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Epic Shell PR fail? No, the real villains here are Greenpeace
Since when were Greenpeace the bad guys?
By Martin Robbins Published 18 July 2012 10:15For several weeks now I've watched endless retweets of "epic Shell PR fails" cascading down my timeline, seeming less like bullshit than the thousands of identical, perfectly-formed little packets of poo you might find behind an incontinent deer. In June came a video supposedly filmed at a private launch party for Shell's "Let's Go! Arctic" campaign, which showed "an obvious malfunction of the model rig that was supposed to pour drinks for guests," a major gaffe with hilarious results:
The video was reported widely in the media, gaining half a million views within a day of its release. Then it was revealed as a hoax, a publicity stunt organised by Greenpeace in collaboration with The Yes Men and Occupy Seattle.
Then matters escalated further, with a series of intimidating legal threats sent to bloggers. Warning that "lawyers operating on behalf of Royal Dutch Shell plc. (Shell) are considering formal action," over the counterfeit campaign launch, an email from Shell's PR department told bloggers and journalists that: "Shell is monitoring the spread of potentially defamatory material on the internet and reporters are advised to avoid publishing such material." A jolly good Streisanding seemed imminent, until the threats turned out to be just another layer of the hoax.
Soon after, links began appearing to arcticready.com, supposedly the "social media hub" for the "Let's Go! Arctic" campaign. "We at Shell are committed to not only recognize the challenges that climate change brings," the introduction declares, "but to take advantage of its tremendous opportunities. And what's the biggest opportunity we've got today? The melting Arctic." The site allows members of the public to suggest their own captions for Shell advertisement, displaying the unfortunate results in a gallery of user submissions. Another hilarity-inducing epic Shell PR fail? Nope, another cynical Greenpeace hoax.
I've nothing against parodies – I've written a few myself, and they can be an incredibly useful and effective way of skewering an argument. These hoaxes are something much more cynical and dangerous. Ryan Holiday at Forbes rightly described it as media manipulation, a very deliberate attempt to deceive and mislead their audience: "It may have been done for noble reasons, but that doesn't change the salient fact that they are manipulating the media by creating a fake scandal and lying about it to get more coverage."
Of course manipulating the media turned out to be frighteningly easy in this case. Journalists aren't infallible – god knows I've fallen for hoaxes in the past – but the speed and carelessness with which the main news sites copy and repackage each other's content means that these errors are compounded and multiplied at a furious rate. Throw in the awesome power of social media, and one blogger's late night fuck-up can become a truth spoken by millions before breakfast. Evolution has not yet gifted us social apes with sceptical powers to match our fascination with 'like' buttons.
The real villain here is Greenpeace. This is an NGO that thinks it is acceptable to lie to the public, to lie to bloggers and journalists, and to then intimidate writers with threatening emails warning of legal action. This absolutely is not okay. I don't care if you're saving the Arctic, rescuing kittens from YouTube's vicious pet-celebrity training camps, or training pandas to pull famine-ridden children out of earthquake debris; to behave in this deceitful way demonstrates an astonishing amount of contempt for the public - not least for environmentalist supporters who spread their message in good faith only to find themselves forced into embarrassing retractions.
And for what? It's not like there's any shortage of real scandals to draw attention to. As I write this, Reuters have just reported that Shell could face a US$5 billion fine for a major oil spill off the Nigerian coast that affected 950 square kilometres of water and caused serious harm to local communities. An analysis published last year by the United Nation's Environment Programme estimated that it could take thirty years to clean up damage to the Ogonil and region in the Niger Delta, pollution caused in part by Shell's activities in the area. With real scandals like this to cover, inventing fake ones isn't just unnecessary but actually quite crass.
Shell's lawyers have sensibly steered clear of this latest fuss, resisting the urge to take any action against Greenpeace. Why bother, when Greenpeace's message is so extraordinarily self-defeating? The message to the public is crystal clear, as Holiday observes: "Even if you think Shell is evil and will lie to achieve their goals, now you know Greenpeace is the exact same way." Spending tens of thousands of dollars to deliberately mislead and manipulate the public used to be something the bad guys did, but here we all are watching pigs in suits drive another important debate into the quagmire.
Update 18/07/2012 15:51 Greenpeace have posted an explanation of the campaign here.
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Surely the issue here is the news media itself. As you say in your piece, Martin:
"the speed and carelessness with which the main news sites copy and repackage each other's content means that these errors are compounded and multiplied at a furious rate."
It seems to me that it's journos like yourself and your colleagues who are to blame here. If journalists spent less time merely parroting each other's stories and the lies of government and special interest groups (i.e. rich swine) and spent more time INVESTIGATING stories, uncovering FACTS, placing them in CONTEXT and then reporting them HONESTLY - groups like the Yes Men (whose actions I have admired in the past) wouldn't be able to function and Greenpeace (who I have little time for) wouldn't have been able to stage their hoax.
