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Fifty years later, Blue Island car club helping those in need
BY VERONICA HINKE Correspondent March 12, 2014 11:00AM
Ted DeMarche (from left), Rob Lukasik, Scott Schmaltz, Phil Fransen and Jim DeYoung, all active Romin' Chariots members, enjoy Vintage Torque Fest in Dubuque, Iowa. | Supplied photo courtesy of Tom Schultz
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A band of antique car enthusiasts will hit a vintage milestone of their own on March 18: The Romin' Chariots group is turning 50.
A half-century after its inception, the Blue Island-based roadsters still are spreading the message they started with in 1964: Help others.
In the last two years alone, the 10 active members raised more than $4,000 for multiple nonprofit groups. Their annual car show benefits Blue Cap, which serves the disabled and is one of the first organizations they supported in 1964. Their holiday party, the HOt rod HOliday HOedown, doubles as a donations drive for An Angels Touch, which supports the needy in Blue Island.
"They do a heck of a job," said Alsip resident Dan Schmaltz, an active Chariots member from 1966 to 1968. "They're willing to go out there and do a lot for the community."
That's how they started.
In the early to mid-1960s, the club — which was made up mostly of guys from Eisenhower High School in Blue Island — raised money by washing cars and holding paper drives. They also held "Safe Driving Roadeos" and participated in parades in Blue Island and Calumet Park.
"We were all buddies hanging around together," said 1960s member and one-time secretary Dick DeForte, of Palos Heights.
But he recalled how when the war in Vietnam started, practically every week a different member received a draft notice.
"In a small club of about 12 to 15 guys, that pretty much takes its toll quickly," DeForte said.
After the war, original members stayed loosely connected, but family life allowed little time for regular meetings.
But in 2007, Schmaltz's son Scott reignited the Romin' Chariots — getting his buddies together and growing their group.
"I just sort of ran with it," said the Blue Island resident, who is the club's president.
"It's a lot of fun," he said. "But I've always said, 'If we're going to have a car show, it might as well have meaning.' "
Original members recently reconnected through Facebook. Within a few weeks, they were sharing pizza at Beggars in Blue Island. They continue to get together.
"How many people see their friends from 50 years ago on a regular basis?" DeForte said.
The club attends many local cruise nights and members often go on long weekend road trips, some of the drivers exceeding 15,000 miles in a season.
The club was planning to celebrate with a party, open to the public, at 8 p.m. March 21 at Mackenzie's Place, 12759 S. Lincoln St., Blue Island.
"Nothing fancy, just loose, like always," DeForte said.
He is pleased that the club is back on the road.
"I hope Scott's buddies get together 50 years from now," he said.

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Tascosa is a great school if you are in adavnced classes. The teachers are great, and offer classes most others in the area don't such as Human Geography AP for freshmen. However the non-AP or Pre-AP courses are not very good. There are a lot of fights, but that can be found in all high schools. The teachers want to help and offer times for students to come in. The only problem is a bulk of the students don't care.
tascosa is cool but there is alot of fights.
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I'm thinking of growing some kohlrabi in my veggie garden this year, just because I love the way it looks. But what exactly do you DO with it, and what does it taste like? Do you cut up the big ball part, or the leaves, or what? Do you cook it, or eat it raw in a salad? Thanks in advance guys. |
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I love it both raw and steamed. When I eat it raw I just peal the bulb and cut off slices. When I cook it I peal the ball/bulb part, cut it into chunks and I also cut up the leaves and cook them with the rest. I love cooked greens so I can not bear to throw away good greens. The flavor is somewhat unique. To me it is somewhere between a very mild turnip and mild cabbage. Hard to describe. Patsy |
- Posted by nebancsvirag 10fl (My Page) on Wed, Jan 19, 05 at 9:53
According to My Mother, You can not make REAL chicken soup without kohlrabi. She is absolutely right. As prooven by trial and error. Also good to serve on a cheese platter, eat just like an apple. Enjoy. |
As others have already mentioned, it is great raw. You can peel & slice it or cut it into sticks & use it on a crudite platter with dip. Cooked, I usually peel & cube/chunk it, then boil/steam & drain & stir into a nice thick cheese sauce - sharp cheddar or blue cheese are favorites. Flavor of both the bulb/stem & the leaves is extremely mild, which is one reason why I find it so surprising that it's never caught on much here in the U.S. as opposed to Europe. |
