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cape SW England at SW tip of Cornwall; extreme W point of England, at 5°41′W
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(Concise Encyclopedia)Westernmost peninsula, Cornwall, England. Its tip is the southwesternmost point of England and lies about 870 mi (1,400 km) from John o' Groats, traditionally considered the northernmost point of Britain. Off its coast lie dangerous reefs, one group of which, a mile from the mainland, is marked by the Longships lighthouse.
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An abscess is a collection of pus in any part of the body that, in most cases, causes swelling and inflammation around it.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Abscesses occur when an area of tissue becomes infected and the body's immune system tries to fight it. White blood cells move through the walls of the blood vessels into the area of the infection and collect in the damaged tissue. During this process, pus forms. Pus is the buildup of fluid, living and dead white blood cells, dead tissue, and bacteria or other foreign substances.
Abscesses can form in almost any part of the body. The skin, under the skin, and the teeth are the most common sites. Abscesses may be caused by bacteria, parasites, and foreign substances.
Abscesses in the skin are easy to see. They are red, raised, and painful. Abscesses in other areas of the body may not be seen, but they may cause organ damage.
Types of abscesses include:
- Abdominal abscess
- Amebic liver abscess
- Anorectal abscess
- Bartholin's abscess
- Brain abscess
- Epidural abscess
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Pyogenic liver abscess
- Skin abscess
- Spinal cord abscess
- Subcutaneous abscess
- Tooth abscess
Signs and tests
Often, a sample of fluid will be taken from the abscess and tested to see what type of germ is causing the problem.
Treatment varies, but often surgery, antibiotics, or both are needed.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you think that you may have any type of abscess.
Preventing abscesses depends on where they develop. For example, good hygiene can help prevent skin abscesses. Dental hygiene and routine care will prevent tooth abscesses.
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Summary: No other building type has surpassed affordable housing's status as an architecture that speaks so directly to architects' professional mission of social healing while often offering such disappointing results. Examples of public housing that are monolithic, overcrowded, scaless, and faceless are sadly common and occasionally infamous, like the Pruitt-Igoe projects in St. Louis and Cabrini Green in Chicago.
The New Carver Apartments in Los Angeles, designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture. Image courtesy of Skid Row Housing Trust.
In some cases, the poor records these buildings have assembled is a result of designers' lack of communication, empathy, and interaction with their end users—the low-income residents that will occupy them. Too often, public housing became a field of design social experimentation and top-down planning from architects riding high on mid-century Modernism, proposing and building designs that were poorly suited to residents' priorities and desires. Any commercial architect past or present can list 101 reasons that you must know your client inside and out, but truly internalizing this message has been a work in progress in affordable housing design.
The Rose Fellowship is one opportunity to help young architects use their design skills to help low-income communities in comprehensive, community-based ways. Founded by the estate of developer and philanthropist Frederick Rose, the fellowship has paired young architects with local community housing and development agencies to help them create affordable housing and other facilities for low-income Americans since 2000.
Established as a part of the national affordable housing non-profit Enterprise Community Partners, the fellowship selects a handful of young architects each year and pays for them to assist in the design and development of affordable housing, community and education centers, and neighborhood masterplans for three years. The only prerequisite for the program is that each potential fellow have a professional architecture degree.
Jessy Olson, Assoc. AIA, a recent graduate from the University of Oregon, has seen the value of everyday interaction with the community she's designing for. Her Rose Fellowship project is to assist the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation renovate a 90-unit affordable housing development in Woodburn, Ore., built for Hispanic immigrant agricultural workers. She's also assisting in the design and development of a new 40-unit property.
Her office is on the building site, and her day-to-day interactions with residents have provided design insights she could not have gotten anywhere else. Olson says she's learned to place more emphasis on outdoor public spaces (like plazas, patios, courtyards, playgrounds, etc.) because the immigrant residents of the Nuevo Amanecer housing development use them very intensely for many different purposes. She's learned to provide large formal spaces for traditional religious celebrations and small informal spaces where residents can chat while hanging up laundry and work in a communal garden. "It's literally about planting seeds in a new place that helps you identify with that new place and helps you feel comfortable," she says.
Change agents Rose Fellowship executive director Katie Swenson, a former Rose Fellow herself, says that the program is looking for architects that know how to use "design skills to empower low-income communities. We're really looking for instigators –people who are activists in their approach. The fellows who do the best are the ones that know how to pull difference pieces together to really be a change agent."
Swenson says her path towards progressive, socially minded design was set in motion by a studio at the University of Virginia taught by AIA Gold Medal recipient Samuel Mockbee, founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio and a torch bearer of affordable community design. That experience "changed my life," she says. "There were very few points of light like that at the time."
Before Rose Fellows are dispatched on their three-year partnerships, they go through a two month application process where they send in portfolios and professional recommendations. Swenson uses Enterprises' web of associated community and housing non-profits to find partners for the fellows. Rose Fellowship finalists meet with the community organization they might be paired with, and the agency makes the final decision on who to bring on.
From 2003-06, Jess Zimbabwe, AIA, was paired with the Eastside Arts Alliance, a socialist arts collective in Oakland. Her primary responsibility was to help them renovate and redesign the Eastside Community Cultural Center. Its goal is to offer local children from low-income and minority families education and enrichment opportunities that can divert them from crime and gang activity. These programs had previously been scattered across several locations which weren't designed for use by a non-profit education and community center.
Zimbabwe was in charge of redesigning the interiors of an existing building. Her first priorities were public gallery spaces that would better allow the community to interact with the education center and view students' work. She also worked with the architect of record (Okamoto-Saijo Architecture) to design a sound recording studio and a print making studio. The Eastside building had already been partially renovated by a developer that wanted to turn it into loft apartments.
