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George Washington's French and Indian War
By the 1580s the French were ahead of the British in reaching into the interior of North America. They had established trading companies there, and their ships regularly brought furs back to France. Early in the seventeenth century they had two successful permanent settlements—Acadia (1604) and Quebec (1608)—but any advantage they accrued from all this was soon lost. Although the European population of New France grew steadily—from 3,200 in 1666 to some 10,000 in 1700, and roughly 70,000 by 1750—it was far outpaced by the English colonies to the south where during this period the population grew to more than a million.
Despite this, however, the French remained convinced that their presence in North America had real strategic value. They believed that, if they could link New France, via the Ohio River, to their settlements in Louisiana and along the Mississippi, they could establish an effective military barrier to English expansion. If not, they feared, it would only be a matter of time before the British dominated all of North America and its vast resources. By the middle of the eighteenth century both the British and the French believed that a military contest in North America was inevitable as an element of their global rivalry.
In 1749, Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquiere, the governor of New France began dispatching military units and friendly American Indians to attack English settlers in lands the French claimed, threaten tribes loyal to the English, arrest or kill British traders, and construct fortifications at key points. He also sent a small force to put into place, along the Ohio River, a set of lead plates that proclaimed that France owned the waterway and all the land whose waters emptied into it—in effect, all of the Ohio country. When this detachment came upon some British traders, they sent them back to Philadelphia with a letter to Governor James Hamilton warning him that such "foreign" intruders would no longer be tolerated.
A clash was inevitable. British traders sought the fur trade, and speculators eyed land in the Ohio country. In 1747 Virginia investors, including Lawrence and Augustine Washington, George Washington's two older half brothers, had organized the Ohio Company of Virginia and sought a grant of 200,000 acres to settle. Although both Virginia and Pennsylvania had claims on this land, Virginia pursued its claims more aggressively. The Crown approved the Company's request and in July 1749, the governor and council of Virginia made a grant of land near the Forks of the Ohio (present-day Pittsburgh, where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers merge to form the Ohio). The grant required that the company had to settle at least one hundred families and build a fort for their protection within seven years.
In 1750 the Ohio Company ordered a trail blazed from Wills Creek (now Cumberland, Maryland) over the mountains to the Monongahela River. They then built a fortified storehouse where the Redstone Creek emptied into the Monongahela and hired Christopher Gist, a veteran woodsman and surveyor, to identify the lands most suited to settlement. They then ordered the widening of the trail for pack trains to accommodate settlers.
By mid-1752 all this activity was well known to the French in Quebec, and a newly arrived governor general, Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, took a hard line in response. He ordered four forts built to establish a strong French presence in the Ohio country. The first was Fort Presque Isle on the south shore of Lake Erie. The second, linked to the first by a portage road, was Fort Le Boeuf at the head of French Creek. The third, where French Creek emptied into the Allegheny River, was Fort Machault. The last, at Forks of the Ohio, was to be named Fort Duquesne. By the spring of 1753 the first two were already underway.
Meanwhile, Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia and other colonial governors were in constant correspondence concerning this French threat. In June Dinwiddie reported their concerns to the Board of Trade in London and, in mid-November, he received their reply. Verify the rumors, the board instructed, and if confirmed "you are to require of Them peaceably to depart," and if they do not do so "we do hereby strictly charge & command You, to drive them off by Force of Arms."[1] Dinwiddie, however, had anticipated the first of these instructions by sending Major George Washington, his newly appointed militia adjutant of the southern district of Virginia, to confront the French.
In preparation Washington hired a translator, Jacob Van Braam, a Dutchman then teaching French; purchased horses and supplies; and headed west for Wills Creek. There he engaged Gist and four others, completing the party. Rain and heavy snow slowed their progress, but, when they finally reached the Forks, Washington quickly saw its military and economic importance in controlling the region. Here the young major met with Indians friendly to the British—particularly Half King, a Seneca chief, who was believed to be influential among the tribes in the region. After meeting with him and other chiefs for a few days, Washington's party, with Half King and a few other Indians, left to meet with the French.
They followed the Allegheny River to French Creek where they found a small French detachment wintering near the partially completed Fort Machault. That evening, plentiful "Wine . . . gave license to their Tongues to reveal their Sentiments more freely," noted Washington. "They told me it was their absolute Design to take Possession of the Ohio" and "prevent our Settling on the River or Waters of it."[2] Inclement weather continued to hamper their progress, but on December 11 they reached Fort Le Boeuf, where Washington presented Governor Dinwiddie's letter to Captain Jacques Legardeur, who commanded French forces in the Ohio country. A few days later Washington received a response. He would, Legardeur wrote, forward the governor's letter to Duquesne in Quebec, but "as to the summons you sent me to retire," he wrote, "I do not think myself obliged to obey it."[3]
Washington's party, along with Half King's Indians, departed Le Boeuf on December 16, but progress was so slow that the major and Gist soon left Van Braam with the packs and horses and struck out on their own to deliver the French response. Hostile Indians and ice-swollen rivers nearly cost them their lives, but they reached Wills Creek on January 6, 1754. From there Washington continued alone and arrived at Williamsburg on the 16th.
Upon hearing his report Dinwiddie instructed Washington to prepare a written version for the Governor's Council. The young officer worked through the night and submitted it the next day. The governor had it printed and distributed. In the late winter and early spring it was serialized in a number of colonial newspapers and was published in England later in the year. The young Washington was beginning to be noticed.
In the meantime the Ohio Company was moving ahead with plans to settle the region. As he was making his way back to Virginia, Washington had passed a Company train of "17 Horses loaded with Materials & Stores for a Fort at the Forks" followed a day later by "a Family or two going out to settle." Dinwiddie had already begun sending supplies and arms to the Forks; he now sent military commissions to the Ohio Company agents building the fort, giving their work the mark of official sanction. At the same time the governor ordered Washington to begin raising two companies (some 100 men) that he could quickly take west to aid in completing the fort and protecting the fledgling settlement. When no recruits were forthcoming the governor issued a proclamation promising a grant of 200,000 acres on the east side of the Ohio to those who volunteered. Shortly thereafter he ordered the raising of a six-company regiment and promoted Washington to lieutenant colonel, placing him second in command under Joshua Fry, a militia colonel and a member of the Governor's Council.
On April 2, 1754, Washington, with the first two companies, some 165 officers and men, left Alexandria, Virginia, for the wilderness. On the 19th, at Wills Creek, he received an urgent message requesting reinforcements at the Forks. The next day, however, he learned that the French had arrived with a substantial force and that the carpenters who had just finished the fort had relinquished it. On April 23, Washington called a council of war. His January orders from Dinwiddie were explicit: If "any attempts are made to obstruct the works or interrupt our Settlemts by any Persons whatsoever, You are to restrain all such Offenders, & in Case of resistance to make Prisoners of or kill & destroy them."[4] At the council it was decided to move forward to the mouth of the Redstone at the Monongahela River, where the Ohio Company had already stockpiled stores and where they might await reinforcements. The Virginians moved forward slowly, widening the road as they went to accommodate their wagons.
