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Situated about an hour from the Denver and Boulder Metro areas, this is a high-altitude trail that is a must-do for anyone in the area as it is the gem of the immediate surround off-road trails in the area. Although they call this the Kingston Peak Trail, the real beauty and focal point are the amazing views you get of James Peak for almost the entire route. James Peak is 13,294 feet and named in honor of Dr. Edwin James, an early explorer, historian, and botanist who was a member of the famous Stephen H. Long expedition to Colorado in 1820.
Trail Difficulty and Assessment
Lightly Modified 4X4 (Small Lift and Larger Tires)
Waypoint 8 is the most difficult spot of the trail. It can change from year to year. Throughout the trail are small boulders to drive over requiring extra clearance.
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The road up Kingston peak is approximately 8 miles long and can take 2 to 4 hours depending on your rig and is generally very rocky with some steep climbs and descents. From this road you can also access the Yankee Hill Network via Forest Service Road 271.1. As described here, starting from the north and running south, the trail quickly climbs out of timberline where it follows a narrow section of road with limited passing, but with plenty of visibility of oncoming vehicles. It first reaches the parking area for the James Peak Lake hiking trailhead just prior to climbing to the highest point. You then descend into a flat area before making a steep climb up to a knob just prior to the final descent into Alice and St. Mary's Glacier.
1. Forest Service Road 353 - Apex and Mammoth Gulch Road Trailhead (
Head uphill on Forest Service Road 353. Though it looks narrow there are plenty of passing spots. Dispersed camping can be found once the road levels out.
2. Stay on Main Road (0.99
Continue on the main road. There are dispersed camping areas located on the spur road.
3. Forest Service 187 Dead End Trailhead (1.13
Continue on main road towards the mud pits.
4. Forest Service 772.1 Pigsah Lake Trailhead (1.29
Continue straight. Turning down Forest Service Road 772.1 will connect you to the Yankee Hill Network of trails. http://www.trailsoffroad.com/trails/502-yankee-hill-to-central-city
5. North Side Seasonal Gate (1.6
Continue straight. The gates are usually open from Mid July through Mid September.
6. Narrow Stretch - Pull Off (2.62
Continue up the main road. After you enter above timberline the road wraps around to the west with little passing space. You can clearly see the road and most oncoming vehicles. There are a few pull outs along the way. Uphill has the right of way.
7. Hiking Trailhead (3.34
From this location is the hiking trailhead to James Peak Lake and an amazing view of James Peak. There is plenty of parking here for day hiking.
8. Hill Climb (3.34
Continue uphill. This is a moderately steep uphill to the highest portion of the trail. Every year this section of the trail changes due to shifting boulders. There is one spot where careful tire placement will be required. There is only one pull out for passing and that is more towards the top.
9. High Point (3.85
Continue straight on the main route. Do not be tempted to take the roads that were once spurs off the main trail. When you reach the top you are the highest point of the trail. There is a small area to park a few vehicles just down hill from here if you wish to hike either James Peak to the west, or Kingston to the east.
From the parking lot just below you will continue to follow the clearly visible road through flat area which consists of a series of boulders and washouts all the way to Mailbox Hill. The washouts can become 3' deep, so keep a long distance view of the road and plot your way though.
The views of the trail system to the east as you drive along the road is the Yankee Hill Route. http://www.trailsoffroad.com/trails/502-yankee-hill-to-central-city
10. Straight - James Peak Hiking Trailhead (4.12
11. Bottom Mailbox Hill (5.18
Continue uphill. This hill is not as daunting as it looks. 4 low will crawl you right up it. ATV and UTV riders have cut two different trails through this. You want to take the spur to the west to stay on the actual trail.
Off to the east you can clearly see the Yankee Hill Network.
12. Mailbox (5.67
Continue straight. The mailbox is considered hallowed ground after the attacks of 9/11. There is a registry book to sign and the cover tells the tale that many books have been destroyed over the years by fire, guns, and all sorts of things, but that they keep the ones that survive and only ask that people respect the site and guest book. Legend states that if you place a rock or move a rock in the pile it brings you good luck.
The views looking down below and to the west is of Loch Lomond. Loch Lomond is certainly worth adding to your trip itinerary if you are doing Kingston.
13. South Gate (5.97
Continue on the main trail. From here you will continue downhill into a windswept pine forest. There are a few areas to pull over and enjoy the interesting landscape. This gate is usually open from mid July to mid September.
14. St. Mary's Trailhead (7.74
The trail starts to turn into a residential development. At your first turn go left down Hill Side Road, then right down Nebraska, finally turn right onto Harris to Alice Road. Turn left to either get to Yankee Hill Network, Rainbow Road, or I-70. If you wish to head over to Loch Lomond, turn right onto Alice Road. If any of the road signage is missing, just keep going downhill.
Some dispersed camping spots are on the north side, particularly in the Mammoth Gulch area or on the south side near Loch Lomond. There are several private property owners nearby, so always be mindful of watching the signs. Look to the Loch Lomond and Chinns Lake trails for additional dispersed camping locations.
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There are a few different ways the Rollinsville side trailhead can be accessed:
Option A. From Rollinsville take Moffat Tunnel Road (http://www.trailsoffroad.com/trails/384-moffat-tunnell-road) to just after Tolland and turn left up Mammoth Gulch, continue on the main road until it intersects with Forest Service Road 353 and head right and uphill.
Option B. From Blackhawk head north on State Highway 119 and turn left onto Apex Valley Road. Follow Apex Valley Road until you reach the ghost town of Apex. Turn left at the first intersection and follow this road out of timberline for a few miles until it joins with Forest Service Road 353, the Kingston Peak Road.
Tired to make it up the trail from the north spade today, but there was too much snow for me to get to the top. 4Runner with 3” lift and 285’s, but without any lockers. We made it up to waypoint 6, but had to back down not to long afterwards, the trail was shaded and had 10-12” of snow on it from last weeks storm. If I wasn’t alone, or had lockers, I probably would have press on.
We 4 wheeled over the James Peak trail starting on the St Mary's glacier side and connecting to another trail to end in Black hawk. I have a Nissan Frontier Pro 4x with 2 1/2in extra lift and rock sliders. The truck handled it great, I just bumped the skid plate and rock rails a couple of times. Gate is still open and we beat out a rain storm. Amazing views of Long's peak, James Peak, and Loch Lomond lake.
Kingston did not disappoint! Team Hyke ran it today, the only folks we encountered were at the Mailbox. Rainy day, trail was fine. Twenty-eight years between runs of this trail, a bit rockier than years ago. Still enjoyable.
This is a beautiful trail but it is certainly a moderate trail! I got stuck behind someone that didn't have the proper vehicle for the trail which caused me to have to stop on a big uphill and get momentarily stuck but I was able to change gears and get myself out. The road does get very narrow in spots and so you may have to wait awhile for cars to pass before continuing. We did bypass the highpoint instead of stopping because there were a lot of cars congregated there but it was still beautuiful. I plan on doing this trail again in order to hike some of the trails there.
What a great day! Not a a cloud in the sky and very little traffic for a Saturday, especially for Labor Day weekend. Ran the trail from Central City (Upper Apex Valley to County Road 4N) to Alice. The views are absolutely amazing and the trail will remind you why these mountains are called the ROCKY Mountains. 2021 4Runner TRD Off Road, 2 inch lift, Cooper STT Pro tires. Good clearance is required in many spots and good tires are even more important. The trail is pretty much all rocks of varying sizes from the trailhead all the way to just outside of Alice.
This is one of the very best off road trails near the Denver area.
Ran from waypoints 1 to 7 to do some hiking down to James Peak Lake (which was absolutely spectacular). Pretty consistently rocky most of the way, so not many breaks from bumpiness. Great trail though, and beautiful scenery.
First time on this trail. Thought the views were great and the trail itself was easy but extra bumpy, even for Colorado standards, which made it pretty slow going. The hill climbs were pretty steep in places (18 degrees) but not a problem at all. I noticed on the Saint Mary’s side there is a rock that’s just big enough to be a gatekeeper for this trail. As I passed through I saw one car that shouldn’t be attempting the trail reluctantly turning around here and another car seemingly not paying attention and drive right into the rock. Don’t think they knew this was a trail and not another Saint Mary’s dirt road. Hopefully this rock can continue deterring drivers and vehicles that shouldn’t be attempting this trail.
