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Amateurs. What are you gonna do? | Get The Picture
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February 5, 2017 · 10:07 AM	Amateurs. What are you gonna do?
12 responses to “Amateurs. What are you gonna do?”	AusDawg85	February 5, 2017 at 10:21 AM	Boy, the NCAA better hope there is some type of sporting news story this weekend that captures the headlines and pushes this to the back pages.
And as much as I get the need for anti-trust litigation and class action lawsuits to corral corporate misdeeds, why does it still feel like only the plaintiffs lawyers win big? The American way…
Linda	February 5, 2017 at 10:28 AM	That is Stinking Thinking
Macallanlover	February 5, 2017 at 11:01 AM	Never understood why this went the path of “cost of attendance”, seemed like a mistake then, and still smells. It sanctioned cheating and cost much more than was needed. A full scholarship with room. board, tuition, books, and a set expense allowance (say $500 per month) with no variance would have gotten the job done. Then schools could have had partial scholarships, like they always had, for sports that are not revenue positive. Calling something a “full scholarship” when the athlete has no way/time to get spending money for gas, movies, dates, etc., contributed to much of the cheating. With no time to work a part time job, or get money from family, how can they live like other college students? May have to live differently but it is a stretch to call them recreational, and life style, expenses a “cost of attendance. They aren’t, it is the restriction of time to have the same choices other students have that needs to be compensated. And that doesn’t vary enough from school, or location, enough to prohibit a one size fits all stipend from working. If someone wants to have a penthouse loft condo over the free, on-campus room offered, that should not be on the athletic department.
rchris	February 5, 2017 at 11:24 AM	Do students have to pay income tax on a cost of attendance stipend, and would they have to pay taxes on a set expense allowance like you propose?
Macallanlover	February 6, 2017 at 8:23 AM	I don’t think so because it can be justified that a per diem at that level is needed to cover average costs in all regions of the country. The question is whether the IRS could require proof (receipts) that the money was spent on allowable items like they do for businesses. I don’t think they would require that and, is there really in any tax on $6K of annual income?
Senator Blutarsky	February 5, 2017 at 11:26 AM	… a set expense allowance (say $500 per month) with no variance would have gotten the job done.
Mac, I’m not sure you’re getting the point here. The NCAA can’t win antitrust cases when it artificially sets player compensation.
Macallanlover	February 5, 2017 at 1:06 PM	Don’t see an expense stipend as compensation Senator, unless it is set as an arbitrary “cost of attendance”, over and above normal expenses. NCAA allowed a minimal expense allowance for dry cleaning/laundry when I was in college in the 60s and 70s.
DawgByte	February 5, 2017 at 1:51 PM	All rise as Senator Bernie enters the room!
Senator Sanders: “I applaud this court ruling in the name of social justice… I’m pretty sure racism and Donald Trump were at the heart of this case, so again join me and rejoicing this victory for the WORKERS!
As many of you know, over the last decade Senator Blutarsky and I have been working relentlessly to abolish serfdom, corporate greed and get the government more involved in regulating sports. These evil institutions, backed by the totalitarian NCAA, are forcing these High School football players at gun point to accept scholarships, the value of which over 4+ years amounts to approximately $1M and this must end. Senator Blutarsky and I vehemently disagree with the traditional student athlete model and believe these are professional athletes that must be justly compensated for their image, because providing a television platform to demonstrate their skills to NFL scouts is just not enough. We also do not buy the argument that Pay For Play will negatively impact swimmers, wrestlers, gymnasts other athletes at colleges and universities. To prevent 88% of colleges and universities athletic programs from going under in a Pay for Play scheme, Senator Blutarsky and I have introduced new Congressional legislation to raise income taxes by 25%. Under our plan we will provide ‘FREE’ college to all Americans and pay college football players a yearly salary of $200K plus corporate endorsement deals, with annual base salary increases of 7% over the next 50 years.
AmeriKans, please join Blutarsky and I by Rising-Up and joining our utopian cause!!! Senator Blutarsky for president 2020… this message was paid for by Black Lives Matter, a subsidiary of George Soros Anarchy Inc.”
AthensHomerDawg	February 5, 2017 at 3:57 PM	Jeepers.
DawgByte	February 5, 2017 at 3:59 PM	Indeed.
Senator Blutarsky	February 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM	Man… all that work, just to say “I think paying playerz sux”.
The racial tinge at the end was a nice touch, though.
Alamosa	February 5, 2017 at 7:19 PM	Sure he could not resist that touch. Expected to see social marxism thrown in there too.


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MARTIN SAMUEL: Nearly man Martin O¿Neill is at the crossroads | Daily Mail Online
MARTIN SAMUEL: Nearly man Martin O’Neill is at the crossroads
Updated: 19:16 EDT, 12 April 2010
It was not 7-1 this time and most neutrals would say it probably wasn’t even 3-0, but ignore the scorelines and one inescapable fact remains. Another season will pass without a trophy for Martin O’Neill at Aston Villa.
There has been much talk of a decision to be made in the summer, but a decision about what?
O’Neill is a fine manager, but without the trophy to define his career at Villa Park he is caught in the same trap as any number of talented contemporaries.
Where does he go from here? The biggest football clubs in England do not take a chance on British managers.