On May 24, as they moved forward, a message from Half King warned them that the French had sent out a party to engage them. Soon thereafter they arrived at Great Meadows (near present-day Farmington, Pennsylvania) where a British trader confirmed Half King's report. At this Washington ordered his men to prepare defensive positions and, the next day, began to send out small patrols to locate the French. On the 27th Gist arrived and reported that signs of the French had been seen as close as five miles from Great Meadows. That evening another message from Half King said that he had located the French. Washington, who could not call back a large reconnaissance force he had ordered out earlier in the day, took forty men and left to join the chief. The two men conferred briefly, and then the English and Indians headed toward the French encampment. In the early morning hours they approached the French camp, Washington's force on one side, the Indians on the other. A brief firefight ensued and, in the action, the French lost as many as a dozen men killed and twenty-one taken prisoner. The English lost one killed and three wounded. The Indians, it seems, did not participate in the fight but did prevent the French from escaping in their direction. After the action the Indians scalped the dead and may have killed a few who had been wounded. Among those was Ensign Joseph Coulon de Villiers Jumonville, who was killed by Half King himself, an act that had unfortunate repercussions.
As soon as Washington returned to Great Meadows he put the men to work improving their defensive works and awaited the inevitable French response. He then composed reports to Colonel Fry and Governor Dinwiddie. To Fry he wrote, "Yesterday I engaged a party of French whereof 11 were kill'd and 20 taken with the loss of only 1 of mine and 2 or 3 wounded." Now, he reported, they expected to be attacked by "large" detachments and needed reinforcements "immediately." His still-small force clearly was no match for the French and their Indian allies at the Forks.
Then Washington wrote Dinwiddie a rather odd letter that began with a long dissertation on officer pay—a topic that had dominated their recent exchanges. Then he wrote, "Now sir, as I have answer'd your Honour's Letter I shall beg leave to acqt you with what has happen'd since I wrote" last. He reported on the morning's action and then spoke of the prisoners being sent back, warning that they would "pretend they were coming on" to instruct him to leave the Ohio country—much, it seems, as he had done the year before to the French. "But," he continued, "the absurdity of this pretext is too glaring." He enclosed their instructions which would show, he wrote, that the French were "to get intelligence" and then prepare a force that would then "fall on us immediately after." In a postscript he added, "we have already began a Palisadod Fort and hope to have it up tomorrow." Two days later he sent a note to his younger brother, John Augustine, describing the action. "I heard Bulletts whistle," he wrote, "and believe me there was something charming in the sound." [5]
In the days that followed at Great Meadows, Washington constructed a circular log fort, about fifty feet in diameter, with a small hut in the middle for storage. Around the whole he had a shallow trench dug. It was christened Fort Necessity. On June 10 he received the balance of the Virginia regiment, about two hundred men and nine small cannons, but very few rations. That same day he pleaded with Dinwiddie for supplies saying, "We have been six days without flour, and there is none upon the road for our relief that we know of." Shortly thereafter, an independent company from South Carolina (British regulars) of about hundred men under Captain James Mckay arrived. This was a mixed blessing. Although Mckay had brought a small herd of cattle, his men would very soon be drawing on Washington's small stock of rations—particularly flour. But when his supply agent promised that a substantial shipment would arrive shortly, Washington optimistically began to consider further offensive action and recommenced the march toward the Monongahela River—moving his force closer to the Forks. He might, he thought, erect another fort at the storehouse the Ohio Company had built where Redstone Creek emptied into the Monongahela, if he was obliged to wait there for additional reinforcements and supplies.
On June 15 Washington left Mckay and his regulars at Fort Necessity (Mckay refused to take orders from Washington and would not have his men do any road construction) and marched his regiment toward the Monongahela nearly thirty miles away. They followed the trail blazed by the Ohio Company three or four years earlier, clearing and widening it as they went, but their progress was slow because of the steep hills and rocky, densely forested terrain. On the 27th they had reached Gist's settlement (near present-day Unionville, Pennsylvania) near the headwaters of Redstone Creek. Washington sent one detachment ahead "to endeavor to clear a Road" to the mouth of the Redstone and a second to a small Dunkard settlement farther up the Monongahela in the desperate hope of getting corn. Later that same day he received reliable information that the French at Fort Duquesne had been reinforced by about one thousand men. With that news all detachments were recalled and a council of war was scheduled for next day (Friday, June 28). At the same time Washington asked Mckay and his company to come forward.
At the council, the officers, including Mckay, quickly agreed that they should withdraw to Fort Necessity. That move would put more distance between them and the advancing French, including the road they had just cleared, which one officer described as the "roughest and most hilly Road of any on the Allegany Mountains."[6] The move would also make their resupply easier. They were desperately short of rations, and had been without meat or bread for several days. Having earlier lost their wagons to the rough terrain they had just crossed, they loaded what ammunition and other materials they could on the available horses, including the officers' mounts, and began the trek back to Great Meadows. Some elements arrived late the next day, but some—probably the unfortunate men who had to drag the nine light cannon back—did not close on Fort Necessity until July 1.
Washington then put his men to work improving the fort and the trenches around it. Late on the morning of July 3, a force of about 600 French and 100 American Indians appeared and Washington formed up his men to meet them. When the French took up positions in the woods, however, he withdrew his men into the fort and its entrenchments. The French and Indians, firing from behind trees and fallen timbers, extracted a heavy toll, but rain fell throughout the day and into the night, flooding the marshy ground and the trenches, and ultimately making it almost impossible for either side to keep their weapons and powder dry. As night approached, Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers, commander of the French force and brother of the dead Jumonville, requested a parley. With his men exhausted and starving, and therefore no longer an effective fighting force, Washington had no real alternative but surrender. Mckay concurred. Near midnight terms were agreed upon and written out by Villiers. Washington and Mckay huddled together in the candle-lit hut while Van Braam attempted to translate the water-smudged document. In the process the Dutchman, whose English was poor, translated the French term for "assassinate" as "killed" in connection with the death of young Jumonville. The terms allowed the British to withdraw, retaining their baggage and weapons, but not their cannon. Washington and Mckay signed the document. Although Washington and his officers adamantly denied the charge of "assassination" when Van Braam's mistake became known, the French used the "admission" in their effort to discredit the British. Although these actions occurred nearly two years before war was declared between Britain and France, they are often cited as the first engagements in the French and Indian War in North America, and in a global conflict historians have dubbed the Seven Years' War.
On July 4 the British force left Fort Necessity and began the march for Wills Creek and on to Virginia. The French stayed only long enough to burn Fort Necessity, then retraced their steps to Fort Duquesne, burning Gist's trading post and the storehouse at the mouth of the Redstone River as they went.
Washington and Mckay made their formal report to Dinwiddie on July 19, putting the circumstances in the very best possible light. It was, they reported, an "unequal Fight, with an Enemy sheltered behind the Trees, ourselves without Shelter, in Trenches full of Water, in a settled Rain, and the Enemy galling us on all Sides incessantly from the Woods, till 8 o'Clock at Night when the French called a Parley. . . . About Midnight we agreed that each Side would retire without Molestation, they back to their Fort at Monongahela, and we to Will's Creek." There was no mention of "capitulation" or "assassination," but Dinwiddie knew the fuller details and was satisfied, for the moment, with this, and so it was reported in the Virginia Gazette.
Dinwiddie was inclined to try again, but the other colonies evidenced no interest. Instead, to protect his frontier, he reorganized his militia into ten independent companies. With no regimental command Washington resigned his commission. In England, however, this defeat stirred the Cabinet to action. As Horace Walpole, the English chronicler, put it, "The volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire." In mid-January 1755, Major General Edward Braddock and two under-strength Irish regiments set sail for North America to displace the French in the Ohio country.
