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Megan Trau
LaGrange, Georgia
What classes have you taken at COA?
Ecology: Natural History
Contemporary Culture & the Self
Philosophy of Science
International Wildlife Policy & Protected Areas
Advanced Composition
Biology I & II
Gardens & Greenhouses
Poetry & the American Environment
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Literature, Science, & Spirituality
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Graphic Design Studio I
The History of Natural History
Plant Systematics
Independent Study: Practical Herbal Medicine
Independent Study: Bird & Small Mammal Taxidermy
What has been your favorite class at COA? Why?
Hmm...that's a tough one. I love a lot of them for various reasons. Curiosity & Wonder with Dru Colbert has been very useful in bringing my senior project, and my career, to life. Plant Systematics with Nishi Rajakaruna has helped me recognize 30+ plant families on the spot. The History of Natural History with John Anderson has proven to me that history class doesn't have to be boring--it can be storytime.
What is your dream occupation?
Artist for museum exhibits: fabricating artificial plants and such and generally creating things to communicate science to the public.
Do you work on or off campus? If yes, where?
I have worked as a tutor in the Writing Center throughout my time at COA.
What do you see yourself doing after COA?
I have a part-time job at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA as the Collections Curatorial Assistant. I also was an Exhibit Development intern at the Ecotarium in Worcester, MA for the summer.
What country or state would you like to visit?
I feel like I should go west of the Mississippi before I start roaming around internationally. So let's start there.
Where would you love to live?
I love New England and hope to stay here. :)
What is happiness to you?
Sunshine, mud between my toes, and laughter with good friends. Alternatively: rainy day, hot tea, and a cat in my lap. Clearly, my mood is weather dependent...
Have you had an internship? If so, doing what? Where?
My first internship was as a Garden Intern at Spruce Knob Mountain Center in West Virginia. I designed, planted, and cared for a 20'x80' garden plot as well as created a guide to local food sources for the center. My second internship was at the Delaware Museum of Natural History as a Collections Intern. I made 19 bird study skins, catalogued specimens, updated the database, and learned many more tasks involved in collections care.
What did you do for your senior project?
My senior project was The Human Ecology of Weeds: A Museum Exhibit. It is an exhibit in the Dorr Museum that aims to connect visitors to the plants they see every day and help them reconcile their relationship with plants that they usually consider pests. I created artificial plants out of paper for a diorama of a sidewalk, designed three interpretative panels, illustrated ten plants for a sorting activity, and made a video of interviews with invasive plants about their immigration stories.
What is one of your favorite childhood memories?
All kinds of playtime with my dad--building things (and taking them apart), writing stories, riding down hills in the wagon, and running around as Batman and Robin.
What is your favorite food to eat? What is your favorite thing to cook?
I love cooking random meals with whatever I can scavenge from the fridge--I'm particularly good at making quite festive ramen soups. In terms of eating, I love anything vegan. And I should give proper homage to chocolate.
What do you like to do when you're not doing school work?
Depends on the weather. If it's pretty outside, I'd like to be walking around in the woods somewhere or photosynthesizing in the sun. But if it's raining, I enjoy knitting, drawing, and other craftsy endeavors.
What are your favorite colors?
I've always been bad at this question...but I guess I tend to have a lot of things that are various shades of green or blue. But red's nice too and so is yellow....see, I have a problem.
What are your favorite flowers?
Little herbaceous guys. Lamiaceae is a good family for that. I'm also extremely fond of dandelions.
What are your favorite animals?
Cats and cows. They're my buddies.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
The egg, seeing as this question doesn't specify whether we're talkin' 'bout a chicken egg. So, yes, eggs in general preceded the chicken.
What is the motto you like to live by?
If life gives you lemons...shut up and eat your damn lemons.
Why did you choose to come to COA?
The community. People are passionate and respectful and generally beautiful humans. The professors are also dedicated to teaching and genuinely committed to their students.
What do you like to study?
Botany and anthropology and art.
Where do you like to study?
I usually find myself sitting on my bed.
Who are your favorite writers and poets?
Walt Whitman if I'm feeling contemplative. Kurt Vonnegut if I'm feeling discouraged with society. And I'm currently reading the third book in the Abarat series by Clive Barker.
Who are your favorite artists and musicians?
Florence + the Machine, Ingrid Michaelson, and Regina Spektor all have lovely voices. And Coldplay is an old favorite. In terms of other artists, I've always appreciated 18th and 19th century Dutch painters and their attention to tiny details.
What historical figure do you most admire?
I am a fan of Otto von Bismarck's mustache, Leon Trotsky's very unique death, and Rachel Carson in general.
Who is your hero today?
I've never really had heroes. I respect a lot of people, but not in a Bette Midler "did you ever know that you're my heeerrrooo" kind of way.
What do people say is your most marked characteristic?
My "typewriter" handwriting. And my facial expressions. At least that's what I hear about all the time.
What talent do you wish you had?
Upper body strength. Being able to cross the monkey bars would be a good start...
What is your least favorite spice?
I'm not sure that I have one...I guess I don't like large quantities of ginger. And I rarely use salt.
