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Footloose, Steel Magnolias director Herbert Ross dies
On this day in 2001, Herbert Ross, a Broadway choreographer turned movie director whose credits include The Goodbye Girl,The Turning Point, Footloose and Steel Magnolias, dies at the age of 74 in New York City.
Ross was born on May 13, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. As a young man, he became interested in performing, a choice that came to cause considerable tension within the family. According to his obituary in the New York Times: "Telling his family that he was staying with relatives in New York one summer, Mr. Ross instead joined a theatrical troupe that toured the Deep South. When he came home and told his father that he intended to drop out of high school and join the theater permanently, his father tried to talk him out of it, and they parted bitterly. That very night, his father died of a heart attack."
In the 1950s, Ross began working as a choreographer, creating ballets as well as Broadway dance numbers. He was instrumental in Barbra Streisand's early career, according to the Times, "choreographing the famous 'Miss Marmelstein' number in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, which is widely credited with jump-starting her stage career." Ross was the choreographer for 1968's Funny Girl and went on to direct Streisand in 1970's The Owl and the Pussycat, co-starring George Segal, and 1975's Funny Lady, the sequel to Funny Girl, which featured James Caan. Ross also choreographed such films as Inside Daisy Clover, with Natalie Wood, and 1967's Dr. Doolittle.
Ross made his big-screen directorial debut with 1969's Goodbye Mr. Chips, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark. He went on to direct 1972's Play It Again, Sam, based on a Woody Allen play and featuring Allen and Diane Keaton. In 1975, Ross collaborated with Neil Simon on The Sunshine Boys, starring George Burns and Walter Matthau as a pair of vaudeville comedians who reunite after a long estrangement. The movie, based on a Simon play of the same name, earned four Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Burns as Best Actor. Ross also directed Simon's screenplay for The Goodbye Girl (1977), starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason. The movie was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, and Dreyfuss collected an Oscar for Best Actor. Ross and Simon also collaborated on California Suite (1978), which featured an ensemble cast that included Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor and Maggie Smith; I Ought to be in Pictures (1982), featuring Matthau; and Max Dugan Returns (1983), with Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland and Matthew Broderick.
In 1976, Ross helmed Sherlock Holmes-Sigmund Freud mystery The Seven Precent Solution. His next film was 1977's The Turning Point, a ballet-world drama starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The film earned 11 Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture. Ross directed Steve Martin in 1981's Pennies from Heaven and had a big box-office hit with another dance-themed movie, 1984's Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon as a dance-loving teen in a town where dancing is forbidden. The film launched Bacon's career. Ross's next big box-office success was 1989's Steel Magnolias, which featured an all-star cast including Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah and a then-up-and-coming Julia Roberts, who earned an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress. The director's final film was 1995's Boys on the Side, with Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker.
Ross was married to the dancer Nora Kaye from 1959 until her death in 1987. In 1988, he wed Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The pair divorced shortly before Ross' death.


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In a scorching hot community gym in the northern Israeli city of Acre, groups of young Jewish and Arab boys gathered to fight as equals. Boxing, it seems, serves as an unlikely bridge to peace among adversaries.
Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty is no stranger to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—in fact, his photographic legacy is intertwined in the struggle. After photographing the often violent clashes in Gaza and the West Bank for most of his life, Balilty has begun turning to stories that move beyond the violence—stories that offer glimpses of humanity, cooperation and shared experience.
Balilty's latest series goes behind-the-scenes of last week's National Youth Boxing Championship, supported by an organization boasting approximately 2000 active members. Although boxing isn't a major sport in Israel, it's favored by many of the roughly 2 million Israeli Arabs in the country, who often face discrimination and other economic hardships.
Within the framework of the sport, Jewish and Arab fighters square off, putting aside the tensions one would expect within a physically brutal sport. The young fighters, clad in helmets and gloves, view each other as equals and are not burdened by the engrained history of conflict outside the ring.
Balilty was drawn to the young age of the children. Many are between 9 and 13, ages where children remain unburdened by the conflicts of their parents. "They are only kids—all they care is to have fun with their friends everyday," Balilty told TIME, "just like in any other place. It really gives me hope."
Oded Balilty is a photographer for the Associated Press based in Tel Aviv. LightBox featured his work earlier this year in The Art of Storytelling and The Stone Throwers of Palestine.

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Web designer needed to refine tourism website
Budget $750-1500 AUD
Web designer needed to refine tourism website
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is the home of Australian tourism business the 'deep wilderness adventure society' Which promotes and operates Australian Wilderness & Aboriginal Tourism Experiences.
We have drafted a page on wix that needs to be refined before we launch.
Basically we are looking for someone to turn our draft into a refined and finished website that appears professional to our customers and that takes bookings online with a credit card.
The budget is $1000 (Australian)
to be completed in 10 working days.
I Will provide photographic content & copywriting (text) & website structure plan
Your Tasks ;
Refine the layout & design of the website (visual)
Add 4 more pages for our 4 new tours
Add a bookings page where customers can customise their tours with optional extras
Required Skills ;
knowledge of Wix
graphic design,
page design (layout),
Applicants please send your cv & examples of atleast 3 web completed websites.
designers with experience in Website for tourism businesses or including a bookings section will be preferences. SEO preferable as well.
Further work for successful applicant.
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Synopsis : [url removed, login to view] is the website for the Deep Wilderness Adventure Society Which promotes and operates Australian Tourism Experiences.
Our Aboriginal Tours are operated by Aboriginal Australian's on their own country with profits returning to their indigenous familys and communities.
Our Website has features a booking which allows users to add custom options to their tour experience such as gourmet dining options, extras such as helicopter & balloon flights & accomodation options.
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First Contact Botany Bay Tours
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with corresponding prices in AUD, EURO & UK POUNDS
SEO is more important later as the hits will be primarily driven by me this year.
The idea of the site is to get viewers to book their tour as Quickly as possible as they are already interested because I have lead them to the site with my speaking tour appearances.
