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We have two locations –
1. Our 25 acre lavender field is located in Carshalton / Banstead, Surrey – less than 20 miles from Central London.
2. Our Plant Nursery – Based in Driftbridge, Epsom – less than 20 miles from Central London
Croydon Lane,
Open 9.30am to 7pm (From May 30th)
139 Reigate Rd (near Driftbridge Audi Garage),
Open 9.30am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday (Closed Sunday/Monday)
Map – Mayfield Lavender Field
View Mayfield Lavender in a larger map
Map – Mayfield Lavender Nursery
Own Transport/car/Public Transport
To get detailed directions by car or by public transport you can use google maps – just click "Directions": Farm Postcode SM7 3BE: Nursery postcode KT17 3DW
Our Farm is on the junction of Croydon Lane and Carshalton Road by the two mini roundabouts.
Our Nursery is 100m from the Audi showroom at Driftbridge.
Public Transport
You can plan your route by public transport by using Google maps.
Both of our locations are on the 166 bus route. This bus route is on this link http://www.tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/166/.
1. For our Lavender Farm use the bus stop at Oaks Park (this is right outside our gate.
2. For the Nursery/Shop use the bus stop at Driftbridge.
From CENTRAL LONDON – If you are travelling from Central London it is easiest to take the train to West Croydon and just get the 166 bus. This bus stops directly outside our main entrance and the stop for our farm is called "OAKS PARK".
Local taxi company Home James Banstead offers a special rate of just £5 from Banstead Station to the field for up to 4 people. They can be contacted at 01737 371777 or via their website: http://www.homejamesbanstead.co.uk/
Don't confuse us with Oaks Farm or Oak Tree Farm which are next to our lavender Farm. These are unconnected and have different owners. Our farm is often referred to as Mitcham Lavender, Surrey Lavender, Carshalton Lavender, Surrey lavender and Banstead Lavender. It is in fact simply Mayfield Lavender – the home of Organic Lavender Growing in the UK.
*Pedestrian and car entry costs £1 per person which is redeemable on purchases over £5 at the shop and café. Children 16 and under go free.
Commercial use of the field e.g. filming, professional or portrait photography including wedding and special event photography etc requires prior approval by the owners who reserve the right to charge a location fee or refuse admission.
For more information please see the Commercial Photography section under the Photography (T&C's) on our homepage.


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A song from the upcoming film Talaash, Muskaanein Jhooti Hain, attempts to revive the cabaret genre prominent in Bollywood through the '60s up to the '80s that spelt grace and beauty. We recount some memorable cabaret numbers of Bollywood in the past.
Monica o my darling: Caravan
Picturised on Bollywood's most successful and popular dancing queen, Helen, the song is also one of the most memorable numbers composed by RD Burman and sung by Asha Bhosle. Helen's uninhibited performance in the song was a mix of sensuousness and passion. The song also has a poor remix version in the 2010 film Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai.
Duniya mein logon ko: Apna Desh
While her contemporaries were portraying themselves as chastity queens, Mumtaz emerged as an actress who could challenge designated vamps like Helen, Bindu, Ila Arun on the dance floor. She did several cabaret numbers, without shying away from the costumes or the dance moves. This song from Apna Desh, however, is the most popular, as much for the dance as for the actors' eclectic looks.
Husn ke lakhon rang: Johnny Mera Naam
Shot with one of the lesser-known item girls of Bollywood, Padma Khanna, the song has lyrics considerably bold for that time. But the music and Khanna's moves both cute and fun mostly using the twist of the '60s made it extremely palatable. Those who remember the video will recount how being a bikini babe in those days wasn't as big a deal as it is today.
Yeh Zindagi Hai Ek Jua: Zindagi Ek Jua
Perhaps the least sensuous of all the cabaret songs in Bollywood, this is picturised on Madhuri Dixit. The '90s saw a decline in cabaret numbers and one remembers this one for Dixit's costume that reminded of Audrey Hepburn's in My Fair Lady. The trend returned in 2000, with songs like Mahi Vay in Kaante and Saaki Saaki in Musafir, but by then, cabaret had well been replaced by 'item songs'.
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Mornings on Classical 91.5 September 26 - 30
Houston Grand Opera
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Tune in for an exciting new season of Live from Hochstein.
September 2011 on New York Philharmonic
Coming up in September
Broadway Love Songs Take Center Stage
In October, Stage Notes will celebrate its first anniversary on WXXI. What a year it has been! As Cy Coleman's song aptly says, The Best is Yet to Come. Many exciting programs are in the works, including the second edition of the haunting music of Broadway on October 29th. The first program featured love songs from Broadway musicals. Without a doubt, that program could have run for five-hundred twenty-five thousand six-hundred minutes.
Russell Miller on Backstage Pass
The Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching and Repertoire at the Eastman School of Music joins Julia Figueras for Backstage Pass.
A season of change
Mornings on Classical 91.5 September 19 - 23
This week's highlights...
Five Broadway Musicals Coming to Rochester Featured on Stage Notes
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michigan state
Unverified Voracity Had The Wind Knocked Out Of Its Head
New Yost. Looks nice…
…but is set to further erode the atmosphere in the stadium as the first three rows of the student section have been excised for additional handicap seating. I guess it's inevitable that would eat out a chunk of the students because money is the primary motivator for the department, but that continues a long tradition of crapping on the student section without offering anything in return that started with the terribly-designed (and perpetually half-empty) club seat overhang that eliminated the last four rows on that side of the arena and made a further four or five partially obstructed when you stand, as students do. With every renovation the capacity gets smaller and the prices go up.
Meanwhile, this is not a good idea:
On the bright side, it appears that opposing parents are sitting next to us this year. [insert evil laugh here]
Maybe the student section has mellowed enough in the past five years to make this workable but the last time this happened, hockey parents moving into the students to find who was talking about their boy were an annual occurrence. Michigan's asking for it.
Descent into Captain Queeg-dom: 75% complete. Mark Dantonio's presided over two mass player brawls, picked multiple players up from jail to drive them to practice, seen William Gholston treat Denard Robinson's head like a beer with a twist-off cap and punch Taylor Lewan without lifting a finger (the Big Ten levied the suspension, remember), had a public hissy fit after last week's EMU game, and he's just getting started.
As I was checking out the Brayfriend Experience in Athens, Michigan State was playing Ohio State in East Lansing. A film kerfuffle and eye-gouging incident have obscured the true WTF moment from that game:
Will Gholston laid motionless on top of Braxton Miller for a good 30 seconds after that hit, wobbled off the field, and then returned. The sideline reporter dutifully related that Gholston "had the wind knocked out of him."
That's appalling. Anyone who hits the video above can see the ref tapping Gholston in the back to get up; he does not get up. He's just taken a vicious helmet-to-helmet hit and lays there for 30 seconds. Does it matter if he's actually unconscious or just incapable of moving for 30 seconds? No. That guy is done for the day, unless you're Dantonio. The blatant lie about what happened to him is just the cherry on top.
I guess it's nice that Dantonio has the same disregard for the safety of his own players as he does for his opponents, though. (Remember who was Robert Reynolds's DC: Dantonio.) He's got that going for him.
I assume this will once and for all end the bible-thumping, square-jawed discipline dean media meme, right?
