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In the 9 months leading up to surgery, we found comfort in the answers to virtually every question we posed. Now we were about to hand Sam over for his procedure, so any unexpected bit of information would give us pause — even what the surgeon had for breakfast.
"Coffee and a danish?" Teresa asked, obviously thinking a heartier breakfast was in order. The surgeon, recognizing our somewhat irrational state, quickly added that he drank some orange juice, too.
People who do this kind of thing for a living say cochlear implant surgery is fairly straightforward. While we have no reason to doubt them, it's difficult to casually digest words like "mastoidectomy" in a description of what is in store for your child. From the moment we woke on the day of surgery, our excitement about Sam's life after surgery was tempered by anxiety about the risks, no matter how small.
Sam's day started at 4:00 a.m., when the window was closing on his last opportunity to drink clear liquids before surgery. He rubbed his eyes with the backs of his hands and gave his mom a big smile, but showed no interest in an early-morning gulp of Pedialyte. Teresa put him back in his crib until we were ready to leave for the hospital a little more than an hour later.
Sam was awake for the entire ride and, despite limited sleep, no food, and no liquids, was in a good mood. Once we arrived at 6:30 a.m., we bounced from admissions to a waiting area to a room just outside the operating room, answering questions and signing papers at each stop along the way.
Sam watched a "Barney" video as nurses hustled in and out to change him into a gown, put an ID tag on his ankle, and check his vital signs. He was unfazed, but Teresa and I grew more emotional as the level of activity let us know Sam would be going into surgery soon.
That's when Sam's surgeon stopped in. We took advantage of our last opportunity to ask him questions, covering topics ranging from what he ate for breakfast to precautions they would take to prevent complications during surgery. The surgeon answered each question with calming confidence. The surgery is the easy part, he told us, no doubt noticing our concern.
Teresa said, "Please take care of Sam like he's one of your own." The doctor promised he would, encouraged us not to worry, and left the room.
Before long the anesthesia team came in. They gave Sam a mild sedative to prevent separation anxiety and let us say our goodbyes. Sam traded smiles with the anesthesiologist and reached for her surgical mask as she carried him away. Teresa and I leaned out the door to watch every step until the two of them crossed through a set of swinging doors.
From there we went out to sit among other anxious parents in a waiting area for what we were told could be a 4-hour stay. A nurse gave us our first update after an hour, then came back an hour later with unexpected news: Things went so well that the doctor was already closing Sam's incision. After meeting with the surgeons about 20 minutes later, we joined Sam in the post-anesthesia care unit.
Sam was lying on a gurney with a nurse by his side, his little head wrapped in a turban-like bandage. His face was a little puffy, but overall he looked better than we thought he would. Sam remained unconscious for a good 4 hours before he began to rub his eyes and cry out occasionally as the doctors transitioned his pain medication coming through the IV — from morphine to Tylenol with codeine.
As time passed, the crowd of children recovering from surgery grew and cries sporadically rang out from different directions. Parents entered the room with an air of purpose that peaked upon identifying their children and then turned gentle as they approached the bedside of their little ones. You couldn't help but count your blessings in that room.
Construction was going on at the hospital, limiting the number of available rooms. In the late afternoon we were moved to a second holding area, where we stayed until about 8:00 p.m. when Sam was admitted for the evening. Sam shared a room with another child who received an implant shortly after him, giving our families a common bond to discuss.
Sam took his first drink at midnight and drank even more at 4:00 a.m. By morning he was ready for breakfast and seemed to be acting like himself. It was a huge relief to see his smile again. A doctor on duty removed Sam's bandage, and the surgery site looked great. A small strip of surgical tape covered a thin C-shaped line that ran behind Sam's right ear. It appeared clean and tightly sutured, relieving concerns we had about the need for us to perform wound-care duties at home. We took turns feeling the quarter-sized bump made by the implant's internal component, located nearby but more toward the back of his head.
Our only nervous moment came when Sam woke from his morning nap with a significant dent in his head from the crib rail. The doctor assured us that it would go away as his swelling subsided, and he was right.
Surgery day was long and emotionally taxing at times, but in the end Sam's doctor delivered on his prediction of a smooth outcome — despite being fueled by little more than caffeine and pastry. We entrusted our child to skilled, compassionate professionals, and they treated him like he was one of their own.
Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD Date reviewed: May 2011
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ummmmm........ it is good. i like it. it has a alot of feeling of hate and rage. good job.
hell is here
so you had better fear
what comes from beneath
will unleash its wrath
from the flames of hades
to the darkness of shadows
hell is here
so have some fear
hell is here
the end is near
blood will rain all over the land
blood of people falling from heaven
death is in the air
so you had better beware
cause hell is here
so have fear!
ummmmm........ it is good. i like it. it has a alot of feeling of hate and rage. good job.
thanks i was a bit pissed off when i did this so i decided to let all my rage out in a poem
Nice, dark, evil, hellish poem!!! ^^ Reminded me of a poem I made... it's about hell too, but the atitude to this all is the oposite. The poem is very old, I was 10 when I wrote this.
There is something
Inside your mind,
That makes me run,
That makes me hide.
Lets go and find out
What is mine
Lets go in darkness
And make some crime.
Lets leave this world
We have the time! ^^
Just though I should stand against your interpretation of hell, with mine- fun variant ^^
But this is a great poem indeed... enjoyed reading it...
My recommended fanfic: "Dreamer" by Scourge
well it seems like great minds think alike then lasura that little poem was cool i think
this poem is really angry just like everyone
here is saying and how you express your anger
by using hell is really good , most people think
that when youy get angry or hatefull its because
a little bit of hell resides in you but thats just for some
not everyone belives that.
awesome poem i like this one alot
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices son
They're one in the same, I must isolate you...
Isolate and save you from yourself
thanks to you as well its great to have people like your poems really it is
Oh wow!!! Thats a lot of rage coming from this poem but it was good as well as you can see! Bravo!!!! (Claps) So I hope to see more!!!
「When I'm sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead」

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In the first half Marcos de Niza's Josh Eckley struck through the air; in the second half he struck on the ground. And it was just enough for Eckley and his Padres receivers to squeak out a high-octane win over host Horizon, 56-53, which saw Eckley log 310 total yards.
"I'm just grateful to have the guys that I do," he said. "I'm blessed to have all my receivers and I can count on them and they can count on me."
In the end, Eckley hit eight different receivers on his way to posting 185 yards and three touchdowns in the air. But when Horizon pulled to within four with 5:03 left in the third quarter, it was his rushing game that supplied the offense. On a third and two, Eckley bounced past two Horizon defenders to manufacture a 31-yard scramble for a touchdown.
Then, when the Huskies fumbled the kickoff and the Padres recovered, two plays later he dashed in a 17-yard TD to round out Marcos' scoring.
"He's such a threat. And he's smart. At the end there, we got a little crazy, but he's really grown up and he's leading the team," said Marcos' coach Roy Lopez.
Following Eckley's scoring, Horizon posted two unanswered touchdowns both from the Huskies' signal-caller Dalton Sneed. He notched his first on a 26-yard rumble with 10:06 left in the game. Then, after the Horizon line forced Eckley into two errant passes and a punt, Sneed lobbed a pass to Jason McLaurin for a 13-yard touchdown with 4:25 left to put the Huskies within 3.
"[That] is where your character is showing. Either you are going to lay down or you are going to keep fighting," said new coach Kris Heavner. "These kids, the Horizon community, the school, we don't lay down and we keep fighting."
But the Marcos offense was able to muster two clutch first downs in the last two minutes behind the legs of Eckley and Jacob Lagunas, who finished with 95 yards, which allowed them to run out the clock for the win.
The Padres also benefited from two special teams touchdowns by Marcus Maldonado, one of 65 yards and another from 74 yards out.
"We just came a little short. Obviously in our special teams, giving up two kickoffs," said Heavner. "I mean, it's a different game if just played sound on special teams. And that's obviously disappointing, but we're going to bounce back and clean up our mistakes."
Marcos de Niza 56, Horizon 53
First Downs: H 17, MDN 16
Rushing: H 31-281, MDN 48-249
Passing (comp.-att.-TD-INT): H 18-28-238-4-1, MDN 12-22-185-3-0
Fumbles-lost: H 3-1, MDN 6-2
Penalties-yards: H 7-90, MDN 6-48
Marcos de Niza 13 15 28 0 -- 56
Horizon 14 7 17 15 -- 53
H: Marciniak 29 pass from Sneed (McAtamney kick)
MDN: Lagunas 21 pass from Eckley (Ketterer kick)
MDN: Hernandez 2 run (run failed)
H: Salinas 65 pass from Sneed (McAtamney kick)
MDN: Nguyen 17 pass from Eckley (Loney pass from Eckley)
H: Salinas 4 pass from Sneed (McAtamney kick)
MDN: Maldanado 85 kick return (Ketterer kick)
M: Lagunas 20 pass from Eckley (Ketterer kick)
MDN: Quinn 68 run (McAtamney kick)
H: McAtamney 39 FG
MDN: Maldanado 74 kick return (Ketterer kick)
H: Sneed 12 run (McAtamney kick)
MDN: Eckley 31 run (Ketterer kick)
MDN: Eckley 17 run (Ketterer kick)
H: Sneed 26 run (McAtamney kick)
H: McLaurin 13 pass from Sneed (McLaurin pass)


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This season:Prince in ROMEO & JULIET, Rowley in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Previously for SATTF: Corin in AS YOU LIKE IT, Richard Noakes in ARCADIA. RICHARD III TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, KING LEAR, OTHELLO,THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, HAMLET, Caska in JULIUS CAESAR, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, Egeus & Robin Starveling in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Sebastian in THE TEMPEST, RICHARD II, and Angelo in THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. Over a thirteen year period Alan produced, directed and acted in many productions as a founder-member of Show of Strength Pub Theatre Company, producing new writing and rare classics. Andrew Hilton is Artistic Director and Founder of SATTF and has directed all but one of its 32 productions to date.
