makes vote fraud easier -- no stealing ballot boxes required -- just a couple minutes with...
By Emily Messner | June 22, 2006; 11:50 PM ET | Comments (75) | TrackBack (0)
Voting ABCs: Avoid Butterflies and Chads
When it comes to straightforward, reliable voting systems, I think my precinct back in Baltimore got it right: Next to each candidate's name on the ballot is an arrow with its middle missing. To vote, just draw a little line connecting the two halves of the arrow that points to your candidate. That's all there is to it. It's a paper trail with no butterflies, no hanging chads, no Windows-esque crashes, glitches or security holes. (And yes, many DRE machines run on a Windows operating system.) Each vote can be read and counted in seconds by an optical scanner; should a recount prove necessary, each ballot is available and unambiguous. Touch screens, like butterfly ballots, can be confounding to many seniors. Even though some people will be confused no matter what, the arrow design seems to be about as simple as a ballot can get. Instead of spending large sums...
By Emily Messner | June 21, 2006; 7:59 PM ET | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
A Vote for Accountability
I admire California's enthusiasm for voting. Some people find the whole ballot initiative process annoying, and perhaps they've got a point. But the process is also democratic: it helps keep the government accountable to the people, not to the access maestros who trade favors for influence over legislation and spending. California's referendum-heavy system promotes good government. Does it always succeed? I daresay no. But it empowers people with a bigger role in making the decisions that affect their lives, and gives them a strong voice to keep their elected officials on task. When it comes to safeguards on voting systems, California "took the lead." While Maryland's predominantly-Democratic state legislature brushed off the serious concerns raised about touchscreen voting, California toughened standards for voting machines, including requiring a paper trail. As the California Secretary of State's office points out, still more checks are built into California's electoral system, including a mandatory...
By Emily Messner | June 20, 2006; 10:09 PM ET | Comments (47) | TrackBack (0)
Sleepover in San Diego?
Votetrustusa.org reports that in the special election in California to replace Duke Cunningham, "volunteer pollworkers were allowed to take Diebold voting machines home as much as two weeks before the election." (I am currently waiting for a response to this report from California's elections board. I'll update the moment I have it. [Update: Secretary of State's office points to many statewide safeguards. See next entry for more details.]) Given the known security vulnerabilities and the concrete problems that fraud and/or malfunctions have caused [see pp. 9-15], how could this be allowed to happen? Most distressing? The workers wouldn't even have had to take the machines home to tamper with them -- it's easy. Newsweek's Steven Levy explains the most recent, and most serious, security flaw: It requires only a few minutes of pre-election access to a Diebold machine to open the machine and insert a PC card that, if it...
By Emily Messner | June 14, 2006; 4:15 PM ET | Comments (123) | TrackBack (0)
This Week's Debate: Voting
It's primary day in Virginia. Several years ago, as a Virginia-voting novice, I attempted to vote at the first polling place I happened across, assuming I would be assigned to the one closest to my home. They turned me away; as it happens, I actually have to walk past that polling place in order to get to my own. This is minor annoyance. A major annoyance, however, is that my precinct uses touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. So every time I vote, I get an uneasy feeling that maybe -- just maybe -- my vote won't be counted properly. The fact is, Direct Recording Electronic voting machines are by no means tamper-proof, and some of the horror stories make a voter wonder how it's possible that our legislators have not required a verifiable paper trail by now. One explanation might be the campaign donations from the top...
By Emily Messner | June 13, 2006; 9:15 AM ET | Comments (46) | TrackBack (0)
Zarqawi Is Out, But Will It Make a Difference?
I should point out that I heard the report about Bush addressing gay marriage on BBC World News, generally immune from the hype. It's about the only place (other than NPR) where you can get decent reporting on Timor. They also do brilliant Iraq reporting, most recently on the skyrocketing sectarian violence. Did you know the number of bodies going through the Baghdad morgue has increased each month since January? Debaters, do you think Zarqawi's death will tame the insurgency?...
By Emily Messner | June 9, 2006; 11:50 AM ET | Comments (150) | TrackBack (0)
Is the Media Propping Up the Propaganda?
