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Taste Testing Carrots
On Tuesday, Mr Chiots and I tried one of each of those carrots that I harvested on Monday. It was very interesting to be able to try so many different kinds at once. The only problem was that it was difficult to tell which was which on some of them, some of my labels had disappeared from the garden, and we didn't keep them all separate at harvest. So I was going on shape and size based on the description on the seed packets. *note to self* I must find a better labeling pen
The 'Muscade' carrots were probably the best when it came to size of carrots and uniformity, they did very well. They're a shorter fatter carrot, which are the kinds I like. The 'Atomic Purple' did well for size also as did one one yellow variety. The best tasting ones were probably the 'Napli' I grew (these are the variety Eliot Coleman calls "sugar carrots"). If you like those little baby carrots from the store you'll love 'Short n Sweet' as they taste exactly the same, they're small, sweet and very crunchy and had a great texture. The 'Little Finger' carrots also were great, nice and orange and with great texture.
The white ones we didn't like much at all, and one of the yellow varieties didn't do so well in the cold weather as the texture was off. I grew both 'Yellowstone' and 'Amarillo Yellow', I'm not sure which was which at harvest. I won't give them the thumbs down because they might be very delicious if grown and harvested in warmer weather. I have a few seeds left so they'll be sown this spring and we'll test again then. I also wasn't super impressed with 'Chantenay Red Core' the carrots didn't size up as well as the other varieties and they were more difficult to peel because they were highly textured on the outside. Perhaps these are also more of a warm weather carrot.
I still have seeds left for most of these varieties so I'll grow them again and keep better track and do a better break down for you in 6 months or so. For my fall planting I'll definitely narrow it down to 2-3 varieties. I think trying new carrots is more for the spring/summer growing season.
Have you found a type of carrot that works well in your climate/soil/garden? Do any of you have a great labeling pen you'd like to recommend that will go the distance in the harsh weather?Filed under Edible, Winter Gardening | Comments (30)
30 Comments to "Taste Testing Carrots"
I haven't tested many carrot varieties, nor do I have a good labeling pen, but I was interested in your results. I found it interesting that the purple carrot is yellow inside.
to Sense of Home's comment
I'm curious. What didn't you like about the white variety? I grew a mix of carrots last year and found that if I harvested the white carrots a bit early (similar to what you showed in your pictures) they were very sweet, albeit a bit woody. I'm considering them again this year but was wondering if you know which variety you chose and why you weren't impressed.
Also, were the atomic red and cosmic purples very different in color/texture/taste? I'm considering those as well, but if they're similar I may just choose one variety.
Thanks for sharing such an excellent run down of your carrot trials! I'm "wish-listing" over at Baker Creek's web site today to prepare for the big 2011 order and it's been such a help to have your input.
to Emily Jenkins's comment
Wow, Susy! They're all gorgeous. We prefer Little Finger here. Just like you, we love the texture. Sounds like we should try the Napli!
to Morgan G's comment
I use either a black sharpie (the other colors fade) or an alcohol ink garden marking pen on giant popsicle sticks. We don't have super harsh weather like you do and sometimes I lose the popsicle sticks when I leave them near the base of the plant. I've started putting the sticks in near the edge of the bed so I can find them.
to annie's comment
Currently, I'm growing Atomic Red and Cosmic Purple. They are doing great. Did you know that my area (Bakersfield, CA) is home to two of the nation's largest carrot producers? Carrots seem to grow well here – especially in the sandier soils.
to MAYBELLINE's comment
I haven't tried it yet, but I had highlighted this pen to order from Johnny's Select Seeds 2011 catalog, page 187, bottom right, item #9350 – Weatherproof Marking Pen… says "excellent fade and weather resistance in our trials". Plus it's earth friendly.
Despite the fact that Grimmway farms literally grows thousands of carrots (you know, all those "bunny luv" things in all the grocery stores) just about 5 miles away from my house, I have ZERO success growing carrots. Do you have a post on growing them or will you be writing one? I could use some help. I think I need to add some sand to my soil…
to Amy @ Homestead Revival's comment
Thanks for the carrot comparison! I always label with pencil…it seems to work well.
to Jackie's comment
I have had horrible luck with carrots, but I'll be trying them again this year!
to Wendy's comment
Thanks for your suggestions. I've had a difficult time with carrots. I've heard about putting a board over them to help them germinate. Have you done anything special?
to Allison's comment
We love little fingers, we have fairly heavy soil and little finger seems to be variety that grows best. Usually they get no more that 4 inches long and that seems to be the right size for our soil. They also make a really good winter carrot, they seem to size up quicker than some other varieties and then they spend the cold winter months getting sweeter and sweeter!!!
to Rick's comment
Interesting! I think it would also be interesting to do a taste test of them cooked versus raw. Evidently there are two main types of carrots–ones that are best eaten raw and others that are best eaten cooked. Some have significantly higher starch content (like a russet potato) that tastes best when cooked, but doesn't taste much like anything when raw. But the starchier varieties turn that velvety smooth texture when you cook them, which I like best in my stews and such.
I am also going to be trying out a regular old grease pen (AKA wax pencil) this year on my seed tags.
to Vegetable Garden Cook's comment
I like Purple Dragon carrots. They always perform well from a spring & late summer planting. They taste really good too. The Napli ones sound good, I'll have to look for them.
to Dan's comment
Don't worry about the pen; plant the varieties in alphabetical order.
to bonnie's comment
Great information on carrots. Thanks. I have Danvers on my list of seeds to order. Descriptions says it is better for clay and heavy soils.
to Sincerely, Emily's comment
enjoyed reading your results- i am no help with marking – use same method you do.
most farmers i talked to around here raise- short n sweet, little finger and paris market/parisienne. I would like to try napoli and some color variations
to alecia's comment
I had good luck with my atomic purples last year and have been trying to decide what other varieties to try. Thanks for the suggestions.
By the way, I am going into withdrawal for your sourdough bread. Just when I got the hang of making it, I hurt my elbow and can't kneed for a while. Big bummer.
to Kelly (The Sorry Gardener)'s comment
a friend that works at an iris farm uses wooden stakes painted with exterior house paint, and then marked with black alcohol based paint pens. The stakes last about 2-3 years, sometimes longer…the writing does fade, but it's still legible. He's considered swiping over the writing with some exterior poly, like Thompson's water seal, but that might be overkill for you. I think the size of the stakes makes a big difference on how long they will last. The iris farm uses wood lath, cut to 14″-ish.
Thanks for the carrot review. I, too would like some instruction, being a novice veggie gardener. Root crops are a bit daunting to me.
