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About Loud & Proud Records
Loud & Proud Records is an independent record label whose mission is to provide a true partnership between artists and their label. Loud & Proud's roster of releases is a diverse collection of established and developing artists. Notably, the label's longstanding relationship with Lynyrd Skynyrd has yielded releases from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Zant (featuring brothers Johnny and Donnie); The Rossingtons (Gary & Dale Rossington), and Blackfoot (featuring Rickey Medlocke). The label also represents recordings by rock supergroup The Winery Dogs; emerging Nashville roots/blues artists The Delta Saints; multi-platinum alternative band Flyleaf; Grammy® Award winners Blues Traveler; Grammy® award winner Rick Springfield; five-time Emmy® Award winning actor and musician Jonathan Jackson and his band Enation; jam scene favorites The String Cheese Incident; powerhouse rockers KIX and more. Labels under Lipsky's direction in the past (CMC International, Sanctuary Records Group and a joint-venture with Roadrunner Records) released such prominent artists as Rush, Neil Young, Robert Plant, KISS, Morrissey, Lenny Kravitz, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Judas Priest, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band and more. Loud & Proud Records is distributed worldwide by ADA, a Warner Music Company and is marketed outside North America by International Solutions.
Tom Lipsky – Owner & President
"The music industry is relationship driven. So the best moments are when you can share in the success."
For Tom Lipsky, success is personal. During his time as the label head of CMC International (a joint venture with BMG Entertainment), Sanctuary and most recently Loud & Proud Records, his achievements never stemmed from number-crunching or endlessly chasing "the next new thing." They have come from working with veteran artists and developing lasting relationships, some spanning decades.
This is why, for example, you might find Lipsky and his wife celebrating their 25th anniversary at a Lynyrd Skynyrd record release party in Florida. Or Lipsky dropping in on one of his bands on the road, setting himself at the side of the stage during a show. Just to watch.
Because, to him, these are friends, not just clients.
Under Lipsky's direction, a wide range of veteran artists — including Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, KISS, The Allman Brothers Band, Rob Zombie, Styx, Judas Priest, Bad Company, Megadeth, Rush, Lenny Kravitz and Widespread Panic — have achieved great success (in many cases including Gold and Platinum records) long after the record industry had seemingly moved on.
During his tenure as Owner/President of CMC International Records, and later as President & CEO of Sanctuary Records Group North America, Lipsky was inspired by diversity. He was able to develop an environment in which one week the label was launching a new album by Iron Maiden, the next week Tegan & Sara, then Morrissey, Earth, Wind & Fire, and the latest from Yes. Lipsky has always relied on his sharp instinct to identify quality opportunities with artists that are constant, relevant and determined to add new chapters to their already stellar careers.
"These artists already have strong fanbases," says Lipsky, talking from his home in North Carolina (a true road warrior, Lipsky will spend any given month commuting between NC, New York, Nashville and Los Angeles). "They're underappreciated by current record labels. I'm about extending their careers. And we've developed new ways to do that."
CMC and Sanctuary each became one of the top grossing labels in the BMG and BMG-Sony Distribution systems. Lipsky is confident the same will be achieved by Loud & Proud under its new home at A.D.A.
That said, Loud & Proud does things a little differently. Originally a joint venture with the hard rock label Roadrunner Records, the new L&P — currently distributed worldwide by ADA Distribution, a division of Warner Music Group — is firmly under Lipsky's control, which means new opportunities.
"It's creative freedom for me," he says. "I pick the artists, and they can be veteran or emerging artists, singer-songwriter, metal, R&B or country… whoever inspires; artists with commercial potential and real integrity."
In a way, it marks a return for Lipsky to the early days of CMC, when it was a scrappy indie label in the early '90s embracing rock acts that the majors deemed unworthy. "There are always opportunities. You just have to create a scalable model, depending on who you're working with… something a big label can't necessarily do."
In that sense, Lipsky has moved L&P away from a traditional label model and more into an even partnership with artists. Everybody he signs enters into a 50-50 agreement, and they work together on just one record at a time.
But one thing that hasn't changed: an open door policy, for everyone. Lipsky is available, 24/7, for managers, employees, and most importantly, to the artists themselves.
"I call our relationships 'true and transparent'," says Lipsky. "These artists are trusting me with their work. So I take that relationship seriously."
For Lipsky, that's an idea that has never changed.
Madelyn Scarpulla – General Manager
Madelyn Scarpulla, General Manager, Loud & Proud Records, has enjoyed an illustrious career in the music business, having held senior positions at five major record labels, a major artist management company, a major-market radio station, and two independent labels. Scarpulla's history is brimming with countless success stories, ranging from marketing, branding and imaging to radio promotion, publicity, online marketing and non-traditional business development. She has worked with a wide range of artists in various genres, including Nickelback, Lenny Kravitz, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Young the Giant, Led Zeppelin, Bon Jovi, KISS, INXS, Slipknot, Earth Wine & Fire, John Mellencamp, Ray J and Morrissey.
Scarpulla's current responsibilities as General Manager of Loud & Proud Records include designing marketing, sales and promotion strategies and originating creative material and content for the entire diverse Loud & Proud roster, managing all label operations, liasing with RED Distribution and connecting directly with artists and managers. Scarpulla also strategizes closely with Owner & President Tom Lipsky to lead Loud & Proud into the future as a multi-genre artist-friendly label environment for veteran and emerging artists of all levels and status.
Immediately prior to her post at Loud & Proud, Scarpulla was most recently Senior Vice President of Marketing & Creative Services at Roadrunner Records. At Roadrunner, Scarpulla oversaw marketing, product management, online marketing, publicity, creative services, video production and licensing for the entire diverse roster of 40+ artists such as Nickelback, Slipknot,
Theory of a Deadman, Korn and Young The Giant. Scarpulla was instrumental in acquiring and signing artists to Loud & Proud Records (a joint venture with Roadrunner) including Lenny Kravitz, Rush, Rob Zombie, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Lynyrd Skynyrd and KISS.
Scarpulla began her career as an Assistant Program & Promotions Director at WIYY Radio in Baltimore, MD in 1985. She transitioned to Polygram Records in Washington, DC, where she held the position of Mid-Atlantic Radio Promotion Manager before relocating to New York City as Product Manager for PolyGram where she worked with KISS, Tears For Fears, The Scorpions, Def Leppard, Ugly Kid Joe and many more.
In 1991, Scarpulla left the label and joined Artists Services Management/Horizon Entertainment artist management, where she worked with John Mellencamp and then managed KIX. In 1994, Scarpulla moved back to a label as Director, Sales & Marketing for Arista Records. Then she returned to PolyGram/Mercury as Senior Director, Marketing & Artist Development where key
projects included Bon Jovi, KISS (again), INXS, Rusted Root, 311 and more. In 2000, Scarpulla was named Senior Director, Marketing for Columbia Records (Aerosmith, The Jayhawks, Chris Botti) and two years later became Vice President, Marketing for Atlantic Records (Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins, Stone Temple Pilots and Shinedown).
In 2004, Scarpulla was named Senior Vice President, Marketing for Sanctuary Records Group, where she reported to Tom Lipsky on such diverse projects as KISS (yet again), Robert Plant, Morrissey, The Allman Brothers, Tegan & Sara. She also oversaw Music World Entertainment releases such as Ray J, Earth Wind & Fire and Kool & The Gang. Scarpulla left Sanctuary in 2006 to become Senior Vice President of Marketing & Creative Services at Roadrunner Records, a position she held for seven years.
