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"People who are happy are slugs... They do not move the human race forward."
-- Camille Paglia, on Oasis
I'm pretty racked with self-loathing from time to time, but your Mattachine-Society-The-Shit-Years website is a bit much even by my standards.
David Bowie right, did this better in the 1970s. And he was a sexy beast. Not like that oddly dough faced, latter stage reality tv glam-rock redcoat.
I know the backlash is homophobic, but I almost bloody sympathise. Reality tv talent stars have the sex appeal just suppurate out of them, like the pus from a wound.
The problem isn't that he gave a bad impression of the sexually transgessive gay lifestyle, that puts middle America of it's dinner (good).
The problem is he gives an aeroplane meal version of sexual rebellion, that failed because it missed it's marketing appeal.
Pop music is meant to be stupid and sexy and annoy the other generation.
It's just three times reheated glam rock homoeroticism. My dad had David Bowie, I had Brian Molko (!), the kids get him.
Didn't think anything could be worse than Brian Molko.
The fact is if they hate the thought of you fucking- which they do- they will regardless of whether you promise them that you don't, you won't and you simply don't want to.
The straight audience (or the actually straight audience as imagined by advertisers and executives) already define the expression of our sexuality in the media. That would be your lot as neuter sissy camp and sexless. Our lot as sexy bisexual sirens, who kiss girls (and like it...) as though we've got a pair of repelling magnets in our pockets and one eye always over our shoulder.
So don't make it easier for them by mandating that we're all going to pretend not to have one.
We don't just want marriage licenses, we want real visability. We want a stake in our own culture (even you'd agree with that).
So we ask for it on our terms.
When my nan made my dad turn the telly off sometime in Essex in 1972, because David Bowie was cavorting about with Mike Ronson, she wasn't won round to tolerence by a Cliff Richard Christmas record.
But you know 20 years later when my mum and dad were watching Queer as Folk (UK version, obviously), she had to sit through it because the television buttons were in the hands of another generation.
We progress by pushing against existing boundaries, not by agreeing to new ones.
He can be as sexual as he wants. The point is that on American Idol he downplayed his sexuality for personal gain and now he is playing up to it for the same reason.
That wasn't the point though, was it?
That was only a bit of her point.
The meaty bit of her point was this bit:
"They are worried because they think gay life is exactly what you portrayed on the American Music Awards: focused on the kind of sex that turns people into animals (almost literally, in this case, with crawling dancers leading you on leashes), geared toward enticing children (ABC is a network owned by Disney, for heaven's sake), degrading, rapacious, empty.
This is why mainstream America votes against gays, Adam Lambert. Not because of people who have families and jobs and bills and weddings. Because of people like you, who use sexuality thoughtlessly in order to advance your own agenda, instead of thinking about the very real consequences your actions will have on others' civil rights."
In the end of course he's only doing what his pop svengalis of various stripes tell him. Which I think is a waste of a stage.
This seems to be flawed logic. How could you downplay your sexuality a few months ago, and play it up now for personal gain, to win over the same audience with similar goals (winning Idol/selling records)?
"People who are happy are slugs... They do not move the human race forward."
-- Camille Paglia, on Oasis
she's right insofar as to say that examples such as adam lambert's aren't exactly the best way to go about winning the struggle for hearts and minds. Bigoted/Uneducated folks who saw his performance could've s easily have said " See... this is EXACTLY why these people shouldn't have equal rights."
What kind of performance of Adam Lambert's would really turn them around?
I don't think it's anyone's goal to turn around bigots and uneducated people.
"People who are happy are slugs... They do not move the human race forward."
-- Camille Paglia, on Oasis
See, and that's what he second half of my post was about.
If we swap him with David Bowie for a minute- because Adam Lambert is gross and boring- then it really doesn't matter what they think when they see his performance.
Because they don't think better of us when they see neutured or acceptable depictions of lgbt people (like the camp sidekick, or the femmed up bisexual who only sleeps with men). All it does is allow them to file the gays away into a very narrow and uncomfortable little cultural niche. One that we didn't even agree to in the first place.
If the price of equal rights is that we shut up and live in a sort of transparent closet, then it's not really equality at all.
I think we need to be provocative sometimes. I think we need to be sexy and even alienating. Every old lady in the country loved Liberace, but he wasn't going to win rights for us. The Queen invites Cliff Richard over for Sunday lunch, but is he going to usher in our liberation?
You don't achieve equality on the bigot's terms. They don't mind you being their hairdresser. They don't mind me being wank fodder. But they mind if we speak up, if we act out.
And the acceptable models of heterosexuality are deeply fucked up as well. We don't want equality with that. I don't want to be equivilent to a straight woman (frying pan, fire).
We don't want to meet their standards. We need to create new standards.
You can only be shocked once.
Once they've seen it a few times, they won't even remember that it didn't used to be normal.
We can't creep up on them and expect that they'll get used to us that way. Bit by bit begging scraps tolerance. Maybe they'll let us shake hands across the bed like Brick and Skipper. Maybe they'll let us be in a film where we don't die in the end. Fuck off. Because that way, they'll always be shocked each time we ask for that little bit more.
We're not asking them nicely for tolerance.
If they don't accept us, it's not like we're going to magically become straight. If it's not a choice for us. It's not a choice for them.
If they find us disguting, we don't apologise and say we'll try harder not be to be next time.
They're right to be scared. We are, for example, redefining marriage- in the same that feminists have been redefining marriage for decades. And I know the that party line is that we're not a 'threat' to old ideas about men, women, relationships, marriage etc, but actually by definition we are. And that's good.
