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Christmas Decorating Ideas: The Tree
There is something special about trees decked with all sorts of family mementos and ornaments from Christmases past, but sometimes a mishmash of ornaments can get overwhelming. So instead, think about coming up with a theme for your tree.
Whether it be a particular color, pattern, or something sentimental, focusing on one element can keep tree-trimming simplified. For example, this family's tree is decked out for their favorite football team, the Dallas Cowboys. It's done up in blue and silver with a mini-helmet as the tree topper.
What are your favorite Christmas decorating ideas?
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by Aaron Wilson
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The New England Patriots retained tight end Michael Hoomanawanui with a two-year contract, according to a league source.
He caught 12 passes for 136 yards and one touchdown last season in 10 starts.
The 6-foot-4, 260-pounder has 37 career receptions for 374 yards and four touchdowns.
He's regarded as a strong blocker and a good all-around tight end for a team that's constantly dealing with injuries with star tight end Rob Gronkowski.
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Posted onThe Coast Guard called off a search in Massachusetts Bay for the 45-foot scalloping boat Foxy Lady II and its crew of two about 6 p.m. Wednesday, ending the effort to find the vessel and its two crewmembers.
Surviving family members say the Coast Guard personally informed them that the 25-year-old captain and his 50-year-old crewman are presumed to have been lost at sea.
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sat, Sep 25, 10 at 7:12
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- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sat, Sep 25, 10 at 19:26
I'm thinking that I should explain the quote of the day. I'm also thinking that if I have to explain a quote, it probably is not a universal quote, where most people can relate to the quote. I was wondering how a human being could be a talking stick. As far as I can tell,is that-- Chakotay, "Talking Stick" quote is from Star Wars. |
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sat, Sep 25, 10 at 20:04
BTW,I see that "Star Wars" in my post is a live link. I did not put it there. From what I can tell, it's part of an ad campaign at ivillage. |
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That sure proves to me I don't know much about "Star Wars"! I thought it was a quote from some ancient Indian chief! |
- Posted by endorphinjunkie z7bAlabama (My Page) on Sun, Sep 26, 10 at 17:55
Methinks it's from Star Trek: Voyage. I reckon it's easy to mix up the different sci fi icons. Unless one is a sci fi junkie.... |
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sun, Sep 26, 10 at 19:44
I like the quote by itself. I also thought it was a saying from a native american. Because the Talking Stick is a native american tool when they hold meetings. And the operating word here is "tool". However, when I looked further I saw that it was a character from Star Wars. I don't know much of anything about sci fi, either. |
- Posted by sara_the_brit_z6_ct (My Page) on Sun, Sep 26, 10 at 20:08
I always thought the Talking Stick was a native american thing: whoever is holding the stick may talk, and everyone else must listen. Then the stick is passed to someone else, who may talk and everyone else must listen. |
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Sun, Sep 26, 10 at 20:16
sara_the_brit_, that's exactly what I thought too. But somehow the sci fi, people changed it into a person "character". I'm trying to figure it out. |
The "Talking Stick" might be a perfect solution for many conversations, don't you think? Most of them, in fact! |
- Posted by west_gardener (My Page) on Mon, Sep 27, 10 at 20:16
OK, I've looked into it, and it does seem to be from the Voyager. Not Star Wars. |
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I built a large privacy planter in my front yard. I used PT wood and the bottom's are exposed earth. I thought it would be a good idea to line the inside with 6 MIL clear plastic. I covered on the interior walls and left the bottom open earth. My thinking is that the plastic will prolong the life of the wood by keeping the wet soil away from the wood. However, I am noticing that moisture is building up between the plastic and the wood - it gets sun all day long. Have I made a mistake? FYI - I tend to overbuild and over-engineer everything...and I enjoy every second of it. |
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I've never seen anything like this. How does it work with plants? Do you fill that whole thing up with soil to the top? Half way? It reminds me of the perimeter kill zone at a penitentiary where the SUVs and dobermans patrol. |
I think lining the inside with plastic is effective to help preserve the wood on your raised bed. With no measurements given it is difficult to comment on the basic construction. Al |
It is a good idea to help keep moisture in the planter. Those types of raised bed can get very dry very quickly if you live in an arid environment. I'm seeing a much bigger problem though. It looks like you didn't treat the cut ends of the pressure treated lumber. They'll just rot from the inside out that way. |
Is there such thing as a plant/soil friendly sealant/protectant that can be applied to the wood planters and containers Something non toxic that can prolong the life of the wood? |
- Posted by christine1950 5a (My Page) on Tue, Jan 28, 14 at 14:08
Being that your in Ca. your planter box should last you a few years before the moisture builds up and starts to cause you some problems due to the lack of flowing air. |
oxboy, it depends on how friendly you want it. The current Copper ones aren't that bad. The safest and most effective non-metal based treatment is probably acetalated. |
Welll, It is not just the wet/moist soil that you are concerned with. The moisture (from air, rain, condensation) trapped under the plastic is just as much harmful to the wood. I would remove the exposed plastic( use a utility knife). BTW: The PT wood will have enough preservative against rotting for a long time. I use cedar lumber which also more durable than untreated pine. |
- Posted by UncleGarage (My Page) on Mon, Mar 10, 14 at 16:23
Thanks everyone for your replies. @ NIL13 - thanks for your comment on the exposed, cut PT. There is no soil at that level and I am putting a top cap on the planter so I think I'll be ok. Here is photo of the planter populated with ficus. |
Cap is excellent idea - I had build something similar (as tall as yours, just not so long) few years ago. It worked great, but I didn't put cap on immediately and water was getting into the wood and was sitting on top. If you could slope it few degrees toward outside to drain fast, even better...sorry for 'lecturing', you probably know that already. Rina |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Mon, Mar 10, 14 at 17:31
I built some beds for my brother last season, and we lined them the same way...to keep chemicals out of the soil. We do need to add a cap, still. Josh |
Josh, yours look like 'better' wood, is it cedar? or? Maybe because mine were that tall, I found water sitting on top for too long and then running down the rest of the boards. And, forgot to mention, I used 2x4 - so much thicker. I did have some extra stakes/supports just like in uncle's photo, that had exposed cuts. Cap also made it look very finished, I was also using in front right by the driveway. Rina |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Mon, Mar 10, 14 at 20:06
Rina, that's just the "red" pressure treated color, made to look like better wood. The wood was 2X12 pressure treated. Josh |
Wood generally in southern california is damaged faster by uv rays than by rot because it's so sunny and dry here. you don't usually see a planter of that type made from wood because wood doesn't last all that long, compared to say masonry. I'd be more concerned about what you planted in there. Those ficus are genetically pre-determined to want to be a 50 foot tree with a root system to match. They are going to want to bust out of there pretty quick, even if you keep them cut back. |
- Posted by Beach_bums 8a (My Page) on Tue, Mar 11, 14 at 19:32
If your planter faces south the soil temps may get too high. In the dark ages we coated the wood inside planters exposed to moisture with asphalt. It was both organic and eventually, biodegradable. Plastic tends to encourage condensation between the plastic and the wood unless it's glued directly to the wood. |
- Posted by Bluemyrtle45 5-6 (My Page) on Sun, Sep 14, 14 at 21:30
Did that at the cottage years ago. Took 15+ years for some of the 4x4's to show enough signs of rot to replace sections of them. Used heavy plastic to line. Recently had a 5' concrete retaining wall dug down to footing as water was escaping and eroding the front lawn. They used water proofing membrane that has nubbins on it to stand off of the wall. Am embarking on doing a raised planter and will use the same material. Will allow enough of an airspace hopefully to avoid replacing any wood for years to come. Always something new or something new to learn. |
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Re: Cities Turning to Bicycles
In article <email@example.com>, Frank Krygowski wrote:> Brent P wrote:
>> In article <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>Brent P wrote:
>>>>I would suggest Frank ride his bicycle through a decreasing radius turn
>>>>that wasn't visable until he was in it such that it forced him to brake
>>>>hard. This would probably be the best lesson as to why this sort of
>>>>design should be avoided. Braking while turning is as ill-advised on a
>>>>bicycle as it is driving. Probably more so.
