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Here's the thing: There are a lot of good relief duos out there. Eric Karabell and myself discuss five of the best ones in the video, but there are others we left out:
--The Pirates. Closer Jason Grilli is out right now, but he and Mark Melancon have been terrific all season. Melancon (0.91 ERA) has stepped into the closer's role with Justin Wilson (2.05 ERA) handling most of the eighth-inning duties. That's still a great pair, with Melancon arguably the most valuable reliever in the majors this season.
--The Rangers. They have the fourth-best bullpen ERA in the majors and are 65-3 when leading after seven innings. Great depth behind Joe Nathan with Neal Cotts, Tanner Scheppers, Robbie Ross and Jason Frasor, all with ERAs under 2.70 in 40-plus innings.
--The Royals. The second-best bullpen ERA behind the Braves, and closer Greg Holland has a 1.41 ERA and 29 consecutive saves converted, but the setup guys have been inconsistent and they have five losses when leading entering the eighth.
--The A's. Grant Balfour has just two saves all season, but the second one was a big one on Thursday afternoon, allowing four runs as the Tigers beat the A's 7-6 in dramatic fashion.
One team not listed: The Reds. Aroldis Chapman been shaky at times -- he's 3-5 with a 2.87 ERA and five blown saves -- and the Reds have lost eight games they led entering the eighth and three entering the ninth, making their bullpen one of the league's least effective in terms of holding leads late in games.
By the way, another reminder of the volatility of relief pitchers and bullpens in general: Three of the five closers included in the poll did not begin the season as their team's closer.


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Graveyard Train were once described as "horror country drunken bearded stompy chain smashy madness", which seems quite fitting once you've read about their second album. Hollow has songs about death, monsters, alcohol, and they definitely came close to some smashy madness while they were recording.
Here, Nick Finch, guitarist and vocalist for the Melbourne six-piece, walks you through the 11 songs on Graveyard Train's new album Hollow.
1. Get The Gold
Beau wrote most of this one. There was actually a fair bit of conflict over how 'Get The Gold' should turn out sonically as well as its arrangement. Some of us wanted it to be quite heavy and frantic and some wanted it to be more acoustic and slow paced. After a bit of bickering we ended up somewhere in the middle with a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-kinda feel which in the end suits it perfectly. The vast majority of our 7 days recording and mixing Hollow was really fun and friendly but for some reason this tune did seem to get some of us a bit on edge. The lead guitar sounds so angry because Josh was no doubt losing his shit at the time. Luckily, no band members were actually harmed during the recording of 'Get The Gold', and it actually turned out to be one of our favorites - so we made it track one.
2. I'm Gone
Another banger from Beau and heaps of fun to play. We recorded this at Sing Sing South Studios about month or so before we did the rest of the album (which was all recorded and mixed at Atlantis Sound). Sing Sing South was fantastic and the song came up great but in the end our engineer Loki Lockwood was just more at home at Atlantis... Partly because he's recorded countless bands there, but mainly because they let us smoke inside!
3. The Sermon
I sing the verses and Matt the washboard player sings the choruses on this one. Lyrically it draws from the old idea of Totentanz or Danse Macabre: that no matter who we are or what we have made of ourselves, everybody holds hands together as equals in our final dance with death. Coupled with that is the slightly more grim idea that death is actually just an empty nothingness that awaits us all. We may all go into it as equals, but it sure as shit ain't no dance party.
4. Life Is Elsewhere
Josh wrote this one and sang the lead vocal on it as well, which was a first for him. He wanted it to be really stripped back so learning it was a great exercise in restraint for the band, which was a first for us. Because Josh was busy singing and playing rhythm I ended up taking on his role and playing the Morricone-esque twangy lead guitar - which was a first for me. Finally, we pulled out a Hammond B3 organ and experimented with that at about 5am - which was also first for us. A song of firsts!
5. The Priest
Josh, Beau and myself wrote this one in Josh's kitchen one night about a year ago. Musically it's Josh's baby; he's a mean dark dobro player and wanted a mean dark dobro heavy song. Lyrically I suppose it's kind of all about darkness lurking within humans... Beau and I turned off all the lights in the recording studio and recorded our vocals standing next to each other while holding hands in the dark. It was uncomfortable to say the least - but we got a pretty creepy vocal take out of it.
