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Crime can be crushed
Gillian Redmond 8 August 2003
Superintendent Ian Loubser of Parkview Police Station involves the community in fighting crime.
Get involved with your local police station and make a difference to crime levels in your area, say members of the police service.
Areas with active community policing forums have been shown to have a significant impact on crime reduction. Too often, however, residents and business people are uninterested in participating in local community organisations.
Responding to last week's City Beat article, Joburg Crime at All-time High, Superintendent Ian Loubser, commander of Parkview Police Station, said the many police officers and hundreds of civilian volunteers in Johannesburg who had been involved in efforts to combat serious crime in Johannesburg - "especially during the last year" - were having a significant impact.
In the Parkview policing area, forums had been created as part of the community policing programme to ensure every resident had at least one elected representative to whom information could be conveyed on a regular basis.
These included sector policing forums, a community policing forum, a domestic workers' forum, a restaurant forum, a school forum, and a community safety forum.
"The main task of sector policing, for example, is to address the root causes of crime. Each policing area is divided into smaller sectors, each with its own sector manager. So, if the street lights are out and this is encouraging criminal activity, the sector policing forum will ensure they are fixed," he said. However, more involvement from the community would yield even greater results.
"We are lucky if 80 out of about 113 000 residents pitch up at a public community policing forum meeting," he said. Ronnie Moos, long-standing chairman of the Norwood Orchards Residents' Association (Nora), agreed: "There is total apathy and lack of interest. Out of about 2 500 households, we have less than 200 members and just 40 pitched up at the recent AGM. We battle to put a 10-man committee together. We need people on the residents' association in order to represent the community on the policing forum". The Craighall / Craighall Park Ratepayers' Association, on the other hand, has 470 paid-up members, said chairman John Turpin.
"The association has a deliberate strategy to support the Parkview police and assist where we can. We fund the Domestic Workers' Forum, liaise with victims and ensure street lights are on," he said.
Superintendent Joe Odendaal, Sandringham Police Station commander, said community involvement, "without a doubt", played an important role in keeping crime down in the area. He said Sandringham's 73 police reservists, trained civilians who volunteered their time to help fight crime, did a "brilliant job". The community was also involved in an Adopt-A-Cop programme at schools, a victim empowerment programme and a Drug-Free forum. "A public meeting for just one sector of our policing area is attended by about 150 people," he said.
Captain Prem Naidoo of Yeoville Police Station, said its community policing forum, which had previously floundered due to lack of interest from the community, was now "up and about" with general meetings attended by between 100 and 200 people.
"The street watch and block watch committees are starting to have a positive influence on crime," he concluded.
Home alone ... (or not)
Be aware of your surroundings.
Know your neighbours.
Know the telephone number of your local police station.
Contact 10111 immediately should you become aware of strangers on your property.
Inform police of any suspicious vehicles or people in your area.
Don't let strangers into your home. Always inform your domestic worker when you are expecting plumbers, electricians, etc., and if possible give the name of the company and / or the person who will be visiting the home.
Don't allow strangers to use your phone.
Don't allow strangers to come to your home to view goods such as vehicles for sale. Rather meet them in a public place.
Ask for identification when expecting a stranger such as electricians, telephone technicians and police officers.
Make copies of domestic and garden workers' ID books and references.
Keep your house locked and don't leave your keys with just any person.
Keep gates and security gates locked.
Secure windows and install burglar proofing, security systems and secure fencing if possible.
Don't build high walls around your property.
Keep bushes and plants trimmed down - they're ideal hiding places for criminals.
Check that nobody follows you into your property when you get home.
Hi, Jack!
Stay alert, stay alive
Always be alert near gates, driveways or garages, look out for suspicious persons, vehicles and loiterers when leaving or arriving home.
Be on the lookout for suspicious people when stopping at stop signs or traffic lights, or while driving in city traffic, at night.
Drive away quickly if someone suspicious is approaching your stationary vehicle.
Always keep your vehicle's doors locked and windows closed and keep valuables out of sight.
Don't respond to people indicating there is something wrong with your vehicle while you are driving. Drive to the nearest garage or safe place.
If your vehicle breaks down, if possible, drive to a safe place. Use your cell phone to contact emergency services for assistance.
Beware of people asking for directions, especially in parking areas.
Make sure you are not followed to and from your home or business, and if you are followed, go to the nearest police station or place where there is a lot of people; avoid quiet streets or areas.
If you are a victim of a hijacking, try to remember as much detail regarding the hijackers as possible.
Remember, your life is more valuable than the most expensive car.


The ADATA XPG lineup usually is aimed towards gamers. With the XPG SX930, it uses an enterprise level MLC NAND and also provides a five-year warranty. As SATA-based SSDs have sequential transfers hit the SATA III limit, choices are there and its as good as its going to get. While SSDs such as the Kingston UV400 and the long-running SanDisk Extreme II series SATA SSDs were long reviewed and recommended, it's only natural to see if others offer something beneficial. Even if certain lineups are branded towards gamers, they usually satisfy a variety of end users.
The ADATA SX930 unit that I received contains a spacer and a 3.5" tray for desktop cases, Typical PC cases nowadays provide SSD mounting so this is useful only for much older desktop PC cases. The company provides 5-year warranty, a big plus as most SSDs are with a three-year warranty. The QR code on the pack links to Acronis software.
Both sides of the casing is metal. There's a brushed aluminum finish over them. The Z-Axis is 7mm. The casing can be detached by removing four screws sideways but one of them is covered with a warranty void sticker. As you can see, the SSD is labeled 'Made in Taiwan'.
The PCB occupies only half the casing. There are four NAND each on both sides and a cache and a controller at one end. As mentioned in the specification, this PCB uses a JMicron JMF670H controller. A NANYA NT5CB128M16FP-D1 buffer and an ADATA badged 'Enterprise MLC Plus' chips are used. ADATA does not mention the P/E cycles of its SSD.
The key attractive factor is the five-year warranty. While this is a year-old drive, many older drives such as SanDisk Extreme II series have stayed as crowd favourites even during the Black Friday sales. Most SSDs are touch SATA's bandwidth limitations is sequential data transfers such as ATTO. If folks want more performance, M.2 is the way to go. But of course, it has a higher premium. It is going to be a while to see M.2 SSDs to be reasonably cheap.
For a utility, ADATA's SSD Toolbox is rather colourful. It provides all the information required to know about the drive. It can also provide basic SMART information from other storage drives.


With the recent increases in health insurance premiums, some employers have taken to offering some form of wellness incentives to employees to help lower those insurance costs, from gym membership subsidies to help with various diseases to health-related contests, such as walking and weight loss. In this week's Flash Poll, we're asking if your company has a similar program. And, we encourage you to comment on the effectiveness of your program.
What does your company do to help boost the health of its employees, beyond what your insurers offer?


I spent the vast majority of PAX 2011 working, but I was able to get a bit of time off on Sunday to take a look around the Exhibit Hall to scope out the games I'm excited about.
The first of these games is UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception. All I really got to see was the booth, as the playable demos were all multi-player, and I'm not particularly interested in multi-player unless it is with friends. It's a neat booth though. It was made to resemble a part of an airplane. My partner did get me an UNCHARTED 3 bag, which they were handing out, though. There's another game on one side of the bag, and I don't envision using this, so I'm thinking about cutting the bag up and putting the UNCHARTED 3 promotional image somewhere in my work space at the office. I'm definitely buying the Collector's Edition. Check out this awesome unboxing video hosted by none other than Nathan Drake himself, voice actor, Nolan North.
I stopped by and watch people play Just Dance and Dance Central at the Ubisoft and Microsoft booths, respectively, but I did not participate. We're probably going to finally get an Xbox 360 and for my part it's because Dance Central looks like so much fun. I'll just figure out how to make the space issue in my flat work with the Kinect. The other 360-exclusive games have not been system sellers to me thus far.
The one game that I actually got to see properly was The Secret World at the Funcom booth. I haven't had a lot of time to follow all of their viral and ARG activities this year, but I'm still keen on this MMO game. The modern fantasy setting is what most interests me, along with a game that has no levels and no classes. They compared their skill system to Magic: The Gathering, which I thought was interesting as the skill system of original Guild Wars was often compared to the deck-building and card/skill c0llecting of M:TG. The developers ran through the first dungeon in The Secret World and talked through their design goals for the dungeon as members of the dev team played, which was interesting.
I had a lot of fun during PAX, despite all the stress of managing ArenaNet's events and booth staff (who numbered over 100). I enjoy planning convention events, seeing those events in execution, and dealing with all the unpredictable things that inevitably happen at conventions.
If you do get a 360, Amazon has a promotion where you can get $60 credit if you buy the Kinect bundle.
The Anet booth looks great (and do I spot Colin and Martin there?).
Myself and two others made that booth for uncharted 3 it was the most fun at work I've ever had!


