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After many years of hard work, new friendships, and passion to provide a public Montessori option for the Salem community, the Sequoia Montessori School (SMS) Board of Directors has decided to bring our efforts to an end and dissolve the school's non-profit status.
This decision was made by the SMS Board due to a lack of support from the Salem-Keizer School District and Oregon State Board of Education for the proposals presented.
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John Gould Stephenson (March 1, 1828 – November 11, 1883)[1] was an American physician and soldier. He was the fifth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1861 to 1864.
Stephenson was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire. After training at the New Hampshire Medical Institution and the Castleton Medical College, he moved to Terre Haute, Indiana. Active in Republican Party politics, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the post of Librarian of Congress, replacing John Silva Meehan. The historical record is unclear why a physician sought appointment to this post.
Stephenson spent most of his time serving as a Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, first with the 19th Indiana Regiment and later with the Army of the Potomac, participating in the Battles of Fitzhugh Crossing, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
His most significant act was appointing Ainsworth Rand Spofford as Chief Assistant Librarian. Spofford would later become Librarian himself and was responsible for the transition of the Library from Congressional resource to national institution.
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Thread: Putting the 'Do' into Karate-Do
4/11/2007 1:59pm, #1--
Putting the 'Do' into Karate-Do
For those of you who don't know, I've been at a crossroads in my MA training for a few months now. I was part of a group who left my previous Sensei (with whom I had trained for 5+ years). We intended to go it alone, but over the last few months, it's become clear that we lack the resources to do so, if we want to continue to study traditional Wado-Kai Karate.
To summarize a LOOOONG story, we now have an affiliation with a Sensei from our original style, but not our school. He came to train us yesterday.
We spoke a lot about training an art vs. sport, and what that means. He used the term 'Do' a few times. In my previous training, this was rarely if ever discussed.
My question to those who have some experience in this is: what is Do? I know it means 'The Way'. I've heard answers from 'Shut up and train' to some new agey, ki aligning crap.
Is Do simply applying the lessons learned in the dojo to real life? Or is it something else? Is it something you think about or does it just happen on it's own?Originally Posted by pauli
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Cutting through the more mystistfying bits "Do" means roughly the same thing as Yoga: a set of methods which is pursued in earnest will lead towards Self Realization.
When you read Matt Thornton discuss things like epiphanies from athletic activities or aliveness training as a kind of yoga that dispenses illusions and false-ego he's speaking of his Martial Arts path from the vantage point of a "Do."
Anyone who attempts to spin more then that to the concept of "Do" is likely peddling BS in the name of Spirituality. Avoid these people like the plague.
4/11/2007 2:54pm, #3--
Changing the suffix -jutsu for -do (or adding it like in the case of Karate) was one of the policies of the Dai Nihon Butokukai in the process of organizing the gendai (post-meiji restoration) martial arts and promoting the "bushido" in pre-war Japan.
Later, Draeger used the self realization (do) vs self preservation (jutsu) dichotomy and things started to go crazy.
Here is an iteresting article by D. Skoss.
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Here is an iteresting article by D. Skoss.
originally posted by Feryk
For those of you who don't know, I've been at a crossroads in my MA training for a few months now. I was part of a group who left my previous Sensei (with whom I had trained for 5+ years). We intended to go it alone
4/12/2007 3:50pm, #5--Originally Posted by jtkarate
Another long story, but in short, I lost faith in the Sensei. He's starting to like money too much, and trusts his own people way too little. The training was good, but he was starting to get more into other things than Karate.Originally Posted by pauli
Originally Posted by melvin_peebles
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Thanks for the article. It makes more sense than anything else I've read.Originally Posted by pauli
Originally Posted by melvin_peebles
4/12/2007 8:24pm, #7--
Wow, that was one impressive article.
Oh, and on my side my Judo Sensei opts to simplify ANY philosophical debate over the meaning of various things like "What does DO or JU REALLY mean???" as "Shuddup and train" or "C'mere as I show you my interpretation of DO with this O-guruma" in which case the speaker often finds that DO means D'OH! <-- Bad joke, I know. Forgiveness please.
And thus I always figured "Do" meant literally "do" as in don't think on it, just DO it. Take Judo and use it well and use Kano's teachings when and where applicable and stop sitting on your asses pretending to be Confucious. I personally like this description (tho' reading that article may have me rethinking it... until I get to Judo class :p )
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i was once told that "do" means wrecking people's **** for your own philosophical betterment.
