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I went to a local nursery looking for roses. They didn't have what I wanted, but they suggested Twilight Zone. I bought it. It's one of those bare roots that they potted, and they sold me potting mix full of good stuff like all kinds of bone and other meal. I am not sure where to plant it. It's a grandiflora. Not sure what that means. I love Veterans Honor, and have 3 of those. I love, Our Lady of Guadalupe and have 2 of those. Just ordered a couple on line because the local nursery's stock looked diseased. I ordered Tuscan Sun and Moondance Floribunda. I like the floribundas for the constant color they provide. Our Lady of Guadalupe is one. I'm worried that this Twilight Zone will grow really tall, so I need to figure out where to put it. Any info on this breed will be welcome! Suzi |
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- Posted by kstrong 10 So Cal (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Jan 15, 14 at 23:35
Nope -- it's not a tall grower -- 4 feet, maybe. But a really nice rose in many ways, especially the nifty color. Grandifloras is something a marketing person once made up to mean a cluster blooming plant that had blooms in the fashion of a hybrid tea. It really means nothing nowadays. Grandifloras are pretty much interchangeable with hybrid teas in terms of growing habit. |
- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 19 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 16, 14 at 10:26
Looking forward to seeing the nifty color, as you describe it. I'm going to put that Tuscan Sun near it because the pop of coral and purple is one of my favorites! Thanks for the grandiflora information. I had no idea! Suzi |
Twilight Zone is a great rose. Pretty bloom nice scent. It tends to hold its purple better than say Ebb Tide. However, ET tends to explode with more blossoms but TZ's blooms are bigger. Great rose you should be happy with it. |
I think Twilight Zone would look great next to Tuscan Sun. Yellows, blends, and oranges are a natural fit next to purples, I think. Diane Here's TZ near Julia Child and yellow perennials. |
- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 19 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 16, 14 at 19:38
You are in zone 7, and me 9a or Sunset 19. It might be hotter here. Your garden looks so lush! The only things really lush here are fig trees! I'm happy you think Tuscan Sun will be a good pairing with it. Thanks! Suzi |
It's not lush here at all--it's a desert. We get less than 10 inches of total precipitation a year. It's also very hot and dry during the summers here (had a day reach 113 last summer). Diane |
- Posted by Heatwave2000 8 (Central TX) (My Page) on Thu, May 1, 14 at 13:50
I am new to growing roses. For my first rose bought this Beautiful Twilight Zone at my local nursery. It's first blooms in the pot were absolutely gorgeous (see picture). Big and Fluffy, almost a match in color for the tag, and a wonderful fruity smell, that was so strong, all you had to do was walk by, and you could smell the flowers. However, since planting, though producing multiple clusters of buds, the buds and flowers are now weak and tiny, and not full or fluffy anymore. And the color went from gorgeous purple, to a darkish pink. I read the you are supposed to cut off the spent flowers, down to the first 5 leaf branch, unless it's a multiple bud cluster, then only cut off the dead flower. I've tried that, now there are almost no blooms at all. I'm in Austin, TX, and it's pretty hot here, already some days in the 90's. I don't know if that's the problem. I am so sad, and hope it's just the shock of the transplant, and that it will recover. I bought another, beautiful coral/pink/yellow rose, that I'm now afraid to plant, because of what has happened my poor Twilight Zone. Has this happened to anyone else? |
- Posted by seeingreen 8b (My Page) on Thu, May 1, 14 at 19:55
heatwave2000, I have Twilight Zone and it is my favorite but when the temps rise the rose has a tendency to create smaller lighter mauve colored blooms. This rose generally tends to be lighter colored in hotter regions anyway. If you have one in the pot, I would keep it there till next spring. Roses can survive fine in containers without damaging them and it also makes it easier to move them to better locations that may suit your rose better. I would bet that TZ would do best in some afternoon shade....possibly on a porch? |
- Posted by Heatwave2000 8 (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 14 at 21:44
Thank you "seeingreen". It's already been planted, but now I kind of wish I had kept it in the pot. It was doing really well in the pot. Since cutting down to the 1st five leaf branches, when cutting off the dead flowers, I have no new buds. I hope it makes it through our scorcher Texas summers, and maybe it will bloom better next year... because it really was a beautiful plant. I have planted my other rose too, it also has not re-bloomed since planting. But I am hopeful. I will try your advise for growing them in a pot for my next attempt :-D. Thank you! |
- Posted by seeingreen 10 (My Page) on Sat, May 10, 14 at 23:44
Welcome, and good luck with the roses!!! Twilight Zone is worth the effort :D |
I saw Twilight Zone yesterday at a Rose Show (best Grandiflora) and it was amazing. I have Ebb Tide, and mine stays purple because I have it in part shade. In the hotter weather, if the rose gets a lot of sun, the color will fade. Especially in hotter zones in the South. If you have a spot that can get some afternoon shade, that would be ideal. Most roses will slow down in 90 degree heat. Not much you can do about that. Just make sure they are watered well. |
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Gov. Jan Brewer is threatening to have Attorney General Terry Goddard blocked from interfering in what could be the most broad-based challenge to the state's new immigration law.
In a letter Monday to Goddard, the governor asked him to step aside "so my legal team can set forth the best defense possible in the immigration lawsuits currently before the federal district court.''
But Brewer said she's not counting on his cooperation.
"If you do not withdraw your motion to intervene ... I will pursue all legal remedies available to me to have you removed as counsel for the state of Arizona to ensure the state a true and proper defense,'' Brewer wrote.
Goddard, who has opposed the immigration law, said he has no intention of withdrawing. That will leave it up to a federal judge to decide who gets to speak for the state.
And he said Brewer is off base in presuming that only her privately hired attorneys are able to defend the legality of the statute.
Monday's letter is the latest dust-up between the pair who, if Brewer wins the Republican primary, will face off in the general election for governor. And it points up that the new immigration law will be a key issue.
Goddard opposed SB 1070 when it was first passed by the Legislature and signed by Brewer. It requires police to check the immigration status of those they have stopped if there is "reasonable suspicion'' the person is in this country legally. Another provision makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime.
In fact, Goddard said in April he would not personally be involved in defending the law against the anticipated lawsuits because he is campaigning against Brewer and publicly called on her to veto the measure. Those determinations, he said, would be made independently by his chief deputy.
