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The Top Ten Innovations In Podiatry
Podiatric physicians continue to gain new tools and technologies to improve lower extremity care. This author gets the input of experts on recent and emerging innovations in areas including surgical advances, wound care and antifungals.
Emerging advances in technology in 2014 include two new antifungals, a device to help detect neuropathy, improved wound dressings, painless harvesting of epidermal skin grafts, a skin substitute, a total ankle implant and a device to augment bone marrow stimulation.
Hyalomatrix® (Anika Therapeutics). An innovative wound dressing utilizes hyaluronic acid to provide a three-dimensional scaffold to promote cellular invasion and capillary growth.
Adam Landsman, DPM, PhD, notes the Hyalomatrix contains a fibrous form of hyaluronic acid bound to a semi-permeable layer of silicone. He says the hyaluronic acid component acts as a biodegradable scaffold for proliferating cells and capillary growth while the silicone membrane preserves moisture and protects the wound.
"In this way, it is a great alternative to the much more expensive products composed of animal collagen and silicone," says Dr. Landsman, an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
The manufacturer Anika Therapeutics says Hyalomatrix is a bilayered, sterile, flexible wound dressing composed of a non-woven pad made entirely of HYAFF®, a benzyl ester of hyaluronic acid. When the newly formed dermal matrix integrates the HYAFF-based material, the company says a well-vascularized granulation tissue forms to facilitate wound closure via spontaneous re-epithelialization or a suitable dermal layer for skin grafting.
Anika says Hyalomatrix is indicated to help manage the following wounds: partial and full-thickness wounds; second-degree burns; pressure ulcers; venous ulcers; diabetic ulcers; chronic vascular ulcers; tunneled/undetermined wounds; surgical wounds; trauma wounds; and draining wounds.
Dr. Landsman cites "outstanding" preliminary results in the last few months of use, saying he has seen "obvious increases" in the development of granulation tissue after just two weeks of application. Similar to using the more expensive biologics, he says one peels away the silicone layer once separation has occurred.
Dr. Landsman notes one can reapply Hyalomatrix as frequently as twice per week if necessary. Alternatively, if the wound is clean, he says the dressing can stay in place for up to two weeks. Since the dressing can remain in place for an extended period, he does not recommend using it on highly contaminated or infected wounds without first pretreating to bring the infection or contamination under control.
Hydrofera Blue® Ready (Hollister Inc). When managing wound bioburden is a concern, an innovative spin on an established technology might be the answer for physicians. The new Hydrofera Blue Ready foam uses methylene blue and gentian violet to provide broad-spectrum antibacterial protection, according to the manufacturer Hollister Inc.
Eric Lullove, DPM, CWS, says the polyurethane foam can absorb moderate to heavy exudate. He maintains that the new foam dressing does not pull away from the wound and does not lead to maceration.
"For the majority of lower extremity wounds, (Hydrofera Blue Ready is) a great product," says Dr. Lullove, who is in private practice in Boca Raton, Fla.


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Driving traffic to a well-built site doesn't guarantee success. Changes as large as major architecture and site organization all the way down to an individual button's text can all manipulate the effectiveness of a site from a conversion perspective. In order to test and optimize sites to maximize conversion rate, Vuurr creates advanced test scenarios. By focusing on known conversion pain points, utilizing years of experience, and testing repeatedly, Vuurr can increase your site's conversion rate by orders of magnitude.
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Whatever the film's outcome, Roblan continues to draw an enthusiastic audience for his portrayal of Fidel Castro among Calle Ocho's elderly. They don't want to know about Castro's psyche. They just want to sit back, enjoy themselves, and prove that, here in exile, they've had the last laugh. "I can do any other character, but it never has the impact of Fidel," Roblan marvels. "The same charisma that he has overflows when I mimic him. It is indisputable that he has a presence that almost no politician has. If it had only been used for our own good, but . . . ," he trails off.
For Cuban scholar Jose Antonio Evora, the appeal of Roblan's Castro is obvious. "By his own will Fidel Castro has created an image that allows him to be seen as a demigod, a hero," Evora explains. "In Cuba, every day it is confirmed that he is not a human being, because he lives apart from everyone else. He makes all the decisions and everyone must obey them. Roblan, with his imitation, makes you notice the human qualities of that demigod. His mimicry brings to Fidel the very aspects that he himself is denying -- the fact that he's human."
Roblan has meticulously studied Fidel Castro since they were both young men. Although they are not far apart in age -- Castro turns 70 this year -- Roblan looks much younger. But as the Cuban leader has grown old, Roblan's Fidel has grown old with him. The walk has changed from a pompous march to a shuffle. The voice has grown weaker. And when Castro quit smoking his famous cigars, Roblan stopped smoking them on-stage. Meanwhile the actor's initial disappointment in Castro as a politician has evolved into clear contempt. But Roblan also shows an obvious sympathy -- even fondness -- for Castro the man. "It's logical that he's tired," Roblan muses. "It's the years that he has, the problems that he has, on top of that huge activity that he's had to maintain all this time, so much traveling. I've heard that he's pretty sick, but he has doctors taking care of him." Suddenly Roblan, still seated in the lobby in his civilian clothes, starts speaking in Fidel's voice. His face sags and he grimaces, bowing his head: "He's got to be in bad shape, chica."
Having made a good part of his living at Castro's expense for so many years, Roblan runs the risk of losing his public when, as the comic has repeatedly predicted, Fidel finally falls. And yet Roblan insists that what he wants most of all is to see Castro go. "I sincerely wish it would be over once and for all, and that I wouldn't have to do him any more," he asserts. "When it's all over and there's freedom in Cuba as there should be, I'm going to debut Viva Cubano que Cay cents el Tirano (Rejoice, Cuban, the Tyrant Has Fallen).
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Imagining what it's like to take a private jet flight with your kids is easy. Just picture them hermetically sealed for a few hours in a space not much bigger than a walk-in closet. On the minus side of the experience: on most jets, it's cold turkey on texting and Internet access; skateboarding is definitely out; and there's probably no live television.
January 2, 2009
If Honda Aircraft founder, president and chief visionary Michimasa Fujino is right, when you step into one of his dealerships to put down a deposit on a HondaJet or get yours serviced, your experience will be a lot more like visiting an Acura dealer than a traditional business jet manufacturer.
