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Pioneer Museums
San Diego
San Diego Mormon Battalion Historic Site
About 500 men enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, and about 80 women and children traveled with them. They began their journey in the sweltering heat of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on July 20, 1846, leaving their loved ones behind. The battalion completed one of the longest infantry marches in American history— about 2,000 miles through what are now seven states and into Mexico. Visitors to this site will learn about the Mormon Battalion. 2510 Juan Street. (619-298-3317)
Chesterfield Historic Town Site
Chesterfield was first settled in 1879. Through the efforts of the Chesterfield Foundation, many historic buildings have been preserved or restored, including the original LDS meetinghouse, the amusement hall, tithing office, and tithing granary. Located 11 miles north on U.S. Highway 30, Bancroft, ID. (208-648-7177) or (208-648-7124)
Council Bluffs
Kanesville Tabernacle
This is a replica of the log building where Brigham Young was sustained as the second prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 222 E. Broadway. (712-322-0500)
Adair County Heritage Museum
A Mormon Trail Interpretive Panel near the main museum building tells the story of the Mormon trek through Adair County and includes a map of the migration route across Iowa. Additional Mormon Trail memorabilia is included in a display inside the museum's main building. Located on the west edge of Greenfield, on the north side of Highway 92. (641-743-2232)
Mount Pisgah
Mount Pisgah Pioneer Cemetery
Mount Pisgah was established in southern Iowa as a temporary waystation for Mormon immigrants who crossed the Plains from 1846–1852. The call to fulfill positions in the Mormon Battalion came to Mount Pisgah. A monument here lists the names of many people who lost their lives at Mount Pisgah. 1704 Mount Pisgah Road, Thayer, IA. (641-763-2504)
Mormon Trail Center at Historic Winter Quarters
Thousands of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent the winter of 1846 to 1847 in the encampment they called Winter Quarters. The Center is adjacent to the Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, which is the final resting place of more than 325 Saints who died at Winter Quarters from illness, hunger, and poor living conditions. 3215 State Street. (402-453-9372)
Las Vegas
Old Mormon Fort
Several settlements were established in the 1850s between Salt Lake City and Pioneer Museums and Historical Sites California along the Mormon Corridor, including the short-lived Mormon Fort in Las Vegas. The Old Mormon Fort is now a State Historic Park. 500 E. Washington Ave. Open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (702-486-3511)
Wilford Wood Museum
The museum was established and built by Wilford C. Wood. After his passing away, his wife, Lillian, and his two daughters continued his vision and mission of preserving the memory of Joseph Smith and the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tours are offered from late spring to early fall and are by appointment only. 3697 S. 550 W. (801-292-7676)
Castle Dale
Emery County Pioneer Museum
A fully stocked mercantile has been re-created with items that early settlers might have purchased. A lawyer's office, schoolroom, and typical pioneer home are authentically re-created. 64 E. 100 N. (435-381-5154)
Cedar City
Iron Mission State Park and Museum
The story of development in Iron County. A diorama, based on descriptions of the original iron foundry, is on display. Displays also include a collection of horse-drawn vehicles used from 1870 to 1930. Just off I-15 on the northern side of Cedar City. (435-586-9290)
Pine Valley Chapel
This unique chapel was built in 1868. Peer into its attic, which was constructed to resemble an upside-down ship hull. Ebenezer Bryce used his shipbuilding experience to design the chapel. 8 miles east of Central on Pine Valley Road. (435-574-5181) (See article in Pioneer magazine 2010, vol. 57, no. 3, 35–36).
Cove Fort
Cove Fort Historic Site
In 1867, Brigham Young called Ira Hinckley and his family to direct the building and operations of the fort in order to offer protection and refreshment to the traveler. This is the only fort built by the Latter-day Saints in the 1800s that still stands. Northeast of the junction of I-15 and I-70. (435-438-5547)
Pioneer Village at Lagoon
Pioneer Village is the reconstruction of a typical frontier community as it might have existed in the late 1800s. This community consists of 42 authentic 19thcentury stores and buildings, as well as artifacts with which they might have been furnished. The original Pioneer Village was established by the Sons of Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City and later relocated to Lagoon. Located just east of I-15 in Farmington. (801-451-8000)
Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum
Utah's oldest existing governmental building now housing interpretive exhibits on the state's political beginnings. Also exhibits paintings of early Utah artists. 50 West Capitol. (435-743-5316)
John Hutchings Museum of Natural History
Pioneer exhibits and other historical memorabilia. 55 N. Center Street. (801-768-7180)
Fort Buenaventura State Park
Fort Buenaventura brings back one of the most fascinating periods in Western American folklore, the Mountain Man era. The Fort has been recreated on the original site, and guides in period dress interpret the fort as well as the historical lifestyle of the Mountain Men and the Indians who inhabited the area. Authentic artifacts are also displayed. 2450 A Ave. (801-621-4808)
George A. Smith Pioneer Village
Operated by the Brigham Young chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, the village includes seven historical structures. Located in Provo's North Park on 500 W. and 600 N. Summer hours: 5–8 p.m. Monday, 4–7 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, Saturday 1–4 p.m. Special scheduling call (801-377-8295) or (801-375-9299). (See article in this issue, 16–18).
Salt Lake City
Beehive House
The Beehive House was built in 1854 and served as home to Brigham Young when he was President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and governor of Utah Territory. Now a National Historic Landmark, this home has been beautifully restored with furnishings of the period. 67 E. South Temple (801-240-2671)
Church History Museum
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from its beginnings to the present day. Look into a covered wagon, climb into the bunk of an immigrant ship, learn about the pioneer trek in 1847 and the settlement of the Intermountain West. 45 N West Temple #200. (801-240-3310)
Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument
Located at 140 East First Avenue, one block from Temple Square, are the gravesites of Brigham Young and others, including Eliza R. Snow, pioneer poetess. The centerpiece of this area is a monument honoring the 6,000 pioneers who lost their lives crossing the plains between 1847 and the advent of the railroad in 1869.
Pioneer Memorial Museum
The Pioneer Memorial Museum (also known as the DUP Museum) is noted as the world's largest collection of artifacts on one particular subject, and it features displays and collections of memorabilia from the time the earliest settlers entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake until the joining of the railroads at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers also has satellite museums located throughout Utah. The Pioneer Memorial Museum is located at 300 N. Main Street. (801-532-6479) (See the article in this issue, 4–13.)