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A novelist, a journalist and an anthropologist…
By Chris Smaje, originally published by Small Farm Future
My title sounds like one of those "…walk into a bar" jokes, and if anyone would care to provide a punchline I'd be delighted. But actually this post is more in the way of a placeholder, reflecting back on some previous themes and anticipating some ones to come in relation to my three titular characters.
Most importantly, the novelist in question is G.K. Chesterton – less a novelist, really, than a multimodal writer and one-man torrent of words and ideas. I invoke him as one of the founders of distributism, and I've just published an article in the latest issue of The Land making the case for a new distributist movement. I'd like to invite readers of this blog to take a look at the article and let me know their thoughts, particularly if they're interested in the Distributist Congress idea contained therein.
The idea for a Congress was dreamed up in conversations with several people including Sean Domencic, a friend of this website. Sean knows a lot more about the original distributist movement forged by Chesterton and colleagues than I do, but he convinced me that my book A Small Farm Future – somewhat unwittingly on my part – in many ways charts a contemporary neo-distributist path.
Neither Sean nor I endorse all aspects of the original distributist movement and, as exemplified by our discussions on this site, he and I have a few friendly differences of our own. But we do agree that a revised distributist movement could prove an excellent umbrella under which to build alliances with disparate people and movements working towards renewable, human-scale cultures and agricultures. So I want to signpost that here and invite you to join us under its broad embracing canopy.
Sean and I have recorded a podcast with Ashley Colby and Nate Gates about distributism which I think will be available soon – I'll alert you when it is. Sean will also be guest posting here soon in relation to an offline debate we had about agrarian theology (yes, it's a thing – or it soon will be).
Longer term, I'll be writing more about some of the political issues raised in that debate. In fact, they've already surfaced in discussions on this site between me, Sean, Andrew and others. So one way or another, the political theologies and ideologies underlying the present global crisis will be getting some airtime here. My thanks to Sean and everyone else who's weighed in with me here and elsewhere on these important questions.
Moving on, the journalist in my title is one George Monbiot who, as regular readers will know, I've been discussing recently in relation to his problematic book Regenesis (my original review of Regenesis is here). A quick update on some more resources for this debate. My colleague Jyoti Fernandes (who contributed to the online discussion launching A Small Farm Future) wrote an impassioned open letter to Monbiot about the negative consequences of Regenesis, to which he responded here. Meanwhile, in the same issue of The Land carrying my distributism piece, Simon Fairlie has published an excellent critical review of Regenesis. Simon proposes to call the industrially-fermented high protein foodstuff Monbiot celebrates as the farm-free food for the future 'studge', after an unappetizing commercial breakfast dish from a Saki story. Works for me. Henceforth, studge it is.
A friend of mine working in fossil energy divestment suggested to me (very gently and politely) that while I'm spending time excoriating Monbiot online the investors he's looking at are quietly going on their merry way building out the next phase of global fossil fuel infrastructures. I think he was implying that their actions imperil humanity and the wider Creation rather more than anything Mr Monbiot is doing, and it's wise to focus on the real enemy.
I take his point, and no doubt it's easy to succumb to what they call the narcissism of small differences. The problem as I see it is that while investors are gonna invest and drillers are gonna drill, in the UK at least Monbiot has considerable influence on 'progressive' and environmentally-minded people. My fear is that unless there's a successful pushback against Monbiot's proposals for high-energy, consumerist urbanism he'll take a lot of these people with him and help build a worldview that, against his aspirations, will ultimately only increase the likelihood of a famished, violent, climate-challenged future. In other words, to coin a phrase used by a recent commenter here, he's operating as a useful idiot for corporate and fossil fuel interests. It's not a phrase I use lightly, but I regret it's one I agree with in this instance.
I suppose it's worth remembering that Monbiot is a journalist (a trade that's right up there with politicians, lawyers, landlords and, er, farmers in the unpopularity stakes). Catching people's attention with over-simplified sensationalism is part and parcel of the job, even if it's hidden in Monbiot's case with a more highfaluting approach than is typical of the genre.
That, at any rate, is the most generous interpretation I can find for this recent article from Monbiot, with its cunningly-worded title 'The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb'. I'd suggest that anyone who undertakes a survey of the problems caused by global agriculture and concludes that the production of organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb is the key one to highlight really ought to ponder how their analysis went so badly wrong.
There's been some pushback to that article – for example, here and here. But I fear the damage has been done. Generously, Fairlie suggests that Monbiot's journalistic sensationalism may have an upside:
"However much one may disagree with his conclusions, one may thank him for raising important questions and intriguing possibilities in a highly readable book. Perhaps he is making extreme proposals simply in order to shift the boundaries of the debate, and hence the perception of what is mainstream, a tactic known as the radical flank effect. The main worry is his repeated characterisation of farming as "the most destructive human activity ever to have blighted the earth". Agriculture has a lot to answer for; but does it really bear comparison with the threat to life on Earth as we know it from the oil and coal industry?"
My answer to that would be no, and that – far from a radical flank effect – Monbiot's assumption that humanity's future inevitably involves high-energy urban consumerism will have a complacent, business-as-usual flank effect that will further lock in fossil fuel dependence. Indeed, as Simon concludes, correctly in my opinion,
"The imperative is not to stop farming, but to phase out fossil fuels very quickly. Cavalier polemics that cast primary responsibility for our predicament elsewhere are a dangerous diversion."
So it's damage limitation time for those of us seeking renewable agri/culture. I have nothing like Monbiot's influence, but I'll try to play my part in another strand of upcoming posts contrasting a small farm future with his nightmare vision of a studgy regenesis.
Finally we come to the anthropologist of my title. The editors of The Land asked me to write an obituary/appreciation of Marshall Sahlins, whose work I recently discussed here and here. My obituary was published in the same recent issue of the magazine as the other articles I've mentioned. But it's not available online, so I thought I'd publish it below. I'm sharing the slightly longer original version I wrote before the editorial trimming required to fit it onto a single page of the magazine. Possibly, I'll also publish here at some point the original and likewise slightly longer draft of the distributism article.
In memory of Marshall Sahlins
I'm glad to have been asked by The Land's editors to write an obituary of Marshall Sahlins (1930-2021), who was a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago.
A colossus of the discipline from the 1960s right up to his death, Sahlins was a specialist in societies of the South Pacific and wrote formidably intellectual books that – while never wilfully obscure in the manner of some academic writing, and often leavened with wry humour – probably wouldn't be top of the reading pile for land rights activists, agroecological farmers and other major categories of readership for this magazine. So here I want to say a few words about why his work mattered.
Much the most influential piece of Sahlins's writing beyond anthropology was the opening essay of his 1972 book Stone Age Economics, 'The original affluent society', in which he argued the reality of hunter-gatherer and 'primitive' agricultural societies was far from the stereotype of a hardscrabble life scratching miserable returns from an unforgiving nature. The idea that foragers and autonomous farmers enjoyed relatively abundant and convivial lives is quite familiar today, but at the time Sahlins published his essay it was a seismic rupture with the sense of civilizational ascent in which modern, high-energy, urbanized, bureaucratic society placed itself at the apex.
Sahlins wasn't the only voice contesting this self-satisfied confection, and his arguments and evidence have subsequently been picked over by everyone from eminent professors to the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Still, I'd argue his essay had a profoundly enabling effect for many of us who came afterwards with visions for a future of work grounded in something other than more machinery, more high-energy inputs, more centralized politics, and more expert control.
The other essays in Stone Age Economics are less frequently read by non-specialists but are probably even more relevant for anyone hoping to wrest a renewable, agroecological society from the ever-proliferating ruins of the present. Sahlins's arguments in them were intricate, but in summary they highlight the difficulties and contradictions, but also the virtues, involved in local, non-monetary societies where households work to satisfy their needs rather than to expand wealth and productivity. And to take seriously the complexities of how people build relationships with others in these and every other kind of society.
Nowadays, we tend to separate these relations with others into different domains we label 'the political', 'the economic', 'the family' and so on. Sahlins wrote incisively on all of these (On Kings, 2017; Stone Age Economics, 1972; What Kinship Is…And Is Not, 2013) but his larger point was that people in most historic societies didn't separate out these domains, and nor should their latter-day analysts. An abiding concern of his was the power of human culture to construct our mental and social worlds. So his answer to the question implied in that last book title was that kinship is cultural, and is not biological (see also The Use and Abuse of Biology, 1976), nor reducible to any other form of supposedly 'real', underlying, material causation.
This concern with culture put Sahlins at odds with Marxism, which he aptly critiqued in Culture and Practical Reason (1976) for accepting at face value a few too many of the categories of the capitalist society it wished to overthrow – another case, perhaps, of the analyst succumbing to the mystifications of the natives. And talking of 'natives', Sahlins's emphasis on cultural worlds also put him at odds with another anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, who took exception to the argument in Sahlins's book Islands of History (1985) about the strange fate of Captain James Cook in 1779 – first welcomed by Hawaiian islanders and then killed by them – which arose, said Sahlins, because Cook unwittingly blundered into a ritual cycle in which he figured as a god.
The debate prefigured contemporary concerns about how to represent indigenous cultures and who is entitled to do the representing. Obeyesekere's view that Sahlins had drifted into a colonialist narrative about inferior and credulous natives worshipping a white man as a god prompted a lengthy and empirically detailed response from Sahlins – How 'Natives' Think: About Captain Cook, For Example (1995) – which argued indigenous people and their cultural categories deserved greater respect than that. On balance, Sahlins probably got the better of the engagement.
All this may seem of only passing relevance to issues like climate, energy, regenerative agriculture, social justice and access to land of most concern to readers of The Land. Perhaps that's so. But when I re-read some of Sahlins's essays recently I was struck by how implicitly informative they'd been to my own attempt to wrestle with these issues in my book A Small Farm Future. It's hard to summarize the lessons from his writings succinctly, but maybe these: take seriously the long-term cultural categories that people construct over generations, and be aware of how they live within your own thought. Appreciate that civilizational progress delivered by bureaucratic states is one of these cultural stories. Take seriously too kin and exchange relations, and don't try to reduce them to something else. Don't assume that some particular category of person – rulers, ordinary subjects, or 'native' indigenes – is the 'real' agent of change within the system.
When it comes to applying these lessons to agricultural history in Britain or elsewhere with a view to creating a just and renewable agrarian future, what I take from Sahlins's thought is almost the opposite of what a superficial reading of 'The original affluent society' might suggest. There may be some grains of truth in the widely held view that in the past people lived amicably together without private property in extended family groups within egalitarian gift economies of abundant commons and villages, before enclosure of one kind or another by landlords, bosses, colonial states and busybody reformers dragged them kicking and screaming into the oppressive modern world. But the real challenge is in addressing the numerous ways in which this is not true, in sufficient detail to plot a plausible cultural path forwards.
Sahlins himself didn't write a great deal about these contemporary challenges, and scarcely courted the limelight outside his specialist academic fields. But he was a lynchpin of an influential school of anthropological thought sometimes characterized as 'the Chicago anarchists'. Its most famous son was David Graeber, of whom Sahlins wrote "David was a student of mine; I supervised his thesis at the University of Chicago. Since then it has been difficult to say who is the student and who the teacher" (On Kings,p.xv). Graeber was very much his own man, but in many ways his political activism and his books – Debt, Bullshit Jobs, The Dawn of Everything, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology – carried Sahlins's legacy into a more active political engagement with the modern world, especially in the idea that government is an endless problem with no really satisfactory solution.
To finish on a personal note, I met Sahlins a couple of times in the 1980s when he offered me a PhD studentship at Chicago. In the event, I turned the offer down, partly because of the apparent state of tribal warfare in the anthropology department and partly because I felt unworthy to dwell among such gods. He kindly wrote to me wishing me 'good luck and good anthropology', which I feel my later career as a kind of amateur scholar-farmer has fulfilled, not least from the ongoing stimulation of reading his books. Along, sadly, with David Graeber, he's now left us to join the ancestors. But unlike the dead kings he and Graeber described in their book On Kings, who in death dominate the living kings in ever more troublesome ways, instead they've left a sparkling corpus of works we can keep beside us to help illuminate our paths into the future.
Tags: agrarian localism, distributism, small farm future
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Chris Smaje
Chris Smaje has coworked a small farm in Somerset, southwest England, for the last 17 years. Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey and the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College on aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus...

