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It was Seve all the way. It was Seve's Ryder Cup, in Seve's Spain, on Seve's trap-sprung course, won by Seve's hand-wrangled team, played under Seve's terms, for Seve's honor. It was Seve everywhere you looked, Seve in the world's only Formula One golf cart, driving rings around U.S. captain Tom Kite, cutting through bunkers, sending fans flying and separating them from their disposable cameras, showing up wherever Seve was needed and showing up wherever he wasn't, lining up putts, arguing over club selection, handing out advice and inspiration and, quite often, a sandwich. It was Seve driving his players out of their minds and straight into the most flawless golf some of them had ever played. It was Seve and the only result he could have lived with, a win by Europe over the U.S. last week at the soggy Valderrama Golf Club in Sotogrande, Spain. Yeah, Seve won the Ryder Cup and never fired a shot.
True, it was also Scotland's Colin Montgomerie and his big mouth and even bigger game. And it was England's Nick Faldo becoming the alltime Ryder Cup gorilla. And it was Tiger Woods becoming the first cat ever to lay an egg, and it was Davis Love III going 0-fer-Spain. But above all, this Ryder Cup was about Severiano Ballesteros, Europe's first-time captain, soul and tyrant. "Whenever we were unsure of a shot, Seve would appear, out of the blue," said Spain's Ignacio Garrido. "He was our father. We may have held the clubs, but Seve hit the shots."
Kite did a wonderful job, too, except that he departed Spain looking like a hoodwinked tourist, with an empty wallet, an upset stomach and a Spanish doubloon that will turn green on his nightstand. Everything Seve wanted, Seve got—and a lot of it Kite let him have.
Seve wanted the Cup held in Spain. He got it. Seve wanted the unheard-of Miguel Angel Martin, who had made his team, to get the bum's rush in favor of Seve's soulmate, Jose Maria Olazabal, who hadn't. He got it. Seve wanted the format flipped so that the better-ball matches came before the alternate-shot matches. He got it. Seve wanted the course tweaked to disarm U.S. bombers such as Woods (1-3-1 on the weekend), Love (0-4) and Phil Mickelson (1-1-2). He got it, pinching many of the fairways at 270 or 280 yards and putting ugly new swaths of rough across the middle of others so that half the time the Americans seemed to be punching out of paella.
"Seve took the drivers out of their hands," said Faldo, a short knocker and happy for it. "I played with Tiger, and he only hit a driver once."
Seve and his team were so far ahead of the Americans that this became history's only two-day Ryder Cup. The last day saw a mad U.S. rush to make the score look respectable, with victories in seven singles matches out of 12, but it was all just polishing the brass on the Titanic. Hell, you had the feeling the Yanks were doomed the minute they got on the Concorde. Somewhere over the Azores, Brad Faxon hit a ball from the cockpit to the back galley, and it didn't stop until 23 seconds and 8.7 miles later, a world record for time and distance traveled by a golf shot. That was the last putt of any significance that an American made. The Europeans got their 8.7 miles' worth, only in smaller chunks. "They just made tons of putts," an exhausted Tom Lehman (1-1-2) said on Saturday. "And we didn't make squat."
When the Yanks landed, Seve was in their faces. "I have 12 guys who can beat Tiger Woods," he said, setting the tone. Montgomerie picked it up from there, taking a slap at Woods by telling the Glasgow Herald, "With all due respect to Lehman, [Justin] Leonard and Love, who are their next three top guys? Beating them doesn't mean as much." Even the fans got into it, parading around the cork trees of Valderrama wearing TIGER: NOT THE FULL MONTY T-shirts. They were right. Montgomerie earned 3 1/2 points, Woods just 1 1/2.
Seve ran his team the way an absolute monarch would have. When he announced his morning pairings for the first day, he hadn't even warned the players he was benching. "I suppose they will see it on TV right now," he said. Kite told his benched players personally, presumably with a comforting hug.
Kite promised all his players they would play each day of the team matches, and they did, and everybody felt very included and the Americans got very creamed. Seve sat three players the first day: Wales's Ian Woosnam, Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke and Denmark's Thomas Bjorn. "Do you believe that?" a U.S. player said. "Woosie's a what, seven-time Ryder Cupper? That's bull."
All three of the benched Europeans went out on Saturday and won. "Maybe that's what I needed," said Woosie. "Something to get me mad."
Seve was manic, but the players understood. Making him surrender the Cup in his own country was more than they could bear. "We can't let that happen," said Monty. "He'd be a blubbering mess."
Seve was a mess as it was. On Thursday, the day before the matches began, the phone rang at 5:15 a.m. in the room of Seve's Sancho Panza, assistant coach Miguel Angel Jimenez. "Come to my room," Seve said. "We need to discuss the pairings." The pairings weren't due until 2 p.m.
"Are you crazy?" Jimenez said groggily.
"Well, this is very important."
Jimenez went.
The Daily Mail of London reported that during practice on Thursday Seve made Faldo, Montgomerie and Germany's Bernhard Langer play the 17th over again. They hadn't done it right, he said.
Kite, meanwhile, was into undermeddling. He said his main goal was to make sure his team "had one heckuva time, no matter what the outcome." Camp Kite was a very happy place until widespread sucking set in. The captain attributed America's loss to a lack of course knowledge, but he had invited the top 25 U.S. golfers to go to Valderrama with him in July, before the British Open, to get a feel for it. Only three players who ended up on Kite's Ryder Cup team went. "I wasn't forceful enough," Kite said.
He was not a force during the week, either, showing up mostly for moral support, with his wife and kids—and, on Saturday, Michael Jordan—in his cart. Seve didn't cart around his kids, and he made his wife walk with the other wives. Wife and kids on the Seve Chevy? Are you mad? Clarke and Woosnam rode with him one day as he screeched around the course, and they lived to regret it. Barely. "They were a little scared," Seve admitted. You talk about a Rider Cup.
Exhibit A of how Kite got outcaptained: As the Americans' world fell in on Saturday—they wouldn't win a single point the entire day, the first time this had happened to any team since 1967—Lee Janzen and Jim Furyk had a 35-foot putt in the near darkness on number 18 in their alternate-shot match against Montgomerie and Langer. If the U.S. could just two-putt, it would likely win the hole and save half a point. Anybody would have said, "Let's just call it an evening and come back tomorrow, when we don't have to read bentgrass in the dark." Plus, Monty hadn't sat out a match the first two days. To make him get up early the next day, finish the alternate-shot match and then play a singles match hours later might just have killed him. But Kite was nowhere around to offer that kind of advice. He didn't arrive until after Janzen had bombed his putt 10 feet by and two seconds before Furyk slapped the comebacker badly past the cup. U.S. concedes hole. U.S. loses match. Monty sleeps in. Monty ties a battling Scott Hoch the next day for the half point that gives Europe the win, 14 1/2 to 13 1/2.
It was never that close. In fact, the Europeans never trailed in these matches. They scored the first point of the first day when Mickelson clanked a huge six-foot putt to lose to Italian Ice (Costantino Rocca) and Olazabal. Europe led 4 1/2 to 3 1/2 at the end of the first round. Then, on Saturday, Seve and his toreros turned the fairways red with American blood.
In the morning better-ball matches the U.S. lost three outright and tied a fourth. The most amazing half point of the week was that of Spain's own, Olazabal and Garrido, against Lehman and Mickelson. Mickelson hit "the single greatest shot I've ever seen," in Lehman's words, on the 17th, the trick hole Seve had redesigned. (The Americans would go 1-2 there during the doubles matches. Woods never seemed to figure the hole out and even putted into the lake once.) Under serious Gs of pressure, Mickelson hit a two-iron out of the rough from 239 yards to within six feet of the jar. An eagle here would put the U.S. one up with one to play. Then Mickelson blew the putt, his second spirit breaker in two days. "Pienso que mas a la derecha, pero no," Mickelson said, to the delight of the Spanish interpreter. (He meant, "I thought it would break more to the right, but no.")
Garrido, meanwhile, hit his second shot into the steep, fake-Augusta 13th back bunker, which nobody had gotten up and down from all week. Garrido got up and down. "Maybe the second-greatest shot I've ever seen," said Lehman.
On to 18, all tied. Olazabal hit his drive into the trees and onto a bed of bark chips. He dropped from the chips. Seve was there, of course, wondering what club he was going to hit. "Seis," said Olazabal.