December 1, 2008
Tempted to stroll up to the cockpit for a chat with the pilots and the view from the front office? Depending on what's going on up there, that may not be such a great idea. While pilots love to talk about what they love, passenger access to the cockpit comes with some restrictions for safety reasons.
December 1, 2008
Block charter and jet card programs can be great options. Not only do they simplify the booking process, they also provide benefits, such as discounted fees and, on occasion, guaranteed airplane availability and upgrades.
December 1, 2008
When you land in a foreign country, should you rent a car or stay in passenger mode and hire a driver? That may depend partly on where you are. The American Automobile Association reports that road accidents cause an estimated 1.17 million deaths per year worldwide-and that 70 percent of them occur in developing countries.
December 1, 2008
Some of the same folks who insist on bottled water in flight think nothing of dropping into it a couple of ice cubes plucked from the machine in the hotel hallway. The tendency is to assume that the ice is a solid form of potable water.
December 1, 2008
Business Jet Traveler Television (www.BJTtv.com) has posted an online video companion to the magazine's comprehensive Buyers' Guide 2008.
December 1, 2008
For those facing life-threatening diseases, war-related injuries or other equally devastating hardships, the holidays can be an especially difficult time. Here's one way you can lend a hand: Donate unused fractional flight hours to a charity that will use them on behalf of the needy.
December 1, 2008
Do you resort to charades to make yourself understood in countries where you don't speak the language? If so, you'll appreciate ICOON, a book based on an idea so simple you'll wonder why no one thought of it before.
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The Native Access Program to Nursing (NAPN) was conceived in 1984 with an ultimate goal of increasing the number of Aboriginal people in healing careers, working towards balanced healthy communities. It has been operating within the College of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan since 1985 and has played an instrumental role towards its success in recruiting and retaining Aboriginal nursing students.
Aboriginal nursing advisors in Saskatoon, Regina and Prince Albert work with students at all sites to build community, provide advisement and support. Although NAPN primarily supports Aboriginal students through their nursing education, support is extended to all nursing students when needed.
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I finished (mostly – still a little detail work to do) my oven last November. I built the firebox, cladding and insulation as close to your Masterly Oven a possible. The bricks here in the US are different sizes than yours and trying to do mathematical conversions made it too complex so I just threw away all my drawings and built it by looking at your pictures. This is the first time I have ever laid brick. I nearly killed myself in the summer heat when I got heat stroke working last July. The outer shell design is adapted to my location in my courtyard.
The one city that I live in – Fresno California USA – is part of an Air Pollution control district that does not allow the construction of a wood burning anything! So in order to get the permit I had to make it a Gas Fired oven – and basic wood – but read below. Oven image shows the firing, gas flame of the burner inside.
Another image shows the burner and port. No need for gas unless the city comes down on me for using wood. The oven burns wood so clean after the first 30 minutes I don't think anyone would really notice the wood. This is because all the fume gasses and smoke burn to an extent that only the blurry heat is visible.
I was originally planning to plaster the outside leaving just the black trim bricks showing; so much of the red brick is course and the grout is different colors and unfinished. My wife and all of our friends love the look of it the way it is now! So this is how it shall remain. I intend to install a lamp above the opening to the oven (you can see the electrical box) but we have not found just the right one yet.
We will never be able to eat pizza from a restaurant again. Once you eat pizza out of a wood fired masonry oven there is no going back. We have mastered cooking Pizza with my wife rolling out the dough, everyone choosing their own toppings and me working the oven. We mostly use your Pizza dough recipe and it is the standard by which we measure others that we experiment with. Whole foods Market located here in the states makes pretty good whole wheat pizza dough but I still prefer yours home made. One of my favorite toppings is marinated dried tomatoes and as you can see we are growing some to dry with residual oven heat.
Recently I built the door and I am amazed at the ovens heat retention ability. I am just now studying the numbers so I can utilize a single firing to its full potential. Test with the door closed and oven not heated to the high pizza cooking temperature: It took seven hours to drop from 480F – 250C to 300F – 150C and nine more hours to drop to 250F – 120C and from there it takes another 24 hours to drop to 140F – 60C at which so much drying or warming can be done. The next Holiday plan is to have top Pizza for lunch, Bake bread in the afternoon then slow cook a prime rib beef roast and vegetables for dinner. Then if I have not had too much fun I might dry some tomatoes.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I would not have attempted this project if it was not for your plans with 1000 pictures and my life would be unknowingly poorer.
Thank you
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The (Im)Possibilities of Willardian Theology: A Review of Gary Black's The Theology of Dallas Willard
Gary Black. The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2013. Gary Black's The Theology of Dallas Willard is a rather ambitious work with a rather specific audience. The book is written to and for post-evangelicals—that is, for those who find themselves estranged just within or just without the circles of mainline evangelicalism[1]—and in it, Black attempts not only to summarize and to explain Willard's thought but also... Read More
Embodying Peace, Transforming Violence: An Interview with Sarah Thompson
In this issue of The Other Journal, we have used the lens of Marxism to illumine the consequences of economic exploitation and the ways we as Christians might work against such exploitation. Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is an international nonprofit organization that aims to perform that same work, addressing racism, sexism, heterosexism, nationalism, and economic exploitation in all its forms all around the globe. CPT partners with marginalized communities in situations of... Read More
Reversèd Thunder: The Significance of Prayer for Political Theology
Prayer and theology are not two entirely different things.1 To be sure, one can draw a distinction between them: prayer would involve discourse with God and theology would involve discourse about God. But however clear-cut this distinction may be, it does not actually settle the question of how these two types of conversation are related. Close historical study reveals a wide range of highly complicated combinations of prayer and theology, some of which are more integrated and... Read More
On Graced Learning: Can Schools be Beautiful?
