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I wonder if anyone can help me I have a galaxy 1.9tdi 1997. It runs fine but have a problem starting it it is almost like I have to wind it up.
We have changed 2 relays 109 and 102 (I think that was the numbers my husband said he had changed), checked all fuses, have also had new glow plugs and glow plug sensor. We have had the power checked and there is no power going to the glow plugs but there is power going to the relays.
Has anyone got any suggestions as to what it could be? We are all out of ideas and don't want to change fuel pump as it is a costly job and knowing our luck won't solve the problem.
Thanks Sue
Starting Problems With A Ford Galaxy 1.9Tdi
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Posted 08 August 2010 - 02:54 PM
i can not remember on the galaxy if the plugs only work below a certain temp,the power to the relay is controlled by the ecu,you could have a problem with the temp sender unit giving the ecu false signals so the glowplugs are not required,you could do with a live data scan to see if the temp sender is working correctley. it could also be nothing to do with the plugs and have some other reason why its difficult to start.
Posted 08 August 2010 - 05:06 PM
my husband said he had changed the temp sensor. he has also had two Diagnostic checks run both found nothing
Posted 08 August 2010 - 09:20 PM
i know this might be a silly question but is the battery and alternator up to standard?
Posted 09 August 2010 - 03:02 PM
Not a silly question sometimes the obvious can be missed unfortunately not this time. Both the battery and alternator are fine.
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San Angelo man charged in wife's death in Grape Creek
A San Angelo man was in Tom Green County Jail, charged with murder after a shooting in Grape Creek on Saturday left one woman dead and sent another man to Shannon Medical Center, according to county officials.
The suspect, Matthew Samuel Salazar, 31, is accused of shooting and killing his wife, Heather Shane Salazar, 30, with a handgun, officials said. He was set to be arraigned Sunday morning at the jail.
The shooting occurred in the 8200 block of Poplar Lane in Grape Creek, at the residence of Bradley Floyd, 30, who was injured in the incident, according to officials.
"The suspect was apprehended at the scene," Tom Green County sheriff spokeswoman Lt. Christina Lopez said Saturday afternoon. "Investigators are out there ... collecting evidence."
Texas Department of Public Safety and county officials were at the site. Caution tape blocked Magnolia and Brown drives where they intersect with Poplar. More tape was strung around the mobile home where the shooting occurred.
County dispatch received a call at 12:19 p.m. Saturday about the shooting, Lopez said. EMS took Floyd to Shannon by ambulance with unknown injuries.
Tom Green County Sheriff David Jones, who was at the house with investigators collecting evidence late Saturday afternoon, said Floyd's injuries were not life-threatening.
Justice of the Peace Eddie Howard pronounced Heather Salazar dead at the house.
The circumstances of the shooting were unclear late Saturday.
Authorities said the last homicide investigation in Grape Creek was in 2009, when a woman was shot in a neighborhood dispute.
Dianne Hopkins, who was arrested on charges of killing 27-year-old Jamica Goodwin, was convicted of murder in November 2010 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The case was prosecuted by Allison Palmer, who at the time was the first assistant for the 51st District Attorney's Office.
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Casey Wellman is saying all the right things.
More importantly, the Wild's new young playmaker is doing all the right things.
Wellman, a 22-year-old rookie forward who signed as a free agent last week after two seasons at the University of Massachusetts, arrived in St. Paul looking a little wide-eyed. After watching two games, he was dropped into the lineup Friday night in Columbus.
In his first game, he recorded his first point, an assist in the 4-2 loss. In his second game, the Wild's 4-3 victory Sunday over the Calgary Flames at the Xcel Energy Center, he didn't record an official shot on goal, but he did force a turnover that led to a goal. That stands out for a team that before Monday's games ranked 15th in the league in scoring with 194 goals (2.69 per game).
The kid whose comfort level belies a two-game NHL career and barely 21 minutes of ice time has been the model of modesty.
He said after his second game, "These guys have been working hard all year, and it's a pleasure to play with them. They played well tonight, and it was great to be a part of."
Against Columbus, Wellman jumped into the lineup and produced a fancy move or two in front of the Blue Jackets' net to set up Chuck Kobasew for a second-period goal.
Said Kobasew: "I just tried to go to the net, and he found me."
Wellman later banged a quick shot on net that was inches from his first NHL goal before the Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger stepped in and stopped the puck with his skate.
"That was ridiculous," Wellman said, "but you know, things like that happen. Hopefully, I'll get another chance to bury one."
Coach Todd Richards had a favorable first impression.
"If you look at his overall game," Richards said, "it seemed like when he got the puck on his stick, he was making a play. It was a good first game for him."
As Wellman enters his third game, against the San Jose Sharks tonight at the X, he credits his teammates for helping him relax.
"All the guys just tried to calm my nerves down for me; the guys were great," he said. "They told me just to be confident, and I tried to do that."
His confidence, enthusiasm and offensive abilities landed Wellman at the top of the team's list of free-agent prospects. Since arriving, he has demonstrated a willingness to attack the net, battle for the puck — and shoot.
Wellman didn't earn an assist Sunday on the first of two Kobasew goals because he did not actually touch the puck, but Wellman's pressure caused a Flames turnover to Kyle Brodziak, who moved the puck to Kobasew.
No big deal, Wellman said.
"I'm just trying to use my speed out there and create some chances for the guys," he added. "I was trying to get on the forecheck hard, and luckily we got a bounce on that one and Chuckie buried it."
Richards' praise for the 6-foot-1, 185-pound Wellman bumped up a bit after two games.
"He made some plays, and I think he had a couple of opportunities himself," Richards said. "He doesn't look out of place; he doesn't look slow.
"Really, the only way he looks out of place is, he just looks too young. But as far as how he plays the game, speed-wise, no problem. The quickness of the game and how quick he has to make decisions, he has no problem with that. He gets bounced around a little bit, and I'm sure he knows he's got to get stronger as he gets older, but he's been fine."
So far, when Wellman has been knocked down, he's popped right back up.
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I bought and installed a Continental Contact 700x42 tire but it ended up being smaller than the 700x42 Continental TownRide that came original on the bike. The Contact tire is about 36mm wide at the widest point; the TownRide tire is 42mm at the widest. The diameter also appears to be smaller.
I am a bit disappointed because I like the bigger tires because they flatten the dilapidated pavement here. I think I might end up returning the Contact tire because they're about 15% smaller than what I thought they'd be.
