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So. Our neighbors, Liz and Nate, live right across the street. I look at their house, out the window, while rocking Frankie to sleep and say a little prayer of thanks that we moved in, next to them. I'm sure anyone would tell you that neighbors can be iffy, but in all three of our living spaces, as adults, we have had extreme luck. With our current house, we hit the jackpot.
We love them, their kids and their entire huge family. In one short year, we've gained friends for life and all of our other friends love them too. They're easy to love. They're just good, salt of the earth people and those types make the best neighbors.
It doesn't hurt that Lizzy and her mom are both great cooks {not necessary but it certainly earns them extra points. I kid. Not really.}
Since there is extreme accessibility with living across the street from someone, we have had many post-bedtime get togethers with them and tonight we are going to do something new. We'll head over there for dinner and after the babies are snug as bugs in rugs, we're game playing! We've played games before {Settlers of Catan, anyone?} but tonight.....
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Seans mother is coming over and will serve as our instructor, as we are all newbies.
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My compost bin is nearing the end of its life. Several years ago, I bought a kit with aluminum posts to hold boards of a certain size and my hubby built it for me. I have almost emptied the compost out of it and into my beds but before I start a new batch, I need a new compost bin that is a little more functional. The posts on this one are too bent to work with but the boards are in good shape.
Ive seen the ones they have at different retailers and Id rather build one with wood and metal then be responsible for bringing more plastic into the world. I cant use just chicken wire or anything that doesn't look proper to the Homeowners Association. Has anyone seen any books or plans for a wooden compost bin? My hubby isnt the most handy man ever so if I have some plans to show him the project has a greater chance of success. Thank you for any ideas you might have :) |
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I have heard great things about simply wiring 4 used pallets together to form a box. They can be painted a lovely shade of green to not offend HOA sensibilities, or perhaps flamingo pink, depending....... Anywho, chief advantage is using the sides of the bin as a fulcrum to fluff compost up with pry bar, eliminating all that tiresome turning and stuff. |
Azura, I seem to have more composting success by focusing on moisture control rather than aeration. Therefore, I have dug down into the ground about 8" and then built the pile in & over that hole. The soil can be used in the pile as it grows. Concrete blocks have worked fairly well but I think that solid blocks would be a better choice than the standard construction blocks I used. Below is a link to WSU cooperative extension. I clicked on the "Down to Earth" pdf and it has bin plans but there seems to be other useful info on the main page here. The "stackable bin" looks like a good idea to me. The plan calls for using plastic deck boards but you wouldn't need to do that. Six foot cedar fencing should be just as appropriate. digitS' |
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Thank you both for your ideas. I showed my hubby the WSU plans and he decided the current bin was fixable after all. :) Its funny what a little motivation can do. I will save the link you provided, Digit, because when we build a new deck in a few years I will need to build a new compost bin in a different area. Go Cougars!! |
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23 June 2008 18:56
Direct injection and a clever new PDK dual-clutch gearbox have cemented the new 911's reputation as the greenest performance car around, but Porsche engineers are being hampered from making the iconic sports car even cleaner by the public's reluctance to accept further green technology
Engineers at the launch of the facelifted 911 told CAR that fitting a BMW-style start-stop system could chop a further 10g/km from the Carrera's 225g/km CO2 rating but that performance car buyers weren't keen on having such overtly planet-conscious tech on their cars.
Start-stop works by cutting the engine when the car's stationary in traffic, and restarting automatically when you touch the pedals to move off again. Every manual transmission-equipped BMW 1-series comes with the technology, excepting the truly high performance versions.
Asked what the CO2 limitations of Porsche's flat six were, Porsche powertrain expert Thomas Wasserbach told CAR that while "it might be possible to produce a Boxster that emits 180g/km, it would be difficult to engineer a 911 to produce less than 200" and added that "a 150g/km 911 with a flat six is out of the question".
Future CO2 savings would more likely come from lighter bodyshells and leaner equipment levels, allowing Porsche to maintain performance standards despite engine power outputs actually decreasing.
The seven-speed PDK transmission's ability to produce markedly better economy and emissions figures than a conventional manual could also spell the end of the stick shifter within five years, according to Wasserbach. Sound outrageous? Not when Porsche expects 80 per cent of buyers to opt for PDK this year, where available. Its 325lb ft torque limit currently makes it unsuitable for the Turbo, GT2 and RS models, but a stronger version is in development.
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RE: Porsche buyers put the brakes on stop-start technology
Ya its a good technology.. to drive.. I like this.. The car contaion lot of featurecs.. Hope that it will give well performance to every one...
06 April 2011 09:25
jjlasne says
No point in driving a Porsche in congested, urban traffic. Drive a Smart like everyone else.
23 December 2008 02:55
M500 AED says
Hmm, perhaps the time has come for this feature. But it is not new, I recall being driven through Milan in the mid 1970's in a FIAT taxi (128 model?) which had this feature. Not that the driver needed it much since he was quite happy to mount the pavement to avoid waiting in a traffic queue!
01 July 2008 10:17
I drive a high performance car, not a Porsche, and I would be pleased to have the stop start option on my car. The fuel consumption out of town is OK in relation to the performance potential, but in congestion and stop start traffic the consumption rockets and I am down in single figures MPG. Stop start is something I can do manually but it is a fiddle with the clutchless SMG transmission. So no it would not put me off, it would encourage me to buy, even pay a little more for the vehicle. I am not against useful consumption of fuel, I am very much against useless waste.
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wyavav: a Honda driven by Harry Houdini in a hurry could not escape the fate that befalls all hot hatches who take on the sporting elite of motorcars. I've seen mags pit the hot Imprezas and Meganes against Lambos and 911s. Strangely the latter always squeak through to victory. Even an Elise failed to dethrone the F430 in one article. The idea of David beating Goliath is a romantic one. Unfortunately, sentimentality always gets run over rough shod by reality. People want power. Period. Case in point; what's the current favorite among the supercars? The Veyron. I rest my case. There is no escaping it!
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Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes
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These super scrumpdidlyicious healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes are made from only seven ingredients. That includes the coconut oil in which you sauté them. The base of these pancakes (one of my super easy breakfast recipes) is cashews –that's right, no flour, not even almond flour.
Replacing high-carb wheat flour with lower-carb cashews is fantastic for those watching their blood sugar. Cashews also work well in baking (see my Cashew Bread recipe) for folks who are gluten-free, which is another reason I use them.
While these quick and easy pancakes are a fantastic breakfast on a weekend morning, I also like to serve them along with an egg dish on Sunday nights for dinner. Breakfast for dinner is a family favorite in our house, and the boys especially appreciate the change in routine.
Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
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My mother-in-law (aka Grandma Marylyn) is obsessed with all things crispy, crunchy, and Paleo. Like me, she has celiac disease and has followed a strict gluten-free diet for years. I created this Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe just for her. Grandma Marylyn is a huge fan of my Cranberry Chocolate Biscotti, as well as my Chocolate Orange Scones, and presents me with freshly made batches of each of these every time we have a visit.
While Grandma loves everything I make and cooks from my latest book [cookbook3] religiously, she is passionate about making my Paleo desserts for our large Jewish family.
Grandma has been asking me for years to develop a thin and crispy cookie recipe. She has no idea that I've created these Paleo chocolate chip cookies for her!
Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse
Posted on June 7, 2011
This high protein, Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse is made with anti-oxidant rich dark chocolate and contains no dairy products –a double win. I've also used coconut palm sugar to sweeten it.
