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The 52 Project, Week 21
Waited nearly an hour for this shot in Findlay, OH. Sadly, now this building has been torn town and I haven't seen this portly gentleman since
The 52 Project, Week 29
More sad decay of former American industry, this time in Buffalo, NY. My grandfather worked nearly fifty years of his life right down the street from this factory. Amazing what a little neglect can do to such a massive establishment.
The 52 Project, Week 31
Walking back to my car from Imagine That! in Findlay, OH, I was awe-struck by the simple scene unfolding in front of me...so it was captured on film.
The 52 Project, Week 24
My first "planned" 8x10 portrait of my grandpa, Ned. This image had a ridiculous subject brightness range, approx. 18 stops!!
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We already have a lot of data at our disposal in the world of Web Insights. Clickstream, Outcomes, Surveys, Usability etc. That in itself is hard to wrap our brains around.
But there is one more really great source of data out there that I am sure some of you are already tapping into, perhaps not as many of as that could benefit from it. I am of course talking about the data that falls broadly into the category of "competitive intelligence".
The most compelling reason to tap into competitive intelligence is that in many ways it allows you to step away from your silo, the existence that is…
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Residents are presented several options for disposing of waste tires.
Humboldt Waste Management Authority's Transfer Station (1059 W. Hawthorne Street, Eureka) accepts tires from the general public throughout the year for a fee. Please call (707) 441-2005 for rates.
HWMA periodically hosts one-day Waste Tire Amnesty events. This program is intended for households only. Tires from businesses, including tires used on commercial vehicles and tractors, will not be accepted at these events. This program allows households to bring up to 9 tires, off of the rim, from their car or light truck only. Typically, two or three of these free events are held in various areas around Humboldt County each year. Events are generally announced on television and in local newspapers. Also, check back on this website periodically for upcoming event announcements.
Between the Amnesty Days and Coupon Redemption Program, Humboldt County disposes of about 25,000 old and used tires per year. The cost of tire disposal is funded by an annual competitive grant from the California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle) and administered by Humboldt Waste Management Authority.
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Posted by Duncan Jones on December 16, 2011
Just over a week after SAP published its intention to buy Success Factors, IBM announced yesterday that it will acquire Emptoris, one of the leading ePurchasing suite vendors. My colleague Andrew Bartels has described in his blog some of the implications for other vendors in the ePurchasing market:
My interest is in what the acquisition means for sourcing professionals, not just the CPOs who might be Emptoris customers, but the IT sourcing professionals setting strategies for dealing with major suppliers such as IBM and SAP.
· Emptoris customers should give IBM the benefit of the doubt, for now. Craig Hayman, General Manager of IBM's Industry Solutions division, assured me that he would take great care not to damage Emptoris's strengths, the ones that attracted him to the company, as they did you, its customers. Emptoris consistently does well in Forrester Wave™ evaluations, not only for its functionality but also its focus on sourcing and procurement, its emphasis on ensuring customer success, and its consistent record of innovation. The good news is that Hayman doesn't underestimate the challenges of integrating Emptoris into IBM, but is confident he can overcome them. It will take a couple of years before we can judge his success.
Posted by Andrew Bartels on December 15, 2011
IBM today announced that it will acquire Emptoris, a leading vendor of ePurchasing software products, with strengths in eSourcing, spend analysis, contract lifecycle management, services procurement, and supplier risk and performance management (see December 15, 2011, "IBM Acquisition of Emptoris Bolsters Smarter Commerce Initiative, Helps Reduce Procurement Costs and Risks"). That IBM made an acquisition of this kind was not a surprise to me, given that the heads of IBM's Smarter Commerce software team at the IBM Software Analyst Connect 2011 event on November 30 had laid out a vision of providing solutions for the buying activities of commerce as well as the sales, marketing, and services activities. Indeed, in the breakout session in which Craig Hayman, general manager of industry solutions at IBM, laid out the Smarter Commerce software strategy and showed the vendors that IBM had acquired in the sales, marketing, and services arenas, he said in response to my comment about the obvious gaps that IBM had in the buying area that we should expect to see IBM acquisitions in that area.
What was a surprise to me was that IBM acquired Emptoris. My prediction would have been that IBM would buy Ariba, because of the long relationship that has existed between these companies. In contrast, Emptoris has generally worked more with Accenture, and not as much with IBM.
Posted by James Staten on December 8, 2011
For years I have been railing about cloud washing -- the efforts by vendors and, more recently, enterprise I&O professionals to give a cloud computing name to their business-as-usual IT services and virtualization efforts. Now, a cloud vendor, with tongue somewhat in cheek, is taking this rant to the next level.
Appirio, a cloud integration and customization solution provider, has created the cloud computing equivalent of the Razzie Awards to recognize and call out those vendors it and its clients see as the most egregious cloud washing offenders. The first annual Washies will be announced next Wednesday night at The Cigar Bar in San Francisco, and in true Razzie tradition, the nominees are invited to attend and pick up their dubious honors in person. I'm betting that Larry Ellison will be otherwise engaged.
Posted by Holger Kisker on December 5, 2011
Some Reflections On The Deal For Competitors, Partners, and Customers
The Deal
On December 3, SAP announced the acquisition of SuccessFactors, a leading vendor for human capital management (HCM) cloud solutions. SAP will pay $3.5 billion (a 52% premium over the Dec 2 closing price) out of its full battle chest and take a $1 billion loan. SuccessFactors brings about 1,500 employees, more than 3,500 customers, and about 15 million users to the table. In 2010, the company reported revenues of $206 million and a net loss of $12.5 million. A price of $3.5 billion is certainly a big premium, but the acquisition catapults SAP into the ranks of leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution providers — a business that will grow from $21.3 billion in 2011 to $78.4 billion by 2015 (for more information, check out our report "Sizing The Cloud"). The deal will certainly help SAP to achieve its 2015 target of $20 billion revenue and 1 billion users as it mainly targets the 500,000 employees that SAP's already existing customers have. The deal is expected to close in Q1 next year. However, because most of the stocks are widely spread, stakeholders might hold back for now, waiting for possible counter bids from competition.
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Posted by Paul Hamerman on December 3, 2011
SAP is a paying a substantial premium to acquire SuccessFactors, a leading SaaS performance and talent management vendor. The press release of December 3, 2011 states that the deal price of $40 per share is a 52% premium over the Dec. 2 closing stock price. Even more startling is that SuccessFactors has a revenue run rate of roughly $300 to $330 million for 2011, and the acquisition price of $3.4 billion is more than 10 times revenue! Why then did SAP make this move?
SAP's cloud strategy has been struggling with time-to-market issues, and its core on-premises HR management software has been at a competitive disadvantage with best-of-breed solutions in areas such as employee performance, succession planning, and learning management. By acquiring SuccessFactors, SAP puts itself into a much stronger competitive position in human resources applications and reaffirms its commitment to software-as-a-service as a key business model.
In my recent research for a soon-to-be-published Forrester Wave™ on human resource management systems (HRMS), I noted that SAP has more than 13,000 customers using its HCM suite. Yet the adoption of SAP's learning and talent management products is much less (a few thousand, perhaps), which is noted in my colleague Claire Schooley's "The Forrester Wave™: Talent Management, Q2 2011." The talent management Forrester Wave also clearly shows that SAP's embedded talent management offerings lag well behind the best-of-breed specialists in learning and performance management. The bottom line here is that SAP HCM customers predominantly run best-of-breed talent management solutions alongside their SAP core HRMS (i.e., the transactional employee system of record).


