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Groundbreaking held in Mira Mesa for Jonas Salk Elementary School
School held up by environmental concerns
SAN DIEGO - Groundbreaking was held Saturday in Mira Mesa for an elementary school that has been held up for decades by environmental concerns.
The $24 million Jonas Salk Elementary School, named for the scientist who discovered the first effective vaccine for polio, will be built for around 700 students from kindergarten through sixth grade, and is slated to open in two years.
The site on Flanders Drive was graded for a school in 1980 when nearby homes were constructed, according to the Mira Mesa Town Council.
The school project ran into delays and, during that time, vernal pools -- wet areas that form in ground depressions during winter rains – were discovered. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service required the district to perform mitigation for fairy shrimp and other species that thrive in vernal pools.
The mitigation is being handled in partnership with the city of San Diego at the nearby Carroll Canyon Vernal Pool Preserve.
After the years of delay, the school also needed to be redesigned.
Peter Salk, the son of Jonas Salk, district Superintendent Cindy Marten, Board of Education President John Lee Evans and City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf attended the groundbreaking.


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In just downloaded two new snapshots and the problems seem to have become more serious: * the 2CSNAP-20040121-2345 snapshot always hangs at the same point as reported before, even with dma and write caching disabled * the dfly-20040118 snapshot reacts non-deterministically: sometimes it boots with dma and write caching disabled, some times it hangs (again at the same point as reported before) I do not understand why this happens. The ata code hasn't changed. Moreover, this means can't attempt any backporting at the moment, as this makes installing dfly kind of impossible :-( Jeroen Ketema PS I didn't change the configuration of my machine


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Why am I treated like s*** on your shoe?
I have gone above and beyond for you
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This sequel to the hugely popular EA Sports Active for Wii expands its fitness dominion to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, stepping things up by including motion tracking sensors and delivering real-time information about your heart rate, making it the most interactive exercise title to date.
%Gallery-87892% It's clear that EA's agenda was to make this title immediately accessible to those of all experience levels, beginning with detailed instructions for suiting up in your sensors. For PS3 players this means strapping a monitor to each arm and one to your upper thigh. I'm not going to lie -- this third one is pretty evil, and wearing it any looser than a tourniquet means it will inevitably make a frustrating and slow descent down your leg throughout your workout.
On 360, the Kinect sensor is required, but, as a result you only need to wear one of the arm bands (so that it can track your heart rate). However, as is the seemingly innate problem with Kinect, you need a lot of room and it will regularly lose you -- usually when you've collapsed on the floor in exhaustion and aren't dying to stand up again to be scanned. But on the bright side, you get to keep the feeling in your leg.
Oh, and so you can avoid playing a humbling round of "Are you smarter than an Elastic Band" like I did, here is how to assemble your resistance band.
%Gallery-107776%Once you're all strapped in and ready to go, you're swept away to what I've dubbed the "Hard Body Resort," a virtual fitness oasis, while the opening sequence imparts to you information about the life-changing workout adventure you are about to embark on -- with narration that is oddly reminiscent of the enlistment propaganda from Starship Troopers.
The game prompts you to enter your personal stats and you are given the option of two trainers, Niki and Devon, each with differing personality types and motivational styles which vary from nice to encouraging. (No domineering drill sergeants yet, but hey, there's always DLC). Your avatar is fully customizable from a variety of body types and hairstyles down to your choice of workout threads.
You're also free to create your own routines from the dozens of available exercises (there are 68 on PS3, versus only 52 on 360) or have your trainer generate one for you. Your best bet, really, is to select one of the trainer-led workout programs. The game offers a 9 Week Program to increase your overall fitness and a 3 Week Program to give you a cardio kick-start. Both plateau-defying programs increase in intensity over time.
Each exercise routine kicks off with a warm up and ends with a well-deserved cool down and stretch -- you're also encouraged to take breaks and drink water. And because this game is focused on movement rather than staying in sync with your trainers, it's much more forgiving to the, shall we say, rhythmically challenged. If you fall behind, your trainer patiently waits for you to complete each round of exercises with words of encouragement and helpful advice. The upside of this is that it's exercise novice-friendly. The downside: cheating requires quite a bit more creativity.
No domineering drill sergeants yet, but hey, there's always DLC.
From curls and lunges to reverse crunches and oh-so-brutal bent arm side planks (I mean, seriously, how are they allowed under the Geneva Convention?) all the fundamental exercises are here. But what really makes this title stand out is its ability to make a workout fun. It does this by integrating sporty exercise games into your regimen, rather than expecting you to select them independently of your workout (not to mention requiring the additional motivation required to seek them out). There are soccer goal kicks, basketball jump shots and a mountain biking game with mechanics anyone playing games on Kinect will find familiar, just to name a few. Also, because of the large variety of activities available, the exercises and scenery are constantly changing, which helps pass the time and prevents your workout from becoming a sweaty snooze-fest.
The game also comes fully loaded with a variety of fitness tools to help track and reach your goals, including a workout calendar, a nutrition guide and even the ability to go online and form fitness groups with other Actives. It also supports two players, so you can work out simultaneously with a friend or challenge them to a "run-in-place-off," for you competitive types.
There's only one thing really missing which would have put this exer-game over the top: A yoga routine. EA Sports Active 2 is great for cardio and strengthening exercises, but a workout just for relaxation would have been a welcome addition and really have completed the package.
Retailing for $100, EA Sports Active 2 is going to cost you a pretty penny, but if you're serious about fitness gaming it's worth spending the extra dough. The hands-free motion control with heart monitor alone is worth the price of admission. But fortunately there's more to this game than just a gimmick – it's a solid effort all-around and a surprisingly fun way to get fit.
This review is based on the 360 and PS3 retail versions of EA Sports Active 2 provided by EA. Rachel Shatto is a life-long avid gamer and managing editor of Curve Magazine. When she's not killing typos or polygonal baddies, she's hosting the semi-regular, horror themed Zombie Grrlz Podcast.
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On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
By Farooq A. Kperogi
Nigerians - both at home and in the diaspora - have lately been the objects and subjects of renewed American news media attention consequent upon the ever-increasing fleecing of Americans by Nigerian 419 con artists. American investigative reporters in the major news media here now deploy the Nigerian 419 scams as avenues to demonstrate their investigative journalistic prowess.