Brewer, in her Monday letter, said Goddard's comments "leave me and the citizens of Arizona with serious doubt as to your ability to defend the state in these legal challenges.''
But Goddard said Monday those comments all came before lawmakers subsequently made some changes that he said made the law legally defensible. One specifically prohibits police from using race as a factor in determining who to question; the other says people can be questioned only after they have been stopped by police for some other reason.
"I believe it can be defended as being within the state's powers under the constitution,'' he told Capitol Media Services.
Goddard said, though, that doesn't mean he necessarily supports the law, even in its amended form.
"You know perfectly well there's a huge difference between whether you think it's a good idea and whether you believe there's a feasible and professional defense that can be made under the constitution,'' he said. "And that is exactly the position I've taken.''
Those amendments to SB 1070 also specifically gave Brewer permission to direct the defense of the law as well as to hire outside counsel rather than have Goddard's office handle the case.
Goddard noted, though, those changes, like the original law, do not take effect until July 29. In the interim, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Immigration Law Center and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund want an order barring the overall law from taking effect.
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Ten years ago, my wife, Cynthia, and I made one of the best decisions of our lives — to live in Ann Arbor. Since then, we have immersed ourselves in the fabric of this amazing city and have chosen to raise our two boys, August (8) and Harry (6), in the beautiful Second Ward. We love our neighborhood, schools, parks, downtown, and above all, the welcoming, progressive community.
Ann Arbor is nationally known for its outstanding quality of life, and that's why now is the perfect time to be proactive about strengthening the city for the decades to come.
I am running for City Council to continue our great tradition of taking the long view and planning for the future. Whether it's economic development, enhanced transit, or lasting infrastructure upgrades, I will thoughtfully seek opportunities that will benefit us in the long run. Making a great city even greater takes both efficient service delivery today and a long-term vision of tomorrow.
Since completing my masters degree in urban planning at the University of Michigan, I've been honored to serve on the city's Planning Commission for the past eight years (which I now chair), the Environmental Commission, the Glacier Area Homeowners Association, and as a steward for Glacier Highlands Park. All of these experiences — in addition to my professional life as a best practices consultant to local governments — have inspired me to deepen my involvement in the community.
Like many of you, I feel fortunate to live in this remarkable place. In the face of Michigan's challenging economy, Democrats on City Council have been able to keep Ann Arbor heading in the right direction — and maintain the qualities that make us unique. There are plenty of communities that provide "the basics" to their citizens. I live in Ann Arbor because it is exceptional.
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Greetings to all! I've lived in Orlando since I was five years old. I was in chorus and band as a kid, so back in the day when they gave Disney tickets like candy, I got at least two free tickets a year. In college, my roommate just happened to work at the Great Movie Ride, so naturally there were many more trips. Disney has been an integral part of my entire life, essentially. My favorite movie is Beauty and the Beast, favorite park is Magi Kingdom, favorite park is Tomorrowland, and favorite ride is Haunted Mansion (whew!). I'm 22 now, and taking a year off between college and grad school (music history).
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It's a Disney thing. If you understood, your only question would be "can I go?"
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Hehe, Jade is fine. I suppose this really belongs in the "tell about your name" thread, but Jade is actually my middle name. The 'zuki' comes from Godzuki, Godzilla's child (meaning I'm about as threatening as something that tries to roar and breathe fire but just has smoke come out of it's nose). It's an old nickname, so I use it everywhere on the internet. ^_^
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The Idea always comes first. You have to know what you want to write about before you start writing. Next comes the title. Or several possible titles. The title isnt important in the beginning because as you go along you may change it; you may find a title you hadnt thought of until you had written most of the book.
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Reread what you have written. Do you really want to write a different book? If not, where did your writing start to go astray? You will find out quickly if you read it aloud to yourself. You will start to stumble over the words and you will know. Pull out what doesnt belong but dont throw it away. There may be some useful ideas there. Put those away for now. Then go back and pick up the thread of your story and start writing again.
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Appomattox"Appomattox" is one of a few place names that is not only shorthand for an historic event—the surrender of General R. E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and the effective end of the Confederate States of America—but also a metaphor—for The End and for a New Beginning. |
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Happy Birthday, Sally, I do hope you are having cake and dinner, all made by someone else. Of course, I really hope you've been celebrating all weekend, since today is Monday! Annie |
Actually, I did celebrate all weekend, and dear Jerry made me a wonderful dinner of porcini mushroom risotto, asparagus with sweet red onion-lemon vinaigrette, a wonderful mixed salad and for desert, and chocolate cake and Blue Bell ice cream. What more can a girl ask for! Oh, fine company with his cousins, that's what. We spent a few days up in Tahlequah, and just got back tonight. We did a little work on the house, but mostly visited with friends and watched hummingbirds fight with each other over the flowers. Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts and birthday wishes. Sally |
Happy belated birthday Sally, your dinner sounds delicious... |
Happy (late) birthday, Sally. Dinner does sound nice. Risotto....mmmm..... |
- Posted by solsthumper (My Page) on Thu, Aug 22, 13 at 12:59
Sally, if I could, I'd kick my own butt for being late with my greetings (I blame my absence on the global climate change...). I hope your birthday was a memorable one. And your 'dear Jerry' should be all in capital letters. What a guy, and what a delicious dinner he created in your honor. Happiest Birthday Wishes! |
Thanks again, everyone! Sally |
- Posted by publickman (My Page) on Sat, Aug 24, 13 at 11:01
Sounds like you had a great birthday - sorry I missed it, but I haven't been here lately due to massive projects at work - one of which was coordinating a shipment of furniture to Allan Knight & Associates in Dallas. I remember Blue Bell ice cream, and I've been to the plant in Bellville many times. It was my favorite ice cream in Texas. I've been watching hummingbird fights lately myself! Lars |
They are such funny little critters - so tiny and cute, and so out to kill each other. Sally |
- Posted by coconut-nj (My Page) on Mon, Aug 26, 13 at 0:21
I'm glad you enjoyed your birthday Sally. Happy Birthday. Thanks for letting me know I share your Mom's birthday. Smiles. So, she held out and waited through her birthday to have you. |
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Big Island's mango fest celebrates delicious, diverse crop during peak of harvest season
by: Maureen O'Connellposted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Mango season is under way in Hawaii, and this summer's crop is bountiful. Reason enough to celebrate? We think so. If you agree — and happen to be on the Big Island this weekend — head on over to the Kona Coast's Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort for the fourth annual Mango Festival.
