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At some time or another, pet health issues plague everyone who has a pet. Among other areas of concern, the one that can area that can pose a fair number of problems are ear infections. Ear mites and ear infections are some of the major problems that can cause discomfort your pets and can lead to many a sleepless nights for the owner as well. A dog with ear mites is a less common phenomenon than a cat ear with mites but if contracted, it can cause high levels of stress for the dog and the owner.
The one way in which you can ensure that you never have to face issues related to dog ear infections is to adopt good hygiene practices. Once these practices are regular habit, the chances of your dog contracting any kind of ear infection are reduced considerably. It is therefore important to include ear cleaning and examination as part of a weekly ritual. If you use a professional grooming service, make sure that they include ear cleaning along with the regular bath, grooming, and styling services.
In case you do not use these services, ensure that you clean your dog's ears every week. Cleaning the ears on your own is not really a difficult job. Remembering is the hardest part! Lift the ear flap and expose the ear canal. Cover your index finger with a soft moist cloth and clean the inside of the ear flap and the exposed area. You can use a homemade cotton swab to clean the inaccessible parts.
Another aspect of dog ear hygiene is hair growth. Hair can grow in the ear canals in large quantities and this is true especially in the case of Poodles, Terriers and some other particularly hairy breeds. The hair can trap water and create a warm, humid environment where ear mites and bacteria can breed. It becomes crucial to remove excess hair from the inside of the ear to ensure that bacteria and mites do not grow there. A simple procedure that involves the removal of excess hair every two weeks can help maintain good hygiene and save you from many ear infections. To remove hair, lift the ear flap, expose the inside, and remove the excess hairs that you see on the external ear opening. Make sure that you pull in the direction of the hair growth and remove only small amounts of hair at a time. Make sure that you do not pull any hair if you see some signs of inflammation or infection.
Dogs with ears that droop over the ear canal are likely to face issues with ear infections and ear mites more than dogs that have ears that are erect. Excessive bacteria and mites can cause ear infections, swelling, inflammation and painful redness if not treated properly. Some severe cases can also lead to deafness.
Unfortunately many dog owners do not realize that head shaking scratching of the ears are often symptoms of ear ailments rather than normal dog behaviors. Any kind of an ear infection that occurs due to ear mites needs to be referred to a veterinarian. Keeping a check on ear hygiene can help you avoid such problems. And even if your dog does get infected, there are home remedies for dog ear mites that you can explore if you spot the issue in advance.
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Have a look at a discussion on Inside the NFL between ex-Redskins CB Darrell Green and former Bengals WR and current broadcaster Cris Collinsworth. They discuss what's wrong with the Redskins and who the team's leaders are. Green has some interesting things to say about London Fletcher and Robert Griffin III.
Our Redskins Stat of the Day is about pass-blocking. Which offensive lineman is yielding the most QB pressures and which is giving up the least? Check it out.
On the injury news front, DE Stephen Bowen (knee) and CB DeAngelo Hall (foot) were limited in practice, though head coach Mike Shanahan said both should be fine for Sunday's game at the Philadelphia Eagles.
For the Eagles, TE Brent Celek [hip], CB Bradley Fletcher [pectoral] and QB Michael Vick [hamstring] were limited in practice. LB Mychal Kendricks [knee], LB Jake Knott [hamstring], OT Jason Peters [quad/pectoral] and S Earl Wolff [knee] did not practice at all yesterday.
The last time the Redskins played the Eagles was opening night and the defense was completely humiliated as the Eagles moved the ball at will in the first half and amassed almost 300 rushing yards in the game. Washington's defense played better in the second half and the team has to hope that shows they can tighten the screws a bit. OLB Ryan Kerrigan says stopping the run and RB Lesean McCoy will be top priority.
Nick Foles and Michael Vick attack a defense differently. Here is how they do it.
John Keim has a fascinating look at how penalties have affected the Redskins this season. Some of it may surprise you.
You probably won't be shocked to learn the Redskins punt return team is 30th in the league and the kickoff return team is 31st in the NFL.
Desmond Bieler argues the Redskins need to use their running backs more in the offense:
In general, good things happen when the Redskins run the ball — they are tied with the Eagles for tops in the league at 5.1 yards per rushing attempt. So even if they're seventh in the league in rushing attempts per game, why not get the ball in the hands of Alfred Morris and Roy Helu Jr. more often? The Chiefs' running backs (primarily Jamaal Charles) account for 29.5 percent of the team's passing targets. Compare that to the Redskins, who throw to their running backs only 9.2 percent of the time.
More targets for Morris and Helu — and does anyone think Helu gets the ball enough?— not only mean higher-percentage plays for the Redskins, they get the ball out of Robert Griffin III's hands that much sooner, sparing him that many more hits.
The Redskins are 3-6 for the third straight season, but defensive coordinator Jim Haslett isn't close to giving up on the season:
"I said it last week, I said, 'I feel good about where we're at.' I love the way our guys practice and they're into it. Teams that are going downhill don't practice the way we practice. Those teams are negative. We don't have that here. We've just got to go out and put a whole game together. I'm talking about offense, defense, special teams. We've got to put a complete game together on defense, offense, special teams. We do that then we'll get things rolling and we haven't done that. … I think once as a team we get one of those, we get it together, then you can get things rolling."