How do I tell if a tire will actually be actually close to 42mm when installed? I'm half-tempted to get the 47mm size, but I cannot seem to find them anywhere and if those are 15% smaller, the tire would still be less than 40mm. But I'm thinking if I go that size, I should maybe consider the the Schwalbe Big Apple 50mm.
The bike is a rigid hybrid Marin Muirwoods 29er, and at 30lbs for just the bike, speed isn't a huge issue for me. But since I'm looking at 42mm and maybe even 50mm tires, that was probably obvious.


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What is yours? Mine would be PHP because of how versatile it is.
My favorite is also php cuz i can do alot with it
I don't know PHP , but otherwise JSP and Javascript is my favourite .
Back when I was into forums, and was forum smart, i liked them all, I could use them all with little problems, but now I've basicly lost alot of the knowledge of forum based stuff.
I know abit of HTML and PHP, but VB is what I code best.
So I guess VB is my favorite programming language.
If I had to learn every programming language, PHP obviously would be important, but a good understanding of xHTML/CSS (even though they're not actually languages) always helps. What really will be important though is AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML). Modern forum software will really embrace it soon and it'll really improve efficiency of loading stuff since it only loads parts of files which are actually updated.
EDIT: HOWEVER, a very important language to learn is C. Why? Because most modern languages are derived from it, so you can easily port your C language to learn stuff like PHP, C++, and Java to name some.
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Some options I'd like to see, in addition to the ones already on the cheatscape trainer would be an option for one hit kills. This would make the game a breeze and quite fun. If anyone else has some suggested options post here so the people who make the trainers can see it.
We base NO trainer decisions on what is available at CheatScapes. I only point people to CS when we have no plans to make a trainer for a particular game and there IS one over there.
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I just started reading the Java EE 6 Tutorial, and I'm a little confused! I knew about JavaServer Pages (JSP), and even did some coding during my undergraduate studies. But now, in this tutorial, I don't see anything about JSP.
Instead I read about Facelets, a new View Definition Framework (as it is described in this tutorial). I searched a little bit over the Internet to clarify the distinction between JSP and Facelets, and I came across with this post that helped me a lot (especially BalusC's answer). But these terms are still a little unclear to me.
What is the difference between JSP and Facelets? Are Facelets going to replace JSP, or is it just a technology that works better with JSF (and if it's the latter, why)? If they are different, when should I use each one of them?
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The pictures are scary, but misleading. The media exaggerate bad news. "The Skeptical Environmentalist" author, Bjorn Lomborg, addresses claims about genetically modified food, and global warming, as in this Newsweek article about "The End of Pasta."
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Last week we leaked the track "Crumbling Down" produced by Mr. Green, off the first disc of the project, this week we bring you a treat from disc 2...Enjoy!
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Attention Producers...break out the MPCs!! Coalmine Records joins forces with the online pro audio giant UniqueSquared.com to present you with the Can You Dig It? Remix Contest. In what Coalmine considers to be most dynamic remix contest to date, they have combined El Da Sensei's Global Takeover 2 (GT2) album campaign with the promotion of their five year anniversary compilation, Can You Dig It?. Producers are required to remix "Everyday In The Street" featuring Sean Price & Bekay off the GT2 LP, using "The Warriors Theme Song" as the sample. The winning producer will have their remix featured on El Da Sensei's forthcoming The Nu World Remix EP and will receive a generous prize package that will include gear and promotional goods, courtesy of UniqueSquared.com. Get started now by downloading the audio files and rules/itinerary document. If any producers experience any difficulty in downloading or unzipping the files, please send an email to coalminerecords [@] gmail.com and they will attempt to resolve your issue. All remixes are due no later than Monday, May 16th.
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1) 4.29.11 (Friday): Contest Begins - UniqueSquared.com will premier the contest that will be marketed via Diamond Music Group throughout the internet to hip-hop related lifestyle webzines and blog sites. The contest will also be reinforced through an in-house e-blast campaign and will be further promoted through both UniqueSquared.com and Coalmine Records social networks (Twitter and Facebook).
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4) TBA: Release Date - The winning remix will be featured on the official release of The Nu World Remix EP. The remix will also be campaigned through all major hip-hop related blogs and lifestyles in the weeks leading up to the official release.
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Dirty South reveals the roots of southern rap, examining the groundbreaking artists and labels who have changed hip-hop – and the scene's haters"Ben Westhoff possesses the ear of a skilled hip-hop critic, the cadence of a poet, and the nerves of a pro boxer. Dirty South reveals not just the grit and spirit of Southern hip-hop, but the intensity of old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting--mixed with a dash of Gonzo journalism for good measure." --Mara Shalhoup, author of BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family "Ben Westhoff brings journalism back to hip-hop, and hip-hop back to journalism, by reclaiming the lost art of reporting. As a result, Dirty South is a most fascinating trip through Southern hip-hop's origins and current reign. Great book." --Dan Charnas, author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop"Journalist and hip-hop enthusiast Westhoff delivers a fascinating exploration… In fact, the beauty of Westhoff's descriptions of the genre as a whole and various songs in particular will make old fans as well as newbies want to search out and play classic CDs such as OutKast's 'Aquemini' and 'Kings of Crunk' by Lil Jon." –Publishers WeeklyCHICAGO: Southern rap dominates the airwaves, and has challenged the authority and coastal dominance of the scene since the early-2000s. While it's clearly appealing to the masses, its cultural significance has been hotly debated, and its emergence has been contentious in the hip-hop world. In 2007, original West Coast gangsta rapper Ice-T accused viral-success-story Soulja Boy of "single-handedly" killing hip hop, and he wasn't alone in his ire.In Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (Chicago Review Press, May 2011), journalist Ben Westhoff explores the genre that is often thought of as "simple" or lacking a message. Including interviews with key figures like Luke Campbell, Juvenile, Big Boi of OutKast, 8Ball & MJG, Three 6 Mafia, Lil Jon, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupri and many more, Dirty South shares the stories of acts that put southern rap on the map, and lays out why the genre is so vital.Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai, and the exclusive interviews with the genre's prominent players take many forms—watching rappers "make it rain" in a Houston strip club, partying with Luke Campbell, visiting the gritty neighborhoods where T. I. and Lil Wayne grew up, and speaking with popular-but-derided artists DJ Smurf and Ms. Peachez along the way. The celebrated but dark history of Houston's Rap-A-Lot Records, the lethal rivalry between Atlanta's Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy, and the venerable Scarface's memories from time in a mental institution are just a few of the textured and tricky subjects explored.Peppered with surprising details and insider perspectives that make the growth and revolution of hip-hop a cultural touchstone, Dirty South is a fresh and highly readable account of the scene, the society that fostered it and its effect on the music industry."I love this book. It's a real in-depth look into southern hip hop history, and loaded with facts. Recommended for hip hop music lovers." --8Ball, southern rap pioneer, member of duo 8Ball & MJGBen Westhoff is a former staff writer for St. Louis' Riverfront Times, who has also written for Village Voice, Creative Loafing, Spin and Pitchfork. His web site is www.benwesthoff.com .
