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From Shakespeare to the Gothic novel to Salman Rushdie, the ghost has always been a recurrent figure in literature. This conference aims at examining haunting phenomena in the postcolonial world: is there a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting? Who/What are the postcolonial ghosts? How do they show themselves? Can they be conjured or exorcised? How?
To answer these questions, and many others, the presence of ghosts in the new literatures in English (Africa, India, Caribbean…) can be examined; issues tackled may include magic realism, neo-gothic writings, folklore, ghosts (guilty or innocent), and the various ways in which they manifest themselves. Ghosts may also be more abstract : haunted texts, literary or cultural ghosts from the past…Writers as diverse as André Brink, Edwige Danticat, Fred D'Aguiar, Denise Harris, Wilson Harris, Nalo Hopkinson, Margaret Laurence, Arundhati Roy or Wole Soyinka, to quote only a few, can be looked at.
Another possible aspect is the presence of colonial "ghosts" in institutions, politics, historiography, education, museums… The various "truth and reconciliation commissions" established to deal with – exorcise? – the ghosts of the past may also be looked at. Many other examples can of course be dealt with.
Finally, linguistic ghosts also haunt the postcolonial world : accents, creolization, "englishes" where the colonisers' language is haunted by the colonised's (and vice versa), etc. It will therefore be interesting to try and understand how, and to what extent, postcolonial language(s) is/are haunted.
This conference should then be open to those who deal in literature, as well as to those interested in cultures, history, techniques or linguistics, in the British Empire and the Commonwealth, delivering their paper in English or French.
Please send your proposals (title + abstract of 250 to 300 words) as well as a short bio to Mélanie Joseph-Vilain (firstname.lastname@example.com) and to Judith Misrahi-Barak (email@example.com) by December 31, 2006.


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It is not the first time that is an artifact, an ancient object, something like this is found in that region. But, surprisingly conserved, this specific artifact is – at first glance, inlaid in rock (which is understandable since the peninsula is home to numerous volcanoes). Subjected to analysis, the conjunct showed to be made of metal parts that seem to form a mechanism, a gear which may be of a type of watch or computer. The astonishing is that all the pieces were dated in 400 million! of anos.Yury Gobulev commented:
We got a call from the prefec of Tigil. He told us that hikers that were walking in place, found these remains in rock. We went to the place indicated, and initially we not understand what we saw. There were – hundreds of toothed cylinders which appeared to be parts of a machine.
Nobody could believe that 400 million years ago could have existed on Earth even a man (even more a machine). At that time, the forms of vida were very simple, but the finding, (simply) – clearly suggests the existence of intelligent beings capable of such technology. Certainly, such beings would had come from other planets. It is possible that a spaceship can had was damaged (or there was an accident) and it was abandoned in place.
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Misterioso Fossile in Russia: Astronave Antica
ZaZoom/IItaly, published in 03 /06/2012
Source: brazilweirdnews russia
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Special thanks to our regular reader Kurt
400 Million Year Old Machine Found in Russia HOAX
Image of apparent fossil found in Kamchatka peninsula and analyzed by Yuri Golubev appears to be a HOAX as no professor by the name of Yuri Golubev is listed on the St-Petersburg university website. The image appears to be that of Laudonomphalus regularis from the Crinoids species that are marine animals that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms. In fact the same non cropped image can be found on Wikipedia, a sample that was found in France, not Russia.
Wikipedia: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:FossileLaudonomphalus_regularis.jpg
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid


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The basis for your rail trip. Backpack or suitcase, clothing, sleeping bag, tent, camping stove, toiletries and much more.
Body care
Using small packs saves weight. Bringin only shampoo is usually sufficient, as it dissolves in salt water. You can also use it for example when using the sea as your shower or washing the dishes.
If you want to shower en route, you will find public showers in most bigger European railway stations. Or just go to a public swimming pool.
One towel should be sufficient. In some hostels you also get towels provided free of charge.
Other things
One of the most important things to take on your trip is a pocket knife. You cannot only use it for cutting and eating, but also for repairing things.
Take a camera with a sufficiently large memory card. You could also bring a usb/memory stick. Usually you can burn your data on a CD in an Internet café.
MP3 player or ear plugs
In order to fall asleep in a dorm of a hostel, ear plugs are almost essential. That doens't mean it is always that noisy, but people usually come and leave the dorm.
The backpack is the ideal kind of baggage if you do not only want to travel from one big city to another, but also want to make some stops off the beaten tracks where you will find uneven ground. For example when walking to a campsite or spending a day at the beach or in a park.
A backpack is an investment you will enjoy for several years and during several trips. Therefore it is advisable to pay attention to the quality. Quality means higher comfort. Starting from 100 € you will get really high-quality backpacks. It is of course always a matter of your personal budget.
The packing volume and weight are key factors when travelling with a backpack. You should try not to exceed 60 litres of packing volume and around 10 kilograms of weight. These values are variable though. Depending on whether you prefer to camp during your whole trip, taking a tent and all the cooking equipment with you, or if you just spend the nights in hostels. Factors like the season (winter/summer) and your body stature are also decisive.
It is advisable only to bring clothes for the maximum of one week and then wash your clothers during your trip - no matter how long your journey is. Hostels and camp sites always offer laundry service.
Recommendation: pack your backpack before you start your trip and have a walk of two kilometres to get a feeling for the weight. Then you can rethink if you really need everything packed in it.
Pack the heaviest items at the height of your shoulders toward your back. It will be more comfortable to carry your backpack this way.
A suitcase with wheels is very convenient if you only travel from city to city and use public transport on flat tracks. It is less tiring than a heavy backpack to wear during the hot summer months. Disadvantage: you can not just go on the beach with it and rough paths are quite difficult to handle.
The packing volume and weight can be higher than the one for a backpack. It should nevertheless not exceed an upper limit of 15 kilograms.
The quality determines the price. Starting from 100 € you can find really good suitcases.
Plastic bags
To avoid chaos in your backpack or suitcase, you should always have some plastic bags with you. Sort your clothes, store your dirty clothes and the extra pair of shoes separately .
A useful and quite wise saying is: take the clothes you want to bring, then remove half of them - what remains is what you will really need on your travel tour.
Of course, the clothing depends on the season.
One normal pair of pants and one pair of light or jogging pants, which you can easily put on for example in a night train. Two pairs of shorts, one pair of swimming trunks or a bathing suit or bikini.
Shirts and sweaters
One sweater and some shirts for one week. Five shirts are usually sufficient, because in good weather you can easily wash them by hand and hang dry in a hostel or a train.
Usually, a jacket is not necessary in summer. It is better to wear a sweater and several shirts at one time. In autumn and winter, a jacket is recommended to protect against rain.
Underwear and socks
Five pairs of socks and underwear should be enough. Just wash them by hand or sometimes use a washing machine in a hostel or at a camp site.
One pair of flip-flops or sandals which you can use on hot days and also for taking a shower in a hostel or at a camp site.
One pair of comfortable shoes in which you can walk long distances: trainers / sneakers or hiking shoes
Sleeping bag
You have to be aware that during your trip the sleeping bag will serve as your bed. In hostels you normally don't need one. On night trains it can be very useful.
Pay attention to the weight (less than 1.5 kilograms) and the packing volume (less than 10 litres). The temperature range of the sleeping bag should correspond to your destination. Of course, the purchase will depend on your budget.
