Additional London Double Header tickets have been released by Premiership Rugby for Saracens' clash against newly promoted side Worcester Warriors at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday November 28th.
Mark McCall's Premiership winners will be facing the resurgent Warriors outfit in Saracens first game back at Twickenham Stadium since the club's illustrious Premiership Final victory against Bath Rugby on May 30th.
Middle tier tickets are now available for purchase from the Saracens online ticket office by clicking here. Alternatively you can call Saracens Supporter Services on 0203 675 7200.


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But it's a great item to have in your repertoire. For those times when you want something sweet but don't want to make a whole pan. Or when you want something sweet but don't want to eat a whole pan!
It's easy, quick, chocolatey and delicious. And did I say easy?
It comes together in one cup or small bowl, and cooks in less than 2 minutes.
In your cup or small bowl, mix together the dry ingredients. Add the wet and stir together. Slice the banana and stir in (or if you want to get more elaborate, use a different bowl or cup and layer the banana and chocolate mixture).
Top with a spoonful of cashew cream or a scoop of coconut ice-cream and it's a great quick dessert! A chocolatey-dense brownie with warm, soft bananas and your favorite creamy topping.
Love the combination. Plus it is easy peazy. Got try this.


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You'll Never Guess Which Rapper Is Responsible for McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" Jingle
By Alex Orlov
Ba da bah bah bah... Prepare for your mind to explode a little bit.
In a recent interview, hip-hop industry veteran Steve Stoute revealed to radio station, WQHT, or Hot 97 that Pusha T was the brains behind McDonald's "I'm lovin' it" jingle, Complex reported.
Source: Jack Plunkett/AP
Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams may have sung and produced the jingle the whole world knows and can't get out of their heads, but Stoute said Pusha T, president of G.O.O.D. Music, actually wrote the words to the catchy, ubiquitous song.
A hungry rapper breaks out: One of Stoute's first projects with his marketing company Translation was creating "I'm Lovin' It" for McDonald's in 2004, he said. Williams was tasked with creating a hip and fresh song for McDonald's, and Pusha T was there in the clutch with memorable lyrics that would lift up a sagging fast food brand for over a decade.
The original song even features a few verses rapped by Pusha himself.
Turns out there's a long history of musicians dabbling in commercial jingles. Mental Floss noted that Jack White penned a song for Coca-Cola, the Rolling Stones performed a Rice Krispies jingle and even Barry Manilow sung a sweet tune during State Farm's 1976 Super Bowl commercial. Too bad Manilow only got $500 for the jingle, which State Farm uses to this day.
While the masterminds behind many jingles often remain a mystery, now that we know who's responsible for McD's catchy tune, we're kind of lovin' it a little bit more.

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Samsung Dapps Galaxy Store – Bitcoin Today [April 28 2020]
1. Bitcoin Hits Highest Level Since Black Thursday Amid Halving Buzz
2. Ether Trounces Bitcoin as Network Sees Surge in Stablecoins
3. Samsung Adds Tron Dapps to Galaxy Store
Bitcoin Hits Highest Level Since Black Thursday Amid Halving Buzz
Bitcoin's rally is gathering pace with the mining reward halving now just 14 days away.
The top cryptocurrency by market value rose to $7,800 early on Monday to hit its highest level since March 12 – dubbed "Black Thursday" – when prices fell from $7,950 to $4,700 as the coronavirus pandemic crashed most markets.
At press time, bitcoin is changing hands near $7,700, representing a 100 percent gain on the low of $3,867 registered on March 13.
While the major part of the recovery rally could be associated with the uptick in the S&P 500 and the global stock markets, the recent move from the April 21 low of $6,800 to $7,800 looks to have been fueled by factors other than moves in equities.
Bitcoin looks to have partly decoupled from the equity markets due to the bullish narrative surrounding the upcoming halving. "The rally is being sustained by the rapidly approaching halving,"
So in comparison As of Friday, the S&P 500 was up nearly 30 percent from the low of 2,192 reached on March 24 and down 17 percent from record highs. While the recovery rally looks impressive on the surface, the breadth of the move has been quite narrow, meaning the rally has been fueled by an uptick in few heavyweight stocks.
So if you guys don't know this, the S&P 500 as a whole indexing the top 500 companies. So even though a majority of them aren't moving or actually going down. Some of the big companies are actually going up which is causing the average to increase.
I'm really curious what's going to happen with this upcoming Bitcoin halving, if prices are going to go down or prices are going to go up. We've already seen that Bitcoin has actually decoupled from the S&P 500. So it's on its own trajectory now and has no correlation.
Ether Trounces Bitcoin as Network Sees Surge in Stablecoins
Ether's price might be getting a boost from the crypto industry's version of the dash for cash.
The coronavirus crisis has sent investors in both digital and traditional markets scrambling for U.S. dollars, seen as one of the best assets to park money in during a deflationary recession. In traditional markets, that's meant selling risky assets like stocks, junk bonds and developing-country currencies, and parking the proceeds in cash.
In digital-asset markets, there's been a flurry of demand for tether and other dollar-linked stablecoins, many of them built atop the Ethereum blockchain network. Led by tether (USDT), the total outstanding amount of stablecoins surged this month to nearly $9 billion, from less than $6 billion in early March.
It seems like every time there's an economic hiccup people take their money out of the market as a safekeeping mechanism and put it into other forms of currency, like gold silver or under their mattress for safekeeping.
Because cryptocurrencies are so easy to purchase, USDT is going to be your best bet. Then once you hold USDT, trading to other cryptocurrencies is just a blink of an eye. Now If you don't know what tether is please go watch our other video where we explain in depth.
Samsung Adds Tron Dapps to Galaxy Store
Samsung has added support for Tron-based dapps to its proprietary Galaxy Store, granting smartphone and tablet users in both Europe and the U.S. access.
Tron said Monday Samsung smartphone and tablet users would be able to download these Dapps from a dedicated section of the Galaxy Store.
On-chain games, such as Blockchain Cuties and Super Player, would be available from the store from Monday, with other dapps slated to be added in the near future, Tron added.
Now if you don't know what a Dapp is, it's a decentralized application. Most of these are actually games where you can play in crypto currency or different ERC 20 tokens, basically, like every other game except use cryptocurrencies instead of Fiat currencies.
It's kind of cool that we're seeing all of these things slowly incorporate blockchains and daps and even other countries are picking up a digital currency to replace their fiat currency like China.
It's a slow progression, but I think we're going to move in the direction of cryptocurrencies to lead the future in currency.
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Q: What is the fastest way to swap the bytes of an unaligned 64 bit value in memory? I have a large number of 64 bit values in memory. Unfortunately they might not be aligned to 64 bit addresses. My goal is to change the endianess of all those values, i.e. swapping/reversing their bytes.
I know about the bswap instruction which swaps the bytes of a 32 or 64 bit register. But as it requires a register argument, I cannot pass it my memory address. Of course I can first load the memory into register, then swap, then write it back:
mov rax, qword [rsi]
bswap rax
mov qword [rsi], rax

But is that even correct, given that the address might be unaligned?
Another possibility is to do the swaps manually:
mov al, byte [rsi + 0]
mov bl, byte [rsi + 7]
mov byte [rsi + 0], bl
mov byte [rsi + 7], al

mov al, byte [rsi + 1]
mov bl, byte [rsi + 6]
mov byte [rsi + 1], bl
mov byte [rsi + 6], al

mov al, byte [rsi + 2]
mov bl, byte [rsi + 5]
mov byte [rsi + 2], bl
mov byte [rsi + 5], al

mov al, byte [rsi + 3]
mov bl, byte [rsi + 4]
mov byte [rsi + 3], bl
mov byte [rsi + 4], al

That's obviously a lot more instructions. But is it slower, too?
But all in all I'm still pretty inexperienced in x86-64, so I wonder: What is the fastest way to byte swap a 64 bit value in memory? Is one of the two options I described optimal? Or is there a completely different approach that is even faster?
PS: My real situation is a bit more complicated. I do have a large byte array, but it contains differently sized integers, all densely packed. Some other array tells me what size of integer to expect next. So this "description" could say "one 32 bit int, two 64 bit ints, one 16 bit int, then one 64 bit int again". I am just mentioning this here to tell you that (as far as I can tell), using SIMD instructions is not possible as I actually have to inspect the size of each integer before reading.

