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One for the Road.
Prepare yourself for golf's greatest—and oldest—destination, St Andrews.
No sane person places an empty glass on the floor, pulls out a putter, and begins, with great concentration, to tap golf balls across the carpet towards the glass's open end. But if you're reading this, you probably recognize the putt-into-the-empty-glass-on-the-floor practice round because you've done it before. Many times. Well, get out the water glass. Because we're going to St Andrews.
Home sweet home.
While there are 11 golf courses in the town of St Andrews, the one that's on every golfer's must-play list is the Old Course. This is the Home of Golf, where the game was invented and first played. As you might imagine, with over 600 years of active club swinging, many people have helped shape the course. One of the most influential was Old Tom Morris, whose many innovations included maintaining course hazards, such as the famous bunkers. Before him, a hazard was truly a hazard. If your ball found a bunker, there was no telling what kind of wildlife was lurking down in that shrub-covered hole, ready to leap out or take flight during your backswing.
Getting the lay of the land.
You've checked into the Old Course Hotel and put down your bags. What's your next move? Well, no mountaineer gets to Everest and bolts straight for the top, so take your time and get to know the place. With that said, you might want to make the Road Hole bar your first stop. It overlooks the Old Course and you can sit there sipping a whiskey, watching the players, and mentally play their shots yourself. Another option is to hit the Jigger Inn. This is where the caddies hang out after a day on the course and you'll most likely pick up some invaluable information just sitting and listening to the conversations revolving around you.
The Old Course.
Ok, you're at the tee box at Hole Number One, known as Burn. What are you doing? Well, hopefully you're not on your knees praying. Or breathing into a paper bag. What you should be doing is relaxing. Look at it this way: yes, this is probably the most intimidating course in all of golf. And since they've been playing golf here for over 600 years, there's nothing they haven't prepared for, even your game. Just relax. There is no way you'll figure the course out in one round or really even in one lifetime. So, enjoy the journey.
You're not alone.
We're not going to go into a hole-by-hole examination of the Old Course here. There's not enough room here for that. The rolling layout is something like a green ocean, your view of it constantly changing from hole to hole, from round to round, depending on where your ball happens to land. The most oversimplified advice is this: if you opt to take advantage of the room on the fairways to the left, you'll be faced with a tougher approach shot; if you choose to go right, you'll be faced with a variety of hazards, but a simpler approach to the green. Suffice it to say, you're going to get into trouble out there. Take comfort in the fact that you're not alone.
Memorable moments.
Bobby Jones made history at the 11th during his first British Open in 1921. After rocketing his tee shot into the Strath Bunker, he flailed away at his ball three times before eventually picking it up, effectively withdrawing from the competition.
The Road Hole Bunker, situated in front of the green, was dubbed "The Sands of Nakajima" after the misfortune that befell Japan's Tommy Nakajima at The British Open in 1978. He hit the green in two but an errant birdie putt tumbled into the Road Bunker. He needed five swings to get his ball back onto the green.
In 2010, Miguel Ángel Jiménez played one of the most memorable shots in British Open history at the Number 17 Road Hole. With his ball across the road in back of the green, and up against the stone wall that runs along the road, he turned around and decided to play a bank shot. His ball ricocheted off the wall and back onto the green. He scored a double-bogey, but secured a spot in St Andrews lore.
Oh, we forgot to mention the weather.
Besides the rolling landscape, there's another thing the Old Course has in common with the ocean—the weather. This is where the locals refer to a steady 45 mph wind as a "breeze." And where, if you see a fellow golfer foundering badly and someone remarks, "He's really at sea out there," it's taken almost literally. The weather adds an extra dimension to a course already overloaded with character. Take the 11th hole for example, a relatively short 174-yard Par 3, also known as the High (In). Surrounded by bunkers, the large green slopes precipitously towards the front. But all of this information is meaningless on some days because the "breeze" makes the green almost unreachable.
Until next time.
Before you leave, make sure you revisit the Road Hole Bar. Sit down again, have one for the road, and reflect back to when you first arrived. Look out and mentally play the course again. Watch the other golfers. You'll feel like you have a certain bond with them. And you do. Because the Old Course will have served up some moments of sheer exhilaration mixed in with your tribulations. And you'll wish you were out sharing them again with those lucky enough to be on the course in front of you.
Why? Why? Why?
If anyone is questioning whether a visit to St Andrews is worth it, especially when you could always blissfully hack your way around your favorite course close to home, then maybe it isn't for you. Just like some surfers are fine with never having ridden Pipeline, and some runners are content never having attempted the Boston or New York Marathons, there is no requirement for you to experience certain things to be happy doing them. But St Andrews is for the guy who wants to test himself against the best. It's for the guy who places the water glass on the floor. And maybe that's you.
Chip shots.
Getting there. Easy. Fly into Edinburgh and rent a car. St Andrews is 50 miles north.
Requirements. To play, golfers will need a Handicap Certificate. 24 for men, and 36 for women.
Getting a tee time at the Old Course. Not too difficult actually, because even though it is the Home of Golf, it's also a public course. There are many ways to go about it. Apply in advance in early September to secure a spot for the following year. Enter the Daily Ballot, or lottery, to play the following day. Get a guaranteed tee time through a golf package. Or, for single golfers, just show up and ask the starter to place you with a group and, odds are, you'll play that day. For more information, visit www.standrews.org.uk.
Cost. Greens fees top out at 140 British pounds, or around $228 USD during the high season. You'll pay more for a guaranteed tee time through a golf package, however.
Caddies. You don't have to hire a caddie but it is recommended, as you will benefit from their invaluable store of knowledge. Cost is 45 pounds with tips at the golfer's discretion.
Best time of year to play. This depends on when you prefer to play. The high season is roughly mid-April through mid-October with August being the busiest month. The Old Course is open year-round, however, with the exception of Sundays, when the public is allowed to walk the course.
What to wear. You should be prepared for any kind of weather any time of year. And, interestingly enough, tailored shorts are allowed on hot days. This should give you a few ideas as well.


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My husband and I just bought an older home, we didn't notice anything odd when we looked at the home. We got posession on Dec 15 and we started cleaning the place, it has hardwood floors all thru the home, when we started washing the walls and floors with water the whole house started to smell like wet dog. The smell became quite overwhealming. We aren't sure if this is the smell of dog urine in the floors or what, we haven't ever owned a dog.
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You never owned a dog but someone else did. Simple solution place white vinegar and baking soda in your solution, this will nutralize the acid and should smell good too. Be carefull not to get the hardwood (oak?) floors too wet as this will rasise the grain and you'll need to refinish them. |
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Ramy Ashour Wins Australian Squash Open
August 18, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Parvez Fatteh, TMO, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, email@example.com
Egyptian squash player Ramy Ashour won the Australian Open by upending world No1 Nick Matthew in five games. The final score was 12-14, 11-6, 10-12, 11-8, 11-4, the 23-year-old Egyptian revealed a robust mental game was behind his success.
His coach was not able to be in his corner for the match so when asked by The Canberra Times for the keys to his victory, Ashour was not quite able to formulate his thoughts. But he did seem to suggest that came down to his mental state. ''It's a bit complicated really, I can't really describe it,'' Ashour told The Canberra Times. "You have to always be right in your head as much as you can and that's your mission on court.
