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Cunard Line Review
- Overall Rating: 4.0 4.0
- Expert Rating: 4.3
- Traveler Rating: 3.8
- Couples: 3.6
- Families w/ young children: 3.0
- Families w/ older children: 4.4
- Singles/Friends: 3.7
- Groups: 4.1
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- Queen Victoria Overall Rating: Most Cruises: Europe
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Cunard Line Overview
How it Ranks: Cunard has been ranked based on an expert evaluation of the line's level of luxury, as well as an assessment of user reviews and health ratings. Cunard Line appears on the following ranking lists:
- #6 in Best Luxury Cruise Lines
- #8 in Best Cruise Lines for Romance
- #15 in Best Cruise Lines in the Caribbean
Cunard's three ships — Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria — receive well-rounded praise from travel experts and cruisers alike for their stylish accommodations and elegant facilities like upscale dining rooms and opulent ballrooms. Keeping with its legacy as a traditional, Old World ocean liner, Cunard is one of the only luxury cruise lines to offer secluded dining areas for select passengers, meaning guests staying in standard staterooms dine in a different restaurant than passengers staying in suites. Outside the luxurious lodgings, you can enjoy Cunard's versatile dining options, which include French-inspired entrees like Chateaubriand Béarnaise and a specialty restaurant on Queen Mary 2 with a menu crafted by chef Todd English. Cunard offers one-way and round-trip voyages with popular 2015-16 itineraries covering the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea and northern Europe, and including trans-Atlantic crossings between New York and Southampton, England. Popular destinations along the way spotlight major cities across the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Australia and the Pacific Islands. Shore excursions available depend on the cruise's itinerary and duration (2015-16 voyages can last anywhere from two to 121 days), and cover everything from zip line tours through St. Lucia's Rainforest Adventure Park to a gondola ride through Venice's canals. What's more, on all of Cunard's ships you'll find a casino, a fitness center and spa, an art gallery and a wide range of enrichment programs, such as computer classes, ballroom dance tutorials and lecture series.
Pros & Cons
- After one Cunard cruise, you can join the Cunard World Club loyalty program and start receiving fare discount notifications and other benefits
- Variety of cabin classes and specialty restaurants to choose from
- Complimentary night nursery available from 6 to 11 p.m. for guests ages 1 to 2
- Some onboard amenities cost extra
- Shore excursions are not covered in cruise rate
- Government fees and taxes are not included in cruise fares
On Board
While Cunard offers programming catered to children on each ship, the cruise line's onboard activities target well-traveled American, British and international travelers ages 50 and up who prefer afternoon tea and evening galas over pool parties and dance clubs. However, during the summer months, you'll likely find more families and kids on board.More about the onboard experience»
On Shore
While docked at each port, you can either explore independently or book one of Cunard's shore excursions. Excursion options vary by itinerary and ports of call, and are not included in the price of your cruise. You can pre-book excursions up to three days prior to your cruise departure ...More about the on shore experience»
Before You Book
- If you book directly with Cunard, you must pay your cruise fare 90 days before departure.
- Children must be at least 6 months old to sail to Alaska, Canada and New England, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico and Australia and New Zealand. For trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific journeys (including trips to Hawaii, Iceland and World Voyages), guests must be at least 1 year old.
- Passengers under the age of 18 must be traveling with a passenger 18 years or older. Passengers younger than 16 years old must share a stateroom with a guest who is at least 16.
- Cancellation policies vary by cruise length. For voyages that are shorter than 30 days, you must cancel at least 91 days before your trip to receive a full refund. If you cancel 61 to 90 days in advance, you'll be required to pay the deposit amount; if you cancel your reservation 31 to 60 days in advance, you'll receive a 50 percent refund; if you cancel 15 to 30 days in advance, you'll receive a 25 percent refund; and if you cancel two weeks or less prior to your scheduled departure date, you'll receive no refund.
- For voyages that last 30 days or longer, you will be required to pay your deposit; if you cancel your cruise between 91 and 120 days in advance of your departure date; you will receive a 50 percent refund; and if you cancel within 60 days of your departure date, you will receive a 25 percent refund.
- If you book your flights using Cunard's CompleteAir flight tool within 320 days of your planned return date, you can compare flight rates and benefit from next port protection and other perks. To see a full list of the benefits of the CompleteAir program, visit Cunard's "Frequently Asked Cruise Questions" page.
Before You Board
- You must register a credit card or another acceptable form of payment at the Guest Services/Purser's Desk to cover any charges to your stateroom account. Before disembarking at the cruise's final destination, you must pay your account balance.
- You must arrive at least two hours before the ship's scheduled departure time to secure your place on board.
- You must attach a Cunard Line tag to each piece of luggage. Luggage labels will be sent to you about seven weeks prior to your embarkation date, unless you've chosen to print labels from the Voyage Personaliser passenger resource center.
- You can pre-book and pay for shore excursions starting about 12 weeks before your scheduled departure date.
- Though medical services available vary by ship, there are typically two doctors and three nurses on board 24 hours a day. Cunard ships also feature a 24-hour medical facility, but the services are only intended for emergency situations and are not designed to treat pre-existing medical conditions. If you require additional care, you must speak with Cunard prior to embarkation.
- Cunard does not require you to have an International Certificate of Vaccination (currently, none of Cunard's cruises sail to destinations where a yellow fever vaccine is needed); however, Cunard suggests you consult with your doctor at least six weeks prior to departure if you have any concerns about your well-being during your trip. Cunard also recommends all passengers get a seasonal influenza vaccination prior to boarding.
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Ah… nothing like the holidays. From the end of Thanksgiving, it is a very long countdown towards Christmas and even the New Year, where you get to see the best things in the world from toys, to gifts, and even movies to watch. That's right, you can get to watch movies that will not just satisfy your visual craving, but will also make every member of the family so happy watching motion pictures. For you to have a thought of what titles to anticipate this holiday season, check this list out and see for yourself.
10. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
The last time we saw Harold and Kumar; they have separated ways and lived different lives. But in this year's holiday, they reunite again, with an unexpected turn of events as Kumar brought a mysterious package to Harold, and even burning Harold's father-in-law's Christmas Tree. Because of this event, both friends have to embark on a voyage to find the perfect Christmas tree located in New York City, while getting away from all the trouble they face.
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip Wrecked
What do you call Chipmunks that fell off the ship and marooned in a deserted remote island? Chipwrecked! For this holiday season, you will get to see Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and the Chipettes get lost in an island where they thought they own for themselves. However, you will get to see them be surprised as they realize they are not alone.
