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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

The Biggest News

Investigating the Animal Kingdom

Harry Takes the Cake

Harry's Lunch Box

Defend Your Animal

The Groom in Room 3B

A Piece of Cake

Room 3B's Animal Facts
**Other Books by Suzy Kline**

_Horrible Harry in Room 2B_
_Horrible Harry and the Green Slime_
_Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion_
_Horrible Harry's Secret_
_Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise_
_Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding_
_Horrible Harry and the Dungeon_
_Horrible Harry and the Purple People_
_Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom_
_Horrible Harry Moves up to Third Grade_
_Horrible Harry Goes to the Moon_
_Horrible Harry at Halloween_
_Horrible Harry Goes to Sea_
_Horrible Harry and the Dragon War_
_Horrible Harry and the Mud Gremlins_
_Horrible Harry and the Holidaze_
_Horrible Harry and the Locked Closet_
_Horrible Harry and The Goog_

_Song Lee in Room 2B_
_Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt_
_Song Lee and the Leech Man_
_Song Lee and the "I Hate You" Notes_

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_Dedicated with all my love_
_to my beautiful mom, Martha Weaver._
_Happy 95th birthday!_
_Keep loving books!_
_Special appreciation . . ._

to my editor, Catherine Frank, for her valuable help with this story, and to my husband, Rufus, and my daughter, Jennifer, for their thoughtful suggestions. And lastly, a special thank-you to my grandson, Jake DeAngelis, who got me interested in Tasmanian devils.
**The Biggest News**

**M** y name is Doug. I'm in third grade. I write stories about my best friend Harry. This one, though, comes with a warning.

Be prepared.

Harry does something really horrible in this story!

It all started when Harry and I walked into Room 3B, and Mary ran up to us. "Did you guys hear the big news?"

Harry threw his winter jacket high up on the shelf. I hung mine on a hanger.

"What's the scoop, Mare?" Harry asked.

She looked like a bubble ready to pop. "Some teacher at South School is . . . _engaged_!"

"How'd you find out, Mary?" ZuZu asked. He was pulling off his winter boots.

"I'm the messenger this week. I go to the office each morning to pick up the teacher's mail. This morning, Mrs. Carpenter, the school secretary, was talking on the phone about a surprise engagement party!"

Harry held up a finger. "Actually, Mare, Doug and I were _there_."

"You were?" Mary exclaimed.

"That engagement party was the shindig in our school library!"

Song Lee and Ida gasped.

Harry explained. "You guys knew something was going on yesterday. Remember how the library was closed and the shades were pulled down? You also knew that my grandmother was bringing a cake after school to that thing."

Everyone nodded their heads.

"Well, while Doug and I were waiting in the hallway and the library door opened . . . bingo! We saw the whole shebang."

"What teacher got engaged?" Song Lee eagerly asked.

Harry flashed a toothy smile. "Ours."

"MISS MACKLE?" everyone shouted.

"The one and only," Harry replied.

Mary sighed, "Ooh! _Miss Mackle's_ getting married!"

Song Lee clapped her hands. Mary and Ida danced around the room.

Sidney just grumbled. "I hate weddings. You have to get all dressed up and wear killer shoes. I know. My mom got remarried last year. That's why my last name was changed to LaFleur."

"Who's Miss Mackle marrying?" ZuZu asked.

The girls stopped dancing.

"Yes!" Mary replied, running back to Harry. "Who is Miss Mackle's fiancé?"

"I know that word, fiancé," Sid said. "It's French for the dude who's getting married."

"Don't say 'dude'!" Mary snapped. "Say something else."

"How about . . . the _Groom of Room 3B_?" Harry added with a chuckle. Then he winked at me. I knew he was having some fun.

"Hmmmm," Harry said, tapping his fingertips together. "I'll tell you guys something about the Groom of Room 3B. Miss Mackle was standing next to him at the party. Now, was it the computer teacher, Mr. Skooghammer? The second-grade teacher, Mr. Moulder? Or our music teacher, Mr. Marks?"

I cracked up. Miss Mackle had been standing next to all three, but Harry had no idea which one was the groom!

"So?" Mary demanded. "Which one was it?"

"I'm not spoiling the surprise," Harry said. "Miss Mackle will tell you herself this morning."

Harry and I exchanged a smile.

We couldn't wait to find out either!

"At least we know it's one of three guys," Dexter said. He began singing the wedding march song. "Dum dum de dum, dum dum de dum, dum dum de dum dum, de dum dum de dum."

Mary blew up her bangs. She was frustrated. When the bell rang, we raced for our seats.

Moments later we heard footsteps coming down the hall. Everyone looked at the doorway.

"It's a _sub_! _"_ Sid said.

"A substitute teacher," Mary groaned.

Harry sank down in his seat.

"Good morning, boys and girls!" a tall man with wavy hair said. He wrote "Mr. Flaubert" in cursive on the board. His capital letters had swoopy swirls.

"It's pronounced 'Flow Bear,'" he said. "I'm glad, because I like animals."

And then he smiled.
**Investigating the Animal Kingdom**

Harry got a long face. "Where's Miss Mackle?" he blurted out.

"She has a dentist appointment," Mr. Flaubert said.

"Bet she's having a cavity drilled," Sidney replied. " _Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!_ "

The substitute chuckled. "Well, boys and girls, I thought we could have some fun today doing a project."

"What kind of project?" ZuZu asked.

"Actually, it has something to do with my old job," the substitute said. "I've been a lawyer for ten years, and now I'm making a career change. I want to be a teacher."

"Why?" Mary asked.

"Because of kids like you."

We all smiled.

"What's the project about?" ZuZu repeated.

"I'd like you to choose one animal, investigate it, and defend its greatness, just like a lawyer would."

"What do you mean 'investigate' the animal?" Sid asked.

Harry answered before the teacher had a chance. "You dig up facts on it, and write 'em down. I know. _I'm_ a detective."

Mr. Flaubert smiled as he looked at the seating chart. "Well said, uh . . . Harry."

Harry beamed. "Do we get to pick any animal to _investigate_?" he asked. Harry liked that "I" word.

"Any living creature in the animal kingdom," Mr. Flaubert explained. "For example, someone could even pick the worm and defend its greatness!"

"Worms? Yuck!" Mary exclaimed. "I'm choosing the horse." And she walked over to the library corner and snatched the "H" encyclopedia.

Harry knew his animal right away. "I'm doing the Tasmanian devil."

Mary dropped her encyclopedia. "Harry, that's a horrible animal."

Sidney groaned, and Ida shivered.

"I like your choice, Harry," Mr. Flaubert said. "Looks like there are some students who don't agree with you. Let's see how you defend your animal with good facts."

Harry's smile was toothy. I could tell he liked the challenge. He started drawing a Tasmanian devil. It looked like a really furry rat.

Song Lee reached for the "W" encyclopedia. I think she was going to defend the worm.

I got busy drawing the long nose of a bandicoot.

By the time Harry and I finished drawing our animals, the "T" and "B" encyclopedias were taken. So Harry and I went on our classroom computer. After we got a few good animal facts, we asked to go to the library.

"Good idea, boys," Mr. Flaubert said. "You're using more than one source of information." As soon as he handed us the library pass, we took off down the hall.

"I'm really feeling like a detective today," Harry said. "And you know what, Doug?"

"What?"

"I've got the biggest case ever! I've gotta find out who Miss Mackle is marrying and break the news. Maybe we can find a few clues in the library."

"Yeah," I said. "That's where it all happened."

When we got there, Mrs. Michaelsen was limping over to a bookcase.

"What happened to you?" I asked.

"Oh, I dropped a can of soup on my bare foot last night. It still hurts."

"That's too bad," I said.

"Sore piggies are a bummer," Harry added.

The librarian tried to smile. "What can I do for you boys?"

"I need a book on the bandicoot," I said.

"I need one on the Tasmanian devil." Harry grinned.

"How timely!" Mrs. Michaelsen replied. "I just got a new book in this month called _Australian Marsupials_. You boys can share it."

"No thank you, Mrs. Michaelsen," Harry said politely. "We need _animals_ , not _mar-soup-eels_."

The librarian chuckled. "Actually, Harry, mar-sup-i-als _are_ animals. Just a special kind. Marsupials have pouches like kangaroos and opossums. That's where they keep their newborn babies for several months. Since the Tasmanian devil and the bandicoot have pouches, they're both marsupials too."

"Cool!" Harry exclaimed. "Bring on the mar-soup-eels, please."

While Mrs. Michaelsen processed the book for checkout, Harry and I snooped around the library.

I had no idea Harry was about to do something _really_ horrible!
**Harry Takes the Cake**

**A** t first, Harry just poked around the wastebasket by the door. "Rats!" he said. "Mr. Beausoleil already picked up the garbage."

When Harry moved the can, he noticed something. "Aha! Cake crumbs!" He pinched a few with his fingers and smelled them. "Orange crumbs from Grandma's carrot cake. Want to smell the spices?"

"No thanks," I said. "I don't want to get crumbs in my nose like you did."

"Better than boogers!" Harry replied.

"Ewweee," I groaned.

Harry laughed as we walked over to the window. Then he spotted something else. "Hmmmm . . . a paper coffee cup and napkin on the windowsill. They both have wedding bells on them." Harry stuffed the napkin in his pocket.

On our way back to the checkout desk, Harry whispered something to me. "Hey, Doug, look what's in that little back room."

I looked through the glass wall.

His grandmother's cake box was on the counter.

