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Woman Dies in Fall From Angel's Landing
I went from Zion today. I thout it would be cool to hike up Angels Landing. But, on the bus they taked about the trail, and now I never want to go on angel landing hike. I have very good balance but i'm clumsy i have been ever sence I was little.
Hearing about all the people who died did not make me more scared, It made me sad but they knew the risk.
When i heard that some one took there baby up on the trail that made me mad. Who would put there kids, there baby in that risk. It sounds like to me theydon't care about there baby safty. There stupid but, it was there choose, stupid but it was up to them it is there kid and always will be.
I will never do that take my kid on that trail, and you who all that are reading this i hope you dont neather.
Remember be careful waer the right shoes, have every thing that you need, and lots and lots of water.
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
Let's be clear: wilderness should be open to bikes as Congress contemplated it when it passed the act over 40 years ago (look it up... it's in the notes). Bikes are no more mechanized than carbon fiber hiking poles and do less damage than horses. The number of visitors to the parks is dwindling every year. Opening wilderness to biking makes logical senses and would bring back people to their parks. The banning of bikes from wilderness is not based on objective science but rather some illogical reasoning. The pseudo environmentalists hang on to the ban as a way to appropriate to themselves a public good. Get used to it, at some point, reason will prevail and bikes will be allowed in wilderness once again.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
Frank C--
I am not providing a study, only speaking from personal experience. Every time I visit a USFS area in NM to camp or hike, I see signs that are shot up. I have seen similar shot up signs on BLM and USFS lands in other states. One sees little of this kind of thing in the weapons-free national parks. I think there is a relationship.
Someone in the above posts mentioned the fact that most law enforcement organizations oppose concealed weapon regulations. He or she claimed they did so because of a question of power. I think that is a bogus argument. They oppose concealed weapon regs because they know that the more guns there are, the more dangerous their jobs are. That's why both the organizations that represent rangeers in the NPS, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge and tha Association of National Park Rangers (of which I am a member even though retired) oppose the proposed new NPS reg. I kinow you think that their views are irrelevant. I don't.
Rick Smith
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
It seems all we're getting are slippery slope arguments and straw men.
Arguers also often link the slippery slope fallacy to the straw man fallacy in order to attack the initial position:
1. A has occurred (or will or might occur); therefore
2. B will inevitably happen. (slippery slope)
3. B is wrong; therefore
4. A is wrong. (straw man)
This form of argument often provides evaluative judgments on social change: once an exception is made to some rule, nothing will hold back further, more egregious exceptions to that rule.
Note that these arguments may indeed have validity, but they require some independent justification of the connection between their terms: otherwise the argument (as a logical tool) remains fallacious.
A is the change in concealed carry permit rules.
B is the killing of people, wildlife, signs, and windows.
Unless someone can show a valid study of concealed weapons permit holders in a comparable environment, say in Forest Service land, that shows that allowing people to carry concealed weapons in these areas leads to a higher incident of people, wildlife, sings, and windows being shot, these arguments remain fallacious.
I look forward to reviewing some facts.
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
Dave, unlike IMBA's track record on this issue, in which, once they got their feet in the door, they slowly expanded what they really seem to want from the National Park Service, I think the Traveler's position has been clear from the get-go, as I previously noted.
That said, as to your concerns:
* The photo was taken of IMBA riders at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It was an IMBA event and so I thought representative of the vision IMBA had of riding in the parks. It certainly seems to mesh with Jenn Dice's thoughts on what mountain bikers want.
* You're absolutely right, of course, about hikers being just as likely to bring invasive species into parks as cyclists.
* As I mentioned, "cut" is vernacular for trail building, whether for hikers, cyclists or equestrians.
* I'll let Jenn Dice's words speak for themselves. I think she made herself clear.
* I, too, have been known to ride mountain bikes. Got one in my garage, as a matter of fact. I've also been known to water ski. But I don't think all national parks should be open for water skiing and power boating. Ditto for snowmobiling.
Finally, watch for a piece Sunday on IMBA and their views on wilderness areas.
And, as D-2 and Bob have already pointed out, I don't get paid a dime for this website.
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
You are quite correct, d-2. Dave's remark is way out of line. Everyone who writes for Traveler is an unpaid volunteer. Kurt also has significant out-of-pocket expenses that aren't reimbursed.
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
Dave, I don't think it is correct to say Kurt gets paid. My understanding is this is a webside serviced by volunteers. To be fair.
"Talking" Buoys Deployed Along Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail
Given the unique nature of the trail, it seems like this buoy project is a form of "cell phone interpretation" that most Park advocates can all agree on. It looks like an innovative approach to tell this important story in a very unique sort of Park...
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
I find it disappointing that you don't respond to any of the substantive criticisms from the posts above mine, nor the points I made, but chose to respond by going off on my use of the word disingenuous. I don't expect to change your point of view, but I hope you'll hear me out, and then maybe respond thoughtfully to my comments and those that preceded mine.
First, let me stipulate some things. I'm a backpacker, as well as a cyclist. I work in an environmental field that requires education and persuasion.
I don't want to see bicycles on the John Muir trail or riding through the Gettysburg Battlefield or the like, and I can't help but see this move from the White House as a somewhat self-serving gesture. I also understand the difference between the NPS mission and that of the other agencies.
That said, I do think that on a case by case basis, park managers could establish a very clear set of guidelines, then look at fire roads and yes, trails, using those guidelines, to see if some bicycle traffic could be compatible with that trail, it's surrounding, and the overall use of that trail. Criteria would include topography, degree of use, soil types, potential conflicts with other users, whatever was really relevant to the issue at hand. There are trail quotas and permits already required in some situations, and this could be a way to manage bikes, again, on very specific routes. With a careful process, you could pick trails that would still allow for quiet contemplation of nature.
When I used the word "disingenuous in regards to your opinion piece, I did it for some very specific reasons. It's not that you weren't clear where you stood. You are. But even with the opinion writer's option to cherry-pick your facts, you resorted to a series of emotionally loaded devices to get your point across. Here are a few:
- The use of the photo at the top, of speeding bikers kicking up dust on a dirt road, is visually loaded. Consider the different image that would be projected by a photo of cyclists climbing towards beautiful scenery or looking at a view.
- Your repeated use of the word "cut" when discussing whether a given existing route could be administratively opened to a new use;
- Your comparison of IMBA to the NRA; I don't know about you, but the two organizations couldn't be much more different in my mind, and Jenn Dice sure has a different style of communication from the NRA's Wayne LaPierre;
- Your singling out bike tire and gear cleaning in Hawaii, as if those same risks of non-native plants didn't exist from hiker's shoes and equipment;
I could go on, but I won't. You get paid for this and I don't. I'm a supporter of National Parks. I also believe in reasonable regulations based on transparent, objective criteria. I don't see a compatibility problem with those two sets of values.