Nearly man: Martin O'Neill has twice left Wembley disappointed this season
Roman Abramovich has made five managerial changes and not appointed one at Chelsea. Liverpool flirted with Alan Curbishley in 2004, and then went for Rafael Benitez, of Valencia, while it is unthinkable a British manager will succeed Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, the Barclays Premier League’s most cosmopolitan club.
Even Manchester City are unlikely to look close to home after abandoning faith in Mark Hughes so readily. The appointment of Roberto Mancini indicates the direction the club will take from here.
The natural final destination for O’Neill used to be Old Trafford, but Manchester United want a manager with a track record of beating powerful opponents like Chelsea, not succumbing to them.
Unless O’Neill can alter Aston Villa’s status as the nearly team — and with City’s financial clout the Champions League places will be harder to crack than ever — he may be approaching his glass ceiling.
As one of the smartest managers in the modern game he will know this, too, which may be why he has appeared dissatisfied of late.
The Scottish Premier League commands little respect down south (and that was before Ross County’s victory over Celtic) but the truth is O’Neill was in a better position to command the United job on leaving Celtic Park than he is now.
In five seasons in Glasgow, he won seven trophies (three league titles, three Scottish Cups and a Scottish League Cup) and reached the final of the UEFA Cup. It is easy to dismiss the SPL as a two-horse race but how many more title winners have there been in England since 1995? One.
So O’Neill’s understanding of delivering on a favourite at Celtic, of taking the game to the opposition every week, of making the play, is not all that different to what is expected of Sir Alex Ferguson.
His Celtic success was certainly preferable to his present curriculum vitae containing extensive experience of leaving Wembley feeling gypped.
No big club want the plucky loser as manager; certainly not a club who are used to inflicting that anguish on others. This is why, increasingly, those deemed appropriate for the Manchester United post come from a familiar stable: Jose Mourinho, Fabio Capello, even Louis van Gaal. Giant feet to fill giant shoes.
Nearly got the England job — he would even be pegged behind Roy Hodgson for that now, if Capello left — nearly went to United. He is probably left with little option but to stick where he is.
Liverpool may be tempted if or, more likely, when Benitez goes, but until the financial future becomes clear at Anfield there is no guarantee the club will enjoy better prospects than exist at Villa.
O’Neill is in limbo. He does have a decision to make in the summer, but few options will appeal. Like David Moyes at Everton, the prejudices of English football are leaving him with little choice at all.
There is a reason that, when crooks try to fix a horse race, they tend to target a bumper at a backwater course rather than the Derby. Too much money is at stake.
The prestige and prizes for winning the biggest races, not to mention potential stud fees, are so great they make corruption almost impossible.
Down the food chain the money a corrupt connection could collect from a betting coup outweighs the worth of winning the race. For the same reason, gambling scandals in European football invariably involve small countries and obscure
qualifying round fixtures.
Who could persuade Barcelona to take a fall against Inter Milan next week, with such a lucrative reward in the balance?
So if Essex, and county cricket, do have a gambling problem — as current police activity would suggest — it will be because years of mismanagement have seen the significance of the domestic game dwindle until it is at the mercy of skulduggery.
The investigation presently centres on limited-over games, but the County Championship is no less vulnerable, with key issues, such as the existence of promotion and relegation and the future structure of the league, still undecided.
It is in this culture of neglect that corruption thrives; eventually, the counties will end up with the contest they deserve.
Wait a minute, Herr Hoeness
What was certainly typical about Manchester United’s defeat to Bayern Munich on Wednesday was that, within hours of it, the Munich president, Uli Hoeness, would be gloating about the demise of English football and blaming it on debt and over-spending.
The devil was in the numeric detail of United’s exit, but not in any balance sheet. United went out because, occasionally, the away goals rule in Europe throws up an anomaly in which a team progress despite being inferior over two legs.
There were 180 minutes of football played between Manchester United and Bayern Munich, and they broke down as follows:
Minutes when Manchester United were winning either game: 161.
Minutes when either game was a draw: 18.
Minutes when Bayern Munich were winning either game: 1.
Now factor in away goals:
Minutes when Manchester United were winning the tie: 145.
Minutes when the tie was a draw: 18.
Minutes when Bayern Munich were winning the tie: 17.
So Manchester United were the dominant team and lost, as Bayern Munich did in the Final in 1999, because they fell behind at the death. This takes nothing away from Munich, who have ridden their luck in Europe this season, but to declare English football a spent force on the back of leading for a minute over two games does seem rather presumptuous.
As for financial issues catching up with English clubs, they were always going to, which is why football has never required a raft of restrictive legislation from Michel Platini, the UEFA president.
The biggest spenders in Europe this summer include three of the clubs now in the Champions League semi-final: Inter Milan, Barcelona and Lyon. Manchester City aside, English football was outgunned.
The history of the game shows that a league is successful, expands, over-reaches and then contracts, meaning dominance is cyclical and artificial control unnecessary.
Fred Couples will be 51 on singles day of the 2010 Ryder Cup. No matter. He would still be a smart choice for the United States team that will defend the trophy at Celtic Manor in Wales.
Thanks to the competitive nature of the Senior Tour he remains one of the top 10 golfers in America, plus — and this is the key — Couples is Tiger Woods’s pal.
