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Dear Jeanne: I had this dip at a friend's house, and previously have had a similar version in very thick layers, but this one is very good since you get a little bit of everything in each scoop. I wonder if it is very fattening. If it is, can you reduce the fat? Thank you.
— Angela, Lancaster, Pa.
Dear Angela: There are some things you can do to lighten this, but it really isn't bad, from a nutritional standpoint, as long as you use baked chips or vegetables as dippers.
The bulk of the beans will fill your stomach pretty quickly, so you probably will not be eating massive quantities of this. You also could halve the quantities for a smaller amount and use a smaller pan.
2 cans refried beans
1 package taco seasoning mix
1 1/2 cups sour cream
3 avocados, mashed
Salt, to taste
Lemon juice, to taste
1 cup cheddar cheese, grated
Tomatoes, chopped
Green onions, chopped
Mix together the beans and taco seasoning, and spread the mixture on a 15-inch pizza pan all the way to the edge.
Spread the sour cream over the beans in a thin layer up to 1 inch from the edge of the pan. Mash the avocados with the salt and lemon juice, and spread it over the layer of sour cream. Sprinkle with the cheddar cheese, tomatoes and green onions.
Serve with corn chips.
Makes 20 servings.
2 cans vegetarian fat-free refried beans
1/2 cup salsa
1 1/4 cups nonfat sour cream
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
2 avocados, mashed
1/4 teaspoon salt
Juice of 1 lime (or 1/2 lemon)
1 cup reduced-fat cheddar cheese, grated
1-3 tomatoes (depending on the size of tomato), diced into 1/4-inch pieces
3-4 green onions, thinly sliced
1. Combine the refried beans and salsa, and spread on a 15-inch pizza pan all the way to the edge.
2. Combine the sour cream, garlic powder, cumin and chili powder. Spread over the beans in a thin layer up to 1 inch from the edge of the pan.
3. Mash the avocados until very smooth. Add the salt and lime or lemon juice. Drop in small dollops over the sour cream and spread so that they cover the sour cream.
4. Sprinkle the cheese over the avocado. Evenly distribute the tomatoes and then the green onions over the cheese. Serve with baked corn chips or vegetable dippers.
Makes 20 servings.
Each 1/3-cup serving contains approximately: Original Recipe: 162 calories; 11 gm fat; 14 mg cholesterol; 345 mg sodium; 13 gm carbohydrates; 5 gm; 3 gm fiber. Revised Recipe: 93 calories; 4 gm fat; 3 mg cholesterol; 281 mg sodium; 10 gm carbohydrates; 5 gm protein; 3 gm fiber.
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Jeanne Jones is the author of 33 cookbooks, most recently "Cooking From the Cupboard" (Rodale Press). For more information, visit her website at jeannejones.com. © King Features Syndicate Inc.
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The brute thundered in the hall, an immensity near to bursting the confines of the corridor, pacing in barely contained frenzy, reeking breath betraying consumption of human flesh. Here was a dull mind of crude malice driving a form of fury and power, at revel in slaughter, in the spray and splash of blood, in the screams of the broken and ruined.
Legs slightly too short for the brute's massive torso rippled with muscle. Sheaths of crudely tanned leather encased the shins, leaving the great, flat feet to slap heavily on stone with each step. An enormous girdle of leather studded with points of thick brass was hung with skull of human, elf, and dwarf. The loin drape was dotted with battle gore. Shoulders brushed against the passage walls, rippling arms hung near to dragging massive knuckles across the floor, leather bracers ensorcelled against attack circumscribed forearms the diameter of dinner plates. One hand clutched the haft of a great war hook enchanted as bane against humans, and when the curve of the steel struck stone it kindled sparks like motes of bloodlust. Atop the trunk, a thick neck supported a head like a boulder and maned in greasy black hair. A wide mouth housed a purple tongue and teeth that sheared bone as though bread. Inadequate to contemplative observation, two glaring eyes of black searched ever for bloody combat. At the peak of battle rage the orbs glinted red like restless coals stirred in dark hearths. The brute towered eleven feet and spanned nearly a human's height across the chest. His name was Jaagrath Kreeg.
In the dimness of his brain crude thought grappled with bloody desire. He quivered with impulse to rush down to the lowlands and dizzy the region with carnage. The conquest of this human outpost had slaked his thirst for violence initially, but now the days had become weeks, and the yearning to destroy welled within him still. Butchery though it had been, he desired still more. Human lands yet remained to howl in pain and terror at the coming of Jaagrath and his kin. As he roamed the halls and grounds, he imagined—to the limits of his paltry capacity—further expedition of bloody imposition.
