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Atmosphere Control
The plants shown being harvested in this garden (courtesy of the Urban Grower) were cultivated in a controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) system that allowed the grower to exercise perfect control over every environmental parameter in the growroom. Daytime and nighttime temperatures are controlled independently and accurately via air-conditioning; excess humidity is removed from the air with industrial dehumidifiers; carbon-dioxide levels are supplemented with a gas-fired CO2 generator; and the air is kept clean and pure with large, activated-charcoal air scrubbers and fans. All of these appliances are connected to precision sensors and monitors that allow the grower to create (and modify) the perfect climate for producing a heavy and sticky harvest of high-quality cannabis.
The level of control in this type of growroom is excellent – but, much like a computer, it's only as good as what you tell it to do. Most cannabis growers recognize that different strains have different preferences when it comes to the growing environment and nutrients. Experienced farmers recognize that at various times throughout the growth cycle, different strains can be manipulated in different ways to enhance the characteristics and traits desired.
Consider that in natural (i.e., outdoor) settings, cannabis plants receive differing intensities, qualities and durations of light. In addition, nutrient availability changes throughout the growing season. When growing indoors, however, growers have the ability to tightly control these and other growing parameters.
The Vegetative Stage
After the pre-veg phase, in which newly rooted clones or young seedlings are conditioned for more intensive growing conditions, the crop is ready to enter the vegetative-growth stage. Here, the goal is to develop a large root system and enough potential budding sites on each plant to fill the space allotted once the buds start flowering, while avoiding overfilling the space due to excessive plant heights and branching.
It takes research (and occasionally some trial and error) to accurately determine the best planting densities and times for vegetative growth to produce optimal results in any particular strain. It's important to note that indica-dominant strains may grow very little once flowering is initiated, while sativa-dominant strains may triple or even quadruple in size before finishing. Thus, the length of time spent in the vegetative-growth stage needs to be adjusted accordingly for each plant.
In this particular garden, the plants experienced a five-week vegetative-growth period before the flowering stage was induced. During this time, each of these NYC Sour Diesel plants received plenty of space for both branch and root development. Just to highlight how important a large, healthy root system is for big yields of high-quality buds later on, it should be noted that the plants were grown in approximately 72 liters of peat-based soilless mix apiece.
The soilless mix is maintained with high levels of microbial life and bioactivity to help further stimulate the root systems and fill the large volume of growing medium provided to each plant. Beneficial inoculants are added with the nutrients to populate the growth medium and the root zones with fungi and bacteria such as Trichoderma, Pseudomonas, Azotobacter and mycorrhizae. The root systems are kept elevated off the cold floors, and the containers are placed on wheels so that each of the trashcans filled with soilless mix can be maneuvered easily through the growroom to help maximize light coverage for each plant.
Warm It Up
Slightly warmer temperatures help to increase the metabolic rate of activity in both the soil and plants. During vegetative growth, supplementing CO2 levels to approximately 1,000 ppm (parts per million) and maintaining even temperatures of 85ºF during the daytime and 80ºF at night proves to be optimal. The populations of beneficial microbes supplied via nutrient additives help to keep each plant's root system healthy while functioning at the higher metabolic rates stimulated by the warmer vegetative-stage temperatures. By keeping the DIF (i.e., the temperature differential between day and night or light and dark) closer at this stage, the plants tend to produce tighter branching patterns, building an efficient framework for supporting large yields of dense, sticky buds.
In the early-veg stage, some growers prefer to keep their humidity levels slightly higher (for example, 65%) to give the plants an opportunity to set down some roots after transplanting. If the air is too dry, tender young plants will have to work hard to keep up with the water loss through their leaves, and this creates stresses that can reduce cropping potential and invite other problems. This is a great time to introduce predator insects like Phytoseiulus persimilis (which eat spider mites), because they tend to do better at higher humidity levels. Also, because the plants are smaller at this point, fewer predator insects can provide more effective coverage faster. The humidity levels are then gradually lowered as the veg stage progresses.
The first one to two weeks of flowering are often referred to as the "transitional growth" phase. During this time, nitrogen levels are decreased slightly while the levels of phosphorous and potassium are increased. Temperatures should be reduced to 80°F when the lights are on and 75°F when they're off. Notice that the DIF is still narrow here; this helps to create tighter internodes at the onset of flowering, reducing the spaces between individual budding sites and producing more buds for harvest. CO2 levels are typically maintained at 1,000 to 1,200 ppm during this time, with a strain-dependent relative humidity of 40% to 55%.
Flowering Time
At peak flowering (i.e., the middle of the flowering cycle), nutrient strengths and concentrations are at their highest, often averaging 1,500 ppm (approximately 2.0 EC) to stimulate and supply the intense structural development of the buds that occurs now. When using soil or soilless mixes, growers often follow a "feed, feed, water" regimen to help reduce the accumulation of nutrient residues that may occur in their medium. Growers who like to feed heavy will do a light flush of the containers or beds once every one to two weeks during flowering. A flush mix of humic acids and digestive enzymes proves to be ideal for this purpose, since it helps to reduce excess nutrients in the growth medium that can create nutrient imbalances or lockouts.
Humidity and temperature levels are maintained at their set points, with no changes until the late budding/ripening phase of the reproductive cycle. CO2 levels should be further elevated at peak flowering, and carbohydrates help to supply both the plants and beneficial soil life with an abundant source of energy when growth and development are occurring at a higher rate due to the growing environment provided.
For the ripening period – which typically consists of the last two to four weeks before harvest – medicinal growers shift gears with their environment and crop feedings to promote maximum bud swell and resin production as well as a smooth, clean taste in the harvested buds. Environmental manipulation can even bring out the best colorations in certain types of genetics (for example, beautiful purples and reds).
The Big Flush
For the final weeks before harvest, no base nutrients are applied. This helps to flush the plants and growing medium of any excess nutrients that may contribute to poor-tasting, hard-to-burn buds. A variety of rinsing agents can be used to help facilitate this process, although many growers (especially those reusing their medium, whether soil or soilless mix) prefer to flush with humic acids and digestive enzymes. In fact, growers who have doubled up on the rate of digestive enzymes mixed into the reservoir for flushing report marked improvements in both the quality of their crop and the suitability of their growing medium for reuse.
When significantly increasing the DIF between daytime and nighttime temperatures, growers should pay close attention to any rise in humidity levels during the dark cycle. Dehumidifiers help to keep the relative humidity (RH) from rising above 55% when the lights are off, which is necessary because excess humidity encourages bud rot and other plant diseases in the dense, heavy clusters of ripening cannabis.
It's important that CO2 levels are lowered to ambient levels during the ripening phase (for example, 450 to 650 ppm). If CO2 levels remain higher at this stage, the buds may get bigger, but they'll lack the density and intense flavors and colors that growers typically desire. This is because carbon dioxide inhibits the plant's production of ethylene, a naturally occurring hormone that assists in the ripening process.
Light intensity can also be reduced at this time, since growers are more concerned with dissipating their plants' chlorophyll content rather than building it up to achieve better-quality medicine.