If Woods is sincere about playing against Europe in October, it is vital Corey Pavin, the US captain, finds a way of getting the best from him. What better method than a pairing with a friend?
The presence of the popular Couples may even quieten some of the sharper tongues in the gallery.
If Hamburg beat Fulham in the semi-final of the Europa League, they will have one major advantage in the final on May 12: they will be at home.
The venue for the game is the HSH Nordbank Arena, renamed the Hamburg Arena for the day because UEFA , with their usual acute sense of priority, will not allow brand advertising to deflect publicity from their own corporate masters.
They are less anxious about the continued practice of awarding the final in advance to a team who could be in the final, however. Real Madrid were also on course for a showpiece climax in the Bernabeu this season until Lyon intervened.
It is shameful that this is allowed to happen. The venue should be announced at the start of the season once the entrants have been finalised, or even delayed until December when half the teams go out and further options open.
Still, as long as nobody mentions HSH Nordbank, UEFA will be satisfied. It is incredible what matters to these people.
The cost to the Football Association of staging the Champions League final at Wembley next year is now in the region of £1.7million. Much of this is compensation for the Football League, Wembley’s best customer, who have had to make alternative arrangements for their scheduled play-off games. Never forget that Lord Triesman, chairman of the FA, lectures club owners on profligacy; because they certainly won’t.
No advert for Tiger
Tiger Woods' return to golf at the Masters went better than anyone could have expected. The sole negative was the Nike advertisement that used the voice of his late father, Earl, to capitalise on his recent crises.
Woods said it was amazing that his father could still speak to him in different ways and that much was true because, in effect, Earl wasn’t speaking at all.
A guy in an office on Madison Avenue looked through hours of DVD footage until he found a conversational extract that suited Tiger’s predicament in a commercial sense, and then performed a ventriloquists act.
It transpires that in the sampled passage Earl was not even talking about his son, but his wife, Tiger’s mother, Kultida.
The tape was edited so Earl begins the sentence by saying ‘Tiger’ not ‘Tida’. It was ghoulish opportunism by Nike and a worrying sign that Woods, and his advisers, should be complicit in its production.
Sadly, it confirms that, for all his rediscovered high ideals, once rehabilitated in the eyes of the public Woods will blithely resume his dual career as world’s greatest golfer and corporate shill.
David Huxtable is a Conservative member of Somerset County Council, and a member of the resources committee.
As such, it was his job to calculate the cost to ratepayers if the Olympic torch made its way through his area. He was told, in road closures and traffic management, £315,000. So Huxtable said no, thank you.
No, thank you: three little words, but not ones our Olympic organisers are used to hearing. Now there is a fuss.
If Somerset can cecede from the torch relay, what happens if others do, too? They’ll end up having to parachute the thing into London, or maybe come in via Paris on Eurostar.
Yet Huxtable is right. Why should it cost Somerset money the county does not have to be nominally part of this festival? There are no Olympic events in Somerset. All the county get is a forgettable distraction and a whopping bill.
Now the Olympic mandarins are saying there is still time to negotiate. They might even be persuaded to make a contribution, or whip up sponsorship. All because somebody finally said no.
Maybe had we tried this sooner we could have cut some of the £9.2billion tab.
The most perplexingly persistent transfer rumour in football is the one linking Manchester City to Gianluigi Buffon, the Juventus goalkeeper. Manchester City have had their problems this year but Shay Given, frequently to the rescue of a skittish defence, is not among them.
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Strong Female Lead – Page 2 – Kanti Burns, Poems, Book Reviews and more …
Category: Strong Female Lead
THE MEDIEVALIST by Anne-Marie Lacey (Review)
Fiction (Historical), Fiction (Paranormal), Love, Murder, Strong Female Lead, Time
I have been a committed Richard III supporter ever since I read, many years ago, Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time. (Truth is the daughter of time.) For those of you who haven’t come across that classic of the murder mystery genre, Tey’s Inspector Grant is confined to bed for a long period after being wounded and he passes his time by attempting to solve a very cold crime – the murder of the princes in the Tower. To his surprise, he realises he has no choice but to acquit King Richard of the murders.
The Medievalist is, in a sense, a similar investigation of the same crime, but it is also a love story, and has that in common with two more wonderful novels featuring Richard III, namely We Speak No Treason and The Court of the Midnight King. In both of these stories the heroine is in love with Richard, and in the second there is also an element of time travel (click on the titles to see my full reviews on this site of these two excellent books). In The Medievalist, however, time travel underlies the whole story.
Jayne Lyons is an American student working on her PhD in history who, for no particular reason (other than a family legend that they are descended from King Richard) is convinced that Shakespeare got the whole thing wrong and Richard was neither a villain nor a hunchback. At the newly opened site of Richard’s grave in a car park in Leicester she finds a silver boar pendant, and when she holds it is transported back to the 15th century and the camp of Richard and his army, where – naturally. given the way she is dressed – she is taken for a camp-following whore and accused of stealing the silver boar.
Her adventures during the coming months, leading up to the Battle of Bosworth, make the book an all-night read, and the author’s version of what really happened to the two little princes is at least as likely as any other theory I have come across.
