text:
Comment by Mauricio
Mauricio May 19, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Wow…. I love the photos of Pecs…. beautiful.
2024 km so far.
We both woke up tired after our 100 km plus ferry plus flat tire ride yesterday. But, with only 47 km to go to Pecs, we figured it would be an easy day.
The room rate included breakfast, which is almost never a good thing. We'd much rather eat our homemade muesli and the soy milk that we've been carrying around with us. This morning's breakfast, which read bread, jam, and cheese on the menu came served with some bonus slices of 1970s sandwich meat. It had little chopped up bits of red and yellow peppers sprinkled through it and the meat was a pasty pinkish colour. Even if I wasn't a vegetarian, I never would've eaten it.
At least bad breakfast means we don't linger. We wheeled our bikes out of the hotel nice and early only to discover that my front tire was completely flat again. Clearly yesterday's patch hadn't stuck.
This time we replaced the tube with one of our spares and no bickering ensued.
From what we've seen of Hungary so far, we'd be excused for thinking it is just one huge windy farm. We've seen nothing but field after field of wheat, corn, and rapeseed.
Every once in a while the gorgeous view is broken up by a large-scale animal farm – not quite a factory farm, but by far the closest thing we've seen since we left America.
Even so, every once in a while a tidy, lined bike path emerges beside the highway, as if from nowhere. We swerve to get on and marvel at the reasoning behind it. To our eyes there is nothing around but an empty road running through farmland and then suddenly, there is an empty road running through farmland with a bike path alongside it. Even more marvellous, we always end up passing farmers and other locals blithely riding along the route.
The logic astounds us even more when we remember that our friends back home are unable to get the city to put in a bike lane on Figueroa, which is a heavily trafficked, plenty wide, kind of scary road that runs from downtown LA to Highland Park, our old neighbourhood. Maybe LA could borrow some bike paths from Hungary.
Just as suddenly as these rural bike paths appear, they disappear, spitting us back out on the highway in seemingly random places.
Not long after one of these mysterious disappearances, Stephen informed me we had now ridden more than 2,000 km!
The other remarkable thing we've noticed on the highways in this area is the killer hills. Just like the bike paths, you never see them coming, but all of a sudden the bike feels very heavy and you notice you're looking up at the sky.
In several places today, trucks struggled up the road beside us, barely going faster than us because of the steep grade. I'm not ashamed to say there was one hill where I had to get off and walk, and one hill, just outside of Pecs, where I had to rest twice on the way up, since it went on for kilometres.
From the maps, I gather we are supposed to be on something called the Great Plain, but I'm not sure what has become of it. Maybe we need to head just a little further east.
We had no real idea what to expect from Pecs, but we're pleasantly surprised so far. It's the first actual city we've been in in Hungary, and the first time the number of Hungarians outpaces the number of Germans around.
Our hostel is old school, nothing like the modern ultra-designed places we stayed at in Slovenia. Still, it couldn't be more centrally located, and it has a homey feel we didn't get in the hi-tech places. We also received a warm welcome from Mirko, the man running this joint, who, as it turns out, is a cycling fanatic and yogi.
He recommended a "biker bar" for us to check out. I was kind of expecting somewhere with rough-looking people in leathers, but instead it was full of young people with bicycles.
We drank local beers and ignored each other as we caught up on the internet to the soundtrack of Tricky on the bar stereo. When Stephen went to pay, the bartender said, "You're cycling from Rome to Russia, right?"
At last, we are famous in Hungary. ♥
Pingback: Mad About You | My Five Acres
Pingback: It's All Jöga | My Five Acres
Mauricio May 19, 2013 at 4:56 pm
Wow…. I love the photos of Pecs…. beautiful.
Ellie May 19, 2013 at 10:46 am
Congratulations on passing 2000km! I just wanted to say how much I am enjoying your posts. I hope you continue to enjoy more days than you struggle. :-)


text:
Casting Shark Tank: Crushing Dreams and Changing Lives
Fighting Idea Fatigue behind the scenes at the hit ABC show.READ MORE »
Fighting Idea Fatigue behind the scenes at the hit ABC show.READ MORE »
"What was our volume last year, Slater?"READ MORE »
Last year's breakout hits New Girl and 2 Broke Girls have had a disturbing drop-off, Sons of Anarchy is a Tuesday powerhouse, and more.READ MORE »
Why doesn't Shark Tank get any love?READ MORE »
Plus: Chis Brown gives his next album a title.READ MORE »
And, strangely, Jeff Foxworthy is involved.READ MORE »
Chef Shames 'Insulting,' 'Entitled' Customers on Instagram After They Threaten Nasty Yelp Reviews
18 Women on What Contractions Really Feel Like
That Time the Avengers Battled Scientology
HBO's Scientology Exposé Going Clear Is Jaw-Dropping
When Is a Penis Too Good to Break Up With?
What It's Like to Be a Woman in a Field That's Still 99 Percent Male
The Life and Crimes of Robert Durst: A Timeline
10 Women on Their Female Bosses
Saturday Night Live Recap: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Is SNL Viagra
Dwayne Johnson Crushes His Republican Foes as The Rock Obama on SNL

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Vintage toys: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Thumper, and... Idiot?
The 1949 Airboy comic has an ad for 5 puppets: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Thumper... and Idiot. We'll assume Idiot is not a Disney-licensed character, though he looks a bit like their Hunchback. The same firm also sold Halloween masks: Read the rest
Read the rest
All the vintage Hallowe'en masks
Brechtbug's Halloween Costumes Vintage Photos collection is a triumph, and arguably what both infinite scroll and the Internet were invented for.
1949 chart shows difference between high- and low-brow taste
Paperback cover model Steve Holland: mercenary, cop, crook, and hot nerd
Eric Bradley of Heritage Auctions sent me an item about a paperback cover model from the 1960s and 1970s named Steve Holland.
In the 1970s, if you were an artist who wanted to portray masculinity on a paperback cover, there was only one man to choose as your model: actor Steve Holland. And we almost mean that literally. You can't get away from the guy. Do you like pulp reprints? Holland modeled for both Doc Savage and The Avenger. Do you prefer "Executioner"-style men's adventure vigilantes? Holland was both the Sharpshooter and the Penetrator (among others!). Why would you want to use anyone else than the firm-jawed, deep-set-eyed Steve Holland? The guy just radiated machismo! We can't fault artists for using him again and again, the man is just so darn manly!
As luck would have it, this week's Heritage auction has a 28-book lot of which every single one depicts Holland on the cover. Put on your steeliest glare and click here.
Compilation of 1950s game show opening titles
Matthew says: "[Here's} a video I put together featuring the opening titles for 20 different American game shows of the 1950s. Unfortunately, I was unable to get copies of 50s game shows from other countries. Most of the shows featured in this video were legit, a few of them weren't. Most of these aired live, so expect the occasional technical fault. The episodes excerpted in this video can be viewed in their entirety on the Internet Archive"
Low-cost housing. Saint Louis, Mo. 1936
Highly-desirable stuff from 1976 issue of Boys Life
1915 photo of newsboys in Los Angeles
May 1915. "Nine-year-old newsie and his 7-year-old brother 'Red.' Tough specimen of Los Angeles newsboys." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. -- Shorpy
Front Page Detective cover: "LSD, A New Religion"
What an utterly fantastic cover for the July 1967 issue of Front Page Detective magazine, up for auction on eBay.
True Crime Detective Magazines 1924-1969 (Gallery)
Eric Godtland and Dian Hanson have lovingly compiled a picture book about crime magazines from the mid-20th century called True Crime Detective Magazines 1924-1969. It's loaded with exceedingly lurid, attention-grabbing magazine covers and illustrations.
See more images
At the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into criminals and ordinary criminals into celebrities, America's true crime detective magazines were born. True Detective came first in 1924, and by 1934, when the Great Depression had produced colorful outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger, the magazines were so popular cops and robbers alike vied to see themselves on the pages. Even FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover wrote regularly for what came to be called the "Dickbooks," referring to a popular slang term for a detective.
As the decades rolled on, the magazines went through a curious metamorphosis, however. When liquor was once more legal, the Depression over and all the flashy criminals dead or imprisoned, the "detectives" turned to sin to make sales. Sexy bad girls in tight sweaters, slit skirts, and stiletto heels adorned every cover. Cover lines shouted "I Was a Girl Burglar—For Kicks," "Sex Habits of Women Killers," "Bride of Sin!," "She Played Me for a Sucker," and most succinctly, "Bad Woman."
True Crime Detective Magazines follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969. Hundreds of covers and interior images from dozens of magazine titles tell the story, not just of the "detectives," but also of America's attitudes towards sex, sin, crime and punishment over five decades. With texts by magazine collector Eric Godtland, George Hagenauer and True Detective editor Marc Gerald, True Crime Detective Magazines is an informative and entertaining look at one of the strangest publishing niches of all time.
Kitten being carried on back of doll (1914)
Photo by Harry W. Frees.
Vikki "The Back" Dougan - 1950s It Girl
In the 1950's Vikki Dougan appeared on the cover of Life, on countless LP sleeves, in the pages of Playboy, and in magazine ads for grooming products. Deanna of Kitsch-Slapped, who posted a ton of photos and a bio about Dougan says, "you may not recognize her from the front, but you likely recognize her backside — hence her nickname, 'The Back.'"
Vintage vinegar valentines: mass-produced insult cards
The history of how-to
Kinetic energy, as illustrated by Disney
This is the difference between low kinetic energy (top) and high kinetic energy (bottom), as illustrated in the 1956 Disney book Our Friend the Atom. It may be useful in visualizing some of the ideas presented in my recent feature on space radiation.
From Fresh Photons, a fantastic blog chock full of science pictures.
Via David Ng
The best weird and wonderful Christmas videos you ever did see!
It's Christmastime, and if there's anything that can unite a nation, even one that doesn't universally love the holidays, it's a collection of wonderfully weird vintage Christmas videos. And even if you don't like the holidays, you'll probably still enjoy these strange (but fun) attempts at whimsy and festivity.
The video is freakish not for the video itself, but for how freakishly progressive it was when it was made -- in 1913!
Read the rest
That story about a woman whose vote was a tie-breaker? Totally a Popeye cartoon.
(Video link) A local election in Cincinnato, Ohio came down to one vote from one person who thought it just wouldn't matter. But as it turns out, that person was the wife of Robert McDonald, who was running for a city council position -- and the race ended up tied. Katie McDonald just couldn't make it to the polls on Tuesday, and now the election will be decided with a coin toss.
Except for the coin toss, this was basically the premise for a 1956 episode of Popeye the Sailor, "Popeye For President," in which Miss Olive Oyl was too busy doing household chores to go cast her own tie-breaking vote for either Popeye (I-Spinach Party) or Bluto (I-Blutocratic Party). What's great about this vintage cartoon is not just the message about the importance of voting, but all the jokes that can be made about two "politicians" offering potential voters "stuff" and doing actual physical labor for the single woman vote.
(via My Vintage Generation)
Vintage video of Peter Weller on the set of 1987's RoboCop
(Video link) While we wait for Jose Padilha's upcoming (but delayed) reboot of RoboCop, here is an old clip from Entertainment Tonight featuring the 1987 movie's star, Peter Weller. On the set, he goofs around a bit, talks about the robo-suit, and reminds us why RoboCop is such a timeless and awesome piece of cinema. I'd buy that for a dollar, but YouTube is actually free! (via Blastr)
Vintage train fan excited about rare vintage train is the new "Double Rainbow" (video)
[Video Link] Double rainbow, all the way. Oh my god. (via Newley Purnell)
Update: CNN's Jeanne Moos uncovered the even funnier story behind "Double Trainbow," here. And the original it lovingly parodies, by "foamer" and excitable railfan Mark McDonough, is below. His YouTube channel is a thing of beauty.
Decorate your house with vintage microscope images
I love these images of diseased cells that are currently for sale on Etsy. The photos appear to be prints made from slides taken at Duke University in the 1970s. You can pick up a set of six 8x10s for $24 or four 8x10s for $16.
Via Michelle Banks
A midcentury Happy Mutant's dining guide to New York City
This is a page from Gustavademecum for the Island of Manhattan: A Check-List of the Best-Recommended or Most Interesting Eating-Places, Arranged in Approximate Order of Increasing Latitude and Longitude — Prepared for the convenience of mathematicians, experimental scientists, engineers, and explorers. Which is possibly the best name for a dining guide ever.
Physical chemist Robert Browning Sosman passed this pocket-sized guidebook out at conferences and updated it regularly between 1941 and 1962.
The key feature: Sosman's ... somewhat unique ... observations about the restaurants he visited. And the fact that much of that information was encoded in a sort of proprietary shorthand, cribbed from scientific symbols. The result looks something like a cross between restaurant listings and an alchemist's workbook.
In each of the guide's at least 15 editions, Sosman reviewed 300 restaurants, relaying facts like cuisine and cost, as well as esoteric observations like tableside lighting (measured in lumens) and waiters' estimated IQs. All of it was written in a mashup of mathematical figures, glyphs, Greek, and astrological symbols. A sigma meant there was samba dancing. A lowercase "m" suggested that Madison Avenue types frequented the restaurant
Sadly, the Saveur.com story that this comes from doesn't include a cheat sheet guide to deciphering Sosman's shorthand. A major disappointment. Perhaps one of you can add to the information here?
A World of Thinking Robots - 1946 Kirby and Simon comic
From Real Fact Comics #2 (1946) - a Joe Simon and Jack Kirby 2-pager about robots who will undertake undesirable occupations such as secretary, housekeeper, and professional athlete.
"Global Jukebox" envisioned by folklorist, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax comes to life
(Alan Lomax, via Wikipedia)
American folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and traditional music collector Alan Lomax envisioned a "global jukebox" with which to share and analyze recordings he gathered over decades of fieldwork. This week, that dream comes to life. From an article in today's New York Times:
A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax's imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads.
On Tuesday, to commemorate what would have been Lomax's 97th birthday, the Global Jukebox label is releasing "The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center," a digital download sampler of 16 field recordings from different locales and stages of Lomax's career.
"As an archivist you kind of think like Johnny Appleseed," said Don Fleming, a musician and record producer who is executive director of the Association for Cultural Equity and involved in the project. "You ask yourself, 'How do I get digital copies of this everywhere?' "
The archive will be made available at the Global Jukebox portion of The Association For Cultural Equity website. Anna Lomax Wood, daughter of Alan Lomax, is the organization's president. They do all sorts of amazing work!
Deco commercial illustrations for Arrow Collars
JC Leyendecker's commercial illustrations from the 1920s sure were beautiful.