The free fest's full weekend of "juicy jive," 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at the resort in Kailua-Kona, will celebrate Hawaii's delicious and diverse mango varieties during the peak of the harvest season.
Among the highlights: a recipe contest, culinary demos, music and dance performances, arts-and-crafts activities, and, of course, mango-themed eats and drinks of all sorts.
The recipe contest — amateur chefs only — and culinary demonstration are slated for 1 p.m. tomorrow. Following the contest, chef Hubert des Marais from The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii will share his culinary tips on how to feature mangoes in delish dishes.
Also, on Saturday, West Hawaii master gardeners will be on hand to offer free plant advice, and Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers will provide information and taste samples of many mango varieties. Horticulture enthusiasts will also be able to consult with experts about grafting and growing mangoes.
On Sunday, there will be several music and performing arts presentations, including hula and belly dancing, on the grounds of the resort's Royal Garden.For more information about the mango fest, presented by the nonprofit Sanctuary of Mana Kea Gardens, click here.
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(incite) That Sinking FeelingIn coal country, longwall mining is causing the ground to cave in as much as five feetleaving fish, wildlife, and people as waste products. By
Ted Williams
In the 1970s, shortly before mountaintop removal came into vogue in Appalachia, the coal industry started using an extraction method nearly as destructive to the habitat of fish, wildlife, and humans. But longwall mining, as it's called, is subtler than mountaintop removal. Like conventional mining, it happens underground and out of sight. It doesn't bury streams, springs, ponds, and marshes under tons of rubble; it quietly sucks them into the bowels of the earth. And even when it leaves some surface water, it destroys aquatic habitat in ways that people can't see unless they understand the ecology of fish, amphibians, and macroinvertebrates. Longwall mining doesn't crush houses with flyrock or sweep them away in torrents of sludge. It just shakes them apart at their foundations when the ground drops four or five feet, in what the industry chastely calls planned subsidence. Conventional miners leave pillars of coal to support the earth above. Longwallers operate a track-mounted cutting headconsisting of two whirling, bit-studded drumsthat moves back and forth, shearing off three-foot swaths from the coal seam as if it were slicing a giant kielbasa. A longwall cut, or panel, may be 1,000 feet wide, 10,000 feet long, and 8 feet high, and when one panel is finished, another is begun. Sometimes longwallers revisit abandoned mines to slice away the pillars. Miners and equipment are protected by hydraulic roof supports, which are removed as the shearer progresses, allowing earth and rock to fall into the empty space. The results on the surface approximate those of a major earthquake. Longwalling happens anywhere there is coal, but the grossest environmental damage is in the impoverished regions overlying the world's richest mineral depositthe Pittsburgh Coal Seam, which runs like layer-cake filling for 2,000 miles, 300 to 800 feet under Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. These days the seam's bituminous coal is much in demand because it burns more cleanly than western coal and allows industry to meet clean-air standards without making major pollution-control investments. Thomas Hoffman, a spokes- person for Consol Energy Inc., which produces more underground coal than any other U.S. company and primarily by longwalling, estimates that a quarter of the nation's total coal production issues from longwall operations. I visited southwestern Pennsylvania, not because longwalling
is worse there, not because that state's regulatory bureaucracy is more
timid and inept, but only because the best biological data has been collected
there. No one fishes for or even speaks for the pinky-size dartersthe
greensides, rainbows, fantails, and johnniesthat depended on the shallow
flow that used to hurry over the clean sand and gravel of Hoovers Run
in the town of Brave. But darters are as much a part of America's native
biota as scarlet tanagers, redstarts, and painted buntings, and they're
just as brightly colored. When Consol undermined Hoovers Run, the ground
sank, creating gates that act like dams. In the undermined reaches,
most of the darters are gone now, their sand and gravel buried under
mud and silt, their riffles replaced by five feet of green, stagnant
water. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Jennifer Kagel showed
me plenty of fish at her flooded sample sites, but they were ubiquitous
habitat generalists like bluegills and green sunfish. These species are
popular with anglers, a fact seized upon by the coal industry and (in
the past) state bureaucrats as evidence that longwalling can enhance aquatic
habitat. A condition of mining permits issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is that longwallers restore streams they destroy. One prescribed method is gate cuttingthat is, removing dams created by the sagging watershed. At Roberts Run near Spraggs I inspected old and new gate cuts. We have done mitigation on that stream, Jonathan Pachter, Consol's manager for environment permitting, had assured me. We excavated the stream channel, cut gates, did some bank stabilization. It was very prone to flooding pre-mining. In some places the meandering stream had been straightened for hundreds of feet; and where once Roberts Run renewed a rich floodplain, there are now five-foot-high banks of raw dirt over a layer of sheared shale. Now there is no place for floodwater to go except downstream, where it becomes someone else's problem. Springs that fed and cooled the flow have dried up, so the restored Roberts Run alternates between a raging torrent and a largely dry streambed. Basically, a healthy, biologically diverse stream has been converted to a storm-water ditch. Organic farmer Leigh Shields, who has lived beside Roberts Run since 1968, remembers the old stream. Consol actually tried to claim it wasn't perennial, he told me as he pointed out mature sycamores falling into the eroding channel. Even during droughts you couldn't wade across with boots. Now you can jump across with sneakers anytime. It was full of big bullheads and smallmouth bass. Now you're lucky to find fish two inches long. The mussels and crayfish are mostly gone. The falling earth fractured Shields's gas line, so now he has to heat his greenhouses with propanea very poor heating source, he says. Four of his five acres of agricultural land are now too wet to grow anything. His four wells have been plugged because they were venting methane, so now he gets municipal water piped in. Twenty of his neighbors who lost their wells get municipal water delivered to 1,000-gallon plastic bladders called water buffaloes. As we cruised the sunken landscape, Kagel pointed out the remains of houses and the foundations of houses that had been torn apart by subsidence, or had exploded when they filled with methane released from coal mining, or had been purchased, then demolished, by longwallers seeking to lower property taxes. Most of the former residents were living in new double-wides and other modest dwellings provided by the companies. For most it had been a step