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A Chris Sandow field goal with just seconds left in extra time handed Parramatta a thrilling 19-18 golden point NRL win over local rivals Penrith at Centrebet Stadium on Saturday night.
Having missed with two earlier attempts at the match winner both in regulation and golden point, Sandow piloted over the shot from 30 metres with 34 seconds remaining to finally separate the two sides at the bottom of the...
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"In the end, the issue in climate is not how many scientists agree that CO2 is the primary driver of current warming. The issue is whether the CO2 mechanisms they have embraced accurately account for the behavior of the planet in the recent past, and can predict its behavior in the near future.
Time will tell. But I believe the planet has many surprises in store.
So, too, does the science. I am quite sure we will see greater scrutiny of the global temperature record, and how it is kept. At least one paper has attacked the notion of global mean temperature as an arbitrary calculation having no physical significance at all.
In the meantime, as you know, my own prediction for warming over the next 100 years is 0.8 degrees C. I arrived at this by a complex formula that I will reveal in future years."
Michael Crichton: novelist, scientist, philosopher-king! Cutting through the oh-so-politicized "research" with characteristic brilliance, conjuring a formula of such unimaginable complexity that the blinkered masses are not yet ready for it!

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text: | Dáil Éireann - Volume 638 - 02 October, 2007 Written Answers. - Archaeological Sites. Deputy Phil Hogan Deputy Phil Hogan Deputy Phil Hogan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason he has decided to sanction the location of the Turoe Stone from its environment at Turoe to a museum at Galway City; if he will confirm that international practice has been considered in the case of this decision; the consequences that it will have on the local rural community who are seeking to develop attractions like this carved stone as an opportunity to attract visitors to a rural community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21424/07] Deputy John Gormley Deputy John Gormley Deputy John Gormley: I refer to the reply to Question No. 188 of 27 September, 2007. The position is unchanged. Dáil Éireann 638 Written Answers. Archaeological Sites. Questions 20071002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||


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Claim: A celebrity makes a trip to the emergency room to have a gerbil removed from his rectum.
Origins: Contrary to widespread public belief, "gerbil-stuffing" is unknown as an actual sexual practice, nor are we aware of a verified medical case of a gerbil having been extracted from a patient's rectum. Despite the assiduousness with which doctors record unusual items removed from patients' rectums in order to write them up as illustrative cases, we haven't yet found a medical journal article involving a gerbil removal. (Doctors, like most people, often repeat urban legends and stories told to them by others as first-person experiences, hence our standard for declaring this true is a peer-reviewed journal article rather than anecdote.) The notion of gerbilling (not necessarily restricted to homosexuals — the insertion of items into the rectum for purposes of autoeroticism is practiced by heterosexuals as well) appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "faggots" allegedly pursue sexual pleasure. (While people do stick all sorts of unusual items up their rectums, they also do so for reasons other than sexual Like similar legends such as The Promiscuous Rock Star, this tale has been applied to various public figures who are known or believed to be homosexual, and it has stuck with one in particular: Richard Gere. Although the legend homed in on various targets when it first appeared (including a Philadelphia newscaster), it has clung tenaciously to Versions of the following gerbilling fiction date back at least to 1993 when a faked United Press International item appeared on the Internet, one that named Vito Bustone and Kiki Rodriguez of Lake City, Florida, as the accident victims. (The gerbil's name was withheld by request of the family.) Other versions have been falsely attributed to the Los Angeles Times with the events said to have taken place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rest assured that neither news outlet ever published a news article about these fictitious events:
"In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital. Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong.
Sightings: Look for some tongue-in-cheek references to the "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in," he explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out 'Armageddon,' my cue that he'd had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him." At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract. Last updated: 18 November 2001 This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com. Sources:
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Deadline for Submission: March 15, 2013
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, is soliciting proposals to fund projects that result in the rehabilitation, re-establishment, establishment, or enhancement of aquatic resources in the California Central Valley and Sierra Nevada.
In 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District established the Sacramento District Wetlands Conservation Fund (Fund) through a Memorandum of Agreement with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). The primary purpose of the Fund is to collect monies generated by in-lieu fee funding requirements under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act or Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act for authorized activities, as well as monies generated by enforcement and compliance actions initiated by the Sacramento District, and to serve as a funding source for the rehabilitation, re-establishment, establishment, enhancement, or in exceptional circumstances preservation of wetlands and other aquatic resources, and their associated habitats.
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In your FACE, skeptics! Pictures were [finally!] released today of Suri Cruise, the baby daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise.
Like Scientology, the existence of Suri has been met with a lot of skepticism, because (also like Scientology) the idea that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had intercourse at least once just doesn't make any sense.