The first time I grew kohlrabi it was surprisingly sweet and had a hint of coconut flavor to it! Since then it has always been more like a very mild broccoli stem taste. But the mouth feel is different --cleaner-- than broccoli. We usually slice it thinly, boil, and serve with butter and black pepper. Sometimes I'll cook it in chicken broth, but it had not ocurred to me to actually put it in chicken soup. Kohlrabi is quick from seed. |
- Posted by Tenderheart 5a (My Page) on Tue, Jan 25, 05 at 1:26
My father has been growing this since I was a kid. We've always eaten it as a raw veggie, pealed, sliced, and maybe with a sprinkling of salt. It tastes a bit like raw, crunchy cabbage. |
- Posted by opabinia51 SE Canada (My Page) on Thu, Feb 3, 05 at 20:29
As others have said: You can boil it or eat it raw. You can also cut it into cubes and use it in a stirfry or you can put it into a casserole with potatoes, Onions, garlic and rutabaga. You can also puree it and put it into breads. Just make your starting batter with Yeast, water and flour and then add the pureed (boil it before pureeing it) Kholrabi. Finally, you can make fritters with it. Or you coud make beignets with it. Just find a recipe for Beignets on the web and add finally diced kholrabi to the recipe and some onion. I think that is just about everything that I have done with it..... oh yeah, I've also Barbecued it. Just douse with some olive oil first |
- Posted by bigeasyjock z8Ms (My Page) on Fri, Feb 11, 05 at 14:42
Beignets! Now you're talking my language. ;o)Beignets and good New Orleans coffee with chickory! Oh man now I'm hungry! When young I like 'em raw; crunchy like an apple. Left too long in the ground they become pithy down here. Thats when I'll cook'em and use as a thickener like you would potatos or other starchy tubers. I don't know that these actually have starch (must as what else would the sweet taste be that I enjoy when they are young?) but it does work well in soups. Mike |
- Posted by opabinia51 SW Canada (My Page) on Tue, Feb 22, 05 at 23:21
Yes, I forgot to mention that there is more than one variety of Kohlrabi that you can grow. There is the classic Green variety and also a purple variety that I actually like more than the green. The leaves of both varieties are quite nice boiled, added to a soup or in a stirfry. One might also try pureeing the leaves with a bit of water and adding that to a fritter dough. |
Wow, I am glad you posted this Vegangurl. I was given a packet of seed and was also unsure what to do with the veggie but thought it never hurts to try something new. My kids think the pic on the packet looks like an alien ship and are sure they won't like to eat it. I'll try some of these recipes and let them know that the 'alien ship' was in it later! Thanks you guys Lettssee (new to edible gardening) |
- Posted by nebancsvirag 10fl (My Page) on Sun, Feb 27, 05 at 8:19
Just picked a huge purple one. My mother visited from Europe this winter, and she planted some seeds for us. Both the green and the purple ones have leaves that are about 1 1/2 from the base and about 9" wide in the middle. The whole bush is almost 3' accross. Planting the seeds into an area where you can transplant the seedlings as they grow is a good idea, as this provides us with mature fruit in sequence. I like not having everything ready the same week. The one we harvested was almost5lb without the base and leaves. when peeled, and cut into small slices, it was enjoyed all afternoon by my husband and i. Usually, when they are so big, it would only be for soups etc, but this was very tender and sweet. According to my mother, this is probably due to the quality of the soil and regular feeding/ watering. Good luck with yours, Irene |
I grate mine, cook it, & eat it like potatoes. |
In Switzerland, they slice it and simmer briefly with tomato, onion and maybe a little bacon. Can be frozen. |
- Posted by kritterfarm Z7/GA (My Page) on Mon, May 7, 07 at 12:05
Hi. Looking for some help regarding Kohlrabi. It has come highly recommended for it's great taste. I'm in zone 7, south of Atlanta. When is the correct time to plant and how easy is it to grow?? Thanks |
- Posted by R Mickens(email@example.com) onThu, May 19, 11 at 18:53
thanks to everyone for the info on Kohlrabi. i found a recipe that included Kohlrabi and wasn't sure what it was. now i can try this new recipe and i think i will enjoy it very much. thanks again |
My seven-year-old LOVES eating fresh slices of kohlrabi with a sprinkle of salt. I harvest mine when it is 2 to 3 inches in diameter, peel away the outside, chop off the area nearest the root (the area close to the root is tough--the top is VERY tender), and use a vegetable slicer to quickly make thin pieces. I agree--the green variety tastes better than the purple, but the purple is good, too. I'm curious about trying it in chicken soup. kritterfarm, in zone 7 it's already too late for a spring harvest. However, kohlrabi is quite cold-hardy--you might be able to grow it all winter. Try it when the temperatures are cool-it grows well when the days are in the 50s and 60s. |
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Carbon capture and sequestration is nothing if not controversial. The cost, effectiveness and the public reaction to extracting CO2 from coal- or gas-fired plants and storing it underground are still hotly debated, and likely will continue to be until a commercial-scale power generation CCS project is fully up and running.
