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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84586668852087767872017-02-09T17:47:37.530+13:00The Home OfficeLet's have a yak, shall we?XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-82340975850516301582012-07-04T10:26:00.001+12:002012-07-04T10:26:52.132+12:00The Scott Guy Murder TrialI had always thought that it would take something special to get me blogging again. This trial has provided it. This is from a comment over at Kiwiblog

I'm enormously relieved that Ewen McDonald was found not guilty.

As others have pointed out here on a previous thread, we have not heard all the evidence. However the evidence that was reported by media (grain of salt) together with the fact that the defence only called two witnesses lead me to believe that we should have got a "not guilty" verdict.

I'm relieved that justice still stands in this country. That jurors – ordinary joes like you and me – can put emotion aside and make decisions based on the evidence and information provided is gratifying and good to know should any one of us stand in the dock being falsely accused. They are not swayed by emotive pleas from the crown prosecutor who, in my opinion, got a hospital pass when assigned (or asked for) this case. He knew that his case was bollocks as evidenced by his appeal in his closing argument that common sense must rule instead of evidence!

What is also revealing is the police's acceptance of the verdict. It doesn't seem like an appeal is on the horizon. Why is that? Not enough evidence, perhaps? If this was the case, why prosecute in the first place and waste all this time and effort on a case so paper thin that it took just 11 hours for the jurors to decide and the defence counsel uses the prosecution case as his defence?

Anyone who says stuff like "well I always thought he looked shifty" or this gem "I'm from the country and we know he's guilty" should be ashamed. They belong in the 1700′s Salem crying "witch, witch!" That is pure and unadulterated scaremongering and hysteria – two things the law is designed to withstand and has no place in a modern legal system let alone a modern society. As for the argument "If not him, then who", well just because the investigative authority cannot find out doesn't mean we should just take the easiest target.

I don't condone what EM did to Scott and Kylee's house. He has cases to answer and will "get whats coming" to him in that regard. However there are hundreds of arsons and vandalisms in NZ every year. Most don't end in murder. So to apply a different set of standards to the Guy trial would have been sophistry and hypocrisy – the crowds baying for blood so lets give them what they want! It sounds more like the coliseum in roman times than a modern courtroom in a modern society.

This Pack mentality that some people evidence is shameful and a huge blight on those people's characters. To also suggest that we should change the standards by which people are judged smacks of a knee jerk – a law to be shaped when we want it shaped differently because, once again, we don't believe the jurors at heart and somehow through the myopic lens of the media, we the people know best. I can only hope I don't have any of those people in a jury should I every stand in the dock falsely accused. Grow up a little, New Zealand and start thinking with your heads rather than your emotions.

The burden of proof is set high for a reason. Guilt should conclusively assigned. Not on a balance of probabilities, not on a gut feeling or intuition and certainly not out of pack fervour out for blood.
XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-52856014429231573092012-02-05T03:14:00.001+13:002012-02-05T03:14:49.052+13:00The Best Video on The Internet!
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At last years Comedy Prom's, Australia's best export since Sir Les Patterson, the incredibly talented Tim Minchin, changed the order of service a little and, instead of typically finishing a proms concert with God Save the Queen, finished with Britain's unofficial national anthem.

You would have to be a dead stick; a withered and dessicated piece of genetically deficient matter not to be stirred by this great piece of music.

Check out some of Tim's other music on Youtube for no other reason than it's a bloody funny way of spending money on bandwith.XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-11562912468675596182012-01-25T10:07:00.000+13:002012-01-25T10:09:34.270+13:00How to Cut Employment Fast

Youth unemployment would plummet I feel if this was on offer.

HatTip: Whale
XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-22009688119433144462012-01-24T10:27:00.001+13:002012-01-24T11:24:02.390+13:00A Free Press or Free to Repress?

I know its old news but Bryan Gould once again raises the spectre of Bradley Ambrose and the Teapot Tapes over at the Herald.

The police will support threats issued by the executive to deter the media from publishing material that as far as we know was lawfully obtained and that was of substantial public interest.

Lawfully obtained? I'm sure that hasn't been proven yet, Bryan. So does Bryan advocate the fact that most politicians speech and communication should be recorded because its of "substantial public interest"? And who then defines "public interest"? Should we just record everything and then appoint a panel to review whats important? We could call this panel a "central committee" - for the people and by the people.

I'm still wondering why few people have made the connection between the fact that Bradley was the poor bloke just caught in the middle, trying to do his job and the fact that, apart from John Key's security detail, was probably the only person there trained in covert surveillance.XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-50071632304119196812012-01-24T09:21:00.004+13:002012-01-24T11:24:23.029+13:00Awwww Crap, Here We Go Again.It seems like it still hasn't finished:

Aftershock activity moving back to the west of Christchurch is a sign stress still needs to be released from near the Greendale Fault, scientists say.

Sounds ominous.

"But the area west of the February rupture – typically a bit east of Rolleston – does seem to rejuvenate a bit each time another segment goes.
"How these will play out is unclear to me, but ... it is reasonable to say that it is an area of the crust that still has not released its stress to the same degree that the main Greendale Fault has, so it still is unstable.
"You guys can't buy a break."

Says it all.XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-75413948016316723222012-01-23T19:01:00.001+13:002012-01-24T11:24:41.637+13:00Charter Schools: Jim Hacker says "Yes!"Did these guys know something that we don't. There's a good argument in there somewhere:

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XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-66059573717959510742012-01-09T19:22:00.002+13:002012-01-24T11:27:05.186+13:00Pacific Princess: Captain Stubbing or the New Hong Kong Tim Watkin over at Pundit does an excellent job of laying out the events that are unfolding in the Pacific at the moment. It can certainly be said that its "all on for young and old" in our parts.

" Accordingly, while the US military will continue to contribute to security globally, we will of necessity rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region. Our relationships with Asian allies and key partners are critical to the future stability and growth of the region. We will emphasize our existing alliances, which provide a vital foundation for Asia-Pacific security."

 However, when asking us to consider the implications for New Zealand of the growing geopolitical significance of the Pacific, he comes out with:

"We should be the voice for democracy, the rule of law, mediation and human rights in this region that encourages the rise of new powers, but respects the role of the old actors as well."

He then goes on to end with:

"Our top priority must be helping to manage relationships from a position of independent friendship so that the Pacific remains an ocean of peace."

 Heady stuff indeed and I commend Tim to Barrack Obama to produce the next version of his "Yes, We Can" speech for the forthcoming election (I think it'll need to be a pearler, Tim). But really, do we need to be the South Seas Switzerland? Or more like Hong Kong in it's heyday - a confluence of cultures and ideas that melded to become the jewel of the Orient. An enclave where enemies and friends could meet to thrash out solutions and agreements under the thrum of the commercialism and trading that came to define Hong Kong in history. Or perhaps we should be like good old, dependable Captain Stubing who was always the voice of reason on the good ship, Pacific Princess? Solid, unassuming and modest, we could the the uncle that nations always trust and go to for advice. Then we could wait for the benefits to roll to us. Like a snazzy white cap with accompanying cool uniform.

Howdy folks! Justa come on down here an have y'selves a ball!

 We have endured our irrelevance in the world for years. You remember what it was like when you did you O.E., Tim. How many times did you hear "Everybody likes New Zealand and her people"? And it is true. You could, and still can, go places in the world that Americans, British or French can't and not be waylaid or molested in any way by virtue of our irrelevance. Sure, we've muscled onto the world stage a few times at the UN and punched above our weight in area of diplomacy and policy (i.e. human rights and anti-nuclear disarmament and proliferation) but have we tangibly profited by that . The Tyranny of Distance has under-mined our advancement as a nation so much that it has had more of an effect on our national psyche - our number eight wire mentality - than any other factor. A good example is the amount that we owe to refrigeration and the effect this has meant to us - both historically and today. It literally changed the face of New Zealand and, once our markets were defined, changed our prosperity in quick time.