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MP3 For Latest Single, Remix Featuring Ghostpoet Now Available For Free DownloadThe Song:Anticipation continues to build as the release date approaches for DELS' new album, GOB. Dropping May 24th on Big Dada/Ninja Tune, DELS has already brought fans the a remix for the title track, courtesy of TV On The Radio's David Andrew Sitek, and now "Trumpalump," is being released as a free, downloadable mp3 for the first time, accompanied by a video for the single and a remix featuring fellow UK rapper Ghostpoet.The track, which features and is produced by Joe Goddard of fan favorite English electro group Hot Chip, comes equipped with 8-bit samples, the most prevalent being the fuzzy, stuttering bass line and descending synth flutters. The synthesizer lines stack and build over beating drums and heavy claps, and just two minutes in the listener is immersed in a melancholic soundscape, one totally different than the chugging, aggressive beat that laid the foundation for DELS' first verse. And, fittingly, this change brings a more reflective mood to the song, along with Goddard's beautiful, understated chorus.Goddard himself turns in the first remix. Originally conceived as a re-vocal with new lyrics from DELS complemented by Ghostpoet, Goddard liked the new, melancholy feel of the words so much, he re-worked the music to emphasize this aspect even more. The results are spellbinding, a falling, stumbling ballad.DELS' debut album GOB will be available for purchase on May 24, 2011.Download the mp3 for "Trumpalump" here: http://media.audibletreats.com/DELS-Trumpalump_Ft_Joe_Goddard.mp3 .Download the song's remix, featuring Ghostpoet: http://media.audibletreats.com/DELS-Trumpalump_Joe_Goddard_RMX_Ft_Ghostpoet.mp3 .Watch the official video for "Trumpalump" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spNJrsgc_YI .
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A Branding Problem
by Logan Albright
Actor/comedian Russell Brand has done what almost all actor/comedians eventually do, having turned momentarily from entertainment to express his opinions about politics. As you might expect, Brand is a committed leftist, railing against capitalism, "the rich," and all the other usual Hollywood boogeymen. However, what makes Brand's case an interesting one is the language that he uses to express his views, language that leads me to believe that maybe there is more common ground between us than one might assume.
Consider the following extracts from the
lengthy opinion piece
he penned for The Guardian:
"As long as the priorities of those in government remain the interests of big business, rather than the people they were elected to serve, the impact of voting is negligible and it is our responsibility to be more active if we want real change."
"The only reason to vote is if the vote represents power or change. I don't think it does. I fervently believe that we deserve more from our democratic system than the few derisory tit-bits tossed from the carousel of the mighty, when they hop a few inches left or right. The lazily duplicitous servants of The City expect us to gratefully participate in what amounts to little more than a political hokey cokey where every four years we get to choose what colour tie the liar who leads us wears."
"The reason these coalitions are so easily achieved is that the distinctions between the parties are insignificant. My friend went to a posh "do" in the country where David Cameron, a man whose face resembles a little painted egg, was in attendance. Also present were members of the opposition and former prime minister Tony Blair. Whatever party they claim to represent in the day, at night they show their true colours and all go to the same party."
"The reason not voting could be effective is that if we starve them of our consent we could force them to acknowledge that they operate on behalf of The City and Wall Street; that the financing of political parties and lobbying is where the true influence lies; not in the ballot box."
"The US government gave a trillion dollars to bail out the big five banks over the past year. Banks that have grown by 30% since the crisis and are experiencing record profits and giving their execs record bonuses. How about, hang on to your hats because here comes a naĂŻve suggestion, don't give them that money[.]"
Britishisms like "posh" aside, these could have been written by any member of the American Tea Party, and yet Brand still mistakenly thinks that capitalism is the problem and government is the solution.
The reason is that Russell Brand is among a large class of young, largely ignorant people who have the right instincts but have a profound misunderstanding of the causes of the problems they rail against. That they are ignorant is understandable, and I do not mean to use the term in a derogatory way. They are bombarded with misinformation day in and day out. I can only imagine what it is like in liberal Britain's entertainment industry, in which Brand has been insulated for many years now.
The important point is that we want, or at least claim to want, largely the same things. We want an end to bailouts, an end to cronyism, an end to perpetual wars, and a democratic process where voters are offered a real choice rather than the carbon copy political parties we have now. The difference is that Brand and his ilk believe that these goals can be achieved by more government, more regulations and more restrictions on our freedoms.
The corruption of corporatism is unavoidable in a government that has the power to hand out other people's money. A government that is empowered to spend taxpayer money to help the poor is equally empowered to spend that money on bailouts and corporate subsidies, and political self-interest will dictate that even the most vocally progressive of politicians will do so ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
If liberals and progressives really believe the things they say they do, then there should be considerable opportunity to persuade them of the virtues of libertarianism. Unfortunately, their continued loyalty to a president who is demonstrably pro-war and pro-corporate cronyism casts this last proposition into considerable doubt.
Logan Albright is a writer and economist in Washington, DC.
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Posted: Nov 08 2013, 8:19 AM
Or maybe it is the 'libertarians' who are wrong ?
'Libertarianism', or 'liberalism' as it is called in Europe, wrongfully believes
'Capitalism' and 'The Unregulated Market' is a solution to anything, without a shred of evidence . The only thing that matters in capitalism is profit .
While that is a good concept for running a business, it is not a way to run entire societies .
You can not claim to be an 'anarchist' and at the same time believe in 'libertarianism' and 'capitalism' .
Posted: Nov 08 2013, 9:49 AM
He neither said or is implying that we need more government. In fact he is advocating less government and more freedom to the people who ultimately pay the price. Us.... The Tax Cow...
Also, I disagree that he and a large number of people are ignorant.
More and more are waking up to the lies that are fed to us each day.