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Tacherting ist eine Gemeinde und ein Dorf im oberbayerischen Landkreis Traunstein.

Geografie

Geografische Lage
Die Gemeinde liegt im nördlichen Landkreis Traunstein, etwa 85 km östlich der Landeshauptstadt München. Gute 60 km südöstlich befindet sich das österreichische Salzburg. Zur Kreisstadt Traunstein sind es 28 km. Die Gemeinde befindet sich im Alpenvorland in der Planungsregion Südostoberbayern. Die Höhenlage der größeren Gemeindeteile ist durch räumliche Gegebenheiten relativ unterschiedlich verteilt: Die Gemeindeteile Emertsham () und Peterskirchen () liegen deutlich höher als der größte Gemeindeteil Tacherting selbst, der sich durch seine Lage im Alztal nur auf rund  befindet.

Der Osten des Gemeindegebietes wird von der Alz durchflossen, dem einzigen Abfluss des Chiemsees, welcher sich selbst etwa 20 km entfernt befindet. Durch die nähe zur Alz kommt es des Öfteren zu Hochwasser und einem damit verbundenen Anstieg des Grundwasserspiegels. Bestes Beispiel ist das Hochwasser in Mitteleuropa 2013.

Flächennutzung
Die Gesamtfläche der Gemeinde beträgt 5024 ha, davon sind 3575 ha (71,1 %) Landswirtschaftsfläche, 928 ha (18,5 %) Waldfläche, 455 ha (9,1 %) Siedlungs- und Verkehrsfläche.

Nachbargemeinden
An die Gemeinde grenzen im Norden die Gemeinden Taufkirchen (Landkreis Mühldorf am Inn) und Engelsberg, im Osten Feichten a.d.Alz (Landkreis Altötting), im Süden Trostberg, im Südwesten Kienberg und im Westen Schnaitsee.

Gemeindegliederung

Es gibt 108 Gemeindeteile, die sich auf die drei Gemarkungen Tacherting (Osten), Emertsham (Zentrum) und Peterskirchen (Westen) verteilen:

Größere Gemeindeteile sind Tacherting, Emertsham, Peterskirchen, Wajon, Reit, Schalchen, Neuschalchen, Degernfeld und Lengloh.

Geschichte

Chronik
Das Gebiet rund um den Ortsteil Tacherting ist seit alters her besiedelt – belegt durch Bodenfunde, u. a. Hügelgräber der Jungsteinzeit bzw. der späten Bronzezeit. Ebenfalls konnte die durchgehende Besiedelung während der Römerzeit nachgewiesen werden, als die Gegend zur Provinz Noricum des römischen Weltreichs gehörte. Umfangreiche Ausgrabungen am Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts belegen diese Abschnitte der Ortsgeschichte.

Im 6. Jahrhundert verfiel das römische Weltreich und es kam zur Einwanderung der Bajuwaren, auf die Orte mit der Endung "-ing" (Tacherting, Taching, Chieming) hinweisen.

Um 735 datiert die wohl erste Erwähnung von Tacherting als "takahartinka" in einer Schenkungsurkunde an die Domkirche Passau.

Im Jahr 788 wurde "Tahardinga" in der Notitia Arnonis als dem Erzbischof Arno von Salzburg gehörende Kirche erwähnt.

Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts wurde die Alz als Grenze zwischen dem Herzogtum Bayern und dem Erzbistum Salzburg bestimmt, Tacherting fiel bei Streitigkeiten zwischen den herzöglichen Brüdern Ludwig und Heinrich an Niederbayern.

In der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts wurde die heutige Pfarrkirche Unserer Lieben Frau in Tacherting erbaut.

Auf dem Reichstag zu Konstanz 1507 ordnete ein kaiserliches Dekret Tacherting Oberbayern zu.

Mit der Regulierung der Alz und dem Bau des ersten Abschnitts des Alzkanals (1908–1910) entstanden Wasserkraftwerke, erste Industrie siedelte sich an.

Im Mai 1945 zog die US-amerikanische Armee ein, Tacherting wurde Lazarett-Gebiet.

In den 1960er Jahren fanden regelmäßige Grasbahnrennen in Tacherting mit bis zu 18.000 Zuschauern statt.

2009 fand in Tacherting die Deutsche Meisterschaft im Bogenschießen statt.

Religionen
Wie auch im Rest des ländlich geprägten Oberbayern bekennt sich der Großteil der Bevölkerung zur römisch-katholischen Kirche. Laut der Volkszählung von 1987 waren dies 3990 Bürger der Gemeinde. Nur 274 Bürger bekannten sich zum evangelischen Glauben.

Eingemeindungen
Im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Bayern wurde am 1. Januar 1972 die Gemeinde Emertsham eingegliedert. Am 1. Juli 1972 kam Peterskirchen hinzu. In der Folge finden sich auf dem Gemeindegebiet die drei Gemarkungen Tacherting (1851,19 ha, Osten, entspricht der Gemeindeausdehnung in ihren ursprünglichen Grenzen vor dem 1. Juli 1972), Emertsham (2188,17 ha, Zentrum) und Peterskirchen (984,23 ha, Westen).

Einwohnerentwicklung

Um dem demografischen Wandel, hier konkret der Landflucht, entgegenzuwirken, hat der Gemeinderat am 26. Januar 2012 die "Richtlinie zur Förderung von Wohnraum und Familien" beschlossen. Mit diesem Förderprogramm soll der Zuzug neuer Einwohner sowie der Erwerb von Wohneigentum durch die Ortsbevölkerung im Gemeindegebiet gefördert werden. Im Jahr 2013 wurden im Förderprogramm 35.000 Euro abgerufen, für 2014 standen 65.000 Euro zur Verfügung.

Zwischen 1988 und 2018 wuchs die Gemeinde von 4380 auf 5734 um 1354 Einwohner bzw. um 30,9 %.

Politik

Gemeinderat

Der Gemeinderat besteht derzeit aus 20 Mitgliedern und dem Ersten Bürgermeister.
Bei den Kommunalwahlen in Bayern 2020 wurden die 20 Sitze im Gemeinderat wie folgt verteilt:
 FW: 10 Sitze (49,07 %)
 CSU/Unabhängige: 6 Sitze (32,52 %)
 SPD: 4 Sitze (18,40 %).
Die Wahlbeteiligung lag bei 59,6 % (2014: 45,7 %)

Bürgermeister
Vom 21. Oktober 2006 bis 30. April 2020 war Johann Hellmeier Erster Bürgermeister. Durch die Änderung der Wahlgesetzgebung galt seine Wahl vom 23. September 2012 knapp acht Jahre bis zu den allgemeinen Kommunalwahlen 2020. Seit dem Tod von Bürgermeister Josef Breu (1994) waren die Bürgermeisterwahlen in Tacherting nicht mehr im Rhythmus der Gemeinderatswahlen gewesen.

Bei der Wahl 2020 am 15. März 2020 wurde bei insgesamt drei Bewerber mit 71,22 % der Stimmen Werner Disterer (Freie Wähler) als neuer Erster Bürgermeister der Gemeinde gewählt.

 1956 bis 1966 Ludwig Steffl
 1966 bis 1994 Josef Breu (CSU)
 1994 bis 2006: Rudolf Schenkl (SPD)
 2006 bis 2020: Johann Hellmeier (CSU und Unabhängige)
 seit 2020: Werner Disterer (FW)

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Gemeindefahne: Die Gemeindefahne (weiß, gelb, blau mit Gemeindewappen) entstammt der Idee des Ehrenbürgers Urbanek; seit 1967 führt die Gemeinde Tacherting diese eigene Fahne.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten
Tacherting liegt im Alztal, das sich in diesem Bereich oft noch im naturnahen Zustand befindet. Die Tachertinger Pfarrkirche heißt: "Zu unserer Lieben Frau". In der Ortsmitte von Tacherting befindet sich der unter Denkmalschutz stehende Salzstadel. In der näheren Umgebung finden sich bedeutende Ausflugsziele wie etwa der Chiemsee, oder die längste Burg der Welt in Burghausen. Die Chiemgauer Alpen, sowie bekannte Wintersportorte wie Ruhpolding oder Inzell sind in ca. 45 Minuten erreichbar.

Baudenkmäler

Bodendenkmäler

Museen
Im Gemeindeteil Brandstätt befindet sich das von privater Hand geführte Chiemgauer Schulmuseum.
Das Heimatmuseum befindet sich in der Grundschule in Tacherting.
Im Keller der Grundschule findet man die Räume des Heimatvereins Tacherting mit Funden aus 4000 Jahren Ortsgeschichte. Seit Neuestem wird dort auch die Bilderausstellung "3000 Jahre Ortsgeschichte Tacherting" ausgestellt.

Sport
Tacherting kann auf eine lange sportliche Vergangenheit zurückblicken. In den 1950er Jahren war Tacherting berühmt für seine Grasbahnrennen. Die Tachertinger Rennbahn galt als eine der schnellsten Deutschlands zur damaligen Zeit. Bis zu 18.000 Zuschauer ließen sich dieses Spektakel nicht entgehen, in einem Ort, der selbst nur ca. 4000 Einwohner hatte. 1959 endeten diese Grasbahnrennen aufgrund von Grundstücksverkäufen.
Heute tragen vor allem die Sportvereine zu einem abwechslungsreichen Gemeindeleben bei.

