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Virginia Dyer, Pea Ridge National Military Park
At this site stood Lewis Pratt's general store. Besides the store, it is believed that there were several other buildings on the site, possibly including a house, barn and a shed. It is unknown what purpose these foundation stones (pictured to the left) served.
The store lay along the Telegraph Road to the east of Leetown and was about a mile and a half north of the Federal camps. General Curtis selected the store as his headquarters and erected his command tents nearby.
On the morning of March 7, Curtis was conferring with his leaders when he was interrupted by a messenger stating that the Confederates were in force to the north of Leetown along the Ford Road. Curtis directed Colonel Peter Osterhaus to take his division to investigate the activity along the Ford Road. As Osterhaus left the tent, another messanger entered reporting that another force was marching south along the Telegraph Road directly towards Curtis's vulnerable supply trains at the Elkhorn Tavern. Curtis looked out of his tent and saw Colonel Grenville Dodge's brigade standing outside. Curtis directed Dodge's commander, Colonel Eugene Carr, to take the brigade north and intercept the second Confederate force.
Carr confidently stated that he would clear the Confederates out in an hour.
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Nate Burleson practiced all week, fueling speculation that he may be available for the game on Sunday against the Bears.
But the Lions coaching staff is airing on the side of caution and according to Tim Twentyman of Detroitlions.com is out for the game against the Chicago Bears. The Lions just aren't willing to risk further injury to Nate Burleson's forearm by rushing him back to soon.
We all know how tough of a guy Nate is. If it was up to him, he probably would have missed one game. There is only so much you can do with healing bones and stuff. I think the big thing with Nate is when we do get him back, we're going to get him back, but we want to make sure he is back for good. To do that, we have to avoid setbacks and stuff like that."
Ziggy Ansah is listed as doubtful for the pivotal NFC North match-up on Sunday. Ansah has been fighting injury since training camp and has made regular appearances on the Lions injury report this season. Isreal Idonije and Devin Taylor are expected to get the majority of the playing time in Ziggy Ansah's absence.
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Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India: Notes from Pranab Bardhan's lecture at The New School
Thanks to a recommendation from @maggierauch, I made it across a very rainy lower Manhattan Thursday night to catch the excellent Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India lecture put on by The New School's India China Institute. Economist Pranab Bardhan talked about some of the research and conclusions from his new book, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India (Princeton University).William Milberg and Sanjay Ruparelia offered their responses, and Carl Riskin made an appearance and weighed in on Bardhan's talk as well.
I took a lot of notes during the talk and Q&A period. Tapped out on my phone, they're not exact, and they're certainly not a summary — just a brief recording of things that stood out to me. If you're at all interested in this kind of thing you should buy Bardhan's book. There's some pretty surprising stuff in here, and I'm looking forward to reading Fee of Clay to learn more. If there are mistakes here, they are mine, not the speakers'.
- According to numbers from Angus Maddison (and there are data problems for both countries), in 1820 China contributed 33% of the world's income, India was responsible for 16%. By 1950 India and China contributed 9% combined.
- Chinas growth has been in manufacturing, Indian's in service. However, in terms of value added, not output, China is not number one in manufacturing — in value added terms they were about equal with Japan in 2008, and behind the US and others.
- In terms of the secondary sector (manufacturing), China's growth rate is not unprecedented, even for the region.
- Software — including call centers and all sorts of related services — is actually a very small part of Indias economy; less than half of 1%.
One of Bardhan's more controversial arguments:
- Stats show reduction of poverty has little to do with globalization, most of China's growth was before global integration — half the growth had occurred by 1987. Land reform and usage rights had a huge effect. Indian rural households are still mostly landless.
- Success in Indian exports is not in labor intensive goods and so doesn't provide jobs to many poor people.
- Indian life expectancy in India is the same as China in the early 70s. The percentage of underweight children in India is worse than in Sub-Saharan Africa.
-China rural health services have also declined, from de-collectivization onwards. Most poor Chinese cannot afford public hospitals.
- Chinese income inequality may have flattened in recent years.
- Income inequality is less important than inequality of opportunity. Indias education inequality is among highest in the world. China's is similar to Brazil, India is much worse.
- Class inequality rampant in india. China has worse gender equality, although female literacy and workforce participation are higher.
