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S.A.D. Strange Animal Deaths Homing pigeons – from rocky – 06/17/2006
Homing pigeons – from rocky – 06/17/2006
November 25, 2013 at 12:42 am #1237
Microwaves can be heard. HAARP can put out a vlf or even an elf using
resonate DC carrier wave. Remember the human body is electro-
mechanical and operates between 4-14 hz.
http://www.greatdreams.com/scalar.htm
Dear Sir, Madam, Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,
For your information.
Klaus Rudolph
Citizens' Initiative Omega
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/00omega.htm
http://teleline.terra.es/personal/kirke1/pagact.html
Here's some information on bioeffects of EMFs…on more than just
birds! (from a chapter in my publication, "Bioelectromagnetics 2002:
Health Effects Update", on my website
Best Wishes for the New Year,
Jim Beal
EMF Interface Consulting
http://www.emfinterface.com
Birds, Bees, Bat-Rays, Butterflies & Buzzards (?): Electrosensory
Birds:
In the Austin American Statesman, Austin Texas paper of October 8,
1998, appeared the following article:
2,000 HOMING PIGEONS LOSE THEIR BEARINGS, DISAPPEAR (The Washington
Post)
Homing pigeons, as the name suggests, are supposed to find their way
home. But more than 2,000 of the creatures have disappeared this week
and no one can explain it.
The birds lost their way during two separate homing pigeon races held
Monday. Out of 1,800 birds competing in a 200-mile race from New
Market, VA to Allentown, PA, about 1,500 have vanished. And in a 159-
mile race from western Pennsylvania to suburban Philadelphia, 700 out
of 900 pigeons are missing.
Most of the pigeons would have been back in their lofts within a few
hours. Although it's not unusual to lose a few birds during a race —
a hungry hawk, for example, might snag a few racers — this week's
loss is extraordinary, organizers of the two events say. "There is
something in the air," said Gary Moore, who was the "liberator" for
the 150-mile race, deciding when and where the birds were
released. "To lose this many is just unbelievable."
Was it sun spots? A UFO? The currents of El Nino?
It's hard to come up with an answer pigeon enthusiasts say, because
no one knows how homing pigeons do what they do.
>>Disagree here, because lots of research on pigeon homing
capabilities has been done. It has been determined that pigeons use
about 3 methods 1) visual cues during the day; 2) geoelectromagnetic
hints, & 3) star patterns at night. Blinded pigeons — or pigeons in
a fog — still get home and "windmill" slowly in to a landing.
Blinded pigeons with tiny permanent magnets attached to their heads
produced totally confused birds!……
Moore's theory is that the disappearance may have something to do
with CELLULAR PHONE ACTIVITY (my emphasis…jb). It's widely accepted
that the pigeons use electromagnetic fields to help the navigate and
cellular phone calls might interfere with that process, he
speculated.
Most long-distance races are held on weekends when cellular phone
activity is lower. But the two races in question were postponed from
Sunday to Monday because of rain.
Sun spots also can send the pigeons off course, but the sun activity
that day was low, organizers say.
Jim Effting, who lost 34 of the 37 birds he entered in the race to
Allentown, also thinks that something very peculiar must have messed
up the birds' innate tracking systems. He says the birds took a wrong
turn and could be in North Carolina by now. The three racers of his
that finally made it home arrived Tuesday afternoon. They were
exhausted, and it was obvious they had been flying lost for hours,
said Effting, who lives in Emmaus, PA.
What's certain is that with each passing day, the chances that the
birds will survive are decreasing. Unlike their wild pigeon brethren,
these speed machines don't know how to feed themselves in the wild
and are easy prey.
Editorial Note: An interesting supporting article appeared in the
proceedings of a symposium and workshop held in Snowmass-at-Aspen CO,
in 1973 [1] and sponsored by the National Science Foundation in
concert with the Neuroelectric Society, the International Institute
for Medical and Biological Engineering, Marquette University and The
Medical College of Wisconsin:
There is an important chapter in the Proceedings about the action of
large flocks of blackbirds and starlings, where hundreds of birds all
turn, in milliseconds, and NONE OF THEM COLLIDE [1]. The video shown
at the conference illustrated the rapid twisting and turning as the
flock few in close formation. VERY impressive…as though all were of
one mind! There was no twisting or wave motion indicative of visual
or auditory cues! It was theorized that the birds used some sort of
proximity detection sensory system based on microwave phenomena,
since the structure of bird feathers was somehow related to microwave
antennae! (also see [2])
ABSTRACT: [1]
The apparently synchronous turning and wheeling of flocks of several
bird species, particularly starlings (Sternus vulgaris), has long
been a phenomena of curiosity and interest.
The recent series of reports suggesting that birds may be able to
detect the earth's magnetic field makes the hypothesis that turning
movements in bird flocks may be coordinated by electromagnetic means
more attractive. Such a signal would be instantaneous, could reach
all birds in the flock regardless of their position relative to the
signal source, and could carry sufficient information for turning
movements.
Analysis of films of turning flocks of birds and experimental studies
of startle reaction times in birds in our laboratories have suggested
that the electromagnetic radiation model could provide a parsimonious
explanation for the observed behavior of the birds.
There are several other presentations in the above book, relative to
microwave sensitivity of living systems to extremely low intensity
fields, and I remember one chapter in particular in this area by Dr.
C. Romero-Sierra and J. Bigu del Blanco, Dept of Anatomy, of Queen's
College in Kingston, Ontario [3].
The above book, while expensive is worth having as an excellent early
reference to bioeffects of electric field gradients, magnetic fields,
microwave, and air ion effects.
Buzzards (?):
I have noted an interesting phenomenon about 8 miles south-southeast
of here (Wimberley, Texas). This tower, each morning and afternoon
all summer, has been a prime roosting spot on every cross-member for
dozens of vultures (turkey buzzards)!! They may be getting an EMF
radiation buzz and/or may be waiting for something to die! Seems
quite symbolic, in several ways, of this whole microwave
communication and cellphone long-term bioeffects situation. (Please
keep in mind that it has long been known that selected EMF pulse
rates, waveforms and frequencies have healing, sedation and emotion-
evoking capabilities). I have noted many communication towers in my
travels and have seldom seen birds on any of them. This is the first
tower I have noted with so many birds and all of the same species.
This might also be a good example of how one can make snap decisions,
based on insufficient data and reach erroneous conclusions. Since I
have not familiar with buzzard habits, it may be that the tower is
just a convenient elevated roost, on a hill near a highway, where
good road-kill scavenging is available. Canada help wondering
Email response to above, from: Bert Dumpe , 11
Nov 1998:
Jim: I reported on the birds. The story you report verbatim as it
appeared in the Washington Post seems to have been edited. The
initial WP report put the number of the original population of birds
starting the race at 3000. In addition, from their release point in
Virginia, the birds were traveling to various destinations; a town in
New Jersey, Brooklyn, NY, Allentown and Pittsburgh, PA. Most of the
birds were lost enroute, and a HANDFUL alighted on property along the
way or deviation thereto. Rest of the birds were not found, which
remains the case to date.
