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personal quirks?
I sit here while tons of snow is falling outside and something that Jeffnless1 said got me thinking. There are several strange (or at least to me) things that I do when fishing and I was wondering if any of you guys have similar traits. Due to the weather and time of year It seems appropriate to start with this one, if you don't fish for let's say a month do you feel yourself getting frustrated? I mean down right ornery at times, I just can feel it starting to build up in my gut and i just know, I NEED to go. OK I am really bad about not carrying a net while fishing in the park. Tailwaters no problem always got it, and I know that the distance traveled and terrain to be covered in the park adds to this, but for me it has almost gotten to a point where it is a superstition such that i don't carry a net as to add to my chances of sticking a fish I would want to have a net for. I have actually gone back to the truck to get the net following hooking, quite early, and landing a big park fish, guess what no more fish that day. OK anyone out there been fishing and landed a really good fish, i mean a good fish, like your first park fish, or a 20 incher in the park heck 18" or maybe your first tailing redfish or bonefish a permit or tarpon, and upon release the personal trophy you had to sit down for minute, or a bit more, to truly process what the **** just happened. Ok have you ever been fishing for a while on a new piece of good water, you know you should be having more success than you have had, it's been tough you change flies a zillion times you cant cast, wade or anything, and then you hook a pig, and you fight the fish and you are super aware of what you are doing cause you know this is a good one and you have sucked all day and somehow you've been blessed, back and forth you and the fish gain and lose ground(in my case a huge brown on the Chattooga) and then a you go to net the beast, a slight turn..a pop.. and he's gone. The wave of emotion runs a gammet from pure misery to appreciation, and you don't know whether to cry or laugh, and i may have done both. It is at that point that you realize the story of the day is complete and cannot be improved upon no matter how many casts you make & thus in an instant you reel up and walk to the truck with your emotions racing in a million directions not sure what to do, say, or think. And I guess finally do you get pissed at yourself for fishing poorly. I know when i fish like crap, and i don't like it. i have very high expectations of myself when i fish (at this point it should be very clear that i am completely insane ) and it sticks with me, after a poor performance I am actively looking for the next option I have to go fishing to remmedy the most recent pathetic outing. And i guess finally do you ever have trouble sleeping becasue you are thinking about fishing? I have a saltwater trip in Mexico planned for May and I swear there have been several nights this past week where I laid in bed unable to sleep thinking about bones,permit,tapron,snook,jacks, I know i got to sleep it's 1am and I gotta be in the pool at 7am and work at 8am and yet I just smile cause I just don't care. Please tell me I am not alone, and if I am, well I am just fine with that!
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Let me say first that there is a significant gap between your fly fishing skills and mine (I don't have the high expectations that you do and have caught only one large trout, an 18 inch brown, in the park) but I understand your quirks. I, too, have lain awake at night thinking about fishing. The thought of hooking a trout sends an adrenaline rush through me that makes sleep impossible. I can see in my mind's eye the fly drifting down and I imagine different situations and how I might fish them. While laying awake thinking about a work problem bugs me to death, laying awake thinking about fishing is a whole different matter.
I don't carry a net and I've never kissed a fish but I have my share of quirks out on the stream. One thing that I struggle with almost every time I go is stopping to eat or get a drink of water. If I'm doing that then I'm not fishing and I often wait way too long and get a little wobbly and dry just because I can't make myself take 5 or 10 on a rock to get some refreshment.
One thing that I have noticed is that often times when I first hit the water, I feel like I've never done this before. I stumble, I fumble with line and fly, just generally out of sorts. After a while, though, (and it seems to happen without realizing it) it's almost like getting into a rythm where everything seems to happen without thinking. At this point, everything else in the world fades away and it's like being in a bubble that includes just me and the stream. There are times when I seem to regain consciousness and start slipping and tripping and losing flies and making goofy casts but then, before I know it, I slip back into that other place where things just seem to glide.
It's that other-worldly place that I end up in that makes fly fishing so great, where time and worries and pressures just disappear. And sometimes fish are even caught.
Charlie B
His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.
Like you I think taking a net is the kiss of death for catching a big fish.
I still get the shakes when I first hit the stream, even for stockers.
I can take losing a big fish at the point of landing, Watching a big fish come up for a dry fly and missing the take pains my soul.
Nvr2l8, i can assure you that I will feel quite novice when the spring comes and i am back in the park for the first time. I will wade clumsy and probably ruin multiple fishy looking lies, I think that it is this aspect that is one of the best parts about our park. When you think about it the difficulty level involved with the smokys makes it unlike any area i have ever fished. I think that the amount of variables that are encountered are so vast, and that is before you even start to talk about the fish and how smart and difficult they are. Over the 8 or 9 years i have fished the park it has certainly made me a much better angler, and so many of the lessons we learn here can be taken to other regions.
If it swims throw a fly at it!
Barry Murphy
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If my fishing day is going to be on waters that are no more than an hours drive, I will suit up and get everything ready before I leave the house so that when I get there I can just step outta the ride and start fishing. Also rest assured that if Sunrise is scheduled for 7:15...I'll be there no later than 6:30, suited up and standing in a trance...My thinking is that suit up time is missed fishing time...
Clowns and monkeys give me the creeps
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Salvador Dali
Can't stand zombie movies...anything with scary beings/spirits etc really. Guys that fish too close. The French in general. Being at the bar after two a.m. Small dogs. Cats. Goth people. Slim shady's. Most street slang. Bait casters that just chunk bait. Arrogant people. Any religous groups that come to my house when I don't ask them. Float line with memory. Coily leader and tippet. Rhodo way over the creek. Places I can't get a clear cast. Teens that protest yet don't have mortgages, car payments or student loans. North Nashville.
Oh the French; I just cannot stand them. Always heard that it was a great place to buy a gun; never been shot and only dropped once...
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One of my fishing quirks is talking to a wiggly fish while trying to remove the hook.
I usually say " Hold still !"
Gone fishing.
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- PREPARE recipe for double crust pie. Roll out bottom crust and place in 9-inch pie plate. Press to fit without stretching dough. Trim even with pie plate. Heat oven to 425°F.
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It all started on Sunday, a day when I had decided to take Izzy and her friend (we shall call her Chumley for the purposes of this blog) for a day out at Blenheim Palace. And why not eh? A balmy day had been forecast, and even though I was a bit sceptical (I am convinced that weathermen use tea-leaves to come up with the forecast), I was wrong.
It was beautiful - more like an early summer's day than a late winter's one. So we all jumped into my bling machine and zoomed off to the town of Woodstock, which is where Blenheim Palace is located.
As we queued to enter, I noticed that the entry fees were displayed on a board and they were quite steep - £20 for an adult and £11 for a sprog. It was then that I suddenly remembered that Izzy and I were members of both the 'Historical Houses Association (HHA)', and also the 'National Trust'. And being members of both organisations entitled us to free entry to Blenheim Palace.