This Is the Place Heritage Park
A premier living history attraction that preserves the heritage and history of Utah. The Park includes storied accounts of the settlement of the West, told by knowledgeable interpreters in a setting of original and replica historic buildings. 2601 East Sunnyside Ave. (801-582-1847)
Santa Clara
Jacob Hamblin Home
Built in 1862 by Mormon craftsmen for Jacob Hamblin, noted missionary to the Indians. The home is constructed of Ponderosa timbers from Pine Valley and local red sandstone. The building was home for Jacob Hamblin and his family and was also headquarters for his missionary work. Santa Clara Blvd. and Hamblin Drive. (435-673-5181)
Spanish Fork
Icelandic Monument
The first Icelandic immigrants to come to the United States were converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Between 1855 and 1914, there were 410 Icelanders who immigrated to Utah, the majority of whom settled in Spanish Fork, Utah. In 1938, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and the Icelandic Association of Utah dedicated a lighthouse monument commemorating the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States. In June 2005, additions were made to the small park. 785 E. Canyon Road. Hours: Daylight to dark.
Stansbury Park
Restored Benson Gristmill
The mill mirrors the past with a log cabin, historic buildings, equipment, and a working blacksmith shop. This renovated mill was constructed by early Mormon pioneers and is listed on the National Historic Register. 325 Highway 138. Open May 1 through Oct. 31. Hours: Monday–Saturday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (435-882-7878)
St. George
Brigham Young Winter Home
Built around 1873, this was the home of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and governor of the provisional State of Deseret. Brigham Young spent the last winters of his life in the St. George area enjoying the warm weather and directing the building of the St. George Temple and Tabernacle. 67 W. 200 N. (435-673-2517)
Fielding Garr Ranch
Fielding Garr was assigned by the Mormon church to establish a ranch on Antelope Island as a stronghold for managing the Church tithing herds. The Church herds supported the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which assisted Mormon Church members from Europe in making the trek across the Great Plains. Take the Utah-108/Antelope Drive exit, Exit 332, from I-15. (801-554-9253)
Tooele Pioneer Museum Complex
Comprised of two distinct museums at one location with historic artifacts and antiquities by the Sons of Utah Pioneer and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. 47 E. Vine Street. (435-882-0071) (See article this issue, 18–19.)
The American West Heritage Center
The Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization devoted to celebrating and preserving the heritage of Cache Valley, Utah, and its surrounding regions, primarily through living history activities, events, school programs, exhibits, and outreach activities. Located 6 miles south of Logan, on U.S. Hwy. 89/91. (435-245-4064)
Martin's Cove
Experience a handcart trek much like the one pioneers endured over 150 years ago. Visit the Mormon Handcart Visitors Center and view exhibits recording the tragic circumstances of two handcart companies. Leaving late in the summer, they risked bad weather, exposure, and death in order to unite with the main body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Off State Route 220 just west of Devil's Gate. Summer hours: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Winter hours: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.


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Moscow (AFP) May 23, 2013
Russia has ordered the urgent evacuation of the 16-strong crew of a drifting Arctic research station after the ice floe that hosts the floating laboratory began to disintegrate, officials said Thursday.
Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Sergei Donskoi set a three-day deadline to draft a plan to evacuate the North Pole-40 floating research station.
"The destruction of the ice has put at risk the station's further work and life of its staff," the ministry said in a statement.
The station is currently home to 16 personnel including oceanologists, meteorologists, engineers and a doctor.
It conducts meteorological research, monitors environmental pollution and conducts a number of tests.
If the situation is not addressed, it may also result in the loss of equipment and contaminate the environment near Canada's economic zone where the station is currently located, the ministry added.
The floating research laboratory will be relocated to Bolshevik Island in the Russian Arctic with the help of an ice-breaker.
"The ice floe has crumbled into six pieces," said Arkady Soshnikov, spokesman for the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
"The people are not at risk but it is not possible to work in these conditions. The ice may disintegrate so a decision has been taken to evacuate" the station, he told AFP.
The station was located at 81 degrees North and 135 degrees West as of early morning Wednesday.
Scientists point to increasing signs of global warming in the Arctic, which is being significantly affected by climate change.
The UN weather agency said this month that the Arctic's sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record.
Vladimir Sokolov, who oversees the floating station at the Saint Petersburg-based Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, said the ice was disintegrating due to climate change.
"This has made the Arctic research significantly harder -- the ice has become thinner and the weather conditions more difficult," he told AFP.
He said it was important to continue studying the Arctic.
"The Arctic Ocean, just like the Antarctic, is the 'refrigerator' of the Earth. It significantly affects the climate of our planet."
"If this 'refrigerator' has a glitch and we do not know about it, it leads to mistakes in forecasts and affects the quality of decision-making on entire territories."
Russia, which has always prided itself on its exploration of the energy-rich region, established the first floating station, the North Pole-1, in 1937.
Funding for floating stations dried up after the collapse of the Soviet Union but resumed under strongman Vladimir Putin who has said Russia intends to expand its presence in the Arctic.
The first floating Arctic station of post-Soviet Russia, the North Pole-32, was put together in 2003. The crew of that station had to be rescued when the ice floe beneath it broke up in 2004.
At a meeting with the crew of the rescued North Pole-32 station, President Putin stressed the importance of the Arctic research.
"For us, for such a northern country like Russia communications in the North are very important both economically and militarily," Putin said in 2004.
Russia alarmed its Arctic neighbours, including Canada and Norway, when it planted a flag on the ocean floor under the North Pole in 2007 in a symbolic staking of its claim over the region.
The five Arctic nations that also include Denmark and the United States are locked in a tight race to gather evidence to support their claims amid reports that global warming could leave the region ice-free by 2030.
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Late in spring camp, the list of rehabbing players included five pitchers: Ben Freeman, Steven Gallardo, Tyler Mills, Alex Reyes and Brad Watson.
A number of other hurlers who opened on full-season club disabled lists may also be continuing their preparation in Jupiter. They include Memphis' Jay Voss, Scott Gorgen, Chris Corrigan and Jordan Swagerty from Springfield and five hurlers on the nearby Palm Beach roster: Ryan Sherriff, Zack Russell, Aidan Lucas, Logan Billbrough and Kyle Barraclough. Memphis' Eduardo Sanchez joined the group of DLed pitchers last Sunday with Danny Miranda of Palm Beach following on Monday.
The entire system currently has only four position players on the disabled list – infielder Luis Mateo at Springfield, Palm Beach catcher Jonathan Keener and first baseman Jeremy Schaffer and outfielder Nick Martini at Peoria. The latter three were injured after the season began. Palm Beach outfielder Stephen Piscotty spent a week on the DL, but has since been reactivated.
In addition to the training staff at each affiliate, coordinated by Senior Medical Advisor Barry Weinberg and Minor League Medical Coordinator Geoff Gabler, the Cardinals have established an increased focus on conditioning.
