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August 03, 2015
Dreams of the Sea
Name of Maker: Dasha Korolova
I took part in a competition "Intertop Quilt Fest". Size work 70x70cm , the main condition was to create a quilt of this size of diamonds. Diamonds on quilt sewn by hand, then the application also hands. All quilted panels on the machine - stitch creates the effect of stones and sea.
July 30, 2015
Boneyard Beach
Name of Maker: Magaret WesW
Boneyard Beach - Hunting Island State Park - The quilt is based on a photo I took of a large uprooted tree/turned to driftwood at Hunting Island State Park in South Carolina. The park is known for its driftwood collections. I wanted to capture the different textures of the tree bark, roots, plants and sand. At a Ricky Tims\' individual workshop retreat in La Veta, Ricky suggested using the Scribble Applique technique. You cut out your applique shapes and glue them to a background fabric. You sew them on by "scribble quilting" around the edges. This creates raw edge applique with raveled edges - outlined by the dark fabric backing that is allowed to show through. I added an extra layer of wool batting under the tree and roots and then a cotton batting for the whole quilt. Different color layers of tulle were placed over the sand and shadows to create shading effects. An interesting technique that I\'ll want to try on some other projects.
July 29, 2015
Frida & Las Mariposas
Name of Maker: Cuauhtemoc Kish
Portrait of Frida Kahlo.
July 29, 2015
August 01, 2015
Frida & the Butterflies
Name of Maker: Cuauhtemoc Kish
"Frida & the Butterflies" is a 3-D underscoring Frida Kahlo's fragile health during her lifetime as a result of a bus accident when she was 18 or so. It represents the"body cast" that she had to wear after a series of back operations she underwent over of period of decades.
The outside represents her public personna, usually adored with costume and gayiety, but the inside represents the pain received as a result of that accident and subsequent operations (color of blood and pictorals of her husband, Diego Rivera, one of her Mexican Hairless dogs, and a skull (representing the presence of death).
I quilted on a domestic machine, and used commercial fabric and chicken wire.
July 26, 2015
Silk Flowers
Name of Maker: Cindy Rainey
This wallhanging was machine embroidered on silk dupioni, then borders added. This was quilted (all free motion) with silk thread, on a gammill longarm quilting machine. Beading and other embellishments were added after quilting was finished.
July 25, 2015
Flurry of Feathers
Name of Maker: Karen Grover
This is a quilt I had thought about for a couple of years, but just didn't hav an inspiration. My inspiration for the layout came from an embroirery magazine that randomly arrived in the mail. I dyed the green and tangerine fabrics so I could achieve the gradations I wanted and then found the printed fabric to use with it that matched. How often does that happen! I also usded piping along each of the stems. That was a great idea, but not easy to accomplish. I tried several ways until I finally got the look I wanted.
July 25, 2015
A to Z for Ewe and Me
Name of Maker: Mike Ellingsen
This was the 2014 TQS Block-of-the-Month - and I loved making it. It contained way more appliqué than is in my comfort zone - and the quilting took much longer than I expected - but it was a pleasure to work on throughout the entire journey.
July 25, 2015
Chocolates for Amy
Name of Maker: Elizabeth Smith
My niece wanted teal & chocolate for her wedding quilt. I felt a simple quilt design would be better for these colors. It really shows off the exquisite quilting done by my very talented friend Esther Abshier.
July 25, 2015
Rufous Hummer
Name of Maker: Bonnie Lewis
Rufous Hummer is my design for a 19 x 21 inch wall quilt using hummingbird and flower pattern from Jane Townsend's book, Applique Takes Wing. Although her book features hand applique, and I have made this bird 5 times by hand, this time I chose to do fused machine applique. It turns out beautiful either way. I also tried a couple of new to me techniques, including the micro stippling using a decorative stitch on my new Bernina, two layers of cotton batting, rinse away stabilizer under the appliques, and the borders were appliqued on and mitered at the corners.
July 25, 2015
Name of Maker: Lenore Guajardo
A St. Joseph Banner Quilt that I was asked to make for my parish. I began researching and found this image which I purchased and had enlarged to a banner size....I made my patterns, gathered up my fabrics and began construction. I painted the faces, hands and feet with Inks. It was then quilted, and the binding finished the project. It took me approximately 1 year to make. I used batiks fabrics.
July 24, 2015
We Love
Name of Maker: Mary Gillette
This small wallhanging was inspired by the block project that Debby Schnabel contributed in the TQS Projects section (no printable pattern, just instructions on how to achieve the project), after I went to her webpage and looked at her quilts. I chose the Scripture verse and stitches that I wanted to hand embroider onto it based on what the cross means to me, as well as choosing the free-motion quilting to convey that my Source is Jesus and what He did on that cross...His holiness...and that we have a connection that is unbroken. The embroidered Scripture speaks my heart as to how that connection is possible and stays unbroken. It was a gift to my best friend, who not only shares my love of quilting, but also a faith in Jesus.
July 24, 2015
Raspberry Sorbet (Taste of Summer)
Name of Maker: unknown
This quilt top from the 1930s-40s was purchased at the Dallas Quilt Show in the mid 1990s. I finally made the back and marked the quilting with a design I found in American Patchwork & Quilting (Feb 2014). I am part of a group of 11 women who meet weekly to hand quilt on a frame--we go from one home to another and work on one person's quilt until it is done. Raspberry Sorbet is a Burgoyne Surrounded pattern and was finished in the Fall of 2014. I almost hated to sandwich it and quilt it, because the original maker hand pieced the entire top with the tiniest, most perfect stitches I have ever seen.