Summer is moving along for us over here. The boys made over $300 at their lemonade stand last weekend during the Mapleton Hill rummage sale. They ran the stand with 2 other friends and baked tons of cookies from scratch for their little business. I was so proud of them. Maybe […]
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
Posted on May 25, 2010
I thought these gluten free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes would be a breeze to make. I was wrong. A dozen batches later, here is the recipe.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
½ cup creamy peanut butter (unsalted)
½ cup agave nectar or honey
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup roasted peanuts (unsalted), chopped
½ cup chocolate chunks
In a large bowl, with a hand blender, mix peanut butter, agave and eggs until creamy
Blend in salt and baking soda
Fold in peanuts […]
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins
Posted on October 16, 2009
For those of you that have leftover zucchini from your gardens, here is a delicious gluten free zucchini chocolate chip mini muffin recipe. Our garden is just petering out with the severe frost we had last weekend and I need to get going on pulling up all the wilted plants from the yard.
Meanwhile, with this colder weather I've been a baking fiend and my family is fully taking advantage of this, loading themselves up with gluten free goodies.
Zucchini Chocolate Chip […]
Almond Butter Blondies
Posted on May 9, 2008
Kelly over at Celiac Chicks does a fabulous job covering the latest in gluten-free news. On top of that, she is a lovely person. It has been great getting to know her through our email conversations these past few months.
I recently spent some time looking through the recipe section of Kelly's site and was most intrigued by these delicious looking peanut butter bars. She traces the original recipe back to one from 2003 in Family Circle magazine. Of course, she […]
Chocolate Chip Cookies: Video
Posted on December 11, 2007
This gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipe video tutorial is the first in a series of video tutorials that I will be making of my favorite recipes. I hope you have as much fun watching this as I did making it. Enjoy!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 ½ cups blanched almond flour *
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup grapeseed oil or palm shortening
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
½ cup agave nectar or honey
½ cup chocolate chunks
Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl
Stir […]
Product Review: Dagoba Chocodrops
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Have you heard? Chocolate is good for you! Dagoba Chocodrops are made with 100% organic ingredients and are fair trade certified.
These chocodrops have a high cacao content (73%) and are quite flavorful with just a hint of sweetness.
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Mahindra Two Wheelers Ltd. (MTWL), a part of the USD 16.7 billion Mahindra Group, continued to grow its presence in the Indian two wheeler segment in January 2014. The company reported sales of 24990 units during the month, a growth of 201 %, while domestic volume stood at 24703 units, a growth of 221 %, over the previous year.
Viren Popli, Executive Vice President, Mahindra Two Wheelers said, "The Mahindra Centuro continues to grow its volumes and has over 100,000 happy customers across the country in the short period since launch. The newly introduced Centuro N1 will help accelerate growth further. Unique patented features such as flip key and anti theft, coupled with aspirational styling make it the motorcycle choice. We have expanded production capacity significantly to cut waiting periods to less than a week. Our sales and service network has grown to over 1000 touch points and we are adding 2 new outlets every day to ensure our customers find us easily."
He added that we have also won several prestigious awards that reflect growing consumer confidence in our technological innovations, including the Bloomberg TV India Autocar India Viewers' Choice Bike of the Year Award, Bike India Readers Choice Bike of the Year, "Bike of the Year" at the 2013 Vicky.in People's Choice Car and Bike Awards and the coveted Bike Maker of the Year 2013 award from DNA" a clear validation of the Centuro's success.
Designed entirely in-house at the company's world-class, state-of-the-art R&D Centre in Pune, the Mahindra Centuro N1 sports a host of internationally patented category innovations and features which address practical consumer needs that have never been seen before in motorcycles.
The Centuro N1 is powered by Mahindra's indigenously developed intelligent MCi-5 (Micro Chip ignited-5 curve) engine delivering a power output of 8.5 BHP @ 7500 RPM and an astounding mileage of 85.4 kmpl (ARAI). Mahindra Centuro N1 comes with internationally patented Anti Theft Alarm with Engine Immobiliser. It also has a range of truly innovative features like an encrypted Remote Flip Key, Find Me Lamps and Guide Lamps. All this comes with a 5 year Warranty and at an attractive price of Rs. 45,700/- (ESR Delhi).
With the New Centuro N1, Mahindra Two Wheelers takes another step forward in its journey towards becoming a full range player in the Indian two wheeler market. The company's ultimate goal is to offer a range of mobility solutions that meet the diverse needs of all types of Indian two wheeler buyers.


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Verbal Magic
by Juan Tamariz
When it happens in their hands -
It's an old adage of conjuring: The strongest magic happens in the hands of the audience.
A lesser-known corollary to this is: The more that happens there, the stronger the magic.
So what if it all happened in their hands?
What if the magician wasn't even in the room?
What if only his voice were guiding them...
From the radio - or the television - or from far away?
- and the magic happened while they did everything!
That is what Spain's greatest magician, Juan Tamariz, asked himself. And from this question sprang a body of magic that has astonished vast audiences in Spain and Latin America when performed on radio and television, on stage and close up. It is magic that has fooled both the public and master magicians.
Using only a few playing cards, pieces of paper and other common objects as props, audiences are led through a variety of entertaining processes that lead to their utter amazement. Through clever principles, old and new, combined with cunning psychology and ground-breaking strategies, Juan Tamariz makes magic happen in everyone's hands. He fools people into amazing themselves! Further, as you follow the radio transcripts in these pages, he will fool you, too.
So open this book and join the amazed. Then share the amazement and fun with your audiences, whether they are listening to the radio, watching television or in the room with you.
Follow along as Juan Tamariz tells you to take a few red and black cards from a deck and mix the colors in ways random, chaotic and independently determined. Yet, when you are finished, the colors magically separate! That's right, you perform Oil and Water for yourself and have no idea how it happened - just as thousands of people have done while listening to Juan Tamariz over the radio, on television and in live audiences.
People freely choose a card, lose it in a packet, mix the cards thoroughly, and then magically discover their own selections?without knowing how they did it. The magic leaves Tamariz's hands and settles in their own!
This book collects over forty such tricks and presentations, all refined and tested through professional performance. Close associate Gema Navarro, under the guidance of Juan Tamariz, has meticulously transcribed presentations from tapes of numerous radio broadcasts. The transcripts are so detailed, they first let the reader fool himself, and then give him the information necessary to entertain and astonish his audiences, and the tools to devise many other effects that happen entirely in their hands and heads.
Scattered in the literature of magic is a scant number of participation effects suitable for performance on radio and television; and those tricks are sought and coveted by professionals. In Verbal Magic Juan Tamariz reveals the largest body of such magic ever offered, while taking it in new directions and teaching new principles with wide-reaching possibilities for further application. He also shows that this type of magic is just as astonishing when performed close up and for theater audiences. As a final bonus, Verbal Magic provides the largest record yet, for non-Spanish speakers, of what it is like to be part of Tamariz's audience. Here is a long, in-depth look at how a master magician simultaneously entertains and mystifies.
Pages 176 - Deluxe Hardcover.
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"Paved with good intentions....hold the anchovies"
Unless - like our cerebral hero Langdon at the opening of Inferno - we find ourselves suffering from retrograde amnesia, it's impossible to not be reminded of the previous Langdon installments when reading this latest clue-seeking romp through the art treasures of Florence and Venice; or for that matter, comparing the previous 3 novels with Brown's latest. Dan Brown has his formula, as do most authors, and there is no sign here that he is trying to fix what was almost broke with his last Langdon adventure (The Lost Symbol). Both Brown and Langdon are in fine form here: Brown sends us on an almost scenic, fact-based excursion through the cathedrals, museums, and art hot spots, and Langdon dodges bullets, the Italian Polizia, untangling a sinister plot (with the prerequisite political statements ala Brown). Brown is nothing if not consistent; so you get what you know you are getting; better than Lost Symbol, not as good as Da Vinci Code; a solid middle grounder. If the formula has lost its luster to you, enjoy the new scenery and history, like I did (easily worth a star).