BONUS: hey, guess what everyone who said words to the effect of "good" in the thread on this on the board got? Banned.
In other MSU news. Their OL took another hit when starting center Travis Jackson went out for the year against OSU. They inserted journeyman senior Ethan Ruhland at center after the injury and are rolling with a redshirt freshman at LG; Blake Treadwell has been bouncing in and out of the lineup with injury. If Michigan had suffered the injuries they have already we'd be sitting here in sackcloth and ashes—okay, more sackcloth and ashes—gibbering.
OSU's Jordan Hall tore his PCL and is doubtful for next week but apparently will be "evaluated on a week to week basis."
Uniforms. No Z. We'll see how the motion shortz go with these things but these actually look pretty slick from the rear:
This will all be ruined by Muff the Magic Block M on the front, I know.
UPDATE: front. I like 'em.
Why are we stopping this again? Michigan-ND kills, man:
Michigan-Notre Dame
Clemson-Florida State
Kansas State-Oklahoma
That was an NBC record. Surely NBC is pissed off that Stanford for some reason is taking the place of M-ND and that Purdue and Duke and Wake Forest are hitting up Irish schedules now.
Maisel also points out that this is all Texas's fault.
If only anyone had paid any attention last year. Gholston a draft faller:
William Gholston*/DE/Michigan State: Gholston failed to impress during the Spartans' devastating conference defeat at the hands of Ohio State. Though he continued to play despite being injured in the first half, Gholston provided no impact and was minimally productive. In five games this season, he has posted just a single sack.
I thought they were nice. I may have been wrong.
Yeah, but have they had two people on Survivor? Georgia has. I saw it on their jumbotron.
Etc.: Google docs spreadsheet with Michigan hockey TV appearances from the HSR. Things that should have been at the estate sale that wasn't.
Unverified Voracity Has A Bus
Sponsor note. Chicago-based Wolverines headed to South Bend: there is a bus for you. Sports Power Weekends has a couple headed out from The Diag Bar & Grill [located here]. 59 bucks roundtrip gets you a spot, various goodies to and from, a tailgating spot, and the opportunity to collapse in a frazzled heap after something ridiculous happens at the end of the game. Alternative: traffic, not hopping on your MGoBlog mobile app to celebrate/commiserate.
Eating: almost eaten.
I'll plug this one more time during the last-day frenzy, but thanks to the work of the community around here Martavious Odoms is nearing his all-or-nothing 35k goal for his Pahokee kickstarter venture. The Daily interviews Odoms about his project and its goal:
The goal is to install a garden that can be self-sustaining — a project that values community involvement as much as getting food on tables. The funds raised will be used to buy the empty the plot, pay for tools and seeds and to hire people from the community to work on the garden.
Odoms would also like to see the money help give kids in the community after-school programs or to teach residents how to sow their own garden.
"This could give someone an opportunity to be part of something outside of their family to feel like they're making a change, making a difference," Odoms said.
The staple crops? Collared greens, green beans, black-eyed peas, tomatoes and okra, just to name a few.
"All the stuff that people eat here down here in the south," Odoms said.
As of this instant, Odoms is a little over 3k away with eight days left. Get in on it.
TWIS and such. I went a little overboard on this week's This Week In Schadenfreude. Reconstructing the anarchy of a Colorado gamethread in which they're down 48-0 at one point became absorbing. Also, when the RCMB blows up they blow up spectacularly well:
I am completely terrified after witnessing the biggest failure of a game in my whole life.I really cannot even grasp what just happened. Are we really this bad? Is our offense completely non existent? Maxwell has had 3 years and this is what we get? I feel like god hates us. I live for Spartan Football, eat, breathe, sleep Spartan Football. I work overtime in the summer just so I can have enough money for season tickets and I get rewarded with this? What the f--- was that game? 3 points and never crossed their 30? Bell losing all Heisman talk.I felt like a snake bit me in the beginning and slowly but surely the venom ate away at my body. Yeah I know I will get down voted to hell for this but what I saw tonight was not good and the glimpses of all the bad are going to kick us in the ass this year
Applause. Unironic, tear-wiping applause. And there's like twice as much of this guy in the actual post. The RCMB is the John L Smith of message boards, except it can never be fired.
I promise I won't fire off more than a twitter zing or two this weekend if it goes poorly. TWIS next week: ND Nation versus You Guys. Please be ND Nation.
Gardnerceiving. He does not like the blocking:
"I don't feel like I'm ever going to be a person who loves to block," Gardner said with a laugh. "That comes with the position, but I don't think I'll ever love that."
He did pretty well in the UMass game from what I can see, FWIW. He is still a QB in his mind:
"I know I'm a quarterback, but as I've said in previous weeks, I'm helping the team, and I'm doing well."
We won't see where everything is in re: Devin QB until next fall camp. They just about have to move him back for spring since they'll only have Bellomy left. For now, he's got a potential breakout day coming.
They took my brains, but they gave me this extra G. Man, guys named "Gregg." This site has bombed Gregg Easterbrook in the past when… well, whenever he writes about college football, because all he ever writes about college football is about how dastardly it is that anyone would ever take another job. Occasionally he diverts from that topic to express bafflement that the laws of economics apply to it; mostly it's just the horror that anyone would accept having their salary tripled.
Anyway, the other guy named Gregg is paid to write things about sports stepped his game up recently:
Seriously? RT @GreggDoyelCBS: How can Bo Pelini demand toughness of his players? He had a tummy ache AND LEFT A GAME IN AN AMBULANCE
To his credit, he did back off of that after everyone called him an idiot. To his discredit: whoah, mega #SPROTSTAKE. Corn Nation says this is a "concern about news breaking in the twitter world," but the easily made error is easily corrected by a flurry of at replies comparing the offender's intelligence to that of a chipmunk. At least Doyel can recognize when he's craving acorns. Easterbrook has never shown any sort of similar capability.
Etc.: Jerald Robinson gets probation for his minor property crime. Orson on UF-Tennessee. Purdue has verbal commitments from a Dwayne Johnson—unfortunately an OL who will not get many opportunities to ask if you smell what he is cooking—and a Johnny Thompson—yes, a LB. Basketball season tickets on sale now. Derf. Individual three point shooting is pretty jittery. Hardaway should bounce back.
Unverified Voracity Is Gathering Data
Get away from tourists. Visit a Miami game. Miami vs Bethune-Cookman, second quarter:
At least one intrinsically corrupt football program has had the decency to wither up and die. BTW, that was reported as 39k.
Massive injuries. No fair bringing up Blake Countess if Michigan happens to lose against MSU or ND, as both of those opponents came down with injuries just as important over the last couple days.
MSU right tackle Fou Fonoti is out six to ten weeks with a broken foot. M plays MSU in four weeks. In his place MSU inserted Skyler Burkland, who missed most of last year with an injury of his own. Burkland proceeded to get owned by ND LB Prince Shembo on several third and longs on which ND rushed three and still got plenty of pressure. MSU also replaced their LG, which didn't help matters but doesn't look like it's something that will persist until the Michigan game. The Spartan OL is now on depth alert equivalent to Michigan's: they've got a guy or two on the interior; a tackle injury will be time to sound the klaxons.