up. At Laurel Run near Waynesburg we encountered another method of restorationgrouting, whereby two chemical agents that bind together to form an epoxylike glue are injected into subterranean fractures, supposedly sealing them. A contractor for Foundation Coal, running a drilling rig beside the stream, said things weren't looking good for grout injection at this site. But where it had looked goodwhere the earth is full of gluethe stream and the springs that fed it keep disappearing. I saw grass and red maples growing in the streambed. At the farm of Murray and Laurine Williams, we inspected stagnant, dewatered ponds and hillside springs that had dried up. Now the Williamses and many of their neighbors are on municipal water. To qualify for the DEP permit, all the company (then called RAG Emerald Resources) had to do was promise to grout. Both Pennsylvania's Clean Streams Law and the federal Clean Water Act make it illegal to dewater streams. Show me how you can mitigate for the loss of flow, declares Mark Hersh, former director of the Raymond Proffitt Foundation, a Philadelphia-based group specializing in environmental protection. You simply can't. Longwalling is much like mountaintop removal in that government approves a method of mining that is inherently illegal. And now that the companies have invested in this method, DEP doesn't know what to do. The pot is too hot to grab. After RAG had dewatered parts of Laurel Run, the DEP made it post a $351,900 bond to ensure that it fixed the damage; but this work was scarcely under way when RAG applied for a permit to longwall the rest of the watershed. The DEP granted it without waiting to see if restoration would succeed. It didn't. Now the stream called Laurel Run is basically gone. As I stood on a cement bridge contemplating its remains, I thought of Frost's elegy for his own buried brook: Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone / In fetid darkness still to live and run / And all for nothing it had ever done / Except forget to go in fear perhaps. / No one would know except for ancient maps / That such a brook ran water. . . . Traditionally the Pennsylvania DEP has operated under the popular superstition that intermittent streams can be written off, though there is nothing in the Clean Streams Law that encourages this interpretation. If a company showed the agency photos of dry pools (which may be seen in most any small perennial stream during low water), the DEP declared the stream intermittent, and longwalling proceeded. Also with me in Pennsylvania was one of the nation's foremost authorities on headwater ecology: Ben Stout of Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia. First, he explained, intermittent streams are critically important to the whole river system and watershed; cutting them off is like cutting off your fingers. Second, these streamsat least before they are underminedare not intermittent; they're perennial. Every time Stout looks at a stream the DEP has declared intermittent on the strength of industry allegations, he finds macroinvertebrates with multiyear aquatic-residence requirements such as five-year-old dragonfly larvae, three-year-old Dobson-fly larvae, and mature aquatic salamanders. Macroinvertebrate abundance was 44 percent lower, diversity was 47 percent lower, and long-lived taxa were 51 percent fewer in longwall mined versus reference [control] streams, writes Stout in his most recent study. No water was present at 18 percent of samples from longwall mined streams. An additional 17 percent of samples failed to support a minimum viable community of at least two individuals, from each of two kinds of macroinvertebrates. . . . In general, longwall mining resulted in streams harboring about one- half the abundance and diversity of reference streams. . . . Twelve years after longwall mining, biological communities failed to achieve the abundance, diversity, or longevity of unmined or [conventionally] mined reference streams. Consol's Pachter dismisses this work as bad science in that Stout included a pristine Ohio stream as a control while the forest in the longwalled area was second growth. But Stout hadn't used just one control; he'd used 11, almost one for each of 12 longwalled streams he studied, a ratio unheard of in such work. Finding 11 controls had been a monumental challenge. It's very tough to find a stream around here that hasn't been impacted by these guys, said Stout. I couldn't figure out why the hell one longwalled stream had such a good biological community; then I found out it hadn't been mined after all. The Laurel Run debacle energized the environmental community, which, in turn, helped the DEP acquire a modicum of resolve. On November 12, 2004, the agency ordered UMCO (a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corporation) to cease work on panel 6E under a tributary of Maple Creek, 30 miles south of Pittsburgh. The order was hardly draconian. For this one mine UMCO had already received 70 DEP citations and noncompliance orders, and for two years the mine had been destroying other tributaries of Maple Creek. UMCO was free to longwall elsewhere in the watershed, and it was free to continue to remove coal from under the stream if it left conventional pillars. Still, the company responded by shutting down the entire mine, laying off 495 workers, whooping it up in the media about government abuse, and predicting imminent bankruptcy. It had done the same thing the previous July in response to a similar DEP order. After being pilloried in the press, the agency had reissued the permit with a provision for more grouting (that later failed). Meanwhile, UMCO was facing other challenges. By law the coal industry must give homeowners at least six months' notice before it undermines them. But in a letter to the DEP, PennFuturea statewide citizens' group committed to environmental protectioncites DEP documents it says indicate UMCO notified homeowners after they'd been undermined, then submitted at least 14 falsified certified mail receipts, misrepresenting by ten months the dates when UMCO notified landowners that the company would be undermining their homes. The DEP has turned the matter over to the attorney general's office, and a criminal investigation is under way. On November 30, 2004, Justice Bernard A. Labuskes Jr. of the state Environmental Hearing Board denied UMCO's appeal of the DEP's November 12 order, finding that when UMCO mined in Panels 4E and 5E, every spring and seep, as well as the 5E stream itself, went dry. When the remnants of a hurricane that caused devastating flooding in much of Pennsylvania this past autumn passed through the area, remarkably, the 5E stream stayed dry. . . . UMCO is at least partly responsible for where it finds itself due to its (1) aggressive business plan and (2) questionable course of conduct. . . . There is and should be no reduced level of environmental protection for operations that consciously expose themselves to these heightened risks. In the face of these developments and these warnings, UMCO proceeded to prepare to mine Panel 6E as if authorization were a fait accompli. It developed the panel, installed the longwall equipment in place, and readied the stream mitigation measures. Nine days laterwhen it was clear that Labuskes wasn't kiddingUMCO stopped kidding, too, putting everyone back to work, reopening its mine, and cutting longwall panels that don't underlie streams. Despite UMCO's histrionics, there is no need for longwall mining. Like mountaintop removal, it's