Do you have anything cool or unique you would like to share?
You can use rhododendron leaves to determine the temperature in the winter. 40's: vaguely droopy; 30's: rather droopy; 20's: edges curled; 'teens: all rolled up. Try it some time--plants never lie.


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Throwback Thursday is a weekly update that we do here on Caught on Set. Every Thursday we post pictures from the set of a movie you haven't seen in a while, or possibly ever.
Today we take a look at a film that is not only a cinema classic, but also a literary one as well. The Outsiders is an amazing book and movie. I don't even like books, or reading for that matter, and I loved this story. If you've never seen this movie, or read the book you have to go and do both now. Right now. Go ahead, I'll wait...You loved it didn't you?
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I can explain how awesome this movie without any descriptive words. Here's all you need to know about it. Novel written by S.E. Hinton. Movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane. If those names don't sell you on how great this movie is, I don't know what to tell you. Actually I was going to have you read a review of the movie, but it turns out that Roger Ebert didn't think to highly of it. So do your own research or just take my word for it and watch the damn movie.


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An overweight teen with no friends puts his planned suicide on hold after he is taken under the wing of an older yet unstable punk rocker in this tender adaptation of KL Going's award-winning young adult novel. Troy Billings (Jacob Wysocki) is a misfit with a weight problem. He's hatched a plan to end it all when out of the blue he meets 18-year-old non-conformist Marcus Macrae (Matt O'Leary), whose devil-may-care attitude gives Troy an optimistic new outlook on life. Troy's merciful reprieve from depression meets an unexpected challenge, however, when his strict father (Bill Campbell) deems Marcus a druggie troublemaker, and forbids the two from being friends. Fat Kid Rules the World marks the feature directorial debut of longtime actor Matthew Lillard (Scream, Scooby-Doo). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Does it take twelve steps to sell a project in Hollywood? Leonard (Joshua Leonard) and Nelson (Sean Nelson) are writing partners who have been trying to break into the movie business for years; Nelson has a hefty trust fund and often finds himself supporting his friend Leonard, who has lots of ideas but doesn't deal with well the real world. One evening, Leonard is knocking back beers in a low-rent saloon when he meets Gregg D (Ross Partridge), a well-known A-list actor with rampant substance abuse problems. Leonard starts pitching some ideas to Gregg, and the star seems interested, but before long he wanders out and the next day Leonard learns Gregg has gone back into rehab. Leonard figures the best way to sell Gregg on his ideas is to check into the same facility, but Gregg is recovering at Wingspan, a rehab center that looks like an upscale country club and costs $10,000 a week. Leonard and Nelson have to talk Nelson's big brother (John Hodgman), who oversees his trust fund, into bankrolling Leonard's stay at Wingspan, and once he makes it in, Leonard's sessions with therapist Mad Reg (Robyn Hitchcock) make him wonder if he doesn't have some serious problems after all. Directed by Steven Schardt and Sean Nelson, Treatment received its world premiere at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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When people talk about the music scene in Seattle, Washington, most folks think about the grunge rock explosion of the 1990s, while others might cite Sir Mix-A-Lot and the city's rap scene, pioneering garage rockers such as The Wailers and The Sonics, or the decade spanning success of Heart. But few people know that Seattle had a thriving funk and R&B scene in the 1960s and 70s; while none of them broke through to nationwide success, bands like Cookin' Bag, Black On White Affair, The Soul Swingers and Cold, Bold & Together were stars in the city's African-American community and they headlined the city's many nightclubs catering to soul music fans. However, most of those groups had been forgotten for years when in 2001 Mr. Supreme, a Seattle-area hip hop DJ, found a single called "Bold Soul Sister" in a bargain bin and gave it a spin. Supreme was impressed with the groove, and surprised to discover it was a local release from a Seattle-based funk act. Supreme began digging up as many Seattle funk and soul rarities as he could find, and eventually helped compile Wheedle's Groove, a CD collection featuring rare R&B sides from the Northwest. Supreme started researching the history of Seattle's soul scene and helped coordinate a gig in which many of the city's classic funk acts reunited for a night. In Wheedle's Groove, filmmaker Jennifer Maas examines the legacy of Seattle R&B, interviews some of the leading musicians of the day, includes the thoughts of such notable observers as Quincy Jones, Mark Arm and Ben Gibbard, and includes footage from Supreme's reunion concert. Wheedle's Groove was an official selection at the 2010 Seattle Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Fri, Nov 08, 2013 | 05:21 GMT
Legend of Raven trailer shows off new versions
A new trailer for Legend of Raven shows off how lovely it will look on the Playstation 4.
Tue, Nov 05, 2013 | 04:30 GMT
Legend of Raven is coming to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with GGPO
Legend of Raven, the enhanced PlayStation Vita port of Attack on Yatagarasu and not the recently IndieGoGo'd Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm for PC, is now coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sometime next year. What's more, all three of Nicalsis' ports will utilise GGPO matchmaking, so look forward to that.
