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Given how much I enjoyed the first season of Sherlock, I've been eagerly anticipating this second season. When I heard that the episodes were clipped when they aired on PBS, I skipped watching them and went straight to DVD, which allowed me to wallow in all of them at once.
I love this show, even more than Doctor Who. (They share a producer in Steven Moffat, who co-created Sherlock with Mark Gatiss.) It's a wonderful modernization of the characters and mysteries in clever and imaginative ways. I'm always impressed when I watch, both for the plots and deductions and also for the filming. Some of the scene transitions, as when Sherlock is explaining a hiker's death to Irene Adler, and they're transported into the scene as though envisioning themselves there, are technically breath-taking.
I also love the use of technology, cell phones and laptops and blogs and all, and what my husband calls Sherlock's "deducto-vision", where they slow things down and use on-screen text to indicate how he draws his conclusions. The stories feel completely current and completely faithful to the character. They also vary in tone and approach enough to show the versatility of the premise.
Lara Pulver as Irene Adler in Sherlock
The three episodes of this season tackle the most famous Sherlock Holmes stories. "A Scandal in Belgravia" introduces Irene Adler, The Woman, in a story with more sex than you usually associate with Holmes. It's also a cross-plotted conspiracy caper that could easily have been a feature film. (Only they did that, and it wasn't nearly as intelligent or entertaining as this one.) There's also a commentary with Steven Moffat (who wrote the episode), Mark Gatiss (who also plays brother Mycroft), producer Sue Vertue, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), and Lara Pulver (Irene). Remember, "brainy is the new sexy", although showing such attractive leads naked helps, too.
Watson (Martin Freeman) and Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) on the moors in "The Hounds of Baskerville"
"The Hounds of Baskerville" updates the monster dog tale while still being a horror story, although some of the fear this time comes from wondering just what those secret military experiments are about. You may recognize guest star Russell Tovey from the BBC Being Human; he plays the haunted young man who's not sure what he's seen. He also participates in the commentary track, with Moffat, Gatiss (who wrote this episode), and Vertue.
Andrew Scott as Jim Moriarty in Sherlock
"The Reichenbach Fall" again pits Holmes against Moriarty (Andrew Scott), in an episode about what's important to Sherlock, those around him and others' respect for his mind. I was left astounded by the cliffhanger, ready for a third season already — only I need to remember how quickly season one's cliffhanger was wrapped up, and in such a low-key way, and not get my hopes up too much. It's a very mean place in which to leave us, but a very historically accurate one, as Arthur Conan Doyle did the same thing to his readers.
The set also includes a nineteen-minute featurette, "Sherlock Uncovered", which includes the actors and writers talking about the episodes and filming this season, especially in relation to what's changed from the previous (such as a bit more action) and the amazing special effects.
I was of the same mind when I heard about the cuts that were made in the PBS presentations. Luckily for us, the DVD was available that very Tuesday after airing "The Reichenbach Fall"!
I am very eager to hear the explanations within Series 3 that have to do with Moriarty…although not so much the very final scenes of "Reichenbach" like most others are discussing. I think there's been some foreshadowing and hinting between "Belgravia" and "Hounds" that I really hope are covered in the next series.
I love it, too. What a fantastic update of the classic characters that doesn't dumb it down for viewers. And very faithful to the Sherlock character. Brash, rude, sometimes charming, and completely oblivious to others feelings. Cumberbatch really deserves much credit. Masterpiece Theater is really starting to win me over. I'm a fan of Downton Abbey, too.
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You tend to recognize incredible beauty in the simplest forms of life, while trying to maintain harmony and fairness in all relations. You are also bold, zealous and enterprising. Your partner tends to be even-tempered, calm and easygoing. They may be popular among friends, but at the same time they may have an unemotional approach to life that creates sorrow in personal relationships, especially with you.
Each of you has many qualities and resources that are both complimentary and supplementary. You also both have a desire to help each other grow in life. You may need to identify and be aware of the areas in which each of you lack.
Karmic Pull: [Excellent] There will be perfect accord in temperaments between both of you. You will be loyal and derive immense happiness from each other.
Mutual Gunas: [Good] You both realize and acknowledge the strengths of one another, and also know how to deal with each other's weaknesses. A decent level of understanding persists between both of you.
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Now, 50 years after its debut, High Button Shoes finally has its Florida premiere at Boca Raton's Royal Palm Dinner Theatre in a production reminiscent of a museum display: All the musical's charms are lovingly exhibited, but without any captivating performances to reanimate it, lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne's collaboration never springs back to life.
Not that there isn't plenty of razzle-dazzle in this tale of snake oil salesman Mr. Floy (Dan Kelley), who returns to his hometown of New Brunswick, New Jersey, to fleece the locals. In one scam, he and his partner Mr. Pontdue (Don McArt) convince Henry (Jerry Gulledge) and his wife Sara (Jan McArt) that Floy's "good friend" Henry Ford is giving the couple a free car, singing "There's Nothing Like a Model T" as they roll a mock antique car onto the tiny theater-in-the-round stage. Later Floy tries to abscond with the money he has made by tricking townspeople into buying worthless swampland. He sweet-talks Sara's sister Fran (Chrissi Guastela-Ardito) into running away to Atlantic City with him -- and taking along the money she has been given for safekeeping -- by serenading her with the wonders of the world she'll see, sung to the accompaniment of chorus girls parading around under outrageous Ziegfeld Girl headdresses adorned with European landmarks.
And those numbers are just the setups for the musical's legendary "Bathing Beauty Ballet," which won a Tony Award for original choreographer Jerome Robbins and was restaged in Broadway's 1989 tribute Jerome Robbins' Broadway. More than Robbins's genius, however, Royal Palm choreographer Pam Atha needs Thomas Edison's inventiveness to cram the frenzied silent film salute into the theater's small space; she succeeds. Atha's peppy staging invests High Button Shoes with one of its few kicky moments: Keystone Kops pour from the aisles to chase Floy in and out of cabanas while Sara, Fran, and Henry innocently share the boardwalk with giggling sunbathers in bonnets and knee-length swimsuits.