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My dad sent me the pictures from our Lexington to Virginia trip a while ago and I forgot to ever put them up. Looking through them reminded me how incredibly tired we all were, which explains all of our dazed expressions.
Our kitchen table/IKEA desk. I am almost certain this photo was taken at 2:30 A.M.
Our well-constructed bed and dresser (and the lifesaving orange IKEA toolkit).
Before my dad left, we drove to the apartment in Rosslyn where my parents lived when I was born.
I'm so glad my dad was willing to come help us out. We had a great time together ad it was so helpful to have another set of hands. Hope to see him–and the rest of the fam–again soon.
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2001 Kia Optima 4 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic 103000 miles
the timing belt on my car broke. The mechanic says he can only turn the engine one directions and that there are 8 bent valves. He wants $500 to repair this for me. My questions is it postibile to tell exaclly how many valves bent without taking the engine apart (he says he did this, but I do not trust him, he did not charg me anything for the diagnosis). Could it maybe be just a timing belt I have to replace or is there usually damage done when it breaks. And do you think this is a fair price (the mechanic is a friend of mine, he says the price he quoted me is really cheap--I just don't trust mechanics)
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Jim MorrisonBPL Member
@plinyLocale: Pacific Northwest
I saw a video on Youtube ("How to make an alcohol stove!) that showed a "side Burner" alcohol stove made from three pop cans. It does NOT require a stand of any kind so I thought that was a good idea. Does anyone know if these are as efficient as the more common "penny" alcohol stoves? Since it is so cheap and easy to build I thought I might experiment with building one or the other. Now, later, I see there are two distinct different side-burner types. One is a simple can with holes, the other is more complex.Mar 8, 2011 at 3:03 pm #1706233
Dustin SnyderBPL Member
@dustintsnyderLocale: Southeast
I have a "side burning" pepsi can stove, that I made, and it works pretty good. It can boil two cups of water (around 70F) in less than 5 minutes in temps as low as 35F. With the fastest time being 3 minutes and forty five seconds (3:45), at about 45F with a light wind. It was easy to make, and is fairly strong. It weighs less than .3oz. It works best with a short/fat pot. When I did my testing of it I used an aluminum pot+lid, a foil windscreen and 1oz. of heet. The stove doesn't need a priming pan to lite, but most all the other side burning stoves I have tested have needed one. I have never used a penny stove before so I have no idea how well they work compared to the side burning stoves. Hope this helps you out some.Mar 8, 2011 at 3:06 pm #1706235
Your photo on the right shows a cat food can stove. It is unpressurized and is very simple to construct and to operate. Your photo on the left seems like a low pressure stove, although I use a completely different type (like a white box stove that is unsealed on top). It is slightly more complicated to build and to operate. Arguments go on and on as to which is better.
To be frank, I do not see a lot of difference in performance, fuel-wise or time-wise. The burner jet pattern tends to be a lot different. The low pressure burner tends to make a wider pattern (for a wider pot) and the cat food can stove tends to make a narrower pattern (for a narrow mug). However, there are many variations.
Some hikers like something that boils faster. Others like something that simmers longer. I built both, so I take one or the other depending on the cook pot that I am using. In the low pressure type, I made one larger to have more fuel capacity, and I made another one tiny to have less weight. There are a lot of "stovies" around here.
–B.G.–Mar 8, 2011 at 3:25 pm #1706252
I am not an alcohol stove user
But, I made a side burner and it required more fuel to boil a pint of water than a top burner
1 Tablespoon in top burner
2 Tablesoons in side burner
But it also varies from design to design
Try it and find out yourselfMar 8, 2011 at 3:27 pm #1706253
I made the Starburst at the bottom of http://sites.google.com/site/backpackingstove/
1 Tablespoon to boil 1 pint
someone from portlandhikers.org clued me onto thatMar 8, 2011 at 5:15 pm #1706303
James MarcoBPL Member
@jamesdmarcoLocale: Finger Lakes
For side burners you need a wider pot. They cover center 1-1/2" or so from heat. Not a good
choice unless you also have a 5"+ pot.
They also did the same thing to me when I first tried them, way back. They burned about twice the fuel to heat a cup. I picked up a wally world grease pot that worked well. Fuel usage went back to about the same. Later, these pots were longer available. Soo, I used the Kiddy mart ones for my daughters. Both are around 5-1/4" dia. I have two cups of coffee in the morning, soo, no harm done. Just throw in two fixings. The larger pot works better at night, anyway (boiling rice or orzo and putting it in my hat.)Mar 10, 2011 at 9:10 pm #1707272
Jim MorrisonBPL Member
@plinyLocale: Pacific Northwest
Jerry: I assume you need a stand for the Starburst Stove. What do you use for a stand?Mar 10, 2011 at 9:56 pm #1707288
Some wally world stores have those pots again. Also, some dollar stores have them. They tend to have minor dents, but that is no big deal for the cheap price.
–B.G.–Mar 11, 2011 at 8:58 am #1707412
I just put the stove on the ground, have an aluminum windscreen around it, put a couple wires on top of that, and set my pot on the wires a few inches above the alcohol flame.
There are so many similar setups on the internets
I am a canister / anti-alcohol bigot by the way, funny that I am describing an alcohol stoveMar 11, 2011 at 10:22 am #1707453
Denis HazlewoodBPL Member
@redleaderLocale: Luxury-Light Luke on the Llano Azul
"(boiling rice or orzo and putting it in my hat.)"
Why do you put boiled rice or orzo in you hat?Apr 4, 2011 at 8:52 pm #1720133
Joe LBPL Member
@heyyouLocale: Cutting brush off of the Arizona Tr
To the above poster, he is using his hat (dual purpose) as a cozy on the pot with the heated food in it.Apr 4, 2011 at 11:36 pm #1720175
Denis HazlewoodBPL Member
@redleaderLocale: Luxury-Light Luke on the Llano Azul
That would work. My bald head needs my hat for insulation. I tuck my freezer bag cozy inside my jacket. Helps warm me outside, before it goes inside.Apr 4, 2011 at 11:53 pm #1720181
Do you use your head heat to warm up the hat/cozy for the food, or do you use the food heat to warm up the hat/cozy for your head afterward?
–B.G.–Apr 5, 2011 at 6:05 am #1720211
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Former South African junior heavyweight champion Danie Venter scored a workmanlike six round points decision over Zimbabwean Elvis Moyo at the Pretoria North City Hall on Saturday night and stayed on track for his fight with Sean Cox for the WBF belt in September. Heavyweight Venter (98,52kg) boxed well within himself against an opponent who had a weight advantage of nearly 12kg, piling up the points with his educated left jab followed up by stiff right crosses to the head as he won a clear decision. Venter improved his record to 17-6; (12) and Moyo dropped to 3-4-2 (1).
In a junior heavyweight bout southpaw Kevin Lerena (90.62kg) made hard work of beating Khayeni Hlungwane (83.82kg) on a unanimous points decision over six rounds.
Other results:
Junior featherweight: Moeketsi Makinita beat Tumelo Pedi, pts 4; Featherweight: Bongani Buti beat Manxilana Mziwodumo, pts 4; Featherweight: Tsietsi Moremi beat Anslin Booysens, pts 4;
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I also think she's figured out that, if she plays with the base (scratches at it) when she wakes up, I show up - because she does it quite deliberately each and every nap, now.
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Have you read the No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley? It's a pretty quick read, I finished it in one sleep deprived afternoon, and some of the advice worked wonders for us!