A:
What is the fastest way to byte swap a 64 bit value in memory?

The mov/bswap/mov version and the movbe/mov are about the same on most Intel processors. Based on the µop count, it seems movbe decodes to mov + bswap, except on Atom. For Ryzen, movbe may be better. Manually swapping around bytes is much slower, except in certain edge cases where a large load/store is very slow, such as when it crosses a 4K boundary pre-Skylake.
pshufb is a reasonable option even to replace a single bswap, though that wastes half of the work the shuffle could do.

PS: My real situation is a bit more complicated. I do have a large byte array, but it contains differently sized integers, all densely packed.

In this general case, with sizes dynamically taken from an other data stream, a new big issue is branching on the size. Even in scalar code that can be avoided, by byte-reversing a 64bit block and shifting it right by 8 - size, then merging it with the un-reversed bytes, and advancing by size. That could be worked out, but it's a waste of time to try that, the SIMD version will be better.
A SIMD version could use pshufb and a table of a shuffle-masks indexed by a "size pattern", for example an 8-bit integer where every 2 bits indicates the size of an element. pshufb then reverses the elements that are wholly contained in the 16-byte window that it's looking at, and leave the rest alone (those unchanged bytes at the tail will be written back too, but that's OK). Then we advance by the number of bytes that was actually processed.
For maximum convenience, those size patterns (as well as corresponding byte-counts) should be supplied in such a way that the actual Endianness Flipper itself can consume exactly one of them per iteration, without anything heavy such as extracting a byte-unaligned sequence of 8 bits and determining dynamically how many bits to consume. That's also possible, but at a significantly higher cost. About 4x as slow in my test, limited by the loop-carried dependency through "extract 8 bits at current bit-index" through "find bit-index increment by table lookup" and then into the next iteration: about 16 cycles per iteration, though still in 60% of the time that equivalent scalar code took.
Using an unpacked (1 byte per size) representation would make the extraction easier (just an unaligned dword load), but requires packing the result to index the shuffle mask table with, for example with pext. That would be reasonable for Intel CPUs, but pext is extremely slow on AMD Ryzen. A alternative that is fine for both AMD and Intel would be to do the unaligned dword read, then extract the 8 interesting bits using a multiply/shift trick:
mov eax, [rdi]
imul eax, eax, 0x01041040
shr eax, 24

An extra trick that should be used, in the Convenient Input case at least (otherwise we're stuck with a 5x worse performance anyway and this trick won't be relevant), is reading the data for the next iteration before storing the result of the current iteration. Without that trick, the store will often "step on the toes" of the load of the next iteration (because we advance less than 16 bytes, so the load reads some of the bytes that the store left unchanged but had to write anyway), forcing a memory dependency between them which hold up the next iteration. The performance difference is large, about 3x.
Then the Endianness Flipper could look something like this:
void flipEndiannessSSSE3(char* buffer, size_t totalLength, uint8_t* sizePatterns, uint32_t* lengths, __m128i* masks)
{
    size_t i = 0;
    size_t j = 0;
    __m128i data = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)buffer);
    while (i < totalLength) {
        int sizepattern = sizePatterns[j];
        __m128i permuted = _mm_shuffle_epi8(data, masks[sizepattern]);
        size_t next_i = i + lengths[j++];
        data = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)&buffer[next_i]);
        _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i*)&buffer[i], permuted);
        i = next_i;
    }
}

For example, Clang 10 with -O3 -march=haswell turns that into
    test    rsi, rsi
    je      .LBB0_3
    vmovdqu xmm0, xmmword ptr [rdi]
    xor     r9d, r9d
    xor     r10d, r10d
.LBB0_2:                            # =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
    movzx   eax, byte ptr [rdx + r10]
    shl     rax, 4
    vpshufb xmm1, xmm0, xmmword ptr [r8 + rax]
    mov     eax, dword ptr [rcx + 4*r10]
    inc     r10
    add     rax, r9
    vmovdqu xmm0, xmmword ptr [rdi + rax]
    vmovdqu xmmword ptr [rdi + r9], xmm1
    mov     r9, rax
    cmp     rax, rsi
    jb      .LBB0_2
.LBB0_3:
    ret

LLVM-MCA thinks that takes about 3.3 cycles per iteration, on my PC (4770K, tested with a uniform mix of 1, 2, 4 and 8 byte sized elements) it was a little slower, closer to 3.7 cycles per iteration, but that's still good: that's just under 1.2 cycles per element.

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Renew your heating system. New upsell campaign from Create Direct.
Home/Database management, IDN Romania, Pandora, Public/Renew your heating system. New upsell campaign from Create Direct.
One of our long-term clients, Bosch Thermotechnology, came to us for a new upsell campaign focusing their existing customers, to encourage and stimulate them to replace their old, over 7-year-old Bosch, Buderus and Junkers heating units, with the new generation, innovative condensing Bosch and Buderus models.
What we do is contact all of the Bosch customers that have purchased heating units over 7 years ago (approx. 8700 people) and present them with a new, hard to refuse discount offer for a new one, thus promoting and increasing sales for the revolutionary, energy efficient condensing heat units.
After contacting them, we will send them a DM containing a dedicated discount voucher that they can use in the shop, when purchasing the new heating unit, or afterwards, by registering on the online platform that we built exclusively for the campaign.
By Sabina Groza| 2017-08-31T11:23:09+02:00	August 31st, 2017|Categories: Database management, IDN Romania, Pandora, Public|Comments Off on Renew your heating system. New upsell campaign from Create Direct.