Only after the grower is sure that the plants and growing medium have been adequately flushed of excess nutrients does the decision of when to harvest come into play. Well-flushed plants will usually show yellowing in the older fan leaves, signifying that excess nutrients have been transferred and used up by the ripening colas. With a magnifying glass or handheld microscope, the grower can inspect the swelling resin glands for signs of peak maturity.
A higher percentage of clear-looking glands indicates that the resins have not yet reached their full potency. This is desirable for some patients, since slightly less mature resin glands often have a more "heady" effect (as opposed to either a sedative effect or body stone) because the ratios of THC to CBD (cannabidiol) and CBN (cannabinol) are wider.
When the resin glands have gone from clear to milky white and opaque, the resin is at peak maturity. For most patients, this proves to be the ideal time to harvest, since there's now a good balance between the THC and CBD/CBN levels, providing a more equal head-to-body effect. On the other hand, those patients looking for a body stone may want to wait until some of the resin glands have turned from milky white to amber: At this point, some of the THC is beginning to degrade and convert back into precursors like CBD and CBN. Growers who wait longer during the ripening phase may have slightly heavier harvests, but they are also much more likely to get a sleepier effect from their medicine.
Finally, some growers have noticed a higher rate of resin production when the plants are kept in total darkness for 24 to 48 hours prior to harvest. Some studies suggest that resin production in the cannabis plant peaks just before the sun comes up (or the lights are turned on), so the extra darkness may promote a final burst of resin secretion.
There are many different strains of cannabis that appear highly suited for treating various ailments, with each strain possessing its own unique resin profile. Growers can use carefully controlled environments and nutrient programs to bring out the best in a chosen strain and, in some instances, even enhance what it has to offer – resulting in cannabis that is potentially more effective for each patient's unique needs.


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WFP's West Africa Director Denise Brown said the organization was currently providing food for around 150,000 people in Ebola-striken nations but needed to rapidly scale that up as the worst ever epidemic of the virus advanced.
Senegal on Friday became the fifth country to confirm it had been touched by the outbreak that has infected more than 3,000 people - killing some 1,550 of them - since it was detected in March. The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday the outbreak could infect a total of 20,000 people before it ends.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have pledged to impose a 'cordon sanitaire' on the most affected communities in their joint border region, restricting travel to and from the areas and limiting their access to food supplies.
"We need $70 million. That's for 1.3 million people for three months," Brown told Reuters late on Friday. "We've agreed this morning...that we need to extend that because WHO is already talking about 6-9 months before this is contained."
Brown said the WFP would look from donations from major donors like the United States, the European Union, the World Bank and Japan, as well as from non-traditional benefactors such as Arab states.
She warned, however, that the agency's resources were already thinly stretched by major humanitarian crises in Syria, Iraq, South Sudan and Central African Republic.
"I don't think the world has ever seen so many concurrent crisis on such a huge scale. The humanitarian community is stretched beyond belief," she said.
Brown said WFP started food distribution in Guinea around 4 months ago, and more recently in Liberia and Sierra Leone, mostly delivering food to isolation wards in hospitals before gradually increasing the scope of the mission.
Travel restrictions imposed by neighboring African countries, notably Senegal - a regional hub for the humanitarian sector - had made it more difficult to get staff and supplies into the affected region, Brown said.
The operation was also made more challenging by precautions to stop the disease spreading and staff becoming infected.
"We don't want to go in and do a distribution for 10,000 people. We want small groups of people, which is going to be very hard for us to manage," Brown said. "Yes, it probably makes us a bit slower but we need to get this right."
The area of Liberia hardest-hit around the northern Lofa county include some of its main food producing regions and the quarantine imposed on this area has raised fears that supplies to the rest of the country will be restricted.
Brown said that prices for rice and cassava at one of the main markets in the capital Monrovia had already risen by around 30 percent and there were reports that farmers had not been able to plant their crops because of contagion fears, suggesting shortages were likely to worsen.

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Warface Attracts Five Million Registered Users in Russia
Nov 23, 2012, 06:00 ET
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany and MOSCOW, November 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Crytek's free-to-play shooter continues to expand its audience and wins top award
More than five million players across Russia have now signed up for Crytek GmbH's groundbreaking free-to-play FPS, Warface. Published in Russia by the Mail.Ru Group, Warface has amassed an army of avid fans and enjoyed a record-breaking rise to prominence since its release - attracting over one million players in its first month on the market. The game was also in the limelight this week after players voted it best online game in Russia as part of the long-established Runet Awards. The awards, which have been running since 2004, are designed to honor the best of the Russian-language internet.
"Reaching the five million registered users mark speaks volumes about the quality and appeal of Warface," said Vladimir Nikolsky, the Vice President of the Mail.Ru Group Game Division. "With a combination of first-class visuals and gameplay that is second to none, Warface stands out from the crowd and promises to attract even more attention from players in the future."
The Runet Award is given to websites and organizations for contributions to the Russian-language internet.
The Runet Prize is a professional award that was established in 2004 by the Russian Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications to promote outstanding achievements by companies in the field of IT and digital communications, and to provide recognition for state
and public organizations, business structures and individuals that have contributed to the development of the Russian segment of the Internet. More than 140 Russian and foreign organizations have been presented with awards for their achievements in various categories over the prize's seven-year history.
Warface invites players onto the frontline for thrilling cooperative and competitive gameplay, advancing the face of free-to-play gaming in the process by delivering the highest possible production values. Players in North America and Western Europe will be able to join the action in the near future when Warface is released through Crytek's gaming-centric social hub, GFACE, in partnership with leading online publisher, Trion Worlds.
About Crytek GmbH
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is an independent company at the forefront of the interactive entertainment industry, and is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of gaming by creating standout experiences for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, mobile devices and games-as-service using their cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE®.
The company's headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Crytek also has studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea), Nottingham (UK) and Shanghai (China).
Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has consistently been recognized for excellence in its field, earning accolades such as the 2011 Develop Award for Best Independent Studio and a 2010 Red Dot Design Award. Its multi-award winning games include Far Cry®, Crysis® (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008
Awards), Crysis® 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom 2010) and Warface (awarded Best Social/Casual/Online Game of Gamescom 2012). For more information, please visit http://www.crytek.com.
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Fort Leonard Wood Museum
Bob McEowen
The World War II-era barracks on our cover likely will seem familiar to veterans who experienced basic training at Fort Leonard Wood from the 1940s through 1970s. The restored troop quarters may be among the only sights that older veterans recognize at the U.S. Army base, however.
In recent decades, Fort Leonard Wood has undergone major upgrades and modernization as the installation's mission has expanded. Opened as an infantry facility in 1940, the base now houses the Army's engineer, chemical and military police schools. The missions and history of these specialities are presented at the John B. Mahaffey Museum Complex.
The Fort Leonard Wood Museum recalls the development of the facility through displays of military hardware and a restored company compound. The U.S. Army Chemical Museum — the antique gas masks shown at left are on display there — traces the history of chemical, biological and radiological warfare and the role of the Army's chemical corps, from World War I through its response to today's terrorist threats. The U.S. Army Engineer's Museum recalls the contributions of the army engineers during war and peace time, while the U.S. Army Military Police Museum honors military law enforcement from 1775 to the present day.