Notre Dame's already flimsy secondary took another major hit when Jamoris Slaughter tore his achilles against the Spartans. Projected starting CB Lo Wood is also out for the year. It looks like redshirt freshman Matthias Farley is Slaughter's replacement; he is a converted WR who was a consensus three-star with middling offers (Illinois, UCLA, Wisconsin) as a recruit. He's been getting talked up some, and played big chunks of the Purdue and MSU games.
In injury news that may not affect Michigan, Minnesota QB MarQueis Gray has a high ankle sprain and is projected to be out 2-4 weeks.
Gathering data. Seth had a good idea that we're going to give a shot: we're going to collect a bunch of data about the market for Michigan tickets and try to make it useful. This is an idea that the MZone also had at about the same time we did, undoubtedly prompted by the calculation a lot of people made this year: would I be better off scalping instead of getting season tickets this year? For UMass, it's a blowout in favor of yes, but that's the easiest ticket of the bunch.
Their hypothesis is you'll actually get off cheaper at Stubhub, which if true would be a stunning upset since Stubhub not only takes 15% from the seller but tacks on twenty bucks in fees for the buyer. We don't really have a hypothesis, we're just trying to figure out what's a good deal on gameday.
AIRBHG is running out of targets. Dude.
The Hawkeyes lost two more running backs Saturday, as both Damon Bullock and Greg Garmon were forced to leave an eventual win over Northern Iowa early due to injuries. However, it appears Iowa has learned how to overcome the wrath of AIRBHG in the process: With so many other choices available, the Hawkeyes turned to fullback Mark Weisman, who ran over the UNI defense and AIRBHG en route to 113 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Bullock and Garmon are supposed to be good to go this weekend. AIRBHG licks his chops. Weisman dances.
Yost. Another shot of Yost:
Since an assistant coach took this one hopefully the athletic department won't ask him to take it down, as they did with the last batch of Yost photos.
Etc.: Hope you didn't care about the Block Ms on the pylons, because they gone. ND used wristbands to prevent sign stealing after an S&C coach moved from ND to MSU this offseason. Given massive game prep problems w/ MSU in recent past, that might be a good idea. Q: why isn't that more commonly used anyway? I'd rather have rotating wristbands than having to communicate in hostile environments.
Mailbag: Center vs Shotgun Fight, Punt vs Kick Return Fight, Let's Be Nebraska(?)
Unbalanced stuff, Denard under center.
First, in this pic from the Air Force Defensive UFR:
The slot receiver would be eligible if he took a step back and the WR at the top took a step forward, correct? So what is the advantage to having this alignment vs. having two players be positioned less than one yard differently? I can't quite grasp what would compensate for losing an eligible receiver.
Normally, yes. Here Air Force is going to send the WR to the top of the screen in motion until he ends up behind the two guys in the backfield. That makes life easier for Air Force if they want to run to the short side because they've effectively blocked the corner to that side by putting him on the other side of the field.
Defenses can react to this by shifting but it's unnatural for them to do this. Sometimes they mess it up, especially when you're going at speed like Air Force does. The disadvantage created by making that WR ineligible can even be mitigated by sending him on a crazy route that takes him behind the QB. Is the offense going to use this? Probably not. Is the defense going to totally abandon defending this guy? Probably not.
Second, I saw the ESPN article about Denard's passing from under center being pretty fantastic. Given that, and Denard being Denard, why wouldn't we run a basic QB draw from that setup on the regular? Or is the passing being so good a result of defenses making sure to take that away?
The numbers here are relatively small—Rothstein charts 62 attempts from under center under Borges, which is two or three games of data. He's done well with those attempts, obviously. I have no idea why, and if you go all Gaussian on things it's clear that there's a lot of jitter in there. Via The Power Rank:
Rothstein does acknowledge the sample size issues. But just because your data is not big enough to be authoritative does not mean it isn't suggestive. Given the numbers, the chances that randomness explains all of the difference is a mere 6%. It's worth figurin' on.
There's a pretty obvious mechanism that makes Michigan's running game more effective from the shotgun—hi my name is Denard's legs. What is the reason Denard's only throwing interceptions from the shotgun? Nothing leaps out. The routes? They're probably the same. The drop-back? In the NFL, the shotgun is a more efficient formation (even accounting for down and distance) despite running quarterbacks being largely absent. Run paranoia? It seems hard to believe that's more of a factor from under center.
Three things do seem like potential mechanisms:
- Pressure. It's easier to max-pro when you've got a couple TEs or a couple backs. Also, it's easier to not tip your snap count against MSU. Denard + pressure == doom. If Denard is getting better protection from under center that would be an obvious way in which under center was really better.
- Situation. Michigan's more likely to go under center in short-yardage situations, making those passes more profitable as the defense expects run. Also a potential factor in "situation": Michigan may run more under-center stuff against easy Ds and default to shotgun when they think they're up against it.
- Luck. Sample size here is small enough that it probably explains some of the difference. It's hard to think TD/INT splits of 12-1 (under center) and 11-17 (shotgun) are totally explainable by luck.
The problem with throwing from under center is that sometimes you have to run it from under center, and that's burning downs at this point.
Seth has all this in a UFR database and will address it in more depth on Tuesday.
Punt versus kick return, fight.
Hey, Brian. I hoping you might be able to shed some light on a question. What is the difference between kick returner and punt returner? Why does Norfleet return kicks and Gallon return punts? Is it to limit their exposure to 11 special teams defensemen running downhill at full speed with the intent of breaking the returner's back? Or are there different skills involved? (Because who wouldn't like to see Norfleet returning punts, too?)
Kick returns are the junior varsity version of punt returns. As a kick returner you have a high-arcing kick travelling 60-70 yards before you camp out under it. If you fumble the thing, the nearest opponents are 20 yards away. You pick it up, you lose a few yards in field position, and no one has a panic attack. Either that or it's a touchback. BFD.
Screwing up a punt, whether it's by fumbling it or failing to field it, has much direr implications. A fumble is almost guaranteed to be a turnover, and we just saw Jeremy Gallon cost Michigan 25 yards by not fielding an Air Force punt. Additionally, punts can come in at all sorts of angles, generally much faster than kicks. Ever seen a kickoff fielded on the run? Maybe if someone is making a terrible decision on one that's going out of bounds. Otherwise, never. On punts it's not uncommon.
In addition to that, there are some different skills involved. Punts often involve dodging guys with little or no opportunity to get up to full speed. On a kickoff you're generally going to have the opportunity to get your motor humming before you have to make a cut. So a guy like Darryl Stonum made an excellent kick returner thanks to his top-end speed and ability to make a shallow cut at speed, but wouldn't have made much of a punt returner.
Gallon and Norfleet both have skills that make them a good fit for both positions. The coaches are currently more comfortable with Gallon back there, but if he keeps bringing out 2010 Gallon and Norfleet proves capable in practice, a switch won't be long in coming. Either way, at least Michigan won't be running a Greg Mathews out there.
Option MSU?
I haven't seen any film on last year's game between Nebraska and MSU, but I have to believe that Nebraska had a relatively effective day on offense judging from the score and offensive numbers. (24 points and 190 yards on the ground) So with that being said and knowing that Michigan and Nebraska run similar offenses, can Michigan look at that the game film and implement some sort of parallel schemes against MSU that Nebraska executed and have a likewise outcome?
