text:
One-Eyed Cat: Norse Paganism & Northern European Witchcraft
This is the magic of Freyja and I am her völva: a seer, priestess and oracle.
Sharing wisdom taught directly by the Norse Gods over twenty years of practice, I teach safer seiðr / seidr / seidhr (Norse trance work and fate-magic), reverent animism, and deeper workings with the Gods and land spirits through respect for all life and peoples.
Heathen Gods and Sacrifice (and Transformation)
Norse Gods bear famous wounds: an eye traded for wisdom, an ear given to hear the approach of danger, a hand to bind and slow the dire wolf of ultimate destruction. Each sacrifice is an emblem of their power: mighty Odin, who sees all in his high seat, is half-blinded; Heimdall the guardian of Asgard, the Gods' realm, left half-deaf; Tyr the God of justice unable, forevermore, to swear by his severed right hand in court.
While humans certainly benefit, the scars that Heathen Gods and Goddesses bear are not necessarily made for humans, but for the Gods to become more themselves. They excel or prove themselves worthy of their Godhood in the act of sacrifice, inexorably transforming in the act of giving of themselves. They are what they are because they've toiled and suffered and earned it, becoming more holy in the process.
Like Nobel-prize winning scientists, artists par excellence and Olympic athletes, they understand hard work, and they fully know the worth, the ecstasy and the awe-inspiring beauty of greatness achieved through it. They are their own salvation and that of their community. That salvation isn't free. The Gods give their all to gain, be and work wonders.
It's an important distinction from the idea of grace. And it carries a wonderful, empowering dignity to it.
The Norse ethos functions on a strong concept of reciprocity: in a fair and just world, good should never be taken for granted, but repaid, allowing the peace, health and bounty of a community to keep flowing.
It runs on deeds. Deeds require work and the time to develop the accompanying reputation.
In a world of transient sound-bites devouring our mental space and rampant over-consumption raging through the environment, it's important to remember the longevity of certain concepts-- like the lasting worth of our actions and reciprocity. For nothing in the universe is free. Whether taken, earned, found or given, someone has always worked for what we have. Everything comes from somewhere or was made by someone— whether that's in the slow, inexorable tectonic grind and molten heart of the earth's core yielding mineral deposits, or the labor of our ancestors who founded the civilizations we live in, to the factory workers and farmers who provide our goods and food. We take from the earth in our modern societies, but rarely do we give back to it. We take, and in taking and taking and taking again, instead of giving, we weaken ourselves and leave a broken legacy for our civilizations' inheritors.
Norse Gods do not grant grace, nor ask your personal gratitude for their sufferings, but in their preserved tales provide models of working with limited resources and overcoming the bad cards you've been dealt through grit, wit, and spirit. Sometimes that requires sacrifice.
Sacrifice is often seen, in modern times, as hardship endured for the greater good, while ancient sacrifices are stereotyped as some kind of Gods-mollifying bribe or payment. It's rarely thought of as an exchange between your present self and your potential for greatness. Odin's sacrifice "of himself, to himself" during a nine-night ordeal while hanging on the world tree brought forth insight in the form of runes. Runes are not only a magical system in which incantations were inscribed, but the Norse system of writing! (Using all the letters of the alphabet for charms, rather than a few of special significance, or certain magical words and names or pictographic symbols, seems to be fairly unique to Heathenry). As Odin is both a God of magic and communication, this tale shows his worthiness, through deeds to hold that honor-- and a connection to the value of preserving the stories and records of deeds through writing.
I'm glad I didn't have to invent writing. I'm grateful to the ancient humans who gave of their time to create a form of communication which never before existed. It can't have been easy to either formulate the first systems that weren't purely mathematical or to teach them. ("Look, this picture stands for this!" "Say what? That looks like— wait, is that squiggle an ibis?" "Yes! You know, 'cause ibis sounds like [insert fancy word concept]!" "Girl, have you been huffing the temple incense again?! How do you get [fancywordconcept] from IBIS?")
I stand in awe of those first writers and teachers, and I honor their toil by the joys of reading and writing. I'm also glad that generations after them sacrificed their time to preserve that wisdom and pass it on. Otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this.
Images by the talented Mary Evans and John Bauer. I highly suggest you search for more illustrations by both of them. Also, I like the idea that Odin was not always the old man, and much younger when he won the runes. Gods change and have lives, too! And I love Bauer's linework!
For an in-depth essay on the God Freyr's sacrifice for love, see Love & (male) vulnerability in Norse myth: Freyr and the wooing of Gerda in Skirnismal.
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Wonderful piece. Nice work!
This in particular, "Norse Gods do not grant grace, nor ask your personal gratitude for their sufferings, but in their preserved tales provide models of working with limited resources and overcoming the bad cards you've been dealt through grit, wit, and spirit. Sometimes that requires sacrifice." Made me realize how strong I am as a Heathen woman and where my personal ideals lay. What my ancestors had to go through to survive and still uphold their Heathen traditions, even through their sacrifices. How amazing that those traits and ideals they had and shared, truly passes down through the ages imprinting in our hearts and souls what is clearly true to ourselves, our paths and our beliefs. Hail to the WRITER!!· Shirl Sazynski and Sable Aradia likes this comment.
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Terrific essay. It is very timely, at least in my case.
Also, thanks for the image credits. It can be hard to find good images of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses -- though, for my money, Willy Pogany is the best.
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Thank you both, Jessica and Rebecca. Pogany is amazing. I am also fond of Ivan Bilibin and there are hordes of unknown Slavic artists. Something was in the waters around that period for amazing illustration (perhaps the reaction to abstract "fine" art, which I have always found a silly distinction, anyway. The earliest cave paintings and carvings tell stories.)
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Great work. I am an Asatru Gothi and work with prison ministry / education. There are a great number of fine heathen men and women incarcerated in this country (and many not so sincere as well). I would like to ask your permission to share this article / blog with a number of incarcerated inmates in several states (with full credits of course). I know that the women of Norns Wyrd Kindred in Oregon would find it of particular interest.... Hoping you grant this permission. Thank you.
Friday, 20 September 2013
Thank you, Alfar. I am happy that my writings can make a difference in other peoples' lives, including those who are trying to make amends for their past and turn to an honorable path for their lives. Please feel free to share this and anything else from this blog.
Did you know that the Troth is also providing prison in-reach materials and other resources for incarcerated people? There's a great need, I've heard-- and so far little available to people who do not wish to be associated with some of the unsavory, racist groups more widely distributing literature.
Here are some links:
Frith to you and those your are helping!
Friday, 20 September 2013
Thank you.... I know the ladies will enjoy this... the fellas as well... but the ladies especially. They love when another female has such insight.
Please login first in order for you to submit comments


text:
information in a data warehouse
DATA WAREHOUSING (introduction)
A data warehouse is a repository of an organization's electronically stored data. Data warehouses are designed to facilitate reporting and analysis.
A data warehouse is a powerful database model that significantly enhances the user's ability to quickly analyze large, multidimensional data sets.
It cleanses and organizes data to allow users to make business decisions based on facts.
Hence, the data in the data warehouse must have strong analytical characteristics creating data to be analytical requires that it be –subject- oriented, integrated, time – referenced and non – volatile.
This means a data warehouse has a defined scope and it only stores data under that scope. So for example, if the sales team of your company is creating a data warehouse – the data warehouse by definition is required to contain data related to sales.
Data Warehouses group data by subject rather by activity. In contrast, transactional systems are organized around activities – payroll processing, shipping products, loan processing, and the like.
Data organized around activities cannot answer questions such as, "how many salaried employees have a tax deductions of 'X' amount across all branches of the company?'' this request would require have searching and aggregation of employee and account records of all the branches.
Imagine the query response time for a company having branches all over the country with employee strength of 20,000!
In a data warehouse environment, information's used for analysis is organized around subjects- employees, accounts sales, products, and so on. This subject specific design helps in reducing the query response time by searching through very few records to get an answer to the user's question.
Integrated data refers to de – duplicating information and merging it from many sources into one consistent location.
When short listing your top 20 customers, you must know that ''HAL'' and ''Hindustan aeronautics limited'' are one and the same. There must be just one customer number for any form of HAL or Hindustan aeronautics limited, in your database.
This means that the data stored in a data warehouse make sense. Fact and figures are related to each other and they are integrable and project a single point of truth.
Much of the transformation and loading work that foes into the data warehouse is centered on integrating data and standardizing it,
The most important and most scrutinized characteristic of the analytical data is its prior state of bing. In other words, time-referenced data essentially refers to its time – valued characteristic. For example, the user may ask ''what were the total sales of product 'A' for the past three years on New Year's Day across region 'Y'?'' to answer this question, you need to know the sales figures of the product on new year's day in all the branches for that particular region.
This means that data is not constant, as new and new data gets loaded in the warehouse, data warehouse also grows in size
Time – referenced data when analyzed can also help in spotting the hidden treads between different associative data elements, which may not be obvious to the naked eye. This exploration activity is termed ''data mining''.
Since the information in a data warehouse is heavily queried against time, it is extremely important to preserve it pertaining to each and every business event of the company. The non – volatility of data, characteristic of data warehouse, enables users to dig deep into history and arrive at specific business decisions based on facts.
This means that data once stored in the data warehouse are not removed or deleted from it and always stay there no matter what.
If there is a single key to survival in the 1990s and beyond, it is being able to analyze, plan, and react to changing business conditions in a much more repaid fashion. In order to do this, to managers, analysts, and knowledge workers in our enterprises, need more and better information.
Information technology (IT) has made possible the revolution in the way organizations operate throughout the world today. But the sad truth is, in many organizations, despite the availability of powerful computers on each desk and communication that span the globe, large numbers of executives and decision – makers cannot get their hands on exiting critical information in the organization.
Every day, organizations large and small, create billions of bytes of data about all aspects of their business; millions of individual facts about their customers, products, operations and people. But for the most part, this is locked up in a maze of computer systems and is exceedingly difficult to get at. This phenomenon has been described as "data in jail".
Industry experts have estimated that only a small fraction of the data that is captured, processed and stored in the enterprise, is actually available to executives and decision makers. While technologies for the manipulation and presentations of data have literally exploded, it is only recently that those involved in developing IT strategies for large enterprise have concluded that large segments of the enterprise are "data poor".
Posted By-: Vissicomp Technology Pvt. Ltd.
Website -: http://www.vissicomp.com