The reigning trend in reporting the 419 scams here is for American investigative reporters to pretend to fall prey to 419 email propositions. Using a hidden camera, they then follow the lead until they trace the scammers back to Nigeria - often with the aid of officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) - or to Europe or even to cities here in America. This is called "scam baiting" or "scamming the scammers."
As you can imagine, this makes for good TV infotainment, and also reinforces (in some cases creates) the stereotype of Nigerians as ruthless scammers in the popular imagination of Americans.
But this phenomenon assumed an even greater significance when Oprah Winfrey, arguably America's most powerful talk show host and world's richest black person (although our own Aliko Dangote says he is richer than Oprah, but let's wait and see what Charles Soludo's "redenomination"/"redecimalization"/"revaluation" of the naira does to his "billions"!), discussed the topic of Nigerian 419 email scams on her immensely popular TV show sometime in April this year.
A certain Okoli Vitalis, apparently a Nigerian resident in America, was angered by the Oprah show and expressed his feelings in a widely circulated letter published in the Punch of July 26, 2007 titled "Oprah Winfrey Got it Wrong." Among other claims, Vitalis alleged that Oprah importuned the American government to sever diplomatic and trade ties with Nigeria on account of the growing menace of Nigerian 419 email scams. He further claimed that Oprah said "all Nigerians - regardless of their level of education - are corrupt."
Now, this does rankle - if she actually said all these. But did she? I will get to this shortly.
"Oprah's conclusion," Vitalis added, "is based on the fact that a Nigerian of Igbo extraction was caught with $500,000, which was alleged to have been stolen from a foreigner through the Internet fraud popularly known as 419." (The link to the letter can be found here ).
When I read this letter, I was at once livid and worried - for three reasons. First, even though 419 email scams are omnipresent on the Internet and swindle countless innocent (but sometimes greedy) people out of their hard-earned money, Nigerians are not the worst perpetrators of Internet fraud in the word. That dubious honor, interestingly, belongs to Americans, according to statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center, the two U.S. agencies that monitor Internet crime.
The statistics on the Web site of the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which is a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, show that the United States leads the world in Internet crime. Between 87 percent and 76 percent of all Internet fraud reported in the world between 2001 and 2006 was committed by Americans. (The 2006 annual report of online fraud can be found here.
The figures also show that 419 email scams constitute less than one percent of all online fraud and that the prevalence of these email scams decreased from 15.5 percent in 2001 to less than one percent in 2006. So I wondered why all Nigerians should be vilified for the crimes of a few dishonest people among us.
Second, Nigeria's 140 million people are composed of over 300 distinct ethnic groups, and it doesn't seem fair to tar all Nigerians with the same brush on account of the misdeeds of "a Nigerian of Igbo extraction [who] was caught with $500,000," to quote Vitalis directly.
Third, and most important, Oprah is not just another American talk show host; she is arguably America's most important talk show host. When she talks, America listens - and acts. For instance, sometime ago, a cattle-rancher-turned-vegetarian appeared on Oprah's show where he told her grim stories of the effects of the "mad cow disease." And her response was: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!"
The next day, cattle prices dropped by 10 percent. And Texas cattle producers sued her for libel. They alleged that her statement was responsible for the dramatic drop in the demand for cattle. Of course, she won the case, but I cite this anecdote to show how powerful Oprah is - or is believed to be. People ascribe to her words the power of a social syringe that can inject instant attitudinal changes to a large section of the American populace with immediate and dramatic effects.
When she recommends books, they become instant bestsellers. And I tell you, if she says all Nigerians are criminals and should be avoided, it is not unlikely that a majority of Americans will believe her and act accordingly. The reverse is also probably true, although I must admit that I am being a bit of a vulgar empiricist here. But this woman's influence on the American public is simply phenomenal. If not, why would Texas cattle producers attribute the drop in the demand for cattle to her apparently innocuous, off-the-cuff remark?
Of course, many communication scholars have argued that the impact of the mass media cannot be read straight off from the content of output; people read, hear, see and understand media messages selectively based on predetermined values and therefore have the capacity to, and indeed do, resist media persuasion.
But it is also true that there are limits to interpretation; meaning cannot be simply "private" and "individual." For one thing, frames of reference, which audiences bring to their consumption of media messages, come from somewhere, are formed at some time, and are liable to be re-formed over time through symbolic interactionism. Besides, long-time exposure to the media play a crucial role in determining the predispositions by which people make sense of both the world and, in turn, of the particular interpretations of the world offered by the mass media. But I digress.
So in my exasperation and my desire to find the truth, I combed Oprah's Web site to get the transcript of the show where she allegedly said, among other objectionable things, that all Nigerians, regardless of social status, are corrupt. (I don't watch her show often because I am way too busy for that diversion). It turned out, however, that she never said any such things! Vitalis made them up and gratuitously caused Nigerians, especially in the diaspora, to be riled to no end.
This claim is traceable to Oprah's show titled "Conmen and How to Avoid Them," which featured people who have fallen victim to different kinds of scams, including (no, I should say especially) the Nigerian 419 email scam. At the end of the show Oprah said, "I know we're going to get a letter from somebody saying that Nigeria has a lot of wonderful people. You don't have to send the letter. We already know that. We're just talking about this particular scam that's going on. We're not talking about the entire country and everybody in the country." (
The entire transcript of the show can be found here.
This seems to me like a fair-minded comment. It is not clear why Vitalis attributed to Oprah what she never said. Perhaps, he was simply incensed that Oprah brought the issue of 419 scams to the forefront of popular consciousness in America.
Someone once remarked that those of us who live outside Nigeria are often excessively obsessed with Nigeria's image abroad, sometimes to the point of absurdity. Perhaps this is true.
I attribute this to what I call the narcissism of transnational citizenship: transnational citizens simultaneously savor the comfort of the foreign country in which they live and are also, mostly for egocentric reasons, so emotionally invested in the external image of their home countries that they habitually lapse into exaggerated fits of nationalistic fervor at the slightest negative publicity of their ancestral countries in the foreign mass media.
