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more of my asian veggies (pictures)
Hi Win,
Here are more pictures of my asian veggies.
Veggies I harvested yesterday
round bottle gourd on the vine
Hi nightbloomincereus,
My eggplants did get attacked by spider mites a few weeks ago, but I have been diligently following a routine of spraying them with a very mild mix of a teaspoon of soap and teaspoon of oil in a gallon of water every 4 days. This seems to be helping them quite well.
In our house we eat eggplant twice a week at least. and prepared several different ways.
Hi aaaa,
I am tickled happy that you recognized the gongura :-) I started the eggplants from seed along with the rest of the veggies including bitter melon, etc. back in the last week of March. I also have thotakura (amaranth), bacchali (malabar spinach both vining and bush type), dosakaya among other asian veggies. They are all producing quite well. My heart sings every time I am harvesting the veggies. talk about going cuckoo !!
Can you tell me the type of gongura by botanical name that you are growing for food? And how do you cook it?
I grow a few types but I have never eaten them. I just don't know how to prepare them - which ones are good for leaves etc.
And I had no idea that there was a bush malabar spinch. Am I reading this correctly? I grow the vining, it is one of my favorite summer leafy greens. I'd love a bush variety to grow right in the flower garden.
girlgroupgirl, the gongura I have is called Hibiscus Sabdariffa. It is also called Jamaican sorrel, Indian sorrel, roselle ..... I mostly cook it with lentils or bottle gourd. Sometimes I make a chutney with hot chilies. I use the leaves only. And the bush type malabar spinach I got the seeds from a relative here. In India we grow the bush variety more often than the vining kind. Also the leaves on the bush variety are not as thick. I love it.
Hello Ash_work, in spring, before planting the veggies, I amend the soil heavily with compost and steer manure. We also have a horse ranch nearby that gives away composted horse manure for free if we haul it. I add this compost once a month to all the plants except the eggplants, tomatoes and chilies. I have a soaker hose for these and black plastic as mulch so I use foliar spray (seaweed+fish emulsion) once a month. I don't know if that helps but I do it anyways.
Nice eggplants! And we love eggplants! I live in Zone 5 and the warm season is short. We had some eggplants several years ago but never grew well - only a few pittiful fruits. But this year, we try a different way - we grow them in containers. We started from seeds in Januaray in our sunroom. By the time the weather get warm enough for the plant, we already have fruit to harvest. Eggplants are beautiful. We have four types of eggplants and they provide enough fruits for our family (at least twice a week). In Fall, we'll move some of the plants indoor. Here is one of the eggplant pots:
Absolutely beautiful veggies. Up here on the OR coast it's hard to grow eggplant, but I did harvest one nice Opus eggplant. It is round like a baseball. I doubt I will get anymore now, but I see you use black plastic even in CA. I'll do that next year and try fish and seaweed feeding to see if I get more this year. I am growing an Asian summer squash this year that has become enormous. Way too big for my raised beds. It has taken over the paths now and I am finding it hard to get by and around. It is called Green Ball hybrid, but it isn't round. The leaves are huge and lovely with long stems. The fruit is zucchini shaped, but doesn't get very long and has funny leaves (set of 4) swirling out from the top. At first I didn't think I liked it but now it's growing on me. I will attempt to show by pictures very soon.
Beautiful pictures. Saila, what is the long green vegetable in your first picture? This year I have been growing the round bottle gourd. I have harvested 4 of them so far. I haven't tried gongura yet, maybe I will try next year.
I am a self-declared eggplant fanatic. This year I really curtailed myself to 13 plants. The technique I found that best works for me is: Plant the seedlings in black big containers (10Gl or 15gl) in May. Give them weekly feedings of fish and sea weed fertilizer of 16-16-16. The plants become huge (like 4 to 5 ft), then switch to low N fish sea weed fertilizer. By August I generally have all plants bearing fruits like crazy.....I get a whole year's supply. I live in bay area, Northern California.
Nan123: Beautiful eggplant. What is the name of its variety? Looked like a Kyoto to me, but I might be wrong.
Lolly Gardener
I have the same "Gongura". It is doing very well. The only difference- I simply cut the leaves. I keep the stems intact. Few days before harvesting I foliar feed them with fish emulsion and or maxi crop sea weed with Iron (Usually once in a week). This ways one can get adequate iron without swallowing a pill.
I do the same with Amaranths; it is about five feet tall. It is the same green Thotakoora from seeds of India.
I do have the seeds of different Amaranthus (Thotakoora from India) called as perugu thota koora and Koyya Thota koora.This year because of space limitations I have not planted them.
Any of these can be grown in pots. If one is late in starting" Gongura" one can buy Gongura from Indian vegetable stores and stick the stem with a little of Rooting hormone. They develop roots fast.
For leafy vegetables I use fish emulsion few days before harvesting  so that the leaves harvested will not smell fishy.
One problem with leafy greens in my area when and if I water with chlorinated water from municipal supply, the leaves emit an unpleasant odor while cooking.
If the water smells of chlorine, I collect it in a five gallon bucket and leave it for few hours and use that water.
Chukka koora: It is a variety of sour leafy green from Andhra Pradesh India. We like the taste of it. Its seeds (actually dried flowers are not available here).It bolts quickly. Best to plant them in spring and late august.
I do not use coriander seeds for Cilantro from India grocery stores. They bolt very quickly the cheapest way is to buy from Mexican Grocery stores, a pound costs about 4 dollars. One can buy from parks or Bear creek seeds. There is a big difference in the flavor from cilantro from your garden and the one purchased from grocery stores.
Tindora (Ivory gourd) is always an abundant producer. The one I have is from India a kind of heir loom with thin skin and no stripes. I gave about 20 rooted cuttings to any one who asked locally over here. They are very easy to root.
We freeze all of them including the leafy greens.
There have been several gongura threads in the past; one is linked below, where I confused gongura with "sorrel" in the genus Rumex. Gongura has been called "Jamaican sorrel", but is in the genus Hibiscus.
One post said that gongura should never be eaten raw; it should only be eaten cooked. Now that I know that Gongura is Hibiscus, this surprises me, since the leaves of some Hibiscus cultivars may be eaten raw (and the flowers too!!). Hibiscus is in the family Malvaceae; and I do eat raw leaves from some cultivars of Malva.
The Plants For A Future database reports that young leaves of Hibiscus sabdariffa may be eaten raw. Given the acid content, I assume that only a small amount of leaves may be eaten raw, just as is the case with real sorrel.