I don't think that all expressions and manifestions of gay sexuality blah blah blah are intrinsically good or never worthy of criticism anthing like that- it's just that the furore wasn't about the issues within gay sexuality, it was the problem of the existance and public expression of male male sexualilty at all.


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I've had a small coffee plant for about 2 years now. I repotted it because the leaves were turning yellow, and the dirt transplant seemed to help. But now it's barely growing at all! I fertilized it with some liquid iron with copper and some epsom salts. The leaves are looking better but the plant itself is barely growing at all. I make sure to water it a lot, as I think I hadn't been giving it enough. Thank you for any advice! Also, if you know what coffee plants like to eat, I'd appreciate knowing what to feed it. Thanks! |
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- Posted by orchidguyftl z10 FTL FL (My Page) on Sun, Oct 12, 08 at 1:25
an acidic fertilizer would be good are you growing it in full sun like they like? high humidity? |
- Posted by karyn1 MD 7 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Sun, Oct 12, 08 at 9:00
I know next to nothing about coffee trees but did start a couple from seed several months ago. They are pretty darn slow. I've kept them in a greenhouse with high humidity and filtered sunlight and they are only about 5" tall. They are in a potting medium with lots of peat and organic matter. Karyn |
- Posted by houstonpat 9a (My Page) on Sun, Oct 12, 08 at 20:38
I have a little experience. Coffee is super slow to germinate. But I find it growing average speed. 3 months to germinate with full round leave. I just repotted mine from 1 gallon to 2 gallon. I have three plants in the pot. They're about 14". I found the roots coiled around the bottom of the pot. To me that indicates they like a larger or deeper pot than typical for the plant size. I think good drainage and steady moisture is best. I would caution about using too much copper which can be phytotoxic. I use Ironite granules. I have mine in morning sun and 50% shade in the afternoon. I'll put the pot in a cheap greenhouse for winter and water a little less. Maintain good ventilation around the plant and watch for bugs. |
Potted coffee trees-and I have grown them from seeds to 4' plants with berrys- cannot tolerate going dry. Once is all it takes to kill them or set them back for months.Even large potted plants gone dry will not only drop leaves ,but whole large branches will die. Keep them like you would a "tropical" Azalea. Fresh air indoors is also required or they will be infested with mites/mealys/aphids. Great plants for an atrium where you can give a daily shower. Terrible plants for hot, dry, stuffy rooms. Germination can and will be must faster with a soil temps of around 80-90f. |
Okay, you have all made me see the error of my ways! :D I thank you and my pitiful 8 inch coffee plant thanks you too! :) I have had it growing in mostly shade indoors, and haven't been watering it enough. I also didn't know it loved humidity, so I'll have to have it grow near my gardenias, they have a humidity 'tray' (actually they're all in a large roomy plastic bucket type thing to keep the humidity high). Great! Finally a plant that doesn't mind being overwatered! :) Thank you all for replying! :) |
- Posted by orchidguyftl z10 FTL FL (My Page) on Sat, Oct 25, 08 at 1:33
they are actually related to gardenias and can be grown the same way. I just put a post in the tropical fruits forum about mine, it has lots of fruit on it and I tried eating them from the tree as I found one could do, didnt think I'd like it, but was surprised at how sweet and tasteful they are |
I have a coffee plant that actually seems to do better with completely indirect light. Full sun always seems to lead to yellow and brown leaves. It hasn't been in indirect light for very long- only a week or two, but the leaves have stopped burning. |
Growerman, I think mine is the same way. I put mine in direct light, and the leaves are starting to turn yellowish now. I better move it back out of the light. I wonder why that is. |
- Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (email@example.com) on Fri, Oct 31, 08 at 9:09
You know what's weird? Why do these plants grow so well in direct light, even in full sun in the carribean? I have tons in the back yard of my house there, and they are fast growers, even giving off the most fragrant smell. They don't seem to flower in the shade though. |
- Posted by jamie ? Mesa,AZ(email@example.com) onThu, Nov 13, 08 at 12:38
i have 3 Kona plants i bought from hawaii through ebay about April-May 07. i first put them in 10 inch pots and indirect light by a sliding glass door and they were healthy but grew very slow and leaf sets were very close together for about 1 year (fed all-purpose soluble fert and superthrive) i moved in march and now have them in an east facing window so they catch direct morning sun and they took off! ive had 3-4 sets of new leaves since changing locations and they are HUGE! when i moved them to the new window i also stopped using fert and only feed them with fishtank water. (all houseplants will go bananas for fish tank waste/water) because of the growth spurt i wanted to check the roots and be sure they weren't confined(coffeeplants need deep pots because they have a main taproot like a carrot and 2 diagonal "anchor" roots- however ive also seen pictures of a very healthy arabica plant about 6 ft tall in a 1 gal container so...?)they where fine and since i had the roots out and exposed, i innoculated them with mycorrhizal fungi for its beneifts ( forms an organic symbiotic relationship with roots and cuts down on fertilizers/ pesticides.) can't wait to see what happens next!! i also had browning leaves in the beginning but it stopped on its own.every 2 weeks, i flood the plants for 30 min and drain(in the bathtub with fishwater), and give one 8 ounce glass of water in the weeks between. when a plant uses nutrients in the soil it will release a nitrogen gas and these gases are bad for the plant and roots. flooding displaces the gases and drags fresh oxygen down to the soil- so flood technique is good. however, when i took my plants out to innoculate the roots, i noticed severe soil compactation (most likely from the flood technique) and the dirt smelled SO bad. partly because i use stinky fish water but also because the dirt was way to tight to let those gases out. i added some sand in the soil and mixed/loosened in a giant bowl to help with drainage. soil mix is mostly all potting soil from wal-mart, sand, spent coffee grounds, cruched egg shells and one tsp. mycorrhizal fungi per pot. sorry so longwinded- i hope this helps. if you have more questions let me know. i'm fascinated and have done a lot of research on coffee plants and grapevines. happy to help :) find fungi cheap at http://www.bghydro.com/BGH/itemdesc.asp?ic=NEGRM16 i bought a pound(thats a lot)for $11 plus $8 shipping. |