''Your mission's not to keep on running or hit the right shots. You need to have all kinds of plans, you can't just stick to one plan. In everything in your life you can't just stick to one plan and that's what most of the people do, they just don't want to get out of their comfort zone. When they don't get out of their comfort zone they don't achieve much.''
Ashour got off to a slow start, losing the first game, and two of the first three, before building momentum with his patented arsenal of shot-making. Eventually, he was a runaway train. ''He just ran away from me, sometimes he can get on a run of points in a blink of an eye,'' Matthew told The Canberra Times. "I couldn't stop the rot."
''He played a good fifth, I played a bad fifth and that was the difference. From the games I won I had the lead and he fought back and took it to tie breaks both times. Everyone gives him credit for his shot-making. Some people forget he's got that [mental strength] side of his game as well which you need to go alongside and that makes him such a champion.''
The victory was Ashour's seventh in 12 meetings with Matthew, with Ashour being the only player on the professional squash tour with a winning record against the world number one. ''It's such a thin margin,'' Ashour said. "Maybe Nick has a little bit more pressure on him because he's No1 and I'm No2.''
The two now have the men's world team championships in Germany to look forward to later this year. And that should be a competition in which Ashour has ample reinforcements, with fellow Egyptians Karim Darwish and Amr Shabana ranked number three and number five in the world respectively.
Dinara Safina to Miss Rest of Year Due to Injury
August 4, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
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File: Safina bites her Rome 2009 victory trophy. |
Former world number one women's tennis player, Dinara Safina, will not play again this year due to unrelenting low back back pain, the Russian announced on her official website this week.
She stated the following on DinaraSafina.com, "Hey everybody. I'm sorry to report that my back is still acting up and I will not be able to play at least until the end of the year. Thanks for your support and I will update you on my status when I have more information."
The 25-year-old Russian sounded just as pessimistic about returning when she addressed the Russian media earlier this year. "I don't know how long my time out is going to last because I don't want to torture myself and my body anymore," she was quoted as saying. She had already missed much of last year due to injury as well as poor form. She finally made a comeback at the Australian Open in January of this year, but was blitzed in the first round in embarrassing fashion 6-0, 6-0 by Kim Clijsters in the very first round. Afterward, Safina, even at that time, expressed thoughts of quitting tennis.
Safina is the younger sister of former men's number one Marat Safin. And the two of them are the only brother and sister pair to have both reached the world number one spot in professional tennis. While her brother was a Grand Slam winner, however, Dinara reached the number one spot without ever winning a Grand Slam tournament. She reached three Grand Slam finals, the French Open in 2008 and 2009 and the Australian Open in 2009. But she came up short in all three of them.
Now she has another mountain to climb as she tries to regain her health, regain her confidence, and regain her spot in the rankings.
Sania Mirza Loses in French Final
June 9, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
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India's Sania Mirza was within a whisker of winning her second Grand Slam title, but at the end of the day, it was "So close, yet so far away," for Mirza and her Russian doubles partner Elena Vesnina at the French Open. Mirza and Vesnina, the seventh seeds in the ladies' doubles division, lost in the finals to the unseeded Czech team of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka. The final score was 6-4, 6-3.
Sania previously won the mixed doubles at another Grand Slam event, the 2009 Australian Open, which she won with fellow Indian Mahesh Bhupathi. Mirza did become the first Indian female tennis player to reach a women's doubles final. But it ended up being an off day for Mirza and Vesnina, as they were unable to overcome their unforced errors, especially in the face of inclement weather.
Mirza and Vesnina split the 165,000 euro second prize, while the victors took home a total of 330,000 euro. After the match Vesnina was thankful to her partner announcing, "Thanks Sania for the great experience we've had here. Hope we'll have more of such games in the future."
After the tournament, Mirza reached a career high doubles ranking of 14. And as a team, Mirza and Vesnina moved into the number three position in the WTA Championship rankings, putting them in contention for the year-end WTA championship event in Istanbul, Turkey. The event is only for the top four teams in the WTA rankings.


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A19 Timor 1 Light Pendant
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Faced with strong demand for a highly rated wine, an Australian winery simply created more of it. Wine Spectator has learned through an investigation that Schild Estate, a family-owned winery in the Barossa Valley whose 2008 Shiraz placed in Wine Spectator's Top 10 Wines of the Year in 2010, found itself running low on supply and decided to purchase, blend and bottle additional wine under the same label. While technically legal, the decision raises questions about the winery's integrity and philosophical issues of what defines a wine's identity.
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Makes 4 main-course servings
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 cups chopped onions
- 1 2/3 cups coarsely chopped red bell peppers (about 2 medium)
- 6 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 15- to 16-ounce cans black beans, drained, 1/2 cup liquid reserved
- 1 16-ounce can tomato sauce
- Chopped fresh cilantro
- Sour cream
- Grated MontereyJack cheese
- Chopped green onions
Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions, bell peppers, and garlic; sauté until onions soften, about 10 minutes. Mix in chili powder, oregano, cumin, and cayenne; stir 2 minutes. Mix in beans, 1/2 cup reserved bean liquid, and tomato sauce. Bring chili to boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until flavors blend and chili thickens, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Ladle chili into bowls. Pass chopped cilantro, sour cream, grated cheese, and green onions separately.
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type: On a Budget, Quick & Easy
main ingredients: Spice, Bell Pepper, Tomato, Bean
cuisine: American
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Minnesota had snowstorms in May, and some lakes still bore skins of ice more than a week into the month.
As a result, Minnesota produce suppliers and buyers are expecting a later-than-normal homegrown fruit and vegetable season.
According to the National Weather Service, Minneapolis-St. Paul in 2013 had the third-snowiest April on record, with 17.9 inches having fallen in the month.
Normally, the area receives 2.4 inches of snow in April. For the season, the metro area got 67.2 inches of snow through the end of April, compared to 54.4 normally. April also was the Twin Cities' 11th-coldest on record, with an average high temperature of 48.6, compared to a norm of 57.8.
The late-departing winter apparently does not cool enthusiasm about the upcoming local crops, however.
"Everything is going to be about a month behind, but this week has been hot, and that's going to germinate seeds in a hurry," Tom Rodmyre, warehouse manager for St. Paul, Minn.-based Co-op Partners Warehouse, said May 8.
A sudden burst of warm weather during the week of May 13, during which temperatures climbed into the 80s, should speed things, but it won't eradicate issues created by the harsh winter, Rodmyre said.
"They were out planting this weekend, but there's still a little snow up north and there's still some ice on the lakes," Rodmyre said.
Produce suppliers agreed the homegrown crops would be late, but when the season begins, business will be active.
"There's a number of very large local farms that provide a tremendous amount of product, I'd say, for three months out of the year," said Adam Gamble, general manager of Inver Grove Heights, Minn.-based North Country Produce, a subsidiary of Wadena, Minn.-based Russ Davis Wholesale.
Corn, peppers, squash, beans, cucumbers and apples dominate the local offerings, he said.
"There has always been a lot of people trying to get local product, and it's stronger than ever," Gamble said.
The late departure of winter has Gamble wondering how long the 2013 local season will last.
"There will be a concern in the fall, if it cools off early and we have an early winter, that they won't be able to harvest anything then," he said.
Apples, for instance, might not size up as well as they would in a normal harvest, he said.
Last year, which brought an unusually balmy spring that brought out apple blossoms early, featured an untimely hard frost that wiped out nearly all the apple crop.