More so than Brown's previous novels, I thought this was a bit padded (maybe that is because it seemed written for the silver screen, even to the point of describing the minutiae of the on-lookers, the horse-toothed girl getting her picture drawn near the Academe, etc.). As a do-over, and if it was offered, I would do the *gasp* abridged version. I also noticed Langdon has become a little snarky, taking pot shots at the turistas, poking fun at those guide-book toting Americanos, while he should have been paying attention to where he next placed his Italian loafered-foot on the cat-walk (oopsie! look out below).
You want another Dan Brown/Langdon--you got it. A good pizza-read, and who doesn't love pizza? Paul Michael does a great job as narrator and tour-guide.
"Loved it in spite of itself"
Haven't most of us yearned for our own great story; something we could reflect back on and tell to our children, be called upon to tell around a campfire, or just possibly write into a best-seller? We've all got a few chapters worth of events -- most of mine just embarrassing ego-boosters at this stage in life that aren't worth more than a few seconds of entertainment; nothing as worthy a story as the time my grandmother, as a little girl, had to go out into a dark and stormy night in her nightgown, the howls of the coyotes getting closer and closer, to lock the flapping door of the chicken coop. At least that's the most requested tale around here from my own kids. They don't care that I killed a rattlesnake, sat in on the Rorschach test of an infamous murderer, did a commercial where I rode a white horse pitching men's cologne or sat in that car while Ricardo what's-his-name pointed out the "rich Corinthian leather." ..."so what happened to the chicken's that got out?!" Intrigued.
There's a great story and great story telling. Comparisons of this, Scotton's debut novel, have been made with two great stories by two great story tellers: Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Formidable and extravagant comparisons, but TSWotE will bring to mind the feel of those stories and those author's abilities to spin a yarn. The writing is well done, it is rich and descriptive, the characters are individuals you care about, and there is that charm you feel when you can nestle into a book and want to stay there. Scotton might not be on that Twain/Lee level yet--but for a debut, this is a tremendous accomplishment. He is following is some mighty tracks with his first story..
Kevin Gillooly reflects back over the years to a turning point that changed the direction of his life and shaped the history of the small mining town of Medgar, Kentucky. Taking the reader to the relatively foreign Appalachian Mountains in 1985, he tells a multi-layered coming of age story that began with an horrific event that shattered his family. An accident kills Kevin's 3 yr. old brother while he and his mother watch helplessly. Grief stricken, the mother withdraws into a catatonic state, Kevin blames himself, the father blames Kevin. The maternal grandfather is that stalwart and principled character that steps in and enfolds this broken family -- he suggests the mother and Kevin spend the summer at his home where the mother was raised, in Medgar, Kentucky, tucked into the grandfather's beloved Appalachian Mountains. Pops, the local veterinarian and respected member of the town can help with Kevin while the mother heals.
Kevin is rescued from his own pain by the friendship of local *holler* boy Buzzy Fink, a truly colorful character that is a creature of the mountains. With a deep respect for the mountains, Buzzy teaches the clueless *city boy* the ways of the hills, the superstitions, legends, the medicines found in the earth (securing a slug around a spider bite), the habits of the animals, and the characters to watch out for. As Kevin's knowledge grows under Buzzy's tutelage, his respect for the land grows and the trauma and pain he carries begin to fade. His new found interests open a connection and a closeness with Pops.
As Kevin's story moves towards an environmental vein, Scotton raises the stakes from spider bites to murder, and small town disagreements to hate crimes. Local mine owner Bubba Boyd is buying up land, strong-arming the *holler folks* to sell out so he can abandoned traditional mining for Mountaintop Removal Mining -- a process that blasts the tops off the mountains for quicker and easier access to the coal. The scarred mountains have deformed much of the once pristine country, and the hazardous bi-products are affecting the health of the people, most of whom are employed by Bubba. As the effects become more glaring, an opposition forms headed by Peter Pierce, the town's much-loved gay hairdresser -- his sexual preference isn't talked about, the townsfolk just gossip a little about his male *roommate* without speculation, and appreciate all that Peter does for them through his charitable works. During a meeting to discuss the environmental problem, Bubba shows up uninvited with his henchmen and sets out to discredit Peter's character. It is Pops that comes to Peter's defense and support, reasonably pointing out the concerns. But, Bubba don't give a damn about pretty mountains or "lies" made up about unsafe mining...and he "sure as hell don't want no lying queers living in Medgar." Faced with Pops' popularity and sound reasoning, Bubba knows he can't win a fair fight. Things get ugly, resulting in a brutal and hateful attack by unknown assailants. But in a small town, there are no secrets, and this one has a connection to Buzzy.
Scotton amalgamates a lot of issues into Kevin's story and it does require a stretch to take it all in: the healing of a family, the coming of age, the environment, forgiveness, courage, greed, poverty, secrets, respect -- these are the facets that give the story depth not very common in a debut novel. Then.... Pops goes and takes the boys back into the mountains on a *Quest.* (The lessons learned in Nature are reflected in what is going on in the town and in Kevin's life. ) Be prepared to hit full expansion capacity with that stretch. Here is where I was conflicted, a little out of harmony with the flow of the great story: There's a chimerical White Stag encounter (couldn't help but think 'Expecto patronum!'), a fabled moss-back colossal fish that almost swims onto Kevin's hook, and Buzzy makes a special muddy poultice for a bullet wound that defies all known medicines. Additionally; inordinately naïve Kevin, Bubba, Buzzy, Pops, gay hairdresser Paul Pierce, and assorted mule-shooting hillbilly folk we meet on veterinarian missions back into the mountains, all seem a little out of central casting -- technically these are issues that will bother some readers, and at this point I had to face the fact that the story was a ways from perfect. I removed a few *'s only because it wasn't up to 5* standards. In spite of the obvious points of contention, I enjoyed it like a 5* book -- it was completely absorbing, entertaining, there was emotional depth, and the writing was excellent.
Highly recommend with the above caveats. Here's hoping that Scottson is more prolific than Harper Lee.
*RE: LANGUAGE: Another reviewer mentioned the language, and though I wasn't counting, there were F-bombs. Based on the books I read (mostly main-stream; you can check my review list), I feel it was about average. Nothing gratuitous. It was talk between two 14 yr. old boys, a couple of hillbilly miners and farmers, and for what it's worth, I've heard worse at a baseball game.
"On Track"
From the onslaught of pre-release reviews for this book I was very prepared for the *unreliable narrator,* that tricky little beastie that requires the reader to stay on their toes, but, when our girl Rachel settles onto the train and pops her canned gin and tonic for breakfast, I knew we were in for one helluva ride. In what has been called an *amnesia thriller,* been compared to Hitchcock's Rear Window, and tacked with the ubiquitous "the next Gone Girl" tagline (when will that stop?) author Hawkins gives us one of those always entertaining train-ride thrillers told from the pov of 3 female narrators -- one of whoms story is ala Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives, from the grave. Their connection...a man, a neighborhood, and a fateful event.
Not much should be said about the story because it relies heavily on slowly revealing a little more with each clickety-clak of the rails. I'd suggest just settling in and riding along as sad, overweight, unemployed, newly divorced, and barren Rachel rides the train and peers into a certain yard/window of a house that borders the tracks along her journey. Looking out the window of the train at that house, she projects everything she wished for onto a certain willowy blonde she names *Jess,* and her husband. Rachel used to live in the same neighborhood -- now her ex lives in the home with his new wife and baby girl.
Hawkins dishes out the information with a controlling hand, and might rely a little too much on this tactic to keep a sense of tension when more information, fleshing out the characters a little more, could have given the story more psychological depth -- she certainly has created characters with the underpinnings of a great psychological thriller and shows talent as a writer. Maybe I've seen too much Hitchcock, read too many Flynn novels; I didn't find the story really thrilling or mysterious, but that's OK -- it was fun and entertaining, and I flew through it enjoying every minute. I have to say it is a much lighter read than that GG novel (except for the issue of alcoholism, which is especially dark here).
