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Does anyone know what this palm tree is? I collected seeds from it in the rainforests of Panama. Thanks for any help.
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- Posted by cocoabeachlorax (My Page) on Thu, Jun 3, 10 at 15:52
I hope this isn't too nosy, but I am intrigued about this. When did you plant the seeds ? Did you do anything special when germinating ? How did you get the seeds home (customs did not give you a hard time ?) Do you over winter them inside ? I'm sorry that I don't have any help to offer with identification. It's a beautiful palm. |
- Posted by statenislandpalm7a 7a (My Page) on Thu, Jun 3, 10 at 18:01
I don't know what this palm is but i brought some seeds of a saw palmetto home from mexico. I just scattered them in a towel. No one noticed |
- Posted by cocoabeachlorax (My Page) on Thu, Jun 3, 10 at 20:53
I wonder what the penalty is for attempting to bring seeds into the U.S. is or if there are penalties from the country of origin too ? Also, seeing as they are seeds, I wonder if a good way to bring them into the country wouldn't be to slip them into a snack mix of granola or trail mix, probably wouldn't raise any eyebrows... although if a towel roll works, that is far easier... |
Guys. Just a suggestion- you might want to make sure you know what the species is, prior to pilfering the seeds from another country. There are CITES permits required for the international exchange of many species. Not to mention, this is exactly how devastating diseases like PLY are transmitted from one location to another. If it is classified as an endangered species, and you are caught taking them across international borders, the penalties are very severe. It is a crime, under any circumstance, to remove seeds, or living plant tissue without a permit from the host country. In fact, depending on the species, it can even be illegal to do so within the country, much less taking it across international borders. If caught, you will most definitely have a bad day at customs, almost definitely end up in jail, if not slapped with a huge fine, and possible imprisonment. |
I have travelled to many different countries and never had any difficulties bringing seeds back with the exception of Israel which took them out of my bag without informing me. The other times, including Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Jordan I simply put them in my pocket or in my bag. I have had no problems at least 10 times. I took the fruit off shortly after picking them. Since I live in Canada I will not be planting the seeds outside. I germinated these paticular seeds by placing them in a tupperware placed on a heat pad. I had a 100% germination rate. The reason I chose this palm was because it seemed to grow as an understory palm and therefore may do better indoors with lower light conditions, although it will probably require high humidity. |
- Posted by tropicpalms VA BCH 8b (My Page) on Fri, Jun 4, 10 at 0:39
def. not native to panama but the Macarthur palm looks very similar in the leaves and the skinny size of the trunk! but I don't think it is a Macarthur palm just my closest guess off top of head. would be nice to know the real idntity of the palm. -Justin |
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12 Jan 2010
Broadening its global position at WiMax, Motorola Inc.'s business unit Home & Networks Mobility announced that Wateen Telecom has speed up the launch of WiMax services and is intending to duplicate its existing volume of Client Local Equipments (CLE) from 100,000 to 200,000 units by the end of the year. Motorola is still an infrastructure provider and exclusive
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products implementation will improve Wateen position as one of the main telecommunications providers". "Wateen Telecom ambitious plans of expansion allow the company to reach more customers and satisfy the popular demand", said Ali Amer, Vice-president of Motorola's Business Unit Home & Networks Mobility for the Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. "The fact that Wateen continues offering Motorola equipment for all their customers in Pakistan is a legacy of strength and amplitude of our portfolio
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You don't need to understand all the biochemistry to make practical use of this information. It answers a question which pops up periodically. "Will seeds germinate if they are not fully mature when harvested?"
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O.K., I'll be the dummy. Just what is a tired, over-worked mind supposed to conclude with that information? It sounds like one can dry seeds at an earlier stage than usual and still have them germinate. I hope- yes? And thanks for researching this. |
Don't give up on that over-worked mind yet. You interpretted the post perfectly. I have to admit that I wasn't researching that topic at all. I hit on it while researching horticultural beans. Is it alright if I take the thanks anyway? :-) Jim |
I wonder if a dessicant (like silica) is used or do they just let the seeds air-dry? I've tried to dry immature seeds before and they ended up moldy, but I don't know if that was the high water content of the seed or the high water content of my climate. |
You deserve thanks simply because you took the time to share the information, jimster. My method for drying immature seeds requires wire racks,a fan,an air-conditioned room and patience. |
Oops. Not immature seeds, but mature, ripe but still "greenish". Surely someone can say this better than I can. |
There has been quite a lot of research on the use of immature seeds. In many cases the resulting plants are smaller than is usual for the strain, and more fruitful. In a sense, the plants start out older ... or at least with a shortened juvenile period. Van Mons made a point of collecting unripe pears, then letting them rot (or ferment) before sowing the seeds. In this way he shortened the juvenile period (time from seed to fruiting trees) substantially. Some of his improved pears flowered at just 4 years. Botanical Abstracts 7(2): 206 (March, 1921) Old seeds also have their uses, so I made a combined bibliography. Karl |
Here is a link that might be useful: Old Seeds / Unripe Seeds
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I have a problem to get filters to work properly on my iPhone. Maybe someone can help out.
So, I have created this filter:
@work & (overdue, today)
On Todoist web and on the Windows 8 app, the filter works correctly. Shows all overdue and today tasks with @work label. However, on my iPhone the filter shows overdue and today tasks from ALL labels.
I have tried with lot of different labels, moving around the syntax, etc. No matter what I do, this filter won't work on my iPhone.
Any ideas?
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Hello Dan,
Thank you for the report and sorry for the inconvenience. I've passed it to the developers and we'll look into this issue.
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Thanks for the update David. Looking forward to a fix.
Hello David,
I am new to Todoist and very happy with the app so far.
I note however that the "filter feature not working with Iphone" is a recurrent topic.
I do certainly ignore how difficult / easy it is to fix but I would really appreciate to know by when do you intend to have that solved?
Thank you very much!
I use filters just like this. I ran into the same issue so I set them up differently. I now use (@work & overdue) | (@work & today) and it works on mobile and desktop. But sadly, the mobile stuff still labels incorrectly, though all the right tasks are there. The little headers are just really screwed up.
We're sorry for the inconvenience, these issues will be fixed in the next update.