But there was still much work to be done. Zimbabwe found herself wearing many hats not typically associated with an architectural fellowship. "I'll be honest—I didn't exactly know what I was doing," she says. "They needed architectural support, but they needed a lot of realty development support as well." To get the project paid for, Zimbabwe says she had to cobble together 18 separate sources of funding from state and local programs, all a few hundred thousand dollars a time, "if that." To simply hold a community meeting, she had to enlist translators that spoke eight different languages.
Now complete, the Eastside community center reaffirms the cultural worth of its place, regardless of the income, race, and ethnicity of its neighborhood. "Arts and culture are really powerful for communities because it's an asset that diverse and low-income communities have, and it's not frequently counted by cities and agencies," Zimbabwe says. "To give people a place to deliver and share that art and culture allows them to think of it as an asset."
Skid Row Housing Trust Theresa Hwang began her Rose Fellowship just a few months ago, and she was matched with the Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles, which builds and manages low-income housing for the recently homeless. The Housing Trust currently maintains 22 buildings and some 1,200 housing units. Hwang's main project is to assist in the renovation of the Simone Hotel. This building is being converted from single-room occupancy units with shared bathrooms into full studio apartment style units. Hwang is investigating sustainable design features and considering how to turn eight residential units into space for social services, a common trend in contemporary affordable housing design. A bridge from the Simone Hotel will connect to an adjacent Skid Row Housing Trust property that will have a green roof.
"Providing open green space in the middle of Skid Row is kind of rare," says Hwang, who graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2007.
For this project, Hwang is assessing programmatic needs and considering mechanical systems retrofitting, and hasn't yet delved into a general design scheme, though she has been working with the building's original architect, Koning Eizenberg Architecture. Hwang also assisted with completing the construction of the 97-unit New Carver Apartments designed by Michael Maltzan, FAIA. She says she hopes opportunities like the Rose Fellowship can "[blur] the boundary between [design] firms and [non-profit] organizations," and make this kind of cross-collaboration more common.
Bringing young architects into their own Each Rose Fellows' tenure has given them a blunt look at the challenges of developing sustainable housing. To begin with, they say funding and subsidies for sustainable building products and systems lag far behind their popularity. "There needs to be more money to allow these systems from the get-go, because a lot of times that tends to be what gets value engineered out of projects, and I feel like that's the most important thing to keep in terms of the longevity of the project," Hwang says.
Olson lists the problems that rural low-income housing projects tend to face, like reduced civic funding and a small non-profit community to support such efforts.
Zimbabwe says that affordable housing funding is often too dispersed and restrictive. "When each different piece of funding has its own specific regulations and rules and ways you can spend it and timelines for spending it, it makes it incredibly challenging," she says.
Several of the Rose Fellows say the experience gave them real word development skills they likely would not have gotten in a more traditional career path. After being placed in a fellowship, young architects do far more than design buildings. They raise money for projects, get permits, conduct post-occupancy surveys, and generally deal with the entire non-profit facility design and construction process. "I got to see the politics of development and [how] projects really come together in a different way than I would have if I had just gone to work and been the most junior person at an architecture firm," Zimbabwe says.
"It's been really crazy to see how many different disciplines are actually involved in this," Hwang says. "It's a really great cross-section of what actually happens, whereas if I just stayed at an architecture firm I'd only get a small sliver of what actually happened."
Hwang has been meeting with contractors, talking to energy efficiency consultants, inviting social service providers into the project, working out property management issues, and raising money. "That's been the biggest learning process," she says. "As architects, you don't really learn that in school."
Zimbabwe says that older architects are often reluctant to give younger designers the opportunity to take broad control over a single project like the Rose Fellowship does, and this may be why there are so few programs like it exist. "We're not very honest about what young architect's can bring to the table," she says.
Certainly there are many types of fellowships and programs that send aspiring doctors to Sub-Saharan Africa, or send young lawyers to South America, but there is still a desperate, gaping need for community design skills in impoverished places, domestically and internationally. Groups like Architecture for Humanity and Public Architecture (as well as architects like Larry Scarpa, AIA, and Mike Pyatok, FAIA) are often lonely voices calling out for the empowerment of poor communities through design.
There are more of these kinds of opportunities now than there used to be, Hwang says, but "it's still a small circle because you keep hearing the same names over and over again." Her theory on why architecture has lagged behind other professions in charitable low-income community support: Design is often perceived as a rarified and lofty "bonus" reserved for the upper reaches of the social strata and is simply not meant for the budget-ruled push and pull of affordable housing. This attitude is often what allowed subpar, ill-conceived, and ultimately dysfunctional housing projects to be built in the first place. The influence of the Rose Fellows' work will determine if the disastrous myth that design isn't absolutely integral to the health and function of communities is allowed to continue.
"Architects can and should have a much larger role," Swenson says, "not just in housing policy, but in urban policy."
Trend or movement During her time at Harvard, Hwang says she saw enthusiasm in socially minded design expand dramatically. Swenson says she's seen a similar acceleration of interest. "In the 10 years that I've been doing this, the whole world has really transformed around this issue," she says. "The young architects that I meet don't want to practice anything else."
Olson is not so sure. "I think it's still sort of considered this sort of hippy fringe sector of architecture, which doesn't make any sense to me because housing is so basic and such a tenant of architecture," she says.
Since last year's economic crash and the subsequent deep design and construction industry recession, younger architects do seem to exhibit more interest in using their design skills to help those that are less fortunate, reaffirming architecture's role as the definitive democratic art form. There's currently a design media narrative that says this interest in social impact architecture is a rejection of the formally extravagant designs of years past, now considered too expensive and hubristic for such a time of penitent restraint.