That game was won by Nebraska's defense, which limited the Spartans to under 200 yards. While the Huskers racked up 190 yards rushing it took 58 carries for them to get there—3.3 YPC. Unless Michigan can do the same thing to the Spartan offense they're not likely to win with that kind of rushing output.
Meanwhile, an offense with pitches like Nebraska's is one you have to dedicate yourself to. It's not something you can implement for a single week. You can change your blocking schemes, routes, protections, and playcalling, sure, but when you start asking a guy to make split-second decisions about whether to fumble a ball in the general direction of the running back you're asking for trouble.
FWIW, it does seem like Michigan is at least allowing the center to get his head up and survey the landscape before he snaps the ball these days.
Big Ten Draft O' Snark: The Final Snarkdown
Rounds 1-3: At Jim Leyland's lakeside mansion in Somerset, quarterbacks are divided.
Rounds 4-7: In the War Room of the Toledo Ramada Inn, Heiko is replaced by a mysterious stocky middle-aged man with a mustache.
Rounds 8-12: In the Presidential Suite of of the Ishpeming Red Roof Inn, a 1970 Fiat 500 assumes the commissioner's chair, rules all picks must get 30 mpg.
Rounds 13-17: In a Secret Submarine Headquarters Underneath the North Atlantic, iPhones apparently get zero bars.
Rounds 18-something whatever: Onboard the Voyager II Spacecraft at the Edge of the Solar System, quarterbacks are put through a series of zero-grav tests to determine if there is anything they can't do.
Companion pieces: MGoBlog's All Big Ten Team, Googledoc spreadsheet of handiness.
Weary and ignoring the complaints of abused livers, SETH, HEIKO, ACE, and something that looks like a lanky sheep dog emerge from a secret lair in the PHOSPHATE MINES of the PACIFIC ISLAND OF NAURU. They ask for your ballot…
Seth "Progress" Fisher/Heiko "Progress" Yang/Ace "Progress" Anbender/Brian "Progress" Cook
POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Go vote!
The Final Snarkdown
OFFENSE: Nathan Scheelhaase (QB, ILL), Fitzgerald Toussaint (RB, M), LeVeon Bell (HB/FB, MSU), Jared Abbrederis (WR, UW), MarQuies Gray (QB/WR, Minn), Kevonte Martin-Manley (WR, Iowa), CJ Fieodorwicz (TE, Iowa), Taylor Lewan (LT, M), Ryan Groy (LG, UW), Matt Stankiewitch (C, PSU), Chris McDonald (RG, MSU), Jack Mewhort (RT, OSU).
DEFENSE: Ra'Shede Hageman (DE, Minnesota), John Simon (DE, OSU), Beau Allen (NT, UW), Akeem Spence (DT, ILL), Jake Ryan (LB, M), Desmond Morgan (LB, M), Denicos Allen (LB, MSU), Terry Hawthorne (CB, ILL), Bradley Roby (CB, OSU), Blake Countess (CB, M), Daimion Stafford (SS, UNL), Christian Bryant (FS, OSU)
SPECIAL TEAMS: Mitch Ewald (K, Indiana), Andrew Maxwell (P, Michigan State), Abbrederis (KR/PR, Wis)
I didn't mean to do this but I ended up with a Rodriguez spread'n'shred circa 2007 with a running quarterback, a damn fast outside back, and a fullback type who can rip off runaway beer truck touchdowns. The offensive line is a lot more POWER based but I figure that's fine since Auburn and others have made the inverted veer and related plays major spread drivers. Then you've got an array of excellent WRs with big catching radius: the deep threat (Abbrederis), the unstoppable guy on intermediate routes (Gray), and a promising TE.
The defense is Greg Mattison.
FINAL SNARKDOWN (by Heiko): Dear Brian: You know that red and gray plaid shirt you wear all the time? You should wear it less. Oh, something mean about his team? Ummmm... None of your QBs have a winning record. I've seen Desmond Morgan in person, and he's still really small and liable to get crushed by offensive linemen. And you drafted two LOLphers.
[The drafters still got some splainin' to do. For the rest of the roundtable, and which school had the most picks, and stuff, HIT THE JUMP.]
Big Ten Draftosnark: The Endening
PICKS were made to start, and
PICKS were made to continue, and
PICKS were made to continue continuing, and
WOW this series got out of hand
We join our COURAGEOUS DRAFTERS on the VOYAGER II SPACECRAFT at THE EDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. HEIKO is on the clock for the second pick of round WHATEVER.
We put a JUMP in this one because we probably should have been doing that all along.
PICK: Fou Fonoti, OT, Michigan State
CURRENT O: Braxton Miller (QB, OSU), Taylor Martinez (QB/RB, UNL), Patrick Omameh (OG, UM), Fou Fonoti (OT, Michigan State), Kyle Prater (WR, NW), Devin Gardner (QB/WR, UM), DeAnthony Arnett (WR, MSU)
CURRENT D: Michael Buchanan (DE, ILL), Jordan Hill(DT, PSU), Baker Steinkuhler (DT, UNL), Craig Roh (DE, UM), Max Bullough (LB, MSU), Kenny Demens (LB, UM), Ryan Shazier (LB, OSU), J.T. Floyd (CB, UM), Isaiah Lewis (FS, MSU), C.J. Barnett (SS, OSU)
KICKER(S): Brett Maher, K/P, Nebraska
BRIEF EXPLANATION: He had 31 knockdowns, 10 dominators, and allowed zero sacks last season as Michigan State's starting right tackle. I have no idea what some of those things mean, but they all seem like good things.
SNARK: "... poised to blow up in the mold of previous Michigan cornerbacks like Woodson, Hall, and Jackson." Who are you, Angelique Chengelis?
PICK: Brian Mulroe, guard, Northwestern
CURRENT O: Montee Ball (RB, UW), James Vandenberg (QB, IA), Ricky Wagner (OT, UW), Keenan Davis (WR, IA), Travis Frederick (C, UW), Spencer Long (G, NEB), Jake Stoneburner (TE, OSU), Brian Mulroe (G, NW)
CURRENT D: Chris Borland (LB, UW), William Gholston (DE, MSU), Johnny Adams (CB, MSU), Mike Taylor (LB, UW), Ricardo Allen (CB, PUR), Ibraheim Campbell (S, NW), Will Campbell (DT, MICH), Ondre Pipkins (NT, MICH)
BRIEF EXPLANATION: I won't pretend to know a ton about Northwestern's offensive line, so I'll trust Phil Steele (Mulroe: preseason second-team All-B1G), the coaches and media (honorable mention All-B1G in 2011), and the NFL draft boards (CBSSports has Mulrue as NW's top draft prospect) in making this selection. Mulroe has solid size at 6'4", 295, and he's lauded for his athleticism; he'll be the guy pulling when I run POWER. With this pick, I've locked up the clear-cut best interior line in our draft, and it might not be particularly close.
SNARK: See, Heiko, the interior line is the part of your offensive line that... oh, I give up.