P.S. It would be so handy if all the garden bloggers out there would put their zone in their right column as a quick reference to those of us that hoard gardening blogs…what zone are you in?
to sallymander's comment
I agree about the "Little Finger" carrots; in my heavy clay soil these and any of the Chantenay types are my best germinators. I don't cover them at all, but if we get a pounding rain and a crust forms as the soil dries, I go down the row and break up the crust by tapping gently with a rake. I planted "Danvers" once and they grew okay, but I found them very bland tasting and quite woody in texture; none of that bright crispness that I like in a good carrot. Chantenay also stores very well for me, without any metallic taste like some carrots seem to develop in storage.
to Corrie's comment
I get my gardening pens at Parkseed.com. I've used them for years in the Florida sunshine, and the labels don't fade away.
Nice blog, keep gardening and growing.
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Thank goodness for Thanksgiving! In addition to all the food and family bonding, this long weekend rules because it's prime relaxation time. Consider it a welcome break from classes and stress, with a whole lot of pumpkin pie on the side.
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Feds outline HSBC ties to laundering, drug money
WASHINGTON British bank HSBC (HBC) violated the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics drug traffickers in Mexico and intentionally allowed prohibited transactions with Iran and other nations that have been under sanctions, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday.
In court papers filed in federal court in Brooklyn, the federal government said the case against HSBC is related to the laundering of proceeds from narcotics trafficking via the Black Market Peso Exchange - a method by which money launderers convert cash narcotics dollars into Colombian pesos by buying and re-selling wholesale consumer goods.
- HSBC chief apologizes for lax controls
- HSBC legal costs rise by $1.1B, shares slump
- HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case
"The lack of an effective anti-money laundering program at HSBC Mexico and HSBC Bank USA, N.A. contributed to the conduct charged" in the money-laundering case against narcotics traffickers, Justice Department prosecutors said in court papers.
The government alleges that HSBC intentionally allowed prohibited transactions with Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma. The federal government also said the bank facilitated transactions with Cuba in violation of the Trading With the Enemy Act.
The documents say the prohibited transactions with Iran, Libya, Sudan and Burma took place from 2001 through 2006.
In regard to the Mexican drug traffickers, the bank HSBC USA failed to adequately monitor over $9.4 billion from HSBC Mexico.
The British banking giant on Tuesday issued an apology.
"We accept responsibility for our past mistakes. We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again," said Stuart Gulliver, group chief executive of HSBC.
In a statement of facts, the Justice Department said that "HSBC Bank USA admits" that it violated the Bank Secrecy Act. The law makes it a crime to willfully fail to establish and maintain an effective anti-money laundering program.
The bank "ignored the money laundering risks associated with doing business with certain Mexican customers and failed to implement" an anti-money laundering program "that was adequate to monitor suspicious transactions from Mexico" from 2006 through 2010, the government's statement of facts said.
The government's allegations come as HSBC says it has agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle the U.S. money-laundering probe. The bank announced on Tuesday that "under these agreements," HSBC will "continue to cooperate fully with regulatory and law enforcement authorities."
U.S. defends deal with British bank
The U.S. stopped short of charging executives, citing the bank's immediate, full cooperation and the damage that an assault on the company might cause on economies and people, including thousands who would lose jobs if the bank collapsed.
Outside experts said it was evidence that a doctrine of "too big to fail," or at least "too big to prosecute," was alive and well four years after the financial crisis.
The settlement avoided a legal battle that could have further savaged the bank's reputation and undermined confidence in the banking system. HSBC does business in almost 80 countries, so many that it calls itself "the world's local bank."
Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's criminal division, cited a "stunning, stunning failure" by the bank to monitor itself. He said that it enabled countries subject to U.S. sanction - Cuba, Iran, Libya, Myanmar and Sudan - to move about $660 million in prohibited transactions through U.S. financial institutions, including HSBC, from the mid-1990s through September 2006.
Officials noted that HSBC officers in the United States had warned counterparts at the parent company that efforts to hide where financial transactions originated would expose the bank to sanctions, but the protests were ignored.
HSBC even instructed an Iranian bank in one instance how to format messages so that its financial transactions would not be blocked, Breuer said at a news conference announcing the settlement.
"The record of dysfunction that prevailed at HSBC for many years is simply astonishing," Breuer said.
For the government not to go a step further and prosecute was "beyond obscene," said Bill Black, a former U.S. regulator for the Office of Thrift Supervision who now teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
"Regulators are telling us, `Yes, they're felons, they're massive felons, they did it for years, they lied to us, and they made a lot of money ... and they got caught red-handed and they're gonna walk.'"
Black disputed the government's concern that indicting HSBC could take down the financial system.
"That's the logic that we get stability by leaving felons in charge of our largest banks," he said. "This is insane."
Breuer defended the government's agreement with HSBC. He said that U.S. employees in particular seemed duped by criminal enterprises taking advantage of HSBC oversight policies that over decades became increasingly lax.
Court documents showed that the bank let over $200 trillion between 2006 and 2009 slip through relatively unmonitored, including more than $670 billion in wire transfers from HSBC Mexico, making it a favorite of drug cartels and money launderers. HSBC Bank USA at the time rated Mexico in its lowest risk category.
Top executives who felt "the pressure of the bottom line" continually cut staff that might have discovered how criminal enterprises were taking advantage of the bank, Breuer said.
Officials noted that the deal for the first time resulted in U.S. court supervision of a foreign banking institution and lengthy monitoring of a radically changed bank that had changed all its top management.
Before the government stepped in, HSBC used only one or two compliance officers to monitor its banknotes business - the wholesale buying and selling of bulk cash around the world - even though the business is highly vulnerable to money launderers.
Despite the high risk, discrepancies and suspicious activity in banknotes transactions were not reported from July 2006 to July 2009, when the banks' compliance staffing was at its worst.
In March 2008, when 13,000 to 15,000 suspicious wire alerts were generated per month by such transactions, only four employees were around to review them, according to court papers. HSBC Bank USA now has 430 employees reviewing suspicious wire alerts.
"I think it's a disservice to suggest that anyone's getting a pass here," Breuer said.
Asked repeatedly why no bank executives were being prosecuted, Breuer said, "I'm not here to defend HSBC." Yet, he added: "Our goal is not to bring HSBC down."
He said to do so would affect the economy and cost thousands of people their jobs. He said no criminal charges would be brought unless it could be proved that executives purposely tried to let criminal organizations launder money.
Other officials noted that some of what was going on may have violated U.S. laws but not the laws of Britain or other nations where HSBC employees were carrying out their work.