Suddenly, Mrs. Michaelsen got up from her computer. "Will you boys excuse me for a minute? I have to go to the office across the hall to get some more book labels."

As soon as the librarian was out of sight, Harry sneaked into the back room.

"No!" I gasped. "You're not supposed to go back there!"

But Harry did!

I leaned over the counter to watch him. My body was frozen like a Popsicle.

That little back room _was_ a magical place. There were posters everywhere about reading. Stacks of new books were piled high on a big desk. Sparkly birthday pencils were in a coffee cup. There was a hot plate with a pot of coffee on it. A half-eaten bagel and a container of yogurt sat next to the sink.

I watched Harry lift up the cover of the A-1 Cakes box and hold it open with his head. His hands were doing something inside the box. I couldn't see because Harry's head blocked my view.

"Hurry up, Harry!" I pleaded. "Mrs. Michaelsen will be back any second!"

Finally, Harry closed the cake box and raced over to me.

"I know who the groom is," he said. "I've got the evidence in my hand." I looked down. Harry was holding something wrapped in that wedding napkin.

"I cut the piece out that has the groom's name on it. Half of the cake was still left. It was a gold mine of information!"

"You stole a piece of cake?" I said. "You could go to prison for that!"

Harry just laughed. "Hey, my grandma made it. The leftovers are just sitting there begging to be eaten. Mrs. Michaelsen likes yogurt, not cake. She won't miss—"

Harry immediately stopped talking when Mrs. Michaelsen hobbled back into the library.

"Got it," she said, holding up a box of adhesive labels. "Now I can check this book out for you."

Suddenly, I noticed Harry's hair. There was green frosting in it!

I tapped Harry on the shoulder and pointed to his head.

"Nice 'do, huh? Grandma put gel in it this morning."

Mrs. Michaelsen didn't look up. She was too busy sticking the bar code on the back of the book. As soon as she finished, she smoothed some tape over the call number and handed it to us.

I stepped right in front of Harry. I had to block her view of his head.

"Thanks, Mrs. Michaelsen!" I said, and we hurried out the door.

Midway down the hall, I stopped.

"Want to know who the groom is?" Harry asked.

"No!" I said.

Harry took a step back. "No?"

"You've got green frosting in your hair!" I snapped.

Harry put his hand on his head, found the gooey spot, and smeared the frosting around. "Deeeeelicious," he said, licking his fingers. "Do you want a taste?"

"That's gross, Harry," I groaned.

I watched him rinse the gooey part of his hair at the drinking fountain. When we entered the classroom, I didn't wait for him while he stashed the cake in his lunch box. I just hurried back to my seat.

Harry's investigation had gone too far!
**Harry's Lunch Box**

**A** t noon, Room 3B went to the cafeteria. We have our own lunch table. Usually I sit next to Harry. I didn't today. I sat next to ZuZu and Dexter instead.

Harry was so excited about bringing his lunch box, I don't think he even noticed. He sat next to Mary and Sidney.

"I want everyone's attention," Harry said, tapping his plastic spoon on the table.

We all looked up.

Harry slowly unfolded the wedding napkin. "This is a piece of Miss Mackle's engagement cake."

Mary stared at the creamy white icing. It had the word "Mark" written in green frosting.

"Mr. Marks!" she shouted.

"Now you know who the Groom of Room 3B is! _And_ . . . the world's best detective!" Harry bragged.

Song Lee and Mary clasped their hands. Ida sighed, "The music teacher! She's marrying Mr. Marks!"

"The evidence was on my grandma's cake all along," Harry explained. "Someone just ate the 'Mr.' and the 'S.' "

Mary shot Harry a nasty look. "How did you happen to get a piece of the engagement cake?"

"Grandma gave Doug and me a sample piece yesterday."

I stared at my buddy. What phony baloney! She did give us a sample piece, but not _that one_!

Mary didn't let Harry off the hook too easily. "Why didn't you show us the piece of cake this morning?"

"Because I wanted to share it at lunch for dessert." Harry took a plastic knife off his lunch tray and started cutting the cake into eight little pieces. Everyone watched him hand one to Song Lee, Mary, Ida, ZuZu, Dexter, Sidney, and me.

As the kids started to eat their pieces of carrot cake, I pushed mine away.

"Can I have it?" Sid asked.

"Every crumb," I muttered. Harry raised his eyebrows.

On our way out to lunch recess, Harry came up to me. "Want to play kickball, Doug?" he asked.

"No," I said. "I don't like playing with a thief."

Harry suddenly looked a little sick.

**Defend Your Animal**

**E** veryone went back to class feeling happy except for Harry and me. I didn't like what he did, but I couldn't tattle on him. Harry was my best friend. Didn't he have a conscience?

I was glad we had to give our animal talks. It got my mind off things for a while.

Mary went first. She walked up to the front of the room and stood behind a podium. Mr. Flaubert had borrowed it from the auditorium.

"Be forceful," he said. "If you believe what you say, others will too."

Mary set some notes down on the podium and got ready to talk. She spoke in a strong voice.

"Horses are great animals. They have a single toe covered by a hoof for fast running. The fastest racehorses can go forty-three miles per hour. They're vegetarians. Their tail is used against nasty insects. They have beautiful manes on their neck. A male horse is called a stallion. A female is called a mare. Their average lifespan is twenty years, but some live to be thirty. Horses are famous in stories like _Black Beauty_ , _Fury_ , and _The Black Stallion_. If I had a horse, I would call him 'Black Cutey.' "

When she sat down, we clapped.

"It looks like you won your argument," Mr. Flaubert said. "Everyone agrees your animal is a great one! Good job, Mary. Who wants to go next?"

Harry stood up. "I will," he said.

He walked up to the podium and held up a good drawing he had made of the Tasmanian devil. "You're looking at a great animal," he said. "It lives in Australia on an island called Tasmania. That's why we call the animals Tasmanian devils. They're mar-soup-eels. That means they have pouches like kangaroos and opossums. They hide during the day and hunt for food at night.

"Actually, I'm a lot like the Tasmanian devil. They love meat. I do too. They climb trees. I do too. They give off a bad smell when they're afraid. I blast one when I get nervous."

Lots of kids giggled. I sniffed the air. I thought I smelled something. Did Harry pass gas? Was he nervous?

Harry continued. "But the best thing about Tasmanian devils is that they clean up the land. They eat the leftover meat on dead animal carcasses. That means there are fewer maggots, so Tasmanian devils help prevent diseases among people."

Mary sat up. She liked that reason. Mr. Flaubert did too. He put two thumbs up.

"The last thing I'm telling you is important. There is a Tasmanian national park. The Tasmanian devils are protected animals. They won't be extinct."

When Harry finished, everyone clapped.

Even Mary. "If they prevent diseases, they're great," she said.

Harry sat down in his seat. He wasn't smiling.

"It smells in here," Sidney said. It was Harry! He _was_ passing gas. Something was bothering him. I crossed my fingers, hoping it was Harry's conscience.

After Song Lee talked about the worm, and Sidney defended anteaters, Room 3B got a big surprise.
**The Groom in Room 3B**

**"M** iss Mackle!" everyone shouted.

"You're here!" Mary said.

The teacher scooted into the room and took off her coat. "Hello, Mr. Flaubert. I hope I'm not interrupting."

"Please join us! We still have more animal talks to share."

"Wonderful! After that I would like to share some news myself."

Mary immediately whispered, "Act like you don't know."

Song Lee and Ida nodded.

Dexter and ZuZu nodded too.

"Somebody cut the cheese again," Sidney complained.

"It was probably _you_ , Sid!" Mary scolded. "Don't you know you're not supposed to call attention to things like that?"

Sid didn't say anything more. He just waved his hand in front of his nose.

I kept my fingers crossed that it was the Tasmanian devil in our room.

After listening to talks on the toucan, the monkey, the boa constrictor, the hummingbird, the bat, the yellow-spotted river turtle, the porcupine, the sloth, and my bandicoot, Miss Mackle went to the podium herself.

"Bravo, class! What an outstanding job you did in defending your animals. They're all great—just like you! Now, I have some good news to share. I'm getting married!"

Everyone cheered and clapped.

Mary and Ida giggled. I could tell it was hard for them to pretend they didn't know.

"I like your ring," Song Lee said in a soft voice. She could see the best because she was sitting right in front of the teacher. "It has three beautiful diamonds."

"For Room 3B," Miss Mackle replied with a big smile.

We all oohed.

Then Miss Mackle dropped the bomb! "I'm going to marry Mark Flaubert."

The room turned pin-quiet.

Mary glared at Harry.

Everyone stared at the substitute teacher.

"You're h-him?" Sid stammered.

"I'm the lucky guy!" Mr. Flaubert said.

Mary groaned, "Harry Spooger, you're the world's worst detective!"

Harry slowly shook his head. He couldn't believe it.

Dexter started humming the wedding song again. "Dum dum de dum, dum dum de dum, dum dum de dum dum, de dum dum de dum."

Lots of kids gathered around Miss Mackle to get a closer look at her engagement ring.

I walked over to Harry. His eyes were watery.

"I'm not going to tell, Harry," I said. "But what you did was wrong."

Harry put his head down on his desk. I could tell his conscience had zapped him.

When I looked up, Mrs. Michaelsen was standing in the doorway. She had the big white cake box in her arms!

**A Piece of Cake**

"Miss Mackle!" the librarian said, setting the cake box down on the table. "I saved the leftover pieces of cake for your class like you asked, but I'm afraid the 'Mark' piece got eaten by mistake."

