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A small selection of Pop and Contemporary vocal repertoire books and sheet music collections ranging from the 40's to today in a variety of genres for beginners to professional singers. Also browse the Pop Repertoire Page 2, Pop Repertoire Page 3, Audition, Rock and Singlike repertoire pages. All external links open in a new window.
This collection of chart-busting pop favourites offers fantastic value for money, with 10 songs arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar.
Hits selected from a wide variety of pop and rock starts who have contributed to making the 1990's a decade of memorable music.
Since its first showing in 2004 The X Factor has showcased the previously undiscovered talent of hundreds of great British singers, such as Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke and Shayne Ward. This folio features 20 of the best songs from the show arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar, and includes a bonus CD of backing tracks so you can sing along. Includes Alexandra Burke smash hit version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah , Lucie Jones's soaring rendition of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You , and Westlife's You Raise Me Up , as performed by Rhydian.
A collection of the greatest hits from 1900 to 1920 arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Twenties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Twenties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes Just A Gigolo, Let's Misbehave, What'll I Do and more.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Thirties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Forties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Fifties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Sixties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Seventies, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Seventies, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes 'Diamonds Are Forever', 'You Are The Sunshine Of My Life' and 'Nobody Does It Better'.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Seventies, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes Summer Nights.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Seventies, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes Boogie Wonderland and Wishing on a Star.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Eighties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Eighties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes I Want to Break Free and Do They Know it's Christmas.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Eighties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes Wake Me Up Before You Go Go and A New Flame.
A collection of the greatest hits from the Nineties, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar. Includes the hits 'All I Wanna Do', 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', and 'I'll Be There For You'.
A collection of the greatest hits from the war years, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from the rock n roll years, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
A collection of the greatest hits from stage and screen, arranged for piano, vocal and guitar.
For voice, piano and guitar chords. Titles include: Baby I Love Your Way, Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time, Go Your Own Way, A Horse with No Name, Hotel California, If You Don't Kn ow Me By Now, I'll Take You There, Killing Me Softly with His Song, Love Train, My Sharona, Old Time Rock & Roll, The Rose, Stairway to Heaven, Time in a Bottle, What a Fool Believes, You Are So Beautiful and more.
00 years of popular music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains 80 songs from the 1920s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1920s is also included.
100 Years Of Popular Music 1920s. Volume 2 arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.
00 Years Of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains more than 70 songs from the 1930s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1930s is also included.
100 Years Of Popular Music 1930s. Volume 2 arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.
100 Years Of Popular Music 1940s. Volume One, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.
100 Years of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. 100 Years Of Popular Music 1950s: Volume 1 contains more than 70 songs from the 1950s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1950s is also included.
100 Years Of Popular Music 1950s. Volume two, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.
100 Years of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This first volume contains more than 70 songs from the 1960s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1960s is also included.
A selection of fantastic tunes from the 1960s.
100 Years Of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains more than 70 songs from the 1970s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1970s is also included.
Over 60 popular tunes from the 1970's (2nd volume).
100 Years Of Popular Music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains over 70 songs from the 1980s arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the 1980s is also included.
A selection of fabulous tunes from the 1980s.
Over 60 songs from the 90's including Frozen and Living La Vida Loca.
100 years of popular music chronicles the greatest music of the last century. This book contains more than 60 songs from this decade arranged for piano, voice and guitar, providing a fascinating insight into the music of the era. A listing of new inventions first seen during the new millennium is also included.
Popular spiral bound book contains 101 pop hits with melody, chords and lyrics. Including 'Against All Odds', 'I Know Him So Well', 'Karma Chamelon', 'Uptown Girl' and 'We Don't Need Another Hero'.
Performed by Kelly Clarkson. By John Reid, Jorgen Kjell Elofsson. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. (Showtrax Cd). Pop Choral Series. American Idol was the television hit of the summer. The winner, Kelly Clarkson, rocketed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with this hit. Beautifully arranged for choir, this moment will capture your audience's heart.
By Annie Lennox and Procol Harum. Choral. Pop. Choral. 5 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music. Fabulous SATB arrangements of popular modern songs from West End shows and the worlds of jazz and pop music.
The movie Mamma Mia! starring Meryl Streep and a star-studded cast enchanted audiences worldwide with an enchanting musical score, scenes of a Mediterranean paradise and the promise of love. SSA choirs will thrill to this delightful 8-minute medley of songs including: Dancing Queen, I Have a Dream, Mamma Mia, Thank You For The Music.
British songstress Adele stormed onto the music scene in 2008, and was named Best New Artist at the GrammyÂ® Awards in 2009. All the songs from her debut album â€“ titled 19 to reflect her age at the time the album was released â€“ are included in our folio. Includes her hit â€œChasing Pavementsâ€� plus 11 others: Best for Last, Crazy for You, Daydreamer, Hometown Glory, Melt My Heart to Stone, Right As Rain, Tired, and more. Includes black-and-white photos.
Adele's sophomore CD 21 has enjoyed enormous critical acclaim, with reviewers lauding this British, multi-Grammy-winner's vocal performance and introspective songwriting. The Hal Leonard songbook matches the CD, with piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of the smash hits â€œRolling in the Deepâ€� and â€œSomeone like You,â€� plus: Don't You Remember, He Won't Go, I'll Be Waiting, Lovesong, One and Only, Rumour Has It, Set Fire to the Rain, Take It All, Turning Tables.
Our matching songbook to Adele's much-anticipated and record-smashing 2015 album features piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of all its tracks including the first instant hit single â€œHelloâ€� and ten others: All I Ask, I Miss You, Million Years Ago, River Lea, Send My Love (To Your New Lover), Water Under the Bridge, When We Were Young, and more.
Lyrics and music to 18 great songs, with a full-track, backing CD. The American IdolÂ® Audition Book covers every musical genre from pop, rock, and country, to standards and Broadway, and features selections for both male and female voices. Also a must for any would-be ""idol"" is the four-page color section with a written foreword by a vocal coach containing general audition and performance tips, in addition to a walk-through of each individual song's vocal interpretation. Titles are: Amazed, Big Spender, Crazy for You, Fame, Genie in a Bottle, The Greatest Love of All, How Do I Live, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, I Turn to You, If I Were a Rich Man, It's My Life, Kryptonite, My Way, Right Here Waiting, Summertime, Theme from New York, New York, This I Promise You, Without You.
Sing along with your favorite American Idol hits! Each songbook provides the lyrics, music notation, and chords to 8 great hits, along with lyrics-only pages. The contents of each book were taken from actual songs that were performed on the shows of seasons 1 through 5. Each of the 5 books comes with a pull-out color centerfold of exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the contestants. There is also a pull-out lyric booklet so the singer can sing-along with the CD or the pianist. There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording, and a professional instrumental accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style. Titles: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Love Will Lead You Back, Over the Rainbow, Someone to Watch Over Me, Summer Wind, The Wind Beneath My Wings, When a Man Loves a Woman, You Raise Me Up.
Sing along with your favorite American Idol hits! Each songbook provides the lyrics, music notation, and chords to 8 great hits, along with lyrics-only pages. The contents of each book were taken from actual songs that were performed on the shows of seasons 1 through 5. Each of the 5 books comes with a pull-out color centerfold of exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the contestants. There is also a pull-out lyric booklet so the singer can sing-along with the CD or the pianist. There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording, and a professional instrumental accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style. Titles: Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now), Can You Feel the Love Tonight, Grease, The Greatest Love of All, I Turn to You, It Might Be You, Theme from New York, New York, Summertime.
Sing along with your favorite American Idol hits! Each songbook provides the lyrics, music notation, and chords to 8 great hits, along with lyrics-only pages. The contents of each book were taken from actual songs that were performed on the shows of seasons 1 through 5. Each of the 5 books comes with a pull-out color centerfold of exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the contestants. There is also a pull-out lyric booklet so the singer can sing-along with the CD or the pianist. There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording, and a professional instrumental accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style. Titles: Always on My Mind, Amazed, Bless the Broken Road, Cant Fight the Moonlight, How Do I Live, If Tomorrow Never Comes, Inside Your Heaven, Stand by Your Man.
Singers, hobbyist thru professional, will have loads of fun practicing and performing an array of the most popular songs ever performed on American Idol! This deluxe volume provides Piano/Vocal/Guitar sheet music plus MP3 compatible backing tracks, enabling the singer to be prepared for any situation, whether live or recorded accompaniment is desired. A foreword by American Idol's vocal coach Debra Byrd offers valuable vocal tips. The convenient Tone 'n' Tempo changer allows custom key and tempo playback adjustment when CD is played on Mac or PC. Titles: Against All Odds, Always on My Mind, Amazed, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Bless the Broken Road, Desperado, Everything I Do (I Do It for You), How You Remind Me *I Don't Want to Be, Mack the Knife, Open Arms, Smooth, What a Wonderful World, When a Man Loves a Woman, When the Stars Go Blue, You Raise Me Up.
Become a professional with the help of this awesome AMERICAN IDOL Official Training CDG Advanced 1. With on-screen lyrics, you will be able to follow along without any problems! you will recognize some of the Classic American Idol performance songs and be able to sing just like your idol. The disk includes stereo performance tracks as well as vocal demonstration tracks!
Sing along with your favorite American Idol hits! Each songbook provides the lyrics, music notation, and chords to 8 great hits, along with lyrics-only pages. The contents of each book were taken from actual songs that were performed on the shows of seasons 1 through 5. Each of the 5 books comes with a pull-out color centerfold of exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the contestants. There is also a pull-out lyric booklet so the singer can sing-along with the CD or the pianist. There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording, and a professional instrumental accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style. Titles: Dance with My Father, Hero, Live for Loving You, She Bangs, This Is the Night, Time After Time, Weekend in New England, When You Tell Me That You Love Me.
Sing along with your favorite American Idol hits! Each songbook provides the lyrics, music notation, and chords to 8 great hits, along with lyrics-only pages. The contents of each book were taken from actual songs that were performed on the shows of seasons 1 through 5. Each of the 5 books comes with a pull-out color centerfold of exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the contestants. There is also a pull-out lyric booklet so the singer can sing-along with the CD or the pianist. There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording, and a professional instrumental accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your Mac or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone 'N' Tempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style. Titles: Breakaway, Broken, How You Remind Me, I Could Not Ask for More, I Dont Want to Be, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, Old Time Rock & Roll, Open Arms.
Play and sing the top songs of American Idol with nearly 200 pages of sheet music for dozens of famous songs from seasons 1--4! For all musicians, especially fans of the hit television series, this songbook is is not only a collectors item, but an extremely useful collection of some of the most memorable and enduring songs ever written.
Play and sing the top songs of American Idol with nearly 200 pages of sheet music for dozens of famous songs from seasons 5--7! For all musicians, especially fans of the hit television series, this songbook is not only a collectors item, but an extremely useful collection of some of the most memorable and enduring songs ever written.
Singers, hobbyist thru professional, will have loads of fun practicing and performing an array of the most popular songs ever performed on American Idol! This deluxe volume provides Piano/Vocal/Guitar sheet music plus MP3 compatible backing tracks, enabling the singer to be prepared for any situation, whether live or recorded accompaniment is desired. A foreword by American Idol's vocal coach Debra Byrd offers valuable vocal tips. The convenient Tone 'n' Tempo changer allows custom key and tempo playback adjustment when CD is played on Mac or PC. Titles: Anyway, Be Without You, Because You Loved Me, Breakaway, Greatest Love of All, Hero, How Do I Live, I'll Stand By You, Inside Your Heaven, One Moment in Time, Over the Rainbow, Someone to Watch Over Me, Something to Talk About, Summertime, Time After Time, The Wind Beneath My Wings.
Singers, hobbyist thru professional, will have loads of fun practicing and performing an array of the most popular songs ever performed on American Idol! The book provides Piano/Vocal/Guitar sheet music plus MP3 compatible backing tracks, enabling the singer to be prepared for any situation, whether live or recorded accompaniment is desired. A foreword by American Idol's vocal coach Debra Byrd offers valuable vocal tips. The convenient Tone 'n' Tempo changer allows custom key and tempo playback adjustment when CD is played on Mac or PC. Titles: Anyway, Be Without You, Breakaway, How Do I Live, I'll Stand by You, Inside Your Heaven, One Moment in Time, Wind Beneath My Wings.
Performed by Amy Grant. For voice, piano and guitar chords. Format: piano/vocal/chords songbook. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams. Contemporary christian and adult contemporary. A multiple Grammy and Dove winner, Amy Grant is the most popular CCM singer of all time, with career sales in excess of 30 million. This collection assembles 19 of her finest, including: Angels, Baby Baby, El Shaddai, Every Heartbeat, Father's Eyes, Good for Me, I Will Remember You, Lead Me On, Simple Things, Stay for Awhile, Takes a Little Time, and more.
Novello Voices Choral Pops, Fabulous SATB arrangements of popular modern songs from West End shows and the worlds of jazz and pop music.
You'll be hooked at the sultry opening notes of this Broadway classic by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields. A super feature for SSA ensembles!
Play the hits that rocked the Billboard charts from 2000 to 2010! This exclusive sheet music collection features dozens of No. 1 hits and piano-friendly chart singles that are a pleasure to play. Each piano arrangement accurately depicts the original hit recording, with guitar chords, lyrics, and vocal melodies included for fellow music makers to play and sing. Titles: 21 Guns (Green Day), Airplanes (B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore), Apologize (Timbaland featuring OneRepublic), Bad Day (Daniel Powter), Be Without You (Mary J. Blige), Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson), Complicated (Avril Lavigne), Crazy (Gnarls Barkley), Falling Slowly (from Once) (Glen Hansard and Markata IrglovaÂ¡), Hanging by a Moment (Lifehouse), Haven't Met You Yet (Michael Buble), Hey There Delilah (Plain White T's), Home (Michael Buble), Hot N Cold (Katy Perry), How to Save a Life (The Fray), I'm Yours (Jason Mraz), Love Story (Taylor Swift), My Immortal (Evanescence), Need You Now (Lady Antebellum), New Soul (Yael Naim), Photograph (Nickelback), Temporary Home (Carrie Underwood), Umbrella (Rihanna featuring Jay-Z), We Are the World 25: for Haiti (Artists for Haiti), We Belong Together (Mariah Carey), What Goes Around Comes Around (Justin Timberlake), When I Look at You (Miley Cyrus), With Arms Wide Open (Creed), You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban).
An excellent comprehensive tribute to the epitome of reggae music. 34 of Marley's best, complete with 8 pages of color photos, black and white photos throughout, an introduction by Marley's daughter, and separate lyric pages. Songs include: Could You Be Loved, Exodus, Get Up, Stand Up, I Shot The Sheriff, Jammin, Natural Mystic, No Woman No Cry, Please Don't Rock My Boat, Redemption Song, Stir It Up, Three Little Birds and more! A must for any reggae fan.
You'll get more bang for your buck with this big collection of 52 hits. Includes: All I Wanna Do, Bleeding Love, Crazy, Genie in a Bottle, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Hey There Delilah, Ironic, Losing My Religion, Photograph, Since U Been Gone, Smooth, Take Me Out, Unwell, Who Will Save Your Soul, With Arms Wide Open, Wonderwall, and more.
You get a lot of bang for your bucks with this great collection of 75 top pop hits! Features: Adia, Angel, Back in the High Life Again, Barbara Ann, Crimson and Clover, Don't Cry Out Loud, Dust in the Wind, Hero, I Hope You Dance, If You're Gone, Jack and Diane, Lady Marmalade, Mony, Mony, Respect, Stand by Me, Tequila, Vision of Love, We Got the Beat, What's Going On, You Sang to Me, and more!
Pop hits from the 21st century specially arranged for buskers from the actual recordings in the original keys.
Melody line, chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and lyrics for over 40 turn-of-the-century pop hits.
Play the hits you've been hearing on the radio all year long! Includes: Burning House, Can't Feel My Face, Ex's & Oh's, Hello, Like I'm Gonna Lose You, Perfect, Renegades, Stitches, Uma Thurman, Writing's on the Wall, and more.
Classic Pop Ballads collects three of the world's all-time great pop songs in irresistible arrangements for young or newly-formed choirs. Pieces have been specially chosen to enable successful program planning and a manageable piano accompaniment is also provided. The optional third line is designed for boys with newly changed or unstable voices. These pieces are fun and straightforward, allowing young singers to experiment with different styles. These songs are sure to be a hit with any young choir. Titles: Streets of London, The Sound of Silence, The Windmills of Your Mind.