Mersie, My coffee plant is the same way...granted I live in FL and our afternoon sun is very intense. I burned the leaves when I first bought it two years ago. I now have it under a palm tree where it get morning sun and afternoon shade. They do like lots of water and fertilizer...Good luck! Mike, I think the coffee plants that grow in Caribbean and elsewhere that are grown in the ground tolerates full sun better...this is just a guess, since I have never grown one of these in the ground myself. But while I was in Jamaica...these were growing in shade, part sun, full sun. Maybe it just needs to acclimate to full sun very slowly. For me my container coffee plant just seems to do a lot better when it only gets a couple hours of direct morning sun, anything more than that seems to really have a detrimental effect on it...just my own experience with mine...Notice I grow my gardenia right next to it. Here's apicture of mine with the coffee beans starting to turn red, might have to try what orchidguy did and taste it? |
- Posted by Kalie_Florida 9a (My Page) on Fri, May 3, 13 at 14:15
Actually coffee trees are almost never grown in direct sunlight. That is why the most highly prized arabica coffee is "shade-grown." In Costa Rica and Nicaragua (the only places I've seen larger coffee farms) most of the coffee is planted under a canopy of other taller trees. Sometimes in near complete shade. There are other farms where the coffee is planted right out in the sunlight, but the plants are much smaller and produce less fruit. I've seen some land in Central America where wild coffee plants were growing 20-30 feet tall and had new fruit all the way up. You never see these in the sunlight however, only in the typical rainforest-type areas. |
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text: CALERACalera is located south of Durant on U.S. Highway 69/75 in Bryan County. Originally called Cale, Indian Territory, the town was built in 1872 when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (MK&T or Katy) built through the Choctaw Nation. Named for railroad official George W. Cale, its earliest beginnings were a livery stable, grocery, cotton gin, and school for local farmers. All of the buildings lay on the east side of the tracks. On November 30, 1889, the first post office was established, with John C. Womack as postmaster. Ten years later Dr. John A. Sterrett, a Troy, Ohio, entrepreneur and member of the Choctaw Townsite Commission, and Butler S. Smiser commissioned a survey for a townsite. In 1899 the town was christened Sterrett, but Katy officials refused to accept the name and referred to the site as Cale Switch or Cale. The dispute continued until 1910, when the townspeople compromised on the name Calera. By 1907 statehood the city had moved west of the tracks. Office buildings, banks, and businesses were constructed with Main Street serving as the major road north and south to Durant and Colbert. This became Highway 69/75. A newspaper, the Sterrett Sun, served the town. It was owned and printed by J. R. Moore. Later the Calera News, which failed in the 1920s, reported to the community. William Bondies operated one of Calera's first major industries, a prairie hay and grain business He owned scales to weigh the hay and grain being shipped on the railroad. For a number of years the area was a large national supplier of prairie hay. The town's population stabilized in the 1920s (703 in 1920) and then began to decline. As more citizens moved to larger towns for jobs, the city gradually became a farm community, depending upon peanuts, cotton, and hay. In 1940 the population was 597; a resurgence began in the late 1960s, with a 1970 mark of 1,063. In 2000 the census recorded 1,739. SEE ALSO: SETTLEMENT PATTERNS. BIBLIOGRAPHY: The History of Bryan County, Oklahoma (Durant, Okla.: Bryan County Heritage Association, Inc., 1983). James D. Morrison, et al., The Social History of the Choctaw Nation, 1865-1907 (Durant, Okla.: Creative Infomatics, 1987). James C. Milligan © Oklahoma Historical Society |


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In his nightly "Pre-Game Jitters" posts, Sean Tomlinson often highlights the creativity and absurdity of some Vancouver Canucks fans (for example, these Terrance & Philip costumes from yesterday's post.) We're not exactly sure what's causing it, but the Canucks fanbase sure enjoys costumes.
Today we present our ode to some creative Canucks fans and their wacky get-ups.
Note: This post is Green Men and Boob Girl free, since they've already received enough publicity.
We're pretty sure that this is the face you see before you die… or that this man is suffering from serious hypothermia. Either way, it's terrifying. Of course, our favourite part of this picture is the woman on the left in the background. She clearly isn't amused.
Did this person carve a "Johnny Canuck" figure out of foam and attach it to his hat? That's dedication and very impressive whittling. We just hope he took it off during the game so those behind him could see.
We can't say for sure, but we feel like these guys may have consumed more than a couple adult beverages prior to this photo being taken. We'd like to see them standing out of order. That would lead to a lot of people asking "What's 'LUGOON' mean?"
These Canucks fans were also mentioned in a Pre-Game Jitters post. We still have no idea what the Teletubbies have to do with the Vancouver Canucks, but these are two of the most bad ass Teletubbies we've ever seen. The best part is that these fans aren't just wearing Teletubby head gear. If you look closely, it appears that they're in full costume under their jerseys.
Giant green hand? Check. Tiny Stanley Cup? Check. Crazy blue hair? Check. Ready for the game!
Apparently this guy wants to play between the two Sedins. Someone should let him know that Henrik plays center, so he'd actually have to paste his face in to the right. That is, if the two photos of the Sedins are actually the two different Sedins and not just a mirror image of whichever Sedin that is.
This one's pretty clever. It's obvious that the Canucks will play an American team in the final which could lead to a bet between US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper. The loser will likely have to wear the winning team's jersey, much like this Obama cut-out.
