text:
Al's 5-1-1 for ferns.....thumbs up!
Howdy, folks!
I know that many of you are already sold on the performance benefits of Al's (Tapla's)
two main mixes: the 5-1-1 and the gritty mix. That said, here's another endorsement. In this case,
I used the bark-based 5-1-1 mix for my potted Chainfern (Woodwardia fimbriata). I'll include a link
below to the full Thread on the Moss/Ferns Forum, where I documented the enitre re-potting process.
Here's my Chainfern on the front deck this morning:
*Note: in the original Thread, I refer to the mix as "gritty," but I should clarify - I meant
that in the sense that the new mix was grittier than typical peat-based potting soils. In this
mix, I used pine/fir bark fines instead of peat - as well as some pumice with my perlite.
Giant Chainfern - Spring 2009 re-potting
Here is a link that might be useful: Giant Chainfern - Spring 2009 re-potting
Thank you, Al.
The information and the techniques you provide have made Growing so much more enjoyable. With the guess-work minimized, one can sit back and observe his or her plants in peace....not fretting and wondering if a particular specimen will "make it." ;)
Thank you, Mike!
This fern is the main "feature" on my front deck - even the Hoyas play second fiddle to this fern,
if you'll pardon the pun. It fills the entire corner, constantly competing with the Star Jasmine
for more room. It gives a great feel!
Good Morning Guys!
At least it is here, still morning.;)
It's beautiful!!!
The green is an amazing color!
And I couldn't agree with you more, about taking the guesswork out of growing!
I found foxtail ferns at lowes, hope they are still there tomorrow, gonna get a few.
Failed something terrible with them a few years ago, and want to try again.
The 3 of you are gonna get me in trouble! Everytime I open a post I want to try something new! LOL!!!
But I can't think of better friends to get in Trouble with! ;)
Hey, JoJo!
Looks like we cross-posted at the same time! ;-)
Thank you for the kind words! I love to get others involved...
Ferns are wonderful accent pieces! They can be moved around for garden parties, can frame
a doorway, and provide a temperate or tropical feel when placed correctly.
I often start my ferns in pots while I determine a spot for them in the yard. This year, I've
released an Alaskan Fern and several Western Sword Ferns into my yardscape.
I am putting together another small half-barrel/Chainfern combination for my brother.
He has some good shade now, although he lives in Sacramento, so hopefully this time the
fern will survive....
Hi Josh,
"I love to get others involved"
Is that what you call it? LOL!
I see it as you dangled this huge carrot in front of me, over in C&S.. Then Mike comes along, sends me a jade, and tells me to get over to containers...
Al's mixes, all the beautiful plants, I'm hooked! LOL!
It's the best trouble ive been in, in years! LOL!
I dont think ferns like you have would be very happy here.
You sound like me, every time I send something to mom, I have to hope she doesn't kill it..ROFL!!
Mike, did you ever find you a foxtail?
Hi Jojo and everyone else!!! Hi.:-)
Jojo, I carried a foxtail fern awhile back all over the nursery, for I'd say about 1 hour just to realize that I haven't got one ounce of land left to grow it in my house!!lol
Let me tell you though, the thoughts has now occurred ,loi me thanks to our friend Josh, bad influence, to plant ferns that can ventrally be planted outdoors..I might even just keep them in permanent containers..What do you think? They are so ordinary around here, yet majestic!
Thanks to Al, I think I can just about grow anything in any container now..
I wonder if they get fed Foliage Pro though..? Lol
I can't believe the stiff you have bought just in the last 3 months...You should put them all together. or start a thread showing all you new aquirings,is that a word,? and I will follow suit..lol
I'm thinking of trying Josh's peat-free 5-1-1 recipe for my own ferns. Since my fir bark doesn't have many really fine particles, though, I was thinking of buying a cheap coffee grinder and using it to grind the fir bark, then use that in place of peat... Does that sound like it'd work? (My ferns are pretty small right now, so I wouldn't need a lot.)
Hello, everyone!
I was sweeping the front deck and moving things around this afternoon, and I snapped a pic of my fern.
Also, my apologies to Cliss (if you're still around) for not responding to his/her question.
Secondly, I wanted to re-iterate for any new readers that this mix was derived from Al's (Tapla's) teachings
on durable ingredients, particle size, and water retention. I certainly didn't come up with this recipe on my own....
although I've put it to good use, and then some.
Anyhow, here she is!
Same to you, Xuan! ;)
And thanks, Al, for the great soil mix!
This morning, the overnight freeze had the fronds looking limp, but they sprang back by midday.
Eventually, all of these fronds will yellow and die-back...just in time for next year's growth.
I'm in the process of putting together one of these "barrels" with a Chainfern for my brother.
Just a note... having grown and loved ferns and also having a more recent 'crush' on foxtails...
The foxtail isn't really a fern. It's in the Asparagus family!
What this means to us is that I would definitely try foxtails in the Gritty as well as the 5-1-1 that real ferns love.
Please post pics of foxtails if ya plant 'em! They always make me smile...
Hey, Rick!
I've read that Asparagus Ferns are considered a part of Lily family. Not positive, though.
I have a friend who grows a common Asparagus Fern outdoors, and it dies back during snows/freezes...
but it returns in the spring and summer.
I'm more interested in true ferns, however.
Great to see you, too, Josh! I've got several plants that have been in a fir bark based mix for a long time... the bark is bound to break down after a while, but this is so much longer than a peat based mix can hold up for. Your fern looks great... and I'm betting the roots look great, too. Are you waiting for next spring to re-pot?


text:
As Willacy County faces a gaping hole in its budget, $128 million in debt still owed on Tent City, and the loss of its largest employer, I'd come to find out if the prison that was supposed to be the county's economic salvation would end up being its undoing.
Closing Accounts
My grandmother wasn't really living; she was just surviving. The person I remembered, cherished and respected was vanishing. And the most painful and saddest part of her life had become the most taxing to survive.
Letters from Death Row: Alone on the Inside
The Observer found that prisoners often choose a life of permanent isolation, refusing to leave their cages. It's a catch-22: Mental illness can lead inmates to never leave their cells, never leaving their cells can exacerbate—or even cause—mental illness.
Gun Control Activists Fight to be Heard at Capitol
Opponents of open carry and campus carry say their access to lawmakers has sometimes been limited, even as the most extreme gun activists get meetings with top elected officials.
No School Voucher Fight in House… Yet
A potentially contentious vote on a measure that would have banned school vouchers was avoided after its author withdrew the amendment.
House Votes to Defund HIV Prevention to Pay for Abstinence Education
Texas has the third highest rate of HIV infections in the country, but the House voted to defund HIV prevention to pay for abstinence education.
Legislation Would Curtail Citizens' Ability to Challenge Pollution Permits
Several Texas lawmakers are proposing changes that would make it even more difficult for citizens and environmentalists to challenge pollution permits.
Texas Should Stand Tall for Equality
Marriage equality for lesbian and gay Americans is almost decided as a matter of national policy. Thirty-six states have it, and given recent remarks by Justice Clarence Thomas it's hard to imagine that lesbian and gay Texans won't be able to marry here this summer. Unfortunately, a crowd with small minds and hateful hearts is […]
Want to Track the #txlege? Here's Who to Follow on Twitter
When state Rep. Jonathan Stickland proudly declared himself a "former fetus" a few weeks ago by posting a sign over the nameplate near his office door, the first people to notice were habitués of the #txlege hashtag on Twitter, a repository for all news—and jokes—pertaining to the Texas Legislature. If you waited for the inevitable […]
Ted Cruz, Manchurian Candidate
Last year, Ted Cruz tanked a carefully worked-out deal to reform the International Monetary Fund. This month, the chickens came home to roost.
House to Debate Women's Health Funding
The House version of the budget, which hits the floor Tuesday for what's likely to be a spirited debate over funding for state programs, includes approximately $20 million more for women's health services over the next two years than lawmakers originally proposed in January.
Drew Springer Wants to Revoke Same-Sex Benefits for Public School Employees
Rep. Drew Springer (R-Muenster) is again trying to bar Texas school districts from offering benefits to the same-sex partners of employees.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Xbox 360
This is a split board - You can return to the Split List for other boards.
I sincerely hope GTA5 isn't two discs...
I hope it works similar to Battlefield 3/RDR GOTY....Three Discs total...Disc one is the main game...Disc two is a hi-res texture Installation disc....Disc three is multiplayer. DO IT.
I'm a Celtic.
Zareth posted...
I'm fine with multiple discs.
This. Since games are actually doing this now, there's no excuse not to do it. Shame on anyone still rocking a 4GB hard drive.
Formerly Known As: boingboingboing
Now Reading: Great North Road, P. Hamilton
TheBlueStig posted...
Missions don't take up much space in the GTA games, the majority of the filespace is music and cutscenes.
For GTA4 at least, the only video was the TV channels, and the music is already heavily compressed (60-100mb per radio station). The map itself was around 5.4GB, followed by speech files with the same compression as radio at 3GB total (all sizes from the 15GB PC port).
Last-gen your statement is more accurate, but nowadays (well, 2008) the amount of music has stayed roughly the same while texture sizes have increased massively.
From the way GTA4 was structured I don't really know how a multi-disc split would work, other than having one as a mandatory HDD install. A lot of data is duplicated between SP and MP such as pedestrian speech, radio, the map, and so on, unlike BF3 where the two just share prefabs, weapons etc. but have their own maps. Perhaps they'll just trade off texture resolution against file size to stuff it into one DVD.
Fixing Turn10's omissions since 2007, and Playground Games' since 2012.
If you have the 360, it will be no doubt about it. Most probably it will be disc 1 the game, and disc 2 the multiplayer like they did with RDR. Which I thought was fine, didn't ruin the experience at all, for me at least.
I still play ps1 and gamecube games and I sort of enjoy exchanging disks. It feels like an achievement, you know? Like you've progressed and now and moving to the next stage of the game.
Sketch Blog - paperuni.blogspot.com
OmegaPillow posted...
It's a big deal to me, if it happens ill be gettig the superior ps3 version
and I'll be laughing while I play the far superior PC version.
Insert generic offensive/slightly racist/holier than thou/fanboy/douchebag/elitist comment here.
PSN/Steam- irysh9......................Battle.net- irysh#1743
Halo 4 did it right, install disc and play disc....LA Noire did it wrong, 3 DISC SWAPS!!!
TheBlueStig posted...
Missions don't take up much space in the GTA games, the majority of the filespace is music and cutscenes.
And what do all the missions have? ...cutscenes.
Note to GFAQs mods: You do an absolutely terrible job at modding trolling. Get better at it and give harsher punishments for it.
wildog2006 posted...
OmegaPillow posted...It's a big deal to me, if it happens ill be gettig the superior ps3 version
I lol'd. It could very well be on two discs. GTA IV on PC is 14-15GB IIRC. I'm sure the next game won't be smaller. Perhaps in the event that it is on two discs, one can be installed on the HDD and the other used to run the game.
|Intel i5 3570K|HIS Radeon HD 7950|16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 RAM|Intel BOXDQ77MK MB|XFX Core Edition 550W PSU|
XBL/PSN: corruptor5150
wildog2006 posted...
OmegaPillow posted...It's a big deal to me, if it happens ill be gettig the superior ps3 version
And the rest of us will be laughing at you while you wait for a game that Rockstar doesn't have plans on porting over to the pc. Maybe you can sit with those Red Dead pc folk.
'Weeaboo, Troll, Fanboy, White Knight' are the last defence used by idiots hoping by saying it will some how validate their opinions/arguments.


