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Along with a few other independent booksellers and librarians, Karl Pohrt—owner of the amazing Shaman Drum Bookshop in China for the Beijing Book Fair, where he'll be giving this speech on independent bookselling in America.
Additionally, he's writing a daily blog about the trip, which we'll be running here. Click here for the January 7th entry, here for the one from January 8th, here for the one from January 9th, and here for the one from January 10th.
January 11, 2008
" 'Exchange information.' . . . This is of great importance in achieving a common language."—Mao Zedong
I rally during the night, which is a good thing since today is Showtime for the American "Gang of Five." We're all scheduled to give presentations at a Booksellers Forum. Around one hundred people have paid 500RMB each ($35.95 U.S.) to hear us speak.
After an hour long ride across Beijing, we emerge from the minibus into a hotel lobby dominated by a huge Christmas tree and a large banner that says Warm Welcome to Western Booksellers. I feel just like a movie star again. I'd like to hang this banner inside the entrance of my home, so it would be the first thing I'd see when I got back from work every day.
I'm up first. There are two translators working at the back of the large room and everyone has earphones, which gives the whole event a certain gravitas it otherwise might not have. My talk is well received.
What follows are my remarks to the Chinese booksellers. I thought about not including this text, recalling Chairman Mao's excellent advice: "Talks, speeches, articles and resolutions should all be concise and to the point."
However, at another point he urges people to: "Say all you know and say it without reserve."
[Ed. Note: This is the same speech that we ran last week and which is available here. It's definitely worth reading—and worth reposting—but to avoid detracting from the rest of Karl's post, I'm just going to leave it at this for now.]
We do a short power point show with photographs of each of our stores to give folks here some way to contextualize us.
Allison Hill is up next, and she speaks on the subject of the radical changes brought about by the digital revolution. She warns our audience that the erosion of traditional bookselling seems inevitable, and that we've learned very little about how to prepare for what might happen in the future. We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.
Allison sees the survival of independent bookstores as dependent on our ability to adapt, and she credits the survival of Vromans, the 114 year-old store she manages, to its ability to embrace change while at the same time maintaining a steadfast commitment to reading.
Sarah McNally sets up what she's going to do by asking the audience how independent booksellers can compete with chain stores and Amazon, which she calls "the best bookstore ever, with the most books and discounts on top of that."
Sarah's solution is to work at making her store look better than the chain stores. "I try to make books irresistible," she tells us. She shows a number of slides of photos taken inside her store and talks about balanced and beautiful displays.
Sarah ends with a call to arms: "There is no other business that can do what we do for our societies. Globally it is our responsibility to keep bookstores alive in our communities."
Xue Ye, our Master of Ceremonies today, has scheduled a Mr. Shi, who owns six bookstores in different Chinese cities, to respond to Allison & Sarah's remarks.
Mr. Shi begins reasonably enough by stating that none of us—Americans and Chinese—have the answers regarding how to compete. His voice rises as he continues to speak, and it appears to me that he is becoming increasingly angry. Later in the day I realize that this may be a regional rhetorical style, but at that moment it is very disconcerting. Both Allison and Sarah remain incredibly poised. He ends by stating that "Chinese people are modest. We think we need to learn from the West, but we shouldn't look to our foreign counterparts for solutions." This gets a wild response from the audience. It is the only moment when people applaud spontaneously.
I don't understand what has just happened. Is this an appeal to Chinese nationalism? What is the real subtext here? Afterwards, someone tells me that Mr. Shi's remarks were a veiled criticism of the government for not helping independent booksellers, but it could be that the person telling me this is just being polite.
After lunch, Paul Yamazaki tells our audience the story of City Lights Bookstore. He describes the store as a community of resistance. "It's not enough to just do a bookshop," Paul says. From the very beginning City Lights was involved in political activity, and the store continues this tradition of community building today. He pointedly adds, "Beijing bookstores feel like City Lights did back in the early days."
Paul describes booksellers as curators of contemporary literature, and he expands on this idea by citing the example of City Lights Books, which publishes 10 to 14 new titles a year.
Rick Simonson tells the story of Elliott Bay Bookstore by concentrating on its ups and downs over the years. He tells people Elliott Bay is in Seattle, the home of Amazon.com. The store rebounded from its customer base migrating to Amazon by concentrating on customer service, backlist, and author events. Everyone at Elliott Bay works on the sales floor.
Barbara Genco, Director of Collection Development at the Brooklyn Public Library, ends the American portion of the program by addressing the topic of the role booksellers play in the community. She does an excellent job of summing up what we've all said. "Adaptability, independence and the issue of how to be unique are the key factors for your survival," she tells the Chinese booksellers. "China is like City Lights. The more independent you are, the more likely it is you will survive."
Our British counterparts take it from here. Sheryl Shurville, owner of the Chorleywood Bookshop, and Patrick Neale, owner of Jaffe and Neale Bookshop in Chipping Norton, feel their success is due to being rooted in their respective communities. Ron Johns, who owns three bookshops and a small publishing firm (and is a provocateur at heart), suggests that Chinese booksellers ask their government to ban Amazon.
At the end of the day, Xue Ye, our Master of Ceremonies, asks everyone in the room to make brief remarks about what they are taking away from today's sessions. I'm not sure if this is the way most meetings end here and if everyone just automatically expects to do this, but it is very sweet. People's comments seem deeply earnest and sincere.
Xue Ye asks people at the back of the room to begin, and by the time we get to the front of the room, which is where the speakers sit, I fear I'm becoming unhinged. I'm afraid I might weep uncontrollably when it comes my turn to speak. It's a combination of exhaustion from jet lag and my reaction to the genuinely moving comments I'm hearing— I've always been a complete sucker for the rhetoric of international fraternity and solidarity. However, at the last moment I get a grip. I retain my dignity. At the same time, I try to communicate what an extraordinary experience this is for us.
Rick bravely attempts to speak a sentence in Chinese. This is not entirely successful, but everyone in the room gets into the spirit of it anyway.
Following the Forum, we go to a restaurant famous in Beijing for its roast duck. Madame Ou Hong, editor-in-chief of China Publishing Today, and her entourage join us, Xue Ye offers a number of "bottoms up" toasts at dinner (getting pretty toasted in the process) and everyone has a terrific time.
Pedro Zarraluki's The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza García) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: "This is the story of how. . .
There are plenty of reasons you can fail to find the rhythm of a book. Sometimes it's a matter of discarding initial assumptions or impressions, sometimes of resetting oneself. Zigmunds Skujiņš's Flesh-Coloured Dominoes was a defining experience in the necessity. . .
In a culture that privileges prose, reviewing poetry is fairly pointless. And I've long since stopped caring about what the world reads and dropped the crusade to get Americans to read more poems. Part of the fault, as I've suggested. . .
I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years, Claudio Viberti, is just that—a shy internist who lives in. . .
The last five days of the eleventh-century Icelandic politician, writer of sagas, and famous murder victim Snorri Sturleleson (the Norwegian spelling, Snorre, is preserved in the book) make up Thorvald Steen's most recently translated historical fiction, The Little Horse. Murdered. . .
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-Élysées. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre's novel, Guys Like Me, we're shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying. . .
One hundred pages into Birth of a Bridge, the prize-winning novel from French writer Maylis de Kerangal, the narrator describes how starting in November, birds come to nest in the wetlands of the fictional city of Coca, California, for three. . .
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map. . .
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin. . .
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Recent answers to Website not displaying correctlyhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9382182013-01-22T14:58:46-08:00A good place to ask advice about web development is at the MozillaZine "Web Development/Standards Ev2013-01-22T14:58:46-08:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-400690
A good place to ask advice about web development is at the MozillaZine "Web Development/Standards Evangelism" forum.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25