Advantage of sleeping bags with synthetic insulation: they dry quickly if they get wet and are less expensive. Advantage of down-filled sleeping bags: the packing volume is small and they are light-weighted.
air mattress / sleeping pad
Decide between a traditional and cheap sleeping pad or a higher-quality self-inflating air mattress. The sleeping pad is more robust and you can also use it to sit down on the ground, for example when cooking outside. The expensive air mattress is of course more comfortable.
When travelling in the summer months, a simple and inexpensive tent bought at a discount for less than 50 € should be fine. And it will resist a rain shower. The most important factor is the tent's weight and volume of the package. Make sure that a two-person tent weighs around three kilograms.
Eating is an important factor for your trip, allowing you to either save or spend a lot of money.
Cooking on your own saves money, fills your stomach and is healthier. Supermarkets can be found everywhere, prices are almost the same throughout Europe. The best thing is to avoid the expensive supermarkets in train stations, rather looking for a discount store, sometimes a short walk away.
The typical homemade meal while travelling is noodles or rice with vegetables and sauce.
Important: compare the prices between a fast-food restaurant and when cooking by yourself. You will see that fast-food is very expensive.
For cases of "emergency", bring two packs of soup with you. You just need to add some hot water and you have a ready meal.
You can fill two large plastic bottles with water in your hostel. This should be enough for one full day. Everything else is available in supermarkets. Note the rules for alcohol in each country: sometimes there are special stores for alcohol only.
Recommend are a plate, a mug and a pot made of sheet metal or stainless steel. Add a fork, a spoon and a pocket knife. The pocket knife with additional can opener and corkscrew.
Use your shampoo. It cleans everything, even in salt water at the sea.
Inexpensive and sufficient is a camping gas stove for EUR 20, plus EUR 5 for a cartridge. These cartridges are available in all European countries. Caution: the gas cartridges are not allowed on aircrafts.
You should have small jars with salt and pepper or a spice mill with you. One or two plastic boxes for left-overs, open packs or vegetables and fruits can be useful.
Most hostels and campsites offer computers with internet access. Sometimes even for free. You can also find cheap internet cafés everywhere.
Internet is very helpful when it comes to booking your accommodation for the next few days and making reservations for trains or for finding train connections.
It is useful to have your own small and lightweight netbook with you. It allows you to store photos, listen to music and surf the net. However it is not absolutely necessary to bring one.


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Last week I posted the entirety of an interview I conducted with Mike Suffredini, manager of the International Space Station. This week I'm putting up a Q&A I did with John Shannon, who is the space shuttle program manager.
I believe the interview sheds some light on what it's like to work with an aging and costly piece of technology that for three decades has been this country's sole means of launching humans into space.
Shannon on the shuttle.
I found his comments on the frustrations of working with "reusable" technology quite interesting.
Q. Are you too busy right now to reflect on the fact that, in another year or so, this program will likely end?
A. I get involved in the day-to-day, and we're working on the launch of the current mission, and we've got our full flight rate next year of six flights, and that keeps us pretty busy. I've said it in a press conference before, obviously the shuttle is an amazing vehicle and I think it was a little ahead of its time when it was developed.
It was really developed to do the two things that you've seen most recently, to service low-Earth orbiting satellites, and of course servicing the Hubble most recently, that was very successful, and to build the space station. And we're almost done with that. All the things that the shuttle was specifically designed for are almost complete, and by the end of next year we will be complete with those.
If you are not doing missions that require the complexity and overhead of the space shuttle, there's no reason to be flying the space shuttle any more. I'll be real honest with you, the shuttle is kind of a pain to go fly. There's all of the turnaround activities we have, to make sure it's safe. Even in flight, once we launch it we go do a detailed assessment to make sure it survived the ascent environment. After our on orbit mission we do a very detailed inspection to make sure we survived the on-orbit mission. That's not what you want in your spacecraft. You want something you load up, go fly, don't worry about it at all, you complete your mission, and then you come home. That's really what you want.
We're not there with the shuttle and we're really not going to get there.
Q. What lessons has the shuttle taught us about human spaceflight, that maybe we didn't know after Apollo?
A. I'm not sure we didn't already know this, but it's not routine. It takes an incredible amount of vigilance. I bet every day, and every problem we talk about, we go, "Oh, everything was designed with so little margin, everything is thinner than you'd like it to be, or has to take heat, or pressure or any other environmental conditions so close to the failure point just to make it light enough to go fly. That has caused us a tremendous amount of work. The other piece of it is reusability. I talked about that during the Augustine meeting.
We talk about reusable main engines, and that's a myth because we didn't just buy the engines and tell Rocketdyne thank you, and walk away from them. We bought the engines and then we buy all of the overhead associated with turning those engines around, testing them, and then if you have any design issues or if you have any part wear-out issues you have to go back to the manufacturer and buy a new part or a new design. So you keep that entire production and manufacturing capability, and you keep that entire corporate knowledge in place, to support this reusable engine.
So it's the worst of both worlds — extra money to turn these engines around, but I've also got all of my production and manufacturing capability that I'm supporting in case I need a spare part. It would be much cheaper if we had engines that you just had that production capability and you built them like a commodity, like a toaster or a car, and made your supply lines as efficient as you possibly can.
I can't reduce my costs. Even if I reduce the turnaround and reuse costs, I still have to keep all of my overhead of a plant at Canoga Park, a plant at West Palm Beach, and all of the subvendors because if I need a nozzle I have to go build it. It's the same for all kinds of different parts on the orbiter.
I spend $3.5 million a year keeping a bunch of older engineers around in Grapevine, Texas at a Lockheed Martin plant with ancient equipment to go build reinforced carbon-carbon panels for wings. And I've got a spare for each slot on the orbiter, but is that enough? If I get rid of that plant, I can't rebuild that capability. So I have to pay money to be able to replace a panel a year.
So I think a big lesson we learned that reusable is good if you can buy it once and use it again and again without having to go back to the production and manufacturing.
Q. Is it frustrating flying 1970s technology when there are petaflop supercomputers and everyone has an iPhone in his or her pocket?
A. I don't think of the shuttle as 1970s technology. It was built then, but it was really state-of-the-art at that time. You don't need more than what you have at most parts of the shuttle. We added some additional computing capabilities for the glass cockpit displays, which are as good as any 787 coming off the line. The orbiters themselves, the engines are better than any engine that is produced or run anywhere in the world. The vehicle health monitoring capability is better than any rocket out there. So although the technology was developed 30 and 35 years ago that it's been upgraded sufficiently that I don't feel like were using old technology. It's pretty complex.
I'll go back to the Augustine hearing. There's a lot of Lego manufacturers out there saying we'll take this piece here and that piece there and do something. But the hardware is the easy part in designing a rocket. It's the flight software, and making sure your design will work in different environments that is the hard part. Not the software inside the vehicle, but the software outside that determines the vehicle is OK to go fly. And that's not addressed by any of the presentations to Augustine. If you don't come in and say that's your critical path, you don't understand what you're doing.
Q. Do you see the shuttle as a worthy successor to the Apollo program?
A. Well, it's totally different. Apollo was built for one specific mission, to get to the moon. The boost capability was good for putting up Skylab. But shuttle has a lot of other capabilities with the enormous cargo bay, robotic arm and EVA activities. It was really built to learn how to live and work in low-Earth orbit. For that function it's the best spacecraft ever built. It's apples and oranges. They were built for two very different purposes.