8. For Christmas, We Bought a Zoo
When you think of Christmas, it usually involves toys, gifts, and a lot of loving. But with what you will see in We Bought a Zoo, re-opening a struggling zoo is all it takes for a family to feel that the spirit of the yuletide season can also be expressed with compassion and love to the members of the animal kingdom. The movie is set in Southern California, and is a true story.
7. Hugo in 3D
Paris, which is known to be the city of romance, is set to see a mysterious adventure that involves a 12-year-old orphan who lives in a train station. Despite this plot may seem to be too ordinary, which takes place in 1930, things become a bit more interesting when this includes a robot in the story, something that doesn't really mix during the time.
6. Happy Feet Two
We saw penguins that can surf, and penguins that can sing. In Happy Feet Two, we will see penguins tap and dance, but this time around, with someone who is reluctant in doing so. Mumble, the penguin who cannot sing so well, has a son named Erik that seemed too awkward in keeping the family tradition, even meeting a flying Emperor Penguin in the process.
5. The Muppets
We have known Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, and Animal as being the stars of The Muppets where kids have seen them pull up different tricks and stints back in the old days. This year, they are expected to see each other again, reuniting for the sake of their old theater that is threatened to be destroyed by an oil digger searching for fortune.
4. New Year's Eve
With the excitement of an upcoming year in the air, even setting the movie on December 31, you get to see how so many couples and singles in New York City reacts in this very day. You will witness the comedy, drama, and even the confusion on this very day, at least before the fireworks blast its way into the sky.
3. Jack and Jill
Sharing Thanksgiving dinner with family has always been a great bonding tradition for everyone, except, of course, if you are not feeling too well, eating the same dinner with an annoying sibling in the same table. In the life of Jack (Adam Sandler) who has a beautiful wife, with a successful career, and a great life, his Thanksgiving would be ruined by his twin sister, Jill (Adam Sandler) and turn her brother's life upside down.
2. The Adventures of Tintin
We have seen Tintin get into sorts of situations while uncovering mysteries and sinister plots, together with his pet dog, Snowy. With the new adventures of Tintin, you will be blown away with the plot of involving a very small model ship, bought for a pound, getting out of hand, even stirring a treasure hunting event of bigger proportions.
1. Arthur Christmas
Have you ever asked the question how Santa delivers all those millions of kids, all over the world, in just one night? Watching Arthur Christmas can make you answer that same question, revealing every detail of the high-tech operation of gift giving. Another thing that would make you even more interested is how a child gets involved in this dealing.

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An evil antiquarian illegally purchases the fabled Stone of Suleiman from its Islamic guardian in Baghdad and returns to England to discover not only that the Stone can multiply itself infinitely without diminishing the original, but that it also allows its possessor to transcend the barriers of space and time. --Wikipedia
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"Why, no," the Ambassador answered. "No, I do not think I will even try. It is but the word of Hajji Ibrahim here. Had he not known of the treachery of his kinsmen and come to England by the same boat as Giles Tumulty we should have known very little of what had happened, and that vaguely. But as it is, we were warned of what you call the sacrilege, and now you have talked to him, and you are convinced. But what shall I say to the Foreign Minister? No; I do not think I will try."
"You do not believe it," the Hajji said. "You do not believe that this is the Crown of Suleiman or that Allah put a mystery into it when His Permission bestowed it on the King?"
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CORPUS CHRISTI - The Palace Men's Club is much more than an adults only nightclub; the menu offers delectable choices of steaks, seafood, sandwiches and salads. In addition, The Palace has six wide screen televisions for watching sports and a late night breakfast buffet on the weekends.
Lunch hour is the perfect time to take advantage of the buffet or the rib eye dinner. The rib eye steak is a 10-ounce Black Angus steak served with vegetables and rice or French fries.
Beginning in August, The Palace will offer a daily manager special on Monday and Tuesday. The special could feature fish and chips, chicken fried steak, grilled chicken salad or burger and fries.
Hot summer days call for cold drinks and cool salads. Ask your server about the daily drink specials while you enjoy the crisp Theo's Greek salad created with cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, Kalamata olives, pepperoncini, feta cheese tossed with a Greek vinaigrette and served with pita bread or the cold vegetable tray of carrots, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes and green olives with ranch dipping sauce.
Relax after a busy day and enjoy a glass of wine and appetizers. Share the Palace sampler of three wings, three mozzarella sticks, four fried mushrooms and two southwestern eggs rolls with spicy ranch dipping sauce.
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Dying of hunger after enjoying an evening concert or a night of dancing? Head over to the Palace for its late night buffet on Friday and Saturday. From 1:30 to 3:30 a.m., buffet choices are numerous including eggs, waffles, carne guisada, fruit and biscuits and gravy.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
On the third Monday of February, Americans celebrate Presidents Day.
Established in the 1880s to honor George Washington, this federal holiday officially named Washingtons Birthday was initially celebrated each year on Feb. 22.
It wasnt until 1971 that Congress moved it to the third Monday in February, providing federal workers a three-day weekend, and it soon became commonly known as Presidents Day. While not mandated by federal law, a number of states include the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12, in their celebration of Presidents Day.
These days, Americans dont spend much time dwelling on the holidays origins. For schoolchildren (and for many public employees) Presidents Day simply means a day off. For others, it means heading to the malls for Presidents Day sales.
Regardless of how its observed, I believe Presidents Day offers a unique opportunity to reflect on Americas past not just the accomplishments of any one president, but the collective vision of our nations early leaders.
Nearly two and a half centuries ago, men and women yearning for freedom began a bold experiment in self-governance on a new continent. Their goal was to create a better life free of the shackles of imperial rule.
As they debated how this new nation would work, they agreed that creating a better life meant adopting a system of government that would do only those things they could not do as individuals. They pictured a system that, as Thomas Jefferson put it, governs least a government that provides essential services and then gets out of the way so that government itself doesnt become a burden for citizens like the governments they had recently fled. They conceived a nation that rewards hard work, rather than one that punishes success. And their model stood the test of time for generations of Americans.
Yet today weve strayed far from the vision of our founders.
Weve grown a government that tries to be all things to all people and spends way beyond its means. Much of the money being spent is borrowed against future generations, leaving our children and grandchildren buried under massive amounts of debt.
Weve developed an entitlement mentality in which more and more citizens are becoming unnecessarily dependent on government assistance. Especially in recent decades, many have come to depend on government to provide those things they could provide for themselves.