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does anyone know why cheap red wines cause "black tongue"?
it doesn't happen with reasonably priced wines - just the cheap stuff Isn't the cheap wine processed long enough? |
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I've never heard of such a thing. How cheap are we talking about? And is this your personal experience? |
Hi barnmom - it's only from australian wines - the 4 litre casks all made by "reputable" companies - some of the biggest wine manufacturers in the world - Hardies, Coolabah, etc and it is a personal thing - it only started about three months agho and when I showed my doctor he checked me out for all sorts of diseases (cholera was one of them!!!) - and then we figured out it is the wine and something the manufacturers are now putting into their cheaper products. The wine companies refuse to answer my emails - so I have to start taking bottles of good stuff to barbecues |
I googled the topic of red wine and black tongues and found a wine actually called "Black Tongue." A Syrah from Washington priced at $29.00 so it isn't the bargain bin crapola or from Australia. I know that Australia is famed for its Shiraz aka Syrah. Perhaps the wine you bought had a high percentage of this varietal in the blend. I also found the following on a message board: : If you're drinking peptol bismol (bismuth) for a hangover, that will turn your tongue black. : : Drinking red wine is giving me a black tongue. Anyone know why? : : : Pepto bismol contains bismuth which when combined with the small traces of sulfer found in the intestinal tract creates bismuth-sulfide, a compound that indeed causes darkening of the tongue. As far as the red wine goes, I think it may be the dark color of the wine that stains your tongue black. Try brushing your tongue after drinking red wine! (P.S. I am not a doctor; I had the same problem with pepto bismol and found this info through online research!) I'm not a big red wine drinker so I have never had this happen. If I drink more than one glass it will be white wine. If red, usually just one. And rarely more than 2 glasses of anything. Oh, I can drink it, I suffer badly! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Black Tongue
Black tongue is classic from certain Aussie shirazes. However, you can get it from plenty of cabs as well. It's not a mark of a lesser wine. Plenty of great wines may give you a little black tongue--especially if you drink enough of it within a short period of hours ;-) |
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AV Pros Get Their Bearings
As hard to ignore as a hum in the line, the economy throughout 2009 was an ever present topic in mainstream discourse, as well as in pro AV industry circles. Rightly so. The recession influenced myriad decisions and commanded focus both on a macro, global level and on a local, enterprise level.
Project Management–New Challenges
Catherine Shanahan, president of Shanahan Sound, has begun the process of rehiring and sees 2010 as a year to revamp marketing efforts. "We're doing everything we can to manage our expenses and keep getting the business," she says.
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Beyond staffing, the recession is likely to change the way pro AV firms operate going forward. Industry pros say project management is being stressed more than ever, presenting fresh challenges that likely will continue into the future. End-user decision-making will likely continue to be more erratic than it was in the past, and leaner staffs at AV integration firms will, for the foreseeable future, constrain logistics and tax the firms' resources.
"It's been hard to do our own forecasting and it's hard on project management," says Shanahan. "We've had a lot of proposal activity, but clients are not pulling the trigger. Or we put it out there and then they say they have to have the system in 10 days." To further complicate business management, Shanahan says proposals are going through multiple hands for approval. Sometimes they end up on the desks of top management. "When we call to follow up, we get, 'It's on the director's desk.'"
The nature of pro AV work during this recovery is likely to be different than it was before the recession, in large part dictated by the larger economy. In some cases, clients will be anxious to spend money quickly once they have it. In others, they'll be looking to outfit the space they're in rather than building new.
"We're getting more stuff that's just-in-time, rather than longer term design [projects]," says Svard. "We're also getting more retrofit jobs and less new construction."
In any business climate, project management is critical to success, and engaging the customer in the process is key. Landrum says, "It's our job to manage all the variables of the project. Our aim is to help our customers understand the process. We manage and set expectations at the outset."
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Setting expectations reaches all the way back to how an AV firm promotes its skills. For many AV companies, the recession proved a wake-up call for reinvigorating their marketing efforts. No business climate is more conducive to targeted and well- thought-out promotion than one in which end-user clients are either stalled or rethinking their AV systems needs. When things get quiet, forward-thinking AV firms pipe up.
Shanahan Sound decided that for 2010, it wants to communicate to the market that it is charging ahead. Seeing a better business climate in the offing, the company wanted to get an edge on its competition through fresh marketing.
"January 1 was a new look for us. We invested in a new logo and design for our trucks, our website, and our other materials," says Shanahan.
Electro-Media Design is also redoubling its marketing efforts, including updating its website and all collateral. It has also taken advantage of the recession to focus its efforts on coordination. "Over the next year, I think our marketing will be evolving more towards partnering and collaborative teaming opportunities," Loether explains. "And [we'll be] deepening our relationships with our existing clients."
Access to Capital–In The Same Boat
Speaking of partnering, nothing better illustrates the interconnectedness of stakeholders in the pro AV industry than issues of financial capital–the money that helps stock inventory and keep vans moving. And the group most caught in the middle of money matters is integration firms.
AV integrators say that at the client level, several things are happening to affect cash flow. While customers are starting to entertain multiple proposals for AV systems, it takes longer than before to commit to a project. Moreover, they won't purchase equipment right away in order to preserve their own credit lines. And when they do finally greenlight a project and sign an order? "Clients are taking longer to pay," says Shanahan. "Ninety days is not unusual, but of course we have to pay all the vendors in 30 days."
At that vendor level, credit is also still tight, which could pose problems as business recovers, clients drag their feet, and dealers need a little leeway in their cash flow. Some say that if a recovery in the pro AV market is to gain steam, a lot will depend on the deals between manufacturers and dealers. Those with the strongest relationships will be seen as partners rather than companies that are simply interested in filling orders.
"Some manufacturers are good. Some are shortsighted and rude–these are the ones I don't need anymore," says Shanahan. "The credit manager at the manufacturer is the key. They need to be able to suss out who the good dealers are."
Therefore AV professionals must pull their weight, too, and spend the extra time understanding manufacturers' businesses and demonstrating their ability to move products, integrate successful AV systems, and maintain happy clients.
Are We Any Wiser?
Overall, the pro AV industry is learning that complacency is the enemy of success, and that market vigilance is more important than ever. It's the lessons learned (see "10 Lessons Learned from the Recession") that can help sustain an AV company the next time the economy sours. "It worries me when others say we could have another dip," Shanahan says. "We're doing everything to manage our expenses and keep getting the business."
A recurring theme of the Great Recession–and a strategy easier vocalized than executed–is the need to remain bold. More than one AV integrator has sworn that when there's an economic downturn, while everyone else is pulling back, their company seizes the opportunity to invest in training, infrastructure, and marketing. "We need to never let up on our marketing activities," Loether says.
"There's no better medicine than to make swift and decisive business decisions when you see the storm clouds on the horizon," says Landrum. "You just don't wait around to make changes. Now the challenge is not to let your guard down or relax too much, but to keep the intensity up and protect profitability at all costs."
All while the AV industry continues undergoing fundamental change. As AV becomes a more business-critical way for clients to work and communicate, AV pros will have to adjust their operations in the limelight, with a target on their collective back. "We haven't yet learned how to sell value and hold out against low-cost producers' competition," warns Landrum, "We have new competition from outside the AV industry. This is a reality that won't change."
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Capping Number of Players/Bots allowed in map.
I'm putting together a 2 - 4 player map (DM-4Way-TitanArena) for UT2004, and wondering how to make sure that this is capped so that way I only have up to four players spawn at any given time, with myself included. I'm not wanting any annoying bots that weren't supposed to be there spawn out of nowhere. Anyone know how to cap the number of bots/players in UE2? I was looking in all sorts of properties and actor infos, etc... Wonder where to find all this. I have four physical starting positions, that's a start, but wonder where to make sure that those only mean that one can spawn from those at a time.