"Andrew Hilton, who has kept the beacon alive in Bristol with forensically clear, pinpoint sharp Shakespeare productions, has put on a production of Uncle Vanya which is very extraordinary."
Susannah Clapp, BBC RADIO 3 This Season: Sir Benjamin Backbite in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Previously for SATTF: Cornwall in KING LEAR, Flute and Peaseblossom in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Oronte in THE MISANTHROPE, Octavius Caesar in ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, Octavius Caesar in JULIUS CAESAR, Roderigo in OTHELLO, Hugh Oatcake in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Callum will be joining SATTF for the first time to play Benvolio in ROMEO & JULIET and Sir Toby in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. This season: Teazle in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Previously for SATTF: The Dukes in AS YOU LIKE IT, Jellaby in ARCADIA. Edward IV and James Tyrell in RICHARD III. Murellus & Cinna the Poet in JULIUS CAESAR, Agrippa in ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, Lear's Fool in KING LEAR and Gaev in THE CHERRY ORCHARD.
Involved as an actor since the first season in 2000; he augmented the company's outreach work developing a thriving youth programme.
"Chris Donnelly's Iago is the most restrained and unshowy I've encountered, and this makes the seeping of his poison into Othello's mind all the more compelling and credible."
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Chris will be joining SATTF for the first time to play Montague in ROMEO & JULIET and Sir Oliver in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Was one of the founders of SATTF and has been a member of the board since SATTF became a charity in 2004.
This Season: Tybalt in ROMEO & JULIET, Credit in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Previously for SATTF: Mutius Andronicus in TITUS ANDRONICUS, JULIUS CAESAR, THE TEMPEST, York's Servant in RICHARD II, Officer in COMEDY OF ERRORS. Daisy will be joining SATTF for the first time to play Juliet in ROMEO & JULIET and Lady Teazle in SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.ALAN COVENEY
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"What is a man, what has he got?/If not himself, then he has naught" – the closing stanza of Frank Sinatra's signature tune and part of his 'brand property', expresses a sentiment appropriate to branding at its best: namely integrity.
A brand is an identity that is not merely assumed, but one that is earned and consolidated over time. It can't be faked – although when it comes to clothing and FMCG's many try. The image must be matched by its substance and tested in an unforgiving market.I was reminded of this by Brand Finance's 2014 listing of the Global 500 brands: the world's most powerful brands based on a number of criteria, including desirability, loyalty, consumer sentiment, visual identity, online presence and employee satisfaction.
Topping their list is Ferrari, the Italian sports car manufacturers, and you can see why they tick all the above boxes. And yet, as if to prove that wealth and fame are not interchangeable, it only came 350th in terms of brand value (a mere $4 billion!) despite having an AAA+ brand rating.
Ferrari, it seems, is recognised and loved by everyone but patronised by few – which considering the exclusivity and prohibitive cost of its product is maybe only to be expected.
Apple, by contrast, seems to have the best of both worlds. It has an AAA brand rating and a world beating brand value of $105 billion, a rank it has held for the past three years.
The company has capitalised handsomely on the power of its brand and yet its fortunes are built on the vision, integrity and even the relative unworldliness of the late Steve Jobs, who eschewed value engineering in favour of unalloyed design quality and innovation. (And was temporarily voted off the board for his trouble!).
It was this visionary stance that gave Apple its ascendancy over IBM (now 10th in the brand value rankings with AA+ rating). But it should beware of resting on its laurels (as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame can testify, having just paid an eye watering $19 billion for WhatsApp in a bid to hold his ground in the software market).