When Braddock arrived, Washington volunteered to be an aide-de-camp. In July 1755, the British column was ambushed as it approached Fort Duquesne and badly mauled. General Braddock was mortally wounded in the action. Washington, however, had been instrumental in preventing a complete rout. His bravery and acumen were celebrated at home and abroad. One British wag allowed that he had "acquitted himself nobly," and just weeks after the action a Virginia minister opined in his sermon that the "heroic young Col. Washington" must have been preserved "by Providence" for "some important service to his country."
The English did not give up and in 1758 sent Brigadier John Forbes to capture Fort Duquesne as but one element of a campaign that ultimately won Canada for the British and ended French ambitions in that part of North America. Forbes recognized that Washington, who had returned to command the Virginia regiment in 1756, could be of useful service to him. Although the Virginian sometimes rankled, Forbes made good use of the young colonel. Washington in turn learned invaluable lessons in how an army should be organized, supplied, and fought in North America.
In February 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War and the French ceded Canada to the British. In October, the British restricted settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains and the next year adopted a hugely unpopular policy of taxing the American colonies to help defray the war debt. The French and Indian War, it seems, not only sowed the seeds of unrest that would eventually lead to the American Revolution, but it also marked a soldier, now oft hailed a hero, who would lead the nascent nation to victory in that conflict.
[1] Earl of Holderness to Dinwiddie, May 22, 1753, quoted in "Editorial Note," The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, ed. Theodore J. Crackel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2008. Hereafter cited as PGWDE.
[2] Entry, Nov. 30, 1753, "Journey to the French Commandant: Narrative," PGWDE.
[3] Legardeur to Dinwiddie, Oct. 31, 1753, quoted (in translation) in "Journey to the French Commandant: Narrative," note 59, PGWDE.
[4] Dinwiddie to Washington, [Jan 1754], "Instructs, to be observ'd by Majr Geo. Washington on the Expeditn to the Ohio," PGWDE.
[5] Washington to Dinwiddie, May 29, 1754 [third of that date], PGWDE; Washington to John Augustine Washington, [May 31, 1754], PGWDE.
[6] Adam Stephen, Maryland Gazette (Annapolis), Aug. 29, 1754, quoted in "Editorial Note," PGWDE.
Theodore J. Crackel spent eighteen years as a historical documentary editor after a twenty-one-year career in the US Army. In 1993, he launched and headed the "Papers of the War Department, 1784–1800"—an effort to reconstitute, and make available digitally, records that had been destroyed in a fire in 1800. He recently retired from his position as professor and editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia.
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Among other issues, the degrading environmental and ecological situations, the low performance scrambled city form and the loss of cultural identity in Beijing City have proved that the conventional 'population projection-urban infrastructure-land use' approach and the architectural urbanism approach to urban growth planning failed to meet the challenges of swift urbanisation and sustainability issues in China in general, and Beijing in particular. The 'negative approach' is proposed that defines an urban growth and urban form through the identification and planning of Ecological Infrastructure (EI). This approach has evolved from the pre-scientific model of Feng-shui as the sacred landscape setting for human settlement, the nineteenth century notion of greenways as urban recreational infrastructure, the early twentieth century idea of green belts as urban form makers, and the late twentieth century notion of ecological networks and EI as a biological preservation framework. EI is composed of critical landscape elements and structure that are strategically identified and planned to safeguard natural assets and ecosystems services, essential for sustaining human society. EI is strategically planned and developed using less land but more efficiently preserving the ecosystems services. Using Beijing City as an example, this paper demonstrates how to use EI as a tool to guide and frame sustainable urban development.
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A few weeks ago, we asked Bob Kravitz of the IndyStar this question:
Why should every Indy sports fan read it (the Star) first thing in the morning?
This was his answer:
Why read the Star? Well, what else are you going to read?
Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of options. I wish we had two
newspapers, even three. I wish we had a bunch of columnists, like we
did in Denver. I wish there was more to choose from, more voices, more
Lots of nonsense
has happened since then, but I thought it would be a revealing look at
the change in media coverage to analyze all the news coming out of the
Colts mini-camp this weekend in an effort to get a snap shot who has the best
on-line Colts coverage. 18to88 is not, and has never claimed to be, a news gathering source. We are here to interpret the stories only. We get our information from a variety of sources, and most of them we then pass along in the Links portion of each post. The reader can come to 18to88 to get a summary of all the coverage, and follow the good ones himself. We read stuff so you don't have to.
In considering the coverage, remember that this is not a regular season event
like a football game, but an open to the public weekend practice
session. What follows is a break down of stories and quotes from the
weekend and who had them. The goal is to determine what are the best
online sources of news and quotes for Colts fans, with the caveat that in Kuharsky's case, he is not always present in Indianapolis, but was this weekend. In the case of Colts.com, the function is slightly different, and was most useful for providing edited clips from press conferences, giving the fans a taste of what the press saw. Most of their stories were written by Oehser, thus occasionally having him 'work against himself'.
Essentially, there were 20 different stories or 'quote ideas' that I tracked from the weekend. Not all stories were of equal importance and weight, which I will discuss later. The four sources of information I followed were Paul Kuharsky from ESPN, John Oehser from Indyfootballreport.com, the Indy Star (which was represented by Mike Chappell), and Colts.com. We did not fully grade Stampede Blue, because they are also a 'blog' rather than a news source, but it bears noting that they did score in two different categories, thanks to picking up on a Wall Street Journal note about Billy Cundiff getting a tryout (a story not mentioned by any of the other four), and a fan report on the camp.
The results (click to see a story by story scoreboard):
Kuharsky-Covered 13 of 20 stories, scored 6 "BESTS", 1 exclusive
Oehser-Covered 15 of 20 stories, 1 "Next Day", scored 7 "BESTS", 1 exclusive
Star-Covered 15 of 20 stories, 11 "Next Day", 1 "Two Days Later", scored 3 "BESTS", 1 exclusive
Colts.com-Covered 9 of 20 stories, scored 1 "BEST", 1 exclusive
As for the biggest stories of the weekend, Chappell gets the check mark for his work on the Moore/Mudd saga. Kuharksy gets nods for his coverage of Lilja and Saturday's workout. Oehser had the best write up on Sunday.
So what conclusions can we draw from this?
1. Colts fans have options. It's totally artificial to treat this like a competition, because it isn't, but it's important to note that there are at least four solid sources of daily updates about the Colts. Bob Kravitz could not have been more wrong.
2. ESPN is a force, when they want to be. Kuharsky does great stuff whenever he's in town. His coverage of Saturday's workout was one of the highlights of the weekend. It's a shame he has to split time between four cities. He's great and should be a staple of Colts fans.
3. The blog is an inherently better tool than the paper. The Star had good coverage, but was hurt by the immediacy and freedom afforded to the two bloggers. Kuharsky and Oehser were able to provide insight and commentary, not just information. In addition, while the Star tied with Oehser for the most stories covered, more than half were not available on-line until the following morning. The Star needs to do three things: 1. Unchain Chappell and let him tell us what he thinks. 2. Keep paying Phil B. Wilson. Phil B's presence at training camp and his daily blog updates will dramatically boost the Star's ability to compete with Oehser. 3. Get stories up faster.