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Fri, Aug 23, 2013 | 07:39 BST
Legend of Raven coming to Vita, is upgraded Yatagarasu
3DS fighter Yatagarasu is coming to 3DS with a new title. Siliconera reports the Vita port is named Legend of Raven, and includes a new soundtrack, parallaxing backgrounds and ad-hoc play. The port coms courtesy of Nicalis, but the original was built by Circle Edge, a team of King of Fighters development veterans. Its eight characters were hand-animated by Kotani Tomoyuki. See some screens through the break.
Mon, Aug 19, 2013 | 08:27 BST
Nicalis bringing Kemco RPG Grinsia to 3DS
Kemco is well-known in recent years for producing high-quality 16-bit style RPGs to iPhone and Android. Grinsia is considered by many as one of their best, and publisher Nicalis is now bringing it to the Nintendo 3DS.
Sun, Aug 11, 2013 | 22:17 BST
VVVVVV may be headed to Vita in the near future
VVVVVV may be coming to Vita in the near future if a tweet from Nicalis' Tyron Rodriguez is any indication. The picture of the game running on Vita, which was tweeted by Rodriguez yesterday, was met with surprise by the game's creator Terry Cavanagh who responded by saying: "Cool, I didn't know this was still happening." Despite the tweet, there's nothing official regarding the Vita port at the moment. Thanks, Polygon.
Sat, Mar 09, 2013 | 20:48 GMT
Gero Blaster is the next game from Cave Story developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya
Gero Blaster is a new title in the works from Cave Story's Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya, who showed off the game at BitSummit in Japan this weekend. The side-scrolling shooter has players donning the persona of Kaeru, a frog, who is trying to find his kidnapped girlfriend. According to information gleaned by Nintendo Life, Nicalis will publish the iOS title, which looks to also be heading to 3DS. A release date wasn't provided. You can check out larger shots of the game and a video on AGB. Thanks, manamana.
Mon, Feb 11, 2013 | 00:29 GMT
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth team nearly ready for new content
In a quick update to his personal blog, Edmund McMillen has said work on The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is coming along swimmingly. A significant number of assets from the original game have been reproduced in the re-releases 16-bit art style, and the artists will soon move on to working on new content. McMillen said he's "quite happy with how things are looking" and that "the game is in good hands". Rebirth is a console re-release of the experimental rogue-like, freed from its Flash engine constraints to support new content and an overhauled art style thanks to Nicalis. Platforms and release date are still to be confirmed.
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Mon, Dec 03, 2012 | 02:45 GMT
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth seeks your approval for pixel makeover
Edmund McMillen has asked current and potential fans of The Binding of Isaac to help decide how the console remake will look, as well as what additional features it may boast.
Wed, Nov 28, 2012 | 21:58 GMT
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth headed to consoles
Edmund McMillen's dark rogue-like The Binding of Isaac is coming to consoles courtesy of Nicalis.
Thu, Nov 15, 2012 | 21:31 GMT
Cave Story developer's shm'up headed to 3DS eShop
Guxt, a 2007 vertical shoot-'em-up from Cave Story creator Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya, is headed to the 3DS eShop. Publisher Nicalis made a surprise announcement of Guxt's port on Twitter, noting that it's achieved an E for Everyone rating. Producer Tyrone Rodriguez revealed that the shooter will employ a vertical display mode, allowing you to turn the 3DS through 90 degrees and enjoy a longer playing field without a hinge break. No date or pricing information yet, but Rodriguez did note that Nicalis plans on having Guxt be cheaper than Cave Story, as it is shorter.
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Ántonia Shimerda
Ántonia Shimerda, a young immigrant girl of appealing innocence, simple passions, and moral integrity, the daughter of a Bohemian homesteading family in Nebraska. Even as a child, she is the mainstay of her gentle, daydreaming father. She and Jim Burden, the grandson of a neighboring farmer, become friends, and he teaches her English. After her father's death, her crass mother and sly, sullen older brother force her to do a man's work in the fields. Pitying the girl, Jim's grandmother finds work for her as a hired girl in the town of Black Hawk. There, her quiet, deep zest for life and the Saturday night dances lead to her ruin. She falls in love with Larry Donovan, a dashing railroad conductor, and goes to Denver to marry him, but he soon deserts her, and she comes back to Black Hawk, unwed, to have her child. Twenty years later, Jim Burden, visiting in Nebraska, meets her again. She is now married to Cuzak, a dependable, hardworking farmer, and the mother of a large brood of children. Jim finds her untouched by farm drudgery or village spite. Because of her serenity, strength of spirit, and passion for order and motherhood, she reminds him of stories told about the mothers of ancient races.
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James Quayle Burden, called Jim, the narrator. Orphaned at the age of ten, he leaves his home in Virginia and goes to live with his grandparents in Nebraska. In that lonely prairie...
