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The traditions that indicate he is the Successor of the Successor of (Imam) Abū l-Ḥasan and the son of (Imam) Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan, peace be on them
Comprised of 107 traditions
560. Al-Kāfī1: `Alī b. Muḥammad, from the one whom he mentioned, from Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-`Alawī, from Dāwūd b. al-Qāsim who said:
I heard Imam Abū l-Ḥasan, peace be on him, say, "My successor will be al-Ḥasan. What will be your condition regarding the successor of my successor?" I enquired, "May I be sacrificed for you! Why?" He replied, "Because you cannot see him and you are not allowed to mention his name." I asked again, "Then how will we mention him?" He replied, "Say: The proof from the family of Muḥammad (al-ḥujja min āl Muḥammad), peace be on them."
561. Kamāl al-dīn2: Narrated to us Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-`Aṭṭār, may Allah be satisfied with him, from Sa`d b. `Abd-Allah, from Mūsā b. Ja`far b. Wahb al-Baghdadi, from (Imam) Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. `Alī, peace be on him, who said:
[I am seeing the time] that you are disputing about my successor after me. Surely, the one who acknowledges the Imams after the Messenger of Allah, Allah's blessings be on him and his family, but denies my son, is like he who acknowledges all the Prophets of Allah and His Messengers but denies the prophethood of the Messenger of Allah, Allah's blessings be upon him and his family.
He who denies the Messenger of Allah, Allah's blessings be on him and his family, is like he who denies all the Prophets of Allah; because the obedience of the last of us is like the obedience of the first of us and the denier of the last of us is like the denier of the first of us. My son will surely have an occultation in which the people will become doubtful except the ones whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic be He, has protected.
562. Kamāl al-dīn3: Narrated to us Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, may Allah be satisfied with him, from Abū `Alī b. Hammām, from Muḥammad b. Uthmān al-`Amrī, may Allah sanctify his soul, from his father who said:
Imam Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. `Alī, peace be on him, was questioned—while I was there—about a tradition narrated from his forefathers, peace be on them, that: The earth cannot be empty of Allah's Proof (ḥujja) upon His creatures until the Day of Judgment and that he who dies without knowing the Imam of his time, has died the death of ignorance (al-jāhiliyya). The (Imam) replied, "Surely, this tradition is true just as daylight which is true."
He was asked, "O Son of Allah's Messenger! Who is the Proof and Imam after you?" He replied, "My son Muḥammad. He is the Imam and the Proof after me. Whoever dies without knowing him, will die the death of ignorance. Know that he will have an occultation in which the ignorant will be baffled, the skeptics will perish, and those who determine the time of his appearance will be liars. Then, he will emerge; as if I am seeing white flags waving over his head in the city of Najaf, near Kūfa."
563. Yanābī` al-mawadda4: In al-Manāqib from Wāthila b. al-Asqa` b. Qarkhāb, from Jābir b. `Abd-Allah al-Anṣārī (in a tradition wherein he has mentioned the coming of Jandal b. Junādat b. Jubair—the Jew—to the Messenger of Allah, and him believing in Allah and His Messenger and the questions he asked the Messenger of Allah, Allah's blessings be on him and his family, and the answers he gave):
Jandal said, "Last night, I dreamt of Moses, son of `Imrān, peace be on him, who said, 'O Jandal! Accept Islam at the hands of Muḥammad, the seal of the prophets and fasten to the heirs after him.' I said, 'I accepted Islam, all praise is for Allah. I have accepted Islam and He has guided me through you.'" Jandal continued, "O Messenger of Allah! Inform me of the heirs after you so that I can fasten to them." He replied, "My successors are twelve."
Jandal said, "This is exactly what we saw in the Torah. O Messenger of Allah! Name them for me." He said, "The first of them is `Alī who is the master of the heirs and the father of the Imams. Then, his two sons, al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn. Fasten to them and do not allow the ignorance of the ignorant to deceive you. When `Alī b. al-Ḥusayn—the Ornament of Worshippers (Zain al-`Ābidīn)—is born, Allah will bring your life to an end. Your last provision from this world will be some milk that you will drink." Jandal replied, "We found in the Torah and in the books of the prophets, peace be upon them, (the names of) Īlīa, Shabbar, and Shabīr. These are the names of `Alī, al-Ḥasan, and al-Ḥusayn. Who are [the heirs] after al-Ḥusayn and what are their names?"
He said, "When the time of al-Ḥusayn comes to an end, the Imam will be his son `Alī. He will have the title Zain al-`Ābidīn. After him will be his son, Muḥammad, who will bear the title of al-Bāqir (the Splitter), followed by his son, al-Ja`far, who will be called al-Ṣādiq (the Truthful). He will be followed by his son Mūsā, who will be addressed as al-Kāẓim (the Restrainer of Anger). After him will be his son al-Riḍā (the Satisfied) followed by his son Muḥammad who will be called al-Taqī (the Pious) and al-Zakī (the Pure). After him will be his son `Alī who will bear the titles of al-Naqī and al-Hādī (the guide) followed by his son al-Ḥasan who will be called al-`Askarī.
Then, his son Muḥammad, who will be called al-Mahdī, al-Qā'im, and al-Ḥujja. He will go in occultation then he will emerge. When he emerges, he will fill the earth with fairness and justice just as it will be filled with injustice and unfairness. Salvation is for those who have patience during his occultation. Salvation is for those who are steadfast on their love. They are those whom Allah has described in His Book and said, 'A guide for the pious; those who believe in the unseen.'5
He has also said, 'They are the party of Allah; surely the party of Allah are the victorious.'6 Jandal said, "All praise is for Allah Who has made me successful in knowing them." [Jandal] lived on until Imam `Alī b. al-Ḥusayn was born. He went to Ṭā'if where he fell ill. He drank some milk and said, "The Messenger of Allah, Allah's blessings be upon him and his family, informed me that my last provision in this world would be a drink of milk." He then passed away and was buried at Ṭā'if in a place known as al-Kūzāra.
564. Kamāl al-dīn7: Narrated to us `Alī b. `Abd-Allah al-Warrāq, from Sa`d b. `Abd-Allah, from Aḥmad b. Isḥāq b. Sa`d al-Ash`arī who said:
I went to see (Imam) Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. `Alī, peace be on him, with the intention of asking him about his successor. Before I could ask he said, "O Aḥmad b. Isḥāq! Surely Allah, Blessed and High be He, has not left the earth empty of His Proof upon His creatures ever since He created Adam, peace be on him, and [He will not leave it empty of a proof] until the Hour is established. Through him, He repels the calamities from the inhabitants of the earth, through him He causes the rains to fall, and through him He brings out the blessings of the earth."