Dean Schladweiler, produce manager with The Wedge Community Co-Op, an organic retailer that owns an organic farm near Minneapolis, said his farm had missed nearly four rounds of planting because of unseasonably low temperatures.
"That is definitely money that will not be made up this year. It's just a loss right off the bat," he said.
The late start likely will affect early lettuces, radishes and greens more than anything, Schladweiler said.
A tardy growing season isn't limited to Minnesota, said Tim Grace, spokesman with Minneapolis-based Chandler-Topic Co. Inc.
Tim Fortier, produce manager with Kowalski's Markets, a Woodbury, Minn.-based retail grocery chain, said the late winter could hit corn the hardest.
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Nov 18, 2013 6:25 PM by Jeanette Trompeter
Thanksgiving festivities kick off this weekend in Santa Maria. The city's Recreation and Parks Department is holding it's 17th Annual Turkey Trot 5K & Kids 1-Mile Fun Run
It starts at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, 2013 at the Hagerman Sports Complex, 3300 Skyway Drive.
Participants ages 14 and up can test their endurance before the "big feast" in the 5K race which loops twice around Waller Park. Participants ages 6-13 are invited to participate in the one-mile run along the Hagerman Sports Complex multi-purpose trail.
Registration is $25 and includes a Sport-Tek T-shirt. Medals will be awarded to 1st- and 2nd-place male and female finishers in 18 age divisions.
Register at the Recreation and Parks Department administrative offices located at 615 South McClelland Street or online by clicking here. You can also call (805) 925-0951 ext. 260.
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Working on a glass head (I think I already posted about this) and an old guitar. Please click on the images to enlarge. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Silva's blog - see WIP
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I like the way you think too gal. Love your two projects...show me more. |
Can't wait to see how the head turns out! Very exciting. |
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Wooooooohooooo - LOVE the head. Almost bought one on a recent spin around my area. They wanted $35.00 for it. Not ready to do one yet, so passed it up. |
Well, I wrote a long post and thought I submitted it, but it's not here. So, please click on the link to see my latest, a cool old Mexican guitar. It's a birthday present for a man in the music business. |
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Love the head, and seeing the nekkid guitar explains the wings on the finished picture. LOVE your work, girlie. |
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Abbey, Steve Keith firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-08112008-095933 Document Title Modelling socio-economic dynamics in a working class desegregation area in post-industrial, post-Apartheid South Africa : the case of Danville-Elandspoort, Pretoria Degree MSc Department Geography, Geo-Informatics and Meteorology Supervisor
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- socio-economic dynamics
- post-Apartheid legislation and post-industrialism
Date 2007-09-06 Availability unrestricted Abstract Within post-Apartheid research there is little to no research into poor historically White areas which are experiencing rapid rates of desegregation. It is in these cases a researcher could pose a question to whether or not Apartheid's race-class divisions are still prevalent. A further gap in South African literature is a lack of a model on which to base socio-economic changes in a situation of post-Apartheid and post-industrial trends. This study addresses both of these short fallings of current academic literature.This paper explores Socio Economic Transformation within a lower income urban area of Pretoria, South Africa. The area, which was previously White only under Apartheid legislation, has been experiencing changes due to factors including post-Apartheid legislation and post-industrialism. Desegregation and a decline in industry have created complicated racial and social patterns within a merging community. Two major trends within the study area include an influx of an upwardly mobile Black population and secondly a downward economic movement of White individuals.
The trends identified within the study area contradict many mainstream South African beliefs as the more traditional White-racist-empowered vs. Black-marginalized-oppressed binary is not absolutely valid. These newly emerging racial geographies are identified and explained with the use of personal interviews. The resulting classifications of local individuals are then utilized in a conceptual model to help explain the various socio-economic trends within the area.
The study is structured in three main components. Firstly, structural and contextual issues relating directly to the study site are addressed to provide a backdrop on which social issues can be analysed. Socio-economic changes with focus on racial and economic situation are identified and explained. Once the social, economic and spatial are well discussed a theoretical model is developed. The theoretical model is then utilized to plot the individual changes within the study area.
The individual trends, which were identified during field studies, are modelled and analysed within a South African context. The model developed from the study has the potential to base further community research upon, both within South Africa and international arenas. The model identifies and explains both the status of individuals which is an individuals socio-economic standing. Secondly trends are defined as an individuals change in socio-economic status through time.
Results from the study have shown that labelling the economic situation of varying racial groups on the historic Apartheid framework is no longer valid in all situations. Post-Apartheid racial hiring policies as well as a national de-industrialization trend has created a situation of an upwardly mobile Black middle class as well as a declining poor White economic classification.
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We are almost done with construction, still trying to finish up door casings and baseboards. We installed dark hardwood floors, which I have seen my friends keep clean with a huge golden retreiver in their home, so I know it's possible.
I tried using a swiffer and the Bona, both left streaks. I've been vacumming w/ my Dyson and then mopping with Murphy's oil soap, but even that is streaky. Does anyone have suggestions? We have two cats and the house is 2100 sf of wood and stone. Roomba? Euro steamer? Give up and have dirty feet all the time :-( |
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we just moved into our new construction home. We have a dark, handscraped hickory floor in our entryways and kitchen, along with a golden retriever. I have been swiffering until today when I finally had time to actually clean the floors. I used Bona and microfiber mop, they look much better and feel clean. Our floors have a matte finish and distress look so they are supposed to be easier keep looking clean. We were living in a house that was 4500 sq feet of hardwood, some dark, high gloss, that was a nightmare. The homeowner said she found that hot water worked best, everything else left a film. I tried hot water on a microfiber mop and it worked well. Good luck! Patty |
We took up some old 70's Shag carpetting and found beautiful oak floors beneath, so we hired a guy to sand and finish them. We hung sheets to try to contain the wood dust but we had fine dust in every single room. Took wet cloths and wiped every surface. every wall and ceiling, all woodwork. . It was a lot of work, but it is possible to get rid of dust eventually, lots of elbow grease.Good luck! Microfibre didn't exist in those days. I think we used cotton sheets ripped up. |
Have you had your vents cleaned? It can make a huge difference in the amount of dust in your home. As far as dark floors and golden retrievers, all I can say is that either the dogs are bald or someone spends their entire day vacuuming LOL! We have a golden/lab mix, a beagle mutt, and 2 cats and we recently installed high gloss dark wood laminate in the kitchen. An hour after I clean it you'd never know i did anything. Every speck of dust and hair shows up immediately and I've pretty much given up. I do what I can but I won't spend the whole day mopping and vacuuming the floor! For the short time it's clean I use the Bruce hardwood floor care system. The kit comes with a mop head, a terrycloth type cover, and a spray cleaner. It works very well but I have noticed that if I haven't mopped for a few days I have to do it twice to get it really clean. |
- Posted by gardenspuds (My Page) on Fri, Jun 11, 10 at 20:14
We have hardwood floors. I've tried a lot of products, and find that the 3M Scotch Brite microfiber duster followed by the green "mop" works well (both can be thrown in the washer). I use Murphys oil soap. Are you diluting it yourself? I find if it's not diluted enough, streaks are left and the floor feels a little tacky. But the biggest difference in my house has been the addition of a couple of room purifiers. Although they aren't cheap, Blueair purifiers are great. Very quiet, and it has rEALLY cut down on the dust. Barbara |
In my opinion, the less liquid you use on wood floors, the better off you are. Are you using the hard floor tool attachment on your Dyson? That should be sucking up the dust enough that you don't need a second step. But if I were to go on to a second step, it would be with a dry or barely damp microfiber cloth. |
Here is a link that might be useful: dyson hard floor tool
clean the vents and change the intake filters every months for few months |
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It can be difficult to watch the decline of once great athletes. I often recall what it was like to witness the transformation of Mario Lemieux from the most dominant hockey player in the world into a player who was, as Swedish television analyst Curre Lundmark described during the 2002 Olympics, "skating like an old tractor". Those magnificent hands and flawless decision making remained, but he was just a giant body trudging around the ice.