Great trail but definitely very rocky. Don't bring your wife who gets car sick easy that's for sure! Won't make that mistake again :p.
Other than it being slow going, it was fun for me. Somewhat challenging part just after waypoint 7 headed up to the rock house. The last switchbacks near waypoint 14 are pretty sharp and one of them needs good navigating.
All in all I had fun but the wife definitely didn't 😆😆
Confirming the trail is open, only ran halfway from Alice side past James Peak due to time. Some washout in the valleys between the peaks. Stay the trail and follow signs to not disrupt revegetation areas.
I just called the ranger district. They are still working on opening up this trail, and say it might be next week before this trail opens but told me to check the website as they are going to update it as soon as they verify it is safely passable. The ranger I talked to was very nice and apologized for the delay. Apparently, they are understaffed and are working as fast as they can to ensure these trails get opened in a safe manner. We will also update Trails Offroad as soon as we see the status change to OPEN.
This was an extremely fun trail. Most of the trail was easy however the incline was intense and very fun. Tire placement is very important on this section. I would not suggest this trail for the novice driver, the incline has very real consequences if mistakes are made. I ran this in the suggested direction and glad I did. I would not run this trail without a lift and good off road tires, again most of it is very easy however the incline parts can be deadly if a novice driver or an ill-equipped vehicle tried something out of their league. Overall this trail was amazing and I cant wait to go back!
Made it up in a stock '17 TRD OR 4runner. Went the route listed in this guide. Was fairly easy and simple until the last uphill to the high point of this trail, that part was a lot of fun, tire placement important. From there, most of the way down and up from there was also pretty Rocky and bumpy, but very awesome and interesting! Hit my skids and rock sliders quite a few times, but no dents in my skids.
This is definitely one of my favorite trails in the area. It showcases the high alpine beauty just 45 minutes outside of Denver. There is an amazing hike to James Peak lake which makes this trail that much better. If you are in the Denver area and you are looking for a scenic day trip, this trail is not to miss!
Beautiful scenery all the way through. Liked going in the same direction as the track as you have some great views as you approach the mailbox.
We were on Rollins Pass the day before and was cool to see this road and James peak from a distance.
Without the 2in lift I would have probably tagged the skid plates a couple of times.
Great day on the trail, with minimal traffic. Wildflowers are still going strong at the 10k-11k foot range. The only callout is please, please stay on the trail and do not drive on the tundra! I, unfortunately, witnessed multiple SxS wandering off the trail and onto the tundra.
Conditions seemed similar to prior years, only saw two parked trucks (James Peak & mailbox) otherwise had the trail to myself on Friday evening. Smoke didn't impact view as much as I expected. Good challenge for a stock 4x4, easy going with a little lift and protection, great views close to Denver.
Due to extreme fire danger, the National Forest Service has temporarily closed all National Forest land in Clear Creek, Jefferson, Gilpin, Boulder, and Larimer counties.
Ran this trail in my 99 F150 and my buddies stock Chevy 1500 from Alice and had several people warn us between Waypoint 6 and 8 would be impassable due to snow. Since it was downhill we decided to ignore this advice and continue. Buddy was running 33" KO2s and I was running 33" Maxxis Razr MTs, and we ran the trail all the way through. Attempting to go uphill through this section would be extremely difficult however we cut a good trail downhill which my buddy had no problem following. He did find a good rock which gave his skid plate its first scar and when we were almost out of the snow we ended up utilizing recovery boards to get the rear tires of my truck back on the trail but ultimately had a really good time playing in the mountains. If running downhill make sure to have adequate tires and recovery gear just in case. Make sure to bring heavy gear as well, the wind was ferocious. We also did end up taking some time at waypoint 9 to test some suspension flex.
We "stumbled" onto this trail not knowing anything. We always keep the truck off-road ready so we aired down early and fired up Gaia. We used it to do a hike to James Peak. The trail is rocky but pretty wide. My stock Tacoma did great but having a good tire to air down helps. I goosed a few rocks and scraped the bottom but that's what frame rails are for, right? Great views the whole way. The elevation is awesome and the landscape is epic. Around the trailhead parking was a pretty steep section off the side of the trail.
Super windy and busy on labor day weekend! Lost a front turn indicator lens trying to pass another vehicle at a narrow point near WP 5. Stock 98 XJ made it over with careful tire placement between WPs8-10.
Done this trail a few times in a stock FJ Cruiser. Always during the week, so it is never crowded. Rocky, Steep, all the things we love. Some mildly technical tire placement, but overall a pretty easy trip no matter which wat you run it. I prefer funning from Alice to Rollinsville, just because I-70 traffic gets worse as the day progresses. Great views and you have to stop at the Rock House to sign the book.
Ran this trail today with my Land Cruiser and our sons 4Runner. Only aired down to 25psi would definitely recommend going at minimum 20psi. The views are amazing. No problems other than testing out the skids and sliders a few times. This trail is rough from start to finish along with narrow shelf road most of the way. Just take your time, you will mainly be running 4Lo and first or second gear most of the way. The steep hill climbs need some good tire placement in places, but nothing serious. Long day, but a lot of fun!
Great trail, typical for Colorado loose and rocky. I ran this backwards from how it is shown and would advise you do the same if you doubt the capability of your vehicle. if you run it as shown there are a few steep, loose, rocky ascents that could easily stop you. I give this trail 4/5 because there are very few places to allow others to pass without pushing one of you uncomfortably close to the edge of a steep hill. I'm sure the views are great but current fires didn't give me the chance to see it.
Had a lot of fun on this trail today. I did it in my decently-modified 4Runner and had no issues. I talked to one guy who said he didn’t air down and I’m surprised he didn’t blow a tire. There were a lot of spots where airing down was a necessity (in my opinion at least) and my tires at 17psi seemed to do well. Nothing was washed out or slick; overall, the trail was in great condition. I plan on going back earlier in the day to hike James Peak as it looked awesome perched above everything up there!
Ran Kingston from North to South, then up Loch Lamond. Kingston was an awesome trail that my 4runner with 6112/5160 and my brothers stock JL handled with ease. There was one point on the Hill Climb section where we had to wait for a few trucks that were getting stuck. When they either got through or backed down, our trucks went right up. The truck that got stock and couldn't make it up was a bone stock Taco TRD, though I feel pretty confident he could have made it with a better line. Overall this was a great moderate trail with amazing views/stopping points and enough difficulty to make it interesting.
Trail is open all the way. We ran it from Alice to Rollinsville on 07/16/2020. My buddy talked to the Forest Service Ranger and they opened the gates on 07/15/2020. Trail is in pristine condition and we scored some killer views. It took us exactly 2 hours including a couple stops.
Drove this the opposite direction of the waypoints in a lifted T4R on a Thursday. Overall easy to moderate trail that most stock 4WDs can handle. I would recommend driving the direction in the waypoints as the direction I drove has one or two steep descents. The "hill climb" from James Peak stopped one stock nissan frontier as it has some clearance issues the driver did not want to risk. I ended up on yankee hill road after a few narrow FS trails for a good loop.
The views over lock lomond and james peak are incredible. Will have to come back and hike James Peak. The Lakes look pristine.
Always a good trail with GREAT views. We camped near Loch Lomond on a Friday night and found a great spot for the (small) offload trailer. Ran over Kingston Saturday morning to Mammoth Gulch. It was a fairly busy day up there with about 8 rigs parked at the James Peak trailhead, but no drama with pulling our small trailer over. I've done Kingston Peak 3 times this Summer and while it's a pretty easy run, it never gets old!
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I think the rating is perfect for the trail. Easy spots, but definitely some more tricky areas requiring some experience and proper tire placement. No scraping on either vehicle. 1 flat tire.
I’ve always come too early in the season and it’s been closed.. finally got to do this trail! The views are awesome!