Here is a link that might be useful: November 2006 gongura thread
Hello Eswar garu,
I am growing green thotakura (amaranth) and chukkakura. I harvested chukkakura about 6 times and then it bolted. I am waiting for the seeds (flowers) to dry so I can save and plant them in late august here. Thotakura is growing like a weed. I found that if I snip off the stems, there is less chance of bolting. Same with gongura, if I simply cut the leaves, then the plant begins to flower. Now I snip off the branches and the plant grows new branches and gets bushy.
I wish I can get tindora. I love it so much, but not too sure if I can grow it here in the bay area. Our summers can get quite cool sometimes. One week it can be in the 90s and the very next week in high 60s.
Hi violet_z6,
Some of our traditional recipes:
If its rosa bianca or kyoto, I like to cut them lenghtwise into 4 or 6 pieces, cook them covered on low flame in about 3 tbsps of oil and salt until they are tender, and then put paste of coriander, green chilli. Allow it to cook in paste for a few more mins and it tastes heaven...
If its long chinese or japanese eggplant, cut them about 2"X1"X1", again cook them covered on low flame in about 3 tbsps of oil and salt until they are tender and flakes of red-pepper. I can also add curry powder instead of red-pepper.
If its big eggplant varieties like "black beauty", I cut them up about 1" cubes, cooke them in covered pot with salt and water until they are mostly cooked. In a separate pan, I heat up about 2 tbsp of oil, add 1 tsp yellow gram, 1 tsp white gram (Idli dal), 1/2 tsp cumin seed, 1/2 tsp mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds start popping (the grams would have kind of roasted), add few chopped green chilli and ginger. After 1 min transfer it to the eggplant, put in 1/2 cup of milk and let it cook for a few more mins. Garnish with coriader leaves.
Of course there are many many more.
Hello Saila
I have separate beds for leafy greens in semi shade. The leafy greens are fed with nitrogen and (less phosphorous), minerals and calcium. Usually rabbit chow, fish meal or Soya bean meal.
I follow the recommendations from the book "Nutrition Home grown and "and from High brix gardening. One of their agricultural consultantÂs wife is from Andhra Pradesh. He knows all about vegetables from Andhra Pradesh, India..
In fact I am following the same from 1985.Now being semi retired; we moved from big house and an acre of garden to a small home and made several raised beds.
Fortunately bolting is not a problem for me. Eventually every thing will bolt, but how far we can delay it? Is probably more important.
Chukka koora bolted in 6-8 weeks, I just wanted to experiment what happens if I use a phosphorous containing fertilizer. It bolted readily.
I will be glad to share Tindora plants with any one (free, except for 2 day shipping costs) these are cuttings with roots.
This particular Tindora is from India (A.P), bought over herein 1976 by some one concealed in his babyÂs diaper. So it is already well fertilized. I interplant my vegetables with dwarf Mary gold and holy basil (lakshmi Tulasi from SV temple gardens, Tirupathi).
My egg plants are already 6 feet tall with abundant yields. Next year I will be cutting down the number of plants. They also suffered from minimal wind storm damage this year, but they recovered fast. I cut down Âprune all the leaves that turn yellow, that can not take part in photosynthesis due to shade and one that touch the ground,
Probably I will get egg plant seeds from bear creek. They have authentic seeds from Tamilnadu and Bangladesh. My friends are growing them. They have a better flavor as they say.
I gave up on snake gourd ridge gourd and bottle gourd. Now the place we live is open on all four sides, surrounded by hills and last four years the plants suffered heavy wind damage.
But for fun I may try Ash gourd next year. But it takes long time (100 days) and full sun and lots of space. (Boodida gummadi).
The wind storms became regular annual event in the last 4 years.
It is hard to get authentic Indian mint(pudina) here.The flavor of the various mints I tried is slightly different.
We are only 2 with an empty nest and our needs are small. But it is fun we enjoy it.
Hi sunstar,
Thotakura seeds you can get from evergreen, and gongura from seeds of India.
Thanks win, I am glad you enjoyed the pictures. I love growing Indian vegetables. Takes me back to my fond childhood memories of my grandfather growing soooooo many kinds of vegetables and fruits. He was an avid gardener. He grew many kinds of mangoes, gooseberry, sapota (zapote), guava, plantains and bananas. He had 1.5 acres of land and it is always lush !! even today. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to grow up in that environment.
sorry I am rambling on ..
sailamint, you have presented nice pics. from your garden.
These are some pics. from my garden.I agree with steve about the pleasure and info. we gardeners provide to each other.
Sweet Potatoe.
Moringa Oleifera (Drumstick Plant).
Nice Pictures sailamint & chaman.
Are you growing those Moringa in container? Looks awesome. I am getting dwarf verity seed from India, I am looking information on how to seed and plant etc.
Thanks again for sharing the pictures, it really motivates beginers like me.
Hello Eswar garu,
I would really appreciate if you can share your tindora roots with me. I have been trying to get them for some time now. If you can please email the details to me it would be great. From (My Page) you should be able to send me email. I will gladly pay for the shipping. Its a very generous offer on your part and I would like to take up on it.
I would like to hear about the eggplant varieties you have planted. I find that Kyoto is really good variety.
No problem in sending you Tindora roots. The only cost is shipping. They need to ship by 2 day mail. I can get plenty of boxes from my place of work.
I already sent an e-mail to you.
The amranthus-Thotakoora and Gongura are very easy and satisfying,
This year I tried white egg plants-bland. Taste like Styrofoam.
Green giant. Long green------ prolific yielder. I get half a 5 gallon bucket full every alternate day from 5 plants. The seeds from Andhra Pradesh India long slim ones have good flavor and more delicate.
Last year All America selections egg plant is also profuse yielder.
Next year I am going to try long slim varieties from Bangladesh and Tamil Nadu from bear creek farms. Probably I will cut down the number of plants.
A few weeks ago I went on a tour of 10 urban houses who do edible gardening. It was 2 hours of pure pleasure seeing others gardens with vegetables, fruits. I learned a lot (like, I can get bales of hay for mulch free from Whole Foods day after October 31st- Halloween). I saw people growing more different varieties than me. I saw the most lucisous French Sorrel plant. I had to take picture of it. I also saw that, while there are many ways I need to improve my gardening skills, I am still growing one of the best eggplant plants! A far cry from 6 years ago when I put a plant in clay soil and ordered it to grow.
I am going to try growing Chukka Koora this year. I feel encouraged to try it after reading others success with it. I did try Sorrel this year, and its one of the best finds I made. Its almost a substitute for Chukka Koora. Its a perenial, I keep cutting leaves and it keeps churning out more. Its been more than 12 years since I had Chukka Koora.
