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Okay, here's another question. I love potatoes but am relativley new at growing them here. I think I may be running into a bit of a mental block about how to grow them since the seasons here are so different from where I grew up. Up there you planted in the spring with fingers crossed that potatoes would sprout rather than rot and you mostly harvested at the end of summer because it goes from hot to cold pretty quick. Down here all the seasons are really stretched out, except winter which is much shorter. That's a long explanation for why I'm having trouble figuring out how to get my potatoes going the way I want. Right now I'm planting in earlyish spring and harvesting in July. July potatoes store until about now in my cellar, but I guess it is too warm down there since they've been sprouting. I don't really have anywhere better to store them. What I would really like is to have potatoes through the winter that I grew myself. So what might be my best plan? I tried July planting some of the small tubers from the spring planting, but only a few came up and they were kind of slow, so didn't produce very much. (That worked better last year, but why?) Is there a way to make those get started sooner/stronger? Would choosing a later-maturing variety work? Would it make it through our hot summers? Is there some way to make my storage better? Cheers! |
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I think you are doing it right. You plant potatoes couple of weeks before your LF date. So, they will be sprouting right after that. If you plant early and frost comes when they are up, then have to cover them. GREENING: |
Your zone is close to mine, you have more heat-days and an earlier spring but winter is similar. I plant around mid-april and harvest in late september, and put them in the cellar. So I'd suggest that you don't need to harvest so early, leave them in until september, they will be better cured. if you don't have a cellar that gets cold, you could keep the crop in the coolest place you have for a couple months and then store in a tater-hole, a hole in the ground a couple feet deep, gravel in the bottom if the soil is heavy, lined with hardware cloth if rodents will be a problem, put the tubers in, fill with leaves or hay or wood-shavings up to grade and cover with a piece of plywood. |
I wonder why you harvest in July. Do they die by then? |
Are you choosing a 90 day potato, rather than a 60 day one? Also, you can leave them in the ground for a few weeks before harvesting, which will toughen the skins. I plant in late May/ early June and harvest in October -- they die back in mid September. Would things be cool for you by mid October? Also, is your storage area totally dark? stand in it with the doors shut and look. I tested mine that way when my potatoes were sprouting, and was surprised to find that there was an open heat grate getting light from upstairs. So I put a cardboard box over the grate, and no more sprouting. |
Do you have a storage refrigerator? |
Down further south in zones 7 and higher, it heats up starting July. And the soil temperature stays over 75F and so does night temperature. That is the end of potato season there. Another thing is that potatoes need no more than 110 days or so, depending on the variety. Some are done at 85 days. So when you plant them in mid March, they are done by late June -early July. |
Thanks for all the input! Forgive me if my typing is short, the dog dislocated my finger yesterday and I'm having a little trouble. Pat, you have a vole problem too, if I remember. My only concern with leaving them in place any length of time is that the voles get in there and eat them. Do you have that problem? I dig them in July because they die back. And some years it gets very hot-when we moved in the guy who moved out left his potatoes. It was very hot that year and all the potatoes had some sort of black spots developing in their interiors. I forget why, but I thought that was due to too much heat in the soil. I don't have a storage refrigerator, at least not one I can turn to a higher temp. My husband took over that one. :) and I'm not sure about the current place being totally dark. I can move them or put something over them to try. I grow Red Pontiac. Used to also do Yukon Gold, but they seem to develop an off taste at our new house and my old farming neighbor agreed he had the same thing happen. I thought I once read here how to get fall potatoes, but maybe not. Last year was so tantalizing with the large yeild from a few plants in fall, but this year it didn't work too well. Anyway it's a funny climate here- too hot to follow the planting schedule of up north, but too cold to do what they do further south. Cool-loving plants are tricky here. |
Hmmm . . . brainstorming here. Could you try a late planting again (mid July or so) and plant them deeper than suggested (where the soil should stay cooler), and also mulch them heavily, like 6 inches of hay maybe, to keep the soil cool. Maybe mulch instead of hill? Maybe put the mulch on your prepared potato patch in May so it stays cool? Also, rather than planting your own small ones, keep some seed potatoes in the fridge until July, so you're planting the best seed you can. Or do some of both and see what turns out best. Every year is so different, it seems like since it worked once it's worth another try for fall potatoes. Also, wrangle your husband for space in the other fridge :) |
I'm z7 here also, though of course we do not have nearly as many hot days as MD. So perhaps leaving tubers in the ground from july to sept doesn't work there, however you could try covering the rows with mulch after the gives dry down. It seems like I did beat the rodent problem this year by digging in sept instead of november. BTW, some sprouting in storage isn't a problem IME. |
Alternatively, you can store squash or sweet potatoes. Those store well. I know, I am such a weakling, always finding low exertion solutions. |
Sunni, I have the same problem. I can't leave the early potatoes in the ground because of voles, so they never cure completely and tend to break dormancy quite early. I can't complain -- I can grow bush beans after potatoes -- but growing lots of storage potatoes from a spring planting isn't working. I'm experimenting more with holding some seed potatoes until early summer and growing them as a June-September crop, planted after spring greens, but this year late blight ruined that plan. I'm going to keep trying, though. |
- Posted by sweetquietplace 6 WNC Mtn. (My Page) on Sat, Dec 14, 13 at 9:36
I can the potatoes that don't store well. The ones that hold together can better rather than the ones that crumble. When I run out of my stored potatoes, or need something super quick, I just grab a jar of them. |
Thanks for the brainstorming! There are some ideas that I hadn't thought of. I've never canned potatoes, but I do have a pressure canner. And if the recipe is in the Ball Blue Book, then it's something I could try out. I think Pontiacs would count as a type that holds together. And I will keep trying to get that Fall crop, because this time of year my cellar is finally cool. And I'll move them away from the door area to be assured of darkness. They are sprouting so much now that they are getting wrinkly and soft. I'll just eat them as quick as I can now. (oh, the hardship!) I wonder if I grow a ton of potatoes if I can grow more than the voles will eat or will I just have a super population explosion of rodents? It's funny that sweet potatoes and squash were mentioned. :) I have a question about sweet potatoes, but it requires me to take a picture. That will be another thread. I haven't mastered growing winter squash, either. But this year was my first year trying since we moved (and before that I only tried once before realizing I just didn't have room or enough sun at the old house). Anyway I'll write down the ideas I gather here next to my notes about this year's yield. That way when I go to compare next year's haul I'll remember the ideas for storing/growing them. |
