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Bamboo Grove Hawaiian Grille
515 SW Carolina Street
Portland, OR
If somebody tells you that business travelling is great, I am willing to bet he/she is lying to you. Granted, there will be some perks when travelling for business, like me being able to visit different local restaurants; however, it also takes a toll on your social and personal life – assuming you have one that is, or to quote that South Park in Make Love, Not Warcraft, "How do you kill that which has no life?". (If you want to take a partial glimpse of people travelling for business, I highly suggest you watch Up in the Air). Considering my status, I take it in strides and enjoy all the restaurants the city/town I am has to offer. And, in this case, while in Portland, I was looking for something that isn't found in Vancouver (yeah, despite we claim to be diverse, there is only that much Chinese restaurants I can digest – in the case of Vancouver, it is already way past a dozen too many): Hawaiian. And, among the different options, Bamboo Grove
I will admit I don't have much of an idea of what they have to offer, aside from what you can see on TV, with meals like the a luau and dishes like poi and loco moco, not to mention Polynesian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese influences. I knew I was taking some chances by not knowing but, hey, at times, that is part of the fun! Arriving to this restaurant was sort of a challenge as well. I knew I had to make a turn on a specific street; however, the street signs were partially covered by some of the trees and ended up going past the one street I had to turn on. After some couple of right turns, I arrived at the restaurant.
Despite it was relatively early and on a weekday, I was surprised I couldn't sit on the patio: it was full already. As a result, I ended up seated on a table inside. Now, that's fine; however, there was a MAJOR problem with the HVAC system: they were grilling a large order and part of the restaurant was filled with smoke. Now, it wasn't a foggy type but it was a form of smoke that you could tell. Anyway, after I got the menu, it took them several minutes to get back to me. So, I started with drinks, in this case…
Guava Lemonade. As I have mentioned in the past, I usually end up ordering diet soda but, for a change, I decided to go for this. What I wasn't expecting is that being a bit too…. Pink (?) for my liking. OK, OK, what happens is that I grew up getting used to the paler green version so I was expecting something either clear or yellow-ish, not necessarily pink. But, then again, I reminded myself there is red guava. If that is the case, that might explain why it felt towards the sugar-y side rather than the citrus-y cide. After all, it is a lemonade! So, depending on your liking, it might swing both ways – in my case, it swing the wrong way.
Namasu. I guess this would be a Japanese influece as such serving of pickled vegetables would be called that way. In this case, I will admit these were quite good: sweet pickled cucumbers and crunchy onions (though not pungent at all). One thing I would have wished is that this was served slightly chilled but, at room temperature, it worked fine. Now, there is a really funny note about this but more about that later.
Spam musubi. If you reaction is a confused one, yes, you read it right, you see it right. Taking again influence from Japan, specifically from an onigiri, here you have rice (not necessarily sushi rice), sandwiching a piece of Spam (as in luncheon meat, not the email), some egg and wrapped with seaweed. Story goes that Spam was extensively consumed in Hawaii during World War II that it became a staple. So, in this case, I will have to say it is sort of a touch of genius. Alas, while the idea was good, the execution was strange. Don't get me wrong, it was good; however, I would have appreciated a smaller portion, not to mention had the seasweed been slightly toasted to enhance flavour. After all, this wasn't sold as a grab-n-go snack… Still, I won't deny that the Spam (or whatever equivalent luncheon meat used) was actually good (either that or not been fed luncheon meat for years made it enticing that day).
Finally, the main meal… Their Luau style Kalua Pig. As mentioned above, there are some sort of stereo-typical "feast" dishes and I ended up ordering it (rather than a more day-to-day type dish like Loco Moco). Yeah, shame on me but, when you say "pork", I am in. Now, here is one caveat: if you have seen shows about this, the Kalua pig is usually cooked underground (after making a pit). However, this might not necessarily be "legal" in all places and I am sure Bamboo Grove is not breaking any law. So, instead, I had the odd suspicion this would be some sort of pulled pork. The question is how it was delivered…
But first, the two sides: first the mac salad and white rice. The rice might be more suitable to the Asian palate, as in it being slightly mushy and sticky so, from that perspective I won't say much. The salad… Well, it might be an acquired taste but I didn't really enjoy it. Probably because the mayo was a bit thin and had an extremely oily feeling to it? Regardless of the reason, I considered it just as a side and nothing else.
Finally, back to the pork. Alas, the name and description was better than the actual execution. As a pulled pork, it worked fine; however, there wasn't anything that made it any better than, say, going to a BBQ shop (as in Podnah's). In fact, I won't even consider it made "par". I mean, even some more liquid smoke would have helped, considering it didn't have a side sauce of sorts. That's because, on the "juicy" side, it was really good (though, that meant lots of fat on the plate at the end) but some additional layers of flavour would have done wonders.
Now, here is the story with the namasu. Originally, I ordered only the Spam musubi and the Kalua pig; however, somehow I got the namasu instead (it is possible there was a lost in translation, given these two items are next to each other in the menu). So, when I was already half way with the pig, I tried to check with a waitress but, to no avail… It seems the 2 (a third one appeared towards the end of my meal) waitresses were swarmed and couldn't keep up. That is compounded by the fact the kitchen was extremely back-logged. I mean, other than the Spam musubi which would have required a bit of preparation, the other dishes I ended up eating were close to scoop and serve, yet it took almost 30 minutes for it to arrive to my table! A one time instance? Not sure… Eventually, I was able to flag a waitress and acknowledged the confusions. That's when I got the Spam musubi towards the end of my meal. I will give them some credit, as they tried their best and comped the namasu.
So, after I walked out (with one of my few instances of doggy bag, given how much food was served), I couldn't noticed something really strange. I have commented to some people in the past that, if I were to make a perfume, it would be called "Bacon" (obvious inside joke); however, given the issues with the HVAC system, I ended up smelling like smoke but not a nice bacon smell… And, during that drive back to the hotel, it got me thinking, was it worth all that? My answer was no. While some of the dishes were funny as an one time instance, similar to my post yesterday about Voodoo Doughnut, I didn't feel anything outside of the ordinary. Would my experience have been different had I ordered the Loco Moco instead? Well, I am willing to try the Loco Moco again but not sure if that place will be at Bamboo Grove…


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Recent reports of faltering Palm sales leave fans of the PalmOS wondering what it will take to correct the course. Palm CEO Carl Yankowski has just announced a partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers to sell Palms into the enterprise, but will that be enough? What could Palm and its main rival, Handspring, do to bring back the magic of the Palm platform? If this temporary slump can be overcome, what of the lurking competition from Microsoft with the PocketPC and Compaq with the PocketPC-based iPaq handhelds? Below we consider some more radical ideas to help Palm and Handspring to extend the life line of the PalmOS, so that the many fans of the Palm platform don't get left with empty hands.
One of the most amazing things about the Palm community is the huge number of applications available for the platform. Unfortunately, most Palm users don't have the faintest idea how to install any one of these applications (and the PalmOS doesn't make it any easier -- see below), and probably have never seen a Palm accessory. When Palm users do discover applications well-suited to their jobs or interests, they love the experience -- almost as though they've found a whole new handheld.