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Sizes Available:
8" - Easy On Flanged
10" - Easy On Flanged
12" - Easy On Flanged
The DIN 11851 union is widely used throughout Europe and incorporates a round slotted nut and a flush fitting lipped seal, as standard. The union is manufactured to suit Imperial tube sizes from 1" to 4" and also to suit DIN 11850 metric tube from 10mm to 150mm. Two seals designs are offered for t
Shuangzhan machinery provides quality cam and groove hose fittings with safety drill. The complete system including type A/B/C/D/E/F/DC/DP, we also offer the camlock adapter with flange and tri clamp end. Customized is available, such as male to male camlock, square flange x male plug etc.
Hopper is a container for a bulk material such as grain, rock, or trash, typically one that tapers downward andis able to discharge its contents at the bottom.
ISO-KF Vacuum Flange ComponentsOur ISO-KF vacuum flange fitting and component system is a modular, building block method for creating 0.75 to 4 inch vacuum piping systems. Series 31 ISO-KF vacuum fittings provide several advantages. They use standardized dimensions allowing ISO KF elbows, tees, cros
Guide of Sanitary Valves Sanitary valves are widely used in our daily life, we can see them everywhere. There are many different types of sanitary valves used in different fields. Today, this article will give you a brief introduction of sanitary valves, what's more, we will inform you of different kinds of sanitary valves.
Stainless steel tri-clamp fittings are the most popular style of process line equipment used within the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Quickly create a leak-proof connection allowing easy assembly or disassembly for routine maintenance and inspection.
How to install a strainer whatever wye, straight and angle type?Shuangzhan machinery (new tek) provides sanitary stainless steel strainers and filters. Many customers don't know how to mount the strainer correctly according our after service record, so here do some introduction FYI.
With the rapid development of China's economic construction, there are more and more projects in the project with pressure control. In view of the need for equipment pressure relief, safety valves play a vital role in protecting equipment.
Grade 304/316 Stainless Steel Ring Joint Type BSM UnionsBritish Standard Milk (BSM) stainless steel RJT unions were designed specifically for tube installation in the dairy industry, but they are now commonly used in food and beverage processing and the pharmaceutical industries where crevice-free h
Shuangzhan machinery (new tek) provides quality stainless steel valves, which
Date:[2019-04-10] Click:503The tank bottom valve occupies a position in various industries. The tank bottom valve is used for the discharge of reaction vessels in the clean industries such as pharmaceutical, biological, fine chemical, food, etc. The valve has no dead angle, no residue, no leakag
Understand the role and type of regulating valve, which is also known as control valve. In the field of industrial automation process control, by accepting the control signal output from the control unit, the power flow is used to change the process parameters such as medium flow, pressure, temperat
The characteristics of hygienic stainless steel tank bottom valve
Extraction of CBD requires starting with a plant that is rich in the cannabinoid compound. This provides a promise of a good amount of CBD yield at the right quantity. After all, you dont want to put in all the work for a product that will not give you a sufficient yield. A good pick is a Cannabis p
Closed Loop ExtractorA "closed loop" extractor is an extraction method wherein the entire process occurs within a closed vessel. in this process, the hydrocarbon solvent used to extract never comes in contact with the outside atmosphere. The solvent is recycled or looped repeatedly through the syste
application This design is designed to ensure the mixing and leak detection of products when two different products flow through the same valve. It is widely used in food, brewing, beverage, dairy, toothpaste cosmetics, bio-pharmaceutical and other industries.Technical Parameters◆Specifications: 1.
Shuangzhan machinery (newtekindustry) designs and manufactures 4 types strainer mainly, all of them are variety of sizes with high quality, not only surface finish, but also welding and material.Inline strainerSide outlet or Angle strainerY typeS type Cartridge Pipeline FilterSanitary inline straine
Converted beer keg suitable for yeast propagation or special storage needs.
How is a specific level of finish defined and how can that level of finishing be achieved? For our industry, surface finishes are a standard set by regulatory agencies (3A, ASME BPE, etc.) and manufacturers who specify a certain level of finishing on processing equipment in order to ensure cleanabil
Bellows, or expansion joints, are much more flexible than flexible connectors. Bellows are designed to absorb pipe expansion. The corrugations are larger and therefore able to compress more. They are generally better able to handle lateral movement as well, so they can better tolerate pipe misalignm
About Us
Contact Us
Brewery System
Sanitary Valves
Stainless Steel Tanks
Tank Accessories
Triclamp Fittings
Welding Fittings


text:
Drywall Zone Inc believe's in the quality of our products and honors our manufacturers guarantees. Any product originally purchased from Drywallzone.com- tapetechtools.com may be returned within 14 days of the shipping landing date worldwide. Please follow the guidelines listed below to ensure a smooth return.
All returns are subject to a 25% restocking fee on Taping tools, and 20% on all other tools. If we cancel this does not apply, Fees to merchants have already been paid out like Paypal Visa Mastercard merchants and Fedex, USPS ect and open box discount to other customers and or restocking fee all come out of 20-25%.
Out of Order!:
view all
Submit e-mail address to receive free updates and promotions:


text:
Keith Theodore Olbermann ( /ˈoʊlbərmən/; born January 27, 1959) is an American political commentator and writer. He is the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV, an hour-long nightly commentary program, and the Chief News Officer of the Current TV network. A former sportscaster and news anchor, Olbermann hosted Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC for almost eight years before moving the show to Current TV. The new show will begin airing June 20, 2011.
Olbermann spent the first twenty years of his career in sports journalism. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and radio stations in the 1980s, winning the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. He later co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. After leaving ESPN amid controversy, Olbermann became a sports anchor and producer for Fox Sports Net from 1998 to 2001, during which time he hosted Fox's studio coverage of baseball.
After leaving Fox, Olbermann re-joined MSNBC after a hiatus, hosting Countdown with Keith Olbermann from 2003 until 2011. Olbermann established a niche in cable news commentary, gaining note for his pointed criticism of major politicians and public figures, directed particularly at the political right. He feuded with rival Fox News Channel commentator Bill O'Reilly and strongly criticized the George W. Bush administration and John McCain's unsuccessful 2008 Presidential candidacy. Although he has said on at least one occasion "I'm not a liberal; I'm an American", many describe Olbermann as a liberal.


text:
Blackmagic Design Unleashes Pocket-sized Full HD 1080p Camera with MFT Mount
Blackmagic Design Unleashes Pocket-sized Full HD 1080p Camera with MFT Mount
Blackmagic Design has announced a pocket-sized 1080p video camera which uses an 'active' Micro Four Thirds (MFT) mount, giving the user full aperture control of MFT lenses. The professional camera can record in 422 ProRes at 220 Mbps and BlackMagic Design says lossless CinemaDNG will be added in the future via a firmware update.
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera uses a Super 16-sized sensor (around 12.5 x 7.4mm), with 13 stops of dynamic range and records to an SD card. It offers magnified focus, focus peaking, can output HDMI for external monitoring and 3.5" audio input, however it can only shoot between 24 and 30fps. It will cost US$995 and be available in July.
Journalist Dan Chung has a preview of the new Pocket Cinema Camera on his site News Shooter:
Besides the Pocket Cinema Camera, Blackmagic Design also unveiled a new Production Camera 4K, which features 12 stops of dynamic range, a Super 35-sized sensor and a global shutter. The camera can store an SSD to record footage, and uses a touchscreen interface on the back monitor. The Production Camera 4K can capture in Apple ProRes 422 HQ or losslessly compressed CinemaDNG Raw, uses a Canon EF mount, and includes a Thunderbolt connector. It will be priced at US$3,995 and available in July.
Blackmagic Design's first Cinema Camera was announced last year, it could shoot up to 2.5k resolution for US$2,995, but was plagued with release issues like dirty sensor glass and problems with infinity focus.


text:
| 6°C Belfast
Naomi Campbell has said she doesn't like to be called a supermodel any more because "everyone and their mother is called a supermodel" these days.
The 43-year-old model - who has been working since she was 15 - rose to fame as one the elite squad of supermodels in the nineties - who included Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, and were said to not get out of bed for less than 10,000 dollars a day.
But Naomi said: "To be quite honest, today I don't know if I want to be called that name because everyone and their mother is called a supermodel and I'm like, 'OK, I'm just a working model.'
"I never believed in that hype. It's a name and yes I say it for promotion but it's not what I deeply think inside of myself. I feel that I'm just a model who loves what I do."
Naomi is now helping other girls get into modelling by working as a mentor on talent show The Face.
The model - famous for her fiery temper - said she has not problem with being labelled a b***h as she believes it is a term given to all powerful women.
"I think when women get called a b***h is when they're taking control, when they're strong, when they're being assertive," she said. "And I've always said it, men can do that and it's fine. So, I mean, you have to have that b***h aspect. You just do, because you'll be trampled on if you don't."