for winter squash, start with moschata. butternut, long island cheese, neck pumpkin. |
Glib- I did! The squash I prefer the flavor of usually are moschata. And moschata are resistant to the borers, all the more good. The vines thrived until a certain point, but then they had severe problems from the mole/vole team. They come in and tunnel under the plants and that's that for a lot of the plants. If there's a good way to promote secondary rooting of the vines I think it will help a lot. And I'll keep chipping away at the population of both. Also, i had a lot of fruit get end rot, which makes sense since I totally forgot that the new patch we put them in hadn't been limed. (My soil is low in calcium). |
As I recall it was Farmerdill who made my ears perk up about fall potatoes - in an older post he said to leave the smaller potatoes from the early harvest out in the sun for a few weeks to green up/sprout, then plant again. ~emmers |
Ah, I think that might be what I was half-way remembering before! See, what I did this year was just put the tubers right back in the ground when I dug them. Does the sun make them sprout faster? |
Pacquebot, who used to frequent this forum, claimed that years ago in WI people planted a storage crop on july 4th. I was always skeptical about how that could work, but I am starting to think I should give it a whirl. I have plenty of space, so why not. |
I have done both SPRING and FALL planting in GA(7b). The spring planting has to be done at the earliest possibe so by the end of June you harvest. Then immediately have to do fall planting. CANNING POTATOES: |
- Posted by sweetquietplace 6 WNC Mtn. (My Page) on Wed, Dec 18, 13 at 11:06
seysonn...I'm interested in your Rosette potato. Is this the Lady Rosetta that you're mentioning? |
- Posted by wally-1936 8b (My Page) on Wed, Dec 18, 13 at 11:27
We use to dig a storage area outside as the ground is cool if you dig deep enough but you will also have to make sure that the rain runs away from the hoke and you put down straw to help keep them dry. a good cover to keep the temp regulated not allowing sun nor rain to come in to your storage cellar. This it the way many of the old people had to keep their crops thru the winter months in the north. |
I had oven-roasted taters for breakfast. They really develop great flavor this time of year - so starchy and satisfying. Red Thumb is a superb baker and stores good. |
I think this is the thread I (we?) were thinking of: |
Here is a link that might be useful: farmerdill's comment on fall potatoes
Aha! Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you, because given the various constraints I have, a fall-maturing crop would be my easiest solution. Then when I put them up the cellar will be much cooler and they will be younger. Ok, so what I did wrong this year was not greening up the tubers I replanted. I think I'll try canning some to see what I think of them, too. Cheers! |
seysonn...I'm interested in your Rosette potato. Is this the Lady Rosetta that you're mentioning? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ HAHA> I misspelled it . You know what I was talking abut. Merry Christmas ! |
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2013 NFC Divisional playoff action kicks off with the Green Bay Packers visiting the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday night. While the AFC playoff games are marked with thick chalk this weekend, the Packers vs 49ers game has the home side listed as a field goal favorite. Kickoff for this NFC postseason action is scheduled for 8:00 PM ET on January 12, 2013, from legendary Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
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When officials fused northern Dade and southern Palm Beach counties in 1915 to form a new county and named it for former Florida governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, its only incorporated cities were Dania, Pompano, and Fort Lauderdale, all on the coast. By 1929 four more small municipalities -- Deerfield, Davie, Hollywood, and Floranada (later renamed Oakland Park) -- had formed. The number remained constant until after World War II. Between 1945 and 1970, as new homes sprang up miles inland, Broward's population increased sevenfold. Developers who saw an advantage to independence in setting zoning rules, garbage fees, and other regulations, incorporated their own fiefdoms. Thus Plantation was born in 1953, Lauderhill in 1959, and Lauderdale Lakes in 1961.
In the ensuing years, some cities expanded by annexing commercial areas, which require comparatively few services for the taxes they pay. In 1963 Plantation moved its eastern boundary out a mile, taking in both the commercial strip of U.S. Highway 441 and a square mile of residences that lay between Davie Boulevard and Sunrise Boulevard. That's the annexation about which residents in census tracts 411 and 413 howl the loudest today, claiming that Plantation "stole" their turf. Combined with the businesses along 441, the still-unincorporated neighborhoods might have been ripe for annexation, because commercial areas generally pay more in taxes than they collect in services like garbage pickup and police protection. Without the U.S. Highway 441 strip, central county residents -- who pay less in property taxes on inexpensive homes than their more affluent neighbors -- would likely drain city coffers.
County and legislative leaders, seeking to bring some order to the process, began to discourage ragtag incorporations after authoring a county charter in 1974. In 1976 County Administrator Lex Hester aggressively pushed a plan to establish a unified annexation policy. He held a series of meetings with various cities' officials and ordered county staff to work out recommendations for future annexations. But when he unveiled the scheme before the state legislators representing Broward, many unincorporated residents balked. The recommended annexations would have caused their then-low tax rates to increase to the level of the cities'. In the ensuing uproar, Hester lost his job.
Howard Forman (now county clerk of courts) was elected to the county commission just in time to watch the Hester-plan debacle. A decade later, knowing the tax crunch was still coming, Forman and his colleagues requested that county staff spend six months working out a phased annexation blueprint to move 30 square miles of unincorporated Broward into cities. "We came up with a plan that was acceptable to the cities and to the county," says Cynthia Chambers, director of the county's Planning Services Division, who helped write the multiphase plan.
The first phase dealt only with supposedly uncontroversial annexations, where only one city wanted an area and was willing to annex it. Then Forman brought the annexation blueprint to the legislative delegation. "I'd say it took all of about 60 seconds, and they shot it down at the first public hearing -- literally," Chambers says.
Instead Broward's state legislators suggested county staff assemble a new proposal. The new scheme was rejected just as quickly. And those were the uncontroversial proposals. The decision-makers never even discussed poor residential areas like census tracts 411 and 413, Chambers says.
In the mid-1990s, when Fort Lauderdale picked up the lucrative commercial areas of Cypress Creek and Marina Mile roads, two things happened. Then-county administrator Jack Osterholt pushed through a massive program of improvements in unincorporated areas, trying to tempt cities to take them; and Broward's state legislators, fed up with piecemeal annexation bills, refused to consider such measures in 1996. Instead the legislators set up an ad hoc committee chaired by then-state senator Jack Tobin that condemned cherry-picking and set a 2010 deadline for incorporation of the entire county.