Debater Sully makes an excellent point. Sully agrees that the focus on gay marriage is just a successful bit of propaganda designed to distract us from what really matters. But he* rightly points out that media outlets are only serving to disseminate the propaganda "saying that they HAVE to cover it in detail since Congress is discussing it." Granted, that's a silly justification. Congress talks about incredibly important things all the time, and plenty of it gets overlooked. In some cases, that's probably because the lawmakers manage to keep it in the shadows, but most because it seems impossible to explain it in a way that would be comprehensive yet not stupifyingly long and dull. (I tend to think blogs -- and the Internet in general -- offer a key outlet for this sort of reporting and analysis.)...
By Emily Messner | June 9, 2006; 11:40 AM ET | Comments (22) | TrackBack (0)
Dr. Straightlove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War on Marriage
Dr. Straightlove
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War on Marriage
Anyone else having flashbacks to last year's War on Christmas? This race to rescue marriage bears an eerie resemblance to the compulsion politicians felt back in December to "protect" that poor, endangered holiday. (Why is it that politicians characterize a war as inexcusably destructive and call for its immediate end pretty much exclusively when no actual war of any sort is involved?) In his 2004 State of the Union address, President Bush called marriage one of the "pillars of civilization." The very next month, he said marriage is "the most fundamental institution of civilization." He repeated those exact words again this week, causing a flurry of news stories (although none I saw mentioned that he's just recycling an old line.) Although many disagree with the president, the idea is not completely irrational. What is irrational, however, is the idea that marriage is under a brutal attack it cannot possibly survive...
By Emily Messner | June 6, 2006; 9:36 AM ET | Comments (116) | TrackBack (0)
Who's Responsible for Keeping the Peace?
This is Anna, one of many friends I made in East Timor earlier this year. She attended school. She spoke three languages. She and her friends walked around their neighborhood in Dili without worrying about violence or lawlessness. Today, Anna is probably going hungry in a refugee camp, wanting nothing more than to be safe at home with her family. Finding food amid the chaos has become so difficult that some refugees have resorted to eating grass. Who is responsible for restoring order? Who should step in to ensure Anna and her friends get to return home, return to school, return to being the carefree kids they should be? Remember, Timor-Leste (the tiny country's official name) is not only the newest independent nation in the world, it's also one of the poorest. To expect it to fend for itself would be entirely unrealistic. In yesterday's Outlook section, a piece...
By Emily Messner | June 5, 2006; 12:55 PM ET | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
Leadership in a Majority-Minority America
Debater Anita Israel raised a number of thought-provoking questions after reading the Post story with this striking headline: Of U.S. Children Under 5, Nearly Half Are Minorities. Anita's questions would be better answered by a cross-section of informed people, so I invited her to be a guest blogger to pose some of her queries to you directly. She writes: I work for an academic institution devoted to the study of leadership, especially among women and historically underrepresented groups, so naturally I got fired up trying to imagine how leadership will evolve in this country over the course of the next two generations. Debaters, how do you think this ethnic shift will impact the United States in years to come?...
By Emily Messner | June 2, 2006; 2:50 PM ET | Comments (178) | TrackBack (1)
How Many More?
As I ponder the reports that the military covered up an intentional attack on civilians by U.S. forces (and somewhat similar allegations out of Afghanistan) I keep coming back to the same question. How many more? How many more times will find ourselves scrambling to justify the unjustifiable? How many more times will we let fear blur the line between right and wrong, humane and inhumane? How many of our own basic principles, like justice and fair play, will we toss aside? How many more times will our leaders express outrage (or simply profess to be "troubled") while quietly burying any possibility of meaningful action to punish wrongdoing or correct the flaws that allowed the offense in the first place? (Read on for more ponderables and a quick review of previous Debates relating to the questions posed above.)...
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On Wednesday, students participated in the National Day of Social Action. Kirsten McBride, one of the servant leader interns, said, "Today we did our social action for Children's Defense Fund and we wanted the children to raise awareness of what's going to happen to the budget in the upcoming years if congress cuts the budget and what happens to their future educational goals."
"So we had the students write letters to the congressmen of Mississippi to let them know that they are aware of what's going to happen to the budget in the next few years," McBride continued. "And as students, they felt it's important to let the congressmen know that it's important to them that the budgets do not need to be cut in order to support their future educational goals."