July 24, 2015
Kathleens Quilt
Name of Maker: Marie Moore
This quilt was made in honor of my cousin Kathleen's retirement. This is a fast and easy double four patch.
July 23, 2015
Binding Tool Star Quilt
Name of Maker: Vicky LaValley
The stars were made using the binding tool as a template. I used 2 jelly rolls for the stars and yardage for the background.
I got the pattern from the Missoui Star Quilt Co. online.
It was machine pieced by me and long armed quilted using varigaded thread by Barbara Krantz of Great Falls, Mt.
It is 96"x88".
July 23, 2015
Name of Maker: Geneva Carroll
Hallways was made to celebrate the wedding of my niece and her husband. Thier last name is Hall. The top curved hallway was inspired by a fabric on a booth at a local resturant. I purchased only the background and backing for this quilt. All other fabrics were from my stash. It measures 40" x 31".
July 23, 2015
Slices of Summer
Name of Maker: Janna Markle
This was a quilt i made for my daughter, Taryn. She is full of life and brightness and this quilt is her personality.
July 23, 2015
August 02, 2015
Celtic Song
Name of Maker: Janna Markle
This was Ricky Tims BOM 2014. This was a fun and relatively quick quilt to make. I love the techniques Ricky taught with double blanket stitch applique on all the piecing. It also uses his hand dyed fabrics. Can't wait to take it further in the next quilt!
July 23, 2015
August 03, 2015
Wild Orchids
Name of Maker: Randa Mulford
I began this quilt in a workshop with Jane Sassaman, "Abstracting from Nature" at Art Quilt Tahoe 2014. Would you believe that the orchid that I started with as a model was a sedate white and purple number? When I found the orange and purple print fabric that became the petals on the blossoms, I knew that I had to use that and throw out the "natural" color scheme and get bold! The new colors left Jane speechless whenever she came to my table. This was also the first piece that I free-motion quilted using my new Sweet Sixteen machine--making all the tropical "ferns" on the beautiful hand-dyed background fabric was a lot of fun.
July 23, 2015
Brú na Bóinne
Name of Maker: Randa Mulford
I began this quilt in a workshop with Gloria Loughman, "Playing on the Surface." The technique she was teaching was to divide up the area of the quilt top into sections with gently curving lines, then to construct and embellish each section separately, reassembling all the sections before quilting. Although the design was intended to be abstract, as I worked on mine, the contours reminded me more and more of the hills and neolithic site at Newgrange, Ireland, which I had visited only a few days earlier. So the finished product became a rather abstract landscape of that area, with sprials and carved stones, the flowing river, and the many shades of green in the meadows and hills around the site.
July 23, 2015
Norðurljós (Northern Lights)
Name of Maker: Randa Mulford
In a workshop on Gloria Loughman's "luminous sky" tiling techniques, I wanted to try something other than a sunset, so I settled on northern lights (aurora borealis), reflected in the ocean along the coastline in Iceland. In addition to the raw-edge applique of the tiling, there's a lot of threadwork on the aurora, to soften or blur the rectangle edges of the tiles a bit.
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A 28-year-old emergency physician is bitten by a diamondback rattlesnake on the right middle finger. He applies a tourniquet and arrives to the hospital approximately four hours after envenomation. On physical examination, the patient is in mild distress because of hand pain. His vital signs were as follows: temperature, 99° F; pulse, 118 and regular; blood pressure 130/75 mm Hg. Pulse oximetry on room air showed 100% saturation but not detected on the injured digit. Respiratory, cardiopulmonary, abdominal and neurological examinations were normal. No lymph node tenderness was present. Extremity exam is normal except for mild swelling of the hand that the finger is noted to be necrotic. (left).
The patient had a white blood count, hemoglobin, fibrinogen and platelet counts were normal.
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# Pressure Immobilization is not a Tourniquet — 2011-01-29 18:44
Dr. LoVecchio, I believe you are inappropriately using two different terms as interchangeable here.
A Tourniquet is a different device from a Pressure Immobilization wrap. Tourniquets are applied around a specific point on the limb and cut off blood flow distal to the device' application. Pressure Immobilization does not restrict blood flow, unless performed improperly, and is not applied to a specific point but rather to the entirety of the extremity bitten (according to 2010 AHA guidelines, and as illustrated in Venomous Snakebite in Mountainous Terrain: Prevention and Management by Boyd et al, as well as the Australian WMI guidelines.)
So what was it that this patient performed? Tourniquet application, or Pressure Immobilization Technique?
If the patient applied a tourniquet, we cannot even begin to speculate about the ability to successfully perform PIT as it was not actually attempted. About all we could realistically conclude if that were the case, is that the patient's misapplication of a device was possibly a factor in his eventual finger loss.
# 2011-02-04 17:03
It is fare to point out that pressure immobilization or a Sutheland wrap is best applied to neurotoxic snake envenomations in which the neurotoxin generally reaches the CNS via venous and lymphatic flow. The ideal goal is to interrupt this flow and delay neurotoxicity onset. Many of these snakes can cause local tissue injury as well. In the USA the principal neurotoxic snakes are Eastern Coral snakes - which generally cause little if any significant local injury.
I agree with the author's conclusion that among most US pit viper bites it is best not to apply a tourniquet or other pressure device. Simple splinting to limit muscular movement and hence venous/lymphati c flow is probably the best.
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Maryland head coach Randy Edsall broke the good news to quarterback C.J. Brown before Tuesday's practice: the NCAA granted the injured quarterback a sixth-year of eligibility.
Reporters informed Brown that despite missing last season with a knee injury that will keep him out of Friday's annual Red/White Spring Game, Edsall still considers him the team's starting quarterback.
