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The life of a Monk? 25 September 2013

Up at 5.30 frosty, loading cold and stiff bags into the back of the truck and then off to Tim Horton’s in Williams Lake for coffee and a wireless connection – it all seems so normal again. We have to meet up with the rest of the crew and get back to the normal life we all had previously. But just how do I do that? If I am cold, where is the wood for the fire and the hot stones to warm me; where are the dry leaves to cushion my bed. Where are the fish to catch and where is the water to drink. There is no wood anymore, just paper – and pens to write our applications for electricity to power the storage heaters. There are king-sized divans and Land of Leather sofas; frozen farmed salmon and fish fingers. And pipes, thousands of miles of pipes dug into the Earth to deliver water; and all manner of other chemicals. How do I make sense of all this now?

And where is the humanity; the connection; the tribe? There is no one tribe here; there are arbitrary groups of people gathering together for scheduled moments to imitate a real family. People passing through for a coffee and a fix of togetherness. The crew, the canoe family, although still high on the natural experience we have share, all seem a little lost in their own impending worlds. We are surrounded by a complex and interwoven complexity – a twisted intricacy of conflicting desires. Surely we all desire warmth, food, and shelter. Why do we make things so complex in our search for these simple things? Or is it that we are subdued into a complacent acceptance that these simple needs cannot be simply met.

Dare I believe that I could find a spot of un-civilization where I could find the simple solutions without being moved on for vagrancy or persecuted by bureaucrats? No, I doubt it.

Perhaps I am meant, by whatever power is guiding my present change of mind, to simply reintegrate into society somehow and find my feet and continue to follow the status quo. No, I doubt that too.

I do, however, feel a greater confidence in my own voice; and a surge of insurgency armed with my new connection with the Earth. I feel a greater connection with others and their painful disconnection from the naturalness of our species. I also feel the weight of the overwhelming mass of humanity and its detrimental effect on the Earth.

What to do about this? Think I’ll join a monastery… well, perhaps not yet.

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Dior Le Vernis Sailor

Dior Le Vernis Sailor is one of three shades in the new limited edition Voyage Transatlantique collection. I have heard this was a Saks only collection but I just bought it at Nordstrom, so that’s obviously not true!

This was color I knew I needed to own as soon as I started seeing swatches of it. It’s just a perfect, rich, bright, intense blue. No way I could pass it up.

The color doesn’t come by itself though, like I was expecting. It comes in a little box with a set of clear “CD” nail stickers and a nail file. Unfortunately the stickers didn’t really work that great because they are a little thick and don’t lie completely flat on my rather curved nails. But it’s a cute idea anyway.

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Dior Vernis Amazonia Swatches & Review

Dior Vernis Amazonia

Dior Amazonia is oldish, I believe it came out last fall, but somehow it wasn’t on my radar so I recently picked it up.

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Dior Vernis Les Violets Hypnotiques for Fall 2012 Swatches, Photos & Review

Dior Vernis Les Violets Hypnotiques

New this fall from Dior is a collection of purple Vernis called Les Violets Hypnotiques.

This collection is limited edition and exclusive to Nordstrom (at least in the US). It contains three new purple shades: two shimmers and a creme.

Something about Dior polishes can be irresistible to me, even more so than Chanel. I don’t love the brushes (super wide), don’t love how small they are and definitely don’t love the price. BUT I find myself gravitating towards them season after season. Especially during the fall…

The three shades are: Shadow, Poison and Orchid (a plum creme which I didn’t purchase).

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Dior Vernis Waterlily Swatches, Photos & Review

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Dior Waterlily is a gorgeous new limited edition pale green nail lacquer from their spring collection called Garden Party.

For me this was kind of a must-have color. I missed out on Chanel Jade long ago, and while this isn’t a dupe from what I gather, it’s an utterly beautiful shimmery green and totally perfect for spring.

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Dior Les Rouges Or Holiday 2011 Vernis Swatches, Photos & Review

Dior Les Rouges Or Holiday 2011

Dior has included four nail lacquers in their Les Rouges Or Holiday 2011 Collection, all which include a bit of gold in them.

The story of Dior and Gold is a long one, with its origins in the very sound of the name – Dior. This fact did not escape Jean Cocteau who said, “Dior, this airy genius of our times whose magical name includes that of God (Dieu) and Gold (or).” Rigour combined with excess: it was a prophetic name. From his first couture collections at the end of the 1940s, Christian Dior toyed with gold as the ultimate symbol of true luxury and dreams, as seen in his 1947 ―Champagne gold – silk Aladdin gown, in the 1949 – Pactole gown and so on.

Gold was synonymous with refinement, also appearing as a delicate highlighting touch on perfume bottles and the first lipsticks. Thus, the fascination with gold has continued over the decades. In whichever way it is used, gold is always symbolic of a doorway into a dream. And today the House of Dior is inviting us to a new enchanted experience with a flamboyant collection created by Tyen, where the colour gold provides the setting for Dior’s emblematic Rouge Dior lipcolors and Vernis nail varnishes. Gold reveals the potency of their shades, and like gold powder thrown into crystal fusion to colour it red, gold equals refinement; it glimmers with luxury.

The shades include Or Divin (221), Exquis (611), Mervielle (651) and Apparat (871). It’s my understanding that only Or Divin (which is a gold shade) is limited edition, but I’m not positive.

The only two that really called my name were Exquis and Apparat, so I picked them up and am sure happy I did!

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The days of fighting lines and crowds at grocery stores are a thing of the past with, an online grocery shopping and delivery service with service throughout Vancouver, Whistler and the Lower Mainland.

An acronym for "Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery," provides sustainable, local and organic produce, dairy, baked goods, meat and seafood -- and everything else available at a regular "brick and mortar" grocery store.’s easy-to-navigate website provides a similar shopping experience as going to your local grocery store, only instead of walking down aisles you’re clicking through product categories. The difference is that you’ll spend way less time browsing online than you would walking aimlessly down different aisles looking for what you need at a physical location.

Shopping online means you can search instantly for the product you want without having to track down a service rep or search aisle by aisle, and if you forget something on your list you don’t need to walk from one end of the store to the other.

You can create and save shopping lists, add ingredients from recipes directly into your cart, and create standing orders that get delivered automatically to your door each week. Perhaps the greatest advantage to a grocery delivery service is that you won’t be tempted to make impulse buys, saving you money and making it easier to eat healthy! has a mission to provide consumers a more sustainable way to buy groceries; connecting communities with local farmers and food producers.

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Why Do Only Whites Lose Jobs Over Racial Remarks?

In his 1993 book Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, the late Sam Francis wrote, “the practice of ruining a white person once a year in honor of Dr. [Martin Luther] King is becoming a national tradition.” Sam, who would soon become one of those ruined white persons, mentioned the well-known cases of Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder and Al Campanis, who lost jobs for their theories about blacks and sports. He also described the 1986 case of a Maryland school teacher who was suspended (though not fired in those lax days) for telling someone in a private conversation (correctly) that King was a communist sympathizer.

The pace of ruining white people for allegedly racist remarks has picked up in the last 15 years – and even in the three years since Sam passed on.

As Don Imus, James Watson, Michael Richards, Dave Seanor (former Golfweek editor) and Kelly Tilghman (Golf Channel anchor) can attest, the practice is now much more common than once a year.

Whites on the hard-right and (especially) the race-realist right have long lost jobs or appointments over their racial views or remarks. A brief list would include Mel Bradford, Sam Francis, Chris Brand, Andrew Fraser, Kevin Lamb and Frank Ellis. Academics such as Michael Levin, Philippe Rushton, and the late Glayde Whitney were harassed for their scholarly work on race but managed to keep their jobs because of tenure.

Of course, many would argue that racialists (if they are white) and those on the hard right are repellent and deserve to lose their jobs.