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On Tuesday, April 5, the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau and MotorCities National Heritage Area announced the selections for the 2016 Autopalooza series of car shows, cruises, races and other automotive-related events. Autopalooza is an effort that advertises the National Heritage Area as the top destination for automotive heritage by promoting the summer’s premier car shows and cruises!
The Autopalooza events celebrate the wonderful history that we have in southeast Michigan that has been so heavily influenced by the automotive industry.
One of the highlights of the April 5 kick-off event was the introduction of race car driver Rick Mears. The legendary four-time Indianapolis 500 winner was introduced by the eloquent speaker Shawn Pomaville, who is also the director for MotorCities National Heritage Area. Mears was there to speak about the importance of the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix happening June 3-5 this year. The Grand Prix has become a great tradition for many cultures and automotive fans from all over the world. Mears started his great racing career during the 1960s, so let’s go back in time to look at his career and all the wonderful contributions he has made to the world of auto racing.
Rick Mears was born on Dec. 3, 1951, in Wichita, Kan. Later he would move to Bakersfield, Cal. Before his racing career had launched, Mears had worked for his father's business as a heavy equipment operator. During his early years, Mears had a strong passion for off-track motorcycling and a great interest in radio-controlled boats, airplanes and, of course, fast cars.
In 1968, the Desert Motorcycle Racing Team created a great opportunity for Mears and he would go on to have many wins as a competitive motorcycle racer.
He would go on to win a total of 60 trophies within a two-and-half-year period. In 1970, Mears had won the Ascot Sark Sprit Buggy championship which marked another great victory for his career.
By 1971, Rick Mears had become very much involved with Dune Buggy sport racing which Rick had won consistently nearly every race. Soon he was attracting crowds and fans along with friends that thoroughly enjoyed his great passion for auto racing. His older brother Roger had designed and created a Mears gang shield which was later used for his popular fan club base. In 1972, Mears had won a trip to Mt. Fuji Raceway in Japan, where he won a wheel-to-wheel duel with the famous and legendary race car driver Parnelli Jones.
By the 1970s, Mears had driven his name into the history books of automotive racing. In 1975, Mears teamed up with Dr. David L. Sauer who combined off-road racing with SCCA road racing which turned out to be a great experience and investment.
The year 1978 marked the first year that Mears had teamed up with the famous Penske Racing team driving the vivid yellow Pennzoil Z-7 Special and was named Co-Rookie of the Year. In 1979, Mears became the 10th all-time driver to win the Indy 500 which he became very proud of.
In 1980, Mears won the Mexico Cup 150 CART Indy car race and finished third in the International Race of Champions series. In 1983, he earned Domino's Pizza Triple Crown championship with best combined finishes in the Indianapolis 500 along with the Michigan Detroit News 200 which included a time record speed for an Indy car race driver.
During the 1980s, Mears was injured in a racing accident and unfortunately he had to miss the last five races of the 1984 season due to this setback. He was also eliminated from the tight point race for the CART PPG Indy Car World Series title. However, Mears continued his great winning career and in 1987 he finished in 9th place in the Toyota Grand Prix at long Beach.
For many years, Mears stood out as one of the best race car drivers and legends in automotive racing. His success at the Indy 500 was heralded by the Indiana state government and he was named Sagamore of the Wabash for 1985, which is an honorary title created by Indiana Gov. Rick Orr. Sagamore of the Wabash was used by Native American tribes in the northeastern U. S. It is reserved for those who have performed a distinguished service to the state and is a personal tribute from the governor.
In-conclusion, Rick Mears has certainly forged his great legacy in the motor sport world and remains an important piece of our automotive heritage.