And then I had another brainwave. Once we arrived at the ticket desk, I handed over the HHA card over to the cashier, "that covers me and the ginger," I told her. And then I handed over my National Trust card. "And that one covers blondie," I told her. Cunning eh?
The cashier looked suspicous, "according to these membership cards, both your children have the same name."
"Exactly," I told her, "I can't believe more people don't do it. I NEVER forget their names." I tapped my nose in a knowing fashion.
She motioned me through with a suspicious frown, and I waved back merrily. Thank god for membership cards without photographs on them. As I always quote as one of my mottos; 'you've got to be innit to winnit'.
And so commenceth our day at Blenheim.
The day had been such fun, that I decided to give them a final treat before heading home - an ice cream each. I located a cafe with surprising ease, and ordered myself a coffee whilst they stuffed the ice cream down their mushes. Then without warning, I suddenly turned really cold.
Goosebumps covered my body and I shivered uncontrollably. 'Blimey,' I initially thought to myself, 'the sun has gone down quick.'
"Come on chaps, we need to get back home," I said, ushering Chumley and Iz in the general direction of the car park once the ice creams had been scoffed.
We got into the car and drove to Chumley's house to drop her off. By the time we had said our goodbyes (and thank you for a top time Chumley!), I was rapidly alternating between cold sweats and hot flushes.
All I needed to do was drop Izzy off at her Dad's house. I knocked and he opened the door; "bloody hell you look rough," he said.
"Thanks, I love the way you always seek to bolster my self confidence," I replied, handing over the ginge to his care. "Look, I gotta go I am really not feeling too good," I added.
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An Interesting Theory For Why The Yanks Claimed Carter
Joel Sherman of the New York Post had an interesting blog entry on Saturday titled, "HOW BYRD LED YANKS TO CLAIM CARTER"
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One reason the Yankees put in a claim for Chris Carter was because of Paul Byrd. Stick with us here.
Byrd spent most of this season as a free agent and the Yankees were negotiating with him around midseason to bring him in as rotation insurance, a source told The Post. The Yanks were told by Byrd that they were his first choice, the source said. However, the Yanks refused Byrd's request to be assured of a Sept. 1 promotion.
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When the Yanks learned that Carter was one of the players that was going to the Mets in the Billy Wagner deal, they claimed Carter him on waivers and forced Boston to pull the outfielder/first baseman back. One reason was they assumed Boston had to make the same deal with Byrd — to bring him up on Sept. 1 — that the Yanks refused. So that meant Byrd has to be put on the 40-man roster. So the Yanks figured they could cause some 40-man roster havoc for their main nemesis by forcing Carter back on the 40-man, as well, at a time when Wagner, too, had to be added and Daisuke Matsuzaka is close to coming back from the 60-day DL.
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Interesting idea about Byrd. What are the chances that Chris Carter will make the Met's major league roster or a starting spot in 2010? Good luck to him and all the PawSox. The Yankees are jerks for claiming Chris.
That's an interesting article….I really feel bad for Chris Carter.
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My dad would have been 98 years old today, February 19th. Although his death, nearly six decades ago, left an ongoing emptiness in my life, I do have wonderful memories of my father. The following story , which did happen, reflects my childhood view of that "bigger than life" scotsman – my dad, my hero – then and now. All these years later, my sister reminded me that our Dad rescued the school bus several times when we were going to school. He had big caterpillar tractors with dozer blades that could cut through the biggest drifts and he was always ready to come to the rescue or lend a helping hand.
Happy Birthday, Daddy!
Outside the schoolroom window, the snow had changed from dusting the old, dirty snow with a new white coat, to great flakes of snow coming down, covering the teeter totter. The swings soon looked like they had small, lumpy children sitting on the seats. Now the wind picked up and blew the snow straight at the window next to where the little girl was sitting.
"Children, when I call your row number, I want you to get your coats and things from the back of the room and then return to your seats until every one is ready," instructed the teacher, in a high anxious voice. The little girl knew something was wrong, even though the rest of the children seemed so excited with the change in activities. Second graders can be so dumb!
"Row 1. Hurry now." The sounds of little chairs being scooted away from the tables and giggles at the coat rack seemed to annoy the teacher. "Hurry now, no talking." The noise subsided as the children from row 1 returned to their little tables. " Now row 2." Then row 3, and finally , row 4 was called. The little girl put on her new coat that her Momma had made for her as a Christmas present. She pulled on her ugly rubber galoshes that her mother insisted that she wear. Then, she picked up the little suitcase that carried her new Christmas doll, with all the little clothes that Momma had made, and the Grandma's little handmade doll quilt. She checked the latch to make sure it was secure, and then returned to her seat.
Even though it was too early to go home, the teacher led them out into the hall, through the front door and out to the line of buses. The girl climbed up the bus steps and found a seat next to the window. She was glad she got a window seat before the big kids got on the bus because they always pushed the little kids around. She hugged the little suitcase close to her chest as the bus filled up with jostling kids. The school bus pulled out on to the highway and they began the long road home. The little girl fingered the suitcase, and thought to herself, "Maybe when some of the kids get off of the bus, I'll get my new doll out and dress her in the green dress with the white rickrack."
The kids that lived along the highway got off first. Didn't seem fair to her, as they were the last ones to get on in the morning but the first ones to get off after school. The Dixon kids got off, then the Simons, Flemmings, Browns, and the Dehlingers. Now the bus route turned up onto the dirt road that followed the foot of Stukel Mountain. Wind was blowing the white snow and engulfing the yellow bus. Drifts began to form on the less traveled road, as the bus trudged up the hill, letting children off at their homes along the road. Then up along the foot of the mountain, the drifts got deeper, but still the big yellow bus plunged through the drifts, depositing children in the knee-deep drifting snow in front of their homes.
Now up the hill road, past Tollivers, then the past the house of the new family that had moved into down by the RxR tracks, along the river. The snow got deeper and the drifts got higher as the bus ker-chunked and thumped it's way through the growing snowdrifts. Then the bus came to a shuddering stop in a great snowdrift. The bus driver tried to go backwards, then forwards, then backwards, but the yellow bus did not budge. The bus driver pulled on his heavy gloves, pulled the earflaps of his cap down and got out to try to dig the bus out. The two or three big boys, who were still on the bus, jumped out of the bus, to help the bus driver. Soon they all got back in the bus, as the snow was too much for their meager efforts.
"Okay, I want all of you kids to sit close together to keep warm. Help should be on the way soon," directed the bus driver, the gruffness of his voice belied his fear. The older boys and girls got the younger children together in the front of the bus. When one of the older boys tried to get the little girl to sit with the other children, she just shook her head. "I am quite warm, I have my doll blanket that my grandma made," she said as she spread the blanket over her Stockinged legs. "My coat is quite warm. My Momma made it for me."