The narrators did a good job keeping the novel moving and interpreting the characters and make this all the more enticing.
"Where Lewis and Clark Left Off"
Each chapter of this superbly crafted book contains multiple *moments in history,* events that intersected with the political strategy and shaped this country's development. It is also a character study of ambition, courage, greed, inexperience and bad decisions, all set on the grand stage of the beautiful and treacherous, still uncharted, American Northwest. On the heels of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (just 2 years prior) one of the country's wealthiest businessmen, John Jacob Astor, schemed to corner the hungry global fur market by establishing a trading post on the west coast of the continent, thereby harvesting the untapped resources of the Pacific Northwest. *[from his NY base, Astor was already trading heavily with a demanding China and Europe. It was an extremely lucrative business for Astor. His company was trading *trinkets and beads* to several Indian tribes for pallets of furs worth thousands of dollars -- at a "2,500% profit."]
Encouraged by Jefferson, who dreamed of claiming the country after Lewis & Clark's report, and expanding America from coast to coast, Astor financed 2 expeditions: by sea, the 94 ft. 290 ton, copper-hulled Merchant ship, the Tonquin, captained by a seasoned but arrogant, US Navy lieutenant, Jonathan Thorn; and a land expedition led by fur-trader businessman, Wilson Hunt Price. Though inexperienced, and it can now be added ignorant, Hunt planned to use information gathered from the Lewis & Clark Expedition to lead his group west to the mouth of the Columbia River. 340 days later, the two groups would meet at their destination...but, both journeys had been ill-fated. 61 men had perished (also an infant child born on the trek) or had suffered physical and psychological traumas, the Tonquin lay at the bottom of the Clayoquot Sound, and eventually, the weary survivors sold out to the Canadian North West Fur Company for pennies on Astor's dollars.
Stark has done an outstanding job researching journals, letters, articles, interviewing descendants of the explorers, and studying the different cultures of the Native American tribes that inhabited the landscape of the American Northwest -- a culture that paid the ultimate price of Manifest Destiny. Stark, wonderfully describing the topography along the journey, leads his own expedition in a sense: the passages detailing Hell's Canyon and the "Mad River" (The Snake River) are both beautiful and intense; the vistas of buffalo covered prairie's out of the Dakota's are majestic, and so on. The voyage of the Tonquin is just as eloquently written. Struggling to navigate through the system of bars and shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River, battling the waves, wind, and currents, Stark gives readers a white-knuckle passage through what is known as the *Graveyard of the Pacific.* Often I was left behind, picturing the scenes, in awe of the fury or the serene beauty -- the land seems so raw from what I have experienced... I've safely rafted down the Snake River, looked out across the Badlands, ridden a tugboat through the bucking swells of the Columbia Bar. To look back through history from our hard-won state of comfort is incredible.
The characters are nothing less than fascinating from the robust and colorful French Voyageurs to the quiet, brave interpreter, Maria Dorian [gave birth during the trek]. It would be overwhelming to highlight every stunning aspect of this book, or encapsulate such a huge and important adventure into paragraphs. The epilogue is the eye of history looking back over the expedition and wrapping it all up nicely for a great conclusion. This is a read I recommend highly to anyone, and an absolute *don't miss* for history fans. I would also recommend reading Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose, if you haven't read about Lewis and Clark.
"It Was A Good Death...almost"
Reading the account of the bear attack, I couldn't help but think of the almost silly slow motion battle between Tristan (Brad Pitt) and the monstrous grizzly bear (Bart the bear) at the end of Legends of the Fall. Apparently the trained stunt bear, Bart, thought the two were just rough housing and the clip had to be tweaked to make it appear the grizzly was the killer that would give Tristan his "good death."
Working for Capt. Andrew Henry as a member of the Rocky Mountain Fur Co., Hugh Glass is sent out scouting the uncharted hostile territory along the tributaries of the Missouri River. The trapper is startled when a pair of frolicking bear cubs tumbles onto his path, their notoriously protective mother just a few yards behind. Faced with a charging mother grizzly, Glass knows that no matter how many bullets he can fire into the animal with his 1822 model rifle, he is facing certain death -- he draws his knife and braces for the blow of a massive paw.
Glass is mortally wounded; Capt. Henry and the trapping party begin to dig his grave. After days of caring for the dying man, Capt. Henry decides he is losing money and time and leaves two men behind to bury the body; a cold-blooded cutthroat John Fitzgerald, and the young Jim Bridger. Seeing hostile Indians nearby, Fitzgerald forces Bridger to leave with him, taking the dying man's weapons as they leave.
Against all odds, Glass does survive, and swears to kill the two men that left him defenseless, to die. Unable to walk, Glass begins his mission of revenge on hands and knees in what is a mind boggling account of survival and perseverance. Author Punke writes a riveting tale in the style of great westerns, based on the true story of Hugh Glass. The supporting characters are diverse and colorful pieces of the American Frontier. I couldn't put the book down (audible talk for couldn't disengage from my ipod) until I finished the story.
As a narrator, Graham did a good job bringing the characters to life. His depiction of young Bridger tended to be jerky and halted, and therefore a little distracting at times, but not enough to spoil the novel for me. For fans of the American Western, you can't go wrong with this piece of absorbing historical fiction.
*[I noticed a publish date of 2002 and found that this has been reprinted. It is probably no coincidence that the movie version is scheduled for release Dec. of 2015, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.]
"Treachery in the Troops"
The saddest story my aching arse....
Ford may have given readers the ultimate *unreliable narrator* in 1915 when he published The Good Soldier. For all of my reading, I don't recall ever coming across a narrator half as guileful, or as entitled, as John Dowell -- or is he so inconceivably dim-witted and naïve the story IS actually sad? There in lies the brilliant pinpoint on which this story is balanced, and masterfully so by author Ford Madox Ford. Though, there was the peer group of his day that would have taken to task anyone that thought the writer *masterful*, or anything other than *unreliable* himself. His own *wife* -- or should we say biga-mistress (seems Ford didn't have any problem *marrying* or carrying on affairs in spite of his legal marriage to another never being dissolved) wrote that Ford had "a genius for creating confusion," and he himself stated that,"he had a great contempt for fact." So, it is with that insight to this author that one should approach this story; this is the magic that turns just an OK story into absolute brilliant writing -- and a top notch mystery in disguise that requires an efficient reader.
A wealthy American couple, Dowell and Florence, and a wealthy English couple, Edward and Leonora meet at a spa during an extended stay in Europe and become friends. Interestingly, Dowell narrates the story directly to the reader/listener, as if it is a tale he was told, "the saddest story I've ever heard in my life." Immediately you assume he was told this story and is just now recounting it to the reader, but as he goes on we learn it is his wife Florence and the Englishman, Edward, that have an affair that leads to her heartbreaking death on her and Dowell's honeymoon.
Dowell's story continues to twist like a hanky wrenching out the tears. But, is it her reported weak heart that killed the young bride...(weak enough that she warns her new husband she is unable to have sex because of her condition) or is it suicide (her medicine bottle smells strongly similar to a particular acid)? So it goes... where nothing is as it first seems, nothing can be taken at face value. The outward grace, the breeding, the money, the passion, blend into a swirl of colors that lose definition and become a muddied mess. Even our narrator repeats often, "I don't know, I don't know!," sharing doubts as to his competence to recall what happened.
The profiles of these characters are intriguing; illuminated by Dowell's shaky perspective they become outrageous, even contrarily uncivilized, extravagant, and completely without principles. I could only conceive of this caliber of persons by reminding myself, "how reliable is this narrator/participant, what hidden agendas, sociopathic befuddlements contort the players and twist this supposedly sad tale?"
