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Dear Kate
I can call you Kate, can't I? I know you are the future Queen, but I feel weird calling someone younger than me "Your Highness". I'm a republican, and while I love the Monarchy (for England) – especially the jewels, ill gotten they may be - I wouldn't curtsey to you either.
I want to congratulate you on your pregnancy! Brilliant news, but at the same time, I offer my commiserations. While I am sure you are beyond thrilled to be in the family way, I bet you don't feel like celebrating at the moment. Chucking your guts at the slightest smell of food, being unable to tolerate even water, and crippling headaches aren't what the joy of pregnancy is meant to be about. I know how you feel, Kate, because I had hyperemesis gravidium (HG) too.
Most women expect a bit of "morning sickness" in the first trimester. Some nausea, a bit of dizziness, the odd vomit. For me, the vomit was non-stop and the dizziness segued into headaches, periods of partial blindness and facial palsy. Work days were excruciating, with episodes spent laying on the bathroom floor – my cheek against the tiles in a bid to cool the rivulets of sweat pouring down my face – or under my work desk which was conveniently out of sight of most of the office.
Of course I got to do it without the lens of the world trained on me, but that said, vomiting in public is embarrassing, whether you are the future Queen or a commoner like me.
Is Wills squeamish? I hope not, because he will probably need to learn how to give you a jab in the Royal backside.
I used to do the work commute via ferry, which is usually the most pleasant way to get to the Sydney CBD. But just a few weeks into my pregnancy, the ferry became an unviable option after I spent a trip losing what little breakfast (a glass of water) I had been able to choke down over the side. This was to the dismay of the other, mostly male and of the financial industry variety, passengers. Poor blokes didn't know where to look. Was I drunk? Hungover? "I'm pregnant," gasped between vomits, never garnered much sympathy,. Driving almost always involved pulling over for a discrete vom either on the side of the road, or in one of the plastic bags I began to keep in my handbag for that exact moment. I also knew all the places on my route to work (because I hardly ever left the house otherwise) where I could have a comparatively private, public vomit.
Kate I am so sorry to tell you, that hospital visits didn't help me. The intravenous rehydration is good for bypassing the stomach and getting fluids in, but the drugs never did much. I could never keep down the tablets and the iv meds didn't help either. Is Wills squeamish? I hope not, because he will probably need to learn how to give you a jab in the Royal backside. My husband became a dab hand at drawing up and giving me the dart, but if Wills can't do it, I guess you have "people" to do it for you. Ladies in waiting or something.
I know you are a bit of a fashion plate, and I bet you were looking forward to parading about in all of the fabulous maternity fashion you will no doubt have at your disposal. Sucks when you can't even summon the energy to get out of your pyjamas, and that gorgeous silk kaftan didn't even see the light of day because you didn't make it to the loo, or sink, or nearest vomit receptacle (because you will start secreting them around the house – I mean palace – in convenient spots) on time. I hope the dreaded curse doesn't last the full 40 weeks, because I would love to see how you rock maternity wear. I remember Princess Di and her chocolate shop pussy bows and striped dresses, and I just know the trash mags will do a comparison photo spread of what I assume will be your chic maternity wardrobe. If you can get out of the aforementioned PJs, that is.
People will tell you that once you are holding that baby, or babies - in my case HG as an indicator of twins was true – you will forget all about it. I wish so much that this was true, but for me, the single thing holding me back from trying for another child (and considering I needed IVF to conceive my twins, another pregnancy is not a given) is the thought of being that sick again, and not being able to care for my twins. I just couldn't do it – not without full time help, which I assume you will have. And the pressure will be on for that second pregnancy, because, after all, you have to provide the heir, and the spare.
My advice, for what it's worth? Bugger the stiff upper royal lip, the paparazzi and the trash mags. You don't need to swan around in posh maternity gear looking the picture of glowing prospective motherhood. Embrace the all-day pyjama, repurpose your mixing bowls as vomit holders and always, carry a supply of plastic bags. Zip-locs are the best.
Love, Prue xox.
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Tombstone, Arizona (CNN) -- There's a popular saying in the American West: Whiskey's for drinking, but water's for fighting over. This dusty little city, made famous by the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, has a dilly of a water fight on its hands.
Tombstone, population 1,400, is suing the federal government -- and it is likely to be a landmark legal battle.
Over the years, Tombstone has survived fires and floods and all manner of shiftless varmints. But now "the town too tough to die" worries it's going to run dry.
The city sits in the desert but gets most of its water from springs in the Huachuca Mountains. Some of the springs are in a wilderness area protected by the U.S. Forest Service. From the Huachucas, the water runs 26 miles east to Tombstone through one of the longest gravity-fed water systems in the country.
Tombstone's water line was damaged in last year's massive Monument fire. The city says the feds are blocking emergency repairs that are critical to its survival.
In court papers, lawyers for the federal government say there's no emergency. Instead, they contend, Tombstone is using the fire's aftermath as an excuse to "upgrade and improve" its water system.
Kathleen Nelson, the acting ranger in charge of the Coronado National Forest, says the Forest Service has been letting Tombstone do some work, as long as it complies with the 1964 Wilderness Act.
In the wilderness, Tombstone can dig with shovels, not bulldozers. The new pipe can come up the mountain on horses, not in trucks.
Tombstone says that's no way to respond to a crisis that imperils the lives and property of its residents.
The dispute is starting to ping on the nation's political radar. The Goldwater Institute, a conservative public policy research organization based in Phoenix, has taken on Tombstone's legal representation.
The case is getting the attention of conservative bloggers, and Rush Limbaugh recently featured the water fight on his radio show, blaming everything on the Obama administration.
Tombstone is planning a June event that promises to propel the controversy into the national conversation: The Tombstone Shovel Brigade will be part protest, part work party.
The idea borrows from the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade near Elko, Nevada. Twelve years ago, several thousand people used chains, shovels and muscle to move a boulder and reopen a washed-out road the U.S. Forest Service had closed.
Tombstone has received about 500 donated shovels so far and hopes 1,000 volunteers or more will show up to fix the pipeline.
Some people are wondering why little Tombstone and its 700 water customers are worth all the fuss.
City officials are quick to respond: Tombstone wrote a colorful chapter in American history. It gets more than 200,000 visitors a year. And it's worth saving.
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and that incident near -- not at -- the O.K. Corral brought Tombstone fame. The 30-second shoot-em-up on October 26, 1881, is immortalized in a string of Hollywood Westerns: "My Darling Clementine," "Wyatt Earp" and the eponymous "Tombstone," to name a few.
The gun battle is re-enacted daily in Tombstone. Tourists come from around the world to see it, retrace Earp's steps along historic Allen Street, check out the 140 bullet holes in the walls of the Birdcage Theater and read the markers at Boot Hill Graveyard, including this famous one:
Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a .44 No Les no more.
Living in the wild, wild West
In Tombstone, the past and present tend to blur together. Stop at a convenience store on the outskirts and a pistol-packing cowboy in boots and spurs is likely to pick up some chaw and join the line at the register. There, they sell fake Tombstone water in bottles marked "XXXX."
Tombstone has been a cattle town, a cowboy town, a gold town, a silver town and a copper town. It has cycled through boom times and bust ever since veins of silver first brought fortune seekers to this dusty corner of the Arizona desert.
Founder Ed Schieffelin was warned back in the 1870s that all he'd find here was his tombstone, and that's how the place got its name.
The desert can be an inhospitable place and it breeds people tough as Gila monsters. They are resourceful and resilient and don't cotton to being told what to do. They like being told what they can't do even less.
After the Monument fire, everyone got along -- at first. Tombstone asked for a Forest Service permit to make the repairs, then waited. By the end of October, the city grew tired of the wait and took an excavator up Miller Canyon, where two of its most productive springs are.
The Forest Service stopped city workers, and sharp words were exchanged. Positions began to harden.
Tombstone filed suit in December. A judge sent the parties into mediation in early February, hoping they could work things out. But talks broke down almost immediately.
Several weeks ago, the Forest Service stopped Tombstone from bringing in a wheelbarrow for the repairs.
Why on earth?
Rangers say the Wilderness Act prohibits "motorized" or "mechanized" equipment because it might damage the wilderness and disturb endangered species. The conversation showed how far apart the city and the rangers had grown, and how frustrated the city felt in following federal rules.
The rangers insisted the wheelbarrow was "mechanized" because it had a wheel. But Tombstone managed to persuade the Forest Service to ease the restriction and prohibit just "motorized" equipment.