The bank's CEO, Stuart Gulliver, said that it accepted responsibility for its mistakes and was "profoundly sorry." He added: "The HSBC of today is a fundamentally different organization from the one that made those mistakes."
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch in Brooklyn said the bank's "blatant failure" to implement proper anti-money laundering controls permitted drug organizations in Mexico to launder at least $881 million in drug proceeds through the U.S. financial system. Court documents show that HSBC expanded its banking links with Mexico in 2002 when it acquired Mexico's fifth-largest bank with approximately 1,400 branches and 6 million customers. According to the documents, HSBC's head of compliance acknowledged at the time that what became HSBC Mexico had "no recognizable compliance or money laundering function ... at present."
Besides forfeiting $1.25 billion in its deal with the government, HSBC also agreed to pay $665 million in civil penalties, including $500 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and $165 million to the Federal Reserve. The U.S. said the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority was pursuing a separate action.
It was not the first time that the bank has gotten in trouble with American authorities. In July, a Senate subcommittee on investigations criticized HSBC for lax controls that allowed money laundering.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., accused the bank of "playing fast and loose with U.S. banking rules."
In the middle of the hearing, HSBC's head of group compliance, David Bagley, acknowledged "some significant areas of failure" in the bank's compliance, then broke from his prepared testimony to resign.
At the same Senate hearing, the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, found fault with his own agency. It "could have and should have" addressed problems at the bank sooner, he said.
Money laundering by banks has become a target for U.S. law enforcement. Since 2009, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Lloyds and ING have all paid big settlements related to allegations that they moved money for people or companies under U.S. sanction.
The money-laundering affair is the latest scandal to strike the banks since the 2008 financial crisis.
Standard Chartered, another British bank, signed an agreement with New York regulators on Monday to settle a money-laundering investigation involving Iran with a $340 million payment.
HSBC should easily be able to absorb the $1.9 billion penalty issued this week. It turned a profit of $17 billion last year alone.
John Martin, the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the settlement resulted from a five-year investigation that included the study of 9 million documents.
"Money is what makes the world of organized crime go around," he said. "HSBC got into a bad place."
Gulliver assumed the CEO job Jan. 1, 2011, but has been at the company since 1980. In late 2010, when Gulliver was preparing to take the CEO job, the bank shook up top management.
"After the financial crisis, I believe customers are thinking more carefully about who they trust with their wealth and savings," Gulliver said in a statement at the time.


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A "six-figure" deal to keep a Banksy mural which targets the issue of Government surveillance at its current site is nearly complete, an art dealer has claimed.
Robin Barton, from London art gallery Bankrobber, said he was approached by the owner of the Grade II listed building, on which the Spy Booth artwork is painted, after he was "shocked at the level of vitriol" following reports that the piece may be sold and removed.
The creation shows three 1950s-style agents, wearing brown trench coats and trilby hats, using devices to tap into conversations at a telephone box.
It appeared overnight on a street in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in April, just a few miles from GCHQ, where the UK's surveillance network is based.
Scaffolding erected around the artwork on Wednesday was initially believed to be for maintenance work.
But John Joyce, of Q Scaffolding, later claimed his boss, street art collector Sky Grimes, had bought the piece from the property's owner and planned to remove it.
Mr Barton said the building owner had since contacted him, claiming he had received death threats amid widespread local opposition to the reported removal plans.
The art dealer said a six-figure deal was now near completion with the "local business community" that would ensure the work remains at the site.
There were also early discussions about converting the building into a Banksy museum, Mr Barton claimed.
"A deal is close to being concluded that will see this much loved local landmark remain in situ and protected into the future," he said.
"Pending no disasters, as far as I'm concerned the deal will go through and the piece will remain where it is."
Banksy officially confirmed the piece was his work on a link titled Q&A on his website.
Local residents and business groups in Cheltenham say the removal of the artwork would be a "huge loss" to the spa town.
Michael Ratcliffe, chief executive of Cheltenham Chamber of Commerce, said: "It has been a great asset, a lot of people have been coming to the town to see it.
"If we can keep it in the town we will - we want to keep it in the town."
A spokeswoman for Cheltenham Borough Council said the owner was not required to inform the authority what was happening to the piece.


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Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years on stage
LONDON — It's only rock 'n' roll, but the Rolling Stones definitely like it.
The band celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first gig at a bash in London Thursday, and despite being well over retirement age, the Stones have no plans to quit.
"All of this has sort of brought us back together, and we'll see what comes out of it," said guitarist Keith Richards, who revealed that the Stones have begun rehearsing for new live shows that could come later this year.
It all means Jagger may need to rethink the words he sang more than 45 years ago in "Mother's Little Helper" - "What a drag it is getting old."
The group is marking its half-century with no letup in its productivity or rock 'n ' roll style. At 68, Jagger is still the cool, rich frontman of the world's most successful rock band.
Now in their late 60s and early 70s, the band members celebrated the anniversary by attending a retrospective photo exhibition at London's Somerset House.
Jagger, Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts mingled with a mixed crowd of rockers, writers and hangers-on - from Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall to playwright Tom Stoppard - at a launch party for the exhibition.
The show, which opens to the public Friday, charts the band's career from their first official photo shoot in 1963 - young mop tops lined up against a row of red phone boxes - to their monster '80s and '90s stadium tours.
"You can see when you look at the photos how we couldn't give a hoot about anything," Jagger said with rock 'n 'roll pride. "You can just sort of tell by the attitude of those photographs how we didn't care."
Jagger spoke to the Associated Press 50 years to the day after the young R&B band played London's Marquee Club. Taking a name from a song by bluesman Muddy Waters, they were billed as "The Rollin' Stones" -the 'g' came later.
The lineup for the gig was vocalist Jagger, guitarists Richards and Brian Jones, bassist Dick Taylor, pianist Ian Stewart and Mick Avory on drums. Taylor and Avory soon left the lineup, while Stewart switched to a backup role; drummer Watts joined in 1963 and guitarist Wood in 1975.
The band had its first hit, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On," in 1963, and soon became one of the world's biggest and most influential rock acts, rivaled only by The Beatles.
The Beatles split up in 1970, but the Stones are still going strong - something Jagger attributes in part to an early grounding in versatility.
He said that at that first gig, "the audience was college students having a night out, and they weren't particularly demonstrative, but they appreciated and enjoyed the set. That was our audience, it was more of a college audience, art-school kind of crowd. A few months later we were playing in front of 11 year olds who were screaming at us.
"Even in the very early days, we played to a lot of different kinds of audiences."
Music critic John Aizlewood said the Stones' contribution to rock 'n' roll is "immeasurable."