Unsure what to do with the resolute child, the boy returned to the front of the bus with the other children. After a bit, he returned to the little girl and again tried to get her to move up front with the rest of the children. She looked up at him for a moment, and then said, "No, I am waiting for my Daddy. He will come and get me."
The boy shook his head and went back to the front of the bus again. Some of the children in the front of the bus began to cry. Winter's early darkness was coming on; the snow was still coming down in blowing swirls across the road; and the temperature in the bus continued to drop. Still the little girl sat in her seat by the window, her doll blanket tucked around her legs, and the little suitcase hugged tight as if there were warmth coming from it, waiting for her Daddy to come and take her home.
"I see lights coming behind us," yelled one of the boys. The driver and older boys went to the back of the bus and peered out through the snowy frosty glass. There were lights coming. "Looks like two, no three sets of lights. Now we will get some help getting out of here," growled the bus driver, sounding as though he had ordered the help. The big boys were cheering, and the younger children were still snuffling and crying. The little girl piped up, "My Daddy is coming, I told you he would come after me."
As the rescuers arrived, the first one on the bus was the ruddy-faced Scotsman, snow covering the brimmed hat he always wore. He strode to where the little girl sat with her blanket, and suitcase. "Daddy, I was waiting for you to come," she whispered to him as he picked her up and carried her to his warm car. The little girl's Daddy, along with the other men, put all of the children in the warm car and pickups. Then he and the men began digging the snow from around the bus. Once the bus was out of the drift and along the side of the road, the driver left the bus until the county road crews cleared the roads. With their chained tires gripping the heavy snow, the three-children laden vehicles chunked through the snow, back down the hill, depositing children at their homes along the way. There were still several children in the car, when the little girl's Daddy drove into their yard. Momma, laughing with relief, came running out of the house --- coatless --- through the drifting snow to hug the little girl and her Daddy. She then began helping the cold frightened children into the house. "Come in. Come in. Get those wet coats off. I have hot chocolate on the stove, just waiting for you --- all of you." The little girl's Momma got children settled around the warm oil-stove with cups of steaming hot chocolate. She then began to call the parents of the children stranded at their house. Not a difficult task, as when she called the first parent, other worried parents picked up the phone on that old fashioned party line. Soon there was a stream of parents, coming through the snow to pick up their children and take them home. The feeling of relief that the children were safe, made it seem like a party. Some stayed and had a cup of hot chocolate, talked about how deep the snow, how high the drifts.
Later that evening, the little girl held her baby sister and softly told her, "Daddy will always come through the snow to take you home and Momma will have hot chocolate waiting for you."


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'White Collar': Treat Williams on Playing Neal Caffrey's Father
Tonight White Collar fans finally got acquainted with Neal Caffrey's enigmatic father, James Bennett, played by Treat Williams. The actor knows a thing or two about playing TV dads, after taking on parental roles in projects like the WB series Everwood and the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Front of the Class. He recently joined BFTV to talk about embodying Neal's long-lost parent.
He's no newcomer to the series - his first appearance on the show was in the season's seventh episode, "Compromising Positions," which aired in August. Tonight's episode was his fourth guest-star credit, and he spoke about how much he's enjoyed the recurring role.
"When I saw the show I loved it," Williams said of what brought him aboard the series. "I thought the show had such a beautiful look. And Jeff Eastin seems to love New York like Woody Allen does. There's so much of the city as a character.
"But it was a variety of things. Tim DeKay and I are old friends. Tim starred with me on Everwood the first season. I thought Matt [Bomer] was astonishingly good in the show. I loved the quality of the work in it.
"And I don't think it's too often you get to play a character who is mysterious, and no one seems to know who he is or what's his next move. And that's always fun too. He's not just the dad. We don't even know if he's the dad, which is fun. So I think it's mostly the mystery and the quality of the show. And I haven't played a cop in a long time, since [the 1981 film] Prince of the City. And I thought that would be a lot of fun, to kind of come full circle."
In addition to enjoying his reunion with DeKay, Williams also had high praise for his TV son. "I adore him," he said of Bomer. "He's a lot of fun on set. He takes the work very seriously and himself not so seriously. He is honorable and humble and funny and a lot of the attributes that my son has. And I would be proud if he were my son.
"I just adore him. I can't speak enough about him. And whatever success he gets during the show and afterwards he deserves whole-heartedly. I don't know an actor who works as hard as Matt does."
The actor admitted one challenge of the role: that it was different for him not to know what was in store for his character. "It was frustrating at first," he explained, "and I finally, after reading the first [script] I said, 'Look, these guys are such good writers, I'm just going to go with the flow on this.'
"I was as excited as anybody to get the next script and find out. I didn't even know until two or three episodes in whether I was going to end up being villainous or a good guy. It was fun to kind of just get a script and go, 'Oh, okay. This is where we're going this week.'"
Although Neal told him to head for Mozzie's safe house at the end of tonight's midseason premiere, James isn't leaving the White Collar world just yet. "You will see me on more than the season opener," Williams revealed. "I cannot remember how many [episodes] I was on, but I signed on for six." It sounds like family business is definitely not resolved.
White Collar continues its run Tuesday nights at 10 PM ET/PT on USA - and to mark the show's return, USA Network wants to give away a White Collar prize pack. Here's what's included:
-Cufflink Ovals
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If you want to enter for a chance to win our White Collar prize pack, click on over to the contact page at my official site, and tell me what you love most about White Collar! Contest ends at 9 AM PST next Tuesday, January 29, 2013.
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With 48 million customers, Netflix's streaming service has changed the way we watch movies. Every week I review movies, and a lot my friends still wait for my recommendations to trickle to Netflix.
To me, nothing can replace the feel of a theater, but if the ease-of-use means more people see great movies, cool. Since my top movie of last year just hit the service, here are 10 movies that cracked my Top 10 lists in the past five years currently streaming on Netflix.
"Short Term 12" (2013)
My top film of 2013. Brie Larson plays a worker at a foster care facility who has her own baggage to deal with. Criminally underseen. Watch it tonight.
"Upstream Color" (2013)
As beautiful as it is strange, I referenced this movie as a litmus test for who would like Scarlett Johansson's new film "Under the Skin."
"Blue Is the Warmest Color" (2013)
The controversial French coming-of-age drama made a quick trip to the 'Flix. You've probably heard about the lesbian sex scenes, but you should watch it for the heart-wrenching performances from Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux.
"Frances Ha" (2013)
Indie darling Greta Gerwig reteamed with director Noah Baumbach in a hipster's cinematic dream. (If you like this, their last collaboration "Greenberg" is also streaming.)
"The Cabin in the Woods" (2012)
My top film of 2012. Director Drew Goddard and co-writer Joss Whedon get all "Inception" on the clichéd teen horror fare. Sharply funny and whip-smart, it calls for repeat viewings.
