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Brief Summary
Diversity of Living Pigs
The family Suidae (pigs) is one of a number of families in the mammal order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). Meijaard et al. (2011) recognized 12 species in the Suidae, although they note that clarifying the status of some of these will require further work, especially in the Philippines. One or more species are found throughout most of the Old World except for Australia, northern Africa, and far northern Eurasia (feral pigs are found even more widely, including in North America and on many Pacific islands). Various species can be found from near-desert conditions to closed forest in tropical, subtropical, and boreal regions. The most unusual-looking pigs are no doubt the babirusas, which have long, spindly legs, a nearly naked body, and, most strikingly, upper canines which (in males) grow up through the snout and continue to grow in a backward-curving spiral. The function of these remarkable, greatly enlarged canines remains unclear. The babirusas share a number of other unusual characteristics as well that have raised questions about whether they actually fall within the Suidae, but this question has not yet been resolved.
A distinctive feature of pigs is the unusual snout, with terminal nostrils which can be closed; the snout can be moved by the pig without moving its head. Most pig species are highly omnivorous, feeding even on carrion, but plant material typically accounts for a large proportion of the diet. With the exception of the Forest Hog and babirusas, pigs use their canines and flexible snout disk to root through soil looking for food and dig up roots and bulbs. Babirusas specialize on fruit and Forest Hogs feed more on grasses than any other pig species; Forest Hog piglets are fond of fresh elephant dung.
With the exception of the babirusas, which appear to have retained the foregut fermentation characteristic of ruminants, most pigs use hindgut fermentation in the caecum to digest cellulose, but their cellulose digestion is inefficient and pigs consequently must spend much of their time feeding.
All pigs use mud wallows when they have an opportunity to do so. Wallowing serves to cool the animal them and to protect it from ectoparasites (external parasites) and biting flies. Pigs nearly always rub themselves against a tree after wallowing.
Pigs are generally considered to be among the most intelligent mammals, after humans and other great apes, dolphins, and elephants. Their intelligence has been likened to that of a three-year-old child.
Pigs have a remarkable variety of scent glands, used in scent-marking, which are distributed over various parts of their bodies.
Pigs are the only ungulates (hoofed mammals) to commonly produce large litters of offspring (up to half a dozen or even more than a dozen offspring at once).
Pigs and Humans
There are an estimated two billion domestic pigs on Earth (domestic pigs are derived mainly from the Eurasian Wild Pig and the Sulawesi Warty Pig). Pork accounts for a large proportion of global meat production (41% in 2007). In addition to eating pigs and, in some places, keeping them as pets, humans have used them to detect and dig for underground truffles. Available evidence suggests that pigs may have been domesticated independently in Europe, Asia Minor, the Far East (including Japan), and various parts of Southeast Asia. In many traditional human societies around the world, pigs have tremendous cultural importance. Feral pigs wreak environmental havoc in many regions where they occur. On the other hand, populations of most of the world's pig species are declining, some critically. Particularly vulnerable are those species ocurring in small and isolated populations in archipelagoes such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan.
(Meijaard et al. 2011 and references therein)
Physical Description
Other Physical Features: endothermic ; bilateral symmetry
imago of Aphodius erraticus may be found in dung of Suidae
Other: major host/prey
Animal / dung saprobe
solitary or gregarious apothecium of Ascodesmis porcina is saprobic in/on dung or excretions of dung of Suidae
Animal / pathogen
Foot and Mouth virus (FMD) infects Suidae
Other: major host/prey
Animal / parasite / ectoparasite / blood sucker
Ixodes ricinus sucks the blood of Suidae
Known prey organisms
Progne dominicensis
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 16, 2011 at http://animaldiversity.org. http://www.animaldiversity.org
Life History and Behavior
Perception Channels: tactile ; chemical
Key Reproductive Features: gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate); sexual
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage
Specimen Records:368
Specimens with Sequences:355
Specimens with Barcodes:317
Species With Barcodes:8
Public Records:195
Public Species:8
Public BINs:7
Barcode data
Suidae is the biological family to which pigs belong. In addition to numerous fossil species, up to sixteen extant species are currently recognized, classified into between four and eight genera. The family includes the domestic pig, Sus scrofa domesticus or Sus domesticus, in addition to numerous species of wild pig, such as the babirusa Babyrousa babyrussa and the warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus. All suids are native to the Old World, ranging from Asia and its islands, to Europe, and Africa.
The earliest fossil suids date from the Oligocene epoch of Asia, and their descendants reached Europe during the Miocene.[1] Several fossil species are known, and show adaptations to a wide range of different diets, from strict herbivory to possible carrion-eating (in Tetraconodon).[2]
Physical characteristics[edit]
Suids belong to the order Artiodactyla, and are generally regarded as the living members of that order most similar to the ancestral form. Unlike most other members of the order, they have four toes on each foot, although they walk only on the middle two digits, with the others staying clear of the ground. They also have a simple stomach, rather than the more complex, ruminant, stomach found in most other Artiodactyl families.[3]
They are small to medium animals, varying in size from 58 to 66 cm (23 to 26 in) in length, and 6 to 9 kg (13 to 20 lb) in weight in the case of the Pygmy Hog, to 130–210 cm (4.3–6.9 ft) and 100–275 kg (220–606 lb) in the Giant Forest Hog.[4] They have large heads and short necks, with relatively small eyes and prominent ears. Their heads have a distinctive snout, ending in a disc-shaped nose. Suids typically have a bristly coat, and a short tail ending in a tassle.[citation needed] The males possess a corkscrew-shaped penis, which fits into a similarly shaped groove in the female's cervix.[5][6]
Suids have a well-developed sense of hearing, and are vocal animals, communicating with a series of grunts, squeals, and similar sounds. They also have an acute sense of smell. Many species are omnivorous, eating grass, leaves, roots, insects, worms, and even frogs or mice. Other species are more selective and purely herbivorous.[3]
Their teeth reflect their diet, and suids retain the upper incisors, which are lost in most other Artiodactyls. The canine teeth are enlarged to form prominent tusks, used for rooting in moist earth or undergrowth, and in fighting. They have only a short diastema. The number of teeth varies between species, but the general dental formula is: 1-3.1.2-22.214.171.124.3
Behaviour and reproduction[edit]
Suids are intelligent and adaptable animals. Adult females (sows) and their young travel in a group (sounder; see List of animal names), while adult males (boars) are either solitary, or travel in small bachelor groups. Males generally are not territorial, and come into conflict only during the mating season.