Well I say "Bollocks", Tim. We should use and parlay every bit of advantage, political and geographical, into good hard solid coin. Sure we should disguise it as an earnest and reasonable representation for "peace in our time" however why should we be the nice guys? Or gals (perhaps I should have said "nice peeps" just to avoid the handwringing)?

 Now the world is coming to us. Sure we are on the outer reaches of the Pacific geographically wise however our strategic and tactical influence within the region is huge (N.B Directly after finishing this article, I'm going to apply for a job in the army, preferably the position of "General" after whipping that last sentence out). One only needs to look up our Wikipedia entry to see how much we have affected history throughout our region. Or if you are really serious redo 5th Form History (sorry guys, dunno what "Year" that is).

 So this is not the time to become the "Brussels Downunder". No, this is the time to become the Hong Kong of the South. Lets use everything, every opportunity and chance that presents itself to increase ourselves. Both China and the US are great examples of empires and the way they ebb and flow in the river of history (See what I did there Tim? Lyrical like you, eh). Britain and France 200 years ago were the major forces down here but they've gone by the wayside.

 And check out Switzerland. They've been neutral for years however you don't see them buckling under the strain of the European Financial Crisis (yet). They've been quietly working away, letting others beaver along within their theatre of operations (Perhaps a generalship is aiming too low?) getting into mucky conflict after conflict, all the while keeping their wicks dry and building their nation in to the shining light of Europe. They don't particularly care if people make assertions about their nature, demographical make-up or past actions such as some questionable moral conflicts with Nazi's during WW2. They just do it. They are the Hong Kong of Europe.

 So we can be nice and pleasant and fluffy like Tim suggests - full of great intentions and even greater models of hope and diplomacy. Or we can look at this as the opportunity that it is. Finally the Tyranny of Distance can be overcome as the big boys come to play in our back yard. And they can pay for the privilege, thanks.

 Decision time New Zealand: is it to be Captain Stubing or Hong Kong?

XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-48145424528037694502012-01-09T16:06:00.002+13:002012-01-24T11:27:32.050+13:00Now This is Cool!

I want one of these!

Fantastic range, speed and usability means energy efficient modes of traffic are gaining traction (pun fully intended).

Website is here

Well done Picycle - love your work!XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-17387054333237514472012-01-09T13:48:00.002+13:002012-01-24T11:27:57.260+13:00Only in New Zealand..........I suspect, would this be a leading news story and also the leading contender for Headline of the Year 2012.

"

 Man drives flaming tractor into lake

NICCI MCDOUGALL AND GWYNETH HYNDMAN"

From Stuff.co.nz here.
XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-72715786068137490982012-01-07T05:32:00.001+13:002012-01-07T18:02:02.242+13:00We Could Be Heroes....... I'm sure I lived in an age of heroes.

 My teens were 20 years ago now (god thats sick!!!) and it seemed to be around that time that there was heaps of heroic stuff going on. People were still doing amazing, brave things like going around the world in a helicopter (always a dicey proposition at the best of times), going up in space then gliding back to earth two weeks later in an un-powered brick that had the aerodynamic profile of an elephant and the drag coefficient of a wet box of tissues or walking all the way to the North Pole......... backwards - stopping only to apologise to the disgruntled penguin, whom you just tripped over. There were still records to be set (and don't give me that "well they're still setting them" crap cause I've seen that Guinness Records show and you know its crap too!), places to see and frontiers to explore.

Heroism is defined as being of special bravery, warrior-like spirit (in the Homeric sense, that is), someone worthy of great deeds and having an inherent nobility. These people have some extra, intangible quality that radiates like golden light on the rest of us poor moths -so much so that we circle these people in a mad rush to bathe for a moment, just a small moment in their reflected glory, hoping that a little bit of their light will shine on us.

 Often , heroism was most commonly displayed on the battlefield (Sorry ladies, you actually had to dress like a man, go win a war then be lighly fricassee'd to be counted as heroic in the old days) where songs would be sung of glorious battle, of sacrifice and even a divine nobility that blessed great men with the honour of being remembered throughout time.

 Most of the time it was bollocks, though.

 The stories of glorious death turned out to be rather inglorious (Basterds!, how dare they make all that stuff up) as we've come to find that war was not the great enterprise we all thought it was and instead turned out to be a bit of a drag really. In fact its not very nice at all. Sacrifice is a bit of a pain in the arse too because it seems that a great many nice people go away and then never come back so that isn't so great. And who really wants a song made up about them if they are not around to hear it? I'd be jolly annoyed if someone went to all the trouble to make up a good tune and put in some good lyrics and I never got to listen! I did all the work didn't I? And good luck rhyming with XChequer - but if anyone could, please be Eddie Vedder! (huh, chequer.....vedder).

 So, war has turned out to be a fizzer.

 Politicians? Nah, lets not go there. The Clergy? They've been venerated for years, haven't they. But mostly by other clergy, so I don't think that really counts. Knights! Now, theres a goody! Heroes of old were knights. The common man aspired to knighthood by worthy deed. They were lauded they were.......eh? Oh, yeah. War again. Bugger.

So where are our heroes then? Where are the people that we used to look up to - who gave our lives a centreboard, a keel by which to help sail life by? If our parents were the hull of the ship, the framework from which we'd start our voyage (this metaphor is starting to make me be a little vomitously ill now) then weren't heroes the people that gave us aspiration to start out on our own? We had their pictures plastered on our walls, we read about them in books and imagined ourselves doing the same things they did - only with us in their place. Aside from sounding like a fatuous boy scout who's just taken some cranking peyote, does any one think like this anymore? Or am I just a relic?

 These days the cupboard seems a bit bare. These days our heroes (it all seems a bit flaccid, really, to even call them that) are vapid - and vampiric - movie stars who do..... well they make us feel good but do they actually do anything heroic? Other heroes are business people who stamp their mark by........... by...... making a lot of money (if you say this out loud, it really doesn't sound that heroic does it?).

Or are the heroes still there but because I'm now older, I don't know about them or identify with them? I think the world is a better place with heroes in it but are we now so sophisticated that we don't need them?

That would be a shame.

XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-33850165745606774092012-01-02T23:32:00.000+13:002012-01-02T23:32:50.387+13:00Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot?

In the rush of the season just past, it's good to take a minute out and remember those that didn't make it this far. Perhaps they weren't the most famous but all are memorable.

RIP KristianXChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-2681310284600125122012-01-02T00:52:00.000+13:002012-01-09T16:17:53.997+13:00A Sanctuary of Self For some unknown, and slightly disturbing, reasons, I decided to walk home after last nights mash of noise, colour and violent tones that constitute a "typical" Kiwi New Years Eve get-together.

 Unknown because I'm still trying to understand my decision. So are my cruciate ligaments.

 Disturbing when you think that it's not a normal thing to do. A person normally stays the night so one can drink and remain with friends as long as possible. All the better to amortise the collective good will that the season carefully grafts from the days leading to Christmas and that finishes with New Year over as long a period as possible. And there's a good chance someone will be doing a cooked breakfast in the morning.

 Disturbing also because it is a long way to walk. Like....... really long.

 One of the problems with living in the country is that you are quickly inured to distance. That is, when you say that you are just going to pop down to the dairy for some milk, it's not like the dairy is just at the end of the road. And if it is, the road is 20 kilometres long! You think nothing of the fact that when you "pop" over to see a mate, the "popping" part might mean a 25 minute drive.