Generally the FIRST report of an incident is the most factual.
Thereafter, the cover-up starts and the story is watered down and
factual omissions prevail. This seems to be the case in the Texas
version of the story. For instance, when the story broke, the bird
racers positively stated that (paraphrased) "the electromagnetic RF
emissions from cellphone devices and antennas changed the aerosol,
which would affect the birds' sense of direction." This positive
statement is from people who study bird biology and have sufficient
knowledge to know "what environmental pollutants or objects would
interfere with the birds' mission and hinder the chances of a
successful race."
Re your statement of the "vultures." Interesting, and unusual. Can
you send me copies of any pictures you take? This is unusual because
generally birds (warm red-blooded) have been avoiding microwave
towers, and often when they do alight on the towers large numbers of
birds are found on the ground dead. Creatures normally found on
towers, up to the height of the antennas, are roaches (cold-blooded).
Your hypothesis is probably correct; "the vultures sense death in the
air." Sometime ago in one of my newsletters, I reported that birds
migrating to Capistrano and points south for the winter disappeared
over New Mexico. It is altogether possible that as well as
disappearing, the birds are merely falling from the sky as has been
reported in various places. In addition, any birds that would pass
over the towers will be half dead and easy prey. This is also a
reported fact.
As for research on the magnetite in the head of birds, which I
mentioned when this lost birds story was reported, this has already
been done extensively. In fact, Kaune the researcher who co-authored
the Linet NCI powerline study, was one of those who researched this.
And you know what this turncoat said about powerline emissions being
benign. Researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere already researched
biomagnitite in the brain of animals and humans. With the loss of
birds, death and deformity of reptiles (e.g., frogs, lizards) one had
to be pretty thickheaded, a real bozo, or terribly dishonest not to
know that electrification of the air is deadly. The worst is yet to
Bees, Bat-rays and Butterflies:
Alasdair Philips , 21 Nov 1998
Our cheap transistor radios can pick up and separate out hundreds of
radio signals at levels of a few hundreds of microvolts/metre. More
sophisticated communications receivers can work down to levels of
about 10 microvolts/metre. Radio-astronomers work on informational
signals from stars at less than 1 microvolt/metre – this is a power
level of about 0.000 000 000 001 microwatt/cm2 (1 attowatt/cm2 !!).
We can now detect and create pictures from signals from spacecraft at
our outer planets using transmit powers similar to those use by
mobile phones of a few watts!
Honeybees have been shown to be sensitive to magnetic flux
differences of 1 nanotesla (10 microGauss) [4][Theoretically humans
could also be sensitive down to less than this level (pineal thermal
noise c. 0.24 nanotesla – Smith, 1985). Various sea creatures can
detect voltage gradients of a few 10's of microvolts/metre.
Biological stochastic resonance from regular pulsing EMFs can
effectively amplify coherent signals (like power EMFs) by vast
amounts.
What arrogant nonsense to suggest that living systems need to
be "cooked" before they realize they are being bombarded by signals
and that microwaves of 100 volts/metre are harmless to us.
On your butterfly question…many years ago (c.1969) I went to a
Friday evening London 'Royal Institution' lecture by Professor Eric
Laithwhaite of Imperial College London – the guy who developed the
principle of the linear electric motor which is now widely used –
whose hobby was/is butterflies and moths. At the time everyone was
talking about pheromones, and undoubtedly these are used in the
mating attraction process, however…he discovered that if the female
(I think) was enclosed in a sealed plastic box the mates still
appeared from long distances away, but if she was enclosed in a
(electromagnetically screened) Faraday cage full of air holes only
butterflies who were very close were still attracted. He repeated
these experiments on many occasions and came to the conclusion that
the patterns on the butterflies wings were actually tuned circuits in
the very high microwave region (far-far-infra red) and each variety
had its own unique RF/microwave signature enabling mates of the same
variety to home in using their antennae and own wing resonators as
tuning selectors. The main energy probably came from the sunlight
possibly modulated by wing flapping.
Our mainstream, crude, gross, simplification of life into simple
electro-chemical building blocks completely misses the mysteries of
what "life" is and how sensitive it can be if we open ourselves up to
the amazing, wonderful, cosmic universe in which we live. I do not
know how we will achieve the paradigm shift in thinking needed but I
sense that it is slowly starting to happen. I hope so, anyway.
Matthew Fox (USA) and his Creation Spirituality movement is part of
the change, along with the deep ecology movement.
… and I am meant to be a down-to-earth nuts-and-bolts engineer!
Hang on in there folks!
1. Llaurado, J. & Sances, A., et al., "Biologic & Clinical Effects of
Low-Frequency Magnetic & Electric Fields" Springfield, IL, Chas. C.
Thomas Pub. Co.,1974, Chapter XI, Heppner, F.H., & Haffner,
J.D., "Communication in Bird Flocks: An Electromagnetic Model", pgs.
2. Tanner, J.A., Romero-Sierra, C. and Davie, S.J.: "Non-Thermal
Effects of Microwave Radiation On Birds." Nature, 216:1139, 1967.
Thomas Pub. Co.,1974. Chapter IX, Bigu del Blanco, J. & Romero-
Sierra, C., "Microwave Radiometric Techniques: A Means to Explore the
Possibility of Communication in Biological Systems", pgs. 123-136.
4. Keeton, British Birds, 72, 451-70]
5. Bastian, J., "Electrosensory Organisms." Physics Today, pgs 30-37,
Feb 1994.


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Australia: Perth water supplies under pressure during potential record heatwave (+VIDEO)
As Perth sweats through a severe heatwave, pressure is mounting on the city's dwindling water supplies.
Dried tree stumps litter the baked earth at the edge of the Canning Dam, 33 kilometres out of Perth.
It was not long ago they were submerged by billions of litres of water but low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years have now made the dams virtually redundant.
Western Australia's water utility said Perth had felt the effects of climate change more than anywhere else in the world, and it has had to bring forward its planning to ensure there is enough water to go around.
"Last year the run-off into our dams was the lowest since records began [in 1911], we got 11 billion litres in the dams and we lose about 14 billion litres a year in evaporation," Water Corporation chief executive Sue Murphy said.
"So that means that our dams contributed nothing. In fact, took away from our water supply.
"We have a problem which is probably more extreme than other cities around the world. Every year we seem to have the worst case scenario worse."
It is a dire outlook, but the Water Corporation insists it is one that has been planned for.
A problem of cost
Pressure mounts on #Perth's water supplies as city sweats through #heatwave https://t.co/rRnkp7mmqQ pic.twitter.com/FvNRkYrPDH
— ABC News Perth (@abcnewsPerth) February 8, 2016
More than 40 per cent of the water supply for Perth and surrounding areas already comes from desalination but it is a costly process.
In a state currently grappling with unprecedented levels of net debt, Water Minister Mia Davies said any expenditure would have to be carefully considered.
"Our groundwater and our dams are our cheapest sources, desalination is more expensive so if you're talking about bringing a new desalination plant on, we do need to plan for that," she said.