Litter size varies between one and twelve, depending on the species. The mother prepares a grass nest or similar den, which the young leave after about ten days. Suids are weaned at around three months, and become sexually mature at 18 months. In practice, however, male suids are unlikely to gain access to sows in the wild until they have reached their full physical size, at around four years of age. In all species, the male is significantly larger than the female, and possesses more prominent tusks.[3]
The complete list of living species, and a partial list of extinct genera known from the fossil record, extinct taxa marked with a dagger "†",[2] are:
- Suidae
- Subfamily †Cainochoerinae
- Genus †Albanohyus
- Genus †Cainochoerus
- Subfamily †Hyotheriinae
- Genus †Aureliachoerus
- Genus †Chicochoerus
- Genus †Hyotherium
- Genus †Nguruwe (formerly placed in Kubanochoerinae)[7][8]
- Genus †Xenohyus
- Subfamily †Listriodontinae[7]
- Tribe †Kubanochoerini
- Genus †Kubanochoerus (junior synonyms Libycochoerus, Megalochoerus)
- Tribe †Listriodontini
- Genus †Eurolistriodon
- Genus †Listriodon (junior synonym Bunolistriodon)
- Tribe †Namachoerini
- Genus †Lopholistriodon
- Genus †Namachoerus
- Tribe incertae sedis
- Genus †Dicoryphochoerus
- Tribe †Kubanochoerini
- Subfamily Suinae
- Tribe Babyrousini
- Genus Babyrousa (Pleistocene to recent)
- Species B. babyrussa Buru babirusa
- Species †B. bolabatuensis Bola Batu babirusa
- Species Babyrousa celebensis North Sulawesi babirusa
- Species Babyrousa togeanensis Togian babirusa
- Genus Babyrousa (Pleistocene to recent)
- Tribe †Hippohyini
- Tribe Potamochoerini
- Genus †Celebochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene)
- Genus Hylochoerus (Pleistocene to recent)
- Genus †Kolpochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene) (junior synonyms Ectopotamochoerus, Mesochoerus, Omochoerus, Promesochoerus)
- Genus Potamochoerus (Miocene to recent)
- Species P. larvatus bushpig
- Species P. porcus red river hog
- Genus †Propotamochoerus (Miocene to Pliocene)
- Tribe Suini
- Genus †Eumaiochoerus (Miocene)
- Genus †Hippopotamodon (Miocene to Pleistocene) (junior synonym Limnostonyx)
- Genus †Korynochoerus (Miocene to Pliocene)
- Genus †Microstonyx (Miocene)
- Genus Sus (Miocene to recent)
- Species S. ahoenobarbus Palawan bearded pig
- Species S. barbatus Bornean bearded pig
- Species S. bucculentus Heude's pig or Vietnamese warty pig
- Species S. cebifrons Visayan warty pig
- Species S. celebensis Celebes warty pig
- Species S. heureni Flores warty pig
- Species S. oliveri Mindoro warty pig
- Species S. philippensis Philippine warty pig
- Species S. scrofa (also called S. domesticus) domestic pig, wild boar
- Species S. verrucosus Java warty pig
- Species †S. strozzi
- Tribe Phacochoerini
- Genus †Metridiochoerus (Pliocene to Pleistocene)
- Genus Phacochoerus (Pliocene to recent)
- Species P. aethiopicus Cape, Somali or desert warthog
- Species P. africanus common warthog
- Genus †Potamochoeroides (Pliocene, possibly Pleistocene)
- Genus †Stylochoerus (Pleistocene)
- Tribe incertae sedis [9]
- Tribe Babyrousini
- Subfamily †Tetraconodontinae
- Genus †Conohyus
- Genus †Notochoerus
- Genus †Nyanzachoerus
- Genus †Parachleuastochoerus
- Genus †Sivachoerus
- Genus †Tetraconodon (Miocene, Myanmar) [10]
- Species †T. intermedius
- Species †T. malensis
- Species †T. minor
- Subfamily incertae sedis
- Genus †Chleuastochoerus[8]
- Genus †Hemichoerus
- Genus †Hyosus
- Genus †Kenyasus (formerly placed in Kubanochoerinae)[8]
- Genus †Schizochoerus[8]
- Genus †Sinapriculus[8]
- Subfamily †Cainochoerinae
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- ^ a b Savage, RJG, & Long, MR (1986). Mammal Evolution: an illustrated guide. New York: Facts on File. pp. 212–213. ISBN 0-8160-1194-X.
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- ^ Virginia Douglass Hayssen; Ari Van Tienhoven (1993). Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction: A Compendium of Species-specific Data. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-1753-8.
- ^ a b Maeva, J.O. (2009). "The differentiation of bunodont Listriodontinae (Mammalia, Suidae) of Africa: new data from Kalodirr and Moruorot, Kenya". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (3): 653–678. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00525.x.
- ^ a b c d e Maeva, J.O.; et al. (2010). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Suidae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla): new insights on the relationships within Suoidea". Zoologica Scripta 39 (4): 315–330. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00431.x.
- ^ Funk, S.M.; et al. (2007). "The pygmy hog is a unique genus: 19th century taxonomists got it right first time round". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 (2): 427–436. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.007. PMID 17905601.
- ^ Htike, T.; et al. (2005). "A revision of Tetraconodon (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Miocene of Myanmar and description of a new species". Paleontological Research 9 (3): 243–254. doi:10.2517/prpsj.9.243.
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Arsene Wenger believes it is time Theo Walcott repaid the faith shown in him by Arsenal and signed a new contract.
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The England forward is currently in negotiations over an extension to his deal which expires in the summer.
Wenger is adamant that Walcott will not be sold in January, but as yet there are no signs of a swift conclusion.
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Walcott is said to be determined to prove himself in the central striker's role, from where he scored the final goal in a 5-2 win at Reading on Monday night, while his representatives are also pushing for a package of up to £100,000 a week.
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"What is important to keep the young players together is that at some stage I have stood up for them; I played you at 17, 18, 19 years of age and I know I took a gamble," Wenger said.
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Skip to comments.The Perfect Storm of Liberalism
Posted on 04/24/2012 5:23:06 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The Perfect Storm of Liberalism has arrived.
A professional collapse inside the several departments and agencies of the United States government created by a decades-long erosion of standards. An erosion fed by all manner of deadly liberal obsessions from racial quotas to political correctness to an addiction to lawsuits, the tolerance for a culture of out of control spending, wildly improper personal behavior, and more.
This deadly combination is now surfacing repeatedly in scandals as seemingly different as those engulfing the Secret Service, the GSA, the U.S. military, the Department of Justice, and every other tentacle of the federal government imaginable.
Let's look at it liberal issue by liberal issue and examine how this perfect storm of liberalism is swamping the affected government department or agency in question.
Let's start with:
Racial quotas and the Secret Service: An American Spectator source has fingered the hot-button issue of racial quotas as a serious problem for the Secret Service, an allegation now surfacing (hesitantly to be sure) in no less than the liberal Washington Post.