text:
Grey Skyes
Chapter One : Stray Astray
August 22
7 : 30 a.m – Skye Residence
"Ema, I..." The shatered remains of the birthday gift on the tiled kitchen floor screamed that any apology given would only rub salt into a gaping and bloody wound, and yet, Lana Skye spoke regardless. "I did not mean..."
Ema Skye, younger sister to the successful, yet cold, Chief Prosecutor, said dully, "Forget it, Lana." The teenager had turned away from her sister, kneeling and gathering the remains of the gift, which had been knocked out of her hands just seconds before by her older sister. "You obviously have much more important buisness to attend to than celebrate your birthday."
Lana watched, speechless, as Ema tipped the pieces of the gift into the waste bin. Then she fled, pushing past her sister to the stairs leading to her bedroom. "Maybe Miss Fey was right," Ema called from the top-most stair, her voice weighted with pain and resentment, "You really have changed." Lana froze, mimicking a deer in the headlights of a vehicle. Only when did Ema slam her bedroom door, causing the apartment walls to quiver, did Lana relax slightly.
The Chief Prosecutor sighed as she stooped to the title floor, finding many of the broken pieces. I did not mean to destroy the gift. She mused as she began the task of sweeping the shards into the duspan that she quickly retrieved from under the sink, I did not intend to do so.
As Lana opened the waste bin to dump the pieces, she froze once more.
The letter Q stared back at her. It seemed to have been created by hand, having been once attached to a platform. She allowed herself a very rare, small twitch of the lip, as she realized what her sister had intended to give her. A 'Queen of Prosecutors' trophy. She poured the pieces of the ruined gift into the bin. She must still believe me to be 'the best of the best'.
The thought caused a shard of terrible guilt to sieze her. 'The best of the best'. Considering her rank inside the Prosecutors Office, the outside populace would believe her to be the best. But I digress. I would rather be the 'best of the best' to you as your sister and only family – but after the that incident...I am sorry. It is best if I continue as I have for the past two years.
Two years. It has been two years since the SL-9 incident. So little time has passed since that terrible day, and yet, it feels like everything has changed. As if I will never return to the way things were...but again I digress. I can never turn back now.
So accustomed of the silence was she, that she was startled when an all-too-familiar melody began to play from the pocket of her jeans. She sighed and took out the device, flipping the bronze-collored phone open.
The I.D. Of the caller read: DAMON GANT. Obviously. I was hoping against logic that the tone did not belong to him. She mentally sighed as she pressed the "send" key. She said, keeping her tone steady and cool, "Chief Prosecutor Lana Skye." As soon as he spoke, her stomach took an unpleasant dive. She was sure her expression, which she had tried to keep neutral, twisted in pain.
"Happy birthday, Lana!" She was sure she heard him slapping his hands together. "Now, Lana, how old are you? Twenty-nine, right? What about dinner, my treat?" She grit her teeth. Ema wanted to do the same tonight. The hateful words of her youngest sister echoed in her head. What makes you think I would agree? "Ah, but sadly, we need you here, Chief Prosecutor."
"Oh?" She asked coolly.
Whatever it is, She thought privately, Hopefully it will keep me past midnight. I could not bear to face Ema again today. She ignored the pain that even thinking of her sister brought her. Ema... Her thoughts were cut short by a loud, cherry laugh.
"Yes, strange going-ons here at the Prosecutor's Office..." What is Damon doing at the Prosecutor's Office? The SL-9 Incident had secured Damon Gant's promotion to Chief of Police. The SL-9 Incident was also, She mused, The cause of my immediate placement as Chief Prosecutor over this district of San Diego. "Can you imagine, Lana, a witness being found guilty of the crime he'd been called in to testify about? Such a thing is unheard of!"
Did I hear that correctly? "I beg your pardon?"
"A witness, Chief Prosecutor Skye." He was mocking her now. She heard it within his voice. "A witness, previously called in to testify about a murder case, was found to have committed the crime himself. And the evidence the rookie Defense Attorney presented proved it."
"The Defense Attorney, who was it?"
At the end of the line, Damon paused. As he spoke, her eyes widened in surprise. "A Mr. Phoenix Wright – apparently, he is the student of Defense Attorney Mia Fey...I believe you two know each other?"Mia...Mia Fey? I have not heard that name in years... Since my schooling years ended. I remember she would do anything to become a Defense Attorney – anything. Another thought struck her. She and I were rather close friends, as I recall.
"Fey?" She replied coldly, "I believe we went to the same school." And we happened to be the best of friends during that time, but you do not need to know that particular piece of information. "That hardly counts for knowing each other nowadays, Chief Gant."
"Indeed. Well, her little rookie has caused quite the stir within your people – Winston Payne is beside himself, the poor man!" That nervous wreck of a man would be beside himself even if this hadn't happened- a rookie beat him. "You had better tell your sister you're going to be late tonight. I can just see all the paperwork flooding your office – get here immediately. Oh, and Lana?"
His voice had changed. It was menacing – the voice that he concealed from the public eye, as she concealed her emotions. She grimanced as if she had been struck, feeling the uneasy emotion within the pit of her stomach slowly beginning to return. "Yes, Chief?"
"Happy birthday." Damon disconnected the line. She slowly closed the bronze device, staring at it as if it had grown fangs and a tail.
He is trying to unnerve me. That is all. There is no threat. Chanting those words within herself, she took her briefcase, which she had placed upon the kitchen table just before Ema had greeted her, stuffing the cell phone into her pocket.
She heard a soft thud from the stairs. With a careful, yet regretful glance toward the staircase, she left her home. It was August, but her sister, having been placed in a special schooling program, did not begin until September.
She allowed herself a moment of pride, before locking her emotions away with the door and hurrying down the creaky metal stairs toward her sky-blue SUV, stowing her briefcase in the trunk before settling into the front seat and turning the ignition.
From the top of the stairs, Ema Skye listened until she heard the clicksignifying that her sister had left the apartment, and waited for the roar of the sky-blue SUV. She knew her sister rarely forgot anything. So when she thundered down the stairs and ripped the kitchen phone off its cradle and furiously dialed a number, she did so without hesitation.
:: -Grey Skyes- ::
August 22
8 : 13 – Main Avenue
Linkin Park, "Numb"
"I'm tired of being what you want me to be,
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
But under the pressure, of walking in your shoes...
[Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow]
Every step that I take is another mistake to you...
[Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow]
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there -
Become so tired, so much more aware -
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me, and be less like you..."
Lana switched off the radio. The blaring noise of what sounded like a punk rock-band distracted her unnessisarily from the task at hand – the hellish traffic of San Diego prevented her from a luxury she used to enjoy as a teenager. Not that I "went wild" like some other teenagers do.
She had been forced to grow up fast, because of the deaths of her parents in a car accident just after her sixteenth birthday. She raised Ema, not wanting to seperate from her little sister – her only remaining family. In those days, she worried about rent, keeping several jobs at once, and her education. How simple those days were, Lana reflected, almost wistfully, Ema and I were inseperable.
"Lana, Lana! Happy birthday, sis!" Lana rose her thin brows as her sister came tumbling down the stairs, a brightly wrapped package held tightly in her hands. "I made this for you! Open it, open it!" Her beaming smile almost made Lana crumble – almost. She retained her cold demeanor. She had to.
"Ema," She said coolly, "I do not have time for this." She stood up and emptied her bowl, half emptied of bland oatmeal, into the sink. She slowly washed her bowl, not daring to turn and face her little sister, whom she strongly supposed would burst into tears. She was surprised when, against her prediction, Ema held fast, and stood her ground before her as she turned around.
Her expression was strong, as she presented the gift proudly, although her smile had transformed into a frown. Her light brown eyes, which she had inherited from their father, were pleading. "Please, Lana? Just one, I promise! And tonight we can - "
"No, Ema.I have to leave."
"But – Lana! It's your birthday! We have to celebrate!" Ema pleaded with her. Lana felt her heart clench as she looked into her siter, pain cutting deep into it as she shook her head, her cold eyes and expression never once giving away. She had to stay strong.
"But -" Lana felt her arm moving upon its own accord. She struck the gift from the hands of her sister, and it fell to the tiled kitchen floor. It shattered, ripping the flimsy box and scattering over the floor. Lana saw Ema's expression transform from hopeful to fear, from fear to anger. Lana knew at that moment that she had gone too far.
"Ema, I..."
BEEP, BEEEEP! An obnoxious horn tore her from her memories of that morning.
She sped forward, the traffic sign having been green for a while now, and the vehicle that had sounded its horn sped past her. It was a bright magenta in color, and rather old-fashioned for this day and age. She knew that vehicle. I have seen it every day for almost three years, in the parking lot of the Prosecutor's Office. Its owner as well – at least from afar. We rarely need to speak to each other. Her suspicions were confirmed as she had no choice but to follow the magenta vehicle into the parking lot of the office, and she watched as the silver-haired man parked vehicle.
Miles Edgeworth: the rising star of the Prosecutor's Office. A young and very talented young man – but plagued constantly by many, whom accuse him of arranged testimony, false evidence...
She sighed quietly, stowing that particular thought away into a corner of her mind. She parked her vehicle and had just taken her briefcase from the trunk of her sky-blue SUV when she heard a deep, handsome voice from behind her, "Chief Prosecutor Skye?"
She slowly turned to face him. Miles Edgeworth, whom she had arranged to deal false evidence in court that day, two years ago. "Mr. Edgeworth." She said in greeting, her eyebrows arching in surprise – the rising Prosecutor usually made it a point not to go near her. "Is there something you need?" What now? I am very nearly late, and there is a crisis that needs to be solved inside this very building.
"Have you heard?" He asked bluntly. Obviously, he is refering to the incident with a certain Prosecutor Winston Payne and Mr. Phoenix Wright.
"Yes." She said, motioning for him to walk beside her as she stepped forward, which he complied to without hesitation. At her answer, he seemed almost nervous. Though what for, I have not the faintest idea. "The incident that occured in which a witness, called by Prosecutor Payne, was found to have committed the crime in question, the latter proven by a Mr. Phoenix Wright."
"...Exactly." The young Prosecutor agreed after a pause, only slightly troubled by the fact. He seemed resigned. At what, I do not want to know. Is this what he wanted, to know whether I knew about this? "Prosecutor Payne was brought before a tribunal hearing, from what a Detective on the case told me this morning. I was hoping to catch you," He added, glancing toward her, "I thought you needed to be told immediately - the tribunal intends to terminate Payne for this mistake."
Lana refused to meet his dark eyes, staring straight ahead. From the corner of her eye, she saw Miles stare at her for a moment, as if trying to decide whether she was friendly or not. She said, "I did not know about the tribunal, nor their intentions. Thank you, Mr. Edgeworth. I will deal with it."
She passed him, and she noticed that he seemed rather sad. "I- " She hesitated, causing him to glance up in surprise, before adverting her gaze and hurrying into the building, climbing the stairs leading from the underground parking lot into the Prosecutor's Office, leaving the Prosecutor stunned in her wake.
:: -Grey Skyes- ::