Scarpulla has a strong commitment to mentorship, making teaching a central tenet of her work ethic and philosophy. At Mercury, PolyGram, Columbia, Atlantic and Sanctuary she groomed several assistants, coordinators, and interns into successful music industry executives, many of whom hold VP titles today. Scarpulla is also on the Grammy Awards' annual screening committee for pop/rock/R&B formats. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, New York chapter.
Rod Kukla – A&R
Rod S. Kukla has been a member of the A&R Departments at American Recordings, Columbia Records and Sanctuary Records. Rod began his career at Columbia Records working with Randy Jackson(American Idol) and later A&R legend, John David Kalodner (Aerosmith, Foreigner, Whitesnake). Rod subsequently was a member of mega producer Rick Rubin's A&R team. Rod has worked with many artists and songwriters, most notably, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Beth Hart, Ratt, Jeff Steele, Sixpense None the Richer, The Union Underground, Zebrahead, Jackyl and Tesla, as well as being involved with soundtrack projects including Armageddon, Dawson's Creek and She's All That.
Karen Long – Director of Finance and Administration
Karen Long, Director of Finance and Administration at Loud & Proud Records, has a long history of working with Tom Lipsky at his previous ventures, having held the same role at both CMC International and Sanctuary Records.
From 1997 to 2007, Long was responsible for the financial reporting, accounts payable and forecasting for Lipsky's previous labels. She was also a key member of the team as she handled office management, human resources and payroll processing. Her expertise and skills in accounting systems and financial management along with her unique experience working alongside Lipsky for a decade makes her an invaluable addition to the Loud & Proud team.
Long's responsibilities at Loud & Proud include preparation and analysis of all aspects related to financial statements, generation and analysis of sales reports, marketing and sales forecasting, inventory control and budgeting. Like at CMC and Sanctuary, Long is also responsible for operations, office management and planning for and advising on the growth and expansion of the latest incarnation of Loud & Proud Records.
Katy Krassner – Social Media Management
Katy Krassner held the VP of Publicity title at Sanctuary Records Group where she led press campaigns for Robert Plant, KISS, John Mellencamp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Morrissey, Tegan & Sara and Earth, Wind & Fire to name just a few. Katy is also a published author and successful entertainment-based writer. She made a mid-career transition to digital media focusing on social media management, and she now manages Duran Duran's social media. Helping guide entertainment brands and artists through the sometimes murky waters of social media, Katy has found her niche. With a genuine understanding of social media as a tool to create personal relationships with fans, Katy enjoys developing the community of Loud & Proud Records online.
Paolo d'Alessandro – Head Of International Marketing
French born but with an Italian passport, raised in the US, Canada and 5 other countries following his family, Paolo was poised for an international career from the onset. Fluency in 5 languages secured him his first music industry international job in the early nineties as Business Affairs Manager at Italian indie label Flying Records. He moved to BMG Publishing and was later called to run Dutch record label affiliate Arcade Music Italy. Then in 2000 Paolo joined Roadrunner Records when the hard rock label took over the Arcade group. Subsequent to the closure of the Italian office, Roadrunner appointed him VP of International at their European headquarters outside Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At Roadrunner, Paolo spearheaded the label's international development and was instrumental in breaking Canadian multi-platinum act Nickelback outside of North America. After a short time back in Italy as the GM of Universal domestic, in 2006 Paolo joined Nickelback's management team Union Entertainment Group as their head of International, a position that he continues to hold. In 2010, Paolo founded international marketing and promotion services company International Solutions for which he serves as Chief International Officer. In 2013, International Solutions began providing label services for Loud & Proud Records where Paolo, along with International Project Manager Lauren Schuller, heads up the label's international team outside of North America.
Michael Canter – Sales
Michael Canter has worked in the music business for over 20 years. For 14 years, he served as VP Sales for Roadrunner Records, implementing and developing sales strategies for such superstar rock acts as Nickelback, Slipknot, Lynryd Skynryd, Theory of a Deadman and many developing rock artists. Prior to Roadrunner, Michael worked for Big Beat/Atlantic Records as VP Sales, helping develop and break such diverse artists as Junior Mafia, Lil Kim and Inner Circle. He has strong relationships with all key physical and digital accounts, is able to strategize and implement programs that help retail and distribution focus on Loud & Proud artists.
Julie Lichtenstein – Publicity & PR
Julie Lichtenstein has spent the last twenty years at top record labels and PR companies in New York City handling press campaigns for some of the best up and coming artists as well as the more established artists in the music industry today. Lichtenstein began her career A&M Records / PolyGram working with such artists as Jonny Lang, Blues Traveler and more. Over the years that followed she worked for the Interscope / Geffen / A&M Records family at Universal, Chris Blackwell's record label Palm Pictures and Virgin Records / EMI for several years where she spearheaded campaigns for such artists as 30 Seconds To Mars, Gomez, Tristan Prettyman and The Thrills among others. After Virgin Records, Lichtenstein changed course to better hone her PR skills joining the iconic Village Voice newspaper as their PR Director. She then moved to Sunshine Sachs & Associates to helm projects such as The New York Comedy Festival, overseeing all aspects of the organization and coordination of Feeding America's "Rock A Little, Feed A Lot" star studded concert event which raised millions of dollars for the charity. She also worked with Grammy-award winning musical artist and activist Wyclef Jean and his Yelé Haiti organization which brought her to Haiti where she handled press for their visit with Bill Clinton and Ban Ki-Moon after the terrible hurricanes hit the region in 2010. Wanting to return to music, Lichtenstein joined Roadrunner Records where she handled campaigns for such artists as Young The Giant, Nickelback and Lynyrd Skynyrd among others. In 2012, Lichtenstein moved to Wind-up Records to head their publicity department and their entire roster of artists including Grammy-Award nominated Five For Fighting, Filter, Scott Stapp and Jillette Johnson among others. In 2014, Lichtenstein formed 37-Media to afford her the opportunity to independently work with artists that she loves while also handling numerous marketing and PR initiatives for Loud & Proud Records.
Lisa Cohen – Production
A twenty year music business veteran, Lisa Cohen began her career at independent label Warlock Records, and worked her way up to the Director of Sales and Marketing. She then joined Sony Music, working between Sony and RED Distribution over the course of the following ten years. As Sr. Director of Production and Inventory at RED, she did it all – negotiated manufacturing costs, dealt with daily warehouse operations, oversaw billing and reporting and handled the production for more than forty RED-distributed labels, including Loud & Proud Records. She now enjoys being back on the label side of the table and working as production consultant for Loud & Proud.

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When Attorneys Don't Do Their Clients Any Favors, Episode XXIV
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In episode XXIII, we learned that Jerry Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, didn't do his client any favors when he let him speak to the media before his trial.
Now I'm starting to think that Amendola is actually an undercover operative for the prosecution:
Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant coach who has been accused of over 50 counts of sexual assault against young boys, waived his preliminary hearing this morning. His attorney, Joseph Amendola, then addressed the media in an impassioned — if horribly misguided — manner.
Amendola announced that anyone who believes that Sandusky is a child molester should call "1-800-REALITY." The folks at Deadspin did, and this is what they discovered:
1-800-REALITY is a gay sex line that offers "the hottest place for triple-x action … Just 99 cents per minute."
8 Responses to "When Attorneys Don't Do Their Clients Any Favors, Episode XXIV"
backwoodsconsr on
December 13th, 2011 6:42 pm
That sounds like a lawyer who would be overpaid at 99 cents per minute.
Granny55 on
December 13th, 2011 6:45 pm
This whole story is just plain creepy.
Pasadena Phil on
December 13th, 2011 7:10 pm
It may be that Amendola is doing his best to corrupt the potential jury pool so he can later argue that his client can't possibly get a fair trial because it is not possible to assemble an impartial jury.