Because architecture moves slowly (especially in a severe recession), it's difficult to tell if this is an established movement or a media-generated trend. If it is real, architects' penitence will bring rewards of better designed communities to those that need it the most—the poor, disabled, disadvantaged—after experiencing a small amount of their economic insecurity.
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text: Slideshow: Mystery in India Along the coast of northern Andhra Pradesh, a mysterious epidemic of chronic kidney disease has affected the region for the last two decades. Anna Barry-Jester The northern coast of Andhra Pradesh is suffering from a mysterious form of chronic kidney disease. The region's name, Uddanam, comes from a word in Sanskrit that means "Beautiful Garden" or "Paradise." Anna Barry-Jester Siva Bendalam feeds a cow in his village in Varaka, Andhra Pradesh. "So many people are leaving," said Siva, who helps support his family since the death of his father and uncle in 2007. "If the disease continues, no one will be here." Anna Barry-Jester According to unpublished results from a Harvard University study, chronic kidney disease affects 24 to 37 percent of the population in some villages in Uddanam, 2 to 3 times higher than other parts of the district. Anna Barry-Jester Women collect water from a bore well in Varaka, Andhra Pradesh, India. Water is widely suspected as the cause for the epidemic, due to the strange geographic patterns and the particular form of CKD, which is likely caused by a toxic exposure. Anna Barry-Jester A long line of patients wait to see a doctor at King George Hospital in Vizag, India, during a twice weekly nephrology clinic at the hospital. Vizag is the closest hospital with a nephrologist for people with a mysterious form of chronic kidney disease in the Uddanam region of Andhra Pradesh. Anna Barry-Jester A crowd of patients and family members wait to be seen at the nephrology clinic at the public King George Hospital in Vizag. Anna Barry-Jester Dr. Sasidhar Goriparthi, a nephrology fellow at King George Hospital in Vizag, India, talks to patients waiting in line for care in the hospital's nephrology ward. Patients travel from all over the state to be seen in Vizag as there are very few, if any, nephrologists available in rural areas. Anna Barry-Jester The Aarogyasri card of Savara Jayamma Balakrishna, 38. Aarogyasri is an insurance plan in the state of Andhra Pradesh that pays the insurance premiums for citizens below the poverty line. Anna Barry-Jester A man and woman receive dialysis at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in the Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh. As part of a public-private partnership with the state, the newly opened dialysis ward is run by a private company. The state has had difficulty finding a nephrologist willing to live in the area to manage the ward. Anna Barry-Jester Ramarao Laxminaraina, a 25-year-old rice farmer, receives dialysis treatment. Anna Barry-Jester Prameela Bendalam lost her husband to chronic kidney disease in 2007. "I borrowed money thinking that he would survive, but he died, and now the loans have to be paid back as well," she said. Anna Barry-Jester Residents of Uddanam celebrate a festival for the goddess Asiripolamma, said to protect three of the villages in the area. Unlike similar epidemics in Sri Lanka and Central America, this mysterious form of chronic kidney disease in India affects men and women equally, according to separate research by Harvard and Stony Brook Universities. Anna Barry-Jester


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By Marianne Merten, Sunday Independent
A once-off amnesty for black-listed South Africans, a call on mining companies to stop exporting to Israel, the decriminalisation of sex work, and a ban on e-tolling are among the resolutions passed by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
The more than 1 000 congress delegates want a presidential remission on black-listing for all South Africans blacklisted for debts up to R200 000.
"South Africans deserve a clean start of their credit records," the resolution says, adding the union would be prepared to hold marches on this.
Regarding exports to Israel – hot on the heels of a Trade and Industry Department announcement on relabelling products from Palestine – the NUM congress asked its executive to give notice to the Chamber of Mines and individual companies to stop exporting minerals to Israel, "in refusal to contribute with our labour power on minerals which in turn result in building capacity for Israel to oppress the people of Palestine".
The resolution on legalising sex work sparked heated debate – sexual harassment and sex work at mines was also raised as a concern in the secretariat report the congress adopted – but in the end the resolution, which stemmed from the NUM women's congress decisions, was adopted.
Now the call for campaigns for the decriminalisation of sex work to "ensure sex workers are not abused" will be tabled at the September Cosatu congress where, if adopted, it will become a campaign of the federation.
On nationalisation, the NUM resolved in favour of "strategic nationalisation", warning that a wholesale takeover could lead to a bail-out of indebted mines.
However, Sasol and ArcelorMittal must be "renationalised" as they were historically state-owned enterprises, and should return to the state's fold, while cement manufacturing should be nationalised.
The congress backed a labour broker ban, rejected e-tolls, and called for a state bank as the financial sector has not transformed.
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Tunisia's Islamist party agrees to join coalition government (Reuters)
Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Fahmy expected to be freed within days - Egyptian official (Reuters)
U.S., allies conduct 34 air strikes against Islamic State (Reuters)
Jailed Al Jazeera journalist expected to leave Egypt for Australia - state media (Reuters)
Kurdish forces free oil workers at Kirkuk crude station seized by ISIS - officials (Reuters)
Netanyahu speaks with UN chief Ban, regrets death of UNIFIL soldier in Lebanon killed in fire exchange following last week's Hezbollah attack.
Millions of dollars streaming in from overseas for V15 activists with links to leftist parties, says Likud; Labor: 'Baseless lies.'
Draft of long-awaited state comptroller report says Netanyahu received tens of thousands of dollars in gifts against regulations, Ch. 10 journalist reports.
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The birds are in their trees,
They are at their windows
The clerks are at their desks,
The proofreaders are playing the ping-pong
Which window it hardly seems to matter
The fishermen bob in their boats,
By now, it should go without saying
Just think-
And when I say a wall,
I mean a cold wall of fieldstones,
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It's all gone a bit silent. Not the good kind of silent either, but the is-that-a-noise I-heard-coming- from-under-the-bed silent.