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N.A. Juniors Game Night: 12/20
Team Canada Notes:
Canada called in Evander Kane, a BP favorite and teammate of Lightning prospect James Wright in Vancouver, to presumably take the spot of the injured Dana Tyrell. Tyrell suffered a "significant" knee injury Friday night in an exhibition game vs. Sweden and his tournament officially over.
Also, Canada coach Pat Quinn said the goaltenders' peformance Friday night did not sway him one way or another on a starter. Dustin Tokarski (0 GAA Friday) and Chet Pickard (2 GAA Friday) will go into today's game neck and neck.
Prince George Spruce Kings 1 @ Victoria Grizzlies 2
W Justin Courtnall, VIC: 0-1-1, 0 PIM
Season totals: 38 GP, 12-31-43, 62 PIM
Courtnall goes into the Christmas break with a clear future (Boston University in the fall) and the Grizzlies scoring lead. He is 13th in league scoring. Powell's Darcy Oakes, 31-38-69 in 39 games, is 19 points ahead of anyone else in the league. The 6-0, 175-pound Oakes is a 20 year old winger from Ontario.
Des Moines @ Fargo Force - POSTPONED
Inclement weather in the upper-midwest forced the postponement of all USHL games.
The QMJHL, OHL, WHL are all off until December 27 for Christmas.
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Westside Angst
From ZineWiki
Westside Angst (2001-) is a zine by Adelaide, South Australia based zinester and writer Ianto Ware, featuring personal writing, illustrations and hand-crafted covers.
Issue 10, which came with a collectable wooden spoon, took an average of seven minutes per copy to assemble. The longest issue [issue 7], clocked in at 23,121 words - longer than the honours thesis the author had, at that point, only just finished writing. Westside Angst has been said to be identifiable by distinct phases; comical, personal, 'pseudo academic', and romantic.
External Links
- Ministry of Zines
- Ianto Ware's website


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The Lakers remain unsure on whether Steve Nash will return at the end of this week after persisting nerve pain in his back has kept him sidelined for the past four games.
But they're adamant the 39-year-old hasn't considered retiring. Instead, the Lakers expect he will play out the remainder of his two-year, $19 million contract.
"He's looking at, 'What am I going to do when I'm 50?' But no, he's going to try and do everything he can to come back," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Whether he can get over this, we'll see. We think he can. We hope he can. But there's no talk of him sitting over there eating bon bons the rest of the way."
A source close to Nash familiar with his thought process said talk about any early retirement remains "premature." Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak told this newspaper last week Nash offered no indication he'd retire and they had no plans to make any roster moves because of his absence. But speculation surrounding Nash's sentiments increased after NBA veteran writer Peter Vecsey tweeted, "I'm hearing Nash's pain is forcing him 2 seriously consider calling it a career."
D'Antoni said Nash has gone "full bore" in recent days working out with his Canadian doctor and personal trainer, Rick Celebrini. Nash also has spent his rehab with Kobe Bryant.
"Steve and I have been extremely close through this process," Bryant said. "We're just talking, and particularly the last few games, we've been talking and watching the game and talking about the game and other things. I understand the frustration that comes along with that."
Nash has averaged only 6.7 points on 26 percent shooting and 4.8 assists in 22 minutes while also sitting out of the Lakers' tail end of two back-to-back games. His latest back injury stems from nerve issues from his surgically repaired left leg he broke last year after colliding into Portland's Damian Lillard in the second game of the season.
Can Nash overcome such injuries?
"Sure," Bryant said. "That's part of our job, to pick each other up and to put him in positions where he can be extremely efficient and extremely successful."
High expectations
Health concerns could dictate whether Bryant, Nash and Pau Gasol appear in the 2013 NBA All-Star game after being named on the ballot. But after earning a starting role and averaging 10.4 points and 8.4 rebounds in just 20.9 minutes per game, what about Jordan Hill?
"This guy is playing at an All-Star level," D'Antoni said. "What he's doing is remarkable right now. There's no reason he can't keep that up."
It's an impressive feat, considering D'Antoni initially preferred to have a smaller lineup. But Hill changed D'Antoni's sentiments because of his endless hustle on defense and rebounding. In the fours games since he has started, Hill has 18.8 points and 12.0 rebounds in just under 31 minutes per contest.
"I definitely wouldn't mind that," Hill said. "I'm just having fun and getting more confidence every time I'm on the floor.
"I'm trying to be a part of a great team and be a leader."


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Number 577, July 4, 2010
"He pissed me off."
Born on the What of Who?
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
Another Fourth of July is upon us, the 230th. By rights, and to paraphrase an inscription on the sideplate of one of my Ruger sixguns, manufactured in 1976, it should have been "the 230th year of American liberty".
Sad to say, it is far from that.
Instead, the television screen is full of warnings and threats, lest you celebrate July Fourth in the traditional way (Ben Franklin would have loved pop-bottle rockets) by setting off fireworks. If the media mouthpieces ever heard about "shooting the anvil" they'd pee themselves.
The American Revolutionand the spirit of independence that it evokeshas always been an embarrassment to the shriveled sociopaths whose existence centers upon an eternal struggle to gain and retain control over the lives of others. They have spared no effort to crush that spiritit has always occupied the top spot on their agendaand turn the Fourth into just another excuse for idiots to guzzle beer until they vomit, or get themselves mangled to death on the interstate highway.
We have now reached a point (I suspect the Brits reached it in the 19th century, and the Romans well before the birth of Christ) where the political process selects only the most crooked, dullwitted, and demented among us, a point where decent, intelligent, and rational individuals have no place in public life and are winnowed out by the system. A point where commemorating a Revolution is seen as a dire threat.
In a moral sense, America has reverted to the Stone Age. It has become a dark cave where the light of the Bill of Rights never shines. The White House is occupied by a stumbing cretin with the ethical outlook of a piranha, carefully isolated by handlers and flacksas he has been for most of his life, long before he became a politicianso that he doesn't have the merest clue what's going on in the real world.