Desalinating sea water costs about $2.20 per 1,000 litres and the Water Corporation said if the city was to rely solely on desalination, water bills would essentially double.
"Water sources are expensive and we need to balance that very delicately and I think the community in Western Australia, there's never been an expectation that we would be able to use water whenever and however we want, that's been an ongoing conversation and the community understands that," Minister Davies said.
The focus has now turned to recycling water, and a wastewater treatment plant is expected to open in Perth later this year.
In an Australian first, water from toilets, showers and laundries will be treated and injected into the city's groundwater supplies but it will take about a decade for that water to be drawn out for household use.
It's claimed #Perth's climate is changing faster than any other place on Earth. @courtbembridge has this report https://t.co/4I3fxuXqja
— ABC News 24 (@ABCNews24) February 8, 2016
It is estimated Perth's water will eventually be split 50-50 between desalination and wastewater mixed with groundwater.
A global lesson
The Water Corporation's Sue Murphy said lessons learnt in WA were being closely watched around the world.
"WA certainly has felt climate change more than anywhere else in the world," she said.
"We're seen as the canary in the coalmine for climate change by most of our water utility brethren around the world and I think it's incumbent on us to work with the community in how to deal with it."
The weather bureau said the city's climate had been drying faster than expected.
"I don't think that we were able to say with any degree of certainty that there would be an acceleration of that drying trend as we've observed over the last five years," the bureau's spokesman Neil Bennett said.
#Perth is now forecast to have five days in a row above 40C. This will be a new record with data going back to 1897 (@Ben_Domensino)
— SKY NEWS WEATHER (@SkyWeatherAUS) February 8, 2016
The bureau is not expecting any reprieve. It is forecasting temperatures will continue to rise, and rainfall will continue to fall.
Minister Davies is not worried. She believes Perth has been drought-proofed through good planning.
"I don't know whether you're familiar with California, they are making decisions under considerable pressure because that planning hadn't been done so I'm confident that despite the enormous variability we've got the time to make those decisions," she said.
The Water Corporation has flagged further water restrictions or higher prices in the meantime, but said that would depend on how consumers respond to the shortage.
"We live in the driest corner of the driest part of the whole world, we need to be respectful of that as a community and use water wisely," Ms Murphy said.
"If people continue to use water at a very high rate, we're going to have to make some hard decisions."
– Weatherzone/ABC
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Clinical Problem: Hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs), while considered to be preventable in most cases, continue to affect many patients in acute care facilities. Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are responsible for significant patient harm in the form of pain, increased susceptibility to infection and delayed recovery. Any HAPI puts patients at risk. The rates of HAPI at one hospital were identified as putting patients at risk.
Objective: To decrease and sustain the HAPI incidences below the NDNQI benchmark average 1.28%.
Interventions/Actions: At Hospital A, chart reviews, which revealed clinical nurses' gaps in knowledge of basic pressure wound identification, care, and prevention, resulted in education on pressure ulcer/injury care and prevention to the clinical nurses. As a result of this educational professional development activity, the clinical nurses became more engaged in the pressure ulcer/injury prevention initiative. In addition targeted wound rounds were implemented including the Wound ARNP Specialist, clinical nurses, and unit leadership. Each clinical nurse who volunteered to be a "rounder" participated in a professional development training by the Wound ARNP Specialist. This process looks at the Braden Scale score of every patient in house on that day. Our protocol of a Braden Score of 18 or less indicates that a prophylactic approach is required for those patients without skin breakdown and those with skin breakdown should be treated aggressively. Each patient is rounded on and the policy and protocols are assessed for proper implementation. The Wound ARNP Specialist at Hospital A shared the results of the team approach to HAPI reduction through education, engagement and teamwork to hospital B.
Outcomes: Data was summarized, by using a diagram to mien at pressure injury incident on a monthly basis. Hospital A launched "Wound Wednesday Rounds" in October 2015 to encourage engagement and team work. These interventions resulted in Hospital A maintaining the HAPI incident rate below NDNQI national average benchmark 1.28% up to February 2016. Hospital B, with the implementation of educational interventions, resulted in zero HAPI incidents. In December 2016, Hospital B launched "Wound Wednesday Rounds" to improve compliance and improve outcomes through engagement and team work. Hospital B was able to sustain the HAPI incident rate below NDNQI national average benchmark of 1.28% as of March 2017.
Conclusions: The results from each case study showed that education and staff engagement and teamwork are important for pressure injury prevention in which a prophylactic approach is required for those patients with and without skin breakdown. Added interventions, such as weekly rounding, facilitated the rounding team's early identification of at risk patients. The weekly rounds allowed any deficiencies in the prophylactic approach to be corrected in real time with the consistent implementation of evidence based treatment in accordance with the institution's policy and procedure.
Marballie, Melissa and Johnson, Carol, "The Impact of Using Education, Engagement and Nursing Teamwork to Reduce Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury" (2018). All Publications. 2825.


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I thought I'd share some of our Happy Home's Christmas traditions this year!
To start things off here's the lowdown on how we do our tree.
Since our Happy Buddies are so young, the Happy Hubby and I like to put up our tree as a part of an 'at-home' Date Night.
We do this the day after Thanksgiving.
If we don't – the tree does not get up. Haha!
When our boys get a little older, I know we'll expand this tradition to include them, but for now, it's a great way to connect and spend time with the Happy Hubby.
We put the kids to bed, heat up some hot cocoa, watch our favorite Christmas movie, and get to work.
Here are some photos from our adventure the other night!
Putting up this tree is such a labor of love.
Yes, we do the fake tree. I have the blackest of thumbs – a long time ago I begged the Happy Hubby to stop buying me flowers because they wilt as soon as we make eye contact! A real tree would never survive under my care.
Getting that monster in and out of the box is like trying to put a T-Shirt on an octopus.
And this year 75% of the lights burned out so the Happy Hubby went to Wal-Mart to battle the tail end of Black Friday shoppers for a few boxes of lights. He is such a good man!
My job is to fluff the branches.
This step is probably my least favorite thing about getting the tree up.
By the time I am done, my hands look like someone poked them a hundred times with a sharp pencil.
One day I will get a clue and try wearing gloves!
Oh how I love pulling out the ornaments, unwrapping each one and reminiscing about where that ornament originated.
The Happy Hubby and I were married a few days after Christmas in 2003, so most of our ornaments were wedding gifts!
This movie – The Family Man with Nicolas Cage – is a MUST to be playing while we are decorating.
The Happy Hubby and I spend the evening basically quoting the entire thing.
I really hate going to bed knowing that there's a giant mess waiting for me in the morning, so I try to get everything picked up before turning in for the night.
Now that we have kids, we can't vacuum – lest we rouse the slumbering monkeys angels – and all those tiny artificial pine needles make my head spin.
This year the Happy Hubby had a brilliant alternative plan!
He grabbed an old paper towel tube, wrapped it in Duct tape and set about rolling it all over the carpet under the tree.
By the time our movie ended, we got to sit back and admire our handiwork.