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THE RAVEN by Jeremy Bishop (Review)
Fiction (Contemporary), Fiction (Crime), Fiction (Paranormal), Fiction (Speculative), Strong Female Lead, The Natural World
Jane Harper has been trapped in Greenland since the close of the first adventure when, unsurprisingly, virtually no one believes her story of what happened to the crews of the whaler and the anti-whaling ship that both sank following a ramming incident and an explosion. Unsurprisingly because the story she tells is replete with thousand-year-old zombie Vikings, and – worse still in the opinion of the media who decide what people shall and shall not believe – zombie polar bears and narwhals and whales.
I don’t want to spoil the story. I will simply say that if you enjoyed The Sentinel, don’t miss The Raven. And if you haven’t read The Sentinel, then read it first: this book, The Raven, is not a stand-alone.
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THE SUBTLE SERPENT by Peter Tremayne (Review)
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THE BOOK OF SHADOWS by C.L.Grace (Paul Doherty)
Fiction (Crime), Fiction (Historical), Medieval Magic & Mystery, Murder, Strong Female Lead
The Book of Shadows is the 4th in a series of medieval mysteries featuring Kathryn Swinbroke, and written under a pen-name by Paul Doherty, author of the much better known Brother Athelstan and Hugh Corbett series.
The story is set in Canterbury in 1471, when, as the author puts it in a ‘Historical Note’, “the bloody civil war between the Houses of York and Lancaster had ended with Edward of York’s victory at Tewkesbury. The Lancastrian king, Henry VI, was quietly murdered in the Tower. Edward IV, with his beautiful wife Elizabeth Woodville and their gang of henchmen now controlled the kingdom.”
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Notforgotten Farm : Meet 'Lizzy' ~
Meet 'Lizzy' ~
This is who greets me every morning on the back porch ~
a little blue-tailed lizard that I've affectionately named
(and if per chance she is a he, why then I'll call him Leonard)
aren't her colors beautiful?
she lets me stroke her sleek back sometimes...no, she's not slimy!!
she suns herself and sometimes sleeps right next to my foot while I'm working on my needlework...
she sometimes startles me when I go to move, because i don't even realize she's there!
there is one little problem however,
if the chickens knew she was anywhere near...they would gobble her up!!!
she is about 6 inches long, but they don't care one bit...she will become an appetizer quick!
I'm not one to be sqeamish with lizards, frogs, snakes...or really any bug either...
but DON'T let a spider get too close to me!
I don't kill them, instead I hightail it in the opposite direction,
...or ask Peter to kindly remove it from my personal space...
Hope you all have a friend to keep you company!!
Labels: blue, lizard
Oh my goodness!! I get them in the house here in Georgia! I have my lizard catching kit..lol...A huge plastic cup and a piece of sturdy cardboard...The plastic cup to put down over it and then the stiff cardboard to slid under it so i can take it outside...UGH! They are fast!!
Isn't Lizzy sweet. She'd be cute in one of your punch needle designs..maybe with that spider she'd like to eat and those chickens that would like to eat her!....Have a great evening!..~Ronda
I think lizzie feels you are her protector.
Any idea if Peter will be making any frames? I need one soon!
Lizzy is quite sweet. Hmmmm....better step lightly. Thanks for sharing your cute story.
Awww, a fine little friend you've got there! It's a skink, in case you were wondering :) A young one too, judging by its bright blue tail. Luckily, they eat spiders so maybe she'll be your protector too. We had a cat who kept eating them when we lived in FL. They're quite poisonous to cats, makes them drunk, all falling over and purring up a storm.
my boys found a lizard...or skink...a few years back. He had only three legs and we called him "MR. Wizard the 3 legged Lizard". We had him for quite a few months feeding him crickets. Then one day he started moving slower and slower and slower...the weather turned and he was no longer. :/ I put the little cage outside under the eaves and when the spring came i was determined to be outside and finally clean that cage....to my surprise, Mr. Wizard was alive! I guess they hibernate! who knew???
oh Karen, I'm So happy that Mr. Lizard was just sleeping!!!
How fun, a quiet friend, pretty too. I hope she continues to keep you company all summer. -Steph-
I love his blue tail!!
awwww love your wee friend ... gorgeous colours and nice that it feels happy having you near by too .. my friend has a bearded dragon and I was having a hold and stroke the other day ... soo cute :) love mouse xxxxx
Lizzy is beautiful! Wish we had lizard around where I live. Used to catch them when I was a kid when I visited my grandparents in Florida.
There you go again, Cinderella. You never cease to amaze me. Critters really love you...
I just love the blue tailed newts and have many living here with me in my wooded area. Today there were two snuggling together in the sun on my front porch.
We call those skinks down here in Florida. I love their blue tails.

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Excellent view of the festivities 100+ year Portland tradition
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Weatherproofed, padded seats The Fine Print
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Roses, the most useful of flowers, can act as fuel for romance, a mouthguard for tango dancers, or the weapon of choice in flower fights. Celebrate the versatility of these rosy blooms with today's deal: for $17, you get one indoor-reserved-seat ticket to Queen's Coronation and The Spirit Mountain Casino Grand Floral Parade (a $30 value) and a souvenir program (a $5 value) at the Portland Rose Festival (a $35 total value) on Saturday, June 11. Tickets will be available for pickup at will call at Memorial Coliseum starting at 7:30 a.m. June 11.