Even if they disagree with Greenpeace's actions, I believe most right-minded people will find your article - at the very least - distasteful and hypocritical. As fellow commenter, Bert, puts it, "Ludicrous. Risible. Pathetic."
I think you are over reacting mate. There was absolutely nothing wrong in this little stint that GP cooked up. I was very funny and well worth the effort and it also highlighted the issue.
I dont see any misleading of anyone. The stint unfolded and now is there for all to see. Nobody has been missled.
Get off your high horse mate and start helping address the Global Warming issue here in the NS. Something you have been terrible at.
Considering how GW is going to impact the working class and women's and kids rights and future I would have thought that this would have been a big issue for NS. Just cant understand why it isn't?
Martin - you claimed:
"Then matters escalated further, with a series of intimidating legal threats sent to bloggers."
Unfortunately for you - because of your previous form in terms of fabricating evidence - I checked.
There was no "series of intimidating legal threats to bloggers" - you made that up. The link you provided to Cory Doctorow shows he merely taken in by the original hoax - he wasn't sent an 'intimidating legal threat.
Before you accuse others of dishonesty, you really ought to make sure you're not guilty of it yourself. I'm afraid your personal vendetta against Greenpeace has blinded you to the need to support your article with evidence - you can't just make stuff up, that's deception, only unlike Greenpeace it's not in the name of a hoax.
Shame on you.
Sorry Martin,
It seems that Greenpeace themselves have admitted to sending out fake emails to journalists.
So on this occasion you were right and I was wrong.
Shame on me.
You have something of a history of accusing Greenpeace of lying don't you Martin? Yet when challenged some of you own claims turned out to be nothing more than fabrications. Remember that time you accused Greenpeace of sending out a press release saying that there was a floating garbage island mid-Pacific? Something you claimed was a gross exaggeration? Turned out that said press release was nothing more than a figment of your imagination, and you were merely parroting a smear campaign by the remnants of the 'Living Marxism' crew. I know you like to think by attacking Greenpeace you are developing a unique journalistic USP - but I'm afraid that your past antics in this regard mean you are building on very dodgy ground, despite your attempts to wipe the record clean of the evidence of your misdemeanours.
Does The New Statesman still rely on revenue from Shell advertising? If it does, I need say no more.
Does The New Statesman still rely on revenue from Shell advertising? If it does, I need say no more.
Hi Martin,
Can you be absolutely certain that these sorts of activities aren't actually both legitimate and more effective as a means of activism? If the end result is that people think more carefully about what they believe, the extent to which they can be manipulated, that's a positive result. If the short-term result is that people focus more critically on the activities of Shell, believing them to be incompetent, that's a positive result. I wonder how that weighs against this unquantifiable number of people who previously trusted Greenpeace (an organisation well known for activism which verges on the extreme) suddenly feeling that they're 'the bad guys'. When I look at the people above criticising the organisation, I don't get the sense that any of them are prior supporters who have been let down.
Not many people believe hoaxing and trickery is de facto evil. The moral trickster is a well known figure in folklore and the idea of a piss-taking prank is something the British seem inherently warm towards. Plus, it runs interference on Shell's attempts to control its own image. That's a very important function if you ask me.
Hi Martin,
Can you be absolutely certain that these sorts of activities aren't actually both legitimate and more effective as a means of activism? If the end result is that people think more carefully about what they believe, the extent to which they can be manipulated, that's a positive result. If the short-term result is that people focus more critically on the activities of Shell, believing them to be incompetent, that's a positive result. I wonder how that weighs against this unquantifiable number of people who previously trusted Greenpeace (an organisation well known for activism which verges on the extreme) suddenly feeling that they're 'the bad guys'. When I look at the people above criticising the organisation, I don't get the sense that any of them are prior supporters who have been let down.
Not many people believe hoaxing and trickery is de facto evil. The moral trickster is a well known figure in folklore and the idea of a piss-taking prank is something the British seem inherently warm towards. Plus, it runs interference on Shell's attempts to control its own image. That's a very important function if you ask me.
Do you want the Arctic to survive? Homes for polar bears, narwhals and other polar-dependant animals to survive? Then why drag all this over, except to make a few points against a body which is trying - literally - to keep the Arctic pristine for all the world - and world health and climate stability.
I don't read much criticism against sHell's Arctic plans in your article...what a strange way of looking at the situation - just like the police, who arrested a polar bear, no mention of the destruction sHell's actions will bring......
Writing "sHell" once may be regarded as a misfortune. To do it twice however ...
I think the legal letters are very wrong. But as for the campaign itself, I don't see it as any more dishonest than most advertising ventures.
