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Radical Mycology Mixtape Video Now Streaming

Portland-based visual artist Ross Barmache offers up a nearly hour-long music video to accompany last December’s release of the Radical Mycology Mixtape (Vol. 1). Complimenting the various genres and moods found throughout the album, Barmache pulls together hundreds of obscure fungi-based clips from the last century to overlay each track with hand-picked visuals merged, color washed, and down sampled to their mycelial core. The effect is a way of seeing fungi that is familiar, yet novel – engaged, and hypnotic. Dig it.

To stream the album or to pickup a copy of the limited edition cassette tape, check out the Radical Mycology Bandcamp.

Radical Mycology Mixtape Now Available

After months in the making, the first Radical Mycology Mixtape was released earlier this week.

With artists from around the world, this unique album was created to showcase the many ways fungi inspire the audio arts – with the result being a wide-ranging, yet well-balanced blend of styles arising from the only requirement for submission: that the tracks “relate to (radical) mycology in content or spirit.”

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the mix is the spread of genres. There are singer-songwriter, I-love-mushrooms-type songs from Josh Vogeler, Michael Ching, and Skep. Lef. The classical cello from Patrick Lavoie, SP-404 sampled beat from MTLR, and ambient world sounds of Sporecaster bring in an instrumental perspective to hearing fungi. And there are several non-music-based tracks, including excerpts from Zoe Gordon’s “Curse of the Wild Morels,” a sound effect laced poem-story about alien Morel mushrooms that haunt dreams, and Ernst Karl’s 30-minute collection of mycology-based field recordings known simply as “Mycological.”

Reflecting on the influences of psychoactive fungi, Kamehameha’s “Head Up the Sky” is a psychedelic rock roller coaster through the effects of psilocybin. While in “I Bruise Blue,” OMNIII raps about similar experiences over slappy bass loops, just as Gourmet draws out in their lo-fi track “Mushrooms” and Sam Sycamore relays via shoegaze in “Gold Pavilion.”

Many of the tracks also directly align with the mycopsychology that Radical Mycology has highlighted for years. In “Firemushroom,” AGF sings about the importance of fungi in the environment over sounds sampled directly from mushrooms. Radical Fun Time’s “Radical Mycology Time” is a crust punk celebration of the autonomy found in mushroom hunting and reconnecting with nature. “Very Same Moon” by Connor Albers discusses the intelligence of mycelium in relation to being connected to land, while River Dweller’s “Holy Karyogamy” provides a multi-layered reflection on impending ecological disasters. Meanwhile, multiple snippets from Emji Spero’s poetry book-turned-album “almost any shit will do” are spread throughout the mixtape, providing numerous comparisons between fungal forms and the growth of radical social movements.

Finally, there are the songs that are in a class of their own: Glitter Wizard’s glam/stoner rock tale of corpses communicating via mycelium, cyberboy666 & user43368831’s retelling of a Derek Mahon poem (over mushroom-sampled sounds), Mamoun Nukumanu’s blissed out rap “Helix Trees,” and Baba and the Yagas’ ballad “Cordyceps.” In all of these we find a unique reflection on the influences and importance of fungi in our lives – now, and in the hereafter.

To download the full album or to pickup a copy of the limited edition cassette tape, check out the Radical Mycology Bandcamp.

Mush love to all the artists!

Radical Mycology Release Party and Livestream

After months in the making, the first Radical Mycology Mixtape is dropping December 19! Celebrate with us in Portland, or via livestreaming on Facebook or Instagram.

This event will also be a fundraiser for MYCOLOGOS, a mycology school forming in Portland, which is running a Kickstarter campaign that ends Dec. 20.

Prize giveaways (in-person and through the livestream) of mycology courses, Radical Mycology books, and art!

Performances By:

Screening of music videos and narratives from the mixtape:

  • Two mushooms KNOCKING (Australia)
  • See Through Machine (Providence, RI)
  • The Curse of the Wild Morels (Ontario, Canada)
  • How Doth the CrocodileDJing by Northern Draw
    VJing by Ross Barmache

The event will take place at The Know (3728 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97232). See the Facebook event page here.

Photo by Madeline Cass.

Announcing the Radical Mycology Mixtape Project

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Send in your song demo or audio performance to the Radical Mycology Mixtape Project!

Despite the fact that millions of people around the world hold a strong passion for mycology, there surprisingly isn’t much music that directly relates to the topic. Apart from the requisite fungally-themed electronic music albums and occasional country-westernesque mushroom hunting ballad, you’d be hard pressed to find a slamming spore liberation dance jam,  mycoremediation battle rap, or myceliated pop-punk chorus. What gives?

At Radical Mycology, we’ve lamented this fact for years and have worked to draw some works out of the soil and wood at each Radical Mycology Convergence’s Saturday night Talent Showcase. Though always good, the lineup at the 2016 RMC’s Showcase was particularly potent, leading to the realization that it was time to finally record some of the world’s underground mycoartists and create a vital resource for the spread of the 21st century’s neo-ethnomycological movement.

So, from now until August 1, 2017, Radical Mycology will be accepting demos for consideration from all music genre and audio performance types – with the only filter being that the piece should relate to or be inspired by (radical) mycology in some manner. Radical Mycology will then produce and release the final album mid-December as a donation-based download and limited edition cassette.

Want to get involved or just know more? Check out all the details here.

Mushroom Cultivation Courses and Soil Fungi Master Class

Starting this July, Peter McCoy will be hitting the road to leading several 20-hour Mushroom Cultivation & Application Courses across the U.S. Peter has been teaching about mushroom cultivation for over 10 years and as each year passes, this Course only gets more robust, thorough, and immersive.

If you’ve been thinking of getting into mushroom growing, or of taking your practice in the art to the next level, this Course will leave you well equipped to advance and evolve your work with fungi for years to come. Confirmed locations and dates are listed below, each with more information on what to expect.

Soil Fungi Master Class

This August, Peter will also be joined by soil, compost, and bioremediation expert Nance Klehm in Chicago, Illinois for an unprecedented 7-day Master Class on the many functions of fungi in soil systems. Offering a skillset found nowhere else in the world, this Course will provide any food, fungi, and Earth lover with insights and practices for managing landscapes and designing holistic environments through the often overlooked lens of these hidden fungi. Starting with the ecology and forms of soil fungi, this Master Class will take participants through all the skills needed to identify, assess, isolate, cultivate, and apply many types of soil fungi in any habitat, both disturbed and intact. For more information, click the image below.

La Sémiosphères du Radical Mycology

This month, Peter McCoy and Radical Mycology are being featured in an international art-ecology exhibition at Le Commun in Geneva, Switzerland as a part of a month-long exhibition series entitled La Sémiosphère du Commun.

Over the course of three weeks, Peter held several workshops and presentations on his unique approach to working with and teaching about fungi and also worked in collaboration with filmmaker Marion Neumann and artist collaboratory Utopiana founder Anna Barseghian to design several installation components that were inspired by ideas presented in Peter’s book. Though the project just opened the other day, it has already some great local press in a few places so far. For all the details, check the video and images below and see the event’s full description at the bottom.

          Le commun mushroom bricks on coffee grounds

The impetus behind the whole exhibition series was to remediate the wooden bricks that make up the floor of the gallery. After denial from the government (which owns the building), the idea spawned into a larger series of questions about how to engage with fungi and other organisms to not just heal the environment, but learn from and recognize our relationship to it.

radical mycology mushroom switzerland lab installation The five main components were a mini-mushroom lab where liquid inoculum (culture) and spawn are produced, a mock oil spill, mycorediation of household waste, mycorediation of used cigarette filters, mycorediation of “bricks,” and a fruiting environment for mushroom growing. Click on the image for the full resolution panorama.

In the mushroom lab, grains were inoculated on three separate dates, each 3 days apart, to demonstrate how quickly mushroom mycelium grows.

mushrooms-growing-on-cigarettesFollowing up on Peter’s novel approach to growing mushrooms on cigarette filters to degrade the chemicals they contain, part of the workshop series taught participants how to repeat the methodology Peter developed at home.

Dozens of small vials were made. motor-oil-mycoremediation

Oil-soaked cardboard mixed with used coffee grounds, and mushroom mycelium. Over the coming weeks, the mycelium will digest the chemicals into simpler and (likely) less-toxic byproducts.

oil-spill-mycoremediationMimicking an oil spill, used motor oil was mixed with soil to then be remedaited by a mushrooms (the Pearl Oyster [Pleurotus ostreatus]). Pasteurized straw and mushroom mycelium were added and the timer set to see how long it would take for the mushroom to take over the substrate.moss-theramin

There were a ton of other amazing projects and exhibits as a part of the exhibition. Here, an open-source theramin is hooked up to pads of moss from various polluted sites, with their differing conductivity being translated into down sampled frequency generators.ipad-particle-detector

An employee from CERN demonstrated his hand-made emission detector hooked up to an iPad. As electrons, alpha, beta, or gamma particles are detected, the signal is translated into an audio signal with the Korg synthesizer (upper right). bacterial-cultures

Soil and water cultures from a lake in Romania polluted by a nearby aluminum processing facility.