Several times in the year I visit a community garden near my home. Its such a feast to watch all the wonderful plants. I come back home each time jealous and inspired.
Eswar garu: Thanks a lot!
Those are wonderful pictures... I have a question about the Moringa(drumstick). they are awsome, how did you get them to fruit? i've been having moringa trees for the past 4 years and it flower's but doesn't produce drumsticks. i keep it along with my other vegetables like okra, bitter bourd, snake gourd, etc.. i had about 7 or 8 drumsticks plants in pots that i moved in during winter and move out during summer but then i got frustrated last year and left them out in the cold except for 1 that i've been having longest.
I'll post pictures in a day or two but would appreciate any suggestions.
here is a picture of our drumstick(moringa) plant.
sailammint, your pictures are awesome.
Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12024687@N04/?saved=1
Thanks for appreciation of pics.Moringa oleifera that I have grown is a dwarf variety which was developed by University of Chennai in India.This is easily grown in large pots.I take the plants indoors during winter.These are fast growing plants.They flowered very first year but did not give any fruits.In the 4th year it started giving fruits but not as many it would give in climate of India where there is plenty of moisture and heat.Plants I have reach the height of about 10 feet but do not branch out as much it would in warm and moisturous climate.
Remove the hard coat on the seed and sow the seeds 1 inch deep at a distance about 2 inches between seeds in a rectangular or square container.Cover the top.Apply the the heat at the bottom by heating pad.It takes about two weeks to germinate the seeds.Keep the soil wet enough to provide enough moisture.
I can agree with you, Eswar, on the productivity of the Long Green eggplants. Wow! I got the seed from Evergreen.
The bitterness of some of the purple eggplants has no appeal so I'm still trying to find the best non-bitter purple. This year's trial is on Kurume and Shoya. The jury is still out but Shoya seems to be growing better, anyway. Yasakanaga, last year was VERY productive but TOO bitter.
It could be that the mild green eggplants are just my personal choice. Applegreen is really tasty, also.
All egg plants are bitter when young and tender.It takes a while before they mature for edible stage.At this stage tender seeds (which are not yet ready and ripe for sowing) will be visible distinctly from the white pulp.You pick the fruits at this stage ,if you do not pick the fruits at this stage they will enter into ripening stage and the taste will not be as good.All these things are difficult to judge very exactly.After few trials you will develop good judgement when to pick.Another way of looking at it is as the fruits start growing pick when they stop growing further in size.
Maturity date on seed packet gives some guide line.Intutively I may say that if there are too many fruits I will remove few so the rest will get a chance to mature for eating.Eswar has good experience.His feed back will be really helpful.In India farmers harvest egglpants at the interval of 5 to 7 days.But the weather there is hotter and has enough moisture.
Alright you all have craving for Indian food now. I want to grow gongura now!! And now I'm thinking if I really want to grow drumstick tree. Hehhehehe...Reminds me of my time in Himachal Pradesh some 25 years ago. Hmmm thanks for the memories. Wished I was more interested in gardening back then.
Hi Steve,
Most of my eggplants are purple except for one variety, a light green small round one. That seed got mixed up with the ones I ordered and sowed. As I mentioned before, we eat eggplant at least twice a week and so far none of the purple ones had a bitter taste. I pick them very young actually when there are practically no seeds.
Hi Chaman,
Your cluster beans are awesome. I tried growing them for the first time here in the bay area, but they did not do well. I had a handful of beans that is all. We hardly had a steady period of temps over 80s. It has been very mild here, in the mid 70s for the most part. I wonder if this was why they did poorly for me.
Hi sailamint,
Thanks for appreciating the pic. You have really neat and beautiful pics. too. Your observation is correct.It is some what difficult to grow cluster beans.
One it's germination is poor due to weather conditions.Secondly it loves moisture but water should be drained out.
I solved the problem by sowing the seeds very closely almost at every inch in the row.This way you will have enough seeds germinated.Sow the seeds where they did not germinate.Do not give up.
Secondly select the area in the garden which is little eleveted.As the plants grow hill the rows that will keep soil in drained condition.In my experience okra is a good companion for cluster beans.
Soaking seeds over night in water helps.
Good Luck.
Hi everybody,
We just moved to USA and I palnted few seeds like gongura, thotakura, dosa, potla etc 3 weeks back. They sprouted really gppd but the leaves are drying out and they are slowly dying. The leaves have yellowish and brownish patches before they dry. Can anybody help me with this? Thank you
Chaman I would like to know more about moringa tree. Is it grown from seed or cutting? How big the pot is and do you repot it every year? You said your tree is 10' big so how many years old it is? Do you get plenty of fruits from this tree? Sorry for too many questions. I never thought of keeping moringa tree in pot but after reading your post I really feel I should grow one.
Hello Eswar:
I am new to the forum. Looking for Tindora roots.
I would really appreciate if you can share your tindora roots with me. If you can please email the details it would be great. I will pay for the shipping. Its a very generous of you you to share them with others. Thank you.
Hi Eswar and other friends:
I am new to the forum but am very happy to come across it. I was doing a search for tindora plants in US and saw your forum. Is it possible for you to share Tindora roots. I am also willing to pay the shipping and other costs. I hope it is ok. Also if some one can share gongura seeds, bottle gourd seeds and indian beans I would really appreciate. One day I hope I will have a nice garden and be able to share nice pictures with you all.
Thanks. (email@example.com)
Hello all I'm new to this forum, but am a long time gardener now disabled I had a very bad season do to having to go into the Hospital so every suffered and died exceprt some rare wild hot pepper and some tropical Okra which is doing great and is noe over 8ft. tall. I grow thre red leaf Amaranth and use it for just about every thing I have some Thai egg plants growing, but the bugs just eat them up. My purple passion fruit vines along with my tree tomato (Tamarillo) didn't produce anything this year maybe they will the next, so I will have to overwinter them. I'm using a type of tropical Okra for most of my raw and cooked greens which I mix in some of my Amaranth leaves.
I love Asian cooking and am just learning about all the great vegetales there are. Thanks for sharing the photo Now if I can just get all the seeds I want for next year.
George W. Z5-6 MO.
Hi jas,
I have grown Moringa from seeds.Pot is (approx.) 2 feet tall and one and a half foot wide.
I had bought the pot from yard sale in the community.I do not repot the plant every year instead take it indoor in winter by bending the branch side ways.It is six years old.In third year it reached that height.Plane does not poroduce plenty of fruits compared to a plant in India.Moringa I have is a dwarf kind.Seeds are available at Echonet.org.