I wonder how much fact checking would have had to be done to figure out it wasn't Shell? I mean, you're a journalist being lied to; that actually sounds like something that may be pretty common. Maybe other stories you've reported told in the past were the result of lies? It seems like just reporting the line that a corporation/govt gives you without diligence is the new internet friendly way of reporting the news.
The problem with the green movement is that it wants to have its cake and eat it too.
It started as a fringe element of modern society. That meant that it attracted true believers, extremists who will do anything if it furthers the cause, a neo-religious zealotry that accepts and supports radical action in furtherance of the central tenets of the faith.
As the movement has become more mainstream over subsequent decades, many of those original leaders have become anointed saints of the movement, the insightful few who saw it coming. Some have moderated their views to avoid alienating the majority, while others have not, but even the moderates cannot bring themselves to disown the radicals completely. And from time to time, the radicals come up with an idea that - in hindsight - is ridiculous, extreme, and so over-the-top that it cannot fail to alienate the cause's popular support, and convinces the moderates that it is worthwhile. The result is a PR disaster.
At the same time, the environmental movement has become big business. Green credentials are vital to popular support, and the self-imposed arbiters of green credentials are, once again, the leading spokespeople for the cause. Greenpeace recieves millions in donations each year. That there is an inherant conflict of interest and potential for corruption seems to have escaped their attention. To keep the money rolling in, you need to maintain a state of fear in the public, and the occasional scare campaign works nicely to achieve that.
The problem is that as the world moves toward a higher level of environmental responsibility and starts actually working to fix the problems, hard-nosed realists take over the actual management of projects and programs, and the radicals in the green movement become even more marginalized within their own playground. To maintain their credibility, to maintain their prophits, or simply to push for more extreme efforts rather than realism-based compromises, it becomes ever more necessary to resort to radical and extreme promotional tactics. By failing to shed the radicals, the Green Movement itself, as exemplified by Greenpeace, will increasing relegate itself BACK to its fringe-movement origins, a collection of extremists and radicals.
That makes it easier for idiocy like this anti-shell campaign to get approval. It doesn't happen for just one reason - it happens because the stars align, and many people with different priorities and agendas become convinced that this will advance those priorities and agendas, and the people with the common sense to say 'no' are either distracted, shouted down, or simply off their game that particular day. Guys: It's not 1970 anymore. Radicalism undermines your cause - get a grip and have a schism, or you will all have your credibility stripped away by a radical minority.
"many of those original leaders have become anointed saints of the movement"
or, they see the error of their ways and finally start on the more challenging route of evidence based reasoning;
Wow, if corporations/ governments destroy the environment it's fine, no matter how many people living in the Arctic detest it, and if Greenpeace uses innovative stuff it's fail. News manipulates us all the time, everyday.
This was a humorous campaign Martin, and even if you do not support Shell, you have given a point for people to support them.
unfortunately your post is typical of all those who refuse to see Greenpeace for what it is; part of the problem.
perhaps you are just taken in by their name? i sure as hell am not convinced by their arguments. Greenpeace play fast and loose with facts and evidence the same way corporations and governments do. that's the real world for you...
Just another day at the office for Greenpeace. Lie, cheat, and steal. Hey, I bet Peter Gleick is a member. Remember kids.....it's for the cause. GREEN = RED
Patrick Moore is NOT a Greenpeace founder!
It'a been Shell all along pretending to be Greenpeace pretending to be Shell. What a clever way to turn us against Greenpeace!
Put it this way - find anyone who has dedicated their life to the causes of animal welfare, social/political activism or spent a large proportion of their time and energy trying their utmost to improve what they feel is a situation worthy of concern. Ask them what started them on this mission and finally convinced them that 'this needs to change', and they're answer certainly not going to be -
"A series of thinly-veiled, deceitful PR campaigns. "
A US$5 billion fine for irreparable damage in the Niger Delta, which will take 30 years to clean up. I'm not sure if that is an outrageously low fine for Shell, or if Greenpeace should cease all activities since proper punishment is already being served. Thank God for journalists such as Martin Robbins who focus on the real issue of the proper manner in which to engage in informing the public; I no longer need to critically think about Greenpeace or Shell or the environment or the media for that matter. I'll just sit here and wait to consume properly packaged messages, and ignore all the rest.
This article is the story of a journalist's ego being hurt by the fact that a well communicated lie can carry more truth than his journalistic skill will ever carry.
Po faced rhetoric equating a poor campaign and tarring everything and everyone. This sort of labelling is the essence of political discourse and the if you can label people once then you can play the man not the ball.
Inevitably campaigns will be poor or in this case apparently wretched but equally one smearing article on one aspect of a group is hardly a valid response.
It's not about good or bad it's the future of the planet. It's not about labels either.
This article is a hoax, right?
