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Parts of Brookville Road in Jefferson County to close
Jefferson County is closing Brookville Road from Elm Avenue to Carnation Boulevard for bridge replacement.
The county is replacing the bridge with a twin reinforced concrete box culvert. The road will be closed at the bridge and only be accessible to local traffic from both ends.
The road will close July 11 and remain closed for six to seven weeks. The public is asked to find an alternate route for that time period.

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wikiHow to Prepare a Macrobiotic Diet
The macrobiotic diet, which emphasizes simplicity and harmony with the seasons, originated in Japan in the 1920s. Grains, seasonal vegetables, beans, sea vegetables and soups make up the majority of the diet. Proponents say it promotes healthy digestion, increases energy levels and mental clarity, and balances the Qi, or life-force found in all living organisms. Foods like eggs, meat, cheese and excessively sweet foods are said to have a negative effect on one's balance and are not included in the diet. Here are a few steps to consider when preparing a macrobiotic diet.
1Use the right utensils. Electric stoves, microwaves and plastics can have negative effects on the food you cook. It is necessary to acquire utensils that will have minimal negative impact on the energy stored in the food. It is best to use a gas stove, cast-iron pans, a pressure cooker for grains, stainless steel, wood, glass, and ceramic utensils and bowls. Cooking this way will help preserve the natural energy and nutritional value in the food, which will then be more efficiently absorbed into the body.
2Buy food in bulk and in season. Buying in bulk can save a lot of money and time when shopping, and it can assure that you always have something to eat. It can be a challenging task to find a wide variety of organic vegetables from season to season. Seasonal foods are more nutritious because they grow in fertile soil and aren't doused with pesticides and other chemicals.
- Purchase grains such as short-grain brown rice, quinoa, corn, millet, barley, rye, buckwheat and oats.
- Shop at local farmer's markets and the organic section of the local grocery store for in-season organic vegetables.
3Eat the correct amount of the essential macrobiotic food groups. The macrobiotic diet has relatively specific proportions. The percentages are broken down as follows - 50 percent grains, 25 percent in-season vegetables, 10 percent protein, 5 percent soups, 5 sea vegetables and 5 percent nuts and fruits. Aim to consume 50 percent of your diet from grains, 25 percent from seasonal vegetables, 10 percent from protein, 5 percent in soups, 5 percent from sea vegetables and 5 percent from nuts and fruits.
4Prepare and consume the food mindfully and with a positive attitude. If you prepare food under stress or aggravation, the negative vibrations can resonate and affect the meal.
5Chew the food thoroughly to optimize digestion.
6Prepare the grains using a pressure cooker. The steaming process and fast cooking time helps maintain the nutrients in the grain.
7Steam or stir-fry vegetables, or consume them raw. Don't boil or bake vegetables as that can diminish their nutrient content.
8Prepare the protein by baking or lightly sauteing. Sources of protein include beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and occasionally fish. Do not heavily season the protein. You can boil lentils, beans and chickpeas. Tofu should be stir-fried and not heavily oiled.
9Make miso soup, which is a common soup in the macrobiotic diet. This soup can be made from scratch, and there are many recipes available. It includes fermented soy (miso), mushroom and spices. The simple ingredients provide many vitamins and minerals needed for a healthy mind and body. Be sure to not over-season and use organic ingredients when making the soup.
10Prepare sea vegetables including Nori and kelp. These nutrient-rich underwater plant sources can be used in salads, with rice dishes or eaten by themselves.
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When Juan Cejas resigned as artistic director of ACME Acting Company in November 1994, the innovative -- yet struggling -- theater group seemed to be facing its last stand. Sure, the troupe had an eight-year history of acclaimed productions, from 1978's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea through 1994's Jeffrey. It also had debts, no permanent home, and now no leader A conditions that would have brought many small theaters to their knees. But lighting director Betsy Pearl Cardwell was not about to be felled. She decided to put ACME's house in order, working with quiet determination to raise money and to develop new projects. Her efforts have paid off. The theater's first production in a year and a half debuted last month at the Little Stage on Miami Beach: an impeccably paced, bracingly smart, and terrifically funny version of David Ives's All in the Timing, directed by long-time troupe member Barbara Lowery and featuring five company veterans.