Six people looked at Harry.

Before Mary had a chance to tattle, Harry stood up. "It was me," he said. "I took it."

Miss Mackle looked worried. "Harry? How could that be?"

Mrs. Michaelsen immediately wiggled her finger. "I think I know. Come along, Harry. We need to talk."

"You look like you swallowed a canary, Harry!" Sid said.

No one laughed as Harry followed the librarian to the door.

"I'm really sorry, Mrs. Michaelsen," he moaned. "I couldn't help it. I'm a detective. It was a piece of important evidence."

Miss Mackle and Mr. Flaubert exchanged a look.

Me?

I was relieved! Harry did the right thing. He told the truth. Now I could finally enjoy a piece of that cake!

Harry? He had to stay after school. He told me later he had to wash every table in the library and sweep the floor. He also had to write a letter of apology to Mrs. Michaelsen and to Miss Mackle. The next day he read it to our class.

We sure did a lot of investigating that day, and certainly discovered what's great about twenty animals.

But I have to say the most important thing I learned was _what's great_ about my friend Harry. He does have a good conscience.

It may be a smelly one, but it works.

**Room 3B's Animal Facts**

Anteaters

by Sidney LaFleur

1. Anteate rs love to eat termites.

2. Anteaters have no teeth.

3. Anteaters have awesome tongues. They can be two feet long!

4. Anteaters can flick their tongue 150 times a minute. That's hard. I tried it.

5. They live in Central and South America.

6. They are called "Stinkers of the Forest" because when they go to the bathroom it really smells.

7. They can weigh as much as I do. Seventy pounds! Sometimes more!

TASMANIAN DEVILS

by Harry Spooger

1. TDs live in Tasmania.

2. TDs are marsupials. They have pouches like kangaroos.

3. TDs love meat. I do too.

4. TDs climb trees. I do too.

5. TDs give off a bad smell when they are nervous. I do too.

6. TDs eat any leftover meat on a dead carcass. That means there are fewer maggots and less disease because of them.

7. There is a national park where TDs are protected to prevent them from ever going extinct.

8. TDs hunt for their own food at night and hide during the day.

Worms

by Song Lee Park

1.Worms have no eyes, arms, or legs.

2. They need moist soil.

3. The largest earthworm was twenty-two feet long. It was found in South Africa.

4. Worms like to make tunnels in the soil. They help gardens breathe.

5. Worms ooze out nitrogen. That helps plants grow.

6. Worms can grow a new tail.

7. They are smart too. The University of Michigan did research on worms. They trained them to go through mazes.

8. If you see a worm on the sidewalk after the rain, please don't step on it.

Bandicoots

by Doug Hurtuk

1.Bandicoots are marsupials. They have pouches to carry their young.

2. Their faces are long and pointed.

3. Bandicoots eat insects, roots, fruits, and veggies.

4. Bandicoots attack their enemies by jumping on their rear end.

5. Bandicoots live in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.

6. They can hop like kangaroos because they have long back legs.

Horses

by Mary Berg

1. Horses have a single toe covered by a hoof.

2. The fastest racehorses go forty-three miles per hour.

3. A male horse is called a stallion. A female is called a mare.

4. A foal is a baby horse.

5. A foal is called a yearling after its first birthday.

6. A filly is a young female horse. A colt is a young male horse.

7. The average horse's lifespan is twenty years.

8. A horses height is measured in hands. A ' hand is four inches long.

9. Horses are famous in stories like Black Beauty, Fury, and The Black Stallion.

10. Horses are vegetarians.

Tarantulas

by Ida Burrell

l. Tarantulas are the biggest spiders.

2. They can be the size of a dinner plate or a dime.

3. They have eight hairy legs.

4. Their fangs have venom but it's not deadly to humans.

5. They can eat insects, rodents, and small birds.

6. They like to hide.

7. They can live in rain forests and deserts.

8. Tarantulas in Australia can whistle! They rub their mouth hairs together to make whistling sounds. They whistle to scare their enemies away.

Hound Dogs

by Dexter Doby

1. Elvis sang "You ain't nothin but a hound dog" in the song "Hound Dog."

2. Hound dogs came from France.

3. They are actually basset hounds.

4. They are big dogs on small legs.

5. They are scent dogs. Their nose is close to the ground. They like to smell everything. Even dirty socks in your laundry basket!

6. George Washington had three hound dogs in his house. He named them Tarter, True Love, and Sweet Lips!

7. They have sad eyes and velvety ears.

8. Don't pick up a hound dog under his chest. You might hurt him because he's so long! Pick up the whole dog in your arms carefully.

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Polaris Grant Program Tops $700,000
By Dirt Trax Online
Press Release –
Polaris Industries is proud to announce the completion of its second year of T.R.A.I.L.S. grants.
In more than two years, the Polaris T.R.A.I.L.S. Grant Program has granted $700,057 in funds to local, state and National ATV Clubs.
In this first round of 2008, Polaris granted $108,400 to 11 organizations in eleven states.
To date, Polaris has assisted 78 ATV organizations in 42 states across the U.S.
The first of its kind in the ATV industry, the 'T.R.A.I.L.S.' grant program was launched in January 2006 for ATV clubs, associations and grassroots groups.
ATV riders and the trails they use are the lifeblood of the sport and Polaris aimed to create a program to help.
The T.R.A.I.L.S. program makes funds available to not-for-profit national, state and local organizations in the United States to ensure the future of legal ATV riding.
T.R.A.I.L.S. stands for:
T = Trail Development
R = Responsible Riding
A = Access
I = Initiatives
L = Lobbying
S = Safety
The grant program encompasses two main objectives – promoting safe and responsible riding, and preserving access.
Funds can be used by organizations for trail development and maintenance projects, safety and education initiatives, lobbying and other projects to increase and maintain land access.
"The consistently growing interest in this program is evidence enough of the dire need to secure legal riding places in the United States," said Mike Dougherty, vice president of the ATV division at Polaris. "We are committed to the ongoing success of our program and hope riders at every level will have a more positive riding experience be it locally, statewide or nationally because of our efforts."
The grants ranged from $8,500 to the maximum $10,000 and will be applied toward: trail development, expansion, improvements, reconstruction and connections; an off road adventure park; ATV safety training school and DVD; national forest trail mapping; and lobbying efforts to re-open state forests for off-road vehicle use.
The fifth round of T.R.A.I.L.S. grant recipients are:
– North Alabama Trail Riders Association (Alabama)
– Harlan County Ridge Runners ATV Club Inc. (Kentucky)
– Gila Rough Riders (New Mexico)
– Gold Country ATV Association (Nevada)
– Cedar Mountain Sledders & OHV Club (Utah)
– Florence County ATV Club Inc. (Wisconsin)
– ATV Maine
– New Jersey Off-Highway Vehicle Association
– New York Specialty Off Road Vehicle Association
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Bellinger Snapping Turtle at Urunga Wetlands Nov 2018 – Photo by John Bennett who lives in Valla Beach.
Since it was officially opened 18 months ago, Urunga Wetlands has become a favourite destination for both locals and visitors. The existing vegetation have grown enormously as have plantings by Brett and Kris who were contracted to maintain the area for five years (now 3½).
The self-seeded casuarinas have grown thickly on the sides of the mono-cell which contains the toxic residue from the antimony processing mine abandoned in 1974 and apart from the grassy mound, there is now no sign that the mine ever existed here.
The aquatic plants are spreading throughout the wetland, much to the approval of the ducks and coots, etc. which can be seen foraging among them. People walking around the area will see plenty of birds and surveys have now identified over 50 different species in the wetlands including ducks, kingfishers, cormorants and raptors.
Not only birds are increasingly found in the wetlands – this week a Bellingen Snapping Turtle was seen sunning itself on a log. Hopefully more of these delightful small turtles will move into the area. When you wander around the wetlands, make sure you keep your eyes open for all our beautiful birdlife and other wildlife to be found here.