If you were a keen-eyed detective taking Dowell's testimony, you would listen carefully to this one...ignore your colleague's protests of his innocence...put a tail on him...watch for those insurance policies, secret bank accounts, more missing bodies of people he crossed paths with...sit back and wait for this Keyser Söze fellow to make a wrong move. Or; did poor Mr. Dowell just tell you, truly, the saddest story you've ever heard...? This is a classic that needs to be read competently to be truly appreciated. If so, you'll see The Good Soldier draws out the kind of reader participation, where the text is "open to the greatest variety of independent interpretation" -- what Barthes said was the *ideal text.* Gosh, what a masterpiece; if I wasn't so disgusted by the whole lot of them, I'd turn around and read this again, right now.
"Charming, Bittersweet, Pure Pleasure"
"It was a summer in which death, in visitation, assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. I still spend a lot of time thinking about the events of that summer. About the terrible price of wisdom. The awful grace of God."
Frank Drum begins his story, looking back over forty years to this fateful summer in 1961 when he was 13 yrs. old. The story is immediately familiar and the nostalgia consuming. Krueger writes poetically, creating an idyllic summer so vividly the years tick backwards. For many it will recall that well-known coming of age through tragedy, Stephen King's The Body (movie: Stand By Me). There are similarities, but Krueger's story is a murder mystery tucked into a gentle and sweet tale, focused on family, small town secrets, and spiritual struggles, more than the physical threats of big brothers, dead bodies, and junk-yard dogs.
In addition to being a New York Times Bestseller, Ordinary Grace recently won the 2014 Edgar Award For Best Novel, the 2014 Dilys Award, and has been selected as a *School Library Journal Best Book Of 2013. I'm not familiar with the author's Cork O'Connor series and can't speak to any comparison, but I found this book completely charming and captivating. Krueger's ability to create a soothing kindness through his choice of words, even in the midst of violence, death, and some (mild) sexual encounters, is remarkable. The novel deals with a multitude of *delicate* issues with frankness and compassion instead of sensationalism. Moments like the Reverend's sermon after a death (I won't spoil it by divulging the victim) are healing balms, so beautifully written they are all the *church* you could hope for.
There are some stereotypes and clichés, some sentimentality, but it all seems fresh and original, they are so well used, and so much a part of the period. You may see the ending coming, may figure out the murderer, may even question little brother Jake's keen insight, but any concerns are lost in the overall beauty and grace of this novel. It may not be the block buster everyone is talking about, but for me it was a pure pleasure reading this novel; one of my favorites of 2014.
**The School Library Journal is a monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people. They have this book listed as an "Adult Books 4 Teens." I would say use your own discretion.
"Iles Returns to Writing, Returns to Natchez-Almost"
After a near death collision in 2011, Iles has struggled back to give readers what he says is the *first of a trilogy,* the very ambitious Natchez Burning. From what little I've read about his accident it seems a miracle the author made this return. It's good to know that Iles is recuperating well and will continue to write. Whether or not I'll continue to read...I'm still uncertain. The word *trilogy* attached to this 800 page behemoth has me feeling like someone just offered me a piece of pie after I just finished a pie eating contest.
I've liked this author's previous books and especially found his portrayal of Mississippi seductive. Though his novels are consistently heavy on the violence, the morality of Penn Cage and his dedication to family, truth, and justice, as well as his love for the South, have always kept me wanting to return. Natchez Burning was the first of his books that I've had to force myself to continue. Substantial in both page count and story, Iles has over achieved in ways, and may have sacrificed some of the important points he is trying to make regarding the racial history of the American South. In comparison with the previous Iles novels I've read, this one was poorly edited (very poorly edited), congested with an overabundance of psychopathic sadists, and stuffed with pointless digressions and repetition, repetition, repetition. For me, much of the book seemed implausible, and the focus drifted from the civil unrest of the South that I was interested in following, to the gratuitous violence of Iles' characterizations of vitriolic *good 'ol boys* in white hoods.
Dick Hill has always been as much of the Iles novels as Will Patton is James Lee Burke, Ray Porter and Jonathan Mayberry...but I came to accept Ledoux, more than I accepted this work of Iles. There is a good and entertaining story here, but in so many ways, this was not the Iles I'm used to. Sadly, not up to my expectations.
"One Listener's *Meh* is Another's Listener's *Wow*"
I find myself in the latter group, because this is how I like my King...it's familiar, smart and layered, the product of a storytelling virtuoso. It reads tight, flows enjoyably without a bump, and whether you are actively searching for the infamous King-style Easter Eggs or just perched on the edge of your seat waiting for the inevitable terror ala King to hit, it is captivating. I for one, liked the slow steady crank -- I know King is like a sinister jack-in-the-box with a cozy style that lulls you into near-complacency...then POW! it sinks its teeth into you. But, I understand well why some listeners/readers found the story "slow" or did not like the ending.
Though this is one of King's shorter novels, it takes its time building those goose bumps. The eerie opening scene is a foreshadowing of the relationship between Preacher Charlie Jacobs and Jamie Morton. Jamie's once idyllic life stumbles into disillusion, sex, drugs, and rock & roll. The Preacher suffers a devastating loss, gives a damning sermon which ends his career in the Methodist ministry, then undergoes a malevolent transformation. Their paths serpentine through the years, with each meeting the pair seem to have added layers of corruption and ugliness -- the kind of disfiguration of the soul the supernatural portrait of young Dorian Gray collected hidden in his secret room. In a sense Jamie sold his soul to the devilish preacher at one point in his life, and there is a contractual bond between the two. King doesn't elaborate on the many incarnations of ex-preacher Jacobs (from minister to carnie to tent revivalist), the bulk of the book is devoted to Jamie and his life of guitars and rock and roll until the electrically charged ending (literally: homage to Frankenstein, and a healthy aside to King's passion for rock and roll). Though you may think this makes for a "slow" read, or a loosening of the plot, I felt the story remained tight and threatening, with a lurking sense of tension always building. I participated by keeping mental track of Jacobs, creating his evolution myself from the crumbs King throws in periodically.
Central to the overall nightmarish feel of this book is the *Dedication* by King, which if you have the book you will know reads as follows:
"This book is for some of the people who built my house: Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Shirley Jackson, Robert Bloch, Peter Straub, And ATHUR MACHEN, whose short novel The great God Pan has haunted me all my life."
A rich flavor pallet for fans of horror and a recipe for certain nightmares. The book will strike a strong Yagsafarian, or Cthulhu Mythos flavor, with a vigorous nod to Lovecraft by the time you finish, but it is the work of the all capped MACHEN that King echoes most in this novel, specifically The Great God Pan. [*you can download this short story free of charge at Gutenberg Project site.] What is it with King and bugs...ants? The answer may lie with his youthful years spent reading the likes of these horror heavyweights, definitely Lovecraft and Machen--'nuf said lest I spoil the last page.
To me this was a *thinker,* a foundation-shaker that had me examining these characters, science, religion, loss and extreme sorrow, and at what point our personal constructs shake and finally crumble. I won't say it is old-form-King. I think he has given readers different facets of his creative mind over the years that highlight his own growing pains and artistic expression (whether readers liked it or not), but I will say it felt like kicking off a pair of 5" heels and throwing on your favorite comfy slippers. It is less about the horror of antique collecting vampires on your block, sinister clowns hiding in the drainage systems, and more about the kind of terror we might feel faced with the death of our scientific *facts,* the disintegration of our *faith.* It's like going down the stairs in the dark, thinking you feel that secure bottom stair under your foot, but stepping into an abyss. Not my very fave King, but one of them; a good entry, and the best in a while.