Palm and Handspring should introduce people to these applications and accessories by selling role-specific handheld bundles. For instance, Palm could sell a "Reporter Palm" bundled with software and accessories a writer or newspaper reporter might need:
|The Reporter Palm Bundle
|Palm Vx, lightweight and thin with a long battery life
|WordSmith for word processing
|Keyboard for writing stories
|Noah Pro, a dictionary program
|Modem for filing reports
|IR Print, for printing drafts on the go
|Travel kit for working overseas
Without developing a single line of software, without making any new hardware, we just built a Palm that is infinitely more useful for a reporter or a writer than any they could buy off the shelf today. No muss, no fuss, no learning complicated techno-nonsense to make it all work. Could a motivated reporter build this setup by themselves? Of course, and some have. Considering, though, that Palm devices seem to have saturated the techno-geek population, what better way to move out to the non-geek world than by making it incredibly easy for any user to discover the applications that will endear them to the platform?
Packages for other professions are easy to imagine as well. Student Palm could be a low-end bundle, oriented around note-taking and a budget price. JetSet Palm could be loaded with travel software and accessories for the frequent-flyer club. Dr. Handspring could come with the Physician's Desk Reference and a voice recorder springboard modules. The Executive Handspring could come with Margi System's PowerPoint presenter module, a leather case, and an expense tracker. Taken to the extreme, the Palm and Handspring factories could do just-in-time packaging and software installation for a host of markets -- or even allow people to "build their own Palm" from a Wizard-like interface. As an added benefit, this would increase the rewards for the best Palm application developers, encouraging more applications and a higher level of quality.
Simply by packaging the Palm correctly--putting it in a new box, adding the things a professional market will need, and giving it a name--the value of the Palm platform could go up enormously for the general population. If you don't think that matters, ask Steve Jobs what packaging and ease of use have done to turn Apple around. Make it easy for people to use.
With the release of the Palm VII, the Palm community took a step towards the trendy area of wireless connectivity, enabling the device, supposedly, to access the Internet from anywhere.
It's time to admit that this, like the Newton's hgrdwritimg rccojnitien, was an idea before it's time.
Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm, certainly has -- apparently he was opposed to it from the beginning. A recent New York Times' article about wireless devices made the point very well, when a reporter couldn't get the most popular devices to work in midtown Manhattan. The Times piece read for all the world like a Newton review from eight years ago. The technology just isn't good enough. The connectivity isn't fast enough, the applications aren't compelling, and the interfaces are miserable. The Palm VII is not the right wireless for 2001.
In the time since the VII's release, another technology has emerged, one that deserves more attention from the Palm community: WiFi, or 802.11b. This standard for local wireless connectivity has everything the PalmOS needs from wireless today:
HED: 802.11b on the PalmOS
For an early peek at 802.11b access on the Palm platform, read Derrick Story's review of the Xircom 802.11 Module for the Visor.
Imagine this scenario: a set of corporate users wants to schedule a conference room. Do they want to use their Palm VII's to go find a room over the Internet? No! Internet service is going to be way too slow, will create security hassles since they'll have to authenticate over the Internet, and it probably won't work in the middle of their office building anyways! Instead, they use their WiFi-enabled Palms to access the corporate calendar and schedule the room reliably and quickly. Ideal! If the WiFi user needs Internet access, the WiFi base station can act as a gateway -- at much higher speeds and greater reliability than a Palm VII could ever offer.
WiFi opens the door to consumer and retail applications as well. Ordering a movie ticket from your Palm when you get to the theater would be no problem, and inventory management or even table-side credit card clearance would be much more realistic with WiFi. One recent announcement had San Francisco Giants fans receiving statistics and updates on their Palm handhelds by using the IR beaming port at stations around the stadium. That's a cute hack, but wouldn't it be better to use WiFi to deliver information directly to their seats? Any business that wanted easily accessible in-store information and interaction could just place WiFi terminals around its location and tell its customers to "Bring your Palm!"
|Have any other thoughts for improving the Palm OS? Share them here.
Palm and/or Handspring should market the Palm Corporate Network, a WiFi-based solution that includes WiFi hardware for high-end Palms (Handspring, of course, is already covered on this front since WiFi Springboards exist for all of their models), shared calendar software that integrates with the Palm Datebook and Palm Desktop apps, and a built-in security system so that authentication is easy for the user. In addition to solidifying the PalmOS lead in the corporate world, this also opens a whole new world of application markets for the Palm community to address. Wireless database access makes a lot more sense over a LAN than over the Internet. Browser-based Intranet apps are going to perform a whole lot better than waiting three minutes for a Google response. And so on. In addition, WiFi might provide the single greatest incentive for users to upgrade to higher-performance handhelds.
The Palm VII should be given a nice retirement with an engraved gold watch. The future has passed it by. Its descendents can take another stab at the wireless Internet when the time is right, but just as personal computers did, they should master the local area network before trying to take on the world-wide network.
On the Palm.com home page Palm proudly announces that 9,500 applications are available for its platform. An impressive number! Curiously, the software page says 8,000, and the press releases say 10,000. Anyone home in there? This is, though, an improvement over the time when SimCity for Palm was the featured application for months on end. (It's a great game, but the are 8,000 -- er, 10,000 -- other possibilities, many of which deserve time.) Sometimes one has to wonder whether Palm thinks of the developer community as an asset, or instead as a strange phenomenon better left undisturbed.
The PalmOS is a delight to program -- it features a very well-designed API with excellent developer tools. Developers have responded to it extremely well, producing very high quality applications in almost every category imaginable. If the strongest asset of the Palm platform is its ease of use and brilliant design, perhaps the second strongest is the range of applications developers have made available for it. So why isn't Palm doing more to improve and promote the application experience? One idea in this vein is elaborated above, but there are other areas where applications could use some help from the mothership.
The worst of these failings is the applications installation experience, completely unchanged since the release of the Pilot 1000 many years ago. The current system is workable, but it relies on the persistence of the Palm user to get the application from discovery to operation. Palm applications are underused in part because installation is so convoluted, relying on an unspecified packaging format and suited only for the VCR programmers of the world.
To solve this, the PalmOS should come with a Web browser plugin to make installation as simple as clicking on a link on a Web page. (This is easy to do: define a media type for Palm apps, say, application/palminstall. Define an XML format for application descriptors, listing required PRC's by URL, license for clickthrough, etc. Then install a plugin that is called for that media type, which parses the descriptor and throws the PRC's in for HotSync. Done!) Not all applications will be able to use this (for instance, conduits would be harder to get right), but for the vast majority, this will dramatically simplify the process.
Once installing applications is easier, the developer community should get the prominent promotion it already deserves -- a place on the Web sites of the handheld makers that shines the spotlight on the best of these applications. The Palm.com and Handspring.com Web store shopping carts should be upselling these apps as aggressively as Amazon, making the new Palm handheld owner aware of the riches hidden in the developers' work.
Another area where applications could use more support is in desktop presence. The built-in PalmOS applications (Date Book, Address Book, etc.) all have two representations: one on the Palm, and one in the Palm Desktop, the PC application used for entering and viewing data. The Desktop application is extremely useful -- indeed, one of the key innovations of the Palm was allowing people to enter data on the Desktop and have it automatically synchronized to their Palm device. As easy as it is to program applications for the Palm itself, though, the benefits of the Palm Desktop are completely limited to the built-in applications, and developers cannot extend the Desktop in any way. (The best a developer can do is to create a conduit, which can call some outside application when a HotSync is performed. This is an okay workaround, but it requires the developer to produce and maintain separate conduits and desktop applications for each platform -- which usually means only Windows users get the benefits of conduit connectivity.)