Would you like to read more details about our tree – my favorite ornaments (the cutest things EVER) and our favorite Pickle Tradition?
Click on over to THIS POST.
And this year the Happy Baby got to see a Christmas tree for the first time ever… What a precious moment.
How do y'all do your tree? Real or fake? With the kids or without? When do you put it up? Do you have favorite ornaments?
I'd love to hear about your Tree Traditions!
LOVE this account of setting up the Christmas Tree! Especially "cracked up" of the line "trying to put a T-Shirt on an octopus"!! Bet your kids were amazed the next morning! Last year, my hubby, "Joe Beau" put the center section of the tree on upside down, had no place to plug it in and refused to take it apart. The entire "waist" of the tree was unlit. A rather bleak effect, if you ask me. I will try to "supervise" this year . . .
Or you could always get him his very own tiny tree to decorate just the way he wants it. That way you have your beautiful tree and your tradition with your husband and Happy Buddy has his own contribution to make to the season.
I love this post! Totally made me cry happy tears. We have several Christmas Traditions in our little family. My happy babies are 4 and 5 now. But every since they were born, we would go to the Christmas tree lot in front of our local Home Depot and pick out a tree as a family, and strap it to the top of my sedan (kinda like National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation movie), and we would drive home and wave to those that stared at us as we passed them on the road. We knew what they were thinking, but we never cared. Inside our little car, we were always laughing and singing Christmas Carols.
Another tradition we have followed since my kids were age 1 and 2, (and that I actually did as a little girl), was called the B.O.B (Box of Blessings). Starting December 1st and every night after dinner, until Christmas Eve, we could gather together as a family and pull out a box decorated with Christmas wrapping paper, and inside were 24 wrapped presents each with a number on it and a Bible verse pertaining to Christmas. For example, on December 1st, we would open #1 and open our Bible and read the verse associated with it as a family. And then the kids would open the wrapped gift. Sometimes it was a Christmas candle or an ornament for the tree, or the missing piece to our nativity, or a children's book about the real meaning of Christmas, etc, etc. Each night it was something different. Sometimes it involved a treasure hunt. Only the # and bible verse would be written on a piece of paper in the box, and the kids would have to look throughout the house to find the gift. And always on December 24th, the present would be the same. It would be the baby Jesus from our nativity set. Because Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birthday. So when we would decorate for Christmas and set up our nativity, baby Jesus was always missing. When the kids would ask where he was, I would say, :"well, he wasn't born until Christmas! We have to wait until he shows up on His birthday!" They always got a kick out of that.
Anyways, all that to say, I love reading your blog. I am so encouraged by it. And I make all your crafts with my kids. We actually had a happy home fairy Thanksgiving this year. I took all your ideas from previous posts and incorporated them into my Thanksgiving. I hosted all my extended family this year at my house. And all your ideas, games, crafts, jokes, and table conversation cards were a big hit!
super duper miss you! still haven't heard how jet is doing post-surgery… he looks great in his picture though so i'm assuming no news is good news!
i'm a touch under the weather today and my hero husband is going to go by himself w/the kids so i can get some more sleep. just can't get enough of that these days!
Great post about the tree! But guess what I like best? The reference to The Family Man! Somehow I've never seen that – and I love Nicholas Cage. Just watched the trailer and can't wait to watch the whole movie! It looks great.
Your tree looks beautiful! I will have to check out that Nicholas Cage movie.
I just starting getting emails from you and I love this Christmas one. I even went back to the previous post. I love those Jesus ornaments also but when I clicked on it no info came up, probably cause it's an old post. Oh well. My hub and I are in the process of decorating for this year. I had someone pop in awhile ago and they took one look at our lanai, (porch) with boxes and bags everywhere and they said, "Looks like you have your work cut out for today"! She felt better after I told her those were the empty ones!!! They have to go back into the shed only to be dragged back out after this holiday season and refilled and placed back in the shed once again till next year. This year hub got the bright idea to go through all the other "treasures" in the boxes and bags in the shed loft….oh dear. I am a craft nut and I have stuff going back to practically infancy!!! What a project. So instead of the empty boxes and bags leaving the lanai, they are still there and just may be for a few more days. Yikes!! I could ramble on but I have tons of work to do. Enjoy the blessings of this holiday with your cute little one and your cute big one as well!
you guys have a TON of ornaments!! My collection is no where that big.
My Hubby & I have one tradition ((and I don't know if it can be called that yet))…. jumping in the hot tub with champagne. Then again this will only be our second Christmas together & our first married, but that just means plenty of time to come up with something awesome that's just for us.
At my parents house, each of us four girls have two special ornaments – one we got to choose when we were young ((mine is an iridescent stained glass butterfly)), and the other is a porcelain piece my father brought home after being deployed a ways back.
We always get a real tree, the fattest or weirdest looking one we can find, and name it. The last couple have been Albert, Chauncey, Harold, Eugene, and Steve. My mom hands out ornaments for us to hang and we listen to "A Toolbox Christmas", which is probably the coolest CD ever. It's Christmas songs being made using only items you'd find in an awesome man cave garage. My dad always puts on his angel babies ((ornaments passed down from his father with years engraved on their scrolls)) the Walnut, and the tree topper.
Hi Julie… love your tree!… and this post of course 😉 Quick question… what kind of golden ribbon did you use to "wrap" your tree? Or… is it technically called a "garland?" Not sure. I presume your wrapped your ribbon around *before* you hung the ornaments? Any tips on what kind of ribbon you used and where you got it? Your tree looks amazing!!!
Hey girly! I found the glittery gold ribbon at Michael's several years ago! AFter the tree is up and the lights are on, I start wrapping the ribbon from the top to the bottom. The hubs has to help by being on the other side and we carefully wrap it by passing it off to each other. 🙂 Then all the ornaments go on after that. Hope that helps!
Your tree is beautiful! How sweet of your hubby to improvise a quiet way to clean up the pine needles. We make an occasion of decorating the tree. We have yummy snacks and Christmas music playing. All of our ornaments are either special gifts or ones we have bought on occasions or trips, so as we decorate the tree we enjoy reminiscing. We call our tree a "Memory Tree", because every ornament holds a memory for us. We have an artficial tree due to my allergies, plus it doesn't keep dropping sharp needles the whole time it's up like a real tree. When our daughter was little we let her hang her unbreakable ornaments. We saved the breakable ones until she was old enough to handle them carefully for her safety and the safety of the ornaments. lol We also had a child safe nativity set for our daughter. This so reinforced the true meaning of Christmas for her as she spent a great deal of time playing with it. (I did require that she keep it in the living room, so the pieces wouldn't get mixed in with her toys in her bedroom.) As a young adult this is the nativity set that my daughter remembers best and cherishes. She uses it in the Sunday school class she teaches. Blessings and hugs!!!
Gorgeous! We do a live tree (We live in Oregon so we are surrounded by tree farms!) I'll have to post pics soon. After we get home, the kids get to put on their ornaments along the bottom half and then after they go to bed, the hubby and I finish adding our special ornaments up higher. My favorite ornaments are the photo ones I've made each year. I always make one with a family photo and then one for each kid with a photo from their birthday. Loved the photos of your boys near the tree. Precious memories!