text:
For more information contact Eric Hannan at (415) 557-4426 or email@example.com
Look below to find more dates of Teen gaming sessions and other Teen events happening all over San Francisco.
Upcoming Events
- Game On!
- Tuesday, March 31, 2015Potrero, Potrero Meeting Room
- Video Gaming
- Saturday, April 4, 2015Ocean View, Ocean View Meeting Room
- Game On!
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015Potrero, Potrero Meeting Room


text:
Independently owned power sweeping companies across the nation have joined 1-800-SWEEPER, a new service network that offers access to local service providers through a single point of purchase. Customers will benefit from the expertise and best management practices of the group initiative, with a single point of billing and contract administration, and built-in quality control. And with their combined buying power, companies will be able to keep prices down. Select a local company or contact the main office to arrange for regional services at www.1800sweeper.com.
Lower Merion Township, Pa. (pop. 59,850), is a first-ring, full-service,...
Street Sanitation
Stronger than the grade usually used for vehicle components and lighter than aluminum,...
PUBLIC WORKS Staff
With federal highway funding expiring May 31, seems just about everyone in Washington's...
Please read our Content Guidelines before posting.
Copyright ©
2015 Hanley Wood Media, Inc. All rights reserved.


text:
I'm hoping to get a chocolate milk mouth feel and taste. I've never used any of these ingredients, so I would like some advice. How far off am I?
Title: Temporal Fracture Chocolate Milk Stout
Brew Method: BIAB
Style Name: Sweet Stout
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 5.5 gallons
Boil Size: 7 gallons
Efficiency: 65%
Original Gravity: 1.056
Final Gravity: 1.014
10 lb - Maris Otter Pale (76.9%)
1.25 lb - Chocolate (9.6%)
0.75 lb - Flaked Oats (5.8%)
0.5 lb - Caramel / Crystal 60L (3.8%)
0.5 lb - Roasted Barley (3.8%)
0.5 oz - Millenium (AA 17.5) for 60 min
0.5 oz - Mount Hood (AA 4.8) for 30 min
1) Infusion, Temp: 153 F, Time: 60 min
1 lb - lactose , Time: 10 min
*taste at bottling, not "chocolately" enough, add chocolate extract. (How much?)
Wyeast - London Ale 1028
Bottle Conditioned, 4.5oz priming sugar.
Generated by Brewer's Friend - http://www.brewersfriend.com/
I've made a stout with a very similar recipe, only differences in the grain bill were 1 lb of chocolate instead of 1.25 and 1 lb of oats instead of 0.75. I really enjoyed it, and I really think a lb of lactose would have only made it better. I'd honestly skip any hop additions past 60 min, you really won't be trying to draw anything from the hops, so just maximize your IBUs with a single bittering addition.
I agree with phenry, for a sweet stout, especially if you add chocolate, hit your target IBUs only with a 60 minute addition.
As far as the chocolate, if you want a chocolate taste, there are probably better ways to go than extract. I've had success aging beer on cacao nibs, others use cocoa powder either at the end of the boil or at bottling. How much to use would all depend on how much of a chocolate taste you want. 2-4oz seems to be pretty subtle, 4-8oz is a common amount for a noticeable amount, and 8oz+ gets a lot of chocolate flavor. If you do a search for cacao nibs or cocoa powder, you should be able to find a lot more in depth detail.
I'll edit to only include a single stage of bittering hops when I brew. Thanks! I've actually looked into cocoa powder, Baker's chocolate, and cocoa nibs but I've heard they can impart a strong bitterness. Any truth to that? How much chocolate flavor can I expect for it being ~10% of my grist? I've only brewed lighter beers to this point and use 80/20 RO to tap water. My tap water is rather hard but I think I've read that's better for a stout? Should I do a 50/50 RO to tap? I can post my water profile if that helps.
Well, chocolate is bitter, the darker, the more bitter. But that's not bad, it goes well with beer. The few times I've used nibs, I haven't noticed any unpleasant bitterness. And having 1.25 lbs of chocolate and .5 lbs of roasted barley will give it a nice roasted character, similar to the roasted, burnt flavor of cacao nibs, and it can taste kind of chocolate-y, but if you want a distinctive chocolate flavor, you'll need to add cacao or cocoa.
I don't really know much about water profiles, but you probably will need to post it to get good advice.
With that much roasted grains you'll probably be fine no matter how hard your water is, but feel free to post up your profile anyways. I'm definitely no expert on water chemistry, but I can probably do enough so as to point you in the right direction.
Ca+2: 35ppm
Mg+2: 17
Na+: 2
Cl-: 4
Yeah that's definitely not too hard for what you're doing with this recipe. But wow, does your water have a ton of iron or potassium in it or something? That's a really high anion concentration for not many cations... If you do feel like messing around with water chemistry, try maybe adding some calcium chloride? Chloride is supposed to accentuate fullness and sweetness, so maybe something like 0.2-0.3 g/gal of liquor? I'm usually pretty conservative with my additions, so that may not be enough to really make a noticeable difference.