Did the Secret Service deliberately reduce its hiring standards to insure that minorities were hired and promoted in the name of racial quotas?
Ironically setting up the possibility that the personal security of America's first black president -- himself a decided liberal -- could have been breached with disastrous consequences?
Did this alleged lowering of the agency's standards wind up slowly infecting the agency across-the-board? Thus setting the stage for the explosive sex scandal that has led to the investigation of 12 Secret Service agents. Was the Cartagena scandal actually "fixed" -- "settled" -- until the Miami SAC got wind of what was happening on her turf -- when she blew the scandal wide open?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Ha. Want the best evidence?
Think about the postal workers when you were growing up, versus what you see today.
Worked for USPS several decades and POD before that ~ and over the years the QUALITY increased.
So, let's hear some details first ~
We don't know who the SS guys are yet.
I remember when Obama was inaugurated there was a media story done on the secret service agent put in charge of his security. It was a black guy. The story focused on the fact that he was the first black agent put in charge of presidential security. I don't know if he still has that billet, but I am a bit curious as to why he has been forgotten.
It was unusual for a feature story to be run on a presidential secret service detail to begin with. But now that all this has happened, where is the follow-up? Since the guy already made himself available to the media, why aren't they pursuing him?
This article infers a lot. Is it true or not?
Maybe there should be racial quotas there as well to reduce the number of black athletes so that the NBA and NFL won't be embarrassed in the future. [sarc]
Wow! This article could certainly begin the DISCUSSION that Holder thinks everyone is afraid to participate in.
This is how fascism works. And everyone feels helpless to do anything about it...weellll guess what?
LEADERSHIP CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.( and if leadership fails, the people will have to do someting about it.)
Define the fascism, expose it and get rid of it.
Liberal fascism is our nations WORST enemy, and it is personified by Barrak Hussein Obama.
Good Read:
Then why do they keep losing my bill payments or delivering them 2 weeks late when it just across town?
The reality is your creditors have gotten into the habit of mailing as late in possible so they can churn the maximum opportunity for late payment fees. They've also dropped their address quality hygiene standards, and even farmed out their billing to people on the other side of the continent. You only think you are getting billed by people across town.
They have several other tricks that delay mail ~
You might send them a letter and find out what they are so that you can prepare for them.
Oh, yeah, and remember when they all eliminated the opportunity to PAY EARLY? That was so their actions to delay billing to generate late payment fees worked so well.
It's a good article, but Mr. Lord somehow failed to mention the most blatant affirmative action hire: the Kenyan canine consumer occupying the Oval Office.
I have seen attempts at USPS Headquarters to impose "affirmative action" by promoting unqualified non-college educated women into jobs otherwise requiring a masters or doctors degree.
That usually lasts a few months ~ then somebody figures out the work still has to get done so you'll see those people shoveled off the path like last week's dirty snow.
And when the SS hires Malik Shabazz, Carney can say, "That's preposterous! I personally know THREE Malik Shabazz's".
Bill Ayers? That's ANOTHER Bill Ayers who spends a lot of time at the WH.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
I see it in college basketball coaching. Every college team has to have at least one black assistant, if not the head coach.
That's why they make so much money, right? Your "quality" company wouldn't even exist if taxpayers weren't forced to prop it up.
I don't think this is so much a racial issue as an affirmative action issue. That is, it is not that there is an inherent difference between minorities and whites as to sexual self-control; rather, it is a question of whether the most qualified persons are in leadership positions or is affirmative action degrading both leadership and the confidence of those being led in the Secret Service.
The answer is simple - each of us must be held to the same standard, period. Academically, in our chosen professions and personal behavior whatever the result. Regardless of any other consideration.
Of course this will never happen - the grievance industry is big money.
I wonder whether they have racial quotas to determine who jumps in front of the President and shields him in the event of a disturbance.
During the Clinton years, the USPS began to give very preferential treatment to blacks — someothing not widely reported — and almost overnight, the force became heavily black.
I've seen a steady decline in service with the arrival of mostly black postal deliverers. They misdeliver something every single week. That NEVER used to happen. Plus, they often have a nasty attitude rather than an attitude they are here to serve the public. They walk across the lawn, for example, instead of following walkway.
So both the accuracy of service and the quality of the relationship between the USPS and its customers has deteriorated badly. This is the major reason I pay everything online. I can't trust the bills to get to where they are supposed to go ontime.
You got that right, and they are only a duty belt away from being that force that Obama was talking about early on in his campaign.
True, and that will stop them from "balking" at the suggestion that the hotel insist they pay double occupancy as they check out. You know majority agents would be screaming to the world about that to the media.
Writer here — I know partial sentences can be dramatic if used SPARINGLY, but do not writers understand that subject + verb is the basic equation of a sentence? (Maybe it's only me...). There are about 11 bits of sentences in this.
And bless all those in wheelchairs who didn't conform, and the dead who went postal.
Gee, you nailed that one....
Did the Secret Service deliberately reduce its hiring standards to insure that minorities were hired and promoted in the name of racial quotas?"
Rhetorical question, I think....
Women and gays also get affirmative action hiring by the Federales. The Federal Gov't in Washington DC has tons of gays and lesbians....they luuuuuuv those useless Federale jobs in EPA, Department of Education, EEOC etc etc
No, I mail my bills on time. The post office fails to deliver mail across town in timely fashion, sometimes two weeks. Has nothing to do with my creditors or your snarky defense of the indefensible.
I'm no fan of the bloated, under-performing federal bureaucracy. But during part of my misguided young adulthood, I worked in a federal agency in Washington, DC. and served on many hiring "panels." I never saw an explicit preference for women or gays. I did see preference for the disabled, sometimes to humorous effect (e.g., hiring someone with a speech impediment to be a telephone receptionist) and also for military veterans.
Their whole purpose is to generate late payment charges.
Just ask them why they mail so late.
I hope an investigation will look into ALL the USG agencies as there are many flagrant abuses of things like, unnecessary conferences being held in holiday type locations. One of the last items on most conference agendas is to vote on where the next conference will be held. I know, I worked for the USG for many years.
Thought you knew that.
Well, live and learn. Frankly, I'd like to take away DOOR DELIVERY and replace it with community cluster box service. Then you could cut across your own lawn and nobody would care.
Oh, and the black employees? The percentage was a tad higher BEFORE Bill Clinton. As you know seniority counts in USPS in the crafts, so the employees get to "bid" on the better carrier routes. As black employees began to achieve serious seniority (due to years of good performance and clean records) they bid on your neighborhood.
I know her name. She's a supervisor. Probably beaten down doing entirely too many route evaluations in a single month. Tell her she needs to buy some more shoes.
That's been the case for nearly 40 years.
That's been the case for nearly 40 years.
A vote in the government ~ ha ha ha ha ha ~ there's no voting in the government.