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In any other operating system, a "desktop" is an area where the user can add documents and programs suited to their needs -- and the Palm Desktop should do the same! Rather than being fixed into the limited set of built-in applications, the Palm Desktop should recognize a cross-platform interface format (perhaps just a reuse of the Palm PRC format) that would allow Palm developers to easily create a desktop representation for their Palm applications. These desktop views should enjoy the same HotSync and data exchange benefits found in the built-in applications -- allowing them to get out of the handheld-only world. Such a scheme will dramatically lower the barrier for desktop connectivity for Palm apps, and as a result make add-on applications much more visible and useful for the user. In addition, this will expand the usefulness of the Palm platform for Macintosh and Linux users, allowing them to enjoy desktop connectivity for their applications.
Too many Palm users view their handheld as nothing but a glorified datebook and contact manager. That's a shame -- the Palm developer community has done excellent work to extend the utility of the platform, and the desktop environment should do more to make these add-on applications first-class citizens of the platform.
There comes a time in the development of every technology when the free-wheeling early days must come to an end, and either one player dominates, or the standing players must get around the table and agree to some standards for the way their industry will develop. If they don't, they leave their customers with an array of unsatisfactory choices.
Today, the PalmOS faces a real and growing threat from the PocketPC, particularly Compaq's iPaq handheld. PocketPCs are gaining on the outside, and the Palm community should think long and hard about which enemy is more important -- the competing Palm players, or Microsoft?
The PocketPC platform widely uses CompactFlash (CF) and PC Card accessories, giving its users wide interoperability with digital cameras, laptops, and other devices. In contrast, the PalmOS companies have each decided to do their own thing. Handspring was formed around its Springboard expansion format, which is large enough to accommodate many types of accessories. Palm itself has recently and mysteriously adopted the SecureDigital (SD) card format, too small for any interoperability, and without the hardware interfaces that have worked well for Handspring. Sony -- and Sony alone -- is relentlessly pursuing its MemoryStick format. HandEra, a recent entrant, split the difference by supporting SD and CF at the same time.
Simply put, this creates an unacceptable confusion in the marketplace. Which is the better format? Which has more devices? Which one will work with my camera? And so forth. For most consumers, the answer will simply be, "Forget it." Without a great incentive, no one will bother. The PocketPC doesn't have this problem.
So, who's the bigger enemy? If they know what's good for them, the Palm players will sit down and back one format they all can live with -- and if they're really smart, they'll get behind the Compact Flash format already taking off with digital cameras and PocketPCs. Handspring has nothing to lose -- they can ship a CF Springboard and support their existing products plus CF expansion with no problem. Palm would have to swallow its pride and admit they made the wrong choice, but since they are the only company shipping SD for Palm right now, better to take the medicine while the patient is still alive. (They could even put out a CF-SD adaptor if they're committed to being wrong.) HandEra made the right choice and is already set. Sony....well, Sony is probably hopeless -- having lost the Betamax versus VHS war, they are unlikely to concede defeat until the war is already over. We can just start calling the MemoryStick "Betamax 2000" and see if they flinch.
While we have the players at the table (that is, while we're writing a wish list), it would also be an excellent idea to standardize the serial port. Every Palm handheld that has been released seems to have a new shape for clip-on devices like GPS and wireless modems (about which, see above), and some new way of attaching and HotSync'ing. The time for this sort of play is over. Palm needs a serial format analagous to the USB format for desktops -- something easy, standardized, and accessible for consumers to attach their Palm to their desktop, portable keyboard, or whatever else. While it may seem like a neat revenue trick to require each Palm user to buy a new Palm keyboard, HotSync cradle, modem, and whatever else each time they upgrade, consumers will get tired of that very quickly. Make the Palm an investment, one that will survive a year's worth of development, and the user will treat it that way, too.
Will these ideas make Palm and Handspring invulnerable to their competition? No, but they would lead the platform in the right direction: away from divisiveness and consumer confusion, away from the land of the three-function calculator, and towards a better user experience, richer utility, and new markets. If the Palm companies can't pull it off, surely a lesser platform will wind up winning, and consumers and fans of the PalmOS will wind up losing.
Marc Hedlund is an entrepreneur working on a personal finance startup, Wesabe.
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April 19, 2005
Small Stuff
So ostensibly, my main project is currently the Lucky Clover Sweater. But, off the record, not much progress is going on with this sweater. I have most of a sleeve done:
and every so often, I'll do a row or two and neither like nor dislike it. Its a decent project. Whenever I think about it, I think "yeah, I will knit this!" but somehow I just don't pick it up and work on it.
Recently, I am knitting small projects from stash yarn. Like this:
A striped sock! Its a new and exciting 2x2 ribbed variation on the standard striped sock, in Regia color #5340. I do most of my socks this way, with 2x2 ribbing on the cuff and continued over the instep. The ribbing makes them super comfy and fitted.
You know what's cool about ribbing in self-striping sock yarn? It makes the color changes less visible. The color changes in stockinette stitch look funky. Sometimes the stripes are two rows high, overlapping in areas to 3 rows high, resulting in a look specific to self-striping yarn. (Sorta visible in the image on the right)
But with the ribbing, the color changes are obscured. So the stripes just look like stripes, without the strange overlapping. Which makes me happy.


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Overview for Health Care Facilities
Through the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, acute care and children's hospitals in New York that adopt, implement, or upgrade certified EHR technology, and subsequently demonstrate meaningful use of this EHR technology, can qualify for incentive payments. These payments are above and beyond any Medicaid reimbursement or other incentives. Participation in the NY Medicaid EHR Incentive Program will begin in late 2011.
The following types of facilities are eligible to receive incentive payments:
- Acute care hospitals, which are defined as hospitals with an average length of stay of 25 days or less, and a CMS Certification Number (CCN, also known as Medicare Provider Number or OSCAR number) whose last four digits are in the range 0001-0879 or 1300-1399. Acute care hospitals must have a minimum of 10% Medicaid patient volume.
- Children's hospitals, which are defined as separately certified hospitals that predominantly treat individuals under the age of 21 and have a CCN whose last four digits are in the range 3300-3399. Children's hospitals have no minimum Medicaid patient volume.
Under current legislation and program guidelines set by CMS, multi-campus hospitals and health systems that operate under a single CCN will participate in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program as a single hospital; those that operate under multiple CCNs will be eligible to receive an incentive payment for each CCN that satisfies the criteria listed above.
The total dollar amount of the EHR incentive varies from hospital to hospital according to a formula established by the HITECH Act. This formula takes into account the hospital's size (measured by discharges) as well as the proportion of hospital bed days paid by Medicaid relative to the total number of bed days.
The formula is based on a theoretical four-year payment schedule, but New York has opted to exercise the flexibility granted in the legislation to accelerate the payment schedule to hospitals as follows:
|Participation Year
|Proportion of Total Incentive
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Year 4
Note that participation years do not necessarily need to be sequential - eligible hospitals (EHs) may skip years without penalty up to the year 2016. Starting in 2017, hospitals may only receive incentive payments if they received a payment in the previous year.
In order to receive an incentive payment for the first participation year, an EH must demonstrate that it has adopted, implemented, or upgraded certified EHR technology. In subsequent years of participation, EHs must demonstrate that they are meaningfully using the certified EHR technology by satisfying a set of meaningful use objectives, which become progressively more stringent as the program goes on.
Hospitals may simultaneously participate in both the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program and a similar EHR Incentive Program offered through the Medicare program. In order to streamline program administration and reduce the burden on participants, hospitals that demonstrate meaningful use in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program will be deemed meaningful users for the purpose of the Medicaid program and will not be required to separately demonstrate meaningful use to NY Medicaid (although they may still be required to demonstrate any Medicaid- or state-specific eligibility criteria).