Doug on
December 13th, 2011 7:20 pm
Sounds like he's laying the groundwork for that strategy. "Your honor, how can my client possibly get a fair trial with a lawyer as incompetent as myself?"
backwoodsconsr on
December 13th, 2011 7:28 pm
The guy said he wanted to hire the most brilliant lawyer on Earth, but Barack Obama was already occupied.
SignPainterGuy on
December 14th, 2011 2:06 am
Oh gee whiz, bwc, how would he afford to pay for his calls to that hot Hot HOT Line when he`s not giving this grand advice ?
SignPainterGuy on
December 14th, 2011 2:09 am
And #2 is currently on vacay in Hawaii ! Aaah ha ha ha haaaa !
Hyperfobea on
December 14th, 2011 9:09 am
Well, once NAMBLA has its way (with the help of every other organization of perverts out there), pedophilia will be de-criminalized, and age of consent laws rescinded. If that ever happens (and it probably will what with the direction this country seems headed), then sordid stories like this won't even make headlines.
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It appears that the place to look would be in the Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma nexus, out as far as Tennessee and Texas, and as far north as S. Dakota although the growing season would be shorter there. I expect there would be fewer hassles with zoning regulations for building in these areas also.
I got these lists from various sites, but it strikes me that it doesn't include low-cost-of-living counties within otherwise prosperous States, so it is definitely not the last word. Any feedback would be welcome.
General Cost of Living, from Lowest:
1. Oklahoma
2. Tennessee
3. S Dakota
4. Texas
5. Arkansas
6. Georgia
7. Ohio
8. Alabama
9. Kentucky
10. Indiana
11. Kansas
12. S Carolina
13. N. Dakota
15. Iowa
16. Idaho
17. Nebraska
18. Missouri & Illinois
19. Louisiana
20. Wisconsin
Cost of Living 4th Quarter 2008, from Lowest:
1. Tennessee
2. Oklahoma
3. Nebraska
4. Missouri
5. Arkansas
6. Texas
7. S Dakota
8. Georgia
9. Kansas
10. Alabama
I spent the last 2 years living in LA (Lower Alabama) and I can tell you that the cost of living there is not low. It cost between 2 and 3 times as much for horse feed, hay or meds. Gas was not inexpensive either. northen Alabama is better but a friend in Birmingham paid almost as much to keep her horses there.
It is a wonderful place to spend the winters though!!
my grandparents and and parents were from the south dakota. my grandparents house (after their death) recently auctioned off for 12,000 dollars full of everything that the family didn't want (think furniture, including antiques, and almost all kitchen stuff. if you want super rural I would vote for SD. but I also remember being up their as a kid and seeing the snow! being stuck in the ditch when caught in a blizzard, waiting waiting waiting for a snow plow to come by and pull us and the 2-3 other cars that went in the ditch at the same time (followed each other like little lemmings) I wouldn't trade the heat humidity and pitfalls of a more southern area for that kind of debilitating snowfall.
I want to point out some things about growing seasons that northerners don't always get. long growing seasons and mild winters are nice for human comfort. but that means weeds and insects don't get killed off during the winter. you don't get to start over every year! certain obnoxious things like bermuda grass, kudzu etc... can just go dormant instead of getting froze out. (never saw bermuda in SD) this can result in a more difficult time managing plantings and the natural enviroment. we don't get cold enough long enough for some things either. the heat becomes the killer to make up for the cold in the summer. alot of things just plain croak.
we do get alot of rain here in OK but don't think it comes in nice neat little showers to water your property throughout the year. many times it can come with damaging storms. ice storms are not uncommon. if you have never experienced one it is hard to totally get across. last year it was both petrifying and fascinating to listen all night long to trees giving under the weight of ice and smashing to the ground. it was like listening to fireworks.
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
they are having auctions and just plain selling the homes and farms and whatever..for dirt..i mean dirt dirt dirt cheap in Michigan.
we sold MIL's house for 1/2 of it's worth before the housing market fell and before the car industry crashed..and now it would be worth less than 1/2 of that or whatever..
before the crash my niece bought a lovely home on 5 acres for $30,000..and that was over a year ago..prices have fallen horrendously since then..it probably would be more like $5,000 now for the same home !!!
seriously ..anyone wanting to buy land or homes in Michigan..you couldn't pick a better time to buy.
Bloom where you are planted.
I am fairly partial to IN for affordability. Its hard not to grow most things here. That's probably part of why we're famous for corn, one of the harder things to grow, imo. Cheap land is fairly abundant. Cost of living is decent even in Indianapolis.
I'm with Brenda on now being the time to buy. Anywhere. There are very few places in the US unaffected by the crash.
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GA is definitely in the humid landscape portion of the US. We get around 30-40" of rain per year, mostly in those gentle showers that were mentioned. Summers are hot, but in the hills that's mediated a good bit. Not too hot, not too cold.
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Some of the places mentioned above may have low property costs right now, such as Michigan, but have very repressive taxes and building regulations. So evaluate the laws and regulations in any area you are looking at as well as property cost.
ETA: We will need very little cash income, and should be able to make all we need by selling eggs and wild berry jams and jellies -- the village has a commercial kitchen available for such uses. Might make goat cheese to sell, too, if I can meet all the regulations.
Healthcare possibly?
Is it cheaper to heat or cool?
we do use wood for most of our heat with a propane back up
i still highly recommend Michigan
Bloom where you are planted.
Here in the Seattle area, admittedly on the higher/highest end of the cost of living scale, I researched where to move with my family about 10 years ago. Every where that had lower home costs and less property taxes had higher crime, more school drop outs and poor student performance along with very few advanced or extra educational opportunities in those school districts. In fact, in one county, the farther east you went, the less populated it was AND the higher the teen pregnancy rates became.
At that time 10 years ago, I was in a dual-income household with an academically advanced teen theatre student and an academically challenged grade schooler. Not exactly a homesteading family, but I still think what we were looking at could apply to this thread. Since I wanted as safe and supportive of a community for my entire family as we could afford and as I could find, we chose to buy a smaller house in a smaller suburban town with a very small yard. The location hugely shortened our work and errand commutes. The public school and local community provided amazing theatre opportunities and educational support for our two kids. Our smaller home and yard allowed more time for supporting our kids in their school work and activities after our long work days.
I understand how a homesteading lifestyle and cheap land could translate to even more time at home with kids, if you have them. And I understand how homesteading can provide an education that is also probably quite valuable - maybe even more so than traditional public school education. Even without kids or their schools to consider, as an adult, I would still want to live where there is a community supportive of permaculture principles, or at least mildly intelligent, if you know what I mean. Sometimes it costs more to live in a place that has a neat community. And sometimes it's HUGELY worth it.
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The more services you want, the more it will cost you. The great thing is year round growing of everything. You literally have 3 times as much time to grow. No cold weather in the spring or fall, and everything just shoots up from the ground. All that silliness about waiting for the soil to be warm enough is gone.
Labor is pretty reasonable - but anything imported is expensive. To live off the land is very common.
The Mennonites and the Quakers have been here for years, and did well.
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I can recommend Michigan if you like true seasons. Admittedly Michigan has lots of taxes and you have to heat your home but you get good schools out of the taxes the snows and cold to re-set the land from bugs and weeds. I grew up in Michigan and I miss it. I would probably move back but my line of work doesn't provide much jobs for me in rural Michigan.
I'm now living in Central Florida and can comment on humid sub-tropical climates. I wouldn't call our area cheap but we are in driving distance of being able to work at a money paying job. No state income tax and I would guess that property taxes are not so high here and our schools show it. This isn't really the place to move to for good schools.