I asked him, "O Son of Allah's Messenger! Who is the Imam and the Caliph after you?" [On hearing this], the Imam stood up quickly and went inside the house. He returned, while on his shoulder was a boy whose face was [shining] like the full moon, and whose age was about three years. He said, "O Aḥmad b. Isḥāq! Was it not for your reverence before Allah, Mighty and Majestic be He, and his proofs, I would not have shown my son to you. His name and epithet are the same as that of the Messenger of Allah, Allah's blessings be on him and his family. He is the one who will fill the earth with fairness and justice just as it will be filled with injustice and unfairness. His example in this nation is like that of Khiḍr, peace be on him; and his example is like that of Dhū l-Qarnain.
By Allah! He will certainly go in an occultation in which no one will be saved from destruction except for those whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic be He, has made steadfast in the belief of his Imamate and made them successful in praying for the hastening of his relief (bi-ta`jīl farajih)." I asked, "O Master! Is there a sign by which my heart will be assured?" Suddenly the young boy spoke in fluent Arabic: "I am the remnant of Allah on His earth and the one who will take revenge on His enemies. Don't seek further evidence after you have witnessed with your eyes, O Aḥmad b. Isḥāq."
I came out happily and gleefully. The next day I returned to him and said, "O Son of Allah's Messenger! Indeed, I have become greatly joyful because of the great favor you bestowed upon me. What is the custom in him from Khiḍr and Dhū l-Qarnain?" He replied, "Prolonged occultation, O Aḥmad." I asked, "O Son of Allah's Messenger! Will his occultation really be prolonged?"
He replied, "Yes, by my Lord! His occultation will be prolonged to such an extent that most of those who believe in this affair will reject it. No one will remain [on this affair] except those from whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic be He, has taken the covenant of our Guardianship, written belief in their heart, and assisted them with a Spirit from Himself. O Aḥmad b. Isḥāq! This is an affair from the affairs of Allah, a secret from His secrets, and a concealed [news] from His concealed [news]. Take what I have given you and conceal it. Be grateful and tomorrow, you will be with us in the highest positions (`illīyīn)."
565. Tārīkh mawālīd Ahl al-Bait (by ibn al-Khashshāb)8: Narrated to us Ṣadaqat b. Mūsā, from his father, from (Imam) al-Riḍā, peace be on him, that, "The Righteous Successor (al-khalaf al-ṣāliḥ) is the son of Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. `Alī. He is the Master of the Time and he is the Mahdī."
566. Al-Kāfī9: `Alī b. Muḥammad, from Muḥammad b. `Alī b. Bilāl: "A messenger from (Imam) Abū Muḥammad, peace be on him, came to me—two years before he passed away—to inform me about his successor after him; then, again, a messenger came to me three days before his death to inform me about his successor after him."
567. Al-Kharā'ij10: `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim, from his father, from `Īsā b. Masīḥ who said: "(Imam) al-Ḥasan al-`Askarī, peace be on him, came to see us while we were imprisoned—and I was aware of his position [of Imamate]. He said to me, 'You are sixty-five years one month and two days old.' I had a prayer book with me in which my birth-date was recorded. I looked at it and it was exactly as he had said. He asked, 'Do you have a son?' I replied in the negative. He invoked Allah, 'O Allah! Grant him a son who will be a support for him. How good a support is a son!' Then, he recited:
Whoever has a support will achieve his rights
Humble is he who does not have any support
I asked, 'Do you have a son?' He replied, 'Yes, by Allah! Soon I will have a son who will fill the earth with fairness and justice, but as of now, no.'
The traditions with the following numbers also show the aforementioned concept: 242–308, 558, 559, 568–571, 608, 641, 786–807, 859, and 1230.


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Joe1775 - 1/5 - Phunt 50K, Elkton MD
JodisRuningForAutism - 1/12-1/13 - Goofy Challenge
Docket_Rocket - 1/12-1/13- Goofy Challenge
Didgeridroo - 1/13 - Disney Marathon- Goal: TBD
pmhill6 - 1/13- Disney Marathon
CompetitiveChik - 1/13 - Houston Chevron Marathon
Not too Swift - 1/21 - MLK Day 5K
Patti678 - 1/26 - PolarBear 5K
Docket_Rocket - 01/27 ING Marathon
PressingOn - 02/16 - Woolley Trail Run Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 02/17 - A1A Marathon
CompetitiveChik - 2/17 - Austin Half Marathon
Runnrchic - 02/24 - New Orleans Marathon - Goal: break 4:34
GregTR - 2/24 - Cowtown Marathon - Official 3:10 pacer
Patti678 - 3/2- Albany Marathon, Albany GA
CompetitiveChik - 3/2 - Woodlands Marathon
JodisRunningForAutism - 3/3 - Seaside Half Marathon Destin, FL
not too swift - 3/3 - Intown Ten (10K) Road Race
Docket_Rocket - 03/09 - 13.1 Miami Beach
Julia1971 - 3/16 - Rock n Roll USA
jojo61397 - 3/17 - Publix Atlanta Marathon - Goal: Sub-4:00 hour
Patti678 - 3/17 Publix Half Marathon, Atlanta GA
Not too Swift - 3/17- Georgia Marathon
athensguy - 3/17- Georgia Marathon
RVDowning - 3/17 - Shamrock Marathon
ImNotScott - 3/17 - Shamrock Marathon
Joe1775 - 3/23 - Haulin' in the Holler 50K
onemile - 3/30 - Egg Shell Shuffle Half Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 04/07 - Marathon Paris
joe1775 - 4/13 - Glacier Ridge Trail Ultra 50
Docket_Rocket - 04/14 - Key Biscayne Half Marathon
marco59 - 4/15 - Boston - goal: 3:05
markrice - 4/15 Boston - goal sub 3:15
GregTR - 4/15 - Boston
onemile - 04/20 - Carmel Marathon
Xrayman: 4/21: Lansing Marathon
GregTR - 4/21 - London Marathon
SIAR - 4/28 - Glass City Marathon
GoneFishing - 04/28 - Big Sur, CA
hilltopper91 - 05/05 - Broad Street Run
jackdyl11 - 5/5 - New Jersey Marathon
Joe1775 - 5/5 - Flying Pig Marathon, Cincinnati OH
Docket_Rocket - 05/07 - Puerto Rico Marathon
Patti678 - 5/11 - Gulf Coast Half Ironman, Panama City Beach, FL
RVDowning - 5/11Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon
SprinklesRunner - 5/19-Run for the Red Marathon
Docket_Rocket - 06/13/2012 - San Francisco Marathon
Patti678- 7/4- Peachtree Road Race 10K: goal: PR
Patti678- 8/23 & 24- Hood to Coast- 199 mile relay with 10 person team
SprinklesRunner - Date TBD - Wineglass Marathon
GregTR - 9/29 - Berlin Marathon
GregTR - 10/13 - Chicago Marathon
SprinklesRunner - 11/3 - NYC Marathon
GregTR - 11/3 - NYC Marathon
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it's the fight in the dog. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
My blog is JT Running DC. It's awesome.