Maybe we are all sometimes guilty of this self-absorption. But outright mendacity in the name of patriotism should be condemned.
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Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Rose posted on 08-26-2007, 16:29:54 PM
Thanks. There's no way Oprah would brazenly slur all Nigerians for the crimes of a few. She has also offered and paid reward money to catch child predators featured on her show as a public service, but pervs no better than to squeal.
I'm quite sure Americans top the list when it comes to scams. Whenever there's a local, statewide or national tragedy, people always attempt to exploit the public for their own personal gain. I suspect Vitalis was bothered that she aired the show period.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Emj posted on 08-26-2007, 16:56:07 PM
Selective discernment/dissection, how we process info etc etc ati bee bee lo
And of course we all still got out knicker twisted becos of da follow follow mentality.....Vitalis.
Close eyes fight.
What triggered negative reactions without proper thought to listen or look at da motive behind da program probably had to do with the unnecessary/mischievious focus on Nigeria as the source of Internet Scams by a lot of Foreign Reporters and Media Houses.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Igwe posted on 08-26-2007, 22:46:56 PM
I didn't believe Oprah could have said that. She's too cultivated to blunder in like manner.
I also understand Vitalis' frustration. But we should always check our facts before we go public. Oprah could've taken offence, you know, and could have sought redress.
Thanks for providing the facts.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Jthelmsdeep posted on 08-26-2007, 23:14:29 PM
Thank you for taking the time to research and pen such an incredibly astute, and well reasoned piece. I thoroughly enjoyed the way you factually and objectively dissected the idea that you so aptly termed "narcissism of transnational citizenship." Like you, I am proud to be Nigerian but often wonder at the vigor with which we defend ostensibly insignificant and non-existent "smear campaigns" against us.
It is not unreasonable to think that the Vitalis gentleman may well have heard from a third party source about Oprah's alleged belittling of Nigerians, forgot or chose not to do the necessary groundwork to ascertain the truth, and jumped in with both feet to defend an unecessary and obviously false allegation. Such people remind me of the anecdotal story of an erstwhile knight who returned from doing battle against the kings enemies. As he dragged himself and his lame steed into the courts of the king, armor dented and missing pieces, sword broken, and abjectly weary, the king says "From whence have you come my good knight?" In reply the knight declares "From doing battle with your enemies in the East." "In the East?" queries the king. "I have no enemies in the East!" with a crestfallen look on his face the knight replies, "You do now sire!!!"
The simple moral of the story is that if we run off half-cocked to fight battles that are non-existent, we find ourselves wasting precious time and energy, as well as losing any sense of value or legitimacy that may have been attributed to us.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Olulove12 posted on 08-27-2007, 09:07:28 AM
Your anecdotal knight story gave me chuckle.
Nice one.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Oghre posted on 08-27-2007, 09:25:52 AM
Not a bad piece of work! If I juxtapose this article with one (http://www.amanaonline.com/Articles/art_2065.htm) you wrote a long time ago that got me
(http://www.amanaonline.com/Articles/art_2083.htm) and other Nigerians going, then arguably you were worse than Oprah in the past.
Glad to see replies like mine have made sudden changes to the way you report Nigerian news, internalised hatred in reporting your own people serves nothing more than ammunition for the other parties to use against us.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Rose posted on 08-27-2007, 16:21:47 PM
"From whence have you come my good knight?" In reply the knight declares "From doing battle with your enemies in the East." "In the East?" queries the king. "I have no enemies in the East!" with a crestfallen look on his face the knight replies, "You do now sire!!!"
Quite fitting.
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Omaks posted on 08-28-2007, 13:20:10 PM
If for the sake of argument Oprah has SLURRED Nigerians, i think we could find it in our HEARTS to forgive her. Afterall, we have enjoyed immensely her numerous TALK SHOW EPISODES. Its very UNDERSTANDING that after many years fronting her talk show she should eventually RUN OUT of ATTENTION CATCHING TOPICS to HARP on. What better candidate for mundane, broadside swivel than NIGERIA and its continuosly 'CRUMBLING' image on the WORLD STAGE! Go on soun jare, OPRAH!!
Re: On Oprah Winfrey's Alleged Condemnation of Nigerians
Rose posted on 08-30-2007, 04:41:06 AM
I just read those two articles and it occurred to me that we rarely hear of European scammers, but then I remembered Barings Bank.
In February of 1995, one man single-handedly bankrupted the bank that financed the Napoleonic Wars, Louisiana Purchase and the Erie Canal. Founded in 1762, Barings Bank was Britain's oldest merchant bank and Queen Elizabeth's personal bank. Once a behemoth in the banking industry, Barings was brought to its knees by a rogue trader in a Singapore office. The trader, Nick Leeson, was employed by Barings to profit from low risk arbitrage opportunities between derivatives contracts on the Singapore Mercantile Exchange and Japan's Osaka Exchange. A scandal ensued when Leeson left a $1.4 billion hole in Barings' balance sheet due to his unauthorized derivatives speculation, causing the 233-year-old bank's demise.


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The 51st Ranked Player in the World Is Playing This Week!
Yep, exciting news, because a guy that you have to click "next page" on the Official World Rankings page to see is going to be at the Frys.com Open this week, and we are pumped!
No, it isn't Jonathan Byrd (silly, he's 52nd), it's Tiger Woods. He's back! And he's coming off a course record-breaking 62! And he's "focused." And he's ready to win!
Honestly, I'm pretty impressed that Woods decided to play this week, even if it seems we all can agree that more reps would be better for the man, and yes, it will make this rather unknown golf tournament more exciting.
So, let's hear it from you ... misses the cut, makes the cut, finishes top-25 or wins ... you decide.
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I'm tipping one low round, 2 average ones and a high one. Makes the cut finishes around T30.
- October 4, 2011 at 1:39 AM
He will start off really nicely. Then he misses some putts and later some fairways. He will make the cut, but won't be able to press on in the weekend. He will finish 36th.
- October 4, 2011 at 3:31 AM
I predict he will be asked the same standard questions at his pressers, give the same answers, and then all golf media members will take to twitter and complain.
Oh you meant his play? No clue, even Nostradamus couldn't predict that.