Robbins's seaside romp is only one example of how High Button Shoes was tailored to the talents of its original cast. Back then, director George Abbott went into rehearsals with only eighteen pages of a script; through improvisation, he built the book around the fast-talking charisma of Phil Silvers (Floy), the alluring sweetness of Nanette Fabray (Sara), and the vivaciousness of Helen Gallagher (Fran). Royal Palm's dismal casting fails to fill those impressive shoes with actors who could make this creaky story gallop.
As Sara, Royal Palm owner/producer Jan McArt is at least three decades older than her "sister," and although she does a dignified turn as the grand lady of New Brunswick, McArt strains credulity as someone who would catch thirtysomething Floyd's roving eye. This disheartening flaw, coupled with Gulledge's wooden performance as her husband Henry, undercuts the subplot of his jealousy, thereby robbing the musical's best-known songs ("I Still Get Jealous" and "Papa Won't You Dance with Me") of their poignancy.
Guastela-Ardito as Fran and Jon Popiel as her football player boyfriend Oggie get a crack at two ballads of their own written by Cahn/Styne (the team that later penned the movie song "Three Coins in the Fountain"). Popiel's voice easily delivers the deep, stirring notes of the love songs, although his eye-popping mugging weakens his comedy numbers. Conversely, Guastela-Ardito struggles with the romantic duets but shines as she "teaches" Oggie the tango, ending up in a handstand with her legs around his waist.
Guastela-Ardito, Popiel, Gulledge, and McArt could perhaps disguise their flimsy performances if Kelley's Floy were able to draw the spotlight away from them. Without radiating a subatomic particle of magnetism, Kelley bungles the con man's starmaking scenes with his lethargic fast pitch and too-evident disdain, guaranteed to tip off any mark. With a little halftime finagling intended to thwart the certain victory of Oggie's football team, Floy struts his stuff singing "Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers" -- that is, not until Kelley's transparency killed the number.
Yet even without spellbinding performances, this High Button Shoes with its sumptuous trappings still puts the show on its feet for curious musical theater fans. Chuck Batchelor's rainbow-color gowns and huckster plaids are a delight, right down to the plumed hats of the ladies bird-watchers' society. With his Atlantic City locales, tree-stump swamp, and the polished wood in Sara's dining room, scenic designer Michael Miles admirably meets the challenges of the postage stamp-size stage, while director Bob Bogdanoff handles the scene shifts with a greased fluidity painfully missing from his dramatic pacing.


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Canada began their gold medal defence with a tightly fought 3-1 victory over Norway in Group B.
Shea Weber and Jamie Benn put the defending champions two-up heading into the third period, but the Norwegians struck back within 22 seconds of the last session through Patrick Thoresen (powerplay).
Drew Doughty restored the two-score cushion one minute and 25 seconds later, and despite a late surge by the Norwegians, Canada held on for an opening round victory.
"We knew exactly what to expect. We knew they're a tough team, they play physical, they weren't intimidated, they didn't back down. It was a great game from both teams," Doughty said.
Canadian coach Mike Babcock said: "In the first period we didn't execute as good as we'd like to.
"We tried hard. Whether it was nerves, or just that Norway played so hard... if you look at the whole game, they competed like crazy, they made it hard on us."
Hosts Russia suffered a scare in their opening game as they took their Group A match 5-2 against Olympic debutants Slovenia.
Alexander Ovechkin and Yevgeni Malkin scored early for the Russians in the first period but Slovenia fought back at the start of the second session, claiming their first Olympic goal through Ziga Jeglic.
Ilya Kovalchuk took advantage of a Russian powerplay at the end of the second period to add a third for the hosts but they were pegged back again by Jeglic 64 seconds later.
Valeri Nichushkin and Anton Belov added scores for Russia in the final period to put the game beyond Slovenia.
Ovechkin said: "I'm sure everybody was a little bit nervous. It was a crazy crowd and unbelievable atmosphere out there. When you play at home it always makes you a little bit tight.
"The first game is always hard but we played against a good team, a hard-working team, and it was a good lesson for us."
Colorado Avalanche forward Paul Stastny scored twice as USA opened their Group A campaign with a 7-1 win over Slovakia.
Stastny, the son of Slovak legend and Hockey Hall of Famer Peter, helped ensure a routine start for the Americans, who are bidding for their first Olympic gold in 34 years since the "Miracle on Ice" in Lake Placid.
After Tomas Tatar had cancelled out John Carlson's first-period tally, the USA hit six unanswered second-period markers through Ryan Kesler, Stastny (2), David Backes, Phil Kessel and Dustin Brown, with the fifth goal seeing the end of Slovakia netminder Jaroslav Halak.
Carlson said: "That was a pretty cool way to start the Olympics. That first goal made us all feel more relaxed. We felt better as the game went on.
"During the first period we were a little nervous and it took us a while to get focused on what we needed to do."
Finland, bronze medalists four years ago, also overcame an early fright to run out 8-4 winners over Austria in Group B.
Michael Grabner, who helped himself to a hat-trick, and Thomas Hundertpfund twice put Austria ahead in the first period but Mikael Granlund and Jarkko Immonen scored twice as the Finns responded with 14 players among the points.
Finland captain Teemu Selanne, playing in his sixth Winter Games, sustained an upper-body injury in the first period but the 43-year-old Anaheim Ducks forward should be back against Norway tomorrow.
In the women's section, Russia topped Group B with a 3-1 win over Sweden in the Shayba Arena.
Goals from Anna Shukina and Alyona Khomich gave the hosts a two-goal lead before Pernilla Winberg pulled one back for Sweden at the end of the second period.
Yekaterina Smolentseva wrapped up the points for Russia, with just one minute and 53 seconds left.
Shukina said: "The result gave us a psychological lift because we know Sweden is a team capable of winning any medal. That makes it a big achievement for us."
The hosts will now face off against Switzerland in the quarter-finals, while Sweden will play neighbours Finland.
Goaltender Viona Harrer registered a 30-shot shut-out to lead Germany to a 4-0 win over Japan in their final Group B clash.
Franzisca Busch scored twice, including an empty-net marker with 32 seconds left, while Manuela Anwander (powerplay) and Kerstin Spielberger were also on target as Germany claimed their first win of the Games.


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Last night, as I was watching a mid-night TV show "Titanic" my famous movie ("Titanic" lived up to its name becoming sort of the Titanic of the box office making itself the highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of over $1.8 billion, surpassed this year in 2010. Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it won eleven, including Best Picture) for the 3rd time after so many years. My darling was sitting beside me.