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Keosha Reddics, another intern, said "Most of the students focus on reading more than any other subject. A lot of them continuously stress how much they need more books, and if the budget is cut, reading would be affected the most."
Reddics mentioned that freedom school is stress free and not as extreme as regular school, because the children aren't graded.
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Lakena Harris, also an intern, added, "Freedom school is more geared toward the child and provides a positive environment for the child."
Intern Starsha Hall said, "I haven't seen kids really excited like this to come to school and learn. Freedom school is based on literacy, so kids can reach their highest reading potential. Freedom school was created to help the children to build up their reading skills. We have lesson plans that mainly follows basic reading and cooperation skills."
Kim Robinson, program officer over National Policy Initiatives Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools, said, "Freedom school is based around the freedom summer of 1964 and how the students from all over the U.S. came to Mississippi to work with black students in churches and places where they assemble to teach them reading."
"We don't believe we are better than a regular school, we believe we are a great parallel institution, an enhancement to the regular school experience," Robinson added.
Federal budget cuts were also discussed in the parent meeting.
"The program is about loving to read, excelling in reading and ultimately excelling in other subjects. This meeting is so you can get the information and for you to go tell other people in the community, educate yourself and educate others," she told the parents.
In the information passed out in the meeting, two-thirds of the potential cuts are in education and other programs for low income children, families and individuals and 34 states already have cut K-12 education, 43 states have cut higher education and more state cuts are pending since the economic downturn began.
Also mentioned in one of the handouts, there have been states cuts in early childhood programs. The deep cuts in education programs included K-12 and early childhood education funding being rolled back to 2008 levels and Pell Grants being cut by more than $800 per grant.
One handout said the challenge right now is how to address budget needs while protecting children and the programs that help them succeed and the need to invest in education to get children ready to succeed in school and prepare them for college or a career to improve our economy.
In the information handed out, only three percent of eligible children receive Early Head Start and fewer than half of eligible children are in Head Start due to funding limitations, more than 60 percent of public school children cannot read or do math at grade level in fourth, eighth and twelfth grade and more than 70 percent of Black and Hispanic public school students in these grades are reading or doing math below grade level.
Robinson stressed the importance of informing the community and members of Congress in the meeting. "What you can do, is you can flood that white house phone," she told parents. "Tell them, don't cut education. They can do nothing but pay attention if they see a bunch of calls from Shelby, Miss."
"For every one phone call they get, it represents 500 constituents. So one phone call from you will equal to that person 500 calls in a day, so just imagine if they got 20," she said.


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The Port of Brisbane and upriver facilities has 31 operating berths with more than 7,860 metres of quay line.
Container Terminals
The Port of Brisbane has eight container berths (2,460m of quayline), which are leased and operated by three stevedores. The Port of Brisbane is the only Australian port to host three stevedoring operations - Patrick, DP World and Brisbane Container Terminals - all of which use automated container handling equipment. DP World Brisbane leases and operates Berths 4-7, with Post-Panamax cranes (two of which are twin-lift container cranes), one Panamax single-lift crane, 23 dedicated container handlers,7 automated stacking cranes and 24 internal transfer vehicles.
Patrick leases and operates Berths 8-10, with four Post-Panamax cranes and 27 automated straddle carriers.
Hutchinson Port Holdings-operated Brisbane Container Terminals occupies Berths 11 and 12. Phase one equipment include two Post-Panamax Quay cranes, six automated stacking cranes, six shuttles, two reach stackers, two prime movers and four internal transfer vehicles.
PBPL owns the wharves, provides a significant proportion of fixed improvements, and issues priority-use licences and leases for their operation.
General Cargo and Motor Vehicles
The Port of Brisbane has 697m of general-cargo wharves, which can handle break-bulk cargo, containers, motor vehicles and other roll on/roll off cargo.
Australian Amalgamated Terminals (AAT) leases and manages Berths 1-3 with various stevedores loading and unloading ships at these berths. AAT manages cargo receival and delivery. The berths are equipped with one conventional Panamax container crane and one mobile harbour crane.