And, a Post Script of sorts to fellow readers that ponder, dwell, dissect, perseverate...What direction does this story go for you if the Shelley-infused Jacob's first *patient* was actually his wife and little boy (hello Pet Semetary)???
"Difference of Opinion"
Because I am a klutz with crutches, I've had to "stay off that foot", so I've read enough print novels to blister my thumbs and listened to less audiobooks lately. Once I could navigate the 3 floors to my computer, I decided to review only a few of those novels, and that The Paying Guests would be first--with apologies to several GR friends that recommended the book to me. With multiple 5* ratings, an author that "has earned a reputation as one of our greatest writers of historical fiction," as well as earned a 3-time Man Booker Shortlist seat, this one has a *triple-dog-dare-you* not to find the novel magical. Well; I didn't, and I take umbrage at novels that sell themselves as one thing, when they textualize something quite different.
This is not historical fiction, not, not, not. There is more feel for post WWI London in the summary than in the novel; there is no sense of the politics of 1920's London, the social atmosphere, the changing economics as Britain began its decline as a world power and women rose to a position of more social power. What Waters did was a trending tactic...take a timely social issue from today and place it in the context of another era in history. I did not say immerse it, because this *issue* sits atop 1920 London like a drop of oil on water. She did not blend in any facts or knowledge that expand on that London. The paying Guests is simply (and more accurately) a lesbian love affair. The lovers are dressed in costume and dropped in London -- there's your hx. Change the costumes...change the historical time...voila! another *historical* novel. The history, what little there is, is foggier than a November morning in London.
This is the third such novel I've read recently, where there is no accurate description, or mention in the summary of the actual content other than: *forbidden love* that will *disrupt* society and families, or in this case: "the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances' life - or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be." *-sigh-* Haven't we advanced enough socially to just call it what it is?! Just say it...lesbian love affair--or just love affair if you prefer. This is a lesbian love affair set in London sometime after WWI. The history, in the context of this book, seems irrelevant, or at least contrived.
Now, it is a different book to rate and would probably get a better review from me because I had a knowledgeable choice of what I was getting. But putting a fictional love affair in period piece costumes and calling it historical is a ruse and I slash points for that kind of tactic. Good grief, call it what it is and stop blindsiding readers with these tales of !shocking! forbidden love that aren't so shocking or forbidden. I understand such a love affair would be eyebrow raising in any period of history (including 2014 to some people), and if I want to read that, I expect to read that in the summary and make that choice.
So, buy the book if you want to read about a lesbian love affair set in London circa 1920. It is narrated superbly and is an interesting story of two women falling in love during some period is time when it was difficult... It is also an example of attempted sensationalism... (but not history). For a great historical novel I highly recommend Lovers at the Chameleon Club. Perhaps it was reading that superior novel of historical fiction that in comparison, made The Paying Guests seem so vacant.
"No Magic...just great delivery"
Other than a few great card tricks (and some drink recipes that sound intoxicatingly good) NPH doesn't have much up his sleeve these days since coming out of the closet in '06. Anyone with a TV is familiar with the former child actor Dr. Doogie and has seen his successful transitions to adult actor, Broadway star, multi-talented host and entertainer, and committed partner and parent (absolutely darling twins, you should look up their yearly Halloween photos!). It's clear that in a relatively un-tumultuous life (by Hollywood showbiz standards) the guy has had a pretty smooth trip chasing his destiny toward the big bright lights. He's kept his cute little boyish nose clean, side stepped a few bad reviews to keep plugging away, and stayed pretty steady.
So, keeping it all humble... what could possibly carry the autobiography of an actor that has only lived 40 something years...without a drug addiction, reality show, or other scandal or dark deed featured on a magazine cover in the checkout line at the grocery store? Wait for it...showmanship, gratitude, and pizzazz in spades. Harris is even entertaining in print; funny enough to laugh hard at himself, down to earth enough to talk about the humility of being able to be a parent, and real enough to express the love he has realized by having his own family.
Sure it's largely gimmicky owing to the format--but this is personal revelation and show biz at it's most fun. The magic tricks alone sound worth the practice to awe your family and friends; the drinks good enough to make a few trips to the liquor store; and the instructions and recipes are PDF included!! (And I howled out loud with laughter when David disappeared off the edge of the mountain while they were...read and find out--this is very funny stuff, I'm laughing again right now!) Like a Broadway show itself; fun entertaining book--and don't miss the PDF download. Sometimes it's nice to hear from a person that could have anything, that family and friends matter most.


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Fiscal Year 2000 Integrated Strategic Plan
Goal: Land
Preserve and protect Missouris land resources for ongoing responsible use.
Outcome A
Effective and efficient management of solid waste
Outcome Measures
Reduction in the amount of solid waste going to landfills
Reduction in the amount of solid waste disposed of per capita
Increase in the number of cities with a full range of solid waste management options to residents and businesses (integrated solid waste systems)
Objective 1
By 2000, increase the amount of solid waste recovered to forty percent.
Objective Measures
Improvement in the compliance with solid waste requirements
Increase in the tons of demolition and construction, industrial and commercial, and food waste diverted from landfills and recycled
Increase in the number of businesses using recovered waste to make products
Increase in the number of businesses with ongoing solid waste reduction or recycling programs
Increase in the number of active recycling and waste-reduction programs
Increase in the tons of waste tires reused beneficially
Increase in the number of businesses beneficially reusing waste tires
Develop and promote feasible alternatives to waste disposal in landfills.
Promote volumetric or unit-based pricing mechanisms that account for the full cost of solid waste disposal.
Encourage food-waste composting, reuse of construction and demolition waste, and commercial and industrial waste reduction to address the largest portion, by weight, of waste disposed of in landfills.
Provide financial assistance for projects which result in a decrease in the amount of materials disposed of and an increase in the amount reused.
Promote landfill methods that facilitate future waste recovery.
Consult with industry regarding the economic benefit of practices that comply with environmental laws.
Objective 2
Reduce the amount of improperly disposed of solid waste.
Objective Measures
Decrease in the number of landfills with uncorrected methane gas migration
Increase in the percent of landfills with groundwater monitoring systems that accurately measure possible contamination to ensure that landfills are not causing pollution to the groundwater
Decrease in the number and significance of violations of solid waste requirements
Increase in the percent of waste disposed of in landfills with liners meeting Subtitle D requirements
Decrease in the number of stream miles contaminated due to landfill leachate discharges
Increase in the number of counties and cities with active programs to discourage illegal dumping
Decrease in the number of illegal dumps (include tires)
Increase in the number of illegal dumps cleaned up (including tires)
Ensure that Missouri landfills meet solid waste rules and laws, through
permitting, inspection and enforcement efforts. When necessary and appropriate
for protection of our natural resources, promulgate new rules.
Promote pubic awareness and community involvement in the locating of landfills through meetings held during the initial permitting process. This provides an opportunity and greater role for groups or individuals that may be potentially impacted by a landfill in their area.
Clean up illegal waste sites, and promote local programs that discourage illegal dumping in order to prevent future clean up of such sites.
Outcome B
Beneficial reuse of sites contaminated in the past with hazardous materials
Outcome Measures
Increase in the number of hazardous material sites remediated and returned
to productive use
Objective 1
By 2001, remediate thirty-six sites contaminated by hazardous substances
to a level appropriate for new development.
Objective Measures
Number of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act (CERCLA) sites
Number of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) sites remediated
Number of sites where remediation is conducted on a voluntary, expedited, or cooperative basis
Collaborate with the Environmental Protection Agency to administer
CERCLA in Missouri.
Oversee collaboratively the cleanup of hazardous wastes at facilities currently or previously owned or leased by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Administer the corrective action program for facilities subject to the corrective action requirements of RCRA to investigate and remediate a pre-existing hazardous waste problem.
Administer the state Registry of Abandoned or Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites.