Q. What do you see as the shuttle's legacy?
A. The space station. Absolutely. I don't think people understand what is orbiting the Earth right now. The people who worked around here during Apollo, that was their goal after landing on the Moon, to have what we have up there now. Not just the engineering achievement, but the international partnership piece of it. It's just an amazing achievement. It's a great foothold.
Q. What advice do you have for the Constellation Program.
A. They have a good plan. Ares I is a good plan. Ares V is a good plan. Their architecture is good. They just are not funded. People say, "Ah they're behind schedule," or "They have these technical difficulties." They don't have money. When they put together this plan it was a very different funding profile. We see that on the shuttle side very clearly because we're trying to hand over work force, industrial base, rocket testing, the Vertical Assembly Building, and they just don't have the money to pick those things up. So now we're trying to scramble to try and keep things mothballed, and some way to keep the industrial base alive until they're ready, and it's just a mess. It's all a money function. If we don't get additional funding for the Constellation Program we have to get a different plan.
Q. What is it like to develop and maintain a program through different funding levels and different priorities from administration to administration?
A. They're in the development cycle right now. If the funding is not going to show up you have to change your plan. You can't sit and say, "It's not fair," or "They promised us this," or whatever if you want to go and meet the goal. We do that with the shuttle all the time. We have great ideas all the time, but there's not the money to do it. They want us to go fly the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, and I would love to fly it. It's an extremely worthy instrument to fly and put on the station. They came to us and asked us if we could fly it and we said, "We don't have money. It doesn't go for free." The White House came up with $300 million so we're going to go fly it. It's all about money. You can't do things if you don't have the money.


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Elias Georges
Associate Professor
T: 514-398-8137 | elias [dot] georges [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Email ) | Parasitology Building P-106
BSc, PhD (McGill)
Research at the Institute of Parasitologyfocuses on the interaction between host and parasitic disease organisms with a view to controlling infection by these organisms. Many different perspectives brought by the staff provide a unique opportunity to examine aspects of infection ranging from the cellular mechanisms which govern this process, the immune response of the host, immunosuppression mechanisms used by parasites to assist infection and the epidemiology of parasitic diseases.
There are currently 11 research labs at the Institute of Parasitology.


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• Calculate Mortgage Payment
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• Which Loan is Better
• Standard vs. Bi-Weekly
Name: Preservation Durham
Phone: 919-682-3036
Email Preservation Durham
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Style Periods: An architecturally significant example of the tri-gable Gothic cottage
An architecturally significant example of the tri-gable Gothic cottage, this house features four-over-four windows in the gables and flanking front-gabled dormers; windows have peaked lintels, the entrance has sidelights, and original wood siding exists beneath the vinyl siding. The wrap-around porch has replacement boxed porch posts.
John Evans, first superintendent of the Durham Children's Home, built the house. He originally owned most of the block and bequeathed portions of it to his children. His daughter, who later occupied the house, married Arthur E. Burcham, Superintendent of the Durham Hosiery Mills and on City Council in the 40s.
Preservation Durham is a 501(c)3 dedicated to preserving the history, architecture and cultural heritage of Durham and Durham County and to serve as an institution for the education of citizens through the promotion and appreciation of this heritage. As a part of this mission HPSD created the Endangered Properties Program which, to date, has saved over 15 structures. To learn more about the program and the houses that are being featured, visit Properties for Sale.
If you are a serious buyer and are interested in preserving the history and integrity of Durham, contact Preservation Durham to schedule an appointment. Please call (919-682-3036) or email email@example.com.
Property Condition: Needs Restoration
Garage: None
Exterior: Aluminum/Vinyl Siding
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You read right, I am back from my sewing hiatus, yaay! However, I over did it a bit yesterday. I tried to do too much at one time.
But, it felt good to get back in my sewing room!! I was commissioned by a young mother of three to make her son ( about 4-5yrs.) a nutcracker style jacket...he's going to be in a wedding out of town.
I got the fabric/pattern on Thursday...she's leaving town tomorrow around noon. Now keep in mind I have not seen the little boy. I was just told by a friend of mine that actually met with the woman what size he was and she took some measurements for me. I called the mother for the other measurements I needed. I was given specific instructions by the mother on what to do.
Anyway, I began cutting/sewing the jacket yesterday, probably about 1pm, stopped about 4pm so I could cook. I started again about 12:30pm and finished right at 3pm. Then, off to meet her I went. Thank God for my mother, she drove me to meet her, I'm not quite ready for driving yet...makes me nervous.
Little Will tried the jacket on and he LOVED it! His mother loved it! It fit perfect! He will be wearing his jacket with a pair of white slacks and some sort of belt around the waist.
So, here's a picture of my first project back at the machine ( gotta get myself back in the groove...I'll be returning to work soon).
He tried this on over a t-shirt and his jean pants.
I'm so excited, I forgot to tell you the specifics of "the jacket", lol!
Well, mom brought me a Burda pattern~ 2461, 1 1/8 yd of emerald green , velveteen fabric, 6 buttons, 3 frog closures, and gold trim. she told me she wanted tails in the back, but the peplum short in the front, so a cross between view A and B. She didn't want cuffs and no faux pockets...no additional trimming. It's a good thing because the fabric she sent was the exact amount needed with no more to spare.
Here's the pattern:
Well, on to the next project~ 3pc. suit alterations!
Happy Sewing,
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Thanks Bunny! Mom was so happy and thankful, she said it was just what she imagined! And, Will didn't want to take his jacket off, his mother had to peel it off of him,lol! Here you see him in the mirror after he's tried it on for the second time...he was giving us that soldier stance,lol!
Alethia, this is wonderful and would you just look at Mom. You can tell she is thrilled and her little boy is quite proud of himself.
Guess I was posting as you typed this comment. I'm so grateful not to have anymore real commitments to sew....now I can selfishly sew anything I want to sew. lol
Thanks Janie!
Thanks Lillie! And, it's great to hear from you, how've you been? I look forward to seeing pictures of your GD's debutante gown...it's that season!


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New President Gail McGovern's Reaction to Red Cross Hurricane Response
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Wendy Harman
Red Cross CEO and President Gail McGovern is interviewed in the newest edition of Chronicle of Philanthropy:
How has the Red Cross handled the current hurricane season?
Ms. McGovern: I am astonished at what our organization can pull off. Watching the disasters-operations entity in person is probably one of the finest examples I've ever seen in material logistics. It's really been something. The way our volunteers will pack up, leave their families, and tirelessly help victims of disasters — it really restores your faith in the American public and it's a beautiful thing to behold.
Do you want to get involved? Contact your local chapter so you can be ready to help.
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text: state bar association State Bar withdraws writing award for short story with "racist" symbolism By Steve Carmody • Aug 20, 2015 Southern Poverty Law Center The State Bar of Michigan is apologizing for honoring a short story with "racist" symbolism. The bar association has offered Michigan lawyers a chance to flex their literary skills with a biennial short story contest for the past eight years. State Bar Association says Michigan needs court reform By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jan 26, 2011 Rich Evenhouse / Flickr The Michigan State Bar wants to change the way the state's courts work. A task force of judges and lawyers are recommending changes they say will save the state money. The Judicial Crossroads Task Force suggests: consolidating trial courts giving business cases higher priority and letting existing judges retire without replacing them Michigan has 246 separate courts and 586 judges.


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Same-sex couples in Wisconsin are signing up for the state's new domestic partnership registery.