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4/16/2007 5:06pm, #10--Originally Posted by pauli
If by "go around beating the ever-lovin' **** out of yourself and others so that you somehow gain a better understanding of the world for some random reason that only H2H combat brings" then you're thinking of "Osu" used by Kyokushin-kai. (Yes, I know Osu is also Jap punk slang for wassup)


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Today's hearing is focused on the Congressional Budget Office's recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. In its report CBO projects that if no changes are made to current policies, deficits over the next decade will total $9.4 trillion. This is up from $7.6 trillion from your estimate last year. The national debt will rise to over $29 trillion by 2026, from it's current too high $19 trillion – and average economic growth over the next ten years will be a disappointing 2.1 percent – a full one-third lower than the historical average.
For individuals, families and businesses, this slow growth and skyrocketing debt will mean less opportunity, fewer jobs and smaller paychecks, and a nation increasingly vulnerable to national security threats both at home and abroad.
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If you look at interest payments on the debt – just what we will spend to service the debt at the end of the decade – we are talking nearly $1 trillion dollars. That's more than we will spend on defense, on education, Medicaid, transportation infrastructure. Pick a priority. Money spent on paying this interest will crowd out spending on other important priorities for Americans. Buying a car, paying the rent, buying a house, starting/expanding a business, sending a kid to college – all of them made more difficult because of the level of debt their government continues to accumulate. By 2026, interest on our debt will be the third largest line-item in the federal budget – behind only Social Security and Medicare.
So how can we solve these challenges? I know many of our friends on the other side of the aisle – and particularly the president – think we ought to take more money from hardworking taxpayers.
But CBO projects that federal revenues are set to go up by $127 billion in fiscal year 2016 – a nearly four percent increase over last fiscal year. Revenue levels for 2016 are slated to be 18.3 percent of our gross domestic product and remain around 18 percent over the decade to come – which is well above the historical average. The government is now taking more money than ever in taxes from the American people.
My constituents know – and I suspect yours do too – that Uncle Sam does not need a raise. Washington needs to get its act together and stop spending at levels we cannot sustain. According to CBO, spending will reach 21.2 percent of GDP in 2016 and climb to 23.1 percent of the economy in 2026. Again, this will far exceed the historical average of 20.2 percent. That means more money taken from Americans and spent on things that crowd out – or decrease – the likelihood of folks to be able to do the things they want to do.
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Sadly, under the economic policies of President Obama, Americans have experienced the worst recovery in modern times. CBO has continued to downgrade its growth projections year after year, and in January, we learned that the U.S. economy grew at an anemic 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015. This is the dismal economic legacy the president is championing.
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Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE), is a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, with an annual turnover of INR 96 billion (2013-14). The third-largest tractor manufacturer in the world and the second largest in India by volumes, TAFE wields 25% market share of the Indian tractor industry with a sale of over 170,000 tractors (domestic and international) annually.
TAFE's partnership with AGCO Corporation and the Massey Ferguson brand for 53 years supports its three tractor brands of Massey Ferguson, TAFE and Eicher. TAFE exports tractors in partnership with AGCO and independently in over 75 countries including developed countries in Europe and the Americas.
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TAFE's Turkey plant manufactures a range of tractors for distribution in Turkey through AGCO's dealer network, whileanother facility at China caters to TAFE's ever growing global sourcing needs and value addition to its Indian and worldwide operations. TAFE acquired Eicher's tractors, gears and transmission components and engines business in 2005 through a wholly owned subsidiary, TAFE Motors and Tractors Limited (TMTL). With six tractor plants, an engines plant, two gears and transmission components plants, two engineering plastics units, two facilities for hydraulic pumps and cylinders and one batteries plant besides other facilities, TAFE employs over 2500 engineers apart from a number of specialists in other disciplines.
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LongHouse Plants Newsletter 2015
One of the many things you learn when growing plants and gardening is that you have to adapt. If the weather patterns change, which they always do from time to time, you may have to alter the types of plants you grow or how you grow them. If you have a heavy clay soil that is wet and poorly drained in Winter and but gets baked hard and cracks during Summer, you either have to invest time, money and energy to try to change the soil or choose plants that enjoy those conditions.
Politicians have changed the basis of assessment of chemicals from risk to hazard. Growers and gardeners now have to do without of a lot of chemical pesticides and fungicides. I am now using an Integrated Pest Management System. This is a range of natural products such as compost teas, plant invigorators and biological controls to protect plants from native and introduced pests and diseases. Any of these treatments in isolation rarely give effective control as it is not in the interest of a biological agent to completely wipe out their own food source. We have to learn how and when to use these products in a cost effective way, or change the types of plants we grow.