text:
I turn my burner down low enough so that my wort is barely boiling. My thinking is that 212 degrees is 212 degrees, and all I'm doing with a vigorous boil is wasting more propane and generating more boil-off.
Am I correct in my thinking?
Jamil Z agrees with you. according to his wisdom you want churn/movement in there, but not a violent volcano.
+1. 212 is 212. No need to reduce volume by overdoing it.


text:
1. A Guide Book of United States Coins
by R S Yeoman
Updated annually, this fully illustrated reference is the definitive resource for all levels of coin collectors. "The Red Book" has been valued by ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
2. Blue Book of Gun Values
by S P Fjestad
[[ Expanded to nearly 2,300 pages including a revised 80-page color Photo Percentage Grading System to help accurately grade every firearm's ... More
See All Softcovers
3. Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson
by Jim Supica, Richard Nahas
Definitive Smith & Wesson identification and pricing reference, includes 350+ full-color photos for improved identification
See All Hardcovers
4. A Museum of Early American Tools
by Eric Sloane
Fascinating look by noted historian at devices used by wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. Deluxe ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
5. Gun Digest 2015
by Jerry Lee (Editor)
You'll enjoy this gun book if: You want updated information and gun reviews on both recently released firearms & older guns You're looking for an ... More
See All Softcovers
6. The Furniture Bible Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture
by Christophe Pourny, Jen Renzi, Martha Stewart (Foreword by)
Pourny teaches readers everything they need to know about the provenance and history of furniture, as well as how to restore, update, and care for ... More
See All Hardcovers
7. Handbook of United States Coins
by R S Yeoman
First published in 1942, the "Blue Book" is the annual reference that coin collectors across the country consult for the average prices that dealers ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
8. Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78 rpm Records
by Amanda Petrusich
The untold story of a quirky and important subculture: The world of 78rpm records and the insular community that celebrates them--by acclaimed music ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
9. Complete Price Guide to Watches
by Richard E Gilbert, Tom Engle, Cooksey Shugart
Complete Price Guide to Watches is the most reliable and convenient guide available. This annual book is a miniature encyclopedia with over 1,200 ... More
See All Softcovers
10. Blue Book of Airguns
by Robert Beeman
Co-written by the "Godfather of the Airgun Industry," Dr. Robert D. Beeman, as well as John B. Allen, longtime associate editor for the Blue Book of ... More
See All Softcovers
11. ABC for book-collectors.
by John Carter
A reference of over 450 alphabetical entries ranging in length from a single line to several pages. Each entry consists of a definition and analysis ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
12. Mauser Military Rifles of the World
by Robert W D Ball
More Models - More Photos - More History Robert Ball, the world's foremost authority on Mauser military rifles, continues to scour the continents in ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
13. The Official Overstreet Identification and Price Guide to Indian Arrowheads, 13th Edition
by John McCurdy, Robert M Overstreet, Sam W Cox (Editor)
THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARD FOR ALL INDIAN ARROWHEAD COLLECTORS Are you looking for insight, understanding, and a whole lot of information? If so, let ... More
See All Softcovers
14. State Quarter 1999-2009 Collector's Folder: District of Columbia and Territories
by Warman's
The State Quarter program has made coin collecting cool. What other activity requires treasure hunting skills and knowledge of history, and delivers ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
15. Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2015: America's Most Authoritative Antiques Annual
by Terry Kovel, Kim Kovel
16. Eric Sloane's Weather Book
by Eric Sloane
A beautifully illustrated book of enlightening lore for outdoorsmen, farmers, sailors, and anyone who has ever wondered whether to take an umbrella ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
17. The Annotated Mona Lisa
by Carol Strickland, John Boswell
Cutting through the fog of jargon and theories that can make art seem hopelessly remote, The Annotated Mona Lisa demystifies art history. It's a ... More
See All Softcovers
18. Watch Repair for Beginners: An Illustrated How-To-Guide for the Beginner Watch Repairer
by Harold C Kelly
19. Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide
by Eric Bradley (Editor)
If you love antiques and collectibles as much as we do, then "Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide" is your best source for buying, ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
20. Fifty Dresses That Changed the World
by The Design Museum
Intends to impart that knowledge listing the top 50 dresses that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design, from the 1915 Delphos ... More
See All Hardcovers
21. Metal Detecting: A Beginner's Guide: To Mastering the Greatest Hobby in the World Large Print Edition
by Mark Smith
"Invaluable for the first timer! I wish I had this book when I was just starting the hobby of metal detecting!" - Josh in Florida "I have been metal ... More
See All Softcovers
22. Lego Minifigure Year by Year: A Visual History
by Gregory Farshtey, Daniel Lipkowitz
This is a visual history of the amazing Lego[registered] minifigure phenomenon, with three minifigures included. Take a trip down memory lane and ... More
See All Hardcovers
23. The Watch Repairer's Manual
by Henry B. Fried
As "The New York Times" wrote after his death, Henry B. Fried was "widely acknowledged as the dean of American watchmakers." In the revised, 1961 ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
24. America the Beautiful Quarters Collector's Folder 2010-2021
by United States Mint
Beginning in 2010, the U.S. Mint will issue newly designed quarters featuring a national park or other site approximately every 10 weeks--and this ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers
25. Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
by Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
From an early age Elizabeth Taylor has loved jewellery and she wears it with a style all her own. Her collection has been appraised as one of the ... More
See All Softcovers | Hardcovers