text:
|Country Of origin:
|United States of America
Tennessee native Jessica Andrews was born into a musical family, and found singing was her niche in a fourth-grade talent show. Her version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" won first prize and set her on a path that took her to local fairs and carnivals -- anywhere she could sing.
Word of mouth about Andrews' talents spread, and soon friends of Nashville producer Byron Gallimore insisted he listen to her. Intrigued by her range and tonal control, he and Andrews went into the studio and began choosing songs to record. Gallimore also invited DreamWorks Nashville label representatives to a showcase Andrews performed at, where she was offered a contract immediately. Her debut release for the label, Heart Shaped World, came out in 1999. Who I Am followed two years later. Who I Am followed two years later; the title track earned Andrews her first #1 country single. 2003 saw the release of Now, which introduced a slightly more down-to-earth, grown-up sound. ~ Heather Phares~ Rovi


text:
|Find the best surf spots
This is an interactive map! Use controls to pan and zoom this map.
Datum: WGS84 [ Help ]
Latitude: 26° 53.285' N
User rating (0)
Wannasurf.com is not responsible for the accuracy of the information contained in this guide. You use this guide at your own risk.
Choose your format: please login first
You are free to use Wannasurf.com KML/GPS data files ONLY for your personal use. See Terms of use for more information.
KML file: please login first
Your favourites and future surf spot lists
Public access, park at the pier.
DistanceIn the city
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special access4x4
Wave qualitySloppy
ExperienceExperienced surfers
DirectionRight and left
BottomSandy with rock
Normal lengthShort (< 50m)
Good day lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good swell directionSouthWest
Good wind directionSouthEast, East, NorthEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.5m-2m /5ft-6ft and holds up to 2.5m+ / 8ft+
Best tide positionMid and high tide
Best tide movementRising tide
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdUltra crowded
- Man-made danger (buoys etc..)
- Localism
- Sharks
Pier break.
Often too crowded on an average day, but when its big, the crowd gets smaller.
Author: Anonymous Contributors (1) They surfed this spot ! (29)
No available picture
No video available
|No surf session
|No surf trip
You can edit this page to correct errors or add new information. If you have any problems regarding this page, Send us feedback.
Wannasurf.com on your mobile
RSS All the RSS feeds of Wannasurf.com
Newsletter All news by email


text:
Passionate Kisses - Sweet and feminine; vanilla and amber musk, fresh berries and lovely roses.
-Approx 1.2 oz which is equivalent to 4 of the "square" types.
WM - Passionate Kisses
Angela's Wax Melts are made from quality parrafin wax and the highest quality oils Angela's Wax Melts can find! This results in highly fragranced melts that will seduce your senses and keep you coming back for more.
-Melts can be cut (with caution, we don't need anyone losing digits) if your warmer well is smaller or it is what you prefer.
-Melts typically last around 72hrs (my warmer is always on). Keep in mind that some scents are stronger than others. Warmers can vary by brand and bulb wattage. How long you leave your warmer on and where it is located can also change how long your scent lasts.
-NEVER LEAVE ANGELA'S WAX MELTS IN THE CUP IN YOUR VEHICLE!! TRUST ME! Vehicle will smell nice, there will be a mess, wax will have to be used like "Armorall". If you want to have one in your vehicle I suggest putting it in a small glass container than cannot spill.
*Melts can be made with soy, contact me for details.
*Labels can be customized for any occassion, contact me for details.
*The United States Postal Service is used for shipping.
*Shipping takes 3-5 days for Melts, may take longer for custom orders.
*Flat Rate Shipping charge $5.99
*Shipping is FREE for orders $50.00 and up.
*Contact Angela's Wax Melts for local delivery options, possible delivery charge may apply.


text: Broomstick 64 Report post Posted February 9, 2019 Since the 157 pound weight class was established in 1999, is Nolf this year the best wrestler at this weight class in college wrestling? Only considering years wrestlers were at this weight class, I think he is with Burrough's and Dake's (in that order) junior years' being the closest competition. I never saw that much of Bertin, so maybe someone could tell me why he should be in this conversation as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text:
Wild MushroomExperience the vibrant taste and aroma of Falksalt Wild Mushroom Crystal Flakes. Delicately accent your steak, roasted vegetables, or baked potato with a sprinkle of Wild Mushroom. Dust Wild Mushroom over creamed mashed potatoes for subtle undertones of porcini mushrooms.
Our Wild Mushroom crystal flakes are currently available from Wholefoods.
Boil the pasta in water seasoned with wild mushroom flake salt.
Take some unsalted butter at room temperature and flavour it with wild mushroom flake salt and a few drops of white wine. Beat the butter with an electric whisk until pale and fluffy.
Make scrambled egg seasoned with wild mushroom flake salt. Serve in an eggshell with strips of crispy bacon.