The museums are open to the public Monday through Saturday (except federal holidays) and admission is free. The Fort Leonard Wood Museum closes during inclement weather.
Fort Leonard Wood is located south of Interstate 44 at Exit 161. Civilians must submit to a brief security inspection and present a driver's license and proof of vehicle insurance and registration to enter. Motorcyclists must also present a Motorcycle Safety Foundation card. For more information, call 573-596-0780 or log onto www.wood.army.mil.


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Full-patch Hells Angel Ronaldo Lising has been granted day parole, despite concerns from parole board members about his ongoing membership in the notorious biker gang.
Lising, 49, has been in jail since 2005, serving an 11-year, nine-month sentence for a series of convictions including conspiracy to traffic, gun possession and assault.
He had been denied earlier bids for both full parole and day parole because of negative associations and bad behaviour in jail.
But on May 3, Lising was granted a six-month day parole trial after improving his conduct on the inside and taking courses to better his chances of rehabilitation, according to parole board documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
Lising's life was under threat in prison last year, the documents said, and he was put in segregation for his own safety.
After he was sent back to the general population, he was found unresponsive in his cell on April 16, 2011 with a large amount of methadone in his system.
There was no explanation in the documents about how he ingested the drug beyond a comment that: "The Security Intelligence Officer investigated the incident to determine if there was a link which resulted in your being segregated for your safety."
At Lising's hearing this month, some Corrections officials expressed concern that he had not yet left his position with the elite Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels.
"When asked why you had not yet resigned from this organization, you said this particular Hells Angels motorcycle club required the resignation to be done in person with a formal handing over of colours and other Hells Angels paraphernalia and could not be done by sending a letter from prison," the parole board members noted.
Lising told them he would "resign from the Hells Angels as soon as [he] could do so in a manner acceptable to the club."
Lising was grilled by board members about the biker gang and its links to organized crime.
"You basically described this club as a group of men who like to ride motorcycles together," the parole board said.
"When asked, you estimated that the Hells Angels have a majority of its members not engaged in crime, but a significant minority of its members are engaged in crime."
Lising told the board that "club business" was not criminal and that drug trafficking and other crimes were the "personal business" of members.
The board said Lising was minimizing the activities of the Hells Angels and that "it's clear to the board that your continued membership and/or association to this motorcycle club would expose you to individual members of the club engaged in crime."
Some of Lising's convictions stem from the special undercover probe dubbed E-Pandora that used agent Michael Plante to infiltrate the Hells Angels.
When Lising's house was raided in July 2005, police found "handguns, ammunition, a pen gun capable of single-shot fire, body armour, brass knuckles and what was described as an abduction kit which contained a balaclava, gloves, walkie talkies and plastic zap straps," the parole documents noted.
Board members Ulf Konrad Ottho and Laura Hall imposed special conditions on Lising's release into a community facility.
He can't associate with any Hells Angels or hang-arounds and prospects in their program. He can't wear his Hells Angels colours or other items with the gang insignia or indicating support for the organization. And he can't attend clubhouses or Hells Angels events.
"The special conditions are considered reasonable and necessary to protect society and assist in your reintegration as a law-abiding citizen," they said.
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It's raining; it's pouring.
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed and bumped his head,
And he couldn't get up in the morning.
I hate to be a weather reporter here, but it's a big story in Upstate New York. It's raining--hard--which is something this already flooded area definitely does not need.
Yesterday I looked at the creek across the street. It's calmed down some but isn't back into its banks yet. There's still water in yards, garages and even flowing straight through a family's barn. Straight through. As in it's made a river through their building.
Now, more rain. Heavy. And we're already very splishy and splashy here. Sheesh.
You know what I'll be doing today, don't you? That's right. It's all about the book here this week. Yesterday I did manage to can tomatoes and make some applesauce (mostly because I'd filled one sink with tomatoes and apples!) but otherwise I kept my behind in the chair and my fingers on the keyboard. Today, more of the same.
Maria asked if I have a deadline in my head for finishing. I always do. And this book is about two weeks ahead of schedule because I've been so determined to make it work. I've just been single-minded about finishing it. I know I've got to do this, for so many reasons.
Maybe it's the old get back on the horse thing, I don't know. I'm just sure that my getting through what's going on in my life includes my successfully completing this book. Actually, I usually work much more quickly. I've given myself permission to meander a bit on this, recognizing I'm grieving so the added pressure of the "normal" deadline shouldn't apply. This book is longer than any other I've written, too, so I've added a bit for that. Still, I hoped to be done by October 1st but plan to be writing "The End" by this time next week. Fingers crossed!
I hope I'm not boring the heck out of you with all this book talk. I don't mean to. It's front and center in my head now and, thankfully, pushes even the sound of heavy falling rain to the background.
What's new in your world? Whatever you're doing, I hope you're staying dry. Have a peaceful day!
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Them's Soggy Words!
It's raining; it's pouring.
Posted by Sarita at 7:37 AM
Labels: flooding, Life, Maria Zannini, rural living, weather, writing
6 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I'm just so glad you are writing again. it must be hard. stay with it!
Sue W.
- Maria Zannini said...
I think you're doing great. So many people wallow in grief until it consumes them. You're living life and I think that would make your hubby proud.
- Jess said...
It's hard to think you are getting more rain. When will it end in your part of the country?
- Dru said...
I heard there was a tornado upstate..was it near you?
I love that your book is coming along and I can see you smiling as you type.
- sharon said...
rain rain go away!
- Shearer's Girl said...
Two weeks ahead - that's brilliant! Hope the weather improves, the last thing you need is more rain.


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The M-5 computer or the M-5 multitronic unit was created by Doctor Richard Daystrom. It utilized very sophisticated technology, probably similar to the Human neural network, and much more sophisticated than the duotronic computer commonly in use at the time. According to Dr. Daystrom, the computer could think and reason like a Human. He had used his own memory engrams as a model for the computer. Models M-1 through M-4 had been total failures.
M-5 was installed on board the USS Enterprise in 2268 as a test of its capabilities. It was due to command and control the ship during several battle simulations, where up to four other starships would attack the Enterprise. Manned with only a skeleton crew of twenty, the ship was completely run by the computer.
The unit was located in main engineering, and tapped directly into the ship's main power grid. When requiring more power, it would shut down unnecessary systems, including life support on decks without crewmembers.
During battle drills, the computer's self-preservation instinct became dominant, resulting in the destruction of the robot ship Woden and the deaths of several hundred Starfleet officers when it destroyed the USS Excalibur .
The senior crew attempted to cut off the computer from the ship's controls, but M-5 rerouted command functions through new data lines, and kept sending false signals through the original ones. The computer could also generate a force field around itself, effectively preventing anyone from coming near it.
Captain James T. Kirk made the computer self-destruct by asking it if it was right to kill another being. M-5 said that it was a crime against the laws of Man and God, and, believing that such a crime was punishable by death, deactivated itself. (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer")
In the non-canon novel Immortal Coil, the failed M-5 became a part of Dr. Vaslovik's (aka Flint the Immortal's) collection on Valhalla. It helped defend the station in 2374 during the Dominion War.