But that's all over now. Suri's realness has been exposed!! So put away your doubt-hats, you doubting doubters. Real, irrefutable photos of a blurry child near a window were made available exclusively to Junkiness:


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The active vs. passive debate
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Which investment strategy is best to close the underperformance gap all investors face? Gregg Fisher, chief investment officer at Gerstein Fisher, and Daniel Wallick, principal at Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, weigh in.
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On this week's WealthTrack, the active versus passive debate. Two
seasoned investment pros argue the case for and against. In
a surprising twist, Vanguard principal, Daniel Wallick, presents the active
management case while award-winning financial advisor, Gregg Fisher, defends the
passive approach. Their arguments are next on Consuelo Mack WealthTrack.
There is this big underperformance gap, and how much does
behavioral-- behavior affect our returns, both ours as an investor
and also as the individual manager, how they behave, and
that's why it's so important that they-- -Right. Let me
start with the investor. -Yeah. -So, I think it's very
challenging for all of us to stick with something, particularly
if it's had, say, a difficult run for a while,
because for many of us what we wanna do is
fix it. Right? We wanna take action and do something
to stop the hurt or the pain or-- -Uh-huh. -or
the whatever. So, if you have a manager that you
had faith in in the past, and they had-- say,
they had a good run for five years, but all
of a sudden for three years, they've been doing poorly,
there's a sense of urgency. Committee-- Investment committees do this.
Individual investors do this. You know, we, as human beings,
do this. We wanna stop the problem, right? So, what
we'll often think about is, well, we should change that
manager. -Uh-huh. -There was an incredible study done by some
professors down at Emory University, and they looked at institutional
investment committees. So-- -Right. This is the smart money, right?
-Exactly. They looked at 3,000 of these throughout the United
States, and what they found was when they made a
hire-fire decision, it typically was they were firing people who
had a bad three-year track record, they were hiring people
who had historically a good three-year track record, and oddly
enough, for the subsequent three years, the reverse proved to
be true. -Right, reversion of the mean. -Right. So this
sense of, you know, the report card of recent performance
is often used as the decision factor, and you really
need to stand back and not do that. -So, tell
us about how you treat the managers that you've chosen
to manage actively managed funds, how you treat them when
they have had a period of underperformance, let's say three
years. -Right. -So, let me start by saying our average
tenure for sub-advised active managers is 13 years, and if
you take out the people we've hired in the last
five, that number actually rises to 17 years. -So, you
stick with the managers that you choose. -Yeah, right. -We
really do and the reason for that is if we
have faith in their process and their people, all those
qualitative things I was mentioning before, unless those have changed,
we wanna stick with the manager. Now, there will be
those managers who, in a moment of crisis, decide that,
you know, they're gonna flip the switch and go from
being strategy A to strategy B. Those are the managers
we would be most concerned about. You know, why are
you changing? It feels like more of a cash flow
issue than an investment issue. So, for those people who
change for reasons that we don't fully understand or value,
that's when we think of making a change, or if
there's a personnel change in a company, if, you know,
the lead managers all of a sudden are no longer
there, that's another reason too. But if the people are
the same and the process is the same and the
process continues, you know, we're gonna stick with somebody through
hard times. -Yup. Some people think that there are certain
sectors of the market that-- you know, that call for
active management. I mean, we've had somebody on from Morningstar
recently, for instance, who said that municipal bonds, it's so
difficult to-- You know, you've got to look at the
credit worthiness of each individual issue. You can't buy an
index fund. You're poorly served by buying index funds. So,
therefore, you should, you know, be actively managing munis. I
mean, you know, some people say small-cap stocks. Some people
say, you know, local-currency bond, you know, funds in the
international markets. Are there certain sectors that you really do
need to have an active manager? -I think there isn't
a sector where you need to have an active manager.
I think investors could start with the idea that a
market-based portfolio that's globally diversified across all asset classes is
a really great place to start and maybe even end.
However, to the extent an investor wants to consider active
management, we do think that there are places where they're
more likely to have success than others. For example, both
in the U.S. and internationally, there seems to be evidence
that growth investing is a place where you'd have a
better shot at investing with active managers than perhaps value
investing. There's a lot of evidence of this when you
look at rolling 15-year periods through the test of time.
There seems to be something about the ambiguity of growth
stocks and valuing them and a variety of other things
that we think show up in the investor behavioral data
that cause active growth strategies to have better odds than
value strategies when it comes to using active management. But
again, I would say that this is more about a
personal choice because, the point we were making earlier about
investor behavior, the research we've done shows that on average,
investors lose about two percentage points per year just due
to their behavior. This is more important than fees and,
frankly, even more important than taxes. -These are timing their
funds that Daniel was talking about. -Right. -That's exactly right.
So, I think what's important for an investor is, well,
perhaps, they might consider some active management in their portfolio,
and maybe it's growth strategies or some other area where
they feel they have a good shot at winning --
winning meaning returns better than the benchmark, net of fees
and taxes. However, I think what's really important is that
they invest in things they feel comfortable with where they
can stay invested, think strategically, because if they're invested in
something where they're not comfortable, they'll never see the long-term
results that most investors are entitled to. And this 2%
investor drag is very significant, and I think it's the
most important point from our perspective. -Right, and very significant.