Snapping at Apple's heels is Samsung (second in the brand value stakes with an AAA brand rating). Its reputation for reliability, a faster pace of innovation and a wider range of devices have seen its brand value increase to $79 billion over the past year.
So, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. To get to wear it in the first place you have to be a true original – to 'do it your way' as Frank would say, whilst at the same time keeping a sharp eye on the competition to ensure that their way isn't better than yours!


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Decorated White Chocolate Sugar Cookies
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs, large
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 1/4 cup flour, unbleached or all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 cup white chocolate melting discs
- 2 tablespoons any color edible glitter
- Preheat the oven to 360 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar and salt.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and beat well.
- Add the first cup of flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix on low until blended then add the remainder of the flour and mix just until flour disappears.
- Using a 2 ounce cookie scooper, scoop and place the cookie dough about 2" apart on an un-greased, nonstick baking sheet.
- Place the baking sheet into a preheated 360 degrees F oven and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies are lightly golden brown.
- Cool on baking sheets about 10-15 minutes and carefully transfer them to a cooling rack. Cool completely before decorating.
- Cooled sugar cookies
- 1 1/2 cups white chocolate melting discs
- 1 tablespoon edible glitter, optional but pretty
- 2 cup glass measuring cup
- Plastic squeeze bottle
- Spoon
- Spatula
- Put the white chocolate melting discs in a glass measuring cup.
- Place it in the microwave and microwave for 1 minute at power 3.
- Stir and repeat a few times until the chocolate is smooth and just melted. Click here for more tips on melting chocolate.
- Put the melted white chocolate in a squeeze bottle and drizzle it in a circle pattern.
- Next, while the chocolate is still wet, sprinkle some edible glitter over top. I used aqua & purple and left some of the cookies without glitter for a nice contrast.
Interested in sealing and labeling them? Click here for the easy steps.
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Originally presented at Anchor Center for Blind Children Pediatric Interest Group, 4/24/97
GOAL: To facilitate alert, secure behavioral state to engage child in learning through any one or any combination of sensory modalities.
WORKING DEFINITION: "Eyes are fine, brain isn't".
Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI) affects the visual cortex or visual tracts in the brain. Visual processing and interpretation as well as discrimination/acuity are affected. Eyes look normal and pupil responses are normal. However, CVI often is present in conjunction with other eye conditions that cause specific visual impairment in addition to the above. For example, premature babies may have restricted vision due to retinopathy of prematurity and CVI due to intraventricular hemmorhage.
PRIMARY STRATEGY: Make sure sensory message is clear to the child.
CVI is most often caused by anoxic episodes, often in the vulnerable period shortly during or after birth. Other common etiologies associated with CVI are seizure disorders, drug implications, cardiac arrest during surgery, and traumatic head injury.
In working with a child with CVI to try for more visual function to assist motor development goals begin with the orienting reflex (you reflexively arouse and alert to what is important to you).Capture child's attention on a reflexive level, then provide learning structure. Example: ATNR--provide flashlight wrapped in red crinkley paper at arm's length. Work from there for grasp and visual gaze/fixation.
At other times offer the child multi-sensory materials to explore on his/her own terms. Use items that can be seen or touched or heard or can be activated using any combination of them. Common everyday objects rather than plastic models need to be used. Be sure to incorporate weight, temperature, smell, and resonance or vibration qualities in the materials used.
Color vision may be intact, consistent, and motivating. Red and yellow are usually most easily seen and tend to be children's favorites. They can also be seen from further away than other colors. Color interpretation tends to remain constant, so colors can be used to assist organization by color coding materials in communication systems and specific places in the learning environment for mobility reference points.
Preferred sensory modalities are individual to each child and may vary for different tasks and in different environments. Often vision is secondary or a supplement to hearing or touch. Even though vision may end up giving the child the most information in the end, the child may have to hear or touch the item before he/she will try to look at it. Since other senses are slower than vision, becoming familiar with a new item or activity may need to take a longer than usual familiarization period.
Introducing a new task in isolation, away from a group, and without any other physical or stressful sensory input or distraction, may best allow the child to become familiar with the sound, feel, and look of the materials involved before becoming involved in the structure of using the material in a given way. If the child is familiar with the materials and the task beforehand, he/she may better be able to perform the task within a group setting because he/she will know what to look and listen for.
