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WANTED: survival tips - going on a 14 hour car trip with my very active 4 year old boy - HELP!?!?
We're taking a trip from central Illinois to Virginia at the end of the month Looking for ideas from other parents who have traveled long distances with preschoolers - Thanks!!
Posted: 06/07/2012 by finance3
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My mother in law lives 10 hours away. When ever we go to visit we leave at the kids bedtime. We do the normal bedtime routine but instead of putting them in bed we put them in the carseat. Then my husband and I drive all night. We split the drive so one can sleep while the other drives. Although we maybe tired the following morning our kids sleep the entire drive. It has worked really well for us.posted 06/08/2012 by Gabie/Jas' mom
Lets see, we drove from Tennessee to Florida one year with a 5 yr old and a 3 year old. We packed lots of snacks and drinks, some favorite toys, and a portable dvd player. I also went to the dollar store and bought some new things for the kiddos. We also made a lot of potty breaks (thank you apple juice!) which broke the monotony of driving. Plus when the kids got really car crazy we would pull off and find the local park and let 'em run for about an half hour. We did that twice on our trip. Yes. it added extra time to the trip, but it produced two, 1.5 hour naps, which was nice for me and Hubby.posted 06/07/2012 by sarahdsh04
Snacks, drinks, coloring books, travel friendly toys, dolls, audio books and sing-a-longs were some of the things my mom had when she would go on long trips with my siblings and me. We would stop for bathroom breaks and often found a restraint to eat at (though more often than naught it was a fast food place with a play room). Picking up new toys just for the trip isn't a bad idea, though I would keep them hidden up front and present them at certain points during the trip. I remember coloring books and staring out the window (a habit I still have by the way) to daydream mostly. But as car rides made me sleepy, I at least spent about half the trip asleep.posted 01/29/2013 by Amorra Aeterna
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OL- if you imagine that the branching stems which carry the flowers/fruits are at roughly 90 degrees to the main stem, and the sideshoots come off at approximately 45 degrees to the main stem, in between the other two. As others have said, when you pot on to the next size, just plant deeply to get that bare stem covered a bit more.
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I grow Roma, you dont pick out side shoots of those, they were fantastic last year, I still have some in the freezer.
I grow Roma, you dont pick out side shoots of those, they were fantastic last year, I still have some in the freezer.
OOh that's useful to know! Thanks for that (I haven't taken any side shoots yet - kept chickening out!)
Woops, yes, it looks as if you have taken off some lower leaves too. But that is not a problem if (as others have said) you plant it a bit deeper next time, and ti will put out extra roots from the buried bit of stem.
OMG....I'm just rubbish!!! I still have 6 more to do so need to get this right.
I shouldn't have cut off the long 'side branches' (can't think of a better way to describe them) but should have only taken off the little shoots that were coming off them? Is that right.....I think it is??
If so, then I'll do the others later and learn from this one
PS Thanks for your patience
Right here we go, fingers crossed I've got it right.......
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Nobody ever learns by getting it right every time, you havent done any damage, the plants will be fine.
Have a look at one of your other plants, where the leaves come out from the main stem there will be a small 'sideshoot' growing at @45 degrees, this is the bit you remove. You dont need to panic though as they dont have to come off straight away, its just easier to remove when they are small.
I would You tube 'removing tomato sideshoots', its always easier to follow it that way.
Difficult to be sure from the photo, but it looks to me as if the larger lower bits you cut off were actually just single leaves rather than new shoots. I don't think the plants would have big side shoots at this stage. Don't be in a hurry to take off any more - let them grow on a bit and they should make themselves a bit clearer.
Just seen the new post, PERFECT.
One thing to remember is that you might get another sideshoot grow from the same spot, just do as you have just done
Ahhh , thanks Scroggin. I think I've got it now It's no wonder I've never had success with tomatoes before, I've been taking off the wrong bits
Thanks again everyone
Aha, I've just seen your new pair of photos. Ignore my post above, which relates to your first attempt. Yes, that looks right to me, I think you've got it!
Yes, my first attempt went slightly wrong I've got it now, at last so won't ask again!
Are tomatoes the only fruit/veg that needs pinching out?
I can't think of anything else that needs side shoots removed.With peppers and chilis, you do the opposite - pinch out the tips to encourage more side shoots and more fruit.
Some plants (including upright tomatoes!) can be "stopped" later in the year by taking off the growing tip. This allows the fruits etc already formed to ripen properly, rather than go on into the cooler weather producing stuff that will never ripen. I think you can do this with some climbing beans, and possibly courgettes, squashes and cucumbers. But it's not essential for these, and I don't usually bother unless the plants are getting reallly cumbersome.
By George - I think she's got it!
Don't worry OL - we all do things which we would have done differently if we'd had the right advice. That's why this forum is so helpful. I can't tell you how much I've learnt from the lovely people here.
I'll just tell you the story (or as well as I remember it) that AT used to tell people when he started his horti. career. He was sent to disbud plants in one of the greenhouses. He removed every bud from all the plants - thousands of 'em.
Far be it for me to complicate things anymore than they need to be, but a classic mistake made by even experienced gardeners is to remove the growing tip by mistake...it is an upright side-shoot, growing in a different place of course.
So until you get the hang of it proper, just remove side-shoots from between lower leaf joints.
OL, that's a cracking little tommy plant, btw.
Ha ha FG, someone yes it takes a while
Remove the growing tip......whoever would do such a silly thing, certainly not me ever LOL
Thank you David, I have 7 of them living happily in the GH
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Ha ha FG, someone yes it takes a while Remove the growing tip......whoever would do such a silly thing, certainly not me ever LOL Thank you David, I have 7 of them living happily in the GH
Bask in the glory of your success at the mo, OL.. .but later on in the season you may get a situation where your plant/plants will develop two growing heads/tips and you may get puzzled as to which one to retain....or you may wish to keep both, but that's for another day.
Did you remove the eggs as well?
But seriously folks, I bought a Black Cherry tomato plant t'other week intending to use the sideshoots as cuttings and it seems to have read my mind! It's produced a load of sideshoots, all of which grew really fast. They're all in a glass of water now and when they get some roots I'll pot 'em up. And it's flowering
I had to think about that one D tele but get it now LOL.....I did say it takes a while for things to sink in
David, not basking in glory, it was slightly tongue in cheek as I have made that very mistake!! I only now realise why my plants didn't grow very well

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- Christine Arnold, MSN, CRNP received her diploma in Nursing from Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital School of Nursing, BSN from Thomas Jefferson University and MSN Young Family Nurse Practitioner Track in 1993, and has worked at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center for more than 10 years. Areas of special interest include newborns and breastfeeding, pediatric weight management and adolescent health care. She is a member of Dauphin County Safe Kids, and Capital Area Head Start where she is a member of the Medical Advisor Board. When not at work, she can be found with her palomino gelding Quarter Horse, taking dressage lessons, or training her rescued mixed breed named Gracie.
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- Banku Jairath, M.D. attended medical school at Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. She has held positions as House Officer in the Pulmonology Department at GMC in Chandigarh, India in 2007 and a research position at Manhattan Psychiatric Center in 2008. Dr. Jairath began her career at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 2010 with her pediatric residency, and became an attending in 2013. She is particularly interested in pediatric patients with asthma and ADHD. Dr. Jairath is married and has two daughters.