"They are a founding father of rock music as we know it," he said. "Other bands have tried and not pulled off that amount of sexiness, allied to a kind of street-fighting menace."
Aizlewood said the Rolling Stones have endured where other bands have split because "they are smart enough to put the band ahead of the individuals, despite their collective egos."
He said they are also canny businessmen, and realized early on that "once you get to a certain level, if you maintain your live performance, you can play stadiums forever."
The Stones have sold more than 200 million records, with hits including "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Street Fighting Man" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
But in recent years much of their income has come from touring. Their last global tour, "A Bigger Bang," earned more than $500 million between 2005 and 2007.
The band has famously gone through rocky periods. Founding member Brian Jones drowned in his swimming pool in 1969. Jagger and Richards are both creative catalysts and sparring partners. But something - Richards calls it "chemistry" - keeps them going.
"I'd bottle it if I knew what it was," he said.
Band mate Wood agreed.
"When we do get together, no matter what's going on … something changes and it all channels through and comes out in the music," he said.


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http://mmajunkie.com The fight card for Saturday's Bellator 40 event is official with seven bouts.
Officials today announced the full card, which takes place April 9 at First Council Casino in Newkirk, Okla.
The night's MTV2 broadcast features welterweight champion Ben Askren (7-0 MMA, 4-0 BFC) vs. Nick Thompson (38-13-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) in a non-title fight, as well as welterweights Jay Hieron (20-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) vs. Brent Weedman (18-5-1 MMA, 4-0 BFC) and lightweights Michael Chandler (6-0 MMA, 3-0 BFC) vs. Llyod Woodard (11-0 MMA, 1-0 BFC) in tourney-semifinal fights.
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported, featherweights Ronnie Mann (18-2-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and Josh Arocho (13-9 MMA, 0-0 BFC) have been scratched from the card due to Mann's visa issues. The main card goes on with three bouts, though some preliminary-card action is expected to air in some form.
As we previously reported, featured preliminary-card matchups include welterweights Tyler Stinson (19-7 MMA, 1-2 BFC) vs. Nate James (11-6-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and heavyweights Eric Prindle (6-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Josh Burns (6-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
Other preliminary-card bouts include welterweights David Rickles (4-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Dylan Smith (7-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and lightweights Cody Carrillo (6-4 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Michael Osborn (2-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
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LAKELAND, Fla. -- The odd sound around the Tigers' clubhouse Sunday afternoon was the bounce of a basketball. In this case, it was manager Brad Ausmus' doing, as part of his latest effort to break up the monotony of early Spring Training workouts.
Ausmus, who plays basketball in an over-40 league at home in San Diego during the offseason, decided to hoop it up against his players in a shooting contest. It wasn't full-fledged basketball, but enough of a break from baseball to provide a change of pace.
"Bud Black did it in San Diego," Ausmus said, "so I kind of brought it over."
Teams were generally organized by position, with catchers, infielders, outfielders and members of the coaching staff opposing each other. Those players who weren't picked for their team were eligible to be drafted by Torii Hunter's squad.
It wasn't the first time a Tigers player made news on the court. Austin Jackson's dunk at the end of an offseason workout drew plenty of pageviews online last month after Hunter tweeted the link. That's a lot different, however, than a jumper.
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Gerard Depardieu, France's pride and joy and best export actor, a man who is a far cry from decorum and chi chi values....decided that he needed to relieve himself there and then on a flight from Paris to Dublin. By there, I mean on the much trodden carpet of the plane and then, well simply that.... and not the 15mns after take off the stewardess asked him to do. Apparently it was done with as much tack and sophistication as possible...he simply stood up and peed.....
If you can't hold your alcohol,you can't hold your pee....thanks to Mr Depardieu ,both issues have been tried and tested in front of a live audience.
My friend whose husband is a pilot for a well known airline, told me a fascinating tale about the sunny Kate Hudson. The lovely young actress know for her romcom roles and easy manner kicked up a fuss on a flight from London to Los Angeles . The reason for her unease? The gentleman sitting across from her in First class was talking on his cellphone.......in Arabic.
Yes, the Lebanese passenger was talking in his mother tongue and Ms Hudson took immediate affront and sought umbrage with the staff , demanding that the passenger be immediately removed from the plane.
When the message was relayed to the pilot, he asked the stewardess to relay the following message to his valued passenger :" Please tell Ms Hudson that she should rest assured, her pilot is himself Lebanese and has never had any problem getting his passengers to their destination. Now if she feels that she cannot remain on this flight , then he would be happy to take the necessary measures to have her disembark at her leisure and continue her journey on another flight."
Ms Hudson's luggage was removed from the plane and left on the tarmac...for as long as it took to clear them and her..... for her next flight.
P.Middy's every move is documented ad nauseum. Yes, today she was papped in Chelsea coming out from her beautician's after having had a wax..yes, even the illustrious P.Middy gets a wax from her local beautician. What I find bewildering is the unnecessary need to proclaim her "fashionista du jour".
Her mid drift mack may be "trendy" and yes, nude maxis are in style and yes...she happened to pair it all up with a mustard coloured handbag...I say kudos! Today she has actually come close to dressing like a woman of her age .
Let us really address the "Fashion Police" issue:those horrendous "auntie" peeptoe canvas slingbacks she insists on wearing.
What is up with those? They are so beyond fashion they have actually left this hemisphere and moved on to planet Mumsy. They simply do not figure in any fashion lexicon as something remotely considered as fashionable or dare I say it : sexy footwear. Check the celebs and fashion forward people around you....Daphne Guinness? Angelina Jolie? Even British Kate Winslet?... Hmm ?.....seen anyone of them wearing that particular model of sheer mumsiness?
I didn't think so.
Can we kindly take it down a notch and revere her simply for her bottom.
Now for the ridiculous......
Yes, don't adjust your sets...this is Mohammed Al Fayed in the celluloid flesh on....Celebrity Big Brother.
He was doing a guest appearance and as well as making a royal "Asp" of himself.
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The ring of polynomials over a field with no linear term is not a UFD
Let $F$ be a field. Prove that the subset $R \subseteq F[x]$ consisting of all polynomials whose linear coefficient is zero is a subring. Prove also that $R$ is not a unique factorization domain.
To show that $R$ is a subring, we need to see that it is closed under subtraction and multiplication. To that end, let $\alpha = a_0 + > x^2a(x)$ and $\beta = b_0 + x^2 b(x)$ be in R.
Then $\alpha - > \beta$ = $(a_0 - b_0) + x^2(a(x) - b(x)) \in R$ and $\alpha \beta - > a_0b_0 + x^2(b_0a(x)x^2 + a_0b(x)x^2 + x^4a(x)b(x)) \in R$.