People seem to love putting their own head in between the two Sedins, don't they?
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Díaz Sánchez, Raquel and Garijo, Ignacio and Hidalgo, Rubén A. (2011) Uniformization of conformal involutions on stable Riemann surfaces. Israel Journal of Mathematics , 186 (1). pp. 297-331. ISSN 0021-2172
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Let S be a closed Riemann surface of genus g. It is well known that there are Schottky groups producing uniformizations of S (Retrosection Theorem). Moreover, if τ: S → S is a conformal involution, it is also known that there is a Kleinian group K containing, as an index two subgroup, a Schottky group G that uniformizes S and so that K/G induces the cyclic group 〈τ〉. Let us now assume S is a stable Riemann surface and τ: S → S is a conformal involution. Again, it is known that S can be uniformized by a suitable noded Schottky group, but it is not known whether or not there is a Kleinian group K, containing a noded Schottky group G of index two, so that G uniformizes S and K/G induces 〈τ〉. In this paper we discuss this existence problem and provide some partial answers: (1) a complete positive answer for genus g ≤ 2 and for the case that S/〈τ〉 is of genus zero; (2) the existence of a Kleinian group K uniformizing the quotient stable Riemann orbifold S/〈τ〉. Applications to handlebodies with orientation-preserving involutions are also provided.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Riemann surfaces; conformal involutions |
Subjects: | Sciences > Mathematics > Geometry |
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Portfolio manager Patrick O'Shaughnessy was talking with friends last year when he told them he invests only in stocks.
U.S. President Barack Obama will take the case for acting on climate change to Al Roker and other TV weather personalities, hoping they can help convince the public that the risks of floods and droughts is a reason to curb greenhouse gases.
The public's contempt for the U.S. Congress continues to grow.
Gallup, whose final 2012 election poll showed Republican challenger Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama, said today that its likely-voters screen and too few interviews on the East and West coasts contributed to its failure to forecast the final vote accurately.
The public's scorn for a gridlocked U.S. Congress continues to grow, with a new Gallup poll showing confidence in the legislative body falling to 10 percent, the lowest level Gallup has ever found for any institution.
Unmarried women were among Barack Obama's most loyal supporters in 2008, turning out in droves and delivering 70 percent of their votes to him. When many of them stayed home in the 2010 midterm election, Democrats lost the House and had their Senate majority trimmed.
President Barack Obama called yesterday's jobs report a sign the U.S. economy is on the rebound. His prospects for re-election may depend on it.
President Barack Obama's job approval climbed to its highest level since June following a series of reports showing that the economy is strengthening and employment prospects for Americans are improving.
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, is tied at 47 percent with President Barack Obama in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of likely voters released 16 days before the election.
"We find no evidence that it's a high priority for Americans."
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Karole Armitage's Fables on Global Warming uses dance to talk about climate change
World-renowned choreographer Karole Armitage is recognized for bringing non-traditional elements to the stage with her radical modern dance pieces. The performance tonight at Macky Auditorium will be no exception, as the dancer and her company, Armitage Gone! Dance, present Fables on Global Warming.
Using costumes, puppetry in the traditions of Asian theater, and live lyrical interpretations of stories from Aesop to American Indian culture to talk about climate change, Armitage's one-hour show will give the audience plenty to think about. In advance of tonight's performance, she spoke with Westword about how Fables came about, and why it is important to make art that is accessible to all ages.
See also: Now Showing: Garrett Ammon and Laura Ann Samuelson on dance and the arts
Westword: What will Fables on Global Warming look and feel like?
Karole Armitage: This is kind of an unusual piece for me -- it has dancers and musicians on stage. What I did was to take ancient fables from around the globe -- like Aesop's 2,000-year-old fables -- and turned them into dance and music. The reason I did that is fables were written for the ruling class; they are really about how to use power wisely. They are all told by animals, they all take place in nature and they all naturally have metaphors that relate to climate change.
It just turned out to be a perfect way to implicitly talk about climate change. It's not science, it's not political. It is simply saying, we have choices -- do we want to dominate nature, or do we see ourselves as a part of nature? It really turned into a kind of philosophical piece. At the same time, it is witty, charming and fun. These are classic stories that have lasted for 2,000 years and they are wonderfully entertaining.
The performance has a very broad appeal -- we're doing many performances of this piece for children, because we use lots of props and puppets inspired by Asian theatrical traditions. Each of these fables look very interesting -- we have a story of a stag that has giant silver antlers on his head when he's dancing. So they all have a lot of visual delight. The dance is (in part) performance art -- the dancers manipulate a giant bull puppet. The bull is like ten feet by twenty feet -- it is a huge bull. So (it goes) from this performance art kind of thing to this really radical virtuoso, twenty-first century ballet on point. It is explosively athletic.
There are new dance ideas as well as this kind of very straightforward storytelling, so that experienced audiences have something to see and people who have never been to dance can understand it. It is meant to appeal to all kinds of audiences.
You utilize musicians on stage for this piece -- can you talk about their role in Fables?
The musicians are on stage playing live music, and they play a troubadour -ike band of musicians who all play a character of an extinct North American animal. So, for instance, the flute player is the Carolina parakeet, the trombone player is the passenger pigeon. The composer, Corey Dargel, plays the big thicket hog-nosed skunk, and he sings and kind of narrates the stories to help everyone understand.
The musicians are on stage kind of mixing with the dancers, like spirit guides. The dancers take on all these different characters -- from bears to doves to cicadas: many, many different kinds of animals. The fables really do come from around the globe, lots from Aesop but also from China and Native American fables. It's entertaining and has a little food for thought.