But events of the last several years prove that whites can become a victim if they express forbidden views or make a racial joke. Actors (Michael Richards), “shock jocks” (Imus, J.C.  Corcoran, the Greaseman), athletes (John Rocker, Paul Hornung, Fuzzy Zoeller) and politicians (Trent Lott) have all been fired, demoted or suspended for allegedly racial remarks.

Whites on the right are used to being harassed and fired for their racial views. But others, armed with all the proper opinions on race, never dream of a day when they will come face to face with Big Brother.

Robert Weissberg, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana, tells a tragic tale of his former colleague Stuart Nagel, an impeccably leftist professor and civil rights veteran, who lost his job over an innocuous remark about why Asian businesses outperform black enterprises in Kenya (he claimed it was due to credit issues). After a black student filed a complaint, the professor was branded a “racist” and subjected to university investigations and two federal trials. Nagel lost his job and was coerced into retirement. Abandoned by his colleagues and left with over $100,000 in debt from legal fees, he committed suicide.

A question I`ve never seen discussed is why only whites seem to suffer the consequences of inappropriate racial remarks.  If whites had a monopoly on racist speech, perhaps it would be understandable. But well-known blacks routinely make racist remarks about whites and others. None, to my knowledge, have been fired or faced anything more than mild criticism.

Consider the following:

Ice Cube was a black gangsta rapperin the late 1990s who routinely advocated racist violence against non-blacks. One of his albums, titled “Death Certificate,” contained this rap about Asian store owners:

So don`t follow me up and down your market

Or your little chop suey ass will be a target

So pay your respects to the black fist

Or we`ll burn your store right down to a crisp.

Today, Ice Cube is an actor who makes millions playing the fun-loving father with a heart of gold in family movies like Are We There Yet and the sequel, Are We Done Yet.

Needless to say, Michael Richards will not be cast as the goofy dad in a family comedy anytime soon.

Bryant Gumbel is the host of HBO`s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. In 2006, prior to the Winter Olympics, Gumbel made claims that would seem to echo those of Jimmy the Greek.  Dismissing the athleticism on display at the Winter Olympics he announced, “Count me among those who don`t care about them and won`t watch them… So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world`s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention.”

Leaving aside the fact that white athletes always win the most medals in both the summer and winter Olympics, Gumbel is simply declaring black supremacy in sports. Far from hurting his career, Gumbel was awarded with a play-by-play job with NFL Network.

Bernard Hopkins is a former middleweight boxing champion. While promoting his upcoming fight against super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, who is white, Hopkins claimed, “I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.”[2007`S OVERHEARD: The best quotes of the year, Detroit Free Press, January 1, 2008]

There was, of course, no John Rocker treatment for Hopkins.

Only days after the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax, Houston Baker, [send him mail] a Duke professor of English and African-American studies assailed “white…male athletes, veritably given license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech” and “sport their disgraced jerseys on campus, safe under the cover of silent whiteness.” Even before any charges were made, Baker proclaimed the whites guilty of “abhorrent sexual assault, verbal racial violence, and drunken white male privilege loosed amongst us. “against a “black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life.”

When a mother of one of the white players politely emailed him to request he reconsider the case, Baker emailed back:

“LIES! You are just a provocateur on a happy New Years Eve trying to get credit for a scummy bunch of white males! You know you are in search of sympaathy [sic] for young white guys who beat up a gay man [sic] in Georgetown, get drunk in Durham, and lived like a bunch of farm animals near campus. I really hope whoever sent this stupid farce of an email rots in …. umhappy [sic] new year to you … and forgive me if your really are, quite sadly, mother of a “farm animal.

This blatantly racist and embarrassingly written email did not stop Baker from being named Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English (!!!) department. His appointment came only months after he had led efforts to scapegoat innocent white students at his own university.

The list of racist remarks from famous blacks can go on forever. It includes politicians, religious leaders, actors, singers, athletes and others. Figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Willie Brown, Dick Gregory, Spike Lee, Maxine Waters and Jeremiah Wright, the “spiritual father,” of Barack Obama would be included on this list.

But all are lauded, influential people in American life. And none has lost a job.

One important difference when noting the double standard in treatment of blacks and whites over racial remarks is the context of the offending statements. Most of the “racist” remarks by whites are jokes, or statements said in a light-hearted manner. The statements of Trent Lott, Don Imus, Kelly Tilghman, Fuzzy Zoeller and other whites all fall into this category. Not so with most of the blacks. When they make racial remarks it is often racial slurs (Bernard Hopkins, Dick Gregory, Willie Brown) or expressions of intense hatred towards whites (Ice Cube, bell hooks, Jonathan Farley).

Michael Richards did launch an angry tirade against blacks who were harassing him at a comedy club, but it was apparently in retaliation for their racial heckling.

Some might bring up the cases of race activist Andrew Young and actor Isaiah Washington as examples of blacks who have lost jobs over offensive remarks. Young, in his capacity for an organization that promotes Wal-Mart, attacked Jews, Koreans and Arabs as merchants who exploit black customers. He received some criticism for the remarks but he was not fired from his position. In fact, he seemed to get more flak for shilling for Wal-Mart and ended up resigning.

Washington referred to a white, gay actor as a “faggot” on the set of Grey`s Anatomy. He also got into a fight with co-star Patrick Dempsey who came to his defense. The pressure on Washington came from gay groups, which prompted his departure from the hit show a season later.

If Washington had merely called his cast mate a “white boy” or a “white motherf*****,” he would still have a job.

The ruining of a white person that Sam Francis wrote about 15 years ago is now a year-round event. Whites who are charged with inappropriate racial remarks have no defenders in the media, politics, academia or any other institution. There are no mainstream groups that defend the interests of whites, so the accused find themselves all alone in the crosshairs. No wonder they immediately beg and grovel and throw themselves on the mercy of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. But they are begging for mercy that is never granted.

Perhaps there will come a day when whites tire of this double standard and start pushing back. But that day is nowhere in sight right now. So unless whites are prepared to run the gauntlet, they should follow the advice of an anonymous poster on the American Renaissance website:

“When on the job, DO NOT DISCUSS RACE! In any form.  Do not comment, do not even mention it, or acknowledge it, or use any sort of race-related terminology. Just say nothing! Have no opinion!”

Peter Bradley [email him] works in Washington, D.C.

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Earthquake Wipeout

San Francisco is now remembering the April 18, 1906, earthquake a century ago that leveled much of the city. You could make an argument that America`s first illegal alien amnesty was created by that earthquake, which burned many of the city`s records, thereby enabling Chinese nationals to claim American birth [Out of chaos came new Chinese America, San Francisco Chronicle, 4/13/06].

Yet when government buildings were destroyed a century ago, so were the birth and immigration records inside. Scores of Chinese recognized the serendipity, claiming citizenship and bringing in their children.

In many cases, for a fee, they also brought in people who weren`t their children. Hundreds of those friends and strangers, who came to be known as “paper sons,” arrived in the Bay Area in the following decades, changing Chinese America forever.

The Bill Moyers PBS program celebrating Chinese immigration has a film clip explaining paper sons, with no apparent shame that many Chinese committed fraud to enter America. Then as now, the attitude is that immigration is a right of the would-be newcomer, not a privilege granted by the citizens of this nation.

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Vegan Vitamin & Supplement Guide

Here are the vitamins and supplements that are of particular interest to vegans.
Vegan Nutrition Supplements

One thing that vegans and omnivores have in common is neither group gets a free pass when it comes to avoiding risks of nutrient deficiencies. For vegans, a well-planned diet can go a long way toward avoiding the most common pitfalls. That means plenty of vegetables, whole grains, beans, and fruit—as well as a small amount of nuts or seeds each day. But even with all this taken care of, it can be difficult for some vegans to obtain optimal levels of a few key nutrients, especially B-12. Other nutrients that may deserve special attention are calcium, iron, and zinc. Also, while outright cases of protein deficiency among vegans are almost unheard of, some vegans may fall short of obtaining optimal levels.