On a lighter note the specialist branch of botany known as Taxonomy that considers how plant families relate to one another and how to name them, have studied the large group of plants in the genus Aster and have separated out the North American Michaelmas daisies from the European star asters. So if you come across a "new" plant called Symphotrichum it will be a good old fashioned Michaelmas daisy, a New York or New England aster. We'll need longer labels!
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I have added two more varieties to my large collection of Agapanthus. 'Enigma' is a hardy evergreen with dense bicolour heads of white flowers with violet blue bases on stems up to 75cm tall in July-August. 'Sandringham' is an older cultivar raised by The Crown Estates Windsor, a hardy deciduous variety with heads of mid violet blue flowers on stems up to 75cm (30in) tall in summer. Both enjoy a sunny position in ordinary to well drained soil.
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Ajuga incisa 'Blue Enigma' is not what you usually expect from a bugle, being deciduous. This charming woodlander from Japan is a hardy clump forming perennial with spikes of dark blue flowers in Spring on stems 30-40cm (12-16in) tall above green serrated leaves. For ordinary to moist soil in sun to light shade it is a good nectar plant for bees. Anemone sylvestris is another woodlander but from central and western Europe where it grows in meadows and dry deciduous woodland. This Snowdrop windflower is a hardy deciduous spreading perennial with charming solitary white flowers on top of stems 30-45cm (12-18in) tall in April-May, sometimes re-blooming later.
Aquilegias or granny bonnets are popular cottage garden perennials, and I always grow several varieties. New to me this year is 'Golden Guiness' a yellow leaved strain with dark purple blue and white short spurred flowers in Spring. I am looking forward to seeing the flowers. As some of you may know I love Michaelmas daisies/Asters. I am building up a collection of Italian Star Asters which I am planting out with ornamental grasses. Aster amellus 'Breslau' has bright violet blue daisy like flowers from late summer to autumn reaching 50cm (20in) tall.
The dwarf carline or silver thistle is from alpine areas of central and southern Europe. In the Basque Region it is traditionally a sign of good fortune. Carlina acaulis subspecies simplex is a hardy rosette forming perennial with spiny silvery green leaves and large dramatic shiny grey-white daisy flowers on stems up to 50cm (20in) tall. These will open on dry days from July to September. Centaureas, pretty members of the daisy family are another of my favourite plants. The blue-bottle or mountain bluet Centaurea montana is widely grown in gardens although the named forms are less well known. I hope to have successfully propagated and grown on 'Alba' with white flowers, 'Carnea' light clear pink and 'Violetta' violet purple. Ready this Spring are a few 'Jordy' a hybrid between C. montana and C. jacea with grey green leaves and feathery deep maroon flowers reaching 45cm (18in) tall from May onwards if deadheaded. There should also be a few C. simplicaulis a beautiful small evergreen mound forming perennial with grey green pinnate leaves topped by silvery pink flowers up to 20cm (9in) tall in late Spring and early Summer. It likes a sunny well drained position. Another exceptionally good thistle like plant is Cirsium rivale and this year I have a new form called 'Trevor's Blue Wonder'. It is definitely not blue. Not even close! It is red but with a slight blue cast to it which makes it different to the deep wine red form 'Atropurpurea' that I also sell. All of the above are very good flowers for bees and other insects.
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There are more daylilies – Hemerocallis – which are very good on heavy clays. 'Berlin Red' has large bright red flowers with yellow throats. 'Cherry Valentine' rose pink flowers with a cherry red eye zone and a green throat. 'Chicago Sunrise' large light orange yellow flowers while 'Gentle Shepherd' large near white flowers with a yellow-green throat. 'Mauna Loa'has large amber gold flowers with a light green throat. 'Pony'has large fragrant lavender and cream bicolour flowers with a green throat and 'Princeton Silky'has large fragrant pink flowers with a green throat. All these are easy to grow clump forming reliable summer flowering perennials and are happy in clay soils. There are over 60 varieties to pick from this Spring!
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I have a good range of hardy Geraniums and I will be adding a couple more varieties later on in the season. New to me and under copyright is Geranium 'Rosetta'. I have never grown it before, I am told it is similar to the award winning G. 'Rozanne' having a similar growth habit and flowering period (May-September) but being a lovely rose pink.
