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US Baby Boomers get onboard with boating
Sun, 20 Jan 2013
Aboard her appropriately named boat, First Boomer, 62-year-old Kathy CaseyKirschling is leaving the retirement stereotype in her wake – and she's not alone.
Casey-Kirschling was one of the 17 million boomers (ages 50-64) who went boating in 2007. With 80 million boomers retiring over the next two decades, recreational boating industry experts from Discover Boating predict the number of boomer boat owners to grow.
The boomer generation is known for redefining every stage of their lives from adolescence to parenthood and retirement is no exception. For boaters, spending time with family, the feeling of freedom on the water and being active in nature are key factors that drive them to the boating lifestyle. It's no surprise then that as boomers look for ways to stay active after retirement, they're turning to boating.
According to an AARP segmentation study, 57 percent of baby boomers expect to live near at least one of their children and 70 percent say they look forward to being a grandparent. The same survey also reported that 73 percent of boomers expect to have a hobby or special interest that they will dedicate a lot of time to when they're retired.
'Boating keeps me engaged and moving in my retirement,' said Kathy Casey-Kirschling. 'Whether we're tubing, fishing or simply hosting celebrations on the water, boating enhances the time I spend with my husband, kids and grandkids.'
As a 15-year veteran boater, Casey-Kirschling recommends boomers conduct extensive research before dipping their toes in the boating waters. From choosing the right boat for a particular lifestyle to understanding costs, she underscores the importance of doing homework to ensure an enjoyable boating experience.
'With the help of unbiased resources like DiscoverBoating.com, boomers can find the advice they need to make smart decisions in their boat buying process,' said Casey-Kirschling. 'Many find boating to be an extremely accessible activity for people of every age, income and lifestyle. But, I always stress the real value of boating is time spent with family and friends – that's priceless.'
Boating is also more convenient. NMMA reports that 90 percent of Americans live less than an hour's drive from a navigable body of water. With airport delays getting longer, and road trips getting more costly, boating allows families to make the most of their leisure time together, make new friends and create new experiences in their own backyards.
'Boating is at the heart of what boomers, like myself, love – an active hobby that provides an opportunity to explore the world while bonding with family and friends,' said Thom Dammrich, president of Discover Boating and the National Marine Manufacturers Association. 'Boating resonates with boomers because it's a lifestyle that speaks to their independent spirit, desire for social experiences and travel, while being attainable when it comes to affordability.'
Boating within Boomers' Budgets
With an estimated annual spending of $2 trillion, according to MetLife Mature Market Institute, boomers have their sights set on recreational activities. A recent RBC Capital Markets survey found 80 percent of people plan to purchase a recreational product at some point in the future, with baby boomers and GenXers focusing their spending on recreational vehicles.
Of this 80 percent, most respondents were desirous of a boat (27 percent) followed by an all-terrain vehicle, motorcycle, towable RV and motorhome.
While the desire for boat ownership is prevalent, many boomers are under the misconception that boating is reserved only for the affluent. However, according to the NMMA, nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of boat owners have a household income under $100,000.
'Many boomers are surprised at how easy and economical it is to fit boating into their retirement plans,' said Jim Coburn, president of the National Marine Bankers Association.
'Similar to buying a car, there are a variety of financing options available with monthly payments for many entry-level boats under $200 a month.'
In a boating budget planner found on DiscoverBoating.com, the site compares average annual costs of owning a boat versus other recreational activities. For example, a seven-day Florida vacation will cost a family of four an average of $3,100 over the course of a year or $258 a month. Whereas, a family can own a $25,000 boat for $225 a month and enjoy the entire summer out on the water for the cost of a single vacation.
About Discover Boating
Discover Boating is a national awareness campaign developed by the recreational boating industry and managed by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA.) Discover Boating programs focus on improving the boating experience and building interest in recreational boating by demonstrating the
benefits, affordability and accessibility of the boating lifestyle, while helping potential boaters experience why life is better with a boat. Each year approximately 59 million adults in the U.S. enjoy boating.
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Make sure you check the "Research Resources" section! There are books on line: History of Warrick County, c. 1868 (it has all kinds of names and dates of Warrick families), indexes of books: "The First 100 Years", also "Yankeetown News" from 1890, books for sale, newspaper articles beginning in 1877, helpful links, look up volunteers and local researchers to help you out.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
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i am having a problem trying to solve an issue i have with the idleing speed on my escort...my mechanic is very busy at the mo', so i am trying to make sense of it myself.
the problem.....for example, when i am waiting at a red light and have just taken my foot of the gas pedal, the engine is still revving at just under 2000 revs for about 10/20 seconds...when it returns to about normal, it is still a little erratic.
my car is a 1.8 ghia, but when pulling off, it seems " laboured". i have had a lot of 1.8's in my driving career, the power does not seem correct for a 1.8....when i take my foot of the gas pedal while moving, after a second, the car lurches back..it is really starting to annoy me now!...i dont think its the accelerator cable, but i am no mechanic.
i have put new "pro-spark" ignition leads, and motorcraft plugs in...still no joy.
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Signs in Vedic Astrology
Jhasha, Matsya, Meena, Ubhayodaya
Houses in Vedic Astrology
In Vedic Astrology Houses and signs are used interchangeably. Whatever sign is on the Ascendant becomes the 1st house. The sign is the house, the house is the sign. The Ascendant then is a point which lies in that 1st house, but the cusp of the 1st house is zero degrees of the sign which the Ascendant occupies, in the Rasi or natal chart. The Porphyry house system (see "House Systems") is commonly used in Vedic astrology
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Letters From Columbia: Breaking Down BioShock Infinite
Do people still have conversations around the water cooler anymore? If so, BioShock Infinite is sure to be a hot topic of discussion wherever nerds still coalesce around beverage dispensers.
If you were at all familiar with Ken Levine and Irrational Games' 2007 magnum opus BioShock, with its enveloping, fascinating world and its masterfully written characters, you should have expected that BioShock Infinite, the sequel nearly six years in the making, would have delivered another such experience. Days and weeks after finishing it, we can't stop thinking about it. With so many angles to explore, we decided to have a conversation about what we took away from Infinite. I am joined by Wired fellow Jensen Toperzer and contributor John Mix Meyer. Here's our first round of letters, with at least one more to follow.