PICKS: Thomas Gordon, FS, MICH; and Josh Johnson, CB, Purdue
CURRENT O: Denard Robinson (QB, M), Rex Burkhead (RB, Neb), Jeremy Gallon (Slot, M), Kofi Hughes (WR, Ind), Kenny Bell (WR, Neb), Jacob Pedersen (TE, Wis), Michael Schofield (OT, M), Graham Pocic (OL, Ill), Ricky Barnum (OG, MICH), James Ferentz (C, Iowa)
CURRENT D: John Hankins (NT, OSU), Kawaan Short (3T, Pur), Marcus Rush (DE, MSU), Jon Brown (MLB, Ill), Gerald Hodges (OLB, PSU), Jordan Kovacs (SS, M), Thomas Gordon (FS, M), Micah Hyde (CB, Iowa), Josh Johnson (CB, Pur)
EXPLANATION: Michigan goes into 2012 with its best safety tandem since...? If you can answer that question, you get to be there next time we're trying to figure that out for Hail to the Victors. Anyway I've got both, meaning I have complete and utter immunity from big plays, and now I also get to smugly stand by as Brian tries to explain why my ludicrous fumble recovery rate is all luck, dammit. Gordon isn't the flashiest of free safeties but even if he's Brandent Englemon, with this defense he too can spend most plays reading Infinite Jest.
He gets some help in that endeavor from Johnson, who the Mathlete says was the Big Ten's best cornerback last year. Hammer & Rails is of course biased but..
After having a season where he recorded 64 total tackles, 2 interceptions, and broke up nine passes, Johnson showed us that he is perfectly capable of hanging with the top receivers in the Big Ten.
He's right-sized for the position, can tackle, and his coverage, while knocked because he was operating with no safety help, is no worse than any of the guys taken above, especially the Michigan duo who just went off the board.
SNARK: MarQueis Gray was up to 6'4-250 last I checked. You haven't even drafted Keith Nichol; you've got Andy Mignery.
[ED: After the jump, everyone drafts more quarterbacks. Seriously.]


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CURRENTS: TALKING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE; Sort of Like Dancing About Literature
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Published: October 12, 2000
Architectural institutions always compete for talks by leading talents. Here, a selective list of this fall's hottest tickets (unless noted, no reservations required): At Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, Robert Wilson, artist, theatrical provocateur and would-be architect, will speak tonight at 6 at Higgins Hall South, Room 115. On Nov. 9, Austria's master of chaotic design, Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelblau, will make a rare appearance. Pratt information, (718) 399-4304. The architecture school at City College of the City University of New York, under a new dean, George Ranalli, has invited some academically sprightly architects and thinkers. They include Thom Mayne (Nov. 30) of Morphosis in Santa Monica, Calif., whose Diamond Ranch is at left, and Steven Holl (Dec. 7) of New York; both at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, Convent Avenue at 138th Street; information, (212) 650-7118. Tomorrow, Winy Maas of MVRDV, whose building designs look like core samples, comes from the Netherlands to speak at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, at Columbia University; 6:30 p.m. at Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall; (212) 854-3414. The Parsons School of Design will offer a musical performance after a talk by Gary Hilderbrand, a Harvard landscape designer, on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street; (212) 229-8955. Crowds will probably mob the Architectural League on Nov. 2 for a lecture called ''Detonator Architecture'' with Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto of Reiser & Umemoto, designers of bloblike urban developments, and Alexandros Washburn of Next/Move. Free to members; $7 to the public; 6:30 p.m., Ames Auditorium, Lighthouse International, 111 East 59th Street; (212) 753-1722. JULIE V. IOVINE
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Growing Domestic Demand Puts Gas Exports Under Pressure
BMI View: We maintain our outlook for Algeria where we see gas production and consumption increasing steadily in the coming years. We see it as likely that Algeria will endeavour to direct more gas toward LNG export rather than pipelines in order to be less dependent on Europe , where the outlook for growth in demand is muted.
Despite being Africa's largest gas producer, Algeria will not be immune to volatility in the energy sector . W e see several issues that could affect the country's gas trade. Production started to decline in 2005 with several key fields, such as Hass R'Mel, entering in their final depletion phase. H owever , we believe that Algeria holds scope for a ramp-up in production in the coming years with output capable of reach ing new peaks.
We see production hitting 100 bn cubic meters (bcm) per annum from 2018, on the back of several projects set to come online in the next few years. These include among numerous others the Petroceltic 's Ain Tsila project, Repsol 's North Reggane project and Total 's and CEPSA 's Timimoun project.
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Algeria's consumption however is set to increase quite rapidly over our forecast period, with 34.1bcm estimated in 2013, we could see a nearly 50% rise over the next seven years with demand exceeding 50bcm in 2020. This will be supported by a robust real annual GDP growth of 3% to 4% over the same period. While even at this elevated consumption level Algeria will retain significant export capacity , we note considerable downside risks stem from potential delays which could see the supply-demand balance tighten more than expected.
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The country's key issue will be to determine whether gas will be exported through Europe via pipeline or LNG. Over recent month s we have observed a progressive decline in oil linked pipeline contracts to Europe an countries , with the slump in Italy particularly notable . Total pipeline exports to the Italian peninsula are reported to be about half of what they were a year ago with Sonatrach issuing tenders for LNG short-term commitments or spot market sales to distribute the gas left-over.
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|LHC: Algeria 's Gas Production By Use, bcm, RHC: Committed LNG Exports By Country *, bcm
We expect that Algeria will continue this trend of increasing LNG exports over the coming years , a development which we expect will remain more profitable in the short to medium term. However we believe the country will make increase used of the spot market and non-oil linked contracts. This will offer Algeria more flexibility in and security in terms of finding a suitable buyer for its gas, reducing reliance on the European market where the demand outlook looks weak.


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In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman's passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life. Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia finds herself trying to flag down taxis with a giant, industrial-strength car seat, looking for perfect, strawberry-flavored, lactose-free cupcakes, receiving corrections on her French pronunciation from her supercilious stepson - and attempting to find balance in a new family that's both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman's search for answers in a crazily uncertain world.
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Steam Now Has More Than 30 Million Users
Valve's digital game platform passes the 30 million users mark and shares other noteworthy milestones.
What was once an incredibly annoying hurdle included with Half-Life 2 has become arguably the go-to place for purchasing digital games. And now, Valve has announced that Steam has more than 30 million accounts and has seen sales growth of more than 200% over the past year.
Beyond the 30 million user mark being surpassed, Valve announced that Steam's peak simultaneous users mark is over three million and more than six million different users access Steam every day. With more than 1,200 games now available or sale, according to the press release, Steam is on pace for a sixth straight year with sales growth of at least 100% over the previous year. Steam also now has "enough bandwidth to ship a digitized version of the Oxford English Dictionary 92.6 times per second." Other noteworthy milestones include more than 100 million files being saved through Steam Cloud and over 200 games using Steamworks.
"Steam is on track to record the biggest year in its six year history," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "The year has marked major development advances to the platform with the introduction of support for Mac titles, the Steam Wallet and in-game item buying support, and more. We believe the growth in accounts, sales, and player numbers is completely tied to this work and we plan to continue to develop the platform to offer more marketing, sales, and design tools for developers and publishers of games and digital entertainment"
That's a lot of good news for the service and a testament to Valve sticking with its vision for Steam even after the tremendous amount of negative feedback it received following the debacle with Half-Life 2 activation troubles back in 2004.