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Rhode Island congressmen and local advocates say a House bill passed this week could strip food benefits from thousands of struggling Rhode Island individuals, families and veterans.
The House on Thursday voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from the almost $80-billion-a-year food-stamp program, a 5-percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans.
In Rhode Island, enrollment in the program — now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — has been rising for six years, up from 73,000 people to 180,000. The average individual monthly benefit is about $139.
"More than 47 million Americans depend on SNAP to feed their families nutritious meals, and nearly two-thirds of SNAP recipients are children, elderly or disabled," said U.S. Rep. James R. Langevin, who voted against the measure. "This bill takes a shameful step towards a Dickensian world, where the rich take care of themselves and the poor are left to fight for the scraps."
The measure, a win for conservatives, passed the House by a slim 217-to-210 margin. Democrats on Thursday opposed the bill.
The SNAP program "provides critical food and nutrition support for hard-working families in cities and towns across Rhode Island," said U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline.
"That's why it is especially disturbing that tea party Republicans are now demanding such deep, painful cuts to nutrition assistance programs at a time when so many Americans are still looking for good-paying jobs," he said.
The bill would take away the ability of governors to waive SNAP's harsh time limit for people looking for work during high unemployment, Cicilline said. Also, it could cut school lunches for more than 200,000 children and eliminate food assistance for 170,000 veterans.
Two reports this week show Rhode Islanders are still struggling in the wake of the recent recession.
In August, the state's unemployment rate increased to 9.1 percent, from 8.9 percent in July, the state Department of Labor and Training said Thursday.
And new Census Bureau figures show more Rhode Islanders relied on food stamps, cash public assistance and Social Security's Supplemental Security Income last year than the year before.
According to Census data, nearly 20 percent of Rhode Island's children live in poverty. The poverty rate has been increasing steadily since the recession, said the child-advocacy group Rhode Island Kids Count.
The proposed reductions "are cuts to low-income children across the state that depend on the federal SNAP program for food assistance so they stay healthy," said Elizabeth Burke Bryant, executive director of Kids Count. "Thirty-eight percent of SNAP recipients in Rhode Island are children. If we want to achieve our educational goals, we need to ensure that children have the food and nutrition they need to thrive."
House conservatives, led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., say the SNAP program has become bloated.
In order to negotiate the bill with the Senate, Republicans said Thursday that one more step was needed. The House must hold a procedural vote to allow a farm bill and a food-stamp bill — traditionally lumped together — to go to a House-Senate conference together.
Once that happens, negotiations with the Senate can start.
It won't be easy. A Senate farm bill passed in June would make only a tenth of the cuts to food stamps, or $400 million, and the White House has issued a veto threat against the House bill.
For years, Congress has combined farm programs with food stamps to garner urban votes for the rural proposals.


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Hey all, I've got a bunch of my bananas and elephant ears, hardy hibiscus, and canna in the garage in containers from my old house. Do you think the weather has broke enough that I could set them outside for some early sunshine? Or should I wait a couple of more weeks before putting them out? My 50% frost date is 3/26 if I recall correctly. I know, I'm pushing spring, it's just I have a chronic case of spring fever!! |
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I can only speak to the EEs; I know if you had just new bulbs, they wouldn't really get going til the end of April. Now I also do the garage thing, and I guess I just wait til it feels warm out. I also leave a couple EEs in the house as house plants until May. In addition, the veggi seed start date is ~April 10th in central NC. A few years ago we went to the Builtmore around April 20th and the azalea flowers were ALL wiped out by a hard freeze on April 17th. |
- Posted by dottie_in_charlotte z7-8 NC (My Page) on Tue, Feb 25, 14 at 10:20
nannerbelle, I have a bunch of my 'moved' or otherwise still potted shrubs and peony roots on rolling carts in the garage. Rolling them out into the sun or to catch the rain then back indoors is easy because of the carts. I'm not trusting these pampered plants and shrubs to Feb/March weather by planting them too soon. They've been in a protected enclosure this hard winter and just beginning to break leafbuds. Too tender to risk planting. Big box stores like Lowes and HD sell these carts and the handles fold down so they can be stored vertically and out of the way when not in use and they're small enough to fit in most car trunks or across the back seat of an average car. |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Wed, Feb 26, 14 at 10:01
Time to sit on your hands!! Its too early. Now is the time when I haul things in and out on sunny days or during warm spells but I don't do anything permanent until late April. Remember, we've had frost the first week of May before. Also, there have been many times in the past when something survived the winter and looked healthy only to die on me in March when things are budding out. There is something about waking up from a long winter's nap that can do plants in - even the ones that look healthy and happy. |
Killjoy! I know this is perfect advice but I sure have trouble sitting Nanner, I still push the envelope and plant a few things too early, but only if I have several backups ...just in case. |
- Posted by nannerbelle 8A (My Page) on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 9:44
I think I'll hold up on some of this but may go ahead and move some of my good hardy ones out. All are winter hardy and if they were in the ground I wouldn't worry at all. They have all lived outside for years. But in pots I worry about the limited amount of dirt to protect them and the roots. Unfortunately, the beds aren't ready yet for them, this constant rain has really held up the last of my construction items and my yard is still a mud pit. |
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auto attack slot
can we have a slot that we can put 1 skill as auto attack ?when we right click mob or assign a key for it , it will keep casting .
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The idea is, generally, not a bad one. Give one of the slots a different color and whenever the Ability is on CD, it fires. Might be nice for an automatic heal of buff, or may be used for an Auto-attack as described in the OP.