That kind of bureaucracy sounds all too familiar to many Westerners. Forty years ago it fueled the Sagebrush Rebellion over federal control of millions of acres of land in a dozen states. Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of the Republican Party, told voters at a 1980 campaign stop in Utah that he was a proud Sagebrush Rebel.
The rebellion faded but never really died. Riding in the political dust stirred up by the tea party, the Sagebrush Rebellion is re-emerging this election year. Bills to seize control of federal land are burbling in Wyoming and Utah, and they're talking about it in other states, including Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.
Tombstone is now at front and center of the movement.
"Forget the O.K. Corral. This is the ultimate showdown," said Christina Sandefur, a lawyer with the Goldwater Institute, which is representing Tombstone free of charge. She said it's a classic case of federal meddling.
Because the case raises constitutional questions about the relationship between local, state and federal governments -- issues of power and authority -- it is likely to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Driving the drama is an eclectic cast of characters, the modern-day equivalents of Tombstone's early legends. There's a war hero mayor, a whip-smart school marm type, an all-knowing town clerk, even a steely-eyed stranger who rides into town, a purty gal at his side, just in time to save the day.
The story began nearly a year ago with a biblical, one-two punch of fire and water.
Fire on the Mountain
In June 2011, Mayor Jack Henderson uneasily eyed the peaks of the Huachucas. A decorated helicopter pilot, Henderson flew medevac missions for the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War and passenger jets for United Airlines for 33 years after that. He doesn't rattle easily, but things didn't look good.
The Monument fire started at the Mexican border in early June. The billowing flames and smoke and ash bruised the Arizona sky, moving ever closer to Tombstone's 25 springs in the canyons.
Henderson ran his hands through a crop of white hair, chomped on his cigar and made a command decision: Shut that pipeline down.
"Soot and smoke and fire retardant were everywhere," Henderson recalled. "I didn't want that to get into our water supply. I shut it down so we wouldn't get any contaminants into our 26 miles of pipeline. It was a no-brainer."
Turning the water back on would prove to be a different story.
Flames swept through the Arizona side of the mountains on June 16, crossing Highway 92 below Carr Canyon, where Tombstone has some springs. By then, the fire had burned more than 40 homes and melted sections of Tombstone's original seven-inch steel pipeline.
Then things really got bad. The monsoon season began in July and brought record rainfall. Water rolled off the denuded slopes and gushed into the canyons, forming raging walls that tore down the remaining trees and dropped Volkswagen-sized boulders.
"We knew we were going to have a problem," Henderson said, "but I had no concept of what kind of damage would be done by the monsoons."
When the rain stopped, some of the springs in Miller Canyon were buried under 12 to 15 feet of rocks and gravel and broken trees. It was total devastation.
"There was nothing left," Henderson said. "It looked like a moonscape. We lost the war up there."
A state emergency official told him: "You guys have had 500 years of erosion here in one day."
Henderson is not the type who wears a suit and sits behind a desk making phone calls. He donned coveralls and a hard hat and went into the mountains to assess what needed to be done.
"We had little gullies up there that are now wide valleys," he said. "We couldn't find the landmarks, and boulders as big as my pickup truck are gone. There was nothing we recognized."
In August, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer declared a state of emergency for Tombstone and its water supply and freed $50,000 in emergency funds for the city to make repairs. Tombstone rented equipment and applied for permits, clearing all state and federal agencies, except for the U.S. Forest Service.
The city waited, and waited some more.
"We were dying here," Henderson said. The city's 1.2 million-gallon reservoir, a concrete tank built on a hilltop overlooking town, ran dry at the end of August. The city had to rely on water from its wells, one of which had high levels of arsenic. If a fire broke out, the city wouldn't have enough water to put it out.
Tombstone, Henderson said, was "one match away from disaster."
Tired of waiting, city leaders decided to push the point. Workers drove an excavator up to Miller Canyon and started moving rocks and clearing a reservoir. They were stopped by the Forest Service and ordered to stand down or, according to Tombstone, face arrest.
The rangers were arrogant, Henderson said. They referred to Tombstone officials as "children," right in front of them. Some rangers snickered during a hastily called meeting at the agency's Sierra Vista station.
"If you want permission, you'd better lawyer up," Henderson said he was told. "If you don't like the decision, I suggest you call Barack Obama."
Henderson said he "assumed President Obama was a little busy for that," adding, "That's when I began to get a sense of the smugness we were dealing with."
The Forest Service is not commenting on specific allegations raised by Tombstone because of the lawsuit.
Eventually, Tombstone did get a permit authorizing the heavy earth-moving equipment, but only for the work already under way. It was the last time Tombstone was able to bring heavy equipment into the forest.
As things now stand, the city would have to repeat the same permit process with nearly two dozen more springs.
Tombstone says it doesn't have that kind of time, that it has to move fast -- and with bulldozers and backhoes -- before the next rainy season washes away all the repairs it already has made.
So, the city followed the ranger's advice, lawyered up and took the Forest Service to court. Tombstone contends the rangers are misreading the Wilderness Act and is asking a judge to order the Forest Service to back down.
As a Marine, and later as Tombstone's mayor, Henderson said he'd taken an oath to protect the Constitution "from all enemies, foreign and domestic."
The Forest Service "seems to want to take all the water rights Tombstone has and give them to somebody else," he said.
"I consider them a domestic enemy."
The paper trail
Nancy Sosa was raised in Tombstone and she remembers the stories of fires and water shortages from childhood. She remembers hearing how, when the pipeline shut down, the well water left a chalky residue, the pressure dropped and the town swimming pool stood empty in the summer heat.
She grew up, left Tombstone, studied archaeology and learned how to dig through old records and reconstruct history. She came back to her hometown so her kids could know their grandparents and has been Tombstone's official archivist since December 2010.
Within a month or two, Sosa uncovered a treasure: A locked metal safety deposit box with the original records from the company that built the pipeline. Nobody can be sure how long it had been sitting in the basement of the old City Hall building. Covered in dust and discarded Styrofoam coffee cups, it contained the original deeds, maps, agreements and bonds to the springs and pipeline.
The documents had survived fire and flood. Some were charred, others moldy. Sosa restored and indexed them, sensing they were important, not yet aware of their value.
They told the story of how, either "by smart planning or dumb luck," as Sosa puts it, early leaders made sure Tombstone had a permanent and reliable water source.
The fledgling city's wooden downtown had burned to the ground twice, and the silver mines needed more water than the ground could give, Sosa said. Tombstone's Huachuca Water Company went into the mountains to tap the springs.
The result in 1881 -- the same year as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral -- was a pipeline that brings mountain spring water into Tombstone's reservoir.
Tombstone bought the water line after the company went broke in 1947. Along the way, there were a series of court decisions in Tombstone's favor. Sosa has copies of them all.
She has rebuilt a 130-year-old paper trail. If the maps helped Tombstone find its springs buried under rocks and debris, the other documents are helping the city prove its unbroken chain of ownership.
Tombstone says its pipeline was there first -- before Arizona became a state, before there was a U.S. Forest Service, before the Coronado National Forest was established, and certainly long before the federal Wilderness Act.
The city argues that its rights to the springs were grandfathered in at each step. But the Forest Service is not yet ready to concede. Right after Tombstone applied for its permits, a ranger was dispatched to Tucson to look for records to dispute the city's claim.
That escalated the fight.
Tombstone dug in. The city now insists it owns all 25 springs outright, and has the right to maintain five acres around each one, as well as 25 feet on either side of the pipeline. The city says it doesn't need anybody's permission to work on its own property.
"We had to fight to buy that water line in 1947, and we won," Sosa said. "We own that water line. In 1977, we had a similar fire, and we went in and made the repairs. In 1983, more fires again, and we're still here." Miller Peak became a federally protected wilderness in 1984.
Tombstone's newly found documents are kept in a climate-controlled room in a building a block from City Hall. Sosa wears blue surgical gloves when she handles them.
When Tombstone goes to court, she sits up front with the lawyers, assisting them with the nitty-gritty details.
"Who is that?" someone from the opposing side asked a friend during a bathroom break at the courthouse.
"Oh, she's from Tombstone," the friend replied, unaware that Sosa could overhear them from a stall. "They're all ignorant and inbred."
'Saving the city'
Kevin Rudd had been in Tombstone just a month or two when the Monument fire broke out. He was seeking a fresh start after the construction industry flat-lined in Tucson. He'd tasted success only to lose his business, his house and his shiny new truck to the recession.
"It got bad, really bad," Rudd recalled, shaking his head.