It's the sort of silence that happens after a game gets delayed and the team involved are taking a long hard look at themselves and what they've been developing.
On paper, at least, FEAR 3 still sounds like an exciting prospect. It promises new thrills every time you play thanks to an AI-director-style randomised scare system and, in leveraging the talents of folk behind MechAssault, it boasts mech sections that should be cockpit and pistons above the competition.
There's a but, though. A few buts, in fact. Big ones.
Firstly, we're not convinced we'll actually play the campaign enough times to really appreciate the mixed-up fright cues.
And the thought of frequently re-treading old ground thanks to difficulty issues and checkpoint designs - niggly problems we spotted in our one and only eyes-on - worries us like an Alma-hosted Halloween party.
On the issue of the Elite Power Armour sections, meanwhile, we've got to confess that regardless of how good these walking exosuit levels may be, the thought of more of them gives us a bit of a sinking feeling.
When used correctly they are exhilarating palette cleansers - but that's all they'll ever be.
Nobody could ever claim to play FEAR for the mechanized moments - people play FEAR for the horror promised in the title, for the visceral combat punctuated blood-splattered slow-mo, and for the smart enemy retaliations; so, extended mention of these plodding robo-sections does leave us feeling somewhat cold.
To put to bed all our doubts, Day 1 should really be releasing some decent (and new) gameplay footage, because FEAR's always been, first and foremost, a great shooter.
People need to see that's still the case. Unfortunately, the videos we've laid eyes on since our first hands-on way back in February have mostly been ill-judged live action waffle, which has left us cowering for all the wrong reasons.
The only 'proper' trailer of note, with actual in-game footage, featured gameplay from the area we witnessed in action over half a year back.
Historically, FEAR has enjoyed only middling success when it's been in the hands of anybody but Monolith. The onus is on Day 1 to convince everybody that the shift in developer hasn't hampered the series.
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I was wondering is it would be helpful to add worms to my vegetable garden when I start it? |
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Only if you get the right species and provide a proper habitat for them. If you get adequate levels of organic matter in your soil the worms will come without your purchasing any. If you do not get adequate levels of organic matter in your soil those your purchase will leave, or die, due to a lack of food. |
- Posted by coach_grumpy 6a ID (My Page) on Sun, Mar 24, 13 at 9:28
As kimmsr noted above, there are different species. Earthworms live in different environments than composting worms. Also the type of garden you have would also factor in. I would suggest you google worm towers for more information. I didn't have any extra soil when I built my raised beds so they were started with 100% compost. I have found that it has attracted earthworms from below. But I also installed worm towers and the red wigglers I seeded it with are thriving in the upper levels. |
Just add leaves, and dig them in. The worms will add themselves. |
we have used composting worms in our gardens, red wrigglers i think, SA night crawler do just that crawl away. we find composting worms hang around better than local worms, so very good for converting our scraps which go direct to garden. the way things look here now we may have to buy some composting worms, the local ones aren't doing the population thing properly. bought our last worms 10 years or so ago, and they piggy backed to new address 6 years ago, but none piggy backed this time, last garden must have been worm heaven? len |
Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page
When I began to garden in the hard clay of this coniferous forest 16 years ago there was not one worm apparent. However we did 'inadvertently' add worms as friends gave me plants which had garden worms in the soil and DH dumped his extra fishing bait worms in the garden. These were earthworms that local kids had dug from their gardens. As I amended the soil there was enough for the worms to eat and multiply. Now I continue to 'feed' the worms by occasionally digging in kitchen scraps between my plants and making compost to use as mulch and have lots and lots of worms. Every spring if I turn over my stepping stones I find worm nurseries! While I agree that worms 'may' come if you amend your soil I've heard that not all well-amended soils have earthworms. So if you have a friend who has good soil with worms you might ask for some but make sure you 'feed' them so they live and multiply! |
- Posted by karen64 6b (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Mon, Mar 25, 13 at 19:07
If you build it, they will come. |
- Posted by Raw_Nature 5 OH (My Page) on Tue, Mar 26, 13 at 10:14
As Other mentioned you need a habitat for them.. Nothing brings worms like a nice thick layer of mulch! |
If you like worms, and enjoy fishing, why not a two for one? Make vermicompost inside, and use the excess worms for fishing? |
Most of the worms sold as bait are the Red Wigglers which need a lot of organic matter to live on and is why they are used in vermicomposting. They do not do very well in even good healthy soils, with about 6 to 8 percent organic matter, because that is not enough for them do live on. For many people a worm is a worm, but there is are many species of worms and many have special duties to perform while other species are more general. |
Here is a link that might be useful: About Red Wigglers
- Posted by petrock1963 none (My Page) on Thu, Mar 28, 13 at 14:15
You have already gotten so much good advice. I am not adding anything new. Adding and mulching with organic material will get the ball rolling. The vermi-composting suggestion is a great idea as well. It has been the route I followed and is working great. |
- Posted by socks12345 Zone 9 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 31, 13 at 12:02
As Karen said: If you build it, they will come. Sometimes I mulch with lawn cuttings in the rose garden, and I see an explosion in earthworms. How do I know? Because the nighttime critters (raccoons, skunks) dig up the roses and watering system to get to them. So it's good and bad to get all those earthworms. I'm pretty sure the traditional composting "red" worm eisenia fetidia or something like that won't work well in soil as they typically live in leaf litter. It's best to promote whatever type worm you have naturally in your area. Don't waste money buying them unless you are going fishing. |
Hi, I am way up in zone 4, very rocky soil. I have had no worms at all in my soil. Last year, after 3 years of working on the soil, and bringing some in, I found my first worms! Question: if there are no worms around, where would they come from? Thank you, |
"Question: if there are no worms around, where would they come from? ", Very good question Sunraya! Many people think that good garden worms are indigenous to every area but it's not so. There are many types of worms and the type I *think* I have here is is known as the Common European Earthworm which tells where this worm originated. It's from the Lumbricidae family of worms and has been naturalized in many places on earth. Many of the early settlers in North America came from Europe and bought plants with them to their new home and the earthworms hitchhiked in the soil of those plants. I know it took a couple of years of amending the soil here before I saw earthworms and I know there were some in the soil of some of the plants I was given by friends. And around here the only worms my DH used to buy on the way to his favorite fishing lake were garden variety earthworms dug and sold by the local kids. Once we had sufficient worms in the garden he would just dig for them. Apparently the area I live in had no native earthworms prior to the introduction of this type of worm. It is believed that these worms can have a negative impact on forest ecosystems altho that cannot be a concern of mine. I know they are beneficial to my garden. So I know one can 'import' worms but if they are to survive and multiply it's essential to feed them. |
If you are considering moving some compost worms from your vermi bin to the garden, I gather the important factors are your climate and the type of composting worms you have. From my reading of "Worms Eat My Garbage", I think Mary mentioned five or six types of composting worms. Some seemed to work better than others outdoors. Do you know which type you have? |
I don't know which type of worms I have. I haven't dug in my garden yet. After reading all of the reply's i think the best approach would be to let nature supply worms to the garden |
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In this recipe, can I substitute or do without the white wine? Is there a non-alcoholic substitute?