Good Luck!
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I'm going to check out the No Cry Sleep Solution.
Try nursing her to sleep in your bed. I can sneak away (once in a while) doing that.
I nurse or rock to sleep, and then lay down w/baby on me. Slowly shift her to the side. Wait a few minutes, then lift her head gently and pull my arm out from under her. Wait a few minutes. Gently get up, surround her w/pillows.
Get a monitor. This will give you peace of mind. And as soon as baby makes a peep you can be in there. Nora has never *knocks wood* fallen off the bed. I put the monitor right there on the bed w/her, and once she wakes up she's more interested in that than crawling around. It takes me 2 seconds to get in there.
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Yesterday, when it was naptime, I nursed her in bed and she fell asleep and slept for 1.5 hrs. I just stayed next to her but I scooted over so she wasn't touching me and read the whole time. That was her longest nap in a long time. She usually only naps for 45 min. She obviously sleeps better when not on me.
I'm going to check out the No Cry Sleep Solution.
Either that, or perhaps a Mai Tei? ds rode in one on my back from 8mos to 1.5 years.
I have a 4 1/2 month old. Somehow we can only get him to take his three naps in the Ergo carrier. I know it's becoming a bad habit and tiring for all of us, but it's more frustrating getting him in the crib. My husband somehow does it and gets him to also nap in our bed at times. I take care of baby on the weekend and my dad takes care of the baby during the week. My dad carries him in the Ergo for all naps unless he is driving a car or using a stroller. I hope my baby grows out of this eventually because he is heavy. He's about 17 pounds. I would rather have him take good naps in a carrier instead of being cranky. He's fine at night though. He goes to bed at 7 pm in his Arm's Reach Cosleeper and wakes for a feeding at 4 am. Then goes back to sleep till about 7 am. Daytime is just the challenge though.
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Why does WISN-TV competitor find 'Dancing With the Stars' newsworthy?
A long time ago at a newspaper far, far away, an editor told me that if an event wasn't in our paper, it didn't occur.
Translation: Tend to your own knitting. We don't care about or follow up on what our competitors write. That was then. Now, everybody covers everything, everywhere, all the time. And that includes "Dancing With the Stars."
It may be the intellectual property of ABC and air locally on WISN-TV (Channel 12), but once "DWTS" airs it, it becomes public domain and fair game for comment, opinion and criticism by fans, followers and anyone with a blog (like me!) or a Twitter account.
Added to this is a sense that the Green Bay Packers are community property. Which is one reason NBC affiliate WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) covers the show, and the team's wide receiver Donald Driver's appearance on it, during its Monday and Tuesday newscasts.
On Monday nights, former Packer Ahman Green analyzes Driver's performance, and on Tuesday mornings, Packers announcer Wayne Larrivee is forced to learn the same dance.
WTMJ-TV's promos ask viewers to switch the channel after "DWTS" to watch its coverage and even include a little mirror ball, made in the mirror image of the show's grand prize.
WISN-TV countered by forcing its morning news team to be part of a seven-week, on-air dance competition, whose prize is a replica of the "DWTS" mirror ball.
As stations expand the air time spent on local news, they have also expanded the definition of what is newsworthy to include the local contestants on so-called reality shows airing on their networks. See WITI-TV (Channel 6), "American Idol" and Danny Gokey.
But a local station covering a show that airs on a competing station's prime-time lineup?
Well, that may be unprecedented.
Local sports station WAUK-AM (540) does something similar by urging fans of local sports coverage to switch to their stations for analysis after a Packers or Milwaukee Brewers game airs on WTMJ-AM (620).
But the poke-the-bear nature of WTMJ-TV's coverage must infuriate WISN-TV.
The stations are battling for 10 p.m. news ratings supremacy.
WISN-TV has had a slight edge in total households, but WTMJ-TV wins the demographic race.
"DWTS" is one of the top-rated shows on television, and if Driver's run on "DWTS" continues through May, and the show's audience sticks around for WISN-TV's 10 p.m. news, it could help the station earn another sweeps month ratings victory.
Is this really an advantage? Must be, since WTMJ-TV's "DWTS" coverage is intended to blunt it. Because all's fair in love of the Packers and the news ratings war.
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) has specific rules in competition matches for the protection with the fighter, in order that he may well keep pursue MMA fitness when the match is done. These guidelines largely pertain to the fighters' safety.
Before the UFC there were virtually no rules and a fight might get so bloody that that its critics called it human cockfighting. Definitely in those times, know-how and conscientiousness about MMA fitness were not a priority.
Perhaps a version of this bloody fighting could be seen inside the film "Sherlock Holmes", wherever Sherlock deliberates over what physique components he'll strike his enemy at, using his medical knowledge to ascertain probably the most vulnerable components and inflicting deterioration on his opponent such as three broken ribs.
Here is usually a list of techniques that are typically not allowed in official competitions due towards high probability of injury:
• The headbutt. This was frowned upon and is commonly forbidden since with minimal effort, a match can get extremely bloody. The headbutt permits wrestlers to quickly bring down the opponent on the ground, without the wrestler needing to alter their own position.
• Eye gouging. That is a good self defense technique, not simply against a human assailant but against animal assaults, too. In UFC matches they have been thumbed down. Eye gouging involves pressing or tearing the eye using your fingers or other instruments. The UFC disallowed eye gouging since on the higher danger of eye injury including permanent eye destruction, which would obliterate hopes for future MMA fitness.
• Hair pulling. Certainly, MMA fitness is possible following the match, but this really is frowned upon nonetheless and as one individual said, it truly is so second grade.
• Biting. That is so second grade as well. Of course, in real life if nail biting would spell the main difference in self preservation, it truly is okay to act like second grader.
• Fish-hooking. This requires inserting fingers into the mouth, nostrils or other open physique components of a individual to ensure that it is possible to pull and tear the tissue within. That is forbidden because on the high probability of permanent face and/or orifice injury.
• Attacking the groin. There are a lot of nerves in the groin so there's quick pain. Also there is danger of breaking the pubic bone causing physical disability.
• Striking the back of the head or spine. The spine is wherever all of the nerves are, which include the spinal cord which is protected inside the spinal canal. In the past there employed to be rabbit punches, where a blow was aimed at the base on the skull. This can injury the cervical vertebrae and spinal cord and at its worst, could cause death.
• Striking the trachea. Because the trachea connects for the larynx, which makes it possible for air into the lungs, this can block air. It is quite dangerous and frowned upon.
• Small joint manipulation. In grappling, this may perhaps involve grabbing two fingers or toes, and then twisting, pulling or bending them in joint locks.
Other items you would possibly not do:
• In an MMA match, the ring is the X spot. You may not deliberately toss your opponent out from the ring.
• You may well not run out on the ring.
• You might not purposely hold the ring ropes.
• You may not grab or place a hand inside the trunks from the opponent. Use fantasy should you require an explanation.
• If your opponent is on the ground, you might not strike his head utilizing your knee.
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Fifty-eight billion dollars. That's how much money airlines around the world are expected to make this year from their long list of new fees, according to estimates from the International Air Transport Association. Unfortunately, airlines are still struggling at home and abroad.
Airlines in the U.S. grossed nearly $4 billion from extra fees in just the first six months of 2009, and yet our domestic airline industry ended the year about $3 billion in the red and having to fire roughly 30,000 employees. The causes are obvious: a global recession, the threat of terrorist attacks and the increased security procedures employed to defend against them. Unfortunately, the solutions remain hidden, and many airlines continue to push out new fees to raise revenue.