>>>Almost every time I make a turn on the bike, it's done with a decreasing
>>>radius, and with braking while in the turn! This is normal for a bicycle!
>>>Sheesh. Newbies!
>> Not braking by coasting frank. braking with the brakes. Coasting is
>> normal on the road, not squeezing the hand brakes.
> Yes, braking with the brakes, Brent. While in a curve. Every day.
> It's quite normal.
Not surprising given your other foolishness. It also shows that you
likely putter along at sidewalk speeds. At the road speeds I ride
braking in a turn on a bicycle begins to overtax the avialable traction.
A bicycle like any other vehicle has a finite amount of traction. It can
be used for braking, accelerating, or turning and any combination there
of. This is why it is proper form to brake before entering the turn. I
brake to the speed I can take the turn at, remain at that speed or coast
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Anyone who plays a Priest, Paladin, Druid, and Shaman (for starters!) and has to PUG frequently for instances knows the pain of this scenario - ".... LF1M - Just need Healer (or tank) then G2G". Dual spec would so beautifully solve this problem of getting into a well configured group for levelling in instances.
Same thing could be said for other classes too:
- Warrior - leveling as Fury (or Arms), but instance group needs a Prot tank
- Paladin - leveling as Ret, group needs a Prot tank (or healer as noted above)
- Feral Druid - leveling mostly as kitty dmg, need to slightly respec for bear tanking (or healer, again, see above).
- Hunter - leveling as BM with an exotic pet, group may need a tanking tenacity pet with the hunter moving to Survival for the most DPS (currently).
- Locks - leveling as Demonology so you have a tanking minion, but want to do instance as Destro (or Afflic)
- Even Rogues and DKs might want a different approach in an instance vs. leveling; leveling as Subtlety/instance as Combat;
Death Knights might be spec'ed for dps, but the instance group needs a tank.
There are myriads of examples where Dual-spec could make the levelling to 80 process SO much more enjoyable and flexible. It's just so asinine to make this a max-level 80-only feature.
I implore EVERYBODY who isn't level 80 and agrees that this feature should be made available to everybody to go on the official forums in response and make it clear that THIS MUST BE CHANGED FOR FINAL RELEASE in 3.1.
Sorry for sounding rant'ish, but I just about put my fist through my monitor when I read this.


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Final report available below
Region: North West
The project will provide a set of services to partner institutions to allow pre-HE and other students to discover learning packages offered by learning provider institutions, register on courses and access resources. The learning packages offered will be chosen to enhance the students' knowledge of or preparedness for Higher Education courses. Services will also be made available to support students including placing outcomes for each student in a "progress file" which could later form the basis for an e-portfolio. Students will use PDP services, the records of which will also be stored in their personal files. An authorisation and authentication infrastructure based on Shibboleth architecture will be implemented to give students access to resources with a single sign-on.
Project Aim: to enable non-traditional students considering progression to HE to access appropriate learning opportunities from a partnership of FE/HE providers via a standards-based electronic interface.
Main objectives:
The project will identify and make use of the dispersed expertise within the institutions' IT related services and encourage inter-institutional networking to maximise regional capacity in areas of interoperability and web services. This will be augmented by technologies and expertise from previous and current projects such as the SHELL project based in south-west England.
There are three strands to the Learning Matrix approach:
1. A Course Information Service: This is based on a distributed, co-hosted data model. Each contributing partner will use web services provided by the Learning Matrix to prepare metadata descriptions of the courses they offer to the Matrix, conforming to existing and developing standards (IMS Enterprise) as far as possible. This metadata is hosted by the institution and could be part of a broader approach to course information provision across the institution. Information about learning units offered to the Learning Matrix will be collected from the distributed sources into a central cache, and will then be made available for integration into user portals through another matrix service.
2. Lifelong Learner Records: Web services will be created so that personal details, details of courses pursued and achievements can be held centrally in IMS-LIP format, and can be amended and transferred across the network to participating institutions.
3. Personal Development Planning (PDP) services: These will be specific adaptations of the LUSID open-source PDP system aimed at helping Matrix users think about their choices and personal development options in the context of the learning opportunities offered over the Matrix. There may be opportunity to augment this with e-portfolio facilities and records will be accessible in IMS-LIP/UK-LEAP format.
User-interfaces deploying the web services provided in these three strands will be created, notably a student portal to the Learning Opportunities and PDP/e-portfolio services offered by the Learning matrix.
In addition to these main strands the project has separate funding to explore an implementation of the Shibboleth approach to federated authentication and authorisation.
The project has long-term implications both locally and for the wider JISC community.
It will have provided improved communications between HE and potential students, enhancing understanding of HE provision and smoothing transition into HE It is anticipated that the local institutions will continue to add to the project's offerings to this particular student audience, providing a valuable local resource integrated with initiatives from LSC, Connexions and AimHigher.
The services developed by the project will have potential generic application and will impact on planning for regional life-long learning networks and work-based learning provision for the NHS, for example.
A major benefit of the project will be the exploration of the complex and interacting institutional and technical issues involved in inter-institutional co-working. These lessons will be shared in a report and strategy document.
The further refinement of technologies and approaches from earlier projects will contribute to the articulation of the JISC E-learning Framework and will be of interest to future interoperable network projects.