Unlike Lemieux, Roy Halladay's career was never interrupted by premature retirement, or a foray into a role of player-owner. For those who watched Lemieux play and appreciated his greatness, we knew what life was like without him before it became permanent. A demotion to remake himself early in his career aside, Roy Halladay was among the most dominant pitchers in baseball for the bulk of his 16-year career. So it stings like so much salt in a wound that Halladay has hit the disabled list with what appears to be a severe shoulder issue at the age of 35. There will be no masquerading as a point-per-game player while harvesting some of the game's future stars, so to speak.
Instead, we will point to a massacre at the hands of the lowly Miami Marlins as a potential end until we're given reason to believe otherwise.
There's currently an air of retrospection with a smattering of prognostication milling about in the baseball blogosphere when it comes to Roy Halladay. We've gathered some samples from various sites to help us manage expectations moving forward and appreciate the career of Roy Halladay.
With an eye on fantasy baseball relevancy, Eno Sarris takes a look at what history says with regards to pitchers 35 years of age and older who dealt with shoulder injuries (via Roto Graphs):
But the mere fact of his age (35+) and going on the disabled list for a shoulder injury, that mere fact is a harbinger of doom. Players over the age of 35 that went on the DL for any sort of shoulder injury only averaged 59 innings over the course of the rest of their career. So if Roy Halladay pitches 60 innings next year, he'll be ahead of the game.There are worse ways to slice the numbers. Of the 62 old pitchers that have gone on the DL for a shoulder injury since 2002, 32 never pitched another inning. 44 of them never managed 50 innings over the rest of their careers. A grand total of six starting pitchers managed more than 100 innings — John Smoltz (106), Pedro Martinez (153.2), Kenny Rogers (173.2), John Burkett (181.2), Tim Wakefield (424.1), and Orlando Hernandez (438.1).
In other words, you're banking on Roy Halladay to be Orlando Hernandez from here on out if you think he's even got a full season left in his arm after this year. And Orlando Hernandez himself wasn't that fantasy relevant for most of that time.
Over at Baseball Nation, Rob Neyer subtly takes a blowtorch to the notion that maybe Halladay's struggles are just some sort of 'blip':
Since last year's injury, Halladay just hasn't been the same pitcher. Not for more than a moment or two at a time, anyway. He's been walking more batters and giving up more home runs than he used to, which suggests to me a physical problem that's just not going away anytime soon.Or maybe it's just a blip. Except it hasn't been walking or talking or waddling like a blip. It's been walking and talking and waddling like something's seriously wrong with the valuable bones and ligaments and muscles holding Roy Halladay's right shoulder together.
Some cherry picked prose from a highly recommended read titled 'Kobe Bryant, Roy Halladay and the Helsinki Bus Station Theory' via The Umpires will bring a tear to ye eyes:
Watching Roy Halladay during his prime was watching one of the true artists in the history of the sport at work. He is the Ted Williams or Aparicio Rodriguez of his generation – if The Art of Pitching were being written, Halladay would, at the very least, warrant his own chapter alongside those of Koufax, Gibson, Seaver, Ryan, Maddux, Clemens, Johnson and Martinez.Roy Halladay in his decline phase could still be better than the large majority of starting pitchers in Major League Baseball; it's entirely plausible to believe that, given health, he could be worth somewhere around 3 WAR a season for the next few years in the same way that Maddux was from 2003-2007. But it's that realization that certain things which came so easily for him not-too-long ago are becoming less and less easy, that realization that his leash is a just a little bit shorter, which places what you've seen him do for so well for so many years – what you've taken for granted for so long – in perspective.
Friend of the blog, Jonah Keri, gives a wedge of hope pie by telling us that maybe Halladay isn't done. Keri then effectively tells us that he licked our hope pie before serving it by reminding us that it's probably the Halladay who a handful of 2013 Miami Marlins lit up that we're more likely to see (via Grantland):
Roy Halladay isn't necessarily done in the literal sense. He'll very likely pitch again. But watching the sad-sack Marlins batter Halladay for nine runs in 2⅓ innings Sunday, with their one dangerous hitter on the DL no less, reinforced what we've all been thinking for a while: The Doc we knew is gone. It took Juan Pierre, Marcell Ozuna, Greg Dobbs, and Adeiny Hechavarria to read him his last rites.
Roy Halladay the workhorse, Roy Halladay the legend (via Jays Journal):
Doc was a one-of-a-kind arm in a generation dominated by five-man rotations, specialized relievers, and pitch counts. Halladay has thrown seven different seasons with more than 220 innings pitched, including 266 and 250.2 in his Cy Young seasons of 2003 and 2010 respectively. He had a run of six consecutive seasons where he averaged more than 236 innings per season.All that effort has lead to some fantastic results on the field. 2 Cy Young Awards, 7 Top 5 finished in the Cy Young voting, 8 All-Star selections, 201 career wins, a 3.37 career ERA, 2101 career strike-outs, and a cumulative bWAR of 65.5 over a 16-year career.
In an excellent piece in defense of Halladay posted at The Fightins, author Ryan Petzar leans towards the hopeful side of the situation:
Roy Halladay is getting older. It happens to us all. And, for the first time in a very long time, Roy Halladay needs to understand and comprehend that he has to make a change in his life if he wants to keep on pitching, especially at a high level. The good news is that since he is such an amazing athlete and probably the hardest worker in all of baseball, I have zero doubt that Roy will be able to find a way to get batters out. Maybe he won't be an All Star anymore, but he has enough God-given talent that his insane work-ethic will allow him to get back to being an effective and capable major league ballplayer.
We may not have seen the last of Roy Halladay, but we've certainly witnessed the best of him.


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Hello,A few months back I acquired my first African Violets.Now I am head over heels in Love with them and want to expand my collection.The ones I have are just Noids but they are wonderful.I am hooked on African Violets BAD!!!!Would any of you have any chimera or trailers to help me get started?I have a new lighted stand and my noids are lonely by themselves! Please take a look at my trade list,I don't have any av's to trade but maybe you will see something you like : ) Thank You! Nancy (cedarnest) |
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Thanks to an AV Angel on this site who prefers to remain anonomous I am now the proud mama of many many baby av's.They are getting bigger and more beautiful every day.I just LOVE them all!! Thank You AV Angel !! :)) |
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This recipe is really easy; it's really more of a process than a recipe. Rice paper wrappers, which are available in the ethnic sections of most larger supermarkets these days, are a great way to wrap your veggies and protein for a quick snack or light lunch. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 18.3g | Fat: 1.9g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 16.6g | Calories: 156.4
Need a fast, easy dinner? Make these simple salmon patties. Pair them with rice topped with black beans or cheese grits and spinach. Submitted by JANEINE Carbs: 10.5g | Fat: 7.8g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 25.8g | Calories: 216.8
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Sat, Aug 31, 13 at 15:05
i planted a "meadow" in one of the potager boxes - no time for gardening this spring - photos are a few of the flowers - worked well - used flowers as cut flowers for table - many bees, butterflies and humming birds probably will not do again - only because - back to veggies - - |
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Very pretty! I have vege raised boxes, but I make sure to add flowers all around! Nancy |
i think flowers are a "necessary" addition to the potager here is a photo - a few years ago - now undergoing a complete renovation |
lol - why renovate perfection? |
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text: Another bump and just letting everyone know that out trail care ride is still on for 9 am this sunday the 21st. Meeting at the Copicut Woods main parking area on Indian Town road. I put yellow hill road in the above post, but thats incorrect. The parking lot is on Indian Town road. Directions at the official Copicut Woods web page.