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When a federal grant to help homeless children in Wisconsin Dells expired three years ago, a group of dedicated volunteers stepped up.
Families in Transition Support Network is an independent community group that works with the Wisconsin Dells School District. They offer food, clothing, school supplies, haircuts and more to families in need.
"It is an amazing resource. I've worked in other districts where the problems are still there. We still have families that are homeless. We still have kids that are hungry and we maybe don't have this community organization," said Director of pupil services in the Wisconsin Dells school district Dawn Sine.
Throughout the area's five schools the district has between 50 and 100 kids who are homeless each year. Half of district's students are on free or reduced lunch programs.
"If you're sitting in the classroom you don't have the proper supplies, you don't have the paper and the pens required, it's a distraction and you're not focused on what your teacher is teaching," said FITS President Lisa Delmore.
But as the last day of school hits Friday, there's no guarantee when these kids could get their next meal.
The school doesn't have summer programming, but FITS continues to host free dinners once a month through the summer and works with other community groups to ensure the Dells children know their neighbors care.
You can learn more about Families in Transition Support Network on Facebook or their official website wdfits.org.


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Hotel Skeppsholmen will open on Oct 24 in the city centre. This is the first hotel on the city-island Skeppsholmen and the hotel will be situated next to the Museum of Modern Art. The Hotel Skeppsholmen is done by renowned Swedish architects Claesson-Koivisto-Rune
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|Newspaper and magazine cartoonists draw cartoons for publication to interpret or illustrate news events or to critique well known politicians and celebrities in order to entertain their readers. They research their topics through interviews, library research & attending newsworthy events.
|They analyze political and social events to decide upon persons, places and topics to be captured in a cartoon. They decide who or what will be criticized and complimented by the cartoon.
Select the cartoon style for characterizing persons to be drawn. The style portrays how the cartoonist perceives the persons' traits such as honesty, intelligence, neatness & emotionality.
They draw the cartoon and write the supplementing text for review with the newspaper or magazine editors. They review the cartoon to satisfy the editors' critiques.
They research well known politicians & celebrities by interview and research to decide how to interpret them and their activities and cartoon subject material.
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Golden Carrot Cake
An irresistibly moist and rich cake, with chunks of carrot, raisins and nuts.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 55 min
- Ready Time: 75 min
- Yield: one (10-inch) cake
- 1 (9-ounce) package None Such® Classic Original Condensed Mincemeat, crumbled
- 2 cups finely shredded carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 2 cups Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Orange Glaze (recipe follows)
Preparation Directions
- PREHEAT oven to 325°F. In medium bowl, combine mincemeat, carrots, nuts and rind. Toss with 1/2 cup flour. Set aside.
- COMBINE sugar and oil in large bowl; beat well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine remaining 1-1/2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Gradually add to batter, beating until smooth. Stir in mincemeat mixture.
- TURN into well-greased and floured 10-inch fluted or tube pan. Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes, remove from pan. Cool. Drizzle with Orange Glaze.
- TIP Orange Glaze: Melt 2 tablespoons butter with 4 teaspoons orange juice. Add 1 cup confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon grated orange rind, mix well.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 slice), Calories 450 (Calories from Fat 180), Total Fat 21g (Saturated Fat 3.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 65mg, Sodium 560mg, Total Carbohydrate 63g (Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 43g), Protein 5g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 60%, Vitamin C 4%, Calcium 8%, Iron 10%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Walworth County voters buck some trends
Despite our reputation as a conservative, Republican stronghold, voters found some Democratic candidates worth a closer look this time around.
It appears that residents of Richmond and Whitewater townships, along with the city of Whitewater, will be represented by Democrats in the state assembly, if the vote totals hold up.
When it came to education, voters decided it was time to open up their pocketbooks.
Delavan's school spending measure passed Tuesday, allowing the district to borrow up to $1.9 million to upgrade Darien Elementary and Wileman Elementary schools as well as Delavan-Darien High School.
In Whitewater, voters agreed to allow the district to exceed spending limits in order to maintain current programs.
The only referendum to fail was Lake Geneva's, where voters decided they would still rather vote for city attorney, rather than have one appointed by the mayor.
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--Although there is only a small part of the 32nd Assembly District in Walworth County, it played a big part in Tuesday's election.
Most of the district is in the western half of Rock County, but works it's way over to include Whitewater Township and the city of Whitewater.
Whitewater voters are credited with pushing Democrat Kim Hixson, a Whitewater city councilman, ahead of incumbent Debi Towns. A recount is expected.
--In the contentious 32nd State Assembly District race, voters selected Republican incumbent Thomas Lothian to return to Madison, over Democratic challenger Ryan Schroeder by a vote of 9,583 to 8,322.
--In the 31st Assembly District, which includes most of the northern half of Walworth County, plus parts of Jefferson and Waukesha counties, Rep. Stephen Nass retained his seat over Scott Woods by a nearly 2-1 margin.
--In the northeast corner of the county lie the village of East Troy and East Troy township, which are part of the 83rd Assembly District. Most of that district lies in Racine and Waukesha counties.
Republican incumbent Scott Gunderson defeated Democrat Donald G. Herron both in Walworth County and throughout the district.
--Richmond Township voters are part of the 45th Assembly District, which also includes most of the western half of Rock County. No Republican challenger was on the ballot, which allowed Democrat Chuck Benedict to retain his seat.
State Senate
Although the Tuesday's votes turned the state Senate over to the Democrats, voters in the two districts that represent parts of Walworth County decided to stick with the incumbent.
Republican Sen. Neal Kedzie easily retained his seat in the 11th, while Democrat Sen. Judy Robson kept her seat in the 15th, defeating Republican Greg Addie in both the Walworth County vote and the district-wide vote.
The 28th Senate District, covering East Troy and East Troy township, won't be up for election for another two years.~Dan Plutchak, editor


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He's not quite there yet, but Fields game is reemerging. He's far from being on cue, but it's good to see The Half Blood Prince playing his game.
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Not Improbable
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Since the 2008 postseason games there havnt been any oponents defender
that could stop Ray Allen playoff performance. Especially when the trio of
"Rondo-Ray-Peirce" got down and dirty to run a tri-angle offense in the 2009
postseason games when KG was out with a season injury.
Minimum-wage rookie Landry Fields started all 82 Knicks games lastseason
shooting 50% from the FG, 6 rebounds, 2 assist, 1 steal, 1 to, 9 points,
in 30 mpg. Fields precision movement on the court showed multi-positional
talent with great hustling IQ without the ball.
All of the above single-stats equal-up to a 2nd season Landry Fields being
one of the top-3 players for the 6th Man of the year award.
However....the Knicks organization and dum-dum coach Dantoni did not
put any effort towards getting a veteran "starting-SG" before July 1st. to
go between PG-Billups and SF-Melo, so SG/SF-Fields and PG/SG-TD could
bring a helluva dynamic energy off the bench next season.
The Knicks predraft camp coaching scouts were directed to only look at
the young SG in the 2011 draft-class, not the valuable rebounding/boxingout/shotblocking
bigmen in the 2011 draft-class (foolishness if u ask any NBA analist who
watch the new Melo-Knicks.). If Iman Shumpert is not impressive at the
PG spot Knick-Fans will wonder if keeping Corey Brewer wouldve been a
wise move.
As for the Knicks performance after the "Carmelo Anthony" trade
Knicks-Fans need to go to Melo's stats as a Knicks.....37 mpg,
20 shot attempts to average 26 points, 3 assist, 6 rebounds, and 2 to.