This new law has given gay couples many of the same legal protections as husbands and wives. Protections include the right to visit a partner in a health care facility and the right to a partner's estate sans will.Researchers have estimated between 1,400 and 5,100 same-sex couples will register in the first year, based on U.S. Census Bureau figures showing 14,000 same-sex couples in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin became the first Midwestern state to enact protections for gay and lesbian couples through legislation. The governor proposed the idea and the Democratic-controlled state legislature approved it in the state budget.
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said the law he helped write provides a model for other states that have similar bans but want to offer protections to same-sex couples. He plans to register with his longtime partner soon.
"It's really significant there was little resistance in the Legislature," he said. "The public understands the need for these protections."
However, opponents are trying to get the law invalidated by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. They say it conflicts with the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage.
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Hopefully he didn't accidentally fall into the tub of acid he was dissolving his latest hooker in.
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CONCORD, N.C. — The day after legendary racer Dick Trickle shot himself to death in a North Carolina cemetery, friends in the NASCAR community wondered why the former driver took his own life while remembering him as a hard-nosed racer.
Trickle, 71, had stopped racing in NASCAR's Cup Series in 2002 but still kept in contact with many in NASCAR.
Trickle's body was found in a Boger City, N.C., cemetery after he placed a 911 call to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department. Trickle's brother, Chuck, told The Las Vegas Review-Journal that his brother he had constant chest pain.
"When something like that happens, you just can't make sense of it," said former championship crew chief Ray Evernham, who helped Trickle test IROC cars when he headed that program. "Last night, I just thought to myself, 'Dick Trickle lived on his terms; he died on his terms.'
"That's helping me try to make sense of it in my mind."
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Trickle, a native of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., estimated that he won around 1,200 feature races throughout his career. He competed in Cup full time from 1989-98 and had 303 career starts in NASCAR's premier division. He never won a Cup race but won two races in what is now the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
"It's crazy, surprising news," said 2003 Cup champion Matt Kenseth, who grew up in Trickle's home state of Wisconsin. "I don't really know all the circumstances. … I'm still in shock.
"I don't really get it."
That was the common sentiment in the NASCAR garage Friday.
"I know one thing: Next time I see him I'm going to slap him," said Butch Fedewa, who raced against Trickle in the 1960s and had just talked to him a few weeks ago. "Because he wasn't a coward. … I don't understand it. I don't. But he had to have a reason."
Jimmy Fennig, Trickle's crew chief when he won the Cup rookie title in 1989, said he had no idea what could have caused Trickle to take his own life.
"It's hard to believe," Fennig said shaking his head as he stood next to the Carl Edwards' car he now works on as crew chief. "Hard to believe."
Fennig remembered Trickle as a driver with great knowledge of his racecars.
"He was a very talented racer," Fennig said. "The one thing about Dick, he built his own cars, he knew his cars inside and out. He just, he was fantastic."
Thinking about their first race together back in the 1989, Fennig said Trickle showed up in cowboy boots.
"He used to always wear cowboy boots," Fennig said. "And I told him, 'Dick, you ain't gonna make it in cowboy boots.' We had a set of Simpson (racing) shoes there.
"Halfway through the race he calls on the radio and says, 'Where are them shoes?' "
Both Fennig and Kenseth said they had talked to Trickle in the last year.
Kenseth said he spent a couple of hours with Trickle last July after Kenseth won a Late Model race at Slinger Speedway in Wisconsin.
"He kind of peeked in the trailer there afterwards — of course he asked if we had any beer in there — and we sat in there for two hours," Kenseth said.
"He had a unique way of looking at things. He had a ton of common sense."
He also had a lot of determination, even if meant rubbing fenders with other drivers along the way.
"He'd buy you a beer (afterward)," Fedewa said, laughing. "But he was not a dirty driver. He was just a hard driver. There's a lot of difference. … We raced different back then.
"When we raced, we raced absolutely to win. You were there to win and he was very strong willed and he wanted to win and did a lot of the time."
Evernham said he would drive to short tracks just to watch Trickle race.
"A guy like Trickle and (modified racer) Richie Evans, they want to race on their own terms and they want to race a lot," Evernham said. "And they don't want to follow everybody else's rules.
"I'm glad that there are some guys like that. Those are legends, too. You don't have to be Richard Petty or Dale Earnhardt or Jeff Gordon to be a racing legend. Those guys are racing legends, too."


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Since the release of the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability in 2010, there's been a dramatic shift in the economic, environmental, social and political landscape. As we better understand the urgent action required to address environmental and social risks, it's becoming increasingly clear that corporate leaders need to integrate sustainability into core business systems and decision-making, and to capture the competitive advantage that sustainable business offers.
The Ceres Roadmap presents 20 expectations in the areas of governance, stakeholder engagement, disclosure, and performance that companies should seek to meet by 2020 in order to transform into truly sustainable enterprises. As we pass the halfway point on the road to 2020, it is an important time to take stock of our changing world and refresh the Ceres Roadmap expectations themselves to reflect global sustainability trends.
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This first-of-its-kind report entitled Water Connection Charges: A Tool for Encouraging Water-Efficient Growth found that 93% of the fee structures in the Southeastern states and 62% of the fee structures in the Western states used uniform water connection charges for single-family homes that took no account of key factors in influencing the design of a home's water footprint. As a result, owners of new homes are typically paying the same amount to be connected to local water systems despite wide-ranging differences in their water use.]]>
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Despite being essential service providers, water utilities experience unavoidable variability in their revenue stream. This revenue variability is driven by many factors: changing population, varying customer demands, unpredictable weather patterns, and even rate structures. While it is unrealistic to expect utilities to eradicate revenue variability, utilities can understand its root causes and incorporate it into their overall resource and finance planning.
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Recent extreme weather events such as the devastating Midwest drought of 2012 helped drive record corn prices ($8/bushel). This provided a taste of what is predicted to become the new normal in many parts of the Corn Belt thanks to climate change—a point powerfully reinforced by the latest National Climate Assessment.
Growing irrigation demand for corn production, alongside unchecked withdrawals of groundwater from stressed water sources—in particular, the High Plains aquifer that spans eight Great Plains states and California's overextended Central Valley aquifer—create additional risks for the $65 billion a year corn industry, which has nearly doubled in size over the past two decades.
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Do you ever wake up in the morning and have a major hankering for an over-the-top, totally decadent breakfast? It happens to me most Sundays and while I don't usually indulge, mostly out of laziness, when an idea like this one comes it's impossible to let it go. Vegan French Toast coated in coconut and quinoa. Pretty much the most epic breakfast ever. What's makes it even better (as if that … [Read more...]
Quinoa Almond Flour Bread
We're baking bread today, my friends! And it's quite the feat for me because homemade bread hasn't happened in over a year at my house. I used to bake bread all the time, but honestly I think this past year laziness just got the better of me. I didn't feel like pulling out my stand mixer, proofing my yeast, waiting for the bread to rise and then waiting another hour while it bakes. So I just … [Read more...]
Yeast-Free Quinoa Bread
Many of you have been waiting a LONG time for this recipe and I am so super excited to finally be giving it to you! Back in January I shared my recipe for gluten-free quinoa bread and it's been one of the most popular recipes on the site ever since. People have tried with so many different variations and have had nothing but great to things to say. However...while tons of people have loved this … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Quinoa Bread
Yes, yes, YES! It's that time of year again. The time of year where we get to break out our chunky knit sweaters, tall boots, and scarves. The time of year where the air starts to get crisp and the leaves begin to change colors. The time of year where apples are fresh and flavorful. The time of year where the days are getting shorter and we're getting shrouded in darkness earlier and earlier. … [Read more...]