Yet—insomuch as he could know the emotion—a kind of fear constrained him, and here the dimness of his cognition struggled to understand the intricacies of purpose in that place. However much it had been his desire, he knew that seizing the outpost had been possible because of her, and it was her that he could not understand, and it was her that he feared. She named herself Lucrecia. That sounded human, and such was the guise she adopted, though at the roots of his fundamental cunning Jaagrath recognized—albeit imperfectly—that she was most assuredly not human. Yet her nature he could not name, and this uncertainty was as much the source of his discomfort as the exhibitions of power she periodically made to assert her dominance among the ogres.
He hated her, as he hated all that was not ogre, all that was not his being, and—in the deepest parts of battle rage, when the fury of blood and bone and butchery most strongly took him—perhaps he even hated himself. As he stalked the conquered place he grasped at fantasies of Lucrecia's destruction as a child grasps at butterflies in a field, fruitless and fascinated. Who was she to command the Kreeg? What was she? Not even Dorella, who could cast magic, had been able to say, and in what passed for culture among ogres, Dorella was considered quite sophisticated, indeed.
He made for the room they had transformed into a kind of larder, and then stalked the fortress in a restrained fury, gnawing on a human arm.
Gloriana awake startle upright now suddenly sound rain on roof faint moth trembling on blade of grass soft breeze among dandelions under moonlight. Now rattle now soft snore abed. Shape and line and weight friend in darkness gently rising gently falling adrift in ancient magic called sleep called dream.
Thick darkness deep. Sightless. High moon hidden in dress of cloud in cloak of rain. Water chorus drumming board and plank and post and mud. Lingering spring chill. Gooseflesh.
Vision begins. Slow stark line of light. Distant or close indeterminate now soundless now soon to hum. Light line no illumination chamber corners undefined floorboards indistinct no shape of beds of friends of space. Growing. Glow distorts billowing waving cloth luminous moving unfelt gust.
Inn room gentle expanding light. Now Abby. Now Kara. Ribcage quiet rise quiet fall breathe under blanket deep sleep. Undisturbed. Vision unfold ripple coalesce sharpen. Woman campfire wagon road sky stars treeline. Woman.
Grandmother. Five years dead.
Father's mother. Cauldron. Rabbit stew. Bubble languid flicker fire gentle smoke shuttle weave loom of night sky. Now sprinkle rosemary bits of green snowfall on food. Scent remembered powerful present.
Grandmother glance. Faint smile sad.
Glenna. Pet name.
Gloriana mouth open tongue imperfect teeth uncertain no words voice sound catch quick throat silence only no answer.
Glenna, you wander far. I made stew, and Kolyna has pumpernickel bread. I would pour some for you, but you are not here with us at the campfire.
Gloriana voice find finally small distant star point in darkness. Faint. "Ama." Pet name.
Sad smile stir gentle cauldron salt pinch. You wander far. When we gather to dance and sing you are not here.
"I am." Struggle. Insist. Silence room too large. "I am there." Tears well.
We worry, Glenna. Your father worries and your mother worries and I worry. All the camp.
Hands face. Nod. Understanding looms wave on horizon distant stormcloud sky. Thunder and rushing and winds. Swans dolphins lizards wolves elk burst leap flick howl run. Root to stem to branch to bud to leaf to flower to pollen to bee to honeycomb to field to root. Rain becomes sun. Sun becomes rain. Stone becomes sand.
I know they worry for your safety, but that is not why I worry. I worry for your heart. I can hear, even at this distance. Did you know that? Many in camp don't know, but they are not where I am, have not been where I have been, have not seen the place where road and horizon are no different.
Soft croak a day a week a year a thousand years of memory and song and season. "Ama."
You wander far. That has always been the way of things like this. When you come to the place where the road and the horizon are no different, will you find this was your choice, or not your choice? Will you find that it became your choice in time, or that in time you were chosen? So rarely we know with certainty.
Planet turning in immeasurable vastness small in greatness in smallness. Gloriana damp vision blur.
You wander far, and the road is all the roads, those we have known, those we have not known and yet still trod. And now, granddaughter, I will watch you dance. I will hear you sing. Will I still worry about your heart?
Fade. Hum to quiet. Darkness. Rain.
I am coming with you.