To my mind, few things more clearly represent how far weve allowed our government to drift astray than the recent federal mandate on employers and health insurance companies to cover the cost of contraceptives. That mandate represents government overreach at its worst. It was opposed by Americans from all walks of life ranging from Christian hospitals, colleges and other organizations who opposed it on the grounds of religious freedom to those who opposed it simply on the grounds that it interferes with basic civil liberties. But Washington policy-makers decided that people have a right to free contraception, and they decided that it was the federal governments role to provide it.
The contraception mandate, by the way, was part of Obamacare the new law nationalizing health care.
Free birth control? Nationalized health care? Im guessing thats not what our founders had in mind.
Today, many of our nations problems such as our $17 trillion national debt result from the gradual shift from Jeffersons ideal government to our current be-everything-to-everyone system.
This brings me back to Presidents Day.
Surely, no one can fault children for celebrating a day off or shoppers for taking advantage of special discounts. But wed also do well to use this holiday -- and similar occasions -- to pause and think about those who made this country what it is today and to ponder their exceptional vision for our fledgling nation.
I believe theres still tremendous wisdom to be found today in their philosophy about government.
Richard Eckstrom is a CPA and the states Comptroller. Hes also Commanding General of the State Guard.
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Bonfire - Q Lot at 8pm
Tuesday 10/21
Paint the Wolf - Church St. at 10am
Oktoberfest - WUC Plaza at 11am
WOU's Got Talent - Pacific Room at 7pm
Wednesday 10/22
Wolf-It Down Wednesday - The Grove at 5pm
PowderTuff Volleyball Game - HWC at 8pm
Thursday 10/23
Fight Song Pep Rally - WUC Plaza at 12pm
Homecoming Concert Featuring
"The Summer Set" - Pacific Room at 8pm
Tickets: $10 WOU Students/ Faculty Staff, $15 non-students
Friday 10/24
Class of 1964 Reunion - Pacific Room at 3:30pm
PowderPuff Tailgater - Turf Field at 5:30pm
PowderPuff Game - Turf Field at 6:30pm
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Midnight Movies - Independence Theatre at 11pm
Saturday 10/25
Rise and Shine Tailgate Breakfast - Pacific Room at 9am
Hamersly Library Tour - Wayne & Lynn Hamersly Library at 10am
Family Fun Zone - The Grove at 10am
Tailgater - McArthur Stadium Parking Lot G at 10am
Homecoming Football Game vs Simon Fraser - McArthur Field at 1pm
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Topics: Contraception, Sex, Abortion, Abstinence, News
Why did the audience groan when John King asked in last night's CNN debate whether the Republican candidates believe in contraception? It probably wasn't because it was an asinine formulation ("Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?" as if birth control were a unicorn). It's likely because the audience seems to have realized that it's not a good look for Republicans to be so obviously engaged in curtailing women's rights — which is why the candidates, or at least Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, started talking about "out of wedlock" births. And though linking births outside marriage to contraception may have seemed like a non sequitur, it wasn't.
Santorum said, "What we're seeing is a problem in our culture with respect to children being raised by children, children being raised out of wedlock, and the impact on society economically, the impact on society with respect to drug use and all — a host of other things when children have children." And Romney, having started with a by now halfhearted defense of "religion freedom," jumped in eagerly to defend abstinence-only education and say, "We have to have a president who's willing to say that the best opportunity an individual can give to their unborn child is an opportunity to be born in a home with a mother and a father." Bonus points for raising the specter of abortion when asked about contraception. (By comparison, Ron Paul sounded halfway sane when he said immorality, not birth control pills, kills families. Or something.)
You might wonder if contraception isn't logically a way to reduce potential unwanted pregnancies. But this subject change is one that some social conservatives have been trying to push for awhile. It involves conflating teen pregnancy and adults choosing not to marry when they become parents, and low-income women's access to contraception with their "failure" to marry. (And drug use, why not?) But most crucially, it involves a nostalgia for the days when women neither had a choice over when they got pregnant nor had much of a choice but to try to marry the father.
Santorum even doubled down on the suggestion that more access to contraception leads to an increased "breakdown of the family," citing to Greta Van Susteren, again, the New York Times story about the high rate of children born outside of marriage. Then teen pregnancy got thrown in, with Van Susteren asking, "Are you saying that with contraception there's more sexual activity? That young people will be less sexually active without contraception?" Santorum replied, "That certainly was the case in the past."
Inconveniently, teen pregnancy is at a 40-year low, so you might wonder which past Santorum is longing for. It's true that between 1971 and 1988, more teenagers were having sex than before, but according to public health researchers, "At the beginning of the 1990s this trend reversed." The data also indicates that it's not an accident, so to speak, that the U.S. still has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world: "A mid-1990s analysis of five developed countries showed that adolescents in the United States initiated sexual activity at an age similar to that of adolescents in Sweden, France, Canada and Great Britain but that they used contraceptives less frequently." A 2007 study in the American Journal of Public Health concluded that between 1995 and 2002, "the decline in pregnancy risk among 18- and 19-year-olds was entirely attributable to increased contraceptive use. Decreased sexual activity was responsible for about one quarter (23 percent) of the decline among 15- to 17-year-olds, and increased contraceptive use was responsible for the remainder (77 percent)."
As for the number of adults engaging in sexual activity outside marriage, it's also been pointed out that the trend of later marriage — which also happens to correlate to a more lasting one — is on a "collision course" with abstinence-until-marriage doctrine. (Rick Santorum may have eight children, but he married at 32, for what that data point is worth.) That Times piece about how more than half of births to women under 30 are outside of marriage (though a majority of women across the age spectrum are married when they have children) summed up the debate as follows:
"The forces rearranging the family are as diverse as globalization and the pill. Liberal analysts argue that shrinking paychecks have thinned the ranks of marriageable men, while conservatives often say that the sexual revolution reduced the incentive to wed and that safety net programs discourage marriage."
Birth control, of course, is used as a stand-in for the sexual revolution, but the suggestion is that without the pill, women might have been better able to coerce men into marriage in exchange for sex, whether those men are equipped to be partners and parents or not. Now, of course, they no longer need to solely rely on a man to support themselves (although two-partner households can certainly enjoy major economic advantages). How many women who lived through that earlier, more limited set of options would wish it on their daughters and granddaughters, as Santorum and apparently Romney do?