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try only putting 4 bots in your map?
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Specify the desired number of players for your map in the level properties, then in Instant Action set bot count to map default. The editor just uses the in-game settings.
Also, you could just "killbots" and "addbots 4" or whatever number of bots you want to have.
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is there a way to uncap?
Curious question, because i made a map for 32 players once, but i couldn't get out 32 bots.. |
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Name: Spawn
Origin Story: When CIA assassin Al Simmons was murdered by one of his own men, his soul was sent to hell to burn for all eternity. Desperate to see his wife again, he made a deal with the devil — or a devil, anyhow — and returned to earth. But Simmons' Faustian bargain was, well, predictably Faustian. His reanimated body was burned beyond all recognition. His wife had remarried. And Simmons returned as a creature called "The Hellspawn" — a powerful being whose ultimate purpose was to lead the forces of hell against heaven.
Costume: Spawn has one of the great iconic outfits of the '90s, with a head-to-toe ensemble set off by spikes and chains — he's like a death-metal Spider-Man. But the costume is really all about the high-collared, eerily organic red cape.
Coolest Power/Ability: Powered by a demonic substance known as necroplasm, Spawn has a seemingly infinite assortment of supernatural abilities, and his specific skills have evolved regularly during the character's existence. But one of the most interesting aspects of the character when he was first introduced was the idea that he had a finite reserve of energy — represented, literally, by a timer that counted down every time Spawn used his powers.
Defining Stories: The first 12 issues of Spawn are a great slow-burn introduction to the character, featuring a weird mix of Lovecraftian dark fantasy and gritty street-crime drama. The series eventually suffered a serious case of mission drift, but the Armageddon story arc brought years of Spawn mythology together into an epic final showdown between the forces of heaven and hell.
Cultural legacy: Spawn remains the most successful independent comic book character in history, inspiring both a TV show and a movie. If his popularity has dimmed somewhat in the last decade, then that only increases Spawn's value as an essential time capsule of '90s comic book maturity. Chains! Spikes! Swear words! —DF
Name: Captain Marvel
Origin Story: When orphaned newsboy Billy Batson wanders into a deep cavern, he meets an ancient wizard, who grants Billy a host of supernatural abilities. From then on, whenever the lad yells the wizard's name — "Shazam!" — he's transformed into a grown-up superhero named Captain Marvel.
Costume: Captain Marvel's sharp red-and-yellow outfit suggests a Pharaonic riff on Superman's outfit, complete with a glimmering white shoulder cape.
Coolest Power/Ability: We all know that "Shazam!" is actually an acronym for the hero's seven magic abilities, which all derive from characters in Greek mythology. With one exception: the S stands for "the wisdom of Solomon." And really, that seems like it could come in handy more frequently than his other powers. I mean, you can't use the power of Zeus to make good investments in the stock market.
Defining Stories: The early Shazam! comics are hard to find nowadays, but Jeff Smith's miniseries Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil is a great modern introduction to the character.
Cultural legacy: Captain Marvel was incredibly popular in his heyday, becoming the subject of a movie serial. In some ways he's been overshadowed in recent decades, and unfairly maligned as a Superman clone. But it's hard to match the elemental appeal of Captain Marvel's boy-becoming-a-man origin. —DF
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Right now I have 20 sunflower seedlings that are about two weeks old, three pumpkin vines that are about one week old, and one raspberry plant that's dormant at present (bought at a nursery, but not sure if it's going to actually GROW). I mulched them today after carefully transplanting them all from their starter pots (I only lost four sunflowers and one pumpkin vine while moving them) and mulched around them to protect the soil from moisture loss. I watered them thoroughly before mulching and right now it's raining out. I had been watering the pumpkin once daily and the sunflowers two or three times a day before the mulch. How often do I need to water these plants now that they're mulched? |
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- Posted by Slimy_Okra 2b (My Page) on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 21:42
Mulching will obviously reduce water needs but how much depends on the type of mulch, its thickness, and your climate. Where do you live? watering 2-3 times a day is fine for Arizona but not Florida... |
How often to water will depend as much on the soil they are planted in as much as the mulch and how thick that mulch is. If the soil drains very quickly and does not have adequate amounts of organic matter, to help hold moisture, you may need to water daily, or more, but if the soil has adequate organic matter watering may only need be done once a week or so. Mulches too thin will not help soils retain moisture. I have often seen people plunk down an inch or less of mulch and then complain because then "mulches will not help hold moisture or suppress unwanted plant growth". Mulches need to be 2, 3, inches thick. |
I think a good gauge is that once your plants have established and are putting out new growth, see how long it takes you to get to that "wilty" look. That will give you an idea how much much moisture your mulched areas are retaining. At the same time, you could ignore all that and just water 1-2 times a week, to keep the plants from reaching a stressed and wilty state. Having said all that, I do notice that my transplanted plants that went to a mulched area need less frequent watering than the similar plants that were not mulched. This just goes to show what the mulch does, which we all know. But it also means that as I observe my plants in the two different areas, I will eventually get an idea of when to water or which area needs urgent water or not as urgent. |
- Posted by toxcrusadr 5 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 14 at 16:19
Use a left-handed moisture meter. |
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Immense, multi-story "log cabins." Pam and Jerry Hassebroek set out to break that mold when they conceived "Hassford Gulch," their gracious English manor house set on 2.2 acres in the Upper Gunnison Valley area near Crested Butte, Colorado. "We wanted to build a house that suited our tastes, not just another mountain house. People tell us that Hassford Gulch gives the appearance of having been here for a hundred years." The home's imposing design with its soaring windows and limestone walls certainly confirms that impression. A Mountain Setting, An English InspirationThe Hassebroeks and their two children had skied in Crested Butte and owned a condo there since 1982. But when Jerry retired from corporate life in August 2000, he says he was ready to think about the next big phase in his life. While Pam stayed in their hometown of Atlanta taking classes toward her Ph.D., Jerry drove to Crested Butte, "completely unsupervised," he jokes. "I've always been a frustrated architect. I even own a drawing table." Not surprisingly then, his "next phase" began around Thanksgiving with their purchase of a prime property, situated with breathtaking views, bordered by National Forest land, a glacial moraine berm, the Club at Crested Butte Golf Course, and generous amount of natural wild vegetation between their land and the adjacent lot. Inspired by the 19th century manor house of the 2001 Academy Award-winning movie Gosford Park, the couple set about recreating its elegance in a mountain setting. "We've traveled to England a half-dozen times and love all things English," says