The helpers at that forum are more knowledgeable about web development issues.
 You need to register at the MozillaZine forum site in order to post at that forum.

You can check the Error Console or the Web Console for CSS errors.

This can be caused by a missing clear rule (clear:both) and floating content.
Hello, sorry for a 3 month bump but I have the same problem as the OP. This is how my website displa2013-01-22T05:29:30-08:00Polshevikhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-400465
Hello, sorry for a 3 month bump but I have the same problem as the OP.

This is how my website displays on any other browser: http://puu.sh/1R3XL And this is how it appears in Firefox(many users have complained about the problem): http://puu.sh/1R3Ye

Notice that all the content of the page has gone to the right for some reason. I have tried the Mozilla.org troubleshoot, but nothing really worked there. I also thought that the problem was in the style.css file, but I can't figure out what exact place the problem was in.
You're welcome. Firefox doesn't always recover gracefully from errors in a CSS file and reads the en2012-09-28T15:28:00-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-371326
You're welcome.

Firefox doesn't always recover gracefully from errors in a CSS file and reads the entire file till the end and that causes all CSS rules after the error not to get applied.

Firefox comes with some very powerful developments tools.

In this case the Web Console (Web Developer > Web Console;Ctrl+Shift+K) showed me the error and the style editor allowed me to make the change to check if it worked.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Page_Inspector

awesome, that was it. I am so greatful you figuring that out. Out of curiosity though, why did this 2012-09-28T15:15:46-07:00jennigjehttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-371319
awesome, that was it. I am so greatful you figuring that out. Out of curiosity though, why did this only happen on firefox? as in safari and chrome the pages still looked fine.
The errors are caused by an error with quotes in the style.css file at line number 1528 that causes 2012-09-27T23:27:30-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-371178
The errors are caused by an error with quotes in the style.css file at line number 1528 that causes Firefox to skip the rest of the file.

.infobox p { background: url(') no-repeat 15px center; }

Should be:

.infobox p { background: url('') no-repeat 15px center; }
HI there, Just followed your steps, but it has not changed the issue. Thanks for trying to me me ou2012-09-27T19:44:13-07:00jennigjehttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-371160
HI there,

Just followed your steps, but it has not changed the issue. Thanks for trying to me me out with this one though. I really appeciate it.

See screenshots attached...

1st - images dont align 2nd - no bullet points show on page
Can you attach a screenshot? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot https://support.mozilla.org/kb2012-09-27T19:36:55-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938218#answer-371158
Can you attach a screenshot?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.

Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.

Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.

Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)

Press "Command + Shift + R" (MAC)

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their colors and that you haven't enabled High Contrast in the Accessibility settings.

Firefox > Preferences > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"

See also:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_look_wrong

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Options+window+-+Content+panel