6. The Doomsday Cult Blues
Reading the paper on the way to band practice I saw that a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan had been apprehended after being on the run for more than 17 years. She was one of those responsible for the sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway back in '95. Aum Shinrikyo was a heavy duty doomsday cult that started in the 80's and when all the shit went down after the subway attacks the authorities seized helicopters, machine guns, rocket launchers and enough chemical weapons to kill millions of people. They were total wackos getting ready to end the world. I got to wondering what this woman's headspace would have been like during all those years on the run... your cult leader is on death row, your compounds are all shut down, the world hasn't ended and you're a fugitive and all alone. You'd probably really miss the good old days of the compound. By the time I got off the tram I'd pretty much written all the lyrics for 'The Doomsday Cult Blues' and when I walked into the rehearsal room the boys happened to be midway through a psychedelic space jam. We put the two together and there you go.
7. You & Me
We have a serious problem with alcohol in Graveyard Train. 'You & Me' is a Jekyll & Hyde type number about our drinking problem(s). We're slowly learning to keep it together but over the years we've had all sorts of stupid alcohol induced mishaps... a 48 hour bender in Edinburgh caused an AWOL band member to completely miss our second ever international show (we later found him asleep on a pile of garbage bags), a band member had to go to emergency after drunkenly smashing his foot with a larger phone during a gig, we've drunkenly dropped and smashed numerous guitars, we've slurred our way through breakfast radio interviews too many times to mention and we have all vomited backstage pretty much everywhere from Meredith to Berlin. We are not proud. Help us.
8. Hollow Wind
'Hollow Wind' was an attempt at writing a love song for my missus. Unfortunately I play in Graveyard Train so it turned out to be about the fact that we will both die and that there will be nothing left of our lives or our love. There is no such thing as eternal love. Everybody dies alone. We will all be swept away by a cold and cruel hollow wind. Probably not my most romantic effort.
9. Mary Melody
'Mary Melody' is actually one of the first songs that Graveyard Train ever wrote. It's kind of a murder ballad about a monster picking up a girl in a bar and eating her. It's much more 'horror country' than any of the other songs on Hollow. Some people think there's some sort of a metaphor buried deep in the lyrics but I'm afraid we're pretty lowbrow dudes - we pretty much had an image of a big hairy monster picking up a girl and eating her up when we wrote it! Having said that, everything is up for interpretation so make of it what you will...
10. One Foot On The Grave
Yeah... this is kind of a wacky one even for us. I guess we were going for a Gospel meets Steve Tyler meets Rage Against The Machine sort of vibe or something. There's a first time for everything I suppose. It's one of those songs where you can't decide if it's so crazy that it might just work or if it's just plain crazy. The indecipherable chorus is: "Like a suicide snake I bite my tail / I dive down deep in the belly of the whale / And I wash myself in a big black tub / rub a dub dub rub a dub dub rub a dub." Beau was jumping around the studio wielding this two thousand dollar mic like a hip hop MC screaming it at the top of his lungs but miraculously didn't damage anything. The other day a couple of the boys got drunk and made a cool little cheapo homemade film clip for it using nothing but fifty bucks worth of kids' toys and sock puppets. For some reason when we were recording this one we couldn't get the image of sock puppets out of our head!
11. The End Of The World
I wrote this while on tour in a beautiful old hotel that we were staying at up in The Blue Mountains - it was pissing down rain and felt like the beginning of the end of the world and was all very pretentious. In step with the apocalyptic lyrics I'd originally thought that the song needed really over the top production like sweeping strings and horn sections and a choir and stuff... But when the band played it in the rehearsal room we nailed it down perfectly and decided that it really didn't need all the bells and whistles after all. The only slightly over the top thing was the 'wind'. The wind sound you can hear throughout the song came from a crack in a door that whistled (we discovered) only when a particular combination of studio doors were closed and the air-con was switched to a certain temperature. We all had to hold our breath and be completely silent while Loki (engineer) stood up on a chair and recorded this door crack with some super duper microphone. Pretty extravagant stuff!
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Armstrong died in August, aged 82, from complications after heart surgery.
Nasa administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, said Armstrong's humility and courage "lifted him above the stars"
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Nutritionists Say High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Extra Calories
April 1, 2004 -- Super-sized servings of burgers and fries head the list of foods being blamed for America's obesity epidemic, but that extra-large soda you drink to wash it all down may be even more to blame, several nutrition researchers charge.