So $R$ is a subring.
Next, we claim that $x^2$ and $x^3$ are irreducible in R. To see this, note that no element of $R$ has degree $1$. If $x^2 = p(x)q(x)$ factors in $R$, then computing the degree of both sides we have $\mathsf{deg}(p(x)) > + \mathsf{deg}(q(x)) = 2$. Since neither of these degrees is $1$, one must be $0$, so that without loss of generality, $p(x)$ is constant and thus a unit. So $x^2$ is irreducible. Similarly, $x^3$ is irreducible because if two nonnegative integers sum to $3$ then one of them must be $0$ or $1$. So $x^2$ and $x^3$ are irreducible in $R$.
Now $x^6 = x^2x^2x^2 = x^3x^3$, so that $x^6$ has at least two distinct irreducible factorizations in $R$. Thus $R$ is not a unique factorization domain.
(We are not required to show that this is indeed a subring, only that it is not a unique factorization domain.)
I understand (more or less) everything stated, through "Now $x^6 = x^3x^3 = x^2x^2x^2$".
Does this conclude the proof because we have found an element in R with two distinct factorizations?
How did we use the requirement that the linear terms be zero?


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Julie Myers: Walk softly, carry a big (lacrosse) stick
The pink Lacoste shirt, shorts, and kicky pink flip-flops somehow don't seem to square with the fact that Julie Myers is a jock– and a wunderkind in women's lacrosse.
Myers became head coach at UVA in 1995 at age 26. "I didn't know I was going to end up head coach so quickly," she says. "At every step, I was in the right place at the right time."
Sitting in her third-floor office in the McCue Center, with its mesmerizing view of cranes at work on the basketball arena across the street, Myers has hardly had time to bask in the afterglow of kicking Princeton's Ivy derrière to win the NCAA lacrosse championship last month.
The national victory is especially sweet because the Cavs lost to Princeton not only earlier this year but also in last year's title game. Myers, pregnant then, wondered if she could have one celebratory beer, but when UVA lost, that was no longer an issue. This year, the champagne could flow.
It wasn't Myers' first NCAA title. She already had two– as a player and as an assistant coach. And she sits in the top 10 of all-time winning lacrosse coaches.
Before Myers came to UVA as an undergrad, she played both lacrosse and that other skirt-wearing sport, field hockey, in her native Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. "I grew up in sports," says this third of seven children.
The downside to being coach is that she can't just hop into a pick-up game because her players, she claims, play much better than she ever did. "To maintain credibility," she says, "I don't scrimmage with them."
When not coaching the champs, she's into being a mom, trying to leave early during the summer to spend time with her three year old and 11 month old and "act like a normal person."
For a person who clearly loves her job, Myers admits there's very little down time. She's barely through winning the title before it's time to go recruit players, coach summer camps– and then it's fall again. "It never really stops," she says.
And Myers won't be able to rest on her laurels. Athletic director Craig Littlepage wants UVA to haul in 70 ACC titles and 12 NCAA titles over the next 10 years. "I think that's within reason," says Myers. "We got six this year."
Besides, "I don't look at it as pressure as much as desire," says the ever-competitive Myers.
The lacrosse un-savvy may want to know, what's with those little skirts? They're called kilts, Myers explains, and yes, the players' wear tights– shorts– under them so that their underpants are not exposed. "You really don't know anything about lacrosse, do you?" Myers asks a visitor.
Lacrosse may have the image of an elitist sport, but Myers says it's more a middle class one: Most of her players have a stay-at-home parent, and only three have divorced parents.
So any shootings or shoplifting among her players? She laughs. "It's a pretty clean sport."
Age: 36
What brought you here? I wanted to go to UVA since I can remember. I was offered a small grant in aid to come to UVA to get my education and to play field hockey and lacrosse.
What's worst about living here? 29 North
Favorite hangout? UVA stadiums on game day... any sport, any season
Most overrated virtue? Being thrifty. I'm a spender through and through.
What would people be surprised to know about you? I don't fear bugs, rodents, or snakes.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I wish I could allow myself more time to relax and enjoy quality time with my family and friends. I spread myself too thin and am constantly on the move.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? My affiliation with a successful lacrosse program and athletic department at a great university.
What do people find most annoying about you? My inability to sit still. My need for cleanliness and order. My Pollyanna attitude.
Whom do you admire? Jane Miller– a great mentor and role model; Larry Brown– able to create success everywhere, and John Wooden– personal philosophy and expectations of success.
Favorite book? Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose - Dr. Seuss
What subject causes you to rant? Fair weather fans. I think you should stick with your team through thick or thin and find ways to support and encourage.
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? Ability to stay connected no matter where you are. Speed at which you can do so many things.
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? The idea that I can be Googled.
What do you drive? [Mercedes-Benz] E320 wagon
What's in your car CD player right now? Team mix of hip hop...Jay Z, Biggie, etc.
What's your next journey? 29 North. Professionally– to repeat in 2005. Personally– watching my kids grow up.
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? Sneaking out of my house late night to see my high school boyfriend only to get back to the house with the alarm set, and no way in without waking up my parents.
What do you regret? Not setting a bedtime for my three-year-old daughter. She's a night owl.
Favorite comfort food? Milk Duds
What's always in your refrigerator? Classic Coke and cream for my coffee
Must-see TV? Sports Center
Favorite cartoon? Disney's Mulan
Describe a perfect day. A flat, windless morning run on a clear day down in Duck, North Carolina. My kids sleep until 7am. After coffee, the family heads to the beach and spends the day building sand castles, taking walks, and playing in the waves. We finish our day poolside, take an outside shower, and head to the Blue Point Restaurant for dinner and drinks.
Walter Mitty fantasy? Winning an Olympic gold medal, and standing on the podium with my teammates as our national anthem plays
Who'd play you in the movie? Mariel Hemingway– she has long arms, and my husband likes her.
Most embarrassing moment? I was coaching at a clinic in Atlanta and staying in a UVA alumnus' basement apartment. About midnight, the toilet overflowed. I mean really overflowed. By the time I got out of the shower, the bathroom floor was completely flooded and water was quickly leaking into the bedroom. I had to shut off the water and grab really nice towels to clean it all up. It was a huge mess. The next morning I had to wash all six towels and ask for a plunger. Mortifying.
Best advice you ever got? Work hard and see things through to the end...however long that may be.
Favorite bumper sticker? Virginia Women's Lacrosse 2004 NCAA Champions. They should be made soon!
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Defensive line coach Jim Washburn was fired Monday, the latest shakeup for the sinking Philadelphia Eagles.