Tone Tubby Purple Haze - Anyone have any experience?
Discussion in 'Amps/Cabs Tech Corner: Amplifier, Cab & Speakers' started by satisphied, Apr 20, 2016.
I am really interested in these and may pull the trigger on a rather pricey 2x12.. $1299 but loaded with these speakers.
I have a 68 drri and a mesa mark iii red stripe which I will run through, but probably in the next year I will get a fuchs ods or clean machine. My understanding of speakers and wattages is very little, I heard from a joe bonamassa gear video that running a 100w head through a 2x12 may push the speakers too hard? Is that true?
Fuchs customer service said as long as you don't run your amp at full distortion full volume (which most smart people don't) you would be fine. From what I have read on here though you want your speakers to be about 1 and a half times the power rating of the amp. The purple haze speakers are 40w, but I don't know having 2 of them and the ohms play into things.
I still don't know whether my mesa is 75w or 100w.. it's a long chassis red stripe with a half power or 15w switch.
I have a tone tubby purple haze/winters and combo with my mark iii.
It takes a while to break in, I got mine from Sigmund with the break in. I came from a WGS v30/eh65 combo.
I won't be going back. I believe with these speakers you get what you pay for.
Awesome, is trey using a winterland too?
I actually got a bad case of gas and was presented with the opportunity to buy a fuchs tds 100 that was owned and toured by dweezil zappa, I had to take it.
This left me pretty broke after having bought a port city 2x12 as well. I am about to pull the trigger on 2 wsg et 65s for the fuchs, how did you like that and the vet 30? At 70 bucks a piece it can be hard to argue, not to mention andy fuchs the amp genius endorses them whole heartedly..
I don't think Trey uses the winterland, I like complementing my speakers.
I liked the Vet 30/ET65 combo at first, but after a while it left me wanting something more. The TT really pulls the notes and your playing through. It's pricey though, I'm glad I did it rather then try trying out another amp. Now if I get GAS I make sure I go playing my current rig and it goes away pretty fast.
I get the Fuchs though, I hear those amps and they sound pretty damn good. They got mojo for sure.
The speakers will see equal wattage so if you're running two Purple Hazes, you need to make sure your amp wattage is no more than 80 watts.
Trey Just uses the Purple Haze.
I would set up your cabinet to be 8 ohms in order to be accommodating to both the MkIII and DR as these are primarily 8 ohm amps. Get two 16 ohm speakers and wire them in parallel.
A 100w head into a 2x12" does not push speakers too hard, unless the speakers can't handle the power of the head or the head is set extra bassy to make up for the thump many experience through larger cabinets.
As far as a 80w power handling of the speakers with your Mesa that depends on which version of power amp it has. Is the power switch labeled 100/60 or Simul-class/Class A? The 100/60 is 100 or 60 watts, Simul-class is about 85-ish and Class A is about 15 watts. In either high power setting, as long as you are not running the amp over 3-ish on the master (which is really loud, as you know), the speakers should be fine.
I used to run my 2203 head into an old Fender 2x12" with Greenbacks. It was the best sounding cabinet for that head. Never played it loud enough to compete with a hard hitting drummer and the speakers were fine despite having half the power handling of the head.
The fuchs tds100 and wgs et65s are sounding better every day, but I think I may be more of an open back cab kind of guy. I bought a vertical 2x12os to get away from it sounding so directional. but it still sounds so in your face and suffocated. With this being my first cab I can't be sure, but all my other combo amps are open back and I think I prefer that.
The question is; do I get a cheaper pine 2x12 like treys made and put v30s in it? or go with a hard truckers w/ purple haze?
jimmy herring uses TT reds I think which sound amazing with all his amps (fuchs tds/ods/Cleanmachine, super reverb, bassman).
Not enough money in the world..
What styles do you play, what types of tones? Some people really like V30s and some don't. I have a Mesa Express 5:25+ with a Winterland and have a 1x12 extension with a Purple Haze. The Winterland is a bit more forward than the Purple and does heavy distortion a bit better IMO. The combination covers from chime to grind well. Takes some playing-in to get the best tones.
I have some Reds, they are not as bright as the Purple or Grey. Bright does not mean piercing, hemp cones don't donpiercing. Reds are really nice speakers, depends on the amp and cab what tone you are after.
Go for a pine cab and get Purple Haze/Winterland mix. The ALNICO speakers have the singing thing when driven a bit, the Grey gives some "umpf". The pine is like a super reverb cab, get open back, will not be constrained.
Hey satisphied, any decisions on a cab and speakers? Lots of options on cabinets. The Tone Tubby cabs were at one time made with poplar plywood, which is lighter than birch, yet stiff.
@Jonathan Byrnside et al - I have a purple haze and a Suhr Bella on the way which is switchable between 22 and 44 watts. Could it handle 44 or is that too risky? If I put in a 112 extension cab and run that from the second speaker output, that would mean I'm only getting half the wattage to that speaker and would be safe, right?
You should be just fine. We underrate the power of all of our speakers. The Purple Haze has the same voice coil as the Alnico Red, which itself is underrated at 50 watts.
I've been using a Purple Haze in my Mesa Boogie MKIIA 60W. I don't turn it all the way up, I have played it outside and it got loud. No problems so far.