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text: Tyler and Kara’s wedding day at Ramhorn Farm brought people together from all over the country. Friends and family made the trip to Wisconsin to witness the marriage of two people that are, without a doubt, made for each other. The gorgeous venue was the perfect place to celebrate such a beautiful love story.

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New Delhi : At a time when online food ordering has become the new normal for millennials and working couples, piping hot biryani has come out of the oven in a big way, emerging as the most-loved comfort food across Metros and suburbs in the country.
Like the way pizza and burger orders flourished, online food delivery platforms have now crowned biryani as the king of most-craved dishes.
“Compared to 2017, there was a whopping 681 per cent increase in biryani orders on Swiggy in 2018 — that is one biryani ordered every 3.5 seconds,” the online food delivery platform told IANS.
While pizzas, burgers and cakes were the most searched food items last year, chicken biryani remained the most ordered dish during festivals, lunches, dinners, snack time and late-night slots across the country.
Witnessing the growing demand, opening a biryani house is one of the top choices for entrepreneurs who wish to invest in food start-ups.
Often priced by the kilo, the delicacy is served by big hotel chains, quick-serve restaurants (QSRs), Cloud kitchens as well as take-away joints — categorised in over 10 regional variations and the most popular ones being Hyderabadi, Lucknowi, Calcutta, Malabari, Bombay, Awadhi and Tehari.
According to Sagar Kochhar, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Rebel Foods which is the parent company of Behrouz — India’s largest online biryani brand — biryani consumers have become a lot more extreme in terms of preferences.
“They want to indulge in great food experiences and they do not eat just with the purpose of filling their bellies,” Kochhar told IANS.
Since hot and fresh biryanis come in larger quantities, it is often ordered in bulk at workplaces, parties and events as a total value-for-money cuisine.
“Biryani, influenced by the Persian culture, allows people to indulge in gastronomy to savour the relationship between food and culture,” Kochhar added.
With consistent yet versatile cooking techniques and personalised presentations, the convenience of online food ordering mediums have filled in the blank that once lay in between street-side biryani places and home-cooked options, with several new choices.
“Biryani has got momentum with the mushrooming of online platforms and with millennials consuming it the most.
“Biryani is also region-specific and a Bengali will prefer Kolkata biryani and a Tamilian will go for Chennai-type biryani. We are devising new marketing strategies to attract millennials via Facebook and Instagram, etc,” K. Umamaheswaran, Founder of Kolkata Biryani House which has branches in Delhi-NCR, told IANS.
Hyderabad retains its position as the biryani capital of India. Food lovers in India even declared October 28 as the “National Biryani Day” last year by placing highest number of orders (on Swiggy) for the dish that day.
According to Sandeep Anand, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Zomato, biryani orders have increased more than 10 times on the platform.
“Chicken biryani has been the most-ordered dish on our platform for two straight years. The numbers are destined to only grow further with more and more biryani outlets opening-up with interesting innovations to the dish,” Anand noted.
However, unlike famous pizza, burger and cake brands with pan-India presence, there are not many biryani brands yet which could be recognised as national biryani serving brands.
Nonetheless, several popular online brands like Behrouz, Biryani By Kilo, Biryani Blues and others are busy serving the palate and taking the legendary mouth-watering dish — once limited to a few known restaurants — right at your doorstep.

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If using canned raspberries use the juice or syrup, just taste and adjust the sweet/sharp before refrigerating the final purée.
To make the rose petal syrup, add fresh, fragrant, deep red rose petals to simple stock syrup, combine and fill to the top of an airtight jar to steep and impart flavour and fragrance, drain and retain syrup after 24 hours. Note: This will only keep refrigerated for a couple days.
In a non stick saucepan, heat the rose syrup, wine, and sugar but don’t let it boil. Remove from the heat, stir in the raspberries and rosewater, taste and adjust to suit your palette and then leave to cool to room temperature.
Blend and then sieve to remove the seeds, quicker if you use the back of a ladle to push the mushy pulp through the sieve.
Chill the mixture thoroughly, then freeze in your ice cream maker.

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Does The Street Have LTX-Credence Figured Out?
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict LTX-Credence's revenues will expand 53.2% and EPS will remain in the red.
The average estimate for revenue is $36.9 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is -$0.06.
Last quarter, LTX-Credence recorded revenue of $43.2 million. GAAP reported sales were 28% higher than the prior-year quarter's $33.8 million.
Last quarter, non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.03. GAAP EPS were $0.01 for Q1 compared to -$0.10 per share for the prior-year quarter.
For the preceding quarter, gross margin was 54.4%, 100 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 1.6%, 1,640 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 1.3%, 1,580 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
The full year's average estimate for revenue is $174.6 million. The average EPS estimate is $0.13.
The stock has a five-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 107 members out of 118 rating the stock outperform, and 11 members rating it underperform. Among 22 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 21 give LTX-Credence a green thumbs-up, and one give it a red thumbs-down.
Of Wall Street recommendations tracked by S&P Capital IQ, the average opinion on LTX-Credence is buy, with an average price target of $8.40.

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By Tiffany Kary and Dylan Griffiths, Bloomberg News April 15, 2016 Updated: April 15, 2016 8:39 p.m.
Since the start of 2015, about 50 oil and gas producers have gone bankrupt, owing more than $17 billion, according to law firm Haynes & Boone LLP.
Goodrich Petroleum Corp., the latest casualty of the energy slump, sought bankruptcy protection with a plan to eliminate about $400 million of debt.
The Chapter 11 petition filed in Houston on Friday listed $507 million in debts, compared with only $99 million in assets. Goodrich said in an accompanying statement that it intends to keep operating under court protection with existing management in place.
The restructuring support agreement will “substantially de-leverage its capital structure and strategically position the company for long-term performance in an anticipated improving commodity price environment,” Houston-based Goodrich said in the statement.
Goodrich has properties in the Tuscaloosa Marine shale of eastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi, the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas and the Haynesville shale in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana, according to its website.
The company is the latest to succumb to the epidemic of defaults sweeping its industry during the biggest price slump in a generation. Energy XXI Ltd., a U.S. oil and gas explorer, filed for bankruptcy Thursday after spending $5 billion on acquisitions. Oil has rebounded after falling to 12-year lows, but is still trading close to $40 a barrel, well below the $100 it was fetching before the onset of the slump in mid-2014.
On March 16, Goodrich delayed releasing its annual report, citing a large loss that auditors had determined might affect the company’s ability to operate as a going concern. The loss came “mainly as a result of substantial impaired asset writedowns,” Goodrich said in the filing.
Goodrich turned to the bankruptcy process after a debt-for-equity exchange offer failed to gain enough traction among stockholders and unsecured debt holders.
Since the start of 2015, about 50 oil and gas producers have gone bankrupt, owing more than $17 billion, according to law firm Haynes & Boone LLP. Goodrich joins shale-focused companies such as Magnum Hunter Resources Corp., which filed for creditor protection in December.
Goodrich’s largest unsecured creditors include holders of seven different groups of bonds, according to the court filing. Among them is a $116.8 million claim on 8.875 percent senior notes due in 2019.