A debt collection act is generally connected with all laws and acts for a fair debt collection process. Such regulations control the whole debt recovery process carried out by private debt collection agencies (DCAs), creditors or debt buyers. A debt recovery act has a vital role in performing fair debt collection and not violating debtor's rights and authorities. It is always connected with regulating collection attempts of different debt recovery organisations. A default collection act can be valid on a state/ country level or can be based on international laws and regulations, e.g. various EU directives generalising and governing the debt collection procedures & practices. Debt collection acts are to be used either when there is a violation of consumer's rights, or when a recovery agency has to verify information needed for performing fair debt collection.
In every country, a debt recovery act is a measure and a regulator for ethical debt collection, also in compliance with different state and local laws. In Australia, the debt collection laws controlling the recovery process and providing fair debt recovery practices, are the Australian Consumer Law (source: http://www.consumerlaw.gov.au/content/Content.aspx?doc=home.htm), Australian Securities and Investments Commission (source: http://www.asic.gov.au/), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, etc. According to Australian debt collection laws, as a debt recovery agent or a debt collector is considered every individual or organisation, which attempts to recover a delinquent amount from a second party (a debtor). Such agent can be the creditor, collecting the debts he owns, or a private DCA operating on behalf of the lender.
For U.S. debt recovery act regulators are the Consumer Credit Protection Act, the FDCPA (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act), the Consumer Financial Protection Act, etc. According to the FDCPA, an individual who shares common ownership with the original lender, OR is not officially engaged in the debt recovery sphere of actions, is not considered as a debt collector. He can perform debt collection process but the FDCPA cannot regulate his actions during the collection process.
In the United Kingdom and Wales is valid the same rule as above. According to the Office of Fair Trading, first-party debt recovery agencies are not recognised as official collection organisations and their debt recovery practices cannot be controlled by the OFT. As these first-party DCAs are not acknowledged as registered agencies, they do not have the right to charge debtors with a DCA's interest fee but can charge the indebted subjects with late payment fees according to the same Office of Fair Trading debt collection act. The OFT also offers thorough information and guidelines for defining fair debt collections practices and ethical debt recovery process.
The FDCPA represents a regulation originated from the U.S. and valid for U.S. states, which aims to eliminate unfairly and harassing debt recovery practices performed by private debt collection agencies or by creditors. This debt recovery act represents the preservation of debtor's rights and authorities as a consumer and carries out the formation of guidelines for fair debt collection process. This fair debt collection act, however, protects consumers only from third-party debt collection agencies- private organisations not implicated in the contract between the creditor and the debtor; they are only hired by the lender and act on his behalf. According to FDCPA, a third-party DCA can use pre-legal, legal actions and court proceedings for the recovery of delinquent amounts. Such agency can also offer negotiation payment plans to the indebted subject if he is not in the financial condition to settle the debt at once with one single monetary payment. The U.S. debt collections act does not regulate first-party collection agencies, which act within creditor's company and are employed by the same lender. These debt recovery organisations are permitted to perform debt collection, but cannot charge their clients a DCA's commission fee. Apart from this, first-party collection agencies follow the legal and ethical debt collection guidance of the FDCPA.
The FDCPA applies only to particular types of debts as well. This debt collection act controls only individual debt recovery and is not addressed to corporate and business-to-business debts and commercial loans. A consumer debt recovery refers to collection practices and procedures for recovering default amounts, deriving from individual loans, such as mortgages, credit card debts, education/student loans, etc. Here the debtor is a consumer and the creditor is an organisation. A commercial debt is connected with corporate loans, where the lender and the consumer are both businesses. There is a corporate debt recovery act for each country, which is valid only for commercial debt collection.


Attempting to make a statement about NFL protests, a Missouri bar owner taped together Marshawn Lynch and Colin Kaepernick jerseys for a doormat.
A Missouri bar owner taped two NFL jerseys side-by-side on the ground for his customers to use as a doormat outside his establishment's front door.
The jerseys' side-by-side display -- Marshawn Lynch's Oakland Raiders jersey and Colin Kaepernick's San Francisco 49ers jersey -- together read "Lynch" "Kaepernick."
Jason Burle, owner of the Lake of the Ozarks S.N.A.F.U. Bar, told KOMU-TV that "it's not a race thing." He later rearranged the jerseys so that Kaepernick's was placed before Lynch's.
A call to Burle by USA TODAY Sports went unanswered.
Burle, who said he is an Air Force veteran, told the TV station he ordered both jerseys to be used as doormats after NFL players started kneeling during the national anthem.


At Liddy's Solicitors our highly experienced medical negligence solicitors aim to pursue claims for patients, across the entire Yorkshire region that have suffered a further injury following failures from their GP.
We understand that GP negligence can cause a lot of stress to those affected directly, as well as their families. Therefore, we take a significant amount of time investigating the situation and speaking with the best independent medical experts that we know in the area.
At Liddys Solicitors our medical negligence experts have extensive experience in bringing claims against GP's and we aim to bring the best possible outcome for our clients. Our team are trained to the highest level and they understand that issues with GP negligence can not only have lasting effects physically, but financially and psychologically too.
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The Pike County School System will hold its eleventh annual Parent Expo at the Pike County Cattleman's Complex on Thursday, October 25, 2018, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Parents are invited to come and learn about the many aspects of Pike County Schools and visit with community partners. A Fun Zone will be set up again this year for children of all ages and will include inflatables, music, face painting and more.
As always, parents will receive school materials and supplies. Parents are asked to visit showcases before receiving their school materials and supplies. Refreshments will be served. We look forward to your attendance at this informative, fun, and free event!