Anyway, learning to garden here has been a challenge. We have sand that eats huge amounts of organic matter quickly. Some people call it a wet desert. Generally the humidity is high year round but almost reaches lower civilized % during the spring when rain gets very scarce. Irrigation is often needed through all but part of the rainy summer/fall. Through much of the rainy season it is so hot that the plants use up what little rain they get quickly and still wilt (afternoon shade is often needed for gardens here.) Unfortunately, even with the plants using up all the moisture in the soil, there are still problems with wet, wet air can make fungus and mold problems multiply so space and pruning can be important. And the bugs!!! There is no long hard frozen time to kill off bugs, diseases and weeds, bermuda grass keeps coming back. (I don't know if I'll ever get rid of the sweet potato weevils that did in my crop this past year, I'll probably have to go several years without growing them and they are one of the few good crops for the hot summer.)
But there are good things about growing here. Compost can be made quickly and if you water the garden regularly, sheet composting is quite effective. There is at least something that can be grown year round. Right now all the cool weather crops are in and will survive happily over winter though frost/freeze might burn some a bit. Broccoli loves freezes. We can also grow some tropicals. We have harvested banana, papaya, citrus, jicama, moringa, bamboo, pineapple, figs, loquat, and I'm working hard to add more and more perennial food plants.
It is also fairly easy to do aquaponics here in FL since only minimal protection is required to keep the water warm enough for catfish and bluegill (tilapia are good but they don't grow if the water cools off so we are not going to concentrate on them anymore.)
Good Luck finding the right place! If you can manage more than an acre, and find something with a good water source, do it. Finding a community that won't give your grief about animals and greenhouses and planting and such is important. I'm right on the edge of an area with nosy neighbors that want to complain to code enforcement about anything. Luckily the neighbors right next to me are cool but my property is visible from the park so I have to keep the chickens in back and can't range them through the entire yard.
Including low to non-existent taxes. No sales tax in many boroughs, no property taxes in others. Plus, we still get reimbursed for living here. (Last year it was about $1300 per person, the year before almost double that. Probably much lower this year, but still good.) If you have a family of 4 or and live mostly off the land, own your own land and have things paid for, it's feasible to see that a family could live off of their PFD for cash purchases alone, with possibly a little supplemental income from crafting or selling goods or running tours or what have you.
Fuel and food and water are all abundant here in the good areas. Good land is not cheap, but it's an excellent investment. Animal feed is not cheap, it's expensive to over-winter livestock, but there are ways around it and ways to make the livestock pay for itself PLUS providing you with what you need.
Gardening can be REALLY good or REALLY bad, depending on several factors. But you can grow and put up A LOT in the short summer season and affordable technology is advancing steadily in the realm of season extenders. (Anything working with solar is particularly good for about half the year.)
Last but not least, in most of the state you will run into virtually NO regulations telling you what you can and can not do with your own property.
Gotta love that.
Now don't get me wrong. I love Alaska, and I will certainly miss it very much, but I think for the type of homestead we want to build, Michigan is for us. If you're dead set on Alaska I can help point you in the right direction, but I'll need a little more information. How close to a town do you want to be? What will you do for income? How much are you looking to spend on land? etc.
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Sometimes it costs more to live in a place that has a neat community. And sometimes it's HUGELY worth it.
absolutely! I love my life and where I live but the people in the area have had a great influence on some very large decisions. to homeschool my children for one. the values and educational standards that dominate the area should be a criteria in the decision making process.
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
And the climate can be pretty rough if you aren't used to it. Tok and the surrounding area has snow on the ground for seven months out of the year; summer generally lasts for a few days in July!
How are the taxes (esp. property) in Michigan?
For us, being part of a like minded community is worth the investment. My Brother-In-Law who lives in Traverse City was just telling me of a cider press party they attended in the late fall. Some friends of theirs have an apple orchard and every year they take all the unsellable/left over apples and press it all into cider. They had a great time, there was about 40 or 50 people there and they all got to take away as much cider as they wanted. He even learned a couple recipes for some hard cider.
We've been looking for just the right place for a few years now, as this will be our last move. We're putting down our roots and building our homestead from scratch. The NW part of Michigan does receive a lot of snow in the winter, but we're just fine with that. The winter temperatures are quite reasonable (compared to Alaska) You know from living in Alaska when it snows, that means it was warm enough to. I've been monitoring the weather there for the last couple years and have seen 50 degrees there in November. The summers are not too hot either and that's important for us as well. Being off the grid it is much easier to heat with wood when it's chilly than it is to cool the house off when it's too hot. And Michigan is 2nd only to California as when it comes to agricultural diversity.
Property taxes can be a little high in some places but that usually means the schools there are better funded and often good. And Michigan has state income tax but I generally figure that as long as there are benefits from the taxes, they are worth it. The Ancestral house is still in the Family in Alden, Michgan.
My thought on taxes is that with the economy bad and getting worse, a location with high property taxes is a bad place to be, because even if your property has no mortgage, if you can't pay the taxes you can still lose it. I'm not so concerned about sales or income taxes, because if you don't have any money to speak of, you don't pay those. The main thing is to have a piece of land that's paid for, and that you can afford the property taxes on no matter what happens to your income, so you have a place for shelter and to raise your food.
They have international listings, too, and if you're up for living in south america, land, taxes, and cost of living can be found for CHEEEAP down there. If you're comfortable living that far away from family and speaking spanish the rest of your life, it might be an option to explore. A few countries have gotten expensive (Brazil for instance), but it's relatively easy to buy land as a non-citizen in most countries (argentina and urugay come to mind). And if you buy soon, the dollar might still be worth something!
I agree that the cost of property and taxes aren't the only things to consider. Isolated locations rule out many options for making money living on the land. The most successful market farms and hospitality type businesses have close (within an hour) proximity to some size of city. You don't have to live right outside a major city, but being close to some kind of urban population provides people to buy the things you produce. The cheaper properties are generally priced that way for several reasons. A bargain at face cost might not be a bargain in other ways, if yaknowhatImsayin. Water rights add lots of dollars to the asking price, but a property without a good source of water is, well, worthless to a homesteader.
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I've thought about getting a piece of that cheap, dry land and working with it, to see if I could do that -- although not in Colorado, where you have to have a permit to collect rain water!
I read somewhere that they've already begun to relax some of those regulations. If you haven't checked recently it may be worthwhile to do so.
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Yes. For most of the properties they advertise there are several building and usage restrictions (designed to maintain property values) and an "owners association" that requires monthly dues. Also, they give you low monthly payments and deposits but soak you on the total price and interest rate. On the plus side, utilities are usually available.
They remind me of the used car dealers who specialize in poor credit cases. Some people care only about their monthly payments and nothing else. I used to get their emails but gave up on them.
The other one that is similar is http://www.ozarkland.com/ They are better in some ways; e.g., there are no big brother owners associations, but their land also is overpriced and much of it is very remote and often accessible only by 4WD vehicles. On-site utilities are rare. They make their money by repossessing the land after people give up and leave and then selling it again and again.
These choices might be worth it for some people, especially if you make them a cash offer and arrange your own financing, but be careful.
Land is super cheap, building codes are non-existent, and like-minded individuals already live there!
I don't know if my hybrid wall system would have been approved by an inspector. I suppose it would have to be since it is only an infill insulation and exterior skin (strawclay infill in the studwall and earthblock outer skin), but I like that I didn't have to pay extra for the luxury of building sustainably.
The only real mistakes are the ones from which you learn nothing.
There are many land bargains to be had here. Good "recreational" properties (river front, lake front, forrested lands) are selling for pennies on the dollar all over the State. North Central Michigan near the Manistee Forest is seeing homes with good acreage sell for less than $30K (as Brenda indicated). Houses in Detroit can be had for $1 (not that many people choose to live there!).