Conservatives also have suggested that the lure of no-strings-attached sex may have tricked women, too, into giving the milk away for free and saddled them with a baby or an abortion instead. "It is possible that women who are more confident in the reliability of their contraceptives may engage in sexual activity more often," speculated National Review contributor Michael J. New last year in seeking to explain why the abortion rate had risen for low-income women while it had dramatically dropped among more affluent women. The implication was that Planned Parenthood handing out pills to sluts had encouraged them to wildly have sex, get pregnant and hightail it to an abortion clinic. Wealthier women, who are more likely to be married, did … what, exactly? Abstained? In fact, married couples report having sex more often than either single or partnered people, and according to census data, 78 percent of them use contraception. (There are still a million unplanned pregnancies that occur within marriage, and almost four in 10 of them end in abortion.) Meanwhile, contraceptive use among unmarried women overall is up, from 80 percent in 1982 to 86 percent in 2002.
As I wrote earlier this week, the evidence suggests that the key to reducing unplanned pregnancies, within and outside of marriage, is not less contraception — it's more and better contraception, made more accessible alongside better information, all of which happens to correlate to your class situation. The substantive part of this "do you believe in birth control" nonsense is that the Obama administration has taken solid steps to correct the financial disparities in birth control access, by mandating that insurers fully cover it. And the fact that reproductive rights, when fully exercised, ultimately help women make choices for their own lives — whether to have children, whom to have them with and when — rather than making biology their inexorable destiny is what really rankles these Republican men.
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In Texas, water use for fracking stirs concerns
By Kate Galbraith, Texas Tribune : March 13, 2013 : Updated: March 13, 2013 7:53pm
Photo By Tamir Kalifa / For the Texas TribuneA rig worker waits to load a casing that will be lowered into the well in preparation for the water-intensive hydraulic fracturing process at a Chesapeake Energy drill site in Dimmit County in the Eagle Ford Shale.
Photo By Glen E Ellman/Bloomberg NewsJose Gonzalez checks the water levels in the frac tanks at a Mitchell Energy & Development frac job near Rhome, Texas in Wise County, November 9, 2000. Water is combined with sand to help bring up the natural gas. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water are used in the process. Photographer: Glen E. Ellman. Bloomberg News.
Photo By William Luther/San Antonio Express-NewsRed so-called "frac tanks", seen in this Friday Nov. 23, 2012 aerial photo, are positioned in a central facility just outside Kenedy. The containers can each hold 500 barrels of fluid which can be material being prepared to go down a well or material that has come out of a well.
Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSAn oil worker walks pass the manifold (right) and frac pumps (left) at a Chesapeake Energy hydraulic fracturing operation near Carrizo Springs, Texas Thursday May 5, 2011. Hydraulic fracturing is a method of removing oil and gas from rock formations such as the Eagle Ford shale formation in south central Texas. JOHN email@example.com
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CARRIZO SPRINGS — In this South Texas stretch of mesquite trees and cactus, where the land is sometimes too dry to grow crops, the local aquifer is being strained in the search for oil. The reason is hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling process that requires massive amounts of water.
"We just can't sustain it," Hugh Fitzsimons, a Dimmit County bison rancher who serves on the board of his local groundwater district, said last month as he drove his pickup down a dusty road.
From 2009 to 2012, water production from one well on his ranch fell by two-thirds, a problem Fitzsimons linked to nearby wells pumping water for fracking operations. A study commissioned by his groundwater district found that in a five-county area that includes Dimmit, fracking reduces the amount of water in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer by the equivalent of one-third of the aquifer's recharge. Recharge means the average amount of water an aquifer regains each year from precipitation and other factors.
The amount of water used in hydraulic fracturing — roughly 4 million to 6 million gallons per oil or gas well — has stirred concerns around Texas as the drought wears on and the drilling boom continues.
Studies say fracking consumes less than 1 percent of the total water used statewide, far less than agriculture or even watering lawns.
But in some drilling hotbeds such as Dimmit County, the proportion of water used for fracking has reached the double digits and is growing along with the oil boom.
On Tuesday, the Eagle Ford Task Force, a group formed by Railroad Commissioner David Porter, issued a final report based on information gleaned from a range of experts in 10 meetings focused on development of the shale. In regard to water, the report concluded that the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, which mainly supplies the southern portion of the Eagle Ford Shale play, "appears to contain sufficient water resources to support oil and gas drilling" in the shale, including for hydraulic fracturing and other uses. But the task force "agreed that localized impacts on water must be addressed."
"When you have a topic like water, you'll have contradictory reports," said task force member and Karnes County Judge Barbara N. Shaw.
"There is not a water problem," she said. "Quality of life is the problem."
Oil and gas companies are "in the spotlight right now," said state Rep. James Keffer, R-Eastland, the chairman of the Texas House Energy Resources Committee. Because drillers have increased their water use only recently, he said, "they have to prove themselves a little harder than others at this point in time."
Companies are springing up to offer recycling, and some drillers are able to use brackish water, but those technologies are often not cost-effective.
In 2011, only one-fifth of the water used in fracking came from recycled or brackish water, according to a recent study prepared by the University of Texas at Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology and financed by the Texas Oil and Gas Association.
The industry is "absolutely not doing enough" to reduce water use, said Luke Metzger, the director of the group Environment Texas.
Some of the most oil-rich parts of Texas, including the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin, are also some of the state's driest areas. Carrizo Springs, in the heart of the fast-developing Eagle Ford, averages 21 inches of rainfall a year.
In 2011, Texas used a greater number of barrels of water for oil and natural gas fracking (about 632 million) than the number of barrels of oil it produced (about 441 million), according to figures from the Texas Water Development Board and the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state's oil and gas regulator.
The UT study, published in January, found that the amount of water used statewide for fracking more than doubled between 2008 and 2011. The amount is expected to increase before leveling off in the 2020s. The study's lead author, Jean-Philippe Nicot of the University of Texas, has calculated that in 2011, nearly a quarter of the water used in Dimmit County went toward fracking. He projects that the figure will rise to about a third in a few years.
Some have big dreams for technology, such as recyling and water-free fracking, being the answer. "Sometime in the future, the oil and gas industry could even be a net producer of water rather than a net user," Porter said in an interview in January.
Express-News Staff Writer Vicki Vaughan contributed to this report.


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EMPORIA, Va. (WTVR) – An 11-year-old girl is in critical, but stable condition after she was shot in the head while riding her scooter. Shawdell Walton was hit in the head by a .40 caliber bullet after she unknowingly got caught up in the middle of a domestic dispute Friday, according to police in Emporia, Virginia.