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Bev Vincent reviews Billy Summers
Author Bev VincentPosted on July 30, 2021 July 29, 2021 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags 11/22/63, Bev Vincent, Billy Summers, Cujo, Duma Key, News from, Nineteen, Reviews, Stephen King, Stephen King News, The Colorado Kid, The Dark Tower, The Shining, The StandLeave a comment on Bev Vincent reviews Billy Summers
"A Garbage Man with a Gun"
The first time Billy Summers killed a man, he was barely twelve. By the time he's eighteen, he's a sniper with the Marines in Iraq, where he notches up another two dozen kills. Instead of re-upping, he tries to find work back in the States. One of his former Marine friends asks him to kill someone. Thus begins Billy's career as an elite hitman. His only condition is that his victims have to be demonstrably bad men. He's not a sociopath driven to kill — he's just good with a gun. He can hit targets from an incredible distance and then vanish like Houdini without being identified or caught. Now, at the ripe old age of 44, he's looking to retire. One last job and he's done.Continue Reading
Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #212
Author Bev VincentPosted on May 3, 2019 May 2, 2019 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, castle rock, Columns, Creepshow, dark tower, Doctor Sleep, Duma Key, Eli Roth, Finders Keepers, Flight or Fright, Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy's Magic Feather, In the Tall Grass, It, Joe Hill, Lisey's Story, Mick Garris, Mile 81, Mr. Mercedes, News from the Dead Zone, Pet Sematary, Rest Stop, Richard Chizmar, Stephen King, The Institute, The Outsider, The Stand, The Talisman, Throttle, Wizard and GlassLeave a comment on Stephen King: News from the Dead Zone #212
Sometimes it's hard to stay on top of everything that's going on in the Stephen King Universe. There are so many projects underway or about to get underway or that could possibly some day get underway that it boggles the mind. This is a new Golden Age for King, especially when it comes to the various adaptations of his work to screens large and small, silver and otherwise. I'm here to help you keep track!
News From The Dead Zone #117
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on July 10, 2009 July 12, 2016 Categories Breaking NewsTags Bev Vincent, Dolan's Cadillac, Duma Key, Featured, Just After Sunset, Morality, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, The Talisman, Under the Dome, Ur, WeedsLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #117
Still haven't had a chance to read "Ur"? Well, you'll have to wait a while longer. However, the story will be available as an audiobook on February 16, 2010. The reader has not yet been selected. The suggested retail price is $14.99 in CD format or $11.99 for the download edition which will be available July 2010.
"Morality" is now online at Esquire if you didn't manage to pick up a copy of the magazine. The classic (and rare) short story Weeds is also online at the Cavalier web site.
Barnes & Noble will be publishing The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by yours truly later on this year.
A limited, black-and-white convention edition of Issue 0 of The Talisman graphic novel will be available for free exclusively at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego, taking place July 22-26. The special issue will be distributed by Del Rey at Booth #1129. The non-limited version will be available in comic book stores everywhere on October 21, 2009.
A sidebar about actress Emmanuelle Vaugier says that Dolan's Cadillac is due out in December. Not quite sure in what form or what venues. It's already been released on DVD in Sweden.
According to Camelot Books, these are the features of the Collectors Edition of Under the Dome:
Jacket (will be the same jacket as on the trade state)
Housed in a stamped case
4 color printed endpapers
Deck of cards (apparently this relates to the book)
25,000 copies
A new message from King from his message board: "I'm delighted to tell you that I won not one but TWO Stoker Awards at this year's ceremony, one for Duma Key (Best Novel) and one for Just After Sunset (Best Collection). My motto is, You can never be too thin, too rich, or win too many Stoker Awards. (If you've never seen one, the awards are most excellently cool.) My thanks to everyone who voted, and my congratulations to all the other nominees. Most of all, though, thanks to everyone who bought those books and enjoyed them. (And if you bought them and didn't enjoy them, I still thank you.)"
News From The Dead Zone #93
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on January 24, 2008 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Duma Key, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The MistLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #93
There's a new interview in today's USA Today: 'Duma Key' finds Stephen King stepping into his own life. The interactive graphic at the top is called Stephen King By the Numbers. "His next book will be a collection of short stories, but he and his publisher can't agree on a title. He wants to call it Unnatural Acts of Human Intercourse, which 'could be a tough sell in some markets.'"
The Mist will be released on DVD on March 25th. The two-disc version will contain the theatrical release along with the movie rendered into black and white, which was how Darabont originally envisioned filming the movie. Special features on the two-disc version include:
• Audio commentary by writer/director Frank Darabont
• Eight deleted scenes with optional commentary
• A Conversation With Stephen King and Frank Darabont featurette
• When Darkness Came: The Making of THE MIST featurette
• Taming the Beast: Shooting Scene 35 featurette
• Monsters Among Us: A Look at the Creature FX featurette
• The Horror of It All: The Visual FX of THE MIST featurette
• Drew Struzan: Appreciation of an Artist featurette
The single-disc presentation won't have all the bonus features, nor will it have the B&W rendering.
Two more Duma Key reviews:
New Stephen King novel delivers fresh storytelling with familiar themes — Ted Anthony, Associated Press
Duma Key — Robert Murphy, Metro/UK
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on January 23, 2008 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Duma Key, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark TowerLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #92
Here is a new link directly to King's appearance on Today. He is supposed to appear on the weekend edition of Today as well, probably on Saturday.
The Long Road Home #1, goes on-sale in stores at 12:01AM, March 5th, 2008 (at comic stores participating in the midnight launch). Otherwise the issue will hit shelves at your local comic and book stores during normal business hours. View the exclusive artwork preview at King's official web site.
Burton Hatlen, a literary scholar whose subjects ranged from Shakespeare to King and whose teachings shaped the minds of four generations of students at the University of Maine, died Monday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Hatlen wrote several scholarly essays on King's work, and a handful of King's characters bear the name Hatlen, including Brooks Hatlen, the prison librarian in "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." Read more here.
More Duma Key reviews:
Stephen King Wields an Artist's Dark Palette — Brigitte Weeks, Washington Post
Stephen King Goes to Florida, Finds Twitching Limb — Charles Taylor, Bloomberg
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on January 22, 2008 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Duma Key, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen KingLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #91
Today is Duma Key day in North America. The book will be released on Thursday in the UK.
King was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News (Stephen King at 60) and appeared on the Today show (Click on the video link underneath The King of Scary in the upper right corner. Users contributed many more questions than King could handle on the live broadcast, so NBC has posted an online Q&A: Why writing is like sex. In the BDN interview, King elaborates that the long novel he is working on now is set in Western Maine.
Here are links to a batch of Duma Key reviews:
Stephen King adds painful authenticity to 'Duma Key' — David J. Montgomery, Chicago Sun Times
'Duma Key' is uneven, but King can still carry a reader to the thrilling end — Karen Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer
King finds fright on Florida's coast — Erica Noonan, Boston Globe
Darkness in the Land of Steady Sunshine — Janet Maslin, NY Times
King's Florida Nightmare — Ali Karim, January Magazine
Duma Key — Richard Rayner, LA Times
Duma Key — John Dugdale, London Times
Edgar's haunted hand — Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Stephen King's absorbing new thriller, "Duma Key" — Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
Tide of terror washes over Stephen King's 'Duma Key' — Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
Author stokes potboiler at slow Floridian pace — Bill Eichenberger, Columbus Dispatch
King's most recent Entertainment Weekly column describes his experience using the new Kindle.
Duma Key reviews are starting to emerge. Here is my review, which is fairly detailed and discusses a lot of the plot, so read at your own risk. Alan Cheuse reviewed the book on NPR (audio). There are also reviews in the Washington Post and the Rocky Mountain News. If you haven't seen the film clip of King discussing the book on Amazon, it's now available on his official web site, too. (Dialup | DSL/Cable). According to Publishers Weekly, the first printing is 1.5 million copies. Lilja is giving away copies in a contest on his web site.
There's a mini-review/interview in Time magazine (King's New Realm). The article also reveals the following news: King's next book of short stories, Unnatural Acts of Intercourse, will come out this fall or next spring, and he's working on a "novel that's going to be very long. I'll be killing a lot of trees if it gets done."
King will appear on Today on NBC on Tuesday, January 22. If you want to submit a question that might be asked during the interview fill out this form.
Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King will read from their works at an event called The Three Kings on April 4 in Washington, DC. A reception and book signing will follow. Tickets ($30 + handling) are available here.
Happy New Year! Duma Key will be released a week from next Tuesday. Here's an audio excerpt from the book, and here's a neat video trailer (Dial Up | Cable /DSL / Fiber). There's an essay by editor Chuck Verrill at Amazon entitled Duma Key: Where It All Began, and you can read the beginning of the novel in parallel with the short story Memory to see the differences between the two.
Lilja has new interviews with Frank Darabont and Greg Nicotero at his web site.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on December 21, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Blaze, Duma Key, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, The Shawshank RedemptionLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #88