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Credit crisis? Will someone please tell the stock market
We've had months of turmoil but the FTSE 100 is only down slightly on the turn of the year. Margareta Pagano and Simon Evans find that the share-index baton has passed to energy and mining groups
Sunday 11 May 2008
It was a trip to China that showed Tom Ewing, the head of Fidelity's UK growth fund, which British companies should receive his investment money. Along with his wife, Clare, he spent six weeks travelling round China, taking nine internal flights and visiting as much as they could of the vast country.
"You only get an idea of the sheer scale by visiting. There are 10 cities which are the size of London, yet no one in the UK has ever heard of them. About 400 million people are moving from the countryside into the cities; think of the need for plumbing, fridges, cars and what that does for raw materials, iron, oil, whisky and eventually Burberrys," he says.
Ewing absorbed what he saw in China, applying the lessons to UK stocks that have a big overseas exposure, particularly in the Far East and other emerging markets.
He has gone for British companies that either provide resources to the new economies, like BP, or sell them products, like Diageo's Johnnie Walker whisky or Vodafone's new Indian network.
"I tend to invest intuitively first – look at how people live and what they want first," he says. "Then I look at the macro picture – the currency swings – and do the maths."
The recipe is working well: his portfolio of 55 FTSE100 stocks, a mixture of mega caps and large caps, has grown by 8.7 per cent to £676m in the three months to April, beating the FTSE 100, which was up 4.87 per cent in the same period.
All the mega caps – such as BP, Vodafone, Diageo, HSBC, BAT, Unilever and the giant mining companies Rio Tinto and Xstrata – are in his portfolio. But you won't find many financial, retail or construction groups – they are still being treated with kid gloves as the credit crunch bites deep into profits.
This is one of reasons why natural resources and energy companies have edged ahead of banks in terms of their weighting in the FTSE 100 index, and one of the reasons why the FTSE is still so resilient in the face of the banking crash. At the start of the year, it stood at 6,416.70 points; it closed on Friday at 6,204.70
About 16 per cent of the UK's blue-chip benchmark index is now invested in mining and basic resources groups, just ahead now of the financial services sector, which had been the bellwether of the stock market for the past few years.
The new breed may now be more representative of the health of the UK market, but the top FTSE 100 companies earn only 36 per cent of their revenues in Britain. The balance is made up of 44 per cent made in the US and continental Europe and 20 per cent in the rest of the world – a big shift over the past decade. Mr Ewing points out that it is companies such as BP which provide a huge proportion of the UK's wealth. In 2004, for example, BP paid out as much in dividends and share buybacks as all the companies on the FTSE 250 company index.
And Mr Ewing forecasts that this reliance on overseas revenues will continue for the UK stock market. BP makes just 21 per cent of its sales in Britain, while Vedanta, the mining group, has no sales in the UK at all, even though it is listed here. Other companies with an HQ in London, such as BHP Billiton, Kazakhmys and Antofagasta, also make their money overseas.
It's a trend that will continue as long as the Chinese, and Indians, have such a strong appetite for metals and other materials. Mr Ewing doesn't like to predict where the FTSE will be by the end of the year but he reckons he can make money.
Martin Brookes, the manager of Prudential's £80bn with-profits fund, is also optimistic: "The bottom seems to have been February and we've powered on another 700 or so since, against a barrage of bad news. Looking at things now, I think there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful. The behaviour of the central banks has been astonishingly aggressive in flooding the inter-bank lending market. It's given the feeling to the markets that the 'cavalry has arrived'."
Mr Brookes adds: "The issue among the banks and others has largely been one of leverage. But if you look at the balance sheets of Britain's quoted firms, there isn't a lot of leverage there. Balance sheets have been repaired since the last downturn. Firms that provide services and make things are largely in good nick.
"In terms of company valuations, equities look cheap on our metrics. But I can't say that with a high a degree of confidence. There is clearly a lot of bad news already priced in equities. The difficulty for investors is forecasting sentiment. Our strong preference at the moment is for credit, where there remains distress. Rather than hit the button on equities now, we'd rather wait until we have more confidence.
Another bull for equities is Mike Lenhoff, chief strategist at Brewin Dolphin. He says of the FTSE 100: " If we can clear 6,500 then we will be nearing previous highs. What would derail things? Well I don't think another rights issue would. The banks haven't suffered a further de-rating of late – they are certainly not losing out relatively. We need to remember that large chunks of the world economy are continuing to do well. The earnings made by large FTSE groups in these regions are partly why the index is stronger than expected."
Even America is performing reasonably, he says. "Earnings in the US are holding up pretty well. The S&P 500 index, excluding financials, is showing around 8 per cent annual earnings growth at the moment – in line with historical averages. Only the other week, we had better- than-expected numbers from the likes of Wal-Mart and Costco – places where we'd expect things to be hurting the most.