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10. And finally, Reading is just plain FUN!!!
Help them learn to Enjoy reading and it will a Gift for Life!!!
It's so nice to instill that love of books and reading early on. I even read to my kiddos when they were young preteens -- Tom Sawyer and Anne Frank are the ones I especially remember.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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A colleague of mine recently told me a story about a friend of hers with a very long beard who was asked one day, “How do you sleep with all that hair?” The man, who had never given it much thought, shrugged at the question. However, he later confessed to my colleague that since the question was posed he was losing a lot of sleep.
This man has fallen into a common mental trap: once a thought occurs to you, it’s very difficult to suppress it, and trying to suppress it may make the thought stronger.
This mental trap has a long-running history in our social consciousness. Leo Tolstoy once said he tried to play a game in which he would, “get into a corner and endeavor, but could not possibly manage, not to think of the white bear.” This was later echoed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky who lamented that “Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute. So how is it to be done? There is no way it can be done…"
These observations would later inspire social psychologist Daniel Wegner, PhD at Harvard University. Wegner is considered to be the founding father of thought suppression research, and was inspired to look into thought suppression after reading Dostoyevsky's quote more than 25 years ago.
Many believe that multitasking is the art of the productive. However, social science reveals that humans don't really multitask, but rather they rapidly switch among tasks. It's a cognitive illusion that actually results in less productivity and may harm the brain's natural abilities.
In June of this year, a Chinese motorist was caught driving while undergoing intravenous therapy and talking on the phone. A needle providing the intravenous therapy was stuck in the back of his right hand, which had been holding his phone, while he used his left hand to hold the iron pole with the intravenous fluid bag and also the car’s steering wheel. Police in the city of Wenzhou in southeastern Zhejiang province, China were on patrol on June 20 when they saw the motorist driving at 80km/h.
The driver told police he was rushing to carry out some urgent matters so had left a health clinic before his infusion was complete. He claimed that it was not dangerous for him to be driving at the time because he was good at multitasking. The police didn’t buy his multitasking defense and fined the driver 150 yuan and deducted four points from his driving license for dangerous driving and using a mobile phone while driving.
In a famous study of drivers chatting on mobile phones, David Strayer and Frank Drews found that diving while using a mobile phone is as dangerous as driving while drunk.
The problems of multitasking don’t end with driving. Harvard Medical School knows first-hand that multitasking increases the number of mistakes people make— a resident doctor nearly killed a patient after a text message distracted her from updating a prescription.
These and other examples point to an undeniable truth: multitasking can be dangerous at its worst and inefficient at its best. Even simple can produce a kind of ‘attention interference’ when performed simultaneously.
This weekend, the movie The Martian opens. It’s based on a book by Andy Weir, the most exciting one I’ve read this year. In the very near future, a mechanical engineer and botanist turned astronaut named Mark Watney gets marooned on Mars, with little hope that he can survive long enough for a rescue team to reach him. The narrative proceeds on two paths, with Mark showing amazing resourcefulness to extend his survival on a barren planet, and the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) at home, scrambling to come up with a plan to save him.
Throughout the book, I pondered the same question. The researchers at GiveWell.org estimate that you can save a life through a long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito net for $3,340. A program of community health promoters in East Africa is estimated to save a child’s life for $4,400. By those estimates, instead of saving Mark Watney (and let’s assume that it cost just $100 million), NASA could have saved almost 30,000 people with mosquito nets or almost 23,000 children through community health promoters.
Beyond the requirements of a thrilling piece of science fiction, why would we make that choice?
When do we follow the crowd and when do we think independently? Social science research offers some clues, starting with Solomon Asch's famous experiments exploring group conformity.
While many of us read these words and think, ‘yes, I believe that, too’ we often do not follow through when put to the test. Imagine yourself in this scenario: as a university student, you sign up to participate in a psychology experiment and on test day you are seated at a table with seven or eight others whom you believe to be fellow subjects. The experimenter tells you are participating in a study of visual judgment and asks you to compare the length of a line on one card with a set of three lines of varying lengths on another card. The experimenter asks you and the other test takers to choose which of the three lines on the right card matches the length of the line on the left card. Several rounds of this are completed.
On some rounds the other test takers unanimously choose the wrong line. It is clear to you they are wrong, what do you do? Do you go along with the wrong answer to please the majority? Do you begin to doubt your eyes? Or do you trust yourself and select the correct line?

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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This model is the replacement for model UC4020A. The Makita UC4041A Chainsaw features an improved automatic oil pump for lubricating the chain, proper lubrication keeps the chain in good working order and extends it's life. The toolless tensioner has been improved with a significant change to the design making it easy for the user to both tension the chain correctly and change it when required. This Makita Chainsaw also features a soft grip for comfort use, spike bumper to grip work-pieces firmly, an easy to see oil level window and for safety a mechanical chain brake & a kickback brake. The 400mm or 16" Bar length is ideal for most general duty sawing.
• New adjustment lever for easier tool-less saw chain / tension adjustment.
• Large separate-type metal spike bumper. Spike grips work-piece firmly to provide more control.
• Oil fill level window.

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This journal was inspired by that special romantic touch of the vintage treasures. The leather I used for the cover is high quality Italian leather, with an interesting vintage texture.
The paper has a lovely mottled look resembling old parchment. It’s bound with the longstitch technique using strong thread.
I put a vintage keys on the cover to protects your thoughts, but the journal lays flat, the key doesn’t interfere with the writing as it is mounted on the third cover.


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Ski Network is a unique opportunity for technology and consulting professionals to connect in the Alps.
As a community of hundreds from some of the world's leading consulting and technology companies, including IBM, KPMG, Salesforce and Google, Ski Network host the largest ski festival of its kind.
Skiers and snowboarders of all levels attend each year for an unrivalled week packed full of socialising, networking and snow. Each trip includes many events, such as, a welcome evening, meal on the mountain, fancy dress night and live music.
Advanced skiers and boarders can choose to join activities like heli skiing, where guides find fresh lines across challenging off piste routes.
The advanced workshop challenges skiers and boarders to follow guides across the whole of the ski area.
Of course, breaks are necessary. Bubbles and lunch are provided in a quiet spot, allowing participants to relax and recuperate.
A professional videographer and photographer are always on hand to make sure we capture all the special moments.
If it's nailing that jump, your first set of turns or capturing the memories from that night out, we'll be there with a camera.
Meet like-minded individuals with similar interests and backgrounds.
Whether you're on your own, a couple or a group of twenty, we guarantee you'll make plenty of new friends.
If your idea of a great week in the snow involves more après-ski than not, we've got you covered.
Our programme of events takes in the most popular après spots across the resort, including the infamous La Folie Douce.
Snowsports clubs from many of the leading technology and consulting companies join us each year.
There are themed evenings out for those that like to burn the candle at both ends, or bowling, for those that prefer a more relaxed evening.
Of course, all activities are entirely optional. You choose what your holiday looks like.
Ski Network is not supported or affiliated with these companies. Individuals join us of their own volition and do not represent their organisation.

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Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, has served as the ancient capital of several dynasties in Chinese history, for instance Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771 BC), Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24), and Tang Dynasty (618-907).
Liang Ping'an, a calabash carving artist living in Xi'an, turns this ordinary vegetable into handicrafts demonstrating the history and culture of this time-honored city.
From Great Wild Goose Pagoda to Terracotta Warriors, Liang keeps exploring new themes for his creation among cultural icons of Xi'an.
"Carving on calabashes is more than a personal hobby," he said. "I hope people will return to traditional culture and find more inspirations in our city."