Celebrated for more than 100 years, the Portland Rose Festival spotlights the general wonder and whimsy of the area, with the Floral Parade acting as the proverbial rose in the cap of the three-week celebration. The weatherproofed, indoor reserved seats include padded chairs and access to indoor restrooms, protecting the body and soul from dehumanizing precipitation, seat cramps, and booby-trapped port-a-johns. The festivities begin with the Pacific Power-sponsored Queen's Coronation at 8:30 a.m., during which the Rose Festival Queen is named. The winner represents the best in scholastic achievements, civic involvement, and resemblance to a playing-card monarch.
After crowning the queen, celebrate her new, benevolent reign at 10 a.m. with the commencement of the Grand Floral Parade. Watch the armada of fantastical floats in awe, which range from delightful to mind melting—including all-floral floats that drop jaws to cartoon-wolf levels. Marching bands, dancers, and other crowd-pleasing performances will also strut their stuff throughout the route. Various prizes will be awarded to participants during the party procession, including honors for the best floats, bands, costumes, and dance troupes.
If your paning on riding any of the rides, buy the unlimited wrist band its a great deal. They have to be purchased at local vendors in the area. Only offered for purchase at a discounted rate the 1st week of fair opening
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All Things Important: November 2011
Thirty-five years ago today my family welcomed James Lewis “Jim” Rogers to the world. This was not Mom’s first time around the birthing track--her seventh to be specific--and she walked out of the hospital with her baby cradled in her arms the very next day. Two years earlier, Mom almost died in childbirth and her twin babies went to heaven. On November 18, 1976, God blessed her with a picture perfect delivery and baby boy. She knew her family was complete.
The youngest in a large family is a unique place to live; I know nothing about it and never will. I watched my brother John as the baby for years before Jim arrived. Then, of course, Jim was the baby. I always envied that spot on the ladder though John passed the torch to Jim without thought.
November 18 will always be Jim’s birthday, always a day to celebrate his life and love. He now has two birthdays: the day he went to Heaven and the day he was born on Earth.
Jim’s 21st Birthday. No one anticipated their 21st birthday more than Jim. It wasn’t about a bar or a drink but rather our parents' tradition of taking each 21-year-old to Las Vegas. Jim invited me to be his guest on the trip with Mom and Dad. Caesar’s Palace provided our playground for a weekend of debauchery in Jim’s honor. This trip also became part of the family story but the two of us kept certain details of that chapter to ourselves. We owned it and still do.
It’s large, it’s bright, it can attract attention in the office. People often question me about it, usually on behalf of a spouse, a friend, a parent. Can’t help but think-- “but of course, only others struggle with seasonal depression.”
When asked if the Happy Lamp helps, if it really boosts my mood and emotions when the days grow dark and gloomy, I always respond with this answer:
“I truly think it helps and frankly that is good enough for me.”
On the first day of spring 2011, I transplanted three trees from my brother Jim’s yard. Eight months later and in the heart of fall, the trees are thriving and I believe he is smiling down on them.
(Look here at pictures of the trees when I planted them in March:http://annie-allthingsimportant.blogspot.com/2011/04/trees-and-prayers-for-life.html )
Yesterday I built a mulch bed around each tree to blanket them for the extra cold winter predicted for this year. I started to weep. It’s impossible to convey all the emotion tossing in my skull but it can be summed up in a simple way: I miss him.
Still crying and on impulse rather than thought, I hugged the little tree. I then climbed to the top of the yard and gave Jim’s oak tree and crabapple tree a hug also. Sitting in the bright, blinding sunshine under the little oak tree my weeps turned to sobs, dampening the ground with my tears.
Before going inside, I gave each tree another hug and in process created an alternate yet more literal definition of the term “tree hugger.”


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Glamorgan Moth Recording Group: Bridgend overnight 14Jun15 (MV)
We caught 81 individuals of 23 species last night. The highlights were 2 migrant Bordered Straw (our first since 2006), 2 Common Swift (2009) and a new micro species for the garden in Notocelia rosaecolona (376th -261/115).
It was still a nice varied catch with other species as follows:-Bee moth, Riband Wave, Garden Carpet, Common Marbled Carpet, Freyer's Pug, Willow Beauty, Eyed Hawkmoth, Poplar Hawkmoth, Buff Ermine, Heart & Club, Heart & Dart, Flame Shoulder, Large Yellow Underwing, Bright-line Brown-eye, Rustic Shoulder-knot, Marbled Minor (agg), Treble Lines, Vine's Rustic, and Silver Y (which were all over our White Valerian).
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Route: Pen-y-Gwyrd, Bwlch y Gwyddel, Pen-y-pass, Pyg Track, Bwlch y Moch, Crib Goch, Bwlch Coch, Garnedd Ugain, Crib-y-Ddysgl, Bwlch Glas, Yr Wyddfa, Watkin Path, Bwlch y Saethau, Bwlch Ciliau, Y Lliwedd West Peak, Y Lliwedd East Peak, Lliwedd Bach, Llyn Llydaw, Cwm Dyli, Miners' Track, Pen-y-pass, Pen-y-Gwyrd
Ascent: 1,232m
Descent: 1,232m
Summits: Crib Goch (923m), Garnedd Ugain (1065m), Yr Wyddfa (1085m), Y Lliwedd (898m), Y Lliwedd East Peak (893m), Lliwedd Bach (818m)
The Snowdon Horseshoe needs little introduction. It is widely regarded as one of the best mountain days in the whole country, and probably the best outside of Scotland. We managed to find a weekday to tackle this immense route with the promise of light winds and patchy clouds - the perfect combination to tackle some of the exhilarating ridges and arêtes that form the famous outing.