Posted: Nov 09 2013, 6:05 AM
another Brand basher , its no wonder we cant get our shit together , as I've said on other postings , if Brand is "ignorant" then contact him & make efforts to educate him & I think you'll find he is open to that . He has a hi profile & large following of people via f/book & twitter who know little of the machinations of powerful corrupt elites BUT he has credibility in their eyes & as such is a useful conduit into more mainstream awareness ! Its about spreading the word & reaching critical mass , Brand has said he doesn't have the answers but he IS questioning the establishment status quo
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Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Virago Press, 2003
Review by Adam Roberts
Here are my three favourite Margaret Atwood science fiction novels, in descending order of favouriteness. Of favourableness. Of favoricity.
My all-time favourite Margaret Atwood SF novel is The Blind Assassin. Not the whole novel, of course, but the 40%-or-so of it that is a Pulp SF yarn, supposedly written by one of the characters. Since my purpose here is not to discuss this novel in any detail, I'll confine myself to quoting the following paragraph from the SFE3 entry on Atwood. That I am in total agreement with the views expressed in this paragraph can, at least in part, be explained by the fact that I wrote it:
Considerable sf content is also concealed in her Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000), a novel whose conventional twentieth-century Canadian frame story of thwarted and secret-ridden family life is folded around a very extensive, and in many ways much more interesting science-fictional Pulp magazines adventure (after which the novel is named). Atwood's easy command of the pulp idiom contrasts sharply, and to interesting aesthetic effect, with the rather strangulated manner in which the contemporary half of the novel is narrated.
The Pulp idiom frees up Atwood's treatment of her main theme—broadly, men's horribleness towards women. I think one of things that makes The Blind Assassin work so well is the way the SF fable is positioned in relation to the 'realist' narrative—ironically, obliquely, and not (as in Atwood's other SF novels) as a satirical extrapolation of perceived contemporary trends.
As this seems to me an important point, I'll dilate briefly upon it before I go on. I'd say that two main forces are at work in much of Atwood's writing. On the one hand, there is an extraordinary deftness of verisimilitude, a beautiful command of telling detail (physical and psychological) and the ability to write characters inhabiting their immediate worlds. Her writing in this idiom often feels very real – extrapolated from the actual world in ways that are, skilfully, metonymic; and related to this is the fact that she is most comfortable telling her stories via consecutive narrative. On the other hand, Atwood is drawn to the metaphorical, to the fable and the symbol, to poetry (in The Year of the Flood to actual poetry; I'll come back to that later). Oryx and Crake (2003) is, amongst other things, a retelling of the Eden story, with a God-the-father (Crake), an Adam (Jimmy/Snowman) and an Eve (Oryx); The Year of the Flood (2009), as its title suggests, plays intertextual games with the story of Noah. This is all fine and dandy, except that these two axes, the metonymic and the metaphorical, are so often at odds. To read the latter by the former is to be struck by how poorly observed much of Atwood's speculative detail is; and to read the former by the latter is to be struck by a tendency towards mundane agit-prop. By the same token, it is the speculative dimension of these two novels that makes them fly. The problem is that this speculative dimension is, by its nature, untrue. I mean this in a strict sense: there are no such things as pigoons. I know what you're thinking (mind reader, me): but it doesn't matter that it's not strictly true! And I agree with you. Swift's Laputa is 'truer' in an important sense than Zola's Paris. But the tension, for Atwood's writing, is the extent to which her art is able to commit to this. At one point in Oryx and Crake Snowman is trying to explain pictures to the Crakers. 'Flowers on beach-trash lotion bottles, fruits on juice cans. Is it real? No, it is not real. What is this not real? Not real can tell us about real. And so forth.' (Oryx and Crake, p102). That 'and so forth', that deflating addendum, is what gives me pause—does Atwood actually believe that not real can tell us about real? Or is she still, actually, of the opinion that the best way of communicating the real is with the real? It's the question that goes right to the heart of metaphorical modes of art like SF.
My second favourite Margaret Atwood science fiction novel is The Handmaid's Tale (1985). This, of course, is a book that has settled comfortably in the canon; still in print and selling well, still read, admired and widely taught, all of which (quite apart from anything else) would render praise of mine redundant. What makes it work, I think, is not its satire on US fundamental Christianity, or its first-wave feminist outrage, or its slightly schematic sfnal worldbuilding. It is the psychological subtlety with which Atwood renders the state of mind of Offred herself. Her horrible situation brings out of her neither despair, nor revolutionary fervour and anti-masculine hatred; rather she picks a path through a kind of poisoned complicity, triangulated between resentment, submission and a kind of dampened desire of her own (this is something the 1990 motion picture gets wrong, I think: Natasha Richardson plays Offred as a fierce-souled fighter, who ends the film by slices the Commander's throat in bloody revenge. Nothing so clumsy happens in the original novel). What this does is not only to say perceptive things about human psychology as such; it says important things about how structures of oppression are able to subsist in the first place, why it is that human beings downtrodden don't (as Shelley puts it) rise like lions after slumber.
Not that it is a flawless book. When I first read it, yonks ago, my disappointment pricked at me with the scene in its latter half when the Commander takes Offred to a government-sanctioned nightclub-cum-brothel. Up until that moment I thought Atwood was doing something more complex and interesting in her novel than just sticking Hypocritical Maleness in the stocks to throw sponges at. I thought she was portraying a world in which men, having erected a forbidding theo-ideological edifice in order to keep women in their place, thereupon found themselves snagged in their own webs, their lives leached of the gratifications of power by the very strategies employed to seize power – that is to say, made miserable (less miserable than the women they oppress of course, but still) by their own narratives of self-justification. But, no. Atwood's vision is that men don't actually get caught in the repressive hierarchies they erect; they're all actually getting drunk and fucking whores in secret clubs. A thing that makes me go hmm. Hitler didn't go back to his Berlin bunker to partake of cocaine-fuelled wild sex-orgies, after all; he went back to eat boiled asparagus and bore his companions with tedious speechifying before lying down on his truckle-bed to his arid dreams of Aryan dominance. One of the (many) expert touches in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is when O'Brien reveals the level of luxury denied to hoi polloi but indulged in by the Party higher echelons – and it's desperately feeble; a slightly better brand of Victory Gin, a slightly less threadbare set of furnishings. That's better done, I think.
On the other hand, it has only recently occurred to me the novel's famous naming convention for its enslaved women ('Offred' because she is 'of Fred' and so on) might be a riff upon the prefix-noun nature of Atwood's own surname. Which, actually, is a rather cool thought. She may have missed a trick in not reserving for herself the twitter handle '@Wood'.