That's the role Brown had last August when during practice he tore his anterior cruciate ligament, becoming the first of three Maryland passers to suffer a season-ending knee injury. He also broke his collarbone during the 2010 season opener. The 6-foot-3 passer threw for 842 yards and seven touchdowns in 2011 while rushing for 574 yards and five scores.
With the extra year of eligibility, Brown can play in 2013 and 2014, the year Maryland begins competing in the Big Ten. Both the player and coach anticipated the good news, just maybe not so soon, since the paperwork was submitted less than three weeks ago.
"I wasn't expecting it this quick," said the all-smiles Brown, who has participated in 7-on-7 drills for the past three weeks. "[Edsall] came into our quarterback meeting and he pulled me out, gave me the congratulations and said, 'yep, sixth year. You're going to be here again'...I'm happy."
Though he won't have the mobile quarterback for Friday's inter-squad game -- junior Ricardo Young will serve as the primary quarterback --, Edsall is happy with Brown's improvement.
"I think he's made a ton of progress from the first day he came out and did 7-on-7," Edsall said following practice. "He was very tentative. He wasn't driving off that back leg. Today you could its night and day. Now he's got that confidence back...I see big improvement."
"I feel really good with my knee and where everything stands right now," Brown said. I'm excited to get back out here. This spring has treated me very well. I'm just excited to be back out here, compete and doing 7-on-7's and just getting acclimated with my mind and my body. I've been out here taking the mental reps for so long it feels good to take the physical ones."
"That improvement combined with his experience and past production has Edsall already declaring Brown his starter come the summer and fall.
"That just shows he has great confidence in me," said Brown upon hearing this other piece of news. "I'm working my tail off on the field, off the field, trying to be a leader. I want to do what's best for this team. I'm going to put my heart and soul into it. For him to say that, that's an honor for me. I'm privileged and I'm not going to let him down."
*Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic will present a one-hour special, Red/White Spring Game, on Saturday, April 13, at 5 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 14, at 7 p.m. The annual Red/White Spring Game takes place on Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium.
*No injuries occurred during the two-hour, full pads practice, though running back Wes Brown (ankle) did not participate. Edsall announced that long snapper Christian Carpenter suffered a torn ACL during practice last week. Tight end Dave Stinebaugh (ankle) participated in practice, but said the projected senior starter is uncertain for Friday. The coach himself wore a knee brace after getting run into by linebacker Abner Logan during a drill last week.
*Young's quarterbacking journey began as an All-Met selection at the District's H.D. Woodson with stops at Virginia Tech and New Mexico before landing in College Park. His journey into Maryland's starting lineup was much simpler. Because so many signal callers went down with injuries in 2012, the 6-foot-1, 180-pounder junior went from sitting out last season to sitting atop the Terps' depth chart this offseason.
"He's an athletic mobile quarterback," Brown said of Young. "He's got a good arm. Has good command of the offense. It should be an exciting show on Friday."
Perry Hills and Caleb Rowe continue rehabbing from their respective knee injuries. Redshirt sophomore Dustin Dailey is the only other quarterback expected to throw during the spring game.
*Stefon Diggs provided the Terps with a big play element as a receiver and return specialist during his dynamic freshman season, finishing with a combined eight touchdowns. Edsall has every intention on maximizing the former Good Counsel star's opportunities, but that could mean having Diggs focus more on his receiving skills and less in the return game.
"We want to make we utilize him the best way we can," Edsall said of Diggs, "but also know we have other guys. We'll see how he goes as a punt returner."
Edsall said freshman defensive back Will Likely has "impressed" in the return game.
*Maryland's initial depth chart released in early March included three overt starting lineup battles. With Matt Robinson transitioning into a linebacker role, junior A.J. Hendy and sophomore Sean Davis are dueling for the vacated safety slot.
"That's been really good competition. Both of them have had their moments this spring,' Edsall said. "That's not something that's going to be decided until fall camp, for sure. The good thing is both of them have skills and abilities to be able to help us...It probably won't be definitive until we get to games."
Davis had 13 tackles and a fumble recovery in 12 games last season.


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AUSTIN - - Public Education in Texas is running $1 billion short, meaning officials will soon have to seek that much in supplemental appropriations from the state Legislature.
That's what Shirley Beaulieu, chief financial officer at the Texas Education Agency, told the court Monday during the state's sweeping school finance trial.
Beaulieu said a $1 billion supplemental appropriation request will be necessary in coming weeks to help school districts make their July expense payments.
Her revelation came as the case before state district Jude John Dietz resumed after a three-week holiday break.
More than 600 school districts have sued Texas over the way it funds public schools. Attorneys for the districts say the shortfall Beaulieu divulged shows the funding situation for schools is more dire than previously thought.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal has revealed that she sometimes feels "hurt" by criticism she receives in the press.
The Batman actress admitted that she does not always respond well when magazines place her on 'worst dressed' lists, for example.
"Sometimes it freaks me out. I've been so hurt and felt so bad," Gyllenhaal told Marie Claire magazine. "People will always say mean things about you if you put yourself out there."
The star also confirmed that she has adapted well to motherhood after a shaky start. Maggie and her fiancé Peter Sarsgaard welcomed the arrival of their first child Ramona in October 2006.
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Sutton's in Chapel Hill marks 90 years
For its offer of hot dogs, fries and drinks for 5 cents each, Sutton's Drug Store in Chapel Hill had a line of customers on Wednesday that started inside the store and stretched past adjacent Franklin Street storefronts.
The pharmacy and grill offered the deal in celebration of its 90th birthday. Owner and pharmacist John Woodard said that Lynwood and Lucy Sutton started the business in 1923.