6 mile recovery run on tap for me this morning. I need to take it very easy today since I'm racing a 10 miler tomorrow. It's a club run on a tough course and my legs are pretty tired from the 80 mile weeks, so I'm not expecting great things. I went to bed at a reasonable hour last night so I'm feeling pretty rested today. Oddly, my feet feel like they cramped up overnight, so I'm going to stretch those out a bit before heading out.
Finally PRed!!!
Julia: Have a nice recovery run today and a good race tomorrow!
SRD for me today.
PRs: 5K: 22:09, 10K:44:55, 15K: 1:10:35, HM: 1:42:49, M: 3:32:09
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Morning! I am so glad it's Friday! 5 recovery miles and weights tonight.
Julia, enjoy the recovery run.
swift, enjoy your rest day.
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Hello folks. 5 recovery for me today during my lunch hour. I ran 10 yesterday afternoon after work at a surprisingly quick pace. I give the credit for that to two things. The first is I had to pass through a pretty rough neighborhood to the hills I wanted to hit and the second is a pretty urgent call from nature the last 5 miles.
Julia - Thanks for getting us started again. Best of luck in your race tomorrow!
NTS - Enjoy your SRD. Based on your post from last night, it sounds like a scheduled rest day is right on time.
Damaris - Enjoy your recovery miles tonight. I'm glad the run last night went better than expected.
thinkin about glory days
Good Morning,
Julia, nice job on the high mileage. Good luck tomorrow.
NTS, enjoy your rest day.
Docket, have a nice recovery run tonight.
Scott, have a nice recovery run. Good job on the 10 yesterday - I guess a pit stop in the bad neighborhood was out of the question.
6 easy miles for me today with 2 x 8s hill sprints in the middle. Now I'm off to Dunkin Donuts with DS2 for our Friday morning breakfast tradition. He calls it our "secret breakfast" and won't talk about it in front of DS1 because he doesn't want him to feel bad.
5k: 21:36
Ack! Good Mornin Runnin Peeps.
Sorry it's been so long since my last check in. I've been runnin. Got my last long run done while up in dallas. it was a doozy too.
I'll be goin out after work for some miles. not sure how far but will likely be 8.
Dec 23 - Apocalypse Survivors Half Marathon
Jan 13 - Houston Chevron Marathon
Feb 17 - Austin Half Marathon
March 2 - Woodlands Marathon
Hey all!
Julia - Hope the run is nice and easy today and you can kill it tomorrow!
Swift - Saw your post yesterday. Good idea to maybe ease off some of those runs you've been running too fast. It's so easy to run them faster than easy pace.
Damaris - Glad you're feeling better. Enjoy Friday!
Scott - I suppose those two things would make one run faster though I suppose the 2nd one could always slow you to a dead stop if it got urgent enough.
Hill - Good job on the hill sprints. Sounds like a great workout. My dh and ds have bfst Saturday's. I think those dad/kid dates are really important.
CC - Glad you enjoyed Dallas. Enjoy the run today.
I've got a recovery swim scheduled today. I've loved swimming after long runs. It really feels good to stretch the whole body out and get the blood moving without pounding the legs. That said, my 20 miler was done without IT Band pain. I utilized walk breaks so perhaps that helped? What I think it didn't help with was my mental stability. It was hard to get running again after each walk. Plus, I dressed for cold and sunny weather but the sun heated things up more than I expected. I was sweating like it was summer. Then I ran into a headwind at miles 13-17. Not sure where it came from but it was enough to force me to tighten my hat and put my head down. Yuck. All that to say it was a tough run to finish but finish I did so I'm happy.
Hi to everyone yet to check in!
Have an easy 8 miler scheduled. I'll be heading out in a half hour or so. I just noticed that my last off day was Nov 28th, so I guess that means I have a "streak" going, though I don't really view it as such. The Hansons' schedule I'm following just has one SRD per week, on Wednesdays, but I do an easy 4 mile treadmill recovery run on those days. I think I do better by doing a little something instead of taking the day totally off. Plus, it helps bump my weekly mileage a bit.
Also, I notice that if one goes over to Reports on the left, one can see how many miles everyone has run, etc. But that Reports list is only for people in this User Group. Is there to see a "Master List" of miles for everyone on Running Ahead, or can it only be done by User Group?
I decided to take a URD instead of the recovery run today. I'm feeling a bit run down and I have my first 20 of this training tomorrow morning so I'm going to listen to my body and rest.
RV - Sounds like a streak, sure enough. Enjoy the 8. Hmmm ... my miles are gonna look pretty lousy since I only just started using the log and haven't transported anything over.
Scott - Resting today sounds like a good plan.
I managed to get 2500 yards at the pool today. That's the most I've done yet. Only 800 of it was a solid straight swim though. The rest was broken up into 100 and 200 yard intervals.
Where is everyone today? It's quiet on here.
Any SIAR sightings? Last I saw he was sick. I hope he's ok.
decided to RD for me. gonna get up early tomorrow for my run. I cant do that if I run tonight
CC - Have fun tomorrow morning. What time are ya getting up. If I recall, early to you is pretty darn early.
Scott - Hmm, not sure where SIAR is. Hope he's not still sick.
SIAR, you around? Hopefully you are playing golf or with family and not sick.
hill: nice run, love the "secret breakfast".
Pressing: yes, it is easy to run too fast on easy runs, especially since the legs felt good at the time (probably not far enough into training for the soreness to have built up) and I was running with groups, some of which were pretty fast (though I think some of the people also aren't putting in the mpw I am). I will just have to be more disciplined on those. Great job with your 20 in tough conditions. Getting started after a walk is always hard, but it can be good practice if you have to walk any water stops in the race. That's great that swimming after is so helpful
Scott: smart to take a RD.
Hope SIAR is feeling better.
I'm going to bed early tonight to get plenty of sleep before the group run tomorrow. It's only 8 this time, so I may run a bit faster on purpose if the legs feel good--think the RD today is doing some good. Maybe I'll put a little Tiger Balm on too.
'Night all.

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Works for Winds - Janacek, et al / Ensemble Wien-Berlin
1 CD / Camerata / 2007-05-01Works: Leos Janácek: Youth; Pavel Haas: Quintet for Winds, Op. 10; György Ligeti: Bagatelles (6) for Wind Quintet; Pieces (10) for Wind Quintet; György Kurtág: Quintet for Winds, Op. 2
Performers: Dohr, Stefan; Schellenberger, HansJorg; Schulz, Wolfgang; Stump, Petra; Taubl, Norbert; Turkovic, Milan
Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin
Despite his renown, Gyorgy Ligeti's Six Bagatelles was the kind of piece that was basically used by wind players to show that they could tackle...continue...
Vivaldi: Chamber Music / Indermühle, Solisti Perugia, et al
1 CD / Camerata / 2005-07-01Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Oboe in A minor, RV 463; Sonata for Violin, Oboe, Organ and Chalumeau in C major, RV 779; Chamber Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Bassoon and Basso Continuo in G minor...