"Siete," said Seve.
Ollie hit siete into the front-right bunker. Then he knocked the ball out of the bunker to 18 feet and drained it for a half point, followed by one of the loudest and most hair-straightening roars that have been heard in the Andalusian hills. Ollie not only made a barkie, a chippie, a droppie and a sandie, but he also survived a Seve, which ought to be worth an Emmy.
The point is, that's the way the whole day went. The Europeans played as if their houses were in the pot. By nightfall Europe led 9-4, which in a Ryder Cup is like saying Dallas 52, Buffalo 7 halfway through the third quarter. There were 15 matches left, in which the Americans would need to score 10 1/2 points. In other words, they were slightly more dead than Franco.
Still the U.S. came out on Sunday and promptly started fighting some serious windmills. Lehman, Mickelson, Fred Couples, Jeff Maggert and Mark O'Meara all won going away, in some of the most sensational singles performances in recent Ryder Cup history. But Love lost to Sweden's Per-Ulrik Johansson in a shocker, and Tiger lost to Italian Ice, and then Faxon missed a 10-footer to stay alive against Langer, and it all ended right there at 17—where else?—as the Europeans clinched at least a tie to retain the Cup.
Your MVG (Most Visible Goat) was Love, in a landslide. "Look at the board," he said. "If Tiger and I win our matches, the Cup's ours." In fact, the three Americans who won majors this year—Leonard, Love and Woods—went a combined 1-9-3 in Spain.
Ah, well, there's still a few Yank consolations: We can probably whip the Europeans country against country. And Tiger could draw cards for any three Euros' combined net worth. But we will never have a Seve. To the end Seve was the King of Spain. He called this win his "greatest achievement," then resigned from the job, saying he would like to return as a player for the '99 Ryder Cup and then captain again in "maybe 2005." Any questions?
If the U.S. ever wants to beat him, it must do the following, as soon as possible:
1) Move the Ryder Cups held in the U.S. to courses the American players know. Forget The Country Club in Brookline, Mass., site of the '99 Cup. American Tour players don't go there. How about the TPC at Sawgrass? Or Augusta National? Think Tiger might get more than a point and a half there?
2) Dump this happy-family stuff. Get an s.o.b. in there—Hale Irwin, maybe?—who won't care if he spikes some toes. I don't care how late it is, I said we're going out to hit two-irons! Let's move! And....
3) Call the Penske people. We gotta get working on a better golf cart.


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Here's the White Racist pet of the White Racist POTUS.
Here is his handiwork
And here's his Leni Refenstahl
Nielsen appeared agitated as she faced questions. At one point, asked how the treatment of the children separated from their parents wasn't child abuse, she impatiently responded, "Can you be more specific?"
"We have high standards," Nielsen said. "We give them meals. We give them education. We give them medical care. There's videos, TVs."
Nielsen's claim can be judged against the photos and reporting of the conditions the children are subjected to; as The Atlantic reported, CBP's own images show them "using Mylar blankets and being housed in cages."
The stories, Nielsen said, "reflect the focus of those who post such pictures and narratives."
Nielsen insisted that the Trump administration doesn't have a policy of removing children from their parents who enter the country illegally, but offered various scenarios in which a child would be removed from their parents who enter the country illegally. She compared this to any person who commits a crime being separated from their family when they go to jail. She said critics who accuse the administration of using these children as a political tool are "cowardly."
"The children are not being used as a pawn, we are trying to protect the children," she said.
Both Nielsen and, when she was done, Sanders, expressed unfamiliarity with the images and stories that have put this issue on every news channel that airs on the dozens of TVs throughout the White House, and on the covers of the newspapers in their mail. (Sanders, true to form, said she hadn't talked to Trump about arguably his most high-profile critic of the day, Laura Bush.) When officials are taking questions, the easiest thing for them to do when asked about a story or a statistic that they can't spin in their favor or gracefully wiggle away from is to say they haven't read it, seen it, or heard it. They'll get back to you, they say. They rarely do.
As Nielsen spoke, another reporter's phone began to ring with a mildly ridiculous melodic clang. After a while, when none of the reporters who'd been called on elected to play the audio published by ProPublica and ask for a response, I decided to play it. It was a small disturbance, prompting confused looks around the briefing room and expressions of annoyance and emerging panic from two White House aides, but it didn't outright disrupt. Nielsen seemed to hear it — it's a small room, it'd be hard not to — but she didn't veer from her script.
"Are you intending for this to play out as it is playing out? Are you intending for parents to be separated from their children? Are you intending to send a message?" a reporter asked.
"I find that offensive. No. Because why would I ever create a policy that purposely does that?" she said.
"Perhaps as a deterrent," the reporter said, noting, along with another reporter, that both Sessions and Kelly have offered that explanation.
Nielsen replied, "That's not the question that you asked me."
As if you'd have a straight answer to anything.
Tom Waits will Brecht us out.

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Sweet Peas
Whilst clearing out the green house this week I found three unopened packets of sweet pea seeds; Ballerina Blue, Chatsworth, both from Thompson & Morgan and Royal Family Mix that came free with a copy of Gardeners World magazine. Admittedly they looked a bit dog eared and faded but since it's just the right time for autumn sowing and it seemed such a waste to throw them away I decided to pot them up.
In my haste I didn't read the packet properly and forgot the prescribed soaking overnight bit which helps germination, the shell of the seed is tough apparently, so they're not off to the best start in life. Anyway, as I write this they are on the window sill in the kitchen in their pots so we will know over the next few days if some old seed and less than careful planting will bear fruit.
Let me know in the comments what you've been up to this week and you can read how to do the sweet pea thing properly here.
7 Responses to "Sweet Peas"
I never soak sweet pea seeds, but then my seet peas never do really well. I sow them in spring and hope for the best
Reading the RHS advice they recommend scarifying the seeds rather than soaking.
I still have a few sweet pea's outside full with little flower buds. I think they will be very disappointed at the end of the week when the frost starts. I hope I will have time get a few flowers for the kitchen table.
I have been peering at the trays like an anxious parent and this morning I can see a couple of shoots.
I planted the free Gardeners world sweet peas in the Spring (I soaked them and planted them in toilet roll tubes). They were slow to start but have been wonderful and are in fact still in flower now and I live in the frozen North. I have left them to set seed as I would love to grow them again next year but they don't seem to want to. Not sure if I left it too late (stopped cutting them in September) but I thought I would have some pods by now… oh well they preformed very well for me so good luck with them.
Hello Liz, thank you for taking the time to read and comment. They seem to be germinating, so far so good. I can't find any Royal Family Mix in this country but it seems to be very popular in America. I am assuming that you have seen this month's GW? There is big feature on sweet peas and it recommends some seed suppliers. If not let me know and I'll list them here.
they are growing unbelievably, I expect BIG things for next year but watch out for the chillies xx


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Well, man…I did not see that one coming. I figured Josey Scott was a fucking animal. The type of dude who'd make girls shove baseball bats in their asses for his own sick amusement. But I guess Josey's found — gulp! — God.
According to The Pulse Of Radio, Scott and Saliva quietly parted ways late last year.
Guitarist Wayne Swinny told some Texas radio station KFMX all about it. I live in New York, where all the stations start with W's, so it always bugs me out when stations have names that start with anything other than a W.
Swinny says Scott left the group after a decade and a half to pursue a career as a solo Christian artist.
Although Saliva's future was shaky there for a while, they didn't do the right thing and break up. Nope — they're inflicting more awful music on humanity, enlisting a new singer named Bobby Amaru.
I love when dudes find Jesus.
It's hilarious. I wonder what happened to Josey to make him find his religion and want to pursue a Christian solo career.
I also can't wait to see Josey's new Christian look, and to hear his new music. I bet it blows Head's shit to bits.
Saliva lose the one dude anyone knew in the band by name, and yet, they're carrying on. Fuck. Life's not fair.
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Ballare Chair / 489 eur
Designed by Jakob Berg
Fall back and let the curvature of seat embrace you as you sit in the Ballare Chair. The design is an attempt to break the boundaries between the indoor and outdoor space, carried out in a tight and minimalist composition. The chair is easily stackable when not in use.
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- Teak
WxDxH: 56x56x86 cm / Seat H: 45,5 cm
Stackable H: 4 chairs
Item no. S1505100
- Packaging
- WxDxH: 65x60x49 cm
Weight: 7,5 kg
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Proper usage and maintenance
Proper usage and maintenance is vital for getting the most out of the valuable resources we have. Our designs are made to last for generations, but just like everything else, they need a little care to get there.