Liverpool John Moore's University
Liverpool John Moores University Connexions, Greater Merseyside AimHigher, Greater Merseyside Knowsley Community College St Helens College West Cheshire College The University of Liverpool Liverpool Hope University College Edge Hill College University College Chester Liverpool City of Learning Learning Skills Council Greater Merseyside Centre for Recording Achievement
Dr Roger Clark Project Manager The Learning Matrix Liverpool John Moore's University 2 Maryland St Liverpool L1 9DE Tel. 0151 7943268 Email: email@example.com
Project Leader: Dr Phil Margham Liverpool John Moore's University 2 Maryland St Liverpool L1 9DE
Tel. 0151 231 3574


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With brick streets etched into a series of jade peninsulas, Bluefields (the city) stretches into Bluefields (the bay) like so many fingers. In between is a series of docks, floating restaurants, shipwrecks, and fish and produce markets. The city was once full of old wood Victorian charm before Category IV Hurricane Juana wiped it off the map in 1988. Today's Bluefields is rather overindulgent in new concrete boxes, especially in the loud knot of streets downtown that eventually gives way to poor tin-roof neighborhoods that ramble over nearby hillsides and inland along brackish creeks.
Named after the Dutch pirate Blewfeldt, who made his base here in the 1700s, the capital of the RAAS is the the beating heart of Creole culture, famed for its its distinctive music, colorful dances and delicious cuisine, considered by many as the best in the country. And while it is not your typical Caribbean dream destination, if you give it a chance and get to know some of the town's colorful locals, Bluefields' decaying tropical charm will definitely grow on you. Still, you probably won't linger too long. After all, you are just a boat ride away from the intriguing Pearl Lagoon basin, the spectacular Pearl Keys and those luscious Corn Islands.


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Recommended by Curriculum Services Canada, this fun and engaging story, based on three previous children's books by David Suzuki and Eugenie Fernandes, introduces young children to environmental issues without overwhelming them.
In this beautifully illustrated story, a brother and sister go on nature adventures and discover that natural magic is all around them, even in their own home. They find an ocean in their bathroom, dinosaur breath inside their own bodies, and the past and the future in their own backyard.
Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation. Also available in hardcover.
There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom is an informative and entertaining environmental book for children. Written by David Suzuki the story has Jamie and Megan going on a hike, inside the house, with their father to learn about nature. They learn about things that came from animals and trees and even items that come from plants that lived millions of years ago. —Simcoe.com
In There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom, acclaimed geneticist and environmentalist David Suzuki takes children and their adult reading companions on a sweeping three-part ecological adventure in picture-book form . . . Complete with activity suggestions and a glossary, this is a useful tool for environmental exploration with kids. —E Magazine
This delightful three-chapter book invites learning in the most natural way, unmarred by deadly good-for-you words that can so easily kill a child's curiosity and enjoyment. David Suzuki is a scientist who clearly enjoys sharing his knowledge with children. A glossary . . . and a list of suggested activities will allow parents and teachers to make the most of these pages. —California Coast & Ocean
In this book, Megan and Jamie's exploration of the world of nature is presented in an easy-to-understand format. Divided into three sections, "Seeing the Air" explores how air feels and sounds; "Rainy Day Hike" shows that nature is present around and in the house, for example, window glass is made from sand ; "Time Travelers" delves into the past hundreds of years and into the future in the backyard garden. Related activities are incorporated into each section. A glossary and answer pages are also included. Full-page, colour illustrations enhance the adventures.
Suzuki has authored over forty books including, for children, Salmon Forest and You Are the Earth. Fernandes has illustrated more than ninety books and was a finalist for the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award and the 2007 Amelia Frances HowardGibbon Illustrator's Award.
Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. BC Books for BC Schools. 2008-2009.


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Wed, Oct 15, 08 at 15:57
Is now the time I should expect my Crepe Myrtle to lose it's leaves in Orange County, CA? Planted it (at 15 gallons and about 7 ft tall) last spring and it did beautifully all through summer. About a month ago the leaves started drying out from the tips and dropping off. We just had a strong Santa Ana wind event and now it's all but bare. Is this normal for Crepe Myrtle in my area? Seems a little early to me for Southern California.
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I suspect it is suffering from those arid winds (and maybe arid soil if recently planted--not really established). Mine are green until a frost (usually by the first half of November). Many deciduous trees and shrubs will shed leaves if moisture is inadequate regardless of temps. |
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I know it sounds weird: chocolate cake and tofu, together? It's so tasty, and a much healthier way to eat cake! Submitted by MEHICKS Carbs: 35.8g | Fat: 4g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 2.9g | Calories: 189.5
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Nothing beats a bowl of fresh, homemade chicken noodle soup. Carbs: 15.8g | Fat: 2.9g | Fiber: 1g | Protein: 30.3g | Calories: 217.6
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Vegetables, barley, and beef make this soup a full meal in itself. Carbs: 32.3g | Fat: 2.8g | Fiber: 7.7g | Protein: 13.7g | Calories: 202.7
This quick and healthy side dish takes just minutes to prepare! And as a bonus, it's an easy way to get the kids to eat their vegetables. Submitted by MATCM81 Carbs: 7.3g | Fat: 1.6g | Fiber: 2.5g | Protein: 3.2g | Calories: 51.6
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Chicken soup the way my old German aunt makes it. The chicken needs to have the skin and fat on it to give it taste. By removing the fat you remove the flavour. Submitted by BLSCT123 Carbs: 10.3g | Fat: 1.9g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 9.7g | Calories: 94
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Very yummy and much lighter than regular chocolate chip cookies. Considered a hit by all! Submitted by TERRIANGEL Carbs: 14.2g | Fat: 2.9g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 0.8g | Calories: 83.3
4 ingredients, 20 minutes and dinner is served! If you're looking for the perfect boneless pork chops recipe, this is it! Submitted by LINJEN Carbs: 18.4g | Fat: 5.7g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 19.9g | Calories: 204.3
Not too sweet but not too healthy, these delightful muffins are equally delicious for breakfast or dessert. Submitted by FIREFLY75 Carbs: 16.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 2.4g | Calories: 91.7


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I'm beginning to think the acoustics at The Today Show suck, because Fergie, like New Kids On The Block last week, sounded terrible when she performed this morning. She's still got the Kids Incorporated moves though! [Performing on The Today Show, 5/19/08]
Quick Pic: Fergie Sings While Headstanding
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I was playing with my daughter in the Park recently. She likes to play on the seesaw. Unfortunately, on this occasion there were no other children for her to play with. Naturally, Daddy came to the rescue!
But things didn't quite work out as planned.
I'm far too heavy to be able to balance my daughter on the seesaw. She spent all her time high up in the air. I spent all my time near the ground.
Some printer client relationships can be like this too
Printers who establish balanced relationships will also achieve more powerful partnerships. This is because they will be respected by their customers rather than being treated as a commodity supplier.