text:
Obituary & Guest Book Preview for PHYLLIS MCVICKER
PHYLLIS MCVICKER Obituary
Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on Nov. 4, 2013
First 25 of 80 words
: Phyllis Jean McVicker 3/15/28 - 11/4/04 There is no other love like a mother's love for her children. You gave us the promise of a...
View Full Obituary & Guest Book for PHYLLIS MCVICKER
PHYLLIS MCVICKER Guest Book
This Guest Book has not yet been signed. Be the first to sign.
Restore and sign this Guest Book
View Full Obituary & Guest Book for PHYLLIS MCVICKER
Ways to View
Restore Obituary & Guest Book
Keep the Obituary and Guest Book online for one of these time periods:
Permanent Sponsorship
$ 79.99
One-Year Sponsorship
$ 29.99
24-Hour Restoration
$ 2.95
Print Obituary & Guest Book
Order a professionally printed copy, starting at $39.00:
Deluxe Hardcover Book
$ 79.00
Laminated Hardcover Book
$ 59.00
Laminated Softcover Book
$ 39.00
Didn't find the Death Notice you were looking for?
Return to today's Death Notices for the News Tribune (Tacoma).
Powered By
Search Obituaries
How To
Questions? Contact Us
Privacy Policy
© 2015 Legacy.com All Rights Reserved


text:
LAT Home
Newport Beach
Los Angeles Times
'House of Cards,' or more like house of product placement?
May 3, 2013
By Matthew Fleischer
These are heady days for the online on-demand entertainment service Netflix. The company's stock recently surged 22% after a strong earnings report and news that it signed up 2 million new subscribers in the first quarter of the year. The company's success has largely been credited to its move into original content -- particularly its political drama "House of Cards." With David Fincher on the creative team, the show follows the political trials and travails of mercenary Democratic House whip Frank Underwood and his equally mercenary wife Claire.
'Other Woman' may beat 'Capt. America'; Seth Meyers to host Emmys
April 25, 2014
By Joe Flint
After the coffee. Before finding out why I'm not hosting the Emmys. The Skinny: It is never fun giving a cat medicine. Try giving your cat three different doses if you really want frustration. I'm pretty sure Skinny isn't enjoying it either. Today's roundup includes the weekend box office preview. Also, lots of debate over the FCC's proposed new Net neutrality rules, and Seth Meyers will host this year's Emmy Awards. Have a great weekend. Daily Dose: Aside from consumer groups and media watchdogs, Netflix has emerged as the most vocal opponent of Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable.
Netflix heads to Scandinavia
August 14, 2012
By Ben Fritz
Netflix's next international launch will be in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the subscription video giant announced late Tuesday. The company will launch its streaming video service in Scandinavia by the end of 2012. It did not announce further details, except that it will give subscribers a mix of Hollywood movies and television shows along with local content for a monthly fee. Netflix previously said it would launch in a new European market later this year. The Times reported in 2011 that it was considering Scandinavia along with Spain and a combination of the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Netflix sets 'The Killing's' final-season premiere
April 24, 2014
By Patrick Kevin Day
"The Killing," the cop series that wouldn't stay dead, will return for its final season on Netflix on Aug. 1. For those who remain skeptical, this is really the end. The series, which began on AMC in 2011, stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman as Seattle homicide detectives whose lives play second fiddle to their all-consuming murder investigations that span entire seasons. "The Killing" was canceled after its second season, but Fox Television...
Carl Icahn eying Netflix
November 1, 2012
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Carl Icahn has amassed a nearly 10% stake in Netflix Inc., boosting the sagging stock of the subscription video service but also making some wary that the activist investor will make waves for management. The billionaire has quietly acquired about 5.5 million shares since early September, buying stock at an average price of $58 a share - well off its peak of $298.73 in July 2011. The opportunistic Icahn said the company's stock is undervalued, given its influential role in technological changes that are revolutionizing how consumers watch movies and television shows.
Television review: 'Lilyhammer'
February 6, 2012
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
In "Lilyhammer," whose eight parts debut Monday as an exclusive Netflix stream, Steven Van Zandt retrieves his Silvio wig from the "Sopranos" costume box to play Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, a New York mobster who retreats into witness protection in Lillehammer, Norway. He remembers the town from broadcasts of the 1994 Winter Olympics as a place of "clean air, fresh white snow, gorgeous broads" and figures it will be the last place anyone would think to look for him. You know how that will go. To say that this is the first original series from the video rental giant is not to say that it originated with the company.
Meet Max: The new voice of Netflix recommendations
June 28, 2013
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
In a world where mobile phones, game consoles and a growing number of technologies talk back to consumers, Netflix is giving its movie and TV recommendation service a voice. Netflix has unveiled a talking, human-like interface named "Max," who greets subscribers with a game-show host's exuberance and invites them to play irreverent games, such as "Max's Mystery Call" and "Celebrity Mood Ring." It seeks to inject humor into the analytical process of offering viewing suggestions - and to further differentiate the service from competitors such as Amazon.com or Hulu.
Netflix and 'SpongeBob' to split?
April 22, 2013
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Netflix said it plans to let its deal to carry Nickelodeon, BET and MTV content expire next month, even though it continues to discuss licensing certain shows. The video subscription service said it has been moving away from broad, multi-year deals with networks and cable channels, in favor of more selective licensing arrangements to carry programs that will work best for its subscribers. Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, in a letter to shareholders, said a recent deal with Warner Bros.
Netflix 'streamageddon?' Not so much
May 2, 2013
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Sometimes the Internet can amplify big ideas. Other times it's an echo chamber for random noise. The latter is the case when it comes to the so-called streamageddon at Netflix, in which various bloggers opined about the loss of titles from the subscription service's streaming library - no doubt causing panic among Netflix susbscribers wondering just what they would be getting for their monthly subscription fees. It turns out, the great "Netflix purge" of 2013 was wildly exaggerated. PHOTOS: Cable vs. broadcast ratings The rumblings started when a site called "Instant Watcher," which monitors the comings and goings of movie and television titles, got the ball rolling, reporting that 1,794 titles, including some classic James Bond films such as "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," would disappear on May 1. Other mainstream news sites, including CNN Money, picked up the story and attributed the development to Netflix's evolution from broad digital distributor to more selective programmer.
Netflix gets more social with Facebook
March 13, 2013
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Netflix Inc. has unveiled new social features to make it easier for subscribers to discover new TV shows and movies and discuss them with their friends. Starting Wednesday, subscribers to Netflix's streaming service can link their accounts to Facebook, allowing them to see what their friends have watched. Through this integration, new recommendations will appear in the subscriber's Netflix queue under rows labeled "Friends' Favorites" and "Watched by your friends. " In a nod to privacy considerations, Netflix subscribers can opt to share what they've watched only within the Netflix experience -- or choose to share viewing information on Facebook.
Aereo case heard in Supreme Court; Netflix to raise prices
April 22, 2014
By Joe Flint
After the coffee. Before hearing about the Aereo case at the Supreme Court. The Skinny: The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning will hear arguments in the ABC vs. Aereo case. Aereo is an Internet startup that broadcasters charge steal their signals. Alas, I won't be there, but I have a high court story for you anyway. When I was based in Washington, I occasionally covered the Supreme Court. You have to dress nice and they will wake you if you doze off. Other stories in Tuesday's Fix include Netflix saying it will raise prices and Comcast posting its second-quarter results.
Analysts cheer Netflix price-hike plans; stock rises
April 22, 2014
By Ryan Faughnder
Here's one group that's happy about Netflix's planned price hikes: Wall Street. The video giant said Monday it will soon raise prices for new customers of its streaming service by $1 or $2 a month as it bets its growing slate of original content will continue to draw subscribers. Existing customers will continue to pay current prices for a time. Wall Street analysts praised the coming hikes as a way to drive profitability as...
Netflix to raise prices, says it opposes Comcast-TWC merger
April 21, 2014
By Ryan Faughnder
Higher prices are the new black for Netflix. The Los Gatos, Calif., streaming video company plans to raise prices for new customers by $1 or $2 a month this quarter, the company said Monday in its quarterly earnings release. Existing customers will continue to pay the current prices for "a generous time period," the company said. Access to the company's streaming video library currently costs $7.99 a month for suscribers in the United States, and Netflix has been experimenting with pricing models as it spends to improve its selection of movies and television shows and builds out its slate of original content.
Nasdaq plunges on tech stock sell-off
April 10, 2014
By Walter Hamilton
A plunge in once-soaring technology shares sent Nasdaq into a triple-digit decline and yanked the rest of the stock market down with it. Erstwhile darlings such as Netflix Inc. and Facebook Inc., as well as biotechnology highfliers such as Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc., sank Thursday as investors fled many names they had favored just a few weeks ago. The sell-off was less a result of economic developments as it was the hard reality of a...
Tribune Digital Ventures buying TV by the Numbers, relaunches Zap2it
April 3, 2014
By Ryan Faughnder
Tribune Digital Ventures, the technology and innovation arm of Tribune Co., has agreed to acquire TV by the Numbers, a source of television ratings analysis and programming news, the company said Thursday. Tribune Digital Ventures is also relaunching its entertainment website Zap2it to focus on helping consumers discover programming to watch on traditional TV and streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Financial details were...
Review: 'Short Poppies' on Netflix blooms with whimsical potential
April 3, 2014
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic
Rhys Darby, who played personal manager (and New Zealand deputy cultural attache) Murray Hewitt on HBO's "Flight of the Conchords," has created a series in which to star. "Short Poppies" gets a U.S. premiere Thursday via Netflix, all eight episodes at once, only a couple of days after it bows in its native New Zealand. The title plays off "tall poppies," a common Commonwealth phrase, borrowed from the Greeks to describe persons of accomplishment or quality whose distinction can also make them targets.
Netflix snags reruns of Showtime's 'Dexter'
October 28, 2013
By Joe Flint
Netflix has struck a deal for reruns of the Showtime series "Dexter," which ended its run last month. The sale is somewhat unique because pay-TV channels are often reluctant to sell their shows to another pay service. HBO, for example, does not sell its shows to Netflix. Under the terms of the deal, Showtime will still be able to telecast episodes of "Dexter" on its network as well as make the show available on its digital platform Showtime Anytime. CBS, which owns Showtime, is also selling reruns of "Dexter" to a basic cable network.
Netflix expands streaming deal with PBS
July 3, 2013
By Joe Flint
The competition between Amazon and Netflix for content is good news for PBS. Last week, Amazon.com struck a deal with PBS for kids' shows "Caillou," "Arthur" and "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" as well as episodes of "Nova," "Masterpiece" and Ken Burns documentaries. Earlier this year, Amazon landed subscription video rights to repeats of "Downton Abbey. " PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments Now Netflix has renewed and expanded its own deal with PBS. Some of the content Netflix will have rights to overlap with Amazon, but it also has exclusive rights to certain shows, including the murder mystery "The Bletchley Circle" and "Super Why!
Amazon's Fire TV latest platform for Netflix rival Prime Instant
April 2, 2014
By Ryan Faughnder
Amazon.com Inc. has officially entered the Internet video streaming set-top box market. Dubbed Fire TV, the Seattle online retailer's new $99 offering features a small remote control, voice search capability, online gaming and video applications including Netflix, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, Showtime and YouTube. Notably, HBO Go is not yet on Fire TV, but an Amazon spokesman said the company is working with the pay-TV network to make it available. To be sure, Amazon Fire TV users would still need a pay-TV subscription to HBO to access HBO Go. The long-anticipated device is also the latest platform for Amazon's own Netflix rival Prime Instant Video, which the company hopes will attract people to its $99-a-year Prime service that gives subscribers free two-day shipping and access to its on-demand streaming library as well as original shows. ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll Amazon has been making deals with programmers to get more content for its service.
The war between Netflix and Comcast bursts into the open
March 24, 2014
By Michael Hiltzik
It was obviously a little soon for everyone to claim that February's deal between Netflix and Comcast, assuring the video streaming service more direct connections to Comcast's home customers, resolved the issues between them. Or does anyone think Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian people are now pals? Last week, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings fired a broadside at his supposed new partner over the issue of network neutrality, the principle that all services and content providers on the Internet should get equal access to an Internet service provider's customers.
Copyright 2015 Los Angeles Times
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy


text:
Yorkshire (town), New York
|Yorkshire, New York
|Coordinates: 42°29′9″N 78°30′32″W / 42.48583°N 78.50889°W
|United States
|New York
|• Type
|Town Council
|• Town Supervisor
|Marcia J. Spencer (D)
|• Town Council
Members' List
|• Total
|36.4 sq mi (94.3 km2)
|• Land
|36.3 sq mi (93.9 km2)
|• Water
|0.2 sq mi (0.4 km2)
|1,697 ft (517 m)
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|• Density
|108/sq mi (41.7/km2)
|Time zone
|Eastern (EST)
|ZIP code
|14173 (Yorkshire)
14042 (Delevan)
|FIPS code
Yorkshire is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 3,913 at the 2010 census.[1] The town is located on the northern edge and in the northeast quadrant of the county.
The area that would become the town was first settled around 1810. The town of Yorkshire was formed in 1820 from the "town of Ischua" (now Franklinville). In 1827, the south part of the town was taken to form the town of Machias.
Western historian and notable U.S. Army engineer Hiram M. Chittenden was born in Yorkshire on October 25, 1858.[2]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.4 square miles (94.3 km2), of which 36.3 square miles (93.9 km2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 0.40%, is water.[1]
The northern border of the town is formed by Cattaraugus Creek and Erie County. Part of the eastern border is formed by Wyoming County.
New York State Route 16 (north-south) and New York State Route 39 (east-west) intersect and briefly conjoin in the town.
Adjacent towns[edit]
As of the census[3] of 2000, there were 4,210 people, 1,670 households, and 1,122 families residing in the town. The population density was 113.9 people per square mile (44.0/km²). There were 1,938 housing units at an average density of 52.4 per square mile (20.2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.81% White, 0.10% Black or African American, 0.33% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.14% from other races, and 0.33% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.59% of the population.
There were 1,670 households out of which 33.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.5% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.8% were non-families. 26.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.06.
In the town the population was spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 101.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $31,060, and the median income for a family was $39,229. Males had a median income of $30,103 versus $22,205 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,842. About 9.1% of families and 13.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.5% of those under age 18 and 11.9% of those age 65 or over.
Notable people[edit]
- Hiram M. Chittenden, leading historian of the American West
- Rodney R. Crowley, former New York Inspector of State Prisons
- Irving Stringham, mathematician
Communities and locations in Yorkshire[edit]
- Delevan – The village of Delevan is located in the northeast part of the town, south of Yorkshire village on NY Route 16 and County Roads 20, 21, and 73.
- The Forks – A location near the north town line west of Yorkshire village.
- Lime Lake Outlet – A north-flowing stream that passes west of Delevan and empties into Cattaraugus Creek near Yorkshire village.
- McKinstrys Hollow – A location by the junction of County Roads 20 and 75 in the south-central part of the town.
- Silliman's Corners – A location near the north town line west of Yorkshire village, located on County Road 72.
- Yorkshire – The hamlet of Yorkshire is located on NY Route 16 and former County Roads 54 and 72 in the northeast corner of the town by Cattaraugus Creek.
- ^ a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Yorkshire town, Cattaraugus County, New York". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ^ Le Roy, Bruce, ed. (1961). H.M. Chittenden-A Western Epic-Being a Selection from his unpublished Journals, Diaries and Reports. Tacoma, Wa: Washington State Historic Society. p. 89.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
External links[edit]


text:
Rock Music News
NCDD Voting Starts NOW!
Dad Gives Son A Get Well Card With A Winning Lottery Ticket Inside
?Teletubbies? in black and white is the tenth circle of hell
Bid on ENC ? Local Online Auction
WATCH: Weatherman Wishes He Had That Last Sentence Back
Tinder Hack Matches Unaware Straight Men, Odd Conversations Ensue
© Copyright Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Streamer Help / Support


text:
If Kid Shows were real
BLOOPERS&DELETED SCENES: You need to login to view this link
DOWNLOAD SEXY ALBUM: You need to login to view this link
What would happen if kids shows were real?
Hey it's our very own website: smosh.com
Oh and our Facebook page: facebook.com/smosh
Want to know when we're filming and/or pooping? Now you can: twitter.com/smosh


text:
Make salads a main course with these tasty, nutritious and filling recipes.
Video: Serve up a salad bar tonight for a healthy, no-cook family meal (see how!)
Chopped Salad
Chopped Salad
Cost per serving: $1.71
This healthy salad is chockful of yummy veggies, and the avocado and egg make it super-filling. Save time and make it a day in advance; just be sure to wait and dress it until you are ready to serve.
See recipe: Chopped Salad


text:
Donald McCabe
College test manuals make cheating easier
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Textbook manuals offering "test banks'' of questions are a new frontier in college cheating, professors say. Donald McCabe, a business professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey who studies college cheating, said the UCF case is ambiguous since students might not have known the exact questions would be on their exam.
Is rise in cheating due to technology or values?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
About 200 students admitted their involvement, but some have questioned whether the incident was actually cheating. Donald McCabe, founding president of the International Center for Academic Integrity, told Inside Higher Ed that surveys show far more faculty say there is cheating than students, suggesting shifting norms about the issue. "What we called cheating 20 years ago isn't called cheating...
Cheating and the Generational Divide
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
In regards to shared responsibility, shifting norms, and such finger-pointing back and forth when cheating serves no purpose, said Fishman and Donald McCabe, founding president of the International Center for Academic Integrity and a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University at Newark. "I think this really suggests there's an onus on us to understand that there are these...
UW-Madison students, faculty struggle with plagiarism in Internet era
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
When UW-Madison chemistry lecturer Jeanine Batterton accused 42 students last fall of plagiarism on a written lab assignment in Chem 104, she was floored by the range of "bizarre excuses" offered by the undergraduates. Donald McCabe, professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the International Center for Academic Integrity, has been researching academic misconduct for 20 years and he says...
Friday, September 3, 2010
What makes a good person makes for a good worker. But teaching those values is tricky. How does one lead a class in being honest? Coastal Carolina University has handed this tough job to Michael Pierce, a biology professor who takes on the newly created mantle of academic integrity officer. Pierce takes on the challenge as schools across the nation struggle with the same problem. Surveys...
Ex-Pocantico superintendent accused of plagiarism gets doctorate revoked
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Donald McCabe, a business professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University, said that there were some examples of teachers or administrators caught plagiarizing but not many. "It seems to me that when teachers or administrators get themselves in trouble like this — particularly administrators, higher-level administrators — it's swept under...
MBA Program Withdraws From China Due to "Widespread Plagiarism," Other Issues
Monday, July 26, 2010
A small New Jersey college has decided to close its China MBA program after finding evidence that students there engaged in rampant cheating. Centenary College, a Hackettstown-NJ-based institution, ended its MBA program for Chinese-speaking students after finding "evidence of widespread plagiarism," the school said in a statement posted on its website today. Donald McCabe, founder of the Center...
Poor Work Ethics Risk Future of U.S. Business, Education and Ultimately Freedom
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
In 2005, Professor Donald McCabe at Rutgers Business School published a survey where more than 70% of students admitted to cheating at least once on a test. Cheating is not just reserved for high school students. McCabe also surveyed graduate students and discovered cheating attitudes for: 56% of business students, 54% of engineering students, 48% of education students, and 45% of law school...
Students' cheating takes a high-tech turn
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Professor Donald McCabe, at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, has conducted much of the research on cheating in U.S. schools since 1990 and says cheating on tests in high school is on the rise. In his survey of 24,000 students at 70 high schools, 64 percent of students admitted to cheating on a test, 58 percent admitted to plagiarism and 95 percent said they participated in some form of...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Indeed, despite a nationwide crackdown on everything from camera phones to drugs that help students' test performances, three in four high-school students still admit to cheating. The number admitting to plagiarizing from the Internet in particular quadrupled between 1999 and 2005, according to studies by Donald McCabe, a professor at Rutgers Business School.
Don McCabe on Radio Boston, WBUR & NPR: A Culture Of Plagiarism, Fraud In Academia (Professor McCabe's segment starts at 16:30)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Click here to listen now
Tech seeks to learn from integrity survey
Thursday, April 15, 2010
In conjunction with the Center for Academic Integrity, Texas Tech and other universities around the world are participating in the Academic Integrity Matters survey. Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University and the founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, said he plays a large role in administering the survey and Tech is one of more than...
Report on academic honesty at FGCU could lead to changes
Thursday, February 18, 2010
For some students, the line between cheating and getting a little help can be fuzzy. It is not uncommon, says Donald McCabe, a professor at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, who has spent 20 years studying academic dishonesty.
Cheating: You Have To Sweat The Small Stuff
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Cheating is widespread in our culture. Research conducted by Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School, shows that more than 70% of students across all types of education institutions report that they engage in some form of cheating. HireRight, a company that does background checks, estimates that 80% of all résumés are misleading.
Can cheating in school predict white collar crime?
Friday, January 29, 2010
Even though colleges and universities have standards for academic integrity and fairness, do today's students even believe in an honor code? We're talking about cheating on tests, plagiarizing, fabrication of facts, aiding/abetting, falsification of records, and gaining unauthorized access to materials. Donald McCabe of Rutgers University (as reported by U.S.News & World Report) stated that...
The Poor Work Ethics Risk Future U.S. economy, education, and ultimately freedom
Thursday, January 28, 2010
In 2005, Donald McCabe of Rutgers University published a survey that more than 70% of students cheat at least once admitted to an examination. Cheating is not reserved only for altitudes students. McCabe also surveyed students and found fraud settings: 56% of business students, 54% of engineering students, 48% of the training of students and 45% of Law School Students.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
In 2006, a study found that 56 per cent of graduate business students admitted to cheating in the previous year, compared with 47 per cent of non-business students. Donald McCabe, lead researcher on the study and business strategy who is also a professor at Rutgers said, "Those numbers are probably under-reported. Since the survey was voluntary, more dishonest students were less likely to fill...
Holding the Line: It's time to confront our cheating culture and begin leading with our values
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
By certain indicators, cheating is widespread in our culture. In research by Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School, more than 70 percent of students across all types of education report that they engage in some form of cheating. (Newsletter by www.handsorganization.org)
Graduate Schools Win Chinese Protection Against Test Cheaters
Monday, December 7, 2009
A Chinese court barred a Beijing- based Internet site from selling materials such as questions from the Graduate Management Admission Test, bolstering business schools' efforts to combat cheating by applicants. The Chinese court ruling "will scare some people from cheating in the short term now that they realize they could be affected by this and have their GMAT score canceled," said Donald...
University puts cheats to shame
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Although there are few statistics available to gauge the extent of the problem, a study last year by Dr. Donald McCabe, a professor at Rutgers University in the US, found that, out of 2,600 students at Zayed University, many admitted to cheating and felt able to justify it.


