text: Ingudula the Tuskless One by Kevin Thomas October in Zimbabwe is often called suicide month, and for good reason – energy sapping heat. It most certainly isn't the best month to go hunting, but circumstances often dictate otherwise. My client, Chris Soyza, from Westley Richards couldn't get away at any other time during 2009, and was keen to shoot a non-export tuskless elephant cow in a short duration 5-day deal. Tuskless elephant cows afford an exciting hunt, as by nature they're normally truculent, and it takes little for them to display aggression toward any interlopers. It is also a form of management hunt because the tuskless gene is not wanted in elephant herds by most southern African government wildlife agencies. Not long before Chris's arrival I'd been guiding another client on a 7-day buffalo hunt in the same area – Gokwe North, with our rustic camp, best described as a 'fly-camp', near the Ume and Kausige River confluence. The mid-September heat on that hunt too, had whacked us but we lucked out with a buffalo on the fourth day and a fine Chobe Bushbuck the following day. Although a Zimbabwean citizen, I currently reside in South Africa so any hunting I do in Zimbabwe means a tiring 3-day truck trip north from our Eastern Cape home, my impatient persona not helped any by the cesspit that is the Beit Bridge border post between Zimbabwe and South Africa. The South African side functions and is clean, but not free of lines of patiently waiting humanity – almost all of whom are Zimbabweans returning home from quick shopping forays into South Africa. Even amongst their numbers on the South African side lurk the Zimbabwean 'touts', surreptitiously and somewhat arrogantly trolling for clients who want help with the paperwork needed to enter Zimbabwe. These human vultures and the corrupt Zimbabwean customs officials, who they are in cahoots with, may one day find themselves where they should be – in a court of law. Who knows? Perhaps in the future Africa will finally commence going forwards in a mature way, instead of forever retrogressing. Chris, who flew into South Africa and then travelled by vehicle with me, never brought a rifle out with him, although as a collector and registered dealer, he owns in the region of sixty – Britain has an arms embargo against Zimbabwe and due to a technicality, this includes sporting guns. Anyone from the UK bringing a gun into Zimbabwe could well face the wrath of the law upon their return home. Not worth the risk when you own expensive guns. Instead, he chose to use my .375 H&H and for the elephant cow I opted for him to use South African PMP Super 286grn factory loaded monolithic solids. For my part, whilst guiding Chris, I would be carrying my .458 Lott and prior to departure had handloaded a bunch of 475grn PMP Super monolithic solids, using 83grns of S321 (a South African produced fast burning ball propellant) and CCI 250 Large Rifle Magnum primers. My .458 Lott brass is Hornady factory and was unused. Our passage through the Beit Bridge border was not exactly hassle free or cheap, and aside from all of the other government 'tariffs' an over zealous customs officer also 'fined' me R500.00 for driving a South African registered vehicle (my own), because I have Zimbabwe residency stamped in my passport. Interestingly he never gave me a receipt of any sort, and instructed that once in Zimbabwe Chris would have to drive my vehicle! To this end, a new TIP (Temporary Import Permit) for the vehicle had to be filled out in Chris's name. Roll on Africa. Zimbabwe's majority may be suffering from severe poverty, but there is none of that amongst the Beit Bridge border officials, just fat cats with satin shiny skin. Despite the instruction, I drove out of the customs yard and stayed behind the steering wheel for all of the driving done during the safari duration. Driving north from the bridge we soon hit the first of the three 'Toll Gates' we'd pass through en route the safari area, a plastic chair in the middle of the road, shaded by an umbrella and manned by a smiling Zimbabwe Revenue Services official and a few AK-47 toting cops. All were courteous and the fee to proceed was US$1.00 or SAR8.00. Having paid, we proceeded to West Nicholson and stopped at Dudley Rogers Tshabezi Safaris office. Dudley has had the hunting rights to the Gokwe North and Gokwe South tribal hunting areas, part of the celebrated Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE (Communal Area Management Program for Indigenous Resources) for close on twenty years. Like my safari of a few weeks prior, I'd booked Chris's non-export tuskless elephant cow through Tshabezi Safaris. Not wasting time, we loaded the rations for our safari plus huge blocks of ice in a large cold box then drove on to Bulawayo arriving mid-afternoon. After overnighting at one of Bulawayo's many B&Bs I collected a contract tracker known to me and we pressed on to Gokwe North. Our trip was slightly marred by a puncture just south of Shangani but we soon had the wheel changed and went on our way. From Bulawayo to Gokwe is a 500km drive and at this time of year about 99% of it through burnt countryside – the haze created by heat and smoke hangs heavy. Sadly much of the scorched countryside between Bulawayo and Kwekwe was once productive commercial ranchland – now no more – unless selling firewood at the roadside is now classified as commercial ranching. From the administrative growth point that is Gokwe, as we drove further north, we began to drop down into the escarpment hills that spread out towards Lake Kariba, the area has a high human population and tribal livestock wander freely across the pot holed road. Despite the general poverty in rural Zimbabwe, the tribal folk of Gokwe North live on fertile soil and grow cotton, sugar cane, tomatoes and other vegetables, much of their produce being sold alongside the road. Three tribal groupings meet in this region – Ndebele, Shona and further north, the Batonka – with their village hamlets varied in layout, design and neatness. Ndebele huts were a dead give away with their general cleanliness and pastel coloured murals painted on the walls. Ultimately and with the haze hanging heavy in the windless late afternoon air, we left the villages behind and finally east of the Chirisa Safari Area's Masikiri Escarpment, drove into the rugged ridges of the Madzivazvido region of the Gokwe North council hunting area. Tshabezi Safaris main camp has no mod-cons and can best be described as rustic yet comfortable. After being met by the jovial camp crew and unloading, we still had enough light for Chris to test fire my .375 H&H and check the zero. His shooting at paper from 50m was spot on, so we retired to the dining hut for a few sundowners and to talk elephant hunting. Tshabezi Safaris still had one unsold trophy elephant bull on quota for the 2009 season, and after discussions with Dudley on our way through West Nicholson, it was decided that if we saw a bull carrying ivory in the region of 45lbs per side, Chris would upgrade his safari and shoot it. These were the issues that occupied our thoughts and conversation on that first evening in camp. Chris is Malaysian and is our middle son Keith's immediate superior at Westley Richards. Keith has been in the UK for 17 years now and is a riflemaker employed as workshop foreman at Westley Richards. He'd once told me in conversation that Chris Soyza is a chef of note, and particularly so when it comes to far Eastern cuisine. Both myself and the Tshabezi camp cook Chuma, were about to find out just how well Chris can cook. Earlier in the day a buffalo cow had been shot for a council function, and Chuma knowing my liking for buffalo tail, buffalo tongue and the inside tenderloin, had ensured they were removed and placed in the camp freezer for use during our safari. Chris wasted no time in visiting the kitchen and despite the limited ingredients he had at his disposal, he soon had a superb buffalo tenderloin curry on the go. Whilst preparing it, he was also instructing the camp cook on various aspects of simply prepared but tasty Malaysian cooking. This was to be the pattern for the rest of the safari and it was a welcome change for me to eat such a variety of superbly flavoured food, produced with so few ingredients and probably the first safari that I've come away from having gained weight! On a previous safari to Burkina Faso Chris had been delegated camp cook and such were his culinary skills, he'd paid his observer rates by producing 5-star food! Prior to our arrival, I'd already decided that I'd prefer to hunt out of Kausige Camp on the Ume River floodplain, little more than a 'fly-camp' on stilts, it is situated 20km away from the main Tshabezi camp but is out of sight of tribal villages, cattle bells, braying donkeys, barking dogs, beating drums and all else that goes into the make-up of a rural Zimbabwean tribal community. Having briefed the camp staff of my