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Suppliers Open up to Hospitality Market
July 9, 2007,
For decorative fabrics and home textiles suppliers, the hospitality segment of the contract market is one of the fastest growth opportunities in a universe of shrinking retail business outlets.
Bedspreads became verboten, blankets took a back seat to comforters, and an array of pillows per bed was deemed to be not just fashion-forward but more sanitary since the bed coverings would have to be laundered per guest visit.
Quickly, the residential market began to embrace what was called "the hotel look," creating a tsunami-like business effect in both the retail and hospitality markets — simple white bedding ensembles, a plethora of decorative and functional pillows with minimalist embellishments, and throws that offered a color statement on the beds.
At the same time, these hotel operators became competition to conventional home textiles and home furnishings retailers by offering consumers a wide array of product: sheets, top of bed, towels, and bath accessories, mattresses and tabletop, via special flyers in their rooms and later by sophisticated online and catalog presentations.
The players in this venue range from the Ritz in Paris — which includes extravagantly designed chandeliers as well as decorative fabrics, silverware, and furniture — to the Marriott chain, with a catalog that embraces the entire range of home products that guests can order on site or at home.
And while trade shows like HD in Las Vegas and HD Boutique in Florida, as well as global shows such as Dubai are critical, constant client communication is key. A program can take anywhere from a few months to a few years to consummate.
"Overall, the hospitality market is our largest division and is growing rapidly," said Marti Dollenmaier, president of Anichini. "And what this business is doing is taking us global as a brand — this is very important especially in places like Dubai, Hong Kong and the Middle East," she explained. In dealing with this market, "We have to go face-to-face, and it's with a number of levels — a corporate sale, a specifier/designer, the housekeeping that is involved in price/quality/laundry issues, and purchasing agents — as well as the food and beverage segment."
Another issue, she related, in terms of table linens and bedding, is in-house vs. outside laundry facilities.
The company is actively involved in providing packaging for the hotels' retail sales programs to the degree that they offer shipping to consumers via a third-party provider. And by year end, Anichini will be offering luxury amenities such as soaps.
For Fabricut, which has been involved in this business for many years, "The hospitality market is outstanding," said Harvey Nudelman, president. "Our primary business is providing fabrics, but we do provide finished products," he said. Overall, "We've been recording extremely high double-digit increases."
The company's diverse brands, which range from the mainstream interior designer Fabricut to the upper end Vervain, "have product especially created for the hospitality business, like 126-inch prints for bedding in our designs — as well as a special sales force."
For Custom Comfort, "There's a lot more competition especially in sheets — there's a host of finishes and yarn constructions," observed Trevor Rabkin, co-executive. On the other hand, he noted, "In top of bed it's more fashion-driven, plus there's the white and ecru of the basic bedding. The latter represent cleanliness. The hotels are using bed scarves to dress up the white and ecru."
"It's taken a lot of effort, but we're in front-and-center positioning," noted Mike Harris, president of Faribault. The hospitality area is growing significantly and now represents about 20% of the company's revenues, he said. "It's truly a growth industry, and we have to diversify in our distribution channels."
Key to the company's growth, Harris explained, are "our ability to deliver, innovation, quality for price, and all natural fibers in both throws and blankets."
Textillery has focused on the hospitality market for six years, said Judith Rose, co-principal. "We have an established group of people we work with, and we show in Vegas and Florida."
As for results at the shows, "We have to capture the attention of the specifiers, and they have specific plans. No one buys at these shows, and it can take from a few weeks to a few years to conclude a program," she related.
For Southern Textiles, the bedding division of Leggett & Platt, the hospitality market is a key objective, said Richard Downing, president. "The company is a major player in steel beds and carpeting underlays. We're showing in Vegas and Florida for exposure."
"We're a major supplier to this part of the contract market," said Stan Fradin, president of Roc-Lon, "and this industry is alive and well and growing."
"The beauty of the segment is that it is the 'paper cup' of home furnishings," said Fradin. "The window coverings last three or four years, and then need a redo. Or there is the impact of a new hotel in the area that forces a competitive upgrade."
And benefiting Roc-Lon, Fradin pointed out, "is that the window redo is the least expensive piece of the room. And there have been lots of changes in window coverings design — now sheers, blackout, and a side panel vs. the multi-layered heavy treatments in the past."
On the decorative fabric side of the business, hospitality is very important, agreed Ron Kaufmann, ceo of P/Kaufmann, which has long been involved in this business. "We see it as one of our major growth areas compared with our traditional converting businesses both in products and fabrics."
At Dan River, there is a family of resources for the Starwood 1000 properties globally under the new acquisition, and there is greater purchasing clout centrally, said Don Anderson, executive vp, Baker division, although he said everything is done through strategic purchasing. The company, he added, now is able to source globally; they are the sole source for bed linens and also source other textile products. Dan River's design staff is involved in all facets of the process, he added.
"The business works many ways," said Jim Richman, president and ceo of Richloom. "We offer fabrics and now through our new RBed division offer manufactured product from China and we'll probably begin an in-stock program."
The company has a sales force of about 30 people calling on this market, added Tony Riggio, president of the contract division. Richloom attends the Vegas and Florida shows and maintains direct contact with the major chains, Riggio added.
Richloom, like some other suppliers, sees the cruise business as a new opportunity. The parameters of product acceptance are more stringent because of safety regs, and product that is mostly custom.
At Valdese, as with most decorative fabric mills, "We don't sell direct but through our jobber and specifier relationship customers," said Blake Millinor, vp of the contract division. "The mainstream hospitality market has been really strong over the past few years. From '99 to '01, they were not refurnishing; now they are refurbishing and there's lots of new construction."
"Our business is growing in this area exponentially," said Irwin Gasner, principal of Wearbest Sil-Tex. "We have dedicated people calling on this market." In addition, "We show at shows like Vegas to educate potential customers in the economies and performance."
At Craftex, "We don't sell direct, we sell to distributors and jobbers," said Jack Eger, vp. "We see hospitality as one of our fastest growing programs. That part of the market is opening faster than the residential business."
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All Stars for Hope is the inaugural soccer fundraising event to benefit Schools for Hope, Mikael Silvestre's charity.
All Stars for Hope is a weekend of celebrity filled events, culminating with a soccer game featuring one of the most unique team ever assembled, at Giants Stadium on Sunday, June 14th, 2009.
The All Stars for Hope team is composed of the very best players in the world, lead by Mikael Silvestre, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry and Didier Drogba, among other exceptional players from the most prestigious European clubs. The team is gathering in NY to help build awareness and promote fundraising efforts to support building schools around the world. An unprecedented event to benefit a worthy cause.
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More exciting players are expected to join the All Stars For Hope Squad.
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The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural southeast Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.
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Not terrible but not a recommendale book for me.
I think if you learn one thing reading a book it is always time well spent. So yes, it was time well spent.
It was very 2 dimensional. Only chapters 5 and 6 drew you into the story. The rest was incredibly flat. I think the facts were brilliant but if you are going to write a book and then put it into audio, there needs to be life and color to the numbers and data otherwise you're reading a chart or graph aloud.
I did like her performance overall however, she pronounced medicine as MED-cine and not med-I-cine. Not the biggest deal in the world, especially if this were a book on golf or party planning but seeing as how the foundational topic is medical I felt like it was a horrible word to be mispronouncing.