"We've seen an astonishing turn in sentiment," Mr Lenhoff continues. "If you go back to mid March when Bear Stearns was bailed out by the Federal Reserve, I think you can see a real turning point. The markets realised that the Fed was serious about not letting things slide down the plughole. The Fed has been assertive and creative in its initiatives, which in turn prodded the Bank of England in the same direction. You've also got to remember that the fiscal stimulus package will soon be kicking in.
"Since February, the traffic really has been one-way – quite amazing. The bank situation certainly hasn't deteriorated."
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According to Global Water Intelligence, an English publication, worldwide annual industry revenues are estimated at $420 billion, with the U.S. accounting for around $100 billion. This number is expected to grow as water becomes scarcer, and markets begin to mature. Two of the fastest growing segments are point of use/point of entry (POU/POE) systems and wastewater treatment.
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1) Going beyond the cellphone shape.
Being honest, the Ara is an awesome idea for a Smartphone. But we could do much more in the future: We could have Tablets (7 to 10.1 inch), Laptops (not a convertible one, let this wonder to the Tablets, 13 to 17 inch), Small Desktops (Something small, not big like the Windows/Linux desktops), All in Ones (A la HP Slate 21, 17 to 25 inch), Handheld Consoles (NVIDIA Shield-like and PS Vita Like), Table Consoles (from the size of a Ouya to the size of a PS4) and TV Boxes (We could convert our basic TV on a Smart TV with those boxes).
2) How about physical keyboards and joypads?
Something that would be perfect is that i should not be forced to use the touch for everything. We used to Have Xperia Pros and Motorola Milestones years ago. We also had Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and we have the obscure JXD Gaming Smartphones. How about we have an removable Slide Keyboards (Just like the bluetooth slide keyboards for iPhones i usually find for sale), Soft (like the MS Surface) Hard Keyboard Docks for Tablets (like the ASUS Transformer Pad family and HP Slatebook x2) and Gamepads for both Phones and Tablets (Xperia Play Style or a removable with the Archos gamepad Style). This would make things even more interesting. Because i would use the hard keyboard dock to put an additional battery, USB Ports, RJ-45 Port, LTE Port, SD Card Port, 2.5 inch HDD Port, Mini DP Port. Heck, i could build a Transformer Pad-like tab with this and when i don't need the keyboard dock, i could use the gamepad for gaming.
3) My device. My settings.
There are Smartphones with 4K resolution out there. In my opinion this is an overkill for small screens. In tablets, though, it is plausible. I would love to build a smartphone with the maximum res of 1366x768, i don't need more than this. Also, i also don't feel the need of having a camera with more than Full HD resolution. So, i'm okay with a 1920x1080 camera for pics and video? Also, i want to be able to block phone calls when sleeping. It is annoying to wake up thing something serious happened and actually it is a Drunk calling for me. Also, if doesn't bother Google, We could dual boot an Ara Tablet with Arch Linux.
4) Android Live USB Sticks.
Linux distros are able to be customized in favor of someone, so this person can put his important apps on a Live DVD without the need of downloading everytime. We could have Something similar on Android.
There are more suggestions i would like to give, but, i don't have right now. anyone else have?
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Keeping College Admissions in Perspective
As college decision time rolls around, it's important to keep things in perspective, and two inspiring articles published by the New York Times (click here and here) help do just that. You don't have to look far to find the college mania surrounding many of us, but while students and parents can easily get swept along, it's important to remember the bigger picture. In his recently published book "Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania," Frank Bruni takes real life examples of talented, driven students who experienced a series of intense rejections during the admissions process but ultimately achieved their goals.
Not only did these students continue to move forward, they felt the rejections even helped them to succeed down the road. According to one student, "I never would have had the strength, drive or fearlessness to take such a risk if I hadn't been rejected so intensely before. There's a beauty to that kind of rejection, because it allows you to find the strength within." It may sound cliche, but hearing from students who actually thrived in the face of rejection brings the point home.
Another student who attended Indiana University also turned his initial disappointment into success, and it ultimately turned out to be a door opener in so many ways: "He got into an honors program for undergraduate business majors. He became vice president of a business fraternity on campus. He cobbled together the capital to start a tiny real estate enterprise that fixed up and rented small houses to fellow students. And he finagled a way, off campus, to interview with several of the top-drawer consulting firms that trawled for recruits at the Ivies but often bypassed schools like Indiana. Upon graduation, he took a plum job in the Chicago office of the Boston Consulting Group, where he recognized one of the other new hires: the friend from New Trier who'd gone to Yale. Traveling a more gilded path, she'd arrived at the same destination. He later decided to get a master's degree in business administration, and that's where he is now, in graduate school — at Harvard."