The grain berth has also been extended by 50m to accommodate some pure car carrier vessels. This berth can be used for motor vehicle when available and suitable for the vessel. Heavy loads in excess of 90t require PBPL's approval to transit wharves 1-10 at Fisherman Islands.
Other wharf load constraints are available on application. Please contact PBPL Port Operations on 07 3258 4686 for more information.
Dry-Bulk Terminals
The port's dry-bulk facilities have flexible operational arrangements, with some fully dedicated to a particular user and others sharing wharf facilities with non-bulk trades. These facilities include:
Port of Brisbane • Coal terminal (Queensland Bulk Handling Pty Ltd) • Grain/cottonseed/sugar terminal (GrainCorp) • Cement/clinker plant (Sunstate Cement Ltd) • Woodchips terminal (Queensland Commodity Exports Pty Ltd) • General Purpose Berth (PBPL)
Upriver • Pinkenba bulk terminal (GrainCorp) • Common-user Berth (PBPL) • Pinkenba and Gibson Island fertiliser/chemical plant (Incitec Pivot) • Queensland Bulk Terminal (Wilmar Gavilon) • Hamilton wharve/Maritime wharves* (QUBE Logistics)
*over the next few years these facilities will be progressively relocated
Wet-Bulk Terminals
Most wet-bulk facilities at the port are either crude-oil or refined-products berths.
Brisbane has two oil refineries – Caltex at Lytton and BP at Bulwer Island – each with a crude-oil berth used principally for imports and a products berth used chiefly for refined exports. Shell (Pinkenba) and Neumann Petroleum Terminals (Eagle Farm) also handle refined products through the port at wharves in the Pinkenba Reach.
Animal and vegetable oils and chemicals are moved through terminals at Pinkenba and Hamilton.


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More than 440,000 acres of food crops – including potatoes, peas, grapes and tomatoes – could soon be in the toxic spray zones of a weed-killing chemical linked to Parkinson's disease and reproductive and immune system problems, now that the Obama administration has approved a new herbicide for widespread use, an EWG analysis shows.
Policy makers seem to freeze with fear when confronted with terrifying algae. Regulatory and voluntary programs still haven't produced a comprehensive and effective effort to stem nutrient pollution and combat the blooms. Left unchecked, water overloaded with nutrients willl cause more blooms in the future.
Now that government agencies have given the green light to Dow AgroSciences to sell 2,4-D-tolerant, genetically engineered corn and soybeans and OK'd dousing them in Enlist Duo weed killer, there's yet another reason to stand up for consumers' right to know and to fight for GE labeling.
Today is World Food Day, so many farm leaders will be recycling the canard that American farmers feed the world.
Do they?
The staggering amount of antibiotics used in raising industrial livestock continues to rise, according to a recent (Oct. 2) Food and Drug Administration report. And most (70 percent) of those drugs are considered "medically important" for humans.
Cleaner water in the Chesapeake Bay could mean billions of dollars in economic growth for the region.
If we're going to succeed in feeding the world, it will be because we educate and train farmers in countries with persistent hunger and develop innovative and strategic ways to lift people out of poverty so they can buy their own food.
A recently released study by the economic consulting firm ECONorthwest concludes that requiring genetically engineered food to be labeled would cost Americans a mere $2.30 per person per year.
A new analysis by economists at Ohio State University and the University of Illinois concludes that lavish subsidy programs created in the 2014 farm bill could cost taxpayers billions more than expected.
Advocates of genetically engineered crops claim they will help us "feed the world" by improving crop yields. But is there any actual evidence that GE crops have actually delivered better yields than conventional breeding techniques?
Michael Wang can't handle the truth.
Apparently he was none too pleased to read "Ethanol's Broken Promise," Environmental Working Group's recent report that showed that reducing corn ethanol consumption would help lower greenhouse gas emissions. But in a response he wrote with his colleagues, Wang once again cherry-picked data to support his claim that corn ethanol is better for the climate than gasoline.
Unfortunately for him, there are several inconvenient truths about ethanol.
In a newly published review, former Environmental Protection Agency senior scientist Dr. Ramon J. Seidler explains that the agrichemical industry's promise that genetically engineered crops would reduce pesticide use has been broken.