intent, we got an early night and at first light the next morning ate a quick breakfast then departed for Kausige with the trackers and council game scout Adam, leaving the rest of the camp staff to follow with the camping gear and rations. Initially we drove north along the black top in the direction of Siabuwa, just to check on elephant movement but after about 15km and finding none, we turned back and shortly before the camp turn-off turned east along a sandy track. It was here that Chris became a little perturbed, he hadn't expected to see so much pedestrian traffic, and there were groups of tribal people all over, mainly women collecting thatching grass. Much of the area too, had been burnt although since my previous visit swaths of green grass were breaking out along the vlei (drainage) lines. As we passed each group of grass cutters, the trackers bade me stop and then instructed them to vacate the area until after our hunt. There was no animosity during these exchanges and it was all accepted in good faith with a fair amount of banter and laughter. Eventually we stopped seeing people and began to see regular sign of elephant cow herds crossing the sandy tracks – none of the spoor however was fresh, and had all been made during the previous day and early evening. Moving on with the constant stop, check spoor, then drive on modus operandi that is elephant hunting, by late morning we found ourselves near Kausige camp, so pulled in to wait out the fierce and unrelenting midday October heat. Head tracker Getas also instructed the resident Tshabezi anti-poaching team of game scouts to move out after their lunch and check for elephant sign, both bull and cow. During our siesta the trackers took their homemade fishing poles and walking upstream to some pools in the Ume River bed, caught a lot of small tilapia and some catfish. They gave us some of the smaller tilapia which Chris later converted to tasty fireside snacks. At 15:45hrs we drove south along the old pre-independent Zimbabwe veterinary fence, now just a series of rusty iron poles. The entire area had been burnt and there was no sign of life of any kind, just a blackened scorched ground surface, and in the leafless mopane trees that stood forlorn, the monotonous call of a yellow-billed hornbill could occasionally be heard – kotokotokototokotokotoko. None of what we were seeing was very promising. At one tiny spring we spooked a sub-adult warthog wallowing and he took off like a rocket. By last light we were back in camp and sitting round the fire eating deep-fried tilapia snacks and washing them down with ice-cold beer. The returning game scouts also reported no sign of elephant within the hunting block on the eastern side of the Ume River. Dinner that night was buffalo tongue superbly cooked by Chris using what he describes as one of his many "quick" camp recipes. The meal would have done any restaurant proud and we retired to our chalets replete, to yet another hot and humid night. Towards midnight a leopard started to vocalize on the opposite side of the river to camp, his grunting and sawing going on until shortly before first light, the only other sound was the ongoing alarm bark of a Chobe bushbuck and in the far distance a grumbling hyena, no doubt famished. Saturday morning of 17 October saw us drive out of camp at first light; much of the surrounding bush still lay in darkness. Driving slowly, we used the vehicle headlamps to illuminate elephant spoor and much of what we found had been made during the previous night. With full daylight, we slowly moved west away from the Ume River valley and up into the higher escarpment where the miombo was rapidly coming into new leaf. The indications were that the elephant movement was towards this abundant food source and as we progressed so too, did we find more stripped bark, chewed branches, and scattered leaves, slowly wilting in the gathering daylight heat. Suddenly the trackers tapped the roof and after alighting from the vehicle we found the spoor of two bulls but their tracks were well defined, with no wear at the heel or elsewhere on the pad, and neither was of very big circumference. Following for a short way we found dung, the content indicated healthy digestive tracts and good teeth, all of it was well masticated and there was nothing to indicate old-age in either of the bulls. We left it and moved on. Throughout the morning we found spoor from the previous night – but it was from early evening, now at least 10 hours old. One cow herd had a bull with them, his heel imprints in the soft sand showed a lot of wear and the underneath of the pads were fairly rugged, and it looked promising but it too was not viable to follow due to the time lapse. Pushing on we began to traverse vlei lines and springs, places with names like: Bikirenyemba, Saveremakwande & Nyambgwe. Scenically they were attractive places with verdant grass and abundant crystal clear water, but they lacked one ingredient – wildlife or any sign of it. They were silent places, devoid of any indication that game enjoyed the abundance of food and water that was available. Currently, poaching in Zimbabwe is an extremely serious issue, much of it poverty driven and if something drastic isn't done to curb it, the safari industry in some areas faces a severe crisis with regards its future. Private safari operators working in the CAMPFIRE areas are doing all that they can to try and get on top of the problem by way of employing anti-poaching teams etc however that is not enough. The poachers are dwelling in the very communities that border the hunting areas, the same communities that are meant to benefit from them, but unless some form of energetic education and motivation to stop the poachers carrying out their nefarious activities can be implemented before it is too late, I fear the dedicated anti-poaching teams are fighting a losing battle. The community itself needs to become involved in policing its own sustainable wildlife resources, but that is not happening. I mentioned to one tracker that I doubted if his 5-year old kid would ever grow up to see live game in the area and he concurred – sad indeed. A form of fatalistic lethargy seems to have taken hold in much of rural Zimbabwe. At all of the springs there was old sign of elephant having passed by, watered, lingered briefly, and then moved on. A buffalo herd too, had visited the one spring during the early hours of the morning, but of other game there was no sign. As we departed the last spring, we caught a fleeting glimpse of a kudu bull accelerating away through the brush, he was magnificent and my call went a definite 59 to 60". Elephant spoor indicated far larger groups than the normal 8 to 11 in a cow herd, and the tracks all led into the jesse (pronounced jess). Botanically these jesse thickets of varying acreage are made up of about four different Combretum (bush willow) species with a mix of other trees thrown in. During the rainy season and due to leaf cover, visibility is down to a metre or so. In October visibility is fairly good but the ground is carpeted with dry leaf matter which makes walking noisy, no matter how quiet you try to be – a bit like walking on a bed of corn flakes. Elephant rest quietly during the midday heat and getting close to them across the dry leaf cover is challenging, so I prefer to hunt them in the dry jesse when they too, are on the move and feeding. The noise created by their feeding and moving drowns out the hunters approach. In the late afternoon we decided to walk through a jesse thicket towards a spring where hopefully we'd either intercept a herd on the move, or find them at the spring, and then if there was a shooter in the herd, follow them away from the spring before carrying out any gunning exercise. After cross-graining the jesse on foot, we duly reached the spring without finding any fresh sign of elephant, but when taking a different route back to the road where we'd left the vehicle, we intercepted fresh tracks that crossed the road and re-entered another patch of jesse. Resident tracker Getas informed me that he felt the herd was heading to another spring that we'd visited earlier in the day. With daylight fading, we quickly drove part of the way and then leaving the rig walked to the spring, but there was no sign of any elephant. As soon as darkness started to fall we made our way back to the truck only to observe Vusa Lunga the young Batonka 'vehicle minder' sitting atop the trackers' seat and gesticulating excitedly towards the darkening woodland. There not 80m from my truck was a bull elephant – he stood motionless and broadside on – listening to us. He then turned and with raised head tried to make us out, his tusks were only about 20lb a side so we left him, and when I started the truck he disappeared into the gloom. Beyond him the cow herd no doubt lurked, but they were silent and in no rush to reach the spring. Dinner that night was what I'd call chicken