Jerry. Gosford Park became their reference point. "It lent itself to the architectural concepts that interested us most," Jerry says. Actually, the story of Hassford Gulch is as much about the many antique furnishings, acquired carefully and serendipitously, that went hand-in-hand with the construction of the house.Antiques Set the StyleThe main floor of the home, where Pam and Jerry spend most of their time, houses their favorite antiques. A beautiful antique carved oak mantel with a mansard top—a spontaneous purchase—became the focal point of the living room. "As the home was being designed, we were in the market for a living room mantel, but had no idea what we were looking for," says Pam. "In the process of a live auction, I walked over to look at an interesting mantel, gave Jerry an 'it might work' look, and two minutes later, Jerry had entered the winning bid. It became the anchor piece that defined the wood species, stain color, and trim profile for the interior rooms of the house. Sometimes you just get lucky." Although this particular mantel was bought on a whim, the Hassebroeks usually had arrived at auctions completely prepared. After all, Pam is an engineer, and Jerry, a systems analyst. Armed with spread sheets of preferred items previewed beforehand, all with target prices, they'd bid within their budget—except for the gorgeous carved walnut, glass-front buffet cabinet in the living room. They had been outbid on it, but a week later the winning bidders defaulted, and the auction house offered it to Pam and Jerry at the higher price. They jumped at the chance. Using its large measurements as a guide for calculating the ceiling height during the design of the second level, the buffet piece's top medallion now nestles precisely under the ceiling beam. It also provides a lovely balance to the mansard fireplace mantel (one of five in the house) across from it. "For us, purchasing antiques came as an evolution," says Pam. "I had inherited pieces from my mother's collections, which had been incorporated into our homes in the past." Find unique décor crafted to an estate size in our Indoor Furnishings collection. "As we shopped for furnishings, to make sure what we were purchasing would work at Hassford Gulch, we carried a 3-ring binder with us filled with photographs of the various rooms. Along with photos, we recorded dimensions of spaces, and a list of items to be on the watch for." Their pre-planning and organization has paid off beautifully. For example, prized auction finds fill the library and Jerry's office. The Library has an expansive oak and leather-topped English library table with six drawers (circa 1840); a dark oak bookcase with wild game carvings, probably German, and an oak server with barley-twist legs that echoes the twisting frame of the bookcase; an oak gothic-style fireplace mantel with simulated coals that glow red hot; and two walnut chairs from Italy with carved lion's-head arms and mauve fabric upholstery. In Jerry's office, an antique walnut glass-front bookcase acquired during construction required the architects to redesign and expand the ceiling height into attic space above to accommodate it. Antique carved ram's heads adorn the arms of leather side chairs; a French leather-topped cherry desk and walnut swivel chair once used by Pam's father fill the office with warmth and character. A personal expression of Pam and Jerry's tastes, their antiques exhibit eclecticism. Three antique Indian cooking pots were configured into a wash basin and bar sinks. A Chinese elm table was converted to a wash stand in the main powder room. In the Master Suite, a new chandelier from North Carolina was glazed to match wall sconces discovered in a Vermont antique store. Leading into the Master Sitting Room, teak doors with iron spikes and original painting from a Portuguese building constructed during the colonial occupation of India are most impressive. Also in the Master Suite are a small antique writing desk purchased early in their marriage, and a reconfigured rosewood bathroom vanity originally acquired to furnish their home while living in Taiwan. Throughout their Crested Butte home hang several oil paintings by their favorite contemporary English artist, Charles Neal. His pastoral landscapes remind Pam of the dairy farm where she grew up, and of their many trips to England—"especially the Cotswolds," she says. A Kitchen Fit for a CDOUpon retirement, Jerry adopted a new title for himself: CDO, or Chief Domestic Officer. "I've always been interested in cooking, so while Pam was hard at work on her Ph.D., I took over kitchen duties," he says. They equipped the kitchen with the best appliance and configuration to turn out delicious meals, whether for the two of them or for the fundraiser dinners they enjoy hosting for Crested Butte charities. A Wolf six-burner gas range-top with infrared grill, two Thermador conventional/convection ovens, Sub-Zero side-by-side refrigerator/freezer, a Kohler pasta/steam cook center, two food warming drawers and two ASKO dishwashers (a must for cleaning after large dinner parties) equip the kitchen for a gourmet chef. Their grill on the deck off the kitchen makes summer grill-outs a treat. |


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We turned our lovely Plus Size evening dress into a pretty, casual blouse. The original pattern was so big, it was only available to print at copy shop, but now, with this variation, we can print at home! Playing with the neckline and the center front skirt panels, there are so many possibilities for you with this pattern. We can't wait to see them.
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Feb 4, 2011, 03.38 AMby honorroll
ooh this would also work well as a maternity top. love!
Mar 17, 2010, 02.45 AMby lisar10
Awesome! This model looks like your average everyday girl.
Dec 25, 2008, 01.01 PMby ksaugustsson
I love this blouse with the peek a boo pink panel. I would wear this all the time, it looks comfy and flirty and it's just plain cute. Not everyone has a perfect body and that includes me and this blouse/top would allow me to feel at ease entertaining or just out on the town. Love it!
Sep 25, 2011, 09.06 AMby flowergirl22
hi,, I got over the fact that everyone is slimmer then me,, I have something they dont,, caracter, a smile, and I feel great inside, and not ashamed of my body,, i love this top,,
I made it in red,,
Oct 14, 2008, 01.53 PMby nolahellokitty
thanks! i definitely want to try this pattern.
Sep 28, 2008, 10.42 AMby benedikta
Hi Nehmah, I am sorry to hear…
Sep 25, 2008, 04.35 PMby nehmah
Hello Benedicta, Yup, and I am still strolling through the skirts, in order to list them. I'm late sorting. The Lord and Master had cataract surgery this week. Nehmah
Sep 25, 2008, 12.47 PMby benedikta
Just to make sure, you know that this is not the first plus size pattern, right?
Sep 24, 2008, 05.27 PMby lbeaglegirl
yeahh i really like this i wish it came in smaller sizes : /
Sep 24, 2008, 10.00 AMby dugs101
Thank you thank you thank you for adding a plus size pattern. I had almost given up hope…
Sep 24, 2008, 08.14 AMby jigdancer
Yay! Something pretty for those of us who are not a size 10! As Caterpiller Peacock said before me – grading is a pain. I see lots of ways to use my considerable stash on this top. Thanks!
Sep 24, 2008, 06.45 AMby benedikta
To everybody that wants to make this as a gown. This is the shortened version of the Francesca pattern, a gown!
No pattern work needed, just download it and you have your gown version. Best Benedikta
Sep 24, 2008, 06.10 AMby hcbouma
Again, no requested amount of fabric in METERS. :-( (thank you for adding….)
Sep 24, 2008, 05.15 AMby nehmah
This is a lovely pattern. I've looked at the layout and pattern pieces, and it can be lengthened to a long gown easily. Just keep the lines tidy ;) Nehmah
Sep 24, 2008, 12.16 AMby harlekin
Haaaa! That is excactly what i need for my mum. She already loves those pictures…just lovely!!
Sep 23, 2008, 11.16 PMby auntchelle
This will probably be my first BurdaStyle project. I didn't like it as a dress but I don't mind it as a top. Thanks for thinking of us more rounded sewers.