1. People believed something this shocking was Shell. That says Shell has some work to do on its reputation.
2. Shell could face a US$5 billion fine for a major oil spill off the Nigerian coast that affected 950 square kilometres of water and caused serious harm to local communities - not being talked about. The hoax is being talked about - widely. Sadly, that speaks volumes. Greenpeace probably needed to do this to raise the issue, right or wrong.
3. Journalists and bloggers who got duped didn't check their facts before publishing. Not a great way for Greenpeace to keep them on side, but....
Isn't it illegal to post faux-Legal threats while impersonating an actual (albeit shady) corporation?
Isn't it illegal to post faux-Legal threats while impersonating an actual (albeit shady) corporation?
One thing: your update makes it look like Greenpeace have published the explanation today, possibly as a result of your article (or anyway, in response to pressure they received today). It's in fact over a month old.
Another instance of Martin practising a little deception of his own.
I thought it was pretty obvious the first layer of this was a hoax. I didn't know about the second layer - fake intimidations to bloggers. Did bloggers receive emails that pretended to be from Shell? That's bad. Were bloggers encouraged to pretend they'd received intimidating emails from Shell? That's less bad. In both cases that's a step too far.
But I don't agree with condemning the first act - the fake marketing campaign and website. I thought it was a good way to apply reverse psychology (like in the video of the library in Troy, MI, and the book burning party) and make people think about what really is at stake.
But I agree, the hoax should end when it achieves its purpose: when it makes people reflect on the issue, it opens their eyes... then it must move on to filling them with factual information about why the campaign exists.
I think Greenepeace probably made a mistake here, but I think moralising about "media manipulation" is a bit simplistic.
How does an idea become a Truth? That is, how does a claim, whether true or false in some objective sense, become true with respect to public discourse? Largely, it's down to institutions with massive amounts of capital moulding a mixture of selectively chosen fact and fiction into a useful shape. What Greenepeace have attempted to do is subvert this process by taking something that is superficially false but which points towards a deeper truth (i.e. the amorality of capitalism and the destruction and degradation of the Earth and its resources), packagaing it in a way that maximises its potential to spread virally, and establish it as a Truth for what I think we'd all agree are progressive ends.
Given the massive amounts of time, money and energy that have been expended by vastly better resourced energy companies to convince people that climate change etc. aren't really happening, that a fossil fuel-based economy is totally sustainable etc., do you really think it makes sense to act as if Greenepeace are just as bad by doing what they've done here?
I do like how just because someone points out the flaws of one group, people automatically assume it means they must be "for" the opposite group.
From this article I did not get the perception that the author was pro Shell, in fact I think he seems quite the opposite, however people are attacking him as if he is dragging the oil out of the ground himself, whilst setting fire to trees and eating baby seals.
You can be on the same side of the argument than someone and still disagree with how they represent your side.
The behaviour of Greenpeace hinders the work of the people they claim to be on the side of. If they continue to make up stories that media outlets publish and then have to embarrassingly retract later, who will listen when they actually have something important to say?
Also quite simply... lying is bad (My mum says so, so it must be true)... if you want to set yourselves up as the good guys... don't tell lies.
Greenpeace: Down with this sort of thing!
Martin Robbins: Careful now!
Your point about drawing away from 'real scandals' is a little rich. Greenpeace have been tirelessly working at their Save the Arctic campaign for a solid month now. They take one day for some viral marketing (that was very obviously a hoax from the outset - a cursory google would have shown that), that yes, perhaps may have its flaws, and they get criticised for 'taking away from real scandals.' You're all talking about Greenpeace, Shell and it's presence in the Arctic aren't you?
A person in the "news" industry complaining about someone lying to the public to persuade opinion? That's rich.
Your suggestion here is that because some people in the news industry tell lies to persuade opinion, all people in news industry are liars and therefore cannot comment on this without being hypocrites.
By this logic, Greenpeace as campaigners have told lies to persuade opinion... therefore all environmental campaigners are liars and cannot now cast judgement elsewhere.
For the record I am neither a campaigner or someone who works in the "news" industry.
Oh I see. Because some people who write in the media lie, that invalidates every point ever made by anyone who ever writes in the media, thus neatly saving anyone else from having to, y'know, respond to them. Neat!
A person in the "news" industry complaining about someone lying to the public to persuade opinion? That's rich.
What a droll article. I think it is great that Greenpeace are using subversive tactics to highlight the damage that Shell and their ilk are causing and the potential risks that are very likely due to Shell's deplorable attitude to drilling in the Arctic.
It is quite difficult to get stories such as the damage being caused by Shell into the media, especially when these days there are more and more companies destroying our planet.
Well done Greenpeace for using inventive ways to gain publicity for this.
Shell - and other oil companies - have been manipulating the media for over two decades now, to create a "debate" on climate change, when the science has been clear for all of that time.