SV Linde Tacherting

SV Linde Tacherting wurde 1949 als SV Tacherting gegründet. 1969 wurde der Vereinsname in SV Linde Tacherting geändert. Zurzeit bestehen 10 Abteilungen mit über 1100 Mitgliedern. Es gibt Abteilungen für: Fußball, Leichtathletik, Ski, Stockschießen, Seniorensport, Tennis, Tischtennis, Turnen, Tae Kwon Do und Volleyball.

Das neue Vereinsheim des SV Linde Tacherting wurde am 19. August 2008 nach einer Bauzeit von 1 ½ Jahren eingeweiht. Im Herbst 2013 wurde die neue 2,5 fach Turnhalle der Gemeinde Tacherting offiziell ihrer Bestimmung übergeben.

TSV Peterskirchen

Der TSV Peterskirchen wurde 1967 gegründet. 1990 Bau der Tennisanlage. A-Fußballmannschaft der Herren spielt in der Kreisliga 2.

FSG Tacherting (Feuerschützengesellschaft Tacherting)

Schützenverein, Bogensport, Luftgewehr, Luftpistole…

Deutscher Mannschaftsmeister – 1. Bundesliga Bogenschießen 2002, 2004 und 2008 – im Bogenschießen

Regelmäßige Veranstaltungen
Feuerwehrfest der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Tacherting, zur Faschingszeit diverse Bälle.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur
Tacherting befindet sich im Süden des Südostbayerischen Chemiedreiecks. Im Ortsteil Schalchen befinden sich die zwei wichtigsten Arbeitgeber: Zum einen die Linde AG (Werk Schalchen) mit zirka 800 Mitarbeitern. Hier verlassen oft Schwertransporte mit Wärmetauschern und Luftzerlegern das Werk Richtung Passau, um dann verschifft zu werden. Zum anderen befindet sich dort die AlzChem (Werk Schalchen – vormals Evonik, davor Degussa, davor SKW Trostberg Werk Schalchen) mit zirka 100 Mitarbeitern. Es existieren des Weiteren eine ganze Reihe von mittelständischen Unternehmen. Die Gemeinde selbst beschäftigt derzeit 50 Mitarbeiter. Im Norden Tachertings befindet sich ein bebaubares Gewerbegebiet (Lochner Feld) unmittelbar an der Bundesstraße B 299. Insgesamt stehen aktuell 4,3 ha baureife Gewerbe- und Wohnbauflächen zur Verfügung.

Im Ortsteil Tacherting sind die Discounter Edeka (Scherer) sowie Netto ansässig. An der B299 in der Ortsmitte von Tacherting befindet sich eine Sparkasse sowie eine meine Volksbank Raiffeisenbank eG.

In der Nähe der Alz befindet sich eine Kläranlage. Daran sind auch die Gemeinden Kienberg sowie Feichten an der Alz angeschlossen. Seit Juli 2011 befindet sich in Tacherting die erste Klärschlammvererdungsanlage in Oberbayern.

Energieerzeugung

Bei der Initiative Solarbundesliga belegte Tacherting in den Jahren 2011 und 2010 in der Kategorie Kleinstadt den 1. Platz. Die Gemeinde Tacherting rangiert aktuell in Bayern auf dem 19. Platz, in der deutschlandweiten Bundesliga auf dem 34. Platz. (Stand: 18. Dezember 2013)
Des Weiteren ist die Gemeinde in der europäischen Champions League für Erneuerbare Energien (RES Champions League) gelistet, in welcher Tacherting am 5. Juli 2012 in der Kategorie Solarenergie als beste Kleinstadt ausgezeichnet wurde. Bürgermeister Hans Hellmeier reiste nach Rom und nahm die Urkunde im römischen Senat entgegen.

Ebenso spielt die Wasserkraft durch die Nutzung des Flusses Alz im nördlichen Chiemgau eine entscheidende Rolle. Im Tachertinger Ortsteil Wajon befindet sich ein Wasserkraftwerk, welches von 1908 bis 1910 erbaut wurde und über eine Leistung von 8 MW verfügt.

Die Gemeinde Tacherting deckt schon heute ihren gesamten Strombedarf aus Erneuerbaren Energien. Hierbei deckt die Gemeinde über 400 % ihres eigenen Stromverbrauchs.

Gemeindefinanzen/Bautätigkeit

Das Gesamtvolumen des Haushalts 2014 der Gemeinde Tacherting beläuft sich auf 16,24 Millionen Euro. Der Verwaltungshaushalt beträgt hierbei 10,22 Millionen Euro, der Vermögenshaushalt 6,02 Millionen Euro. Die Einnahmen aus der Gewerbesteuer verdoppelten sich 2013 auf 7,02 Millionen Euro, für 2014 wurden 3,8 Millionen Euro veranschlagt. Der Gemeindeanteil an der Einkommensteuer beträgt im Haushalt 2014 2,46 Millionen Euro. Die Personalkosten betragen 1,84 Millionen Euro (19 % des Verwaltungshaushalts). Größere Ausgaben im Haushaltsjahr 2013 waren der Bau der neuen Gemeindeturnhalle (1,78 Millionen Euro), welche im Herbst 2013 samt Außenanlagen fertiggestellt wurde. Ein weiterer großer Posten war die Erschließung des Baugebietes Hüttinger Feld II im Westen Tachertings zwischen dem Edeka-Markt und dem Gemeindefriedhof. Das neue Baugebiet wurde ab Frühjahr 2013 erschlossen, hat eine Fläche von 2,6 Hektar und umfasst insgesamt 35 Parzellen. Aktuell (Februar 2014) sind bereits über 30 Parzellen verkauft worden. Seit September 2013 befinden sich bereits mehrere Wohnhäuser in Bau.

Die Verschuldung der Gemeinde (2014: 2,06 Millionen Euro) wird weiterhin zurückgeführt, 2005 betrug die Pro-Kopf-Verschuldung 706 Euro; Ende 2014 wird mit 374 Euro gerechnet. Die Rücklagen betragen im Haushaltsjahr 2014 6,7 Millionen Euro, werden jedoch bis 2017 auf 3,7 Millionen Euro zusammenschmelzen. Der Hebesatz der Gewerbesteuer beträgt aktuell 320 %, der Hebesatz der Grundsteuer A (land- und forstwirtschaftliche Flächen) ebenfalls 320 %, hier sind 85.000 Euro im Haushalt 2014 geplant, bei der Grundsteuer B (310 %) sind 490.000 Euro veranschlagt.

Verkehr
Das Gemeindegebiet Tachertings wird hauptsächlich über die in Süd-Nord-Richtung im Alztal von Trostberg nach Altötting verlaufende B 299 erschlossen. Ebenfalls von Trostberg aus führt die Staatsstraße 2091 durch die westlichen Gemeindeteile Emertsham und Peterskirchen Richtung Waldkraiburg.

Mit der 1910 auf der gesamten Strecke fertiggestellten Traun-Alz-Bahn haben Tacherting, Schalchen und Wiesmühl über die Knoten Traunstein und Mühldorf über Garching an der Alz Anschluss an überregionale Netze.

Bildung

Die Grund- und Mittelschule Tacherting, bestehend aus zwei getrennten Schulhäusern, wird seit dem 31. Juli 1974 inoffiziell auch Dr.-Leo-Mol-Schule genannt, denn dieser bekannte kanadische Künstler hat bei guten Kontakten mit verschiedenen Bürgern der Gemeinde eine Bärengruppe sowie eine Bronzefigur im Schwimmbad der Schule bzw. Gemeinde geschenkt. Die Grund- und Mittelschule besuchen zurzeit etwa 460 Schüler. Da in Bayern die Hauptschulen ab dem Schuljahr 2010/11 zur Mittelschule umgewandelt wurden, hat sich die Gemeinde Tacherting gemeinsam mit den Gemeinden Trostberg und Altenmarkt an der Alz zur Schaffung des Schulverbandes Mittelschule Alztal entschlossen. Im Gemeindeteil Peterskirchen befindet sich eine weitere Grundschule. Im Keller der Mittelschule Tacherting befindet sich die Gemeindebücherei, die aktuell mehr als 10.000 Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs und DVDs zur Ausleihe bereithält.

In Emertsham befindet sich die größte Musikschule des Landkreises Traunstein, wo aktuell 528 Musikschüler von 19 Lehrkräften unterrichtet werden (Stand: 2011).

In der Gemeinde Tacherting gibt es derzeit vier Kindergärten: Pfarrkindergarten Tacherting, Kindergarten St. Vitus in Emertsham, Arbeiterwohlfahrt- und Waldkindergarten Tacherting.

Persönlichkeiten

Ehrenbürger
 1. Dezember 1989: Gerhard Meister
 1. Juli 2005: Rudolf Urbanek
 18. Mai 2008: Irmgard Schwoshuber

Mit der Gemeinde verbunden
 Armin Garnreiter (* 24. Juli 1958), Bogenschütze (FSG Tacherting), mehrfacher Deutscher Meister

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Traunstein
Ort im Chiemgau
Ersterwähnung im 8. Jahrhundert
Kirchdorf (Siedlungstyp)

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Gallery Project presents Mind, a multimedia exhibit in which 33 seek to represent depictions and interpretations of what we commonly call mind. It brings together artists who speak of mind, whether recalling and interpreting, depicting and conveying, questioning and questing, or dreaming and fantasizing.
The exhibition opens on Wednesday, February 24 and runs through March 28. The opening reception is Friday, February 26 from 6-9.
Artists in the exhibit include Heather Accurso, Ken Anbender, Richard Barnes, Pi Benio, Sarah Berkeley, Holly Brevig, Coco Bruner, Robert Bruner, Sarah Buckius, Loralei Byatt, Rocco DePietro, Andrea Eis, Lynn Galbreath, Matt Gordon, Nicole Gordon, J. Brett Grill, Darien Johnson, Joe Johnson, Andrew Jones, Cyrus Karimipour, Kathleen Letts, Beili Liu, Collin McRae, Julie Miller, Juan Javier Pescador, Gloria Pritschet, Colin Raymond, Terri Sarris, Bethany Shorb, Mike Sivak, Nelson Smith, Elysia Vandenbussche, and Sarah Williams.
Mind represents the depths and breadth of human capacity, an infinitely expandable process the content of which is limited only by individual imagination and creativity. It also entails the interface with the unknown whether it is called the Higher Self, God, or Infinity.
In contemporary life, mind is both a real and virtual concept. Categorizations of Mind, such as consciousness, the subconscious, the unconscious, the preconscious, and the Superconscious. have been analyzed and described. Scientists study cognitive structures such as schema and investigate complex mental processes. In popular culture, filmmakers and others have explored the richness of virtual and imaginary worlds. The tremendous popularity of movies such as AI, Avatar and District 9 attest to the fascination of the public with these imaginary worlds. The Mind exhibit invites artists to share their awarenesses, intuitions and imaginings of these real and virtual worlds.