Performers: Ancillotti, Mario; Brizi, Claudio; Franceschini, Paolo; Indermuhle, Thomas; Meyer, Wolfgang; Turkovic, Milan
Conductors: Indermühle, Thomas
Ensemble: I Solisti di Perugia
Glinka: Trio Pathétique; Gade, et al / Leister, et al
1 CD / Camerata / 2005-05-10Works: Mikhail Glinka: Trio pathétique for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano in D minor; Niels Gade: Fantasiestücke (4) for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43; Ludwig van Beethoven: Duets (3) for Clarinet and B...
Performers: Bognar, Ferenc; Leister, Karl; Turkovic, Milan
Bach: Flute Sonatas / W. Schulz, M. Turkovic, M.L. Dahler
1 CD / Camerata / 2002-05-01Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in B minor, BWV 1030; Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord in A major, BWV 1032; Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in E minor, BWV 1034; Sonata f...
Performers: Dahler, Marie-Louise; Schulz, Wolfgang; Turkovic, Milan
United Sounds of Bassoon / Turkovic, Goldings, Galler, et al
1 CD / Camerata / 1999-12-01Works: Cypriano de Rore: Calami sonum ferentes; Henry Purcell: Prophetess, Z 627; Reinhard Keiser: Die edelmüthige Octavia; Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for Orchestra no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Ludwig ...
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Missouri cruises to 89-53 win over SE Louisiana
Friday, November 8, 2013
COLUMBIA — No Frank Haith, no problem.
Missouri handed interim coach Tim Fuller a win in his head-coaching debut, as the Tigers rolled to an 89-53 victory against Southeastern Louisiana in the season opener Friday night at Mizzou Arena.
"I kind of got lost in the game," Fuller said. "I was emotional in the locker room before I went out and really my stomach was turning quite heavy, but then once I talked to the team and went out, I knew we just had to win. Once I stepped on the floor, coaching just took over."
Fuller is in charge while Haith serves a five-game suspension for his role in the University of Miami scandal.
"I almost feel like coach Haith is not gone, because he's a part of me," Fuller said. "I quietly hear him talking as I'm out there coaching."
Jabari Brown led four Tigers in double figures with 19 points. Jordan Clarkson added 14, Wes Clark had 13 and Earnest Ross finished with 12.
"We just went out there and tried to play hard for coach Haith and at the same time get a win for coach Fuller," Brown said.
Ross drilled a 3-pointer 88 seconds into the game for Missouri's first points of the season, then drilled another trey on the next possession to fuel what became a trend.
A little too trigger-happy from the perimeter early on, launching seven 3-pointers in its first 11 shots, Missouri eventually exploited its size advantage and imposed its will in the paint. That still didn't stop the Tigers from firing away from beyond the arc, as they finished 12-of-23 (52 percent) from 3-point range.
"I tell my guys to be aggressive," Fuller said. "I'm not going to call off (shooting the 3) when it keeps going through the hoop."
After a Missouri built an early 14-4 lead, Southeastern Louisiana responded with seven straight points midway through the opening half.
That's when Missouri took over.
Stefan Jankovic drilled one from long distance, Clark followed with a mid-range jumper and Ryan Rosburg added an old-fashioned three-point play to spark a 14-0 run, and the rout was on. That was part of a 30-3 surge for the Tigers, as Missouri led 44-19 at halftime.
Clark proved to be a catalyst off the bench at the point-guard spot, accounting for 10 points and three assists in the first half while playing 16 minutes. Starting point guard Jordan Clarkson, meanwhile, saw just eight minutes in the first half after picking up a pair of fouls and was held scoreless for the first 20 minutes.
"We've seen those two a lot in practice, and there is no drop-off when Wes comes in the game," Fuller said. "He gives us the same energy and the same burst. ... I was surprised to see him go 3-for-3 from 3, but he makes shots."
Clark also tied for game-highs with seven rebounds and four assists.
"Wes is a winner," Fuller said. "We knew that when we recruited him. It's just been about bringing that confidence to the basketball court. He's a scrappy guard that plays with a big heart. It's wonderful to bring another great guard off the bench."
The Lions got within 22 early in the second half but couldn't get any closer. JaMichael Hawkins led Southeastern Louisiana with 14 points.
Missouri's biggest lead came at 89-51 on a 3-pointer from Corey Haith in the game's final minute. Ten Tigers scored in the contest as they shot 54 percent for the game.
"I wanted to give other guys confidence," Fuller said. "I know there's going to be a game where Jordan's in foul trouble, Jabari's not hitting and Earnest can't get his shot going. We're going to need Stefan (nine points), we're going to need Ryan (seven points), we're going to need Wes Clark to do what they did tonight."
One negative for the Tigers was a horrid night from the foul line, hitting just 15-of-27.
"I think it's just concentration and taking your time up there," Brown said. "That's something we work on every day."
Missouri (1-0) hosts Southern Illinois-Carbondale at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Notes: Brown and Ross earned some preseason conference recognition earlier Friday, as Brown was named to the coaches' All-SEC first team and Ross ended up on the second team. ... The announced attendance Friday night was 7,926.
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With this historical knowledge, the old homestead has become not only picturesque but also exemplifies life being lived.
Monday, July 27, I once again traveled northeastern Colorado's I-76 through the southern edge of Weld County between Lochbuie and Hudson. This is about 40 miles northeast of Denver. I revisited the Clyde Peterson property two miles west of Hudson.
The windmill and the deteriorating barn have always intrigued me because I wondered about their history — that I virtually do about everything and everyone I photograph.
This is the first time I photographed the windmill and barn in color, "Windmill and Barn." A new camera really fulfilled my hopes and made an image unique in composition and content.
I got up at 5 a.m. and arrived at the Peterson place about 20 minutes after sunrise. I love early morning or late evening light because the low angle gives strong definition, dramatic shadow and highlight relationships, and the opportunity to do an occasional "self-portrait" of my shadow working with my camera.
I photographed "Paul's Shadow" with my 24 mm wide-angle lens and placed the windmill in the upper right-center of the picture to get implied diagonal movement of the principal elements.
"Windmill and Barn" was made with the 180 mm telephoto lens to bring out the detail of the windmill blades and the peak of the barn roof.
I first contacted the Town of Hudson administrator, Joe Racine, and he got the property ownership information for me from his computer data base.
July 28 I phoned Helen Peterson, Clyde's 97-year-old widow. She celebrated her birthday three weeks ago. She referred me to her son, Fred, of Brighton, a retired Delta airline reservation attendant. He manages the property.
Clyde purchased the farm in 1955. Fred guessed the barn was built in the early 1900s. The Petersons last painted it 30-35 years ago. The windmill was installed in the 1920s and operated until five years ago.
Clyde served on the Weld Central school board and operated the Brighton Feed and Farm store. He passed away in 1984 at age 80. Wife Helen carefully managed the egg and chicken business all those years.
"Though the facilities are now idle, the windmill can be reactivated at any time," Fred Peterson said. "It is in very good condition." The barn has not been painted for many years.