Hi all friends of the asian veggie forum,
I live in bay area and very intrested in Indian veggie gardening. This is the first time I am going to start my garden and please help me with the zone and times of the year to plant.
Eswar, can you please send me the Tindura root, I will be happy to pay for the shipping and also some instructions on how to grow it.
Can any one of you please send me some vegitable seeds, especially I like to have Gongura, Bachalikura, Chukkakura, Drum stick seeds or any South Indian vegitables. Please send me the seeds and some instructions on starting a vegitable garden.
I am new to gardening and very happy to see all pictures of the vegitables grown by you.
The time to send Tindora roots is last week of April or May.(first 2 weeks)
What ever Tindora(donda ) I have I will be glad to share at your postage expense.
The plants are free.
Please post again in April.I hope the link to my e-mail is working.
hello eswar garu !
i live in chicago and we recently moved to our own house i am so excited to grow my own veggies i am gettinng all sorts of veggee seeds from india . but i could not get tindora (dondakaya) i see u are sharing them i would love to have some of them i would also like to have some moringa seeds too if u have them if u can send me a mail at sirishagannavarapu@ yahoo.com with the details i will really appreciate it . thanks for your time and effort
Hello Padmaja,
There are somany places you will find virrajaji plants online. search for Jasmine Molle. One of the sites is having somany variesties of jasmine collection. This forms is blocking that name.
Can you please tell me where can i find sannajaji plants. i have been looking for it.
Kavitha, I asked Bhatia couple of times if he is sure it is sannajaji and he said he is very sure it is. I got the plant but did not have flowers yet on it. If it is not exactly sannajaji, I will be very dissappointed. I also thought azoricum is the sannajaji but when he said he is sure this is, I went ahead and bought. I may have to buy azoricum next time and ofcourse virrajaji too. By the way, do you have virrajaji (molle) plant. Is that what it is supposed to be? Can you help before I spend too much money on that too?
Hello Padma,
Don't get disappointed. May be its sannajaji and he doesn't know the name properly. Other plant also looks like sannajaji. You can't differentiate both. Unless you are very picky like me, you can tell the difference.
I am very sure about virrajaji plant. I have 2 of them. write me to firstname.lastname@example.com. I can tell you site where you can have full collection of tropical plants.
I hope so Kavitha. I am also very particular about the sannajaji. With regards to Virrajaji plant, I sent out email to get the site name. I hope you got it. If not please let me know and I will resend it to you. I am waiting to hear from you before I order it. Thank you very much for your help. I cannot wait to get a virrajaji plant.
I got this virrajaji plant last year which had all fragrant smelling pinkish flowers. Plated in soil where it gets nice full sun and watered well. It over wintered but never bloomed again.
It's growing so nicely that i can see all the lush green leaves and also i had to re-plant it in new location so that i can give the vine nice support.
But still no blooms. My Jasmine Sambac(Maid of Orleans) is blooming like crazy.
Can any one of you tell me what i can do to make this Virajaji bloom again?
Drum stick (moringa)seeds available from
Seeds of India
Echo seeds
and several e-bay sellers.
Tindora plants are available from Florida by mail order. The link was provided before- in another post.
Gongura seeds available from Seeds of India.
when you buy gongura from Indian Grocery stores, stick it in the soil it will grow.
One can get tindora ( Donda)plants from here
Hi sailamint,
please send me some seeds from your garden...5 or 10 seeds each is enough.
here is some seeds i am looking...
Gongoora - Red and Green
Amaranthus 'Amar' Red and Green
Snakegourd-King Cobra
Cluster Bean
Ram Tulsi
Krishna Tulsi
Van Tulsi
Murraya Koenigii
i got tons of american veg seeds to exchange.


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How does Obama stack up against his modern-era predecessors as a spender of taxpayer money?
Whether you take his three-year average of spending 24.17 percent of GDP or his estimated four-year average of 23.95 percent, Obama beats all presidents from 1930 forward -- including Roosevelt.
FDR presided over the start of 12 fiscal years -- 1934 to 1945 (before 1977, federal fiscal years ran from July 1 to June 30). During those 12 years, which included much of the Great Depression and most World War II, the federal government spent an average of 19.35 percent of GDP per year.
It would have been far lower but for the war. In 1942, the first fiscal year of the war, it spiked to 24.3 percent. In 1943, it hit 43.6 percent of GDP. In 1944, it hit 43.6 percent again. In 1945, it hit 41.9 percent. In 1946, it was 24.8 percent. But in 1947, with the war over, it dropped all the way to 14.8 percent. And in 1948, it dropped again to 11.6 percent.
After World War II, average federal spending as a percentage of GDP went up with each successive president as the welfare state -- started under FDR -- matured and expanded, and the Cold War intensified.
President Truman spent an average of 16.89 percent of GDP; Dwight Eisenhower, 17.81 percent; John F. Kennedy, 18.63 percent; Lyndon B. Johnson, 18.86 percent; Richard Nixon, 19.52 percent; Gerald Ford, 21.05 percent; Jimmy Carter, 21.18 percent; and Ronald Reagan, 22.28 percent.
With the end of the Cold War, federal spending started to drop as a percentage of GDP. George H.W. Bush spent an average of 21.93 percent, and Bill Clinton, 19.41 percent.
It began climbing again with George W. Bush. Counting fiscal 2009, Bush spent an average of 20.51 percent of GDP.
Then we get to Obama's 24.17 percent.
Obama said: "Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years." But Obama's average of 24.17 percent of GDP is 17.84 percent higher than George W. Bush's average of 20.51 percent of GDP.
It is true that Obama has cut spending from the 25.2 percent of GDP in fiscal 2009 to the 24.3 percent of this year. Giving Bush all the credit for fiscal 2009, that means Obama has cut spending as a percentage of GDP since fiscal 2009 by about 3.6 percent.
Is even that the best in 60 years? In President Carter's last fiscal year, spending was 22.2 percent of GDP. By 1989, Reagan cut that to 21.2 percent -- a drop of 4.5 percent.
In George H.W. Bush's last fiscal year, spending was 21.4 percent of GDP. By 2001, Clinton cut that to 18.2 percent -- a drop of about 15 percent.
Even by this measure, Obama is no match for either Reagan -- or Clinton.
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Jeff Tucker has teamed up with BASF's sales specialists to deliver the half-day Skill Development Seminars, which move this week to Atlanta, Ga., and Chesapeake, Va.