Teak is commonly found in Southeast Asia, Central and South America. Our FSC-certified Teak comes from Central America, Brazil and Indonesia, while our non-certified Teak comes from plantations in Southeast Asia and Trinidad; managed to sustain a renewable and reliable supply of wood.
Teak is a heavy, hard and sturdy type of wood. The high content of natural oils makes it highly weather and rot resistant and is therefore a good choice for outdoor furniture.
Do a general cleaning when needed with a suitable wood cleaner and soft bristle brush. Rinse afterwards with clear water and let it dry. Note: Wipe off tables, benches and chairs after dinner and such with a dry cloth.
As the wood is untreated, the surface will patinate over time and eventually turn into a beautiful silvery grey colour. If you wish to preserve or intensify the original honey-golden colour, use a suitable furniture oil on a regular basis. No matter what you choose, the wood will be resistant to everyday wind and weather thanks to the high content of natural oils.
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The product is usable in all types of wind and weather, all year round. However, during wintertime, it is advisable to store the furniture in an unheated room such as a garage or cellar.
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About the designer / Jakob Berg
Jakob Berg (1958–2008) was inspired by all the shapes that caught his eye. Design was always a natural part of him. His basic idea about ergonomic shapes and his choice of materials were to a great extent determined by his social reflection and all-embracing attitude to life. He was born in Roskilde, Denmark in 1958 and qualified as an industrial design from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1987. Shapes and ideas were always in Jakob Berg's thoughts, and new projects always lay on the drawing board. From the outset in the 1990s, he cooperated with a number of Danish and international companies and received several distinctions for his work.


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The Bolton Cattle Show began as an effort by the Farmers' and Mechanics' Association to create some pride and competition among the farmers who attended their monthly organization meetings to learn better, more modern methods of farming. The fair continues as a tribute to that pride, to Bolton's history, and for the sheer fun of an old-time country fair.
I opted to visit the night of their first day. Parking was in the fields to the left of the fairgrounds. After paying the modest $10 entrance fee we made our way into the grounds and headed for the many food vendors. It was dinner time after all. I picked standard fair food a nice and greasy sausage sandwich with peppers and onions.
We decided to enjoy the Olde Time Lumberjack Show that was taking place nearby as we ate our fair food. The show was part comedy and part lesson of the bygone days of yester year and how lumberjacks used to do their jobs. The two older gentlemen Bob Bosco and Richard Singerland and a younger Mitchell Roberge showed us the skills, strength, and courage of the old time lumberjack, in both a humorous and educational way. They demonstrated that a hand saw used properly could beat a chainsaw through a log. Then they fashioned some fun take home gifts for a couple of the younger audience members they had recruited from a log they carved with the chainsaw.
The fun really begun when their Mitchell demonstrating his log rolling skills. First he showed us how well balanced he is and then he showed us a bit of log rolling with Bob Bosco as an opponent. The challenge didn't last long as the younger of the two quickly out performed his opponent.
After enjoying the old world charm of the lumberjack show we headed over to the grand stands for the Demolition Derby. With only three grand stands they were full by the time we arrived. The show Itself is a battle between fearless drivers who collide and crash their cars in a whirlwind of metal and destruction, until only one is left standing. The completion started with two preliminary qualifying rounds. They winners of the top 3 finishers still moving at the end of the qualifying rounds would move on to the final round. These preliminary rounds were filled with exciting crashed and dueling opponents who according to the rules must be moving and making contact with other cars at least every 60 seconds. After the third and final round a champion was crowned since his was the only car left running. The champion was Chris Woodward from Pembroke, MA in the #11 car.
As the stands emptied out we headed for the outdoor stage to watch Cirque de Light. Cirque de Light is the duo of Andrew Lindsay and Elizabeth Knights. Their fire show featured a variety of props from the flaming hula hoop, samurai sward and fire spinning. the highlight of their performance was partner poi where they both were fire spinning and performing in tandem in close proximity of each other intertwined creating an intricate duet of fire.
No trip to the fair is complete without a fried dough and carnival rides and that is exactly what I did. The Bolton Fair carnival rides are part of the Fiesta Shows group. The Midway Rides as they are called. One of my favorite things about the midway are all the lights from the rides. We didn't ride any of them since they freak me out to watch them sway heavily as others ride them. But I do enjoy watching people enjoy taking their lives in their own hands.
Having enjoyed all the fair had to offer and with it having become dark we decided it was time to head home. It was a great day and a great fair.


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Historical Timeline
|Colorado Public Radio begins broadcasting on KCFR 90.1 FM. This first station is originally licensed to the University of Denver. Listen to the sound of CPR in 1970.
|Colorado Public Radio starts to carry programming from National Public Radio (NPR), beginning with "All Things Considered."
Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin, hosts of NPR's "Morning Edition." Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Doby Photography, David Gilkey and Stephen Voss.
|"Morning Edition" begins airing on CPR. Learn more about "Morning Edition."
|The first-ever satellite-delivered radio distribution network launches to provide timelier programming through public radio member stations nationwide.
The satellite system also ushers in a decade that sees an explosion in new national programs for public radio, including "A Prairie Home Companion," "Fresh Air" and "Car Talk."
|For the first time, CPR broadcasts a full week of music using only CDs. Following this milestone week, CPR continued to use records along with CDs until enough CDs were available. Our classical music library is the most extensive in the state, encompassing more than 30,000 CDs.
Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction, Colo. Photo credit: Grand Junction Visitor & Convention Bureau.
|KCFR separates from DU and becomes a community-licensed public radio station, one of the first stations in the country to make such a transformation. Operations for KCFR are moved to a different building just off the DU campus.
KPRN 89.5 FM in Grand Junction signs on the air, and with funding from the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, builds a series of translators to provide public radio services to western Colorado.
|The boards of directors for KCFR and KPRN merge to form Colorado Public Radio.
CPR broadcasts via satellite, continuing a history of innovation to provide broader access to quality News and Classical programming statewide.
Vail, Colo. Photo credit: Flickr user followcarl.
|Fully funded by the local community, CPR installs a translator to reach central Vail, and work begins to raise funds to build a fully licensed station to better serve listeners in the area.
|CPR's network continues to grow. With community funds, a federal grant and an individual challenge grant, KPRE 89.9 FM in Vail signs on as CPR's third station.
Pueblo's Union Depot. Photo credit: Flickr user Icky Pic.
|Colorado Public Radio extends its reach to southeast Colorado, welcoming KCFP 91.9 in Pueblo as the fourth station in the network.
Based on early success expanding to Grand Junction, Vail and Pueblo, CPR's board of directors develops a five-year plan to establish a statewide News and Classical radio network.
"Eye to Eye," one of many public art installments in Montrose. Artist: Mary Zimmerman of Paonia, Colo. Photo credit: CityofMontrose.org.
|Communities in southwest Colorado gain access to Colorado Public Radio's news and information programming as KPRH 88.3 FM in Montrose signs on as CPR's fifth station.
Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colorado. Photo credit: Flickr user moonglampers.
|Colorado Public Radio and NPR provide extensive coverage of the historic shootings at Columbine High School.
|Based on 10 years of feedback from audiences statewide, CPR's board of directors announces a plan to provide both full-time news and full-time classical music.
The Flat Irons in Boulder, Colo., as seen from Chautauqua Park. Photo credit: Flickr user Kevglobal.
|CPR launches statewide news on KCFR 1340 AM, and 90.1 FM switches to all classical music. KCFC 1490 AM Boulder, KKPC 1230 AM Pueblo and KPRU 103.3 FM on the Western Slope also join the CPR network.
Ryan Warner, host of "Colorado Matters."
|Colorado Public Radio launches "Colorado Matters," a daily news interview program exploring timely state issues with Host Dan Drayer. Ryan Warner now hosts the program.
In the first edition of "Colorado Matters," CPR features interviews with Basalt gardener Jerome Ostentowski about sustainable agriculture and with Golden resident and author David Wann about "affluenza," the desire for material goods with damaging effects for individuals and the environment.
Charley Samson, the first host of "Colorado Spotlight," interviews world-renowned concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.
|"Colorado Spotlight" begins airing five nights a week on Colorado Public Radio's Classical service, featuring interviews, special performances and recordings by local musicians and visiting artists.