4. If all a Colts fan does is read the Star, he or she will be well informed. Chappell did a great job this weekend, and covered as many of the major stories and quotes as anyone. He also broke the biggest story of the weekend (Moore/Mudd to return in largely the same roles in August). His long form articles were excellent reads, and presented many of the quotes and stories in a more interesting package than the blogs did. It was a good weekend for him, for sure.
The biggest problem with the Star is that it can't get out of its own way. This weekend the COLTS were practicing. They are the biggest game in town. The Star? They had their intrepid columnist writing about the how the Indiana Fever are dying. WTF? A WNBA piece? When the Colts are actually, you know, doing something? Worse yet, it's a piece about how sad it is that the Fever are all but done. It's not even a funny, mock the WNBA deal. That's weak coverage and doesn't give the consumer what he (or she…more female Colts fans than Fever fans by a WIIIIDE margin) want. The Fever are dying, and if that doesn't scream "NO ONE CARES!", I don't know what does.
5. Colts.com is different than the other sources, but still useful. Being able to watch videos of Manning, Freeney, Caldwell, and Wayne was terrific, and allows the fan to get many of the same quotes directly from the lips of the star who uttered them.
Finally, one last conclusion:
Most of us have known for some time that John "Johnny O" Oehser is a major boon to the coverage of the Colts. This week sealed it. John covered the highest percentage of stories. He covered the most stories on the same day they happened. He garnered our "BEST" rating more often than any of the other three. In fact, he was also responsible for some of the Colts.com material as well, or he would have destroyed the competition with his own blog.
Indyfootballreport is the best single source for Colts news. At least it was this weekend. That result surprises no one.
The man of the hour nicely sums up the weekend.
Via Kuharsky, this list will look very stupid in a year. Actually, it looks pretty stupid now. I'm cool with #32, but there ain't no way there are 15 coaches worse than Mad Jack. The Caldwell thing is ignorant, but he's a rookie, and in this league you have to earn respect on the field.
Via Oehser, a Scout.com sighting! I'd link to them more often, but I'm not going to pay for the material. This is a great, and free, write up, however.


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An Interview with Filipino Director Raya Martin on 'How to Disappear Completely'
He hasn't even turned 30 and Raya Martin is already known as perhaps the most intriguing and challenging Filipino director working today. Martin was the first Filipino filmmaker accepted into the Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. His films have shown in numerous festivals including Cannes, the Berlinale, the Locarno International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival; a retrospective of his films has been screened in Paris, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, South Korea, and New York. And now, he has turned his focus to the genre of American Independent Horror Films. His latest, How to Disappear Completely has already earned rave reviews as well as awards at Locarno (Switzerland), Hamburg (Germany), San Diego, CineManila, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and Buenos Aires. This week, the film is screening twice at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival with Martin in attendance: Wednesday, April 16th at 9:45 and Saturday, April 19th at 9:50. We asked the director a few questions as he arrived in Minnesota.
Your new film, How To Disappear Completely is screening at the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Festival this week. However, it's already premiered in a few countries, including here in the United States at the San Diego Asian Film Festival last year. What has the response been like so far?
It's been surprisingly positive, and more so in the US, but I don't know why exactly. It's one of my more accessible works, and the topic is quite sensitive, but people have been quite more reactive perhaps because of the almost clear narrative approach that I do occasionally take in my works. It's also very friendly, visual and aural wise.
To this point, you've kind of taken an unorthodox approach to your career. From being the first Filipino chosen for a residency at Cinéfondation Residence du Festival de Cannes in Paris, France to your choices of movies thus far. However, you called this one of your more "accessible" works, but in some ways the film still definitely challenges you. How is that?
I was always trying out something visually new in my previous works, but it's also a challenge to work structurally narrative-wise in a film. In a way, the story-telling in How to Disappear Completely is very simple: it's a child's daily life in a small town. That also makes it the most challenging: how do you translate certain moods and feelings in something as simple as that?
You also called this your homage to American Independent Horror. What were your influences and why did you decide to pay tribute to that genre?
It's always been clear to me that if I make my more narrative works, they'd be towards that: I grew up watching a lot of horror films, even before I discovered filmmakers like Antonioni or Maya Deren, I was already into John Carpenter's Halloween and Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow. They were my real formative heroes. The soundtrack, for example, is reminiscent of Carpenter's own work in his films.
I remember growing up in the Philippines and getting so scared by the Filipino folk tales of creatures and superstitions. How much of that influenced the film?
There's a different sense of terror in the Philippines, I think. It's very interesting that we seem to be desensitized by everyday murders, but half-bodied flying witches are very much alive in our consciousness. It's this overlapping of the superstitions with seemingly urban consciousness that makes us unique. I get paranoid more about a rattling sound on the roof that could come from a demonic creature, than perhaps a burglar. It's that weird consciousness in the film.
It's funny because in one sense, you're not even in your thirties yet. But in another sense, you've been doing this for so long now, you've made 19 films and 12 features, and it seems you're starting to think of the future. How is that starting to influence the artistic decisions you make?
I'm just playing it as I go along. There are things that I want to try out that I haven't done before, and that's probably the idea: not to repeat something and stay out of the comfort zone. A lot of new things are starting to normalize, when it was completely different from when I was younger: the Internet, tactile childhood experiences, watching movies in a theater. So I'd like to figure those out and avoid being a cranky old man.
Are there any other screenings in the US on the horizon? For people who haven't been able to see it, when might they be able to see the film?
It's opening the New Filipino Cinema series at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco this June! (June 11th, YBCA.org)
How about for you, what can we expect from you next?
I'm currently preparing some more narrative films in the future, one definitely suspense, but another one comedy, which is another genre I would like to explore. Comedy seems to be also a Filipino thing.


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Having reached 8 million fans on Facebook, Domino's, the second-largest pizza chain in the United States, got an opportunity to use its namesake dominoes in a video made to honor their digital admirers: a thank you video was made by the Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertising agency.
Domino's gratitude to their fans on Facebook seems to be really big considering the fact that they've used over 50,000 dominoes in the video and spent over 120 hours in just making them to say that they like their fans as well. Brands showing appreciation to their followers on social networks (especially on Facebook) has become some kind of a trend nowadays, judging by the amount of promotional films created when fans hit a certain number on Facebook.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky is known for using viral marketing techniques and Facebook milestone videos are their specialty. CP+B agency's current client list includes some worldwide famous brands like Microsoft, Old Navy, Jell-O, Coke Zero, Milka and, of course, Domino's. According to Domino's customers and fans the video is a beautiful way of showing gratitude and the brand is very kind is doing so, but some of them would rather prefer a free pizza giveaway. Anyway, this is a nice gesture and, who knows, maybe in the future we could get a free snack by just liking a page on Facebook – brand loyalty sometimes can indeed pay off.


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ST. LEONARD, Md. – A huge single-owner lifetime collection of Elvis Presley items promises to be the centerpiece offering in a Memorial Day antiques and collectibles auction slated for Monday, May 27, at Chesapeake Auction House.
An expected top lot of the Elvis collection is a rare, limited-edition Aloha Hawaii Elvis Celebrity Series World Doll (#94 of 750 produced). The doll, in pristine condition, comes with a presentation case, concert ticket, five-point diamond belt buckle and an original Elvis personal wardrobe scarf, worn by The King onstage. Also included are original paperwork and receipts.