What a laugh.
we know one - the one who was on Sarah's protection team.
Keep the quota to 12% just like in the general population.
Did the Secret Service deliberately reduce its hiring standards to insure that minorities were hired and promoted in the name of racial quotas?
In tests for any job whites must score at least 95% as for non whites they only need to score 65%.
Result: Hell Yes
It has absolutely NOTHING to do with me receiving my bills on time, which I usually do.
I don't work for the Post Office; never have. I do think the Post Office has been reckless in offering benefits as rich as they do. However, I don't blame individual employees for that.
They get away with that constantly.
If it's "RICH" that'd be a big surprise to me.
And that bad boy looks like a SKINHEAD!
So... what you are saying is that even 'blacks' know that 'white' neighborhoods are better and safer and would rather work there.
Aren't those 'blacks' being racist?
So, let's hear some details first ~
Alzheimer's, but that is speculation on my part.
It is impossible to send a gift in a card to my grand children because of thieves in the PS, something unheard of fifty years ago.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
I borrowed a quote from a familiar poem for the title of this article. As we approach Valentine's Day thoughts of love fill the air. When I think about what love should be like I think of a familiar text from the Bible as well. It was years before I discovered it, but once I did I read and reread it to remind myself of what is truly expected of us.
I Corinthians 13:4 7
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
There is more to this portion of scripture, but I think this is sufficient for you to get the idea. This scripture was read at the weddings of both of our children. Someone from the groom's family read it at my daughter's wedding. I was fortunate to be able to read it at my son's wedding. What a good starting point it provides, but unless the significant parties adhere to this philosophy the marriage is doomed.
Young love focuses on the here and now. It is exciting and exhilarating. When the bride and groom stand before family and friends they make promises to each other. How many young couples really take their vows to heart? How many couples intend to stay married as "long as we both shall live"?
Today's version of love and marriage is tainted by Hollywood. Hollywood has always presented a stilted version of love, but it has gotten worse in the last twenty-five years. Marriage partners not only fail to keep their vows, they make them with no regard for what the Bible says. The stars jump in and out of marriage as easy as you and I change our clothes.
As I put this together I consulted various sources. One was a book of quotes called the Treasury of Women's Quotations by Carolyn Warner. There are so many wonderful quotes about love in this book that I got lost in the reading of them. Although I do not know who some of the women even are, I was intrigued by their thoughts. The book does provide a short notation of each author's background and age.
My title quote by Emily Dickinson is just the beginning of her entry. Another author Louisa May Alcott wrote, "Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
If you really look around you, you see love in many forms. Not all love is romantic love. There is love between the new mother and father and their offspring. New parents look with pride on their newest addition. It does not seem to matter whether it is number one or number six. The arrival of a new baby is exciting.
There is the love of a well-seasoned couple who have spent years together. They can practically finish each other sentences without even thinking about it. I marvel at the love I see at my volunteer stations. Even those who are compromised themselves look out for their ailing partner. They put their best foot forward to make the partner as relaxed as possible. Mature love is a wonder to behold.
Young couples need to find a mentor couple to discuss problems with. They need to see the love that has lasted through the years, not because the couple does not argue, but because they have argued and survived the challenge.
On a television show that I watched recently I saw a couple that had been married for sixty years cooking together. They attributed their wedded bliss to always trying to please the other one. She cooked the things that he liked to eat and he cleaned up after her and shopped.
The division of labor is more important than ever today. With so many women working outside of the home the whole family has to learn to pitch in to make the household run smoothly. A woman cannot do it all. She needs a great deal of help.
As to how you show your love there is not one right way either. Some men give gifts. Some men say I love you. Some men kiss their wives on their way into the house and out of it. Some men do none of these things, yet love their spouses a great deal. Some men believe that providing for the family is paramount. They are the doers. They work to show their love.
Women are the same way. They all show love differently. Couples need to figure out how each one shows love and learn to deal with it. If they are looking for the mushy Hollywood style of love, they are unlikely to find it. Real love is caring for each other in very mundane ways. Real love is being there when a spouse is bummed out about work or family. Real love is just as the Bible describes it. It is patient and kind. It does not keep a record of wrongs. It is about putting the other person first.
I've heard it said that marriage is not a fifty/fifty proposition. It is both partners giving 100 percent. I think that sums it up quite neatly. You only get out of a marriage what you put into it.
Now, whatever your style to show love, do it abundantly this Valentine's Day. If you are not a gift giver that is fine. Express your love in another way. If you are not a cook do not try to woo your spouse with your cooking prowess. The most important thing is to show your love in some way. My sister-in-law always received roses for her birthday. I would have thought my husband wanted to get rid of me if he sent me roses since I am allergic to them.
Know your partner and kill them with kindness during this season of love, but do not let it end in a day. Make loving your spouse a priority every day of the year.
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Stocks Jump on Signs Economy Is Getting Stronger
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages rallied Thursday, as better-than-expected economic reports outweighed disappointing quarterly results from Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C) .
Although bank results were dominating the fourth-quarter earnings headlines, investors were also gearing up for chipmaker Intel's(INTC) . The company reported fourth-quarter income of 48 cents a share on $13.48 billion in revenue. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected 45 cents a share on $13.53 billion in revenue. The stock was the biggest gainer in the Dow ahead the announcement, increasing 2.6% during Thursday's session.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 85 points, or 0.63%, to 13,596. The blue-chip index has been up for five days out of six.
Breadth was positive, with winners outpacing losers 24 to six. Walt Disney (DIS) , Verizon (VZ) , Home Depot (HD) and Intel shares made their way to the top.
UnitedHealth(UNH) shares rose 1.4% after the company booked in-line fourth-quarter earnings of $1.20 a share on revenue of $28.77 billion. Analysts, on average, were expecting revenue of $28.2 billion.
Bank of America, JPMorgan (JPM) , Wal-Mart(WMT) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) were the biggest percentage blue-chip decliners.
Boeing(BA) shares climbed 1.2% despite the company's 787 Dreamliner being grounded worldwide on safety concerns.
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The S&P 500 advanced 8 points, or 0.56%, to 1,481. The benchmark index traded at a five-year high at its intraday high of 1485.16.
The Nasdaq tacked on 18 points, or 0.59%, to 3,136.
In economic news, the Labor Department reported Thursday that initial jobless claims for the week ended Jan. 12 were 335,000, a decrease of 37,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised figure of 372,000 and the lowest since Jan. 19, 2008. The four-week moving average was 359,250, a decrease of 6,750 from the previous week's average of 366,000.
On average, economists were expecting initial jobless claims to slide to 365,000 and continuing claims to increase to 3.159 million.
Also, the Census Bureau said housing starts rose in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 954,000 from a downwardly revised 851,000 in November. Building permits rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 903,000 from an upwardly revised 900,000.