- Kelly Kline, D.O. joined the practice in 2005. She is a native of Lancaster County. She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at Penn State Children's Hospital. Dr. Kline has a special interest in children with special needs and adolescent medicine. Dr. Kline is married, has three children of her own and currently resides in Lancaster.
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- Nathan Oxenford, CPNP-PC received his Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Arts in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve in 2009. He holds dual certifications as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care, as well as a board certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Nathan has worked with Boston Children's Hospital in the Department of General Surgery, and as an RN at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He joined Penn State Hershey Pediatrics in 2013, and has special interests in both ethics and health disparities. Nathan also sees patients at Penn State Hershey Medical Center's Elizabethtown practice.
- Jody Ross, M.D., is a Harrisburg native, and graduated from Wright State University School of Medicine in 1994. Areas of special interest include travel medicine and caring for international adoptees and children in foster care. She has been a pediatrician here since 1997, in addition to her responsibilities as a general pediatrician, she teaches third year medical students and supervises residents for continuity clinic. She and her husband have four children.
- Alawia Suliman, M.D. graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum, Sudan, an affiliate of Cambridge University. She served her residency here at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Her interests include breastfeeding, growth and development, as well as medical student and resident education. Research interests involve development of new vaccines. She has served on the medical students' selection committee, and the Dean's council for diversity. She is the Board Secretary for the Arthritis Foundation of Central Pennsylvania. Dr. Suliman has practiced pediatrics internationally in Sudan, England and America. She is married, the mother of three children and is fluent in Arabic.
- Alyssa 'Kate' Weller, D.O. graduated from Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2011 and completed her residency here at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 2014. She is a native of Staunton, Virginia. Her areas of special interest include pediatric headache management, concussions and the care of children with complex medical needs. She also sees children in the Penn State Hershey Pediatric Headache and Concussion Clinics. She is married and currently resides in Linglestown.
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- Kathryn Crowell, M.D. graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1998 and completed her residency here at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Areas of special interest include developmental pediatrics, medical education and child abuse. Dr. Crowell is working with Dr. Duda to develop a consultative service for cases of suspected child abuse. She serves as an advisor for residents and students, and is involved in curriculum development for 3rd and 4th year medical students. Dr. Crowell is also one of our providers at our Camp Hill location. She is married and has children.
- Sarah Iriana, M.D. graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1993. She completed her pediatric residency at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 1996. Dr. Iriana worked at the Elizabethtown Pediatric clinic before coming to work at East Campus Pediatrics in 2010. She enjoys well child care and preventative medicine, and is also interested in the care of internationally adopted children. She is a Global Health Scholar's Program faculty member and is also a member of the Ambulatory EMR design and implementation team, which is responsible for implementing the electronic medical record (EMR) system throughout the medical group. Dr. Iriana served as the Medical Director She is married and has three daughters.
- Benjamin Levi, M.D. PhD is a practicing pediatrician and philosopher, who graduated from the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois, completed his pediatrics residency at Memorial Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia, and in 1999 joined the faculty at Penn State Hershey. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Levi teaches and does research in the field of bioethics, with an emphasis on decision-making. His current research projects focus on advance care planning (for adults facing end-of-life medical decisions) and professional concerns regarding the reporting of suspected child abuse. Dr. Levi serves as Director of The Center for the Protection of Children at Penn State Hershey, as well as Vice-Chair of the Hospital Ethics Committee. He is happily married, and his greatest challenge is keeping up with his two wonderful children.
- Jennifer Miller, M.D. graduated from Upstate Medical University in 1998 and served her residency at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, finishing in 2001. Her interests include newborn medicine and care of patients with complex medical needs. Dr. Miller is the Medical Director of the Newborn Nursery at Penn State Children's Hospital, and is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Residency Program. Dr. Miller is married and currently resides near Mt. Gretna.
- Ian M. Paul, M.D. M.Sc. graduated from Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in 1998, and completed his residency training at Duke University Medical Center in 2001. He has been a faculty pediatrician in Hershey since 2001. In addition to his responsibilities as a general pediatrician and in the newborn nursery, Dr. Paul spends much of his time working on a variety of research projects and clinical trials that seek to improve healthcare for children and their families. His current research includes studies to prevent obesity and treat symptoms of the common cold. He also participates in a national asthma research network and one seeking to develop better evidence for the use of medications for children. Dr. Paul is married with two children and resides in Lancaster.
- Deepa Sekhar, M.D. completed medical school at Brown University in Providence, RI in 2003. She subsequently went on to her pediatric residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, NY. After a year as chief resident at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY she relocated to Dallas, TX in 2007. Dr. Sekhar worked in Dallas as a pediatric hospitalist. In July 2008 she and her family moved to Hershey, PA. She has three little boys ages 6 years, 3 years, and 18 months. Her research involves iron deficiency and hearing screening for adolescents. She is board certified in general pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Sekhar is fluent in both Spanish and English.
- Mark Widome, M.D. received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He completed his pediatric residency training at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and had a fellowship in Ambulatory Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Widome began practicing at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 1977, where he specializes in general pediatric care, growth and development, injury prevention and medical education. He has served as the chief of division of general pediatrics for thirteen years. Dr. Widome lives in Hershey with his wife. They have two grown children and one grandson.
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- Cheston M. Berlin, Jr., M.D. was born in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Haverford College and M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He served his residency at the Boston Children's Hospital and has been employed by Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center since 1971. His interests include pediatric pharmacology, nutrition, lactation, phenylketonuria (PKU), tic disorders including Tourette Syndrome and general pediatrics. His is also interested in the use of Kuvan in patients with PKU and studying long term outcomes of patients with tic disorders including Tourette's syndrome. Dr. Berlin resides in Hershey with his wife. They have four children and two grandchildren.
- Rachel A. Dishong, RN was a Clinical Ladder IV RN at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center Emergency Department for two years. While there she was a Pediatric Resource Nurse, the Pain Resource Nurse for NEC task force and on councils Quality Work Life and ED Pediatrics. Rachel is a graduate of our Nurse Residency from 6th Floor Acute Care and was the floor representative for the hospital wide Education Council. Rachel is a graduate of Harrisburg Area Community College with an Associate of Science Degree in Nursing and is currently enrolled at Penn State Harrisburg for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She serves as the Care Manager for Internal Medicine and General Pediatrics, where she helps educate patients and families about their health care management.
- Laura Murphy, M.D. graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 1994. She did her residency at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia where she stayed on as faculty until June 2009. While at St. Christopher's, she was actively involved in resident and medical student education and is currently the Vice Chair of Education here at Penn State Children's Hospital. At St. Christopher's she was the medical director for the Special Needs program in Ambulatory Pediatrics, a program that provided care for children with complex medical problems. Dr Murphy cares for pediatric patients with complex medical problems here at Hope Drive as well as our Camp Hill office, as well as overseeing residents during acute clinic sessions.
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In addition to our primary care providers, several doctors have joined our clinic to treat children for same-day sick appointments.
