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Comox Valley marches to preserve Island's remaining old growth forests
by Pat Carl | Jun 9, 2019
Jay Van Oostdam photos
By Pat Carl
Ninety-one-year-old Elke Bibby, with her walker in tow, thought it important enough to come in from Cumberland to join the Day of Action to Save BC Forests.
So did Tallulah Patterson, owner of Little Salmon Child Care located in Courtenay's Puntledge Park. Seven of her charges accompanied her to the Courtenay courthouse lawn on their bikes and scooters and then marched down Courtenay's streets to Save BC Forests.
Along the way, cut-outs of local MLA Ronna-Rae Leonard, Minister of Forestry Doug Donaldson and Premier John Horgan made their usual statements defending the provincial government's decision to sell lots of old growth to the highest industry bidder. In a twist on the childhood game of "Simon Says," marchers were cued to turn their backs on the politicians' obfuscations.
When the marchers arrived at the Comox Valley Art Gallery, speakers stood between the two unity totems installed at the gallery entrance.
Galen Armstrong, with Sierra Club BC, looked out over the crowd of more than 100 marchers and commented on its age diversity.
"We need to talk to people of all ages, we need to expand our circle" so that we can stop logging companies from harvesting old growth," he said.
Youth Environmental Action organizer, Nalan Goosen, said young people believe they are the ones being "most affected by logging old growth" since they will inherit a damaged environment.
Describing that damage was Dr. Loys Maingon, who was arrested at Clayoquot Sound in 1992 for protecting old growth. While he presented statistical and scientific information, he did it in a passionate way that stirred the crowd.
Eartha Muirhead, who is spearheading the anti-old growth logging movement with First Nations at Schmidt Creek, said that "letters and polite emails to our provincial government may no longer be enough. We may need to lay our bodies on the line to save old growth."
Other speakers included Cumberland Councillor Vickey Brown, who told the crowd that her young son said that "there are places where people just shouldn't be" like old growth forests.
Will Cole-Hamilton, a Courtenay City Councillor, said that logging old growth is a "destructive practice" that has led to our Island's "scarred landscape."
Mark de Bruijn, a local Green Party of Canada candidate, noted that "tweaking provincial regulations is no longer enough. We need a profound overhaul of the system."
Marchers spontaneously made their own signs, like Megan Trumble. They recited poems like Lorraine's "Stained Shoes." They penned and sang their own songs like Joanna Finch's "We Are One."
"The energy" at the Day of Action "was electric," said one participant.
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Town of Comox now faces $250,000 Supreme Court lawsuit over pollution
by George Le Masurier | Jun 3, 2019
One of the few remaining daylight sections of Golf Creek at the Comox Golf Course / George Le Masurier
What started as a simple request three years ago for the Town of Comox to help defray a homeowner's expense to remediate a creek bank has since uncovered a litany of town-related problems and, as of last week, turned into a BC Supreme Court case valued at nearly a quarter-million dollars.
As reported by Decafnation in January, Norine and Ken McDonald launched a BC Small Claims Court action in June of 2016 to recover some of the $30,000 they spent to shore up a portion of Golf Creek that flows through their Jane Place property.
They took the legal action after discovering the erosion was caused by excessive municipal stormwater flowing into the creek, and because the town refused to take responsibility for the damage.
For three years, the McDonalds and the Town of Comox have been locked in a legal battle to settle the matter. The McDonalds have requested meetings to negotiate a resolution, and have been turned down. The town has responded by trying to have the case dismissed, and were denied in court.
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But in the process of preparing their case against the town, the McDonalds have learned that Golf Creek is not only plagued by high volumes of stormwater flowing into the creek, but that the water is highly polluted with heavy metals and fecal coliform counts up to 230 times higher than the provincial water quality standards. E Coli counts have exceeded provincial maximums by 500 percent.
For the McDonalds, the toxic water in their backyard created a new financial problem.
According to section 5-13 of the rules of the Real Estate Council of BC (enforced under the BC Real Estate Act), a homeowner must disclose a material latent defect that renders the property "dangerous or potentially dangerous to the occupants" or "a defect that would involve great expense to remedy."
"Now that we are aware of the pollution problem, we are obligated to disclose that problem to any prospective future buyer as well," Ken McDonald told Decafnation. "That disclosure will certainly impact property value."
So the McDonalds recently asked the court to amend the compensation they are seeking to nearly $250,000, the value of the portion of their property affected by the Creek (about 29 percent), and to move their case to the BC Supreme Court.
On Friday, May 31, Civil Court Judge Hutcheson granted the McDonald's request.
This ruling escalates the financial risk for Town of Comox taxpayers.
In a letter to the town and to the attention of Mayor Russ Arnott, the McDonalds lawyer wrote that "… other property owners and occupants in the Town of Comox may have suffered similar damages, and are considering the potential for a class action lawsuit to hold the town accountable…."
McDonald also believes the case might have province-wide significance for other property owners near urban streams.
The McDonalds' house at the end of the Jane Place cul de sac was originally built by John and Christine Robertsen in 1991. The Robertsens commissioned BBT Hardy Engineering to do a geotechnical study to determine the feasibility of building on property that included the Golf Creek ravine, and were issued a building permit and final occupancy permit by the town even though no erosion control measures were undertaken, as recommended in the study.
In 1992, the town commissioned a study by KPA Engineering that recommended four erosion control options — including a detention pond on the Comox Golf Course — to protect properties along Golf Creek. None were implemented, according to documents supplied by Ken McDonald.
Ken McDonald stands in front of his $30,000 geotextile wall to prevent further erosion from Golf Creek. The Town of Comox's refusal to help him pay for the remediation has turned into a nearly $250,000 BC Supreme Court lawsuit
Seven years later, a 1999 a KPA Engineering study gave Golf Creek the highest environmental sensitivity rating in their investigation and recommended remedial action and water quality monitoring. Neither were implemented, accord to McDonald's documents.
From 1991 to 2005, Town of Comox population grew by 70 percent, increasing stormwater flows into Golf Creek.
In 2005, the Robertsens communicated concerns about increased erosion of their property, and the town denied responsibility. The Robertsens then paid for a second geotechnical study — this one by Lewkowich Engineering — that repeated the need for "some preventative measures." None were implemented.
A 2013 assessment by McElhanney Engineering raised concerns about increased stormwater volumes and recommended the town "mitigate the impacts of discharging stormwater into sensitive receiving environments." The town did not implement the recommendations in the McElhanney report, according to McDonald.
When the Robertsens decided to sell their house in 2014, they commissioned a third geotechnical study, which reaffirmed the need for creek bank remediation.
After purchasing the house, the McDonalds hired a contractor to do the creek bank remediation, and were told by the town that erosion damage was entirely their own responsibility.
McDonald says he did not realize Golf Creek was no longer a natural waterway until June 2016 when a downstream neighbor mentioned his erosion problems and the old engineering reports indicating the creek was a key component of the town's stormwater management system. The neighbor told McDonald that the town had installed a five meter-long rock wall along his creek bank.
So the McDonalds started a BC Small Claims Court action to recover some of the cost of remediating their own section of the creek.
Two years into that legal action, McDonald had the water quality in the creek tested. The test results showed fecal coliform levels nearing that of raw sewage and concentrations of heavy metals, including mercury, that exceeded provincial guidelines.
In many cases, the level of contaminants exceeded government guidelines by more than 1,000 percent.
Last month, McDonald had the creek's water retested. While the fecal coliform tested down to 150 times provincial standards, the results showed the more dangerous E Coli levels at 2,000 Fecal Coliform Units per 100 ml. BC and Health Canada guidelines put the maximum safe level for human recreational contact with E Coli in a single sample at 400 FCU/100 ml.
E Coli in Golf Creek registered 500 percent over the BC maximum.
McDonald said the provincial environment ministry has also recently tested the creek's water, but has not yet released their results.
Attempts to meet with Town Council
McDonald says that litigation is not his preferred approach to resolving the issue, but that repeated attempts to meet with town staff and the mayor and council have been rebuffed by the town.
Prior to last fall's municipal election, McDonald filed an application to the court requesting postponement of a trial date so that he could present his case to the new mayor and council. The town opposed the postponement, but it was granted. No meeting has taken place.
In October, before the election, McDonald asked candidate Russ Arnott if council would entertain a meeting. Arnott declined in an email message.
"I did bring it up with Richard (Kanigan, the town's Chief Administrative Officer) and was advised it was in the hands of their insurance people and that it best not to engage at this particular time," Arnott replied to McDonald via email.
McDonald said two subsequent informal encounters with Arnott met with the same response.
The McDonalds are now in the process of preparing their case for the Supreme Court.