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Ed Towns, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, just announced that he would hold hearings into the emails that show how the New York Federal Reserve delayed disclosure of AIG counter-party payments, hiding public information from federal regulators. The statement is below.
Towns wants to hold the hearing the week of January 18, and has invited Treasury Secretary Geithner to testify.
We'll see if Geithner bothers to show up. Through spokesmen at Treasury, Geithner has maintained that at the time of the emails, he had recused himself from dealing with AIG issues (why was he still heading the NY Fed then, if he couldn't work on one of their most important issues in their history?). The White House parroted this line today.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called on Geithner to testify on whether or not Federal Reserve officials improperly pressured AIG to not disclose how taxpayer bailout funds were used in 2008.
Asked if the Treasury secretary should comply, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said "Secretary Geithner was not involved in these decisions." […] "These decisions did not raise to his level at the Fed," he said. "There are not e-mails that involve Secretary Geithner in this instance."
Eliot Spitzer, Bill Black and Frank Partnoy, who wrote an op-ed last month calling for the release of all the AIG emails, write today that this scandal is the tip of the iceberg.
The emails requested by Issa span five months beginning in November 2008. If five months of emails reveal information key to our understanding of the aftermath of the crisis, imagine what 10 years of emails could contribute to our understanding of its causes. We believe the AIG emails and other internal company documents are the 'black box' of the financial crisis. If we understand the failure of AIG, we will more fully understand the crisis — what caused it and more importantly how to prevent it from happening again […]
The value of these documents, if it were ever in doubt, was certainly proved by Thursdays's revelations.
Release the emails.
Here's Rep. Towns' statement. . .:
Chairman Towns Announces Hearing to Examine New York Fed's Role in Advising Public Disclosure of A.I.G. Counterparty Payments
WASHINGTON – Chairman Edolphus "Ed" Towns (D-NY) today announced that he will convene a hearing to examine financial disclosure advice the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's (F.R.B.N.Y.) provided American International Group (A.I.G.) during the height of the financial crisis. In question are email exchanges that emerged this week between lawyers at F.R.B.N.Y. and A.I.G. which indicate that A.I.G. was advised to withhold key details from the public about the terms of the insurer's federal bailout.
"More than one year after the first Federal bailout of A.I.G., the American people continue to question where their tax dollars were really sent when the government rescued this company. I continue to believe that a comprehensive review of the rise and fall of AIG, and the involvement of counterparties can provide a useful vehicle to understanding how inadequate regulations, cheap money, risky business deals, and in some instances, corruption led to the current economic crisis," said Chairman Towns.
Chairman Towns intends to hold the hearing during the week of January 18, 2010. Witnesses invited to testify will include Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003-2008, and Thomas Baxter, who has served as general counsel and executive vice president of the legal group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1995. Chairman Towns opened the committee's investigation into the federal rescue of A.I.G. in early 2008.


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UFC NEWS – Chad Mendes: "I don't shoot; I blast people off their feet with my takedowns and shut down BJJ black belts"
[box_light]"I believe in my skills and knew that if I trained hard and fought right, things would work out for me and they did. These guys that have black belts in jiu-jitsu, I've pretty much just shut them down basically because of my athleticism and my strength. I think it's going to be tough for him to throw any kind of submission when I'm on top punching him in the face. I don't think he's got this big advantage on the ground. Jose Aldo is a great champion, but I don't think he's fought anybody with the athleticism, the strength, and the wrestling background that I have. I don't shoot; I blast people of their feet with my takedowns. I'm going to go to Brazil and I'm going to take that belt from Aldo. I'm the next featherweight champion of the world. It happens for me this Saturday and it is time to prove myself."[/box_light]
Chad "Money" Mendes is the undefeated title challenger getting ready to take a stab at taking Jose Aldo's title this weekend in the UFC 142 main event of the evening.
Having not even lost one-round in his young MMA career the Team Alpha Male product believes he will be able to take down and shut down the Jiu Jitsu of the champ in route to earning his title.
It's a tough task for anyone, but Mendes has without a doubt solidified himself as the number two featherweight fighter in the world. The number one spot is reserved to this weekend's winner.
So who takes it BJPENN.COM? 4 days left until the UFC heads to Rio!
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43 Responses to "UFC NEWS – Chad Mendes: "I don't shoot; I blast people off their feet with my takedowns and shut down BJJ black belts""
"to take down and shit the champ in route to earning his title.
Mendes blasts people off their feet with takedowns, Aldo blasts people off their feet with strikes. Let's see who gets blasted.
i knocked mendes' mother down to her knee's and blasted her in the face. she loved every second of it.
The mature adult side of me was thinking about how low and classless that statement was, but the immature, joke loving side of me literally LOL'd! Guess I still got some growing up to do!
the mature adult side of my thought maybe i should post something relevant about the fight, but the immature, joking loving side of me decided a mom joke would be more fun. i guess we both do!
Chads mother passed away when he was 2 years old.
is your mom passed away?
Lol that's fucked up
I heard it was from sort of blast to the face?
I'm blasted before those blasted bastids 😛
Someones gettin merked bad i hope its a good fight
Something tells me Mendes is gunna eat a lot of flying knees. lol
Chad i don´t see how you pretend to blast the champ!!! he is coming for an early tko.. be sure is not in the 1st round…
the man is delusional
whoevers getting blasted….someones beemin up to scotty
Aldo by whatever he wants
Agreed, Aldo is a beast, and dry humping practice all those gate keepers at Alpha Male is not enough prep for Jose. Aldo will KO him since Mendes has been so vocal.
Gatekeepers? thats the dumbest shit i have ever heard in my life. Joseph Benavidez will probably be the Flyweight champ, Faber can beat Cruz he already has actually, and Mendes has a legit shot at beating Aldo. Mendes would have Aldo if he was in Hominick or Florians spot. Even Danny Castillo has been doing good as of late.
danny got ktfo by pettis..
so did t.j
mendez lay n pray
faber is overrated he is 4-3 in last 7 how the fuck does he get title shot? bcus he is a gatekeeper
Thats 1 loss for Castillo to a top guy dosent make him a can. TJ Dillashaw wwill be back. Faber ges a title shot because him and Cruz are head and shoulders above the rest of the division. What about Black House. Machida just got put to sleep, Big Nog got his arm snapped, Lil Nog lost 2 in a row before beating a washed up Tito, Aldo has looked average lately, and Anderson got whipped by Chael.