Just one month to go until the release of Duma Key. Here's the Publisher's Weekly review (mild spoilers):
In bestseller King's well-crafted tale of possession and redemption, Edgar Freemantle, a successful Minnesota contractor, barely survives after the Dodge Ram he's driving collides with a 12-story crane on a job site. While Freemantle suffers the loss of an arm and a fractured skull, among other serious injuries, he makes impressive gains in rehabilitation. Personality changes that include uncontrollable rages, however, hasten the end of his 20-year-plus marriage. On his psychiatrist's advice, Freemantle decides to start anew on a remote island in the Florida Keys. To his astonishment, he becomes consumed with making art–first pencil sketches, then paintings–that soon earns him a devoted following. Freemantle's artwork has the power both to destroy life and to cure ailments, but soon the Lovecraftian menace that haunts Duma Key begins to assert itself and torment those dear to him. The transition from the initial psychological suspense to the supernatural may disappoint some, but even those few who haven't read King (Lisey's Story) should appreciate his ability to create fully realized characters and conjure horrors that are purely manmade.
The end of the year is list time. Here are King's top tunes of 2007 and best of TV and movies lists.
My buddy Dave from Overlook Connection sent me samples of slipcases for Blaze and Gunslinger Born. He's selling both slipcased books and standalone slipcases. Check 'em out.
Issue 1 (of 5) of The Long Road Home, the second Dark Tower graphic novel serial, will be released on March 5, 2008. Here's Marvel's exclamation point-riddled description: "It's the return of the best-selling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King's epic The Dark Tower! Gunslinger Roland Deschain has seen the death of his lover Susan Delgado. And the Big Coffin Hunters who burned her at the stake are now in pursuit of Roland and his ka-tet Cuthbert and Alain. The friends are forced to flee into the desert with the deadly posse in hot pursuit….and Roland is in a coma! Don't miss this opening chapter starring the Gunslinger whose quest for the Dark Tower will shake the foundation of reality itself!"
USA's series The Dead Zone has been cancelled after a six-year run, leaving several continuing plotlines unresolved. "We wish we could keep all our great shows alive forever," said Jeff Wachtel. "But we feel we need to give some of our new shows a platform to grow, and it's with great sadness that we say goodbye to two shows that had a great run and helped create the resurgence of original programming on our network and on all of cable." The premiere of The Dead Zone, created by the late Michael Piller and his son Shawn, set a record for a series debut on basic cable with 6.4 million viewers.
Two prisoners escaped from Union County jail in Elizabeth, New Jersey last week. Using improvised tools, the men removed cement blocks from two walls, squeezed through the holes, jumped to a rooftop below, scaled a 30-foot high wall and hopped a razor wire fence to escape from what was considered the most secure area of the prison. The escape was apparently inspired by The Shawshank Redemption—the inmates covered up their escape holes with photographs of women in bikinis. The escapees left a note saying "Happy Holidays," and thanking a guard they claim helped them escape.
And, in closing, here is King's year-end message, as posted on his web site:
I had a great year and, as always, it starts with the people who read the books and have been so kind to me over the last 30 or so years that I have been making up stories. It was especially nice to hear from you this year because I turned 60 and finally had to kill my teddy bear. Just joking about the teddy bear, but it's a little traumatic and you guys helped to ease the pain. I hope you will all have a happy holiday season whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, or simply the imminent coming of Great Cthulhu. I hope that all of us will have a happy new year, that you will enjoy Duma Key, and that you vote for all the right candidates in November! Be well and be good to one another.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on November 29, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Duma Key, Fangoria, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Colorado Kid, The Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, The Mist, The Science of Stephen King, The TalismanLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #87
The New York Academy of Sciences is hosting the following presentation The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, The Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master's Fiction tonight.
This new Q&A has been getting a lot of press, mostly because of King's "waterboarding" comments. King also talked to Nightline about his childhood, career and the secret to a successful horror film. ABC news has an interesting from book to screen photo essay.
The Mist took in $13 million dollars during the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It was a ninth place opening, but the film's budget was only $18 million, so in five days they've earned back most of their money. Here's a NY Times interview with Darabont and King, an interview with Marcia Gay Harden, an interview with the extras, pictures from the premiere and "Ms Mod's" review — by the moderator of King's message board, a USA Today article, and an MTV interview with King. My set visit report is a Cemetery Dance free read, but beware of the spoiler notice at the top of the page. I have interviews with Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Toby Jones. My interview with Frank Darabont in Rue Morgue #73 should be on stands for a few more days. For my thoughts on the film, visit my LiveJournal.
To see exclusive storyboards from The Mist, visit Fangoria.com. They also have an exclusive video interview with writer/director Darabont here, as well as some cool clips of Darabont and King talking together here. Star Thomas Jane sounds off here. Check out all the articles in Fearful Features too, and the cover story of the current issue of FANGORIA (on newsstands now).
CD's very own Glenn Chadbourne said he spotted his t-shirt design featuring Doug Graves in The Mist. Glenn said he heard on King's radio station WKIT that multiple t-shirts were used in the movie because of all the blood.
Fear.net has a nice interview with Peter, wherein he talks about T3, The Talisman movie and his next book. Note: this video is only available in North America.
Promotional bookmarks for The Long Road Home, the second Marvel graphic novel series, indicate that the launch will be in March 2008. The hardcover version of The Gunslinger Born was the #1 hardcover graphic novel on multiple sales charts and Amazon.com's editors' picked it as the #1 Comic & Graphic Novel of 2007.
"This is everything a hardcover collection of this type should be, and more," gushed Joe Hartlaub of BookReporter.Com, who furthered described Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born HC as, "a beautiful hardcover edition that pays proper homage to the work within."
According to Entertainment Weekly, ABC is planning a new drama series that's loosely based on The Colorado Kid. King describes the script, from The Dead Zone's Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, as "closer to The X-Files than Supernatural." King will have a small stake in the show (currently dubbed Sanctuary) should it go to series, "but it's not something that keeps me up nights, the way Kingdom Hospital did."
When you read Duma Key in January, check out the epigraph, then back up to the copyright page and look at the acknowledgements for the song "Dig" by Shark Puppy. You'll see some familiar names, I'm sure.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on November 16, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Duma Key, Fangoria, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Little Sisters of Eularia, The Long Walk, The MistLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #86
Stephen King will appear on ABC's Nightline tonight at 11:35 P.M. (EST). If you miss it, the full interview transcript will be at ABCNEWS.com after the show airs. "If I can make you feel for my characters, and if you worry that something will happen to them instead of rooting for something to happen to them, for their head to be blown off, or for Freddy to get them with his nails, then I got something going," King tells Jake Tapper.
Publisher Donald M. Grant posted an updated last week about their new edition of the revised version of The Gunslinger combined with Little Sisters of Eluria. "We have now received from Michael all the additional art for the book and can start working on design and production. Price, schedule and other details have not been set and when further information is available it will be posted on our website and published in our newsletter. We expect that this will be announced in the beginning of 2008." This book will be called Little Sisters of Eluria.
TMZ.com posted a video of King greeting fans before the New York premiere of The Mist when someone asks him to autograph their daughter's diaper. Saying he had "changed a few" in his day, King happily obliges, but the kid throws a fit. Here are some video highlights from the press conference where King and Darabont field questions about The Mist, a quick text recap of the high points and a link where you can listen to the interview. Fangoria magazine says "not only is The Mist intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic toward its characters, it is proudly and unashamedly a horror movie through and through. Darabont has scored his third successful King adaptation in a row, and there's nothing hazy about his intention this time to scare the hell out of all of us." Wandering through the Mist is an interview with Darabont and Marcia Gay Harden. Here is the third trailer.
Darabont tells MTV about his hopes to adapt The Long Walk. "It's a hard story to pitch to a studio. Because they say 'well what's it about?' Well it is about a bunch of kids walking and talking – uh okay. The thing I keep thinking about is that these guys never stop moving. So, I how do you get a really good close up. It would be an interesting challenge to not have people get just sick of watching the image because of all the movements. So, I think that there are certain rigs that stabilize the image even more so than a steady cam," he revealed. "But [overall] I think a lot of run and gun, a lot of the guerrilla approach that I applied on The Mist. It will again be letting those ragged edges show."