"Our object is to solve a major environmental problem that has destroyed the fresh water streams in Comox and is contaminating our marine environment," McDonald told Decafnation. "There are practical solutions to the problem. What is needed is an administration and a council that acknowledges that there is a problem and is willing to change their stormwater management practices."
Decafnation briefed Comox Mayor Russ Arnott and CAO Richard Kanigan on the content of this story prior to publication, but neither responded to an invitation to comment or provide additional information.
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A new Courtenay strategy will guide how the city manages its urban forests
by George Le Masurier | May 21, 2019
Butchers Road, Comox / George Le Masurier photo
Back in the 1980s, it was uncommon for small communities like the City of Courtenay to even think about the value of its urban forests. When the city adopted a tree bylaw in 1989 that regulated the cutting down of trees on public and private lands, Courtenay became something of a leader in urban planning.
The idea of protecting trees as a natural asset, once only the providence of environmentalists, is now a widely accepted best practice of urban planning in flourishing communities.
But the price of being an early adopter was that Courtenay had no overarching policy to guide its decision-making about how to update its tree bylaw.
That gap became obvious during a controversial review and update to the bylaw that began in 2015 and didn't conclude until 2017. Groups like the Comox Valley Development and Constructions Association pressed for a less restrictive bylaw while other groups favored greater protections.
So the Courtenay planning staff are now in the final throes of developing an Urban Forest Strategy that will guide how the city manages trees on private and public property for the next 30 years.
FURTHER READING: Review the draft Urban Forest Strategy
Comox Valley residents have just two more days to add their input into the strategy through the online survey. It closes on Thursday, May 23.
Many Vancouver Island communities have an Urban Forest strategy or are in the process of developing one.
Cumberland issued an RFP for consulting services to assist in creating its Urban Forest Management Plan, which includes trees on both public and private property within the urban landscape. Comox has a plan, but it applies only to public lands.
Courtenay Policy Planner Nancy Gothard said the Urban Forest Strategy will be a guiding document for the city that states a shared vision, goals and targets, and will inform the decision-making of future councils.
"It's a 'plan' similar to the Downtown Revitalization Plan," Gothard said. "If it's adopted by City Council it will guide decisions, but not be adopted as a bylaw."
Courtenay's urban forest today
Although the city has had a tree bylaw for 30 years, the tree canopy has been declining, especially in the last four years.
In 1996, 38 percent of the city was covered and that remained fairly constant until 2014 when it dropped by two percent, and another two percent by the end of 2016. Another one percent was lost in 2018, leaving the tree canopy now at 33 percent, most of it on privately-owned land.
That's similar to other communities, such as Campbell River. Comox is considerably lower at 23 percent.
The canopy cover target for the Pacific Northwest ecoregion is 40 percent.
The draft Urban Forest Strategy doesn't propose a specific target, yet. Gothard said the city is asking the public through the survey what the target should be and will make a specific target recommendation to council.
Why have an urban forest?
Recent research generally supports that greener communities enjoy better health and wealth, and are more active and socially bonded. Communities everywhere in the world are looking at the role of trees in providing these benefits.
"As an ecological asset, Courtenay's urban forest plays a critical role in sustaining localized hydrology, to support creek and fish health," Gothard said. "We also know that the public loves their neighbourhood forested trails and values trees for the shade, wildlife habitat and beauty they provide."
Emerging research also indicates that access to nature — and even views of it — assist with boosting immunity, more rapid healing, and reducing the anxiety and stress, ailments of modern life.
"Urban trees and forests clearly require management and care in order to provide these benefits," she said. "But when invested in, they are proving to be a very good return on investment."
According to Canopy.org trees absorb air borne pollutants, which improves health and allergic conditions. They absorb carbon dioxide, and one tree produces enough oxygen for 18 people every day.
A tree is a natural air conditioner. The evaporation from a single tree can produce the cooling effect of ten room-size, residential air conditioners operating 20 hours a day.
Tree windbreaks can reduce residential heating costs by up to 15 percent; while shading and evaporative cooling from trees can cut residential air-conditioning costs by nearly 50 percent.
Homes landscaped with trees sell more quickly and are worth 5 percent to 15 percent more than homes without trees. Where the entire street is tree-lined, homes may be worth 25 percent more.
Trees absorb and block sound, reducing noise pollution by as much as 40 percent.
URBAN FOREST STRATEGY BACKGROUND
One year after beginning a comprehensive exploration and community consultation into Courtenay's urban forest, the draft plan is now available for public feedback and we want to hear from you!
The Urban Forest Strategy will guide how we as a community protect and manage trees on public and private land within the Courtenay boundaries. The drafted Strategy recommends the vision for what our future urban forest will be and a framework for how to get there.
The survey focuses on a few key questions to gather final input on the vision, preferred canopy target, your priorities and willingness to participate in proposed urban forest actions.
All survey participants are welcome and encouraged to consult the draft Urban Forest Strategy, including previous consultation findings, which are available on the City of Courtenay's website at: www.courtenay.ca/urbanforest
Questions and written feedback may also be directed to City staff at planning@courtenay.ca
Survey closes May 23, 2019. Please encourage your friends and neighbours to participate!
— City of Courtenay website
Learn more about Salish Sea whales at Sarah Patton's Denman Island lecture
Photo courtesy of Ocean Wise
Do you want to learn about the threats facing whales in our waters and what local citizens can do to help to protect them? Comox Valley Nature has invited Sarah Patton to present an illustrated talk, The Whales in Our Waters, at 2:00 pm Thursday, May 30 in the Denman Island Community Hall, 1196 Northwest Road, Denman Island.
Patton is a Research Biologist with Ocean Wise's Marine Mammal Research Program, and coordinator of its Southern Vancouver Island Cetacean Research Initiative (SVICRI).
Ocean Wise's Marine Mammal Research Program has conducted conservation-oriented research on killer whales, belugas and other marine mammals since the mid-1980s. The program focuses on long-term studies of marine mammal populations in BC, and works across multiple science-based platforms to understand and mitigate the threats they face.
Patton's experience in her field includes nearly 20 years working on marine research and conservation within governments in Canada, Australia and the USA, with several Canadian and international non-profits, and within academia. She holds a master's degree in marine conservation biology from James Cook University in Australia, which she took as a Rotary International Academic Ambassador representing Eastern Canada. She also earned an undergraduate degree in marine biology from Dalhousie University, and a diploma in adult education.
In her spare time, Sarah is an avid outdoors woman and naturalist, and an active member of Maritime Search and Rescue Station #35 in Victoria.
Comox Valley Nature is a non-profit society affiliated with BC Nature, consisting only of unpaid volunteers. CVN fulfills its educational mandate by hosting monthly lectures, organizing free weekly guided hikes for members, and a free monthly walk open to the public. Comox Valley Nature also supports specialized groups (birding, botany, marine and shoreline, conservation, Garry Oak restoration, wetland restoration, photography and a Young Naturalists Club) which have separate monthly activities. Membership in BC Nature and Comox Valley Nature is $30 per adult or for a family.
Founded in 1966, it is one of the oldest environmental societies on the North Island. Meetings and lectures of the Comox Valley Naturalists Society are held on the third Sunday of most months at the Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay. Meetings and guided walks are open to the public, including children and youth.
This lecture is free, although a $4 contribution from non-members would be appreciated. New memberships are always welcomed.
Anyone interested in this lecture or participating in CVNS activities can contact CVN at their website.
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Survival has become uncertain for the southern resident killer whale. For years, pressures on these awe-inspiring whales — icons of the Pacific coast, culturally significant to First Nations people and beloved by tourists — have been increasing. Today, only 74 wild southern resident killer whales remain, and the next few years will determine if the group can rebuild or go functionally extinct.
Scientific name: Orcinus orca
Status: Endangered
Adult Weight: Up to five tonnes
Diet: Chinook salmon
Population: 74 individuals
Location: Southeastern Alaska to central California. In spring and summer, they can be found off the coast of British Columbia in the Salish Sea.
— World Wildlife Fund Canada
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Cumberland conference shows importance of wetlands
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Detail from the conference poster
In the Comox Valley, as in other places around the world, low-lying, water-saturated parcels of land have been the bane of builders, developers, farmers and other property owners. You can't build on a swamp and you can't farm in a marsh.
So, for generations, these soaking wet pieces of land have been drained, filled in and covered over. They have been transformed from spongy soil supporting immense biodiversity to dry and hardened sites so somebody, somewhere can make some money.
As a result, Comox Valley wetlands have slowly and steadily disappeared under the march toward urban development. Only three percent of the Valley's primordial wetlands remain intact today.