Two Texas-based engineers last year pointed out what they see as an unavoidable technical flaw in the whole proposition: the pure limitations of how much CO2 can be stored. Their work has drawn strong criticism from four geologists.
The authors of the original reports, Christine Economides-Ehlig of Texas A&M University and husband Michael Economides of Houston University, presented a paper to a Society of Petroleum Engineers conference, and this year had a journal article published which attracted the attention of the Guardian. Economides outlined the work on his blog at the Houston Chronicle's website:
The conclusions are quite negative and, in fact, sobering. Earlier published reports on the potential for sequestration fail to address the necessity of storing CO2 in a closed system. Our calculations suggest that the volume of liquid or supercritical CO2 to be disposed cannot exceed more than about 1% of pore space. This will require from 5 to 20 times more underground reservoir volume than has been envisioned by many, and it renders geologic sequestration of CO2 a profoundly non-feasible option for the management of CO2 emissions. Kyoto Protocol or successor accords would imply orders of magnitude larger problem than anything possible as CCS.
The full paper looks at existing CO2 sequestration carried out in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), in deep saline aquifers and in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs to show that CCS is not possible on the scale expected of it, for climate change mitigation purposes.
However CCS is nothing if not technically complex, either. Four geologists from the UK and Canada have written a rebuttal of Economides' and Economides-Ehlig's paper, arguing that:
In essence, this unusual theory assumes that storage of CO2 will be injected to the deep subsurface into a sealed container, with no-flow of existing water through the lid, sides, or base. Un-surprisingly, if extra CO2 fluid is added to a sealed container, the pressure within the container will increase.
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There are other errors, they add; most importantly the assumption that the reservoir is only 30 metres thick. The authors in their full response say that between them they have analysed 20 CO2 injection, only one of which experienced a severe pressure problem and nine of which operate – or could operate – at industrial scale.


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While the global economy remains challenging and high-end Italian producers continue to face big obstacles, organizers of Micam are still expecting a brighter mood at this week's show.
Micam will kick off tomorrow at the Fiera Milano Rho fairgrounds, with 1,597 exhibitors, including 590 companies from outside Italy.
"Micam and Milan are very important to the footwear business. Despite the crisis, the show is holding up pretty well and is becoming stronger [for international players]," said Fabio Aromatici, GM of ANCI, the Italian footwear manufacturers' association, which runs Micam. He cited a growing presence from countries such as Argentina, the U.K. and Portugal this time around.
At home, however, Italian producers continue to struggle, and the economic downturn exacerbated their woes in 2009.
"We've lost about a third of our export to the States," said Aromatici. "The economy hit the high-end market the most, so [upscale Italian names] are being impacted the most."
That being said, ANCI is working to highlight the positive developments in the market. Micam will recognize New York-based Bergdorf Goodman with the "best international buyer" award during the trade show's opening night gala on Tuesday.
The ANCI Creative Award will also be handed out for the third time. This season, the group solicited submissions from digital artists, who have submitted 3-D images showcasing Italian footwear designs. Twenty selected works will be on display in a special gallery on site, and the winner's work will be featured in a special 3-D film.
Here, Aromatici discusses the state of the Italian market and this week's show.
FN: After a tough 2009, what is your outlook for the Italian industry in 2010?
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I am trying to decide on recessed lighting for my kitchen and family room. What are the pros and cons of the baffle verus the directional trim?
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Good question, I'd like to hear some thoughts too! Bump... |
Picking recessed lighting and trim is soo much fun (not!) It is my understanding that baffle trim and directional trim are two very different things. Baffle trim is used for generally lighting purpose and directional trim is used for accent lighting. Directional trim can be either a gimble type or an eyeball type. The difference is in the way they rotate and the degree of the angle the can be adjusted. I have a recessed light in my dinette area that has a gimble trim and is used to light a large piece of artwork on the wall. In my great room, I have two 4 inch cans that have eyeball trim which shine on my fireplace/mantle. Besides baffle trims there are also reflector trims. Baffle trims reduce glare but also reduce light output. Reflector trims give off more light but there might be more glare. Reflector trims are also called specular or the trade name Alzak. Reflector trims come in different finishes such as wheat haze, satin nickel, clear and others. I initially bought wheat haze for my kitchen but it made the light too warm colored for my kitchen and I exchanged them for satin nickel. It made a big difference in my kitchen. Ceiling height, room size and number of cans are all factors to be considered Here is a brief explanation I found for trims: After you figure out the trim you can move on to the fun of picking out the correct bulbs for your recessed lights. They come in different color temperatures (2,700K, 3,000K etc.), different lumens and different color rendering (CRI) regardless of whether they are incandescent, CFL, halogen or LED. |
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COLUMBIA, Ky. — Lee's fourth straight win of the season was one of the biggest for coach Matt Yelton's women's soccer team. The Lady Flames defeated the NAIA's top-ranked team on Thursday evening by a 2-1 margin.