This week, the Department of Agriculture predicted that the 2014-2015 U.S. corn harvest will be the largest ever. Because of policies that Congress adopted in the 2014 farm bill, that could also mean record payouts of taxpayers' money.
From 2003 through 2012, crop insurance premium subsidies cost taxpayers $42.1 billion – 72 percent of the federal crop insurance program's total costs. If Congress had paid attention when it had the chance, it would have trimmed premium subsidies – instead of ballooning the deficit.
The problem of drift could worsen if the Environmental Protection Agency approves Dow AgroSciences's new weed killer, Enlist Duo, which contains 2,4-D and glyphosate.
Corn-based ethanol is a major cause of the water pollution that is ravaging the Mississippi River basin and the Gulf of Mexico, a report by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) inspector general concluded this week (Sept. 4).
Working with nature is not simple. But you can make a good living at it when you get your business model and growing system in place.
What's actually troubling is that big agriculture continues to shamelessly attempt to shift blame rather than take responsibility.
For nearly 70 years, the USDA has relied mostly on voluntary conservation programs that allow farmers to decide for themselves whether or not to use basic conservation measures to prevent runoff from their fields. That runoff can contain high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus that can be hazardous to the health of people and wildlife.
A New York Times article last week (Aug. 11) explained the problem of "superweeds" but failed to connect the dots between increasing use of the toxic defoliant known as 2,4-D and the serious health risks linked to exposure, which include Parkinson's disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and thyroid and reproductive problems.


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It just occurred to me - this year we have record no. of mosquitos due to frequent rain and I've been places where even during the day they are awful.
Since we are having our reunion at a beautiful outdoor location - overlooking a lake - what can we do??? Besides hope and pray for a good strong breeze that is... Not sure about spraying massive quantities of insecticide - that stuff generally stinks and if you get that chemical taste in your mouth there goes any enjoyment we might have in eating our delicious food. Do citronella candles work? I was wondering, are there some tricks of the trade that people like wedding planners would have to know about (since outdoor weddings are popular). |
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When I got married, in July about a mile from the lake, my dad had the outdoor area "bug-bombed" the day BEFORE the wedding -- or maybe it was 2 days? Whatever. But it seemed to work. I don't know about citronella candles, but I learned here on this forum that the best defense is a FAN. Hard to have enough of those for a big area, though, and I don't know if you will have electricity. Thing Two (my daughter) worked at a camp this summer, and she used one of those new things you clip on your belt -- I think it is a fan with some insect repellent? She said it worked great. You could consider buying those for people. |
We burn the "Off" mosquito coil incense rings. They work very well and don't smell bad. We also spray the perimeters of our yard with the kind of mosquito repellant that comes in a spray bottle with a hose attachment. It is safe for kids and animals, and doesn't do any damage to my plants. It is great for gardens where the little varmints like to hide in the shade of the plant leaves!! |
Here is a link that might be useful: live link
I'd like to emphasize that you should not spray the whole location with pesticides. They can be a toxic overload for many people: the elderly, the very young, pregnant, anyone taking medications that are hard on the liver (just about everything), anyone recovering from an illness, and anyone with acute chemical sensitivities. Big fans work well, as mentioned earlier. Your event planner could locate some nice ones on tall pedestals. Mosquitoes and gnats are one of the reasons why we have big ceiling fans on our porches, here in the South. |
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I want the presidents to start tweeting and maybe, Tom Morrow... did he ever meet his party?
Disney has launched a Twitter account for the Jungle Cruise.
You can find it here: Twitter
Would you like to see them do this with other attractions? Personally, I think if the 999 happy haunts were tweeting the world would be a better place.
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I want the presidents to start tweeting and maybe, Tom Morrow... did he ever meet his party?