a la Malaysian and once more expertly prepared by Chris, there was also a superb side dish of stir-fried vegetables and not being shy I pigged out! After some sundry chit-chat by the campfire and a few pegs of good Zimbabwean Mainstay cane spirits and Mazoe Orange, we both retired to another humid night devoid of any breeze, until a slight stirring cooled things down in the early hours of the next morning, Sunday 18 October. Breakfast was French toast washed down with steaming mugs of tea. Leaving camp as daylight unfolded across the Ume River valley, we headed towards the main Tshabezi Camp and not far into the miombo covered ridges began to find elephant spoor. During the previous evening, Chris and I had decided that if we found no indications of a good bull in the vicinity, we'd stay with the original 5-day non-export tuskless elephant cow deal. Chris was after all due back in South Africa mid-November to hunt an elephant bull in the Limpopo Province where some good ivory has been taken during the course of the 2009 season. Closer to the main Tshabezi camp than Kausige fly-camp we suddenly came across spoor of a herd spread out line abreast and moving south, they had crossed the road, with a few cows and calves bunching tightly when crossing. Scouting around we soon found dung, more by smell than sight, the acrid odour strong on the breeze. It was warm to the touch and still mucous covered. Chewed branches were still damp with traces of saliva on them. It looked and felt good – a viable follow up was in the offing. Tusklessness in elephant is a naturally occurring phenomenon although in some countries in both Africa and Asia, the percentage of tuskless elephant has been linked to ivory poaching pressure. Although I've never seen or heard of a naturally tuskless bull, the odd one is at times incorrectly thought to be tuskless, until it is then found to have broken its tusks at the lip. Tuskless cows on the other hand are fairly common and I believe normally make up from 2% to 20% of a breeding herd. In South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park, I think the incidence of tuskless females is about 98%. As a young game ranger back in 1968 I served some of my cadetship in Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park where the elephant in those days were notoriously aggressive, particularly so tuskless cows. The first few elephant I ever shot whilst I was still under tutelage were all tuskless cows. Richard Harland slew a lot of them in the Tsetse corridors during his service there from 1966 into '68 and relates many of his experiences in his excellent book, Ndlovu (Ivory Imprints ISBN 0-7974-3011-3). In their various languages, Zimbabwe's tribal Africans have names for tuskless cow elephant, the Batonka call them chikubule or magumpu, the Shona call them nzuma or mbumule whilst to the Ndebele they are called ingudula. Although I've tried, I've never been able to get a literal translation of any of the meanings of the African names for tuskless cow elephant. Readying ourselves for a possible lengthy tracking exercise, we ensured my daypack was full of water bottles. Keeping oneself hydrated in the October heat is vitally important. I gave Chucks my tracker one of my ash bags and kept the other in my left hand shirt pocket. Wind direction is absolutely critical when hunting dangerous game and my preferred method of monitoring wind is by using an ash bag – made from fine weave muslin, these bags have a drawstring and were used by certain South African tobacco manufacturers to market pipe tobacco. Filled with wood ash from the campfire they make the ideal wind monitor, a slight shake releasing a cloud of fine ash. Even though most competent trackers carry their own, I also always carry my own and use it constantly. Vusa Lunga the fine young Batonka wannabe tracker would remain with the vehicle to mind it. In this day and age this has to be done or one could return to find the vehicle broken into, or at worst, stolen. Chris and I then checked that our magazines were fully charged, and each of us ran a shell into the chamber, we also checked safety catches. Although my .375 H&H has detachable scope mounts and a 'ghost ring' aperture sight, Chris preferred to shoot with the scope but wisely turned it down to 1.5 power. On our belts we each carried a cartridge holder with additional rounds. Our follow-up then commenced with Getas and Chucks on the spoor, then myself followed by Chris, and to his rear, Adam, the council game scout carrying his old issue .303. The wind was favourable and blowing fairly strongly into our faces. As we went deeper into the miombo woodland sign of elephant feeding became more and more apparent, it was also very clear to us that we were following a fairly large group of cows. Their trail took us steadily south but then surprisingly after about 2km, and thinking we still had some way to go, we heard ahead of us the unmistakable sound of a branch breaking. The noise had come from some distance to our front, but it soon had us fully alert as we quickened our pace on the fresh tracks. Ahead of us we couldn't see anything and the greenery made for an effective screen, but nevertheless our eyes and ears were straining to see or hear our quarry. Whilst focused on what was to our front, it came as a complete surprise to hear elephant off to our immediate left, and not far away, a different herd altogether to the ones we were following. Both trackers stood grinning and shaking their heads, before I instructed them to cautiously move in the direction of the newly heard elephant sounds still emanating from our left. As we got closer we began to smell the strong elephant odour on the wind which was still blowing in our favour, although it had slackened somewhat. Suddenly an elephant trumpeted loudly and we froze, then relaxed, tracker Getas whispered that elephant always trumpet when they know one of their number is going to die! Continuing towards the feeding noises of the elephant, it didn't take long before we had some of their number visual, large grey beasts moving steadily forwards in a mass of musculature and power. Due to the greenery all we could see was the top of their heads and backs, nothing else. Although feeding, there was no lingering, it was all steady progression and we initially had to lengthen our stride to stay with them. However, once we'd got closer to the lead elements, we stopped, and quickly glassing them I observed a few tuskless cows, there was also a huge bull, huge in size, but with thin ivory lacking both length and circumference at the lip. His presence was probably due to a cow in oestrus. My first impression was of the abnormally high number of elephant in the group, there were in the region of about thirty. Was it merely a temporary gathering of different family units due to the new leaf cover, or was it stress related due to poaching or other external pressures? I had no ready answer and was pondering this thought, when a tuskless cow's head and upper shoulders suddenly appeared in an opening in the greenery. She was broadside on and feeding and a quick look through the brush around her immediate environs showed no signs of a dependent calf. Grabbing the shooting sticks from Getas I moved forward a few paces and opening them, quietly beckoned Chris to get ready. He wasted no time and in seconds was on the sticks and looking at the sight picture through the scope. Standing alongside him I indicated he take a side-brain shot at the well presented cow, then quickly brought my .458 Lott into my shoulder and waited for Chris's shot. It wasn't long in coming and at the loud report of the .375 H&H the cow immediately exhibited the tell tale behaviour of a well-placed brain shot. She threw her trunk and head up high, whilst at the same time her hind legs collapsed and as if pole-axed, she disappeared from view. There was no need for any follow-up shot from me. In the immediate aftermath of the shot, the herd spun as one and tightly bunched, fled south, but whilst we were congratulating Chris on a well-placed shot, game scout Adam suddenly started to retreat with Chuck not far behind him, their eyes wide. It was then that we heard a rapidly approaching noise and then saw the cause – a wall of elephant were headed back towards us at high speed. They weren't charging us but had turned through 180º and were merely trying to flee, not having been able to place where Chris's single shot had come from. This kind of situation can become dangerous if the hunters lose control and the "dickey bird syndrome" takes over. Human beings are incapable of outrunning an elephant, and it would be folly to try and outrun a herd. If panic takes hold and the hunters all run blindly in the direction the elephant are fleeing, individuals will get injured or worse. If one tracker loses his composure and takes off, and unless the PH can keep a firm grip, it rapidly becomes infectious and the whole