That brings me to my third-favourite Atwood SF novel, and the subject of the present essay: Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood (see part two of this essay tomorrow) – two novels that, for my purposes, I intend to take as a single text (the third book in this trilogy, Maddaddam is due out later this year). 'Only third-favourite?' I hear you ask, or I would, if the medication hadn't eradicated all those booming voices-in-my-head. 'Surely it deserves a higher ranking than that!' And do you know what? It does. Indeed, before I go further I need to be clear: Atwood strikes me as a writer in the global front rank, a novelist of often breathtaking skill and reach. I'm of course aware of the tendency in some of the shires of SFland – my own home country – to sneer at her because she hasn't pronounced the Fan Shibboleths with enough fervour. But this strikes me as not only the least interesting way of relating to Atwood; it seems to me to demean SF Fandom more generally. So she doesn't want to write about talking squid in space. So sue her. As her career develops it is clear that she is as artistically committed to SF as to any other mode; and it would be small-minded to deny that she has written some of the most enduring SF-novels of the last four decades. Since what remains of this essay will revert, several times, to what seems to me wrong with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, it is worth keeping this larger point in mind. Everything I say should be understood against the background of Atwood's very many brilliances.
I know people who consider Oryx and Crake her greatest novel, tout court. And I can see why. It is a novel of genuine power. The two halves of Snowman's story are told consummately, brilliantly: both his post-apocalypse, Robinson Crusoe existence as the last man alive (or so he thinks) and his pre-apocalypse backstory, the anomie of an affluent, troubled only child; his difficult mother; his adolescence; his unsatisfying adult life. All this rings true, and is written in an involving and often moving way. The other touch of particular genius in the novel, I think, is Oryx: her backstory – sold into sex-slavery as a child, trafficked around the world – is genuinely horrible, but Atwood characterises her as just sphinx-like enough to frustrate Jimmy's, and our, desire for scenes of juicy post-traumatic sturm und drang. Jimmy, obsessed with her, probes and probes to uncover more excruciating yet titillating details of her former sexual degradation. She always, lightly, firmly, deflects his questions.
He couldn't leave her alone about her earlier life, he was driven to find out. No detail was too small for him in those days, no painful splinter of her past too tiny. Perhaps he was digging for her anger, but he never found it. Either it was buried too deeply, or it wasn't there at all.(p314-15)
Jimmy is in thrall to what Žižek, in one of his better books, calls the 'plague of fantasies'. Atwood understands this masculine urge very well indeed: that painful pleasure of agonising about a lover's previous partners, the peculiar intensification of erotic desire predicated upon a kind of repulsed fascination, polluted in this case by the knowledge not only that Oryx's past is one of rape and abuse, but that he, Jimmy, was indirectly one of the abusers – he watched the porn films made of Oryx's predicament avidly enough. Now he wants to keep using her to gratify his sexual desires. It is a good call by Atwood to leave us, as readers, in Jimmy's position: unsure whether her anger at the way she was treated is buried too deeply to be retrieved or just isn't there at all. Our desire as readers is less venal than Jimmy's, but by the same token it is more invasive. Of course, 'we' don't want to have sex with Oryx, but 'we' do nevertheless feel entitled to a good rummage around in her most intimate being. Of course she's only a fictional character; she's not 'real' (actually I'm tempted to go with Snowman on this one: '"Mmm", said Jimmy. He didn't want to get into the what is real thing with Crake', (p200)). But that's not the point. The point is bigger: namely, that representation, howsoever mimetic it may seem, always subordinates 'reality' to utility. Men getting off on internet pornography don't actually think of the women they watch as 'real—if they did, they'd be a damn sight more conscience stricken about watching the stuff. No, men judge them by criteria of 'sexiness', sexiness here being a strictly utilitarian category. The women are assessed only in terms of how useful they are in helping the male voyeur to crack one out. As a critique of porn this isn't to say anything very original; but one of the more unsettling features of Atwood's novel is its implication that all art works this way; that the literary novel is equally in hock to a kind of emotional-utilitarian voyeurism. The extent to which Atwood resists this reader-driven urge is one of the markers of what is excellent about her book.
I'd stick my neck out far enough to suggest that this is one of the things this book is 'about', too. Ursula Le Guin dislikes Atwood's characterisation in this novel (saying the characters' 'personality and feelings' were 'of little interest; these were figures in the service of a morality play'). I think she was dead wrong; that Atwood's characterisation is constructed not to underplay reader interest but specifically, and pointedly, to rebut it. We pick up a novel expecting all the ins-and-outs of the characters' motivations and feelings, their sufferings and joys (but especially their sufferings) to be laid out for us. With the character of Oryx, and to some extent with the character of Crake too, Atwood simply refuses to indulge us. And with the third of her trio, Jimmy, we get a aversion-inducing splurge of too much intimate knowledge: every seamy twist and turn of his early sex-life, Snowman wanking in a treehouse at the end of the world, Snowman slaveringly eyed-up as 'fresh meat' by those clever little chauvinist swine, the pigoons. And so on. One of the things the end of the world does, it seems, is turn the consumer of porn into, in a manner of speaking, the product. The subject is objectivised. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
:2: Oryx and Crake
The first thing to say about Oryx and Crake is that it has a great title. That choriambic rocking rhythm is, as the phrase goes, full of win: 'Jekyll and Hyde'; 'Morecombe and Wise'; 'Watson and Crick' – indeed, now that I come to think of it, that latter pairing may have been behind Atwood's particular choice of title here.[*footnote 1] The two kinds of animal that name, or pseudoname, the leads fit their characters well: the gracile, exotic antelope (but with the fearlessness and the big, head-butting horns) for the woman, and the undistinguished, mostly ground-based bird, creature of omens and mysteriousness, for the main male. Then there's 'Snowman', of course, who choses his name because he thinks his defining feature is his abominableness – such terrible things he has done! – when in fact his defining feature is his white, blobby sensitivity to heat and the fact that he will, unlike the Crakers, inevitably melt away.