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
The opponents to opening trails to mountain bikers never talk about their real motivation: selfishness. They just don't want to share the trails with other users. The arguments about safety, erosion, sense of belonging, and whatever else one comes up with is utter nonsense. The real motivation here is that established users just don't want to share their recreational areas with others. These national parks belong to all of us, and as such, should be shared with as many people as possible, as long the usage is appropriate. Mountain biking is a low impact environmentally friendly mode of recreation, just like hiking. Most of the backcountry is completely empty anyway, as few people ever venture more than a few miles from the trailhead. Let's open the backcountry to mountain bikers for all of us to enjoy our national parks.
How to Hijack a National Park
Jim and MRC, I can agree that the momument belongs to the nation - because, by definition, all units of the NPS belong to the nation. The question is - should it? What about other monuments like George Rogers Clark and Perry's Victory? NPS gets these places, like JNEM, because a local government started in and then could not afford to finish it or operate it. Even Mount Rushmore came to the NPS this way. The Arch is a beautiful piece of engineering and fantastic icon - but so is the Empire State Building and Golden Gate Bridge. They are symbols of America. Doesn't mean the citizens of America have to run them.
How to Hijack a National Park
Recall that whole blocks of historically buildings on the waterfront were destroyed so that arch could be built. Filling in the open space with crap would be the ultimate insult.
Imagine the Impacts of Climate Change on the National Park System
Frank C., I think there's a similar report to yours (loose in facts) that was put out sometime ago by Exxon...and like oil companies. I don't put much credence in oil company research teams, especially when they exploit the motto:Drill baby drill! This very idea that we're playing Russian roulette with our global environment, I can only foresee terrible and dire consequences for are stupidity...especially what has transcended down from this present lame and duck administration. Being a backpacker throughout the Sierra Mountains for the past 30 years, I can honestly say there has been some abrupt and subtle changes in the terrestrial environment surrounding Yosemite National Park. The famed plant ecologist and naturalist ranger from Yosemite, Carl Sharsmith once told me (some 20 years ago, to paraphrase) I no longer hear the chorus of song birds at different intervals of the day...as I did so many, many years ago. And, today I stretch my ears just to hear a simple warbler sing...so sad! I guess this wouldn't rile the oil industry one bit, despite all the effects of global warming on our floral and fauna in our National Parks. What lies ahead for the next generation in this country...I'm not sure. Perhaps and most likely a wilted and dying natural heritage exploited for greed, rape and pillage. This should be one of the most critical topics to be pressing on Kurt's blog...not meaningless drivel over hand guns in the National Parks.
Longtime Yosemite Wilderness Ranger Retires
I volunteered in her department the summer of 2001 when she led Laura Bush through the High Sierra Camps with her friends. I dropped off her Dodge at the Cathedral Lakes Trail head and then hiked in on a Wilderness Technician patrol that did a big loop from there to Merced Lake and then back to Tuolumne Meadows. I met the party during my hike, and forgot to get a picture! Partisanship aside, a first lady is a first lady! Laurel did a great job of training me for my job, and it was really neat to see her guiding Laura.
--Nora Curiel
How to Hijack a National Park
Never been there, don't plan to go soon, but let me get my .02 into this: The Jefferson Expansion Memorial is meant to be a symbol for the whole nation. And it is about reaching out, into the open space of the West. Well, the west wasn't that open, at least from a Native American point of view, but let's ignore that. So the arch, the river and the surrounding space were designed by Eero Saarinen to been seen as one thing. The arch only works with the river and the open space, that symbolizes the West.
Sacrificing the open spaces for the perceived benefit of local business seems to ruin the whole idea of the memorial. The arch does not belong to St. Louis, but to the nation.
Maybe it's a good thing that funding for large projects will be harder to get for a few years to come.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
Now let me follow this logic carefully: someone commits a crime in the woods, which magically causes a game warden to appear at the scene of the said crime (maybe Lassie barked for an hour to get the warden up out of his easy chair). Now instead of fleeing the vicinity of the crime the evil gun-toter waits in the woods so he or she can "shoot the dude".
Hmmmmmmm......that's very plausible except for one thing, the NPS has no "game wardens" but otherwise your scenario rings true in every possible way. Glad you brought it to our attention.
How to Hijack a National Park
Not everyone would agree, but if a consensus were to be reached on your position, then the area should be transferred entirely to the city or state, rather than diluted on a piece-meal basis as this legislation would do.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
This will cause more Game wardens to get their brains blown out. Someone will commit a crime and a Game Warden willl investigate and the person will just shoot the dude instead of dealing with what the hell could happen if there were indifferent repercussions. These permits were designed for Black bear areas of the country. But I would want to carry a gun in case I came across a Black bear who wanted to eat my arse.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
Anonymous: You are clearly not reading the entirety of my posts. As I mentioned, I do NOT own a gun. Secondly, I have not made the argument that people should be able to carry weapons on private property; of course the Bill of Rights is a limit on FEDERAL power only. If a private shopping mall or a private bank or a private land owner wants to prohibit people from carrying weapons on their land, fine! But the Second Amendment restricts the federal government's ability to infringe upon the rights of the people to carry weapons on federal land, such as national parks, national forests, etc. Please re-read my posts carefully before setting up a strawman argument.
Beamis' claim that most NPS employees have a liberal bias is laughable
Laughable how spot on it is. But unfortunately, I don't believe there is any real evidence to back up either opinion. Each side only has anecdotes, and my anecdotes differ substantially from Mr. Smith's.) The CNPSR states that "in their personal lives, CNPSR members reflect the broad spectrum of political affiliations." I'd be interesting in how CNPSR knows this to be a fact? Are members required to divulge their political affiliation? Maybe a statistical survey should be done, but with only 675 members, everyone would need to be surveyed for validity. Maybe the CNPSR could pay to have a true statistical survey done on the political affiliation of the twenty-some thousand NPS employees. I'd wager good money that the NPS is composed primarily of Liberal employees, especially in the trenches. (Clearly political employees and upper "elites" are reflective of the current administration's political affiliation.)
Until someone presents some valid evidence, you can laugh at Beamis' claim all you want, but you can't disprove it.
And the political composition of the NPS is a key component of this discussion. Bias must be addressed, especially when it comes to surveys like this. No one has yet to produce evidence that this survey is statistically valid, and any biases inherent in the survey are also up for discussion. Of course, the CNPSR, if it wants to defend the validity its survey, should proffer any data it has for the political composition of its membership. Without addressing this issue, I'd have to conclude that such evidence doesn't exist or the evidence shows that the majority of CNPSR members are liberal.