hunting crew run away. Chris and I had discussed this very scenario whilst sitting round the campfire, and because he is an experienced hunter I'd requested that if we faced a situation where we'd have to shout down any individual elephant to divert it, or a group, if the shout down didn't help, I wanted him to use my .375 H&H to put a shot over the elephant(s) head(s) to turn them/it. If that failed, I'd be forced to take the last drastic action and have to kill an elephant with my .458 Lott. So in the few seconds we had left to let the rapidly advancing phalanx of elephant know where we were, at the top of my voice and in the vernacular I admonished the tracker and game scout for starting to run, and then Chris and I both shouted at the elephant herd whilst he also put a shot over their heads. It worked and at about 25m they spun to their right and in a cloud of dust disappeared. Chris had taken his shot from a little in excess of 30m and I was quite happy for him to shoot from that distance – the .375 H&H like the .416 Rigby and the .404 Jeffery is a flat-shooting calibre. We were not culling elephant cows and only wanted to kill a single tuskless individual, Chris is an extremely competent shot and with a herd that size coupled to the brush they were in, the distance gave us plenty of manoeuvrability had things gone pear-shaped. Elephant have a highly developed social structure and even the removal of a single cow is stressful, and disruptive to the remainder, thus I like to try and do it as clinically as possible. When we got to the fallen cow, she was lying on her right side and there was still slight movement of her head and it wasn't just a dying elephant's brain tremor, so Chris gave her a coup de grâce although I was also keen to try and recover the first bullet if it hadn't exited the head. Strangely enough once the recovery crew had arrived and we were cutting up the elephant, we couldn't find a bullet entry hole. Later at the skinning shed however, the skinner found the bullet and it showed slight erosion, no doubt from contact with a vertebra because the bullet had entered near the ear hole, then seemingly passed through the rear edge of the temporal lobe before connecting with the spinal chord, and carrying on had finally come to rest against the left side of the skull. Once the recovery team had removed the cut up elephant cow, we drove back to Kausige fly-camp and en-route observed that after the shooting of the elephant, no fewer that eight cow herds had exited the block that we'd been in, and fled north.


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Alpine Tundra Ecosystem
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Access to "the land above the trees" is the most distinct aspect of Rocky Mountain National Park. Trail Ridge Road, the highest road in any national park, transports you to this realm of open sky where you'll find tiny but brilliant flowers and a harsh climate. Approximately one-third of this national park is above the limit where trees may grow in northern Colorado.
Cushion plants look like ground-hugging clumps of moss. They escape the strong winds blowing just a few inches above them. Cushion plants may also have long taproots that extend deep into the rocky soil.
Many flowering plants of the tundra have dense hairs on stems and leaves to provide wind protection or red-colored pigments capable of converting the sun's light rays into heat. Some plants take two or more years to form flower buds, which survive the winter below the surface and then open and produce fruit with seeds in the few weeks of summer. Grasses and sedges are common where tundra soil is well-developed.
Non-flowering lichens cling to rocks and soil. Their enclosed algal cells can photosynthesize at any temperature above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and the outer fungal layers can absorb more than their own weight in water. Adaptations for survival amidst drying winds and cold temperatures may make tundra vegetation seem very hardy, but in some respects it remains very fragile.
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Repeated footsteps often destroy tundra plants, allowing exposed soil to blow away. Recovery may take hundreds of years, so please use designated trails when exploring this unique area.
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Greeks Call For Referendum On IMF Bailout, Call Austerity "Barbaric Attack" And "Premeditated Crime Against Greek Society"
Looks like the downloads of "Austerity for Bankrupt Dummies" on all those paradropped Kindles, which Amazon was forced to do after the market did not share its outlook enthusiasm, has had the desired effect: suddenly with everyone understanding what is required, the threats of an revolution (both literal and metaphoric) are hitting a crescendo. As Bloomberg reports: "ADEDY, the Athens-based federation representing the more than 500,000 Greek civil servants who have seen wages cut this year, said the move signaled a new and "barbaric attack," and called a protest rally for April 27 [yep, another day of strikes and rioting]. Another demonstration has been set by the opposition Syriza party for today in Athens. "This is a premeditated crime against Greek society," Alexis Tsipras, the head of Syriza said in an e-mailed statement. "The majority of the Greek people are being tossed helplessly in the tempest of insecurity, unemployment and poverty." He called for a referendum on the decision to seek IMF support." So here we are, and neither Germany nor Greece really wants the bailout So who the hell is benefiting from all this theater? Why, the major banks, of course, and a few politicians who are, and tried and true Chris Dodd fashion, are merely their lackeys for life. We are now convinced that there will be a government overhaul, hopefully peaceful, but most likely violent, in Greece in the next 3 months if the IMF bailout in fact occurs. We wish we could say the same thing about the United States.
From Bloomie:
Papandreou, who announced today he will trigger the rescue is under fire from voters and unions for raising taxes and cutting wages to reduce a budget deficit that is more than four times bigger than European Union rules allow. Greeks fear the EU and IMF package, crafted to stem the country's soaring borrowing costs, will mean lower pensions and benefits, more wage cuts and produce a deeper recession.
Taxes, Wages
The premier won elections in October promising to raise wages of public workers and step up stimulus spending. Within weeks of coming to power, the new administration discovered they faced a 2009 budget deficit of 12.7 percent of gross domestic product, more than twice the shortfall the defeated New Democracy government had revealed. EU officials revised the deficit further to 13.6 percent of GDP yesterday.
The shortfall derailed Papandreou's spending plans and forced him to raise taxes and cut wages to try to make good on a pledge to cut the shortfall to 8.7 percent this year. Investors shunned Greek bonds leaving the government struggling to finance its debt. Papandreou's popularity has declined, particularly among the public workers who suffered the pay cuts and are the traditional base of his socialist party.
And, yes, the same incompetent politicians driving the ship straight into the iceberg, are waxing poetic about the last hours above surface:
Activating the rescue mechanism and turning over economic policy to EU and IMF oversight is "a new Odyssey for Greece," Papandreou said. "But we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters," he said, referring to the return of mythological hero Ulysses to his island home after a decade.
Confidence in Papandreou's handling of the economy dropped this month on deepening fears of new austerity measures. The share of people trusting his management of the crisis fell to 47 percent from 55 percent in February, according to a survey of 540 Greeks by Public Issue for Skai radio.
And the political infighting is reaching new highs:
Ninety-one percent of those surveyed said they expect a wave of new fiscal measures from the IMF, around the same proportion as in an April 18 poll for Eleftheros Typos newspaper. The poll showed 51 percent believe the IMF will harm the country, compared with 27 percent who said it would be of benefit.
ADEDY has held four 24-hour national walkouts so far this year. GSEE, the umbrella group representing 2 million private- sector workers will meet next week to decide "how and when" to strike, spokesman Stathis Anestis said.
"Papandreou spoke of a new Odyssey: heaven only knows how long that will be," Antonis Samaras, the leader of the main opposition party, the center-right New Democracy which was defeated by Papandreou's socialist Pasok party in October.
Samaras said that while he had taken responsibility for the previous government's failures in some policies "the borrowing crisis is exclusively the achievement of Pasok.