"Holy Motors" (2012)
A truly bizarre anthology film from France, this one is a mind-bender. It's best to just go along for the ride. (Sadly, the Netflix edition appears to be censored from the original. You'll see why.)
"Melancholia" (2011)
My top film of 2011. What could be more fun than Lars von Trier ruminating on the end of the world? This was the best work from the director's "Depression Trilogy" — "Nymphomaniac" is in theaters and on demand, but "Antichrist" is also on Netflix.
"Blue Valentine" (2010)
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams were amazing in this story charting a marriage over the years. Warning: This is emotionally devastating stuff. If you want a Gosling date movie on Netflix, try "Lars and the Real Girl."
"In the Loop" (2009)
This fast-paced, foul-mouthed Brit comedy may be the funniest movie about war since "Dr. Strangelove" (also on Netflix!). It's a nice palate cleanser after a "House of Cards" marathon.
"Enter the Void" (2009)
If the running theme of these movies is that they're graphic and weird, this one may top both lists. Director Gaspar Noe's hallucinogenic look at the life and death of a drug dealer is a trip. For the really bold, his previous film, "Irreversible," is also on Netflix. Warning: It's very difficult viewing.


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Der fliegende HolländerRichard Wagner
Daland the seafarer's ship has been blown into a bay by a storm shortly before reaching home. The helmsman left on watch soon falls asleep. Suddenly a large ship approaches and noisily lays anchor. Its captain is the Flying Dutchman, cursed to sail the high seas forever. Once every seven years, he is permitted to go ashore to find a woman whose true love will redeem him. The Dutchman encounters Daland and learns that he has a daughter, Senta. He asks Daland for his hospitality, and for Senta's hand.
As the women in Daland's house wait for the seafarers' return, Senta sings a ballad about the fate of the Flying Dutchman, condemned by the devil to sail off an unnavigable cape until he rounded it, even if it took him till the end of time. Senta hopes to be the woman who will release him from this curse. The huntsman Erik is afraid of losing Senta's love, and tries to stop her fantastic obsession with the Flying Dutchman. Daland arrives with the Dutchman. As in her dream, Senta and the Dutchman realize that they are made for one another. The Dutchman demands – and Senta promises – everlasting love.
Daland's sailors celebrate their safe homecoming whilst the women make preparations for the couple's betrothal. The sailors invite the crew on the Flying Dutchmans's ship to join in the festivities, but the crew does not even answer them. Suddenly the sea becomes violent, and the ghostly crew sing a terrifying chant. Erik tries to prevent Senta's union with the Flying Dutchman, reminding her of her earlier promise of fidelity. On hearing this, the Dutchman is convinced that Senta has betrayed him. He releases her from her promise to save her from death and flees to his ship. Senta plunges into the sea, "faithful unto death!" The ghostly ship sinks beneath the waves.
- Daniel Harding | Dirigent
- Christine Mielitz | Regie
- Stefan Mayer | Bühnenbild
- Stefan Mayer | Kostüme
- Eva Walch | Dramaturgie
- Simone Monu | Kostümassistenz
- Bettina Kraus | Bühnenbildassistenz
- Anja Kampe | Senta
- Stephen Gould | Erik
- Juha Uusitalo | Der Holländer
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text: and Silas is HUNGRY for solids. All of a sudden he wants to eat our food. He hasn't been into solids at all really. He just nibbled here and there and pretty much refused anything other than fruit. But now he wants what WE are eating. Specifically he wants what is going in my mouth. When I try and give him a less complicated version (read w/out condimemts, salt etc) he gets TICKED. He wanted to bite my whole sandwich today like I was doing. When I tried to give him some of the cucumber from the sammy he got mad and yelled and reached with intensity for the sandwich. There was all kinds of stuff on the sandwich that he hasn't tried yet and I was worried because of the whole "you're supposed to wait 4-5 days before offering new foods" thing and there were about 5 things in the sandwich that he hadn't been given yet but I relented and offered him a bite. He LOVED it. LOVED it. LOVED it. It was so funny, he moaned and MMMM'd and opened his mouth again for another bite. So I let him. I'm gonna have to change how I eat around him now (read no french fries )


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Vote for your Player of the Year
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 12:02 PM
The Poll that was going on here had Matty and Brett Phillips as the two most popular choices amongst forum users yet Brett isnt one of the options to vote for in the News and Star!
gilly, it doesn't say anywhere that you have to vote for only one of the six mentioned. Just send it with Brett's name in the e-mail.
I remember when .............................
"It is impossible not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Workington Town, the fall guys this season for the Super League's determination to retain it's European dimension, in the shape of Paris. While the French have had every assistance to survive, the importance of having a flagship in a heartland area like West Cumbria has been conveniently forgotten." - Dave Hadfield - Independent 25th August 1996.
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 08:56 PM
My vote has gone for Brett Carter. Played superbly in more than one position with hardly missing a game. Really hard decision though as you can make the case for most the team!
Posted 26 October 2012 - 09:17 PM
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Posted 27 October 2012 - 10:16 AM
I've got to go for ell miller. I dont think we've had a finisher of his ability since Stuart cocker. His try vs Oldham was outstanding and with him away at donny we would have been finishing a few of our chances. But I can't argue if either of the bretts,matty or thacks get it.
Close thing but I too have gone for Elliot, consistently exciting, classy, committed and competitive all season.
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December 15, 2011 —
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — SullivanArc and Sullivan Renaissance are looking for homeowners to be part of the fourth annual Sullivan County Garden Tour on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Private gardens will be exhibited next summer to a limited number of individuals as a benefit for the SullivanArc Horticulture Program.
Next year's tour will feature approximately eight flower gardens in Sullivan County. The event provides a fun, inspirational and educational experience for garden admirers and enthusiasts, while benefiting a good cause. Volunteers can assist at each garden if needed.
Individuals interested in having their gardens considered should contact Kathleen Capozzoli at Sullivan Renaissance at firstname.lastname@example.com [1] or 845/295-2452.
Advance tickets can be purchased for holiday gifts. Call 845/796-1350, ext. 1050


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Where can I get me some of that wubba wubba?
Where can I get me some of that wubba wubba?
Tammy in MO
Friendly bump!
bumping up
IMPO, I think that instead of "encouraging" people to rephrase what they are saying...to remind people that what they read online should not be taken for fact and fully researched and discussed with their individual doctor.
Just because I say, "Hey, you should try domperidone...it works great with the least side effects." Doesn't mean that everyone should run out and just do it. I would hope that since we are adults here that everyone would understand that what you read online (or hear at any meetings/stores/groups/etc) would be a source of information and a place to begin research.
Not the be-all, end-all of medical knowledge.