How to Hijack a National Park
It's about time. This place is not a national park - it's an amusement park. The NPS spends more than $10 million a year managing this ride and museum - something that the private sector could do with the income generated. I will acknowledge that the court house story of the Dred Scott decision is worth preserving as a state historical site. This was created by the City or St. Louis and only became a national memorial by Executive Order. The ability of this site to manage itself with fee income and use St. Louis police for law enforcement is a perfect example of the kind of park we can do without in the national park system.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
Unless there is some compelling evidence that concealed carry is a tangible threat to park resources and public safety this rule change should go through and receive the full support and acquiescence of the NPS as well as its retirees. End of story. It WILL happen and everyone should get on board with it just as the Forest Service and other agencies have in the past. The idea that this simple adjustment of the rules will somehow transform national parks into the OK Corral is ludicrous.
By the way I've never known very many cops who want the public to be armed. It's a threat to their monopoly on power and probably makes 'em a little nervous, which is probably a good thing given all of the power they now possess in the era of "Homeland Security".
Long gone are the days of Barney Fife with his lone bullet stored in his shirt pocket. I'm sure Andy and ol' Barn didn't begrudge folks having their guns because that made their jobs easier and spread the coverage of personal protection throughout Mayberry more evenly.
As for CNPSR, I don't really care for lobbying arms of special interest groups, regardless of their cause. They tend to be agenda driven and therefore irrelevant, in most cases, to objective discussion. No offense was intended towards Rick (as I have no idea what groups he is a member of) but will stick by my stand that what an organization of NPS retirees has to say about concealed carry rules is less than relevant in making a true determination of what the law should be concerning the Constitutional right to bear arms in national parks.
Interior Officials Planning To Make It Easier for Mountain Bikers to Gain Backcountry Access in Parks
IMBA's track record in dealing with the Park Service and in the importance of single-track opportunities as outlined above is accurate to the best of my knowledge. Even Mr. Eller didn't challenge it, though he did challenge PEER's contention that the proposed rule would shield superintendents from following NEPA. I've made calls to doublecheck that and am still awaiting a firm answer.
The NPS communications staff in Washington couldn't tell me unequivocally that an environmental assessment would be necessary, though they did say the public would be involved in any trail decisions. That said, there have been parks that have permitted mountain bike trails without doing EA's.
One case in point is Mammoth Cave, which in 1999 opened 13.7 miles of trail to mountain bikes after being approached by a local group of cyclists. Here's some history, provided by the park, on that endeavor:
From 1999-2004, virtually all of the maintenance on Sal Hollow trail was performed by volunteers from the Bowling Green League of Bicyclists, who donated hundreds of hours of labor to maintain and improve the trail. Their work included some significant reroutes of this trail. During most of this period, the hikers, horseback riders, and bicyclists shared the trails without any conflicts reported.
However, in 2004 the bicyclists began to report that portions of the work they had completed were being impacted during wet periods by horseback riders who also used the trail. Park management responded to this issue by temporarily closing Sal Hollow Trail to horseback riding in 2004. Sal Hollow remains closed to horseback riding in 2006; all of Buffalo Trail and Turnhole Bend Trail which is open to bicycles also remains open to horses and hikers.
The Sal Hollow Trail closure resulted in considerable visitor feedback, including positive comments from hikers and bikers, and negative comments from the equestrian community. Mainly as a result of this issue, the local horseback-riding community organized into a new interest group in 2004, the Mammoth Cave Equestrian Trail Riders Association.
The primary objectives of this association were to keep all horse-trails open, and promote safe, eco-friendly riding in the park. A similar negative response from the equestrian community was generated in 2005, when the park announced the possibility of opening some administrative roads to bikes under a new nationwide agreement between the National Park Service and the International Mountain Bike Association.
During a public comment period for this proposal, the horseback-riding community submitted approximately 700 comments in opposition to opening any roads which would be shared by horses and bikes, primarily citing safety concerns posed by sharing trails. The biking community submitted less than a dozen responses in favor of the proposal during this period. The park's action on this matter was to open four administrative roads to bicycles on the south side of the river, which are not used by horses (about 5 miles total), but none on the north side.
Currently, the park has a total of approximately 80 miles of trails open to various user groups. All trails are open to hiking, approximately 50 miles are open to horses, and approximately 20 miles are open to bikes. In 2005, park management called on each of the three primary backcountry user groups (the Mammoth Cave Equestrian Trail Riders Association, the Bowling Green League of Bicyclists and the Mammoth Cave Chapter of the Sierra Club), to form a single coalition, the Mammoth Cave Backcountry Summit Council, in order to facilitate communication and exchange information directly with each other and the NPS regarding backcountry issues at the park. This group has since met semi-annually, and has found common ground on a number of issues, including enhancing resource protection and supporting the maintenance and sustainability of all trails in the park.
The Traveler's point of view has been steadfast: There already are quite a few mountain bike options in the national park system -- roughly 40 parks, I believe, offer some opportunities. Plus, there are thousands more trails -- dirt roads, double tracks, single tracks -- on BLM and U.S. Forest Service lands.
As I've pointed out many times before, NPS has a much different management mandate than do those other two agencies. With all the existing opportunities, I just don't see the need to "cut" or "build" -- frankly, even in footpath vernacular the word most used in my experience is "cut" -- single-track biking trails in the national parks.
Are there dirt roads that could be opened to mountain bikers? Very possibly. The Traveler currently sees no problem with that option.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
Just to set the record straight, like Jim, I was a protection ranger and carried a weapon for at least half my career. I don't think our points of view are irrelevant.
Beamis' claim that most NPS employees have a liberal bias is laughable. During my 31 years in the NPS, I met far more conservatives than I did liberals.
Rick Smith
Conservation Groups Sue to Cut Air Pollution Over Great Smoky Mountains National Park
In my view, the answer to this problem is a no brainer: nuclear power.
It's 100% clean. It's renewable. It's safe to operate, and the transportation and storage of nuclear waste have been scientifically proven to be safe. Most of the power generated in France comes from nuclear power.
People in the Southern Appalachians need power - there's no getting around that fact. We can continue doing it the old way using coal-fired plants, or we can solve the problem by switching to nuclear energy.
Survey Predicts Change in National Park Gun Regulations Will Lead to Wildlife Shootings, Management Problems
Re: "it's not that people are trying to change the Second Amendment; it's that people are ignoring it. What about the right to keep and bear arms "shall not be infringed" is unclear? "
Ho, ho, ho. Try taking your gun into a military base, on an airplane, on a tour of the White House (a national park by the way), or into Disneyland. There are a lot of places you cannot bring guns - public and private places - so enough of the idea that you are Constitutionally permitted to bring a gun anywhere you want.
What is amazing are the number of comments on this topic every time it comes up. What is it with people and guns? Why do gun owners have such a visceral reaction to guns? You would think the most important thing in their lives is to own a gun. If you define your life by your ownership of a gun, I think there are some problems. I carried one for 20 years as a law enforcment officer and don't own one personally or miss it a bit.