Here are the most widely-used supplements for vegans:

Despite what you may have heard, the only vegan foods that reliably contain significant amounts of B-12 are foods that have been fortified with lab-cultured B-12. So unless you eat B-12 fortified foods every day, you run the risk of developing a deficiency. B-12 deficiencies are associated with a host of health problems, including irreversible nerve damage that can occur before symptoms are noticed. The easiest way to avoid B-12 deficiency is to take a B-12 supplement containing 1000 micrograms of B-12 two or three times a week, like the products we’ve linked to below. And a $10 bottle of Twinlab’s B-12 tablets will last you more than a year. While side effects are rare, consult your physician before taking doses higher than 1,000 micrograms per day

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Significant amounts of iron are found in a number of vegan foods including leafy green vegetables, seaweed, and some types of beans. That said, it can be a challenge for some people, especially women of child-bearing years, to obtain sufficient iron. You can easily meet these needs with iron supplements, or through a multivitamin that includes iron.

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The good news for vegans is that most soy and almond milk contains more calcium than cows’ milk. Drinking these products daily and regularly eating tofu prepared with calcium sulfate can go a long way towards ensuring adequate calcium intake. That said, anyone concerned that they might not be taking in sufficient amounts of calcium can turn to a vegan supplement. Some calcium supplements are not vegan, since they’re made from oyster shells. But vegan brands are available, and our favorites are below.

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If you follow a well-planned vegan diet, chances are you’re getting abundant levels of most of the nutrients that a multivitamin provides. But as we’ve seen, a few nutrients (particularly iron, B-12, zinc, and iodine) may fall through the cracks. So a vegan multivitamin can be a great way to ensure that your vegan diet avoids any needless nutritional pitfalls. Zinc in particular is hard to obtain in sufficient amounts through vegan sources, so for many vegans it’s reason enough to choose a multivitamin.

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Vitamin D

Vitamin D is primarily obtained through three sources: by exposing your skin to direct sunlight, fortified cows’ milk or vegan milk, and supplements. It’s not a vitamin that appears naturally in many foods, and most people in temperate climates will not have adequate sunlight exposure in winter months to ensure sufficient vitamin D levels. So a supplement can be a great way to obtain sufficient vitamin D. Unfortunately most supplements on the market source their vitamin D from animal sources. But vegan versions are available (they use D2 rather than the far more common D3.) Here are a few brands made with D2.

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Omega-3 and DHA

Many people think the essential Omega-3 type of fat is only available from eating fish. But there are several rich vegan sources: walnuts, flax seeds, chia seeds, and to a lesser extent hemp and pumpkin seeds. But even if you’re getting plenty of Omega 3s, your body may not be properly converting these fats to provide sufficient levels of DHA. So consider Deva’s Vegan Omega-3 DHA supplement. Also be aware that if you choose to purchase flax oil, it’s crucial to keep this oil refrigerated as it otherwise quickly goes rancid.

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by Joel Fuhrman, MD and Deana Ferreri, PhD

There is growing concern about the safety of agricultural products, especially meat. Recalls are becoming more frequent - it's early February, and according to the USDA, there have already been three meat recalls so far this year.  Even more troubling is that approximately 70% of antibiotics produced in the U.S. are regularly given to farm animals for non-therapeutic reasons - not to treat existing infections - non-therapeutic use of anibiotics has been used for decades to promote weight gain in animals, which increases meat production and therefore profits.1  These practices are potentially fueling the emergence of dangerous drug-resistant strains of bacteria, which could make their way into our food supply.

Six to eight million cases of urinary tract infections (UTIs) occur each year in the U.S., 80% of which are caused by E. coli that is ingested in food, lives in the intestinal tract, and then travels from the intestinal tract to the urinary tract.  Infections of the urinary tract are also the most common source of bacteria causing sepsis, or infection of the bloodstream.  Drug-resistant bacterial UTIs are of course more difficult to treat.

Since intestinal E. coli is the most common source of UTIs, a group of Canadian researchers decided to test whether there was a link between contaminated food products and UTIs.  These researchers had previously found that women who frequently ate chicken and pork were more likely to have drug-resistant UTIs.2

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They collected urine samples from women diagnosed with urinary tract infections between 2005 and 2007.  During this same time period they also collected samples of supermarket purchased chicken products, restaurant meals, and ready-to-eat foods.

Two isolated groups of E. coli were genetically indistinguishable between the chicken samples and human UTI samples.  This means that these bacteria likely originated from the same source, and furthermore establishes that chicken products are a food-based source for bacteria that cause human UTIs.3

If you do not consume animal products, you can still reduce your risk of exposure by washing produce thoroughly - produce can become contaminated by animals or humans infected with E.coli.4

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1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=most-us-antibiotics-fed-t

2. Manges AR, Smith SP, Lau BJ, Nuval CJ, Eisenberg JN, Dietrich PS, et al. Retail meat consumption and the acquisition of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections: a case-control study. Foodborne Pathog Dis. 2007;4:419-31. DOI:10.1089/fpd.2007.0026

3. Vincent C, Boerlin P, Daignault D, et al. Food reservoir for Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16:88-95.

4. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2007/ucm108873.htm

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Hazards of the future

These are, quite frankly, brilliant:

Cognitive Hazard!

Thanks to George Dvorsky, I came across a set of hazard warning signs for the future, thought up by neuroscientist and transhumanist philosopher Anders Sandberg. There is a detailed explanation of each idea on his blog … I like the way that these are simultaneously funny and serious, a nicely hyperbolic way of presenting the risks of a changing world. Go take a look at the Flickr set of all nineteen signs. I think I’ll email this to Bruce Sterling, too; strikes me as the sort of thing he’d enjoy.

Given that today finds me mentally disadvantaged due to the second head-cold within a month (oh, the joys of working with the public), I found this one rather apposite for my current state of mind:

Motivational Hazard!

You may have guessed that I’m not working on the story tonight; it’s taken me four hours of yawning, itchy eyes and coughing to get the daily blogging done. Luckily I have a half day tomorrow, so I can do double-time and play catch-up. As for now, it’s bed-time.


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Resort Le Surf - Noumea

2 star Resort Noumea

55 Promenade Roger Laroque - Noumea

Price starting from XPF 5251

Le Surf is a beachfront resort in Noumea. Staying here, you will be within easy reach of Aquarium des Lagons, Noumea Harbour and Place des Cocotiers. Other attractions in the area include Noumea Zoo and Botanical Gardens and Tina International Golf Course.

This resort has its own restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you will find a selection of items to try. Unwind with some laps as this resort features an outdoor pool. Fancy sipping an ice-cold drink by the pool? Don't miss out as there is also a poolside bar. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out. Free Wi-Fi is provided.

There is a TV in the lobby area, perfect if you are waiting for friends or simply want to catch up with the news. Planning a meeting? This resort has 2 meeting rooms. Other amenities include a hair salon, dry cleaning/laundry, ATM/banking, an elevator (lift) and beach/pool umbrellas.

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Breakfast at Resort Le Surf

A buffet breakfast is served between 6 AM and 10 AM for a fee.

Resort Facilities at Le Surf

  • Laundry service
  • Lift/elevator
  • Hairdresser
  • Beach umbrellas and deck loungers
  • Entire property is non-smoking
  • Laundry room
  • Pool bar
  • Restaurant/Dining
  • Cafeteria
  • Snack bar
  • Multilingual staff
  • Front desk - 24 hour
  • Concierge
  • Luggage room
  • City tour
  • Outdoor swimming pool
  • Billiards / Snooker
  • Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
  • Free parking
  • Meeting Room
  • Conference room
  • Internet/Email services
  • TV Lounge
  • Baby sitter

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  • This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
  • A resort fee is included in the total price displayed.
  • The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.

Check-in: after 2 PM.

Check-out: before 11 AM.

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
  • The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.