Sometimes all you need is a reminder that out there lies a better place... a better world... a Walt Disney World.Visited In: 1983, 1988, 1989 x2, 1991, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (passholder), 2007 (x2 x3), 2008, 2009 (x2), 2010, 2011 (x2)
Detail is there to make you believe in the reality of the story youre immersed in. - Joe Rohde
I could see Bier Rabbit tweeting from his Laughing Place
Visits to Disney:
February 2009: off-site 1 day trip to Epcot and Magic Kingdom
February 2010: All Star Movies 7 days, 6 nights of magic
February 2011: All Star Music 7 days, 6 nights of magic
September 2012: All Star Movies 4 days, 3 nights of magic
March 2013: All Star Movies 3 days, 2 nights of magic
April 2013: Pop Century 3 days, 2 night of magic
(Upcoming) January 2014 6 days, 5 nights of magic


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Free Volunteering Opportunities
1) Caritas
(http://www.caritas.es/) - One of the largest networks dedicated to reducing poverty and injustice throughout the world. An organisation with a Catholic foundation, driven to help the most vulnerable in the World. 2) Cruz Roja (http://www.cruzroja.es/pls/portal30/portal.portal_cre.do) - This is the Spanish Red Cross. You can also access information about Red Cross International here 3) Hacesfalta (http://www.hacesfalta.org/) - A network for finding volunteering opportunities and work in NGOs. Includes a volunteer search facility 4) Volunteers Platform Spain (http://www.plataformavoluntariado.org/) - Founded in 1986 as a Platform for the Promotion of Volunteers in Spain (PPVE), responding to the need to encourage, promote and facilitate the work of voluntary organisations. 5) Voluntariat
(http://www.voluntariat.org/) - A network of information about volunteering in Spain, in collaboration with a large amount of partner organisations. 6) Portada (http://www.xarxanet.org/xarxanet/inici?virtagoraView=off) - Search links to various sites offering volunteering opportunities around Spain. 7) more than english
(http://www.morethanenglish.com) 8) EVS (http://ec.europa.eu/youth/evs/aod/hei_en.cfm) - The European database on EVS accredited organizations. EVS offers young people (13-30 years old) the opportunity to work as a volunteer for 2-12 Months. 9) The Alliance of EVS Organisations (http://www.alliance-network.eu/) - An international ngo representing national organisations with the promotion of intercultural education, understanding and peace through voluntary service. Each member organisation runs an annual programme of international volunteer projects, which involves volunteer exchanges between group projects, predominantly in Europe. | Low Cost Volunteering Opportunities
1) HelpStay(www.HelpStay.com) - Travel as a volunteer. Stay for free in return for a few hours of honest help. 2) Sunseed Desert Technology (http://www.sunseed.org.uk/) |


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The business press continues to be skeptical in its second-day coverage of AT&T's $39 billion deal for T-Mobile. That's a good thing.
The New York Times's headline all but says the deal would be bad for consumers:
For Consumers, Little to Cheer in AT&T Deal
The lede is good:
The $39 billion proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile could save the companies a lot of money. For everyone else, it could cost a lot of money.
And it puts this up high:
The bottom line, they said, is that competition is likely to suffer, leading to higher prices and less innovation. That is because the deal would leave just AT&T, Verizon Wireless and the much smaller Sprint to divide up the voracious smartphone market — with the AT&T and T-Mobile union likely to dominate the market.
"Without some of the smaller competitors, you won't have the competitive pressure that leads to lower prices and innovations and offerings among the carriers," said Paul Reynolds, electronics editor at Consumer Reports.
Again, the merger would create a behemoth with 42 percent of all cellphone customers in the United States. With Verizon, the top two companies would have a stunning 73 percent of the market, up from 40 percent in 2002 (although, as the Financial Times reports, AT&T would likely have to divest at least some customers and assets to gain regulatory approval). That's effectively a duopoly, especially when the only other major company has just 16 percent and is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. And the consolidation hasn't been through organic growth. Most of it has been through acquisitions, like AT&T's $86 billion buyout of BellSouth in 2006.
I have a quibble here with the Times:
Improved service and network quality could be another boon. T-Mobile and AT&T use the same underlying GSM cellphone technology, which should reduce any friction of blending the two networks. AT&T could take advantage of T-Mobile's latest high-speed network, in which the company has invested millions to upgrade and bring online. By adding T-Mobile, AT&T will gain cell sites equivalent to the number it would have taken five years to build, experts say. All this means, in theory at least, that service should improve. But the cost to buy that coverage is likely to go up.