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Delegation invites GCC Vice-Chairman and MD to Nashik
VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh Girijan Cooperative Corporation and Maharastra State Cooperative Tribal Development Corporation (Nashik) would work together and exchange their expertise in various areas.
A high-power delegation from Maharastra, headed by the Minister for Tribal Development (Maharastra) Vijay Kumar Gavit, visited GCC and studied its activities here.
The team expressed satisfaction at the functioning of the GCC in marketing the forest produce and generating employment to the landless poor.
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THE CABIN, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN these parts, is out in the middle of nowhere. Getting there requires so many crisscrosses on so many primitive unmapped roads that the visitor's expectations are scarcely prepared for the meager payoff. Situated on a flat expanse of cactus, greasewood, and curiously colored rocks, the two-room wood cabin resembles a slightly oversized pink outhouse. Aside from the amateurish mural of a coyote and an owl painted on the door, the dwelling is profoundly featureless. The sheer act of building it way out in the desert must have been a labor of love, which is itself odd, since its setting offers no coveted overlook and the mountains of Big Bend National Park are distant black monoliths off to the east. The nearest human neighbor is five miles away; until reporters found out about the cabin in mid-April, its likeliest visitors were coyotes, mule deer, rattlesnakes, and above all, the desert dust and the murderous West Texas heat.
The owner of the cabin, a Schenectady, New York, resident named David Kaczynski, was not the kind to appreciate the breakneck speed with which the national news media discovered his retreat on the Terlingua Ranch. David did not equip his cabin with a telephone or a television; in a sense, he had moved here in the early eighties to hide out from all that. His being here in the desert bespoke an anguished quarrel with the civilized world, which, it now appears, a Kaczynski could resolve one way or quite another. There is no crime in being the kind of loner that David Kaczynski was. He was a loner who could love. He loved nature, so much so that he slept in a hand-dug hole for a couple of years while building his cabin, that he might remain close to the desert. He loved Linda Patrik, the woman whose initials he wrote with his own in the cabin's concrete foundation—loved her so much, in fact, that in 1990 he moved to Schenectady to be her husband, thereafter returning to the desert only in the winter. And David very much loved his older brother, Ted, who also lived in a remote cabin, some 1,400 miles north of the Terlingua area, near Lincoln, Montana. So much did he love Ted that when he began to suspect that his big brother was the infamous Unabomber—suspected, that is to say, that Ted had spent the past eighteen years sending out letter bombs that had killed 3 people and injured another 23—David agonized for at least four months until his love for humanity prevailed. An intermediary contacted the FBI this past January, and two months later federal agents arrested Ted. A search of the Montana cabin yielded mounds of damning evidence but also a few oddities—among them a stack of letters written to Ted by a laborer at the Terlingua Ranch named Juan Sánchez Arreola, who comes from the border town of Ojinaga, Mexico. Intrepid reporters made haste to Ojinaga and located Sánchez, who explained that he and the suspected Unabomber had been pen pals since 1988 at the suggestion of a man who had befriended Sánchez: David Kaczynski, brother, cabin builder, hole digger, Terlingua desert rat.
David is now gone, but the Chihuahuan desert remains full of kindred spirits. I drove there recently, seeking out those who best understand the call of the wild that beckoned both brothers from the modern world. The hermits I encountered are scattered throughout the desert, dozens of miles in every direction—as far north as the upper boundaries of the Terlingua Ranch (the 200,000-acre rough-and-tumble development south of Alpine populated by some 4,900 landowners) and as far south as Redford. But what holds them together as an unstructured but otherwise meaningful community is the capital of this misfit mecca, the ghost town of Terlingua itself. Once a hotbed of quicksilver mining until carpetbagging profiteers gave up the ghost in 1942, the rubble-strewn village stoops drowsily upon a couple of square miles just to the north of Ranch Road 170, the Big Bend thoroughfare to Mexico. David Kaczynski was no stranger to the town, having spent much of the early eighties house-sitting in the vicinity. More to the point, however, the Terlingua area is where even a bitter recluse like Ted Kaczynski might have had a shot at contentment.
Terlingua is the state's last outpost for outcasts, for those maligned American loners who fashion their own crude American dream in the anonymity of the desert. As one longtime Terlinguan, Paul Wiggins, puts it, "A lot of who and what we are can't be explained by American mores. We're just a neglected corner of America, outside of its infrastructure." Here in Terlingua Country, less is more: A one-room cabin lacking water and electricity fits right in, and in a region where census takers have discovered people living in cars, caves, and shacks made of hay or automobile tires, no one would think twice about a fellow who sleeps in a hole. The only unwelcome guest is progress, though its trespasses are becoming more noticeable—and when mention is made of this reality, you can hear in the angry rhetoric of the Terlinguans echoes of the resentment that ticked within the Unabomber.
But no one in Terlingua builds bombs or pens 35,000-word polemics decrying the Industrial Revolution. I would have thought differently ten years ago, when I first got a glimpse of the leathery faces, snarled hair, and raggedy clothes of the figures who perched themselves on the porches of the Terlingua Trading Company and the Study Butte Store. They looked incalculable to a yuppie tourist passing through, though the very fact of their existence in the West Texas wasteland seemed om-inous. As my appreciation for the desert's brutal majesty grew, my fear of its inhabitants diminished, but only so much. The questions kept coming back: Why would people choose to live here? And what would happen to them if they did?
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Brasserie Edgar - This brasserie specializes in French cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Edgar Cafe Lounge - Onsite bar. Happy hour is offered.
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- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.69 per person, per night
- Breakfast fee: between EUR 8.50 and EUR 15 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 8 per night
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July 15, 2011
CHEYENNE, Wyoming: Earlier this year the joint interim committee on Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions adopted a set of principles intended to guide Wyoming's redistricting process.[1]
Notably absent from the list was consideration of where legislators reside. In other words, legislator's will be unable to defend a peculiar shape to a district in the name of keeping name recognition for the incumbent. This opens the door to incumbent legislators' being drawn into the same district and forced to compete for re-election.[1]
That decision prompted some contentious public meetings recently over how much to factor current incumbents into maps.[1]
"When we are redistricting the state, it doesn't matter whose district is whose. Some folks might be redistricted out because the districts are not cast in stone," said Peter Illoway (R), committee chair.[1] Nationwide, these pairings are not uncommon, and most state maps include a few pairings. Some of these are the result of demographic and geographic necessity while others are an attempt to eliminate partisan rivals.
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You may want to lay down a protective layer of plastic around your listening area, because Jessie J's latest single is gonna blow your f**king mind. OK, OK, after listening to Bang Bang my head remains unexploded. But still, you can't be too careful. The UK songstress's first solo feature since last October's Thunder, this brassy promo cut features Jessie showcasing her powerful pipes, not to mention her feminine wiles, over some bombastic production by Max Martin. Republic Records songstress Ariana Grande turns in a similarly dynamic performance on verse two, and Nicki Minaj ties it all together with a flowed closing 16. Bang Bang isn't currently attached to a larger project. Keep it locked for the latest from Jessie J, including details on the still-unscheduled Stateside release of her latest LP, Alive.