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Death to the Brothers Grimm (edition 2012)
by Emory Pueschel (Editor), Kate Jonez (Editor), Lee Widener (Contributor), John Edward Lawson (Contributor), Jess Gulbranson (Contributor) — 8 more, M.L. Roos (Contributor), Garrett Cook (Contributor), Jeremy C. Shipp (Contributor), Kirk Jones (Contributor), Crysa Leflar (Contributor), Eckhard Gerdes (Contributor), Jessica McHugh (Contributor), Crysa Leflar (Contributor)
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Death to the Brothers Grimm by Emory B. Pueschel (Editor)
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Death to the Brothers Grimm
By Emory Pueschal and Kate Jonez
Publisher: Omnium Gatherum Media
Published In: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Date: 2012
Pgs: 202
Undisneified fairy tales taken back toward their darker roots in this anthology of short stories.
Red by M. L. Roos **
Jerry and His Stupid Little Trains by Garrett Cook *
The Little Glass Soul by Jeremy C. Shipp *
The Housewife and the Ascarid Nematode by Kirk Jones *
On the Wall by Crysa Leflar *
Skiddoo, Skedaddle, Muscatel, and Gummo by Eckhard Gerdes *
Master Marvel's Midway by Jessica McHugh *
At the Shoe Shop of Madness by Lee Widener *
The Non-Duality of Elanoir by John Edward Lawson *
Kruppstahl by Jess Gulbranson ****
fiction, fairy tales
Why this book:
came to me as a review copy
This Story is About:
Monsters hiding in human, wolf, or postapocalyptic jellyfish humanoid form. Direction is important. Sexual awakening in a postsexual environment can be dangerous. Rebellion. Death.
Favorite Character:
The wolf comes across as a honorable character in Red.
Master Marvel is one scary dude.
The Killer in Kruppstahl comes across very interesting. Can't decide whether he's the bad guy or the good guy though. He is Pinocchio turned assassin in service to the Fairy cause. But, then, he seems to be facing off with Cthulhu's church and a Silver Surfer type character. Shrug.
relatable, hateable
Least Favorite Character:
Lauren's Sex and the City-ish friends. Way too judgmental. But the characters serve their purpose in the story to feed Lauren's curiosity about Jerry and his train hobby.
Character I Most Identified With:
The Feel:
Red is full of the creepy. Jerry is very Stepford, but jerky and uneven. The Housewife is a fast story but it left me with a smirk. Shoe Shop has a great, wonderful creepy vibe.
Favorite Scene:
When Ash calls her whatever he is forth from the cinders in Glass Soul. When Shumacher gets his realization of what he's done in Shoe Shop.
the woods, basements, fairy tale kingdoms, houses in the woods, the circus, villages
The pacing on Jerry seems out of phase like it was written over a period of time and not rewritten in a consistent voice. The Housewife is too fast. Though it may have needed to be a get in, get out kind of story so that it didn't lose its distinctiveness amidst a forest of twisted fairy tales. Skiddoo is well paced. Shoe Shop is the best paced of the lot so far. The pacing on Elainor is good, but the story is so weird even by twisted fairy tale standards. The best pacing of any of the stories comes in Kruppstahl.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
What happened to the carriage at midnight in Glass Soul? Even with the hole, it is still the best of the selection so far. Wish we were given an idea of the world after the closing scene of Shoe Shop.
Last Page Sound:
Red - wish it was longer and a bit of disappointment in the denouement
Glass Soul - OMG! That is the weirdest Cinderella story I've ever read.
The Housewife - A good smirk.
Skiddoo - Uhm...let's go with noncommittal.
Shoe Shop - Damn.
Elainor - WTF! I kept thinking this was going to make more sense to me or at least let me figure out which fairy tale it was based on. It's a unique story and I read all of it and, I guess, I enjoyed it. But it has left me in an odd place mentally.
Kruppstahl - Awww. Not the ending I wanted, but good. Best story in the lot.
Author Assessment:
Some good. Some bad. Not going to hang a judgment on an author for a single short.
Editorial Assessment:
Jerry feels like it's a little bit of everywhere. Too much imagery, if that's truly possible, mixed with the necessary character exposition.
Disposition of Book:
Why isn't there a screenplay?
Glass Soul could make a movie. Shoe Shop would make a nice little, grim, horror filled nightmare of a movie.
Casting call:
In Glass Soul, I could see Rachel Nichols from Continuum in the role of Ash and would love to see Fairuza Balk from The Craft as one of the stepsisters.
In Master Marvel, the titular role seems tailor made for Jim Carrey.
Would recommend to:
Would love to say fans of fairy tales or Disney movie fans or horror fans, but I'm just not feeling it.
*disclaimer: I received a free copy of this ebook from the member giveaway group on librarything*
The premise is good. rewrite the tales of the brothers grimm, modernizing them and injecting the horror and gore of the originals back into the whitewashed disnified versions we all know. The result was disappointing. I almost always like fairy tales. almost is key here. this book didn't inject the missing horror and fear as toss anything that *wasn't* horror, fear, blood, gore... shock value. ok i get it. but there has to be something *else* there. you can't just revel in the blood and throw around some guts and have your characters throw away their souls and kill all the animals in the forest out of glee.... it's like expecting a grown up disney - maybe the fairy tale theater version - and getting battle royale in princess costumes. ugh.
I read the first three stories. I couldn't continue. Not my style, i guess. maybe for the hardcore horror types?
Death to the Brothers Grimm
By Emory Pueschel, ++
PLEASE keep in mind, this review is written by my "taste in books"/my opinion. Check out my library ratings of other books to see if your tastes are the same as mine before judging this book by my review.
The book consisted of a collection of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales with a few "adjustments". Overall the book was entertaining but some of the stories need more polishing. Not much more to say...
Overall the book is worth a look if priced right and you like twisted fairy tales.
OVERALL: 2 stars
Death to the Brothers Grimm wasn't my cup of tea. Some stories were entertaining, but I found most to be a bit dull. One of my favorite stories is 'The Little Glass Soul' by Jeremy C. Shipp- quite entertaining in it's dark and malicious ways.
Some of the stories, like "Red," are very good. I am a huge fan of fairy tale adaptations, but this collection wasn't for me (not because each story is dark, but some just aren't that well written). Sorry!
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0615692761, Paperback)Fairy tales have been passed down in one form or another for countless generations. They are often our first introduction to that boundless realm we call imagination. Deep within these old stories lie the seeds of our most elemental fears. Death to the Brothers Grimm is a collection of ten re-imagined fairy tales that revels in those dark and hidden horrors. This anthology features works of bizarre fantasy from Bram Stoker Award nominees Jeremy C. Shipp and John Edward Lawson, Wonderland Award nominee Eckhard Gerdes, and the twisted visions of M.L. Roos, Garrett Cook, Kirk Jones, Crysa Leflar, Jessica McHugh, Lee Widener, and Jess Gulbranson.
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|Pierre McGuire on M&M: 'Boston, Pittsburgh and Montreal are the three best teams in the Eastern Conference'
|03.22.13 at 12:31 pm ET
NBC commentator Pierre McGuire spoke with Mut & Merloni Friday about where the Bruins stand among the top teams in the East, what problems Dougie Hamilton could be facing, and what might happen with Jarome Iginla before the trade deadline.
"I would say Boston, Pittsburgh and Montreal are the three best teams in the Eastern Conference," McGuire said, noting that the Penguins' fourth-line forwards contribute on offense and that the Bruins have a similar degree of depth.