Jeff Tucker has teamed up with BASF's sales specialists to deliver the half-day Skill Development Seminars, which move this week to Atlanta, Ga., and Chesapeake, Va.
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From the personal touch to the caring nature of the Irish, business visitors to Ireland have plenty to praise following a trip to Ireland.
In this section, you will find honest feedback about the memorable association conferences, corporate meetings and incentives that organisations worldwide have enjoyed in Ireland.
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I have the distinct pleasure of writing a letter of recommendation for Golf & Incentive Travel. I have worked with Eamon and Averil over the past 10 years helping us conduct business incentive trips to Ireland for our Diageo-Guinness USA customers. Their attention to detail is second to none combined with their creative and exciting activities that truly portray the history, culture and friendliness of Ireland and the Irish people.
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Thank you so much for a wonderful time in Killarney. You did an outstanding job! The golfing arrangements you made for us were excellent and very much appreciated. We thoroughly enjoyed our time and have vowed to return again soon. All the best to you.
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Diageo Brazil recently enjoyed three very successful trips to Ireland. All of our clients were welcomed at London Heathrow and escorted to Dublin with lounge access and Portuguese-speaking assistants. The programme was superb! Accommodation was luxurious, restaurant choices and (translated) menu selection were perfect with helpful staff everywhere we went. Entertainment was a highlight with the very best in traditional music and escorted visits to the top pubs and clubs available. I will definitely work with Custom Ireland again.
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If anyone would consider coming to Ireland for a conference or an event or an incentive, I would just highly recommend it because it's just so special. You can really treat your clients to a professional work atmosphere, but also a great incentive part with the ability to play golf or to visit beautiful sites and cultural things and so it's a perfect destination for events. This is where easy-going meets hard-working... We have done really hard work so far but we also had great times... this is the great atmosphere to have both.
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question kids get asked over and over. But very few connections are made for kids between the present and the future. This book shows kids a pathway from their current interests and talents to a future career or interest. And in so doing, it also encourages adventure, exploration, and discovery, three core principles of National Geographic's mission. It's a celebration of possibility--so simple and so profound.
Publisher: Washington, DC : National Geographic, c2013.
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Last thursday Baselworld opened up the doors to the public and TOUS, is participating there with its own stand for the first time.
Last thursday Baselworld opened up the doors to the public and TOUS, is participating there with its own stand for the first time.
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When he's healthy, Cole Swayze is one of the more dangerous quarterbacks in the state. But Swayze has missed time in two of his three high school seasons, tearing his ACL last year and breaking a leg as a freshman. Swayze enters his senior year wanting to prove he can remain healthy and earn a place on a college team.
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How have you changed in your approach to the game as you've gotten older?
Being a senior, I'm a lot smarter and know what's going on more. When I was younger, I was just trying to figure it out but now that I understand how everything works, I can start making more and more plays off of it.
How's the knee feeling after tearing your ACL last year?
It's feeling really good. I worked really hard in the spring and over the summer and it's finally starting to get back to where it was. It's holding up pretty well. I'm not wearing a brace or anything. I thought I would think about it a little bit when I was out on the field, but I really don't. Sometimes it gets a bit sore, but when I'm out on the field, I'm not worried about that.
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As the old real estate adage goes, the most important thing is location, location and location. Perhaps this is why this small beach attracts large crowds. Its proximity to Navy Pier, hotels and the posh Lake Point Towers keeps it a popular summer spot. The beach is also popular with triathletes looking to train for the aquatic portion of the race. Beware, the beach does not have bathrooms or a field house.
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Customer & Leadership: Is There A Formula / Recipe For Success?
I wish to acknowledge members of the 'methodology police', whom I met recently, for being the source of this conversation. Please note that for the purposes of this conversation I will use the terms formula, recipe, method, script, template interchangeably.
Is Success Reducible To A Formula/Recipe?
Is communicating with another reducible to a formula? Is relating and cultivating relationships with colleagues, clients, family and friends, reducible to a recipe? Does the co-creation of a 'good' customer experience yield to a predefined template? Does the successful implementation of a new CRM systems and the associated way of showing up and operating in the organisation yield to a specific method? Is great customer service reducible to a recipe? What about leadership: is the exercise of leading and leadership reducible to a formula?
YES. If I look at how it is that we show up and travel then it occurs to me that we operate on the basis that the answer is an unequivocal YES. Everything is reducible to a recipe: EVERYTHING. Which means that if the outcomes that we wish for are not showing up then the cause of the problem must be in one of the following domains:
- we are making it up as we go along as opposed to following a 'proven' formula;
we are not following the formula/method and as such we need to be manipulated (training, rewards, punishment) into following the one 'proven' formula; and
there is something wrong with the recipe, it is not 'tight' enough, or it is out of date.
Hence, our obsession in organisational worlds with the likes of processes and procedures, methodologies and methods, scripts, judgment-evaluation of people, criticism, praise, reward and punishment. With this deep rooted obsession we create a wide open clearing for all kind of charlatans to show up and sell their unique 'secret recipes' for success – in just any and every domain including the domains of Customer and Leadership.
What Constitutes The Deepest Lack Of Intelligence?
Is there a deeper lack of intelligence (stupidity) than seeking formulas/recipes for the major challenges of business, of education, of living and life? I say yes. What is the deeper stupidity? I say it is keeping our faith in the god like being of formula/recipe intact even when we have followed the formula/recipe and it has not generated the promised-desired outcome/s. Why do we do this? We do this because we grant, individually and collectively, divine status to formulas/recipes. Therefore, it makes sense to conclude that our understanding and/or application of the formula was at fault.
Words Of Wisdom
I invite you to listen to the speaking of one that shows up for me as speaking wisdom:
Once, several years ago, some friends and I enrolled in a cooking class taught by an Armenian matriarch and her aged servant. Since they spoke no English and we no Armenian, communication was not easy. She taught by demonstration; we watched (and diligently tried to quantify her recipes) as she prepared an array of marvellous eggplant and lamb dishes. But our recipes were imperfect; and try as hard as we could, we could not duplicate her dishes.
"What was it," I wondered, "that gave her cooking that special touch?" The answer eluded me until one day, when I was keeping a particularly keen watch on the kitchen proceeding, I saw our teacher, with great dignity and deliberation, prepare a dish. She handed it to her servant who wordlessly carried it into the kitchen, to the oven and, without breaking a stride, threw in handful after handful of assorted spices and condiments. I am convinced that those surreptitious "throw-ins" made all the difference….