Beauty1 Do Thou, therefore, O Lord our God, give each one of us a joyful heart to serve Thy glory as best he may [. . .] Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory upon their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish Thou the works of our hands upon us (Psalm xc. 16). In Thee, O Lord, have I trusted, let me never be confounded. Amen.2 The discourse is devotional, the sentiments, biblical; the context is educational. The prayer comes... Read More
Earth's Lament: Suffering, Hope, and Wisdom
"It is astonishing how few traces of human suffering one notices in the history of philosophy."1 That was Theodor Adorno's comment in the mid-1960s, around the time that the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) appointed my predecessor in systematic philosophy, Hendrik Hart, as its first faculty member.2 I should like to reflect on Adorno's perceptive comment. I want to ask why Western philosophy carries so few traces of human suffering. I also want to consider what... Read More
Atheism, Theism, and Anatheism in Hafiz of Shiraz
"What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that." – Hafiz How do we stop being "so religious like that?" Do we stop being religious? Or, can we stop being religious but come back to God? And how would that feel? In his recent essays and forthcoming book, Richard Kearney wagers that contemporary... Read More
The Benefit of (the) Doubt: Revisioning the Role of Doubt for a Genuine Spirituality
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. – Bertrand Russell Nestled in the footnotes of Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, the author makes the following remark, "In the old days people said: It is too bad that things do not go in the world as the preacher preaches. Maybe the time will come, especially with the aid of philosophy, when they can say: Fortunately... Read More
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Men and women today are haunted by a sense that in the midst of plenty, our lives seem barren. We are hungry for a greater nourishment of the soul. In the England of today, a businessman turned philosopher, Charles Handy, has won a widespread following with his writing. Capitalism, he argues, delivers the means but not the point of life. Now that we are satisfying our outer needs, we must pay more attention to those within—for beauty, spiritual growth, and human connection.... Read More
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"So As Not to Be Estranged": Creation Spirituality and Wendell Berry1
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How do you freeze your store bought meat
I always bought my beef from a local farmer and had it processed and packaged from a meat locker. Well, I dont have the money to do it this year and Im planning on buying what cuts I like on sale at the grocer, freeze it and use it at a later time. My past experience doing it this way is it gets freezer burnt real easy and doesnt store near as long as the meat locker. Would wrapping it in freezer wrap or newspapers help?
I always buy meats and fish on sale (if it isn't something that DH has shot). Either way I use a "Seal A Meal" Sealing system to vacuum seal all our meats, fish, veggies etc. for the freezer. They don't get freezer burnt and I can label and date them so I know what is in the freezer. I then make a list of every thing in the freezer so items don't get "lost" or forgotten in there.
I wrap in saran or put in a sandwich bag to flash freeze on a cookie sheet. Then, when frozen, I put in a freezer weight zip bag and seal, getting as much air out as possible. If I have several packages of the same item, I will put all of them in one large freezer bag. Sometimes I use the Food Saver machine and bags when I have time.
Over wrap/double wrap....that's the way to less freezer burn!
Another trick: fill a pot with tap water. Put your food in a Ziplock bag, and close the seal except for about an inch. Holding the bag by the seal, with the small opening up, put the bag in the water. The weight of the water will displace most of the air; as you lower the bag into the water, once you get to the bag opening the water will have squeezed out most of the water. Not as elegant or effective as a Food Saver, but it helps.
My beef comes packaged in shrink wrap from my processor, so I'm good, but I do have a Food Saver. I seldom use it, mostly because my meat comes already shrink wrapped.
Anyway, if you don't have one, my extension service says that you can put a plastic straw into the open corner of a ziplock bag. Zip closed all the way to the corner and suck the air out, the remove the straw and seal it up. not as good as a FoodSaver but still better than just sealing up the bag. I was also told to wrap in saran wrap first, then seal in the plastic bag, you'll get a longer shelf life.
We buy our meat in bulk. When we get it home, Wayne cuts it into family sized portions, wraps some saran wrap around it and then vacs it with the Food Saver. It gets labeled and into the freezer it goes. Best small appliance we ever bought! We have had one for many, many years. If and when this one goes the new SS upright one will be on my Christmas list. NancyLouise
Another one who double wraps and then into a freezer bag like Linda and Teresa mentioned. I still have a food saver on my wish list though. Also, when I bought my deep freeze I didn't buy a frost free one. Read some where that the manual defrost freezers keep things better.
I do almost the same as arley.
First, it is not vacuum seal with Foodsaver type of bagging. It is basically air removal, not vacuum. If it is vacuum, the food would be squeezed by about 14 lbs per sq. in. of pressure on both sides.
I use thin veggie bags, put the food in the bag and dump the bag in water, The water pressure squeeze out the air, twist the bag to keep it air tight, then it goes in the freezer. No freezer burns.
I have a manual defrost freezer like David. I would not have a frost free one because foods do freezer burn more quickly in them.
I do like many of the others--wrap meat in saran or place smaller portions into sandwich bags. I like the foldover style. I save all the cereal & cracker inner bags we get and use those to freeze meat in, sealing them w/ a Foodsaver. You need to cut the bottom & top off the bags & lay them out flat, with the factory seam to one side, & re-seal a new bottom. Stuff my food into them, squeeze out most of the air & seal the top. You can also seal the top & snip off the corner just enough so you can slip a straw into the bag & suck out the air & then quickly seal across the corner w/ the Foodsaver.
I'd never thunk of using water to displace the air in Zip-Locs. What a great idea, guys! I'm going to try that, for sure.
obrion, any time I've had meat butchered and wrapped it has come back to me in paper, waxed or plastic coated on the side facing the meat. Occasionally the ground meat will come in plastic bags, like short tubes....
The butcher we used to use would let me stand and wrap as he cut to save money on the wrapping. I can do the same thing at home with sale cuts of gro store meat with a roll of butchers freezer wrap - available in bulk some places (like Costco) but every grocery store should have a brand too, like Reynolds. Look on the bottom shelf in the section with plastic and aluminum foil rolls...
I have a food saver and like that for chicken, fish, odd shaped cuts beef like rib steaks and rib roasts, but I'll wrap in butchers paper too - meat is air tight and good for a year in a manual defrost freezer if you do it well.
Tear off paper, too much isn't any better than too little :) You'll want masking tape too and something to write boldly on the packages....
Start in the corner and begin to roll/wrap diagonally, make a complete turn and then fold the sides snugly over the meat, continue to roll (tug remaining paper one hand while you hold the meat with the other to keep some tension if you have to, until you come to that pointed 'paper tip' to tape...You want to end with a dense snugly fit package, no loose paper or sloppy folds to hold air.
Here is a link that might be useful: Drawing here, paper wrapping meat
I've used various methods, but have used the "double wrap" the most successfully. I wrap the meat in either waxed paper or foil, and then place inside Ziploc or Glad freezer bags (I personally like Ziploc best). I label and date the food and try to use the older stuff first.