These type of stats prove Melo became the number #1 option on offense
where the ball went through Melo's new creative-moves more than any
other Knicks players hand on offense. Amare creative offense with the
ball was demoted on the offensive-end of the court from taking his 22
shot attempts per game to just 15 shot attempts per game, changing
the Knicks offensive-set, and movement around to follow Carmelo's
peremeter-scoring 92% of the time.
The big change was with Amare inside scoring, the defense motion double-
team on Amare gave the Knicks peremeter-shooting game 73% on offense
with 3 players "Gallo-Chandler-Shawn" and that percentage started
decreasing when big-body Mozgov was put back in the rotation with a
healthy Turiaf to screen, pick n roll, to add more inside scoring from
Chandler, Gallo, Fields, and Felton. As the season was going on these
same Knicks-players were getting more confidence in one-another skill-
set on the offensive end of the court.
1st page of this thread was a great re-read.
I'm wondering if we'll end up trying to solidify our starting backcourt this off-season, which now depends mightily on the play of Lin from here on out, and end up making Fields a versatile 6th man.
I'd like to see if Fields could legit spell Melo at the 3, especially when we go with certain lineups moving forward.
Fields has a unique set of skill. He's a sneaky good off the ball mover, can nail those corner 3s, and has a nose for the key rebound and a desire to get it.
I'm still not sold whether he should be starting or not. j
Our PG situation just became very interesting, with Lin, and the subsequent play of Shumpert throughout this year will both have major ramifications on what is going to be a somewhat mild, but offseason of profound effects regarding who we use our MLE on. And the ultimate role Fields will establish here.
Fields averaged 12.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists in the last 12 games, personally I find it a very good result, especially that there were games where his minutes were limited. He's been doing much better than Shump lately.
For now, he has to start.
You're bang on about the PG embargo. The emergence of Lin has had a huge trickle effect.
Crazy, if Fields goes from starting SG to backup SF, who will be the next starting SG? Shumpert?


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They are claiming police brutality.
"There was blood spatter all over the walls, all over the floor there was blood," says neighbor Krystal Lewis.
Several neighbors spoke to us anonymously, explain what they saw over the weekend.
"Kenny was mad, he was cursing, he was hurt, he was lying on his side. I could see the blood and I could see him in the fetal position."
A second neighbor says she saw a similar sight.
"He was laying on his left side with a towel under his head, and it had bled through the towel and left a big blood stain on the carpet."
Neighbors say the officer went too far after responding to a fight call.
"His face was completely busted up, his eye was swollen shut, and he was bleeding from his head," says Lewis.
It's clear witnesses saw one side of the story. But law enforcement may have seen another.
"When the officer was trying to deal with him, he was pretty belligerent, may have been intoxicated at the time," says Oak Hill Police Chief, Michael Whisman.
"I can assure you, if he was being belligerent, the officer was probably arresting him, and he is charged with resisting arrest and obstructing an officer and intoxication. So that tells me he was not complying with what the officer was telling him."
With their dad bleeding on the floor, witnesses say they heard his kids crying through the ordeal.
"Those poor kids are going to have to grow up living with seeing this happen to their dad," says a neighbor.
Another adds they might grow up scared of police, "They're not going to trust police because that's the image they have of a police officer."
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Dean & Ginny's excellent adventures...
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It had been years since we'd spent Thanksgiving with Dana and his family, so we made the trek north. We took our bikes and spent some time in Washington, DC, too. Come with us on this short holiday excursion.
We took a lovely mid-book tour* mini-adventure to Florida's Panhandle. Kayaking at sunrise was magical, so join us on this cool adventure to Wakulla County. (*Ginny's 3rd book, "The Art of Maintaining a Florida Native Landscape" was published in Aug. 2015 and the book tour included 35 events in 11 weeks!)
So come with us on our second grand world voyage.
One of our best days was Easter in Katakolon, Greece where we shared food and wine with 2 generous families. >>
We did it again. We took the 2015 World Cruise with Holland America! Only 12 of the scheduled ports were the same as the 2012 cruise and those were mostly great ports like Sydney, Singapore, and Athens where we were able to find lots of new things to do and see. Ultimately our route was changed in several places, but oh what a great trek this was.
So it was September and it was time for a van trip to parts of the country we'd not experienced before. We worked our way to Chicago for the first planned stop, then we headed up the eastern coast of Lake Michigan, on up to the Upper Peninsula, worked our way along the shores of Lake Superior, finally over to the headwaters of the Mississippi River before we traveled down the charming river towns. Join us on this fun road trip to the north/central US.
<< A charming Lake Superior lighthouse was one of several we visited.
This is part of the Mississippi that you haven't seen. Here a beaver dam blocks the mighty river. >>
Ooh, it was hard to pick out the stars of this 2-week cruise to Alaska. Was it the eagles, the ravens, the glaciers, the surprisingly good weather for Alaska this time of year, the amazing wildflowers, or the sea stars themselves? Probably all of these and more...
We flew to Seattle and boarded the Amsterdam, the same ship as our world cruise, so it was like coming home in a way. This was their first trip of the season, so join us in our country's largest and most rugged state. As usual, we found our own adventures and avoided most of our shipmates in the ports.
We headed out on Valentine's Day to see an exceptional population of trout lilies in southern Georgia that had been saved from development and then we continued west to Falling Waters State Park in Florida's Panhandle. Join us on this short trek.
<< Dimpled trout lilies (Erythronium umbilicatum) were spectacular. There were acres of them in bloom.
Florida's Falling Waters State Park has Florida's highest waterfall, which falls 70' into a rocky sinkhole. Plus this is the state's highest park with an elevation of 324'. >>
We headed out to the Caribbean on a 21-day cruise starting in November 2013. Many of the ports-of-call would be new for us and the ones that we'd been to before, we managed to find new ways to enjoy them. So join us on this eastern and southern Caribbean adventure.
We found groups of really, really pink flamingos in the salt flats of Bonaire. Also note the windswept mangroves. >>
We decided to go north for the summer on a Voyage of the Vikings with Holland America. The average high temperature in the summer for many of our destinations on this cruise is 55 degrees. No snorkeling gear was necessary.
We marveled at the interesting cultures with their unique architecture. We admired the ingenuity and the generous spirit of the descendents of the Vikings in these chilly climes. We did cross the Arctic Circle and experienced some really, really long days of summer. So come along with us on this summertime cruise, Voyage of the Vikings!
we went through the Suez Canal on the Grande Voyage
earlier this year, we decided we'd like to go through the other major
shipping canal.
was heading off to the University of Delaware and invited us to his
going away party. While we were in town we took a tourist's tour of
Annapolis, saw Olivia run her horse through a series of jumps during her
lesson. After the party we headed up to Cayuga Lake in New York
A 112-day cruise with Holland America around the world, literally. Who knew that we'd find a waterfront in Brazil that looked like Amsterdam?
We walked both Ipanema and Copacabana beaches in Rio--does this mean that we are now tall and tanned and young and lovely? No. But do join us for this fantastic World Cruise!
This tour of the Texas state parks included biking, birding, hiking and the discovery of the fine craftsmanship done by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. So pack up your picnic and come along for this month-long Texas road trip. Yee-Haw!
<< Black swallowtail on a Texas thistle.
An Indian shaman sculpture at Seminole Canyon >>
It had been cold for a while. While here in north Florida, it's not terrible compared to northern states, we still decided to head south on a Florida road trip.
We had a great time exploring The Disney Wilderness Preserve, A Nature Conservancy property; Lake Kissimmee State Park; Lignumvitae State Park; and our favorite--Key West. This is a great state with wonderful natural (and man-made) resources that we never tire of. We're on the road again...