Sep 23, 2008, 07.33 PMby allygally
Oh, HOORAY! I downloaded this pattern this afternoon. It will be my first Burda project— I'm very excited. Thank you for including some plus sizes lately, it is MUCH appreciated, please keep them coming!
Sep 23, 2008, 06.07 PMby easilyamewsed
OMG! You read my mind! I'd wanted to do the dress, but never got around to it and was unsure because of how much fabric it'd need. The top is just a cool, and a good way to work up to the dress.
Sep 23, 2008, 05.22 PMby cuervito
Wow!!! I absolutely love it! - and in my size!! YAY!! downloading
Sep 23, 2008, 03.19 PMby jillybean0216
I have yet to sew anything for myself. But I think I'm definately going to give this a go…it's lovely! Time to graduate from kids clothes to adult things.
Sep 23, 2008, 02.20 PMby zanthess
Love it! Pattern has been added to my "to sew" list!
Sep 23, 2008, 02.18 PMby caterpillarpeacock
I LOVE this shirt. I think that I might make it into a pretty dress as well. So nice to see that the bigger girls are getting options. grading is a pain, these new plus size patterns are so totally awesome and time saving :D
Sep 23, 2008, 02.16 PMby mcloughlinsarah
this is beautiful. awesome for the bigger girls :)
Sep 23, 2008, 01.58 PMby sharonl
Thank you so much for giving us bigger gals something beautiful!
Sep 23, 2008, 01.27 PMby camilaustral
is so pretty!! does it comes in small sizes? =P
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The Russh Magazine Shake Break Bounce editorial puts model Laura Mullen in motion. Mullen is featured while jumping in each shot, captured here by photographer Andrew Vowles for the April/May 2013 issue of the magazine.
Stylist Hanna Kelifa matched these mid-air snapshots with a series of 90s-inspired ensembles. This theme came through the thin see through dresses, skinny straps, animal patterns and a series of tight, sleek looks. Make up expert Zoe Taylor paired Kelifa's assortment of dark blue, black and grey apparel with similarly muted cosmetics. This was apparent in each image as Mullen sported deep blue eye shadow, dark red lipstick and penciled in eyebrows, channeling appearances that are commonly tied to the decade.


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Above, 'The Power of Love,' artwork created after 9/11 by Soobin Lim, age 13, from the book 'The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11.' 'When the World Trade Center was destroyed, many people started to cooperate more than ever before,' Lim wrote. 'I drew people's hands working and loving one another.'
Ten years have passed since the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Besides the attacks' large-scale impact on issues ranging from the infrastructure of downtown Manhattan to national security, perhaps their most heartrending effects were felt on a much more intimate, personal scale. As a leader in the care of children and families, the NYU Child Study Center was on the frontlines in the days, weeks, and years following the attacks, providing counseling, mental health programs, outreach, and education, and helping kids and parents with the delicate, difficult work of recovering from that day's deeply traumatic events.
Dr. Marylene Cloitre, former director of the CSC's Trauma Institute, was a leader in the CSC's response to 9/11. She now serves as the associate director of research at the National Center for PTSD at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care Service in California and is an adjunct professor at NYU Langone Medical Center. She spoke with the staff of AboutOurKids.org about the CSC's role in helping to heal the families affected by the events of September 11, 2001.
AOK: How did the Child Study Center initially become involved with the 9/11 recovery efforts?
Dr. Cloitre: Within the first few days after the attacks, a core group of Child Study Center educators and trauma specialists were able to assemble a 65-page document for parents, teachers, and mental health providers about what to expect in regard to psychological reactions that they or their children might experience in response to the tragedy and best how to deal with them.
What was remarkable was how quickly the document was put together, how accurate the information was, and also how well disseminated it was through both the Internet and hard copies. Most people were reeling from the shock and feeling very disorganized . The document was called "Caring for Kids After Trauma and Death." It became a template, even on a national level, for organizing education and outreach information around these kinds of tragedies. Over the years, we have revised and updated the information. It's an excellent guide for families, schools, mental health providers and others who work with children about managing trauma and loss.
AOK: How was the CSC able to disseminate the manual quickly during a time like this?
Dr. Cloitre: The Child Study Center already had relationships with most of the public schools and the school chancellor at that time, so the distribution of the guide came through the highest level. In addition, several psychologists at the CSC were already in place in the schools as mental health consultants before 9/11 happened. The Child Study Center also had a pre-existing organization that involved the leadership of the private schools in New York City, which met monthly, just to discuss adolescent and child development, including mental health issues. The CSC was guided at that time by the observation that schools are where children live. So if we wanted to engage in education, outreach and intervention as needed, schools were where we needed to be.
So, given this set of relationships, the CSC was in a good position to be able to respond quickly once the tragedy occurred, and it took three things. As in all disasters, the immediate response begins by relying on established relationships and pathways of communication, and it builds from there. The CSC was very fortunate to have that network of relationships with both the public and private school systems through which we could provide information and help.
The second resource was having a core group of trauma specialists and educators at the Child Study Center who could work well together. I was on the faculty at Weill-Cornell Medical School when 9/11 happened but was brought in by the CSC shortly after to organize and build various programs in response to the tragedy. We had a critical mass of clinicians and educators with expertise in trauma. You need to have experts in place who know what they're talking about and who know how to work with varying populations and systems, and people with different concerns.
The third resource was a lot of energy, focus, and commitment, and the CSC staff had that in abundance.
AOK: Responding to a tragedy of this magnitude seems overwhelming—after the manual, where did you begin?
Dr. Cloitre: It was a huge event, but there was a strong sense of urgency and need to respond. There was a rush of support, from the community, from the local and federal government, and from philanthropic organizations. Given the financial and other material resources available, we were able to focus on organizing outreach, education and intervention programs, developing them, and training other organizations to implement similar programs. That was a massive effort that went on for about five years. We organized the programs around specific communities as well as healthcare systems that would be supporting populations affected by 9/11. We worked directly with families affected by the attacks, along with schools, mental health agencies and primary care and hospital services.
AOK: As a clinician you were already very experienced in working with victims of traumatic stress. What are some of the most striking things you observed in working with 9/11 families?
Dr. Cloitre: In the CSC's School-Based Resiliency Program, for instance, we provided outreach and education to parents, teachers, and principals. Parents were very concerned about how to take care of their children. But teachers and principals—in fact, all the adults we were working with—had been exposed to this trauma. So we were working with traumatized adults who were worried about how to take care of their traumatized children. In effect, we had two jobs. The first was really soothing the adults, so that they were able to take care of the children. The second part was then teaching the adults how to care for children in the wake of a trauma. We had a mantra, which is actually an old mantra, from World War II: The children are only as good as the adults.
We understood that the point of intervention was not really the child. It was the adults, who were the children's source of safety.