text:
Reader comments are listed below. Comments are currently closed and new comments are no longer being accepted.
Rubbish from the Economist.
Robots can only cope in highly structured and customised environments, as in factory floors. Free-ranging domestic or home-care robots are decades away.
Even driverless cars will only be allowed by imposing stiff restrictions on roadways and human drivers.
Why am I so certain? Becuase robots cannot yet adapt to the completely unexpected and so their response will, by definition, be maladapted and dangerous.
Azimov explored these themes wonderfully, showing how even his sophisticated 'positronic' robots could go astray.
When you "play" with Baxter, or see how easy it is to program and borrow/buy programs from others, one can see a different future. At MIT research shows the impact on middle class will be interesting, fighting off shoring and helping local sourcing better. Time will tell...shortly, very shortly :)
This article is hopelessly and dangerously naive in its optimism.
Amidst all the technological advance there is one thing that is utterly unchanged - human psychology. The homo sapiens mind is unaltered from the state it reached more than 200,000 years ago when it evolved on the African savannah. It is still ruled by the same primitive drives that conferred an evolutionary advantage in that environment.
Within the human species, there is a small proportion of individuals driven to dominate and rule their fellows. That proportion is exactly the same as it was 200,000 years ago.
If their behaviours have changed, it is not because of any change to the species but rather to the environment within which they have recently - recently - been operating.
The current social norms which many people take for granted are the result of - and are contingent upon - very specific economic and technological conditions.
Those were conditions in which an evolutionary advantage (and that includes economic and military advantage) could be obtained by training individuals to very high levels of skill. Having invested such a vast amount in individuals, Rulers "valued" those individuals. Conversely, those individuals had great bargaining power relative to those who would rule them.
The Modern Era ideals of "individual rights" and "all people being born equal" are just that - modern!! They arose out of those very specific technological and economic conditions.
For most of human history, such ideals would have been regarded as preposterous. The self-evident difference between Rulers and Ruled was taken for granted. As Charles I remarked on the scaffold: "A subject and a sovereign are clean different things". Or, as Alexander Hamilton told the Constitutional Convention: "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people … turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government … Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy. "
Both of these men in their different ways were reflecting the "normal" view of human social arrangement, as it has existed for millennia – before the Modern Era. And we know from the historical record that homo sapiens Rulers had no hesitation in wasting the lives of their fellow human beings - by the thousands. By the millions if they had the need and the opportunity.
Hitherto, Rulers have been constrained in their ability to wipe out swathes of their own subjects. Hitherto, they were always dependent on maintaining enough workers and soldiers to sustain their regimes against those who would attack it.
The Modern Era represents the apex of that dependency. The dependence of Rulers on their highly trained subjects rose to unprecedented levels. Rulers were utterly dependent on subjects trained to operate the complex - but not completely automated - machinery of the modern industrial state.
It was in response to that very specific - and historically anomalous - set of conditions that the quintessential Modern Era ideals of Equality and Democracy arose.
But there is no universal law that says such ideals must continue when the technological and economic environment change. That is naive "progressivism".
We are now entering a new era – unprecedented in human history - in which automation and robotics will make the vast bulk of the human race redundant. Not just unemployed, but "redundant" - no longer needed by their Rulers.
And already we are seeing the effects, both economic and political. While the wealthy minority become ever richer, median wages in developed countries like the US have remained unchanged for more than a decade. These are the people who are simply no longer needed.
In the political arena, the Modern Era ideals are being wound back. (With The Economist at the forefront, cheering on the return to Elitism and the Rule of Privilege. One need only read The Economist's nauseating essay on "Democracy" to understand its visceral loathing of the Stinking Masses and its hatred of any genuinely democratic government.)
Some might trace the beginnings of this reversal to May 1979, and to what historians (if there are any historians) might one day call "The Great Conservative Revolution" which began in Britain and rapidly spread worldwide. Couched originally in terms of promoting "economic efficiency" this revolution quickly transformed into a platform of undisguised elitism and privilege.
Meanwhile individuals in the most "advanced" countries are told they must work harder and longer - all in the name of being "competitive" - but they're not paid any more. The most powerful players are protected by government "bail-outs" - paid for by taxpayers - to ensure they never suffer any losses.
All the gains go to the rich and the Mates of the Rulers.
Technology meanwhile has made it ever easier for Rulers to spy on their subjects, both in the real world with CCTV and ANPR, and even more easily in the virtual world. George Orwell fretted about the potential for technology - in the form of television - to be used as a spying device. Slowly but surely his fears are coming to fruition.
Had true Democracy ever been able to take root, it might have been possible for the subjects to keep the Rulers under control. But it never did. The system of purely elective government (a system which - in a triumph of Orwellian language - we are required to call "representative liberal democracy"!) has degenerated into a duopoly of self-serving politicians working hand-in-glove with their plutocrat Mates.
True Democracy will never come to fruition now. Like Alexander Hamilton, the Rulers and their acolytes (like The Economist) tell themselves over and over again how dangerous it would be to allow it.
Do you want to know what the 21st century will be like?
I'll tell you.
As long as the billions of redundant human beings are allowed to go on living they will pose an ever-present threat to the Rulers. As long as they are allowed to go on living there is the risk that they will rise up and overthrow their Rulers.
You don't need to be Einstein to see how this game must eventually play itself out.
We know from the historical record that homo sapiens Rulers will have no hesitation in removing such a threat - with whatever brutality is required. It is what they are evolved to do.
But we also know from the historical record that such slaughter does not usually take the form of Rulers acting directly against subjects. That would risk precipitating the very rebellion they fear most.
Most slaughter takes the form of one regime fighting another in a "just war", with the subjects used as cannon-fodder or simply dying as "collateral damage".
My prediction is that the homo sapiens primates who rule in Washington and the homo sapiens primates who rule in Beijing will eventually come to see the necessity of settling once-and-for-all the vital question of which tribe are the stronger monkeys.
In the conflagration which follows the mass of humanity will perish while the Rulers hide in their shelters.
And when it is all over they will emerge, make up with one another, and enjoy an empty planet with their needs provided by a largely robotic workforce and a handful of human slaves.
Thus will the ruthless inherit the Earth.
A logic and clear discourse, founded on this premise of no change in the past 200,000 years. That however is not the case, as even across 2 generations you find material changes to IQ and indeed physical traits.
That explains why 20th century rulers such as Stalin, Hitler and Mao (not to mention a host of lesser pyschopaths) steadfastly refused to allow tens of millions of human beings to die as a result of their actions.
It is comforting to know that such behaviours have been evolved out of the human species(!)
To think IQ is reliable and not subject to inflation is silly.
Traits change, drift, but that doesn't imply what we might want to call desirable traits.
You're wrong for one reason: The "rulers" have changed from those of a plutocracy to a technocracy. While it is far more common for the intelligent among the wealthy to earn vast sums of wealth; the masses have far more intelligent people than the tiny upper class.
All in all, you are most likely correct. It's just that it won't be "old money" that rules tomorrow, but a technocratic intellectual elite.
Haven't we already inherited it?
Sure, and you can add some more terrible mass killers throughout the centuries, but you will end up with about 20 of them, which is not representative of the billion people that ever walked the Earth.
I'd like to find a reason to dispute this...primarily due to the fact that my children were born at the beginning of the 21st century.
Sadly, instead I suspect the scenario may swiftly to pass in advance of the American West's complete depletion of aquifers that would otherwise precipitate a civil war or mass migration. Estimated time scale, 25 years or less.
When they were born, I dreamed of my children being the first scuba divers on Europa. Now, I cling to a diminishing hope that they can live out their lives in relative peace, and am burdened with the doubt of whether bringing them into such a world was either kind or wise.
The idea of human rights is not modern.
The Greeks Crucible of Civilization
The implementation of artificial intelligence is modern.
From here the evolution of democracy starting with Cleisthenes in Athens more than 2500 years ago reached a high plateau in the American War for Independence in 1776.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Are Americans too busy to stay focused on this?
How can this be programmed into a robot?
The ancient Greeks instituted not a democracy but a unusually broad oligarchy operating in small city-states.
(Even within such city-states, slaves - for example - did not enjoy the rights of citizens. And the slave population was significant, the average varying over time between 1 slave per household and 4 slaves per household. Slaves had neither the right of "voice" nor – unlike, for example, non-naturalised immigrants - the right of "exit" if conditions were not to their liking.)
Moreover, the very fact that one needs to go back 2500 years to find even a partially suitable example shows how historically anomalous such participation in government was in the pre-modern era. If ever an exception were to prove the rule, this must surely be it!!
The United States – notwithstanding Jefferson's early-modern sentiments – still went on to implement a system of elective and appointed government expressly designed not to be democratic, as the more traditional Hamilton and others made clear to the Convention.
Artificial Intelligence has given us voting machines that can be hacked.
Ancient Athens was the first time and place people voted 2500 years ago. Before the Athenian Democracy there was only tyranny or worse. Aristocracy was the form of government that ruled in Greece before the people revolted.
It was a noble first attempt to begin a democracy as an alternative to rivalries between Aristocratic families.
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilisation - The Golden Age
The Greeks - Crucible of Civilisation - The Collapse Of Confidence
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
― Albert Einstein
Watson is a computer system like no other ever built. It analyzes natural language questions and content well enough and fast enough to compete and win against champion players at Jeopardy!
IBM has always claimed that Watson was more than a publicity stunt, that it had revolutionary real-world applications in health care, investing, and other realms. IBM Chief Executive Officer Virginia Rometty has promised that Watson will generate $10 billion in annual revenue within 10 years, but according to the Journal, as of last October Watson was far behind projections, only bringing in $100 million.
Watson works by choosing candidate responses, then devoting its processors to several of them at the same time, exploring archived material for further evidence of the quality of the answer. Candidates can be discarded and new ones selected.
This is very much how primate brains (like ours) work. Neuroscientists like Michael Shadlen can recognize which brain cells monkeys use to represent different hypotheses about how to solve the current puzzle they are facing. Then, he can watch the different solutions compete for influence in the brain, until the animal finally acts when it is certain enough. If the puzzle has a short time limit, the animals will act for a lower threshold and will be less accurate. Just like us. And it wouldn't be hard to reprogram Watson to do the same thing—to give its best answer at a fixed time rather than at a fixed level of certainty.
How do we know that Watson understands? Being able to answer the question doesn't mean understanding the question.
Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.
- Wikipedia
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
― Albert Einstein
To know is to understand what happened, to imagine means to know what could happen. The future look, versus the backward look.
1685–95; free + thinker
Freethought or free thought is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, or other dogmas. The cognitive application of freethought is known as "freethinking", and practitioners of freethought are known as "freethinkers".
Can a freethinking robot be a slave?
What is knowledge with out imagination. when you think about it, everything that we know comes from someone who down the line used their imagination. so, without imagination there would be nothing and no room for creativity.
The Rulers
Biology tells us that humans do not rule this planet. Human current dependence on bacteria dwarfs a hypothetical relationship between humans and robots.
According to a growing body of new research investigating the human microbiome, who we are, biologically speaking, is much more diverse than we thought. The emerging findings indicate that our biological integrity and identity are intrinsically tied to the bacterial ecosystems, the communities living with us. Rather than an individual, separate body that is all "human," the research indicates that we are more like a multi-organism ecosystem. "We need to start thinking of ourselves as super-organisms," says Dr Julie Segre.
When bacteria communicate, they can't send a text, write an email or call; instead, they connect chemically. Using a cellular activity called "quorum sensing," bacteria emit and absorb pheromone-like chemicals that provide information prompting bacteria to undergo changes. The process involves sharing data about the number of bacteria within a given environment. When a critical mass (quorum) is reached, bacteria take action, which could involve secreting toxins, seeking nutrition, dying or producing light.
Quorum sensing can function as a decision-making process in any decentralized system, as long as individual components have: (a) a means of assessing the number of other components they interact with and (b) a standard response once a threshold number of components is detected.
A quorum is also the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business of that group. According to Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, the "requirement for a quorum is protection against totally unrepresentative action in the name of the body by an unduly small number of persons."
As labor will indeed start to disappear, we will need to think of how to distribute goods but more importantly: what to do with the freed time. We'll need an utopia to work towards.
On the distribution of goods or capital:
It will be in the best interests of everyone to maintain a consumer market. Even the capitalists will try to find a way to maintain it.
India will see a economic boom when Robots become a part of everyday life.
"Sir have you tried turning it off and on?"
In Asimov's world, the robots were constrained by the three laws of robotics:
First - do no harm to humans or let them come to harm by inaction.
Second - Obey the human master (except if in conflict with the first law).
Third - preserve self (except if in conflict with the first or second law).
Then robots themselves came up with the "Zero-eth law": Do no harm to humanity nor let humanity come to harm by inaction. Interesting how THIS law was ultimately interpreted by the robots! (Hint - it's complicated).
Asimov was a genius writer and a wise man but still his laws albeit nice to have do not apply anywhere anyway. Robots of today are either to stupid to follow or they are made to brake the laws on purpose: drones for extrajudicial killings for instance....
This would be a principle that might create a virtual world as described by the Matrix trilogy.
How would humans be able to evolve in an artificial virtual world? Evolution for machines should be on a different path. Humans must direct that path for their own safety and happiness.
This would be a principle that might create a virtual world as described by the Matrix trilogy.
How would humans be able to evolve in an artificial virtual world? Evolution for machines should be on a different path. Humans must direct that path for their own safety and happiness.
"In the past few years, clever companies have seen ways to make robots work as grips and gaffers on film sets ("Gravity" could not have been shot without robots moving the cameras and lights) and panel installers at solar-power plants. "
Um the later Star Wars used machine controlled cameras and lights. Chapeaux Ancien.
As to the question of bots replacing human relationships. Ask yourself if the idea of a bot raising your offspring -in your stead-, a BabyRaise unit doesn't make you queasy. After all, this is replacing parenting.
Same goes for granny. It's cool a bot could feed the frail at their direction, but what happens when granny is handed a bot she thinks cares about her emotions?
At this point we start entering the creepy fantasy world of the Borg or Zuckerberg, who craves to insert FB into all human interaction, then manipulate and profit from it.
PS There can't be consumers if they don't have an income. At some point a perfect instrumentality.. hopefully not the forbidden planet kind.. will ask of what utility are humans anyway.
Why not make robotic consumers in the likeness of Mal (I'm human! I'm human!)?
"Widely debated" could use some hotlink love
I think we will become like spoiled children, or lazy slave masters. Few of us will want to know how to cook, clean, drive, or care for our children, sick and elderly, etc. We will expect robotic servants to do that for us. In the meantime "The devil will find work for our idle hands".
"Widely debated" could use some hotlink love
I'm afraid robots are most attractive for doing things that most people wouldn't even do for money: killing other people.
Looking at what the US army (killer drones) and the NSA (automated 'terrorist' detection) is up to these days, I'm afraid we're not very far from this dystopia any more...
Neat books on this topic...
The Asimov Robot series (which I read about 30 years ago and is still worth a re-read)
'On Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins which
- attempts to dispel conventional thinking on how intelligent machines would behave once they exceeded human intelligence &
- analyses the limitations of our current approaches re. development of Artificial Intelligence
The dream of dreams of the top upper class.Robots to take over all middle class and lower class duties. Mind you will have to save some of the lower class to collect the garbage. problem how to get rid of them? maybe compulsory birth control? Eat them? High form of protein. The perfect world. No troublesome unions - Traffic will be light - meet only your kind of people TOP ECHELON .
This represents the total triumph of capital, and the total defeat of labor.
Some world to look forward to, if you own the robots.
Yeah, we need to bring back typewriters.
it is clear that sooner or later robots/computers will replace all the manual workers as well as great deal of non manual ones. I dont think this should be stopped or prevented, but i still think g.powell is absolutely right in his two lines regardless of some ironic hints at ludditism.
And handlooms.
The green mafia have already brought back windmills
Why? As long as we have democracy, people can always decide on redistribution. Maybe Marx was ultimately right communism but wrong about the way: probably it's capitalism (with democracy) that leads to communism and not socialism. It's not that unlikely that we will all be living in a society where we all have a relatively similar life standard as all goods (e.g. food) are provided to us by robot/machines. E.g. if the government sets up fully automated farms run with solar or nuclear energy that produce food for everyone.
The second option is that humans start to modify their brains to become more efficient. This would mean that we can keep up with the machines but we wouldn't really be human anymore. But that's not so unlikely in the very long run. Humans might be able to control evolution at some point (including their own evolution) which mean that we can just transform our self's into something more advanced. Sounds crazy but if you think about, there's a decent chance it's true.
There will always be those that will never be content with "a relatively similar life standard as all goods" and strive for more. Can't decide whether that is a good trait or not though, ambition drives so much...
Robots or Drones will be welcome doing things that humans cannot do.
Example probing a booby trapped bomb.
Or exploring the surface of Mars.
Or flying between downtown skyscrapers buildings delivering packages.
But a Third World Nanny or Housekeeper can do an infinite number of things that would leave a robot spinning with software engineering problems.
Such as getting milk from the fridge, cereal from the pantry, a clean bowl from the dishwasher, and washing a spoon and serving it to a 3 year old.
A robot would cause far more problems, headaches, trouble shooting, software glitches, hardware hang-ups, and system integration conflicts than if you simply cleaned up the spilt milk yourself.
Flying drones can do things that humans cannot.
And by flying they will prove indispensable.
But don't expect robots to pick up your dirty laundry or clean your windows or swat a fly.
Expect robots to do spectacular inhuman things and not try to substitute for mundane human tasks.
Robots can fly between skyscrapers delivering the mail.
But not clean the toilet and feed the baby.
You can already get a window cleaning robot.
Yes, but can it swat a fly?
Actually not that hard. Flies,currently, have a programmed response to air flow, jumping back at the same inclination and speed. Once you know that, swatting them is easy. Until this selection plays out and we end up with a new behavior. However, it's not that hard to reprogram foe the behavior. "Build a better mousetrap, catch a better mouse."
"Actually not that hard."
No fly has ever been killed purposely by a robot in the history of robot technology--and never will.
And I can almost guarantee that is something I can do that robots may never succeed in.
Robots can do square roots of ten digit numbers, which I will fail.
It is a matter of comparative strength and weaknesses.
Robots can fly, but they will never swat a fly.
Emerging markets: Predicting the next crisis
Free exchange
Nuclear talks with Iran: Distrust and verify
Middle East and Africa
Scientology film: Hammering at the walls
Nigeria's election: A powder keg
Graphic detail
The first televised "debate": Why the prime minister resisted
This week's issue: South Korea's economy, a riposte to Piketty and...
Free exchange
The Economist explains: Why Singapore became an economic success
The Economist explains
Have you listened to The Economist Radio on Facebook?
The Economist Radio is an on-demand social listening platform that allows you to listen, share and recommend The Economist audio content
Test your EQ
Take our weekly news quiz to stay on top of the headlines
In Other Words
Try our new audio app and website, providing reporting and analysis from our correspondents around the world every weekday
Want more from The Economist?
Visit The Economist e-store and you'll find a range of carefully selected products for business and pleasure, Economist books and diaries, and much more