Coach Andy Reid dismissed the abrasive Washburn just hours after the team's eighth straight loss, 38-33 at the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night. Former defensive line coach Tommy Brasher will replace Washburn.
This was the third major move on defense in seven weeks. Defensive coordinator Juan Castillo was fired on Oct. 16. Two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Babin was released last week.
The Eagles (3-9) are mired in their worst losing streak since 1968 and searching for answers after opening the season with Super Bowl aspirations.
``I think it's the best thing for the Philadelphia Eagles and this football team that I made that move,'' Reid said. ``This was a move that I made. Nobody else made this move. This isn't a move to save my job. This is a move that I think needed to be done now, and so I did it now.''
Reid is assured of just his third losing season in 14 years, and could be coaching his final games in Philadelphia. Owner Jeffrey Lurie already said the Eagles needed to make ``substantial improvement'' after going 8-8 last year and that a similar record would be ``unacceptable.''
Regardless, Reid has one year left on his contract and is proceeding with important decisions. After firing Washburn, Reid said rookie Nick Foles would be the starting quarterback the rest of the season, even when Michael Vick returns from a concussion.
Washburn's dismissal wasn't entirely a surprise. Washburn was known for having a strong personality and being confrontational with other coaches. He had to be separated from offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg on the sideline during a game against New England last November.
One player, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Washburn often was ``disrespectful'' to other staff members, particularly Castillo.
``I would just tell you that there were things that I was disappointed in and as time went on I just thought it was the right thing to do right now for this football team,'' Reid said. ``It was just something that I had been pondering and working through.''
Washburn was hired on Jan. 19, 2011 after 12 seasons in Tennessee where he earned a reputation as one of the top positions coaches in the NFL. The Eagles hoped his wide-nine defensive line alignment would produce plenty of pressure on opposing quarterbacks. It did at first. The scheme helped the Eagles tie for the league lead with 50 sacks last season, but has resulted in only 20 so far this year.
Washburn's linemen accounted for 46 of those 50 sacks in 2011, including 18 from Babin and 11 from Trent Cole. But Babin had 5 1/2 this year before he was cut last Tuesday, just 1 1/2 years into a $28 million, five-year contract. Babin was claimed off waivers by the Jacksonville Jaguars. Washburn wasn't pleased with the decision to part with Babin and reportedly threatened to quit. So Reid fired him.
``I don't want to see anybody get fired, but I kind of think from the inside looking out you knew they wanted to do that, especially after our bye week there,'' Babin told reporters in Jacksonville. ``I mean Coach Reid got rid of our refrigerator and our coffee maker in our room. So I could tell there was some feelings between Coach and Wash that were on the surface. You could kind of feel the tension a little bit. I mean, get rid of a guy's refrigerator and coffee maker? I think everybody knew that he probably wasn't going to be here next year anyway.''
Reid said he cut Babin to give more playing time to younger players. Brandon Graham, a 2010 first-round pick, started in Babin's spot and had 1 1/2 sacks against Dallas.
Overall, the line's inability to pressure quarterbacks has made it disastrous for the pass defense. Quarterbacks have picked apart the secondary, especially in the six games since Todd Bowles replaced Castillo.
Tony Romo finished 22 for 27 for 303 yards and three touchdowns for the Cowboys, becoming the sixth straight quarterback to post a passer rating of at least 120.0 against the Eagles. The defense has allowed 16 touchdown passes and has zero interceptions in the last six games.
Reid, though, made it clear the loss to Dallas didn't factor into Washburn's departure.
``It wasn't all about this game,'' he said. ``He's a good football coach and I think it was just maybe a give and take. He's had a great career and he's going to have a great career. That just didn't quite work the way I wanted it to work.''
Brasher served as Philadelphia's defensive line coach in 1985 and from 1999-2005. He worked under coordinator Jim Johnson in his second stint. The Eagles had an outstanding defense during that stretch, which included four straight trips to the NFC championship game and one Super Bowl appearance.
``Having Tommy Brasher back here again brings back a very loyal, loyal assistant coach that I've had here for a number of years, who understands exactly what I'm about and what I'm trying to get done with a young defensive line,'' Reid said.
The Eagles visit Tampa Bay (6-6) next Sunday.
AP Sports Writer Mark Long in Jacksonville, Fla., contributed to this report
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Growing up, I did not have very many toys. I was born in a country where parents were allowed to purchase toys for their children only once a year. It was called "Toy Day". Parents would be given a random number and that would be their place in line. On "Toy Day", little ones, along with their moms and dads, would excitedly stand in line (outside a store that normally did not have toys in their inventory) to choose up to three toys.
Because of this, I am guilty of over compensating with my own kids. Showering them with an abundance of toys. However, sometimes they prefer playing with "things".
The rocks gathered here make up a bed.
The pieces of scrap wood is a house.
Of course, that doesn't mean they don't utilize their toys.
I needlessly worry that if they don't have many toys, they'll feel like they are missing out as I felt when I was little. However, I probably over stress about that. After all, I survived without without needing any therapy! This is something I need to keep in mind this holiday season.


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I am hired as a Director here at Pattaya Chanel, www.pattayachannel.com, a TV station in that country often called "Amazing Thailand". One of first things I had to do once on duty was to take care of the equipment. The quality of the footage was not top notch, and they wanted me to take it to the next level. What a great chance to give a go to what I have learned so far, and put it into practice.


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I'm not a big Halloween fan, I'm normally hiding with the lights off pretending I'm not home when Trick or Treaters come knocking. This year I bought a few oozing eyes from Poundland but I'm hoping no-one comes so I can eat them all myself.
I might be tempted to host a children's Halloween party if I could give tinned fear away instead of party bags though.
The tins contain sweets and children's' stories by bestselling authors.
There is tinned fear scary enough for adults too. I love the names especially 'A Vague Sense Of Unease'…
Both versions are £35 for a set of five or £8 each from Hoxton Street Monster Supplies.
I also love the Salt Made From Tears range.
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Drums are beating louder. Over 50 faculty members have signed a petition to ax the AD and question the Prez about the whole thing.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder Thursday, a day after men's basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for mistreating players, including shoving them and berating them with gay slurs.
More than 50 faculty members signed a letter calling for the dismissal of Athletic Director Tim Pernetti and an explanation from President Robert Barchi for why he didn't fire Rice last year when he learned of a video showing Rice's behavior during practices.
Stephen Sweeney, the president of the state Senate, also called for Pernetti to step down or be fired. Pernetti deserves credit for getting Rutgers into the Big Ten conference, but he mishandled this situation, Sweeney said.