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Automated Testing News: Link Round-UpJanuary 23rd, 2015 by Amber Kaplan
QTP/UFT VS Selenium [WEBINAR]January 21st, 2015 by Amber Kaplan
Modern testing practices have shifted dramatically in recent years. As open source tools such as Selenium have begun to be accepted and incorporated into the enterprise testing landscape, proprietary tools like HP's QTP/UFT have begun to be transitioned out in many cases. While there are many benefits to using a tool like Selenium (for example, it's maximized when used as an automated testing tool, works with every browser, and plays nicely with all major computer languages and frameworks), the most compelling case to make the transition is the developer and QA time saved.
Join us for our next webinar, QTP/UFT VS Selenium, featuring Tarun Lalwani, QTP Expert and author of QuickTest Professional Unplugged. Hear about how we generated an 80% execution time savings by migrating client's test suite from QTP to Selenium. We will also answer following questions:
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Click HERE to register for our next webinar on Wednesday, January 28th, 2015, at 10:00am PST.
A live Q&A will follow at the end of the presentation.
Note: This is not a "how to" or "technology session" on Selenium or QTP. This is session is focused on giving you a understanding whether Selenium is right for you or not.
Don't Miss This Appium Workshop At Mobile+Web DevCon On February 3 [Click For Discount Code]January 19th, 2015 by Amber Kaplan
- An overview of the tools available for writing tests in JavaScript, although you should note that with Appium you can test native, hybrid, and mobile web apps in any coding language and with any test framework.
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- Learn how to execute your tests against the cloud of devices at Sauce Labs.
- Discover the value of automated testing, including increased reliability of your applications as well as how to tune performance on different platforms.
Vote To Help Appium Win A DeveloperWeek AwardJanuary 9th, 2015 by Amber Kaplan
Crowd voting for DeveloperWeek awards is open and will continue through January 15th. Appium was thrown into to the mix as a mobile developer tool of choice, so we'd love your help with voting! Appium is an open source, cross-platform mobile automated testing tool that was developed by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source contributors.
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Cross-Browser Layout Testing With Galen Framework And Sauce LabsJanuary 8th, 2015 by Amber Kaplan
Every web developer faces this problem once the website is implemented: cross-browser layout testing. This is a very annoying task as you have to look at your website on a lot of different browsers. We used to perform a manual check on all these browsers at the end of website development, and as a result we get some layout issues and have to find hacks to fix these deffects. But what if we could automate layout testing of the website and perform it always in all major browsers? Imagine you follow a TDD technique in your front-end development and you want to have an early feedback on layout issues. To solve this problem you could have a look at Galen Framework.
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In this article I would like to show you how to write a basic layout test and run it in the SauceLabs cloud. SauceLabs offers various platforms and browsers and even allows you to choose browser versions. Lets take the major browsers like: Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari on Mac. The website under test will be http://testapp.galenframework.com.
7 Tips For Maximizing Your Sauce ExperienceJanuary 6th, 2015 by lauren nguyen
Here at Sauce, we're dedicated to helping teams bring quality applications to market faster and more cost-effectively. Our customers use Sauce in a variety of ways based on their development and deployment processes and setups, but there are a few practices that are common to a significant number of our users who run automated tests. We'll talk about what 7 of these best practices are and their benefits. Read the rest of this entry »
We Automated 12 Android Phones To Sing 'Appy Holidays To You [VIDEO]December 23rd, 2014 by Amber Kaplan
With Holiday Season and the close of the fiscal year approaching, we brought in all of our remote workers to spend some time together. We had the obligatory corporate holiday party, a late-night LAN party, and countless, invaluable meetings that laid the foundation for software development projects in the new year.
Our VP of Engineering also arranged our first hackathon, in which we submitted ideas for programming projects that were tangentially related to our business. To participate, we were broken into teams and powered through our ideas and execution over two days.
Some of our developers have been interacting with Android phones, but haven't had a chance to play with them. Thus, I ended up on a team of three with the goal of getting multiple Android devices to sing in harmony.
We're happy to share the result of our efforts with this cheerful holiday video.
See the original video here. Follow the conversation on Reddit here and here and on HackerNews here.
So, how does it work?
We went with a pretty quick-and-dirty approach, seeing as this was a two-day event. Having multiple devices sync musical notes in realtime was definitely out of the question, so we opted for seeing if we could coordinate the phones to begin playing their individuals parts of a song at the same time.
Android devices are finicky and difficult to coordinate, many of their operations take varying amounts of time, even on identical devices. Simply pushing a song to each of them and telling them to play, results in some phones playing within a second while others can be up to four seconds behind.
Here's what we did:
@classam wrote a python script which takes any MIDI file and distributes its separate instrumental parts onto an arbitrary number of tracks. It's pretty neat: specify just two tracks, and half the parts of the song will be played on one track, and half on the other. If you specify more tracks than available parts, it copies the more significant parts onto the leftover tracks so every phone will feel like it's a valued member of the choir.
I wrote an Android app which runs on the phones. The app runs on each phone and listens on a socket. When it gets the 'GO' command over the USB cable, it plays the music file it's been given. It also displays a musical visualization of the sound it's playing so you can match up the phones to the sounds you hear.
@etmillin wrote a javascript program which finds all the Android devices connected to a computer, gets a connection to the song App running on each one, and sends the 'GO' command to all of them at once.
When you glue our three pieces together, the following happens:
- A MIDI song gets broken into parts, one for each phone
- The parts of the song get uploaded, one to each phone
- The song-playing app gets started on all the phones
- The 'GO' command gets sent to all the phones at once
Now they all play together!
Other hackathon projects included experimenting with different types of network messaging solutions, devOps management tools, ECMAscript7, contributing to open source projects like Travis CI, and building hardware which displays the state of our continuous integration build.
Be warned, we didn't polish the code for this blog post but you can find it on github: https://github.com/classam/5rat
-Jonah Stiennon, Ecosystems, Sauce Labs
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Mobile Testing Talk: What's New With Appium [RECAP]December 19th, 2014 by Amber Kaplan
Thanks for joining us last week for our latest webinar, Mobile Testing Talk: What's New With Appium, which featured Jonathan Lipps, the Chief Architect for the Appium Project.
To recap, Jonathan gave listeners a tour of Appium version 1.3.x, including the stability improvements and features the team has added since the Appium 1.0 release back in May of 2014. He also touched on the following:
- Appium 1.3.x release features and improvements
- New platforms
- Better hybrid support
- Examples of maturing Appium clients & more
We had great feedback on the content and an influx of interesting questions that got addressed in the Q&A at the end.
Missed the webinar, need to hear it again, or want share it with your team? Check out the slides below Read the rest of this entry »
Application Security Testing Gets Tasty With Sauce Labs And NT OBJECTivesDecember 15th, 2014 by Amber Kaplan
Finally, a win-win-win for development, QA, and security! If your development team is looking for easier ways to incorporate security earlier in a way that's simple, easy and that your team to understand, we may have a solution for you. Security defects are like any other defect. Finding them early saves money and time. There are tools that execute security tests for security professionals – like NT OBJECTives' NTOSpider. NTOSpider can use the application knowledge defined Selenium scripts to execute a better, more comprehensive security test on an application. Read the rest of this entry »
Weekend Reading: Becoming The Leader You Aspire To Be [Re-Blog]December 12th, 2014 by Amber Kaplan
Congrats to our VP of Engineering, Adam Christian! His Velocity Conference presentation, "The Black Magic of Leadership," was featured on the Slideshare blog as one of three best leadership decks. Check out the original post and presentations here or below. Read the rest of this entry »