It sold in 1964, he said, and then Woodard bought it in 1977, with the understanding that he would leave everything "just like it was."
"The idea of it was to leave it as it was when Sutton owned it," he said.
Woodard said that the key to staying afloat on Franklin Street is making sure there's enough revenue generated while University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students are on-campus to sustain slower times during the summer.
He said he also tries to maintain a visible presence.
Chapel Hill resident Jabari Rasheed, 19, waited in line with his friend and UNC-Chapel Hill freshman, Donny Davenport, 18, to take advantage of the business' low food prices.
They were first-time Sutton's customers.
"It's great for the wallet," Rasheed said. "When you hear of something like this, you have to take advantage."
Elsie Murray, a 20-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill senior, and Frank Ferro, a 21-year-old senior at the university, also waited in line at Sutton's on Wednesday.
They planned to "stuff our faces with hot dogs," Murray said. She said she goes to Sutton's a couple times a semester to buy milkshakes and other cheap food.
"It's kind of a cool atmosphere," she said of the business. "It reminds me of an old-time (store), if I were to go to Mayberry."
Tucker Smith of Wilmington came to eat at Sutton's Wednesday afternoon with his 19-year-old son, Bob, who is a student at UNC-Chapel Hill.
They waited in line about 45 minutes, Tucker Smith said, just to be a part of the celebration. He said he's also a cousin of a cousin of Woodard's.
He said he was a student at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1980 to 1983 before he went to study at the UNC-Wilmington.
"(You) walk in, and it's 1980 again," he said of Sutton's, describing the business as one with many pictures on the wall, friendly people and great food.
"As long as they have that, there will be a Sutton's," he said.


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By Jeff Garcia, Project Spurs Los Angeles Lakers' assistant coach Quin Snyder had much success as the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs' D-League Austin Toros. From the Toros enjoying the most successful time under his regime, to leading the D-League in call-ups, Snyder definitely made the most of his time in Austin and […] [Read More]
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TELL CITY - Chaplin Road resident Roger Eckert was on the agenda for the Perry County commissioners meeting Monday, but couldn't make it due to illness. Sheriff Bob Glenn described his concerns in his absence, but didn't convey the passion behind them.
The sheriff said Eckert had called his department to report a problem, but no deputies were available to help him.
PATOKA - Bald Eagle C52, which appeared in Department of Natural Resources shows at the state fair for the past eight years and with the DNR's Patoka Lake Interpretive Services for 20 years, years, died Tuesday while undergoing surgery.
"Thousands of people became aware of the life of bald eagles through the program with C52," said Maria Abel-Crecelius, the park's interpretive naturalist in Birdseye.
CANNELTON - A chair plaiter will give demonstrations at the Perry County Museum during Saturday's Cannelton Festival. Demonstrations begin at 11 a.m. and will continue to 4 p.m.
WARRICK COUNTY - A Spencer County man died Tuesday morning from injuries sustained in an accident on Interstate 64 in Warrick County.
Glenn E. Vaal, 37, was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Medical Center shortly after the 5:45 a.m. crash. Police said he was a passenger in a car driven by 41-year-old Elizabeth Piper, of Tobinsport. Piper was traveling west when her car struck the rear of a crane truck driven by 59-year-old Victor Striegel of Jasper.
A recent Octoberfest gathering gave me the chance to dust off German-style dishes I don't prepare that often. Several visitors asked for a few of them. Here are a few, including a Reuben dip that can easily be made in a slow cooker and is wonderful on crackers or with small cocktail bread.
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Reuben Dip
1 can sauerkraut, drained
1 package dried corned beef, chopped
1⁄2 cup thousand-island salad dressing
8 oz. Swiss cheese, cubed
Apples are abundant this fall and there are countless ways to use the fruit. Tasty year-round, nothing else quite says fall the same way as a tasty apple pie or apple strudel topped by ice cream.
These recipes were taken from an October 1939 issue of The Tell City News. We trust they're just as tasty now.
Apple Tapioca Cream Pudding
3 apples, pared and thinly sliced
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons boiling water
21⁄2 tablespoons quick cooking tapioca
The Obama administration's quest to control the health-insurance industry has dominated the headlines for months, but finally - with the news out of Iran and Afghanistan - foreign policy has again asserted itself. It was almost easy to forget that the United States maintains a worldwide empire, but the reminders came leaping off the front pages and the television screens.
PAOLI—Perry Central cross country coach Jason Barnett wasn't exaggerating after Tuesday's PLAC meets when he said, "We had about as good a night as we could have."
The Commodores compiled perfect scores in both races as they dominated the boys and girls meets.
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Hi everyone! I hope you've all had a great week with lots of fantastic losses. Some of my friends have had some great successes with one friend now having lost 9lb, another approaching 2.5st, a friend at class fast approaching her target weight and of course my husband who has now lost 5st 4.5lbs.
I can't believe how different he looks. I've had another great week and lost another 2lb taking my total so far to 5st 11.5lb. I've only got to get another 2.5lb to teach 6st. I still can't believe I've got this far in such a short space of time. I've been asked to be a God Mother to my dear friend's two children in March. I intend to take my vows as God Mother seriously and that means being healthy and a great role model to them.
We sorted though our wardrobe this last week and I've actually managed to get into clothes I haven't worn for well over a year. It just makes me feel so good and inspires me to keep going. When sorting out my clothes, I realised that almost everything I own is black.
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I've very rarely bought anything with any colour because, black is said to be slimming and it also helps you blend into the shadows. I hoped it would take the lbs off me and also make me disappear. What on earth was I thinking?