On a provincial scale, three times as many wetlands as forests have been lost to urban development. From 1970 to 2015, we have lost 35 percent of the province's wetlands.
MC and co-organizer Steve Morgan
These are disturbing trends because wetlands are such productive ecosystems. They support myriad species of wildlife, fight climate change by storing carbon, recharge our aquifers and act as natural water filters.
And, without them, our rivers — like the Puntledge and Tsolum — would more frequently overflow their banks causing flooding and erosion.
A recent weekend conference hosted by the Village of Cumberland added to the growing awareness of the importance of wetlands. Participants learned what wetlands are, why they are important and how they can be better protected.
Why are wetlands important?
Michele Jones, North Island College Instructor and senior biologist at Mimulus Biological Consultants, asked conference participants to think of all the uses for water in their lives, from bathing to drinking to creating hydro power. And then to consider the limited quantity of water available for those purposes.
While the planet is mostly water, 97 percent of it is salt water. Of the remaining three percent that is freshwater, a little more than two percent is frozen and two-thirds of the last one percent exists in the air as water vapor or in the ground.
Only 0.19 percent of the planet's water is on the surface in wetlands, streams and rivers and available for all of those human uses.
Jones described wetlands as holes in a sponge. They hold and purify water until it migrates into water courses, such as streams, or infiltrate down into aquifers. She said wetlands slowly decompose organic matter without oxygen, thereby containing carbon dioxide rather than releasing it into the atmosphere. And they enrich streams with nutrients that keep fish habitats healthy.
Jones and other speakers noted that wetlands support more than 600 wildlife species, and that wetland loss has put more than a third of them at risk of extinction.
Dr. Loys Maingon, local naturalist and semi-retired biologist who represents BC on the Canadian Society for Environmental Biology, said the recent United Nations report that a million species now face extinction because of humans' aggressive pursuit of economic growth must lead to "transformative change."
Maingon cautioned that words like "sustainability" trick us into thinking current human activity can continue without catastrophic consequences.
"Watersheds don't care about economic productivity," Maingon said. "We're living inside a wetland that is part of a rare ocean planet."
Elke Wind, a Nanaimo area biologist who has built and restored more than 20 wetlands and an expert on amphibians, said the Comox Valley is a hotspot for observations of several species of Western Toads. But that up to 50 percent of them face extinction unless we "take a broad landscape-level approach to habitat management protection."
How can wetlands be protected?
Neil Fletcher, the BC Wildlife Federation chair of its wetlands group, discussed some of the tools available to protect wetlands and advocated for a "cultural shift" from technical fixes to embracing natural science.
Fletcher highlighted the role of local governments in saving wetlands, and how smart development could co-exist with wetland preservation.
In response to a concern that local governments often permit development closer to riparian areas than the required 30 meters, if they hire consultants to say there's no threat to fish, Fletcher said it comes down to political will.
Fletcher sid the BCWF supports buffers of 150 meters to 400 meters for riparian areas, because "ten to thirty meters in insufficient,"
"There's nothing stopping a local government from enforcing the full riparian setback," he said. "It's just political will. That's where your voice is so important."
Steve Morgan, a Cumberland resident and a key organizer of the wetlands conference, reinforced the idea of public pressure and engagement.
"Our councils and staff are only as good as the people you put into office," he said. "Be aware of what's going on and who you're electing."
The conference concluded on a positive talk from Comox Valley Land Trust Executive Director Tim Ennis, who praised the recent trend toward placing monetary values on a municipal natural assets.
He said the money spent on municipal infrastructure is larger than any other available pool of funds, and it could make a huge difference if more of it was directed toward preservation and restoration of wetlands.
Organizer Morgan said that gives him hope for Comox Valley wetlands.
"The Comox Valley has a large number of concerned and active people who go out and do stuff," Morgan said. "I'd put us up against any community for engaged people."
WETLANDS?
Wetlands are submerged or permeated by water — either permanently or temporarily — and are characterized by plants adapted to saturated soil conditions. Wetlands include fresh and salt water marshes, wooded swamps, bogs, seasonally flooded forest, sloughs — any land area that can keep water long enough to let wetland plants and soils develop.
They are the only ecosystem designated for conservation by international convention. They have been recognized as particularly useful areas because:
— they absorb the impact of hydrologic events such as large waves or floods;
— they filter sediments and toxic substances;
— they supply food and essential habitat for many species of fish, shellfish, shorebirds, waterfowl, and fur-bearing mammals;
— they also provide products for food (wild rice, cranberries, fish, wildfowl), energy (peat, wood, charcoal), and building material (lumber)
— they are valuable recreational areas for activities such as hunting, fishing, and birdwatching.
— from Government of Canada
Bogs – peat-covered wetlands where due to poor drainage and the decay of plant material, the surface water is strongly acidic and low in nutrients. Although they are dominated by sphagnum mosses and shrubs, bogs may support trees.
Fens – also peat-covered wetlands, but influenced by a flow of ground-water. They tend to be basic as opposed to acidic and are more productive than a bog. Although fens are dominated by sedges they may also contain shrubs and trees.
Swamps – dominated by shrubs or trees and can be flooded seasonally or for long periods of time. Swamps are both nutrient rich and productive. Swamps can be peatlands or non-peatlands.
Shallow Open Water Ponds – These wetlands include potholes and ponds, as well as water along rivers and lakeshore areas. They are usually relatively small bodies of standing or flowing water commonly representing the stage between lakes and marshes.
Marshes – are periodically or permanently covered by standing or slowly moving water. Marshes are rich in nutrients and have emergent reeds, rushes, cattails and sedges. Water remains within the root zone of these plants for most of the growing season.
— from WetlandsAlberta.ca
by Guest Writer | May 13, 2019
By Guest Writer
Lave you ever thought of owning an electric car? If so, you're not alone. BC Hydro expects one out of every three new car buyers to reach beyond traditional fossil fuel powered vehicles and grab the keys to an electric car.
To help guide your decision-making, several Comox Valley groups have organized an electric car and bike show at 10 am on Saturday, May 18, at the Comox Valley Sports Centre on Vanier Drive.
In addition to the car show, World Community Film will screen What is the Electric Car? at 7 pm Tuesday, May 14, in the Stan Hagen Theatre on the North Island College campus.
The Move2Electric show on Saturday will feature a number of zero-emission vehicles — including a Tesla — available for test drives, a speaker series and panel discussion and information about how to access up to $16,000 in incentives for electric car purchases.
Move2Electric is hosted by: Comox Valley Nurses for Health and the Environment, CV Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC, Glasswaters Foundation, CV Electric Vehicle Association, EmotiveBC and the Watershed Sentinel magazine.
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The Kumato cherry tomato is a non-genetically modified hybrid variety tomato created from the cross of a wild and domestic tomato (varieties SX387 and/or OLMECA) by the Swiss agricultural company, Syngenta. It was created to have a superior flavor and texture compared to other tomatoes on the market and is uniquely marketed for use at all stages of ripeness. Its name comes from a George and Ira Gershwin song titled, 'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off'. The line of the song, 'You say tomato, I say tomato' playfully emphasizes the way that the Kumato is similar to the tomato yet at the same time quite unique as well.
The Kumato cherry tomato is distinguishable from other cherry tomatoes by its skin which varies in color from dark green brown when young to dark red mahogany when fully mature. The darker hued skin of the Kumato cherry tomato is a result of their high fructose content. The shape of the Kumato cherry tomato is very round and has an extremely juicy inner flesh. Kumato cherry tomatoes offer a rich tomato flavor that has a slight sour taste when young and when ripe will develop an exceptionally sweet flavor.
Kumato cherry tomatoes are cholesterol free and rich in vitamins A and C as well as in potassium and magnesium.
Kumato cherry tomatoes are a delicious substitute for classic cherry tomatoes. They can be utilized at all stages of ripeness. When dark green to brown their mild flavor and firm texture make them ideal for use raw and sliced in salads, sandwiches, pasta and flatbread. When they take on a rich red hue their texture is juicy and flavor much sweeter, at this stage they are exceptional in cooked preparations. They can be roasted, grilled, sautéed or boiled down to make sauces.
A variety of Kumato tomato was first grown in the Mediterranean on the Almerian coast. It was discovered growing on the outskirts of the family farm of Luis Ortega in the 1970's. Ortega noted the tomato was darker than a normal tomato and had a sweeter flavor. A characteristic which inspired him to create a tomato like that of what he had found, one that possessed an authentic yet superior tomato flavor and unique coloring. Specialists at the Swiss agricultural company Syngenta spent ten years experimenting with cross breeding to perfect the Kumato tomato and create what is on the market today. Tomatoes sold under the Kumato brand are grown under strict regulations in order to ensure a consistently high quality tomato. They are grown today in Spain, France, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Turkey and Canada.