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Peg Entwistle in 1932/Courtesy Bruce Torrence
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Jeremy Pope, Darren Criss and Laura Harrier in "Hollywood"
Soon after Netflix released the new Ryan Murphy-Ian Brennan miniseries "Hollywood," I heard from Chris Yogerst, a University of Wisconsin film professor who has corresponded with me off and on since 2010, that Peg Entwistle's story was a major theme. Naturally, I got right on it.
Since releasing my short film "Peg Entwistle's Last Walk," my documentary "Under the Hollywood Sign" in 2009 and my book of essays (Peg Entwistle and The Hollywood Sign) in 2013, a number of Peg-related projects have been announced, such as this one ://underthehollywoodsign.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/the-newly-announced-peg-entwistle-biopic/ , but "Hollywood" is the first major one to be completed. It's also the most imaginative, using Peg's story not as a grim cautionary tale but the departure point for a wildly revisionist Hollywood history.
At the outset of "Hollywood," a script about Peg is greenlit by the Paramount-like Ace Studios. The screenwriter, Archie Coleman (Jeremy Pope) is predictably male but also black, and his struggle to make it in Hollywood gives him empathy for Peg's tragic story. Fortunately for Archie, his champions at Ace Studios are self-professed outsiders: the director Raymond Ainsley (Darren Criss), though passing for white, is half-Filipino, and the acting head of production Avis Amberg (Patti Lupone) is a former silent film star whose acting career was cut short by her apparent Jewishness.
Though the Peg Entwistle project begins as a straightforward biopic featuring a blonde, white starlet, Avis agrees to cast Claire Wood (Samira Weaving), a Dorothy Dandridge-like actress whose screen test blows away the competition, in the lead. Thus Peg becomes Meg, and the film changes from a tragedy to a triumph of interracial romance and career redemption. If that weren't enough, a major subplot involves Archie's romance with the young Rock Hudson, and the couple soon smash racial and sexual barriers by walking the red carpet hand-in-hand at the Oscars. When Anna May Wong (Michelle Krusiec) becomes the first Asian to win an Academy Award, every studio-era wrong is righted, and it's only 1948.
In short,"Hollywood" is a fantasia of racial and sexual justice. Though it's based in fact–Rock Hudson, his manager Henry Willson (Jim Parsons) and the gas station/prostitution ring all existed–the series becomes increasingly fantastical as it careens toward a universal happy ending. This revisionism actually works for Peg Entwistle's story, which–stripped of her Depression Era suicide–becomes a tale of movie stardom and true love.
Unfortunately, Ryan and Brennan can't let go of the biggest myth about Peg: that the Hollywood Sign symbolized Hollywood The Industry. In fact, it didn't even symbolize Hollywood The Place. As I've said many times, the Hollywoodland Sign (which is how it appeared even when "Hollywood," is set) was a billboard for the neighborhood where it stood. What it symbolized was real estate, nothing more. If Peg Entwistle hadn't been living in Beachwood Canyon in 1932, she would have chosen another spot from which to jump–or might not have jumped at all.
As for Peg's drinking beforehand, it didn't happen, not only because there were no legal alcohol or bars during the Depression but because no inebriate could have climbed Mt. Lee, let alone the ladder to the top of the H. In "Meg" this fiction does, however, give Rock Hudson something to do: in the role of bartender, he not only serves Meg a drink but tells her how to get to the Sign. The directions, it should be noted, are accurate.
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Hand hygiene is important. Did you know that we have between 2 and 10 million bacteria between our fingertips and our elbows? Exposure to harmful germs and bacteria such as the ones on our hands causes a whole host of medical conditions, from coughs and colds to vomiting, diarrhoea and even more serious diseases. And these illnesses can have a devastating impact on people's lives. The good news is that simple handwashing techniques can reduce the chances of an individual contracting a disease, and also limit the spread of infections throughout communities. This is particularly important for caregivers and anyone working in a healthcare setting, as they are our first line of defense.
Worldwide, improved hand hygiene could reduce the infant mortality rate, improve school attendance, decrease work absences due to illness and lead to a better, brighter future for all. So without further ado, let's learn more hand hygiene facts and the most effective steps of hand hygiene.
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Rub your hands together with your palms facing each other.
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Rub your hands together palm to palm, making sure that your fingers are interlocking.
Place hands palm to palm, with fingers facing opposite directions. Slide your hands away from each other and bend fingertips so that your hands are interlocked. Rub the backs of your fingers against the opposing palm.
Using your right hand, make a fist around your left thumb and rub, then repeat on the other hand.
Clasp the fingers of your right hand together and rub your left palm with a circular motion, then do the same on the other hand.
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Up to half of all men and a quarter of all women do not wash their hands properly after going to the toilet, but this can have serious health implications. Handwashing should be automatic.
Whenever you know, or suspect, that you have been in contact with someone or something infectious, you should wash your hands. One particular example is after visiting a hospital ward: failing to wash your hands means that you are putting yourself and your community at risk. The same principle also applies to handling unclean materials such as household rubbish or dirty nappies.
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I grew up in an apartment with piles of papers everywhere, a hall closet with shelves of hotel bar soaps, and dozens of shoeboxes filled with unworn men's shoes. Sometimes, my dad would sit on newspapers at the kitchen table because there was nowhere else to put them.
Pack rat sounds mean. So let's just say my dear dad is a pack man. And that my response was to grow up to be very neat. Friends described my room apartment I rented in my twenties as museum-like, because things were always in their place. Having kids and a husband who has Toss Everything Anywhere Syndrome loosened me up but still, our house is relatively neat. I need that for peace of mind.
Clean? Well, er, yeah. I am good about wiping down surfaces and the bathrooms. But otherwise, I feel no guilt if I don't clean regularly, unlike 80 percent of women ages 25 to 42 recently polled by Scrubbing Bubbles for their Dirty Work Index. Nor do I feel that how clean my home is "reflects upon me as an individual," unlike 79 percent of women surveyed. Nor do I worry what others think about the cleanliness of my home, unlike 64 percent of women they asked. Nor do I clean when my MIL visits, unlike 53 percent of women polled.
I am 100 percent glad I don't know the squeaky-clean women they surveyed, and I am sure they would not want to hang with me, either. Although if they wanted to come over and clean the house, they're welcome to and if they wanted my MIL to visit them, that would be fine too.
I found all of this out at a Scrubbing Bubbles event the other day at the Rock Center Cafe in New York. Colleen Padilla from Classy Mommy invited me (she talks as fast as I do, love that). The event did not feature cutesy drinks like The Cleantini or appetizers like Dust Bunny Meatballs, just good food, author and TV host Donna Erickson, and parting gifts of two cleaning products and two nice books, Donna Erickson's Fabulous Funstuff for Families and At Home With Friends.
I haven't yet put the cleaning stuff to use (though I checked out the Scrubbing Bubbles site and I liked that it listed the ingredients for products so people can make educated decisions). Here's the deal: I want the house to be clean enough to keep the kids healthy and not sneezing. But the things I take real pride in are my husband and the kids, my work and this blog. Also, I have really nice toes.
If our kitchen's chrome appliances are dull or there's dust on the TV, so be it. I'd much rather spend my time buffing and polishing and generally taking care of my family. However, if Max or Sabrina (or Dave) wanted to learn how to clean the house, I'd be all for it and come to think of it, wouldn't dusting be a nice occupational therapy exercise?
OK, tell: How neat is your house? How clean is your house? How much do you care? Would you maybe still come visit me? And if you are one of the ladies who took the Scrubbing Bubbles survey, when would you like to come over and clean? I'm free Wednesday mornings!
Clean house? Ha! My favorite phrase for when the therapists come is, watch out, my home is lived in.
Don't get me wrong. I have the ability to clean. Its just that I would rather spend my time doing other things. So if anyone wants to clean my house, let me know, haha.
I am NOT a neat person. My carpet gets vacuumed like once every 2 weeks, I have hard water stains in my toilet ( I did get 75% of them off), and 2 cushions of my sectional are covered in crochet stuff.
I have that throw everything away thing, too!! My MIL has a closet of hotel soaps, too! She's a, er, "pack woman." I always fill up at least two bags of trash with each visit out there. It feels so good!!
As for my own house, we are pretty clutter free. I straighten up often but I'm not great at the big bad "dirty" work. Laundry, now that's my thing!!
I have described my decorating style as autistic eclectic because of my five year old son. It makes it easier to dust because we don't have many things on display, but it doesn't mean that I actually do it.
Me? I'd really, REALLY like my house to be sparkly clean. But that doesn't translate into reality. I used to get down on myself about this... but then I realized that there is a finite amount of time in the day and that we are all making choices on how to spend that time...and if I spent my time cleaning my house instead of playing with my kids and doing things that fill me up a bit (blogging, for example), then I'd end up be a grumpy mama with grumpy kids living in a super clean house. And who wants that? I'd rather be a (mostly) happy mama with (mostly) happy kids in a (mostly) clean house.
My husband is like your dad, but he's slowly realizing that being able to find things without combing through piles of clutter is a Good Thing. It's still not great but so much better than when we first got married. Also, I have a cleaning woman come over once a week. It's expensive but I'm willing to make the sacrifice for my sanity.
Honestly, my house isn't clean at the moment. There are action figures strewn from one end to the other, someone's breakfast plates on the table, magazines surrounding a living room chair, and the bathroom could definitely use a good scrubbing. As much as I'd love to have a spotless house, the only way it will happen is if I sent Monkey and Daddy to live in a doghouse in the backyard. Like you, I'd rather spend my time with my family than scrubbing toilets on a daily basis.
Looks like I'm hardly alone here! Angie, House Cleaning Anonymous made me laugh. And, really, there's no shame in saying that a neat and clean house is one of your pleasures. I may be more about neat than I am about clean, but I still love it when my house is in good shape--like I said, I need it for peace of mind. Even more so when Max was little, and everything felt out of control.
Books everywhere. Everywhere. And I hate leaning, and especially clearing up. We have a concept in Judaism that you can't give a servant/worker "pointless work", where you do something over and over again and it never gets finshed (example- emptying one barrel into another bucket by bucket and then doing the reverse). That's what housework feels like to me.
Also, I'm bad at training the kids to pick up after themselves. And any inate cleanliness any of them had has been destroyed by E.'s tendedncy to come into their rooms and destroy them.
I used to not care about the mess- I was often too crazed to notice it. But now, I'd actually like it to be clean.
We pick up because we have a power wheelchair user in the house. The floor are always dirty but we do mop/steam vacuum frequently. Just lots of foot/wheel traffic at our house. Winter time just makes it worse.
My house is pretty terrible in terms of neatness, but I clean it when people come over.
I used to be neurotically focused on clean..and I was going to school and working part time...and one day my shoe stuck to something sticky on the kitchen floor- I left my shoe and kept on doing what I was doing.
It was a huge turning point for me!
I would like to be neat, clean and live in a place that looks like a magazine...but that is not happening--life gets in the way too much. My mother does better (and good thing because we're in her house for the time being), but she fails "Clutter." Way too much of it! Oh well, it's "homey."
I'm a neat freak...OCD is what my friends call it...I don't know. The thing is that I don't do it for other people. My hubby and kids would much rather live "less clean"...but me, it's my release. It is the one thing that I can control. I have always been neat but after my daughter's diagnosis, it became obsessive. I'm ok with it. It doesn't change my life style or hinder my life at all...but I don't go to bed until it's all done.
I do though enjoy going to my friend's homes who aren't so neat...It is freeing...so I would definitely come and visit!
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I have a treat for you today. Today is a slightly longer podcast episode, but there is good reason for that because Sarah from Sarah Grace Live is joining us. She is going to be talking about all of the years in which she was not profitable and how she became extremely burnt out, but why she chose not to quit.
She talks about how to decide when it's time to quit and when it's time to push forward and change and improve. She also digs into how making money isn't the only goal of our businesses. That actually our own personal growth should be one of our main goals as business women. And why you need to tell your story.
MISTY: As you know, I am here today with Sarah Allred from Sarah Grace Live. Sarah is one of my favorite people in the business world. She is passionate. If I had to choose one word, I would say that she is passionate and energetic. She has so much energy surrounding what she does that it is contagious. You can't be in the same room with Sarah, or even on a call like this with Sarah and not smile and not feel happy and excited about the future for Latter-day Saint women. So, welcome, Sarah. I'm really glad to have you here.
SARAH: Oh, I'm excited. I always have to mute my microphone when I am being introduced because I'm afraid I'll gasp and cheer because I am kind of crazy passionate about the space that we're in. So honored to be here Misty, you're one of my favorites as well.
MISTY: Sarah is a photographer. She used to be co-host of the Women With Fire podcast. She's a mom and she is a cheerleader of women, particularly Latter-day Saint women. And it is funny because you'll hear that and you'll think, "well, that's what you are Misty, right? You're a mom, you're also a cheerleader of Latter-day Saint women."
But Sarah has a skill that I do not have and it is really important for you to know this about Sarah. Sarah is a funnel expert. She is in a position to be able to take you from making five figures, maybe, to making six figures and beyond, by her knowledge of how to really tweak a funnel. I can help you get started with your freemium and then your first trip wire. And that's about it. Sarah can really dig in deep.
I just saw a picture of a funnel that she created for a client that we're both working with right now, Kristen, from Kristen Walker Smith. That funnel blows me away. I didn't even see it in any detail, I just saw a screenshot. It is intense. Sarah knows her stuff when it comes to funneling. So we're going to get into funnels a little bit later.