The stumbling cretin will be replaced, in due course, with another twisted subcreature just like him, chosen by one or the other of two political parties whose memberslong gone in the most putrescent corruption imaginableregard the horrible death by starvation of half a million children as "worth it", in order to demonstrate the power of a nation-state most of us were brought up to believe was conceived to defend the life, the freedom, and the dignity of the individual.
Perhaps America never quite measured up to the ideals on which it was built. At least it once regarded those ideals as a standard to strive for.
No more.
Now the standard is the slaughter of entire villages of innocent individuals, the torture of helpless prisoners and political suspects, and the midnight knock on the door, followed by an illegal abduction into a secret prison system from which there can be no relief or appeal.
I read the other day that some people are upset that a new movie about Superman has the Man of Steel fighting for "truth, justice, and ... all that stuff." (Personally, I have always preferred Batman, a thoroughly non-super guy enraged by injustice and dedicated to doing something about it. But that's me, and once again, I have digressed.) The smarmy marxoids who made the Superman movie have offered all kinds of phony excuses for omitting the more traditional "the American Way", and I confess that, when I first read about this, it made me fairly angry.
But then I got to thinking: exactly what is "the American Way", these days? To more and more people of the world, the American Way is beating up and murdering your neighbors so you can steal what they have.
Nobody in power wants you thinking about these things. They want you out barbecuing, water-skiing, alcohol-swilling, and car smashing. The very last thing they want you to think about is what America was supposed to be, how it has been wrecked, or what might be done about it.
If colorful displays of flowers at every door were the traditional way of celebrating the Declaration of Independence for the past 230 years, private possession and display of flowers would have long since been outlawed, a thousand counterfeit explanations invented to justify it, and the populace would be exhorted by the pimps and whores of the broadcast mass media, stiff and reeking with hairspray, to enjoy the safe and sane flower displays set out for them by the duly constituted authorities.
The fact is, ownership and use of fireworks should be protected by the Second Amendment. Not only were they weapons, once upon a timesee the use of Congreve rockets at the Battle of New Orleansbut they were also extremely useful for frightening the enemy, exactly like bagpipes, which were also once considered (and banned) as a weapon of warfare. If Brits celebrated July Fourth, they'd be ordered to attend public bagpipe concerts and avoid private bagpipe ownership at any cost.
But get this through your head: the power elite don't give a damn about you, your family, your safety, or your future, except that those things serve their purpose. You are a resource to them, another pink body in one of those transparent bathtubs we saw in The Matrix, an object to be tapped at will, like an oil well or steer. Accordingly, the justifications they give for outlawing fireworks, or ignoring your demand that you be left to assess your own risks, are hypocritical crap.
So what I suggest is that you go ahead and do your barbecuing. (I'm doing gigantic shrimp for the first time this year, and as they pop and sizzle on the grill, I'm going to give them all names from the current regime.) Do your water-skiing. Skip the car-crashing, if you please.
I will do nothing that can be construed as patriotic. The Fourth of July is incurably tainted by government and corporate oppression. Instead, I plan to start making a big thing of December 15th, the day the Bill of Rightsthe document our oppressors hate mostwas ratified.
And yes, you can barbecue and drink beer in the winter.
And shoot the anvil.
Water skiing's a little tougher.
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The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the fact that both of them were almost fired during production. All these years later, it's still thrilling to watch Pacino as Michael, the Don's youngest son, evolve from an innocent outsider among his own family into a stone-hearted killer. Watch Pacino's eyes deaden over the course of the 175-minute film as he becomes the man his father never wanted him to be. It's why The Godfather is, ultimately, a tragedy.
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 29th, 2013
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part II, #2
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 28th, 2013
Al Pacino reprises his role as Michael and offers us an Ivy League Machiavelli. He has his father's cunning and guile, but somewhere along the way lost his compassion. How else do you explain his decision to have his own brother, Fredo (John Cazale), killed long after any damage Fredo has done to the family has been repaired?
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Goodfellas, #3
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 27th, 2013
There is no romance here. No looking out for one's people. No myth of a moral code. Instead, GoodFellas is about psychopaths who steal, kill and ultimately betray each other. It's two-and-a-half hours of blood, depravity and—that most American of vices—greed. Director Martin Scorsese summed up his subjects' wiseguy lifestyle in three words: "Want. Take. Simple." Oh, and by the way, it's a brilliant movie packed with dozens of colorful characters.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: On the Waterfront, #4
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 26th, 2013
All these years later, On the Waterfront continues to work as a magnificent bit of drama—and as a gangster movie. The story of a little man caught between principles and loyalties always resonates. And, last we checked, the problem of mob influence on America's labor unions hasn't gone away.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Pulp Fiction, #5
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 25th, 2013
Part of the joy is not always knowing who the good guys are. Tarantino shot Pulp Fiction as a time-twisting weave of stories where villains can become heroes, or a guy peppered with bullets in one scene comes back from the dead, so to speak, in the next. Behind it all is a hipness in everything from the wardrobe to the set design to the beat-heavy soundtrack that kicks off with Dick Dale's guitar classic "Misirlou" in the opening credits.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Little Caesar, #6
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 24th, 2013
Enrico Bandello was the prototype for every film gangster who followed. The tight-fitting three-piece suits, the high-collared shirt and tie, the fedora and the ever-present cigar—Rico brought it all to the big screen. There was also the tough-guy lingo, usually delivered out of the side of the mouth.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Departed, #7
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 23rd, 2013
There are references to Hawthorne, Shakespeare and James Joyce. Conversely, and while we didn't keep count, the IMDb website notes that the film also includes 237 uses of the word "fuck" or its derivatives. According to IMDb, that's the most ever in a film that won the Best Picture Oscar.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Donnie Brasco, #8
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 22nd, 2013
One of the reasons the movie works so well is the interplay between Pacino and Johnny Depp, who established himself as more than just a pretty-boy actor with his performance here as Joe Pistone. Using the undercover name Donnie Brasco (a name Pistone "borrowed" from a cousin), the street-smart, New Jersey-raised FBI agent manages to infiltrate a major New York crime family by posing as a jewel thief and hustler who knows how to make money.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Usual Suspects, #9
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 21st, 2013
The genesis of this complex thriller was a magazine article, or—more accurately—the headline of an article. Director Bryan Singer was thumbing through Spy magazine in 1992 when he turned to a story entitled, "The Usual Suspects" after Claude Rains' classic line in Casablanca. Hmm, thought Singer. Now that would make a good title for a movie.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Casino, #10
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 20th, 2013
In the opening shot of Casino, a man in a salmon-colored sports jacket climbs into his Lincoln Continental. He turns the key and the car explodes. Then, as director Martin Scorsese explains it, "You see him in slow motion, flying over the flames—like a soul about to take a dive into hell."