Well I am glad that you asked!! We for years had a fake tree and then it died last year (talk about a black thumb) so we bought our first ever (in 18 years) real tree, it was beautiful!!! This year we bought another one, it too was beautiful then my husband put on the lights (he loves a lot of lights) it started sagging, then as we put on the ornaments (there are 7 of us in 19 years of buying them, use your imagination) Well hello Charlie Brown!! Every year we get new ones for everyone so that when they are on their own they will have some for themselves and ours won't be completely bare. Some ornaments have deep meaning, like some special thing that happened to them that year, some are not so much, like the fact that we have 5 ornaments that are all j's. (all our children's names start with j. (Some are worse and the kids are like "really, mom!?!) Each person puts on their own as we listen to Amy Grant's Home for Christmas. We do enjoy doing this together and on the day after Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas all!
Wow, what a beautiful tree! I love the duct tape idea. We use a lot of that in our home for any kind of project.


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Jennifer Aniston is in complete denial about how fast Courteney Cox's daughter, Coco, is growing up.
In celebration of Thanksgiving, Courteney expressed her gratitude for the 15-year-old by posting a sweet selfie of the pair. "So thankful," the actress captioned the photo, in which Coco looks like her mom's twin with smoky eye makeup and dark, shoulder-length locks.
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The gorgeous snap captured Jen's attention, and her reaction to Coco's maturity is so relatable. "Coco! You're growing up way too fast. Or am I protecting? I love you deep. ❤❤❤❤," wrote Aniston.
The Friends alum is Coco's godmother and has known her since she was born, so it's understandable she's having a hard time believing she's officially a teenager.
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Interview with Michael White
Michael White grew up in Beloit, Wisconsin. While studying culinary arts at Kendall College, he started his restaurant career at Spiaggia, in Chicago. He worked and studied in Italy for seven years, at restaurants including San Domenico, in Imola. After returning to the U.S., he quickly earned the executive chef position at Fiamma Osteria in New York City in 2002.
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Chef White opened two restaurants in New Jersey with Ahmass Fakahany in 2007. The duo then formed the Altamarea Group and opened Marea in 2008, which received a three-star rating from The New York Times and two Michelin stars, as well as receiving the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in 2010.
The Altamarea Group next opened Osteria Morini in downtown Manhattan and Ai Fiori in midtown, which received three stars from The New York Times and a Michelin star.
In 2011, Chef White opened Al Molo in Hong Kong, followed by Nicoletta Pizzeria in New York City's East Village in 2012. In 2013, he opened Chop Shop, his first London location, as well as his first Istanbul location, Morini—not to mention Osteria Morini in Washington, D.C., and Ristorante Morini on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Among other recent openings, the Altamarea Group launched Vaucluse, a modern French brasserie, on Park Avenue, NYC, in late 2015.
Chef White has been nominated four times for a James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York. He has released two cookbooks: Fiamma: The Essence of Contemporary Italian Cooking, and Classico e Moderno: Essential Italian Cooking.
Where did you grow up?
I'm from Wisconsin. It's very cold, so cooking and baking was very much a pastime for me, as well for my parents. We were always in the kitchen. It can be 20 below with windchill, and obviously, there's a tremendous amount of snow in the winter. Although we were not on a farm, I did gardening and picking weeds and learning how to grow vegetables at an after-school park and during summer camp.
Also, as a young person, I didn't eat frozen vegetables. My grandparents were from Norway, so we were always eating good food. I was a big kid; I was always hungry. So I knew that if I was going to get into the kitchen, the fastest way would be if I got passionate about it. When I got into the kitchen, you got in for sheer passion because there was nothing to pull you in, other than reading Gourmet magazine or my mother's huge stacks of Bon Appétit issues as a kid.
You left college for Kendall College's culinary program?
I had a football injury in college and I was prepared to say, "I'm going to be a banker." My father was a banker. And I said, "You know what, I'm going to take my chances and think about being a cook, a chef." In that day and age, it was not very fashionable to do that, not like it is today. But it was something that I was passionate about and wanted to do. So one semester I just said, "I'm going to go to Chicago, to Evanston, where Kendall is." And I did my first semester and just fell in love with it from there.
Then I was working at Spiaggia, in Chicago, at the same time, so I was getting lots of information and lots of training. So I was going to school in the morning, and in the evening I was working at the restaurant, so it was the best of both worlds—having school and on-the-job training at the same time.
That was 18 months total?
Yes. Then I went away to Italy in 1993 with the idea of staying for a bit and just getting my feet wet in Europe. So I did that, and six months turned into 11 months, and then, seven years later, I came back to America, in 1999, to be a chef de cuisine at Spiaggia.
Were you expecting to stay in Europe that long?
No, not at all. But being there, and working with the products, and learning a new language, and being part of that culture are really impressionable for a kid from the Midwest. Just being in another country, learning a whole new set of rules...I mean, you're tasting fresh ricotta and cheeses—it's just amazing, if you're passionate about what you do.
That was a long period of time, working in the South of France. But then I got to New York. We opened up Fiamma in 2002, and since then I've been in New York City, pumping right along. And now we have 17 restaurants, but prior to that I did Convivio, and L'Impero, and Alto.
Had you had a French restaurant before Vaucluse?
No. Only at Ai Fiori had I delved into a bit of the South of France, and kind of Cannes, Nice, Liguria. It's all very much homogenized.
What had attracted you specifically to Italy and Mediterranean cooking?
Italian is the ethnic food of choice for all of us in America, cooking what you grew up with. But Italian-American is very far from what, really, Italian food is about. Something like roasted chicken with porcini mushrooms, pancetta, and cabbage is extremely Italian—although it doesn't sound very Italian because we all have garlic butter and cheese and those kinds of things. When the Italian immigrants came to America in the 1890s, the teens, the '20s, the '30s, they came here and there was no olive oil. There was no rustic bread that had a thick crust on it that was grilled on the grill. They were using hoagie buns. You couldn't scratch garlic on a hoagie bun, so you would put garlic powder on it. There was no olive oil, so you put on butter or margarine, but if you wanted to look like it was abbrustolito, or grilled, you'd put paprika on it.
Basically, what we eat as Italian food has nothing to do with Italian food, just because it was a bastardization of it. You could travel throughout Italy and you would never see a lemon peel in espresso; it doesn't exist. There was no such thing as espresso in America, so they would take Folgers crystals, or Maxwell House, and they would put it in a sauté pan and toast it, but it would become bitter. So when they would make their mocha, they would put a little spritz of lemon oil on it from the zest to calm it down, the acrid qualities.
So Italian food is what we grew up with; you're growing up with the flavor-profile taste memory of garlic and oregano and tomato—but there's so much more to Italian cooking than that. That's what really got me excited about it.
So after you went back to Spiaggia, you eventually moved to New York.