One thing is certain, at the end of this crisis, getting funding at sub-10% yields will be the absolute least of Greece's worries.
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God has a plan. Plan premeditated crime. Whatever you want to call it.
I am begining to feel that certain cultures are genetically not capable of understanding austerity and such things as 'spend below your means'.
The fact is that the US (world) economy would collapse if the culture "spent below their means".
Delayed gratification, from a macro to a micro level, is merely a quaint notion at this stage of global development. Like transparency, and responsibility.
I agree.
I personally think that our country's investment in 'defence' is the 500 lb gorilla that people in other countries see that maybe some people don't. What does that satellite that we just launched do? How much similar unreleased technology do we have?
I am not suggesting this is 'right' in a moral sense, I am suggesting this is how it is in a practical sense and will be especially if our economy collapses.
And interestingly, EVERYTHING related to US military spending and action is automatically labeled "defense", in classic Orwellian fashion.
We as Americans spend almost nothing on "defense". Let's call it what it really is: OFFENSE!
The USA does not have a "Department of Defense" --- we have a Department of OFFENSE.
Or more specifically, a Department of Military Aggression and World Hegemony.
When we play "defense" we get smoking holes in Manhattan and when we play offence the smoking holes are in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Frankly I like offence better but that's just me.
No, the smoking holes are a DIRECT RESULT of our unjustified and imperialistic offense, which after more than six decades seems to curiously and inexplicably upset the victims of that offense.
Keep going out of your way to kick hornet's nests, and eventually some abused hornets are are going to fly out and sting you. Do you blame the hornets, or the malicious and meddlesome kicker?
Hornets and humans are exactly the same?
Live in a big city? Have electricity that works all the time? Got a car?
How many of the 50 million that died under communism do you call insects?
How many muslims rescued a dog from a shelter today?
It's like a kid walking through the forest, who finds an ant nest. Punching and kicking the nest a couple of times---it helps him feel like a big tough guy, and also has some entertainment value for his simple brain cells---and finding a few biting ants crawling on his hands and legs, he shouts, "Look! Terrorists! I knew it!" and proceeds to spend the next twenty years methodically demolishing the nest at a cost of trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. That's your strategy.
Actually that should read; and finding himself biting on his hands and legs, he shouts, "Look! Terrorists! I knew it!" and proceeds to spend the next twenty years methodically demolishing the nest at a cost of trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives
If we default and China loses $2T, we better spend a lot more on defense. Of course we will only be able to buy from native sources that can still use the FRN as legal tender. Just think what oil will cost then...
The banks and manufacturers have been dragging forward future demand to make current quarterly profits and bonuses. The future demand is exhausted. Contraction cannot be avoided.
Frugality hasn't been a strategic concept since 1971. Frugality is the enemy of both the State and the economy.
Or, may be certain cultures are not yet prepared to be enslaved by the banksters.
Never trust a douchebag that quotes Homer in the middle of a car crash.
Greek pride is immense. What is that statement about a fall ?
Is it true that people have to pay "fakelakis" for upgraded hospital treatment in the country ?
Papendreou will have to unite the people somehow. Belt-tightening is required. Tourism will continue to the islands as long as bombings don't continue. The Defence Budget should be reduced. (Distrust of Turkey is endemic however in all age groups. This attitude seems to be entrenched as is evidenced by the Cyprus imbroglio. You can lead a Greek horse to peaceful waters but you can't make him drink.) Corruption should be cracked down on. The Black Economy should be mopped up and the shadow money directed into the legitimate tax base. Corruption is rife.
Diaspora Greeks will not reach into their pockets to bail out their cousins. (Nana Mouskouri's effort is noble but insignificant as she is in a different situation than most. When push comes to shove people tend to worry about their own backyard.) They sympathise but would only respond financially or physically if Greece was attacked in a war situation. The Orthodox Church still holds a lot of sway in the country. If the Patriarch comes out and supports the government's moves and advises his underlings to do the same the religious base will respond. The students feel they are untouchable. The anarchists and groups like November 17 et al. are the real dangerous fire starters. The Unions and Public Service have become way too comfortable. There are many hard-working, decent, law-abiding, taxpaying private sector citizens. The police and judiciary must be respected. The military should sit things out and worry about national security. The EYP, Εθνικ? Υπηρεσ?α Πληροφορι?ν, have their hands full and are waking up to prevailing power structures. The CDS traders and foreign bankers are not the cause of the problems.
Interesting times...Astanapanix !
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this whole thing has turned inta a joke. the grecce thing, the market, what a joke?
The question inside the referendum has been leaked:
Do you like to get fucked by Goldman Sachs?
Pls keep your answers short with a yes/no
Wait you mean a country can't live beyond it's means forever? Shit! Think we should tell the US?
We won't have to tell tha Boyz.
Don't forget Ben's infinite printing press. The Eurozone is held to a higher standard.
Do striking workers get paid on strike days? If not, then that is a good thing and maybe part of the austerity "plan."
Get Real!
It is Infinitely Painful for many in Greece these days when they're supposed to be on Permanent Vacation(God Given EU Right...no Shit, It Is! Recently So Declared in Brussels!) or Retirement 24/7/365 so disturbingly bothered, called to Muster in the fields, villages and city squares, Democratically Debating of their Frustrations with the Necessity of Marching into fields, villages and city squares, for it's
Fucking Work
"the head of Syriza said in an e-mailed statement"
What is the world coming to, when yuppie biker Communists start saying things that actually make sense
E-mail with gravitas !
Some budding entrepreneur should set up a instant online wedding site. With the dating sites out there, 1900 numbers, and now speed-divorcing the whole gamut of the courtship, relationship, break-up spectrum is covered. Why someone could do the lot in 24 hours. Cool ! Instant feelings...Just add water and stir. Perfect for the dazed, distracted, microwaved, abbreviated and goldfish attention-span generations.
Honestly, they can all go F themselves
On that side of the Atlantic and this.
"This is a premeditated crime against Greek society". As an american tax payer (yes, per my 2009 return, I was in the minority), who funds the US, who in turn funds the IMF, who inturn funds the greek people am starting to get a little outraged...
F* it, Im going long the DOW!
Dependancy to Bondage .. the end of the cycle of Democracy... founded by the greeks and Greece shall signal the beginning of the end of Democracy as we once knew it. Sadly, the rise of Dictotorships is on the way. Perhaps a new dark age if you can look out 10-30 years.
So who the hell is benefiting from all this theater? Why, the major banks, of course, and a few politicians ...
And so it goes until it doesn't...
Unbelievably stupid.
This is truly entertainment now. Although, this form of entertainment is far from being free.
I just got the thought of a new Weekend at Bernies movie. The EU and IMF can parade Bernie(aka Greece) around Germany this weekend pretending he isn't already dead trying to get a loan approved. Hilarity ensues.
Political Commentator Alfred E. Neuman raised the following point re. the language used in this report in his latest daily Mad Missives (By subscription only)...
Would ADEDY and Alexis Tsipras, the head of Syriza, call the twin fire bombings of the shul in Hania, Crete in January 2010 "barbaric attacks" and "premeditated crimes" ?
Fascinating Alfred, non ? Can't wait to see the Spy vs Spy section and that fold-out page on the back.
I'm not sure if I really believe in the Mayan predictions, but it appears we are all systems go for end of days. You could not write a better script for the ludicrous crap that is happening. The entire world is a complete and utter joke.
common John, how are you going to motivate the resitance with talk like that?!