There is one big flaw though. Most instant Abilities (ans most others) are on a global 1 second cooldown. It is a shared cooldown, meaning that only one of the Abilities will be triggered. So if you have your instant Attack on Auto, you will never be able to fire another Ability. The other problem is that there is a trigger queue (indicated by the gold rim around the icon). You hit 1, while 2 is active and everything is still on cooldown, 1 will trigger the moment the GCD is over. When is the Autoattack triggered then? |
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Mon, May 28, 12 at 11:05
I've now bagged over 80 apples. Will the humidity and moisture in the bags rot the apples? thanks Mrs. G |
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- Posted by johnthecook none (My Page) on Mon, May 28, 12 at 13:25
I'm on cape Cod and last year was my first year bagging and they take the heat just fine. I lost some apples to june drop which was a little frustrating but most bagged apples came out fine. |
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Makes 6 servings
active time
30 min
total time
10 hrs
- 1 pound dried navy or Great Northern beans, picked over
- 1 pound sliced bacon
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 to 5 cups water
- 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
- 1 pound Portuguese chouri‧o or Spanish chorizo (cured spicy pork sausage), cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 1/2 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon paprika
Soak beans in cold water to cover by 2 inches 8 hours.
Cook bacon in a 4- to 6-quart heavy pot until crisp. Transfer to paper towels to drain. Spoon off (and discard) all but about 3 tablespoons fat in pot. Cook onion in reserved fat over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until golden, 7 to 9 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until it begins to turn golden.
Drain beans and add to onion mixture with remaining ingredients (except bacon). Bring to a boil, then simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until beans are tender, about 1 1/2 hours. (Older beans will take longer to cook and require more water during cooking.) Crumble bacon into beans and season with salt and pepper before serving.
my notes
- Calories981
- Carbohydrates56 g (19%)
- Fat64 g (98%)
- Protein46 g (93%)
- Saturated Fat22 g (112%)
- Sodium1,809 mg (75%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat7 g
- Fiber14 g (54%)
- Monounsaturated Fat29 g
- Cholesterol118 mg (39%)
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type: On a Budget, Soup/Stew
main ingredients: Sausage, Bacon, Tomato, Bean
cuisine: Spanish/Portuguese


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Arrow Island: Choosing God's Way, 2014 VBS from Regular Baptist Press.
Bible Theme Verse: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105
Bible Translation: Choose either King James Version (KJV) or New King James Version (NKJV) Starter Kit. This is the NKJV Bible Translation Kit.
Ages: Preschool to Adult. Youth teen curriculum and Adult Bible study are included in the kit.
Missions Focus: Operation Bangladesh (for elementary school improvements)
Equip children to make good choices and choose God's way in every part of their lives! Gather young explorers to enjoy the sites, sounds, and food of a verdant tropical island. Each day, students will explore a new part of the island - like Thunder Mountain, Mystery Ruins, and Hideaway Cave - where they learn the importance of choosing obedience, godly friends, kindness, courage and an active faith. Each day at Arrow Island VBS has the message of salvation woven into the lesson.
Arrow Island VBS Bible Points: Bible Story (Scripture reference)
Day 1: Love God Most of All: Adam and Eve's Choice (Genesis 3)
Day 2: Choose Good Friends: Jonathan and David (1 Samuel 16:14-18; 16:20; 23:15-18)
Day 3: Be Kind and Forgiving: David Spares Saul's Life (1 Samuel 24 & 26)
Day 4: Stand for God: Elijah standing strong for God on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18)
Day 5: Take Action: Nehemiah chooses to activity obey God (Nehemiah 1-4: 6:15; 8:1-10)
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- Attendance: One of each - Registration Card, Attendance Card, Nametag, Arrow Island Pass
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With the light snow year in Breckenridge, the trails around town are dry and ready to ride! Here are some trails Breckenridge Grand Vacations employees recommend checking out.
My favorite bike trail in Breck is Jack's Cruel Joke. It starts in the hills above Carter Park and switchbacks down the hill ending behind the ice rink. The views are spectacular and it is a fairly steep trail.
Eli Yoder, Breckenridge Grand Vacations Owner Relations Interval International Liaison
I would have to say the Peaks Trail. It is a great trail to ride and I have personal attachment to it because Breckenridge Grand Vacations has adopted the Peaks Trail. As a crew leader and working on the trail for the last 4 years I love to use it and see people enjoying the hard work our company has put into it.
Christina Trimmer, Breckenridge Grand Vacations Vacation Rental Department Vacation Rental Specialist
Some of my favorite Mountain Biking Trails are located on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge Ski Resort. There are multiple levels of trails and if a few members of your group do not care to make the climb they can load their bikes onto the ski-lift. Have fun!!
Brad Beverlin, Breckenridge Grand Vacations Director of Loan Servicing
I love to mountain bike down Boreas Pass. They have trails for all abilities and you can take the Summit Stage up for free!
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Baker's Tank Trail which is off of Boreas Pass Road is a great trail close to town. You can park at the little parking area where the road closes in the winter then ride out on the road out to Baker's Tank which is an old wooden water tank, where the trail cuts up into the forest off of the road. The trail makes a loop through the forest back to the parking lot area and has some really fun downhill on the second half. Here is a link to the trail description from the Summit Daily: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060606/RECREATION04/50601029.
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Obviously it is the really long loop that goes in circles in my garage, as my bike doesn't seem to get off that trail anymore! When I was riding more regularly, I really liked the Peaks Trail from Breckenridge to Frisco, since it is mostly flat or downhill. You can of course ride back on the bike path to Breck, or even hop on the Summit Stage if the weather is looking formidable.