The latter program is under the direction of Minor League Strength and Conditioning Coordinator Rene Pena. The Cardinals have also put in place strength and conditioning coaches at all four full-season minor league levels.
The efforts of these men are not limited to the time when they are with the players each day in spring training and the regular season. The off-season has become more and more important in preparing the athletes for the grind ahead.
In recent comments from Cardinals Senior Advisor to Player Development Gary LaRocque about the placement of minor leaguers, conditioning came up more than once as one of the organization's decision factors.
"It was a process that really, when we think back, starts in the fall and carries itself right through to spring training," LaRocque said. "To see where we are at in terms of each player's conditioning – how ready he is to move up."
Even in this era in which players seemingly remain in shape all year long, now and then players report in less than tip-top condition, though it is rare.
"Part of the reason for that is that we put so much emphasis on the conditioning program for players," LaRocque said. "A player comes to camp now in February/March knowing that he is competing for a job, not getting himself in shape.
"There is a difference there," he noted
Educating the players on what is expected of them each winter is important, as is direct follow up by the staff.
"What we try to do is ensure the players have a complete understanding of what we want," LaRocque noted. "It is a special program in the off-season. We follow it with calls to ensure our players are on track. We have an automated system where they are reporting their workouts."
That means there should be few, if any surprises when the players report.
"In going through that four-month cycle, we are really able to monitor and expect how they might show up on March 1 in minor league camp," he explained.
Even more important than reporting in shape is being able to remain on the field all season long.
"All of this means we are placing a big emphasis on the conditioning program during the off-season," LaRocque said. "We have reduced our injuries, or days lost on the DL, significantly over the course of the last three years."
LaRocque noted that each of the players currently in the rehab program has a chance of playing this season. The plans and schedules for each are individually set and remain fluid based on progress made.
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"In each year (of the last three), we have just about cut in half the number of days lost," LaRocque noted.
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"Setting the Cards' Double-A, Triple-A rosters".
"How the Cards make minor league assignments".
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Eurythmics To Reunite For The Grammy's Beatles Tribute Show
CBS just announced the first performaces that will start out "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute To The Beatles" scheduled for Sunday, February 9. Not only will this night feature incredible talents such as Alicia Keys and John Legend as a duo and John Mayer and Keith Urban as a duo, but one famous duo from the past will reunite for this night only.
Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, both Grammy award winners, will come together for one night only and reunite as the Eurythmics! Producers of the special have not revealed what songs the Eurythmics will be covering yet, but we have a guess...Eurythmics actually covered The Beatles' classic 'Come Together' for their 1987 album 'Savage'! The track wasn't included on the original pressing of the record but it was dusted off and included as a bonus track when the band re-released 'Savage' back in 2005:
This special broadcast is not only stacked with talented artists and uniquely paired duos, but is itself a broadcast that will mark itself in history. The show is scheduled by CBS to broadcast EXACTLY fifty years to the day, date and time of the original brodcast. The original broadcast from 1964 is one of the most historic live events in music and television history. The momentous night in 1964 marked itself as the very first appearance for the seven time Grammy-winning famous foursome on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The salute this February 9 will showcase some of today's top artists performing the best and most memorable Beatles' songs throughout history. The salute will also playback some clips and footage from the broadcast fifty years ago and various presenters will tribute the band by highlighting the historical impact the group had on music and the whole world.
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''S o many of the big issues facing society are science intensive,''the late Professor Peter Cullen told a gathering of scientists in Alaska, in a keynote speech that has come to be regarded as ''a Cullen classic''.
It was called ''Science and Politics - Speaking Truth to Power'', and eloquently nails the dilemma scientists face when dealing with the party values and self-interest (''vote for me next election'') of politics.
Scientists seek the truth and often deliberately ''take contrary views to test the current orthodoxy'', he explained. Good scientists also operate on the premise that, despite seeking truth, they can never be confident they'd found it -''a better or more powerful explanation may be just around the corner.''
But politics is driven by a ''Darwinian battle for supremacy'' at the ballot box. Science is focused on finding the best solution, and keeping an open mind. In politics, policy is about negotiating a compromise that will protect the government's position.
Many politicians are elected ''because of the support of particular interest groups, and they will commonly seek to advance those interests'' when forming policy, Cullen told his Alaskan audience.
The question begging to be asked, in the wake of this week's launch of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's contentious water allocation plan, is what would Cullen make of the theatre of controversy surrounding the event? And what would be his solution as a way forward?
Cullen dominated Australia's water policy debate in the decades prior to his death in March 2008, and was a strong advocate for the health of river systems. And while didn't suffer fools gladly, he never used his formidable expertise to pull rank in discussions. ''Peter built his career in science, but he learned that simply understanding and appreciating nature will not save it,'' wrote former federal policy adviser and Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists convenor Peter Cosier in his foreword to This Land Our Water, a recently published collection of Cullen's papers. ''What makes Peter Cullen a man of out times is that he stood up - at great personal cost - to those vested interests intent on destroying everything he valued.''
Among the papers in that collection is one Cullen wrote for the scientific journal Freshwater Biology, exploring ''the turbulent boundary'' between water science and water management. In that paper, Cullen wryly observes water managers ''often see scientists as people you call when you have a problem that does not respond to their standard recipes.'' He dissects ''the culture of management'' in Australia's public sector, arguing it is a culture in which science is chiefly valued as a handy (and winning) turf war weapon in policy conflicts.
It's a paper that's so powerfully pertinent to the current furore over the draft Basin plan that its publication date comes as a shock. Cullen wrote it just over 20 years ago.
Australian National University environmental historian Daniel Connell talked at length with Cullen during several years spent researching and writing his thesis (now published as a book) Water Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin. He laughs when asked what Cullen might have thought of the operatic drama that has dogged the Federal Government's attempts to launch a new water management plan for Australia's biggest food-producing region.
''I think he'd be highly amused, but also probably appalled by some aspects of how this is being handled,'' he says.
''We now have a situation where no one is happy with the draft plan, so the Minister can't be accused of favouring any interests.''
Launching the plan this week, Murray Darling Basin Authority chair Craig Knowles appealed to irrigators and environmentalists ''not to become fixated on a number'' - a reference to the estimate of environmental flows to be returned to the region's river systems to restore ecological health. But peak farm groups, the Australian Greens, Basin state Premiers, environmental scientists and conservation groups have all attacked the estimate of 2750 gigalitres a year. The Australian Greens water spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young has dismissed the plan as ''a sell-out'' that will not deliver enough water back into the system to keep it sustainable. Unless the plan is substantially changed, the Greens will not support it in the Senate.