- Laura Duda, M.D. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine in 1993 and served her residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She joined Penn State Children's Hospital in 2005, where she has been teaching residents and medical students, and providing care for patients in our acute "sick child" clinic. Dr Duda is also one of our providers that sees primary care patients at our Camp Hill office, in addition to seeing patients with Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Duda is also developing a consultative service for cases of suspected child abuse along side Dr Crowell. She is married and has three children.
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The Kenyan finance ministry this month announced plans to allocate $3.4 million in the current fiscal budget to provide free sanitary pads to school girls in an effort to remove a major barrier to education in the east African nation.
No choice but to forgo an education
Kenyan girls who lack access to effective and affordable sanitary pads miss an estimated 45 days or 9 weeks of school per year or dropout of school altogether, according to a survey by Human Relations Trust, an NGO focused on needs of African girls. A box of eight sanitary pads costs 100 shillings or $1.50 plus tax in Kenya. For girls who do continue going to school, make-shift pads, such as those made from tissue paper, rags, leaves, and cow dung are uncomfortable and ineffective causing girls to be distressed and distracted. Worse still, schools usually lack sanitary supplies, proper water supplies for girls needing to change sanitary pads, and a disposal system. As a result, learning suffers and girls continue to fall behind in their education as insecurity and low self-confidence set in.
Across the world, the natural process of menstruation becomes an obstacle to learning and education that has long-lasting effects for women, their families, and their communities. For example, girls with little or no education are up to six times more likely to be married as children than girls with secondary schooling. In addition, girls who give birth before turning 15 are five times more likely to die during childbirth and give birth to more children.
A policy that fits girls' specific needs
The Kenyan government's progressive policy is a result of persistent pressure from women parliamentarians and a coalition of civil society organizations who believe providing free sanitary pads will help girls move one step closer to realizing their human rights and will have significant educational and social benefits for Kenyan society. According to a study published last year by Linda Scott of Oxford University's Said Business School, the absenteeism rate of Ghanaian school girls who received free sanitary pads along with an educational lesson about menstruation and hygiene was more than 50 percent lower than girls who did not get the intervention (9 percent compared to 21 percent). Girls also reported that they were able to concentrate better, felt confident, and participated more.
The policy is one attempt by the Kenyan government to meet Millennium Development Goal 2, achieving universal primary school enrollment by 2015. So far, the government has devoted 7 percent of GDP to meet this goal and is allocating $19 million for school feeding programs, Wycliffe Oparanya, Kenya's minister for planning, national development, and vision. It is also one of the first examples of the Kenyan government attempting gender-responsive budgeting to meet the distinctive needs of men and women, according to Jacinta Nyachae, executive director of the Kenya Aids Law Project. However, some advocates are calling for close tracking and monitoring of these funds as rampant corruption remains a big concern in the nation.
Photo by Janna Oberdorf
Celebrate Solutions: Kenya to Spend $3.4 Million to Give Free Sanitary Pads to School Girls
August 1st, 2011
By: Rati Bishnoi, Special Projects Intern at Women Deliver
Entry Comments
It amazes me that we can live in a world with so much disparities between the haves and have nots. To think that a girl could loose her opportunity for an education due to something as commonplace as menstruation is disheartening. The lack of education can become a snowball effect, severely limiting the opportunities and choices one can expect in their lifetime. I am glad to see that Kenya is taking a closer look at the needs of its citizens, especially those who are at a disadvantage, due to no fault of their own. It shows that sometimes, by offering small assistance in the right areas, there can be substantial payoffs for those whom you are trying to help down the line.
It amazes me that we can live in a world with so much disparities between the haves and have nots. To think a girl could loose her opportunty for an education due to something as commonplace and unavoidable as menstruation is disheartening. The lack of education can become a snowball effect, severly limiting the opportunity and choices one can expect in their lifetime. I am glad to see that Kenya is taking a closer look at the needs of its citizens, especially those who are at a disadvantage, due to no fault of their own. It shows that sometimes, by offering small assistance in the right area, there can be substantial payoffs down the line.
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August 2, 2006
Sacramento County, Calif., will create plans to address issues that aging HIV-positive people face, including finding housing and proper health care, Adrienne Rogers, Ryan White CARE Act program coordinator for the county said recently, the Sacramento Bee reports. According to Rogers, more than 70% of HIV-positive people in Sacramento, Placer, Calif., and El Dorado, Calif., counties who receive federally funded HIV services are older than 40 and more than 27% are older than 50. "Just caring for seniors is generally more expensive, and you're adding the normal cost of seniors on top of a pretty complicated and expensive disease," Rogers said, adding, "Our biggest concern is finding them affordable housing." Gary Myerscough, board member for the National Association on HIV Over Fifty and a Sacramento resident, is advocating for increased funding for older HIV-positive people in the reauthorization of the CARE Act. According to Myerscough, the HIV-related health care system originally was designed to reduce the suffering of terminally ill patients. "We have lived longer in a system that wasn't designed to take care of elderly people," Myerscough said. According to Stephen Karpiak, research director of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, older HIV-positive people "should be considered seriously" in the CARE Act reauthorization (Geron, Sacramento Bee, 7/31). Karpiak and colleagues in a study that will be presented at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto found that HIV-positive adults over age 50 in New York City are 13 times more likely to experience high levels of depression than the general population of the city and that many people surveyed had medical conditions associated with age -- including arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and vision loss (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 8/1).
The XVI International AIDS Conference program is now available online.