Note: Colossal BioShock Infinite spoilers follow. Only read this if you've already finished the game, too!
Jensen and Mix,
So let's get this out of the way first, as if there were any doubt: Yes, I loved BioShock Infinite. Ken Levine gets it: I don't get the "frustrated movie director" vibe from him at all; he loves and wants to make videogames specifically. Just as with the original BioShock, Infinite's story is not straining against the confines of the videogame medium; it is entirely born from it. BioShock must be a videogame just as Watchmen must be a comic book, there is no separating the medium and the message (cf: Watchmen the movie).
Everyone who's played BioShock remembers the big Manchurian-candidate twist, but what seems to be less remembered is the fact that it was all a wry commentary on videogames themselves: A voice in our ear told us what to do, and we complied. We didn't just watch a slave carry out orders, we participated without a second thought. We remember the twist not just because it was a surprise gotcha ending but because it was actually attempting to lead the player to a real-life epiphany, it actually had a point, and when was the last time a videogame tried to do that?
So what I'm saying is I needed more out of BioShock Infinite than just a Shyamalanic twist ending. I wanted that commentary again even if I was expecting it this time, even if my encounter with it was going to be more one of appreciation than epiphany. As it turns out, I got it in the first two minutes of gameplay. As the Lutece "siblings" row you to the lighthouse, they practically ignore you, talking about you in the third person and pointing out that it wouldn't be worth asking you to help row the boat because "he doesn't row." Not that he (Booker/you) won't, but that he doesn't. Later we understand this as part of the game's infinite-universes mythology, in which there are variables but also constants: Even amongst the infinite possible universes, some things never change, and in none of what I presume were many different attempts by the Luteces to introduce Booker into Columbia does Booker ever pick up the oars and row.
Every videogame is a set of infinite worlds much like the one Infinite proposes, a possibility space in which there are both constants and variables. There's an infinite number of ways that any game can be played through, but certain things will always be the same. He doesn't row. There is no "row" button.
But then it gets even better, even trickier, almost daring you to defy it, knowing that you can't. One of the things that bugged me about the critical scene in BioShock, in which Ryan orders Jack to bash his brains out with a golf club, was that it all happened automatically, as a cut scene. The player didn't control it. This seemed imperfect to me. So I found it quite amusing when the boat reached the lighthouse pier, the point at which the player is supposed to take control, turn and press X to climb the ladder. If you hesitate, you hear Robert say "He's not moving," and Rosalind say "Don't worry — he will."
And of course you do. Everyone does. If you have gotten to this point in the game — mere minutes after going through the trouble of buying it, of putting it in your console, of starting it up, of watching the enigmatic introduction — are you really going to not take the first step and go up the ladder? Of course you will. There is no universe in which you do not. So where did your free will go?
I actually like the 2003 game Eternal Darkness a lot, more than most people. It has a ladder as well: One of the first things you do is play as the character who soon becomes the main antagonist, and there's a ladder in front of him that will lead him down into the tomb where the main events of the game — horrors that will span millennia — are kicked into motion. And when you look at the ladder, you see this:
"Should Pious climb down the ladder? Yes: A; No: B"
This seemingly innocuous dialog box is actually a brilliant little trick. There's no gameplay reason why anyone would need to press "B" at this moment; there's nothing else in the room and nothing else to do but climb down the ladder. A more recent videogame would simply have a screen overlay that reads "A: Climb Ladder." But here Eternal Darkness uses a gameplay mechanic to make a point: Pious, you realize a little later, should not climb down the ladder, should not set these events into motion. Written somewhat like a text adventure, the game is actually breaking the fourth wall to address you the player directly and asking your opinion: Should he do this? Is this a good idea? And by assenting, you're implicated in everything that follows.
Having set up this little bit of foreshadowing in the opening moments of Infinite, they revisit it in Infinite's ending scene in the most heartbreaking way. I had a feeling that "give us the girl and wipe away the debt" wasn't going to mean what we thought it did; I did not guess beforehand that it would refer to Booker selling his infant daughter. And of course, the game wants us to act it out, to walk to the crib, pick her up and walk her over to Robert Lutece. And we hesitate, because who wouldn't? Surely there's a way out of this mess without having to sell a baby. But again, the game responds to us — like the lighthouse scene, the game is speaking to the player as much as it is speaking to Booker — and if you spend a moment's hesitation here, Elizabeth says (I am paraphrasing) "It doesn't matter how long you wait. You do not leave this room without handing over the baby."
And no, we don't. How could we? After that brutal final boss fight, with so many more unresolved questions even at that moment, who would have the fortitude to shut the game off at that moment and walk away? So of course we hand over the baby. We're in too deep. We had no choice. Press X to sell baby, press X to ruin everything.
Anyway, that was what I really wanted to write down. What impression has BioShock Infinite left on you?


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Meet Victoria County's spelling bee co-champions
March 13, 2012 at 5:03 p.m.
Updated March 13, 2012 at 10:14 p.m.
FIRST PLACE: All-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in the National Spelling Bee competition sponsored by Victoria Advocate; Webster's Third New International Dictionary (donated by Merriam-Webster); Samuel Louis Sugarman Award Certificate - valued at approximately $50 (donated by Mr. Jay Sugarman in honor of his father); One-year subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica Online (donated by Encyclopedia Britannica); Valerie Supplement (donated by Hexco)SECOND PLACE: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition (donated by Merriam-Webster); One-year subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica Online; Valerie Supplement (donated by Hexco)THIRD PLACE: One-year subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica OnlineFOURTH PLACE: $20 Amazon.com gift certificate (donated by the Scripps National Spelling Bee)FIFTH PLACE: $20 Amazon.com gift certificate
Twelve spellers from around the Crossroads are prepared to wage war over words for the chance to be crowned the 2012 Regional Spelling Bee Champion.
For the next six days, we will feature, in all their glory, the co-champions from participating counties.
First up are Victoria County's co-champions - Our Lady of Victory's Andrew Bernhard and DeLeon Elementary's Therese Eamiguel.
Both are spelling bee veterans, with Andrew clenching last year's championship, and Therese representing her school at last year's county championship.
The Regional Spelling Bee premieres at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Victoria College's Johnson Symposium, 2200 E. Red River St.
If you can't make it to the battle royale, be sure to check out our live video from the event at www.VictoriaAdvocate.com.