The narrative starts with Snowman after the world's end. He is the last human alive, or so he thinks; and Atwood is vivid and believable not only on his day-to-day shuffle to survive, but in his unlikely position as Moses to a tribe of (deliberately) bland, benign, genetically engineered post-humans called 'Crakers'. In fifteen sections, each made up of between one and seven smaller chapters, Atwood tells us the story of Snowman's life and adventures.[*footnote 2] This is weighted, roughly, one third Snowman trekking to find supplies, and then returning to the Crakers; and two thirds Snowman recalling his life before the apocalypse, when he was called 'Jimmy'. Jimmy grew up in a gated community, whilst the world outside (designated by Atwood 'the pleeblands', which sounded less to me like land of the plebs and more like the people who plea, blandly – not to get distracted, though) goes to hell in a handbasket. Jimmy has a strained relationship with his mother, and doesn't respect his father. Jimmy's mother runs off to join an eco-terrorist group; later she is executed by the state. Jimmy befriends Crake, a rather austere though intellectually brilliant teen. They hang out together; they watch porn and executions online and play a series of computer games that sounded to me far too dull ever to attract the attention of actual teenagers – 'Extinctathon', which tests your knowledge of the names of extinct animal and plant species! 'Barbarian Stomp' in which players pay-off great cultural achievements like Beethoven's 9th against atrocities like Buchenwald! Never mind. With details like this Atwood isn't accurately observing real teens. She is telegraphing her large fictive themes – is the death of Art (something of which the Craker posthumans are, by design, incapable) a price worth paying for saving the planet from Extinction? I'll come back to that too, in a moment.
This question of the rightness or otherwise of Atwood's satirical extrapolation is important, actually. Some of the details here read as strangely prescient. This bit, for instance, anticipating the hideous TV I'm A Celebrity—Get Me Out Of Here phenomenon:
They [Crake and Jimmy] would watch the Queek Geek Show, which had contests featuring the eating of live animals and birds, timed by stopwatches, with prizes of hard-to-come-by foods. It was amazing what people would do for a couple of lamb chops or a chunk of genuine brie. (p85)
'Or,' this page goes on, 'they would watch porn shows. There were a lot of these.' This is, obviously, accurately observed as per the taste of teenage boys—although, by the same token, it's a pretty fish-in-a-barrel fictional notation. Teenage boys are interested in porn? You don't say! Other elements seemed to me situated on the continuum between 'off' and 'wildly off'. Teens today are less interested in watching live executions than Atwood thinks, and they are more interested in watching grisly torture-porn of the Saw/Hostel variety (because, I'd guess, death seems abstract and remote to teenagers, where their own changing bodies fascinate and repulse them prodigiously). And in some respects Atwood gets it wrong in a way that would be understandable for a novel from the early 90s but which seems distracting for a novel from 2003 – for example, in the future-world of these novels, paper books have almost all been replaced by CD-ROMS, which seems to me an, um, unlikely development.
Anyhoo, wading as they do through oceans of porn, Jimmy and Crake chance upon an Asian child who strikes them both. Later, improbably, this girl not only makes her way to America, learns English and gets educated, she also becomes Crake's right-hand-woman and lover. Quoth The Reader: pull the other one, unless The Reader gives Atwood the benefit of the doubt and saieth to him/herself 'let's take this as one of those Hardyesque coincidences, or Romance conventions, with which the Novel is so well supplied.
By this time Crake has graduated from his top-drawer university and taken a top job as what Paul McAuley (who does this kind of thing better, to be honest) would call 'a Gene Wizard'. Jimmy's thing is words; he gets a crummy literature degree from a low-ranking school and ends up writing advertising copy. He also tries his best to sleep with every woman in – as I believe the American expression goes – the Tri-State Area, although as he gets older his hook-ups, um, dry-up. Indeed, I found myself wondering how Jimmy's sexual promiscuity related to the larger themes of the novel. Conceivably it may go something like this: Capitalism (Atwood is saying) is promiscuously productive of things; but the stuff it produces is sterile, or worse actively poisonous, because the idiom of Capitalism, whether it is dealing with living organisms of inert commodities, is reification. Jimmy's vie sexuelle is a barren business, and becomes increasingly so as he gets older, in order to reflect this larger, deadening cultural and social promiscuity. It is as if Atwood subscribes to a Lawrentian view that inauthentic sex is somehow worse than no sex at all because its currency is death rather than life (I, on the other hand, lean rather towards the position encapsulated by this exchange from Woody Allen's Love and Death – Sonya: 'sex without love is an empty experience.' Boris: 'Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best'. I don't think this is a line that has much purchase with Atwood's fictional vision.)
The shorthand for the critical point I'm making here is: to what extent is Atwood engaging in an exercise of 21st-century neo-Lawrentianism? And I'm not sure the answer is very clear to me. On the one hand we have Jimmy's drearily repetitive and unsatisfying sex-life. On the other we are shown the guaranteed joyful, life-affirming programmed-in copulation cycle of the Crakers, who signal their sexual availability by having their knobs and/or bellies turn bright blue. Is this a parody of Lawrentian authentic fucking? Or is it offered, howsoever marginally, as a genuinely preferable alternative? Crakers, after all, are incapable of rape, the sexual exploitation of minors or anything of those sorts of horrors that have so disfigured actual human history.
The problem with this, when we bring it back to the human characters, is that it tends to glob the novel's otherwise subtle, sophisticated grasp of human desire and human disconnection back into the schematic agit prop of '21st-century life has leached all the joy from sex'. To be more specific, it encourages reader to engage in a kind of saloon-bar psychoanalysis. Viz., 'Jimmy didn't get enough love from his mum, that's why he sleeps with so many women.' Or: 'Crake's mum collaborated in the murder of his father and then married his uncle, so that Crake brews up a planet-killing superbug to take revenge upon the whole world exactly as Hamlet did before him.' Putting it like this, though, rather points up the limitations of this sort of analysis.
Oryx and Crake is to do with parenting. I like the critical idiom 'to do with' for its saving vagueness, and in this case that's the best way to approach the subject, I think – with, as it were, tongs. Jimmy's relationship with his shallow Father, and his too-deep, damaged Mother, seemed to me well-drawn; although there's no shortage of examples of that kind of thing in contemporary fiction, I suppose. His relationship with his stepmother is handled in a sketchier manner, in part because by then Jimmy has moved from being a child into debatable adolescent land between childhood and adulthood. His coup de foudre for the child Oryx neatly balances the immature selfishness of male sexual desire with a compromised but still, I think, genuine parental urge to protect. That this urge is all tangled up with guilty sexual desire is another uncomfortable truth that Atwood recognises.
In a rather hard to swallow plot development, Crake summons Jimmy out of his squalor, supposedly to write ad-copy for his revolutionary Gene Wizard work but in fact just to have him there to hang-out with. He inoculates Jimmy (and apparently no-one else – or did I miss something?) against the end-of-the-world plague that he has been secretly cooking up. Jimmy begins an affair with Oryx, anxious that he is thereby betraying his friend. The apocalypse happens quickly, and mostly offstage. Jimmy seals himself inside the Institute's hermetic dome with the Crakers, and follows the end of the world on TV. There is a rather sore-thumb-ish grand guignol denouement, where Crake arrives at the dome with Oryx, let's himself in, cuts Oryx's throat in front of Jimmy and is then shot dead by him. The novel ends with a sort of coda, where Snowman treks back to the Crakers and discovers that other humans survived the end of the world after all. Atwood ends the whole rather cleverly without spelling out the implications of this statement.