In the game Star Trek: Shattered Universe the player must defeat the M-5 which has taken control of the mirror universe counterparts of the USS Excalibur, USS Hood, USS Lexington and USS Potemkin and their fighters by destroying all four starships which shuts down the smaller vessels.


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Impact of Earth's Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Found in World Oceans
An international team of scientists has completed the first comprehensive study of the ocean storage of carbon dioxide derived from human activity, called anthropogenic CO2, based on a decade-long survey of global ocean carbon distributions in the 1990s.
The findings, along with those detailed in a companion paper on the impacts of anthropogenic CO2 on the chemistry of the oceans and the potential response of marine animals and plants to changes in CO2 levels, will be published in the July 16 issue of the journal Science.
"About half of the anthropogenic CO2 taken up over the last 200 years can be found in the upper 10 percent of the ocean," said Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Wash. Sabine is the lead author of one of the papers. "The ocean has removed 48 percent of the CO2 we have released to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and cement manufacturing."
Over the long-term, the ocean has been the only reservoir on Earth to consistently take up anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere. This uptake changes seawater chemistry, and can have significant impacts on the biology of the upper oceans.
The global survey combined carbon and other ocean measurements (such as temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients and chlorofluorocarbon tracers) in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. These oceans have taken up about 118 billion metric tons of anthropogenic CO2 between 1800 and 1994, about a third of their long-term potential.
The researchers, including scientists from the United States, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Japan, Spain, and Germany, reviewed data gathered during the 1990s as part of three major research programs: the National Science Foundation (NSF)-led World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS); and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study (OACES).
The new global data set of ocean carbon system observations, co-sponsored in the United States by NSF, NOAA and the Department of Energy, is unprecedented, say scientists, with 10 times more observations and 10 times better accuracy than the previous global survey in the 1970s.
"This research presents the first complete synthesis of modern global ocean inorganic carbon measurements," said James Yoder, director of NSF's ocean sciences division. "The results are among the most intriguing yet from the WOCE and JGOFS programs. These new measurements, when coupled with how much anthropogenic carbon dioxide is known to accumulate in the atmosphere, show that the ocean and atmosphere are the two primary 'sinks' [holding tanks] of this carbon dioxide since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The land is the 'source.'"
But that ocean "sink" may be changing, the studies conclude. "Feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere involving air-sea exchange, ocean circulation and ocean biological processes need to be better understood," said Yoder.
Analysis of CO2 levels in ice cores have shown scientists that for the 400,000 years before the industrial revolution began in the 1800s, atmospheric CO2 concentrations remained between 200 and 280 parts per million. Today CO2 levels are reaching 380 parts per million in the atmosphere. "If the ocean had not removed 118 billion metric tons of anthropogenic carbon between 1800 and 1994, the CO2 level in the atmosphere would be about 55 parts per million greater than currently observed," said Sabine.
"Because CO2 is an acid gas, the surface ocean pH is dropping," said Richard Feely, a marine chemist at PMEL, and lead author of the companion paper. If current scenarios are realized, surface ocean pH could drop lower than it has been for more than five million years, he said.
Feely and colleagues describe two major impacts of the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2: They demonstrate that a substantial amount of the calcium carbonate, found in shells of marine animals living in surface waters, dissolves in the upper ocean. They then summarize the available evidence on the response of marine calcifying organisms to elevated CO2.
Feely noted that scientists have seen a reduced ability to produce protective calcium carbonate shells in many species of marine organisms at high CO2 levels, including corals and plankton, drifting plants and animals on which other marine life feeds.
"Based on our present knowledge, it appears that as seawater CO2 levels rise the skeletal growth rates of calcareous plankton will be reduced as a result of the effects of CO2 on calcification," said Victoria Fabry, a biologist at California State University at San Marcos and a paper co-author. Recent studies have shown that calcification rates can drop by as much as 25 to 45 percent at CO2 levels equivalent to atmospheric concentrations of 700 to 800 parts per million. Those levels will be reached by the end of this century if fossil fuel consumption continues at projected levels.
The scientists note that the dissolving calcium carbonate shells also partially act to neutralize CO2, thus allowing the ocean to take up more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, the effects of decreased calcification in microscopic algae and animals could alter marine food webs and, combined with other changes in salinity, temperature and nutrients, could substantially alter the diversity and productivity of the oceans.
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A few months ago, the call for submissions for IWMW went out and at the last minute I sent off my idea for a parallel workshop session, "Stuff what we're doing at Edge Hill University". I must admit I didn't really have much idea at the time what I thought I'd talk about other than looking at a few of the sites we've developed over the last year and shamelessly use it as a way of finding out what other people are doing in those areas.
I covered applicant communications with Hi, the GO portal and ranted a little about the adoption or otherwise of Content Management Systems. I had about 20 participants in the session and I'm pretty happy with how it went. It was particularly interesting to hear about some of the different ways that Universities are doing applicant communications – information was coming from a range of sources and it's being integrated into sites in a variety of ways.
My slides are online on SlideShare and embedded below. The last part of the presentation "10ish five-minute ways to improve your website" was repeated for my BarCamp session but I'll cover that in another post.
Update: a few people have mentioned my session:
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- Jeremy Speller: "An interactive session – it's buzzword bingo!!" – my slides are effectively just headings so Jeremy's notes may fill in some of the gaps for you!


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149 comments:
Oh my goodness. I absolutely adore this idea. I am totally doing this next week. Thanks a bunch!!ReplyDelete
This is such a great idea for coloring eggs!!! I can't wait to try it.ReplyDelete
SO fun! Thanks Jen for sharing!ReplyDelete
We are all over this one! I even have coupons for Kool-Aid.ReplyDelete
Great idea! You have a super cute egg dyer too! Aaron J. referred me to your blog. I look forward to reading more of your posts :)ReplyDelete
super fun idea! thanks for sharing this. It's definitely on the to do list for sometime in the next week.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 14, 2011 10:20 PM
Suhweet. I plan on having egg dying adventures with both my nephew and the child I nanny next week. I think Kool Aid eggs definitely needs to be in the mix. Also, dying yarn with Kool Aid, tres magnifique!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 15, 2011 1:27 AM
you are brilliant. but i'm sure you know this. ;) we are totally trying this. also... THANK YOU for telling me how to boil eggs. no. i'm serious. you have no idea how much i was stressing out about that. LOLReplyDelete
I'm completely stealing this idea right from under you. :o) Thanks!ReplyDelete
Awesome! Thank you for the directions!ReplyDelete
Ha! I have lots of koolaid packets leftover from earlier years - my kids stopped drinking it, but I never threw them away. Thanks for a great way to use them! Love this!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 16, 2011 9:17 PM
wonderful idea! We are definitely trying this next week.ReplyDelete
what beautiful colors and so wonderfully fun. The Photography is tremendous and instructions are clear...great job...ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tutorial! I'm making some red eggs right now. Hooray!ReplyDelete
I love this! Totally going to have to try it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 19, 2011 4:05 PM
Great colours for the eggs, but I wonder, do people really drink that stuff????ReplyDelete
- AlpacamomApril 20, 2011 8:47 AM
Can't wait to try this with my alpaca fiber!ReplyDelete
love this, cheap and great great colors!!!!ReplyDelete
wow!! kwl idea, will be using this instead of messy dyeReplyDelete
I LOVE THIS IDEA! I have actually used Koolaid in my stamping projects......as a scratch and sniff deal (will be posting a project how to do that next week hopefully on my blog.... really easy and smells great too on your projects/cards! But on eggs I would have never thought it.... love it! Will definitely try this out! Thanks for sharing! Here is a link to my blog - hop by some time and follow me, I am now following you!ReplyDelete
This is so cool! Love how you photographed the colorful eggs & labeled them with their corresponding flavor. :) Stumbled, shared on FB, and will post at reddit.ReplyDelete
wow this is cool! :)ReplyDelete
just dropping by when I was mistakenly went to kitchen explorers site which happens to be the same as my websites name and i saw the brilliant ideas for easter egg hunt!
