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Ariz. hospital loses Catholic status over surgery
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix stripped a major hospital of its affiliation with the church Tuesday because of a surgery that ended a woman's pregnancy to save her life.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix stripped a major hospital of its affiliation with the church Tuesday because of a surgery that ended a woman's pregnancy to save her life.
Bishop Thomas Olmsted called the 2009 procedure an abortion and said St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center - recognized internationally for its neurology and neurosurgery practices - violated ethical and religious directives of the national Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"In the decision to abort, the equal dignity of mother and her baby were not both upheld," Olmsted said at a news conference announcing the decision. "The mother had a disease that needed to be treated. But instead of treating the disease, St. Joseph's medical staff and ethics committee decided that the healthy, 11-week-old baby should be directly killed."
Linda Hunt, president of St. Joseph's, said doctors performed a necessary procedure on a patient who was getting worse by the minute and was in imminent danger of death.
"If we are presented with a situation in which a pregnancy threatens a woman's life, our first priority is to save both patients. If that is not possible, we will always save the life we can save, and that is what we did in this case," Hunt said. "Morally, ethically, and legally, we simply cannot stand by and let someone die whose life we might be able to save."
St. Joseph's does not receive direct funding from the church, but in addition to losing its Catholic endorsement, the 697-bed hospital will no longer be able to celebrate Mass and must remove the Blessed Sacrament from its chapel.
Hunt said the hospital will comply with Olmsted's decision but it will continue to operate under Catholic guidelines.
"We will continue in the Catholic heritage through words and deeds," she said. "We have removed the Blessed Sacrament from our tabernacle, we will have no Masses, but priests will see patients. We are still a hospital."
The woman who underwent the procedure is in her 20s and had a history of abnormally high blood pressure when she learned of her pregnancy. After she was admitted to the hospital with worsening symptoms, doctors determined her risk of death was nearly 100 percent.
The hospital's ethics team concluded the pregnancy could be ended under the church's ethical directives because "the goal was not to end the pregnancy but save the mother's life," the hospital said.
Olmsted's announcement came after months of talks between the Diocese, the hospital and the hospital's parent company, Catholic Healthcare West.
Dr. Charles Alfano, chief medical officer at the hospital and an obstetrician there, said Olmsted was asking the impossible from the hospital.
"Specifically the fact that he requested we admit the procedure performed was an abortion and that it was a violation of the ethical and religious directives and that we would not perform such a procedure in the future," he said. "We could not agree to that. We acted appropriately."
Olmsted said the talks eroded his confidence about St. Joseph's and Catholic Healthcare West's commitment to the church's ethical and religious directives. "They have not addressed in an adequate manner the scandal caused by the abortion," he said.
He said he recently learned that Catholic Healthcare West also is responsible for contraceptive counseling, voluntary sterilization, and other practices he said violate the ethical and religious directives.
Hunt, who also is the service area president of Catholic Healthcare West of Arizona, said the hospital had to offer such services under Arizona's Medicaid program, but did so through a third party.
St. Joseph's is home to the Barrow Neurological Institute, where musician Bret Michaels was treated after he suffered a brain hemorrhage in April. The institute recently established the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center.
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Going Back, II: Shame
This is part 2 in a series of posts about my post-mission trip back to my mission in Argentina. Part 1 is here.
The Bandar family loved me like a son. At least that's how it seemed to me. And I really loved them back. A pleasant, unassuming married couple with two teenage girls, the Bandars were baptized 3 or 4 years before I served in their area, and they remained stalwart, committed members of the faith ever since. They were not high-profile members of their ward, and they didn't serve in any notable callings. I never taught any missionary discussions to them. But they were beloved by many missionaries who'd known them, much more than most other member families in the ward. The obvious joy they derived from every waking moment spent with the elders was the reason why. Typical evenings at the Bandar house consisted of the four of them plus two of us, sitting around the dining room table, eating and drinking, chatting about everything under the sun into the wee hours. They often liked to break out the family atlas. They'd ask us where we'd lived, where we'd traveled, and my companion and I couldn't seem to say anything that wasn't treated by the family as absolutely fascinating. Our visits were long, but we were never made to feel we'd outworn our welcome. And in truth, we really hadn't. We could have stayed all night with the Bandars, and they undoubtedly would have remained chipper as can be. As a missionary, it's really hard not to love a family like the Bandars.
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Missing It
A brief list of things that I missed because I was on a mission from 1994-1996:
* Steve Young (and the 49ers) winning the Superbowl.
* The Atlanta Braves winning the World Series (this has made me indifferent to baseball, when I used to be passionate about the Braves)
* The University of Florida football team becoming National Champions under Steve Spurrier (note: these were my three favorite sports franchises at the time of my mission)
* The Arrival of Jim Carrey (I missed the first Ace Ventura movie, Dumb and Dumber, and the Mask)
* The Death of Grunge Music (I heard Nevermind, Ten, a couple more singles and that's about it)
* The entire O.J. Simpson trial (I heard about the day he was chased and the day he was acquitted, nothing else)
* Laserblast *snif*
For a while, when I got home I felt a real need to catch up on pop culture. I watched Apollo 13 and Forrest Gump in one sitting. But some holes got filled in whether I investigated them or not. I now know who Judge Ito and Kato Kaelin are. However, when I've watched the early Jim Carrey stuff, it's never caught on. Maybe you had to see it with friends in a theater for it to make an indelible impression.
So, what did you miss? Do you feel the lack? How did you catch up?
Going Back
This is the first in a multi-part series of posts on this topic. Sorry for the length.
Like most American elders in my mission, I promised countless investigators and churchmembers that one day I would return to Argentina to visit them. Unlike most American elders in my mission, I actually made good on that promise. Roughly 16 months after I returned home, I travelled back to Argentina with a friend who'd also served there — once-a-year BCC commenter John W — and together we embarked on a whirlwind tour of La Mision Bahia Blanca. Our trip was intended as part mission visit, part tourism, but once we arrived, we quickly jettisoned all touristic ambitions, and spent every day retracing our old stomping grounds, looking up every memorable person we'd ever had any meaningful interaction with. (We'd eventually hit 5 of my 7 areas, and 3 or 4 of John's). It was quite the adventure…. in more ways than we ever anticipated.