<< At Lake Kissimmee State Park we reprised our "Dean & Ginny's Excellent Adventures" shadow.
It had been more than a year since our last adventure, so it was time... We drove down to Cape Canaveral on New Year's Day and took a seven-day cruise to the Bahamas, St. Thomas, and Saint Maarten.
So come and stow away with us aboard the Norwegian Sun for this freestyle cruise to the eastern Caribbean Islands. You'll see some parts of these islands that you haven't seen or noticed before, even if you've been there numerous times.
We took the opportunity to drive across the southern tier states during Ginny's holiday break in her speaking tour to promote her book Sustainable Gardening for Florida, which has been an adventure of a different sort.
We knew the weather would be chilly in December, but we were prepared and really enjoyed the beauty and the fact that the parks were mostly empty. Join us for this trip across our great country.
<< Snow on a Joshua tree in the high Mojave Desert.
We drove to Maryland to visit with Dana and his family for a few days the week before Memorial Day. On Thursday we drove into DC to take in some of our favorite places and new ones including the striking Air Force Memorial, (See photo to the right.) which overlooks The Pentagon.
After our visit we headed out to Sugar Grove, WV. From there we explored the territory including the nearby Seneca Rocks formation, (see left) which has attracted rock climbers for years. We didn't come prepared for a technical climb on the rock face, but we did hike the trail to the top of the hill.
We packed a lot into this short adventure.
We took a military flight to Hawaii and thought we'd continue on to Guam or Singapore, but the weather was stormy in Guam and the flights to Singapore didn't work out, so we decided to spend some more time exploring the islands and booked a 7-day cruise. Join us on this great Hawaiian adventure.
We saw these bluestripe snappers when we went diving off the Kona Coast (western side) of the Big Island. >>
We took a military flight from Melbourne, FL to Antigua. The military travels there because of its satellite tracking station. Antigua is located on the northern end of the Lesser Antilles and is more or less circular island that could fit inside the Washington beltway.
There are many reminders of its days under British rule: driving on the left side of the street, Yorkshire pudding on the menu, British-style phone booths, and tea time at 4pm each day--shown in this photo.
Since its independence, Antigua has been transforming itself from a sugar plantation island to a tourist attraction. We noticed quite a few Brits vacationing here.
We stayed at The St. James Club, one of many all-inclusive resorts. We rented a car for our 9-day stay and toured many parts of the island. Come along on this excellent adventure...
Spring in New England beckoned, so we packed our long pants and windbreakers and headed north the third week of May. We traveled up the eastern-most route across the Bay Bridge-Tunnel from Norfolk up to the Delmarva Peninsula, across the Lewes Ferry to Cape May NJ and then headed up to Massachusetts where we spent time in Scituate and on Martha's Vineyard. Finally we headed over to West Point and Ithaca, NY and then down to spend some time with the grandkids in Maryland. It heated up as we came south--it felt good to put on some shorts!
We heard that Key West celebrates its Independence Day for a whole week: it is The Conch Republic. This was not a long trek, but we packed a lot into just a few days: A stop in Orlando for a stockholders' meeting, an afternoon of diving, a parade, some nice meals, and a butterfly conservancy visit on Key West. Join us for a vicarious trip to Key West.
<< It was a crazy parade!
butterfly landed
While this was not a trek per se, it was an adventure. We were volunteers for Dori & Aaron's home tour on March 2, 2008. Their neighborhood in Lake Worth FL is called Parrot Cove because of the wild parrots that live there. 11 houses were on display to raise money to buy trees for the neighborhood.
Parrot signs greeted the folks on the tour. >>
<< In the back courtyard there was food and wine. Plus Aaron had artfully placed a few Bocce balls on the lawn area.
Dean found a series of military flights that could take us to Guam. The last leg of the trip from Hawaii to Guam was full, so spent a week in Hawaii. Then we surprised the kids (and ourselves) by showing up for Thanksgiving in Maryland. A "Space-A" adventure.
<< We revisited the Audubon Park in Hawaii where a white-rumped shama posed for us.
The day after Thanksgiving we went into D.C. to tour some of the monuments. It was cold and windy. Dean and I froze our butts off because we'd packed for the tropics. >>
We find ourselves being drawn to Florida's Keys for diving and ambiance. Here are some photos from our October adventure.
Sunset on Mallory Square on Key west is a celebration most every day. It makes us happy to be a part of it. >>
The Great Northwest including US and Canada beckoned to us. We left in August, so we would not miss out on the season for Glacier National Park (It closed 9/17.) and the best season for orca watching from the San Juan Islands in western Washington. After those two adventures, we were on the road through most of September. What a wonderful trip!
We had a great time photographing the wildlife. Isn't this prairie dog that we saw in Glacier National Park cute? We also just loved all the beaches where we were the only humans. There are many parts to this adventure, so take it one or two pages at a time, or grab yourself some "Serious Coffee" and go for the whole adventure in one sitting. Here's more on this great adventure.
Fairchild Tropical Gardens near Miami hosted a display of Chihuly glass sculptures. We made it down to see it just before they took it down in June, the beginning of hurricane season. That seemed like a good idea.
From the large, imposing configurations like the one one the left to small, almost organic installations like the one to the right, it was fun to see how cleverly the glass was integrated into the gardens.
We'd never been to the garden before, but it's a lovely setting and we were frequently side-tracked from the glass by interesting displays of tropical plants. More...
When we saw that Arizona and New Mexico had received an unusual amount of rain this spring, we decided to experience the flowering desert and further explore this part of the country. We were on the road for almost three weeks--we packed in a lot of adventures.
From the heat of the desert to the surprisingly snowy passes, this was a trip of extreme weather. Here's the link...
Oh my gosh--what a trip this was. We saw a program about The Galápagos on public TV and thought it might be fun. The next week we were there!
What an interesting collection of wildlife. Who even knew about blue-footed boobies? Fortunately, we resisted the urge to buy the t-shirt that said, "I love boobies!" Under the words were two blue feet.
We drove to Miami and flew into Quito, Ecuador to start this fabulous adventure: The Galápagos.
We didn't travel very far for this adventure--only two hours south of here in Mt. Dora, FL for daughter Dori's marriage to Aaron Storonas. Very exciting. Wonderful location and it was great to spend time with family and friends. There are snapshots posted on the wedding website, www.dori-aaron.com.
Our trip to Nova Scotia started in Maryland to attend Dori's bridal shower on 8/19. After spending the weekend there, we headed north. First stop was Brooklyn Heights, NY to visit with cousin Micki and her husband Tim who've recently opened a restaurant there. Marblehead and Gloucester north of Boston, MA were the next stops.
We toured The Bay of Fundy Coast with its gigantic 50' tides, which cause reversing waterfalls and huge mud flats in New Brunswick, Canada. Then we spent a week in Nova Scotia touring the province where we found the world's smallest drawbridge, moose, fabulous scenery, and roller-coaster hills.
Instead of driving all the way back, we took the "Fast Cat" ferry from Yarmouth to Bar Harbor, ME. We spent two days in Bar Harbor and fabulous Acadia National Park. We stopped for the Labor Day weekend in Maryland before heading home. This was a trip of great scenery and major contrasts. Glad to be home for a while.
Dean found a military flight from Jacksonville to Sicily: it was an offer we couldn't refuse...
On the way over we overnighted on an Azores Island--part of Portugal. We spent six adventure-filled days in Sicily, then on the way back we spent two days in Rota, an old coastal town in southern Spain. It's not easy to describe this amazing trip with just a few words or to choose just a few photos to tell the story, but here we go... Trip to Sicily.