The most profound observation I had when I worked with these families was that the source of resilience and capacity for going forward was often the children, not the adults—which is amazing. It was often the children who were more accepting of what had happened. Maybe part of the reason was that the children didn't know what was in front of them—they can't forecast the future in the way that adults can and do. But I saw a lot of parents who gained strength from the optimism, acceptance, and curiosity that their children had about what had happened, their desire to make sense of it, and their belief that they could go forward.
AOK: Were any of the programs developed by the CSC designed to address these differences in how adults and children responded?
Dr. Cloitre: We noticed that in the CSC's Child and Family Services program set up especially for 9/11 families, very few of the adults, especially the mothers who were bereaved, wanted to acknowledge that they had PTSD symptoms. It was partly the community we were working with, which was primarily firefighters and uniformed services people. As a help-giving community, they didn't think of themselves as needing help. But they would come in saying they were having difficulty parenting, partly because now they didn't have a partner to share the work with, and they had to take on both mother and father roles. They also didn't know how to respond to their children's grief and questions about death.
It was very clear to us that the parents were having difficulty parenting in part because they had PTSD symptoms. They were irritable. They were alternating between being hyper-vigilant and overly protective and being socially withdrawn, depressed and unengaged with their children. But we realized over time that providing programs focused on the parents' PTSD was not a strategy that effectively engaged 9/11 families. They really were focused on their children and being good parents.
So we began providing parenting programs and workshops. We did this in collaboration with Tuesday's Children, for about for 5 years, from 2004 to 2009. We integrated information about how parents could manage their own irritability and social withdrawal. We also tried to give parents permission, especially mothers, to think about themselves and their own health, as a means of being a better parent. We introduced them to the saying that the child is only as good as the adult.
AOK: What were some of the other programs developed by the CSC to help families cope and recover?
Dr. Cloitre: My favorite was the School-Based Resiliency Program, and my favorite part of that program was called Life Stories, a project we developed in collaboration with Columbia University's Oral History Program. We partnered with three different schools in Chinatown, and working with teachers in English and health classes, the children conducted interviews with people who'd experienced traumas and gotten past them. The participants were people who lived in the Chinatown community who volunteered to share their stories: a holocaust survivor, a firefighter, a gang leader who'd left gang life, who had seen a lot of death. The kids interviewed them and reported on what they had learned. Later, they created pictures and told stories, their own or others', about 9/11: what had happened to them, and how they were managing in their recovery.
It was a wonderful project, there were about 400 students involved. Their work went up in an exhibit at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).
Another really important project was our Pediatric Outreach Campaign. We developed and sent written documentation, flyers for parents and children, flyers for pediatricians, as well as CDs that provided continuing education credits for physicians. The materials focused on how to recognize the physical as well as psychological symptoms of trauma in children at various ages or developmental periods. We provided example scripts and case scenarios for pediatricians about how to talk with patients and their parents about 9/11, which family doctors might not otherwise have been prepared to do. This program reached more than 3000 pediatricians in the local New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area. While it was initiated because of 9/11, it provided a long term benefit in terms of educating pediatricians about how to see something right in front of them that they might not otherwise have paid attention to—what's this headache-stomachache-anxiety-nervousness about? It provided an opportunity for physicians to become better clinicians by talking to families and children about their reactions to trauma and stress.
AOK: Can you give some specific examples of success stories among individual families or children, or cases that stand out?
Dr. Cloitre: A good example of the general phenomenon of the resilience of children that I've mentioned, was a therapy case of a mother and an adolescent boy who had lost his father. Part of his therapy was writing a narrative about his dad, not only about his father's death and how he found out about it but what he loved about his dad and what he missed. The narrative is a memorial to his father. It keeps the memory of his father alive and keeps his relationship to his father alive as well, through his remembrances.
The second step in this part of the therapy was for the adolescent to share this story with his mother. She was prepared by the therapist in advance, and she had completed her own narrative about her relationship with her husband. But this particular step was an opportunity for the parent and child to share their feelings and observations about the loss, and ideally increase their sense of connection and bond.
The adolescent was willing to read his narrative to his mom on two conditions; first, that she not interrupt him, and second, that she not cry.
These conditions were so telling of his developmental stage. He was a teenager, and he wanted to tell his story his own way, independent of his mother. Secondly, the fact that he didn't want his mother to cry represents something I often saw, which was that children did not want to be a source of pain to their parents.
Bereaved children would say, I can manage my own pain, I can manage what's happened in our family. But they did not want to bring up things that would hurt or burden their parent. Children often felt a deep, deep responsibility not to create pain for their remaining parent, and probably underneath this was a wish and hope that their remaining parent was going to be strong and healthy. Again, part of our goal at the CSC was in fact to increase resilience and health in parents so that they could be a positive presence for their children. If the parents were okay, their kids were going to be okay, and again, the kids were usually more okay than their parents were, for sure.
AOK: What are some other things we can all learn from the families who experienced this firsthand?
Dr. Cloitre: A really important message that 9/11 helped us disseminate is that resilience is the natural human condition, and there are ways in which we can build it and grow it in our children and in ourselves.
The most important component of building or maintaining resilience is providing opportunities for people experiencing trauma to have a sense of empowerment or mastery. Sometimes that can be as simple as having them tell their story. Other times it becomes more involved and people build institutes or they write books, or they develop programs or they advocate for changes in laws, or they build better defense systems to keep events like 9/11 from happening again.
Another lesson of 9/11 is how important it is for people who have been traumatized to feel supported, either by those close to them or by their community. The concept of social bonds and social support really came to the fore in my mind watching people recover from 9/11. As a clinician I observed that the people who did best, who recovered most quickly, were those who had support, from their family or their community. This idea is backed up by quite a lot of research. Social support is the single most protective factor in keeping people from developing mental health problems in the wake of a trauma and in facilitating their recovery.
Particularly among the bereaved, those who did well were people who had help with simple but necessary tasks following the death or deaths of their loved ones—help making meals, filling out insurance forms, getting kids dressed and out the door in the morning. Many people came to us who were not directly affected but whose loved ones were, and they asked, what do I do? How do I show support? Often it's not doing any particular thing, but just telling their loved ones, "I'm here from you, tell me what you need." Different people need different things and it depends on their personality and their circumstance.
Sometimes, giving support can backfire. Some parents in our programs would say they were overwhelmed by all the support. They had too many lasagna plates and teddy bears at their door. It's always best to ask how to help rather than assuming to know what's best for the person. Practically speaking, if you don't know the person who has been affected that well, ask people who do know them: What can I do?
AOK: What advice do you have for families if they're still struggling with this, 10 years later?
Dr. Cloitre: I'm sure there are families still struggling. This was a huge event that changed many people's lives and the lives and the organization of many families. Some of the lucky ones just stumble into the realization that some good can come out of something terrible. That is a key element of trauma recovery in the long run.
For people who are still suffering I think the message is twofold. One is that over time it's necessary to accept that these events have happened in order for recovery to proceed. Secondly, it is necessary to make the effort to find something meaningful and positive about what has happened. Some people just happen upon this, they observe it, they feel it. For others it's much more of a struggle, task or challenge. But I think ultimately it's a requirement for recovery, that people create some positive meaning from the event.