To the right in the picture, "Paul's Shadow," is the building where the Petersons kept their playing chickens — 2400 of them. To the far right is their home which was relocated twice because of construction of adjacent I-76 and and the frontage road.
Fred reminisced:
"One Thanksgiving the turnbuckles holding a row of hens' cages collapsed frozen from from the bitter cold. About 400 chickens scattered everywhere.
"This was in early morning, and we worked into the late night to restore the cages, only to have another row collapse," Fred said of the efforts of his mom, dad, two brothers and him. "We didn't lose a chicken," he proudly concluded.
He is the oldest of the Peterson sons at 72.
When I asked about his mom's health, Fred said, "She still lives alone (in Thornton) and does the chores within her home. She is hard of hearing, though."
With this historical knowledge, the old homestead has become not only picturesque but also exemplifies life being lived.
The story is not complete. Fred and I shall go together the next time I photograph, and he'll open the buildings for me.
I'll not wait too long to present the next visual chapter about the Peterson Family chicken farm.


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According to various industry estimates there are 71 million cable and satellite (C&S) homes in India. Most of these C&S homes are being served by analog cable which is non-addressable and has severe capacity constraints. World over there is a migration from analog to digital technology. Digitization enables carriage of more number of channels in the same bandwidth, better reception quality, and delivery of various interactive and value-added services such as video on demand, Internet, gaming, and EPG to the consumers. Alternate content delivery platforms such as DTH and IPTV are digital too. Accordingly, digitization of cable is imperative, in order to compete with these digital technologies.
It is of utmost importance that the digitization of the cable system should be pragmatic and profound, which addresses the issues of country-wide rollout so as to bring consequent cost benefits to enable opening up the market for new digital usage, competition, and advent of diverse innovative processes. The main objective of initiation of digitization is to ensure that the country remains attractive as an investment destination, provides for optimal bandwidth usage, growth in terms of introduction of value added services and the Indian companies/service providers are not left behind in adopting latest technologies in broadcasting and distribution sector.
Headend-in-the-sky (HITS) is one such mode which confers benefits of wider reach even in far-flung and rural areas and also ensures digital delivery in most effective and economical manner. With HITS technology, the digitization and addressability can be achieved throughout the country in one stroke and with an investment far lower than what is needed to establish terrestrial digital headends in each city.
In the HITS system, pay channels are received from their respective satellites at one centralized location. The pay channels are decoded, combined and re-encrypted with a common encryption and thereafter the signals are again uplinked to a satellite in "C" Band frequency. These signals are then downlinked by individual MSOs/cable operators at their headend (control room).
Cable operators need only one transmodulator per transponder (presently carrying 12-14 TV channels per transponder) for further re-transmission through cable to individual subscribers having the facility of set top box for exercising their choice of receiving the signals of those channels that are to be viewed by individual subscribers. Analog free to air channels can be received by the subscribers even without decoder and mixed for sending to the subscribers' homes in analog format. The cable operator can receive digital free to air channels with digital stream. The digital free to air channels are made available to the subscribers without going through de-encryption system of the set top box, whereas the analog channels are passed through the set top box. A subscriber can exercise his choice of channels and the same are activated through subscriber management system (SMS) maintained at a centralized facility.
Existing system of distribution of channels in cable (analog mode)
Under the existing system of cable distribution there are several headends all over the country which are engaged in the distribution of signals/channels to cable operators, which are ultimately delivered to the household viewers through the cable connection. In the current method of distribution, the pay channels and FTA channels are combined in a bundle by the cable operator which is made available to a consumer for a lump sum price.
The MSOs and independent cable operators have set up headends to receive and transmit TV signals, which comprise essentially satellite dishes, receivers, integrated receivers, and decoders (IRDs), modulators, and fiber transmission equipment. The satellite dishes are used to downlink and receive the channels in both free to air (FTA) channel or pay channel mode. The signals received from the dishes are fed into the receivers for FTA channels and IRDs for the pay channels. The output from the receivers and IRDs is modulated and fed into fiber/coaxial cables and amplified at various places throughout the length of the cable to bring signals to the customer's premises. In a typical analog distribution platform, 65-70 channels can be delivered to the consumers.
The existing system of un-addressable analog cable distribution is characterized by the following:
HITS technology tackles/addresses all the above-mentioned drawbacks of the analog system. All the stakeholders in the broadcasting sector have always acknowledged and accepted that all the above mentioned issues including the issue of number of subscribers/declarations, and capacity constraints are to be resolved by all possible legal means while also ensuring effective consumer choice.
HITS technology is a complete answer for a voluntary implementation of an addressable system in non-CAS areas, which is completely in accordance with law and without requiring the issuance of notification for declaring the existing non-CAS areas as CAS areas for achieving addressability.
Methods of implementing digitization and addressability
The digitization and addressability in cable distribution can be implemented in two ways:
The establishment of digitization and addressability at each headend requires decoding infrastructure to decode signals received from pay channel broadcasters and encryption infrastructure to re-encrypt pay channel signals for distribution to customers through cable operators under CAS. Subscriber management system (SMS) has to take care of subscription/channel choice of the consumer, billing based on services subscribed, details of the payments received, mechanism to record and effect the request of change in the subscribed service - mainly addition and deletion.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) analyzed the strength of HITS as a method of implementing digitization and addressability and in its consultation paper has inter alia observed:
Cost of digitization through conventional cable system for the entire country: This would essentially require converting the existing 7000 analog headends into digital headends. The cost of a digital headend including CAS and SMS ranges from Rs. 2 crore to Rs. 8 crore or more depending upon number of channels and sophistication of CAS and SMS. Thus, even at the lowest cost, the total amount required for 7000 digital headends would be upwards of Rs. 15,000 crore.
Cost of digitization through HITS for the entire country: Earth station of HITS operator would cost Rs. 15 crore, and transmodulators of cable operators would cost Rs. 1200 crore (Rs. 2 lac per operator for 60,000 operators). The total capex would be around Rs. 1215 crore. Cost of hiring 10 transponders would be Rs. 50 crore per annum for HITS satellite (Rs. 5 crore per annum per transponder on recurring basis).
Thus, HITS could, theoretically, digitize the cable transmission in the whole country with a capex of Rs. 1215 crore and a recurring cost of Rs 50 crore per annum, as against the capex of more than Rs 15,000 crore for conventional terrestrial digitization. These cost comparisons do not include the cost of upgrading the last mile cable network and the cost of set top boxes, because these are common to both HITS and conventional digitization.
Gain to subscriber. The biggest advantage to the subscribers is that high quality digital transmission with value added services will become available to the subscribers throughout the country at one go. Since the reach of HITS service operator increases manifold, the cost of set-top box will come down due to economy of scale. The subscriber will not have to change the set top box if he shifts anywhere else within the country, so long as the cable operator in the new locality is affiliated to the HITS operator. The viewers will continue to watch the free to air channels in analog mode bypassing the set top box or even without a set top box if they do not want to subscribe to the pay channels. The digital transmission will enable operators to show many more channels to the consumers thus offering them a wide variety of choices. The implementation of CAS through HITS will bring down the cost of distribution etc. which may lead to a consequent reduction in subscription rates.