text:
Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites!
Refine or narrow your results by clicking any term in the gray boxes below.
Expand your results by removing any breadcrumb in a gray outlined box above. Click on the blue "X" to remove the term.
Narrow your results by entering a keyword into the search box above. Then click the "Search Within" checkbox, then click on the orange "Search" button.
If you did not find what you are looking for or you did not get any results, try changing your search term(s). See our Search Help page for more tips.
Date: 1932 ca.
Description: A group of six men and three women are cooking over a smoky campfire at the Ojibwa Roadside Park.
Date: 1910-12
Description: Photograph hanging on the wall of the family cabin of John F. Deitz. The glass of the picture was broken by a bullet piercing the walls between the logs in...
Date: 1940 ca.
Description: Several small groups of people are scattered about the roadside park among picnic tables. There are parked automobiles, and a small building.
Date: date unknown
Description: This map shows the lots surrounding Hinton Bay on Round Lake in the Town of Hayward, Sawyer County, Wisconsin.
Date: 1935 ca.
Description: View from road of large two-story building situated along roadway. A gasoline pump is next to the building along with four fifty-five gallon drums position...
Date: 1911
Description: This 1911 map of south central Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows land for sale by Veness & Kasl of Exeland, the township and range system, sections, homes, r...
Description: Two-story log building surrounded by immature trees on Moose Lake. There is a flagpole on the left, and automobiles are parked in the foreground.
Description: Aerial view of Lake Chetac near Birchwood.
Description: Studio portrait of George Morehouse Huss.
Date: 1949-11-17
Description: Three men, Breuer, Kielcheski, and Harrington, are standing in front of a large white pine in a snow field. The Flambeau River State Forest is located in p...
Date: 1930
Description: Cars parked at Ross' Teal Lake Lodge.
Description: View along shoreline of a man wearing a hat and sitting on a hillside. A dog retrieves a stick in the water. Wooden row boats are at docks in the backgroun...
Description: View of a man wearing a hat standing by a tree stump feeding four deer in the woods.
Date: 1919-06
Description: Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian cemetery among brush and trees. Probably Lac Courte Oreilles.
Date: 1934 ca.
Description: Exterior view of the one-story wooden building with a stone foundation called Alladin, Hayward's Smart Nite Club, with pine trees in the background.
Description: Large two-plus story log building with awnings over the windows, with a one-story attached cafe with a sign that says: MAMMOUTH GAYETY CAFE. There is a cou...
Date: 1915
Description: This map shows a plat of city, wards, sections, land ownership by name, local streets, roads, railroads, local businesses, schools, and parks. This map is...
Date: 1919
Description: This 1919 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, farm houses, the Indian re...
Date: 1919-07-09
Description: Governor Phillip at a victory celebration at Reserve, Wisconsin.
Description: Two men in a wooden rowboat checking a fyke net on a northern Wisconsin lake. One man is standing, holding a fishing net full of walleyes.
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:
© 1996-2015 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706