Often, a child can only process one sensory modality at a time. Modify instruction so that only one sensory modality at a time has to be engaged. Listening often seems to "capture" the child more than other sensory input; if child is listening, he/she can not be looking. Give the child an oral direction, then perform it so he/she can visually imitate it, rather than talk child through task. Be aware that some children tend to get "stuck" or "locked-in" to electronic sounds like tapes, electronic game boards, keyboard songs, fans, and motors; they cannot break away on their own and need you to turn source off or break its cycle before they can attend.
A classic observation of the child with CVI is that he will briefly gaze at an object then look away while accurately reaching for and grasping object. Sensory integration is a significant problem when vision is not available to perform its role as synthesizer of all sensory input. Thus visual-motor skill development is a real challenge. A critical first step in development and remediation may be for the child to watch his hands. This is usually a skill observed early in infancy (4-6 mos.) To promote it in later periods try having child watch what his/her hands are holding and make sure that stimulus offers a clear and motivating visual component. Examples to try are bright vibrator-toy, fastening helium metallic balloon to wrist, putting neon-colored gloves on child's hands.
When visual-motor skills are emphasized, use materials that are already familiar and motivating to the child so that sensory input is already understood. This may be a time when intermittent sound accompaniment will help keep the child engaged with the activity. Simple music keyboards that play single notes, not an entire piece, before needing re-activation are good examples. The child is in control of the sound component so auditory is not competing with visual and motor senses.
The child with CVI may initially choose to reach for objects seen close to his/her face by using his/her head instead of his/her hands. Encourage this as it is actually another form of reaching that carries with it the same spatial and cognitive understanding that using hands does. Expect that eventually the child will replace head-reach with hand-reach on his/her own. Head-reaching is a satisfying compensatory skill for the child with tactile defensiveness around his hands.
The ability to inhibit or prioritize visual input is often absent for children with CVI. They tend to look at stimuli very close to their faces in order to block out competing visual background distraction. Depth perception and figure-ground discrimination are not observed in most cases. Thus background wallpaper is equivalent to shape block held in hand. Providing a high-contrast background (usually black, non-glare fabric or matte paper is good) is imperative to send a clear visual message to the child with CVI.
Resist taking child's hands to physically model how a task should be done by imposing structure. Consider ways that child can perform what you want done by trying to make the same sounds you do performing task or by providing physical boundaries and borders that will assist in successful task completion. Work-play trays with rimmed edges and high-contrast background may help a lot. Encourage child to initiate placing his/her hands in yours to do task "together" (child's palms on top of adult's hands); this way child initiates molding and can prepare for touch.
For children who need physical cueing and facilitation to complete a task, work out a consistent system to prepare child for your upcoming physical assistance. Many children with visual impairment prefer to place their hand on top of the back of the adult's hand because the movements and kinesthetic experiences better. approximate what they will need to do to duplicate the task on their own.
Attraction to lights and staring at lights is frequently observed in children with CVI so seat child with his back to light sources and not underneath fluorescent lights. Indirect lighting is best and usually brighter is preferred. Some children with CVI are overly sensitive to light and glare; they may prefer less-bright lighting as well as wanting to play in shaded areas outdoors. Encourage these children to wear sunglasses and brimmed caps while travelling in cars and playing outdoors.
Many children with CVI tend to have remarkably intact "faces" vision when other less difficult stimuli go undetected. Often spontaneous eye contact may occur even if it is fleeting. It is more difficult to achieve when you ask the child to look at you. It is especially important for the child who is highly motivated by faces to have the instructor work in front of him/her, close to face.
Familiarity with the sensory attributes of an object or activity helps the child feel secure enough to attend to what can be done with the object. Repetition and practice effect improve visual response time significantly. Also, using the same materials for continual building of new skills can be helpful by eliminating time to gain familiarity with new items. An efficient approach may be to introduce new materials for generalization of already accomplished skills For example, use bright pink plastic eggs filled with sand on a tray to promote beginning eye-hand co-ordination or grasp. Then try putting one green egg in the tray for "different" concept. Try adding more colors for matching or sorting. Hide them for developing scanning skills.
Travel vision may be good in comparison to near work but will be inconsistent unless familiar routines for safety and orientation are impressed upon the child. Safety monitoring should always occur, especially when drop-offs, figure-ground and depth-perception issues occur, such as shadows on steps. Environmental adaptations such as painting a fluorescent orange strip across the drop-off or top step are helpful in warning the child of what is coming.
Incidents in which the child sees and picks up "a raisin from the floor" are frequently reported. However the child will be unable to visually locate the raisin if asked to look for it. This phenomenon of "incidental" vision seems to indicate that there are times or perhaps slits of intact vision but the child has no control over where and when such incidents will occur. It is difficult for most children with CVI to scan to visually locate a stationary object in a busy background unless it is very familiar and motivating. It can be made easier if a movement component is added such as moving arm across field systematically to point and "look up, look down, look all around". After modeling for child, he can learn to do this as a regular part of his scanning technique.