Benefits to cable operators. The cable operators will get access to digital quality transmission throughout the country, which will help them in competing with other forms of digital delivery such as DTH and IPTV. The cable operator will have the flexibility to take feed from MSO and giving feed through terrestrial mode or from the HITS operator. If there are more than one MSO using the passive HITS platform for transmission, then the cable operator's choice of MSOs will increase. In stand alone CAS implementation, operator will have to invest on the SMS. In HITS model he will not be required to have an independent SMS of his own. With growing number of channels, cable operator will have to upgrade his network capacity from present 550 Mhz to 850 Mhz in conventional analog mode. In HITS model he will be saved of this capital expenditure because by having digital transmission, he can carry more channels in existing network. The disputes among cable operators, MSOs and broadcasters, mainly related to number of subscribers, will be minimal because of addressability in HITS.
Benefits to the government. With the implementation of digitization through HITS, the incidence of under-declaration of the subscribers by the cable operator will be reduced and, therefore, the substantial loss that is caused to the government by way of evasion of taxes will be prevented. The implementation of CAS through HITS will ensure a centralized mechanism for distribution of signals for various pay channels which will in turn make the monitoring/regulation of the industry by the government much more convenient and effective. The task of policy and of planning for this sector will become easier as all the information regarding the number of subscribers, their opted services, the payments made for such subscribed services, etc would be available at a single centralized location, as opposed to the digital implementation through thousand of individual headends wherein such information would be scattered and difficult to monitor.
However, on the balance, it cannot be denied that HITS operation will certainly lead to better and more economical digital services to the public, thus ensuring assured revenue based on the actual number of subscribers availing their services, in addition to centralized data of subscribers for effectively realizing taxes by the government through HITS. It however needs to be stated that even other existing digital addressable systems (DTH, CAS, cable) have many of these advantages, but what is relevant is that there are certain areas where HITS has a distinct advantage. More importantly, the value of HITS as an alternative or additional platform for delivery having a potential to increase the competition cannot be over emphasised.
Selecting HITS based delivery technology paves the way for uniform delivery of signals country wide with high flexibility and low cost per headend. It also provides for easy migration of customers from city to city as well as protection of investment in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). Thus, in the existing scenario, HITS is the best and the cheapest way to implement addressability and digitization in cable distribution.
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Computer use is an essential part of many Calumet College of St. Joseph activities. This document includes the college-wide policy for management of computer data networks and the resources they make available as well as for stand-alone computers that are owned and administered by the College. It also represents the general ethical principles of the college community and indicates what privileges and responsibilities are characteristic of the college computing environment. The Computer Services Department has the responsibility for providing and maintaining all college computing tools. General policies regarding resources provided by the college are outlined below.
Mission and Purpose:
College computing resources are to be used for purposes related to the college's mission of education. All classes of users (faculty, staff, and students) may use computing resources only for purposes related to their studies, their instruction, the discharge of their duties as employees, their official business with the college and other college-sanctioned activities. Commercial use for personal gain is prohibited.
Free expression of ideas is central to the academic process. The computer system administrator will not remove any information from individual accounts or from electronic bulletin boards maintained on them unless the administrator finds that:
The presence of the information involves illegality (e.g. copyrighted material, software in violation of a license agreement).
The information in some way endangers computing resources or the information of other users (e.g. a computer worm, virus, or other destructive program).
The information is inconsistent with the mission of the college, involves the harassment of others including the use of obscene, bigoted, or abusive language or images, or is otherwise not in compliance with legal and ethical usage listed below.
Information stored on computers is considered confidential unless the owner intentionally makes the information available to other groups or individuals. Computer Services will maintain the confidentiality of all information stored on college computing resources. However, there are legitimate reasons for persons other than the account holder to access computer files or computers or network traffic: ensuring the continued integrity, security, or effective operation of College computing systems; to protect user or system data; to ensure continued effective departmental operations; to ensure appropriate use of College computing systems; or to satisfy a lawful court order. Requests for disclosure of confidential information will be reviewed by the administrator of the computer system involved. Such requests will be honored only when approved by college officials or when required by state or federal law. Except when inappropriate, computer users will receive prior notice of such disclosure.
On the computer network, every user is assigned an individual account(s), which is for the exclusive use of the owner. Messages and Email transmitted to other users should always identify the sender. Obscenities should not be transmitted. The college does reserve the right to inspect, copy, and store the contents of electronic mail messages at any time. However, it will do so only to prevent or correct improper use, satisfy a legal obligation, or insure proper use of the electronic mail facilities.
Facilities Usage:
College computing resource users can facilitate computing in many ways. Collegiality demands the practice of facilitative computing, which includes:
Regular deletion of unneeded files from one's accounts on central machines.
Refrain from overuse of connect time, information storage space, printing facilities, or processing capacity.
Refrain from overuse of interactive network facilities.
Refrain from unauthorized or unlicensed use of personal software.
Refrain from attempting to modify or remove computer equipment, software, or peripherals without proper authorization.
Ethical Usage:
Computing resources should be used in accordance with the high ethical standards of the college community. Examples of unethical use (some of which may be illegal) follow:
Violation of computing system security.
Unauthorized use of computer accounts, access codes, or computer identification accounts assigned to others.
Intentional use of computer telecommunication facilities in ways that unnecessarily impede the computing activities of others (randomly initiating interactive electronic communications or email exchanges, or overuse of interactive network utilities).
Use of computing facilities for personal or private business purposes unrelated to the mission of the college or college life.
Academic dishonesty (plagiarism, cheating).
Violation of software license agreements.
Violation of network usage policies and regulations.
Violation of another user's privacy.
Attempts to harm or thwart the operations or business of the college or college activities.
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Computer resources may not be used for illegal purposes. Examples of illegal purposes include:
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The Red Sox and Rays faced off tonight in a makeup game due to inclement weather last week.
The end result was a nail biter. The Rays prevailed 2-1 and after the game ended, the Rays' twitter account tweeted this out:
Dear @RedSox scoreboard operator – your standings are wrong. Yours truly, @RaysBaseball.
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) July 30, 2013
About 20 minutes later, probably because they spent all of that time trying to come up with a clever comeback, the Red Sox twitter account sent this out:
Don't worry @raysbaseball we look forward to seeing you in Tampa in September for our home games at the Trop.
— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) July 30, 2013
Oh, snap!
One tiny detail that is incorrect in that tweet from the Red Sox account: The Trop is actually in St. Petersburg not Tampa.
This isn't the first time the official accounts of MLB teams have sparred with each other and certainly won't be the last. In fact, the Yankees account was involved in a playful "fight" with the Dodgers account a couple of months back. Something about championships and rings.