"She was riding the scooter, trying to tell her mom something," said Shawdwell's friend Laniecia Jones. "When she turned around, a bullet came and shot her in the head."
The impact from the bullet knocked Shawdell off her scooter and nearly killed her.
She was airlifted to VCU Medical Center where she was listed in critical but stable condition Monday.
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"I turned around when I heard gunshots," said Laniecia. "And the guy was shooting and started running up the street."
Police say 23-year-old Evan McNair unloaded a .40 caliber semi-automatic weapon in the direction of his ex-girlfriend's minivan. According to police, with her kids in tow, she managed to escape. But Shawdell, out for a carefree stroll on her scooter, wasn't so lucky.
"He shot eight rounds, is what we've been able to determine at this point," said Det. Sgt. Stan Allen.
The Friday afternoon shooting took place in an area bustling with children. "It could've been me," said Laniecia.
Friday's shooting came just hours after McNair was released from jail and served with a protective order.
"He was released after lunch," said Patricia Watson, the Commonwealth's Attorney for Emporia-Greensville County. "Several hours later he found the victim."
The violence has rattled the nerves of parents and children living in the Reese community.
Especially since neither McNair nor his ex-girlfriend, who was apparently the intended target, lived there.
Laniecia said it's hard for her ride her scooter, knowing her partner may never be able to ride again.
"I'm scared to come outside," she said. "They may shoot me."
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The report appears to show how far Boko Haram has reached.
Leaders of a Nigerian terror group, Boko Haram, were among participants in an extensive "conference call" organised by al Qaeda to plan massive attacks, before the meeting was intercepted by U.S. intelligence, triggering the closure of several American embassies, U.S. media reported Wednesday.
The United States has closed 20 embassies, including four from sub-Saharan Africa countries, namely, Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius, and Madagascar.
Officials, according to initial media reports, said the decision was taken after communications between al Qaeda leader, Egyptian-born, Ayman Zawahiri, and the group's leader in Yemen, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, were intercepted last week.
But news website, The Daily Beast, on Wednesday quoted three unnamed U.S officials as saying that the discussion between the two al Qaeda leaders was in a conference call that included the leaders or representatives of al Qaeda and its affiliates, who called through a presumably secure network, from different locations.
In all, the website said, more than 20 al Qaeda operatives were on the call.
"Al Qaeda members included representatives or leaders from Nigeria's Boko Haram, the Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda in Iraq, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and more obscure al Qaeda affiliates such as the Uzbekistan branch," the report said. "Also on the call were representatives of aspiring al Qaeda affiliates such as al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a U.S. intelligence official."
The presence of aspiring al Qaeda affiliates operating in the Sinai was one reason the State Department closed the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, the report said quoting one U.S. intelligence official.
"These guys already proved they could hit Eilat. It's not out of the range of possibilities that they could hit us in Tel Aviv," the official said.
The report, widely sourced by other U.S. media on Wednesday, reflected the global reaches of Boko Haram as the Nigerian government struggles back home to contain the deadly group that has massacred thousands of civilians.
The government panel, set up to negotiate with the group, claimed it made progress and indeed, reached a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram. But the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau has denied that claim.
As though to prove that point, armed men suspected to be members of the group clashed with security forces in Borno state on Sunday, leaving at least 35 people dead, barely a week after a bomb exploded in Kano state, killing about 20.
Again, while Boko Haram appears on the U.S. list, the notorious Somali terror group, Al Shabaab, which operates on the horn of Africa, was not mentioned, potentially, a measure of Boko Haram's strategic importance in the global terror network.The Daily Beast said the al Qaeda leaders had assumed the conference calls, which gave Mr. Zawahiri the ability to manage his organization from a remote location, were secure. But leaks about the original intercepts have likely exposed the operation that allowed the U.S. intelligence community to listen in on the al Qaeda board meetings.
"This was like a meeting of the Legion of Doom," one U.S. intelligence officer told The Daily Beast.
The official reportedly said that Mr. Zawahiri announced to the broader organization during the meeting that the Yemeni man, Mr. Wuhayshi, had been promoted to "Ma'sul al-Amm," an Arabic term that roughly translates as "general manager."
The promotion effectively gave the leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen operational control of al Qaeda's many affiliates throughout the Muslim world, the official said, a key factor that led the State Department to close embassies, missions, and consulates throughout the region.
"All you need to do is look at that list of places we shut down to get a sense of who was on the phone call," the official said.
Also during the meeting, the various al Qaeda leaders discussed in vague terms plans for a pending attack and mentioned that a team or teams were already in place for such an attack. For some leading members of Congress, the revelation that al Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan is actively managing and directing the operations of several affiliates directly refutes the Obama administration's repeated assertion that the leadership of the core of the group has been decimated by American drone strikes and special operations forces while the affiliate groups have been strengthened.


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Scott Klever retired 11 straight Bobcat batters through the first three and two-thirds innings.
May 8, 2012
CINCINNATI -- Xavier jumped out early and never looked back as the Musketeers rolled to a 9-4 win over Ohio in the final non-conference game of the season Tuesday at Hayden Field. With the win, the Musketeers evened their record at 25-25 on the season.
Scott Klever gave up just two runs and two hits in five innings of action to earn the win. Klever was unhittable through the first three and two-thirds innings as he and the Musketeer defense retired 11 straight Bobcats. Adam Hall pitched three innings of one-hit relief while Daniel Przeniczny added one inning of strong relief.
Xavier opened the game with five straight base hits to take a 5-0 lead in the top of the first. Mark Elwell, Brian Bruening, Derek Hasenbeck, Tres Eberhardt, and Mitch Elliot each reached and scored to open the game. Vinny Nittoli and Jake Forrester each added an RBI in the top of the first.
Nittoli scored in the bottom of the third after leading off with a double thanks to a RBI double by shortstop Michael Moore. Moore crossed the plate when Elwell reached on an OU error to give XU a 7-0 lead.
Hasenbeck scored a run on a Nittoli single in the fourth and Bruening scored in the bottom of the sixth to give XU a 9-2 lead.
Xavier will return to Atlantic 10 action this weekend as they head to the nation's capital to face George Washington in a three game series beginning Friday at 4 p.m. Gametracker links for this weekend's games will be available at GoXavier.com.


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Corpus Christi road work projects this week: 11.17.12-11.23.12
Road closures in the city of Corpus Christi
CORPUS CHRISTI - Road closures in the city of Corpus Christi:
- Starr Street will be closed between Mesquite Street and Chaparral Street for the Thomas J. Henry Turkey Give-A-Way.