In his zany and slyly sophisticated collection of six one-act plays, Chicago-based playwright Ives uses language to manipulate reality, perception, time, and the outcome of relationships. His subjects, including world literature, linguistics, twentieth-century history, and music, veer off into the stratosphere at every other bend. Yet this wordsmith serves up the metaphysical with a generous twist of playful lunacy. You'll hardly have time to catch all the esoteric references because you'll be too busy laughing.
In the evening's opener, "Sure Thing," a woman attempting to read Faulkner at a table in a crowded cafe encounters a man out alone. An off-stage bell interrupts their fruitless attempts to connect, signaling the actors to shift moods and approaches until romance blooms. Ellen Rae Littman and Peter Paul DeLeo are the witty quick-change artists in this exuberantly mordant take on modern coupling, in which love means having the exact same tastes in books, movies, political parties, and Ivy League schools.
"Words, Words, Words" features a trio of chimps corralled by researchers for the purpose of attempting to prove the old saw that three monkeys typing ad infinitum will sooner or later produce Hamlet. Hilariously dressed as toddlers by costume designer Allison O'Neil, Milton (Ale Weinberg), Kafka (Littman), and Swift (John Baldwin) quote extemporaneously from masterpieces such as Paradise Lost and Hamlet itself. They also whine about writer's block, just as real writers do, while preening, snuggling with each other, and swinging from a tire, remarkably like actual chimps.
Continuing his pursuit of linguistic delights, Ives invents his very own dialect in the tongue-twisting, mind-bending "The Universal Language," in which Don (Weinberg), proprietor of a school that purports to teach a global language called Unamundo, meets Dawn (Maritza Gonzalez), a guileless woman with a stutter who comes to him for lessons. As Don riffs up and down a scale of made-up words mixed with vaguely recognizable phrases, wide-eyed Dawn speaks for the audience when she says, "It's strange how much I understand." Soon the nonsensical dialect is tripping off her tongue as well.
In "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread," Ives turns the benign act of going to the bakery into a parody of avant-garde music and performance art. Philip Glass (DeLeo), his ex-lover (Littman), her friend (Gonzalez), and a baker (Baldwin) perform a fractured song and dance, bemoaning, with deadpan seriousness, lost love and the slipperiness of time.
After seeing the pointedly observant "The Philadelphia" you may never view having a bad day in quite the same way. An exasperated Mark (Weinberg) confides to his friend Al (DeLeo) that no matter how hard he tries, he can not get anything he asks for, whether it's a copy of the Daily News or pastrami in a kosher deli. According to Al, Mark has fallen into a "Philadelphia" A a black hole inside reality where you can get what you want only by asking for its opposite. Al, on the other hand, is in a "Los Angeles." His girlfriend left him that morning. No big deal. His boss calls and fires him. No sweat. Except, suddenly, Al finds himself in Mark's Philadelphia. And panic sets in.
"Variations on the Death of Trotsky" rounds out the sextet. Every time an off-stage bell rings, the Russian revolutionary (Baldwin) re-enacts a different scenario of his death by assassination at the hands of his gardener (DeLeo). True to Ives's sense of the absurd, Trotsky has an ax with its handle sticking out embedded in his head throughout the entire piece.
Such postmodern slapstick provides a perfect vehicle for ACME's return from its year-and-a-half sabbatical. The inventive combination of physical and intellectual comedy in each of the half-dozen pieces affords the troupe a ready-made showcase for their considerable talents. Under Lowery's keen direction, the plucky ensemble -- all equally impressive -- seems to revel in the sheer joy of performing together, much as Ives revels in the joy of pushing the boundaries of language in these brilliantly constructed pieces. One of the most satisfying theater experiences of this season, All in the Timing should not be missed.
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As a member of a theatrical royal family dating (on his mother's side) back to the Elizabethan stage, Shakespearean actor and matinee idol John Barrymore was truly "born in a trunk." That phrase refers to the children of actors, particularly those who enter the profession themselves. It evokes an image of family members hauling their luggage from performance to performance, stopping only long enough to allow Mom to deliver a baby in a hotel room or a train station. It describes the workaday, unglamorous side of show business, and the phrase's unsentimental realism jibes perfectly with the image of Barrymore crafted by David M. Kwiat in his moving one-man show John Barrymore: Confessions of an Actor.