The project entitled « The Semiosphere of the Commun » emerges from the very space of Le Commun. We learned that in 2006 the Building Services entrusted the engineering-environment-safety company Ecoservices SA to carry out tests for pollutants potentially present at the BAC. In parallel, the STEB (Service de toxicologie de L’environnement bâti du Canton de Genève – the Service of Toxicology Service of the Built Environment, Geneva Canton) measured the quality of air in a number of spaces of the building. The laboratories tested the samples taken from the floors and the false ceilings for presence of heavy metals, PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) and asbestos, and found an important level of hydrocarbon pollution in all surface samples taken from the wooden and screed floors, dating back and inherited from the industrial period of the building. The PAHs were also present and even released in more or less important quantities depending on temperature variations. Heavy metals were occasionally present in excess. The tests showed presence of asbestos in the glue used to fix the wooden floors on the ground floor as well as in the ceiling panels. The detected asbestos is non-porous and does not present a health hazard as long as it remains untouched. In conclusion, Ecoservices SA considers the site to be contaminated, but without danger for medium term occupants.

In its activities Utopiana is interested in questions and alternative methods of decontamination. In 2015 and as an interventionist artistic gesture, we submitted an in situ project to the Geneva authorities, which consisted in the partial decontamination of the floor of Le Commun by a remedial action thanks to mushrooms and phytomining.

We consider this situation to be an opportunity to enlarge the fields of knowledge so as to address more deeply the question of the environment. In fact, we want to conceive differently the very idea of the environment (Umwelt) so that it integrates different theoretical, institutional, and political factors and takes into account various pragmatic engagements.

Other than the knowledge of ecological processes, the solution to these problems also requires understanding of human behaviour because the semiotic aspects of the human-nature relationships that are important in this context and in others are not yet sufficiently understood or considered.

The scaffold that has been erected from the space of Le Commun presents itself as a “relational biosphere” which attempts to weave new frames uniting “two cultures”: the humanities and the arts on the one hand, and the technical and natural sciences on the other. Or, more generally – the union of the cultural fields and those dealing with natural phenomena. In order for us to understand and to act in the current ecological situation, we propose to consider human culture as a sphere of continuous interplay of signs – as a semiosphere, as an open entity which constantly influences and is being influenced – and to underline the importance of the processes of symbiosis at the interior and exterior limits of this semiosphere. Just as much as the biosphere is necessary for the existence of different terrestrial species, the semiosphere precedes the existence of meanings that populate it. Thus, Le Commun interlocks the real, physical space and the social, virtual one.

We must understand the similar dynamics that manifest themselves on all levels of the living (semiosphere, biosphere, Umwelt) in order to understand the rupture that man has created in his environment through the production and accumulations of materials that no longer partake in the recycling of elements of our ecosystem.

The concept of the semiosphere is considered in its relational capacity for a future of the ecology of thought, of subjectivity, of desire, of power, of affect – in short, of modes of existence.

Radical Mycology featured on

Peter McCoy and Radical Mycology were recently featured in an article on the many prospects of mycology over at Topics touched on include the infancy of mycology, the need to promote the many non-psychoactive properties of fungi, mycoremediation, and how fungi will recolonize the world long after humans have gone. Dig it.

Gift of the fungi: Mushrooms — yes, mushrooms — could help save the world

(Credit: Getty/NatashaBreen)

A 2016 RM Wrap Up & 2014 RMC Vids

With the end of year we wish to say our thanks for the many highlights of the past 12 months. This year was a big one for Radical Mycology. February saw the birth of the book Radical Mycology by Peter McCoy and April followed up with a few videos to help condense key points from the text—two efforts we hope will excel the growth of myco-literacy currently developing around the world. Following on the book’s many positive responses, Peter took the book on tour across the U.S. during the summer and fall, making over 45 stops at a range of independent books stores, non-profits, community gardens, infoshops, galleries, art archives, and festivals.

(Left) Peter at Interference Archive, a Brooklyn-based depository for the art of social movements.
(Right) Installing a mushroom garden in Washington, D.C. as part of a 20-hour

Mushroom Cultivation & Application Course.

As the mushroom season took its turn of the year, October marked our fourth and most successful Radical Mycology Convergence, this time in Wingdale, NY. Despite being the first time the event made its way to the East coast, over 400 people were in attendance, making this year’s RMC the largest to date. As with every prior RMCs, all who came camped together, learned together, worked together, and, in a myriad of ways, fostered a unique space to share their connection to the lands we inhabit as well as to the fifth kingdom that fills their innumerable niches and recesses.

(Left) Volunteers help prepare the land at Fertile Substrate, a pre-RMC work-n-learn party.
(Right) Nance Klehm on Reading the Landscape for patterns of disturbance at the 2016 RMC.

The land hosting the RMC was also an amazing backdrop to the event. Set on a 120-acre homestead bordering the Appalachian Trail and three hills of mushroom-rich mixed forests, attendees found fungi poppin’ all weekend. Maitake, Chicken of the Woods, and various Laccaria and edible Boletus species were well represented, as were an array of conks, lichens, and resupinate fungi.

Morning circle at the RMC (Credit: Michael Place).

On the info front, this year’s RMC took the myco knowledge offered to a whole other level. As impromptu forays filled the woods, the dense schedule offered some pretty killer workshops and discussions, including many mycoremediation and mushroom cultivation focused talks. In between, new friendships were forged among the many passionate and incredibly knowledgeable mycophiles, as demonstrated at the steadily laughter- and rap-filled talent show on Saturday night. And at night massive bonfires raged late, filling the air with warmth, kinship, and stories of epic fungi recently found or long since gone.

Dinner crew on duty.                                                  Philip shares his passion in the Amadou.

On the final day, as with all RMCs, we closed by working to enrich the land with various fungal partnerships and earth repair practices. Erosion-mitigating and nutrient load-reducing plants were planted along sensitive waterways, while various mushroom gardens were installed across the property.

Installing a four-species mushroom garden on the final day of the RMC.

As the year winds down, the Radical Mycology Collective is taking some time to reflect as we proceed into an ever-brighter fungal future. Next year is sure to bring some big changes and new projects to the fore for us. But for now, we wish to give our deepest gratitude to all those who made this year one of our most inspirational yet.

A HUGE thank you goes out to everyone that helped organize, show up, throw down, support, donate, cook, serve, share, and grow with us and the Radical Mycology movement this year. A special HUGE HUGE thank you goes to this year’s presenters: Alanna Burns, Zaac Chaves, Cornelia Cho, Willie Crosby, Samuel David, Steve Gabriel, Alexander Jones, Erwin Karl, Fern Katz, Scott Kellogg, Nance Klehm, Elli Mazeres, John Michelotti, Lupo Passero, William Padilla-Brown, Jason Scott, Danielle Stevenson, Olga Tzogas, Chris Wright, Sue Van Hook, Roo Vandegrift, and Marina Zurkow, as well as to the amazing folks in the Seeds of Peace Collective, who did all the cooking at the RMC this year.

In return, and as a belated Solstice gift to everyone, we’ve made a playlist of the workshop videos from the 2014 RMC—a taste of the videos we have in the editing queue from this year’s RMC.

Enjoy and mush love,
The RM Collective

Radical Mycology Convergence Workshops and Schedule Announced

The schedule for the 2016 Radical Mycology Convergence has been announced! This year the Convergence is leveling up in a number of ways. For the first time we are on the East Coast. We are going a full 5 days instead of 4. And on the Saturday night of the Convergence we will be hosting an Myco Art Gallery with international submissions (the Gallery is still open for submissions here).

The confirmed workshops for this year’s RMC are right in line with these evolutionary leaps. There are some incredible myco- and bioremediation talks, a range of ethnomycological presentations, and some amazing fungal ecology talks.

See the 2016 RMC schedule here
Read the detailed workshop descriptions here

Want to help the RMC?

We rely on support from attendees to make the RMC a success. You can help add to this grassroots effort in a variety of ways. Consider registering to volunteer here. Or join the Pre-RMC work party, Fertile Substrate, here. Or simply bring some food or raffle item donations. Every hyphal addition to our support web helps this event’s network grow deeper and stronger. Whatever you can do to add to this underground effort is greatly appreciated!

Recent Radical Mycology Book Reviews, Interviews, and Webinars

The last couple months have been quite busy on the Radical Mycology front. With planning the just-launched Radical Mycology Book tour and the upcoming Radical Mycology Convergence, its been a go trying to post all the reviews that the book Radical Mycology has been getting over the last few months. So, here they all are in one convenient post!