Rarely has there been a problem with freezer burn unless there was a hole that got poked in the bag, or the zipper unzipped.
I throw it directly into the freezer from the store. They shrink wrap it, no? once in a while, I'll ask the butcher to freeze wrap it. But most of the time, it goes from the shopping cart to the freezer.
Tell me honestly, what do you think is going to happen to that meat? Let's hear your stories. What will happen to the family who eats that meat? My family?
P.S. Give some thought to modern packaging methods. And some additional thought to modern freezers. And schedules.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Unless I buy in bulk, I usually just throw it in the freezer as is like westsider40 said. If I buy bulk, I will freeze it in freezer bags with the air pushed out. I don't leave it in the freezer too long before using it though. I've never had a problem with ruined meats and I've always done it this way. I understand a manual defrost freezer is best for longer storage? I just have a tiny chest freezer but it's really all my husband and I need. Stores are very close by.
In response to westsider40's questions:
~ if you are going to use the package of frozen meat within 2 weeks, then maybe there won't be any freezer burn in that short amount of time - but....there is often some air space over the pieces or portion of meat and that is why many of us recommend wrapping with foil or plastic wrap which will be in contact with the surface of the meat and eliminate that air space
~ I think many of us repackage our meat purchases to reflect our cooking needs, i.e. we only need 2 pork chops per meal instead of the six that came in one package or as I did last week, I repackaged 2 lbs. of ground round into 3 separate packages for later use in chili, spaghetti sauce, etc.
You might find the information at the link below helpful. I've been using a FoodSaver for freezer storage, as well as dry goods, for 25-years, so you could say I'm "sold" on the method. -Grainlady
Here is a link that might be useful: The Reluctant Gourmet - FoodSaver
Westsider--Three reasons why I repackage meats for the freezer. One is to better protect from freezer burn. The packaging from the meat case leaves a lot of air around the meat & air is the enemy in preventing freezer burn.
Second almost equally large reason is to conserve freezer space. Those styrofoam meat trays consume a lot of freezer real estate. My freezer is almost always bulging at the seams.
Already mentioned third important reason is dividing bulk purchases into meal-sized pkgs.
A food saver sealer is a real investment in keeping meat fresh and freezer burn free in your freezer for years.
I recently discovered a steak in the bottom of my deep freeze that was dated Jan 2007. I defrosted it and it was absolutely fine! I wouldn't tend to keep anything that long again, but I swear by my food saver, it's been one of the most used appliances I have ever bought. I'm not a kitchen "gadget" person at all (chop everything by hand!) but this is worth it, we never throw meats away which have been vaccum sealed with the food saver.
TIP: I store it under the counter cabinet in a place easily accessible so that I can grab and use it very quickly and easily. I used to keep it in my pantry closet and it collected dust - I just never thought about it.
My neighbor has one of the cheap, hand held vaccum things for zip lock bags and isn't happy at all with it, the vaccum seal breaks too often and then the food dries out badly.
I can buy meats on sale, divide them into the portion sizes I wish, wash and dry them and seal them up, I.
D. them as to type and how much ("rainbow trout, one meal for 2" for example) and date them with an indelible marker and they are fine for YEARS in the freezer. I also make up lasagnas etc this way and meat loafs etc.
It's really a wonderful way to take food out of your freezer and have it as fresh tasting as the day you put it in.
I realize I'm sounding awfully enthusiastic, I don't sell this product or have a connection to it other than as a customer but when I find something I really like I like to spread the word.
westsider, even freezer burned meat is perfectly safe to eat, it's just not as good. Another reason for repackaging or overwrapping is that the grocery store plastic wrap is very thin and easily punctured and somehow, whenever I toss a package from the grocery directly into the freezer, it ends up with a hole punctured in it from something else next to it or on top of it, like a box of ice cream bars or a plastic container of freezer jam or frozen berries.
Elery just smoked two whole pork bellies, so we're slicing and freezing bacon tonight, and he wants to use the Foodsaver. (sigh) I can never get the blasted thing to work and keep a seal, so tonight I'm running the meat slicer and HE'S using the FoodSaver! Then next week, when 75% of the seals have failed, I'll stick it all in ziplock bags, so thanks for that water trick, Arley.
Yes, it's my SECOND FoodSaver, the first one didn't work at all so I'm improving with a 25% success rate. Oh, and their customer service sucks too. I'm the only person in the world, I think, that hates the FoodSaver. So what did Elery's daughter get me for Christmas? The deli container and attachment for lids/jars, LOL.
Thanks, everyone. I have never had freezerburn on any meats.
Iirc, ground beef is packaged with very little air around it. Very little styrofoam.
I also think that the butchers wrap meat tightly in plastic and then put a second coat of plastic around it. I hope I don't sound like a snotty snob but I think it's pretty well super wrapped here, in my fancy supermarkets. Hey, I don't know.
Seems ok, toss in freezer. pERHAPS, I am wrong.
On the Foodsaver, be sure that you freeze your meats long enough to freeze the juices before you use the foodsaver, I figure about two hours in my freezer does the trick. If anything at all gets into the fine line of the seal, including juices, then the seal will break and that can be frustrating,.......most especially when you find that you have to reseal an entire sprial ham you carefully divided up into portions and then spent the time sealing up!
For something like a spiral ham, I place all the slices in a huge pan for an hour or so and then only a few individual portions of itfrom the freezer, time it so that it all won't freeze together making it impossible to pull apart but also so it won't defrost enough for the juices to be sucked up into the seal.
It really is incredibly important to keep the seal free from seepage or bits of food/grease to insure a tight seal. I also keep lots of paper towels around to wipe hands and the sealer frequently when sealing a lot of meat at one sitting. Once you get the hang of using it, it's a wonderful tool and using it for small jobs like just a couple of steaks you bought and stuck in the freezer for an hour or two is VERY fast and easy.
I can't stand the taste of freezer burn, I've tried using it in different ways and perhaps it's really just in my head, but I don't care for it at all, so it gets thrown away which is just terrible waste.
I do the same basic as many here. Saran wrap, sometimes foil depending and freezer ziploc.