The auction will be held in the firm's gallery located at 5015 St. Leonard Road in St. Leonard, about an hour south of Annapolis, starting at 9 a.m. (EST).
Other Elvis items will feature records (LPs and 45 RPM records, to include a copy of the first album he ever recorded), CDs, DVDs, pictures, posters, magazines, TV Guides, jewelry, books, tapes, calendars, scrapbooks, ornaments, figurines, dolls, model cars, decanters and more. There is no telling what the collection might fetch at auction; interest in Elvis-related items remains high.
"We were fortunate to have secured such a wonderful consignment, especially for a big Memorial Day sale," said Larry Forman of Chesapeake Auction House. "I am expecting a great turnout and enthusiastic bidding. Elvis will no doubt get most of the attention, but folks need to know there is a lot more in this auction than just Elvis. About 1,000 items will cross the block."
Other collectibles will include a unique and ornate vintage 5¢ slot game machine, an outstanding collection of about 5,000 comic books, a vintage silver-plated clarinet, a group of Franklin Mint decorative molds, a U.S. Army military bivouac cooler, an antique galvanized 10-gallon watering can, a Diamond Springs Water Co. (Richmond, Va.) glass water jug and more.
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The Northern Susitna Institute, NSI, has asked the Talkeetna Community Council for support of their plan to purchase property at the edge of downtown Talkeetna. Part of the plan includes providing a public water source for residents.
NSI representative Deb Wessler spoke at the Talkeetna Community Council Monday evening and said that NSI was applying to the Borough to have the water source plan be placed on the Capital Improvement Project list.
She asked the council's Board of Directors for a letter of support. The council unanimously voted to send a letter to the Borough supporting the plan, dependent on receiving the financial information required.
However, later in the meeting, a lengthy discussion took place on the CIP list and the number of projects that the Borough has listed for Talkeetna. Assemblyman Vern Halter said there would be little chance for a project to be placed on the list that is speculative. The building and land has not yet been purchased and the purchase date is unknown.
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Eilat offers some of the most beautiful scuba diving sites in the world.
If you have had enough of tours around Israel or abroad, consider a switch to underwater sites. Eilat boasts some of the most beautiful scuba diving in the world, and lessons are offered by several diving clubs. You do not have to venture to that southern city for lessons: Scuba courses are available in the Dan region and even in Jerusalem.
Unlike other countries, Israel has laws regulating scuba diving. The Recreational Diving Law was enacted about 30 years ago to prevent adventurous swimmers from engaging in this sport without first undergoing the requisite training and certification from a diving club licensed by the Israeli Diving Authority.
Elsewhere most clubs operate in accordance with the standards of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors. The PADI standards rank diving knowledge and experience by stars, with the minimum certification involving three days of instruction on the one-star level. David Vered, the PADI representative in Israel and director of the Isrotel Red Sea Sports Club, says the length of the course is less important than its content and the number of dives per course. One-star courses worldwide include six dives.
"A diver cannot go off on his own anyway until he has done 20 registered dives, during which he must be accompanied by an instructor," explains Vered," and afterward one-star divers must be accompanied by a diver at least one level above them."
The courses held in the Mediterranean are somewhat different from the courses in the Red Sea. The Mediterranean courses hold exercises in operating the equipment and underwater swimming in a pool before students do a sea dive. In Eilat, where the waters are calmer, all the exercises are in the sea. In addition, since the Mediterranean is much rougher, and divers have difficulty swimming to the dive points, they arrive by boat and learn about entering the water from a boat at an earlier stage than in Eilat. The basic Eilat courses do not even conduct dives from boats, as the dive sites are only a short distance from the shore.
"Since the water in the Mediterranean is rougher," says Dan Davidi, of the Reef diving club in Herzliya, "in my opinion those who learn and dive in it are better divers."
The advantage of a scuba course in the Mediterranean, for most Israelis, is that it can be done without going on a vacation that also involves hotel expenses.
Jerusalem residents can start learning to scuba dive locally; the Jerusalem diving club has been around for almost 20 years.
"The first two and a half days of the course are held in Jerusalem, with practice dives in a pool," explains Assaf Schwartz, of the TheDiver 02 - Jerusalem Dive Center. "Then we continue the course in Eilat, with the same instructors who started with the students in Jerusalem." Schwartz says that even some of the Eilat diving clubs hold the initial classes in a pool. "I work with busy Jerusalemites, who find it difficult to travel to Tel Aviv," says Schwartz. "Sometimes there are large groups who observe the Sabbath and even ultra-Orthodox diving students. We work in the evenings, after work hours, so as not to interfere with their daily routine."
One star or two?
More than 125,000 certified divers are registered with the Israeli Diving Federation. Its president, Liron Tirosh, estimates that 25,000 of them are tourists, and that another 50,000 Israelis have diving certificates from other organizations. Scuba diving courses are offered by some 15 diving clubs in the Mediterranean and eight in Eilat.
In addition to the basic courses, there are advanced courses for group leaders, diving instructors and deep-sea diving. A basic one-star recreational course costs NIS 1,100-1,300, and consists of five days of instruction, six hours a day. The course includes theoretical and practical instruction and dives. Participants who successfully pass both the theoretical and practical exams earn a license and international diving certificate for depths of up to 20 meters, accompanied by a diver with at least two-star certification. The minimum age for registration is 12 years, and minors up to age 15 require parental consent.
The two-star course costs NIS 600-700 and consists of two days of six-hour sessions of instruction and diving. There is more diving in this course than in the one-star course, in addition to lifesaving, navigation and deep dives. The certificate at the end of the course is for depths up to 30 meters. Minors under age 15 are not allowed to swim deeper than 20 meters. Some clubs offer discounted package deals on consecutive one- and two-star courses.
Despite the attraction and mystique of scuba diving, some people find that the water is simply not their natural element, and some participants stop in the middle of a course. Yuval Ziv, of the Coral Sea Diving Center, says his courses have a 25% dropout rate in the one-star course. Therefore, before signing up for a course, it is worth asking about the refund policy on withdrawing from a course. Most clubs will allow course participants to take a break and finish the course at a later date, within a year, but if you back out altogether, it had better be at a club that will agree to refund your money.
Diving is an expensive hobby. Anyone who has not dived for more than six months must take a refresher course, which costs NIS 150-180. Renting diving equipment for a full day costs NIS 130-195. A rented camera, to capture your underwater sortie, costs NIS 60-100, and the dive itself costs about NIS 160.
It is worth it for people who dive often to buy their own equipment. A diving mask, for example, costs NIS 100-400, fins run from NIS 100-600, a wet suit costs NIS 300-1,500 and an oxygen tank costs NIS 850-NIS 3,000.
Although scuba diving does involve swimming, people seldom dive to improve their physical fitness or health. Dr. Pinhas Halperin, the medical adviser to the Israeli Recreational Diving Authority, explains that scuba diving burns very few calories, as only the diver's lungs are exerting any effort, not his body.
"There are no [physical] health benefits in diving," says Halperin, "but it is good for mental health. Diving is a relaxing sport and is a calming and rehabilitative activity for patients with certain illnesses, as part of a therapy program."
A diver's equipment must be maintained in good working order, as his life depends on it. "We test our equipment every three months, even though the manufacturers require testing only after longer periods of use or after a certain number of dives," says Ziv. "Clients can see the date of the last test, which is recorded on the buoyancy jackets and regulators."