A team of investors or an intentional community would be foolish to rule Michigan out as a point of interest. We have our problems here but water (at least in the Central LP) isn't one of them. I've always thought a Michigan drought is just business as usual in most other states.
Forages for livestock are on the rise at around $4 - $6 per bale but that is primarily due to Michigan haymen selling their crops to the southern states. Michigan has a great farming history and, despite popular belief, agriculture is the top industry in the state (horses alone are an 8 billion dollar per year industry in Michigan). Michigan also has a huge tourism industry much of which is home-grown tourism.
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That survey should have included an "all of the above" for a lot of us ex-Californios. Every one of those (except 'try something new') was on my list of reasons for relocating out of the state.
Note there seems to be no connection in the minds of the poll between to liberal and cost of living


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The Keewatin Curling Club is operating an escape room challenge as a fundraiser between February 20th and 25th. An escape room is a physical adventure game in which players are locked in a room and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles and escape within a set time limit. Teamwork, communications and the ability to think outside of the box all contribute to a successfully escape.
Our room takes players back to the old west in the role of ranch hands trying to save a team mate from an unfair visit to the hanging tree. Teams of four to six players will have 60 minutes to solve a number of puzzles and challenges to unlock a jail cell and free their partner. The cost of the game is $20 per player. Their is an optional "Chuck wagon Buffet" on Saturday night at the Curling Club for $10 per player.
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What is an Exercise Therapist?
An exercise therapist is also often referred to as an exercise physiologist. This type of professional may work in many different settings and careers. An exercise therapist may for example, work in sports medicine, for a private facility, for a team, or in an educational setting. The career prospects for exercise therapists are solid.
What is Exercise Therapy?
Exercise therapy is a specific, intensive plan of physical activities designed to restore normal musculoskeletal functioning or reduce pain due to an injury or a disease process such as traumatic brain injury or multiple sclerosis. Based on principles of exercise science and neuroplasticity, this form of therapy seeks to restore functionality both above and below the site of injury through neuro re-education and therapeutic movement.
Following an injury or damage to the neural pathway, function is decreased. However, the brain has the potential to reorganize itself and create new neural pathways to compensate for and adapt to the loss of function. These new pathways are formed through rigorous and repetitive stimulation of the brain. Exercise therapy utilizes specific, targeted activities that stimulate the brain to create those new neural pathways. It is intensive, repetitive and highly individualized for the patient. For the exercise therapist, the interventions are physical and intensive, requiring stamina and strength to assist patients who may have significant injury or impairment in mobility.
Exercise therapy is sometimes referred to as 'Activity Based Therapy' or 'Restorative Therapy'. It is sometimes mistaken for 'Physical Therapy'. Physical therapy focuses on restoration of movement to a particular part of the body at the site of the injury. Exercise therapy is focused on restoration of function through the effects of exercise at the cellular (neurological) level.
What Does an Exercise Therapist Do?
The American Society of Exercise Physiologists (ASEP) defines exercise physiology or therapy as the study, assessment and improvement of the human condition including biomechanical movement. An exercise therapist has more training than a personal trainer. The exercise therapist also has additional job duties and responsibilities.
Some primary duties of an exercise therapist may include the following:
- Sports Nutrition. An exercise therapist may help train individuals to understand nutrition, movement and related human biomechanical systems. Some exercise therapists may work with a nutritionist to help create an individualized health and eating plan for athletes and others.
- Training. An exercise therapist may work with clients to help them develop and carrying out comprehensive training programs based on their individual needs and health status. This may include training in using protective equipment and injury-preventive items including tape, bandages and braces.
- First Aid. Exercise therapists may provide first aid, and provide emergency care to clients depending on their role and their job function. Many will also engage in the administrative tasks associated with caring for an injured client. This may include keeping records of a client, and writing reports regarding injuries and treatment programs available to injured parties.
- Rehabilitation. Many exercise therapists engage in rehabilitation programs, working for athletes that have been injured or require extensive therapy. An exercise therapist is often trained to recognize injuries and evaluate the severity of injuries a client may have.
Traditionally, an exercise therapist works much like other therapists. This requires that an exercise therapist take time to evaluate a patient's medical history. In evaluating a patient's medical history, the exercise therapist can best determine what exercises and fitness programs are best suited to their client. Other job functions may include providing a client with fitness tests. These may include measuring blood pressure, oxygen saturation, body fat and related patient health characteristics.
Lastly, an exercise therapist will often work to help develop a rehabilitation and training program for clients that have suffered injuries. This plan may include a prevention plan for preventing future injuries.
What are the Education Requirements to Become an Exercise Therapist?
Most exercise therapist will acquire a minimum of a bachelor degree from an accredited program. This may include four years of study with concentration in classes that include anatomy, physiology, biology, physical fitness and nutrition. Individuals often earn their bachelor's degree in psychology or counseling. Many exercise therapist also earn a master's degree in exercise/movement therapy.
There are other certifications and licensures that an exercise therapist may acquire. These include certification examination offered by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification. Individuals wishing to become certified are required to complete 480 hour supervised job placement experience before appearing for the exam. The CAATE, or Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education. also offers a certification. This program certifies trainers. There is also the Committee on Accreditation for Exercise Sciences, which provides training and accreditation for therapists interested in developing physiology training programs.
What Do You Learn in an Exercise Therapy Program?
The curriculum for many exercise therapy programs includes coursework that focuses on the two primary domains of work in this field – the physical health and the mental health of clients.
As a result, exercise therapy programs include many classes that focus on physical fitness. These courses might include health, kinesiology, dietetics, or even sports performance. Other courses might revolve around addressing physiological injuries. For example, exercise therapists must be able to understand warning signs of injuries, how to treat existing injuries, and how physical injuries are connected to psychological health.
On the other side of the coin, exercise therapists must have a working knowledge of essential case management skills. Degree programs in this field often focus on developing and implementing exercise regimens to address various physical and mental health issues. Likewise, exercise therapy programs help students develop the communication skills required of them when working with clients and when working as part of a larger team of professionals, as is often the case.
At the undergraduate level, coursework is fairly generalized with introductory courses in the areas discussed above. This might include general psychology, health and kinesiology, and the like. Graduate work, however, is much more in-depth, focusing not just on knowledge but also on skills needed to carry out effective exercise therapy treatments. Graduate work will often include advanced studies in anatomy, physiology, motor learning, and performance enhancement.
Additionally, because exercise therapy is often used to help address issues like anger, phobias, and eating disorders, graduate students will undertake detailed studies of these and other mental health conditions such that they are well equipped to assist their clients in overcoming their life's difficulties.
What Skills and Qualities are Required for an Exercise Therapist?
An exercise therapist will require a diverse skill set to work with clients from many different backgrounds. Among the primary considerations and skills that an exercise physiologist will require include:
- Gentle and Empathic Nature. An exercise therapist needs to have a gentle and compassionate nature. Most are working with clients that are in much pain and a great deal of discomfort.
- Decision-Making and Problem Solving. Exercise therapists have to make informed decisions and solve complex problems that may relate to one's rehabilitation and recovery. To excel in this area it helps for a therapist to be creative and innovative.
- Organized and Detail-Oriented. An exercise therapist must organize many details regarding their clients. This includes tracking their client progress, and ensuring that clients are participating in the right treatment or correct fitness program.
Exercise therapists must also have good communication skills, to work with clients and diverse personnel that may include a team of coaches, athletes, and patients, other healthcare providers and even parents when working with young athletes.
What is the Salary for an Exercise Therapist?