"You go watch Danny Paille play — he's having a great year for Boston. He's a fourth-line player. His skill level is pretty excessive too, for a depth player. Gregory Campbell's skill level's not so bad. Rich Peverley's skill level's not so bad. So the Bruins can match [the Penguins] in terms of depth skill, and that's one of the things you're going to have to have if you're going to win in the East."
McGuire said fatigue could be a factor in the struggles of both Milan Lucic and Hamilton. Lucic's game has been less physical this year, and McGuire said that's been a trend across the NHL.
"Early on we were seeing the physical teams be physical," McGuire said. "I would say right now, we're starting to see some guys let up a little bit. I was talking to Mario Lemieux about this the other day in Pittsburgh, and he said one of the hard parts about the 48-game schedule is that as you get to the halfway point, it's more than that, because you haven't had training camp and you are fatigued and you are breaking down.
"There's a little less physical play, there's more speed play, there's a lot more open ice. '¦ I'm not saying that's the problem with Milan, but I do think fatigue is becoming a very real issue for a lot of players around the league."
Peverley's benching has been seen by some as Claude Julien's attempt to send a message, but McGuire said he doesn't think that's the case.
"Sometimes the games go a lot slower when you're upstairs and you get a chance to see, maybe you do have more time to make a play, maybe you do have a different outlet and a different decision you can make," McGuire said. "It's not really so much about message-sending, I think it's more getting the player refocused and re-energized.
|Dennis Seidenberg's late goal lifts Bruins past Senators to end skid
|03.21.13 at 10:15 pm ET
Dennis Seidenberg's first goal of the season was a huge one, as the veteran blue liner took a feed from Zdeno Chara following a Patrice Bergeron faceoff win with just over a minute to play and blasted a one-timer past Robin Lehner to break a late tie and give the Bruins a 2-1 lead over the Senators Thursday night in Ottawa.
The win snapped a two-game losing streak for the Bruins and improved them to 20-6-3 on the season. The B's got the win on a night in which Claude Julien made Rich Peverley a healthy scratch, keeping Ryan Spooner in the lineup as David Krejci made his return from a knee injury.
The Senators got on the board when Kaspars Daugavins fired a wrist shot past Anton Khudobin early in the second period. After a sloppy showing throughout the second period for the B's, Daniel Paille beat Lehner with a wrister with 1:22 remaining in the second to tie the game.
The Bruins will play the first game of a home-and-home with the Maple Leafs by wrapping up their four-game road trip Saturday night in Toronto.
– Julien treated the Merlot line as his third line Thursday night, and it paid off with Paille's goal. The Paille-Gregory Campbell– Shawn Thornton line got got more shifts and ice time than the trio of Spooner between Jay Pandolfo and Jordan Caron, with Campbell playing 15:33 to Spooner's 8:17.
– Khudobin came through for the B's in the final 30 seconds of the first period, making big stops with the Senators buzzing in the offensive zone against the Spooner line. The backup netminder came up with stops on Kyle Turris, Jakob Silfverberg and Patrick Wiercioch in what was a frantic end to the first period.
– Paille's strong offensive season continues, as his six goals put his total through 69 games last season (nine) easily within reach. Paille's career-high for goals is 19, which he got with the Sabres in the 2007-08 season. His best total as a Bruin is 10 in 2009-10.
– The B's were sloppy, sloppy, sloppy from an offensive standpoint in the second period. Krejci's line blew a 3-on-1 when Milan Lucic made an extra pass to Nathan Horton and failed to connect. Later in the second, the B's were on an odd-man rush and Lucic passed to Tyler Seguin, who had turned back to go for a line change.
– Speaking of line changes, Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron were getting off as the Senators went the other way on the rush on which Daugavins gave the Senators the 1-0 lead.
– The Bruins went without a shot on goal in both of their power plays, as the B's made it three straight games without a power-play goal (0-for-8). Julien tweaked the units for the first power play, putting Seguin on the second unit and replacing him on the top unit with Spooner. Dougie Hamilton was also moved to the second unit, with Seidenberg taking his place on the point on the first unit.
David Krejci was back in the Bruins' lineup for Thursday night's game against the Senators, marking his return from a knee injury sustained when he was hit with a Johnny Boychuk slapshot Sunday.
With Krejci returning, Ryan Spooner was kept in the lineup, while Rich Peverley was made a surprise healthy scratch. Spooner replaced Peverley on the third line with Jay Pandolfo and Jordan Caron.
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|Rich Peverley becomes center of attention with Chris Kelly out
|03.14.13 at 12:51 pm ET
The Bruins needed more offensive consistency out of their third line, and instead they got even more uncertainty as center Chris Kelly was lost for the time being with a broken left tibia Monday against the Senators.
Things were looking up for Kelly's line when the addition of Jordan Caron yielded a Kelly goal in Caron's season debut Saturday, giving the Caron-Kelly-Rich Peverley line as many goals in one game as the Chris Bourque-Kelly-Peverley line had in 16 games. Yet the trio of Kelly with Caron and Peverley won't be seen again for a while, and for the time being the B's will be working with Peverley between Jay Pandolfo and Caron, as they did Tuesday against the Penguins.
The revamped third line obviously features some shuffling, as Peverley, who has played mostly right wing in his time with the B's, slides to center. Caron, a left wing, is now playing his off-wing on the right to allow Pandolfo to play left. It shows off the versatility that some of the Bruins have to offer, but the line doesn't need versatility, it needs production after a start that has seen uncharacteristically low offensive output from Boston's third line.
The move to center is nothing new for Peverley, who played center in Nashville and Atlanta and has taken plenty of draws in his time with the B's.
"We're lucky to have guys like Pev, and even guys like Seguin that have played center most of their career and can step in there and be comfortable in that petition," Claude Julien said Thursday morning. "Pev is going to have to fill some big shoes there, with Kells being a real versatile centerman that can do a lot of different things for our team. The other thing about Rich is he's extremely good on faceoffs. That's an area where we don't lose a lot."
The third line wasn't on the ice for any of the Penguins' three goals in the final 6:18 to give Pittsburgh a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over the B's, but the trio of Pandolfo, Peverley and Caron also combined for a total of zero shots on goal Tuesday, making it a generally underwhelming debut for the new line.
With "indefinitely" the term used by Peter Chiarelli to describe how Kelly will be out, the line will obviously have time to hit its stride, unless a trade is made or a player is recalled from Providence. Pandolfo is optimistic that he, Peverley and Caron will be able to find the chemistry needed to be a reliable line.
"If we can get some chances and get some chances, it might give us some confidence," Pandolfo said Thursday morning. "That's the biggest thing, is just trying to create some scoring chances and do the job defensively. That's all guys can really worry about."
|Chris Bourque not worried he'll be replaced at trade deadline
|03.04.13 at 3:21 pm ET
WILMINGTON — As the trade deadline approaches, players on bad teams worry about being moved, but players on good teams worry about being replaced. Not too many Bruins should have reason to worry about that, but Chris Bourque probably tops that list.
With less than a month to go before the trade deadline, enough of the season has been played for teams to diagnose potential weaknesses and where upgrades could be needed. In the Bruins' case, there isn't much not to like.
Tyler Seguin is finally hitting his stride after a slow start and the Bruins' top two lines have been very productive. The defense has been strong as usual, and though Andrew Ference isn't having his best season, the B's shouldn't actively seek anything more than a potential depth move on the back end. Tuukka Rask has been healthy and strong, so between the offensive production, solid defensive play and sound goaltending, you'd have to nitpick to find an area that needs upgrading.