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Why do I need a Bathroom Exhaust Fan?
You walk into your bathroom and there it is looking at you – it is the exhaust fan wall switch. Do you turn it on or not? Then you ask yourself, “Why do I need a Bathroom Exhaust Fan”?
Bathroom exhaust fans provide a vital function to ensure the indoor air quality of your home. Their main functions are to remove moisture and odors from the room. Mold and mildew love moist environments, so by using an exhaust fan you can greatly decrease the conditions that promote their growth.
So if exhaust fans are so good, why doesn’t everyone have and use one? There are two main answers. The first is that not all that long ago, exhaust fans were not required by the building codes. Codes were written that if you had a window anywhere in your bathroom, you were not required to have an exhaust fan. The theory being that you could provide all the ventilation by opening a window. While that might sound good in theory, when it is February in any northern state, I am not sure how much you want to be opening windows? The building codes across the country have come a long way and now require an exhaust fan in all bathrooms, kitchens and anywhere pollutants are entering the living environment.
The second answer is the sound level. Older exhaust fans were loud and not very efficient. Technology has come a long way and now there are energy efficient fans on the market that you can’t even hear running. To learn more about Air King’s bathroom exhaust fans, visit www.airkinglimited.com.
What is a 3-prong cord? The simple explanation is that it is a standard cord that includes a grounding wire. The grounding prong is an added safety feature that protects you in the case of a malfunction within the appliance being used. You will see them used on many products but especially on products constructed with metal.
The grounding prong protects you in the case where one of the wires inside the product may come loose and come into contact with any of the metal. This will cause the electric current to flow through that metal. If you then touch any of the metal, you will get an electric shock that could be fatal. The grounding prong prevents this by sending the extra flow of electricity directly to ground. The circuit detects a surge of power and “trips” the circuit, stopping the flow of electricity to the unit. If you have ever had a product that trips the circuit every time you plug it in, it might be because there is a problem with the wiring of the product.
Some people will simply cut off the prong or use a cheater plug. While the unit will continue to work, you have now disabled an important safety feature of the unit. It may be able to operate for years that way, but is it really worth the risk to your home and family? Three prong grounded cords are typically required in all commercial settings such as schools, offices, hospitals and so forth. All of Air King’s commercial and industrial products include three prong grounded cords. To learn more about Air King’s commercial and industrial fans, visit www.airkinglimited.com.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


text: At Fundição you are as likely to encounter pre-carnival warm up shows as circus acts or legendary singers like Caetano Veloso recording their latest live DVD. The Intrépida Troupe provide the high-wire action, and their regular shows incorporate a mixture of African, European and Brazilian cultures, also offering classes during the week to wannabe acrobats. A shop operates Monday to Friday from 2pm to 7pm along with a café, but its at night time the place really gets going.

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The Netizen team sharing expertise, insights and useful information in cybersecurity, compliance, and software assurance.
When security breaches make headlines, they tend to be about nefarious actors in another country or the catastrophic failure of technology. These kinds of stories are exciting to read and easier for the hacked company to admit to. But the reality is that no matter the size or the scope of a breach, usually it’s caused by an action, or failure, of someone inside the company.
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Maine Seasons Events on Green Wedding Shoes!
One of my sweetest couples had their wedding featured on Green Wedding Shoes blog today, you can read the post here.
Days of rain before the wedding stopped as Whitney prepared to walk down the aisle, and as she came in to "Here Comes the Sun" the sun came through the clouds and the afternoon turned into the perfect warm Maine autumn day...serendipity! Judy of Flora Fauna made the incredible bouquets and boutonnieres to include hand made paper flowers and each brides maid had a different bouquet to match her dress, so pretty!
Mat and Ash took the photos, here is one of my faves, where you really see Rian and Whitney's personalities-LOVE!
The wedding was held at a private estate, the Wentworth Lodge, and Whitney's Vera Wang dress looked so ethereal against the wood of the lodge.
We used driftwood, lace runners and vintage and custom made books for simple but dreamy centerpieces with linen tones of champagne, peach and oatmeal.
My darling husband and I made the driftwood chandeliers from driftwood Ava and I collected on beaches after winter storms, they were fun to make. We gave them to the couple as a gift after the wedding.
Tent and rentals provided by One Stop Party Shop, sumptuous invitations designed by Parrott Design Studio.
Happy wedding Whitney and Rian, we wish you our very best for a bright and happy future together!


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Several virus diseases affect peas. Pea Enation Mosaic Virus, Pea Seedborne Mosaic Virus, and Pea Streak Viruses are viruses of importance in Washington. These viruses are spread by aphids including the pea aphid. Pea Seedborne Mosaic Virus is also carried by infected seed. Pea Enation Mosaic Virus causes mottling, stunting, and enations (small bumps or blisters) on leaves. Pods and leaves may be distorted. Pea Seedborne Mosaic Virus causes pod distortions and stunting, rosetting, and rolling of leaves. Leaves and pods appear mottled, and infected seeds may have a brownish stain or discoloration. Pea Streak Viruses cause brown to purple spotting or streaking on leaves, stems, or pods and result in rapid death of plants. The viruses affect many hosts in the pea family (Leguminosae). Alfalfa, clovers, and weeds can serve as sources of infection.
Plant prior to March 31 (approximate date) to avoid infestation by aphids.
Control weeds in and around the garden (particularly those in the pea family) to reduce infection risks.
Plant enation-resistant varieties such as 'Almoto', 'Aspen', 'Aurora', 'Citation', 'Corvallis', 'Freezer 50', 'Green Sugar', 'Knight', 'Mohawk', 'Oregon Sugar Pod', 'Perfected Freezer 60', 'Prospector', and 'Trident'.
Plant certified, virus-free seed to reduce chances of seedborne mosaic.
Do not plant near alfalfa, which is a host for pea streak viruses.


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Fathers' rights campaigners known for their protests dressed as superheroes have managed to halt Prime Minister's Questions by throwing missiles at ministers.
The Commons was suspended after purple powder was thrown and hit Tony Blair on the back. Fathers-4-Justice (F4J) claimed responsibility.
F4J founder Matt O'Connor said the group was protesting, in the run-up to Fathers' Day, at MPs' failure to help fathers in their fight to gain access to children through the courts.
Earlier this year, the group said it was planning an escalation of activity as part of a national campaign of civil disruption.
Superhero-clad protesters staged a demonstration on the roof of a Devon court building on Tuesday. There have also been demonstrations on a crane in Manchester, on Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge, and on gantries over key roads in London.
Before Christmas, an army of militant Santas marched on Parliament.
The group has admitted protesters are running the risk of imprisonment but says its tactics are a "last resort", that its frustrated members have "exhausted every possible avenue".
"We are a bunch of guys who are going to be making some pretty scary sacrifices. We know many of us are going to go to prison but there is tremendous resolve," Mr O'Connor has said.
"It comes down to the simple fact that we face a Herculean struggle. The politicians are not dealing with this with the degree of urgency this matter deserves."
Mr O'Connor says fathers have been fighting "a steady erosion" of their rights for 30 years, without success. F4J's own meetings with the government in the year and a half since it started have, he says, proved fruitless.
"It is now at the point where we have to fight for basic rights. So many people have lost contact with their children through the courts, it was inevitable something like Fathers-4-Justice was going to emerge," Mr O'Connor says.
He believes the group has already achieved considerable success in its first aim of raising awareness of a problem that has "gone unnoticed and unreported".
But F4J's second aim is a tougher proposition - it wants an overhaul of family law within two years.
Figures show that mothers gain custody in four out of five disputes - F4J believes that 40% of fathers subsequently lose contact with their children within two years. Mr O'Connor says some of these cases will be due to fathers turning their backs, but he claims that the "vast majority" are due to mothers denying access.
Family courts issue contact orders in an attempt to ensure access for the parent not living with their children, but Mr O'Connor says these are worthless because they are not enforced.
"People have complete carte blanche to stop contact, knowing that the judge will do absolutely nothing about it," he says.
The government admits that the enforcement of contact orders is "an issue" that needs to be addressed. A Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) spokesman says "courts are understandably reluctant to impose jail terms or fines on mothers who have children to look after".
But F4J believes the solution is to give parents and grandparents "a legal right to see their children and grandchildren".
"The law says you have no legal right to see your children - only a right to apply to a court to see them - but you have a legal obligation to pay for them," says Mr O'Connor. Fathers are forced to support children even when mothers are not being forced to allow those fathers access, he says.
But F4J's claims are disputed by family support group One Parent Families, which says there is no way they can know how often mothers deny fathers' rights because there are simply no reliable facts and figures.
A One Parent Families spokesman says the charity receives 25,000 calls a year and that "one of the most common complaints is that mothers desperately want their children to have contact with their father and they have difficulty maintaining that".
In any case, court orders are only a small part of the overall picture. The DCA says that in more than 90% of break-ups involving children, custody arrangements are agreed outside the courts. Constitutional Affairs Secretary Lord Falconer is, however, considering the issue of custody disputes and hopes to make proposals within a matter of months.
"We are keen to keep couples who split up away from the courts," the DCA spokesman said. "It is not the best way of solving custody disputes. Family courts have an adversarial process that leads to more tension. Plus it is always a longer process.
"What we intend to do is introduce schemes to encourage parents to mediate more, with the help of experts, and come to their own arrangements. Orders agreed by parents themselves are more likely to be adhered to."
"Fathers for justice claim today's protest was a dramatic way of getting their message across"
How secure is the Commons?
Who are Fathers 4 Justice?


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The fruit for this Chardonnay was selected from two distinctive vineyards in the Los Carneros region—our family estate Brown Ranch on the Napa side of the appellation and one of our favorite family-farmed sites, Sangiacomo, Vella Vineyard further west in Sonoma. The cool-climate Sangiacomo, Vella Vineyard’s 100 acres were planted in 1997 in well-drained Zamora silty loam and Wright loam. From among the vineyard's 15 combinations of clones and rootstock, we selected the Old Wente clone fruit for its citrus character and bright acidity. From our Brown Ranch just off of Old Sonoma Road, we chose Dijon clone 95 for this appellation blend—the perfect complement to the Old Wente, delivering ample richness, concentrated flavors, and gorgeous aromatics.
Grown in Haire loam soils on 9% slopes, these vines were planted in 1992 on 3309 rootstock and configured with bilateral cordon and vertical shoot positioning yielding an average of 3.5 tons per acre. The cool breezes from the San Pablo Bay to our south allow this fruit to ripen slowly and achieve ideal phenolics.
The 2014 vintage endured the continuing drought along as well as the South Napa earthquake. Still, the ideal weather—dry and temperate with few heat spikes—made for hastened yet predictable growing events. Harvest was slightly earlier than usual with beautifully ripened fruit in both sites ready to pick in early September.


text: Sorry for taking so much of your time. I should've just broken your neck in one hit, but that takes a bit of technique to pull off. Really, the samurai back in the day sure were something.