Hahaha! Mendes better not be putting "money" on that!
And it's sickening he's proud of 'shutting down' the opponent…Cuz I'm pretty sure he means lay 'n' pray himself to a decision. If he does that it will be a boring ass fight, with a lot of humping and pillow fists.
IMO the best boxing, not striking, boxing only, will have to go to Edgar, T. Ferguson, and Aldo.
They're good boxers they got head movement, feet and good combos.
This is my opinion, call me crazy but this is my opinion.
What does bjpenn.com think?? lol
#just asking
Chael has the best boxing. He outboxed the guy Freddie Roach said has the best boxing in MMA.
So now when you catch a guy, it means you have betyer striking them? you HAVE to be joking.
No when you consistantly outstrike them for 4 rounds and drop them twice you have better striking,
Stop being a fucking idiot. Just. Stop.
i have the best boxing.
Joe Lewis has the best boxing.
i'd bone lewis in the face. one, two, to sleep.
Joe Louis is 137 years old.
wow your list of boxers sucks.. no offense, best boxers, Arlovski, JDS, Silva, Old Bj penn(Sorry) lol, and edgar is good too I guess lmao I prob forgot some but meh
You forgot Belfort and JDS!
theres a diffrence between striking and boxing silva has the best striking not boxing in mma
this is to prodigy r u on drugs u fuckin fag i have read your statements!!!! what camp got voted best camp for 2011? and when u cheat in a combat sport taking drugs that will make u more aggresive which means he would get up in silvas face just like he did yea . he would of been like the rest if he was clean he would of froze do u not think he would of been telling okami and traning okami to do the same thing it was the drug he used made him have thatt performance. and not to mention fighting a guy not fully fit yea u gona look realy good i pray sonnen gets silva a rematch not to mention he has munoz to get by, i dont hate chael hes 1 of the best fighters out there but we all know silvas 10 times the fighter u talk like hes better than silva tell me then prodigy what has chael sonnen ever won in mma thats worth talking about or has he even won anythings silvas fought the best of the best for years chaels only been starting 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if your mom got matched up with silva she'd probably mount him right off the bat and ride him for 20 minutes. and then there'd be a huge climax and silva would wrap his legs around her head and they'd both get what they wanted.
and then sonnen would smack your mom on the butt while she's making him a steak. your mom is a slut.
hahahahahaha I was just laughing so hard I woke up my wife.
A lot of people are sleeping on this fight but I've rarely seen Aldo in a boring fight. I think Aldo will win by decision.
interesting they couldnt find another picture of mendes cuz this is pretty much all he does every fight.
gotta agree there.. and he mentions that Aldo has never fought a guy with his athleticism, strength, and wrestling background he has.. I guess he forgot his teammate Faber fought him and got lit up.. way to throw your teammate under the bus Mendes.. have fun eating those knees on Sat night..
Same thing I was thinking
Amen. Mendes should be enjoying a bevy of knees and uppercuts come Saturday night. The Alpha Male guys are certainly game fighters, but carbon copies of one another. As you already implied, Aldo has prepared for this fight once before.
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Posted: October 11, 2012|
An unsigned band from Lincoln have made it through to the final 20 in a national competition to bid for this year's Christmas number one.
Indie-pop five piece The Lounge Crusade are through to the final round of Band Crusade, a project trying to shine a light on up-and-coming artists by getting them in the charts.
Music fans are asked to vote for one of the 20 acts in the final.
The winner will have their chosen single professionally recorded and released in time to join the race for the prestigious number one Christmas single.
The Lounge Crusade are now calling on Lincoln's music lovers to back them in the campaign – and even took to the pitch on Saturday during Lincoln City's match with Luton Town to garner more support.
Anyone who has voted in the campaign before is now eligible to vote again.
To log on and vote for The Lounge Crusade, visit www.bandcrusade.com/ theloungecrusade. The deadline is November 15.


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"A lot of those stumble upon us needing a restroom or looking for something to do before visiting the Capitol but leave with a greater appreciation of beauty and nature," Mims said.
The U.S. Botanic Garden is divided into three public experiences: the iconic Lord and Burnham greenhouse conservatory, with nearly 29,000 square feet of growing space and 10 garden rooms; Bartholdi Park, which is named for its centerpiece, Bartholdi Fountain — its creator, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, also designed the Statue of Liberty; and the National Garden, which features the Rose Garden and the Butterfly Garden.
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The Bible & Its Readers
To the Editor:
In "Responding to the Bible" [January], . . . Fernanda Eberstadt has a very special bone to pick with contemporary maulers of Scripture. She notes the fact that the "historical-critical" approach to the study of the Bible . . . has generated contradictions between biblical scholars and the devout. "On the whole, they have been working at cross purposes," she says. Miss Eberstadt is particularly exercised by Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bible, edited by David Rosenberg, a new product of the historical-critical approach that only exacerbates these cross purposes. . . . She notes sadly: "With the exception of a half-dozen insightful chapters, . . . this collection would seem to bear a sad message—that the Bible no longer speaks to 'contemporary writers,' at least if they are secular American Jews, that they do not know its stories and evidently cannot bear to hear its melodies."
Unfortunately, this . . . is a universal phenomenon among contemporary intellectuals—a fact that soon rubs off on impressionable college students when they enter the closed-minded environment of the contemporary campus. Miss Eberstadt is right when she observes that the "loss of the Bible as an essential part of the Western artist's genetic code applies widely to writers today [and] may help . . . to account for the frailty [good word—ALW] of our literary culture."
But as she probes into a second anthology, The Literary Guide to the Bible, edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, some may raise objections to the drift of her analysis. After aptly observing that the Bible is an ideal "quarry" . . . for literary criticism, Miss Eberstadt makes the same labored distinction . . . between the "Old" and "New" Testaments for which she excoriates certain Bible readers and critics, those with ". . . conventional preconceptions about the difference between the Christian and the 'Old Testament' ethic." . . . For the kinship between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is as close as the fingers of one's hand or the hairs on one's head. Yet Miss Eberstadt, it seems to me, allows herself to fall into the same trap as the critics whom she chastises.