Why substitute anything? Cooking is all about tasting, if you like how the soup tastes without the wine then there's no need to add anything to replace it. The white wine supplies acidity, which you may not actually want if you've already added sour cream. It also supplies fruitiness which again may or may not be to your taste. If you want more acidity then squeeze some lemon juice into it, if you want fruitiness add maybe 1/8 cup of white grape juice. Add a bit at a time, tasting as you go to make sure you don't overdo it. If you decide you like the soup without the wine then don't add anything, your recipe won't miss the 1/4 cup of fluid. |
Consider using white wine vinegar. The flavour profile obviously isn't the same, acetic acid changes things a lot, but you do get the other flavour compounds you get in wine. That said, subjectively speaking, I agree with the suggestion of lemon juice to go with fennel and sour cream. Or maybe a combination of the two. |
The amount, 1/4 cup, is so small that it probably doesn't affect the final flavor too much. Easiest substitute would be low-sodium vegetable stock. Some commercial vegetable stocks do contain trace amounts of white wine, so check the ingredients in the nutrition facts if this is a problem. |


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There's one more thing to really like about this site too: It's so easy to find the iTunes and RSS feeds. There's a lot to learn from how this site is designed. It just gets the job done.
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RollingStone.com premiered "I Miss Your Bones" today from Trouble writing, "Fans can get a taste of the album with an exclusive stream of "I Miss Your Bones," a sprawling epic that finds singer Amber Papini mourning everlasting loss with such sad lines as, 'All the stars will twinkle in the mist of the sea/ Black and lonely." Behind her, the band builds from a sparse power-pop stomp to a noisy, psychedelic freak-out.'"
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Pinterest is a fun, fast growing social media platform and if you have not checked it out, I highly recommend you hightail it over there. Pinterest is like a 'candy store where you want a taste of everything, you are in awe of plentitude, you list your favorites and you can't believe people actually buy the stuff'. Pinterest is quite simple to use and is very easy on the eyes. Pretty pictures float by and following people is as easy as connecting your current Facebook or Twitter accounts and voila; you now follow lots of people on Pinterest with the click of one or two buttons.
Each new Pinterest account gets an opportunity to create numerous 'boards'. According to Pinterest, there is a combined total limit of 350 personal and shared boards. In case you are curious, I'd like to also share that each account is currently limited to 100,000 pins.
Here are some tips to keep in mind as you create new boards:
- As you name your new board(s), think SEO. What important keywords can you and should you use for your boards? Make sure you like the name of the board to avoid renaming it later – that would change the given URL of that board.
- As you create your boards, make sure you categorize each board correctly so they can be found in a search.
- As you start uploading pins to the board, pick one image that stands out and represents the board well. Use that image as the 'board cover' to attract additional attention to that particular board.
Once you have created several boards, arrange them in just the order you want. You can go into your account at any time and re-arrange your boards, whenever you want and as often as you like.
Here are some creative ways people have arranged their boards:
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- By important keywords
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- Seasonally
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Once you set up your own boards, you might want to browse and find similar boards to your own for images to repin. Pinterest search is easy to use and don't forget that hashtags work on Pinterest, too. Once you find a board you like, you can follow the user (and thus follow all his/her boards) or you can just follow that one board you are interested in. Much the same way, you can decide to unfollow someone who's cluttered their boards with junk images or someone who pins irrelevant stuff. Unfollowing is as easy as following: go to the actual board you want to unfollow and hit the 'unfollow' button.
Lastly, I want to touch on sharing boards. This can be done in two ways:
1. You ask someone to become a contributor to your board(s).
2. You are asked to become a contributor to someone else's board(s).
Here I urge you to use caution: I recommend only accepting board invitations from people you know and trust and who are in the same or a similar industry as you. Accepting too many board invitations will limit the number of boards you yourself can create as the total limit of combined boards is 350. As a side note: you can disengage yourself from a board, even after you have accepted the invitation to share. If you feel the shared board has become unmanageable, I urge you to reconsider accepting invitations and even deleting some boards and shifting your focus back on the boards you currently manage.