"Anytime you get a result against Lindsey Wilson up here, you've had a good day," said Yelton. "I think the world of coach Drew Burwash and the program at Lindsey. They play the game the way it should be played and do it with class, so to get a win up here is a big accomplishment for our team."
The two powerhouses battled toe-to-toe for over 86 minutes. Senior Danielle Ciabattone scored her first goal of the season and the ninth tally of her career to put the Lady Flames on top for good. The goal came off a near-perfect corner kick by senior Debbie Rogers.
"Debbie put in an excellent performance tonight. She provided great service and did a great job defensively against their creative players in midfield," noted Yelton.
"I thought we had a lot of players put in gutsy performances but Liz Hagen and Danielle (Ciabattone) both came in off the bench and made a huge difference in the match," he added.
Lee took a 1-0 lead at the 29:35 mark, thanks to an "own goal" by the Blue Raiders. The score came after Rogers had delivered a long service into the box. Lindsey Wilson tied the game less than two minutes later on a goal by Renee Hurd. The hard-fought battle remained deadlocked until Ciabattone's goal.
"This team just continues to respond to challenge after challenge," confessed Yelton. "They have come so far in such a short time, that they have surprised even me with the level that they are playing at."
The 4-2 Lady Flames had 10 shots and four were on goal, while allowing the Blue Raiders just eight shots but five were on target. Lee's Haley Gribler had four saves in the win and Lindsey's Johanna Henrikson had three for the losers. Lee took advantage of five corner kicks and the hosts were awarded seven.
The Blue Raiders are one of the few teams to hold an advantage over a Yelton-coached club. The series stands at 4-9-1 and it was only the second loss of the year for Lindsey Wilson. It has seven wins in the books.
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I'm new here so I'd like to say hi and ask for a wee bit of help. Here's a bit of background. I live in northwest Arkansas where it happens to be unusually chilly and rainy today and for the next few days. We have two hummer feeders semi-strategically placed in our backyard for both viewing and cutting down on turf squabbles. I'm reasonably sure all of our hummers have already left with the exception of one poor straggler. I think it's a female and not a juvenile male.
My question (finally!) is whether or not there's anything I could or should do to help the poor solitary girl until she decides to or is able to migrate. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she's able. I've been changing the food every few days and washing/rinsing each feeder. It seems lately lots of bugs end up in the nectar. I do make the nectar 4/1 myself. Thanks for any help you can be! Pam |
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- Posted by mbhoneybee63 5 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 6, 12 at 20:50
Sounds like you are doing all the right things...usually females leave later than the males. I still have (mostly juvenile males) passing through every day. Last year in my Ohio yard my last hummer was seen on Oct. 17th. Don't worry about leaving your feeders up too long an keeping hummers from leaving...they will migrate when they are ready. Just find comfort in the fact your feeders will nourish those passing through on their migratory flight. |
Oct 17? Wow, you just validated my decision to leave my nectar up until Nov. 1st. Now it's time to dream of next year's gardening to increase hummer traffic (and drool over pics from my southern/western neighbors who have them heading their way). |
You could try attracting some geese. That poor hummingbird may be having a hard time choosing a goose, and a greater selection may be just what it needs. |
Thanks for the replies, folks, it's good to know I was doing the right things. The day after I posted my poor little straggler was not looking well at all. She sat on the perch of our window feeder for almost 1ďż˝ hours and didn't fly away until almost 7:00pm. That's something I've never seen. That was also the last time I saw her. I can hope that she was just trying to store up as much energy as possible for her long solo journey, but I kind of doubt it. Sigh. I'm still refilling my feeders thought just in case there are still hummers passing through. I've checked out this forum a bit better since my first post and I clearly need more feeders! You guys rock! Thanks again for the help. BTW, I really thought the hummingbirds riding on the backs of geese was just a myth. Not true? |
Oh, it's a myth. A highly amusing myth. My point was that attracting geese would be about as effective at helping your straggler as anything else you might do. My own straggler is very interesting. She spends much more time on the shrimp plant than on the feeder I still have out. When I see her, I say to her, "Go on, choose your goose and be on your way!" :) |
I still have a few females, 4 or 5, visting my feeder. During the migration I usually have 9 feeders going. I'll be leaving a feeder out year round now. Last fall I had lots of stragglers. Through October into November. On November 27 I saw two hummingbirds fighting over the feeder I had left out. Both hummingbirds were here for two days. On the third day there was only one hummer visiting the feeder. She stayed until January 16. :) It turned out she was a little Rufous female. During her stay we had one night of 24 degrees and one night of 25 degrees. Luckly the sugar water didn't freeze and the hummer didn't mind the cold. |
Well us southern yards we can see arrivals as late as December and January so these little girls must be up your way just waiting for a storm system to come along and move them out. Don't give up hope at all. You could see hummers for at least the rest of the month. |
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Do you find that pubicalyx like to grow in late summer and fall? I up-potted three of my cultivars this year (they had all gotten severely rootbound) and maybe some of it is that now they're getting more "settled" in their pots and starting to grow. But it seems to me that they are more intense growers later in the season than most species. All of mine are putting out lots of new growth right now, and forming lots of new peduncles. I hope to have some flowering going on soon. I'm attaching a photo of a vine of new leaves on my 'RHP' that are nearly black. They're all much happier with some extra "leg room" now!