Hodder & Stoughton are offering you a unique opportunity to design the advertising for Duma Key. "The winning designer will see their work in print on the London Underground and in city centres and have a hand in promoting a fantastic book by an internationally-renowned author." The competition is open to anyone. Further information on the competition is available at www.stephenking.co.uk. Deadline for entry is December 7, 2007.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on August 1, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Best American Short Stories 2007, Bev Vincent, Cell, Duma Key, Featured, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Ghost Hunters: Live from the Shining Hotel, Misery, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, The Long Walk, The MistLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #74
It's been a couple of weeks since the last update, partly because I was away at NECON and partly because there hasn't been a lot of news to warrant an update. Since today is the release day of the final installation of Gunslinger Born, I thought I'd catch you up on all the little things that have arisen in the interim.
King introduces three of the page-turners he selected for The Best American Short Stories 2007 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in NY on October 10 at 7:30 pm. Each story delivers what King says he wants all stories to convey: a "sense of emotional involvement, of flipped-out amazement…like a big hot meteor screaming down from the Kansas sky." Tickets available here.
John Mellencamp was in New York last week to attend workshop performances of The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the musical play he's written with King.
Here's a new description of Duma Key, due out Jan 22, 2008:
Duma Key is the engaging, fascinating story of a man who discovers an incredible talent for painting after a freak accident in which he loses an arm. He moves to a 'new life' in Duma Key, off Florida's West Coast; a deserted strip, part beach, part weed-tangled, owned by a patroness of the arts whose twin sisters went missing in the 1920s.Duma Key is where out-of-season hurricanes tears lives apart and a powerful undertow lures lost and tormented souls. Here Freemantle is inspired to paint the amazing sunsets. But soon the paintings become predictive, even dangerous. Freemantle knows the only way forward is to discover what happened to the twin sisters — and what is the secret of the strange old lady who holds the key?
The story is about friendship, about the bond between a father and his daughter. And about memory, truth and art. It is also is a metaphor for the life and inspiration of a writer, and an exploration of the nature, power and influence of fiction.
If you haven't had a chance to get to the comic shop yet, here's a preview of Issue 7 of Gunslinger Born. The Gunslinger's Guidebook is also supposed to come out today, but I've heard rumors that a binding error might delay its delivery. Lilja reports that the title of the second story arc is The Long Road Home. The first issue in that arc will be released in February 2008.
Here is an audio recording of The Mist presentation done at Comic-Con last week. Director Frank Darabont revealed that he plans to adapt The Long Walk once he has completed Fahrenheit 451. Since he doesn't have a script for The Long Walk yet, I think it's a safe bet we're a couple of years away from production on that movie.
Eli Roth told Comic-Con that his adaptation of Cell is on hold. The script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski has yet to be completed and he is currently at work on a movie full of fake movie trailers. Roth hopes to enlist King's help in a cameo role when he finally gets around to making Cell.
Ghost Hunters: Live From the Shining Hotel, which originally aired on SciFi last May, will be released on DVD on October 9, 2007 and is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com. Jason, Grant and the Ghost Hunters team revisit the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado for a live Halloween-night investigation.
Yet another King movie is getting the "special edition" DVD treatment. On October 2, a new Collector's Edition DVD of Misery is coming from MGM Home Video through Fox Home Video. The disc will include a new audio commentary by director Rob Reiner and scripter William Goldman, plus additional behind-the-scenes material.
Rocky Wood warns about a new book showing up that is written by Stephen King…just not that Stephen King. The book is A Master Class in Brand Planning.
Have you been keeping up with The Dead Zone on USA? Season 6 has taken a number of interesting twists and I'm enjoying it. The new sheriff is a handful and Johnny and Sarah are finally getting to pick up where they left off over a decade earlier. Production moved to Montreal, and I'm seeing some influences from that move in the scenery and guest actors.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on July 13, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Carrie, Cujo, Duma Key, Entertainment Weekly Column, Featured, Golden Years, Misery, Needful Things, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark Half, The Langoliers, The Mist, The Science of Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption, The StandLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #73
Happy Friday the 13th! Someone posted a couple of deleted scenes from Shawshank Redemption on YouTube. They're interesting, but their ultimate destination, the cutting room floor, was the best place for them, in my opinion.
On July 27th at San Diego Comic-Con, Frank Darabont will be showing clips from The Mist and holding a panel with stars Thomas Jane and Laurie Holden, along with special effects gurus Greg Nicotero (KNB) and Everett Burell (CafeFX). Other cast members may be along for the panel. Darabont is having 3000 teaser posters printed up for the event to hand out at the show.
Here's the cover for The Science of Stephen King, which will be out at the end of August from Wiley.
Lilja reports that Duma Key will be approximately 592 pages long and that King will narrate the audio edition.
King's most recent Entertainment Weekly column is about the end of the Harry Potter series: Goodbye, Harry
Here's a review of the new special collector's edition DVD of Cujo. A new DVD boxed set this month contains Carrie, The Dark Half, Misery and Needful Things. Three TV adaptations will be released in another boxed set on September 25, including The Stand, Golden Years and The Langoliers.
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on June 8, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Blaze, Cell, Duma Key, Featured, Hard Case Crime, News from the Dead Zone, Rock Bottom Remainders, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Gingerbread GirlLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #67
Tonight's the night for "A Toast to Stephen King," featuring Margaret Atwood, Clive Barker and George Stroumboulopoulos. The event takes place at 7:30 p.m. in John Bassett Theatre, 255 Front St. W., Toronto. King is presigning a limited number of books for the event, but there's been no word yet about how they will be distributed. He will not be signing any other books.
The issue of Esquire featuring the new, long story "The Gingerbread Girl" is starting to show up in stores. Angelina Jolie is on the cover. "The Gingerbread Girl" takes up over 20 pages of the issue.
Blaze comes out on Tuesday. Scribner has launched a web site for the book and the first media review appeared in the L.A. Times.
The NY Times reviewed last week's Rock Bottom Remainders concert. Rock On, But Hang Onto Your Literary Gigs. There's video from their Good Morning America appearance on the ABC web site.
Check out my message board for a summary of what King has to say about his upcoming novel Duma Key during his recent interview with Hardcase Crime's Charles Ardai.
Eli Roth has been talking about Cell quite a bit lately, including at Ain't It Cool News.
You didn't forget to pick up issue #5 of The Gunslinger Born this week, did you?
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on February 27, 2007 July 12, 2016 Categories Stephen King News from the Dead ZoneTags Bev Vincent, Blaze, Cell, Duma Key, Entertainment Weekly Column, Featured, News from the Dead Zone, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Mist, The StandLeave a comment on News From The Dead Zone #59
February 27, 2007: Stephen King confirmed at New York Comic Con last weekend that he had granted the option to make a Dark Tower movie to J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindeloff (LOST) for $19.
King also addressed the persistent rumor that he might go back and rewrite the rest of the Dark Tower books, as he did with The Gunslinger. "Yes, that's correct. It's a first draft. It was written over a long period of time, and I look at it as a work that's still in progress. That's why I re-did the first book. The vision that I had of what was going on got clearer as it went along. So, for instance, I looked back at the first book and I said to myself 'there's a lot of things I can do with this now, now that I know how everything turns out in the end.' I'm a really instinctual writer—I don't work with an outline. I did have an outline of some of The Dark Tower stuff way back when, when I started, when I was stoned, and I lost it. I didn't have a clue, and I couldn't remember what was going on, and I had that poem by Robert Browning to draw on, to start, so I knew certain elements that I wanted to be in it, that were in the poem. So, when I got done, and I looked at it, I said This Horn of Eld should be there at the front. That's what you when you rewrite a book. I've got a book now called Duma Key, and there's a woman who has some bracelets and the bracelets are important, but they're not there until the end of the book. What I'm saying is, I know now some things I could do. The Dark Tower is one book, and I'd like go back and fix it up. Who knows—I might end up novelizing their comic book."
He also suggested that The Stand would make a good project for a comic book adaptation. Here are some reports about the panel, including some with photos:
Dread Central
Eric Roth also stated that Cell would be his next movie project after Hostel II. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood and 1408) are working on the script. "By the time I finish Hostel Part II the script should be ready. I really want to read it."
Lilja has a nice photo courtesy of Frank Darabont from The Mist set at his web site.
Don't forget that issue 2 of The Gunslinger Born will be out on March 7th. Each of the first five issues will be released on the first Wednesday in the month. No word yet on the release schedule for the July issue, since the first Wednesday is July 4th.
Thanks to King's praise of Meg Gardiner, both on his website and in Entertainment Weekly, there's been a run on her books at second hand outlets and her agent told Publishers Lunch that publishers are lining up to make book deals with her in the U.S., where she is currently unpublished.
Here are more details about Blaze, which is now up for preorder at Cemetery Dance:
Blaze: A Posthumous Novel
By Richard Bachman
Foreword by Stephen King
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5484-X
Here's a short "interview" with King as part of a series where celebrities talk about credit cards.