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BCC Zeitcast 57: What's Really Happening In China
Although I swore that this podcast would never see the light of day, public protests and private threats helped me change my mind. In this episode, Matsby and GST join me for a (short) discussion of the Church's recent talks with Chinese officials.
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The Sacrament of Grief, Part 2
This is the second in a series from BCC Guest Nicholas S., known to many of you as Latter-day Guy. Part 1 can be found here.
Iuste iudex ultionis, Donum fac remissionis Ante diem rationis.[6]
The sun is bright for the graveside service, and most of us are melting. Beneath the layers of cotton and wool, my body attempts––unsuccessfully––to cool itself. Whatever heavenly engineer thought up the idea of perspiration must not have considered the effects of high-humidity. The discomfort is not entirely bad though. Like attending a Portuguese Mass with my Spanish-speaking ears, it has a certain blunting effect. I make brief eye-contact with some of the familiar faces around me; a few offer wan smiles. Several of us are surprised that the graves will not be dedicated, but the cemetery is owned by the parish. Their turf, their rules. A brother tells me in a near whisper that the dedication will happen later, very discreetly. The revelation is strangely (and inappropriately) amusing. There is something gothic and Van Helsing-esque about the thought of this genial, balding elder's quorum member breaking into a graveyard to exercise his ninja priesthood in the dead of night, dispatching a zombie for good measure on the way to a home teaching appointment. Like sawdust on running water, the crowd moves away en masse, slowly separating into smaller and smaller companies. One of the more gregarious young women (her dad used to be our ward mission leader) greets me and Elder Latu, and we talk for a moment. All I can remember now is her confidence that God would mete out justice, and the hard set to her jaw and the gun-metal glint in her eye that this conviction gave her. She is probably right, but the thought is not comforting. Despite the heat, something inside feels cold.
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BCC Zeitcast 55: More Topics Than Usual
The BCC Zeitcast returns from a short summer vacation! In this episode, Scott B. is joined by DKL and a random John for a discussion of too many topics to list, including Glenn Beck, Church block programs, thinking evil of your fellow saints, chocolate, and a fractured [BLEEP]. Download this episode here or subscribe to the BCC Zeitcast in iTunes. (And don't forget to leave a rating/review in iTunes!)
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Female Leadership in LDS Missions
Recently a friend expressed some anxiety over the possibility that his daughters might serve missions for the LDS Church. He was concerned that such an experience might lead them to internalize too much of the intensely sexist rhetoric and behaviour that is observable among some LDS missionaries. The following day, while meandering on Temple Square, two sister missionaries intercepted me and began trying to obtain a referral. In that conversation I learned something so obvious that I am ashamed it had never occurred to me before, but which I think could influence the 'missionary culture' if it was universally adopted: Sister missionaries, in that mission, hold leadership positions. [Read more…]
Look Out, World!
At the recent FAIR conference in Utah, some interesting data were shared. Guess what? People don't like us. No, let me rephrase that: people really don't like us. According to the polling firm which gathered the data, LDS people have an unfavorable to favorable rating of 5 – 1. For every person who thinks well of us there are five who do not. To compare, notice that Jewish people have a favorable rating of 7 – 2 (seven likes for every two dislikes) and Catholics have a favorable rating of 2 – 1. Where are we going and how did we get in this handbasket?
The Sacrament of Grief
BCC is thrilled to welcome Nicholas S., known throughout the records of the Bloggernacle as Latter-day Guy, as a new guest blogger.
Note: Among my many deficiencies as a missionary were my journal keeping habits. These habits were deficient mainly in that they did not exist. The events described are true to the best of my recollection, but there may well be some inaccuracies regarding certain details and timing. Also, names have been changed to protect the innocent. And the guilty.
Merear, Domine, portare manipulum fletus et doloris… [1]
Both too early and too late, the phone rings. It is after seven o'clock in the morning when Elder Latu picks up the receiver and mumbles a groggy hello.
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Movies, Mormonism, and Meaning
I'm going to start this off with a couple of Nike commercials that I watch on Youtube when I am trying to motivate myself. No endorsement of Nike (or YouTube) is implied. [Read more…]
Barfing for Jesus
WARNING: This post is gross.
The Mormon Mission experience is a significant rite of passage for many LDS young men and women. But there is another important rite of passage within this rite of passage — at least for a signficant subset of LDS missionaries — that is less widely recognized. I refer, of course, to the various intestinal adventures experienced by elders and sisters who serve in the Third World. Many of us have stories about our adventures; not all of them warrant a retelling, to be sure. But some do. And I flatter myself in believing mine does, so here goes:
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Gospel Principles. Again. And Again. And Again.
One of my callings in my ward is that of ward missionary. Among other responsibilities, this calling requires me to teach the investigator/new member Sunday school class once or twice a month. For as long as I have been in the ward–coming up on four years now–this course has been going through the Gospel Principles manual, front to back, and starting it over upon completion. The idea, of course, is that new members, recently activated members, and investigators should be given "milk before meat" (or "MBM" hereafter) and learn the basics of the gospel before moving into the standard Gospel Doctrine courses with the rest of the adults. After a couple of months of this, a couple of issues occurred to me.
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Studying with the Jehovah's Witnesses
A local Jehova's Witness has put me in his "finding pool." Oh, I know he probably wouldn't call it that. But the truth of the matter is unmistakable. Sporadic morning visits have evolved into regularized bi-monthly drop-bys, and I'm handed a bright new copy of the Watchtower and other assorted literature each time. This Witness is paired with a different "companion" on each visit. Sometimes he's the "senior companion," clearly showing his greenie the ropes. Occasionally, he's the "junior companion", accompanied by an obviously senior leader, who I imagine gives him pointers after our brief conversation ends and the door closes.
I suspect in this Witness's mind I am a "golden contact". I answer his questions semi-thoughtfully, and in a way I know is helpful to the flow of his sales pitch. The truth is, I can't help but be nice to these guys. They remind me so much of a 19-year-old me. Yes, many of our theological assumptions and conclusions couldn't be more different. But our door-knocking approaches are oddly similar, both in the leading questions asked, and in the slight awkwardness of bearing and conversation that inevitably characterizes our forced chatter. I find myself wondering, "Do they hate this as much as I did back in the day?" "Do they really think the questions they're asking me are as religiously pivotal as their script would have me believe?" The whole experience is like a trip down memory lane, yet I must confess I'm kind of glad when it ends.