In the research community, there has been an interesting debate about whether there is this thing called post traumatic growth. Some have framed the discussion in either/or terms: Are things worse or better after a trauma? The answer isn't one or the other. Both things happen. By definition, trauma results in changes that that are not good, and that are irrevocable. But alongside these changes are opportunities for growth. I think recovery from trauma means being able to purposefully engage in a search for growth, along with acknowledging the negative consequences.


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MEDFORD, Ore. – In a bizarre scene in Medford, a feral cat fell through a family's ceiling, then attacked the family and responding police officers.
Medford Police said the family on West 11th Street was surprised when a feral cat somehow got into their house, then fell through the ceiling and into a room Tuesday night. The cat became aggressive, and began racing around the house, trying to claw and bite the family members.
The homeowner brought out his .22-caliber pistol and tried to shoot the cat, then flagged down nearby officers to help remove the animal, but the cat wasn't dead, and tried to attack the officers before escaping outside. No one was hit by the gunshots, and no one was seriously hurt by the cat.
The Medford Animal Hospital said feral cats can be very aggressive toward people and veterinarians recommend people stay away from the animals. They said if a feral cat does get inside your home, try to give the animal a way outside, but if it doesn't leave, call animal control officers or shelters. Avoid touching the cat, because it could carry diseases.


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Fr. Pfleger: Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lives On
A day ahead of the federal holiday in his name, parishioners at St. Sabina Church celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday.
SW Michigan Nuclear Plant Reports Oil Leaked Into Lake Michigan For Two Months
Federal regulators are being told that oil has been seeping into Lake Michigan from a Michigan nuclear power plant for more than two months, reports WBBM's John Waelti.
Gov. Quinn Grants Clemency To Three Abolitionists
Governor Quinn has added three more names to his clemency list, men convicted of what were then crimes more than 170 years ago.
Old Industrial Site On Lake Calumet To Become Nature Preserve, Bike Park
The centerpiece of what will be known as Big Marsh Eco-Park will be a 45-acre mountain bike park; including a single-track trail, a dual slalom course, a dirt jump trail, a pump track, a cyclocross course, a short-track course, a gravity flow trail, a slope-style course, and a bicycle skills area.
Cyclists Celebrate Chicago Bike Week At Daley Plaza
The Bike To Work Rally is the culmination of Chicago Bike Week, a weeklong series of activities to promote bicycle commuting.
Search Party Organized To Look For Missing Lake Villa Man
The search continues for a Lake Villa man missing for more than 2 weeks.
State Police Probe Death Of Elderly Man Shot By Cops
Illinois State Police have launched an investigation into why police in Park Forest shot a 95-year-old man with a bean bag round, leading to the man's death.
LGBT Sports Hall Of Fame To Open In Chicago
It's the first hall of fame – at least on a national scale – to recognize LGBT athletes and their supporters.
Parents Protest School Budget Cuts, Seek State Audit Of CPS Budget
Claiming the move to close 49 elementary schools won't save any money, opponents of the Emanuel administration's plans protested outside CPS headquarters on Monday, asking state leaders to step in.
Study: 20 To 30 Percent Of CPS Students Rarely Use Technology In School
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City On Pace To Fill 100,000 Potholes This Month
"It's perfect pothole growing season, as we like to say around here," Chicago Department of Transportation spokesman Pete Scales said.
Early Bird Passes For Lollapalooza Sold Out
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Chicago's Oldest Pet Store Stops Selling Dogs From Puppy Mills
Chicago's oldest pet store has decided to make some big changes.
Topinka: Pension Bill Has Promise
It's being hailed as one of the most workable solutions to the state's $95 billion dollar pension mess, and it could get a vote this week.
Female Firefighters Honored At Thompson Center
One by one they were called out, 14 firefighters, all of them women. During this, women's History Month, State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka homered them for climbing the ranks.
Families Celebrate At South Side Irish Parade
As the bagpipes, marching bands and fire trucks rolled down Western Avenue, the biggest crowds were near the start of the route at 103rd and Western.
Protesters March For Adult Trauma Center At U Of C
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Chicago Flower Business Gears Up For Valentines Day
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Pastor Finishes Cross-Country Walk To Raise Money For Community Center
A South Side pastor has completed his cross-country fundraising walk, and has returned to Chicago.


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So I just installed a Cobb turboback on my 04 Subaru WRX, and everything went well aside from a few rusty bolts. However, there seems to be a small exhaust leak between the down and mid pipes.
The stock donut gasket was un reusable so I ended up buying a new donut gasket from advanced auto parts for like $2. Cobb specifically says that you use the donut and does not mention using a full 3" flange gasket.
From what I have read so far, the Cobb downpipe it is meant to use a donut gasket due to its easy application to the stock cat-back. I would of course think that because I bought a turboback exhaust system the Cobb midpipe and downpipe should mate easily using a donut gasket as well. However, due to the exhaust leak I am starting to wonder..
Has anyone else out there had this problem? If so do you have any solutions or ideas on how I can fix this exhaust leak? Perhaps a bigger donut gasket? Perhaps using a 3" flange gasket will work properly? Perhaps avoid buying $2 gaskets? I have heard that putting anti seize on the gasket will help it bond better, not sure on that one though..
I don't have any pictures right now so I am sorry about that, and will work on taking one or two at some point here.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


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I am not easily impressed.
Like most of you, I get my fair share of forwarded emails with jokes, inspirational thoughts or stories, and/or prayer requests. Fortunately, I don't get too many. More often than not, I find the jokes to be barely funny (if at all) and the "inspirational" stories to be...well, less than inspirational. I especially hate it when a forwarded email tries to make me feel guilty if I don't forward it on to ten more people. Call me jaded; call me a scrooge--perhaps you would be right.
I have a friend at another parish who likes to forward me links to video clips on YouTube and elsewhere. Unlike the stories and jokes, and chain letters I get from others, the videos are normally pretty good. Even still, they don't normally make that much of an impression on me.
So yesterday, when she sent me a link to another video, I thought, "Well, I had better watch it, just to be nice." (Missy, if you're reading this, please forgive me, and do keep sending the links!) I was in no way prepared for what I saw. It was perhaps the most powerful short video I have ever seen. After watching it, this stoic was in tears! I called Jennifer and said, "You have GOT to watch this!" This time, both of us were in tears. In fact, I cried even more the second time! To say that this video is inspirational would be a gross understatement.
But now I will quit blabbing and set the stage. (Full disclosure: the following intro was in the email I received. I don't know who wrote it, only that it wasn't me. But I will expand it just a bit.)
The story:
A son asked his father, "Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?" The father who, despite having a heart condition [and never having run a race before --FJE], says "Yes." They went on to complete the marathon together.
Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying "Yes" to his son's request of going through the race together. One day, the son asked his father, "Dad, let's join the Ironman together." To which, his father said "Yes." For those who don't know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer), an ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180 .2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island. [Sounds pretty easy, right? -- FJE] Father and son went on to complete the race together.
This video gives us (at least in my humble opinion) a powerful illustration of God's love for us and the lengths He goes to for us. Now, go grab a hankie or some Kleenexes.
Are you back? Good! Roll film. Enjoy! (The video is only about 4 minutes long)


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Prices varied from $0.067 per kWh in Seattle to $0.175 in New York City and the initial installed cost of solar power. The default assumptions are: Electricity inflation of 2% per year Solar cost decrease of 7% per year Solar cost decreases steadily Texas utility Austin Energy is going to be paying 5 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar power Kadison suggests that "one of the biggest cost reduction drivers that allowed solar to reach this parity came from the massive reduction in financing costs." But THiNKnrg, an energy project developer, was able to provide the center with a 50 percent discount and close a deal with a twenty-year solar PPA price at 4 cents per kilowatt-hour. This is a relatively small project — it comprises 398 kilowatts spread While the average cost of grid-delivered wholesale electricity in many parts of the country is low (four cents per kWh), a new report lists many ways that distributed solar adds value beyond electrons [PDF]. Distributed solar power provides electricity on it was 6.1¢ per kWh. I'm sure there are many more stories like these. The costs for many projects aren't often revealed publicly. Notably, however, those two examples above are for large solar power plants. Still, in Q1 of 2013, US residential solar Solar energy is an incredible resource This could mean a price of net electrical storage capacity from the system for less than $100 per kWh, which is just a fraction of the cost of a battery storage system. Their storage method looks very promising .
The National Renewable Energy Board (NREB s proposal to hike the installation target for solar developments. "Assuming an average capacity factor of 50% and the high FIT-Allowance of P0.10 per kilowatt hour (kWh), the resulting FIT support for At this rate, and not including large scale renewable energy certificates, the LCOE of rooftop solar is 14.1c/kWh the value of solar is now below 10c/kWh. To get the subsidy free price would require adding about 30 per cent back into the cost. Many frequently wonder: what is the cost to the taxpayer/ratepayer of the various benefits (federal, state, utility) bestowed on renewable energy projects, and is there a more cost-effective way to support these fledgling technologies? Also, how do U.S than the average price of electricity in the U.S., which is about 12 cents per kWh, according to the Energy Information Administration. The trend toward low-cost solar power is nowhere near at an end. The new announcement came with word of yet another .


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Arlene Kolakovich
Kolakovich, Arlene Janet 62, longtime resident of Elkhart, passed away on Friday, August 30, 2013 (her birthday) at Hygeia Hospital in Athens, Greece, of a heart attack she suffered while on vacation. Arlene was born on August 30, 1951 in Gary, Indiana to the late John and Jane Victoria (Lazar) Zambory. She married Thomas M. Kolakovich on September 4, 1971 at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame. Their marriage flourished for nearly 42 years. Her husband Tom survives her along with their three children, Kathleen Kolakovich Eggleson, Ph.D. (Kathy) of Granger, Christopher T. Kolakovich (Chris, and wife Sara (Cavanaugh) Kolakovich) of Elkhart and Amy Lynn Kloska (Amy, and husband Jeff) of Granger. She is also survived by her eight grandchildren ranging in age from 12 years to twins of 6 months: Sophia "Sophie", Oscar, Evan, Abraham "Abe", Callum "Cal", Vivian, Camille, and Chloe. Her sister, Mary Gutmann of Ft. Wayne, and brother, John Zambory (Johnny, and wife Cyndi) of Texas, survive as well. Arlene's life was one of service to others, a manifestation of her commitment to faith and family. She met Tom when they were students at Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana. She continued her education for two years in Elementary Education at
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. After Arlene and Tom wed, she turned her focus to welcoming and raising children and was a steadfast support to Tom through his medical education and service to the U.S. Navy. After her husband was firmly established at Family Practice Associates, and her 17 years as a stay-at-home mother had seen her youngest child enter into late elementary school, she set out to finish her Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education with great determination. She concurrently excelled as wife, mother, and student, maintained Dean's List GPAs and completed her B.A. in Elementary Education from
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South Bend in 1990. She served the children enrolled in Elkhart Community Schools for nearly 17 years, teaching multiple grades at Roosevelt, Beardsley, and Osolo Elementary Schools. She was a certified Reading Recovery Specialist and had a strong concern for childhood literacy and appreciation for children's literature. At the time of her death she intended to co-author a children's book with her sister Mary. Arlene was an active member of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, where she was involved as a Lector and member of the Altar and Rosary Society. In her retirement, she served Saint Thomas School, where her son Chris is the Principal, as a substitute teacher. Arlene had many interests, including flower gardening, collecting antiques, and crafting with various media. She was highly involved with and devoted to her grandchildren, who brought her much joy. She lived with passion and positivity, in faith, for others. She will be greatly missed by family, friends, and countless others whose lives she touched. Please join with her family on Monday, September 9, 2013 from 3-8 p.m. at Billings Funeral Home, 812 Baldwin St., Elkhart, for a time of sharing and remembering. A parish Rosary will be prayed beginning at 7:30 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 am with calling for 1 hour prior on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1405 N. Main St., Elkhart. The Reverend Jason Freiburger will officiate. In accordance with her wishes, cremation will follow. In lieu of flowers, Arlene's family kindly requests memorials be made to Hannah's House, 518 W. 4th St. Mishawaka, IN 46544 or St. Vincent de Paul Society, 520 Crescent Ave., South Bend, IN 46617. To share a memory or condolence to Arlene's family, please visit
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Holmberg K et al. – This study indicates a strong association between a teacher's report of a score >10 on the Conners scale in first grade and pervasive attention–deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in grade four, while parental reports were less predictive.
Methods- The study population consisted of 422 first graders (6- to 7-year-olds) in one municipality in Stockholm County who were screened with Conners 10-item scale and followed up by ADHD assessment in grade four.
- Sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, and positive predictive value (PPV) of the screening by parents and teachers in first grade for being diagnosed with ADHD in fourth grade were calculated.
- The prevalence of pervasive and situational ADHD was 5.7% and 5.9% respectively.
- A score >10 on the Conners scale in first grade in teachers' reports identified 63% [95% confidence interval (CI): 43–79] of children diagnosed with pervasive ADHD in grade four (P < 0.001) with a PPV of 29% and a positive likelihood ratio (LR+) of 6.72.
- Parental reports of a score >10 yielded a lower sensitivity (29%; 95% CI: 15–49), PPV of 20% and LR+ of 4.24 for pervasive ADHD.
- The best predictor was a combination of parent and teacher scores >10 with a PPV of 50% and LR+ of 16.63.
- Associations with situational ADHD were weak with LR+ of 1.81 and 2.49, respectively, for teachers' and parental scores >10.