 And that is how far it is to Sid's place by car while mostly doing a hundred "kays" an hour. This was where we had New Years.

 Regardless of how it happened, the decision was made and about 1 am, it seemed to be a good time to say "Bye" and slip away. The sun was just getting out of bed four and a bit hours later , putting its slippers on and thinking about coffee by the time I made it home and collapsed on the bed. While I was sleeping, my leg muscles put the downtime to good use to think of the many and various insults that rushed to my brain when I woke and tried to move. All day I've been able to maintain the impression of a ninety year old, double hip replaced pensioner who has lost his zimmer.

Then I tipped to a couple of articles - one by local writer Claire Browning - that made the groanings of my body slide to the background. These articles, Claire's and another, dealt with something I had had during my epic trek - simplicity and quiet.

 Two am in Canterbury during a cool, summer night is an amazing time and place. There is no moon but the sky is so clear even the stars are enough to cast a shadow. Thank goodness I chose white shoes tonight so I match my footsteps to the centreline of the road. Wind caresses hedgerows of gum trees, occasionally shaking just to keep the possums on their toes. The only pollution is some bugger with a hole in his muffler miles away beating the police cordon home and a sometimes glimpse of the dirty orange haze that means a substantial city.

 And a cacophony in my head.

 I have a year of experience, of memory and richness rolling on my mind like storms upon plains. It washes over me after the events of the evening - music, food and conversation. Shared reflections and far away looks are the common theme as memory is revisited or emotion re-worn. And for the first hour of my walk this riot occupies me as well. It's a stereo turned all the way up to 11. I pace the remembered path home as landmarks are so much different at night having no depth and only outline. I don't really hear my own footsteps as my inner monologue hounds me in Dolby quality.

 Gradually, however, I realize that as I walk, I'm listening less to myself and more to the outside. For the first time I trouble to look up and am rewarded for the effort as a line of light is lit across the sky. Somewhere, some celestial event has happened, some stupendous moment in time and size that makes the trials in my head seem trivial in comparison. I wonder why, in fact, stars do seem to twinkle. Intellectually I know that there is no on/off switch being constantly played so what makes them twinkle? And why haven't I noticed before?

 A movement to my right, a gum tree creaks and the leaves on the branch thrash a little as the possum moves to get a better view of the crackpot human walking past at this un-natural hour. As if by signal, other leaves and branches sympathetically shake and soon I realize the bloody night is full of the furry bastards - all secretly giggling to themselves at the near-blind bugger walking past.

 So for the next three hours its just me, the possums, the road and the stars. My ears hear only the regular "crump, crump" of my rubber soles confronting asphalt and the occasional sigh of wind. I see three more shooting stars - I don't remember seeing that many ever in my life! - and so many stars that I can almost see into the tonsils of the cosmos.

 And "upstairs" in my head there is blessed quiet. Peace. There is purpose, in that I know where I want to go but at the same time, serenity in knowing that I'll get there. I realise that I haven't allowed myself this break all year - a sanctuary of self. No noise or clutter. No constant narration to life and moments. No analysis of events and contingencies planned. Just me and the world. Just like it ought to be, I guess.

New Years resolution: save yourself some trouble, give your self a break and turn off the noise in your head. It's the best present I've ever had.

That, and the number of a good physio.XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-28758069581158916982011-03-03T09:39:00.004+13:002011-03-03T10:16:12.855+13:00Trotter Apologises for the LeftForeward: I don't usually go for "attack" blogging. I have a general belief that consensus is built on well reasoned argument and earnest discussion. Trying to hammer someones beliefs to mirror your own doesn't work and only inspires a more staunch position from your opponent. However, certain comments from other blogs have goaded me into coming off the sidelines. I don't feel good about it but I like the comments, tone and thoughtlessness even less.

I admire Chris Trotter. You only have to read his commentaries in a range of publications nation wide or his blog to understand that he is well educated, a historian and can argue his case really well. And he uses words that are really big. I mean, massive! When I put the words into the online dictionary, you can physically hear the internet groan with the effort of trying to remember what these words mean. So when Chris throws out an article entitled "Oh, for a Well Mannered Left", I take notice.

The essence of his article, if I understood the definitions of some of the heavier words correctly, is that the Right has the ability to be courteous, magnanimous and generous in places because the right has it all already. They are the ones who have the power, the money, the education and the wherewithal. The Left, by and large, is a product of it's history: aggressive, combative, sometimes rude and in your face and generally a great deal more unruly due to the proletariat nature of its uprising (I can use big words too). Chris and I have even debated the nature of this before here and here. Ah, the good times.

But sometimes the Left just pushes it too far.

I've been lucky enough to have been, by sheer coincidence, not among the rubble last Tuesday in Christchurch. The site that I was working on was shut down on the Monday due to concerns about it's stability. When I was in there on the Wednesday just after, the places was a mass of bricks and splintered wood about 2 feet high. I also choose to live on a farmlet just outside Christchurch that is solid, has it's own well and has missed the predication's of the Earthquake that has razed my city and left thousands displaced. For the immediate week afterward, I was working night shifts with Civil Defense shoring up buildings and removing hazards to allow the USAR teams to do their job. It's been rewarding to help with the skills I have available and awful in its scope to see first hand the results of the "Earth Fart". I've enjoyed blogging as a relief from that work but to see the medium twisted in such a way and when people start to use the the situation to further their own agenda, I get pretty steamed.

The Standard has led the way in this.Cactus Kate has called them on it here, Inventory 2 and David Farrar at Kiwiblog has similarly joined the fray. And they're right. Marty G has outdone himself in restraining the impulse to be quietly humanistic however the opportunity has got to him and his fellow commentators to put the boot in with no thought for whats happening on the ground. Normally this is the cry from the left - that the rich bastards in power with the neo-conservative agenda ignore the plight of the average man, woman and child on the street.

A great example of this was Marty's post Shock Doctrine. He can't resist the temptation to politicize the event to spew forth a bunch of assertions, guesses and plain fantasy based on no evidence whatsoever. They are the Ken Ring's of blogging - jumping around, arms waving, scaring people into agreeing with them (bully tactics when you think about it) with no evidence or logic to back it up at all! Christ, even the book from which his post is derived is not exactly known for its rationality, balance and well reasoned argument (MacDoctor takes the book to task in this piece).

Similarly, two days after the quake, the bully boys went to work with a post entitled "Rebuilding" that had no other purpose than to try and slay the bloke who has been gifted the lucky job of overseeing the work at a macro level. Well done, lads! What a way to get behind the guys on the ground. What a way to get behind the country.

And it's not just the Standard bloggers and commentators. The eponymous and unique Greenfly/Village Idiot/robertguyton can't resist a swipe from the sidelines either at Keeping Stock. His own brand of logic and reason is some of the best examples from the blogosphere as to why the left struggles to hard.

This country was built with egalitarianism as one of its core values. When push came to shove, you could depend on your worst enemy to drop tools and give you a hand when you really needed it! The stories that have come out of the city in the hours and days after the event, the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things has been amazing. It didn't matter what colour collar you wore. It didn't matter what ideology you follow. We were in the shit and we were just people helping other people. And thats a truer socialism that the gents over at the Standard don't seem to understand.

I am not saying that all are like this. I'm not saying it has been constantly like this. Many over at the Standard have been the most strident in gifting help, support and information. Likewise, some wacky Righties have been upholding their reputations as complete morons. And I do believe that it's right to talk about things like how we are going to respond, rebuild and how to pay for it.

But to lash out when there are people's bodies not yet cold, to bark from the soapbox when people are trying to get a handle on the situation, to lacerate the leaders when no one has had a chance to give it a go yet - well, thats just cold. And disrespectful. And Chris is right to apologise on your behalf.