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text: Managing Editor A comedy classic and a "Star Wars" documentary are the films featured in this week's DVD column. The Odd Couple No, this is not the venerable television show starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, but the original 1968 film adapted by writer Neil Simon from his successful Broadway play. Although many people remember the television show from its five seasons in the 1970s -- and its many, many reruns -- I would submit that fewer people recall the 1968 film, which was a big hit in its day. Paramount has re-released the film on DVD as part of its "Centennial Collection," giving "Odd Couple" fans a chance to see a substantially different story than the one presented on the television series. Simon had much more control over the film and made sure that Walter Matthau reprised his role as Oscar Madison, the world's sloppiest sportswriter. Art Carney, though, as the DVD's "making of" documentary reveals, was not cast as Felix in the film, although he originated the role in the play. The studio wanted someone with more box office appeal and Jack Lemmon was cast as Felix, the neurotic clean freak whose wife had just thrown him out. Simon's play took place completely in Madison's apartment. For the film version he and director Gene Saks created scenes to "open the film up" and take advantage of some New York City locations. I had not seen the film before in its entirety -- I think I had caught snippets in television -- and I was surprised to see just how dramatic it played. Yes, there are laughs in it, but Lemmon's performance has plenty of drama. We are introduced to Felix as he attempts to commit suicide material not in the play. Lemmon's Felix is a tortured soul who understands his propensity to clean all the time has driven away the woman he loves. He clearly regrets it. Oscar also has some chinks in his emotional armor and Matthau plays him with some subtlety, although overall the performance is pretty broad. The ending of the film comes as a bit of a surprise -- no spoilers here -- and I liked the production. For those who think of the television show as the definitive version of this property, the film should come as an interesting and pleasant surprise. A Galaxy Far Far Away I'm a fan boy and have been my whole life. I'm fascinated by examinations of fandom whether it's people who wear Red Sox shirts to work or the people profiled in this film who waited in line 42 days to buy tickets for the first showing of "The Phantom Menace" in 1999. Looking at science fiction fandom is nothing new for documentaries, as the folks who made "Trekkies" came up with an intriguing look at "Star Trek" fans and how their interest in that show had molded their lives. This film attempts to do something similar, only for "Star Wars" fans, but it is not nearly as successful or entertaining. Director Tariq Jalil sets up his premise at the beginning of the film: he doesn't like "Star Wars" and is hoping to understand why people have been so affected by the film series. He also hoped to gain some insight into why fans were willing to camp out for weeks to ensure they would see the film on opening day. So he visited some conventions, spoke to some fans -- the most wackiest he could find -- and chronicled the waiting period up to opening night. He even crashed a celebrity golf game to get Meat Loaf, Joe Pesci and Andy Garcia to talk about the phenomena. The result is part snarky commentary, part pop psychology and a grudging conclusion that at least "Star Wars" fans believe in something. Unlike "Trekkies," the film has a sloppy underground feel to it, which I wouldn't mind except the filmmakers seemed fascinated with dragging out the interviews with the worst fans. I've worked pop culture conventions for years and I've seen my share of obsessed fans, but a little can go a long way. This 10th anniversary edition has a new commentary from the director and producer as well as a "making of" interview. I think this film is best suited for hardcore completist "Star Wars" fans or for psychology enthusiasts. There is plenty of material here for a dissertation or two. |