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Clay with 4-5 inches of wood chips on top
Last year my husband secured a bunch of free wood chips. They were spread over the garden about 6-12 inches thick. They are now about 4-5 inches thick. I am getting very discouraged when I pull them back to plant in the CLAY soil that had previously been ammended with compost. Because of the wood chips, the clay is very wet, so if I try to till or turn the soil, I'm just dealing with clumps. I can't spend any more money on my garden this year, and was really hoping for a productive veggie garden.
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Yes, my husband is pretty awesome...he is also the one who built me my very large garden fence/arbor ;)
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Do I need to wait a few days after pulling back the mulch before digging/tilling/planting? Right now, the soil is so moist when I pull back the mulch that is I push a shovel in, I get 1 clump out, and it doesn't break on its own?
I know that we are on the path to a great garden, but feeling a little anxious this year! Awesome garden by the way!
Nostalgic, Tilling and turning soil over is no longer recommended for any type of soil because it destroys the structure and ecosystems. The more you work with clay, the worse it gets. If it is wet, don't even touch it. And never walk on the soil... if you cannot reach across the bed, lay a plank on the soil to step on.
For planting, rake the wood chips aside so the soil can dry out. Once it is dry, gently use your trowel to make shallow furrows. Mix some good compost with the soil from the furrows and plant your seeds in this mix. Then push the wood chips back, leaving a couple inches of clear space directly around the seed rows.
Next fall, rake any remaining chips aside. Put down an inch of good compost, and top the bed with the wood chips, straw or shredded dry leaves. By next year, your soil should start to improve. Follow this routine from now on for continued improvement.
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What would be the recommendation in clay for strawberries?
Also, if I were to go spend $50 in "stuff," what would be the best thing to get that $ stretched the farthest? Would it be best to get some coir, peat moss, bagged soil, etc to plant at least in the holes before I add my plants?
I also have some lovely chicken manure mixed with straw in the coop. I can't really mix this into the clay nicely with the straw, but I did put some down with some soil on top of that were I planted pea seeds. They are coming up now and look good. If only my inside seed-started plants looked nice...I stuck them outside for a while the otherday, and they are all severely windblown...guess I forgot to run a fan on them inside this year!
I have been in your shoes (and garden) before. Don't hate me but I would love to have more clay in my soil here in AL, it's so sandy and always seems parched.
Anyway, years ago I bought a house (in OH) and wanted half the back yard to be a garden. As usual in a housing development, the top soil was gone, the "dirt" was pure clay. I had a professional spray everything on 1 side to kill it, then had a whole dumptruck of mulch delivered, it made a layer about 6" thick. I started planting flowers and a few veggies right away, amending the holes I dug with compost. That first year most things grew well. The next year when I would move the mulch back to dig a hole, there was an amazing difference, and tons of worms had appeared. I'm a firm believer that good drainage can be mostly attributed to worms. The following year, the mulch was mostly decomposed and more was needed, the soil was much more crumbly and dark, sooo much more well-drained. It just takes time, and you've already waited, so I also say go for it!
If it were my $50, I would spend it all on compost to amend individual holes or rows. No need to try to mix it in, just backfill your holes with it, or put along your rows. I agree with your use of the manure/straw on top, don't try to mix it in. Naturally, that stuff would be on top of the soil anyway. The worms, microbes, and rain will redistribute these materials in nature's intended ways. I think most types of raw manure have too much something (nitrogen?) to be helpful below the surface. It sounds like you have a rural-type yard where I would imagine you have plenty of room to make a nice BIG compost pile. If you can make enough of your own, that should solve your clay/drainage problem over time.
Also wanted to say that since you've got too much moisture, you might do better at least this year with little hills instead of furrows.
This fall, put all of your leaves on your beds. When I lived in OH, I would put up to 15" of leaves on beds and they would be gone by spring. Most of the time I didn't have as much leaves as I wanted from my own yard, but so many people gather this valuable resource from their yard and bag it up for you for free, and even set it by the curb for easy pick-up.
The depth of so much mulch is surely adding to the wetness that hides under it. I think if you do some research into the act of mulching you will find that 2" is quite satisfactory for wood mulch.