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Updated: 03/04/2014 11:57 AM
Created: 03/02/2014 9:39 PM KSTP.com
By: Leslie Dyste
With eight months to go before Election Day, Governor Mark Dayton is well-positioned to win re-election, according to new poll numbers in our KSTP/SurveyUSA poll.
In head-to-head match-ups with six potential GOP opponents, Dayton leads by anywhere from 17 to 21 points. His closest competitor is Marty Seifert, who trails Dayton 51 percent to 34 percent. Seifert also won the GOP straw poll at last month's precinct caucuses.
Dayton polled between 51 percent and 53 percent. His six GOP opponents, Seifert, Dave Thompson, Scott Honour, Jeff Johnson, Kurt Zellers and Rob Farnsworth polled between 31 percent and 34 percent.
There will likely be a GOP primary in August and this race is expected to tighten once Republicans settle on a candidate to challenge Dayton.
We will have a full demographic breakdown of this poll and and a U.S. Senate poll Tuesday on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS at 10.


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Joe Christensen covered Major League Baseball for 15 years, including three seasons at the Baltimore Sun and eight at the Star Tribune, before switching to the college football beat. He's a Faribault, Minn., native who graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1996. He covered Jim Wacker's Gophers for the Minnesota Daily and also wrote about USC, UCLA and the Rose Bowl for the Riverside Press-Enterprise before getting this chance to cover football again.
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Say this for Zac Epping: He's a stand-up guy.
The 20-year-old sophomore had a difficult time on Saturday, filling in at center and having a role in a couple of fumbled snaps. But there he was Tuesday, answering questions about the loss and his mistakes at the Gophers' weekly press conference. Epping said the steady drizzle that fell during the game made life harder and the football slicker, and some confusing shouts by the Northwestern defense didn't help, either. "We'd be sitting there in our stance, and the defense would start screaming, yelling," Epping said. "(It's hard) to stay focused on the quarterback's voice."
But he didn't use any of that as an excuse.
"I have to eliminate the mistakes," he said. "We could have had a lot more big plays."
Epping, who played high school ball at Tremper High in Kenosha, Wis., was replaced for much of the second half by Zach Mottla, who opened the season as the starter before spraining an ankle against New Hampshire. "Zac Epping's hands were real beat up. He's had some hand issues before," said offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover. "We weren't 100 percent sure if Zach Mottla was ready to go, but we got to halftime and said, 'We've got to find this out, one way or another. (Snaps are) something that Zach's very dependable on, and it got better after halftime."
Epping wasn't the only culprit in the Gophers' fumble troubles; they dropped the ball seven times, after all, losing it twice. The most notable was Lamonte Edwards' error on the opening kickoff, a mistake that Northwestern quickly turned into a touchdown, but one that A.J. Barker, who returns punts for the Gophers, said he could relate to.
"That's tough to deal with, because anyone that's been back there has dropped a ball at one time or another," Barker said. "You know how it can happen. So yeah, I feel for Lamonte on that. He's a great, tough kid and he'll bounce back."


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AVG continues to cause major problems, on the last attempt to try to restore my computer to a earlier time I was shocked to see AVG had wiped all pre AVG installation points from my system (I am no computer genius and I have no idea how to rebuild my system) I am limited to the amount of time I am able to use my computer due to ill-health, although I believe I may of finally managed to un-install all AVG files from my computer (the process took 8 days to complete) although I still have problems when browsing every page seems to freeze and the overall operation continues to be sluggish. I recently sent a email from AVG who had the nerve to offer a free trial of a programme designed to speed up computers suffering from slow sluggish operation. AVG seem to of learned a few things from scam websites' in fact AVG could actually learn them all a lesson !I hope AVG are proud of themselves I relied on computer mainly due to being housebound .
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Check out Hip Hop , the latest track from Swizz Beatz, featuring Drag-On which dropped on Monday, November 28th, 2011.
Give Hip Hop a spin - it's a new offering from Swizz Beatz, featuring Drag-On. It was dropped on Monday, November 28th, 2011. Swizz Beatz's rap artistry continues to improve with every release, something which is most definitely evidenced on Hip Hop . His ever-expanding catalogue is definitely better for it, and we're looking forward to the next piece of the puzzle - aren't you?
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A Feral Cat Ate My Bilbies
By Ellen FanningNovember 27, 2012
Are national parks saving Australia's wildlife? Well, it is difficult to say for sure, but the country has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world.
The chief executive of the New South Wales Department of Environment and Heritage, Sally Barnes, is plagued by a recurring nightmare.
"I'm on my death bed and someone will say to me 'So Sally, you were the head of parks'," she recalls.
"And I go, 'Yep.'
"And they go, 'So, when you were the head of parks, how did the critters go? Did things get better for them?'''
Barnes says her answer is always the same, "I don't know. And I hate the fact that I don't know."
It will stagger most readers to learn that for most of the hundred-plus-year history of national parks in Australia, park managers have had no way of gauging whether their attempts to preserve Australia's unique flora and fauna are actually working.
The problem has been that hard data was always in short supply. Very little was known about anything, really, be it the health of native plants and animals in the parks, weed infestation, or feral-animal numbers.
Who knew?
As recently as 2007, it certainly surprised Carly Cook, then a student completing a PhD in environmental decision making, when she started field work in NSW and Victorian national parks.
"I was stunned," Cook recalls. "I said, 'How can you not know whether what you are doing is working?'"
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So what did national park services use to gauge the effectiveness of their park management? "Nothing," Cook says simply. "There wasn't any capacity [to do that]. And that's still true in most jurisdictions in Australia.
"Mostly they kill weeds, foxes [and other feral animals], mend fences, clean and maintain toilet blocks. But rarely do they get to do much ecology," she says.
In fact, Cook says, during her time with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, officers spent a lot of time trying to work out how to show that what they were doing was making a difference.
"One of the most common answers," Cook says, "was, 'If things are not getting worse.'
"Now, in some places that's just not good enough," she says with considerable understatement, adding that it's also "not a very optimistic view" of how the service is preserving Australia's remaining wild places.
Over the past few years, Australia's two leading national parks services, in NSW and Victoria, decided things needed to improve.
But rather than establishing costly scientific monitoring programs in each national park, they began asking park rangers to fill out an online survey in which they were asked to guess at what was going on in their patch.