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1 Peter 2:12
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1 Peter 2:13-17
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Abellanas, L. and Martínez Alonso, Luis and Martínez Ontalba, Celia (1993) Polynomial translation moduies and Casimir invariants. Journal of physics A: Mathematical and general, 26 (5). pp. 225-227. ISSN 0305-4470
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We give a positive answer to a question about the existence of any direct link between two apparently unrelated facts for a specific family of solvable Lie algebras: the structure of their modules of functions on one side, and the algebraic form of their Casimir invariants on the other.
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | cohomology group; translation modules; Lie algebras of first-order differential operators; solvable Lie algebras; Casimir invariants |
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I hope you can help. I have a double hung window that won't stay up. The tension string goes up into the top of the casing. I removed 2 screws wich allows the vinyl to be pulled out of the way. There are 2 tensioning devices, rectangular steel, stapled into the wood. I can only see the steel plate not the springs etc. Has anyone seen this? If so, how do I fix this... with a stick to hold the window open? :) TIA, John |
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- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Wed, Apr 21, 10 at 10:52
You need to remove the balance assembly and either change out the string or replace the balance assembly altogether. |
From the description it sounds like an Andersen window. Is there a logo etched in the corner of the glass? If so call Andersen or search it out on the web they are fairly easy to replace but you need the right balancer. |
Thanks for all your help. John |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Wed, May 12, 10 at 0:35
Definitely sounds like an Andersen window balance assembly. Glass will usually have a serial number etched in it as well. See if it is covered under warranty. |
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You can make a rainbow with crayons, watercolors, prisms, and mirrors!
Discuss rainbows with students: What colors are in rainbows? Do all rainbows have the same colors? Are the colors always in the same order? What order do you think they are in? Students draw rainbows-based on this discussion only-using Crayola® Crayons, Watercolors, and Brushes.
Look for natural rainbows, which occur whenever white light is split into the spectrum. Rainbows can form on CD-ROMs, soap bubbles, rain drops, fish tanks, and glass as light hits them. Although the sun's rays appear colorless, the rays contain all the colors of the rainbow mixed together. This mixture is known as white light. When white light strikes a white crayon, it appears white because the crayon absorbs no color and reflects all colors equally. A black crayon absorbs all colors equally and reflects none, so it looks black. Artists consider black a color, but scientists do not, because black is the absence of all color. Students create black and white designs with crayons or watercolors and discuss the reflection and absorption of colors.
Create rainbows, indoors or outside, using a light source such as the sun, and a prism or mirror and water. Record each experiment with drawings of the objects and the spectrum created. To use a prism, hold it between the light source and a plain surface such as a ceiling, wall, or white paper. To use a mirror and water to create a rainbow, place a clear shallow glass or plastic pan in sunlight. Fill the container with water. Rest the mirror on the bottom of the pan, with its top edge leaning out of the water. Light will be bent (refracted) and separate into colors as it enters the water. As the light leaves the water, it will bend again and further separate the colors, making the spectrum more visible on a plain surface.
Students compare rainbows drawn in step 1 with those represented during the experiments in step 3. How are they similar? How are they different?
Students research the science of rainbows. Each of the colors in white light bends at a slightly different angle because it has a different wave length. Colors split into the same spectrum every time. Red has the longest wave length and violet the shortest. All other rainbow colors fall in between, in a definite order-ROY G BIV for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
Students draw colorful wavelengths to portray their relative sizes. Ultraviolet has an even shorter wavelength than violet. Humans cannot see it, but some birds and bees can.
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An man in England alerted authorities recently about a single frog that was just sitting, waiting for him, at the bottom of the stairs to his house. He insisted that the frog was "harassing" him and wanted professional help removing it.
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Makes 8 servings
- 1 12-ounce package frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed
- 12 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 cups chilled whipping cream
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 40 (about) Champagne biscuits (crisp ladyfinger-style cookies; from two 3.5-ounce packages)
- Fresh raspberries
- Fresh mint sprigs (optional)
Puree thawed raspberries in processor until smooth. Strain into medium bowl, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard seeds in strainer. Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese and 1/2 cup sugar in large bowl until smooth. Beat chilled whipping cream in another large bowl until peaks form. Gently fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture. Add pureed raspberries and fold just until combined.
Bring remaining 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water and lemon juice to boil in small saucepan, stirring frequently. Cool slightly. Dip 1 biscuit briefly into lemon syrup, turning to coat. Place flat side up in bottom of 12-cup trifle dish. Repeat with enough biscuits to cover bottom of trifle dish, trimming biscuits to fit if necessary. Spread 1/3 of raspberry-cream cheese mixture over biscuits in trifle dish. Dip more biscuits into lemon syrup and arrange atop raspberry-cream cheese mixture in dish, covering completely and trimming to fit if necessary. Repeat layering with more raspberry-cream cheese mixture, then biscuits; top with remaining raspberry-cream cheese mixture.
Cover and refrigerate until set, at least 3 hours and up to 1 day. Garnish with fresh raspberries and with fresh mint sprigs, if desired.
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- Calories534
- Carbohydrates53 g (18%)
- Fat35 g (54%)
- Protein5 g (11%)
- Saturated Fat20 g (101%)
- Sodium231 mg (10%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber3 g (12%)
- Monounsaturated Fat10 g
- Cholesterol113 mg (38%)
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main ingredients: Cream Cheese, Dairy, Milk/Cream, Fruit, Raspberry
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The inhabitants of Little Britain the joyously off-kilter, poorly behaved country at the center of Matt Lucas and David Walliams' sketch-comedy series now entering its third season on BBC America are grotesque ne'er-do-wells with proclivities manufactured for maximum offensiveness. And they have hardly softened with age.