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Jim Burden
As narrator, Jim Burden is Cather's persona—that is, he serves as a stand-in for the author. He comes to Nebraska at about the same age and time that Cather moved west with her family; he lives on a farm for a time with his grandparents just as Cather did; and Jim's neighbors, the Shimerdas, may have been inspired by the Cathers' Bohemian neighbors, the Sadileks. As an adult, Jim Burden returns to Nebraska just as Cather returned to Red Cloud and visited her friend Annie Sadilek, who was then surrounded by a large brood of children and happily married to a Czech farmer (Cuzak in the novel).
Jim is not merely Cather's voice. He is a full-bodied character with a nature and point of view of his own. Although sensitive, dreamy, and somewhat alienated, he is also conventional, a product of his own social class and family aspirations. But it is not simply class attitudes that keep a wedge between him and Ántonia. He is at turns intrigued by Ántonia's will-power and vitality and disgusted by her strongheadedness and outspoken nature. People talk about him, that there is something strange about his lack of interest in girls of his own age and class and his lively relationships with the hired girls, the daughters of immigrants. Yet, once scolded by his grandmother, he stops socializing with them at the dances. While attending college in Lincoln, he starts a relationship with Lena Lingard. Yet he accepts her declaration that she will never marry, and he...
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Ántonia Shimerda
Ántonia is fourteen when she first meets Jim and gives him a ring. Her warmth and impulsiveness are immediately evident, the very characteristics that both intrigue and frighten Jim. She is both a realist and a loyalist, who makes excuses for her mother's behavior but does not complain about her. Her father wants to develop her loftier side: "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach my Án-tonia!" he tells Mrs. Burden. But his suicide puts an end to such refined aspirations. Ántonia's hardy side is developed instead. She works in the fields, proud to be competing with men. Her physicality makes her great; she belongs to the earth. At the end of Book One, Ántonia corrects Jim's blindness to their difference in circumstance: "If I live here, like you, that is different. Things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us."
Hired out to the Harlings, she learns how things are done in a well-ordered American home, things her own overwhelmed and disappointed mother could not have taught her. A basic harmony exists between Ántonia and Mrs. Harling: they have strong, independent natures, and they know what they like. They both love children, animals, and music, as well as rough play and digging in the earth. As Jim says, "Deep down in each of them there was a kind of hearty joviality, a relish of life, not over-delicate, but very invigorating." But Ántonia is young, high-tempered, and stubborn. When she has to choose between her work at the Harlings and dancing, she...
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Mrs. Emmaline Burden
Jim's sturdy grandmother runs an orderly, proper household, a counterpoint to the Shimerda's animal-like cave. Awareness of differences makes her generally tolerant and concerned. The narrow attitudes of the Norwegians who won't let Mr.Shimerda be buried in their cemetery offend her: "If these foreigners are so clannish, Mr. Bushy, we'll have to have an American graveyard that will be more liberal-minded." But she has her own biases. She is contemptuous of Mrs. Shimerda's gift of dried mushrooms, declaring, "I shouldn't want to eat anything that had been shut up for months with old clothes and goose pillows." And she is conventional too. She worries that people will say she hasn't brought Jim up correctly because he dances with the country girls. And when he is at school, she informs him only of those friends she aproves of. She does not let him know that Lena Lingard is in Lincoln.
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Grandmother Burden
See Mrs. Emmaline Burden.
Grandfather Burden
See Mr. Burden.
Mr. Burden
Grandfather Burden is reserved, dignified, but occasionally outspoken. Religious and broad-minded, he accepts that "The prayers of all good people are good." Grandfather does not join the feud between his hired men and the Shimerdas and continues to help Ambrosch and Ántonia with advice and materials.
Gaston Cleric
Jim's Latin teacher in Lincoln awakens his mind and makes the classics come alive for him. Jim believes that Cleric "narrowly missed being a great poet," but spends all his creative energy in his lectures. It is on his account that Jim goes to Harvard.
Curly Peter
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Wick Cutter
The Black Hawk money lender fleeces Russian Peter and many others. He talks of his religious nature and contributions to Protestant churches, yet is known as a gambler and womanizer. His crafty plot to assault Ántonia, who comes to work for him and his wife, is thwarted by Mrs. Burden and Jim.
Wycliffe Cutter
See Wick Cutter.
Anton Cuzak
Antonia's husband had made several bad decisions in his youth in Vienna and in America. He finally comes to Black Hawk to visit his cousin, Anton Jelinek. When he meets Ántonia, he finds exactly the kind of girl he had always wanted. Lena thinks he is the perfect partner for Ántonia: "He isn't a...
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My Antonia has a double protagonist, being at one and the same time the story of Antonia Shimerda and the story of how the narrator Jim comes to consider her the symbol of his childhood and of the pioneer era. From the moment the two of them arrive in Nebraska on the same train, Jim an orphan from Virginia who will be cared for by his grandparents on their comfortable farm, and Antonia an immigrant from Bohemia who will have to face all the trials of the first-generation immigrant pioneer, to the end of the story when they are reunited in middle age, Jim is consistently used as a suggestive parallel to Antonia. He is male, born in America and a Protestant, rather privileged economically and therefore able to receive an education and explore the world. She is female, an immigrant and a Catholic, poor, uneducated, and bound to the land. He is contemplative, she is active. He achieves success professionally but ends up with only the past to console him; she makes many mistakes but finally is able to savor the present and look forward to the future, all the while revering the past.