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Tuesday Apr 12 2011
Open space is Land Trust's mission
By: Gloria Young Journal Staff Writer
1,773-acre Bruin Ranch on the Bear River is latest acquisition
Just yards away from office buildings and an eatery, you can amble along a trail shaded by tall trees, sit on a bench and watch the birds or stop on a wooden bridge to listen to the soothing sounds of a stream. You may spot a skunk or even a deer — visitors from the nearby American River Canyon. The Auburn School Park Preserve on High Street is one of the numerous sites where the Placer Land Trust's efforts are in evidence. "(The park) is owned by the city, but the land trust holds the conservation easement on it," executive director Jeff Darlington said Monday. "We see that it is always protected as a community park." The land trust was created in 1991, initially as one organization with the Placer Nature Center. During the early years, the goal was getting the nature center established. Then in 2002, as the nature center flourished, the land trust became a separate nonprofit, with Darlington at the helm. "(Since then), it has been doing very well focusing on land preservation," he said. From 78 acres protected during the first 10 years, the trust had preserved 7,171 acres by the end of 2010. The most recent acquisition, and the largest, is the 1,773-acre Bruin Ranch on the Bear River. "We'll be having a dedication for that property (now known as Harvego Bear River Preserve) on April 22 — Earth Day," Darlington said. "We're making a big deal out of it because it is also (the land trust's) 20th anniversary." The Bruin Ranch property connects to an additional 1,700 acres already preserved. "On this entire block of protected lands, we're planning and developing trails for public use," he said. "Nothing is complete yet, but we're in the process of planning or building trails. We're hoping to have more public recreation opportunities in the next one-to-five years." The trust's scope encompasses all of Placer County. "There are a number of preserves and easements in the American River Canyon," Darlington said. "That has traditionally been an area of focus for us. It is arguably the county's most beautiful natural area." The land trust has had easements on Jean Labadie's Newcastle farm and wetlands since 1999. "We had a 10-acre parcel that wasn't buildable and it seemed like a good thing for (the land trust) to preserve," she said. Since then, she has added two more 10-acre parcels. As a landowner partner, Labadie said she appreciates the work of the nonprofit. "It certainly preserves land that might go to housing," she said. "It preserves space for future generations to enjoy." In 2004, the organization acquired property along Interstate 80 at Cisco Grove, "which we purchased and then transferred to Placer County to make it a public park," Darlington said. "It's called Cisco Grove Gould Park. It's open 24/7, although right now it is completely buried in snow." Then, in 2005, came the addition of more than 1,000 acres of vernal pool grasslands in the western part of the county. "That was three different preserves in the Roseville and Lincoln areas," Darlington said. A key part of acquiring the land is working with willing landowners. "We don't go out and tell landowners their land needs to be protected," he said. "By working with willing landowners, we are opportunistic. When landowners come to us, we evaluate the properties and see what public value will be obtained by protecting it. It could be agriculture, recreation, protection of species or habitat, watershed lands or scenic open space that keeps our community beautiful." The trust either purchases the land or it is donated or sold at a bargain rate. "That can either be the whole property, or we get a conservation easement," he explained. "A conservation easement is a perpetual agreement between landowners and the trust that permanently prohibits development or other harmful land uses." The trust is supported through individual and business memberships, as well as grants from public and private sources. Other funds come from mitigation fees from developers. "Bruin Ranch received a $5 million grant from the county, which was huge and a portion of that was mitigation funds," Darlington said. Membership has grown from 11 in 2002 to about 500. The trust employs four full-time employees and one part-time plus three interns. "Two staff members and one intern are dedicated to land stewardship, managing the lands and also going out and monitoring the easements," he said. "Those need to be monitored at least once a year and up to four times. Their job is to make sure the public benefit acquired in these projects is protected and, if possible, improved. Enhancements could be trails to clearing the land for fuel load reduction to reduce fire danger. If we have time and money, we want to make these properties even better." The trust recently established the Natural Wonders Forever endowment fund at the Placer Community Foundation, with an initial gift of $100,000. "This endowment fund will grow over time with investments from the trust and from community members," Darlington said in a press release. As it moves forward, the trust is looking at potential properties on the Bear River and the American River. There's also a lot of interest in preserving family farms. "We're hoping," he said. "It's really hard to get funding for agriculture preservation, but we're really trying to protect the agriculture in the county. With the PlacerGrown movement, we have a lot of unique agriculture history here and it would be a shame if it went away." Darlington is hoping to finalize one family farm project this year. "The Natural Trading Company is one project where we partnered with Placer County in 2009," he said. "The county holds the easement and we contributed funds to the acquisition." Reach Gloria Young at firstname.lastname@example.com. ------------ Upcoming Placer Land Trust events • Earth Day dedication of Harvego Bear River Preserve (formerly known as Bruin Ranch), 2 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 22, free admission • Blue & Green Ball 20th anniversary celebration, 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, May 14, Blue Goose Fruit Shed, Loomis. Tickets are $40 for members and $50 for non-members. • Treasured Landscape Tours will be held Saturday, May 21, at Big Hill and Saturday, June 18, at Oest Ranch Lake Clementine. Cost is $10 for members and $15 for non-members • Docent-led tours of the Harvego Bear River Preserve will be held on the first Saturday of each month May through September. Free admission For more information, see placerlandtrust.org.


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Jul 25, 2013
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"We thought this would be a fun way to engage the public and include residents in the excitement around the kickoff of our fall 2013 season," says Amy Burkett, general manager of PBS Charlotte. "I can't wait to preview all of the suggestions and invite participants to be as imaginative as possible. Submissions should reflect the heart of our new show, which will add value to our viewers' lives through its in-depth and educational content."


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Managing Bacterial Diseases of Tomatoes and Peppers
Suggested Management Strategies
Bacterial pathogens are difficult to control — there are no silver bullets. Bacteria are water-loving organisms — they multiply best in water, they are spread in water, and the infection process is usually closely linked with the presence of water. A collection of management strategies must be used to minimize damage to tomato and pepper crops from these diseases. The strategies to consider are:
Preseason Sanitation
- Greenhouses can never be "too clean". Contamination from the previous year can provide sufficient inoculum to start an epidemic. A researcher in Michigan recommends that greenhouses be cleaned to the point where your neighbors think you are being excessive! It makes no sense to buy expensive clean seed and inadvertently contaminate it in the greenhouse with carry over pathogens from the previous year.
- All greenhouse tables, flats, containers, hoses, etc should be handled as if they are contaminated, and disinfested prior to use for the season. Sterilized soil, potting mix, and pots or flats should be used in the greenhouse.
- Irrigation equipment (pipes, tubes, drip lines) used in infested fields should be disinfested before being reused.
- All plastic should be removed from the field before a new crop of tomatoes or peppers is planted.
- All stakes and ties for tomato production should be disinfested if they are to be reused. One recommendation is to steam treat the stakes or wash them with a bleach solution
- Only new crates and boxes which have never been used should be used for shipping transplants. Reusable plastic or wooden containers brought to the field should be cleaned and disinfested before they are reused.
Seed and Transplant Selection
- Purchase seed or transplants that are certified disease free.
- Select tolerant varieties.
- Request treated seed to reduce the chance for contamination. Unfortunately, seed treatments can reduce germination and vigor in some varieties. Seed treatments do not come with a 100% guarantee that the seed will be disease free.
Disease Prevention in the Greenhouse
- Scout greenhouses on a weekly basis, looking for any signs of leaf spots or inappropriate wilting among plants.
- Keep varieties separated in the greenhouse. The bacteria are rapidly spread in water, and close spacing in the greenhouse is ideal for rapid disease development. Keeping the varieties separate will help you identify problematic varieties.
- Destroy volunteer tomato plants and Solanaceous weeds growing in or near the greenhouse and production fields.
- Transplants should only be handled when the foliage is dry.
Disease Prevention in the Field
- Do not dip or water transplants in crates or boxes — this will effectively spread the bacteria.
- Do not mechanically clip or top transplants.
- Do not locate fruit or transplant cull piles in or close to production fields.
- Clean all transplanting equipment before and after each use.
- Workers should not enter the fields if the foliage is wet. People handling the foliage while staking and tying are likely to spread the disease. Damage to the plants provides a site for entry of the bacteria into the plant.
- Clippers and pruning tools should be disinfected between plantings and rows.
- A 3 year rotation with a nonhost is encouraged.
Disease Management
- If a bacterial disease is detected in the greenhouse, consider all plants at the location to be contaminated. Do not attempt to separate healthy from diseased plants...many plants will be contaminated, but will not be showing symptoms.
- If a bacterial disease is detected in the field, apply appropriate bactericides. Unfortunately, copper and antibiotic resistant strains of the bacteria are common. Where strains are sensitive to copper, this material can help reduce bacterial populations on the plants.
- If bacterial diseases are present in a field, the plants should be incorporated into the soil to encourage the decomposition of debris.
- Contact your local Cornell Cooperative Extension Educator for assistance in diagnosing plants with suspicious symptoms
Closing Remarks
Bacterial pathogens are notoriously aggressive and challenge the best grower's management skills. Successful growers have found that following as many prevention strategies as possible is the most effective way to manage bacterial diseases on tomatoes. In this case, an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure, because effective cures are nonexistent.