Are you fat? Look out for Bubbles (Lucas, who, along with Walliams, plays nearly every major character), a shrill nymphomaniac who resembles an obese version of the '80s Bette Midler and enjoys dropping trou to expose every inch of her cellulite-ridden 280 pounds. Are you gay? Then you'll wince at Sebastian, who sings a version of Christina Aguilera's ''Beautiful'' to the prime minister (guest star Anthony Head, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gamely traipsing through in a studded leather G-string).
Are you old, homely, single, hygienically challenged, or afraid of frogs? Then you're in the line of fire too, as Lucas and Walliams satirize their homeland in set pieces linked together by the perfectly pompous voice-over of Doctor Who's Tom Baker. Potty humor also gets a major workout in their twisted world: Racist biddy (and kidney-transplant patient) Maggie spews copious vomit when she learns she's received an Indian man's organ; dementia-stricken Mrs. Emery empties her bladder in public, portraying the sensation so realistically you'll swear you can smell the urine from your living-room couch.
For all this hilarity (which is oddly ebullient in its celebration of outcasts), Britain much like SNL and MADtv can't always sustain the laughs. Lucas' portrayal of Thai mail-order bride Ting Tong Macadangdang approaches the bigoted vulgarity of Mickey Rooney's Japanese neighbor in Breakfast at Tiffany's. And I still don't get the appeal of slovenly Lou and his mentally challenged friend, Andy. Their misadventures just aren't funny; in fact, I'd say they're downright mean-spirited, like when Andy calls in to a TV game show and fails to comprehend the host's simple instructions. Scenes like this are a shame, because for all its filthy, improper put-ons, Little Britain succeeds most brilliantly when it captures without judgment the free-spirited glee of life as a social misfit.


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The big three console manufacturers of Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are facing new competition in the form of smaller, lighter, less-capable set-top-boxes designed to play casual games or stream games from cloud-based servers.
The two main contenders are Ouya, an Android-powered console funded on Kickstarter, and the Steam Box, a platform controlled by Valve with hardware released in several different flavors.
In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft Studios exec Phil Harrison welcomed the new contenders, saying:
"Any new entrant, without being specific to any company or brand or product, to the games industry is ultimately a good thing, because it helps validate, grow and enhance consumer excitement and consumer interest in our category. So, ultimately, it's a win for everybody."
Some words of encouragement, which is nice. However, Harrison also issued a word or two of warning, stating that "the hardware business is a really tough business," and that to succeed you need "deep pockets and a very strong balance sheet."
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The Illinois State Board of Education has awarded Community High School District 218 the highest possible fiscal rating for the eighth consecutive year. District 218 also earned a perfect score of 4.0 for the fifth straight year.
District 218 in 2012 again earned "financial recognition." The board categorizes school districts annually with the following ratings: financial watch, financial early warning, financial review and financial recognition.
"The district received an unqualified opinion for this past year's audited financial statements," business manager Joe Daley said. "The district also received unqualified opinions related to compliance and internal controls over financial reporting and each major program."
The term "unqualified" means that the audit report stands as presented by the auditing firm without any negative exceptions or connotations.
In their presentation to the board, Michael Zagar and John George, of the auditing firm McGladrey and Pullen, stressed that magnitude of maintaining the financial health of District 218.
"We found no internal control weaknesses," Zagar said. "District 218 again earned an unqualified opinion and the highest finance rating in Illinois."
District 218 received a perfect 4.0 estimated financial profile score or a designation of recognition in the annual financial report. This is the Illinois State Board of Education's highest rating for school districts.
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What should the difference be in a 4 ton compressor between the XR15 and the XL20i? All the other equipment will be identical with the exception of the thermostat. I am being quoted $2,200 more and I think it should be less than $1,000. At $2,200 it will take over ten years to pay back. At $1,000 only 5 years. |
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- Posted by tigerdunes (My Page) on Sun, Oct 9, 11 at 5:57
very typical pricing from Trane and Trane dealers. You might check pricing from an AmStd dealer, Trane's sister company. While not identical, their condensers are very similar. These are HP or AC condensers? Same model air handlers or furnace? IMO |
These are heat pumps and the air handlers are the same. Thanks! |
- Posted by neohioheatpump (My Page) on Mon, Oct 10, 11 at 9:53
A would think half of the updgrade price is profit. |
- Posted by baldloonie (My Page) on Tue, Oct 11, 11 at 20:42
Why do you think it should be less than $1000? Are you in HVAC? 2 compressors? lots more electronics like the charge assist and communicating board? Larger coil? Special top? Longer warranty? |
I think it should be less than $1000 because there is only $775 difference in the price of the compressor and I am allowing additional for increased installation cost. My buddy works for an AC company in another town and priced it out. |
- Posted by tigerdunes (My Page) on Wed, Oct 12, 11 at 14:34
I assume you are speaking of dealer cost difference for the XR15 and XL20i HP condenser, not compressor. Correct? HVAC pricing to customer varies Between dealers as well as distributor pricing to dealers. That's a fact. Did you ever get quotes on AmStd Heritage 15 and Heritage 20 that I suggested in earlier post? IMO |
- Posted by weedmeister (My Page) on Wed, Oct 12, 11 at 16:20
I may be wrong, but isn't the XR15 a single-stage unit and the XR20 a 2-stage unit? And shouldn't the XR20 be about more efficient on electrical usage? And would the coils still be the same? |
XR 20i is a two compressor system not two stage. The coils are the same for both. |
- Posted by harlemhvacguy (My Page) on Wed, Oct 19, 11 at 11:40
the price difference is $2030 between the xr15 4 ton outside condenser and the xl20i outside condenser. I have my price list right in front of me. don't know where your buddy got his info. your dealer is not trying to pull a fast one |
Thanks for the info. That's what happens when you rely on buddy's for information! |
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