Economists were expecting housing starts to rise to a rate of 890,000 and building permits to come in at a rate of 903,000.
"We consider today's report quite strong," Jan Hatzius, the chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs, said of the claims numbers. "Overall, this morning's numbers on housing starts and permits were a positive surprise, and are consistent with continued broad improvement in housing market activity."
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Why Success Is Killing the Craft Brew Industry
Craft beer as America knows it is about to die, and success is going to kill it.
Its beers and brewers should be fine, but a fermenting fight over beer taxes is going to kill the term "craft beer" forever. Good riddance.
On Tuesday, just as craft brewers and beer bloggers met in Washington, D.C., for the Craft Brewers' Conference, two of the beer industry's most influential interest groups came to an impasse over beer taxes, the definition of "small brewers" and the future of the industry in general. As reported by political news site The Hill, Washington-based beer industry lobbying group The Beer Institute vowed to "actively oppose" the Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act, or Small BREW Act, put forth by Colorado-based craft beer industry group The Brewers Association.
That particular bit of legislation would cut the federal excise tax on beer from $7 a barrel to $3.50, affecting the first 60,000 barrels made per year by a small brewer. After that, small brewers must pay $18 per barrel, which would be lowered to $16 under the bill. More importantly, it would expand the tax code definition for a "small brewer" from one that produces 2 million barrels or less to one that produces 6 million or less.
The Beer Institute has two big problems with this. First off, it creates competition for the lobbying group's own Brewer's Employment and Excise Relief Act, also known as the BEER Act, which is expected to be introduced later this year. That legislation would reduce excise taxes on beer made by brewers large and small, with past versions of the bill recommended cutting the tax from $18 per barrel to $9 for large brewers while cutting the tax for small brewers from $7 per barrel to $3.50.
Secondly -- and this is where it gets awkward -- The Beer Institute says the Brewers Association's legislation is "a giveaway to a handful of brewers that each are worth more than a billion dollars." Based on the latest numbers from Beer Marketer's Insights, there were only three brewers who fell between the government's current 2 million barrel cutoff for craft brewers and the Brewers Association's 6 million mark: Boston Beer


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Hi. So I'm new here and pretty new to tea, but it is awesome to have a place to ask questions. This is great; thanks!
Anyway, I bought a beeng of cooked 2005 pu'er a while ago and am making my way through it. I've noticed that I get really inconsistent results even though I've more-or-less settled on how much and how long I steep. E.g., a few days ago I got a very acrid cup that I didn't even finish. It was too strong and tasted like some bad espresso. Sometimes I get a nice wet-log smell out of the tea, which I like. But today! I actually got something very sweet that almost smells like flowers. I think this is what it is supposed to be like since the merchant told me it was sweet (I thought he was just making stuff up until now).
What gives? Does it depend on from where in the beeng the tea comes from? This is the only reasonable solution I can come up with. I always steep with the same water at 205-207F. I expect the outside of the beeng which has been exposed to air would taste different from the inside. In this case, what's the best part? Any other advice for getting this sweet flavor?
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I worked at Round Table for about a year back in 1987. If I remember correctly, the Creamy Garlic Sauce was a combination of whipped butter, olive oil, and garlic. I don't know the exact formula or proportions as it came in a box, but I do remember those were the three main ingredients. It was not a bechamel sauce, I know that for a fact, although a bechamel would make a good sauce! I have been craving that sauce for years. If I have any luck, I will post again.
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Red Wine Yeast Flemish Ale
It took some time for me to get around to ordering the dried yeast (it wasn't available locally), but everything came together perfectly when my friend Alex passed off a second generation East Coast Yeast Flemish Ale slurry. The recipe itself was pretty similar to a few Reds I'd brewed in the past, but instead of my standard 1:1:1 blend of Pils, Vienna, and Munich I dropped the Pils and made up for it with more Munich and Vienna. The gravity was a bit higher than anticipated, but this should only bolster the winey character.
misjudgment in my process... maybe. I had read that BM45 is a really slow starter, including a report of three days with no activity before it took off in a beer. Despite knowing this I pitched the rehydrated wine and ECY02 simultaneously. By the next morning the fermentation was raging, almost certainly the ale yeast in the blend. Luckily BM45 is a "killer" strain (that is it produces a factor that kills many other yeast strains within hours) so once it got going it should have taken care of the ale yeast (almost all strains of which are susceptible, according to Shea). Luckily the killer ability does not extend to the other important yeast involved in the ferment, Brettanomyces.
When I racked the beer to secondary the mouthfeel of the sample I pulled had a coating viscosity. At first I was suspicious that it was the Pedio getting "sick," but the description of BM45 says "produces high levels of polysaccharides resulting in wines with great mouthfeel and improved color stability." I'll be interested to see whether or not that fullness survives the Brett and into the finished beer (I'm betting not). I'm still debating adding either wine soaked oak to reinforce the vinous character or plain oak to allow me to tell exactly what the BM45 brings. Either way I'll have some red wine on hand in 18 months when I bottle to add if the flavor needs a boost.
Wine Yeast Flemish Red
Recipe Specifics
Batch Size (Gal): 5.25
Total Grain (Lbs): 12.50
Anticipated OG: 1.068
Anticipated SRM: 17.6
Anticipated IBU: 16.0
Brewhouse Efficiency: 78 %
Wort Boil Time: 90 Minutes
40.0% - 5.00 lbs. German Munich Malt
40.0% - 5.00 lbs. German Vienna Malt
8.0% - 1.00 lbs. CaraMunich Malt
4.0% - 0.50 lbs. Flaked Corn (Maize)
4.0% - 0.50 lbs. Flaked Soft White Wheat
4.0% - 0.50 lbs. Special B Malt
0.50 oz. Sorachi Ace (Pellet, 9.00% AA) @ 60 min.
0.50 Whirlfloc @ 15 min.
0.50 tsp Yeast Nutrient @ 15 min.
Lallemand BM45 Brunello
ECY02 Flemish Ale
Water Profile
Profile: Washington DC
Mash Schedule
Sacch Rest - 60 min @ 158
Brewed 6/12/11
Fly sparged to collect 7 gallons of 1.054 wort.
Chilled to 68 F. Pitched 1 pint of ECY02 Flemish Red and 8 g of BM45 (rehydrated), shook to aerate.
Fermentation started strong in 12 hours. Temp around 70 for the first 36 hours, then the ambient temp was up in the mid 70s for the rest of primary fermentation.
7/3/11 Racked to a five gallon better bottle for long aging. Since last week the ambient temp has been 65 F thanks to my new A/C unit. Gravity down to ~1.020, some light sourness already as well as a really viscous mouthfeel, not sure if the beer is getting sick or if it is just the BM45.