Both being first timers, we also opted to bring along a more experienced head - that of Chris Jackson, a Mountain Leader who lives and works in the national park. I suppose that brings me nicely to a disclaimer of sorts. While the Snowdon Horseshoe is a superb mountain outing, it is not without its challenges, namely the exposed arête of Crib Goch which we'll have a look at later. Care should be exercised when undertaking many parts of this walk
Despite being mid-week, the car park at Pen-y-pass was already full by the time we decided to show up so it was back down the valley to park in the lay-bys that line the A498 as it passes the Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel, rumoured to be one of the sources of the name of the Pyg Track that climbs Snowdon from Pen-y-pass. A path takes you around the knoll of Bwlch y Gwyddel and up along the Afon Trawsnant to the car park. Now we could really get going.
First task of the day - reach Pen-y-pass
The valley of Afon Glaslyn
Craig Penlan
The sun was beaming as we set out along the Pyg Track, one of several routes that will lead you to the summit of Snowdon and probably one of the most popular along with the Miner's Track and the Llanberis Path. It climbs steadily around Carreg Gwalch up to Bwlch y Moch - or "Pigs Pass" (another possible source for the Pyg Track's name), all the while under the watchful eye of the rising pyramid of Crib Goch. Many mistake Crib Goch for Snowdon itself, such is its imposition on its surroundings, and a number of warning signs are placed to deter the unwary. Crib Goch is not a place to find yourself unexpectedly.
The beginnings of the Pyg Track
Crib Goch pierces the skyline
Looking back along the Pyg Track around Carreg Gwalch
The Pyg Track continues on at Bwlch y Moch
Y Lliwedd across Llyn Llydaw
At Bwlch y Moch, a slate stone marks the way to Crib Goch as the paths go their separate ways. Here the route becomes much steeper and more hands-on as it climbs steeply up the eastern ridge of the mountain. It's clear from the colour of the rocks why Crib Goch means "the Red Ridge". As the route climbs, a couple of tricky rock steps have to be negotiated - the easiest routes having a scrambling grade of 1. It was here that the experience of our leader Chris was invaluable, especially for a pair who had never travelled this way before - there's only so much you can gather from reading other trip reports or staring at photos.
Up towards Crib Goch
The steep flanks of Crib Goch
The beginnings of some sustained scrambling
Only one way to describe the route - up
The immense Glyder Fawr
We made it up and over the rocky steps from where Crib Goch takes on the familiar, blocky appearance you'll no doubt have seen in numerous pictures. It's still very much hands-on as you climb up the ridge towards an obvious summit, leaving Llyn Llydaw and the Afon Nant Peris far below. We had a quick break just below the eastern summit, giving a group ahead of us time to make their way along the ridge. Soon it would be our turn.
The final push up to the the eastern top
Looking down the east ridge to the Pyg Track and Pen-y-pass
We emerged at the eastern top with the ridge stretching out ahead of us - it's an awe-inspiring sight and not one for the faint-hearted. 500ft drops on either side make it an intimidating place but the crest of the ridge makes an ideal handhold and adds a measure of reassurance. It is possible to walk right along the top and there are many places where this is the easiest option if you can stomach the exposure and, sure enough, we did in places. It is without a doubt one of the best ridges I've ever walked (or scrambled) along.
A line of walkers on Crib Goch
The Crib Goch ridge
Proof I actually made it this far
Panorama from Crib Goch
The scramble ahead of us clears of people - time to go
We made it the summit which stands around half way along the ridge and paused to take in our surroundings. It's easy to forget that this is actually a mountain summit and one over 3,000ft for that matter. Up ahead are the tall, spiky pinnacles that need to be negotiated before you can reach the relative safety of Bwlch Coch. The most obvious and well-worn route heads around the base of the first and second pinnacles into the gap before the third. A short scramble up some slabs takes you around the third and final pinnacle before dropping down into Bwlch Coch.
Heading out on to the ridge
The view down into Cwm Uchaf
A fine example of the arête
Looking ahead to the first pinnacle
Crib Goch's summit
Snowdon and the first pinnacle
The first pinnacle
Scrambling down around the pinnacles
A final slabby climb
A brief view through the gap
A superb panorama as you exit the Crib Goch ridge
In hindsight, I found Crib Goch much less intimidating than I thought it was going to be and it would appear that the presence of exposure seems not to bother me much. From the experience I have, I would say that it bore many similarities to Striding Edge, only higher and narrower. I'd say if you have walked along the crest of Striding Edge without any trouble then Crib Goch should pose you no problems.
The western end of Crib Goch over Bwlch Coch
Onwards from Bwlch Coch is another long scramble up the eastern ridge of Garnedd Ugain. As with Crib Goch, this steepens and narrows towards the summit before thrusting you out on to a broad grassy plateau, capped by the customary trig pillar. Around from Garnedd Ugain is the busy Bwlch Glas - the meeting point of the Llanberis Path, the Pyg Track, Miners' Track and the Snowdon Ranger Path. It is here that you start to experience the surreal nature of Wales' highest summit.