The salary for an exercise therapist will vary tremendously, based on many factors including how many years' experience the therapist has, what certification and training the therapist has and where the exercise therapist works. Most therapists will make a salary that is similar to that of other psychologists or mental health therapists.
According to Salary.com, the median annual salary for an exercise psychologist is $49,519, as of November 2016. The BLS reports that the salary for exercise physiologists may vary from $31,000 to $73,840 representing the fast amount of difference experience and location may influence. According to BLS in May 2015, exercise physiologists earned an average salary of $49,740.
Exercise therapists may work as athletic trainers, during sporting events, and for other specialty needs, requiring flexibility in scheduling and travel.
What is the Job Outlook for Exercise Therapists?
The job outlook for exercise therapists is expected to grow during the next ten years. The BLS reports that the job prospects for athletic trainers and exercise physiologists will increase by as much as 21% and 11% respectively (2014-2024), which is faster than that of other occupations. This may provide opportunities for therapists interested in working in colleges, youth leagues, healthcare facilities and more.


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1. John Locke and empiricism ↑
English philosopher John Locke rejected French natural philosopher Rene Descartes' rationalism and, in 1689, he popularised Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's concept of the 'tabula rasa' once again. Like Aristotle, Locke argued that the mind does not have innate ideas and so sensory knowledge is the only knowledge we can have. This view is known as empiricism.
Locke claimed that if we had innate ideas - knowledge that does not come from experience - then all beings that possess a mind should be aware of them. Yet it's clearly true that people do not understand mathematics until they are taught, and some people are never able to learn.
Locke argued that if it's possible for a human mind to exist without being conscious of an idea, then it cannot be innate. Even if we could find some rational knowledge that everyone is aware of possessing, then Locke claimed this would still not show that we have come to know these ideas innately and not through shared experiences.
Locke argued that we have two types of experiences: sensations and reflections. We gain some knowledge from reflection, some from sensation, and some from both.
In An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Locke described reflection as "that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them". Reflection allows us to be conscious of our mental processes, and so tells us about how our minds operate. Examples of reflection include "thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing", and "willing". These experiences all invoke qualia that do not correspond to external objects, and so Locke referred to reflection as an "internal sense"[1a].
Sensations arise from external stimulus and tell us about the external world. Locke described two types of sensations: those corresponding to primary, and secondary, qualities. Primary qualities are similar to the properties Descartes acquainted with rational introspection, such as size, shape, and quantity. Secondary qualities correspond to qualia, such as colour, sound, and emotion. Locke highlighted the problem of secondary qualities with his example of the inverted spectrum.
Like Descartes, Locke claimed that it's impossible to know if different people experience the same qualia:
...if the idea that a violet produced in one [person's] mind by [their] eyes were what a marigold produced in another [person's], and vice versa...this could never be known, because one [person's] mind couldn't pass into another [person's] body to perceive what appearances were produced[1b].
This assumes that different people could experience different colours despite exhibiting the same behaviour and brain activity.
Violet and marigold qualia. Image credit: Helen Klus/CC-NC-SA.
Locke accepted that we don't observe the external world directly, but did not see qualia as proof that the mind is composed of a non-physical substance, or that the external world does not exist.
Instead, Locke advocated causal realism, the view that we can at least derive the existence of external objects from the qualia they invoke in us. Specifically, Locke believed that an object's primary qualities are representative of its true nature, and that they are responsible for inducing the secondary qualities we experience in their presence. We cannot know if these objects really resemble the qualia they invoke.
Like English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, Locke did not think we are capable of understanding how external objects give rise to qualia. He stated that:
[Experience] convinces us, that we have an intuitive knowledge of our own existence and an internal infallible perception that we are. In every act of sensation, reasoning, or thinking, we are conscious to ourselves of our own being, and in this matter we don't fall short of the highest degree of certainty[2].
But this tells us nothing of the substance the mind is made of and so Locke did not accept Descartes' dualism. He suggested it's equally possible that the mind and body could be made of the same substance, leading to the idea that physical matter could be capable of thought.
2. George Berkeley and idealism ↑
In 1710, twenty years after Locke First published on his theory of knowledge, Irish empiricist George Berkeley criticised Locke's belief in causal realism, the view that we can determine the existence of the external world.
Berkeley argued that causal realism is inconsistent with empiricism, because it assumes there is a chain of causes, starting with the external object and ending with the secondary qualities we experience as qualia. Yet the brain only has access to the final stage, the qualia.
In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley stated that:
...extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existing in the mind, and...an idea can be like nothing but another idea[3a].
The qualia we perceive when we're awake are indistinguishable from the qualia we experience when we hallucinate or dream. This shows that qualia can be invoked without the existence of a causal link and, because there's no way to know when a causal link does or does not exist, Berkeley concluded that we have no reason to believe it exists at all.
Berkeley showed that if secondary qualities exist in the mind then primary qualities must also exist there, as we cannot imagine them devoid of qualia:
...extension, figure, and motion, abstracted from all other qualities, are inconceivable. Where therefore the other sensible qualities are, there must these be also, to wit, in the mind and nowhere else[3b].
Berkeley claimed that we can't conceive of something existing in space without having a position and a velocity (which could be zero), yet it's evident that these are relative concepts and so originate in the mind. He went on to suggest that this must also be true of mass and numbers.
Berkeley stated that:
...number is so visibly relative, and dependent on men's understanding, that it is strange to think how any one should give it an absolute existence without the mind. We say one book, one page, one line, etc.; all these are equally units, though some contain several of the others. And in each instance, it is plain, the unit relates to some particular combination of ideas arbitrarily put together by the mind[3c].
Berkeley rejected Descartes' dualism and Locke's agnosticism. Because everything that we experience originates in the mind, Berkeley claimed that the only theory available to empiricists is idealism, the view that physical objects do not exist.
Berkeley described the mind as "one simple, undivided, active being", and because nothing can exist without a mind to perceive it, he concluded that the external world must exist within the mind of God[3d].


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Many students arriving to study A-levels in the UK are unaware of the wide variety of A-level subjects available to them. Though a student's A-level choice should normally be related to the subject they want to study at university, many students wrongly assume that they are limited to particular A-level subjects in order to join a particular course at university. For example, students wishing to study Business at university often assume that they must study Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Economics at A-level in order to be successful – this could not be further from the truth! In fact, A-level subjects ill-suited to a student could result in them receiving poor A-level grades and missing out on the opportunity to attend a top university and their desired course of study.
Students who successfully complete the Academic Preparation Programme are well prepared to study any subject to which they are suited, and students are guided and encouraged to discover which subjects lead to their desired degree and career path which they have an aptitude for and enjoy. The A-level Subject Orientation module has been designed to give students two-week taster sessions of a variety of subjects, so they can discover which A-level subjects they are well-suited to and enjoy. These taster sessions greatly reduce the likelihood of a student needing to retake a year of secondary school or missing out on a university offer due to poorly chosen A-level subjects. A-level subjects covered in this module include subjects such as Accounting, Ancient History, Art & Design, Art History, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, Film Studies, Languages, Mathematics, Geography, History, Law, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology.