He'd been pounding nails since he was 16, and he knew a thing or two about managing big construction projects. He came to Tombstone with the idea of maybe opening a restaurant, but quickly figured out the plan wouldn't work. He was thinking about pulling out of town when destiny found him.
Sherry Kammeyer, his fiancée, had come with Rudd to Tombstone, and she found work in a bar, dealing Texas Hold 'Em. One night she dealt a hand or two to Jack Henderson, and they got to talking. Kammeyer introduced her boyfriend to the mayor.
"When the fires hit and the floods came, the light went on and he said, 'Wow, I could use a guy like you,' " Rudd said. Henderson put him in charge of the pipeline project.
Rudd didn't know much about the pipeline, but he made it his business to learn. Kammeyer, a certified construction site safety expert, also began working for the city.
"It was kind of a cosmic roundabout," Rudd said. "It was a crazy coincidence, but it really feels like I was supposed to be here, doing this job."
The first person he saw on the new job was Sosa, and she showed him the 1901 maps of the springs. He hiked in on trails and washed-out roads, and along the debris fields. He found the springs and assessed the damage.
It was still monsoon season, and more than once Rudd had to turn tail and run when the skies opened up.
"We'd come back and it would look totally different," he recalled. The spring in Carr Canyon, which had been surrounded by fire, was a quick temporary fix, but the one in Miller Canyon was "totally destroyed" by the rockslides.
Rudd and his crew, rarely more than half a dozen workers at a time, dug the springs out with shovels and picks, spending 10 to 12 hours a day in the canyons. When they found a spring, they surrounded it with sandbags.
CNN accompanied Rudd in February. The terrain was rugged, the air was clear, and the view was breathtaking. It was eerily silent.
Steering his city pickup past blackened trees along a rutted ridgeline trail, Rudd marveled at his blind, dumb, cosmic luck.
"Just another day in paradise, saving the city," he grinned. "I can't think of a better project to work on. I can't give this up for anything."
The work has been arduous. And Tombstone is not popular with the ranchers and retirees who live here, some of whom fear the city will trash the environment, trespass on their property and steal their water.
Three dozen mountain residents have signed a petition opposing Tombstone's bid to bring in heavy equipment.
Ralph and Rosemary Snapp live on five acres in Carr Canyon, in a cozy cabin surrounded by rock gardens and flowering fruit trees that attract brightly colored butterflies, moths and hummingbirds. They say they have always gotten along with the workers from Tombstone, but they are in their 80s and don't want to live in a construction zone.
"We're living in a place called Sky Islands," Rosemary Snapp said. "It's a fragile, unique environment. We're trying to preserve a corridor for the wildlife, to have a place where naturalists like to come to do research on moths and butterflies, snakes and all the flora and fauna here and to let people have a place to come to be back to nature."
She continued, "The land has changed, but it has changed naturally. We want to push against any digging and further excavation causing erosion. We want to live with nature here."
Her husband just wants to maintain the status quo with Tombstone.
"We don't have any problem with the current water line," he said. "We just don't want to see a huge expansion."
Others have placed boulders in the middle of trails, and the pipeline has been vandalized. Rudd has been confronted and threatened, but he won't be chased off.
He doesn't hesitate to remind anyone who crosses his path that Tombstone considers the pipeline its property. And so, he is known among the mountain folks as "Kevin Rude."
If uncovering the springs was hard, hooking them up to the pipeline was even more challenging. Rudd's team dug trenches by hand in some places, ran PVC pipe along the top of the ground in others, laying down about 10,000 feet. Except for the one time they drove an excavator up in October, Tombstone's workers have done the work by hand, just as it was in the late 1870s.
On the day of CNN's visit, about 20 prison inmates worked the pipeline. For three days, they carried sections of pipe up the mountain on their shoulders and dug trenches. Tombstone showed its gratitude with pizza.
"I can't thank you guys enough," Rudd said. He estimates the inmates saved him and his small crew about six weeks' worth of work.
A few days later, Rudd was able to connect two of the biggest springs and direct the water into a makeshift basin downstream. Since the beginning of March, work has slowed because the Mexican spotted owl, an endangered species, is said to be nesting in the peaks above the pipeline.
Rudd doubts there are any owls up there.
"Listen. What do you hear? Absolute silence. It's completely still. It's devastated," he said. "Now is the time to come in and fix the pipeline."
But Nelson, the acting ranger in charge, said some owl sightings have been reported.
CNN returned to Tombstone in mid-March, and by then the water was flowing, if not at full speed. Rudd's makeshift pipeline was up and running.
Rudd pulled back the corrugated steel lid on the city's hilltop reservoir and peered inside. Bone dry in August, it was now about a quarter full. The water was so clear, it was easy to see the bumps in the concrete bottom.
"I love that sound," Rudd said, as water from the mountain springs poured into the reservoir.
It's a temporary fix and he dreads what the rainy season might bring if the city can't get its heavy equipment into the wilderness in time.
"It's likely to get washed away in the first rainstorm."
Politics as usual?
"In the past, we had essentially no issue with the Forest Sevice," said Tombstone City Manager George Barnes. "They would issue whatever permits we needed. This time, the world seemed to have shifted."
He doesn't know why, but suspects "a lot has to do with the cast of characters." Somewhere along the line, things got personal.
In the days of the Old West, that's when the guns came out in Tombstone. Now, they summon the lawyers and put recalls on the ballot.
While he was battling the Forest Service, Jack Henderson made the mistake of ignoring his political foes. And so, on March 13, he became the first mayor to be recalled in Tombstone's history.
Barnes, who oversaw the collection of the ballots, was among the first to know -- even before Henderson made the announcement to a crowd of supporters gathered next door at the American Legion Hall.
"You folks have a new mayor," Henderson said, greeted by a group groan.
Nobody that night could really say what the recall was about -- not even the winner, Stephen Schmidt.
It only takes one vote to change the course of history. Henderson lost by 51.
Schmidt seemed surprised he'd won and not quite sure what to do about it. He did not seem to know much about the pipeline or the legal battle. He didn't appear to have a water plan, except, perhaps, to look into drilling more wells.
A former councilman who runs a local bar, Schmidt said Henderson was "a good guy" who had been doing a good job after a shaky start. Small town people are usually unhappy with the status quo, especially when times are tough, he said.
Schmidt campaigned against what he considered unnecessary expenses, putting Sosa, the city archivist, near the top of his hit list.
"We don't have a public works director and we have a city archivist?" he told CNN as someone cranked up Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" on the speakers outside his bar, Johnny Ringo's. (The bar takes its name from one of the cowboys who battled Wyatt Earp.)
Sosa, knowing she's a potential target, cleaned out her office on election night. But she is continuing her work at the archives, at least for now.
Rudd dodged a pink slip last month, when Schmidt suggested cutting the pipeline project from the budget to save money. But the new mayor backed down after the Goldwater Institute advised against it and the City Council split on the issue.
Barnes, the city manager, hopes the council can keep the lawsuit on track.
"Now is one of those moments of necessary maturity," said Barnes, a retired Xerox manager from upstate New York. "They either step up and become the functional group they have to be or they don't and things stop."
There's a lot at stake: Mountain spring water is flowing into Tombstone for now, the city is suing the federal government, Rush Limbaugh is making the case a national election year issue and the shovel brigade is coming to town.
If Tombstone doesn't rise above its habit of factions and bickering, it just might shoot itself in the foot.
For now, Schmidt seems satisfied to let the Goldwater Institute carry on with the lawsuit because it is costing the city virtually nothing.
He has filed papers to run for mayor in the August primary. Henderson also is considering another run at the office, and there's a third candidate in the race.
Meanwhile, everyone will be back in court, probably by the start of the rainy season, July 1.
In Tombstone, they're still talking about one courtroom exchange that made their jaws drop. One of the city's lawyers was grilling a Forest Service supervisor.
"Sir, just tell me: What is more important? Owls or people?" the lawyer asked.
The supervisor hesitated, and then explained, "We have to balance the needs of the resource with the needs of the people of Tombstone."
If the point was lost on the Tombstone contingent, it made perfect sense to the rangers at the Forest Service.
A wilderness, explained Nelson, the acting ranger in charge, is "an area where the Earth and its community of life are untrampled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain."
Some places are too wild to tame, and the Wilderness Act addresses that, she added.
Nelson was assigned to the local ranger station after the tense early days of the dispute, and she has tried to smooth things over. But it may be too late.
It is not yet clear how the federal government will respond to the shovel brigade. Authorities have sought court injunctions -- without success -- to try to stop similar brigades, such as the one in Jarbidge. The organizers prevailed on First Amendment grounds.