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Dear all,
I have a dream to share. My sister in law is coming home from USA and visiting Malaysia for few days and she is allergic to cat. To avoid any unpleasant events to happen, very reluctantly, my husband and I have to send my beloved "Morning shine" for boarding at a local animal clinic. This cat is very special and meant a lot to me. I do miss him a lot.
This afternoon I was taking a nap with my love one. In the dream, I was looking for my "Shining". I looked every way but just could not spot his present, I kept looking at those familiar places. but l could not find my "Shining". Out of sudden, I saw my hands was hold a parcel wrap with gift paper. Without open up the present, I felt led to cycle and bring it to a special home which is 10-15 minutes cycling time. Even thought the present is big ( normally I will keep it ) but this time, I felt I should give it away.
As I reach that home, a parents a little boy came and welcome me, they all gave a kind of smile which I have never felt before. The house is almost empty, no elegant furniture, only one table with some flowers on top. But the house is so bright, shining and full with glory. Their smile and joy on their face is something I could never forget.... The family insisted that I shall stay back and have dinner with them. I seen so much sincere and love from them, and I agreed. There was hardly anything dishes served on the table. As I put my present in the middle of the table. Right before we start our meal, the father open up the present......
I saw the man taking out 4 beautiful, sparkling spoons and forks out of the box, I suddenly realize that this family was so poor that they do not have much but their warmness and loving hearts can melt a snow mountain. When the moment, I see how God used me to meet their needs, I started to cry non stop. I cried and keep thanking God for His goodness. My husband try to wake me up from the dream because he hear me crying in the dream. Poor darling, get scolded for waking me up because I reply him that , I am not having any bad dream I just got touch and want to spend more time to thank the great and mighty GOD.
May the Lord bless you with the dream and you have the gift of interpreting , please feel free to share and let me know.
Thank you and God bless and be with you always,
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Salut, mes cousins et cousines! ---My name is Brenda Hébert. I have been working on my family tree for the last six years (most women get the "nesting" urge when they're pregnant -- I got the urge to dig up my family roots). The following are some of the surnames on the charts I have uploaded. ---"Ancestors of Edward Joseph Hebert" is an Ahnentafel Chart of my paternal grandfather's ancestors. These are some of the surnames in the report: BARABÉ, BARLET, BISSON, BISSONNET, BOUDREAU, BOURASSA, CARPENTIER, DOCKSTADER, DUBORD, ÉTHIER, FORTIER, GAMACHE, GAREAU, GÉLINAS, GERVAIS, HÉBERT, HÉDOUIN, LANDRY, LaVOIE, MAILLOUX, MÉTRAS, PERRAULT, STAHRING, SURPRENANT, TESSIER, WOLFF. ---"Ancestors of Lillian Gertrude Merkle" is an Ahnentafel Chart of my paternal grandmother's ancestors. These are some of the surnames in the report: BÄHR, BRAUN, DONOVAN, ENGEL, ERHARD, GÄNSHIRT, HAGERTY, HERZOG, KELLY, KIESELE, KILLIUS, MERKLE, RIEß, SCHMIDT, SCHLATTERER, SCHNEBEL, TASCHER, VETTER, WALLACE, WEGSTEIN. ---"Ancestors of Sharon Elizabeth Beatty" is an Ahnentafel Chart of my mother's ancestors. These are some of the surnames in the report: BEATTY, BLEAKNEY, BRUNER, CALDWELL, COX, DART, DAWSON, GAMMON, HARTMAN, HILL, HOFFMAN, HOSFORD, JOHNSON, KLINGENSMITH, LOOMIS, MORRIS, MOTT, NULPH, OLMSTEAD, PLATT, STITT, WALTENBAUGH, WATSON, ZELLE. ---"Ancestors of Robert Stephen Smith" is an Ahnentafel Chart of my son's paternal ancestors. These are some of the surnames in the report: BROTHERS, BRYAN, CHENNAULT, DEASON, DIAMOND, EDMONDSON, FOSTER, GILBERT, GUICE, HOUSTON, KEYES, LEE, NELSON, ROBERTS, SANDERS, SMITH, THOMASON, THOMPSON, WESTBROOK. ---Last updated 24 Oct 2000 |
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The event will take place at a number of local businesses, each one giving away a unique comic book per family that visits them, as well as filling several larger venues in Rochester. Don't worry, your pals at Jetpack Comics will have dozens of Free Comic Books to choose from as well!
Of course, what makes Free Comic Book Day in Rochester a memorable event is the number of local and small press creators that come to the event. The Knights of Columbus Hall will feature dozens of comic book artists and creators, comic book and toy vendors, and food! Special local guests include The Fatsquad, our lovely and talented Rich Woodall, The Barrington Middle School Comic Book Club, Severed Head Comics Group and more!
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11 x 17 Original Turtle Convention Poster.
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I am relatively inexperienced with gardening and especially with roses. The thorns, maintenance and sparse looking plants had put me off. However I still love them and want to finally bite the bullet and try them in my garden.
My wish list is probably unfairly long but I really want to zoom in on good plants for my needs. I am in Boise Idaho, which is a relatively good rose growing area with minimal blackspot and japanese beetles etc. The big thing is wide daily temperature swings and heat/drought tolerance. Within a hours drive we have 7b-6a conditions but my exact area looks to be a 7a. Highs are usually around 105 F during the summer.
My wish list:
1. Extremely Fragrant - can smell from 30' away in the evening ideally. I want for it to compliment the summer evening BBQ. Would rather not have to stick my nose in it to enjoy it.
2. Prolific blooms/reblooms. Ideally I want to have a lot of something going on all the time for blooms and scent. If it has enough reblooms I can do without long lasting individual flowers. I don't really plan on using them as cut roses but consider it a perk.
3. Decent petal count and size.
4. Thick/bushy plant. When its not in bloom I don't want to think it is a hideous eyesore. Would prefer they are not armed to the hilt with thorns.
5. Hardy/low maintenance. My area can be a little harsh for conditions. I don't mind doing yearly pruning and spraying a few times on an as-needed basis, but I don't want to be chained to my garden. Maybe an hour or 2 a month of fussing outside of normal watering.
I have made a short list of roses on my buy list, but since I don't have tons of space and plan to keep these things forever I would rather jump straight to satisfaction in 3 years of growing.