I close the ziplock down to about the last half inch, push the open ends together a bit so it pooches and then suck the air out manually with my mouth (don't breath in first, sort of defeats the purpose, quick close. Not 100% like a machine but probably 90% and that seems to help with freezer burn quite a bit. Alton Brown uses a straw, whatever:)


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UPDATE: We have reached our stretch goal of $7,000! There will be a music video of Giant Robot Song!
New stretch goal: if we hit $7,600, I'll spend an extra day in the recording studio and record all of my Firefly songs. This will not be part of Giant Robot Album (that album will be long enough already); it will be a separate EP which will release via Bandcamp in early 2013.
The Firefly EP will include:
Firefly (Kaylee/Simon)
Watch How We Soar (Zoe/Wash)
No Power In The Verse (River, and this arrangement will be different than the Geek Girl EP arrangement)
Sending a Wave (Inara)
Big Damn Heroes (a song you haven't heard yet, written for Can't Stop The Serenity 2012)
And probably something else, I can't seem to stop writing Firefly songs. :)
Thank you for funding this project!
My name is Nicole. My band is Hello, The Future! I am the only person in my band.
For now.
So here's the deal, team. I have been performing as Hello, The Future! since May 2010. I've released three albums (Infinity Right Now, Sidekick and Other Songs, and Hello, The Future! Gets Her Filk On At Philcon) and one charity project (Mink Car Cover). I became a full-time musician in May 2012, two years after starting my project and after releasing a new song every week on YouTube for 100 consecutive weeks.
I'm in the black, but barely.
This is my project.
I'm releasing a six-song EP called Geek Girl EP. This is a collection of songs from the perspectives of six different female geek fandom characters:
Magic In Me (Julia Wicker, The Magician King)
No Hunger Games Can Get Me (Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games)
Four Hundred Years Ago (Chell, Portal 2)
I Don't Know What's Going To Happen To Me (Arya Stark, Game Of Thrones)
No One Left To Love (Johanna Mason, Mockingjay)
No Power In The Verse (River Tam, Firefly)
Many of these are songs I have played at concerts but never recorded. If you want samples, play the project video.
Notice my profile picture? The one of me in my "home office," making music in my "recording studio?"
I want to make that picture obsolete.
Giant Robot Album
If you've been following my Twitter or my YouTube or my Tumblr, you know I've been talking about this project called Giant Robot Album for almost a year.
When I went to fine arts camp, many years ago, there was this kid who got called out for drawing a giant robot in his notebook. We were told that was the wrong way to be creative.
I turned that story into a song (maybe you've heard of it) and since then have written nearly a dozen more songs about creativity, my life as an indie geek musician, and the more personal side of Hello, The Future!
I want to share these songs with you, and I want to do it in a real studio.
I know a lot of you have been with me for years. You watched as I climbed on top of my kitchen table and sang about T-Rex having feelings; you were there during my first real show at InterventionCon; you followed along as I pushed Mink Car Cover into existence, upgraded my mics, learned to use DAWs, played on a cruise ship, wrote a song called Not Blue Anymore, and moved to Los Angeles.
And we both know what comes next. My upcoming tour. Bigger shows. Submitting to record labels. New songs, better and more complicated and as real as I can make them.
But before all of that, recording Giant Robot Album in a studio. If you practice Getting Things Done, that's the most immediate next step.
Are you still reading this? Have your eyes not slipped over to the right-hand column to check out the funding levels and rewards? What are you waiting for? I have worked hard to come up with the best rewards I can for you, because many of you have supported Hello, The Future! from the beginning and I want to thank you in the best way possible.
So please go check out the rewards, and please consider supporting this project.
Thank you.
The Geek Girl EP Launch Concert is on Saturday, September 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at The Comic Bug (1807 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266). And yes, you can come! I'll be playing Geek Girl EP live in its entirety, and we'll all get a chance to hang out and have a good time. Bonus performance by Clark Chimp!
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Yes. I am offering up to sixteen bonus tracks, or a second album's worth.
If all sixteen bonus tracks get picked up, that'll add $9,300 to the Kickstarter, which means I will be able to do some amazing things with this album. One of which will be a second album of bonus tracks. :)
Can I write and record that many bonus tracks? Yes. I posted a new song to YouTube every week for 100 weeks.
Will all the bonus tracks include the full band? I don't know. I may do some quirky stuff with ukuleles or melodicas or a capella vocals. Hard to say until someone backs a bonus track.
Will the bonus tracks push back Giant Robot Album's release date? Depending on the number of bonus tracks that get backed, it may push back Giant Robot Album's release date by a few weeks, as I'll likely have to schedule a second session with the studio. However, we're still looking at early 2013.
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The "I Support Giant Robot Album Too" Pack: all of the rewards at the $42 level PLUS a Giant Robot Album CD, STICKER, POSTER, T-SHIRT, and DIGIDOWNLOAD when it is released. (The Geek Girl EP rewards will ship in November 2012; the Giant Robot Album rewards will ship in early 2013.)
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Eric Sandweiss, Carmony Professor of History at Indiana University, will discuss Charles Cushman's work as collected in The Day in Its Color at the Southside Hub of Production (SHoP).
The Day in Its Color introduces readers to Charles Cushman's extraordinary work, a recently unearthed archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. From 1938-1969, Cushman - a sometime businessman and amateur photographer with an uncanny eye for everyday detail - travelled constantly, shooting everything he encountered as he ventured from New York to New Orleans, Chicago to San Francisco, and everywhere in between. His photos include portraits, ethnographic studies, agricultural and industrial landscapes, movie sets and media events, children playing, laborers working, and thousands of street scenes, all precisely documented in time and place. The result is a chronicle of an era almost never seen, or even envisioned, in color.
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Stephen Gallacher's three-stroke overnight lead disappeared in two holes on the final day of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
After his European Tour best 62 in the third round - it finished with him holing a 40-yard bunker shot for an eagle - the 38-year-old Scot three-putted the first in the windy conditions and then bogeyed the second as well after pushing his driving into the trees and missing from six feet.
As he did that, playing partner Richard Sterne chipped to two feet for a birdie that put them both on 19 under par - three ahead of England's Tommy Fleetwood and Indian Jeev Milkha Singh, both of whom birdied the second and long third.
Gallacher matched Sterne's birdie on the par five third, but three-putted once more at the eighth to fall one behind.