First of all, "has invested millions" is so imprecise as to be worthless. The Times implies that because it's in the seven figures, this is a big number. But $2 million, say, would not be, while $900 million just might.
Second, it's not like AT&T is buying cell towers that are just sitting there unused. T-Mobile has millions of customers using them and AT&T would be buying these customers, too. Is T-Mobile's network less busy than AT&T's? That would have been good to know.
The Wall Street Journal goes with the Washington angle on B1, writing that the deal is "as much a wager on the political environment in Washington as it is a bet on the future of the wireless market."
The Journal follows that quote with this, though:
The deal comes as the Obama administration has signaled it will police mergers more aggressively than the prior Republican administration.
It's unclear why the Journal is talking about the Obama administration's signals, when it has been in power now for twenty-six months. It has a track record on antitrust, and it's not a very tough one, as the paper itself sort of points out a few paragraphs down:
So far, the Obama Justice Department hasn't blocked a large, high-profile deal outright. Two controversial deals—Ticketmaster's acquisition of Live Nation Inc. and Comcast Corp.'s purchase of NBC-Universal—were both allowed to proceed, albeit with significant conditions.
And if you want to talk about signals, it's clear AT&T is picking up different ones. This is good reporting:
AT&T was encouraged when the Obama administration cleared the Comcast-NBC merger, because it felt regulators weren't about to blanket-ban big mergers, people familiar with the matter said.
And this is excellent background, too:
Working in AT&T's favor is a long history as one of the top-spending lobbying operations and campaign contributors in Washington, ties to influential lawmakers and policy makers in both parties, and the backing of the Communications Workers of America, the union that represents thousands of AT&T workers.
Since 1989, AT&T has been the top corporate donor to members of Congress, shelling out more than $46 million in campaign contributions to both Republicans and Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Last year, the company spent $15.4 million on lobbying in Washington.


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After Betty moved to Denver and married Paul Milstein, Letty moved, too, to stay close to her sister. She met Paul's brother, Jules, who immediately fell in love with the petite, dark-haired beauty.
Unlike the Lippmans, the Milsteins were impoverished Jews who had emigrated from Russia to England and subsequently to the United States. Gregarious as he was poor, Jules was a charmer--but certainly beneath Letty's perceived social class. For six years he wooed Letty, promising to work himself to the bone in order to keep her in the manner to which she was accustomed.
In 1939 Letty finally consented to marry Jules. On July 11, 1942, Judith Ellen Milstein was born.
As he had promised, Jules worked hard to support his wife and child, giving up the outdoors and sports activities he'd enjoyed as a young man and putting in more hours to build a contracting business. Whatever money he didn't spend on his family he invested in Denver real estate. Year by year the Milsteins' financial outlook improved.
For the first twelve years of her life, Judi Milstein was a beloved only child, raised by a mother who considered her family a cut or two above the masses. Judi learned ballet and classical music and the fine arts that young ladies of good upbringing should appreciate. If she had inherited her father's pleasant, peasant face rather than her mother's more delicate lines, Judi was still a pretty girl with dark brown hair and eyes.
Then on September 10, 1954, Letty and Jules had a baby boy, John--and the sibling rivalry from hell was born.
"I had more toys," John says, looking back at what he believes are the root causes of the rift with his sister. By the time John was a toddler, Jules's hard work had elevated the family to the upper middle class. Not rich by Judi's current standards, but certainly comfortable.
Letty was a sheltered wife and mother. Jules had built her a large home, which she filled with select pieces of art and furniture. She had a housekeeper and a nanny for John. There were weekly trips to the hairdresser and season passes to the symphony. The Milsteins were in good standing at the local synagogue--not overly religious, but moral people who knew right from wrong. Bad things did not happen in the Milstein household.
Judi attended East High School. A picture in the 1958 Angelus yearbook shows the senior preparing to compete as a finalist in the school's annual Wolcott Sight-Reading contest. In the event, each girl was handed a book to read, cold, in front of judges who evaluated the contestant's ability to recite using the proper expression. Judi didn't win, but her penchant for drama would become apparent later in life.