1. Red - Mr. Lincoln/Crysler Imperial
2. White - Pope John Paul II
3. Bicolor - Double Delight
4. Yellow - Honey Bouquet/Julia Childs
5. Bicolor - Elle/Sheila's Perfume
I really only have room for 5-7 plants total. I would like a more pastel pink flower too but haven't found one yet in my research.
Basically I am looking to confirm that these plants will fit my bill collectively (something going on all the time) and individually (the individual plant reblooms and looks attractive as a bush etc).
I don't mind losing a little of one thing to gain a great deal in another so if you have a substitute or a preference between the 2 in my catagories let me know.
I am really big on reblooms but am going for roses for the fragrance versus other blooming plants. Have encore azaleas, bloomerang lilac, everlasting hydrangea, lil-kim rose of sharon and satin azure rose of sharon back there now.
I, too, am a bit of a fragrance snob, so I understand your motivation. I think you should expand on the petal-count criterium, however, if you want roses whose fragrance can be smelled from a distance.
Generally, the roses whose fragrance wafts (and you should do a search for "waft fragrance rose" on here to find a lot of suggestions) do so because their fragrance comes from their stamens, not their petals. So the more stamens, the more fragrance can be emitted by them. And since double flowers result from stamens mutating into petals, the best wafters tend to have fewer petals. Look into roses related to R. moschata and R. multiflora -- Noisettes, a select few Polyanthas, and Hybrid Musks. And consider R. moschata itself as well. There are, of course, exceptions -- quite a few fully-double flowers are reported to "waft" in some of the threads linked below.
Another thing to consider is fragrant foliage. The benefit of roses with this feature is that they don't need to be blooming for them to perfume the yard. Two species that come to mind are R. rubiginosa (formerly known as R. eglanteria) and its hybrids -- the Eglantines -- as well as R. primula, which is also known as The Incense Rose.
Finally, keep in mind that wafting fragrance is most strong when the weather is warm and somewhat humid. If you live along the East coast, you're all set.
Here is a link that might be useful: Search for
Julia Child will fit all your requirements.Mine is very healthy and hardy and blooms a ton. She has a nice rounded bushy growth habit to about 3 x 3 feet.
Those HTs on your list aren't going to give you nice bushy palnts. They'll be more tall and lanky. PJPII is shorter but he isn't very vigorous and has a slow repeat. A little winter tender for me too. Elle is lovely but not particularly healthy. Double Delight is gorgeous, of course, but another spot magnet.
Thanks for the lead. I am definitely interested in having a least a few that are top notch wafters in my collection.
Will have some more research to do but I did find an early front runner in the Annie Laurie McDowell, which is described as a reblooming climber but still has the higher petal count and is the lighter pink I felt I was missing.
A couple that were on my original list were mentioned as having a decent waft effect from a compiled list older thread- Mr. Lincoln, Double Delight, Scentimental, Sombreuil, Fragrant Cloud, Isaac Pereire.
I may have to reprioritize what I am looking for when I make my final selections. I find that as soon as I start to zero in on what I want I discover something else I want to factor in which messes it all up! :)
Welcome to the Forum, Nerve. I'm from Boise, too, out in the foothills. I agree with seil that Julia Child could really be the answer to the "wants" on your list. She can take the awful heat and bloom pretty much continually all season. Her weakest point would be a very mild fragrance, but in our extreme dry heat, I don't think any rose is going to waft 30 feet. The fragrance oils have a difficult time when it's so dry. I find Julia to be quite low maintenance, too.
I'm no expert on traditional hybrid teas, but I think some of the other roses on your list might not have that thick, bushy, look you want. Let me know if you need any suggestions for roses that do well in this area.
You know we are really lucky in SW Idaho not to have any fungal disease problems, especially the scourge of roses, blackspot, and I don't find insect trouble to be much of a problem, either--maybe a few thrips on certain, selected roses (not Julia) and leaf cutter bees that can really notch leaves (but they're good guys, of course). So, I don't think you should have to do much of any spraying at all. But you will have to irrigate constantly, of course, and the best way is with a drip system. Best of luck! Diane
Here is a pic of Julia.
I highly recommend Heritage, one of David Austin's earlier English roses. It fits all your requirements. It almost always has blooms, the scent is beautiful and you can smell Heritage throughout our backyard. It has beautiful pale pink blooms which look beautiful on the bush (they don't hold up well in a vase but you say you aren't looking for that). The bush is an attractive, rounded shrub whose foliage is more disease resistant than most all my other roses.
Good luck! Shelley
Here is a link that might be useful: Heritage on HelpMeFind
Hi Just_one_Nerve_Left: I saw Julia Child at the rose park and didn't get it for: licorice scent, my kid thinks it smells like cough medicine, and blooms fade to white.
I got "Honey Bouquet" instead, it's a round-compact-bush, looks good even without blooms. (Julia Child is 3 times wider, more angular bush.). Honey Bouquet doesn't fade to white like Julia Child, and Honey Bouquet smells like Yummy honey, or wonderful musk when it's hot.
For white that perfumes your entire garden, Marie Pavie is a round-compact globe, very pretty even when not in bloom.
For red ... I have so many fragrant reds (Firefighter, Crimson Glory, Mirandy, Gruss an Teplitz) ... but none can match the wafting scent of a miniflora "Norwich Sweetheart", it's 2 ' x 2' in your warm zone, round & compact, and perfumed my entire patio. Firefighter would be second-place in perfuming my patio ... Firefighter is many times stronger than Mr. Lincoln and Chrysler Imperial that I sniffed at the rose park.
See picture of Marie Pavie below. See link below on Firefighter for the most fragrant long-stem blooms for the vase.
Here is a link that might be useful: Firefighter Red Hybrid Tea
Thanks for the amazing ideas thus far everyone! The recommendations are right on target. Now I just have to figure out how I want to include it.
I will probably keep a couple of the leggy ones just for the other desireables from them and try to prune them and layer them behind plants that are more attractive. But the wafting recommendations are so high on the want list I am sure to put in a few.
Any recommendation on how to find out scent strength in our arid clay alkaline soils since I know that will be a major contributor to the final product for me.
I like that many of these roses are continual bloomers, I was a little worried that the "flush" nature of roses would leave me bare for a month at a time. How important is deadheading for the varieties we've been discussing?