City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Fee for buffet breakfast: XPF 16.00 for adults and XPF 8.00 for children (approximately)
  • Airport shuttle fee: XPF 25.00 per person (one way)
  • Airport shuttle fee per child: XPF 13.00 (from 0 to 12 years old)
  • Rollaway bed fee: XPF 3000 per night

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Resort Le Surf is also known as

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Le Surf Noumea
Hotel Le Surf

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Room Details

Book your beach accommodation at Le Surf, offering 167 guest rooms with climate control. Rooms open onto balconies. Guests can kick back at the end of a busy day and enjoy 60-cm televisions with cable channels. Business travelers will have access to desks, safes and phones during their Noumea visit. A good night's sleep in Select Comfort mattresses will have visitors waking up refreshed and well-rested throughout their holiday or business trip.

Private bathrooms are outfitted with bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Refrigerators, coffee/tea makers and hair dryers can be found in each room to accommodate basic traveling needs. Additional guest comforts include air conditioning, ceiling fans and blackout drapes/curtains.

Accommodation Services

  • Telephone
  • Air conditioning
  • Mini fridge
  • Extra beds
  • Coffee and tea maker
  • Hairdryer in each room
  • Safe
  • TV
  • Desk
  • Individually controlled air conditioning
  • Terrace/Balcony
  • Cable TV
  • Fan

Distances from Resort Le Surf

Aquarium des Lagons - 0.2 km / 0.1 mi
Noumea Harbour - 2.9 km / 1.8 mi
Noumea Cathedral - 3.3 km / 2.1 mi
Place des Cocotiers - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi
Stade Numa-Daly Magenta - 5.3 km / 3.3 mi
Noumea Zoo and Botanical Gardens - 5.5 km / 3.4 mi
Kuendu Beach - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center - 7 km / 4.3 mi
Tina International Golf Course - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi
Cape N'Dua Nature Reserve - 51.7 km / 32.1 mi
Yate Beach - 55.8 km / 34.7 mi
Kuto Beach - 110.9 km / 68.9 mi
Kanumera Beach - 111.6 km / 69.3 mi
Musee de Bourail - 126.2 km / 78.4 mi
Roche Percee Beach - 126.9 km / 78.9 mi
The closest major airports to Le Surf are:
Noumea (GEA-Magenta Domestic) - 6 km / 3.7 mi
Noumea (NOU-Tontouta Intl.) - 39.1 km / 24.3 mi

The preferred airport for Le Surf is Noumea (NOU-Tontouta Intl.).

Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.

Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.

Transportation services Resort Le Surf

  • Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
  • Free parking


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Pamper yourself in the manner you deserve with our beloved baby powder body spray. Made in Vermont, the body spray goes on clean—no powdery residue—leaving you feeling as fresh and fragrant as a newborn. 4 oz. spray bottle.

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Everyone loves clean baby smell One of the many reasons I miss having any little ones around is missing that great baby smell. I use powder after showering but it does not last as well as the Baby Powder spray. If you miss that sweet baby smell just get some of the Baby Powder spray and miss it no longer. May 11, 2015
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More details have surfaced regarding next week’s release of free multiplayer for Killzone 3.

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Once you reach Sergeant I, you’ll need pay $15 to keep playing and unlock trophies. It will be available for those in the UK as well, and it will also net you “a 24-hour double XP bonus, three free unlock points, the ability to set up clans and custom games, and access to the Botzone mode to help hone your combat skills,” said the firm.

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From Jim & John Harbaugh To Ben & Casey Affleck: The 6 Most Important Sets Of Bros In Entertainment

The Afflecks, the Harbaughs, the Wayans among the biggest brother names in entertainment now

People who know about sports — and all of the news articles — tell us that it’s a big deal to see brothers Jim and John Harbaugh face off against each other in Sunday’s Super Bowl as head coaches of the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, respectively. That got us thinking about all the other bros who channeled their sibling rivalry into world-famous careers. (Strange, most siblings I know, myself and my sis included, almost deliberately chose radically different paths in life.) Of course, we’ve had the Baldwins, the Weinsteins, the Coens, the Hansons and the Jonases for a while. But who are the most influential brothers in entertainment right now?

Well, there are still the Wayans brothers, who haven’t made a movie together for a couple of years but whose influence is now being felt in the form of their nephews, via Happy Endings and Second Generation Wayans. James Franco has been sharing his knack for balancing mainstream flicks with weird indie projects with li’l bro Dave (who can be seen in this weekend’s Warm Bodies). Then there are the Hemsworths, whose adorable Australian mugs and breathtaking bodies have landed them the hottest movie franchises around. Donnie Wahlberg is dividing his time between the small screen (Blue Bloods) and the stage (with the NKOTB summer tour), while his younger brother Mark does double duty as a movie star and a hugely successful TV and movie producer (especially now that Entourage is heading to theaters). But for our money, the biggest bro team around at the moment is Ben and Casey Affleck. Sure, that’s mostly due to Ben’s amazing, award-winning run as the director and star of Oscar favorite Argo, but all that buzz is helping Casey’s career too. Casey’s turn in the outlaw flick Ain’t Them Bodies Saints just got plenty of good buzz at Sundance last week, and we bet you didn’t know he’s got a movie in the running at the Oscars too: He voiced the character of Mitch in last year’s Paranorman.

Who’s your favorite set of bros in the biz? Browse through our gallery and then tweet us your thoughts!

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Madden And Wayans Bros Unite For Father’s Day Event, Free Diapers

Madden and Wayans Brothers

In the early 2000’s, Good Charlotte were one of the biggest pop-punk bands around and Shawn & Marlon Wayans had successfully traded TV stardom for hit film comedies like Scary Movie and White Chicks. Now, less than a decade later, the Maddens and the Wayans have teamed up to pose with a box of diapers. The two sets of bros met up at “Daddy On Diapers Duty” promotional play date put together by Pampers to celebrate Father’s Day and promote the latest developments in child crap containment. Best part of this photo? Benji Madden, the dude holding the diapers, is not a father. Guess Uncle Benj just didn’t have anywhere better to be last night.

See photos of the bros (and Bethenny Frankel!) enjoying quality time in the gallery below.

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We booked this trip on a beautiful hot day in July. We left from Mainz. The sight seeing was amazing! The boat was very comfortable with good food and bathrooms. When we got on the boat we told the guy taking the ticket that we needed to be back in Mainz and he told us the stop we needed to get off on which was right around lunch time. We had two hours to browse and then boarded the boat for the return voyage. I would love to do it again and buy three or four days passes as several of the stops would be great to overnight at. Definitely recommend it!

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  • Location: Amman, Jordan
  • Duration:  7 days (approx.)
See the highlights of Jordan on a 6-night tour with 3-, 4- or 4-star superior hotel accommodation in Amman and Petra included! Contrast the hubbub of Amman with the sun-scorched serenity of Wadi Rum desert; defy gravity with a soak in the salt-rich Dead Sea; and gaze at Roman ruins in the ancient city of Jerash. Sightsee your way around the rock-carved city of Petra, and then laze on a beach in Aqaba. Do all this and more on this incredible multiday Jordan tour, led by an expert local guide.

  • 6-night Jordan tour from Amman, led by a professional local guide
  • Contrast the sights of Amman with ancient Jerash during city sightseeing tours
  • Visit the Dead Sea and swim in the salt-rich waters of the lowest place on Earth
  • Admire views of the Jordan Valley from Mount Nebo
  • See the Siq, Treasury (Al-Khazneh) and Royal Tombs in the UNESCO-listed city of Petra
  • Spend four nights in Amman and two nights in Petra, enjoying 3-, 4- or 4-star superior hotel accommodation

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6-Night Best of Jordan Tour from Amman: Jerash, Dead Sea, Petra and Wadi Rum

6-Day Best of Jordan Tour from Amman: Jerash, Dead Sea, Petra and Wadi Rum

Civilization can be traced to around 9,000 BC, meaning Jordan has one of the world’s oldest cultures as well as some spectacular sights. With an expert local guide at your side, you’ll discover Jordan’s countless highlights during city tours and excursions. Learn about the country’s enthralling history, from its significance in biblical tales to its days as the ancient Decapolis during the time of the Roman Empire.