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How can someone who's 32st hide in the background or blend in? It's like saying, "Can you spot the Elephant in a room of rabbits!" Sticking out like a sore thumb springs to mind. I must have been living on a different planet!
I've always said I would love to have a little black dress that I could wear with killer heels. I've never had anything special like that and to be honest, I've always avoided going to special occasions wherever possible as I always look like a sack of spuds wearing a dress by, "Rent A Tent".
I felt I didn't deserve to be there and I was letting let people down, not to mention embarrassing the ones I was with because I looked so awful. Now the weight is coming off, I can start to visualise myself being able to go to special occasions.
People might actually look at me because I look beautiful rather than wondering if I was the marquee for the event. I will get my little black dress, and I'm also going to get one in a really bright, bold colour too that makes me stand out.
I'm also going to get something with colour for the Christening. It's only 5 weeks away. I could lose at least another 7lb by then. I will add a picture of myself and my husband taken at the Christening so you can see me wearing colour.
Pancake Day If you're anything like me, pancake day is a tradition in our household. It can't pass without us having some. My husband likes orange on his but I like oxo on mine. Most people think I'm strange but don't knock it until you try it.
After all, it's really yorkshire pudding mix and you do have gravy with them. I found a great Slimming World recipe which I think is definitely worth trying. It also gives you plenty of options for different toppings whether you like sweet or savoury.
Let me know which is your favourite? I'm sure there must be someone else out there who likes oxo too.
Healthy Pancakes – the traditional way (makes 8 pancakes)
57g plain flour
2 medium eggs
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145ml/¼pt skimmed milk
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1. Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the centre.
2. Add the eggs and fat free fromage frais and whisk until smooth.
3. Pour in the milk and whisk again to form a batter. Stand for 30 minutes, then cook one at a time in a non-stick pan lightly sprayed with Fry Light.
1. The classic: There are dozens of ways to serve a pancake but nothing beats a simple shake of sweetener and squeeze of lemon juice for a totally Free topping!
2. The Freebies: Keep it simple, fresh and Free by adding your favourite chopped fruits – strawberries, bananas and fresh berries work well, especially when they're smothered in vanilla Muller light.
3. The winter warmer: For this tasty filling, peel, quarter and core an apple and slice thickly. Put the pieces in a pan with a splash of water, a dash of lemon juice and artificial sweetener to taste. Cover and cook gently for about 10 minutes, or until the apples soften. Stir in ¼tsp cinnamon and ¼tsp nutmeg for a spicy finish.
4. The Dinner Party: Blow your guests away with your creativity and serve up yummy cheesy spinach pancakes as a starter. They're simple to whip up and they're suitable for vegetarians. Fry an onion and a crushed clove of garlic for 2-3 minutes in a pan with Fry Light. Add baby spinach and cook and cover for 3 to 4 minutes or until the leaves have wilted. Transfer to a sieve and squeeze out excess liquid. Return to the pan and beat in a tub of quark and grated nutmeg. Fill your pre-made pancakes with filling, roll up and place in shallow ovenproof dish. Sprinkle with 30g Parmesan and bake in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden and crisp.
5. The meaty one: This tasty pancake pie is a perfect main course for meat eaters and is great served with salad. Heat Fry Light in a pan and add in onion and extra lean minced beef, carrots, tomato puree, canned tomatoes, garlic, ¼pt stock made from Bovril, salt and pepper and simmer for 15 minutes. Use a non-stick deep ovenproof dish (a little larger than your pancakes) and layer pancakes between the meat mix, finishing with the meat mix. Top with fat free fromage frais and sprinkle over a little grated cheese. Place in the oven for 20 minutes until brown.
6. The Seafood Special: If you're fanatical about fish, this one's for you! Succulent prawns are a sure fire way to spice up your pancakes! To fill each pancake simply coat the peeled prawns in 1 level tbsp salsa. Add strips of peppers and onions for a fajita style pancake then wrap and enjoy.
Hopefully you can all still have a great pancake day without piling on the lbs. Why not turn it into a fun event and have a pancake race with your family. It's a great way to add a bit of exercise into your week too.
Keep your comments coming and I'll see you lighter next week, Love Wendy xxx
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This patch has been a windfall for gold-seeking professionals for a few reasons, but there have been some changes that affect everyone, no matter what addons you use or how much time you spend in the auction house. Let's start with the more subtle changes.
What's the most annoying part about mining and herbing? Unlike skinning, which simply lets you gather from a large number of creatures you are killing anyway, mining and herbalism force you to go out of your way to gather. Before patch 4.0.1, you could only track one thing at a time. Now, you can track everything at the same time!
This will make hunters and achievement seekers very happy. Anyone who wants to use tracking for more than either herbs or minerals can now just pick from a list of stuff they can see. Importantly, this makes double-gatherers much more viable than they used to be. People would typically only take either mining or herbalism because switching between them was a chore, and you could only track one at a time. Maybe that's why there are so many skinners? Now that you can track both at the same time, double-gathering is definitely the best way to make money with a trade skill while leveling.
How does this change your life now? Well, Cataclysm is expected to have two major developments for gatherers. First, while the auctioneer crowd will be trying to race to server-first skill cap on whatever they think will be the most money, people who farm ore and herbs will be making far more money until those crafting skills start paying dividends. Second, all the new goblins and worgen will need old-world materials to level their chosen professions. Farming for either of these sources of demand should be very lucrative. You don't have to wait until Cataclysm to farm for people leveling trade skills, either. None of the major raw base materials are changing, from what we know.
Of course, Hallow's End
Hallow's End just started, and like many holidays, contains plenty of ways to make some fairly easy gold. You can collect wands and charge "tips" for people looking to get the achievement, and you can sell a bunch of random items on the auction house like the Weighted Jack-o'-Lantern.