These oil companies have, and continue to fund identical hoaxes in ensuring the media give print space to this phony "debate". The debate is a global lie to the public, and has pushed back real action on tackling climate change for 2 decades - decades we didn't have to lose.
So well done New Statesman on lambasting Greenpeace for showing everyone how easily the world has been fooled. A little more thinking objectively and a little less egotism about being suckered in next time, yes?
Egotism about being suckered in would be difficult, since I wasn't ever suckered in.
As for thinking objectively, well I'm not the one holding Shell and Greenpeace to two different sets of standards here. If you believe Shell are wrong to manipulate the media and deceive the public then, seriously, why is it okay for Greenpeace to do it? It's not as if it helped Shell's reputation...
"If you believe Shell are wrong to manipulate the media and deceive the public then, seriously, why is it okay for Greenpeace to do it?"
I guess a simple argument might draw attention to all the other cases where retaliatory punitive action, or "a taste of one's own medicine", or "the punishment fitting the crime" are considered okay.
Generally, we assault the freedoms of those who assault the freedoms of others. A society seeking to reduce harm may use harmful means to that end. No, it's not perfect, but we've struggled to come up with any practical alternatives as a species.
Do you think Shell's part in the ACC "debate" leaves them open to punitive action? I do.
It was quite obviously a spoof - just by using the journalistic tool called 'google' would tell you that.
Greenpeace have put together a humorous campaign highlighting the not-so-funny cavalier attitude that Shell has towards our shared environment. Yes they could have run something that wasn't edgy, that softly berated Shell for their appalling record but I doubt that would have generated as much interest.
This isn't edgy, if anything it's incredibly un-edgy, deploying the same tactics you would condemn the industry for. As for "quite obviously a spoof", for the last several weeks thousands of supporters and environmentalists have been merrily retweeting this on the assumption it was real. Still are, in fact. Making your own supporters look like idiots is, imho, not a very pleasant thing to do.
Greenpeace haven't been trustworthy since before the Brent Spar debacle. I've worked for Shell and I could divulge far more horrific things that they as a company have been responsible in the past, but as far as Brent Spar went - it was utter lies. Greenpeace cost the British taxpayer MILLIONS of pounds in forcing the government of the day to investigate an outright lie for little more than their own ego and publicity. While I was at school and naive enough to believe that Greenpeace stood for environmentally responsibility, I joined - as did a lot of my school friends - why wouldn't you when your teacher is encouraging you to form an opinion on the world and it's future? Imagine our surprise when as young adults in the employ of oil company's we get letters from Greenpeace asking if we would be willing to take photographs of offshore installations for them! This is the true face of Greenpeace, a surreptitious, conniving entity that is no more virtuous than the oil companies they contend they are protecting us from.
Greenpeace made a mistake in estimating the amount of crude oil on Brent Spar. That wasn't an easy piece of information to get hold of, so they boarded the platform and dipped the tanks - unfortunately they didn't fully understand the layout and dipped in the wrong place. That mistake doesn't constitute a lie, nor does it change the fact that the Shell were going to ditch one of their many obsolete structures out at sea, hoping the public wouldn't notice. That would have set a precedent which would have saved Shell money but would have had a very real negative impact on the environment.
As soon as Greenpeace discovered their mistake they apologised. The government didn't spend MILLIONS of pounds investigating this as you claim. In any case the amount of oil on the platform was only one part of the case for recycling the Brent Spar instead of dumping it.
what, Greenpeace no better than a pack of cynical liars when it suits them? i thought that was an established fact whenever they talk about nuclear energy.
the depressing irony is that Greenpeace is as culpable for ensuring Global Warming continues on its current path as is Shell, BP etc.
Quite shocked by the comments defending Greenpeace on this article.
The ends do not justify the means. Greenpeace need to take a long hard look about how they conduct these sorts of campaigns in the future.
Basically if Greenpeace are prepared to lie about Shell in order to make Shell look bad then how can I trust them when they are telling the truth? Totally self-defeating. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Also since Shell already do a bunch of evil sh*t why make stuff up? File this one under superfluous and move on.
Good. Another "own goal" for Greenpeace.
After they destroyed the wheat with the environmental benefits last year, they lost a lot of their science-based supporters. Now if they have turned off their previously-supportive media outlets, maybe their fact-free stunts will not be quite so effective in the future.
We can only hope.