"Most rangers don't record how they spend their time," Cook says. Instead they have to estimate how they divide up their working life.
"For instance, they might say they spend three per cent of their time on weed management." She adds that it's hard to be more precise even about how much herbicide is used by national parks, because such chemicals are purchased at a regional level.
"What is the overall approach to pest animal management in this reserve?" is one enquiry on the Victorian questionnaire, which can cover up to 30 areas of parks management. The 2010 surveys for NSW and Victoria are here.
This question is multiple choice, and rangers are asked to choose from:
A. a comprehensive, planned approach
B. a planned approach, constrained in scope or capacity
C. reactive management
D. little or no management
One can imagine the computer mouse hovering over the various options.
Did anyone really click on little or no management?
Victorian rangers were first asked these sorts of questions in 2000. A year later, their counterparts in NSW filled in a similar questionnaire.
The answers are collated, grouped together with whatever hard data is available, and distilled into reports which are publicly released every three years in NSW, and less frequently in Victoria.
One senior park manager described the survey results as "better than nothing", and, staggeringly, it's much, much more than most other Australian states and territories provide.
In the absence of any hard science, surveying manager knowledge is an internationally accepted way of assessing outcomes. But there is widespread scepticism about relying on such questionnaires as a guide for allocating scarce conservation resources.
Surveys might be a useful way to collect information about the visitor experience in parks, or relationships with traditional owners, but are they really a good substitute for hard science? What if the ecological data they produce is poor, and scarce conservation resources are misdirected?
"It's pretty vague," Hugh Possingham says. A professor of mathematics and biology, he directs the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions at the University of Queensland.
"When people answer these questionnaires without having to provide data, they are often double-guessing what the consequences of the answer are," he says.
Hmm, if you tick the box that says there are increasing numbers of feral cats, foxes or donkeys in your park, you might get more money for feral animal control. Then again, you may not get that promotion.
What to do?
Which is where Carly Cook's work is valuable. After recovering from the shock of discovering how little historical data had been collected in, and about, our national parks, she worked with parks services in NSW to "ground truth" — to fact-check in the field — their survey results.
As part of her doctoral thesis on environmental management, she took rangers' answers to a few simplified questions and tested them against what she observed on the ground in a sample of parks.
For instance, one such question was designed to judge how well rangers were able to estimate the extent of infestation by the noxious weed, blackberry — it's a highly distinctive and visible plant. They were also asked to assess the condition of vegetation in their parks.
And their guesswork on that second question wasn't good. Up to 46 per cent of them in NSW got it wrong. Remarkably enough, Cook's thesis noted the failure rate was about the same in Victoria.
Similar questionnaires are still being rolled out every few years in NSW and Victoria. The results have been carefully collated into glossy publications and weighty public reports, even though everyone knows up-front that nearly half the answers might be wrong.
Remarkably, since Cook was awarded her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2010, no-one has ever taken the time to "ground truth" the survey results again.
Wayne Lawler/Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Wayne Lawler/Australian Wildlife Conservancy
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SO WITH AUSTRALIA IN THE GRIP OF AN EXTINCTION WAVE, with dozens of plants and animals being added to the endangered species list every decade, no one has any real idea of whether our traditional national parks services are part of the problem or part of the solution.
And, increasingly, politicians don't like the fact that they don't know, and they are demanding that national parks services detail what the public is getting for its conservation dollar.
For years, state governments in Australia have been funnelling money into national parks services, with very little proof that the money is well spent.
Farmers have long made exaggerated claims that parks are merely havens for feral animals and weeds.
No-one would suggest that Australia should abandon all its national park reserves. But apart from one notable study, published in 2010, which found some evidence that national parks in Australia contribute to the stabilisation of populations, or the recovery of threatened species, there is very little evidence about which approaches to protected-area management work best.
And the case for the status quo isn't good.
University studies at two of Australia's World Heritage-listed parks — Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory and Queensland's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park — show catastrophic declines in natural values.
In 2010, after 13 years of monitoring, scientists declared that Kakadu's native mammal fauna were in "rapid and severe decline". The causes, according to the study's authors, were "not entirely clear" but probably relate to bad fire management, too many feral cats and the steady westward hop of the cane toad.
Last month scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville reported that more than half of the Great Barrier Reef had disappeared over the past 27 years. Another introduced species, the crown-of-thorns starfish, was the major culprit there.
To combat such threats, Kakadu is armed with an annual budget of $18 million. And $50 million is spent each year in the Great Barrier Reef.
When national parks as significant as these, with the best legislative protection in the country and the biggest budgets, are in such decline, is it any wonder that managers such as Sally Barnes are being asked by their political masters to produce hard evidence that their management is effective and they are extracting the best possible benefit for the conservation budget?
But Barnes, like the rest of her current generation of park managers, is dogged by the failures of history.
She freely admits that what she calls "serious management" of national parks, only really began just over a decade ago. "In the 2000s, we started [asking] 'How do we really manage these [protected areas] to make a difference?'"
The parks service, she says, is now starting to fill "significant gaps in our understanding".
When in 1879, the Royal National Park south of Sydney became only the second national park in the world to be gazetted, the view was that protecting natural areas didn't require much more than drawing lines on a map. Creating a national park estate wasn't so much about protecting biodiversity as keeping aside picturesque landscapes for the appreciation of painters, poets and the public.
As land clearing gathered pace after World War II, there came a new urgency. The priority was to protect wild places from the bulldozers. Most of the conservation budget went on buying up land, rather than on the day-to-day management of the burgeoning national-park estate.
As a result, very little science was done. In most places, no-one established or conducted initial, scientific base-line surveys: doing the hard work of dividing up parks into grids to work out just how many native animals were around, what was the condition of the flora, how bad was the weed infestation and what was the penetration of feral animals.
Little wonder, Sally Barnes can't answer that question that plagues her dreams: Are things getting better or worse? Better or worse than what?
At Parks Victoria, the manager of Research and Management Effectiveness, Tony Varcoe, concedes that he's been left with a "dog's breakfast", a patchwork of 2,800 reserved areas many of which are tiny areas saved from the bulldozers.
"The last 100 years has been mostly [about saying], 'Let's get these places reserved before we lose them'," he says.
"Because of that long history, we're playing catch-up."