text:
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
By Editor-in-Chief, Luka Bakić
The much anticipated move to the high school has been contemplated since the year 2003. Promises have been made and promises have been broken, however, with the primary goal still in place. This year, results were finally displayed. Thanks to the hard work and commitment of the International School of Belgrade Board and the Serbian government, on February 24, 2011, the prolonged process of creating a new middle school was set in motion with the cordial ceremony of groundbreaking.
The creation of the new ISB Middle School is another beginning for the students of ISB. The construction of the new middle school will provide greater amenities for the students, thus positively affecting our learning without altering the core principles by which our school educates.
The social stigma contemplated by students is mainstreamed towards the idea that this project will never be complete. Currently my brother, sister and I go to three different ISB campuses. We have a bubble instead of a gymnasium. There are no showers, no changing rooms and certainly there is no cafeteria.
All of these problems, as we have been informed, will be bridged by this new construction. It makes me happy that the ISB students who remain, and the ones who will come in the future, will work in better conditions that will improve both their sports and school life.
For all of the people who have been waiting patiently for the new middle, I can firmly assert, you're wait is over. The new ISB Middle School will exemplify the quality of learning through a community deserving of an IB League school.
The Front Page > Middle School Front Page >


text:
Virgin Media's wi-fi on the Tube arrives at 150 stations
The company and London Underground celebrate the latest landmark in a key service for Londonders.
The company and London Underground celebrate the latest landmark in a key service for Londonders.
Commonwealth Bank has promoted David Whiteing to the chief information officer role, replacing Michael Harte who is leaving the company to join Barclays Bank in London.
Google has acquired London-based Spider.io, a company focused on cleaning up the Web.
Digital Shoreditch has opened entries on a competition to provide one London-based tech startup with £1m in funding, with the aim of growing the winning company into a £100m business.
IBM Notes automatically allows the execution of Java applets and JavaScript contained in emails, leading to potential security issues, the company has confirmed.
Despite its two biggest exporters being foreign owned, Estonia's IT industry is starting to boost its export credentials.
Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. With each update, Java actively tries to install unwanted software. Here's what it does, and why it has to stop.
Amazon's plan to add 100 more staff to its Digital Media Development Centre in London will see the company hiring university leavers.
For those wanting to set up a tech company, there's a lot to consider. ZDNet takes a look at some of the major start-up hubs in EMEA and what each can bring for those wanting to get their own IT business off the ground. Last up, a look at London.
The10.1-inch successor to the Galaxy Note phone-tablet hybrid will go on sale at Samsung's Stratford store in London first, the company has revealed
SOS: Save Our Sibelius. Users of the popular British music notation program are trying to get its US-based owner, Avid Technology, to sell it to another company following the closure of the London development studio.
Intel is to turn London into a testbed for new technologies that it hopes can make city life more connected and sustainable.The company announced the creation of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities on Thursday.
The London-based hosting company has introduced two services to its cloud for small businesses that want to provision servers or host simple websites, going up against Amazon with bundled support
O2's 4G network trial in London has achieved download speeds of up to 150Mbps and low latency rates using the 2.6GHz range of spectrum, the company has said.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison described on the stand the different licenses available for Java, citing that Google is the only company that hasn't signed up for any of them.
Internet telephony service Skype is set to hire 400 people in five cities across the world, with a quarter to be based in London.Microsoft-owned Skype plans to take on 100 employees in London to support the launch of a new technology centre, the company told the BBC on Wednesday.
Skype is to hire 400 people between London and Stockholm, as the Microsoft-owned company seeks to expand its presence in the UK and Europe.
The company that operates London Overground has signed a deal with Wi-Fi provider The Cloud, but it will be an entirely separate network from Virgin Media's Tube system
The parent company of O2 is hoping to nurture and develop technological innovation in the UK and Europe by extending its Wayra programme to London
The company has set up a trial of free Wi-Fi hotspots, using 26 payphone boxes in busy areas of central London to provide streetside connections open to anyone to use on any device


text:
Identification Fun!!
So, I recently ripped out my lawn and replaced it with mostly native stuff. However, during the craziness of all this, I lost track of which plants are which in some cases.
All of the plants come from three sources (I'm in Capitol Hill in Seattle FYI): the fall northwest native plant sale (some of which are from seed), a private nursery in Renton that I happened upon, and from the Northfork river area of Northbend (I go out there to get free berry plants, ferns, bleeding heart, etc.).
Please let me know if you know what any of this is for sure:
FYI, I can't embed the images, as flikr won't allow it and they're way too high rez to do so anyhow
#1 - I *think* this is a sumac, though the leaves are different from anything I can find on google, and it's not like the leaves of a longhorn sumac:
#2 - I sure thought this was thimbleberry when I dug it up, but I'm not 100% sure:
#3 - Unknown flower I grew from seed. I have a ton of these, but the sticker got ruined in the rain over winter. Got the seeds from the NWNPS:
#4 - Not a clue. I think I got this in northbend? Fireweed maybe? Who knows!
#5 - No clue what this is. The lower most plant in the image (above is (I think) clustered bellflower and false lily of the valley). But the bottom plant was a hitchiker... I hope that's not poison oak:
#6 - This came with the house. Some kind of oak?
#7 - Came with the house... not a clue:
#8 - Came with the house... some kind of rose, just not sure what kind:
#9 - Woodland or coastal strawberry? I have both from the NWNPS, but can't tell them apart. I have about 5 of each plant. Only one is pictured here. It has sent out about 10 feet of runners in the last 2 weeks!
I'm thinking of ripping out 6, 7, and 8, as I only kept them while re-landscaping because I felt bad for them. They're likely all non-native.
Thank you for any help you can provide!!!
Thanks so much wynswrld98! I hope that is lupine, as it's pretty and I do remember that name from the seeds I bought.
The other one, forsythia... I looked that up and I really don't think that's it. I would remember those vivid yellow flowers. Or it might be that I don't ever remember that plant bloombing at all. Maybe it hasn't had the chance to (it's very shaded where it's at)
Thanks again! Going to check more on that lupine and see if I can find any young examples to compare it to.
#6 looks like a vine maple? Maybe? I have one about the same size at home and will look closer at it.
Yeah Forsythia would rarely bloom in the shade, they want full sun, but the plant sure looks like a Forsythia to me. If you have the space somewhere in full sun I'd recommend moving it there, they're beautiful flowering in early spring before hardly anything else is even thinking about flowering (except perhaps daffodils).
You may know better once you see some flowers, but here are a few guesses.
1. tiger eye sumac
2. thimbleberry
4 could be an Erigeron
5. could be water leaf--Hydrophyllum tenuipes?
6 Viburnum trilobum?
7. get a clear in focus picture of the stem to verify Forsythia
9. not likely coastal--would have shiny evergreen leaves
1 not native
2 some other kind of rubus, not thimbleberry
3 lupine
4 pearly everlasting
5 waterleaf
6 looks like a nonnative viburnum like snowball bush maybe, you'll need flowers.
7 forsythia
8 nonnative rose, you'll need flowers.
9 woodland strawberry, not coastal.
BTW you do know that it is illegal to dig up plants from public lands. You need the property owner's permission to dig up plants from private lands.
for# 2 try Ribes bracteosum--the leaves will be fairly shiny and with a hand lens you'll see orange glands on the underside, crushed leaves have a medicinal scent.
I don't see white tomentose underside of the leaves in your pic of #4....are they?
reg_pnw7, I didn't notice your comment last night. Yes, I do know it's illegal w/o permission. It's also technically illegal even on public land (like national forests). And I could understand that if everyone was out digging up the forests. But how many people do you know that drive 50 miles to dig up 5 or 6 plants, and with the intent of propagating more native species in Seattle, where the area was raped of its forests to begin with.
I don't personally have any issue with what I'm doing, and I wish more people would do the same, rather than have nothing but grass for a yard. If I thought I would be hurting anything, I could knock on almost anyone's door in Northbend and I'm sure they would have little issue with me taking a few salmonberry plants.
But I appreciate the warning, and I do know it's illegal.
I'm curious why you said #2 isn't thimbleberry. I thought it was originally, but I started getting doubts when I saw the reddish tint around the edges of the leaves... any idea what it might be, if not thimbleberry?
Indeed it was! Didn't see it until after I posted.
That does look a lot like it... a type of currant. Supposedly native to coastal northwest america. 'Stink currant'. Very cool, thanks Judy! I'll be able to look more closely after work today, but I bet you're right!
harvesting plants without a permit is wrong, i would put it up there with speeding.
if you want to go legit, its all of fiddy cents a plant:
Mooserider, I understand your reasonings and don't disagree completely. But, I work in ecological restoration. I am the one out there in these damaged abused public lands trying to restore them. The last thing we need (after ATVs and bulldozers and all that) is someone coming out and digging up plants that they think won't matter to anyone. You have no idea what research or restoration efforts might be going on and how your actions might be affecting that.
You're removing food and shelter and erosion control and genetic diversity when you dig up plants to take home, even when they're not part of a restoration effort. Other critters are using those plants for something. Just because Seattle's been stripped, doesn't justify stripping other places to re-landscape Seattle.
I've seen people pick flowers from rare plants. I've seen people cut trails (with a chainsaw!) through vegetative cover monitoring research plots. I see people let kids and dogs trample and dig and chase wildlife in reserves and parks. I've seen where our plants have been pulled up and removed after a big planting effort. People think, 'oh no one will care', but I care. And what about the animals and other plants that live there? they care too.
The native plant nurseries propagate native plants by cuttings and divisions and seed and such, they don't go out and dig stuff up except for salvage efforts where land is going to be bulldozed for development. It's part of the code of conduct for ethical native plant propagation. The permit system for public lands was installed because too many people were digging up too much stuff. Rhodies and subalpine firs in particular were being stripped from the forests for landscaping Seattle gardens.
Subalpine firs and subalpine hemlocks taken from the national forests are sold as 'Rustics'. They can be legally obtained by permit. Some do and some don't. I'm all for the permit process, and heavy fines for those caught digging without a permit for the reasons stated above by reg pnw.
Then we have people gathering foliage and cones for the florist industry..... with or without a permit.
I've seen people taking out whole pickup loads of rocks without a permit.
"What's the harm?", they say.
"What if everybody did it?," I say.
wynswrld98: On comparing with my own specimens, I concur, it looks like forsythia. Forsythia leaves are toothed along the upper 2/3s of the margin, and simple on the lower 1/3. If I cross my eyes when I look at leaves in the photo, that's what they look like. Kerria leaves are doubly serrate along the entire leaf margin. Plus, kerria stems are green. Looks like I owe you $$.