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Scarface: The Shame of a Nation, #11
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 19th, 2013
Still, there's something beyond the stereotypes and the arcane movie talk that makes this a great film. For one, the story it tells remains—as it was then—the American dream come to life: an immigrant from humble beginnings gets the money, gets the power, gets the women. The bad guy has always mesmerized audiences, and Muni is as magnetic as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were a half-century later.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Once Upon a Time in America, #12
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 18th, 2013
Once Upon a Time in America tells the lifelong tale of a clan of Jewish mobsters. It has two main chapters—set in 1920 and 1933—plus a third chapter, set in 1968. Each chapter deals with power and sex and treachery.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Léon: The Professional, #13
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 17th, 2013
He's a highly efficient—but in many ways naïve—hit man who drinks milk, exercises religiously and seems obsessed with the care and maintenance of a houseplant. She's a 12-year-old who smokes, curses and is wise way beyond her years. Together they form an unlikely crime team in this fascinating and unusual look at the New York underworld.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mean Streets, #14
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 16th, 2013
One of the best things about watching Mean Streets more than 30 years after its debut is that you know what's coming after this. And so you look and you watch and you listen for little signs—small scenes that are the roots and the seedlings of the Scorsese/De Niro oeuvre.
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Reservoir Dogs, #15
by George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
May 15th, 2013
Reservoir Dogs is an action film without much action. A crime drama in which you never see the main crime take place. A comedy that makes you sometimes feel uneasy about laughing. A buddy movie where the buddies end up killing each other.
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On the heels of my last post, after waxing lyrical about our national love affair with rice for breakfast, I had to come back to tell you this: We don't just have it with egg and meat/fish. And we don't just have it savory.
We also have it sweet and with chocolate.
This is called champorado and is our version of chocolate rice pudding. It's traditionally eaten at breakfast time, sometimes with a side of dried, salted fish. It may seem strange to the uninitiated to have chocolate rice pudding with dried fish. I can't actually comment because I haven't tried the combination, but rest assured that if I do I will report back here. Until then, it's enough for me that eating chocolate for breakfast figures into my culture and I'm more than grateful for that 🙂
There are loads of champorado mixes available at the supermarkets but I decided to make it from scratch using the loot C had brought back for me from his business trip to Naga City. First I used the native tablea (chocolate tablets made of local crushed cacao) as my chocolate flavoring, a more traditional ingredient than the commonly used cocoa powder that you find in a lot of champorado today. Then, since chocolate and coconut are a popular pairing, I thought of topping the champorado with some of the coconut jam with pili nuts and sprinkling a few candied pili nuts over the whole mess. Finally, instead of making the champorado with water as it is typically done, I decided to use milk, and not just any milk, carabao's milk. Carabao's milk has a higher fat content than cow's milk, making it richer and creamier, and upping the ante for milk-based puddings and desserts.
Carabao's Milk Champorado with Cocojam and Pili Nuts
- ½ cup malagkit rice (this is our local glutinous rice which we use for sticky rice sweets, I think rice you would use for risotto would work as well, although I'm not certain as I haven't tried that yet)
- 2-3 cups carabao's milk (start with 2, then add if the mixture becomes too dry for your tastes)
- 4 tablea (just under an ounce each)
– Place the 2 cups milk and the rice in a saucepan and cook until rice is almost done, stirring regularly.
– In another smaller saucepan, melt tablea in some of the extra milk.
– When rice feel almost done, add chocolate mixture and keep stirring until rice is soft, adding more milk when necessary (this will depend on how soupy or sticky you want it…I like it really thick)
– Place cooked champorado in small bowls and top each with some coco jam (to taste) and candied pili nuts.
– Serves 4.
I don't add any sugar in this recipe because the coco jam is very sweet (so please practice restraint when adding it…unlike me). Also, when I say "place in small bowls", I do mean small bowls, this is very rich and I could only finish half of the serving you see in the photo above. You can use cocoa powder instead of the tablea (I've consumed many a champorado using cocoa) but the tablea adds a certain rustic grittiness that I like, the chocolate being more bitter and grainy. The carabao's milk makes this incredibly rich and creamy.
This is amazingly comforting during our rainy/wet season, not only because it is rich, sweet, and hearty, but also because it brings back so many childhood memories. My paternal grandmother use to make this all the time (albeit the regular way and not with carabao's milk) and I used to look forward to it every time I visited. Now that I'm older, comforting childhood favorites like this are sometimes forgotten in the face of more sophisticated fare…but, I quickly realize as the rain beats steady on my grimy window, are no less needed.