Just how hard Parks Victoria is having to scramble to catch up is evident in the popular Great Otway National Park, southwest of Melbourne.
When filling in the ranger's survey in 2010, a local ranger reported that while foxes, deer and cats were found throughout the park, it was not known whether the populations of these feral animals was increasing or decreasing.
In a startlingly frank bit of feedback, the ranger repeatedly described park management of pest species as "ad hoc"; that is, limited or non-existent.
All this in a reserve described by Varcoe as "one of our highest priority parks".
Internationally, experts are wondering out loud whether protected areas are doing any good.
The Zoological Society of London held a conference earlier this month which asked the question: Protected Areas: are they safeguarding biodiversity? Scientists, conservationists, and government representatives from around the world attended.
According to an Australian participant, the University of Adelaide's Professor Corey Bradshaw, there is "a growing realisation that just adding more and more protected areas is not enough to ensure biodiversity preservation within them. You have to put in some hard-core management to make them work."
Bradshaw briefed the conference on the findings of a major study he co-wrote for the journal Nature which revealed that among 60 tropical protected areas across Asia, Africa and the Americas, about half "weren't doing terribly well".
"We're not necessarily talking about [needing] more money," Bradshaw concluded in one of his regular newsletters. "Rather, efficient and effective use of the money invested is key."
Citing the results from Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef, he said, "Being financially well off does not guarantee biodiversity preservation at all. You have to put in the effort, too."
Advances in technology have made it easier for national parks services in Victoria and NSW to start to plug the gaps in their basic understanding of the areas they manage.
In one study, Parks Victoria deployed cameras at 150 sites in the Mornington Peninsula and Point Nepean National Parks, to research which native mammals were present and what feral animals roamed the parks.
In the video footage above, the cameras spy a fox with its lunch, a jumpy long nose bandicoot (just watch for a few seconds to see why they call it "jumpy"), a bird called a Lewin's rail and a white-footed dunnart, which is a little marsupial about the size of a mouse.
In addition, satellite images and image-processing software are used to map invasive weed species, such as English Broom, in the remote Alpine National Park.
Courtesy Parks Victoria
Courtesy Parks Victoria
As part of a broader, more systematic approach, Victoria now has some form of monitoring in about 60 to 70 per cent of its 40 to 45 most significant national parks, which Varcoe says still provides "less data than we would like".
NSW also has extensive scientific monitoring in individual national parks, places "where it makes a difference for management," Barnes says.
Barnes has also commissioned a scientific fauna monitoring pilot called WildCount this year, deploying motion-sensitive digital cameras in 200 sites east of the Great Dividing Range to track trends in native species across the landscape over time.
Despite these projects, neither Barnes nor Varcoe imagine ever being able to provide comprehensive data on all variables in every national park. They will have to rely on ranger surveys to fill the gaps.
"Would I do that [extensive monitoring] everywhere?" Barnes asks rhetorically. "No. We cannot do the hard data in every park every year. It's just impractical. So you have some of it through the staff survey."
Barnes adds that in some places, extensive monitoring isn't necessary anyway.
"You just know, from having trained, experience people, that if you keep the ferals down, keep the cattle off, or whatever, you [will] be in pretty good shape."
Parks Victoria's Tony Varcoe concedes that having proper scientific monitoring is the "gold standard" for measuring ecological health, but says comprehensive monitoring of all four-million hectares of Victoria's national parks estate would be "impossible".
There is a growing debate within many state governments about whether that is good enough.
ARE NATIONAL PARKS SERVICES — with their wide-ranging brief to provide everything from educational tours for busloads of primary-school students to campsites and toilets for tourists — best placed to provide the hard-core management needed, particularly in remote regions?
These are questions politicians can sensibly ponder because these days national parks services have competition.
Private conservation groups raise money from rich philanthropists and mum-and-dad donors to buy up land across the country to establish private national parks. They came to exist on the basis that there had to be a better, more effective way to do conservation.
And these rivals view with disdain the continued reluctance of national parks services to precisely gauge whether or not they are doing a good job.
"If you're not measuring performance you're not going to perform well," says Atticus Fleming, the chief executive officer of the nation's largest private conservation group, Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC). "That's just a fundamental principal for any organisation."
Established 11 years ago, AWC today manages more than three million hectares across 23 wildlife sanctuaries around Australia. Unlike national parks services, it's a conservation-only organisation, which doesn't provide extensive tourist, educational or cultural programs.
AWC seems to operate with about the same amount of conservation funding as many other Australian national parks services.
AWC reckons it budgets about $3 annually per hectare for conservation, which is about what Tasmania and the Northern Territory spend on conservation alone, more than South Australia but less than the federal agency Parks Australia, which manages six national parks including Kakadu, Christmas and Norfolk Islands.
The Global Mail asked that nation's national parks services to estimate the amount of their total budgets spent purely on conservation. Many national parks services were reluctant to supply the figures or simply didn't know, saying that to tease the conservation component out from funds spent on tourist facilities, educational and cultural programs was impossible.
The results — such as they are — are shown in the table below.
Conservation By The Numbers
— Or Not?
Jurisdiction | Total parks Hectares | Ranger numbers | Conservation only budget | Spending per hectare |
AWC | 3m | 65-70 | $9.15m | $3.05 |
Federal Govt. | 2.12m | 103 | $15m | $7.04 |
South Australia | 19m | 87 (plus 235 support staff) | $39m | $2.05 |
Tasmania | 2.5m | 250 | $7.9m (inc. $1.5m external funding) | $3.06 |
Northern Territory | 4.6m | 127 | $16m approx. | $3.46 |
Western Australia | 6.2m* | 100* | N/A | N/A |
Queensland | 12.5m | 750 | N/A | N/A |
New South Wales | 7.08m | 1,750 | N/A | N/A |
Victoria | 4m | N/A | N/A | N/A |
* includes terrestrial and marine national parks.
NOTES ON TABLE: The Commonwealth noted that further research in its national parks was funded jointly with universities.
What is clear is that with about the same resources for conservation as are allocated to national parks, AWC has a comprehensive framework for measuring the ecological health of each of its properties.
It's been able to use that information to start producing annual scientific reports on about ten of its properties.
These provide a detailed summary of the results of their efforts to control fire, weeds and feral animals, and to boost the numbers of native plants and animals on their reserves.
Red flags in these documents indicate clearly whether their targets have not been met.