One of Australia's leading environmental scientists, University of NSW freshwater ecologist Professor Richard Kingsford, says returning more water to the Basin's river systems is critical. He has also voiced concerns at comments by Federal Water Minister Tony Burke that ''physical constraints'' such as bridges and narrow channels are restricting the amount of water than can be returned to rivers because the Government could face potential legal action if floods occurred.
''These are minor infrastructure problems that I would have thought could be easily resolved. They have to be resolved if we are going to meet the required environmental targets,'' he says.
Kingsford says the draft plan does nor adequately address the potential impacts of climate change, and argues much of the modelling ''appears to be based on past climate records rather than looking to future implications of a drying climate across the Basin''.
The proposed cuts to both surface and groundwater have not been finalised and there will be several further reviews and audits of the plan, with the cuts due to be implemented in 2019. All sides of the political debate have pointed out that this means a seven-year delay, with the Federal Government relying on targeted water buybacks and infrastructure efficiencies to return water to the environment during that period.
Just over a year ago, there were angry protests in Basin towns over the preliminary guide to the draft basin plan. Publication had been delayed until after the 2010 federal election. It was subsequently launched in Canberra, but without accompanying scientific or economic data to show how proposed water cuts of up to 45per cent for some regions had been calculated. Where was the hydrological modelling?
When boxes of the guide were burned in Yoogali Centre car park outside a packed community meeting (around 6000 people attended) in the NSW Riverina town of Griffith, Federal Regional Affairs Minister Simon Crean hastily announced a parliamentary inquiry, chaired by NSW rural Independent MP Tony Windsor, into potential social impacts of the proposed water cuts. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority's chairman, Mike Taylor subsequently resigned, issuing a statement saying ''governance issues'' related to the Water Act were hampering the Authority's capacity to deliver a Basin water plan. That has sparked debate over whether the Act should be substantially revised or even challenged before the High Court.
The guide ruled out cuts above 4000 gigalitres a year as ''beyond the range of acceptable reductions,'' but proposed cuts of up to 43per cent for the Murrumbidgee catchment. Those figures have been revised, and the draft plan is proposing a cut of 2750GL a year across the Basin's 23 river catchments. The Murrumbidgee catchment - which includes Griffith, Wagga Wagga and Canberra - will take one of the biggest water cuts (13per cent), with a minimum reduction of 320GL a year. But this cut is likely to be much higher, with the Murrumbidgee expected to provide a significant contribution to a further 971GL cut as a ''shared contribution' for the Basin's southern catchments. The ACT is exempt from water cuts, but must prepare a detailed water plan, including environmental water use targets.
Connell argues much of the controversy surrounding the launch of both documents is due to flaws in the Federal Water Act, drafted to address perceived water allocation issues within the Murray-Darling Basin. The Act was formulated by former Howard government water minister Malcolm Turnbull and passed into law in 2007 by the Rudd government in the weeks following the federal election.
Earlier this year Harvard University environmental engineer and World Bank water policy advisor Professor John Briscoe told a Senate inquiry the Water Act ''would not and could not work''. Professor Briscoe told the inquiry the Act was, in his view, a power grab devised by ''opportunistic politicians''. It had been ''hatched in a very short time with very little consultation with any of Australia's great water professionals or its innovative farmers.'' ''In the eyes of the architects of the Water Act it was necessary to take power away from those who had made a mess of things - the states and farmers - and put it in the hands of the enlightened in Canberra,''he said. A major challenge lay in dealing with Australia's constitution, which gave the five basin - Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT - powers over water management and underpinned a state agreement process ''which had been the institutional bedrock'' of the former MDB Commission. The Authority, which replaced the Commission, was established under the Water Act. ''Because constitutional amendments are not simple, and definitely cannot be done over a weekend before an election, the authors of the Water Act had to find legal cover for usurping state powers,''Professor Briscoe said.
''An alert and enterprising environmental lawyer found the fig leaf, which was the [international] Ramsar Convention, which the Commonwealth government had signed, committing itself to protecting wetlands which are critical for migratory birds. To avoid a constitutional crisis, the Commonwealth had to build the Water Act around this fig leaf. So the Act became an environmental act,which was all it really could be, since it was in the name of the Commonwealth's obligations to an obscure environmental convention that it was taking power from the states. And so the fundaments of the Act were born - an environmental act in which Canberra would tell states and communities and farmers what to do.''
Turnbull saw matters differently, writing in his blog that a federal Water Act was needed to address ''a massive over allocation of water'' in the basin. Much of this overallocation ''was done mindlessly and without any consideration of the environmental consequences,'' he wrote.
''Our water management has been extraordinarily ill informed in years past. It is only in recent times that people have recognised the connection between ground water and surface water ... This is not really a legal issue at all. It is about a contest for water, between people and people, between people and the environment, between the Narran Lakes or the Lower Lakes or a redgum forest and a rice field, a vineyard and a dairy farm.''
Professor Briscoe told the Senate inquiry Australia's politicians had ''lost sight of their farmers' extraordinary achievements in food production during the recent drought.'' Over the past decade, Australia had achieved ''something which no other country could conceivably have managed'' and had coped with a 70per cent reduction in water availability with ''very little aggregate economic impact'' on a large regional economy that was largely dependent on irrigated agriculture . It was an extraordinary achievement that showed ''it is possible - with ingenuity and investment - to adapt to rapid climate change and associated water scarcity'', he said.
Connell also sees the Water Act as ''a grab for power by the Commonwealth'', arguing it was ''introduced during a period of drought by Turnbull as a way of proving the federal government was doing something'' to address public perceptions of a water crisis. The Act's implementation strategy is deeply flawed, he says. ''As a result, we have these big events like the release of the guide, the release of the draft basin plan, all this elaborate process of getting approval, and then a year or two later , we will have to go through the same process again with the various state sub-plans. This process is bound to generate massive confrontations. to keep conflict simmering, and be a very difficult to manage successfully.''
Water reform strategies in the 1980s and '90s might have been ''operating at a much lower scale'' at catchment and community level, but they produced effective results, he says.
''We didn't have these mega-events, but we did have community engagement and a succession of water efficiency reforms that reflected that level of engagement.'' The draft plan outlines ''a very gradualist process'' that appears to be aiming to turn water reform ''into a non-event'', he says.
''It's a non-event in that it's offering no surprises, and promising endless reviews. It's trying to diffuse opposition to change by being boring. The aim is to put a pin in the balloon.''
He suggests the late Peter Cullen's approach to water reform would have been vastly different. ''One of Peter's great qualities was he really enjoyed talking to people. He loved listening to different views, and getting into robust debates about ideas.