The Redskins defense hasn't applied much pressure on opposing quarterbacks in recent weeks, but Haslett is committed to the 4-man pass rush. He has a good reason why, actually:
"Last week we had a number of times where we had great pass rushes," Haslett said. "That's not an excuse. I don't know how many times Ryan [Kerrigan], Brian [Orakpo] had opportunities to get to the quarterback where they were grabbed and held. That was more disappointing than anything. I thought a number of times we did a great job rushing the quarterback. We didn't get there more for that reason than anything."
Overall, Haslett said, he's content with the four-man rushes. Kerrigan leads the Redskins with 6.5 sacks, Orakpo has 4 and Barry Cofield has 2.5. End Stephen Bowen does not have a sack.
Here's more to consider: According to ESPN Stats & Information, the Redskins have allowed only 28.9 percent of third downs to be converted when using a four-man rush. They've allowed 41 percent to be converted with five or more rushers. But they've recorded a sack on 6.9 percent of pass attempts from a four-man rush compared to 7.3 percent from five-plus rushers.
Some Amerindian tribes want Congress to revoke the trademark protection currently enjoyed by the Washington Redskins.
"It's unacceptable in the 21st century, and I wish the owner of the Washington football team and the NFL would realize that," said Brian Cladoosby, the chairman of Washington state's Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Cladoosby is also the president of the National Congress of American Indians. "You wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hey, Redskin, how you doing today?' Just like you wouldn't go up to an African-American and use the N-word."
WR Josh Morgan tries to stay upbeat despite a reduced role playing for his hometown team.
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Does anyone do their HIIT on a bike I have a road bike and a trainer that you can mount the bike on for, well...training. lol! Wondering if anyone has ever ridden for HIIT. I've always done mine on the treadmill but am curious about trying it occasionally on my bike trainer. Any thoughts?
Go for it! As long as you hit your intensities why not? The weather is getting nicer so own it.
I have done it on a bike. Usually my Saturday Cardio is running outside or riding my bike. I usually chart out a course first, it helps with the not knowing where to go or the maybe getting stopped in the middle of a 9 or 10.
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Mike - I used my stationary bike for challenge one. My only piece of advice would be, make sure you are not overtraining your quads. Speed should be the goal (cardio), not another leg workout. Your legs need time in between workouts to restore and repair.
There is a guy by the name of Jeff Mines that is a total bike fanatic. He has a GPS on his bike and it relays all kinds of neat data about the terrain, altitude, speed, his heart rate, the temperature....its CRAZY. So seeing through him, I see a great passion and I can understand the bike in a different way.
Summertime for me means extra bike riding outdoors, but just for fun. Keep us posted how it works for you.
I'm thinking something like this...(keep in mind, I'll be indoors with my bike mounted on the trainer)
First 2-3 mins as a warm up at 10 mph
15 mph - 1 min
17 mph - 1 min
19 mph - 1 min
21 mph - 1 min
Then back to 17 mph for my intensity level 6 for 1 min. And do this interval 4 times for my 2 min cardio. Then try to hit 25-30 mph for my high point last min. I may try this today just to see how it goes. =) Or maybe I'll just run on my treadmill again. lol!
I think it's going to prove very beneficial that you are able to view your speed. It gives you clear indication of what is necessary to achieve the intensity via measurable incremental increases.
Yea, my bike has a computer that tells mph, cadence, distance, top speed, avg speed, etc. It helps a LOT for sure!
Mike your greatest challenge will be stopping at the end of your HIIT. I love a road bike and I've done an afternoon ride before that by the 20 mile mark I was fried because there were not enough carbs in my system to sustain a longer ride. Just be aware and if you intend to ride longer for the pure enjoyment of it, be prepared with Gel or a banana.
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Good advice for the speed and not another leg workout. I got a spinning bike from "Overstock.com" for $312.00 free shipping!!! I use that for my cardio days. I have to go by how I feel, I do not have a speedometer or a level of speed, I just tighten the knob for tension. Seems to be working so far. By the way, I'm so lost on here!!! the web site that is. I don't mean to seem like someone who is just lurking, but I'm having a hard time figuring this forum thing out. My home page is scant and not sure how to navigate my way around....Sorry, I'll get it. It aint no face book.
Hey Michelle, yea, I'm just talking about doing this in my house, not out on the roads. I do think it would be really difficult to get an effective HIIT workout on the road. Too many variables...traffic, hills (up and down), that would mess up the intensity levels.
I'm talking about, I have a trainer at home similar to this http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Motivator-Indoor-Bicycle-Trainer/dp/B000AAYBWS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=cycling&qid=1271187306&sr=1-1 that you mount the rear tire of a regular road bike to, which lifts the back tire off the ground and places it on a roller wheel. So once you're bike is mounted to the trainer, (takes about 20 secs), you just hop on and start riding, except you don't go anywhere since you're mounted to the trainer. =) The way you adjust "tension" for the intervals is just like riding on the roads. Simply shift gears to make it more difficult to spin the rings.