text:
90s Night
It's 90s night tonight and I just got my hands on a partial playlist for the game…what's your favorite 90s song? Can't make any promises, but among the tunes we'll hear tonight are:
No Scrubs – TLC
Motownphilly – Boyz II Men
Give it Away Now – Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Prerogative – Bobby Brown
One Week – Barenaked Ladies
Enter Sandman – Metallica
All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crows
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Tennessee – Arrested Development
Ironic – Alanis Morrisette
Plush – Stone Temple Pilots
Regulate – Warren G
Jump Around – House of Pain
Jump – Kris Kross
Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
Losing My Religion – R.E.M.
Good Vibrations – Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
And lots more…personally I'm bummed not to see Dave Matthews Band on there, but three of the band members were down on the field yesterday for BP (Carter Beauford, Rashawn Ross and Jeff Coffin).
I hope those of you here tonight will celebrate a great decade that rarely gets its due when stacked up against the 60s, 70s and 80s!
And please forgive the delay in posting…have had some computer issues and just been jammed up with other projects.
176 Comments
Sorry I won't be there tonight to hear Nancy Bea play all these tunes. Sorry, I forgot about all she gets to play these days is the National Anthem and Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Free Nancy Bea!
One year ago today!!!!
Martin it seems is his own worst enemy. Basically he's a head case suffering from RCI for the last two seasons. He's got it in his head that since he's the unofficial captain, he somehow has to be superhuman and carry the team. This puts undue self-inflicted pressure on himself to over achieve, which in fact has the opposite effect in reality. All this is of course accentuated by his already heightened superstitious nature, thus for every step he takes forward, he takes one sideways and another backward (which explains how he's waltzing through this season as Torre's catcherbitch.)
That is the long answer. The short answer is that Martin sucks.
By brownpaperbag1 on August 20, 2009 5:52 PM
Hello Gang!!! Hope you are all having a great afternoon/evening!!! I just went back to see what we were saying a year ago today!!! This one by Beav made me laugh!!! You're a prophet my brother!!! LOL!!!!
I guess the 90s just have wait their turn but they have good vibrations.
Unfortunately Wally, with this team my prophet margin is nearly 100%.
Hello there again You Buncha Bums.
Yesterday if you remember I was over by Ebbets Field. What I didn't tell you is I also went to Holy Cross Cemetery where Gil Hodges rests. I was just taking advantage of where I was yesterday. When my team (NYM) starts to disappear in the latter part of baseball seasons I usually compensate by hanging out in the past. BTW…Edward McKeever is burried there also. So if you want to check out what this Brooklynite thinks of Gil Hodges and see the rest of the pictures I took yesterday, my door is always open for you guys.
"Remembering Gil Hodges"
Good Evening ITD readers and writers!!!!
lbirken – great post from earlier in the previous thread.
Once again, I am stuck in the fishing time warp :((
enchanted – any Popeye jingles tonight?
Wally – great find from a year ago today. Amazing how many have seen their predictions of this team come to be.
The fans they all twitter
That I'm in the soaper
I'm Poopeye the Failure Man
LOL Beav!!! Now we have Poopsednik failing to get the run in from 3rd with 1 out!!! Unacceptable!!!!
Way to go Theriot!!! Poopsednik owes you dinner!!!
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz
Oh what a relief it is!!!!
Yeah Ned buy. This team's got playoffs written all over it.
Yeah Ned buy. This team has playoffs written all over it.
Hi'Ya Trumom!! LOL!!!
Monasterios can't complain about the strike zone he's being given.
Come on Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whew!!! Back in ITDFST, but I will be in SEH before too long. It's how it seems to work these days.
Poosednik with a poop fly!!! Geez!!!
Hi'Ya Nelly!!! Good thing this team isn't a horse. They would shoot it and put it out of its misery!!! Pathetic!!!
GIBBY had a nice AB.
Just wondering if there is any player on this team that Charlie Stinker likes? He is the first person I'd relieve of his duties if I were in charge.
LOL Trumom!! Yep, we stink all the way from the head to the tail. Even in the broadcast booth!!!
We're really putting up a fight against the dreaded Homer Bailey.
Ned's probably cruising the waiver wire looking for that one reject that'll carry us back to contention on a 30-game winning streak.
Trumom, these guys have mailed it in. Except Carroll. He looks like he still has fire. Its obvious there's no spark or fire left in most of them. I really can't blame them.
Hey Jhall!!!!!!! Yea – everything these days just seems to be a struggle for them, and it seems like when they start to get things going again, another player goes on the DL, which can't be helping with all the other crap going on in the Dodger Organization. Add the upcoming court proceedings during the last month of the season and it just hasn't gone their way this season…………..for the players anyhow.
Maybe they'll find their nuts against the G'nats and derail them!!! That's about all I'm hopeful for this season.
There used to be pride wearing a Dodger uniform. Win or lose, they would always give it their all….I'm getting tired of all this soap!
I'm afraid we're all stuck on the good ship Lollipoop Tru.
The fishing ship Lollipop, BPB!
Was there ever a doubt when Blake got to third with one out that we wouldn't score?
Kemp of course would catch all kinds of soap from the coaches if he K'd, but somehow I don't think Ausmus or Belliard will.
I told my Hubby when Blake led off the inning, that we wouldn't bring him home, BPB1…..and, unfortunately, I was right!
This is one of the biggest slumps, that I can remember.
Why in hell haven't coaches been fired? Its obvious that its a team-wide affliction that they can't hit nor pitch (at least the bully.)
Nice JP-esque performance by Pathednik tonight.
Good question, BPB1….It sure is a mystery to me.
Our opposition was just simply regress.
Not a whimper, not a nothing. That has to fall on the coaches too that these guys have no will. They're just playing out the string and grabbing a paycheck. I could understand some of it if they were playing Pittsburgh, but they should at least be trying to derail a contending team.
I think a team takes on the demeaner of the manager…just look what old Bucky did with the Orioles. Not that they are going to win the division but, they do have winning attitude now and are performing well for him.
I'm Poopeye the Failure Man? (a-k-k-k-k)
Only thing I can hits the can (a-k-k-k-k)
A beard on my kisser
Career's in the pisser
I'm Poopeye the Failure Man?
Our offense has simply regressed.
I don't know why, but it has.
On any given night its like one or two guys are giving it their all, and the rest just mail it in. They have all the enthusiasm of their fishing manager. When was the last time this team won a come-from-behind game in the ninth?
Told ya I would be placed in SEH next. THIS IS JUST FISHING RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!
I can't blame the players either Jhall. I feel as if they are pawns in a game for the McCourt divorce and/or Ned's dealings. Too many injuries (or time spent on the DL), too many things said in the media that shouldn't have been, and the soapy ownership as a whole have just been too much for this team to handle.
I agree enchanted – some of the coaching staff should have been fired a long time ago. However, isn't that indicative of how this team has been viewed by our owner though……………….just a way to make money regardless of how they team is developing. There has not been one mention of a coach perhaps not doing their job. It's always about the players sudden inabilities. Once again, how can a young pitcher go so sour so quickly between AAA/AA and up here? There is just something missing in both hitting and pitching (bullpen) these days, and it can't just be all the players slumping at the same time. The gnats had issues with their hitting last season, and thier hitting coach was let go and they moved onto a new approach. It may or may not work, but at least they tried to change something. You would think it would be easier to make one change in a coach than 25 changes and make it all about the players.
And all you ever get from JoJo the Clown is another cliche.
We need a new batting coach, or somebody has to figure this out.
It's just outs, outs, outs, ground ball outs, fly outs, nothing but outs.
It's hard to stop the frustration.
The hitters have to be frustrated by now.
I can take losing as long as I feel that they're leaving it all out on the field. Most of these guys though leave it in the clubhouse before the game even starts, and those that don't leave it in the dugout once they're down a run or two.
I agree Nells, its easier to fire one coach than 25 players, but in keeping with the parallels drawn between this ownership and the federal government, they'll fire the 25 players.
I don't believe the ownership problem could have anything to do with this awful slump.
It's incredible, the opposing pitching can't be that good, night after night.
What the Heck is going on here?.
Hell, what am I saying? Ned routinely turns over half the team every year already.
Now that I think about it, that is true enchanted.
The Reds had lost their previous 12 games at Dodger Stadium since winning on July 28, 2005.
Go figure
Why couldn't Dotel do this the last game?
Same with Belisario the last 2 games.
I don't get this either. How could this group get this bad? I made the comment to my wife a couple of days ago how this team finds ways to lose. Her remark was they certainly are creative. And then some.
I'll never jump ship or cease being a Dodger fan, but this year had a different feel to me from the beginning. Starting with the ticket plans, the news about holding the payroll down, and starting the season with a lack of pitching just never seemed right to me. I never did sign up for the radio feed and I don't check the scores until morning now, seeing as how you have a pretty good idea what the outcome will be. I still keep track of what's going on, but I do not look as often now.
I still agree with Bowa, we need players that will play with a bit more urgency. All season.
I don't understand the very negative outlook here, guys.
We're only a game out of third place, which is where I felt we belong from the outset. We could very well make that achievement yet.
Not only are they bad, but they're boring also! This team just quit on Joe, and now if management cared, they'd quit on Joe and Don, and Rick also! The problem is management could care less as long as people go to the ball park and give Frank money to pay his lawyers.
I agree, VPObear. Cleaning house is definitely the top priority.
You have to do first things first:
Get rid of the owner. Without that anything else is meaningless at this point. Hopefully Family Court will take care of that issue.
Next: all the coaching staff needs to GO.
All the front office staffing at an executive level needs to GO, except for Logan White and Ng, unless the latter has been too long influenced by Ned, in which case she needs to GO too.
Then we need to start a rebuilding, and that won't be easy because we have very little major league worthy talent in the minors. We will need a new CATCHER, pretty much all the infield except 1st base, a LEFT FIELDER, and two starting pitchers, assuming that we can keep Kersh and Billz in place. We will need other teams' top level prospects, and they will have to be obtained through trade. That's because this ownership and Ned have totally depleted our farm system, which may take years to replenish to a normal level.
I don't see what the big fuss is, Mattingly has most of the hallmarks of a McCourt-chosen manager:
– No ties to Dodger Tradition? Check.
– Icon of Giants, Red Sox or Yankees? Check.
– Keeps Dodger offense hitting at a middling to mediocre pace? Check.
– Ability to nod head yes? Check. (also an important trait for Raiders coaching staff)
We WOULD end up with one of the only Yankee Icons never to win a championship for a manager. Sounds like the McCourt way to me.
Meanwhile, while Joe Torre dawdles on revealing his "decision" to manage the Dodgers beyond this year, for fear that he might throw a lit match on a sinking ship that has transcended beyond "HMS Titanic" status into the current position of "Viking Funeral Inferno", qualified managers who REALLY want to be Dodgers, like Bobby Valentine, are going to instead man the benches of Seattle and other locations.
Wallach, White and Ng could not be blamed if they are making updates to their resumes, proof-reading them twice. It's like Kemp and Ethier being blocked by Luis Gonzalez.
I'd rather not know or care what goes on in the Dodgers' Front Office, but they're all too happy to air their dirty laundry for all to see. It's impossible to pretend the ownership problems don't exist when they've spent the better part of five years flagging down the media and paparazzi too inexperienced or old to keep up with the Brangelinas and Bennifers of the world.
"Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night free…"
– Nirvana, "About a Girl"
3rd J Bell homered to right center, F Pie scored. 0 2
4th J Bell homered to center, F Pie and C Tatum scored.
Yeah I know he still young but we didn't need Sherrill last year.
Dejesus at 2nd, Gordon at SS, Mitchell at 3rd
Those 3 need to hurry up but I would love to give Mitchell a shot and I don't know who in front of him but I'm assume it isn't Austin Gallagher and Pedro Baez.
I usually do not engage in this sort of topic but since it was brought up in the paper today, would anyone like to see Dusty Baker manage the Dodgers? I recall there was a lot of sentiment for Baker when he was with the Giants but has his allure been tarnished at all? He has had some success and he has also had some detractors. So if Joe does decide he does not want to come back, should the Dodgers look at Baker if he is available and wants the job? Before I read the article I felt Baker had worn out his welcome but according to the article, players like very much playing for him. He seems to get a lot out of his players. He is an ex-Dodger and was really popular as a player.
Shad, are you really ready for 3 Triple A players in the infield at the same time, none of which have any major league experience?
2012 lineup
Santana (I wish)
Gordon (sorry Furcal maybe we can get something for him)
Mitchell (try to get rid of Blake this season or next season)
Russell/Paul/Johnson (you've gotta to bring him back.)
Kemp (I'm hoping just a fluke year this season and would rebound next season.)
Who care about double A and triple A lol? I bet this lineup would kick butt.
Maybe J. T. Wise as catcher and who care if he playing in class A? Anyone who win a Johnny Bench Award last year and Posey won it in 2008 it mean something lol.
Nope but I'm seeing us getting worst next year if thngs doesn't chance but I did say 2012?
This is the first picture, I've ever tried to post on ITD, I hope it came out, so bare with me.
As I mentioned a few nights ago, I purchase a Dodger home jersey.
Dusty Baker was a Giants manager, so he'll get Ned and Frank's vote.
Seriously, though, I think he's a good manager, maybe he'd do better with the Dodgers than he had been in Cincy.
He'd be on my list of potential managers, and not just for MLB mandated reasons, either.
My coaching wishlist includes: Tim Wallach, Bobby Valentine, Dusty Baker, Orel Hershiser (in some capacity, be it coaching or front office), Steve Yeager, and perhaps Brett Butler, if he's up to it. We probably already lost out on Gibson.
Looking past the current situation/fiasco surrounding the organization, if McCourt gets to keep the team, and if he REALLY wants to own the Dodgers for the rest of his life, and REALLY wants to do what's good for this team, He'll need to cut the crap, dispense with the Giants/RedSox/Yankees castoffs mentatlity, and take Dodger Tradition back from Anaheim (got a little sick typing that sentence).
If these are just the lean times, and McCourt intends on spending money on the players' payrolls once that TV money comes in, he'll need to own up to his failings to this point, and let us in on his plan. Even though nobody believed FOX when they would predict Dodgers-Yankees World Series every year, at least their goals were lofty, not just trying to maintain an average good-enough-ness to keep fans in the seats.
A future with McCourt doesn't have to be a hellish one, though we only have the past to go on. The past HAD to be hellish, because McCourt didn't have any money to buy the team.
Frank could honor Ned Colletti for his thrifty skills during these lean years (and the team making so many playoff runs under McCourt ownership) by putting him in the front office in a role "higher" than the GM chair, and let Ned sweat it out when the next GM takes multi-million dollar chances adding players in their primes who are worth a bar of soap or two.
AND he would have to lower his profile for a few years, quiet philanthropy being the way into the hearts of a once-scorned fanbase and community. Taking a route similar to the one he took this year (though better executed), have a high-ranking exec who knows as much about baseball as Frank does about litigation, and let him be the mouthpiece of the ownership, and the brains of baseball operations.
Paying taxes and a little transparency on stadium issues wouldn't hurt, either.
Of course, I'm probably giving him a LOT more credit than he's due. But usually, people can't do a good job predicting the future based on the feelings of the present.
I'd rather have an owner who has more of a sense of how to run a sports franchise, though. And wouldn't be too sad if he was forced to sell the team. Sure, it'd be sad that some of the visions he spoke of never came to fruition (except for that dropping-payroll-while-increasing-ticket-prices thing… he's now learning that 45,000 – 56,000 won't come out to see a team run like the Pittsburgh Pirates, good time to start changing plans), but if Frank's detractors are correct, he never intended them to come to fruition anyway.
Another one for good measure.
Ah there's a nice Asian lady who lives next door who likes to sit on her porch at night. LOL.http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii148/Joepierrephotos/008-6.jpg?t=1282429675
The jersey looks awesome, OldBrooklynFan. Tough to look bad in those colors, eh?
Sorry I always screw up after the first one.
Sorry beginner luck I guess.
Oh there it is.
I think the only one that ready is Mitchell and he's 25 yrs old but I really don't know how his defense is at 3rd. Gordon need to cut down on his errors at SS and seeing that DeJesus miss the rest of the season last year that why I said 2012.
Here another one that TBW and I took with some friends in front of Citi Field.
I hope this comes out.
It's a fan photo that I took a picture of with my camera.
That's why when roster is expanded and we get eliminated I wouldn't mind seeing them get some playing time for some experience and you do notice I said 2012?
I guess you miss my other message since you comment so fast on DeJesus, Gordon and Mitchell.
lol what's you want Dusty Baker?
Nice picture wow that's a lot of pictures on your refrigerator
Here's another of TBW and I, taken at Yankee Stadium this summer with Ron aka Fansince53, and his daughter Fansince85, who recently moved from the Big Apple.
I'm real nut for those magnets.
Fantastic photos, Oldbrooklynfan!
Is that your daughter and how come she has the word Rockies on her sleeve?
Wow I see a Yankees/Dodgers WS ticket.
Ok old but wow she's a hottie. I'm already getting real when I said 2012 lineup lol.
Nice job Brooklyn!!! Thanks for the photos!!! I enjoyed them!!!
You wear 47 well!!!
Heeee's back! Wonder who will sit?
Hi'Ya Trumom!!! LOL!!! Hey Bear!!! Keep throwing fastballs my friend!!!!
Bear doesn't have a change-up!!! Just good high hard cheese!!!
I'll bet Bear will be in front of the line at the protest during the divorce hearing 🙂
No that's not my daughter~ Nedajerk.
Just some Rockie fan who took a picture with us.
I wish some of our pitchers had good hard cheese, Jhall!
A moment to remember on a day I'll never forget.
Frank and Ned can't handle it up and in!!! Jamie, however, can handle it, low and in!!!
Apparently so, Jhall 🙂 Down and dirty!
Another one.
LOL Trumom!!! If Frank had good hard cheese, Jamie might not have been a sucker for the low slider!!!!
And, in honor of '90's night…..good vibrations!
Jamie took the low slider down and in, then threw Frank a mean screwball!!!! LOL!!!
On a brighter note…Juan Castro has been DFA'd.
LMAO, Jhall! I see we're gearing up for game time 🙂
You too Bear, thanks!!! LOL!!!!
Jamie is definately going to *** out on top of this mess. Regardless of what the settlement is. Win or lose, she's going to do OK!!!
You can have the team and bring it back to Brooklyn.http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii148/Joepierrephotos/062709JW170.jpg?1282435247
Well, like Trumom and Nelly alluded to in earlier posts, we are now relegated to playing for our pride. This season is lost!!! It's time for you to get back to fundamentals and play to make your moms' proud of you!!! Let's go out with some class!!! And, hopefully, crash the G'nat party!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sincerely hope I don't offend anyone who thinks we still have a shot at the playoffs!!! If so, I apologize!!! However, it is time to GET REAL!!!
I have a typo up above, Fansince85, recently moved TO N.Y.C.
This is my daughter Claudine, with me.http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii148/Joepierrephotos/062709JW170.jpg?1282435247
If it comes out
These photo only come out when they want to, if it comes out here, I should mention that it was taken in front of the Jackie Robinson/Peehttp://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii148/Joepierrephotos/062709JW170.jpg?1282435247Wee Reese statue
Sorry maybe next time.
How ya doing everybody.
I hope you all like the pictures I posted on this thread, I hope to get that picture of my daughter Claudine out to you as soon as my PC stops being so fickle.
Well our line up features 48 HRs and 251 RBI with Manny in it.
Loney would've brought it up another 7 and 68, but I guess we have to get a look at Gibbons at first tonight.
Let's hope the offense can get something going tonight and break out of this horrible slump.
There she is, a true Met fan. This year we have a lot in common. I repeat that is the Jackie Robinson/ PeeWee Reese statue, outside MCU park in Coney Island, B'klyn.
I hope you all liked the picture of McCourt begging me to take the team back to Brooklyn.
Oldbrooklynfan – my friend and her family got to go a Mets game a few weeks ago, and she loved Citi Field. She said it was spectacular.
Yes, ~Nelly~ it is a very good looking ballpark. Especially the the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
It's a great place for a Dodger fan to see.
The Met fans complained about it but now they have their Hall of Fame, to go with it.
lol Miller think the Mannywood sign is still there because he mention it on the pregame show.
My other post got time warp at 5:33 pm.
Lincecum got his 1st career lost vs the Cards and he was 5-0 coming into that game.
I never know if these images are going to be sent out but this is for you ~Nelly~
It's on the next command.
Boy teach an old dog new tricks (lol)
hmmmmmmm White Sox/Tigers have a DH and the game is in the 11th innings of the 1st game.
This picture was taken outside Shea Stadium in '08.
Wow the Rockies are losing 3-1.
Good Eye BLAKE.
Nice for THERIOT to close up the HR column for us.
ANDRE' It feels so good to see him hit one.
Give Gibbons an extension now.
GIBBY'S 2nd for us.
Can Gibbons played 3rd bases?
KEMP's 20TH
Maybe it's Cueto but it's good to see they're not doggin' it.
Dang I wish Gibbons was right handed than it would be no problem.
I wonder how late that 2nd games going to finish? Dang why was Theriot so far off his position? That was an easy ground ball.
Four HRs are nice. Just think of where we could be if the Dodgers would have hit some more HRs in some critical spots since the All-Star break.
Urgh I could understand that but that was totally unacceptable that was an infield hit.
It surely would be nice to hit those with risp even better.
They would've been doing better than they are now TBW.
Did you check out my pictures that I posted on this blog and TBLA.?
It was the booed for Bills for jogging to 1st.
Shad ~ I agree. I know it's the pitcher and you don't want him to get tired, but that's been the Dodgers problem lately. They haven't shown any fire.
I really don't think anybody jugged to first, like that TBW, now come on.
Nice curveball there to strikeout Stubbs! WTG Bills to get out of that jamb!
oldbrooklynfan ~ Yes I did. Nice jersey & great shots.
That's CASEY's 50th RBI.
CARROLL's 20TH RBI.
Funny I never did and I haven't missed much.
They have been playing as hard as they could from what I've seen. It's only the results that have been bad,
Dang Gomes was like 1 for something before that hit.
I'd say BILLS was average tonight.
Anyone seen the Twins Stadium? It look very nice to bad they don't have the dome no more.
Vinny you forgot Johnson is in LF.
oldbrooklynfan ~ IMO Billingsley didn't run as hard as he could have. I know he's a large butt pitcher, but when he's that close to getting a hit you like to see him bust it a little. Even Vin mentioned he thought and the crowd was booing Billingsley because he jogged to first.
lol Baker=Torre with the bullpen.
I miss the 0 for something hate that Kuo is 4/49 now against lhb
Gosh freaking IR.
That was an easy bark.
hahaha Vinny said the dogs been behaving and that no dogs got ejected.
What a rare thing Broxton got the lead off guy out.
The worse record the Dodgers could have now is 63-99.
18 more wins to be assured at ending at at least .500.
I know Bills didn't run hard TBW but that lack of hustle was way out of the ordinary.
Good Morning ITDland ~ Vinny is going to make his announcement before today's game, as to his plans. Since he already knows what he is going to do, and is holding a press confernce, I believe, unfortunately, he will be leaving us. If he does indeed retire, I will be one very unhappy Dodger fan. He makes many ugly games bearable. A true class act. To replace him will be impossible. Maybe, adequate, but, nothing like the original.
YAY….VINNY IS COMING BACK! That is a very good thing!
And, got him for cash, VPObear!
There is at least one thing right in Dodger baseball this morning and that is that Vinny's coming back next year – and we're blessed and honored to have him. And we know it!
I got chocked up reading the news that Vin Scully will be back in 2011! Best news of the season!! Woohoo!!!!!
Good afternoon all! New thread…….