UPDATE!!! — I had been secretly hoping that I could submit this as my very first entry to the famed and highly acclaimed food blogging event, Sugar High Friday, but unfortunately I was late. However, I just recieved word from Johanna, this round's kind and generous host, that I was very much welcome to join…YAY! Johanna, The Passionate Cook, chose "Going Local!" as the theme and encouraged everyone to blog about local sweet stuff…hence my fervent wish to join this round…so I could toot the horn of my native champorado! 🙂 Thank you Johanna! And thanks to Jennifer the Domestic Goddess for creating this event that celebrates sweetness! 🙂


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Cristina Comaniciu
- Cristina Comaniciu received the M.S. degree in electronics from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1993
- Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University in December 2001
- Postdoctoral, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2003
- physical layer secrecy: energy-security tradeoffs
- game theoretic solutions for smart grids
- green radio
- cross-layer design for wireless networks
- game theoretic approaches for wireless networks
- cooperative algorithms for interference mitigation
- cognitive radio networks
- radio resource management for cellular and ad hoc networks
- From 1998 to 2001 she was with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) at Rutgers University, working on integrated access control and detection algorithms for multimedia CDMA systems. At WINLAB she worked under the supervision of Professor Narayan Mandayam
- From 2002 to 2003 she was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University as a research associate, working with Professor H. Vincent Poor
- Since August 2003, she is with Stevens Institute of Technology, where she is currently and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She also serves as Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Director.
Professional Service
Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2007-2011).
Honors & Awards
- 2012 IEEE Communication Society, Dynamic Spectrum Etiquette paper listed as "Best reading topics on cognitive radios
- 2012 Rutgers School of Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Medal of Excellence
- 2011 Women Leaders in Academia - Rutgers University
- 2010 IEEE Outstanding Industrial Panel Chair Award, Sarnoff Symposium
- 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications
- 2004 WINSEC Award for Outstanding Contibutions
Professional Societies
Professor Comaniciu is member of IEEE.
Grants, Contracts & Funds
Professor Comaniciu's work has been sponsored by several grants awarded by NSF, ONR, and the European Union.
Patents & Inventions
"METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COOPERATIVE DIVERSITY VISUAL COGNITION IN WIRELESS VIDEO SENSOR NETWORKS", USA patent awarded 2016.
Selected Publications
- Engin Zeydan, Didem Kivanc, Ufuk Tureli and Cristina Comaniciu. (2012). "Joint Iterative Beamforming and Power Adaptation for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, special issue on Recent Advances in Multiuser MIMO Systems.
- Q. Shi, C. Comaniciu, D. Wang, U. Tureli. (2011). "Cross-layer MAC design for location-aware wireless sensor networks", Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, 7 (24), 872-888.
- A. Apavatjrut, C. Goursaud, K. Jaffres-Runser, C. Comaniciu, J-M. Gorce. (2011). "Toward Increasing Packet Diversity for Relaying LT Fountain Codes in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Communication Letters, 1 (15), 52-54.
- C. Comaniciu, N.B. Mandayam, H.V. Poor, J-M. Gorce. (2010). "An Auctioning Mechanism for Green Radio", Journal of Communication and Networks, 12 (2), pp. 114-121, 2010., 2 (12), 114-121.
- N. Nie, C. Comaniciu. (2006). "Energy efficient AODV routing in CDMA ad hoc networks using beamforming ", Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , art. no. 76709 .
- C. Comaniciu, H. Vincent Poor. (Aug 2006). "On the Capacity of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Delay Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. (this paper won 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications). 5 (8), 2061 – 2071.
- D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, U. Tureli. (2007). "Cooperation and fairness for slotted Aloha ", special issue on Wireless Personal Communications on Cooperation in Wireless Networks, Springer. 43 (1), 13-27 .
- H. Mahmood and C. Comaniciu. (2009). "Interference Aware Cooperative Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier. Ad Hoc Networks 7 (1), pp. 248-263 . 7 (1), 248-263.
- D. Wang, C. Comaniciu, M. Hlaing, N. Al-Dhahir. (Nov 2008). "A Game-Theoretic Approach for Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Cooperative Slotted Aloha", Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE . 7 (11), 4215 - 4225 .
- C. Comaniciu, H. V. Poor. (Jan 2007). "Joint Power Control and Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Data Networks", Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , art. no. 60707.
- Y. Liu, C. Comaniciu, H. Man. (2006). "Modeling Misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach for Intrusion Detection", International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Download (306 KB PDF).
- N. Nie, C. Comaniciu. (2006). "Adaptive Channel Allocation Spectrum Etiquette for Cognitive Radio Networks", 11 (6), 779-797 . Download (526 KB PDF).
- C. Comaniciu, H. Vincent Poor. (May 2005). Wireless Networks: Multiuser Detection in Cross-Layer Design, Springer, NY.
Book Chapters
- N. Nie, K. Jaffres-Runser, C. Comaniciu. (Dec 2008). "On the tradeoffs of cross-layer protocols for cognitive radio networks", Yang Xiao and Fei Hu, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
- C. Comaniciu. (Nov 2007). "Cooperation for Cognitive Networks: A Game Theoretic Perspective", Frank Fitzek and Marcos Katz, Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of Enlightenment of Wireless Communications, Springer.
- K. Jaffres-Runser, J-M. Gorce, C. Comaniciu. (Sep 2008). "A Multiobjective Tabu framework for the optimization and evaluation of wireless systems", Local Search Techniques: Focus on Tabu Search, Wassim Jaziri, I-Tech Education and Publishing.
- N. Nie, C. Comaniciu and P. Agrawal. (Nov 2006). "A Game Theoretic Approach to Interference Management in Cognitive Networks", Wireless Communications , P. Agrawal, D. M. Andrews, P. J. Fleming, G. Yin, and L. Zhang , IMA Volumes of Mathematics and its Applications, Springer.
- EE 345 Modeling and Simulation
- CPE 345 Modeling and Simulation
- EE 653 Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Networks
- NIS 672 Game Theory for Wireless Networks
- EE 672 Game Theory for Wireless Networks
- CPE 604 Analytical Methods for Networks
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Kenneth Laws visits the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth Laws spent four days at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in September, 2002, conducting a variety of events concerning the connection between physics and classical ballet technique. Laws, a Professor of Physics Emeritus at Dickinson College, is an expert on the subject with three books and numerous journal articles to his credit. While on campus he taught several classes at the Department of Dance, presented the subject to physicists at a Physics Department Colloquium, delivered a CAS/MillerComm lecture to the interested public at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and held a very active afternoon session with University High School subfreshmen.