Printers who fail to establish balanced relationships are likely to suffer problems. They will fail to achieve a true partnership with their customers. So their customers will see less value in the as a supplier. They are less likely to be loyal.
However, sometimes it's difficult to remember you have the right to a balanced relationship
Here's an exercise I run when I train clients. One group lists what a client should expect from a supplier. The other group lists what a supplier should expect from a client.
When the two lists are compared the results are usually very similar. It is a good way for print companies to remember that their clients have a duty to their suppliers.
Let's look at this in a little bit more detail.
What happens if a client is too powerful?
If a client fails to practice a balanced relationship, they may cause themselves problems. In simple terms, the failure to communicate in an appropriate way can lead to costly mistakes.
In the worst case, a customer may alienate a supplier so much that they will no longer work for the customer.
However, a relationship that is unbalanced in the printer's favor can be just as dangerous.
What happens if the printer is too powerful?
A printer that feels they are in a strong place with the customer can abuse this privilege. They may find that situations change. They may find that their customer is eager to adopt a new solution that does not involve the printer.
It is important that both sides are valued in a supplier client relationship.
How do you make balanced relationships happen?
The best ways to create balanced relationships is to establish some form of service level agreement. Many people are worried that this involves a long, legal-style document. However, a way of working document can be just as effective.
A way of working document need be no more than a single sheet of A4 paper. It simply outlines the supplier's and the client's responsibilities in plain English.
What should you do next?
Here are three quick action points for you:
Do you ever feel like I did on the seesaw?
You will find that these action points will help you get things more balanced.
P.S. Download Matthew's free e-book "Ten Common Print Selling Errors and What To Do About Them" at http://profitableprintrelationships.com/e-book/


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Daily deal: A getaway in Thailand
The iconic Wat Arun stands out from the Bangkok skyline.
Some places are so full of flavour that once you get a taste of it, everywhere else seems bland in comparison.
Such is the case with Thailand — a longstanding traveller's buffet of food, scenery, people, and history — where you are set to spice up your sense of adventure during a ten-day escape with Authentic Asia. The planned group itinerary is peppered with luxurious hotels, decadent restaurants, complimentary transportation, and mesmerizing sights from Bangkok to surrounding destinations ($2,650 with scheduled dates in March 2012*).
Once all of the main ingredients are in order, heat things up with a flight to Bangkok. Then, mix in some sage advice from your local English-speaking escort in the included transportation from the airport to The Peninsula. Ranked one of the World's Best Hotels by Travel + Leisure, this opulent outpost lets guests simmer in rooms that have views of the Chao Phraya River, TVs in the marble bathrooms, daily fruit baskets and free wi-fi.
Spend your thyme in this energetic city with visits to temples and a flower market, followed by a private boat excursion on the famed canals. Later, you'll s(curry) to The National Museum, The Jim Thompson House and Chinatown.
Now that your adventure is really cooking, you'll be scooped up north to Sukhothai on an included flight with a guide. Have a "pinch me" moment as you view the Wat Mahathat temple at sunset, and then gingerly cruise the streets of Old Town on a bicycle tour before resting at The Legendha Sukhothai Resort.
Dice up the next few days in nearby Chiang Mai with a visit to The Elephant Hospital, Doi Suthep, the Chiang Mai City Art and Cultural Center, and a silk-weaving centre. When each day is through, clove the door on your Shangri-La Hotel room and enjoy five-star features like a pillow menu, a bedside control panel and a flat-screen TV.
After visiting a tribal village in the morning, you'll be whisked away on a private long-tail boat to Tham Pha Thai National Park and then taken by private bus to Chiang Rai to see the Golden Triangle. You can then cross the border into Burma, or you can pars-leave the group for a hike through the jungles near Katiliya Mountain Resort and Spa, where you'll stay for night seven and eight.
Upon returning to Bangkok, move through the city on a search for the best of its ubiquitous street food — like drunken noodles and samosa pastries — before you stick a fork in your trip. A dip in the Jacuzzi and the beds at the Chatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok will provide the perfect nourishment before leaving for the airport the next day.
Fill your plate with all the flavours of this escape to Thailand, and you'll savour it until the very last bite.
*Dates: 3 March to 12 March, 2012; 6 March to 15 March, 2012; or 12 March to 21 March, 2012
Escape kit
- A 10-day all-inclusive tour of Thailand for one guest, including:
- A three-night stay at The Peninsula Bangkok, a one-night stay at The Legendha Sukhothai Resort, a two-night stay at the Shangri-La Hotel Chiang Mai, a two-night stay Katiliya Mountain Resort and Spa in Chiang Rai, and a one-night stay at the Chatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok
- Round-trip flight from Bangkok to Sukhothai
- English-speaking tour guide service and private bus transportation
- Entrance fees to included sightseeing spots
- Seven buffet breakfasts and five lunches
- Dates: 3 March to 12 March, 2012; 6 March to 15 March, 2012; or 12 March to 21 March, 2012
- Book by 11 December
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Note: This will be a part of my gameday notebook in Saturday's newspaper.
Ask both Dickinson State head coach Biesiot and Valley City Stat head coach Dennis McCulloch if they'd like their football teams to keep playing and both will give the same answer — with an asterisk.
"I would," Biesiot said, "if things would break right."
Next year, DSU will join the Frontier Conference and VCSU is expected to remain an NAIA independent.
That will no doubt limit how many open dates the Blue Hawks have on their schedule. Those open dates — likely in the first three weeks of the season — are typically filled at least two years in advance and options are usually limited.
If Jamestown College finds a conference and drops its status as an NAIA independent, McCulloch said VCSU would likely put the Jimmies first on its list of nonconference opponent priorities. In that case, he said it may leave out opportunities for the Vikings to continue playing DSU.
Saturday will be the 72nd meeting between the Blue Hawks and Vikings, dating back to 1928. VCSU won that first game, 8-0.
"It's just sad to think that as many years as I've been here, and you can't find a way to play each other," McCulloch said. "We know it's going to be tough in scheduling. It's a sad day when you start to see it all come to an end."


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The eve of the May 29 hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2015 agriculture funding bill brought a flurry of press conferences and opposing views on possible Congressional changes to child nutrition standards.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., hosted separate news teleconferences in support of updated school nutrition standards. Both DeLauro and Vilsack vigorously defended school nutrition standards, with DeLauro stating that 90% of schools already comply with the regulations. She said House Republicans were set on weakening nutrition standards for both school meals and for the Women, Infants and Children program.
Also on May 28, The National Harbor, Md.-based School Nutrition Association had a teleconference with eight school nutrition officials seeking more time to adopt nutrition rules. Many participating in the event said student participation in school meals has gone down and costs have gone up since the standards were implemented in the fall of 2012. The group is also seeking an end to mandatory serving of a half a cup of fruits and vegetables at every reimbursable school meal.