I was at Spiaggia in Chicago, and I always wanted to get up to New York. I had worked as a stagiaire at Daniel, back in the early '90s—that's how I got to New York. Steve Hanson was doing an Italian restaurant on Spring and Sixth Avenue. There was no name yet, but that was Fiamma Osteria, and that's what I did with him. I came out and did a tasting and we made a deal on the spot.
That was was February 2001. I couldn't acquire good cooks; nobody knew who I was. It's very difficult for all chefs that come to New York City. If you've never been part of the fabric of the city, we are not the warmest people when it comes to an outsider coming in.
We obviously got through it. We got three stars at Fiamma, and that's really what set the tone for my career. I got a Michelin star there the first year the Michelin book came out. It's been a fantastic run.
What do you credit with how your food was received right from the start? Was it your training in Italy?
Yes, but also having the sensibility to know what people need to eat, what they want to eat, to impact flavors. You can't cook the way we cook in Italy or the way one used to cook in Europe or Italy with heaviness, because New Yorkers eat out every day. And if you eat one time in a restaurant and you eat very, very heavy, you're not apt to come back there for a couple of weeks.
So I can't do that. I have people that come to my restaurants every other day for lunch—or every day, for that matter. So the customer needs to be able to navigate a menu and not have the fear of being too full. They always want to know that they can get their service the right way, that they can get in and out.
A simple approach to Italian food is so important. You let the ingredients speak for themselves without adding so many things that don't need to be there, as well.
Do you have any specific examples of dishes that were new at the time when you were working at Fiamma Osteria?
Whether it would be garganelli with prosciutto and cream— something like that is now happenstance around New York City. We made the quills one by one, prosciutto, cream, truffle butter. People make risotto at home now, but in 1990, when I started at Spiaggia, nobody knew what that was. Homemakers now say, "We do a soffritto with mushrooms and onions," because Ina Garten is on television, or someone else is on television. So what's happened is crazy.
Could you speak a little about your foray into Hong Kong, with Al Molo?
The Altamarea Group is a brand that obviously is fixed in New York City. At the same time, our customer clientele is on the move, traveling, and it's a global city that we live in and a global world that we live in. But there are 5,000 people that work at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, and thousands of expats that live in Hong Kong. Then there is the business traveler. There's the mainland Chinese customer that we're trying to capture as well, because there's 1.4 billion.
So Al Molo is in Harbour City, a shopping center with 2.5 million square feet of retail, and a quarter-million unique visitors a day. It's a destination spot to go shopping for people from mainland China and for travelers from around the world. So the ability to be in that area and to have that much exposure is something that my partner and I were really looking for, because it can lead to bigger and better things.
Why do you think you and your business partner, Ahmass Fakahany, work so well together? What does an Egyptian-born businessman from Cairo have in common with a kid from Wisconsin?
Everything. Because we're passionate about food, we love hotels. He wanted to be a restaurateur/hotelier, but his father encouraged him to go to business school first. Thank god he did. He was the chief financial officer and co-president of Merrill Lynch until he got into restaurants. We've been together since '07, and he works with me every single day. He has a passion for food and a passion for wine.
So when both parties are in a business together and we both have the same kind of scope and process, it works well. He doesn't cook, and I don't do what he does. We complement each other really, really well.
I've always wanted to be a part of something great. Being into restaurants is a team sport and it's not a "me, me, me, me." People get into restaurants for so many other reasons, too: People want to hang out or they want to be cool, they want to invest money so they can hang out at the bar and impress their friends and things like that.
This is all about business. You can't say, "Oh, we're going to make a Michelin-starred restaurant." It's just not like that. It's me being years in Italy, years in Europe. Having a multimillion-dollar pressure on your shoulders to succeed, you have to really like what you're doing. You have to have internal drive.
Would you ever host a TV show?
I turn all that stuff down. Not that I don't like it, but I have a fiduciary responsibility to myself and my team members. We're 1,100 strong in the company now. I compete for market share on a daily basis in New York City. People ask, "Chef, why aren't you on TV on 'Iron Chef'?" Because I "Iron Chef" every day, whether it's with my lease, with my people, with the $15-an-hour wage issue. I "Iron Chef" when I sleep.
Can you talk about the differences between when you started in this business and now, when you're an owner and you oversee 1,100 people?
Tenfold. Before, it was The New York Times and The New York Post reviewing restaurants and that was it. The massive amount of content that needs to be filled on the web every day now is insane. It has changed completely. People have that much more ability to say things that they like, that they dislike. Before, there were just three or four outlets, right? Well, there are a gazillion now.
But when there are 275 people in this restaurant, that's because of 15 years of hard work, shaking hands, knowing the people, knowing their son, going to their bar mitzvahs, their birthday parties. It doesn't happen overnight. And that is why I will be here 20 years from now.
Do you ever reminisce about the earlier days?
No, because I'm a working chef. I hear young people that come into the restaurant ask, "Chef, why do you work?" And I say, "This is why we got into the business." Many chefs, they just give you a recipe and they expect you to make it and they send it back to you if it's not right. If you don't show somebody and lead by example, how are you going to do your job? That's why I have 17 restaurants.
What would you say to someone who's thinking about entering the hospitality business?
I think one of the most important things is that they get into it knowing that there is a distinct difference between cooking socially and cooking professionally. They're both beautiful, but they're different things. I also think it's really important that he or she gets into a kitchen and hangs out a little bit. I think we'd be doing people a disservice if they didn't feel what it's like to be inside of a kitchen in July, when it's 90 degrees. It's sweaty, it's hot, people are screaming. It doesn't bother me.
What is the difference between you making a meal in one of your restaurants versus making a meal at home?
It's totally relaxed, totally different. Very simple Italian-packed tuna, whole wheat toast. When I'm out of the restaurant, it's my down time. I know how to turn down a little bit. But my wife is from Italy and she's a very good home cook, so there's always good food at home. That's never a problem. But I'll cook and hang out with my daughter and my wife.
What are some traits that you think are required to succeed in this business?
You're standing on your feet all day, it's hot, people are yelling. So you have to really like what you're doing. I have worked for 25 years because I love what I do. It's not a stress to come to work, even though we do lots of numbers and there's lots of business.
You have to like to eat. There's so many chefs that are involved in the process of creating, but they really don't like to eat. That's the old adage, "Never trust a skinny chef." And I have people that say, "Oh, I want to be on TV." TV and stardom and all of that is a byproduct of doing a good job, first. We're very much committed to that, to teaching people how to do things, so when they leave here, they can go off and be somebody as well—because it's a feather in my cap. Promoting great food, keeping it going.
Do you have a philosophy about choosing employees?
I can teach anybody how to cook, if your mind is open to learning. If you can accept constructive criticism and you have this passion, those are really the major attributes of being a chef.
Because you think it's about you, it's personal—but it's about the business. It's not about Michael White. It's about you sitting down here, you're having a good experience, we're creating memories. It's because we're cooking great food. That's why I want people to be in my restaurants—great service, great atmosphere.