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by Edgar J. Steele
May 11, 2008
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My name is Edgar J. Steele.
Now that it is all but arithmetically impossible for Hillary Clinton to secure the Democratic nomination for President, she has thrown caution to the wind and openly turned to White voters. After all, what does she have to lose in appealing to us?
Speaking to USA Today a few days ago, she observed how "Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states (North Carolina and Indiana) who had not completed college were supporting me."
Gee, I dunno. I suppose we could organize a Klan rally and burn a cross or two for her. I could make some calls.
"There's a pattern emerging here," she went on to tell that USA Today reporter. I'll say.
Nothing will make a woman into a supporter of the Second Amendment like being raped. Now that Hillary has been beaten up by a Black guy, she wants us White guys to do him for her. You know - Git a rope and so on.
You Race-Traitor
Sorry, Hill, but it doesn't work that way, not even among those of us who didn't complete college, as you so indelicately put it. Especially among those of us, actually. You've made your bed, now lie in it, you race-traitor.
You think we want you for our President? Where were you during Waco, when your Lesbian lover Janet Reno murdered and burned so many White babies? After all, that is part of the period for which you claim relevant "experience."
Where were you in Serbia when so many White Christians were murdered by your Jew-suck concubine, that pants-less horror of a husband you have not had the simple dignity to shed?
Why have you heaped praise upon the murderous Israeli state for having killed so many Arab Christians?
Why have you been advocating the murder of millions of White Aryans in Iran (yes, Aryan, not Arab - go Google it and prove it for yourself, gentle reader)?
In fact, where have you been every time that Whites have been forced to take a back seat to Negroes, Mestizos and other "minorities" of every stripe? Busy bashing us White folk and sucking up to the Al Sharptons of the world, that's where!
During law school, your main extracurricular activity was helping the Black Panthers, then on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent. Reportedly, you went to court every day as part of a student committee on the lookout for technicalities upon which to base an appeal for the feral beasts on trial. Are you asking that federal agent's white family to support you now, too?
After law school and after flunking the District of Columbia bar exam, one of the easiest in the nation, you spent a year interning for the head of the California Communist Party, Bob Truehaft, the fellow who represented the Black Panthers.
Only after Bill became Arkansas' Attorney General did you even get a job offer beyond your position with the University of Arkansas Law School, and that one had been gotten for you by Bill only because he already worked there. So much for your claims of turning down lots of lucrative job offers (not a single one, not even non-lucrative, ever came your way without Bill's prodding). Even then, it took Bill winning the Arkansas governorship for you to be offered a partnership at the Rose Law Firm, the one that hired you because of your direct line into the Attorney General's office.
I don't care what color you are. You are the last person in the world for whom I would vote, based solely upon your color. It's not that I won't vote White over Black, all other things being equal. I will, in a heartbeat, just as will most White folks. Even though you polled 60% of the White vote recently while Obama took 90% of the Black vote, don't get the idea that, somehow, that is your White support speaking. It isn't.
Exactly what is your color, incidentally? I have trouble telling. Must be all the smoke from the sniper fire you now are enduring. Your husband made me ashamed to be an American. You almost make me ashamed to be White. Almost, I said. Being White is something of which I never will be ashamed. Nor does it get the likes of you my support, you race-traitor.
As pointed out in my book, Defensive Racism, there are far better reasons for desiring separation from a couple of other races than skin color and character is the most important of those reasons. Character. You know, the quality you ain't got, in spades (pun intended). Just because you are White doesn't mean you have acceptable character. On the contrary, in your case, Hillary. The ability to tell the truth, particularly, is wedded to good character. On that count, you are beneath contempt.
Lies as Far as the Eye Can See
Most recently, of course, there was your ridiculous lie about landing in Bosnia "under sniper fire," which film footage disclosed to be absolutely false.
Time and again, Hillary, you lie even when there is no obvious need - as when you claimed on the Today Show that your daughter almost was killed by falling debris while she was out jogging on 9/11, though she was four miles away, watching it all on TV.