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Mission Soccer Football Stories
In keeping with our promise of more coverage of the upcoming World Cup, Ronan and I thought it would be fun to invite everyone to share stories from the mish about soccer.
My home town was small enough that our high school didn't participate in all sports, with soccer football being the most notable omission. However, when I was a junior in high school, plans announced to field a competitive high school team in a few years, and we started a community league and a club team to develop players. Although I wouldn't be around to play on the official school team, I had always enjoyed playing soccer football and was eager to join the teams. Though I was certainly no Pelé, I had a decent enough kick and reasonable reflexes and found that I was fairly competent relative to my peers.
About a year after playing my last game in my community league, I was shivering from a chilly breeze in Savonlinna, Finland. I was a greenie missionary, and my companion and I had been invited by the young men from the branch (all 3 of them!) to come play soccer football at the local pitch with some guys from their school. I stared around the field, wondering how on earth anyone could call this hard, grassless dirt a "soccer football field" and immediately assumed, in true American fashion, that I was clearly going to be playing with novices who likely didn't even understand the sport, and certainly wouldn't be able to compete with me. [Read more…]
Missionary Racism
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I have this theory that everyone has an inner age that best captures their essence. You are born your inner age and remain it throughout your life, regardless of your outer age. I've identified the inner age of everyone important in my life. My mom is 16, my dad is 21, my brother is 35, and me? I am eternally eight years old. If you spend the day with me, you'll agree. I am a clumsy goof-ball. I like to flap around the room and pretend I'm a bird. I still laugh at poop jokes. I live for birthday cake. I'm eight. I was once in a relationship with a guy whose inner age was 80. He moved slowly, liked quiet time, and ate wheat bran every morning. Our inner age gap caused problems for us from time to time, like when I woke him up in the morning by steamrolling him. As you might imagine, grandpa didn't like that so much. So how do you determine your inner age? Find out how, after the jump. Keep reading »
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Beginning with the 2010 edition, the American Go Yearbook will be published as a full-color PDF with clickable links, rather than the hard-copy edition as previously. The American Go Association Board of Directors recently approved the change as a cost-saving move. "The AGA's budget has been under severe strain because of the twin financial impacts of declining membership and the loss of the longtime and generous Ing support for go in the U.S." said AGA President Allan Abramson. "Without the significant budget savings realized by eliminating the Yearbook printing and postage costs – which constitute the majority of the $14,000 in annual Yearbook expenses, we would be faced with drastic – and unacceptable — cuts in support for key events at the annual Congress as well as a range of go activities across the country,"said Abramson. "Yearbook and E-Journal Editor Chris Garlock has impressively demonstrated the advantages of new electronic publishing platforms, providing greater flexibility, active links, and faster publishing times," as demonstrated with last week's full-color PDF Special Report on this year's U.S. Go Congress as well as the similar WAGC Special Report earlier this year. Garlock noted that the Yearbook printing/postage savings with enable the AGA to continue financing quality Yearbook and EJ content for members, including new features like top professional Michael Redmond's game commentaries. The E-Journal also launched an RSS feed and daily short edition of the E-Journal several months ago that's been gaining in popularity with readers who want to stay on top of breaking go news from around the world. "At the same time, the AGA is looking into a 'print-on-demand' option for those members who prefer a hard copy of the Yearbook," Abramson said.
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THE TRAVELING GO BOARD: Central Park, New York City
Sunday October 10, 2010
New York's Central Park, the most-visited city park in the U.S., seems to have everything — meadows, ball fields, tennis courts, three theaters, two lakes, a reservoir, a skating rink, a carousel, a zoo, even a castle. Frederick Law Olmsted called his creation "a democratic development of the highest significance" because it had something for everyone. As a longtime New Yorker, after decades of exploring the park, I thought I had seen everything. But recently I happened upon The Chess and Checkers House, a gaming pavilion donated in 1952 by Bernard Baruch. It stands atop a rock outcropping known as the Kinderberg, near the southeast corner of the park. Walk north from 59th street or south from 72nd street along the eastern park drive and you will see signs. With indoor and outdoor seating and views of the rink, the carousel and the dairy, it's an ideal place to while away a pleasant afternoon. I was disappointed to learn that only one go set was available, a small, poorly-made item that they kept in the store room. When I found that manager Catherine King is eager to promote any game, I returned with two full-sized sets, leftovers from early shipments of Ing equipment. King immediately set up a prominent display in the main playing area, along with a handout I provided, directing interested players to The New York Go Center and various online go resources, as well as several copies of The Way To Go. The Chess and Checkers House is open Wed-Sun from 10a to 5p. Anyone can use the equipment inside, or take it outside by leaving a $20 deposit or form of ID. No permit is required. At this point, to be sure of a game, it's BYOO (Bring Your Own Opponent), but it's the perfect place to take a break while exploring, or to meet a friend for a lunchtime game.
- Roy Laird
Monday October 4, 2010
Former U.S. Champion John Lee is looking for participants in a survey of go players. "I am currently conducting a study about the relationship of go with other mind sports," Lee tells the E-Journal. Lee was an active US go player "until changes in life took me away from the scene. I learned go in Chicago when I was 12 and became the US Champion when I was 16. I represented the US in many international tournaments including the World Amateurs, World Pairs tournaments, the Fujitsu cup and was invited to the European Ing Cup as the US Ing Cup Champion." Lee's survey takes about 2~3 minutes to complete, "and I'm hoping to collect completed surveys from 1,000 go players," so he urges go players to also pass it out to their go-playing friends. "Thank you very much and I hope to see you all again back in the go scene sometime soon."
Monday October 4, 2010
The International Conference on Computers and Games (ICGA) Computer Game Olympics, which included a computer go championship, were just held in Kanazawa, Japan. There were 9×9, 13×13, and 19×19 tournaments, with professional commentary and an exhibition match against a pro on Saturday, the last day of the conference. Many Faces of Go won the 13×13 tournament; stay tuned for results of the 9×9 and 19×19.