Cheddar Quinoa Biscuits
You might be surprised to see a recipe with cheddar in the title. Normally I don't eat cheddar cheese. You know that. I've been avoiding cow dairy for 4+ years now. So, what gives? Well for me, not eating cheddar is kind of a sin since I grew up in Vermont, which is arguably one of the cheddar capitals of the world (we'll fight Wisconsin for that title any day). But when you're sensitive to … [Read more...]
Peachy Oatmeal Banana Bread
Ever had a week that you look back on and wish that you could just erase? One of those points in time that you would never want to relive again; where your life would be more centered, your mind would be more calm and your spirit would be brighter if you were able to just skip it? Last week was one of those weeks for me. A week filled with stress, long days and exhaustion. There's nothing … [Read more...]
Quinoa Tortillas
While I'm an Italian girl through and through, I have to say (and Mommom if you're reading this, I'm sorry), but if there was one food group that I could eat for the rest of my life, it would be Mexican. It probably stems from my obsession with love of avocados. But it has grown much deeper than that. What's great about Mexican cuisine is that many dishes are naturally gluten-free. With a base of … [Read more...]
Gluten-Free Quinoa Flour Naan
Flatbreads are one of those things that I honestly feel should be a staple in every diet. Not only are they great for sopping up soups and stews, but they also can be used to make sandwiches, pizzas and bread sticks. And personally, naan is my all-time favorite flatbread out there. When I was in college my girlfriends and I always used to order Indian takeout. Tikka masala and naan bread was … [Read more...]
Healthy Gluten-Free Breakfast Sandwich
While we're having a healthy breakfast of eggs and toast, let's also chat about fitness. Fitness is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but what do you do when you hate working out? And I mean really don't like it. That's me. The idea of working out is awesome, but when push comes to shove, I just would rather take my puppy for a walk and play in the snow. Gyms aren't my jam. … [Read more...]
High Protein Quinoa Bread
Gluten-free bread. Oh, gluten-free bread. How I love you. And how you make me crazy at times. You're so temperamental. Such attitude. You sometimes turn out beautifully and other times you're just flop. Yes, I'd say that we definitely have a love-hate relationship. Gluten-free bread is something I've tried to tackle many, many times. I've shared some of my successes on the blog, but there are … [Read more...]


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It's a good idea, but you should know that one is about to be released (in November, I believe). Called Guardians of Middle Earth.
So, I've been delving into the idea of making a game like League of Legends, DOTA 2, Champions of Newerth (etc, etc) for the XBox/PC using XNA/C# framework.
It doesn't have to stop you, but you'll have competition is all.


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The engagement of Emily O'Brien and Thomas Kam Manahan has been announced by the parents of the bride-elect, John Jay O'Brien of 2813 S. Bonham St. and Lucy O'Brien of 1615 Bryan Place.
The prospective groom is the son of Richard and Diane Manahan of Merritt Island, Fla., formerly of Wichita Falls.
The couple plan to marry June 24 at Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Miss O'Brien earned a bachelor of arts degree in American studies in 1997 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and plans to pursue a master's degree in art conservation. She is an intern for Shelley Reisman Paine Object Conservation in Nashville. She was a disc jockey for WRVU in Nashville.
Manahan earned a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology in 1991 from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in anthropology in 1995 from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. He is enrolled in the doctor of philosophy program in anthropology at Vanderbilt.
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Every year we look forward to one show that brings it all together better than every other show – for me, it is Canibeat's First Class Fitment. The location, selection of cars and people who come out are like none other show on the East coast. This was its 4th
Wekfest East 2013
Over on the east coast of the U.S. there are a handful of shows everyone looks forward to all season long. Wekfest has settled in as one of the main shows that everyone wants to go to! After a great first show last year,WekEast stopped once again in New Jersey
ECFF / Streetwise Drift
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In the Neck of the Woods
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Carla Imler, manager of the Sheetz convenience restaurant at 1915 Pleasant Valley Blvd., took an identification card from a man who approached the cash register with a six-pack of Yuengling beer on Wednesday and swiped it through a scanner.
The device detected no flaw in the ID card and, with that, the man in the blue suit, Lt. Gov. James Cawley, smiled and told a member of his staff he could not take the beer with him. He had to return it to the refrigerated display case.
Cawley wasn't visiting the store to buy beer but rather to put in a plug for Gov. Tom Corbett's budget proposals that include closing the state liquor stores and expanding locations where beer, wine and liquor are sold throughout the state.
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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. James Cawley watches store manager Carla Imler scan a six-pack of beer Wednesday at the Sheetz at 1915 Pleasant Valley Blvd.
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Louie Sheetz describes the popularity of beer sales to Lt. Gov. James Cawley.
He said the plan will pump a billion dollars into education and make "spirits" more available than ever before to Pennsylvania residents - as it is in 48 of the 50 states.
Only Pennsylvania and Utah remain in full control of alcohol sales. The other states have moved into the 21st century, Cawley said.
Making alcoholic beverages more available - possibly to as many as 10,000 additional businesses - carries with it responsibility, Cawley said, and the Corbett administration is addressing potential problems in its budget proposal.
Places like Sheetz that sell beer and might be able to sell other beverages under Corbett's proposals must use an ID scanner to make sure beverages don't fall into the hands of minors. As Imler explained, the scanner will not complete the sale if the identification card is fake or if the purchaser is a minor.
Cawley said the penalties for selling to a minor will be severe - a $10,000 fine for a first offense and suspension of the store's license to sell alcohol for a second offense.
He also said that the $1 billion from the privatization of the alcohol market will be converted into block grants to promote safety in Pennsylvania schools, introduce early learning programs, focus on having students meet reading standards by the third grade and introduce an effort to improve math and science education.
Privatization of the liquor industry received strong support from Louie Sheetz, Sheetz' vice-president of marketing, who said the 1915 Pleasant Valley Blvd. store is the biggest seller of beer in the entire Sheetz chain, which includes stores in other states where beer can be sold.
He said that store was built to experiment with different ideas, including beer sales. It was also the first store to sell pizza, premade sandwiches and other items that are now staples in the chain.
The store, Louie Sheetz said, handles 2,000 beer transactions each week, and he said beer sales have become a "great part of the business."
If the governor's plan is accepted by the General Assembly, the possibility of beer sales at every Sheetz store will be studied, he said.
Following the stop at Sheetz, Cawley met with 40-plus members of the Blair County Chamber of Commerce Legislative Action Committee at The Casino at Lakemont Park.
Cawley talked with the committee, which includes representatives of private business, politicians, political officials, educators and economic development personnel, about the alcohol privatization plan, as well as other challenges facing the state this year.
He noted that the budget contains a proposal to lower the flat tax on gasoline at the pump by 2 cents as well as remove the 30-year-old cap on the Oil Company Franchise Tax charged on the wholesale price of gas. That move would pump an additional $1.8 billion into PennDOT to upgrade the state's 40,000 miles of road and 25,000 bridges.
The average age of Pennsylvania bridges, Cawley said, is 51 years, and he said improvements are due.
Another challenge is to reform the state's pension fund and balance the budget.