Ziv says that not all the clubs test the equipment as frequently as Coral Sea, because it entails employing a full-time technician. Ziv advises divers visiting a club for the first time to ask who the club's professional manager is and how many years of experience he has.
In Israel there are three hyperbaric chambers for treating diving accident victims: at Yoseftal Medical Center in Eilat, Assaf Harofeh Hospital in Tzrifin and Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. Unfortunately, a person's need for treatment in a hyperbaric chamber could develop only hours after a dive, when the diver is far from these hospitals.
Dr. Asher Salmon, who heads the medical review board at the Health Ministry, sees no reason to install hyperbaric chambers at other hospitals. The chambers are very expensive to maintain and require specially trained professionals to operate them and provide high quality treatment. Salmon says that based on international guidelines, there is no need for more hyperbaric chambers in Israel.
Shai Roth, the Israeli representative of the Divers Alert Network, which offers diving insurance policies on behalf of Phoenix Insurance, says every year dozens of divers are sent for treatment in the hyperbaric chambers at the hospitals, following diving mishaps, and hundreds more go to emergency rooms for minor injuries such as nosebleeds or ruptured ear drums, which can be caused by rising through the water too fast after a dive.
In the past decade there have been six recreational diving fatalities. Even so, Tirosh does not define diving as a risky sport, but rather as a sport with risks, and accordingly cautions divers who learned how to dive abroad to make sure the standards of the course they took are the same as in Israel; that those courses included enough practical lessons and dives, as well as rescue, lifesaving and artificial respiration exercises.
The Diving Law states that every diver must be insured.
"No one will rent equipment to you, and will not even fill your air tank, unless you have proof of your insurance," says Tirosh.
Every diving club is associated with a different insurance company and sells international recreational diving insurance policies that are good for a year. The annual premium is about NIS 175, for $100,000-$150,000 worth of coverage. Clal, Harel and Phoenix insurance companies sell these policies..
"No [diving accident] claims have gone to court in recent years, and are settled between the insurance companies and the divers or the hospitals," says Roth.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year!
This was supposed to be a collection of images from Dave and I's year, however, I ran out of time to post them all! :) So instead a year end summary of a few things that have been going on in our lives! Have a blessed and joy-filled 2010!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Baby Updates
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Listening to God
Job 37:1-18 (New Living Translation)
Job 37
1 "My heart pounds as I think of this.
It trembles within me.
2 Listen carefully to the thunder of God's voice
as it rolls from his mouth.
3 It rolls across the heavens,
and his lightning flashes in every direction.
4 Then comes the roaring of the thunder—
the tremendous voice of his majesty.
He does not restrain it when he speaks.
5 God's voice is glorious in the thunder.
We can't even imagine the greatness of his power.
6 "He directs the snow to fall on the earth
and tells the rain to pour down.
7 Then everyone stops working
so they can watch his power.
8 The wild animals take cover
and stay inside their dens.
9 The stormy wind comes from its chamber,
and the driving winds bring the cold.
10 God's breath sends the ice,
freezing wide expanses of water.
11 He loads the clouds with moisture,
and they flash with his lightning.
12 The clouds churn about at his direction.
They do whatever he commands throughout the earth.
13 He makes these things happen either to punish people
or to show his unfailing love.
14 "Pay attention to this, Job.
Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God!
15 Do you know how God controls the storm
and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?
16 Do you understand how he moves the clouds
with wonderful perfection and skill?
17 When you are sweltering in your clothes
and the south wind dies down and everything is still,
18 he makes the skies reflect the heat like a bronze mirror.
Can you do that?
Friday, October 16, 2009
First Doctor's Appointment
Dave went with me and we answered many questions, gave lots of blood (me not Dave), and got the officially official due date of May 11. First ultrasound in a few weeks, can't wait!
So far we are all feeling good, minus our cat Rufus who visited the vet today to be tutored (ie neutered).
Friday, September 25, 2009
First comes love, then comes marriage...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Rough Country
She makes her way through the dark trees
Down to the lake to be alone.
Following their voices on the breeze,
She makes her way. Through the dark trees
The distant stars are all she sees.
They cannot light the way she's gone.
She makes her way through the dark trees
Down to the lake to be alone.
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water.
She cannot see the winds that break
The night reflected on the lake
But knows they motion for her sake.
These are the choices they have brought her:
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water.
Give me a landscape made of obstacles,
of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,
where the low-running streams are quick to flood
the grassy fields and bottomlands.A place no engineers can master–where the roads
must twist like tendrils up the mountainside
on narrow cliffs where boulders block the way.
Where tall black trunks of lightning-scalded pine
push through the tangled woods to make a roost
for hawks and swarming crows.And sharp inclines where twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush,
scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly
to find an unexpected waterfall,
not half a mile from the nearest road,
a spot so hard to reach that no one comes–
a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies
and nesting jays, a sign that there is still
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Frank Pulver
At A Close Reach - Poem by Frank Pulver
Pleasures are things that we keep close to our heart,
As our troubles will come and go,
Never let them let them tear you apart,
So remember there always is at least one friend that you will always trust,
And if there is not, then we try to make some amends,
So let's try to open our hearts and share those memories because it is a must.
By this we need to also remember that we will always have friends,
Boy, those pleasures in life will someday go away,
But sharing them with at least someone will always bring happiness,
Trying this might be hard for us to do, but it is something that we must display,
And always remember when those times get hard
Do not forget that the Lord is always there to bless,
That pleasure can be just as simple walk on that clear white sand on the beach,
Taking the time to feel that mist of water hitting your face,
Or to smell the salt in the air,
So please always remember that a friend will always be there at the right time and place,
And his/her arms will always be there at a close reach.
By Frank Pulver
July 19,2011
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Mayor Betsy Hodges Hires Policy Aide for Sustainability
Stephanie Zawistowski to focus on Mayor's effort to make Minneapolis a zero-waste city
April 1, 2014 (MINNEAPOLIS) — Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges today announced that she has hired Stephanie Zawistowski as a policy aide in her office to work on sustainability policy, including plans to make Minneapolis a zero-waste city, which Mayor Hodges promoted in her campaign for mayor last year.
"Minneapolis has long led the nation on sustainability, and we will continue to do so," Mayor Hodges said. "Stephanie's professional, academic and organizing experience in joining sustainability and economic growth are the perfect credentials for continuing to move this work forward. I'm particularly pleased that she will spearhead a plan with the City Council and the Public Works Department to make Minneapolis a zero-waste city, which is an important priority for City Council members and me."
Stephanie Zawistowski comes to the Mayor's office from Best Buy, where she has worked the past three years managing the company's ISO 14001-certified Environmental Management System (EMS). During her time there, Best Buy became the first retailer to certify all of its U.S. operations to this international standard for environmental management. Prior to that role, Zawistowski served as the National Field Director for the BlueGreen Alliance, a national coalition of environmental organizations and labor unions that advocates for building a cleaner, fairer and more competitive American economy, an organization that she helped launch. She holds a Bachelor's in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
Zawistowski will start later this month. Mayor Hodges will also announce later this month her hire for a policy aide who will focus on economic development and opportunity.