That's why Bourque's name has come up so much. The Bruins have grown accustomed to getting more production out of the third line, and Bourque has gone from the third line left wing to the fourth line Saturday to a healthy scratch Sunday, which was his second of the season. He was taken off the power play late in Saturday's win against the Lightning before eventually sitting vs. the Canadiens.
With there little not to like about this Bruins team, Bourque has been a target for criticism from the get-go. The chemistry with Chris Kelly and Rich Peverley — two guys who gelled with the likes of Michael Ryder and Benoit Pouliot in the past two years — wasn't there, so it's no surprise that B's fans were hoping for a Ryder redux prior to last week's deal that sent the veteran sniper from Dallas to Montreal.
Despite Ryder no longer being an option, you would think that a winger for that Kelly line would be at the top of Peter Chiarelli's shopping list as April 3 draws nearer. If the Bruins were to upgrade on the third line, Bourque wouldn't be of much use as a fourth-liner, so he would likely suffer the same fate that Joe Corvo did last season when Boston replaced him in the lineup with Greg Zanon.
For now, Bourque isn't worried that the trade deadline will mean him losing his spot in being lineup.
"Everyone's here to win," Bourque said Monday. "If they bring more guys in, that's what they're going to do. I can't control any of that stuff. I've got to control what I can control and that's it."
In 17 games this season, Bourque has one goal and three assists for four points and a minus-4 rating. With three more games, the 27-year-old will have tied his career high with 20 games played, which he did in the 2009-10 season with the Penguins. The question at the beginning of the season was whether Bourque would be the season-long answer with Kelly and Peverley after being given the job in camp, but he's yet to secure a stranglehold on the spot.
In the meantime, Bourque says his mindset hasn't changed from one game to the next. He's going to assume he's in the lineup and he's going to assume he'll be given more opportunities. Time might be running out for him to make a lasting statement though.
"You come to the rink ready to play," Bourque said. "If you don't, then you're not coming to the rink with the right attitude. You've just got to stay positive and be ready at all times."
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Chris Bourque is only three games into his Bruins career, and though neither he nor his line has made a ton of noise on the ice, he's found Boston — the third NHL stop of his career — to be an ideal fit.
"Every game I feel more and more comfortable," he said. "Obviously getting the nerves out the first couple of games, playing in the Garden with a full house, there's definitely a little bit of nerves and obviously in New York the other night, but I'm starting to settle in here and I'm starting to feel pretty good and hopefully just get better every day."
Bourque said that it still feels "surreal" playing for the Bruins given that he grew up watching his father, Ray Bourque, carve out a Hall of Fame career with the B's, but that's to be expected.
"Every day that passes, you get kind of used to it a little bit more," he said. "Seeing my dad's picture all over the place, every time I see that it reminds that he was such a legend here, so it's still a little bit different, but something that I'm going to have to get used to. It's a lot of fun being around these guys, a great group of guys and a good hockey team."
As for what he's done on the ice, Bourque is looking for his first goal as a Bruin (he has one goal in 36 career NHL games), but he's been trusted with minutes on the third line, power play (he was on the ice for Brad Marchand's power-play goal against the Rangers Wednesday) and shootout, as he was Boston's third shooter against the Jets Monday. The confidence is there on Bourque's part, and the faith is there on Claude Julien's part.
"Chris Bourque is a great player, skilled guy," Julien said after Friday's morning skate. "I think he's been an important part of our power play as far as giving us that left shot that we need right now. He's been pretty decent there. I think he's another guy that's feeling his way through our hockey club. The one thing you want out of players that are coming in for the first time is that they don't hurt your hockey club, and [he] hasn't."
The line of Chris Kelly between Bourque and Rich Peverley hasn't been the Bruins' strongest — they've produced no goals, while Bourque and Peverley have minus-2 ratings and Kelly is a minus-1 — but Bourque thinks the process of coming together has gone increasingly well.
"I think every game has gotten better," he said. "Last game there were a lot of power plays and PKs. [Kelly and Peverley] kill penalties and me and Pevs are on the power play, so we didn't play as much together as a line, but when we're out there I feel like we're creating some good energy. That's part of the job as a third line is creating energy for the team and getting momentum. I think it's been going pretty well so far."
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The Bruins held a morning skate at TD Garden Tuesday in an effort to simulate a game day. The B's will hold an intra-squad scrimmage in front of fans Tuesday night.
Only Rich Peverley was missing from the morning skate, with coach Claude Julien saying he was absent for personal reasons.
The Bruins are going stream the scrimmage on their website, but they'll also be recording it for the purpose of watching game video as they would with any other game.


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Top-notch, straight-faced, tongue-in-cheek sequel to the 2000 hit in which David Stratham drives fast cars, shoots, fights people and tries hard to keep from breaking into a second expression.
Here he actually gets emotionally attached to a kid, but thankfully the original's director, Louis Leterrier, who also did the superb Unleashed, doesn't let that get in the way of the action barrage. The fight sequence involving fire hoses is an absolute knockout, and something Jackie Chan would have been proud of.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by blueadams, May 13, 2014.
It's an uncut gem.
I imagine SVG will be giving John Beilein a call in the next few days to find his next video coordinator.
Wow. #1) The rankings were charted before the season was over. I'm guessing they've changed since then, smart guy. #2) I don't remember seeing Iggy on the charts, period. I would've remembered to bitch about us not signing him more, had I. Perhaps you are looking at post-season statistics. Or perhaps he was not eligible when I went through. #3) Go for it!
It sounds like SVG was at least open to having two bigs on the court at once. Perhaps using all three in rotation. 2-in, 3-out. Also mentioned Jennings as talented. Wanting shooters to surround our 3 bigs. Wanting to contend immediately (sorry, irrational Chandler Parsons lover). Shall see what's real and what's not.
Ernie adds the satirical balance to the seriousness that some of us take to the extreme...I appreciate his commentary just like everyone else's.
I would love to see his ppt presentation and player breakdowns. That is what excited me most about the hire-- that he bothered to put together a plan. In that respect, he just did what dumars hasn't done in a decade. I do like that he is fully responsible for the outcome too. Nobody to throw under the bus in three years except himself.
My turn for satire: I have just two questions...for now. Did Gores consult with Joe on the SVG hire? Since SVG will have so much power, what position in the Piston organization will he handle over to JVG?
#1) It has since been pointed out to me that this was an old ranking. It's your fault for not teaching me how to read directions. #2) NBA Real Plus-Minus - National Basketball Association - ESPN
Who is Ernie? Never heard of him.
Easy-peacemaker, we sure could have used him during the Bad Boys all out practices
Classic Van Gundy moment...
If 4+1 is really the only thing SVG can come up with, this was a bad hire. I don't want to type-coachingstrategy him just yet. Plus it looks like he made it a priority to stroke Moose's ego by immediately, and very publicly, reaching out to him. Several times Pops said that he will retire from coaching the same time Duncan retires. I would say he is. Ariza is decent, but only seems to play well during contract years. I'll take KCP over him any day of the week.
Parsons is ten times the player Ariza is. He is far superior on offense and its a push on defense. He is also younger, cheaper than Ariza.
Did blue cuss me out or something? I saw he quoted me on my phone, but I couldn't view the post.
As coach and president, Stan Van Gundy will 'connect the floor to the front office' - Detroit Bad Boys I'm getting pumped and keg standing the kool aid.