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- Posted by kathybennie 5 Colorado (My Page) on Sat, Oct 20, 12 at 11:08
Hi Denise! Very pretty new growth. When do yours bloom? I have an unk cultivar that bloomed in mid summer, one flower cluster only. Do they typically bloom year-round or just seasonally, and then put out the new growth now as you have observed? Kathy in Colorado |
- Posted by kathybennie 5 Colorado (My Page) on Sat, Oct 20, 12 at 11:12
My RHP has some spindly new growth now too, although it didn't grow much this summer. I understand that new blooms more likely occur on new growth? Kathy |
- Posted by kathybennie 5 Colorado (My Page) on Sat, Oct 20, 12 at 13:20
Denise, no, mine publicalyx definitely do most of their growth and flowering during the warmer months. They start in late spring and go gang busters till right about now. As for flowering, they are pretty much constantly in bloom from early summer though fall. Renee |
- Posted by Dutchplant 8 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 21, 12 at 9:57
Hi Denise, It's the same for me, most of the growth I had the last months. I got 3 pubicalyx, all 3 came as rooted cuttings from Paul Shirley earlier this year. This picture of pubicalyx GPS 282 I took last 16th august, and now the branches are over a meter long. Same story with the other 2 pubicalyx (red buttons & pink silver) Ingrid |
Some nice photos! Ingrid, I find the pubicalyx cultivars grow VERY fast and become large quickly. Yours looks like it's well on it's way to becoming a monster! Kathy, I see yours is one of the clones with more silver flecking. Mine has a spot here, a spot there, more like my old carnosa. I've seen some photos of 'RHP' that have almost as much splashy-flecking as my 'PS'. And as for blooms, they come from new peduncles and old peduncles, but yes, you have to let the vines do their thing to get the new peduncles. At least pubicalyx's leaves fill in pretty much right away so you aren't typcially looking at long, leafless vines hoping for a peduncle or two... Denise in Omaha |
Hi Denise I find that my pubicalyx are putting out some new growth now, maybe due to the weather being cooler than it has been and being confused! Like me sometimes! The PS I got has started new growth and is a beauty of dark and highly splashed leaves! ~ Mary |
- Posted by greedyghost 5 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 22, 12 at 13:29
Mine are bit unwieldy, so they're kind of tucked away, and I haven't noticed when they grow. I'll have to go look and see what they've been up to when I get home. But I'm loving the pictures everyone! Mary, what conditions are you growing that PS in? I know a couple people have posted really good threads of publicalyx cultivars grown in disparate lighting. |
My RHP has gone mad with new growth this past summer. No signs of blooms yet, but it's become a favorite of mine. I love the dark purple leaves of RHP. I'm with GG, Mary. Do tell us your growing conditions! My PS is in a somewhat brightly lit hallway. I got a cutting of Red Buttons earlier this summer from Joni. My larger plant is now deceased, and after I got it in a trade, it bloomed shortly after. The cuttings I took from it I gave to a friend bloomed a few months ago. I'm happy to have it back :). Sorry to ramble on, but the pubicalyxes are some of the Hoyas I'm more passionate about. Brad AKA Moonwolf |
Mary, It looks like the PS likes the grow lights! Did you get that clone from me? It sure looks like my super-splashy clone. It looks like grow lights must be like the bright, indirect light my dining room PS gets - it seems to be the splashiest, like yours is looking. Very nice! However, I don't get the dark new leaves with the lighting in my LR. Hmmm... I sure like that! Denise |
- Posted by greedyghost 5 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 30, 12 at 10:20
None of my big publicalyxes are growing, but all of my little ones are. (Hmmm...) I'm glad to see the nice velvety young vines showing up because I don't like the look of the rough hoary ones. @ Brad So glad you got another Red Buttons so you don't have to miss your old one. I find it difficult to forget dead Hoyas and feel compelled to replace them, even if they weren't particular favorites. Not that a sweet lil Red Buttons would fall in that category! |
GG, yes I know what you mean :). I still would love to have another mindorensis. I miss the blooms on it. I think I need to work on my wish list again for next spring. I would LOVE to aquire some more cuttings of Red Buttons since my cutting is on the smaller side. I would have to say the pubicalyxes are my hands down favorites for the combo of flowers and foilage. Pink Silver grows in a pot setting in an old umbrella stand that I got for a dollar at a local antique shop. RHP is in a pot hanging in one of those old fashioned macrame plant hangers that I adore :). Tiny Red Buttons stands on a three tiered plant stand mom bought me out of a catalog. What all pubicalyxes do you have, GG? Brad AKA Moonwolf |