Have a good day!
HeeHee WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! We just did this! Thank you so much for a fun idea. I don't miss the yucky "stinky feet" smell of the traditional vinegar dye. and actually, these dye so much faster.ReplyDelete
What I did for purple was just combine cherry and berry blue and it was perfect. I don't think I put enough orange in my yellow - but we still had a blast.
Thank you thank you thank you!
- AnonymousApril 22, 2011 11:35 PM
Odd. I tried this with Cherry and got very poor results. Tried adding a little vinegar to see if that would help. Nope. Tried leaving it in for a long period of time (with and without the vinegar). Both times the egg developed a vivid red skin that would wipe/wash off. Wonder if our hard water is a factor.ReplyDelete
we just finished kool aid dyeing our eggs and they are so pretty. Bonus- our house smells like fruit loops! Thank you for the wonderful idea!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing this! We did these eggs and they came out great, and better yet, they smelled great too!ReplyDelete
This is my first visit to your blog :) Thanks for your great tips - I'm SO doing this next year!!!ReplyDelete
love love loveReplyDelete
We did less than a dozen due to dh eating all the eggs...but they turned out great! will never use vinegar again...
linked to you via my post today:
This is Awesome! I want to try this next Easter!ReplyDelete
too bad easter is over this year...theres always next year...love!ReplyDelete
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This is the coolest thing ever! Who would have thought? Well, I guess you did. I never liked dealing vinegar. I'll never use vinegar and food coloring again. Awesome sauce!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2012 1:32 PM
The best way to start this is letting the kids color on the eggs first (use any color). Let them scribble or draw pics depending on their age. Then put in the Kool Aid, they are WAY COOL!!!ReplyDelete
- marleneFebruary 16, 2012 12:18 PM
This is sooo kool, gotta share with the grandkids.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love this idea! Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
- Ms. KayFebruary 22, 2012 5:32 PM
This is a great idea and we will definitely be using it at our preschool. No vinegar! Excellent Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Found you on Pinterest. This is how I'm coloring eggs this year. Great idea! Thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 01, 2012 10:21 PM
Thanks so much, I will be doing this with my sunshines (grandchildren) I so hated using the vinegar. So very glad to find this idea. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
Maybe you could mix a red and a blue to get a more desireable purple? Just a suggestion! I think we'll do this for Easter this year :)ReplyDelete
Love this idea! And so glad you posted solutions to potential fails. my question is: How'd you get your floor so dang beautiful!!11???ReplyDelete
These are great! And thanks for the tip about specific colors and combos. Fun!ReplyDelete
Could you tell me where you got the tongs for dipping the eggs in (the pink ones)? Looks perfect!ReplyDelete
sure, Mandi – the pink tongs came with a Paas dye kit from a few years ago (and might still be around if you look for it?)ReplyDelete
always worried about the dye getting on a cracked egg and on the egg and not wanting the kids eating the dye but koolaid no problem...thanks for the idea...ReplyDelete
- paniejeanMarch 22, 2012 6:29 AM
What a great idea! I'm so gonna do this with my granddaughter. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I work at a preschool, I think this will be lots of fun, thanks for the info!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2012 9:49 AM
this is a great idea, thanks, and i learned a new tip that i will share with everyone, take wire whiskers and place you egg into the inside of them and use to dip your eggs instead of tongs or spoons, they are much easier to handle and they get evenly colored :)ReplyDelete
I used Kool-Aid to dye some play silks earlier this year and wondered if it would work with Easter Eggs! Can't wait to give it a try with my toddler tomorrow!ReplyDelete
those are great colors!!!!!ReplyDelete
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Are the colors fasted? Living in Washington our Easters are rarely dry. Getting egg dye all over our brilliant white Easter dress is a downer.ReplyDelete
I love this idea... I am sharing it on my FB page!ReplyDelete
I am going to try this with my Head Start class. And if it works with yarn, I am going to try it will coloring rice. I have colored rice with alcohol and food coloring but I hate the idea of alcohol and the smell.ReplyDelete
This is fabulous! Would love you to share at our It's a Cinch link party - link here and be seen on 5 blogs!ReplyDelete
Great idea! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
LOVE this idea! sharing with my facebook friends!ReplyDelete
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I am totally trying this when we dye eggs next week! Thanks for sharing, this is awesome!!!ReplyDelete
- DanielleMarch 30, 2012 5:34 PM
Is anyone else a little unsure about the eggs tasting like the kool aid?ReplyDelete
I love how these look, but that would absolutely ruin the huge amount of eggs I do every year.