I actually grew up on the foothills of NW Boise by Hill Road and 36th. I am now SW Boise by Amity/Maple Grove. The irrigation water is a life send. So much more affordable to keep the property green.
Thanks again for the help!
Hi again,
As I mentioned before, I don't think any rose will do a whole lot of wafting of fragrance in our hot dry air during the summer, but spring and autumn might be better for this. If you want pastel pink, a rose called Frederic Mistral has a wonderful scent, blooms pretty much continuously for me, and doesn't have the traditional hybrid tea shape, but is more shrub-like. It does get big. Here's a pic in June. The cream colored rose is a David Austin rose called Jude the Obscure. Diane
Thank you, Susan. I think it's kind of cute how one Jude seems to be sneaking up on the two roses that are cuddling--something is going on there. I have to admit that blooms are looking a bit worse for the wear around here after nearly two months of extremely hot, dry weather. I was hoping for a bit of a cool down, but the prediction is 100 for Thursday, plus you can't can't believe all the smoke from the huge forest fires. I can't see past the first rank of hills out here where I live. Diane
Louise Odier seems to waft a good deal for me, she's dark pink with many petals and a great fragrance (and this is just my 1 year old band - only 1.5 feet so far).
Diane - is that another jude plant you have next to frederick? Or is that the same jude next to brother cadfael? I don't remember ever seeing frederick next to jude in the pictures of jude and brother.. it looks beautiful though!
Jude is also another rose that smells great, wafts somewhat with me, but like I said Louise has been the best with that so far.
Hi Drew,
That's the same Jude which has Brother Cadfael on one side of him and Fred on the other. I didn't show that in my pics last year because Fred, who has a mind of his own, bloomed later than Jude and Brother. This year, they were more coordinated, but BC was a disaster of a spring flush because his blooms balled and dried up due to the heat. I haven't had that happen before, but the heat started sooner this year. Because of the dry air her, scent just doesn't travel like in more humid areas (for me, anyway). When blooms are brought into the house in a bouquet, they do some wafting then. Here's another pic of Jude. Diane
Seil, in this blasted dry climate it doesn't matter how many blooms any rose has put forth in this garden, there doesn't seem to be any wafting. In the house it is different as I said. I am jealous. My Julias just finished a big bloom in spite of the heat and have wound down to build up for the next bloom. I just looove that rose. Diane
Thank you all so much so far with your suggestions. The photos are lovely and help put in a real gardeners experience with them.
Seems I am starting my search too late in the season to be able to reliably order my ever expanding list of roses for this year. Each one maybe has 1 or 2.
So many plants to choose from, so I am hoping I can make some good choices.
I think my for sure list includes Double Delight (just nothing I can find that compares), Marie Pavie and Annie Laurie McDowell (basically thornless and have most of the other traits I was looking for based on HMF and general internet reviews on them).
Was thinking of substituting Elle for Sheila's Perfume but I am not convinced yet. Anything else in the pink/peach/orange bicolors that are ultra fragrant and nice?
Over the Moon (discussed here on another thread) is not ultra fragrant to my nice but it is gorgeous and a bloom machine. Check out Lady of the Mist. She is gorgeous too and fragrant (to me).
Ultra fragrant just seems to be rare (to my nose).
Jude is ultra fragrant for me but I didn't find Julia to be so.
And Diane your roses are just so gorgeous.


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Reading ?the New York Times update on the progress of the $100 million Mark ?Facebook? Zuckerberg donation to the Newark public schools this morning, I couldn't help but think of the time our superintendent convened a meeting of parents to announce a $20,000 grant for a ?Parent University? project. ?Wow!? It might as well have been $100 million. ?There were quite a few ooohs and awwws around the table.? And, of course, many congratulations to our leader for bringing home some bacon.? But the question was ? as it is for Gregory Taylor, the president and chief executive of the Zuckerberg Foundation for Newark's Future ? How do we spend the money? ?(Note to Jay Greene:? Close your eyes. This is not pretty.)
I can't recall all the suggestions for our 20k Parent University grant money, but I do remember raising my own Milton Friedman hand and suggesting that we give the bucks to parents, in $100 and $500 scholarship grants.? They could use the money, I suggested, to buy books or computers or even hiring tutors and babysitters.? I did some quick math and figured that the $20,000, handed out this way, could help dozens of parents.
?Can't do that,? said the super.? ?The grant won't allow us to just hand out money.?
What the grant did allow ? and this is where the money finally went ? was to pay for a community ?play day? on the football field. Games, brochures, games, and brochures...
It's hard to tell whether Joe Nocera's op-ed essay in the New York Times last week, ?Teaching With The Enemy,? is wonderfully nuanced or just silly.? That's surely what some education observers might wonder about the notion that Randi Weingarten, former head of New York City's teacher union and current head of the American Federation of Teachers, should be chancellor of New York City schools.*? In fact, Nocera notes that he himself ?nearly fell out of my chair? when Steven Brill told him that Weingarten, who is ?the enemy? of Brill's new book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, threw him a book party.
This, of course, is vintage Weingarten, described by Nocera as ?whip-smart? and ?politically savvy.?? But the larger question is what happened to Brill, founder of American Lawyer and Court TV and a formidable presence in the New York media scene, on the way to the education repair shop?
Himself whip-smart and politically savvy, Brill made instant news when he took on the city's teachers union in a 2009 New Yorker story about the city's notorious ?rubber rooms,? where bad teachers went to soak up full salaries while doing nothing.? In that story Brill described Weingarten as such a ferocious defender of teachers that she ?would protect a dead body in the classroom.? ?That was meant to suggest that teacher unions weren't so good for our kids.
And indeed, in the ensuing book's first 420 pages, as Nocera...
It's great to have Saturday morning education stories to mull, but the New York Times may be?pushing the envelope with this line-up.
1.? To the Barricades.? Leave it to Arizona to shut down an ethnic-studies program for Mexican Americans. Pretty politically incorrect until you read (front page) ?that on the walls of the program's Tucson public school classroom hang a poster of Che Guevara and a protest sign reading ?United Together in La Lucha!,? that one of the teachers calls Ben Franklin (yes the guy with the glasses) a ?racist, and the kids are reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Occupied America. But can they read? Toward the end of the story we learn that ?Tucson's test scores are among the lowest in the state,? although the reporter gives no numbers. And shame on the Times for allowing this lame sentence to follow that inadequate one: ?Officials here say those enrolled in the program do better on state tests than those of the same ethnicity who are not enrolled.? As we say in New York, Oy!