Published Apr 1, 2014


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Bill Crowden
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Bill Crowden was one of the true veterans of the music products industry! He owned and operated Drums Ltd, one of the hot spots for jazz, symphonic and rock drummers for several decades. The store was located on Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. When Bill married into the Ludwig family by marrying the founder's granddaughter Brooke, it was the perfect match. Mr. and Mrs. Crowden were sure to be on hand at the NAMM grand events as well as those hosted by Ludwig and the Percussive Arts Society for the better part of 40 years. Bill was also known to millions of NAMM attendees over the years, seen on the opening day carrying the flag for the all industry marching band.
Interview Date:
January 16, 2009
Date of Birth:
April 25, 1931
Deceased Date:
February 14, 2013
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Cultural diversity
By following and interviewing a number of Egyptians who want to immigrate, the filmmaker attempts to unveil the real life circumstances that lie beneath one's decision to leave his/her own country. The film will investigate the fears, dreams and future plans of Randa, Mohamed and Darah. Randa wishes to move to Canada, however fearing a possible identity crisis for her four-year-old son after watchin a film about Arabs in New York post 9-11. Mohamed failed to be a famous singer in Cairo and wants to find a new beginning in Australia. Darah was raised in Canada but due to pressure from her mom, returned to Egypt. Through the course of the film, we will try to find an answer to the question: where is the place called home?
This documentary is part of the DVD "Revisiting Public Service Television" (available here)
Type: Documentary
Extract: 4 min. Total length:
Credits: Tamer Ezzat, director. Myth Productions, producer. Michel Gelinas, producer. UNESCO-ICT@PBST, co-producer.
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Virginia Veterinarian, Beef Producer Takes Reins as NCBA Chief Veterinarian
WASHINGTON – After spending 27 years practicing veterinary medicine, one year as a congressional fellow and more than 11 years managing her family's cow-calf operation, Kathy Simmons, D.V.M., started a new role today, May 7, 2012, as chief veterinarian for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA). Simmons will focus on animal care and health regulatory issues both domestically and internationally.
Simmons studied biology and biochemistry at Virginia Tech University before earning a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech in 1984. Simmons practiced veterinary medicine at the Herndon-Reston Animal Hospital in Herndon, Va., for 27 years and also has an active role managing her family's farm, S&S Farms, in West Virginia, where they raise registered black Angus cattle.
Most recently, Simmons spent one year as a policy fellow on Capitol Hill for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Veterinary Medical Association. She served in the office of U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) focusing on health policy issues. Simmons said her new role as NCBA chief veterinarian will allow her to bring together her practical veterinary and policy experiences with her vast knowledge of the U.S. beef cattle industry.
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Officers investigating the report of a stolen car in Leesburg may have also uncovered a drug production operation.
Leesburg police received an On-Star alert at 12:06 a.m. Friday, indicating a car reported stolen in Indiana was in the area.
Officers checked out the vehicle, parked near Clubhouse Drive. The officers reported that a noxious odor was coming out of the car, and when they looked inside, they saw materials that looked like they could be used in a methamphetamine lab. Police said they located two people associated with the car, a male and a female.
A HazMat crew was called for further investigation.
Officers proceeded to search a nearby apartment where the male and the female lived. Inside the apartment, a substance believed to be methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia was found.


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You're kidding, right? Reader Teri Clark Linden is nearly the worst reader ever! I finished reading the book in paperback.
The performer appears to be learning to read. Every "a" is pronounced as a long a.
The character Emma is written as smar, logical, strong and ..Show More »
Charming series of stories.
I love Aunt Dimity books but it would have been much better read by someone else. Intensely dislike the reader.
Some parts are just read monotono..Show More »
Yes to Atherton, no to Linden
I had read the book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thought I would listen to it on Audible while I baked. Good heavens!! If this was my first introductio..Show More »
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Definitely change the narrator.
narrator sounds mechanical, uses odd accents, felt like I was listening to Siri or Alexa.
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Another aunt Dimity story. I liked this one much better than last. If the narrator wouldn't read so choppy and monotone, I would enjoy all much more.
Unless you enjoy stilted pronunciation. This recording was too painful to listen to. I wish I could return it. Even Data on Star Trek (an android) spo..Show More »
I dare say, the perfection and unchanging pronunciation throughout the book makes one wonder. Whatever the case, the book is incredibly difficult to l..Show More »
I've long adjusted to the fact that Penguin Publishing is either cheap or deaf. They keep using the robot-sounding narrator to which I adjust to 1.5x ..Show More »
I've seen several reviews that bash the narrator but I think she does a good job. It's easy to determine who's speaking just by narrator's voice. Lori..Show More »
Evidently many do not like the narrator but she is one of my favorites. I have no idea how she does it but each book's characters are easily distingui..Show More »
I have long been a fan of the Aunt Dimity series, owning every title in hardback. This was my first, and potentially last audio version. The narrato..Show More »
It was tiresome to keep hearing Lori's thoughts on everyone. She has lost the humility and kindness she had in the earlier books. Her character acts a..Show More »
I have read every book in this series and was a little disappointed in this one! To much about Bess!
I have all the Aunt Dimity books on Audible and today I feel all my Christmases have come at once! Thank God this one has a new narrator! (The one who..Show More »
The new narrator for the last two Aunt Dimity books is absolutely fabulous. Note well, Christina Moore only narrators the last two! The previous narra..Show More »


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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?
Visit the caves of Pech Merle, Font-de-Gaume and Rouffignac in southern France and you will witness some of the most breathtaking art our planet has to offer. Images of bisons, lions and other creatures loom from the cavern walls. Herds of horses and the occasional rhino, not to mention the odd mammoth and giant bull, parade across the rocks. Many animals are depicted in vivid colours, with a sense of perspective and anatomical detail that suggest these artists had acquired considerable skill. These underground galleries, found mostly in France and Spain, also turn out to be remarkably old. The works at Rouffignac have been dated to around 13,000 years old, while those at nearby Chauvet and Lascaux are thought to be more than 30,000 years old. This testimony on rock walls – in daubs of ochre and charcoal mixed with spittle and fat – shows that our hunter-gatherer ancestors could depict the world around them in a startlingly sophisticated way. As the art critic John Berger once said of these painters, they appear to have had "grace from the start". Picasso was even more awestruck. "We have invented nothing," he remarked gloomily, after a visit to Lascaux in 1940 to inspect the handiwork of his Stone Age predecessors. Not surprisingly, these paintings attract tens of thousands of visitors every year. However, there is another aspect to this art that often escapes attention, but which is now providing scientists with fresh insights into our recent evolution. Instead of studying those magnificent galloping horses and bisons, researchers are investigating the symbols painted beside them...more
Early man encryption?
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Advantages Of The 0% APR Credit Card
People used to think that they had enough on their benefits with their credit cards. They thought that the rewards they get and the low interest they have is already enough to last a lifetime. But times have changed and now cardholders are
wanting more. They are no longer happy receiving a toaster or a coffee pot. They want more. Like free vacations, free services and more.
However, there are instances when they get to have the chance of seeing promotions like 0% APR. Now, this is really something. But the question is, is it true? Is there a great probability that credit card companies can actually offer a 0% APR? Lets face it, credit card company's are in business to make money not lose it.
For most financial experts, they contend that it is, indeed, possible. In fact, credit card companies would definitely go for this kind of scheme just to get the consumers on their hook.
That sounds too good to be true, indeed. But the question is how come they can offer something so good just like that?
Normally, 0% annual percentage rate or APR lasts only for 6 months. The countdown starts from the day the credit card is claimed.