Lee Westwood, meanwhile was up to third place when he followed an outward 33 with birdies at the 10th and 11th.
He still had four strokes to make up, but was heading in the right direction - unlike Fleetwood, who drove in the water on the ninth and double-bogeyed, and compatriot Steve Webster, who after four birdies in the first six chipped into the lake at the short seventh and triple-bogeyed.
Gallacher produced a near-miracle recovery from the trees down the ninth, the ball finishing only two feet from the flag, but after a birdie there brought him back level he pulled his drive into a bush on the long 10th.
After a penalty drop it was a fine effort to salvage a par with a 15-foot putt, but Sterne got up and down from sand to nose ahead again.
There was another change at the short 11th and it was Sterne failing to get up and down from just right of the green.
That left them 20 under again and Westwood was only three behind after hitting back from an untidy bogey at the difficult 12th with more birdies on the next two.
Gallacher drove into the left-hand trees on the 12th - the same hole where his ball stuck in the branches on Friday - but ran into the clear and while he saved par Sterne, right off the tee and unable to make the green, had his second successive bogey.
Gallacher was back in front as a result, but in the ninth change of the day between them Sterne two-putted the long 13th for birdie.
Westwood's chances almost certainly went when he bogeyed the short 15th after going over the green and missed a three-foot birdie putt on the next, although he did hole from seven feet at the 17th to be three behind again.


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by Secretary Confidential in View All Posts, February 13th, 2009Now that we've uncovered in my Part I interview with Sunny Anderson how she made her way from DJing to plating, we are going dig into some of her scrumptious cooking secrets!
Secretary Confidential: How is it being the "new kid on the block"?
Sunny Anderson: It's cool, I'm used to it. I moved almost every year growing up and in my adult life, I've kept the same pattern. So, being new is old to me. I just hope I'm around long enough for someone else to be the "NKOTB."
SC: How did you make the transition from guest appearance on Emeril, to full time FN host?
SA: Hard work really pays off. After taping with Emeril, I thought "what was that?!", what just happened?" People at the network began to tell me I did a good job. I trusted those few people and thought about the benefits of Food Network. It seemed similar to my radio career. I thought about how it was another love of mine that I could indulge in all day if I wanted.
After I made the decision to chase the dream, I just wouldn't take no for an answer. I kept in touch with everyone and let them know I was still very interested. This put me in the pipeline. Out of this came Gotta Get It! Now, look at the mess I created. It's been a great transition, and I am totally thankful for everything.
SC: I have the winter blues…what food is going to bring me the most comfort?
SA: A big 9X13 of baked mac and cheese or an 8X8 if you are watching your waist. You can use my Spicy Mac and Cheese recipe or your own. It's the warm 9X13 that does the trick.
Lactose intolerant?? Try the Interstate Chili I just did on Cooking for Real. Lazy? Check the National Coney Island website. I pay homage to their chili with my recipe, and they mail theirs nationwide! That's what I love about Food Network … the foodie viewers that'll send off an email to me after a show.
SC: You talked so fondly of your Grandmother in the red velvet episode, how did she shape where you are today?
SA: Boy, I really do feel thankful to have such a great matriarch with endless skills in the kitchen. We mostly visited for weeks at a time during the summer, and I'd come home 20-30 lbs heavier because I was my Grandma's taste-tester, and she could never say no to anything. Not only did I eat well as a child, I got to watch and learn.
SC: What ingredients or dishes do you run away from?
SA: I used to run from radishes, until recently. They were served sliced on the side of a soft corn tortilla taco. I needed some texture, some crunch, as there was no lettuce in it, so I added the radishes and for the 1st time in my life, I liked them! I am freeeeeeee!!!!
SC: Any future plans for a cookbook or restaurant opening?
SA: I can't figure out how people do it! They are high functioning humans to have shows and other businesses as well. I can barely handle all of this stuff, and there are hosts that have way more on their plate and pull it off. If I ever get space for more, I'm sure I'll add more, because I don't like inactivity, but I'm not quite sure it's a restaurant. A cookbook though, eventually.
SC: Tell me about your experiences meeting other Food Network chefs, and who haven't you met that you'd like to?
SA: The other chefs are all cool. Everyone is nice and happy, no kidding. I've met plenty, but I haven't met Paula and would also love to meet Ina as well. I love their recipes.
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i truly love ms. anderson's program, she is so personable and sweet. i really enjoy her how'd that get on my plate. really smart young woman, keep up the great job.
Fabulous report on Sunny! She is inspiring and truly sent a life lesson to all of us. Regardless of what your dream is with hard work and determination all of your wildest dreams can become possible. What I enjoyed most about this post is how fondly she speaks of and remembers her past. I truly believe this keeps her grounded and totally relatable to the viewer. Secretary Confidential…Thanks for sharing a little inside "dish" on Sunny!
I always thought it must be really difficult for these FN chefs/hosts to run so many businesses at once. I can only imagine how overwhelming it would be to host a show, run a restaurant (or two or three), publish a few cookbooks, etc.. I'm glad Sunny mentioned that it's not just us mortals who feel that way.
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I was recently hired by Zalando to make some large illustrations for their pop-up shop during Amsterdam Fashion Week. Also I was sitting at the booth portraying visitors! It was so much fun doing this live and meeting all the sweet people. The reactions to my illustrations were overwhelming, I'm happy everyone showed me so much love <3 The theme for the pop-up shop was candy, as you can see in my illustrations and my outfit. I'm wearing a Zalando shirt and skirt and a hot pink bow tie I created myself, you can check out the DIY video HERE
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I understand that the positions and momentums of elementary particles is described in terms of probability theory in quantum mechanics. Is probability theory the "ultimate" explanation for the "states" of elementary particles, or will future scientists find descriptions or models in terms of something more fundamental than current models that does not use probability theory?
Good question. Unfortuantely, we can't possibly answer it, because we don't know what will be discovered in the future. The probabilistic model of quantum mechanics has bothered physicists since it came out, but so far nobody has found a better model (or even another model that works as well). A lot of folks would LOVE to find a different model, though. So, we'll certainly TRY to find "descriptions or models in terms of something... that does not use probability theory," but I can't say what will actually be found. We just don't know!