Jonathan Dickl, director of school nutrition for Knox County, Tenn., said coming nutrition standards that call for an extra half cup of produce at school breakfasts — beginning next fall — will increase serving costs by 25 to 30 cents and boost yearly produce costs by $900,000.
Older students, especially, don't always want a fruit or vegetable with their meals, another school foodservice official said.
"At about 25 cents a serving, the mandate to serve a fruit or vegetable has us throwing away money and making kids angry with us," Dolores Sutterfield, child nutrition director, Harrisburg, Ark., said in a news release from the School Nutrition Association.
But the USDA leader and Democratic lawmakers found fault with the House approach that will allow a school to seek a waiver from the standards.
Vilsack said draft language in the House appropriations fiscal year 2015 agriculture funding bill that would give schools a waiver to nutrition standards if they show they are losing money is problematic.
"One of the concerns with the wavier is how you define and determine if a school district is in fact operating at a loss," he said. Factors such as assessments against school food budgets for indirect costs for administration, for utilities and other costs can vary widely between districts.


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Ai Miyazato Opens Her Bag
Ai Miyazato claimed her eighth-career LPGA victory by four shots over Azahara Munoz and Meena Lee at the inaugural LPGA LOTTE Championship Presented by J Golf. Miyazato, the No. 8 ranked player on the Rolex Rankings, shot 70 in the final round to end the week at 12-under-par 276. Throughout the afternoon, the trio of Miyazato, Munoz and Lee were tied atop the scoreboard at various points, but the Japanese star broke away from the pack with birdies at three of her last five holes – Nos. 13, 15 and 17. The win nets Miyazato $255,000 of the $1.7 million purse and increases her season earnings to $629,783 – second only to the Yani Tseng.
Ai Miyazato's bag at the LPGA LOTTE Championship | |
Driver | Bridgestone TourStage ViQ prototype (9.5 degree; Graphite Design Tour prototype shaft) |
Fairway Woods | Bridgestone TourStage X-Drive 701 3-wood (15 degree; Graphite Design Tour shaft) and Bridgestone TourStage X-FW 701 7-wood (21 degree) |
Hybrid | Bridgestone TourStage X-UT 101w #3 and #4 (23.5 and 26.5 degree) |
Irons | Bridgestone VIQ (5-PW; Nippon N.S. Pro V-90 shafts) |
Wedges | Bridgestone TourStage X-Wedge (52 and 58 degree) |
Putter | Odyssey White Hot XG Teron |
Ball | Bridgestone TourStage X-01 Solid |
Topics: Tools of a Champion, Miyazato, Ai, LPGA Lotte Championship


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we plan to rack our 90 min dogfish clone to secondary on sat. (2 weeks in primary) i have searched for posts on a 90 min ipa and come up with nothing. so here are my questions..... 1. how long in the secondary? i've read all about the bulk aging debate, but any "real life" experiences with a beer like this would really help me set a min and max. 2. when to dry hop? Mr. Papazian says about a week before bottling, but i've heard that some do it right when they rack it to the secondary. 3. how long in bottles? does timing change with a beer that has a higher OG? basic brew info: - 4 gal boil - diluted up to 5 gal in primary - OG 1.082 (which i think is falsely low due to inadequate mixing between dilution and pulling off a test sample) - white labs british ale yeast wlp005 let me know if there's any more info you need. any responses to the questions above will be greatly appreciated and feel free to throw in any other helpful advice as well. thank you!
I recently made a 90 min clone and it came out great. Righteous even. This has been my best effort yet. So, with regard to your questions I offer this: 1. I left mine in 9 days. 2. I hopped it immediately and left it in the secondary for 11 days. 3. This is one that was not near ready at three weeks. In fact, I didn't get a really good bottle until almost 8 weeks. This is one where patience is key. The longer the better. At least in my experience. By the way, can you post your recipe? I would like to compare to mine, which was plastered all over the internet by the way. Good luck.
10 lbs pale lme 1.25 lbs pilsner lme 1.75 lbs 40l crystal malt (steep) .22oz amarillo, .06oz nugget and simcoe (:90) (:83) (:75) (:68) (:60) (:53) (:45) (:38) (:30) (:23) (:15) (:07) 1oz amarillo (dry hop) .5oz nugget, simcoe (dry hop) wlp 005 british ale yeast OG - 1.101 ibu's - 60.3 color- 30 srm 10.08% abv that is copied straight from the kit, which was the bobblehead 90 min IPA from homebrew usa. thanks GLWIII. i can't wait to try this brew! i'll probably go 14 days in secondary just cuz it works well with my every other weekend off schedule. how much/what primer did you use? anyone with software wanna plug that in and see if my 5oz of corn sugar that came with the kit is going to be adequate?
I went with 3/4 cup Corn sugar - pretty much standard fare for a 5 gal batch. Mind if I ask where you got your kit from? Also, let us know how it all turns out.
homebrewusa.com i don't think they don't have it listed on the website, but the store is minutes from my house. the people that run the store are awesome and i'm sure they would take a special request. they also said they have put together a 120min. that's definitely in the list of future brews at our house. the dfh 120 is AMAZING! i'll try to remember to update after we throw a few back, can't make any promises since that will be at least 10 weeks from now. i have their hefeweizen going into bottles this weekend and i'll you know how that one goes too.
You guys talking about Homebrew USA in Norfolk? I go there too...I'm making a 60min Dogfish Head clone next week, I'll post the recipe if you want.
yeah..... it's in the janaf shopping center. probably brewing their Belgian white on sat. i think it's a hoegaarden clone.
For my 60 min clone my grain bill was 13 1/2 pounds. My 90 min clone recipe was 17 pounds. Hops were Amarillo , Sincoe, and Colmbus (substitute for Warrior)
This is one based off BYO March 2006 version. The hop schedule tries to get the following bitterness from each hop: Columbus 37ibu, Simcoe 18ibu, palisades 5ibu. I haven't tried it yet, I'm brewing this on Monday I'll let you know how it turns out. 12 lbs pale malt 6 oz amber malt .25 oz Columbus 13.2% 60 .25 oz Columbus 13.2% 50 .25 oz Columbus 13.2% 40 .25 oz Columbus 13.2% 35 .33 oz Simcoe 11.9% 30 .33 oz Simcoe 11.9% 25 .33 oz Simcoe 11.9% 20 .50 oz Palisades 6.7% 15 .50 oz Palisades 6.7% 5 Ringwood Ale yeast whirlfloc tab mash 152 60 min og 1.064 IBU 60 Dryhop: .75 oz Amarillo .75 oz Simcoe .75 oz Glacier


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Kasey Kahne drove one of the fastest cars on the track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Charlotte. And it was still fast after a last-race accident.
Kasey Kahne was on target to win Sunday's 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but his fuel didn't last long enough. He ran out of gas two laps from the finish.