''And he was one of those rare people who don't think they have to win every argument and always be proved right. He never thought community meetings were a waste of time, because he didn't see talking to people as hard work. But for most politicians and bureaucrats, it is hard work. '' In that paper published more than 20 years ago, Cullen warns of the dangers that can arise when the political policy process puts ''untrained people in charge of complex ecosystems'' without insisting they seek out expert scientific advice. He wrote, ''When they know so little about the systems they manage that they do not even know what they do not know ... then we have a recipe for disaster.''
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Water shortages in Tripoli are "serious" but not "critical", the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator in Libya said Friday, dismissing fears of a looming disaster.
Panos Moumtzis said providing water to four million people in Tripoli and across a swathe of Libya remained "the most important and urgent and immediate priority" for aid agencies, but the situation was in hand.
Residents of the capital have been without running water for close to a week as the war forced disruptions to Libya's state-of-the-art system that draws water from underground wells deep in the south of the country.
"The situation at the moment with the provision of water remains serious but I want to clarify that it is not critical," Moumtzis said.
The United Nations and other international actors say they are importing about 11 million litres of drinking water to stave off an emergency, while engineers race to get the system back on line.
With over 580 wells linked to the Great Man Made River system no longer feeding the city, Tripoli residents have tapped long-dormant boreholes to procure water for everyday use while bottling companies provide free drinking water.
"Quite an adequate response has been provided so far", Moumtzis said.
Members of the National Transitional Council said Friday they hoped the water shortage would only be a matter of days and residents would cope.
"It is not a major problem, it is a problem, but people are dealing with it," said Alamin Belhaj, an NTC member from Tripoli.
He said that Tripoli's citizens would tolerate the inconvenience, in part because fears of widespread bloodshed and a siege of the city were not realised.
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But that does not mean life is easy for the millions who live in the city and western Mediterranean coast.
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"We are very concerned about the delivery of fuel in particular for humanitarian needs the lack of fuel is having a significant impact on everyday life," said Moumtzis.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by dupree89, Nov 14, 2013.
Troy thinks we are going to get bent over by the Giants.
Have to say I agree.
I suggest you actually read my posts instead of quoting what you think they say. I have stated over and over I like Romo and am glad he is here.
But every player on this team makes mistakes. I am not one to gloss over them to protect Romo's image as a Deity as some here seem to do.
Yes, me too. Unless the NYG come out of this week's game with some big injury concerns, I think it will be a very difficult game for Dallas to win.
I'm not all that surprised. He's paid to comment on things and he'd be a fool to prioritize a personal relationship over what is blatantly obvious. I'm sure Jason is a big enough boy that he wouldn't be pissed at someone who's calling it how it is.
He isn't alone. Wait until the pregame show predictions.
I've read your posts. Your one of those who hate on Romo consistently but can't even own up to it.
Or, you're one who holds Romo up because of stats and ignores his foibles, being blinded by your man crush.
But see it as you must.
No offense intended here, but, why would anyone want to work for "answers" from an internet forum poster whose opinion is no more valuable or any less valuable than any other clown posting "opinions?"
Not to a vast majority of this place. Romo hate is all most of these losers have.
Simple really. If you make an assertion that I have said something or taken a consistent position on a subject and I disagree and you say prove it. Then I provide the avenue to go read my posts and see for yourself by giving you the navigational steps to find all of my posts on this board.
And you then tell me it isn't worth your time, one of two things apply.
One is you are lazy and don't want to look it up.
Two is you now have made a statement that is patently false and are trying to get out from under the fact that you did no research before making a false statement.
Sometimes you have to put a little work into it.
I will.
It will be just like the Saints pregame...............everybody and their momma was picking against us.................cant say I blame them.
Is there some rule that I don't know about that says you can't be concerned about offense AND defense? We have serious problems on both sides of the ball. Problems ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Sometimes I think Troy is a wiener, but I agree with everything he said here.


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If you want to participate in the resources boom, however much longer it lasts, but aren't sure how to do it then exchange-traded funds are an option. There are plenty of providers out there pitching products to small investors – the trick is knowing how to use to them to your advantage.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) began in Australia by giving investors cheap and easy exposure to sharemarket indices such as the S&P/ASX 200 – a gauge of the 200 biggest stocks on the local market.
The products have since evolved and include, among others, sector ETFs – and none have been more popular with issuers than those related to energy and resources.
There are several of these available, although most are still tiny in size. Australian Index Investments launched six sector ETFs just over a year ago, including one for metals and mining, one for energy companies, and one for resources – a combination of the other two.
Then in December, BetaShares, a new player in the Australian market but backed by the big Canadian ETF issuer BetaPro Management, launched a similar resources ETF.
Next, in March, State Street Global Advisors, which launched the original SPDR ETF in Australia, announced three new funds, again including a resources product.
The selling points of ETFs include being cheap (BetaShare's product has a management fee of 0.39 per cent, Aii 0.43 per cent, and State Street 0.4 per cent), as well as being a very simple way of achieving a diversified exposure – you buy and sell them like any other share but gain access to a whole portfolio of stocks.
Financial planners like them because they can use ETFs to set up the core of a portfolio, which simply mimics index returns, and then use specialist fund managers for bets around the edges of a portfolio. And increasingly, they can be leveraged by borrowing, if that appeals.
But what about playing a sector like commodities through an ETF?
"The core thing is the fact that you get diversification across the companies within that sector of the ASX 200," says BetaShares' head of investment strategy and distribution, Drew Corbett.
"Traditionally, a lot of Australian investors would gain their exposure through a smaller group of stocks, usually the bigger companies like BHP and Rio."
An ETF instead gives them exposure to 60 companies in the resources sector, not just the bigger ones.
"It allows them instant diversification and lets them participate in the returns of some of the companies benefiting from the mining boom outside the bigger heavyweights," Corbett says.
Whether or not that's a good thing depends on how the market is performing, of course, but in 2010 it would have been a great arrangement.
According to BetaShares, 21 of the 25 best-performing stocks in the S&P/ASX 200 in 2010 were resources stocks – and
It's particularly relevant because apart from the listed property sector – where Westfield dominates the index – there is no other area of investment where one company is so dramatically bigger than its peers.
BHP comprises 41 per cent of the resources sector – much more if you're only looking at metals and mining – so there is a temptation to think that once you hold it, you've got your resources allocation covered. Smaller resources companies can be unpredictable holdings – when they thrive, they really thrive. But when they dive, they dive.
The Aii range is the most diversified of those on offer today, since it provides three ways of playing the sector. In March, its chief executive Annmaree Varelas called on investors to consider the Energy ETF. "With oil prices on the rise, maybe now is the time to consider a higher energy stock exposure for portfolios," she said, as revolutions kicked off across the Middle East and pushed oil prices higher. All those macro themes are still in play two months on and high oil prices do appear to be here to stay. The Aii Energy ETF has 22 stocks in it, among them Woodside Petroleum, Origin Energy, Santos and Oil Search, as well as various explorers and service companies.