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You're not really asking a question about physics, are you? I mean, a physical theory can't possibly encompass a description of its own limitations, any more than you can see what you can't see because it's behind you. Follow? What you've got here is a question of metaphysics, the study of how we know what we know. I suppose it is conceivable that someone could, using pure logic and mathematics, come up with some kind of constraint on the nature of physical theory, and thereby show that certain kinds of theories -- for example those that involve only perfect certainties, like classical mechanics -- can't describe reality. That would be quite interesting. But I don't see how it could be done. Anyway, no one's ever done it.
Incidentally, you may read somewhere that Bell's Inequality and related experiments on photo polarization teleportation establish something along the lines you're thinking. This would be nonsense. The work in question, while quite interesting for a variety of other reasons, only shows on this score that the known forms of purely local mechanics (i.e. classical mechanics) are not consistent with experiment. Which we knew already, long ago.
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You are asking a question not in physics but in metaphysics, or, if you prefer, a metaquestion about physics: a question about the nature of the questions that physics can (and cannot) answer.
Whether we will always find ourselves working with probability in our fundamental physics depends on whether the Universe is deterministic. If the Universe is deterministic, then everything that has happened or will ever happen is now and forever fixed, down to the last wiggle of the tiniest particle at the other end of the galaxy ninety billions years hence. Beginning from a complete description of the Universe at any single instant in its history, a mathematical computation can be made of the exact value of any measurable quantity at any other time.
If and only if the Universe is deterministic can there someday be a theory of mechanics that is not probabilistic.
We don't yet know if the Universe is deterministic. Quantum mechanics says it cannot be macroscopically observed to be so, but that is not the same thing.
Furthermore, assuming the assertions of quantum mechanics stand up for all future time unaltered would seem rash: Newtonian mechanics appeared to be the final theory of mechanics for almost 300 years. Quantum mechanics only 65 years old.
Let me also point out that even if human scientists never construct a more correct mechanics, that does not imply that such does not exist. It is not obvious that all knowledge is within the capability of our intelligence to deduce and comprehend. You would hardly doubt that a horse could never comprehend calculus -- the most correct theory of mechanics may analogously be beyond the grasp of homo sapiens.
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TUCSON - Registration is now open for the third and final SwimFest event. Another 100 kids will get free swim lessons. This time, at the Northwest YMCA on July 11th.
Children must be non-swimmers, three to twelve years old to register.
Already this summer, more than 200 kids have gotten free swim lessons, and vouchers for additional lessons as part of our Kristi's Kids, News 4 Tucson "Lifesaver" campaign.
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RT (Russia Today) yesterday conducted an interview with Richard M Stallman, the founder of Free Software Foundation and the writer of the world's most advance license GNU GPL. RT asked readers to ask questions and then they would pick questions for RMS.
We asked two questions on RT's Facebook page and both those questions were presented to RMS.
Muktware: Do you think USA is becoming hostile to innovation and competition as the companies like Apple and Microsoft are gaming the system?
RMS: I have to point out that innovation is not my highest value. Human rights are my highest values. So I don't to get into the dialogue that treats innovation as a primary goal.
With software patents the US has become a dangerous place for software development, including innovative software development, because when a program is innovative, that means it has some new ideas in it. But it also has lots of well-known ideas in it. A large program combines thousands of ideas. So if you have some new ideas and you want to use them, in order to use them you have to combine them with a lot of other ideas that are well-known. And if you are not allowed to do that because those other ideas are patented, you can't use your new idea.
You can watch the entire interview here:
Muktware: How much control should the USA have over the Internet?
RMS: No more than anyone else. I don't think it will be safe to have any global control over the internet. because we could predict that that global control will work for the empire of the mega corporations and would attack human rights.


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Kids will have lots of fun this weekend as they search for Easter eggs and other goodies at hunts throughout Billings and in some nearby communities.
A number of area churches also will hold hunts for their congregations; those hunts, as well as sunrise and other Easter Saturday and Sunday worships and breakfasts, are listed in billingsgazette.com's digital calendar. Just follow the attached link to get details.
Here are some of the communitywide hunts planned:
* The Great Easter EGGstravaganza at the Billings Depot starts with a 10 a.m. Easter egg hunt on Saturday.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., events include a petting zoo, "create your own masterpiece" painting center, bouncy castle, face painting, guest appearances by the Easter Bunny, free photos and the Shriners train. Proceeds benefit the Historic Billings Depot and ZooMontana.
* Montana State University Billings will hold its 22nd annual Easter Egg Hunt at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Children 10 and younger may participate in the free search for Easter eggs, candy and prizes. Student leaders with Associated Students of MSU Billings -- the student government of the university -- are again organizing the event.
About 7,000 brightly colored and candy-filled eggs will be spread across the university lawn near McMullen Hall and on Peaks to Plains Park for the search. The Easter Bunny will attend, and free cookies and hot chocolate will be provided in the Student Union Building atrium. "Summer Snow," a shaved ice booth, will also be at the event selling warm and cold drinks. A portion of the gross sales will be returned to ASMSUB.
For information, call the ASMSUB office at 657-2365.
* Lewis and Clark Middle School's track will be the site of Emmanuel Baptist Church's annual hunt at 11 a.m. Saturday.
* Faith E. Church, 3145 Sweetwater Drive, will hold a Community Easter Egg Hunt, at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 7.
Kids will hunt for 24,000 eggs with 100 special golden eggs redeemable for prizes in the prize tent. Ages from toddlers to 10 years may participate in the hunt on the east end of the church grounds on the corner of 32nd Street West and Central Avenue.
* The Rock Church at 820 W. Ninth St. in Laurel will hold a free communitywide Easter egg hunt from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the church.
Age-appropriate egg hunt begins at 11:20 a.m. for the youngest. The event features thousands of eggs, free snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn. Bring family and friends for games, inflatable moon bounces and door prizes and meet the Easter Bunny.
For more information, call 628-6200 or go online to www.therockmt.com.
* The South Park Easter egg hunt for ages 0-14 begins at noon. A special needs area is available.
The hunt has been organized by the South Side Neighborhood Task Force. For information, call Mike at 254-2445.
* Billings Health and Rehabilitation Community, 2115 Central Ave., the hunt begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Call 656-6500 for information.
* Westpark Village at 2351 Solomon Ave. is holding an Easter egg hunt at 2 p.m. Saturday, and all are welcome. For information, call 652-4886 or go online to www.westparksenior.com.