- Demographic dividend (working age population) is better in India. Younger population=more workers and also a higher savings rate. Though there are mitigating factors, the saving portion of the population is 35-65 years of age. This demographic will peak in china in 2030, not the same time as the workforce will.
- Environmental problems: lot of air pollution in both countries is indoors, from cooking. Mostly affects women (based on WHO numbers. Yale University Center for Environmental Law and Columbia also have numbers on this). India's environmental movement is stronger.
- India and China both have very high savings rates, partially due to lack of benefits. Both will decline, especially in China.
- China's fiscal deficit ratio is lower than most think it should be, largely due to bad loans from federal to local govt.
- India's infrastructure is bad, electricity is 2x as expensive as in China. The state is complicit in 30% of electricity thefts in India. Around election times, Indian pols promise to make utilities free, and often do so — bankrupting local govts and discourages private buy ins.
- India's formal sector economy is 40 pct SOEs.
- China is capitalist, but defining ownership is very tough. A Chinese author that wrote a book on Chinese capitalism couldn't determine ownership details of Huawei or Lenovo.
- A 2007 study found 3000 of 3500's China's wealthy with over 100 million RMB are closely tied/related to CCP leadership.
- The richest members of Chinese parliament are worth a combined 75 billion USD.
- India's capitalism is more controlled, regulated.
- In China, the internal logic of capitalism is missing. They're riding "a tiger the political leadership may find it difficult to dismount."
- CCP is only 29% workers and peasants.
- China's socialism was a good launching pad for capitalism. This includes a high percentage of R&D funding, even before major growth
- "Many young people [in China] think the 20th century started in 1980."
- Only half-joking when he says, "Chinese may be better capitalists now because they were better socialists then."
- Rebuttal of Beijing consensus: "Authoritarianism is neither necessary nor sufficient for development."
- China's "strong" govt is more brittle than India's — the leadership in India doesn't depend on continually high GDP numbers for legitimacy.
A few counterpoints/comments/cautions/questions from Carl Riskin (who hasn't yet read the book). Bardhan responded to a few of these during the Q&A:
- Comparative historical trends need to "be taken with very large chunks of salt." Backward projected data sets are useless.
- Chinas high (50%) savings rate is partially because a very small part of GDP makes itself into household income.
- Infrastructure development is really only for upper middle class, same thing with high speed rail.
- Why are life indicators (expectancy etc.) going up while health systems are being dismantled?
- Development of eastern areas for foreign development and trade led to changes, meaning that globalization does matter.
- Distribution of land was incredible, however that's disappearing now. Poor farmers are getting land grabbed because of high prices of commercial real estate. 100 million may have lost their land — a class of landless laborers is being created
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ESO Solutions Secures $4MM in Funding to Accelerate Growth
The funds will be used primarily to increase the company's sales and marketing efforts and position it for expansion and targeted acquisition opportunities.
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Two prominent emergency physicians hired as Medical Directors of Clinical Affairs.
Rider Alert Wins the 2012 Virginia Governor's Transportation Safety Award for Motorcycle Safety
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Donald Pleasants, CEO of Southeastern Specialty Vehicles, a producer of ambulance remounts, rescue vehicles and specialty vehicles, announced that Richard Duncan, Jim Dunn and Eric Snyder are new members of the sales team.
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Airway World Announces Free Webinars Focusing on Critical Issues In Airway Management
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All classes begin at 9am.
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Topic: Continuation on study of Exodus, picking up with Chapter 11.
Sunday Seminars:
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The Sunday Seminar class will be going through pastor Tim Keller's "Gospel in Life" series—an eight-week video based study of the gospel and how to live it out in your everyday life. In week one you and your group will study the city, your home now, the world that is. Week eight closes with the theme of the eternal city, your heavenly home, the world that is to come. In between you'll learn how the gospel can change your heart, your community, and how you live in this world.
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Women's Class:
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Topic: Women of the Bible, starting with Eve and Noah's wife.
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Topic: Finishing study of Hebrews, picking up with Chapter 13.