They say it is no accident that the rise in obesity in the U.S. has paralleled the increase in consumption of high-fructose corn syrup, the sweetener now found in almost all sugar-based soft drinks and sweetened fruit juices. Between 1970 and 1990, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) consumption increased by more than 1,000%, largely because the nation's soft drink manufacturers switched from sucrose to HFCS, obesity researcher George A Bray, MD, tells WebMD. The researchers say that this increase far exceeds the intake of other foods or food groups.
"Clearly there is no one food that is responsible for the rise in obesity, but we believe that the increased consumption of soft drinks and other beverages sweetened with HFCS may play a significant role," he says. "If I could do one thing to change the food supply, it would be to eliminate all caloric sweeteners from the beverages we drink."
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Obesity has more than doubled in the U.S. from 1960 to 2000, with much of the increase occurring within the latter two decades, according to government figures. In the last decade, the percentage of adults 20 years and older that are classified as obese or overweight increased to 55%. An estimated 97 million adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese.
In an effort to identify dietary trends, Bray and colleagues examined food and beverage consumption records from the Department of Agriculture for the period between 1967 and 2000. They estimated that Americans eat 132 calories each day of high fructose corn syrup, and that the figure is closer to 300 calories for the top 20% of Americans.
Nutrition researcher Barry M. Popkin tells WebMD that Americans are eating between 200 and 300 more calories per capita per day than they were three decades ago. He says between one-third and one-half of those calories come from soft drinks. Popkin co-authored the commentary, published in the April issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition


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The two trackers do not appear on the front end of the site, but are tracking all logged in users accessing the dashboard area.
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The government said the plot was part of a conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States.
The three defendants are charged with various counts of conspiracy.
Among those charged is Joseph Hunter, also known as "Rambo."
According to an indictment, he served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 2004 before becoming a contract killer.
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Heading to Walmart to check out the #GELIGHTING
I love this time of year! Entering in the garden section always distracts me. I love flowers!
Ahh one of my favorite isles at Walmart is the tool isle!
Searching for lighting can be very overwhelming. Look at all the choices. I want to narrow it down for you.
Oh I love when they have big displays in the isles. It is very eye catching. Luckily for me it was a lighting display! Yeah! Going the check it out.
Hot Dog! GE Lighting on is featured on this display!
Great information about why we should make the switch.
A starter kit?
A ceiling fan light starter kit? That is brilliant!
The cheap ones that do not last. (What I usually buy)
GE Soft White. I prefer the soft white bulbs.
More options on the display. There are some other brands blended in.
I love that it shows energy cost per year on the box.
Lots of wattage options. And do you see the price? $2.24 for a 4 pack. That is actually not as expensive as I thought.
A closer look at the info on the box
My first look at the CFL lighting.
Another great display by GE! Very eye catching. Good job GE!
I love the bright from the start. Check out all the info on the packaging.
Bright From the Start is one of the styles I was looking for. They achieve full brightness the instant you flip the switch
Don't let the packaging fool you. They are changing their look. These are still Bright From The Start.
One of "Bright From The Start" competitors.
A closer look at the Wattage information. it lets of the same light as a 40 watt but only uses 9 watts.
Really cool image of the inside of the bulb.
Another example of the image. This one is for ceiling fans. I needed one more to go with my starter set since it only had 3.
Energy Smart ...another ceiling fan option.
A bug light? That is awesome!
A look at some of the vanity light options. So many!
My only complaint is that these are all sets of 3. Most fixtures in my home have an even number of lights.
The Vanity image I love helped me decide.
I decided on these for the vanity. I LOVE the picture of the light fixture on the package. That helps me know where these bulbs are meant to go. LOVE THIS!
So many sizes. I should have brought some of my bulbs from home. I did not know what size my chandelier was.
The chandelier image.
The cheap ones on the bottom that used to be my favorite.
Comparing the CFL options.
6 pack for only $11.44!
I have the Upgrade Kit aka starter kit for the living room fan. I had to get the one extra because the kit is for only 3 lights. Maybe one day they will make that 4. That would rock.
I also decided to get several packs of the Bright From The Start GE lights to replace some of the solo bedroom lights.
Another end cap display with GE Lighting.
My cart was filling up quickly. I was thinking of each room as I decided. I choose several different styles to try out.
On the way out...this pool looks awesome. I want one.