I think if anything is learned whatsoever, it is time well spent but I would not recommend this book as I felt the story line was not colorful enough. It felt like looking down a string of facts hurriedly tied together without the slightest attempt to paint a picture for the reader. Some parts of the book were several minutes of nothing but genetic code and scientific names. Both of those things are vital for this type of book as a whole but you need to put them into a frame for the reader, to tell the STORY of both those very important things.
I felt other books covered the topic with story telling that brought you into the fold better. The book Spillover does not cover HIV in such detail but I think it tells the story of the virus, its origins and evolution with greater inspiration. This is more technical but fails to tell the story of the those facts.
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Amazing piece of medical detective work
This book is an epidemiologist's dream. This is an utterly engrossing history of the hunt for the origin of the HIV virus. I was completely surprised that scientists seem to have been able to trace the origins of HIV to seemingly pinpoint places and times, stretching back further than I had previously thought. Rather than one continuous storyline/narrative, the author breaks this up into chapters that weave parallel but ultimately converging lines of investigation, tracing back from those first diagnosed, through the carriers who were the unwitting spreaders of the pandemic, through the disparate strains of HIV that became identified and laid a train back to the places and animals of the virus' origins. Incredible and would strain belief if not true. This audiobook had me from minute one. Still, I can't give it a full five stars. At time, I found the writing a bit dry, as if reading a collection of scientific papers. A more skilled writer might have found a way to craft this more as a whodunit in the spirit of a good true crime writer for instance. For instance, you never get much of a sense of who any of the multitude of scientists are behind the investigation - thus the narrative appeals solely to the intellect rather than any emotion. As well, I found myself getting lost at times in the array of different names of primate species, their lineage, as well as the alphanumeric strains of the different HIV strains. Indeed, the audiobook frequently references various diagrams and figures that would only be accessible in the actual book and would help clarify things. Still, those with a curiosity or interest in the origins of this modern pandemic will enjoy this book.
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During the past few years, there has been some controversy regarding the benefits we gain from stretching before and after exercise. Luckily, Laura Schwecher, a writer for the Huffington Post uses her findings from scientific based evidence to bust some of the famous myths that surround gyms and other fitness centers around the nation. So, the jury is out and if you're anything like myself, prepare to be shocked by some of these new findings. Firstly, stretching doesn't prevent injury nor does... Read More
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SOUND OFF: America Luvs Madonna
"What you lookin' at?" Epic Egyptian pageantry. Gold galore. Soldiers by the score. An entrance befitting of - and evoking - Cleopatra, set to the instantly recognizable strains of "Vogue", and the love affair began again. Between Madonna and America, that is. Remixed for 2012. It has been a tumultuous and trying relationship, at times, but, at heart, Madonna represents the ultimate American dream of making a superstar of one's self - Michigan to Milan; pop starlet to mega-mogul; cheerleader to icon. Madonna's career has been up and down and she has certainly seen it all in her half century on this planet, but, last night, she showed the world all she was worth. And more. Throwback and cutting edge, some avant garde choreography and even a few stumbles on that indescribable, but nevertheless impressive, field-spanning LCD set - she rocked the stadium. Then, in a spectacular column of smoke, she vanished. A ghost. Yes, indeed, Madonna made magic out of her Super Bowl main-stage chance to strut - and lip-sync - for all she is worth, and, gosh darn it, you gotta give it up for the Material girl. In carrying off something that could have been chaotically cacophonous and gruesomely calculated - and, more than not, it usually is in this instance on the international stage; good intentions, hype and Nipple-gate notwithstanding - it came off as a genuine bid to do the biggest, best and most theatrical presentation on the Super Bowl yet - and, in that regard, Madonna was MVP. MDNA is the title of her new album - her 12th - and the lead single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'" - the first of a purported eighteen tracks - was given a spirited airing with the helpful aid of Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.. LMFAO and Cee-Lo Green guested, as well, but Madonna made her moment count in a truly memorable and thrilling way as the showwoman of showwomen. "Vogue" through "Music" to "Open Your Heart" to the grand, million candlelit finale featuring the stirring "Like A Prayer", Madonna towed the line, but never crossed it to the detriment of the overall presentation - which is so often what happens to boundary-pushing pop artists such as herself; she calls the shots, as she always does, and it came off as 100% Madonna, for better and best. While she may have had her crass moments over the course of her incredible career, Madonna's Super Bowl performance was all a fan or a viewer could ask for as far as cutting-edge spectacle and stage effects go - plus, those tunes are some of the most classic pop songs of the last century. Madonna managed to move from ancient Egyptian to futuristic alien with aplomp and never break a sweat. A bit robotic, sure. Was she nervous? Obviously. But, she made it work - and work it she did. Best Super Bowl Half-Time Show ever? Best Super Bowl Half-Time Show Ever. Madonna shows us all how it's done - lip-synced or not. Music really does bring the people together - especially over Madonna.
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"Fans can make you famous, a contract can make you rich, the press can make you a superstar, but only luv can make you a player." Scrawled on a brick wall in blue, Madonna's words of wisdom certainly ring true as far as her own celebrity goes - particularly considering she broke down boundaries in so many areas along the way in her rich, wild and varied career. Gatorade rain, taxis split in half, pink doors busted down, anime-masked cheerleaders making out, a gaggle of football heroes and mid-video glam transformation makes for a riotous and hilarious viewing experience, not even making mention of inspired cameos from Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. (plus, quarterbacks shooting sparks)! If "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is any indication of the rest of the purportedly postmodern bubble-gum pop/techno sound of Madonna's new album - her 12th studio affair; titled MDNA - we are in for a whole lot more of fun frivolity and pop froth, to say the least. "Touchdown!" indeed.
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We work with them, we share the road with them and some we somehow have to claim as family members: stupid people. Reddit had another obligatory post over the weekend, this time a list asking people what "red flag" behaviors or actions let you know you're dealing with someone stupid.
They're talking about those who should be able to function like a regular human being, but just doesn't seem to get it! Get it?
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They honk in a traffic jam.
They've tried to tell you you're stupid but it's written as "y-o-u-r" stupid.
They tell stories about how much smarter they are than other people.
If you're not one of "the stupids," these examples should get the juices flowing. So what else is a clear indicator of "stupid is as stupid does?"
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I'm not terribly interested in Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter because I feel as though the fun is largely with over once you've read the title. Yes, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved figure from history and yes, vampires have been very 'in' for the past couple of years and yes, it would be totally crazy if we made a movie about Lincoln killing them dude. But the gimmick is just that, a ruse to fill seats for the next two hour block of action-porn from the director of Wanted.
Here's what I'm getting at. I don't mind a massive blockbuster once in a while, as long as the subject matter it tackles is at least somewhat interesting or provocative. ALVH, for all its bluster and supposed quirkiness, looks depressingly safe. But what if it wasn't? If we could, what should we change to make it something more? Well, for starters…
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Lincoln was a great leader to be sure, but he had little to no experience in actual combat. By no means was he the most 'bad-ass' president. That particular accolade belongs to Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson. Jackson's jaw was made of granite. His fists were cast in iron, and his balls were the inspiration for a Jerry Lee Lewis song. That's right. "A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" is about Andrew Jackson's balls.