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Colerain High School junior Detuan Smith led wrestlers from the Northwest Press coverage area by taking the third spot in the 160-pound division at the OHSAA State Wrestling Tournament March 2. Smith's finish was the highest a Cardinal has ever finished at state. Teammate TeGray Scales placed seventh at 195 pounds, after taking fourth at […]
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Middletown senior quarterback Jalin Marshall talked about his decision to play college football at Ohio State this fall during the GMC signing day event at Voice of America Park in West Chester Wednesday afternoon. In this video, Marshall chats why he chose Ohio State, and what role he hopes to play as a freshman. For […]
Ohio prep basketball midseason report
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Can you believe it? Local prep teams are already halfway through the season. But don't fret, there's still plenty of basketball to be played. Here's some observations from the first half: Best team on my beat:Summit won last year's Division III state title and entered the year with some key pieces set to return in […]
Ohio State's Norwell and Michigan's Bolden enjoy Big Ten success
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Ohio State lineman Andrew Norwell and Michigan linebacker Joe Bolden battled it out on the field during the 109th meeting between the Buckeyes and Wolverines at Ohio Stadium Saturday, but now the two are enjoying the spoils that come with stellar seasons. Norwell, who is a junior, was named first-team all-Big Ten, while Bolden was […]
Summit grad Austin Berry named Major League Soccer Rookie of the Year
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The year keeps getting better for Chicago Fire defender Austin Berry. The former Summit Country Day standout and Anderson Township native capped off his first year as a professional by being named Major League's Soccer Rookie of the Year. Berry, who was taken in the first round of January's draft, is the third player in […]
Summit's Johnson signs with UC
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Summit Country Day senior Kevin Johnson made it official when he signed his letter of intent to play basketball for the University of Cincinnati during signing day Nov. 14. Johnson verbally committed to the Bearcats last June after helping the Silver Knights win the Division III state basketball championship in March. The future Bearcat received […]
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Ursuline claimed the fifth volleyball state title in school history with a 25-20, 25-16, 25-10 victory over Massillon Jackson at Wright State University's Nutter Center Nov. 10. In this video, Lions head coach Jeni Case chats about how the strength of GGCL schedule propelled her team to a championship. For more updates, follow me on […]
District medalist leads first-place CCD into state tourney
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One putt in a three-way playoff for medalists honors at districts—talk about a pressure cooker. For your average sportswriter? Definitely. But not for Cincinnati Country Day School junior Ishan Ghildyal. In a game many consider to be a test of one's individual fortitude, Ghildyal took solace in the efforts of his team, which had played […]
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16.10.2014 - 18.12.2014 The ShanghAI Lectures 2014
09.10.2014RSUH participated in the 3rd Moscow Student Parade
Student affairs department would like to thank every student for the respectable introduction of University during the Parade.
09.10.2014Natalie Reid, an academic writing coach, lectured at RSUH
A second lecture by Reid in RSUH was prepared considering earlier experience.
09.10.2014Writer Rachel Holmes visited RSUH
Rachel, who had visited Russia for the first time, said that her stay was full of positive emotions.


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In Africa: U.S. Promotes Security, China Does Business
May 31, 2014
The RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy (CAPP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary research center within RAND. CAPP's mission is to improve policy by providing decision-makers and the public with rigorous, objective, cutting-edge research on critical policy challenges facing Asia and U.S.-Asia relations.
A selection of media reporting on critical RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy research.


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40 posts tagged Robots
A group of enterprising employees at a scrapyard in Jinan City, China are using salvaged materials from their own facility to create an awesome army of giant Transformers. It all started back in 2010 when one ambitious part-time employee at the scrapyard created a towering recycled replica of Optimus Prime (previously featured here):
"The PR and marketing student said he wanted to make something 'eye-catching' using discarded parts. "I thought if people could see something spectacular made from junk, it would highlight what we do here and we could get more customers," he said. Li was right. The robot became immensely popular, winning a lot of praise from locals."
That first scrap metal Autobot received so much press and attention from passers-by that Li decided to build a second one. After that other workers decided to get involved and keep the effort going. In the space of just 4 months they'd built over 40 Transformers whatever materials they could get their hands on at work, such as parts from old cars and motorcycles. And they aren't simply stationary figures - all of the mechanical limbs are posable.
They start off by downloading an animated image from the internet. "Before starting the robot manufacturing, we do not delineate our drawings," said Guojun Long, one of the craftsmen. A large amount of what we do depends on our imagination, because each robot looks different and the same parts cannot be used."