I'd love to know how you dyed your hair with kool-aid, I'm totally serious?ReplyDelete
hi Danielle – my eggs actually did not taste fruity/like kool-aid at all, but I wondered the same thing. good luck!ReplyDelete
and Poopsie's Pottery – LOL, awesome. in high school, I dumped 3 packs of kool-aid into boiling water (no sugar), poured that into a soda bottle and dipped my hair into it for a few minutes. it lasted *forever.* ;)
Found on Pinterest...had to repin! Thanks for the tutorial and the great photos! Can't wait to do this with my littles!ReplyDelete
If you crack the hard-boiled egg shells alittle before dipping in kool-aid, you get Dinosaur eggs when peeled. My boy loves this!ReplyDelete
Will the yarn dyed with kool-aid be a permant dye?ReplyDelete
anna said..I love this idea,i'm going to try it with my great-grandson.thanksReplyDelete
- JessicaApril 03, 2012 10:38 PM
If you do get color on our counters or tables that stains, take a little bit of shaving cream and just rub it on the spot a minute or two and then wipe away. The stain goes with the shaving cream.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 04, 2012 1:18 PM
just curious if when you bring the eggs out of the fridge and you get condensation on them, does the sugar in the koolaid make them sticky???ReplyDelete
Thanks for the idea! I had the same problem as an earlier commenter that the kool aid was blotchy and left a film that wiped off. I think it's probably because we were doing hollow eggs (for confetti filled cascarones) that hadn't been boiled??? They're not nearly as pretty as your eggs, but we had a great time. I'll have to try them with some boiled eggs soon. :)ReplyDelete
Jessica – love the shaving cream idea. And yes – I've never tried Kool-Aid with hollow eggs. And condensation/cold/wet eggs can cause problems with dyeing (even with normal Paas dye.) I have the best luck with dry, room-temp eggs.ReplyDelete
Just tested this with one egg before we do it with the kids tonight and it looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I add kool-Aid to Sprite so I have quite a few packets. I am having my daughter and neice color eggs Friday. I can't wait to try this. Thank You for the idea.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 05, 2012 7:29 AM
Great idea. I just had to say: I love the fact that you lined up your eggs in ROYGBIV order. It's the little things!ReplyDelete
Thank you for this! The kids and I are going to be doing this today. When I'm done, I'll post the pics. and link back to here so that people can read your super straightforward instructions!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 05, 2012 12:13 PM
hey jen thanks for the reply about condensation but i meant after they have been dyed and eggs go back in the fridge...once you take them out and the eggs start to get condensation on them then, is the koolaid sticky because of the sugar? we tend to have a 'buffet' if you will of all the pretty eggs and sometimes the eggs get condensation...so just wondered if they get sticky...thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 05, 2012 4:08 PM
Anon, there's no sugar in these packets and you don't add sugar, either.ReplyDelete
I stumbled across this on facebook (someone pinned it through pinterest) & HAD to try it this year! The only difference I did with our colors, (for orange & blue) was adding a half packet extra & they came out fabulous! For one egg, since I noticed the purple ones were dark-ish, I dyed it blue first then put it in the purple & it came out better. I don't know if it's the same blue you used, but I used the blue raspberry lemonade one. This was SUCH an awesome idea. I love it.ReplyDelete
I came across your idea on Pintrest. IT IS AMAZING! My daughter and I dyed our eggs yesterday and they were perfect.The best part was there was no smelly vinegar and very little mess. The colors were great! Thank you very much for sharing!! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 06, 2012 11:05 AM
Doing this right now with my three girls. They are loving it . And it does smell so delicious. We had to work on the grape. Color a little bit. Experimenting is great. We have created all kinds of color. Thanks for the great idea.ReplyDelete
What a great idea! Where might I find the cute little bunny egg holder the little girl in the picture is holding? I have never seen those before and think they would really come in handy!ReplyDelete
Love this idea. Thanks a bunch!ReplyDelete
Totally trying this as well as posting on our preschooler blog for a great use instead of those messy dyes for little messy fingers!ReplyDelete
This is the first year we'll follow your method. We've always done the pre-made box method. Thumbs down.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your tutorail with us!
Love this idea, however too late for this year! will try next year.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing.
Peace and Blessings,
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- MaureenApril 06, 2012 7:38 PM
Just did this with my kids - found your blog thanks to pinterest. We are in love with this method. We did 18 eggs tonight and decided we need to make a ton more tomorrow just so we can play around some more. And the smell is a great bonus!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much!!!! Worked like a charm and my 3 year old son had so much fun!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 06, 2012 8:45 PM
Have you tried this taking the shell off and dying the white part to make devil eggs? I saw on pinterest where they dyed the white part different colors then filled with yellow deviled yolk. I wonder if it would taste funny?ReplyDelete
This was so wonderful! Thank you for sharing this! We had a great time doing this tonight and it smelled so good. Will be using this method from now on! Oh, by the way, Kiwi Strawberry was a nice pink as well. Our store didn't have all of the flavors you used. Thank you for sharing!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 07, 2012 9:47 AM
this is amazing!!!! thanks alot!ReplyDelete
We just finished dying our eggs. Everything came out great. We couldn't find Berry Blue, so we bought a package of Mixed Berry. It gave us the most gorgeous deep robin's egg blue. We also tried the Ice Blue Raspberry, but it didn't work well at all. Happy Easter!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 07, 2012 1:15 PM
Just did this! and you are right, smells so good!!!! Thanks for the idea.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 07, 2012 2:48 PM
I just did this with my2 boys and just for a lil tip dont let ur eggs stay in but about 5 seconds or the color will peel right off!! But i am pleased with the way the turned out! Pretty colors...ReplyDelete
I was hoping to have your permission to post about this on my blog. I would have everyone come to your site for the instructions, but was hoping to use your photo that has the packets and eggs in it. you can see my blog here before you decide: http://changingtheworldpebblebypebble.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
such a "kool" idea!
- Sheila ShookApril 07, 2012 5:58 PM
My eggs didn' turn out as pretty as yours. The color wanted to rub off. Not sure I did it right but they will be fine. Thanks for your ideas.ReplyDelete
What a great idea! We did this for the first time this year and they turned out so much better then the kits you buy in the store. Plus, they smell YUM! I didn't put enough Berry blue into the grape, so those eggs came out black, but they look really cool! ♥ this and will do this every year now! Thanks!:)ReplyDelete
Im doing these tonight . Its really cool.ReplyDelete
Did this tonight. My daughters loved it -- and the nice smell was a plus too. :) We tried to experiment to get a "nice" purple by mixing the red and blue, but sadly our egg just turned brown. LOL oh, well. The other colors turned out fabulous! Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
Just finished dying our eggs with kool aid. I started with brown and green eggs from our own chickens. Some of the colors worked great, but many of them had a film that peeled off. Some of them still had color under that film, but it was just strange. LOLReplyDelete
Thanks for this! It was a hit: http://www.thenerdnest.com/2012/04/easter.htmlReplyDelete
Just did this with the family. Kids and adults had fun! We experimented with different combinations. Smells so much better than vinegar!ReplyDelete
Very Cute idea! Found this on Pintrest.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration! I included your post in my Take a Peek @ My Pinterest: Easter Edition post. Hope it brings you some traffic!ReplyDelete
- ShawnaApril 10, 2012 1:02 PM
I think another idea with the "grape" color is maybe not use the whole packet and add the berry blue in place of it. Since Kool-aid is so cheap, it would be fun to just be creative with several colors!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2012 11:55 AM
Love this idea...last year I actually died the egg without the shell. Made for a fun Easter table. I wonder if this would work as well without the shell. I love the idea of not having to use vinegar. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2012 6:18 PM
WOW can you imagine what it does for your inside???ReplyDelete
I guess that's a good use for kool-aid, and NOT to drink it, it's nothing but DYE, WATTER and SUGAR
I love this idea with Kool Aid. I just have one question, how many packets do you put in your little cups in your pictures? In other words, did you use more than one packet per color?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2013 3:32 PM
I hear that you can also use Koolaide to stain furniture as long as you seal it in.ReplyDelete
Very cool ideaReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2013 4:17 PM
just be careful.... heard the kool aid can stain the carpetReplyDelete
This is great! I have been looking for an alternative to Easter egg coloring tablets.ReplyDelete
I've used Kool-aid for eggs and wool,...but would love to know how to dye hair with it!! :)ReplyDelete
Love this idea! I had to share it on my facebook business page: https://www.facebook.com/cookingwithjjReplyDelete
Fantastic Idea!! I'll post this on my blog and will give you credit!!ReplyDelete
Thank you :)
After the colored eggs have dried, rub them with cotton wool dipped in oil, and see the colors get even more aliveReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing...I blogged about our experience with Kool-Aid dyed eggs and linked to you. I think the smell was the best part :).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2013 6:48 PM
Just did this with my almost 4 year old! She LOVED it!!! Just wish I had made a better list before buying the Kool Aid, we didn't get as many different colors as I wish we would have. But still had fun! Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
Love it we are trying this tonight can't wait thank you and so glad to have found this blog :).ReplyDelete
Such a great idea! thank you!ReplyDelete
This is great- my daughter is allergic to vinegar and we have been looking for an alternative! She is very excited to do this tomorrow :)ReplyDelete
- Lynn B.March 29, 2013 8:56 PM
I just finished coloring my eggs. I must admit, I was unsure if this would work... and it does, beautifully. I added a little orange to the lemonade, and it is nice bright yellow...also added a drop or two of blue food color to the grape because the first one turned out gray. AND, it smells wonderful.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 10:39 PM
Not sure if anyone posted these suggestions already, but for yellow I used peach-mango kool-aid and got a great golden yellow. Next time I probably wouldn't use the whole pkg so that it was a bit lighter. And for purple, I tried your way but still was kinda grey, so I mixed 1/2 cherry and 1/2 mixed berry(blue) and got a great purple. Last one, I used the mixed berry(blue) because no stores by me had the one you suggested. The only difference was the mixed berry comes out a real vibrant shade of turquoise. Thank you so much for this idea, fabulous!ReplyDelete
- RebeccaMarch 29, 2013 10:50 PM
Just did this with the kids tonight and they loved it. They kept asking if they could drink the koolaid when we were done. For yellow we used pineapple flavor koolaod and it came out awesome. We will be doing our eggs this way from now on. Thank you! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 12:33 AM
Hi! I really loved this idea and used it today.ReplyDelete
I had a couple issues that I ran into: we ended up with spotted eggs because we set the wet eggs on an old towel and it adsorbed the color and left spots on the bottom of the eggs; too much undissolved powder in the water makes the eggs bumpy; too much undissolved powder on the bottom of the container makes the coloring congeal on the eggs and wipe off when taken out of the dye; the orange didn't turn out very bright by itself; the cherry was very pale, almost orange looking (next year I'll try black cherry); the strawberry turned into more of a pink than the pink lemonade/cherry mix.