SATURDAY-FRIDAY (24-hour closure)
- Traffic on Airline Road is closed to traffic between Cousteau Lane and Walls Street. The southbound traffic detour to Cimarron Boulevard is though Cousteau Lane, onto southbound Paris Drive to La Bianca Drive; the northbound Airline traffic detour to Walls Street is through westbound Lipes Boulevard, onto northbound Giants Drive to Walls Street. Residents on Sonoma Drive and Mendocino Drive will be detoured onto eastbound Vineyard Drive, onto southbound Nacogdoches Drive, onto eastbound Brooke Road to Rodd Field Road.
- Bear Lane will be closed to traffic from the business center's east driveway to Green Point Drive, and open to through traffic from Navigation Boulevard to Green Point. Also, Flato Road will be closed to through traffic from Bates Street to the West Oso High School's staff parking driveway, and from the staff parking driveway Flato will be closed to Bear Lane. Fortune Drive will be closed to through traffic from Enterprize Parkway to Bear Lane and Cliff Maus Drive will be closed to through traffic from Old Brownsville Road to Bear Lane.
- Northbound Kostoryz Road traffic will be shifted onto the southbound lanes between South Padre Island Drive and Sunnybrook Road and southbound traffic will be shifted to the northbound lanes between Sunnybrook Road and Gollihar Road. Also, traffic on eastbound McArdle Road will be shifted onto the westbound lane where traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction through the Kostoryz Road intersection
- At the Staples Street and Weber Road/Doddridge Road intersection, the northbound traffic is shifted onto the southbound lanes and the westbound traffic on Doddridge/Weber has been shifted to the eastbound lane.
- The westbound lane of Up River Road will be closed between Dunn Lane and McBride Lane. Drivers will be detoured onto southbound Dunn Lane to southbound Navigation Boulevard, onto westbound Interstate 37 frontage road, to northbound McBride Lane, to Up River Road.
- Wooldridge Road traffic will be shifted onto the eastbound lanes and reduced to one lane in each direction through the Staples Street Intersection for work in the area. Also, northbound Staples Street will be shifted onto the southbound lanes and reduced to one lane between Spohn Drive and Curtis Clark Drive.
- Northbound Staples Street between Booty and Lipan streets will be reduced to one lane from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. for utility work.
- Various lane clsoures for contractors doing sanitary sewer line inspection and cleaning on various city streets including: Everhart Road, Gollihar Road, and Hugo Drive.
Chaparral Street, Mesquite Street, Tancuhua Street, and Park Avenue will be closed for the Turkey Chase Run, which starts at 7:30 a.m. Immediately following the races, the 200 block of Chaparral Street will remain closed for the Turkey Festival.
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For those thinking that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would say one thing in public and another in private while in the White House, you can probably put that to rest. For reports are leaking out about that White House meeting, and the best that can be said about it is that Netanyahu hasn't put the bombers into the sky just yet:
Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran's nuclear sites, sources close to the talks said, but the Israeli prime minister gave no sign of backing away from possible military action.
With Obama appealing for more time to allow international sanctions to work against Tehran, the two men agreed to keep up their coordination on the issue, but differences remained on how to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons […]
Behind closed doors, Netanyahu confirmed to Obama that Israel has yet to decide whether to hit Iran's nuclear sites, though it retains the right to use military action, the sources close to the meeting said.
But there was no immediate sign that Obama's sharpened rhetoric against Tehran and his plea for Israeli restraint had caused Netanyahu to reconsider what Washington fears could be a rush to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu later last night addressed AIPAC and said, "None of us can afford to wait much longer. As prime minister of Israel, I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation."
So isn't this the imminent attack on foreign soil that Eric Holder was talking about, the one we cannot wait to become operationalized? (removes tongue from cheek)
Netanyahu held a prop in his AIPAC speech, a letter from the US Department of War turning down a request from world Jewish leaders to bomb Auschwitz. The implications are terrifying. Here, by the way, was the summation of the evidence presented by Netanyahu to contradict the consensus of the US intelligence community and, if reports are to be believed, the Israeli intelligence community:
"Amazingly, some people refuse to acknowledge that Iran's goal is to develop nuclear weapons. You see, Iran claims that it's enriching uranium to develop medical research. Yeah, right," he said. "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then what is it? That's right, it's a duck. But this duck is a nuclear duck and it's time the world started calling a duck a duck."
So "I said so is why" will stand as the logical basis for military attack. Good for the Guardian for pointing out that US intelligence maintains that Iran has in fact not decided yet to build a bomb.
If this wasn't "loose talk of war" I don't know what is. You see it everywhere. As Paul Werdel expertly pointed out, the chyron on former AIPAC lobbyist Wolf Blitzer's show read, "A military strike on Iran's nukes?" The potential has become temporal. They just have nukes now. The goalposts have shifted. It's no different than what Mitt Romney did in his op-ed today, only it's coming from CNN.
If a rush to war looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. And in this case, we've seen this duck before and it doesn't end well.


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Ballpark Village's Late Night Dress Code Basically Bans All of St. Louis
The dress code doesn't indicate whether the long shirt rule is aimed at men, women or both.
Here's a full list of what's not allowed after 9 p.m. at FOX Sports Midwest Live!, Tengo Hambre, PBR St. Louis, the Barn at PBR, Skybox, Tengo Sed, the Lounge and the Budweiser Brew House: sleeveless shirts on men, profanity on clothing, exposed undergarments on men, sweat pants, full sweat suits, excessively long shirts, jerseys, athletic shorts, sagging pants or shorts, bandanas, and sometimes hats.
So far, the new rules aren't playing out so well in the St. Louis Twittersphere:
Just read the dress code rules for Ballpark Village. All of St Louis is banned based solely on the dress code.— Tim Godfrey (@MrTimGodfrey) March 26, 2014
A dress code though? RT @MrGee54: Ballpark Village aint playing no games— Inita Bae Here (@TMikaMouse) March 26, 2014
Apparently, Ballpark Village will have a dress code after nine at night and on non-game days. Excuse me while I roll my eyes. #STL— Christian Knobloch (@ChrisIMKnobloch) March 26, 2014
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Listology Secret Santa 2003
Listology's first annual Secret Santa is underway! Here's the way it works...
- You e-mail me that you want to participate at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- I will collect all the addresses between now and 11:59 PM 11/26 (see "extension" note below)
- I will e-mail all participants my snail mail address.