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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine lawmakers will consider legislation this week that would reverse a decision to close a state office, causing 11 state workers to lose their jobs.
Senate Democratic Leader Troy Jackson's office said a committee will take up legislation Wednesday to keep open the Maine Revenue Service Office in Houlton. If approved, the Legislature will vote on the bill when it meets Thursday for a special session.
Department of Administrative and Financial Services Commissioner Sawin Millett decided earlier this month to close the office and consolidate operations in Augusta to save $900,000 over the two-year budget cycle.
Jackson criticized Republican Gov. Paul LePage in a statement for shuttering the office without public or legislative input. But the department has said LePage was not part of its decision to close the office.
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Physical Education Complex
The UNM Gallup Physical Education complex is located on the southeast side of the campus, the building on the east side of Calvin Hall. The P.E. complex provides a basketball court, weight room; showers and lockers for UNM staff, faculty and currently enrolled students.
P.E. classes that are currently offered are: Weight Training & Physical Conditioning, Indoor Cycling, Aerobic Dance, Recreation, Walk for Wellness, Jogging, Yoga, Pilates, Basketball, Cardio Kicking, Beginning Swimming, Country Western Dancing, Ballroom Dancing and Zumba.
Hours of Operation:
Monday through Thursday 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM;
Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Closed holidays and during all semester breaks unless specified otherwise
(Gym schedule changes every 8 weeks during the Fall/Spring semester)
Open Gym Hours
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Scarlett to Stab You in the Back in Borderlands 2 DLC (TRAILER)
In Borderlands 2's upcoming campaign DLC, "Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty," you'll be working with the sand pirate queen Captain Scarlett — and then she'll stab you in the back. Full disclosure.
But that doesn't mean you can't work together in the meantime, does it? Scarlett doesn't seem to think it does, and so you're off on a swashbuckling adventure to the desert town of Oasis, where you'll be searching for the Treasure of the Sands.
Check out the trailer below, which shows off some of the new stuff that will be on offer — including enemies, vehicles, weapons and so on — and gives a bit of an idea of the story of the DLC. You can grab it today on Steam, the Playstation Network or Xbox Live, for $9.99 or 800 MS Points.


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Reviews for Kingdoms of Amalur - Reckoning (EU)
Good looking action rompAkiMatti | April 15, 2014 | See all AkiMatti's reviews »
It is like a MMORPG without the online part but better. The combat is satisfying and versatile, the graphics are colourful and interesting, the world is imaginative and full of stuff to interact with. Buy it in a sale if not else, you likely won't regret it. It is more likely that you won't be able to stop playing. That happened to me even in the short demo version (which you should try to know that you should buy this game).
Wasted PotentialSganotak | Jan. 20, 2014 | See all Sganotak's reviews »
If I had to describe KoA in one word that would be generic. The world is generic, the characters are generic, the plot is generic and the quests are generic. Such a shame for a game that wasted a huge amount of budget on hiring talent like Todd McFarlane and R.A Salvatore to create the game's world and lore. If you ignore all of the above KoA can be quite a fun RPG since it features an excellent combat system, tons of loot, a very unique and vibrant class customization and leveling up system and a lot of interesting enemy types. The cartoony graphics fit the game quite well and you will feel right at home if you enjoy games with similar art direction like WoW The game also offers a lengthy main quest and lots of side quests which are unfortunately very similar to the boring grinding quests available in MMOs If you can get past the generic nature of KoA, it is guaranteed that you will have a lot of fun with it since it is a very polished game, with tons of content and solid gameplay mechanics
Bethesda and Bioware combinedMscigniew | Jan. 3, 2014 | See all Mscigniew's reviews »
If you like DA,ME or Oblivion/Skyrim,you gonna love Kingdoms.The game gives you almost endless possibilities of character design,combining classes,just whatever you want to do with your character you can do.The fighting is fun and looks very impressing no matter if your a rogue,knight or a mage.Dialogues are very similiar like in Bioware games,which is awesome.Graphics are beautiful,and so is the music.The story keeps you hooked up and makes you want to play. In short Kingdoms are awesome and you should at least try it!
Kingdoms of Amalur - reviewNeapolis47 | Aug. 9, 2013 | See all Neapolis47's reviews »
The title has a component GDR really wide thanks to a series of spells but most of armor and weapons really immense, the paraphernalia is improved due to the presence of different types of weapons: long swords, swords, hammers, chakram, fae blades, daggers and bows. Inolte you have a large number of skills and the presence of cards of destiny that will be used to outline the main style of the character. The technical sector is very good thanks to a series of dungeons richly detailed, colorful and varied even though the graphics are hampered by a number of bugs and designed by polygonal models of characters lacking in detail. The sound is the highest level with great samples and with a soundtrack reminiscent of the Lord of the Rings. The game world is vast but not fully explored, and wide exploration is felt but too linear. The story captures immediately the player thanks to a well crafted storyline but to be mistress are secondary missions, able to keep the player glued to the screen for several hours. Finally Kingdoms of Amalur is a great game but is penalized by the lack of a true soul staff taking different elements from RPG noble, some game mechanics reminiscent of Skyrim, the gameplay is very similar to that of Fable, the graphics are similar to that of World of Warcraft even if characterized by a lot more detail and plots and the music all too reminiscent of lord of the Rings.
Good game though with flawsDemilisz | June 11, 2013 | See all Demilisz's reviews »
Kingdom of amalur isn't bad and it is sad how this game and it's developers ended. To put it simply - it looks like someone wanted to make a MMO, but at one point decided to change it into singleplayer instead. There is large world, many generic quests and even more monsters to kill and grind on them. You just do this alone instead of with friends. It is generic fantasy universe with immortal elves, division in them and now bad elves are trying to conquer the world. The nice twist is a class system (three basic: mage, warrior, rogue and many subclasses for this three and their combinations. Each class and subclas has their special bonuses), here called Fates and it is probably the brightest side of this game. Outside that - you are again Chosen One, special for some reason and must save the world, so plot isn't that special (though you may be interested tofind why you are special). Worth trying, if you don't mind a lot of slashing.
Awesome RPGkokosabre | Feb. 3, 2013 | See all kokosabre's reviews »
Kingdoms of Amalur - Reckoning is a really good RPG with the good graphic,with its really good crafting system and awesome combat system.The only problem is that AI isn't so good but nobody is perfect.And also maybe they could increase the difficult since I was full might with skilled crafting and all crafting gear and Hard wasn't really that hard.But the RPG is must have or at least must try and if you choose the second you gonna have a bad time for not buying it.
Great gamedondiablo29 | Dec. 7, 2012 | See all dondiablo29's reviews »
It's a shame this most probably won't get any sequels, but I'd call it the offline World of Warcraft, because the world seems much more similar to an online one rather than a game like Skyrim. Amazing combat system, a little light on the story though, but great customisation
Awesome and long action RPGoginer | Nov. 7, 2012 | See all oginer's reviews »
I really enjoyed playing this game. The controls feel very responsible, the combat is awesome, fast placed and looks and feels very good. Graphics are not outstanding but the art direction is very good, special mention to character design. And long, this game is very long, specially if you do all side quests. There tons of maps, all of them quite large, although there's a lack of variety in them. The story is just your average fantasy tale. It has some nice touches, though, and there are some decisions you can make that change the outcome. The biggest problem with the game is that it gets way too easy because the drop system is somewhat broken. You sometimes get a piece of equipment that's just way too overpowered for the level you are. Very enjoyable game overall, which will give you tens if not hundreds of hours.