In between excursions and transfers between cities, enjoy plenty of free time to discover the country, too. Choose from tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel accommodation, and enjoy four nights in Amman as well as two nights in Petra — a UNESCO World Heritage site. Hotels are centrally located, allowing you to get a feel for these contrasting cities at your own pace.

Day 1: Amman
Your tour of Jordan starts with a pickup from Queen Alia International Airport Amman. After touching down, look out for your driver and then relax on the transfer to your hotel. Check in and then spend the rest of your afternoon or evening at leisure.

Overnight: tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel in central Amman

Day 2: Amman – Jerash – Amman (D)
Head out on your Amman city tour after breakfast and see the sights of downtown Amman from the comfort of your air-conditioned coach. Pass bustling souks (markets), coffee shops and mosques, and get a feel for the frantic pace of day-to-day life in the downtown district. Stop for photos by the Amman’s magnificent Roman Theatre, and hear of its use in Roman times when Amman was known as the city of Philadelphia.

After a break for lunch in town (own expense), travel north to Jerash, roughly an hour away. One of the best-preserved cities of Jordan’s Decapolis, Jerash is often called the ‘Pompeii of Asia,’ a name that harks to its impressive collection of Roman relics within its ancient city boundaries. See monuments like the Temple of Zeus and colonnaded Oval Plaza (also known as the Forum). Pose for picture by the Temple of Artemis and hear how it was later used as an Arab fortification during the 12th century.

Return to Amman in time for dinner at your hotel, and then spend your evening at leisure.

Overnight: tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel in central Amman

Day 3: Amman – Dead Sea – Amman (B, D)
Enjoy breakfast, and then travel south to the Dead Sea by coach. Officially the lowest place on Earth (and the only place where you can walk below sea level), the Dead Sea is compelling from every angle. After paying your entrance fee to the Dead Sea Resthouse (a resort in the region), spend time at leisure, either bobbing around in its buoyant salty water or lathering yourself in its nutrient-rich mud for a skin-pleasing treat. Bring your camera to capture lunar-like photos of the surrounding Moab Desert, and relax in one of the resort's cafes .

Meet your guide at the pre-arranged time in the late afternoon, and then travel back to Amman in time for dinner.

Overnight: tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel in central Amman

Day 4: Amman – Madaba – Mount Nebo – Petra (B, D)
Check out of your hotel after breakfast and head south to the market town of Madaba, traveling along the King’s Highway – once a vitally important trade route in the Middle East. Often called the ‘City of Mosaics,’ the city owes it popularity to an incredible mosaic map of the Holy Land that carpets the floor of St George’s Church. Head inside the church to see it for yourself, and hear about the ancient biblical sites from your guide.

After stopping for lunch in town (own expense), continue traveling to Mount Nebo, the hill where Moses was said to have been granted a view of the Promised Land. Stop to admire views of the Jordan Valley, seeing the ancient lands of Judah and Jericho, and then return to your coach for your journey to Petra. Check in to your hotel, enjoy dinner and spend your night doing whatever you please.

Overnight: tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel in central Petra

Day 5: Petra (B, D)
Head out after breakfast to enjoy a full day of sightseeing in Petra with your guide. One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the rock-carved city was created more than 2,000 years ago and its pink-hued streets, lined with long-forgotten tombs and incredible rock buildings are — for many — the highlight of a trip to Jordan.

After your hotel pickup, travel through the Siq — a naturally formed gorge that acts as an entrance corridor to Petra — and then come face-to-face with the grandeur of the Treasury (Al-Khazneh). Gaze in wonder at its magnificent Hellenistic façade, carved into the rock face, and hear tales of the countless films that have used the building as a filming location, such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Stop for lunch in town (own expense) and then continue your afternoon of sightseeing, admiring sights like Petra’s Nabataean theater, the Royal Tombs (the city’s impressive burial grounds) and Petra Church. Finish your tour with a drop off at your hotel, and then spend your night at leisure in the city.

Overnight: tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel in central Petra

Day 6: Petra – Wadi Rum – Aqaba – Amman (B, D)
Start your day with breakfast in your hotel, and then travel by coach with your guide to Wadi Rum, where scenes from Lawrence of Arabia were filmed. Swap your mode of transport for a spacious 4x4 jeep, and explore Wadi Rum in a convoy, riding over red-sand dunes and around the granite mountains that punctuate the desert landscape. After two hours, return to your coach and leave the desert behind as you travel to Aqaba, Jordan’s sun-drenched southern city.

Enjoy free time in the city to do whatever you please, perhaps lounging on the beach or visiting Ayla: Aqaba’s ancient church. Meet your guide at the pre-arranged time and start your journey north to Amman. After traveling for roughly 3.5 hours, check in to your hotel, enjoy dinner and spend the rest of your night at leisure.

Overnight: tourist-class, prime-class or superior-class hotel in central Amman

Day 7: Amman (B)
Finish your tour after breakfast, checking out of your hotel around late morning.

Customer Reviews

5 star rating: Highly Recommended April 2015

this is a great tour for seeing Jordan . Ask for the driver shadi if you can get him when booking as he is a great guy. they go to great length to look after you in this tour.

5 star rating: Highly Recommended October 2014

I just returned from this trip and had the most amazing time. Anyone who is concerned about Jordan's proximity to middle east conflict zones should rest at ease, Jordan is extremely safe and very peaceful. My friend and I traveled together (2 women) from the US and UK. We had a private driver for the whole week, Shadi, who spoke excellent English and was helpful throughout the trip. The cost was inclusive of accommodation with breakfast and dinner at the hotels including days of arrival/departure, and included entrance fees to excursion sites, and local guides at Jerash, Madaba, Mount Nebo, Petra and Wadi Rum. Jordan has something for everyone, it is absolutely beautiful. The hotel in Amman was well appointed and there were plenty of food options. The hotel in Petra was on a ridge in Wadi Musa, the staff were friendly and there was a nice pool complex to relax in. This trip definitely packs in the highlights in 5 full days of excursions. If you enjoy hiking, you may consider adding an extra day in Petra to really explore more of the trails. If you enjoy being in the desert. you may also like to extend your trip with an overnight camping stop at Wadi Rum. On the whole, there was enough time at each of the sites to cover the main features. Jerash is on hill and can be quite windy so take a wind breaker and covered walking shoes (~3 hours). Mount Nebo is spectacular (also windy). The Dead sea resort we visited was fairly basic, but the resort area had adequate changing facilities, a pool and chairs if you want to make a day of it. At Petra, make sure to attend Petra by night, a candlelit experience not to be missed- comfortable closed walking shoes are essential. I would definitely recommend 2 full days in Petra as I love to take pictures and would want to explore more. It is breathtakingly beautiful. The people in Jordan are very welcoming and friendly, and unlike some places, as 2 women we were not hassled at any time. Highly recommended destination.

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It’s obvious that you’re already on top of all the live coverage from Ultra Fest but VIBE wants to make sure you don’t miss its biggest performance.

This Saturday (March 23), the head cheese himself (and our latest cover boy) deadmau5 takes the main stage at 10:45 p.m. EST and you can watch it directly on deadmau5’s YouTube channel here.

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Practical Clothing for the menopausal woman

I have seen blog comments on clothing for menopausal women. I am looking for clothes that I can use for athletic wear and wear to work! Stuf that is odor free, wicked, and professional looking rather than sporty looking. Any advice?

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    Unless you work at a fitness center, I think you are going to have to separate into two wardrobes….Kohls has a great athletic section where I live, but pricey as well…some of the name brand athletic wear is getting better looking but I still don’t think appropriate for work…we are allowed to wear jeans to work (office) but I wear dressier jeans, cute tops and shoes, blazers, etc. so it is easy to plan work wardrobe.  I guess the best way to keep it odorfree is to wash it, right?  Is this dual wardrobe because you exercise at lunch or before work and can’t change??  Our office gals all walk etc. at lunch, just change in the ladies room…..