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text: Lenders divvy up FirstLine's spoils, suggest report The results are in, and as expected, big lenders, with the conspicuous exception of TD, have successfully divvied up FirstLine's spoils. The 2012 Q2 lender market share report indicates that broker volumes jumped by 8.2 per cent for the period over 2011, but more importantly for the channel's biggest lenders are individual gains in market share. Scotiabank, First National, MCAP and Street Capital are among the most chuffed. Overall, Scotia leads the pack posting 20.2 per cent market share, with a 2.6 percentage-point rise year-over year. Not so for TD, with its share of broker business falling 5.7 pps, year over year, to come in at 7.8 per cent. Also worth noting is that First National saw it originations skyrocket in Q2 rising 48 per cent or $4.4 billion from $3.0 billion by the end of June. Here's a roundup of the top five market share winners: Scotiabank – 20.2 per cent market share, +2.2 pps YOY First National – 18.9 per cent market share, +6.1 pps, YOY TD – 7.8 per cent market share, -5.7 pps, YOY Street Capital – 7.7 per cent market share , +1.5 pps, YOY MCAP- 7.7 per cent market share, +1.5 pps, YOY A couple of months ago, MortgageBrokerNews.ca reported that lenders have already started to court brokers with well-established ties to FirstLine soon after CIBC began winding down the company`s operations. At least one seasoned broker has rightly foreseen that other lenders would divvy up FirstLine's market share. This latest D+H report suggests that process started in the second quarter, before the company closed down July 31 this year. "Scotia, First National, Street and MCAP should benefit equally from this," said Ron Butler, of VERICO Butler Mortgage Inc. "It is very unlikely that one of the four would instantly take over the bulk of the FirstLine share." The rundown of market share for other lenders is as follows: Home Trust – 5.6 per cent, +0.8 pps, YOY National Bank of Canada – 4.5 per cent, +0.3 pps, YOY ING Direct – 4.1 per cent, +0.3 pps, YOY FirstLine – 4. 0 per cent, -10.5 pps, YOY Merix Financial – 2.9 per cent, +0.1 pps, YOY Leave a comment SHARE


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cut it — ► cut it informal, chiefly N. Amer. come up to expectations. [ORIGIN: shortened form of the idiom cut the mustard.] Main Entry: ↑cut … English terms dictionary
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Lockett Tabbed Big 12 Player of the Week
Lockett Tabbed Big 12 Player of the Week
Lockett, who was also the league's special teams player of the week following the UTEP game, garnered the fifth designation for the Wildcats this season. In addition to Lockett's two nods, Jake Waters earned the offensive honor following the Iowa State game, while Dakorey Johnson and Dante Barnett were the defensive players of the week after the Auburn and Texas games, respectively.
In addition, the honor was the Wildcats' Big 12-leading 29th weekly conference honor since the beginning of 2011.
A product of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lockett totaled 321 all-purpose yards, thanks to a pair of punt returns for 66 yards - including a 43-yard touchdown - three kickoff returns for 59 yards and 196 receiving yards on 10 catches. The nation's leader with a 20.5-yard punt return average, Lockett's touchdown return was his second of the year to rank second nationally and tied for third in school history.
Lockett now has 328 total punt return yards this season and 414 for his career to rank 10th in school history in both categories. Additionally, Lockett has 1,669 all-purpose yards this season to rank ninth in K-State history.
Lockett's 196 receiving yards put him over the 1,000-yard mark for the second-straight season, becoming just the second Wildcat ever to accomplish the feat. He improved his school career receiving yardage record to 3,269 and his school record for career 100-yard games to 14. With 213 career receptions, he is now four away from tying his father, Kevin, for the most in school history, while he is two touchdowns shy of tying that K-State career record as well.
No. 11 Kansas State hosts KU in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown on Saturday in a 3 p.m., contest at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The Senior Day contest will be shown to a national audience on FOX Sports 1. Scattered singles and standing-room only tickets are available for the contest and may be purchased through the K-State Athletics Ticket office online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the main ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum.


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Vatican City — It's so important to go to Mass every Sunday because that's where people receive Christ who saves, forgives and unites everyone to his father, church and each other, Pope Francis said.
It's also "important that children are well prepared for first Communion because ... after baptism and confirmation it is the first step toward belonging strongly, really strongly, to Jesus Christ," he said Wednesday at his weekly general audience.
The pope continued a series of talks on the sacraments of Christian initiation, focusing on the Eucharist as the source and summit of the life of the church.
"In fact, every authentic journey of faith, communion and witness springs from this sacrament of love," he said.
The pope began his audience talk by greeting the estimated 13,000 people huddled under umbrellas and raincoats as heavy rain beat down on St. Peter's Square.
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"Dear brothers and sisters, good morning, but not good day, huh? It's a bit nasty," he said.
The pope also prayed, at the end of the audience, for all those in Tuscany and Rome affected by severe flooding caused by days of heavy rain.
To help visiting pilgrims who were ill or with disabilities and their caregivers keep warm and dry in the bad weather, the pope said he had them go indoors to the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall to watch the audience on the big screens set up inside.
The pope arrived about 25 minutes later than his usual start time in the square because, as he later explained, he first had gone to greet those pilgrims seated inside the hall.
In his catechesis, Pope Francis said by celebrating the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, "we participate in the mystery of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ."
"By making himself broken bread for us, the Lord Jesus pours out to us all of his mercy and his love, renewing our heart, our existence and our way of relating to him and our brothers and sisters," he said.
Taking part in the Eucharist "conforms us in a unique and profound way to Christ," he said, granting Christians a foretaste of full communion with God in heaven, "where with all the saints we will have the unimaginable joy of contemplating God face to face."
"We will never thank the Lord enough for the gift he gave us with the Eucharist," the pope said.
"It's such a great gift and that's why it's so important to go to Mass on Sundays," he said.
Mass is a time "not just to pray, but to receive Communion -- this bread that is the body of Christ that saves us, forgives us, reunites us to the father. It's beautiful to do this."
Mass on Sundays is particularly important, he said, because "it is the day of the resurrection of the Lord, and with the Eucharist we feel our own belonging to the church, to the people of God, to the body of God, to Jesus Christ."
At the end of the audience, Pope Francis met and spoke briefly with Lidia Guerrero, the mother of Victor Saldano, an Argentine national who has been on death row in Texas since 1996. Guerrero was accompanied by a representative of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which is active in the fight against the death penalty.
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Experience Africa On A Restored Colonial Style TrainPosted on: 24 April 2008 by Gareth Hargreaves
Be seeped in luxury, spoilt by breath-taking scenery and reminded of a bygone era on Rovos Rail, the only way to travel across South Africa.
The brainchild of Rohan Vos - thus the name Rovos, the Pride of Africa transports passengers in high Edwardian style on various routes throughout South Africa.
Its meticulously restored coaches, outfitted with twenties and thirties style furnishings and mahogany panelling evoke the colonial glamour and elegance of pre-war rail travel.
"I wanted to combine the romance of train travel with accommodation, cuisine and service of the highest standard," says Vos, "Travelling on Rovos Rail is like being in a time warp. We've tried to re-create the ambience of an English country club of the early twentieth century but with attention to modern comforts."
Rohan Vos was involved in the motor spares industry in Witbank. He was very well established in 1985, being involved with 15 small businesses at the time. His first contact with the world of trains was made through an employee of his, Phil Acutt, who enticed him to become involved in a Steam Preservation Society.
He became more involved until eventually buying and restoring four carriages and a steam locomotive. The idea was to run this private little train around the countryside for himself and his family which prompted him in December 1986 to secure a contract with the South African Railways that would allow him to travel anywhere in South Africa at a fixed charge per kilometre per carriage. But when he discovered the costs involved in towing this hotel on wheels around the country were beyond his private means, South African Railways suggested that he sell tickets.
So Vos, who had no experience with trains or tourism, spent the next few years in his airplane scouring the countryside for old coaches and locomotives, either rescuing them from scrap yards or purchasing them from the railways and from individuals who had converted them into restaurants and residences.