I want to ask you a question, Sarah. One that's really important. I want to know how you have dealt with your past failures? Sarah has had many businesses. I don't know that any of them have actually failed, but the reason I want to ask Sarah this question is because I know that many of you feel like you're failing right now. You feel like you're in those beginning stages of your business and you tried something and it didn't work. No one bought, you have 17 Instagram followers, and you are frustrated beyond belief. You're about to give up because you see it as a failure. So Sarah, can you talk about that for us?
SARAH: Oh, absolutely. And I love that you bring up the fact that I've had many businesses and that we have had many, many launches within those businesses that have come up with exactly zero sales. And that started in my world as a photographer when my husband was in medical school. I was trying to bring in just a little extra dough for birthdays and Christmas and, you know, the basics of what it felt like life was back then. I would do these mini sessions and I would sell them for $50 and no one would sign up.
So I have so sat in that space. I did learn some systems and some marketing and stuff that did allow that photography business to bring in maybe $500-600 extra a month. That was really rewarding for our family.
MISTY: That amount of money when you're in law school, when you're in medical school, when you're struggling, it allows you to do birthdays and Christmas for your family. That's a real thing.
SARAH: It is a real thing. And there's no shame in handing over to your CPA that you made $500 over the year. It is part of the process. We've all had those years, including those unprofitable years. The photography thing I got burned out, I got full blown burned out. And what I discovered is that I desperately needed to find a way in which I didn't have to always show up in order for the business to grow and make money.
MISTY: So why did you choose that instead of quitting?
SARAH: Why did I choose learning to scale instead of quitting? Because I still loved the actual craft of photography. I enjoyed being out there and shooting, but I didn't love that I was spending an hour to do a session and then spending three hours editing and then coming home with $100. That really, really bugged me. It takes the fun out of it when you feel like the rewards on the other end, whether they're financial or they're soul filled rewards, if the rewards do not speak to you as a human, you can't do it long-term. There is no passion project that is awesome enough that you will do long-term if the rewards, in some form, do not win out.
If you were to go to the gym for five years straight, and you were never to see any kind of change in your strength or your health, you wouldn't stay. Even if you were passionate, initially, about going to the gym and being healthy. So I really spent a lot of time trying to figure out how a photography business works, where the photographer doesn't have to show up individually.
So I created a photography school. That was my first big business. And that business, gosh, would I call it a failure? We sold that business so no, financially it turned out to be an okay thing. But as far as management, my ability to run a business as a CEO, it was an absolute disaster. A full blown disaster. I probably lost more friendships and made more mistakes while running that business than any other combination of experiences in my life.
I went into it with really pure intentions and I made very, very poor decisions from the get-go and it cost me a lot, in friendships and in time, and it got to a point in which I was paying out to all of my instructors way more money than I was bringing into the business. And plus I had to pay taxes on that money that I was paying them and it was an absolute disaster.
What I learned from that is that I don't need to start a business with 15 employees right out of the gate. There was wisdom in laying a really solid foundation (ahem, funnels) that requires you and you alone and don't scale until the funnel tells you it's ready to scale. So was it a failure? Yeah. In some ways, I guess.
When I did the Women With Fire, I was in a partnership there and we had a really fun, successful run. I think we had a great movement of women to try and normalize women in business. And that's probably the greatest success that I've taken from that experience.
MISTY: That was a beautiful, beautiful thing to normalize that. We're both still trying to continue that on. So what I hear you say though, is that you had one business that didn't really reach your dreams of what you wanted for income. It brought in a few hundred dollars a month and allowed you a few things, but that's probably not what you had wanted when you initially started it. You were probably more hopeful than that. And yet you still chose to try again, to tweak things, to change things. And then you had another business that was successful financially, but unsuccessful in other ways. And yet you still chose to move forward to tweak, to change, to find something else.
So what gives you this ability, Sarah? Because there are a lot of women right now that are listening to this that feel stuck in their businesses. Either they feel like it's damaging their relationships with their families and they're making a lot of money or they feel like they're not making enough money for it to really be worth it. And they're in that position that you've been in before twice asking themselves, "Do I want to continue to move forward?" What would you say to them?
SARAH: Ooh, first my heart just races a little bit of being in that space where you feel like you're kind of at a Y moment, right? Where you have to make a choice. Are you going to stop the business? Which sometimes is the right answer, or am I going to keep pushing forward to figure out how to make this work?
Number one, you've got to talk to God about it. You've got to embrace that relationship.
I didn't know this at the time, when I was a young entrepreneur I would say back when I was doing the photography, but my husband was in medical school and was almost literally never home. It was maybe 40 minutes a day. And that was a five-year gig. We went on one date in five years. I look back and I need to some medicine or something. Those were some really hard days for me.
Originally the day started off with, "Oh, okay, well I put the baby in bed and then I have this whole night to watch Netflix. And this is so cool." I got sick of that after about day four. I was like, "This is not bringing me anywhere." And what I saw was that he was on a path and a trajectory to grow and expand as a person, as a human. I did not want to get left behind. I married the greatest man on earth. I don't care what anybody ever says. I married the greatest man on earth and I knew that even though I married the greatest man on earth, I didn't want to be left behind. He would never intentionally leave me behind, but how was I going to do something over the next five years with my evenings and with nap times that would help me grow alongside with him.
That instinctively came from a desperation for a little bit more money to be in the home. I decided to dive into business. What skills do I have? And I know you teach this about hard skills and soft skills and all that kind of stuff. I kind of took an assessment and got started down that road. And I guess what has kept me going, and this is what I would invite your listeners to bring into their mind with their business, is the business that you are in right now (whether you are selling water bottles, babysitting handbooks, I don't care what it is you're selling) is a vehicle to you becoming something more.
Don't get so intertwined that your business is your identity because those failures will take you on the wildest ride of your entire life. And it feels like the only way forward is to jump out of the boat. Your business is just a vehicle. Photography was a vehicle for me to respect my time. Bottom line. Women With Fire was a vehicle for me to realize the power of women gathering. And that's what it was. It doesn't matter what kind of Instagram strategies we did in the middle. It is just a vehicle. And even my vehicle right now is helping me become something.
And this is when I'm going to get on a borderline soapbox - if you think that God called us here on earth to stay as we are, you're flat out wrong. In this kind of a space we are meant to become something and to become something great. Maybe business is that thing for you.
I can imagine a world that we could live in if women knew how to make really hard decisions. If women knew how to navigate tedious conversations, uncomfortable conversations, honest conversations. I can imagine what would happen if the world was full of women who were learning skills on how to truly prioritize goals and time. How would that not change the world?
Your business is just teaching you to be person who makes amazing decisions. That's what it's training you to be. So just view it as a vehicle and allow yourself to let your identity step out of the actual business for a minute. That would be my advice and keep going.
MISTY: Oh my goodness. I don't know if you noticed, but I was tearing up a little bit earlier as you were talking. What a perfect answer, Sarah. That you make the decision based on 'what is going to help me grow?' Stepping out of the business and doing something different. What is it that's going to help you continue to grow and become more like our heavenly parents, you're so spot on.
SARAH: And the thing that makes me chuckle is how six or seven years ago, I could so easily support and cheer on my dear friends who were going to the gym regularly to become healthier. And yet I was in this 'woe is me guilt' for working on a business to help grow in a different way. I thought 'this isn't okay.' And yet I could cheer on the moms that I knew were making amazing efforts with health and wellbeing.
MISTY: I mean, it's funny. We just, for some reason, can't give ourselves permission that business can't be that thing. Business is something else, we grow in other ways and business is something else, right? Like that's something we do extra, but no way can this be a way to grow. It might not be the way for every woman. But it is a way and we need to honor that truth more than we do. So where did your passion come? So you have these photography businesses, you sell the school and then what? How did you find yourself where you are now, with a passion for Latter-day Saint women and funnels? How'd that happen?
SARAH: Cool. Love that. So, first off, I think it's important that I was brought up in an environment where women were impacting their home and the world in tandem. It was normal. My mother is a best-selling Deseret Book author. My two sisters are Deseret Book authors. My grandfather was a church historian and wrote some of the very first books that were published by Book Craft and Deseret Book about women, specifically pioneer women and seemingly ordinary women.
Those stories were part of my upbringing so I've always had a passion and I've never fought with the idea "is it okay to impact my family and the home?" It was never an either or thing for me. And I'm really grateful for that upbringing. And I encourage your listeners to find models of that if they did not grow up with that same experience. Find those models of people who do it in a way you admire.
I guess the move, this is going to sound kind of blunt, the move to gather Latter-day Saint female entrepreneurs was strategic. It was strategic. I was in the middle of a class that I was taking and we were going through the questions that every business person has gone through. Who is your avatar? What are they like? We've all filled out that form 40 bajillion times. And it's because we never get it right, by the way. That's why we have to keep doing that.
So I was filling out that form and one of the recommendations was to start as niched down as you possibly could with your avatar. I had known I'd wanted to work with women because, honestly, working with men in business was intimidating for me. So I knew I wanted to work with women and I wanted to work with women who valued family, because I could attest to that and connect with that.
So I just kept niching down and I recommend this even to my six-figure clients, that before you hit six figures, the goal is not to be broad. The goal is to be very, very specific. And actually once you hit six figures, that strategy changes. Hint, that's a hint, your strategy changes after you hit six figures and you can expand. But I really wanted to be in a niche that was totally niched down so that when people heard it they'd be like, "Whoa, that's a niche. Whoa. You are super niched down."
And that's what happened. The reason I niched down with those Latter-day Saint women instead of even Christian women, because we are Christians, I niched down even further there Latter-day Saint women fight battles that not every other Christian woman fights and a lot of it is identity related and culture related. And "is this okay? And am I going to ruin my kids? And is it okay to make money?"
MISTY: Awesome. I love that. There's a podcast episode where I talk about Johnson and Johnson. How many products does Johnson and Johnson have? Hundreds! A lot of times we'll look at people and we'll think, "Johnson and Johnson has hundreds of products. So do six figure entrepreneurs, who are their own brand. So that's what I should do."
But it's not true. Johnson and Johnson started with one product, just one product. And they became really well known for that and eventually that's what allowed them, both the capital and the trust.
SARAH: Ooh, so important. When you find someone to model, find someone who is like you, just slightly ahead.
MISTY: I love that you did that because that's what I teach my very beginning people - you've got to be super niched. So you heard it from Sarah. So you love Latter-day Saint women. You're their champion. I think everybody can hear that in your voice. You are so passionate about helping them, but I know that you have a very specific focus this year in 2021. Will you share that with us about Esther?
SARAH: So this is in Esther 4:14, and I think it's important that we know that this is said to Esther. It is not Esther speaking. So Esther is getting ready to walk into the doors of the King's chamber. To try and get her people free. This is our theme for the Sarah Grace Live team this year:
"...perhaps you were born for such a time as this."
And this quote, what I love is actually the very first word. Perhaps. It's a super curious word. As I work with six-figure entrepreneurs and four-figure entrepreneurs, they all face this same fight of "Is it okay for me to do this?" They are so devoted to the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are fiercely devoted to the leaders of the church. They are unanimously in favor of their role as a wife and a mother, and as a woman in the gospel. And there is always this wrestle, and I say 100% of the time, I have yet to meet a female entrepreneur that doesn't have this wrestle of "Perhaps I could do this. Perhaps. Perhaps this is okay. Perhaps this is God pushing me to do something extraordinary." And so that's actually my very favorite part - perhaps, because it allows the entrepreneur, it allows you as the heroine, you as the entrepreneur to step in and say, "I'm going to discover if this is my path right here." I invite them to discover that.
MISTY: I love that. I've actually been focused a lot on curiosity lately. This idea of "I'm going to be curious. I'm not ready to accept it yet, but I'm just going to be curious. I'm going to play with it. I'm going to wonder a bit, I'm going to pray. I'm going to imagine what it could be like. I'm going to..."
Perhaps brings all of that in. And it's the introductory stages of the heroine's journey, which we've talked about a million times. The introductory stage is always a form of curiosity. She feels sparked to do something. And man, that is the beginning of some really awesome stories. So I want to get into the heroine's journey here.
SARAH: Just one minute, a little more thought that I just had while we were talking about this, it's her uncle Mordecai, right? That says that to her. Our prophet, a man, right? It wasn't another woman that said this to her, it was a man. And there are men in our church, leaders of our church, President Nelson being first and foremost among them, who are expressing the same sentiment.
"Hey Sarah. Hey Misty. Perhaps you might want to try this. Perhaps you were born for a time such as this. Where the internet exists. Perhaps you should consider that.
MISTY: I love that. Let's talk about the heroine's journey. You are focusing on this in your podcast right now. It is beautiful. I listened to that podcast episode while I was driving up North and I listened to it again on my way back home. It is the very first one that I listened to. When you introduce this heroine's journey, you're speaking truth. Will you share with my listeners, if they have not listened to this, just really briefly what this is? What's the hero's journey? Why is there a need for a heroine's journey?