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For over 30 years, Lucy has been held captive in a small zoo enclosure in frigid Edmonton, Alberta, and for more than three years, she's been without the companionship of other elephants.
Lucy's life at the Edmonton Valley Zoo—which was identified by elephant biologist Winnie Kiiru as the worst zoo in Canada for elephants—is a miserable contrast to what she would experience in the wild. Female elephants are highly social and suffer greatly when kept in isolation. Edmonton's freezing winter weather and the zoo's policy of locking Lucy indoors during the winter and when the zoo is closed means that Lucy spends the majority of her time in a small barn. When she is allowed outside, she is restricted to an enclosure that is less than an acre in size.
Lucy exhibits signs of mental distress and has health issues—including upper respiratory problems, arthritis, obesity, and chronic foot ailments—as a result of the substandard and inadequate conditions at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. These health problems are further aggravated by the region's frigid climate.
The city of Toronto recently agreed to release the elephants at its city zoo to a sanctuary by the end of 2012 and also formally urged Edmonton to do the same with Lucy. This is a huge step forward, and it's time for Edmonton to follow Toronto's example!
The only way to ensure that Lucy's suffering doesn't continue—and that her health conditions don't eventually kill her—is to transfer her to a sanctuary. The Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in California can offer Lucy ponds for bathing, fresh vegetation and foraging opportunities, the freedom to roam over many acres of natural habitat, and the company of other elephants.
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Independent Forecasts and Market Intelligence for the Colombian Food and Drink Industry for Q4 2008
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/233574/colombia_food_and) has announced the addition of the "Colombia Food and Drink Report Q4 2008″ report to their offering.
Consumption of beer in Colombia has been rising steadily in both volume and value terms over the past five years as discussed in our newly published Q408 Chile Food & Drink Report. The market is dominated by one firm – Bavaria, owned by SABMiller – but the high growth rates would suggest that there are opportunities for other firms willing to risk taking on the virtually unopposed incumbent.
SABMiller acquired Bavaria in 2005 and at that time the firm had a virtual monopoly in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Panama. This market dominance translated into high profit margins and SABMiller is unlikely to give up its leading position in Colombia without a fight.
In 2007 SABMiller's lager sales increased by 4% and the firm's revenue per hectolitre also improved by 4%. Although reasonably strong these results are not outstanding. However, what may turn the heads of other multinational brewers is that in 2007 SABMiller's premium lager volumes were 60% higher than the year prior, reflecting the tremendous growth rates at the top end of the market.
This is also perhaps the segment where SABMiller is open to attack from exotic foreign brands. While the economics of brewing mean that it will be difficult for any firm to compete with a dominant firm in the mass-market segment, at the top-end, where margins are higher, it will be easier for another firm to make inroads.
One firm already nibbling around the edges is Anheuser-Busch. In 2006 Anheuser-Busch (A-B) launched its Budweiser brand through an arrangement with the country's largest retailer Exito. Budweiser quickly became one of the most popular beers in Colombian supermarkets and the success of this venture encouraged A-B to broaden its distribution channels. In February 2007 the firm entered into a distribution agreement with Heineken which saw Budweiser become available in bars, restaurants and family-owned retail outlets.
In July 2008 A-B was itself acquired by Belgium-based InBev. InBev has already revealed it is keen to expand A-B's operations in emerging markets and Colombia could represent an ideal proving ground given InBev's huge experience in Latin America.
However, SABMiller already looks to be responding to this threat. In March 2008 the company completed work on a new Colombian brewing facility at a cost of US$220mn. This was done to increase capacity and allow the firm to ferment its beers for longer. Beer that is fermented longer is generally more expensive to produce but regarded as higher quality. This clearly highlights that SABMiller is focused on delivering Colombian beers that can compete with high-quality international brands.
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A KOREAN lost his cellphone worth P30,000 to five boys in barangay Apas, Cebu City last Sunday.
Yong Chul Jang, 39, told police that the five boys stole his Vega Racer II, smartphone made in Korea.
Investigation showed that Yong was standing near the Tree Shades Spa at 9 p.m. when two boys approached him.
Three other boys followed later. The boys tried to distract him by begging for money from him.
A few minutes later the boys left. He then noticed that his cellphone that he placed in his pocket was gone.
Yong who's temporarily staying at a dormitory in Talamban Cebu City, brought with him the administrator of the dormitory, to help him file charges against those who stole his phone.
But police said that the boys are minors and couldn't be arrested.
They were however investigating the incident.
Police said that the Korean was a victim of the Tiempo gang, where a group of kids would try to distract their victim which was usually a foreigner, while one member of the group would pick the pocket of the victim./Correspondent Tweeny M. Malinao
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"David Letterman, you can probably stop making jokes about how much the movie industry disliked your host gig; a new winner in that category may reveal itself on Oscar night," Entertainment Weekly critic Ken Tucker forecast, forgetting that the title had already been stolen in 2011 when James Franco did not so much host as deconstruct "the hostiness of hosting" — Entertainment Weekly-speak for "decided he was too hip to host, much less attend rehearsals."
On paper, MacFarlane seemed a perfect choice to host this year's song-and-dance-heavy Oscar show, when he was announced back in October.
While MacFarlane has admitted he's no dancer, he can sing — in 2011 he recorded an album of swing-jazz tunes called "Music Is Better Than Words." And he's already demonstrated his hosting skills at Comedy Central roasts of David Hasselhoff, Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen. MacFarlane's the only host to be asked back again in the history of that franchise.
"His performing skills blend perfectly with our ideas for making the show entertaining and fresh," said this year's producers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron — the song-and-dance-loving producers of such flicks as "Flashdance" and "Chicago."
He also brings an anticipatory edge to this year's Oscarcast that may help goose its ratings, which seemed destined to rank poorly when the nominees were announced, with nary a box-office blockbuster in the best-picture race.
Oscar ratings have everything to do with that year's best-picture contenders and not very much to do with the host, as Nielsen numbers demonstrate every year.
The most-watched Oscar show on record remains the 1998 ceremony, when "Titanic" was in the running for best picture and more than 55 million fans tuned in to see it win.
That year's host, Billy Crystal, also hosted the ceremony one year earlier but logged 20 million fewer viewers because there was no "Titanic" in the best-picture race. That year's winner: art-housey "The English Patient," besting "Fargo," "Secrets & Lies," "Shine" and "Jerry Maguire."
Meanwhile, the most-savaged Oscar host (before Franco) was Letterman, but his 1995 ceremony clocked nearly 49 million viewers — the Oscars' third-biggest crowd ever. "Forrest Gump" was crowned best picture that year.