A view of the State Capitol from Sherman Street, March 2003. Photo credit: city-data.com.
|A late March blizzard registers as the most expensive snowstorm in Colorado history. Colorado Public Radio reports on the damage estimates.
Hot springs pools in Glenwood Springs, Colo. Photo credit: Flickr user no body atoll.
|Leaders from Aspen Public Radio and KDNK in Carbondale collaborate with Colorado Public Radio to bring KVOV 90.5 FM in Glenwood Springs on the air as part of CPR's growing statewide network.
Bridges Broadcast Center in Centennial, Colorado. Photo credit: John Fielder.
|Colorado Public Radio moves its headquarters to the 35,000 square-foot Bridges Broadcast Center after receiving a generous donation from Barbara Bridges and Rutt Bridges. CPR's Board of Directors conducts a successful $5.25 million capital campaign to renovate the facility and build new studios.
Yumi Hwang-Williams, concertmaster for The Colorado Symphony, prepares to perform in the CPR Performance Studio as CPR Recording Engineer/Audio Producer Martin Skavish sets up.
|The CPR Performance Studio opens, featuring a nine-foot Steinway concert grand piano and state-of-the-art recording capabilities. Colorado Public Radio begins hosting both local and visiting artists for on-air performances and interviews in the performance studio.
Listen to unique recordings from CPR's performance studio on weekday and Sunday evenings on "Colorado Spotlight."
|Colorado Public Radio successfully completes a $1.5 million campaign to enhance local news coverage. The CPR news team doubles in size, allowing CPR to provide listeners with hourly local newscasts and in-depth reporting on issues with the greatest impact on the state and region, including: healthcare, local government and education.
|Colorado Public Radio moves its news programming to 90.1 FM, and 88.1 FM becomes the home for Classical programming in Denver.
The 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. Photo credit: Flickr user kimbet.
|Denver hosts the Democratic National Convention, and Colorado Public Radio welcomes several journalists visiting from NPR. CPR teams up with Minnesota Public Radio, which covered the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, to provide listeners in both states with news and information on both events.
Read CPR's coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Photo credit: RockyMountainNews.com.
|Colorado Public Radio's Megan Verlee reports on the Rocky Mountain News printing its final edition, 55 days short of its 150th year anniversary.
Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colo. Photo credit: Flickr user moonglampers.
|Colorado Public Radio's news team produces "Ten Years After Columbine," a series of news features on the anniversary of the school shooting, including: a student's audio diary; interviews with parents of victims who, after the event, dedicated themselves to school safety; and stories of how teachers incorporated the event into lesson plans.
Internationally-acclaimed cellist Yo Yo Ma helps CPR raise money for The Colorado Symphony.
|Colorado Public Radio seeks and obtains a waiver from the Federal Communications Commission to host a one-time-only, on-air fundraising campaign called "Bringing the Music to Life," generating more than $625,000 to sustain The Colorado Symphony.
The view from the tower site for KPRN 89.5 FM, delivering CPR's news and information programming to Grand Junction, Colo.
|CPR celebrates 40 years of listener-supported news and music programming.
|Colorado Public Radio launches a new service, OpenAir, to provide listeners with a destination to explore a diverse selection of new music and discover talented Colorado musicians. OpenAir begins broadcasting at 1340 AM in Denver on Oct. 31.
Classical composer Conrad Tao performs "Iridescence for Piano and iPad" in the CPR Performance Studio.
|Colorado Public Radio launches a new, interactive website and significantly expands digital production. CPR's music and storytelling comes to life in the digital space, giving listeners new ways to connect with CPR News, CPR Classical and OpenAir.
|With a renewed focus on efficiency and collaboration, CPR News moves into a new, open-space newsroom that increases capacity and resources in essential topic areas like energy and environment, healthcare, arts and education.
Hayley Helmericks of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake records the 1,000th OpenAir song in the CPR Performance Studio.
|CPR enhances the quality and accessibility of OpenAir along the front range. As momentum builds, OpenAir hosts hundreds of new and local musicians in the CPR Performance Studio. Many of these recording sessions were captured on video and, in partnership with Colorado Public Television, broadcast on CPT12 as well as OpenAir's YouTube channel, offering direct, on-demand access to exclusive performances.


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With the possible collapse of the Congressional health care effort, health insurers might seem to have reason to celebrate. The legislation threatened to remake much of their business, with the prospect of burdensome government regulation and less profit from selling coverage to individuals and small businesses.
Indeed, some insurance stocks initially rose on expectations that the Massachusetts Senate vote might have derailed the Democrats' health overhaul. But more of the same might not actually be such good news for insurers, some health policy experts and Wall Street analysts say.
"In the longer term, reform would have been better for them," said Les Funtleyder, the health care strategist for Miller Tabak & Company, a New York investment firm. He acknowledged that insurance stocks might benefit in the short run as investors expressed their relief over the diminishing odds of a health care bill.
The health care legislation under construction in Congress would force the insurers to conduct business very differently, but the companies had already agreed to some of the most fundamental changes. One was their pledge to offer coverage to everyone, regardless of medical status, if the government could ensure that people, even the young and healthy, would have to sign up.
In return, Mr. Funtleyder noted, Congress was potentially delivering as many as 30 million new customers to the insurance market — many of whom would be able to afford coverage because the government would subsidize the cost of premiums.
"That's real revenue, even for Wall Street," he said.
But now, in the possible absence of forced change to their business, the insurers still face the daunting challenge of selling a product that is increasingly out of reach for more Americans as the cost of medical care — and thus premiums — continues to climb.
Moreover, the industry's main business of selling coverage through employers has largely stalled, while the weak economy has speeded the loss of customers as people lose their jobs and their health insurance.
"People are still being crowded out of the market because they can't afford it," said Sheryl R. Skolnick, a health care analyst for Pali Capital in New York.
If the health overhaul is indeed dead, she said, the critical question becomes "how do you grow these businesses?"
The insurers say they understand the need for change in their business, particularly so they can offer more affordable coverage to people who must buy insurance on their own and are in poor health.
"There are legitimate, real issues that aren't going away that we need to address," said Ronald A. Williams, the chief executive of Aetna, one of the big for-profit insurers.
But Mr. Williams expressed frustration that the effort so far in Washington had been focused on how to overhaul the insurance market, rather than looking at ways of improving the health care system as a whole — so as to deliver better care at lower prices. "We have to get at the factors that are driving health care costs," he said.
Despite its often vociferous opposition to specific elements of the bill, the insurance industry says it is still in favor of many of the changes it embraced well before the current health care bill began to evolve.
"We strongly support reform," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group. "We do believe there are reforms that can be done that produce greater health security and more affordable coverage to the American people."
Industry analysts say insurers may end up having to adopt some of the changes that the legislation envisions, either on their own or as state regulators demand changes. To be sure, not everyone agrees that the health care legislation would be worse for the industry than the current situation. Some analysts say it is unclear how many of the tens of millions of people without coverage would have actually become customers under the legislation, given the weak federal financial penalties if they did not enroll and questions over how generous the government subsidies would eventually be.
Many analysts also predicted that insurers would have sharply lower profits under the legislation, which would restrict how much more they could charge to cover older, sicker people.
One concern of insurers and others was that the legislation would simply expand coverage without addressing the other fundamental problems of the health care system and make the problem of rising costs even worse.
If coverage were expanded without cost controls, it would only "accelerate a crisis that people already knew was coming," said Michael A. Turpin, a former insurance company executive who is now a senior executive at USI Holdings, an insurance brokerage.
Policy analysts say many insurers realize that even without legislation they might have no choice but to try to come up with more successful ways to keep costs under control and, therefore, be able to offer coverage that remains affordable.
"I think these companies are going to be very aggressive," said Paul H. Keckley, the executive director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, a research arm of the consulting firm Deloitte.
But without the aid of the government through some provisions of the legislation, some policy analysts say the insurers might be hard pressed to rein in the fees charged by hospitals and doctors.
"They've lost all the leverage reform would have given them," said Len Nichols, a health care economist for the New America Foundation, a policy research organization that supports an overhaul.
And the insurers say they know they cannot fix many of the problems in the health care system without the support of the government. "This should be a public-private partnership to achieve the type of reform people are looking for," said Mr. Zirkelbach of the insurance trade association.