Henderson knows he didn't campaign hard enough to keep his job. Most people would say he barely campaigned at all. But he'll be carrying a shovel and leading the brigade.
If it comes off as planned, the Tombstone Shovel Brigade could take a place in Western history, right next to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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The Chile quake that struck Saturday and triggered a tsunami that traveled throughout the Pacific basin provided the first basin-wide test of the region's tsunami-warning network in decades.
By several accounts, the region-wide warning effort was a success, though in retrospect evacuations in many places far from the Chilean coast appear to have been excessive given the size of the surge that ultimately arrived.
Initial estimates by state emergency officials in Hawaii reportedly put the size of arriving waves at between six and 10 feet. The waves that did arrive were less than three feet tall.
IN PICTURES: Images from the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile
That apparent disconnect highlights the complexity of tsunami hazard responses, specialists say.
Gauging damage, accuracy
The major warning centers in Hawaii and Alaska issue basin-wide warnings, which include estimated time of arrival for the first of what usually are a series of waves. And they offer a projection of the tsunamis' heights as they approach a coast but remain in open water.
It's up to national, state, and local governments, however, to estimate the effects tsunamis can have at specific sites as they come ashore, then issue evacuation orders.
The warning centers in Hawaii and Alaska "did what their mandate called for" and "did a very good job," says Tad Murty, an adjunct professor specializing in tsunamis at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. The warning center estimated that tsunamis would begin to affect the Hawaiian Islands 15 hours after the magnitude 8.8 quake struck. The forecast was off by 5 minutes, he says.
Tracking difficult
Tsunamis can be tough to track to anyone bobbing on the ocean's surface. They may represent an increase of eight to 20 inches in the average sea-level height as they pass. That brief change can get lost on a surface already rolling with ranks of large, storm-generated swells stretching as far as the eye can see, or wind-driven waves in a storm.
The answer: pressure-sensitive buoys as deep as 20,000 feet on the ocean floor. Since an earthquake such as Saturday's displaces water from the sea-floor up, these buoys sense the changes in bottom pressure tsunamis trigger as they propagate from their source.
As tsunamis sweep past chains of undersea volcanoes or similar natural sea-floor barriers, they either can intensify or weaken, depending on the conditions they encounter.
But the true forecasting challenge comes as the tsunami interacts with the near-shore bottom, Dr. Murty explains.
Valpariso, Chile, roughly 200 miles north of the quake's epicenter, experienced a tsunami topping 8 feet, while Robinson Crusoe Island, 400 miles offshore, was struck by a wave that reportedly killed four people. Eleven others remain missing.
By the time tsunamis began arriving in Hawaii, Hilo experienced tsunamis less that three feet tall.
Size isn't everything
Less than three feet may be puny by James Michener standards. But Eddie Bernard, a tsunami specialist and director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory in Seattle, notes that even small tsunamis can inflict damage, particularly in harbors. The repeated surges can smash boats against each other or against docks. And once a tsunami enters a harbor, it can in effect reverberate within the harbor for hours, much as sound waves from a bell reverberate.
Moreover, even small tsunamis can temporarily alter currents in dangerous ways, Dr. Bernard says. That was the sort of response recorded in L.A. Harbor.
"We were lucky the tsunamis came at low tide; the currents were not as strong as they could have been" at the harbor, he says.
He gives the region-wide warning network a B+ for its performance Saturday and Sunday, when the last warnings were lifted for Japan and Russia.
But he adds that more needs to be done to improve site-specific forecasts.
One step forward came following the Sumatran earthquake in 2004. With input from countries in the region, NOAA put together a web-based model that allows countries to make site-specific projections. The model, which can be downloaded and run on a typical laptop if the number of sites is small, allows local managers to project potential wave heights and in-harbor reverberations as a tsunami comes ashore.
At this stage, for the US, the model focuses on harbors, Bernard says. The reasons: the high value of ships, cargo, and other assets stored there; and that's where the best tide gauges are, so model projections can be tested against real-world measurements and the models improved.
Over time, as confidence in the models increases, he says he expects that national, state, and local governments in the Pacific region and elsewhere – particularly among developing countries – will be able to extend the use of the model to larger lengths of coastline to include resort areas and smaller coastal cities.
IN PICTURES: Images from the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile


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Today, as we turn our calendar to the month of February, we naturally think of Valentines Day. There are many legends around this event, but one touches us particularly.
The story goes that, back in the days of 270 AD, the priest St. Valentine cut up pieces of parchment in the shape of hearts and circulated these to buck up the spirits of much-persecuted Christians.
Nearly 1800 years later, doesn't receiving a little heart in the mail have much the same effect, reminding us of our faith in love and friendship? Without, we might add, risking any kind of martyrdom for the sender today. (St. Valentine was less lucky when the Romans caught up with him.)
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1978's Superman began to the era of the superhero film. It would still be another decade before they would become a summer rite of passage at the box office, but Superman helped usher them from small screen, low budget affairs to big splashy tent poles with classy casts. Its first and only watchable sequel, Superman II, has had a fascinating history. It was already in production while the first film was being made and its director was fired halfway through, replaced by journeyman Richard Lester. Superman II may be the last of the quality "comic" comic book films, before the much darker Batman would change the landscape.
You may recall at the beginning of the first Superman flick Marlon Brando as Superman's old man, Jor-El, sentenced three criminals - General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and the big mute, Non (Jack O'Halloran) - to a life of hurling through space stuck in a square bubble (the kind Queen used in their Greatest Hits album cover). Superman II opens with Superman (Christopher Reeve) making a big boo-boo. He tosses a terrorist's hydrogen bomb into space and its explosion frees the prisoners who make their way to Earth. But first, back on Earth, Lex Luther (Gene Hackman) escapes from prison, finds Superman's North Pole getaway, and learns much of his secret history. Meanwhile, on a trip to Niagara Falls, Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) finally looks past Clark's Kent's glasses and realizes he's Superman, they go back to his ice pad and get jiggy.
The three super villains come to Earth and begin to wreak havoc, even harassing the President of The United States. Lex Luther introduces himself and lets them know that Jor-El's son is on Earth. They want revenge. But Superman's Fortress Of Solitude does not get cable news so he has no idea that these aliens are taking over the planet. Instead, so he can spend a life with the druggy looking Lois Lane, he uses some space technology and relinquishes his super powers making himself human. Now just a normal earthman, Superman gets his ass kicked in a snowy dinner and then finally learns of the three super creeps who have invaded his planet. He heads back to the North Pole to regain his mojo. Eventually he returns as Superman and has a super duel with the three who have vowed to destroy him. Superman II is a total blast even if it only makes half sense. There are definitely some issues with the script and the editing that may have come from changing the director during production. Lex's two main cohorts, Otis (Ned Beatty) and Eve Teschmacher (Valerie Perrine), appear early and then completely disappear. Superman's super powers seem to expand, beyond the usual. Out of nowhere he is now able to rip an S off his shirt and use it as a lasso. What? Apparently blooper fans have a field day with the film. With the two year gap in much of the filming Reeve's bulk seems to change from scene to scene as does Kidder's skeletal appearance. The first film's director, Richard Donner (whose directing career has ranged from The Omen to the Lethal Weapon films) conceived SI & SII to be shot back-to-back, Lord Of The Rings style. But delays in SI took him away from SII, and after more than half of SII was shot he was fired over a dispute with the producers. They brought in British director Richard Lester to complete the film and give it his own spin (Lester was most notable for The Beatles films A Hard Days Night and Help! and those Oliver Reed Three and The Four Musketeers flicks, but it had been a while since he had a mega hit). Lester is the credited director on SII and apparently Donner seethed at Lester's cut. To cash in on that lame Superman Returns movie, Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut was released on DVD. Even though they share most of the same footage with different tweaks in the editing, they really are different movies. Though flawed, I still throw my hat onto the side of Lester, the original version.
Lester's Superman II is also a comedy; it's campy and goofy, and much closer in style to the Mike Hodges' Flash Gordon than Superman I (another once great British director recast strangely as a blockbuster creator). The epic battle between Superman and his three foes above downtown Metropolis is punctured with zany slapstick by the onlookers, toupees being blown off, etc. The humor is needed, though, to offset the utter danger that the three super villains create. And they are violent - they encounter astronauts on the moon and kill them for no reason. These are some evil folks, no wonder Jor-El banished them.