Spacing is important to consider especially in designing augmentative communication systems. Start by trying 4" backgrounds of high-contrast with 2" figures. Keep pictures simple with only important inner detail included. It is important to keep positional sequencing consistent so the system can be effective when vision is "off" and spatial or kinesthetic memory is required to supplement vision.
Mid-line difficulties are often encountered in working with children with CVI, thus positioning of objects or items on a communication board may need to be placed on the side s rather than at mid-line in front. Some children do better with vertical placement of items than with horizontal placement because it eliminates need to cross mid-line. Explore what may work best; each child is different.
Timing: Everything always takes lots longer when visual tracts are not intact. Allow quiet response time of up to one minute initially before intervening.


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Eureka, the best florie ever
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Irrigation serves to protect blueberry flowers from frost damage.
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Early Found Fragrances - Olfactory Delights at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
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This is the beginning of a flowering plant video library. The goal of this library is to give a short, guided, visual, one to two minute introduction to flowering plants that thrive under Minnesota conditions. You will be able to see the plant in a natural or landscape setting and see how it might fit into your landscape.
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While exploring the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum I encountered Dr. Stan Hokanson the woody plant breeder in the Department of Horticulture Science. He introduced me to the Clove Currant (Ribes odoratum). The odoratum nomenclature is well deserved. Clove Currant give off a very pleasant spicy fragrance hinting of clove and alspice (Photos 1 and 2). The plant has yellow flowers and a corolla long enough to restrict its pollinators to those with long tongues like bumblebees (Photos 3 and 4).
Another tree with fragrant flowers is the Korean crabapple (Malus bacatta jackii) one of the earlier flowering crabapples. The flowers are being visited by native bees (Photos 5 and 6).
Karl Foord, Extension Educator, Horticulture
Temperatures in the mid to low 20's were encountered last Tuesday April 10th in many parts of central and southern Minnesota. Apple fruit flowers are damaged at temperatures lower than 28 degrees F. depending on the stage of the flower bud and the length of time at the low temperature. The more open the flower bud the more susceptible the bud is to low temperature damage.
The following picture gallery shows the types of frost damage experience by apple flowers in Chaska, Minnesota. The gallery begins with heathy flowers with green stigmas and cream anthers, shows partially damaged flowers with dead stigmas and soom dead anthers, and finally a flower will all parts killed.
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Many tree flowers are described as inconspicuous. This may be more a matter of size and location. Tree flowers tend to be shhort lived, inaccessible if higher up in the tree, and smaller than many of our showy garden flowers. On closer iinspection you may find them to be rather intreguing. Consider the first photo of Autumn blaze Maple.
Karl Foord, Extension Educator, Horticulture
I was photographing honeybees working an early pollen source last spring - Allium Allium christophii 'Star of Persia' (Photo 1).
I noticed that the pollen carried by the honeybee was an interesting grey color. This led me to wonder about pollen colors. I did some research and came up with a dizzying array of pollen colors represented in Table 1).
Photo 2 shows a bumblebee with the off white pollen of Sedum.
As spring approaches keep an eye out for the array of pollen colors offered by our spring flowers (Photo 3) and carried by our insect pollinators (Photo 4).
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Throughout March, people have been having problems with nuisance insects in their homes, especially cluster flies, boxelder bugs, and (multicolored Asian) lady beetles. Fortunately, these insects are harmless, although they can be annoying, especially when a lot of them are present. Here are a few things to keep in mind when dealing with these insects.
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on July 19, 2013I live around here, and I spent a couple days chasing this story, so I understand that feelings are a bit raw, but can Boston stop losing its mind over a photograph now, please?
Boston Magazine scored a scoop when a police sergeant released to it photos of the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, showing the alleged Boston Marathon bomber bloodied and half-dead following his encounter with police in a back yard in Watertown. This, it was said, was to soothe the injured feelings of the local hysterics who were offended by the fact that Rolling Stone ran on its cover a photo of Tsarnaev in which he did not have bolts in his neck or something. Now, the cop is suspended, and everybody's arguing again, and it's 97-goddamn degrees, and I keep waiting for Mookie to bring me a pizza from Sal's Famous so that somebody can start a fight. And what once was a terrible story that ended with an outburst of warm civic pride is now one of those media things about which everyone gets uselessly angry.