Perhaps he got banned again. If you'd like, I could cuss you out?
Please. My wife's away visiting family.
SVG is NOT a coach who only uses 1 inside player with 4 shooters. He did it it Orlando because Otis Smith gave Rashard Lewis a $118M contract. Also, they had Ryan Anderson who happened to be their best choice at the 4. In Miami, he used Shaq and Haslem. Haslem is not a stretch 4. I believe SVG isn't as one-dimensional as many other coaches. He is not going to run a fast-pace offense if he doesn't have the players to do it. He adjusts his coaching to fit the players.
Okay, but I'll do it in the Gardening thread. People have been complaining about the clutter in all of these Van Gundy threads.
I think SVG is going to test what can work. Maybe he tries some run and gun styleof play, maybesome 4 - 1, maybe slow offenses, I think he will try tofind what can work here. Some rumors now are saying that he called Monroe, maybe he will resign him, who knows?
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Nastiest. Mushroom. Ever.An alarming fungus is popping up quick
Called elegant stinkhorn or the devil's dipstick
As distasteful to the nose as it is to the eyes
Its odor's designed to attract pesky flies
Insects feed on the slimy stalk
And spread its spores around the block
A member of family Phallaceae and Mutinus genus
Most would agree that it looks like a…
It's that time of year again. The air is crisp, the leaves are beginning to turn, and gardeners and park visitors all over Brooklyn are gasping in horror at the shockingly erect—and putrid smelling—stalks poking out of the mulch. Mutinus elegans, a very distinctive species of mushroom, is showing up in shady, damp mulch and compost piles in parks, gardens, and backyards. This phallic fungus, known as the elegant stinkhorn, dog stinkhorn, or devil's dipstick, is stinky for a reason. Its smell is important for its unusual means of distributing spores.
Unlike typical mushrooms, which depend on wind to distribute their spores, the stinkhorn uses insects. After sprouting from an egglike bulb, the orange or red stalks produce a slimy, carrion-scented spore coating near the tip. Flies are attracted to the scent, and after feeding on it, they fly off and dispense the spores wherever they land. Should your garden be afflicted with stinkhorns, take comfort in the fact that their reign is pretty short-lived. They're not poisonous, so you can just let them be, and those spongy, hollow stalks will shrivel a day or two after their quick growth spurt.
Today, the appearance of Mutinus elegans elicits a chuckle, but in the Victorian era, their erect shoots could be seriously distressing to chaste and honorable ladies. The story goes that Charles Darwin's eldest daughter, Etty, was openly combative toward the fungi. Armed with a spear, she would roam the woods sniffing out the offensive stalks. As recalled by her niece, she would find one and "poke his putrid carcass into her basket." Then, after cleansing the territory, she would secretly burn the fungi in order to protect "the morals of the maids."
Etty would probably not appreciate Cornell University's time-lapse video of a stinkhorn's growth and decay, but you might!
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October 25, 2016
If you don't want mushrooms to grow, try applying lime to the soil. Don't use poisons or salt.
October 20, 2016
Sprinkled baking soda on them and they're gone…but so in the grass surrounding them. Baking soda will kill weeds, grass, fungus, etc.
October 4, 2016
They are just mushrooms and won't hurt anything. People walking past our place saw them and left laughing.
October 2, 2016
We had these pop up around a cottonwood tree we had to cut down. Interesting to watch.They lasted about 1 week.
Gail B
September 17, 2016
Just found these in my garden and am glad they are not poisonous.
Sort of a "cute" addition and lots better than the usual white or beige mushrooms I usually find this time of year in Lenexa, Kansas.
September 17, 2016
These are coming up in the front yard in the mulch. Had no clue what the were. We will be getting rid of them. I don't like the looks of them.
September 5, 2016
I live in Columbus, Ohio, and just found these in my garden and it's sept.!
September 1, 2016
I have two growing in my flower bed and it makes me Happy!! This is the first time I laid eyes on them. They are beautiful and hope that they come back every year! They really play into my love of Halloween! ♥
butterfly queen
July 24, 2016
No need to herbicide or salt. These are only creepy looking and not harming the environment, whereas herbicide and "salting the earth" are surely problems.
June 30, 2016
I kept getting these in my yard - stinky buggers they are. I tried getting rid of them by digging them up and when that didn't work tried using a broad spectrum herbicide (which didn't work either). I finally resorted to salting the spot where they were growing: that kills them and I don't have them returning to those spots. If they were on my property I did the salt treatment immediately. I haven't seen one on my yard or a neighbor's yard since I used the salt treatment, probably for more than five or six years now.
Judith Alkhas
May 3, 2016
Being 74, I felt honored to view this most unusual fungus for the first time in my life. I thought someone had dropped a bag of carrots under my roses.
Emil Fischer
July 7, 2015
This fungus gave my wife and I a chuckle when we first saw them. At times though, you can't even tell what it is with all the flies covering them.
Blanca Oliveras
December 1, 2014
My schitzu dogs are eating them in my backyard. Are elegant stinkhorns toxic to dogs?
October 28, 2014
I am genuinely surprised by the lack of appreciation for stinkhorns. I delight in them, and after years of exposure to the "aroma," I really like it: It's fresh, unusual, not at all putrid. To my senses, it's really not offensive.
September 27, 2014
We have been seeing these in the mulch; had five pop up this morning. Thanks for the info.
eleanor davis
May 11, 2013
I have white mushrooms coming up. Will these also just disappear in a day or two? If not, what can I do to rid my garden of them?
Steven N. Severinghaus
October 19, 2012
I'm glad to see a post about these fascinating little things. I have been seeing them in various states of growth and decay among the leaf debris and mulch around BBG for the last couple of weeks:
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Is There Really Room At The Inn For Steve Bollenbach?
Stephen F. Bollenbach likes fast cars and the California coast. Barron Hilton favors Cuban cigars and room service at the Hilton-owned Waldorf Astoria in New York City. They don't hang out together much.
Strange corporate bedfellows, indeed. But there they were, chatting amiably amid the cigar smoke in Hilton's Beverly Hills office. On Feb. 5, Bollenbach began his new job as Hilton Hotels Corp.'s chief executive officer. Replacing 68-year-old Barron Hilton, who will remain chairman, Bollenbach, 53, became the first non-Hilton to head the 50-year-old, $1.7 billion hotel and gaming empire.
How long the ex-surfer and the patrician can co-exist is anyone's guess. Hilton Hotels is a chronic underperformer, plagued by the indecision of its chairman. Bollenbach is a strong, forceful executive. For now, "they're on their honeymoon," says money manager Mario Gabelli, who holds about 5% of Hilton shares through various funds. "After the first 100 days, who knows?"
BACK AND FORTH. During 30 years at Hilton's helm, Barron Hilton, the son of company founder Conrad N. Hilton, has forged a tortuous path. He has twice put the company up for sale only to renege, torn by his emotional attachment to the family business. He considered, then rejected, a spin-off of Hilton's gaming operations late last year. And he has frozen out executives who wanted to make changes too fast, say insiders. Hilton's stock has suffered as a result: Before jumping 21% in two days on word of Bollenbach's appointment, shares were stuck around 60, no higher than they had been in 1989 (chart).