But what are these "throw-ins", these elusive, "off the record" extras? They exist outside of formal theory, they are not written about, they are not explicitly taught. Therapist are often unaware of them ……. The critical ingredients are hard to describe, even harder to define. Indeed, is it possible to define and teach such qualities as compassion, "presence", caring, extending oneself, touching the patient at a profound level, or – that most elusive one of all – wisdom?
– Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Pyschotherapy
Concluding Thoughts For Your Consideration
I invite you to consider:
That the guru does not even have to be a charlatan for charlatanry to show up. How so? In this example, the matriarch, was not aware of the "throw-ins" that were being added to her recipe by her assistant.
Where human beings are intrinsic to the game being played, the access to effectiveness (generating the desired outcomes) lies in a sensitivity-attunement to the context in which the game is being played.
Sensitivity-attunement to the context allows you to figure out and put into the game the "throw-ins" that make the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
It is our addiction to slavishly following formulas/recipes that is the biggest obstacle to being attuned and responsive to the context and throwing in the most appropriate "throw-ins" for that particular context in that moment;
Insisting on and slavishly following formulas/recipes (including processes, procedures, scripts, methods etc) is the most significant barrier to effectiveness in the human realm. And that includes the dimensions of Customer (customer service, CRM, customer experience) and of Leadership.
You may disagree. If that is the case then I look forward to hearing what you say.
The Power of Essential Integrity In A World Where Integrity Is Lacking
You are most effective when you act out of essential human values. When you behave with integrity, you use the challenges in your life to express your higher self. You might not always achieve success, but you can always behave honourably……
Essential integrity allow you to develop strength, inner peace, and self confidence. It acts like a climbing harness, catching you when the challenges of the world prove too arduous. When you trust this harness, you feel more enthusiasm and less fear during the climb.
Essential integrity provides the secret to achieving happiness in a world where you will inevitably end up losing all your possessions – even your life and the lives of those you love.
– Fred Kofman, Conscious Business
I say that essential integrity is also the access to living the brand promise, treating employees and customer right, and cultivating enduring-meaningful relationships with all stakeholders including customers. Think Amazon. What does Amazon do amazingly well? Live the Amazon mission (of being the Earth's most customer-centric company) by keeping its promises to its customers.
I thank you for listening to my speaking. I am grateful that you exist and that in your listening my speaking finds fertile soil. I thank you for reaching out to me and letting me know that my speaking, my existence makes a difference to your existence. What is present between me and you is love.
Customer Service, Customer Experience, Customer-Centricity: Just Fluff?
Is Customer Experience just fluff?
Is all this talk of customer service, customer-centricity and customer experience merely fluff? That is the question that someone put to me recently. Allow me to answer that question from a practical perspective – lived experience at the coal face.
Imagine you are in this situation
Imagine that you review your Top 10 accounts and find that one of these accounts has been one of your longest customers. And this customer makes up a significant portion of your revenues and profits. You are grateful for the contribution that this customer makes to your business. And you have a problem to deal with and a decision to make.
Looking into this customer it occurs to you that if you can persuade this customer to move from their existing solution to one of your latest solutions you can cut the customer's monthly bill by half. The cost of doing this is obvious: substantial loss in revenue and profitability. The benefit? There is no obvious benefit. So the question is what to do? Should you leave the situation as it is and hope for the best? Or do you choose to contact the customer and spell out how the customer can save money?
Being unsure about what to do you consult with your customer strategy consultant. Together you look more deeply at the situation and you come up with following:
1. The customer got a significant saving when the customer switched to your business many years ago. Since then the market has changed mainly through new technology that has made available lower cost solutions.
2. The customer has not complained nor asked you to come in and give advice on how to save costs or help decide which solution best meets the customer's needs.
3. The customer is 'out of contract' and has been for sometime now. You are not sure that the customer even knows that this is the case.
4. Another supplier could approach this customer and offer to cut the customer's costs by half. If that were to happen then you might lose this customer. Or you might have to re-bid for the business to keep it.
5. Right now your business needs as much revenue and profit as it can produce. And talking to this customer and offering a solution that cuts billings by 50% does not show up as smart. You are not sure the Finance Director will support such a move.
What choice would you make?
Given this information, what is the smart thing to do? What is the right thing to do? What would you do if you were the CEO of this business?
Are you tempted to continue just as you are? Are you tempted to let things be? Are you tempted to take the least risky route? Are you tempted to do that which shows up as being the least hassle, and the most comfortable course of action?
Would you say to yourself something like "Now is not a good time to make revenue and profit sacrifices. Besides the customer is responsible for looking after his own interest and finding the best solution for his needs. In any case the customer has not made any complaints or asked for any price reductions which means that the customer is happy. It's best to leave things as they are. I am sure that we can match the offer any other supplier makes. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."?
Context-structure drives behaviour: why there is plenty of talk and little real action
Now you know how it is that there is so much talk about customer-centricity, customer relationships, customer experience, customer service, and customer obsession and so little real-effective action. Now you know what Robert Fritz is pointing at when he says "Structure drives behaviour". Put differently, we are always embedded in a specific context-situation and this context-situation has powerful impact on the choices we make. To go against the prevailing context-situation requires profound courage especially when you have taken over and are running a sound established business. You do not want to be the one that fails and is ridiculed, the one that loses his reputation, his status.
Please note that rather than blame people – Tops, Middles, Bottoms – it is more 'profitable' to look at the context-situation that is shaping the behaviour of Tops, Middles, and Bottoms. And it is true that Tops have more leverage over influencing-shaping changes, even transforming, the context-situation and thus enabling breakthroughs in performance.
The critical importance of courage: daring to be different, to take the road less travelled
Some do put courage into the game of business and life. They are the ones, if successful, build great companies. Look behind the scenes of customer experience exemplars (John Lewis, USAA, Amazon, Zappos, Apple, Zane's Cycles) and you will find one or more people that went against the taken for granted rules of the game.
Shiny Objects and Stupid Practices Won't Make You a Customer Loyalty Leader
Imagine coming across a car that grabs your attention – in particular you are taken with the handling and performance of the car. So you take a look at this car and identify the features that contribute to or help shape the performance of this car. Having done so, you set about adding those features – bigger tyres, different exhaust system, different engine – to your car. How likely is it that you car will generate the kind of performance that you are after? How likely is it that your car won't even start and if it does the performance will be less than it was before you added the 'shiny objects'?
Given that so few of us would be this stupid in the domain of cars why is it that so many are this stupid when it comes to the organisational domain? Why is it that so many organisational people take 'shiny objects' or 'best practices' and start adding them to their organisation in the expectation that they will replicate the success of high performing organisations?