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Here is a link to George Gollin's Physics of Dance web pages.
We kept Ken very busy during his visit! His schedule included the following events:
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Biological Control of Western Bean Cutworm Promising; Further Research Needed - March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012
The western bean cutworm is a serious pest of dry edible beans and corn in Nebraska, and is now expanding its range eastward to as far as Pennsylvania and Ontario.
Typically, farmers use chemicals to control western bean cutworms in dry beans; however, down the road there may be another option. A new biological control method that was tested in the Panhandle showed promise as an alternative control measure. UNL Extension Entomologist Jeff Bradshaw said more research is needed, but a 2011 study near Scottsbluff showed that the parasitoid, Trichogramma ostrinae, preyed on western bean cutworm eggs in dry beans and corn.
A magnified view of western bean cutworm eggs parasitized by trichogramma. One of the wasps is circled, and the arrow indicates an emergence hole created by an adult parasitoid. Each cutworm egg is less than 1/16th inch across.
Trichogramma have been used successfully in China against the Asian corn borer and in the eastern United States against the European corn borer, so Bradshaw is encouraged by the fact that they also will prey on western bean cutworm in bean and corn fields.
Trichogramma ostrinae, a tiny wasp, is a native parasitoid of the Asian corn borer. In the early 1990s it was introduced into the eastern United States for control of the European corn borer in sweet corn. The Scottsbluff study was intended to find out whether trichogramma would prey on the eggs of western bean cutworm in corn and dry beans.
Bradshaw noted that much is not known about western bean cutworms. There are no highly accurate sampling programs in dry beans, and little knowledge about what factors control the spread of the pest.
Adding biological control to the arsenal of management options has several advantages, Bradshaw said. Chemical control has economic and environmental costs and requires aerial application due to the point in the season when it would be applied — when the rows have closed and equipment can not longer be driven through. The per-acre cost of aerial application is affordable only if there are enough acres to spray in one area. Researchers and some bean growers are experimenting with more upright, less viney plants that allow direct harvest with a combine, instead of a multiple-step process of cutting, windrowing and swathing. But most bean acres still consist of viney, low-growing plant types.
Trichogramma Targets Limited
Although the trichogramma wasp comes from China, it is not expected to become an invasive species in the United States, Bradshaw said. Extensive studies from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have shown only 13 species of Lepidoptera, such as European corn borers, diamond back moths, and now western bean cutworms, are attacked. It has also been used on the East Coast against European corn borers in sweet corn to economic benefit.
However, Dr. Mike Hoffmann, a researcher at Cornell University, found that a few species of moth, including the western bean cutworm, are susceptible in the laboratory and asked Bradshaw about testing the wasp's effect on cutworms.
Trichogramma ostrinae lay eggs inside western bean cutworm eggs that have been deposited in sacs on field crops. Their larva develop inside and feed on the contents of the egg. If the host egg is large enough, it may even support the development of more than one trichogramma.
UNL Panhandle REC Adds Research for Dry Bean and Corn
The Scottsbluff project was carried out in 2011 by Fernanda M. Pelegrinotti, an intern from Brazil (UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista), under Bradshaw's supervision. Cages were set up around corn and dry bean plots at two separate locations at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff. Four of the cages (two on corn and two on beans) were infested with both female western bean cutworm moths and parasitoids. Another two cages were infested with moths, but no parasitoids, as controls. After about 10 days of exposure, the western bean cutworm egg masses were evaluated.
Pelegrinotti found that the wasp will parasitize western bean cutworm, and in fact the parasitism rate was higher in dry beans than in corn. In addition, some of the cutworm eggs were victims of other mortality factors. The conclusion is that an augmentative release could significantly increase the mortality rate of western bean cutworm in dry beans, Bradshaw said.
Bradshaw said research conducted in eastern sweet corn fields on European corn borers showed that the parasitoids worked well as part of an integrated pest management (IPM) strategy in combination with chemicals.The overlaid insecticide did not kill off the trichogramma wasps.
Parasitized eggs also are noticeably darker than non-parasitized, so a field scout would be able to distinguish between the two and, in the future may be able to make a recommendation for treatment based on the rate of parasitism, he said.
Further Research Needed
The next step depends on money. So far, funding has not been secured to continue research, but there are more opportunities to present the project to funding agencies, he said.
Bradshaw said there are a lot of questions to answer: How does this treatment work in upright bean plants compared to viney? How large is the effective area of control — how far the parasitoids would spread from the release point? How long does it take for parasitoid eggs to emerge from cutworm eggs after they've been laid into the eggs, and how does that match up with the cutworm life cycle?
David Ostdiek
Communications Associate, Panhandle REC


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Pastor Jerry was born and raised in Michigan graduating from Manistique High School in 1972. After high school he spent four years in the U.S. Coast Guard and in the summer of 1977 he began studying for the ministry at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. (Hear Pastor Jerry's testimony in Revelation Series Part 25—Saved by Grace.)
That fall he met and became engaged to Karen Horner from Indianapolis, Indiana; four months later, they married in February 1978. (In the sermon Parable of the Wedding Garment you can hear how they met.) Karen is an occupational therapist working in the Bradley County Schools in Tennessee.
Their daughter Hannah married Mickey Ortel; their son Jeremy married Laurel Towles and their youngest son Joshua married Amanda Hayes. They have six grandchildren.
Jerry has a BA in theology from Andrews University an MA in religion (homiletics and soul-winning) from Southern Adventist University and completed a Doctor of Ministry in Expository Preaching from Andrews University in 2008. His hobbies include reading, golfing, skeetshooting and cheering on the Colts. His greatest delight is spending time with Karen and their family.