As evidence, I cite The Battle of New Orleans. The year was 1815. The threat of a pirate-backed British attack had the Governor of Louisiana so busy pleading with the Federal Government for aid that he barely had the time to soil himself repeatedly. The stakes were high. Whomever came to control New Orleans would come to control the Mississippi river, and whomever controlled the Mississippi would control middle American trade. Defeat seemed imminent until Andrew Jackson stepped up and made the army that beat Napoleon look stupid.
Jackson's nemesis: General Sir Edward Pakenham, one of the literally millions of figures throughout history who will forever be remembered as not being Andrew Jackson. In the battle that ensued, 251 British solders were killed, three of them Generals, eight Colonels. As Jackson and his troops watched the invaders flee, they tended to their dead. All eleven of them.
He easily met the combat experience requirements for candidacy in the race for presidential-vampire-decapitator, but of course, Jackson mellowed out in his later years. Oh, wait, sorry, Jackson used the veto more often than all previous Presidents combined. In the context of Andrew Jackson, Vampire Hunter, that means that a vamp attacking Jackson's blind spot would be immediately 'vetoed' by the sharpened peg-leg of one of the pirates Jackson killed in New Orleans. Only one president has ever payed off the national debt, and I know that this is all beginning to sound very one sided so I won't tell you that it was Andrew Jackson even though it was and that's all just foreplay. In the year 1805, Jackson made a bet on a horse race. Without going into details, the beginning of Lucky Number Slevin happened and there was some serious tension between the parties involved with said bet. All of this culminated into a duel between Jackson and Charles Dickinson, an expert gunman.
The two men took their pistols and their paces. The call came to fire. Dickinson turned and fired. Jackson just turned, standing stock still on his mark as the bullet shattered his ribs. Much to the dismay of Charles Dickinson, he did not fall. Jackson calmly took aim and blasted his opponent to kingdom come, then turned to the crowd that had gathered to watch the duel, saying,
"I should have hit him if he had shot me through the brain."
which I think that about settles that.
Updated title: Andrew Jackson, Vampire Hunter
Next up, to "hunt" something implies both pursuit and a possibility of failure. Abraham Lincoln may "hunt" vampires, but Andrew Jackson would slay them casually, like vermin. Andrew Jackson does not hunt because Andrew Jackson does not fail. Andrew Jackson fucked up New Orleans like his last name was "Katrina" and his first name was "more destructive than hurricane."
Updated title: Andrew Jackson, Vampire Slayer
I'm so tired of vampires that I'm tired of people saying that they're tired of vampires because it means I have to hear about vampires. They may have been fun at one point, but, as in the case of their first cousin the zombie, there are only so many times we can watch them be killed. Eventually, that sense of superiority and satisfaction we get from blasting bullets through their brains or jamming stakes through their hearts begins to fade. Know who doesn't have that problem? Hitler.
He keeps coming back for more. He's almost as cliche'd as vampires at this point, granted, so swap him out for any genocidal maniac of the 20th century if you must. Pol Pot would do, or Stalin, but Hitler is a barometer for evil in modern politics. His allure lies in the fact that he's so iconic. And that "HitlerSlayer" is such a nifty title.
Andrew Jackson, Hitlerslayer
Through his years at war and his years in office, Andrew Jackson always remembered the value of power. But old age robs us all of our vitality, and no man-or warrior-lives forever. Until now.
Midway through an Indian ritual intended to restore Jackson's youth, he is attacked by a Cherokee man who lost his brother to the Trail of Tears. The two tumble into the time vortex that had been being used to reverse Jackson's aging and they emerge in Poland-a century later. Nazi tanks roll across the earth under the command of the Third Reich and its bloodthirsty leader, Adolph Hitler. Jackson, (restored to youth by the ritual), disgusted by the realities of tyranny and genocide, vows to use his legendary skills to rally allied troops, smash through axis lines and storm Berlin. He must kill Hitler to repent for the sins he committed against the Cherokee, with the man who travelled to the future with him as witness. Or else. This summer… It's in Jackson we trust.
If that doesn't sound appealing, my runners up were Ronald Reagan, Shark Wrangler and Theodore Roosevelt, Godsmasher. Let me know which you prefer @willkosh on Twitter, because the fact that I wrote this and you read it means that we almost certainly have nothing better to do.
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NOH8 Photographer Adam Bouska will be in Dallas, camera at the ready, to give North Texans another chance to add their faces to the fight for equal rights.
Bouska will be conducting photo shoots as part of his ongoing NOH8 Worldwide campaign Saturday, March 14, from 2-5 p.m. at Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, 14115 Hillcrest Road in Dallas. No reservations are needed.
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This year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – designed by the team that created the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Games – is a subterranean auditorium with a reflective water roof.
For the last 11 years, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has commissioned artists and architects to build a summer pavilion that illustrates the latest in design and serves as a place for lectures and parties.
This summer the pavilion was designed by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron – the team that created the Beijing National Stadium, nicknamed the "Bird's Nest", for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Opened 19 June, the pavilion, situated on a lawn adjacent to the gallery, is a subterranean auditorium, with a roof supported by a dozen columns. The floor of the structure, with its undulating contours of bench-style, cork-lined seating, evokes the ghostly foundations of the previous summer installations. The circular steel roof structure, 1.4-metres above the ground, captures rainwater and creates a smooth surface that reflects the sky. It can be drained to serve as a dance floor.
The rainwater and the cork-lined landscape are tributes to the unseen natural water that flows beneath the park, alluding to an otherwise invisible part of the geographical setting.
Past pavilions built by architects -- such as Zaha Hadid's in 2000, Oscar Niemeyer's in 2003 and Frank Gehry's in 2008 -- were the first projects those global stars made specifically for London. The 2012 pavilion is Ai Weiwei's first structure in the city, but in 2000 architects Herzog & de Meuron converted a London power station into the Tate Modern art gallery.
The Serpentine Gallery, an attraction in itself, is also currently showcasing the career highlights of conceptual artist Yoko Ono in the exhibition To the Light, on display through 9 September. Featuring work from throughout her career, the show includes installations, films and archival material, including Ono's celebrated #smilesfilm participatory project in which people the world over can upload photos of smiles.
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Long-term review: Infiniti QX 56 - Week 1
The underground car park in my apartment block is pretty unremarkable. Getting in and out in most manner of civilian transport isn't exactly daunting. I've effortlessly traversed this stretch in many hunkered down and large automotive exotica and SUVs.
However, this week I faced a big challenge when trying to make my way out of the very car park. A five-metre long, two-metre wide challenge, to be precise. Yup, the Infiniti QX is enormous. It's nearly half a metre longer than the Range Rover Vogue. And that's a fairly massive car to begin with.
I dread the day when some extremity of the QX will meet an unyielding concrete structure with unpretty results. On the upside it's got enough room for seven adults with all their limbs intact, and like any great premium family hauler, the seats fold electrically in a variety of ways to liberate a positively cavernous cargo space of 2,693 litres.
Now, you would probably imagine that with its scale-destroying heft, the 2,655-kilogram QX would gather itself off the line with the elegance of a sumo wrestler trying to get out of a Lazy Boy. But with a naturally aspirated 5.6-litre, 400 horsepower V8 channelling motivation to all four wheels, it's hilariously rapid for something this big.