text:
A genetically modified corn should be removed from sale in New Zealand following a study showing it may be causing cancer and other health problems, the Green Party says.
The Journal of Food and Toxicology has published a two-year study showing rats which ate a GM maize treated with the herbicide RoundUp were more likely to develop a range of cancers.
Female rats who ate the maize were two to three times more likely to die from large mammary tumours than subjects used in a control experiment.
Males developed large tumours, liver problems and kidney deficiencies. Each experiment group contained 10 rats.
Green Party genetic engineering spokesman Steffan Browning said the GM maize used in the study had been approved for sale in New Zealand a decade ago.
It could be causing increased cancers and other health issues among New Zealanders, he said.
"There are now huge concerns over the safety of this corn. Eating this corn has now been proven to cause the growth of tumours, so why was it approved a decade ago without the necessary evidence that it was safe to eat?"
Mr Browning said 70 GM corns available in New Zealand were approved for sale on the back of a 90-day health trials.
The two year study had proved those trials were not long enough, he said.
He called for Food Standards Australia New Zealand to immediately recall any products which had the GM corn from the study as an ingredient.
It should also implement and enforce a rigorous labelling system for GM products, he said.
"New Zealanders don't want to be part of a science experiment. They rely on the Government to make sure these products are safe before they are released for human consumption."
However, scientists have picked out flaws in the study's design and conclusions.
Professor David Spiegelhalter of the University of Cambridge said the results were "well below" the standard he expected from a rigorous study.
Placing only 10 rats in each experiment group meant it was difficult to find trustworthy statistical trends, he said.
"The numbers are so low they do not amount to substantial evidence. I would be unwilling to accept these results unless they were replicated properly."
John Innes Centre senior scientist Wendy Harwood said the scientists behind the study had not included full data in their report - including results for the control group.
"We have to ask whether a diet with this level of maize is normal for rats. Another control with an alternative diet should have been included...
"Without access to the full data, we can only say that these results cannot be interpreted as showing that GM technology itself is dangerous."
Liggins Institute researcher Mark Vickers said the study was not robust.
Key data on the rats' fluid intake and growth were missing and the strain of rat used was prone to developing tumours with advancing age, he said.
"It is surprising that the paper was accepted for publication without such data."
Otago University genetics director Peter Dearden said the paper's results were "intriguing" but very preliminary.
The number of rats used was low and the controls for the experiments, which were vital to understand their significance, were not well reported, he said.
"In my opinion this is interesting work, but with major flaws, with an outcome that needs to be followed up with robust, well described experiments."
But Mr Browning said the study was rigorous enough to show there was a health issue with GM maize.
It should be proved safe before being allowed to be sold to New Zealanders, he said.
"There is enough there to say there is a problem here."