Aii's Metals and Mining ETF is inevitably somewhat lopsided – BHP is more than half the exposure, while Rio and Newcrest take up another 22 per cent – but again the appeal is partly the exposure to names outside the top 10, those you probably wouldn't want to put a lot of your portfolio into in isolation but would appreciate some exposure to, if you're willing to wear some volatility.
It's worth remembering that the commodities boom can also be played just by owning the commodities themselves – and in this respect ETFs have a role to play too. ETF Securities sells exchange-traded commodities, or ETCs, backed by physical metals. At this stage, though, they exist only over precious metals: gold, silver, platinum, palladium and a basket of precious metals.
As with everything, there is another side to the coin. Managers that aim for better than index gains argue that resources companies are exactly the sort of area where blindly buying the market is an error, because there are very good and very average companies within it.
The ideal, they would argue, is to own the smaller stars but omit the duds – a fine argument, but much easier said than done.
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While I am encouraged by the recent Department of Justice suits filed against Dean Foods investigating their excessive market concentration in the dairy industry, these investigations are long overdue. For the past 18 months dairy farmers in America have faced their worst crisis since the Great Depression as the price they are paid for their milk has dropped more than 50% since December 2008. At the same time, giant dairy processors and co-ops have raked in record profits while dairy farmers are losing their farms and struggling to make ends meet just to feed their families.
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Adequately covering the topic of energy-efficiency in Europe and Japan in the 20th century requires more time and skills than the author has available. So the author is asking for help. While the results will likely be somewhat similar to that for the U.S., there will likely be some significant differences. Many countries and languages are involved. This research can best be done by people who know the languages and have access to the transportation literature of each country. Any volunteers?
The first major part of this article has covered the energy-efficiency of travel for the United States (U.S.). The situation in Europe was likely somewhat similar, only the rise of the automobile came much later. Public transportation (rail and bus) dominated passenger travel long after the U.S. had opted for the automobile.
In the U.S. and Canada, the modal shifts to the auto happened in most parts of the countries in a roughly homogeneous fashion. In all the states of the U.S., the automobile became dominant in the 1920s. But the rise of the automobile in Europe (and elsewhere) not only happened much later, it was a different story in each country and there were very wide differences between countries.
For example, in the Soviet Union, public transport was dominant (see USSR modal split. In 1970, only 2.8% of pass-km was by private automobile. But in 1970 Western Europe, automobile transportation dominated with automobile pass-km being about 75% (See Europe) of the total.
Today, the automobile is very dominant in Western Europe with a modal share of 85% of land transportation in 1999 (See Europe). But rapid automobilisation, like the U.S. in the 1920s, didn't happen in Western Europe until about 35 years after it happened in the U.S. In the 1920s, the U.S. was awash in oil and autos were mass produced. But not so in Western Europe. Only the wealthy there could afford autos in most cases. Then came the great depression in the 1930s and World War in the 1940s. During all this time, most Europeans were transported by railroads and buses (and not autos). Some used bicycles. It wasn't until about 1970 that there was about 1 auto for every 5 people, the same as for the U.S. by 1930.
So the automobilisation of Western Europe during 1955-1970, in contrast to the U.S. in the 1920s, didn't increase energy-efficiency since most Western Europe railroads were already efficient diesel or electric. It was a shift from a more energy-efficient rail mode to a less efficient automobile mode.
Today in Western Europe, the automobile is the dominant mode of travel, as it is in the U.S. But there is still several times more rail and bus travel than in the U.S. See Europe.
In Japan, rail was the major mode of travel until about 1975. In 1960 there was 4 times as much travel by railroad than by automobile. Previous to 1960 there was even less travel by auto. See Japan. But by 2000, 27% of travel in Japan was by rail as compared to only about 6% in Europe and a little over 1/2 % in the U.S.. So in Japan rail's share is about the same as it was in the U.S. during World War II (30%). See [Trans in Am.]
Also, rail travel in Japan is a few times more energy-efficient than in the U.S., likely due to higher load factors, more seats per unit weight, and the higher efficiency of electric trains with regenerative braking. Since Japan is relatively small, most rail trips do not require sleeping cars, results in less train weight per passenger. See Japan. In Japan, most all passenger traffic goes over electrified rail lines.
So for Japan, rail travel after 1965 continued to slowly grow but automobile travel grew much faster. As a result, the average energy efficiency of travel dropped due to the shift in percentage shares from rail and bus (highly efficient modes in Japan) to the automobile and airplane (lower efficient modes in Japan). The modal shift in the U.S. happened much earlier in the steam railroad era (low efficiency trains) so that average energy efficiency increased while this was happening in the U.S. For Japan, energy efficiency did increase during the period of conversion from steam to electric, starting in the 1930's.


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Since global stockmarkets bottomed out at the beginning of March 2009, the Dow Jones has risen 114 per cent while the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is up 56 per cent.
Throw in those all-important dividends and the Dow is up 143 per cent while the local sharemarket is up 104 per cent.
That's not bad at all. But perhaps not as good as it looks.
March 2009 was a 5½-year low for stocks and shares went haywire after Lehman Brothers blew up six months earlier.
As Clime chief investment officer John Abernethy said this past week, September 30, to be precise, marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the final sell-off that saw stocks eventually sink to that March 2009 low.
He argues that if investors look at the amount of capital that was raised during the crisis, there hasn't quite been the stellar run for the local sharemarket that everyone thinks.
Five years ago, in September 2008, the major index was about 4631 points and the market capitalisation was $1187 billion.
Shares then slumped to 3145.5 in March 2009.
Now the major index is closer to 5200 points and the market capitalisation is closer to $1500 billion.
No real change in five years
But during the crisis, companies raised about $100 billion in what was a bonanza for brokers and fund managers as they sought to bolster their balance sheets.
Debt markets were frozen and capital was hard to come by.
Abernethy says although the index "suggests a 12 per cent price lift over five years equivalent to just 2 per cent compound per annum, a review of the capital raised suggests that the increased market value is simply reflecting the capital raised".
He also thinks it's extraordinary that more capital has been raised in the Australian equity market than in the Shanghai or Japanese markets, while the "capital raised has barely generated a return for the investors who have risked new capital".
When the retained equity generated from profits is included, shares haven't moved that much since 2008.
And the 20 per cent plus rally over the past year has more to do with low interest rates than earnings.
The rally has been led by an expansion in the price of the price-earnings ratio. And interest rates are low for a reason: the economy isn't doing so well.