(Dan Kennedy, the fine local media critic, made the only point compelling enough to make, which is why we didn't have these capture photos in the first place. They're the living definition of public record. But since every police department thinks its the CIA these days, secrecy is reflexive.)
Outside of a big old fk-you to Jann Wenner, what was the release of these bloody photos supposed to prove? That the climactic firefight in the Watertown neighborhood was worse than we were led to believe? If it was to give everyone a vicarious thrill to see the bomber half-dead, that that was simple vengeful sadism and the policeman's suspension more than warranted on those ground alone. This guy's going to have to have a trial here. Somebody's going to have to sit on a jury. Having everyone riled up every couple of months is not going to make either one of those easier. And, now, I am not optimistic at all about the coverage of that trial.
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Crisis Communications: why you should use social media when disaster strikes
I've been speaking to a lot of communications professionals lately about how to update their crisis communications strategy for the Twitter age. It's true that social media has completely changed the game for crisis comms pros as now the crowd informs the crowd about how a disaster, natural or corporate-made, is likely to impact their community. But smart companies can use this technology as well to improve their communications strategy with the public. Here's another reason why.
Firstly, it makes sense to pre-plan your social media crisis comms strategy in advance. A plan of attack will be of a huge help as you try to pull in your organization's social media monitoring firepower to help defuse a smoldering crisis. (Note: I'll be talking more about how to get social in a crisis at a Social Media Influence 2012.)
Secondly, it's imperative you bring that advanced training back to your team. Implement rules for how they should respond (or not!) to a possible crisis as it first appears online. Here are two handy guides we put together with Neil Chapman, who headed up crisis comms for BP during the Deepwater Horizon spill:
- The Social Media Crisis Communications Decision Tree, a kind of corporate schematic to help you and your team think through and respond to potentially reputation-damaging posts made by the public.
- And the Social Media Crisis Response Plan, a handy guide to help you better organize your internal processes and thinking to keep your brand from being the next big #Fail.
Now that the crisis has hit, which channels will you use to keep the public informed, and how will you use these new powerful social tools at your disposal? For example, do you have an emergency hashtag strategy? Why is this important? Smart disaster response agencies all around the world have used Twitter to great effect to inform the public about developments surrounding natural disasters before, during and after they happen. Here's a few ideas pulled from one of my crisis comms presentation slides:
The American Red Cross has been perhaps one of the most sophisticated agencies in the world deploying social media and mobile technologies in the time of a crisis. Here's what they learned from the way the public uses these new technologies to communicate among themselves when their lives are turned upside down. Americans (and I believe this could be extended to people across the developed world) are turning to social media to quickly tell their contacts how they are surviving a disaster, their recent survey found:
- Followed by television and local radio, the internet is the third most popular way for people to gather emergency information with 18 percent of both the general and the online population specifically using Facebook for that purpose
- Nearly a fourth (24 percent) of the general population and a third (31 percent) of the online population would use social media to let loved ones know they are safe;
- Four of five (80 percent) of the general and 69 percent of the online populations surveyed believe that national emergency response organizations should regularly monitor social media sites in order to respond promptly.
- For those who would post a request for help through social media, 39 percent of those polled online and 35 of those polled via telephone said they would expect help to arrive in less than one hour.
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What is so fascinating to me is that the public, in terms of its sensibilities, preferences and expectations for using social media at a time of distress and crisis, has much more faith in these technologies than companies, many of which prefer to battle a blaze using old technologies and old-school crisis comms methods.
Editor's Note: Learn from the digital pioneers, brands like Coca-Cola, Carnival Cruises, Whole Foods, Vodafone and scores of others. Their social media blunders – in the areas of crap customer service, plain dumb marketing or simply being caught short in a crisis – provide valuable lessons from which to shape future corporate comms policy. It all can be found in our new e-book, #FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups and How to Avoid Being the Next One. Buy the book today on Amazon UK, Amazon or on Lulu where you can find it in paperback and epub.


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CALIFORNIA, December 13, 2013 — Nelson Mandela, one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century, died last week at the ripe old age of 95. While the vast majority of the world mourns the death of this legendary figure, American conservatives have largely found themselves attempting to trash Mandela's prolific legacy.
Many conservatives continue to point out that Mandela aligned with communists. They observe that Mandela, at one point in his lengthy and complex public life, advocated violence as a means of achieving the goal of liberating South African blacks, who lived miserably under the dictatorial thumb of white supremacist apartheid rule.
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The conservatives who attack Mandela almost never remember that many Western conservatives either supported or condoned apartheid in South Africa. Conservatives who did not support apartheid were looked at as the RINOs of their day. Ronald Reagan, the hero of the American right, vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. He resolutely refused to place sanctions on South Africa's morally reprehensible apartheid government.