The ride's predictably super soft, which coupled with the lofty height means the QX feels like an oil rig in corners. But that's missing the point, you don't fling something this gargantuan in corners like you would a sportscar. Plus, you need give in the suspension to be able to conquer daunting off-road terrain.
The fact that underneath the QX's vast expanses of sheet metal, it is in fact a Nissan Patrol, means its prodigious dune-bashing talents are not in question. You can throw any challenge that the UAE's great wide open can serve up its way and the QX 56 will emerge victorious. I'm confident. It's getting out of the car park in the first place that I'm more worried about.
Driven by: Amit
Start mileage: 10,562km
Recent cost: Fuel
Average fuel economy: 20 litres-per-100km
Highs: Superb ride, faster than you'd expect, loads of space
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I still think Mya will win. She'll get the come back edit tomorrow, the glare and frown of fury on her face will change to glee when the judges tell her what a close call when they award her a perfect 30 for her repeat dance and she'll fake smile, act fake shocked, and pretend to respect Dmitry. Maybe it's just me, but I thought their paso got overscored. No, it wasn't bad, but there were parts that looked a mess and were out of sync with each other. So she can be the first person to break the freestyle curse and be known as the girl who won even though her freestyle sucked big time, got overscored, and was a whole lot of nothing. Really, her and Dmitry looked all over the place. Dmitry looked like he was having fun, Mya looked like she wanted to run off the stage. I'd hope the show thinks twice before casting a professional as a contestant again. At the very least, give them a pro they can't use as a doormat. Mya really showed me tonight how entitled and arrogant she seems. And that there's no hiding it, she is a professional choreographer who obviously hates handing the reigns over. Which is pretty much the point of the show. I agree with those who say even Marie's doll dance was better-it was horrible, but horribly entertaining. We won't forget it. Mya's goes down in history with Stacy/Tony.
Kelly/Louis's freestyle was also a let down, as I was really looking forward to seeing what Louis could do. Disco and freestyles do not go together. But I had fun watching it because Kelly was laughing all the way through it and it showed what a great time she was having. Her and Donny are why I think this show, and the judges said it all about no one expecting her to make it this far but she's worked long and hard and had such a great bond with her partner. They earned it, especially in this season. The AT was fantastic, too. I was expecting it to be a bust, but Kelly has really grown. She'll never be the greatest dancer, but she's improved. If Donny can't win, I hope these two can. Hopefully Louis gets some respect from the producers.
Donny/Kym, after tonight, deserve the trophy. A great cha cha that I was impressed the judges liked and Kym for the third time pulled off a great freestyle. She never disappoints in that category. They've been a joy to watch and I was proud of Bruno bringing up Donny's professional attitude toward the whole process.
As for the megamix, I hope they really improve that or can it. It seemed like such a waste. I think awarding a perfect 30 for less than a minute of dancing (which even Kelly knew who was getting first). But what was the point? They put Mya/Dmitry, the judges pets, in front of them, but everyone looked out of sync with each other, which I guess was the point. But it was a mess. Could have been worse, but save something like the mambo marathon or go back to the smackdown dance for this.


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I have 4 months left on the ard program in Delaware co pa. I was caught buying heroin in Philadelphia. I am an addict. It was not a DUI. Am I going to get kicked out of the deco program and can I sign up fo the phil a ard program
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You will likely get kicked out of the program. You can't do the Philly ARD, but you might be able to get section 17.
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|20 weeks 2 days ago
|And win a b1G championship
And win a b1G championship
|22 weeks 1 day ago
|It's simple
he thought this was all going to go away and thought he better keep working
probably shocked that something actually came to a head and got him "terminated" and the players kicked off the team
after all, he had made sure they disposed of the evidence...
|24 weeks 2 days ago
|Everyone keeps saying Dontoni handled it well
then why did they wait until after NSD to suspend Blackwell? They waited until Feb 9th, as I recall.
|39 weeks 2 days ago
|it's the same old story
Lower bowl is always sold out, so you're going to only get tickets to the nosebleeds. Half of the people with tickets in the lower bowl don't bother to show up to most games. Parking is horrible. You have to pay $10 or more to park over a mile away and then walk 20-30 minutes to Crisler, sometimes in horrible weather. Then after the game, you'll have to walk back. The entire trip is probably going to cost you at least $100 in gas, driving, parking, and food and that is just for 2 people. Game-times are horrible. Take the MSU game for instance; 9pm tip, drive an hour, get there 40 minutes early so you can walk and get to your seat on time, sit through 2 hr and 15 minute game, it's 11:15 pm now on a tuesday night. Get back to your car around midnight, 1 hr drive home...getting home at 1am on a night where most people have to get up to work. This is why you see so many old people at the games.
The ushers won't let you move down the entire game, even though those lower bowl people never show up.
It's just not realistic. You get a much better view of the game on your couch than paying all that money to sit in nosebleeds and taking all that time and effort to get to the arena just to be a "good fan."
Not really sure what the answers would be to improve the experience. Maybe put in a parking garage where the parking lot is next to Crisler. Lower the prices (not going to happen.)
|2 years 50 weeks ago
|Well, the original post says
Well, the original post says "principal," so go be that guy to the OP
|2 years 50 weeks ago
|This doesn't pass the smell test
I don't post much, but I'm reading these comments and I really want them to be true, but they just seem "off"
There is the claim that this has been an agreement in principal for nearly a month. A month ago, Michigan had just beaten IU, had 3 games left, and a potential bowl game. Do we really believe that the decision to fire Brady Hoke was done before the Northwestern football game? How does that even line up with when Brandon was "resigned" and Hackett took over?
If this were true, that the agreement was done in principal for nearly a month and that a week ago, it was a done deal, then the entire speech by Hackett about swim lanes and doing due diligence and all that was all just a bunch of bunk, because a deal was already done according to this.
|3 years 7 weeks ago
|Why not
put a different QB in the game?
I'm thinking what Hoke is meaning to say is that the ref told him that even if he did call a time-out, then DG would still have to sit a play...which is completely wrong, but there you go.
Thing is, there are about 5 QB's on the roster. Any one of them could've run out there and did a hand-off or you could run a direct snap to the RB. I mean, if you're just wasting a play, then go ahead and waste it.
Then once he found out that he could call a time-out, but Morris was already out there, then...call a time-out. There's some more dumn logic right there, "Well, the ref finally told me i could call a timeout and get DG back in the game, but I looked out there and saw Morris ready to go and said, screw it." Is that what an intelligent football coach sounds like these days?
|3 years 32 weeks ago
|Right! There was a rumor
that he had died and then he came back.
Makes you wonder...
|3 years 33 weeks ago
|saw Ben Bredeson at the spring practice
no way he is 6' 5" 275. I'm 6 4 and he was shorter than me. Nice to see the staff at WWE is in charge of these heights and weights
Still, he did get an offer, so there must be something there.
|3 years 33 weeks ago
|ran it before, but skipped it this year
We always go down and tailgate for the spring game. We get up early in the morning and it's a full day of drinking. Drink and tailgate before the practice, then head to AA and hit the breweries. Makes it kind of tough to get up the next morning and run 5k.