text: Community featured forum posts Ask a question to the Lancaster, PA Community Company Christmas Party (Lancaster, PA)(151 views / 1 posts) Last Post by Guest posted June 19, 2014 What are ideas for entertainment for a company picnic?(71992 views / 112 posts) Last Post by Guest posted 7 days ago A Birthday Isn't A Birthday Without....(19133 views / 46 posts) Last Post by posted 8 days ago The First 10 Steps for Wedding Planning(29155 views / 34 posts) Last Post by CRSocials posted February 19, 2015 What's the BEST piece of wedding advice you've ever gotten/heard?(8253 views / 22 posts) Last Post by djfur1301382 posted February 9, 2015 start a new discussion see more posts


text:
Loading stream...
Now Playing
Podcasts & RSS Feeds
|All Content
|View all podcasts & RSS feeds
Connect with Us
KVNF DJs- We love you!
Middle East
3:04 am
Fri November 30, 2012
Damascus Remains Cut Off By Fighting
By Deborah Amos
Originally published on Fri November 30, 2012 5:05 am
For a second day, the Syrian capital, Damascus is cut off from the outside world, with the international airport shut, the Internet down and mobile phone lines working sporadically. There are reports of fierce clashes around the capital and heavy airstrikes in the capital's suburbs and in the northern city of Aleppo.


text:
Calliandra eriophylla 'Fairy Duster'
I bought a red Fairy Duster plant a couple of years ago.
I tried leaving it in a container one year, and last year I planted it inground. Only to repot it so I could bring it in for the winter. It hasn't done well either way.
Soon time to drag the pots out of the greenhouse and I'm trying to decide what to do with it this year.
If you grow this, please share your experience.
I love it and want to find the best spot to grow it.
This post was edited by ruthz on Thu, Mar 7, 13 at 11:02
I have one that's been in the ground here for many years. There's been some degree of dieback in some years when it would get down into the teens (I'm up in the hills, so it gets colder here than nearby San Antonio), but it always came back in spring. Estimates on hardiness vary widely for this species. I've seen 0ð, 5ð or 15ð mentioned.
I wonder if either of you two ladies would consider sharing some seeds from your plants? I live in midway between Waco and Austin and am looking for something that attracts the hummingbirds. Have you noticed whether this is one that attracts them?
I wonder if either of you two ladies would consider sharing some seeds from your plants? I live in midway between Waco and Austin and am looking for something that attracts the hummingbirds. Have you noticed whether this is one that attracts them?
I'd like to get another one. I really liked it. I don't see them around here. I bought that one at Hill Country Gardens. I just need to figure out where I can grow it best next time.
Want to try Fairy Duster outside and not water it before winter to force it into dormancy..Here in DFW I find flame acanthus (acanthaceae) is the best hummer attractor. Put in small plant 9 yrs ago; now its 6' x 6' Needs serious pruning in late winter. Totally heat tolerant, loves sun When watered/rained on it blooms prolifically from late spring thru first frost. Turks Cap is another perennial bloomer which hummers love. My garden attracts ruby throat and black chinned hummers from July to October.
Thank you for reminding me. I had a Flame Acanthus and YES, the hummers darted in and out of it. Last time I saw it, it was about that big. Hmm, I'm thinking that maybe I can take some cuttings and get some started.
Thank you very much,
The volunteers of flame acanthus are very easy to mail too. I wrap them in a but of dirt papertowel and a saran wrap and taped at the "neck".
I find Salvia regla a huge hummer attractor in Spring and Fall. I think their bloom is timed for the influx of birds.
I have the pink fairy duster and I find the flowers un impressive. It is very drought tolerant, having NEVER been water and being 12 years old. Maybe it would be more impressive if I watered it on occasion. It stays pretty low to the ground.
wantonomara --
Thanks for mailing info on small flame acanthus. I have big woody stems that propagate easily. Thanks also for your observations on fairy duster. I was thinking of adding it to cactus garden. However, if you say blooms are unimpressive then maybe not. Already have salvia regla in abundance.
Maybe if I watered it , it would be more impressive. Maybe it is because we are closer to its line of marginality. It gets shorter and less floriferous the further north it goes. It is also planted in unattended hard packed caliche based soil. Maybe I should be nicer to it and it would be nicer to me.


text:
More in Kitchen
Start by putting away gadgets you use infrequently. You'll appreciate the extra counter space. Remove knives from drawers and keep them in a knife block on a counter safely out of reach of children. For galley or small kitchens, look for a counter-depth refrigerator that gives you six inches of extra space. This will make it easier to maneuver around in tight spaces.
Keep frequently used items within easy reach. Use sliding shelves and racks to keep supplies neat and organized. If it's easier to see, it'll be easier to find. Minimize lifting by keeping plates and bowls in a drawer rather than a cabinet. Create separate drawers for long handle and short handle utensils to help prevent tangles.
Choose appliances that provide maximum efficiency, offering multiple functions in one location. Have the space set up with defrosting above, simmering on top, baking within and warming below. Look for sinks with a cutting board built in so you can scrape scraps right down the drain.


text:
Some consensus is finally forming around the proper accounting method for reporting developer fees in financial statements.Read more
Debbie Burkart of National Equity Fund discusses the role of the HUD-VASH program in ending veteran homelessness.Read more
Nixon Peabody's Alison Torbitt outlines steps you can take to protect against liability issues related to properties with environmental hazards.Read more
Lisa Vecchietti of Lancaster Pollard discusses Year 15 refinancing options.Read more
The developments will provide 575 affordable apartments. Read more
H.R. 1662 would direct savings to the National Housing Trust Fund Read more
More than 400 apply for 12 new units by the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Read more
Wakeland Housing breaks ground on a key downtown development. Read more
Boston Capital is investing nearly $4 million in the construction of Patriot Homes. Read more
Oak Grove Capital arranges $82 million in financing. Read more
Six developments are set to receive $2.7 million in LIHTC authority. Read more
A new conference for the AHF community will be born this Spring. Read more
Caroline Severance Manor serves families, chronically homeless, and individuals with mental illnesses.Read more
Sonoma project features virtual net metering and a greywater system.Read more
An iconic brewery has been transformed into artist lofts in St. Paul, Minn.Read more
The landmark Chicago building has been renovated and preserved as affordable housing for its 450 residents for decades to come.Read more
Though they aren't afford the economies of scale of larger projects, small developments are a crucial part of the local fabric in many communities. Read more
Developers are answering the call to build affordable housing for veterans. Read... Read more
Heeding lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy, affordable housing groups strengthen their buildings, organizations, and preparedness plans Read more
A set of landmark buildings has been transformed into affordable housing for... Read more


text:
10-11mm Cultured Pearl Wire Drop Earrings in Sterling Silver
Item#: 842037 NEW!
A contemporary take on pearls: these long wire earrings 10-11mm cultured freshwater oval pearls. Hanging length is 1 3/4". Earwire, sterling silver earrings.
Product Details (for 10-11mm Cultured Pearl Wire Drop Earrings in Sterling Silver)
3/8 inch
Sterling close STERLING SILVER: Also known as "Standard Silver," sterling silver is silver alloyed with other metals to increase the hardness and durability. Generally, sterling is 92.5% silver and 7.5% other metals. Some sterling silver jewelry is plated with 14kt-18kt gold and referred to as "vermeil," or "gold over sterling." Silver
Polished close POLISHED: A buffed-out finish used to produce a mirror-like shine.
Wire close WIRE: sometimes called "shepherd's hooks" or "fishhooks," earwires are a thin, hook-shaped earring backs. They thread onto the ear and can sometimes be squeezed into place or held on with a rubber clutch.
Hanging Length:
1 3/4 inches
Stones per Earring:
Stone 1:
Cultured Freshwater Pearl close CULTURED PEARLS: Likened to the moon, pearls have been valued for their luminous glow and natural beauty for thousands of years. Today, high-quality cultured freshwater pearls make pearl jewelry affordable to all. Pearl is the traditional birthstone for the month of June. (Color: White, Quantity: 2, Shape & Cutting Style: Oval close OVAL: An elliptical shape that resembles an egg. , Size: 10-11 mm)
All weights and measures are approximate.
Ross-Simons Presentation Box Your purchase includes an elegant Ross-Simons presentation box.
100% Moneyback Guarantee every item, every order, every day
Free Shipping on orders $250 or more
Only $7.95 Flat Rate for any order under $250
24/7 Live Help toll free at 1-800-835-0919
100% Secure Checkout verified by Norton Security
Recently Viewed Items:
Learn More About Pearls Freshwater Pearls Sterling Silver Polished Finish


text:
2423 members1303 Comments 33 Likes
139 members198 Comments 8 Likes
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jim DePaulo Feb 6, 2011. 21 Replies 0 Likes
I'm curious to see what a bunch of nontheists' opinions are on the matter. So what does everyone here think of the war on drugs in the USA? Is it a worthwhile cause? What results is it bringing…Continue
TK has not received any gifts yet
© 2015 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: Richard Haynes.