For instance, she contrasts the "abiding command of the Jewish God [to] 'be fruitful and multiply'" with Jesus's prescriptions, in Miss Eberstadt's words, to "leave your mother and father and children . . . hate the world, [and] worship God not in a likeminded community but secretly in your closet."
Not only is this alleged contrast . . . unconvincing on its own merits, it ill serves the integrity of both Judaism and Christianity, and their close kinship with each other. . . .
The much misquoted and misinterpreted injunction of Jesus—to "set man at variance against his father, and daughter against her mother . . ." (Matthew 10:34) or a similar passage in Luke (12:53)—was not intended to cancel other Scriptural injunctions related to family cohesion, as, for example, to "cleave" to one's wife (Matthew 19:5; see also Genesis 2:24), to "honor thy father and thy mother" (Mark 7:10), and similar maxims in Proverbs and other books of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. These words of Jesus simply recognized the facts of the time: that households were divided by their contrasting religious or pagan loyalties under the same roof; that as far as Jesus was concerned, his followers must make a firm commitment to his teachings if they wished to be disciples—a pledge of loyalty transcending the "many mansions" in one's father's house. Such language stemmed from the actual discord common in families at the time of the spread of Christianity.
Second, Miss Eberstadt's reading of the New Testament to mean that Jesus, Paul, or any of the disciples taught their flock to "hate the world" betrays, in my opinion, a lamentable misunderstanding of Scripture, both Jewish and Christian. No less than the Hebrew Bible, the message of the New Testament is clearly life-affirming, life-sustaining, and by no means life-denying. . . .
As the late Lewis Mumford . . . once observed: "Every word and act of Jesus can be interpreted as an attempt to disinter the corpse of man: to 'raise the dead.' . . . Nothing was good for Jesus unless it furthered life in its perpetual process of self-transcendence and self-liberation." Or, as Emerson put it: "Life only avails, not the having lived. So the Child, with its multiple potentialities for growth, is the true symbol of this doctrine. . . . Death in all its forms—vice, disease, ignorance, paralysis—was used as a condition for a fuller and richer life."
Yes, the vision of Jesus was one of health, life, renewal in this world, not hatred of or detachment from this world. To wit: "The kingdom has come" (Mark 1:5); "the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21); "the field is the world" (Matthew 13:38), etc.
Third, Miss Eberstadt's criticism of Christianity for its alleged closet worship of God seems at best more a criticism of a certain species of fringe Protestantism or "Judeo-Christian humanism" of the Christian or Jewish existentialist sort than it is of any thrust or sense that could be located in Scripture itself.
Indeed, Jesus's emphasis is upon a community of worshippers, not self-righteous and/or eccentric ostriches. His appeal is constantly to group effort, communal spirit, and worship of God together. Needless to say, in most cases establishment church worship by Catholics and Protestants down through the centuries exhibits the strongest possible adherence to the idea of group worship . . .
Anyone with even the most casual acquaintance with Scripture . . . would surely know that Jesus was no advocate, nor were his followers, of a church . . . consisting of one individual or of isolated individual worshippers. . . .
Albert L. Weeks
New York City
To the Editor:
When Fernanda Eberstadt writes that the "reader of the King James Version turns the page from Malachi to Matthew without any sensation of a leap into the new or the unknown," implying that such a leap takes place, or when she writes that "the gospel revealed in the life of Jesus is a gospel of individualism and inwardness . . ." where you should ". . . worship God not in a likeminded community but secretly in your closet," she gives us a minority view of the meaning of the New Testament.
A protestant view, to be precise. Protestants remain the protesters the holders of the minority viewpoint among Christians. According to the Britannica Book of the Year, 1986, out of an estimated worldwide Christian population of 1,061 million, there are 628 million Catholics, 373 million Protestants, and 58 million Orthodox—that means that all the Protestant sects put together constitute 35 percent of the world's Christians. Even in the United States, where in 1986 57 percent of the population told the Gallup poll that they were Protestant and 28 percent said they were Catholic, the idea that Christ practiced a kind of "lone wolf" spirituality is not that common. . . .
Consider Miss Eberstadt's leap from Malachi to Matthew: this leaves out the Apocrypha, that collection of books that were not included in the Hebrew Scriptures yet are considered part of the Christian "Old Testament." Protestants doubt their authenticity, and so they stopped including them in their Bibles in the early 19th century. (When the American Bible Society was founded in 1816, it printed the King James Version complete with the Apocrypha, but dropped the practice twelve years later.) If there is a chasm between Malachi and Matthew, it is bridged by the Apocrypha. The New Testament endorsement of chastity, for instance, does not seem that radical after you have read Wisdom of Solomon 3:13-4:6.
The Jesus of the Gospels does spend time in contemplative prayer, but he also worships God as part of the Israelite community. ("He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah," Luke 4:16f). He founds a Church and invests its leader with the authority to teach in his name (cf. Matthew 16:13-19). After his death, this Church continues to worship together "every day . . . meeting together in the temple area and . . . breaking bread in their homes" (Acts 2:46). . . .
If the Gospel is individualistic, it is also a matter of community: of devotion to "the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers" (Acts 2:42).
Don Schenk
Allentown, Pennsylvania
To the Editor:
Fernanda Eberstadt, in her fine article, "Responding to the Bible," quotes the critic Harold Bloom on the sacrifice of Isaac and justly takes him to task. The question of an Abraham who can plead with God for cities having nothing to do with him, while protesting not a word to God for the life of Isaac, his son, who is everything he loves and the link to God's promise for his future, needs to be examined from several angles, none of them having to do with "J" sources.
What may seem totally contradictory in Abraham's character is actually not so. As Miss Eberstadt points out, "like all biblical heroes he is also self-denying in the crunch." In the situation of Sodom and Gomorrah . . . he pleads passionately not only for the cities' inhabitants, but for God's reputation: "Shall not the Lord of all the earth do justly?" as if to say, "What will people think of You, God, if You do this?" This is not an average response but one of cosmic social, moral, and religious concerns. This same profound mixture of concerns, brought to an exalted climax, animates the Akedah, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac, his unquestioning obedience to God's direct command when it concerns the most important fact of his own existence. . . .