5/8/13 Bottled with rehydrated Champagne yeast and 3 oz of table sugar. FG 1.012, 82.4% AA, 7.4% ABV
9/23/14 This batch fought long and hard to come around. Wish I'd posted a set of notes during it's rubbery-yeasty phase, but I waited until it came around, which took almost a year and a half in the bottle!


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Rain Cuts Short U.S. Junior Men's Match with Puerto Rico
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 2, 2008) - The match between the U.S. Men's Junior National Team and Puerto Rico's junior men on Wednesday at the 2008 NORCECA Continental Men's Junior Championship in San Salvador, El Salvador, had to be stopped due to an irreparable leak in the roof and steady rains.
Although the teams had already played two sets, the match will be started over from the beginning at 8:30 a.m. MDT on Thursday. Cuba and El Salvador, which were due to play after the United States and Puerto Rico on Wednesday, will play their match at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Puerto Rico had won the first set, 33-31, while the United States took the second, 26-24, when the match was stopped for an hour and 40 minutes because of the rain. The teams had played three points of the third set when the rains stopped play permanently.
Win or lose, the U.S. Junior Men will have to play in Thursday evening's quarterfinal round as Canada won Pool A with a perfect 3-0 record. The quarterfinal matches will be played at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The NORCECA Men's Junior Continental Championships is a qualifier for the 2009 FIVB Men's Junior World Championship.
No. First Last (Position, City, State, Club or University, USAV Region
1. Kasey Crider (S, Granite Bay, Calif., Pepperdine Univ., Northern Cal)
2. Tri Bourne (OH, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USC, Aloha)
4. Kyle Caldwell (Opp, Newport Beach, Calif., Balboa Bay VC, Southern Cal)
5. Brian Muesenfechter (OH/OPP, Florissant, Mo., Lewis Univ., Gateway)
7. Austin Ellis (MB, Corona del Mar, Calif., Balboa Bay VC, Southern Cal)
8. Srdjan Nadazdin (OH/MB, Los Alamitos, Calif., Long Beach State Univ., Southern Cal)
10. Tyler Jaynes (MB, Granite Bay, Calif., Pepperdine Univ., Northern Cal)
11. Joe Kauliakamoa Jr. (S, Las Vegas, Nev., Brigham Young Univ., Southern Cal)
12. Brad Lawson (OH, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Outrigger Canoe Club, Aloha)
15. Erik Shoji (L, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Outrigger Canoe Club, Aloha)
17. Murphy Troy (OH, St. Louis, Mo., Univ. of Southern Cal, Gateway)
18. Joe Sunder (OH/Opp, Greensburg, Pa., Penn State Univ., Keystone)
Head Coach - Shawn Patchell, Brigham Young Univ.
Team Manager - Tom Pingel, USA Volleyball
Asst. Coach - Craig Dyer, Penn State Univ.
Asst. Coach - Dan Friend, Lewis Univ.
Pool A
Canada 3-0
Dominican Republic 1-2
United States 1-1
Puerto Rico 0-2
Pool B
Cuba 2-0
Mexico 2-1
Guatemala 1-2
El Salvador 0-2
Pool A
JUNE 30: Dominican Republic def. Puerto Rico, 18-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 15-13
JUNE 30: Canada def. United States, 27-25, 25-15, 25-21
JULY 1: Canada def. Puerto Rico, 22-25, 23-25, 25-23, 25-19, 15-11
JULY 1: United States def. Dominican Republic, 25-15, 25-20, 25-20
JULY 2: Canada def. Dominican Republic, 25-20, 25-10, 25-21
JULY 2: UNITED STATES vs. PUERTO RICO
Pool B
JUNE 30: Cuba def. Mexico, 25-16, 25-19, 25-12
JUNE 30: Guatemala def. El Salvador, 27-25, 25-18, 25-19
JULY 1: Cuba def. Guatemala, 25- 8 25-15 25-14
JULY 1: Mexico def. El Salvador, 25-20, 25-18, 25-11
JULY 2: Mexico def. Guatemala, 25-27, 25-23, 25-16, 23-25, 15-5.
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The water hole at the low point of my gravel lane is full, after several days of hard rain. The dogs love this spot on our half-mile walk.
Maybe that came yesterday, after the tornado threat was over and the torrent of rain had stopped. For a few minutes, I left my troubles and my wet basement behind and walked down the hill, across the pond levee, around the gravel road, past the old combines and the pear trees, up the hill and down toward the county road.
My red hound Chigger jumped a rabbit over in the neighbor's field and it cut across the lane in front of me - right across my fat border collie's path. All three dogs were off on the chase, while I followed the lane as far as the dog's favorite water hole, full from several inches of new rain and inhabited by two leopard frogs, croaking happily. Everything looked freshly-washed and vivid green.
I called my sister from the water hole, and she reminded me of how much fun my children had had growing up on this farm. The kids would say, "Let's look in the mud puddle where Dad parks the truck. It's always good for at least one frog!"
The three kids rambled every inch of this farm, from the time each of them was old enough, playing in the dirt where my deck is now, building a "fort" at the edge of the field and hiding under a piece of plywood when Bruce the rooster attacked them (I can't believe I haven't blogged that story!), playing with frogs and voles and anything else they could find.
They took their friends to "Pebble City," a rocky gully up the hill behind the house, where I never cared to go. They would bring me back beautiful sandstone formations for my flower gardens.
In the opposite direction, they would run down the hill to another gully and dig up cow bones, white with age, and drag them back up to the front yard, where I would give them a metal washtub, bleach, and brushes. Happy the child whose mother gave him permission to bring these exotic treasures back to town for her own flower garden!
The big old barn played an important part of their ramblings, though they had strict orders from their dad not to go upstairs in the rickety portion. The barn was usually filled with bales of hay, cool even in the hot summer. We could always catch a breeze in the breezeway.
One long ago time, my oldest son Todd (now 36) found a baby pigeon in a nest on top of the tack room.
"Mom, what's THIS?" he asked in horror.
I had never seen a squab, and I was shocked at how incredibly ugly the baby was. We left it in the nest for its mother to raise. If she could love such an ugly child, she certainly deserved to be left alone.
A major portion of their day involved the pond, of course. There were frogs and fish to catch, mud to play in. They had more strict orders not to swim there, as their dad didn't know what was on bottom.
Down the hill beyond the barn was another, much smaller pond which the cattle had access to. The sides were mostly broken down and the pond had gray clay mud in the bottom.
I know this, because Matthew, his friend Davie Joe, and my daughter Kristin went down there early one morning during Semo Fair week. The boys must have been about eight and Kristin was probably about five. They came back coated in that gray mud. Kristin even had it in the part of her braided hair. It seems that Davie Joe had tried to carry her across, piggy-back, but he had slipped and fallen!