Could it be as simple as put by New York Times columnist William Safire, when he wrote on January 8, 1986, that "our first lady ... is a congenital liar?" Congenital, essentially, refers to lies told with nothing to hide. Compulsive lying.
Of course, it seems that, most of the time, you have something real to cover up, so you always are being caught out in lies. Consider all the times you stood up for Bill, denying the philandering of which you were well aware, and destroying innocent lives in the process. Gennifer Flowers comes to mind. And Paula Jones, described by you as trailer trash. And, who can forget about Bill's affair with Monica, which you dismissed as being part of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy?"
Then there is your $99,000 cattle futures profit, stolen for you by your brokers from others who actually earned that money and then laid atop your "investment" that day of only $1,000.
And your denial of having engineered firing the entire White House travel department so as to hire in some political pals in their place, in that episode now known as "Travelgate."
Removing, hiding and then destroying a large number of documents from Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster's office directly following his murder ("suicide," said the authorities, as a result of White House influence).
Your mysterious, vanishing billing records in the Madison Guaranty scandal, which saw two men imprisoned for defrauding the bank with your help.
You really would have served Bill better, had you stayed home and baked cookies.
We've Got Your White Support Right Here
You are a lying, contemptible and contemptuous broad, Hillary. You want White Support? We've got your White Support right here, in the form of a rope. And being a race traitor is the least of it, believe me.
Hopefully, the day will come when we can drag you out onto the platform in shackles alongside your contemptible husband (not to mention every last member of both Bush Administrations) and offer you the sight of a hooded figure holding your noose, your just reward for all that you have done to us, your White countrymen, and our beloved America.
Then we will turn our attention to those among us who destroyed our culture by holding the immigration floodgates wide open and then placing the boot of multiculturalism and racial preference upon our necks. Street lamps throughout America will be festooned with the swaying bodies of politicians, plutocrats, bankers and other thieves, rest assured.
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Walmart Bass Fishing League - Great Lakes
MISSISSIPPI RIVER (May 4, 2002)
Bosshard wins Wal-Mart BFL Great Lakes Division opener
CLINTON, Iowa. — Rick Bosshard of Sussex, Wis., topped 120 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League competitors Saturday on the Mississippi River with five bass weighing 16 pounds, 6 ounces. The catch earned him $3,447 and 200 points in the Boater Division.
Bosshard's catch topped second-place boater Rod Brady of Greenville, Wis., by 7 ounces. Brady finished the one-day tournament with a five-bass catch weighing 15 pounds, 15 ounces worth $1,723.
Brandon Krogh of Fond du Lac, Wis. (five bass, 15 pounds, $1,034); Mike Feldermann of Galena, Ill. (five bass, 12 pounds, 11 ounces, $827); and Mike Barrett of Freeport, Ill., (five bass, 12 pounds, 8 ounces, $689) rounded out the top five boaters.
Brady earned boater big bass honors and $600 with a 5-pound, 3-ounce bass.
Steve Simer of Pardeeville, Wis., claimed first place and $1,723 in the 120-competitor Co-angler Division with five bass weighing 14 pounds, 10 ounces. He surpassed second-place co-angler Mark Foster of Mapleton, Ill., by 4 pounds, 14 ounces. Foster finished with a three-bass catch weighing 9 pounds, 12 ounces worth $862.
James Haumann of Romeoville, Ill. (three bass, 8 pounds, 2 ounces, $517); Phillip Hill of Racine, Wis. (three bass, 7 pounds, 3 ounces, $414); and John Duwel of Cincinnati (three bass, 6 pounds, 15 ounces, $379) rounded out the top five co-anglers.
Foster and Frank Nester of Mount Carroll, Ill., tied for big bass honors in the Co-angler Division. Each angler caught a 4-pound, 3-ounce bass worth $150.
The Wal-Mart BFL will return to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien, Wis., June 22 for the second of five Great Lakes Division events. The boater with the most points after the division's season finale, a two-day Super Tournament Sept. 14-15 on the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien, will be declared the Yamaha "Be the Best" Points Leader and awarded $1,000. The co-angler amassing the most points by the end of the season will receive $500.
The top 30 Great Lakes Division boaters and co-anglers will advance to regional competition presented by Yamaha Oct. 15-19 on Kentucky Lake near Gilbertsville, Ky., where they will go up against top competitors from the Hoosier, Illini and Michigan divisions for a shot at qualifying for the Wal-Mart BFL All-American — one of the most lucrative post-season tournaments in competitive angling.
2002 BFL awards could reach $7 million based on full fields.