Good RPG GameSharptap | Sept. 24, 2012 | See all Sharptap's reviews »
Kingdoms of Amalur is a really great game. I loved the combat and I really got addicted to it.The controls and graphics are great and the game is easy to play.The game is huge and there is a lot of things to explore. Its sad to see that the sales of this game were not high enough and 38 Studios closed. The game is so good and they didnt deserve it. I Hope to see another game of this saga in the future.
An offline mmorpgZinzun | Sept. 24, 2012 | See all Zinzun's reviews »
This game is basically a multiplayer massive online game...offline. So if you played games like World of Warcraft,Final Fantasy XIV,the gameplay is basically the same:a lot of quests,a nice story and a good graphic.Sadly there are many bugs that developers can't patch because theier studio is been closed. Good game if on deal,buy it if you like the genre.
Really nice ARPGnicolaidynbru | July 13, 2012 | See all nicolaidynbru's reviews »
This game is a very good ARPG. The fighting is really fun and you have 3 different type of talents. A mage like, a warrior and a rogue. You can mix this up if you want to. The world is really huge and very well made. There are alot of content. There are also some bugs that need a fix. They were working on a patch before they went bankrupt. Some of the fights might get too easy later on because you levelup too fast. This can be fixed with a cheat engine table. Overall a good game.
Awesome game.arkantos | May 21, 2012 | See all arkantos's reviews »
I can say this is one of the best game i bought in this year, i personally would buy it again since i had much fun, the graphic is simply gorgeus, the story itself isn't very long, you play as a shapeshifters who's been brought back to life and will have to decide the fate of many people, it's also has a lot sidequest that will lead you to see awesome locations, and in-game achievements which kept me busy playing it for 77 hours almost non-stop only downside is the many DLC's that adds few hours of playtime, for a price around 9€ but apart that i would enjoy to see this game being a GOTY, if you have a chance to get this game, do so, you won't regret it.
Kingdoms of Amalur Reviewnibblemonkey | May 17, 2012 | See all nibblemonkey's reviews »
Kingdoms of Amalur is an RPG game made by 38 Studios which sees you play as a character who has been brought back to the dead. The unique thing in Kingdoms of Amalur is Fateshifting, as you defeat enemies you fate meter slowly gets filled and when it is full you can activate Reckoner mode. If this mode your attacks deal a lot more damage and allow you to finish them off with a special finishing move. The controls for the game are nicely suited for the PC with the mouse used for attacking and moving the camera, WASD to move and your magic abilities are swapped through using the numbers which overall these controls work well and make the game easy to play. The story in the game though seems a bit un-noticeable though as for most of the game I wasn't really too sure what was happening in the story although the quest objectives are clearly marked out so this isn't much of a problem. Overall though the game is defiantly worth playing as while the story is a big weak it is still there and you can pay attention to it still as well as the rest of the game being well done and fun to play, the game will last a long time as there is a huge amount of quests scattered through the world.


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As Far As Holidays Go, I Can Think Of Worse.
Apparently yesterday was National Siblings Day.
I've never heard of it before, haven't verified its authenticity, and in fact would not have heard of it yet if not for the veritable explosion of sibling dedication photos splattered all over Facebook.
Including this one, from my sister:
This was taken the last time the three of us were together in Miami, 2011.
It turns out the apparent existence of a National Siblings Day makes me feel two things:
1) The desire to spend some time with the sibs, just the three of us, and
2) Sorry for "only" children.
And look. As someone who might not ever even have children, I'm definitely not judging anyone who chooses to only have one. In fact, I've always been a proponent of the idea. Once child is much easier to take care of and spend time with than two. One child doesn't cost as much money as two, and one child can't get jealous of a sibling that doesn't exist.
(Remember this?)
But then.
One child doesn't have anyone else who really understands the crazy situation with her parents. One child doesn't grow up with the pranks or the fights over wardrobes or the stinky feet in the face or any of those blundering, sibling-induced hurdles that help us learn and mature.
Or at least learn.
One child doesn't have that constant — that mentor. That shoulder. That blood.
One child knows that when the parents get old, there's only one child to share the responsibility.
It took a silly explosion of Facebook photos to remind me of how grateful I am to have my siblings.
I wish my brother and I were closer. I wish neither of them lived so far away.
I wish for a lot of things, but in the end, I'm just happy I have them.
As far as holidays go, I can think of a lot worse. (Columbus Day, anyone?)
How about you? Do you have siblings? If not, do you have stellar, sibling-like friendships? If so, are you close? I've had a rough week and I'm feeling sentimental.
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Well, its taken some time, many years in fact, but on great example of how games do and don't incorporate user feedback is with the Resident Evil series. Players and reviewers have been riding Capcom for not allowing players to move while shooting, and with good reason, as this makes the games feel clunky and is often frustrating. Also, with the recent releases of the fourth and fifth games in the series, gamers, myself included, have been confused and upset over the transition from zombies to parasitic villagers.
Recently, Game Informer (yes i read it, dont judge me, its free) came out with an article about the sixth game in the Resident Evil series. Two things struck me when i scanned this article. The first, Capcom has finally changed their archaic ways and will be allowing characters to move while shooting. The second thing i discovered, much to my displeasure, was that the parasitic replacement to the zombies in the series has once again reared its ugly head.
I dont know for certain that Capcom has taken fan feedback into account, and changed things that desperately needed to be changed, or whether they finally decided for themselves that it was time to move into the current way of doing things. As for the parasites as a replacement to the zombie enemies we all know and love from the original games, we can only assume that Capcom has more to reveal in the upcoming Resident Evil 6 game.
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Ever since it first aired, TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras has been courting controversy. Giving a glimpse into the junior pageant circuit, the show has left many of us mildly horrified by what we've seen: Little girls being plucked, waxed, tanned and made up, then sent on stage in a cloud of sequins and hairspray to impress the judges.
But it seems Toddlers & Tiaras may have finally crossed the line, thanks in part to a pint-sized prostitute.
In an episode that aired last week – you can watch the video below – 3-year-old Paisley hit the stage for the celebrity portion of the pagaent dressed as Julia Roberts. To be more specific, she was dressed as Julia Roberts' prostitute character from Pretty Woman – bare midriff, thigh-high patent leather boots and all.
Not surprisingly, the show has since come under fire.
"We have a serious problem when The Learning Channel* features a toddler, who probably hasn't even learned to read, dressed as a prostitute showing off her sexy strut," says Melissa Henson of the Parent Television Council. "There's no question, TV executives are complicit in robbing these small kids of their childhood. For years we've seen adult sexuality being inappropriately and aggressively foisted on innocent young children, but children today are being sexualized at younger and younger ages."
Paisley's mom Wendy Dickey doesn't see what all the fuss is about.