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      yes, that is part of the issue. I want to find clothes I can wear when I walk at work or go and take yoga without changing my clothes… The other is the hot flashes. I find the wicked material is great for sleeping at night and during the day when I have hot flashes…

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    My daughter has shown me that a lower waist (allbeit maybe a larger size than we want….) helps to take care of the muffin top… tighter pants help to give a tired bottom half some good shape.  I had a hard time getting used to not wanting pants to my waist – I know – I’m in real trouble, but in the mirror it really makes a difference.  Make yourself try it.  Also, the tops that are sinched in the front or have that buckle or the fabric is tied…do you know the ones I mean?  They usually look like two pieces and are a little longer on the hips, but not tunic length; and usually lower cut.  These are wonderful for us boomer gals with a menopausal waistline…. they always look wonderful.  You can find them pretty easily – they’ve been around for a few years now and it looks like they’re not going away. Kohls, Gordmans…probably many other places, I just don’t get out a lot for shopping!!!  lol

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  3. Goldiealoha Goldiealoha says

    Clothing for menopausal women?  Anything that is unattractive, shapeless, and dowdy.  The stores are full of stuff like that.

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      What is unattractive, dowdy, and shapeless to you? You are right: it is hard to find the right stuff. I prefer timeless and practical clothing…

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  4. b7507503 b7507503 says

    I just went to a store in Seattle called Travel Savvy.  Any higher end travel store would probably work.  OMG!  Columbia makes GREAT lightweight clothes that keep you cool even with long sleeves.  They pack SUPER, almost wrinkle free, you can find dressy, business casual or stuff for vacation.  I think I’m buying ALL my clothes at a store or catalog designed for travelers.

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  5. Barb Hughes Barb Hughes says

    I’d suggest Title 9 Sports.  I love that place.  Lots of clothes that are comfortable, fashionable, and practical for the woman on the go.  I’d also suggest that you share what works for you with other women who are over 40 at http://www.over40fashions.com  You won’t find any fashion models there, just regular women of all sizes willing to share what works for them.

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Newspaperman Bert West lived for headlines, deadlines

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By Sonny Long
Jan. 28, 2013 at 5:03 p.m.
Updated Jan. 28, 2013 at 7:29 p.m.

Bert West, 86, a longtime newspaper man, died Thursday at 86.  Among them were papers in Port Lavaca, El Campo, Bay City, Edna and Yoakum.

Bert West had newsprint in his veins.

West, 86, of Palacios, a veteran of six decades in the newspaper business, died Thursday at the computer in his home office.

On Tuesday night, he had covered the Palacios city council meeting as editor of the weekly Palacios Beacon.

Larry West, his youngest son, said his father passing away at the computer was no surprise.

"We've known when this day came, it would be at dad's desk, doing what he loved since the age of 6 - writing," he said.

"He had no hobbies such as fishing, hunting or camping. So, when he retired 15-plus years ago from the Herald-Times, we knew he'd get back into writing at some point.

"I thought he'd take a year off, but the desire to write was so strong and what he loved. His retirement lasted about three months.

"His life was making newspaper deadlines."

And West made a lot of those.

During his career, he worked for more than 30 papers in four states, mostly in Texas beginning in the mid-1950s.

Among those newspapers were publications in Port Lavaca, El Campo, Bay City, Edna and Yoakum. He also worked from Daingerfield in Northeast Texas to Dumas in the Panhandle to San Benito in the Rio Grande Valley.

In 1957, West became the first manager of the Port Lavaca bureau for the Victoria Advocate.

Among West's career highlights was covering the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 for the Houston Chronicle.

Mike McCracken, managing editor of the Yoakum Herald-Times since 2006, is West's grandson.

"I remember vividly the day my grandfather handed me a camera and said go shoot a football game," McCracken said.

"I told myself when I was young that I wouldn't get into the family newspaper business, but that's exactly what happened. I was hooked that first night I covered a high school football game.

"I've learned a lot from him and will surely miss calling him for advice. He was a great man, for sure," McCracken said.

According to the Texas Press Association's Golden 50 Award presented to West in 2002, "An Indiana farm boy who dreamed of being a newspaperman since he was 5 years old, West started his career Sept. 7, 1947, at the age of 20, when he went to work, at $35 per week, as one of two associate editors of The Horseman & Fair World, a weekly trade magazine devoted to the sport of harness horse racing, published in Indianapolis.

"He became editor of the magazine in 1949, at which time Billboard Magazine featured him as the youngest editor of any publication of worldwide circulation."

West's love for newspapers was not only instilled in McCracken, but all seven of West's children with his wife, the late Betty Lou West. They all worked in the newspaper business at one time or another.

At the time of his death, West was working with his son, Nick West, publisher of the Beacon, and Nick's son Ryan West, the publication's news editor.

Covering that city council meeting Tuesday night was typical West - who once served on the same governing body.

"Like all of us at small, community newspapers, he loved the people he covered," said Chad Ferguson, chairman of the board and immediate past president of the TPA and owner and editor of the Banner Press-Herald in Columbus. He had known West since the mid-1980s.

"When you're in a small community, you know everybody and feel like you touch everybody's lives. He loved writing about people in small communities."

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Moulton Jamboree opens Friday

July 24, 2013 at 2:24 a.m.

The annual Moulton Town & Country Jamboree opens Friday and runs through Sunday in the city park near the Moulton Community Center, 102 Veterans Drive.

The carnival and arts and crafts booth open at 6 p.m.

A men's softball tournament starts at 7 p.m. and runs through Sunday.

Damon Billimek will perform at the pavilion from 7-8 p.m. followed by the Texas Dream Band until midnight.

The celebration includes a variety of cook-off events including salsa, shrimp, barbecue (chicken, ribs and brisket), beans and chili.

Saturday starts with a 5K run/walk at 7 a.m. A Go Texan domino tournament begins at 9 a.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 703 W. Jackson St.

Hay ride tours of Moulton begin at 10 a.m., and the carnival opens at 4 p.m.

Musical entertainment at the pavilion includes Los Kolaches and Doc West from 3 to 8 p.m. The Trevor Cole Band takes the stage at 9 p.m. and will play until 1 a.m.

Sunday kicks off with an antique farm tractor and engine show at 8 a.m.

A pie baking contest will be from 9 a.m. until noon, and the grand parade starts downtown at 10:30 a.m.

A dinner of kettle fried chicken will be served at the KC Hall starting at 11 a.m. Plates are $8.

At 2 p.m., the carnival opens, and a pie auction will be at the KC Hall at that same time.

Also at 2 p.m., there will be horseshoe and washer pitching tournaments.

The free music Sunday includes the Dujka Brothers and the Red Ravens starting from 1 to 7:30 p.m.

For more information, contact the Moulton Chamber of Commerce at 361-596-7205.

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Syrian situation reveals Obama's hypocrisy

Sept. 19, 2013 at 4:19 a.m.

Editor, the Advocate:

President Obama's inept handling of the Syrian civil war has showcased the hypocrisy that has marked him and his administration from its inception. A prudent people would hold him accountable for that hypocrisy.

He effectively drew a red line in the Syrian sand and spins that as a line drawn by the international community.

Syrian civil war deaths prior to use of chemical weapons is known to be 100,000 or more. Obama says 1,429 were killed by sarin gas. I am adamantly opposed to any United States military intervention into Syria.

But for Obama and his elite supporters who demand a punishment for those 1,429 deaths, where was the outrage over the other 100,000 already dead? Are these deaths somehow seen as more merciful and acceptable?

Since the red line was crossed, Obama was compelled to act. He proposed missile strikes into Assad's military structure. Seeking support from any corner of the world, he was met with resounding rejection. He was all alone except for his power elite and poised to strike, already having announced enough details to compromise any mission's effectiveness.