Normally when we study Genesis 6, we tend to focus on Noah and how his family survived the floor because of their obedience. In Pastor Jerry's sermon, he focuses on setting the scene for why God decided to destroy the world and everything on it (except for Noah, his family, and what he was given permission to have on the ark).


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We've all heard about the loneliness and corruptions of power, but two new academic works suggest that maybe it isn't really so bad.
First, psychologists at UC Berkeley found that people in power are more resilient in the face of rejection than are the rest of us. Researchers reported on five experiments pointing in this direction. In one, volunteers were assigned high or low positions in a workplace and told they weren't invited to a party. High level "employees" didn't mind much, but lower level ones felt bad. Powerful people are "more buffered from the negative feelings that rejection typically elicits," Kuehn said in a press release.
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The 'Sad Clown with the Golden Voice' is back with a suitcase full of all new emotional anthems and plenty of Kleenex! As with any Pity Party performance, it's not all sadness and longing. Puddles' set is peppered with a brilliant sense of the absurd, mixing lots of humor with the awkward, tender moments.
With more than 180k fans on Facebook and over 40 million views on Youtube, including his acclaimed version of Lorde's Royals, Sia's Chandelier and other pop favorites, Puddles Pity Party has toured extensively in the US including multiple sold out shows at Joe's Pub in NYC, the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco and the legendary Troubadour in Los Angeles. He has also performed many times in the UK at Soho Theatre London, sold out runs in 2015 and 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and he was a feature performer in La Soiree's Southbank show that won the Olivier Award in 2015. Other worldwide festival appearances include the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Perth Fringe World, Melbourne International Comedy Fest, Just for Laughs Montreal, Belgium's Gent Festival, Festival Supreme (LA), Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle), Moontower Comedy Festival (Austin), First City Fest (Monterey) and MusikFest (Bethlehem).
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The Significance of the WSJ Article - in three
2. The revelations that Trek was aware that bicycles being provided to USPS team were being diverted is devastating to their credibility, and their disinterest in stopping the practice suggests complicity in facilitating doping at USPS - just as many long suspected.
3. (This one taken verbatim from the text) "Three other former U.S. Postal riders told the Journal in interviews that there was doping on the team during the time Mr. Armstrong was its lead rider, and one of them admitted that he himself had doped."
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Joe, any hints or ideas on who the riders are in (3) ?ReplyDelete
Yes, but it wouldn't be prudent for me to compromise their anonymity by naming them here in public... Hope you can understand.ReplyDelete
Sorry, I read into the article that those in question had come out into the open.ReplyDelete
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For all this Wall Street Journal article brouhaha, somebody better be working on a good conspiracy video or article about how WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Sky Broadcasting, which bankrolls the Sky team of Bradley Wiggins, and therefore it's obvious that Murdoch is paying Landis to spout this stuff and using his paper to lend credibility to it, all with the intent of bringing down Armstrong and aiding Wiggins' Tour chances. Because if nobody's on that yet, the Armstrong army is really falling down on the job.ReplyDelete
BTW: I think the three who confirmed Floyd's tales are Hincapie, Hamilton and Zabriske.
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Celtics beat Knicks, 90-86
Celtics beat Knicks, 90-86
Gerald Wallace stole the ball from J.R. Smith in the first half.
Jared Sullinger put up a shot over the Knicks' Amare Stoudemire during Friday's game at TD Garden.
The Knicks' Andrea Bargnani tried to keep Jordan Crawford from shooting the ball.
Phil Pressey tried to steal the ball from Pablo Prigioni.
Pressey fought through a pick set as he played defense against J.R. Smith.
Sullinger pulled down an offensive rebound.
Kelly Olynyk rejected a shot attempt by Iman Shumpert in the second half.
The game marked Olynyk's return to the court after a sprained ankle.
Pressey dove after a loose ball as Stoudemire tried to gain possession.
Vitor Faverani let out a howl after making a 25-foot 3-point jumper in the fourth quarter.
Carmelo Anthony turned the ball over in the fourth quarter.
Avery Bradley brought Celtics fans to their feet with a 23-foot 3-pointer, with the assist from Crawford.
Bradley's 3-point jumper at 2:38 left in the game brought the Celtics within 2 points of the Knicks.
The Celtics came up with several huge plays late in the fourth quarter, again displaying their grit, even when the game looked out of reach.
Crawford and Faverani celebrated after Jeff Green was fouled while making a layup with nine seconds left in the game.
Anthony missed on a 25-foot 3-point shot attempt with three seconds left.
The Celtics closed the game on a 22-7 run, rallying from 11 down in the fourth quarter to take a 90-86 win over the Knicks.


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I can't wait for the details on Griffiths attack on magical forests, does this mean that the siege of Flora's mansion wasn't just an isolated attack against one witch, but part of a larger campaign to destroy other Magus colonies? Does this mean Griffith commands other apostles across the world and not just his war demon army?
He then exchanges a silent stare with Guts, because that's what cool guys do when they meet.
How incredibly lucky are we?
Also, Morda is looking even more like Krysten Ritter in this ep than the last. I'm convinced.
I don´t know how to interpretate the pun about Puck missing. Was it because he is one you don't care about in the island or because it was a really short time?
I wonder if those entities inhabiting the trees were once old magic users who had their souls transferred to trees to prolong their "lives." Which of course, made me think of our favorite old man knight.
I'm in disbelief of the pace being set in recent episodes. We've already been delivered specifics of how Casca's mind could be restored, and are literally on the doorstep of the Elf King, events more than 14 years in the making.
It's funny seeing the curing of Casca described as a small gift considering how much importance it has to Guts and us, the readers. A subtle testament to just how incredibly powerful the king is perhaps.
a bit rebellious, intelligent and talented.
That description fits basically half the characters ever invented.
I know the episodes are taking a long time to come out, but the pace of the story itself is a bit fast. kinda wish Miura would slow it down just a bit (for a little extra world detail i guess). I felt Falconia deserved 1 or 2 more episodes.