I don't want to let restaurants go. Meaning that many restaurants are becoming six appetizers, a couple of mid-courses, and six entrées. Because the weather and the atmosphere we're navigating right now is so difficult—leases; young people are going into Brooklyn; people are leaving the city because it's too expensive to live here. But people still want to get dressed up and have a really nice time in a nice space.
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ALL GOOD THINGS ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM ARRIVING AUGUST 20TH 'A HOPE IN HELL'
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Fresh off their first top 5 radio hit in the U.S., next-generation rock act All Good Things just announced that their debut album "A Hope In Hell" is set for an August 20 release via Better Noise Music. Thanks to the success of first single "For The Glory (featuring Hollywood Undead)" the band has reached millions of new fans across the world this past year. The song, currently nearing the top of active rock radio in the US, has received over 100 MILLION streams across platforms and – thanks to hundreds of sync licenses – has been heard during major tentpole cultural moments like this year's Stanley Cup Finals, ABC News' broadcast promo for the recent State of the Union, and multiple seasons of Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance". Full album track listing is below. "A Hope in Hell" is now available for pre-order across platforms HERE.
The album's next single "The Comeback", which was released alongside today's announcement, features Better Noise labelmate Craig Mabbitt of multi-platinum band Escape The Fate. Energy-wise, the song picks up where the first single left off, offering an anthemic experience of rebirth. It is a celebratory track about the rewards of never giving up. "The Comeback" is now available to stream and download across platforms HERE.
"We wrote this song on the plane on the way back from New York when Better Noise offered us a record deal", the band shares, offering a deeper insight into the genesis of the song. "There was a mix of emotions for us: we were super excited at being able to take our music to the next level with a record label and at the same time, devastating wildfires were destroying much of California and people were losing their homes and everything they owned. The song is about finding a new path when you think all your options are shot, but also it's about coming together and rebuilding from the ashes".
"I love working on music. I love hearing new music. I love singing new songs" Mabbitt added. "It's always flattering to be invited into someone else's creative vision. I've recently become an All Good Things fan because I think they're doing something really cool, and it's just an added bonus that we are label family".
Since signing to Better Noise Music in 2020, All Good Things have seen their music more than double in monthly streams across digital platforms, averaging over 2.8M streams per month for each of their songs. Their first single release with BNM, the high-energy track "Kingdom" was met with praise from fans and critics alike. The band released a new version of their anthemic hit "For The Glory", now featuring Johnny 3 Tears and Charlie Scene of Hollywood Undead, which appears on the soundtrack for "The Retaliators", a Better Noise film. Reaching over 100M streams, the original track has resonated with millions of listeners around the world as an unapologetic victory song for the underdog. Watch the video, directed by Wombat Fire above.
'A HOPE IN HELL' Tracklisting:
For The Glory (feat. Johnny 3 Tears and Charlie Scene of Hollywood Undead)
Do It Now (feat. Hyro the Hero)
Push Me Down
The Comeback (feat. Craig Mabbitt of Escape The Fate)
A Hope In Hell
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A great sales presentation is challenging to pull off but practice does make perfect.
If you sell things, then you must present things -- there's no getting around it. Customers have to see what you sell, what it does, and how it can benefit them. I can't count how many sales presentations I've done over the last 35 years, so I've learned a thing or two about how to do them correctly. Anyone who wants to increase revenue needs to learn to present better in order to make more sales.
1. Avoid product knowledge mistakes.
A) You know too little about the product.
B) You share too much about the product.
C) You don't know enough about the competition.
You can never know too much but you can certainly talk too much. Become an expert with your product and be able to discuss features, advantages, and benefits better than anyone. When comparing products, know how your product is different, know the advantages, and know how to make sense of the purchase.
Build your product up so much that people quit thinking about the competition. Your greatest advantage in selling anything is to be more prepared than your competition.
My goal is to get complete control while presenting. The way to gain control is by getting an agreement. Get the buyer's full attention, get the product away from other products so they aren't distracted, and present the product while in full control.
Assumptions are my way of maintaining an attitude and language of agreement. It is projecting ownership into the future. Be confident when demonstrating and create mental ownership. The word assume means to take for granted or as the truth. You make an assumption of the future and project mentally where you want to go.
You need to project ownership with words during your demonstration. Use questions that create mental ownership. "Which course will you be taking your new clubs out on?" Mental ownership precedes every purchase and a big part of how you control your presentation.
3. Find what the buyer values.
Tell your customer what you're going to do and get an agreement. Be interesting and reassure the customer with any concerns. Break your presentation down into parts. Know where you're going to start and end. Always get permission to give the presentation, address the time (how long it'll take), invite any questions they may have, and start in the same place every time you give the presentation. You want stability for yourself.
The biggest mistake salespeople do is not doing a demonstration. Another mistake is not believing that the buyer will buy. You don't think the buyer can buy because you over qualify the buyer. This is another mistake. A huge mistake many make is thinking the demo does not influence people.
Whether you sell homes or phones, a mistake is taking the product you sell for granted. You begin forgetting some of the biggest benefits of your product. Other mistakes include believing the buyer when they say the price is most important. Price is never the reason why people buy something. Some make the mistake of using slang that a buyer doesn't understand. Every industry has these words and it turns people off.
Mistake: demonstrating without tying down the advantages and benefits to the feature.
Mistake: You don't use enthusiasm. You go through the motions.
Mistake: You don't know the why -- the real reason they want the product.
Mistake: You don't build mental ownership.
Mistake: You don't demonstrate what the product is worth. You should be showing how it's double the value. If you have a $100,000 product, you want to do a $200,000 presentation.
You're going to get objections when you try and do a presentation.
Don't shortcut the presentation because this is where you build value. Understand that these objections are reactions, not valid objections. To handle these, you have to be committed to your demonstration. You have to know that your demonstration will be of value to your client.
A great sales presentation is more difficult to pull off than many people realize, but it's also easier than you can imagine once you practice enough doing it right. Nobody is born a great salesperson -- it takes training. Over the years I've codified how to sell and I want to help you turn the knowledge I've gained into revenue for yourself.


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This weekend a new type of cycling event will start on the streets in and around Portland. It's called La Boucle Des Roses and it's unlike anything we've heard of before.
French for "The Loop of Roses," La Boucle is an unsanctioned race/ride with five stages that will take place between this Saturday March 4th and Saturday April 1st.
Unsanctioned rides are nothing new to Portland. We've seen huge turnouts for the annual De Ronde and its sister ride, La Doyenne. Last weekend there were about 70 people who showed up for the Timber Logjam. "Organizers" of those events simply pick a date and mark a route (both online and on on-the-road), and sit back and let the promotion happen through word-of-mouth. What makes La Boucle different is its presentation as a multi-stage event and its use of an online platform to tabulate times and rankings for everyone who enters — regardless of when they complete the routes.
La Boucle's organizer Will Hahn says the event is a "stride forward for Oregon cycling." It's his response to a recent decline in sanctioned road racing events statewide. A recent thread on the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association email list titled, "State of Cycling, Its Decline, and Events" brought out dozens of voices to hash out the causes and impacts of why people are racing less and why events continue to fall off the racing calendar. Membership at OBRA is down as well and it seems like everyone has an opinion as to why. Ideas I've heard include: the difficulty of getting permits for road closures and a lack of affordable and quality venues; a lack of profit for promoters; people doing their own rides and "competing" via Strava; and so on.