just cheaper for the industry. Environmentally acceptable alternatives include conventional underground mining and, in some situations, even surface mining. What's more, planned subsidence is strictly an American euphemism, designed to give the impression that manmade earthquakes are okay so long as the industry knows they're going to happen. In Europe, where longwalling has a much longer tradition, companies are required to prevent subsidence by backstowingthat is, by filling their empty panels with rocks. Longwall mining beneath streams is unlawful under federal and state clean-water laws. And under the Fifth Amendment, which proscribes government-facilitated takings of property without due compensation, it's unlawful under houses. No other legislation supersedes these statutes; but, despite its inherent illegality, longwalling continues without major legal challenge. Pennsylvania's Subsidence Act of 1966 outlawed destruction of people's homes. The industry challenged this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. Then, in 1996, it got the state legislature to slip through Act 54. The part of the bill that required longwallers to replace the water supplies they destroyed sounded great. But the second partwhich allowed longwallers to destroy homes, provided they pay to have them fixed or replacedattracted scant attention, and the bill sailed through without a single nay. So, propped up by Act 54 and conveniently ignoring countermanding federal statutes, longwallers now destroy private and public property. Bob Ging, the attorney who has litigated most of the longwalling cases in Pennsylvania, says this: If government agencies want to destroy your home, they have to compensate you first and then only after they go through eminent domain proceedings. So coal companies basically have more power than our government. But longwallers can't take your home if it's on the National Register of Historic Places; they have to prevent its destruction with pre-mining mitigation. To get a feel for how well this mitigation works, I returned to Spraggs and, in fading light and driving rain, dropped in on Roy and Diane Brendel, whose house had been built in 1939 by Major Ernst Thralls of the U.S. Cavalry with tiles and stained glass he'd brought back from Mexico and with native timber milled and carved by local craftsmen. It had been one of the best examples of Spanish Revival architecture in the East. On November 30, 2004four years and four days after being undermined by Consolhouse and property looked like a set from The Addams Family. A fence of wood, stone, brick, and concrete lay in ruins in the front yard. Cribs of crisscrossed mining timbers supported porches. Steel posts set at 45-degree angles buttressed sagging walls. The yard was festooned with scraps of blue plastic tarp, Consol's attempt at roof repair. Blue plastic pipes shunted rainwater off the roofin the opposite direction it used to flow. A white plastic pipe vented methane. Standing in for ruined wells was a black water buffalo. Propane tanks replaced the broken gas line. The Brendels have lived here since 1971. Choking back tears, Diane showed me pre-mining photos of her daughter in a wedding gown standing on an elegant veranda amid potted flowers and looking out over bright gardens and an immaculate swimming pool. This was like going to the Mediterranean, she said. Look at it now. The stone steps were broken and piled by the creek, the railings nowhere in sight, the stone floor cracked and separated from the house, the 17-inch-thick sandstone walls split all the way through and up to the second floor. The stone arch was fractured. Thick mats of vegetation covered the bottom of the crumbling swimming pool. Inside the house more cribs supported ceilings. Stairs were separated from walls. Chandeliers had been replaced by bare lightbulbs. Consol's mitigation had included bubble-wrapping the chandeliers, stained glass windows, painted glass doors, china, and antique furniture. Eighty boxes were piled in the now unlivable living room, and after four years they're so moldy that Diane is loath to clean for fear of spreading pathogens. The kitchen door, made of steel, keeps getting stuck shut. So far, says Diane, Consol has sawed through it 13 times. Nineteen other doors don't open or don't shut, and some are off plumb by as much as three inches on a side. Every now and then the whole house jumps as rubble settles in the old coal panel. In 2001, a year after longwalling, a motion alarm went off upstairs. The Brendels raced home to find that a rug had slid four feet across the hall and into the separated wall, which then dropped and pinned it. I couldn't budge the rug. There are cracks in the ornate floor tiles, bulges in wooden floors high enough to tempt a young skateboarder. Before we had finished our tour of the cellar, Consol's sump pump went off. According to Roy, it does so about every 10 minutes because the house dropped 4.5 feet into the now unpotable water table. Waterfowl now land in our hayfield, he continued. We like waterfowl, but we want our hayfield back. Unlike their neighbors, the Brendels refuse to settle. I think this mitigation was a dog and pony show so that Consol could get permission to mine, said Roy. I don't think they ever planned to restore this house; I think they thought we'd take a settlement. Still, if the Brendels would just come around, they could move to a safe, comfortable house. I asked them why they were standing their ground. Why should we go from a 13-room mansion to a double-wide? said Roy. That's about what they offered us. This is our home, said Diane. Shortly after the Brendels were undermined (and purely by coincidence), their insurance company dropped every noncorporate account. Now, despite two hearings before the insurance commissioner, they can't get homeowners' insurance because there's a preexisting condition in the form of planned subsidenceplanned by Consol, not the Brendels. To wage the constant and as yet unsuccessful battle to get their house restored, the Brendels say they've had to retireshe from her job at Shields's organic farm, he from guidance counseling for the local school district. So far, Roy told me, this has cost us about $100,000our life savingsfor lawyers, architects, historical renovators, engineers, and estimates from contractors to document what a blind man on a galloping horse could see. I can't tell Consol's side of the story because Jonathan Pachter declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation. The litigation had been initiated when Consol sued the Brendels in federal courtin a vain effort to get their house taken off the National Register of Historic Places. Ted Williams last reported on the coal industry in "Sludge Slinging," in the May 2004 issue of Audubon. © 2005 National Audubon Society Sound off! Send a letter to the editor about this piece. Enjoy Audubon on-line? Check out our print edition! |


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Kat Cooper
It's all been said, but to reiterate, these shirts are awesome. They are the softest and most comfortable cotton/magic shirts I have ever worn, so I bought a bunch of white ones and dyed them different colors. The fit is perfect. I pretty much wear one every day.
I love these shirts!!
I love these shirts too much. I have about 10 of the white ones currently that I have had for the past 2 years, but they are wearing out and I need some new ones! I wish Dogfunk would make more cause I need to order a TON of Large White ones.