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- Modi gets into the fight: 'Delhi will decide how world sees India'
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Gujarat: 50 percent LS poll nominees of main parties have zero social media presence
Poll fever has caught up big time on social media but surprisingly 50 per cent of Lok Sabha nominees from three major parties in Gujarat either don't prefer it for canvassing or stick to 'old school' techniques rather than logging on Facebook or Twitter.
As per the affidavits filed by candidates of BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state, out of 76-odd nominees of these 3 parties, nearly half of them declared that they do not have any social media account, such as Facebook or Twitter.
Surprisingly, many of them don't even have an email-ID.
Of these candidates, 38 are not using Facebook or Twitter, as they left the column blank or just wrote 'nil', 'none' or 'does not apply' in their affidavits. In some cases, they just wrote their email ID in the space to mention their social media account, if any.
The 'unsocial' candidates on Internet include some heavyweight leaders too, including sitting Congress MP from Surendranagar Soma Ganda Patel, who has again been nominated by the party for the seat.
Patel feels Facebook and Twitter are not necessary to reach out to people.
"I don't even have an email ID of my own. I believe in personal contact rather than using such websites. If someone wants to meet me, my office is always open. Thus, I don't see any use of social media for reaching out to voters," said Patel.
The BJP and AAP candidates from the same seat are also not 'social' on the net.
Other Congress heavyweights, all sitting MPs, who do not use social media, as per their affidavits, include Dahod candidate Dr Prabha Taviad, Jamnagar nominee Vikram Madam, Kheda candidate Dinsha Patel, Kishan Patel from Valsad, Anand candidate Bharatsinh Solanki, among others.
The BJP candidates not on social media include Ahmedabad-East candidate and actor Paresh Rawal, Dr KC Patel of Valsad, Vitthal Radadia (Porbandar), Poonam Madam (Jamnagar), Jaswant Bhabhor (Dahod) and Naran Kachhadia (Amreli).
Naishad Desai, the Congress candidate for Surat, says that he doesn't find Facebook effective.
"I am not against using it, but, I believe in writing personalised letters to my voters than posting comment or a photo on Facebook. This time, I am sending such letters to 15 lakh voters.
I find it more effective than social media," said Desai, who wants to stick to 'old school techniques'.
According to secretary of Valsad (ST) Congress nominee Kishan Patel, majority of the voters in the area are not aware of social media.
"80% of our voters are uneducated tribals, who may not have access to Facebook. Thus, Patel sir does not have a Facebook account," said Patel's secretary.
Dr KC Patel, BJP candidate for Valsad said, "I never created my Facebook account because I don't have time."
Also, AAP candidate for Bardoli (ST) Chandu Chaudhari doesn't trust social media for canvassing in his area.
"I don't see any use of Facebook in reaching out to people, as majority of our voters are poor tribals. I prefer to meet them personally and build rapport," said Chaudhari.
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John McCain is an irresponsible, immature clown, and because he's a clown, he tends to associate with other clowns, such as Tom Coburn. McCain and Coburn gave what they hope is a gullible media a list of the 100 worst projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known as the "stimulus" Act. But every project on that list is likely better than what these clowns want to do with the same money.
To it's credit, CNN at least took the trouble to check on several items on the clowns' list. CNN discovered (no surprise) the clowns had misrepresented the facts; as CNN points out, the projects' public purpose could have been discovered with a clarifying phone call or Google search. But clarity is not the clowns' goal.
To be sure, as long as Congress allows itself to be bribed as the means to getting elected, there will always be programs funded by government that are foolish or less worthy than other projects that should have been funded under some concept of the public interest. So it's appropriate for government watchdogs and the media to point that out how to improve government spending and avoid waste.
But that's not what the McCain and Coburn clowns are doing here. They're trying to muddy the waters about what stimulus spending is about so as to obscure the Republicans' wholesale failure to do anything to help the economy recover — to obscure that they've done everything they can to wreck the economy. If they were to come up with a list of the 100 most worthwhile projects/programs that should have been funded to create jobs or economic growth, but were not funded under ARRA, then perhaps the media should take them seriously. But these men are not serious; they're irresponsible clowns.
What's really happening here is the Coburn/McCain clowns are implicitly conceding that if a project is worth doing, then stimulus spending for that project would have been worth doing as a boost to the economy. If that's true, then the next question becomes, "notwithstanding the 100 questionable projects (many of which turned out to be worthwhile), was the bulk of the stimulus spending okay?" The clowns can't tell us, because they haven't asked the question.
Further, neither of these clowns provides us with a list of the 100 most deserving projects that should have been funded but which were left out. Where is that list? And why haven't McCain and Coburn and friends offered legislation to fund those worthwhile projects?
But this is all diversion. The stimulus concept was worth pursuing even if the "projects" had little or no value beyond the spending itself. Increasing spending, getting that money into the economy, was the point. The selected projects merely tell us how much more value (or increase in GDP) could be "bought" from that spending.
So what would John McCain's economic adviser, Mark Zandi, tell us? To be consistent with what he's said for the last year or so, he'd have to explain that if you give a worker $100 to dig a ditch and another worker $100 to fill it up, that's two jobs and $200 that will become stimulus spending that would not otherwise occur. If you funnel that $200 through a private contractor who pays the diggers/fillers, it's the same thing.
So if you dig a million such ditches, and lay new sewer or water pipes to replace our failing infrastructure, that's at least $200 million in stimulative spending. With a likely multiplier factor of 1.5 (Zandi and many economists agree here) that's like $300 million in total effect on GDP that would not otherwise occur. Does America have $300 million, or $300 billion in projects that need doing? Try $3 trillion. Do we have enough unemployed or underused workers willing and able to do all those projects? Of course we do. So where's your plan, McCain? Republicans? Obama?
And the question still stands: what would the GOP spend money on to stimulate the economy, if not what it was spent on? So far, the only "program" all Republicans have endorsed so far is a straight-up gift (via tax cuts) of borrowed money to the wealthy. The rich would no doubt appreciate such a generous gift, but Mr. Zandi would be obliged to tell his Senator that gifts to the rich have less (about 1/5 as much) of a stimulative effect than paying the otherwise unemployed to dig/fill in ditches, even without new water pipes.
Paying the ditch diggers has about five times the effect on GDP as gifts to the rich, because as Mark Zandi and every responsible economist agrees, the rich don't spend as much proportionally as the otherwise unemployed workers. The multiplier for wealthy tax cuts (about 0.3) means that that proposal belongs on the clowns' list of things you shouldn't waste money on, when there are so many other better ways to use the same money.