NASCAR's longest race — the famed 600-miler at Charlotte Motor Speedway — tests a driver's physical stamina as well as the car that's carrying him.
Driver appearances, gear and autographs ... it doesn't get much better than that for NASCAR fans, who are invited to attend our annual Fan Day (May 27 in Charlotte's EpiCentre).


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This year will be the 3rd year on my rhubarb plants and I'd really like to do something besides feed whatever the hell it is that eats the leaves every year. I haven't spotted the culprit(s) so I';m guessing it's something that feeds at nite(?). tried BT assuming it was some type of caterpillar but no luck. suggestions anyone? I do not have damage on any of the other plants in the same area (blueberry, onion, potatoes, peas, beans, & strawberries) |
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Very strange. They are so toxic (deadly to humans) I can not envision any large animal eating them. slugs? for slugs, go out in late May at around 10pm, with a flashlight, they will shine and be seen readily. |
I see slugs on mine occasionally. |
That would be my guess, too. |
then bring also a quart yogurt container full of soapy water. Pick the slugs and drop them in the water, and keep them in water overnight. I used to pick one hundred a night off my vegetables, then after the first 1000 I bought a can of Sluggo. |
- Posted by ghoghunter Zone6b SE PA (My Page) on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 18:14
The only thing I have ever seen eating my rhubarb leaves is Japanese beetles and they seem to really love the leaves. I don't much care because it doesn't seem to harm the plant and at least they aren't eating something else like my roses! If the damage is occuring at night then I would also think slugs. Joann |
- Posted by larry_gene USDA8b-OregonPDX (My Page) on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 23:28
Both slugs and certain noctuid moth caterpillars (cutworms) will eat rhubarb leaves here. Easily spotted well after dark on the underside of leaves. They tend to camp out at the base of the plants and if the rhubarb supply is adequate, they might not venture out to nearby plants. Slugs also tend to chew an elongated trench in the rhubarb stems. Two or three diligent night-time plucking/drownings will cut down the population for at least this season. |
I've seen deer eating my rhubarb leaves. I can't really tell if the damage you have is small bugs chewing or just roughly bitten off to the stem area. If the latter it could be deer. Yes, I did warn her it wasn't good for her but she didn't listen. It was one of the few uncaged growing items at the time. Pam in cinti |
Slugs eat mine also... I think you can set a trap with beer in a can or something like that. |
- Posted by northwoodswis4 4a (My Page) on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 12:22
Something big enough to knock down the chicken wire ate mine. I assume it was deer. Northwoodswis |
Sounds like slugs because I have also seen the "elongated trench" mentioned above. One more pest to learn how to control. Everyone thx. for responses |
- Posted by northernmn 3/4 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 22:57
Yep, I betting it's slugs too. I have picked slugs off of my Rhubarb and my fruit plot isn't that far from your's oldrider. |
Japanese beetles hit my rhubarb very hard during some summers. Sevin works wonders against them. |
For slugs, you can trap them with beer in a container at ground level - you'll need to partially cover it so it doesn't get watered down from the sprinkler or rain. Stinky cheap beer is good, like Milwaukees Best or Olympia. Also save your egg shells. Crush them and put on the ground where snails are troublesome - they'll cut the snail when it slides over the sharp edges. I thought my rhubarb was being destroyed by earwigs but now I agree with everyone above and think it's slugs. |
slugs. use slug bait pellets which are poisonous to the slugs. However, holes in my rhubarb plants never bothered me since they are inedible and I just eat the stalks. |
- Posted by melikeeatplants 9b (San Jose) (My Page) on Tue, Jul 30, 13 at 10:58
Agree Mrs G. I have slugs all over them but the plants grow great and I'm only concerned with the stalk, couldn't care less about holes in the leaves. |
- Posted by larry_gene USDA8b-OregonPDX (My Page) on Tue, Jul 30, 13 at 23:38
...unless there becomes more hole than leaf, affecting stalk growth. This can occur when the leaves are still immature and are tucked into or under the mature leaf canopy. |
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Letter to self
'The life we live is rarely the life we were given.' Oscar Wilde
Denial perched on my heart, I didn't know this, couldn't have. It arrived days when inside my little frame and head my dictionary had only white pages and when pain had nudged me on to a tangent of self sabotage. Those lumps of anguish encased in childhood blindness grew into mountains of inabilities and rejection, steering my mother adult to dole out the oozing jealousies and torments to a clean new generation. I never witnessed the brand new small frame and head torments, the construction of new tangents, yours. Today in this word of no heartbeats I have reassembled my broken heart and wake to the freedom that is peace, to the pain that is remorse, the aftermath of cruelty and rejection and live in the hope and relief that when you wake today it will all be gone. Forgive me please.
- Gene Barry
(featured in the poetry forum 08.09.14)
editor's note: With no past comes no forgiveness (nor guilt). Thanks, Gene! - mh
Stuffing Hanks
One day I will cry forever. Not like a terrace loser, or a baby-faced softy, you know, a terminal cry. I will stoke my engine with nights-without-sleep and invasions, childhood floggings and hidden wounds, attacks and black-suited fiends. I won't forget to douse the unexpected with rivers of anal blood and floods of small-boy tears. I will hold up all of those walls I've fallen off and hidden behind with screaming wrongs and decorate my sky with pointing children's fingers. A cortege of forbidden questions will at last assemble and trod with notice to a brand new place of old where every squeezed-open pair of perfect ears will finally embrace my slowest form of death. And they will no longer speak of the odd-little-boy who grew to be that strange-kind-of-fella, always the loner decorating corners, the weirdo and the dark horse and I will meet the dark father dressed in dresses from the dark box, the groomer of my un-lived life; I will wear my coat of fury and beat and stomp and slap and bite down hard, return the pent-up painful years of screams, accuse and insult and verbally stab deep. I will hand back shame, stuff hanks of guilt deep into his larynx; I will pleasure for my first time. That same day a man will fall into the carefully-planned death of a family and each season his only friend who understood him will refuse to yield the buried pictures of childhood he'd sown.
(featured in the poetry forum 06.21.14)
editor's note: Some abuse for the abuser from a crying child triumphant. - mh
Kazumi familiarises herself with words with new meanings too big for her little mind to reason, - nano-sieverts – caesium – irreversible - asks honest questions about unfamiliar shaped vegetables and queer fish with familiar names. Since Fumio lost himself to suicide her sickening mother dresses Inari with luck-bringers, frequently pulls her family back the 102 years to his birth year; hides the emotions they daily discuss, leaks tears for his wasteland. Her grandfather visits upturned boats in dreams where he trawls though memories of catches and colleagues lost, loses himself to small-boy memories played in child-friendly fields. On Monday he will lose himself to another unwelcomed anaesthetic. Meanwhile the masters strategically seat themselves in the furniture of denial, where decency is an unused noun begging to be honestly served. They sing press-conference tautologies and blanket each other in minimize, their verbal guns loaded with excuses.