Cawley told chamber members that when the Corbett administration assumed office, there was a $4.2 billion gap between income and expenses. He said the administration has "restored fiscal discipline" and by working with the private sector has seen the creation of 109,000 new jobs.
The Corbett budget plan represents "an ambitious agenda. ... You should expect that. We are working every day to make sure the best days of Pennsylvania lie ahead," he said.
Several members of the committee shared frustrations with Cawley at the meeting.
Lois Kaneshiki, a tea party member, complained that attempts to meet the Obama adminstration's "core" education programs could end up costing the state $800 million.
Insurance executive John Forney expressed his dislike of "unfunded mandates" or requirements from the federal and state governments passed down to the local level without appropriate funding.
Blair County Commissioner Diane Meling spoke of saving Amtrak passenger service through Altoona, which Cawley said he supported and added that he would like to grow the service.
Architect Dwight Knouse of Altoona spoke of the need for more investment in school infrastructure. While the budget contains a request for $290 million for school improvements, Knouse said an increase by $40 million would have a $1.65 billion ripple effect through the economy.
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DETROIT -- Rick Porcello was 5-0 in his previous seven starts. Mike Pelfrey hadn't won five games all season. But Pelfrey and the Minnesota Twins got the best of Porcello and the Detroit Tigers in this one.
The Twins broke the game open with three runs in the fourth and two runs in the fifth Tuesday night as they handed the Tigers a 6-3 loss.
Justin Morneau had a two-run home run in the fourth and a two-run double in the fifth to help the Twins pull away. Morneau singled in his first at-bat and was a triple short of the cycle through just five innings. He finished with four hits.
Prince Fielder hit a solo home run in the fourth and drove in another run in the sixth on a groundout to shortstop. Torii Hunter, who tripled to lead off the sixth, scored on Fielder's groundout.
Miguel Cabrera represented the tying run when he came to the plate with two on and two out in the ninth inning, but Twins closer Glen Perkins struck him out to end the game.
-- Fielder put the Tigers on the board when he hit the first pitch from Pelfrey for a no-doubt solo home run to right field with one out in the fourth. The home run, the 20th of the season for Fielder, cut Detroit's deficit to 3-1.
-- Jeremy Bonderman entered the game with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth inning and retired both batters he faced without allowing a run. Former Tigers outfielder Wilkin Ramirez hit the ball hard off Bonderman but right at Miguel Cabrera at third base. Bonderman then struck out Trevor Plouffe to get out of the jam.
-- The Tigers strung together three consecutive two-out singles in the seventh inning to score a run and cut their deficit to 6-3. Bryan Pena raced home from second base on Austin Jackson's single to center to score the run.
-- Rick Porcello (9-7) pitched to one batter more than the minimum through three innings before the Twins rallied to take a 3-0 lead in the fourth. Ramirez scored all the way from first on a double down the line in left by Trevor Plouffe to cap off the scoring in the inning following Morneau's home run.
-- The Twins piled on some more against Porcello and the bullpen in the fifth inning. The Twins loaded the bases with one out on two walks and a single against Porcello before Phil Coke entered the game to face the left-handed hitting Morneau. Morneau promptly laced a two-run double to right field to make it 5-1. Coke then intentionally walked Ryan Doumit before being replaced by Bonderman.
-- Pedro Florimon hit the first pitch he saw from Bonderman for a solo home run with one out in the sixth inning. The home run, Florimon's eighth, was the first allowed by Bonderman since he joined the Tigers early this month. Bonderman also walked two batters in the sixth after getting the Tigers out of a jam in the fifth.
-- Pena left the game after he singled to lead off the ninth inning. He appeared to have a leg injury as he ran down the line to first and was replaced by pinch runner Bryan Holaday.
-- The Tigers had runners at second and third with one out in the eighth when former Tigers outfielder Clete Thomas raced in and made a diving catch on a fly ball to shallow center off the bat of Andy Dirks. Thomas snowconed the ball as he slid across the outfield grass. The ball was shallow enough that Cabrera could not tag up at third.
-- The game marked the third time in 23 starts this season that Porcello hasn't made it through at least five innings. Both of his other two short outings were in blowout losses to the Anaheim Angels, one in April and the other in June. Porcello allowed five runs on seven hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings pitched. He struck out six.
-- Porcello had a 2.62 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 44 2/3 innings over his previous seven starts before getting banged around in this one.
-- Pelfrey (5-10) entered the game with a 5.26 ERA but kept the Tigers off the bases for the most part. His final pitching line: 6.2IP, 7H, 3R, 3ER, 1BB, 2SO.
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Dec. 28, 2010
DENVER -- When anyone with the Detroit Red Wings is asked about Jan Mursak, the first thing they mention is his speed.
He might not be as fast as Darren Helm, but he's close.
Helm realized that in 2008-09, when he and Mursak played together for the AHL's Grand Rapids Griffins.
"He's a really good skater, really fast,'' Helm said. "He challenges me quite a bit with his speed and how he handles the puck. He's a really energetic player. He knows how to put the puck in the net. He's got a lot of skill.''
Mursak has offensive upside, but in Detroit, he'll be expected to play a similar role as Helm: use his speed to forecheck hard, pressure opponents into making mistakes, provide energy and be responsible in his own end.
Mursak, 22, made his NHL debut Monday in Colorado, logging 6:55 in ice time in his team's 4-3 overtime victory.
Mursak was recalled from the Griffins to replace Danny Cleary, who is out 4-6 weeks with a fractured left ankle, after being hit with a shot by teammate Brad Stuart Sunday in Minnesota.
The Red Wings can't replace Cleary's offense -- he leads the team with 16 goals -- but this is nonetheless a tremendous opportunity for Mursak to prove he is an NHL player.
"He likes to forecheck. He'll put pressure on the defense,'' Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said. "He'll go to the hard areas.
"We want our fourth-line guys to provide minutes, energy, so other guys can be fresh and rested.''
Mursak called it a dream come true.
"I just want to keep it simple, do what I do best,'' Mursak said before the game. "I need to keep skating, that's one of my biggest (strengths). I play a pretty fast game, I'm a pretty good forechecker. I'm skating a lot, battling in the corners, chasing the puck down.''
Mursak, the first Red Wing to wear No. 39 since goaltender Dominik Hasek in 2007-08, was fourth on the Griffins with 23 points, including 10 goals, in 33 games.
"I had a really good start, coming strong from camp,'' Mursak said. "Lately, I have slowed down. I was not producing as much as I expected. But sometimes everything goes your way, sometimes nothing goes your way. I just need to keep it simple.''
The Slovenian right wing was a prolific scorer in juniors with the Saginaw Spirit after being drafted in the sixth round by the Red Wings in 2006 (182nd overall). His first pro season was an eye-opener, though, as he struggled in Grand Rapids in 2008-09, with two goals and nine points in 51 games, getting scratched often.
"My first season in Grand Rapids was not really good,'' Mursak said. "Nothing went my way. I didn't play as much as I wanted to. Older guys were playing more than I did. I was really upset. It was getting worse and worse.
"But then my second year I came with lower expectations and everything just kept building up and it went really good.''
He had a good bounce-back season with 24 goals and 42 points in 2009-10.
"After this year my contract is up, so I was thinking I might get a look from Detroit because they want to see what I can do at this level,'' Mursak said. "Hopefully I can stay for a few weeks until the other guys get healthy.''