Time to check out. I am pleased with my GE lighting choices.
Ok I won't lie, it was a little hard to pay this much at once for all my light bulbs. I reminded myself I shouldn't need to buy more for a LONG time. And really $40 to replace all lighting is not that bad.
All done here. I think this was money well spent! check out the post to see how these saved me money!
Home and ready to light up the house.
They look so unique!
Bye bye old light bulbs! (most were burned out)
Hello new lighting!!
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This entry is part 21 of 26 in the series Gods Letters From Philippi 2 I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. 3 Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the […]
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All the research points to one thing: spend more time evaluating your courses. But is this really the answer to getting those all-important insights and to prove business value? Chris from Boost Evaluation pulls the plug on the hype and tells us why we need to get our head out of the sand. To make evaluation work for everyone, forget the course.


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To commemorate the Windows 10 Anniversary Update rollout, we're throwing Windows 10 Week. To kick it off, we've published a reminder of how much longer you have to upgrade for free, a series of reflections from our staff, a peek at the future and even a comparison between Windows 10 and macOS Sierra.
Windows 10 is an entirely fresh version of Microsoft's veteran Windows operating system (OS) – a version that is make-or-break for the company.
It was released on July 29, 2015 in seven versions, which I'll tell you much more about below, as well as giving you techradar's final verdict on all aspects of the new OS. Note that we've published a distinct Windows 10 Mobile review, which we've recently given a full upgrade.
Even though Windows 8.1 did improve a lot, there's no escaping that, with Windows 8, Microsoft was hugely complacent, riding on the coattails of Windows 7. It drastically misread its audience with a fundamentally different interface that didn't make any reasonable sense and was hard to learn. It failed us. It failed itself.
Thankfully, 2016 Microsoft is starkly different from 2012 Microsoft. The key management of the company has shuffled. It has realized that people can choose other OSes. It's been creating software for Mac OS X, Linux, iOS and Android. As you'll see, it's allowing apps from other systems to be easily ported to Windows, too.
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Almost 10 months after release, Microsoft has continued to deliver on its promise of Windows as a Service, announcing its first Redstone (as it's reportedly known internally) update at its largely positive Build 2016 in the form of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. However, more recently, as Windows 10 growth has begun to stall heading into the expiration of its free upgrade offer, Microsoft has begun to enact strong measures to entice new fans.
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On the other hand, Windows 10's existing user base of over 350 million accompanied by over 135 billion hours of use is nothing to scoff at. And, with the imminent Anniversary update just around the corner, Microsoft has confirmed that little more than bug fixes and security patches will be issued leading into its release.
Unfortunately for those looking forward to upgrading their copies of Windows 10 come August 2, Redmond has also revealed the Anniversary Update will arrive as a phased rollout. Significant features introduced in this revision include Edge extensions, more ubiquitous support for Windows Hello, Ink enhancements and even the integration of Linux's Bash shell.
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Skip to comments.Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Structure Part 1) Vol. 9, March 2, 2012
Posted on 03/02/2012 8:10:56 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
Good morning fellow gardeners! Here in NE Louisiana the weatherman claims we will reach 90 degrees today. He is really starting to get on my nerves ... doesn't he know that this is the first week of March, for pete's sake? He could shade the truth and tell us it's going to be 68, it's not like he's given bad information before, he does it at least 3 days a week. But, I digress.
First off this week, I want to share a link that fanfan, one of our gardening FRiends in Canada, sent to me earlier in the week. Three seed-sowing techniques is sure to bring valuable information to many of our gardening notebooks. Thanks, fanfan!
I'd also like to share a link to an article that shows how to build a hoop house/greenhouse that is simple, yet extremely well done and strong. In An Early Start the author provides easy to understand instructions, along with photos, for constructing a year-round environment for gardening at home. At least one of these will be built at my house this year ... I've got most of the components that I can scrap up from my piles of useful junk.
I've been threatening y'all with information on soil structure, and this week I want to begin with some basic information that we'll build on over the weeks. I hope to get everyone thinking about making the most of their yards and gardens by understanding the things we have to work with. Many of you already practice soil management and understand the importance of structure. I hope that you will join the discussion and offer all of us your some of your knowledge and expertise.
Simply put, soil structure is a term that describes the arrangement of the solid parts of the soil and of the space located between them. Basic structure depends on the soil type you are working with. (see previous thread on soil types.)