Each recycled robot is for sale, priced around 100,000 yuan ($16,000 USD). And just in case you're worried that the yard might sell out of giant scrap-bots before you can get over there yourself, don't worry, they workers are still making more.
[via Kotaku and Oddity Central]
Watch as 28-year-old street performer Joslyn Paige gives a group of kids in Ann Arbor, MI an unforgettable thrill by showing off his awesome homemade Transformer costume. Paige spent a few months and between $700-$800 to making his suit, which transforms from bipedal robot into a truck that actually drives around.
Paige told the Detroit Free Press that he plans to spend the summer performing in Ann Arbor, so if you happen to be nearby, keep an eye out for this awesome Human Transformer!
Visit 22 Words for additional video and a couple photos.
You know you're a serious fan of Pacific Rim when you purchase a 12-foot-long, 900-pound conference table that features a giant Jaeger arm. Los Angeles-based independent video game studio Robotoki worked with Tom Spina Designs to create this awesome mecha conference table for their office. We hope they play the main theme from Pacific Rim before and after their meetings.
Visit Nerd Approved for an unboxing and assembly video to get an even better sense of just how huge this thing is.
Is it strange that we've got an urge to curl up and nap in the palm of the Jaeger's hand? If the table top weren't made of glass, that would be an fantastic hiding place.
[via Nerd Approved]
New York-based balloon artist John Reid of Epic Balloons just created the world's largest balloon sculpture (made by a single person) at the Salt Lake Comic Con. Meet Poptimus Prime!
Reid spent 42 hours assembling his 50-foot-tall balloon-bot using a total of 4302 purple, green, black, gray and white balloons. Representatives from Record Holders Republic were on hand to verify that Poptimus Prime actually is the largest balloon sculpture ever made by a single person, but it'll take Guinness World Records a few months to verify it themselves.
The only thing more awesome that Reid's giant inflatable robot is his attitude about his achievement:
Reid said that he hopes another artist will eventually outdo him. "I want to hold (the record) for like three or four months," he said. "I hope that somebody else decides to try to take this art a little further and crush me. Trounce me. Wipe the floor with me. I would be honored to have somebody make something even more epic than this."
Visit the Epic Balloons Facebook page for additional photos and video footage.
[via Geeks are Sexy and Deseret News]
Pittsburgh, PA-based graphic designer and writer Don Moyer likes to draw things that make him laugh. That's why he's been hard at work on a fantastic series of drawings based on traditional blue willow china plate patterns. The designs look authentic except for one extraordinary difference: the otherwise tranquil design on each plate includes some sort of unexpected calamity. It could be an alien invasion or natural disaster. It could be a sea monster or a swarm of bats. It could even be a giant zombie poodle, flying monkeys or robots. There are simply so many ways that disaster might strike.
Moyer calls this awesome ongoing series Calamityware. Two of his designs (the flying monkeys and the giant robot) have been produced as actual porcelain plates thanks to successfully funded Kickstarter projects.
Check out Don Moyer's Calamityware Flickr set to view more of his designs.
[via Lost at E Minor]
Wilmington, Delaware-based artist Brian Marshall creates awesome robot sculptures by reusing just about any metal object he can get his hands on. Forgotten boxes in the backs of attics and garages are his treasure chests. For Marshall, building lively little robots out of old cutlery, spice tins and car parts isn't simply a hobby, it's an obsession. That's why he created Adopt-a-bot: the Found Object Art Robot Assemblage Orphanage.
"Each robot is constructed almost entirely from reused materials. These materials are cleaned and polished to varying degrees depending on the persona I am attempting to achieve. Even the nuts and bolts that are used to hold together each creation are from a recycler. With simple, fun designs that contain easily recognizable pieces, it is my hope that viewers will not only find a personality to connect with, but that they will also see the value of and possibilities for reducing, reusing and recycling in our world today."
Visit Brian Marshall's Flickr page to view many more of his recycled robots. And if you're in the market for adopting a robot of your own, check out the Adopt-a-bot Orphanage.