Fleming says these documents are not just glossy publications to impress AWC investors, but represent the key to their sanctuaries' impressive ecological performance.
"You could go to any business professor — look up the Harvard Business School website — and there will be so many quotes [saying] if you're not measuring performance, you're just not going to be performing well," he says. "Measuring performance means measuring outcomes," he adds.
"Are the species we are supposedly protecting being protected? Are they still there? Are their populations increasing or not? Are there more or less feral animals on the ground? Is the area of weeds increasing or decreasing? And at a more sophisticated level, are the ecological processes that drive all this still functioning?
"Because if you're not measuring, then almost certainly you are not allocating your funds on management in the right way. If you don't know whether the feral animal numbers are going up or down, if you don't know whether the threatened species populations are going up or down, you don't know where to spend your money."
For Fleming, substituting ranger surveys for this ecological work doesn't cut it.
"The only comment I would make about the questionnaire approach is, it's extremely limited in its effectiveness, because you must be measuring performance with science," he says. "There has been a trend for many public agencies to reduce their level of investment in science. And I think that is a mistake."
Both Varcoe and Barnes remain committed to their ranger surveys, even though neither was aware that Cook's research revealed up to half the answers may be wrong.
"Really?" Barnes says. "They under-estimated or over-estimated?
"Because, god bless them … the [rangers] tend to say it's worse than it is.
"[The ranger survey is] not black and white, good and bad, like a report card. For us, it's a management tool … rather than a measurement … which sounds like a cop out, but it's not."
Varcoe declares himself "not surprised" to hear of the 46 per cent mistake rate, countering that in the five years since Cook's research, Parks Victoria has implemented many of the recommendations contained in her report and that significant improvements have been made to the questionnaire process.
Neither park service has ever "ground-truthed" the rangers' answers again.
Perhaps part of the reason that the parks services declare that such intensive monitoring of park health is impossible or unnecessary, is because they simply don't have the boots on the ground to do the work, particularly in remote areas.
By contrast, freed of the requirement to provide tourism and educational services, AWC is a leaner organisation that bases 80 per cent of its staff on the ground in its remote sanctuaries — and a quarter of them are scientists.
"If you look at what's happened across northern Australia, many national parks are now not staffed," Fleming says. "And if there's no one living on these properties, it is very hard to deliver effective management.
"If you said to a pastoralists, you must manage your property, but you're not allowed to live on it, they'd laugh. It requires very active land management.
"You need people on the ground doing the fire management, doing the feral animal control, doing the weed control and doing the science. That's really the formula if you want to make a difference, whether its a national park or a private wildlife sanctuary."
For instance, Fleming says AWC thought it was running a very effective program to muster and shoot feral herbivores — donkeys, horses and buffalo — at its Wongalara property in the Top End.
But after a count of the remaining feral animals on the property showed they weren't even making a dent, AWC spent nearly $500,000 to fence and remove feral animals from around 100,000 hectares of land, creating the largest feral-herbivore-free area on mainland Australia.
By contrast, at present NSW only routinely collects figures on how many feral animals are removed from its parks, not on how many are left.
"It doesn't matter if you're taking off 1,000 or 10,000," Fleming says. "It's how many [are] left that really matters. So you've got to measure, but you've got to measure the right things."
Clearing out feral herbivores from another of its sanctuaries in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has allowed AWC to record a doubling of small animal numbers on that property, defying the trend across the Top End, where even Kakadu National Park has seen a steep decline in small-mammal populations.
Perhaps the best evidence to support the case for having staff on the ground is AWC's tremendous success in protecting bilbies at its property in south-western NSW.
(Bilbies are a type of bandicoot much loved in Australia, where their fans have long proposed them as an indigenous alternative to the Easter bunny — perhaps reflecting dark feelings about plagues of the introduced rabbit.)
Every two days, AWC rangers patrol an electrified fence around an 8,000-hectare area, which keeps 2,000-plus bilbies and other endangered mammals in, and the feral cats and foxes out.
Compare that with the great bilby massacre which occurred at the Currawinya National Park on the NSW-Queensland border.
After years of fundraising, half a million dollars was scraped together to build a feral-proof enclosure. But heavy rains over the past few years must have rusted the fence.
When horrified researchers visited the park earlier this year, they found no bilbies inside the fence, just a few dozen well-fed feral cats.
They estimated the cats had been inside the "predator-proof" enclosure for about year — a whole year.
It's hardly surprising then, that in the vast frontier state of Western Australia, the state government has decided that if AWC has staff on the ground in remote locations, it will put them to work.
In 2007, in an unprecedented move, it contracted out fire management services over between four and five million hectares of the Kimberley to the private conservation group. This would ordinarily have been the work of government agencies.
AWC's resident staff, working with local indigenous communities and pastoralists, were judged by the government to be best placed to conduct nimble, well-timed burn offs early in the dry season.
Such controlled burn-offs are essential to preventing the apocalyptic fires later in the dry season, which can burn out a million square kilometres of this ancient landscape at a time, wiping out the food supply for vulnerable native birds and small mammals.
This so-called EcoFire program could herald a new era in the management of Australia's protected areas.
Sarah Legge/Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
In a letter published in an AWC newsletter, Premier Colin Barnett described the arrangement as "ground breaking", saying that in the vast Kimberley region in the southwest of his state "the challenges are too great for government alone.
"It's time to see if there isn't a better way of delivering conservation in Australia," the AWC's Fleming says.
"I wouldn't say we're best placed to do everything. But at the moment, for national parks, it's been purely delivery by government. And particularly in remote areas, there will sometimes be organisations other than government that can deliver more for the available money.
"That might be a private conservation organisation like AWC, an indigenous ranger group, in some cases maybe a pastoralist may be able to deliver more for available funds. Such outsourcing would be overseen by government, which would set clear, measurable targets for the conservation work.
"We have the worst mammal extinction rate in the world," Fleming says. "We have a couple of thousand species on the threatened-species list. So all the indicators nationally are heading in the wrong direction.
"We have a narrow window, maybe five or 10 years, to really turn that around. So we've got to get smarter and better at the way we do that, in a hurry."
Correction: The published text has been amended from the original to reflect that Dr. Carly Cook's field work to "ground-truth" ranger surveys covered national parks in New South Wales only and did not extend to Victoria as originally stated. Her final thesis however refers to the accuracy of ranger surveys in both New South Wales and Victoria.