The thing about DH Lawrence, it seems to me, is that despite being a priest of the new sexual liberation, and terribly earnest about overturning Victorian sexual repression, he was an intensely puritanical figure. I say 'despite'; perhaps I mean 'because'. The test of Oryx and Crake, it seems to me, is the extent to which it is able to ironize its own outrage. The Crakers, standing in a semi-circle and pissing to mark their territory, are noble savage, but of a rather absurd and manikin sort. Does their ridiculousness save them from the inertness of propaganda, or only make their status as the new man impossible to believe? To what extent is Atwood able to indulge in a fantasy of a world picked clean of all the horrible, raping men and vain women without simply channelling Pol Pot? The reader begins to wonder if she wasn't being encouraged all along to condemn Crake rather as a New England Puritan might, because what he is about is Not Natural and Against God.
'Those walls and bars are there for a reason,' said Crake. 'Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.'
'Nature and God.'
'I thought you didn't believe in God,' said Jimmy.
'I don't believe in Nature either,' said Crake. 'Or not with a capital N.' (p206)
My experience of reading this novel was that Atwood treads a line somewhere between 'commercial science got us into this mess, the answer is not more commercial science' on the one hand, and 'woe to those who blaspheme against the Natural Order!' on the latter. Crake, for example (the textual creation of a female artist) has a theory that art is nothing more than male courtship display behaviour, like the feathers sprouting from a peacock's arse. Jimmy asks: ah, but what about female artists? 'Female artists are biologically confused,' (p168) is Crake's reply. The irony here is neat, and several-fold. 'Confusing' biology, we recall, is in a strict sense Crake's whole professional ethos – all those pigoons and ratsnakes and gider/spoats. And a Babel-like 'confusion of biology' is what follows the wrath of the biological god of the novel's end. Of course, another way of reading this is to see it as less ironic. After all, the story develops an idea as old as Mary Shelley that the male scientist who bypasses women to give birth breeds monstrosity and death. That has the smack of essentialism about it.
But none of this detracts from one of the novel's great insights into Nature – that same Nature in which Crake disbelieves. The novel is about a lot, but it is centrally about the Green Man. The green man, nowadays, means the environmentally careful man – the man, in other words, who arranges nature around himself in as considerate a manner as possible. This, thought, is a one-eighty-degree swingabout from the older model, where the green man was Nature itself, hostile to humanity, mostly, and most of all inextinguishable. It's sobering to think how condescending our view of Nature has become – how fragile we consider it to be. This is a mistake; not because humanity cannot damage Nature (of course we can) but because this susceptibility to damage does not mean that Nature is feeble. On the contrary. It is far stronger than we. The most we can do is make Nature ill (and we're doing a pretty good job of that). But Nature can kill us. For Environmentalism to prevail amongst human cultures we will need to shuck off these sorts of blear-eyed muddle. Nature is not fragile; we're the ones who are fragile.
The second half of this essay, on The Year of the Flood, will be posted tomorrow.
This essay originally appeared on Sibilant Fricative.
[1] The more I think about this, the more likely it seems to me. Think of the scene at the end of the novel when Snowman comes back to the Crakers, and, for a heart-sinking moment, hears them saying 'Amen': 'Ohhhh, croon the women. Mun, the men intone.' (p260). Of course, they're actually saying 'Snowman'. 'Oryx and Crake' sounds like a Craker chant of 'Watson and Crick'. The name of the university at which Crake develops his end-of-the-world skills, of course, is Watson-Crick.
[2] Why fifteen? Maybe no reason, except that The Year of the Flood is also divided into fifteen sections, which makes me wonder. Given the OT intertextuality with which Atwood is playing on these novels, I wonder if it has something to do with the Jews? In Hebrew the number 15 is not written according to the logic of other larger numbers—not, that is, as "10 and 5" (י-ה, yodh and heh), because those spell out one of the names of God and we can't have that. So 15 in Hebrew is "9 and 6". Passover starts on the 15th day of Nisan. Sukkot begins on the 15th day of Tishrei. Tu Bishvat falls in the 15th day of Shevat. Purim is on the 15th day of Adar. I could go on. I won't, though.


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November 28, 2015
A quadriplegic attorney from St. Louis wants the chance to either be hired or told "you're fired."
James Schottel is suing producers of Donald Trump's NBC hit reality show "The Apprentice," claiming auditions discriminate by requiring "excellent physical" health of would-be contestants.
Schottel's suit, filed last week, seeks a preliminary injunction that would force producers of the show to drop requirements that would exclude people in a similar physical condition as him.
Schottel isn't seeking any monetary damages, only enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Draft Memorabilia
Anyone have some favorite draft memorabilia?
A couple years back I was at the draft and right at the end one of the Ravens reps asks me if I'm a Ravens fan and gives me one of the draft cards. They were done picking in the draft and it was extra.
I won a shirt at Buffalo Wild Wings for accurately predicting Sam Bradford as the #1 pick.
Does that count?
I won a signed Anthony Thomas helmet on Shane's podcast but then didn't get it because I didn't claim it (the podcast came out during exams/when I was flying back to Mexico and then forgot to download it).
I also came one yard short of guessing Jake Locker's total yardage in the Senior Bowl, and lost out on a Mark Herzlich signed picture.
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The hole in my wall from when we took Maybin is pretty special to me.
I might have some signed stuff from back in the day when I'd go to the stadium draft party. These days, it's just a matter of how long the ass groove in my couch lasts.
Evidence of the Anthony Thomas incident:
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I've got a problem with the sound on my motherboard. I'm using a Biostar M7VIZ MB with AMD 2300 and onboard sound > amplifiers > speakers. I've also got a 400 watt inverter powering the computer.
I installed everything, hardware/software, inside the house and everything works fine. Sound was working using a standard miniplug to RCA cable. This was connected to a Panasonic Home Amp that I use for everyday movie/tv watching. I am running Roadrunner btw. When I put everything inside the car the sound would not work. No opening windows sound or anything. Checked all settings even though I didnt change anything. Took it back into the house and everything was working fine again. Back to the car again and no sound.