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Clearly not all non-sulfate shampoos are the same. The "coconut-derived" detergents in this are different than the sulfate alternatives in my other shampoos and it turns out they are the same as the ones in my natural all-purpose household cleaner! Just because they sound natural doesn't mean they aren't harsh!
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Trying to avoid a repeat of the last market disaster sows the seeds for the next one.
The collapse of large growth companies after the tech bubble burst in 2000 led to strong leadership by small-cap value stocks for many years. And the market plunge in 2008 has led to investors' crowding into a number of "safe" trades, such as high-dividend stocks, Treasury bonds and passive equity strategies.
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The Two Henrys is part of the Eating Inn brand offering superb value for money every day in very comfortable surroundings. The bar area has a seating area ideal for relaxing and watching the world go by. There is also booth seating with TV screens in them to keep the kids entertained. The Two Henrys welcomes families and has a range of menus to cater for all ages and tastes, with regular food offers and daily specials. The Two Henrys always works hard to attract customers who want a top quality meal and our aim is to not disappoint.
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We offer full table service in the restaurant, or pop in to the bar area for a drink and something to eat. Wherever you are, you can look forward to a comfy setting in which to enjoy the great food, cask ales and fine wines we have on offer.
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The Bizarre Life and Troubling Death of DarkSide
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Grbavica is set in the eponymous Sarajevo neighborhood that was formerly a Serbian internment camp and now houses a large concentration of women who subsist on slim government handouts and bitter memories. The word grbavica also means "woman with a hump," an evocative image that Zbanic harnesses to symbolize the burden carried by Esma, a careworn, middle-aged single mother played with matter-of-fact directness by Mirjana Karanovic, a veteran star of the films of Bosnian director Emir Kusturica. Notwithstanding her sad brown eyes, the tone is far from lugubrious. We see Esma giggling at a local women's center, then rough-housing happily on her living room floor with her 12-year-old daughter Sara (played by the enchanting sprite Luna Mijovic). At first the movie plays its cards close to its chest: When Sara playfully pins her mother's hands to the floor and she suddenly stiffens in pain and grows agitated, it seems as though we're in for a cancer weepy. In fact there's a long-held secret, masked by a tacitly agreed upon fiction about the identity of Sara's missing father, that gnaws away at this loving but scrappy mother-daughter intimacy, driving them both to the point of crisis.
While Sara ratchets up the risky behavior with a wild boy and a gun, Esma, in an effort to make extra money to finance her daughter's class trip, wears herself out in two jobs that hold up a mirror not just to her plight, but that of a society disfigured by its brutal wars. By day she works in a shoe factory, sustained by its all-female workforce united in common suffering. By night she serves drinks in a bar whose masculine sexual vibe, hitched to openly condoned violence, reduces her to a tangle of pain and rage.
Grbavica is neither formally nor intellectually a sophisticated work. Its politics come with a very small p, and Zbanic's youthful faith in the notion that the truth shall set you free verges on the reductive when applied to a country still reeling from the use of sex as a tool of political domination. At times her characters can barely breathe without giving voice to wider social conflicts. Straining plausibility, Esma strikes up a tentative romance with, of all things, a sensitive hit man. But Grbavica is a womanly movie in the best sense: Zbanic has a deeply feminine sense of how crisis gets filtered through the domesticity of daily life. She is no wuss, though: Before we hear the two final sounds, a keening voice of despair followed by the hopeful trill of a bus full of schoolchildren going on vacation, there comes a shattering confession of maternal love and hatred, the legacy of a generation of women who, day after day, must carry their humps on their backs, and shrug them off in the name of the future.
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The company is very family oriented, employee friendly, and customer driven. There is a strong dedication to the quality and integrity of all the endeavors.Cons
While opportunity for advancement is available, the tight knit corporate structure can be difficult to break in to. Pay and benefits also keep employees left wanting.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Minor adjustments in compensation and leadership development could spring this company from the number three roofing contractor in the nation to the number one building envelope contractor.Recommends
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Dr. Nicholas J. Cassisi, MD
- 1600 SW Archer Rd
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- (352) 265-8989
Dr. Nicholas J. Cassisi graduated from the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine in 1965. He works in Gainesville, FL and 1 other location and specializes in Otolaryngology. Dr. Cassisi is affiliated with UF Health Shands Hospital.
Gender: Male
Languages Spoken: English
Medical School: University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine; Graduated 1965
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The IEA enables innovation through a wide range of international Energy Technology Initiatives, or ETIs1. Through the ETIs, more than 6,000 experts from over 50 countries work together to accelerate advances in energy technologies.
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New from the Clean Coal Centre in 2015, policy notes offer one page of analysis explaining the wider implications of the conclusions of their reports, helping put the findings in context. Available for free download here.
The next Clean Coal Centre webinar on microalgae removal of CO2 from flue gas will take place on 22 April 2015, 13h CET. If you are unable to attend the event live it can be downloaded any time after the event from the webinar page here.
Presentations from two recent workshops on Unconventional Resource Technology and Offshore Safety Technology are now available on the Gas and Oil Technologies initiative website.
Organised by the Clean Coal Centre and the Central Mining Institute of Poland, this four-day event will take place in Krakow, Poland from 17-21 May 2015. The call for papers opens 1 September and registration will be possible from January 2015. More...
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5th Annual Fout/Price Memorial Car Show
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The love of my life surprised me with this romantic get away! November 4th we celebrated our 1 year anniversary, and this weekend was another wonderful weekend filled with laughter, love, cuddling, relaxing memories . If you did not sign up for the wine snob class we recommend you doing so, it was a lot of fun and you go away a little tipsy, yet knowledge about wines. The food and Hideaway staff was all great as well. We definitely will be coming back in the future. James&Rachel McCaulley - Worthington, Ohio " "