"This incident will continue to hang over Rutgers like a dark cloud for weeks, months and perhaps years to come," the Democratic lawmaker said in a statement. "It seems pretty clear that things were not handled well from the start."
Meanwhile, the number calling for Barchi to step down more than doubled Thursday to 28.
The letter calling for Barchi's resignation was first sent to the university's governing boards on Wednesday. In it, the faculty cite Barchi's "inexcusable handling of coach Mike Rice's homophobic and misogynist abuse" of players, his "continued pattern of insensitivity and arrogance toward issues of diversity" and the "secrecy and lack of transparency that he has exhibited in his relations" with faculty, staff and students.
It's unclear what effect the calls might have on the president or the athletic director. Neither was willing to be interviewed by The Associated Press on Wednesday or Thursday. Members of the university's two governing boards have been mum.
Barchi, a neuroscience researcher before he became a university administrator, was hired a year ago and took office Sept. 1 to lead the university with 58,000 students on three campuses. He had been president of Thomas Jefferson University, a Philadelphia health sciences university, and before that was an administrator at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was brought to Rutgers as the university takes over two medical schools that now are part of the separate University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The ongoing reconfiguration of the state's higher education system is intended to expand Rutgers' life-science research prowess, and Barchi was chosen largely to oversee that.
He had never been an administrator, though, at a school with athletic scholarships.
Over the past decade, Rutgers' athletic program has grown increasingly ambitious and expensive, largely as the university's football team transformed from an also-ran to a power in the Big East conference. The school's teams are set next year to join the more prestigious Big Ten, a move engineered largely by Pernetti, a former TV sports executive.
Shortly after he took office, Barchi told reporters that high-profile sports teams are an important way to increase the university's visibility, but that he wanted to gradually reduce the university's operating subsidy for sports — currently about $8 million per year — while continuing to pay for scholarships for athletes at a cost of about $10 million annually.
Barchi said in a statement Wednesday that Pernetti told him last year about the video of Rice made by a former basketball program employee, but he said he did not watch the video until Tuesday, the day it was made public.
In December, after the university consulted lawyers and commissioned an independent report on Rice's actions, Barchi said he agreed to suspend the coach for three games, fine him and order him to anger management counseling.
He said that when he saw the video, he realized that Rice needed to be removed entirely.
The faculty calling for Barchi to step down said in their letter that he knew enough to remove the coach months ago.
"Although President Barchi is now suggesting otherwise, he has known about Coach Rice's homophobic, misogynist and abusive behavior for several months now," the letter said.
Ron Becker, head of special collections and university archives at Rutgers, said he believes the handling of the situation needs to be reviewed.
"The value of sports and the Division I atmosphere often trumps some of the basic needs of the university," he said. "The pressure to win and succeed at athletics seems to trump (academics) around here."
Democratic state lawmakers, particularly Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, have been calling for legislative hearings on why Rice was not fired sooner, but as of Thursday, none had been scheduled.
Keeping the coach on through the season cost the university a portion of Rice's salary — he was paid $622,500 in 2012 — and also a $100,000 bonus for coaching the final game of the year. "That fact makes his suspension and fine look even more ridiculous," Sweeney said.
Athletic department spokesman Jason Baum said Thursday that the university is contractually obligated to pay the bonus, which is due this month.
Delli Santi reported from Trenton. Also contributing to this report were AP reporters Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield and Katie Zezima in Newark.


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Taylor Swift to Co-Host Grammy Nominations Concert on December 5
LL Cool J is hosting the Grammy Awards Nominations Concert for the fifth straight year, but when members of the Recording Academy found out that Taylor Swift was also available, they couldn't pass up the opportunity to invite the pop-country superstar to co-host.
This year's show, titled 'The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown to Music's Biggest Night,' airs live from Nashville on CBS at 10PM ET on Dec. 5. Swift has come a long way since she last co-hosted the special in 2008. She has won six Grammys, and she was the youngest artist ever to win Album of the Year when 'Fearless' claimed the award in 2010.
Hopefully Taylor has been practicing her "I'm shocked!" award show expression, because she's likely to be one of the stars earning multiple nominations for the 2013 Grammys. Though her new album 'Red' was released after the Grammy cutoff date for this year, its lead single 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' is eligible, as is her duet 'Safe & Sound' with the Civil Wars.
In addition to naming the 2013 Grammy nominees in every major category, the nominations concert will feature live performances by Maroon 5, country singer Luke Bryan, and others to come.
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Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.
- Classroom Resources | Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit
"America the Beautiful": Using Music and Art to Develop Vocabulary
Students engage in a rich study of vocabulary words from the song "America the Beautiful," using music and art.
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Book Cover Creator
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
- Classroom Resources | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity |  April 5
Celebrate National Library Week!
Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.
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Developing Academic Vocabulary
In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
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Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.
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Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
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From Little House to My House: Exploring History and Family Roles
Blaze a trail to new perspectives on home and family through historical fiction read-alouds. Students compare an episode from one of the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in picture book format) with the author's life and with their own experiences.
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Groundhog Day is February 2.
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Miami City Ballet's 'Don Quixote' is bright but not brilliant entertainment
Miami City Ballet is ending its season with a solidly entertaining, if sometimes uneven, production of Don Quixote — the same ballet the troupe danced in its first performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center in fall 2006.
Friday's opening show of this Spanish-flavored crowd pleaser at the Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale again featured Mary Carmen Catoya and Renato Penteado in the lead roles of Kitri and Basilio, the young lovers whose antics and spectacular variations are at the heart of Don Quixote. The company repeats the program Friday through Sunday at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and April 11-13 at the Arsht Center.
Catoya, who has been on maternity leave this season, is back with astonishing verve for a woman who gave birth just seven months ago. Except for a few tense wobbles, Catoya was mostly her old confident self in Kitri's many pyrotechnical variations: sharply outlining purely classical arabesques and coy Spanish twists of her back; reaching into long, proud balances; whipping off spectacular sequences of fouettes and pirouettes; prancing effortlessly on pointe. Catoya has often looked uncomfortably strained in recent performances, and so it was a pleasure to see her again as an adroit comedienne, an impulsive, sparkling and defiant girl.
Penteado also suits as Basilio, making up in punchy, intensely focused power what he lacks in range of movement; his big jumps and leaps, especially in the finale, were thrilling. He was also an adept comic, making Basilio an impish but open-hearted flirt.
The wisp of a plot is centered around Kitri and Basilio's efforts to unite, even as her father (Didier Bramaz) tries to marry her off to the rich, foppish Gamache (a fabulously mincing Jeremy Cox). Don Quixote, understatedly played by Carlos Guerra, is mostly a comic foil, as well as an excuse for an elaborate classical dream sequence in the second act. The young Andrei Chagas made a terrific debut as the Don's bumbling sidekick Sancho Panza, showing an unexpected gift for vivid physical comedy.