Cather never has Antonia reveal herself directly to the reader but shows her development and self-discovery from the outside as she is observed by Jim at different ages: as a child exploring the wonders of the prairie and being forced to take on the responsibilities of an adult; as an adolescent in Black Hawk excelling in the domestic arts and rebelling at attempts to suffocate her...
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[CALGARY, AB] — A strike by 4,800 Canadian Pacific Railway workers means the services of thousands of other employees won't be needed, a spokesman for the railway said Wednesday as the federal labour minister threatened to force an end to the day-old stoppage.
"Unfortunately, with this unnecessary strike by the Teamsters, more than 2,000 other unionized CP employees will not be required and are being laid off," said CP's Ed Greenberg. "We expect this to grow by another 1,400 employees as their work, related to the operations of the railroad, is no longer required."
Greenberg said the layoffs could affect those who work in the yard, engineering and mechanical areas — essentially anyone who isn't needed when trains aren't running.
Earlier in Ottawa, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said the government is prepared to introduce back-to-work legislation if CP and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference can't reach a deal.
"We want to create the atmosphere where they can do a deal on their own," she told reporters. "But they have to be aware of the fact that the Canadian government will step in on the basis of the national economy and the greater public interest at some point."
A prolonged strike would cost the Canadian economy an estimated $540 million a week, Raitt said, calling that figure "conservative".
She said some freight might be able to move by other means — by truck or on rival railroad Canadian National Railway Co.'s network.
"But at some point in time there will be a grave economic effect and we're monitoring for that now," she said.
Tens of thousands of carloads a day of grain, coal, cars, lumber and other products aren't moving because of the walkout, Greenberg said.
"This will have dramatic impacts on our customers' business and Canada's economy," he said. "If the Teamsters stay on strike for any length of time, we are told that significant collateral impact will occur to our customers with plant shutdowns or operational curtailment. This will take the economic impact and job loss far beyond the minister's estimates."
Opposition labour critic Alexandre Boulerice said he's concerned the threat of back-to-work legislation will skew the balance at the negotiating table in favour of the company.
"Once again the Conservatives are taking only one side and by threatening the union and the workers with back-to-work legislation, it removes a lot of pressure from the employer," said the Montreal NDP MP. "It constitutes another attack against the rights of the workers to associate and to freely negotiate."
Both the union and CP have said the negotiations would continue Wednesday.
"We have made every reasonable effort to get a settlement," Teamsters vice-president Doug Finnson said in a statement posted on the union website. "Every union member knows how important the outstanding issues are," Finnson added. "We will not walk away from the negotiation table."
Major points of contention are pensions, some work rules and fatigue management, he said.
A pair of western farm officials urged Ottawa Wednesday to end the strike as son as possible, saying farmers will face steep financial losses should the strike drag on.
"We'd simply like to see them order them back to work or deem rail service an essential service," said Kevin Bender, the president of the Western Wheatgrowers Association. "It's not just farming and agriculture, it's a lot of industry that suffers when they go on strike. We're held captive by the railways."
Norm Hall, the president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, also called on Ottawa to rush through a back-to-work bill, saying grain exports are critical to the western economy.
"We cannot truck our grain to export positions," said Hall. "We don't have the trucks available, we don't have the highway system available, the rail system is barely adequate, so we've only got railroads."
In a release, the Canadian Mining Association urged Ottawa to step in to end the dispute, as mining companies depend on rail to bring equipment and fuel to site and move their product to market.
"The shipment of fuel and other supplies to mine sites will be compromised as is the transport of mineral products," said association head Pierre Gratton.
The strike is also affecting Canadian farmers, and the companies that supply nutrients and other goods to them.
"Anything that interrupts nutrient movement to the grower in the middle of the season in Western Canada is not good news for the farmer," said Richard Downey, a spokesman for fertilizer producer Agrium Inc.
Agrium, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Mosaic Co. market their potash, a key crop nutrient, overseas through a company they jointly own called Canpotex.
Canpotex railcars move from Saskatchewan, where the nutrient is mined, along CP's tracks to the port of Vancouver for export.
"You see Canpotex cars going to the West Coast every single day, and demand has really picked up internationally for potash," said Downey. "The perception of Canpotex from the customer side of things is a reliable supplier. That's one of the key benefits of Canpotex and anything that damages that is of major concern for all of us."
Agrium uses Montreal-based CN, Canada's biggest railway, for most of its other fertilizer shipments, but any disruption is likely to have ripple effects on the entire system.
Commuter trains in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto that rely on CP infrastructure are continuing to run during the strike, after Raitt pushed CP to keep operating them as a "goodwill gesture" on Tuesday.
Two Via Rail routes in Ontario that use CP tracks are affected: between Sudbury and White River and the Brockville-to-Ottawa segment of the Toronto-Ottawa route. Via says it's providing alternate transportation on those routes.
The strike comes at a time of major changes at Canada's second-biggest railway.