For insurers, the largest risk may be that without a government-led overhaul, their industry faces an even bleaker future should medical costs and premiums continue to soar, perhaps eventually prompting draconian changes from the government.
By the time Congress dares to try again to overhaul health care, some analysts predict, the problems with the system might be so acute that Washington might regulate the insurers more heavily than has been considered for the current legislation — or flirt even more with the idea of the federal government becoming directly involved in providing insurance.
"It's going to come back to the forefront again," predicted Matthew Borsch, an analyst at Goldman Sachs who follows the industry and says the insurers face an increasingly daunting environment. "When it comes back to the forefront, is it going to be an even scarier proposition?"


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Fans of the Blood Omen and Soul Reaver series will be in undead rapture when the anti-heroes of those two games ally in Legacy of Kain: Defiance. The vampire lord, Kain is still tussling with the time-twisting Mobius while Raziel - the reaper of souls and Kain's nemesis - is still struggling against his god-like captor in the ethereal realm 500 years in the future. Now the evil force of the Hylden threatens both of them and their parallel adventures are pulling them ever closer to a final confrontation with each other. Swords, sorcery, souls and buckets of blood await you in Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
The mix of visceral combat, challenging puzzles and gothic settings made Soul Reaver 1 and 2 and Blood Omen 2 huge hits on PS one and PlayStation 2. With LoK: Defiance, developer Crystal Dynamics has taken the choicest slices from these games and stitched them together into a throbbing, twitching monster of an action adventure. Kain's vampiric abilities return, gifting him with strength, an ability to 'mist' through bars, Darth Vader-like telekinesis and of course an insatiable thirst for blood. Raziel too has his fair share of powers; his tattered wings allow him to glide, he can absorb souls to fuel his powers and he can shift between the real- and the spirit-world to find the way forward.
As the adventure unfolds, Kain and Raziel find themselves in the same locations, albeit separated by half a millennium. The march of time and the presence of the Hylden can be seen when Raziel (trapped in Nosgoth's future) enters an area Kain has been, showcasing the game's brilliant level design and graphical flair. The mists and fog that shrouded the previous games have lifted, revealing Nosgoth's harsh and deadly beauty for all to see. Soon the cities, ruins and countryside will be running with the blood of Kain and Raziel's enemies as their defiance against the vile Hylden is felt across the centuries.
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Geofencing Market to Grow at 27.5% CAGR to 2022 led by North America
03 Oct, 2017, 02:30 BST
PUNE, India, October 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
The global geofencing market size is expected to grow from $542.7 million in 2017 to $1,825.3 million by 2022 at a CAGR of 27.5% driven by the technological advancements, rise in the use of spatial data and analytical tools, increasing applications in numerous industry verticals, higher adoption of location-based applications, and rise in Business Intelligence (BI) among businesses according to RnRMarketResearch.
Browse 62 Market Data Tables and 38 Figures spread through 145 Pages and in-depth TOC on "Geofencing Market - Global Forecast to 2022" http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/geofencing-market-by-component-solution-and-services-geofencing-type-fixed-and-mobile-organization-size-vertical-transportation-logistics-government-defense-retail-healthcare-life-sciences-and-reg-st-to-2022-market-report.html
The geofencing market includes various vendors such as Apple (US), Bluedot Innovation (US), DreamOrbit (India), Embitel (India), Esri (US), Factual (US), Geo Moby (Australia), GPSWOX (US), InVisage (US), Localytics (US), LocationSmart (US), MAPCITE (UK), Maven Systems (India), Mobinius Technologies (India), MobiOcean (India), Nisos Technologies (US), Plot Projects (Netherlands), Pulsate (US), Raveon Technologies (US), Simpli.fi (US), SuccorfishM2M (UK), Swirl Networks (US), Thumbvista (US), Urban Airship (US), and Visioglobe (France).
The BFSI segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR in the geofencing market during the forecast period. In the North American and APAC regions, the BFSI vertical is expected to witness the highest CAGR. Banks and financial institutions are adopting geofencing solutions and services to enhance the customer experience and services. With its ability to provide additional security for fraud prevention and enhance the customer relationship, the geofencing technology can significantly improve the customer satisfaction and business revenue.
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The geofencing market in APAC is expected to witness significant growth and is projected to be the fastest growing region. APAC has witnessed the advanced and dynamic adoption of new technologies, and it has always been a lucrative market. The APAC market is expected to be one of the fastest growing markets, as the governments in the APAC countries are continuously investing in the R&D of location-based and geofencing services. The rise in the use of smart phones and the increasing social networking trends has increased the demand for geofencing solutions in the APAC region. Geofencing solutions have helped APAC organizations enhance their business productivity, improve the time-to-market for products and services, increase efficiency, and reduce the overall business costs.
The API management and testing services segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. API management and testing services are being rapidly adopted by developed countries, such as the US and Canada. API management services help organizations in application access management, device data communication and interaction, and security. Additionally, application operation, production support, release and change support, and middleware product support are also carried out by API management services. Furthermore, application testing service providers offer both automated and manual mobile application testing to the commercial customers, for testing both native and hybrid mobile applications.
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In the process of determining and verifying the global geofencing market size of several segments and subsegments gathered through secondary research, extensive primary interviews were conducted with key people. The breakup of the profiles of the primary participants is as follows:
- By Company: Tier 1 - 30 %, Tier 2 - 40%, and Tier 3 - 30%
- By Designation: C-Level - 72%, Director Level - 14%, and Others - 14%
- By Region: North America - 57%, Europe - 14%, APAC - 29%
Increase in the use of smartphones, growth in mobile commerce, and availability of low-cost, GPS-enabled smartphones are expected to further drive the geofencing market growth. Technological advancements in cloud computing, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Global Positioning System (GPS), and wireless technologies support the growth of Location-Based Services (LBS), especially geofencing. Legal and privacy concerns and the rising awareness regarding safety and security among customers are the major factors restricting the growth of the geofencing market.
Another research titled Geographic Information System (GIS) Market Global Forecast to 2023 says, the GIS market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 9.6% between 2017 and 2023 to reach $10.12 billion by 2023. GIS software to hold the largest share during the forecast period. Location-based services function is expected to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period. The market for transportation is expected to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period. North America is expected to hold the largest share during the forecast period. Companies such as Autodesk, Inc. (US), Bentley System, Incorporated (US), Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (Esri) (US), General Electric Co. (US), Hexagon AB (Sweden), Pitney Bowes Inc. (US), Topcon Corporation (Japan), Trimble Inc. (US), Blue Marble Geographics (US), Caliper Corporation (US), Computer Aided Development Corporation Limited (Cadcorp) (UK), Harris Corporation (US), Hi-Target Surveying Instrument Co. Ltd. (China), MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (Canada), PASCO CORPORATION (Japan) have been profiled in this 165 pages research report available at http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/geographic-information-system-gis-market-by-component-hardware-gis-collector-total-station-lidar-gnss-antenna-software-function-mapping-surveying-telematics-and-navigation-location-based-service-en-st-to-2023-market-report.html.
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Carroll County Times: Little Free Pantry creator Makenzie Greenwood recognized for charitable work
For Makenzie Greenwood, the last six months have been a whirlwind.
Just this past May, the 10-year-old opened a Little Free Pantry at St. John's United Methodist Church on Main Street in Hampstead, and in the time that's followed, things have grown. The idea stemmed from that of the Little Free Libraries, which are tiny take-a-book, leave-a-book constructions.
"It's been a huge success," Jennifer Greenwood, Makenzie's mom, said Thursday, and it's a success that keeps getting recognized.
Thursday, Makenzie was presented with the 2017 William Donald Schaefer Helping People Award for Carroll County — her third award in regard to the pantry. Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot presented her with the award as he made his way through the northern part of Carroll County.
Makenzie is the youngest person to receive the award, Franchot said at a small ceremony inside St. John's United Methodist Church.
"I can't think of anyone more deserving of this award than you," he told her.
Greenwood said she wasn't surprised when her daughter wanted to do something to help others.
"She's always been very empathetic and caring," she said.
But it's impressive that she's continued to follow through so much, she added. Greenwood said her daughter is at the pantry several times a week to make sure it's stocked, and there have been a lot of participants, either donating or using the services.
It's been accessed over 700 times, and about 350 have been people taking food, she said. People have reached out to the family to thank them for having this as an option, she added.
"It's been a huge success," Greenwood said. "It's taught her the importance of helping other people."