text:
Omg !!
Posted over 3 years ago by Hollie23
two guys that like me and I like them back sit next too me !! Madness !! WHat do I do ??? Plz comment it's kinda weird cause th...0 comments read more
wanna say hi
Posted over 3 years ago by cg22romzek
hay i'm saying hi to everybody out there0 comments read more
Posted over 3 years ago by krazypopper99
cyberbully is wrong dont do it and if you r being cyberbullyed dont be mean back find a differnt way0 comments read more
middle school
Posted over 3 years ago by tabithao
im starting middle school tomarow and im nervese but this blog is to help middle school problems become solved. first thing is ...0 comments read more
happy sunday to everyone!!! (even if it's not sunday where u live!) lol THAT"S OKAY!!! i am still wishing you, all those people...0 comments read more
that evil little cactus
* it REALLY HURTS if you ever sit on a cactus.... : (0 comments read more
hi! omg that's pretty much all i wanted to say! lol : )0 comments read more
Posted over 3 years ago by lildfromth3
mih fav game is xbox3601 comment read more
Posted over 3 years ago by mipxi
HELLO! Well theres not much to say, i need a boy friend i looooove 2 dance i live in Puerto Rico put my dadi is from U.S.A so i...0 comments read more
shouting out to friends
Posted over 3 years ago by artist105
hey hpa i just want to give a shout out to all the staff there. thank you for working there and teaching us all we know. an...0 comments read more


text:
Was £28.50
Now £14.25
Now £8.55
70% Off
Save a total of £19.95
Designer black flocked spot babydoll
Item No.1610101204
This black mesh babydoll from Floozie has a flocked spot design with lace trims and a frilly hem. It has padded cups with underwire support, ruched straps and a spotted bow and heart charm to the centre.
This item is available for
UK Home Delivery Free (UK orders over £30) or £3.99
Delivered within 4 working days
Next or Named Day Delivery
7 days a week between 8am - 6pm
Monday to Friday - order by 7pm - £4.99
Saturday & Sunday - order by 6pm - £4.99
Next or Named Evening Delivery
7 days a week between 6pm - 10pm
Monday to Sunday - order by 10pm - £6.99
Collect from store the next day - FREE
Order before 7pm for next day collection after 12pm midday
Show participating stores
Full Delivery details
- Underwired for support
- Padded cups
- Adjustable straps for a perfect fit
- Main: 92% polyamide, 8% elastane
- Cup liner: 100% polyester
- Flocking: 100% polyamide
- Machine washable
Why not try


text:
Bill Jones
From Ballotpedia
Revision as of 04:14, 3 September 2011 by Tyler King (Talk | contribs)
Bill Jones was an Independent candidate for District 8 in the Montana House of Representatives in the November 2, 2010 state legislative elections.
Jones faced Bryan Schutt (D) and Steve Lavin (R) in the November 2 general election.
External links
- List of candidates for 2010 Montana House of Representatives
- June 8, 2010 primary election results
- Project Vote Smart Profile - Bill Jones


text: Strip club managers versus strippers : StripperFriendly's "Ask An Expert!" By theshaggycarpet Ivan & Candice. Strip club managers and strippers. Ivan, manager from Croatia,... more »Ivan & Candice. Strip club managers and strippers. Ivan, manager from Croatia, makes Candice get back to work. Strippers being treated badly. Candy and Fiona answer your questions about stripping and give advice. Have an issue or question? Send queries to http://www.stripperfriendly.com Join us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001483916106 « less Published October 28, 2010 530 views More Info » Full Credits theshaggycarpet Uploader Stats & Data 8 Funny Votes 5 Die Votes 527 Views Published October 28, 2010 Categories: Web Series Sketch Parody Keywords: stripping injury funny skits funny women bikini clubs strip clubs bad strip club managers Up Next: How Fucked Is Your March Madness Bracket? AUTOPLAY Up Next In: 10 The Ed Hardy Boyz: The Case of the Missing Sick Belt Buckle Chappelle Show: When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong 1 Kiss My A$$ with Denis Leary How Will Ferrell Touched Me Follow Facebook Twitter Tumblr Instagram Browse Related Comments 90+ more View All ▶ theshaggycarpet Vaguely Related Videos Vaguely RelatedPics & Words Advertisement Advertisement From Around the Web ZergNet


text:
Visit create.airbnb.com »
Thanks for taking the time to report this user.
Your participation helps keep Airbnb a safe and trusted
community, and it doesn't go unnoticed!
Hello! I am a 30 something lady, living the dream. I love music and all things music related, love my friends and enjoying life to the fullest! My husband, son and I currently call Tulsa, OK our home and love seeing the country!
Andrea has completed online and offline ID verification.
Learn more »
Very nice guests! Easy to communicate with left things more than perfect, and quite personable! Thanks
This lady is amazing! Nothing to fear when her and her husband stay with you. They are funny, responsible, and awesome.