Were there bands and stuff playing along the side of the course? In years past, there were several performances being done as you ran along. Thought that was kind of nice before.
I have noticed that the bottleneck is always there with this race and it was hilly in the past. Did they run the same course as before? Most 5ks get sorted out by the first quarter mile. In the past, they even had signage out to try to seperate the faster and slower walkers/runners, but most ignore them. When I did run it, it took about the entire first mile to get sorted out. That's rough. I usually just treat this as a fun run and don't worry about my time. You can wait however long you want to start, though, as your time doesn't start until your feet cross the starting line. Considered waiting in the past, but haven't actually done it. I like a nice, flat course to try for PR's and such
I ask, because a couple of us are considering running this in the future, but we'd really have to tone down our spring practice day festivities. DId they use the actual banner this year or was it a mock banner? In the past, they used a mock banner, because they wanted to reserve the actual banner for gamedays and such.
I really wish they had this race another weekend. We have an hour drive and that makes it kind of rough to drive down and back for the spring practice and then come back to AA the next day. I don't want to get a hotel room just to run this race.
|3 years 33 weeks ago
|People would really pay money for a
football signed by Hoke? What? is he a legend or something?
Don't get me wrong. I like Hoke and all, but I'm not dying to get a football signed by him. Is anyone else?
|3 years 35 weeks ago
|2pm time stinks liked the
2pm time stinks
liked the noon start
wonder why the change?
|3 years 38 weeks ago
|i dislike both teams
but I do love watching OSU lose
|3 years 44 weeks ago
|Hi everyone
Go Blue!!
|3 years 46 weeks ago
now, it's magically working. Odd
|3 years 46 weeks ago
|I click the green arrow
but nothing happens.
|3 years 46 weeks ago
|so i tried to posbang
and I can't
I tried reading FAQ and emailing twice, no response...
is there some secret to this?
Thought I'd save this question for a thread like this.
|3 years 46 weeks ago
|thanks for posting early,
I wouldn't have checked later and it would have been too late.
I forgot to watch the bball game thursday, because no helpful posters posted early game threads...
|4 years 4 days ago
|If he wants to look tough,
he can wear one of those M logo Carhartts
|4 years 1 week ago
|Are they going to have the 6 year old
as a guest to breakdown the Michigan O?
Then Brady can come on and say "They're wrong!!"
|4 years 21 weeks ago
|so what is his fake 40?
They might run a fake field goal
|4 years 22 weeks ago
|so sick of seeing this
They keep saying that Purdue used up all of their scholarships and that is the ONLY reason that GR3 chose to go to Michigan. Has he said that? Why would it be so hard to believe that Michigan could beat out Purdue? Yeah, I know Dad went there, but sons don't always go to the same school as their dad. Is anyone else sick of seeing this?
|4 years 23 weeks ago
|How long does it take
for a Verlander or a Cabrera to finally pull someone aside and say, "You've gotta get this guy out of here. I'm tired of wasting myself only to see this bum pitch like that."
|4 years 23 weeks ago
|I don't know
anyone that loves Valverde. Of course, they want him to succeed, because if he fails, the Tigers lose. That doesn't mean that anyone loves him.
|4 years 26 weeks ago
|We don't KNOW
that it's weed. THere could be anything in that cigarette. Come on.
|4 years 30 weeks ago
|Oh Boy!
a fat guy giving out "free" donuts. Remember, nothing is "free" when you're paying these prices for tickets.
Just what the people of MI need is more donuts.
They should be handing out carrots or something.
|4 years 32 weeks ago
|That block was awesome
but i really loved the dunk near the end, too.
I understood what it meant!
|4 years 32 weeks ago
I immediately set it as my background
|4 years 33 weeks ago
|Sorry about your situation
but thank you for sharing and thanks to everyone else for sharing their insight into the problem. I found this post very educational and will be on the look out and I am not naive in any way whatsoever.
I've almost got pulled into 2 scams, myself. Someone mails you a postcard talking about something to sell you and then they start asking for personal information and wanting you to pay with a credit card over the phone. I had already given a ton of information without even thinking and then as I started to read off my credit card #, I got this weird feeling in my gut. I then simply said, "On 2nd thought, I don't want your book. Never contact me again and delete my information from your server." The person on the other side didn't even try to talk me out of it. I got a simple, "OK" and then they hung up. They knew I had wised up at the last second. The thought that went through my head was, "Wait! I'm going to give my credit card # to this complete stranger that contacted me." Beware of deals where they contact you. If you go out and seek something, it's one thing, but if they contact you with a deal...watch out
The 2nd one was when this company left an empty vial on my mailbox offerring a free water testing. I knew my water wasn't that great, so thought, "hey what a wonderful oppurtunity." I filled up the vial and put it back on the side of my mailbox just like the card said to do. A couple of days later, I got a call telling me how horrible my water was and that hey wanted to send a guy out. I said, "OK" and this guy comes out and tests my water again and wants to sell me this filtration system. As soon as he asked me for my credit card information, i started having this weird feeling. People need to trust this weird feeling. It is your brain telling you that something is wrong.
I picked up his card and walked over to my desktop and typed his company into Google. The entire first page was filled with entries of scams related to this company. I calmly picked up my phone, took a pic of the guy, and told him to get out. When I took the pic of him, he had this look of horror on his face. Then he packed up his stuff and left. I never contacted the authorities about it
The first one with the book, i put in google, too and it came back with scam entries. Thing about a lot of scams, they have already got some other people and they've talked about it on the internet and it will show up on google. Before making some purchase like that, it's good to google it.
|4 years 33 weeks ago
|"The Zone" does exist
I've been in it many times. When it happens to me, it's usually when I'm shooting a rifle. Everything falls away and you're just going through the motions and hitting everything. Nothing else matters right then and there. You just cannot miss. I don't think it has anything to do with luck or momentum. Many people have discussed having this feeling.
When Trey took the shot, I didn't think it was going to go in. Even after the shot went in, I figured it was going to just be another gut shot to us Michigan fans and either Michigan would find a way to lose or Kansas would find a way to win, I didn't cheer until Kansas missed the final 3 pointer and the last seconds ticked off the clock. Then I jumped off my couch and started screaming. It was a strange feeling, from the opening tip until the very end, I thought Michigan would lose the game and was just surprised at the end. This happens to me sometimes. As Michigan inched closer, I just started to get more and more irritated that they would actually tease me into making it close instead of just comfortably losing by 10.


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Video analysis 24.11.2016
The dollar is at its new strength records. The minutes from the Federal Reserve had a minor impact on the USD. The zloty lost value yesterday. However, the reaction on the Polish currency was less pessimistic than expected.
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Kris Humphries New Girlfriend a Kim Kardashian Look A-Like? (PHOTOS)
Kris Humphries has been dating for months according to a new source, despite the NBA players claims that Kim Kardashian left him devastated.
Kris Humphries has been making claims that his ex-wife, who he is trying to gain an annulment from, had left him devastated following their split. The allegedly broken hearted man has discarded the former "love of his life" as a fake and has claimed that their marriage was a fraud. He has even threatened a lawsuit for the terrible damage that Kardashian has wreaked in his life.