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"Written for managers and executives, Abraham Zaleznik uses Freudian psychoanalysis to focus on self awareness and relationship awareness as a method to better motivate their employers and lead their company towards success. It discusses a myriad of timeless factors in successful leadership, including the origin of psychoanalysis, the unconscious, neuroses, defense mechanisms, group psychology, organizations, and change." --Book Jacket.
Linear explanation of two works: Tanya-Likutei Amarim, Part 2, which is entitled Shaar Hayichud VehaEmunah ("The Gate to [Understanding of] G-d`s Unity and the Faith"); and Part 3, entitled Iggeret HaTeshuvah ("The Epistle on Repentance").


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Broncos accept invite to Frisco Bowl vs North Texas
In its 25th-consecutive season of bowl eligibility, the third-longest streak in the country, the Boise State football team has accepted an invitation to the Frisco Bowl in Frisco, Texas.
"We are honored to be invited to the Frisco Bowl," head coach Andy Avalos said. "For several of our players it provides an opportunity to play in front of family and friends in their home state of Texas. It will be special for our seniors who will take the field for the last time with their brothers. We look forward to the challenge and seeing Bronco Nation represented at the game."
The Broncos will square off against North Texas in the fifth edition of the game, which is slated for Dec. 17 (Saturday) at Toyota Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. MT, and the game will be nationally televised on ESPN.
Boise State achieved bowl eligibility for the 25th-consecutive season in 2022, trailing only Ohio State (34) and Georgia (26) on the current list.
North Texas enters the game 7-6, including a 6-2 mark in the Conference USA. This will be the seventh all-time matchup between the Broncos and the Mean Green, and the first since 2000.
"We are excited to have two outstanding teams participate in the 2022 Frisco Bowl, the Boise State Broncos and North Texas Mean Green" said Sean Johnson, Frisco Bowl Executive Director. "We are looking forward to hosting this great matchup and to welcoming the teams and their passionate fan bases to Frisco, Texas, for an exciting week of bowl events and a fantastic game at Toyota Stadium."
Tickets to the bowl are on sale now and fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets through Boise State. They can be purchased online, in person at the Athletic Ticket Office on the west side of Albertsons Stadium or by phone at (208) 426-4737. Bronco Athletic Association (BAA) season ticket holders will be seated first based on their priority ranking and will have until Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 5 p.m., to submit their request.
By purchasing tickets through the Boise State athletic ticket office, fans ensure their seats will be located with other members of Bronco Nation and also assist the University in meeting its ticket obligation as a bowl participant. The number of tickets Bronco fans purchase through the University can also make the program appealing for future bowl games when selections are made. Purchasing tickets through Boise State allows the Athletic Ticket Office and the Bronco Athletic Association to provide customer service to fans leading up to the bowl and on game day.
For full details about the trip to the Bowl, including ticket locations and fan events, visit Bowl Central.


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Dermophis est un genre de gymnophiones de la famille des Dermophiidae.

Répartition
Les 7 espèces de ce genre se rencontrent du Sud du Mexique au Nord-Ouest de la Colombie.

Liste des espèces
Selon  :
 Dermophis costaricense Taylor, 1955
 Dermophis glandulosus Taylor, 1955
 Dermophis gracilior Günther, 1902
 Dermophis mexicanus (Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
 Dermophis oaxacae (Mertens, 1930)
 Dermophis occidentalis Taylor, 1955
 Dermophis parviceps (Dunn, 1924)

Publication originale
 Peters, 1880 "1879" : Über die Eintheilung der Caecilien und insbesondere über die Gattungen Rhinatrema und Gymnopis. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, ,  (texte intégral).

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Dermophiidae
Genre de gymnophiones (nom scientifique)


With a stay at Hotel Casa Escondida - Chincana Wasi in Cusco, you'll be within a 10-minute walk of Cusco Cathedral and Plaza de Armas. This hotel is 0.8 mi (1.2 km) from Museum of Contemporary Art and 2.1 mi (3.5 km) from Sacsayhuaman.
Make yourself at home in one of the 35 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with bathtubs feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access. Additional amenities at this hotel include tour/ticket assistance and a reception hall. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). A complimentary continental breakfast is served daily from 7 AM to 10 AM.


Cleanup of Varkiza beach by Tsakos Columbia Shipmangement-Entrust Maritime.
Τhe "MonthofPositiveActionfortheMarineEnvironment" is set to continue until 20 October! All those interested in taking part may contact HELMEPA's Environmental Awareness Section on 210 9343088 or by email at environment@helmepa.gr.


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Learn how county government works at New Hanover Conference on Government
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Do you have questions about how county government works? New Hanover County is offering answers.
The county will host a two-day Conference on Government next month to educate community members about the inner workings of county government. Sessions will be held Aug. 2-3 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Northeast Library at 1241 Military Cutoff Road in Wilmington.
"This is a new outreach effort for the county, and we hope to host another one in the spring," NHC Community Affairs Coordinator Tufanna Bradley-Thomas said in a news release. "We want people to feel connected to the county and understand the 'why' in what we do each day."
Topics for the sessions include the county's response to the opioid epidemic, affordable housing, hurricane recovery, the 2019-20 budget, how to apply and serve on county boards and more.
County staffers will be on hand to answer questions both days.
For more information and to register, click here.
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During the clinic, participants will work through the ground control series. The series is based on safe, foundational skills to help you and horse start from the ground up. Dan believes that every horse and handler should confidently complete Level 1 regardless of their discipline, age or goals. This foundational program is used whether we are starting colts, working with problem horses or focusing on the next liberty horse. You will be introduced to the techniques and cues to help better communicate to your horse. It sets the boundaries for your horse to keep you safe and help you achieve the respect from your horse that you need to create that connection. Exercises will focus on moving the hindquarters, shoulders, achieving lateral flexion both at the stand still and on the circle and changing directions which we refer to as the switch.


Heading a Thing of the Past?
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Players 10 years old and younger are prohibited from heading in practice and in games. In addition, since U11 competition may have players 11 years old, those players are prohibited from heading in practice and games as well.
For players 11-13 years old, heading will be allowed in games; however, heading should be limited in practice to 30 minutes per week and no more than 20 headers per player, per week.
Players 10 years old playing up in an older age group should still not be heading the ball at all in practice or games.
Regarding substitutions, any player suspected of suffering a head injury may be substituted for evaluation without the substitution counting against the team's total number of allowed substitutions during the game.
For more details on the U.S. Soccer Federation's heading guidelines, go to www.ussoccer.com.


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From the Blaskets To Beyond Boston
Understanding migration patterns can sometimes be the key to finding the place of origin in Ireland. Another example of this is the number of Kerry people from the Blasket Islands who settled in Springfield, MA. Indeed, the most 'Irish' section of this city was traditionally the Hungry Hill neighborhood.
Commentary from different sources[1][2] indicates that this migration was probably not famine related, but occurred primarily in the first half of the 20th century. But of course, both push and pull factors would have been evident, with the Blaskets being one of the harshest places in Ireland to eke out a living.
More broadly, the scores of young Kerry-born men living in Springfield in the early 20th century is vividly illustrate by a search in the United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 database.
Earlier this year, the Mass Live news website featured articles about the Irish in Springfield, focusing on how the Hungry Hill area got its name and the launch of a book, From the Great Blasket To America: The Last Memoir by an Islander, by a Blasket man, Michael J. Carney.
This document, prepared by archaeologist Chris Fennell, University of Illinois, provides a useful historical introduction to the Blaskets and a bibliography of sources for those with ancestors from the area.
[1] Fennell, Chris. Tradition and Modernity on Great Blasket Island, Ireland. University of Illinois: unpublished document. Available online at http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/BlasketProject.pdf: accessed 19 November 2013.
[2] Kelliher, Judith. 'Native Irish speaker Michael Carney, of East Longmeadow, scheduled to release his Blasket Island memoir at national celebration in Ireland'. Available online at http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2013/05/native_irish_speaker_michael_carney_of_east_longmeadow_scheduled_to_release_his_blasket_island_memoi.html: accessed 19 November 2013.
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Sandy and I did this short hike on November 15. There wasn't much snow but I brought my new microspikes from Kahtoola. The Johnston Canyon trail is closed for reconstruction so we had to go through the next trail to the north to access the ink pots.
It's a short hike with relatively small elevation gains. It is steep in sections but pretty much anyone could do it. It did have icy sections that were slowly melting.
It took us about 2 hours to get up. We wandered a bit then headed back down. The melted areas were freezing by now so I put on my spikes.
The spikes were great. They have a stainless chain base with stainless triangle spikes. The top is a high strength Elastomer that fits snug on your boot. The chains and spikes dug in to the ice and prevented me from sliding backwards or forwards. I wanted to see how strong they were and how well they gripped so I climbed a bit of the hillside. They dug deep and didn't let me go anywhere. I can't wait to try them again. They stood up and had no real issues. The only thing that caused a slight issue was because the snow was a bit soft in areas, the snow built up between my boot and the chains so every few feet I had to hit my boot to clean out the snow. Next time, I am going to try and pull them higher on my boot so it fits tight along the underside. I suggest picking up a set if you are going anywhere in the mountains in winter.