Those days are long gone, and the farm is a peaceful place now, where the bones of the dead stay buried, and the only sound is the singing of birds and the occasional unexplained strange sound, as recorded in "A Tillman Mystery." (see blog archives)
From the lush, green hills of Tillman, this is your rural reporter Madeline, praising God for a beautiful golden morning!
P.S. Be sure to check Paul Corbin's new blog on the NSC site! I just posted it for him!!
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
Keep those memories coming, Madeline! They will refresh you.
-- Posted by lovebooks on Sun, Apr 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM
What a wonderful quote, lovebooks! Thanks for sharing it!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Apr 25, 2010, at 1:18 PM
Kids who grow up in the country or a small rural town have experiences that are as foreign to city raised kids as if they came from Mars. (Are the country kids the "V" people, or is it the other way around?) There are a lot, and maybe even most kids who grow up in a city who have never played in the mud, or done the million and one everyday things that country/rural kids do for fun and learn about life. A few years ago I was walking in a State Park north of Los Angeles when a group of school kids near me became hysterical because they saw a chipmunk run across the path in front of them. One of the kids exclaimed - "Look a chipmunk got out of its cage!" Other than birds, these kids had only see "wildlife" in a zoo. Oh my gosh, what would they say if they saw the mysterious Advance cougar/yellow lab?
-- Posted by FJGuy on Sun, Apr 25, 2010, at 2:51 PM
Oh, how I enjoyed this! Thanks for sharing the memories!
FJGuy that is so true! Although I grew up in rural Missouri my girls have been raised in a pretty good size town. One summer when we were home we met up with some family at Wappappello. It took a lot of coaxing to get my youngest daughter in the 'dirty' water. Up until that point she had not been swimming anywhere other than a pool. I knew then that I needed to make an extra effort when visiting family back home to expose them to country life...and dirty water. =)
-- Posted by fun2teach on Sun, Apr 25, 2010, at 3:21 PM
Fun2Teach, When I was a kid I swam in innumerable ponds and lakes with what would probably be thought of as dirty water and I LOVED every minute of it! If I had been around you can bet I would have dove right into Lake DeJournett and I wouldn't have cared WHAT was on the bottom ... unless it was broken bottles! One time when I was about 6 I was swimming in a scroungy small lake when I stepped on a broken bottle as I was getting out. Yikes! Blood everywhere! That was my worst experience swimming in "dirty" lake or pond.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Sun, Apr 25, 2010, at 8:17 PM
FJGuy, I doubt that Madeline would LET you "dive right into Lake DeJournett." The area is far enough away from any local hospitals as to make such a dive far too risky!
I thought for a minute that you had written "when I was 61," and it certainly gave me pause, since a little birdie told me you were much younger!!
And speaking of Lake Wappappello, I attended a Girl Scout Camp at the Lake in the fifties, and our swimming instructor had no qualms about making us put our faces down in dirty water with little DEAD FISH floating in it!! I later had her for swimming class in college, and she was just as tough and uncompromising!
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Apr 26, 2010, at 7:00 AM
"No!" to kids is a challenge, so don't bet I wouldn't have made it into Lake DeJournett! 60 is the new 30, so I suppose that means 70 is the new 40, unless you are Jack Benny, and then you are 39 until you have no more birthdays.
GL, you're swimming instructor reminds me of my high school "touch" typing teacher. He had survived the Bataan Death March and was a POW of the Japanese in the Philipines until freed by MacArthur. He carried around a switch, just like the British officer has in "The Bridge on the River Kwai." If he saw you looking at your hands on the keyboard -- WHACK!! He would swat the back of your hands. He was a tough taskmaster but you learned how to type ... by the "switch" method! Today. Well I don't want to think what would happen to a teacher who went around swatting the hands of students. Probably make the national news as some kind of student torturer! I just came across an apropos book that pays homage to people like my typing teacher and GL's swimming instructor -- "Sissy Nation" http://www.amazon.com/Sissy-Nation-Ameri... The US is being PC'd to death.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Mon, Apr 26, 2010, at 10:07 AM
I grew up in St.Louis county, a lot of it was still country back then. We went fishing, caught frogs, hunted, and we drew our water from a well, And my cousins from this area called me city slicker.
-- Posted by mythought on Mon, Apr 26, 2010, at 10:53 AM
Fantastic story! Makes me wish I had been born and raised in the country instead of East LA County, Cal!
-- Posted by swift on Mon, Apr 26, 2010, at 4:05 PM
When I was a kid, our swimming hole at church camp had LEACHES in it! When we got out, we'd all check each other to make sure we didn't have one attached. On a brighter note, I remember when Dexter didn't have a swimming pool (after the spring-fed one behind Caudle's house closed) and we all went to Wolper's Pond to swim. It had a sand bottom and a huge swing. It was perfect!
-- Posted by lovebooks on Mon, Apr 26, 2010, at 5:22 PM
I remember the old swimming pool. I thought two lovely sisters owned that pool - Was their name Covington? They were on the library board and collected the rent on the old Ringer place, before it was made into the library. My brothers took a cousin to their house to see a puppet show one time.
Lovebooks, is Wolper's Pond still there?
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Apr 26, 2010, at 9:34 PM
Great story, many city folks don't get to appreciate the surroundings in a smaller town or even the country.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Tue, Apr 27, 2010, at 6:32 AM
Goat Lady, I'm not really sure if Wolper's Pond is still there. Anyone else know?
-- Posted by lovebooks on Fri, Apr 30, 2010, at 9:01 AM
Aaaaahhh, I love it...you all are making me even more homesick than I was already.
Reading everyone's comments got me to thinking...I was very much a 'tom-boy' growing up and still consider myself one as an adult. So, for all of you who were raised 'city-slickers', and missed the fun of growing up in the country...well, why don't you partake of it NOW, as an adult? We are never too old to learn something new. Find someone who has a farm or at least lives in the country and go exploring...find some frogs, play in the mud, build a fort...get some Tonka Toys or Hot Wheels and play in the dirt...take off the adult stodginess and pretend you are a kid again...seriously...might do you some good...
-- Posted by BarbaraNTexas on Sat, May 1, 2010, at 9:00 AM
AMEN, Barbara, I hope many folks will read this and take you up on the challenge and fun.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Sat, May 1, 2010, at 4:10 PM
Wonderful memories! Yes, Covingtons were the owners when the pool was public. It was a fun place to go. Lovebooks, we swam at Wolper's also. I remember being slightly afraid of a water moccasin getting me, but that is where I learned to swim.
I enjoyed reading. I've been playing so much Scrabble that I might have missed a blog. Do you play?
-- Posted by GONENOW on Wed, May 5, 2010, at 7:18 AM
Oh, Gonenow, don't get me started! Even with dial-up, I've managed to get on Facebook Scrabble after all my evening meetings and stay up waaaaaay too late at night! Lots of fun for Word Warriors!