Now, this is the weird part. I dissconnected the miniplug from the green/headphone jack of the onboard sound and connected the cable to my portable MP3 player. It works! Disconnected the cable and plugged it back into the onboard sound and it stopped working.
Anybody got any ideas? I haven't changed any wiring whatsoever from my last configuration. All I've done is switch MB and my last MB did not have this problem which also used the onboard sound. Please help, I'm stumped.


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Test fields help cotton farmers with yields
SAN ANGELO, Texas - John Wilde has a lot to smile about this harvest season.
His cotton fields at the Wilde Farms, just off southeastern Loop 306, are brimming with full laden bolls. The cotton strippers and pickers seemed to just barely crawl in their march across the sea of white. With baskets full, the strippers hustle to the module builders to unload their white gold.
These fields are no ordinary fields.
"We voluntarily work with the states' extension agent and the Integrated Pest Control Management program to plant fields to test cotton varieties under controlled circumstances," Wilde said. "These fields are underground drip irrigated, which allows precise delivery of water, nutrients and pesticides. We plant 16 rows of each variety to test and harvest four of those rows to use for the testing and grading process." The test fields make up 500 acres.
The fields were conditioned and prepared for planting using space technology.
"We use the Global Positioning Satellite system to accurately install the drip irrigation tape at 40-inch row spacing and at a depth of about 10-12 inches," said Matthew Wilde. "Then we use the GPS system attached to the tractors to precisely plant the seed directly above the tape."
When planting the seed, the GPS system automatically controls the tractors' steering. "An alarm goes off when the tractor is near the end of the row to alert the driver to a turn," said Wilde. "Once the turn is about halfway complete, the system takes back control of the wheel and locks on to where the next row is. Its accuracy is measured in centimeters."
The drip tape has emitters every 24 inches that allow accurate delivery of water, nutrients and pesticides to the crop and has a life span of about 20 years. The system uses water that is filtered, prepared with nutrients and pesticides, then pumped for delivery to the crops. Any unused water is recovered and recycled back through the system.
"There is very little evaporation loss due to sun or wind to contend with," Wilde said. "It is a very controlled, efficient system."
The cotton test fields are supervised by Rick Minzenmayer, the Integrated Pest Management extension agent for Tom Green, Runnels and Concho counties. Minzenmayer works with the seed companies, the state and the field owners to conduct the trials.
"We will weigh and grade each variety using multiple criteria," Minzenmayer said. "This will let us determine which of the varieties will prosper best in the soil and weather environments of this area.
"The technology and varieties are changing quite rapidly. These advances must be evaluated with in-field comparisons. This on-farm applied research provides the grower with important economic data to be used in the local management of the crops."
Each variety harvested is weighed, and a sample is extracted for hand ginning and testing at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center laboratory in Lubbock, Minzenmayer said.
According to the Texas A&M Web site (http://varietytesting.tamu.edu/cotton/index.htm), some of the things the laboratory looks for are net lint turnout and seed amount, plus fiber diameter, strength and length. The lab also assigns a USDA grade to the sample. Every farmer in the county gets a report of the laboratory results to help plan their growing season.
Other qualities of the cotton are observed as well, Wilde said. "Storm proof" is a ripened boll where the lint fiber hangs out exactly the right amount from the boll. If the lint hangs too far out of the ripened boll, then any rain or high wind can pull the lint out and the grower is left with a nice, white, useless carpet covering his field. "Hairy leaf" is a condition that prevents the ginning process from extracting leaf fragments from the cotton lint.
One of the Wilde fields was a "seed-block" field planted using a seed from Australia. The seeds' commercial name is Fiber-Max 9170B2F, and it holds the world record for yield of any cotton variety.
When ginned, the seed from the field will be sold to Fiber-Max by Wilde for production use and offered to other growers to plant fields in the future.
"This is one of the most beautiful fields I've ever seen," Wilde said as he held up a plant. "Just look at that!"
Large bolls with pure white cotton fibers glistened in the midday sun. The fibers were soft and strong.
A large $300,000 cotton picker was making its way through the loaded stalks gingerly picking the Australian seed-cotton from the plants.
The picker uses different technology than a stripper to glean the cotton. Hundreds of barbed spindles comb the plant, pulling the cotton off the stalk, whereas a stripper has brushes that pull everything off the stalk — leaves, bolls and cotton.
"The picker does part of the ginning in the field," Wilde said. "You could lie down on the cotton in the basket of the picker and be very comfortable. By doing part of the ginning in the field, it doesn't cost as much to have the cotton ginned versus the stripped cotton."
The crop the Wildes were harvesting will bring a good price. Market prices for Wilde's cotton were holding around 54 to 56 cents per pound with a 10- to 12-cent premium attached. According to the Texas A&M Web site, dryland farmers were reporting half a bale to 1½ bales per acre (a bale weighs about 500 pounds). Wilde's drip-irrigated fields were yielding 3½ to 4 bales per acre.
"Although the drip-irrigated farms exceeded all expectations, it must be noted that this was a very difficult year to farm cotton due to the extreme drought and heat conditions," Wilde said. "Fuel, fertilizer, seed technology fees and energy cost are still at near all time highs with cotton bringing the same price it brought in the 1960s.
Without the excellent yields due to drip irrigation, boll weevil control and improved seed technology, it would not be profitable to farm cotton using this method. The increased yield justifies the expense of the installation of the drip system."
Storms in the northeast and eastern parts of the country damaged much of those areas' crop this year, keeping prices from dipping. "One man's misfortune is another man's gain in the farming game," Wilde said. "Farming is a very risky venture, and a bad year can wipe a producer out."
The Wilde Farms will not have to face that prospect this year. It might be awhile before the ear-to-ear smiles from this year's effort fade from view.
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Police are making progress in their investigation of a New Year's Eve shooting and kidnapping at the Eastwood Garden Complex on Forest Hill Drive in Frankfort. The shooting took place on the morning of December 31st and resulted in the shooting of 35-year-old Selvin Ardon and the kidnapping of his female companion. She was later found in a rural part of the county but police have not released details as to what might have happened to her during the kidnapping. Both Ardon and the woman are recovering from injuries suffered in the incident.
21-year-old Cameron Hagy was arrested on Thursday on a kidnapping charge. He is being held at the Franklin County Regional Jail. Now police are looking for 34-year-old Corey McGrapth. They believe McGrapth was the person who shot Selvin. They say they consider him to be dangerous and hope to find him soon.
Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Corey McGrapth are urged to contact police or Frankfort Crimestoppers.