A bruising months-long proxy fight with the railway's biggest shareholder culminated last week in Fred Green's exit as CEO.
New York hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management argued the railway was lagging its peers under Green's leadership and that a change in CEO was necessary.
Green and five other board members stepped down hours before the company's annual general meeting last Thursday after it became evident shareholders had voted overwhelmingly for director nominees on Pershing's slate.
The Teamsters' Finnson said the union had not yet met with Green's interim replacement, Stephen Tobias, but added that the management shakeup had not affected the bargaining process one way or the other.


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Bloc organizers speak out
yaya77wroteTue, 11 Jun 2013Errr, all this shite about passing Bloc passing the buck to everyone else. Not a single fucking word about how to get our money back. Cunts.
sinewavewroteSat, 16 Feb 2013utter c/nts. i filled out the form - twice and still no f/cking refund.
mikkimostwroteMon, 17 Sep 2012I think they need to learn that an apology goes a long way ...this is just a load of bullshit excuses. Come on guys just admit that you fucked up BIG TIME!
princepopewroteWed, 12 Sep 2012I don't buy a word. Alex Benson and George Hull should apologize ( I haven't heard anything of this kind in this 'interview') and disappear. We (festival goers) don't need them anymore out there. So when they say: 'We still feel that we can deliver something special to these people. We don't think this needs to be the end. We'd like people to get behind us, we hope they will.' .. I can only suggest them to, once again, DISAPPEAR.
BevanwroteWed, 12 Sep 2012Just to clarify, I wasn't comparing Bloc to WHP, I'm fully aware they are two completely different promotions! All I was saying was that, I spent a lot less money at WHP, and had one of the best nights out I've had in years. The music quality and progression of music all night was unreal and the sound system was one of the best i've heard in a venue in the UK or Europe. This was my first Bloc and maybe I would think differently if I had been to others, but there's not a chance I will waste... More
theelbowwroteTue, 11 Sep 2012Dinkystoy - totally agree with you - i havent had time to read everything above but feelings still raw about this event. BLOC should have realised LPG was a no go. If i was BLOC the sound levels restrictions would have been a no from the off - you cant have a techno festival running at half blast, doesnt work. i demand as part of my entrance fee, g'teed tinnitus for 24hrs after an event or a refund is requested. I hope BLOC come back, they will learn their lessons and be better for sure. BUT,... More
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Today, I want to make the blog about the unfortunate people in our society. As you know, this Christmas more than any other in my lifetime, our nation is running over with weeping citizens. Every day, I see more and more people gasping for air under the weight of financial oppression. For some reason, my compassion is off the charts so much more than usual this Christmas… and I just know that we can make a difference one family at a time.
Yeah, there are some cruel people out there in our society who scorn at the thought of reaching down a helping hand. I have heard my share of scornful comments throughout the years. Whenever we do our homeless outreaches, there are always those heartless souls who herald out the common phrase, "I don't give to the poor… because they are just going to use it to buy alcohol or drugs."
The only reason people think like this, is because they have never walked in the shoes of a homeless person. I believe that Compassion is the ability to experience life through other peoples eyes… to be able to FEEL their pain… so much of their pain that it BREAKS OUR HEART TO PIECES! Sure, quite a few of these unfortunate folks are in their predicaments because of poor decisions. Yet, we must always remember that each of us are just a few poor decisions away from their same demise.
Isaiah 58:7,9-11 says this: "I want you to share your food with the hungry and to welcome poor wanderers into your homes. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from your relatives who need your help… Feed the hungry and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out of darkness and the darkness around you will be as bright as day!"
Notice that helping the helpless is a very big key to our own personal wellness. There is a distinguishable blessing promised for all who look after the unfortunate people of their societies. So, this Christmas… this WEEK, look around and find a few people you and your family can reach with Gods love! Consider doing something over the top to say, "God cares and we care!" Be discrete off course, not announcing your gifts with trumpets… protect the pride of a father and mother in front of their children. Give the gift they really NEED… whether its food… or presents for a parent to give their toddlers… or a drivable car. Do the best you can, and watch how this enhances your Christmas! If you want to give through our ministry, call the office at 540-337-2216 and we will bless a family in your honor!
Have another amazing day! You guys are a city set up on a hill for all the world to see! Leave your comments… see you tomorrow morning!
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(Re: "Vision2 Is Myopic," August 16-22, Vol. 22, No. 7)
Dear UTW:
Bill Leighty's article nails it in every particular. This blurred and blinkered 'Vision' commits Tulsa's tax-payers to paying for a fundamentally flawed project ... until 2029!
The City/County has given itself a stark choice: between writing corporate welfare checks with other people's money in a bid to get businesses to move here, or investing in making the city's infrastructure actually work for Tulsans.
Never mind aircraft hangers (whose updating could be funded by the Airport Trust) -- what about providing a decent bus system? Or streetcars as recommended by the region's Transit System Plan? How about some functioning sidewalks, crosswalks and streetscaping? Or safe and healthy routes to schools? Attractive, innovative open spaces? Are simple things like bike racks too much to ask?