Jennifer Kronenberg struck a delicious balance between sultry and delicate as street dancer Mercedes; her partner Reyneris Reyes' imperious machismo as the lunging, cape-swirling matador Espada was marred by tense stiffness.
The lavish Santo Loquasto set and costumes, rented from American Ballet Theater, make this a pleasurably and atypically lush production for MCB. All those layers of ruffles and bright colored satin make the many swirling crowd scenes a visual pleasure.
Where this Don Quixote falls short is in its consistency of style and attention to detail, which can make the difference between thrilling and simply satisfactory entertainment. In group sections the dancers could be out of sync, not moving in unison or shaping their steps in the same way, so that a crucial cohesion of style and impulse was sometimes missing.
A group of toreadors couldn't always snap their capes fully open, and the male gypsies in the second act swaggered a bit too much like Marlon Brando wannabes. (Though Renan Cerdeiro and Patricia Delgado were satisfyingly melodramatic as their leaders). Enough of these inconsistencies and you lose the sense of unified energy and vision that make a big ballet like Don Quixote more than a series of exciting set pieces.
In the dream sequence, Sara Esty was beautifully piquant and quick as Amour, but she also seemed to rush through the delicately detailed gestures and musical accents that could have given her solos much more character. Christie Sciturro was elegant but tense as the Queen of the Dryads. And although Catoya did the spectacular sequence of hops on one pointe and long balances of the dream sequence well, this was the only place where she looked uncomfortably strained, marring what should have been a serene fantasy.
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July 24, 2012 -- The FDA has approved a new inhaled drug for the treatment of the lung disease COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
The drug, called Tudorza Pressair (aclidinium bromide), is a dry powder inhaler. It improves airflow by relaxing the muscles around the large airways of the lungs. Patients use it twice a day.
Tudorza Pressair is approved for the long-term maintenance of COPD only. It is not a "rescue medication" -- a drug used for sudden breathing problems.
COPD is the umbrella term for chronic lung diseases that include emphysema and chronic bronchitis. The symptoms include:
- chest tightness
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- excessive phlegm
Treatment typically involves the use of bronchodilators to open the airways and make breathing easier, and steroids to help reduce airway swelling and mucus production.
Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of COPD.
Tudorza Pressair Approved
The FDA based its approval of Tudorza Pressair on the results of three studies. The studies included more than 1,270 people with COPD.
All the people in the studies had a history of smoking at least one pack of cigarettes a day for 10 years. Those who used Tudorza Pressair showed improvement in lung function measures.
There are some serious side effects associated with Tudorza Pressair. They include:
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The bears are back in town
The big bears are out of the mountains and back in the dumpsters. The second-year bears are scrambling around in their wake.
Some of the visitors are a little freaked out and most of the residents are delighted.
Such is the state of Mammoth's bear population, said Steve Searles, who addressed the Town Council Wednesday in his monthly wildlife report.
"It's really busy out there," he said.
"Due to budget cuts, layoffs and the difficult times we're in, the bears have volunteered to donate their time for public education. If you leave food in your vehicles and you don't lock your garage doors and clear your trash, they will help you with that education.
"Several people were educated last night."
Searles said on Wednesday alone he received 25 bear-related calls, none of them reporting bad behavior.
"We haven't had any traffic collisions or anything like that," he said. "Dispatch is really nice about it, but they're overwhelmed with calls like, 'There's a baby bear in my tree and it might fall!'
"These are all second-year bears. There are seven of them in town. They're wandering all over town, mid-day. They're starving. They're very hungry. Please don't feed them.
"The big bears, in the last 10 days, as was predicted, have moved down from higher elevation as the snow has burned off, so there will be an influx of larger, adult male bears and the little ones have to scatter and get out of the way.
"There are a lot of bears crossing the roads, and if everyone does their part, these are not serious calls. They're more welfare checks, that type of thing. I have a bear that was so happy, he was mooing, like, 'MYEOOO, MYEOOO,' and I had four calls that he had been injured and was in pain.
"People can get a little bit confused."
Among the most entertaining calls, Searles said, was from a woman who was camping with her family in the Lakes Basin.
The familiar bear, commonly called "Blacksocks" round town, moved in just a little bit too close for her liking.
"She barraged him," Searles said. "She threw items at it to make sure the bear would move away from her and do the right thing. But what she was throwing at the bear was all fresh fruit!"
With that, members of the audience howled with laughter, but Searles finished his presentation on a serious note.
"We have to do the best we can getting through this incredible drought we're in."


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Awhile back, we published an article on how to write a sympathy note. Penning this type of correspondence is a difficult task. While I think we offered a good guide, it's one of those things that's easiest to understand when you see a real example. So I when I came across the following letter in the book War Letters, I knew I had to pass it along. It's truly an example of a pitch perfect sympathy note.
The letter was written by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Many know him as an actor, but he was also a highly decorated Naval officer. His awards span the globe: the United States Navy's Legion of Merit with bronze V (for valor), the Italian War Cross for Military Valor, the French Légion d'honneur and the Croix de guerre, and the British Distinguished Service Cross.
When his dear friend, John Kremer, was killed when a kamikaze plane crashed into the USS Orestes during WWII, Fairbanks wrote the following note to Kremer's mother.
Jan 9th
Dear Mrs. Kremer-
Word has just reached me about John.
No words of mine will supply the comfort and the strength which these days require. However, I could not let the day pass without letting you know how very deeply I am feeling the effects of this crushing news.
To say that I was fond of John would merely be the echo of any and all who ever knew him. He was a man whose courage I admired, whose wisdom I respected and whose friendship I treasured. No one will miss him as much as you, but know that I, for one, will remember him with affection and count myself fortunate for having known him,-for as long as I linger with "this mortal coil."
Dick Barthelmess wrote me the news and said, in part, "I hope he is sitting on a nice comfortable cloud, conversing in Greek, with a quartet of harps playing soft chamber music to him. He'd like that." I feel sure that's right.
This sort of letter should be brief but I've gone on because I did want to say my say about a fine man, a courageous warrior and a great friend.
My wife joins me, dear Mrs. Kremer, in sending you and the children our most very sincere sympathy & friendship and the hope that the great sorrow you have will somehow be mitigated by the pride you must also feel.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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few Oracle PL/SQL system packages (kind'a like a SQL Server system
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powerful Oracle packages like DBMS_PIPES. It'd be nice to have those on my SQL Servers just because I know them and like them.
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