Donner's version eschewed much of the humor; his cut foresaw much of the darker superhero films to come (Batman, X-Men, The Hulk), and frankly it's not as entertaining. The one upgrade however is major - adding Brando. The overpriced actor shot footage for SII while doing his scenes for SI. Both films have Superman and then Lex Luther listening to a lot of plot exposition in the form of an ice crystal video machine. With the original release of SII the producers decided that using Brando's footage was too costly (he had a massive profit participation that would kick in). It was reshot using Superman's space mother, Lara (Susannah York). It never really made sense since Jor-El is actually at the center of the revenge plot. With the 2006 release of the Donner Cut and now Brando dead, his footage was thankfully restored. Otherwise though that Donner Cut is only of interest as a historic curio.
Superman can be viewed as the last truly innocent superhero, his DC Comics counterpart, Batman, was much more haunted. By the end of the '80s Tim Burton's Batman would dominate the superhero screenscape, though that series would run out of gas quickly and also turn to camp and humor (as would the Spiderman franchise). Superman II was another big hit, more sequels would be demanded and slapped together - one would rely on Richard Pryor's mugging and another would see Superman take on nuclear weapons of something. Superman II would be the apex for the big man from Krypton, as it would be for the tragic life of actor Christopher Reeve (he would later become a paraplegic from a horse riding accent and then die), and he only had a couple of memorable non-Superman films (most notably Somewhere In Time and Deathtrap). With his performance in Superman II he was able to give both Superman and Clark Kent the three-dimensional treatment. Instead of just being a heroic muscleman, Superman II actually gives the character of Superman his one chance at being a romantic lead and reveal the loneliness of his super powers, (the guy is so desperate he flies around the world to pick the perfect flowers for Lois). If nothing else, Superman II shows us humans how super powers can be applied to a really good first date.


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DU coach George Gwozdecky said it again today. "It's the toughest and most difficult championship in college hockey."
Really? Yes, really. I'm with George. Winning the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA champion is a brutal task. Fourteen weekends, 28 games. A couple bad ones and you're not going to win it.
DU has had just one (tie and loss at Wisconsin), and has otherwise produced a splendid season. The Pios are 18-4-4 in league play, and clinched the title with two games to play. Those two games are Friday at Magness Arena and Saturday at the Colorado Springs World Arena in the regular-season ending series against CC.
Friday should be a blast. WCHA commish Bruce McLeod will present the MacNaughton Cup to DU before or after the game, a contest in which has huge ramifications for Front Range pride. The Pios have the chance to parade around the ice with the Gold Pan AND the MacNaughton Cup.
Although DU clinched the WCHA regular-season title last Saturday with Rhett "Rocket" Rakhshani's OT goal at Minnesota State, and typically there is a letdown in the winning teams' ensuing game, the Pios are hungry for the Gold Pan. Nobody on their team has won it.
Two years ago, CC won the MacNaughton Cup and Gold Pan during this season-ending, home-and-home set, and the Tigers had a blast in front of their rivals. CC won't go down easy. Winning (or reclaiming) the Gold Pan could end up being its biggest accomplishment of the season. The Tigers, who have lost four in a row and are 5-10 since Dec. 30, have to begin the WCHA playoffs on the road, and if they don't win the league tournament, they won't make the NCAA Tournament.
None of that matters Friday. It's all about the Gold Pan, and for DU, the MacNaughton Cup too. My money is on DU. The Pios chucked a huge weight off their chests by clinching the Cup. Now it's all about the Pan. If the Cup is presented after the game, DU doesn't want to accept it after a loss.
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This attack came from an unexpected source-- A contributor on a ScienceBlog. ScienceBlogs has taken a rational stance on pits in the past, with wonderful posts by both Kevin Beck and Chad Orzel (I almost gave Chad a heart attack with my sarcasm, and I still feel bad about it).
Im disappointed Keven turned around and made the decision to call my dog a 'fucker' in the above referenced post. I didnt see it at first, but I caught it just as Arnie was begging for a cherry PopTart.
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It would be naive to assume that a dog's behavior (or that of pretty much any animal) is entirely or even largely dependent on training and environment. To discount inherent biological factors is specious. The reality is that pit bulls have the "biological equipment" to inflict damage that other breeds, say basset hounds, do not. This statement simply reflects the obvious facts of biology; and it does not condemn all members of any given breed to a given behavior.Jim is an expert on dog breeds (much better qualified than the AKC, which opposes BSL), being a "dog lover" who not only doesnt own a dog, but has evidently never owned a bull breed, or evidently met one (though he assures us that he doesnt want his first pit meeting to be on a country road. No problems with meeting rabid beagles on country roads, though.) And he clearly knows more than silly people like me and my rescue friends who rescue and rehabilitate abused and neglected bull breeds into wonderful family members-- Our opinions dont count, because its, um, um... He doesnt say why our opinions dont count.
He also doesnt give all the 'details' of the CDCs dog bite/mortality stats.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Lovely Hexie Footstool
And then Sunday afternoon I had a hankering to do some sewing and started on hexies. Here's my verdict… I really liked making the hexies. Very relaxing and I can definitely see the addiction. Such a pretty little pile!
But I really didn't like hand-sewing the little guys together. I'm a sloppy and impatient hand sewer and my whipstitch just kept getting bigger and bigger as each little hexie was added on. By the time I was done, I have to admit I was pretty happy that my stool is tiny!! To those of you who have made entire quilts from hexies. All I can say is WOWZEEE. You are patient people.
So back to my stool… :) I had some of this super pretty blue high gloss paint (that just happens to match the blue in Tufted Tweets!) so threw 3 coats of it on the stool. Love high gloss paint! A quick trip to Home Depot yesterday for some new shiny hinges and ta-da. Meet my new foot stool!!
Nice stitching Ms. Wisbrun...You'll notice the whip stitching isn't exactly invisible...Oh well. I shall just say that it adds character!
My only sadness is that my kitty Zoe-cat isn't here to enjoy it. She used to sleep on the ratty old one and keep me company in my office and just loved it. (I had to put my sweet girl to sleep in April. I was lucky enough to have her with me for 10 great years. I still miss her terribly. Sweet baby girl cat.) Sob...Sniff...
So in her honor, I think I shall name my stool the Zoe Stool. (Have never named my furniture before but in this case it seems appropriate, right? )
I still have some hexies left. I can just top stitch some of them onto a napkin or something right? I'd love to use them/make some more but need to find a way to use them without having to hand sew them. Do I need to put some interfacing behind them before I top stitch them on the napkin?
And I've gotten a few notes from ya'll wondering when the Unfurnished quilt pattern that Ashley at Film in the Fridge designed for Tufted Tweets will be available on RK's site. I've been told by RK it will be up very soon! As soon as I get word that it's there I'll make sure to let everyone know. Such a beauty that quilt is!!
31 comments:
- Tina @ Squirrel Acorns said...
Oh goodness! That's awesome! I love it! And that aqua color is gorgeous. I need to start scouting garage sales for furniture with potential. I've been making hexagons recently too and just love them. Haven't made anything with them yet though. I wouldn't think you'd need interfacing for top-stitching onto napkins, but I'm not an expert.
- June 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
That is the cutest stool ever. I have a round one that desperately needs to be redone. Tufted Tweets: absolutely! Hexies: uh, probably not. But yours are fabulous!
- June 8, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- Tong said...
I love that stool, it looks so great with your new fabrics and the hexies! And I'm so sorry for your loss of Zoe, she looked like such a pretty and sweet kitty.
- June 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- Anita said...
Wow, what a great idea!
- June 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM
- DianeY said...
Really, really cute! All the colors work so well together!
- June 8, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Ashley said...
that is fabulous! such a perfect top for that footstool!
- June 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Megan said...
That is so freakin cool Laurie! I need to tell my husband to be on the lookout for an old footstool for me to refurbish now!
- June 8, 2010 at 12:16 PM
- Keren Gillan said...
i really enjoyed reading your post it was so true beautiful and with pain ,i can realte to your story since i lost my cat kabuki this december she has been with me for 9 good years and im thinking of her every day ,it is so sweet that you named the stool an her name :)it is even more special in my eyes now ,it looks grate,love your work please keep on ....
- June 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Sarah Craig said...
Very cute! I'm kind of getting the itch to try hexies - it would be good to have something that doesn't require the sewing machine while we are traveling - but have resisted so far, since it appears to be highly addictive! This may inspire me, though...... Thanks for sharing!
- June 8, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- LollyChops said...
Hey stranger! Tina sent me the link to your little footstool project! I LOVE it!
So sorry for your loss of Zoe... how fitting to name that little stool after your precious.
- June 8, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- Elaine/Muddling Through said...
What a great "Cinderella" story! Your footstool is a winner.