Your research has shown over time it's just-- it's huge.
-Yes. -So, any sectors that you think really that you
shouldn't invest in an index fund, that you should invest
with active managers in particular? -No. No. We would say
what you wanna do is start out with a strategic
asset allocation, use indexes to sort of build that out
as a starting point much like Greg said, and then
move off of that to the extent that you'd be
comfortable with active. Active has certain attributes that people, we
would say, people really need to be comfortable with to
undertake and that's-- in particular, there's variability in the returns.
So, relative to the index or the benchmark, you're gonna
be up some years, you're gonna be down some other
years, you're gonna be down for many, many years. Unless
you're comfortable with that, you shouldn't be going into active,
and the other is if you can acquire active at
a reasonable cost. Right? Again, we would say those two
factors-- live-- if you can live with the variability and
you can acquire it at a reasonable cost, then there's
an opportunity for active to be useful.


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In his relentless campaign for the importance of open data, Alex Howard published an interesting article where he mentions a recent press release by Gartner that highlights the "big data makes organization smarter, but open data makes the richer". The press release is based on a research note by my colleague David Newman (subscription required), which looks at the role of open data across industry sectors and rightly points to some of the great examples from the public sector.
As I have always sounded like a skeptic on open data, and certainly so in my conversations with Alex, I think it is important to make a clarification.
We all agree that open data is important and it has the potential to fuel existing industry sectors as well as possibly create entirely new industries. Examples abound already in government and Alex as well as several others have diligently tracked them over time. David's call is meant to stimulate private sector companies the benefits that they would get from both providing and leveraging open data.
Where Gartner government research takes a more cautionary attitude is on the fact that open data initiatives have been around for a while.
Federal, state and local governments have launched countless contests to involve and recognize application developers, and this is likely to continue in future, as open government remains an essential attribute of many government digital strategies.
However it would be unwise not to consider the possible fatigue that the continued demand of publishing and using open data may generate inside the agencies that are responsible for that data.
Some do live and breath public data (e.g. departments dealing with research, statistics, culture, tourism), so open data is right in line with their strategic priorities. But for many others data is just the fuel for their services and operations and while they may appreciate the importance of data being open, their short-term priorities and primary challenges keep them away from fully leveraging its value.
This is why I have been saying for quite some time that a more immediate connection between open data and agency mission priorities need to be established as early as possible. If there are problems they cannot solve, or cannot solve in a sufficiently cost-effective manner through traditional means, then open data may prove its value and its success would most likely stick with the agency. A Gartner note published last February says that Survival of Open Government Depends on Short-Term Payoffs (subscription required) and the same argument transpires through much earlier research as well as many of my blog post (just search here under "open data" or "open government").
Just telling people "If you build, they will come" is a hardly sustainable proposition, for those who struggle with doing more with less in an increasingly turbulent and uncertain environment.
So let's keep a steady focus on open data, but let's make sure that rather than calling just for the eye-catching headlines around healthcare or development of new business, government agencies find concrete incentives in trying out open-data-based approaches to run their own business and not to just to work for the common good. The risk is that generic calls on the value of open data will cause several government executives to lose steam and interest, making their agencies lose the long-term opportunities coming from open data.
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I have a named Tropical Sunset brug received from a nursery. It blooms a deep orange yellow. I want to trade for other named cuttings, preferrably something that has a striking look either in foliage or bloom... maybe a double? Or a striking unnamed is okay.
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I would be interested in trading for cuttings. I have pride and prejudice which is a white with light yellow seams, and a dark yellow/ orange, orange delight, and a pink, which is fairy princess, I have a good size rooted cutting of the pride and prejudice and cuttings of the orange delight and fairy princess. I would be interested in any combination of cuttings you may have to spare, thank you. Willy godsgarden9. |
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Vesicoureteral Reflux—Adult
Pronounced: VEH-sih-co-ya-REET-uh-rul REE-flux
En Español (Spanish Version)Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is the backward flow of urine. The urine flows from the bladder back into the kidney.
Urine normally flows from the kidneys. It passes through tubes called ureters. It then flows into the bladder. Each ureter connects to the bladder in a way that prevents urine from flowing back up the ureter. The connection is similar to a one-way valve. When this does not work properly, or if the ureters do not extend far enough into the bladder, urine may flow back up to the kidney. If the urine contains bacteria, the kidney may become infected. The back up can also put extra pressure on the kidney. This can cause kidney damage.