Two other elements, language and history, should be considered in order to understand why the recitation of this story is so central to Jewish worship. First, the language pattern. The few short narrative passages of the Akedah are the most intimate and tender in all Scripture. The reader is privy to an almost whispered dialogue among Abraham, his son Isaac, and God as the three walk together. The same language pattern is used by God when He calls Abraham at the beginning of the story. . . . This particular pattern is found nowhere else in the Bible; . . . not even to Moses does God speak in such a soft, gently-falling-rain kind of word pattern. And then, suddenly, when Abraham has finished, the tone changes abruptly. Not God now, but His angel appears, and speaks in formal, public, and majestic tones. . . .
Historically, human sacrifice was public and formal, not the private act of an Abraham who leaves even his servants behind. After all, how does one distinguish . . . sacrifice from plain murder if not by great public display? Secondly, unlike in the Akedah story, there was never a question of intimacy between the sacrifice and the sacrificer (see, for example, the story of Jethro, who hardens himself to his daughter before slaying her). A third distinguishing historical element is that the Akedah contains no promise of a reward, or release. Ancient people normally did not perform their human sacrifices without hope of specific preordained rewards.
Abraham's silent obedience, his intimacy with the son he is about to slay . . . and with the God for Whom his son is to be sacrificed; the tender and intimate nature of the dialogue among God, father, and son, who speak to one another as equals in rank; the clean historical break with the pagan understanding of human sacrifice; then the majestic proclamation, the public affirmation of God's pleasure and Abraham's reward, mentioned only at the end of the episode; and, not least, the fact that Isaac is spared—all these elements add up to a profound concept of the deity, of the order of the universe, and to a most exalted state of human possibility.
Maurice Schmidt
Texas A&I University
Kingsville, Texas
To the Editor:
Fernanda Eberstadt's article, "Responding to the Bible," brings to mind an area in which some useful dialogue could go on between devout Christians and Jews. Howard Singer's article and the resulting onslaught of letters ["The Rise and Fall of Interfaith Dialogue," May 1987; Letters from Readers, September 1987] pointed out once again the futility (and indeed the undesirability) of attempts at theological reconciliation. Ordinary orthodox Christians like me have always known that there exists no common ground for such reconciliation short of conversion or the gutting of our respective bodies of faith. I would presume that our "hardline conservative" counterparts in the Jewish community share this opinion. Quite logically, we therefore do not bother with the tedious process.
But while disparaging theological dialogue, conservative Christians are acutely aware of our debts to the Hebrew Scriptures and know that we cannot understand the Christian faith without understanding them and whence they came. We love the Hebrew Bible, as inspired and revealed truth from God; herein lies our common ground with devout Jews. We love the beauty of the poetry, the wisdom of the laws, and the eternal truths in the stories of living, breathing, and very real human beings. We love it as history, we love it as literature, we love it as symbolism, and we love it as law. Indeed, those of us who grew up in devout Christian homes tend as adults to carry with us much more of Genesis then we do of Galatians. We interpret "New" in light of the "Old" much more often than Miss Eberstadt might give us credit for doing, and certainly do not view the Hebrew Scriptures as "fodder for our religion," as she accuses Paul of doing. . . .
Bradley W. Anderson
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
To the Editor:
In Fernanda Eberstadt's discussion of Harold Bloom's essay on Genesis, I was struck by Bloom's description of God. Bloom states that "God likes to sit under the terebinths at Mamre, devouring roast calf and curds." Now, curds is a dairy product; calf, or veal as it is called, is meat. If God does not believe in kashrut, what are we to do? . . .
Abe Breslauer
Bay Harbor Island, Florida
Fernanda Eberstadt writes:
Albert L. Weeks in his very interesting letter stresses the indivisible kinship between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament and objects to the dichotomy he says I draw between God's command in Genesis ("be fruitful and multiply") and Jesus's insistence that his disciples forsake their families and follow him, an injunction Mr. Weeks interprets not as an assault on family unity but merely as a request for "firm commitment." In fact, I contrasted the Hebrew Bible's commandment with something slightly different—that is, the New Testament exaltation of chastity.
Jesus and Paul's teachings on marriage and family are two-pronged, stating on the one hand an ideal which only a chosen few can realize and on the other hand offering strictures to improve the conduct of ordinary mortals.
In Matthew 19:10-12, when his disciples infer from Jesus's preaching that "it is not good to marry," Jesus concedes, "All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given," and goes on to single out as a kind of elect those who "have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake."
So, too, Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians writes, "It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband" (I Corinthians 7:1-2). The letter goes on, however, to reassert periodically Paul's wistful desire that "all men were even as I myself," that is, chaste. "But every man doth have his proper gift of God" (I Corinthians 7:7).
Interestingly enough, both these singlings-out of chastity as a perfect and blessed if almost inaccessible state occur in chapters sanctifying marriage and inveighing against divorce. The Christian Gospel's attitude toward husbands and wives may thus be likened to the Hebrew Bible's attitude toward kings, namely, mistrust of an institution whose power threatens to infringe on God's, combined with a certain awe at its potential majesty, mystery, and beauty. In both cases, the conclusion is that it would be better not to have an earthly king/spouse at all, but since people are going to go ahead anyway, they should know how to do it properly.
In any event, this preference for chastity as the condition in which we can most fully worship God is quite foreign to the Hebrew patriarchs and their progeny, who were sustained through slavery and exile by God's animating promise of seed more numerous than the stars in the sky. As Don Schenk rightly suggests in his letter, the shift in attitude over the course of a millennium is no doubt in part historically conditioned: celibacy is a luxury that only an advanced and settled culture can afford. Another such historical shift in attitude is represented in Jesus and Paul's transformation of marriage from a business contract to a sacred and eternal bond; justified by Genesis, this notion is most fully articulated in the Hebrew Bible in the very late Book of Malachi, in which God declares through the Prophet that "divorce is hateful" and condemns the "treachery" of putting away "thy companion and the wife of thy covenant."