Soil structure is broken down into basic types, and is best determined by taking a sample of soil that has not been disturbed and looking closely at its shape. The shape of the soil will fall into one of the following categories: granular, crumb, blocky, platy, prismatic, columnar, single-grained, or massive. Note that massive soil is not pictured in the following diagram, but is basically unpermeable soil that is a solid block with no spaces.
Each individual unit of soil in the overall structure is called a ped. Only about 50% of structure is solid material. The remainder is spaces of air, organic matter, water and minerals. Other riches in the soil are worms, mites, nematodes, deep growing plant roots, bacteria and fungi. All of these things together are indications of soil quality, and developing a management strategy to enhance that quality is a sure way to hit pay dirt.
Why is information on structure important to you and your garden? Structure determines how well your plants will grow. Good structure reduces erosion, improves root penetration and access to soil moisture and nutrients. Even seedlings will emerge easier in well managed soil due to less surface crust. Water infiltrates good structure better and is more readily retained. Some soil health consultants claim that garden productivity can improve 2 to 3 fold with improved structure.
The best news is that anyone can improve the structure of their soil. In coming weeks I will be setting out ways to do just that. I decided to do this in several parts for a couple of reasons: structure is not something that you've going to attack and change in the span of a week; and if I presented all of it in one thread, eyes would glaze over and we would all fall asleep and miss planting season.
The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you.
This thread is non-political, although you will find that most here are conservative folks. No matter what, you wont be flamed and the only dumb question is the one that isnt asked.
It is impossible to hijack the Weekly Gardening Thread ... there is no telling where it will go and that is part of the fun and interest. Jump in and join us!
Oh, no! I am so thankful that you're okay. Can your raised bed be salvaged?
Thank you so much for that feedback. Much appreciated.
A very useful tip. I won't even plant a black walnut on the property 'cause one of the oldtimers around here told me I shouldn't. Not sure how far away it would have to be.
You're welcome, greeneyes. I'd love to see photos of your new plantings, especially the strawberry bed!
From observation, anything outside the dripline is usually safe, as long as the leaves aren't used as mulch, of course. The leaves don't have much of that chemical in them, but enough of them piled on can have an effect.
Wish I could remember exactly what that elderly man told me. He's gone now and I can't ask him. :(
Since wifie tilled the garden last weekend, and she re-installed the drip irrigation and landscape fabric today, the garden is hers this year. I am going to harden off my best 50 or so mater seedlings and figure on planting next weekend and sharing some seedlings with neighbors.
The orkra garden will be my chore. The selected area is full of roots and thick hard grass. That will be lots of fun!
I'll just have to break it down into components and rebuild it.
In New Jersey, I discovered vinca...not the vine with purple flowers (sometimes labeled periwinkle) that people use for ground cover or the variegated vine people use as filler in pots, but an annual. It looks very much like impatiens, but can take full sun and is very tolerant of heat. They come in all sorts of colors. They don't mound like impatiens, but grow a bit more upright. They fill out and make a huge plant covered with flowers by the end of the summer and do not need to be pinched back. Pretty much the perfect plant for a lazy gardener! I can't ever find vinca in a big garden center, but a mom and pop place here grows them every year. He tells me that they are tricky to germinate and prone to root rot if you overwater and that is why Lowe's , etc. doesn't fool with them. He doesn't have them ready to sell until beginning of June, so I always talk him into selling me some in May before they have flowered. I never know what color I am going to get! Usually pinks, coral, white, and lavender are the most common colors. It does come in white with a red center and a gorgeous solid red, but those are few and far between. If I get them in the ground around Mother's Day with some Miracle Grow time release in the planting soil, they look fabulous by July and pretty up until the first frost. They are my go-to plant for full or afternoon sun.
I have never heard of this plant! This must be the sme one that you recommended. m going to have to look it up. They must call it something else around here.
I think we call that "New Guinea Impatiens" around here.
I will see if I can find some pictures later, but we had a computer virus on her laptop that has it on hold, and my pictures are not very organized from that time period.
LOL. I will have to work on that, we don't plant outdoors till Mid May at least. I am techno-challenged, and don't even have a digital camera. I will take pictures during the season, and post them once I use up the roll of film.
I read several articles on this, and they said fifty feet from the drip line for things that are sensitive like Tomatoes.