text:
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday - April 5, 2015
Holy Day of Obligation
On this greatest day of the year, all fasting and somber thoughts
are banished. As St. John Chrysostom announces in this famous
Easter sermon, all are invited to the feast: "Let all then enter
the joy of Our Lord!
Both the first and the last, and those who come after, enjoy your reward!
Rich and poor, dance with one another, sober and slothful,
celebrate the day.
Those who have kept the fast and those who have not, rejoice today, for the table is richly spread.
Fare royally upon it-the calf is a fatted one.
Let no one go away hungry.
All of you, enjoy the banquet of faith!
All enjoy the riches of His goodness.
Let no one cry over his poverty, for the universal Kingdom has
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again, for
forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Let none fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free.
He has destroyed it by enduring it.
He spoiled the power of hell when he descended thereto.
Isaiah foretold this when he cried, 'Death has been frustrated in meeting him below!'
It is frustrated, for it is destroyed.
It is frustrated, for it is annihilated.
It is frustrated, for now it is made captive.
For it grabbed a body and discovered God.
It took earth and behold! It encountered Heaven.
It took what was visible, and was overcome by what was invisible.
O Death, where is your sting?
O Death, where is your victory?
Christ is risen, and the demons are cast down.
Christ is risen, and life is set free.
Christ is risen, and the tomb is emptied of the dead.
For Christ, having risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits for those who sleep.
to Him be glory and power forever and ever!
Amen. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!"
The Feast
Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. Leo I (Sermo xlvii in Exodum) calls it the greatest feast ( festum festorum ), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter. It is the centre of the greater part of the ecclesiastical year. The order of Sundays from Septuagesima to the last Sunday after Pentecost, the feast of the Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, and all other movable feasts, from that of the Prayer of Jesus in the Garden (Tuesday after Septuagesima ) to the feast of the Sacred Heart (Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi ), depend upon the Easter date.
Commemorating the slaying of the true Lamb of God and the Resurrection of Christ, the corner-stone upon which faith is built, it is also the oldest feast of the Christian Church, as old as Christianity, the connecting link between the Old and New Testaments. That the Apostolic Fathers do not mention it and that we first hear of it principally through the controversy of the Quartodecimans are purely accidental. The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and ideal. Real, since Christ died on the first Jewish Easter Day; ideal, like the relation between type and reality, because Christ's death and Resurrection had its figures and types in the Old Law, particularly in the paschal lamb, which was eaten towards evening of the 14th of Nisan.
In fact, the Jewish feast was taken over into the Christian Easter celebration; the liturgy ( Exsultet ) sings of the passing of Israel through the Red Sea, the paschal lamb, the column of fire, etc. Apart, however, from the Jewish feast, the Christians would have celebrated the anniversary of the death and the Resurrection of Christ. But for such a feast it was necessary to know the exact calendar date of Christ's death. To know this day was very simple for the Jews ; it was the day after the 14th of the first month, the 15th of Nisan of their calendar. But in other countries of the vast Roman Empire there were other systems of chronology.
The Romans from 45 B.C. had used the reformed Julian calendar; there were also the Egyptian and the Syro-Macedonian calendar. The foundation of the Jewish calendar was the lunar year of 354 days, whilst the other systems depended on the solar year. In consequence the first days of the Jewish months and years did not coincide with any fixed days of the Roman solar year. Every fourth year of the Jewish system had an intercalary month. Since this month was inserted, not according to some scientific method or some definite rule, but arbitrarily, by command of the Sanhedrin, a distant Jewish date can never with certainty be transposed into the corresponding Julian or Gregorian date (Ideler, Chronologie, I, 570 sq.). The connection between the Jewish and the Christian Pasch explains the movable character of this feast.
Easter has no fixed date, like Christmas, because the 15th of Nisan of the Semitic calendar was shifting from date to date on the Julian calendar. Since Christ, the true Paschal Lamb, had been slain on the very day when the Jews, in celebration of their Passover, immolated the figurative lamb, the Jewish Christians in the Orient followed the Jewish method, and commemorated the death of Christ on the 15th of Nisan and His Resurrection on the 17th of Nisan, no matter on what day of the week they fell. For this observance they claimed the authority of St. John and St. Philip.
In the rest of the empire another consideration predominated. Every Sunday of the year was a commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ , which had occurred on a Sunday. Because the Sunday after 14 Nisan was the historical day of the Resurrection, at Rome this Sunday became the Christian feast of Easter. Easter was celebrated in Rome and Alexandria on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, and the Roman Church claimed for this observance the authority of Sts. Peter and Paul. The spring equinox in Rome fell on 25 March; in Alexandria on 21 March. At Antioch Easter was kept on the Sunday after the Jewish Passover.
In Gaul a number of bishops, wishing to escape the difficulties of the paschal computation, seem to have assigned Easter to a fixed date of the Roman calendar, celebrating the death of Christ on 25 March, His Resurrection on 27 March (Marinus Dumiensis in P.L., LXXII, 47-51), since already in the third century 25 March was considered the day of the Crucifixion (Computus Pseudocyprianus, ed. Lersch, Chronologie, II, 61). This practice was of short duration. Many calendars in the Middle Ages contain these same dates (25 March, 27 March) for purely historical, not liturgical, reasons (Grotenfend, Zeitrechnung, II, 46, 60, 72, 106, 110, etc.). The Montanists in Asia Minor kept Easter on the Sunday after 6 April (Schmid, Osterfestberechnung in der abendlandischen Kirche).
The First Council of Nicaea (325) decreed that the Roman practice should be observed throughout the Church. But even at Rome the Easter term was changed repeatedly. Those who continued to keep Easter with the Jews were called Quartodecimans (14 Nisan) and were excluded from the Church. The computus paschalis , the method of determining the date of Easter and the dependent feasts, was of old considered so important that Durandus (Rit. div. off., 8, c.i.) declares a priest unworthy of the name who does not know the computus paschalis . The movable character of Easter (22 March to 25 April) gives rise to inconveniences, especially in modern times. For decades scientists and other people have worked in vain for a simplification of the computus, assigning Easter to the first Sunday in April or to the Sunday nearest the 7th of April. Some even wish to put every Sunday to a certain date of the month, e.g. beginning with New Year's always on a Sunday, etc. [See L. G�nther, "Zeitschrift Weltall" (1903); Sandhage and P. Dueren in "Pastor bonus" (Trier, 1906); C. Tondini, "L'Italia e la questione del Calendario" (Florence, 1905).]
Learn More about Easter in the Catholic Encyclopedia
Be Transformed by Easter
More Easter / Lent
'So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead' - Luke 24:46
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. It is a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday, through which we attain redemption. continue reading
Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels. (Mark 11:1.11, Matthew 21:1.11, Luke 19:28.44, and John 12:12.19) ... continue reading
On Palm Sunday, we celebrate the first joy of the season, as we celebrate Our Lord's triumphant entrance into Jerusalem where he was welcomed by crowds worshiping him and laying down palm leaves before him. It also marks the beginning of Holy Week... continue reading
HOLY THURSDAY is the most complex and profound of all religious observances. It celebrates his last supper with the disciples, a celebration of Passover ... continue reading
On Good Friday, each member of the Church tries to understand at what cost Christ has won our redemption. In the solemn ceremonies of Holy Week we unite ourselves to our Savior, and we contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord ... continue reading
Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. Leo I (Sermo xlvii in Exodum) calls it the greatest feast (festum festorum), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter. It is the centre of the greater part of the ecclesiastical year ... continue reading
Explore Easter, Lent & Pentecost Season
For most people the easiest practice to consistently fulfill will be the traditional one, to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year. During Lent abstinence from meat on Fridays is obligatory in the United States as elsewhere. Christ Himself said that His disciples would fast once He had departed (Lk. 5:35). continue reading
Everything answered from when does lent end, ashes, giving something up, stations of the cross and blessed palms. The key to understanding the meaning of Lent is simple: Baptism... continue reading
Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. First Station: Jesus is condemned to death... pray the stations now
What did you give up for Lent?
From the humorous to the bizarre, people have had interesting Lenten experiences. Tell us about what you are going to give up for this Lenten Year.
What others gave up »
Lent / Easter News
Thursday of the Lord's Supper: Christ Loved His Own To the EndF. K. Bartels - Catholic Online, 4/1/2015
The entire meaning of Lent, Holy Thursday, the Easter Triduum, can be summed up in this sentence from the gospel of John, "He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end," since it speaks ...Continue Reading
The Resurrecting Power of MercyTara K. E. Brelinsky - Catholic Online, 3/31/2015
Returning to my seat, I found myself considering all those horrific news reports and the perpetrators that gave them warrant. Jesus died for them, too. Even if they come late to work in ...Continue Reading
Create marbled Easter eggs this Easter with an amazingly easy techniqueHannah Raissa Marfil (NEWS CONSORTIUM) - Catholic Online, 3/30/2015
One of the most popular traditions during the Lenten Season is the Easter Egg Hunt. The Easter egg symbolizes the resurrection of Jesus Christ, as defined by the early Christians. The tradition, ...Continue Reading
Who Is God? A Holy Week ReflectionDeacon F. K. Bartels - Catholic Online, 3/30/2015
Want to know who God is? That answer will not come easily, for it involves sacrifice and death to self. There are no shortcuts; there are no "techniques" to learn. However, as Blessed John Paul II ...Continue Reading
Good Friday
On Good Friday, the entire Church fixes her gaze on the Cross at Calvary. Each member of the Church tries to understand at what cost Christ has won our redemption.
The Cross
In the symbol of the Cross we can see the magnitude of the human tragedy, the ravages of original sin, and the infinite love of God. Learn More
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. It is a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday, through which we attain redemption.
The Ashes
The ashes are made from the blessed palms used in the Palm Sunday celebration of the previous year. The ashes are christened with Holy Water and are scented by exposure to incense. Learn More
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion.
Opening Prayer
ACT OF CONTRITION. O my God, my Redeemer, behold me here at Thy feet. From the bottom of my heart... Pray the Stations
Fasting & Abstinence
'Christ Himself said that His disciples would fast once He had departed' Lk. 5:35
Abstinence. The law of abstinence requires a Catholic 14 years of age until death to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in honor of the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday. Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles and shellfish are permitted.
Fasting. The law of fasting requires a Catholic from the 18th Birthday (Canon 97) to the 59th Birthday (i.e. the beginning of the 60th year, a year which will be completed on the 60th birthday) to reduce the amount of food eaten from normal. The Church defines this as one meal a day, and two smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the main meal.
Learn More »


text:
Review board upholds first forever prisoner's Guantánamo detention
A parole-style panel at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has decided to recommend that the military continue to hold a Yemeni man in indefinite wartime detention without trial, according to a military document. The decision is the first of its kind for the Obama administration's new Periodic Review Board system.
The board, which began operating late last year, examines whether it remains necessary to keep holding at Guantánamo several dozen detainees who have been deemed too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release.
The Yemeni man, Abdel Malik al-Rahabi, was the second detainee scrutinized by the board, and it found that his continued indefinite detention was necessary to "protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States," according to an unclassified summary of its final determination that the military released Wednesday. Rahabi had appeared before the board at a hearing Jan. 28.
Rahabi told the board that he harbored no ill feelings toward the United States, planned to work at a " milk and honey farm" or work for his father's tailoring business, and wanted to return to his family, including a 13-year-old daughter, Ayesha, according to a transcript.
"Being apart from Ayesha has been the hardest part of my detention," he said. "In our calls, she says, 'I want you to take me to the park; I want you to help me with my homework.' She sends me five or six letters at a time. I will never again leave Ayesha without her father, my wife without her husband, my parents without their son. I want to make up for the 12 years I have been away."
But the board said it was concerned "about his susceptibility to re-engagement" if he were repatriated, citing allegations including "significant ties" to al-Qaida and his possible selection to participate in a hijacking plot before his capture by Pakistani forces in December 2001, as well as the "marginal security environment" in his home region.
The board did note that Rahabi had "strong family support awaiting his return, including house, employment opportunities, and a wife and daughter ready to support him," and it said it found his claim that he wanted to return to his family sincere, although it had questions regarding his credibility on other issues.
It said that it would take a second look at his file in six months, and that it hoped "to see continued positive engagement and constructive leadership in detention."
David Remes, a lawyer who helped represent Rahabi in the hearing, said he met with him Tuesday morning to discuss the outcome. Remes said the board's fears amounted to "guilt by association," contending that there was "no real basis for concluding that he would be any kind of threat to the United States if he is returned to his family in Yemen."
"We are disappointed with the result, but we'll take another shot at it when he has his next review in six months," he said.
The board includes representatives from a half-dozen national security agencies. It is starting to go through the cases of about 70 detainees who were not recommended for transfer by a task force in January 2010, and who have not separately been charged before a military commission.
In January, the board recommended changing the status of the first such detainee it examined, saying he should be released if security conditions could be met.
President Barack Obama issued an order establishing the review board in 2011, but it was delayed amid a broader collapse of his administration's effort to close the Guantánamo prison in the face of obstacles imposed by Congress. He revived that effort last spring amid a major hunger strike that at its peak encompassed a majority of detainees.
In a related development, lawyers for another detainee this week filed a lawsuit asking a court to halt the military's policy of force-feeding prisoners who refuse to eat. While there have been attempts to challenge that policy in court before, the new suit is the first since a federal appeals court ruled that it had jurisdiction to oversee prison conditions.
Follow Us
Oops, you haven't selected any newsletters. Please check the box next to one or more of our email newsletters and submit again.
Oops, you didn't provide a valid email address. Please double-check the email field and submit again.
Join the Discussion
Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to share information, experiences and observations about what's in the news. Some of the comments may be reprinted elsewhere on the site or in the newspaper. We encourage lively, open debate on the issues of the day, and ask that you refrain from profanity, hate speech, personal comments and remarks that are off point. Thank you for taking the time to offer your thoughts.


text: OverviewBack to top of page Masada - Diabease Bath Therapy Salt Soothing Lavender - 32 oz. Code#:56586 Manufacturer:Masada Size/Form:32 oz. Packaged Ship Weight:2.20 Masada 'Original' Dead Sea Mineral Bath Salts are exclusively formulated for diabetic skin care with antiseptic Tea Tree and deeply hydrating Urea. This potent ingredient complex goes beyond the benefits of Dead Sea Mineral Bath Salts to provide enhanced moisturizing for dry, cracked, and irritated skin. Soaking in Diabease Antibacterial Dead Sea Mineral Bath Salts will stimulate circulation, help detoxify the body and support its natural bacteria fighting process, while restoring the skin's natural moisture balance.