Makenzie said things with the pantry have been going really well so far, and it feels good to be recognized. She wanted to try to give back and help her community, because the community has done a lot for her. And, she said, it's been a lot of fun.
It's important to help others, she added, because some people might be going through a hard time and need assistance.
"It kind of lightens the load," she added.


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Beyoncé & Glamour
Beyoncé knows how to work the red carpet and she's one of the few truly glamorous women of her generation. Her bold choices are often either a hit or a miss, but she wears this dress extremely well because we actually notice the girl more than the dress. Few of us could wear a canary yellow gown but it looks gorgeous against her caramel coloured skin. The simple & sophisticated chignon with just enough bling looks elegant and timeless.


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CHICAGO -- Pretreated advanced breast cancer slowed modestly but significantly with exposure to chemotherapy plus sorafenib (Nexavar), data from a randomized clinical trial showed.
Median progression-free survival (PFS) improved from 2.7 months to 3.4 months in women with metastatic, HER2-negative breast cancer previously treated with bevacizumab (Avastin).
The time to progression improved by a similar extent, Clifford Hudis, MD, reported here at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
Action Points
- Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Explain that patients with metastatic breast cancer previously treated with bevacizumab had an approximately 3 week improvement in PFS with the addition of sorafenib to chemotherapy.
- Note that tumor tissue was not available for analysis to determine which subgroups benefited most from sorafenib.
"Sorafenib could be studied further as an option for HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, even after prior treatment with bevacizumab," said Hudis, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
However, during the discussion that followed, Daniel Hayes, MD, of the University of Michigan, lamented that a subgroup of patients almost certainly derived a clear-cut benefit from treatment, but pathology data were lacking to identify those patients.
Hayes urged investigators and drug companies not to proceed with phase III trials of targeted agents without having some idea about which patients will benefit.
"We should insist that patients have biopsies before they are entered into phase II trials so we don't waste so much of our resources and our patients' time," Hayes said from the audience. "I think it's unethical, actually, to go forward with phase II studies like this in the future without doing so."
Hudis acknowledged the validity of the comments but pointed out that data derived from prior treatment with bevacizumab would not have been applicable to the sorafenib study.
The findings came from a clinical trials program specifically developed to evaluate the addition of sorafenib to chemotherapy for patients with advanced HER2-negative breast cancer.
The placebo-controlled trials (known collectively as the TIES program) have an identical study design, including a primary endpoint of PFS and secondary endpoints that include overall survival, time to progression, objective response rate, disease control, and safety.
Previous studies had examined sorafenib in combination with first-line chemotherapy for metastatic disease. The trials had shown improvements in PFS on the order of 1.5 to 2.5 months compared with placebo.
Hudis reported findings from a study involving patients with inoperable locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer that had progressed during or after treatment with bevacizumab. Patients received gemcitabine or capecitabine (Xeloda) and were randomized to sorafenib or placebo.
The trial was statistically powered in such a manner that a PFS hazard ratio (HR) ≤0.82 indicated sorafenib was more effective than placebo; HR≤0.70 was statistically significant at a level of P=0.025; and HR≤0.65 supported further investigation of the regimen.
The final analysis involved 160 patients who had a median age of 54. All but seven patients had stage IV disease.
Adverse events that were more common with sorafenib included hand-foot syndrome (57% versus 18%), fatigue (61% versus 47%), stomatitis (27% versus 7%), diarrhea (35% versus 22%), anemia (14% versus 8%), and hypertension (20% versus 9%).
The difference in PFS translated into a hazard ratio of 0.65, which proved to be statistically significant (P=0.01). The difference in favor of sorafenib was consistent across prespecified subgroups that included hormone-receptor status, presence or absence of visceral metastases, and type of chemotherapy.
The median time to progression also favored the sorafenib arm (3.5 versus 2.7 months, P=0.009). Additionally, 63% of sorafenib patients had disease control (response plus stable disease) compared with 55% of the placebo group. Duration of response was longer in the placebo group (4.8 versus 3.1 months).
Hudis said the results provided the impetus for an ongoing phase III trial to compare capecitabine plus sorafenib or placebo in patients with advanced breast cancer not previously treated with bevacizumab.
The study was supported by Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Bayer HealthCare.
Hudis had no relevant disclosures.
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Source Reference: Hudis C, et al "Sorafenib (SOR) plus chemotherapy (CRx) for patients (pts) with advanced (adv) breast cancer (BC) previously treated with bevacizumab (BEV)" ASCO 2011; Abstract 1009.


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by The Lone Ranger
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
In at number 5 !
Time: 14 mins 55 secs
Return with me now to the thrilling day of Tuesday ...
Last but one mission. I set the book down and withdraw. Above me dark clouds sweep across the scene. Come on someone go for it before it starts raining. Save the book ( and women and children of course.)
9 mins later:
An Asian man in a grey and black striped top sits down on the bench. He sits a black bag between him and Sebastian Faulks. This looks good, people with bags often go for the book.
He doesn't.
14 mins 55 secs:
He does. (For a minute.)
He doesn't. (He sets it down again for 12 mins.)
He does.
He doesn't.
He does.
And so on until the book has snatched him away from his world and he is pulled into it.
The Lone Ranger Getting the Nation Reading!
For last weeks account click here.
Next week the last ever drop:
The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks.
Week 9 Results of Hi Ho Books Away!
5 comments:
- Stella said...
I just wanted to say that you're mighty generous, Mr. Ranger, leaving books around for good folk to get in some learning. You're like a book sprite - in a manly and mysterious way.
- 11 July 2008 at 20:20
- The Lone Ranger said...
"manly and mysterious"
That's my tag line you're messing with there partner.
It should be ...
"Who was that mysterious man?"
But I like you lady so I'll let it go.
- 12 July 2008 at 06:33
- Stella said...
My hero...
- 12 July 2008 at 10:29
- Unknown said...
Dear Lone Ranger, You need not worry that folks everywhere are indeed asking: Who was that masked man?
They always have and always will.
But when a women is smitten she may well stray from the text. She may focus on specific characteristics. It happens.
Not that you're ever less than the perfect gentleman. It's just that I personally think you should prepare yourself for feminine adulation. Especially if you're dropping gifts in our laps--or within the vicinity.
- 13 July 2008 at 01:44
- The Lone Ranger said...
Kathleen you honour me madam. I am, I fear, not as young as I once was.
It is strange how I now see the full value of my mask. In my younger days women swooned over me, today alas not. To be honest that is why I accepted Mike's mission to drop these books - I understand that women like books and such stuff.
The Lone Ranger.
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Emissary SF
Emissary SF is an enormous talent and an exceptional individual. This young gelding is the complete package! "Giles" has a confident, powerful jump with scope and style to boot. If you are looking for a prospect for the big jumps or something that has the style to do the Derbies, he is your man. Our grey stunner is bred to jump and is true to his lineage. He has an expressive jump, ground covering gaits and tractable attitude. Giles easily jumps a 3'6 course, has some show experience and is ready for more. He has proven his ability at each and every stage. He is honest, brave and athletic. He has met every challenge we have presented to him. Giles is ready for the next step in his training, refinement of his skills and the challenges of the big show circuits. His half brother, Embassy II, is a winning Grand Prix stallion for German team rider Hans-Dieter Dreher. They has won numerous Grand Prix and competed at the 2013 FEI World Cup Jumping Finals.
Emissary SF's sire, Escudo I, is renown as an internationally successful sire of hunters and jumpers in the US, Canada and Europe. His dam is from a proven show jumping family. She received 9's for jumping and is a full sister to Far Star, which represented the US in the World Championships for Young Jumpers in Belgium. His granddam produced Agincourt, Champion jumper in FL, Indio, Spruce Meadows, and Animation, multiple Champion AA jumper at Indio and winner at Spruce Meadows.
Emissary SF, born 2007, Breed Registry: American Hanoverian
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Escudo I is the 2009 Hanoverian Stallion of the Year. He was the winner of his stallion performance test in 1994 and achieved a convincing 144.90 points in the jumping category. He is a son of the Celle State stallion Espri, who is known worldwide for producing outstanding jumping horses, such as "E.T." Escudo I exhibited phenomenal jumping talent at testing. He won the 1996 Hanoverian Show Jumping Championships in Dobrok in 1996, and the six-year-old Jumper Champion title in 1997. He was also the winner of several show jumping competitions at "S" level in 1999. Escudo I is outstanding in type and expression, is well-muscled and has excellent gaits. So far, Escudo I has produced convincing crops of foals, including several winning foals at regional foal shows and the top price foal of the Verden Spring Auction in 1998. He has a show jumping breed value index of 151 points and 145 for riding horse points. He sires horses with excellent type and a fighting spirit for jumping.