text:
Thanks Tango, very nice!
Rogers, Arkansas here.
Done! I put the most of the members request in the map.... let's see how many members want to put their names in the map
Put me in at Lebanon Ky. The hackers already know all my info anyway so I should let my brothers know where I am.
Sometimes you earthlings REALLY amaze me!
Pin me in Katy, Texas 77450
I'm in Bedford Texas 76021. (Dallas/ Fort Worth area)
Rochester, New York
OK So far everyone in here is on there. Amsel thank you for the help.
I would love to see that we have members in every state. I know we do I would just like to fill in the map. I put the one guy in Nancy France but I have to go find his name. I thought we have a German or two. and where are the aussie blokes at? Didn't we also have some kanucks as well?
Homer, NY here
Hinesville, GA 31313 for me...
Pin me in at Coral Springs FL


text:
The Echo & Origami Vinyl Present
Rob Crow's Gloomy Place (Pinback), Obliterations
The Echo
1822 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, California, 90026
This event is 18 and over
Dear Music Enthusiast,
Thank you for what we are presuming to be your interest in the band Obits. They are a four-piece band who currently live in Brooklyn, NY, and whose music is most probably considered an occupant of the rock music genre, with more specific reconnaissance in the areas of garage, punk, surf, surf-punk, and garage-punk (though, not surf-garage). On this new album, they've also covered a song ("Besetchet") from volume 23 of the excellent Ethiopiques series; and so much for tidy categorization. The album for which this clumsy biographical dispatch has been prepared is entitled Bed & Bugs and it is the third full-length album by Obits, following their 2011 album Moody, Standard and Poor, which itself followed their 2009 album I Blame You, which we in the professional music industry refer to as the band's "debut" (which is French for "LP1"). Bed & Bugs was recorded somewhere in Arlington, VA at an unnamed recording studio, simply and rather unhelpfully described as "upstairs." This recording was accomplished by Nikhil Ranade, and the resulting songs were later mixed, variously, by this same Nikhil Ranade as well as Eli Janney and Geoff Sanoff.
Critical response to the aforementioned Obits albums has included such adjectives as: "spacious" and "jumpy" from The New York Times; "propulsive," "sandpapery" and "sweaty" from Pitchfork; "powerfully wiry" and "declamatory" from SPIN; "driving" and "really good" from Dusted. Descriptive responses from actual, verifiable employees here at Sub Pop Records range from "fidgety," "tight" and "loose" (Warehouse Manager Mark Arm), to "picaresque," "pithy" and "cogent" (International Sales and Distribution Honcho Gabe Carter), to "skronkeratchity" and "ffffromp-ful" (from our borderline incomprehensible Direct Sales Commander (Western Quadrant) Dean Whitmore). We look forward to new and inventive adjectives with the release of Bed & Bugs.
On listening to Bed & Bugs, the discerning listener may well note more than a passing similarity to such bands as Hot Snakes, Edsel, Drive Like Jehu, Girls Against Boys, Pitchfork, possibly Television or the Wipers. This is un-coincidental! With the exception of those last two, Obits share members with all of those bands.
As is the habit of many of the best contemporary rock bands, Obits will perform live with the release of Bed & Bugs, both domestically and internationally. For instance, they recently performed in the building in Warsaw that Stalin gave to Poland.
Less flippantly: There are scenes and there are connections; trending hashtags and experiences. It's cool, these are not either/or propositions and there's no need to postulate any us vs. any them, the kids today and the back in my day. Much of what's best about any music, all art, across genres, within and beyond the latest craze, is the way it speaks to some definition of "us." Proving, as Obits sing (or "jumpily declaim"?) in Bed & Bugs' "Receptor," that "You ain't the world's lone receptor," is deeply valuable. Because we're all headed to the same place: me today, you tomorrow. And, in that waning interstitial space, let's go ahead and have what we want. No need to choose: make ours both Bed & Bugs.
With all sincerity and not,
Sub Pop Records of Seattle, WA
Obits, starring:
Greg Simpson as The Bass Player
Rick Froberg as The Guitarist and Singer
Sohrab Habibion also as The Guitarist and Singer
Alexis Fleisig as The Drummer
(except for the song "Besetchet," whereon Scott Gursky appears as The Drummer)
Rob Crow is the frontman for the relatively well-known group Pinback. When he's not touring with, or making albums for one of his many collaborations (including the aforementioned Pinback, The Ladies, Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours, Other Men, Alpha Males, etc.), he makes solo records. His latest album, 'Living Well', is his most focused and heartfelt album yet. He writes some of the most addictive songs we have ever heard, and he often has a giant beard to boot.
Obliterations are:
Sam James Velde (Vocals), Austin Barber (Bass), Stephen McBean (Guitar) and Flo Schanze (Drums).
They all played and play in other bands including Black Mountain, Saviours, Bluebird, Night Horse and Pink Mountaintops.
They all started playing together in November 2012.
They all like Black Sabbath and Black Flag.
They all live in Los Angeles, CA.
Debut 7 inch this summer on Outer Battery Records.
Who's Going
Upcoming Events
The Echo
Sat, March 28
PANACHE SPRING FLING with White Fence
Sun, March 29
Grand Ole Echo with Dan Janisch
Sun, March 29
45 Grave + Nervous Gender + Egrets On Ergot + Sunflower Bean + Guest DJ David J. [BAUHAUS/Love & Rockets]
Mon, March 30
The Martha's Vineyard Ferries
Tue, March 31
Shannon & the Clams / The Coathangers
Wed, April 1
Thu, April 2
Fri, April 3
Kera and the Lesbians
Sat, April 4
Tobias Jesso Jr
Sat, April 4
Funky Sole


text:
Contact UsStudent Services
Location: Building 535, Offices 29/30
Phone: (909) 607-0389
Fax: (909) 607-8086
Email: student_services[at symbol]kgi.edu
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Commencement Information
Save the Date! The 14th annual commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 11 am.
More detailed instructions for our graduates and their guests will be available starting January 2015.
Commencement Videos
Keck Graduate Institute's 2014 commencement, as well as previous commencement ceremonies, are available for online viewing.more


text:
Tropical soils are under intense pressure, because of agricultural development. A way to better maintain the resource would be to utilize the cattle/crop rotation system. In this way, the soil will not need to utilize extreme nitrogen fertilizers and will maintain its original integrity. Furthermore, the cattle will provide the necessary ammonium to promote crop growth when the cattle are rotated to other fields. Another way to supplement the cattle/crop rotation is to introduce the symbiotic microbes. These would be the various types of mycorrhizal fungi that exist. They will be able to provide extra protection and necessary nutrients to the plants as well as extract nutrients from the plants and replenish the soil.
Chegg is one of the leading providers of homework help for college and high school students. Get homework help and answers to your toughest questions in math, calculus, algebra, physics, chemistry, science, accounting, English and more. Master your homework assignments with our step-by-step solutions to more than 3000 textbooks. If we don't support your textbook, don't worry! You can ask a homework question and get an answer in as little as two hours. With Chegg, homework help is just a few clicks away.


text:
| Share
spé•cia•li•té de la mai•son
Pronunciation: (spe-syä-lē-tā du la mā-zôn'), Strict Standards: Non-static method FenSites::linkTo() should not be called statically in /site/html/dictionary/specialite-de-la-maison.html on line 77 [key] French.
the specialty of the house (used in referring to the most important dish served by a restaurant).
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.