- June 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM
- Lula Dahl said...
Oh no. I'm so sorry to hear about your kitty. :( That is such a hard loss. I've had to put two precious kitties down one that I had for seventeen years! I'm so very sorry. :(
Your foot stool looks lovely. I bet your precious girl is still sleeping on it even if you can't see her. :)
- June 8, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- Unknown said...
Zoe sure looks like a sweet cat...I have a cat who looks a lot like her....his name is Frosty! I love the footstool re-do!
- June 8, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- Laurie Wisbrun | Scarlet Fig said...
Thank you all for the sweet words about my Zoe kitty. Lula - I love the idea that she's snuggled up on her stool.
- June 8, 2010 at 9:26 PM
- Amanda Elizabeth said...
Awe :( I'm sorry to hear about Zoe, a super cute footstool in her honor is perfect!
As far as top stitching them for napkins, you don't need interfacing at all!!! I like to use invisible thread in the needle and whatever color your main fabric is on the napkin for the bobbin. Then I zig-zag; grabbing the edge of the hex and the edge of the main fabric! As long as your machine will stop with the needle down, it's super easy & very fast! I did this technique on this bag after realizing that it would have taken me FOREVER to hand applique them on ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchtoastcake/3463947442/in/photostream/ You can see it looks invisible!
Was this TMI in one comment?! lol!
- June 9, 2010 at 12:33 AM
- Megan V said...
Oh my gosh your prints look GREAT in the hexies on that foot stool!!! I am in love with your color choice. I just painted my sewing room that same color!!!!!! So sorry about your baby girl. It is SOOO hard to lose a cat. It is definitely a good thing to name the beautiful stool after Zoe... :) awww.
- June 9, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- underthreefeet said...
I have a foot stool that is exactly the same. Now I know what i am going to do with it
- June 9, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Unknown said...
Love the blue! and the hexies!!!!
- June 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- Cynthia Strickland said...
Oh my, it turned out so adorable! And I am impresssed with all those hexies, quite ambitious! I too have a little footstool in my sewing studio that certainly could use a little sprucing up. You have inspired me. Love the paint color you chose, it sets off your fabrics perfectly! Wonderful job!!
- June 9, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Caroline ~ TrilliumDesign said...
The stool looks fabulous - what a great makeover. I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my own tufted tweets any day now. I totally hear you on the hand sewing - i'm doing that now on 1/2" hexies, not so fun. I have machine stitched them onto napkins before I just ironed them first before taking out the papers/threads and that way they stayed in place when topstitched them on my machine - not interfacing. Here's a pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/trilliumdesign/4617387185/
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- June 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Coco Dowley said...
What a beautiful lady Zoe was! She would be very proud of this footstool in her honor. Your fabrics look gorgeous--nice job!!!
- June 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- rosie/the fabric shopper said...
So sorry about Zoe. We have 2 that are 12 and 1 that is 13. One of the 12 year old kitties is failing and I know the decision will have to be made soon. He also would have loved to lay on your spiffy new cover. I adore this collection!
- June 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM
- Poppyprint said...
The stool treatment is darling!!! Just love it. Sorry about Zoe....
- June 10, 2010 at 12:23 AM
- Colette said...
love LOVe love your hexie stool and the color is FABULOUS!
- June 10, 2010 at 6:48 AM
- Dorrie said...
The Zoe Stool is perfect. Sweet kitty, kitty. Still my favorite fabric, it's so pretty, pretty, pretty!
- June 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Jodi said...
Oh, man, I'm tearing up just thinking about your Zoe! I have an Anissa cat and a Lacey cat who are 14-yr-old sisters! Not going to be pretty - they're getting old! Love your Zoe stool! You have inspired me to do over one I inherited from my mom - her sewing stool! Thanks!
- June 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Becky said...
I love it! The Zoe Stool is a fitting tribute to your wonderful furry friend!
- June 10, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- Amanda ~ A Crafty Fox said...
that stool is fantastic!
i need to try some hexagons!
- June 11, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- I♥thesecrazykids said...
I found the pic of your footstool on flickr and just had to become a new follower. I love it!
- June 13, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Dacia said...
this is SO pretty! purrfect name! ;)
- July 1, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- Kristen said...
Super cute transformation! I love the aqua paint. Have you tried by machine? I am working on one by machine. I blogged the method if you care to peek.
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02 February, 2011
Best concert ever!I hav loved U2 ever since I can remember and was extremely excited to say the least when I got tickets for this concert way back when!! We only had general standing area tickets but arrived soooo early that we were on the fence of the walkway separating us from the golden circle. I thought at the time that I had died and gone to heaven when the band came walking down this path just in front of us, if my arms had been a few inches longer I would have been able to touch them! I spent the entire concert in a state of euphoria and rapture alternating between joy and tears of joy. What a rollercoaster ride of a show and I am soooo looking forward to seeing them again, this time in Cape Town and with my hubbie on his birthday!!
12 January, 2011
Jozi '98 SA stylemine is a bit of a long story but bear with me! as pretty much a lifelong U2 fan i peed myself a little in '91/'92 when Alex Jay came on 5fm and said U2 would be touring South Africa!! I was ready to sell my car for tickets if it was required and my best mate next to me felt the same way! at the end of his show however he burst out laughing saying it was an April fool's joke! fast forward to '97. i get a phone call at work (on a Saturday) from the same mate telling me U2 tickets were going on sale that Monday. my intial reaction was ja whatever dude! Come Monday morning i arrived at work and did my thing when i suddenly remembered his phone call. i excused myself and walked down to the Computicket in The Tramshed in Pretoria. here i found 3 very sleepy dudes at the ticket office. asking them what was up they mentioned U2 tickets. at this point i really did pee in my pants a little. so picture me running around Pretoria CBD early on a Monday mornign trying to find an ATM with enough cash to buy tickets. by the time i got back to Computicket i must have been 9th or 10th in the queue. at this point a dude selling train rides tot he stadium rocks up and informs us that at the other Computicket outlets across town hundreds of people had been waiting overnight for tickets! here's me arriving at work and taking a leisurely stroll to buy my GOLDEN CIRCLE tickets! the only snag was my daily limit on drawing money from ATM's...on the day JHB stadium was humming!!! by the time the boys started there thing we were all ready and boy what a show!!! seeing the best band (doing my Clarkson voice) "In the WORLD" in my then home town!!! AWESOME. i will never forget Bono saying that it was Adam's birthday and they asked him where he would like to go, he answered "the most beautiful place in the world", so we brought him to South Africa!! this time round i will be in Cape Town for the show. i dont think you guys realise what's waiting for you!! we are ready and this will be the highlight of your tour! and that's a fact! see you in a little more than a month!!! rest well, you're gonna need it!
19 October, 2010
UnsurpassedI love concerts, almost as much as I love U2. I've seen most of the bands that have visited SA. I was totally unprepred for the surreal, unreal and altogether emotional experience of seeing U2 live on the 21st March 1998. 4 years into our true democratic and liberated country, watching the band play "One", seeing the graphics of our freedom unfolding on the screen and feeling the power in the song had me in tears. I left the stadium speechless, moved and happy to be alive. I CAN'T WAIT FOR 2011. Welcome back U2!
18 October, 2010
JoziSo we went to get refreshments. And slowly, the Mission Impossible theme started to gain momentum. I turned to my mate and said, 'here we go'. We sprinted down the Johannesburg Stadium steps to our spot in the crowd and that was it. 13 years ago, U2 rocked us from start to end. Now, I can't wait for the 360 Tour to land in Soweto. All I have to do is figure out which tickets I want, and grab them tomorrow when the pre-sale opens. Bono, Edge, Adam, Larry, we're waiting on you, JOZI STYLE!
07 June, 2010
From Slaapstad with LoveI will never forget U2 comming to play im "my" hometown. I bought my goldencircle ticket on the first day they went on sale as U do, and yes guys there is staging in SA you didn't have to fly it all over the world. Needless to say the show was out of this world! I was ready for the party and party we did. I will never forget looking up at the stage and straight ahead Adam Clayton was standing holding his guitar wearing one of his freakish outfits and.... it suddenly dawned on me that I was wearing almost the identical outfit just reversed colours (and Im not sure thats a compliment either way!) When Bono sang One i will NEVER forget groups of people around me holding each other in tears....just crying. Unbelivable! the power of One. And then the band casually steps out of a lemon. brilliant! U2 Forever! Kief show dudes. Come again and ill be there.Peace!


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Plaza de Roma s/n.