There's just so much history out there to enjoy, isn't there?
For the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, have you read any of the Outlander books? They can be a bit intense (and major chunksters), but a definite favorite series of mine.
I read the first one a few years ago, but for some reason, I haven't gone back to read any of the others. I'll have to try them again!


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Андрес Пуустусмаа (, 19 июля 1971, Таллин, СССР) — эстонский киноактёр, кинорежиссёр и сценарист.

Биография
Закончил актёрский факультет Таллинской государственной консерватории (1994, в настоящее время — Эстонская академия музыки и театра), затем — Высшие курсы сценаристов и режиссёров в Москве (мастер — Владимир Наумов).

Фильмография

Актёрские работы
 1993 — Свечи в темноте — Максимилиан Шелл
 1997 — Все мои Ленины — Харди Волмер
 1999 — Подлец — Валентин Куйк
 2002 — Фердинанд — Андри Лууп
 2007 — 18-14 — профессор Гауэншильд
 2011 — Крысоловка — агент по недвижимости
 2020 — Пересуд — Илья Мельчук

Режиссёрские работы
 2005 — Убойная сила 6 (серии «Благие намерения», «Право на защиту», «Царь зверей»)
 2007 — 18-14
 2008 — Красный жемчуг любви
 2008 — Волшебник
 2010 — Мы из будущего-2
 2010 —
 2010 — Гурман
 2011 — Крысоловка
 2011 — Бесприданница (телевизионный)
 2011 — Белый песок (совместно с Мурадом Алиевым)
 2013 — Варшава
 2014 — Чужая жизнь
 2014 — Дудочка крысолова
 2017 — Зелёные коты
 2021 — Акула

Сценарные работы
 2011 — Крысоловка

Примечания

Ссылки
 На сайте IMDB

Актёры Эстонии
Кинорежиссёры Эстонии
Родившиеся в 1971 году
Выпускники Высших курсов сценаристов и режиссёров

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Longtime Spurs guard Manu Ginobili has announced his retirement from the NBA. The team issued a press release today confirming the news, while Ginobili published his own statement via Twitter.
It's the end of an era in San Antonio, where the Spurs have now seen Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Kawhi Leonard, and Ginobili depart within the last two-plus years.
Ginobili, 41, was the 57th overall pick in the 1999 draft, making him one of the best second-round picks in NBA history. After being drafted, he played overseas for three more seasons, then joined the Spurs in 2002, spending the next 16 years with the franchise.
Ginobili, who had been the NBA's second-oldest active player and now becomes one of just seven players to spend his entire career of 16 years or more with a single time, will eventually be a Hall-of-Famer.
The Spurs had Ginobili under contract for one more season and had wanted him back for the 2018/19 campaign, but he'll call it a career before finishing out that deal. If Duncan's retirement in 2016 is any indication, San Antonio figure to waive Ginobili at some point and allow him to earn his $2.5MM salary for the coming season.
Ginobili's departure will open up a spot on the Spurs' projected regular season roster — with the veteran guard no longer in the mix, the club has just 13 players on fully guaranteed contracts, so there will be at least one spot up for grabs, if not two. It's not yet clear if San Antonio will make any roster moves to fortify its backcourt in the wake of Ginobili's retirement.
According to the Spurs, Ginobili will speak to the media about his retirement decision at some point before training camps begin, but it won't happen this week.
He also won a gold medal. Against the US. Against multiple hall of famers. One of the most iconic players in the game. Players like James harden model their game after him for a reason. He is not as prolific as Kobe. But he is a definite hall of famer.
Another huge piece of the Spurs dynasty gone, sad to see him go, but it was time.
Sad day when another great leaves our game. Hopefully will see him soon back in the league in any capacity, he has got so much to teach young pups about.
They were never a super team. Manu and Parker were both late picks in the draft and grew playing alongside Duncan, they did what every organization should strive to do which is build from within like Golden State did with Curry,Klay, and Green.
So you are telling me that you don't consider the Warriors a superteam Dionis?
Parker and Manu are borderline all stars at best. Duncan is the only superstar. Bosh is a borderline all star at least while Wade and James are both superstars. Lebron's Heat team was a lot more top heavy to me.
Great now we can see Lonnie Walker IV.
Who cares about Lonnie Walker IV? He will never fill the boots of Manu.
Maybe not but a new era is upon us.
I remember manu being a freaking pest when the 04 pistons won it all. Great player, enjoyed watching him play.
Manu stayed consistently great throughout his entire career including last year where was arguably the spurs 3rd best player behind LMA and Murray.
I think he joins his brother and coaches young Argentinians back home. I will pray he works with Juan Pablo Vaulet who could start the next wave of Argentines in the NBA.


Thanks for coming to see us at the Disney Parks Moms Panel. I'm so excited about all of the incredible things headed to Walt Disney World Resort next year! We got quite a few new details about the things Guests will be able to enjoy in 2019 at yesterday's D23's Destination D Mickey Mouse Fan Celebration, including information on the two new attractions headed to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and now I'm even more excited to visit next year!
There are some amazing Special Offers available for Guests to use when visiting Walt Disney World Resort. Generally, Special Offers are announced a season in advance and currently there are offers available for Guests planning springtime vacations. We don't have any information about the availability of Special Offers for next fall or winter, but I recommend that you keep an eye on the Disney Parks Blog over the next several months for announcements about new Special Offers, as well as additional information about new things headed to the theme parks!
Keep in mind that Special Offers are generally limited and subject to availability, so if one becomes available, you will want to make your reservations as soon as possible to take advantage of the available deal! Let us know if you have additional questions as you continue planning. T-T-F-N, ta ta for now!


The Fox Valley Memory Project began in 1999, initiated by the Appleton Public Library (APL) and the Outagamie County Historical Society(OCHS). The Project's mission was to increase local history resources and awareness through collaboration, communication and web publishing.
The Library had already completed several online efforts such as the Post Crescent index and Edna Ferber web pages. The first significant collaborative effort was built around a grant received by OCHS from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, which enabled them to contract for conversion to searchable PDF format of the entire text of one of the most significant historical accounts of the area, The History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin by Thomas Ryan. APL was awarded a grant from the Appleton Library Foundation for a scanning and digitizing workstation. The Library and the Historical Society each assembled a collection of historic photographs from their collections, and these were scanned and stored. The Library also created a photo database; images in the database that corresponded to text in Ryan's history were linked to from the text.
The Fox Valley Memory Project website is hosted and coordinated by APL.