The story has also been clarified to ensure that readers understand clearly which survey question it was that 46% of NSW national park rangers in the sample group got wrong.
In the reporting of this story, the author became aware that Graeme Wood, The Global Mail's philanthropic founder, also contributes funds to Australian Wildlife Conservancy.


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This would only be true if businesses had no clue about either how much they pay their top executives or their ordinary workers. While it certainly seems to be the case that the top management of many corporations is not very competent, it is difficult that so many people earning 7 and 8 figure salaries could be that incompetent.
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They were using it. In fact, ownership wasn't thought of then. They were, in effect, Gypsies or Roamers who killed off others. They killed them off -- that's what happened back then in the 1300s and it stayed this way, with them not wanting nor having any responsibility for this land, but just using it which is still how it is today with natives.
The Brits brought legalities of ownership once they started claiming land, but the natives didn't care one iota about such. They also signed treaties with this mindset.
The Brits didn't have to have treaties once claiming the land started. On top of all this, the people calling themselves Native today believe animals and spirits are the owners of the land and they did not make the animals, either. They animals were here before anyone. They have no ancestry, ownership or right to the land, nor to the animals, either. The treaties are null and void.


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First responders avoided a major incident by massive gas leak in LaFayette Wednesday night.
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Squashing Bugs: The Many Layered Approach to Mobile App Testing. You are almost there.
The finish line is so close you can taste the champagne toast that comes with victory and a job well done. But ... but, it is just not working. [Poll] Do Developers Think Consumers Like Push Notifications? Easy, instant push notifications are a phenomenon of modern mobile technology.
They deliver news, app updates, requests and prompts to users to complete an action. Mobile developers, marketers and advertisers all see push notifications as a key way to reach an audience at the most personal level: straight into their pockets. This level of personal interaction is precisely what makes consumers not entirely trust push notifications. The Nokia Lumia 900 Will Be the Key to Driving Developer Interest in Windows Phone. The Windows Phone Marketplace is a sad, sorry place.
It is a land of copycat games, worn-out titles and a plethora of apps that border on outright spam. Since the end of 2011, it has grown from about 40,000 apps to nearly 70,000, but any subjective analysis of those new apps would show that almost all of them are of poor quality. Top publishers have either abandoned Windows Phone or just do not care. Electronic Arts Sees Four Types of Advertising Emerging in Social Game - Tricia Duryee. As it turns out, Electronic Arts' most popular game on Facebook, The Sims Social, is a perfect candidate for in-game advertising.
"It lends itself well with brands," said Dave Madden, EA's SVP of global media solutions. "Across The Sims Social, there's nutrition, hygiene and careers." After all, it's much harder to work a bottle of shampoo into a game that's set in the forest or at a poker table. But when a game is about sleeping, eating microwave dinners or taking showers, that sort of product placement becomes much easier. Google Edges Closer to Facebook as US Display Advertising Becomes Two-Horse Race.
Global ad revenues at Facebook to reach $6.1 billion in 2012 NEW YORK, NY (February 22, 2012)—Facebook passed Yahoo!
Last year to become the top display advertising seller in the US, but the company's lead may be short-lived. Google's display business is growing faster than anticipated—and is set to surpass Facebook's next year, according to a new forecast by eMarketer. Display Advertising Revenues:


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Top Cow's "Last Mortal" Lives Forever
Who wants to live forever? Writers Filip Sablik and John Mahoney sat down with CBR News to talk about their new Top Cow/Minotaur Press series "Last Mortal" and the downside of everlasting life.
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This is a re-wind post from a couple of years ago. Still the same premise. We are very lucky to live in this country and be free. We can thank our founding fathers for designing and drafting our Declaration and the men and women in the military whom give there all to insure we are safe. God Bless America. The blogs are fun and I hope you have a wonderful July Fourth,2014.
Come on, can you believe we are now into the second half of 2012? This is incredible to me. I think each year seems to fly by faster. This is a special holiday for a number of reasons. Mostly, I like this day because it is a patriotic reminder of our individual free will and freedom. No place on earth offers this to all men and women. United States of America.
Last year HuesandCues had fun with our July 4th post. We did a two part series. One on home interiors and another on food in red, white and blue. Check them out!
Take Two: Fourth of July, Part I
Take Two:Fourth of July,Part II
I am loving some of these images and ideas for a festive day with plenty of friends and family.
Lucky for us the beach is always a first option and the most relaxing and fun way to spend a the day in Southern California. The people watching is amazing!!!
Happy Independence Day 2012!!!
The Maldives, I think this is exactly what I need while we rethink the H&C's approach. So busy this year. I miss you but it is a formidable undertaking keeping the blog on a roll and it is time to rethink our "mission". Be back soon all revived and renewed. Have a wonderful weekend.
This is still one of my favorite experiences and a fun post,too. Hard to believe it was two years ago. Easter is a special time of year and I love it. We still have Peeps parties. It's part of Spring.
I love over the top, intricate tile or stone for small powder rooms and baths. The use of highly dramatic color and shine adds breadth and depth to even the smallest of spaces. I am currently in the throes of redoing a powder room and though the size is small the room is tall. Ten feet. What's so great is the opportunity for spectacular lighting along with specially appointed tiles or a incredible slab. I think there are great ideas in these images I have collected on my Pinterest board, and though I probably won't be using a gorgeous slab on the walls for this project, I do love the idea. There are so many custom appointments for the perfectly chic bath, it is hard to narrow down the choices. I think that's all part of the fun in the design. Don't you?
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The Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) Board violated state law on May 8 when a quorum of the WAPS board met in a joint session with Bluffview Montessori School Board members without properly notifying members of the public as required by statute.
The Minnesota Open Meeting Law (OML) requires that a government body provide public notice for meetings. A special meeting one that occurs outside of the normal meeting time and/or location requires that the government body send notice of the meeting to all who have requested to be notified.
The May 8 meeting was held outside of the WAPS board regular meeting day and location, but special meeting notice was not provided to the Winona Post. A full quorum of the board, including board members Brian Zeller, Ben Baratto, Steve Schild, and Jeanne Nelson attended the meeting.