PLEASE DONT STOP MAKING THESE SHIRTS!! MAKE MORE! They are the only under shirts I will ever buy again! Soft, long, and amazing!
Are large and XL going to be back in stock...
Are large and XL going to be back in stock or are these pretty much dead?
Josh Chapman
We do not have any coming in at the moment but I expect us to restock them sometime this summer.
anyone know who makes these tees? or where...
anyone know who makes these tees? or where i can buy them wholesale? i like the fit and want to print on them
im 5'10" and 160 with a build. which would...
im 5'10" and 160 with a build. which would be the best size for me if i want the shirt fitted but not tight?
Tim Bohlken
I'm 6'2" and 160 and a medium (dogfunk brand) is a good fit.
any xxl's comin?
any xxl's comin?
Josh Chapman
Unfortunately we do not have anymore coming back in stock at the moment.
PLEASE TELL ME YOUR GETTING MORE OF THESE SHIRTS IN?! I love this shirt it fits perfect for me! I need some new ones for snowboarding this winter i love wearing them
This is honestly the best shirt you can purchase! Its a great price and comes with three. They are made of a super thick warm material and don't fade or shrink up. I am 6'4 180lbs and these have the length without all that extra material hanging in the back "blowout". If you like a long slim shirt style you have got to get these!
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Will there be XXL available anytime soon???...
Will there be XXL available anytime soon??? Really really want them!!
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NEED XXL soon!!
Well got the XL for my man but didn't fit...He needs the XXL when will those be in stock??? Hope soon 8^) I think the XXL would fit great on him!
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Good luck getting pit measurements. If no one comes through, let me tell you that I'm 6 feet tall 150 lbs, and the large fits perfectly.
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Any word on when new shirts will be in? The world needs these babies.
I'm not sure when, but they are some Whiskey one's expected around October. There is a 2-pack of this cut w/ whiskey militia graphics except w/ graphics printed on them due out ASAP.
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Hows the status going for restocking these...
Hows the status going for restocking these shirts going? Its been almost 3 months. Im just kinda curious
Whatup Ian. We've updated the fit and material on these tees, so it's taking longer than I expected to get them built. Hang tight with your old ones through the summer and we'll have a couple thousand ready for your wearing pleasure in August. Sorry it's taking awhile, but hey that's how it goes when you improve your product.
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Super long tee with a slim fit. Pretty heavy fabric. A lot of threads are tearing off mine, but they seem to be holding up anyway. I'll get a pack of the gray as soon as they're back in stock.
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Is there a way that i can be notified when the XLT in black will be available? I NEED TO ORDER MORE!!!!! I LOVE THESE!!!
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This year (after Monterey Car Week) they announced we were departing MRY on time. It didn't. Only a few minutes late. Made it just a few minutes before departure from SFO.
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We bought ours 5 years ago. Haven't had a minute's problem with it. I brag about my coffeemaker all the time! It makes coffee in 3 minutes! If there's one any faster I would buy it but I'm hoping mine lasts a long time...
We bought this 2 yrs ago and yesterday it just stopped heating the water. WE make several pots a day. Up until yesterday we have been very pleased with it. I was curios if this maker has a warranty or replacement parts. I have had cheap ones that lasted for close to 10 yrs.
I've owned several Bunn models over 30 years, as have my parents and siblings. We've had a few issues that we've called the company about and have had great results from them with no problems. Some of the problems that we've had have been mentioned here. Coffee grounds rose over the filter into our coffee. Problem was that we were using a too fine of a ground, or we were using the wrong spray head. Whatever the problem, Bunn sent us a new spray head and we had the luxury of being able to switch out the spray head by simply unscrewing it and changing it out depending on what type of coffee we chose to drink. No problem. The other issue was the filter. We liked paper, between the grounds and spray head issue, we needed to use the screened. Plus, the screen is better for you. Ask Dr. Oz. :) Thirdly, we had a heating element not work. Called up the company and they sent us out a new machine lickety-split. NO PROBLEM. Give the company a chance. They are terrific. And no, I don't sell Bunn or work for them. I just love their products. I'm going to buy another one from this company this morning.
It is a great coffeemaker BUT it is NOT dishwasher safe as the description implies. It does slow down to more than 3 minutes per pot quickly but is still faster than the other coffeemaker models. If you don't have tall filters, you drink grounds OR it does make a huge mess!
Coffee is not hot enough and gets even colder in a hurry(this is after going to the trouble of pre-heating the themos)I would not recomend this product.
Coffee is good and brews quickly. However, the shower head sprays water with too much force over the grounds making it a mess to clean; and, it often overflows thereby getting grounds and water all over my table. Also, it requires a special filter with higher sides which is not easy to find.
this is one of the best coffee brewers on the market. I have come to the realization(IF YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR COFFEEMAKER: IT WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU). Cons.it does not wash the dishes, but neither does THE Wife.
I just wish I had bought this product sooner. I am using my BUNN coffee maker everyday and I am enjoying it so much. You will really taste the difference between the BUNN product and the coffee maker you have now. I highly recommend the BUNN coffee makers.
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For many, Friday represents the end of a long work week that's filled with heavy doses of drudging, sludging and other words that don't actually exist but rhyme with "udging" and connote menial and tedious tasks that are ultimately distasteful. It's my hope that at the end of such misery, at that moment in time that only occurs on a Friday afternoon when it's too far away from closing time to leave work early, but too late in the day to start anything new, you'll join us here to read some random observations about baseball and contribute your own thoughts on the subjects that are broached.
So, without further ado, I present this week's Ten Stray Thoughts On A Friday:
Wouldn't It Be Niese
I love stuff like this:
Two people with direct knowledge of last December's deal told me that the Blue Jays were willing to send the same package to New York in exchange for Niese.
It took all of thirty seconds for the city of Toronto country of Canada to fall head-over-heels in love with R.A. Dickey, so the idea that a pitcher who isn't as articulate and whose trophy case doesn't house a Cy Young Award might have been a preferable option to the butterfly baller – who signed a team friendly contract with the Blue Jays – might lead some to dismiss this rumor outright.
Slow your roll, pilgrim.