The American right's pointless invective directed towards Mandela at his death essentially demonstrates the shallowness of ideological thinking. Indeed, this pitiable worldview can be called juvenile conservatism.
Juvenile conservatives believe that all that needs to be proven is that Mandela aligned with communists at any point in his life, hence his entire rich legacy as a freedom fighter for the human rights of Africans can be disregarded with history's garbage. This is a pitifully simplistic analysis.
Juvenile conservatives are incapable of understanding that the real world is not divided by pristinely straight ideological lines. They are incapable of understanding that authentic conservatism does not simply mean taking whatever position is the opposite of the left. This kind of reasoning leads conservatives into trouble.
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Communists were right to support both the African National Congress and the cause of ending apartheid. Conservatives were on the wrong side of history on the issue. The true conservative position on apartheid should have been to oppose it.
How many conservatives today are willing to brook a discussion as to whether any positions communists held were right? Such a conversation descends into name-calling. It is as though one cannot simultaneously believe communism is abhorrent and agree with communists on one moral point.
Racial discrimination and oppression of people is fundamentally wrong; it violates fundamental conservative principles. Inasmuch as the conservative movement reveres the Founding Fathers and their quest for freedom from a tyrannical British government, they should be attuned to the subjugation of others.
The oppression of blacks under apartheid was far more morally odious than the oppression that the Founding Fathers opposed — and fought the Revolutionary War to destroy. It is repulsively hypocritical to maintain that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist for fighting for the freedom of his people, while reverencing the Founding Fathers of America for doing the same thing — under an indisputably less oppressive regime.
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As Newt Gingrich aptly said in his rejoinder to conservative critics who were outraged over his consolatory comments about Mandela and his passing, "What would you do here in America if you had that kind of oppression?"
Indeed, Newt Gingrich was one of the few center-right politicians in the 1990s with enough moral courage to oppose the mainstream, iniquitous conservative position of supporting apartheid. He pushed for sanctions against the South African state.
Interestingly, there was apartheid-like oppression in the United States against blacks, and many conservatives were again on the wrong side. William F. Buckley, the editor and founder of National Review — the most influential American conservative magazine — was a staunch opponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
There is a racial element to explore here: Many conservatives can seem indifferent to the suffering of blacks while showing acute awareness of the slightest suffering of whites. That element has been explored many times, but this juvenile conservatism that the American right has adopted has not been properly explored.
Juvenile conservatives reduce conservative logic to simple opposition to everything that liberals posit. That is not constitutive of deep moral reasoning. It is simply the kind of pointless polarization that arises from thoughtless anger and adversarial politics.
Liberals are not on the wrong side of everything. It is possible to hold the same position as a liberal, but for completely different reasons. It is also legitimate to hold the same position as the left for the same reasons. Doing so at rare points does not mean that we forfeit the right to be called "conservative." It recognizes the fact that not everything has to be polarized. Partisan political glasses are not required for every world issue.
Juvenile conservatives have shown their inability to reason by trashing Nelson Mandela. However, Mandela-bashing is only one example of this trend.
When liberals build a bastion in academia, juvenile conservatives turn around and bash academia as if education, especially in the liberal arts, has nothing useful to offer and should be eliminated. When liberals suggest ending the War on Drugs, juvenile conservatives furiously oppose that effort and accuse them of promoting drug use. When liberals correctly argue that Trayvon Martin did not deserve to die, juvenile conservatives feel obliged to paint him as a drug-crazed thug.
There are countless examples of conservatives rushing to adopt unreasonable positions on issues, simply because always being diametrically opposed to liberals is more important to them than adhering to conservative principles.
Compromising on principle in order to placate political opponents is unnecessary and unacceptable. However, to abandon principle just to take the opposite side of an argument from political opponents is also unacceptable.
Juvenile conservatism is not an ideology of careful moral reflection, and it harms the sensible ideology of conservatism. Juvenile conservatism is an unthinking movement of hyperpartisan political posturing and groupthink. It is what we should expect when the ideological leaders on the right are college dropouts with radio shows that are driven by shock. Indeed, their livelihoods thrive on disputation and rancor.
If conservatives cannot develop empathy skills and stop reacting like Pavlov's dogs to the words "communist" and "Marxist," the conservative movement will continue to add to a history of taking morally deplorable stances on critically important issues. As a result, the legacy of the right will suffer more historical blemishes.
Nelson Mandela was on the right side of history, and juvenile conservatives continue to be embarrassingly wrong.
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