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Abstract: Microbial nitrile hydratases are important industrial enzymes that catalyse the conversion of nitriles to the corresponding amides. Bacillus strain RAPc8 nitrile hydratase has recently been cloned and functionally expressed in E. coli. Here, the purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction data of this nitrile hydratase are described. The heterotetrameric enzyme was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. Crystals produced in the presence of 30% PEG 400, 0.1 M MES (pH 6.5) and 0.1 M magnesium chloride were selected for X-ray diffraction studies. A data set complete to 2.5 Å was collected under cryoconditions at the in-house X-ray source at the University of the Western Cape. The space group was determined to be primitive tetragonal (P41212) with unit cell dimensions a = 106.61 Å, b = 106.61 Å, c=83.23 Å, = = =90°; with one dimer per asymmetric unit. Solution of the three-dimensional structure via molecular replacement is in progress. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/167 Files in this item: 1
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My sleds are still at the snowmobile doctor's, getting their fall tuneup, so I have not been out riding. I have noticed that some trails have already been groomed, and I am ready to get out there and ride. Please hurry up Doc.
Bob and Laurie Brown hosted a Christmas party and dinner Saturday, Dec. 22; it was a full house. Approximately 45 people were there to enjoy the food and festivities. Thanks guys for the fun and the food.
Many years ago I read an article about the development of anti-lock brakes. As I remember it, the article said that the brakes were tested in Corvettes, 100-plus miles per hour, on salt flats. I do not very often drive 100 mph, I haven't been in a Corvette since about 1975, and I have never seen a salt flat. I do drive places like Grafton Notch, Dixville Notch and other steep, slippery local roads. It is my opinion that the anti-lock brake system is one of the most horribly dangerous ideas anyone has come up with since trying to split frozen wood with a double-bitted axe. The proponents of anti-lock brakes should try driving an older vehicle equipped with them, during a snowstorm, traveling up and over Dixville Notch.
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Happy Monday, everyone! I decided to mix things up this week and do a round-robin Meet and Greet.
As many of you know, I contribute to a writing blog called The Writers Alley, and I thought it'd be fun to ask my fellow bloggers the following question.
Say you sit down to a catered dinner and are offered the following three-course meal options. Which one do you choose and why? (No mixing and matching!)
1) Appetizer: French onion soup; Main Course: Prime rib and baked potato; Dessert: Creme brulee topped with raspberries
2) Appetizer: Chef's salad with honey mustard dressing; Main Course: Chicken and dumplings; Dessert: Apple pie a la mode
3) Appetizer: Bruschetta; Main Course: Spaghetti with meat sauce; Dessert: Death by chocolate cake
Would you believe they ALL chose #1?! I loved reading their reasons…
"I'd give my hubby the soup, since I wouldn't like it. I'd devour the Prime rib, pick at the baked potato (I'm more of a mashed girl) and give the rest to my hubby. The crème Brule I'd LOVE however I'd pick off the raspberries…
I'm a meat/Mashed potatoes kinda girl, what can I say!?!" ~ Krista Phillips
"Oh man…I want to pick number 3 because I LOVE chocolate cake, but for overall most appealing meal…I'd pick number 1. French onion soup, yum! Meat and potatoes, yum! Creme brulee…not as much, but I'd already be so full by dessert, I wouldn't miss it much." ~ Cindy Wilson
"I would soooo mix and match if I could! But since I cannot, I would go with #1…mainly for the baked potato and creme brule! Oh my, I adore creme brule. Prime rib is okay, but I love potato…cooked any way imaginable. I dislike French Onion soup though." ~ Sherrinda Ketchersid
"Most likely I have been invited to this catered meal by either the president of some organization who is under the impression I will donate money from my money tree out back, or am on a romantic cruise with my husband dressed in blue jeans because our last shekel purchased the ticket. Either way, my husband would be there. I would choose #1 because I love French onion soup (French–romantic, am I reaching here?). My husband would eat 2/3 of my prime rib because no chef knows how to cook a well done, savory, melt in your mouth prime rib (it always spills red yuck onto anything else on my plate). This would make hubby happy. I would keep my baked potato, scraping off any sour cream to keep my stomach from growling through the boring speech guaranteed to follow such wonderful meals. Last, I'd savor the delicious creme brulee topped with raspberries because I've heard (from "High School Musical") that it is really satisfying." ~ Mary Vee
"Answer 1 – Of COURSE! I'm a meat and potatoes girl! And it's CATERED! That means someone else is paying. Bring on that prime rib. Yum." ~ Pepper Basham
"Well, I was going to pick #1 just for the creme brulee. That is something that is difficult to make perfectly. Took me many practices when working for a patisserie and still not convinced I got it down. I would go for the most challenging meal to make, because when I'm going out I don't want something I could make just as well at home. Creme brulee fits the bill there." ~ Julia Reffner
And my favorite response…
"Oh man, you separated the prime rib and chocolate!!!! I'll have to choose…….#1." ~ Angie Dicken
Yes, I did separate the steak and chocolate. Can you believe no one was wooed by the chocolate?!
Your turn…Which meal would you choose and why?
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Bender is a brilliant stylist, using language with the nimble grace of a magician. She conjures surreal worlds in which authentic emotion blooms. A woman's children may be potatoes, but the love she feels for them is heartbreakingly real. A boy with keys as fingers is seen not as a freak but as a hero. Bender infuses even inanimate objects with human warmth. Rendering grief, loneliness, hope, love, and happiness with exquisite subtlety and cleverness, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.