Corn, beans, and wheat are supposedly tolerant to the walnut toxin, and can be closer. We have 2 garden patches that are next to walnut trees. So far, the corn beans and wheat crops have been pretty good in these patches.
Their New Guinea Impatiens here also...
Thank you for that info.
Who knew they were vincas?
I'd be afraid to try them on my front porch, as pretty as they are. The sun and the heat are intense there in the summertime.
How about a couple of Chili Plants or even Tomatoes
Well, you don't get any color (other than green) out of tomatoes until August.
Got it! Thank you, both for the happy and the funny story!
I am always apprehensive when using snail mail.
One other thing, the mower went to the shop today! :)
That's funny too. :)
Your home, flower beds and gardens are so beautiful that I could not begin to make suggestions to improve on what you have already done.
Talk to tubebender about sprouting lots of impatiens. He and Mrs. Bender truly incubate and produce a prodigeous amount of impatiens for their house and their church.
On those vincas, my daughter wrote:
That's it! I first starting buying it at Secor Farms at a small family owned pumkin and annual farm (the last farm in Mahwah) around the corner from my house in Mahwah. They were the only thing that thrived in the pots on the steps of my sunny front porch.
It took me a couple of years to find someone here that sells it. Mr. Sokowloski has 7 or 8 greenhouses on his property on Grooms Road. He and his son run the nusery and he lives in the house at the front. He helps me out each spring because I start looking for it earlier than he puts it out for sale, but if I wait too long I don't have my pick of colors. So we have to go by the tags ..which aren't always accurate. Tammy plants them in South Carolina because it is very drought tolerant.
The only year they didn't last into October was this past summer when we had the remnants of a hurricane and the wind just about ripped them out of the pots and tore off quite a few branches. They were still alive, but didn't look very pretty
I have to laugh about this because this is NOT my daughter who is famed as a gardener. But, her yard always looks nice, and I see that she does put a lot of thought into it. The "Tammy" she refers to is my DIL in SC. So, here we are using the same plant in two disparate climates -- NY and SC. I've always been leery of those New Guinea Impatiens because I never thought they'd survive on my front porch.
Isn't New Guinea a few miles south of the north pole? I asked Lady Bender to help you and her response was >I ain't ever birthed no flowers in Wisconsin Mr Bender<
It's Mrs. Rightly_Dividing who needs help. They want to grow lots and lots of impatiens from scratch in the Houston area.Quite a different climate from Humboldt.
I have never had good luck with any kind of impatiens. I have neighbors who can bring a few seedlings home from the garden center and they have carpets of color for the rest of the season. I can buy flats of impatiens, plant them 6 in. apart, and they'll still be 6 in. apart in September. Just nothing.
Impatiens are popular in Mobile and do quite well as long as they are not in the hot sun. We tried them on our west facing porch, but they would not take the afternoon sun. The vincas, on the other hand, did well, so we planted a lot of vincas.
Same here!
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Wendell Berry speaks to Freshman Read
Renowned Kentucky author Wendell Berry spoke to the Freshman Read participants at St. Catharine College on Thursday, Aug. 23. Mr. Berry is the author of over 40 books of poetry, essays, fiction and nonfiction. He lives and farms in Henry County, Ky.
The Freshman Read is a common reading experience beginning its fifth year at St. Catharine. This year, 184 freshmen and 44 Read Leaders have been reading and discussing Berry's novel, Hannah Coulter. Through the eyes of an aging widow, Hannah Coulter recounts the journey of a young woman brought into the "membership" of a small farming community. Hannah endures hard work, sacrifice and grief. Simultaneously, she experiences real love. Her responses to life offer us a realistic portrait of a life well-lived by a woman of integrity and grit.
"Wendell Berry spoke clearly and honestly to our freshmen about the responsibility they must bear to reclaim our polluted land to rebuild functioning communities. The audience listened intently as if they were hungry to hear his thoughts on Hannah Coulter, farming life and the future of their world," said Evelyn Silliman, director of St. Catharine's rtl3 Reading Program, which sponsors The Freshman Read and SCC's visiting authors.
rtl3 reaches across campus to raise awareness of the value of reading with programs such as Freshman Read and the upcoming "Celebration of Freedom to Read" during Banned Books Week. During this event, the public is invited to participate as we read from books we love that have been challenged or banned in some area of the United States. For more information on Banned Books Week at St. Catharine College, contact Evelyn Silliman at firstname.lastname@example.com or 859-336-5082, ext. 1322.