Conversely, when the much-loved Stewart hosted the ceremony in 2008, the Academy Awards suffered its smallest crowd on record — about 32 million viewers. "No Country for Old Men" won the best-picture derby in a field that also included "Atonement," "Juno," "Michael Clayton" and "There Will Be Blood."
But this year might just be different, based on the quantities of searingly bad press MacFarlane's already received. People may tune in to see just how far MacFarlane will go when the stage is his. Will he go Ricky-Gervais-at-the-2011-Golden-Globes far?
MacFarlane's already demonstrated a knack for turning a trophy-show non-starter into major noise. During Emmy voting in 2012, his mailer to voters for "Family Guy," which included the phrase "Come on, you bloated, overprivileged Brentwood Jews. Let us into your little club," sent the press into a ecstasy of outrage.
When the hoped-for controversy erupted, MacFarlane placidly told E! Entertainment: "Hollywood is a town of very well-to-do folks who live very comfortably. They have a very comfortable lifestyle, they do what they love, there's not much that is bad in their life. So they should be able to laugh at themselves. If they can't, it's a rather sad thing."


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The police have directed residents' associations to alert the owners of rented houses/flats on the increasing cases of illegal activities being taken up in such houses.
This was conveyed by City Police Commissioner P. Vijayan at the monthly Janamaithri meeting held at the Armed Reserve camp in the city on Saturday.
"A number of cases of criminals renting houses and carrying out illegal activities in them are being reported. The owners should be vigilant against such persons. As a safety measure, the owners should submit the details of their tenants at the nearby police stations," Mr. Vijayan, who presided over the meeting, said.
If the tenants were found to be involved in criminal cases, then the owners were equally responsible, he said. The police could take action against the owners until they were proven innocent during investigation. So, the owners should be alert to who was staying in their rented apartments or houses, he said.
A problem raised at the meeting related to parking. Mr. Vijayan said that this was a major issue as people were not concerned about the problems caused by parking vehicles on roads. However, stringent steps would be taken against those who parked their vehicles on footpaths.


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Amarillo Crime Stoppers Need Your Help in Finding 3 Burglary Suspect
On February 19th, four people were caught on camera removing items from a home on Chilsolm Trail. Amarillo Crime Stoppers need your help in finding the suspects.
On February 19th, four people were caught on camera removing items from a home on Chilsolm Trail. Amarillo Crime Stoppers need your help in finding the suspects.
The Amarillo Crime Stoppers need your help in locating this week's fugitive of the week, Bobby Leroy Phea.
The Amarillo Police Department needs your help in finding Patricia Anne Vaughn Innis. She went missing last night and it is possible she is in danger.
Thieves don't care if it is cold outside. Heck the cold weather is probably gold for them. Its cold outside and people are not being as cautious. A series of car burglaries have been happening in South Amarillo.
At 1:30am on January 1st, a man walked into the Toot-N-Totum at 45th and Western, carrying a shotgun, and asked the clerk for the money out of the register. He proceeded in firing the shotgun into the ceiling. After receiving the money he bolted out the door and police are needing your help in catching this person.
This is a bit of a bizarre story for the Amarillo area. It looks as though a woman went into a local store off of Bell street and left her car running with her 6-year-old sleeping in the back. While she was in the store her car was stolen.
A Mississippi woman is in deep trouble for trying to sell her baby over the Internet.
Some people are just jerks. In the video above you can see a UPS guy stealing an iPad mini that a guy ordered for his daughter during Christmas.
A family member is in custody and charged with the deaths of 5 relatives -- four of them children -- from a bloody, jealously-fueled stabbing inside a home in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood.
A young man who was involved in a DUI Accident where the driver of the other vehicle was killed, posted his confession on YouTube and was recently sentenced.
It's the greatest mystery since trying to determine if the Great Pumpkin actually exists.
People on the streets of the Red Light district got a performance that they may not have been expecting. While, the girls in the video are dancing, and people watch, they end the dance with a message about sex trafficking.


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Is this color film or B&W?
If B&W, you can either make an internegative, i.e. print onto negative film and then print normally from that. Or you can print directly onto paper and reversal process it.
If color, you pretty much have to make an internegative. The only direct positive process is Ilfochrome, which is expensive and definitely overkill for printing from 8mm positives.
In either case, don't expect great results. The image area on 8mm film is tiny: about 1/32 of that of 35mm film. You will get quite visible grain, even on prints of moderate size. Furthermore, individual frames of movie film often show motion blur which is not objectionable when viewing the movie, but can be an issue here. The perceived amount of detail in the picture is much greater when the frames are shown in rapid succession, as intended, than when you pick out one still.


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Slightly more than 100 area high school students participated Tuesday in Disability Mentoring Day at Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium.
Slightly more than 100 area high school students participated Tuesday in Disability Mentoring Day at Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium.
A nationwide observance, it is designed to promotes career development for those with disabilities. The local event included information sessions on several topics, along with representatives from area employers and Pittsburg State University, Fort Scott Community College, Labette Community College and Crowder College.
"This is our sixth year," said LouAnn Colyer, SKIL independent living coordinator. "For our first one, we were packed like sardines in an office behind SKIL. Last year we had around 60 participants, and there was a huge jump in the number of businesses. attending."
The event is planned by the Disability Mentoring Day Committee. At noon a special ceremony was held to present the committee with the Michael Lechner Advocacy Award.
Making the presentation was Kerrie Bacon from the Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns. She said that Lechner, a former KCDC director, was a rebel who was responsible for legislation helping those with disabilities to stay in their homes and also worked on ways to help those with disabilities advocate for themselves.
"The Disability Mentoring Day Committee is a catalyst for change," Bacon said. "Disability is not a barrier to goodness, but a benefit to your bottom line."
Committee members, in addition to Colyer, are Darrick Perry, Loretta Audley, Grant Reed, Monica Maus, Sherri Stephens, Brenda Jagels, Nick Holz, Paige Domoney, Rachael Morris, Tina Troth and Dave Holloman.
The day started with a keynote address by Pittsburg city manager Daron Hall. He shared the three steps to success that his father taught him.
"Get up, dress up and show up," Hall said. "If you do that, 85 percent of your troubles will go away."
He also had some suggestions for job interviews.
"I've interviewed and hired a lot of people," Hall said. "Be on time, dress appropriately and use good hygiene. Use good manners and look people in the eye. People want to hire people they can trust, and it's hard to lie to somebody if you're looking them in the eye."
He also suggested that the students come to an interview with questions of their own.
"But hopefully you won't ask the interviewer, 'If you were part of a cheeseburger, which part would you be'," Hall said. "Somebody asked me that once in an interview."
Students also got additional tips on preparing for interviews, handling job applications, pitfalls of social media, dress code/manners and Kansas Works.
"This year we added a station on interest surveys and assessments," Colyer said. "In all my years I think I took one interest survey, but a lot of employers are using them now."