No doubt. It's Friday after a long week. The resistance is alive and well however.
Jesus of Nazareth will reappear descending from the clouds with his donkey at the gates of Jerusalem via YouTube in December 2012. (Just to shut those silly mayan pagan worshippers up and those smart-arse film directors aswell.) Happy to trade with you re. "Second Coming 2020 Futures Contract".
Forget Yucca Mountain, lets use Greece as our nuclear waste site. At least then that chunk of real estate would have some value.
The Greek People DEMAND PRINTING.
They cannot understand that the cartel that controls "money" has the right to issue this shit and have it have value whereas they do not get to do that. It's seigniorage! And you ain't the king.
No, shit, national production is inadequate to FUND the consumption of the Greek People, consequently they have to go to the seignur and get paper that people respect. And there's a price for that, Barbarian.
The price is that those who control moneyness will eventually TAKE your fuckin land and cattle and daughters and wells and mines and EVERYTHING because they have the power to bestow moneyness and you DO NOT.
And they only have it because of idiotic consensus opinion. Or they have some pictures of a vault full of gold.
bankers meet the pitchforks. Can't wait to see it in high def.
Why can't they just print counterfit euro's? They're as good as the counterfit dollars we're getting.
Because we are playing global relativistic economics with stupidity as it's anchor and the cia as it's trolling motor.
Oh, a referendum will never happen. If it does, it'll be like Iceland's kabuki vote.
Silly proles, rights are only for bankers.
http://www.suddendebt.blogspot.com/ has a good complementary piece.
Gotta think the Greek crisis is a precursor for the US-force wage deflation in order to pay the international creditors.
Washington Consenus coming our way.
Marx warned us about this.
Hate to repeat myself but "Greece must be dest...."
Oh, I give up. We will learn nothing from what happens in Greece. Even the Greeks can't seem to learn anything from what is happening in Greece. Where do the idiots rioting over pay cuts think the money is going to come from to pay them anything next month, next year, etc.?
Just give up. The markets are crazy, the govt is crazy, most people are crazy. Right now the inmates are running the asylum and anyone who is sane has to wonder if being nuts wouldn't be the better thing. Watch an old movie named "King of Hearts" on this subject.
I am thinking of ditching my clothes and moving into the asylum.
I couldn't agree with you more, It's not just a Greek thing most Americans have emotional and mental problems. You see these people saying and commenting on these Austerity programs and such are bad for the people, guess what you idiots it was YOUR GOVT. THAT SPENT LIKE NO TOMORROW AND YOU WHERE THE BENEFICIARY OF MUCH OF THAT SPENDING. Everything is good when it's going good, but it's bad when it's going bad. I also believe that the inmates are running the asylum/countries of the world (the biggest is the US). Many of our political and religious leaders have dumbed down their populace so much that they can't use simple logic to figure out why they aren't getting ahead and who they should blame for their problems. It's easy to control the ignorant and the disturbed, as long as you give them what they want/need and say the right things, the will agree to almost anything.
I have never heard of the movie the King of Hearts (original title: Le Roi de Cœur), but it does fit in alot of ways. Most of our issues have insane people (acting sane) trying to run things but shouldn't, and the sane people are finally figuring out that they are surrounded by insane people. They used all the excuses and now there is only one left, and that is our system has made alot of people mentally and emotionally unstable, and instead of fixing this problem our leaders (who are finally being elected from the same pool of people) are thinking their logic is real when it's not. A german doctor made a observation that if you put a sane person in an asylum, eventually they will take on the characteristics of the people in the asylum (in essence go insane themselves in order to adapt). We have allowed the crazies to get to such a point that they are in charge and the sane people are running around trying to educate them why this is wrong or that, but as every year goes by less and less sane people are around anymore.
"barbaric attack" ... ['nother strike] ... "premeditated crime against Greek society"
So they're taking it pretty well so far, really. I'm serious: all this is just the music you hear whenever a public servant anywhere falls and cuts his knee. As long as they're sticking to one-day strikes then they're only venting steam. (Meanwhile they're strengthening the government's hand in negotiation with potential bailors, to the extent that anyone's taking them seriously.) Effective strikes would look like the UK's "Winter of Discontent" in 1979 or the various notable UK strikes of the '70s. And of course the UK slogged through all those industrial actions without anything really close to civil war or revolution.
Of course, there's no guarantee that TS won't HTF when real austerity (whether original Default flavour or minty IMF flavour austerity) finally arrives. In the '70s the British government had an emergency exit (inflation) and in the near future some Greek government will lack a similar last resort (unless the Rest of World abjectly caves to Greece's whims). And there's clearly a wider buffer zone between industrial peace and literal war in famously peaceful Britain than in Greece ("[3][6] Years Since Last Coup"). Still, things in Greece are going about as well as could be reasonably expected, so far.
It seems to me that Greece really has only two routes out of the current mess:
1) "The Mouse That Roared" .. Declare war on the U.S.
2) Sell Crete to the highest bidder.
Your move Greece...
A young 24 y.o. lad from Iraklion and his mates from overseas have been investing in the pyrotechnics business on the island. Fireworks will be the new number one export. Property is booming. The opportunity is fleeting...
Greece is just America without a World Reserve Currency.
Fraudulent debt, the Greeks (and the EU and the Global Financial Markets) were lied to by GS and the Greek Politicians acting in collusion. Fraudulent debt carries no obligation for repayment.
Bring back the Drachma and become a value destination for EuroTrash and assorted hooligans. I can already see the flirt skirt waring, pasty-skinned, chubby English Girls puking on some semi-arid, mountainous road.
Seeing the Greeks go nuts, I'm wondering why everyone is applauding the actions Paul Volcker took in the early 1980's. Could those same actions have any chance of success today?
Back in the '80s society comprised many adults who had survived two world wars, the dirty thirties, and some were children back when the west was broken/homesteaded. The general population has personal experiences of a hard life and hard work. Frugality was a commonly held trait. Pioneer spirit and family values. When it came time to tighten the belt, it was tightened. Many had lived through hard times before.
That does not describe today's population or it's values. Today it clearly looks like every man/woman for himself/herself. Look at how the bubble has reflated and the socialistic expectations of the general population. The concept of birthright has sure changed. You don't want to be of the "few" that are supporting the "many". The internet will allow you to make your money and check out. Your neighbours may not know of your wealth if you don't flaunt it. You can live in a small town and enjoy life as the fires burn.
Greece will clearly default. Tough times are coming. Will Dow 36,000 mitigate the problems? I suspect we will find out. I don't think we need a Paul Volcker today. I suspect we will get an "UN - Oil For Food" Volcker rather than an "Inflation Slaying" Volcker. The best actions appear to be to let Greece feed off itself. Once they have consumed themselves we can see what foundation is left in that country and determine what can be done. Maybe their hard times will educate us. That education may be the value we get via the bailout.
The reason why whoever is the head of Marx's 5th plank, I mean the Fed, will not raise rates to the extent Volcker did is because when Volcker did what he did the US was the largest creditor nation on earth. Now the US is the largest debtor in the history of the planet. If rates were to go to the levels Volcker had them at the US government would definitely default. There's simply no question about that. Make no mistake about it, the Fed will be faced with a choice eventually. They can monetize all the debt which will lead to hyperinflation or they can grow a spine and raise rates to real levels (which will be at least 20% by then) and the US government will default which will crash the dollar anyway.