Use the "Cleanup Levels for Missouri" document to address industrial and commercial land uses.
Work with landowners and developers and others to remediate property voluntarily.
Outcome C
Proper management of hazardous substances and waste
Outcome Measures
Reduction in the number of hazardous substances and waste releases
Increase in the number of properly managed hazardous waste facilities and hazardous substance releases
Reduction in the amount of hazardous waste generated
Increase in the proportion of hazardous waste recycled, used for energy recovery, or reused relative to the amount generated
Increase in the proportion of hazardous waste treated relative to the amount generated
Objective 1
By 2002, increase by 10 percent the number of hazardous waste facilities
that are properly managed.
Objective Measures
Decrease in the percentage of hazardous waste facilities with significant
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations
Number of Corrective Action investigations, stabilization and interim measures, remedial selections and cleanups implemented
Decrease in the number of hazardous waste management facility permits issued, reflecting a decrease in hazardous waste being generated
Ensure that hazardous waste in Missouri is properly managed from cradle
to grave through permitting, inspection and enforcement efforts. When necessary
and appropriate for protection of our natural resources, promulgate new rules.
Maintain and pursue appropriate delegation and authorization to encourage proper management of hazardous waste.
Close hazardous waste management units that no longer need to operate under a permit.
Collect and manage data related to hazardous waste so that a central source of information is available to all interested parties.
Assist in the clean-up and disposal of the hazardous substances including, but not limited to, chemicals intended for use in or resulting from the manufacture or production of controlled substances.
Objective 2
Reduce the amount of hazardous waste generated (relative to industrial
activity) and increase alternatives to disposal.
Objective Measures
Increase in the amount of hazardous waste recycled or reused relative
to the total amount generated (which should be decreasing relative to industrial
Increase in the number of resource recovery certificates issued as more hazardous waste is recycled, reclaimed or recovered
Increase in the amount of hazardous waste treated by thermal recovery relative to the total amount generated (which should be decreasing)
Work with businesses and the public to promote pollution prevention
activities in the following order: reduction first, then reuse, recycle, thermal
recovery, and treatment. Encourage pollution prevention activities through permitting,
enforcement agreements, and other regulatory activities.
Consult with industry regarding the economic benefit of practices that reduce pollution.
Outcome D
Proper management of underground and aboveground petroleum storage tanks
Outcome Measures
Increase in the percentage of all tanks in compliance with the law
and regulations
Decrease in the releases of petroleum products and other regulated substances into the environment relative to the number of all tanks
Objective 1
Identify underground and aboveground petroleum storage tank locations
and remediate contamination caused by leaking tanks.
Objective Measures
Increase in the percentage of underground storage tanks meeting federal
upgrade requirements
Decrease in the number of new releases as a percentage of total active tanks
Increase in the number and the percentage of contaminated tank sites remediated
Remediate contaminated tank sites through coordination with the Petroleum
Storage Tank Insurance Fund and utilization of the federal Leaking Underground
Storage Tank Trust Fund.
Conduct regulatory oversight to include registering sites, field inspections and enforcement at sites failing to comply with existing cleanup and remediation requirements and standards.
Outcome E
Reduction in soil erosion on Missouris agricultural land
Outcome Measures
Increased productivity of Missouris firms and farms (Show-Me
Result) as measured by tons of soil saved
Objective 1
By 2006, reduce soil erosion on 95 percent of Missouri agricultural
land to a level at which soil loss does not hinder productivity (i.e. it is
Objective Measures
Increase in the miles and acres of soil conservation practices constructed
Maintain or increase in the number of educational events held by soil and water conservation districts
Increase in the number of watersheds with soil conservation practices constructed
Increase in the Special Area Land Treatment projects completed utilizing soil conservation treatments
Create partnerships with agencies involved in soil conservation.
Expand the departments role in providing technical assistance for soil conservation, and promote land use practices that maximize soil protection.
Collect and manage data related to soil conservation efforts so that a central source of information is available to all interested parties.
Provide training for Soil and Water Conservation District supervisors and employees to maximize conservation efforts and improve fiscal responsibility for the Soils Sales Tax Fund.
Improve fiscal and operational accountability through enhancement of the Soil and Water Conservation District and cost-share accounting system and continuation of audits for the districts.
Begin implementation of the initiative to address the water quality issues in the Table Rock Lake watershed resulting from soil erosion and runoff.
Continue to provide various types of financial assistance to construct and implement soil conservation measures including grants and loans.
Outcome F
Successfully reclaimed abandoned and active mined lands that do not pose a threat to the environment, human health or safety
Outcome Measures
Annual increase in the total cumulative number of acres reclaimed
Annual increase in the total cumulative number of high walls and other mine hazards mitigated
Objective 1
By 2001, annually reclaim seven abandoned coal mine sites and effectively
regulate all active surface mining.
Objective Measures
Annual increase in the total cumulative number of mine land acres under
a reclamation schedule
Number of abandoned coal mine land projects completed within the three-year construction grant cycle
Number of acres of mined lands achieving final bond release standards within 10 years of the cessation of mining
Number of stream miles failing to meet water quality standards due to acid mine releases or quarry discharges as measured annually
Implement current practices, including engineering, maintenance and
revegetation and adaptive reuse in reclamation projects.
Ensure that active and abandoned mines in Missouri are properly managed through permitting, inspection and enforcement efforts. When necessary and appropriate for protection of our natural resources, promulgate new rules.
Further develop knowledge of active and abandoned mines.
Collect and manage data related to coal mining and reclamation efforts so that a central source of information is available to all interested parties.
Outcome G
Safe dams
Outcome Measures
Number of regulated high-hazard dams that fail and dollar value of
damaged property
Number of failures of unregulated dams between twenty-five and thirty-five feet
Improvements made as a result of increased awareness of proper dam safety standards
Objective 1
Decrease failures of regulated dams to zero percent annually.
Objective Measures
Number of emergency responses
Decrease in the number of regulated dams that fail
Increase in the number of regulated dams in compliance
Complete all required maps showing potential inundation downstream
resulting from a dam failure.
Provide technical assistance and training opportunities to dam owners and the public.
Ensure compliance of regulated dams through permitting, inspection, and enforcement activities. When necessary and appropriate for protection of our natural resources, promulgate new rules.
Maintain a permit tracking system to provide accurate, timely information on regulated dams.
Outcome H
Reduction in property boundary disputes
Outcome Measures
Number of survey documents preserved for distribution
Number of counties with Geographic Reference Systems
Number of survey conflicts resolved
Objective 1
Maintain the repository of historical land survey information and provide
professional services to preserve and establish accurate land boundaries.
Objective Measures
Percent of land records microfilmed
Number of documents distributed to the public
Number of public land survey system corners restored
Number of Geographic Reference systems established
Number of county cooperative corners remonumented
Number of restored land corners with accurate coordinates
Collect and manage data related to land and geodetic surveys so that
all Missouri survey data is accessible at one location.
Establish Geographic Reference stations for accurate mapping.
Enforce survey standards and regulations to ensure consistency and quality of land and geodetic survey data.
Participate in cooperative corner remonumentation with county government to increase the number of established corner monuments.
Maintain an efficient system for providing survey information to the public.
Gather land survey documents from Missouri counties, preserve those documents, and continuously update the documents available for use and distribution.
Outcome I
Appropriate land-use decisions by the public, governmental agencies and industry
Outcome Measures
Number of earth science databases
Objective 1
Increase the availability and understanding of earth science data to
assist the public, governmental agencies and industry.
Objective Measures
Increase in the number of soil and geologic data sets maintained on
a Geographic Information System (GIS)
Increase in the amount of geologic information distributed
Increase in acres with a completed soil survey
Results of customer surveys
Continue to assemble existing geologic data, and diversify the formats
(electronic, paper) used to distribute geologic data.