Brenda Jagels conducted that session, and told students that the important thing was to answer personality profile questions truthfully.
Page 2 of 2 - "Pick the answer that best describes you, not what you think they want to hear," she said. "On values testing, they might ask you if it's all right to take a paper clip home from work. You might think that's something simple, but if you'd take a paper clip, they might wonder what else you would take."
Elly Fox and Jessi Reichenberger, Pittsburg State University students, conducted the session on social media. Both urged students to think before posting anything online.
"Do not post any drug or alcohol-related photos," Reichenberger said. "Forty-four percent of employers have admitted to not hiring somebody on the basis of photos posted on the Internet. And don't say anything you wouldn't want on a billboard with your picture."
Fox added that the students should not cuss online, and should use correct grammar, be respectful and courteous.
"The top four things to avoid online are anything related to drinking or drugs, inappropriate pictures, bad-mouthing previous employers and showing poor communication skills," she said.
Also included in the program were a skit presented by Pittsburg High School drama students and a fashion show.
Sarah Reese, Pittsburg High School faculty, said that she felt the day had been a good experience for her students.
"It's good for the kids to learn how to ask questions and get information," she said. "They had online job applications that the kids were able to fill out to show them how to do it, and that was good. The businesses have been wonderful with our kids, and the kids had a lot of fun."
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Since 2008, Federer and Nadal and Year End Ranking
Since 2008, Federer and Nadal have the same average Year End Ranking.
Federer - #2, #1, #2, #3, #2 = average ranking of #2
Nadal - #1, #2, #1, #2, #4 = average ranking of #2
Note: obviously, Nadal's two #1 rankings gives the slight edge to Nadal.
Who do you think will finish with the higher ranking next year?
For those that say Federer thrived in a weak era (pre Nadal), this would seemingly indicate that he has done quite well. And if he has a higher ranking than Nadal in 2013, he has done remarkably well.
I actually see Nadal ending 2013 as either #2 or #1, and Federer at #3 or #4.
Old Fed is obviously thriving in a weak era now if he can still post better results than these peaky-prime GOAT candidates.
Old relics sure wouldn't have had a chance of threatening the #1 spot in the much-stronger era of 2004-2007... :D
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a Mummy soon! Bless her, she's 19.
I know i told some of you that she told me the day after Sarahs funeral she was pregnant and luckily Sarah knew before she died.
Well I just knew she was going to have a girl and she'd use Sarahs name in there somewhere......guess what?! Her scan showed she was having a girl and she asked Sarahs family if they would mind if the babys middle name was Sarah!
So now she's in labour and is off to hospital shortly, let's hope they got it right 'cos if it's a boy he'll be wearing pink and riding around in a pink pram!


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Standing in a muddy patch of coastal prairie in Brazoria County south of Houston, Richard Anspacher listens to the sound of a fat channel catfish breaking the surface of a rectangular pond in search of a floating cornflake. As the fish slowly opens its gaping mouth and gulps down the flake, Anspacher smiles contentedly. He knows he's looking at more than some hungry diner's main course. The fish represents Texas' future in aquaculture, the fastest-growing agricultural industry in the United States and the one being touted as the world's only reliable source of seafood. Catfish, Anspacher believes, can be our state's next big cash crop, potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
A former commodities trader in Chicago, Anspacher is the vice president of East Texas Feeds, which manufactured the cornflake at its new $5 million mill near the crossroads community of Liverpool. Along with the Naiad Corporation, the state's largest fish producer and processor, East Texas Feeds is betting that Texas can increase its share of the nation's growing catfish industry, which last year earned catfish farmers more than $285 million. Forty percent of the total crop was consumed just by Texans, making us the most voracious catfish eaters in the nation. Yet Texas saw precious little of that revenue. Sales of our catfish yielded only $2.6 million in 1991. The reason? We eat catfish; we don't raise them. Although 169 Texas aquaculture operators grow catfish, redfish, shrimp, and hybrid striped bass, fewer than 3,500 acres are in production. Instead, most of our business goes to Mississippi, which sends 70 percent of its annual catch to Texans, directly pumping tens of millions of dollars into that state's economy last year.
That's why Anspacher is smiling. If we eat so much catfish, he figures, then some of that catfish could be Texas catfish. "This is nothing less than a trade war between Texas and Mississippi," he says.
Fighting the war won't be easy. Mississippi farmers in the Yazoo River delta region took thirty years to transform an abundance of clay soil and a cheap and plentiful supply of well water into a thriving business of cultivating, harvesting, and processing farm-raised catfish,
encompassing almost 100,000 inundated acres of ponds, at least four large feed mills, and no fewer than three major processing plants. As a result of that effort, Mississippi is an inland seafood superpower. Catfish is its fifth-largest cash crop, supplying U.S. consumers with nearly 400 million pounds of the stuff each year. "It's the only cat-fish available," boasts Bill Allen, Jr., the president of the Catfish Institute of Belzoni, Mississippi, an organization dedicated to promoting consumption of Mississippi catfish.
Yet there's reason to believe that Texas and Texans can change those numbers. Naiad and East Texas Feeds are clearly ready to do battle. New technology pioneered here has immeasurably improved the quality of the catfish we can produce. Southeast Texas has a longer growing season than west-central Mississippi and can turn out a mature fish in ten to twelve months, compared with the eighteen-month cycle typical of the Yazoo delta. The soil conditions are ideal along the Coastal Bend, where most of the land is planted in marginally profitable rice. There is an abundant supply of grain and plenty of clean water.
All that's missing is the fish, which explains those Delta Pride trucks rolling down interstates 10 and 20. But if Anspacher and others like him have anything to say about it, the convoy is coming to an end: "It's time for Texas to stand up and take care of its own."
Once upon a time, the bewhiskered catfish was a Southern peculiarity, a slow and sluggish bottom feeder with a particularly ugly mug. But it was plentiful and edible, so it came to be regarded as a delicacy—so long as it was dredged in cornmeal, deep-fried to mask its oily texture and muddy taste, and accompanied by a side of hushpuppies.
Today, the staple of volunteer fire department fish fries has been upgraded to a gourmet item noted for holding sauces well and worthy of endorsement by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, who serves Mississippi farm-raised catfish in his new Santa Monica, California, restaurant. Thanks to advances in its growing, catfish is now America's fourth-most-popular seafood, behind shrimp, cod, and Alaskan pollack. Farm-raised catfish dine on fortified cornakes from the surface, not on droppings from the bottom. Its esh is firm, and it tastes, well, so unfishy (and bland) that if you didn't know better, you would think it was chicken.