SARAH: Oh, I love this. And I'm grateful that you had that experience where you listened to it and then you're like, "wait, what?" And you have to listen to it again. That was my exact experience.
I've been in business for a long time, like over a decade. And for the past, about four years, I have dedicated my life to implementing the hero's journey into helping women find their purpose and drive. And I've always tried to relate it in a business sense because that's my jam.
I started to see, with so many of my amazing clients, that the early stages of the hero's journey were particularly hard for them. It was really hard to dive into that world of the hero's journey in the initial stages of building a business and actually making the decision to do a business, all that kind of stuff.
And to back away from that, every listener here, if you have no idea of what the hero's journey is it is what every major motion picture (where the lead is a man) is about. It's Lord of the Rings and it's Harry Potter and it's Star Wars. And the basic premise is that, in order to take a great story and help a character transform through a story, it follows different stages.
They feel called to do something. There's a path they have to take. They meet a guide along the way. The adversary shakes his ugly fist. A savior of some form comes and there's some sort of arrival there at the end. It's been used for years, years to tell great stories. And what I discovered is that that early part, for my female clients, was particularly hard.
I was doing research for a different client when I saw that someone had written a blog about the heroine's journey. And so of course my interest is like, wait, wait, wait, wait, what?" I had that same experience that Misty had of "what does this mean?" I studied it and what I found is that there are some parallels with the heroin and the hero's journey. For example, the hero and the heroine, they all come to a decision point. They come to a Y in the road like you and I talked about, and they either choose to go into the unknown or they turn to the left and the journey ends. That's something that is the same for them.
But what I discovered in the heroine's journey is that the biggest battles of the heroine's journey are actually fought at the very beginning. Getting her started. And it is the battle, with perhaps the most major difference between the hero and the heroine, the hero never questions whether it's okay for him to go on a dangerous journey.
Does Frodo ever question? No, he knows. It's not how it happens for Luke Skywalker. He doesn't say "this is not a man's job." But a woman, when she feels that spark, which is stage one, her next stage is to battle with who she is. And she battles with questions like: Is it okay for me To desire to become something great? Is it okay for me to take risks? Is it okay for me to make money?
And that is what really made the heroine's journey just leap off the page to me. And that's why we are trying to share it with as many people as possible, because if we can get us as women through those first couple of stages, the rest of the journey is miracle after miracle.
MISTY: Awesome chills. So cool. If you want to understand the heroine's story, you should go to Sarah's podcast. She's focusing on this every other episode. Go listen to the very first one where she introduces it. It is incredible.
And then the second place, and she talks about this in this first episode, is Disney. All female heroines - it's over and over and over again. And it is different. They all go through this questioning. Think about Moana. My mind was blown. When you said that I was like, "Disney gets it. It's a real thing. Like this is a real thing."
SARAH: And the pivotal point is when Star Wars really became the most solid version of the hero's journey that you could find in film. We all know Luke Skywalker, we can all tell his tale in the hero's journey and he doesn't miss a step. It's just incredible. It's an incredible film.
However, when Ray, the heroine is introduced, her journey is different. And that's when I just started to realize this is real. It's because you're a woman that it's different. So if you're trying to find the man's journey, the chances of getting stuck in the earlier phases are much higher.
MISTY: So cool. So you have a passion for funnels. Why?
SARAH: So I want to say I have a passion for funnels and then I whisper it because it can cause weird emotions in people. I have recently started calling them machines. It's the same thing.
Funnels is a customer experience. That's what it is. The beauty of funnels or machines is that I discovered, when my husband was in residency, I was working online from 4-7:00 AM, every single morning, teaching Chinese kids to earn extra money.
What I was trying to do was to save enough money to be able to take a class on funnels. I had just ended a business and I was feeling a little lost and not sure what to do next. And so I thought, "Hey, if I can get back into class mode, maybe that'll spark some creativity for me." So I was teaching from 4-7 am, and those same feelings of "this can't be scaled. I can't buy back my time. I'm an ornery mom by 7:00 AM." It was really a massive blessing and also a reminder of how I needed to be able to do things differently.
Eventually, I made enough money to take that class about funnels and my mind was blown. And when I finished the class, I was like, "uh, this is a Latter-day Saint woman's dream." Because the whole purpose of it is threefold.
#1 - you don't have to be present for every single offering in your business. That's pretty necessary because we have to do things differently. We don't have the time.
MISTY: Tell me what you mean by offering. I don't know that all my people will know what you mean by offering. You don't mean "I have to send every single email." You mean something different?
SARAH: Oh, I guess like both sides of that because that's going to be the second one. So the first one is that your personal time is well paid for, financially, within a funnel. A funnel is a business system from your products that range from $0 to your products that can range upwards of thousands of dollars. It's a system to help you protect your time in a way that makes sense for you and for your customer.
#2 - And that's the second reason a funnel is the best system I have found, thus far, that allows you to serve clients who want to pay $0 and allows you to serve clients who are ready and qualified to pay thousands of dollars.
There's nothing worse than paying $200 for a coaching call and sitting there for an hour with someone and all they're doing is answering questions that you could have learned for free on YouTube. There's nothing worse than that. The funnel actually protects the customer and it protects the entrepreneur, which is like win, win, win, win, win in my Latter-day Saint entrepreneur book.
#3 - And then the third, really awesome thing is that every effort you make in your business has a purpose. When you do an Instastory, you know why you're doing it. When you send an email, it has a purpose. When you start a YouTube channel, it's because you know that your audience is ready for a YouTube channel.
With my clients that are one-on-one, they're aiming for six figures. There are certain elements in the business system that tell them when, they can literally predict when, they'll make six figures because of that business system.
I love the fact that because of the systems that are built as a foundation, if I have 15 minutes to work, I can pull up my funnel statistics (This is where I get super nerdy.) and I can say, "this is where I'm going to focus because this effort will matter."
MISTY: Awesome. I love that. That not knowing where to focus is what creates overwhelm. Big time, right? You just keep wondering, what do I pick? What do I pick? And sometimes, especially if it's only 15 minutes, you just do nothing.
SARAH: Yes. Because you don't know what would be effective. The word that I would use, Misty, is that entrepreneurs will say "I'm stuck." And if you feel like you are stuck, you're not stuck. You're just unclear. You're not stuck. You don't have skills. You have an ability to have everything at your fingertips. You just don't know what to do. It's not clear to you.
MISTY: What's the next right step? You've got to know what that next right step is. And so you're saying a funnel is what helps you figure that out? Love it. Awesome. You hinted at this, but people think funnels are slimy, but they're not because they're actually protecting the customer too.
You tell a story about an accountant, right? Noah, a financial planner, would have people come in to consult with him about financial planning and they were paying him hundreds of dollars an hour. And they were asking him what a Roth IRA was. And he's like, are you kidding me? You should not be paying me hundreds of dollars an hour to explain this to you.
It was unfair to the customer. They were wasting their money. So if they can take a class that he's provided and it's prerecorded and he doesn't have to be there, it protects that customer because they can spend a lot less on that class and he still earns money. But it allows them to then be ready to really make good use of his time.
I love that. That's what makes a funnel not slimy is that it protects the customer. And what makes it awesome is that it also protects you and helps you to earn money without neglecting your family.
So this season, on my podcast, we are talking about website copy. There a lot of copy, a lot of words, that go into a funnel. And one of the things that I have seen you do that I know is effective is that you use Instagram Stories. So tell me a little bit about why you use stories, and then I want to tell you about where I struggle with stories and just kind of pick your brain for a minute.
SARAH: That sounds fabulous. Stories are hugely effective because, and I'm just going to dive straight in the people, if the people you are selling to specifically are women, they value allies, which is part of the heroine's journey. They want someone that they feel like is an ally, not even necessarily a guide. They want to feel that connection on a very personal level.
As much as you can crank out personality in an email, it is not as effective as you being live on a platform like Instagram Stories. I see the absolute value in that. And that is the tone that I tried to take "how can I speak to my colleagues? How can I speak to my allies? How would I talk to a friend?"
I love the connection that, one of my mentors, Russell Brunson thought of the purpose of social media is that he describes it as a party. If you were to go and attend a party, what would you talk about? If someone were to walk into a party and be like, "Hey, Misty, my one-on-one coaching is open and I'm super excited. I'm taking all applicants right now and it closes in 48 hours." We've all, had those moments online where the only thing that we know how to do is tell people to buy stuff. We've all done it, we've all been that spammy person.
So I have those words of Russell in the back of my mind "what would I talk about if I was at a party?" Now I'm a little bit odd, in the sense that I love to talk deep with people real fast. I'm the one in the corner talking about church history at the party. I'm kind of the weird one. So I'm trying to back up a little bit and exist on social media as if I'm an actual person at a party.
And this is why accounts that show their family pizza night, and they're showing the everyday life, why those accounts feel more authentic. It has nothing to do with a smart strategy. What it does is you are trying to create a feeling where someone is like, "Oh, That person's kind of interesting" or "I'm curious about this person" - perhaps.
You want them to feel so curious about you, that they then will make the choice to dive into your more business oriented endeavors. And it's finding that balance instead of doing the selling all the time, be a human. Be a human and show your life.
And the last thing is share your story. Jessica Gey, she's a friend of mine from The Bucket List Family. Jessica used to talk about how amazing it was to have people respond and say, "thank you for showing videos of parents that like to be around their kids. Thanks for showing us that there are still parents out there teaching their kids to pray." And that is what kept them going before their account hit millions of followers.
I try to give myself that reminder as often as possible and Misty, that same reminder to you, that as Latter-day Saint entrepreneurs, what does our life look like? And can we show glimpses of just the day to day so that it feels more possible to people.
MISTY: Yes. Can we take that approach? Because the things I do every day, I probably take for granted and other people really need to see moms who love being with their kids, right? Mompreneurs need to see that. Sarah and I have talked about this recently, one of our joint goals is to help you know that this is possible.
And I love that. That idea of how to do that, to share my story, to share that I'm real, I'm like you, right? You can love your kids and enjoy being with them and you can be a mom and it is possible. And if I can show that to people instead of just telling them, that's a story. That's powerful.
So Sarah, how do you get past the roadblock? Because this is one of my roadblocks, I do not want to be like, "Oh, look at me. I'm amazing. And I'm a good mom. I do great things. And this is my life and here's what I had for dinner. And here's what I had for lunch. And here's what I had for breakfast today."
I don't want my Instagram feed to be the Misty Marsh show. How do I balance that with what you are telling us to do?
SARAH: You might hate my answer. In fact, you're probably going to delete it. When we have those feelings of, "I don't want to be perceived this way, I don't want people to think this is the Misty Marsh show. Did you see what the dah, dah, dah," when we are in that space, it is 100% ego.
We are afraid of being perceived externally in a certain way. And so it's actually about us. I could say it's an "us" roadblock. Whereas if you flip it and you frame it differently, it actually becomes about your people, everything changes. So when you're showing your breakfast, you are trying to instill belief in them that a mom can own a business and eat breakfast with her kids.
Your job is to be seen. That's part of the prophecy that we're talking about. We are actually meant to be seen, to speak out. And the greatest thing that we can be fought with is when Satan comes on the other side of it and says, "Ooh, that's sure arrogant of you. Ooh, that's sure snotty of you." And we start to get put into a space of, "Oh, I don't want to be perceived as a know it all, or as a whatever." And yet God has given us specific, distinct and different talents that we are meant to use in this distinct and different dispensation. Stories is a God-given tool for you to gather your people and they will never see you if you don't show up for them.
MISTY: Beautiful. Thank you. You are a wise, wise woman. Once again, head over to SarahGraceLive.com/no stress and you will be able to find a really cool gift there from Sarah. It's a map. It's a machine, it's going to help you be everywhere without being everywhere. It's going to help you magnify your influence without requiring your time, or at least more of your time.
Sarah is a master of teaching this concept. You can also find her on Instagram at Sarah Grace Live. Sarah, is there anything you would like to add as we close this time together?
SARAH: I would add my voice with Misty's that it is the greatest time on earth to be a woman. It is the greatest time on earth to be an entrepreneur. And it is the greatest time on earth to be a Latter-day Saint. So discover what your journey is supposed to be. And Misty and I, we will be there for you every step of the way. You've got this.
MISTY: Amen. You're amazing, Sarah. Thank you so much for joining us here today.
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Q: Can Someone Explain "Calling Navigate on Top Level Component" in simple terms https://reactnavigation.org/docs/navigators/
I was reading the documentation in the above link, but i didn't understand "Calling Navigate on Top Level Component" section properly. Can someone explain what this does. I did try to look online but didn't find any resource that explains this in simple terms.
I mainly need help understanding following code :
this.navigator && this.navigator.dispatch({ type: 'Navigate', routeName, params });