Great views on what I’d call an easy to moderate trail. There are a couple steep climbs and a few tricky spots. I drive a stock 2011 4Runner SR5 and I believe I scraped my back bumper once on one of the obstacles. Bonus points for being able to skip I-70 traffic to get to the trailhead.
It was my first time on this trail. Drove my stock 2019 Tacoma TRD Off Road. The views were gorgeous! Only had one scary encounter at a narrow rocky point on the trail coming down a hill with three 4Runners coming up the trail. Had to get real friendly with trees so they could pass. We drove up to the peak and turned around. I recommend stopping at Pile Hill to take in the view. I want to go back up there and camp.
I only ran the backside this time (St Mary's to Loch Lomond) and then turned around. There are some holes (WP 14-13) that I struggled with before but wanted to try again after my locker install. I do enjoy this area and trail. Most people run it according to the guide so expect traffic if you go backwards.
This is a must do! Stock 2008 FJ made it fine, touched bottom a couple times. Went from Rollinsville to St Mary’s. St. Mary’s side is a tougher climb. James Peak is legit, mt Evans, mt Bierstadt, Grays and Torrey’s all in view. The sun sets at one of the best angles you can get. Beautiful!
Drove up to the seasonal gate on the Alice side, still closed. Hiked up past rock house and down the hill to the flexy two track through the meadow and trail is dry and in good shape. There must be snow drifts coming from the other side that is keeping this from being opened.
I did Kingston this year while the wife was out of town. I like this trail but it wasn't as spectacular as I remember. I noticed the rutting and washouts on the tundra part of the trail seemed worse this year. It looks like the Forest Service is closing some bypasses but leaving many 'new tracks' for people to follow an easier path.
Great day, beautiful views that the pictures don't do justice at all. Ran it North to South in a 2000 Land Rover Disco 2 with a 3" lift. No issues. There was a stock Subaru Outback in front of us for part of the way that we were very surprised made it all the way up (although did grind their undercarriage a bit). There were some pretty rutted out parts with big dips coming back down past the South gate (waypoint 13). Might've been a bit tricky trying to come up that way, so I probably wouldn't recommend running it South to North.
This was a really fun trip. Ran the trail with our bone stock 99 TJ sport. We ran it north from near Apex to south ending up in Alice. Bumpy, bumpy, bumpy. The hill climb up to the peak looks sketch and steep but once you are on it rides well and it is not nearly as steep as it appears. Road is super chunky and bumpy. But slow going and some nimble tire placement are key. Kick-ass view of Loch Lomand from the Mailbox located at the Rock House Overlook. Not a terribly difficult trail, all in all, lot of fun, spectacular views, just technical enough to make it a bit of a challenge . . . I mentioned it was really bumpy, right?
Ran with a buddy over the weekend from central city to st marys with our sons. Great views and good weather. Kids found it too bumpy :). That hint at waypoint eight is true. There is a hole on that hill that needs some speed to get over if you don't have lockers.
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Ran this trail north to south today. Not technical but very rocky. Great views the whole way. A friend made it through in a stock F-150 with very little trail damage... I take back everything bad I said about Ford ;)
Road starting to melt out, but definitely still closed - large drift across first shelf from Tolland side with continued large drifts several feet deep further up the road. Will not be open for at least another month or so.
There are many long stretches of exposed road surface, so snow sports on this road are done for the season.
There is a significant amount of snow reported (and seen) above the treeline on this trail. At this time it is NOT recommended that you proceed above the treeline. There is already one vehicle there that a rescue group has had to abandon until the spring (the driver is safe) due to the snow and weather. Use caution when going out and be aware the local Rescue and Recovery group has annouced that they will rescue people above timberline, but they will not recover vehicles until spring. That means a stuck rig may be crushed by the winter show or worse. Use your best judgement.
We ran the trail from north to south. A really nice, long trail with spectacular views. Please take an American Flag up with you as the one at the Rock House is very tattered and in need of replacing. An all weather 3'x5' will do. I suggest that we keep the flag up there in good condition!
Continued on Kingston Peak after running Moon Gulch and ran from North to South. Hadn't been South of the James Peak overlook before, and was a little surprised how rocky parts of the trail were, though no problem for a lifted 4Runner. Had to spot a stock GX through a few sections, but no issues. Incredibly windy as a brief storm blew through near the overlook, but cleared soon after. Great views when the clouds break, both of James Peak and Loch Lomond near the mailbox. Really cool trees, practically ripped out of the ground, yet still growing on the descent towards Alice. Several areas still with wildflowers as well!
Our annual trip up Kingston this year and we took the north to south route. I will say that the north route is a little rougher in my opinion, but I prefer descending to ascending on a trail. The nice part was that we dumped out near the lakes at the bottom and just make a day of running to Chinn's and trying to run up Loch Lomand. We had to stop due to weather and a CJ that needed some gas and a dead tow.
Despite the weather, it was a beautiful day on the trail with the clouds playing all day with the sun. Having a cloud pass through our Jeep was pretty cool.
This trail is gorgeous! It is a perfect blend of overlanding and a little more adventure than you are used to. On this trip we actually drove THROUGH A RAINBOW! What an amazing day!
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Job Forecast for College Seniors: Grimmer Than EverMy own daughter is about to graduate from the University of Washington, and my son is about to enter college. Each generation worries about their children, how they will get educated, how they will afford housing… you know, how they will live the American in debt dream.
By Laura Fitzpatrick Wednesday, Mar. 04, 2009
Smith College's career office sent its jittery job-hunting seniors a letter last month with a reassuring message: "There ARE jobs, and you can find employment." Unfortunately, there are far fewer jobs than anticipated, according to a report out today from the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE). The companies surveyed for the group's spring update are planning to hire 22% fewer grads from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, a big letdown from the group's projections in October that hiring would hold steady. Some 44% of companies in the survey, conducted last month, said they plan to hire fewer new grads, and another 22% said they do not plan to hire at all this spring, more than double last year's figure. "If you were a student and were out there [interviewing] in the fall, you probably had a decent chance of getting a job," says Edwin Koc, director of strategic and foundation research at NACE. "But frankly, the spring does not look good."
Job prospects for college grads, which had been on the rise since 2004, dropped in virtually every sector this year. The most dramatic decline was, not surprisingly, in finance, which hemorrhaged 71% of expected job openings. Less expected but equally troubling is the 37% decline in hiring for professional services, which include accounting and engineering. "Poor hiring estimates from this area speak to the depth of the recession in the college labor market for the class of 2009," the report says.
Government is essentially the only industry planning to hire more new grads this year than last, as the new Administration expands and a graying workforce retires. (The only other sector with plans to increase hiring — that of distribution, transportation and utilities — had too few respondents for the projection to mean much.) The uptick in government recruiting is obvious to students. Last year, notes Dorothy Kerr, executive manager of Rutgers University's career services, there were just 15 government and nonprofit employers at the annual Big East Career Day in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; others were kept out to make room for 135 private-sector employers. This year, just 80 private companies signed up for the March 13 event, where 30 federal agencies will be on hand accepting résumés. "The good news is, the Federal Government is definitely hiring," Kerr says. Still, according to the NACE report, the projected increase is less than 6%.
Not only are fewer companies hiring, but more of those with openings are offering internships instead of full-time spots. Only a third of on-campus recruiters this year are looking to sign both full-time employees and interns, the report found, down from an average of two-thirds for the classes of 2007 and 2008. And 16% of employers will be hiring only interns, nearly double the percentage that did so last year. "I explain to [the students] it's like taking another course, and paying to take that course," says Middlebury's executive director of career services, Jaye Roseborough.
Experts say more college grads may seek employment in fields that require comparatively little education. "Even if you're surviving by being a coffee barista, it's still better than just staying home," says Koc. "With the job market as difficult as it is, I don't think that students have much of a choice."
Still, serving lattes for minimum wage plus tips is a painful prospect to the average college student, who graduates with $21,000 in the red. Tuition costs could also explain why graduate schools, traditionally a refuge in tough economic times, have seen uneven application numbers this year. Lance Choy, director of the career development center at Stanford, notes that grad schools were a popular backup a few years ago during the dotcom bust, but applications are flat this year. "Who needs more debt when the job market is looking rather grim?" he says.