It should definitely be pulled back in early spring to allow the soil to dry out some. One intention of mulch is to conserve moisture ..."when its necessary" and leaving it over damp ground in March/April is not doing the ground any good. Better to pull it back, let the ground dry, then put it back with fresh additions later on when ground appreciates it.
With 4" of cover, I would think, where vegetables are concerned, the invitation to insects would be heightened.
Earwigs, looking for dampness, would be, I think, one of the uninvited guests that would surely appreciate the gardeners' kindness.
purpleinopp-thanks for your experiences. I did go to the store with the intention of getting some bagged soil and compost. I was rather concerned about dumping just compost in the whole, as I have no idea if it is actually composted. The bagged soils are all 50% peat moss, so I just got some peat moss, compost, and top soil. I also have a pile of sand at home that isn't as course as it should be...but I have it here. I made up a mixture of soil out of these. I dug about 2-3 shovelfuls of clay out of my planting holes, scraped the sides of the wholes, and added my soil mixture. I may regret this for this year, but I think over the course of a year, the worms will distribute everything, and make the overall garden area better.
I should say that my garden space is 40*60 feet, so even a 2 inch layer of compost throughout is a lot! I don't have any raised beds yet, so no defined planting spaces. I don't know if the plants will go in the same holes next year as I am still trying to visualize where everything should go in the garden?
Goren-I can see how that much mulch could be a bad thing also. I primarily wanted it for weed control. I have 3 little kids, 2 of which are helpful pulling weeds, but have so much other work to do that I CAN'T keep up with the weeds in a larger garden without the mulch. There are a LOT of frogs hidden in the mulch, so maybe they will eat a lot of my bad bugs?
2 years ago, my husband did provide me with many grass clippings for my garden, so those have since improved my clay. This year he got a zero-turn mower, which is great for reducing the mowing job here, but it doesn't have a bagger :( So far, we are keeping the other mower which has a bagger, but it will be used very little. He is even talking about taking the mower deck off it so I can use it like a tractor (keeping the mower blades on is NOT an option for something that will be used with the kids in the yard.) Maybe I can have him put the mower deck on in the fall (assuming we do keep it) when the leaves are out, and I can mow then for composting leaves.
The newest way to use wood chips is to use ramial wood chips...
do a study using this way...one country upped tomato production by 1000%, sounds amazing....will be trying this method soon....the dirtdoctor has a good article on this method...use only live tender branches, brush etc, small, less than 3 inches or so...old branches and dead wood etc does not contain what ramial wood chips does....apply in fall, 2 or 3 in and its okay to plant in next spring...also loads up soil with mycorrhiza fungus, which will give you amazing results...the indian
Using wood chips, logs, etc. to build up soils has been known for well over one hundred years. The paper I found that Garret posted is around 20 years old, and has material I have known about since the 1960's and has been available long before that.
The original poster, some three years back, had a common problem, mulch causing clay soils to retain too much moisture, most likely because the clay had not been properly amended to correct clays most common problem, drainage.
Get enough organic matter into the clay and then mulch.
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Date of Stay: May, 2014 - $38.00
This is a nice park. A little difficult to get to pulling a 36 ft fifth wheel. Small roads with lots of turns. The sites are fairly small and not easy to pull into. We stayed in site 49. It was okay but had it been really hot you would have no shade. Sites 74 and 73 would be a great choice for access and shade. Short walk to Columbia, which is a great town. Lots of activities We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2014 - $36.00
Due to the size of our motorhome were placed on the top tier of this terraced campground. It was easy to get in and out of but really a dirty place to park. Water was OK, the sewer hookups are, well, weird. Count 'em: 6 TV channels. There are no dog breed restrictions here and there is dog poop everywhere and barking dogs are a regular occurrence. There was quite a bit of trash on the ground that the groundskeepers would drive by and ignore. The Wi-Fi did not work at all and the office could only offer that sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. We won't be returning here. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2014 - $38.00
Good location for many attractions within Columbia and Jamestown. This campground is next to the Columbia Heritage State Park, which includes many attractions and restaurants. Park layout made some sites difficult to get in and out of. Trash cans were overfilling during our week stay. Many campers were long term, and these RVs appeared rough, which presented a negative look on the park. Campground staff was friendly, but this park needs some TLC. We suggest visiting the Jamestown Railtown and Columbia Heritage State Park. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: May, 2013 - $22.00
Friendly staff, level gravel sites. The WiFi is great and includes a limited amount of cable channels. A little difficult to get to but we found it. Our site is shaded and very nice size. We would stay here again and used Passport America. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2013 - $31.00
This rv park is one of the best I have ever stayed in, friendly and fun staff, lots of local activity, nearby Columbia old town within walking distance. scenery is beautiful, sites are accommodating. I can't say anything bad about this park :-) and very pet friendly! We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2012 - $24.00