- You make a music mix on CD. Mixes should be WAV files rather than MP3s so you don't need an MP3-capable CD player to participate (it's true you'll need a player that can handle CD-Rs, but many can, even those that don't explicitly advertise being able to). Do not say who the mix is from (unless you really want to).
- Bring the mix and two mailers to the post office (or you can buy mailers at the post office). One mailer is self-addressed, the other is addressed to me. You put the CD in the self-addressed mailer, but don't seal it, and get the right postage on it. Then you put the CD and SASE mailer in the mailer addressed to me, and send it off.
Note that nobody but me will see your address, or even know you are participating (unless you include identifying information on the mix you create). Also, you don't have to worry about somebody not sending a CD because they have to send me one to forward on in order to get one!
This scheme works if non-US folks want to participate too. You'll just need to put enough postage on your SASE to get it (and the enclosed CD) from the US back to wherever you live (and enough postage to get it to me in the first place).
The downside is that everybody pays a bit more because you have to pay for two mailers and two postal trips instead of one, but I think the pros outweigh the cons.
I can provide some technical help for anybody that doesn't know how to rip tracks off of CDs they own, or how to burn a CD. Of course, you'll need to own or have access to a CD burner, but they're pretty cheap (I think I got mine for $40). And I'm sure there are plenty of folks here that are better at this than I am.
Finally, if you want to do a cassette intstead of the CD, go ahead an e-mail me, but tell me that's what you want to do. If two or more people go that route, great. Otherwise I'll let you know you're out of luck.
So whadda y'all think? Perhaps a little holiday cheer is in order around here?
Come to think of it, there's no reason why we have to limit this to folks with CD-burning capabilities. If you're still making mixes on cassette, that works too (although I don't own a car cassette player anymore, and I'm probably not unique, so maybe folks could state their media preferences if/when they e-mail me).
If you are often mistaken for Albert Camus, you might be a stranger.
I'll know 'em when I see 'em.
:-) Seriously, good question. I was basically thinking anybody that contributes to Listology and keeps returning to visit regularly is eligible. Since such users have a bit of a vested interest in the site, I figure cheating is unlikely. Furthermore, I'll have everybody's address, so I'll know who's naughty and who's nice.
I don't consider you to be a stranger, for example. Nor do I consider our newer members to be strangers. "blunder", on the other hand, is a stranger.
Jim, how do we address the envelope if we don't get the person's name? I guess we could put something Listology-related on it? Just wondering if you had thought about this at all.
Hmm, I was thinking you could just put the person's address on there without putting on a name and the post office would still deliver it. Kinda like I get marketing mail addressed to "current resident".
Of course, folks could specify that they are willing to have their Listology ID passed along with their address, but I was thinking folks might want to their online identity here associated with an actual physical location. At least not one so specific.
I hear ya, but if I was going to get mine sent here the central mail place for the college wouldn't know if they should tell me or my roommate that there was a package to pick up. I guess I could just send my home address to avoid the confusion.
Well, you could give me your real name or a nickname. Nobody here would necessary be able to associate your real name with your Listology handle (although some detective work might be able to make the link). Of course, I'd want folks to explicitly tell me which information it's okay to give out.
I'm open to ideas!
Jim-What if everyone sends self-addressed, stamped mailers to you along with the CD we are giving out. I know it puts the onus on you to mail everything out, but it also ensures privacy, as you are the only one who knows everyone's real name and addresses.
That sounds like a great idea, thanks pivvclam! So you'd bring your CD and two mailers to the post office. One mailer is self-addressed, the other is addressed to me. You put the CD in the self-addressed mailer, don't seal it, and get the right postage on it. Then you put the CD and SASE mailer in the mailer addressed to me, and send it off. I get everything, shuffle the CDs/SASEs around, and send them back out. Seems like a great plan. Fraud becomes impossible, and nobody sees your address (or even that you're participating) except me. Having fraud-proofed it, and provided anonymity, we can now drop the "no strangers" clause. Anybody can join the holiday cheer!
Only gotcha I see is that folks will probably have to do CDs and not cassettes, which I had originally suggested might be acceptable. You can still e-mail me that you want to do a cassette, and if there are other such participants I'll match you up.
Of course, we'll need some participants. :-) While we've had some discussion here, so far only a *very* small number of people have e-mailed me at email@example.com to join the fun. So e-mail me if you want in, folks! Nobody will see your address but me. Of course, if you don't trust me that's another matter, but I'm a pretty easy person to find, and you know I'm not just going to disappear from Listology. :-)
I moved the deadline up from Friday to tomorrow, figuring lots of folks won't be around or online the day after Turkey Day (well, we U.S.terners, anyway). The deadline is actually semi-flexible, since to play you just have to get me your mix and mailers by December 10th or so (I'll be picking a deadline when I send out e-mails to the folks that RSVP). But I have to know your mix is coming in case there are any postal mishaps, so drop me a line if you want in!
Jim, if you're willing to share the info I'd be curious to know approximately how many respondents you've had. Are we still in the single digits?
Oh sure, you had to ask. With all this anonymity I could have pretended hundreds signed up!
So far, including me, 8 people have signed up, so we're almost out of the single digits. It's actually more than I was expecting, and there are even a couple folks missing that I thought would sign up! Not bad, and certainly enough people that I'll try and make this an annual tradition.
Hey! On a related note. I use Winamp to listen to MP3s because it has a small footprint. I use Nero (or sometimes Musicmatch Jukebox) to burn CDs. I've noticed that a lot of MP3s (especially those ripped off of older CDs) are quieter than MP3s ripped off more recent CDs. Does anyone know a good way that I can normalize the sound levels of a bunch of MP3s? Do I have to do it during the burning phase? Or can I take a source MP3 and normalize and output it to a brand new MP3?
See now, I'm hoping one of my not-so-secret Santas will get me a CD burner, so I can make mixes like these!
Although the music industry may be deliberately conspiring to keep burners away from me personally. I'd be dangerous...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yay!! I got my mix in the mail--actually I got two. Was I just lucky, Jim or was there an error in the exchange?
Let me know if you need me to send one back... (she says, reluctantly.) Thanks again for all your efforts!
I got 2 also. Jim, did you send your mix to everyone?
Also - one of my CDs doesn't have a track list. If it's not too much trouble (and you still remember what's on the mix), could the person who sent a CD called "Wish List Mix" with a red insert with stars on it e-mail me a track list? I would really appreciate it. You can e-mail from my Listology profile. Thanks! :-)
Do you know any of the songs on it?