First Gotthard combined the unparalleled bloodlines of Furioso II and Gotthard. He and the remarkable Dutch stallion Voltaire were the only two living stallions in the world offering this bloodline combination. Furioso II was heralded as perhaps the most influential foundation sporthorse stallion on record. First Gotthard's dam Gotik/Gotthard, has produced three other licensed stallions: Furstengold, Furstenstolz, and Ingold. He was ranked among the top 10% best producers of jumpers among stallions of his age group. First Gotthard had a jumping index of 142 as reported in Der Hannoveraner magazine. First Gotthard's offspring include the licensed stallions Fuerst Gotthard (The Titleist) and Fuerst Ramses, and many Elite Mares. His offspsring have excelled in hunters, jumpers and eventing.
Pia Blanca is nationally recognized as a top producer of jumping horses. Among her offspring are the GP stallion Agincourt; Far Star who was the highest placed Hanoverian at the 2003 World Championships for Young Jumpers in Lanaken, Belgium under Laura Kraut; Animation, national Champion AA jumper, and Champion at Indio and Spruce Meadows. Three of Pia's daughters and one granddaughter were selected for the Hanoverian Jumper Breeding Program.
EM Fair Lily is a full sister to Far Star and was the co-winner of the Benchmark Trophy for best jumping mare in the AHS. She passed her Mare Performance Test with an 8.11, with 9's for jumping, 8's for rideability and 7+ for gaits.
JBP: selected for the Hanoverian Jumper Breeding Program, minimum score of 8 o/o 10 for entry.


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|Think this waterfall is pretty? You'll be tired of waterfall photos by the time you're done reading this post!
Monday, May 16, 7:30 am, the yurt again: I woke up with the rays of the sun fully shining in through the yurt's plastic window, and directly into my eyes. We both got up, put on some extra clothes, and made a breakfast of instant oatmeal and hot tea. We needed the hot food: The wood stove had certainly helped us stay warm last night, but as the Last Porcupine Mountains Companion promised, the yurt had still cooled down considerably by the middle of the night. It stayed that way straight through the 38-degree morning.
We took our oatmeal and tea down a narrow rocky path to the beach, where a gorgeous morning was busy unfolding. The winds were light, the lake was calm (or as calm as Lake Superior ever gets), and the sky was cloudless and bright. The beach itself was made of a combination of cobbles and giant slabs of red sandstone that provided good seats for us and our food.
After cleaning up our dishes, we returned to the beach to explore a bit before heading out on the day's main adventure. Off to the west, we saw a point of land that looked rocky and interesting, so we decided to check it out. The walk along the beach turned out to be surprisingly challenging. The rocky beach got steeper and steeper as we walked, with some spots getting up to 45 degrees. In places huge knots of driftwood blocked the way, which we duly noted as a possible firewood source. But after perhaps 15 minutes of scrambling, we reached the rocky point of land, which was clearly cut from the same cloth (er, rock) as the rest of the beach -- it just hadn't decomposed into cobbles yet.
We spent quite a while playing around with a small stream that entered the lake between two big arms of rock, jumping from boulder to boulder, and generally being silly and having fun on a beautiful lakeshore on a beautiful morning. But bigger adventure was waiting for us, and so we eventually headed back to the yurt, packed our daypacks, filled up with water (at the running water faucet on the bath house just 5 minutes away in the campground. Oh, the luxury!), and jumped in the car.
|Water wheel waterfall
Nonetheless, they are gorgeous, especially because of the long-lost quality of their spectacular old-growth settings. How did we know to go looking for them? The Last Porcupine Mountains Companion, of course! (Are you tired of hearing about that book yet? Don't be. Buy a copy. It's worth it.) The Companion's chapter on waterfalls recommends a loop along the Big and Little Union Rivers consisting of a somewhat indeterminate number of waterfalls (but at least a dozen, give or take a rapids).
To follow the loop, we began at the trailhead for the Union Mine Interpretive trail. This is a short trail on the far east end of the park that winds through the lands of the former Union Mine, which (like all Porcupine Mountains mines) completely failed to produce meaningful amounts of copper. We parked at the trailhead, just a few miles down the South Boundary Road from the park headquarters, strapped on our daypacks, and descended the well-worn trail into a small river gorge lined with tall hemlocks.
We quickly ran into a problem that would plague us all day: There are too many picturesque photos to take. You could spend all day just trying to photograph one waterfall, much less complete a loop covering more than a dozen waterfalls, along with gorges and old-growth forests. The very first waterfall stopped us cold for nearly half an hour.
This first waterfall wasn't even that spectacular (compared to ones we would find later), but it was historically interesting. The Union "River", as with most UP rivers, is really a moderately large stream with a rocky bed, at most 1 foot deep in most places. It babbles along until suddenly dropping over a small (3 foot) drop. The waterfall had an odd shape: Half looked like normal drop over a small rock ledge, while the other half was clearly man-made and cut deep into the original stream bed. An interpretive sign nearby informed us that this deep cut was in fact the original site of the Union Mine's water wheel, which provided power for the mine. A mostly collapsed shaft was located right across the river, clearly visible.
We spent a while photographing the waterfall, the gorge, the trees, and the bubbling stream, all in mottled morning light filtered through the dense canopy. We even headed downstream to where the river crossed under the South Boundary Road, crossed the stream, and bushwhacked our way back up to the waterfall and its associated mine shaft (which was covered by a grate).
|Long slide and tree-covered hillside
After a few more short jogs down the trail, interspersed with gorge-climbing and photo-composing, I found myself ahead of Kyle (who was still photographing one of the previous slides). I sat down on a wooden bench on a high point along the river bank and pulled lunch out of my pack. Today's lunch was very simple: rice cakes with peanut butter, meat sticks, and gorp. Kyle joined me shortly, and we spent a while enjoying the cool air and light breeze as we ate lunch. In fact, the air was remarkably cool -- we only ever had a high of 50 degrees that day, cool even for a UP spring day -- but that made it much easier to climb all over the waterfalls.
We continued past slides, small drops, rapids, and even (occasionally) a flat stretch of river -- but more often than not, the river was truly made of waterfalls. The trail soon turned away from the river, up a short hill, and then unexpectedly ran into a wide cleared area with a well-worn trail running through it. A handy interpretive sign told us that this was the old Nonesuch road, which was the one and only way into the Porkies for most of the mining years and early 20th century. It was now a ski trail. We turned left onto this ski trail, taking us away from the Union Mine trail and towards the remains of an old outpost campground. The road lead us through a large cleared area -- the old campground -- and crossed the river on a very old stone bridge. The river was completely different here: Flat, sandy, with low banks filled with grasses and marsh marigolds growing in clusters.
We continued downstream by following another old road, this one marked by a faint paper sign saying "Artist Cabin". The road climbed to a high bluff above the river, populated by ancient hemlocks that almost completely shaded out all undergrowth. When the trail turned away from the river, we continued cross-country to a high head of land above the fork where the Union and Little Union Rivers meet -- our next waypoint.
Carefully making our way down the hill, we found ourselves in a fern-covered flood plain, also conveniently filled with fallen tree limbs. Stumbling toward the Little Union, we discovered that the grass looked greener -- or at least the bushwhacking looked easier -- on the far side. Luckily, the "Little" Union was even smaller and shallower than the "Big" Union, and we were able to cross by leaping from rock to rock. A few hundred yards upstream, this turned out to have been a poor choice, and so we crossed right back over to our original side, this time using a fallen tree's trunk. We would repeat this 4 or 5 more times before the trip was done.
|Kyle photographing the Little Union River's first set of waterfalls
The Little Union was quite flat near the fork and even had a sandy bottom in some places, but as we walked upstream, the banks began to climb above us again. Soon we could hear the rush of a distant waterfall, the first that we'd seen since before the bridge. Around a small bend in the river, a fantastic view opened up before us: A deep, shaded, tree-lined gorge in the river with three beautiful waterfalls line up, one after another.
Thus began the most spectacular set of waterfalls of the whole day. The "Little" Union river quickly showed us that it could hold its own against its big brother.