It actually makes a lot of sense for the Blue Jays to have preferred Jon Niese, and for the Mets to have put the kibosh on Toronto's efforts to acquire him over Dickey. That's because of the five year, $25.5195 million contract, plus club options for 2017 ($10 million) and 2018 ($11 million), that Niese signed with the Mets last April. It's an incredibly team-friendly deal, and the price of Travis D'Arnaud, Noah Syndergaard and Wuilmer Becerra is in line with what the Oakland A's acquired in separate deals for Trevor Cahill and Gio Gonzalez, two comparable pitchers to Niese at the time of their respective trades.
What makes matters especially interesting is that even though both front offices, according to the rumor, preferred Niese, public perception of the deal in Toronto would've presumably been a whole lot different if the transaction didn't result in Dickey coming North.
The Future Brett Lawrie
Tears of maple syrup streamed down the faces of all Canadians on Thursday when it was announced that Brett Lawrie wouldn't be participating in the World Baseball Classic for Team Canada due to a rib injury. Blue Jays fans would do well to get used to this phenomenon.
I realize it's incredibly exciting to watch Lawrie play baseball with his constant hustle and complete and utter disregard for his own safety to make plays.
Seriously, I don't think the player is as athletically gifted as he is willful in accomplishing as much as his physical frame will allow. That's incredible to see. And the spectacle of Brett Lawrie playing baseball shouldn't be under sold. However, this style of play is likely to result in a 28-year old designated hitter or corner outfielder with limited range who hits like a barely above average infielder and never plays more than 120 games in a season. In other words, a future overpaid member of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Earlier this year, a friend of mine had the privilege of seeing Lionel Messi play in Barcelona. He said that for large parts of the first half, he purposely watched Messi instead of the run of play. At first, he thought that the superstar soccer player was simply having an off-day, as he didn't seem to be engaged in the action and appeared rather pedestrian off the ball. However, as the first half came to a close he realized that Messi was merely being efficient with his energy. He waited for an opportunity in which his use of effort was optimal, and then he struck with everything he had in what would be a physically and mentally exhausting way for a player with less resolve.
Part of what makes the player so great, and Barcelona such a wonderful unit, is their efficiency. Their play may cause the unlearned eye to imagine at times that a player is being lazy, but in actuality, it's a calculated use of a finite amount of energy.
I realize that baseball and soccer are two very different games. However, where baseball might not ask for the constant exertion of an athlete's effort during the actual contest, 162 games is a grueling schedule. What's often referred to as "the grind" is a very real thing, and staying healthy throughout that time – outside of fluke injuries – is as much a skill as being able to throw a fastball or make contact with a baseball bat.
I'm cheering for the Dutch team at the World Baseball Classic, partially out of obligation to my own ethnic heritage, but mostly because the underdogs who somehow managed to beat Cuba in the first game of Pool 1 have the best translated baseball terminology in the tournament.
- batting average: slaggemiddelde;
- designated hitter: aangewezen slagman;
- lead off batter: openingsslagman;
- runs batted in: binnengeslagen punten;
- grand slam: homerun met alle honken bezet; and
- knuckleball: fuseebal (literally); or
- knuckleball: vlinderbal (translated as butterfly ball).
Hup Holland, hup.
The Meaning Of The World Baseball Classic
Baseball is America's pastime. It has become a global game. And WBC results should be accepted as legitimate. No excuses.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) March 7, 2013
For Americans to say the WBC is not a true measure of international standing is disrespectful to tournament itself and other nations.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) March 7, 2013
Nope. Not even close.
First of all, this series of tweets from FOX Sports columnist Jon Morosi mistakenly presupposes that "international standing" matters in the least bit to anyone. Based on this imaginary condition, he then goes on to suggest that games contested between rosters with meager associations to different countries at a time of year when baseball players are shaking off their off season cobwebs under rules that limit the participation of the best pitchers will somehow decide his artificial idea of standings.
This is the equivalent of imagining a hastily put together game of charades in which the contestants are divided by sex to decide which gender is superior to the other.
The Thing About Morosi
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Richard Whittal wrote an excellent piece concerning the roles of popular journalists and niche bloggers. In it, he describes the duty of mainstream writers whose job it is to merely confirm and fill in the blanks in the narratives that already exist in the casual fan's minds concerning sports. Given his penchant for filling-in narratives, it's easy to dismiss Jon Morosi under this umbrella. Instead of different strokes for different folks, it's a matter of different perspectives for different audiences.
However, that might be giving the reporter too much credit. It's one thing to play to your audience by confirming what they believe to be true whether it is or not, and quite another to completely fabricate a narrative for the purpose of making your reporting falsely viable and more readable. It's basically garbage of the barely above Skip Bayless variety.
Gambling In Baseball
Last week, I wrote a piece for Fanatico about sports gambling. It's a long piece that covers organized crime, government policy and the ulterior motives of professional sports leagues who hate the idea of legalized and regulated wagering on the product that they own. Of interest to baseball fans is a written declaration that Bud Selig submitted to federal court in order to stop New Jersey from essentially legalizing sports gambling in their state
His declaration contained the following claim:
My most important responsibility is working to maintain the integrity of MLB and to preserve public confidence in our sport.
After noting that his position as baseball commissioner was invented as a direct response to the Black Sox betting scandal in 1919, Selig went on to emphasize sports gambling as a threat to this integrity.
The spread of sports betting, including the introduction of sports betting in New Jersey, would threaten to damage irreparably the integrity of, and public confidence in, MLB.
Three months later, Selig was deposed by lawyers representing New Jersey. When asked whether baseball fans bet on baseball games, the MLB Commissioner made a distinction between gamblers and sports fans, claiming he wasn't sure.
I don't know whether they do or they don't.
When asked about legal bets being placed by fans in Las Vegas, he responded:
That would surprise me greatly.
Despite Selig's claims that maintaining the integrity of his sport is his primary responsibility while emphasizing sports betting as something that would threaten that integrity, he proceeded to testify to his ignorance on the entire subject, under oath. It's likely telling that this example of willful and self-serving ignorance at its best/worst has been far from out of the ordinary during Selig's reign, which has also occurred at a time when baseball's profitability has skyrocketed.
Baseball On TV
Part of why MLB hates the idea of regulated wagering on its games is that it leads to parties separate from the league earning money based on an area of its product that it doesn't control: the data. The rights to broadcasts of games can be sold to television networks, but baseball doesn't own the data that comes out of its games, on which people bet.