Therefore it stands to reason that when Kardashian moved on with rapper Kanye West, Humphries would have been even more devastated. However, new reports have stated that Humphries may have hardly noticed since he allegedly has been busy over the past few month courting a new love of his own.
"Kris is absolutely not dating her," a source told Hollywood Life earlier this week in regards to the woman he was spotted with on a Miami beach. Instead Humphries insisted that the Kim K look alike, Myla Sinanaj, was just an old neighbor he had happened to run into while on the beach.
"Kris won't even consider dating anyone until his divorce to Kim is finalized. Kris is very much aware that Kim is dating Kanye West, and he could truly care less. He wishes her nothing but the best, and if she can be happy with Kanye, great!" a source told Radar earlier this week. "He just isn't ready to date yet and doesn't want to get in a serious relationship right now."
The supposed neighbor however, was apparently flown from New York to Miami by Humphries, according to TMZ. The celeb news site has also reported that the pair has been dating for months.
The site reported that Humphries has been dating Sinanaj since mid January. "We're told Kris provided Myla and her family with courtside seats at some of the games, even allowing her in the area leading up to the locker room," TMZ claimed Wednesday.
The Kim K look-alike is also not very shy when it comes to dissing the people in Kardashian's life. Sinanaj has made tweets about the Kardashians and Kardahian's new flame, Kanye West, over the past few months as well, according to TMZ.
"Kanye should be "bigger than taking petty shots at s*** that got nothing to do with him. Lost respect," Sinanaj tweeted.


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Fall is near - and that means it's time to deal with leaves…and composting them is the answer! You can get a discounted compost bin at the Compost Bin and Rain Barrel Truckload Sale. This sale is being organized by Natural Upgrades in a partnership between the City of Rochester, Zumbro Watershed, and Rain Reserve.
The sale is being held Saturday, September 19 from 12-4pm at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds on a first-come first-serve basis, but supplies are limited. More information is available at http://rainreserve.com/rochester. This event is open to both Rochester residents and non-residents.
Compost bins will be sold for only $69.99 and 50 gallon rain barrels with a diverter are just $119.99. These closed rain barrels are mosquito-proof, will not crack if frozen, come in multiple colors and sizes, and include a clog-free diverter and high-flow spigot. For more information on the rain barrel and compost bin, visit http://rainreserve.com/rochester. Residents of Rochester, Owatonna, and Austin are also eligible for a $10 rebate through their utility provider.
Megan Duffey Moeller
Stormwater Educator
City of Rochester Public Works Department
201 4th Street SE, Room 108
Rochester, MN 55904
Thanks to the support of SELCO, the Zumbro Watershed Partnership has completed two educational brochures to help people learn about and take action to clean up and protect the Zumbro River and the Zumbro Watershed. Staff will be distributing copies of the brochures at area libraries and nature centers. You can also download a copy of the brochures on the ZWP home page, http://www.zumbrowatershed.org.
By Ron Meador
On buffers, there are plentiful examples of landowners doing the right thing without threat of prosecution.
Has Minnesota's chronic underperformance on protecting public waters with buffer strips been a problem of over-ambitious goals, weakness in the law or lax enforcement in the face of landowner resistance?
As the state begins an ambitiously revamped buffers program, the answer matters. And if you've understood past problems to lie primarily in the enforcement realm, then we share in what I heard described recently — and authoritatively — as a widespread misconception.
Speaking at an Environmental Initiative forum on the water-quality impacts of agriculture, Sarah Strommen, who manages the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' side of the new buffer initiative, said it has been commonly believed (and reflected in news coverage) that state law has long required 16½-foot buffers along public drainage ditches and 50-footers beside most lakes and streams.
In fact, she said, about 80 percent of the public ditches in Minnesota's agricultural counties – and nearly two-thirds of watercourses overall – hadn't been subject to buffer requirements prior to enactment of Gov. Mark Dayton's landmark program this year.
Being among the scribblers who had helped to perpetuate this misreading of the regulatory history, I made a note to learn more and stop repeating the error. And then it occurred to me to wonder:
What else may be poorly understood about the new buffers program, and the past deficiencies it aims to correct?
What else may be poorly understood about the new buffers program, and the past deficiencies it aims to correct?
So on Thursday I put that question to Strommen and to John Jaschke, who heads the state Board of Water and Soil Resources, the agency that will have the primary enforcement authority role on buffers going forward.
Because matters of compliance and enforcement are so crucial, we began by digging into why things didn't go better under the old system – and why they're likely to improve with the new one.
"The problem was really with the laws being inadequate to get buffers in place," Jaschke said. "There were some laws requiring some buffers in some cases, in some places."
For public ditches, he explained, there was indeed a 1977 statute requiring that a one-rod buffer strip be left uncultivated – but it only applied after the county, watershed district or other local ditch authority had gone through a proceeding known as a "redetermination of benefits."
These proceedings establish whose land benefits from the ditch, and whose has been harmed, and how costs and compensation should be apportioned among landowners. Not surprisingly, it's a process that can take some time and doesn't necessarily foster enthusiasm.
"In the case of Freeborn County, they very systematically took that on and made determinations for all their ditches, and established one-rod buffers for them," Jaschke said. "But overall, the rate of progress has been 20 percent over the last 38 years – so the projection was, this will take 150 years to complete under that system."
Sarah Strommen
As for lakes and streams, Strommen explained, there was a state rule requiring 50-foot protective buffers in most cases. But the requirements weren't officially applied, or enforceable, until enactment of local zoning ordinances.
In egregious cases, Jaschke said, it was always possible to prosecute bad behavior in the buffer zone. But that required action by the county attorney, "and county attorneys typically have their hands full with so many other things."
Nevertheless – and this is the really good news from Jaschke's and Strommen's point of view – there are plentiful examples of landowners doing the right thing without threat of prosecution. Jaschke again:
There were six counties we looked at more carefully than others because they undertook a more systematic implementation of shoreland buffers, and they had compliance rates in the upper 90 percent range because they were able to get people good information about how to take care of the requirement.
Enforcement is important, but in the end it's a very small portion of the work. More comes from giving people information and assistance to get the work accomplished.
In Olmsted County, I think they contacted 470-some landowners and they ended up with only about three where they had to take some kind of action to get compliance.
There were six counties we looked at more carefully than others because they undertook a more systematic implementation of shoreland buffers, and they had compliance rates in the upper 90 percent range because they were able to get people good information about how to take care of the requirement.
Enforcement is important, but in the end it's a very small portion of the work. More comes from giving people information and assistance to get the work accomplished.
In Olmsted County, I think they contacted 470-some landowners and they ended up with only about three where they had to take some kind of action to get compliance.
I asked about the frequent refrain from certain ag quarters during the legislative session that the Dayton plan was a "one size fits all" approach, too inflexible to address the diversity of protection needs across the landscape.
Jaschke said that while buffers are the default requirement – and an effective tool against soil erosion and sedimentation, still, despite "being kind of a 1940s technology" – other options can be used where they make more sense.
In some places we're not ever going to get the stream bank stable with just roots, because the bank is very high or there's high velocity in the stream. Some people use rock, that's common, but we could be using more bioengineered techniques. ...
And there may be places where the issue is filtering runoff better than a buffer can do, subsurface techniques that use, say, wood chips to de-nitrify water before it goes into the stream. These are different techniques that are being tried in real places, with real results.