He turned to Congress to save face and deflect responsibility, declaring "I believe our democracy is stronger when the president acts with the support of Congress." The same Congress he eschews in passing the health care monstrosity, the same Congress he eschews in advancing gun control. The hypocrisy is stunning. All along, he has been willing to rely on puppets Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, weakening and dividing the country as none before him have. But now that his face needs saving, he invokes the will of the people through their elected representatives. Where before was this reaching out to make the nation stronger?

American territory and people were not threatened by Assad and his sarin gas. But American territory in Benghazi was overrun, and our own people killed. Obama and his administration obfuscated and did nothing. He stonewalled Congress, with whom now all of a sudden he curries favor. Benghazi will not be mentioned in the Obama "legacy."

In future elections, beware of smooth-talking socialist community organizers.

Steve Fiedler, Victoria

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Victoria Commissioners help Korean War parade to go on

By Melissa Crowe
Jan. 27, 2014 at 6:03 p.m.
Updated Jan. 26, 2014 at 7:27 p.m.

Victoria County Commissioners voted Monday to loan out the county's supply of street blockades for a Korean War Veterans parade Saturday.

The decision comes on the heels of Victoria city staff enforcing a policy that city-owned parade barricades can only be used for city-sponsored events such as Bootfest, street dances, Market Days and the holiday parade.

County Judge Don Pozzi said the county does not have a written policy on the use of its equipment.

"What I want to avoid is being bombarded with requests to use these barricades," Pozzi said. "This is a special circumstance because this was planned."

The Victoria Livestock Show announced last week it would cancel the annual parade in part because of the cost to rent the 56 barricades it would need now that the city's policy is being enforced.

Commissioner Gary Burns, who organized the use of the barricades, said he did not want to open "a can of worms."

Because the Korean War parade organizers are working on a short window, he wanted to step in.

"We're not furnishing any labor," he said. "It's just kind of an emergency."

Parade volunteers will set up and take down the barricades, so the county will not need to budget for overtime for staffing.

Pozzi said his support for the decision comes from being a patriot and Vietnam veteran.

"We're doing this at this time for this particular parade only," he said. "... I just didn't want any particular conflict if it could be avoided between the city and county."

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In 1967, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ leader, singer and key songwriter, began producing a (purportedly) worthy follow-up to his band’s groundbreaking “Pet Sounds.”

“Pet Sounds” already helped the surfers of summer ditch their button-down shirt and crewcut image in exchange for the era’s psychedelic underbelly. When Wilson announced the band’s new album title, “Smile,” rock critics said the Beach Boys were bound to become a viable competitor with the Beatles.

Alas, Wilson’s precarious mental state (he was a paranoid schizophrenic hooked on LSD and marijuana) sent “Smile” recording sessions into a tailspin. The album was given a new name – “Smiley Smile” – and released half-finished, with the brilliant singles “Good Vibrations” and “Heroes and Villains” anchoring tracks that sounded like roughly cut demos. (Additional “Smile” session songs ended upon the equally incoherent, incomplete “Wild Honey” album.)

Over the years, the aura of “what ‘Smile’ could have been” turned Wilson’s would-be seminal work into one of the greatest pop albums never released.

With a non-Beach Boys backup band -and his schizophrenic visions under control – Wilson released “Brian Wilson’s SMiLE” last week to critical fanfare. (A music reporter friend informs me it’s a shoe-in for Best Album of the Year awards.)

After 37 years of mixed vibrations, frustrated, curious and long-suffering Beach Boys have a reason to smile – sort of. The results are interesting, but how could they live up to nearly four decades of hype?

“Brian Wilson presents SMiLE” contains 14 tracks and clocks in at under an hour. It opens with the prelude “Our Prayer/Gee” (an ode to the Beach Boys’ classic harmonies ) and the riotous “Heroes and Villains.” It closes with a new rendition of “Good Vibrations” (the original version of which is arguably the Beach Boys’ best song). Now if only Wilson could get the middle to sound less like filler.

As an overture and underture, “Heroes and Villains” and “Good Vibrations” respectively provide solid samples of what we should expect from the rest of the album.

That’s the problem – both songs are so solid, when we hear the songs they’re either previewing or reviewing from the rest of Wilson’s “teenage symphony to God,” we can’t help but feel a little let down by the conductor’s results.

This is not to say “Brian Wilson presents SMiLE” doesn’t take us on whirlwind tour through American rock music (with touches of doo-wop, surf tunes and, of course, acid rock). But their potential seems unrealized.

Songs like “Vege-Tables” (an ode to carrots and beets) and “Old Master Painter” are – taken out of their importance in the classic rock canon and examined solely as musical compositions – mediocre at best. Some of the album tracks are as loose as they were on the Beach Boys’ demos.

“Brian Wilson presents SMiLE” is not the reconstruction of Beach Boys’ performances for which fans yearn. It makes a nice coda to the mysteries of “Smile,” but by no means does it write the saga a satisfying final chapter.

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Last Friday, I attended what had to be hands down one of the best parties this town has seen in a long while. Mass Appeal cover face, artist Lee Quiñones, had gotten together with RoStarr and Ease of the Inkheads to stage a collaborative show. French fashion magnate Agnès B. heard about it, and let the guys use her old temporary store space at 76 Greene. No big deal at first.

Somehow, everyone and their fucking grandmother found out. By 8 p.m., a block-long line of people was waiting outside. Door drama ensued as the P.R.s slowly fielded the crowd for invite holders (thanks to slapdash planning, there weren't many to go around). At 8:30, they gave up on the list and let everyone in.

In 10 minutes, a flood of the wildest assortment of people—from fashion editors to photographers, coy streetwear designers to straight-up street urchins, as well as a lot of Japanese kids—had filled the space, eagerly staring into the trio's massive-scale works. DJ Atomik Rage's hip-hop beats boomed over the speakers, graf artists scrawled tags on the walls, and people who had never had a reason to hang out with each other were chilling. In the middle of the mini-culture clash, photographers François Hugon and KT, former Sopranos moll Annabella Sciorra, and equally legendary graf artists Futura2000 and WK swarmed around. The line grew outside, even though the roomy storefront was totally filled. In a turn of bittersweet justice, V/Visionaire magazine honchos Cecilia Dean and Stephan Gan—whose shindigs are notorious for being as snottily exclusive as their annual fashion portfolio—were turned away. Suckas!

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Chelsea Girl: Rosario Dawson's West Side Story

In an age where hip-hop culture is the mainstream, Quiñones is iconic enough to be on a magazine cover, and a huge crowd of people turns up for an art "reception," it would seem like graffiti is accepted in fine-art circles. Not so, said Ease, a/k/a José Parla. "I still gotta defend the movement against conservative people," said the artist, sipping on a beer. "And the fucks who don't see the truth about the culture right now. It's not easy."

Quiñones, who played Chico in the hip-hop film classic WildStyle, started planning the exhibit six months ago, shortly after 9-11. In his work Chapter 11, a huge overhead view of the city stands submerged in water, with a note at the bottom telling us, "What Comes Around Is Already Here." Ro's work, Between the Lines, was equally massive, a myriad of faces and explosions and birds singing for peace, while Ease's Geminis depicted a raging cascade of fire and smoke.

Andy Warhol protégé Benjamin Liu had come to admire the work. "I met Ro while I was at a rave on Ecstasy," said Liu. "He gave me a body massage." Liu's been an ardent fan of hip-hop culture and its global impact. "Andy would have loved the show," he added.

Agnès B herself showed up, surprised at the throngs that had amassed into what was probably supposed to be a more subdued affair. "I love you all! Thank you so much!" she screamed into the mic.

Agnès, I have to admit, is pretty dope. She rushed around excitedly in black pants and sneakers with her printed-blouse untucked, jumping over cushions to talk to friends. Most fashion designers sacrifice every aspect of their personalities in the name of decorum—this woman doesn't give a fuck and still gets paid. She had already shown works by graffiti art stars like Os Gemeos, BadBC, Jon One, A-One, and Futura2000 late last year at her gallery in Paris. I later found out that she bought all the paintings hanging in her Soho space. Ro's work alone cost a cool $80,000.