Holland said Cleary and Pavel Datsyuk (broken right hand) are on a similar time frame. They're expected to return shortly before or immediately after the all-star break (Jan. 27-31).
Datsyuk and Cleary accounted for a large chunk of Detroit's offense (28 goals, 65 points). The team also will be without third-line center Mike Modano (lacerated wrist) until March.
"We're going to have to adjust a little. We have to find a way to grind out wins,'' Holland said. "We're in a dogfight in our conference."
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"But problems developed as the (Roman Empire) government assumed numerous responsibilities that promoted the growth of a large, expensive bureaucracy.
"The costs of government also grew as pressure on the frontiers from barbarian tribes forced Rome to maintain a large standing army.
"Higher taxes and bureaucratic control combined to stifle civic spirit and private enterprise.
"Rome's rulers resorted to many devices for dealing with their problems. "More and more, the emperors' rule and their safety depended upon the loyalty of the army.
"When they courted the soldiers with gifts, the burden of taxes increased. "The rich and the powerful succeeded in avoiding many of their obligations, but this forced the government to bear down even more heavily on vulnerable ordinary people.
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Skip to comments.Growing my own tobacco -I've had it with these prices! (A journal)
Posted on 06/21/2005 8:25:15 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
Since I have to get to bed, I'm just going to paste what I placed into the coffinnails.com forum. There's relevant questions inclused that I'll place on this thread if they get answered.
Day one -finally got my seeds!
Them things are SMALL! Sheesh! I had to fuzzy up the end of a Q-Tip to place them into the trays. Before I screw things up, there's a few questions I must ask. The 200 seeds I got are Dark Virginia. I'm doing 16 at a time.
Will the unused seeds keep for a while? I'd like to grow 'em in staggered stages. Will regular tap water work, or will I have to use distilled or rainwater? I have to used that kind for my Venus's Flytraps. Flourescent lighting. Will it work well for staggered stage growing year-round? Humidity? Someone told me that nicotine is a natural insect repellant. Is this true? Has anyone here saved the $$$ they expected to save? That's why I'm doing this. What's the best soil to use?
Luckily, there's a big place near my home called Paulino's Gardens, where I can find almost all the accessories I need for this venture of mine. I'll update on this thread as I go along.
OH! First entry: Got seeds three days ago and placed them on top of potting soil in 16-cube icetray container with holes in the bottom. Placed trays in my carnivorous plant terrarium that uses three 15-watt flourescent bulbs on a 18-hour timer. Sprayed and soaked with rainwater. Crossing my fingers.
Last question for the day: How long should it be before something actually grows?
It's truly sad how ignorant a lot of kids are about common-place things.
Recently, my twin girls had a project in school that required sewing.
My two were the ONLY ones in the entire 5th grade that knew how to thread a needle or sew a seam.
It took about 4 weeks for my seeds to arrive. They're shipped from England.
Now there is an idea!
WOW - I wonder what other garden eating animals that would handle?
My kids can sew too.
They were making felt dolls with plastic needle point needles and yarn since they were 2. Boys too.
My daughter can thread the sewing machine now at 10yo.
That's not a problem I have encountered, thankfully - but it is also a reason we moved out of the city to the country. My daughter (she'll be 7 next month) has her own section of garden and it is totally her responsibility - she picked what she wants to grow and must do her own digging and weeding. (of course mom and dad help) It's a great learning experience and teaches responsibility.
Hmmmm, good question!
Deer are probably too large, but I know it works on skunks, possums and raccoons. Getting VERY tempted to try in on the squirrels if they don't stop being such enormous pains.
Kinda a sad way to go for the little critters, but hey! They should keep their mitts OUT of my stuff!
I will never forget the look on my son's face carrying the first crop of zucchini into the kitchen :)
I'm going to the garden store now to see if I can find rhubarb. I might not wait till next season.
Nicotine is a damned effective pesticide and the straight stuff is a very potent toxin. If memory serves, something like 1 gram of pure nicotine is the LD/50 dose for an average sized human. A Law and Order episode from several years back had the murderer using nicotine from a plant supply house, intended for pesticide use, as the murder weapon. William F's son Christopher Buckley wrote a hilarious book, the title of which escapes me, in which the anti-tobacco nazis kidnap a tobacco lobbyist and try to kill him by applying nicotine patches to every inch of his skin. In the novel, the guy is rescued, but that amount would definitely be fatal.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..........something to think on. Many folks seem to think that the SCOTUS ruling on medical marijuana may just have further ramifications on such things as growing our own tobacco..........or anything else for that matter.
Don't forget the additives or you'll be smoking harsh city.
Asian deer tongue extract, concentrated essence of camel dung, and dried ground ferret musk glands are good for starters.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I am - I'm just as bad as you are:)
Heard of this. I believe we are discussing different types of tobacco. For instance from hill country NC to Kentucky one sees Burley tobacco, typically very small plots, 5 to 20 acres. When harvested, it is often still cured in the open field, leaves lovingly wrapped into conical piles about four feet high, each supported by a stake in the middle. Nearly exclusively pipe tobacco, totally different flavor from cigarette tobacco. The flue cured tobacco I worked with accounts for nearly all the American cigarette stuffing. Other varieties are grown more expensively and in different climates for pipe, cigar and "smokeless" as they now call chawbacca.
It absolutely drives me insane.....I grew up in the city (NYC to be exact) and I knew how to grow things, my mother taught me how to sew, and out of necessity I even learned how to cook (mom was a bit week in that area)
Good for you for teaching your girls to sew. Mine has figured out how to thread the bobbin on the sewing machine and started begging me to teach her to crochet when she was about 4.
I think a lot of the problem with these kids not knowing anything, is their parents don't do any of these mundane day to day things - they buy it or pay someone else to do it. I'm too cheap - if I can make it or grow it cheaper than buying it, I will :)
I got my seeds from seedman.com
Good prices and fast delivery.
I'm jealous - I can't go to the garden center today - hubby's got the ATM card :)
Yup, thank you.
You're so funny.................NOT
Well, then there's all those troublesome pharmaceutical opium derivatives...
I have not a clue about growing this stuff. But, yes, it can get warm in the summer depending on where you live.
Yep, you're right. I hope the T-men don't take an untoward interest in my capsicum garden...
Is that a picture from last year - or are your peppers that prolific already?
I have some fruit, but nothing like that yet.
All you have to do is post an ad in any paper in the tobacco region looking for a graded bundle.
However, I do have about 25x25 feet in various hot peppers, and probably a half-peck of cayennes could be picked now. I'm in North Carolina, on the east end where the growing season is long.
I'm growing them through black plastic sheeting. I hate to pull weeds in Rocky Mount in July...
LOL!!! snagging pix is fun!
I'm practically due north of you on rte 13 in VA near the MD line! We've got a pretty long season here as well.
I'm using a black mesh/fabric type stuff instead of plastic this year. I've got about 4,500 square feet tilled once - then the tiller croaked.......so only about half of it is currently being used in 10x3 blocks. I'm really running behind this year - I only have about 45 hot peppers of different varieties so far. I'm hoping to have enough viable seedlings to get at least that many more in next week and again in another 2 weeks.
I keep an eye on the commercial tomato grower fields on the back road, and add both peppers and tomatoes when they put in their next batch of plants ..... it's a good indicator and I then have the successive crops.
Not sure what's up with that; of course, I never tried growing them before, either, and they're pretty badly out of their natural range.