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With no shortage of land in California, why are elite politicians forcing development into downtown urban centers, when millions of people want to raise families in detached single family dwellings with yards?
The above chart depicts several projects that could be funded through a combination of revenue bonds – to attract private financing, and general obligation bonds – to reduce costs to ratepayers. While these projects are expensive, they are well within the capacity of California’s economy to support, and if constructed, they would guarantee consumers affordable water abundance for several decades, possibly forever. And it is important to note, these are California cost estimates. With appropriate reforms to provide relief from litigation and overregulation, these costs could be dramatically reduced. The capital costs for desalination plants in Israel, for example, per unit of capacity, came in at one-sixth what the costs were for the Carlsbad plant in San Diego. For water, as with everything else that matters, compromise on a grand scale is necessary to negotiate a grand bargain. Environmentalists would have to accept a few more reservoirs and desalination plants in exchange for plentiful water allocations to threatened ecosystems. Farmers would have to pay more for water in exchange for undiminished quantities. While private financing and revenue bonds could cover much of the expense, taxpayers would bear the burden of some new debt – but in exchange for permanent access to affordable, secure, and most abundant water.
This is the future of transportation in California, a future that demands upgraded roads and new modes of FTA administered airspace. As for rail, upgrading existing rail might have tremendous practical value. But why take a bullet train, when within a decade or two you’ll be able to dial up an aerial Uber on your cell phone, and at speeds exceeding the most optimistic HSR projections, fly from any rooftop in San Francisco to any rooftop in Los Angeles?
Edward Ring is a political and financial analyst, working primarily with start-up and early-stage organizations. In 2013, he co-founded the California Policy Center, a free-market think tank based in Southern California.
Yes. There is room for many additional single-family homes. But midrise or highrise condos and apartments are also fine in appropriate places. SB 50 would empower developers to choose the places. They would choose to destroy existing neighborhoods near where corporations have chosen and yet choose to add jobs. The State Legislature should have restricted where new job centers could be established – and still should. Job centers should have space next door for new or rebuilt housing. Workers could walk to work.
Keep taxing and spending – just don’t charge the Midwest for your debacles. Thank goodness for the $10,000 SALT deduction cap.
I actually think the whole CA train thing is fantastic. You should go for it. I will learn more about the carving out of mountains, how trains behave in sunny farming environments and the taking of private property. Just be sure to do it on your own dime – not mine as I do not directly benefit being from the Midwest. All I need is a Wal Mart. My Ford Pinto gets me there just fine.
this article is nonsense IMHO. It is a classic NIMBY misdirection and misinformation.
obviously, the NIMBY is ignoring the fact that the whole damn problem is that this is exactly what the NIMBYs has forced everyone to do for the past 20 years and in past 5 years masses of people got pushed deep into fire burn zone forests and buying central valley farm land for housing, resulting in nightmare 2-3 hour daily commutes that destroy families quality of life, 1000s killed in fires and commuting accidents, 1000s of burned down homes, and making CA a leading GHG problem source. So, very few (filthy rich) NIMBYs are pro their quality of life, but the rest of us (including moderate and poor workers) and the planet be damned!!!
Notice how it says nothing about about producing enough affordable housing near jobs??? everyone (but the NIMBYs?) know people want to live where the jobs are, so it is only logical to densify in nearby transit and jobs rich areas, which is exactly what SB 50 provides.
something has to be done, and NIMBYs (and their defacto supporters) just saying “NO” and “Go elsewhere far away” is exactly what caused this crises, and only emergency actions will get us out of this housing emergency any time soon. So, we all should applaud Newsom for actually treating this like a state of emergency and not like all others who’ve been paying lip service to it while most Californians get crushed by bone crushing rents, house prices, and commutes.
local control = local rich NIMBY owners continue to block housing production = they make MUCH more $$$ = renters get crushed into leaving CA or into homelessness. We must stop the local control madness which is destroying lives, enriching NIMBYs, and harming our environment. To avoid sticks against NIMBYs from Newsom all together, just support the sensible SB 50, to support struggling renter’s rights over rich NIMBY homeowners to get filthy richer!
The author probably didn’t go far enough in describing the barriers to housing put up not by local residents, but by state and local governments. “Affordable housing” through grants is a scam. They allocated five billion dollars to building “permanent supportive housing” for the homeless in Los Angeles, and to-date only around 100 units (if that) have been built, at a price approaching $400,000 per unit. It is rife with corruption. Instead, lower the fees charged to private developers to build homes and apartments, roll back some of the extreme building (translation “green”) code requirements, and reduce the fees which (I kid you not) approach $100,000 per home in some cities.
The reason we can’t afford homes is because government has priced itself out of providing services (mental hospitals, for example, used to cost about one-tenth as much per inmate as they do today, in constant dollars), trial lawyers have litigated away the ability of police to clear out homeless encampments, which took away the deterrent, environmentalists have grossly constrained the places where homes can be built plus made the cost of building far greater, and just to be thorough, elite investors and financial special interests have supported mass immigration to squeeze the supply of homes in order to create an asset bubble in order to increase their investment returns.
There’s complexity. Own it. Or continue to peddle YOUR nonsense about NIMBYs and limousine liberals.
anything different than exactly the hellish 1-3 hours commutes that were created over the past 10 years as people moved thier housing to ever further “outlying suburbs”. what do you think skyrocketed Sacramento rents and house prices??? Jobs in SF Bay Area, not in Sac. Hence, why the authors ‘grand bargain’ seems like utter nonsense.
maybe low wage support services jobs, but not the high paying high end city jobs. Please show us an example where that has happened in a big way in CA. Heck, companies won’t even move to Oakland let alone out of the Bay Area. Few high skilled, high value workers want to live outside of the core city; hence the demand, and companies follower where their main workers are and want to be, and that is near the core vibrant “jobs rich” city areas like SF and LA.
that is not realistic. as soon as any city has tried it, they need to be expanded again before they are even done. besides, no space to expand in SF Bay Area. Please show us an example where that has solved a transportation crisis in CA. Besides, you are just promoting more GHG pollution, which I guess you think is a hoax like Trump?
well, it is the other side of the bargain equation that I’m saying is non-sense, per my above.


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Add one more notch on Brantford, Ontario’s belt. The city is the birthplace of Wayne Gretzky and Phil Hartman, and it is where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. It also houses the six members of the rising Indie/Rock band Racoon Wedding. Racoon can be spelled with one C or two. I thought I’d obviate the spelling lesson.
Racoon Wedding is the music equivalent of what I would expect a raccoon wedding to be like: electric eccentricity, amicable drunkenness, poppy humor, and, most importantly, horn-fueled raccoon love. So, yeah, that odd comparison holds true for the sextet from telephone city.
Come tomorrow with the release of the new LP, Racoon Dead on the Side of the Road, the band will have successfully depicted the joy of raccoon passion and friendship (which the name of the band implies) and the harsh inevitability of death at the hand of a metal box traveling at speeds no raccoon can match. Who knew that they were a concept band?
All kidding aside, I’ve grown attached to the bluesy, Dr. Dog/Kay Kay and the Weathered Underground quirkiness and musical whimsicality of Racoon Wedding. With some bands (and I could feel this prior to watching the buddy/buddy bacchanal video below), you just know that friends are making music. And not like friends until some success presents itself and then “I’m going solo” becomes an overplayed comment. Friends who are friends who happen to make good music and have fun doing it. This comes through in the tunes, and it is one heck of a positive with Racoon Wedding.
The band is haphazardly touring throughout Ontario, but I do hope this post helps give them some more play in the States. Fraternal harmonies, New Orleans horns, and pop rhythms, when mixed effectively tend to engender popularity, and I predict good things for Racoon Wedding in the future.
Jukebox the Ghost will not create an uncatchy song. It’s just not in their poppy nature. The Philadelphia-based band who met while attending school at George Washington University, has succeeded in creating indie/pop music that is far from corny. No, the well-read trio blends effervescent hooks and wonderful melodies. Lead vocalist and pianist Ben Thornewill has a magnetic voice and can just flat-out riff on the piano. Tommy Siegel (vocals & guitar) and Jesse Kristin (drums) carry the rest of the rhythm, Siegel providing some neat guitar licks and efficient back-up vocals. The band has been rocking since 2006 and show no signs of stopping. How do I know? Well, their new album Safe Travels is coming out June 12.
I’ve written about Jukebox before in a post featuring what I coined at the time “Anthemic Indie” and I do think they still fit in that category if only because their music is so easily singable and it is hard to resist singing out the tunes with them. You can check out that post here.
“Somebody,” a single off of the new album, is now available on iTunes and you can access it by checking out Jukebox’s site here. Let’s take a listen.
The song begins like a slowed down Fitz and the Tantrums piece – kind of rhythmic Motown meets funky indie. Thornewill and Siegel immediately embark on a succesful harmony during the verse which is carried by Kristin’s beat. The chorus takes on its own mold. Originally I thought I could compare it to Ben Folds, but I’m starting to think that the vocal swoons and unique rhythms are just Jukebox the Ghost. The best comparison is the band itself. In six years the band has certainly developed their own sound and it is easy to recognize their brand of pop. The song moves (with some more guitar stylings) and the catchy chorus that sticks.
If the rest of the album plays like “Somebody” we will be in for a good one. There is no reason to doubt it.