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  • Good Magazine did an interview with Peter when the book first came out here.
  • The Survival Podcast had Peter back a second time to talk about several intermediate cultivation practices with fungi here.
  • The Sustainable World Radio podcast got into a range of topics with Peter from the book here.
  • Diego Footer of the Permaculture Voices podcast did a great interview with Peter about a range of fungal cultivation practices and low-impact integration practices and their relationship to permaculture / regenerative agriculture.
  • Ayana Young of the Unlearn & Rewild podcast held a deep conversation with Peter about the cultural and ecopsychological impacts that fungi have had on humans since pre-history. Though Peter tends to do interviews about the practical implications of working with fungi, these more subtle fungal roles in our collective history are some of the most inspiring topics for him and Ayana pulled out some amazing questions to help do the topic justice.
  • The New Food Economy online magazine did a great interview and write-up on the book here.

The other month, Peter also did two webinars on the books topics: one on Seeing Fungi (fungal biology and ecology) and the other on Working With Fungi (the historical, contemporary, and future impacts of foraging for, consuming, and cultivating fungi). These info-packed videos give a solid overview of the many topics and skills that are thoroughly detailed in the book, much of which is not represented anywhere else on the internet today. Check them out below.

  • The Australian permaculture school and blog Milkwood wrote up a great piece on the book here.
  • The New Jersey Mycological Association did a review here.
  • The Practical Herbalist podcast and blog did a review here and part 1 of an interview with Peter here.
  • Lastly, The Willamette Weekly in Portland, Oregon named Peter “Best Mushroom King” in their annual “Best of Portland” issue. Fungi.. keeping Portland Weird.


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Ed Sheeran may have dropped out of college at age 16 but that doesn’t mean he has to miss out on the college experience.

Ed Sheeran

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TMZ first leaked the video, and it might be the best thing I’ve seen all day.

He was at Duke University with rumored GF, Cherry Seaborn (who is a student there), when he was caught on video learning the art of—what else—BEER PONG!

And the video is pretty priceless:

Why is Ed Sheeran the coolest dude ever?

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From Doha to Dubai

My time in Doha is up already 😞 after my rubbish time in Oman, I’ve really enjoyed getting back into my solo traveller groove while checking out another Middle Eastern country.

Doha is expensive, but for the architectural nerd within me it was well worth it. The modern skyscrapers are stunning and eccentric. The contemporary structures that house various museums are like art unto themselves. To be fair, I was staying in the rich white people part of town which has no doubt skewed my perspective but I have absolutely no regrets (I was probably the poorest one there but they don’t need to know that haha).

This morning I went to Katara village to check-out the historical architecture of Qatar. The village was a bit confusing to navigate because a lot of it is still being built. But there is a beautiful mosque, adorned with colourful mosaics. There’s a huge amphitheatre,  a couple of galleries and the beach is right next door. It was a great place to wander, but by the end of it I was dripping with sweat in the 38 degree heat and direct sunlight.

Once I got back ‘home’ I checked in with a couple of important people back home. It was great to hear their voices and it filled me with an extensive surge of happiness and warmth.

I’m now at the Doha airport, waiting to board my flight to Dubai. I’ve got a couple of days in Dubai where I’ll be on a super strict budget. From there I’m off to Kuala Lumpur where I’ll reconnect with my travel buddy who couldn’t handle the thought of spending his 2 weeks annual leave in Sydney after all the incredible experiences we had in Russia. So he booked some last minute flights and I have every intention of spending my last couple of days in luxury before I head back to the grind and wintery weather of home.

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School and Sports for Sept. 17

Anti-bullying spotlight, part two: PRIDE

RCHS students hit the Panther Stadium field with their club-mates for team-building exercises as part of the PRIDE program on Sept. 4.
RCHS students hit the Panther Stadium field with their club-mates for team-building exercises as part of the PRIDE program on Sept. 4.

Anti-bullying at Rappahannock County Public Schools extends into the high school with the PRIDE program (Positive Relationships Inspire a Drive for Excellence), the centerpiece of the high school’s effort.

The premise behind the program is to build a stronger family of Panther students and faculty by getting all students and teachers involved in clubs that are meaningful and purposeful. PRIDE builds on the principles of the Olweus anti-bullying program (outlined in the Sept. 3 School and Sports News report), engaging students in a community while also improving school climate.

PRIDE helps ensure that student belongs to something, that “something” being a school-sponsored club. Research has shown that when students engage in activities they foster friendships, stay connected to their school and have a sense of belonging. All of those benefits can keep at-risk students in school and can enrich the school’s atmosphere and culture.

And all of those factors lead to decreased incidences of bullying.

PRIDE kickoff day was Sept. 4 this school year, the day for students to select their club for the year. Club sponsors set up in the gym in job-fair fashion, where students can browse the club tables, ask questions and ultimately sign up for one of the clubs, which, in Panther world, are called “prides.” All prides meet once a month during school hours for about an hour. Traditional extracurricular activities such as student government, sports and national honor society are still in place but meet after school hours. Pride clubs meet during school hours so that every student can participate.

For this year’s kickoff, once they had joined a club, all students exited to the Panther Stadium field to participate in team-building exercises, competing for prizes. All were grouped by their new clubs, building new friendships and communities from the first day. Clubs range from card playing to Disney to skateboarding to chess playing to Ultimate Frisbee to almost everything in between. Clubs are sponsored by high school faculty members.

High school guidance counselor Dani Pond has been the leading proponent and driving force behind the PRIDE program at the high school. Now in its third year, the program has grown in both offerings and popularity, and Pond says she has noticed a similar growth in positive school climate.

The PRIDE program is also a near-instant way of integrating new students, allowing them to immediately connect with like-minded peers as they become part of the high school community. As Pond watched the students compete in their team building exercises this year, the excitement and pride was visible on her face, her big smile matched by those on the faces of hundreds of students exulting in a new school year and new friendships.

— Jimmy Swindler

WCDS sports update

In WCDS red, Tyler Johnson, Lucas Dumez, Nick Leskovec lead the Owls at the start of a Quantico cross-country invitational, followed by Bernie Cieplak, Kevin He, and Gray Galeone.
In WCDS red, Tyler Johnson, Lucas Dumez, Nick Leskovec lead the Owls at the start of a Quantico cross-country invitational, followed by Bernie Cieplak, Kevin He, and Gray Galeone.

Varsity volleyball: The Lady Owls hosted Chelsea Academy in their first Delaney Athletic Conference Division II match Sept. 8. The Knights, 2-0 in early-season play, played well in their first road match, but the Lady Owls took all three games for their first conference victory.

In the first game, Alyssa Soldo and Carolina Leonard had aces in the 25-22 win.. Tatumn Vaught and Kendall Carroll each had multiple kills, with Josephine Burns adding a kill. In the second game, Vaught and Soldo each had three aces, Anna Schuster had an ace and four service points despite a Knights’ timeout in the middle of her rotation, and Carroll got a kill to give the girls game point and a hitting error by the Knights led to a 25-20 second-game win.

In the third game, a kill by Carolina Leonard gave the girls a 19-17 lead but the Knights dug deep to stay in the game and match with six points to lead 23-19 and get to the edge of winning the game. The girls deserve credit for digging deep themselves as two Sold kills help the girls pull into a 23-23 tie and force a Knights’ timeout. Leonard sealed the game and match victory with two aces on the final points of the game.

The Lady Owls hosted the Panthers from across the county in a triple-header on Sept. 9. The Panthers’ varsity squad was powerful and deep. Their strong serving and ability to put the volleyball away was a major factor in the match. The Panthers took control of the game early and scored their 14th, 15th and 16th points on consecutive aces. The Panthers drove their lead to 18 to 1. Monica Marciano did get a kill but the Panthers responded with a kill to control the game at 21-5. The girls only scored one more point the rest of the way as the Panthers finished the game with a kill and a spike kill to take the first game 25-5. In the second game, a Panther serving error led to a point for the Lady Owls, but back-to-back hitting errors by the girls finished the game in the Panthers’ favor, 25-10.

The third game was a better game with both coaches substituting and mixing up their lineups. The Lady Owls led 8-5 after an ace and serving point by Soldo. The Panthers tied the game at 11, then gained the lead and did not give it up. Five aces and a kill by the Panthers pushed their lead to 21-12 and Coach Zylonis used a timeout to try to stop the momentum. The Panthers had a hitting error following the timeout and Leonard earned a service point. The Panthers responded with a kill. Josephine Burns got the last service rotation and got an ace but her service error ended the final game and match with a Panthers’ victory 25-16.