The chiltepin pepper:
As someone who was on long term opiates for some serious chronic pain, I can tell you it's no picnic and even then it doesn't eliminate all the pain, plus the added pleaseure of being addicted even though when it's prescribed to you, they don't use the word addicted although I forget the term they do use.
I had no luck with the chiltepins last year, so I didn't even look for any this year. My habaneros OTOH are growing like weeds :) and the anaheims are flourishing.
A FReeper friend picked up some seeds of his favorite chili in New Mexico and sent them to me. I'm debating about wether I should just straight sow them into the ground or start them inside first. What do you think?
Well, would you say that those are arguments for or against legalization? Is "medical morphine" just a scam perpetrated by people who want to be able to get it for recreational use?
This year I started seeds indoors for the first time in a long while. I went to Wal-Mart and bought a starter set from the garden section; it's a plastic tray with a clear lid, loaded with X number of peat pellets. I bought two of the 72-pellet trays to start my peppers in, and they sprouted like weeds.
I helped things along a bit by putting a small electric heater under the card table the trays were on, so as to keep the soil temps in the 80s. I got terriffic results, much better than planting seeds outdoors.
The first is a real tobacco additive. I was joking about the camel dung and ferret musk glands.
Those don't count because they're not listed on the cigarette package. If it's not on the package it's not there. :-)
I start a lot of seeds indoors - I was just tinking that because it is already so late and the soil has warmed up that I might be better off just direct sowing. I still have peat pots left, so I may just go ahead and do both.
Asian deer tongue extract????????? what the heck is that - or do I not really want to know?
You don't want to know.
No way would I want to see morphine or its related derivatives made OTC. My only caveat is that drugs like oxycontin are incredibly expensive and if you don't have coverage you're screwed. Unlike pot which is relatively harmless on a par with tobacco or alcohol, opiates will kill you if your take too much and it is addicitve and you get a tolerance to it as well.
As for medical morphine, if someone has inoperable cancer, they should be allowed as much morphine as they need to be comfortable. What the hell, are they going to get addicted when they've already got a death sentence?
The problem is that you get the people that want ALL drugs legalized clouding a very real issue. Doctors are leery of prescribing opiates because the DEA watches them and it's a heavily abused drug. In other words, it's a helliva complex isuue.
I really don't want some meth head running around paranoid as hell looking for a fight.
I didn't say "Over the Counter." I said "Legal." As in you could go to the Wal-Mart pharmacy and pick up your prescribed package of marijuana. You can't do that now, although you can go buy all the codiene and assorted other opium derivatives your doctor thinks you need.
Curious world we live in, isn't it?
I'd hedge by doing both. Putting those tiny seeds out in the weather is always a crapshoot for me.
"crapshoot" is a perfect term!!!
because of using all the black mesh what I did with a lot of seeds that I directly sowed this year was to take 3oz dixie dispenser cups and insert them in the holes I dug threw the slits I cut in the mesh. I then planted the seeds and as they started coming up, I pulled out the cups. I think I will try the same thing with these seeds, and also do some in peat pots, to be on the safe side :)
If you haven't figured it out yet - I love talking about gardening.....but I've got to absent myself for a couple of hours. It's been lovely talking to you and hope to pick up later!!!
Ok, you mean you want it to be legal to prescribe marjuana, right? I don't have a problem with that. I voted for it here in Ca.
All of your activities in the garden could be used for some other occupation that earns more dollars per hour. Your barn could be used to rent out to others. Just because you don't write checks doesn't mean the costs are not there.
LOL! My Mom tried, bless her heart, but her being left-handed, I could NEVER catch on! I'm (sadly) self taught, but what I do know has been passed to the girls, so at least they're not totally lacking :)
is their parents don't do any of these mundane day to day things
My family spends a great deal of time discussing the rampant stupidity of the general public.
I'm too cheap
ROFLMAO! We need to start a club.... Cheepers FReepers!
It drives my family crazy because I insist on reusing the big plastic freezer bags if all that's been in there is a piece of homemade bread :)
Not a clue. LOL.
During the Second World War, rationing and shortages made many people in Britain grow their own tobacco. One of the most famous was a vicar, who grew his behind the church.
No ill-effects due to home growing reported.
Regards, Ivan
Finally I just decided that it would really screw 'em if I just quit. So I did. Two months ago.
The hell with them.
Is your daughter filing the proper underage work forms and 10-40s?
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The Vancouver Canucks are yet again going to enter the postseason in the top three in the West, with little to no competition in the Northwest division.
The general consensus is that Mike Gillis will make at least one addition to the team prior to the Feb. 27 trade deadline.
Last year, the Canucks fell just one game shy of the Stanley Cup, losing in a seven game series to the Boston Bruins. A major reason why the Bruins won the series was the fact that the Canucks couldn't match their gritty, hard-nosed style...and the fact that their goalie isn't human.
The Canucks have since lost Christian Ehrhoff, Tanner Glass and Raffi Torres, three players who played a big part in the team's physicality. Despite the pleasantly surprising entrance of Byron Bitz, the Canucks are still lacking in that area.
Whether the piece the Canucks look to add is a forward or a defenseman, most agree that Mason Raymond is the one to go.
At 26 years old, Raymond still has a ton of potential in his career, but it appears that the plethora of talent on the Canucks' roster is limiting his abilities.
Of course, Keith Ballard is also on the market if any team is willing to pick up the $4.2 million, 7-point stud.
While they'll most likely keep him as insurance against a Roberto Luongo meltdown, Cory Schneider would be available if the right player was offered in return. But the number of teams who need a starting goaltender and have something to offer in return are minimal.
It would come as a huge surprise if the Canucks were to remain quiet in the next 10 days.
The following is a list of the top 10 players the Canucks should look to acquire in their quest for the Stanley Cup.


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Making home improvements is generally a smart decision because not only does it beautify the home, it also adds value to it. One of the best home improvement ideas is window replacement. Even so, because of the cost involved to remove all the windows and replace them, it becomes a difficult decision to make. However, if the windows are old and have tell-tale signs such condensation, draft coming in, rotten trims, cracked glass, window glass turning very cold during winter months, or retaining heat in the sunny months, then it will definitely be a smart idea to have them replaced.
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Thesis Statements & Problem Statement on The Effects of the Presence & Absence of Fatherhood on Children and Adolescence
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1. Anthropologist Margaret Mead has emphasized that, unlike the mother's role, which is biologically based, the father's role is a social creation. Male dogs and cats have no reproductive importance after their minuscule sexual performance is over. The emergence of a similar male rolelessness in the inner cities was becoming apparent some decades ago and is now becoming obvious in the larger society.
2. Stuart A. Miller and Rich Zubaty (1995) stated that 85% of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers - all come from single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories come from single-father-headed households. This seems to indicate that the problems children encounter are not related to single-parent households, but are related specifically to single-mother-headed households. So, should we blame the mothers or the fathers? Perhaps, neither. There is no question that father-absence has reached epidemic proportions. According to Wade Horn of the National Fatherhood Initiative, we must reverse the trend in 7 - 8 years or it will be too late to do so.
3. The absence of fatherhood on children and adolescence has a great impact to the widespread of crimes among teenagers in the inner city.
4. The absence of fatherhood on children and adolescence has a great impact to the widespread of working kids in the city.
5. Modern social theorists have advanced any number of ideas for making American men better fathers. Curiously, such ideas have not usually included getting men to attend church regularly. Religious involvement, however, does make men better fathers, according to sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia.
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