2.? Dillon is Back.? It's nice to see that Sam Dillon survived his kerfuffle with Jay Green (see here).? And this profile of William H. Fitzhugh, ?the cantankerous publisher of a journal that showcases high school research papers,? should be safe enough?though it is depressing. As Fitzhugh tells Dillon, ?Most kids don't know how to write, don't know any history, and that's a disgrace ? Writing...
The New York Times editorial page has been a fairly consistent supporter of education reform over the last ten years, including a courageous and early backing of No Child Left Behind.? But it seems to reveal a blind spot about money in its criticism of Andrew Cuomo's proposal to cap New York State property taxes, calling the new governor's suggestion ?a ploy? and ?a charade.?
In fact, the State's GOP-controlled senate, after just an hour of deliberation, passed the cap legislation yesterday by a wide margin, 45 to 17.? (Thirteen Democrats voted with the majority.) ?Cuomo releases his state budget today, which everyone suspects will slash state aid to education, according to some politicos, by up to five percent.
A pro-cap vote by the state's Assembly, still controlled by Democrats, is not a slam dunk, but why does the Times call the tax cap a ploy?? As I read the editorial, it doesn't like the fact that?the legislation requires a 60 percent majority by local voters to increase the local tax by more than 2 percent. ?That would give people who oppose school spending more voting power than people who support it.? reasons the Times, which goes on to complain that the bill ?would also do away with the traditional school budget vote and require districts to simply ask voters to support a tax increase.?
The Times conveniently forgets that New York school?budget votes are already a charade.? Currently, even if local voters...
In the hell of good intentions, the anti-bullying campaign has got to be on one of the lower rings. (The self-esteem movement is?pretty far down.)?
Anyone who has had any experience with the post-Columbine Code of Conduct panic will understand.? Such Codes are dense, intricate documents that attempt to foresee ? and ban! ? every conceivable social indiscretion. Most of the kids who get caught up in this web ? and get suspended from school or sent to In-school Suspension rooms?? are the hapless ones who most need to get educated.? It is fairly well known that history's harshest dictators rule not with an iron fist, but with razored talons paging through volumes of laws banning just about everything, offering such rulers?complete authority under the rubric of the ?rule of law.??It's not much different in school districts, especially those?with sizeable minority student populations,? few minority teachers or administrators, and poor academic standards. Black kids take it on the shins when the Code is long and dense and intricate. The word ?targeted? is no joke. However well-intentioned?the school policies, most of them are impossible to enforce in any equitable or fair manner -- which means that they are enforced in the breach.
Now comes research to document the social status implications of our anti-bullying binge -- and will, hopefully, sound the alarm about our latest witch hunt.? First reported in Education Week last week, the new studies are also discussed in this morning's New York Times by...
Yesterday, at the end of a bang-up Education Writers Association conference on improving teaching quality, at the Carnegie Corporation?in New York City, I was approached by a newspaper education editor who asked whether I thought charter school test results were real.? ?Are they cheating?? she asked, more pointedly.
The question followed what had been a bruising roundtable discussion between journalists and educators about the value of testing ? good or bad?? High-stakes or benchmarking?? Standards-driven or curriculum-driven?? And the newspaper editor's question was whether the pressure to perform isn't causing some testing impotence among our educators.? Another reporter, from another state, at this quiet corner conclave, admitted that he had been wondering the same thing.? ?Who scores these tests?? he wondered.?
The testing/cheating question reminds me of the military-industrial complex conundrum (or the public employees union contradiction):? do we have a phalanx of foxes guarding?our hen houses?? To paraphrase President Dwight Eisenhower, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the educational testing complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Though the cheating scandal du jour is in Atlanta (not to be confused with the education leadership forum Checker is moderating there on Monday), the range and depth of the problem, especially given the improbability of a conspiracy, is troubling.? Lacking a conspiracy, we are left with an explanation of ?moral and ethical breakdown of epidemic proportions.? And the...
The headline in the Daily News was a shocker: ?New York State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl? Tisch blasts Mayor Bloomberg's school reforms: Calls some schools `warehouses' for poor-performing students.?
It's too early to know whether Tisch's visit to Automotive High School in Brooklyn, where, says the News report, ?just 1 % of students graduated ready for college last year,? will lead to anything.
But the Times gave the story a slightly different twist: ?Regents Chief Says No to a Run for Mayor.?? Interesting.
Times reporter Fernanda Santos says that ?the buzz? about the outspoken (and rich) chancellor running for NYC mayor had been around for weeks.? The last time Tisch was asked about rumors of? an education shakeup in the Empire State, last summer, on an Albany radio show, she dropped the bomb that David Steiner was resigning as commissioner of education. (See my Ed Next story from this summer.) ?Not this time.? Tisch ?categorically denied? the rumors, says the Times.
More interesting, perhaps, is the story of Tisch's visit to Automotive High, during which she was accompanied by the state's new commissioner of education, John King. The visit actually took place a couple of weeks ago. ?And Tisch remarked:
Where do you think these kids are going? They have no education and they aren't getting one?? I'm not saying they're going to be college- and career-ready; I'm not a fool. So put a G.E.D. program in there; teach them skills.
Feeling worried for me after reading my post suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg hand out his $100 million to Newark parents, a friend alerted me to a study about a similarly ?crazy idea? ? by none other than University of Chicago economist John List.? (Full disclosure: I have a masters in history from UC and my son is now a student there.)
According to last February's Bloomberg news report on List's idea, it's ?one of the largest field experiments ever conducted in economics.?? List ?? with the help of fellow economists Roland Fryer of Harvard and Steven Levitt, also of the UC -- is following more than 600 students in several Chicago schools to ?find out whether investing in teachers or, alternatively, in parents, leads to more gains in kids' educational performance.? (See also here.) The experiment includes a ?parenting academy? and scholarships worth up to $7,000 a year.? (A control group of 300 kids receive nothing.) ?Local families with kids 3 to 5 years old were encouraged to enter a lottery and were randomly sorted into three groups.