Hahn's La Boucle avoids some of those hurdles (administrative costs) and embraces others (use of technology). The low overhead allows Hahn to manage the race for a relatively low entry fee of $22. The five-stage Baker City Classic by comparison, costs $140. To help raise money for the prize purse, Hahn has set a GoFundMe campaign. So far he's raised just $20 of his $2,000 goal. To protect himself from legal claims in the event of a crash or other accident, Hahn will require each official participant to fill out a waiver form.
The idea of this race grew out of the desire to grow Oregon bicycle racing from a grassroots level, to promote the tenets of good bike riding and to satisfy the missing holes in the Oregon race calendar. My intent is to draw riders from all walks of life, to pit them against excellent courses that would otherwise be off-limits and create a renewable system of racing that eases the costly burdens of race promotion.
These courses are (for the most part) difficult and long. They are all marked with paint, but it is up to you to know the courses before hand. There are no referees or course marshals, no follow cars and no feed zones; other than those provided by yourself. Riders who break traffic laws aren't following the tenets of good bike racing, sullying the image of cyclists and creating an unsafe atmosphere for other riders, please don't be this person.
There will be a roll-out at 10:00 am from the bottom of NW Saltzman Road (off Highway 30) for Saturday's opening time trial stage. You don't have to be there to have your time counted and the course will be "open" for a one week period. To vye for prizes however, and to be considered an official participant, you must show up to at least two Saturday starts in the five-week series.
For the full details, view the official Technical Guide (PDF).
Credit to Hahn for trying something new. Do you think it will catch on?
One of main the reason that "official" bike events have insurance and have participants sign a waiver is to protect the entities that own the properties on which the events take place. If you are putting on a century ride you will be required to have insurance to protect the county who manages the roads that the participants ride. This is an innovative event but I suspect that if anyone gets hurt the waiver will unravel very quickly if there is no insurance or permission from the managers of the roads for this event. The reason that most unofficial events don't have "official" organizers or paid entry is to make it clear to everyone that they are on their own for a personal ride. The minute that someone attempts to profit from an event on public or private land without permission from the landowners there is going to be legal issues if someone gets hurt.
I personally have done many "unofficial" events and have enjoyed them. The old Dalles Mountain 60 was a lot of fun.
The $$ entry fees, $$$ apparel, $$$$ injuries, and $$$$$ delicate bikes might be a start on the issues with amateur cycling. Insiders make srs bsns out of racing around in circles at 30mph, the rest of us see it as an expensive arms race with wargames played out on their kid's soccer night. Fortunately for cyclocross, the risks are lower and their culture doesn't take things so seriously.
I'm not averse to competition. Zwift is a non-starter, because I'd rather be outdoors taking in sights. Racing/group riding in a pack with a bunch of people yelling about pulls, leadouts, watching for traffic, stops, etc. doesn't leave me with time for my thoughts. This sort of virtual racing almost bridges the gap (no pun intended) and scratches that itch.
There could be more to life than chasing PRs and our own personal kudos. A race that isn't live is still kind of a glorified ITT, but it might be the best we've got. I wish them well.
Question Champs, Why isn't there a P-T-S to match the STP?
I was just wondering. I figure Sdot people say one thing, do another.
Sdot does not do pedestrian very well, unless commercialized.
Unlike De Ronde, The Dalles 60, etc, this event charges a fee and is considered a "race" which by having it unsanctioned, sets a dangerous precedent on so many levels imho as has been beaten to death on OBRA chat.
Speaking of unsanctioned and doing something outside of OBRA, why did the "organizer" blatantly rip off OBRA's waiver (even leaving a link to their concussion page)?
Yes. There is a big difference with someone saying "Here is a route. I'm going to ride it on 10:00 on Sunday with some of my friends." and "Here is a route. Pay me $20 and I will share some prize money with participants." In one case you are hanging out with some friends. In the other case you are an organizer just like someone putting the Shamrock run or Monster Cookie ride.
If the organizer does not have many assets there is probably a pretty low chance that they would be sued if a participant ran into someone walking a dog or some kid playing in the street but I personally would not want to have my wages garnished for the rest of my life because a jury decided that I organized an event but did not follow any of the state, county, or city rules for notification, flagging, and other safety regs which caused a bystander to be injured. When you have permits, insurance, and follow the state laws for organizing events on public streets you will have an excellent chance to convince a jury that you did all you could to make things safe for bystanders.
So why not organize a real stage race? This seems like the dilettante special, where you can pretend to be a racer but not have to commit anything to it. A lifestyle event rather than an actual race. Which is fine, but don't call it a race. And getting around the legality and insurance requirements this way does open a whole kettle of fish. It someone gets hurt, can you guarantee that their family will not take action? This is just scratching the surface. It's illegal to hold races on Oregon roads without a permit. If you charge an entry fee you open another kettle of, well you know.
Again, why not organize a real race?
I don't understand how you can call an event a race and charge an entry fee, but not be required to get a permit.
Also, sanctioning bike racing on a multi-use path like the Banks-Vernonia trial seems dangerous and irresponsible.
From reading the thread on OBRA's site, it sounds like the organizer may be changing the format to simply a "spirited group ride", and any donations would go towards prizes given out at the celebration held at Western Bike Works at the end. Not sure if that would free them up from liability or not. I think the concept is cool overall, even if the execution wasn't thought out as thoroughly as it could have been.
The litigious nature of life in America is a big part of what killed the Slug Velo rides of the previous decade.
I created Slug Velo as an INFORMAL, fun activity for adults desiring a social ride at a mellower pace.
The first ride was just a ride: meet somewhere, have some coffee, and go ride around town. Thirty people showed up and we had fun. I offered a ride each month for the first two years.
But immediately after that first ride, I was warned by lawyer friends to have waivers on hand and to require helmet use for everyone. So I did.
I was also strongly advised to purchase an insurance rider to cover the possibility of getting sued (because any waiver can be challenged in court). I didn't carry any sort of personal insurance so I skipped the rider.
In the end, Slug Velo died because it got too formal, because parents brought little kids along who were too young to safely ride in traffic and refused to keep an eye on them ("it's your ride, you should be responsible for my child," more than one parent told me — even after signing a waiver). It got to be a drag dealing with such litigious, entitled parents. Not surprisingly, no one else wanted to step up and host a ride after that. So four years after I started Slug Velo, I shut it down.
Today Slug Velo exists as a very occasional (1-2x/year at most) private event. I invite only a few friends I know and there are NO waivers. I will never host a formal organized ride that's open to the public ever again. Too much hassle, too little support and too much legal risk.
I think I understand why there are people who would welcome more unsanctioned events, races or otherwise.
But be warned! As soon as you try to make an unsanctioned event "public" you run into all sorts of headaches, legal and otherwise. Each organizer has to decide whether or not it's worth the hassle and the risk.


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