One of the changes this year is that people hoping to save 5,000 gold for the 310 percent flying skill will all want to get What A Long Strange Trip It's Been. This means they need to do Check Your Head and The Masquerade, and generally, there should be more demand for the tradable holiday goods.
Soloing Zul'Gurub
If you have a character high enough to solo ZG, you can make tons of money selling bijous and other rep items to people desperate to get the achievement before it gets removed from the game. There was a blue post that mentioned that while the Tome of Polymorph: Turtle would still be available after the expansion, but there's been no indication of how hard it will be to get. If you're too low a level to be able to solo ZG, consider going with a few friends and splitting the rewards.
No scribe? No jewelcrafter? No problem
The biggest demand right now is from people regemming and learning all their glyphs. If you aren't in a position to craft to serve this demand, you can still participate in the market. If you have money to invest, you can try buying cut or raw gems when there's a lot of supply and the prices are low and sell them on the weekends when there might be more buyers around than there is supply. Additionally, the Glyph of Mage Armor can't be made anymore because of a bug introduced in patch 4.0.1. If you can find it for less than 100g, you might be able to resell it for a profit. Since glyphs in general seem to be priced fairly low at the moment, I wouldn't speculate on buying and selling them yet.
Of course, there's always the old standby of selling Vanishing Powder at obnoxious markups. At least on my realm, however, people have happily caught on to this scam, and there's always tons of stock at what's getting really close to the price the vendor charges. If you want to sell vendor objects to players, at least pick something that saves them some travel time like old world mid level vendors.
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(AP) LONDON - Zoe Saldana has played an alien and a future space traveler _ but taking on the role of an actual famous person proved even harder.
The 34-year-old star of "Avatar" and "Star Trek" plays pianist, singer and activist Nina Simone in the forthcoming biopic "Nina."
Her casting drew criticism from some, who argued that Saldana bears little resemblance to the singer, who died in 2003 aged 70.
Musician India.Arie said "they should have chosen someone who looks like Nina Simone," and an online petition for a boycott of the film attracted more than 10,000 signatures.
But Saldana said she feels strongly that she's right to play Simone, an immense, irascible talent who made an indelible mark on both music and the civil rights movement with songs including "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" and "Mississippi Goddam."
"The Nina Simone story needed to be told, and I'm really blessed that I did it," said Saldana, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent.
"I'm human. I wish I was made of steel and so certain things wouldn't affect me," Saldana said at a recent London event to promote "Star Trek Into Darkness," in which she plays multilingual communications officer Lt. Uhura.
"So it did affect me but I couldn't let that deter me from doing what I needed to do.
"Just like everybody else I feel very strongly about Nina Simone, and that (this) was a story that needed to be told.
"I do believe that if everybody had more information about how this all came to be, it might help," she added. "But then again, I'm not here to get the acceptance of people. I'm here to be an artist first."
"Star Trek Into Darkness," the second film in J.J. Abrams' rebooted series, sees Uhura play a bigger role in the action, to Saldana's delight. She even got to do a scene in Klingon.
"They flew in this linguist from San Francisco who gives courses. You go away for the weekend and you just speak Klingon," she said. "It ended up being much easier than I thought."
Like the entire Enterprise crew, Saldana has mixed feelings about Abrams' imminent departure for the "Star Wars" universe. He is due to revive the series with a new film in 2015, so it looks unlikely he'll be at the helm of a third "Star Trek" voyage.
Saldana hopes he'll remain as a producer, with another member of the existing team _ possibly one of the writers _ stepping in to direct.
She said she wouldn't want to see a new director come in and lose the essence of Abrams' reboot of the series.
"There's been a tone set" with Abrams" movies, she said _ "So much so that it's made a fan out of me."
Aha! So is Saldana, like Abrams, a "Star Wars" fan in the "Star Trek" camp?
Neither, it turns out.
"I'm more of a `Dune' kind of person," she said.
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Token - 1 Penny, John Henderson, Pawnbroker, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 1878 Reg. No: NU 3856
- Summary:
- Bronze One Penny Token, minted by Stokes & Martin, Melbourne. Issued by John Henderson, Pawnbroker, Fremantle, 1878. This was the last trade token issue in Australia.
- Description:
- A round copper token (31 mm diameter) with the name, address and business of the issuer: John Henderson, Peckenham St. Freemantle (sic) W.A., Pawnbroker. The obverse features a coat of arms with a swan as crest and kangaroo and emu supporters. The reverse depicts a large building (or group of three buildings) with a flag-staff on the roof of the central block. The manufacturers name STOKES & MARTIN MELBOURNE is in small letters on the obverse. This token has been cleaned and varnished.
- Acquisition Information:
- Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 1976
|31 mm (Diameter)
|10.032 g (Weight)
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|Tagged with:
|pawnbrokers, swans
|Themes this item is part of:
|Numismatics & Philately Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection, Stokes & Son, Medal Makers, Melbourne, Victoria & Sydney, New South Wales, Alfred Chitty Collection
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|Secondary Classification:
|Australia - Western Australia
|Tertiary Classification:
|working strikes
|Trade Tokens
|1 Penny
|Obverse Description:
|At centre a coat of arms with a swan as crest and kangaroo and emu supporters. The shield is quartered by a cross with a star at the centre and at the end of each arm, top left, three-masted sailing ship, top right, golden fleece, lower left, crossed pick and spade, lower right, wheat-sheaf. The shiels is set above a bouquet of rose, thistle and shamrock set above a ribbon with the Latin motto TANDEM MOVETUR. Around above, JOHN HENDERSON; below, PAWNBROKER; in tiny letters on either side the makers name, STOKES & MARTIN MELBOURNE
|Reverse Description:
|At centre a small group of buildings; below, ONE PENNY / TOKEN; around, PACKENHAM STREET FREEMANTLE W.A.