By 1996 Rovos Rail was operating two trains of twenty carriages each, half of which date back to the twenties and thirties. Most were built between 1919 and 1970. They are refurbished at his sheds in Pretoria, rebuilt in a way that blends traditional woods and fixtures with modern conveniences like hidden mini bars and spacious bathrooms.
The suites are designed for either double or twin beds and have a small lounge area with two upholstered chairs, a compact refrigerator, a cupboard and two full-length mirrors. The bathroom comes complete with hot shower, hair dryer, bathroom heater and shaver plugs.
All suites, the Dining Cars, Club Lounge, Observation and Lounge Cars are fully air-conditioned. The observation car, from which one can experience the breath-taking African scenery whilst supping a Klip 'n' coke, has a mahogany bar, lamp-lit booths with leather, and the cane and rattan furniture that was popular during colonial times. There is also an open-air observation platform which allows you to absorb the African sun as the splendour of the continent passes you by at a pace that allows you to take it all in.
But it's the dining cars, however, that truly transport one to another era.
A brass gong announces each meal, beckoning guests to two opulently restored carriages. The more formal carriage, dating to 1911, displays fluted teak pillars and arches, mahogany tables and tassel tied draperies which combine to create an Edwardian feeling. In the 1935 dining car, a former restaurant in Johannesburg, plush booths, mahogany panelling and square chrome fitted ceiling lights ensconce diners in subtle Art Deco style.
Booking Information
As you would expect, prices are not cheap, but this is a once in a lifetime journey.
Guests can choose from a series of journeys lasting from 24 hours to a fortnight linking some of Africa's greatest destinations.
• A 48-hour 1600km journey between Pretoria and Cape Town, with off-train excursions in Kimberley and Matjiesfontein.
• A 24-hour 550km journey along the spectacular Garden Route between Cape Town and George, with a wine-tasting excursion.
• A 55-hour 1600 km journey between Pretoria and Victoria Falls.
• A 55-hour Safari between Pretoria and Durban, including game drives in the Kruger National Park, Mkhaya Reserve in Swaziland and Hluhluwe in Zululand.
Longer journeys can also be booked:
• An epic journey into the heart of Africa takes place at various times when Rovos Rail departs on a 14 day (6,100km) Edwardian Safari from Cape Town to Dar Es Salaam, via Kimberley, Pretoria, the Kruger National Park, Beit Bridge, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Lusaka and through Tanzania to Dar Es Salaam.
• An annual 3 400 km journey to Swakopmund in Namibia in May. The train takes 6 nights/7 days to reach Swakopmund with an off-train excursion in Kimberley, a visit to the Fish River Canyon, a tour of Windhoek with a game drive near the city, and an overnight stay at a game lodge in Etosha National Park with two game drives.
• An annual 9-day African Collage journey between Pretoria and Cape Town in May/June. This most scenic of all trips takes the train via Malelane, Hluhluwe, Durban, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Oudtshoorn, George and on to Cape Town with various off-train excursions.
• A 9-day Golf Safari in April, August and December which takes guests to a selection of the finest golf courses in South Africa, combining scenic beauty with renowned game and cultural attractions. This is a round trip with an equally interesting itinerary for non-golfers departing from Pretoria and travelling via Phalaborwa, Durban, Ladysmith, Sun City and back to Pretoria.
These two pdf files contain dates and prices for 2007 - 2009: Dates and Rates for 2007-2008 and Dates and Rates for 2008-2009.
For further information and booking details visit http://www.rovos.co.za
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Dr. Krashen's input hypothesis
|Get a crazy amount of input before you start speaking Spanish
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In case you are wondering how fluency could ever be attained, without even practicing the Spanish that you absorb during the input, look no further than your very own childhood. Don't forget that you didn't utter a single word of your native lingo for a good two years or so while solely being bombarded with constant input from around you. Did that help? Well, it must have done a hell of a job as it is nearly impossible for you to now forget your mother tongue after those years of foundation-building!
If this is still not solid enough reasoning to win your vote, let me tell you where this hypothesis came from. It is a world-renowned linguist and educator who goes by the name of Dr. Stephan Krashen. The fact that he has published over 300 books and research papers in the field of second language acquisition and that he goes to the University of Southern California as a Professor emeritus, should be enough to tell you that this man means business.
How much input is enough input?
OK, now down to the brass-tacks. So, how is this "input hypothesis" to be applied to your leal life Spanish program? Well, it couldn't get any clearer; the first and the most important thing is to build the ultimate immersion environment around yourself and get an insane amound of input in Spanish, day in and day out. It is also equally important that you set your mind around "acquiring" Spanish and not "learning." This step is deceptively simple so be careful. What acquiring means is what we did with our mother tongue when we were toddlers. To your Spanish program it means that you shouldn't calculate how much time to dedicate to Spanish if you want to acquire it. Acquisition cannot be a deliberate activity. It has to be infinitely immersive.
Listen to hours of Latino music, read pages and pages of Spanish novels and newspapers, watch hours of Spanish videos, movies and telenovelas. Essentially don't attach a rock-solid timeframe to any of these activities. Spanish should flow freely in your world. If your assign hours to any of these activities, you are mostly setting yourself up for failure. Instead of targeting to listen to Spanish music for an hour everyday, you should be targeting listening to only Spanish music whenever you listen to music, regardless of how long. Similarly, I wouldn't instruct myself to read El Universal® for 30 minutes a day; instead, I will mandate myself to pick El Universal® (or, El País® or some other Spanish paper) and nothing else every time I wish to read a newspaper. This is how Spanish becomes a part of your life. This how Spanish becomes your life. This is how you acquire Spanish. by first allowing Spanish to acquire you!
The worst approach
As if conspiring to keep us from ever becoming bilingual, our schools and colleges have always stressed on grammar and vocabulary like our life depended on them. We are institutionalized to first study and "master" the billion rules of grammer before we open the taps of Spanish input. And then the traditional next step as dictated by academicians around the world is to produce content in Spanish (poetry recitation, forced conversation, essay writing, you name it). Only once we have done a certain amount of output as mandated by our teachers, are we introduced to extensive input, such as reading Spanish stories, listening to Spanish music, well, basically all the fun stuff we can imagine. The sequence is so perfectly reversed that it almost seems deliberate!
The right approach
The natural order of things should be exactly the reverse of what we traditionally do in schools. So, the first step becomes tons and tons of fun stuff in a phase called "input phase". Just listen and read and listen and read. No talking, no writing, no essays, no recitations. The ultimate couch-potato's promised land of milk and honey! Only once comfortable with this phase (your comprehension abilities will tell you, don't worry about when), it's time to start producing. Imitate native speakers, recite Spanish poetry, sing Spanish songs, write Spanish essays, talk in Spanish, chat in Spanish.
In short, just barf out all the Spanish that you have been acquiring through silent input over all these months. The last step, interestingly, happens to be grammar. Yes, you were speaking fluent English (or whatever your native tongue is) way before those monsters buried you under piles of grammar rules. Grammar is never the be-all of any language. It should only be a tool used to perfect your speech and writing once you are well-versed with the language in every practical sense.
Grammar is indispensible. It is grammar that gives a literary flair to your Spanish. It is grammar that tells you how Spanish changes colors when moved from the books to the streets. But the right time to scratch under the surface for grammar is in the end and not in the beginning. A sufficient amount of input is all you need to be able to tell what word sequence sounds correct and what doesn't.
So, strap your boots and dive head-on into the ocean of Spanish before you even think of grammar. until you are conversant enough, stow that heavy, red book away – out of sight, out of reach. Just take in the Spanish around you. Soak it all up. Have fun. And enjoy as you get fluent phrase by phrase, word by word, absolutely unaware. Think of a lazier way to acquire Spanish? I bet you can't.