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Cricklewood Green (1970)
|Artist: Ten Years After
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Format: CD
Manufacturer: Collectables Records
Sku: 205633836
Release Date: 9/25/2007
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Sugar the Road ~ Ten Years After
2. Working On the Road ~ Ten Years After
3. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain ~ Ten Years After
4. Year 3, 000 Blues ~ Ten Years After
5. Me and My Baby ~ Ten Years After
6. Love Like a Man ~ Ten Years After
7. Circles ~ Ten Years After
8. As the Sun Still Burns Away ~ Ten Years After
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info
|Ten Years After: Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar); Chick Churchill (organ); Leo Lyons (bass); Ric Lee (drums).
|Recorded at Olympic Studio 1, London, England.
|All songs written by Alvin Lee.
|One of the most noted of the progressive blues bands to emerge from the U.K.'s Summer Of Love in 1967, Ten Years After arguably reached its peak with its appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969. First released a year later in 1970, CRICKLEWOOD GREEN contains the band's hit single, "Love Like a Man," as well as some of the bluesy guitar workouts, courtesy of the virtuoso Alvin Lee, that made it famous.
Producer: Ten Years After
Compilation Appearances
|Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack & More (Remastered)
|Gold:Classic Rock
Technical Info
|Release Date : 10/30/2007
|Original Release Date : 1970
|Catalog ID : COLCD 8680
|Label : Collectables
|Number of Discs : 1
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
|SPAR Code : n/a


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Spring 2015 Commencement
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Georgia Perimeter College will commemorate the completion of our students' educational achievements at its Spring 2015 Commencement on May 8, 2015 at 10:30 am. The celebration will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA 30308. More details will follow soon.
Directions to the Georgia World Congress Center will be available soon.
Marta / Public transportation is available and drops off right across the street from GWCC. Parking will be available in the parking decks around the GWCC - details on the best location to park will be shared soon.
Parking is limited and you are encouraged to carpool and/or use public transportation (i.e. MARTA) if at all possible. There is a cost associated with using the GWCC parking decks.


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Nyack News
October Colloquium on the 2012 Presidential Election
"The 2012 Presidential Election and the Issues Confronting the United States" is the topic of the Nyack College of Arts and Sciences colloquium on Wednesday, October 24, 4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. at the Rockland County campus in President's Hall located in Shuman Hall, 186 South Highland Ave., Nyack.
Dr. David Turk, provost and vice president for academic affairs, will lead a thoughtful and provocative discussion with distinguished faculty on the upcoming presidential election.
Issues to be explored include: healthcare, jobs creation, national budget, support for the middle class/family, and leadership traits of the candidates. Panelists for the discussion include Nyack professors: Dr. Vilma Balmaceda (Political Science), Prof. James Muckell, (Business/Accounting), Dr. David Weir (History), and Dr. Carol Awasu (Social Work).
For more information on this event and the upcoming colloquium, click here.
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Those pesky taxes
I hope everyone's taxes are done, and you are enjoying your refund!?!?
We will be!!!! Turns out, having a beach house that takes a huge loss, plus four kids, three of whom are elibible for dependent care expense credits, plus contributing to their college plans, and putting the maximum allowable 401K contributions in, has resulted in a nearly ZERO tax bill for federal. We are so psyched!
I'm with you, momj47. Still waiting for my state return and just mailed in my Fed payment. Kids grown and I don't want any new ones~LOL. I think we should be able to deduct our furry children on our taxes.They are family and dependant, aren't they???
garden graphic, I'm definitely with you--they cost just as much as dependents of the human variety! And even with health insurance the costs are very high--veterinary diets, x-rays for ingested foreign objects, you name it--I have two dependents and my previous two cost me more than $5000.00 in just 6 months! If only we could claim them...