- Posted by greedyghost 5 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 30, 12 at 12:40
I have... 'Bright One' I really like those tiered plant stands. I don't really have enough room that I can even contemplate using interesting stands and pots, which is a shame because I collect antique ceramic animal planters. With all the plants I have, most of them still stand empty on my bookshelves! /shakes head I'm most excited to see the Plain Jane bloom, so I try to keep it in ideal conditions. The rest of the pubs have to catch as catch can, because that's the whole point of having pubs, right? That they're tough! |
GG, wow! I am intrigued by the "Plain Jane" and "Pink Dragon" as I have never heard of those. I used to have a little cutting of "Bright One" a few years ago and I lost it as well as "Black Dragon", which I miss terribly :(. I have two plant stands. One is wooden and from the same place as my umbrella stand "planter" and the other from the catalog is smaller, metal, collapsible, and holds smaller pots. The wooden one sets in front of the south window right next to me and the metal one is in my bedroom off to the side of the east facing window. You're right, they are some of the tougher Hoyas. Definitely in my top 5 list :). Brad AKA Moonwolf |
Yes that PS is one from Denise. It is under grow lights in a yogurt container in the standard soil mix of potting soil, retail orchid bag mix and perlite, a third of each. Using miracle grow on this one. It is under 12 hrs of standard grow lux lights. About 8 inches below the tubes. The splash is definitely attractive and I presume the darkness will fade and turn to the pink tones seen in the older leaves. I also love the pubicalyx and have pretty much the same as GG excluding the Dragons. I have a glut of RHP as labeled upon arrival, no blooms but very large. Yes Brad I cannot wait to see my recent acquisition of Red Buttons bloom too for the scent I hear about. I have recently gotten the Plain Jane and it is doing nicely after rooting it in the gel gems. I also have a cv Jungle Garden I hope to see bloom next spring too! The Jane is the one I want to see bloom most of all. I understand it may be a Paul Shirley variety and am open to the challenge to bloom it but this is not a confirmation only a hope based on my researching it. I have three large noid pubs and they are putting out very thin vines now with dark mottled coffee colored leaves filling in slowly. Windows are southwest to west natural light. In the spring I plan to do a few shots of bloom boosters with them and see what happens. Celebrate St Patty's eh? |
- Posted by greedyghost 5 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 30, 12 at 16:20
The 'Plain Jane' is so (casually) dubbed by the person I received the cutting from. It's a solid green one and very pretty. I'm not really sure what the conventions are for naming Hoya cultivars, but I like the monicker personally. :) Maybe it will have flowers like the infamous panamon kreel photo, maybe it will look totally different.... there's no way of telling as it hasn't bloomed yet! The 'Pink Dragon' is one of the Forest Treasure pubs, sister to the Black and White (celata) dragons. You can see some gorgeous pictures of it in bloom on Doug's site as well as the explanation of the celata/Pink Dragon Forest Treasures mixup. Mixup or not, it's as cute as a cupcake and a party dress combined. |
Mary, good luck with your Plain Jane and Jungle Garden (yet another Hoya to add to my wish list). If I had to compare the scent of Red Buttons, it reminds me of a Tootsie Roll. It'll be a loooong time before my cutting blooms. GG,Oooooh! Those are so pretty! Loooooove those blooms! Funny you should mention the cuteness of the cupcake and party dress combo. I'm watching Olivia Newton-John belt out the ballad "Suspended In Time" and her dress is very close to the darker shade of pink in the blooms :). Maybe if I get one in the future, I'll nickname it Olivia. Brad AKA Moonwolf |
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned how much I like publicalyx and GG you are making me droll with those links. Next spring I will be on the hunt! Btw, my Plain Jane almost bloomed this summer, silly me cut off the peduncle. Oh well one of these days. Just think one could have a whole Hoya collection of different publicalyx cultivars. Renee |
Lovely pictures GG. Something to look forward to. ~ Mary |
- Posted by greedyghost 5 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 31, 12 at 11:05