Sometimes what I think is a suggestion, someone else will take for fact. It should not be my responsibility to make sure everyone knows it's not fact...but their responsibility to verify information and research it (talk with their own doctor) to determine if it is right for them.
Again, just my personal opinion.
I understand where you coming from ...as my own expirience I almost gave up b/f there is almost nothing to hold on out side to keep it up. healthcare providers nor family and friends I felt battleing against everything but I found so much support in this forums talking openly about anything... I understand that no medical advice can be given only own expirience .....
Because it is impossible for us to know who is reading these discussions, and how the information is being interpreted, the distinction between giving information and giving advice is an important one--to protect you, as the poster, and LLL as an organization.
This was just a friendly reminder. I haven't seen any blatant violations of this policy recently. However, because the subject has been discussed a lot lately, and we have many of new users, I wanted everyone to be on the same page.
Thanks for understanding!
Thanks for the post to remind us! We will be more carefull as to how we give advice to other mom's!!
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When a new technology comes along that introduces a paradigm shift, it often challenges the existing, established technology in use. It is a natural tendency for those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the new technology. Java Data Objects (JDO) is a new technology released from the Java Community Process that allows developers to directly persist their object models in transactional datastores. It supports the development of applications where the Java object model serves as the sole data model used in the application. It provides a query facility that allows applications to filter the objects in their object model using query operators and syntax taken directly from Java. JDBC and SQL are noticeably absent from JDO's interface, yet it has been designed so that it can be layered on top of these relational database technologies.
Donald Bales recently wrote an article for OnJava.com titled "Flawed JDO Points the Way to the Objectbase." In this article, he brings up issues he has with JDO and then presents an application program that is supposed to provide an "apples-to-apples" comparison between JDBC and JDO. He provides an Oracle-specific JDBC program that is similar, yet different, from an article by Dion Almaer titled "Using Java Data Objects."
Bales' program does not provide the same functionality as that found in Almaer's article, so it is not a true apples-to-apples comparison. In the interest of brevity, I will not enumerate all of the differences among the programs in these two prior articles; however, I will provide a complete, compiled, and working JDO program that does correspond to the program provided in Bales' article.
Before presenting the application, I'd like to address some statements Bales made in his article. He claims:
JDO threatens the livelihood of products such as object/relational mapping utilities that map Java objects to relational data. Because of this, and for other reasons, JDO has received more than its fair share of bad press.
Unfortunately, no references are provided to support his claim that JDO has received a lot of bad press. I am only aware of one such negative commentary in the press. It comes directly from one of the object/relational mapping vendors of a product that maps Java objects to relational data. This vendor has their own product with a proprietary API that stands to lose significantly if JDO succeeds. To those familiar with the situation, it is well understood that the attacks are motivated by the company's financial concerns. JDO provides a standard Java interface to support object/relational (OR) mapping. It only threatens existing OR products based on proprietary interfaces that will lose favor as JDO adoption accelerates. It is very common for companies with proprietary solutions to raise criticisms of a new standard that makes their current solution obsolete.
Bales states he has two issues with JDO. First, he claims that "somehow SQL has become a bad thing." I am not sure how this suggests a flaw in JDO. JDO proponents are not stating SQL is bad. JDO merely provides an alternative, Java-centric means of persisting information in a database and does not use SQL in its interface. Many of the JDO implementations available in the market are implemented on top of JDBC and SQL. SQL provides capabilities that JDO does not, and probably never will, provide. SQL provides support for the relational data model, allowing it to dynamically associate "formerly unrelated populations of information," as Bales claims. For many applications, the facilities of SQL are essential. But many Java developers want to have a Java object model view of their information. They have struggled due to a lack of a standard for persisting their Java object models in a database. JDO provides an alternative to JDBC/SQL more suited for these applications.
Bales' second issue with JDO is his belief that JDO treats a database management system (DBMS) like a file. He claims that with JDO you open a file, read it all into your application, write changes back to disk, and close the file. He states that this "does not properly facilitate multi-user access." It is not clear where he got this misunderstanding of JDO. The "Using JDO" article that Bales references used Oracle, the same database Bales uses in his example. While JDO implementations exist that are built directly on top of the file system, implementations are available for object databases and most relational databases. JDO has been architected to allow updates to be made at the granularity of a single field of a single instance in the database. So there is nothing inherent in JDO that precludes multi-user access.
Bales states that JDO is a "workaround" and that:
... [O]bject-oriented programmers ... have not applied it to solving the business problems. ... (They are) stuck in the world of functional decomposition ... abstracting things in the real world by categorizing information about them, but ignore their behaviors.
First of all, I whole-heartedly disagree with his characterization of object-oriented programmers. And it is very unclear how this statement is related to JDO being a workaround. JDO allows one to build object models and software that are completely orthogonal to the ways in which they are composed and used in applications, with many different decompositions of the application's architecture, functional or otherwise.
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Bales then proposes that what we need is an "objectbase" instead of a database, where binary executables can be stored and retrieved. He then suggests that the way to do this is to use JDBC or SQLJ. In particular, he advocates using Oracle's specific implementation of OR mapping. One of the goals of JDO is binary portability of applications across all underlying datastores. A JDO implementation is free to optimize its mapping of Java models onto the underlying Oracle OR feature set. With JDO this mapping is hidden from the application, which allows it to be portable across a wide variety of databases.
I will now discuss my experiences of reviewing Bales' program and my development of an equivalent program with JDO. Bales' first step is to create a user-defined type (UDT) using a SQL
CREATE TYPE command and then create an associated object table. It is not necessary to provide these underlying datastore data definitions using most JDO implementations. Many of the JDO implementations automatically generate these data definitions for the Java application. If there is an existing set of tables, implementations provide a means to define the mapping between your Java object model and the underlying database.
Next Bales introduces a
Person class. It is necessary for his class to import other classes from
java.io and
java.sql. His class needs to implement the
SQLData interface, using
SQLInput and
SQLOutput streams. In JDO, it is not necessary to import such types or implement the methods that marshal and demarshal the object. I used his program as the starting point for my implementation of the program in JDO. The definition of his data members included the following:
private String = name;
private String = address;
private String = ssn;
// etc.
Another problem I discovered was the following method definition:
public void setEmail(String Email) {
this.email = email;
I discovered this when my email address seemed to always be set to null. The reason for this is that the name of the parameter (
The following class,
Person, is the class to be stored in the database. This is the same class defined in Bales' article, with the above corrections made and also removing code not necessary when using JDO.
package onjava;
public class Person {
private String name;
private String address;
private String ssn;
private String email;
private String home_phone;
private String work_phone;
public Person() {
// Accessors
public String getName() {
return name;
public String getAddress() {
return address;
public String getSsn() {
return ssn;
public String getEmail() {
return email;
public String getHomePhone() {
return home_phone;
public String getWorkPhone() {
return work_phone;
// Mutators
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
public void setAddress(String address) {
this.address = address;
public void setSsn(String ssn) {
this.ssn = ssn;
public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
public void setHomePhone(String homePhone) {
home_phone = homePhone;
public void setWorkPhone(String workPhone) {
work_phone = workPhone;
Person class was 78 lines long. The class defined above has the same functionality in only 50 lines. The savings comes from the fact that with JDO I do not need to provide the methods
writeSQL, and
getSQLTypeName. As Bales notes himself, this code is tedious. It could also be error-prone. With a JDO implementation, this same functionality is automatically generated for my class. So the same functionality is necessary, but with JDO this code is generated for the application, reduces the developer's workload, and avoids error-prone code.