Anatomy of the Urinary System
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- A problem in the way the ureter inserts into the bladder
- A ureter that does not extend far enough into the bladder
- A bladder outlet obstruction, such as a blockage of urine flow from an enlarged prostate gland
- A neurogenic bladder—loss of normal bladder function due to damaged nerves reaching the bladder
- Temporary swelling after a kidney transplant
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About 3 months ago I bought two blueberry plants...both northern blueberries...one called Liberty and the other Aurora. Both were repotted into large pots.
The Liberty has been doing very well...getting bigger, and looking really healthy. Some of the stems however are getting a bit leggy and so the plant doesn't have a dense compact appearance anymore. Not that it looks BAD but....would it be better if I cut back some of the leggier stems in order to promote more bushy growth, or does it really not matter....and maybe it matters more in later years once I start getting actual fruit? As for the Aurora plant, when I first got it it was in excellent shape...it even had berries already on it! But alas, I got busy with work and didn't repot or water it for 1.5 days...this during a really bad heatwave and with the plant sitting out on my balcony. While the Liberty fared fine, the Autora leaves and berries were completely dried out, and no amount of water could repair them. So I cut back the entire plant and within a few days I had new growth. That was about 2.5 months ago. And while the plant looks ok, it has remained somewhat stagnant in comparison to the Liberty. The Aurora does have never growth...I can see that....but overall the rate of new growth is occurring very very slowly. Should I be concerned that it's growing so much slower than the Liberty? I've been treating both plants the same...they get the same amount of sun, water, the occasional fish fertilizer. I'd heard that blueberries like acidic soil. Do I need to worry about that right now....adding something to make it more acidic? I think I'd heard you can/should do that in the Spring, using ammonium sulfate or blood meal? |
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- Posted by yippee1999 6/7 NYC (My Page) on Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 12:44
oh...I also saw that it recommended pine, fir or hemlock for mulch, but I don't have any forests around here where I could collect some. ;-) Does anyone know of a place online that might sell this? Right now I have coconut mulch on top of the soil.... |
I have found that letting a bb plant dry out sets it back for some time. My guess is you won't see that plant take off again until next spring. Make sure when you water that you give it big drinks........fill the whole pot up with water. The reason I say this is because when I moved my plants from pots to the ground the bottom third of the pots had dead roots and the soil was all dry. You want to see some water coming out of the holes in the bottom of the pot when you water. When it gets super hot, you might try moving the plants to a spot where they aren't in full sun all day. They don't need full sun all day despite what most will tell you and when it's really hot they have trouble keeping up when in pots. My good friend has plants thriving in pots and they only get sun from about 9 am til 2 pm each day. RM |
About the mulch, you might look around for a pine tree and collect the needles under it, this is what I did. Blend the pine needles with some peat moss which will help lower the pH. The pH of pine needles isn't quite low enough as I understand it and the peat will help correct this. You might also be able to find pine bark at Lowes, WalMart or Home Depot. RM |
I don't have pine trees, but I rake up the fallen needles from my yew hedge and arborvitae for mulch. |
- Posted by yippee1999 6/7 NYC (My Page) on Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 13:35
Thanks all. I do always water the plant fully so that water pours out from the bottom of the planters. I then have the pot up on pot feet so that it gets a bit of air circulation underneath. As for sun, my balcony only gets direct north/west sun from say 2:00-7:00p each day. I think I did see pine bark mulch somewhere online...so that would work? I was thinking it had to be pine NEEDLES.... |
Also if you check the container forum there are others in the NYC area that have found the pine bark mulch to make a good container mix for blueberries. |
- Posted by blueboy1977 9 (My Page) on Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 15:50
I've had several plants go stagnant but if you take care of them they will take off next spring as RM said. |
- Posted by yippee1999 6/7 NYC (My Page) on Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 16:38
great on the stagnant thing...so I'll wait and see what happens next year. I did find online bags of pine bark mulch, sold as '2 cubic feet', but I've no idea how big of a bag that means...whether that woiuld be enough/too much for two pots that are about 12' wide each. tx |
That's like a big bag of dry dog food.The shipping is probably going to cost way more than the mulch. Is there a Lowes,Home Depot or Walmart nearby.They most likely carry it. Brady |
- Posted by yippee1999 6/7 NYC (My Page) on Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 17:29
hmmm..that might be too much then. Living in an NYC apartment it's not like I can store the extra somewhere. I don't think they are sold in amounts less than that. Oh well.... |
Find an area nursery, they can probably help you. Tell them you need a small amount of pine mulch, better yet call around before taking the time to drive. If you can't find the pine then use peat.....it's good stuff and available almost anywhere. In early spring cut back any dead limb tips and your plant that dried out and I'm guessing it will spring back. RM |
Find an area nursery, they can probably help you. Tell them you need a small amount of pine mulch, better yet call around before taking the time to drive. If you can't find the pine then use peat.....it's good stuff and available almost anywhere. In early spring cut back any dead limb tips and your plant that dried out and I'm guessing it will spring back. RM |
- Posted by BlueberryHillsFarm none (My Page) on Wed, Sep 5, 12 at 8:34
Don't worry about the pine needles, they don't do much with the pH anyway. You are in pots, so just mulch with spagnum peat. We use whatever is available for mulch, wood shavings, wood chips but we need large volumes. Peat is too expensive, pine needles aren't available in this area by the semi-load like they are down South. |
Whatever mix you settle on don't forget to add approx. 2 tablespoons of 5% white vinegar per gallon of water. I'm sure your tap water will test to a pH of about 8. |
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Her first post-doctoral project, funded by Fissen foundation in Paris, involved the lithic assemblages from the 1960s excavations in the Zagros mountains (Iran) which are housed in the US. These lithic assemblages come from the two major sites in the Central Zagros, the rock shelters of Warwasi and Yafteh Cave. This study aims to contribute to furthering the understanding of the links between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic cultures. Tsenka is further developing the taphonomic, techno-economic and typological approach to the study of lithic assemblages.