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This beautiful Gavroche took me by surprise, I thought that on me, it might perhaps be a little too bright. But when folded, the neutral colored background and feathers dominate, with the border just adding a splash of color.
I bought it with spring/summer in mind, but as it was cold today, I teamed it up with a chunky knit and my Salt&Pepper fur collar. It brightened up a gloomy day in a wonderful way!
Thank you DD, and you are so right re the enamel, should have kept it of course! Now, imagine a lagoon Bolide!
However its not needed as you look totally breathtaking as usual, I love the way the colours all blend so well.
Spring is on its way Mai Tai, she is just a little late waking up.
You look gorgeous as always, and now we are scarf twins! I agree that this scarf is surprisingly 'neutral'. It also looks beautiful with my black fox collar. Unfortunately, it is too warm to wear fur. We have been having an early Spring, which started in January!
Hey, great combination! My eye was caught by the colour of the scarf, but, you are so right; when folded it just gives a nice touch and blends in wonderfully. With a look like this spring feels coming nearer already.
...and it's a gavroche? It looks like a 45"x45" carré. However, great combination.
Beautiful splash of colour, it suits you well, I love Brazil.
Glorious MaiTai! What a breath of fresh air - perfect for this time of year!
When I wear a chunky knit sweater, I look like a fisherwoman, but you look elegant!
Thank you for your comment panoxia, and happy you enjoy my site. I think style and money are unrelated issues, and even though I am a big H aficionado, all techniques shown here will work with any other scarf too. IMO the secret to a chic look lies is the effort, and a 10 EUR scarf worn with flair and style can be absolutely traffic stopping gorgeous. Personally I enjoy mixing high end with low, the cardie is by Esprit ;-) Hope you'll continue to enjoy it here!
We're twins on the Brazil II so I feel honor to share your good taste. Love your demo with the taupe sweater. Thanks dear.


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A sterling silver dragonfly pendant, with sparkling white diamond eyes and a orange enamel body. The dragonfly has orange plique a-jour glass enamel translucent wings and is suspended from a 18 inch sterling silver spiga chain which is adjustable for shorter lengths.
A French term meaning glimpse of Day, plique- a-jour is a particularly difficult technique whereby delicate translucent enamel is suspended between threads of silver. This allows the light to pour through, illuminating the colours with the same brilliance as a stained glass window seen in sunlight.
Plique-jour is a technique used by the French enamellists Lalique and Feuillatre in the 1900's. The French term means "glimpse of day".


Maimi meets some surprising fans at her handshake events and gets fired up for the Nippon Series in her October 22nd update "Grin~(* ´∇`*) ". Full translation below.
However, even though I went outside and looked up at the night sky, I couldn't see a single star….
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A first step into Soweto
by Arnold Kirkby | 1 Nov, 2005 | Business and Marketing, Lifestyle, Wineland
The first Soweto Wine Festival was more of a media success than one of attracting vast numbers of wine lovers to taste the more than 500 wines exhibited by about 86 wineries and wine companies. Sponsored by the South African Wine Industry Trust (Sawit) in conjunction with the Sowetan newspaper, the festival formed part of Soweto's centenary celebrations, which added to the atmosphere. Organisers of the event, however, are extremely pleased with the inaugural festival held at the Ubuntu Kraal in Orlando West in early September and are already working on marketing strategies for next year. These include expanding into a marquee tent, and pitching the event at middle management structures and not just the top end of the corporate ladder.
From a practical point of view the show will start later on the Friday night and close later, to allow patrons to get there through the rush-hour traffic.
"We were breaking new ground; it was exciting to be able to get in and do the festival. Although 1 500 wine lovers attended, this is half the number we were hoping for," said Marilyn Cooper, one of four organisers.
Marilyn is the director of the South African Wine Academy in Gauteng and her partners in the venture are Gauteng entrepreneurs Mnikelo Mangciphu and Thami Xaba and Lyn Woodward, an organiser with the Wine Academy. The Academy provides courses for people who want to gain a deeper understanding of wine.
"At the end of the day it was a small step, but we know that it will grow; everybody who attended and those producers we spoke to afterwards understood this. Coming in at ground level will stand them in good stead next year.
"There were even some white folk coming to enjoy the festival, including one guy who travelled up from Durban.
"The festival made international news around the world and we had television teams filming and journalists writing about the event. That was incredible.
"It was also very encouraging to have so many empowerment companies showing their wines. Again this is a promising start and we would like to see this segment growing along with the rest of the festival next year," said Marilyn.
One of the producers who went the whole nine yards and experienced Soweto to the full was David Sonnenberg, proprietor of Diemersfontein Wines near Wellington. He and a small team, which included Cedric de Wet and Spangeziswe Yekiso, stayed over in a guesthouse in Vizilikazi Street, close to the venue.
"It is an experience every white South African should have. The area where we stayed was vibrant and dynamic. We went to restaurants and taverns, the Mandela House and Hector Pietersen Memorial Museum and there was an amazing amount of goodwill.
"With regard to the show, we would obviously liked to have seen more people, but it was a good start and I have no doubt that it will develop. We launched our new Tokazani empowerment wine which we are doing in conjunction with our personnel and outside black investors.
"As with any wine show we found people who were venturing into wine for the first time and others whose wine knowledge was profound. It is a show we will be attending again next year," David said.
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This post is the first one of many about my next big thing on Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
I'm going in deep and hard into The Empire army. Oh, gosh. I'm little bit overwhelmed with my ideas and plans for next few months. I was playing Skaven by far, and I remember how much time it took me to paint all the models for the army. I was exhausted and bored at the same time. Too many miniatures of the same type – it can be tiresome.
So why I'm putting myself into this by starting to collect another Warhammer Fantasy army?
First. I love Warhammer Fantasy. Models and Old World setting. With coming of Age of Sigmar, when initial disappointment went off, I realised that Games Workshop in fact made me a huge favour. Now, I was assured, there's no new rules nor models will be released and Warhammer Fantasy is the closed chapter. I could finally concentrate on my favourite armies and miniatures, and not to be worried, that new army book will ruin my effort of collecting armies. Of course I ignored Age of Sigmar completely and focused on my beloved era of WHFB -1990s. The time I started my adventure with wargaming. So called – The Middlehammer, or simply 4/5th edition of Warhammer Fantasy. The era, in my opinion, with the best sculpts ever created. My sentiment for that edition is huge. I have found a few gamers with attitude similar to mine and we have quite a bunch of oldtimers playing good old fantasy Warhammer.
Following 4/5th edition Army Book rules, right now I'm in possession of 4500 points of regiments and war machines. I didn't count the characters and I didn't add any magic items. Only regiments with command groups and champions (if any). That's huge! Even my Skaven don't have that much manpower!
After short inner brain storming, I decided such a powerful army could be only from one place in The Empire. The capital. Altdorf army following their beloved Emperor, Karl Franz.
And the Altdorf colours are nice to paint as well – blue and red with some white additions. They would look so lovely on the tabletop:).
All come unpainted, the plan is to get it all done until July, right before BOYL 2017, where my army is about to have a premier performance. It's manageable, but most probably a few regiment will be crossed out of the list to make it done. The point is to have a nice looking playable army:). Keep fingers crossed for me.
When I write this post, the first regiment is ready. 25 Halberdiers in red and blue. Proudly representing their home city. Veterans of many wars – against Greenskins or Beasts in Reikland Forest. Their leader – Ursus Shmidt, is charismatic and skilled fighter. Lost his eye during a ferocious fight with a Swamp Troll, but he never, despite his age, lost his fighting spirit! That's why his people love him and will follow him even to The Chaos Wastelands!
25 Halberdiers. I was super excited while painted this models. And, like I wrote, blue and red are one of my favourite to paint, so these guys' scheme is super awesome combo IMO.
Red. Base is Mephiston Red. For recesses and shaded areas I added some Abaddon Black. Highlights are mixture of glazing and wet blending. The brightest colour is Wild Rider Red glazed and blended with Evil Moon Scarlet. Edges with Wild Rider Red with a bit of white.
Blue. (made same like red). Base – Maccrage Blue. Recesses – Maccrage Blue with black. Highlights – Calgar Blue (with little bit of white at most highlighted areas). And then glazing/ wet blending with Altdorf Guard Blue.
If you have any particular questions about anything, go ahead, ask:) I'll be more than happy to answer all questions about my painting process.
The banner. It's not freehand. Sorry, I cant' do it properly:). The banner is a scan and print from 'Heraldry of The Empire' book and I traced the lines with my brush the best I could. And result – not so bad. Don't you think?
The bases. This time no Micro Art Studio:). I found another awesome manufacturer of resin bases. Base-X-of-War is the name and they have plenty of bases and moving traces in their offer. For my Empire army I chose Battlefield Bases. Added a few tuffs here and there and the unit looks great.
My painting schedule is really tight, and in order to paint all of the necessary models I need to stick to it no matter what. This will mean to me many sleepless nights, I guess:).
Next, will the big boss himself – Karl Franz The Emperor. Super cool!
Where are you flying in to mate? If London, I can probably give you a lift?
Perfect – Luton is en route for me 🙂 I assume you are on Facebook? If so, pm me – Alex Jelley – and we'll get it sorted.
Yes so far I've got 10 handgunners and 5 footknights painted… but I have got about 5000 points worth now assembled! I will be slowly painting my way through them this year!
I love this blog and I agree completely. I started with WFB 5th, dropped out when 6th came out and am now returning to Herohammer with a passion some 2 decades on. Age of Sigmar was a real boon for us. It put a final bookend on the Warhammer genre and paved the way for a real Renaissance for Herohammer interest. Do you know of any good forums or groups for people rediscovering 1990's GW games?
check facebook groups: Middlehammer (especially acitve), Herohammer International, or even Oldhammer Community.
A beautiful unit. The metallics are superb and you achieved some pretty smooth transitions. I also dig the colour scheme.
God I miss the Old World!
Awesome! I found your blog while looking for information on a specific type of Skaven weapon, which I assume is early Oldhammer (perhaps specifically designed for Mordheim), based on the model I have. I have not found any source with stats for this item; in fact, I'm not even sure what it's called… it looks like a net (catcher) on a Clan Eshin model, possibly an Assassin.