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"I think the current inspection system reflects the law," Griebling says. "To truly satisfy groups like the GVCA, you'd have to materially change the law. They don't like the fact that the law promotes development of the gas resource."
Already skeptical of state oversight of the drilling on private land, locals anticipate that drilling on the Roan Plateau will present similar hazards -- with more dramatic effects on water and air quality. The drilling will involve penetrating aquifers there, too, Elderkin insists. It's likely that wells won't be allowed on slopes of more than 50 percent or within a quarter-mile of streams, but Goddard says several springs on the plateau are located outside of those buffer zones.
Both men also wonder what sort of reclamation of the well pads will be required once the gas is played out. Griebling defends the state's rules for restoring drill sites to their natural state as "more detailed than other states' or the BLM's," but Elderkin is unimpressed with some of the reseeding jobs he's seen.
"In some places you get good reclamation," the former BLM man says. "In others, all you get is the white alkaline crust. Nothing grows there. They save the topsoil when they build the pad. But in this country, topsoil is kind of a misnomer. It might have the organic matter, but it's shallow. When you tear it up, all these salt layers below it get mixed in."
COGCC regulations state that reseeding with species "consistent with the adjacent plants is encouraged" and that the reclaimed area should be "reasonably free" of weeds. A 1997 study by the agency of reclamation efforts in Garfield County concluded that, even by its standards, three-quarters of the disturbed land at 21 sites operated by four different companies was in "unacceptable condition" -- poorly seeded or rife with weeds, oil stains or erosion.
"So much of it isn't put back to native," Goddard complains. "They throw down pasture mix, and in a couple of years it's gone, and it's nothing but a weed patch. They've taken the native grasses, the native browse, the bitterbrushes, the snowberry bushes -- all that should be required to be put back in."
The valley is a "challenging area to reclaim" because of its aridity, Cesark says, adding that Williams has gone to extraordinary lengths, trucking in topsoil and working voluntarily with the state on wildlife-enhancement projects. One preliminary study conducted by a local biologist even suggests that mule deer prefer the menu at some of the company's reclaimed well sites to background vegetation. "Overall, I think our reclamation has been very successful," he says. "We have some failures, some sites we go back to. There are temporary disturbances. But you can replace the original vegetation with better vegetation and improve the habitat. That's our goal."
Over the next few decades, deterioration of air quality may be the most serious threat posed by drilling on the Roan. Oil and gas production in states such as Oklahoma and Texas has been linked to rising levels of ozone and greenhouse gases. One recent study indicates that even New Mexico's sparsely populated San Juan County, a hotbed of oil and gas rigs, now has higher levels of ethane than many samples taken in smog-ridden cities. Vapor emissions from the heavy concentration of natural-gas wells in Weld County appear to be hiking ozone levels as far away as Rocky Mountain National Park and the fringes of metro Denver, prompting health officials to call for new controls to keep the air quality from violating federal standards.
Where gas wells multiply, the air no longer sparkles. It bites.
More than a year ago, the BLM's Glenwood Springs office unveiled six preliminary options for managing the Roan Plateau, ranging from maintaining the status quo ("no action") to opening up most of the area for drilling. Alternative F, which would have protected and enhanced the ecological richness of the area and all but banned drilling from the top, was overwhelmingly favored by local citizens, town and county officials and environmental interests.
But when BLM officials began another round of meetings with key groups a few months later, it soon became clear that Alternative F had vanished from the bureau's list of options, which were now down to four. The Garfield County commissioners fired off a letter to the BLM's point man, wondering why they weren't consulted about this so-called "streamlining" of the planning process.
"This represented a major policy decision that disregarded and shortchanged... input from a wide array of respondents," the letter noted. The commissioners also said they believed the BLM had made "no compelling case for any leasing on top of the plateau."
Jamie Connell, field manager for the BLM's Glenwood Springs office, says that components of Alternative F can still be found in the remaining four options, including the "no-action" option. "We believe that everything that is in F that needed to be analyzed is being analyzed," she says. "The final, preferred alternative could be a combination of any of the [remaining] four. I would venture that none of the four are perfect."
Yet no one expects the BLM to adopt the "no-action" option. With Alternative F off the table, the battle over the Roan has become a dispute over well spacing and density. Preservationists want to see as few rigs as possible through extensive use of directional drilling. But state-of-the-art directional equipment can cost as much as $50,000 a day to operate, and the plateau, with its extra thousands of feet of overburden between the surface and the resource, presents imposing costs even without that additional expense.