06800 Mérida, Badajoz (Extremadura)
- Autonomous region: Extremadura
- Province/Island: Badajoz
World Heritage, a certification granted by UNESCO.
The link between Emérita Augusta with Tarragona.
It was the first construction that was made in the Roman town of Emérita Augusta to strategically protect the colony from possible attacks.
It is built with bolstered, granite ashlars and has sixty half moon arches. With traces from the Augustus period and the larger part of the primitive stonework, being restored over different periods. It is one of Spain's largest Roman bridges measuring 792 metres long. The water pillars are rounded and there are some spillflows between the arches for when the river runs high.
- Construction: Bridge
- Artistic period: Classical-Roman
- Historic period: Romanisation (A.D.)
- Setting: Calatrava Bridge.


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Angus's Beef: The Trouble With 'Two and a Half Men'
"You cannot be a true God-fearing person and be on a television show like that," he said. "I know I can't. I'm not OK with what I'm learning, what the Bible says, and being on that television show. I'm on 'Two and a Half Men' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth."
For many, those words from Angus Jones regarding his hit CBS sitcom are easy enough to follow, even if they didn't watch the show themselves. For the last decade the show has managed to keep a sizable audience, but events in recent years, such as former star Charlie Sheen's epic midlife crisis, have cut into the program's viewership. Still, it can't help but be a cash cow for the stars involved; Sheen and Jones, along with Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher, who slipped into the Sheen role once Charlie cut out. Even though the former child star has already attempted to walk back his comments, the controversy that arose, along with the subtext, merits further discussion and analysis.
The case against the show: it is vulgar, broad, and goes for cheap and easy humor. The jokes are lame and tawdry; the characters are so stock they should be behind the Wal-Mart layaway counter. No one of any intellectual heft admits to watching the show–not even to be "ironic". In that context, it is surprising that Angus Jones' evangelism-infused attack on this show was a source of such controversy–unless one sees it as an attack on faith itself.
Writing at ESPN's offshoot site Grantland, Amos Barshad makes the secularist hipster counter-argument to Jones' angst: "From one point of view, we have just another child star warped by early success. Instead of pills and booze, though, young Angus has gone deep into religion. Meanwhile, we rational people know that, yes, of course 'Two and a Half Men' is [execrable], but it's not evil. Basically, Angus T. Jones lost it; for neatness's sake, he did so in a manner that's the polar opposite of the indulgences of his ex-co-star Charlie Sheen."
Comparing a religious awakening to Sheen's extended version of the Lost Weekend is about what would be expected from the folks at ESPN. The same holds for Gawker, where a writer snarked, "it wasn't until a recent bout of soul-searching that the child star had a full-blown Kirk Cameron-esque awakening complete with the renouncement of his Godless past as a Hollywood heathen." Even the former child star's own mother says that he was "brainwashed" by his Church. To accept her words at face value, of course, it would require one to believe that "Two and a Half Men" is wholesome entertainment, or at least wholesome enough for her to continue profiting from her son's work.
There is a case to be made in that direction. "Two and a Half Men" plays footsie with taboos, similarly to how "Three's Company" did in the 1970s, and Bob Cummings's "Love That Bob" did in the 1950s. Womanizing, rakish rogues never go out of style. Women love the bad boys, and men want to be them. This holds especially true for the target audience for shows like this one–"average Americans," living lives of quiet desperation. If one is trapped in a cubicle for nine hours a day, it is easy enough to see how escapist entertainment like this would serve as a diversion. Those who watch "Two and a Half Men" know–from the promos, the opening scene, and whatever else–that the sordidness of the show is part of the package, and it is a sordidness that is part of the culture now.
Even if one subscribes to that viewpoint, does it mean that Jones's views have no weight? Even if, as some critics have said, he's just an ugly former child star trying to be the next Kirk Cameron, it doesn't mean that what he says isn't true. The American entertainment industry has a long history of having children grow up on camera. The results have been mixed.
We can consider a show like "Honey Boo Boo", in which an overweight cracker child and her buffoonish kinfolk are made sport of on a weekly basis, a kind of exploitation. Undoubtedly, her parents appreciate the money that is coming in. But it is not hard to imagine the young starlet herself having an epiphany about the process to which she was subjected, once it is finally concluded.
It is very easy to find other examples about the corrosive effects of childhood fame. Golden Age child stars, like Jay "Dennis the Menace" North, have made a second career out of spotlighting what they perceive to be the exploitation in the industry. Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and Dana Plato of "Diff'rent Strokes" offer more cautionary tales. Lapsed Disney nymphets Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan's tabloid exploits likewise suggest that the price of childhood and adolescent fame ultimately is paid on the installment plan. It is hard to develop an independent identity in the entertainment industry, especially when parents like those of Angus Jones, who had run-ins with the law before their son went big time, become aware that their child is their cash cow.
Angus emerged from all of that, though hyper-religious in a way that most find unseemly. Perhaps it is spiritual awakening, or an attempt to cash in, or simply a need to fulfill an innate craving for structure and ultimate authority, perhaps because he spent as much time with a coked-up Charlie Sheen as he did with his parents. Whatever the case, when he says the show is filth, one can either call him a liar, or suspect that he might know more about the subject than anyone on the outside. The production meetings, the internal memos, the backstage antics–these are things to which outsiders are not and cannot be privy.
The show trundles on, of course, unkillable, as hardy as a cockroach. It survived its biggest star's departure because the formula is the draw, and the players are more interchangeable than they might have seemed at the start when Charlie Sheen was the straw that stirred the drink. The show likely will survive the exit of Angus Jones also, though he hasn't left yet. Even if the show does disappear from air, don't worry. Hulu is your hookup. And besides, a reasonable facsimile of it will soon take its place. It always does.
A.G. Gancarski writes from Jacksonville, Florida.


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The technology and practice management consulting firm Junxure announced Tuesday that it has released Junxure Version 9.5, which "enhances user experience, promotes workflow management and extends business development support," according to the Raleigh, N.C.-based company.
Highlights include enhancements to Junxure with Schwab OpenView Gateway. Workflow and user experience benefits now flow from a "deeper" Schwab Advisor Center integration, which includes:
- The collection of Schwab Advisor Center Alerts that automatically generate appropriate Junxure-managed workflows. These workflows are customizable, and firms may select from Junxure's new suite of prebuilt, Schwab Advisor Center-focused workflows or create their own.
- An at-a-glance update of comprehensive account balance and buying power detail information, without having to separately access Schwab Advisor Center.
- Statements, tax-related and trade confirmation documents stored in Schwab Advisor Center are now available for download from Junxure via Schwab OpenView Gateway.
- A Schwab Account Number Import that imports Schwab Advisor Center account numbers, matches accounts by SSN and by client and excludes accounts.
A new Envestnet integration was also announced. It involves an easy-to-use asset import tool that brings assets and accounts from the Envestnet portal into Junxure to reduce the need to access multiple platforms.
Lastly, more business development features were also announced. New Junxure Opportunity features include customizable fields to easily characterize and report on various channels.
"With more than 10,000 users across almost 1,500 firms, it is mission critical that we are constantly evolving our software to meet our customers' dynamic needs," said Junxure co-founder and president Greg Friedman. "These enhancements represent our steadfast focus on delivering the most robust CRM solution that includes the latest features advisors depend on most."
Junxure is a founding member of Your Silver Bullet, a consortium of software providers "committed to ensuring the compatibility of their applications." It claims to "offer more integration with custodians and practice management applications than any other CRM for advisors."


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Investigative journalists were targeted with retaliatory arrests and debilitating lawsuits, marking a decline in press freedom conditions. Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, a reporter for the independent weekly Nuri Zindagi, was imprisoned for nearly a year on defamation charges related to stories on government corruption in the northern Sogd region. BBC correspondent Urinboy Usmonov spent a month in jail after security agents arrested him on extremism charges stemming from his reports on the banned Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The independent newspaper Asia Plus and reporter Ramziya Mirzobekova faced a civil lawsuit from a senior Interior Ministry official who accused them of spreading false information in a story about a man who died in government custody, press reports said. And a Dushanbe-based independent newspaper, Paykon, was forced to close after a state agency won a sizable judgment in a defamation case related to a letter alleging corruption. In September, President Emomali Rahmon ended the requirement that senior officials convene quarterly press conferences, diminishing already-limited access to leaders.
Defamation through mass media is a criminal offense carrying a potential prison penalty of two years. Insult, another criminal offense, also carries significant penalties.