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Noteworthy material in today's Dan Popkey piece in the Idaho Statesman about the Larry Grant congressional campaign from last year, in which he lost to Republican Bill Sali, and prospectively about the next one as well. Those following politics in Idaho's 1st House district will find some useful background here.
The core point was that Grant hurt his on campaign in several significant ways. Popkey reported that "Democrats are grieving and resentful. Folks close to Grant don't want their names attached to criticism, but they want this story told in hopes he'll reform. They told me he's 'a hard guy to help,' and 'a pain' who 'knew everything'." That would be a recipe for trouble, all right.
A couple of specific instances certainly sound damning. In one, Grant was on the verge of winning support from the Associated General Contractors, ordinarily a very Republican group, but he "lectured the contractors on unions, the minimum wage and a gas-tax hike, and said his aim would be to clean up Congress. 'You may hate unions, but that's the way it is, guys,' Grant recalled telling AGC. 'I'm not afraid of being on the side of the working guy.'" In a second, he didn't even reply to an offer of no-cost media work from Bryant Reinhard, formerly of WRC Advertising, whose experience in working for successful Idaho Republican congressional and statewide campaigns goes back a couple of decades at least.
Popkey also quotes Grant as saying, "I really do believe that we did almost everything right in the campaign." There's a fair implication in this of trouble ahead for 2008, when Grant is planning a rerun against Sali.
We do disagree on a couple of other points.
One mistake he attributes to Grant is his decision to use local help rather than national (one reason he didn't get as much national party financial help as some other candidates). Maybe; but having seen parts of the national party/consultant world up close, we're very hesitant to conclude that it was a bad call. Over the years, the Idaho track record of Democratic national operatives is spotty at best – take that as a generous view. (There's a fine big-picture view of this point in the book Crashing the Gate by Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga; their take on the Democratic consulting world is spot on.) Not knowing enough to evaluate the specific personnel in this case, we aren't concluding that Grant made the right call there. But he may have.
Popkey suggests that Grant could have won this race save only, presumably, for his mistakes. We see no reason to think so. In an extremely close race, small things – a TV ad that technically was better or worse, or the shift of pockets of voters, could shift the results; anything could. This race wasn't that close. Grant's vote total was about 12,000 short of Sali's, too much to make up with small-scale alterations. There is also the fact, not often mentioned, that Sali's race, primary and general, was cannily run, and little was left to chance. The race was monitored intensively by Sali's money backers (the same people, Club for Growth and associates, who had been with him since he entered the primary), and it was pouring in funds in the final weeks. So what if Grant missed out on a few hundred thousand from the Democratic party? The Club would have truck-loaded in much more than that in compensation. Most of the internal Republican issues that Sali faced post-primary were healed within a couple of months, and there's little Grant could have done to change that. And this is a very Republican district that, up-ticket and down, continued its Republican voting patterns last year as they had been doing. There's no evidence in the voting record that this race was so closely up for grabs.
Just as there's no evidence the next one is, either. Popkey suggests that Sali, now an incumbent member of Congress, will tougher to beat next time than last year. We agree (and have written as much). If Grant thinks that rerunning last year's campaign would be enough to change the outcome next time (as one quote in Popkey's column seems to suggest), he'd be wrong. As to what Grant could do to improve on last year's outcome . . . we'll be curious to see.Share on Facebook


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Western White Pine
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- • Western White Pine
- • Wood identification
- • Uses in woodworking
- • Availability
- • Machining methods
- • Carving comments
- • Turning tips
- • Shop-Tested Techniques That Always Work
Machining methods
Machining methods
Although pines are considered softwoods, some species are harder than others. And that's the case with western white pine. The wood rates as 30 percent harder than eastern white pine, and although you can successfully work it with hand or power tools, be sure you keep all tool cutting edges sharp.
- Unlike many other species of pine, western white pine boards have little pitch in them to build up on your saw blade. Still, it does occur, so avoid the burning and blade wander that accompanies gum buildup by using a Teflon-coated blade or occasionally cleaning the blade with steel wool dampened with acetone.
- This wood doesn't splinter easily, but a backing board helps reduce the chance when routing across the grain.
- Due to the hardness of western white pine, you'll want to drill pilot holes for screws.
- The better grades of western white pine will only have small, tight knots known as "pin knots." They won't fall out, but to prevent bleed-through, you should seal them with shellac before applying a clear or painted finish.
- If you plan to stain the wood, first put on a sealer coat of wood conditioner or diluted shellac (cut 50 percent with denatured alcohol) to prevent unevenness of the stain color.
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Morning all.
Why is it when I was looking forward to GW last night I fell asleep whilst watching it .Will have to catch it tomorrow morning.
It's looking dull outside but no wind as yet.
I must get some pots sorted and sweet peas planted this weekend
Have agreat day everyone
Stacey - I'm a bit pathetic to get excited over buying a grass!
I'm not surprised Potty Gardener that you fell asleep during GW - I only watch it to see Nigel and he wasn't on much last night.
Thank you potty and dove. Will do.
Potty, you have only just found out about pampas grass
Washing out, hoovering done just time for a quick cuppa and then do a few more jobs before son arrives.
I missed GW too so will have to remember tomorrow. Strickly tonight!
Pampas grass, oh heck
if you want to buy grasses, SGL, why not try Knoll Gardens in Dorset, near Wimborne...they are specialists. Google and have a look?
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I read in the Daily Mail last week that if you have a pampas grass in your garden it's a sign that you are a 'swinger'. Luckily mine is out out sight right at the bottom of the garden so i don't get any unwanted visitors
I read in the Daily Mail last week that if you have a pampas grass in your garden it's a sign that you are a 'swinger'. Luckily mine is out out sight right at the bottom of the garden so i don't get any unwanted visitors
That was in the 1970s - quite good for the Daily Mail only being 40 years behind the times though - they still think our Queen is named Victoria.
Pampas in the front garden here,not a swinger in sight.................I suppose they are creatures of the night,,,,,,,,
I have a pampas grass by the veggie garden, been there over 20 years. Late OH planted it. It's going horrid in the middle, leaves and flowers round the edges. Never cared for it in more ways than one! Is it true you can set fire to the dead middle and it will clean it up and then grow better?
Ohhh Mrs Garden your own burning bush
Hello all
made it out a small bit it garden now sloshing it down with rain so back indoors again
Lizzie people do burn them, we just attack it wearing protective clothes each spring. Glad we didn't burn it as that's where our hedgehog nests.
Just been out for a drive as fed up with the weather, and the car took me to my local GC. No plants in need of rescuing, well not at the asking prices.
Have satisfied my "need to have" after seeing them on GW got Tulip Barbados only six bulbs though. But it was rude not to get a few more bits, so 12 Black Parrot and some Narcissus Minnow, and really needed some dwarf ones so Rip Van Winkle went in the basket. So planting them will keep me out of mischief today or tomorrow. Just need to find my old rain coat.
Hi Gg... me too.. i went out , got a bit done in the GH, and had started to tidy up my runner beans and it rained. Came in, had a wash, and now the sun is streaming in the window. I'm not playing that game any more today. Rugby on soon and have prepared an "invention test" dinner for later.