(added 06.21.14)
Nessun Cancelli, Solo Ponte (for Brian and Sinead on their wedding day)
'Who, being loved, is poor?' Oscar Wilde
There is an un-mined treasure pit where Hammurabi's scribes bend hourly to tablet-etch the lush of their oneness; it has no gates, just bridges.
Where he surfs every heart-filled wish he dares to daily permit himself to dream and she is a Picasso paintbrush he lovingly paints his world with.
Where she is a Freudian archaeologist delicately digging in the aftermath of every unspoken mote her lover has yet to broadcast.
Where they are a team of pit horses, unselfishly delivering cargo after cargo they willingly shovel out, to stoke this world they love.
There is a precision in their loving that requires no maintenance.
© 2013
(added 02.09.13)
In Search of Life I searched for seeds I cannot See in the largest pods I know And in the hunger of this frustration I eat again this lesson. Ground damp and fertile I pause Before I sow; up or flat I ask. Being wise I take a second And put them to bed together. He up, she lying on her side Each week I visit, dusting Tidying, drooling as I go. I tell them stories they don't like Of tarts and desserts and splits. Of pies and sandwiches. Of funny Slippery tales. I wait. One sunny morning I cast a jealous Eye towards my neighbour's patch And slowly permit myself a peep. I weep to see the growing harvest Wink and point my way. I shout my first annoyance. And dip and dig to chastise, To find they've all left home. A yellow note is posted on their bed In writing all grown up, 'Look wisely you silly man', And there they were all waving From all neighbour's fields.
(featured in the poetry forum 02.09.13)
editor's note: A gardener's life can be a "seedy" existence, a lot of work to make salad days for the neighbors. - mh
Bonelocked For Pasha No one has seen the walls that hover around you, shields that only land occasionally in polluted fields of adulthood, birthed by deaf ears and confused and troubled as your country's barriers. Your birth year blew you a second violation, nuclear, a shock to torture your family now summoned to live a querulous-free life. Is there a poet of gratitude lurking in your twisted frame burying volumes of antiquity; those beasts that bite you after binding. Is there an Olympian caged within, breaking ribbon after ribbon. A podium tenant riding heroic cantatas. A screamer without an audience. Are your trips as grey as a funeral procession or as pleasing as a lap of honour.
They would make the music of self-praises of artists, money men and university people they knew would surely approve of them. They would wear starched-smiling faces dilute themselves to taste and silently transmit the begging of urgent approval. They would allow greatness to blanket them urgently permit superiority to skip the queue measure up and dress them head to toe. They would stain the future of the innocents slip in minefields and feed ambushes destroy futures, cripple possibilities. All of this while wisdom shaped as a brother made the music of sawing and hammering built a calm future, created vision. All of this while their rejection slipped into each downward push, each nail on the head the only visible pain the blackening of a nail. All of this while love played the redundant card acceptance was a loner who played off-side and tolerance was an engineering phrase. All of this while he stained over accidents dealt with the expected unexpected frequently returned to his former self.
Aldebaran Appointment For Stef
When you hit the Bull's Eye Apgar checked her watch and smiled as she listened to your perinatal soliloquy. The delivery room announcing
just another arrival
to the working audience,
but I'd swear
my eye's corner witnessed Zeus blow a kiss to the blind usurpers; both Gods and men awakened. I viewed you first from a fascia of relief and loved you instantly.
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Tactile Memories For my father Micheal Barry
How do I know your drive to run these teeth over the inviting dead what torc to chose when indicating
and yet I rub the chiromantic map with unromantic oils and smooth each surface without life
dress the contrasting donors with shavings toiled and blindly undressed in lonely un-hugged trances
why do I hold this whistle in your clasped hand Spear's index at the ready
with the open snuff box in distracted thought see to your nails massage your waiting mound of Venus
un-gloved you gave to give me life beyond our clasped audience of DNA I applaud you.
Narcoleptic Fodder
The winding completed and given up through inhalations of new-born that these euphoric days seem to grace each corner of our house infused by your love through its umbilical broadcasts,
I rewind and rewind as I kiss and kiss again your tiny floppy frame now resting on a dedicated mould on a shoulder built for taking tackles and breathe you into my future as I hear you
ask for your bath; and I answer in a whisper, yes. My boy and I we dance through the instinctual before we swim with you in sudsy bubbled dreams and douse you with our love. O to run
the softest cotton over your un-boned knuckles, through the neck tracks collecting angel remnants that invitingly give themselves up, yielding to the pleasure of a moment that is mine and yours,
to lift you from your soaking manger and swaddle you in my arms and after drying to hold you naked to my skin and fill the dotted lines. To spray your grotto with blankets of white clouds before I dress you.
And bonding in the aftermath my adult returns to whisper in an ear that seems to hear without listening a host of promises and confessions, my votive deposit decorating the foot of your basket.
A bit about Gene: Gene Barry is an Art Therapist, Poet and a practicing Psychotherapist who hails from Ireland.
He is the founder of Elbow Lane Poetry a bimonthly poetry event held at the Elbow Lane Inn, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. He is also the Chairman and founder of the Fermoy International Poetry Festival and chairman of the Blackwater Valley Arts and Crafts Council.
He has been published widely both at home and internationally. His chapbook published in 2008 by Rebel Poetry was called 'No Family Tree' and his second collection will be published by Doghouse Books at the 2013 Fermoy International Poetry Festival.
Gene was editor of the anthology 'Silent Voices', a collection of poems written by asylum seekers living in Millstreet. He additionally edited two anthologies 'Remembering the Present' which was launched in May 2012 and 'Inclusion' in August 2012.


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Terry Gross's Moving Maurice Sendak Interview, Illustrated by Christoph Niemann
By: Maria Popova"Live your life, live your life, live your life."
Beloved children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak — though he insisted he didn't draw specifically for children — was among the most heartbreaking losses of 2012. His September 2011 NPR Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross is one of the most soul-stirring conversations you'll ever hear on the airwaves. Indeed, after the inimitable Christoph Niemann first tuned in, he was so moved he decided to illustrate the last five minutes of the interview. The result will stop your breath:
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. You know, I don't think I'm rationalizing anything. I really don't. This is all inevitable and I have no control over it.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
Sendak's final book, Bumble-Ardy (public library), was published the week of Terry Gross's interview.
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I'm sure a lot of us have read it. I'm curious about your reactions to it. I read it a while ago, and found it disturbing.
I think the Christians in my life thought I was actually looking for their God in it. I tried to be as open-minded as I could, trying to see what they see in it. I found it to be violently, depressingly narcissistic. When I told the Christians my thoughts, they dismissed the OT and praised the NT.