Enter Bollenbach, a sure-handed financial executive with a solid rep on Wall Street. He engineered a $2.6 billion recapitalization of Holiday Corp. in 1986 and a massive spin-off at Marriott Corp. seven years later. In between, Bollenbach saved Donald Trump's skin, coaxing banks into a restructuring deal that allowed Trump to hold on to his Atlantic City casinos in 1990. And last year, as chief financial officer of Walt Disney Co., he negotiated the $19 billion acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. "There isn't a blemish on his record," says Joseph V. Coccimiglio, an analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds.
"TREMENDOUS UNCERTAINTY." Industry sources say Bollenbach left Disney because CEO Michael D. Eisner brought in superagent Michael Ovitz as president, diluting Bollenbach's power. Bollenbach denies that, pointing instead to the chance he will have at Hilton to run his own show. "My job is to get involved in the operations and get performance to a higher level," he says.
Will he really get the chance? Barron Hilton says he intends to retire to his 550,000-acre Nevada cattle ranch to spend more time flying his fleet of antique airplanes. But to keep tabs on Bollenbach, "I'm going to keep a cell phone with me wherever I go," jokes Barron.
Ominous words, perhaps, for Bollenbach, a man with much to do. Despite 240 hotels worldwide and a strong Las Vegas gaming presence, Hilton needs a boost. Its return on gaming assets was 4.9% last year, about half that of competitors Mirage Resorts Inc. and Harrah's Entertainment. The hotel businesses are faring better: 1995 operating profits were $208 million, up 41%. But investors and other critics charge that Hilton's long-enduring cachet has faded. More important, it badly trails competitors in the fast-growing midprice market for business travelers, while international expansion has been slow. "There's been tremendous uncertainty at Hilton," says Fred Malek, chairman of Thayer Capital Partners and a former president of Marriott Hotels & Resorts.
Bollenbach must persuade Barron Hilton, who still holds 33% of the company's shares, to support decisive action. Most likely, the new CEO will first address Hilton's gaming strategy. His second day on the job, Bollenbach flew to Las Vegas to tour the Flamingo Hilton and Las Vegas Hilton casinos. Those casinos, after face-lifts costing a combined $200 million, are performing nicely. But they're old-fashioned resorts with little room for expansion, and such rivals as Mirage and Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. are spending lavishly to build megapalaces down the street.
More problematic is Atlantic City, where Hilton has repeatedly failed to follow through on plans to enter the resurgent gaming market. Some analysts predict that Bollenbach will use Hilton's strong balance sheet to muscle onto the Boardwalk by purchasing a Bally's or Trump property. And Bollenbach will have to address a series of missteps in smaller, soft markets, such as Kansas City and New Orleans, where Hilton owns a middling riverboat casino.
MEDDLER. Similarly, Bollenbach needs to push Hilton's hotel unit to exploit new markets. Overseas operations are slated to grow from 6 to some 25 by 2000. Meanwhile, Hilton plans to blanket the country with its new Garden Inns. Dieter H. Huckestein, president of the hotel division, plans to plunk down about 100 of the midprice hotels near the popular Courtyard by Marriott locations, slash prices, and offer more amenities.
Strategy is one thing. Dealing with the unpredictable Barron Hilton is another. Industry insiders say the chairman has alienated aggressive and talented senior managers before with his meddling conservatism. In 1993, after failing to persuade Hilton to expand into Atlantic City, gaming unit chief John V. Giovenco left to head ITT Sheraton Hotels. For the next few years, Barron Hilton relied heavily on then-Hilton President Raymond C. Avansino Jr. But insiders say Avansino departed without making much of an impact.
Will Barron Hilton make room for the new guy? "He's the boss, he's in charge," says Hilton through a cloud of pungent cigar smoke. "I want to fly airplanes while I'm still young enough." But one day, Hilton may land to find that Bollenbach has leveraged the company or diluted the family stock holdings. If that happens, the sparks will fly. The honeymoon may be over.


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Google Street View is fun to use, and here's how it should be done!
Passing OutIt's always fun to have people getting hammered beyond comprehension and passing out on the streets, but what's even funnier is Streetview capturing it for the whole world to see! This poor chap has no idea how deserted he is right now, and will soon be an Internet sensation for all to see!Â
Tekken?We always knew Street View can reach even the most obscure places and come up with brilliant results, but teleporting swordsmen from the 16th century into the present? That's a new one! And looking closely, we're pretty sure that one's a Samurai while the other's a Viking. We wonder when they met!
The Avengers & JLA Meet & GreetIt's always fun to have all superheroes come together and have a good time. There's an horrifylingly thin Hulk (diet, maybe?), Captain America (searching for his shield), Flash (hiding behind someone who conspicuously resembles Mr. Incredible) Oh, and Hulk's getting drunk too!
Hobo Superhuman SamuraiWhile there are some superheroes having a gala time, there's Superhuman Samurai sleeping on the park's bench. We're pretty sure he was booted by his lady-love after he sat on the computer playing World of Warcraft for 70-days straight.
Aquaman's RevengeWe all know Aquaman isn't really one of the strongest amongst the Just League chaps, and he hasn't got any uber-cool powers as well. Unfortunately, the lack of recognition seems to have gotten to his head as he equipped his minions with scuba-suits and farming equipment to take his ultimate revenge.
Turd BombingBirds are pro at this, and they are always equipped to drop their load as and when they please, especially on our heads. But this time it's Google who falls victim, and this pigeon/crow uloads his full arsenal right on top of the camera. Brilliant aim, bird.
TP-work Level: 9000We all love those people who arm themselves with infinite toiletpaper rolls and paint the town white, but this one takes the level for it's colossal scale. The effort and artistry gone into this is brilliant, and we're assuming it'll irk the residents enough to burn their own house down.
Attack of The BirdsWe have no idea what pissed them off. Did somebody steal their tuna? Did someone fry their eggs? Or did the dentist cancel their appointment? For all we know, they don't look pleased, and that's them showing us a glimpse of hell to remember.
Carjacked?We're desperately trying to decipher the significance of this image. A naked (?) man stepping out of a convertible's trunk either implies that he was royally hammered and someone tried to pull a prank on him, or he was kidnapped and abandoned, or he's just a homeless guy living in his own car's trunk.Â
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For a few months now any mention of Vista would spark some conversation about its failings, with an addendum asking "where the hell is SP1?" This week then represented a small step forward, with Microsoft finally making the Release Candidate 1 version of Service Pack 1 available to the public to download.
This includes a vast number of updates - too many to list here. However, what can be divulged in this space and at this time is that this is primarily a performance update. New features do exist but for the most part it's all about stability and performance, with lots of new bits and pieces that should hopefully make Vista a good deal more efficient. And, since performance is the name of the game here, it only seemed right to install SP1 RC1 and see how things went.
Though installation of SP1 RC1 is made to sound rather complicated, in fact it's a relatively simple if slightly time consuming process. First, you must download a self-extracting zip file from Microsoft's website, running the script file contained within. Next, you must launch Windows Update and search for any new updates labelled "Important" - the number of which will vary according to how up-to-date your system already is.
Next, having installed all the relevant updates and rebooted your machine, you must then search again for another new update that acts as the installer code for the Service Pack. Once downloaded it is now possible to search again for the SP1 RC1 Update, though having gone through this process twice already I've found it does normally take at least 15 minutes before the download appears.
Having completed the installation process you'll notice a couple of changes to the desktop. First, the words "Evaluation copy. Build 6001" are added to bottom right of the desktop to show that you're running SP1 RC1, while a shortcut named "How to Share Feedback" is also added. Hopefully, you'll also notice an improvement in performance and to get an initial impression I grabbed a new notebook from our labs and ran some quick and dirty tests.