[via Weezbo]
San Francisco-based design professor and illustrator Miguel Cardona transforms ordinary paper coffee cups into bold works of art. Because of the curved surface of his canvas of choice, each piece is rendered freehand and he thoroughly enjoys the challenges that this presents:
"You have this three-dimensional object that is in your hands, you can pull the cup in a different direction and hold the pen still. You can also hide a lot of flawed perspective. You don't need a desk, it can be done anywhere, and to protect it, you can stack it in another blank cup. The cup itself can hold your art supplies and is itself, a display stand, it's quite the perfect design."
Cardona's subjects vary from pop culture character and icons to robots, monsters, and even bodily organs. But these beautiful illustrations aren't quite as awesome as what he does with them. Miguel sells each finished piece for $20 and donates 100% of the proceeds to Project Night Night, which donates baby blankets, children's books, and toys to children in homeless shelters.
Visit Miguel Cardona's website to check out more of his fantastic illustrated coffee cups.
[via Design Taxi and Cool Hunting]
From rings hidden inside cupcakes to skywriters to signs on cows, lots of people go out of their way to make a grand gesture when proposing marriage. One particularly ambitious, lovestruck, and geeky man in China decided that the best way to pop the question to his beloved was to build a 30-foot-tall model of Optimus Prime that would ask for his true love's hand in marriage.
He built the Autobot leader out of over 40,000 rivets and almost $10,000 worth of iron and stainless steel, working through 400 drawings over the ten months it took him to transform a pile of metal and bolts into one amazing looking metal sculpture.
We're guessing that the fact that the lucky lady was photographed posing with her beau's giant transformer means she probably said yes.
[via Neatorama]
This beautifully detailed R2-D2 replica is made of white chocolate, which means it's precisely the droid we're looking for. It was made by Pastry Chef Fernando Arreola at The Fairmont San Jose using 150 lbs of white chocolate fondant.
[via That's Nerdalicious!]
Hong Kong-based designer Aaron Liu used toys and a wide variety of found objects to create these awesomely detailed custom Hello Kitty robot figures, which he calls Mech KT 519, A 'Kitty Intelligence'.
Click here to view more of Aaron's fantastic custom toy creations.
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Bone Antiresorptive Therapy With Antiretroviral Initiation (BATARI) Pilot Trial
This study is not yet open for participant recruitment. (see Contacts and Locations)
Verified March 2014 by St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: October 9, 2013
Last updated: March 12, 2014
Last verified: March 2014
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|October 9, 2013
|Last Updated Date
|March 12, 2014
|Start Date ICMJE
|April 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|September 2015 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Percentage changes in BMD at a) the lumbar spine and b) proximal femur [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
The primary analysis will compare the percentage changes in BMD for the two alendronate/vitamin D arms pooled against the control arm.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01968850 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Bone Antiresorptive Therapy With Antiretroviral Initiation (BATARI) Pilot Trial
|Official Title ICMJE
|Bone Antiresorptive Therapy With Antiretroviral Initiation (BATARI) Pilot Trial
|Brief Summary
This is a two-site, three-arm, open-label, pilot randomized controlled trial of bone anti-resorptive therapy during ART initiation in HIV-infected adults. Thirty (30) treatment-naïve HIV-infected adults initiating eligible first-line ART regimens will be randomized in a 1:1:1 fashion to one of the following three arms:
Assessments (including clinical evaluation, questionnaires, adherence, basic laboratory evaluation, and BMD measurement) will be performed at baseline, 24 and 48 weeks. The primary objective will involve calculation of σ and ρ using all data; δ will be estimated by comparing the two alendronate arms pooled to the no-treatment arm.
|Detailed Description
|Not Provided
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Phase 2
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
|Condition ICMJE
|Intervention ICMJE
|Drug: alendronate/vitamin D
once weekly 70mg oral dose of alendronate co-formulated with 5600IU vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) for 24 weeks.
Other Name: Fosavance 70/56
|Study Arm (s)
|Publications *
|Not Provided
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Not yet recruiting
|Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|September 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|September 2015 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years and older
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Location Countries ICMJE
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|Responsible Party
|St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
|Collaborators ICMJE
|CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network
|Investigators ICMJE
|Information Provided By
|St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
|Verification Date
|March 2014
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Butterflies, like many beautiful, delicate creatures, are ever so particular. They enjoy certain plants from which to drink nectar and others on which to plant their eggs.