Monday October 4, 2010
Neil Moffatt reports that he's developed an "HTML5 canvas based go game viewer and rudimentary editor." Says Moffat, Secretary of the Cardiff Go Club in Wales, UK, "It embraces ideas such as access to key moments in games via a list of clickable position descriptions, and a list of alternative move sequences by description." The site includes games for beginners, josekis, "guess the next move" and game commentaries. In most games, a list of key game positions is presented. Click on 'Black has now created a large moyo', for example, and you will be taken you to that exact board position. Moffatt adds that "The site as it stands is in essence a kind of go blog, but it may develop beyond this" and notes that it does not work with Internet Explorer. "It may or may not be palatable to a large audience," he says, "The user testing to date seem to be relatively happy with it." Click here to check it out and let Moffatt know what you think at firstname.lastname@example.com
Monday October 4, 2010
Perennial champion Changlong Wu 7d was joined on the Triangle Memorial Tournament's winner's podium by Jeff Kuang 5d and Jimmy Yang 4d as co-winners of the Triangle's Open section. The tenth annual edition of the Triangle Memorial Tournament was held in Umstead State Park in Cary, North Carolina September 25. A total of 32 players from North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland spent a summery day playing in the park until sunset, with a picnic lunch provided by the Triangle Go Group. Following tradition, all the entry fees were returned to the players as prizes, which were augmented by a generous donation of books and certificates for Chinese language and cultural lessons from the Confucius Institute at North Carolina State University. Winner's Report: Section A (1-2D) was topped by Joseph Contarino and Craig Garrett, both 3-1. The only perfect score of the day was recorded by Andrew Zalesak in Section B (3-6k), followed by Alex Panaccione at 3-1. Steven Mabe at 3-1 won Section C, and perseverance awards went to Danielle Ward and Alvin Chen in Section D.
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Sunday October 3, 2010
The Moon Cha Memorial Tournament will be held on behalf of the Rockville Sister City Corporation on Saturday, November 13, at the Rockville United Church in Rockville, Maryland (355 Linthicum Street, Rockville, MD). Details/flyers are still being finalized, but organizers report that "the basic plan is will be to conduct an AGA sanctioned tournament — pre-registration required — as well as an informal walk-in workshop for new players and the general public." To optimize support for these two activities, the planned internet match between Rockville and Jiaxing China will be postponed until next Spring.
The Moon Cha Memorial Go Tournament is being organized by Yuan Zhou and Todd Heidenreich and is held to honor the memory of longtime DC-area go player Moon Cha, who helped establish the Greater Washington Go Club in the 1950′s and who inspired generations of future go/weiqi/baduk players. Moon lived and raised his family in Silver Spring MD, just north of the Beltway and New Hampshire Avenue. He worked as a research physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center in White Oak MD. "As a go player,
he reached the level of 6 Dan," says Yuan Zhou, " and, if that wasn't enough, he attained chess expert status (>2000 points) in his spare time. He is fondly remembered and there will be more details to share later about his national and international influence."
Monday September 27, 2010
Dan Smith 1d (l, in green shirt) took first place in the September 25 Fish Amnesty Tournament in Chicago, IL. Smith topped a field of 26 players. "We were honored to have the entire Central Region Board of Directors at this tournament, Laura Kolb and Lisa Scott," reports TD Bob Barber. "Lisa has moved to Chicago to study, and plans on a good long stay. Joining her from the University of Chicago was Shanthanu Bhardwaj, who bicycled the 30 miles to the tournament. And went on to win half his games. Perhaps the two of them will be the core of a vibrant go scene on the South Side, something we've always lacked." Thanks to the generosity of Chris Green, Barber adds, "each participant was given a copy of 'Perceiving the Direction of Play' from Hinoki Press. Chris plans to repeat this performance, with different titles, for upcoming tournaments. So, in effect the entrance fee will approach zero." Barber also noted that "Lisa Scott will also co-direct the 2011 U.S. Go Congress in sunny Santa Barbara, CA. If half of what she told us is true about the site, it will be fabulous." Finally, Barber extended thanks to Steffen Kurz, "and indirectly to Mark Rubenstein, for sponsoring the pizza and beer party." Winner's Report: 1st Place Dan: SMITH, Daniel, 1d (undefeated); 1st Place Hi Kyu: NORMAN, Matthew, 5k; 2nd Place Hi Kyu: KOLB, Laura, 2k; 1st Place Low Kyu: WU, Eric, 16k.
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Monday September 27, 2010
Cherry Shen 6d, and David Su 1d, have been chosen for the 2010 AGF College Scholarship. The $1,000 awards are presented each year to outstanding youth who have been active go organizers or teachers. "Although I enjoy the competitiveness of go," said Shen, "there are other aspects of the game that I enjoy just as much: volunteering, teaching kids, and meeting a diverse group of people bridged by one game." Su, an active high school organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area, told the Journal "I started playing Go in 7th grade and then joined my school's go club in freshmen year, but I did not foresee that I would be leading the club 2 years later."
Sunday September 26, 2010
The top section of the September 19 Hoboken Open turned into a struggle for the $400 first prize among perennial stars Kevin Huang and Carson Tu, youngsters Lionel Zhang and Andrew Huang, and newcomer Xiruo Liu. In the third round (r), Zhang outfought Kevin Huang in a tense mid-board capturing race setting up a climactic final round. Kevin Huang beat Carson Tu to tie for first with three wins, while Andrew Huang spoiled Zhang's chance to get a third win. 47 players participated, with all 3-game and 4-game winners receiving a cash prize plus a book. The tournament was played on the campus of Stevens Institute in Hoboken NJ, against a stunning backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Organized by Larry Russ, directed by Steve Bretherick. Special thanks to Slate and Shell for sponsoring book prizes and to Paul Matthews for Accelrat technical support.
Winners: Top section: 1st (tie) – Carson Tu 7d, Kevin Huang 8d; 3rd (tie) – Lionel Zhang 6d, Andrew Huang 6d, Xiruo Liu 6d; 4-game winners: Marc Palmer 1d; 3-game winners: David Byrne 1d, Justin Ching 1k, Afa Zhou 2k, Masaaki Hamaguchi 2k, Eric Wu 2k, Barbara Huang 8k, Jessica Huang 22k, Joanne Huang 19k, Sean, Huang 27k, Diana Huang 25k, Leo Huang 26k.
photo: top boards play Round 3: L-R, Andrew Huang, Lionel Zhang, Carson Tu and Kevin Huang; photo courtesy Larry Russ. Click here for more photos.


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Saltos de línea: vio|lencePronunciación: /ˈvʌɪəl(ə)ns
Definición de violence en inglés:
1Behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something: violence erupted in protest marches domestic violence against women the fear of physical violence screen violence
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- The most serious incidents include criminal damage and violence against people.