@ Renee lol!! What a shame. Well, I'm sure it will get back to business soon. I can't wait! I know someone on here used to always say they only collected publicalyxes, but I don't know where they went. It certainly would be a beautiful little collection if someone collected every one they could lay hands on, and gave them exclusive dibs on space to grow. @ Mary Hehe. They are an inspiration to me, too. :) My Pink Dragon is still so small it could fit in a teacup. I bet it will take off in a little bit, like Black Dragon did. |
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Leveling the Playing Field in Early Math Learning, With Games
I had the pleasure this evening of attending a lecture on preschool math education by Dr. Robert Siegler, who is a visiting professor at my grad school alma mater, Teachers College, Columbia University. Math is my favorite educational topic in children's games, because I hated math so much as a student. I can really identify with students' frustration and confusion, and I think that makes me a better designer of math games. I came to the lecture hoping to hear tips on ways math topics can be presented, so I could use them in designing games. I was pleasantly surprised when he began to present research on board games similar to Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land. I blogged about this research back in August, but I had forgotten Dr. Siegler's name, and my invitation to the lecture didn't say anything about games.
In the United States, there is a correlation between a child's socio-economic status and his or her eighth grade math achievement scores. This is not as true in Canada, Germany, Sweden or Japan. In the US, differences increase with schooling. In other words, preschoolers in poor communities test behind preschoolers in wealthier communities, and the gap only gets bigger as students progress through school. What can we do to lessen this gap in the US, and at what grade level should this problem be addressed?
Siegler argues that we need to correct this problem in preschool. Statistics show that if you start behind, you stay behind. It is important to improve preschool students' understanding of numerical magnitudes, or meanings. A kid who can count from 1 to 10 may not know which is bigger, 6 or 4. We need to help children create a linear representation of numerical magnitudes. Students should be able to perform well on number line estimation tasks (see illustration). These tasks allow assessment of relation between numbers and magnitude. Chinese kindergartners are ahead of US kindergartners in number line estimation.
Playing numerical board games might play a crucial role in forming numerical magnitude understanding. The greater number a game token reaches, the greater number of discrete movements the child has made, spoken, moved in distance, and time spent playing. Thus, playing the game provides visuospatial, kinesthetic, auditory, temporal cues to numerical magnitudes. Students who played a number board game (similar to Chutes and Ladders) did far better on four math tasks than students who played a color board game (similar to Candy Land).
What features of board games are critical to student learning? Siegler & Ramani (2009) studied linear counting board games, and circular counting board games, both clockwise and counterclockwise. They found that linear board games are much better for the improvement of numerical understanding, addition, and other math skills. Perhaps most encouraging of all, children who started out testing the worst showed significant improvement in post-tests after playing linear counting board games.
Siegler & Ramani also discovered that it matters how you play the game. Counting on from where the player was on the board (i.e., 32, 33, 34, 35) led to more improved skills than counting from one each roll. Playing the game with students four times was enough to have significant effect on math skills.
Implications for game design: Siegler recommended exposing kids to numbers bigger than 20 in preschool. Instead, we should go up to 100. Video games, and adults playing board games with children, should count on when possible, rather than counting from one each time. The child can count along from one with their fingers, if it helps the child to keep track of how many numbers they've counted off.


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"We would play when we were younger, but very quickly, we didn't get along at all until I left home," says Matt, who's four years older than Eleanor, the Furnaces' singer. "After that, we managed to find a way to be friendly, mostly because we would talk a lot about rock music. And we managed to stay friendly until we lived together about a year ago. Then we started disliking each other again."
The issues that arose, Matt continues, were the usual "roommate kinds of things. And when you're siblings, you don't keep it to yourself and let it build up in you for a long time. You just say something nasty immediately. The old habits -- which by this time were very old habits -- came back. We would just as soon swear at each other as say hello."