Authorities imprisoned Ismoilov in November 2010 on politicized charges that included defamation and insult. The charges stemmed from an August 2010 article alleging government corruption, abuse of power, and mismanagement of funds. Nearly a year later, a Sogd regional court convicted Ismoilov and fined him 35,000 somoni (US$7,300). In December, an appeals court upheld the conviction but lifted the fine.
Timeline in the Ismoilov case:
August 19, 2010: Ismoilov's article, "Asht is being destroyed," was published by Nuri Zindagi.
November 19, 2010: Regional prosecutors initiated a criminal case against Ismoilov.
November 23, 2010: Ismoilov was arrested in northern Sogd region.
October 14, 2011: Ismoilov was convicted, fined, barred from working.
Tajikistan's security service, known as the KNB, arrested Usmonov on charges of belonging to the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Unable to prove their charges, authorities amended them twice before releasing him on bail in July. On October 14, a Sogd regional court convicted Usmonov and sentenced him to three years in jail. The court, facing international outcry, immediately granted Usmonov amnesty and set him free the same day.
Timeline in the Usmonov case:
June 13, 2011: KNB agents arrested Usmonov and alleged that he belonged to Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
June 20: Usmonov was charged with making "public calls to overthrow Tajikistan's constitutional regime," his lawyer told regional reporters.
June 29: Authorities dropped the initial charges against Usmonov, according to press reports.
July 13: Prosecutors finished their inquiry against Usmonov, amending the charges again.
July 14: Usmonov was released on bail.
An interior ministry general sought damages equivalent to US$210,000 against reporter Mirzobekova concerning a December 2010 article alleging that a 30-year-old detainee had died from abuse in police custody. Facing an outcry, the plaintiff dropped the case in October 2011. But research by the National Association of Independent Media of Tajikistan shows government officials regularly target critical journalists with complaints seeking disproportionate damages.
Notable government lawsuits, according to the association:
5.5 million somoni (US$1.1 million) sought by three Dushanbe judges from the independent newspapers Farazh, Ozodagon, and Asia Plus. The judges objected to coverage about their performance, but they eventually dropped the case.
1 million somoni (US$210,500) sought by the Agency on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification from the independent newspaper Millat in January 2010. The paper had accused the agency of corruption.
600,000 somoni (US$126,000) sought by Judge Isrofil Bobochonov from the independent newspaper Krim-Info in October 2009. The lawsuit stemmed from a published letter in which a lawyer criticized the judge's handling of a case.
350,000 somoni (US$73,500) sought by a Dushanbe police officer from independent journalists Ramziya Mirzobekova (Asia Plus) and Saida Kurbanova (Farazh) in January 2008. The lawsuit stemmed from articles that said Dushanbe police had improperly detained a local reporter.
300,000 somoni (US$63,000) sought by the standardization agency from Paykon.
Marshals in Dushanbe raided Paykon and seized newsroom equipment in April, the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported. The seizure represented fulfillment of a 2009 court verdict that ordered Paykon to pay 300,000 somoni to the Agency on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification, also known as Tajikstandart. A month after the raid, the newspaper was forced to close.
Timeline in the Paykon case:
July 2009: Paykon published a letter from a local businessman who accused the agency of corruption.
October 2009: A district court in Dushanbe ordered Paykon to pay 300,000 somoni in damages to Tajikstandart.
January 2010: An appeals court upheld the verdict against Paykon.
April 2011: Marshals raided Paykon offices, confiscated equipment.


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i doing one 605 upper out of one of those slickside colts i got of JSE a few years ago. going to use the ess $89 barrel i got from SMG--
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NBA (National Burger Adventure): Los Angeles, Part II
During this NBA season, Nuggets writer Benjamin Hochman will sample the best burgers in each city, documenting his excellent adventure (bogus journey?) of savoring bliss on a bun.
Here's L.A., Part I
LOS ANGELES — My apologies to any Sepulveda Boulevard drivers who, upon my manic U-turn toward the In-N-Out Burger, nearly crashed into my rented white Toyota Corolla. Once I spotted the In-N-Out, I was all in.
Yes, most of the burger joints during my National Burger Adventure won't be fast food, but In-N-Out ain't Hardees; on the contrary, we're dealing with an L.A. staple here, like Staples Center or stapled faces of aging actresses. Heck, this place was even immortalized in an immortal movie, "The Big Lebowski:"
Walter: "He lives in North Hollywood on Radford, near the In-N-Out Burger…"
The Dude: "The In-N-Out Burger is on Camrose."
Walter: "NEAR the In-N-Out Burger…"
Donny (interrupting): "Those are good burgers, Walter."
Walter: "Shut the (bleep) up, Donny!"
In a city lathered in glitz (and smog — glitz and smog), there is something refreshingly unpretentious about dining at In-N-Out. No valet or Versace here. No celebrity sightings, either, though I did see a fellow who looked strikingly similar to Verne Lundquist.
I ordered "The Double-Double" burger which is like a single, except there are two. According to the In-N-Out website, The Double-Double features two 100 percent pure beef patties, hand-leafed lettuce (precise produce terminology), two slices of American cheese, onions and Thousand Island dressing, placed gently between two freshly baked buns by the blessed hands of the saints on Sepulveda.
But while talking with my SoCal-bred girlfriend, "Blondie," she informed me that there's a whole subculture to In-N-Out. See, the menu only features three burgers – simply, the Hamburger, the Cheeseburger and The Double-Double. But — those in the know, the cool kids, have their own lingo for ordering a burger off the menu:
* "The 4-X-4," which is basically a quadruple cheeseburger.
* "Protein-Style," the delicious burger wrapped in a lettuce leaf.
* "Animal-style," in which the burger is cooked in mustard, then lathered with extra spread and pickles.
But afraid they might expose me as a fraud, I simply ordered from the regular menu.
Soon, a man in a funny hat called my number from behind the counter, and as I picked up my lunch, I heard a woman on a cell phone saying with pride, "The first place I come to when I get to town is In-N-Out."
I took my first bite of the burger and inside my mouth, it was like a tsunami of calories. The thin patties, complemented by the condiments, swirled within the Thousand Island dressing. I tried to savor each bite, but I barely took a breath before chomping the burger again and again, as if they were gonna take the thing back. It wasn't a pretty site – I soon was out of napkins, but the Double-Double wasn't close to being out of dripping dressing.
When it was over, there was a feeling of astronomical gastronomical joy … and, alas, gas.
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I hadn't spoken with Mark DuBois of Distinctive Industries in ages. Out of the blue, I decided to call him. Through the years, Mark and I have brainstormed a lot of ideas for Fords old and new. Chatting with Mark has always been an opportunity to dream spin and conceive new ideas. One idea born of our good conversation is the new Mustang trunk carpet kit from Distinctive Industries, available from Texas Mustang Parts. This is one of those "Why didn't someone think of this before?" ideas that seems so natural for a vintage-Ford trunk area.
Mark drove up to my Southern California high-desert home with three Distinctive Industries trunk carpet kits for '65-'68 Mustangs in black, red, and blue. Every factory color is available, plus a few more we haven't even thought of. We gave each of them a look, then installed the black one in a '67 Mustang hardtop.


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I-540 construction shuts down traffic to one lane
Lane closures will shut down traffic for a year and a half
Construction along I-540 is scheduled to begin Monday morning.
Drivers can expect to see lane closures between Van Buren and Fort Smith beginning after the morning commute.
The Arkansas Highway Department says drivers should consider alternative routes.
"Right now, we have 50- to 55-thousand people a day traveling this segment of highway," says Joe Shipman of the Arkansas Highway Department. "To reduce them to half the lanes they've had will create congestion. There are a number of alternative routes in the area."
Drivers heading south from Van Buren can take the Garrison Avenue or Midland Boulevard bridges to avoid taking the interstate. If drivers are heading north toward Fort Smith, they can take Highway 59 at Barling or Highway 71 through downtown Fort Smith.
Even though the construction project will put a halt to drivers' commutes, Shipman says it'll boost the local economy.
"The highway rehabilitation program will generate business within the state," says Shipman. "This project will support not only the workers, but the suppliers and others through the chain of supply. It's a significant project as far as employment is concerned."
The entire construction project is estimated to cost more than $78 million and take a year and a half to finish.


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When the timetable was announced for the completion of the Circuit of the Americas racetrack, many Formula One fans were skeptical.
But with the U.S. Grand Prix just days away, it's clear that the designers and construction workers in Austin proved the skeptics wrong.
The track is not only ready to host the race, but it looks gorgeous.
Check out this video released by COTA. It shows some on-track action as well as some shots of the surrounding grounds.
The U.S. Grand Prix will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m. EST.