None of them are on the front edge of being fully certified or widely adopted, but there's always room on the landscape to try new practices as long as we've got a good design and a little money to help it happen.
In some places we're not ever going to get the stream bank stable with just roots, because the bank is very high or there's high velocity in the stream. Some people use rock, that's common, but we could be using more bioengineered techniques. ...
And there may be places where the issue is filtering runoff better than a buffer can do, subsurface techniques that use, say, wood chips to de-nitrify water before it goes into the stream. These are different techniques that are being tried in real places, with real results.
None of them are on the front edge of being fully certified or widely adopted, but there's always room on the landscape to try new practices as long as we've got a good design and a little money to help it happen.
And Strommen pointed out that the program includes substantial new funding for riparian protection from Legacy Amendment revenues; additional money may become available through bonding and state/federal conservation efforts such as the Conservation Reserve Enhancement program.
Another possible misconception: Making the buffer requirements more uniform, and creating new enforcement authority at the state level, necessarily diminishes local control.
The new law retains local enforcement options if officials want to exercise them, Jaschke said; what's different is that, should those efforts prove insufficient, his agency can step in. In addition, the new law creates the possibility of civil enforcement (and penalties) by county administrators or conservation district as an alternative to cumbersome criminal proceedings.
And the redetermination-of-benefits process will continue, Strommen noted. But it no longer must precede application of the buffer rules to a particular system of drainage ditches.
This decoupling of the of the two steps means that "the landowner is responsible for putting in the buffer regardless, and when they're ready to do it – they don't have to wait for the system," she said. "And the redetermination of benefits can come later – possibly resulting in some financial assistance for the work they've done."
And the new law also applies statewide the provisions of a little-used, county-option soil erosion statute that empowered counties to take action in cases where excessive soil erosion resulting from poor management practices was damaging public waters or other landowners' property.
Only five counties, all in southeastern Minnesota, bothered to "opt in" and only two ever tried to use its enforcement provisions, Jaschke said. Now all counties have the power to take action in such extreme cases, and also have the option to pursue civil enforcement instead of criminal prosecution.
"People will view new law this as a centralized response," Jaschke said, "but from the very beginning there's been emphasis on keeping the local approach through the soil and water conservation districts.
"They're in every county, they work with landowners, they've been doing it for decades, building relationships conservation districts. And that's going to be the most important part of this going forward: having local experts help landowners figure out how to comply, offering technical assistance and helping them to do it themselves."
Zumbro Zoe will be part of the Crossings at Carnegie Garden Party on Friday and Saturday, June 12-13.
June 12, 4-8 pm
June 13, 11-7:30 pm
In a big block party festival with live music, food vendors, art booths, garden items, a Zumbro Watershed Education booth, and of course, Zumbro Zoe, the worlds tallest River Otter! Get your picture taken with her during the event.
One Man's River Saturday, June 6, 10:00 a.m.
John Weiss, Rochester Post-Bulletin
Reporter John Weiss has spent years exploring the Zumbro River. Hear what he's learned after decades of exploring the Zumbro. Hear what he's seen and heard on the river. Also learn how what he sees on the river relates to the results of river sampling projects. This program is part of Cascade Meadow's Zumbro River Focus in June.
The program takes place at the Cascade Meadow Center, 2900-19th St. NW, Rochester, MN
Tyrol Ski & Sports presents the 10th Annual Reel Paddling Film Festival at Cascade Meadow,
2900 19th St NW on Friday, June 5th, 2015 at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm). Proceeds to benefit
Zumbro Watershed Partnership.
The Reel Paddling Film Festival is an international film tour presenting the world's best paddling
films of the year on screens in 100-plus cities across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom,
Europe and Australia.
Audiences can expect to see stand-up paddleboarding, hairy whitewater action, sea kayakers
exploring remote coastlines, motivating environmental documentaries, and hilarious short films
capturing the lighter side of paddling life. The Rochester screening will include titles such as
Grand Canyon of the Stikine, Paddle To DC: A Quest for Clean Water, Turnwater Solitude and
How Not To Steal A Kayak…
With your $12.00 ($15 at the door) ticket to our Reel Paddling Film Festival screening you'll
receive free digital subscriptions to Rapid, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots and Kayak Angler
magazines, a $39 value.
The Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour is produced by Rapid Media and presented in
Rochester, MN by Tyrol Ski & Sports on June 5th at 7 pm.
For tickets and information call Tyrol Ski & Sports 507-288-1683. You can purchase tickets
online by going to https://www.ticketriver.com/event/15363
Media Contacts
Your Local Host:
Tyrol Ski & Sports, 507-288-1683, email@example.com
RPFF Coordinator:
Ray Bretzloff, (613) 706-0677 x118, email@example.com
New Report Shines Light on Water Quality Concerns in Minnesota
Urban and agricultural runoff impairing the quality of Minnesota's lakes, rivers, and streams
St. Paul, Minn.-- A new report released today by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) provides additional evidence that agricultural and urban runoff is contributing significantly to the impairment of Minnesota's lakes, rivers, and streams. The new study, which monitored half of the state's 81 major watersheds, takes an in-depth look at the lakes and streams in major drainage areas. According to the MPCA, it is unlikely that current or new clean water funding can significantly improve the deteriorating conditions of many of the state's waters – unless the state employs new strategies to prevent the pollution from happening in the first place.
The study, "Swimmable, Fishable, Fixable?" (www.pca.state.mn.us/fixable), found that poor water quality is concentrated in certain regions of the state, especially in southern Minnesota. MPCA researchers noted that in heavily farmed areas, surrounding lakes and streams had high levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment. These high levels make it difficult to support aquatic life, and in some cases prohibit people from swimming in lakes and streams. The report's findings conclude that poor water quality in southern Minnesota waters is caused predominantly by agricultural runoff. Urban areas also suffer from elevated levels of water pollution caused by runoff.
"We have seen many of these patterns developing over the last 20 years. With the comprehensive watershed information we are gathering, we are much closer to a diagnosis that can point us toward the changes that need to happen," said MPCA Commissioner John Linc Stine. "While the Legacy Funds Minnesota citizens invested are helping us take steps forward, it's clear that we can't buy our way to healthy waters."
Key Findings in the Report
The report released today was compiled by the MPCA over the last several years, and was funded by the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Constitutional Amendment. The MPCA found that phosphorus and nitrogen, high bacteria levels, and mercury contamination continue to be problems in many of Minnesota's lakes, rivers, and streams. These pollutants, which are typically the product of urban and agricultural land runoff, have left many bodies of water inadequate for human consumption and aquatic life. Key findings from the report include:
· Urban and Agricultural Impact – Areas of Minnesota with larger human and livestock populations are struggling the most with water-quality. According to the MPCA study, runoff from land under intense urban or agricultural uses has left half or less of the lakes in those areas clean enough for healthy aquatic life and enjoyable swimming.
· Bacteria Levels – Higher levels of bacteria were discovered in many Minnesota waters. Generally, higher levels of bacteria indicate feedlot runoff or human waste in a water body, indicating it may be unsafe for swimming and other recreation.