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... explained that the pain had started just before midnight, and gotten much worse around 3AM. She called Oonagh a little while after that. Oonagh was adamant that the student needed to go to the A&E as soon as possible.
Kate and Larry arrived shortly after that. Larry spoke to Oonagh briefly, asking if maybe this could wait until morning so the student could be seen at a local surgery. But Oonagh said no, that given the girl's age the A&E ...
Picked up at 10.30 by David and Ian. Drove very quickly to Oxford (average 80mph but up to 90mph) speed limit is supposedly 70mph. Parked in the park and ride on the edge of Oxford. This is to relieve congestion in the city centre. Catch a bus from the car park. Only £2 to park your car for the day and then £2 to catch the bus per person. Took a double decker sight seeing bus ...
Being crazy : nightly bike adventures
... I passed a sleeping bum under an unlit bridge. For once I felt lucky for being a male. As a result I would not have to worry (as much) about being sexually assaulted, and continued my rather dodgy route worry free.
Of birds and batteries
... to leave for dinner and some town exploring. However, at that point we got a call that one of our students had to leave the program. To respect her privacy, I won't say why on here, but it did not make for a happy evening. I spent the evening with one of the other deans and the director handling that. My job was basically to stay with the girl; she was not to be left alone, so I sat with her in our office while the guys made flight arrangements with ...
Through The Looking Glass
... he brought reinforcements to assist with the coffee order. Apparently we were confused the previous night. So on our third evening there we had the two waiters for all courses. You might think we should have ventured elsewhere but these two were way too entertaining. We may have even cracked an invite to a wedding!! I suspect there's not that many people in the village to invite!! In contrast, Oxford feels like you're in the middle of stuff happening. From a distance ...
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Winnipeg Free Press - ONLINE EDITION
Pope opening, not reforming the Church
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has been a busy man. Ever since his election as Bishop of Rome eight months ago, he has single-handedly managed to breathe new life into the Catholic Church. He has eschewed the sartorial splendor and lavish residence of his predecessors. He has washed the feet of prisoners (including women, Roma and Muslims) — a moving spectacle that attests to his devotion to the downtrodden of the world (and also offended some traditionalists). In one of his most moving gestures, he embraced and kissed a man suffering from neurofibromatosis.
At the same time, he's made it clear that he's not going to leave it at symbolism. He has chided the church establishment for being "obsessed" with sexual politics to the detriment of its central mission of proclaiming the gospel. He has called for a new "missionary spirit" and decried "obsolete structures." He has pushed for a law aimed to bring financial transparency to the Vatican and has set up a commission tasked with offering proposals for church reform. (Significantly, only one of the eight cardinals chosen for the group was from the Curia, the church's administrative heart — and the home of many of its most entrenched interests.) All this makes perfect sense for a man who looked to one of the church's greatest reformers for his regnal name.
But it's Pope Francis's latest initiative that has the greatest potential to shake up one of the world's oldest institutions. Within the past few weeks the Vatican has begun dispatching a questionnaire to parishes around the world to ask Catholics about their views on family life and sexuality in preparation for a landmark synod (a church-wide conference) on those issues next year. It's the first time that any Pope has done such a thing.
It's certainly not a move that's calculated to soothe traditionalists. (The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, for one, doesn't seem especially keen on distributing the survey to parishioners, and hasn't moved to post the document to its website — in notable contrast to their British counterparts.)
For the church's many critics, of course, such a move is long overdue. Shortly before Pope Francis ascended to the throne, the liberal German theologian Hans Kung wrote an article in the New York Times calling for a "Vatican Spring." For Kung, the contemporary church is an "absolute monarchy" just like Saudi Arabia, the result of changes a millennium or so ago that bequeathed to Catholicism a "centralist-absolutist papacy, compulsory clericalism, and the obligation of celibacy for priests and other secular clergy." It's this underlying lack of opportunities for participation that has alienated believers (especially women and young people), Kung believes, leaving the church in dire need of top-to-bottom renovation: "Behind the facade," he wrote, "the whole house is crumbling."
There's no question that the arrival of Pope Francis has coincided with one of the greatest crises in the modern history of the church. The long-running sexual abuse scandal, the revelations of financial shenanigans at the highest level, and the stunning resignation of Benedict XVI, Francis's hapless predecessor, had stained the reputation of the church and left Catholics around the world deeply demoralized. "The Vatican needs purgation at the top, to enable real renewal from below," wrote Ross Douthat, also in The New York Times, shortly after Francis' election. Douthat is a conservative Catholic, one whose views ultimately diverge quite starkly from Kung's. But that gives you an idea of how pervasive the sense of the need for change has become.
Is greater democracy the answer? There are those who certainly believe so. They point to the vast gap between church teachings and the views of many believers. Recent polls show, for example, that 76 percent of Catholics in the United States believe that the church should permit birth control, while around half of them approve of same-sex marriage. Unless the church leadership becomes more responsive to such views, argue reformists, the current exodus of believers is likely to continue. To bolster their case, they argue that the early church — precisely the church of Peter and Paul, in the first decades after the crucifixion of Jesus — was a decidedly un-hierarchical affair, an institution where believers essentially governed themselves and ironed out their own doctrinal and political differences.
Others respond that such views are simplistic. The modern church encompasses 2,000 years of tradition and embraces 1.2 billion believers around the world. Those Catholics represent a vast range of languages, cultures and political views. Yet they all profess a common faith in Jesus Christ as the redeemer of humankind — a transcendent vision that you either believe or you don't. That's not really a matter of governance or political philosophy. The job of the church is to maintain this essential unity of the faith while accounting for the pastoral needs of its diverse membership.
And that's always going to be a challenge. "I think for the vast majority of Catholics there's no serious problem with the fact that it's not a democracy," says Leslie Tentler, a history professor at the Catholic University of America. "It just isn't. I think what people really resent, though, is that no one listens to people's experiences, people's values, people's doubts when it comes to aspects of the Church's teachings that do bear on their lives quite immediately."
What this should remind us is that it's problematic to treat the church as if it's just another political organization. It's not. It's a community of faith — and that means that the things that are most essential about it ultimately don't depend on poll results. "The church is the ongoing ministry of Christ in the world," says Michael Sean Winters, a commentator with National Catholic Reporter newspaper. "When we say someone is a good pope or a bad pope, we mean that he's someone who would've been a good friend of Jesus when he walked on the earth. And that's not up to a vote."
Winters applauds the pope's move towards greater consultation as exemplified by the new survey — a practice, Winters says, that is already well-established in the Latin American church. (Francis was a cardinal in Argentina before he ascended to the papal throne.) But Winters cautions that no one should be expecting Francis to change fundamental church teachings — that, he says, just isn't in the cards.
What the new pope is trying to do instead is to move away from the political and ideological squabbles that those teachings have sometimes inspired in the past and to re-focus on the church's core mission of proclaiming the "good news" of Christ — as the pope has tried to do with his public demonstration of love for the poor and the deprived. And that, says Winters, is what the papacy should be about: "There is Peter — healing the world."
I'm not a Catholic, and I don't agree with all of the church's positions. But I'm glad that it exists. We live today in a world that's often degraded by greed, waste and reckless consumption. We all too often demonstrate our contempt for outsiders, the weak, the poor. So I'm glad that there's someone out there who's prepared to offer a fundamental spiritual critique of our mores — so that we don't have to leave it to the bankers, reality TV stars or posturing politicians. A reinvigorated Catholic Church, confident in its own sublime mission but tolerant and inclusive, could serve as a powerful force for good in the world. So I wish Francis well. Let's hope he can pull it off.