Our rate reflects the Passport America deal. However they do not honor Passport America on Friday or Saturday and do not take reservations for Passport America. We paid full price on Friday and Saturday (with a 10% senior discount) then got the half price deal on Sunday. This is a very nice park in easy walking distance of the state park in Columbia and a short drive to Sonora. WiFi was some of the best I've seen in a wide open park like this, really nice! The spaces are well apart from each other with a natural setting, no fences between spots. The spots are scattered around the park in a natural setting - very nice. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: September, 2011 - $20.00
The staff was friendly and helpful. Even though we had arrived 20 minutes after their normal hours, the lady stayed to let us know how to find out which sites would be available in case we were going to be there for more than one night. Pool looked inviting, bathrooms were exceptionally clean. Unfortunately, most of the sites were not level and what little gravel that was on the site was very large which made it hard to use leveling blocks without damaging them, otherwise the park would have rated higher. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: June, 2011 - $20.00
Rate is Passport America rate. The campground is average. The shade was nice but this is a rustic campground and is not fancy. However for a one or two night stay it was fine. I wouldn't stay for anything longer. The cable TV did not work since they had been flooded recently and it wasn't fixed yet. They did not tell us this before we setup. There was no cell coverage where we were. Overall just OK - not great but not horrible either. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2011 - $40.00
Nice park! Been here a couple of times. Nice and close to the State Park. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2011 - $22.00
Sites in lower section are really close together and in gravel. Many spacious sites too including some pull-throughs on the upper levels; they are on asphalt roadways and have concrete pads with picnic tables. Tenters are in a separate area. Grounds seem well maintained for an old park. I didn't see any permanent or cluttered units. The laundry is in terrible condition; dirty and cluttered with two sets of machines; being shared by staff for cabin rental laundry. Clean and dirty laundry piled everywhere. The laundry facility is open just 6 hours daily and is too pricy for the condition it's in. Our price reflects CampClub USA 50% discount. We'd stay here again but not use the laundry. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2011 - $40.00
We stayed 3 nights, had a wonderful site, totally enjoyed our stay and the staff. The cable TV was as others have said, just a few stations but there was enough for us. The staff was excellent and we thought the campground offered a great variety of campsites that weren't all crammed in together. It's located on a fascinating piece of land with the quarry and lots of odd limestone formations. It's not a resort but more of a campground, which we prefer, since we mainly camp at state parks. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: February, 2011 - $38.00
We enjoyed our time here. Would definitely stay here again. Sites are gravel and level. Did not need our jacks. Quiet with mature trees and trails surround the park. The office staff and owners were exceptionally friendly. Rustic not primitive. Plenty of nature for kids to enjoy. Not an 'amusement park.' Park is old; however, it is clean, roomy, and they are upgrading it. Short walk to the historic town of Columbia. Had several deer come to visit during our stay. WiFi was good. Had some trouble with the cable TV when we first pulled in and they fixed it in less than 5 minutes: with a smile. The cable TV only has 4 channels. Showers are clean. Better allow 10-15 minutes for the heat to run before you use the shower. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: January, 2011 - $38.00
A little muddy in winter. Office closes at 5. Very nice staff, made us feel welcome. Only a few cable channels. Walking distance to Columbia State Park. Saw deer more than once from our campsite. Would stay here again. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: August, 2010 - $23.00
Do NOT take Rte 49 from Rte 199. What a mistake: it's a treacherous road for big rig. It's 59 from 199. DH wrote down incorrect info, and we drove an hour up and down mountains with tight curves and steep descents. However, helpful friendly staff, level site but no satellite reception due to trees. Was very busy on the weekend, so we couldn't change sites. CG has family friendly amenities (pool, horseshoes, shuffleboard, volleyball), nearby golf, horsedrawn carriages in Columbia, so there's kids-a-plenty. Bathrooms very clean and bright. Near Sonoma, a great little town. Would stay here again. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2010 - $38.00
We had a nice private site with plenty of shade. We had the opportunity to visit the park a month prior to out stay and hand-picked the site for our motorhome. We knew we would like it. We did not like the looks of the coral area because the sites seemed pretty close together and offered little privacy. We know we would not like to stay in that area. It looks like it would be good for groups though. The park has many a friendly family atmosphere with volleyball, shuffleboard, horse shoe pits and other grassy areas to play in. Small pool but which we did not use but those in the pool seem to be having a lot of fun. The staff was helpful and friendly. We will be back. This park and the site will be a regular on our list of weekend treks. We camped at Marble Quarry RV Park in a Motorhome.Undo
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Sahyog has begun providing vocational training to its students at multi-disciplinary training at Khadi and Village Industries Commission (Mandi). Over twenty students learnt how to make candles and aggarbattis. We are working on expandiing this program.