Hostas are popular shade tolerant perennials with wonderful large sculptural coloured and variegated leaves. There are over 20 varieties for this season with 3 new to me. These are 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd', large cupped heavily textured blue-green leaves, 'Blue Ivory', medium sized blue leaves with wide creamy white margins in the Spring and 'Minuteman' medium dark green leaves and wide white margins.
|Hosta 'Blue Ivory'
There will be several different Iris sibirica varieties for sale this year propagated from my large and expanding collection. 'Baby Sister' elegant sky blue flowers but only 30cm tall, 'Golden Edge' large ruffled mid blue flowers with a golden edge 80cm tall, 'Imperial Velvet' rich magenta flowers 80cm tall, 'Perry's Pygmy' soft royal blue flowers with yellow & white 60cm tall, 'Rikugi-sakura' soft lavender pink and copper flowers 70cm tall, 'Vi Luihn' dark purple blue 70-80cm, 'Viel Schnee' white flowers 85cm tall and 'Weisse Etagen' clean white flowers 80cm tall.
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|'Golden Edge'
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New to the red hot poker range, but not available until later in the year, will be the late flowering dwarf variety 'Little Maid' with ivory white flowers opening from green buds on stems only 60cm tall. The award winning 'Moonstone' AGM has large cream poker flowers opening from toffee coloured buds in mid-late summer 80cm tall. The copyright protected (PBR) variety 'Papaya Popsicle', which I trialled last summer and some of you may have already seen, has a short compact habit, only 60 cm tall with lots of typical poker shaped red and yellow flowers in late summer.
|'Little Maid'
|Papaya Popsicle'
I am pleased to be able to offer a few Itoh or intersectional Paeonies. These are a cross between woody tree peonies and herbaceous varieties. The flowers and foliage often resemble tree peonies. They rarely need staking, have good disease resistance & often display hybrid vigour. 'Callies Memory' has very large semi-double creamy apricot flowers with reddish centres up to 23cm (9in). 'Cora Louise'has very large semi-double mauve-pink flowers with a dark lavender pink centre up to 23cm (9in) across. They flower in May-June.
I love different forms of Persicaria amplexicaulis. They are tough herbaceous perennials that are happy in heavy clay soils, form domes of dense foliage smothering out weeds and are covered in short spikes of normally red flowers from June to November. They are loved by bees and other insects. 'Blotau' also known as Taurus is a good older variety with deep ruby red flowers reaching about 90cm (3ft) tall, 'Dikke Floskes' is a little bit darker in colour but the flower spikes are fatter, 'Inverleith' from Edinburgh Botanic Garden and introduced by Alan Bloom is a shorter variety around 60cm (2ft) tall and a lighter purple hued red.
|'Dikke Floskes'
Another big collection for me are my Phlox paniculata which are superb plants. I planted out a stock bed last summer with nearly 40 varieties and I still have to find a new home for another 50. I have over 30 distinct varieties for you this Spring. New additions include Coral Flame 'Barsixtytwo' PBR with clusters of scented coral red flowers on short stems up to 45cm (18in) tall, 'Miss Holland' white flowers with red eyes 75cm (30in) tall. 'Miss Kelly' large perfumed pale violet flowers with a white eye 1m tall, 'Miss Universe' pure white 1m tall and 'Uspekh' AGM dense heads of rich purple flowers with small white eyes 60cm (2ft) tall. These are easy to grow cottage garden perennials that can flower from mid July to September.
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|'Miss Kelly'
|'Miss Universe'
I planted out my collection of Salvia nemerosa, S. x sylvestris and S x superba forms last year and hope to propagate some different forms for Summer sales this year. Please ask if you are interested. Scabiosa 'Blue Butterfly', also known as Irish Perpetual is a really pretty long flowering perennial. So far, as the winter has been mild, it has been in flower constantly since last Spring and has kept its foliage. The pretty pale blue pincushion flowers are on top of stems 45-60cm tall.
|Scabiosa 'Blue Butterfly'
I have some different climbers that will be ready for sale around May. Rosa 'Aimée Vibert' is an old noisette repeat flowering variety with highly fragrant small double white flower from red tinted buds in Summer. 'Alchymist' can be grown as a shrub or short climber, it has fragrant large full double apricot yellow flowers tinted pink in Summer. Vigorous repeat flowering Hybrid Tea 'Compassion' makes a return to my range with fragrant apricot pink blooms. 'Étoile de Hollande' is another very old variety with highly fragrant large semi-double dark velvety crimson blooms in summer, repeating. 'Paul's Lemon Pillar' is a hybrid tea rose with fragrant large clear lemon/white flowers throughout the Summer. A strong, vigorous grower it is good for a north wall. 'Paul's Scarlet Climber' has honey scented large sprays of double scarlet red flowers throughout Summer. It has glossy foliage, pliable stems and also happy planted by a north wall or fence.