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Buffelgrass is the invasive species most likely to cause irreparable damage to Saguaro National Park.
Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare, Cenchrus ciliaris), is the archenemy of the Sonoran Desert, the invasive grass most likely to cause significant damage to the native ecosystem. Buffelgrass is native to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This grass was intentionally brought to arid portions of the U.S. in the 1930s and was planted for cattle forage because of its drought tolerance.
In dry climates throughout the world, buffelgrass escaped from where it was planted and has established in places where it is unwanted -- natural areas, city parks, roadsides, and vacant lots. In the U.S., buffelgrass has been recorded in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. In some areas, such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, buffelgrass is a highly invasive non-native weed and is officially listed and regulated as a noxious weed.
Natural desert ecosystems have open spaces.
Buffelgrass pastures were planted in and around Tucson in the late 1930s for cattle forage and erosion control. Since then, it has become established in both disturbed and undisturbed desert environments and is now recognized as a top threat to the Sonoran Desert ecosystem. Here at Saguaro National Park, buffelgrass was first detected in 1989 and is widely distributed throughout the desert portion of both districts.
Buffelgrass plants are prolific seeders and its seeds are easily transported by wind and water. Additionally, each seed has little bristles which allow it to easily hitch a ride on animals, people, bicycles, and vehicles.
Desert tortoises need open spaces to roam and forage.
The greatest threat that buffelgrass poses is that it can fuel wildfire; however, buffelgrass is able to severely and irreversibly alter that desert ecosystem even without fire. Buffelgrass grows in dense patches, crowding out and competing with native plants for nutrients, water, and sunshine. Open spaces between native vegetation fill with buffelgrass, occupying areas where one typically sees wildflowers bloom. Dense bufflegrass patches alter the habitat for desert animals and inhibit the growth of native plant forage. With increases in buffelgrass, we stand to lose plant and animal diversity, including some of our Sonoran Desert signature species.
Buffelgrass burns hot enough to kill native plants and animals.
The threat of fire is very real, with habitat, homes, and lives at risk. Our desert plants and animals did not evolve with fire and therefore, are not adapted to it. Fire can kill or severely damage much of the Sonoran Desert vegetation upon which animals depend on for food and shelter. Typical desert vegetation is sparse, so a fire would not spread and would quickly extinguish itself because of the lack of fuel. Natural desert fires are often caused by dry lightning strikes during our summer monsoon season. In a natural ecosystem severe impacts are unlikely during this time due to high humidity and probable rainfall.
Normal fuel loads are several times lower than fuel loads when buffelgrass is present.
With buffelgrass filling in the spaces between native plants, fire can carry over a continuous stand of vegetation. Buffelgrass evolved with fire and thrives under repeated burning. In the event of a desert fire, native plants would be killed or injured, while buffelgrass would survive and resprout. Such an event would result in additional buffelgrass plants replacing native plants, thus producing more fuel for another fire. This is termed a grass-fire cycle which increased the frequency, size, and intensity of fires over time.
Peak temperatures reached over 1600° F.
Average temperature was between 1300-1400° F.
Tallest flame height was 25 feet.
Average flame heights were 8.5 to 11 feet.
Rate of fire spread was 1.4-3.0 mph (with wind speeds of 4-9 mph).
Fuel loads (biomass of buffelgrass) varied from 1 to 6 tons per acre.
These experimental burns provided an excellent opportunity for firefighters to experience firsthand how quickly the fire could move and how hot it could burn; hot enough to melt tin, zinc, and aluminum. While the fire did not spread at an alarming rate on the flat ground, a buffelgrass fire in the mountain foothills would move much faster. This has many firefighters concerned. Outrunning such a fire would not be an option. Watch a video clip of the test burn below.
Test burn of buffelgrass in Avra Valley.
In the Santa Catalina Mountain foothills, buffelgrass infestations threaten habitat and homes.
Outside the park, buffelgrass threatens homes, property, and lives. It now grows in urban and suburban areas, roadsides, empty fields, washes, creosote flats, and other natural areas. Establishing itself particularly in subdivisions in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, buffelgrass presents a greater threat to safety, structures, utility poles, and other improvements.
Homes and buildings that are embedded in buffelgrass or near dense patches of buffelgrass are at high risk. Tucson's Rural Metro Fire Department has been urging resident to remove buffelgrass from around their homes to create a defensible space.
Buffelgrass is susceptible to herbicide only when it is mostly green, which is a few weeks per year.
Our goal is to slow the spread of buffelgrass in order to protect native habitat and to manage fire risk in the park. At the present time, buffelgrass is so widespread throughout the park that complete eradication is not possible. Buffelgrass is here for now, but so is our determination to keep fighting. From our small successes, we have proven that buffelgrass can be controlled and native communities will recover, provided the infestations are removed in a consistent and timely manner.
Management of buffelgrass includes mapping and inventory, manual and chemical control, monitoring, research, prevention, and adaptive management strategies. Preventing buffelgrass from establishing in new locations within the park is a challenge because seeds can be dispersed by wind and travel long distances. We try to create a buffer between the park and established urban buffelgrass populations through cooperation with local departments of transportation and park neighbors.
We map and inventory buffelgrass to determine where it is and how fast the grass is spreading so that we can make informed decisions for applying resources to control the spread. Mapping and inventorying are ongoing tasks. Park staff and volunteers opportunistically map buffelgrass when they are hiking the trails and they also systematically map buffelgrass in a pre-established grid manner, covering large sections of the park's interior. The park conducted a second round of aerial mapping from a helicopter using digital sketch-mapping in 2012. All mapping efforts utilize global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS).
Mapped treatments and infestations of buffelgrass within both district of the park. Click image for more detail.
Pick-mattocks, and other tools, are used to remove the entire plant, so that it does not resprout from the roots.
We control buffelgrass either by hand pulling or by spraying the plants with herbicide. Buffelgrass is only susceptible to herbicide when it is over 50% green and growing, which is usually only a few weeks during the monsoon season and sporadically after winter rains. During this time, well-training, physically capable crews hike into rugged backcountry terrain to spray buffelgrass with glyphosate-based herbicides. They wear personal protective equipment and carry heavy back pack sprayers. We spray dense patches of buffelgrass that are too remote or too hazardous for people to reach on the ground with a helicopter.
Hand pulling can be done year-round. Digging bars, picks, and rock hammers are used to dig and lift the roots out with the plant, so that it will not later resprout from the roots.
Both methods of buffelgrass control are successful. However, repeat visits to the treated areas are necessary because of viable seed in the soil. We have found that it takes at least three years of biannual visits to eliminate buffelgrass from a particular site. We evaluate the success of our control efforts by measuring the change in the amount of buffelgrass coverage, before and after control efforts.
All of these control methods were throughly documentented, researched, and appoved as part of an Environmental Assessment, which resulted in a Restoration Plan in 2014. It is by these approved guidelines that the park determines which treatment methods are appropriate in each area where buffelgrass is present.
Before (above) and after (below) shots of Javelina Hill showing the extent of the infestation and the success at removing and keeping it clear of buffelgrass.
We started hand-pulling buffelgrass in the early 1990s, but our efforts could not keep pace with the rate at which buffelgrass spreads (our current estimates have roughly 1,800 acres of untreated buffelgrass within the park's boundaries). In 2005, we began using herbicide to control buffelgrass and increasingly found success. Each year we manage to knock back infestations in some areas, allowing for us to expand our treatments to new locations. In 2011, park staff and volunteers surveyed over 2,800 acres for invasive plants and treated a total of 140 acres using manual and chemical treatments. In 2014, we surveyed over 9,000 acres throughout all of our projects, treating invasive plants on 165 of those acres. After 4 to 6 years of annual treatments, sites are complete, but will require periodic monitoring for any new established plants. The hill to the east of Javelina Picnic Area in the Rincon Mountains (pictured on the left) is one area we call a success.
In 2014, after seeing buffelgrass increase unchecked in areas too remote or dangerous for people on foot to reach, the park began using a helicopter to spray buffelgrass infestations in these areas.
Volunteer efforts have contributed substantially to our successes in buffelgrass removal.
Before (above) and after (below) of the 11 acre patch near Freeman Homestead. This patch was pulled almost exclusively by volunteers once a month from 2007-2012.
The second Saturday of every month (September through May), volunteers gather to remove patches of buffelgrass. One of many successes is the Freeman Homestead patch where 464 volunteeers contributed over 2,800 hours to remove an 11 acre patch.
Weed Free Trails volunteers monitor the trails below 5,000 feet elevation for several invasive plants that threaten the park, mapping and pulling as they encounter them. In 2013, volunteers monitored over 1,000 miles of trails.
Civic, social, work groups, and youth organizations also volunteer to assist in buffelgrass removal.
Our successes give us hope because, even though the task seems daunting, we have shown that we can effectively control localized buffelgrass populations.
The park participates in community events providing educational information about buffelgrass and other invasive species. Stop by a park booth to pick up some informational freebies. We also give presentations to homeowners associations and community, educational, and environmental groups.
Green buffelgrass often has reddish to purple seedheads. These seedheads turn golden as the plant dries.
Download our buffelgrass identifcation sheet.
Buffelgrass is a perennial grass that grows in dense messy-looking clumps. It sprouts new green (typically lime green) growth with adequate moisture and produces bottlebrush-like flowers. The flowers are red or purple when they are young and turn tan as they mature. White hairs can be seen at the base of a leaf blade, right where it diverges from stem (this area is called the ligule).
When the plant is dormant, it turns golden and may appear dead (don't be fooled!). Another distinctive characteristic is that the stem the individual seeds are attached to (the rachis) is rough and zigzagged. Click here to see what a buffelgrass rachis looks like compared to the rachis of some common native grasses.
Please watch Welcome to the Buffelgrass Patch, our informational video where we take you to a small infestation in the park and talk about identification, removal, and the effects buffelgrass has on the landscape and the economy.
Volunteer to remove buffelgrass at a Second Saturday buffelgrass pull. You will be trained in how to identify buffelgrass and safely remove it. This is a great way to get outside and help protect the park.
Participate in our Weed Free Trails program. This is a wonderful opportunity to hike the trails and keep them free of buffelgrass and other invasive plants.
Please do not remove buffelgrass or other invasive plants in the park if you are not an official volunteer. To become a volunteer, email us.
What to do if you have buffelgrass on your property.
To learn more about buffelgrass and how to get involved, schedule a buffelgrass presentation for your community group (neighborhood/homeowner association, civic or religious group, etc). Contact the Pima County Environmental Education Department or call (520) 615-7855.
Organize a neighborhood buffelgrass removal event.
Report buffelgrass in Pima County.
Buffelgrass is native to Africa and countries in the Middle East and Asia, where it is part of savanna grasslands with sparse trees. Buffelgrass is not invasive in its native habitat because herbivores such as zebra and antelope graze on the grass and keep it in check. Frequent fires are part of the native savanna's natural ecosystem processes. The trees and grasses are adapted to withstand hot fires and will resprout.
Buffelgrass was brought to the southwest by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service for cattle forage and erosion control. Several varieties of buffelgrass were planted in test fields in southern Arizona. It is the "common" variety or T-4464 that established the best and has since escaped from the test fields. Common buffelgrass can reproduce without pollination, so new offspring are genetically identical to the parent plant.
Until recently, Texas A&M University was conducting agricultural research on buffelgrass to develop more robust and cold-hearty strains. These varieties have been released in Texas and Mexico.
Because buffelgrass is able to grow in poor soils, withstand drought, and provide cattle forage, this grass can be an ideal plant in marginal agricultural areas. Buffelgrass has allowed many ranchers in Mexico to make a living on land that has been converted to buffelgrass pastures. In central Sonora, Mexico, over one million hectares of native desert thorn scrub have been converted to buffelgrass pastures for cattle and livestock. The benefit to individuals and the economy from beef sales make buffelgrass a friend in Mexico, though it is still ecologically devastating. Texas also uses buffelgrass for cattle forage.
Buffelgrass is considered an enemy to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona due to the threats to human life and the enviroment. Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands also consider buffelgrass to be a foe. For most buffelgrass-inhabited areas in the U.S., the threats outweigh the benefits, and efforts are made to control populations.
Buffelgrass has been in Australia longer that it has been in the Southwest, so we have an opportunity to learn from their experience. Buffelgrass was first introduced to Australia accidentally in the 1870s, originating from seeds in stuffing for camel saddles. Later, buffelgrass was harvested and seeds were sown for forage, but the establishment remained localized. In the mid-20th century, buffelgrass was introduced on a larger scale, providing cattle forage and reclamation of damaged grazing lands. Unfortunately, as in the U.S., bufflegrass escaped its plantings. Today there are tens of millions of hectares of buffelgrass in Australia, much of which were not intentionally planted.
While buffelgrass has improved livestock production and brought economic benefits to many parts of Australia, it is now considered to be a major environmental weed, a Category One species (a terrestrial species capable of destroying an ecosystem), with extensive continental distribution. Computer modeling shows that buffelgrass has the potential to expand across more than 60% of mainland Australia. The models show buffelgrass invading much of the arid north. There is more moisture in southern Australia, and buffelgrass does not appear to outcompete native plants in moister soils.
Some of the threats buffelgrass brings to Australia are similar to those in the Sonoran Desert. Australia is concerned with the loss of plant and animal biodiversity, loss of signature species, more frequent and intense fires, and the threat to lives and property. They expect negative economic impacts from loss of tourism and increases in buffelgrass management costs. There are also concerns in Australia that we might consider. Buffelgrass may change water infiltration into the soil as well as surface flow, blocking drainages and increasing flooding. It also threatens the traditional food plants of Aboriginal people.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum has a lot of information about buffelgrass http://www.desertmuseum.org/buffelgrass/ and what can be done about it, plus some of the other serious non-native pests http://www.desertmuseum.org/invaders/.
To understand the magnitude of the threat and what the community is doing, watch the video Buffelgrass: Its Threat to the Sonoran Desert and Our Will to Stop It.
Tucson Clean and Beautiful https://tucsoncleanandbeautiful.org/buffelgrass-education-removal/ also has information about buffelgrass and provides opportunities to help fight it.