It's therefore not wholly unrelated to look at what baseball does with its television rights, which happens to be especially noteworthy following the introduction of FOX's national sports network FS1, earlier this week. Part of what makes the new network a potential competitor to ESPN is the amount of live content rights that FOX already owns, including baseball.
As Wendy Thurm noted on Thursday for FanGraphs, the new network means that even less baseball will be available on basic cable in the United States.
For their Saturday Game of the Week, Fox will air a double-header, with one game on the network and the other one on Fox Sports 1.
The biggest changes will come in the postseason. Fox Sports 1 will broadcast both Divisions Series and the League Championship Series granted to Fox under the new national TV contract. With the other two Division Series and one League Championship Series on TBS, the only postseason baseball games on network TV will be the World Series.
The danger inherent to limiting accessibility to the sport in this fashion is found in the potential to turn America's pastime into something only for the elite.
Disadvantaged kids in America don't care about baseball because they can't watch it.
— It's a long season. (@mighty_flynn) March 8, 2013
A contradiction therefore exists between the further limiting of the sport's accessibility and the perception that MLB attempts to create through charitable programs like Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, its RBI initiative.
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For the younger demographic, the changes in broadcasting further cements the increasing resolve to do away with the dated medium of cable television all together. Why bother with exorbitant cable fees when a one-time cost of $130 gives you premium access to every single regular season baseball game that's played outside of your local region?
MLB.tv remains the best deal for the consumer in sports broadcasting. Unfortunately, it still doesn't help grant access to the financially disadvantaged.
Spring Training Is Meaningless
Is there a more myopic pecker head in baseball than Kirk Gibson?
They knew we were going to do it that way. I had it happen that way with a team. They tried to put the DH in there. That's not the way it's done. I wanted to play a National League game. I notified them several times. They just wanted to do it their way. They couldn't do it. They didn't like that. We play by the rules here. If we were over there, we'd play by their rules. It's very simple. It was good locker room talk.
That is what Gibson had to say after he and Dusty Baker argued about the designated hitter rule prior to AN EXHIBITION GAME as part of the CACTUS LEAGUE schedule. Baker wanted Shin-Soo Choo to play as a DH in the Cincinnati Reds lineup because the outfielder had been out with a quadriceps injury. Gibson wanted Arizona Diamondbacks starter Brandon McCarthy to get some batting experience. During Spring Training, the home team gets to decide which rules govern each game.
The disagreement could have been resolved by Gibson playing under AL rules and then opting not to use a DH, but instead, he decided to be an obstinate prick about the whole matter. McCarthy got up to bat once, and promptly grounded out.
If I was Baker, I would've initiated an intentional walk when McCarthy came to the plate, no matter the base-out situation.
Realistically, there's really no reason why any other than the most rudimentary of rules should have to be followed during Spring Training. The games are absolutely meaningless as anything other than practice.
The Chris Sale Extension
One of the areas in which baseball analysts seem to struggle is in recognizing that not every transaction occurs in a vacuum. It's much easier to imagine that there's a definitive rule that governs all transactions and when applied, allows trades and signings to be labelled as either good or bad. That's a little bit unrealistic, as each team faces their own situations in their unique environment.
As such, the contract extension that will guarantee Chris Sale $32.5 million over the next five seasons, makes a lot more sense for the Chicago White Sox than it does for any other team in baseball. As has been mentioned by several pundits after the impending contract agreement was first leaked, Sale's frame and mechanics present an injury risk. That's not an unrealistic assessment. It's very true.
However, the White Sox have a history of being able to keep their pitchers healthy. Of course, it's not certain that they'll be able to with Chris Sale, but the manner in which their organization has handled pitchers in the past, makes their deal with Sale better than if it was signed with the Toronto Blue Jays or the Boston Red Sox or whatever team to whom Brad Arnsberg is offering his services.


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It looks like AirPrint – the big new printing service included in iOS 4.2 – has been cut back severely in its final release. The service was originally touted to include the ability to print from iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch to certain supported wireless printers and to * all * shared printers on local network PCs.
Over recent weeks, Apple updated the description text for the service on its site – stripping out all mention of shared printers support – and now it is missing from the AirPrint section of the official 4.2 release announcement:
AirPrint is a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers. A selection of AirPrint enabled printers including the HP Photosmart, HP LaserJet Pro and HP Officejet will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices. iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users can simply tap to print their documents or photos wirelessly to any printer that supports AirPrint.
This leaves AirPrint as a not very exciting feature at all for most users. There is only a very slim range of supported wireless printers that are supported for it, and there are 3rd party apps that are already fully capable of printing to shared printers. Hopefully Apple will update AirPrint soon, as for now it's become quite a lame new feature.
4 thoughts on "AirPrint Has Dropped Shared Printers in iOS 4.2 Release"
I've got a wifi HP officejet j4680…my iPhone can't see it and I still haven't managed to install 4.2 on the iPad, but I doubt that will either.
This is a big disappointment. I wish Apple would at least address the issue and let us know what's up. I've been waiting a long time to print natively. I don't want to have to purchase an app to do something the OS should have built in.
Can an ipad print wirelessly to a HP Photosmart C6380 all in one printer


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By Nangamso Mabindla 27 July 2005
THE three-day, nationwide strike by members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) hit Buffalo City with the union leaders handing over a memorandum to the executive mayor in front of the East London City Hall.
Workers went on strike following a deadlock in wage negotiations between union leaders and the South African Local Government Association (Salga). The unions are demanding a 9 percent increase across the board, while Salga is offering 6 percent.
In the memorandum handed over to Mayor Sindisile Maclean, Samwu called for the council to change Salga's mandate to meet the worker's demands. These included a minimum wage of R3 000, section 57 managers to be covered by the wage agreement, and a single year wage agreement.
Maclean, flanked by members of the Salga executive, said he would pass it on to the association on behalf of the union. "We have received the memorandum and we will make sure it reaches the intended recipients," he said.
He commended the workers for marching peacefully, saying it showed that they respected the Buffalo City community. After addressing the crowd Maclean signed the memorandum.
The strike will continue on Thursday, 28 July, with protesting workers gathering in the central business district from 10am.
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