- What I do not respect however is people who kill or otherwise use violence against people for any reason.
- One act of violence against another is an act of violence against one's self.
brutality, brute force, roughness, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, brutishness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, ruthlessness, inhumanity, heartlessness, pitilessness, mercilessness;
strong-arm tactics
rare ferity
forcefulness, force, full force, power, powerfulness, strength, might, savagery, ferocity, brutality, destructiveness
1.1 Law The unlawful exercise of physical force or intimidation by the exhibition of such force.
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- Each of the people who uses or threatens unlawful violence will be guilty of the offence.
- In other words the receipt of the letter led him to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used.
- He was alleged to have forced the complainant by violence or threats to engage in sexual activity with him.
2Strength of emotion or of a destructive natural force: the violence of her own feelings
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- No blood is spilled in the book - but its emotional violence is devastating.
- Alarmed by the violence of her sorrow and by being a witness to it, but impatient with the sorrow itself, Ray was a poor pacifier.
- The violence of the wind had lessened - though the air remained redolent with the smell of dust.
intensity, severity, strength, force, great force, vehemence, powerfulness, power, potency, ferocity, forcefulness, wildness, frenziedness, fury, storminess, tempestuousness, turbulence;
lack of control, lack of restraint, passionateness
Middle English: via Old French from Latin violentia, from violent- 'vehement, violent' (see violent).
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do violence to
- Damage or adversely affect: how can we regulate access to weapons without doing violence to the constitution?Más ejemplos en oraciones
- If one tries to categorize commercial agricultural production or wage labor activity solely as resistance, one does violence to more than language.
- At times the attempt to draw literal, historical analogies does violence to Stevensian irony.
- Six wives said their husbands had threatened to do violence to their children or to their parents and five had been threatened by their husbands with lethal weapons.
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The International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP) is pleased to announce that the 10th International Conference on Concrete Pavements will be held in Québec City, Québec, Canada from July 8-12, 2012. This conference will carry on the tradition of a series of international conferences begun in 1977 by Purdue University and is now being organized by the ISCP. As with the previous international conferences, the focus of the tenth conference will be to present information on new technologies related to the design, construction, and rehabilitation of various types of concrete pavements. The theme for this conference will be Sustainable Solutions to Global Transportation Needs.
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This conference is targeted at pavement, materials, and geotechnical engineering professionals who are involved in all aspects of concrete pavement design, construction, testing and evaluation, and rehabilitation. These professionals include federal, state, and municipal engineers; consulting engineers; contractors; materials suppliers; and academia.
The conference program will consist of presentations and discussions of new developments related to concrete pavement technology. Emphasis will be placed on implementable products and techniques that result in long-lasting new and rehabilitated concrete pavements, and the use of concrete to rehabilitate other types of pavements.
Conference Topics
Papers and conference presentations are being solicited for a wide range of topics dealing with concrete pavement innovations, including (but not limited to): concrete pavement analysis, design, and construction; concrete materials and pavement performance; joint performance; different types of concrete pavements and overlays; post-construction evaluation; long-term performance; ecological issues; economics; and more.
Papers and presentations dealing with emerging topics are also encouraged. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Papers and presentations dealing with all aspects of technology, technology transfer and forensic topics are encouraged as well.
Selection of papers will be based on peer reviews of the suitability of the topic, quality of the paper, and near-term applicability of the subject to practice. As such, the conference is expected to be of significant benefit to both practicing engineers and research engineers. The presentations will comprise the most comprehensive coverage on concrete pavement technology at the present time. The official language of the conference will be English. All papers and presentations will be prepared accordingly. Translation into other languages will not be provided at this conference.
Steering Committee
Tim Smith, Transportation Engineer, CANADA (Co-Chair) José Balbo, University of São Paulo, BRAZIL (Co-Chair) Jake Hiller, Michigan Technological University, USA Elin Jensen, Lawrence Technological University, USA Luc Rens, FEBELCEM, BELGIUM Mark B. Snyder, American Concrete Pavement Assn. - PA Chapter, USA Sherry Sullivan, Cement Association of Canada, CANADA Guy Tremblay, Transports Québec, CANADA Sam Tyson, FHWA, USA
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A growing number of conservationists are advocating the consumption of invasive species in an effort to fend off environmental destruction.
Invasive species, as defined by the USDA's National Agricultural Library, aren't native to the local ecosystem and may cause economic, environmental or medical harm. They can exist in many forms: plants, animals or even microorganisms.
Many of the invasive plants, such as dandelion and purslane, were originally introduced by settlers for medicinal or ornamental reasons, while many of the invasive animals like Asian carp and green iguanas were brought in as food sources, pets or for pest control. Mongooses, one example, were originally imported from Southeast Asia to control rodent and snake populations in Caribbean and Hawaiian agricultural fields. The Hawaii Invasive Species Partnerships has since estimated that the species causes $50 million in damages each year in Puerto Rico and Hawaii alone.
From feral hogs running wild in Texas to lionfish eating their way through the Gulf of Mexico to kudzu, whose nickname "the vine that ate the South" speaks for itself, the United States is facing an invasion of the natural resource snatchers.
While kudzu may have swallowed up the South, conservationists and food activists are encouraging American consumers to bite back.
"Why not combine the growing locavore movement with an ecological awareness and try and reduce some of these species?" says Joe Roman, conservation biologist, author and editor of EatTheInvaders.org. "It's unlikely we're ever going to eat them to extinction but we can reduce the numbers that are there and also get an excellent meal."
Because these species typically won't encounter natural predators, it's primarily up to humans to control or remove the invaders. Some managerial methods involve mechanical control, like digging or mowing, or chemical control, like pesticides and herbicides. Or, people could eat them.
There are, of course, major hurdles with upping the consumption of invasive species. For one, most could use an image overhaul.
"Here in America, we've raised two generations of consumers to think that only luxury cut from the center of the animal is what we should eat," says Andrew Zimmern, the host of "Bizarre Foods" on the Travel Channel. "And only from three or four animals, I might add."
Nutria, for example, is a giant water-born rodent – but many chefs compare the taste to that of a succulent rabbit. It's all about consumer perception.
"You start to stretch our food imagination, we can take it in sorts of great directions," says Zimmern.