Chris ends his piece with the following:

"I can't help thinking that the revolution would come a lot sooner if the Left set about achieving its own radical objectives with its conservative opponents' infinitely better manners."

 I can't help but agree. If you've gotta problem with that boys, get down here, I'll put a shovel and a hammer in your hands and we'll have a yak about it.

Update: Now they've mad the Whale mad too. XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-83326137987355347142011-03-01T23:20:00.002+13:002011-03-01T23:20:23.538+13:00With the greatest respect to Auckland................I'm glad Len Brown didn't sing solo at todays memorial service.

We've all suffered enough.XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-40864193783878067722011-02-27T13:02:00.001+13:002011-02-27T13:07:43.946+13:00Help Needed!
www.fundraisingonline.co.nz/rangioraearthquakeexpress

Please help these guys keep flying. They are flying in food to Christchurch residents who have none. For some, it is the only hot food they have had.

But they are running short on money to pay for fuel for the choppers. Help keep them in the air by donating to the effort.XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-84659329679760037622011-02-26T05:30:00.002+13:002011-02-26T21:42:14.298+13:00Surreal is an overused word these days.If someone uses the word "surreal" again, chances are that I will nod affirmation, and quietly and intently survey my boots. Not because I've discovered second hand Wrigley's clinging to the toecap or that I haven't cleaned them in an awfully long time (read: never) but because I don't want to snap and say "Of course it's bloody surreal. Do you think you're the first person to say that?"

It's 5am. I've had a few hours sleep and everything seems a wee bit dreamlike. Everytime I look at the telly, disbelief rises. Surely this is footage cobbled together from 9\11 and Haiti - not Christchurch. Stuff.co.nz reports 113 dead - it is just a number. Until I see a picture of one of them; a woman I used to work with who was in the CTV building.

Reality and sur-reality seamlessly fade in and out and you are never quite sure where you are one minute to the next. Text messages that were sent days ago arrive at times. These are replies to messages frantically sent in the minutes and hours immediately after the event and time and technology mean that they are only getting through now. You feel a bit guilty when someone replies and you realise that you had forgotten that you'd text them at all.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to help out. Twice I've been called in and both times gives you an opportunity to ground yourself (a silly expression given the circumstances) in work - good, hard, physical work. Sometimes you look up and around but it's best to keep going and focus on the job at hand because the word "surreal" just doesn't begin to cover it. It's at times like these, when you stop and take a moment that it hits home what a strange place we live in.

A week ago, we would have said "Oh gosh but the September 4 quake was awful !" We didn't really know what awful was and now a great many of us feel naive. Our city was tested in that first quake but the fabric remained. Now, that fabric has been well and truly shredded, cut and burned. The security blanket that was Christchurch as we know it has been ripped away and people now walk around with that dazed look that only the self medicated seem to enjoy.

Perhaps I need to rein in my temper a bit. Everyone needs to talk about it and despite "surreal" being an oft used word, perhaps its being used just enough. After all it's all true.

It is very surreal.XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-37128851918236022492011-02-24T18:52:00.000+13:002011-02-24T18:52:11.816+13:00I just can't believe this!Some people are either demented, sick or in need of a hiding.

http://www.christchurchquake.net/

 This, along with robbery whilst people are out of their damaged homes is callous, cruel and inhumane.

Hat Tip: KiwiblogXChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-79791853076706920262011-02-24T08:30:00.000+13:002011-02-24T08:30:08.002+13:00Christchurch: A CIty on EdgeThe sun has appeared this morning in Christchurch. After three sodden days, its fantastic to see blue sky. It's chilly however. The gauge outside says 8 degrees and dew tips the grass outside like pearls of twinkling light.

Choppers fly overhead continually and the constant "whop whop" when you wake up instantly remind you that its not an ordinary day.

After coming back from town last night, I dropped into the local to catch up with friends I hadn't seen since before the 22nd and it was a relief to see all of us and our families are ok. We decompress, have a drink and swap stories that all begin with "Christ, did you see........" or " I heard that such-and-such is trapped....... ".

An argument breaks out between the local village idiot and another bloke and a scuffle ensues. The twits are separated and dressed down for their behaviour over a trivial matter. Both gents (both are in their 50's and should know better) however continue to mutter in their respective corners.

And that's what its like over the city. Beneath a veneer of calm and control, anger and frustration seethes like oil on water. People in town struggle to maintain calm and civility while waiting for loved ones to be found or rescued or to go back to work clearing rubble. Sadness is written on every face but it only takes a wrong word or some misunderstanding to turn those features into anger.

And it's understandable. Everyone is on edge. Everyone is waiting for something. Whether it's for a loved one to return, a body to be unearthed, a cup of water at the welfare station or a building to collapse, we are all hanging on by our fingertips.

And sometimes you've just gotta wave your arms.XChequerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-76564074962938332362011-02-23T16:43:00.000+13:002011-02-23T16:43:34.181+13:00Worse than I thought.Have just got home from securing a building site and it's even worse than I thought.

I've seen bodies crushed by rubble awaiting collection not to mention the devastation to buildings. Bricks and mortar, however take a backseat to life lost. And the cost there is horrific.

My city has gone.

In it's place, a scene from a world war two remains. Crater like holes in the road with mass destruction to buildings that are demolished make it look like parts of London in the Blitz.

My thoughts go out to those who's fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters won't be coming home.XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-78811571998523550622011-02-23T05:18:00.001+13:002011-02-23T15:22:59.735+13:00Earthquakes. And why they should stop.I'm lucky. I have the good fortune not to be able to sleep at this time of the morning. Others don't have that luxury anymore.

I live on the outskirts of Christchurch and, being removed from the centre city, thought it was just another aftershock (albeit a serious one). I heard the rumble (I don't care what they say: I know I can hear them!) and with cavalier indifference kept working at my computer. It started, I waited for it to stop. It didn't. It got worse. I got up. My house went up! Then down..... then started along movements generally associated with the wash cycle of my agitator washing machine. This was a different feel from the September 4 quake last year and we knew this wasn't good.

I managed to get through to a workmate who was near the building site where I was meant to be working. The site that I was meant to be on at the time has gone from two storeys high to 2 feet high - rubble and bricks, dust and splintered wood. So I'm lucky. Others are not.

It's frustrating having skills that could be useful and sitting at home while the city that I have lived and worked in for a great period of my life is hurt. I'm frustrated and angry that I can't do anything.

But I guess I have that luxury while others don't.

Thats why these earthquakes can stop now.XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-71314858151803691002010-05-23T11:57:00.001+12:002010-05-23T12:05:27.047+12:00Just Call Me "Switzerland"!My Political Views
I am a centrist social moderate
Left: 0.08, Libertarian: 0.55

Political Spectrum Quiz

More for my own edification than anyone else's. I was quite surprised to see how moderate I was. Scrubone is updating the political compass for NZ Bloggers here.XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-45730935824708252010-05-07T11:03:00.000+12:002010-05-07T11:03:07.163+12:00Jim Anderton for Chch mayor??
David over at Kiwiblog raises the spectre of Jim Anderton running for mayor of Christchurch.

Christchurch City has, for some considerable time, been a Labour hotbed. We've had a consistent range of good Labour candidates (Brendon Burns being the possible exception riding in on the coat tails of his predecessor) along with an inner city population that is either apathetic of strongly idealistic.
This seems to translate to local government as well. The "on the ground" party machine kicks into gear as well for local body politics as for central. Their campaigning is superb. The grass roots organisation of 2021 (read local union and Labour party) is effective. The only aberration in recent times has been the election of Bob Parker.