|'Paul's Lemon Pillar'
|Paul's Scarlet Climber'
New bush roses for this year include 'Champagne Moment' which has large double lightly scented pale peachy apricot blooms that fade to cream. 'Golden Wedding' with large double golden yellow fragrant flowers and glossy green leaves. 'Valentine Heart' has fragrant full double soft pink flowers and frilly petals tinged with lilac. All three are repeat flowering floribunda roses.
|'Champagne Moment'
|'Golden Wedding'
Trees and Shrubs
I am delighted to have for sale some paperbark maple/Acer griseum this Spring. This beautiful, desirable slow growing deciduous small tree has trifoliate green leaves & superb red & scarlet autumn foliage. The trunk & main branches develop decorative peeling & flaking cinnamon coloured bark.
|Acer griseum
I planted out Anisodontea 'Large Magenta' in a stock bed last year to see what I thought of it. This African mallow is a reasonably hardy compact upright shrub with bright magenta hibiscus like flowers from Spring-late Autumn. The cuttings are rooted and I should have some ready by early Summer.
I have some new Camellias this year including C. japonica 'Blood Of China' which has large loose paeony form rich salmon red flowers. C. japonica 'San Dimas' with large semi-double rich red flowers and yellow stamens – absolutely gorgeous. I love the scent of North American woodland sweet pepper bush Clethra alnifolia and will have a nice batch of 'Sixteen Candles' ready this Summer. This compact hardy deciduous shrub has sweetly perfumed creamy white flower spikes in late summer.
|Camellia japonica 'San Dimas'
I like brooms and feel that they have become neglected as good value garden shrubs, so I intend to start offering more varieties. Although technically deciduous shrubs, the stems remain green giving all year round interest when not in flower. Cytisus 'Apricot Gem' has masses of small golden apricot pea flowers in Spring. If you have room try the summer flowering Spanish broom Spartium junceum which can get 2.5-3 m tall but is smothered in large scented bright yellow pea flowers in Summer.
|Cytisus 'Apricot Gem'
|Spartium junceum
Three Hydrangeas new to me are H. macrophylla 'King George' a deep pink mophead, H. m. 'Merveille Sanguine' a very deep intense red to plum purple mophead, and H. serrata 'Diadem' AGM a pale pink lacecap for a shadier position. Their blooms will be tones of blue on an acid soil. I do have a weakness for collecting and growing different forms of Christmas Box or Sarcococca. These shade & drought tolerant winter flowering hardy evergreen shrubs have a heady perfume for weeks in late winter to spring. S.hookeriana 'Winter Gem' AGM is a copyright protected variety which is the result of deliberate cross between S. hookeriana var digyna 'Purple Stem' and S. hookeriana var humilis. and combines the best attributes of both parents to give an award winning plant.
|Hydrangea macrophylla 'Merveille Sanguine'
|Sarcococca hookeriana 'Winter Gem'
Sophora davidii is a medium sized deciduous shrub from China with fine pinnate leaves and small blue and white pea flowers in May-June. It will form a shrub about 2.5-3m tall and likes poor well drained soils in sun or semi shade. Sophora molloyi 'Dragon's Gold' comes from New Zealand where it is known as kowhai and is the national flower. This is an evergreen hardy shrub normally 2-3m tall but can eventually reach 5-6m. It has pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers 3cm long on old wood during the Winter. Mine is planted in a sunny position against a wall at the back of the house, exposed to cold winds and has taken -14C without any damage. It can be grown in a large pot. This form was selected by Terry Hatch of Joy Plants in New Zealand.
|Sophora davidii
|S. molloyi 'Dragon's Gold'
I used to grow Styrax japonica at my first nursery & have been meaning to grow it again for some time, so here it is! The Japanese Snowbell Tree is a hardy deciduous medium sized tree eventually reaching 8-12 m tall. It has small open bell shaped white flowers hanging from spreading branches during Summer and soft yellow and orange toned Autumn foliage.
Ulmusx hollandica 'Dampieri Aurea' is a hardy small deciduous Elm tree of upright conical habit with bright golden yellow leaves eventually reaching 4.5-7m tall. Resistant to Dutch elm disease & tolerant of air pollution & salt wind, this is an easy to grow tree good for screening work and ideal for a small garden.
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One of the many joys of living in Florida: trapped in your own home surrounded by snakes and alligators.
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sickofpolitics 2012/08/29 02:25:19Comment as you wish.+4Live here too, joys of living in paradise. The water will recede before they label your property waterfront and increase your property taxes. Stay safe, carry a shot gun to kill those pesky critters.