Currently she is collecting data from the Late Middle Paleolithic in the Eastern Balkans, working with assemblages from the Bulgarian Paleolithic sites of Samuilitsa II cave in Karlukovo karst area and open-air site of Musselievo from the loess of the Danube. Through this study she hopes to create a regional diachronic comparison between the Late Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in the Eastern Balkans. Tsenka's research has been published in British Archaeological Reports, ERAUL, Paléo and some Bulgarian archaeological journals.
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The war between narrative and game mechanics
The war between the Alliance and the Horde can never end. Worse, it can never progress -- and the characters involved in that war story cannot progress unless removed from it. Mists of Pandaria made this more obvious than it has ever been before.
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For the sake of parity, let's look at both Jaina Proudmoore and Thrall. These two characters have had a history together since Warcraft III. Not a romantic history as some like to claim, but a history. They were allies. Both of them held out hope for peace between the Horde and the Alliance for years. Both of them made sacrifices in the hopes of accomplishing it, Jaina moreso than any other, allowing the Horde to kill her orc-slaying father. They were both powerful, influential people in their respective factions. The events of Warcraft III made us believe they might achieve that peace. World of Warcraft showed us otherwise.
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Professor Sanchez' teaching and research interests include comparative politics, international relations, Latin American politics, and democratization. He has conducted field research in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, and Peru. He is the author of Panama Lost? U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal (University Press of Florida, 2007), selected by Choice as an outstanding academic title in 2008. Other scholarly publications include articles in International Politics, The Latin Americanist, PS: Political Science & Politics, Journal of Developing Areas, Annals of Tourism Research, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, International Journal on World Peace, Journal of the Third World Spectrum, The Journal of Conflict Studies, The Air Force Law Review, The Americas, and Peace Review, as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes. Professor Sanchez spent the 1997-98 Academic Year as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Panama. He has also taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Virginia Tech, the John Felice Rome Center, and on the University of Virginia's Semester at Sea program. Professor Sanchez is currently working on a new book, Priest under Fire: Padre David Rodriguez and El Salvador's Revolutionary Movement, about a Catholic priest who joined the revolutionary movement and, after the civil war, was elected to the country's national legislature. View his curriculum vitae.
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Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1990
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Phone: 773.508.3070
Professor Schraeder is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science. His teaching and research interests span four areas: comparative foreign policy theory, United States and European foreign policies toward Africa and the Middle East, African politics and foreign policy (including North Africa), and international democracy promotion and other forms of intervention in world politics. He has extensive overseas experiences, including having lived, lectured or carried out research in thirty-one African countries in all regions of the African continent. In addition to serving as a Fulbright lecturer and researcher at the University of Tunis in Tunisia (2002-03) and at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal (1994-96), Schraeder has held visiting appointments at Loyola's John Felice Rome Center in Italy (2003-05), the University of the Antilles in Guadeloupe (1999), the French Institute of African Research in Zimbabwe (1996), the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti (1987), and Somali National University (1985). He has taught numerous interdisciplinary, service-learning, and experiential-learning courses, most notably leading since 2006 his annual summer travel course to Tunisia. His scholarship is published in such diverse journals as African Affairs, The Journal of Democracy, The Journal of Modern African Studies, The Journal of Politics, Middle East Journal, Political Science Quarterly, Politique Africaine, and World Politics. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Globalization and Emerging Trends in African Foreign Policy: A Comparative Perspective of Eastern Africa (2007), African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation (2004), Exporting Democracy: Rhetoric vs. Reality (2002), United States Foreign Policy toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis and Change (1994), and Intervention into the 1990s: U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Third World (1992). He is currently writing a book, Beyond the "Big Man": Impact of Democratization on the Formulation and Implementation of African Foreign Policies. Schraeder was the recipient in 2011 of three of the highest honors a faculty member can receive at Loyola: Sujack Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Faculty Member of the Year, and Faculty Member of the Year. View a longer biographical summary. View his curriculum vitae.