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Shares of Medtronic Inc. slipped Tuesday, a day after the medical device maker announced findings from independent reviews of studies of its Infuse bone graft
THE SPARK: The Minneapolis company with a presence in Memphis said the reviews, conducted through Yale University, concluded that clinical success rates with its Infuse product were equivalent to more traditional bone graft procedures in which bone is taken from the hip. Medtronic also said it believes that the data showed no link between Infuse and cancer development, but it is continuing to study this issue.
Medtronic had said in 2011 it would provide a $2.5 million grant to allow Yale to conduct two independent reviews of the safety and effectiveness of Infuse in the wake of criticism of the clinical trials it conducted to support the device. Medtronic provided Yale with clinical trial data and side effect reports provided to the Food and Drug Administration.
THE BIG PICTURE: Infuse contains a genetically engineered protein that can stimulate bone growth. It is used as an alternative to procedures like autologous grafting, where bone is taken from elsewhere in the patient's body.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Infuse in 2002 for use in spinal, oral and dental graft procedures, but it also is used off-label in neck surgeries and other procedures.
Medtronic's spinal business has been hurt by revelations about the company's handling of the studies and marketing of Infuse.
Last year, a Senate investigation concluded that the company helped write and edit medical journal articles about the graft that downplayed its risks. The Senate Finance Committee said Medtronic did not disclose its role in shaping key studies that helped turn Infuse into an $800-million a year product
THE ANALYSIS: The reviews uncovered no "smoking guns" linking Infuse to cancer or other issues, Jefferies analyst Raj Denhoy said in a research note. But they also showed that the material in the graft offers little clinical benefit and comes with a risk of increased harm compared to other grafts.
"On balance we view the papers as tilted to the negative and expect (Infuse) to continue to hemorrhage sales," Denhoy wrote.
Stifel analyst Rick Wise said in a separate note he also didn't feel the review uncovered any meaningful new concerns, and that could be seen as a slight positive. Even so, he expects Infuse sales to continue to slide in the United States.
SHARE ACTION: Medtronic shares started to slip before markets opened and were down 77 cents to $52.74 Tuesday midday while broader trading indexes rose slightly. The shares hit a 52-week high of $53.83 last month and have traded between that and $36.91 over the past year.
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TPWD to Sell Part of Newly-Acquired Ranch at Palo Duro Canyon
Acreage Deemed Not Vital For State Park, Will Be Protected By Conservation Easement
AUSTIN, Texas — In September 2008, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Trust For Public Land announced that the views from inside Palo Duro Canyon State Park will remain grand thanks to the addition of a 2,912-acre property known as Fortress Cliffs Ranch. Now, TPWD is following through on its originally stated plan to sell upland portions of the ranch and use the proceeds to buy other state park land, with a legally binding conservation easement to permanently protect the acreage sold.
The Fortress Cliffs Ranch (formerly Tub Springs Ranch) was put up for sale several years ago, raising concerns that the highly visible bluff could be impacted by houses or other development. John Watson, CEO of ranch broker Orvis/Cushman & Wakefield, wanted to find a stewardship buyer, so he contacted conservation groups, including Trust for Public Land. A TPL representative contacted TPWD, and the two agencies began exploring ways to acquire the land. TPL ultimately purchased the property and held it until it could be purchased by TPWD.
The primary concern at the time was protecting the ranch property's seven miles of cliffs, where homes or other development could mar views from inside the state park. When department leaders briefed the TPW Commission about the proposed purchase in 2008, they made clear that the upland acreage, which includes the former ranch house, would eventually be sold in order to make the deal work.
"From the start, we made it clear that protecting the cliffs and the park's dramatic viewshed were the agency's highest priorities," said Carter Smith, TPWD executive director. "We also indicated that to make the best use of our limited funds, we would need to sell the residual part of the ranch. A perpetual conservation easement will ensure the land's important wildlife conservation values are adequately protected. We will use the proceeds from this sale to acquire state park property elsewhere in Texas, where we have many high-priority needs. The beauty of this arrangement is that it meets the needs of the park, makes the ranch house and accompanying upland property available for a private conservation buyer, and still preserves the land through a conservation easement."
On Jan. 27 in Austin, the Conservation Committee of the TPW commission approved a staff proposal to go out for public comment on the proposed sale of the house and approximately 1,900 acres of land, primarily grassland with some cedar brush and a side canyon complex known as Tubbs Draw. The sale tract is configured to include a quarter mile of canyon rim to maximize its attractiveness to potential buyers. However, the entire sale tract will be permanently restricted by a conservation easement held by TPWD, which will provide that the property can only be subdivided into two tracts in the future and no development can occur near the rim. No action will be taken on the proposed sale until the TPW commission approves it at one of its regular meetings in the future.
The Fortress Cliffs property is located about 15 miles southeast of Amarillo in Randall and Armstrong Counties, sharing seven miles of boundary with the state park. After the acquisition, the park now comprises 29,187 acres.
The park is developing a plan to propose management and use of the new tract, integrating it into existing resource management and public use plans. The planning process will take months, and will involve input from the public and various stakeholders.
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is located about 12 miles east of Canyon on State Highway 217. Entry fees are $4 per day for adults, free for children under age 13. For more information, contact the park at (806) 488-2227
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The pleasure of finding things you never knew existed.
Downloaded a compilation recently that claimed to have original versions of famous 60's hits. Entertaining stuff, with Loudermilk's 'Tobacco Road', Tommy Hunt's awesome 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself', but the big surprise was this.
Obviously not the original version of 'Baby let Me Follow You Down' if such a thing exists, but something I first heard via The Animals, as a teenager in the early 60's. I have never heard this version played anywhere, let alone heard of Hoagy Lands before - and I thought I knew a bit about 60's soul singers. What a voice, eerily like Sam Cooke.
Even the song's Wikipedia page fails to list it- (and they're always 100% correct, aren't they?)