Meanwhile, schools are pulling out the stops to help students beat out the competition. Counselors everywhere are encouraging students to turn to their alumni networks for help. The University of Maryland has conducted workshops with an emphasis on networking. The career office shared by Haverford and Bryn Mawr recently gave each senior 50 business cards listing their name and major.
For students who have already managed to snag an offer, they might want to keep their business cards handy. According to NACE, as many as 8% of employers will be forced to rescind at least some of the offers they made in the fall. "In this economy, we don't even use the terminology 'sewn up' anymore," says Roseborough. More like coming apart at the seams.
It sure sounds nice when we talk of providing college for everyone, but is that really the best use of society’s resource? Do you need a college degree to work at Wal-Mart? No, no, I’m serious! Can we all be leaders and executives? Of course not, but MY KIDS are different and special and deserve nothing but years of college because they are our future!
In all seriousness, if you take it to an extreme then you start to see that not everyone should go to college. And let’s face it, college has gotten very expensive. The economy is currently separating the wheat from the chaff. That’s what economic downturns do. There will be FEWER people going to college in the future as spending thousands doesn’t number out for everyone in these circumstances. Thus the price of education will come down too, and that’s a good thing in the long run, but the current set of graduates are going to suffer a little in the short run.
Admittedly if you are going to spend taxpayer money that doesn't exist, I'd rather put it into college than into the banks! But do it too much and you risk reinflating the "education bubble" and not letting the free market (if such a thing still exists) bring the costs down.
If it were up to me, there would be education about money and the history of money in school. As kids get older I would tech them about the relationship of freedom and security and how they interact with money. I would tech them to defend the Constitution and to not tolerate abuse of their money system. Most people think that when they pull back the curtain you will find the President and his people. That’s not true. When you pull back the curtain, you will find a central banker standing there:
Wizard of Oz – Man Behind the Curtain:


A Queestown band’s reflections on getting ready to say goodbye to high school earned it a finalist spot in a prestigious national songwriting competition.
Wakatipu High School trio Cheery Moon’s song Terracotta Tiled World was named a finalist in the Play It Strange Lion Foundation Songwriting Competition for 2018.
The competition was ultimately won by New Plymouth’s Laura Griffiths.
The Queenstown band, comprising Hannah Combe, Zak Komene, and Becky Reid, is no stranger to success, being the only Otago act to make the top 30 in the national Smoke-freerockquest comp last year.
Becky says being named a finalist was “really exciting”, because she loves Split Enz, and Split Enz bassist Mike Chunn judged the comp.
The successful song is about “reflecting on how we’ve grown”, and the fact the trio are in their final year of school, Becky explains.
“It’s kind of about the times and places where we are.”
She describes their sound as indie-folk – “a lot of our songs are different”.
While the teen trio are going their separate ways next year, they’re hoping to meet up and sing together when they can.
Wakatipu High School students also had success at the recent Blenheim Jazz Festival, including Gold Grading in the competition’s Jazz Combo section, three members of the ‘all stars’ band selected from the top 17 students, and individual Best Bass Player and Adjudicators’ Choice Awards.


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A bibliography is a comprehensive list of the books, journals, periodicals, or internet resources that an author utilize to conduct research for and write their work. It is crucial to remember that it must be a comprehensive list that includes all of the sources utilized for the study, not simply those cited in the text in any writing style. In a bibliography, the following information is required:
There are three popular types of bibliographies which are as follows:
Analytical bibliographies contain details on the booksellers and printers, descriptions of the paper and binding, and any discoveries made during the process of turning a manuscript into a published book. This can be further divided into a textual bibliography that compares the already published work to the author’s original manuscript, a descriptive bibliography that deals with the physical appearance and nature of a book, and a historical bibliography that demonstrates the context of the book’s production.
Bibliographies with annotations list the author’s works in alphabetical order. This style of the bibliography includes a list of the author’s completed projects. In addition to adding notes about the sources, comments on and summaries of the sources, assessments of the sources whereby the value of the sources is assessed, and reflections on the sources which offer a perspective on the value of the text with regard to the research question, they also provide an outline of the type of research that was done on a given chapter.
Enumerative bibliographies are frequently used by students conducting research papers. The author provides all the references here while taking into account certain arrangements. An author can begin with the subject and then list the dates after that. They have something in common, such as language, subject matter, or historical era. The writer then provides information about the source in order to point readers in the direction of the source. A card catalogue is an illustration of such a bibliography.
The list of references is available for readers to utilize when they further research a topic and deepen their comprehension. Readers may, in fact, swiftly and readily locate the references for the works they want to examine.
The quality of the writing will be assessed by the teacher or grader of a report, thesis, or other writing assignment depending on the validity of the sources for online classes hub. The bibliography highlights your research and gives your work more authority. Plagiarism doesn’t tolerate, and copyright respects.
Has anybody else thought about or studied your work before? You should acknowledge the writers who first came up with these ideas. Academic honesty is still important. Instead of faking that they came up with the ideas on their own, the grader enjoys it when the writer identifies their sources. Truthfulness also entails no risk in contrast to plagiarism.
Some of the guidelines to write a bibliography are as follows:
If you keep a record of each book, encyclopedia, or article you use as you read and make notes, it will be simpler for you to create your final bibliography. Keep track of the materials you use as you go, and provide a separate bibliographer of your paper with the heading Bibliography. Find and save references to books, magazines, and papers that could include information and suggestions on your topic. Review and quickly inspect the actual objects. Then pick the pieces that offer various viewpoints on your subject.
Concisely outline the main point and range of the book or article in your annotation. Place things in alphabetical order by author, or title if there is no author, underline the main title, and make sure to punctuate properly as in the samples.
Start a preliminary or draught bibliography by making a list of all your sources on a separate piece of paper. For each source, make a note of the whole title, author, publishing location, publisher, and publication date. Pages are denoted by pp and are denoted by p. Additionally, the source of every fact that is written on a note card should acknowledge in the upper right corner. (Note that the shorter version of The XYZ Book, Volume 7, Page 55 on the sample note card is WB, 7, p.55.) Furthermore, you may use the data on your note cards to check your bibliography once you’ve completed writing your essay.
In the case of writing a bibliography for a website, include the URL and date you visited instead of the author’s name, book volume, and the page number.
Verify your source of knowledge, show the variety of sources you consulted, and check important sites you may refer to later, verify originality and credit other people’s work.


GMC TAKES TERRAIN INTO SECOND GENERATION WITH NEW ENGINE CHOICES
Introduced for 2009 as a companion for its bigger brother Acadia crossover, GMC’s Terrain moves into its second generation for 2018 with three new turbo-charged engines, two different 9-speed transmissions, and many design features that take this compact crossover to a new level for sophistication and performance.
Those refinements come in a package that is slightly smaller than its predecessor (at 182.5 inches it’s 3.2 inches shorter) and lighter (200 pounds or so depending on the model) and with available safety features like a surround vision camera, forward collision alert and low-speed automatic braking, lane keeping assist with lane departure warning, and rear cross traffic alert.
Yes, the 2018 Terrain steps up its game and makes it a more attractive option if you are shopping the compact crossover segment.
The Denali trim, which steps up the game in GMC models across the board, even makes it worth a look if you are shopping in the luxury segment.
The 2018 Terrain Denali gets a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine that ups oomph to 252 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque from the 170/203 of the 1.5-liter turbo that is standard in SL, SLE, and SLT trims while still producing decent fuel economy figures of 21 miles-per-gallon in city driving and 26 mpg on the highway with all-wheel drive.
The 1.5-liter’s fuel economy numbers are 24/28 with AWD. The 1.6-liter turbo diesel is rated at 28/38 with all-wheel drive with power figures of 137 hp and 240 lb.-ft. of torque.
The 2.0-liter and 1.5-liter each get its own version of a 9-speed automatic transmission. The diesel gets a 6-speed automatic. One quirk: gear selection is via buttons at the bottom of the center stack with the “L” setting providing the opportunity for manual gear selection. I’ve seen buttons used for gear selection, of course, but not in this location.