"Butterflies can use nectar from lots of different plants, but they're very specific about where they lay their eggs," said Christine Bock, lead horticulturalist at the Tennessee Aquarium. She planted the butterfly garden there and also plants her home garden to attract them as well.
Monarchs prefer milkweed, while swallowtails are attracted to members of the parsley family. Bock said she also plants passion vine to attract fritillaries.
Encouraging the butterflies to plant their eggs leads to proliferation. "Year after year, you'll have butterflies."
However, she said she also wishes to have nectar for the butterflies to drink, so she has zinnias and coneflower. Those are nectar plants, along with butterfly bush and butterfly weed. Zinnias, she said, are easy plants for beginning gardeners, as are salvias and globe amarynth.
Her favorite butterflies, she said, are monarchs. "I watch the monarchs lay one egg per leaf on the milkweed, and I watch them grow and eat the milkweed and then I see them make their chrysallises."
5 Tips
- Be sure to plant both nectar and larval (egg) plants.
- If you want to attract specific kinds of butterflies, find what plants they are attracted to. Monarchs enjoy planting their eggs on milkweed, while little yellows prefer cassia and clover.
- Check on seed packages for the note "butterfly attracting." Zinnias, aster, butterfly bush and Joe Pye Weed are among the popular nectar plants.
- Don't be so quick to cut back violets or other wildflowers to make the garden look neat and pristine. "You have to let things be. The more you allow things to be natural, the more wildlife you'll have."
- Avoid pesticides. They're less safe for butterflies and other living creatures. "[Butterflies are] part of the web of life," said Bock. "You don't want to remove any part of that. You're making more of an animal habitat. You're helping butterflies to live. You're promoting biodiversity. You're offering more food to the wildlife."
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Holly Leber is a reporter and columnist for the Life section. She has worked at the Times Free Press since March 2008. Holly covers "everything but the kitchen sink" when it comes to features: the arts, young adults, classical music, art, fitness, home, gardening and food. She writes the popular and sometimes-controversial column Love and Other Indoor Sports. Holly calls both New York City and Saratoga Springs, NY home. She earned a bachelor of arts ...


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Mirror Mirror, What do you see?
Do you see my lies?
Do you see my hurt?
Do you see the way i look like her?
Mirror Mirror, Do you see me?
Did you see my mask?
Did you see it brake?
Do you see how much i hate my face?
Mirror Mirror, Do i look like her?
Blue eyes
Red hair
Freackled face
How i wish it would disappear
Mirror Mirror, Is this me?
A wish to leave
Mirror Mirror, Do you see the broken me?
Tear filled eyes
Blood soaked hands
A broken you never to live again


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Members of the Minneapolis/St Paul Chapter of Ikebana International welcome you to our web site. Our members share a love of Ikebana, Japanese culture and arts.Nearly fifty members strong, we regularly exhibit Ikebana in our community and conduct chapter meetings and programs 5-6 times a year. Guests and potential new members are welcome to contact us regarding attending our events.
See photos of Minneapolis Institue of Art's Art in Bloom designs by Ikebana International members on the 2014 Art in Bloom page
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 25 that the mushroom checkoff is unconstitutional, saying it violates free-speech rights under the First Amendment.
Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a technique which may dramatically improve the success rate of cattle cloning.
With 160 million tons of it produced annually in the United States, and most of it rich in carbohydrates and proteins, it has potential for becoming high value products.
The potential of biotechnology and genetically altered plants must be weighed against the risks of using it.
A musical stage play billed as "pure entertainment with a rock and roll beat," Zombie Prom opened June 29 at the Ashtabula Arts Center's Straw Hat Theatre. The show be performed again July 5-8 and 12-14.
A show where crafts and reproductions will not be admitted will be held July 14 in Burton, Ohio.
The solution to annoying bees at your family barbecue may be to share your feast.
Zoning dates back to the late 1800s when land uses were first separated by law to protect residential areas from dangerous or unsightly practices.
The historic box that carried the treaty ending the War of 1812, thus resolving the final hostilities between the United States and Britain, currently is undergoing conservation at Colonial Williamsburg.
The Ohio School Boards Association is conducting a workshop for those who haven't made up their minds whether to run for office or not.
ABS Global now has a sign that reads "Stop. Biosecure Area. Visitors by Appointment Only."