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Home / Back Taxes Or Tax Debt / Prince's tax controversies, back tax issues continue
Prince's tax controversies, back tax issues continue
Although it may appear that the acclaimed artist Prince has caught up on all his tax issues with the French government, his tax liabilities reportedly still exist in Minnesota. The Minnesota performer's attorney has filed a court notice stating the star had incorrectly assumed his previous managers submitted the necessary tax returns to the French after he performed there and he was not aware they hadn't until September.
The issue came to light in July 2011 when officials from France informed the U.S. it wanted to review the artist's income tax liabilities for 2009 and 2010 claiming the artist had performed there during that period and owed back taxes. A summons was left at the artist's home in late March telling him to appear at an April meeting and to bring records of payments made to him or Paisley Park Enterprises from anyone in France.
The summons also requested Prince bring any payment records from Paisley Park Enterprises to Prince that were in relation to any of his shows in France. Prince and his attorneys opted to deal directly with French officials and have provided them with the requested information. An attorney representing Prince stated in an interview that all issues with the French tax authorities have been "straightened out" and that it had all been a misunderstanding.
The French tax imbroglio was just the latest tax issue for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and multiple Grammy winning entertainer. According to reviews of Carver County tax records, the artist still owes more than $140,000 in back taxes, including $15,000 in fees and penalties on his Chanhassen home, which is owned by PRN Music Corp. Dealing with back tax issues and any IRS requests are best done sooner rather than later to avoid unnecessary fees and penalties.
Oftentimes and experienced tax attorney can negotiate on your behalf and reduce the overall tax debt after reviewing prior tax returns and documents for errors. It is also important to enlist the services of a tax attorney if you are facing a possible IRS audit as you do not want to go up against the IRS on your own. And an attorney is your best bet to reduce tax liabilities and avoid litigation if at all possible.
Source: Pioneer Press, "Prince's taxes paid up in France, lawyer says," David Hanners, Dec. 31, 2012
Our Hennepin County law firm helps individuals with a range of tax issues, including Minnesota Department of Revenue unpaid or underpaid taxes and IRS audits and litigation issues.
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The Active Adult 55+ community of Stonecroft Village is a great place to make your new home while you enjoy all that the Pennsylvania Dutch country area has to offer. Located in Berks County (just over the western border of Lebanon County), Stonecroft Village is convenient to Hershey, Lebanon, Lancaster, Reading, and Allentown. Because it is just a short drive away from Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York, many residents from those areas have chosen Stonecroft Village for their new home. The neighborhood is set in a beautiful natural valley with incredible mountain views in the distance. The tranquil, resort-like feel of the community, the low taxes and HOA fees, and the onsite amenities have made Stonecroft Village the most popular new home community for miles and miles and have earned it a reputation as one of the best values for your money.Stonecroft Village features wonderfully designed one-story and two-story single family homes (that include a convenient first-floor owner's suite) – each with a two car garage. The homes are set on generously-sized lots, with plenty of space in between the homes. Speaking of space, the community features a total of more than 20 acres of land that will not be developed, adding to the beauty of the natural setting. Additionally, each home features a custom landscaping package. That has resulted in some beautiful streetscapes. Take a test drive through the community and you'll see what we mean. The neighborhood also features a community center, walking trails, plenty of common recreation areas, and our centerpiece is a large, scenic pond with a fountain and relaxing gazebo. Make plans to visit soon to see how incredible your life can be here at Stonecroft Village.
Homes at Stonecroft Village are priced from the low $200's. Contact Landmark Homes for specific pricing information or for additional details about this community. Call (717) 283-5790 or email us.
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A warm bacon and brussels sprouts shredded salad tossed with chopped walnuts and fresh parmesan. So tasty, and can be served as a side or main meal!
Please tell me you like brussels sprouts, tell me you're not afraid of them, and tell me, that if you claim to not like them, then you'll throw the gauntlet down and try this, and then if you still don't like them, I'll accept it. However, I just don't see that being the case. I see you falling in love. I mean, really, WHO hates anything cooked in bacon grease, with more bacon, and cheeeeese. Nobody, that's who.
I make this two different ways, depending on the quantity. If I'm making mass amounts, (like doubling or tripling the recipe below), then I do it in the oven, same set up..cook the bacon, toss the shredded brussels in the bacon grease, a little salt and peppa, then roast them til golden brown, tossing occasionally, remove and toss with all the rest of the goods. Orrrr, if it's just a couple of us, I do it right on the stove, as explained below. Totally up to you, and either method gives perfect results.
This is one of my most favorite sides or even main dishes! I've been making this for years, I even talked about it in my sons birthday recap last year, and forgot to make it for this here blog. But it's quick and so easy, and SO good. I definitely recommend this one on your turkey day table!
In a large saute pan over medium-high heat, cook the bacon until crispy. Transfer slices to a paper towel lined plate, reserve the bacon grease in the pan.
Cook until the begin to turn golden brown in areas, tossing occasionally, about 5-8 minutes.
Chop the bacon, add it back to the brussels and toss together.
Remove from the heat and transfer to a bowl. Top with walnuts and parmesan and serve warm.
If you're doubling or tripling this recipe, which I do for a bigger crowd, you can cook them on a baking sheet in the oven. Still cook the bacon first, toss the shredded brussels in the bacon grease, spread on a baking sheet with a little salt and pepper, and roast at 425° for 15-20 minutes, tossing occasionally, until the edges are golden brown. Remove from the oven and toss with the rest of the ingredients.


Normally a status update wouldn't be done just 3 days following my last update. But things got interesting right after my last post.
In the previous report I'd gone 12 days without a headache. The next day I woke up with a pretty significant headache - probably 5/10. I took Excedrin as well as had a full cup of caffeinated coffee. The good news is that with the greatly reduced caffeine consumption I'd been doing there was "room" for the caffeine to work. I felt virtually 100% of normal in a few hours.
I went to bed very late (for me) that night - almost 12:30AM.
I ate Chicken Pho from a restaurant.
This morning: BAM! 5-6/10 headache.
Food #1 for my "Banned Food" list: Rotisserie Chicken!


Our meeting takes place on Friday, April 13 at 10 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the Mount Olive Church. We have been busy since our last meeting and Willa expects that we will continue to busy during the coming months.
The agenda will include grant reviews, OLLI Update, Work Day Update (in the Rosenwald film these were called "Rosenwald Days" as they related to the community support of the schools), How to celebrate being 90, Strategic Plan Update, Grand Opening Planning, Soft Opening Planning, Moving ahead with inside and ground work, Signage, Alumni Engagement and other topics that may arise.
Bring a new friend with you on Friday!


Welcome Go west! so we can get the large tanks too.
So, does that mean they are going to be active here?
and let us know when the next $1/gal sale will be?
It's clear them becoming a sponsor was strictly for advertisement and not being an active and helpful source to the countless individuals that own their equipment or are considering purchasing them.
wow so still no Marineland reps on the forums?


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function test_suite = test_stom_runCalculation

initTestSuite;

%==========================================================================

function calc = setup
% setup data path for test
serp_exe_path = 'sss1118';
sss_jeff31_path = '/home/asikth/Documents/xsdata/jeff31/sss_jeff31.xsdata';
stop_path = '/home/asikth/Documents/S2P/stop/';

fullpath = mfilename('fullpath');
[path name ~] = fileparts(fullpath);
testdatafullpath = fullfile(path, ['data_' name]);
str = fileread(fullfile(testdatafullpath, 'fuelpin.spi'));
str = strrep(str,'sss_jeff31.xsdata',sss_jeff31_path);

fname = fullfile(testdatafullpath, 'test_fuelpin.spi');
fid = fopen(fname, 'w');
fwrite(fid, str);
fclose(fid);

calc.serpExe = serp_exe_path;
calc.serpParInp.dir = testdatafullpath;
calc.serpParInp.name = 'test_fuelpin.spi';
calc.serpParInp.file = str;
calc.stopDir = stop_path;
addpath(genpath(calc(1).stopDir));

calc.isTest  = false;
calc.isContinue = false;
calc.isEcho = true;

calc.values = struct('TITLE','fuelpin1',...
    'HEXR',0.60,'FH',0, 'FDC',1.0,'VG',0.01);
calc.name = 'ref';

%==========================================================================

function teardown(calc)
% delete data
delete([calc.serpParInp.dir filesep calc.serpParInp.name])
clearvars calc;

%==========================================================================

function test1(calc)

[~, serpInpLog] = stom.makeSerpInp(calc);
assertEqual(size(serpInpLog),[10 3])

%==========================================================================

function test2(calc)

calc.values = struct('TITLE','fuelpin1',...
    'HEXR',0.60,'FH',0, 'FDC',1.0);% 'VG' deleted
f = @() stom.makeSerpInp(calc);
assertExceptionThrown(f ,'stom:wrongSerpentInput')

%==========================================================================

function test3(calc)

str = calc.serpParInp.file;
str = strrep(str, 'VG>','VG');

fname = fullfile(calc.serpParInp.dir,calc.serpParInp.name);
fid = fopen(fname, 'w');
fwrite(fid, str);
fclose(fid);

f = @() stom.makeSerpInp(calc);
assertExceptionThrown(f ,'stom:makeSerpInp:WrongSerpentInput')