text:
One hot, dusty spring morning more than 80 years ago, a man grappled with a mule and a plow in a tough, buckshot cotton field in Coahoma County, Miss. At times, the plowman was able to synchronize the animal's muscle with his own and tussle up a straight row.
It was impossible to keep the mule in line for very long.
But that particular year, it really didn't matter. Spring brought one of the most destructive river floods in U.S. history. By the end of April 1927, the Mississippi River covered over a million acres of land. Five-hundred people died and thousands upon thousands of people were displaced.
When the waters finally receded, the cotton field was covered by a thick layer of sediment. The handiwork of the unknown plowman was lost forever.
Or so it seemed.
Fast forward to this past spring when floodwaters from the Great Flood of 2011 swept away the 5 feet of topsoil that the 1927 flood had deposited on the field. Like washing away a layer of mud from the bottom of an old pair of boots, the floodwaters revealed once again the treads of the old field, perfectly preserved sets of ancient mule tracks and old cotton rows.
Bowen Flowers and Pete Hunter, two Coahoma County cotton producers, were lucky enough to have seen the field while hunting this spring. Flowers took a few pictures on his iPhone. "You can actually see where the mule tracks were when they were rowing it up," said Flowers, who is serving as the president of the Delta Council this year. "It was like they were petrified."
"The rows were extremely crooked like they are when they're put up by mules," Hunter said.
Hunter believes the old cotton field was likely flooded in 1927. So does Charles Camillo, a historian with the Mississippi River Commission.
"In the 1930s, we did a large channel improvement on the river from Memphis to around Natchez," Camillo said. "There was a floodway planned for the west bank of the Mississippi River similar to the one at Birds-Point, New Madrid (south of Cairo, Ill.), only much larger.
"There was bitter resistance and political pressure against getting the easements. So the Corps of Engineers essentially did a channel rectification. There were a lot of cutoffs and channel realignments which necessitated moving levees around."
Those improvements in the 1930s helped confine the 1937 flood to a smaller area than the 1927 flood, according to Camillo. "We had to operate Birds Point that year (1937), but once you got down to the mouth of the Arkansas River, the flood kind of petered out because of the channel realignment, which had lowered flood stages by 10 to 12 feet. Most of the damage from the 1937 flood was limited to between Cairo, Ill., and Memphis."
There have been other examples of floods becoming accidental archeologists, noted Hunter. Like when the 1973 flood revealed the site of the old town of Chritton, Miss., which had also been covered in the 1927 flood. "You could see where the houses were, old rows from cotton fields and old stumps from trees taken down by an ax."
On another more recent occasion, about a mile from the cotton field that was exposed in 2011, "there was a place where water boiled over the road and a levee and dug a deep hole about the size of two pickup trucks. There were old cotton rows down in the bottom of that hole," Hunter said.
A set of graves Hunter has seen on high ground around old Chritton indicate just how long ago the area was settled. "The graves were Sarah and Robert Robson, who were the parents of George Robson who farmed some of that land and sold firewood to boats on the river," Hunter said. "Sarah and Robert were born before the American Revolution and died before the Civil War."
A point on the Mississippi River called Robson Towhead, was named for the family, who probably moved into the area in the early 1800s.
These pieces of history are fleeting, however. Hunter says what's left of Chritton, which had a population of around 250 in its heyday, disappeared forever during construction of a levee between 1973 and 1975. "They used dirt from the community to build the levee," he said. "You probably couldn't find any artifacts from that old community anymore."
Hunter, who manages Stovall Farms in Coahoma County, has a keen interest in the history of the river and the region, and notes that much of it is packed away in old books, newspapers and people's memories, including his own. Stovall Farms itself is well-known because of its association with blues musician Muddy Waters, who lived on the property for a while.
"We can't take the history of the Delta way back like they can in Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C.," Hunter said. "But it's good history. Most of our ancestors who settled in the farming community were doing one of two things. They had either left home seeking their fortune, or they were running from somebody."
Back then, "the law of farming was to plant the food to feed people first," Hunter said. "The second thing you did was to plant the food to feed your animals. The last thing you did was to plant your cash crop."
So who was the farmer whose cotton field was revealed by this spring's floodwaters? Historical documents from the early 1900s indicate that a sawmill, Fair-Chritton Lumber Co., operated near a river landing in Chritton, and had a lease on R. N. McWilliams Plantation.
That falls in line with Hunter's memory of Gary McWilliams, Sr., a farmer in the area who passed away in Hunter's lifetime. "He had his headquarters there in Chritton. I assume the field uncovered this spring may be some of the land that he was farming."
Was Gary McWilliams behind the plow that day in 1927, the year New York Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs? Who knows? But within weeks of when the old cotton field emerged from the past, it was gone again, this time for good, said Flowers. "The levee had broken right where the field was. So between the rains and having to rework to ground to build a new levee, it's gone, washed away."


text:
This website uses cookies to help enhance your user experience. By using Smart Money People, you agree to our privacy policy.
I Understand
Our Eiger FX Direct FX reviews can help you to find out what life as a Eiger FX Direct customer is really like. And if you have experience of using this product, why not write your review on Smart Money People today?
No reviews yet! Help others and write one.
Take a look at our top rated Money Transfer products.


text:
NFL to examine replay rule
A top NFL executive says the rule that negated using video replay to confirm a Houston touchdown Thursday "may be too harsh" and will be re-examined immediately.
Ray Anderson, the league's director of football operations, says a 15-yard penalty for throwing the challenge flag on a play that is automatically reviewed might be enough.
For now, throwing the challenge flag also eliminates the use of replay; all scoring plays otherwise are reviewed.
Justin Forsett's third-quarter 81-yard run in the Texans' 34-31 overtime victory at Detroit initially was ruled a touchdown, although replays clearly showed his knee and elbow touched the turf when he was hit by Lions defenders. Detroit coach Jim Schwartz challenged, resulting in a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.


text:
Welcome to the FEGA Forum.
Be in contact with fellow engravers. Ask questions, offer advice, let others know what you are working on and post news or events of interest to engravers.
There are currently 215 users online. 0 members and 215 guests
Most users ever online was 537, 05-09-2020 at 11:42 PM.
Welcome to our newest member, andrePhync


text:
Barcelona Tourist Guide
The Intelligent Way To Plan Your Trip
Page Content
All the essential Barcelona travel information to arrange your trip is on this one website. We have focused on answering your most important questions on transport, activities, attractions, and accommodation.
We have 15,000 pages of up to date tourist information covering every part of planning your visit to Barcelona city.
In addition to essential Barcelona tourism information, you will also find dozens of time and money-saving tips from local people - information hard to find anywhere else. These special tips will make your Barcelona city break that much more special.
To help you find your answers as quickly as possible your Barcelona tourist information has been grouped into 2 main categories:
1) If you've already made your decision to come to Barcelona then I recommend you go to the top of the page and type in your question into the search bar. This search bar will search every page on our site (of which we have several thousand pages) and present you with the answers to your questions. This is the single quickest and easiest way for you to find answers to your questions. Alternatively, you can search through our menu on the left-hand side. Please be aware however that we have many more thousands of pages that we can't put links to on the left menu and you are more than likely going to miss what you are searching for this way.
2) If you need help in making your decision whether Barcelona is the right destination for you we recommend you visit our photo Barcelona map that has over 500 photos of the top Barcelona tourist attractions linked directly to the map. Using the interactive map will show you first hand the most important landmarks and attractions - it's almost as if you were walking around the locations for yourself. I've also included guide notes to give you information on each of the sites and areas.
This Barcelona tourism and travel information is updated daily and includes money and time-saving tips from people living in Barcelona city so check back frequently for valuable updates.
If you have any questions about your trip take a look at our frequently asked questions section (FAQ) with hundreds of popular questions already answered it can help you quickly find the answers your questions.


text: ? 欧美牲交AV欧差AA片_不能给女生看的漫画_汅漫画在线观看全集免费_韩漫无羞遮漫画免费 +86-757-23609781 +86-757-23609782 email@example.com English 中文 Home About Us Products News Message Contact Us 首頁 About Us Company Profile Dowloads Factory Facility Certificate Current Location: HomeAbout UsCompany Profile Company Profile Better Medical Technology Co., LTD is a professional companyfgsreading.org欧美牲交AV欧差AA片 fgsreading.org 狠狠色丁香婷婷综合久久 韩漫无羞遮漫画免费 欧美ZOOZ人禽交 老师不行太大太长了漫画 女人与公拘交的视频 汅漫画在线观看全集免费 国产片 光棍影院在全线免费观看手机 女人与狥交 四虎影视88aa四虎在钱 能把下面弄湿的漫画 038EEE直接进入 有哪些让人湿到爆的漫画 无迹遮韩国漫画免费天天漫画 四虎影视东方影视大全 三九电影网 不能给女生看的漫画 久久爱WWW免费人成 电影天堂网 人与动人物性行为 欧美牲交AV欧差AA片 fgsreading.org 2020-04-03 engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and marketing for medical equipments, which located in the beautiful Chinese Kongfu town - Foshan, Guangdong. We have independent research and development team, and has obtained many inventions and practical patents through independent research and development as well as won the honorary title and certificate of national high-tech enterprise. By Virtue of automatic production equipment, strict testing methods, perfect standardized management system and high-quality personnel team, we had already passed the ISO9001 ISO13485 quality management system certification. With high quality products, we successfully passed the state food and drug administration medical equipment quality supervision and inspection center, the FDA quality standards, the European Union CE quality standards, and obtain inspection report, the FDA and CE certificate. Main products Cover : hospital beds, nursing beds, elderly home care beds, shower bed, examination couch,overbed tables, baby bassinet, delivery beds, operating table, trolleys, Instrument cabinets, ambulance trolley, stretchers, Lifting frame, I.V. Stand, Rollator wheelchairs, commode chairs, shower chairs, walking aids, crutches, bathroom safety aids and so on. We are mainly providing safe and reliable products for the elderly, patients, disabled in their safety aids, duration of care, postoperative rehabilitation. Values:integrity, cooperation, win-win! Talent view: both ability and political integrity,virtue to gain,talent to fortune! Service Aim:based on quality,run to honesty,fighting for health career! Vision:the spirit of craftsman, a good brand for hundred year! About Us Company Profile Dowloads Factory Facility Certificate Products Hospital Furniture Rehabilitation Equipment Contact Us Better Medical Technology Co., Ltd. Add: No.1 Jiangcun avenue north, Jiangcun Committee, Leliu Town, ShunDe District, FoShan City, GuangDong China Tel: +86 0757-23609781 +86 0757-23609782 Fax: +86 0757-89914399 Email: email@example.com Website: http://www.bt-medical.com Welcome To Contact Us 不能给女生看的漫画2020-04-03首頁 網站地圖 sitemap email@example.com FOLLOW US ON Copyright ? Better Medical Technology Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Powered by kenfor粵ICP備18018124號-1