* Custer Park in Hardin will be the site of an Easter egg hunt at 2 p.m. Sunday. Arrive at 1 p.m. to take a photo with the Easter Bunny.
* Sacajawea Park in Livingston is the site for an Easter egg hunt at 1 p.m. Sunday. For information, call 406-222-2061.


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An Elm Grove Middle School seventh-grader received a huge surprise in front of the entire school on Monday afternoon, a day before he begins a tough battle against liver cancer.
Odie Harris, 13, was diagnosed with liver cancer with lung metastasis last June and heads back into treatment on Tuesday. Before Odie and his family travel back to St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, the Bossier Sheriff's Department had a surprise to help fulfill one of Odie's biggest wishes: to become a U.S. Marine.
Undersheriff Doyle Dempsey of the Bossier Sheriff's Office told us that the Make-A-Wish Foundation contacted them about Odie's wish to become a U.S. Marine. "We felt like we had the capacity to do that with our Bossier Young Marine program."
The seventh-grader told us that he had no idea about this honor until Dempsey called him up in front of his classmates on Monday afternoon. "I guess I'm just one step closer to my dream," Odie said in response to receiving this honor.
From the hat to the shoes and the medals to the dog tags, Odie became an honorary U.S. Marine. "I've just wanted to serve my country," Odie told us of his wish. And he joked, "the Army and the Air Force just didn't seem like enough fun for me." Odie's mother, Lauri Harris, also added that Odie enjoys guns, which also led him to dream of being a U.S. Marine.
When Odie finishes treatment and becomes healthy, he can join the 13 weekends of basic training for the Young Marines. But for now, Odie and has family will head back to St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis on Tuesday. Lauri told us that they don't know whether it will be a short or long trip, "but he's going as a soldier this time." Dempsey echoed her statement saying, "he was fighting a big fight already, now, he's fighting it like a Marine."
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Pansy problem
Hey guys,so I finally got my front bed replanted so thank you guys for all your help with answering questions about gravel problems, soil amending, etc. I planted some pansies in that area and they have been there for about a month but there seem to be only a few blooms on the plants. Also many of the flowers that are present are droopy/floppy, meaning that the stems are not upright but more out to the side (kinda like they've been stepped on) so the flowers are flopped over and facing down. The foliage seems to be healthy and appear to be getting bigger but I don't see the flower output I was expecting.
As a matter of fact my mother and I bought six packs of pansies from the same place. She planted hers in pots about a week before I planted mine in the ground and hers have many flowers and are more upright and taller than mine are. What could I have done wrong? I prepared my bed with the amendments you guys suggested, mixed in some granular 10-10-10 fertilizer, and mulched with pine straw. The bed is in an area that gets a mix of part and full sun with the pansies planted in the sunniest area. I just fertilized 3 days ago with a water soluble all-purpose deal (24-8-16). I know they will need a nitrate nitrogen fertilizer when it gets colder here. Now thinking about it, I'm wondering if I should have used something with less nitrogen and more phosphate? I water about every 2-3 days. Where could I have gone wrong? What can I do to make it better?
Adding a lot of nitrogen strongly discourages flowering, in most plants, while encouraging vegetative growth. Also, fertilizing twice in one month sounds like possible overkill (pun only partly intended).
Also, keep a check on the moisture levels of your soil (not just on top, but down a few inches). If you are watering regularly, it's possible that the soil is too wet.
Thank you Brandon. I think you are right about too much love. I've been so worried about not doing enough I think I did too much. I've kill quiet a few plants by neglect and was determined not to let that happen this time and think I went for overkill. I haven't watered in about 8 days although it did rain one day, and you know what, the pansies are starting to look better. They are less floppy now and more upright.
I've been so tempted to fertilize again with a different fertilizer with less nitrogen but I'm gonna try to heed your words and wait for a month. What do you recommend that I use as a fertilizer to encourage more blooms,and does it matter if it is water soluble or granular?
thanks in advance.
Fertilizing needs to be done ONLY if the nutrients NEEDED by the plant are missing or present in INSUFFICIENT amounts. If the nutrients are present in sufficient amounts, fertilizing is, at best, useless and often harmful. A few different things need to be considered when adding fertilizer.
The type of plant is very important in considering fertilizing options. Most woody plant and perennials often do well with existing nutrient levels common in most good topsoil (without any additional nutrients added). Many fast growing plants and annuals do benefit from higher levels of nutrients. It's worth stressing that, although some plants are better off with nutrient levels higher than levels ideally suited for other plants, that doesn't meant that the more fertilizer you use, the better off your plants are.
Another thing to consider is the existing level of nutrients. A good way to gauge this is with a soil test, but decent guesses can sometimes be made by examining how plants are performing. Slow growth or other symptoms may indicate a need for a certain nutrient. One must also consider nutrients already added (i.e. slow-release fertilizers, compost, etc used previously).
The purpose of fertilizing will also determine which nutrients are needed. Nitrogen (the first number of fertilizer ratings) produces vegetative growth, phosphorous (the second number) produces flowers/fruit, and potassium (the third number) is responsible for various aspects of building strong and healthy plants. If you want to encourage flowering, reduction of nitrogen (that first number) is probably your best bet (unless existing nitrogen levels are unusually low).
There are various types of fertilizer and it's hard to give universal guidelines based solely on physical form (granular, etc), so check the bag or container. Frequently, slow-released/time-released fertilizers tend to be granular/pelletized. The water soluble stuff (like Miracle-Gro) are usually quick-release to give fast results but don't last as long.
Such a thorough answer, thanks! I'm just gonna back off of the TLC and let them do their thing. I think I was just fertilizing because I've read that you should do so every month. I honestly believe the plants are in a well prepared bed with plenty of nutrients. I added lots of soil conditioner, top soil, and manure. Not to mention the 10-10-10 when I planted. I'm gonna back off and let them be for a while. Like I said they appear to be doing better already since I've left them alone. I'll keep all you said in mind to determine when and if I need to do more.
One more thought. The root system hasn't had the time to develop much beyond the original size in the 6 packs. My violas were drooping and I realized the nursery potting mix was dry dry dry. I've been watering each plant, not a lot, but just at the crown/into existing roots. Agree that you should cut back on the fertilization, especially the nitrogen.
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