A nice surprise, though, was how pretty the Berry Blue, turned to a very beautiful bright turquoise blue, and lemon-lime, turned to a pretty mint green, for me.
Other than that, the colors came out great. Sure, we have some slightly spotted eggs, but oh well...they cool pretty cool!
I just colored my eggs, and they turned out great! Strawberry KiwiReplyDelete
and Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade turned out the best. The Ice Blue one made the eggs the color of robins eggs. Very beautiful and so easy.
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2013 11:23 PM
Had a wonderful experience with the kool-aid, everything turned out great. Something I did try that worked pretty well: 1 packet blue raspberry lemonade with 1/2 packet grape made a pretty good dark purpleReplyDelete
I tried this for Easter this year and it was PERFECT. It smelled good and it cleaned up super easy! Thanks for the ideaReplyDelete
What a fabulous idea! I'll try this for sure next Easter : )ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for this post - I'll be trying eggs next Easter but in the meantime I'm after an inexpensive way to dye clothespegs and am going to experiment with your instructions.ReplyDelete
- SamanthaOctober 28, 2013 8:05 AM
Ok, it desperate need of help before wednesday. Will this dye the inside egg? I need my eggs to be orange for deviled eggs (halloween themed) Will the kool aid work for that as well?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2013 6:56 PM
You can use shaving cream too! :-)ReplyDelete
Great idea! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 02, 2014 11:03 AM
gonna try this in the springReplyDelete
Hey my name is Jen Renee! :)ReplyDelete
I am doing this right now. I got a pretty bright blue with Blue Raspberry Lemonade and a pretty green with Lemon-Lime. I am so excited about the kids seeing them at the hunt today. Thank you for this post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 19, 2014 8:02 PM
This really helped out today. Didnt have no vinegar. My lil big girl was excited to have dark colored eggs. Thank you very much..ReplyDelete
I did these last year and this year. My kids love it plus it smells greatReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2015 6:50 PM
OK! We're into 2015 now, and I have a fabric dye question, please!!! If I dyed some seam binding, would it be colorfastReplyDelete
This is a wonderful idea. I pinned this on my Easter Group Pinterest Board: https://www.pinterest.com/BestEaster/ Thank you for sharing! This photo tutorial is a great quality post.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2015 9:09 AM
Didn't read all the notes above, but have you tried decorating with crayons before dipping in the koolaid? Just wondered how that works.... we'll give it a try! :-)ReplyDelete
So, I had a hell of a time finding powdered kool aid packs. Apparently they are moving towards the liquid squirt bottles!!! What will we do????ReplyDeleteReplies
No WAY! I didn't know this. It's the end of an era!Delete
I am soooooo trying this tonight....ReplyDelete
Kool-aid is now my preferred way to dye Easter Eggs, thanks to Jen Renee! This was our second year using your method. Like J. Patel noted, it has become a lot harder to find the powdered kool-aid packets. I struck gold my local Fry's (Kroger) supermarket. Here are my color notes in case it helps anyone else. Watermelon and Strawberry Kiwi both make a pretty pink. Mango makes a golden yellow. Pina~Pineapple makes a nice lemon yellow. "Great Bluedini" makes a nice teal. Black Cherry makes an oddly attractive dark orangey red, almost burnt sienna color. Cherry, Strawberry, and Tropical Punch all make the same orangeish red. (I remember getting a better red from Cherry last year, so maybe they messed with the formula?) I used blue raspberry in 2014 and got a great blue, but had no luck finding it this year.ReplyDelete
I'm orthodox and my mom always bought these little red dyes from the local bakery. They would always get super messy and hard to clean. This seems like the modern way to do it and more kid friendly. Thank you!ReplyDelete


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From: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Posted: Monday, April 4, 2011
A study coordinated by Universitat Autonoma Barcelona (UAB) on the origin and evolution of peculiar morphologies created by ancient subterranean springs in the central pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia (Spain) pose new questions for planetary geomorphology research. Similar to small volcanoes, these formations until now had only been described in Australia and closely resemble gigantic forms found on Mars. The study may shed new light on the origin of these formations and the search for water on the red planet.
In these past years a group of researchers from different universities and research centres, under the direction of Rogelio Linares, lecturer of the Department of Geology and researcher at UAB's Gabinet Geologic d'Analisi Territorial i Ambiental (GATA), carried out a geomorphological research in the Catalan pre-Pyrenees region. Part of the results of the study have been published in a special edition of the journal Geodinamica Acta. The publication, coordinated by some of the main specialists in Europe, corresponds to a selection of works presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna in 2009.
This multidisciplinary research focuses on the study of geological records originated by ancient karstic springs. It specifically studies forms dating back over 250,000 years - tufa mounds - which are practically unknown in Europe, having been until now only described in Australia. Located in the Tremp Basin in Lleida, the formations are similar to volcanoes created by subterranean water springs, under specific hydraulic and hydrochemical conditions and in a certain geomorphological context.
One of the most relevant aspects of the research, and the one to generate most interest among the international scientific community, is the similarity between these types of "spring mounds" and the giant formations identified in various regions of Mars' surface. In the case of this study, the fact that these formations were generated by underwater cold springs makes it possible to consider that their "big sisters" on Mars could have a similar origin. The interest in this analogy is clearly linked to the search for water on the red planet.