and
<AppNavigator ref={nav => { this.navigator = nav; }} />

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Entire code is given below
const AppNavigator = StackNavigator(SomeAppRouteConfigs);

class App extends React.Component {
  someEvent() {
    // call navigate for AppNavigator here:
    this.navigator && this.navigator.dispatch({ type: 'Navigate', routeName, params });
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <AppNavigator ref={nav => { this.navigator = nav; }} />
    );
   }
}

A: First.
AppNavigator is your app router definition .It's look like
const AppNavigator=StackNavigator({
    Default:{screen: Page1},
    Favorite:{screen: Page3}
},
{initialRouteName: 'Default'}
)

And If you want to set some actions in all pages. Maybe quick link.
Example Like this

And in Top Level Component you cannot use "this.props.navigation.navigate()"
Refer : StackNavigator
In order to use navigation at Top Level Component.
you can use "ref" assign a AppNavigator navigator to "Top Level Component" variable.
In this case we define variable is navigator
<AppNavigator ref={nav => { this.navigator = nav; }} />

and use below code navigate to your destination
this.navigator && this.navigator.dispatch({ type: 'Navigate', routeName:'Favorite', params:'' });

Refer : dispatch

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AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) - The fast-paced redevelopment on the Anschutz Medical Campus and near the Fitzsimons area in Aurora is giving a bounce to the local economy.
"This is exactly what they hoped for and planned for," said Wendy Mitchell, the president and CEO of the Aurora Economic Development Council.
Construction along the East Colfax Avenue corridor is supplanting some quieter areas of long-term decline. Meanwhile, the biotech industry near the University of Colorado hospital and the VA hospital is bringing in higher-paying jobs.
"The economic impact of this campus today is actually more than that of the entire ski industry," Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan says.
The boom is clear, he says.
"Today we already have more than 20,000 people a day working here or going to school here. When the area is built out, it will be more than 50,000 people," Hogan said.
The redevelopment is good news for residents like Jim Jacobs, who says he welcomes a new generation moving in.
"Back and forth, on bicycles and scooters, (there are) young people you didn't see before construction," Jacobs said.
Hogan says the original plan called for the redevelopment to stretch over 25 to 30 years. The University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital moved to the Anschutz campus seven years ago.
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Under the slogan "Rocking Out The Bats" Tangerine Dream performed an open air concert in Berlin on August 30th, 2009. The concert was part of the "Citadel Music Festival". In late October the complete recording of the concert was released as an official download from the Tangerine Dream website.
The Tangerine Dream Download shop about the download release "The 'Rocking Out The Bats Concert' in Northern Berlin at the historic site Citadel Spandau was the final concert on the occasion of the Citadel Festival 2009. The promoter considered it as a crowning closing of the very popular open air festival. Indeed it was a concert in a typical Berlin atmosphere with a partly hippiesque and very relaxed audience. Unfortunately TD were surprised by strict curfew regulations (they weren't informed before), so they got no chance to perform two more encores with tracks they never played live before -- that's the way it is in Berlin... The protected rare little bats residing in the old Citadel had to go to bed in time...!!"
In December 2009 the concert was released on DVD. The package includes a four page booklet with 19 photos from the venue and the credits. The DVD menu provides the options to play the complete concert as well as to start from individual tracks, to view the credits or the three bonus features, and to do the audio setup (Stereo 2.0 or Dolby Surround 5.1).
The Eastgate Music Shop about the DVD release "A beautiful warm late summer night it was when five musicians started one of their maybe most remarkable outdoor concerts in the City of Berlin. The so-called 'Zitadelle' in the Spandau district of Berlin is more than historic in many ways. Apart from the political heritage and burdens it is also the home of thousands of bats -- one of the largest community of these creatures in Europe. Within the very old walls and niches of the building they live a very WWF protected life. Therefore the band had to accept a curfew by 10 pm which was rather sad because they had a lot more to say musically. But nevertheless it has been a breathtaking event for those who could attend. On this DVD you will see the whole show and some extras behind the scenes, sometimes with a laugh and sometimes with an ironic attitude. So enjoy a warm summer night's show on a cold midwinter night. :-)"