· Mercury-Tainted Fish – Despite Minnesota's progress in preventing mercury from entering lakes, rivers, and streams from our state's power utilities and other sources, the MPCA study concluded that mercury remains widely present in fish. The vast majority of lakes and streams examined in the study – 97 percent of 490 stream sections and 95 percent of 1,214 lakes studied – contain fish tainted by mercury.
· High Levels of Nitrogen and Phosphorus – The MPCA study also found that watersheds that are heavily farmed or developed tend to have high levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and suspended solids in their waters. Nitrogen and phosphorus can cause algal blooms while suspended solids make the water murky. These pollutants hurt aquatic life and recreational opportunities.
· Problems Vary Regionally – While urban and agricultural runoff were the general source of problems across Minnesota, the types of pollution causing problems in specific bodies of water varied regionally. Typical problems included issues such as low oxygen levels, excess nutrients, excess sediment, disruption of natural water flows, a lack of habitat, and a lack of connectivity between different bodies of water.
Recommended Strategies to Improve Water Quality
In addition to identifying stressors and healthy conditions in Minnesota's lakes and streams, the MPCA and partner agencies have recommended strategies to restore and protect our waters. Those recommendations include: stream buffers, nutrient and manure management, storm water controls, and in-lake treatments. While most strategies are tailored for their specific watersheds, some strategies recommended by the MPCA do call for stronger and more targeted application of state and local laws on feedlots, shoreland, septic systems, storm water controls, and wastewater discharges.
"We are in this for the long haul – and we are talking 20 or more years," said Commissioner Stine. "We need continued vigilance to protect our healthy waters and take targeted action to restore those that are impaired. It took decades for our lakes and streams to become polluted, and it will take many more years to restore them."
The mission of the MPCA is to protect and improve the environment and enhance human health.
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Come by the Mayo Civic Center on Sunday, April 26 to visit the ZWP Booth, and maybe even meet Zumbro Zoe!
Corn and soybean prices went sky high between 2008 and 2012, and so did the number of acres that went under the plow in Minnesota and the rest of the country, according to a new study.
About 250,000 acres, or nearly 400 square miles, of Minnesota land was converted into row crops during that period. Most of it was grassland, but 25,000 acres were wetlands — more than any other state. And 13,000 acres of forests were converted — the second largest forest conversion in the country.
The researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison used satellite data from three different sources to analyze land conversion. The study was published Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
"In the Midwest we saw a lot of croplands expanding outside the traditional corn belt area, and Minnesota in particular was a key hot spot of land conversion," said Tyler Lark, a university graduate student and the study's lead author. "Much of the conversion came at the cost of natural ecosystems."
Converting forests, wetlands and grasslands into row crops has raised concerns in Minnesota and elsewhere for two reasons. First, farming practices can degrade water quality. Second, undisturbed land can capture carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas contributing to climate change, so plowing those lands to grow crops increases CO2.
The study estimated that the 7.3 million acres nationwide — roughly the size of the state of Maryland — were converted to everything from corn to wheat to alfalfa. The increased carbon emissions from the additional corn and soybean crops alone would be equal to a year's worth of CO2 emissions from 34 coal-fired power plants, the study said.
The high corn and soybean prices came after the federal Renewable Fuel Standard took effect. The standard calls for a certain amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels to be added to gasoline. Part of the policy's goal was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but some environmental groups have argued the standard is coming up short in that regard because of the consequences of land conversion.
The researchers aren't the first to point out the land conversion, but they used data that allowed them to determine how much of the converted land had not been used for crops in at least the past four decades. In Minnesota's case, 22,000 acres that were converted to cropland between 2008 and 2012 hadn't been used for that purpose in recent history.
In addition, the study found that converted land was often considered "marginal," meaning previously farmers hadn't wanted to plant on it.
"This marginal land is often characterized by increased risks for erosion, flooding or drought, and as such can have much greater consequences of cultivating new croplands as opposed to preexisting cropland area," Lark said.
Corn and soybean prices have plummeted since the study period, so Lark said it will be interesting to see what effect that has on land conversion. Because the new federal Farm Bill limits the number of acres where farmers can earn money for keeping land as grasslands, wetlands or forests, some farmers might choose to continue planting on lands that they recently converted into row crops.
Gov. Mark Dayton stopped in Austin Thursday to hear solutions from farmers and landowners alike on a proposed water quality bill to add more buffer strip land throughout the state.
More than 200 people gathered at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center Thursday afternoon to weigh in on legislation to require 50-foot buffer strips around Minnesota's water systems.
Under a bill before legislators, landowners would have to install at least 50 feet of perennial vegetation — also known as a buffer strip — to help filter phosphates, nitrates, sediments and other potential pollutants from water running into the state's rivers, lakes and streams.
Dayton, along with various local and state officials, told the audience the proposal is meant to stem increasing water pollution concerns, especially after a recent Minnesota Pollution Control Agency report showed all but one out of 97 streams weren't suited to drink or to use in water activities.
"It's everybody's problem and it needs to be everybody's solution," Dayton said.
Dayton's proposal would add about 125,000 acres of buffer-stripped land throughout the state. Though there are several exceptions to the bill — beaches would be exempt from the buffer strip requirement, for example — some landowners and farmers were concerned the legislation would provide a one-size-fits-all solution to a complex problem.
Mark Novak, a farmer near Wells, Minnesota, said he already had about 33 feet of buffer strip lining his land near the ditches.
"With 33 feet, very little water from my land is going into the ditch," he said. "You want me to add another 15 feet?"
Bruce Peterson, president of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association, defended the state agricultural industry's track record on water runoff and said many farmers and agricultural companies are improving water quality through better technology and farming practices.
"I simply believe that one size does not fit all," he said.
Yet farmers disagreed over whether buffer strips were necessary. One farmer said buffer strips on his land had helped filter rain water on his property since the 1970s, while another farmer said the government was, in essence, stealing several acres of his land that could be used for crops.
Mower County Farm Bureau President Marlin Fay called on Dayton and state officials to slow momentum on the bill until more research could be done, but Dayton said he would stand firm on getting water quality solutions like the buffer strip bill passed sooner than later.
"The fact is, things are not getting better, they're getting worse and more polluted," Dayton said.
After the meeting, Dayton said state officials could look into several measures proposed by the audience, which included more funding for soil and water conservation districts and reduced taxes on buffer strip land.
Richard King, who owns farm land near Windom Township, said he supported the buffer strip proposal as well as a negative tax for the subsequent acres affected by the bill.
"If you put a negative tax on the buffer zone, they're going to go for it more," he said.
Dayton stopped in Worthington as well Thursday to discuss the proposal. Lawmakers will debate Dayton's measure, as well as several other environmental proposals, over the next few weeks.


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A PEDESTRIAN was killed in a road accident in Balsall Common on Friday evening.
Police and ambulance crews were called to Kenilworth Road shortly after 7.50pm to a report of a car having collided with a man.
The man had suffered serious injuries, and despite the best efforts of medical staff could not be saved.
The driver of the car, a Vauxhall Insignia, was uninjured.
Police closed the road until around 0.15am for enquiries to be made and the vehicle to be recovered.
Officers from the Regional Collision Investigation Unit have launched an investigation into the collision and urge anyone with information help by calling 101.
See the Courier website for updates.