"Think of a species that now shows up on menus that people wouldn't have dreamed of eating maybe a decade or two ago. There is certainly an 'ick factor' we're going to have to get over to promote this," says Roman.
Chef Bun Lai, at his restaurant Miya's in New Haven, Connecticut, actively pursues this sort of rebranding.
Miya's offers an invasive species menu, with ingredients like European green crabs, lionfish, knotweed and wild swans, that threaten the local ecosystems.
"We hope that this will do a few things. First of all, it could potentially curb the dominance of invasive species in the ecosystem. Secondly, it would provide the seafood industry a greater supply of native seafood and reduce the stresses on those populations already fished," Lai explains on the restaurant's website. "Finally, we hope that it would encourage greater balance in the inter-regenerative relationship between man and the oceans."
As with any strategy though, there are always risks. First, not all invasive species are safe for human consumption. Providing educational resources about how to prepare certain species (for lionfish, remove the poisonous spines) and what is and is not safe to forage is crucial.
Secondly, marketing an invasive species could encourage less scrupulous entrepreneurs to move these species where they didn't already exist because they are potentially lucrative, Roman says. That could easily backfire and spread the species' destruction even further.
Then, there are concerns of depleting the population, which Zimmern adds, wouldn't be a bad thing because, after all, they're not naturally supposed to be there.
"Let's get to the point where they're extinct or nearly extinct and then they're a manageable resource. Let's farm them, let's do other things with it, but we can't just let these invasive species be out in the wild," he says.
Although population control is obviously at the forefront of the invasive species battle and consumer appeal is only part of the invasive solution, Zimmern says there is another opportunity: take them out of the ecosystem and find a way to feed hungry people.
"The biggest problem with the invasive species argument - in terms of not eating them - is people are hungry, these are good foods," he says.
With protein's high expense and one in six people living in hunger, Zimmern advocates in collecting invasive species and using that meat to feed children, seniors, people in the jail system and other people living below the poverty line.
"I will tell you right now, as someone that's had a bologna sandwich in jail, I would prefer to eat nutria every day of the week," he says.
Spaghetti and Periwinkles (Snails) Serves 4 to 6 Used with permission from EatTheInvaders.org
About 2 cups of periwinkles in shells 3 cloves garlic 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 cups plum tomatoes from the garden, or a 20 oz. can of imported Italian plum tomatoes Salt and pepper to taste 1 pound spaghetti Grated Parmesan cheese Italian bread
Wash the snails in cold water. Add periwinkles to a pot of boiling water, along with a small handful of salt to shrink and toughen the meat. (This eases their removal.) The snails are ready when the operculum falls off.
Remove the periwinkles from their shells with a nutpick or pin. (This can be time consuming, find an assistant if you can.)
Sauté garlic in olive oil. Add parsley and tomatoes, and cook for about 30 minutes.
Boil four quarts of water. Add spaghetti, and remove when soft but still firm to the bite. At the same time that you add the spaghetti, add the periwinkles to the sauce.
Mix the pasta and sauce in a warm bowl. Serve hot, with crusty Italian bread and grated Parmesan cheese.
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It's amazing how one spices can destroy everything. Asian carp are awful. It's always our fault.
Consuming invasive species is a fantastic idea! Consumption is what America does best – and have you seen the price of fish, lately? Catfish is $3 a pound in my hometown.
The irony is that humans gave themselves the right to invade everywhere and consume everything, yet now they're "scared" and calling other creature "invading" because they are peacefully living their lives out there. What society is doing is punishing animals for the gift of life. If there really is a god, it stopped being perfect the day it ceated humans. Biggest mistake ever.
Future generations will be so ashamed.
Well, all self loathing aside, we do have a responsibility to help preserve our eco system. Some things we are good at, some things not so much. I think it was Saigon that had a MASSIVE rat infestation. The populace after trying to quell the flood, they decided to eat them. Good times had by all.....except the rats.
Also, I did notice that the whole Chinese Beetle thing is under control. I guess birds decided they were delicious.
hello another very nice post i really love reading your storys
This is a little ironic, considering that kudzu was originally imported as a cheap, fast-growing food source. And no, it hasn't "swallowed up the South." I pretty rarely see it outside of the times I've driven through the Gulf area.
Interesting idea. Now all that needs to happen is for locavore restaurants to pick it up. Can't quite see it on the casual entertaining front though.
jeesshh!! hell yeah, people should take advantage of this "surplus" food source. my gosh , people always joke about whats in Chinese food, they are always popular and are everywhere. somebody should get wise and whip up some little restaurant franchise of the sort.
Got a recipe for Japanese beetles?
Anyone know whats the Lionfishs favorite meal? Any particular favorite, say if two or three different species of food fish were avaiable which one would the Lionfish pick?
I love dandelion! Get it young and it is good in a salad. Or when it is a little bigger but not blooming boil it with water and olive oil and some garlic and it is like spinach! and dandelion wine!!!!!
Right on! I grew up eating cooked baby dandelion greens right out of the front yard, with butter, salt, pepper and a dash of vinegar...yum! Or the fiddleheads we'd find alongside of the road. Now that I'm in TX people pay good money at Whole Foods/Central Market for those! Here the biggest invasive species problem is feral hogs but people can hunt and eat them year round. Don't know if I would go there though...
Sounds good but there needs to be an incentive for people to eat lionfish. Maybe have a professional food reviewer give some idea on what type of lionfish foods are like in taste,texture,health, and etc. The taster giving us reason why it's a good idea to eat them. And compare them to other seafood in the category and claiming they are cheaper. I imagine since there isn't a high demand for lionfish and an abundance[high supply] that would mean a cheaper meal.
Maybe even a government sponsored chef on Food Network showing how to prepare lionfish so it can be eaten safely.
off-topic politics invade unrelated articles.
I'll eat anything that smells good, tastes good, and isn't people. If nutria, lionfish, black tiger shrimp, or Asian carp showed up at my grocery store for 79 cents a pound, I'd stock my freezer and fire up the grill. And kudzu sounds like a prime candidate for biofuel feedstock.
"Like" all over the place. Food sources and energy sources found in the category "FAIL!" I don't know the economics of this concept, but I like it.
Here in the south, kudzu took over because livestock WOULDN'T eat it.
This article about eating invasive species is absolutely correct. In Florida, two species come to mind. Feral pigs and foriegn pythons.