Associate Professor & Director, Masters of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (MUAPP) Program
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1996
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Phone: 773.508.8639
Professor Steinacker's research and teaching interests are in urban politics and public policy. She has written articles on local economic development policy, metropolitan government restructuring, affordable housing and city infill patterns. Her work has been published in Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies, Publius, Social Science Quarterly, Review of Policy Studies, and Public Administration Review. She has received a variety of research grants, including a National Science Foundation grant, to study the use of bargaining games to explain city-firm interactions in economic development decisions. She previously taught in the public policies programs at Columbia and Georgetown Universities and was the director of the public policy program at Claremont Graduate University for 10 years.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971
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Phone: 773.508.8516
Professor Tatalovich's teaching and research interests include the American government, the presidency and executive branch, public policy analysis with an emphasis on moral conflicts, and Congress as well as Canadian Politics. His three co-edited books include Moral Controversies in American Politics (2005),and he also co-authored four more including The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy and a presidency text, To Govern a Nation: Presidential Power and Politics (1998), as well as being the sole author of two scholarly works: Nativism Reborn? The Official English Language Movement and the American States and The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada (1997). His most recent co-authored books are Cultures at War: Moral Controversies in Western Democracies (2003) and The Presidency and Political Science: Two Hundred Years of Constitutional Debate (2003). Professor Tatalovich has also authored or collaborated on more than fifty chapters, monographs, and scholarly articles in such publications as the The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Polity, American Politics Quarterly, Women & Politics, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. View his curriculum vitae .
Associate Professor & Department Grant Director
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005
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Phone: 773.508.3483
Güneş Murat Tezcür is a scholar of political violence, democratic struggles and electoral politics in the Muslim world with a special focus on Iranian, Turkish and Kurdish politics. For detailed information about his scholarship, visit his website.
Adjunct Professor
J.D., The Ohio State University College of Law, 1988
M.A., Loyola University Chicago, 1994
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Phone: 773.508.3047
Professor Walsh teaches courses on constitutional law and the judicial process. He practices law in Chicago and is also the advisor for the Mock Trial Team. He has published articles on the courts and legislative politics in the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Review, Social Science Quarterly, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Professor & Department Alumni and Gift Director
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1976
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Phone: 773.508.3053
Professor Williams teaches and does research in the areas of American foreign and defense policy and American politics. His research has appeared in Armed Forces & Society, Military Review, The Washington Quarterly, Air University Review, and numerous edited volumes. He is co-author of Soldiers, Society, and National Security and U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, and co-editor of The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces After the Cold War and The U.S. Army In a New Security Era. Professor Williams is Chair and President of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) and Editor of The National Strategy Forum Review (NSF). View his curriculum vitae. Visit his Website.


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I perfer organic using manure and other natural minerals, that said, you still need a small amount palm fertilizers to get the missing elements in certain soil and clay mixed soils. Here's a trick, use some epson salts and I also save clam shells after eating some. Then I dry them out and place them in a old cloth bag and smash it to tiny bits and chunks. Then mix with the palm soils for lots of calcium and other minerals. They slowly leach into the siol helping the palms. Do I notice any difference between organic or regular fertilizer? - to me not woth spending tons of extra money on organic. |
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
April Food Day
For a few years Meg Fairfax Fielding of Pigtown Design and Chris Cox of Easy and Elegant Life have led the charge to help the hungry on April 1st through April Food Day. Take a minute, literally, to donate to help fight hunger today. Feeding America serves many local food banks, Harvesters here in Kansas City, and makes things easy with on-line donations. You know the people you see, the women and men with the cardboard signs who you don't give to because you think, "I'll donate to a reputable organization that will really help."? Really do. Here.
I Have a New Gig
I have been a little distracted this week. I have not, actually, taken to the pole (though I do have a pretty good gentlemen's club story I could tell you sometime.) If you are imagining fabulous trips, agent signings, book deals, don't. My week has consisted of my sitting in front of my computer for hours - hours - and writing nearly nothing. Things picked up a little yesterday and it appears all is not lost.
Don't forget Bottoms Up (the antiques market in the West Bottoms) is this weekend and the Water Lillies begin their reunion tour at the Nelson.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Let's Have Lunch
Think antiques are not for you? Can't appreciate their granny goodness? Or, perhaps you have them but don't quite know how to use them to your advantage. I think antiques are timeless, chic and stylish and a great investment. Join me for lunch at Webster House, April 8th, 12 o'clock to discuss using antiques in a younger, fresher way. Grab a friend, we'll have a laugh and kick around some ideas. You can register here.
Wonderful image courtesy of Ruthie Chapman Sommers Interior Design.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Design ADD
Elegant as Rheinstein?
Chic as Irving?
Cocooned in a cacophony of color as Gambrel?
Or, crisp as can be as TOB? What to do when it isn't so much knowing what you like, as knowing what you like the most? Which way to go when it isn't not knowing how, it's not knowing which. How does one find the will to winnow?
Really. I want to know.
Images from top, Suzanne Rheinstein for Courtnay Daniels, Southern Accents, November/December 2002; photography by Tria Giovan; Carolina Irving, her own home, via Little Augury; Steven Gambrel, his own home, Elle Decor by William Waldron; Thomas O'Brien, his own home, via aerostudios.com.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Thoroughly Modern Me
Do you take books on vacation? You know, actual books? Not a grainy seventy-five percent screen of text on an electronic tablet. Books.
I do. This trip I took A Moveable Feast, A Passage to India, The Hunger Games, Scat and a broad collection of Poppleton. Also, Metropolitan Home's Design 100: The Last Word on Modern Interiors. Normally, I do not take design books on vacation. I often buy design books on vacation, happy to lug them home, but usually I don't pack them to go along.
This time I did. I miss Met Home and its unique, and I think broad, definition of "modern." The book is a wonderful collection of some of the highlights of the magazine's thirty years of coverage. There are great, large glossy pictures and short bits of copy, a happy balance for the design crazy. This particular image, above, has stuck in my head for years. I hunted through a stack of old issues five times to try to find it before giving up. The work of architects David Lake and Ted Flato, I have thought of it half-a-dozen times since it was published; I am happy to have it in hand again.
Particularly charming is editor Michael Lassell's introduction; it is the kind of writing that makes you think you might want to hang out with him and have a beer after work. Which is kind of what he's doing with the book. Even if your design library leans a bit traditional, you should find good inspiration here.
Photo, top, photography by Erik Johanson, next, photography by John Ellis and last, photography by Langdon Clay, all images courtesy of Filipacchi Publishing 2010 for Design 100: The Last Word on Modern Interiors.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
In Like a Lion
It has been a long, long winter. I know it wasn't just my winter, but I do take the cold personally.
I am at home at the beach. I am happy at the beach. I am better at the beach. My hair is not only bigger, which feels right to this Oklahoma girl, but wavier, and somehow more golden even before the sun has touched it.
Sitting in the sun may be my last conscious vice, having long ago given up late nights, too many cocktails and scoundrels. Something in me craves it, soul, psyche, some sort of cosmic battery, and I can feel each muscle begin to relax one by one as it absorbs the heat.
My friend, Nick Olsen, would shrug and think, "Duh. Leo," at this gush and perhaps he's right. You can all but hear my tail gently slapping the sand as I raise my face to the sun.
More lion than lioness as I have no drive to hunt, content to consume what others bring back. (Perhaps lions would be the bloggers of the animal kingdom if they could type.)
At the beginning of the week I wondered if I needed the ocean; perhaps sun was sufficient. But I found myself facing the surf. Nick knows, Aquarius rising.
Each day I walked to town and knew that I prefer a village. Here for coffee, there for bread, somewhere else for the paper. In and back, hello and how are you.
If you were nearby, either towel or table, you would have heard me express my recently discovered distress at the thought of having a gluten allergy. In the past week I became acutely aware that I could live on bread and butter. And pasta. And cookies. "I," I declared, "am going to eat better bread. From here on out I am going to eat wonderful bread for breakfast every day." Mr. Blandings looked up over his bracket, "I asked Scott yesterday how he got into such good shape. He gave up carbs."
"Really good bread and a square of dark chocolate." His blue eyes held mine for a moment before he returned to his basketball picks, "That sounds like a good idea."
Who is he to argue with the king of beasts?
With a bit of editing, this was basically my walk to town for the past week. The churches, particularly charming, had really great lighting.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Just Beachy
We have been away, and while we were gone the paint for Mr. Blandings's study arrived.
The mornings at the beach were cool, the water calm. It was a banner year for dolphins. The promise of dolphin sightings could make me do nearly anything. If you could promise me a monthly dolphin sighting in exchange for balancing my checkbook, I would vary nary a penny.
Along with gallons of Calke Green (top), an almost-armful of samples arrived as I ponder the fate of walls and ceilings and doors.
Light Blue, Parma Gray, Dix Blue, Borrowed Light and Skylight, sit, able and well-bodied soldiers battling for attention with a pile of bills and mail.
Even on my screen, these colors don't resemble the hues in the cans.
But later today I will begin to swatch and swipe and stand and consider.
All the while thinking of the beach, much as I was thinking of paint as I considered the colors of the water and sky in Florida.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Block by Block
Always intrigued by quilts and hooked rugs and needlework, I've been focusing lately on the patterns from other cultures and countries that feature similar shapes and patterns as traditional American crafts.
John Robshaw's pillows offer a nice little case study on this subject. (Are case studies still a thing in the working world? We did a million of them back when I twisted into pantyhose five days a week.)
Robshaw's handblocked designs have always showcased common shapes, but this latest collection features more embroidery and stitching.