Grisly statue with its missing body parts adorns an elaborate arch in Catania, a city on Sicily's east coast. >>
<< All alleys lead to the beach in Rota, Spain.
In May '06, we hopped a series of military flights that carried us from JAX to San Diego, on to island of Oahu in Hawaii, and then back to San Diego again. This was a "Space A" Adventure.
spent three days in San Diego, eight days in Hawaii, and three days again
in San Diego. Plenty of time to have some
great adventures.
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In late Feb. 06, we decided to take a trek to south Florida. We stopped in Lake Worth to visit Dori and Aaron and took in Art on The Avenue. Then went to Bahia Honda Key, Key West, and the Anhinga Trail in The Everglades National Park.
We went diving twice on this trip: once at Pennekamp State Park on Key Largo, and later on Looe Key.
In early Feb. 06 we took off toward Big Bend National Park in west Texas. We'd skipped by it last year when we went through the area with the new van. We'd decided that we had to go back. We heard that the birds would be worth seeing at this time of year.
We had a great time, learned lots of interesting tidbits about this part of the country, and thoroughly enjoyed the fabulous scenery, including the birds.
El Rio Grande provides a long serpentine oasis between Texas and Mexico. >>
Friday after Thanksgiving we (along with daughter Dori & her fiancé, Aaron, plus 2,400 other people) boarded The Majesty of the Seas in Miami for a three-day cruise to the Bahamas.
We snorkeled at Coco Cay, a small private island, Saturday morning and dove with about 20 (!) Caribbean Reef Sharks on Sunday morning. That was exciting... Here are the photos.
Back in Miami on Monday morning, we drove from the tropics to home. It was raining and cooler in northern Florida.
We ordered a Ford van which was converted to an RV (a class B motor home) by GTRV in British Columbia. Our trip to the west coast included a detour to Hawaii, a drive from California to BC, and then a trek across the country in the van via a mostly southern route. We had to hurry home for Thanksgiving with Dori & Aaron, but we'll go back to some of these areas for a more leisurely trip.
Here we
are enjoying
an Arizona
At the end of August 2005, we drove to Charleston Air Force Base and took the weekly run to Honduras.
A great adventure. We'll go back. There's so much more to see. More of our Honduran adventures here.
In April 2005 Ginny and Dean went diving--certified in January this was the first big trip where the underwater camera worked well. We started with a 3 dives on the dive boat Narcosis off Palm Beach and then we drove down to Key Largo and did four dives in two days in the beautiful coral reefs of Pennekamp State Park, an underwater park. Seven dives in three days is a lot! Then we stopped to visit Dori and Aaron on the way back home. More pictures here.
A different type of adventure: Ginny and Dean moved to Florida in June 2004 just in time for all those hurricanes! Here are photos of our new Florida house in Green Cove Springs!
Ginny started writing a gardening column for the Florida Times Union's online paper and has a website called www.transplantedgardener.com, but now she keeps her gardening log over at www.GreenGardeningMatters.com.
In late 2003, Dean and Ginny thought it would be fun to celebrate their first anniversary (Jan. 2) in Key West. Taking the back roads and traveling along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, this was a slow trip south traveling in the minivan.
So join us for the second big adventure. This time it's New Years in Key West.
The was the first of our big adventures and what a way to start! We drove our minivan across to the NW to meet up with Dean's sister Judy and her family in Oregon.
We stopped at McCord Air Force Base near Mt. Rainier in Washington after our visit and hopped on a military flight to Japan and took another one to Guam!!
We flew back via Hawaii and then drove much more quickly across the country back to Maryland. So here's the Saga of the Guam adventure
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This premier development is centrally situated in Canary Wharf, London's dynamic and energetic financial district. The area offers a wide range of shops, restaurants, pubs and wine bars, as well as healthcare, leisure facilities and an extensive programme of arts, entertainment and events. These spacious contemporary apartments are fully furnished, and are fitted to high standards throughout.
All apartments within the development offer free broadband Internet and the added benefit of under floor heating in some apartments. A 24 hour concierge also operates on site. This is a perfect location for corporate and leisure travellers, conveniently located for direct access to the O2 Arena, Excel Exhibition Centre and London City International Airport. Parking is available on site at £15 per night, this must be secured prior to arrival and it's subject to availability. *****PLEASE NOTE - Reservation charge will be made on day of reservation for all bookings*****
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I always call this "The Scooby Doo Mystery Of The Disappearing Lipstick", and when we get to the end of the story, and pull the mask off the villain, we all find out it's… YOU <insert mystery music>
This is Day 1 of my Top 5 Lipstick Frustrations Series. I'm Jay Harper, your host and guide today, and I make lipstick for a living.
Solving the mystery evades some, and that's ok.
Here's the chief complaint: My Lipstick Never Lasts… I Put It On, And An Hour Later… It's Gone!
You've been trained in the past to think that this has something to do with the lipstick formula. Just like me, Big Cosmo also identified that lots of women share this problem, but instead of teaching you something new, they sell you something new.
They also know that a lot of women are frankly to busy, or even lazy (I know I'm lazy sometimes) to take the steps needed to help lipstick last all day, making it even easier to sneak in a (toxic) lipstick formula to sell you to solve your frustration… at the expense of your health . (long wear lipstick formulas use plasticizers, glues, and chemical stains to stick to your skin – bad part: that stuff damages collagen, and ages skin faster.)
So I'm going to reveal the truth about where your lipstick goes.
Honestly, it boils down to some simple preparation, and a few critical, but overlooked application techniques.
Without these 6 tips, any lipstick could be difficult to manage, causing you more frustration than perfection.
These 6 techniques will teach you how to:
- Make lipstick last longer
- Keep colors on target
- Create smooth, flawless finishes
- Keep lipsticks from creeping and sliding
Lipstick = Lip + Stick.
Not Stick, like from a tree, but stick as in "sticks to."
Lipstick is mostly comprised of waxes and binders that give it its texture and "stickiness."
Your lips shed. They shed more than the rest of your body. At any given time, your lips are covered with thousands of loose skin cells ready to fall off at the slightest touch. Without hydration, the problem is worse. And if you have an auto-immune disease (like Celiac Disease) – your body doesn't absorb digested nutrients meant to hydrate your skin – making your lips even drier.
When lipstick disappears quickly, it is partly due to those skin cells shedding (along with your lipstick). When you leave a lip print on a glass, it is because the lipstick adhered to the glass, and the loose skin cells that the lipstick was adhered to comes right off with it.
How cool would it be if you removed those cells yourself before applying lipstick? It's a good idea. More on that in a second
Your lips are a canvas. Think about a painters canvas. Let's say for instance that you had a painters canvas that was 30 years old. It's spent some of it's life in the weather, but it's in pretty decent condition for being 30 years old!
It's dry though, when you rub the surface, it dusts on your fingers.
Now, before you paint on that canvas, you decide to pour some coffee or diet coke on it. Then you rub in the coffee with a greasy breakfast sandwich, or even a banana.
And NOW you decide to paint it, and immediately take it out into the weather before its set, possibly rolling a coffee mug over it. How well is that paint going to adhere?
Ok, so let's re-imagine this. Same painters canvas. But this time, before you paint, you give it a light sanding to remove the powdery, dusty surface. Then you make sure it is properly hydrated. Then you clean it, making sure it is free of all oils, grease, food and crumbs. Then you carefully dry it.
Now you paint it, then you help the paint set before moving it out into the world. Is this going to do better? Uhhh YES, it is. So here's what you do about it!