text:
$184.80Go to Amazon.com M...
STX TURBOFORCE 3000 SERIES 3 SPEED ELECTRIC MEAT GRINDERView larger STX TURBOFORCE 3000 SERIES 3 SPEED ELECTRIC MEAT GRINDER The STX TURBOFORCE 3000 Series Electric Meat Grinder is the INDUSTRY...More
Amazon.com Market...
Unknown Tax
Shipping N/A
|New Item
Bestcovery experts have rated the STX International STX-3000-TF Turboforce 3-Speed Electric Meat Grinder as a best pick for the Best Meat Grinder. Bestcovery's experts recommend the best products and services for a particular need based on extensive research and evaluations. Click below to see Bestcovery's full review of this product. Read more
Find, Compare, Read Reviews & Buy the INTERNATIONAL STX-3000-TF Turboforce 3-Speed Electric Meat Grinder With 3 Cutting Blades, 3 Grinding Plates, Kubbe Attachment And Sausage Stuffing Tubes Online @ Yahoo Shopping Want to see your products in Yahoo Shopping? Advertise with us. Sitemap All Brands
Terms | Privacy | About Our Ads | Help


text:
Internet writing and websites
While the internet sometimes seems like one big irritating advertisement after another(pop-ups being the worst offenders) it has become an important source of information, to myself and many I communicate with. It took some time to figure out how to search for and then evaluate that information, but it was time well spent for it has opened the floodgates.
Have those of you with websites found them to be useful tools in your work? How do you go about making your website known? Do you feel public access to your website has been a useful marketing exposure? What was your intent when developing the site?
...Just a note about popups. This annoyance is easily eliminated by simply downloading the free toolbar available from the search engine, Google. There is a setting whereby you can block all popups or selectively allow popups from sites of your choosing. It even has a little counter to tell you how many popups it has blocked -- amazing how quickly they add up. A plus is that I always have a little Google search window unobtrusively located on the toolbar at all times. Easily, free and works great! Dump it if you don't like it -- but you will.
Here is a link that might be useful: Google Toolbar
I have a gardening website but it is not related to my previous work and now that I am retired, gardening, and all things related is my greatest hobby followed by playing guitar and writing songs. To promote my website I usually sign my emails including the URL for my site. I had bookmarks (get it?) printed up telling about my site, I give out free pens with my website imprinted on them, Whenever I give a talk or attend a symposium I try to include a free scratch pad for everyone, when I have articles published I ask to have my site included in my byline, I have reciprocal links with other gardening sites. I have a "Wanted" poster of myself printed up saying my last known residence was my web address. I guess my intent of developing a site in the first place was to promote gardening and to let people know grits don't kill fire ants and all lady bugs aren't ladies. To paraphrase Lenny Bruce "If you're not having fun then you're not doing it right." (Only Lenny wasn't talking about gardening). By the way, I do not try to sell anything over the Internet.
Here is a link that might be useful: Bittersweet Gardens
I have a gardening website that I just put up a couple of weeks ago, it's still in work, but as of today it's got nearly 1100 unique URLs in it, and it's over 60 pages....this will increase exponentially. I use a webhost that costs a bit more than a few dollars a month, this is not an inconvenience as I can access all of my log files to see who's been where and how they got there. Most importantly, my visitors will not be harrased by advertising. I am an educational NFP and I think that advertisements would detract from my site.
There are many programs to assist you in making your website, I used WebStudio to create mine, WebStudio uses CSS for its programming. Any site maker that uses CSS (cascading style sheets) should be formatted for HTML 3.2 so that folks with older computers can view the site as it should be seen. This is a George Jetson world but there are many who still use Fred Flintstone technology and you must make an effort to accomodate as many people as is possible. In addition to WebStudio I used PrintMaster Platinum v.15 to create many of the graphics and save files in PDF format for downloading. I was given permission from the GW to use their icon wherever I link to back to this site....I like the idea of having a visual icon as well as a link to let people know instantly that any particular link takes them to the GardenWeb.
Here is a link that might be useful: WinterSown.Org
"Have those of you with websites found them to be useful tools in your work?"
Yes ... if anyone quesitons my HTML skills, I can point them to the varoius websites I have developed solo or as part of a team.
"How do you go about making your website known?"
Submit it to a couple of search engines ... nothing further is needed. A simple site, properly constructed, loaded with tightly focused information will attract traffic like free beer attracts college students.
"Do you feel public access to your website has been a useful marketing exposure?"
I'm not "selling" anything at the moment. When I go professional landscape consultant, I'll pay more attention to marketing my services.
"What was your intent when developing the site?"
Fun, and a way to let co-workres look at my projects easily.
Most programs for making sites will have a place where you can place in keywords that can describe your site. When you upload your site those keywords can help the search engines hone in on you. Also, depending upon your host, they will submit your site for you.
Web hosts are a very important choice, finding a dependable site that is responsible in the maintainance of their servers is important. They should have an FAQ section with descriptions so you understand exactly what you're getting for your monthly fee, they should also have online interactive help desk support with an 800 number.
About my site, it was started as a present from another landscape contractor that I helped out.
I knew nothing about websites, and when mine was formed, I figured I would it be a one page advertisement.
The tool factor was the first improvement interest I had. For example, instead of handing information to my customers about watering a new plant, I could just have them go to my website - save time, save paper.
Later I found out that information on a site increases the odds of being linked to.
My site is not a major factor for new business, but it more than pays for itself.
In some communities this next idea won't be relevant, but in Beaverton, Oregon, near where Intel resides, lacking a website would compare to not having a phone number in 1965.
Having a www on advertising these days is not identical to having "certified" on an ad, but it's not that far away from the notion. But, again, I think it depends on what community a person works in.
I agree about having a www. on your business card, if you don't have one it's like you're Fred Flinstone. Having a WWW. is essential for reference as well. But you must have the content to back it up. If you're site isn't easily navigable your visitors will get frustrated. Like any business it must always be expanding with areas of new content added on...otherwise someone may feel you have no interest in it yourself. Having a website made and not having the means to make changes to it the day you want is a horrible mistake, learn how to make and control your site on your own, become your own webmaster. This past week I've begun work on the info-portals in the links section and yesterday added a discussion center, much more is planned. I do keep a blog on the site so my readers can keep up with what I'm doing for the site and with my WSing as well. It's been going great as todays webstats show over 60k hits this month.
Here is a link that might be useful: Trudi Blog
I've had a website for about three years, and am in the process of finially doing some updating! Because I do a great deal of speaking, it not only sends potential jobs my way, but it's a tremendous time saver when I do get interest in a speaking date. People want to know what I speak about and I can refer them to the list on the website. (I'm in the process of adding a page that contains a description of all of the talks.)
Once a date is booked, biographical information is always requested, and once again I can refer them to the website where they can pick and choose what they want to say.
I include a bunch of general garden information because I think that it's good to get that out. It's also a way that I can also use small pieces I've written that haven't been used elsewhere, or that I've used in another media awhile back. (This is why I try to sell only the rights for the immediate use on radio or in a smaller magazine - it's good to be able to publish those pieces on the website later. )
I took a big step this winter and am getting help with the updating and additions to the site - am finially admitting that just getting the new material written, and photos prepared, is all I have time for.
You'll have to check it out in late February (I hope) to see the changes!
Here is a link that might be useful: The Garden Lady's Website
By the way, there doesn't seem to be a big issue at gardenweb if a business site link is added within the context of discussion - separate from an advertising attempt.
But you don't want to put your address in the links window as a link more than once. Multiple links apparently are identified by the system, and the person who posted, gets redirected to the Disneyland site on future attempts to log in.
So once is max. One option - if it's for discussion, not advertising - just write the web address into the text of the reply.
As for hosting:
My DH is a contract software engineer. He works from a home office for clients out of state, and having a good hosting service is vital to his work. We have tried numerous companies, and have finally settled on a great one called ThinkHost (just add the www & .com in the appropriate places). They don't have a phone support system--it's all through email. However, their response time for emails is better than 99% of the phone systems I've ever used from any company. (Land's End is the only one that's faster.) Their tech support people are courteous and freindly, no matter how simple your question. Their web tools for email account maintenance are easy to use, and with some packages you have access to their template library (a flexible and huge repository of templates to help you make a professional site). Go take a look sometime. Oh, and did I mention their rates are one of the best values ever?
I completely agree with CL about adding content to a site for generating hits. A site that is stagnant is a site that goes nowhere. The more content you provide the more people you can attract through search engines. I try to add several pages each month, and each with a diversity of high quality content that will foster repeat hits.
Another important aspect of website hosting is ability to access your stats so you can see not just how many hits you're getting, but the sectors where the hits are coming from. Are you attracting globally, from the military, universities, busnesses, etc? From that information you can see if you need to add foreign language translations of your writing, increase your offerings to specific groups, or add more content to attract youths, seniors or service organizations.
When I started as a freelance writer, I saw that many newbies were encouraged to write for free in exchange for "exposure". I did give away a couple of pieces, but soon realized that I was only "exposing" myself as being the sort of writer who works for free, which was not my plan.
I figured that if I was going to write for free, it was going to be for my own website. It gets a modest number of visitors, earns enough from ad revenue to pay for itself, and serves as a wonderful portfolio for my skills. And NO POPUPS. Yuck!
Can't post it here; I've been sent to Disney for less. But if you really wanted to, you could add a .com to my nick here and get there eventually. :)
Amen to no pop-ups! Glaring and annoying ads are a major turn-off to repeat web traffic. My host charges a me a reduced fee because I'm an NFP so the cost is so low that I don't need to accept ads to pay for the site. Right now I'm comfortable with that and I hope that when I increase my capacity I won't have to have advertizing to cover the increased hosting cost.
The info pages of websites seem to be more fun to write. I don't put much style into my information pages, but it's still fun for me.
It seems that the home pages are a cross between what we want to say (write), and what the search engines want to hear - if we want a good ranking page.
I brought my site up over 150 positions for one keyword phrase by just adding an "s" to one word. And googlebot boosted my site in just two days up to the 11th listing. Another week, and the site went to number 1.
It's interesting to watch rankings. I just remembered the first time my site went up on the web, and it would not display for any search I could invent except a direct address. Now our site has upper slots for all the most relevant Portland keyword phrases for landscape designer, tree service and arborist.
I added two new pages today...one for seedling identification photographs which will grow with inclusion. And a very VERY important one....giving permission and directions on how to link to my site from other websites. The more people that see your link the more people will hit it. As encouragement ~ those people that use my link can email me the URL for their site and I'll add it to that link inclusion page.
You do actually need permission with many.
Some let you link without a hitch and even provide the URL and how-to, some want to see your site first, ie no objectionable materials, yesterday I signed a contract giving me permission to link to a particular site in the way that THEY want me to link to it: their site opens in a window that is not framed by my own site. They did the work to create that site; I'm not going to be disrespectful to them ~ and I have no intentions of getting creamed by a multi-billion dollar business for not honoring their requests. I just got an aok from the US Naval Observatory, I didn't see any info on their site about linking to them so I wrote their webmaster and he wrote back that the USNO site is public domain and I am free to link to it. So I did.
It never hurts to ask.