Researcher Alexis Rodriguez, of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona and one of the world's experts in hydrogeological aspects on Mars, considers that the forms described and the formation models proposed by Rogelio Linares and collaborators are of great interest in the interpretation of the origin of geological formations recently detected on the surface of Mars.
For this reason, after a visit to the Tremp Basin, both researchers decided to work together on new studies with the aim of further investigating this peculiar Martian geomorphology found in Catalonia. The new research projects will include collaboration with other researchers from United States, Japan and China.
Reference article: Linares, R; Rosell, J; Roque, C; Gutierrez, F (2010). "Origin and evolution of tufa mounds related to artesian karstic springs in Isona area (Pyrenees, NE Spain)". Geodinamica Acta, 23/1-3: 129-150
Illustration of the morphologies found in Isona (Tremp Basin, Lleida) and their "giant sisters" on the surface of Mars.
Researchers during preparatory fieldwork for new research projects. From left to right: X. M. Pellicer (Geological Survey of Ireland), R. Linares (UAB Department of Geology and Gabinet Geologic d'Analisi Territorial i Ambiental - GATA), A. Rodriguez (Planetary Science Institute, US), M. Zarroca (UAB Department of Geology) and C. Roque (Department of External Geodynamics of University of Girona).
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I feel like when people think of the 'perfect' view, they usually think of white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters with nothing else on the horizon. Whilst I think that is pretty perfect, I've always been even more of a fan of urban and city views and they're always a highlight of a city break for me.
As with most European cities, Budapest doesn't disappoint on delivering outstanding views, due to the incredible architecture and mish-mash of buildings, that can only really come from a city that is steeped in history.
So if you're searching for that perfect spot to soak in the whole of Budapest then look no further than my shortlist below! (In order of least to most favourite FYI)
I'm starting with arguably the least impressive views, but Buda Castle is still somewhere that is definitely worth visiting anyway for the historical significance of the castle.
While you're up there it's definitely worth taking a minute to check out the views, although not as high as my other lookout choices, they still manage to be pretty spectacular.
Gellért hill offers incredible panoramic views over the whole of Budapest.
It takes a lot of walking uphill to reach the top (not ideal when we went as the paths were one big sheet of ice!) but you'll be glad you braved the walk when you reach the top. Plus there's lots of places to stop on the way and look out at the views in different stages.
There's even a couple of tourists spots along the walk, such as the Bishop Gellert, The Citadel, The Cave Church and at the top you'll even find Budapest's very own Statue of Liberty!
St. Stephen's Basilica is a Roman Catholic Basilica, and as with Buda Castle, it's worth a visit purely from a historical angle as the architecture – both inside and out – is breathtaking.
Not only is it beautiful to look at, but if you pay to climb the zillion very narrow stone steps, you'll find that it's also beautiful to look out from.
My favourite thing about the view from up here was that firstly, we were the only people for a lot of the time we were up there (I think the narrow old staircase puts some people off maybe!) And, secondly, you can walk around the whole perimeter of the clock tower meaning that you can see Budapest from literally every angle – with completely unobscured views of the sprawling city.
Although this is the only one that you have to pay an entry fee for from this list, it is possibly my absolute favourite and I felt like Esmerelda from the Hunchback of Notre Dame up here (god knows why as we weren't in Paris) but yes, HIGHLY RECOMMEND this one!
This one absolutely blew my mind. When we first caught sight of Fisherman's Bastion, it was daylight and I was in awe of the beauty of both the views, and the actual Bastion itself, which reflects the sunlight in the most gorgeous way.
And then we went for dinner, and on our way back, walked past it again and I fell in love. True love.
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Thinking of buying a carbon offset to ease any guilt from that flight, which sent planet-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? Just drop into any convenient website that assures you that, for a few dollars, your indulgent burning of jet fuel will be offset by planting a tree, erecting a windmill, or capturing farm animal methane – almost anywhere in the world.
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Good-hearted individuals and companies looking to go "green" by buying offsets are buying mostly on faith. They can look to independent organizations such as the Voluntary Carbon Standard that examine offset plans and offer a seal of approval. But for the most part it's "buyer beware."
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A successful US cap-and-trade program in the 1990s reduced emissions known to cause acid rain from coal-burning plants. But the program was limited in its scope, and simple. Relatively few plants slowly switched to low-sulfur coal or added scrubbers. Scaling up this idea for greenhouse-gas emissions – and allowing the trading of permits for green projects around the world – is asking for trouble. Public confidence in curbing global warming could nose-dive if a cap-and-trade plan results in a slew of dubious schemes.
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The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. In a line of decisions, however... the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution. In varying contexts, the Court or individual Justices have, indeed, found at least the roots of that right in the First Amendment.... or in the concept of liberty guaranteed by the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment.... These decisions make it clear that only personal rights that can be deemed "fundamental" or "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty"... are included in this guarantee of personal privacy....Was the state's interest in protecting the unborn child sufficient to permit some regulation? The answer was yes, but not before the "viability" of the unborn. As to whether the killing of that pre-viable entity ought to be seen as the killing of a human being, justifying rescue by the state, the Court refused "to endorse any theory that life, as we recognize it, begins before live birth," since "those trained in... medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus."
This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Specific and direct harm medically diagnosable even in early pregnancy may be involved. Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved. All these are factors the woman and her responsible physician necessarily will consider in consultation.
Pre-viability, the decision whether to continue with a pregnancy would rest with the woman within whose body the mysterious process was taking place, and it would not be the role of the state to make that decision for her, no matter how firmly the majority of the people believe they have solved the mystery and they know that what she is doing is murdering a child.


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On Saturday the South African athletic association Athletics Gauteng North held its annual awards ceremony in the Manhattan Hotel in Pretoria. The event is described as "undoubtedly a highlight on the calendars of South Africa's top athletes."
As one of the 17 different awards given, Oscar Pistorius was named Male Track And Field Athlete of the Year because up until a week ago, he was having a pretty good year and these things are decided ahead of time. Since he's been in police custody for the alleged murder of Reeva Steenkamp since February 14, he obviously did not attend.
Also of note: Caster Semenya was named the Female Track and Field Athlete of the Year and Overall Female Athlete of the Year.
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Dodgers To Work Out At Dodger Stadium Thursday
From the Dodgers -
The first-place Dodgers will work out at Dodger Stadium Thursday prior to starting the second half of the 2012 season. Dodger season seat holders and Dodger Premium seat holders have exclusively been invited to attend the team's workout and to meet with Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten.
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Thursday, July 12
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Fans that purchase season tickets in July are guaranteed full postseason rights and will also secure benefits that distinguish the Dodgers' season seat holder fan experience, such as this opportunity, and also include incentives such as access to parking and entry at Dodger Stadium one hour before it opens to the public, access to Dodger batting practice and the opportunity to play catch on the field with their guests after select games.
Fans can purchase a limited number of 2012 season ticket plans and secure postseason rights by visiting www.dodgers.com/seasontickets or by calling (323) 224-1365.
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- WhiskeyBlues said...
Great way to suck concession stand money from the fans while making them feel exclusive.
- July 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM
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