In most instances, 0% APR are attractive to people who would want to have a balance transfer. This is because they would want to consolidate all of their debts into one payment only. And because they have a huge pile of debt, they would rather go to a credit company that can offer them lower interest rates. But be careful. Since the 0% APR rate usually only last for six months make sure you check the rate that is charged after the six months.
With things like 0% APR credit card, who can resist them?
Moreover, with the 6-month timeframe, people will get to have the chance of paying their standing debts for a whole six month-period only. That would be a lot of savings.
But then again, 0% APR credit cards are not at all beneficial to everybody. As they say, there is always an exception to the rule. This refers to those who do not accumulate interest charges simply because they have outstanding balance. So, they wouldn't feel the necessity of getting a 0% APR credit card.
The best credit cards for these types of people are those that offer rewards and cash backs instead of lower rates.
All of these boil down to one point, that people must be aware on how these wonderful offers can provide them the benefit that they want. With all the credit card offer being offed now days a consumer should shop around for the best deal at meets their needs.
Indeed, there are lots of rewards and 0% APR credit cards out there. But if it will not work for those who do not really need them because of the mentioned situations, then it's best not to have them at all. Besides, the best 0% reward is not to have a credit card at all. And if you do have a 0% APR card don't over extend yourself. Buy only what you can afford.
American Express Credit Card, A Company History
The American Express credit card had been around since 1850 since then the American Express credit card has seen it good quarters and it fare share of bad quarters as well. Yet, a well-established company that is willing to help people receive a credit card that will suite everyone's individual needs. They have been around long enough that, the American Express Credit Card Company knows what kind of fees are going to be feasible for the average person to be able to afford with out going into credit card debt shortly after they receive a credit card.
The American Express credit card has a variety of different types of credit cards so that everyone would find a credit card for all their needs. You are able to apply for an American Express credit card for the individual person. When you start to look at the different personal American Express credit cards you are going to see more than just one kind of credit card that you are able to use. You are going to see that the American Express credit card offers you to have cash back, traveling, and even a savings award. You are going to want to have an idea to what you are looking for in a credit card from American Express. That way there you are going to have an idea of what you are wanting in return from the use of the credit card.
The American Express credit card also offers a credit card for the small business owners that are out there as well. With the small business credit cards, the business owner can enjoy American Express's many benefits. The American Express credit card even offers rewards for the small business owners just like the credit cards for the personal solutions. You can receive a credit card with cash back, airline awards, travel and shopping rewards. You are going to be able to choose credit cards that will suite your company in the best way possible. They do even offer credit cards with no pre-set limit, low introduction APR, complimentary first year, and no annual fee for the small business in the country.
When you are looking for a credit card for yourself or for your small business you may want to check out what the American Express credit card has to offer you. There is a couple of different kinds of credit cards that are offered through the American Express company offering you a credit card that is going to fit all of your needs as for as the use and fees of a credit card has to offer. If you are going to choose to apply for a credit card from the American Express, you are even going to know that you are going to choose a company that has a history of over 150 years in service. That would help you feel a little better about choosing a credit card company that has a steady history that they are not afraid to share with anyone.


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WW Points (new system): 0 points
Weight Watchers' followers, please note this disclaimer from the Weight Watchers' website: Officially, the PointsPlus Weight-Loss System provides an allowance for "man-made" (non-veggie) zeros. The plan suggests that any member limit their servings of zeros to five a day. In the long run, your weight loss will be the guide. If weight loss is slow, you might want to pull back on the zeros. Remember all foods have calories.
Nutritional info is per tablespoon and may vary based on your "cream cheese" of choice. I know someone is going to ask if fat-free cream cheese can be subbed. I can't recommend this, not just because I am biased as a vegan, but because I've never tried fat-free cream cheese and have no idea how it tastes.
Substitutions I can recommend: Coconut butter would be a terrific substitution in this (and pretty much anything else ;)). Raw cashew butter would work as well. Or the cashew option noted in the post. Obviously the taste will be different, but it will be just as delicious in its own right.


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U.S. Sen Ron Johnson to speak in Hudson Friday morning
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson will present an update on the national economy and federal budget during a stop in Hudson on Friday, April 5.
Johnson will speak at WESTconsin Credit Union, 1601 Maxwell Drive, in the lower level community room, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Questions and comments will follow at the end of Johnson remarks.
The event is open to the public, but business owners are especially encouraged to attend. Networking and check-in begins at 7:15 a.m.
People planning to attend are asked to send an RVSP to St. Croix EDC at firstname.lastname@example.com or (715) 381-4383.


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There is substantial historical precedent, even historical momentum, for subsidizing solar energy deployment. Not a single form of electricity generation – be it coal, oil, hydro, natural gas, or nuclear – failed to receive significant government support, especially during early deployment. These have taken the form of:
Why does the government invest in such subsidization? Because it develops or accelerates new electricity options, which improve the electricity sector. This improvement can be in the form of lower cost options, but it can also be for cleaner generation (substitutes for coal or nuclear), or for domestic jobs and domestic fuels (e.g., substitutes that allowed the elimination of oil as a fuel for electricity). These are societal needs, not directly met by competition in the marketplace. Government has its own priorities, and government has traditionally acted to have those priorities fulfilled.
Solar and wind subsidies are just the latest version of this tradition of meeting societal priorities. The societal reasons solar and wind attract support are well known – elimination of pollutants during generation, especially carbon dioxide; and fuel-free, domestic generation.
The GW Solar Institute has published a report, "Energy Incentives: The Power behind the Power," drafted for us by Bryan Crabb, now executive director of the California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA). The report details the tradition of support by the federal government for development of domestic electricity – both the infrastructure of the grid and the generation technologies that power it.
The Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933) expanded the tradition of federal subsidies to construct hydroelectric, coal, and eventually nuclear power to serve less affluent regions of the country. The infrastructure of the grid was spread to rural areas by subsidies as part of the Rural Electrification Act (REA) of 1936. This made subsidies and loan guarantees available for utilities to extend the grid to the least populous American regions. The Flood Control Act of 1944 established the Southwestern Power Administration (SPA) which expanded the government's reach throughout the west and south, and began selling government-subsidized hydroelectric power to rural utilities in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, and Texas. By the 1950s, this resulted in near-total electrification across the country.
Individual power sources also received support.
Government investments are summarized in Figure 1, which shows the historical average annual subsidies of oil and gas, nuclear, biofuels, and solar and wind (labeled "renewables" in the figure). Some might argue that solar and wind power generation are receiving larger subsidies per kWh of production. However, this is a narrow way of looking at subsidies: all forms of energy start with low levels of production, which is when they are in the most need of support. Thus this ratio is likely to be high during the developmental stage and then fall as deployment increases.
Ken Zweibel is the director of the GW Solar Institute and former head of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Thin Film PV Partnership Program. Zweibel has almost 30 years of experience in solar photovoltaics and was a co-founder PrimeStar Solar. He has written two books on PV and co-authored a Scientific American article (January 2008) on solar energy as a solution to climate change and energy problems.


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Watch A Preview of Jason Aldean's Big Screen DebutLooks like Jason Aldean is makin' his acting debut in a movie called 'Sweetwater'!
See Jason Aldean's New 'Sweetwater' Poster & Movie Trailer!Jason Aldean will make his acting debut as a henchman in the new film Sweetwater, co-starring January Jones and Ed Harris. He shared the official movie poster on Twitter today.