Dividends still paying off
In spite of the economy, the earnings outlook for shares is still upbeat. Earnings per share this financial year are expected to be about 12 per cent thanks to a strong performance from resources, forecast to be 31 per cent, and industrials, about 7.5 per cent.
The dividend strategy has paid off in spades over the past year and the best game plan has been to own five stocks: the four majors and
It also highlights the difference between passive and active investment styles.
It's a straightforward distinction to make between the two, but it's less easy to make a decision on.
Passive investing follows an index, usually the S&P/ASX 200, and the aim is, minus fees, to do nothing more than match it.
There's not a lot of research to do, which means it can be a cheap way for investors to get exposure to the sharemarket.
Then there are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are also low cost, more tax efficient, include real-time pricing, are highly specialised and offer instant liquidity.
Sometimes, less is more
Active investing is where a manager uses his or her stock-picking skills in an attempt to beat the index.
It involves effort on the part of fund managers; they have to research stocks, form a view on their standing, meet management and so forth. This is why active fund managers charge higher fees.
Do they justify them? Sometimes, sometimes not.
Active fund managers have tended to outperform local ETFs in the past year or so because the index is heavily weighted to resources stocks which many active managers steered clear of.
Nevertheless, over the longer term the lower cost of ETFs could see them significantly outperform active funds.
Morningstar have also reported that some active managers are finding it harder to unearth any value as analysts wind back their strong conviction calls.
For that reason they are scaling back their big bets.
For example, the research house says the active share of AMP Capital Equity has dropped by about 30 per cent over the past two years.
Active fund managers argue that valuations on a few popular stocks have increased to such a high level that finding value is becoming almost impossible.
As a result, they are moving closer to an index position even though they are paid more fees to be active.
Active investing is a gamble
According to Morningstar, the average active fund manager has become slightly less active over the last year.
That's not exactly a bad thing if you take a look at the five-year annualised returns for active managers.
If you think by paying up for an active manager you are guaranteed a better return, then you'd best think again. And if you want your active manager to be active all the time, it may not be the best strategy.
There certainly is a much greater chance of performing differently from all the other managers if a fund is active all the time.
But it's just as likely the performance could be good or bad.
Active investing falls into many styles, but two are commonly referred to: value and growth.
Value refers to looking for stocks that are undervalued compared with their real worth.
Growth investing means investing in stocks with an upward momentum, even if they're already fairly valued.
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"Justice, Justice shall you pursue" -- those were the words from the Torah, the five books of Moses -- that drew U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords into Jewish life, her rabbi says.
As Giffords continues to show remarkable signs of recovery from a gunshot wound to her head in Saturday's shooting rampage, The Jewish Daily Forward has an interview with Stephanie Aaron, Giffords' rabbi at Congregation Chaverim.
This is where the congresswoman took seriously the Jewish injunction that the world stands on three pillars -- prayer, study and good works.
After a soul-stirring trip to Israel, Giffords, the daughter of an interfaith marriage, was moved to define herself as a Jew, says Aaron. The Rabbi describes their meetings to study Jewish teachings in the Bible and commentaries by scholars in the Talmud.
According to the Forward, Aaron said Giffords was particularly drawn to the notion of "tzedek," the Jewish pursuit of justice. She also said that the way Giffords approached public service seemed rooted in Jewish values. Aaron said:
She could speak to a baby, as well as to a 92-year-old individual who could barely walk -- that's the presence she has. It's like when we say, "Shema Yisrael," -- the idea of "I hear you; I listen to you." That is one of the strongest aspects of her soul.
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There's a big pile of optimism on the floor of Brian Porray's studio—25 pieces of plywood, neatly stacked. It's early June, and they're awaiting a long summer of meticulous sprays and dabs of paint that will turn them into art. Even if that's not an exceptional workload for a UNLV master of fine art student, the promise it contains is. There's a sense that Porray has turned the corner. He seems to be on to something. There's evidence in the few paintings he's already completed in the series. Take "None of This Is Actually Happening," whose neon-bright particles appear to be getting sucked into the canvas, leaving nothing behind. It's like that whirl of surrealism during the split second you're whipped upside-down in a roller coaster. In the painting, though, the moment of movement is frozen, giving you time to contemplate the familiar world morphed into a kaleidoscope of shapes and colors. The effect is beautiful, thrilling, even a little dizzying. Porray likes the sound of that last word, and he suspects this new effect—"images wildly receding backward"—is "a direct result of getting a firm grip on how to put the geometry together in a much more dramatic way." And so the 30-year-old artist will keep pushing this direction with what he calls his "digital rococo acid-trip landscapes," refining his angles in effort to achieve more acceleration, more drama, more of whatever effect might surface in the process. "This summer," Porray says, "I'm just taking the aesthetics for a ride."
Marty Walsh, the artist's rep, felt a little bump in the road not long before. Three of Porray's paintings that she hung in Paymon's Mediterranean Bistro at the Arts Factory seemed to be a detour from recent progress. "They felt a little transitional," she says. They are certainly OK enough for public display. They are of the same caliber as Porray's recent public commissions, such as his sublime take on the Landmark hotel implosion for Clark County's centennial mural project. They have the same color intensity that inspired the British design magazine Candid to include Porray in its spring "Who to Watch" roundup and refer to his paintings as "eye-popping," and for the upcoming issue of New American Paintings (which calls itself "a juried exhibition-in-print") to spotlight his work alongside that of 40 other painters in the West. But when Walsh visited Porray's studio in June and saw a large new work called "Police John, Police Red," she didn't bother to shade her critique: "That painting rocks my world!" She felt the motion, and that the paintings were in sync with what had originally motivated Walsh to devote her Trifecta Gallery to a sort of Brian Porray coming-out party in September. Though she usually doesn't bother—or bother with—graduate students while they're finding their way, Porray is the exception. He's ready. She calls him "the perfect storm," with all conditions right for emergence. S e p t e m b e r - O c t o b e r 2 0 0 9 D e s e r t C o m p a n i o n 41
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When he looks back on his long career as a songwriter, Verlon Thompson will probably have fond memories of 2010.
"Somedays the Song Writes You," a CD Thompson produced for Guy Clark, his long-time friend, musical collaborator and touring partner, received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
In June, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson covered Thompson's "Bad Angel" on Bentley's critically acclaimed CD, "Up on the Ridge."
"Bad Angel" was nominated for Musical Event of the Year by the Country Music Association. The tune was recently nominated for a Grammy.
The song has a Texas connection. It was written on a 1929 National Resonator guitar given to him after a benefit he did in Austin around 1991.