Whilst Jim is a living breathing anachronism, it is this campaigning machine to be feared. And rightly so.
Whether or not one agrees with his politics (and I, for one, don't), it doesn't take away the fact that the campaigners and strategists can use Jim as a talisman. He has a long record of public service – especially for his electorate which is swayed by sympathy and a "he's always been there" attitude election after election (being and electorate MP also gives credence to any claim). He is consistent in attitude and approach – an excellent quality in any dictator and has extremely high visibility and integrity (well, the socialist version of integrity perhaps).

The smooth, debonair ex – TV star? Or the grizzled, hardbitten man of the earth who speaks his mind (and others too, if you get offside with him) and has had 40 years of service to his people and his country?

A publicist's dream.

Not good.

Having met Jim I can testify he engages well. So he should after 40-odd years of meet and greets. Don't write this bloke off. I think he would be a terrible mayor that would see Christchurch regress to the 1960's rather than looking forward to the 2060's. However, his claim is strong and it will need a mighty effort from other quarters to unseat him should he get a toe hold.
XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-19888531758829034152010-04-15T22:17:00.000+12:002010-04-15T22:17:01.768+12:00Brilliant....absolutely brilliantVery good.

Who says that American's don't do irony?

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I don't agree with Hone a great deal of the time. Some of the things he has said and done in the past have been outrageous. Do I think that he's racist? Some of the time, he comes pretty close to it - an obdurate hypocrisy when measured against what he stands for.

But one thing that has never failed to impress me about Hone is his mana - or respect. Holmes gave him a thrashing in a way reminiscent of his roasting of Denis Conors many years ago. Holmes pressed for answers on the question: Does Hone think that all white people are Mo'fo's? To which Hone (eventually) replied "no". But Holmes kept battering on, trying to trip Harawira up. Hone was having none of it. He gave answers and stood by them. The answers weren't in flowery, political lingo. They were honest, to-the-point and heartfelt.

This was in contrast to Phil Goff's performance earlier in the program where he ducked and dived like any other politician - the time honoured tricks of repeating the question back to the interviewer but in different language, not answering a direct question and instead talking about something different coming to the fore. And the panel of experts, Jeanette Fitzsimmons, Therese Arseneau and Mike Moore - actually congratulated Phil on a more "polished performance".

And the contrast struck me as being peculiar in that what was valued was a smooth tongue over honesty and integrity - something Hone had in spades over Mr Goff.

Some will say that I'm being simplistic. That the leader of a major party has to more urbane while an MP from a minor party can afford more blunt language. That this is just politics and, perhaps, Hone is slightly irrelevent himself.

I don't think so. As I said I don't agree with a lot of what he says. But I listen when he says it. He speaks with an honesty and earnestness that seems to be right at home in New Zealand. It hearkens back to when we were known as a blunt spoken, practical people who meant what they said and often let actions speak more eloquently than words ever could. He has Mana. He earns respect by speaking then standing by what he says. And those are the sort of people that I would have thought we want leading our country.

No one in New Zealand will deny that race is an issue in New Zealand. But bridging the gulf that exists won't be done with a silver tongue and empty promises. It will be done with honesty, integrity and a willingness to change.XChequerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458666885208776787.post-59086369950228414532010-02-01T10:48:00.000+13:002010-02-01T10:48:02.832+13:00News Pap is UniversalAna Samways is a delight in the NZ Herald's Sideswipe column and she is online here.

This, from her blogsite today:

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(1)A person registered in any area as a firearms dealer and proposing to carry on business as such at a place of business in that area which is not entered in the register, shall notify the chief officer of police for that area and furnish him with such particulars as may be prescribed; and the officer shall, subject to the provisions of this section, enter that place of business in the register.
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Remember back in the mid-2000s, when everyone used to get those annoying "YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED" pop-up ads for anti-virus software? (For that matter, remember pop-up ads?) Like anyone with an ounce of Internet savvy was going to download software marketed via sketchy pop-ups.
Well, get ready for a blast from the past, warns cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs, because that same tacky, spammy tactic may now be coming to your mobile device.
Mr. Krebs tells the tale of one security consultant, who was doing a little dining-while-browsing, when suddenly,
his screen was taken over by an alarming message warning of page errors and viruses. Clicking anywhere on the ad took him to a Web site peddling SnapSecure, a mobile antivirus and security subscription service that bills users $5.99 a month.
"It gives the impression of being rather ominous," he told Mr. Krebs.
SnapSecure's marketing VP blamed the pop-ups on "rogue marketing affiliates" who've since been blacklisted, but presumably the offenders are still out there, lying in wait in the digital ether until the time comes to leap out of the Internet mists once more.


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In a microprocessor b system, when keyboard and 7-segment LED display is interfaced using ports or latches then the processor has to carry the following task.
Keyboard scanning
Key debouncing
Key code generation
Sending display code to LED
Display refreshing
Interfacing 8279 with 8085 processor:
A typical Hexa keyboard and 7-segment LED display interfacing circuit using 8279 is shown.
The circuit can be used in 8085 microprocessor system and consist of 16 numbers of hexa-keys and 6 numbers of 7-segment LEDs.
The 7-segment LEDs can be used to display six digit alphanumeric character.
The 8279 can be either memory mapped or I/O mapped in the system. In the circuit shown is the 8279 is I/O mapped.
The address line A0 of the system is used as A0 of 8279.
The clock signal for 8279 is obtained by dividing the output clock signal of 8085 by a clock divider circuit.
The chip select signal is obtained from the I/O address decoder of the 8085 system. The chip select signals for I/O mapped devices are generated by using a 3-to-8 decoder.
The address lines A4, A5 and A6 are used as input to decoder.
The address line A7 and the control signal IO/M (low) are used as enable for decoder.
The chip select signal IOCS-3 is used to select 8279.
The I/O address of the internal devices of 8279 are shown in table.
The circuit has 6 numbers of 7-segment LEDs and so the 8279 has to be programmed in encoded scan. (Because in decoded scan, only 4 numbers of 7-segment LEDs can be interfaced)
In encoded scan the output of scan lines will be binary count. Therefore an external, 3-to-8 decoder is used to decode the scan lines SL0, SL1 and SL2 of 8279 to produce eight scan lines S0 to S7.
The decoded scan lines S0 and S1 are common for keyboard and display.
The decoded scan lines S2 to S5 are used only for display and the decoded scan lines S6 and S7 are not used in the system.
Anode and Cathode drivers are provided to take care of the current requirement of LEDs.
The pnp transistors, BC 158 are used as driver transistors.
The anode drivers are called segment drivers and cathode drivers are called digit drivers.
The 8279 output the display code for one digit through its output lines (OUT A0 to OUT A3 and OUT B0 to OUT B3) and send a scan code through, SL0- SL3.
The display code is inverted by segment drivers and sent to segment bus.
The scan code is decoded by the decoder and turns ON the corresponding digit driver. Now one digit of the display character is displayed. After a small interval (10 milli-second, typical), the display is turned OFF (i.e., display is blanked) and the above process is repeated for next digit. Thus multiplexed display is performed by 8279.
The keyboard matrix is- formed using the return lines, RL0 to RL3 of 8279 as columns and decoded scan lines S0 and S1 as rows.
A hexa key is placed at the crossing point of each row and column. A key press will short the row and column. Normally the column and row line will be high.
During scanning the 8279 will output binary count on SL0 to SL3, which is decoded by decoder to make a row as zero. When a row is zero the 8279 reads the columns. If there is a key press then the corresponding column will be zero.
If 8279 detects a key press then it wait for debounce time and again read the columns to generate key code.
In encoded scan keyboard mode, the 8279 stores an 8-bit code for each valid key press. The keycode consist of the binary value of the column and row in which the key is found and the status of shift and control key.
After a scan time, the next row is made zero and the above process is repeated and so on. Thus 8279 continuously scan the keyboard.