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- Breed: Labrador Retriever Mix
- Color: Black
- Age: Young
- Size: Large 61-100 lbs (28-45 kg)
- Sex: Female
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I am already spayed, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.
Smoke is a GORGEOUS 1 to 2 year old Lab (mix) female. Smoke is fully grown and weighs about 55 pounds. She has a wonderful Lab temperament - very playful, sweet, and happy!! Smoke has played with every dog she's met and is good with kids & cats. Smoke is an excellent catch for a loving family looking to share their lives with a loving dog!
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Smoke, a Hastings Labrador Retriever dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Labrador Retriever for sale in Hastings, or seeking a Labrador Retriever dog from a breeder in Hastings.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Hastings already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Hastings breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Labrador Retriever breeders who help with Labrador Retriever rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Hastings paves the way for another one to be saved.


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Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
(GIST; Tumor, Gastrointestinal Stromal; Gastrointestinal Stromal Sarcoma; Gastric Myosarcoma; Gastric Myoblastoma; Gastrointestinal Leiomyosarcoma; Gastrointestinal Smooth Muscle Tumor)
GIST may occur anywhere in the digestive system.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are a type of tumor that occurs in the digestive system. The digestive system includes the esophagus, liver, stomach, gall bladder, large and small intestines, and rectum. The digestive system processes food to fuel the body and gets rid of waste. About half of GISTs occur in the stomach, but they can occur anywhere in the digestive system.
GISTs are rare. All GISTs are now considered potentially cancerous.
The cause of GISTs is not well understood.
Many people with GIST have a defect in a gene called c-kit. Usually, this gene is not active. However, in people with GIST, the c-kit gene often has a defect and is active, which enables the cells to grow and divide uncontrollably. This may explain why a GIST forms.
Theories about GISTs say that they begin in special cells of the digestive system. These cells are called interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs). They send signals that tell the digestive system to contract, which moves food and liquid through the digestive system.
Risk Factors
GIST is most common in people over age 50. It is rare in children. Risk factors for GIST are mostly unknown. Possible risk factors include:
- Neurofibromatosis—a genetic disorder of the nervous system
- Family history of GIST—rare
GISTs may not cause any symptoms until they grow to a certain size. Symptoms may include:
- Tiredness and weakness
- Fever; sweating at night
- Weight loss
- Feeling full after eating a small amount of food
- Abdominal pain
- Painless lump in the abdomen
- Nausea and/or vomiting
- Blood in stool or vomit
- Problems swallowing
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will also be done.
Your bodily structures will need to be viewed to determine the location and size of the tumor. This can be done with:
- Barium swallow
- Barium enema
- Ultrasound
- Endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Computed tomography (CT) scan
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan
- Positron emission tomography (PET) scan
Your bodily tissues may be tested. This can be done with a fine-needle biopsy.
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment options include:
Surgery is used to treat a GIST that has not spread. Surgery to treat GIST should be done by an experienced cancer surgeon. GISTs are delicate tumors. There may be an increased risk of cancer spreading if the sac surrounding the GIST is opened during surgery.
You may be given medications to shrink the tumor before surgery. For small tumors, laparoscopic surgery may be used.
Even if the tumor is large or growing into other organs, your doctor may use surgery to remove some or the entire tumor. This reduces the chance that the tumor will grow large enough to block the digestive system.
You may be given a medication called a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. It may make the tumor shrink or stop growing.
Last reviewed June 2014 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.


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Tattoos seem absolutely insane to me. How a person can ever decide on an image they want to see on their body for the rest of their life is an idea that I will never be able to grasp. Which is, I…   Read Story »
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I am a plant novice who recently (3 months ago) purchased a small Jade plant. It lives by my patio doors which is a bright area that recieves 1-3 hours of direct sunlight each day. I have been careful not to overwater or mist it since I read that these are common problems caused by over-eager owners. In any event, I have noticed that every few days 1+ leaves have turned yellow and a bit mushy and have fallen off. The rest of the plant seems to be doing well, as the top leaves have a rim of red around them, for example... Any ideas? Is this normal? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer to a newbie. |
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Lauren: a red rim around the leaves indicates that the plant has received a lot of bright light - our jades spend the winter in the house and the leaves slowly loose their red, then when we put them out on the patio in the summer, the red comes back. A leaf that turns yellow and mushy... has your jade been exposed to a lot of cold recently? Under normal circumstances in the house, with lots of good light, that should not keep happening. But I would say: don't worry - jades are pretty well impossible to kill. The only thing you need to be concerned about is to not overwater. We give ours a drink only when the leaves start to look a little wrinkly... a sign that moisture is really low. About 3 or 4 times per winter is plenty. No kidding :) |
If all else seems ok, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It could be the shorter days are triggering some shedding, or maybe it's in a drafty spot? I water mine when they're dry, which averages between 2-3 weeks in winter. I keep mine pretty potbound, so they dry out pretty fast... Denise in Omaha |
It may be too close to the glass and catching too much cool air from it. Back it away from the glass a bit. Unless it is far enough away (say a foot or more) then forget I said anything! Tom |
- Posted by hopefulauthor z5IL (My Page) on Sun, Oct 22, 06 at 19:41
Are the leaves that turn mushy and yellow closest to the soil? People have different interpretations of dry soil. My Jades are dried to the point just before soil cracks..which is dry..Perhaps the soil is moist and those lower leaves are sitting on the soil?? Is this possible? Wet soil does effect leaves..remember, one leaf can root in soil...Toni |
- Posted by norma_2006 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 22, 06 at 22:43
Use a pencil or chop stick for a water meter. That is all I can add. You all have it well under control. Some don't like the house heat this time of year. Thanks, Norma |
- Posted by lauren.g QC(gw:lauren.g) onMon, Oct 23, 06 at 9:36
I have read all your messages and suggestions...thanks a millon. I will definitely make sure to really let it dry between waterings in the winter. I moved it a bit further away from the patio doors incase it may be a draft... Hopeful author: yes...some of the yellow leaves ARE close to the soil..so it is possible they were just absorbing the moisture from the earth.... Yes - I will use a pencil to test the soil. Good idea. I will be posting again soon with a picture of a plant I am babysitting for my grandmother that I haven't been able to identify! |
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Meet Jensen Karp. Karp runs a very cool art gallery in Los Angeles that specializes in the intersection of fine art, underground art, and pop culture. For example: Gallery 1988 recently commissioned and organized an exhibition of paintings by various artists inspired by filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) and his ''SModcast'' podcasts with longtime producer and friend, Scott Mosier. You can check out the gallery's website and/or you can watch the short summary of the Smith/Mosier-homage ''SMart Show'' below. Warning: It probably goes without saying that the artwork, produced by hardcore Smith fans, captures the director's notoriously edgy comic sensibility.