If McCain and Coburn weren't clowns, they'd have to agree with their economic advisers that to help the economy, we need more ditches, and other infrastructure spending, and more aid to states to pay teachers and firemen and police and renovated parks and restored waterways . . . and zero gifts to the rich. And recall that the total effective ARRA stimulus was only about $600 billion (over two plus years), while the increased deficit over a decade of extending Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would be over $600 billion. Now there's a choice even clowns should get right.
John McCain could have been President; the Republicans want to take over Congress. But their economic/jobs policy is to withhold money from workers and teachers doing public works projects that need to be done and would help the economy now and in the future, and give the same money — as an outright gift — to rich people.
This is why America would have made a terrible mistake by making John McCain President, and why electing Republicans (or conservaDems who mimick them) in November would be equally foolish. We have enough clowns, and they've already wrecked the economy.
John Chandley


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While we love plants of all kinds, some hold more appeal, catch our interest, and rise to the top of our favorites list. Master Gardeners each have their own list, and it may vary each year. They may love the color, the shape, the workhorse characteristics, the easy care or the challenge of their favored plant. Here's a list of what some of the Chelan County Master Gardeners currently place at the top of their list. If you're considering a plant described as xeric, remember it needs regular water during the first year.
Read the list of Chelan Master Gardeners favorite vegetables.
Orville Vanderlin says: "My favorite plants are Japanese maples (Acer palmatum), which are found in two basic forms; an upright small tree and a low growing, wide spreading, shrub-like form. There are probably 200 or more varieties and cultivars of this plant. I particularly like the low growing, wide spreading "lace leaf" types (Acer palmatum v.dissectum), which in itself occurs in great variety of colors, leaf form and shape of leaf and plant. I enjoy this plant for its year 'round interest, the random, twisting form its branches develop, the often fragile appearance of its foliage and the colors it displays through the year."
To obtain the most enjoyment out of these plants a number of items should be considered:
Homer McNeil says: "Plant agastache in your garden and you will hug it. Agastache has a nice aroma that attracts hummingbirds, which are entertaining to watch as they fiercely compete for nectar." Its a perennial, low-water usage plant that blooms all summer, and never requires deadheading. Colors range from apricot and pink, to fushia, rose, and purples. Leaves are a fine textured gray-green. Varieties can vary from 2 feet to 5. Winds waft a scent of licorice, earning its moniker licorice mint hyssop.
Plant it in a hot full- or half-sun sun spot that suits its airy, open growth pattern. It requires good drainage. Once established, it can grow with less water.
"Forget the hummingbird feeders. Plant several agastache and enjoy. This is my favorite garden plant."
Gloria Kupferman says: "I am a great fan of drama in the garden. Amaranthus 'Fat Spike' is great for fall drama after the tall iris, towers of clematis blooms and flowering trees of spring are gone. The rich, glowing burgundy flowers (or seed heads) top 4'-5' leafy stems. The soft green leaves have a touch of burgundy which deepens as the nights grow cooler in the fall. Many members of this ancient grain-producing family have a world-wide distribution In our climate, they are grown as self-seeding annuals and the numerous seedlings need to be culled in early summer after sprouting in late spring. I leave about ten good-looking seedlings in a bed above my driveway where they provide an instant "WOW!" factor for visitors.
"They grow easily in well-drained soil in full sun and don't need a lot of fertilizer. Any member of this family can be started inside in early spring and planted out when the weather warms. After that you will usually have plenty of seedlings to choose from in early summer. Great for large flower arrangements in fall as well."
Fernie Slabaugh says: "Wild and Wonderful Oscar-- That is what I like about this unique member of the milkweed family."
The plant reaches 5 feet tall or more, branching out with slender green leaves and small white flowers that transform into unique soft, spiny-covered balloons. These three-inch long globes are green with a blush of red. "Oscar" is an annual in our area.
Kathi Scheibner says: "I have just begun to learn about native plants that can be used for home landscaping and am especially enjoying Butterfly Weed, a member of the milk weed family. The only thing I have found that I don't like about it is "weed" in its name.
"I learned that the Native Americans used the plant in many ways. The stems were made into rope, and the root was used for bronchial infections and rheumatism, as well as for treating colds and skin injuries. Some tribes even ate this poisonous plant by developing special cooking techniques to make it edible. Schoolchildren during WWII gathered the fluffy part that carries the seed in the wind and it was used to fill life jackets and flight suits along with down. It is still used to enhance the loft properties of down in insulating clothing and bedding. Commercially this plant is also used in making paint, cosmetics and paper. However, I believe its greatest use is in attracting pollinators for the garden. My butterfly weed began blooming about a month after I planted it and it is usually covered with bees and butterflies."
Mickey Fleming says: "My favorite plant is the tuberous begonia (Begonia tuberhybridia). Even more so because I found that they have done well this summer at my challenging 3600 foot elevation.
"Tuberous begonias are available in a stunning array of shades from sunshine yellows to pink to salmon to lipstick reds. Leaves can be green or reddish, and are attractive. There are both compact upright and trailing varieties, making them perfect for containers, window boxes and hanging baskets. The "nonstop" variety accurately describes their persistent blooms - this pot has looked like this since May! I first became aware of them in Colombia, South America, where they thrived in the combination of warm sunny days and cool nights at 5000-6000 feet. I have similar conditions here. We came from Cincinnati, Ohio, where they struggled through the summer heat waiting for the cooler Fall temperatures.
"I love the begonias contrasted with the electric blue lobelia (Loberlia erinus), a small mounding annual, also great for pots. Our pots are at the our barn door, where they get sheltered from the sun about half of the day. The low profile of both plants helps them resist the wind. "
Tuberous begonias grow from tubers, which must be dug and stored during our winters.
Suzanne Helgerson says: "According to my Sunset Western Garden Book, my garden mums are florist chrysanthemums. They come in shades of yellow, red, pink, orange, bronze, purple, lavender and multicolors. My garden has yellow, bronze and purple (reflecting my UW Husky heritage). They were dug up out of my friend Margaret Johnson's garden, placed in my compost-amended sandy East Wenatchee soil, watered regularly and fed in the spring with Osmocote."
"In May they flower, I pinch off the dead ones and cut them back when blooming is done and enjoy blooms again in the fall. Some people disbud the early buds to have larger fall blooms but I don't."
They get full sun.
In November cut the plants to within 8 inches of the ground. In the spring they reliably return. How easy is that!
Deanna Lorentzen says: "Coleus is my favorite plant because it is so versatile. I grow them for their color and leaf texture. Being raised in Arizona, my Mother grew coleus as a houseplant and a patio plant, where they lived for several years."
Joanne Gardner says: "My favorite plant? What's not to like about the cornus kousa? A white flowering dogwood, it has four season attraction."
In spring its leaves are a vibrant green, which are overlaid inJuy by large white flowers along the tops of the branches. When other flowering trees have stopped blooming, the kousa's habit of later bloom is especially appreciated.
October finds red strawberry-lie fruit hanging from the branches and its fall color of gold and orange-pink are stunning. Howeer, the fruit drops and nees to be swept up.
Winter reveals the delicate limb structure and gray, creampy colored bark.