Feral pigs are ruinous to the Everglades. Since they are wild, the can be probably be considered to be organic which opens a large and lucrative market for them. Southern Florida has a huge number of restaurants; it is time for the chefs in Florida to make a concerted effort at using this source of meat that is wild, organic, nutritious and tasty. People already eat pigs and so using them will require little persuasion. Setting up a system to harvest them and getting them quickly to the market is the key.
Foreign pythons (like the Burmese and others) will take more effort. Probably the best way is to have cooking contest on the food channels to show how to prepare them. Once they become a hot item on the food channels, then developing a market for them will be much easier.
Unfortunately invasive species cannot be stopped; only controlled.
Few things are more invasive to an ecology than the dreaded snowbird. They come down during tourist season, but we can't shoot them to thin out the herd. Pity.
enjoy the revenue though, annie. in this day to make jokes about shooting people? sad lady. i thought fat people were generally jolly, or so they say.
Oh berbes, you are one of those fatties who comes down every year and thinks they own the joint because they tip 5%. You need to lighten up and please stay out of the left lane when you are here.
The Florida Seminoles thought the same way about the Spaniards. Cortez the Killer was quite the tourist. You claim to be a native but let's point one thing out. Because a python hatched in Florida doesn't make it native. The same goes with you.
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Sat, May 16, 09 at 23:40
I have a problem garage door opener, I keep having to adjust the bottom limit of the door travel by turning the set screw back (up) a few turns. Then after a week or so it has apparently slipped, and the opener starts acting like it is trying to shove the door into the floor, which has severely stressed the door where the arm is attached. I keep adjusting the down limit to compensate but I have not yet tried to fix the damage to the door where the arm attaches, until I solve the problem causing that damage.
Has anybody else had this problem? The door opener is a craftsman 1/2 hp model. |
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- Posted by don_1_2006 (My Page) on Sun, May 17, 09 at 13:35
Remove the cover and look at the limit adjustment assembly. You can watch it and understand how it works in a couple seconds. Sounds like the threads may be stripped or out of the snaps that hold it in place. |
Have you tried any threadlock on the limiting screw. Might help keep it in place better? |
- Posted by durtboy505 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 10, 09 at 22:37
Don1 and Bas157, thanks for your comments and advice. Just now getting back to tell you how it went...I ended up purchasing a new limit switch assembly. When I installed it, it snapped right into place but the gears didn't quite line up. They're not worn so it must be one of the old standby explanations "a soft english/metric conversion" or "they don't make anything in the USA anymore". So I mixed parts from the new and old limit switch assemblies and it works great now, real tight. My advice to everyone out there is "don't throw anything thats 'broken' away until you're sure you don't need to scavenge pieces off of it, however unimportant they look...!" |
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Just found out that I have Kudzu growing in my yard. How do I get rid of Kudzu and keep it from coming back? |
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- Posted by karenforroses z5 NorthernMI (My Page) on Wed, Jul 21, 10 at 13:39
Your zone 5 climate should keep the kudzu under control, but it may keep sprouting each spring. I have read the it is important to destroy the crown of the plant - that will in turn cause the roots to die. |
- Posted by particentral 8 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 21, 10 at 13:43
If you figure it out there are a lot of people in the southeast that want to know as well! there are weed killers out there that work but they are slow, need to be reapplied and kill everything around them for a long time. |
- Posted by greenhaven N Illinois 4b-5a (My Page) on Wed, Jul 21, 10 at 20:20
Are you sure you have kudzu? What steps have you taken to ensure a correct identification? |
This is a good question for the Garden Web Weed Forum. Just click on "Other Forums" above. |
- Posted by karl_bapst_rosenut 5a, NW Indiana (email@example.com) on Wed, Jul 21, 10 at 22:10
I suggested she may have Kudzu. I visited her home Tuesday (a three hour drive) to get some cuttings of a few roses, one of which she was told by Rogue Valley Roses, she may have the only living specimen. She requested I try to save the plant and wanted to send it to me. Too hot so I took cuttings and will attempt to root them. While there I noticed creeping charlie and a big leafed climber had taken over her yard and was climbing the trees and poles. I realize kudzu normally doesn't grow this far north and told her that but with global warming and our mild winters lately one never knows if it's becoming acclimated to colder growing zones. She's in zone 5b or 6a. Today, I offered her the possibility that it could also be a wild grape vine but it looked more like the kudzu I've seen in the south. |
Kudzu will eventually develop a large tuber. In an old plant it can grow to be 4 foot long and weigh 20 pounds or more. In most cases it is smaller, but in all cases if you do not dig up the rhizome the plant will return in the spring. |
Kudzu is in the pea family, and has a trifoliate leaf that vaguely resembles the leaf of a common bean, or a soybean. Was the leaf trifoliate or was it entire (as a grape leaf would be)? |
- Posted by greenhaven N Illinois 4b-5a (My Page) on Thu, Jul 22, 10 at 0:49
Something else to consider is yellow passionflower vine. It is aggressive as all getout and native to northern climes to boot. |
- Posted by summer_fashion z5 IN (My Page) on Thu, Jul 22, 10 at 9:10
With the help of the head reference librarian (who also has done gardening and is very familiar with Kudzu) we found that Kudzu has established itself as far North as Morgan County (that's north of where I live in Monroe County). If I got a Flame Dragon flame weeder and used it on the Kudzu looking vine would that kill it and would it stay dead? |
- Posted by greenhaven N Illinois 4b-5a (My Page) on Thu, Jul 22, 10 at 10:42
A torch will kill off the topgrowth, reducing nutrients to the roots. It can be effective if you keep applying the heat to new growth until the plant no longer returns, because you are essentially starving the plant. I would think that a better route would be to cut it way back and apply an appropriate herbicide to the stump(s). This is a higher likelihood of roots also dying off. I would still get an accurate ID, because plants will respond differently to different treatments, and not all "rules" apply equally across the board. |
- Posted by judith5bmontreal (My Page) on Thu, Jul 22, 10 at 11:17
Not too long ago, I heard on the news that apparently they have found kudzu growing south of Montreal, near the U.S. border. From what I read, it's a real menace in the south. Because we have a pesticide ban up here though, getting rid of it could prove problematic. I hope our winters keep it in check. We are also having problems with giant Hogweed sprouting up all over the place (sap can cause serious rashes and possible blindness)and all the city can do is put yellow police tape, metal barricades and warning signs up in the parks - no herbicides allowed! Somehow I can't see our city workers digging up all those plants and disposing of them... Judith |