Or aren't they glamorous enough?
Should we not be investing in making Tulsa the kind of place where businesses, their employees and young people actually want to be, instead of paying them to come here?
Boeing relocated from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, not because they were given a large check by a Chamber or Mayor, but because it wanted to be in a city that provided the quality of life to lure highly skilled employees. Chicago happened to be well-located too. Tulsa must invest in realizing our own Comprehensive Plan projects to deliver a higher and equitable quality of life -- for people who already live here and as a matter competitive necessity.
--Jamie Jamieson
I'll take a visionary, forward thinking plan that nurtures the great things about Tulsa and builds for our future. While we're at it, I'll take investment that will provide a beautiful, livable, progressive city with great quality of life for those of us that do live here and aren't going anywhere. Please and thank you.
--Rachel Navarro
Right on. This thing is ill-conceived, rushed and unimaginative ... just as you have said. The old bag of chamber style throw money at the problem approach is beyond outdated. Quality of life is Tulsa's best selling point. The citizens of Tulsa County deserve better. Yes to the PlanitTulsa vision. As I read somewhere else, it is unfortunate that the Vision 2025 brand is being tarnished.
--Russell Burkhart
Bravo Bill! Just look at what Oklahoma City has done and continues to do with their MAPS projects. With their three quarters of a cent they have been building sustainable developments for years that are well thought out, popular and fiscally responsible. That is what PlaniTulsa is supposed to do! Oklahoma Cities MAPS projects are running circles around Tulsa. Their planning efforts make us look like amateurs. Poor visions achieve poor results.
--Dave Strader
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Let me start off with us as Americans, we love our horses. When you think of Oklahoma you think of horses. You think of cowboys, rodeos, and just plain out horse lovers. I'm guessing you didn't know about the horse slaughter bill that has been signed. So now in the United States we have legalized horse slaughter. Now we can legally slaughter all the unwanted horses. Instead of sending thousands of horses over to Canada and Mexico, to be killed.
Every year horses are sent away for human consumption. So Obama made it a little bit "easier" and signed the bill that will allow horses to be killed in the states. Who feels like having a horse burger? Anyone?
I think that pretty much answers that question. Horses are not some livestock, they are part of peoples families. When people think of Oklahoma you don't want them to think we abandoned our horses.
Sad thing is, PETA thinks this is a good idea when in realitly we shouldn't be sending away our horses to be killed, we shouldn't be killing our horses to be used as food. What are we going to do next send away are unwanted cats and dogs to China? How far are we going to go?
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Melissa Wood, owner of Madera Salon, had to close her shop temporarily above Cactus Jack's Saloon, thanks to the recent flooding that heavily damaged the first floor of the building.
Since Wood can't serve clients at her shop, she decided to give back to the community with her talents: She's giving free haircuts to clients of Evergreen Christian Outreach.
"I just decided with the flooding and everything, this was a time when people are needing more help," Wood said.
"I still have that vivid picture in my mind of Boston," said Army veteran Paul Heiser as he recalled embarking on a ship headed for England in the midst of World War II. "We zigzagged across the Atlantic on the USS Mount Vernon," he said.
Heiser was reminiscing with four other members of the 124th Anti-aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion of the U.S. Army, who had come to Evergreen for their annual gathering.
Singing as they piloted wheelbarrows filled with compost, members of Boy Scout Troop 888 were hard at work at the community garden in Buchanan Park on Sunday morning.
"You have to use brute force," Dillon Mathues said to another Scout who was unloading a pile of compost they were moving.
The Scouts were learning how to create and manage compost to earn gardening merit badges and advance in their ranks. They also seemed to be having a good time while chopping discarded plants to make more compost.
Two young Nubian goats received names from their new foster parents at the close of the Hay Days Harvest Festival at the Humphrey Memorial Park and Museum on Saturday.
Kerrigan and Nancy Clough won the goat-naming contest and decided on "Bramble" and "Raspberry" as the monikers for the frisky, curious kids.
After the naming, Bramble and Raspberry ran over to eat grain from their new parents, who had participated in the contest designed to raise funds for the goats' food.
The Conifer Blues Festival rocked Norm Meyer's ranch on Saturday and left everyone on a high note.
The festival, celebrating its third year, raised money for the I Love U Guys Foundation, which creates and promotes safety programs for schools during emergencies.
In September 2006, a gunman entered Platte Canyon High School and fatally shot student Emily Keyes. The I Love U Guys Foundation was named after Emily's last text-message to her parents.
Emily's parents, Ellen and John-Michael Keyes, started the foundation in 2009.
Conifer High School doubles as a community gathering place throughout the year, serving as everything from a wildfire-evacuation center to a slash-collection facility.
On Aug. 23, Conifer High will be a night-long beacon of hope for those fighting cancer and the people who love them.
The 2013 Relay for Life starts at 6 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Conifer High athletic fields.
Evergreen resident Mariah Roberts is collecting clothing and other goods for impoverished Native Americans in Arizona and South Dakota. She is also hoping that someone will donate a truck to take the items to them — an expense that can be prohibitive, she said.