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TRYSTAN HART RETURNS TO EASTERN CANADA TO CLAIM 2021 CORDUROY ENDURO VICTORY
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GOODERHAM, ON – FMF KTM Factory Team rider and Canadian Trystan Hart brought the Promation Corduroy Enduro title back to Canadian grounds for 2021 following a convincing victory at the 67th running of Canada's "toughest race." With a two-day format of enduro-style racing, the Corduroy held true to its name with plenty of challenging terrain in the slick, Ontario forests.
Hart came up just short of the Cord win in 2019 and the international hard enduro front-runner was determined to take the crown this time around. He came out swinging on day one aboard his KTM 300 XC-W TPI, claiming three of the six test-wins to establish himself out front after the first day of racing. On Sunday, Hart picked up four of the seven test-wins and he finished with a strong second in the final MX test, which gave him a solid cushion of nearly 10-minutes over the second-place rider at the end of racing.
Trystan Hart, FMF KTM Factory Team Rider: "After losing to an American racer in 2019, I really wanted to bring the Corduroy win back to Canada. It was two long days of racing but it feels good to be the Canadian Champion! It didn't come without its challenges, I got stuck multiple times in the deep mud pits, along with everything else that the Ontario forests threw at me but all-in-all, it was a very good weekend!"
Next up for Hart is Round 2 of the AMA EnduroCross Championship this Saturday, October 2, where he will continue to battle for his first title in the premier class.
Shelby Turner claimed her second-straight Corduroy victory with an impressive performance in the Women's Pro division. Turner won every test of the weekend in her class, ultimately securing victory by over 15 minutes in total.
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My daughter goes to a school where everybody sings. It's part of the curriculum and the children, even the middle school boys, are remarkably unselfconscious about it. In High School, choir becomes an elective. There is some attrition. Last night, grades four through eight performed. I watched them, their mouths forming perfect O's through the long "oh!" of Alouette. They are completely innocent.
Innocence, like virginity, is not lost. Lost things can be found. Innocence is slain or sacrificed, stolen or bestowed. And in the place of slain Innocence stands Knowledge- knowledge of evil, of failure, of death. But, from the corpus atop which Knowing stakes his claim, rises Hope wrapping ghostly arms around him. And although you can strengthen Knowing, brutalize Hope, she is Innocence Dead and cannot be killed again. Stronger than the living was, she survives and cradles Knowing in cool, smoky arms. And he, the proud warrior, strides away from lifeless Innocence, brushing the clinging shroud of Hope from his shoulders only to find her twined about his legs.
A friend of mine recently correlated innocence with dreaming, with the ability to believe in, or even have, dreams. I am no innocent. But I have a dream that may just be coming true, and I don't want to brag and I sure don't want to jinx it, but I'm feeling really good these days. I feel powerful and centered. I feel hopeful. It's a dangerous place to be.
When Knowing hesitates, Hope transcends, and binding him, becomes almost Innocence again, believes in things again, radiates and plunges into the sea she tried to cross barefoot. She is a ghost, after all, and has a very weak grip on reality. Knowing and Hoping have been locked in mortal tango in me since I was a few years older than my daughter is now. Hope growing corporeal, beginning to make choices for me, leading me happy, wanting, down sweet paths to deep sewers. Knowledge mucking it out, rippling forearms breaking faith and dreams to feed his horse Responsibility.
It's not such a bad horse. I rode it here.
A full two years ago, I came up with an idea for a business, for a thing I wanted to make. I worked for a while on one part of it, but it cost too much since I'm trying to source everything through fair trade organizations. So I switched to candles: Petroleum-, Lead- and Dogma-Free Prayer Candles. They're done now. There're six: Heal, Hope, Peace, Praise, Grieve and Thrive. Thing is, they've been really well received. In fact my dad, (whose view of reality is remarkably unclouded by phantom Hopes) offered to pay for a meeting with a patent attorney to determine if there was anything worth patenting. Which, it appears, there is.
And Hope takes the upper hand, rolling over the soldier's torso, smoothing his ache and whispering in his ear.
I am not innocent. But I am not afraid. Perhaps Hope has me too wound within her narcotic embrace, although I can still hear the warrior speak. I know I can fail. I know desire and hard work are not always enough, and that like new marriages, half of new businesses fail. I won't let blind Hope drive this time. I ride a plodding horse. But Hope sings to grim-mouthed Knowing and this is Optimism, who meets possible calamity with "I know it can, but hope it won't," who teaches Knowing a partner's gentle grip on Hope's lithe waist, and so I hum along, bending notes between Hope and Knowing, searching for the perfect pitch.