Karp is a Lost fan. And as it happens, the people at Lost are fans of Gallery 1988, especially Lost associate producer Noreen O'Toole and co-producer Samantha Thomas. Not long ago, they all got together and brainstormed a very novel idea: a Lost-inspired art initiative, but with a viral component involving websites and events that would allow fans from all over to buy limited edition prints of the art. The initiative would also have another purpose: serving as a big Thank You from the producers of Lost to the Web-based loyalists who've spent five years faithfully obsessing over the show.
And so was born the Lost Underground Art Project. Karp reached out to 16 well-respected poster artists who were also serious Lost aficionados and asked them to create a piece that re-articulated a classic Lost moment in their own unique style. The Scheer stunt at Comic-Con helped launch the online hub for the viral component, DamonCartlonAndAPolarBear.com. Scheer generated even more attention for the site with a comic video chronicling his attempt to infiltrate the Lost writers' offices. After getting lost on the Disney lot and bumping into Lindelof and Cuse without realizing it Scheer rummaged through the trash and discovered a shredded document that turned out to be the cover page of the script for season 6's first episode. The skit created a stir among Lost fans because it gave us our first official tease about the new season, as the cover page included the episode's intriguing title: ''LA X.'' Suddenly, Lost's Web-dwelling fans were visiting DamonCartlonAndAPolarBear.com daily to see what would happen next.
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by Pete Larson, of RunBlogger For the first few years after I started running, the 5k was my preferred race distance – in fact, my 5k PR (18:51) was set back in 2008. Like many runners, I was quickly bitten by the marathon bug and focused most of 2009-2010 on long distance races Despite my preference for minimalist shoes, one thing that I had not done until last week was run a race in zero drop shoes. Last Thursday there was a 5k race in my home town of Concord, NH. I had run a sub-19:00 solo 5k time trial earlier in the week, so I knew I wasn't going to be running on the freshest of legs, so I made a choice to have some fun with the race and run it in a pair of Vibram Fivefingers. Given that the course would be a mix of gravel, grass/dirt, and road, I opted to use my Vibram Komodosports since they seem to offer a bit more cushion underfoot than my VFF Bikilas or TrekSports. The KomodoSports are in many ways quite similar to the VFF Bikilas. 1. First and foremost, the Komodosport has a removable insole. Underneath the insole is a rough material that seems to directly overlie the outsole, so most of the cushioning appears to be built into the insole. It would have been cool if Vibram had made the material under the insole similar to the lining of the Bikila so that the wearer could have the option of running with or without it (Vivobarefoot shoes do this particularly well). Running without the insole would allow for a much firmer ride, better ground feel, and would likely help accommodate a slightly higher volume foot. 2. The Komodosport doesn't fit quite as snugly on my foot as compared to the Bikila – it's a bit more like the TrekSport in terms of fit. This makes it better as a walk-around shoe, as the tightness of my Bikilas can get constricting when I'm not running in them. In my opinion, most of the other differences between the Komodsport and the Bikila are largely cosmetic. When compared to the Treksport, the most obvious difference is the sole – the Treksport has a thicker, treaded sole that feels much firmer underfoot. I would have worn these for the race given the off-road portion, but I prefer the slightly more cushioned feel of the Bikilas and Komodos on the road (cushioning here is a relative thing, as even the Bikila and Komodos are far less cushioned than the vast majority of shoes that I own). Since it was a split course – half on- and half off-road – the Komodos were a reasonable compromise. When the gun went off, I took off at a sub-6:00 pace and felt pretty good. I settled into my typical low 6:00 5K pace as we approached the trail section. {In the end}, I wound up crossing the finish in 19:30. That put me in 7th place overall, and I wound up winning the 30-39 age group. At the finish a bunch of people asked me what it was like to run in my toe shoes, and I happily explained that it was my first time, but that the experience was a good one. The only issue I had was a hot spot that developed under one of the seams at the edge of the black mesh panel behind the little toe. I barely knew I was running in Vibrams for most of the race, and though I can't say they made me any faster, they certainly did not hold me back any. There's probably no way I could have done this two years ago when I first started running in Fivefingers, and it felt great to know how far I've come in being able to perform in an ultraminimal shoe. If you're legs/feet are well adapted, I highly recommend giving it a try. | |
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You are here2010 ElectionsDebating KPFT's Geoff Berg on Houston Fox 26: Lame Duck Session Highlights Failure of Democrat led CongressPresident Obama stepped to the microphone today to try to do his best impersonation of a Phoenix rising from the political disaster that was the November mid-term election. Has he found some kind of new "success"? This was the topic of my debate on Houston's KRIV Fox 26, hosted by Melinda Spaulding,with KPFT's liberal talk show host Geoff Berg. The reality is the Lame Duck Posted under:
RPT Pledges Support of Dan Neil EffortRPT State Chairman Steve Munisteri announced today that the state party has committed a minimum of $10,000 to the Dan Neil election contest in a show of support for Neil's contest. "Our office has been in close contact with the Dan Neil legal team led by former Party counsel Donna Davidson. I have reviewed the evidence developed so far and am convinced that there are sufficient irregularities in the vote to warrant an effort by Dan Neil to seek redress with the Texas House of Representatives. The Republican Party of Texas pledges to assist Dan Neil Posted under:
Will the 2010 Census Redistricting Pave Way for GOP Win in 2012?The 2010 Census report Tuesday will include positive political news for Republicans. According to My Way News: The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the nation must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census figures.Read more » Posted under:
NY-17 Republican Candidate Anthony Melé Discusses How His Own GOP Chairman Falsified Military Records to Destroy his CampaignAnthony Melé took a few moments recently at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC to recount a story about his recent race for U.S. Representative in the deep blue state of New York. His comments illustrate the kind of fight that conservatives will be up against in blue states as we approach the 2012 elections. Melé was the Congressional Republican candidate for the 17th Congressional District of New York. When running for public office, it can only be expected that political opponents will dig up dirt, however, according to Melé, his own party Read more » Posted under:
Congratulations to Rep.-Elect John Kuempel on His Special Election VictoryThe following is a press release from the Republican Party of Texas regarding Rep.-Elect John Kuempel's special election victory. After the overwhelming victory by John Kuempel of Seguin, in Tuesday's special election in House District 44, Chairman Steve Munisteri issued the following statement. "On behalf of the Republican Party of Texas, I heartily congratulate John Kuempel on his overwhelming victory, and officially welcome him as our newest Republican State Representative! John's election to the State Legislature is a strong testament to the legacy and patriotism Posted under:
Hanukkah 2010 Night 8–A misguided presidential warriorThe following article was originally posted on The Tygrrrr Express December 8th. As Jews prepare to celebrate the eighth and final night of Hanukkah, I will make another attempt to teach the virtually unteachable about war. Yesterday was Pearl Harbor Day, which led America into World War II and eventually into V.E. Day. America won the war and preserved the America way of life. Read more » Posted under:
Obama to Pardoned Turkeys: "It feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this November."President Obama pardoned two turkeys today named "Apple" and "Cider" during the annual ceremony in the Rose Garden. The pair of turkeys come from a ranch near Modesto, CA but will be spending the rest of their days at Mount Vernon. Obama even made fun of the huge Democrat loss coming out of the midterm elections by saying, "It feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this November." Read more » Posted under:
One Texas House Race Still Not Settled - With a 15 vote deficit Dan Neil is still looking at his optionsWith all the heat going on about the Texas Speaker's race, it is almost easy to miss the election that is still not settled! That being the race for Texas Representative for District 48 in Austin, Texas between Republican challenger Dan Neil and Democrat incumbent Donna Howard. With a 99-51 lead in the Texas House, you might think one more seat isn't all that important, but 100-50 would give Republicans a 2/3rds majority and more power to make better changes for Texas. On election day, Neil trailed Howard by a mere 16 votes... YES, 16 VOTES! Who says every vote doesn't count. I wonder if there are 17 people running around in Austin, kicking themselves for not voting for Neil? Democrat Solomon Ortiz Concedes TX-27 Race to Republican Blake FarentholdIt took him 3 weeks and a $23,500 recount, but Democrat Solomon Ortiz (TX-27) has finally conceded the race to Republican Blake Farenthold! This was a huge upset for the Democrats. Ortiz has been the Congressman for the 27th Congressional District since 1983, but Farenthold was able to kick him out by a margin of 650 votes! Read more » (VIDEO) Blake Farenthold Comments on Close Race with Solomon Ortiz (CD-27) at NRCC Freshmen Republican WelcomingThe NRCC welcomed the incoming freshman Republican U.S. Representatives to Congress at the Capital Hill Club in Washington, DC on November 18. Blake Farenthold, representing Texas Congressional District 27, was present and commented on his close race against Solomon Ortiz. Read more »Pages |


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Using the National Standards
The National Standards for Involving Volunteers in Not for Profit Organisations represent best practice in volunteer management. The National Standards provide a model for supporting and involving volunteers in your organisation, covering eight key areas:
- Policies and procedures
- Management responsibilities
- Recruitment
- Work and the workplace
- Training and development
- Service delivery
- Documentation
- Continuous improvement.
Following the standards will ensure that volunteer rights are protected, that their role is clear and that they work in a safe and healthy environment. Many organisations use the National Standards as the basis for their Code of practice.
The National Standards are not mandatory. It's also worth noting that there is no 'one size fits all' approach to implementing these standards – it depends on the size and type of your organisation. You may wish to identify the areas that are of most relevance and importance to your program right now and focus on those – you don't have to start at number one and work your way down the list!
The National Standards are supported by an implementation guide, a workbook and resource kit.
Tools and resources
Volunteering Australia - National Standards for Involving Volunteers in Not for Profit Organisations
The National Standards promote a best practice model for involving and managing volunteers and ensure that volunteer rights are protected, their role is explicit and they work in safe and healthy environments.
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A list of Volunteering Victoria's training programs for program managers and volunteer coordinators. Also lists other organisations that provide management training.
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A professional photographer will photograph each graduate as they cross the stage at the individual college ceremonies and the hooding ceremony. Proofs and order forms will be mailed to each graduate after the event.
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The main ceremony will be streamed live on the Radford University website. On the day of ceremony, visit www.radford.edu to find a link to the live stream. Additionally, the main ceremony will be broadcast on Public Radio WVRU, 89.9 FM.