As for Jesus's recurrent insistence that all who follow him must leave their families, this particular injunction is merely one inseparable aspect of a larger vision of total self-renunciation. To cite but one assertion of this imperative: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26). Leaving behind sisters and brothers is the least of it!
Mr. Weeks takes issue with my claim that Jesus's call for radical self-conquest and self-denial in any way entails "hating the world." On the contrary, he writes, Jesus's vision is one of "health, life, renewal in this world, not hatred of or detachment from this world." And yet all the scriptural quotations he marshals as evidence in fact describe "the kingdom of God," a phrase which refers to the glories of the coming messianic age, heralded in the person and the message of Jesus. That life, which is life everlasting, that world, which is world without end, is constantly contrasted in the Gospels to the world of darkness, sin, ignorance, evil from which we must be redeemed, and to which a proper attitude is the one idealized in the term contemptus mundi.
Jesus again and again reminds his followers that neither he nor they have any part of this world: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you" (John 15:18-19). A chapter later, he reassures his disciples, "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).
True, this conception is quite different from the sweet, strong, passionate diplomacy of Paul, who in his mission to win converts to Jesus's teachings seeks to "please all men in all things." It is no less integral a part of Scripture for that.
Finally, Mr. Weeks and Mr. Schenk question my assertion that Jesus urges his followers to "worship God secretly . . . in your closet." Secret worship, Mr. Weeks maintains, may be a fit pastime for "self-righteous . . . ostriches" but finds no friend in Scripture itself. But here is what Jesus says to his disciples in the Gospel according to St. Matthew (and elsewhere): "And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. . . . But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly" (Matthew 6:5-6).
To sum up: Jesus's teachings in the Gospels do indeed stress an ethic of individualism, inwardness, withdrawal, self-conquest. At the same time this ethic is entwined with and modified by the differing imperatives of a universal church seeking to join multitudes in "the fellowship of Christ" and the common worship of one God; it continues to lie at the very heart of Christianity.
I would like to thank Bradley W. Anderson for his beautiful and inspiring reminder of what Christian love of the Hebrew Bible can be, and Maurice Schmidt for his kind words and his observations on the Binding of Isaac.
Now to Abe Breslauer: God's taste for calf and curds Harold Bloom infers from Genesis 18, in which Abraham serves a meal of butter and milk and a calf (in that order) to "three men" sent by God, and stands under an oak watching them eat. Let me point out, first, that Abraham's guests are angels in human form, not the Almighty Himself; second, that in the Bible (as opposed to the Oral Law), the prohibition against the mixing of milk and meat refers only to cooking; third (and nevertheless), that the angels, being angels, would surely have acted in accordance with their foreknowledge of the Oral Law, which permits the eating of meat after milk, so long as one rinses one's mouth and partakes of a neutral substance like bread (which, as it happens, Abraham has asked his wife Sarah to prepare for their guests); and, lastly, that angels don't eat, anyway; these particular angels, as the great medieval commentator Rashi reminds us, only appeared to be doing so, thus teaching us the importance of politeness to a host.


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Lett's Set A Spell
An old man lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:
Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty sad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love, Papa
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Papa,
Don't dig up that garden. That's where the bodies are buried.
Love, Vinnie
At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left.
That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Papa,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love you,
THERE IS STILL TIME to dig up some soil and place plants in the earth to grow tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables for harvest later this year. Tomatoes may be America's favorite garden vegetable or is it a fruit? While technically we eat the fruit of the tomato plant, it is used as a vegetable in eating and cooking and therefore usually categorized as a vegetable.
According to the N.C. Extension Service, the best time for planting tomatoes ranges from April 20 to July 15 in our area. Larger tomatoes prefer nighttime temperatures between 55° and 65° for the fruit to set. Grape and cherry tomatoes are more heat tolerant and stand up to the humidity of the Triangle area so they can be planted later.
An article from the Extension Service stated: "The key to a bountiful tomato harvest in Triangle gardens is to choose varieties that are proven producers for our climate. Time tested ones like Whopper, Better Boy, Celebrity and Mountain Pride are some of the best selections that stand up to the heat and humidity of our area. But don't be afraid to experiment with some of the new varieties ... like Marmara with its intense red color and sweet flavor. It's especially pretty when sliced. Or try the Floralina hybrid developed through a cooperative breeding program with N.C. State and the University of Florida."
For detailed planting, growing, harvesting and canning information, contact the local extension office. Susan Condlin, county extension director, can be reached at (919) 775-5624 or email@example.com. The web address is: www.lee.ces.ncsu.edu.
MANY YEARS AGO I decided it was easier for me to cultivate friends than grow my own vegetables and fruits, so I collect these fresh treats from neighbors and friends and also buy them at farmers markets.
I often read the "Triangle Gardener," which is a local guide to enjoyable gardening in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill areas and surrounding communities. Each bi-monthly issue includes stories on plants, garden design, pests, garden books, garden travel, events and tours, industry pros, and much more.
I share these helpful tips about fruits and vegetables from a recent issue of the magazine:
• Check your vegetable garden daily for water needs. Fertilize weekly, as these plants are heavy feeders. Keep watch for disease and insect infestations.
• Plant warm season crops in May — eggplant, peppers, squash, cucumbers, snap beans, peppers, okra and watermelons.
• Stake or cage tomatoes and train green beans and cucumbers up trellises or supports.
• Control blossom end rot on tomatoes with good watering practices; add lime to reduce the problem.
• Harvest vegetables and fruits in the morning and not during the heat of the day. Place them in a cool place to prevention deterioration of taste and quality.
In summation, with wit and wisdom, I am encouraging readers to plant more fruit and vegetables and eat them fresh for better health.
AlexSandra Lett is a professional speaker and the author of "Natural Living, From Stress to Rest;" "A Timeless Place, Lett's Set a Spell at the Country Store;" "Timeless Moons, Seasons of the Fields and Matters of the Heart;" "Timeless Recipes and Remedies, Country Cooking, Customs, and Cures;" and "Coming Home to my Country Heart, Timeless Reflections about Work, Family, Health, and Spirit." Lett can be reached at (919) 258-9299 or email@example.com.


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Bob Woodward is headed back to Mercyhurst University and tickets to see him are still free, but limited.
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