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Ballard Crime Watch: Three homes hit by burglaries
Oct. 26, 9:20 p.m., 7700 Block of 16th Ave NW -- A woman had approximately $50,000-worth of jewelry stolen from her home. The metal, back door of the kitchen was forced in and her bedroom was rifled through. No other rooms were touched. The victim said her home was burglarized in 2006 in the same way. She said she was starting a detailed list of each item and will submit it with a followup form.
Oct. 26, 10:42 p.m., 4400 Block of 2nd Ave NW -- A burglar went through a home and stole an Apple Macbook Pro, an unknown amount of jewelry and approximately three alcohol bottles (totaling to about $1,500-worth of items stolen). Two file drawers with paperwork were rifled through but the victim was unsure anything had been taken. The responding police officer noted that the suspect used a ladder stolen from the next door neighbor and broke in through the kitchen window. The victim was able to provide a serial number for the Macbook and the officer gave her followup forms. The officer could not find any surfaces that he could lift fingerprints from.
Oct. 27, 1:12 a.m., 7700 Block of Mary Ave NW -- A burglar used a BBQ utensil to pry a window open and proceeded to rifle through the victim's bedroom drawers. The back door was also found unlocked. The victim was left with property followup forms.
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Boxing News
Impressive KO win for Tito Acosta
In an exhilarating performance at the Pedro Julio Nolasco Coliseum in beautiful La Romana, Dominican Republic, hot prospect Angel 'Tito' Acosta (3-0, 3 KOs) scored a stunning stoppage at 1:37 of the third round. Acosta looked sharp and very heavy handed against a very game Domingo Berroa. "With every fight I am feeling more at ease and very powerful," an excited Acosta stated after the fight. "My plan is to go back to the gym and maintain he condition I have. I am so grateful to my promoter Miguel Cotto. He is my inspiration. I will be a world champion," Acosta, the 2010 gold medalist at the Central American and Cribbean Games, concluded.


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Program Overview
Campus Location(s): Business & Technology
Program Coordinator: Susan Blaser, 816.604.5613
Detailed Program Info.: Utility Line Technician Brochure
Degree and Certificate Awarded
Application Process
Step 1: Complete the MCC online application and be admitted to MCC. Apply now.
Step 2: Submit an application for the Lineman Program by completing the online application.
The application will be available until Apr. 1, 2017. Please use Chrome or Firefox as your browser. Submit now.
To complete the application you will need your MCC Student ID Number and password. You will need to enter the "S" in the front of your student ID number.
Creating Opportunities: Meet Brandon
From retail management to lineman. Brandon Orr moved from Los Angeles to Kansas City five years ago, the first in a series of changes that have improved his life. Brandon enrolled in the Lineman program in 2013, jumpstarting a career that includes his current position at Kansas City Power & Light. Read Brandon's success story.
The program, which only starts in the summer, begins with a one-year certificate. You can then go on to get an associate's degree for transfer. The program is fine tuned to meet real-world needs. Two utility companies, Kansas City Power & Light and Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative, are on the MCC-BTC advisory board for course content.
What You'll Learn
You will learn to install and repair poles, conductors, cables and equipment used
in electrical power and distribution systems. You also will learn to restore energy
to homes and businesses during storms, identifying and repairing damaged equipment,
poles and conductors.
What You'll Do and Where You'll Work
You can work as a power lineworker, journeyman lineworker, substation technician,
cable splicer, utility worker and much more. Our alumni work at electrical utility
companies across the region.
What You'll Make
Those who work in an apprenticeship (typically for the first four years at a utility company) make about $75,000 per year. Once you complete the apprenticeship and become a journeyman lineworker, you can make $100,000 or more per year.
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text: OK, I got a little aggressive while trying to make a place to get PB blaster to the a/c connection between the rear line and the accumulator and ended up puncturing a hole in the line. (see photo) I tried to use plumbing flux and solder, but couldn't get it to stick to the hole. Any suggestions?