Roberts is working through Native American Research and Preservation Inc., a nonprofit corporation that assists people living on reservations. The organization supplements government programs and is involved in efforts to preserve historic Native American culture and historic sites.
Toe tapping, head bobbing and hand clapping abounded this past weekend as jazz enthusiasts listened to a host of bands during the 12th annual Evergreen Jazz Festival.
That was true for Pat, Anne and Jake Conroy of Mead, Colo., who took in the Jazz Festival for the first time. Pat and Anne, both 51, tagged along while their son Jake, 16, participated in the festival's workshops for young jazz musicians.
By Devan Filchak
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The arts came alive in Evergreen on Saturday evening as the sounds of music — and silence — filled the air on the first night of the annual Summerfest music and arts event at Buchanan Park.
Mix together dirt, water, paint and a bunch of toddlers at Evergreen Lake, and you get an hour of wet, messy fun. Nine children ages 2 to 5 gathered outside the Nature Center to learn about the fish that live in the lake. They learned that the lake is stocked with trout each year, and that the fish lay their eggs on the lake bottom.


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Here is a modern day 'the chicken or the egg' scenario. What came first, a business's digital capabilities or a customer's need for digital relevance from businesses?
Does it really matter? What does matter is that businesses must be digitally wired with a consumer-focused mind set in order to succeed in today's highly competitive landscape.
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Ask the question your competitors aren't: 'what would my customer expect?'
Today's consumer is fickle and expects the world. Now. Whether looking to purchase a safe new car, a coat for the winter or plane tickets for a weekend getaway, each individual or business customer has a unique process to identify the right product and a long list of demands the delivering brand needs to meet to make the sale.
These include offer value, trust, best price, easy purchasing experience, customer service, and engagement with relevance. And the list could go on.
For a company to be on the top of the consumer's purchasing list, or at least in the short list of contenders, it needs to understand every aspect of the consumer and establish a comprehensive commerce strategy that will give the consumer not only what they want but what they expect. Now.
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Chief Marketing Officers need to become the "Consumer SME" for their company and make business decisions based on consumer needs to achieve loyalty and repeat business.
Consumers are the most important asset to any business. Without consumers buying a product or service, there will no longer be products or services to sell.
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Posted by Lil J x on August 26, 2006, 7:21 pm, in reply to "Re: Jamie Hughes Ward was JUST on tv..."
Hello OMG just spotted jamie on mariah! :O :O :O he is soooo dishy Lol He looks so much smaller on tv Lol other wise on stage he still looks gawjus!!! bless him....great to c him on tv now..dont have to travel far to c him! hehe Any ways im off x x x x x Jamie yah sexy thing Lol Joke Joke
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: hed have been so good in it!
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: Lol, I messaged the 'Maria' site, told them
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: Did you watch the show?? :D *KEVIN BREWIS*
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Call it here in New York City Shibani Joshi outside the Sheraton Hotel.
And does -- we saw him leave any sense on how the meeting went.
Hi there actually yes I think we have some fresh video of Mark Zuckerberg believing they -- in hotel and the saints -- Brandon.
Chaotic things that he entered into just about an hour -- other presentation at least he's part of the presentation.
Blasting it overall -- weren't an event attendees watching the -- -- video from back half now are having lunch.
And then we -- hearing from some of the investors that spoke to -- after everything sort of broke apart.
-- is that Mark Zuckerberg took ten questions in -- Friday.
And then that and then spoke to also the audience that he did have one on one interaction with the audience members.
A couple of the investors that I was able to grab on their way out some of them telling us.
That they were impressed by the overall presentation.
I asked one investor I said -- nearby -- -- a buyer after what was presented in front of you today he said.
We'll see.
Not that convincing for -- very convincing for others.
Another another investor telling me that everything seems to be signed within FaceBook all these concerns about ad revenue.
Growth is slowing you said it's all fine don't worry about it it's getting sorted things out of proportion -- different perspective -- from different investors obviously.
Everyone having different goals in coming here to listen to different aspects of their presentation.
But again Mark Zuckerberg showed up.
He not only showed up he ticked at this stage he spoke in front of people asking in taking Q -- -- for about ten minutes.
And then just as quickly -- began it ended as announced on to the rest out the week tomorrow they'll move on to Boston.
And we do know from inside sources they'll end up in Palo Alto on us.
So that's what they'll -- is looking like former exec branch out Sandburg and David -- -- in the CFO.
That FaceBook.
-- some money and do.
Any sense of who sit in the room ask an honest questions.
And as who's sitting down there 550 people there and we're reporting -- throughout the day 550 investor -- I do know that they worry institutional investors actually knew a couple people in -- there -- they're hedge fund manager is.
And it is a broad swath of the investing community whether or not they will all go out and buy some of the allocated shares it seems.
Not everybody is convinced that you do have representatives from investment banks and have retail arms.
As well as other rag heads fun and professional buying dad buying firms out there -- All right Shibani Joshi thank you so much just -- number one open now on the road show and it moves on -- like rocks not survived and was mauling him our life.
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