According to the meeting minutes, the two boards discussed the Bluffview Montessori waiting list for kindergarten, its new financial management company, and the potential for WAPS to switch to a modified school calendar. Bluffview Montessori uses WAPS bus services, and WAPS superintendent Scott Hannon said he hoped all schools would support the plan, according to the meeting minutes.
The two boards also reportedly discussed a former Bluffview Montessori substitute teacher who has been accused of molesting students in another district. "Things were already addressed prior to the situation hitting the newspapers," the meeting minutes read.
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Apple has unveiled a new iMac. The machine features Intel's third-generation quad-core processors, Nvidia graphics and an new storage option called Fusion Drive.
The new iMac comes in an aluminum and glass enclosure with up to 40% less volume than its predecessor and an edge that measures just 5mm thin, Apple said.
The new iMac also features a reengineered display that reduces reflection by 75% while maintaining its color and contrast, according to the vendor. In the new design, the cover glass is fully laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a high-precision plasma deposition process. Every iMac display is individually color calibrated using a spectroradiometer.
The new iMac features third-generation quad-core Intel Core i5 processors that can be upgraded to Core i7. The latest Nvidia GeForce graphics processors deliver up to 60% faster performance for advanced gaming and graphics intensive apps, Apple said. Every new iMac now comes standard with 8GB of 1600MHz memory and a 1TB hard drive, and customers can choose to configure their iMac with up to 32GB of memory and a new 3TB hard drive, or 768GB of flash storage.
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« on: April 04, 2014, 06:45:02 PM »stop siding with him and kissing his ass.He has helped me many times with advice on many subjects.... what have you done for me?
I didn't realize you felt such hostility towards me. Do I have to do things for you in order to be treated with common decency? I don't recall disrespecting you, your opinions, or your photography. Sorry if you feel that way.
I feel no hostility towards you and I enjoy reading many of your posts and comments too.
I just wish you and Jrista wouldn't fight.. it detracts from everyone.
Sure seems that way to me, but you and him are old buddies, I guess I can understand that. There are some people that will never get along. I respect some of the work he does, and some of his knowledge, but I don't respect his hatred, anger, immaturity, antagonism, and self righteousness...he is deluded where I am concerned. He keeps claiming I don't know him. I say the same, he doesn't know me. All we know is what we read on here, and from day one (over a year ago) he has been extremely hostile and insulting to me...sending me insulting private messages. Nobody is perfect though. But I will not be called a small and weak man, and then have someone else portray me as the instigator in that exchange (as you did), because I was not. He started the name calling, and he got away with it. The moderators like him, they don't like me. I hope you can understand that. I certainly know you would not tolerate it, if it were directed at you. I refuse to be insulted for simply sharing my own experiences, by someone who has no experience with a product, yet types in caps as if to emphasize his pronouncements as "factual", and anyone who disagrees, is somehow in error. John Rista is not a god.


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Field Trip - Yossi Milo Gallery
If you are going to be in or around the New York City area over the next month as I am, I recommend taking a trip down to Chelsea to view the exhibition of artist Mike Brodie's powerful work documenting a portion of America's disparate youth as they travel cross country via freight train. The exhibition is titled A Period of Juvenile Prosperity and is currently being shown at the Yossi Milo Gallery. The wonderful color photography on display is the result of Brodie's decade-long quest to examine this unique cross-section of the American culture by following in their soot-covered foot steps.
Please find the press release and pertinent information about the exhibit below:
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to present A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, an exhibition of color photographs by Mike Brodie, aka The Polaroid Kidd. The exhibition opens on Thursday, March 7 and will be on view through Saturday, April 6. An artist's reception and book signing of his new monograph, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, published by Twin Palms, will be held on Thursday, March 7 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. This will be the artist's first exhibition with the gallery and is concurrent with an exhibition of Brodie's work at M+B Gallery in Los Angeles from March 16 – May 11, 2013.
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity depicts the gritty youth subculture of freight train hoppers and squatters. From 2004 - 2009, Brodie created a prolific body of work which introduces viewers to an alternative lifestyle based on the constant movement of train travel across America. The gallery will present 30 photographs from Brodie's series.
Brodie began traveling the railways in 2002 at the age of 17. Unannounced, he left his house with only a few personal belongings. Brodie returned home days later, infatuated with train-hopping culture. "Two weeks later I was gone...this was it, I was riding my very first freight train. And soon, what would begin as mere natural curiosity and self-discovery would evolve into a casting call of sorts."
Brodie began to photograph his travels in 2004 when he acquired an old Polaroid camera. "A friend gave me a Polaroid camera I found on the back seat of her car. I took a photo of the handlebars of my BMX bike and it looked incredible, so I kept taking pictures, it was that simple." From 2004-2006, Brodie shot exclusively on Polaroid film, earning him the moniker the Polaroid Kidd; a name he would tag on box cars and walls. From 2006 - 2009, Brodie switched to 35mm film. During this five-year span, Brodie rode over 50,000 miles through 46 states documenting the people and places he encountered along the way. "I know almost everyone I shoot," Brodie states, "three of the women in the book are ex-girlfriends and a couple of the guys...are best friends." Brodie captures his companions through intimate portraits set against ever-changing landscapes. His photographs capture the raw reality of his travels: the dirt, the blood, the struggles and, ultimately, a community of travelers who share the challenges and triumphs of life on the road.
In Brodie's images, the world appears warmly colored, slightly faded, and filled with adventure. His travel photographs encapsulate a period of youthful exuberance and unbridled freedom. Although Brodie was never trained, his photographs exemplify a keen eye for composition and follow in the footsteps of artists Robert Frank, William Eggleston and Nan Goldin. His images visualize modern versions of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn or Jack Kerouac's On the Road, while also reflecting symbols of a passing era in American culture that include trains, punk aesthetics and Polaroid cameras.
Mike Brodie won the Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers in 2008. Brodie has been included in exhibitions at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA and the Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA. The artist's work is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Brodie was born in Arizona in 1985 and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
• What: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
• When: March 7–April 6, 2013
• Where: 245 Tenth Avenue (between 24th & 25th St.) New York, NY 10001
• Admission: Free
• Museum hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10am–6pm
• Info: Call 212-414-0370 or email email@example.com
To see more of the images that will be on display, go to the Mike Brodie artist profile on the Yossi Milo Gallery site. To learn more about Mike Brodie's incredible adventure, read the Dailymail UK article.
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