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- RobHom 2012/08/30 00:53:54Comment as you wish.Meh.....geez, I get so tired of these whiny carpetbaggers....they move down here, want to have waterfront property....but golly jeepers....don't let the critters near them....
Afterall, what kind of moron lives with dikes in their backyard?? Oooops, guess that covers all of New Orleans.....
- Fran-Halen 2012/08/29 15:15:43Comment as you wish.I lived a year in Tampa....they can have Fla.
- rknothead 2012/08/29 12:37:52Comment as you wish.You put up with that too live in Florida, while I put up with winter snow storms to live in northern Michigan...but in the end, it's where we want to be that counts.
- nbarton2 2012/08/29 06:36:08Comment as you wish.disturbing glad I moved from the south sometimes don't miss the hurricanes
- Elleryqueen 2012/08/29 03:20:29Comment as you wish.Born and raised there. Moved away for good in 1984 with no intent of ever moving back. Nice to visit, but as far as I am concerned that's the only reason for being in Florida. Nothing against Floridians. Most are great people just like anyplace else. I just got tired of three climates, hot, hotter and hottest with lots of humidity.
- les_gvt 2012/08/29 02:56:41Comment as you wish.Democrat Party headquarters
- mustangluver 2012/08/29 02:42:43Comment as you wish.Yes, instead of constantly building and rebuilding and widening roads, they need to make drainage a lot better. We have canals and swails that are now lakes. We are right in the middle of a wildlife preserve so floods bring lots of snakes and gators.
- firebird 2012/08/29 02:42:09
- Dagon 2012/08/29 02:30:02
- sglmom 2012/08/29 02:26:42Comment as you wish.+3Ah .. yes ..
know those 'joys' well indeed ..
between the gators, coral snakes, various/sundry poison spiders .. and then there's the plants that are painful to encounter (or have their own poisons) ..
the windstorms that toss mature trees like matchsticks ..
the thunderstorms ..
(and let's not forget the swarms of yellow jackets, wasps .. or the (for example) africanized bees)
just SO much 'fun' ..
(tongue in cheek)
Part and parcel of life in the Sunshine State ..
(As I type .. the rain/wind is clearly heard on my roof)
- sickofpolitics 2012/08/29 02:25:19
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The Kabookie Ski might be the most versatile in Blizzard's lightweight lineup, making it perfect for the backcountry and groomers alike. A rockered tip and tail give this mid-fat ski plenty of flotation in pow and crud, while the strong Flipcore 3D wood core keeps it stable down speedy descents. Comprised of poplar, bamboo, and ISO-wood, the Kabookie's core keeps the weight down and still provides a snappy response while turning. Despite its mid-fat 98-millimeter waist, the Kabookie has a surprising turn radius thanks to the classic camber underfoot and sandwich sidewall construction for powerful edging. So feel free to take the Kabookie anywhere on the mountain, because it'll handle it all.
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This 64-acre reservoir is a popular swimming, nonmotorized boating, and fishing area. The park is 123 acres in size at an elevation of 3,199 feet. The site offers flush and vault toilets, disabled fishing pier, showers, change rooms, picnic tables, trash cans, drinking water and a 1.4 mile hiking/nature trail.
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Also Trys Klubas means 'Three Clubs' in Lithuanian.
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Except in some diners and French restaurants, liver and onions has gone the way of Salisbury steak or chili mac. But in this era of retro, you know some smart-ass is going to come up with Salisbury squab steak or habanera chili mac ziti. Hector's gives us chicken-fried chicken livers and caramelized cipolline onions. This trio of crispy chicken livers with onions is not grand because it merges exotic flavors from Taipei with seasonal heirloom beetle nits from Crandall. It's grand because it combines an old dish with an old frying technique in a new dress that still reeks of Southern charm (they throw blackstrap molasses in there, too). Three coated and fried livers rest near a pool of thick molasses vinaigrette, where droopy onions swim, hemming and hawing their sweetness right at the base of the liver crust. Snare a few sprouts with your forkful of organ and onion to broaden the dimension with a slight aromatic pungency. Where can you go from here? Well, there's always the gizzards.
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Arizona Cardinals Patrick Peterson announced as NFC Pro Bowler
Last season, Arizona Cardinals cornerback made the Pro Bowl as a punt returner.
A nice achievement for a rookie, he said he hoped to one day make it back because of his skills covering wide receivers.
Peterson's done exactly that.
It was announced Wednesday that the second-year pro was selected to represent the NFC in the 2013 Pro Bowl.