Specifically, the code is added by an enhancer directly to my .class file. The enhancer is given the file
Person.class and a JDO metadata file that lists the persistent classes and any other persistence-related information not expressible in Java. For this very simple schema, the metadata is trivial:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE jdo SYSTEM "jdo.dtd">
<package name="onjava" >
<class name="Person" />
The enhancer adds the code necessary to provide transparent persistence of the class, including methods needed to migrate data between the object and the database. The JDO enhancement contract for performing this is designed in such a manner that the code placed in my class is portable and will work with any JDO implementation. The resulting .class file is vendor-neutral.
Below I provide the application program that performs the same operations as provided in the DemonstrateOR program written by Bales.
package onjava;
import javax.jdo.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
A program to demonstrate JDO
public class DemonstrateJDO {
PersistenceManager pm;
Transaction tx;
public DemonstrateJDO() {
PersistenceManagerFactory pmf = null;
try {
InputStream propStream =
new FileInputStream("jdo.properties");
Properties props = new Properties();
pmf = JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(props);
} catch(Exception ex){
System.out.print("Error creating PMF");
pm = pmf.getPersistenceManager();
tx = pm.currentTransaction();
public static void main(String[] args)
throws Exception {
new DemonstrateJDO().process();
public void process(){
Person person = null;
// Insert a person object
try {
// create a new instance
person = new Person();
person.setName("Bales, Donald J.");
person.setAddress("Downers Grove, IL 60516");
person.setHomePhone("(999) 999-9999");
person.setWorkPhone("(999) 999-9999");
catch (JDOException e) {
System.err.println("JDO Error: "+e.getMessage());
// Update the object using standard JDO
try {
// Let's change my email address
catch (JDOException e) {
System.err.println("JDO Error: "+e.getMessage());
try {
// Print the Persons in the database
Extent persons = pm.getExtent(Person.class,true);
Iterator personIter = persons.iterator();
while( personIter.hasNext() ){
person = (Person) personIter.next();
System.out.println("name: " +
System.out.println("address: " +
System.out.println("ssn: " +
System.out.println("email: " +
System.out.println("home phone: " +
System.out.println("work_phone: " +
catch (JDOException e) {
System.err.println("JDO Error: "+e.getMessage());
// Delete the person
try {
Extent persons = pm.getExtent(Person.class,true);
Query query = pm.newQuery(persons,
"ssn == \"999-99-9999\"");
Collection rslt = (Collection) query.execute();
Iterator iter = rslt.iterator();
person = (Person) iter.next();
catch (JDOException e) {
System.err.println("JDO Error: "+e.getMessage());
protected void finalize()
throws Throwable {
if (pm != null)
try { pm.close(); }catch (JDOException ignore){ }
Once again, the JDO program is smaller. DemonstrateOR is 197 lines of code, my DemonstrateJDO program is 119 lines. Not only is the JDO program smaller, it also seems simpler to me. But deciding which program is simpler is likely a subjective opinion. You can decide for yourself which program is easier to understand.
In Bales' program, the constructor registered a driver and established a connection with the database. I have provided similar code, except with JDO it is necessary to construct instances of
PersistenceManager and
Transaction for interacting with the database.
PersistenceManager is created and configured with a
PersistenceManagerFactory. One can place the properties needed to initialize the
PersistenceManager in a property file, which I have called
jdo.properties. The following lines can be placed in this property file:
The first property identifies a vendor-specific name of a
PersistenceManagerFactory class. Only this one property value must be changed to switch from one vendor implementation to another. The other properties are virtually identical to the values needed in Bales' program to initialize his JDBC driver and connection.
In the main method of Bales' program, he starts by updating the connection's type map, associating the Java class with its corresponding SQL user-defined type. This is not necessary with JDO. This registration code is automatically added to the
Person class by the enhancer and is executed when the class is first loaded into the JVM.
The next step in the application is to create an instance of
Person. The code to initialize the
Person instance with data is identical in the two programs. To persist the
Person instance in the JDO application only requires a single line of code:
In Bales' program, it is necessary to reference the underlying table in the relational database. The developer is forced to deal with both the Java data model and the relational data model. There is an opportunity for trouble here if the wrong table is used. With JDO this is not necessary; the developer only needs to use the Java data model. This also makes the JDO application more portable, as it can work across many different database architectures.
The next step is to update the
Person instance. In JDO, if we have a reference to the
Person instance after committing a transaction, the identity of the referenced instance is maintained. If the reference is used in a new transaction, the identity is used to access the instance in the database. My code demonstrates this capability. To update the email address, we simply invoke the
setEmail method.
When the transaction commits, any updates to objects get automatically propagated to the database without any coding by the developer necessary. Once again, the JDO code to perform the operation is a single line of code. Can it get any simpler than that? This one line of JDO code corresponds to 25 lines in Bales' program. Half of Bales' code here deals with committing the update to the database. The other half deals with issuing a query to access the instance. I could have performed a query in JDO; I demonstrate this later when we delete the instance. Many lines of code are necessary in Bales' program to set up SQL statements to be processed. None of these lines of code need to be written in a JDO application program. The same functionality is provided by the underlying JDO implementation if it is providing access to an SQL database. But by using the JDO API there is less work necessary for the application and no dependencies on the specific underlying database being used.
The next step performed in the two applications is the printing of information about all of the
Person instances in the database. The two programs are fairly similar with this step. In JDO, you access an
Extent, which provides access to all of the instances of a class. You then use a standard
java.util.Iterator to iterate through each of the instances. With JDBC, you create a statement to perform a select on a table and you execute the query. It returns a
ResultSet, which has its own built-in methods to iterate through each instance.
Perhaps now would be a good time to raise a question concerning Bales' proposed solution. In JDO, within the context of a transaction, the
PersistenceManager guarantees that each unique instance in the database is represented just once in the application's memory. If the application performed several different queries or navigated from several different places in the data model and referenced the same instance in the database, the application would always get a reference to a single instance in memory.
It is extremely important for the application to have only a single copy of each instance from the database in a transaction. Otherwise, if distinct updates were made to the different copies of the same persistent instance, there is an issue of migrating these updates to the database. If each separate instance is written to the database, the same object in the database would get updated multiple times, and the last update made would have its values reflected in the database. Maintaining a single copy of each instance is a very valuable service provided by JDO's cache management architecture. It is not clear whether this is supported in the software being described by Bales.