The Lady Owls were in action the next day and played a solid match, defeating the visiting Warriors from Quantico Middle/High School, 3-0. The Warriors are the reigning DAC Division II champions

Varsity cross country: The Owls traveled to Quantico for the Marine base’s annual big invitational meet Sept. 8. There were a number of private and public schools represented from the region and areas of eastern Virginia, with more than 140 runners in the boys’ race. Lucas DuMez cracked the top 10, finishing ninth overall. Newcomer Kevin He crossed the line in 35th place. Nick Leskovec earned 49th place. Gary Galeone finished in 55th place and Bernie Cieplak crossed in 67th place.

Middle school cross country: The Owls traveled to Rappahannock County for a big invitational meet to open the season Sept. 8, with number of public and private schools from the region and more than 70 runners in in the boys’ race and 60-plus runners in the girls’ race on a hot humid day. In the girls’ race, Beverly Eborn finished 38th with a time of 21:16. Emma O’Neill crossed the line at 43rd in 23:06. Jefferson Day finished at 21:51 in the boys’ race good for 53rd place. Jack Gerard got 68th place in a time of 28:52. This is by far the largest race WCDS runners have competed in during recent years.

— Mike Costello

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France vs Germany – Match Preview

Tonight sees the second semi final of Euro 2016 as hosts France take on current World Champions Germany both sides are one game from the final for France it would be the opportunity to win the tournament in home soil while for Germany they are edging closer to back to back major tournament success.

France were ruthless at the quarter final stage as they brushed past England’s conquerors Iceland with a 5-2 win on Sunday. The scoreline may slightly flatter the Icelanders as France were 4-0 up before the break and then had the luxury of resting players once the result was secured

Their were concerns before the game that the suspension of both Adil Rami and N’Golo Kante was caused France some problems but they have come through the hurdle of Iceland and these two players will slot in at centre back and centre midfield respectively.

Germany edged past Italy in their quarter final and needed penalties in which to do so. They weren’t classic German penalties by any stretch of the imagination but they were somewhat fortunate that Italy’s efforts from the spot were even worse.

That game saw Manuel Neuer’s goal breached for the first time in the tournament as Leonardo Bonucci’s second half spot kick levelled the game at one goal each.

That game wasn’t without its casualties though as Sami Khedira was subbed off early through injury and striker Mario Gomez is also ruled out of this encounter.

Bastian Schweinsteiger who saw a header disallowed in the game against Italy will likely deputise for Khedira while Germany who were already light up front will really miss the presence of Gomez. There isn’t really a like for like replacement so will a change of system be required for Joachim Low’s side.

France will have no such problems in attack as the have the tournament’s top scorer Antoine Griezmann in their Arsenal and talking of Arsenal, Oliver Giroud has had a very impressive tournament how Gunners fans would be wishing he was like that week in week out at The Emirates.

It’s fair to say that France finally clicked against Iceland but perhaps the opposition didn’t really test them all that much. That said after a five star performance their tails will certainly be up and they will have the belief that they can move onto their first major tournament final in 10 years.

For Germany there performance against Italy wasn’t one that will necessarily create fear in the French camp but they were pragmatic enough to get the result required.

They were at the tournament best when they strolled past Slovakia in the Round of 16 and for 45 minutes in the group stages ran Northern Ireland ragged although due to poor finishing the scoreline doesn’t reflect that.

The big question then who moved on to the final. On the basis of the two quarter final performances you would say France but that shouldn’t necessarily be the precursor to a prediction

Although I still think France have the stronger side and will be able to edge past the 2014 World Cup winners. France to move on to a home final while Germany sent packing.

If you are looking for content creators for your website and/or media outlet, then please drop me an email at realfootballmanwordpress@gmail.com and I'd be happy to discuss what opportunities you have. Thanks, Dan

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Ultimate Guide to the Bay of Plenty Wine Region

Bay of Plenty Wine History and Culture

If you travel around the Bay of Plenty area, you'll be able to enjoy its wine history at the same time as its general history. The main wineries are located just south of Thames and speckled along the Tauranga Harbor. In New Zealand's gold-digging past, the Thames was the place to be for mining. You can explore the past as you sip a glass of wine.

As far as vine history, there is evidence that the first grapevines in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty area were planted in 1903 in the area known as Te Kauwhata. Romeo Bragato, an Italian who migrated to the area to use his viniculture skills on the land, is said to have settled here because the landscape reminded him a little of Italy. Te Kauwhata is still recognized and celebrated as a special place in the country's grapevine history.

The Bay of Plenty area has taken steps to make sure that wine and wine culture are integrated into the lifestyle of the region. So they celebrate wine here with festivals and wine challenges. Mid-March marks the annual Tauranga Boutique Wine and Food Festival, where there are opportunities to sample wine varieties with a smorgasbord of food. New Zealand, specifically the North Island and Bay of Plenty region, participates in the Great Down Under Wine Challenge, unfortunately losing to Australia in the sixth annual event in August 2008 [source: Bay of Plenty New Zealand].

Read the next page to learn about how agriculture has shaped the Bay of Plenty wine region.

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Largest Nickel Pyramid

Record Broken!

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Largest Nickel Pyramid

United States David Jellison Jr.

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Redkey, Indiana, United States / June 8, 2011

David Jellison Jr. built a nickel triangle using 234 nickels.

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  • United States Pete Moyer

    Pete Moyer

    I'm proposing this is changed to triangle rather than pyramid. Thoughts?

  • United States Jenn Wark

    Jenn Wark

    This is a great category but the video is so dark. There's no evidence of the actual count there.

    • United States Krushrpants

      I'll get up an edited video later this evening. We did get evidence of the count beforehand in both pics and video. Also, given the structure, as each row goes down from the top, the number of nickels increases by 1 in that row (so for example, the top row is 1 nickel, the one below is 2, the next is 3, etc) - ours had 39 rows. 1+2+...+39=780

    • United States Jenn Wark

      Jenn Wark

      Thank you! Looking forward to seeing the new video.

  • United States David Jellison Jr.

    David Jellison Jr.

    thank you, ill send in a video within a few days, that way i should have a few more nickels. and break my own record.

  • Philippines Cyril Navidad

    Cyril Navidad

    Nice work, David.. but please submit a video evidence instead, for verification on the count. thanks.

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Rugby World Cup

12 Oct 2015

Red has been helping Samsung convert some great PR opportunities during the Rugby World Cup!

As the Official Partner of the Rugby Football Union, Samsung created The Samsung School of Rugby - a multi-platform initiative offering a light-hearted look at the game.  The campaign focuses on comedian Jack Whitehall being schooled in the sport by a who’s who of England rugby legends including Jason Leonard, Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson and Jason Robinson.

Red has co-ordinated a range of activities to bring the campaign to life including interviews with the campaign's brand ambassadors and partnering with YouTube influencers to create Samsung School of Rugby themed content. With more still to come, the team has already achieved a scrum of coverage and social media engagement!


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Quick Escape

Salt and mineral and a drive through health check took Vernon and I to the mountain pastures today.

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Nothing looked sick… just saw the pretty scenery… and had a quick escape to cooler temperatures!

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Researchers Estimate Worst-Case Worm Damage at $50 Billion

A pair of security researchers has tried to assess the worst case scenario for a worm attack on the United States targeting commonly used services in the ubiquitous Windows platform. The figure they came up with is $50 billion.

In a 12-page paper, titled "A Worst-Case Worm," Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson of the International Computer Science Institute dream up the worst, plausible worm they can think of and then try perform a crude calculation for how much damage it might cause. The purpose of the exercise is to size the potential damage in order to assess how seriously society should take -- and invest in -- the threat. ICSI is a non-profit research institute affiliated with nearby University of California at Berkeley.

The researchers assume a nation state seeking to maximize economic damage against U.S. businesses and government. They assume the nation state's resources include experienced programmers, access to large and diverse testing networks and months to develop and test the worm. "In our analysis, the main differences between an attacker with extensive resources, such as a nation state, and one with relatively limited resources, such as a terrorist group, is that the former can attain more 'zero day' (never-before-seen) exploits, and afford much more extensive testing," Weaver and Paxson write.

The authors contend their model does not require access to Windows source code. For anyone with doubts that experienced programmers can find "zero day" flaws without access to source code, look at all the security researchers who are regularly credited with discovering the flaws that Microsoft patches each month

For the paper, the researchers concocted a hypothetical worm exploiting the SMB/CIFS file sharing service, which is included in various forms in all Windows distributions since Windows 98. The hypothetical worm was also a blended threat -- with mailer worm and Web server exploitation features to help it spread across firewalls, a weakness of SMB/CIFS-targeting worms.