The beginnings of a surprisingly long ascent of Garnedd Ugain
Snowdon from the scramble up Garnedd Ugain
Crib Goch's eastern top
The scramble up Garnedd Ugain is similar to that of Crib Goch
The final rocky climb towards the summit
As you well know, the summit of Snowdon is home to a railway station, bringing hundreds of tourists up from Llanberis without the arduousness of a four-hour climb. Having come along one of Wales' premier scrambles it's a strange sensation to be rubbing shoulders with grandparents and toddlers alike. That said, I loved it - there's nothing quite like it in the country.
The view from Bwlch Glas
Hafod Eryri - the cafe on Snowdon's summit
Busy when we arrived
Looking along Crib Goch
As for Snowdon itself, it has a magnificent view, befitting its position as Wales' highest peak. I was lucky enough to be able to stands momentarily alone on the summit platform, an all too rare occurrence for the country's busiest mountain.
The summit begins to clear
A large trig pillar marks the summit
Atop Wales!
The view east from Snowdon's summit
It was 4pm by the time we set off from Snowdon's summit, the day had been a tough one so far. Ahead is a steep, slippery descent down the Watkin Path into Bwlch Saethau and Bwlch Ciliau, the depressions that separate Snowdon from Y Lliwedd. Viewed from here, Y Lliwedd is a magnificent mountain and were it not for the presence of Snowdon next door, it would be much busier than it is.
The Watkin Path leads off the summit towards Bwlch Saethau
Y Lliwedd over Bwlch Saethau
The magnificent profile of Y Lliwedd
The cliffs and crags of Y Lliwedd
Another scramble is required to reach the summit
More scrambling is required to reach the summit of Y Lliwedd but the rewards are more superb views across Glaslyn and Llyn Llydaw, including a profile of Crib Goch, complete with solitary scrambler.
Llyn Llydaw, Crib Goch and the Glyders
The summit of Y Lliwedd
Y Lliwedd has a second peak which we visited in due course before beginning a long descent down to Cwm Dyli and the shores of Llyn Llydaw. It's remarkable that such an exciting walk is completed by a relatively straightforward rocky path. Eventually, we reached the shores of the reservoir and joined the Miner's Track, the tarmac motorway that leads back to Pen-y-pass, which was largely empty by the time we arrived. We retraced our route back along the path the car in the valley below.
A view along Y Lliwedd's ridge
Cwm Dyli in the afternoon sun
A solitary cloud obscures the sun
Y Lliwedd and Snowdon from the Miners' Track
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Conservative History Journal: May 2011
History Today has a new corner on it site, dedicated to various historical exhibitions. Tory Historian is making lists of those that must be seen as soon as possible.
Article about Charles II and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy
Yesterday was the anniversary of both Charles II's birth and, more importantly, his astonishingly peacerful entry into London in 1660 at the start of his own long and rather controversial reign. Well, it has attracted a great deal of controversy then and since.
Through London Historians Tory Historian can link to an excellent article on the subject by Tom Sykes.
Francesco Giavarina [Venetian Ambassador to England] was not alone in waking up on the 30th May with a hangover and the creeping realisation that someone would have to pay for the party. On Tuesday 29 May 1660, his thirtieth birthday, Charles Stuart returned to London for the first time since he left as a boy at the start of his father’s long and bloody civil war. He rode into a city which a decade previously had looked on unblinking as Parliament severed his father’s head from his body and the nation from its monarchy. He had attempted to return before, but many plans and plots came to nothing. Even his invasion at the head of a Scottish army had failed. It had taken the death of Oliver Cromwell two years earlier, the crumbling of Parliamentary authority, and a distinct lack of options for his time to come.
And as every schoolchild used to know, he was determined never to go on his wanderings again, if it meand accepting a pension from the King of France.
Tory Historian maintains that most of the best writers and playwrights are conservative in their outlook. So the news that David Mamet the best present-day American playwright has moved from left to right did not come as a surprise - the man is talented, after all - but was very good to hear anyway.
This review of The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture points out the obvious:
And why not? After all, Shakespeare was deeply conservative in his outlook and much afraid of political change for the sake of it.
It is a curious feature of this blog that the most likely postings that other blogs might link to are those about detective stories. One posting about the clerical mysteries of D. M. Greenwood has elicited at least two links from widely differing blogs. One from the very fine Clerical Detectives and another from the slightly more dulalee Mystery Mile, whose author a soi-disant atheist who is fascinated by theology, socialist and anarchist (which two are incompatible) shows some lack of understanding of conservative thinking. Still, his own writing is interesting and a link is a link is a link.
It would be good to think that people have also linked to the posting about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his creations but, so far, no evidence of that has surfaced. We return to that subject after the sad news of the death of Edward Hardwicke, one of the best Dr Watsons to the best Holmes, played by Jeremy Brett.
One of the oddest things about Watson is how misunderstood he is by so many people. This obituary in the Telegraph, for instance, describes him as "the bumbling foil" to Holmes. As a number of comments point out, this is far from the truth. (A much better obituary in the Guardian.)