Forester, hiya.
Domt be apologetic about getting excited over grasses. They are exciting plants amd very much undervalued
You can buy plants now but don't plant them out until spring. I have some local nurseries but Hoecroft nursery is very good. I initially bought all my grasses from them as very small ones. Often the roots are bit congested as grasses, ESP the bigger ones, are vigorous. I simply untangle the roots and pot into a bigger size.
Miscanthus, Calamagrostis, stipa gigantea, and panicums are excellent tall grasses and there are new varieties added all the tme. Deschampsia is a great choice for a dampish spot or one with good soil growing about 100 cm amd flowerimg over the summer. Check it out
Enjoy your grasses Forester.
Woody...we will beat the Aussies I think
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Passing Time and the Jug
Zeke Dooley is a man of opinions. Like Zeke, who turned 90 last year, these tend to be a little out of style. Just the same, it's always worth the trip to Blairs Creek to discuss the changing times with a man who has made his own living, his own "cold remedy" and his own way in the world for more years than most of us have been around.
With his wife Perletta, his mule "Old Maybe" and a dozen or so hounds for company, Zeke spends most nice days on his porch, ready to "squander an opinion" with me and hold the years (and the common cold) at bay with his jug of remedy. Here are the results of my last visit.
Zeke on the Golden Years
Mitch: Zeke, how long have I been coming down here to visit?
Zeke: Well as near as I kin make it out, we got acquainted long about the year of the big freshet when the creek got up outrageous high. Long about 19 and 64.
Mitch: Over 30 years ago! By the way, when did you retire?
Zeke: Oh me and the womern has always laid down around nine of a night.
Mitch: No, I mean when did you quit working?
Zeke: Well, 'cordin to Perletta, when I was about 20.
Mitch: Is this part of your life "the golden years?"
Zeke: Naw, we had that gold weddin' 10 year back.
Mitch: I think "the golden years" means the best part of age, Zeke. Is there such a thing?
Zeke: Well onct you get past 65 it evens out purty smooth, but 65, that's the rough one.
Mitch: Why 65?
Zeke: That's when everbody figures if you ain't dead yit yer missin' a good chaince. They all fly in to sell you yer box or a plot to plant ye or burial insurance, or they set in to put ye in a home som'ers.
Mitch: They all came at you at once?
Zeke: Hit was a sight on earth. Had to nail up a barrel fer a mail box to catch all the dodgers fer rockin' cheers and wheel cheers and funerals and old folks magazines and nostrums fer regularity and perpetchural keer fer yer plot and rest homes and nursin' homes and a whole outlandish bunch of other plunder I cain't remember.
Mitch: Weren't interested, huh?
Zeke: Well sir, I bottled up a batch of my cold remedy jist fer us old folks. I call it "Ol Quiet Owl."
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College: Notre Dame (school history) (Johnson college stats)
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Buses in Grenada are a useful way of getting about: they are an excellent local supplement to more long distance island tours that stop at specific destinations. For getting from the hotel to the strikingly beautiful St. George's, they are ideal. (On weekdays , that is. Buses disappear on Sundays. Like most Grenadians and their dogs, I think they go to church.) If you come from Europe or America, our buses may take a bit of getting used to. They may even take a bit of recognising.
To start with, they are minibuses, not 'big' buses. And then they do not have any signs that tell you where they are going. And they do not have any route number, either. Nor are they all the same colour, nor do they run to a timetable. And, quite often, they do not stop at bus stops (though they are meant to.) But they do have names, and they can sort of be identified by the number plate. If it starts with an 'H', then it's a bus or a taxi. (A bus must have a conductor, so if the driver is alone, it is a taxi. Taxis cost more.)
Names? Oh yes. Most buses are privately owned, and are embellished with a name, and sometimes with slogans, front, rear, or both. Some current southern buses include:
Humble they self - Too much ah dem - Nothing yet - My enemy is not necessary - Final Assassin(I am not aware of any penultimate assassin) - Scare dem - Bite dem - Celebrate - Take that and push it
You get the idea. Bus spotting here is much more fun than train spotting. Party game, not just for children: make sentences linking what is written on buses?
So how do you get a bus? Bad question. A bus gets you.
All you have to do is be near the main road that links the Grand Anse hotel area with St. George's, look like a tourist (that bit is optional, but not difficult), and a bus will slow down, possibly hoot, and certainly shout something at you. The something means 'Do you want to get on this bus and go to St. George's', whatever it sounds like.
It's a bit like going to an auction sale. If you twitch, the bus stops, opens its door, and you're in. You sit where you're told to by the conductor (a youth wearing baseball cap and trainers, who will not speak, but will wave vaguely at where he wants you to sit, while staring in some other direction.)
If the bus seems too full to get into, then get into it anyway. If it has stopped, there is room. The bus knows best. You may be gestured to fit into the gap between two seats, for which a little bridging cushion is provided. There is unlikely to be any conversation, unless the sound system has broken down.
If you want to get out before the terminus, knock on the tin roof. NOT with a ring finger: if you scratch the paint, you'll never hear the last of it. If the music in the bus is so loud that it is impossible for the driver to have heard the knock, do not despair. The knock will be relayed on by the conductor (he's the one nearest the door), and / or by other passengers.
And the bus will stop, sooner or later, i.e. maybe instantly, maybe at the next bus stop, probably depending on whether the police are watching. As you get out, put a $2 into the hand of the conductor. The fare for any length journey between Grand Anse and St. George's is currently $EC2 though it may have to increase soon: petrol prices have shot up. (Don't try to pay in $US)
For the return journey, the Grand Anse (hotel belt) buses can be found at a bus station (unmarked, naturally), at the end of the Sendal Tunnel in St. George's, near the Esplanade, on the west coast. As soon as you approach, eager conductors will try to get you on their vehicles: the first full bus is the first to leave. The queuing system is more abused than used.
If you want to go further afield by bus, then you can, but buses thin out north of St. George's, and it is worth starting (and finishing) your journey early: buses back to St. George's stop running at about 4.00 p.m. The Grand Anse route continues to operate up to more like 8.00 p.m.
For buses to the north, i.e. Gouyave, find a bus station (sort of marked, -ish) a little further along the west Coast. For buses along the south, and the east coast, look for a bus station in the middle of the market. Or, of course, just ask.
If you are staying at Rex, Calabash, La Source, Secret Harbour, or any of the L'Ance aux Epines ('Lancer Peen') accommodations, you need to get to Grand Anse before 'plugging into' the bus service: they only run along main roads. Sorry!
So: get out there and enjoy. For the hotel to town journey, they are cheap, quick, colourful, plentiful and fun. Just don't take too much luggage on them, and do not expect any legroom. If you are at the front, you may have to keep getting out to let others out / on. The very front, by the driver, is a good place, though you do get a grandstand view of the roads and the other traffic, so it's not for the faint-hearted.
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