Where the paper begins to become frightening is when the authors discuss how a well-funded opponent seeking damage rather than glory could architect a worm to wipe out computer systems. The authors offer a credible scenario in which the worm could, in addition to corrupting random files and wiping disks, flash the BIOS. The authors reviewed manuals for seven popular BIOS systems and two motherboards and found that all were flashable by software in the default configuration.

Cutting to the chase, the authors arrived at their damage estimate: "We speculate that a plausible worst-case worm could cause $50 billion or more in direct economic damage by attacking widely-used services in Microsoft Windows and carrying a highly destructive payload," Weaver and Paxson write. In fact, that estimate comes with the authors' variables set at lower values. Slightly higher values in a table buried further in the report show potential damage of more than $100 billion.

All the values assume 50 million computers infected, a number the authors support with the fact that eight million infected systems contacted Windows Update for the Blaster removal tool. The Blaster worm was released almost a month after the underlying RPC vulnerability had been patched. Microsoft worked frantically during that intervening month to urge users to apply the patch.

The authors count only lost productivity, repair time, lost data and damage to systems in their estimate. "We exclude hard-to-estimate (and often grossly inflated) secondary losses and follow-on effects, and we also exclude possible impacts on critical infrastructure," Weaver and Paxson write. A third author of the paper, researcher Stuart Staniford, withdrew his name from the paper because he believed the authors lowballed potential damage.

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Paragliding: Stepping out of the Box

It was night time when a friend I came across in Austria known as the King of Salzburg, or V, mentioned that he was going to do a tandem flight on the next day that I got to thinking, “What is a tandem flight?” He explained that basically you go flying with an instructor for about 30 minutes and it is a great experience. I was hesitant from the beginning so I decided I would walk around Salzburg and explore the city on my own while he did the tandem flight. I was however eager to find out how it went.

We met later at the hostel we were staying at and he told me all about it. Running off a cliff, and having the wind pull you up even higher were things that did not sit too well with me. Again, I told him I would pass on it, to which he replied, “You only live once. You have to try to get out of your box, and go through different experiences… ones which you would not otherwise do. There is a wonderful opportunity here for you to do this, so try it.” He gave me the instructor’s card to call and book my appointment.  After much contemplating, I called and booked my spot.

The next day at noon, V and I drove with the instructor to an unbelievable height on the mountain. I went through the formalities, paid the required fee, and signed my life away: literally. All the while, V was laughing at my plight. I looked confident on the outside, but on the inside my heart was racing. I peered down at the town below and the mountains in the far distance, and said to myself, “If things go wrong, at least I went out trying something new.” And with that, my fear was temporarily conquered.

The instructor and I walked to one end of the mountain where you could see the city below and waited for the right amount of wind to come before making a push for it. Unfortunately it never came, so we went to another side of the mountain with nothing but trees below. I immediately asked the instructor if I could close my eyes as we ran off the cliff but he said no; it was even more dangerous doing so as I could trip and fall and put both of our lives at further risk. “You have to see where you are running to”, he said.  But in my mind, I sarcastically thought, “Both of our lives are already in danger.” With the right burst of wind, he counted to three and I ran as hard as I could, my heart rate racing, beating forcefully against my chest wall, and we jumped off the cliff. Right away the wind pulled us up even higher! After those initial seconds, there was a calm that floated around me. At that instance, I said to myself, “This is how a bird must feel;” for the world seemed so small at this elevation.

The flight was serene and peaceful. It was a new experience that I was glad to have tried for the first time. There is an even greater chance that I will do it again someday.  It was 30 minutes of my life that was not in any way wasted.

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U Brown keeps on jammin’

disc-3136-u-brown-meets-the-grinders-let--s-keep-on-jamminVeteran Jamaican deejay U Brown has teamed up with a number of French musicians, lead by producers Laurent “U-Man” Ugolini and Chalice Cooper, for his brand new set Let’s Keep On Jammin’.

The album showcases U Brown’s rhythmic and mesmerizing flow, as well as his not so fine-tuned singing, over a number of mostly live-played contemporary rub a dub riddims spiced with the usual dub and sound system sound effects.

He declares his love for reggae and praises Jah while riding the riddims and there are also plenty of references to the early days of dancehall – riddimwise, lyrically and melodically.

This set will definitely keep heads nodding and feet stomping for at least 50 minutes. Available now on CD and digital platforms.

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A prototype for a micro tree house office/art shed
November 19, 2012, 12:42 pm
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 Here’s a quick shot of another little something (without showing all of the rest of it just yet- not done!) that I’ve been working on- its another photo I forgot to add to my recent photo gallery post of all the stuff I’ve done over the last 3-4 years- nevermind all the other tiny house and shelter stuff I’ve build and designed over the last 20+ years…..

Locally, this is something I hope to build (a slightly more elaborate version) for people, writers, artists, nappers, and more, down the road- and affordably as well. These structures can easily adapt for tree use, ground use, and are so light weight, yet strong, that they could be built atop tiny travel trailers as well- even those mini harbor freight ones!

Yup, more stuff I’m building and designing, all leading up to another shelter, tiny house, fort, tree house, shack, playhouse, yurt book I’m working on. This will be the loose, very loose, follow-up to my book “Humble Homes, Simple Shacks”– pretty wildly different in many ways though.

-Derek “Deek” Diedricksen

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This is absolutely fabulous Derek! Can't wait to see the finished product!!

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Definitely needs more voodoo owl. Oomamcheba! Oomamcheba!

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Hoopajoo…. one voodoo owl comin' up!

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Birth centenary of national artists featured on Philippine stamps

Six prominent national artists of the country was the main feature of the stamps issued by the Philippine Postal Corporation last December 13, 2017.

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The stamps featured Mr. Ceasar Legaspi ( national artists for visual arts) , Daisy Abellena ( national artists for film and theater ), Jose Maceda ( national artists for music) , Leonor Orosa Goquingco ( national artists for dance) , Wilfrido Maria Guerrero ( national artists for theater ) and Mr. Nick Joaquin ( national artists for literature)

Technical Description

Kind of Issue : Commemorative

Denomination & Quantity : P12 – – – 50,000/Design

Date of Issue : December 13, 2017

Last Day of Sale : December 12, 2018

Size of Stamps : 30mm x 40mm

Sheet Composition : 40 (10 x 4)/Design

Perforation : 14

Printing Process : Litho Offset (4 colors)

Paper : Imported Unwatermarked

Printer : Amstar Company, Inc.

Designer : Victorino Z. Serevo

Designs : Portrait of the six National Artists

A Selection of Stamps from Thailand

A good friend  gave a come mint stamps from Thailand . He is a low profile person and would like to keep this a secret .

different kinds of flowering plants and plants from Thailand

The First set on top which composed of 4 stamps were issued in 1984 to commemorate international letter writing week .

Second set was issued in 1985 composed of 4 stamps  to commemorate international letter writing week .

Third Set was issued in 1999 to commemorate international letter writing week

Fourth Set was issued in 2001 which commemorates international letter writing week ( medicinal plants)

I would like to ” Thank ” this person who gave me this wonderful set of Thai stamps . This is an early birthday gift for me . Maraming Salamat Po !

Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II stamps issued by PHLPOST: IT’S MORE EXPENSIVE in the Philippines !

Manila Central Post Office , Liwasang Bonifacio, Ermita, Manila -Philippines

Pope John Paul II stamp issued by PHLPOST

The twin canonization is seen by Vatican watchers as an attempt to breach a traditional left-right divide in the Church.

As the Vatican welcomes pilgrims from all over the world to witness the ceremony, relics and images are being shown in the Philippines for those who couldn’t make it to Vatican.

Pope John XXIII stamp issued by PHLPOST

Observation from Some Stamp Collectors:

The double stamp issuance of PHLPOST is a big marketing strategy targeting stamp collectors, memorabilia collectors, the big Catholic community around the Philippines and the rest of the world.  Philippines is the largest Catholic country in Asia with at least 81% or close to 82 million Filipinos that are Catholics. The souvenir sheet that goes with the circular stamp is measured at 105 mm X 70 mm while the Stamps at 38 mm in size. Graphic designer and In-house layout artist Mr.Jose Antonio Jayme designed the canonization stamps.

stamp issuance by Vatican City

These guys will be like Eur 0.85 x 6 pieces =  Eur 5.10 or Php 314.6088

This is far cry from the Philippine stamp issuance.