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Obviously, MTV had better look elsewhere for its next music-oriented reality series -- not that the network would likely be interested in the New York-based Furnaces anyhow. Their first-rate debut, Gallowsbird's Bark, issued on the Rough Trade imprint, certainly won't be confused with the mass-market pop of, for instance, vapid lovebirds Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. The music, mostly made by Matt, is heavy enough to have caught the attention of a label whose signees include the Strokes and British Sea Power. But rather than rely upon three chords and a cloud of dust, he favors kaleidoscopic arrangements that draw from an abundance of colorful sources. Blues guitar, music-hall keyboards, vintage synths and plenty more wrap themselves around rambling, often witty narratives sung by Eleanor, whose throaty, knowing vocalizing makes for a common thread of a wonderfully uncommon type.
The Furnaces' diverse stylistic blend is echoed by the tangled history of the duo's moniker. It's derived from a sentence in the Book of Daniel: "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." But Matt decided it would make a good band name when he heard the phrase used in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
As this story implies, the Friedbergers aren't exactly holy rollers. Still, they were exposed to more than a modicum of theology during their childhood on Chicago's west side. "We were baptized Greek Orthodox, so we are Greek Orthodox," Matt says. "If you're baptized Greek Orthodox, you're in for good. That's it." Nonetheless, they didn't go to their neighborhood church out of thirst for the word of the Lord. Attendance was mandatory because their grandmother was the choir director -- a position she continues to hold. "Our religious background was my grandmother trying to get my mother to bring us to church so we all could sing," Matt notes. "Beyond that, the religious impulse wasn't there at all. It was more about being Greek -- an ethnic-allegiance thing as opposed to being anything religious."
Musically, though, the services had an impact. "We would go up in the choir loft and listen to the music and watch my grandmother play the organ," Matt remembers. "And she had a big Lowery electric church organ over at her house, because she'd have choir rehearsal there. I'd always try to play on it as a kid, and that affected me, because it was just such a powerful and versatile piece of equipment. It made so many noises and was so authoritative-sounding. Sometimes I'd just play a single chord on it and be mesmerized by it."
Matt is reminded of these impressions when he attends his hometown church's Good Friday mass, which features "an old sort of chant" that transports him back to the days of yore -- "but I'll only go if I'm in Chicago and my grandmother insists that we go because nobody's there to sing."
The rest of the week, the Friedbergers didn't have to be forced to enjoy music. Their mother played the piano on a regular basis, and their father (an Englishman by birth) spent his free time listening to a wide array of recordings. As Matt entered his teens, he did likewise, developing a particular affinity for the Who. While that act sounds nothing like the Fiery Furnaces, Matt insists that Gallowsbird's Bark nods to the work of Messrs. Townshend, Daltry, Entwistle and Moon during one particular period.
"On record, I like to have our music be sort of spry, but in a rock way," he says. "On The Who Sell Out, they had all these harmony vocals, but live, they'd play everything as aggressively as possible -- not at all like the record. And, well, we don't have harmony vocals, but in a general way, I wanted the record to be lighter, so that live, you can switch the song around and bludgeon people so they'll pay attention over their beers."


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- January 20th, 2015:
Immigration Reformers Link GTA Traffic Gridlock to Massive Immigration - January 13th, 2015:
THOSE WHO SAY "I AM CHARLIE" SHOULD BE SAYING "I AM KOUACHI" - December 31st, 2014:
Mass Immigration Could Erase Benefits Of Site C Dam In 20 Years - December 23rd, 2014:
The War Against Christmas Is Part Of Multiculturalism's War Against Western Culture - December 14th, 2014:
For Christmas: Should Some "Neighbours" Get Preferred Treatment?
1. Cost of Immigration to Canada (An Estimated Maximum Total of $23.6 Billion per year). That amounts to $64,657,000 per day.
2. Number of immigrants coming to Canada --- an average of close to 250,000 per year since 1991. That's 684 per day and 28 per hour. This unnecessary and relentless intake is an abnormality in Canada's immigration history. It has overwhelmed many parts of Canada.
3. Number of Temporary Foreign Workers allowed to work in Canada : A record 491,547 in 2012 (5 times higher than in 2002)!! That number consisted of 213,573 new TFW's in 2012 and 277,974 TFW's already here.
4. From 2009 to 2013, Canada gave refugee status to 122,518 people. That's an average of 24,514 people in each year --- 67 per day. The number of people applying for such status was probably at least twice the 24,514 number.


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Young's Literal Translation (YLT) | New International Version (NIV) |
1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead; | 1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. |
Young's Literal Translation is in the public domain. (Young's Literal Translation - The Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |