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Gourmet | June 2005
photo by Lara Ferroni
Makes 4 servings
active time
50 min
total time
50 min
Father: Elmer M. Grimes, Haddonfield, NJ
My dad loved mushrooms, and he always ordered veal Marsala when we went out to restaurants. My mom didn't buy veal very often, so she adapted this recipe for chicken and made it on special occasions. He was also very fond of white Burgundy wine, which makes a wonderful accompaniment to this dish.
- 1 3/4 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth (14 fl oz)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 10 oz mushrooms, trimmed and thinly sliced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh sage
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves (2 lb total)
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons dry Marsala wine
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 200°F.
Bring broth to a boil in a 2-quart saucepan over high heat, then boil, uncovered, until reduced to about 3/4 cup, about 20 minutes.
Cook shallot in 3 tablespoons butter in an 8- to 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until shallot begins to turn golden, about 1 minute. Add mushrooms, 1 teaspoon sage, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid mushrooms give off is evaporated and mushrooms begin to brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from heat.
Put flour in a wide shallow bowl. Gently pound chicken to 1/4 inch thick between 2 sheets of plastic wrap using the flat side of a meat pounder or a rolling pin.
Pat chicken dry and season with salt and pepper, then dredge in flour, 1 piece at a time, shaking off excess. Transfer to sheets of wax paper, arranging chicken in 1 layer.
Heat 1 tablespoon each of oil and butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then sauté half of chicken, turning over once, until golden and just cooked through, about 4 minutes total. Transfer cooked chicken to a large heatproof platter, arranging in 1 layer, then put platter in oven to keep warm. Wipe out skillet with paper towels and cook remaining chicken in same manner, then transfer to oven, arranging in 1 layer.
Add 1/2 cup wine to skillet and boil over high heat, stirring and scraping up brown bits, about 30 seconds. Add reduced broth, cream, and mushrooms, then simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce is slightly thickened, 6 to 8 minutes. Add lemon juice and remaining 2 tablespoons wine and 1/2 teaspoon sage.
Serve chicken with sauce.
my notes
- Calories766
- Carbohydrates31 g (10%)
- Fat42 g (65%)
- Protein59 g (118%)
- Saturated Fat21 g (103%)
- Sodium514 mg (21%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber2 g (9%)
- Monounsaturated Fat15 g
- Cholesterol258 mg (86%)


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The iPhone maker got the bum's rush after its latest quarter, but its earnings outshone those of all other U.S. corporations.
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San Antonio Senator Leticia Van de Putte was honored in a ceremony as Governor for a Day Saturday, with hundreds of constituents making the trip up from her district to celebrate her contributions to her city and state. Governor for a Day is a decades old tradition where the Senate President Pro Tem, third in line for the governorship, is ceremonially elevated to the seat. The Governor and Lt. Governor leave the state for the day, making the President Pro Tem the state's executive officer for a day.
Following her Oath of Office, Van de Putte addressed a packed Senate chamber. She reflected on her unlikely journey from her humble beginnings to occupying the state's highest office. "Being a politician, much less Governor was never one of my goals," she said. "I couldn't have imagined that destiny would bring me here before all of you accepting this magnificent honor and getting the chance, for just one day, to lead the state that I love."
Van de Putte has served in the state legislature for 23 years, first as a member of the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1999. She won a special election for her Senate seat in 1999 and has served in the body ever since. As Chair of the Senate Veteran Affairs and Military Installations Committee, Van de Putte is one of the Senate's most vocal champions for the rights and benefits of military servicemen and women who make Texas their home. In addition to her work with military veterans and their families, Van de Putte is a strong advocate for increased access to healthcare, education, and issues affecting Texas children.
May 4, 2013Senator Leticia Van de Putte's Governor for a Day Inauguration Ceremony
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Governor for a Day Leticia Van de Putte honored the memories of those who gave their lives in service of the state of Texas and the United States by laying wreaths at the Capitol memorials for fallen DPS officers, at the Tejano History Memorial, at the Disabled Veterans' Memorial and the Heroes of the Alamo Memorial.
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The second-season DVD of ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' hit stores in September, but Lucy Lawless isn't strapping on her leather breastplate for a reunion of the syndicated series. Instead the New Zealand-based actress has signed on to a different action series, the WB's ''Tarzan'' (premieres Sunday, Oct. 5 at 9 p.m.) -- but as the Lord of the Apes' refined aunt Kathleen, introduced in episode 2, she's leaving the grunt work to star Travis Fimmel. EW.com talked to Lawless, 35, about why she's happy to pass the sword (for now), her plans for a new TV series, and all those reunion rumors.
Now that you're on ''Tarzan,'' tell us: Could Xena whip Monkeyboy's butt or what?
I'm gonna have to go with Xena there, but don't tell Travis I said that or he might hit me. Xena has her dirty tricks and a lot more experience. I think he'd just be standing there like a monkey scratching his butt and Xena would be kicking it all over the place.
As Tarzan's high-class, newspaper-publisher aunt, you don't get to kick much of anyone's butt. Do you pine for an action scene?
I love that I just mince around and look good now. Some of the girls on set were saying, Oh, it must be hard going from having a really action-oriented character to doing what you're doing now! And I said, Are you kidding? This is the greatest thing in my life! I get to wear modern, really gorgeous clothing and it's so civilized I can't believe my luck. I just sit in the limo and go ''tee-hee-hee''!
So what was it like to return to your natural light-brown hair color and lose the ''Xena'' bangs?
All the crew here on ''Tarzan'' were really excited that the woman who played Xena was going to be on the show, and they kept looking for me. They didn't realize I'd been there for three days and that they just didn't recognize me. I don't look the same, and I always have to go through that conversation of ''I can't believe you played Xena!'' I don't mind the average person on the street saying it -- they're just being sweet -- but people in the industry know actors don't look like their characters, don't they?
Other than some ''X-Files'' episodes and a cameo in ''Spiderman,'' we haven't seen much of you since ''Xena'' went off the air (in 2001). Where have you been?
I had another baby [with husband and ''Xena'' producer Robert G. Tapert], and that took quite some time. I've got three kids now, so to live in New Zealand and spend as much time with them as possible has been invaluable. I probably should have been capitalizing on ''Xena'' [Lawless recently sued Universal Studios for breach of contract, claiming the company owes her 5 percent of ''Xena'''s gross receipts], and making strategic moves for the future of my career -- but sometimes you've just got to choose life. I highly recommend it.
Speaking of strategic moves... Any details on your future with the WB?
Initially I was asked to come in and read for the part [on ''Tarzan'']...and that led to a couple more meetings and a development deal. I'm trying to find a project to do with them, because they're young and hip and smart. Whatever it is, it will always have comic elements, though it won't be an all-out comedy. I'll produce and star, but you'll have to get back to me in a couple of months.
In the meantime, you've worked on the commentary to the ''Xena'' season 2 and 3 DVDs (season 3 will be released Jan. 4). Stir up any fond memories?
Watching the DVDs was so charming. I don't generally like to watch myself, but I was amazed at how well they stood up, especially the comedies. I got to do the commentary with Renee O'Connor [''Xena'' sidekick Gabrielle] and Bob [Tapert], and it was lovely to see Renee. We're like sisters, in that even if we don't talk all the time, we're very close. But looking back, I have to say the second-season episode ''Warrior... Princess... Tramp'' was one of the highlights of my life. I got to play two characters, and one of them, Meg, represents a certain side of my personality that keeps popping out. She has a heart of gold, really, but she can't keep herself out of trouble.
Since you're feeling a little nostalgic, are you warming up to the idea of a reunion?
There's always a lot of chatter about that, but I think it's just too soon. And possibly by the time it does come along, they'll want somebody else to play Xena because I'll be 60 years old or whatever. But I'll play Xena's grandmother.


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SXSW: Pete Townshend, Bob Mould, Mary Weiss, Charlie Louvin, Holy Shit. . .
As promised, I have a guest blogger at Wild Mercury Sound today. Luke Torn is Uncut's man in Austin, Texas, and here is his report on last week's South By Southwest shenanigans - the 21st SXSW he's attended. Luke didn't get to see Psychedelic Horseshit, sadly, but at least he saw Holy Shit...
"Overheard during a mad frenzy down Austin's ridiculously jam-packed 6th Street: 'SXSW... It's like Glastonbury on concrete...'
Wednesday's SXSW festivities began with Pete Townshend, eloquent as ever, describing the ethereal quality of live music, and living for the moment, those unexpected moments, when something spectacular occurs. Unfortunately, those moments were few and far between on SXSW's opening night, providing more errant soundchecks and sluggish performances than apropos for the occasion.
Eighty-years-young Charlie Louvin did not disappoint, though, rambling through standards like "Waiting For A Train", "Cash On The Barrelhead" and tunes from his comeback album with a tough, Bakersfield-style band. The Grand Ole Opry veteran and ex-Louvin Brother sounded chipper enough to play a two-hour set, hitting a high point early on with the mournful "Must You Throw Dirt In My Face".
From there it was on to Club DeVille's Birdman Records showcase. Ex-Brian Jonestown Massacre man Brian Glaze's new combo and Gris Gris leader Greg Ashley's outfit the Medicine Fuck Dream Road Show played solid but shrill blues-tinged psychedelic sets that never quite caught fire. That was hardly the case at a place called Contaminated, though, as Milwaukee's kiddos Holy Shit burned through a Ramonesy blur of a
set marked by howling feedback, plenty of rhythmic oomph, and a racetrack version of "Hound Dog".
Chicago's 1900s, with their ambitious keyboard, harmony, and violin line-up, seemed like the next logical choice. But, plagued by (real or imagined) sound problems and an irritating, momentum killing tendency to gab, we fled to Buffalo Billiards to catch Nic Armstrong's combo IV Thieves. The sound was even more abysmal there, but the Thieves were nonetheless in top form, buzzing around the stage, whipping through a smart set of keening, hooks-a-plenty Britpop.
Thursday's festivities started at a near empty Soho Lounge, where LA's Chairs of Perception (formerly known as the Urinals) burned through a set of flawless guitar rock, drawing on their deep roots in the LA punk scene, but blazing through strong new material as well. Their classic early single "Ack! Ack! Ack!" and a souped-up, sped-up Elevators nugget, "You're Gonna Miss Me," closed out an exhilarating set.
We continued the old-punk class reunion at Buffalo Billiards for Bob Mould. Sans band, sans recent electronic trappings, Mould played the role of the troubadour, performing old hits and Husker and Sugar faves solo, banging them out with force on a battered acoustic guitar. Reprising many songs the audience was there to hear ("Shine A Little Light," "Makes No Sense At All"), Mould was positively uplifting for many souls among the crowd (shocking!), though it's clear his best material works better in full-band, rock'n'roll setting.
Next up was the Norton Records showcase at Red 7, where we just barely made it in through a large line to see the Alarm Clocks. A Cleveland garage-band legend come back to life after some 40 years, the band was staggeringly good, playing the part of Nuggets-like '60s party band deluxe, performing "Yeah," their highly collectible 45. Next up was Sam The Sham, who unfortunately lived up to his name with an eye-rolling mix of clichéd dance party hits and tired Texas blues, punctuated by lame between-song talk.
But in pure SXSW karmic, style, just out the door at the club's patio stage, Glasgow girl band the Hedrons were just hitting their stride, a fiery, nearly out of control Runaways-meets-the-Stooges performance that found singer Tippi leaving her stagebound bandmates for a crazed lap around the club, climbing tables, dancing with abandon to the band's thunderous waves of guitar on songs like "Be My Friend" and "I Need You". . .
Back inside the main club, North Carolina rockers Reigning Sound played a beatific, ragged-but-soulful set of raw southern-tinged garage rock, including an amazing, almost unrecognizable romp through the Beach Boys' "I'm Waiting For The Day" before backing Mary Weiss on the comeback trail, resurrecting the Brill Building glory years on a set of Shangri-La's hits and cuts from her new "Dangerous Game" disc.
Friday was set aside for tending to the Pop Culture Press day party, but Saturday started with a bang. Young Austin outfit (and I mean young, early teens) Jenny And The Wolfpack sounded fab at the Antone's Record day party, churning out nuggets like "For Your Love" and "Johnny B. Good" with the confidence of pros, before giving way to a solid power pop explosion by Paul Collins' Beat. With a great band of Spanish accompanists, Collins ripped his way through mixed new material from his "Flying High" album with classics like "Rock'n'Roll Girl" and "Workin' Too Hard" before welcoming Peter Case onstage for a near Nerves reunion set highlighted by a hammering "Hangin' On The Telephone".
The evening began in earnest at the Lava Lounge, where Pittsburgh's Black Tie Revue were the weekend's best surprise. A quartet with tough melodic songs and plenty of kenyboard/guitar interplay, the group played rousing power pop culled from their upcoming Gearhead Records debut, "Code Fun". Philly's Capital Yrs were next, but despite their off-kilter pop masterpieces on record, never quite hit the sweet spot, so we eventually landed at a place called Latitude for Outrageous Cherry's set, and they did not disappoint.
Matthew Smith's combo played intricate pop, Beatlesque if the Fabs had headed into darker textures following "Revolver", though their brooding, near unhinged cover of Junior Kimbrough's "Lord Have Mercy On Me" (on the Black Snake Moan soundtrack) shows this band is no one-trick pony.
The evening, and SXSW #21 in a row for me, ended back at Red 7, where English upstarts Mumm-ra sounded their anthemic best, having just exited their tour support slot with the Killers. Tightly constructed songs, with lots of keyboard texture to blend with their wall of guitars, lead singer Noo took command, at one point literally hanging from the rafters, accentuating the band's lethal guitar buzz with playful aplomb.
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The best of the best: Becoming elite at an American boarding school. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; 2009. Abstract
"Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. Some are on scholarship, others have never met a public school student, but all feel they have earned their place as a "Westonian" by being smart and working hard. Weston is a family, they declare, with a niche for everyone, but the hierarchy of coolness -- the way in which class, race, sexism, and good looks can determine ones place -- is well known."


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All-in-one voice search
Use only your voice to auto-dial contacts, search Google and Google maps, and update your Facebook and Twitter status.
Extremely simple and easy to use, Vlingo's iPhone application blows away its rivals--so far. The free service lets you speak your search, contact names, and Facebook and Twitter updates into the phone, featuring great service support from the get-go. It also includes basics like speech-to-text searches of Google maps, contact dialing, and queries of multiple search providers.
Like most iPhone applications, Vlingo could use a built-in browser. It never crashed on us, and fails with grace when you've reached a data blind spot.


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Anatomy of an Attack
In February 2011, McAfee released a report detailing a series of hacks called Night Dragon. Emanating from locations in China and aimed at six global oil, gas, and petrochemical companies, the hacks resembled the oil company attack described by Pollet. The media later identified the victims as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips, and Baker Hughes, all of which declined to discuss the report when asked by Popular Mechanics.
Regardless, the methods described by both Pollet and McAfee are straight out of the playbook of Chinese-based APTs. Instead of trying to identify vulnerabilities in a company's firewall, APTs focus on exploiting the one thing that's impossible to controlthe vulnerabilities of company employees.
The hackers Pollet investigated found personal information about the oil company's executives on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace. Then they crafted emails aimed at enticing the executives to click on a poisoned link.
"The initial attack is very subtle," Pollet says. "It no longer says, 'I am a Nigerian prince and need to hide a bank account.' If the hacker can find an executive who likes to restore old cars and can find the names of some of his friends, he will send an email saying 'Hey, I was talking to our friend Paul, and he said you were restoring 1950s Chevys. I found this great website you should check out.'"
When the victim clicks on the link, it takes him to a webpage where malware loads onto his computer. It sits there for days until it wakes up and phones home.
The malware might post a code to a Twitter account or post a comment as simple as "I'm going skiing on Saturday" to a blog. That beacon alerts hackers that their malware has taken root and is ready for instructions. The hackers can then respond with coded directives by the same means.
It wasn't until a year into the hack on the oil company that the FBI contacted executives and informed them they had spotted data traffic leaving their network and heading to servers in China known to be used to command and control networks, Pollet says. The FBI's Snow says he cannot comment on specific cases. But it was certainly not the first time the FBI stepped in. The current campaign of cyber espionage is so widespread, he says, that it has forced a "significant cultural shift" in the way the FBI handles cyber intrusions. Previously, "the No. 1 priority was to protect the operational security of the investigation and the prosecutive equities on the criminal side." While those goals are still important, "it's even more important that the victims understand they have been victimized," he says.
Emergency Response
After the FBI alert, the oil company brought in security firms Red Tiger and Mandiant to expunge the intruders. But expelling an APT isn't as simple as it sounds. "They are agile, dynamic, and, if you defeat them once, they're going to change their tactic," says Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer for Mandiant, who also would not comment on the specifics of the oil company attack. The attackers, he notes, are usually in it for the long haul and are likely to return if the company still has intelligence on its networks that the hackers or their employers consider of value.
The best approach once an intrusion is detected is not to tip your hand until you are ready to respond with a serious defense. Countermeasures usually involve first identifying as many infected computers as possible by looking for suspicious software on hard drives and tracking which computers have been contacting suspicious host servers. The response team then attempts to pull as many infected computers as possible off the server at once, "by any means necessary," Bejtlich says. "In some cases it's literally pulling a cable out of the computer."
But often it's impossible to know whether all the malware has been successfully removed. And even if it has, the attacker will often attempt to break in once again, using more sophisticated, perhaps never-before-seen code. That's one of the reasons that many in the intelligence community are calling for a new security paradigm, one that places an emphasis on information sharing and preventive measures.
The government can go only so far to protect the networks of private companies. In the past year, the Department of Defense launched a pilot program with the defense industrial base that helps contractors improve security and share information about emerging forms of malware. Most U.S. companies, however, remain shockingly vulnerable to massive security breaches and naive about the extent of the problem.
Even with cooperation, most security experts believe that keeping a capable and determined adversary out of a system is impossible.
"Perimeter defense is finished," Brenner says. "If you want to talk about really confidential stuff in email, you've got to understand that if you've got a real sophisticated adversary, they're reading it."
The FBI's Snow agrees. "We have to have a cultural shift in the nation where we understand that there is no secure system, that people are going to be hacked," he says.
As for retaliation? Bejtlich says he often gets questions from high-level executives who want to "hack back," even if all that means is retaliating against a Chinese computer with a virus that will disable it.
"There is sufficient resistance from outside counsel because it would violate U.S. law, and in U.S. government agencies, there is no support to do that," Bejtlich says.
When asked if compromised companies might use the knowledge that they have been infiltrated to feed spies false data, Bejtlich scoffed. "Those deception maneuvers are so far beyond the capability of any private corporation that no one could pull that off," he says. "You couldn't protect the planning. The bad guys will see it all and laugh."
Don't Get Hacked
· Foreign spies aren't after your PC, says Alex Stamos, CTO of security firm iSEC Partners, but the code from their hacks can be quickly mimicked by cyber criminals. "It's like R&D for the broader malware market," he says. Keep your software updated to stay safe.
· Any employee of a large company can become an attack vector for spies looking to steal data. "Be paranoid about what you click on," Stamos sayseven emails that seem to be from friends.
· Be careful if you store personal data on your work computer. If the machine becomes infected, your employer can erase everything.
· USB drives are classic tools for getting malware through a firewall. If you don't trust where a drive came from, don't plug it into your computer.
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In the spirit of stimulating under-stimulated minds, my high school would convene assemblies to hear speakers debate the issues of the day. That was the occasion for an event that still rankles me to this day, and, in part, explains the appeal of Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh and all of our friends in the T-Par-T. It also explains why, to a trifling but measurable degree, many of us write.
The school hauled out a local yokel from the NRA to do battle with some liberal hippie teacher about, you guessed it, gun control. After they had gone through the expected pantomime of debate—the liberal decried the scourge of guns in our cities, while the NRA representative, honest-to-god, actually said, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"—the floor was opened for questions.
Of course, being an NRA member, the pro-gun fellow trotted out the Second Amendment time and again, really never defending the primacy of or need for guns other than the usual "you have to be able to protect yourself and your family" canard. And I had a line of inquiry for him: What if there were no Second Amendment? Why are guns "good" things to own in a modern world when most of us don't hunt for our grub? Would people really be defenseless without semi-automatic weapons? Would a citizen's militia really be able to hold off a government takeover by the military?
I don't think these were half bad inquiries for a 17-year-old boy, especially since 94.7% of 17-year-old boys' brains are fixated on sex. Unfortunately, I never got to ask them, because when the moderator pointed to me when I raised my hand, a classmate sitting behind me named Miles jumped up, and, in a voice trying to be far more mature than his years, blurted out the following: Hey, man, how can you say that guns shouldn't be illegal when the whole point of them is to kill people?
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In retrospect, it isn't as stupid a question as I'd like to remember it being, but just imagine it being asked in a disaffected voice with a snarling lip and finger pointed at the stage. Miles was Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" without any intelligence, charisma, good looks, or any semi-redeeming feature. Though I had full sympathy for Miles's point of view, I had nothing but contempt for how he asked it—or really, I was contemptuous that he got to ask his question and I was silenced.
Granted, I guess Miles was par for the course. Teenagers really aren't particularly bright or mature, and I couldn't expect my fellow classmates to be Cicero or Clarence Darrow. But the incident eats at me still, 28 years after the fact. I envision it repeatedly, thinking that had I actually gotten to pose my questions and debate the NRA bozo, I would have annihilated him in battle, and won the gun-control debate. Q.E.D.
My recurring desire to relive that moment is much to my discredit, showing my self-centered nature and desire to be the center of attention, no matter how right or wrong I might have been. Which, if you think about it, is really what makes Glenn Beck go, since we have a college dropout convincing much of the nation that he is smarter and knows better than a former editor of the Harvard Law Review, not to mention a gun-totin' "grizzly momma" who thinks plain ol' common sense (which those pointy-headed liberals lack) always trumps nuance or pointed inquiry, and that complicated problems don't require complex solutions.
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People want their voices heard, and would rather have their own ideas validated than challenged; there is comfort in having someone "speak" for you even if it means they have no command of fact or total command of prejudice. Even though Beck and Limbaugh may actually believe the hateful drek they spout, they realize it does their bank account well, and would say it no matter what they actually thought.
That's actually one reason I write: nobody speaks for me but me, and I have enough ego and not enough humility to believe my ideas actually matter—you don't have to read between the lines to see the anger in my voice.
And I still want to throttle poor Miles, who I understand now works at the Kerplonsky's Carpet Discount Warehouse, supervising the guy from the NRA.


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I have just spent a crazy 5 days with HAW in Germany. We left London on the red eye from Gatwick and were in Munich by 9am, We collected our hire car ready for a 2 hour drive to the Mountains. The plan was to ski for 2 days and then chill in Munich for another 2 days.
By the time we had got to Eibsse Lake the weather was pants: grey, rainy and so, so cold. We took the cable up to the top and by the time we got there, visibility was zero and HAW had altitude sickness.
There was zero chance of skiing so we had no choice but to go for some apres ski action. We had a lovely lunch with vin chaud and beer and met the rest of our group who were also staying in the igloo village. The village is built into the top of the mountain and has around 10 igloos that are all connected with a central bar and dining area. It was built into the mountain and was truly magical. Have a look here Igloo Village for inspiration.
We went to "our" igloo which had a snow bed with furs and a double survival sleeping bag. It was very pretty to look at but I was already cold by this point. We went to the bar, met the rest of the occupants (all German) and settled down for some Vin Chaud and a cheese fondue.
We LOVE a fondue but it was serious cheese overload so we swiftly moved back to the bar where we were given shots of "Willie". (Still don't know what that is). The night then went a bit mental.....Germans as you know LOVE their Rock music and were all rocking out to lots of cheesy soft rock whilst getting quite drunk.
There was nothing to do but join in!! I LOVE this video so,so much, rocking out to Wild Boys, it still makes me laugh out loud watching it......
After a jacuzzi to warm up (we spoke about English vs German chavs, very weird) HAW and I retired to our igloo to sleep. It was the strangest experience ever, HAW had indulged in to much fondue and was letting of cheesy trumps which was doing my head in as we were stuck into a double survival sleeping bag. We were both struggling to sleep at this altitude and we had to seriously talk me out of a panic attack (haven't had one for years and was very scary). At one point I was hallucinating and talking to my old school teacher but at the same time I knew it was nonsense...WEIRD!
We slept fitfully and at 7am we were the first at the door ready to leave the village for a day of skiing!
So, the question is, would I recommend it?! Absolutely, there are not many people who could say that they have slept on Germany's highest mountain in an igloo whilst drinking shots of Willie and dancing to soft rock with Germans before having a naked sauna!
Just another crazy escapade in the rich tapestry of our life!
If you enjoyed this, just wait until Part 2 coming shortly!!
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Let's not disarm Ashland's most vulnerable
The proposed loaded Open Carry ban before the Ashland, Oregon City council would serve to deny ALL adults under 21 years of age the legal capacity to effective self defense – just to pander to the sensibilities of the ignorant, and to would be tyrants! Ashland is sadly home of a number of unsolved violent and sexual crimes, let's not make the predators work any easier.
Let's not turn Oregon into another Illinois. One's enough.
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Rights atrophy without exercise.
Stretch your natural right to self defense today and Open Carry.
In Ashland, Oregon it's a right still free from infringement… for now.
It's time to decriminalize Self Defense for all, everywhere…
…Not, as some would wish in Ashland, Oregon today… to keep the incremental infringements of our Rightful Liberty coming!
Inalienable natural rights, ARE, absolute.
They are not open to compromise and will not be voted away.
The heart of the matter
Those fearful adults that wish to control and dictate to others wich tools they possess and carry, were the children who were brought up to be fearful and remain ignorant of the nature of firearms, their utility, and their safe handling.
My children, like me, and the children of my friends and family – will grow up without fear. What they will have is a deep respect for other people, themselves, and tools (and situations) that can be dangerous in untrained and unskilled hands. Children brought up with a full sense of personal responsibility, and who are given the requisite training, do not have "accidents". You owe it to yourself, and to the rest of society, to ensure that your child does not cause accidents – or grow up into a fearful, controlling tyrant that would seek to deny others their Rightful Liberty!
We all have our own. As one woman courageously suggested at a recent Ashland, Oregon City Counci meeting – if we're really concerned about children and safety around firearms, why don't we train them?
That way, even Children who are sadly not brought up with living examples of personal responsibility, will at least know how to safely handle weapons if they are ever required to – without fear, and without endangering themselves or others.
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They claim to "care" about public safety and children…
…If that were true, the public's capacity to protect and defend would be left alone so as to take care of themselves and their own children.
Carol Voisin would deny me, students, and those morally opposed to licensing a right the capacity to defend ourselves… Time to elect council members that stand-under their oath and the law of the land they vowed to uphold!
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Our Counter Petition is Live!
LIBERTY! Ashland has carefully drafted a (counter) petition that demands the following:
Petition to maintain and protect the right to self defense of residents and citizens through the lawful open carry of loaded firearms in Ashland, Oregon
We, the undersigned, demand The Council of THE CITY OF ASHLAND protect and maintain the lawful right of residents and citizens to openly carry loaded firearms by:
(a) passing no ordinance that would in any way infringe the lawful right to openly carry loaded firearms; and
(b) passing a resolution re-committing the municipality of THE CITY OF ASHLAND and it's Board Members, Officers, and Staff to upholding and protecting all the rights of all residents and citizens such that their confidence be restored in this institution and in it's serving board members.
You can find that Petition HERE, Please – read it, sign it and share it! In Liberty!
If you live and/or work in Ashland, Oregon and may be able to help gather some signatures on paper please get in touch with us HERE. We can email you forms, or even arrange to get pre-printed paper copies to you.
The remainder of the text of the petition reads as follows:
WHEREAS, The right to self defense is recognized as an ancient, natural, inalienable, civil right of all people;
WHEREAS, The Second Amendment (the Bill of Rights) to The Constitution of the United States of America enumerates and codifies that:
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
WHEREAS, Article 1, Section 27 of The Constitution of Oregon provides:
Right to bear arms; military subordinate to civil power. The people shall have the right to bear arms for the defence [sic] of themselves, and the State, but the Military shall be kept in strict subordination to the civil power[.]
WHEREAS, recent rulings of the Supreme Court of The United States (Heller; McDonald) have concluded that "the Second Amendment codified a pre existing, individual right to keep and bear arms and that the "central component of the right" is "self-defense"; and that "After all, self-defense, recognized since ancient times as a "basic right," is the "central component" of the Second Amendment guarantee. Id. Consequently, that right restricted not only the federal government but, under the Fourteenth Amendment, also the states." ;
WHEREAS, a January 13 2014 ruling of the 9th Circuit Court finds that "…the Second Amendment secures a right to a firearm in some fashion outside the home.", and concurs that The right to armed self-defense… is the "first law of nature," and any law "prohibiting any person from bearing arms" crossed the constitutional line. The court concluded that every law abiding individual must have a lawful means to carry firearms for self defense outside the home.
WHEREAS, The Oregon Supreme Court recently held that Article I, Section 27 of the Oregon Constitution "permits" regulations restricting the possession and use of weapons only to an extent necessary to promote the public safety and which does not unduly frustrate the individual right to bear arms for the purpose of self-defense;
WHEREAS, THE CITY OF ASHLAND's Sergeant at Arms and Chief of Police Terry Holderness stated on the record that "We've never had a crime committed by someone in an open carry situation, so this [proposed ordinance] is more a statement of "community values"", clearly demonstrates that there is absolutely no necessity to 'restrict the possession of weaponsto promote the public safety' as required by State law.
WHEREAS, Oregon Revised Statutes do not make provision for adults under 21 years of age or for legal alien resident non-citizens to apply for a concealed weapons permit; a loaded open carry ban such as that drafted by THE CITY OF ASHLAND would serve to unlawfully deny said parties of any legally compliant opportunity to exercise their lawful natural right to self defense outside the home, and thus clearly and "unduly frustrate the individual right to bear arms";
WHEREAS, passage of a loaded open carry ban such as that drafted by THE CITY OF ASHLAND would serve only to put our City's peace officers into situations of unnecessary conflict (and or coercion) with lawful residents and citizens, leaving THE CITY OF ASHLAND andindividual officers open to the consequences of law suits for violation of rights protected by both the 2nd and 4th Amendment's to the Bill of Rights.
WHEREAS, Article IX, Section 1 of The Charter of THE CITY OF ASHLAND provides The Council:
"…shall have the power within the limits of the City of Ashland to enact laws, ordinances and pass resolutionsnot in conflict or inconsistent with the laws of the United States, the State of Oregon, or the provisions of this Charter;"
WHEREAS, Article VII, Section 8 of The Charter of THE CITY OF ASHLAND provides:
"Oath of Office. Before entering upon the duties of his/her office, each officer shall take an oath or shall affirm that he/she will support the constitutions and laws of the United States, the State of Oregon, and the Charter and laws of the City of Ashland, and that he/she will faithfully perform the duties of his/her office"
WHEREAS, that nowhere in The City's Charter does it grant the municipal corporation, it' officers, staff or agents the authority or mandate to infringe the natural, lawful rights of residents and citizens or otherwise persecute some at the bequest of others or otherwise attempt to modify residents' and citizens' behavior based on fallacious concepts such as "community values";
WHEREAS, no group of residents and citizens has the lawful or moral authority to dictate to and attempt control the peaceful and lawful behavior of others, even and especially if the actions/choices/behaviors are those of a minority, no matter how distasteful or unpalatable they may be to others;
WHEREAS, many residents and citizens residing in The City of Ashland pride themselves on open-hearted, open-minded "tolerance" the definition: "willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own" (Merriman-Webster), reminds us that "tolerance' is a two way street.
Responsibility, like rights, belongs to the individual
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Accidentally, I discover hidden ability of TextEdit : Completing Word and Recognizing Font Style. Let's go through these two.
Completing Unfinished Word
Actually, this feature have already discussed in later article. However, I find a quicker way of doing these word completion.
For example, procrastinate will be a long word. Luckily, if we type it inside TextEdit, we just need to type procra and then press Escape, list of TextEdit's words recommendation will be shown.
Use UpArrow / DownArrow to move the highlight, RightArrow to accept the highlighted word recomendation and LeftArrow to close list.
Font Style Hidden Preview
Have you ever curious how to see the font-style in TextEdit?
Open up your font-pane (with Command-T) and move your cursor above the text that you want to be recognized, TextEdit will highlight the font-style in three separate columns.
In example above, the font-style is Bitstream Vera Serif Bold 11.0 pt.
But it's easier way I got here. Put your mouse cursor on the tiny hole located at the top-center of font-pane and then drag it down. New display will appear. Now, try to move cursor again to the same word as before. Let's see what you got.
Is it the same as before?


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Cherry tomatoes
Fall cherry tomato production began in early October, and DiMare characterized quality as high.
Cherry tomatoes are seeing gains in demand, DiMare said.
"We have had some foodservice trade switch back into and demand cherries again for use in salads," he said. "Cherries are an excellent eating quality tomato and said the variety works well with restaurants and chefs that want something that eats well."
Both varieties sell well for Wimauma-based Tomato Thyme Corp.
"Grape tomato sales are really growing. So are cherries," said Michael Lacey, director of sales and marketing. "The pint business can become competitive because everyone has it and everyone's growing grapes. Not everyone, however, sells them in 4-ounce containers, which make it catchy. We are seeing some requests from the schools for the 4-ounce packages."
Cherry tomatoes retain reasonable demand, Pacific's Esformes said.
"It's one of those items that people either use or they don't," he said. "It's not a big item but it is a tomato product."
Taste helped grape tomatoes overtake cherries in popularity, said Chuck Weisinger, president and chief executive officer of Fort Myers-based Weis-Buy Farms Inc.
"It seems like more people want the flavor of the grape tomato than the tartness of the cherries anymore," he said. "But there still is some demand. They're like cucumbers. You have a certain amount of people who still want them. Cherries are in a niche market at this point because everyone's using grapes."


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Andy: For the most part, a successful game is written by experienced game developers with a few titles under their belt. For those not familiar with the name Colin Northway, what path brought you to making Fantastic Contraption?
Colin: Well I've always tooled around making games. I probably start a game every couple of years. Every time I started I got a little closer to finishing one, until Fantastic Contraption, which I managed to complete. So this is the first game I've ever released. This time I was extra motivated because it seemed like such a good idea.
Wow, so Fantastic Contraption is your first released game! And you really seemed to find some success with it; Do you think your story is unique?
I am actually really unsure how unique my story is. I tend not to hang out on indie-developer bulletin boards or anything. I know that it's really easy to write a great game, have it be amazingly popular, and not make any money off of it at all. Especially in the flash world.
I would guess that there are very few people in the flash world like me. I would guess there are more people in the download game world, but not as many as there should be. Eforts like Steam, Greenhouse and Xbox Live Arcade are finally starting to bring those great games to the wider audience they deserve. And I bet the iPhone has a surprising number of them. Conditions on the iPhone are pretty good for us indie guys right now.
Do you think others could follow in your footsteps, and if so, would you have any advice for them?
I think the most important lesson from Fantastic Contraption is to Release Your Stuff. Finish it. Get it out there. To a certain extent you're going to have to get lucky. The tortured bowels of the internet are teeming with great games that no one ever played. But you can't win if you don't play.
After that I would suggest that charging money for the game that you poured your soul into for several months is not amoral, conceited, or foolish. There is this culture of free that says charging money for something is somehow a dirty act. But everyone works for money. Is your day job less dirty than bringing games into the world?
When did the idea for Fantastic Contraption first hit you, and how long did it take to complete the game?
To a certain extent the idea came from nowhere. I was sitting at work (I used to be a web developer) and it just kind of popped in there. Like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. And then I asked you if you thought it sounded like a good idea. You seemed enthusiastic so here we are!
Of course it doesn't exist in a vacuume. It has simmilarities to alot of other games that I love. In fact I was playing the hell out of the World of Goo pre-order demo at the time.
The basic idea that popped into my head was: what if you turned The Incredible Machine inside out? Instead of having a dumb basketball traveling through an intelligent level, why not have an intelligent basketball traveling through a dumb level?
So basically in Fantastic Contraption you make hyper-intelligent basketballs.
And of course there are alot of other great games in the Physicsy-Puzzle genre. I named alot of them in the credits section of FantasticContraption.com. I am not so vein as to think I would be here had I never played Armadillo Run for instance (which is another great indie game success story).
Fantastic Contraption is a unique and interesting game idea, yet is one that seems so simple in retrospect. It is even easy to see where the inspirations come from (especially since you list several on the credits page for the game), and there are even more physics-sandbox applications being released every day. What are your thoughts on the level of innovation in the field of this style of game? Do you think there are a bunch of other physics-sandbox games just waiting to be written, or has the genre been tapped? Do you think you will continue writing games, and if so, will they be of the same genre?
I think there are a ton of physics games to be written. I think there is room for all of us. A rising tide raises all boats so to speak.
For instance, Contraption was just released in the iPhone app-store three days ago. Right now if you load up the app store and look at the top 50 puzzle games you can see Tiki Towers (which is very like World of Goo), Fantastic Contraption, and then Crayon Physics all directly next to eachother. We aren't all right at the top but we're all doing pretty well. And I think people who play one of our games will be interested in the others. If just one of our games was in there people wouldn't know what to make of it.
Physics should be the most intuitive thing in the world. We all inately unserstand what happens when we drop a pen or lean on an un-latched door. But somehow when that experience is once removed on a computer screen it messes alot of people up. They kind of have to learn to trust and play. So I don't mind who teaches them that physics are fun. But I'm pretty confident that after they've figured it out they'll like Fantastic Contraption. And I hope that alot of people who first played Fantastic Contraption go on to play Crayon Physics and World of Goo and Armadillo Run.
Changing gears a bit, Fantastic Contraption seems to be an overwhelming success, but it came completely out of left field. I scanned the net and couldn't find any official mention of it early on except at a few review sites. What kind of advertising or promotion did you do for the game?
Ha, none. We never did a lick of advertising. I credit StumbleUpon.com with alot of our success. It dumped 20,000 people on our doorstep the weekend after we released and it just went up from there.
Do you think the game would have been even more successful with an aggressive advertising campaign?
I can't answer the advertising question. I can't imagine FantasticContraption being more succesfull. I think if I tried to do that my head would explode.
Has the release and subsequent success of Fantastic Contraption had any profound effect on your life, or is it just something that runs itself in the background?
Drastically. I didn't take well to alot of the consequences of having such a popular game. Luckily you, Andy Moore, were there to pick up alot of the pieces I was dropping. The popularity is hard to deal with. The idea that literally several millions of people have played a game I wrote is mind boggling. And I guess it's mind boggling in a good way, but it's just not that pleasent to have your mind boggled.
And then there were always server issues, and PayPal is the biggest pain in the ♥♥♥ in the world. I really don't like those guys. But they're over there sitting pretty on their virtual monopoly. All that stuff takes up alot of time and none of it is fun.
Since inXile things have been much better for me.
"Colin Northway" and "Fantastic Contraption" didn't hit headlines until December 2008, when inXile put out a press release about Fantastic Contraption. What was the nature of this move, and what brought about your decision to pursue it?
There are all kinds of reasons. First and foremost was: I want to see bigger cooler vesions of Fantastic Contraption. And there is a limit to what I can do sitting on the couch in my appartment.
The iPhone version? It's totaly amazing! Bryan Perfetto at inXile wrote it and I am just in awe of that guy. I am his biggest fan. There are alot of problems in making Contraption work on the iPhone. Stuff you'd never even think about. Have you seen how small the iPhone screen is? Have you seen how many buttons are in the Contraption interface? Or how fat your finger is? When I got an iPod Touch (I don't like phones) I quickly discovered how hard it is to see through your own finger.
But Bryan just took all those problems and made them go away. I think his iPhone version is better than my Flash version.
Did you do much development on the recently-released iPod Touch/iPhone version of the game?
I was down in the inXile offices for alot of the brain-storming. But when I got down there. Bryan Perfetto had somehow gotten a bunch of my Flash code running on an iPhone and had already solved alot of the major design problems in something like the span of a week. So he should get alot of the credit for the really clever stuff in that version. Although I did have the occasional good idea.
Now that the iPhone/Touch application is on the market, it must feel great to be getting such glowing reviews. How do you feel about the job inXile did with the game's transition to the portable market?
It's incredibly fun. It's like the first release all over again. I am just so pleased with how it turned out. Matt Findley, the Contraption producer at inXile, said something very true. We don't have many disagreements over what the iPhone version is going to look like because we're all doing the obvious best thing for the game.
Yes you will be able to make levels. Yes you will be able to share them with eacther. Yes screenshots are the best way to list levels. It's easy because they just want to make really great games. That sounds cheesy but it's true. the iPhone version of Fantastic Contraption is so good because me and everyone at inXile really really care about it. That's how great things get made.
It's probably too early to call, but do you see Fantastic Contraption continuing to be a success on the mobile platform? Do you have any plans to bring it to any other platforms?
I'd love to see more Fantastic Contraption. I have prototyped out some great ideas for a possible sequel. Stuff that is just really fun and delightful that even our uber-players won't see comming. But that's all down the road. Right now I'm just enjoying the new iPhone release and the whole Fantastic Contraption world.
And finally, possibly the hardest question: Any regrets?
I wish I had payed attention in database class when they were talking about optimisation
VERYDUMBNAME wrote:wow when he said who is most anoying I thought he would say me for sure!
OfficiallyHaphazard wrote:Here is a link to the images of the new levels: http://tinyurl.com/b4g4v2 for reference for those that have not bought the game.
weasel wrote:VERYDUMBNAME wrote:wow when he said who is most anoying I thought he would say me for sure!
You'll always have a special place in my heart, VeryDumbName.
weasel wrote:FC: What do you consider the most iconic contraption in Fantastic Contraption?
Wow... There have been so many that just blow me away, and my opinion does change from time to time. I like to find excellent contraptions and sticky them in the forums for a short time just to get them the recognition they deserve.
My most recent favorite I dubbed "Design of the Century": http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=5052358 . I believe Foro made most of it with some help of some other folks.
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The "happiest place on earth" isn't Disney World, it's a family where mom and dad are intentional about nurturing their marriage, including their sexual intimacy. Yet, many couples plan the family vacation without making room for sex. Yes, I realize you are cramming people into a hotel room, a tent, a camper or Aunt Edna's spare bedroom. On vacation, privacy becomes limited at best and non-existent at worst. However, completely losing sight of healthy sexual intimacy is only going to add to the stress. Sure, it's important to remember the swimsuits and sunscreen, but don't forget the sex. Here are 5 tips for making sex a part of your family summer vacation:
1. Have sex the night before you leave. If you know that sex is going to be difficult during vacation, at least begin your vacation with a little sexual satisfaction. Pre-vacation sex will add some mutual tenderness to the car trip or plane ride that you probably will begin at 6 a.m. the next morning.
2. If at all possible, book adjoining hotel rooms instead of one hotel room, especially if you have children who are grade-school age and older. At the end of the day, put on a movie for the kids in one room and go in the other room with the door locked. Don't hesitate to say to your children, "Mom and dad want to talk for a little while alone. Knock on the door if there is an emergency." Nervous about leaving the kids alone all night? Well, you don't have to. After you have sex, switch around. Move the younger children into one room with a parent, while the other parent stays in the other room with the older kids.
3. If you have very young children, have sex after they are asleep. This is possible in one hotel room. Yeah, quiet sex wouldn't be my first choice, but quiet sex is better than no sex. If you have babies or toddlers sleeping in a nearby bed or crib, trust me, you can make it work. Even if you don't have intercourse, you can still find your way to satisfaction.
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Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by SunshineGal 9 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 27, 14 at 14:22
I received the box today! I will post when it goes out again. :) |
- Posted by SunshineGal 9 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 27, 14 at 18:02
It's back on its way! Tracking number 9114901189866518756102 |
Hi guys, I recieved the box yesterday. Wow amazing seeds. Ill get it back out as soon as I'm done hopefully 2morrow I'll let you guys know |
- Posted by lovesblooms z7 MD (My Page) on Mon, Mar 31, 14 at 22:08
Can't wait! |
- Posted by lovesblooms z7 MD (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 14 at 8:54
Duplicate post |
This post was edited by lovesblooms on Tue, Apr 1, 14 at 8:55
- Posted by beautifulreddahlias 6a (My Page) on Tue, Apr 1, 14 at 10:09
Getting closer! I'm so excited! |
- Posted by grdngramma 4 (email@example.com) on Tue, Apr 1, 14 at 20:13
I missed this one, hope you do it again, I'll watch for it. |
seed train on its way!!!!!! |
- Posted by lovesblooms z7 MD (My Page) on Wed, Apr 2, 14 at 11:03
Yay! I'll let post when I get it. |
Oh, I wish I had known about this before. I would have loved to have joined in! |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 2, 14 at 23:50
is anyone else been getting spam emails from gardenweb lately? |
- Posted by lovesblooms z7 MD (My Page) on Fri, Apr 4, 14 at 23:12
I got the box today and I plan to have them back on their way Monday. I'll post! |
- Posted by lovesblooms z7 MD (My Page) on Mon, Apr 7, 14 at 14:20
It's off to Oceanside, NY. Tracking# 9405 9036 9930 0160 5673 10 Enjoy! |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 14, 14 at 11:21
1. loveless 2. dmkelly 3. mcc371 4. paperfinch 5. christine00 6. MissyGA64- 7. SunshineGal 8. yeli0507 9. lovesblooms 10. Dap7777777 11. pinkiris 12. heavenlyfarm 13. beautifulreddahlias 14. midwestfarm wife 15. Kathunder 16. becki25msmolly 17. elvi 18. debbya 19. wildmantrav 20. jplayland 21. ForeverRecycleReuse 22. cryptid 23. Rollinrockell just thought I post this from the first thread |
- Posted by heavenlyfarm PA 6b (email@example.com) on Tue, Apr 15, 14 at 9:32
Yay so close!!! it's almost to me!! Currently debating whether I will save the seeds I get for wintersowing this winter coming up or try regular sowing this year outside....decisions decisions. I just can't wait for new seeds to try :) ~michael Thanks again rollinrockell for hosting!! |
Just checking in .... I see Im next =) |
Going to be 2 more months at this pace before we finish. Unless the last stops are only looking for direct sow, we need to speed up. |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 18, 14 at 13:44
dap says she has the box |
- Posted by midwestfarmwife 5 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 18, 14 at 21:23
It won't take me long once the box arrives here. I already have seeds packaged up and ready to go. |
According to tracking.... package was delivered to Dap7777777 April 10, 2014 , 3:16 pm Delivered OCEANSIDE, NY 11572 well over a week ago. Still have not seen any post that they have rec'd nor sent it back out....I am next and have heard nothing. Will post if it ever arrives... seems as though Im gonna be done with planting by the time it finally does arrive... 2-3 days MAX for holding this is NOT asking too much and if a problem arrives common courtesy to let other members riding be aware of the hold up. Dont think Ill be playing again. This is becoming ridiculous folks. Lets get this moving along... 23 people riding and we are only on #10 who has not even posted having rec'd. Please take my name off the list. |
Might as well remove me too, won't be here until July anyway, this is assuming Dap doesn't just keep it. Blacklist Dap. |
Just rec'd .....mailing back out today....not even going through it... Im done planting for this year. Should arrive by Thursday to next on list. |
- Posted by midwestfarmwife 5 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 21, 14 at 22:14
jplayland - wish you would reconsider about dropping out. I have some Hazelnuts from our shrubs that I was going to put in for you. I will check everyone's wish list that comes after me and include anything I have that is on your list. If any of you want Goji Berries, I have lots of them. If your seeds arrive too late for this year's planting, put them in the fridge for next year. I have held lots of seeds over this way. Yes, I belong on the show Hoarders, LOL! |
- Posted by beautifulreddahlias 6a (My Page) on Tue, Apr 22, 14 at 7:09
I still wish to remain part of the train but I do have to agree, the lack of communication and the week long holdings that have happened are frustrating. I think two days is more than plenty to look through and send it on it's way. I have two kids (three if you count my husband) and they all know when that package arrives, your on your own for 2 hours. I'm getting mommy time. We should be near the end of the list by now, not in the middle!!!!! |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 22, 14 at 18:48
Sorry for the hassle folks but I cant make people hurry along. passing it along in a timely manner is not too much to ask. The first two years of this went great. just too many people this year i guess. This will be the last year. and im sorry to hear that jp and pink, if you need anything or any of you need any thing please don't hesitate to ask. and yes seeds do keep for the next year. |
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- Posted by heavenlyfarm PA 6b (email@example.com) on Tue, Apr 22, 14 at 19:44