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Watch: Dramatic video shows Hong Kong Police shooting protester; man set on fire
World | November 11, 2019 16:47 IST
A Hong Kong anti-government protester was shot by police Monday in a dramatic scene caught on video as demonstrators blocked train lines and roads in a day of spiraling violence fueled by demands for democratic reforms.
Saurabh Chaudhary wins silver in Asian Shooting Championship
Other Sports | November 11, 2019 15:36 IST
17-year-old Saurabh Chaudhary won the silver medal in the 10m air pistol event at the ongoing Asian Shooting Championship.
Angad Bajwa, Mairaj Khan add to India's Olympic quota places in shooting
Their medals ensured India secured an unprecedented 15 quota places for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Tejaswini Sawant bags India's 12th Olympic quota in Shooting
Tejaswini Sawant secured the 12th quota in Olympics for Shooting after qualifying for the final of the women's 50m rifle 3 positions event.
Akshay Kumar gets injured on Sooryavanshi sets, resumes shooting after treatment
Celebrities | November 09, 2019 14:13 IST
Sooryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, will hit the theatres in March, 2020.
Hrithik Roshan to start shooting for Krrish 4 in January 2020?
Hrithik Roshan is also in talks for Farah Khan's next directorial which is a remake of 1982 film Satte Pe Satta.
Priyanka Chopra enjoys Daulat Ki Chaat while shooting for The White Tiger, courtesy Rajkummar Rao
Priyanka Chopra is currently in Delhi shooting for her upcoming film The White Tiger with Rajkummar Rao.
Manu Bhaker shoots gold in Asian Shooting Championships
Manu Bhaker won gold in women's 10m air pistol event while Vivaan Kapoor and Manisha Keer won the yellow metal in junior trap mixed event at the Asian Shooting Championships.
Priyanka Chopra starts shooting for 'The White Tiger' in Delhi pollution
In her latest Instagram post, Priyanka Chopra said it has been very difficult to shoot in Delhi and asked everyone to be safe.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra recounts challenges of shooting Parinda on low budget
Bollywood | November 02, 2019 14:32 IST
Parinda, which was India's official entry in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars in 1990, will be aired on Sony MAX2 on November 3.
15-year-old charged for Chicago shooting on Halloween
The shooting Thursday night was another grim example of children in the city being caught in the crossfire while doing normal activities like walking down the street, sitting on a porch or laughing with friends inside a house. A day before Halloween, an earlier shooting of a child resurfaced in the news when a jury acquitted a man who was charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 death of an 11-year-old girl who was shot while inside a house at a slumber party.
Indian 2: Shooting of Kamal Haasan starrer shifts to Gwalior
Regional Cinema | November 01, 2019 16:02 IST
Kamal Haasan who recently concluded the Bhopal shoot of magnum opus Indian 2 is currently completing the filming in Gwalior.
KBC 11: Amitabh Bachchan resumes shoot after his hospital stay
TV | October 23, 2019 16:46 IST
Amitabh Bachchan posted pictures from his KBC episode shoot with Virendra Sehwag, Dutee Chand and Hima Das
Four held for shooting TikTok video inside police station
In Delhi for shooting competition, boy gets electrocuted at OYO hotel
Farhan Akhtar suffers from 'boxing injury' while shooting for 'Toofan'
4 dead, 3 injured in shooting in Brooklyn, New York
Germany: 2 killed as gunman attacks synagogue, live streams video
October 10, 2019 8:46 IST
Two killed in shooting near synagogue in Germany
Kartik Aaryan, Kiara Advani begin shooting for Bhool Bhulaiya 2


This year's host: J. Karen Ray, Washburn University.
Please plan to join your colleagues in Wichita from September 30-Oct 3 for the annual MWASECS meeting.
Wichita is served by four airlines and is an exciting destination with three universities, numerous art galleries, and other pleasure palaces. We will be located in Old Town where we will "Stay with History" in the heart of downtown Wichita.
The Hotel at Old Town was built over a century ago as the Keep Kutter building, and the elegant exterior looks virtually as it did in 1906. The inside has been completely renovated and restored to be the focal point of the city's picturesque redbrick warehouse district. Rare photographs and other antiques enhance the hotel's turn-of-the-century ambience, and a piano bar just off the lobby will provide a lovely place for conversation. Our accommodations will be Queen Studios (with kitchens) for $116 per night and a free breakfast buffet.
You can make your own reservations by phone at 316 267 4800; please mention MWSECS to get the conference rate. Our hold on the rooms will be released on September 10, 2010.
The conference will include a cocktail reception on Thursday, September 30, a plenary speaker, and a banquet on Friday, October 1.


The picturesque landscape and pristine elegance of the Walcott-Warner Terrace at the Cave Hill campus was the perfect backdrop for the Twilight fashion show and visual arts exhibition.
Held last Sunday at the Errol Barrow Centre, the inspiration for the name of the event came from the splendid sunset that envelopes the complex each evening.
A cadre of artists was selected to showcase their work, primarily because of their innovation in the use of textiles and materials, every piece being handcrafted and bearing the stamp of indigenous Barbadian heritage.
The fashion that graced the runway, organisers said, represented the unique creative expression of each artist, "with careful attention being paid to detail and embellishment, which makes the work of the highest quality".
Visual artist Don Junior Small showed his work in the gallery space but his paintings were imbued with new life as they were interpreted and re-presented through dance, music and theatre.
"Twilight in this space was depicted through the loving eyes of a son, as each caress of the canvas captured his mother in her twilight years," organisers said.
"Bigger than life sized paintings, acrylic on canvas, present not just images of a mother, but the essence of a Barbadian woman, as Don whimsically presented cherished details of Barbadian culture. The creative exploration of several of Don's paintings were undertaken by performers drawn from the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree programme.
The event also featured Catherine Rocheford's jewellery; Alexis Campbell's designs, Althea Wood's Nhikazzi wear comprising textiles, Shakad Designs and Glendine Aimes' batik.


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This 2d-animated video was created to represent MyoPro powered brace from Myomo, a custom-fabricated robotic device designed to help you regain the use of a partially paralyzed or weakened arm.
We used smooth animation and pleasant voiceover that show all the steps process and how this powered brace works. Our characters are able to imitate the conversation and express the emotions of getting the brace, they are friendly and are illustrated in bright colors.
Thanks, Myomo, for this amazing collab.