The final step in each program is the deletion of the
Person instance. My JDO application no longer has a reference to the specific
Person instance, so I have perform a query to access the instance. Once I have a reference to the
Person instance, again, only a single line is necessary to delete the instance.
When examining the two programs that delete the instance, another point of differentiation emerges. In Bales' program, it is not necessary to instantiate an instance of
Person in the application; a SQL delete operation performs the necessary action. In my JDO application, it appears that I first need to query the database and read a
Person instance into my application.
The underlying JDO implementation, however, may only need to instantiate the
Person instance and initialize the identity of the instance. Unless the application explicitly accesses a field of the instance, the implementation does not need to read the object's state from the database into the instance in memory.
Bales claims in his conclusion that using JDBC with an object-relational technology is far simpler than using JDO. I am sorry, I just don't see it. With his JDBC program, the application must deal with two distinct data models: the Java object model and the relational data model. There is a lot of statement setup code in the JDBC application program that is not necessary in the JDO program. I do not see how the JDBC application is simpler. Nor do I understand his claims that JDO is "flawed" and a "workaround."
Bales boasts about Oracle's implementation of OR technology, claiming you can "have your cake and eat it, too" by being able to use either a relational or object view of the information. I can use a JDO implementation with Oracle8i or Oracle9i and get JDO's object view of the database, and I can also use Oracle's underlying SQL facilities to access the same data. My JDO software is portable across all object and relational databases. But my direct use of Oracle-specific features will only work with Oracle. Multiple vendors provide support for JDO on Oracle8i.
There is one final, major point I would like to make. This example of persisting a
Person object that has just six
String fields is taken directly from the article written by Dion Almaer. This was done to show a very simple use of JDO. But this is an extremely simple and trivial example; it does not demonstrate the powerful capabilities provided by JDO. Most object models have many inter-relationships among classes, represented by references and collections that model one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships. JDO directly supports such object model relationships.
JDO also supports inheritance relationships among classes. This includes references (or collections of references) where the referred instances may be of various different subclasses of a common base class. This use of polymorphic references is very common in object models and provides the extensibility mechanism employed in many object-oriented programs. JDO supports such polymorphic references in the database, and also supports references to interfaces. The use of these features with JDO is no more complex than the use of the simple
Strings found in this
Person class.
I would like to see an example application that has the necessary JDBC code to support all of these modeling constructs. This will clearly demonstrate that JDO is simpler than JDBC for more realistic object models. Members of the JDO community have wanted someone to produce an article with such an example for quite some time to illustrate the differences between JDBC and JDO in supporting these more advanced modeling constructs. But so far, no one has been willing to produce it. Why? Because it would be a huge amount of work to get all of the cache management and object modeling capabilities (collections, inheritance, polymorphic references) implemented in JDBC. I assert that when you have such more realistic examples of Java object models, the JDO application will be substantially smaller and simpler than the corresponding JDBC.
To conclude, I would like to state that SQL is not bad; it does provide powerful relational capabilities that you will not find in the JDO API. It allows you to dynamically associate data via join operations and it supports projections, group-by operations, and many other capabilities useful in data analysis. But if you have Java object models or relationships among your classes, or if you use inheritance and other features supported by Java, JDO provides a very simple API to persist those object models in a wide variety of databases. I can run my JDO applications on top of a multi-user Oracle 8i or Oracle 9i database, taking advantage of its multi-user access capabilities. I can have my Java-centric view of the information with JDO. I can also go underneath the JDO API and directly use JDBC and SQL. In closing, Bales' JDO FUD is a dud.
David Jordan founded Object Identity, Inc. to provide Java Data Objects (JDO) consulting and training services. David is also a coauthor of O'Reilly's book on Java Data Objects, with Craig Russell.
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The Richmond Poe Museum's staff took a field trip to Baltimore Maryland on March 26th to check out the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.
Edgar Allan Poe lived in this small row house from 1832 to 1835. The household also included Poe's aunt Maria Clemm, as well as Maria's two children Virginia and Henry, and Poe's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Poe would later marry his cousin Virginia. The family was just about able to afford the rent for this house thanks to Grandmother Poe's pension, which was granted to her because of her late husband's service to the country during the American Revolution.
David Poe, Sr. (Edgar's paternal grandfather – b. 1743 d. 1816) strongly sympathized with the American Revolutionary cause and donated a lot of the Poe family fortune to support the Continental Army. He served as Quartermaster General for the city of Baltimore and although his official rank was that of major, he was affectionately known in the city of Baltimore as "General Poe."
So, Edgar's connection to the city of Baltimore was very strong. It makes sense that Poe would choose to live with family after his disagreements with his foster father, John Allan and dishonorable discharge from West Point. Life in Baltimore was not easy, the Poe family had little money. They lost Poe's elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, in 1831 before they came to the little house at 203 Amity Street. Grandmother Poe was ailing and bedridden during their time in the house. When Grandmother Poe died in about September 1835, the pension died with her, meaning the family could no longer afford to keep the house. Around the same time, Poe began work at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond and soon thereafter married his beloved cousin, Virginia.
The lovely Amber, Jessy and Jen with Baltimore Poe House Curator Jeff Jerome and some bottles of cognac left by the fabled "Poe Toaster"
During our visit Jeff Jerome,the curator of the Baltimore Poe House, treated the Poe Museum staff to a wonderful tour of Poe's Baltimore home as well as Westminster Hall and Westminster Burying Ground where Poe and his family are laid to rest. We were treated to a fabulous surprise performance of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by renowned Baltimore actor and Poe impersonator, Tony Tsendeas and got to see some of the bottles of cognac left by the mysterious Poe Toaster over the years. Many of these bottles are now part of the Baltimore Poe House collection, which also includes a telescope and lap desk used by Poe and an assortment of crystal and china from the Allan home among other things. We checked out the tiny garret bedroom at the top of the house used by Poe (presumably the site where he wrote some of his early tales like "Berenice").
After our visit to the Poe House, Jeff then took us to Westminster Hall as well as the Westminster Burying Ground and Catacombs.
The Westminster Burying Grounds were established around 1792 and Westminster Presbyterian Church (now de-consecrated and known as Westminster Hall) was built on top of the burying grounds in 1852. The Catacombs were created to allow people access to the resting places of loved ones whose tombs wound up underneath the church. The burying grounds are the final resting place for many famous Baltimoreans including General James McHenry (for whom Fort McHenry was named) and, of course, our beloved Poe and many of his family members.
We paid our respects at BOTH of Poe's graves on the property. Poe was originally buried in the Poe family burial plot but was moved to his current resting place in 1875. Virginia and Maria are now buried in the same place.