You can find the pillow collection here.
Robshaw's handblocked designs have always showcased common shapes, but this latest collection features more embroidery and stitching.
You can find the pillow collection here.
All images courtesy of John Robshaw.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
On Site with Roy Hamilton
If you are a designer, you might have seen this type of display at a Hinson showroom. Pots and vases and cache pots en masse, all with this creamy, dreamy finish, pottery accented with a slightly darker linen pattern or faux bois or swirl.
And if you have, you know that the pieces are the work of long-revered potter Roy Hamilton.
Hamilton moved from the West Coast to NYC a few years ago and set up shop in Christopher Spitzmiller's studio. A more talented and gracious pair could not be found.
While Hamilton's pieces suit a neutral Neutra, he has recently added color to his creations. Hatches and dots and swirls add swish to brilliantly executed forms.
Still with Spitzmiller, but at his own address on-line, you can find Mr. Hamilton here at Roy Hamilton Studios. dot com.
Christopher Spitzmiller,
Roy Hamilton
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Unconventional Wisdom
I was giddy to see Elle Decor's new column, Unconventional Wisdom in the April issue. Welcome to wisdom in any dose, this condensed knowledge from Mario Buatta reminded me of the columns of yore from the likes of Mark Hampton and Van Day Truex. Elle Decor Editor-in-Chief, Michael Boodro, says the column was inspired by comments from two great decorators, "In L.A., Madeline Stuart mentioned to me, 'You guys should do a story on J. F. Chen. He has had such an impact on generations of L.A. designers.' A few months later, at the book party for Suzanne Rheinstein's new book at John Rosselli, Bunny Williams said, 'You should do a story on John; he knows so much.' And I realized that Elle Decor didn't have a format to tap into the most experienced people in the design industry."
Boodro notes that in an industry that is constantly on the look out for what is next, this column will focus on people who have shaped the field for decades. Unconventional Wisdom will feature leaders in all aspects of the discipline. Look for Lela and Mossimo Vignelli talking about modern design in the May issue. And, yes, Chen and Rosselli down the line.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Where for Art, Thou?
A few Kansas City art notes for the coming months. The Bingham@200 exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum opened this week. George Caleb Bingham was a renowned regional artist and this will be the first of several events celebrating his documentation of life on the plains. The Nelson's exhibit features a selection of Bingham's drawings.
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is currently running Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000- 2010. Didn't feel like there was a whole lot of global wealth left the later part of the decade, but the photography exhibit will likely prove otherwise.
Enough of flat surfaces? Stop in to the Belger Art Center to see Wendall Castle in the 21st Century. Castle, engineer, sculptor and furniture designer, has pieces in the collections of the Nelson, the Met and the MoMA. See more than a dozen of his designs (sculptures?) here through June 3rd.
And, looking ahead, mark your calendar for the opening of the Monet Water Lilies exhibit. The Nelson's panel will be reunited with the two others from the triptychs beginning April 9th. The single panel is big. The three together should be, well, really, really big. Tickets are required; members are free.
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
A special thanks to Bryan at Bennett Schneider who stepped in to rescue me when I realized that I did not have updated cards for my trip. He had the old information waiting when I walked in, had the new proof sent asap for approval, then helped expedite the order and have it shipped to my hotel in New York. They would have been waiting for me at the desk if the hotel had been as competent at Bryan. Be sure to stop in and see them in Crestwood.
The New Traditionalists
I was in New York last week and was drawn by the siren song of other bloggers to check out the New Traditionalists.
This up-and-coming furniture line was started by a couple of guys who liked good, traditional design, but were ready to turn it on its ear.
Architect and designer Brady Wilcox, formerly of John Varvatos and Donna Karen, is responsible for the furniture design. The company does not exhibit at Market, so they can roll out pieces as they are ready instead introducing an entire collection. Wilcox plans about twenty more new pieces this year.
But the pieces themselves are not the whole story.
The finishes are really remarkable.
Remarkable and many. Flat, lacquer, layered, lined, it's all your choice and by "you," I mean any darned body. The New Traditionalists sell to both the trade and individuals.
And, an added bonus, if you care about this kind of thing and I do, the furniture is made in New England. Not China. New England.
Just what made Wilcox want to collaborate on a high-end furniture company with a downtown soul in the midst of a (please almost over) recession? Philip Erdoes, fellow native Oklahoman, hit brick wall after brick wall (and not the desirable urban loft kind) while hunting for furniture for his nearly-newborn a few years ago.
Erdoes and Wilcox had been friends since junior high and together these guys created duc duc, a jazzy line of furniture for the nursery and kids rooms. Erdoes knows more about Big 12 standings than design (and I wonder if he trips when he says "12" instead of "8") but perhaps because of that he can look at the business in a new way.
No High Point, manufacture in New England, market through social media. You know, new.
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