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Tom Sharkey
Tom Sharkey was born on November, the 26th, in 1873 in Dundalk/ Ireland. He was only 5´8 tall, but pretty muscular and well built. He weighed in his career between 172 lbs and 205 lbs. His managers were Dan Lynch and Tom O´Rourke. His colorful career began, when he ran away from home and went to sea as a cavin boy. In 1892, Tom Sharkey landed in New York City and joined the Unites States Navy. He was eventually deployed to Hawaii where he began his professional career. He was a standup brawler, who came right after his opponents. He prefered to fight in the inside, where he was easy to hit, but he was tough, tumble, rough, durable and he was a very hard puncher. He had big and unusually broad shoulders for a man of his size. He had a tattoo of a star and a battleship on his barrel chest, another characteristic thing was his in 1900 suffered injured ear (in his fight with Gus Ruhlin), who was named "his large cauliflower ear". His first fight was against a fighter named Jack Gardner, who Sharkey beat with a 1st round KO. After this fight, he scored 18 straight KO´s in 19 fights. His first good win was against Joe Choynski, who he beat on points. On
December 2
Sharkey fought a controversial battle with future heavyweight champion
Bob Fitzsimmons
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Wyatt Earp
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James J. Corbett
, aka Gentleman Jim, had relinquished the crown. Accordingly, Sharkey then claimed the title. The claim evaporated when Corbett resumed his fighting career, and continued to be recognized as champion until he was knocked out by Fitzsimmons in a title bout. Sharkey was involved in another controversial fight when he faced Corbett on
November 22
. In this bout Sharkey manhandled the shifty and elusive Corbett. He threw him to the ground, hit him with hard punches to the body and head and seemed on the verge of imminent victory when one of Corbett's seconds jumped into the ring in the ninth round. The referee promptly disqualified Corbett and awarded the bout to Sharkey.
January 10
, Sharkey faced another ring legend, the tricky
Kid McCoy
. Sharkey knocked out McCoy in the tenth round thereby securing a shot at the heavyweight title then held by
James J. Jeffries
. The two had met previously fighting a hotly contested 20 round slugfest on
May 6
. The decision went to Jeffries in a close fight. Nevertheless, Sharkey vowed to beat the 6'21/2 burly Jeffries in the rematch.
The two fought a memorable twenty-five round bout on
November 3
Coney Island
New York
. The match was the first championship fight filmed for motion pictures, and the lights required for the filming were so hot that they burned the hair from the top of both fighter's heads. The last round of the fight was not recorded, however, because the camera operator ran out of film.
The fight was a ring classic. Sharkey took the early lead when he battered the larger Jeffries during the early stages of the bout. Jeffries, however, was very powerful and gained control of the fight in the later rounds. Both fighters, despite suffering severe injuries during the bout went all out in the fianl round, which most believed was won by Jeffries. In any event the bout was awarded to Jeffries, although many felt Sharkey had won. During this fight the indomitable Sharkey suffered a broken nose, two broken ribs, and his left ear swelled to the size of a g****fruit.
After this fight Jeffries and Sharkey became friends. Jeffries always claimed that Sharkey gave him his hardest fights stating that Sharkey was the roughest, toughest and bravest man he ever fought. He retired at the age of 30, after a loss to Jack Munroe on points. All in all, he had 53 reported fights, where he could win 40 fights (37 KO´s), he lost 7 times (3 by the way of KO) and 5 draws. At the age of 64 in 1938 he entered Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, according to newspaper accounts, desperately ill. He died on April, the 17th, in 1953 in San Francisco.
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DENVER (January 25, 2013)--Colorado's Catholic bishops will review a church hospital's legal argument that it should not be liable for the death of unborn twins because a fetus is not a person under state law.
The arguments were made in papers that Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives filed in 2010 to persuade a judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against St. Thomas More Hospital in Canon City, Colo.
The arguments appeared to contradict the church's centuries-old stance that life begins at conception.
In a statement Thursday evening, the bishops said they would review the litigation to ensure it complied with church doctrine.
The lawsuit was filed after Lori Stodghill and the 7-month-old fetuses she was carrying died in the hospital's emergency room.
Attorneys representing her and her husband are urging the Colorado Supreme Court to take the case.