I found the NT to be as insipidly nauseating as the OT. I had to stop reading it somewhere around Paul's Letter to Some Misguided People Somewhere before I imploded.
My response to one particularly rabid Christian is that I have read it, and if his deity had wanted to get through to me it had its chance. He said I need to study it with assistance from somebody who knows how to interpret it correctly.
Nope! Call me stubborn, defiant, possessed... whatever. I say that if people can find guidance and comfort in the Bible, good for them. I haven't - it's not the book for me.
I've read parts of it. Once when my parents made me go to Sunday school when I was about 7 or 8, and again for my World Literatures class last semester.
For a while now, I've really been wanting to read all of it. I feel like I don't know enough about what I don't believe in (if that makes sense...) So I downloaded it for free from Amazon to put on my Kindle and I'm planning on reading it over summer break :)
Yeah, if you ever start to doubt your own doubts about Xtianity, read the Bible. It makes for an excellent refresher course for an atheist.
Hey Diane,
No offense to adherents, but I personally find the Bible, the Tanakh and the Quran to be silly little fairy tale stories that are obviously of ancient, make-believe and dated origin.
- kk
Heh. You are being optimistic.
Unfortunately most of the book is NOT fairy tale stories but ramblings of some sort or another; prayers, prophecy, etc. There are "historical" narratives that manage to ramble a great deal too and even though they narrate rather than babble, they are about as exciting as counting holes in ceiling tiles--and more mentally damaging. The famous fairy tales mostly confine themselves to a couple of books of the Old Testament and the first five books of the New Testament.
Yes. I read it as a Christian when I was trying to get closer to God. The more I read of it, the more I lost my faith. I am no longer a Christian because I read the bible. Whoops!
It is a long book. It is an inane, brutal and disturbing book. Even the language isn't pretty. When I was a Christian I had always resented the expectation that the bible had to be my favorite book. It is mediocre at best. Revisiting the idea that the bible ought to be THE source of one's moral guidance struck me as terribly evil to suggest to anybody and terribly sad when people do.
I've read it straight through, twice. I recently started to re-read Mark, and found it hilarious. It had the tone of a high school pot head trying to convey to his fellow potheads just how cool some messianic pothead might be. Something like, "So there were these guys painting a house, right, and then Chong walked by and said 'come with me' so the workin' dudes just dropped their tools and shit, and left their ladders there, and went along with Chong, because he's like so hip, right? And then they went to some dewd's house, and there was some great food there, and they were eating and Chong was saying all kindsa mind blowing shit, right?"
Anyway, it completely disregards any need for justifying ridiculous claims, which greatly reveals that it was written for an already indoctrinated audience. The non-indoctrinated/recovered just can't see the same book at all.
And Mark is the least whacked out of the four gospels. Not by coincidence, it's the oldest one, before Team Jesus had really built the legend up. Seriously, fewer miracles, no funky nativity stuff, and no weird allegories. In fact a case can be made that Mark didn't even claim Jesus was the literal son of god. (Jews used the phrase "son of god" all the time (for people like Moses, other prophets, and even for the whole nation of Israel) without meaning it the way we think of it today. It took a bunch of Greeks hearing it and thinking of people like Heracles, to get it meaning the literal son of god.)
Anyhow, Mark is the least nutty of the gospels, but that's not saying much.
I read quite a lot of it as a teenager when I firmly believed it was divinely inspired. But I haven't even owned one in decades.
I recently read Jesus, Interrupted out of curiosity and that's been as close to reading the bible as I have been in years.
That is a good book, as are all of Bart Ehrman's books.
Most of the christians do not read the bible themselves. I have read some of it, and I agree it's one of the most violent book ever. Where do christians get the idea of holy, and goodness from the bible? It comes from the pastor on Sundays. They just take his word for it, and don't bother reading it for themselves.
I would love to get round to reading the King James version, Richard Dawkins really made it appealable to me in one of his documentaries, he read an excerpt and I was in love with the classic English language. Being a student currently in Religion I have to read various books of the Bible, primarily - Acts, Corinthians, Galations and a few others.
As disturbing as it is, it is a load of shit, it is a piece of fiction and in my honest opinion one of the best books ever written, no other book has been so well written that it has fooled people that a fucking virgin became pregnant without having sex and that a man lived in a fish and that a manbuilt a boat for every animal on the planet x2. Whom ever really wrote the Bible was a master of manipulation.
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Please explain the relevance or purpose of this thread.
It's the offseason with little less than 3 weeks away from draft. We've discussed nearly every possible outcome for drafting players and now were just tryin to kill the offseason pains.
Don't hate on every thread someone posts. That being said here's my top 10 disliked players/coaches in no specific order.
Tom Brady - cocky
Mark Sanchez - way way way overhyped
Jimmy Clausen - 4 TD's 9 picks??? Matt Moore even did better
Olindo Mare - super choke in clutch situations
Sean Payton - I call him the Sith Lord because he always looks like he's scheming
Tony Homo - chokes too much in clutch situations
Rex Ryan - cocky
Tony Gonzalez - Might as well be Schwarzenegger with football pads.
Jake Delhomme (post 2007) - who throws 5 picks in playoff game????
Captain Munnerlyn - only because i play too much madden
Wow this was really tough, I respect all the people who play the game and I couldn't dislike someone just because they're good.


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My second batch is an Abbey Ale from a Brewferm kit, traded the dry yeast for liquid, used candy sugar... Last night and this morning had significant blowout back through the airlock. Should I be concerned? Anything I can do to guard against this in the future? Thanks
You will likely be alright with the pressure pushing air out instead a in. Blow off tubes are a good way to avoid these types of situations. You should consider using one in the future to avoid a repeat of this type of situation.
Blender - will that require me to primary in a carboy, with the blowout tube going to a pale?
In the mean time keep checking on that thing and clean out the airlock as many times as necessary till it settles down. If you let it go, the airlock will clog and then, KABLOOEY!!! You'll have beer everywhere!!
A great man knows that he knows NOTHING
I used a small tube in the bucket lid.. worked for me


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Mon, Jun 24, 13 at 20:03
Where are they? Does a Subzero have coils? The manual only talks about removing the upper grill to clean around the condenser itself. In fact, I can't get near the condenser since there is a protective box surrounding the condenser and fan. But where does the heat exchange occur? What am I missing? I can't get underneath either and I hope they are not in the back. Any advice is welcome from other Subzero owners. |
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It's up at top and you have to remove the upper grill. Use a hose type vacuum to clean the side away from the fan. the right side ( The fan pulls air through the condenser ) There a several videos on YouTube showing how to do it. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cleaning Subzero Condenser
If you have a 700 series or an All Fridge - All Freezer, that stuff will be on the bottom near the floor. With the 700 series you'll need to remove your cabinetry toekick first. |
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