Can you take this cherry picking approach to Customer Experience and customer loyalty? Can you just tack on a veneer of Customer Experience to your organisation and thus cultivate customer loyalty? Can you tack some Customer Experience 'shiny objects' (almost always these involve technology) and 'best practices', here and there in your organisation, and reap the benefits that come with a loyal customer base? No!
I want to take you back to 1993 and the wise word of Frederick Reichheld:
Building a highly loyal customer base cannot be done as an add-on. It must be integral to a company's basic business strategy. Loyalty leaders like MBNA are successful because they have designed their entire business systems around customer loyalty. They recognize that customer loyalty is earned by consistently delivering superior value ….. Designing and managing this self-reinforcing system is the key to achieving outstanding customer loyalty.
When a company consistently delivers superior value and wins customer loyalty, market share and revenues go up, and the cost of acquiring and serving customers goes down. Although the additional profits allow the company to invest in new activities that enhance value and increase the appeal to customers, strengthening loyalty generally is not a matter of simply cutting prices or adding product features. The better economics mean the company can pay workers better, which sets off a whole chain of events. Increased pay boosts employee morale and commitment; as employees stay longer, their productivity rises and training costs fall; employees' overall job satisfaction, combined with their knowledge and experience, leads to better service to customers; customers are then more inclined to stay loyal to the company; and as the best customers and employees become part of the loyalty- based system, competitors are inevitably left to survive with less desirable customers and less talented employees.


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Born Yesterday: Classic Rom-Com Mixes Love & Politics
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Prince George's Little Theatre opens its 52nd season with Born Yesterday, playwright Garson Kanin's classic comedy about relationships and politics, at Bowie Playhouse. In it, millionaire and junkyard tycoon Harry Brock has big business dealings in Washington, D.C., but his unschooled mistress starts to become a political embarrassment. Little does he know that once she realizes his moneymaking plans aren't on the straight and narrow, she will throw a monkey wrench into the whole business -- and politics will never be the same. Norma Ozur directs.
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Leeville residents, businesses hope boat launch is a boost
Published: Monday, July 14, 2014 at 12:04 p.m.
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It's summertime and Leeville is busy, but maybe not as busy as it will be this time next year.
Business owners in the town hope a long-awaited public boat launch will draw yet more recreational fishermen to the south Lafourche village.
Leeville is in slow transition and has been since its late 1800s foundation as Orange City, principal site of Lafourche's orange orchards.
Over the previous century, coastal erosion transformed what was once a residential community with cotton fields, rice patches and oak trees into what some call an exaggerated shoulder along La. 1 where the skeletons of long-dead oak stand as a reminder to the area's lost landscape. The area sits about 10 miles south of the levees of south Lafourche, with those who remain there increasingly threatened by storm surge and the steady encroachment of the Gulf.
The end of Leeville as a residential community began with the hurricane of 1950, according to South Lafourche Levee District director and local history enthusiast Windell Curole. It persisted as a major oil and gas exploration and production staging point until the '80s. Since then the commercial driver has been the waters' bounty.
Each year, thousands make their way to Leeville to fish in the marshes. It's generally considered one of the best inshore salt-water fishing spots in the state, said Bob Gourges, who runs his guide service and fishing TV show from Leeville.
While the fishing has been good, a more recent problem has been parking. Public boat launches already exist in Leeville, but parking is limited and costs a fee.
Business is good during the summer, said Kent Hornbeck, owner of Boudreaux's Waterfront Motel, between answering multiple phone calls to inform fishermen the motel is full.
"It has been so bad I had people coming and launch in their boats and then parking in my customers' spots," he said.
Hornback's motel is home to one of the launches in town, but parking is limited, and particularly busy weekends see trucks and empty boat trailers lining the road.
That will change with the construction of a new public launch, locals say.
The $1.1 million launch will be at the site of the old Leeville drawbridge. The first phase will accommodate about 60 trucks with boat trailers. It will have two 30-foot-wide concrete ramps and a kayak launching area.
A $487,000 federal grant from the Wildlife and Fisheries Wallop-Breaux Fund, $200,000 from the Greater Lafourche Port Commission and $413,000 from the Lafourche Parish Recreation Fund will pay for the launch.
Don Griffin, who owns Griffin's Marina in Leeville, said the launch will alleviate the inconvenience and danger of illegally parking alongside the road.
"It will generate more people coming down here. It will be easier for people to get their boat in the water. Especially local people who are not going to pay for a hotel room or something like that," Griffin said.
The launch is part of a continuing effort to brand Leeville as a fishing village, something it's been for years without tremendous promotion. The nonprofit Launch Leeville was key in obtaining a cultural designation from the state and organizing a festival in the town earlier this summer.
Plans also call for a handicap accessible fishing pier. Launch Leeville Founder Janet Rhodus hopes such a thing could be comparable to the bridge to Grand Isle, which is regularly packed with fishermen dropping lines from the bridge.
Beyond the unending creeping of water, another problem for Leeville businesses has been the rerouting of La. 1 — which leads to the booming oil port at Fourchon — to a new elevated bridge, partially cutting off the town from through traffic that fed it for decades.
In the next decade, plans have the elevated highway completely bypassing Leeville. Some feared that would spell the end of the marinas and bait shops that sit alongside the few dozen full-time residents and last remaining oilfield outfits.
But as water continues to encroach expensively close to everything in Leeville, business owners and fishermen say the fish will keep people coming.
"It's just a great place to fish and get away," said Baton Rouge resident James Edwards after his least successful day fishing in Leeville on Saturday. "If I had the money, I'd definitely have a camp around here. Just to get away."
The launch is expected to be complete in October.
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Green Day Unleash 'Nuclear Family' Video
Green Day, 'Nuclear Family'
Green Day, 'Nuclear Family'
The band has an unwelcome interruption in Bologna, Italy.
Who said pigs can't fly? It certainly wasn't Green Day, as the Californian punk trio has teamed up with video game developer Rovio to create a new musical episode for the ubiquitous 'Angry Birds Friends' mobile game franchise. The 'Angry Birds: Green Day Edition' includes 10 never-before-seen themed levels and new "bad pig" characters inspired by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and his bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool.
Here's the second release from the upcoming album "Uno!"
Fans are treated to a 24-song set at the Echoplex in Los Angeles.
Green Day's new single, 'Oh Love,' which recently landed a No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts, is now being featured on an exclusive EP available only at Walmart.