I don't even remember what I named mine and I might not be the only one who can't remember. I also don't remember what kind of insert it was in...um...what was I talking about again?
Oh yeah, if you would post a song title from the CD that you know, it would probably help narrow it down.
Ya got me, I sent my mix to everyone. I figured since I got to listen to all the mixes (just in the interest of making sure they all worked! really!), it was only fair. :-)
I'll send a final wrap-up e-mail to all the participants shortly (tonight, hopefully).
Happy holidays everybody!
Jim, I just wanted to thank you publicly for pulling this together. I think it was a great success--especially managing to get them all exchanged before christmas!
i appreciated the bonus mix and a special thanks to the person behind "i can't stand what you do but i'm in love with your eyes." highly entertaining!
hope we're able to do it again next year!
Mine was the one in the envelope (trying to keep the shipping down, since everyone had put the appropriate postage for one disc onto their return mailers). First track was "Open up Wide", which is a good opening track in so many ways. :-) You opened your mix with a catchy intrumental too, I noted. I really liked that song but didn't remember until doing further research that it was from a movie. I think I recall happening upon one other soundtrack song on your mix - were there more there that I didn't notice? Was it a theme of the mix, or did I just happen upon the only couple?
I've been listening to and enjoying both of my gift mixes ever since they were received. One mix was made by someone who seems to have a penchant for the British pop charts. The other was a very electic mix of some jazzy, some twangy, some instrumental, some heartfelt, some world, some acoustic, etc. music. Both discs are completely unlike the other and I'm enjoying them both.
I'm curious to know if anyone out there got my disc. I didn't include a song list and the disc was in a slim plastic case probably blue or orange.
Just curious to know if the recipient enjoyed it. I had a heck of a good time making it.
I'm not sure I'm recalling correctly, but I think your mix had the farthest to travel, so it might not have arrived yet. I just sent an e-mail to everybody asking them to tell me if they haven't gotten their mix yet.
I'm happy to hear you liked the ones you got! While I'm sure you'd like to hear from your real recipient, I can tell you that I thought your mix was fantastic. I particularly dug The Waters of March, which I'd never heard before. If I had to pick a favorite song from your mix that would probably be it, but there were lots of contenders. I'd post a favorite song from each of the mixes, but there were two I didn't really get to listen to except for a quick scan to make sure the first few seconds of all the tracks played. I was very rushed, having gotten several of the mixes on Monday, and having to leave for business on Tuesday. Alas!
I think our first annual Secret Santa was a success! I hope all the CD folks have gotten their mixes (cassette swap is still in progress). We had seven CD participants, and two cassette participants, which puts us in a great position to break double-digits next year. :-)
I had a couple (probably crackpot) ideas for next year, and I'd love to hear your thoughts:
[1] Since I check all the mixes anyway before sending them back out, I could create a "greatest hits" mix to send to all participants. I might not be able to do this if we have lots of participants.
[2] It might be possible to devise an approach where if you want to get multiple mixes you can send in multiple copies of your own mix, but I'm having a hard time making the math work.
[3] Both ideas above, but particularly #2, might compromise the benign "Secret Santa" nature of the idea and make it more of a bulk music sharing kinda thing, which isn't really my intent, but it's an idea that occurred to me nonetheless, so I post it for feedback.
I'd love to hear any suggestings for next year, including "don't change a thing."
Happy holidays!
I really wish whoever received my Listology Secret Santa CD would make some sort of comment about it. I think it's one of the best mixes I've ever made but I have no idea what the recipient of the mix thinks. If you hated or if you liked it just please say something. I feel like my creative juices have just been flung into limbo. I guess next year I'll have to make a copy for everyone ala Jim. Believe it or not I considered doing it this year because I was so pleased with my mix but I didn't want to unbalance anyone's postage.
I'd love for more feedback too, but it was a *Secret* Santa, so I figure I can't beg too hard. :-)
Next year we'll have to figure out a way for folks to send more than one copy out into the void. One way I thought of was for everybody to send a book of stamps with their return mailer. I put on however many stamps are necessary to send you the CDs, and return the remaining stamps to along with your CDs.
I would have to say that I enjoyed the whole process and would do it again, but I must add that I enjoyed your CD more than the Santa one I received. I don't want to hurt any feelings; the Santa one I received was fine, it just didn't jibe as much with my musical tastes. That said, I still appreciated getting both CD's and sincerely thank the both of you, Jim and "Santa".
Glad to hear you liked the mix! I had lots of fun putting it together. I'm also psyched to hear you'd be game for next year. Believe or not, I'm already looking forward to it.
...you know everybody has a birthday at least once a year, even Listology. Maybe, in celebration of the anniversary of Listology, Abe Lincoln, Salvodor Dali, the Dali Lama, Lorenzo Lamas, Lorenzo's Oil, Olive Oyl, Tony Oliva, Tony Orlando...well you get the picture...everyday is a special day for someone; who says the "holidays" are the only time to anonomously distribute music to total strangers? In fact, pick a date, declare it "World Music Day" and let the good times roll! Stranger things have happened.
I case anyone is interested, I listed the tracks from my CD here.
Are there any plans for a 2004 Secret Santa? How successful was the first one (how many people participated)?


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STAY THE COURSE: CSU AD Jack Graham said that declining attendance is "no reason ... to jump ship and move the game back to the respective campuses." Visit Denver VP/Marketing & Business Development Justin Bresler said that event organizer Denver Sports "couldn't even get a title sponsor" for this year's game to replace Cinch Jeans after its two-year deal expired. Bresler "wouldn't say what title sponsorship cost but admitted it represented a 'significant amount' of lost revenue for Denver Sports, which helps organize the event, and the two schools." Graham: "You don't make decisions to discontinue business activities on the back of down cycles and on the back of emotion, and right now we're in that cycle" (COLORADOAN, 8/28).
CHANNEL SURFING: In Denver, Dusty Saunders wrote of the CU-CSU game airing on CBSSN, "The expanding cable sports world doesn't always provide better coverage for local viewers." Dish and DirecTV subscribers "need a higher-tiered package to get the game," so "many customers will be out of luck when it comes to comfortable home viewing." Saunders: "In the 'good old days' the annual game was aired on basic cable -- Fox Sports Net (now Root Sports)." The broadcast team will feature Dave Ryan and a "pair of relatively unknowns -- Adam Archuleta and Evan Washburn -- who are not exactly Colorado broadcasting household names" (DENVER POST, 8/26).