When it arrives, I should be able to look through it and send out next day if that helps! I'm basically done sowing/wintersowing for this year but I just love finding new seeds already for next year! they may not all germinate, but even one plant can make my day!! I will just be storing any seeds I take for next year :) I can't wait till it arrives!! ~Michael |
- Posted by heavenlyfarm PA 6b (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Apr 24, 14 at 14:55
Just an update, that I'm still waiting for it! it was not in todays mail :( ~Michael |
- Posted by heavenlyfarm PA 6b (email@example.com) on Sat, Apr 26, 14 at 21:01
I have it and am looking through it! :) alot of veggies...I'm adding some more flowers and stuff too it!!! I did get some goodies tho to try next year for wintersowing and such :) I will get back out on monday with priority mail. pinkiris, I forgot to mention but I was looking forward to seeds from you! Lol so maybe we can do a trade in the future or this fall? whenever you are trading again :) ~michael heavenlyfarm |
Just checked info and was delivered.... April 25, 2014 , 12:17 pm Delivered WALNUTPORT, PA 18088 I did add about 20+ packages Michael not sure what you were wanting or needing but yes let me know =) |
Please keep me on the list. I will save some for next year and add to the stash. Plus those hazelnuts sound great. Any idea of the type or are they native? |
- Posted by midwestfarmwife 5 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 27, 14 at 22:12
I planted two Hazelnut shrubs about 30 yrs. ago. I can't remember where I bought them, but it might have been Vernon Barnes & Son out of Tn. They are huge now....must be at least 15' tall. |
- Posted by beautifulreddahlias 6a (My Page) on Mon, Apr 28, 14 at 6:31
Yea! I'm finally next! I'll be looking for the package Heavenly! I'll post when it gets here |
- Posted by heavenlyfarm PA 6b (email@example.com) on Mon, Apr 28, 14 at 20:11
Mailed this morning: USPS Tracking # 9405 5096 9993 8408 9158 58 Pinkiris, I will pm you soon and I did get some great seeds tho and a few veggies for container gardening :) I really did enjoy this swap tho and it was a great idea and so thrilling to get that big pack of seeds! Lol and a way to pass on some extras I got from trades as well as a few of my own seeds :) |
- Posted by beautifulreddahlias 6a (My Page) on Wed, Apr 30, 14 at 13:06
Train stopped this morning!!! Will send out tomorrow morning! |
- Posted by beautifulreddahlias 6a (My Page) on Wed, Apr 30, 14 at 14:26
I was able to mail today, Midwestfarmwife it's on it's way to you! Tracking number 9114901159815018039238. |
- Posted by midwestfarmwife 5 (My Page) on Sat, May 3, 14 at 12:24
The seed train stopped here yesterday and left this morning, crammed with lots of veggie and flower seeds. It's heading only 1 hr. south of me and will arrive on Monday, May 5. Tracking # is: 911490112086913061968. Thank you to all who contributed and to Rollinrockell for hosting. |
The train arrived today! Will be back on its way tomorrow or the next day. |
The train is back in its way! I forgot to write down your email, but it's on its way to you, Becki! Should be there on Saturday. Tracking#: 9114901230801608210983 Rachel, thank you so much for hosting this, I'm very very sorry to hear this will be the last year! I LOVED getting that big pack of seeds in the mail, and I'm pretty sure my husband got even more excited about it than I did. :) Thanks for playing, everyone! |
- Posted by ForeverRecycleReuse MN 4b (My Page) on Wed, May 14, 14 at 17:32
Has the train stalled again.....? :) |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Fri, May 16, 14 at 6:19
I checked the dc# Becki should have the package, it arrived on the 10th. Elvi's next... Who has the package, please post! I'm after Elvi, so just trying to get prepared.. Deb |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Fri, May 16, 14 at 13:11
yes finals are over, I can now get out in the yard finally. the box was moving along great there for the last few people. I have emailed her to see what is up. if not I'm prepared to send the last few people packages to end this. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Tue, May 20, 14 at 16:00
Rachel, You don't have to send me anything.. Thank you so much for coordinating the swap! :) It's just so sad when communication is lost on a swap! I had fun with the the first round! Too bad about this one... Deb |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Wed, May 21, 14 at 15:38
it was suppose to be shipped on sat, hoping it shows up any day now |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 20:34
and a month later, elvi has received the box. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jun 20, 14 at 20:09
I'll post as soon as it arrives! Deb |
Wow, almost here, I had given up. I'm guessing the package is a big surprise for some who haven't checked back in a while. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 26, 14 at 18:42
Hi, So far no package has shown up- or I would of posted. :( Deb |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Jun 29, 14 at 16:54
Just curious.. Is there a tracking # to follow? I just want to make sure it's not lost, and Everyone's expecting it to arrive. Deb |
Bump...! |
- Posted by rollinrockell 9 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 3, 14 at 13:27
the last update was that elvi had it and was suppose to ship it, nothing after that. |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Jul 17, 14 at 17:02
July 17th.. Elvi kept the package. It never arrived, this swap is stalled - closed for now. If it ever arrives I will post right away. I previously used to host seed, other round robins. I know how frustrating it is for someone to NOT pass on a package! Deb |
So sad. I hope someone keeps track of those who don't participate with the best interest of the group in mind so this doesn't repeat itself. |
- Posted by ForeverRecycleReuse MN 4b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 18, 14 at 16:46
It is unfortunate but these seed trains seem to have a tendency to stall and derail. The first round was successful from start to finish. Oh well -- Happy gardening everyone! |
Really, *really* sorry to hear this. Was totally looking forward to participating for the first time. -*sigh*- Still,...what is, *is*, I guess. :( |
Especially frustrating for me. I got skipped the first round, waited forever since this thing was ordered south first, north last, then the thief is a couple of people before me. The design of this type of swap is horribly flawed. Would be better to eliminate the "train" aspects and instead have one trusted organizer receive all seeds and redistribute. |
Bump,... |
- Posted by debbya z4IL (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Aug 22, 14 at 17:00
Cryptid, Nothing ever arrived as of 8/20. I've hosted enough swaps to make the call- to call this swap OVER. ;( If Elvi ever decides to mail the package--- PLEASE JUST SKIP ME! Go to the next in line. It's so frustrating to 'be next' when a package isn't arriving! Deb |
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The latest news coming out of the world's premier cycling race has Britain's Mark Cavendish winning the second stage, while Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland still wears the overall leader's yellow jersey. We're speaking, of course, about the Tour de France, the grueling 3,200-kilometer race that draws the … READ MORE
Jeremy Fish – "Where Hearts Get Left" Exhibition | San Francisco
Even though he was not born there, Jeremy Fish is undoubtedly one of the most iconic artists that represents the creative city of San Francisco. Inspired by The City That Knows How, Fish is planning an upcoming exhibition entitled Where Hearts Get Left. Officially presented by his … READ MORE
Jeremy Fish x Upper Playground – SuperFishal T-Shirt Collection – Spring/Summer 2012
A collaborative effort between artist Jeremy Fish and Upper Playground is on again this year as the pair launches SuperFishal T-Shirt Collection for Spring/Summer 2012, Ready and up for grabs on Upper Playground's online store and retail store, the collection of twelve designs by Fish, some of … READ MORE