The Fed bankers know there are limits to increasing the money supply. Liquidity and confidence are inter-related. They are aware of the dangers of hyper-inflation.
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I look at the Greek situation and figure that judging by their 9 percent rates on 10-year bonds, and Chancellor Merkel's obsessive trolling of any plans to restore some sort of liquidity to Greek markets, they're pretty much doomed to default no matter what. The alternative is the IMF banhammering them into oblivion, and while some of the one-size-fits-all approach sure to come does actually fit this time (reducing deficits, shredding the public sector and starting over), there's no way Papandreou can sign up for that and expect his government to last given how wildly unpopular the measures he's already undertaken are with the public. The question I have, though, is this: why the hell haven't the opposition been drawn and quartered already? They systematically and fraudulently lied about the size of their deficits (so did Portugal.../troll face), let GS hide the rest of it off the books in a now-illegal way, and they're now likely to come back to power?!?!
So: over/under on how many years until WW3 flares up with all these sovereign debt problems exploding?
"This is a premeditated crime against Greek society," Alexis Tsipras, the head of Syriza said in an e-mailed statement.
I think he gets it. You could also call it a declaration of war of corporations against the people's duely and democratically elected governments.
Of course, when those democratically elected governments are complicit, if not outright co-conspirators, in the crime itself, it becomes a great deal more complicated to parse out who's on which side.
That said, you're right, it's a cogent statement Tsirpas offers. Part of what I write and study about is the notion that national economies, and financial tools can be in fact used as weapons of war. It's nothing new, but it's increasingly important when one considers how exposed the public at large is to financial shenanigans and how clueless and helpless governments who ostensibly have the people's interests in mind (emphasis on ostensibly) either defer b/c they don't know what they're doing or get run over by the sheer monetary and political power of multinationals and the like. I may not agree with the solutions Tsirpas may have (I probably don't), but the problems are obvious to anyone who doesn't have their heads in the sand (unfortunately that's most people because eff the dumb people the people are a dumb)
"This is a premeditated crime against Greek society,"
without the bailout, the greek state will not be able to fund its budget and will have to make much deeper spending cuts than the eu and imf are demanding.
so i guess what this guy is saying is that the rest of the world has a moral and legal obligation to lend money to greece so it can continue to overspend. to fail to lend money to greece to fund its overspending is a criminal act.
well, consider me among the guilty, then.


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Founded in 1993, PB Technologies Limited is 100% NZ owned with 9 superstores throughout the country, over 400 staff, and is the technology supplier to many of New Zealand's leading companies and educational institutes.
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Check out our video below to learn more about PB Tech or view our full company profile.
PB Tech holds a significant amount of stock in our New Zealand based logistics centre and can ship stock from this location usually within 2-4 working days (see the timeframes mentioned on each product page for more accurate delivery estimates).
In most cases, items ordered from the NZ Logistics Centre are first transferred to our Head Office / Distribution Centre before being shipped to the final destination.
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ATEN SN0108 8-Port Serial Over IP Administer (W/32 FIFO, 8xDB25/DB25M Paw)
The ALTUSEN SN series of serial console servers integrate cutting Features edge technologies with secure enterprise communications. Available in 8-port models, the serial console server offers both in-band and out-of-band remote serial console access to servers and network devices, via a direct Telnet/SSH client or an applet viewer. SN works in tandem with the ALTUSEN Power Over the NETTremote power management system. Both can be managed with CC2000 management software to provide centralized data center management and integrated power management. With their comprehensive features, SN series of serial console servers help maximize IT productivity, provide scalability and reduce operational costs.
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SN series is a complete secure remote access and control solution. Access rights and privilege control can be applied to individual ports. Consolidated authentication simplifies password management. Data encryption is provided. Logging and alerting helps speed resolution of issues and mitigates risk. Enhanced security functions ensure the compliance of internal security mandates. The ease of use, accessibility and manageability of the SN series serial console servers enables a quick response to changing demands and helps meet ultimate business goals.
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1x 8-Port Serial Console Server
1x Power Cord
1x Rack Mount Kit (Brackets and Phillips head hex M3 x8 screws)
1x Foot Pad Set (4 pcs.)
1x Software CD
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Posts Tagged: Beer Stores and Beer Shopping
CNY Roadtrip To Stock The Stash
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, January 22, 2010 in New York, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 2 comments
Back. I made it back. I hit four beer stores over around 500 km and nine and a half hours. Now, whereas Pretty Things was just a one time bottle that I passed in the night, now I have seven bottles representing three of their brews and any number of batches. Those canny little cap labels are … read more »
Day 21: Prize Buying With One Week To Go
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, December 6, 2009 in Contests, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping, Books and Book Reviews - 2 comments
I was checking out Amazon to see what beer books I missed this year. Huge sale on so, being the canny Yuletide 2009 beer photo context administrator I am, I picked up a few extra copies on the cheap of Pete Brown's books for you US readers who have been frozen out by some insane publishers who …
New York: What Did All That Beer Shopping Cost Me?
Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 in New York, Inputs, Price and Value, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 5 comments
So, I was on the road for 24 to take in the 23rd NY special election with pals across the border... which means I could fit in a shopping spree. A few days ago, we were exploring relative value as well as regional pricing over here in these comments and I said I would. I am going to price it …
Indiana: City-Wide Liquors, Jefferson St., South Bend
Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, August 13, 2009 in Indiana, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 1 comment
Just a bit of praise where praise is definitely due to the good folks at City-Wide Liquors at Jefferson Street in South Bend. I was able to stop in twice and found the place one of the beer best shopping experiences in my life, you know, with good beer. Why? Here's why: • There is an Indiana law …
Ontario: We Got Your Beer... Just Not Here
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, August 9, 2009 in Ontario, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 6 comments
This was one of those don't know whether to laugh or cry moments in my life with the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. As I holiday migrated slowly across the south of this great province from east to west, planning and daydreaming of the wealth of unknown beers that I might encounter in the week … read more »
Gas Station Saison, Utica Club And Fireworks
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, July 5, 2009 in Maine, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 2 comments
Apparently wherever I go I pack an extra 5 kilopascals or whatever atmospheric pressure is measured in. The weather has cracked from a month of wet to sunny and dry. Ran into a pal on a CNY backroad gas station three hours from either of our homes and was inspired to grab a 7 puck twelve pack of …
Session #29: Traveling For Beer And Other Things
Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, July 2, 2009 in The Session, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 6 comments
An early entry for tomorrow's version of The Session as I am preparing to go on a special assignment. The Session is a monthly mass blog-in where folks around the globe face the same beery question and come up with a vast range of answers. The question this time as posed by Beer by Bart is … read more »
Zero Minus Five Hours... Then... PANIC!!!
Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 5 comments
More weird news as LCBO shelves in Ontario are getting bare a few hours before the impending strike. Favorite panicky line so far: "...people left with their arms laden with bottles and cartons as if preparing for doomsday." Sure, it's dooooom when you can only get domestic beer, right. See, the …
Strike! Panic!! Monopoly On Strike!! Panic!!!