"A fabulist in the tradition of Angela Carter, Bender creates contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear."
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This year's campaign – Change Your Lifestyle, not Climate!, stimulates awareness of climate change and promotes resources and initiatives that help make economy greener and cleaner.
Throughout the day, Batumi Boulevard faced a bicycle parade, kids' drawing competition and a symbolic decoration of the Earth Cake. This was followed by a public discussion and a film show in the Batumi Green Café.
The campaign was organized by the United Nations (UN) Office in Georgia in cooperation with the non-governmental organization Green Way and under the patronage of the Georgian Ministry for Environment Protection and Natural Resources. Among the campaign's partners and supporters is Wissol Petroleum Georgia.
Established by the UN General Assembly in 1972, World Environment Day is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations enhances political attention to environmental concerns. Recognizing that climate change is becoming a pressing issue of our era, the UN asks countries, companies and communities to promote low carbon economies and life-styles, such as improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption.
Last November, the UN Development Programme launched Human Development Report Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world, which provides a stark account of the threat posed by global warming.
The purpose of World Environment Day is to focus worldwide attention on the importance of the environment and stimulate political attention and action. The event seeks to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership, which will ensure that all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
Each year, a different city is chosen as the principal venue for the global celebration of World Environment Day. The host government and/or city, in cooperation with UNEP, set the tone for the event. A theme, slogan and logo are selected to be the focus for all World Environment Day information materials and promotional activities worldwide.
As November 2007 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report under the headline: Climate Change Threatens Unprecedented Human development Reversals, says, with governments preparing to gather in Bali, Indonesia to discuss the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report has warned that the world should focus on the development impact of climate change that could bring unprecedented reversals in poverty reduction, nutrition, health and education.
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"Destroy an entire nation!" protested the American. "How would you suggest we manipulate the political consequences of that?"
"We won't destroy them," replied the Saudi prince. "We will move them. There is an enormous difference, my friend."
"But they will not be moved."
"That is their choice. If they stay, they will die, but I cannot choose for them. We can't make them be reasonable, though Allah knows we have tried."
The war that began before we entered mortality is escalating into the final battle for freedom, liberty and the hearts and souls of all men. Into this world filled with turmoil, our Father will send some of his most valiant servants. A child is born who may have the power to change the course of history. But will Elizabeth remember the covenants she made in the pre-mortal world? Will she and her brothers have the strength to withstand the terrible forces of evil that will reign in the Last Days? Against the backdrop of Middle Eastern conflict, this story of war and intrigue will have you riveted.
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A must read for every reader. Chris Stewart makes this series so realistic just like the way it may have happened all the way through how it could happen. This series has opened my eyes to really being prepared for the unknown.
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THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE VOL 2: WHERE ANGELS FALL by Chris Stewart This second installment of Chris's mesmerizing last days series, leaves you wan ting more. We see Ammon, Luke, Sam and Elizabeth battling evil in our mortal world. With General Neil Brighton, his two twin sons Ammon and Luke and his adopted son Sam striving for good, Neil strives to understand what is troubling his close friend, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Sam sees the horror of war as a soldier in the Special Ops Forces and sees much more than he ever bargains for in Iran. Elizabeth is born into an Iranian family and lives the humble life of a village girl, staying close to her father and to God. Ammon and Luke learn the hard way to rely on God to get through life's hardest struggles. I can't wait to see how Elizabeth (Azadeh) rejoins with her brothers in Vol. 3. This series is absolutely thrilling, is a page-turner and is more amazing, as what is unfolding between these pages, is unfolding in front of our eyes!!!! LDS Forever Friends Rating 5 Stars by Teri Until Next Time, See You Around The Book Nook Publisher: Deseret Book Company Pub. Date: October 2004 ISBN-13: 9781590382899 367pp Series: Great and the Terrible Series, #2
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Racer wraps up successful rookie season
Brooklynne Kibel quickly improving behind the wheel
Generally, pairing a teenager with a fast car does not produce positive results. That's not the case for one young Mancos resident, however.
For the better part of three months, driver Brooklynne Kibel, a rookie on the International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) stock-car racing circuit, has been driving fast and reaping benefits. Just 16 years old, Kibel, a hobby-stock driver, has quickly taken to the sport of stock-car racing and all indications are that the teenager has a bright future in the sport.
Although Kibel is a rookie on the track, she is no stranger to the sport of stock car racing. Throughout her early years, her father piloted stock cars around local tracks. Later, her brother, Dakota Kibel began racing and before long, Kibel could no longer resist the urge to race.