Caryl, the editor of Democracy Lab, is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy. He is also the author of "Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century."
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Right plant in the right place - if your soil is that alkali then keep them in the pot.
If you really must then how alkali is your soil? Most soil in the UK is naturally acidic to neutral.
What I did is have ericaceous soil around the plant, then mixed ericaceous and surrounding garden soil around that. That is less of a shock for the roots. You can apply ericaceous feed/iron seq when needed - good feeding is key. You can tell when they need a feed (normally spring) as the leaves begin to go pale and yellow.
I do not think that the cloud pruned tree is terminal. Good luck!
I agree - just new growth. It will match the rest of the leaves by Sept/Oct.
The second plant might be salvageable. Spray it with Provado Ultimate Bug Killer for 2 weeks and keep the tree watered and fed.
The first plant looks like Thuja - you can remove all the dead brown bits with your fingers but it will take a long time to look good. Thuja does regrow but not on old wood, hence using your fingers to remove the dead parts and not a saw.
Am glad that you went with the water feature as it does work. After reading the above perhaps your neighbour will buy one and then you will just have the sound of running water to relax and not some loud neighbour! Good luck!
A water feature with running water is good at drowning out noise but may have to be quite powerful to drown out a loud voice.
Hee hee - I have got Ginger to sprout and root but that was soaked in water then placed in a zip bag and left on top of the hot water tank. As soon as it was taken out it stopped growing - our weather is just not right for it, even indoors. Right plant right place!
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Aberdeen is actually west of Yorkshire, Birmingham is further east than Edinburgh. Aberdeen does seem to get snow first and deeper than most places in the UK. Anyway, here is coastal Fife Camellias do really well.
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Yes. Interesting and informative.
Lawrence's perseverance in trying to secure an independent Arabia following WW1.
Lively narration and clear enunciation. Accent also appropriate.
Lawrence's rebuff of the king's decorations.
In its own way, at least as good--probably better--than the movie.
"The Aussies in New Guinea"
Fascinating, Informative, Inspiring.
The typical Australian home guardsman. What grit!
Great variety in narration. Compelling, actually. Clear enunciation enhanced with appropriate accent.
Kokoda: Unparalleled Herorism.
This would be a fabulous movie. It needs to be made. It would be expensive but no more so than The Red Line, which was rather a disappointment. There are many talented Australian actors who could play the parts. In the hands of the right production team this is a potential Oscar winner for sure.
"The Mad Sculptor"
High but not highest.
I did not much care for any of the characters.
No. The narrator is excellent.
No. It is a straightforward story about a dastardly crime. As far as crimes go, not a particularly interesting one at that.
Technically, this is a good production. The story itself, however, is not all that interesting. I think the author could have gleaned material more piquant than included herein.
"The OSS in Burma"
Yes. The audio version is more exciting. The material lends itself to dramatic interpretation.
The ingenuity and steadfastness of the indigenous guerillas. What resourceful, brave, intelligent, loyal allies were they.
All of the characters are riveting.
Yes. The descriptions of torture are harrowing but also necessary to understand fully the barbarous ways of the Japanese military. Simply outrageous. They got what was coming to them.
Would make for a fabulous movie, if a very expensive one (given location, logistics, and the formidable environment/weather).
"Caesar's Tenth Legion: Its Triumphs & Discontents"
Learning about how the Legions were actually constituted and how they functioned. Just fascinating.
The Teaching Company has several series on Ancient History and most of them are excellent descriptions of daily lives of soldiers during this same period. These series compare favorably with Caesar's Legion. These materials complement one another nicely.
I was struck by how severe Caesar could be when disciplining his troops: Literally killing one in ten of the ranks???? Now that is severe discipline.
Not possible. Too long. Too much to absorb between listening sessions.
An excellent selection.
"The Corp's Betrayal of Marines"
Very high.
The courageous marines who would not accept flippant excuses from the bureaucracy. These tenacious, ethical marines stuck together and persevered against the shameful behavior of the Corp they once beloved.
Clear enunciation and varied rhythm.
Another example of dastardly bureaucratic malfeasance. How do they continue to get away with it??
A must "listen" for anyone overly enamored with the Corp or any other government bureaucracy.
"One Marine's WW2 Story"
Very high.
The focus of the story is of a young marine. He is the main character and my favorite.
Entertaining variety of narration.
Toward the end of the campaigns fewer and fewer veterans were alive to fight the next battle. Very sobering. Poignant.
This is both an informative and entertaining "listen." Anyone remotely interested in WW2 will want to have listened to this audio. In fact, I think the story is a better "listen" than "read."
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Japan's WW2 Crimes
I honor all the more now than before the courage and tenacity of Allied POWs.
Clear, even toned narration.
Would be too difficult. Too heartbreaking.
This is an important, dreadful story. Whenever possible, we need to be reminded of Japan's War Crimes and, more importantly, of their intransigence in owning up to these
crimes against humanity.
"Bait and Switch"
This story is not about Gallipoli per se, but a biography of one of the soldiers who fought in that campaign. I was expecting a more thorough description of the campaign, not a detailed biography.
Nothing, but a more appropriate title might be: "Gallipoli: One Soldier's Story."
I suppose he did, but that does not mitigate the fact that the book is misrepresented.
See above.
Should be removed from available selections. Not accurately marketed.
"The existing title is perfect."
I enjoyed, if that is the word, relearning how duplicitous the U.S. government was in perpetrating this tragedy.
Again, my favorite (a dubious adjective) character is LBJ. He simply could not allow principles to supersede what he thought to be political pragmatics. As it turned out, his path was the most complicated, most destructive, and least effective.
The poignant moment when the last helicopter left Saigon.
I am again saddened by the misery of this atrocious war. Even if the war did serve to check Communist expansion, I am not at all sure it was worth it. At best, the U.S. can claim it as a Pyrrhic victory, but one which lost the confidence of an entire generation of Americans.
In conjunction with Smoke Signals, these two books tell us a lot about why Boomer Hippies and Wannabes distrust American Politics.
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Converting a kerosene furnace to fuel oil
My parents have a Miller Gun furnace. It is a 1971 or 1972 model, they have never had any problems with it. It uses #1 kerosene, which is very expensive. Can it be converted to us #2 fuel oil easily and inexpensively?
Read the manual. It probably notes that use of #2 is permissible, but not recommended. Sooting in the combustion chamber will be worse resulting in more burner service needed. A less drastic approach would be to have the tank refilled each time it is about half empty. At each filling alternate between K-1 and #2. That will result in a mixture. It will also confuse the heck out of your oil supplier.
Yes. Get someone that knows how to do it. #2 heating oil is
just this side of diesle. Winter diesle. #1 heating oil and kerosene are almost the same. What is your definition of expensive ? WARNIG. don't anyone tell me #1-2-3 heating oils are the same. They are NOT. I'll stop the argument right now. #1 heating oil has a carbon chain of 6-10
#2 oil has a carbon chain of 9-15. #3 is 12- 17, i think, don't remember. So if all heating oil is the same why are the numbers different ? Kerosene is lower than 6 but don't remember, been too long. Bottom line is the B.T.U. is different between the oils. You could go from kerosene to
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between the to ? ( #2 heating oil is purple diesle ) Number one heating oil is the color of beer.
The burners on Miller furnaces are designed for #2 oil. In cold climates kerosene won't gel like #2 oil so thats why its used instead. Your burner doesn't care as much as your wallet does. I would suggest that once you start burning oil again have the burner set up by an efficiency test. The ideal solution would be to run a combination of the two fuels but highly unlikely that you will find a company willing to deliver from 2 seperate trucks to your house. Unless of course you want to pay dearly for that service. And that defeats the purpose for the switch anyway.