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!
I work in video games, have a ton of different nerdy hobbies, and love to travel.
Graeme has completed online and offline ID verification.
Learn more »
I met Graeme only briefly as the cottage is independent from the main house and he only stayed 2 days, but he is pleasant friendly and very polite. I recommend him as a guest.
Graeme was a great guest in and out didn't even know anyone was there. Left the studio in excellent condition
Graeme and friends were terrific and left the place in immaculate condition ! It was a pleasure, and you are welcome back anytime !
Great guest. Easy to communicate with and left the place spotless. Would gladly have him back. I especially appreciate that he took the time to give a thoughtful review. Thanks!
Graeme and Katie were extremely courteous and friendly guests who were easy to communicate with. I would be happy to host them and would recommend them to others as well.
Graeme was a great guest!


text:
Sign in now to view, license and download this image or contact us to see this image without a watermark. Want to embed this image on a non-commercial website or blog? Learn more.
Similar imagesView all
- South Africa,
- Animals Charging,
- Running,
- Black Rhinoceros,
- No People,
- Majestic,
- Animal,
- Animal Themes,
- Safari Animals,
- Aggression,
- Animals In The Wild,
- Approaching,
- Blurred Motion,
- Color Image,
- Confrontation,
- Day,
- Endangered Species,
- Front View,
- Full Length,
- Horizontal,
- Northern Cape Province,
- One Animal,
- Outdoors,
- Photography,
- Survival,
- Threats,
- Tswalu Private Desert Reserve,
- Wildlife,
Black Rhinoceros South Africa Stock PhotoSouth Africa,Animals Charging,Running,Black Rhinoceros,No People,Majestic,Animal,Animal Themes,Safari Animals,Aggression,Animals In The Wild,Approaching,Blurred Motion,Color Image,Confrontation,Day,Endangered Species,Front View,Full Length,Horizontal,Northern Cape Province,One Animal,Outdoors,Photography,Survival,Threats,Tswalu Private Desert Reserve,WildlifePhotographer Art WolfeCollection: Iconica Tswalu Preserve, Northern Cape, South Africa. Black rhinos are classed as a vulnerable species. They are more aggressive than White rhinos, but their eye-sight is poor: they are unable to detect a motionless person at more than 30metres.


text:
Was £75.00
Now £37.50
Now £22.50
70% Off
Save a total of £52.50
Out of stock
Men's designer black stainless steel mesh strap watch
Item No.0610101242
This designer men's watch from J by Jasper Conran has a black stainless steel mesh strap and a round case with a matte finish. It has a brushed watch face with round hourly markers and a small date window 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
- Analogue dial
- Gift boxed
- Date function
- Stainless steel mesh strap
- Stainless steel mesh strap and case


text:
I am Anusha Praveen, all of 27 years old and happily married for
two years four and half years
now and is a proud mom of a bubbly little daughter A. You will find that i mention Little A, my daughter and Mr.P, my husband quite a lot in my posts. Obviously, they are pretty much everything in my life. Okay. There are other things too. Like books, chips and playing a good game of scrabble. Oh, did i tell you? I love watching medical dramas and growing my own herbs. I have a fetish for stuffed toys, swings, owls, turtles and earrings. I have all kinds except for a turtle though. Well, i dont own an owl either. And i only have one swing. I enjoy eating on the streets. I also happen to be a huge breakfast person. My favorite foods ( if you are expecting chocolate or mangoes, you are in for a disappointment) are Japanese cakes, a specialty of my home town Coimbatore, Bombay sandwiches and anything that has mushrooms in it. I m slightly obsessed with keeping things organised and clean. I guess this is it. I mean there s more but i guess this much will do for you and i to stay friends.
I studied to be an advocate and aspired to work with under privileged children some day. But not all dreams materialize immediately. I always believe in making the best of today. So i cook, click, read, paint and enjoy travelling while i m not taking care of Lil A.
When did i start cooking? Why A Blog?
I began cooking
What Inspires Me?
Any one who cooks well inspires me. I believe that there is something to be learnt from everyone s ways. And i have picked up a trick or two from all those good cooks that i know. I m known to refer and follow various blogs and recipe websites before i try something out. All recipes posted on Tomato Blues have been tried, tested and tasted in my kitchen before they find their way here.
What about your pictures?
As for photography, i just enjoy photographing food. I m still an amateur when it comes to food styling but i thoroughly enjoy the whole process of cooking, setting up, styling and clicking food. I use a Nikon D5100 camera with a 50mm prime lens for almost all my pictures. I have worked really hard to get where i am when it comes to photographing food. So any form of copying or theft of photography for any purpose will not be treated lightly.
Is This Blog About Healthy Food?
I wont say i m a health freak. I simply believe that anything and everything, when eaten in moderation, can do one no harm. This space is not where i try and give every recipe a healthy tag or twist. But i do make sure that my recipes have a fair share of veggies in them. And millet too. So yes while this is not a blog completely dedicated to healthy food, my take on food is almost always healthy. To put it succinctly, i enjoy my samosas fried and not baked. So while i wont change the frying, i may change the filling. You got me, right?
What Kind Of Nutritional Information and Allergy Information is Available Here?
While i dont or rather cant provide the calorie breakdown or nutrient break up for a particular recipe, you will always find allergy information provided under each recipe under the title " Allergy Info". I also provide substitutes if and when possible to make a recipe vegan or gluten free.
Are You Vegan? Are You A Celiac?
The answer to both is no. I love my yogurt. I love my parathas. But then my blog has recipes suited for both- people who are lactose intolerant and people who are Celiacs. All recipes which are vegan and gluten free are clearly mentioned as such under the Allergy Info.
Why aren't all your recipes written with step by step instructions?
Without beating about the bush, i ll give you the answer in only so many words- i have no time. I used to teach a bunch of kids earlier and now with Lil A in tow, prepping up a decent post is a big task. So lets just say, step by step instructions have been pushed to the back burner for now.
How Many Cookbooks Do I Own? Where Do I Get Recipes From?
Well, i dont own many cookbooks. But Google is always a trustworthy friend. I collect recipes from everywhere. Literally everywhere. I once had a woman at my doctor's office giving me weird looks when she saw me madly scribbling a recipe for a soup on a piece of paper ( which happened to be my prescription) from a magazine that i was browsing. You get the idea, don't you?
I tried a recipe from your blog and it failed. What do i do?
You can write to me about what went wrong. Enclose a pic if you can. I ll surely try and help but i wont be able to do much if you haven't followed my directions precisely or used the right amount of ingredients mentioned. For example, i wont be able to do much if you used 1/4 c of butter in place of the mentioned 1/2 c of butter in a cake recipe. It surely would be a disaster then.
What else do i write on the blog?
Apart from recipes, i share product reviews and some crazy ideas that i get occasionally. I also share my experiences in travelling and parenting when time permits. If you want me to review a product or write about it, please mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Can i copy stuff from Tomato Blues?
If you want something from my space, do ask. I m usually sweet enough to share with people. Its ok if you make a recipe from my blog and dont give my blog as a reference but plagiarism or copying photos from the blog is not acceptable. Any form of reproduction of content or images in this blog, when found, will be viewed seriously and necessary legal actions will be initiated.


text:
Story By: Greg Heindel
|medical abortion pill procedure where to buy abortion pill abortion pill costs &Body=Thought you would like to seet this from WMFD.com http://www.wmfd.com/newsboard/single.asp?story=58914" target="_blank">Email Story to Friend
Originally Published on: 3/17/2014
Three felony sex charges have been filed against a Mansfield teen who police removed from the blood drive he was holding to obtain his Eagle Scout badge after a young boy claimed he had been sexually assaulted.
Brandon Traicoff, 18, who suffers from numerous physical and mental disabilities caused by a mother who drank and took drugs during pregnancy, was in Mansfield Municipal Court for arraignment Monday morning.
He's charged with first-degree felony rape which carries a maximum 11 year prison sentence and $20,000 fine, and third-degree felony counts of Gross Sexual Imposition and Unlawful Sexual Conduct With a Minor, each carrying up to three-year prison sentences and $10,000 fines.
Traicoff's bond is set at $50,000 cash. Should be post bond, he would be on electronic monitoring, and is to have no contact with the boy or his family, who do not live in this area.
First Assistant Richland County Prosecutor Bambi Couch-Page filed the charges after evidence showed he performed oral sex on the boy.
Traicoff was previously charged with groping an elderly woman when he went to collect money for selling popcorn for his Boy Scout troop. And last week, he was accused of sneaking out of his grandparents' house, going into a neighboring elderly woman's garage, and attempting to sexually assault her.
Couch-Page says she cannot and will not allow Traicoff to remain free when he cannot control his sexual urges targeting children and elderly women, and electronic monitoring and his grandparents cannot keep him under control.
Traicoff's grandmother told the court Traicoff's extensive medical needs are not being met in the jail. Couch-Page says she is trying to find a secure medical facility for him.
Arrest Made in Connection to Johns Park Shooting
Three Sunday Shooting Victims Identified
Mansfield Man Arrested In Possession Of Child Pornography
NC-State Nursing Students Hold Health Fair
Kingwood Center Changes Name And Address
Man Shot At Johns Park In Mansfield
Fire Breaks Out In Basement Of Former Secretz Bar
More News
© Mid-State Television, Inc..
Click here for the privacy policy, terms of use.
Click here for advertising information.