"My brother and dad have always raced," said Kibel. "I grew up at the racetrack. I was always there and I figured out last year that I was really into it. I wanted to start racing so I got the car ready and here I am."
Unlike some young drivers, who rely on others to keep their racecar in top-notch condition, Kibel spends a great deal of time doing maintenance on her hobby-stock car.
"I do most of the work (on my car)," said Kibel. "I check the tires, I change the tires, and I try to pound out the dents. Everyday after school, I make sure the car's battery is charged, all the gas and stuff is in (the car) and the engine is fine-tuned."
Thus far this season, Kibel's hard work has paid off. Although still getting used to life behind the wheel, Kibel has steadily improved on the track, leaving fans eager to see just how far the young driver might progress.
"I have improved so much since the first race," said Kibel. "The last race, I went to Aztec and I actually kept up with the cars and passed two of them. I'm pretty happy with that."
(Kibel) has progressed up to where she can stay with the pack," said Kibel's clearly proud grandfather. "She's starting to pass some cars. A few more races and she'll start moving through the cars. She has done extremely well for the year."
As impressive as Kibel's first season has been, it has not come without some nervous moments for her family. Such is the nature of a sport where hobby-stocks sometimes exceed 60 miles per hour on tight oval tracks.
"It makes me nervous every time (Kibel races)," said her mother. "It scares me to death."
Even with the nervous moments, however, Kibel plans to continue racing.
"I'm pretty positive I'll keep doing this," said Kibel. "I'll probably eventually end up like my brother in a Sport-mod."
Regardless of what class of car Kibel eventually may drive, one thing is for certain. The future looks bright for the young and talented Mancos driver.
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A nationally representative phone survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that:
Overall, 56% of internet users do at least one of the creating or curating activities we studied and 32% of internet users do both creating and curating activities.
A nationally representative phone survey of 1,005 adults (ages 18+) was taken August 2-5, 2012. It was conducted in English on landline and cell phones. The sample contained 799 internet users, who were asked questions about their online activities. The margin of error for the full sample is ± 3.7 percentage points. The margin of error for the internet sample is ±3.8 percentage points.
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Look for the "Gone fishing" sign at the home of Matt and Lacy Brawner on Aug. 2.
Early that morning, Matt Brawner will be competing in the Bass Fishing League sponsored by Wal-Mart at Point Park in Carrollton.
After several months of interviews, rumor and innuendo, it's official: Newly retired Carroll County Schools Superintendent Carroll Yager last week was named new head coach for the Carroll County High School Panthers boys basketball team.
The appointment was confirmed by CCHS Principal John Leeper on Wednesday, July 2, after his candidate for the position passed the final hurdle – a vote of approval from the school's site-based council.
Tryouts for the Carroll County Middle School girls volleyball team are set for 3-6 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, and 2-4 p.m. Thursday, July 17, in the school gymnasium.
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The team at Nigro's Auto Body repairs cars in the Italian method that the staff learned firsthand from Domenico's father and co-owner in Nigro's Auto Body, Aniello. The staff also includes Domenico's cousin Raffaele Mele, who immigrated to the States from Italy to work in the shop, and Joseph Coulter, who has been part of the team since Nigro's Auto Body opened its doors in 1984. Together, they perform an extensive list of services that include fiberglass repair, custom paint, bodyline sculpting, antique-car restoration, and collision repair. Before any service, they complete a free estimate and give expert advice as to whether your car needs a new engine or if its current one is just playing dead. They also help customers reserve a rental car if needed while their car is in the shop, and they back many of their repairs with a lifetime guarantee.


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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Congress on Tuesday that the budget stalemate and lawmakers' spending choices are among the greatest threats to the U.S. military today, increasing the stress on the force and making it difficult to fund programs that best keep troops ready to fight.
Speaking as lawmakers try to wrap up negotiations on a defense bill, Panetta said defense officials have built a budget that tries to protect military readiness while also providing needed services to troops who have been involved in wars for more than 11 years.
"Nevertheless, there is pressure on the department to retain excess force structure and infrastructure instead of investing in the training and equipment that makes our force agile and flexible and ready," said Panetta, during a wide-ranging speech at the National Press Club.
"Aircraft, ships, tanks, bases, even those that have outlived their usefulness have a natural political constituency. Readiness does not. What's more, readiness is too often sacrificed in favor of a larger and less effective force. I am determined to avoid that outcome."
He complained that lawmakers have taken about $74 billion in proposed budget savings and diverted them to programs the Pentagon doesn't need.
And Panetta said the current impasse over how to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and more than $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts could inflict lasting damage on America's national defense.
If the automatic cuts are not avoided, the Pentagon could face about $500 billion in across-the-board budget reductions, he said. Failure to find a solution "will weaken this nation in the minds of our allies, our partners, and our potential adversaries, and undermine the work and the sacrifices that our troops are making every single day."
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