Welcome to the 2019 Volley for the Roses Tournament. Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you for additional events in 2019 and for years to come! Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the Volley for the Roses and future events a great experience for you, your team, and your fans!
Once bracket play begins, the loser on a given court is obligated to officiate the match immediately following unless specifically noted otherwise on the schedule. PLEASE double check AES carefully to note reffing assignments. Reffing assignments are not always for YOUR bracket. If in doubt, check with the site director.
If a 10U or 11U team is playing in a 12U division, they will need to abide by the rules pertaining to 12 & under.
DUE TO FEEDBACK FROM PAST EVENTS - THERE WILL BE NO PLAYOFFS. EVEN FOR GOLD vs. SILVER COMPETITION. You DO NOT have to stay and wait for your pool to complete! You can see all finishes/seeding on AES as the pools finish.
Ohio Valley Volleyball Center (OVVC): 1820 Taylor Ave., Louisville, KY 40213.
Our Lady of Providence High School (PHS) is located at 707 Providence Way, Clarksville, IN 47129.
NO Parking at HJI. Parking IS available at the end of Complete Court at "Kenney's" and on the side of Elite Drive closest to Top Gun Facility.
No outside food, drinks or coolers will be allowed into ANY FACILITY. WATER ONLY. Please do not attempt to "smuggle" in food. Concessions are available at all facilities.
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Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man: A Review of the 1970s Marvel Comics Series!
Updated on September 29, 2014
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Spider-Man in the 1970s, with an Emphasis On Peter Parker's College Life!
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man first appeared at the end of 1976, and was a comic book aimed at cashing in on the growing popularity of Spider-Man. In fact, with the publication of this series Spider-Man was appearing in three monthly books: The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up and Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man!
Even so, this series was very enjoyable, and I don't remember feeling like it was overkill. The stories were well-told for the most part, except for some clunkers that I mention below. The first 31 issues of the series are collected in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (ISBN: 0785116826).
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Spider-Man's Alter-Ego, Peter Parker, Goes to College!
A Different Setting, Focused on a Separate Cast of Characters!
While Marvel Comics certainly wanted to optimize the popularity of Spider-Man, the publisher must have been a bit nervous that the character would be spread too thin if he were to appear in three series at the same time.
So the early issues of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man made a special effort to focus on the college life of Peter Parker, Spider-Man's secret identity, while the main comic, the Amazing Spider-Man, highlighted his work life as a freelance photographer at the Daily Bugle. (The third series, Marvel Team-Up, featured Spider-Man teaming up with a different hero each month and those stories usually didn't focus on the private life of Spider-Man at all).
And for the most part it worked. There was some back-and-forth between the series, but it never seemed heavy handed or forced. In fact, I tended to enjoy the Spectacular Spider-Man early issues more than I did the Amazing Spider-Man ones of that time, in part because I thought they had better art. Sal Buscema was the artist for the majority of the first 20 issues of Spectacular Spider-Man, and I liked his style more than Ross Andru's, who was the main artist on the Amazing Spider-Man.
Below are some highlights -- and a few lowlights -- from the first 31 issues of the Spectacular Spider-Man, which are collected in this Marvel Essential volume.
Now Appearing...White Tiger!
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 9
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 9 was the first appearance of White Tiger in a full-color comic book. Writer Bill Mantlo had created the White Tiger a year earlier in a black & white magazine called the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu that Marvel published, and since Mantlo was also writing this series I guess it was a natural for him to include the White Tiger in this book.
White Tiger was Marvel Comics' first Puerto Rican superhero, and in this story we find out he is a fellow college college student of Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter-ego. A martial arts superhero, White Tiger would reappear in this series numerous times.
The ending to this two-part story is a bit too pat, but the tale is very enjoyable and it was fun to see White Tiger in action.
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 17
The End of the Champions!
What Happens When a Superhero Team Breaks Up?
My favorite tale in this collection is a two-part story that originally appeared in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 17-18.
Although the stories in this volume usually focused on Spider-Man's college life, this one starts with a newspaper assignment for Spider-Man's alter-ego. Parker is sent by the Daily Bugle to Los Angeles to take photos for a story about the break-up of the Champions, a short-lived superhero group based in that city.
He meets the only remaining member of the group, a hero called Angel, at Champions headquarters, and of course there's a fight against a super-villain.
But really the fight is almost beside the point of the tale, which really is more about the disbanding of the team and what it meant to Angel (who was using his wealth to bankroll it).
The Champions had only been around for a few years, and their own comic had been cancelled just four months before, so this story was a nice bit of continuity for the Marvel Universe. There was also a real sense of sadness that gave the story more depth than expected.
As for why the ending of the group was told in Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man, that seems pretty easy. Bill Mantlo, the writer of Peter Parker, had also been writing the Champion series when it ended!
The Short-Lived Champions Series! - Second-Tier Characters Looking For a Home!
The Champions debuted in their own series in October 1975 and just never seemed to find their own footing. The team consisted of secondary characters the Ghost Rider and the Black Widow, along with third-tier heroes Hercules, Angel and Ice Man.
The Ghost Rider was appearing in his own series, but the other four were simply characters that weren't in use anywhere else.
With no real reason for its existence, the group meandered through 17 issues of its own series as well as some guest appearances in other comics. Some of the stories were good, though, and artist John Byrne did some fine early work starting with issue No. 11. The series was canceled in January 1978.
Oddly enough, I seem to remember the heroes themselves at times wondering why the team even existed. As the years went by, the group was seen as a bit silly within the Marvel Universe, with Ice Man calling it an embarrassment and Angel remembering it as a nightmare.
All of the 1970s appearances of the group have been collected in two volumes. Some of the stories are fun, and the art in later issues by John Byrne is nicely done.
Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man No. 22
Enter: Moon Knight!
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 22 contained one of the earliest appearances of Moon Knight, who has since gone on to become an enduring character in Marvel Comics. Moon Knight first appeared in Werewolf by Night No. 32-33 in 1975, then a solo tale a year later in Marvel Spotlight No. 28-29.
So he was still pretty unknown when he appeared in this two-part Spider-Man story in 1978, a tale that helped flesh out his background and made him more heroic than his first appearance. I always liked him, even though at this point in his existence some people saw him as a poor man's Batman. I disagree. A hero who used different identities and a circle of allies to fight crime had more in common with The Shadow than Batman, so I guess one could say Batman and Moon Knight both were influenced by the pulp fiction crimefighter!
I also thought his costume had a cool look to it, and there just weren't that many superheroes who had white as a main color.
The other nice thing issue No. 22 is the work of guest artist Mike Zeck, who had a clean style that I really enjoyed. He probably did his best work of that time on the Master of Kung-Fu series, but his Captain America work and his fill-in issues like this one were always appreciated. For more on the work of Mike Zeck see his website here.
Carrion, Daredevil and the Spider-Amoeba!
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 28-31
This volume ends with a multi-part tale of Spider-Man fighting Carrion, a supervillian with a surprise connection to old-time foe the Jackal. The Jackal had been Peter Parker's professor, so the connection to his college life was easy to make, and White Tiger shows up to help with the battle.
I don't think the story is as good as some people have written, and at the time I thought it was dragged out probably one issue too long. Rereading it all in one sitting I still feel the same. The Carrion's lackey, Darter, is just a dumb addition to the tale, and the spider-amoeba during the final battle was ludicrous!
The highlight of the entire tale was some early art of Daredevil by Frank Miller. Miller moved over to Daredevil after working on Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 28, starting the run that would revive that comic book. If you like Frank Miller's art this issue is a nice sample.
From Spider-Man to Daredevil!
Frank Miller Revives a Dying Series!
After serving as a fill-in artist on Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man No. 27-28, Frank Miller liked the guest hero, Daredevil, and asked if he could draw that series instead. Daredevil's comic had been limping along, published only once every two months because sales were so poor (which was a shame because he was my favorite superhero!).
Miller became the artist of Daredevil with issue No. 158, and his art helped revive the comic enough to make it a monthly by the time he took over as writer as well with issue No. 168. Issue No. 168 introduced the assassin Elektra, whose story would be told over the next dozen or so issues. For more on the Elektra saga, please see my review here:
For More Information on Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man!
The Spectacular Spider-Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia's entry for the Spectacular Spider-Man comic book series.
Do We Really Need a CB-Talking, Truck-Driving Superhero?
Arkansas Superhero Razorback Rides to the Rescue!
Unfortunately there are some real clunkers in this collection.
One of the biggest is a four-part tale about some of Peter Parker's friends getting involved in a villainous cult. The story is pretty much ruined by the inclusion of a campy superhero named Razorback, from Arkansas.
Named Buford T. Hollis, he talks in CB slang and has arrived in New York with his super-powered truck (!) to help free his kid sister from the same cult. So his inclusion in the tale is kind of seamless. That's not the problem. The problem is he is just too much of a cliché -- when he isn't taking in CB he sounds like a southern hick. Oh, and his razorback mane gives off an electrical charge!
The good parts of the tale just can't overcome Razorback's inclusion enough to make the story truly enjoyable. The character has only appeared a few times since so I guess I'm not alone in my distaste of him.
Another miss is issue No. 24, which features a villainous disco singer named the Hypno-Hustler and his villainous backup band, the Mercy Killers. The Hypno-Hustler is able to hypnotize his victims through his musical equipment and all Spider-Man ends up doing to beat him is knock the Hypno-Hustler's headphones off, leaving the victim as hypnotized as his victims. Yes, it was that silly.
Also, the issue was drawn by fill-in artist Frank Springer, who I thought did better work on non-superhero series. I just don't think his Spider-Man looked very good in this issue.
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - Recounting One Reason This Series Was Published
According to the new book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, the comic book Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man was published in part as a reaction to the large dose of experimentation that Marvel Comics had done in the first half of the 1970s. The period led to a downturn in comics, as well as much dissension between editors and writers, so the company tried to introduce more ''wholesome'' comics like this one.
That's just one of the great details in Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. Please read the book, which is available on Amazon. It's a great history for anybody who grew up reading comic books!
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
The Fantastic Four Debuts! A Marvel Essentials Comic Book Review
The Essential Fantastic Four Volume 1 contains some of the most important stories that Marvel Comics ever published. This book contains the first 20 issues o...
The Marvel Essential Series!
The Marvel Essential series reprints many of Marvel's stories in large volumes that contain several hundred pages. The series began in 1997 with the publication of the Essential X-Men No. 1 and Essential Spider-Man No. 1. Many of the collections have been reprinted with different covers, so don't let that throw you off when buying.
A quick search for ''Marvel Essential'' on Amazon reveals more than 600 items. I'm sure several are duplicates, but even so there should be one available for every comic book fan!
The X-Men in the Early 1970s: Neal Adams' Dynamic Art
Marvel Essential Classic X-Men volume 3 is a real hodge-podge of stories that shows just how far below the radar screen the original X-Men had fallen in the ...
The Avengers in the Late 1960s: A Marvel Comics Review!
Marvel Essential: Avengers Vol. 3 contains issues 47 to 68 of the comic's original series, as well as Avengers Annual No. 2. For the most part this collectio...
Marvel Essential Fantastic Four: Galactus, Silver Surfer and the Black Panther Debut!
Marvel Essential Fantastic Four Vol. 3 contains perhaps the most-sustained run of great comic book stories of the 1960s. This collection of Fantastic Four No...
Essential Iron Fist: A Marvel Comic Book Review!
Essential Iron Fist Volume 1 collects the first four years' worth of Marvel comics starring the character, who debuted in 1974 during a martial arts craze. T...
Marvel Essential X-Men Comic Book Review: Wolverine, Storm and a Return to Greatness!
Marvel Essential X-Men collects Giant-Size X-Men 1 and X-Men 94-119. Giant-Size X-Men No. 1 introduced the new team of superheroes, reviving the X-Men comic....
The Ghost Rider Debuts! A Marvel Comic Book Review
The Marvel Essential series contains four volumes devoted to the Ghost Rider superhero, who first appeared in 1972 in a comic book called Marvel Spotlight. H...
Captain America in the 1960s: A Marvel Comic Book Review
Marvel Essential Captain America Volume 1 reprints Captain America's stories from Tales of Suspense No. 59-99 as well as the first three issues of the newly-...
Marvel Essential Fantastic Four Comic Book Review: Dr. Doom and Daredevil Guest Star as the Legend Grows!
The Fantastic Four rocked the comic-book world when it debuted in 1961, with writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby introducing more characterization and real...
The Rampaging Hulk Marvel Essential Comic Book Review
Marvel Essential: The Rampaging Hulk 1 is a collection of Hulk stories from his short-lived late 1970s magazine. This volume includes the tales from issues 1...
Are Marvel Essentials Worthwhile?
Some say the Marvel Essential collections are a great way for fans to read all their favorite series without having to scout down the old comics and spend a lot of money. Others say the books just aren't worthwhile because the reprints are in black & white and losing the original colors of the art makes everything look drab.
While I agree the colors are a major part of enjoying a comic, I believe the Essentials books are wonderful. I no longer have to go through my collection and pull the original comic out of its protective bag to enjoy an old story. Now, all the stories can sit in a handy volume on my bookcase for me to dip into whenever I want!
Is the Marvel Essentials series worth collecting?
Yes, the books are a great deal for the money!
No, without the original coloring the books just aren't as interesting!
Spider-Man's Earliest Adventures: A Review of Marvel Comics' Essential Spider-Man Vol. 1
Marvel Essential Spider-Man Volume 1 contains the debut story of Marvel Comics' most-popular character, who first appeared 50 years ago in the summer of 1962...
Spider-Man in the 1970s! A Marvel Comics Book Review
The Essential Spider-Man Vol. 8 contains issues No. 161-185 of the Amazing Spider-Man series, plus Nova issue No. 12 and the Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. 11...
The Amazing Spider-Man Debuts! A Marvel Masterworks Comic Book Review
Marvel Comics began publishing its Marvel Masterworks series in 1987 with The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1, among others. Since then the company has come out wi...
Growing Up With Spider-Man: The Day Gwen Stacy Died
Spider-Man's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, died 40 years ago this summer, marking the end of one era in comic books and introducing a realism into the lives of sup...
Amazing Spider-Man vs. Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man
This is a duel for those Spider-Man fans who were reading the comics back in the 1970s!
Which series did you like better?
X-Men Reborn in the 1970s: Storm and Nightcrawler Debut, plus Wolverine!
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 highlights the rebirth of the team in 1975-1976, reprinting Giant-Size X-Men No. 1 and X-Men No. 94-100. Promote...
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>I find it funny that you have had an art attack renlctey. Perhaps we are on the same wavelength, despite our distance. I've been drawing and exploring different art forms for a few weeks now. You've inspired me to post some of it on my own blog! Stay tuned =P
My spidey senses are kicking in..... yes, it was a great superhero lens!
Always loved reading the Essential Spidey books. The Spectacular Spider-Man comics during the '70s had some of the best Spidey material during that era, which I found very entertaining. Great lens!