"After forty years of age, our cornus kousa is healthy and disease-free."
Depending on variety, cornus kousa grows to 10-25 feet. In our dry and windy climate, they are best with afternoon shade and protection from wind.
Terry Anderson says: "I like the Dalea purpureum for its vibrant purple flowers and because it is a tremendous bee attractant. "
The Dalea purpureum is good by itself or with other plants. It is a deep-rooted legume, and thus adds nitrogen to the soil and helps nearby plants.You can see a Dalea purpureum in Chelan PUD's Riverside Demonstration Garden in Wenatchee.
Size: 18 in. high x 18 in. wide Blooms: in the Summer Hardiness: -30 degrees F. Sun: Full and afternoon sun Soil: Well adapted to many soils, including clay Water: Minimal water requirements, this is a xeric plant, after the first season
Sherry Anderson says: "Dahlias come in sizes pincushion to dinnerplate, styles open to tight and full, and colors from white to yellow, to reds and purples." Here are the basics to successfully growing dahlias:
"Gaura lindheimeri is a beautiful and graceful perennial whose delicate pink ("Siskiyou Pink") or white ("Whirling Butterflies" or "White Fountains") blossoms belie it's strong constitution. Gaura has an airy look as the inch long blossoms and leaves grow on long wiry stems without a stalk. The plant has a deep tap root which makes it heat and drought resistant. The plant may be damaged if the root is disturbed or moved once it is established. "
Native to Texas and Louisiana, gaura also adapts well to the North Central Washington climate, tolerating heat, cold and wind. It sways gracefully in the breeze and looks great planted with ornamental grasses. A seedling planted in the spring in well drained soil with a moderate amount of water may develop into a beautiful, bushy specimen by the end of summer. Be sure to allow enough space when planting as it can grow up to 2 1/2 feet wide and 3 feet tall.
Gaura dies back in the winter and is slow to put forth new growth in spring. Be patient--you will be rewarded with blooms from late spring until fall! It is a long lived plant that requires very little care.
Janet Heath says: "I became interested in ornamental grasses several years ago after visiting the xeriscape garden maintained by the Master Gardeners at Walla Walla Park. This was long before I became a Master Gardener myself."
"One of the first ornamental grasses I planted into my landscape in Cashmere was the feather reed grass, Karl Foerster (Calamagrostis acutiflora). By happy accident, I located the plant where it is directly in my line of vision while standing at our kitchen sink. Almost every day I marvel at its beauty as is sways in the wind and the seed heads glow a rich golden shade in the sunlight. This ornamental grass quickly became a favorite plant and I can't imagine a garden without just one."
Karl Foerster is an easy to grow ornamental grass that adapts to many soil and growing conditions. It is quite drought tolerant when established, but will also withstand wetter conditions. The plants are clump forming and typically grow to a height of four to six feet Seed heads develop early in the growing season and remain on the plant for a long time making Karl Foerster interesting to view through the late fall and early winter. It is my experience that the upright character of the plant will not succumb to the elements until it has been flattened by a significant amount of snow. In the spring, the plants should be cut back to just above the ground and the clumps can be divided to form additional plants. Karl Foerster's seeds are sterile, so self-seeding is not a problem.
Bonnie Orr says: "Easter lilies are sold as temporary houseplants in March and April, and people throw them away when they finish blooming. However, this lily makes a fabulous late-summer bloom in the garden. It fragrances an entire flower bed especially in the early morning and evening. I personally find the Easter lily "too smelly" to be in the house, but in the garden it is just right."
The plant may die back to the ground. It will be back the following spring. It may continue growing, and I have had them re-bloom the first September after moving them outside. The plants multiply. Mulch them with about 8 inches of straw in November. The plant is from Japan and hardy for our area.
"I grew an Easter Lily from seed I collected in 1995 in Western Australia where they grow wild. Some years it is as tall as eight feet. It has 12-15 flowers on a single stalk. It took three years to grow from seed to flower. Sadly, the bulb has never multiplied, but it has bloomed reliably for 10 years." Read as a Fact Sheet
James Cox says: "I love pansies because they remind me of my grandmother's garden.
Pansies grow well in moist, rich soil. They are popular in the spring and fall because they are a cool weather flower, and can carry over during our hot summers in partial shade. Their smaller relative violas, known as johnny jump-ups, can take full sun. I apply a balanced fertilizer such as Miracle Grow. In my garden, the violas self seed, so though a biennial, they perform like perennials by returning annually without replanting. If they make their way into the lawn, regular mowing keeps them in check. Both pansies and violas bloom all summer and require no deadheading.
Pansies often carry over through winter with a covering of leaves, then burlap to hold the leaves.
Suzanne Sorom says: "I call my red blooming plants that brighten my home and garden all year long "geraniums." However, botanically speaking that label is not correct. Pelargonium is the correct botanical name and they are from the Geraniaceae family."
Most pelargonium are native to South Africa. I enjoy pelargoniums in my patio pots all summer. They like our warm, dry days and cool nights. They do shut down a bit in our extreme heat of July and August and then flourish in the cooler days of fall. I have red pelargoniums blooming all year in my living room north facing windows. They are drought tolerant. I let their soil dry out between waterings. They are easy to dead head, quite disease resistant and come in a wide variety of colors often with interesting leaf colors. They grow in both sun and part shade, and if grown in good garden soil they need little fertilizer.
To enjoy beautiful flowers all year long move your garden pelargoniums into your home before the first frost and enjoy blooms all winter long.
Ron Partridge says: "I like a garden with continuous bloom, color and fragrance. Roses fill my yard with all three, all summer long. Tea roses, floribundas and bush roses each fill a niche."
Patti Milos says: "My favorite plants are succulents. These plants come in a myriad of colors and shapes and are particularly easy to care for if you follow a few basic instructions. Here are some tips and information on how to care for these happy plants and ensure them a long, happy life with you."
Penny Bickford says: "One of my favorite annuals is the zinnia. They are the first flowers I ever grew from seed: as a five year old child I helped my Mother plant zinnia seeds in flats of sand in carefully drawn rows. We particularly enjoyed Burpee's "Cut and Come Again" mix. A lively mix of yellow, pink, orange and white double two inch blooms with well rounded petals on two foot plants, they keep blooming from midsummer till frost. Pick a bunch for the house, remove spent flowers, and you will be rewarded with bushy plants and even more blooms! They look great against a low fence or mid-border."
Zinnias come in all sizes and colors - from mini-dwarf for edging to tall plants with five inch blooms. I prefer to start them indoors in my sunroom about five to seven weeks before I move them outdoors. They won't grow until it is warm and they don't like cold winds, so wait till the weather is warm and stable. A cold frame can be used to harden them. They do very well in our climate- they can be subject to mildew in August if the foliage gets wet for too long a time. Zinnias thrive in sunny spots, in moderately rich well-drained soil which is neutral or slightly alkaline.
"My granddaughters, when small, would collect flowers, including zinnias, from my garden and then, provided with a pitcher of water and assorted shapes and sizes of vases, they would create their own arrangements for their mothers. Next year two year old Elise will be able to tuck her own seeds in pots for her own zinnia garden!"