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yeah n wePosted: Oct 25, 2010 12:00AM PST by smile_kill
get sales on games that arent all that interesting to play
yeah n wePosted: Oct 25, 2010 12:00AM PST by smile_kill
get sales on games that arent all that interesting to play
watPosted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by Hello_you_name_John
Yet the service sucks, such as stupidly expensive games (still 50$€) and not dropping....
Amazing how stupid people acutally are, getting raped in their ass while giving up all rights
Wow...Posted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by Sinfullyvannila
Those are some huge milestones for Steam. 30 million users is massive, especially considering that not nearly all PC users use Steam. It makes me curious about what the final number of PC gamers is.
Exactly!!Posted: Jun 16, 2011 12:00AM PST by SamRock
Some of those Console gamers who laugh at PC gamers should take a look at this!!
Oh wait this article is dated Oct 2010.. That means Steam has few more millions of users now!! :D
And yeah .. new games are usually insanely high priced. But otherwise they have some really really cool offers and discount!! I got all the 3 STALKER games, Hitman Blood money, few small awesome games for unbelieveable discounts.
WhatPosted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by dynajizim
happens when you get bored of your games ? can you sell it ? do they offer inter - account tradeing ? if not thats 30 million reason why i would never get it
WoW your stupiedPosted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by JoSsGroSs
is there any digital distribution store that does allow for you to sell your games?
Here is idea when you get bored of your game.... buy a new one or pick up a cheaper hobby, gaming is a privilege not a constitutional right.
have you ever seen the deals on Steam you can always buy games on the cheap!$!, and unlike iTunes you can redownload your games as many times as you want.
Eventually all games will be sold digital with no resale possible so get with the fucking times or stop playing video games.
They...Posted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by Sinfullyvannila
Are PC games, which are usually designed with infinite replay(via multiplayer and modding) in mind. One rarely gets bored of a good PC game.
WatPosted: Oct 25, 2010 12:00AM PST by MarioDragon
I have no clue what you just said, I just heard an angry foreigner mad that America's better than them :P
So wait, you're telling me you buy something like an Xbox 360 game for 60 dollars or whatever the frick your currency is, then sell almost always for 70% less? So like what, wild guess, 10 dollars returned, and even less as time goes on? Yeah, not being able to resell is a huge freaking deal. Calm down kid before you pop a sprocket, the world doesn't revolve around you.
I wish SteamPosted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by SuperSmashSolidSnake
on Mac would get better. It is really lacking content the PC Steam store has.
ummmmmm hello snakey dudePosted: Oct 18, 2010 12:00AM PST by StrangestSensation
Well that's cuz mac has jack all man.


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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Cape York 2014 - 2 weeks and 2 beemers.
Well the dust is only just settling from our trip but I'll make a start on the ride report whilst it's still fresh in my mind. We set off from Brisbane on the 28th of June and had a maximum of 3 weeks to get to the tip of Cape York and back. My mate Sunny and I were both riding bmw f800gs's. This was the longest trip away on the bike by far for either of us, but I was confident with our preparation before leaving.
School holidays just happened to coincide with the trip we had planned. The extra tourists on the roads did have some impact on our trip, Next time I would probably go a little later in the season, late july or early august would be better, I think.
Another factor that had more of an impact on our trip than it should have was the temperature. I was prepared for nights as low as 5 degrees, but next time I will prepare for -5 degrees.
Day 1 - Brisbane to Duaringa
Just a 770km commute with about 100km of dirt. The first night we camped at the free rest stop there in town. It was pretty good, free camping and hot showers. lots of motorhomes but plenty of space. We walked the kilometre to the pub on the north side of the tracks for a beer.
Leaving home
And setting up camp.
Day 2 - Duaringa to Big Bend
After a quick breakfast at the Duaringa servo and witnessing a magpie get atomised by trying to land on the high voltage power line insulators, we headed for Dysart via Dingo and some dirt near Middlemount.
From there we headed through Peak Range to Clermont.
Then we began the boring stretch between Clermont and Charters towers. 380 odd kilometres of straight roads with with only Belyando's Crossing to break things up. Car-wrecks litter the sides of the roads.
We finally reach Charters Towers for supplies then off to big bend for the night. I did have a go at riding around on the sandy river bed but got stuck pretty quick. Some of it was hard and some was super soft.
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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Oddometer: 70
Day 3 - Big Bend to Fishery Falls
When the sun rose in the morning it was a balmy 3 degrees. There was ice on the bikes. It had been a bloody cold night, I had used everything in my tent laid on top of my sleeping bag to try and keep warm. At about 3 in the morning I got up and stoked the fire in a bid to warm up. I just wasn't expecting temperatures so low. We got going and decided we would push to the coast instead of camping in the hills near malanda. This meant we did more tar instead of riding the Valley of Lagoons.
Here we crossed a dry river bed and I dropped it in the sand. This was the first of many drops for the trip.
We Had a Blast riding down the Gilles range into Gordonvale. In a bid to avoid the holiday choas of Cairns we stayed in a great caravan park in Fishery Falls. Right behind a pub, out of the wind, a bit fancy really. It was much warmer near the coast.
This creek right behind our tents drowned out the highway noise. Had a great sleep, but that could have been due to the beers from the pub...
Camp Kitchen and ensuite toilet and shower. Very Lah-Deh-Dah.
Joined: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Oddometer: 70
Day 4
Day 4 - Fishery Falls to Lions Den
We headed into Cairns where sunny got his tyres changed for him. We had a bit of a look around while we waited and then when the tyres where done, we rode around the harbour and then headed north. It wasn't the nicest of days on the coast, overcast and very windy, lots of traffic too. I was pretty keen to get to the Bloomfield track and start what I thought would be the first of the challenging stuff. I spent all day asking anyone I could about the depth of the Bloomfield crossing at Wujal Wujal, as I had heard it was too deep to cross about 2 weeks earlier. I tried wuja wujal police station several times but no answer, not even the daintree ferry operator had any idea so we just headed up the track to find out for ourselves.
Before jumping in the half hour queue for the daintree river ferry we went and had a look at the start of the CREB track just to check it out. The river seemed a little swollen from what i could remember from pictures. We hung out for a little while hoping to see a croc.
We then made our way to Cape Tribulation. It's very much a backpacker destination and we didn't find it very appealing, so we moved on to the bloomfield track. The track turned out to be in pretty good condition, not really a challenge at all. The only challenge was overtaking about 100 four wheel drives. The whole track was teeming with tourists.
This guy had lost the wheel of his camper trailer through the rocky section and causing a traffic jam of about 20 4x4's.
Here the traffic controller is telling us the depth of the crossing. At first I didn't believe him as it was very shallow, but it got deeper at the northern end.
Then we saw a cape york motorcycle tour group heading off onto private tracks, they were lucky enough to avoid all the roadworks north of Wujal Wujal, but we saw them again at the lions den.
I changed the front tyre to the Metzeler MC6. Whilst I had the wheel off I tightened the steering bearings which had just started to knock over the sharper bumps on the bloomfield track. I could feel a knotch starting to form but it wasn't yet evident whilst riding. It took me a while, but eventually decided to look for new bearings in cooktown the next morning, and if they didn't have any I would just push-on and hope they didn't get tremendously worse on all the corrugations up the cape.
Here's a little video of the Days riding.
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Joined: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Day 5
Day 5 - Lions Den to Archer River Roadhouse
We headed toward Cooktown for breakfast in the morning and stopped off for a look at Black Mountain.