text:
President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread use of ethanol: Does it help or hurt the fight against global warming?
The Environmental Protection Agency is close to proposing ethanol standards. But two years ago, when Congress ordered a huge increase in ethanol use, lawmakers also told the agency to show that ethanol would produce less pollution linked to global warming than would gasoline.
So how will the EPA define greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol production and use? Given the political clout of farm interests, will the science conflict with the politics?
'Indirect' impacts
Environmentalists, citing various studies and scientific papers, say the agency must factor in more than just the direct, heat-trapping pollution from ethanol and its production. They also point to "indirect" impacts on global warming from worldwide changes in land use, including climate-threatening deforestation, as land is cleared to plant corn or other ethanol crops.
Ethanol manufacturers and agriculture interests contend the fallout from potential land use changes in the future, especially those outside the United States, have not been adequately proven or even quantified, and should not count when the EPA calculates ethanol's climate impact.
"It defies common sense that EPA would publish a proposed rule-making with harmful conclusions for biofuels based on incomplete science and inaccurate assumptions," complained Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, who represents Iowa where corn is a major crop.
He was one of 12 farm-state senators, both Democrats and Republicans, who wrote EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in March, urging the agency to stick to assessing only the direct emissions.
Ethanol, which in the future may come from cellulosic sources such as switchgrass and wood chips, is promoted by its advocates as a "green" substitute for gasoline that will help the U.S. reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, especially foreign oil. That transition is a priority of the Obama White House.
In 2007, Congress ordered huge increases in ethanol use, requiring refiners to blend 20 billion gallons with gasoline by 2015 and a further expansion to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022.
Ethanol could fail test
Congress said any fuel produced in plants built after 2007 must emit 20 percent less in greenhouse gases than gasoline if it comes from corn, and 60 percent less if from cellulosic crops.
Meeting the direct emissions would not be a problem. But if indirect emissions from expected land use changes are included, ethanol probably would fail the test.
Nathaniel Greene, director of renewable energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, said that would not mean the end of ethanol.
Ethanol from existing production facilities is grandfathered and "there are ways to produce advanced ethanols that would comply with the greenhouse thresholds," even using land use climate impacts if the industry chose to adopt them, Greene said.
But farm interests and their allies in Congress are pushing to get the EPA to at least postpone any consideration of the land-use impacts issue, arguing the science surrounding the issue is uncertain.
The senators' letter said that an overreaching regulation by EPA on ethanol's link to climate change "could seriously harm our U.S. biofuels growth strategy by introducing uncertainty and discouraging future investments."
Enough studies
Environmentalists say there have been enough studies on the indirect impact of ethanol on greenhouse pollution to justify the science.
Ignoring the indirect impacts "will undermine the environmental benefits" of the renewable fuels program "and set a poor precedent for any future policies attempting to reduce global warming pollution," 17 environmental group wrote Jackson in response to the senators' plea.
Greene said the EPA's handling of the ethanol rule will be a "a test of our ability to follow sound science" even when it conflicts with the interests of powerful interests.
The environmental organizations noted that Obama has "vowed to make the U.S. a leader on climate change" and put science over politics, and "now is the time to uphold those pledges."
EPA spokeswoman Andora Andy declined to say when an agency proposal — a holdover issue from the Bush administration — would be issued. Interest groups on both sides of the debate said it could come in days. The White House Office of Management and Budget concluded its review of the EPA proposal last week.


text:
Ice Sliding Request for 3ICE
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:08 pm
Hello, I am making a map that contains ice sliding. I don't know jass so i made a GUI trigger that will move my unit forward every .01. I tried to keep it as simple as possible but it's still slowing down my game after about 20 minutes sliding around on it with 4-6 players ingame. I looked into your ice sliding system and got it to work except i cannot adapt my previous code to using the new one you made because i don't know jass well enough to piece it together. my code made the speed of the unit on ice increase with the windwalk buff and have no sliding at all with the banish buff. if you would be willing to convert my code GUI code into an efficient jass code i would greatly appriciate it. Thank you. i'll upload my project here and give you a link if you would like to look into it.
Heres the map
Heres the map


text:
U.S. Security Assistance to Lebanon
Description: This report discusses key issues facing U.S. policy makers and Members of Congress when considering U.S. security assistance in the context of U.S. policy toward Lebanon. These key issues include assessing the effectiveness of U.S. assistance programs, assessing overall U.S. policy toward Lebanon, and managing relations with other external actors.
Date: September 20, 2010
Creator: Addis, Casey L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department


text:
Regional Opera Company of the Week: Opera Lafayette
BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net, continues its expansion into other areas of entertainment with our latest feature -The Regional Opera Company of the Week!
This week's featured Opera Company is Opera Lafayette in Washington, DC!
Opera Lafayette is an American period-instrument ensemble focused on the French 17th and 18th century opera repertoire and its precursors, influences and artistic legacy.
Given the focus of the companies work, they are committed to rediscovering masterpieces of the past. Opera Lafayette inspires a love of this repertoire by presenting rediscovered masterpieces and creating a recorded legacy of its work.
Founded in 1995 in Washington, DC, Opera Lafayette presents concert opera, concert opera with dance, and semi- and fully-staged operas. They have earned critical acclaim and a loyal following of both their performances and recordings with international singers renowned for their interpretations of baroque and classical operas. While the company was founded in Washington DC, it does not only perform there. Opera Lafayette's season includes performances at major venues in Washington, DC, and New York City. Among these venues are such well-known places as the Kennedy Center, The Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall. At the invitation of Château de Versailles Spectacles, Opera Lafayette made its international debut at the Opéra Royal just this past February (2012) with the modern world premiere of Monsigny's Le Roi et le fermier.
Opera Lafayette is committed to teaching 17th and 18th century musical traditions to the next generation of artists, and to cultivating an appreciation of this music among new audiences of all ages. Their main focus is making opera accessible to the general public, families, young people and underserved audiences.
The company provides educational and outreach programs and performances in low cost alternative venues in order to allow everyone the opportunity to see their work. Opera Lafayette has built a reputation for providing performances and recordings with international Singers renowned for their interpretations of baroque and classical operas.
Ryan Brown is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of Opera Lafayette. Through his work with Opera Lafayette, Mr. Brown has become a leading figure in the revival of 18th-century opera. His vivid explorations of the French repertoire in particular have earned him an international reputation, receiving the highest praise from critics in the United States and abroad. Mr. Brown's vivid explorations of the French repertoire have highlighted the various traditions of the tragédie lyrique, the opéra-ballet, the opéra-comique, the pastorale, and the opéra-giocoso genres. Just last year the New York Times noted that "Opera Lafayette has built a sterling reputation through specializing in rarities by Gluck, Grétry and the like," and called the company's February 2011 program, Grétry's Le Magnifique, "a real find," praising Ryan Brown for drawing "a stylish performance from an appealing young cast and a fine period-instrument orchestra."
The 2012-2013 season is already underway with the performance of L'Invitation au Voyage just last month. Be sure to check out the rest of Opera Lafayette's current season:Félicien David's Lalla Roukh January 26, 2013, Washington, DC
January 31, 2013, New York City
For more information about Opera Lafayette company or performances visit their website at http://www.operalafayette.org/.
Photo credit: Louis Forget


text:
Have you ever noticed that when people say "To make a long story short," it never is? This is no exception. :)
I took Lando to school this morning. We had a nice visit with the principal, who was very supportive of my concerns and for Landon's safety. She took the names of other kids who might have witnessed the incident so that Landon wouldn't be singled out as a narc. She also reassured him that they wanted him to be safe, and she offered him some safety alternatives.
I ran to my car (because it's pouring down rain--40 degrees lower in temp today than yesterday), and headed to work. But I'd only gotten a mile from home when Taylor called. He had Ashtyn and Megan in the van when they ran completely out of gas. I turned around to pick them up and take them to school.
Then I went home and picked up Briana and the gas can. We filled up the gas can and her tank (almost). She drove me to where Flo was parked, but neither of us had a key. So we went back home to get a key. We then drove back to Flo, put the gas in her tank. I drove the van to WJHS so that the kids would have a way to get home (and to their haircut appointment this afternoon).
Bri took me home, where I washed the gas off my hands and packed myself a quick lunch. She made me some hot chocolate, which I promptly spilled all down the front of my sweater. I had to get the wrinkles out of another set of clothes (I had done this last night so I didn't have to worry about it this morning--HA!).
I finally arrived at work at 10:20. *sigh*
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
To Make A Long Story Short...
Have you ever noticed that when people say "To make a long story short," it never is? This is no exception. :)
Posted by wjmom at 11:11 AM
Labels: a long story


text:
Honeywell CEO: Cut Debt by $3-4 Trillion
Speaking at the WSJ's CFO Network in Washington, D.C., Honeywell CEO and Chairman David M. Cote says the national deb must be cut by at least $3-4 trillion, starting with entitlements.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... you made a decision to agree to sit on the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction committee and then you took the lead in this up ... on Fix the Debt campaign in the first question I wanna ask is why did you do ... I will miss Simpson Bowles thing was ... picking up an interesting white kids ... I've been complaining about a ghost isn't New Hampshire Republican elsewhere grew up ... I've been complaining about the ... deficit even back during the ... early two thousand ... active member wanted some Medicare part D being done and be a non funded acumen think oh my God I can't believe it is the Republicans of doing this now this is ... this is a mess ... and aam ... all the sudden I was offered the opportunity to do something about it and be a member of this commission ... recommended thinking at that time while ... you sometimes it gets to that put up or shut up kind of thing and ... I thought ok and be an to do something I've been complaining about eye on the falloff Lama ... on the opportunity to do that ... I tend to be more involved than I expected ... which is ok in the morning ... quite a bit out of it ... and then aam ... we got to the end we issued our report ... I was shocked by the way at the numbers is packed with consumers suffer financially conversant CEO ... and I had no ID or how bad this would get over the next ten years to really came as a surprise ... them and nobody did anything other than talk about it even that was a little anemic ... we kept striving for ways to Heidi get attention to this because they felt that that point ... I mean not to wrap myself up in the final lap but as an American idea that build that a problem like this exists ... cannot do something about it ... so that's why we started our fixed again effort and I got up ... about a hundred other CEO stupid to stay with me is we funded for the tune of about forty five million dollars to separate ... and it's just one of those things that ... I'm worried about it for my own country's competitiveness that we gotta do something with it and I'm the ... and we apply chief of apogee been pushing this rock up until now for for three or four years and it's been slower Delta deal than it was when you start it we don't seem to be making any progress at what point you throw your hands and say ... I can make a bigger difference in the private sector than I can do and that's ... that you have a job in media write it sounds like ... by the ... idea that ... to that ... because of ... I would say first like to see fundamentally disagree with just that ... because the Indian Red Rock for their open though ... I would say the rock ... slowly in a deserved lead gets move upward ... now ... the problem is I would've preferred solution the way business would do it where you would look at it and all ... oh my God we get this issue let's talk about it ... here's their solution Let's tandem mining ... well things just don't work that simply ... don't you just don't ... and state you seen this attack in pieces so there's about the two one a half trillion has been done at this point ... the problem is that asking is really really big ... and some would say there's only another trillion half required ... I'd argue that that to get assault on the right path going to the next decade ... is probably still more like another three or four trillion dollars that he did ... especially when it comes to entitlements ... but just because is difficult doesn't mean you give up ... I would say ... my job it Honeywell is immensely more gratifying and reward ... them anything I didn't hear it that ... that that is absolutely true ... but you know the de UTP we are but an issue like that and not try the half to at least try