The following crucial steps are often overlooked.
The secrets to long lasting, flawless lipstick are exfoliation, hydration, clean lips, and application technique.
DO THIS #1 : Exfoliate
Exfoliate – In order to get the most out of your lip color, you need to create a perfect canvas for application. If your lips are dry, cracked or peeling, the color is going to bleed into those areas, creating a "splotchy" and unflattering effect. This is the extreme at one end.
At the other end, you might think your lips are just fine, the truth is however, that they are covered with cells and skin flakes ready to come off.
This is where forced exfoliation comes in. There are many techniques to doing this, and we suggest you add one of these to your daily routine.
- Toothbrush and Balm – Use a soft toothbrush with a dab of Rallye Balm™ and gently scrub your lips.
- Dedicated Exfoliation Stick – Use the Red Apple Exfoliator Stick
- Honey And Suger Mix – Mix 1 tsp each of olive oil, honey and sugar. Rub this on your lips in circular motions using your fingertips and rinse it off after about 30 seconds.
- Washcloth – Just like it sounds. Deliberatly Scrub a dub dub!
DO THIS #2 : Increase Hydration
We know this sounds simple, and it is. It's also crucial. Hydrated lips will always provide the very best base for lipstick possible.
- Drink More Water – Keeping your body hydrated is not just important, but it will keep your lips smooth and plump.
- Use Rallye Balm™ Everyday – A product like Rallye Balm is unique. Rallye Balm is lab tested gluten, paraben and lead free. It is mostly comprised of gluten free Vitamin E. Your lips are very delicate and a product like Rallye Balm™ is going to immediatly hydrate, deliver Vitamin E to the skin of the lips. Vitamin E helps skin stay stronger, and stronger lip skin is going to retain moisture better.
BEST PRACTICE – When using Rallye Balm™ or any other balm we recommend that you apply it somewhat liberally. If it's bedtime there would be no problem leaving a liberal amount on your lips while you sleep. If you are prepping for a lipstick application, use your finger to rub the balm in deep and wipe away any excess. Allow a minute or two for this to soak in and form a base for your lipstick. Blot with a tissue if needed.
DO THIS #3 : Clean Your Lips Prior To Applying Lipstick
This is also super simple, but critical. You must make sure your lips are free from all dirt, oil, grease and food prior to putting on lipstick.
Use a mild face wash. A dab on your finger is all it takes. You don't have to pretend you are in the shower or anything, just a little soap and water and will free up the grease from any foods and drinks you've recently had. Please be sure to dry your lips throughly too.
I always recommend that you keep a small container of the same soap in your purse at all times. When you go to the office lunch party, and you are done eating and drinking, excuse your self to the ladies room (never apply lipstick at the table or in public in general). Grab a dab of water and soap from your purse, and just quickly swash your lips with it, rinse and dry.
If you don't have soap, don't use the bathroom soap unless absolutely necessary, just plain water is better than a horrible, drying soap… your lips are delicate, so treat them as such.
DO THIS #4: Apply Lipstick Thoughtfully
Slow down for second. I realize that most of us in our lives are always rushed… rush rush rush, but when it comes to your lipstick, slow down for a second…. breathe… it's gonna be allll right.
When you apply lipstick, you don't want to try to get it all on in a single swack. This is a critical mistake I see a lot of women make.
When you attempt to use pressure to apply as much lipstick as possible in the shortest amount of time, you are not working the lipstick into all the little, practically microscopic folds in your lip skin.
You will have much much better results when you apply thoughtfully. It's important to know your lips, where every divit, crease and line is.
As you apply, pay attention to working the color IN, not just on. First swipe sets the ground rules. Sometimes it is even a good idea to pull the lips skin somewhat taught with your other hand, and slowly work that lipstick around, define the edge boundary at this stage, and this a light pressure.
The second swipe is just as light, you are now working to begin to fill in any areas that the first swipe might not have gotten into.
Understand that the creases in your lip skin are vertical, and if you are using lipstick straight out of the tube, you are probably swiping side to side, the opposite direction of any creases.
Now, as you go for your third and fourth and possibly fifth and sixth swipes, you are building intensity. Keep going until you go just beyond the intensity level you want, and then proceed to the next step, which you cannot overlook!
DO THIS #5: Blot, Then Re-Apply, Then Blot
This is the setting stage. It does two things. It makes sure the lipstick is pressed into your skin, and it removes any loose lipstick that might slide around.
Use a double folded tissue. Open your lips, place the tissue between your lips until it just reaches the corners of your mouth.
**Lightly** close your mouth straight down onto the tissue, roll the tissue in with your lips, roll the tissue back out with your lips, open and remove.
There should only be a hint of lipstick on the tissue. If you have what you might consider a LOT of lipstick, you used too much pressure.
After blotting, re-apply the lipstick. One or two swipes, maybe 3 if you need a little more color.
Blot again. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is not to remove lipstick, but to press the lipstick down onto itself, and settle it into the skin. It also helps the outer most layer that's loose make up it's mind about staying or going.
Again, there should be very little lipstick on the tissue. If you have a LOT of lipstick on the tissue, you either applied way to much to begin with, or you pressed down to hard… or both.
DO THIS #6: Leave It Alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before you do anything else, allow the lipstick 5 minutes to finish "setting up".
The lipstick needs to come up to your bodies temperature, and set up. Lipstick is intended to work better at a higher temp, it "sets up" at around your bodies temp.
That means put down the coffee mug for 5 to 10 minutes.


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The planetary dust disk around the star Beta Pictoris is dynamically "ringing like a bell," according to astronomers investigating NASA Hubble Space Telescope images. The "clapper" is the gravitational wallop of a star that passed near Beta Pictoris some 100,000 years ago.
The surprising findings, presented at the 195th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, show that a close encounter with a neighboring star can severely disrupt the evolution and appearance of thin disks, which are the nurseries of planetary systems. Similar fly-bys of our solar system long ago may have reshuffled the comets that now populate our Oort cloud and Kuiper belt.
Discovered in 1983, the dust disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris long suspected to harbor a planetary system has puzzled astronomers because it contains more dust grains than any other comparable system. Also, the dust spreads over a huge 65-billion-mile-diameter area. Yet, one side of the disk is 20 percent longer and thinner than the other side.
In these latest findings, Hubble astronomers carefully studied the appearance of the disk using 10 years of archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and from ground-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. Hidden within the densest part of the disk are clumps of dust that are present only on the long, thin side of the disk. Because the disk is tilted edge-on to our line-of-sight, the astronomers inferred that the clumps might represent rings if the disk was viewed face-on. They hypothesized that these rings must be highly elliptical if they appear only on one side of the disk, and this could arise if another massive object, like a passing star, recently disturbed the entire system.
To test their ideas the researchers asked theorist John Larwood of Queen Mary and Westfield College (London, United Kingdom) to create a computer simulation of a quiescent disk made of one million test particles orbiting a virtual star. The simulation explored what would happen if another star zipped by it in a near-collision trajectory. In the simulation, the gravity of the passing star rearranged the orbit of each particle, setting up an elliptical ring system 100,000 years after the almost catastrophic event. The model also reproduced the 20 percent asymmetry in the disk, which has mystified astronomers since the Beta Pictoris disk was first seen 16 years ago.
The astronomers are continuing their detective work, searching for the intruder star among 186 suspects near Beta Pictoris. Their simulations predict it might be only a fraction of the mass of our Sun (a class called an M-dwarf star). The present results will be published in a future issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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