I started riding road bikes 3 years ago and fell in LOVE with it immediately. It's such a blast. I rode almost 900 miles my first year. Got lazy last year and busy with life-stuff and didn't ride (mostly lazy). But I'm getting back on it this year and am confident with the help of BFL that I'll be faster and stronger on it than I've ever been! I've already taken it for a couple of rides (10 miles with my wife and another 6 mile with the kids), and it was a piece of cake!
I'll post how my HIIT goes after I try it later this afternoon. I'm hoping it kicks my booty.
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4.68/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
From my generous brother who picked this up in Denmark. Prost, John. This was served at 55degress into a half acre snifter.
pitch black body with a dark tan head of impressive depth, retention and lacing, especially for the ABV. Damn near perfect.
Smells of roasted, almost burnt, malts and coffee, with dark belgian cacao. The aroma isn't strong but rather is quite delicate. A little bit of fig/plus/raisin/pear smell.
Taste is of roasted malts and delicate chocolate with a good deal of refined cacao. Impressive chocolate on this beer. A great deal of bitterness, and a huge winner for those like me who like bitter hoppy stouts. The coffee is not as dominant a flavor as I expected but is quite delicate and perfect. The ABV is very well hidden.
Mouthfeel is as good as it gets. Carbonation is spot on - may be a little under carbonated for some people, but this is really perfect. Coats the tongue, sticky and syrupy, dry sticky finish, everything I want out of a stout.
I want to drink this over and over again. Easily the best non-barrel-aged coffee stout I've ever had. Still in the top 5 of best stouts I've ever had. Love this beer, get it if you can, it is a delicacy.
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04-17-2014 18:26:41 | More by dnb128
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look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
My first beer drank using the weasel shit coffee. I'm not completely down with the idea of it, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway, thanks to the Old Toad crew at the Ithaca Luminous release.
Pours a dark black, not much foam or head, and a little bit of lacing.
Smells include coffee, chocolate, and vanilla.
The taste is pretty similar. There are some dark fruit flavors that are nice, and not present in the Beer Geek Breakfast. The coffee flavor is nice, but I don't know how much the "specialty coffee" adds to it any more than regular coffee.
Medium bodied, could be thicker for an imperial. Creamy mouthfeel, low carbonation.
A decent imperial coffee stout, though I have had better.
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04-16-2014 01:32:58 | More by roger617
4/5 rDev -7.4%
04-15-2014 22:53:39 | More by gmendez1122
5/5 rDev +15.7%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
A-Black body. Half finger of brown head. Dots of spotty lace spill down side of glass fast. Retains a great thin top layer of head until the last sip. Glass will be left with sticky lace. Love how the head swirled with the body on top to give decorative espresso-art like designs.
S-Roasted malt and chocolate. Strong coffee. Warm rum notes when inhaled deeply. Raisins. Oats. Graham. Molasses. Wet brown paper-bag. The brew smells cold and dank. Then gets sour, sweet and sticky. Terrific transformation. Meets all the set standards of a double stout and even strengthens and improves on said standard. "Super Stout" smells.
T-Caramel and chocolate malts abound. Quality coffee washes over. Hops are resinous and green. Leafy even. Citrus interestingly comes to play with orange & grapefruit upfront. Mellow citrus mind you, and dipped in chocolate in taste. Dark sour fruits as well are detected. Not too oat driven in flavor where you think "Oatmeal Stout!", but the oats are there. An array of flavors that are genuine and most importantly strong & everlasting.
M-Medium-high body. Heavy and full with enough creamy touch swirled in. Medium carbonation that sizzles. Tongue is coated and oily. Going down the neck the body is thick and gelatinous. This heaviness is softened to a creamier self with time. The sip starts sweet, roasted and bitter like hops/black coffee. The middle is the aforementioned which is interesting. The end is dark sour fruit with a stronger bitter finish of resinous pine & weed. Very sticky, lips will stick to glass.
O-When one category can't be pin-pointed as your favorite, you are dealing with a monster brew. Everything is in tune, cranked UP even, to a higher state of bliss. Something I noted was that on warming, the beer didn't spoil into a sour-prune state like most stouts do. It retained the smoky-resinous-chocolate-coffee flavor until the last drop. With drops of citrusy hop sneaking in, what else could you want in flavor? Top shelf stout. An 11.2 oz. bottle does the job.
This beer is the civet-shit!
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04-15-2014 08:18:23 | More by shacawgo24
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
No bottle date, poured into a teku
A- Pours pitch black with a dark tan creamy and silky head that retains long after the pour, leaving some nice lace behind
S- big fresh coffee notes with bitter-sweet dark chocolate, roasty & slightly smoky malt, also picking up a fruity berry-like aroma
T- dark and bitter chocolate up front tastes like a artisan dark chocolate bar, fresh espresso coffee kicks in mid-palate and meshes perfectly with the dark chocolate. Fresh cream flavor with a hint of oat adds an incredible smoothness, fruity berries add a light sweetness. The finish gives more dark chocolate with a slightly bitter finish
M- medium body and low carbonation lead to an incredibly smooth mouthfeel and a silky and velvety finish. Just a hint of alcohol at the end, incredibly smooth and drinkable
O- I had the calvados version and loved it, so I was looking forward to trying the base beer, this didn't disappoint. The coffee flavor is world class and mixes brilliantly with dark chocolate malt flavors with a perfect mouthfeel. World class
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4/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A - 4 - dark brown black beer with an initial mocha head that immediately fades to nothing.