In the East High library's lone copy of the Angelus, next to Judi Milstein's photograph is a notation that she would be attending the University of California at Berkeley as a philosophy major. Judi stayed at the California school for two years before deciding that she wanted to study Spanish at the University of Madrid in Spain. But that was an ocean too far away, and instead her parents sent her to the University of Mexico in Mexico City.
There she met Issac "Zack" Chayet Volchansky, five years her senior. Zack was an attorney who'd just graduated from Harvard with a degree in international law. The two made a good-looking couple. He stood a little over six feet, with heavy masculine features, dark skin and a mustache. Judi was six inches shorter and curvaceous, with a wide, perfect smile.
Judi and Zack married in Denver on April 15, 1962. After spending some time back in Mexico, they returned to Colorado and lived in the Milsteins' basement before Jules bought them a modest brick home on East Fourth Avenue near Monaco.
The house was in a nice middle-class neighborhood filled with professional people who kept their lawns neat and their homes tidy. Several doctors lived in the area, including Dr. John Denst. He lived across the street with his wife, Dorothy, a registered nurse.
Judi and Zack's first child, Edward Lance Chayet, was born on January 5, 1963. His grandmother Letty cared for him while Judi pursued a teaching degree with a Spanish specialty from the University of Denver. And Letty continued to babysit her grandson--as she would the two who followed, Victor in 1966 and Marco in 1971--when Judi landed a job at Graland Country Day School, a private academy that teaches students from many of Denver's richest and most influential families.
John Milstein, a young boy at the time, recalls his sister complaining about how some of the parents of the students treated her "sort of like the hired help, and she resented it," he says. "I think that's where Judi saw what she wanted--and part of what she wanted was to be on top of that society."
When Zack and Judi decided to move to a bigger home soon after Marco's birth, Jules and Letty moved into the Fourth Avenue house. John was leaving for college; they didn't need the larger home anymore.
But the Milsteins still had plenty of nice things, drove a Cadillac and were regular contributors to the symphony, where their names were engraved on the backs of their seats. And they soon became fast friends with their neighbors, particularly the Densts.


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Mando Rayo (@elmundodemando), a vice president at the communications firm Cultural Strategies, is a co-chair of Engage 501, a statewide effort to help nonprofits reach ethnic and racial minorities, and a board member at the Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations. Mr. Rayo also played a key role in planning The Social Revolución, a project that works to help Latinos use social media to create change.
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Album review
Cool Hand Luke
And so, thankfully, once again, here are Black Box Recorder to dispatch a cold bucket of sarcasm over the chronically lukewarm indie/pop scene. Passionoia, superficially, doesn't seem quite so bleak and mordant as Luke Haines & co's previous work. The spindly, sophisticated, John Barry-esque strings and electronica of "The Facts Of Life" have been eschewed in favour of a shiny, bouncy sound. Certainly there isn't quite the sense of serial killers lurking in the rose garden—but don't be deceived.
"School Song", the opener, returns to the theme of "England Made Me", with prim vocalist Sarah Nixey playing the role of the sort of bitterly authoritarian schoolmaster responsible for emotionally crippling the nation's youth. ("You lot need a bit of toughening up... you're weak and spoilt.") There's something almost kinky (a good BBR word) about Haines and John Moore employing Nixey as a mouthpiece for this nightmarish recollection of schoolboy misery but all involved seem to enjoy the perversity. There's playfulness, also, in the numerous instances of pop pastiche. "GSOH QED" alludes to Tupperware Bacharach/David pop classic "I'll Never Fall In Love Again". Only for Nixey, the price of passion is death threats and intimate pictures on the Internet from two-faced impotent spineless reptiles". Then there's "Andrew Ridgeley", with its impudent steal from The Human League's "Love Action". "This is Sarah Nixey talking..."—ah, the triple-axled irony. "Andrew Ridgeley" is a defiant cri-de-coeur on the part of a generation weaned on the most shinily insipid aspects of the 80s. Still more intriguingly worrying is "The New Diana", in which Nixey yearns to be just that, "lying on a yacht reading photo magazines".
A fairy tale wish or a death wish? As ever, BBR's absinthe-flavoured acid drops give you a great deal more to suck on than the rest of pop's confectionery selection. Savour their sourness.
Rating: 4 / 10