Crossing the Normanby on Battlecamp road.
Straight roads on Battlecamp
Crossing Laura River
On the road from Old Laura to Musgrave Via the Ranger station. The road was in excellent condition as it had only just officially opened a few days prior. I don't think word had gotten out yet as it was very quiet, we didn't see another vehicle for about an hour.
We made it to Musgrave Roadhouse a bit after lunch and Sunny had a burger which he still claims was the best of the entire trip.
From there we motored up the development road, through Coen and up to Archer River Roadhouse where I had a pretty good burger for dinner. We stopped for supplies in Coen and the Grocery shop attendant was complaining because it was so cold, it was 'only' 25 degrees.
Here's a video of the days riding.
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Joined: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Day 6
Day 6 - Archer River Roadhouse to Bramwell Junction Via Chili Beach, Lockhart and some of the Frenchman.
After leaving Archer River I Immediately Killed a bird with my face.
Here's the pascoe river on the main road to Lockhart.
We headed straight to Chili Beach and It was really nice and tropical, but a bit windy.
Sunny was determined to have some coconut
We then rode to Lockhart, it wasn't exactly what i was expecting. The township was pretty rough. lots of stray dogs and stray people hanging out around the fuel pumps. We had a quick look at the beach and high-tailed it to go and have a look at the frenchmans. we had heard it was too deep to cross not long before we got there but decided to have a look for ourselves.
The road in from the start of Frenchmans to the pascoe river was testing at times. It took us a bit longer than expected to cover the 10km in to check out the river. We had a few off's, In one of the rocky sections I got speared off the road. The whole frenchman experience will be better shown in the videos i took but i've just not got around to editing them together yet, I hope to do it soon.
When we got to the pascoe there was a group of nine 4x4's heading the opposite direction (east). They had gotten 3 of their vehicles through before we arrived. We stayed and watched them bring the 4th one across which took about 20 minutes. Some of their vehicles needed strapping or winching to get up the steep exit so we couldn't get our bikes down until they had finished. Extrapolating the time it would have taken for them to finish getting their vehicles through, it would have been 2 hours before we could have a crack at the crossing. This, combined with the difficulty of the crossing, and the unknown difficulty of the 40km track on the other side, made us turn back. It was getting late in the afternoon and I really should have allocated more time for the frenchmans track. Here you can see the people in the river having a hard time just keeping their straps from being swept downstream.
And so we headed back to the main road and on to Bramwell Junction.
And here is a little video of the days riding.
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Joined: Jul 2012
Location: Gold Coast, Queensland
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Cheers for sharing your trip, appreciate it This is on my list of dream rides, even more so after the rest of my family had a ball 4WD'ing it from Adelaide in a straight-ish line.
Joined: Feb 2014
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Hey sounds like you guys had a great adventure. Can't wait to hear more about it, and I really mean it, as me (DR650) and two friends (WR250R and F800 GS) are less than 2 weeks away from heading up to Cape York from Brisbane too. Thanks for the write-up.
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nice work lads..!
looking forward to the rest..
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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Day 7
Day 7 -Bramwell Junction to Loyalty Beach via some of the Old Telegraph track.
We woke to the clattering sounds of campers frantically packing up tent poles and folding tarps. It was 5am and the race had begun to secure a starting spot on the old telegraph track. We thought we would let them have it, and got a little bit more rest. When we finally did rise at around 7am, about half the camp ground had disappeared up the old telegraph track, a good 15 4x4's had made the charge up early. Word was that only the first 6 or so vehicles each day were getting through Nolans Brook before the sandy bottom became too chewed up for an easy crossing.
After a short pep talk sunny and I rode the 4km up the track to see if we could get through Palm Creek. It was more intense than what I had seen in the videos. The entry was no problem, the water depth was nothing to worry about, the only issue was the exit up the steep and muddy banks.
The 4x4's had rendered the main creek exit completely useless to anyone and all vehicles were winching up the soft, steep bank just to the right of the old exit. We checked out all the options, including the 'chicken' track. It was definately doable and I'm certain we could have made it through, in-fact, on a trail-bike it would be laughably easy. There was a trail bike exit to the left of the old exit but it probably just a little deeply chewed for our bikes and our centre stands and footpegs would have dug in to the dirt. I was determined to get through, and gave myself a 20% chance of riding through with no help, 40% chance of riding through but needing a push, and a 40% chance we would make it half-way up the exit and could winch the bikes up using the rope and pulleys we had with us. Despite my confidence in our abilities to get through the track, I couldn't convince sunny that we would get through, and I wasn't prepared to face the track on my own, so we bypassed palm creek, and in doing so, most of the southern section of the old telegraph. It was certainly a situation I wasn't anticipating.
The photo's don't do justice to the steepness of the track.This is main exit most 4x4's weren't using anymore.
And this was the trail bike exit
This is the exit most 4x4's were using.
And here's the main entry that serves the 3 exits shown.
So, we headed in past Heathlands ranger station which brought us back onto the telegraph track just north of gunshot. The road past the ranger station was about 26km and one of the sandiest and most corrugated of the trip. The vibrations loosened my luggage and my tent fell off my bike at one point.
back on the old Telegraph track.
Cockatoo Creek Entry
Had a Quick Shower as we were assessing the crossing.
I'm still struggling with the video editing, my computer isn't playing the game, but i hope to have the videos up in a few days as they really give a better idea of the terrain. Here's a sample of cockatoo crossing on video. I'm still working on getting the best formatting for youtube, it's still not right.
*EDIT - Better Video Added at the end of this post.
The condition of the Old Tele Track was at times better than the development road. long sections of no corrugation and very little sand. We then met up with the bypass road again.
A bit of Shoe repair.
And on to Fruit Bat Falls
We headed straight for the Jardine River ferry via the northern bypass road, but this wasn't to be the last go at the old telegraph for this trip.
The ferry was closed for lunch which gave us time to sit by the banks of the Jardine and try to spot a croc, which we had failed to do the entire trip so far.
We then got across the Jardine and rode into Bamaga and Seisia via the old plane wreck at the airport.
Seisia Ferry that heads down the coast.
Making Camp at loyalty Beach.
Riding Video of the Day
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Joined: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Day 8
Day 8 - Rest day - The Tip, Sumerset beach ride, Croc Shop.
It was such a nice spot at loyalty beach we decided to spend another night. Loyalty beach is nothing but a caravan park about 2km north-east of Seisia. It has a humble kiosk where you can buy pies, baked beans and a few odds and ends. There's also a restaurant and a bar down the eastern end and the food was great, we ate there both nights. Nice and warm up there too, about 32 degrees, the wet boots dried pretty quick up here.
We headed off to the tip in the morning. Roads are a bit rough but nothing to write home about.
I Had carried this Mars bar from brisbane in my Jacket pocket. It had been through all the same shit we had and I ate it in celebration of reaching the top.
We then headed for Sumerset. We expected sand, and we got it.
A Visit to the Croc tent
After that we just relaxed on the beach.
And Here's the riding video for the day.
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Day 9
Day 9 - Loyalty Beach to Wiepa via Northern Old Telegraph Track
So I had been pondering my options over the 'rest' day and decided i didn't want to leave the cape without seeing more of the old telegraph track, even if I had to do it solo.