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Revolution in Colour tells the story of Ireland's struggle for independence during the early decades of the 20th Century. It shows for the first time the Ireland of the period not in black and white but in colour. The newsreel, sourced primarily from the British Pathé archive with additional footage from the British Film Institute and the Irish Film Archive, has been painstakingly restored, colourised and delivered in High Definition. The remarkable collection of photographs featured, sourced from private and state institutions also underwent the colourisation process. The end result creates a powerful emotional connection with the people, the personalities, and the past. It brings Irish history alive.
Written by the distinguished historian, Professor Eunan O'Halpin, this two part series, examines the years leading up to British general election of 1918. The gradual radicalisation of Nationalists and Unionists saw the island's political landscape forever transformed. The old political order would be gradually overturned and its people divided with devastating consequences.
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Stephen Easton sat in a small Spartan office behind a desktop cluttered with computer printouts detailing his latest calculations. A senior scholar at Canada's conservative think-tank, the Fraser Institute, and an economics professor at Simon Fraser University, Easton was astonished by the numbers his formula spat out. If they were correct, marijuana was Canada's most valuable agricultural product. Forget iconic wheat–golden shimmering symbol of the country's farming heartland. Stinky, lime-green pot contributed more to the economy. Much, much more.
By 2000, Easton figured, Canadian cannabis consumers annually spent at least $1.8 billion on bud. That's almost as much as Canadians spent on tobacco – $2.3 billion. And it meant consumption in the previous decade had doubled. Easton also believed exports to the United States dwarfed those figures.
The latest figures are as staggering. Pot production in B.C., which grows the lion's share of the country's crop, has more than tripled during the past seven years – from an estimated 19,727 kilograms in 1997 to 79,817 kilograms in 2003. In Ontario and Quebec, the growth in hydroponic production has been exponential. Growing pot indoors has become uncomplicated and highly profitable – in just three months, a closet, a basement, a bedroom, a barn or a bathroom anywhere can produce a down payment on a house. In most cities, towns, villages and rural areas across the continent, someone is doing it. The same is true in Europe. Hydroponic sales in sunny Spain are skyrocketing – and the growers are not producing heirloom tomatoes.
Easton estimated that based on the most recently available 2003 figures, wholesale marijuana was worth about $2.2 billion to the B.C. economy – $7.7 billion retail if consumers paid top dollar. That's larger than the province's legitimate agricultural sector. Across the country, he estimated that the industry was worth $5.7 billion wholesale and $19.5 billion if high-end retail pricing is assumed. That's about the size of the Canadian cattle industry ($5.2 billion).
Last year, more than 25,000 growing operations across British Columbia came to the attention of police, but they investigated fewer than 17,000 and only about half of those were prosecuted. More than half of the grow operations police raided over the past seven years resulted in seizures but no charges. Police are charging people in fewer and fewer cases and seem to be increasingly reluctant to act at all. The same is true elsewhere in Canada.
Prosecutors and the judiciary also look like they are throwing up their hands. Large numbers of marijuana cases are dealt with via stays of proceedings and conditional sentence- or probation-based plea bargains. Nearly half end in conditional sentences, up from roughly one in ten people receiving such a penalty in 1997. Only one in ten of the 3,364 convicted in 2003 were imprisoned and on average they were jailed for less than five months. That's about half the ratio of those jailed in 1997. British Columbia is Canada's most lenient jurisdiction, but across the country the judiciary is vexed about the question of sentencing in marijuana cases.
Nationally, 225 offenders were imprisoned for cultivation at the end of 2000 – and on average such inmates spent less than a year in custody, or eighteen months if they were convicted for importing. Traffickers on average spend only two years inside.
Consider that half of those convicted in British Columbia alone would have been jailed for five years or more under U.S. sentencing guidelines. Fully 77 per cent of those convicted would have served at least three months if caught in the United States.
But even in jurisdictions where tough sentences are meted out, marijuana cultivation is a fact of life. The law is no longer a risk to growers, it is an operating cost. Jail penalties be damned: consumers want to have good dope, and in most places the only way to do that is to grow your own – which has the benefit of allowing you to sell the excess to your friends and pocket the profit.
It's time to admit the cannabis prohibition is a failure. More and more, it is revealed as a public policy disaster, a crisis for our communities and local politicians, and a legal quagmire for police and judges. The damage prohibition causes is exacerbated by the violence endemic to the pernicious black market it spawns, eroding confidence in law enforcement and respect for the courts. Taxpayers must deal with the problems of the illicit pot industry but receive no benefit, and as long as it's underground, we have no ability to regulate it or control the commerce.
Decriminalization, which is Ottawa's strategy, is a halfway house that makes users feel more relaxed but does nothing to eliminate the underground market and its attendant horrors. Stiffer sentences and more jail time are not a realistic answer, though justice and public safety ministers from Ottawa, Washington and European capitals continue to insist on them. There are far too many people involved. We cannot build enough prisons and we cannot deal with the social fallout.
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Mogwai – Top Ten
By Matthew Eland on	 19th November 2018 Top 10
Ahead of Mogwai's Liverpool Olympia date, Getintothis' Matthew Eland reflects on a 23-year-long career and selects ten of the best.
This week sees the return to Liverpool of post-rock titans Mogwai, whose last appearance in the city was back in October 2014 at Camp and Furnace.
In preparation for this, we at Getintothis decided it would be a good time to revisit their back catalogue. In many ways it's a thankless task; since their formation in 1995 they've spent the subsequent 23 years knocking out EPs, singles, studio albums and soundtracks. Slouches they are not.
Given the sheer volume of material, it's inevitable that there'll be some notable omissions here, but hopefully this list will reflect the breath of the band's scope. 'Gwai neophytes may be surprised to find that their preconceptions (boring post-rock! no words!) of the band are inaccurate, and long-term fans will find plenty to enjoy (and maybe disagree with) in the following list. Without any further ado…
10. Mogwai Fear Satan from Young Team (1997)
We could have begun with something from early compilation Ten Rapid, maybe even Ithica 27 ϕ 9. But where better to start than Mogwai Fear Satan from Young Team? The song still survives in their setlist, and many a Mogwai fan cites the sudden explosion of noise half way through as being the point at which they fell in love with the band.
Named after Dominic Aitchison's childhood nightmares, the version of the song you may hear at the Olympia starts with shimmering, flickering guitar lines, which build in intensity as Martin Bulloch's drums join in. The song plateaus and slowly diminishes until it's just Stuart Braithwaite's effects quietly echoing around the room. What follows is part telepathy, part time-worn instinct, and all explosive volume. A quick nod, a barely perceptible tom roll, and there's a detonation of noise and distortion. Make sure you're ready for this elemental display of righteous fury; many an unsuspecting punter has spilled a drink at this point.
It's worth revisiting the original album version, in which Stuart's guitar line is played on the flute. The lengthy outro meanders and stretches out in a pleasingly unfocused way, a trait often repeated in the band's early work. It ends with Close Encounters of the Third Kind-style effect swells, and keeps toying with you up to the 16-minute mark.
9. CODY from Come On Die Young (1999)
For second studio album Come on Die Young, the band wanted to go back to basics, saving a lot of the volume for final song Christmas Steps. The result is an austere, atmospheric record, with fewer of the radio-friendly unit-shifters that would be a staple of their later career. As such, it's something of a cult favourite among fans of the band. It starts with a recording of Iggy Pop's 1977 CBS appearance overlaid with Slint-esque guitar picking, which is followed by this tune, an acronym of the album's title (which is itself based on the name of a Glasgow gang, something of a recurring theme for Mogwai; see also, Young Team).