An entomologist from Georgia says a certain not-so-picky maggot would be more than happy to help clean up commercial chicken houses.
In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell comments on what the farmer owes the consumer, and how consumer perceptions drive the market.
Jim Buchy will manage the day-to-day operations of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, formulating, and shaping regulatory policy, and monitoring agricultural legislation.
Park It class for second and third graders will teach them how to find their way around the woods.
Those booming for ethanol production in Ohio say that even though the wagon is getting crowded, there is still plenty of time for Ohio farmers to hop on.
A July 19 program will show producers how to manage "price risk" and learn about diary options and futures markets.
The grand opening for the exotic animal sanctuary's large cat and carnivore compound will be July 7.
The "systems analysis" method of market livestock project evaluation has been adopted by the Lake County junior fair livestock committee and will be used this summer at the Lake County Fair. This approach attempts to put more objectivity into the subjectivity of judging and doesn't encourage the ethics violations that creep into the business of "showing" animals.
The southern Ohio crop is 10 days ahead of schedule, and two or three weeks earlier than the rest of the state.


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Solebox x Saucony Shadow 5000 "Green Lucanid" – Release Date
May 23rd, 2014 by Brendan Dunne | No comments
It looks like another pair from Solebox's Saucony Shadow 5000 "Lucanid" project is finally ready to release. The sneaker revisits a Solebox approach of old and plants a light sensitive, UV coloring on the upper of the shoes. They're set to release first at Solebox of course, who will have them on the 31st of May. Based on the little bit of info out there surrounding the project it appears that numbers will be limited to around 100, and other Euro shops should be getting small runs of the sneakers. Take another look at them after the click and good luck in hunting down these Saucony Shadow 5000s.
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Preaching a gospel of tolerance set against a heady genre-blending groove, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Sly and the Family Stone were the integrated multi-gender Pied Pipers of the Woodstock generation. The group's message – and inimitable synthesizing of rock, soul, R&B, funk and psychedelia into a danceable music – helped bring diverse audiences together, with their greatest triumph coming at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. During their unforgettable nighttime set, leader Sly Stone initiated a fevered call-and-response with the audience of 400,000–plus during an electrifying version of "I Want to Take You Higher." Voters around the world ranked that moment as one of the greatest festival moments of all time, and it is included in the Rock Hall's feature exhibit, Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience.
The group connected with the rising counterculture by means of songs that addressed issues of personal pride and liberation in the context of driving, insistent and sunny-tempered music that fused rock and soul, creating a template for 70s funk. As proof that they were reaching a rainbow coalition among the young, Sly and the Family Stone dominated the late 60s charts with such essential singles as "Dance to ...
This summer as rock and roll fans gather at musical festivals around the globe, the Rock Hall is celebrating the the greatest music festivals in history, the biggest and baddest music festivals of today and the fans who make Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience.
From June 12-15, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival takes over Manchester, Tennessee, with a host of performances from some of the biggest names in music. Among the headlining acts and performers at Bonnaroo this year are a number of artists who also feature in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cleveland, Ohio, including four Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees.
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Percussionist Mickey Hart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 with his bandmates in the Grateful Dead. When Hart visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2012, he shared stories about the first time he ever saw the Grateful Dead live and the San Francisco scene in the 60s. Pictured below is his illuminated signature in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bobby Womack:
Bobby Womack was born in Cleveland, where he and his ...
Released in June 1984, Born in the U.S.A. remains among the best-selling albums in rock and roll history, with seven Top 10 hits that sent 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Bruce Springsteen's rock stardom into the stratosphere. Its narrative tone had much in common with 1982's stark, somber and critically lauded Nebraska, with many of the songs that comprised Born in the U.S.A. beginning life in the same sessions that produced that album. The root influences of blues, American folk songs and the new cinematic style of directors such as Martin Scorsese and Terrence Malick brought a darker and more introspective view to the characters. "I'm on Fire," for example, was a song of desire, compulsion and personal struggle that became a Top 10 hit in 1985, despite its intense subject matter.
However, Born in the U.S.A. also traded in more nostalgic storytelling and tongue-in-cheek humor on tracks like "Glory Days" and "Dancing in the Dark" – all of which proved especially resonant with audiences around the country. Thanks in no small part to 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees the E Street Band, the arrangements were ...