With one game left to play, Peterson has tallied seven interceptions to go along with 53 tackles. He's been consistently matched up with some of the NFL's best receivers, and at one point had picked off a pass in four consecutive games.
An excited Peterson tweeted his reaction to the news on Wednesday night.
Peterson is the only Arizona player to be selected to the Pro Bowl, while both linebacker Daryl Washington and receiver Larry Fitzgerald have been selected as alternates.
The entirety of the Pro Bowl rosters can be seen here.
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I agree with Allan Levine's contention that the U.S. is naive for complaining about Chinese cyber-espionage (Spy vs. spy, May 23).
The U.S. is being caught at its own game and is now hoisted on its own petard. It lamely attempts to distinguish its actions from those of others by contending its intelligence program is focused on national security.
This may very well be the case, but it won't convince anyone it is ignoring economic and commercial aspects of its massive intelligence sweep of cyberspace.
The revelation the U.S. was gathering covert intelligence on its allies, enemies and even its own citizens set the stage for this type of activity by others. Consequently, it is hypocritical to be seeking indictment of others for what it is doing with impunity.


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Ghyll's Juniors completed a successful year by winning the Pendle Summer League.
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Ghyll held the Nelson Trophy on Sunday and the competition was won by Shaun Hills with 73-9=64. The Division One winner was Trevor Kegg with 74-6=68 while Division Two saw a victory for junior Kyle Horn with 85-14=71 The Division Three honours went to Anthony Foulger with 90-18=72.
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Meaning To Do Something About It
It's a matter of conjecture whether Stilton wants more complaints to the GMC. Last year, he was all for it. The GMC's State of the Profession report for 2014, published on 8th October 2014, noted 'regulators…are seeing a rise in complaints…much easier to raise a complaint. This is all to be welcomed…'. The ellipses cover many words but the meaning is unaltered. By 11th February 2015, only four months later, writing in BMJ Careers, he said 'We do not "welcome" the huge increase in complaints'. It is not clear why "welcome" is in quotes but that aside the two positions seem rather at odds with each other. Perhaps they have the heating at GMC Towers set rather high, and Stilton is starting to overheat. Or maybe it's complaint blowback, be careful what you ask for. Welcoming complaints, the GMC got more than it bargained for.
Yes We Can
The wonderfully uplifting and generally obstetrically sound BBC series Call the Midwife has got Dr No worried. Playing catch up on the current series, he worries about the way the plots are getting more extreme, as if the writers, lacking the discipline of Jennifer Worth's now expended memoirs, have decided to go commando. We've already had outbreaks of diphtheria, syphilis and rats: will bubonic plague be next? Or will it be World War Three? Dr Turner is burning out and booze has crept up on Trixie: when will the sponge-o-cidal Sister Monica Joan's magic mushroom habit be exposed? Is unflappable Sister Julienne unflappable because she smokes cheroots behind the bicycle shed? Having put her back in a nurse's uniform, will Dr Turner's wife Shelagh now be transformed, Dennis Potter style, into a Singing Receptionist, complete with leather crop and corset? Will Dr Turner's stress trigger a bout of crippling psoriasis? Such are the possible alarming developments on which Dr No frets.
Making Ministers Happy
Just as forecasters talk of a 'fog situation' or a 'snow event', so do medical educators now talk of the 'shape of training'. Why the accessory words are needed is beyond Dr No, but then again he is not all that surprised because the recent Shape of Training Review – hashtag ShoT or in this parish bashtag ROT – was led by a certain eminence situation, one Prof Sir David Greenaway, a distinguished looking egg-head and leading light from the science that makes astrology look good. The #ShoT review's publication situation was treated by and large as a no news situation – maybe being #ShoT didn't help - though for some reason the BBC did cover it, and of course our dear friend the Ferret Fancier has been poking holes in the review for some time. One of the Ferret Fancier's notable achievements has been, on appeal, to get an order for the release of certain GMC minutes of #ShoT/DoH meetings, which the GMC had previously determined should most definitely remain as an ongoing non-situation.
The Eichmann Defence
In a curious move, because to many it will suggest the GMC perceives itself to be on the back foot, Stilton yesterday had published in Pulse an article in which he attempts to portray the GMC as a listening organisation which 'accepts there is a lot more to do'. Or, to put it another way, on the matter of its regulatory functions, the Council accepts this is 'an area where more can be done'. Pulse's standfirst boldly promises an explanation of 'how the body is 'improving fitness-to-practise regulations' - this being, after all, and as the Council accepts, 'an area where more can be done' - but in the body the article fails to keep its promise. Instead, Stilton delivers a peevish nit-picking lawyerly rebuff to two recent articles, and a bizarre waffle on why GMC punishments are not punishments. These, however, are diversions. The real message, the payload, part-hidden as it is, is much darker. It is that age old defence against charges of involvement in state sponsored evil that has become known, since the Nuremberg trials, as the Eichmann Defence: 'only following orders'.