The 2.0-liter turbo in the Denali I had certainly boasts enough power for everyday chores, and the torquey diesel probably is up snuff as well. I did not have the opportunity to drive it or the 1.5-liter, though.
As the top-of-the-line offering, the Denali’s interior comes with lots of features that add to the comfort and convenience of occupants. In addition to standard items like perforated leather appointed seats, dual zone automatic climate control, a Bose 7-speak premium sound system, and adjustable lumbar support for both the driver and front-seat passenger, a Comfort Package for $525 (ventilated front seats, heated outboard rear seats, wireless device charging) and Driver Alert Package for $495 (low speed forward auto braking, forward collision alert, lane keep assist with lane departure warning) ups the luxury ante even further.
Standard technology includes an infotainment system that comes with an 8-inch touchscreen display with navigation, a 4G LTE wi-fi hotspot, and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability. The OnStar system includes a 5-year basic plan plus a limited trial of guidance plan with automatic crash response.
Exterior standard features include 19-inch ultra-bright, machined aluminum wheels, LED headlamps and LED daytime running lamps, LED taillights, power handsfree liftgate, and dual exhaust with bright tips. They give the Terrain a bolder, more aggressive look.
Including the optional packages plus a panoramic Skyscape sunroof with power sunshade $1,495) did add to the final MSRP for my test vehicle but not overly so. Base MSRP was listed at $39,270 and the options plus destination and delivery ran the final tab to $44,470.
You can get out for less, of course, and still have a Terranin. The base SL with front-wheel drive, however, starts at $25,970 including destination and delivery, and you can get a FWD SLE for $28,795. SLT models start in the low $30,000 range. Diesel versions of the SLE and SLT have MSRPs that are $3,770 (SLE) and $2,845 (SLT) more than gas models.
What I liked about the 2018 GMC Terrain Denali: This is a comfortable vehicle with lots of room in both rows of seating. It provides an overall satisfactory driving experience as well.
What I didn’t like about the 2018 GMC Terrain Denali: A couple of cubic feet of cargo space was lost on the redesign. The Terrain’s capacity of 29.3 cubic feet behind the second row lags behind some competitors, but the 63.3 with the back seats folded is not bad. The placement of the buttons to operate the transmission is odd.
Would I buy the 2018 GMS Terrain Denali? Certainly. The improvements made both in looks and functionality over the previous model make this a viable option for those who don’t want or need a three-row crossover.


The Democratic Convention is just around the corner, and conservatives are gearing up for what could be a major political shake-up. Joe Biden’s chances of staying on the ballot are hanging by a thread after the disastrous special counsel report on him. The fallout from the report is causing a significant drop in polling numbers, and Democrats have only six months to figure out if they want to stick with Biden or find someone else.
Despite the public show of support, Democrats know deep down that Biden’s age is a serious concern. A recent poll by ABC News/Ipsos revealed that a whopping 86% of Americans believe Biden, who is 81, is too old to serve another term as president. Even within the Democratic party, 73% of Democrats think Biden is too old to serve, and a staggering 91% of independents agree. It’s clear that this problem won’t just disappear, and Democrats are running out of time to fix it.
Politico interviewed partisan strategists on how to solve Biden’s age issue, and their suggestions ranged from speaking to the press to conducting Q&A sessions. However, it seems like Biden’s team is dropping the ball on even the simplest tasks. They missed out on a golden opportunity to do a softball interview during the Super Bowl. James Carville, the Democratic strategist, called it a sign of lack of confidence in Biden. The rare press conference Biden did manage to hold was a disaster, as he mixed up the leaders of Mexico and Egypt and became fuel for the internet meme machine.
To make matters worse, Biden has a history of making bizarre statements, like claiming to talk to dead leaders and struggling to remember who he is speaking to. His staff has shortened his schedule, and he even skipped the funeral of a fellow Democrat because it would have been too physically demanding for him. The President clearly lacks the physical and mental capacity to help himself, and it’s clear that help won’t be coming any time soon.
NBC News may claim that “no serious conversations” have happened about replacing Biden, but that doesn’t fool anyone with common sense. In 2016, when Hillary Clinton’s health became a concern, then-DNC head Donna Brazile admitted to exploring options to replace her. If they were willing to consider it before the primaries, it’s only logical to assume they’re considering it now. Though it may be too late for another candidate to challenge Biden in the primaries, NBC News has already published an article outlining the process Democrats would have to follow to replace him. There’s smoke, and where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
The most likely path forward for Democrats is a combination of private and public pressure to convince Biden to step aside. Kamala Harris, the Vice President, would undoubtedly benefit from Biden’s delayed decision, allowing her to swoop in and take over. If Biden were to step down now, chaos would ensue, as a race for delegates would unfold ahead of the convention. Democrats have their work cut out for them in the next six months, and if they don’t act swiftly and decisively, they risk losing ground to Donald Trump, who currently leads Biden in most polls.
It’s unclear if Biden’s team even believes he can go through with debates at this point. With his inability to handle prolonged questioning and his constant fumbling during speeches and events, it’s hard to imagine he would fare well in a debate. The operation to replace Biden is underway, and the only question remaining is how Democrats will execute their pressure campaign to oust him. Who will step up and be the first to open the floodgates and say, “It’s time to move on?” Time is ticking, and Democrats need to act fast if they want a shot at winning the presidency.


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The Pen Drawings of Norman Lindsay. Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd. Limited Edition of 200 copies, 150 for sale, this being number 50, fully signed by Norman Lindsay.
This is the very first collection of Norman Lindsay's pen drawings, and this limited edition exceptionally rare. There is an Introduction, essay, and "His Inspiration and Techniques" by Lionel Lindsay. A finely printed volume from Art in Australia (they published a different collection in 1931 which was reprinted in 1974).
The plates are, in order of appearance. Illustration to Shakespeares Henry IV This drawing is dated 1896 the year in which it was first exhibited; it was actually drawn in 1894, when Norman Lindsay was fifteen. Title Page for The Decameron of Boccaccio. The Spirit of the Earth.
The Girl, the Boy and the Garden God. On the Tail of the Flight. Each Man fought for Himself.The Story of the Abrolhos. The Poems of Villon (plate 44). The Poems of Villon (plate 46). The Poems of Villon (plate 48). The Old Bachelor of Congreve. Panurge and the Ladies of Paris. Leon Gellerts Songs of a Campaign. There is no foxing - an incredible copy.
Bright, fresh and crisp internally. There are no damaged, stained, creased, loose or missing pages. There are no previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. The binding and block are firm and the covers are firmly attached.
The book is complete and original. Beautiful plates from over 100 years ago. All items are securely and well packed. Thank you for viewing my item.
The item "1918 SIGNED Pen Drawings of NORMAN LINDSAY, DELUXE ED 1/150, w 51 plates" is in sale since Tuesday, March 17, 2020. This item is in the category "Books, Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectable".The seller is "b_80" and is located in Mosman, NSW. This item can be shipped worldwide.

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Plant leaves can tell many things about the health of your plants. Most of the times, the color of the leaves indicates whether a plant is healthy or not.
Naturally, the leaves of most plants are green because they contain a green-colored pigment called chlorophyll.
When the plant leaves turn to another color, fully or partially, this is a sign that something is wrong and the plant is not happy.
Yellowing of plant leaves that are normally green is known as chlorosis.
In today’s post, I will address the most common causes of why the plant leaves turn yellow and how you should approach each situation.
Some of these conditions might only occur to potted plants, while others can apply to both potted and to the garden plants.
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1. Over-watering or poor drainage
Over-watering is one of the most causes of why many plants suffer.
When people start a garden or grow a plant for the first time, they want to make sure they give the plants enough water, without realizing that different plants have different moisture requirements.
Several examples of common plants that don’t need too much water are tomatoes, beans, and spinach.
Over-watering tomato plants is probably one of the most common mistakes. Even though tomatoes like to grow in humid soil, too much water can harm the plants and their fruits.