Posted by Alan McLeod on Monday, June 22, 2009 in Beer and Economics, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 7 comments
Well, the LCBO is not quite yet on strike but when you are in a monopoly market these things can catch you unaware or, worse, unprepared. What's this all about you ask? • A trend toward part-time and casual jobs, and a management proposal to be able to issue 90-day layoff notices at any time … read more »
Oh, To Be As Ridiculous and Hapless As Delaware
Posted by Alan McLeod on Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Ontario, Beer and Law, Beer Stores and Beer Shopping - 3 comments
At the end of the day, it really is pretty sad when one can't aspire to achieve what is arguable in Delaware: • Every few years, some lone and well-meaning soul in the Legislature comes forward with a bill to allow beer and wine sales in grocery stores. And every few years, a mob of lobbyists … read more »


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CAUGHT YOU LOOKING by alan1828Watch
©2011-2016 alan1828
I am looking. Wow
nice hip
Cool photo ! Always dig the over the shoulder pose .
so elegant!
Model YELI OMGODDESS this is what you call, oh no!! what just happened!
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In these lessons, we will learn how to use integrals (or integration) to find the areas under the curves defined by the graphs of functions. We also learn how to use integrals to find areas between the graphs of two functions.
We have also included calculators and tools that can help you calculate the area under a curve and area between rwo curves.
Related Topics: More Calculus Topics
The Area A of the region bounded by the curves y = f(x), y = g(x) and the lines x = a, x = b, where f and g are continuous f(x) >= g(x) for all x in [a, b] is
Find the area of the region bounded above by y = x2 + 1, bounded below by y = x, and bounded on the sides by x = 0 and x = 1.
The upper boundary curve is y = x2 + 1 and the lower boundary curve is y = x.
Using the formula,
Find the area between the two curves y = x2 and y = 2x – x2.
Step 1: Find the points of intersection of the two parabolas by solving the equations simultaneously.
x2 = 2x – x2
2x2 – 2x = 0
2x(x – 1) = 0
x = 0 or 1
The points of intersection are (0, 0) and (1, 1)
Step 2: Find the area between x = 0 and x = 1
The Area Under a Curve: approx. the definite integral
Integration is used to determine the area under a curve. A parabola is drawn such that it intersects the x-axis. The x-intercepts are determined so that the area can be calculated.


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Just love the way your mind works. :-) Great image.
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How much water is you baby feeding?
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i give him 1-2 5oz bottles of juice a day. he doesnt really like just straight water so ill make a 5oz bottle half juice half water and he LOVES it.
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Hasn't tasted water yet! He doesn't like solids, so we're just EBF right now.
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No water here. Just formula and solids.
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Mine loves water too. I only offer it when she loses interest in eating solids and she's always so eager when I give it to her. Probably drinks about 4 oz/day total. If she figured out how to tip the cup successfully I think the # of oz would increase. I would limit at 6-8oz at this point I think.


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Teeth wolf preview by Sharpe19Watch
©2013-2016 Sharpe19
I'm still trying to catch up with uploading so here's some shots from my phone. Commissioned timberwolf full suit that is making a debut as a partial at IFC this weekend. All fake furs, airbrushed accents with glass taxidermy eyes from Tohickon and a custom toothy jaw set ( enlarged canines). Complete with horsehair whiskers. Enjoy!
i like this one but not sure about the to white spots above the eyes , but all in all how much are you asking
Wow! Perfect
How much do your heads cost?
Is this for sale because its AMAZING and if it is how much in pounds?
..... THIS is AMAZING!!
This is AMAZING!!!
how much?
I was privileged to see, and get my picture taken with Teeth_Wolf at IFC2013. I was amazed. Sharpe, I did not think you could do better than Snow,(which I have on my phone), You are simply amazing!!! If I Had the money....
You are a true master. Keep up the great work!
You are a true master. Keep up the great work!
Oh my god! I agree with so many people when they say it looks so real! It's absolutely amazing, you really are an artist. It's absolutely breathtaking!
This is so beautiful! He looks like a real live animal. ^_^
this is so lifelike its scary!
I really want a mask from you one day.. );
Dang, looks good!!
I'm awestruck.
Your coloring and realism are always amazing and this is no exception, I like how you even did the eyebrow hair? Not sure what to call it but it's those slight hairs that always stick out on a caines head on the larger breeds.
*jaw Drop* WoW just.....WoW you never cease to amaze me. O.o
oh my gosh that looks so beautiful! i still cant believe how much your style has changed and improved over these past 2 yrs. lovely work sharpe ^-^
All I can say is I cannot get over this base <3 it makes for a really awesome wolf. Thank you kindly, that means a lot!
make me really want to get one from you. Looove it!
Trades are available as well as openings for commissions later next year. From you though it makes me wonder what you would be getting...?
truly i would go for either your wolf or big cat. Love the shape and bone structure that shows through when furred. I do love making realistic were-creatures. XD all the masks i offer are hybrid toony-real and i just dont have the time to make my own line of realistic so why not support my fellow artist so i can also have some fun furring some of these beauties.
I certainly have some ideas that would be fun to do or give you full artistic liberty if a trade was in mind.
Speaking if were-creatures, I'm in he process of becoming the next owner f your stilted werewolf.
Speaking if were-creatures, I'm in he process of becoming the next owner f your stilted werewolf.
woah.....that's amazing you truly are one of the best ive seen
Incredible realism! I can't wait to have a fursuit of my own.
This is amazing o.o; I really must commission you at some point -dies-
I love the paint job and the attention to detail on this! Horsehair FTW! But really is one of the best airbrush jobs for a natural coated timberwolf I've seen. Great job!
Wow! It looks amazing! I love your fursuits, keep up the good work.^^
omg this is amazing. It looks so real. Great job Sharpe!
I don't usually like full suits because a lot of them end up looking like the big goofy cartoon suis. This is really amazing, and the most realistic I've ever seen. Great job!


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He certainly has a face of a serial killer ;o cute work!
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I like how you make the colors, black, grey, and pink, they look simple but matching :)
I like how you make the colors, black, grey, and pink, they look simple but matching :)
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I like the contrast between the sweet cat and the text on the cup!
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Love how textured the kitty's fur is, the fact that it's holding a mug is beyond cute
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Don't go wild for Flynn in Seattle
Updated: March 18, 2012, 9:01 PM ETBy Christopher Harris | ESPN.com
If I were the Seattle Seahawks, I would rather have Peyton Manning than Matt Flynn.
But if I were the Seattle Seahawks, I would probably rather have Matt Flynn than Alex Smith.
The Seahawks could do nothing about the first of those two statements; Peyton wouldn't even talk to them. So they did the best with what they could and reached an agreement with Flynn on a relatively cap-friendly deal: $10 million guaranteed over three years. He will more than likely be Seattle's ...
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iHerb Customer Reviews
not "ALIVE" as a simple green leaf infusion...you are welcome to rate & read my other reviews
2 people found the following review helpful
Posted by PracticalReviews on Oct 26, 2013
very similar to the amazing trio in taste,also tastes dull & beyond recognition of the original plant,did not feel any boost in energy from it but it was easy on my digestion system which is good.still i was missing the "alive" taste factor,so tough its time consuming i would stay with green infusions of various nutritional plants like Tulsi,Alfalfa & Nettle...
kind of like the natural tast
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Easy to drink.
tast very bad
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tast very bad
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Healthy but the taste could be better. Mix this with juice to get it down better. Glad I didn't buy bigger amount. :)


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