"I hate racism, and this goes against racism," said B. I was impressed, but also slightly annoyed about her indifference to the drops of water that kept splashing us from the broken AC unit overhead.

Downstairs in the basement, photos of the Inkheads' work were projected on the walls while Chez Music's Neil Aline banged out a house set as the drunker guests tried to dance in rhythm. There was one bathroom in the entire place, and one person (who shall go unnamed) actually relieved himself behind the scrim hanging in back of the DJ setup rather than wait in line.

Things went out with a bang around 2:30 a.m., when two guys began fighting over a girl. Bouncers kicked them out, but apparently the guys were too wasted to cool down. They actually took the velvet-rope stands on the street and threw them at security! The cops were on the scene by three, when I ambled out. That's a fucking party for your ass!

Monday night at the Park was hot as hell. RoStarr had told me he was spinning at Vice magazine's little soiree, and I went to watch. I wanted to catch "Party Till You Puke" rocker Andrew W.K., who was supposedly stopping by after his riotous Irving Plaza gig.

I used to abhor the Park. I'd never heard of any restaurant where you actually have to stand in line to be admitted, reservations or not. I went inside once for a friend's party, and I was disappointed to find lame brokers and their Manolo'd cohorts attempting to be social. The decor had always smacked of a tiki room from hell. The upstairs party, however, was a more languid affair, with Stevie Wonder and Erick Sermon oozing out of the speakers. "Maybe it's more Billy Baldwin than a Disneyland thing," I reasoned about the charmfully mismatched interiors. Rosario Dawson was sitting with some friends on the patio. Dawson is totally busy: She's currently in Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, just finished wrapping up Men in Black 2, and is doing a new Spike Lee joint, The 25th Hour, with Ed Norton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

It must be weird to go from Sesame Street segments to the cover of Vanity Fair as one of her generation's "It Girls." "It's weird," said Dawson. "I did Kids and now I have a doll from Josie and the Pussycats." Dah-Len, who took those amazing photos of her for Trace a couple years back, just did the ones of her in the new issue of Complex. They're sick, but I was more interested in her mom, Isabel Celeste Dawson, whose nude photo—rolls, stretch marks, and all—appear just a few pages before her daughter's in Marc Baptiste's book Beautiful. Most middle-aged moms I know are just getting used to being sexual creatures, but not Dawson Senior, who is quoted as proudly saying, "I'm not ashamed of my body because I've earned every mark it bears." "She actually just lost 60 pounds after that shoot," reported Dawson without flinching. "She's shaved her head into a mohawk, and she sings."

Close by, X-Woman Famke Jannsen was hanging around, looking pretty great in basic black, as well as . . . Ashley Hamilton? Remember him? The son of the ever crisply tanned George Hamilton was briefly married to terminal problem actress Shannon Doherty before divorcing and going back to a life of idle partying. He was arguing with somebody on a cell phone as his posse of bored friends watched.

Dude, Andrew W.K. never did show up, although there was a white limo parked outside as I was leaving. The driver, a man with scraggly, fried wisps of bleach-blond hair, kept ticking his head as he asked for tips on parties. I kept trying to suggest ideas, anxious to see the mystery passenger hiding out in back. My friend got frightened by the man's constant head-batting, and so I found myself rolling out. Some scoops are better left unturned.

Meanwhile, I need to leave you with a fun little tidbit. What coked-out Council of Fashion Designers of America award nominee shouted, "I've fucking had it with you! I've fucking had it!" to a rival designer at a club recently? Think about it, kids—it's not hard!

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U.S. Senate proves as disdainful of the Constitution as George W. Bush. Be forewarned.

These are weighty and momentous considerations that go far beyond the detainees at Guantánamo. . . .[This amendment] . . . takes away jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is untenable and unthinkable and ought to be rejected.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter , on the floor of the Senate, November 15, objecting to an amendment to the defense authorization bill by Lindsey Graham, Carl Levin, and Jon Kyl that would effectively close our federal courts to any charges of abuse, including tort ure, of Guantánamo prisoners. The amendment passed 84 to 14.

I learned long ago not to say the sky is falling when it's only raining. However, the hard rain on our fundamental liberties has been persistently increasing since the White House rammed through the Patriot Act soon after 9-11. This nation has survived grave constitutional crises before, but recent events in the U.S. Senate that further strengthen and deepen presidential powers are reason to be alarmed at what can follow under the present administration.

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On November 10, with the support of Bush's Justice Department, the Senate had previously passed an amendment by the manipulatively mercurial Senator Lindsey Graham that the American Civil Liberties Union charged "would make the McCain anti-torture amendment nearly impossible to enforce at Guantánamo Bay.

"The [original] Graham amendment would strip all courts, including the Supreme Court, of jurisdiction to consider habeas [corpus] petitions or any other action challenging any aspect of the detention of foreign detainees [there], except for the narrow question of whether [Defense Department] status review boards follow their own rules."

The vote on November 10 was 49 to 42. That action by the Senate so alarmed the law school deans at Georgetown, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford—Alexander Aleinikoff, Elena Kagan, Harold Hongu Koh, and Larry Kramer—that they wrote a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, that he inserted in the November 15 Congressional Record. (Leahy, a firm constitutionalist, voted against Graham's amendment.) I haven't the space for all of the deans' letter, but I quote from page S12802 and strongly recommend you read the entire Senate debate that day, which led to the eventual 84-14 vote that disgraces the majority of the Senate—and could place the liberties of all of us, not only the Guantánamo prisoners, at risk.

Said the deans: "We cannot imagine a more inappropriate moment to remove scrutiny of Executive Branch treatment of non-citizen detainees. We are all aware of serious and disturbing reports of secret overseas prisons, extraordinary renditions [by the CIA], and the abuse of prisoners in Guantánamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

"The Graham Amendment will simply reinforce the public perception that Congress approves Executive Branch decisions to act beyond the reach of law. [Emphasis added.] As such, it undermines two core elements of the rule of law: congressionally sanctioned rules that limit and guide the exercise of Executive power, and judicial review to ensure that those rules have in fact been honored.

"When dictatorships have passed laws stripping their courts of power to review executive detention or punishment of prisoners, our government has rightly challenged such acts as fundamentally lawless. The same standard should apply to our own government. We urge you to vote to remove the court-stripping provisions of the Graham Amendment from the pending legislation."

The majority of the Senate continue to ignore all warnings on this subversion of the separation of powers. But there was a backlash to that first Graham amendment from civil liberties and human rights organizations and members of Congress. This resulted in various amendments and counter-amendments on the Senate floor to "improve" that initial startling Graham amendment. Adding minimal due-process protections, this "improvement" nonetheless remains dangerous to the future of the Constitution and its separation of powers because it continues to deny habeas protections to Guantánamo prisoners. Making that case, I quote from a November 17 letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist from the justly prestigious Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Despite the attempts to perform cosmetic surgery on the original Graham amendment, said the New York City bar, the version that the Senate is sending to the House "leaves a gaping hole precisely where the Administration's policies are most troublesome, and where the world is most carefully watching—the indefinite detention of persons whose status as an enemy combatant has not been adequately examined, and the treatment of those detainees.

"The 'war on terror,' unlike other U.S. wars, has no conceivable end point. . . . Therefore, there is every reason to believe that the detainees being held at Guantánamo could spend the rest of their lives as prisoners."

The New York bar letter ends with this acutely telling point: "Just yesterday, we learned that our government expressed outrage over the torture of prisoners by Iraqi captors in an Iraqi ministry building. To have moral force, our expressions of outrage must be buttressed at home by protections that only the writ of habeas corpus can provide."

The Graham-Levin-Kyl amendment passed on November 15 by a resounding vote of 84 to 14. It does not—as the ACLU emphasizes—"allow any habeas claim for protection against government-funded torture or abuse . . . and prohibits all habeas claims if the government decides it is going to hold a person with- out ever determining their status." (Distinguished civil libertarians Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer voted for the amendment.)

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