Too much humidity in the soil can lead to plant suffocation, root rot, and favors the appearance of various fungus diseases.
When you make your plant watering schedule, you should also take into account a few factors like the soil type, time of the year, climate, etc.
A very handy tool to determine when you need to water your plants is a soil moisture meter, which you simply insert into the ground and tells you the exact level of humidity in the soil.
Poor water drainage can harm your potted plants just like over-watering, therefore, make sure that the containers allow the excess water to drain out.
Common visible signs of plant over-watering are curled leaves, yellow leaves, cracked fruits, and lumps on the lower leaves.
2. Not enough nutrients in the soil
Just as the human body needs vitamins and minerals in order to stay healthy, plants also require various nutrients for vigorous growth.
A common cause why the leaves of your plants might turn yellow is the lack of the essential nutrients in the soil.
If you cultivate your plants in the same soil every year, without adding any type of fertilizer or compost, eventually, the land will become an inadequate environment for healthy plant growth due to the lack of enough nutrients.
Different plants have usually different needs in terms of the nutrients they require.
Three of the essential elements that plants need are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Other important nutrients for plant growth are calcium, magnesium, and sulfur.
Depending on the type of plants, you can use a specific type of fertilizer or a continuous-release all-purpose fertilizer which can feed up your plants for several months.
Besides adding fertilizer, crop rotation is also recommended in order to prevent pests, plant diseases, and to maintain better soil fertility over time.
3. Too much fertilizer
A soil that doesn’t have enough nutrients is not good for your plants’ growth. Yet, if you use too much fertilizer, your plants will also not be happy.
Adding too many nutrients to the soil can make it hard for plants to absorb other nutrients and the needed amount of water. Also, applying an excessive amount of fertilizer can change the pH of your soil, which is the measure of the acidity and alkalinity in the soil.
How do I know when plants need fertilizer?
Probably, the best way to determines what nutrients your soil needs is to perform a soil test. Fortunately, you can easily do that using a soil test kit.
A soil test will enable you to determine what type of fertilizer is best for your soil type and how often you should apply fertilizer.
Below are several common signs of over fertilization.
- The lower plant leaves turn yellow or dry out
- Margins of the leaves turn brown
- Leaves dry out and fall down
The human body is made up of about 60% water and severe dehydration can kill us.
Regarding this aspect, we are very alike with plants. The only difference is that a plant can be made up to 95% water.
Dehydration is a common cause of why the plant leaves turn yellow.
There isn’t a general rule about how often you should water your plants since there are many factors that impact this decision.
First of all, different plants need different humidity levels in the soil.
For instance, succulents are more adapted to arid environments and you shouldn’t water these plants as often as you water the cucumbers in your garden.
The soil type is another factor that you should consider when you determine how often you should water your plants.
The most common three types of soils are sand, clay, and silt.
Some soils retain water for a larger amount of time, while others dry up much faster.
Between these three soil types, silt is considered to be the best concerning the proper balance between water retention and drainage.
Clay usually retains a very large amount of water, but it is very poor at water drainage. This can lead to numerous fungal infections and the rot of the root of the plants.
Sandy soil is not good to retain water and it’s also not rich in nutrients.
Climate, time of the year, temperature, are several other factors that you should take into account when it comes to making your plant watering schedule.
Keep in mind that, as stated before, over-watering will also harm your plants. However, dehydration will kill the plants faster in most of the cases.
5. Not enough sunlight or too much
Sunlight is a required ingredient for the healthy growth of a plant.
Most plants need sunlight in order to achieve photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis is the name of the process by which the green plants use the sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar molecules and oxygen.
The glucose resulted throughout this process will then be stored and used as a fuel for the plant.
If a plant doesn’t receive enough sunlight, its leaves will usually have a yellowish color. Sometimes, the plant will grow taller than usual but due to the lack of sunlight, it will not be very productive.
Keep in mind that sudden exposure to direct sunlight can also harm the plants and cause what it’s known as sunscald.
A good example would be of the seedlings that grew in a place with not so much direct sunlight and which are transplanted in a greenhouse.
I recently learned this lesson the hard way after my tomato plants seedlings were affected by sunscald after I transplanted them in a greenhouse. You can read the full post here.
Too much sunlight can also create problems to some plants.
Some plant types like to grow in shade or partial-shade (lettuce, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, geraniums, radishes, kale, etc.) and prolonged exposure to direct sunlight can cause them difficulties.
6. Fungus or virus infection
Plant leaves can also turn yellow when the plant has been affected by a fungus infection or a virus.
According to an article posted by Jim Isleib for Michigan State University, about 85% of the plant diseases are caused by fungal or fungal-like organisms.
In many cases, the plant contacts the fungus when its leaves come in contact with the soil or when the bottom leaves are splashed with tiny drops of dirt.
Most fungi develop in warm and moist environments.
When a plant is affected by a fungal infection, usually, you can see the first signs on its leaves, but this rule doesn’t always apply.
Not all the time the leaves of the plants affected by fungus turn yellow or entirely yellow. Sometimes the disease starts with brown spots on the lower leaves like in the case of the tomato early blight, or septoria leaf spot.
Plants can also be affected by viruses.
For example, the rose mosaic virus creates yellow patterns on the leaves of the roses. Sometimes, these color patterns look like a mosaic, therefore, the name “mosaic virus.”
7. Pest problems
Another reason why the leaves of some plants could turn yellow is a pest problem.
Some of the most widespread garden pests that cause this problem are Aphids.
Aphids (also known as greenfly or blackfly) are small insects who feed with plants’ sap.
These tiny insects are some of the most common garden pests. Despite their size, aphids can cause significant damage to a plant.
Aphids live in colonies and once they find a plant to feed with, they usually come in a large number.
Some species of aphids inject a toxin into plants which can cause leaves to curl, distort, or turn yellow. They also can transmit viruses from one plant to another.
Not only the trees and plants in your garden can be the target of aphids. These pests can also spread to indoor plants.
If your plants have aphids, you should spray them with Neem oil.
Neem oil is a natural insecticide and fungicide that can help you get rid of several common garden pests and fungi like powdery mildew, spider mites, black spot, aphids, whitefly, and more.
8. Compacted soil / Crowded roots
Plants need a mixture of oxygen and water in the soil for healthy growth.
A common mistake that many people do when transplanting a plant is to press the soil around the roots too strongly.
If the soil is too compacted and not enough oxygen reaches the roots of the plant, therefore, its leaves turn yellowish and the plant slowly dies.
The soil becomes even more compacted every time the plant is watered.
This problem is especially common for potted plants. In nature, earthworms loosen and aerate the soil through the tunnels they dig into the ground. Here are several tips on how to prevent soil compaction in potted plants.
A similar problem with potted plants is that these sometimes don’t have enough room to grow and their roots become too crowded and squeezed.
9. Plant aging
The yellowing of plant leaves is not always caused by a disease, nutrient imbalance or the lack of sunlight. Sometimes, the leaves turn yellow just because the plant has reached its full maturity.
Just as humans grow old, plants do age as well. The aging process in plants is known as senescence.
Many plants, especially the ones we grow in our gardens are seasonal plants, which means they will only last for one season.
There are also many perennial plants and trees with a long lifespan. For instance, the oldest recorded living tree in the US is believed to be over 5000 years old.
Some houseplants can also thrive for many years if they have the proper conditions.
There are numerous reasons why the plant leaves are turning yellow. Some can be related to a disease, pests, improper humidity, transplanting stress, not enough or too much sunlight, plant aging, etc.
In general, when some of the leaves or all the leaves turn suddenly yellow, that’s a sign that something disturbs the plant. Since the reasons depend upon so many factors, it’s up to you to determine the exact cause based on the information presented in this article.

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Mayor Abramson delivered his final State of the City address last week to the Rotary Club. His speech maintained a hopeful tone, but one project in particular helped the Mayor keep his faith in the city: The Church.
Over the years, I’ve seen them change lives and the face of our city—a new city with a new spirit that doesn’t stop at the county line or the river’s edge.