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To the north is the village of Bellaire, home of Short's Brewpub, Lulu's fine dining, Moka's cafe and wine shop, Toonie's family dining, the Bellaire Smokehouse, a movie theatre, Glen's Market, and much more.
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By Chandrahas Choudhury

Last week, Ratan Tata retired on his 75th birthday after more than two decades in charge of the Indian corporate behemoth Tata Sons Ltd. Tata will be succeeded by Cyrus Mistry, 44.

The house of Tata owns dozens of prominent Indian businesses and brands, from the Taj Group of luxury hotels to the super-inexpensive Tata Nano car. It is widely perceived to represent Indian capitalism at its best, enjoying the goodwill of millions of customers, the loyalty of more than 400,000 employees and the investments of 3.8 million shareholders, while also reinvesting a substantial part of its profits into philanthropic work overseen by a set of trusts.

Tata's tenure at the helm was notable for its longevity, ambition and stewardship of a venerable tradition. (The family-owned house of Tata was founded in 1868 and had only four chairmen before Ratan Tata, including the legendary J.R.D. Tata, Ratan's uncle and immediate predecessor, who ran the business from 1938 to 1991.) But Tata's leadership was especially meaningful because it ran exactly concurrent to a new phase of Indian capitalism itself, and mirrored India's rise as an economic superpower.

Tata's reign began in 1991, the same year that India's socialist government was forced to deregulate the economy after a balance-of-payments crisis, abruptly throwing the country into the currents of globalization. Suddenly, the biggest Indian business houses, which had long been inward-looking and protected by government controls, faced the prospect of having to compete with the best in the world. This move had a special resonance for Tata Industries, the managing agency that oversaw a network of dozens of companies manufacturing everything from steel to salt to tea, and involved in almost every sector of the economy from hotels to telecommunications.

In 1991, Ratan Tata was 54 years old and had already spent almost three decades at the Tata Group, beginning as an apprentice on the shop floor of Tata Steel in 1962 and working his way up. Nevertheless, many close observers of Indian business (including some leading executives at the Tata Group who had hoped to land the top job) were skeptical of his ability to advance the group's interests in a new financial and technological era.

But Tata gradually worked through the challenges, streamlined the house's odd mix of businesses, integrated them all under a common brand logo and took the group into emerging new sectors such as information technology and car manufacturing. Today, the group's most profitable business is not hotels or steel, but the information technology firm Tata Consultancy Services.

Crucially, starting around the turn of the century, Tata did a great deal to transform the company from a major Indian player to a significant global player. The group's major acquisitions since 2000 include the tea brand Tetley in 2000, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston in 2006, the steel company Corus Group Plc for $7.6 billion in 2006, and the Jaguar Land Rover car operations from the Ford Motor Co. in 2009. Tata Group is now one of India's few genuine multinational companies, with a presence in at least 56 countries. In 2011-2012, 58 percent of its total turnover of about $100 billion came from outside India, up from about 5 percent two decades ago.