text:
FACETIME- Water man: Rivanna is Schuyler's mission
We drink water, clean with water, and bathe in water– but Ridge Schuyler is immersed in it. The 45-year-old Nature Conservancy executive has been on a mission to save the water.
He was a key player in the Conservancy's collaboration with the Dave Matthews Band to plant over 900 trees at the forks of the Rivanna River to offset the pollution caused by their tour busses around the country. He led the charge to solve Central Virginia's water shortage with an inter-reservoir pipeline.
But the accomplishment that put all of his senses on liquid overdrive might just be the Rivanna River Basin Commission, which he hopes is on its way to saving the watershed.
"The watershed covers many jurisdictions," Schuyler explains, "and there was no entity to protect it."
Although the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission spearheaded an effort to create a "Rivanna River Roundtable" in 1998, the project stalled without a dedicated funding source.
At Schuyler's prodding, the Conservancy revived the venture as the "Rivanna River Basin Commission" in 2001. In 2004, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously to create the commission, but it was Schuyler who finally brought home the liquid assets.
"I had to get the localities to join," he says. "They all loved the idea but said they had no funds to contribute."
As Schuyler began lobbying the various local governments, some local citizens saw things his way. "Private people," he says, "stepped up, donating $450,000."
That generosity allowed the commission not to have to ask the jurisdictions for any initial funding, prompting Albemarle last month to join Greene, Fluvanna, and Charlottesville in protecting the Piedmont's beloved watershed.
Another group, Charlottesville Tomorrow, assisted on local water supply issues, and director Brian Wheeler– praising the "science, creative research, and smart ideas"– was impressed. "Ridge's leadership has been a huge benefit to the community," Wheeler says.
Schuyler, a native of Charlottesville, graduated from the UVA School of Law and initially took the well-worn path, taking his litigation skills to a big law firm in New York City. However, after returning to Virginia, Schuyler experienced a professional change of heart.
"I found that trial work is backward looking," he says. " I didn't want to spend my life looking back."
Schuyler's search for a face-forward career took him to Capitol Hill, where he kept his environmental focus in mind throughout 10 years of legislative work.
Before having their first child, Schuyler and his wife decided to move back to Charlottesville, where he jumped on the opening for director of the Conservancy Piedmont program.
Despite the years of tackling obstacles to make the Rivanna River Basin Project idea viable, Schuyler is happy that he gave up litigation for the Conservancy.
"I get to work in Charlottesville and walk around in streams," he says. "My law school friends are very jealous of the work I do."
Ridge Schuyler


text: Quanta Services provides engineering, procurement and construction services for comprehensive infrastructure needs in the electric power industry. With 22,000 employees and offices across North America and abroad, Quanta is the premier provider in the indutry is serves. Quanta has focused on becoming a single-source solution to an array of complex market needs since its inception. As a result, Quanta has changed the industry by delivering a collective scope of services, expertise and manpower never before offered by one company.


text:
The story was originally published on Monday and has been updated.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Neither snow, freezing temperatures, market volatility nor a lousy jobs report will stay the Federal Reserve from taking another small step toward the exit.
Federal Reserve officials will likely agree on another $10 billion taper to its bond-purchase program after a two-day meeting that ends Wednesday. That's the same pace as the first reduction announced in December and it will bring the monthly purchases down to $65 billion per month, consisting of $35 billion of Treasurys and $30 billion or mortgage backed securities.
"I think the Fed is desperate to extract itself from quantitative easing, and it will continue to scale back the program and end it this year," said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist of the Economic Outlook Group, in an interview.
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke indicated the Fed wanted to taper at a similar pace to the December move and "now they'll start off on that road," agreed Nigel Gault, co-chief economist at The Parthenon Group in Boston.
The tumble in the stock market —down six of the last seven sessions through mid-morning trade— will not deter the Fed from tapering again, analysts said.
Also read:5 of Bernanke's most memorable moments | A look back at the Bernanke era
Indeed, many experts said it will take something fairly major to blow the Fed off course, either a quicker taper or a pause.
Depending on the circumstances, any shift could be difficult to communicate to markets, Gault said.
One exception to this stance was Jennifer Vail, head of fixed income research at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, who thinks the Fed will probably accelerate the pace of tapering in the summer.
Instead of finishing tapering at the end of 2014, "we expect the Fed to be done with bond purchases by September," Vail said.
"They want to get out of this business," she said
The minutes of the Fed's December policy committee meeting revealed that Fed officials believe the benefits from bond purchases erode over time. Read more about December minutes.
There is also concern about asset bubbles and the $4 trillion size of the central bank's balance sheet.
This week's meeting is one of transition, economists said, being the last under Bernanke's leadership. Janet Yellen will not take over as Fed chairwoman until next month. See slide show of key moments of Bernanke's tenure.
At the two-day meeting that started Tuesday, there will be a new set of regional Fed presidents as voters and the group looks a little hawkish relative to last year, said Michael Hanson, U.S. economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Hanson said Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve, might dissent in favor of a quicker taper.
Fed officials will debate how to gauge the labor market's strength and what indicators to key on for any hike in short-term interest rates but will make no decisions until Yellen assumes her post, Gault said.
"There is unlikely to be any policy decisions at Bernanke's final meeting," Gault said.
In terms of the January Fed policy statement, "we think less is more," said Julia Coronado, chief U.S. economist at BNP Paribas.
At the moment, the Fed has pledged not to hike its target federal funds rate until "well past" when the unemployment rate falls below the 6.5% threshold. The rate was 6.7% in December.
That pledge, or "forward guidance," is designed to calm financial markets that the central bank will not rush to the exits.
While nonfarm payroll jobs rose by 74,000 in December, the smallest gain in three years, Fed officials made clear in their speeches that the weak report in December would not stop them from tapering again.
Baumohl said the weak job report in December has hurt business and market psychology.
"I just want to see some more data so we can get past that bizarre number," he said.
Despite that weak jobs reading, Bauhmohl and most economists believe the U.S. economy is poised to lift off in 2014, even as similar hopes were routinely dashed since the financial crisis.
"It has a better chance of coming through this year than any of the last three years," Gault said.
More must reads on MarketWatch
Forward guidance: BOE's self-inflicted headache


text:
Next week, critically celebrated and DiS-loved singer, songwriter and sometime Judy Garland dresser-upper Rufus Wainwright, releases a 19-disc boxset, entitled House of Rufus, to coincide with his 5-night residency at the Royal Opera House in London. Here, the man himself introduces the boxset as part of DiS' series of pieces for Rufus Week...
"It's strange having a box set come out at the age of 37, and in my opinion there are arguably four directions in which this act can be taken: two bad, one so-so and one good.
The first is that I'm dead, which for all intents and purposes doesn't seem to be the case and yes: dead is bad.
The second is that I'm somehow physically lame and either can't sing nor play the piano anymore. Now, arguably certain bold detractors will snidely comment that this has in fact always been the case, but I'm calling your bluff, and for those of you who bought this beautiful box set in good faith, last I checked it seemed everything was functional and up to par so no, and yes: being physically lame is very very bad.
The third is that years ago when I was in my extreme youth I experienced wild success for a time and then rather abruptly fell off the radar, thus giving a kind of cult cache in what is otherwise considered a failed career in general. But judging by the slow and steady rise of my CD and ticket sales over many many years, (one unsuspecting victim at a time darling), this I believe is also not the case.
And perhaps unfortunately so.
This third option would have permitted years ago the acquisition of prime Manhattan real estate, an asset which during the economic crises barely winced and thus would have allowed me to either sell, or throw a bunch of parties for cash, and I could have been that guy you see when you first arrive in the city, with your bright eyes and bushy tail, who you become unduly impressed with due to the extreme impressionability of the innocent.
And Thus, in a very jaded fashion, I dub this the "so so" reason.
Finally we've arrived at the fourth and mysteriously tagged "good" one:
The suspense is mounting, the eyes of the reader bat, the door creeks, a small marble ball gently rolls across a hard wooden floor.
Could it be because the world is officially ending in 2012? Or that once I play the Royal Opera House I will grow a permanent beard and put on weight to look like a real composer? Or that after this famed concert it will be revealed that Martha and I are actually the same person, and that person is in fact our other sister Lucy? Or perhaps it's because I'm such a massive genius that in turn everything in my life, clothes, kitchen appliances, my dearest Jorn and my trusty nose hair clipper will all be wrapped, regardless, in sumptuously gleaming red velvet?
How about this. The fourth reason is that I'm very very lucky to have over the years worked with so many wonderful people, made some pretty good music and traveled all over the world to see you folks, the fans, and I thank you profusely from the bottom of my heart for generously supporting my career and spending a lot of money on this beautifully crafted collection of my work.
Rufus Wainwright"
Pre-order your copy on Amazon, here: House Of Rufus (13CD + 6 DVD)