- Posted by karl_bapst_rosenut 5a, NW Indiana (email@example.com) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 0:32
lxxsumi8 This is not the place to sell DVDs or anything else for that matter. HiJacking a tread is against the rules and will be reported. |
- Posted by summer_fashion z5 IN (My Page) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 9:26
I was talking to someone here in Bloomington and he told me that a good way to get rid of Kudzu is to paint or pour a little gasoline (just enough to cover the cut stub) and this is a very effective and safer way than Round-Up (which will travel down through the roots of whatever you're trying to kill and kill the grass around the weed). This happened to me, I very carefully painted RoundUp on the cut stub of a weed tree (called Tree of Heaven here in Indiana) and it killed the grass in a four inch diameter circle around the weed tree. Any of you ever try the gasoline on the cut stub of a weed? Could you let me know whether it really works? This person said that it'll work on Grape Vines as well as Kudzu. Hope he's right. |
- Posted by greenhaven N Illinois 4b-5a (My Page) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 9:52
The difference is that petroleum products like gas are residual in your soil while things like Roundup become inert nearly the instant they touch the soil. Roundup is safer and more effective. I have my doubts whether the Roundup actually traveled from tree to grass roots. More likely what happened is that some got on the grass itself. Regardless, a four inch circle is a very small price to pay for destruction of a nasty invader. |
- Posted by flaurabunda Decatur IL 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 9:54
Yeah, been there & done that, sort of. My ex-husband was NOT a gardener and he had heard the same thing. Liked to use gasoline as weed killer. Notice I said EX husband. It worked, but not any better or worse than Round-up. It does, however, smell a lot worse and it's FLAMMABLE. Two 'No' votes for gasoline in my book. And the gas made the soil totally NOT viable for any living thing for at least the rest of that growing season. The less I have to buy & use gasoline, the happier I am. |
- Posted by summer_fashion z5 IN (My Page) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 11:04
Guess I'll stick to my original plan which is to cut and chop down the Kudzu/Grape vine and then use a Flame Weeder on the stub. Hope this will kill the thing permanently. Margaret |
- Posted by greenhaven N Illinois 4b-5a (My Page) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 11:16
Just keep after the new shoots...you'll get it eventually, especially if you weaken it significantly before our cold winter starts. Good luck! |
Kudzu grows extremely fast. My brother said if you plant it under a window, make sure the window is nailed shut before you plant. LOL Barbara |
Out of curiosity, what is the rose, Karl, of which she may have the last living specimen, per RVR? Kathy |
- Posted by karl_bapst_rosenut 5a, NW Indiana (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Fri, Jul 23, 10 at 23:11
Mandarin. I don't know, I didn't check. |
Down here, Kudzu can grow 18 inches in one day. It strangles huges trees. I see huge swaths of it cut down, but it comes back every year. It starts to die out about now. But I would think it would be less of a problem up north. |
- Posted by summer_fashion z5 IN (My Page) on Sat, Jul 24, 10 at 10:28
Kstrong, the rose is Mandarin a Floribunda from Vintage. If you email Gregg Lowry at Vintage he'll fill you in on what happened to the only Mandarin that they had. Gophers. |
Hmmm, HMF says Cliff has one, and also the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden. Do you know differently? |
I live in southeast Georgia, and know what Kudzu is and what it was initially intended for when introduced. I have seen whole buildings engulfed with the stuff. RoundUp on the leaves, lots of patience, and abundant prayer will eventually get rid of it for you, but be prepared for the long haul. |
- Posted by summer_fashion z5 IN (My Page) on Mon, Jul 26, 10 at 9:32
Kstrong I don't know why you feel the need to challenge. Since you doubt me I strongly suggest that you go directly to the source, Gregg Lowery at Vintage Gardens and ask him about Mandarin. Also, if Mandarin was still available at this Cliff person's or the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, don't you think Gregg would have driven down (after all Sebastopol is only about an hours drive up the coast from San Jose and Gregg does a lot of Rose Rustling-He's the one who took cuttings of a red climber, Bardou Job from the Alcatraz Prison grounds. Now that you have hi-jacked this Kudzu thread I suggest you quit hi-jacking. |
I am sorry you take offense summer fashion -- I was just trying to point out that there are other places for this rare rose. As the grower of over 600 roses, many of which are rare, I try to do my part to keep some of these in commerce, and have given cuttings to many different growers. My initial question was simply directed at trying to figure out if I had the rose that was supposedly "the last one," and if I did have it, to get it out there to some distributers. FYI -- Cliff is the proprieter of Eurodesert Roses and he specializes in distributing rare roses. And to answer your question about Gregg -- no I do not think he would necessarily have driven down and gotten another one -- he has his hands full keeping all the roses already in his 4000 rose collection. I would be shocked if he were adding more, even if he happens to lose one. As for you complaint about "hi-jacking", I am sorry that you posted your Kudzu question on the rose board. Maybe you should have put it on the appropriate forum in the first place, rather than worrying about someone changing the subject of your post back to the subject of the board. Kathy |
Here is a link that might be useful: Kudzu on HMF
- Posted by karl_bapst_rosenut 5a, NW Indiana (email@example.com) on Mon, Jul 26, 10 at 12:08
Be nice kids! |
- Posted by mgleason56 Michigan 5b (My Page) on Sat, Aug 7, 10 at 23:48
WOW! That got nasty. Never read this until I saw a reference to it in another post. Summer fashion - I do not think kdstrong was trying to hijack, but your statement of a nearly extinct rose would get lots of us wondering about it. It was a justifiable question in my opinion. I know Greg lost a few to a pocket gopher, so he might not have it any longer. San jose Heritage Rose Garden supposedly is not updated, so maybe they do not have. We can easily figure this out. Karl - did you get some good cuttings? Now kill that d**n kudzu and lets all be nice to each other. |
MGleason -- I heard this back from the curator of the San Jose Heritage Gardens when I raised the inquiry in response to this thread: "It's still in our database. I can't guarantee it's still in the garden without going there and looking, but it was in good health as of last fall when I took inventory. And Gregg may have already gotten cuttings from us to start a new plant when he came to the garden last month. Sounds like it's pretty rare, so we'll try to propagate a few more of them for next year's sale." Kathy |
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