|Edge Description:
|Obverse: JOHN HENDERSON PAWNBROKER TANDEM MOVETUR STOKES & MARTIN MELBOURNE
Reverse: ONE PENNY TOKEN PACKENHAM STREET FREEMANTLE W.A.
|Issued By:
|John Henderson - Pawnbroker, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, 1878
Freemantle on token
|Stokes & Martin (Mint), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1878
|Previous Collection:
|Mr Alfred Chitty
Henderson issued dated tokens in 1874 and undated pieces in 1878. The 1874 issue required one obverse (Obverse A) and two Reverses (1 and 2) to manufacture.
Obverse A has the makers name in small letters at the rim to left and right of the Arms, the ear of the kangaroo points to the middle of the N of JOHN
Reverse 1 has the date below the house, the F of FREEMANTLE is entered twice and the flag-mast points to the second N of PENNY.
Reverse 2 has the date below the house, the flag-mast goes between the two N's of PENNY.
The second issue (without date) began with Obverse A and a new Reverse (3). Then two new obverses were introduced Obverse B has the makers name below the ribbon and the ear of the kangaroo is below the right corner of the letter N, the letters ST of STOKES ar above the letter A of PAWNBROKER
Obverse C has the makers name below the ribbon and the ear of the kangaroo is to the right of the letter N, the letters TO of STOKES are above, and touch, the letter P of PAWNBROKER
Reverse 3 has the words ONE PENNY / TOKEN below the house.
The following die combinations are known Issue 1: A/1, A/2; Issue 2: A/3 (this token), B/3, C/3
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"Afternoon Tea exquisito!!"
Con unas amigas tuvimos la idea de buscar un sitio distinguido en Barcelona para tomarnos el famoso "High Tea" británico. Tuvimos la suerte de que en El Palace nos lo organizaron encantados y, la verdad, fue igual que en Londres! No faltaba ningún detalle auténtico: sandwiches variados rectangulares, scones con pasas, clotted cream (deliciosa!!), mermelada de frutos rojos y naranja amarga, y pastelería francesa; además, por supuesto, del surtido de tés (que tomamos el English Breakfast con leche) y cafés. Toda la comida era extraordinaria, y también lo fueron el servicio y la puesta en escena: las tazas, platos, cubertería y demás enseres eran justamente los propios de esta celebración británica. Sin duda, lo recomendamos por su exquisitez, exclusividad, buen servicio y privilegio de poder hacer una celebración así en pleno centro de Barcelona.
" A Palace"
We spent four nights at this lovely hotel. It is 2 blocks away from the premier shopping street in Barcelona, another short block to the major department store and one more block to Las Ramblas if that is your style. Probably not if you enjoy the refined luxury of this hotel. No complaints with staff, concierge and food service - all were excellent. Our room was wonderful and the shower was incredible - room for at least 4 people at one time! Enjoy this hotel.
Mi estancia en el Hotel Palace antiguo Ritz, fue verdaderamente maravillosa. El hotel es un sueño, parece que te encuentras dentro de un palacio y todos los muebles y los detalles, te remontan a 1898. Desde que entras al hotel huele delicioso a rosas, y las habitaciones son de primera, con todos los detalles para que tengas una estancia de primera en Barcelona. Está localizado a unas cuadras de el Paseo de Gracia, así que tiene clase, ubicación, servicio y excelente cocina.
"Perfect Location"
This hotel was amazing. We stayed in a standard room on a high floor but it was larger than a lot of suites in other hotels. Fantastic touches like television on wall..in a mirror, hidden bar/refrigerator and luxurious decorations. The location was perfect, close to attractions, shopping, restaurants. The staff was so helpful. The weather didn"t cooperate on one particular night so we ate dinner at The Caelis at the hotel. We are normally not fans of hotel restaurants for dinners but this proved us wrong. It was a 5 star restaurant for the food and service. Very leisurely romantic dinner. I would stay at this hotel again.
"Gorgeouse hotel"
We stayed at here for 3 nights in April 2013, just love it! Strongly suggest people to stay here for who will go Barcelona, not only its perfect location ( you could walk to lots major shopping/sightseeing places ) but also friendly&helpful hotel staff and gorgeoue classic interior. All staff are trying hard to make your stay as comfort as possible. Enjoyed having buffet breakfast at The Garden and having drink at Bar Hall in the elegant atmosphere with not really expensive price. Room service is served quick and well. Also room is always kept clean, and the bed is firm and comfortable for sleep.
It"s a truly lovely 5 stars hotel!!! I would love to stay here again next time to Barcelona.
"Excellent room, perfect location in Barcelona"
In our recent trip to Spain my wife and I stayed in several different "5 star" hotels. El Palace was by far our favorite. We arrived at the hotel early and while we had to wait a little over an hour for the room to be ready, it was worth the wait. We booked a standard room but received a premium upgrade without ever asking for it. We ended up on the third floor with a view. The room was enormous in comparison to the other hotels we stayed in. The location is great. We were steps from Passieg de Gracia and the metro there. We walked down to the Gothic Quarter everyday. La Rambla and the Boqueria de St.Josep is within a short walk as well. Overall, we really enjoyed this hotel and would highly recommend it.