The stamp issuance is quite low for a population of 103 million ! Issuing a limited quantity stamps 5,000 pieces for Pope John XXIII and 10,000 pieces for Pope John Paul II seems very small.  This is one problem, There are people who speculate on the stamp issuance. Buying them at face value and selling them several times the original value. The stamp speculator will rake in huge profits but at the expense of the ordinary stamp collectors which had to cough in over Php 200 pesos ! Do not expect them to sell those stamps at Php 200 since they are being sold by PHLPost at face value! LOL

Pope John XXIII just costs Euro 0.70 or Php 43.18

Another point, What is the PHLPOST target market? It seems that they did not know that in the social media era and in the technological age of the 21st century,  There are still more than 5,000 stamp collectors in the Philippines. So why issue a crazy low quantity issuance of 5,000 pieces , When they can print 50,000 ? and make the printing cost even lesser  and even the prices? I have relatives and friends that were into printing and the cost of printing is far lower if they opt to print 50,000 ( larger quantity )  printing cost is also almost the same as 5,000 pieces? I think with proper information dissemination thru all media contacts ( which also includes bloggers , social media etc.. ) 50,000 pieces is just peanuts! Are they afraid of over stocking ? They have not evenly properly distribute those stamp in the major major post offices nationwide and their online website is still lags miles behind some other private websites which is raking in profits at the expense of other collectors which do not have access to Philippine stamps.

Euro 2 is just equivalent to Php 123.37

Another point raise by a blogger friend (who also collects stamps), If their target market are the foreign collectors. Then,  they are also into a BIG Surprise ! Foreign memorabilia collectors usually make researches and comparison to all the countries which issues stamps to commemorate an event ( We stamp collectors call this type of stamp collecting – Omnibus stamp or Omnibus memorabilia collection )

What is an Omnibus issuance?  It an issue of stamps by several countries with a common subject and which may share a uniform design. Omnibus issues have often been made by countries under common political control or groups of colonies due to the close co-operation required to produce the issue. Omnibus issues are to be distinguished from join tissues which are usually much smaller in scope. Or an Omnibus issuance is an issuance of stamps or collectible items which countries have similar events in  like Olympics , Canonization Process, Queen’s Birthday , Commonwealth Games, Royal Marriages etc…

Then those countries will issue commemorative items that will highlight the event.

Euro 1.90 and Euro 2.50- both stamps cost Php 209.73

Pricing :

The Php 200 per stamp  for Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II got a mix- review from stamp collectors which collects stamps on a worldwide basis.  Php 200 might be cheap for some collectors , BUT it pales in comparison with Vatican City or even Italian stamps! Pricing Wise. Even with the so- called special features falls in sharp contrast with other stamp producing countries. Php 200 is equivalent to about $ 4.48 ( April 28, 2014 exchange rate) . I must remind the Stamp Advisory Committee members, PHLPOST employees involve with the stamp design , Philatelic section, Postage and Metered Services section , Marketing Department. That stamp collecting must be enjoyed by everyone and not by the rich, powerful, the stamp speculators, stamp dealers .  BUT more importantly , stamp collecting must be enjoyed by the students and younger generations whom shall  carry the torch of next generation of stamp collecting !!!! .   I have made a short and quick random survey among top stamp collecting schools ( at least 20 private and public schools) And many school children and even young adults were really dismayed over the Php 200 per stamp issuance. They have to cough in Php 400 Pesos just to buy the 2 sets of stamps.  First Day Covers is not yet included ? HUH

Issuing high value stamps  is not the solution to rake in profit, I must say it is just for short term only .  Remember that the mandate of Post Office during the Spanish , American and Early Republic is to serve the PUBLIC? Badageros , Kartero or Mailman would volunteer their time, efforts and services for the sake of mail deliveries even in wee hours of the night?

Then why not sell those stamps at Php 10 or Php 40 per piece? It is more logical since we can send more of these stamps to our penpals in the provinces and in other countries . I am sure that other ASEAN countries Like Thailand, Singapore , Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia , Indonesia , Myanmar had better stamp design, embellishments ( gold foil etc….) and BETTER pricing . If those countries can sell their stamps at a low price with better designs, Why not the Philippines ? . We must also remind PHLPOST that they are not  just competing with the ordinary domestic market but they are competing with 200 plus countries and territories .  In the end, I am also buying stamps in Italy and Vatican but i am also buying just a copy or so of the Philippine stamps just for comparison purposes. But i do not expect to buy more than the usual purchase that i have done in the past .

In the end, rising stamp prices will make some stamp speculators very happy but not the general stamp collectors around the world which are not very happy with the so call new innovations . ( I must say what PHLPOST new innovation in Philippine stamps is commendable but the so call new embellishments  in the designs , they are not so new in the international stamp issuance !) LOL.

The stamp just costs Eur.0.85 or Php 52.33

 The more they keep on issuing low quantity stamps with high denomination  face value , This will keep stamp collectors just admiring them and probably a few sales will materialize.  I must say that stamp collecting in the Philippines is not longer ” MORE FUN” but ” IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE” to collect Philippine stamps . For this issuance we must say ” IT IS MORE FUN COLLECTING VATICAN Stamps” than Philippines Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II stamps.

Pasensiya nlng po at madami kaming kilala taga Vatican City and Italy .  One stamp club based in Quezon City area ordered several sets of Pope John Paul II stamps in Vatican City and they also got a FREE shipping with FREE leaflets too !!!!!

 Vatican City Post Office: http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/struttura-del-governatorato/ufficio-filatelico-e-numismatico.html

PHLPOST: https://www.phlpost.gov.ph/

Poste Italiane: http://www.posteitaliane

Winners of PhilPEX 2012

A: Postal History                                   Exhibitor                          Award

1. China- Pre- UPU 1778-1872           MR. Robert Tan                 Gold

2. Postal History of the Philippine – Cordillera Mr. Dojie Lutera  Vermiel

B. Traditional Philately                           Exhibitor                               Award

1. Philippines – Pre Philatelic era            Mr. Robert Tan                          Gold

2. Philippines – Japanese Occupation  Mr. Robert Tan                      Large Vermiel

3. Philippines slogans                                 Mr. Hans Becker                   Large Vermiel

4. Philippine Postal system under Japanese Mr. Roberto Jacinto      Vermiel

5. Postage of the Phil. under the Spanish Dominion C.H. Severino D. Bajar M.D. Vermiel

6. Phil. Paquebot markings under the US admin . Mr. Reynaldo Ong de Jesus  Vermiel

7. Phil. Postal System under the US Administration Mr. Roberto Jacinto   Silver

C. Thematic Philately                       Exhibitor                                    Award

1. Hologram                                         Mr. Nilo Dizon                                Large Vermiel

2. Philatelic Terms using Worldwide Birds  Mrs. Paulina Calinawan        Silver

3. Engineering and Architectural Structures   Ms. Ligaya Callejo              Silver

4. Stamp Collecting . The Hobby of A Lifetime  Ms.  Rebecca Go                Silver

5. Painting of the Renaissance Period           Mr. Rouel R. Sevelleno          Silver

6. Jose Rizal                                                             Mr. Allan Mirhan                      Silver

7. Extra Ordinary Stamps                          Mr. Jerson Danseco              Silver- Bronze

8. Pope Benedict XVI                                Msgr. Ramon Tiama                Silver – Bronze

9. Joint Issues                                              Mr.  Gero Zyo Danseco           Silver- Bronze

10. Blessed John Paul 2 . Making of a Saint  Ms. Penafrancia Ruiz   Silver- Bronze

11. Living Animals                                 Mr. Max Dexter Go                     Silver- Bronze

12. The History of Painting              Ms. Penafrancia Ruiz                    Silver-Bronze

13. World War II in the Philippines Mr. Allan Mirhan                        Silver- Bronze

14. Philippine Educational System  Ms. Eden Sepagan                       Silver- Bronze

15. Pass the Message                           Ms. Maria Lourdes Watiwat     Silver-Bronze

16. Transport Machines                   Ms. Aurora Malundas                  Silver-Bronze

17. President  Manuel L. Quezon Commonwealth & Republic Issues

( Quezon Philatelic Society )        Bronze

18. Agrikultura , Pangisdaan at Bundok   Mr. Guillermo James Argosino  Bronze

19.  Philippines -Unique Nation   Mr. Norberto Hererra                        Bronze

20. Mga Bayani at Dakilang Pilipino       Guillermo James Argosino    Bronze

21. Philippine Birds                      Mrs. Paulina Calinawan                            Bronze

22. Friends Never Die , They Just Pass Away   Mr. Dionisio Taeza     Bronze

23. Quezon , Philatelically           Msgr. Ramon Tiama                                Bronze

24. Vertebrate Diversity             Mr. Gary Rosales                               Certificate

25. Chinese Zodiac                     Ms. Leslie Tanengsy-Uy Matiao   Certificate

26. Olympic Games                    Mr. Allan Bennet Uy- Matiao         Certificate

27. Philippine Culture               Mr. Allan Bennet Uy- Matiao        Certificate

D. Youth Philately

1.  The World of Music       Ms. Reena de Jesus                                       Vermiel

2. Outer Space -Link for Mankind         Mr. Rainier de Jesus             Silver

3. The Time Giants Ruled the World   Ms. Joanna Argosino            Silver

4. It’s Cat Meow                        Ms. Collie Marquez                                    Silver

5. Tropical Butterfly                Jally Marquez                                             Silver

6. A Story in Stamps             Mr.  Chris Brandon Go                                Silver- Bronze

7. The Summer Olympic Games  Mr. Chris Brandon Go                     Silver – Bronze

Melchora Aquino Bi-centennial celebrations

Melchora Aquino or more popularly called Tandang Sora is said to be the mother of Katipunan . Part of the citywide celebration is that the body of the heroine will be transferred from her final resting place to be transferred to the  Tandang Sora shrine located at Banlat in Quezon City.