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Dockworkers and terminal operators reach agreementSTEVEN GREENHOUSE
THE NEW YORK TIMES | December 29,2012NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO
Cargo ships dock at Port Elizabeth, N.J.,. The International Longshoremens Association, a dockworkers union, reached a deal to avoid a strike that had been set for Sunday.A top federal mediator announced Friday that shipping companies and the East Coast longshoremens union have reached a deal on their main point of dispute and that the union has agreed to drop its threat of a coastwide strike this Sunday.
The mediator said the two sides have agreed to extend the existing contract by 30 days to Jan. 28 to try to reach agreement on other remaining issues, including what the companies say are antiquated work rules.
The partial agreement means that the union, the International Longshoremens Association, will not carry through on its threat to have 14,500 dockworkers go on strike this Sunday at 14 ports stretching from Boston to Houston.
While some significant issues remain, I am cautiously optimistic that they can be resolved in the 30-day extension period, said the mediator, George H. Cohen, the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
In a news release, Cohen said the two sides had reached an agreement in principle on a particularly contentious issue, known as container royalty payments.
The companies share those payments with union members for each ton of cargo handled. The union had for months denounced the companies proposal to freeze those payments for current longshoremen and eliminate them for all future hires.
The United States Maritime Alliance, a group of shipping companies and terminal owners, says it paid $211 million in container royalties to the dock workers last year, averaging $15,500 per eligible union member.
James A. Capo, the alliances chairman, said the royalty payments amounted to $10 an hour on top of what he said were already generous wages.
This issue seems to have dwarfed anything else, Capo said in an interview this week.
The maritime alliance said the longshoremen earn $124,000 a year on average in wages and benefits, including the royalty payments. Union officials said those figures were exaggerated and put average annual wages at $75,000 before benefits. Under the current contract, most longshoremen earn $32 an hour.
The container payments were created in the 1960s to compensate the longshoremen because many lost their jobs as seaports embraced automation and the use of standardized, 40-foot-long containers to ship goods. Largely as a result of those trends, employment of longshoremen in the Port of New York and New Jersey, the busiest East Coast port, has dropped to 3,500 from 35,000 in the 1960s.
The shipping companies see the royalty payments as a relic of decades past. The union still sees the payments as a core part of wages and as an important way to share productivity gains with members. The payments come to $4.85 a ton, the union said.
Harold Daggett, the unions president, resisted the push by the shippers alliance, known as USMX, to freeze the royalty payments. As the strike deadline approached, he said, USMX seems intent on gutting a provision of our master contract that ILA members fought and sacrificed for years to achieve.
Matthew Shay, president of the National Retail Federation, applauded Fridays announcement but said a contract extension does not provide the level of certainty that retailers and other industries were looking for.
We welcome todays news that a contract extension has been reached, he said in a statement. However, we continue to urge both parties to remain at the negotiating table until a long-term contract agreement is finalized.
His federation and more than 100 other business groups wrote to President Barack Obama last week urging him to invoke his emergency powers under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to enjoin a strike. Labor experts said Obama would have been caught between fears that a strike would damage the already-weak economy and worries that enjoining a strike would anger allies in the labor movement.MORE IN National / World BusinessA new liquor company on Exchange Street hopes to use $500,000 to make gin and cultivate local... Full StoryJulie Delsoldato and her husband moved to Danby from Massachusetts in 2008. Full StoryBENNINGTON A new Starbucks is still in the works in Manchester but the fifth and sixth... Full Story -
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''Grey's Anatomy'' recap: Bloody good
Meredith was right (gasp), in a lot of ways, when she summed up this week's episode by saying that sometimes ''the world rights itself.'' Sometimes Grey's Anatomy rights itself, too, and reminds us why we got so damn wrapped up in it two and a half years ago — as with this solid conclusion to that great Thanksgiving cliff-hanger.
We've been waiting a long two weeks to find out what would happen with that poor paramedic still stuck in that ambulance and Seth Green and his gushing carotid artery. I have to say it was nice to see the Grey gals in action on both those fronts, Mer climbing under the ambulance and Lexie trying to stop Seth's bleeding (and calling a controversial code blue, which basically meant he was dying, even though he was still talking enough to verbalize exactly that for the non-medically-trained among us).
Bailey, meanwhile, was still stuck operating on that Nazi while her husband pouted in the waiting room. She kept sending poor George back and forth as her messenger, which was unfortunate for him but probably better use of him than watching him moon over Izzie some more. ''You tell him that if he's thinking about leaving right now, he might find himself hurt and wounded and needing an operation, and he may not get a surgeon who is as married to her vows as I am,'' she told George. ''Can't I just do some charts?'' George replied, but to no avail. I say just get Tucker together with the Chief's estranged, disgruntled wife already and call it a day. Apparently the only personal-life story-line option for the married Seattle Gracers is to give them a neglected spouse. Yeah, so over Tucker.
Was starting to get pretty over Hahn's bitchiness, too, and couldn't help thinking she could use a little of that humanization Grey's can be so good at. On the other hand, not totally over — though not totally under yet, either — the idea of Derek and his Mary Louise Parker-alike nurse as they worked together, all cute-ish, on fixing that computer that helps him do brain surgery. Oh, she forgot to press the restart button! All fixed! (No, seriously, that's really how it ended.)
Alex had his own problems when he had to close out a surgery that Sloan (called away to the Seth Green crisis) had started; Alex may or may not have screwed up because Ava the Amnesiac was watching from the gallery. Sloan did, however, get to Seth just as his bleeding finally stopped. Maybe because Seth had lost enough to cover Lexie in it? Just a guess. It was a lot of blood, that was all I knew. That, and the fact that I really didn't want him to die. I hate when witty people die on Grey's Anatomy. They're always making us care with their banter and then kicking it. I really wanted Ray to live, too, especially after he put in all that time hanging upside down. Props all around, one more time, for this week's patient guest stars.
Then, boom, just minutes after I wished for Hahn's humanization, the Grey's gods made it come true. She berated herself, repeatedly, for the complication that arose in her heart surgery, clearly as flustered by her own shortcomings as she is by everyone else's. After that, we even got a bonus round of sympathetic characterization for many of the other ladies we love to hate: Meredith rescued Ray! A patient's wife eviscerated Izzie! Seth Green flatlined on Lexie! As all the surgeries started to come to a close, as they often do at a conveniently coordinated time, Ray was recovering with his deceased partner's wife at his bedside, Lexie was mourning Seth Green (as was I), and George was having a post-operative word with the Nazi. ''A black woman saved your life at a great personal cost,'' he told him. ''If I had been alone in that OR, you probably would've been dead.'' See, even George got to redeem himself a little to us. (Though Cristina had a kinda annoying hissy fit about Bailey pulling her off Hahn's cardio service to help with the white supremacist. Whatev.)
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Rockin' in the Streets of Longmont
By Dani White Berthoud Recorder If you like to grove, dance, eat, drink and generally be merry, you might consider venturing to downtown Longmont this summer. Longmont Downtown Development Authority and Longmont Recreation Services have joined forces to present the Downtown Longmont Summer Concert Series. Downtown Longmont has become increasingly hip and happening in the realm of arts, music, food and fun. The Downtown Longmont Summer concert series is no exception. The cost-free concert ... Full Story


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20. Is it in the Magic Kingdom? Yes
19. Does it involve food in any way? Kinda
18. Is it in the third of the park I will describe as Main Street, Tomorrowland and Mickey's Toontown Fair? Yes
17. Is it a ride? No
16. Is it on Main Street USA? Yes
15. Is it in Tomorrowland? No