S - 4 - coffee, roasted malts, chocolate, oatmeal, nothing too crazy or special
T - 4 - again, coffee, oatmeal, roasted malts, chocolate, plus maybe a tiny bit of burnt flavors, even burnt rubber
M - 4 - its' pretty creamy and chocolate milkshake like, but I'm finding with coffee stouts that the coffee decreases the complexity a lot of the time because it's overpowering. Thick mouthfeel tho, alc covered, aftertaste = coffee.
O - 4 - I'd love to try this with the other coffee stouts (Founders Breakfast Stout, Santa Fe Imperial Java Stout) and see whose shines above the rest.
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To quote: "Oh, honey. Sony PlayStation's (entirely fictional) Kevin Butler holds many (also fictional) positions within the company, but apparently none of them require him to keep up with (very real) news events. Travis La Marr (aka http://twitter.com/exiva) tweeted the now-infamous PS3 METLDR root key towards Butler with the challenge to "Come at me."
What's a spokeperson to do but confuse it for a Battleship reference and retweet the entire code? Obviously someone let him in on the joke, as the tweet's since been removed. At least Sony won't have to subpoena for his info here. Geohot, we hope you're laughing."
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Why do people on here prefer Bennett over Jared Cook ? Because his brother is on the team ?


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All the wriggling and squirming in city hall about who is responsible for the horns blaring from the railroad crossings is almost laughable, but only because I live on the northwest side of the city, far from the railroads. However, when I have the windows open at night, I hear the horns blowing too, so I greatly sympathize with the residents near the affected sections of town. I know that to them, this is far from a laughing matter. Enough with excuses from city hall.
It is clear that the residents in the area are furious. Many calls for the person responsible to be identified and fired have been made. City administrator Lori Luther claims that even if the paperwork would have been done properly, the horns would be blaring. That, would require a temporary suspension of disbelief, I believe is the quote. Democrats make a big thing about accountability and it would seem clear that this current administration has made what is supposed to be a non-partisan government very much an arm of the Democrat party. So it only seems right that someone be held accountable and submit their resignation.
Is the dust settling?
Since my daughter-in-law and granddaughters were killed by a convicted drunk driver, the flurry of action has diminished. Where I used to pass over news about another death from a drunk driver, I now carefully read it and empathize with the innocent person's survivors. My family's life has changed.
A committee meeting in Madison regarding stiffer penalties for drunk driving was canceled. There were not enough members to form a quorum. The excuse was they had things to do because of the flood. Really? Or was it an excuse to procrastinate and hope that the outrage would subside and they wouldn't have to deal with the matter?
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There's already at least one discussion on the topic of a stadium in Frame Park for a Northwoods League team, so I won't start one here. But because it's outcome could affect most everyone who goes Downtown, it's important that those who would have an opinion after it's built speak up now, before it's approved.
My opinion is it should be built in Frame Park as presented. I'm aware of much of the discussion and saw many valid questions raised during the Committee of the Whole. There are probably as many opinions as there are people opposed to it, and by my not living very close to it my opinion shouldn't really matter, but...
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To all the people who've lended me a hand, been nice to me when I was crabby, made room, seemed interested, had patience... To friends I've known for years and those I've lost touch with. To friendly neighbors, store clerks, teachers, students, clergy... To fellow ballooning crew, Vincentians, my family here and at St. William... I'm thinking of you today.
Speak your mind about Minooka Dog Park
On a lighter note than I've been blogging about lately, read on if you have a dog. If you are not already aware, and a surprising amount of people are not, Waukesha kicked in some money to create a dog park within Minooka County Park about a year ago. Read more information here. Somebody has placed a number of official park comment cards by the exit gate of the dog park, with an example of one suggesting that the "seasonal pond" be filled in. If you are the person that put these cards there, please send me an email. We have a common interest!
I noticed that another doggie bag dispenser was put at the garbage container at the far end of the old campground. It's one less excuse for not picking up after Fido.
What's New?
While the rest of the city toils over train whistles, hotel construction, baseball fields, and what the mayor is wearing, something very worthwhile is being overlooked.
There is a new addition coming to downtown- an addition that has been long overdue.
Congratulations Are in Order...
Over the past few months, added pressure has been fueling the deadline fire here in downtown Waukesha.
I am talking about the pressure many new business developments are feeling to get their businesses up and running before the Harley Festival.
I get the blues when it rains
This weekend could be an instant replay of the same weekend a year ago: Balloon rally in Hartford, Arab World Fest in Milwaukee, last weekend for State Fair in West Allis, car show in Waukesha, Bluesfest in Delafield. Heck, it even rained on Saturday afternoon, same as last year! Guess you have to stick with what works.
A little nervous when I heard that the only change to Bluesfest, beside performers, would be the ticket prices. Not enough people showed for the first one and, though we enjoyed it, thought it would take something major to bring it back again this year. It was $37.00 for a one day ticket last year compared to $15.00 each for advance tickets this time.
Death in the Desert.
While perusing through some old files, I came across photos of a trip we took last year to California.
Terry Sutter - A quiet presence
Waukesha is a community of caring and giving. One would be hard-pressed to find a community equal to ours where the outpouring of generosity and volunteerism is omnipresent. Often, the same individuals and companies give...and give...and give.
My work on and with several area boards allows me to interact with many concerned, involved citizens. Many of these people serve on more than 1 board at a time. While some might be motivated by networking, most donate their time, ideas, and energies as a means of giving-back. Most never look for thanks or recognition.
Grande Mariner, Earth Voyager
Parking a bike in Downtown Milwaukee allows me to explore as the mood strikes. The mood struck this morning after I noticed an interesting sailboat on last night's news and then again in today's paper. Grabbed the camera and rode to Discovery World where something is always going on. I didn't see the boat I was looking for but a cruise ship was docking so I talked to the welcome crew from the Visitor's Bureau.
They told me that about six cruise ships a year dock there for the day. This ship, the Grande Mariner, was out for a six day, six stop tour around Lake Michigan. The boat holds 50 cabins and costs $2000.00 or so per person for the week.
milk run
My favorite place to buy milk is Kwik Trip because it's close and on the way home, usually the least expensive, and they have punch cards for a dollar off when card is complete. Kwik Trip also has the least expensive bananas around so I often grab a bunch to go with the milk. It also helps that many of the employees know me and there's usually minimal waiting.
This week we wanted to pick up milk after a visit to Mom-in-law and stopped at Speedway on Summit for the convenience. Grabbed one gallon and wondered what the price would be. The shelf read "two gallons for $6.50" and in fine print "one gallon at regular price" with no indication what regular price was. After waiting in a five minute line I finally learned that "regular price" is $4.00 so I left. We didn't need milk that's as expensive as gas. Besides, there were other opportunities for milk before reaching home.
One one-hundredth of a second!
It's the Olympics of TV watching and I've seen so much I'm starting to cramp up. After sprinting up the dial from 4 to 27 to 34 and 46, I do a triple-back salto to 27 then nearly dislocate my thumb trying to avoid a commercial. When the final results are in, I learn I could've placed if only I'd vaulted over to channel 73.
I'm watching the best Olympics ever. I have four or five channels to choose from - but only on weekends. Primetime coverage during the week is limited to Channel 4 so we have to watch commercials and all the events NBC thinks we want to see. Fortunately, some of the commercials aren't half bad (though repetition doesn't do anything for them,) and the events shown have been exciting and probably what I'd be watching if given the choice.
lost in the "woods"
The first time I took my youngest to his friend's in the City of Pewaukee, we had to call for directions. My son's written directions omitted a crucial turn and we ended up in Brookfield. She talked us through each of 8 or so turns and we finally found her house, though it did make me a little late for my next ballooning adventure.
Because the route I was given to find my way out of the maze was so much simpler, we've been using it ever since. It will take a few more trips before we leave the cell home, but at least we don't have to pack a light snack and top off the tank before visiting any more.
old and new
Quite the local news day. Happy Days cast was in Milwaukee for an unveiling, parade and ball game. Governor Doyle in Milwaukee for a ribbon cutting for the opening of the Marquette interchange. Hours of Common Council discussion on the Northwoods League plans. It's after midnight now with no end to the discussion in sight. The public comment before the council meeting alone went to 9:45.
running low on gas
The 2008 Olympic flame has run out of gas. The games have been like a broken record ... world and olympic records broken over and over. There was much to see and enjoy these last 16 days, but I could fill this spot with all I would've liked to see but didn't. Didn't because of my own schedule, but also because coverage of the less popular sports was, again, often hard to find. Five channels with at least some Olympic coverage and often there was either nothing or some lengthy event like a two hour marathon or nine inning baseball game. My attention span isn't that long.
Even so, I enjoyed these games more than others. I enjoyed the selection NBC chose for me to watch and the Chinese did a fantastic job in hosting the Olympics. It's been said that possibly close to a million volunteers helped with the games and I believe it. Everywhere I looked I saw volunteers doing something or guarding something.
Tom's helping hands
I've known Tom for 20+ years. He was in our wedding party 18 years ago and hosted a bachelor party at his house. He's one of the few mechanics who didn't loose their job during last year's restructuring. Because so few mechanics are left, he's been busier than ever, but never too busy for me. He offered to come to Waukesha in April to help me pry my canoe off the bridge support in the Fox River. Recently, he saved me a couple hundred dollars replacing a bearing assembly on our Lumina. He's always been quick with free advice for my many needs. We get along and I consider him a good friend.
I envy Tom. He can build a trailer from the ground up. He has a couple horses and cars that run. He recently purchased a Harley Fatboy Softail motorcycle and took classes for a week to get his license before the 105th.
Here They Come...Happy Weekend in Waukesha Eve everyone.
rolling thunder
There's a Harley front heading toward us at 65 miles an hour. It's nothing to fear. They will storm our streets and, if we're lucky, will flood our shops and restaurants. Riders from around the world converge to celebrate 105 years of an American institution. (For once we won't have leave town to enjoy their company.) Make them feel welcome and they may return again some day.
weekend hogservations
The Cutler Park stage is really great. The bands are drawing huge crowds yet there's still room to move without feeling crowded. It's unreal how dark the park gets on moonless nights - and it doesn't help that everyone is wearing black.
I don't recall the last time downtown streets were closed for a flood of people instead of a flood of river. It's Friday Night Live all weekend long, free music and lots of people strolling. Stores open late and doing good business.


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- Drugs cut need for surgery for Crohn's disease patients by more than half
- Risk factor identified for life-threatening disease in preemies
- Chronic intestinal damage raises hip-fracture rate in celiac disease patients
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Whether you are in the mood for a latte or in search of a place to grab a quick bite, Rembrandt's Coffee House has it all covered. Morning and lunchtime are great times to be on the patio or inside the coffee house, but it's relaxing to drop by after dinner for fantastic coffee and one of their fabulous desserts. The coffee is fresh and can be bought by the cup or the package (ground or whole bean). Chocolates and desserts are just as delectable as they are beautiful. Mull over the large counter with pastries, candies, cookies, pies, cakes, bars Try the double chocolate scones, café latte and the white chocolate frappuccino. You'll find the breakfast panini and croissants most delicious. The friendly and quaint atmosphere is friendly, romantic and whimsical. There's free WIFI for studying, working or hanging out while enjoying a meal, a cup or a treat. You feel like you're sitting in a slice of old Europe when you're in their courtyard. With style and substance, it's also a great place to people watch. Finally, Rembrandt's is in the Bluff View Arts District, so the art museum and other cultural points of interest are within easy walking distance.
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Paint both the Styrofoam® ball and clay pot green. Let dry.
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Glue center of green chenille Stems to back of clay pot and bend legs around as shown.
Glue wiggle eyes to front of Styrofoam® ball and bend black chenille stem to create glasses. Glue to face over eyes.
Cut a small piece of the red chenille stem to create mouth. Glue in place.
Cut green chenille stem to desired size for antennae. Poke into head as shown.
Paint yellow circles on the clay pot.
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EDWARD S. DEEVEY, JR., converted the field of paleolimnology into a quantitative science that is a key to the immense treasure of information being cumulatively buried in the mud of lakes. The need for an absolute time scale put Deevey at the forefront of the use of 14C for dating lake sediments. Developing his central interest took him into related fields, each a major field in itself. He was a creative pioneer in several areas, including quantitative palynology, cycling of natural isotopes, biogeochemistry, population dynamics, systematics and ecology of freshwater zooplankton, and he promoted the use of life tables in ecology. In addition to research papers in professional journals and books, he published many reviews and commentaries in books and journals, and in various periodicals such as Scientific American (eight articles) and the New Yorker (one article).
Deevey was born in Albany, New York. He attended Albany High School and New York State College for Teachers before enrolling at Yale University, where he received a B.A. degree (summa cum laude) in botany in 1934. He then moved over to the zoology department where he found a congenial home. He finished a Ph. D. degree in 1938 at age twenty-three on "Typological Succession in Connecticut Lakes." He was the second student to do a Ph. D. with G. Evelyn Hutchinson (NAS). He held a Sterling Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1938-39. In 1938 he married Georgiana Baxter, a fellow graduate student, with whom he published several papers and had three children, Ruth, Edward Brian, and David Kevin, and three grandchildren. Georgiana died in 1982. Ed then married Dian Hitchcock, a geochemist specializing in sulfur, an interest quite compatible with his own interest in sulfur isotopes in lakes (1963;1983,2).
During the summers of 1938 and 1939 Deevey was employed by the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries to make limnological surveys of lakes. His first academic job, at Rice Institute, was ended in 1943 by a three-year stint during World War II at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where, as a civilian, he did research in marine biology of interest to the U. S. Navy. Much of the work consisted of identifying and counting fouling organisms from buoys, data of considerable importance to mine warfare and ship operations. In 1946 he returned to Yale where he progressed from lecturer to full professor. In 1967 he took a one-year appointment at the National Science Foundation as both head of the Section on Environmental and Systematic Biology and acting director of Environmental Biology. At that time plans for the U.S. contribution to the International Biological Program were being completed. Deevey took particular pleasure in his association with the program, but did not regret the brevity of the appointment. He told me that it would be dangerous for him to stay, explaining that he had begun to feel like God, and he was afraid it would be addictive.
In 1968 he took on the Killam professorship at Dalhousie University. That was his shortest academic appointment. In 1971 he accepted a Distinguished Graduate Research Curatorship in Paleoecology and Professorship at the Florida State Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He remained there, active until a heart attack following angioplasty ended his life at age seventy-five.
Through all these changes in venue Deevey's research followed a clear, continuous line of paleolimnology as a key to past global environmental conditions and human history. While he traveled widely from each of his home institutions he always took advantage of local conditions. At Rice and Woods Hole he collected information on hydroids that was useful later in his paleoecological interpretations (1950). His work in Florida and Guatemala was in karst regions heavily affected by human activity. In 1987 he went to the Peoples Republic of China to start similar work in the karst area of Yunnan Province with Chinese colleagues.
His publication record reflects more the development of his thinking, with side lines, than do his geographical movements. During his graduate work at Yale he made the first pollen stratigraphy for northeastern North America and made another for Tibet, using material collected by G. Evelyn Hutchinson on the Yale North India Expedition of 1932. They were the basis for his first two research papers, both aimed at climatic interpretation (1937;1939,1). These were soon followed in quick succession by a series of papers on modern conditions, neolimnology. One was a highly original multifactorial treatment of the regional limnology of Connecticut (1940). It used chemical and biological data gained in connection with his work for the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and with existing geological information. Another was a major comparative study of the bottom fauna of thirty-six lakes, with ecological interpretation, equivalent in scope to a Ph. D. dissertation (1941). Still another, in collaboration with G. E. Hutchinson and A. Wollack, was a novel ecological interpretation of redox potentials at the mud-water interface suggesting that the species composition of the benthic insect population was affected more by redox state of the trace metals in solution than by oxygen concentration (1939). All of these were relevant to the problems of paleological interpretation of sediment data that he was dealing with concurrently. In 1942 he published one of his major paleolimnological papers, perhaps the best both in breadth and depth, on the biostratonomy of Linsley Pond, based on his Ph. D. dissertation. The data consisted of chemical analyses of slices of several cores of lake mud and the results of intense visual examination and counting of pollen, diatoms, and of every fragment of invertebrate remains. The glory of the paper is in the richness of the data and the imaginative interpretation of changes in the lake and its surroundings. The most direct information about the ancient conditions within the lake was given by the remains of organisms, from organic molecules to visually recognizable fragments. The pollen content of the cores told about vegetation around the lake and led to interpretation of changes in climate, hydrology, and human influence. Remains of algae, crustaceans, and insects gave a species list of the community that he could interpret in terms of chemical and physical conditions in the lake. From all this he could read the 12,000-year history of changes of conditions and communities within the lake, changes in the climate above it, and some of the activities of human populations around it. The prevalence of Bosmina remains led him to study the systematics and biogeography of the genus.
Deevey became involved in population concepts while Georgiana was doing her Ph.D. study of the hematology of the black widow spider. Her records had data on the length of life of many individuals, males and females, giving a basis for a joint paper presenting a life table analysis, the first for an arachnid (1945). He is credited with introducing life table concepts into ecology with a paper that became a citation classic (1947). He continued to publish on neo-limnology, particularly after his move to Florida, but there were about twice as many papers on paleolimnology, paleontology, and paleoclimate. His remarkable 1949 review paper on Pleistocene biogeography was a major and influential synthesis of existing knowledge.
The time scale of the events recorded in the cores was only relative, which was strong motivation for him to seize on the work of Willard F. Libby (NAS) on the use of 14C for dating archaeological samples. With a grant from the Rocke-feller Foundation he founded the Yale Geochronometric Laboratory in 1951 and was its director until 1962 (1984). The goal of a worldwide paleoclimatology dominated the approach of the laboratory. The first spectacular discoveries, beyond simply getting firm dates for various events that had been known only in a relative way, were coordinations of climatic changes on both sides of the Atlantic. This opened the way to getting a real global climatic history. Dating made possible the calculation of absolute rates of deposition of pollen, and Deevey helped Margaret B. Davis (NAS) with her development of the method.
During all his time at Yale Deevey was in close communication with G. Evelyn Hutchinson. Starting with the establishment of the Geochronometric Laboratory, Deevey worked and published increasingly with new collaborators. He was associated with Richard Foster Flint of the geology department, an authority on the Pleistocene in North America. Both were close to Libby and all four helped each other, making an "informal institute. . .really getting carbon 14 on its feet. Very largely, the extent and speed of the spread of its use was due to Ed Deevey" (Hutchinson, 1984). One of Deevey's most important contributions to the interpretation of carbon dates in lake sediments was the demonstration that the basis of a discrepancy in dates from some lakes was a source of bicarbonate originating in ancient deposits of limestone (1954). He was assiduous in developing the laboratory (1984). He brought Minze Stuiver to it from Holland and Matsuo Tsukada from Japan. In 1969 the Laboratory closed, and both moved to the newly created Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle.
In 1964-65 Deevey spent a year in New Zealand. He took cores from several locations including Upper Pyramid Swamp, famous as a rich repository of bones of the extinct moa. He had already had vicarious experience with Pyramid Swamp paleolimnology nearly twenty years before when Robert Cushman Murphy provided him with cores taken in 1947. Deevey exploited them with a detailed analysis of the whole aquatic community as he had done in Linsley Pond many years earlier (1955,2). The sediments were highly unusual in the abundance of remains of ostracods. Two species coexisted for hundreds of years, varying reciprocally in abundance and population age structure. He was careful to point out that his studies had not explained the demise of the moa unless it was that the ostracods had nibbled them to death, an hypothesis he never published, although the moa was the basis of a Scientific American article in February 1954.
Deevey had a long-standing interest in the new world tropics, and made many trips to Mexico and Central America. His attention had spread from eastern North America to the Atlantic basin and then to the whole world. The climax of his research development was the project at Florida, Historical Ecology of the Maya, that melded paleolimnology, archaeology, and climatology to interpret the record of environmental consequences of prolonged human activity in a changing climate (1967;1979;1987,1).
It was characteristic of Deevey's way of thinking sometimes to compare the successional changes of a lake over time with embryonic ontogeny, possibly an effect of his experience in a department headed by Ross Harrison (NAS). Deevey had a high respect for intellectual processes in the historical development of concepts. This occasionally led him to hang onto ideas past their time, most notably in a tendency to identify eutrophication with the resultant increase of production and population density in lakes. He was a bit too impressed by the beauty of the sigmoid curve and relied heavily on it in his 1942 paper on the development of Linsley Pond for an interpretation that was refuted by one of his students many years later (Livingstone, 1957).
Deevey participated responsibly in many professional activities. He was on five editorial boards and was a member of eleven diverse societies, serving various functions, including the presidency of two, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the Ecological Society of America. While at Dalhousie he was a member of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada and the Canadian Committee on the International Biological Programme. He received much recognition. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Research Award in Denmark in 1953-54. In 1967-68 he had a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Fulbright travel award to New Zealand. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981. In 1982 he received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America. The Florida Board of Regents awarded him a commendation in 1983.
Deevey had considerable influence as a teacher through his graduate students. He had nine doctoral and seven masters students and more than twenty postdoctoral associates. Many of them have gone on to distinguished careers. Through his teaching and publications he developed a large, admiring following. A consistent theme in comments by students in recounting their experience with Deevey is his kindness. Criticism was delivered gently and with respect (Livingstone, 1991). He taught by example. Some graduate students were surprised when they found that they were to work on their own research problem with his help, not on pieces of his problems. He was always accessible for questions, and sometimes the answer took hours, ". . . tucked in amongst related facts, personal anecdotes, and a joke now and then . . . . We often kidded that Ed had the uncanny ability to go right to the periphery of an issue," said one.
A measure of his appeal was given by a seventieth birthday symposium on "Topics in Historical Ecology" in 1984, which was attended by about 300 people, some crossing the Atlantic. G. Evelyn Hutchinson gave a laudatory review of his career (Hutchinson, 1984). He stressed Deevey's contribution to the use of radiocarbon for dating and characterized his speaking and writing style as "verbal play and deep understanding of highly important truths," referring to his 1970 presidential address to the Ecological Society of America, "In Defense of Mud" (1970). In it Deevey pointed out that while we can refer to "pure air" and "pure water" one never refers to "pure earth."
Indeed, Deevey had an admiration for words that expressed itself not only in the frequent use of unusual words, especially in his book reviews and popular writings, but also in puns and a seemingly limitless stock of limericks, some of his own composition. His pleasure in literature and the arts was expressed in his writings by an abundance of learned and obscure allusions. A combination of admiration for Thoreau and scientific interest took him on a pilgrimage to Walden Pond, where one day of sampling resulted in a scholarly paper on its present limnological condition, including a comparison with Thoreau's own observations of temperature and transparency (1942,2). The work was done on a holiday from his job with the Connecticut fisheries board.
His lecturing style was not his best feature. He had a quiet voice and hesitant manner, with a tendency to let sentences trail away. This was unfortunate, because he had many good things to say and some of his best humor was displayed in the dropped ends of sentences. His friends knew to sit in the front row at lectures. Deevey had a dry sense of humor, a capability of amusing and being amused, expressed in many ways. He appreciated similar traits in others. For instance, one of his colleagues at Yale established a principle that many of us recognize: Poulson's Principle states that "The day after you give a lecture on some topic an important publication on the same topic arrives in the mail." Deevey's corollary states "The next year when you try to get it from the library, it is at the bindery."
He also had a sense of value. Early one morning at a meeting, sitting on a stool in a restaurant to order breakfast, he noticed on the menu "One egg 50 cents. Second egg 25 cents". He asked for a second egg, and was served it, with a bill for 25 cents, accompanied by giggles from the waitress.
IN ADDITION TO PERSONAL knowledge from my many years of association with Ed Deevey, I received valuable information from Dian Hitchcock Deevey, Michael W. Binford, Mark Brenner, Margaret B. Davis, Daniel A. Livingstone, Minze Stuiver, and A. L. Washburn. Additional information came from tape-recorded remarks by Edward Deevey and G. Evelyn Hutchinson at the seventieth birthday celebration. The photograph was supplied by Brian Deevey.


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With camerawork and editing that allows us to truly enjoy the footwork of its stars, "Make Your Move" is a vibrant, fun dance movie.
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