Whether the List research will help in Newark, I'm not sure, but according to the Bloomberg report, ?List says that his experiments will give policy makers, executives and investors much greater certainty about why students, donors and shoppers make the decisions they do? and ?may show that the U.S. doesn't spend enough on helping parents.?
?We have too many eggs in the kid...
According to Sharon Otterman, writing in today's New York Times, the New York State education department has been documenting cheating allegations in the state's schools for almost a decade ? and no one seems to have known about it, until now. Writes Otterman,
The previously undisclosed database containing the allegations, a 62-page printout of which was obtained by The New York Times in October, provides a window onto the ways that high-stakes testing is roiling school communities, with principals accusing teachers, teachers accusing principals, and teachers accusing other teachers.
The story has been simmering since last summer (see here), when it was reported that cheating allegations in New York City had increased dramatically since Michael Bloomberg had taken over the schools in 2002: ?there had been 1250 test-tampering and grade-changing accusations, with the numbers rising as test scores took on more meaning.
The new statewide cache, reports Otterman, includes 670 tampering allegations, half of them ?verified.? ?Twenty-four of the 146 allegations against Gotham schools were verified. Also this morning Yoav Gonen of the New York Post reported that, ?The investigative arm of the city's Department of Education has confirmed 106 cases of cheating since high-stakes testing expanded to nearly all public- school grades in 2006?. That's in response to 909 allegations of cheating that were reported to city officials in the past six years -- a confirmation rate of about 11 percent.?
Do we have a cheating scandal here or not?
We may...
When he's good, New York Times education columnist Michael Winerip is very good (see his report on Atlanta cheating).? When he's bad (see here and here or just go to Flypaper's very own Michael Winerip Archive), he's very bad.? The difference between the good and the bad can be easily ? and predictably -- traced to Winerip's inability to match his reportorial skills to his ideological beliefs; the latter seem to completely disarm the former.
In this morning's report, on a New Hampshire school, tellingly headlined ?In a Standardized Era, a Creative School Is Forced to Be More So,? Winerip is at his reportorial worst as he strains to make the point that No Child Left Behind is forcing another great (?creative?) school to ?teach to the test.?? Given that NCLB has become everyone's favorite punching bag of late, Winerip's whines have become something of a yawn.? However, it is instructive to read this piece because it perfectly illustrates the reasons the public is so misinformed about the best education reform efforts: bad reporting.
To start, we need to be aware of what Winerip leaves out, beginning with the facts. How many students go to Oyster River Middle School, the subject of his story? How many are minority, Free and Reduced lunch?? We don't know. Has the school's proficiency rate ? which Winerip says is ?about 85 percent? ? gone up or down?? Which grades does it apply to? Which subjects? We also...


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Are you ALWAYS behind the camera so you are hardly ever in pictures with the ones you love? Sadly, I think most photographers would say YES! Which is why I now to use my interval timer.
If this describes you then it sounds like it is time for you to get a wireless remote! Before you buy one, check into the features your camera has, though….it might save you some money!
When my wireless remote broke, Sarah Wilkerson with Clickin' Moms was so sweet to tell me about a camera feauture I had known nothing about! I quickly returned the new remote I had just purchased an hour before & have been using the interval timer ever since. I truly had NO idea the interval timer existed nor did I know it was on both of my camera bodies.
Positives about the interval timer
-No remote to hide in your hand.
-Allows you to be more candid with your images. Carry on with what you are doing while it snaps your picture which allows you to get pictures looking more "in the moment".
-It's kind of fun to hurry to your place once you set your camera up.
-Ability to set how many shots will be taken.
-Since you are in such a hurry, you can capture some fun expressions in your little ones face(s).
Positives about the wireless remote:
-Waste less shots because you can take one picture at a time.
-Can be slower about getting ready for shots.
-Don't have to get up to adjust the camera settings in between each series to get it to start shooting again.
-Allows you to be more deliberate with your shooting.
Both are fun to try! I am perfectly happy with the interval feature though & don't think I will be purchasing a wireless remote now. I like that it's fun, spontaneous, quick & candid. I do appreciate the pros to a wireless remote though, too, & know there are definite perks….so basically you just figure out what is for YOU & start featuring yourself in some of your own pictures!
We all want to see your pictures when you try this!
Which cameras have an interval timer?
Lots of camera bodies have this feature! In doing some research it looks like these Nikon lines have the interval timer: Nikon D5000, D7000, D200, D300, D300S, D700, D2, D2H, D2Hs, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3s, D3x, then also the newer bodies released this year: D8000, D4, etc.
Although some of the other bodies may not come with this feature already a part of the body, you can still take time lapse photos with cameras that do not contain this feature internally. You will need the software: Camera Control Pro 2 (for Nikon) then you can follow the steps from there to learn more.
Here's where I need a little help. Being a Nikon shooter, I'm not sure if some Canon bodies have this feature. I have done research on it but keep getting mixed messages so I don't want to lead you astray! If you have some insight on Canon's & whether or not they have the interval timer feature, we'd love to hear from you!
How to set up interval timer on a Nikon:
-Go to menu >
-Shooting menu >
-Scroll to the VERY bottom of the menu
-Select the last option "interval timer shooting"
Tips for the interval timer:
-Set the camera up on the tripod or somewhere safe you have chosen.
-Find something to focus on that is in the place you & your subjects will be before you begin your series.
-Start with 5 shots before increasing to more so you can check on whether your settings are good, your focus is sharp, you like your composition/ framing etc. THEN increase your shots to more.
-Sometimes I take up to 15, 20 or 30 shots X 9 rounds at a time which seems like a lot but I try to be as natural as possible while the camera shoots off sporadically to capture some candid shots.
-Give yourself 10 seconds to get in place…I sometimes count out loud to keep track of how much time I have left! Usually 10-20 seconds in between intervals/ sets.
-It is set in days/ hours/ minutes…so 10 looks like 10″ then you set the number of intervals.
-You can also set the start time by the clock instead of seconds (which I have never done). Just make sure your camera's clock is set accurately.
The images I posted are by no means a work of art but they show you how much fun I have had using this feature & that it has gotten me in some pictures with my little guy (finally)! The first one was taken with the wireless remote. ALL other images were taken with the interval timer feature.
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The federal government, the World Health Organization and the United Nations have been summer learning laboratories for Widener students studying through the Health Law Institute.