However, I do have some complaints (other than getting disconnected by my slow phone line): 1. What is it with these obscure, unknown words? 2. It won't let me connect words two ways - Says I'm not allowed to "go diagonally" or "skip words."
I guess I'll get used to it - but I sure didn't need another computer diversion! I need to go jump in the pond and play in the mud, like Texas Barb suggests!
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, May 5, 2010, at 7:33 AM
How would I know how to answer those questions? Just love words and have fun with them! I loved this blog!
-- Posted by GONENOW on Wed, May 5, 2010, at 4:04 PM
How would I know how to answer those questions? Just love words and have fun with them! I loved this blog!
-- Posted by GONENOW on Wed, May 5, 2010, at 4:04 PM
gonenow, you must have loved this blog, you're repeating yourself,,,,heehee.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Wed, May 5, 2010, at 10:04 PM
Better watch out, Dexter...You're crusin' for a bruisin'!!!!
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, May 6, 2010, at 6:39 PM
I also learned to swim at Wolpers pond. It is still there but no one swims there any more. In fact, while learning to swim I nearly drowned my future sister-in-law from St. Louis. Something touched my leg and it scared me so I jumped on her and pushed her under and wouldn't let go. Some of the family now fishes there occaisionally. Also, remember Miller's pond? We also swam there. I don't know about it.
-- Posted by kd5475 on Sat, May 8, 2010, at 12:39 PM
dexterite, I was just checking to see if you were paying attention. You should try playing one of those computer Scrabble games one of these days. Ha!
Thanks to the Wolpers family for sharing their pond with so many folks. It gave us all special memories. Mrs. Wolpers was such a lovely person.
-- Posted by GONENOW on Sun, May 9, 2010, at 7:35 PM
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This adjustment seems more "relevant" to the venue, amp., or P.A. being used, rather than to the individual sound of the guitar.
Here's what I now think.: Put a sound-hole cover "in" or on your guitar when you adjust the screw. This minimizes the double sound you hear from the guitar itself and the speaker cone you are using as reference. In my experience, this reduces the bass freq.'s I hear in the process, resulting in a slight reduction in the amount of mic and/or the amount of high frequency augmentation.
Putting in the sound hole cover, listening, removing it, adjusting the screw, re-installing the sound hole cover..............is of course, tedious.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Color Blocking
I love the whole color blocking trend. I'm a really big fan of red with pink. The brighter the better. Today I'm wearing this red skirt with a hot pink and cognac striped sweater. I was expecting it to be warmer today but it's freezing. I threw on this leopard infinity scarf and my yummy trench with pleather sleeves for warmth. My legs are bare. Bad decision. At least I have the boots covering part of them.
Sorry I've been so absent from posting and really absent from commenting on all of your blogs. I'm planning on catching up today and tomorrow. I've been sick. All laid up in bed sick. My cat decided that I was her new comfy bed. She seemed confused when I finally got out of bed on Monday. Like her entire bed grew legs. I turned the sick corner onto feeling better avenue. So, I'm back and I'm wearing a cheerful outfit to prove it.
I know I'm wearing a Valentine's outfit the day after said event. But that's how I roll.
Skirt: Loft
Sweater: Old Navy
Scarf, boots, belt: Express
Trench: Storets.com
Sunglasses: William Rast (Nordstrom Rack $12)
13 comments:
- Kim (A Very Sweet Blog) said...
When you're sick, you don't feel like doing all of that. Totally understand. I love pink and red together. Lot of blogarista's have been rocking those two colors. Your skirt and top looks great girl. Sending healing wishes your way. ((HUG))
- February 15, 2012 at 1:46 PM
- Closet Fashionista said...
Eeew being sick is not fun!
On the other hand I love your scarf and coat :D
- February 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- Yola Thorp said...
Great photos.
- February 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Laura Go said...
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear about the sickness! I totally understand though. I am lackluster when I'm not feeling well :(
LOVE the color blocking going on here and the layering too!
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- February 15, 2012 at 6:36 PM
- Cee said...
You are such a star. I have honestly gone through my whole life having mixed feelings about red and pink, and in this one outfit post, you have managed to completely sell me on the combination. Amazing. Still adore that leather-sleeved trench, too. Hope you feel better soon!
- February 15, 2012 at 6:49 PM
- Tinfoil Tiaras said...
You look pretty darn cute for someone who's getting over being sick! I love the colour blocking and pattern mixing and those boots- oh yeah! Btw are they vegan? I've been looking for a good pair of vegan cowgirl boots! Feel better xo
- February 15, 2012 at 6:54 PM
- Shybiker said...
Oh, wow! How vibrant and colorful.
Sorry you were sick. Best wishes for good health.
- February 15, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- Audrey said...
Fabulous color blocking! Love that trench too!
- February 15, 2012 at 7:38 PM
- Simply Bubblelicious said...
Loving your color block choices! Feel Better Sweets.
- February 15, 2012 at 9:42 PM
- Carla Florendo said...
oh my, i love your coat and scarf!
they're both something that i'd totally wanna have!
cheers, Carla
- February 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM
- Carla Florendo said...
oh, and i'm sorry to hear about being sick.,. hope u get better soon!
- February 15, 2012 at 10:37 PM
- Collette Osuna said...
Lovin how you roll, hehehe.....the colors are bold and are fab on you girl!
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- February 16, 2012 at 5:21 AM
- Wore Out said...
Yummy is the perfect word for that trench! I'm a bit gun-shy when it comes to mixing red and pinks because I rarely wear either color but you're making me want to try it! So glad you're feeling better, nothing make me feel better like snuggles with my cat, Gus!
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Lynne Rudasill
Global Studies Librarian
303 International Studies Building MC-402
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, Illinois, 61820, USA
(217) 265-6879
Tues. 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Friday 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Center for Global Studies,
910 South Fifth Street,
Champaign, IL
News resources can be very helpful and provide a good basis for your understanding of global issues. We frequently forget that these reports are written from a particular point of view. We have provided a number of sources for you to explore that include the New York Times, sometimes known as the paper of record for the United States, as well as various other resources from the U.S. and around the world.
C.A.I.N. - The Conflict Archive on the Internet provides an index to material about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
To search for general magazines and opinion journals, you might want to try EBSCO and select the first option or InfoTrac. These resources will lead you to a large number of resources, many with full-text. Some of the titles you will find here include U.S. News and World Report, Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, Commentary, Nation, and the Economist. Most of these magazines can also be accessed individually through the Online Journals and Databases page.
If you feel adventurous, try the new Library Search Assistant. This searches many different general online resources.
Some opinion journals exist that are directly related to international politics and global studies. You can try searching for these through the Library Search Assistant or through an index called PAIS. You can also go directly to the full-text of the following titles.