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On January 5, Tandang Sora’s remains will be exhumed and placed in a flag-draped casket that will be carried by a horse-drawn carriage during a funeral procession from the Himlayang Pilipino to Quezon City Hall.

Military and police personnel will provide escort assistance during the funeral procession.

banner of the event

There will be a funeral ceremony within the city hall compound  where people will have the opportunity to offer their final respects to Tandang Sora, who has been recognized for her exceptional heroic contributions in the struggle for Philippine independence and liberation despite her advanced age.

City hall officials will be joined by descendants of Tandang Sora, especially officers and members of the “Mga Apo ni Melchora (Tandang Sora) Aquino Association Inc., in welcoming the heroine’s remains.

An overnight vigil will also be held at QC Hall hosted by the cultural and tourism affairs office, office for senior citizens affairs, scholarship and youth development program, general services department and the Liga ng mga Barangay.

On January 6, the 200th birthday of Tandang Sora, a memorial mass in honor of heroine will be held 8:00 am at the QC Hall before her remains will be finally transferred to the Tandang Sora shrine for re-interment.

Tandang Sora’s remains will also be carried by a horse-drawn carriage during a funeral procession, this time, from QC Hall to the Tandang Sora shrine.

Tandang Sora100 peso- bill (image taken from philmoney.blogspot.com)

Tandang Sora was featured in local Philippine paper bills, 5 centavo coin and stamps.

1969: Melchora “Tandang Sora” Aquino – Melchora Aquino, 50th Death Anniversary; Set of 3 stamps

(images taken from alexmoises.tripod.com)

“5 Sentimo” coins

( taken from papercoinage‘s website)

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Stamp Collecting – It’s More Fun in the Philippines!

 Manila, Philippines

The Philippine Philatelic Federation in partnership with the  Philippine Postal Corporation together with Chinese Philatelic Club of the Philippines (CPCP),  Cebu Philatelic Society ( CPS), Filipinas Stamp Collectors’ Club ( FSCC) , International Philippine Philatelic Society (IPPS), Quezon Philatelic Society (QPS) , Naga Philatelic Society and other guest stamp clubs from across the country will mount this year’s biggest stamp show  dubbed as PHILPEX 2012 .

Poster of  PHILPEX 2012 National Stamp Exhibition and Competition

   The event will be held from January 24 to February 3, 2012 at the Philippine Postal Corporation main lobby, which will be joined by various stamp organizations all over the country. The stamp will feature our annual exhibit that will comprise of past winning entries of Federation of Inter-Asian Philately (FIAP) International Stamp Exhibition , Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) and will stage a national competition. Winners of this event will represent the country in various international stamp competitions for 2012 to 2013.

The opening  ceremonies will be on January 24,2012 at 9:30 am in the  Philippine Postal Corporation main lobby within Liwasang Bonifacio, Ermita, Manila

The Theme of the event is “ Knowledge and Fun through Stamp Collecting” which targeted the general public. Stamp collecting can enrich one person’s knowledge through learning their country, history, culture, arts, heritage, nature, and industries among others.

The exhibition will run from January 24 to February 3, 2012 at the lobby of the Philippine Postal Corporation Building in Liwasang Bonifacio 1000 Manila.

In line with this event, a Special FREE Guided Exhibition tour within the site will be conducted by Postal Heritage Tour guru Mr. Lawrence Chan on January 28, 2012 SATURDAY 9:00 am to 12:00 noon and another one from 1:00pm to 3:00pm  for more information and booking for this special tour please contact  :

Email: L_rence_2003@yahoo.com  or  mobile: (0919=3901671)

For more information about the event, please contact the Philippine Philatelic Federation secretary Mrs. Josefina T. Cura at 735-5001 / 0917-9800708.

Media Partners Included: Philpost media website, National Broadcasting Network channel 4, Tulay forthnightly newspaper, People’s Tonight, People’s Journal, UNTV cahnnel 37, sonshine television channel 39, Buy and Sell newspaper among others.

26th South East Asian Games Stamps -Palembang

STATE-owned postal firm PT Pos Indonesia has launched a series of 26th South East Asian Games stamps as part of the national effort to celebrate the biennial competition, which runs from Nov 11 to 22, 2011.

“It is a good step to making the Games successful. The series of stamps will be a great promotion,” South Sumatra Governor Alex Noerdin said during the launch in Palembang .

According to Muddai Madang the Palembang SEA Games organizer said that the Games stamps would boost the events popularity.

“We hope that the stamps will be distributed nationwide, even to remote areas, so the fiesta atmosphere of the Games can be experienced by all Indonesians,” Muddai said.

Pos Indonesia will print 7,000 stamps in six series of the Games stamps, which are Selamat Datang di Jakarta (Welcome to Jakarta), Selamat Datang di Palembang (Welcome to Palembang), table tennis, badminton, football and pencak silat traditional martial arts.

Modo and Modi are mascot of the games which symbolizes the Komodo dragon.

The mascot of SEA Games 2011 is an animal of Indonesia almost gone. The mascot is komodo (Varanus komodoensis).

Modo and Modi wear traditional costume of Indonesia. Modo (male) wears blue blouse with batik scarf. Whereas Modi (female) wears red kebaya (traditional woman blouse) with batik scarf.

Name of Modo and Modi, actually is spelling modification of words ‘muda-mudi’. Words muda and mudi are from words pemuda (young man) and pemudi (young woman). It symbolized that athletes compete in SEA Games are the young.

Modo and Modi have good characters. Their characters are: hard worker, honest, fair, familiar, friendly and sportive. The good characters of Modo and Modi are a hope in order cooperation and friendship in harmony among 11 participant countries of Souteast Asia can be continued eternally.

Each stamp is priced at Rp 2,500 and available to the public at all post offices across the country since last week until Dec 31, 2014.

The Games series stamps are valid until Dec 31, 2016.

Website: http://www.posindonesia.co.id/


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Heel Update

I don't see my doctor again for another couple of weeks, but I thought I'd post about something other than my freakin' abs! Despite recent appearances, this is indeed a running-related blog, so here's wazzup regarding my injured heel.

I've been doing stationary cycling almost exclusively for my cardio training (along with weights, of course). Obviously no running yet, and not much walking, either (although I could do more walking than I do). Overall, my heel has responded well. But I've noticed a pattern. I occasionally get a dull ache in the injured area. It seems to happen after I've been wearing shoes for an extended period of time. Being that I work at home, I wear slippers around the house, which don't put any pressure on my heel. However, my regular tennis shoes, and even my running shoes when I've worn them somewhere, cause my heel to ache for sometimes a day or two afterward.

During one of my doctor visits, my doc commented that I probably wasn't a good candidate for Vibram 5-finger shoes. Given how regular shoes seem to aggravate my heel, I'm starting to wonder if he might be wrong. Biomechanically, I may have some issues...but if this permanent heel bump causes aggravation to my Achilles while wearing normal shoes, who knows? I may have to save up & give the VFFs a shot. Initially, I would just wear them around the house to see how my heel & Achilles responds, compared to my regular shoes.

1 comment:

  1. Nope, I agree with your Doc. The VFFs employ a relatively tight band which feels tight even on my non-sensitized Achilles. While the band is adjustable by the runner, it nevertheless has to be somewhat taught so-as to prevent he shoe from sliding off. Easiest proof is to stop by your specialty running store and ask if you can wear a pair for 30-minutes to an hour. During this time walk and jog as much as you practically can; I suspect however that you're going to be somewhat unhappy.

    Sorry to hear that your heel is still sensitive despite not running for as long as you've done. I'd accelerate your forthcoming doctor's visit, as I expect he'll recommend escalation in your treatment. Good luck!


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Natural Healing Energy redesigned. Use of lots of large images with various effects such as parallax scroll and a minimizing header.

Santa's Workshop, North Pole, Colorado 2017 redesign. There's a thumbnail of the old site below in the right column. Once again bringing Santa's Workshop into contemporary design. This site is mobile first design. Clean and simple navigation. It's a terrific foundation for growth and scalability.