The Watson of the stories is steady, decent, intelligent though not a genius, courageous, a successful doctor, a man anyone would want to have around and one whom Holmes appreciates though when in a bad mood he does make derogatory comments. Holmes's appreciation of his friend and colleague is not the affectionate sarcasm of Poirot towards his genuinely stupid friend, Captain Arthur Hastings.
Where on earth did the myth of the stupid, bumbling Watson come from? Partly, one suspects, it is the influence of Agatha Christie's Hastings; partly it is the fault of Nigel Bruce in those execrable films with Basil Rathbone (such as The Hound of the Baskervilles).
All that began to change with Nigel Stock, in TH's opinion the best Watson, played to both Douglas Wilmer and Peter Cushing (an excellent Holmes). Jeremy Brett had two Watsons, David Burke and Edward Hardwicke who restored the original character of the sturdy, steady, perfectly presentable Watson. The most interesting interpretation was Michael Williams's on radio with Clive Merrison. Tory Historian possesses tapes of several episodes and enjoys listening to them. There seems to have been a clear decision made by the producers to make Watson's role bigger and more important - in a number of episodes he is an almost equal partner. A long way from Nigel Bruce's genuinely bumbling idiot but not too far from Edward Hardwicke's interpretation.
Tory Historian seems to have overcome problems with Blogger but considers modern technology to be somewhat less than it is cracked up to be. In the meantime, History Today's June issue has come out and it has an excellent "contrarian" article by Tim Stanley on the subject of apologies for historic events and actions.
Not a good idea, opines Mr Stanley, as it over-simplifies historic events (dumbs history down, would be TH's comment) and he proves it by giving a brief account of the different aspects of the Mau-Mau rebellion and the British suppression of it.
Blogger seems to be playing up in different ways at the moment, which makes it impossible for Tory Historian to post. We all hope the problems will be solved.
Tory Historian had long intended to read Max Pemberton's Jewel Mysteries I Have Known, as it contained the splendid Ripening Rubies, a tale first disinterred by Sir Hugh Greene in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. As this blog describes, the collection, the TV plays made from the stories and the particular tale of dastardly deeds in upper class London are a joy. TH did not manage to purchase the volume referred to but borrowed it from London Library. It does, indeed, give tactile pleasure to anyone who reads it. The illustrations are delightful.
As ever, TH decided to find out more about the author and came face to face with another terrifyingly busy and successful man of letters, journalist and editor. Indeed, he was even knighted for his various achievements. There are several portraits in the National Portrait Gallery - a sure sign of achievement. The cartoon above is the most attractive.
Tory Historian has chosen a sober and accurate front page rather than one of the somewhat over-the-top ones. After all, no matter what some newspapers said, it was not over, not till the boys (and the girls) came home from the Pacific
Tory Historian was reminded today by Radio 3 (one can still listen to that from time to time) that today is the anniversary of the very first performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
The Ninth Symphony was premiered on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the Consecration of the House Overture and the first three parts of the Missa Solemnis. This was the composer's first on-stage appearance in 12 years; the hall was packed. The soprano and alto parts were interpreted by two famous young singers: Henriette Sontag and Caroline Unger.
Concert goers had more stamina in those days.
Accounts of the performance differ but they all seem to involve Beethoven's presence on the stage, though he could no longer conduct, having gone deaf, and the need to turn him round to see rather than hear the audience's reaction, though whether the great applause came after the Scherzo of the last movement or after the whole of the performance remains doubtful.
Which performance to choose? TH has decided to go with Herbert von Karajan:
It is always a pleasure to see a gorgeous building that could have been demolished but for the wise intervention of the great Sir John Betjeman renovated and re-opened. The former Midlands Hotel, now St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is a joy to behold. Tory Historian has spent a great deal of time watching its gradual emergence from what was more little more than rubble within a fine frame and will be visiting it very soon. In the meantime, here is Mark Easton's glowing account.
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This coming-of-age story conveys the country's deeply entwined faith and fear of the unknown through the eyes of a teenager named Magdalie Jean-Baptiste…Wagner paints a lush and authentic image of Haiti, breathing life into Port-au-Prince's inhabitants…Wagner has delved deep to shed light on one girl's journey to find sure footing in an unsteady world.
In this formidable first novel, 15-year-old narrator Magdalie loses everything after the Haitian earthquake of 2010 and is forced to rebuild along with her country. This well-adjusted schoolgirl goes from living in Port-au-Prince with her close cousin, Nadine, under the watchful care of Nadine’s mother, to finding her own way in a camp after her aunt’s death and Nadine’s emigration to the United States (“Since January 12, every good-bye feels like it might be forever”). Wagner effectively and unsentimentally highlights the emotional and economic aftermath of the disaster as Magdalie grieves the loss of her family; realizes she cannot afford school; adjusts to life with her reluctant guardian and uncle, Tonton Élie; and begins to accept that Nadine is unlikely to send for her as promised. Wagner’s portrait of Haitian culture is particularly compelling, and her descriptions of the settings of the city and Tonton Élie’s country hometown are lush, despite the nation’s dire circumstances. An epilogue, set in 2020, resolves the story a bit neatly, but this strong heroine and her will to survive triumph. Ages 14–up. (Jan.)
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I know that y'all have been waiting for the unveiling of the new edition mittens! These are supposed to fit a small adult hand. In this picture they may fit an elephant. I got brave and washed 1 by itself.
Here it is with one before washing and one after.
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