Complete the mapping of soils for all of Missouri and plan for future soil survey work describing the character and capability of the soil to aid in land use decisions that are sustainable.
Implement a procedure for the sale and distribution of computerized geologic information.
Evaluate different methods of data distribution, and implement improvements in the processes used for sale of procedures, publications and maps.
Improve access to data resources, and the services available through divisional staff.
Expand the information requested on customer surveys to capture input on the use of geologic information to use for improvement of its format and content.
Objective 2
Increase geologic data to assist in making appropriate land use decisions
and foster sound, prudent use of mineral resources and mineral fuels.
Objective Measures
Increase in the amount of geologic information produced:
- Bedrock and surficial material maps
- Number of geologic hazard assessments
- Footage of well cuttings and drill cores logged
- Number of mineral resource assessments
- Number of coal database records obtained
- Number of underground mine maps obtained
Develop a comprehensive state wide geologic mapping program,
which includes these considerations:
- Establishment of a Geologic Map Advisory Committee;
- Prioritization of areas to be mapped based on recommendations from the Geologic Map Advisory Committee;
- Development of mapping standards to ensure quality and consistency and training for staff in their use.
Increase the acres mapped geologically so that 3,000 square miles are mapped annually showing bedrock and surficial materials.
Implement more efficient methods for production of geologic maps.
Survey major user groups to determine what geologic data they require, at what location, when, in what format, and to what standard.
Enhance the logging of well cuttings and drill core by using newly developed computer software.
Expand the studies of Missouris mineral resources to provide accurate data for future use.
Maintain active communication with mineral and energy industries, governmental agencies, and the public on mineral resource development issues.
Increase the availability of GIS hardware, software, and training to more effectively use geologic data within the department, and to offer data electronically to those outside the department.
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23 - 24 May
The 22nd Annual Captain Cook 1770 Festival commemorates the landing of Lieutenant James Cook on 24 May, 1770 at Bustard Bay.
The award winning festival will be held in its new location at the SES Grounds at 1770 caters for the whole family with live entertainment, market stalls, art show, Indigenous dancing and exciting amusement rides, with a spectacular fireworks display on Saturday night.
... moreThe re-enactment of Cook landing is a special highlight of the festival which this year will be held on the Friday night prior to the Festival at the Air Sea Rescue Park (1770 Foreshore).
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Children are welcome.
There are toilet ramps and car parking for guests with a disability.
How To Get There
Follow the Bruce Highway to Miriam Vale. Turn off and head for Agnes Water/Seventeen Seventy. Follow the Captain Cook Drive to the SES grounds where there will be a bus to transport you to and from the festival.
23 - 24 May
Frequency: Annual
Entry | Cost | Valid From | |
Adult | $10.00 | 23 - 24 May | Children under 12 free |
* Please note: These rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available costs of listed products and services. To obtain a firm price from the provider, please use the contact the operator. All prices are quoted in Australian dollars.


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These burgers are spiced to perfection. To make them even spicier, you could melt jalapeno soy cheese on each patty and serve topped with salsa. Carbs: 32.5g | Fat: 3.5g | Fiber: 6.8g | Protein: 8.1g | Calories: 189.5
This hummus and feta wrap is so quick and easy if you store pre-cut vegetables in your fridge. It is a great, lowfat, heart healthy lunch! Carbs: 31.5g | Fat: 14.2g | Fiber: 11.7g | Protein: 21.1g | Calories: 295.2
A tasty way to get your veggies during BBQ season Submitted by EMMAPALE Carbs: 6.8g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 1.4g | Calories: 77.7
Very Good 4.1/5
(47 ratings)
Healthy chocolate chip cookies? Yes, you read correctly. Check this recipe out! Carbs: 18.2g | Fat: 4.1g | Fiber: 1g | Protein: 1.5g | Calories: 110.1
Not too sweet but not too healthy, these delightful muffins are equally delicious for breakfast or dessert. Submitted by FIREFLY75 Carbs: 16.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 2.4g | Calories: 91.7
A low-fat, heart healthy version of this traditional comfort food. Carbs: 11.2g | Fat: 5.9g | Fiber: 2.2g | Protein: 4.2g | Calories: 111.3
Cookbook creator says: I would leave out the garlic and add a 1/4 tsp. of cumin powder. After putting it through the food processor I add chopped tomatoes, finely chopped red onions and fresh cilantro for color and flavor. Submitted by GRANT_ME_WINGS Carbs: 9.4g | Fat: 2g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 3.1g | Calories: 69.3
A great tasting and healthy alternative to fries. Submitted by LIZZS2NDCHANCE Carbs: 18.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 1.1g | Calories: 80.7
Bake these over the weekend, and enjoy throughout the week for breakfast or a snack. Carbs: 46.2g | Fat: 9.5g | Fiber: 4.9g | Protein: 5.1g | Calories: 276.5
Seitan is sauted with cumin, tossed with roasted veggies and rice, then topped with a very rich guacamole for those days that you just have to have something a little extravagant Submitted by MADDY_AVENA Carbs: 56.1g | Fat: 10.5g | Fiber: 9.6g | Protein: 20.3g | Calories: 380.7
Most pasta salads are heavy on the pasta and light on everything else. This version, which can be served warm or cold, includes a hefty portion of vegetables--both spinach and tomatoes. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 33g | Fat: 8.9g | Fiber: 2.6g | Protein: 12g | Calories: 267.2
Cut out the fat by leaving out the meat. This thick stew is perfect on top of a baked potato. For a thinner soup, add water. Carbs: 23g | Fat: 2.9g | Fiber: 7.6g | Protein: 7.2g | Calories: 141.3
Very Good 4.2/5
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Use your indoor grill to make a wonderful vegetable sandwich! Submitted by TERRYDROSDAK Carbs: 34.1g | Fat: 7.6g | Fiber: 9.9g | Protein: 12.2g | Calories: 225
Good 3.7/5
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A low calorie, low cholesterol, low sodium tasty treat. Submitted by TAMMYR82 Carbs: 10.5g | Fat: 6.6g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 2.2g | Calories: 105.8
Good 3.9/5
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Submitted by CMCFEE Carbs: 8.2g | Fat: 4.8g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 3.6g | Calories: 88.6
This filling vegetarian meal is nutritious and easy to make. Submitted by TWINMOM143 Carbs: 52.7g | Fat: 5.1g | Fiber: 10.2g | Protein: 13.7g | Calories: 284.5
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This citrusy rice contains almonds, celery, and onions, but no added salt for a flavorful low sodium side dish. Carbs: 22.7g | Fat: 8.8g | Fiber: 2.8g | Protein: 4g | Calories: 179.1
These bean cakes are yummy and great for you. Served with the salsa, it makes a very colorful and festive presentation. I serve these with a lite side salad. Plenty of protein and fiber. Even my meat loving hubby loves this meal. Submitted by BCJL13 Carbs: 48.3g | Fat: 6.1g | Fiber: 13.6g | Protein: 14.2g | Calories: 294.2
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Submitted by ANGELAHELWIG Carbs: 4.3g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 1.4g | Protein: 8.1g | Calories: 100.6
Very Good 4.3/5
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A yummy side dish to serve with pork or chicken. Submitted by ANNIEBNANNIE Carbs: 34.7g | Fat: 6.2g | Fiber: 4.8g | Protein: 6.8g | Calories: 210


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Sat, Jan 15, 05 at 2:23
Does anyone know of a hawaian looking wedding sampler???
Cat |
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I stitched the Hearts of America Hawaii one for a wedding gift for a friend married in Hawaii. I looked everywhere for a Hawaiian wedding sampler, and the best I could do was to find a Hawaiian themed chart and modify it with my own lettering to include the names and date. Check here: http://www.honuart.com/products/cross-stitch.htm |
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