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Enjoyable romcom that succeeds thanks to strong performances from Bettany and Dunst.
You pretty much know what you’re going to get when you see the words “British” and “romcom” in conjunction with the words “Working Title”: a likeable upper-middle-class Englishman who may or may not have floppy hair but has a nice line in one-liners; a feisty American female lead to ensure healthy Stateside box office; and a Comedy Sidekick who’s a little on the unscrupulous side.
All these ingredients are present and correct for Wimbledon, but happily – at least for anyone who felt Love Actually was like being trapped in a sugar factory - the words “Richard” and “Curtis” do not appear on the writing credits.
Fading British Tennis Star…Familiar Enough?
Paul Bettany stars as fading British tennis player Peter Colt, who was once ranked 11th in the world but now faces retirement as a tennis coach to some excitable old ladies. Granted a wild card in the Wimbledon championship, he declares it will be his final tournament, fully expecting to be knocked out in the first round.
However, his luck takes a sudden upswing when he falls for Kirsten Dunst’s bad girl tennis star Lizzie Bradbury and he finds himself playing the best tennis of his life. Unfortunately, the relationship has the opposite effect on Lizzie, much to the consternation of her over-protective father and coach, Sam Neill.
Bettany makes an enormously appealing romantic lead in a role that will hopefully bring him the star status he deserves and he’s ably matched by Dunst. There’s also strong comic support from James McAvoy (as Peter’s feckless younger brother) and Jon Favreau as his opportunistic agent who suddenly reappears as Colt starts to actually win matches.
On top of this there’s a sweet sub-plot involving Bernard Hill and Eleanor Bron as Peter’s bickering parents, who effect a gradual reconciliation while watching his matches. As if this wasn’t enough, Robert Lindsay wrings comedy gold from a tiny part as the tennis club owner – he even manages to get laughs during a scene where he’s only present as a voice on an answering machine.
The tennis scenes work well and are excitingly shot, despite their over-reliance on CGI balls - ex-Wimbledon champion Pat Cash was on hand for “tennis choreography” as well as, presumably, a few tips for the crowd-climbing scene.
In addition, John McEnroe and Chris Evert provide valuable match commentary that adds to the general feeling that the film-makers successfully captured the atmosphere of Wimbledon, as well as the ‘feel’ of watching it on TV.
In short, Wimbledon may not hit every shot but it serves up plenty of winners and has a lot going for it, chiefly in the relationship between Bettany and Dunst, who have surprising chemistry together. To be fair, the fact that Dunst spends a lot of the film in a tennis skirt probably won’t hurt the film, either. Recommended.


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It was the local festival this weekend. It's all free, bands in the park, fireworks, friends, fun.
And the best band in town even if it was a small stage.
I was also my daughter's school concert this week. I went expecting the usual drivel and was pleasantly surprised to be entertained by a mass of very talented young people including this band. A number of Grandparents watching were rather put out, but to be honest, compared to concerts of primary years gone by, it was a blessed relief to be rocked.