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EDMONTON - Singer k.d. lang is so proud of the Alberta Ballet's artistic take on her prairie upbringing, she wants to see it performed outside the province.
"Balletlujah!" opened May 3 in Edmonton and is to close in Calgary on Saturday after eight shows.
The company's artistic director and choreographer, Jean Grand-Maitre, says the 51-year-old vocalist attended the premiere and loved it.
"She wanted it to really go out on tour," he says. "And her manager was there and he said he was very touched from the very beginning of the ballet and he would love to help us bring it out."
If the show ends up elsewhere, it won't be any time soon. The company is booked solid with other events for the next two years, says Harry Paterson, Alberta Ballet's director of production and touring.
He says presenters from California and Texas in the Calgary audience will be trying to determine whether a dance based on lang's life would be a hit south of the border.
Grand-Maitre says "Balletlujah!" is the first ballet he knows of with a gay love story. When he was crafting the piece and going through lang's music, he realized most of her songs were about love and so her ballet would be too.
"I said, 'OK, it can't be a man and a woman because it's k.d. lang, and I'm pretty sure when she's singing love songs she doesn't see Brad Pitt in her head,'" he says with a laugh.
"So, I said, 'OK, we're going to do a love story between two women and it was not about being gay, or becoming gay. It wasn't about that. It just happens to be two women and it's a pure love.'"
The story focuses on a young woman in a prairie town who falls in love at a barn dance. She moves with her lover to the big city but their relationship sours. Heartbroken, the heroine returns home and finds love again.
Grand-Maitre says lang consulted on the project and was initially nervous because she didn't know anything about ballet. He reassured her. "It's not going to be skinny ballerinas on pointe shoes ... think of it as performance art."
Far from such classics as "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty," the piece puts some of the dancers in cowboy boots and high-heel shoes. At one point, a pint-sized pooch even makes an appearance.
Video projections provide a stunning backdrop of swaying wheat fields, starry nights and fluttering flocks of birds. A slow-moving motorcycle carrying the two lead characters also roams over rolling foothills.
The company sent a film crew to capture shots around Consort, Alta., where lang grew up. Grand-Maitre says he sat beside lang's 90-year-old mother during the premiere and she was mesmerized.
"All the time she kept holding her hands and saying, 'I know that tree. I know that church. Isn't that the old farm?'"
He says some people may find the visual effects dizzying, but the ballet is trying to build a new and younger audience. It has already done tributes to the music of Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan and Elton John.
The so-called pop or "portrait" ballets are bringing in people who have never been to the ballet before, he says. Lang's legion of fans are the latest to give the art form a shot.
The show features 16 of her songs, including "Big Boned Gal" and "Constant Craving." It wraps up with her soaring version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
Grand-Maitre describes lang as an extraordinary singer, and says opera singers and pop stars have confided in him that they consider her voice one of the greatest of her time. The ballet's dancers must have heard her music 700 times during rehearsals.
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Ainge would not reveal whether Rondo had been disciplined or fined but said the situation has been resolved. Rondo, who was not supposed to play against the Kings, did not travel to Sacramento with his teammates, instead meeting the team in Salt Lake City on Sunday. Rondo has played in the past two games and told reporters his plans were his "business. Not yours."
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Inserts in newspapers offer a flexible, affordable and creative advertising solution to many marketers. Four experts discuss a variety of ways that you can utilize this channel.
Engage readers with special events
Whether it's a spectacular party or a unique program, events can serve as a subscriber-building boon for publications. Four experts share their secrets on making a big splash.
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Fire up a fan frenzy
Facing an increasingly crowded market, entertainment marketers are using creative direct tactics to engage consumers and build buzz
Inserts "play well" with other media
If you're looking for an affordable investment that easily connects to other channels, inserts are a great choice. Four experts discuss how to take advantage of this strategy.
The lap of luxury
Super-glossy magazines with high-income readers have become an exclusive, small-circulation club.
Keys to attracting magazine readers
There are many direct marketing strategies and tactics that can be used to help magazines increase circulation. Four experts share what has worked and what hasn't worked.
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