"I thought it was real cute to do Julia. She's 3, if she was 10 I never would have considered this. But as young as she is I thought it was very comical," she says. "I'm amazed it's caused this much of a frenzy. The judges loved it. Everybody except one particular mom went nuts over it. It was the cutest thing ever. It was very innocent. A lot probably would have been different if they aired the whole entire routine instead of just the hooker part."
Later on in the performance Paisley donned a demure brown dress similar to one the character wears later on in the film. I don't really care if she later donned a Mother Theresa costume, that doesn't erase the fact that a 3-year-old girl was sent on stage dressed as a hooker. It sickens me.
What do you think of Paisley's outfit and her mom's response? Do you agree with the PTC that TLC crossed the line this time?
Here is Paisley's Pretty Woman performance:
Photos, Video: TLC


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Three is probably enough, wouldn't want to test it though. To be fair to Jamie, it's pretty high and foreshortened in this pic. We wrote it up as a boulder problem anyway, so no problem. There's shorter HVSs in the Peak.
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May 6, 2016
An autopsy on a missing man who was found in a swamp says his death was an accident.
Benjamin Courtney of Williamston was reported missing Wednesday night from a Rocky Mount group home. His body was found in a swamp within walking distance from the Lancaster Street group home the next day.
The Pitt County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday that after an autopsy the 32-year-old man's death was ruled an accidental drowning.
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Police say the Williamston man found dead in Rocky Mount was just about a half-mile from where he lived.
Rocky Mount police say an autopsy will be conducted on 32-year-old Benjamin Courtney to determine how he died. His body was found in a swamp in walking distance from the group home he lived at on Lancaster St.
Courtney's body was found after an extensive search on the ground and by air Thursday, police said. A Silver Alert was issued for him on earlier in the day.
The Rocky Mount Police Department says a missing man was found dead Thursday in a swamp.
A Silver Alert was issued for 32-year-old Benjamin Courtney from Williamston Thursday after he walked away from a group home on Lancaster Street in Rocky Mount. He was reported missing Wednesday night.
Officers say 2 people were reported missing and one was found early Thursday morning, but the search for Courtney continued Thursday. Police say his body was discovered late Thursday afternoon in a swamp in Rocky Mount.
Police say the cause of death is under investigation.
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- Aug 25:
- Cyclist Ian Crane to enter surgery after Sunday crash at Pro Challenge
- Aug 24:
- Garmin-Sharp strategy comes up aces in win by Alex Howes in Stage 7
- Cyclist Ian Crane in stable condition after crashing through rear window
- Alex Howes wins final stage of USA Pro Challenge; Tejay van Garderen overall winner
- Cycling race, food festival, street closures will slow Denver traffic
- Aug 23:
- Tejay van Garderen sets Vail time trial record, extends overall Pro Challenge lead
- Aug 22:
- What it takes to be a good time trialist in cycling
VAIL — As a five-time Olympic gold medalist in speed skating who later turned to road cycling, competing in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, Eric Heiden knows what makes a great endurance athlete. He sees those qualities clearly in Tejay van Garderen, who seemingly put a stranglehold on the USA Pro Challenge on Saturday with a spectacular time-trial performance on Vail Pass.
"When you look at the ingredients of what makes a good endurance athlete, one, you've got to have the genetics," said Heiden , a hero of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, a team physician for van Garderen's BMC Racing and a member of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. "You've got to have that physiologic ability. Also you have to have a good mental toughness. Sometimes that combination is hard to get.
"Tejay is one of those guys that's got the physiology, and he's also got that mental toughness."
Van Garderen showcased both Saturday in a rainy climb up Vail Pass. Beginning the day with a somewhat tenuous 20-second lead in the overall standings, the Aspen resident obliterated the course record he set last year by 37 seconds and will take a lead of 1:32 into Sunday's final stage from Boulder to Denver via Golden and Lookout Mountain. He is now the prohibitive favorite to repeat as Pro Challenge champion.
PHOTOS: USA Pro Challenge 2014, Stage 6
"I love coming here and racing in Colorado," van Garderen said. "This race really is one of the highest-class races in the world. To win it for the second time, that's no easy feat. I'm really honored."
Former Boulder resident Tom Danielson, second in the overall standings, was struck by van Garderen's toughness Friday when the peloton rode through South Park and over Hoosier Pass to Breckenridge in persistent cold rain.
"I can't see anyone in the world beating him here," said Danielson, second in Saturday's stage. "Just looking at his face (Friday), we were shivering and hypothermic and I looked over at him and he was having a good time — or at least looked like it.
"It's just a really credible result when you stand next to the guy that finished fifth in the Tour de France and one of the best riders in the world."
Despite multiple crashes at the Tour de France, van Garderen was in contention for a podium finish until he had a horrible day in the Pyrenees on Stage 16. Finishing in the top three was out of the question, but he fought back to finish fifth for the second time in three years.
"He had so many problems, so many reasons to give up and quit, so many excuses to bail out of that dream of finishing on the podium," Danielson said. "And he should have finished on the podium. To fight for the top five and get that, that was pretty impressive."
Van Garderen may be on the verge of becoming a superstar, but teammate Michael Schaer said he is "uncomplicated" and easy going.
"When we go to the dinner table, he is one of us," Schaer said. "He's not a superstar; he's really a kind person. We have a good time all the time. We can joke with him."
Van Garderen is only 26, in a sport in which athletes peak in their late 20s and early 30s. People around the sport talk about how he is maturing.
"He's always been a talented kid," said retired racer Christian Vande Velde. "Now with maturity and experience, you can use all that talent the way it should be."
Vande Velde senses it from the outside. Heiden sees it at work within the team.
"The thing I've really been impressed with is his leadership abilities these last couple of years," Heiden said. "I look at him voicing his opinion as a leader and having the respect of the rest of the riders on the team and the rest of the riders in the peloton."
Van Garderen also is benefiting from an accumulation of experience that figures to make him a contender in the Tour de France for years to come, along with his development as an endurance athlete.
"If you've done the Tour de France multiple times, very often you realize you're going over the same climbs so you know what to expect," Heiden said. "The other thing is age. Usually you come into your physiologic prime for endurance sports in your late 20s, early 30s. He's now coming into that."
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USA Pro Challenge in review
Stage 1, Aspen-Snowmass circuit, 61 miles: Two Boulder riders who are friends and training partners finished inches apart to lead the way. Kiel Reijnen (UnitedHealthcare) edged Golden native Alex Howes (Garmin-Sharp) for the win.
Stage 2, Aspen-Crested Butte, 105 miles: Unheralded Robin Carpenter (Hincapie Sportswear Development) won but Howes took the yellow jersey with another second-place finish, this one by seven seconds.
Stage 3, Gunnison-Monarch Mountain, 96 miles: Aspen's Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing), the prerace favorite, launched an explosive burst with 1 kilometer to go and won the stage just ahead of Rafal Majka (Tinkoff-Saxo), claiming the yellow jersey with a lead of 20 seconds.
Stage 4, Colorado Springs circuit stage, 70 miles: The overall standings remained unchanged on a day made by 42-year-old Jens Voigt (Trek), who nearly pulled off the stage win. The people's favorite, he faltered with 800 meters to go, and the win went to Elia Viviani (Cannondale).