I thought of that spirit recently as I drove by a beautiful century-old church on East Main Street where construction is under way. Next to the dumpster out front, a huge sign reads: “And they said it didn’t have a prayer.”
For years, it had stood empty. Soon it will be housing. To tackle such a challenge in this economic climate, took vision and courage and perhaps, most importantly, faith.
We have tackled many challenges in this community that some folks said didn’t have a prayer.
Together, we have tackled many challenges in this community that some folks said didn’t have a prayer.
Together we will tackle more in the future.
Check out more Broken Sidewalk coverage of “The Living Space for Lucky Souls.”
To give credit where it’s timely and due, the City and the Butchertown Neighbourhood folks have been extremely supportive.
Good call Pip- I have heard that the neighbors over there are wonderful and progressive. The chicken coops and raised bed gardens should be an example to all urban neighborhoods!!


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My longstanding love affair with Pandora has been brought to a whole new level. I first heard this song while driving out to San Francisco and immediately fell in love, so in love that I created an entire station from this one song. If that isn’t saying something then I don’t know what will. I have yet to have to “thumbs down” any song that has been presented on this playlist and it is so perfect that it matches every mood. I get daily and constant complements on this playlist from anyone who is in my car, its basically the perfect playlist. Because I’m feeling so generous I decided to share the playlist in addition to posting my favorite songs from Hippie Sabotage. You’re welcome.
A little fun fact about Hippie Sabotage– they are from Sacramento! I had NO IDEA until a client told me about it while we were listening to my playlist! We instantly bonded over the fact that we both KNEW who Hippie Sabotage is. So yay for local music! Now would be a good time to turn up the bass, hope you have a good subwoofer!
“Bust Em Down”
“Call The Doctors”


Men who are habitual heavy drinkers, downing more than two pints of beer every day, are likely to start having the sort of memory lapses, that are commonly associated with ageing, up to six years early, according to a new study.
The long-term effect of alcohol on the brain has not been extensively researched. Most studies have looked at elderly people, who have usually stopped or considerably reduced their drinking.
The paper by scientists at University College London published in the journal Neurology looks at the drinking habits of a large group of middle-aged men and women and their performance in cognitive functioning tests – how well they think and remember things – 10 years later.
It appears to show that heavy drinking, at least in men, leads to significant deterioration over the long term.
Not enough women in the study were heavy drinkers for the scientists to conclude the same things happened to them.
The researchers, led by Séverine Sabia of the department of epidemiology and public health, analysed data that has been generated by the Whitehall II study, a massive group of civil servants whose health has been investigated over many years.
They focused on more than 5,000 men and 2,000 women who were aged 45 to 69 at the beginning of the study.
Their drinking habits were assessed three times over a decade. They took memory and executive function tests on three occasions. Executive functioning includes reasoning, task flexibility and problem-solving ability.
Heavy drinking men – defined in the study as those who drank more than 36g of alcohol a day, which is about four and a half units – began to suffer memory failures and deterioration in their cognitive processes between 18 months and six years earlier than those who drank less.
Light and moderate drinkers did not show declines.
Simon Ridley, head of research at the dementia research charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "These latest results could serve as one more reason to stick to any new year's resolutions to cut back on alcohol. Observational studies such as this can be important for identifying factors that may influence the risk of memory decline or disease, but it's difficult to pinpoint cause and effect with this type of research.
"The people in this study did not have dementia but memory decline can be a precursor to dementia and understanding the risk factors for this decline could be important for preventing the condition.
"This large study has yielded useful results, although it's not clear how far the findings from this group of civil servants can be generalised to the wider population.
"It's crucial to continue investing in research if we are to understand how to keep our brains healthy as we age and prevent the diseases that cause dementia.
"In the meantime, the best evidence suggests that in addition to not drinking to excess we can lower the risk of dementia by eating a healthy, balanced diet, keeping an eye on our blood pressure and weight, and taking regular exercise."


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This collective of 20+ musicians was formed shortly after a post-9/11 concert called ‘Our Cry For Peace? put together by Carlos Nino (Ammoncontact, Hu Vibrational) and Dwight Trible (Pharoah Sanders Quintet).
They are called Build An Ark and their mission is to inspire peace and love throughout the world. Okay, so they failed at that. But how is the music?
Very good with a definite seventies-feel, unpretentious, earnest, freewheeling. Soulful jazz loaded up with African rhythms and influences. A sunny afternoon jam session among friends. It starts with a life-affirming cover of Pharoah Sanders‘s You Gotta Have Freedom and continues in that vein for an hour. The album is dedicated to Sun Ra and everyone who played in Arkestra to give you a further idea of the musical inspiration.
If you can handle lyrics like ‘put down your gun and pick up your baby? and ‘swallow your mushroom cloud? then this CD is for you. I like uplifting music, but maybe not this uplifting. After listening to a few songs, you will think twice before stomping to death a defenseless hippie.


Writing for New Republic, Blaine Grateman has written a very perceptive review of Kevin Carey’s The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere. Carey is a propagandist for the technocracy, that new class of the ultra-wealthy characterized by its unflinching willingness to promote digital technologies as an unmitigated blessing, as the solution to every problem, and, not coincidentally, as a seemingly bottomless well of corporate profits and personal wealth. The technocrats blithely ignore the destructive consequences of our rapid adoption of digital technologies—the problems that have been created in chasing after digital solutions—and they have demonstrated repeatedly that they are very willing to exaggerate or to exacerbate problems to expedite the adoption of digital solutions. Case in point, the United States still has, by every measure, the strongest system of higher education in the world, and yet if you read the articles and books by propagandists such as Carey, you would think that the Ivory Tower has already collapsed upon us.
Here are the key paragraphs in Grateman’s review:
“If the entrepreneurs in Carey’s book are out to solve real problems, they’re also out to make real money. In one of the most memorable chapters, Michael Staton, a partner at a venture capital fund, shows Carey a chart with circles for various global markets: a small, $300 billion circle for enterprise software, a larger, $1.6 trillion circle for media and entertainment, and a huge, $4.6 trillion circle for education. That’s more than the entire United States budget. Carey likes to describe the venture capitalists out for a slice of this pie as Godzilla-like ‘thunder lizards,’ who destroy “ancient institutions in their last days of decadence” only to plant ‘seeds of a new world to come.’
“But as they circle, might the self-styled thunder lizards be described just as aptly as ‘vultures’? One of Carey’s chief liberators, for example, is Michael Saylor, ‘tall and handsome,’ a ‘classic MIT rationalist, someone who sees the world for what it is, and what it should be.’ His shady dealings as the CEO of MicroStrategy also led to one of the largest fines in SEC history. The book never asks whether the profit motives of men like Saylor might sit uneasily with the educational mission they proclaim, and this leads to some major problems with its central premise that students and education are being ‘liberated by technology.’”
The entire review, titled “Silicon Valley’s ‘Thunder Lizards’ Want to ‘Hack’ America’s Broken Universities,” can be found at: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121258/kevin-careys-end-college-review-hacking-broken-higher-ed
We cannot and should not want to turn back the clock. But it is time to step back and take a broader, more reasoned perspective on educational technology: the online for-profit university “bubble” has “burst”; the charter schools are being exposed as corporate money grabs that serve almost no one but the executives who oversee them and the shareholders receiving dividends from the corporations who operate the vast majority of them; and standardized testing is finally being broadly resisted as an elaborate and expensive ruse—nothing but data gathering that is as massive in scale as it is pointless as assessment.
It is time to look closely at the Silicon Valley social model: billionaire entrepreneurs whose corporations’ signature products are produced by terribly underpaid people who labor in suicidal conditions in overseas factories and, in the Silicon Valley itself, sprawling corporate campuses and personal estates bordered by ever-expanding homeless camps.
We need to tell the technocrats that they will have to clean up their own messes before they have any credibility in presuming to consign our institutions to the dustbin of history.


As long as Somali refugees and other Third World migrants are seeded into small cities in the Midwest, the lefty-loos of San Francisco are all for it. But don’t go sticking those dirty brown foreigners* in their neighborhoods.