This is the band at their quietest, but with none of the resignation that sometimes permeates their later slow numbers. It also features vocals, which isn't as much of a rarity as people think. It's a vulnerable, 4am song, to be played when you're resigned to the neighbour's noise and to not sleeping; when you're waiting for dawn and need extraterrestrial, reversed slide-guitar for company.
8. Sine Wave from Rock Action (2001)
2001's Rock Action documents the sound of a band in transition. With keyboardist Barry Burns now a fully paid-up member, they began to experiment with synths and other electronics. It doesn't quite fully hang together as an album – the Gruff Rhys track Dial: Revenge still seems like something of an oddity – but it does have 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong and Secret Pint, which still sound absolutely unimpeachable.
Pick of the lot is Sine Wave, with Burns's vocodered vocals coming to the fore. Check out its haunting appearance in the ATP film, which is evocative of frozen chalets and windy, deserted beaches, as its hissing, mechanical beat builds up against an epilptic, strobing delay.
7. My Father My King single (2001)
Braithwaite has said that they had a wealth of material for Rock Action, but deliberately held back to distinguish themselves from Godspeed and their copyists, who were delivering records with very long running times. In retrospect, this was a mistake, one that the band tried to rectify with the release of My Father My King as a stand-alone single.
The result is stunning. Based on the Jewish prayer Avinu Malkeinu, My Father My King stalks in with the same malevolence of Like Herod, but instead of sneaking up on you and jumping out, you can already see it in the corner of your eye, approaching. It builds and builds until it's a searing cacophony. When you think it's over, it starts again, like all the best movie serial killers. Its twitches and hypnic jerks fight against the silence, with the rapid eye moments of some relict, gargantuan nether-god awaking from a hundred millenniums of distempered slumber.
The recording captures the ferocity of their live assault, when all knobs are to the right; the product perhaps of working with Steve Albini, a producer we're always surprised to find they haven't done more with.
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6. Hunted by a Freak from Happy Songs for Happy People (2003)
It's sometimes difficult to account for the longevity of certain bands.
Some acts have one impressive first batch of tunes and fade away almost immediately. Others rise and fall, and exist for years afterwards on a plateau of releasing new albums to supplement the hits. So how have Mogwai, an act who were still finding their feet on their first four albums, stayed relevant and maintained the band as a full-time concern?
The answer is Happy Songs for Happy People. It's here, on their 2003 album, that everything comes together. And it all starts with Hunted by a Freak. In many ways it's an unassuming number, but further inspection reveals beguiling complexity. Those heavily vocodered vocals. That liminal, spooky guitar picking. Another live staple, Hunted by a Freak displays the group's newly mastered use of restraint in their music. There's a time and a place for noise – indeed, that comes in the middle of this record, with Ratts of the Capital – but this song shows that Mogwai know exactly when to deploy it.
5. Auto Rock from Mr Beast (2006)
Newly buoyed by the success of their previous album and fresh from building Castle of Doom, their new studio, Mogwai embarked on the recording of their fifth album. There was no small amount of hype behind it. Their manager at the time, Alan McGee, said that it was "probably the best art rock album I've been involved with since Loveless. In fact, it's possibly better than Loveless". This was probably a complicated dig at Kevin Shields, but nevertheless, it reveals something about the album's scope. It's possibly their most accessible and melodic collection of songs, and maybe their most atmospheric album (named after a sign the band saw a taxi driver holding at Florida airport).
Opener Auto Rock was used in Michael Mann's Miami Vice remake; a reflection of the field they were playing in by that point. It's vast and hopeful, and clear-eyed and steady at the same time. It's one slow, steadily pounding drum beat with building guitars and electronics around a vintage Barry Burns piano riff. This cheeky little number is best paired with the robust attentions of Glasgow Mega-Snake to obliterate the palette.
4. The Precipice from The Hawk is Howling (2008)
This track closes Stuart's least favourite album, The Hawk is Howling. For our money though, it's their most underrated record. It was originally composed as a soundtrack to a film, but the filmakers fired the group when the unmastered output didn't sound enough like Sigur Ros. I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead is the only track from this era to regularly make the live set, but the group have missed a trick in retiring The Precipice.
It's another onimous, unsettling number, starting off slowly and building in urgency until the calm subtle piano lines have mutated into chugging distortion and meandering, anxiety-attack-inducing guitar riffs.
3. Rano Pano from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (2011)
Following the release of Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will in 2011, Mogwai felt like a very big band. When they headlined the main stage at Primavera that year they had a huge crowd eating out of their hand, as they switched from motornik kraut-rock to epic instrumental with consumate ease. They also had occassional touring member Luke Sutherland assisting on vocals and violin, which added an extra dimension to their live sound, and surprised many who'd had them down as a boring instrumental band.
Rano Pano is emblematic of their sound at this point, and evocative of the record's artwork: that of moody, sodium-lit cityscapes, of vast outlooks and large vistas. It combines digital, Michael Mann cinematics with the steady, measured power they cultivated in the Mr Beast era. Three guitars all joining an operatic riff one by one before being engulfed in fuzz, lead by a trademark understated Bulloch drumbeat as a counterpoint to the main melody, played with synthy, incandescent flourishes to leave retina ghosts blurring your vision.
2. The Lord is Out of Control from Rave Tapes (2014)
Rave Tapes is something of a patchy affair. Reading between the lines, it's telling that founder member John Cummings left the group after this one; the mish-mash of styles hints at a lack of cohesion within the group. Advance single Remurdered had had fans salivating; a tense, palm-muted guitar line mixed with Errors-style electronics, culminating in a huge-sounding drop into empty space and pounding drums. It suggested that their lengthy flirtations with electronica had blossomed into a full-on sexy relationship.
However, this theme was not sustained throughout the album, and in another questionable move they left off the excellent Teenage Exorcists, opting to release it later as a single. In the album's defence though, it does finish with The Lord is Out of Control; a funereal, elagic, slow-paced death-march into Saturn's hexagonal polar storm, where your very DNA is eradiated and dissolved and swept out of all existance into the turbulent flow of frozen ammonia hail.
1. Don't Believe the Fife from Every Country's Sun (2017)
After Cumming's departure, the band regrouped. They headed to upstate New York to watch horror movies and drink whiskey during a frigid, frozen winter. The result was Every Country's Sun: an album with a cohesion not heard since Happy Songs for Happy People, with a warmth that belies the surroundings of its conception; an album that marries their Weekend Nachos side with their ambient work on the Before the Flood soundtrack.
Nowhere is this more evident than on Don't Belive the Fife. It's the point on the album when the distortion comes out. For half the song it's all twinkling motes of light, laconic bass riffs, echoes in an interstellar well; then something catches, a melody emerges: a hopeful human pulse, breaking free from the dismal purgatorial depths of a dark, drifting eternity.
And then, the simultaneous rise of every country's sun; synth-shoots break free and distortion blooms, propelled by the singular intent of Bulloch's drumming. Bulloch should return behind the kit at the Olympia gig; ill health forced him to miss the summer tour dates, and prompted worrying memories of 2008 when his pacemaker had "broken skin and infected the surrounding area". It's good to have him back.