"Excellent Hotel"
We visited Barcelona to run in the 2013 city Marathon and were absolutely delighted with our choice of El Palace. We are experienced worldwide travellers and agree that El Palace fully deserves its place in the "Leading Hotels of the World". The fabric and classic decor of the hotel is immediately welcoming and everything is exquisitely designed to give maximum comfort to guests. The most exceptional feature of our stay was, without doubt, the highest level of service in every department, from the wonderful Concierges, Manager, bar and restaurant staff and porters. Nothing was too much trouble and they were all genuinely very pleased to give every assistance. It was a memorable visit and we wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend this hotel.
I booked this hotel to celebrate my husband's 50th birthday. I did a lot of research into many hotels, but something always drew me back to El Palace, and I am so pleased I booked it.
After an excellent flight, we took a bus from the airport and seemed to be in the city centre in no time at all. We had looked at maps beforehand and had our walk planned to get to the hotel.
First impressions of the hotel was 'wow' and the welcome couldn't have been any more genuine. We were delighted to be told that we had been upgraded and when we were taken up to the room (526) we literally could not believe what a fantastic room we had been given. There was an entrance hallway with wardrobe and a small room with wc and sink in it, this followed on to a beautiful lounge, then on to the bedroom and through to the most amazing bathroom. On the lounge table was a bottle of cava on ice, water, chocolates and a lovely handwritten note from the management.
Every member of staff we came across had a smile and a hello and when I realised I had forgotten my travel adaptor concierge straight away just gave me one to borrow. On our last morning it was raining quite heavily so we were given umbrellas to use while we went out for breakfast.
On our last night we decided to have some drinks in the lounge, it was amazing just to relax in such beautiful surroundings whilst having a glass or two of cava.
We didn't eat in the hotel at all, all three mornings we walked down the side of the hotel and went to a cafe frequented by locals. We had the most amazing freshly squeezed orange juice and I loved the omelette sandwich they did. Two out of the three evenings we ate at Ciudad Condal and the food was amazing.
I can honestly say that this is THE best hotel we have ever stayed in, old world charm, character and elegance with all the mod cons to us is the perfect combination. It was definitely a treat for a special occasion, but so so worth it. Amazing.
Consejo sobre las habitaciones: Suite 526 is amazing, no view, but who cares when you have a room like that!


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"I think there's a general sense within the forest community that we're seeing the beginning of the loss … of sugar maples," said Rock, a professor of forestry and botany at the University of New Hampshire, who has studied New England's woodlands for decades.
He attributes the maple trees' problems largely to the effects of climate change that is worsened by human activity and says it is was predicted years ago but is occurring faster than expected.
That loss is most obviously seen, Rock says, by a dimming in the brilliance of the sugar maple's fall foliage over the past three years. The key point is that he means "seen" in a scientific sense, based on three years of data about such things as foliage color measured by spectral analysis of satellite photos."This isn't my saying so, because I think they look good, this is the numbers saying so," he said.Some of those numbers are prompted by work of Martha Carlson, a Ph.D. candidate under Rock who, with her husband, owns a Center Sandwich farm that has a 60-acre "sugarbush" operation.
Carlson, a former journalist and teacher, enrolled at UNH because she was worried about the condition of maples on her farm and elsewhere, including a decline in sweetness of the sap.
Sugar levels of 3 percent used to be not uncommon, she says. Now, similar trees have sugar levels around 1 percent.
"Imagine if you have 3 percent something in your blood and it drops to 1 percent – you'd probably be in the hospital," she said."This seems to be a real phenomenon that I don't know that anyone has documented before," Rock said.
The drop in sugar levels is directly connected to a loss in autumn brilliance, causing a decline in anthocyanin – a chemical that creates the color red. Less sugar leads to less anthocyanin, which means less red to combine with yellow to create orange.Different colors reflect different wavelengths of light. Measuring those wavelengths, doing spectral analysis, turns subjective opinions about "leaf-peeping" pleasure into objective data. That data, says Rock, tells the story of how one of the region's premier moments is being diluted.
"You get numbers that tell you how red the foliage is, how orange the foliage is," he said. "Since 2003, we just haven't had a typical fall color display. They've been muted, they've been delayed."
As far as what's going on inside the trees, Carlson's main work is to find and calibrate easily measurable items – "four or five thermometers, if you will, to measure the health of sugar maples," as Rock puts it.
"I want to see if I could see the decline of the maples and also help teachers and sugar producers, ordinary citizens, to learn how we see if climate change is here and what it's doing to our forest," Carlson said.
"We are working to develop some very simple measurements of things that anybody can see, like timing of when the leaves open – called bud burst – and leaf size and leaf retention, how long do they stay on the tree … and the quality of the sap season," she said.
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UNH professor Barrett Rock points to five indicators that the region's sugar maples are under stress:
Muted fall displays over the past seven years. Causes include low sugar content in the leaves prior to the onset of the fall color display, and lack of early frosts in September due to increasingly longer growing seasons and other abnormal weather conditions (torrential rains, high winds, etc.) Both of these factors are likely due to recent temperature increases in the region of nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1899.
Low levels of chlorophyll prior to the onset of fall colors.
Decreased levels of sugar in springtime sap as determined by the number of gallons of sap needed to make a gallon of syrup. In the past it took between 32 and 35 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup, while it now takes between 45 and 50 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup.
Cellular levels of damage in foliage across the growing season, resulting in low moisture contents in leaves and canopies as measured by field spectrometry and wet weight/dry weight measurements.
Increased occurrence of fungal leaf pathogens, apparently due to milder weather allowing over-wintering of fungal spores. These fungal diseases reduce the amount of sugar left in the leaves prior to leaf drop.
The source article Expert: Climate change harming sugar maples was published November 6, 2010 by NashuaTelegraph.com .