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Blood Mountain Trail
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Marla Watt (137)
5 days ago
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This may be a favorite hike now- it's up there with Cloudland Canyon. near the end it's VERY steep and it had rained the day before so it was also muddy and slippery. Next to the waterfall / swimming hole there's plenty of room to camp and picnic. I loved that there are also plenty of places along the trail to stop creekside and sit on a rock or wade in the water. Overall, beautiful, challenging, fun and rewarding hike.
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Daniele Dale (76)
26 days ago
1 Completed 1 Reviews
A friend and I took our kids, they did fine but it's quite a long trail for little ones. Nice camping area next to the creek. Had quite a few steep ledges and slick spots. Go early in the day, it's rough trying to get out at night.
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Amanda Mabrey (566)
26 days ago
4 Completed 3 Reviews
A great trail.Camping sites are located along trail. Make sure you have water and some snacks.Very beautiful.Lots of picture perfect views. If you plan on making it a day trip then go early. Has several areas that you can get in the water if it's warm enough.
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Matthew Harrison (96)
5 months ago
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My wife and I did an over-night backpacking trip here in late Fall, on a Sunday. There were a lot of day hikers and a few campers out there. If you're looking to get away from people, I'd avoid this trail.
It is quite beautiful though, with the trail following Panther Creek essentially all the way to the falls. Lots of sunlight gets through, as parts of the trail have light tree cover. The falls are large and beautiful, if a bit crowded.
Plenty of camping sites along the trail as well, located all throughout the trail. We backtracked from the falls because there is very little firewood available near the falls. There are several camp sites beyond the falls, but little to no fire wood to be easily found.
Panther Creek Trail
James Nichols (150)
5 months ago
5 Completed 5 Reviews
Beautiful, relaxing hike. Pretty straightforward aside from some steep-ish boulders and banks when nearing the main falls. The trail follows the creek, so there is the amazing sound of rushing water for almost the entire hike! A great variety of terrain and elevations. There are also plenty of little side trails that take the hiker to some cool little secluded nooks.
One warning: as has been mentioned in a couple other reviews--this is a very popular trail, especially on nice weather weekends. It can get a bit crowded. If a secluded commune with nature is what you seek, look elsewhere or try the trail at an "off" time.
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Hiking Diva . (4252)
5 months ago
79 Completed 62 Reviews
Great day hike as well as for first time backpackers. Not particularly challenging, but can get tricky if it has rained - but the best time to see the falls really pumping. Please pack out your trash and pick up a bit more that other twits left behind. Wrote more details in the other trail description for this hike.
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Hiking Diva . (4252)
5 months ago
79 Completed 62 Reviews
Nice day hike and this is my "go to hike" for first time backpackers. Plenty of options to camp - things can get a bit crowded/rowdy at the base of the falls on weekends and during the summer. It can be a bit slick at the final descent to the falls - steepish, packed red clay. There are a few narrow spots that can make people a smidge nervous if afraid of heights. I have seen a few copperheads, so keep an eye out... yes, there are snakes all over the place - just a reminder - an older man almost sat on one sunning on a rock!
I usually find a fair amount of trash on this trail, so bring a bag and pick up what you can on the way back.
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Marsha Gottlieb (101)
6 months ago
13 Completed 2 Reviews
Nice, well-marked but not terribly challenging hike. The trail ambles along the river so the vistas are nice, no reason for rating as a three other than I expected more of a challenge based on reviews
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Bil Kennedy (203)
6 months ago
31 Completed 3 Reviews
Best trail I've been on in GA yet. Don't kid yourself, it's only 7.2 miles round trip, but it requires some exertion. I wouldn't recommend the entire trail to the falls for young children unless they are accustomed to such (which btw have a great swimming area - cold - at the bottom of the falls) . Our dogs did well, but were exhausted at the end of the hike. Our medium-sized dog (Brittany Spaniel) struggled and had to be helped up certain rocky sections (also when off leash went down a steep embankment to swim, and couldn't get back up - I had to rescue him).The Dane was able to conquer all with relative ease, but required frequent breaks on the return trip despite the rest stop at the falls. This trail follows the creek almost the entire way to the falls, and offers very diverse terrain. I can't wait to go back when the leaves are turning.
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Ajay Raghav Gurubabu (159)
7 months ago
11 Completed 6 Reviews
i love this trail. It was good, fairly long, well mapped and the falls at the end was beautiful and refreshing. we spent a good one hour just relaxing on the rocks in the river. We could hear the cars speeding in the highway as we started and ended the trail. But once you get going, it was all green and calm and beautiful.
But this is a popular place i believe. it really started to get crowded with the day. The best time to hike would be early in the morning to beat the crowd and return before noon when you start seeing more people.


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