Writing about Tata's retirement in the Financial Times, James Crabtree said:

Tata is a symbol of Indian capitalism, with a rare reputation for combining fast growth and ethical conduct in a nation still bedevilled by corruption. Its departing chairman is also his country's most revered business patriarch – making this once-in-a-generation handover one of the most watched events in India's business history. More than that, however, Tata has also come to embody its nation's adventures with globalisation.

The business newspaper Mint ran some of the best coverage of the once-in-a-generation handover (including this timeline). Aveek Datta quantified the progress made both by the Tata Group and the Indian economy since 1991 in a story called "Ratan Tata: A Journey in four Stages":

The story of the Tata group and Ratan Tata over the past 20 years is one of growth and competition, productivity and efficiency gains, and globalization and innovation. The Tata story is replete with run-ins with the establishment and the political opposition, and failures and frustrations. And, in some ways, it is the story of India itself, only with a happier ending.

The group's aggregate sales at the end of 2011-12, at Rs. 4.51 trillion, are 43 times the turnover in 1992-93, the first full fiscal after Tata took over as chairman. Net profit growth in the same period has been even more spectacular, rising 51 times. . . . The aggregate market capitalization of the group at Rs. 4.54 trillion in fiscal 2012 is 33 times higher than it was in 1992-93. In the same period, the Sensex, the benchmark equity index of BSE, grew nearly eight times.

And in a long cover story in the weekly magazine Outlook, the writers measured Tata's achievements against a to-do list he made in 1991 at the beginning of his tenure:

Perhaps the secret of Ratan Tata's success lies in his ability to think big—and small. While he guides the Tata group to pick up the luxurious Pierre Hotel in New York, he's also driving the launch of the budget Ginger hotels in India. He has the ability to envisage an automotive business that encompasses diverse businesses such as the iconic Jaguar and Land Rover marques on the one hand, the world's cheapest car the Nano, on the other, and hardy, rough-road trucks sandwiched in between.

Tata's big deals are balanced by projects focusing on the lowest common denominator. In fact, Mr Tata has been among the very few to perfectly understand the pysche and the needs of the Indian consumer—and build successful businesses around those insights. That is, by recognising that the big market opportunity lies in making desirable products affordable for a larger audience and creating successful products to cater to a market need—be it the passenger-car foray with the Indica in the early 1990s, the promise to create a Rs 1 lakh car or for that matter, making water filters that don't need electricity (for rural areas).

Tata pointed out the opportunities for expansion at the lower end of the Indian consumer market in an interview in 2006:

I think industries in India, by and large, have mostly been looking at the small section of the population at the top of the pyramid, the 200-250 million middle class that is the consuming public. That's an acceptable model because of its consonance with the scale and size of our companies. The 400 million and more just below them is what we have to target, because they are potential consumers. Can we go and cater to that marketplace? I think there is an opportunity there. But it should not be, cannot be, that low-cost products come to mean inferior or sub-standard products and services; definitely not. The aim is to create products for that larger segment – good and robust products that we are able to produce innovatively and get to the marketplace at lower costs.

Tata left with a flourish, announcing an ambitious vision for the company over the next decade at the annual meeting of the group's top executives last April. Revealing that the annual turnover had exceeded $100 billion in the previous fiscal year, he said he hoped for this figure to increase to $500 billion by 2020-2021. In a piece in the Business Standard called "Ratan Tata's Vision 2020," Surajeet Das Gupta noted:

Tata's vision for the future assumes an annual compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 20 per cent for the next nine years. This is in line with the growth he has achieved in his 20-year tenure as chairman. The group registered a 22 per cent CAGR between FY 1992 and FY 2011, the tenure in which he was chairman. . . . The scale of Tata's ambition is evident from the fact that in the 2011 Fortune 500 global list, the largest company was Walmart, with a turnover of $421 billion.

Tata's closing remarks seem to be both a statement of fact and a challenge to his successor, Mistry -- a man who, like Tata himself in 1991, was something of a surprise choice from a field packed with managerial quality. The sixth chairman of the 144-year-old Tata Sons Ltd. has his work cut out for him. But at least he knows that the history of his organization tells him that, unlike many chief executive officers, he can plan for the really long term.

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Group of about 800 languages spoken by indigenous peoples of New Guinea and parts of some neighbouring islands, including Alor, Bougainville, Halmahera, New Britain, New Ireland, and Timor. Spoken by some three to four million people, Papuan languages belong to several dozen families, the higher genetic relationships of which are still uncertain. This diversity, conjoined with the numerous Austronesian languages spoken on smaller parts of New Guinea and on adjacent islands, makes the region the most linguistically heterogeneous area of the world. The vast majority of Papuan languages have fewer than 100,000 speakers; Enga, spoken in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, is the most common of the Papuan languages and has some 200,000 speakers.
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