Monarch Community Outreachmco screen shot is mostly a brochure site designed to allow the MCO board to take back control of its own content. Branded to compliment the corporate site below, this site can easily be scaled to accommodate all their future needs, including the administrative needs of their board of directors and enhance fund raising efforts.

Mountain Spirit Winery

Mountain Spirit Winery is a full e-commerce responsive site selling wines, gifts, and club memberships. It has it's own shopping cart and inventory system that allows the owners to keep all their products updated.

PowderPlace Monarch Mountain Intranet

Powderplace serves as an intranet for Monarch Mountain. It is a closed site accessible by employees only. It serves as an employee information portal.

Monarch Mountain, LLC

monarchscreenshot is a modern responsive site utilizing a highly customized WordPress install. This site enables in-house marketing a high level of content creation and site management.

Twisted Cork Cafe

The Twisted Cork website is a simple and direct responsive restaurant site. It enables users to book reservations and see a menu. The menu is fully managed in the backend to keep the site updated.

Wes Hill Real Estate

weshillThe Wes Hill Real Estate responsive website is fully integrated with the local MLS so when agents add listings to the MLS it automatically updates the site. Users do not need to go off site to search the MLS listings. Users that show interest in a property will automatically notify staff. This site saves office administration tons of time that used to be done maintaining their old site.

Santa's Workshop, North Pole, Colorado

santasOne of my longest client relationships is Santa's Workshop. I've continued to maintained and have redesigned their site a number of times since 1995.

Olympic Memorabilia Catalog/Auction

Ingrid O'Neil, sells Olympic memorabilia from her website. We revamped this site and continue to maintain it. Ingrid O'Neil is the name when it comes to Olympic memoribilia.

Six-Day Bicycle Race Book Sales

Six-Day Bicycle Race A brochure site providing information about a new book and DVD about six-day bicycle racing in America. Simple, elegant design with streaming video.

Ancient and Past Sites

All the sites below were built from scratch using tools of the day (DreamWeaver, Expressions Web, FrontPage, Mad Dog HTML Editor, Text Editor). To build a website back in those days it was one man many tools. Now-a-days it's more like many contributors, each with their own specific tool.

Santa's Workshop, North Pole, Colorado

Santa's Workshop, North Pole, Colorado wanted their site redesigned after more than seven years of use. Their new site focuses on making tourists want to visit the theme park. Makes use of drop down menus, forms, coupons, interactive facilities maps, and animated gifs. Careful attention was made to emulate other new promotional materials.

Above All Home Inspections

Above All Home Inspections, LLC Awesome home inspection site in the high country. Graphic elements were well thought out. A very good looking site based on the fundamental information.

Above All was redesigned from a previous project I did that looked like this:

Susan McMillan Real Estate Agent

Pinon Real Estate Individualized Agent Site This site provides individualized information for an agent working for a real estate company.

Cartwright Professional Photography

Carol Cartwright Photography needed a redesign to update a 5 year old website. This simple and elegant site highlights her fine art photography and is enabled with simple e-commerce. Images here are well worth their cost.

Santa's Souvenir eCommerce Online Shopping

Santa's Souvenirs Simple e-commerce site selling items from Santa's Workshop.

Certify to Success

Certify To Success, Inc. is a small consulting firm specializing in helping women and minorities to become certified and then marketed to gain valuable government contracts. This site is currently under construction.

Florida College Alumni Chorus

Florida College Alumni Chorus This site sells its music CDs it has produced since 1993 using PayPal as its transaction facilitator.

The 119 Network

The 119 Network is the volunteer arm of International Bible Society. They wanted an unusual artsy site.

Dascha Music Publications

Dascha Publications produces music used in elementary school education. This site has clips of music and provides a means to acquire the scores.

ASI, Inc. Security Services

Abila Security An economical and professional site has helped this small security company compete and land important contracts.

Knotty Moon Fine Wood Productsknottymoon

Kugizaki Design owns Knotty Moon Designs. Here are displays of some nocturnal fine art woodworking projects.

Kids Crossing

Kids Crossing, Inc. helps foster children and foster parents.

Arizona Total Immersion

Arizona Total Immersion is a start up teaching American Sign Language in Arizona. This site is being built in stages as the company grows.

Myra Tovey Healing

Myra Tovey uses her site to talk about healing and heart centered touch. It lists schedules that use simple content management for the proprietor can simply change and update specific information on the site.

Peak Materials, Inc.

Peak Materials, Inc. sells a high end metal-organic oxide chemical vapor disposition system. This Web site is helping to communicate with their market and explain their company.

International Bible Society Foundation

International Bible Society Foundation uses their website to create an easy means for people to donate money or bequests. They wanted professional and trustworthy.

trackbikes is just a playful site devoted to a couple of very special young people.

Headwaters Expeditions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization work.

Mini Mansions

Mini Mansions needed a web site to make their rental properties available to everyone around the world. This site is listed well on search engines and special vacation rental sites.

R1100S Goodies

Kugizaki Design owns R1100S Goodies that is very active in facilitating the sale of some cool part for the BMW motorcycle.

Fluke Technologies

Fluke Technologies wished to better position themselves in the highly competitive electronic test and measurement product industry. We provided search engine optimization services that greatly improved their position on search engines, particularly on Google on their US site.

Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (See résumé)
My two years spent with Agilent, a spin off of Hewlett Packard, involved a huge amount of work on intranets for two major divisions of the company. We consolidated numerous grass roots websites and combined the information into a useful centralized source of information, particularly for the field sales forces and internal departments. These sites cannot be shown here as they are only accessible by authorized personnel.

Carmichael Training Systems

Chris Carmichael Training Systems offers their services to elite level cyclists through their web site. Chris Carmichael is the coach for Lance Armstrong. Their catchy domain name,, appeals to their main audience. The site includes an online bookstore in association with

Community Partnership for Child Development

Community Partnership for Child Development was built with the idea of creating a site that could be easily maintained by their current staff. This site has become an  instrumental tool for the CPCD. was launched in a very short period of time and has complete, secure e-commerce functionality for 1000s of products at the time of this writing. easily expects over 5000 products on their site very soon. This site was featured on public television.

Pikes Peak Community Foundation

Pikes Peak Community Foundation had me set up this site to receive charitable donations in the Pikes Peak region. This contains a unique application of e-commerce with site security.

Airhead Airbrush

Airhead Airbrush This individual just wanted to implement another channel for selling airbrushes and his airbrush artwork and airbrush services. He already had a successful retail store in a mall setting in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After his site was launched it became so successful that he chose to close down his physical store and conduct his business exclusively on the Web. He has since moved to Florida and continues to operate his business exclusively online. Our intent was to build a site that could be easily maintained by the proprietor himself. We feel that part of the success of this site was its narrow focus. He has even branched off into hosting websites for other art disciplines. He just went nuts! Perhaps it was the paints that did it to him.

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

One of our original web clients, American Academy of Forensic Sciences is finding that their site is taking on a life of its own where the forensic community has become very active.

Lone Wolf Industries

Lone Wolf Industries sold rustic furniture. National ad campaigns and promotional materials contained information about their web site. The site brought orders in from all over the country.

American Volleyball Coaches Association

American Volleyball Coaches Association is using their site to do many association related business functions that used to require extra staff to perform. This is a very active site.

Davis Family Association

The Davis Family Association, Inc. site provides a historical and genealogical resource. Visitors will find a wealth of interesting Civil War facts and pictures about the Confederate president as well as genealogy charts.

Rusinak Real Estate

Rusinak Real Estate, Inc. has kept up its competitive edge by establishing its web presence early in the real estate arena. This site uses a great deal of pulled in content.

Tucker Industries

Tucker Industries, Inc. sold burn protection products in the kitchen industry. This was a very functional site built using frames technology.

Inca Arts

Inca Arts was a two pronged site containing South American hand crafts and tours. I came in to complete this project that had stalled by previous developers.

Innervision Studios

Innervision Studios was a photography studio that specialized in automobile and motorcycle calendars. I created this low cost site to promote their Street Rod/Swimsuit edition.

Vintage Locator

This gentleman often wished he could deal in vintage automobiles,  so we created a web for him called Vintage Locator. It turned into an online community listing automobiles by updating a database.

Colorado Springs Youth Cycling League

Colorado Springs Youth Cycling League allows us to build their website as a community service. It allows for program sign-up and provides information regarding the Youth Cycling League.

El Pomar Youth in Community Service

El Pomar Youth in Community Service contains numerous forms designed to allow
high schools participating in the program to submit all necessary data. High schools have special access verified with usernames and passwords, but information intended for the general public is available.

Design Benefits Travel Packages

Design Benefits sells travel packages. There were some cool pictures here and very efficient navigation. Unfortunately it no longer exists.

The Bondurant Family Association

The Bondurant Family Association, had us redesign and build them a new site for their family association for not much money. This is a surprisingly active site.