The tribute to Amy Winehouse warns of what can happen once the party is over.
Last week, Green Day released 'Oh Love,' the first single off their forthcoming 'Uno!' album, and the song has already made a major impact at radio. In fact, 'Oh Love' becomes just the third song in the history of the Billboard Rock Songs chart to debut at No. 1 on the tally, racking up 13 million first-week audience impressions from 145 reporting stations in the process.
"Please don't pass me by," Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sings near the beginning of 'Oh Love,' the first single from the first album of his band's forthcoming trio of full-length releases, which are titled '¡Uno!,' '¡Dos!,' and '¡Tre!' and are scheduled to drop in a series starting in September of this year, running through January 2013. While there was a period in the early part of the decade when it looked like music fans had moved on from Green Day, it seems like these days they have nothing to worry about — nobody is going to be passing them by.
Green Day have released the new single 'Oh, Love' from their upcoming album, '¡Uno!' Listen to it here.
If you think Green Day have been busy just by the wealth of music coming your way over the next six months, you'd be correct. But also putting in the hours of late have been the filmmakers behind a pair of documentaries that are expected to be released in coordination with the band's upcoming album trilogy.
After taking a detour for steely-eyed cultural criticism with their last two albums, 'American Idiot' and '21st Century Breakdown,' the grown-up pop-punkers in Green Day are returning to their hookier, scrappier roots with their upcoming trilogy of '¡Uno!,' "¡Dos!,' and "¡Tre!,' described by Billie Joe Armstrong as "somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles."


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Ever since Disney acquired Marvel last year, they've made it clear that one of their initiatives will be to bring some of these superheroes to the small screen. One of the first Marvel characters to invade your television sets looks to be The Incredible Hulk, and according to Deadline Disney is moving forward on the project by bringing on two big guns: Guillermo Del Toro and David Eick. Del Toro you know as being the guy who brought us the Hellboy movies, Pan's Labyrinth and almost directed The Hobbit, while Eick was an executive producer of Battlestar Galactica. So, yeah, if these two guys can't get it right, then there really isn't much hope for the big green guy. Expect the series, which looks to be live action like the old late-70s Hulk TV show, to hit the small screen in 2012.
Holy TV Series, Batman!
It's a big rumor, but it's one that kinda makes sense. Comic Book Movie claims via a source that Warner Bros. is in the very early stages of piecing together a Batman TV series that will pick up after The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters. This would be a way for the studio to carry on the Batman story (a la Smallville), while re-casting it and possibly bringing back the Joker. Early casting suggests Karl Urban may be one of the potential Batmans they're looking at, but it's still way too early to get your hopes up – this may all just be a fantasy. Nevertheless, we expect Warners is already thinking ahead to life after Christopher Nolan, and a TV series – perhaps one linked to a future film franchise – may just do the trick.
MTV Launches Trailer for 'Teen Wolf' TV Show
Though it borrowed the name of the popular '80s movie starring Michael J. Fox, the upcoming MTV series looks to have absolutely nothing to do with the cult flick. Instead, MTV's Teen Wolf will be taking a more serious, Twilight-esque approach to the material, with a story about a teen who's bitten by a wolf and then brought into some sort of weird cat-and-mouse game that has him running from "the bad guys", one of which happens to be his new girlfriend's father.
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The Classic Corvette Club UK held their 30th Anniversary Nationals show recently and corvette owners turned out to display a variety of the classic American sports car from all generations. Like most shows, participants entered Corvettes ranging from stock through modified, race cars and recreations. Some of the customs are very well done and so we thought a pictorial feature would be nice to show what our brothers and sisters from across the pond are doing to their Corvettes.
Customized Corvettes
Here is a former 2006 SEMA car that was ahead of its time. The Genaddi Design Group heard the requests from Corvette owners early on and built this one-off custom roadster out of a Corvette Z06. It can now be yours for the low, low price of $175K.
Director Michael Bay has turned his 3D cameras to Chicago to provide the backdrop for more robot vs robot mayhem and the new Corvette Stingray Concept appeared to be in the thick of it along with several NASCAR themed Decepticons. Bumblebee reprises his role in the Camaro and Optimus Prime gains a trailer. Exciting stuff for sure!
Corvette's Head Designer Kirk Bennion has a new ride this summer: A 2011 Inferno Orange Corvette Z06. The Corvette is outfitted with stripes from the Genuine Corvette Accessories catalog and are Cyber Gray in color. We agree that the color matches well with the first year Inferno Orange as does the black front splitter and rear body-length spoiler.
Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction is kicking off their new Orange County event this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The three day auction will televised by SPEED and the docket currently contains 31 Corvettes. With Orange County considered the birthplace of customizing and hotrods, it seems appropriate that nearly a third of the Corvettes are customs and resto-mods.
Last week we unearthed a picture of the Corvette Sting Ray Concept with its top chopped in Beverly Hills. We were able to point out numerous differences between the original concept car and the convertible pictured which led us to believe it was a kit, albeit poorly done. However, a youtube video has surfaced taken by a bystander during filming of Transformers 3 in Los Angeles that leads us to believe that the Corvette Sting Ray Concept has indeed lost its top for the third and final chapter of the popular movie franchise.
Ahh, Southern California. The land where fact and fiction can blur and what you see may not always be the case. That's what we think when taking a look at a Speedster version of the 50th Anniversary Corvette Stingray Concept that was recently spotted parked on a street in Beverly Hills.
In addition to GM releasing the MSRP pricing for the 2011 Corvettes, we also have the pricing for dealer installed Genuine Corvette Accessories. These include the 7-Spoke and 15-spoke wheels designs, mesh screens and the popular full width spoiler. Pricing also is shown for three "Ultimate Exterior Appearance Packages".
Is the economy so bad that even SpeedRacer has to part with his famous Mach 5 race car? Actually, we were tipped to this unique Corvette-based Mach 5 from a twitter user who passed by it on Ventura Boulevard where the car was on the lot of Woodland Hills Quality Motors in LA. The body style is similar to one of Mark Towle's The Real Mach 5 replicas down to the wheels, but I couldn't tell you if this is one of his or not. You can be SpeedRacer for just $27,995 although we are pretty sure that it doesn't come with a monkey.
Here is a beautiful Callaway Speedster that is listed for sale over at Fantasy Junction. This 1999 Corvette C12 Callaway Speedster is one of only two C12 speedsters produced and the execution of this special purpose-built Corvette is by far one of the best I've ever seen. Check out some pics of this awesome metallic blue Callaway after the jump.