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As always, the photos in this blog post (and more) can be found via the Poe Museum's flickr group here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/poemuseum/pool/.
We at the Poe Museum would like to thank Mr. Jerome for allowing us to come visit and for giving us such a wonderful tour of Poe's Baltimore. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and we encourage others to pay the Baltimore Poe House and Museum a visit too!
The Poe House in Baltimore is fighting to stay alive after recent cuts in city funding – please help to keep it around for others to enjoy for many years to come! Check this page for more information on how you can help: http://www.eapoe.org/threat.htm. You can also follow the Poe House's status on their Facebook page which you can visit here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Edgar-Allan-Poe-House-Museum/10150113128020459.


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I know a woman who is a survivor of colorectal cancer. At one point, doctors had given up hope and put her in hospice, but she failed to die as predicted and was eventually discharged. She continues to suffer intractable symptoms of pain with alternating diarrhea and constipation. I don't have access to her medical records, but she tells me her doctors have talked about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and have also suggested that the heavy doses of radiation used to treat her cancer may have caused permanent damage to her colon. Whatever the cause, her symptoms have seriously interfered with her mobility and her quality of life. Her health care providers have recently recommended questionable treatments in what I think can be construed as using CAM as a dumping ground for difficult patients.
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Colonoscopy hadn't shown any obstruction, but one of her doctors had hypothesized that her symptoms might be due to impaired bowel motility in the irradiated area. She was desperate enough to consider surgery if there was a chance that bowel resection or colostomy might improve her symptoms. She belongs to a large, well-known HMO with a good reputation. She asked her primary HMO physician who thought the idea was plausible and referred her to a surgeon. The first surgeon said surgery was not indicated and referred her to another surgeon on staff. In addition to being board certified in general surgery, the second surgeon was allegedly board certified in something related to CAM (my friend can't remember his exact words and has been unable to verify any such credentials online).
The surgeon recommended acupuncture, not once but twice. My friend's husband (who teaches statistics at a nearby community college) told the surgeon that he was fascinated by the challenges of double-blinded studies of acupuncture and that he was aware of no benefits beyond the placebo level. The surgeon then retreated a little and suggested that the primary benefit of acupuncture in treating IBS was the "relaxation" effect.
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Back in 1995, Carl Saunders wouldn't have guessed that he someday would be earning a living from the four acres surrounding his home near Warrenton, Missouri.
Saunders' job as manager at a local import-export company paid the bills, but his knack for gardening was used primarily to provide fresh vegetables for him and his wife Robin. He also had shopped at farmers' markets, so he was well aware of the market for fresh, locally grown foods. It's a market that continues to gain momentum locally and nationally. The USDA has an active "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has a "Grow Your Farm" program and a high tunnel loan program in cooperation with the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
"I had always gardened, but I hadn't been involved in production agriculture at all," Saunders says. "But as the local food movement continued to develop, I saw an opportunity and I just needed to take what I was doing and look at it from a production and commercial standpoint."
Saunders grows a variety of vegetables at "Yellow Dog Farm." One of his marketing niches is in salad greens, which he harvests by hand, hydro cools and delivers to commercial accounts in the St. Louis area as well as farmers' markets in the area and a large CSA (community supported agriculture operation) in St. Louis.
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Saunders built his first high tunnel in 2007 and added two more in 2010. One of the high tunnels was funded mostly through the high tunnel initiative managed by NRCS. Through the initiative, 122 qualified applicants received funding from NRCS last year to purchase kits to erect high tunnels up to 2,178-square-feet. Saunders added some of his own funding to the NRCS payment to construct a 30-foot-by-96-foot high tunnel (2,880 square feet).
"The program was great for me because I was familiar with high tunnels, and it was a great opportunity for me to add growing capacity and seasonal availability," Saunders says.
Tammy Teeter, NRCS district conservationist, says Saunders was one of the first landowners in Warren County to apply for a high tunnel.
"He really taught us more about high tunnels than anyone else," Teeter says. "He came in to sign up and we didn't know much about them yet, because the program was so new."
Saunders says the high tunnels allow him to extend his growing season and to maximize his time.
"The high tunnels give me a six-week jump in the spring, and they are extending my growing season four to five weeks in the fall," he says. "And another advantage for me, from a labor standpoint, is that when it's raining outside, I'm working in the high tunnels. Since I provide my own labor, it gives me something to do instead of sitting around and waiting for the weather to improve."
In November, Saunders was cutting and delivering salad greens from one high tunnel while salad greens in the adjacent high tunnel were just beginning to emerge. The younger crop of salad greens would be harvested in December and January, during the harshest months of the Missouri winter.
"It's hard to believe that this turns into that," Saunders said in comparing the growth in the adjacent high tunnels. "But it does."
It also helps turn a few acres into a way of life.
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of baseball operations Andy MacPhail said Andino will get the bulk of
playing time at shortstop in Triple-A Norfolk. (best of luck to him
there, I hope another team wants him though because he has a solid
future and I am more for him as a person which is why I would be okay
if he is traded since I guess it isn't a fit in Baltimore)
the first guy in Dave Trembley's office this morning and told the
Orioles manager he wants the ball tonight. We'll see what happens.
Close friend Rafael Soriano (who got the win for the Rays) texted
Gonzalez words of encouragement following an ugly blown save. (agreed.
give it to him. let him prove us wrong. if he does it again, then
question it.)
Friday and Saturday's starters in Baltimore, boarded a 6 p.m. flight
earlier tonight to go back to Birdland. They'll get a chance to settle
in and prep for their starts. Hernandez threw a bullpen yesterday and
told me he's pretty excited. (cant wait for the weekend when i can see
em in person)
*New Oriole Julio Lugo was coloring in the
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Manno, who honed his radio and television skills at North Central's award-winning radio station while majoring in broadcast communication, is set to host MTV's new daily program "Live at 5" beginning Sept. 20. Manno is set to depart for New York from Chicago, where he has been an on-air personality at WKQX-FM, "Q101," one of the top-rated stations in the Chicago market.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD-Area musicians from Parkside, James M. Bennett, Washington, Crisfield, Snow Hill, Delmar, Holly Grove, Seaford, Laurel and Colonel Richardson high schools will join the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Wind Ensemble and the UMES Concert Choir in a performance on Sunday, April 25, at 4 p.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts. The concert also features community musicians and UMES alumni.
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DPS opposes wind testing towersOctober 13,2012WINDHAM The Vermont Department of Public Service is opposing construction of wind testing towers in Windham as contrary to town regulations.
The Brattleboro Reformer reported that the agencys objection does not end the process. The states Public Service Board must rule on the Atlantic Wind LLCs proposal.
Atlantic Wind requested a certificate of public good from the state to erect three meteorological testing towers two in Windham and one in Grafton. The towers could be the precursor to Windham Countys first commercial wind turbine site.
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