City meetings have become heated, divisive and prone to rhetoric where we openly discuss exactly which kinds of people we want to keep out of our city.
This is an ethically incoherent position. If we in San Francisco so strongly believe that national immigration is a human right, then it seems strange to block migration into our own neighborhoods.
Consider the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ decision to challenge the environmental review of a proposed housing project at 1515 Van Ness Ave. Despite the project’s plan to rent 25 percent of its units at a below-market rate, many members of the neighborhood preservation group, Calle 24, expressed anger that the project might bring tech workers into the Latino Cultural District.
Or that members of the Forest Hill homeowners association opposed a project that would build affordable housing for seniors and the formerly homeless on a site now occupied by a church. One of the grievances aired was that it might bring mentally unstable or drug-addicted people into the neighborhood.
“Tech Workers” appears to be a liberal dog-whistle for “dirty brown foreigners.” (The distaste the San Francisco left has for immigrants is so profound, it extends even to those in the country legally and contributing to the economy.)
Even more pointedly, more than a third of Silicon Valley tech workers are immigrants themselves. For many people in China, India and Eastern Europe, working in technology is one of the few ways out of their countries and into ours.
* Note, my use of “dirty brown foreigners” is intended as irony and sarcasm. I shouldn’t have to point that out, but many leftists are humorless and stupid.


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There was no way this girl would be stupid enough to transfer to a school with a tradition in gambling without knowing it. Of course she wasn’t a normal pretty girl. Even her name is strange. Jabami?
But even though Jabami is a strange girl and she showed a terrifying side to her, I don’t think she needs to be feared. Like Suzui said, she didn’t have pity towards him or had any malicious intentions with that money. She really is just a gambling enthusiast.
Hyakkaou Private Academy is a school full of rich kids and a tradition in this school is gambling. One has to question the adults in this school and whether or not they actually allow the gambling to happen or whether the students just do this in hiding. The synopsis of the show just says that status in the school is determined by the winners and losers, and that’s what our main character Suzui says as well.
As for a main character, though I’d consider Jabami the proper main character, Suzui didn’t leave much of an impression on me. Though I felt bad for the poor sap. In the beginning we see as he loses a match against a twisted blonde girl named Mary. He’s in so much debt that he basically becomes her lap dog, a house pet. She orders him around and even uses him as a foot stool and he’s demeaned in every way. I don’t even understand why this guy is in this school because he lacks any sort of confidence. Even though we don’t know him that well, just the way he looks and speaks screams a guy without a backbone. It’s more surprising that this guy attends the school than Jabami because of the type of person he is. His life is a mess right now, but judging from his words in the beginning it sounds like things might change for him later on and it’s most likely Jabami that’s going to help him, or he’s going to look at her as motivation to get his life and status in the school back together.
The episode was surprising that we jumped into the gambling immediately. Mary, the bitch of this episode, asks Jabami to play a rock-paper-scissors game where the students in the class draw whatever symbol they want on a card and put them in a box. The two players pick three cards from the box and choose one to play, and the same rules for rock-paper-scissors apply. And since this is gambling, money is on the line of course.
It was an interesting match to watch. I have to say, it was very satisfying watching Mary get wrecked in front of everyone because she’s just awful. I didn’t know what Jabami was trying to do by betting small amounts and then huge amounts, then 10,000,000 yen. But later we learn that it was pure luck, and Jabami just gets off from the insanity of it all. We know that Jabami is a pro at this based on what she explained to Suzui. She was able to guess that the rest of the class was actually “slaves” to Mary and were aiding in her cheating. Next, she tried to figure out how she was cheating by trying to find a tell, from Mary, an audio cue, one of the students giving a signal. However there were no signs of that, until she noticed that no one was looking at her. Usually all the attention would be placed on the new transfer student taking part in this awful, but all eyes were behind her. And with a hand mirror she was able to see Suzui giving the signal. Pretty smart, but I didn’t notice her using a hand mirror? With her hands holding the cards and with so many people around, surely someone would notice the mirror? That was the only weird part for me, but the actual psychological moments in the game were great. With Jabami around, no game is going to be boring.
I really enjoyed this premiere, this messed up type of atmosphere is fun to watch for me. One thing I have to point out about this show are the facial expressions. The over the top expressions really add to how messed up these students are. They really show the ugly and crazy sides to themselves through their faces so it’s a plus, though they really need to retain their poker face.
These students, like Mary and Jabami, may look cute and normal on the outside but these expressions really show who they are. MAPPA has a very good pedigree and they always tend to deliver when it comes to animation and when this show needs to look good, it really looks good. The OP was strange, but in a good way, the jazz elements is another plus. One thing I did not like were the ass shots and the boob shots in the ED. I don’t understand why that’s necessary unless that speaks to Jabami’s character that she doesn’t give a fuck, but ehhh…that could be a stretch. I hope this type of fanservice won’t be a regular thing because that could get annoying. I think this cast is going to be mostly female so I’m going to cross my fingers that they won’t go crazy with more ass and boob shots. Other than that, this was a great start to the summer season.
Possibility of watching: Guaranteed
Possibility of blogging: High?
So Netflix got the license to Kakegurui so finding subs to this could prove to be tough. A random person decided to sub the first episode so we got lucky, but there’s no guarantee they’ll sub the rest themselves. I’ve always had trouble blogging an anime licensed by Netflix because fansubs would be a little hard to find. With Little Witch Academia I didn’t have much trouble because Asenshu handled it, but back when I was blogging Ajin it was a nightmare as subs for the episodes always came out on different days. So I hope a group like Asenshi or another will dedicate time to actually subbing this. Please. ;_;
I still don’t understand why Netflix releases the episodes to the anime after it finishes airing.
Nikolita’s First Impression
Wow, what a neat intro to this series. It reminds me a lot of the opening themes for both Noir and the three episode OVA Read or Die. But what a catchy track! That and the unique animation drew me into the show from within the first few minutes. (Hey, Square Enix is sponsoring this show! Cool!)
I have to agree with Berry on the characters’ facial expressions when they’re gambling, especially their mouths. The students’ expressions twist and contort in such ways that you really get a sense of how depraved these teenagers are, despite their young age.
Many of the characters strike me as having “two sides.” By this I mean that we see normal styles of animation when the students are having their everyday interactions, and then when the gambling starts we start to see the warped facial expressions and foreboding sound effects. I was particularly struck by this realization when Suzui takes Jabami on a tour of the school. Up until that point she had seemed like a very friendly and polite young woman who was maybe a touch naive. However once Suzui mentions gambling, we get the first hint that Jabami is not everything she appears to be. When it comes to gambling, Jabami might be out for blood.
Berry’s already covered the recap, so I won’t bore everyone by repeating her words. I said in this season’s preview that I wanted to watch this show mainly for the psychology, and boy I wasn’t disappointed.
Mary’s words about “reading the flow” of a gambling game and Jabami’s lustful speech about how the fun in gambling is making it crazy (referring to her outrageous bet of 10 million yen) were the highlights of the episode for me. Jabami is correct in that the draw to gambling is beating the odds, being that player in the casino who makes a random bet or a last-ditch spin of the wheel in an effort to win a fortune purely by luck and chance. I also enjoyed Jabami calling Mary out on her cheating, and pointing out all of the reasons why her plan was flawed.
The school (class?) president’s words about Jabami being a “snake in [their] paradise” were intriguing to me, and hint that Jabami is definitely not just an ordinary transfer student. Where does she come from, and why did she transfer to this school of gambling? Why does she love gambling so much?
Another thing that stood out to me in this episode as being unique (or at least uncommon) within the anime genre was Mary breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to the viewer.
I’ll be sticking around for the second episode, and I’ll watch for the availability of the third and fourth episodes. If it seems like getting reliable subs is going to be hard, then I’ll leave this show in Berry’s hands. I would love to be able to co-blog this show because it’s a unique premise and I love the psychological aspects woven into it, but I’ve covered at least one title with unreliable subs before and honestly life’s too short for that shit.
Possibility of Watching: Medium
Possibility of Blogging: Depends on whether there’s reliable subs

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