Recently, I gave a presentation at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives about my books on 1960s folk-rock. Most of it was centered around rare film clips, but I was also asked to talk a bit about the research I've done at the library over the past two weeks (thanks to a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation). This is for the expanded ebook edition of my two-volume work on 1960s folk-rock, Turn! Turn! Turn! (published as a print edition in 2002) and Eight Miles High (published as a print edition in 2003), which I'm combining into a single ebook, Jingle Jangle Morning: Folk-Rock in the 1960s.
It would take many hours and many pages to cover all of the material I've discovered at the library. So I used just a few images to illustrate how rare items could shed some light on folk-rock's history, even after having written about it for 600 pages in the print editions. All of these are taken from ads that appeared between 1965 and 1967 in Cash Box, the biggest music trade magazine besides Billboard, but (unlike Billboard) very hard to find copies of these ...
This week, it was announced that Hall of Fame Inductees Led Zeppelin would be reissuing their first three albums with a series of box sets featuring previously unheard mixes, live versions and one unreleased track. In advance of Led Zeppelin II's re-release, the group shared a radio edit of a rough mix of the classic cut "Whole Lotta Love" that sounds quite different than the famous radio-staple studio version, most notably Jimmy Page's guitar parts and Robert Plant's vocals. It's a mix as intriguing to listeners as the song's controversial – sometimes litigious – history.
Experience the world's greatest music festivals past, present and future at the Rock Hall in Cleveland!
Plant remembers the first time he noted similarities between a Zep-credited composition and an obscure but not that obscure blues. JPage's response was "shut up and keep walking." Led Zeppelin almost got away with "Whole Lotta Love." The crunching riff and relentless thud that opens Led Zeppelin II could be attributed to few other bands in 1969. But as the lyrics unfolded, certain listeners got a dose of deja vu. "Whole Lotta Love" distinctly recalled the Small Faces' number "You Need Loving." Had the ...
In March 2014, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum invited fans around the globe to vote for the greatest festival moments in the history of rock and roll. Thousands of votes were cast, and when the results were tallied, a Top 10 emerged. Here are those amazing festival moments, from Newport Folk to Woodstock, Monterey Pop to Lollapalooza; from Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters to Nine Inch Nails.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, opens a new feature exhibit, Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience, on April 25, 2014.
With a hastily assembled band, Bob Dylan changed the course of popular music in three songs on Sunday, July 25, 1965. The folk bard and 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee turned the Newport Folk Festival on its ear, plugging in and delivering amplified versions of "Maggie's Farm," "Like a Rolling Stone" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" – much to the chagrin of many in attendance.
Dylan's electrified Newport set in 1965 was a marked departure from his '63 show, where he played acoustic versions of "Blowin' in the Wind;" and '64 performances at the same festival, where he played acoustic versions of "With God on Our Side" and "Mr. Tambourine Man."
"Ladies and gentlemen, the person that's going to come up now has a limited amount of time ... His name is Bob Dylan," festival emcee Peter Yarrow announced. Taking the stage with a full band that included guitarist Mike Bloomfield and organist Al Kooper – both of whom had played on the recording of Dylan's recently released single "Like A Rolling Stone" – Dylan and company launched into a rollicking version of "Maggie's Farm," earning a barrage ...
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Peter Gabriel is coming back to the US for a special concert event – this time at a cinema near you.
Captured live in October 2013 at London's famed arena, The O2, Peter Gabriel: Back to Front showcases the recent Hall of Fame Inductee and one of the most innovative artists of modern times, and will screen in theaters nationwide. The performance reunites Gabriel with his original touring band from 1986 to cover his most well-known hits, including "Solsbury Hill," "Digging in the Dirt," "Sledgehammer," "Mercy Street" and "Don't Give Up."
"It has been wonderful working with [director] Hamish Hamilton again and his very talented team," said Gabriel of the film. "I feel they have really caught what was unique about the 'Back to Front' tour, both visually and emotionally. My own sound crew has also done a brilliant job."
The film event comes just weeks after Gabriel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Chris Martin of Coldplay during the April 10, 2014 ceremony at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. "I'd like to read from the Book of Genesis," Martin ...


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