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There is something for everyone at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Below is a list of our scheduled events classes, and exhibits. For details on any individual listing, just click on the event for more information. If you still have questions, feel free to call the garden at 413.298.3926. See you at the Garden!
Our popular Family Fridays are back!
Meet the feathered, hairy and scaly creatures that live near and far. Family Friday programs are for children and adults, open to all, and free with paid admission to the garden. Designed to develop an appreciation of the natural world, these programs will inform and delight participants of all ages. These popular programs meet in the Education Center at 10:30am.
Snakes and Frogs
Tom Tyning, Reptile Expert
This program, designed for families, is an introduction to local amphibians and reptiles, animals that are both fascinating and elusive. More than 30 different frogs, salamanders, turtles and snakes inhabit Berkshire County, and we know little, if anything, about many of them. Professor Tom Tyning will encourage families to get to know these animals, from tadpoles and turtles to salamanders and snakes. A small collection of local live animals, including snakes, will be available for close examination.
Tom Tyning is Professor of Environmental Science at Berkshire Community College. He specializes in reptiles and amphibians in his research and actively researches local rattlesnake populations.
This event is almost full. To make a reservation, please call the Garden at 413.298.3926.
Join the staff of the Berkshire Botanical Garden for a late summer visit to Battery Park City, located at the tip of Manhattan. We will tour this extensive landscape—perhaps one of the most concentrated parklands in America—with the colorful David Dew Bruner, who will focus on design. We will visit areas of the park including Michael Van Valkenberg's Teardrop Park, Oehme van Sweden's Rockefeller Park, two gardens designed by Lynden Miller and landscapes by Olin Partnership and other exceptional designers. In addition to these amazing gardens, there is abundant public art to view, including the Irish Hunger Memorial designed by Brian Tolle, the magnificent "Ice Wall" by Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercii and sculptures by Jim Dine, Louise Bougeois and many more.
From Battery City Park we will travel north to the cutting-edge gardens of the High Line, New York City's newest park, built on an elevated 1930s freight rail structure on Manhattan's West Side. Tour the newly completed section of the High Line with native-plant specialist Drew Monthie and learn about the imaginative plant combinations of this naturalistic planting. These extensive gardens echo the wild, self-seeded landscape that grew up on the structure after the trains stopped running.
Enjoy a stimulating day in the city with some gardening friends. A morning snack and late-afternoon refreshments will be provided, compliments of the staff of Berkshire Botanical Garden.
We are almost full for this event! Please call the garden at 413.298.3926 to inquire about availability and purchase tickets .
Join former Sissinghurst head gardener Alexis Datta for a first-hand look at the gardening year at Britain's fabled garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, England. Designed by writer Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat husband Harold Nicolson, this iconic landscape is one of the most renowned gardens in the world. Portrait of a Garden gives a short history of Sissinghurst Castle, the gardens, the creators, its philosophy and a visual tour that is sure to inspire. The gardens at Sissinghurst have certainly evolved over the years since its inception in 1930 and, though being conserved, it is currently being gardened in a dynamic way. Get the down and dirty on gardening from the woman behind the scenes at this classic English garden.
Alexis Datta has been a professional gardener for over forty years and spent twenty-two of them as head gardener at Sissinghurst. She studied gardening at horticultural college in England, and has worked at several private and public gardens. In 1983 she joined the National Trust, which cares for many of Britain's leading gardens and arrived at Sissinghurst in 1991.
Participants can choose to carpool or drive separately. Those joining the carpool should meet in the parking lot at Berkshire Botanical Garden for a 9 am departure. Carpool will return at approximately 1 pm.
For woody plant and tree lovers, join staff from the BBG for an exploration of a lesser known horticultural gem, Pine Hollow Arboretum, located in Slingerlands, NY. In 1966, founder John W. Abbuhl, M.D., started planting trees around his home to create an attractive setting. His affinity with the land, his interest in horticulture and his love of trees combined to inspire the creation of an arboretum. The arboretum's cataloged collection consists of over 3,300 unique trees, shrubs and other woody plants from around the world. This living collection is aesthetically arranged in a natural setting that includes 12 ponds and a succession forest, all easily accessible by a network of walking trails and bridges. Tour the grounds with the founder, Dr. Abbuhl, and learn about the small, flowering tree collections, including magnolias, dogwoods, crabapples and more. View cultivars of unusual genera, too, such as styrax, stewartia and heptacodium. A great way to view specimen plants in a naturalistic setting, just an hour's drive away.
What better way to start the season than with our 37th annual Plant Sale! We've hand picked and grown some of our favorite plant selections and new varieties this year – you won't want to miss it! If you would like to volunteer for this event or are interested in becoming a vendor, contact Cynthia Grippaldi at firstname.lastname@example.com. For a complete list of volunteer positions, click HERE.
Friday, May 9
8 -11 am: Members-only early buying privileges
11 am -5 pm: Open to the General Public
Saturday, May 10
9 am -5 pm: Open to the General Public
On the grounds of the Berkshire Botanical Garden
At the junction of Routes 183 and 102 in Stockbridge, MA
Admission and parking is free
PLANT SALE: Fabulous Plants Galore by Habitat
For a complete list of plants, click here: Plant Sale List 2014
Gardeners get a jump-start on the season with this annual plant sale, which has become an iconic harbinger of spring in the Berkshires. This year's theme,Get Your Hands in the Dirt, features thousands of plants to choose from, appropriate to northeastern gardens, organized into the habitats in which they thrive. A complete listing of plants in attached document (upper right).
NEW this year: Living fern and succulent wreaths and miniature wall gardens designed by Head Gardener, Christine Caccamo.
Last year's popular Container Design Station will be back again: Let us help you design your own unique container to take home.
Silent Auction: Bid on specialty plants, wall gardens, as well as green services.
Stop by and visit the following vendors who will be joining us for this year's Plant Sale:
J.L. Enterprises
The Farmstead
Blueberry Hill Market
Peter Thorne
Not Your Mother's Tag Sale
A garden-themed tag sale. An opportunity for some great garden finds!
WE NEED DONATIONS! Donate your unwanted garden and patio items for the tag sale. Donated items must be in good condition and in working order, ready to resell. Drop off at the Garden Mon-Fri, through May 7. Donations are tax-deductible.
Garden Shop
Don't forget to stop by the Garden Shop in the Visitor Center!
This trip has neared capacity. To reserve your space call the Garden at 413.298.3926.
Dress for the weather, bring a bag lunch and wear comfortable, sturdy footwear. Those wishing to order the take-out meal of fish 'n' chips will be charged an additional $20. Coach bus leaves Berkshire Botanical Garden promptly.
Join the Berkshire Botanical Garden staff for a day-long adventure to the southeast coast of Rhode Island to explore an extraordinary garden, nurseries and more. Sakonnet Garden, in Little Compton, RI, will be the featured visit of the day. This "exceptional American garden" (as quoted by Marco Polo Stufano, former Director of Wave Hill, and John Trexler, former Director of Tower Hill Botanic Garden) is a garden full of inspiration. Sakonnet is a secret garden embedded within a native coastal fields landscape. At the diminutive scale of a cottage garden, it is conceived of as an intimate place to explore, with multiple paths leading one onward to unexpected experiences.
Owners John Gywnne and Mikal Folcarelli will lead a tour of their property. First, consider a restored meadow managed for endangered bobolinks. Learn about the ecological theory behind the meadow's management and hopefully spot one of these wonderful upland meadow birds. Then, explore the small walled garden, designed as a series of small garden rooms. Following the tour, Ed Bowen from Opus Nursery of Little Compton, RI, will be on hand to sell some of his great Zone 5 plants.
Enjoy a picnic lunch on the lawn—or wait—for the next stop! As we leave the coast, we will stop at the head of the Sakonnet River for a take-out order of fish 'n' chips (optional, of course). Enjoy this Rhode Island tradition at well known Evelyn's Clam Shack (as seen on the Food Channel: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, hosted by Guy Fieri). The coastal scenery, including boats in the harbor, will be a special treat for us upland creatures. On the return trip we will detour into western Connecticut for a tour of the fabled greenhouses of Logee's. In business since 1892, this series of five connected greenhouses holds an extensive collection of tropical, semi-tropical and tender perennial plants, as well as orchids, begonias, scented geraniums, citrus and so much more. The staff of Logee's will give an introduction to the group, and participants can roam the greenhouses and purchase special plants to take home. Enjoy the hosting skills of the BBG staff, including a mid-morning snack and afternoon wine and cheese.
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We start our Cocktails in Great Gardens season off with a bang at the home of Jean and Georgeanne Rousseau.
Hors d'oeuvres, a cold refreshment, and the warm summer light of late afternoon are the perfect companions to take in some of the area's most spectacular private gardens through our Cocktails in Great Gardens series. It's a rare opportunity to roam these private spaces with the gardeners themselves that you will not want to miss. Tickets are limited and reservations are required. Call 413.298.3926 for more information.
Participants can choose to carpool or drive separately. Those joining the carpool should meet in the parking lot at Berkshire Botanical Garden for an 8:30 am departure. Carpool will return at approximately 3:30 pm.
Join well known gardener and author Page Dickey for a private study tour of her garden at the height of the shrub rose bloom. Page will share her insights into gardening and will discuss the use of fragrant shrubs, with a focus on her favorite shrub roses. Learn about how she selects, designs and cultivates these fragrant beauties. This tour will inspire even the most casual gardeners to get down on their knees and plant shrubs. Following the tour, Page invites participants to picnic on the lawn. On the return trip we will stop at one of Page's favorite local nurseries, Claire's Garden Center, in Patterson, NY.
Page Dickey is a gardener and garden writer living and gardening at Duck Hill in North Salem, NY. Her books include Embroidered Ground, Gardens in the Spirit of Place, the award-winning Breaking Ground: Portraits of Ten Garden Designers, Duck Hill Journal: A Year in a Country Garden, Dogs in Their Gardens and Cats in Their Gardens. A contributor to numerous magazines over the years, she lectures across the country and is one of the founders of the Garden Conservancy's Open Days program. She lives and gardens with her husband in the company of assorted dogs, cats, and chickens.