With the help of Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law
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, seven students were able to secure summer placements in global health externships or research positions. Forzley has supervised some of the students in person in Geneva, Switzerland and she has used the internet and Skype to oversee those working in the United States. Sponsoring organizations have been so pleased with the students' work, she said, that they have begun asking for year-round student support and are already lining up opportunities for next summer.
"These real-life experiences allow students to work inside a government or international organization with a focus on global health legal issues, an emerging area of law," Forzley said. "This summer has substantially broadened the opportunities available to Widener Law students, who until now had taken advantage only of domestic health externships. We are pleased the organizations that have sponsored our students have asked to continue their relationships with the law school, which will mean great things for the students who follow. Externships and research posts give students a chance to see how things work in the real world – one that is increasingly global – and they strengthen the educational experience."
The students and their assignments include:
David Walker of the Pocono Summit area of Pennsylvania, is spending eight weeks working for the World Health Organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with the WHO's Director of Medicines Department Dr. Hans Hogerzeil. The WHO is the coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. Walker is working with the Essential Medicines Department doing a comparative study of how countries legislate access to essential medicines. Walker also attended Widener's summer institute in Lausanne and took comparative and international health and human rights law classes.
Celisse Williams of Claymont, Del. is working for the United Nations' 2015 Millennium Campaign in the office of the U.N. Development Program in New York City. The campaign is intended to end extreme world poverty through achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Williams has assembled a report card that assesses the progress of U.N.-member countries toward those goals. Her work has been so well received that Widener has been asked to provide year-round intern support and student support for the upcoming General Assembly, in October.
Linda Zhang and Nathan Trexler are working in the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Zhang, of Kalamazoo, Mich. and Trexler of Bangor, Pa., are researching emerging legal issues on the procurement of pharmaceuticals and biosimilars.
Yuanyou "Sunny" Yang of the Sichuan Province in China has been working as a global health research assistant to Forzley and a WHO staff person, on a project that aims to benchmark health reform in China with a rule-of-law focus. Yang is already a graduate of Southwestern University School of Political Science and the Law, which maintains an ongoing exchange relationship with Widener and its
Health Law Institute
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Finally, two students who studied through Widener's summer institute in Lausanne, Switzerland found themselves with the unexpected opportunity to serve as research interns for the WHO. With Forzley's assistance, Kelly Hicks of Downingtown, Pa. and Ashley Talley of Concordville, Pa. were tapped to research the international and domestic laws on controlled substances used in medical treatment. They will continue to serve the project remotely from the United States in the coming academic year.
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Dictionary » B » Blast BlastBlast 1. (Science: biology, suffix) a suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth or formation. An immature precursor cell of the type indicated by the preceding word, for example; bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc. 2. A violent gust of wind. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast. 3. The terms hot blast and cold blast are employed to designate whether the current is heated or not heated before entering the furnace. A blast furnace is said to be in blast while it is in operation, and out of blast when not in use. 4. (Science: veterinary) a flatulent disease of sheep. See: blast cell, blastema. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page Results from our forumpeptidyl transferaseDepends what you know. If you have sequence, you can go to BLAST @NCBI http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PROGRAM=blastp&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch&LINK_LOC=blasthome and search directly against PDB database. Or you can go to PDB's advanced search ...
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Some Folks Will Surely Get Fat From $14.7 Million Grant to Fight Obesity
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The grant will be divided up between The School Board and Parks and Recreation Department, the Health Department, the Zoning Department and the Florida Agricultural Extension Service -- which fall under the umbrella of the Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade, set up in 2003. Some of the expected expenditures will go towards setting up more farmers' markets and attempting to get corner food stores in inner-city neighborhoods to stock healthy fruits and vegetables. Those sound like worthy goals. New bike and walking paths also seem like good ideas being mentioned. But money spent for more crossing guards? I understand the notion that a safer walk is one more parents are apt to allow their children to take. But unless the kids live right by the perimeter of a school -- in which case walking isn't going to provide much exercise -- crossing guards won't make much difference for most of the stroll.
More pertinently, it seems that the money is already being diluted conceptually, before it even gets spent. Why not put the bulk of the 14.7 mil into bringing more nutritious foods into our school cafeterias, and increasing exercise programs both during and after school? Getting young people into the habit of eating fresh fruits and vegetables and enjoying physical activity seems the most direct way of battling obesity -- both short and long term.
We can only hope those folks in the Consortium are watching Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC. In fact, he should be in charge of doling out the millions instead of them. But he isn't, and unfortunately I've got a queasy feeling that when the grant money is all spent, and the palms all greased, the kids won't be any thinner -- and plenty of adults will have gotten downright fat from the deal.
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For ALL those who enjoy reading compelling information, or are looking for great documented info. pertaining to RKBA and our American way of life, compared to the rest of the world.
Click on the link, then once there it will show a headliner,
Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence.
Click on the bar beneath the two names Don Kates and Gary Mauser, that says ; download the paper.
It will download in a PDF- like file
Thisis 117 pages long but it appears a good read.. http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1564/
A lot of footnotes are part of the 117 pages
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Whatever the reason, the upshot is that violent crime, and homicide in particular, have
plummeted in the United States over the past 15 years.26 The fall in the American crime rate is
even more impressive when compared with the rest of the world. In 18 of the 25 countries
surveyed by the British Home Office, violent crime increased during the 1990s27. This contrast
should provoke thinking people to wonder what happened in those nations adopting policies
based on the belief that introducing more and more restrictive firearm laws would reduce criminal
violence. Perhaps the United States is doing something right. Further research is required to
identify more precisely which elements of their approach is the most important, or whether all
three elements acting in concert with each other was necessary to reduce criminal violence.
This article will examine a broad range of international data that bear on two distinct but
interrelated questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important contributing factor
in murder and/or suicide, and second, whether the introduction of laws that restrict general access
to firearms has been successful in reducing violent crime, homicide or suicide. Our conclusion
from the available data is that suicide, murder and violent crime rates are determined by basic
social, economic and/or cultural factors with the availability of any particular one of the worlds
25 See Thomas Bonczar and Tracy L. Snell, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, 2003, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bulletin, November 2004, NJC 206627.
26 These trends are easily seen in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) data on the website of the federal Bureau
of Investigation (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm).
27 See G. Barclay, C. Tavare, and A. Siddique (2001). INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF
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