Turkey Farm
Once upon a time there was a turkey farm that grew so large that no one had ever seen one so vast. There were so many turkeys that, over time, the turkeys began to specialise in what they did. There were turkey-surgeons with white plumage, who operated on other turkeys. There were turkey-physicians, with fancy black and white plumage not unlike a human frock coat, who were called in when no one knew what to do. The turkey-physicians didn't know what to do either, but were very good at making it look as if they did, which made everyone feel better. There were turkey-apothecaries, always busy in their brown aprons, handing out this pill and that potion. Over time, the turkey-apothecaries renamed themselves turkey-GPs, which made them feel more important, but no one else was fooled, and the turkey-GPs carried on doing what the turkey-apothecaries had always done, the over-worked under-appreciated back bone of Turkey Farm. There were even mad turkeys, as they were affectionately known, whose plumage tended to look as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards, whose job it was to lock up deranged turkeys. No one liked locking up fellow turkeys, but sometimes it had to be done, and it was the mad turkeys who did it.
Lies Damned Lies and the GMC
Any lingering hope that Parliament's Health Committee could hold the GMC to account at its annual accountability hearing earlier this week over doctor suicides while under GMC FtP investigation has now disappeared as sand in the desert. Though delayed for a few days, the transcript of the hearing is now available online. It makes grim and depressing reading. On the matter of FtP doctor suicides, the Chair of the committee – a doctor – came to the proceedings with a regrettably light grasp, if that is not too strong a term, on the facts. Stilton, the GMC pongo who answered the questions on these deaths, turned out to have an even lighter grasp. Indeed, so poor were these grasps that Dr No has no hesitation in saying that they were, and are, an insult to democratic process.
A Crack at The Afghan, Sir!
A medical school somewhere in England. A panel has assembled to interview prospective candidates. In the centre is Professor Sir Turpentine Stephenson, newly appointed Chair of the GMC. On the left sits Stilton, Chief Executive Pongo for the time being of the GMC; on the right sits His Honour David Fake-Pearl, Chair of the Medical Students Tribunal Service. Fake-Pearl appears to be reading a catalogue of some sort, possibly of spring bulbs. Stilton repeatedly inspects his finger nails. Stephenson gets out a fountain pen labelled 'MI6 100% nitric acid, emergency use only' and twirls it in his fingers. Bored observers sit behind the panel.
A bell rings, the panelled door opens to reveal a young lad standing on the threshold. The lad has wing-nut ears.
Developing Magna Carta Medicorum
There are those who want to torpedo the GMC using the Human Rights Act, or even the European Courts, but it must be remembered that such processes are always time-consuming, often futile, and inconveniently prone to blowback, like trying to clear a blocked drain with a toothpick. Instead, we have Magna Carta. As Lord Bagg continues to develop his history of the 1215 Charter, Dr No has been working on Magna Carta Medicorum, a present day Charter to ensure fair treatment of all doctors facing and under professional disciplinary regulation.
Magna Carta Medicorum
2015, as the wonderful Lord Bagg reminded us this morning, is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. The speech of the once melodious Melvyn is maturing into the voice of the English Establshmnt, in which later vowls are largely discardd, and each utternce is gaspd, as f'twere speakers last, though never is. Over those 800 years since the first Magna Carta, the Gods of ye mystries have placed the Charter firmly in the mythical sphere, and lodged it anywhere between the Ye Olde Scroll of Ye Commone Law, to a scrap of parchment that was binned shortly after it was penned. Somewhere in the middle ground it is seen, primarily, as the first declaration in English history that the King be subject to the same laws as his people, and that furthermore the laws must be both just, ordered and decided by one's peers. It was a momentous change.
UKIP If You Want To…
Doing his best to out-kip UKIP, a British surgeon has come under fire for blowing the wrong sort of raspberries in that esteemed organ of Middle England thought – if that's not too rich a word – known to its readers as The Daily Mail, and by various other non-printable names by its non-readers. The gist of ex-Prof – his professorship 'expired', however that happens, though the Mail continues to provide its man with a fictitious chair - Joseph Meirion Thomas's jam is that the time has come to round up health tourists, nice lady doctors and GPs and shoo them back from whence they came, preparatory-like to re-staffing the health service with proper male hospital doctors.