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I have it: 34 I had it: 6 I want it: 50
Givenchy Harvest 2007 Amarige Mimosa is a perfume from Harvest 2007 trilogy, which richly opens up with a breeze of mandarin leaf, neroli and mimosa. The heart is composed of mimosa absolute from Tamil Nadj region in India, while the base introduces accords of noble wood, sensual and powdery. Compared with the original Amerige perfume, this one is more modern, shining and sparkling. It is available as 60 ml edp.
Perfume rating: 4.37 out of 5 with 36 votes.
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After having purchased the Amarige Harvest 2010 Ylang Ylang I fell in love with it. Now I wonder how the version with the pronounced Mimosa would smell like. Maybe I'll find it on eBay if I'm lucky.
I inherited this from my mother, and it's very hard for me to give an unbiased opinion of whether or not I like this personally or would wear it myself, since to me, it just smells like my mom; she wore Amarige in one incarnation or another for most of her life, and Amarige (alongside Estee Lauder's Beautiful) simply smells of her. I find as I get older that my taste in perfume begins to align more with hers, so who knows, maybe I'll be revisiting this scent more often in the years to come.
I do enjoy this scent, partially for the memories, and partially for the notes I smell in it. First off, it wafts off of my skin in a way very, very few scents do. I get these waves of warm spiced floral floating through the air around me. I smell mimosa and tuberose, and it's warm and sweet, though not in the vanilla/caramel/fruit way that so many gourmand fragrances are right now. Rather, the sweetness is the same sort you find in summer flowers on a hot day. The floral components are definitely the star of the show, here. I don't get the citrus as strong in this composition as the above note rankings indicate; I smell a strong green/ citrus oil note in the opening, but it softens quite quickly. After it's gotten settled in on my skin, the warm florals dominate and take on a delicate powdery quality. It really is a lovely scent.
Wonderful floral. Very sophisticated and noble. The flowers at the opening, and I am gong to think it is momosa, is so fresh and natural I can smell the leaves and the polen just as I were in the garden picking up some flowers. It also smells quite green. Its sweetness is like nectar, polen again. Neroli and mandarin leaves add a clean toch to the bouquet. As times passes the woody notes emerge. Yes, the label says Madarin leaves, Mimosa and precious woods. I want to say cedar, but I am not sure but it is woody alright, and that Makes Amarige mimosa 2007 a little sweeter and in an odd way a bit masculine, too. Perhaps it is just my perception but Mimosa 2007 is not a strong scent, but a very solid one. About 5 to 6 hours later it hasn't diminished its strenth at all, it is just less floral. Now the big issue, can a man pull it off? I might be wrong but I think L'Eau d'Issey is more flowery than this and Midnight in Paris much more feminine also. Amarige mimosa 2007 is a gorgeous fragrance.
I thought I smelt this before, but it is my very first amarige. So i went through some samples and stopped with Jour d'Hermes in my hand. I guess there is a bit of A M 2007 in it.
This is one I treasure, wearing it for special events. Sweet and fragrant. Earthy and powerful.
(Please excuse- this is a review for Givenchy Harvest Mimosa 2005 (not 2007), because I have nowhere else to put it-)
Amarige Harvest Mimosa 2005 is a perfect winter floral for evenings, and I prefer it to the original Amarige.
Rather than mimosa, I smell tuberose, honeyed incense, and a tinge of orange blossom-
Harvest Mimosa reminds me of Michael Kors, but it has a stronger presence, composition, and staying power.
It's a real master piece with mimosa being the star of the composition. And like Jeca said, it's quite similar to the original Amarige, Only draw back is that it's too strong, so could only be limited to special occasions...
In comparison with the Ylang ylang version, this fragrance is much more Amarige (original), sweet and extremely strong.
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To develop a better understanding of issues and factors that are impacting the broad use and uptake of nanotechnology standards, and how development and deployment of nanotechnology can be catalyzed through more widespread acceptance and use of nanotechnology standards
• Enable a robust internationally focused dialogue between developers and users of nanotechnology standards from both the public and private sectors
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Standards play a critical role as a foundational tool for enabling the development and deployment of technologies. In the case of nanotechnology, documentary standards are a particularly important tool that can help address important questions about the safety of the materials and systems comprising this technology.
Nanotechnology standardization efforts have been underway for over five years in various venues around the world. These have resulted in some important standards in areas such as terminology, measurement, and characterization of nanomaterials and systems, environmental health and safety aspects of nanomaterials, and performance characteristics. Despite the existence of these standards, there appear to be barriers to their widespread use, potentially limiting the rapid development and deployment of nanotechnology.
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University of Michigan football captain and fifth-year offensive lineman Stephen Schilling answers questions about bowl memories, Michigan's quarterbacks and what college team he'd most like to play against in this edition of Ask Steve.
Email your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or watch for Steve's Friday post on the Michigan football Facebook fan page and leave a comment.
Lisa Dean emails: "Congratulations on being bowl eligible! What are some of your best memories from being in bowl games in the past?"
Thank you! It certainly is a great feeling knowing that we'll be heading back to a bowl. It has been a few years, but I'm really excited to make some new bowl memories. My freshman year I wasn't playing at all because I was redshirted and injured, so most of my good memories come from my redshirt freshman year. Beating Florida that year is a game I'll never forget, and I can still see Coach Carr being carried off the field after the win in his final game as head coach. Perfect ending.
Matt Evans emails: "What college football team would you most like to go up against?"
There's a lot of teams I'd love to get a chance to play. As always, you want to play the best to measure where you are, so I'd like to play Auburn or Oregon right now. But being from Washington, I've always wanted to play against the hometown team, although it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Tyler Fenwick emails: "How much credit do Denard, Tate or any of the backs give the offensive linemen for their success?"
Denard, Tate, and the other backs give all of the credit to the offensive line, and we try to give it right back. We understand that the offensive line does a lot of the work but gets little attention unless something goes bad, and we're okay with that, but it's nice to hear when Denard and the rest of the guys in the backfield give us credit for their success. I know Denard especially doesn't love all the attention, so he likes to deflect it onto us on the O-Line.
Rose Moncman emails: "Have you had the chance to travel throughout the state and see any of the beautiful sites, such as the Mackinaw Bridge, Mackinaw Island, or Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes?"
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to seeing a lot of the sites in Michigan. Whenever my parents visit they travel around the state and they have seen most of it, but I haven't gotten the opportunity. I'm expecting to come back one day and see everything I've missed the last four years. Mackinaw Island would be up there on my list, I've heard it's awesome.
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Princeton, N.J. — The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn't matter how often he'd been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy. Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, lay awake at 4 o'clock on a recent morning knowing he had to do the one thing that comes least naturally to him. He pushed himself up and staggered into the dark. His desk seemed impossibly far away; Dr. Spitzer, who turns 80 next week, suffers from Parkinson's disease and has trouble walking, sitting, even holding his head upright. The word he sometimes uses to describe these limitations — pathetic — is the same one that for decades he wielded like an ax to strike down dumb ideas, empty theorizing and junkRead More


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HOLY CRAP- Jeremy is fighting for Bellator!!!! This is awesome- dude was a regular member here and started as an amateur and now this. Freaking fantastic- I wish him the best of luck and hope he can pull out a win! :thumb02:
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Jason Sampson is 8-1, our Jeremy is 4-3. Huge step up but I got Myers by whatever the hell he wants :D
Ofc our boy is getting some credits.
i would bet on this fight, but we all know what happened to pete rose........
edit: yeah walker its crazy, i posted my first amateur fight video on here lol 21 fights later.....
Hated to settle it for Sampson but he won by RNC in the 3rd. Hell of a fight, kamikaze is one fast dude! Even after those shots to the cup. Took forever for the wrestler to get him down. Here's how they wrote it up:
All good it was a solid three rounder to build on.
damn looks like our man ran into a real prospect. Still a very good and entertaining fight. Mad props!
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Natural Balance, IBX Soothing Bowel Formula, 120 Veggie Caps
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Soothing Bowel Formula
IBx Soothing Bowel Formula is the modern application of traditional Tibetan medicine for maintaining gastrointestinal health and well-being. The remarkable IBx blend is intended to provide nutritive support for a healthy digestive tract and normal bowel function. Its unique combination of ancient herbs offers dependable, comfortable support for your system in these uncomfortable times.
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- Myrobalan - Revered in India; used in Triphala, the Ayurvedic blend
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Use only as directed. Take 2 vegetarian capsules twice a day.
Other Ingredients
Vegetable cellulose capsule, sodium carbonate, calcium carbonate and magnesium stearate.
Do not use if safety seal is broken or missing. Keep out of reach of children. Keep your licensed health care practitioner informed when using this product. Do not use if you are pregnant or nursing. Contraindicated in intestinal obstructions, abdominal pain of unknown origin, or any inflammatory condition of the intestines (appendicitis, colitis, Chronhn's disease, etc.); and in children less than 12 years of age; not for long term use.
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|Aloe (leaf gel extract)
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