We spent another half hour at these waterfalls, hopping across rocks, edging along rocky ledges, walking across fallen trees in order to get just the right angle. These waterfalls were much more, well, waterfalls than the previous ones. The falls had some actual drops, not just slides, and they came quickly -- one right above the other.
The deep gorge closed in around us, shading the stream and leaving almost no space to walk next to the river -- we had to climb the banks right next to the waterfalls. At one point, the north bank lowered to an easy climb. Scrambling up the bank, we saw a cabin rising above us. Unlike most Porkies rental cabins, this one looked like it had multiple rooms, a covered porch, and a second level -- or at least a loft. A few large piles of split wood sat outside, covered with tarps. Several smaller outbuildings sat around the flat area above the river, with another large hillside rising behind them. This was the Porcupine Mountains Artist in Residence cabin, part of a program run by the Friends of the Porkies. The cabin honored a legendary local photographer, Dan Urbanski, who had lived in nearby Silver City, but lived, breathed, and (beautifully photographed) the Porkies better than I could ever hope to.
We wandered around the cabin briefly, but weren't sure whether an artist might, in fact, be in residence. Continuing back up the river, we encountered another series of gorgeous waterfalls. These ultimately culminated in a long narrow flume that the water rushed through, a beautiful capstone to this first series of waterfalls on the Little Union.
|The long slide above the Hall of Waterfalls
Above the waterfall, the gorge grew even deeper. We quickly reconnected with the Union Mine Trail, which had taken a shorter route that avoided the best waterfalls. A long rail fence kept us away from the edge of the extremely deep gorge, and another fence kept us from falling into a very old and very vertical mine shaft. As we continued climbing above the river, there were places where we could barely see the river rushing below.
Finally, the river turned a sharp corner, and the last waterfall was in front of us: An enormous slide that must have been at least 75 feet tall. The water reaching the bottom made a sudden right turn to rush down the deep gorge. We spent a while attempting to photograph the slide, but it was basically impossible -- a beautiful sight in person, but far beyond our abilities to make it show up in a photograph.
The trail quickly climbed up to the road, crossed it, and made a short detour into new growth forest before ending at the parking lot again. Our grand total distance was about 2 miles over 5 hours. Slow, but worth it.
2:30 pm, Government Peak trailhead: We weren't ready to quit yet -- not with so much daylight remaining! We agreed to use the remainder of our afternoon in pursuit of one more waterfall: Trap Falls, on the upper reaches of the Big Carp river. To find it, we traveled back past the yurt and up towards Lake of the Clouds, stopping at the Government Peak trailhead.
The Government Peak trail begins along M-107 near Lake Superior and heads directly inland and uphill. The famous Escarpment Trail branches off of it early on, while the main trail continues southwards, climbing up a long, steep hill (the eroded remnants of the escarpment). The trail was surprisingly muddy in places -- the first mud we'd seen yet, although nowhere near as bad as my 2014 Porkies Trip. We skirted around a few mud holes, while enjoying well-built puncheon bridges over perfectly dry areas. Go figure.
After the trail topped out, it ran through an area of beautiful mixed old growth -- towering hemlocks and white pines, but also ancient oaks and maples. We soon came to a wide stream spanned by a wooden bridge. The end of the bridge nearest us had been nearly washed out in the spring floods, and the steps at our end were slumping into a deep but dry channel near the river bank. On the bridge, we could see a large wetland spreading out to the east -- swamps that separate the Big Carp River (which runs west through Lake of the Clouds and out to Lake Superior, with many waterfalls in its last few miles) from the "Carp River Inlet", the upper reaches of the Big Carp which drain an area of highlands in the interior of the park. The wetlands were quiet and peaceful. A light (but chilly) breeze rustled grasses growing around the borders of the wetland, while an early spring sun shone down on them. A large beaver dam seemed to be doing absolutely nothing to hold back the water, which flowed quietly under the bridge and down through the wide and grassy banks of the river.
|Another long slide, ho-hum.
By this time we were essentially walking along the upper reaches of the Big Carp River, aka the "Big Carp inlet". We found several gorgeous camp sites set right by the river, and stopped to enjoy (well, ok, eat) a Clif bar at one of them. It is, I believe, an uncontested fact that Clif bars never actually taste good -- they just sound like a good idea when you're worn down after many miles of hiking. Nonetheless, the bars did the trick, and we got up with a renewed sense of purpose and vigor. Or, at least, a little bit more energy.
The trail began to rise along a low bluff, with the river sparkling in the late afternoon sun below. In places the walls of the river were sheer rock, which reflected perfectly in the surprisingly flat water of the river. There were only a few rapids along this part of the river -- essentially nothing worth calling a waterfall -- and it was surprisingly calm in most places.
After a short while, we reached a sign for a trail intersection. Across an unbridged river crossing, the Union Spring trail continued. We considered checking out this spring -- supposedly the second largest in Michigan (after the Big Spring, Kitch-iti-kipi, at the mysteriously named Palms Book State Park near Manistique). But the unbridged crossing and the extra 4 miles it would add to our trip made us give up that idea.
Continuing straight ahead, we quickly started to hear a waterfall. Around a small bend in the river, we caught our first sight of Trap Falls, "one of the most memorable waterfalls in the Porkies" (so sayeth the Companion). Indeed, Trap Falls was memorable, not least because it was the only waterfall of any size at all along this stretch of the river -- it almost came as a surprise (if we hadn't just hiked 2 miles for the specific purpose of finding it).
Because Trap Falls occurs in a relatively flat portion of river, it really stands out from the rest of the river -- a sudden drop ending in a deep, wide pool. On a warmer day, it would have been a perfect place to cool off with a swim. Instead, we sat on a convenient bench, enjoyed the view, and then headed out to photograph the waterfall. There was a small island just downriver, with many fallen trees snagged around it. We used those trees (and a few convenient boulders) as stepping stones and makeshift tripods, cavorted about the edges of the pool, and generally had a grand time photographing the waterfall.
|Trap Falls
6:00 pm: Union Bay West Yurt: As soon as we were back "home", we went to the beach and collected driftwood for a camp fire. The driftwood made excellent (if fast-burning) firewood. The park also had cut up a fallen birch tree and left the logs at the parking area, probably intended for winter campers to heat the cabins. We carried a few of the smaller logs back to the camp site and set about chopping them up into firewood. Well, we tried to cut it up -- while the yurt came supplied with an axe, we quickly discovered that there was no maul and no wedge. After a few swings of the axe, Kyle discovered that the logs were extremely green and absolutely refused to split. A few hilarious (but harmless) mishaps later, we gave up on the logs entirely and used them instead as seats (yes, there were that big).
We made a driftwood fire in the fire pit and proceeded to enjoy a dinner of "Tonka Pies" (as Kyle's family calls them), by shoving pie irons filled with bread, cheese, and other fillings into hot coals. They were delicious and satisfying, as only camping food can be after a long day of hiking. The hot pies and warm fire were especially good tonight, as the sun started to set and temperatures plunged towards freezing.
Speaking of sunset: After a quick cleanup, we grabbed our cameras and ran down the cobble beach towards the rocky "point" that we had explored in the morning. The wind had blown in some big waves, and it looked like there might be good clouds for a sunset as well. The rocks at the point looked to be the perfect place to take sunset photos.
We made it to the point with a little time to spare, but the sunset was a dud. There's an optimal amount of clouds for a sunset -- not too many, not too few, and just the right altitude. We did not have those conditions tonight (although the question of how to predict a good sunset brought up the topic of SunsetWX, which is a pretty nifty website that has created a model that predicts sunset quality across the US). Luckily, we did have some fun photographing the huge waves crashing into the huge rock walls
We stumbled slowly back to the yurt, cursing the fact that we hadn't remembered to bring headlamps. Luckily, the nearly full moon rose in the cold, clear sky and helped us find our way back (while simultaneously halting all hopes of good star gazing -- the bright moon blotted out most of the dimmer stars).
Back at the yurt, we started another one-match wood-stove fire (those Porcupine Mountains Companion instructions are fantastic!) and snuggled into our sleeping bags for a clear and chilly night's sleep.
Miles hiked: About 7 miles, one of them mostly bushwhacking.
|Hiking trips, Day 1. Green is the Union River Mine trail and bushwhack, blue is the Government Peak trail to Trap Falls. The red star marks the Union Bay West yurt.


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