"I immediately fell in love with it," Thompson said during an interview from the Nashville home he shares with his wife, award-winning news anchor Demetria Kalodimos. "I started experimenting with open tuning using the old slide to play it. 'Bad Angel' was one of the first songs I wrote using that guitar. I don't really remember what inspired me aside from the guitar itself. It was an exercise in trying to find some words that would go along with the sound of the guitar."
Thompson is happy with Bentley's cover.
"Dierks did a great job with that song," said Thompson, who is in high demand as a studio musician. "He was really brave in cutting a mostly bluegrass record. The people who come out to see that show just sit there with their mouths open. They can't believe it."
Thompson was referring to Bentley's most recent tour, featuring some blazing bluegrass pickers, including the Punch Brothers and Del McCrory.
"They're playing somewhere up there in the cloud, and it's real joyous to see," said Thompson, who once earned $150 a week as a songwriter. "They're on another plane."
Thompson, who Clark calls one of the best guitar players in the world, knows something about playing outside the boundaries.
Last fall, he had the opportunity to play "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" in an other worldly setting.
The song tells the story of the 1973 murder of David "Stringbean" Akeman, a beloved Grand Ole Opry performer, and his wife, Estelle. The couple was killed during a robbery at their humble cabin north of Nashville.
Thompson and Clark had been talking about doing a song based on the tragedy for years.
"The story has all the ingredients of a classic bluegrass murder ballad," explained Thompson. "We didn't write the song because we didn't want to be disrespectful. Everyone loved Stringbean so much. We wanted it to be a serious and truthful song."
Then one day bluegrass mandolin player Sam Bush was at Clark's house. He told Clark and Thompson the story of cleaning out his father's house and finding "a perfectly preserved front page of the Nashville Banner" where they were auctioning off Stringbean's iconic overalls. Bush wondered out loud why his father had saved the photo.
"Guy and I looked at each other and said, 'Uh, oh. This might be the chance," Thompson said. "We did some research right there on the spot to make sure the facts were right. We started messing around with the song. It just sort of fell out."
Thompson played the song at Nashville's Station Inn, and then something magical happened.
"One day I got a call from friends of a woman who had purchased the cabin where Stringbean and Estelle lived there in Ridgetop, Tenn., and were murdered," Thompson said. "The lady had remodeled it but had left the living room exactly as it had been the night of the murder, including the bullet holes in the floor."
One fall evening after the remodeling project was finished, the cabin's new owner invited a lot of Nashville's best pickers to the place to honor Stringbean.
"Everybody from Earl Scruggs to Stringbean's son was there," said Thompson. "I stood on the front door of the cabin with my feet on the bullet holes in that floor and sang that song. There was a full moon coming up and a huge fire built out in the front yard. It was one of the most chilling things. People were crying. It was a magic night."
When he finished playing, Thompson knew "we did the right thing writing the song."
The International Bluegrass Music Association agreed, nominating "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" as Song of the Year.
"To have the bluegrass world embrace it with that nomination was the ultimate stamp of approval," said the Binger, Okla., native. "They could have said, 'Hey you used the loss of a wonderful person for your song.'"
Although it hasn't been nominated for awards, another song Thompson wrote with Clark is creating a lot of buzz with musicians.
Several years ago, Clark and Thompson were at a songwriting clinic, trying to find common ground among the students.
"It was obvious," Thompson said. "We all had guitars in our laps, so the song was going to be about a guitar."
After the clinic, Clark and Thompson put the lyrics away.
"Then one day, I got an e-mail from one of the guys in the class," Thompson recalled. "He wanted the music to the lyrics. I told him I didn't remember and asked him to send me the lyrics."
When he got the long-forgotten lyrics, Thompson sat down and started to play. He liked what he heard, so he headed over to Clark's house.
"I said to Guy, 'Remember this song?" Thompson said. "'Listen to this.'"
Clark immediately replied, "I'm cutting that."
Clark included the song on his next CD and it's an integral part of the set list for live shows.
Thompson's heard from musicians all over the country who want to know exactly how to pick the tune.
"People are trying to learn it note for note and dissecting it," Thompson said. "It's not about doing it note for note. It's about the song and what it's saying and about the spirit and soul of it. Get that first. Then strum it your way."
Thompson is working on a new CD which it is hoped will include "Joe Walker's Mare," a song about a horse – but also about loyalty, dedication and honor – he says came to him in a "hotel room in San Antonio on a rainy day off."
Even with the recent accolades and time in the spotlight, Thompson has no plans to abandon the road, as he loves touring and reaching out to his audiences.
"The time I spend with Guy in these small rooms, these listening venues like Linden, that's what I want to do," he explained. "I want to sit with the people and connect with them. You make a record and you go out and play it for the folks and then you start the whole thing over. That's how you do it. It's called the life of a songwriter."
Here are clips of Thompson performing "The Guitar" at his home in Nashville; playing "Joe Walker's Mare" and a clip of Thompson and Shawn Camp doing "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle."
This is the twelfth part in "A Songwriter's Sojourn,"
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Breast Cancer Screening For Women
News From Senator Shirley L. Huntley
For Immediate Release: April 20, 2010
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Senator Shirley L. Huntley Urges Breast Cancer Screening For Women
Senator Shirley L. Huntley (D-Jamaica) has joined with the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program in their annual Mother's Day campaign to urge women to get mammograms. A mammogram is an x-ray of the breasts to detect any abnormalities. During the procedure, the breast is pressed between two plates to flatten and spread the tissue. Slight pressure is felt for a few seconds. The procedure is quick and simple.
Early detection is the best form of prevention. Often times, catching cancer early means less invasive treatment, less risk, an increase of survival rates, and more options. "Mother's Day is a significant time to remind women to get mammograms," says Senator Huntley. "I hope that this Mother's Day women will take the time to make an appointment for a mammogram. Approximately 95 percent of all mammograms prove to be normal."
According to the American Cancer Society, in 2009, there were 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,170 deaths as a result of breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. Therefore, it is recommended that women over the age of 40 years should get a mammogram. Women in their 20's and 30's should get a clinical breast exam every three years by a doctor or a qualified nurse. Women should also learn to conduct a self breast exam to become familiarized with their breast in order to be able to note any changes that may occur.
Some symptoms of breast cancer may include:
- swelling of all or part of the breast
- skin irritation or dimpling
- breast pain
- nipple pain or the nipple turning inward
- redness, scaliness, or thickening of the nipple or breast skin
The hotline marks its 30th anniversary this year. It is a project of the Adelphi University School of Social Work on Long Island. All services are free and confidential. Please visit www.adelphi.edu/nysbreastcancer for more information and to locate an accredited mammography facility nearby, call the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program at 800-877-8077. Callers can also get emotional support from the hotline's specially trained volunteers, most of who are women who have had breast cancer.