Stage 5, Woodland Park-Breckenridge, 104 miles: In another day of negligible movement in the overall standings but miserable conditions because of rain and cold, Laurent Didier (Trek) won a three-rider sprint to the line.
Stage 6, Vail time trial, 10 miles: Van Garderen broke the course record he set last year and expanded his lead in the overall standings from 20 seconds to 1:32, a commanding advantage going into Sunday's final Boulder-Denver stage.


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1.Wrong courtship. Courtship with an unbeliever, married man, divorcee, unsaved professing-Christian and one not based on God and love.
2.Nicodemus Courtship. (Secret courtship)
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5.Carry-over courtship- Between lovers going out before they accepted Christ who continue with it after conversion.
6.Close courtship. Those involved in it don't really know themselves.
7.Open courtship
8.Captive courtship- One of the partners dictates the affairs, shutting off other party
9.Turbulent courtship- Full of fighting, bickering, nagging, brawl, strife, malice, etc.
10.Filthy courtship. Involves sexual immoralities.
11.Pure courtship
12.Dry courtship- Courtship that makes both partners dry spiritually.
13.Balanced courtship. It is a pure, open, enjoyable and purposeful courtship.
14.Missionary courtship. This is when a Christian courts an unbeliever with the intention of converting the person before wedding.


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Cinderella Skeleton
Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 September 2000
Gr. 3-5, younger for reading aloud. San Souci puts a bizarre spin on the world's most familiar folktale. Cinderella Skeleton "lives" in Boneyard Acres, where she's forced to keep an entire mausoleum supplied with cobwebs and dead flowers while stepsisters Gristlene and Bony-Jane primp and pose before stepmother Skreech. Thanks to the offices of a good witch, Cinderella gets to Prince Charnel's ball and makes her escape just before dawn. As expected, she leaves behind a shoe--but this one has a foot inside. The text is cast in verse, with a complex rhyme scheme that takes getting used to but keeps the lines from sounding sing-songy. Catrow's artwork seems to have taken a tip from Tim Burton's film Nightmare before Christmas (1993). The backgrounds are eerie and elaborately detailed, and the figures are not really skeletons but rather elongated stick figures with mummified heads and moldering, garishly colored finery. In the end, Cinderella Skeleton hobbles out of hiding to be united with her Prince, and off they float, trailing clouds of--something. Share this macabre rib tickler with Stinky Cheese fans. --John Peters Copyright 2000 Booklist Reviews
Horn Book Guide Reviews 2001 Spring
In this sweet tale of corpse-meets-corpse, San Souci creates a bony heroine whose trip to the ball has a distinctly Halloweenish cast. The plot follows the original folktale closely, with one grisly exception: instead of retaining her glass slipper, Prince Charnel gets her entire foot, snapped off halfway up the leg bone. The potentially scary moments are made humorous in Catrow's caricatures and dynamic compositions. Copyright 2001 Horn Book Guide Reviews
Horn Book Magazine Reviews 2000 #5
"Cinderella Skeleton / Was everything a ghoul should be: / Her build was long and lean and lank; / Her dankish hair hung down in hanks; / Her nails were yellow; her teeth were green- / The ghastliest haunt you've ever seen. / Foulest in the land was she." San Souci (Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story) takes his interest in Cinderella variants one step further by creating a bony heroine whose trip to the ball has a distinctly Halloweenish cast. Even children who've never heard of The Addams Family will recognize the conventions (Cinderella Skeleton's housework consists of hanging up cobwebs instead of taking them down), and the plot follows the original folktale closely, with one grisly exception: instead of retaining her glass slipper, Prince Charnel gets her entire foot, snapped off halfway up the leg bone. This and other potentially scary moments are made humorous in Catrow's caricatures, which employ the long lines and angles of the skeletons to create particularly dynamic compositions in pencil and watercolor. Cinderella wears a fluttering cobweb gown and a blooming dandelion as her headdress, while Prince Charnel is just as handsome with deeply sunken eyes and ornamental cockroaches scurrying over his Napoleonic dress uniform. Although San Souci's unusual rhyme scheme, complex syllables, and breaks in meter may trip up a few unwary readers, much remains to be admired in this sweet tale of corpse-meets-corpse. anita l. burkam Copyright 2000 Horn Book Reviews
Kirkus Reviews 2000 September #1
This fancy little piece of septet versifying works nicely as a vehicle to tell the story of the graveyard Cinderella. San Souci (Callie Ann and Mistah Bear, p. 1045, etc.) follows the original tale quite closely, substituting things from the bone orchardwhere appropriate: her coach is a hearse; the prince is named Charnel; her stepfamily is Skreech, Gristlene, and Bony-Jane; and, of course, she herself is a skeleton. Instead of simply losing her slipper at the ball, this Cinderella has her lower tibia snapped off. (Picture the prince traveling everywhere with the foot in a velvet case.) Yes, there are touches of the macabre here (each prospective bride pulls her own foot off to try on Cinderella's), but never overmuch or to the point of terrifying. And most of it is hysterically funny. San Souci's verse ultimately takes the show: "Cinderella Skeleton! / The rarest gem the world has seen! / Your gleaming skull and burnished bones, / Your teeth like polished kidney stones, / Your dampish silks and dankishhair, / There's nothing like you anywhere! / You make each day a Halloween." What a picture she makes. Catrow's (The Fungus That Ate My School, p. 474, etc.) artwork is reminiscent of The Nightmare Before Christmas--perhaps that can't be helped when skeletons are the principals--but very much its own thing, with abundant cartoony comic licks and ghoulish creatures galore. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright 2000 Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly Reviews 2004 August #2
"No glass slipper appears in this often funny graveyard romance," PW said. "Instead, the skeletal prince breaks the heroine's shinbone as she flees the Halloween Ball. A Cinderella story that girls and boys will love." Ages 3-7. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
School Library Journal Reviews 2000 September
Gr 3-7-Not for the faint of heart, this retelling continues the author's fascination with "Cinderella" tales. In challenging vocabulary and a complex rhyme scheme, the clever narrative tells of Cinderella Skeleton, a wraith who lives in a mausoleum with her horrific stepmother, Skreech, and stepsisters Gristlene and Bony-Jane. She wiles away her days streaking the windows, hanging cobwebs, and feeding bats until the Halloween Ball invitation arrives. A good woodland witch conjures up the usual participants into a funeral wagon, dragon steeds, a gown, and slippers, but in fleeing from Prince Charnel at sunrise, Cinderella breaks off her slippered foot mid-calf. Gross, yes, though later other ghosts break off their shinbones with the hope of fitting the leg-and-slipper remains ("Wire or glue; you're good as new!" snaps the stepmother as she pulls off each girl's foot). Catrow's wonderfully weird pencil-and-watercolor illustrations feature wiggly lines, lurid pink and bilious green accents, large-eyed skeletons, and grotesque mutantlike creatures. The envious stepfamily conveniently shrivels to dust, which is certainly less horrible than other endings (though younger readers will still be disturbed about those broken legs). This darkly humorous and spooky variation will tickle the twisted tastes of upper-elementary and middle-school readers if it is displayed where they'll find it.-Susan Hepler, Burgundy Farm Country Day School, Alexandria, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.