At this year's Primavera, Don't Believe the Fife provided a moment of pure catharsis, and demonstrated that Mogwai are still delivering the goods, 23 years into their career. They're set to level the Olympia and the surrounding environs up and down West Derby road on Thursday; don't miss out.
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In Trump's Brawl With California, the Law Is With California—but Will That Matter?
"Automakers aren't asking for this either."
Nicole Javorsky
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that it will revoke California's waiver that allowed the state to enforce its own tailpipe greenhouse gas emission standards. On Friday, California and 23 other states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to challenge the move.
When the Trump administration announced it would roll back Obama-era fuel efficiency standards in 2018, 17 states—including California—sued the EPA. Then, this year in July, California brokered a deal with four automobile companies—Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW of North America—to make cars that would average nearly 50 miles per gallon by 2026, just one year later than the target the Obama administration set. That was quickly followed by an attack by the Trump administration. As I wrote Tuesday:
The move will come after the Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into the four automakers that had bypassed the White House to reach a deal on emissions rules directly with California. After the Wall Street Journal uncovered details of the probe in September, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Representative David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said in a joint statement that it was "only the latest in a profoundly troubling pattern of abuse of power that has flourished under the Trump presidency."
The goal of the recent revocation, according to the Trump administration, is to have only one rule for automakers to follow in the US.
"One national standard provides much-needed regulatory certainty for the automotive industry," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement Thursday. The move was immediately challenged by California, and the state followed up by announcing the lawsuit today. "Two courts have already upheld California's emissions standards…Yet, the Administration insists on attacking the authority of California and other states to tackle air pollution and protect public health," California's attorney general Xavier Becerra said in a statement. But even though the administration promises more "certainty" for automakers through having one rule to follow, legal experts say the move actually leads to more uncertainty around fuel efficiency standards.
Even during the early years of the Clean Air Act, which was initially established in 1970— but had major revisions in 1977 and 1990—there have been two standards for vehicle emissions: the national standard and the California standard. The Clean Air Act was in fact designed to allow a state like California to apply for a waiver to adopt stricter standards than those proposed by the federal government. Once the EPA granted California the waiver to have stricter standards than the federal government, 13 states and the District of Columbia followed California's lead. After all, states have different levels of pollution and thus, different needs when it comes to emission regulations.
"The rhetoric you're hearing from the administration is 'one standard, one standard, one standard,'" says University of San Francisco law professor Alice Kaswan. "But with the Clean Air Act, we've always had two standards for the last 40 or 50 years. The automakers appear to have survived that."
At a time when the market is demanding more fuel efficient cars, the Trump administration's action to revoke California's authority to have its own standard while pursuing a more lax federal standard helps neither the environment nor the auto industry.
"One thing that we've been over the course of developments on this is automakers aren't asking for this either," says UCLA law professor Julia E. Stein. "They're concerned about regulatory uncertainty."
The legal battle is likely to be protracted, but if the EPA's revocation succeeds, the 13 states that follow California's standard would have a harder time meeting their air pollution reduction goals because they would no longer be able to adopt California's rules. Instead they would be forced to comply with standards that are less rigorous. That's why Stein says the Trump administration's action is also "bad policy" for public health.
The main reason California implemented the stricter standards for vehicle emissions was because of its smog pollution problem. "Historically, under the Clean Air Act, smog pollution is exactly the kind of pollution that has been recognized as a compelling and extraordinary circumstance" to grant a waiver Stein says. "And there is no reason to think that's changed because as the administration itself pointed out, California still struggles to get its air pollution under control."
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CES 2020: 6 Incredible Coolest Products Showcased so Far
Posted on Thursday January 9, 2020 by KingNebx
CES 2020 is currently ongoing and tech giants are busy showcasing crazy innovative products that will change the face of technology.
So many interesting products have been showcased at the ongoing event, but we've selected few announced at the events.
Lenovo: World First Foldable Laptop
Lenovo unveiled the world's first foldable laptop (with a foldable display) at CES 2020 and it is not a concept anymore. Its name is ThinkPad X1 Fold and it will be available to purchase this year.
The laptop is equipped with a Plastic OLED display boasting a 4:3 aspect ratio, a 13.3-inch diagonal and a 2K resolution. The laptop weighs just 999 grams but it includes a good 55 Wh battery lasting 11 hours on a single charge, according to Lenovo.
It is fueled by a next gen Intel Core CPU paired with 8 GB of LPDDR4x RAM and up to 1 TB of internal storage (SSD), it includes a SIM card slot and two USB Type-C ports. The laptop may include a 5G modem.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite and S10 Lite
Samsung showcased its new Galaxy Note 10 Lite and S10 Lite at CES 2020. The two devices which will hit the shelves in Q1 2020 are the first Lite variants of Samsung's flagship lineups.
The Galaxy Note 10 Lite is the first "affordable" Note device and it provides all the innovative and unique features of the S Pen for a listing price of just €599.
Samsung Neon
Samsung NEON is not a hardware product but it is a new technology. It is a technology able to give a body and a face to chatbots. It creates avatars able to interact with real people for a series of tasks to be accomplished.
The software managing the avatars is able to generate new expressions, movements, and dialogues in real time, automatically, in just a few milliseconds. This will make the virtual avatar extremely realistic.
OnePlus Concept Phone Invisible camera
OnePlus showcased this concept phone at CES and its key feature is the invisible camera technology. The cameras are placed underneath an electrochromic glass which can change from opaque to transparent making the cameras effectively invisible while not used.
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The company said that it takes 0.7 seconds for the glass to transition from transparent to opaque or vice versa. The glass is also able to become semi-transparent so that the user can shoot better photos in very bright sunlight. The panel includes two 0.1 mm glass panels and organic material for a thickness of just 0.35 mm.
CoolPad First 5G Phone
Coolpad showed off its first 5G smartphone at CES 2020. Named Coolpad Legacy 5G, it will cost $359 and offer a range of modest specifications for that price point, one of which is its dual 48MP + 8MP rear dual camera setup.
It has a large 6.53" FHD+ IPS LCD display, which is based on Pixel work's HDR technology and paired with HDR 10 support, as well as a waterdrop notch. For selfies, you have a 16MP shooter hidden in the notch.
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It houses 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage and support for microSD cards of up to 128GB. The Legacy 5G packs a 4,000mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging.
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For over a year we have been talking about 5G smartphones; now it is time to start talking about 5G notebooks. Dell, HP, and Lenovo showcased their first laptops with 5G connectivity at CES 2020.
Dell already unveiled the first 5G laptop a few days ago, but at CES 2020 it announced its 2 in 1 version. HP announced the Elite Dragonfly G2, while Lenovo came up with the Yoga 5G 2 in 1. The laptops support 5G connectivity thanks to Qualcomm's modem and they all run Windows 10.
It delivers high-speed 5G network connectivity, which is up to 10 times faster than 4G, through a 5G service provider when on the move and reliable WiFi access at home.
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