McBarb--that post was in Recipes and Food Ideas>Looking for Salsa Recipes. Sandier soil makes for hotter peppers. Rich, loamy soil generally produces a milder pepper. You can try it out by purchasing a 4-pack of peppers, planting two in the garden with all the compost and fertilizer and two in pots with a sandier mix of soil, then compare the results. Could make for a good mix of temps for cooking later on in the season.
I will try this next year. I love to grow peppers as you do!! We have a short growing season here and I want to make the best of it.
2 evening sun sunflowers, 4 outhouse hollyhocks, 4 border mix geraniums and 1 Mexican sunflower.
We enjoyed snow peas, Swiss chard, and broccoli November-February. The chard is still going strong and the Brussel sprouts are finally making sprouts. They were all planted in October. Carrots are several inches tall, onions are doing great. Potatoes should be ready to harvest on Memorial Day weekend.
We are getting ready to plant several varieties of tomato, bell peppers, jalapenos, oregano, sage, basil, cilantro, cukes, zucchini, yellow squash, and okra. The parsley and some of the basil from last year are looking nice. Guess no one ever told them they are supposed to be annuals!
The daffodils are blooming--kind of late. All the neighbors had them blooming in January, so I must have a different variety. The iris, day lilies, and Easter lilies are coming up.
The grass we planted last fall must have blown into one of the flower beds. It is coming in thick and green and I am pulling it out and transplanting it to where it was supposed to root. Sure hope that works. It is choking out the violets and shamrocks that I so carefully moved from the middle of the yard last summer. Of course, there will always be more that I can move! Most people call them weeds. I call them beautiful wild flowers that make gorgeous borders under the shrubs and against the fence.
I just love digging in the dirt!
Here in WI were sitting on about 20" of SNOW yet! It is so funny to read you are harvesting vegetables, or getting ready to when weve got the white stuff and cold weather. We just started our seedlings in the basement with grow lights a couple of weeks ago. I am so sick of winter, spring cant come fast enough. My son is going to plow up his Gramma's unused garden on the farm and plant vegetables there that wont require much care. This should give us MORE things to can up this fall, and more room for me in my small garden at the house. Ive got a cement planter that borders our patio that runs a good 20' in two directions, which is presently housing river rock, as it gets sun all day, and gets too hot for flowers. Were going to empty the rock out and plant string beans in the space, where we can sit in a chair and harvest them, and eliminate of all the back bending aches and pains. I envy you Jnanne. Honestly.
Judy, so what did you plant?
We planted 18 Roma, and Big Boy tomato plants, also 18 Jalapeno plants. Theyre already a little over an inch high tall. He will also plant Dill for the pickles he wants to try out his friend gave him a recipe for. Well be starting squash, cauliflower, and melons in the next week, or two.These are items that don't ever seem to produce great because of our short growing season, so we want the plants to be more mature before setting outside. There also will be potatoes and onions planted directly into the garden by Memorial Day, once the chance of frost has ended. At home, we plan to plant 6 Roma,6 Big Boys, several rows of string beans and carrots. Im going to build my own tomato cages that will stand 7 feet high, as my plants last season grew above the 6 foot cages, and produced like crazy, and were easy to harvest. Nota single branch rested on the ground. As long as my son helped prepare some of the veggies last year for canning,Im hoping to keep all three pressure cookers and the water bath BUSY this year. He purchased a gas turkey fryer last fall that I used for my half gallon, and gallon jars of concord grape juice. That worked fantastic as a water bath.( We had no intention of using it to deep fry a turkey.) I can place two layers of smaller jars in it to shorten the canning process also, which really helped. Luckily the older home I purchased 25 plus years ago, has a canning room 8' x 12' with shelves along both long sides, for storing the goods. Ive even overflowed into part of the workshop by placing shelving racks to store the excess. This next season, I know Ill have to add more because Ive got almost all of last years pears, pear sauce, applesauce, and quite a few jars of other stuff left. But, as we all knows, prices have dramatically gone up in the stores, so whatever is on the shelf, will last for years without spoiling long after Im no longer alive. Since my daughter and her family moved back to AZ this past fall, a LOT of the goods didn't go with her due to not wanting to haul it in the moving van. My next to the oldest son, will be heading back to AZ soon, so Ill send several boxes back with him for her.
Well, Judy, I don't miss the northern winters. I grew up in IL and then returned there after college in the eastern TN mountains--and stayed for 23 years. The weather down here is so much more my style.
I'm surprised you are waiting until after the last frost to put out the onions. They usually do fine with the last of the winter cold--unless it is just more convenient to put them out when you are planting all the other spring veggies.
Update... my zinnia seeds came up.. I have a swirl mix and regular zinnias. I love zinnias and coleus is doing well. I have to repot coleus soon.
I want to plant a lot of morning glories, more sunflowers and loads of nasturitums...red and jewel mix.
Jnanne,my son is planting the larger yellow onions out in the farm garden as they wont need a lot of attention, while at the house Ill be planting just the small onions for eating that have the long green tops, then dehydrate the tops for other uses. The way this winter has gone, it might be AFTER Memorial Day due to the slow warming this year. Weve still got better than 2' of snow on the ground,with areas with much more piled high in the yard. Once the ground warms, then Ill plant whether theres a chance of frost or not, and then cover the fragile plants, like I did last year just on the nights frost is expected. Since you grow potatoes, do you keep the little fingerlings? If you haven't had those little ones saut�ed, youre missing delicious! Theyre very expensive here at the farmers markets.
Doesn't anyone plant flower seeds? I am addicted to buying seeds now. Help somebody stop me!!LOL..
Fingerlings is just a fancy word for what my grandmother always called, "new potatoes." My favorite way to cook them is in a cream sauce with peas. They are also great baked with a pot roast or fried up with bacon and onions.
And yes, I plant flowers, but I prefer bulbs to seeds. I just seem to have better luck with them. And all flowers must go outside the privacy fence or the dogs will either trample them or eat them. The vegetables are in raised beds inside their own fenced area or in pots that are high off the ground so the dogs stay out.
I learned a long time ago that I will take better care of the plants that are easy to water and tend, so veggies are in the back yard close to the water source. Perennials are outside the fence and pretty much must be able to fend for themselves. I moved lots of violets and shamrocks to border beds because they'll live through just about anything. I have mums, many varieties of flowering trees and shrubs, and many, many, bulbs. I figure if I keep putting something new in each year in about 10 years this property will be a showplace. We've been here two years, so I have 8 to go to meet my goal!
Oh my gosh Jnanne, it sounds as though you have a lot on your plate to take care of. Ill bet it is very pretty when everything is in bloom. I gave up growing flowers because the sun hits the backyard all day long, and killed them. I love the raised gardens, although I dot have one. Other than what I put in large planters on each side of the deck, I got into veggies that do very well with the sun. I envy you having the ambition to do all the work to keep them weed free.
My biggest bed is no maintenance. Sink or swim is the policy for the stuff I plant, which is why most of it is bulbs, monkey grass, or local wild flowers. Anywhere the monkey grass leaves a bare spot I plant bulbs. I put the shamrocks and violets under the oak tree so I don't have to mow around the massive roots.
There's another huge bed that is roses, flowering shrubs, and something that looks vaguely like a pineapple. I think I'm going to transplant the prickly pears from the pots into that bed. They really are too big for the pots and have been for a long time, but I may need to wear a full-leather outfit to safely transplant them. The spines are so plentiful and hard to see to pull out of your skin. Maybe I should just move the pots, pour soil around them, and then smash them to let the roots out?
That bed is covered in mulch so it needs very little weeding--just fresh mulch every couple of years.
And there are currently four adults in the house, three of whom like to garden, so the work is shared. I'm still holding out hope that my 12-year-old will develop a love for growing plants.
Jnanne, you mentioned prickly pears, do you also make the jam from these? When I was in AZ my daughter gave me a jar that a neighbor had given her, to use on toast. It wasn't overly sweet, and tasted fantastic. Why she wouldn't eat it is beyond me. I have access to the cacti, but have never made the jam/jelly Do you have a favorite that you make? It's funny that most kids hate to do garden chores when theyre young, but as they mature, they want a garden for their families. All three of my sons love to grow vegetable gardens, their wives have flower beds, and together they share the chore of making various items to be canned up using some of the produce.
Bulbs require very little care. Many will bloom in the spring of the year after they are planted if you get them in the ground May-November. There are some that take longer to establish roots and don't bloom for two years. They are generally available commercially in the fall, but if you have some you want to plant in the spring or summer it doesn't hurt them to plant early. Just don't expect a summer or fall bloom the year they are planted. They may send up shoots, but are not likely to have a root system to support blooming, yet.
Some varieties bloom multiple times during a season or bloom in the spring and again in the fall. Most only bloom once per year.
Generally, plant them twice the depth of the bulb. If it is one-inch tall, dig a two-inch hole so there is one inch of dirt above it. If it is only 1/4-inch tall, it needs to be only 1/2-inch hole. Water once it is in the ground to settle the dirt around it.
If you have a drought, you may need to water them after they start to come up and even through the blooming. However, under normal rain conditions, you shouldn't need to water at all. If you are transplanting already-blooming plants, such as potted Easter lilies after the church has used them, water every other day for several weeks to give the roots time to establish.
Don't cut back the foliage until it has browned and withered, as the roots will reabsorb the nutrients from the leaves, making for a stronger bulb the following year. If you don't like the way they look, tie them together (like a pony tail) to get them out of the way and plant something around them to take up the space and draw the eye to a living plant.
Every few years they will need to be dug up and separated, as they reproduce by making new bulbs attached to the old bulbs. Just pull them apart and re-plant, either making the bed larger or moving some of them to a new bed--or giving them to friends. You'll know it is time when the plants are coming up on top of each other or if the bulbs are visible above the surface of the soil.
If you are patient and don't require a showy bed the first year or two, plant a few (5-10) together, within a two-foot space, and watch the beds grow bigger over time. If you are less patient and want absolutely full-color gorgeous at once, plant them in larger quantities closer together and enjoy the show--but expect to dig them up and move them much sooner, as they will over-crowd quickly.
Thanks very much for that info. I loved the glads I had last summer. They were so pretty. I placed the gladiola bulbs in a pot, then placed the pots into the raised garden I made to hold up the tomatoes I had growing. When I was working outside, the neighbors would drive by and tell me how much they loved my gardens. It made me so happy!!
I also love to plant seeds and watch them grow. They are so cute to watch. Sometimes they die, but most of the seeds grow into beautiful plants. I have been placing flowers in with the vegetable plants. I had morning glories growing with my pole beans and it looked awesome!!
Marigolds and mums are the source of pyrethrins, the most common household pesticide on the market. If you plant them around your garden it will decrease the number of insect pests you have to deal with.
Plant carrots around your tomatoes. They are symbiotic, each putting into the soil the nutrients the other needs to be healthy. And even if you don't want to harvest the carrots, the tops are pretty.
My grandmother always had glads in her garden. I don't grow them because they don't tolerate cold well and had to be dug up every fall and stored until spring. That is too much work for my sink-or-swim policy! I've discovered that folk down here leave glads, calla lilies, and canna in the ground year-round with few problems from the cold. Maybe I'll give them a try!
I left my bulbs outside all winter .. they are still in the same pots. I hope they come back this year. I had no ideas I had to take them out!! I bought more bulbs during mystery shops. I will definitely keep my fingers crossed!! I just bought purple dahlia and 3 boxes of Butterfly glads.
Are zinnia and marigolds in the same family?