Flavor, or lack of it, is a key reason why farm-raised catfish is being gobbled up by consumers—and also why we should be able to get a piece of Mississippi's action. Our advantage is a recirculating pond system championed by Naiad president Paul Barrett, who came to Texas after working for agribusiness giant ConAgra in Mississippi. The recirculating system filters out impurities through interlocking canals and the use of dung-eating carp, effectively eliminating the "off avor" that often plagues static ponds common in Mississippi. Though the system requires 15 percent more land and $1,000 more per acre in start-up costs, the payoff is the reduced waste of water and the ability to stock twice as many fish in the same space.
If Anspacher's trade war erupts, the first battlefield will be Houston, where catfish is regarded as both a traditional Southern dish and a new healthy alternative. There, the Naiad plant slices and dices up to 50,000 pounds every day, selling fresh filets to the Pappas family restaurant chain, frozen nuggets and strips to Sysco food distributors, and fresh iced fish in a variety of marinades to AppleTree, Randall's, H.E.B. Pantry, and Fiesta Mart grocers. Even so, Naiad alone can't meet Houston's demand. To keep its assembly line humming, the company must still rely on tractor-trailer rigs full of fish from places such as Isola, Mississippi, and Lonoke, Arkansas.
What Naiad needs, then, is more Texas fish. Yet transforming what amounts to a mom-and-pop specialty crop into a full-blown agribusiness requires five major elements: a


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November 7, 2014 at 9:37 pm
Last month a friend let me know she saw a picture of my book, Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir, resting next to a bag of doorknobs in a comment on this Gawker post about a guy on an airplane who started screaming that he had ebola, and she wanted to know, hey, what the heck was up with that?
Yeah, what the heck was up with that? The only other time I've seen my book appear as background in a picture was on a post on the Carrots 'N' Cake blog where the blogger's book was sitting next to mine on a bookshelf. At least that made sense, alphabetically, since our last names, Fulda and Haupert, are only two letters apart. (Couldn't find the picture, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.)
Working backwards, I determined that the image had been used because the commenter said they thought the man screaming about ebola should have been hit with a bag of doorknobs. If I had been the commenter and I were looking for an image to illustrate […]
January 27, 2014 at 7:46 am
So, you've written a book and it's finally been published. There you are visiting the Amazon.com page of your special darling for the 58th time today just in case the rank has increased, and then you see it. A one-star review. A ONE-STAR REVIEW! How? Why? Who would do such a thing? How could someone go online and tell everyone your baby is ugly? It is the most horrible thing ever (after genocide and natural disasters and a thousand other horrible things).
I understand. I've been there. Here are five steps I use to cope with a bad Amazon.com review.
1) Lean on your inner circle
It is important for every writer to have an inner circle of at least 2-3 friends who you can contact when someone has been nasty to you. Preferably these people should be other writers who have also experienced attacks on their work, be it as a blogger or a published author. Email these people when something bad has happened to you and they should be able to do several things. First, […]
August 27, 2013 at 12:53 pm
First off, I apologize for only posting playlists and self-promotional entries lately. I promise to get back into a more regular blogging schedule soon. I've already been making some changes in my life to make that easier to do, which I'll post about soon.
That said, my publisher would probably appreciate if I mentioned that the audiobook for "Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir" is now available to purchase on Audible.com. It's read by Teri Clark Linden and it's a great way to spend 8 hours and 22 minutes. Listen to it on the treadmill for inspiration!
Ok, end of promo. More blogging to resume soon.
July 22, 2013 at 7:19 am
Headphone photo by Eldeeem / by BY-NC-SA 2.0
I'm happy to announce that an audiobook version of Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir will be available at the end of August from Audible.com. If you've got 8 hours and 22 minutes free, I hope you'll consider buying it. Great for road trips! Or for circling the blocks for hours and hours and hours.
In a strange coincidence, the narrator of my book, Teri Clark Linden, also narrated my friend Wendy's book, The Wilder Life. We don't have the same publisher, so it really is a coincidence. Teri has IMDB page that I've been pouring over and I think I might have to watch Jack Reacher now just to see her appearance as the night manager.
Also, I learned that "audiobook" is one word, not two. At least that's how audible.com uses it, so I'm going with them on this one.
In case you're wondering, there is not currently an audiobook version of my other book, Chocolate & Vicodin but I hope to have something to announce regarding that by the end […]
June 21, 2013 at 7:14 am
Disclosure: I was provided a free copy of this book to review.
I should start this post with an apology because I was supposed to review this book when it came out two months ago. However, as someone who lives in the kingdom of the sick mentioned in the title, I have become somewhat unreliable. I hate that I've become unreliable, but I don't really know what I can do about it when my head hurts and a bright computer screen is not the cure. I've had a few rather blah months, as you can probably tell by my lack of writing recently. When I was feeling well I had to prioritize paying work, and I kept pushing back this review again and again. All of which is to say I've been an asshole, particularly since Laurie Edwards was kind enough to blurb my book Chocolate & Vicodin a few years ago. Laurie, I'm sorry. Hopefully as another resident of the kingdom of the sick you'll understand and pardon me.
Ok, so, the book! I was […]


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For an increasing number of retailers, price optimization software is viewed as a competitive tool. For Penn Traffic, it may be a matter of survival. In April, the Syracuse, N.Y.-based company emerged from Chapter 11, one year after it signed a price optimization contract with Demandtec, San Carlos, Calif. Its newfound financial stability is owed, in part, to its price optimization strategy, according to Don Dikeman, director of retail pricing, Penn Traffic. "In order to become a long-term ...
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Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has again sought an assurance from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry that its reccommendations would not be ignored if an inquiry is held into the controversial editing of Doordarshan's Narendra Modi interview.
Sources said that Prasar Bharati's Principal Advisor VAM Hussain has written a letter to I&B Secretary Bimal Julka in which he has cited several instances where Prasar Bharati's requests were turned down or kept pending by the government.
Referring to these instances, the senior Prasar Bharati official said that it is because of these "historical reasons" that an assurance is needed "so that well-meaning action would not result in public humiliation".
This is the second time that the public broadcaster has written to the I&B Ministry seeking an assurance.
Doordarshan had on April 26 interviewed BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate at Gandhinagar and then telecast it the next day.
However, remarks made by Modi on Priyanka Gandhi and his claims of proximity with Congress leader Ahmed Patel were edited out by DD, but that became public through the social media, triggering a row.
Following the controversy, Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar wrote to the I&B Ministry, saying Prasar Bharati had no control over top officials in News wings of DD and AIR so the ministry should tell clearly whether it would abide by a "neutral" enquiry.
The I&B Ministry had then suggested that Prasar Bharati should seek the views of its board on whether an inquiry is needed. Apparently not satisfied with the ministry's stance, the public broadcaster has reiterated its demand.
"The fundamental question is that until the ministry satisfies the Board of Prasar Bharati that in this instant case, MIB would not ignore PB's recommendation, PB would not be in a position to simply 'mark time' and be dishonoured by calling for a public enquiry into a controversial matter, and then be held responsible for its inability to take action in terms of this enquiry," Hussain said in the letter.