I knew that Nolans Brook had the motorcycle bridge, but i wasn't confident doing that by myself, even though I knew people had done it solo before on bigger bikes than ours.
So I planned to split up with sunny and take the road that cuts across from the northern bypass into the south side of mistake creek. That would get me three extra crossings that I was reasonably confident i could do on my own, then I would regroup with sunny at Fruit Bat falls, just off the bypass track.
We rode through Bamaga, crossed the Jardine on the Ferry and rode down to the mistake creek turn off. As I pulled out the map to make sure sunny and I both knew where to meet, a 4x4 driver pulled out of the track and asked us if we were lost. I asked him what the track conditions where like through Sam creek and canal creek and he said it was a piece of cake. His recount was so confidence inspiring sunny decided to join me, which was great.
Back on the Telegraph track.
Original Telegraph pole
We Headed 400m north on the Old telegraph to check out Mistake Creek. The creek was shallow, clear and very doable but we hadn't planned on going any further north and besides, some 4x4's had decided to do some roadworks between us and the creek on the track and there was no way past them until they were done.
Mistake Creek
Having sunny there to help meant I could try some of the more difficult lines that I probably wouldn't have taken if i was doing it solo.
Here is Sam Creek,
Then Canal Creek
Then we came to Elliot Falls (Twin Falls)
Then was a little 'Ford' that was unnamed on my Hema Map.
From there is was Bypass road all the way back to Bramwell junction, we hadn't refuelled since arriving in Bamaga 2 days prior but we made it with just a few kilometres to spare. We refuelled and headed through Batavia downs to Wiepa. It was some of the worst riding of the trip due to lots of traffic and dust that just lingered for minutes. We needed some serious de-dusting when we pulled up in Wiepa. We took off the gear and went for a sight-see around the eastern edges, and we also went across the really stupidly long, one-lane bridge at the northern end of town.
We had a $20 all you can eat buffet at the Bowls club for dinner which was superb.
And here's the riding video for the day.
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Day 10
Videos have been added to the Day 4,5,6,7,8 & 9 posts.
So now it's business as usual.
Day 10 - Weipa to Laura
This was just a commuting day. We Raided the Mitre 10 in Weipa for a bolt and some washers that would fit the headlight on my bike. The corrugations had taken their toll and sunny had also lost a bolt off his chain guard. With that all sorted we left Weipa and stopped at the mining vehicle crossing a few km out of town to try and see some action but the mining vehicles weren't using the road. We could see them off in the distance though.
We stopped for lunch in Coen and had a beer and burger at the sexchange hotel.
After an uneventful run down to Laura we discovered the roadhouse didn't sell beer so we went and stayed in town behind the pub.
The place was run by an asian family with an aussie cook who chased stray cats down the street with a cattle whip. It was all a bit bizarre and dodgy, but it was only for one night.
This is my front tyre wear since putting the tyre on at the Lions Den, roughly 2,000km on it here, just a few knobs broken off. I had left my 'road' tyre (tkc80) in the bush on the development road near musgrave and I picked it up again on the way south. I decided to try and run the knobby all the way home as it was feeling better than the tkc.
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Day 11
Day 11 - Laura to Innisfail
So the whole point of staying in Laura was to be at the starting point for Old Coach Road the following day. We were glad to be leaving Laura, and we powered out to the start of old coach road. Well, the terrain was quite rocky and I think the video best shows just how tough is was on these bikes. We only got about 3km into the 40km 4x4 track and it was taking a heavy toll on the bikes. Nothing serious was damaged but I got the feeling if we kept pushing on maybe we would break something vital. So we erred on the side of caution and returned to the main road, and headed back through Laura. This is another track I will put on the "Next time" list.
We stopped at Palmer River Roadhouse for lunch. It was nice, good burgers, set relatively high in the hills, looks like it would get cold on a winters night.
Then we had an uneventful trip into innisfail.
Creepy beam of light over the cemetery. We camped across the road. slept like the dead.
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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Day 12, 13, 14
Day 12, 13 & 14
The final few days were just commuting down the coast. Not much worth mentioning.
On day 12 we left Innisfail and took the bruce highway down to townsville to see if I could find a new tent-pole which had snapped in a wind gust at Loyalty Beach. I had been using a tyre lever gaff-taped to the pole every night since. Couldn't find what i wanted in BCF so i just bought more gaff tape. My tent only cost me $50 so it's doing alright.
We camped the night in Proserpine, Had a good meal at the pub and it was game 3 of state of origin.
Day 13 we bypassed Mackay and ended up in Sarina, then took a detour to get off the bruce highway. The cold weather was back and it once again I regretted my choice in riding gear. We made it to Gladstone and had a look around the Harbour, then pushed-on to Tannum Sands
Camped at Tannum Sands
Day 14
View from Tannum Sands as we left. temperature got to 3 degrees as we rode back to the bruce highway.
We then headed straight to Beggenden and had lunch in Goomeri.
We got back to Brisbane around 3pm.
Some Numbers for the trip.
Total Distance travelled:
Me - 6682km (Brisbane)
Sunny - 7000km (Ballina)
Number of Punctures
Most expensive fuel
$2.45 Jardine Ferry and Bamaga, closely followed by Bramwell station.
Average fuel consumption
5.1L/100km -
Cost of Fuel
Lost count. about $600 roughly
But most imporantly of all, it was a fun adventure.
We met some characters, shared a few laughs, rode some amazing tracks, learned a thing or two.
I would definitely do it all again, Same bike with a bit better riding and sleeping gear.
Hope you enjoyed the Ride Report.
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Thanks for sharing Muzz. I have wanted to do this trip for many years. It certainly takes longer then it looks on the map.
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THE BLACK SUN UNVEILED and the Birthday Child of December 21, 23 , 2012..
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Was this the version of history you were taught, Apollo?
It sounds like the two witnesses to me
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roflmao.the 2 witnesses are your body/temple and your brain/kingdom of your adult life before you build the 3rd temple/body and 3rd kingdom/brain of the goddess and god making you a creator...I'll say this slowly>.............the ............................kingdom...................................of..............................................god............................................is.........................................within..........................you.........what part of the entire kingdom of god is inside each individual, does anyone not get? when they say Jesus is here or over there do not believe them ,because Jesus is inside everyone as humility and the god gland, the pineal gland before you become the creator within themselves..........once again, where are all the remains of the people that go along with all these stories? where is the Caesars remains,all the holy popes remains,the kings and queens of each kingdoms remains?if the stories are so important,shouldn't they have any physical evidence the people existed...and where are the mass burial grave sites for the billions of people that existed throughout there so called hundreds and thousands of year reigns?
T Ceti H.C. Radnarg
They have been hidden and some lost over time. Sacred burial sites are and were some of the best kept and most guarded secrets.
Just as there are many Scottish, Irish and Norwegian Kings born in Iona bro. Are you saying that they did not exist?
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...I'm saying we got these so called history's without all the evidence of the masses that go with these so called leaders..here's another an example of fuked up history, it would be arrowheads and the Indians...you ever try shooting one of those arrows through deer hide or buffalo hide unless your standing right next to the animal? and it takes perfectly straight arrow shafts for arrows to fly straight..try shooting a primitive arrow from a bent tree at any distance into an animal's tough hide and see what happens..
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