Kwiat, a theater professor at New World School of the Arts and a 1995 Carbonell Award nominee, performs his solo piece at 3rd Street Black Box, an intimate new space in the back of San Villa Oriental Restaurant in downtown Miami. The show ostensibly opens in 1940, two years before Barrymore's death at age 54, in a dressing room appointed with a vintage steamer trunk, a chaise, and a make-up table. In truth, however, our first glimpse of Barrymore is as a ghost; he's lounging on the chaise in a dressing gown, reading aloud from Goodnight, Sweet Prince, a biography penned after his death by a friend. Barrymore appears to return to the world of the living after this introduction, although the transition from death to life is never clearly made. The ghostly opening, however, proves fitting. Through anecdotes and flashbacks, Kwiat creates a picture of Barrymore as a classic privileged wastrel: a man blessed with talent and opportunity yet filled with self-loathing, a man hell-bent on destroying himself with booze. And, as evidenced by the stories he tells of his marriages and by the surly abuse he hurls at the off-stage boy who gives him his cues, he was also hell-bent on destroying everyone around him.
As Kwiat interprets him, Barrymore had nothing but contempt for the profession he was born to. Equally unenthusiastic, his famous siblings apparently took to the stage by accident of birth as well. Ethel, Kwiat's Barrymore tells us, would have preferred to be a pianist or a novelist, while Lionel (who called acting "the family curse") wanted to be a composer and, in fact, abandoned the theater for several years to paint. Kwiat brings a sense of jaded irony to his subject, both through his dandified performance and by his colorful, image-packed writing. Describing a scene in which the Hollywood writer Charles MacArthur (as inveterate a boozer as Barrymore) fills his pool with elephantine chunks of ice so that he and Barrymore could cool off from a hangover, Kwiat's Barrymore comments, "I felt like a fly in a highball." In another mood, Kwiat evokes the memory of an idyllic childhood summer the famous actor spent on a family farm with his brother. And he hilariously tells the notorious story of how Barrymore played Hamlet so inebriated that he had to run from the stage every few minutes to vomit. The next day, Kwiat's Barrymore reports in a "what-idiots-they-all-are" tone, "They hailed me as the greatest Hamlet of the age."
Kwiat keeps his piece to a mercifully short 45 minutes, presumably because he understands how challenging it is for a single actor to sustain an audience's attention for much longer than that. Yet I wished at times for just a tiny bit more from the piece: perhaps some deeper insight into Barrymore's self-hatred and loneliness, or several more anecdotes about his dissolution. That slight craving aside, I found Confessions of an Actor to be a disturbing, poignant, and tragedy-tinged portrait of a man who, despite his talent, felt as if he were, in Kwiat's words, "a hollow, empty sham.


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Briggs, a beloved member of the Klock Werks team, died as the result of an auto accident in June 2011. It's in his memory that Klock Werks and Victory Motorcycles have
Klock Werks custom 2010 Victory Kingpin will be raffled off in honor of former Klock Werks employees who tragically lost their lives and to raise organ donor awareness.
teamed up to create "Tattooed for Life," a dazzling Victory custom that will be raffled to raise funds for Vic's four young children and to raise organ donor awareness.
Vic was just 29 when he died. He was a registered organ donor, and his heart beats on, fueling the life of a teenaged boy. Brian Klock, President of Klock Werks, joked that the staff expects the boy to someday experience Vic's passions for high-performance motorcycles – and vanilla ice cream.
Proceeds from the raffle will benefit "The Br Kids," Vic's four children whose names all begin with Br: Brooke, Brittany, Brandy and Brycen.
Complete details about the custom bike, "Tattooed for Life," and the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets online are available at the Klock Werks website, www.kustombaggers.com/vic.htm.
The bike and organ donor awareness effort also pay tribute to Austin Shimon, a friend of the Klock Werks team who died following a motorcycle accident in 2009 at age 20. He, too, was an organ donor who posthumously enriched the lives of others.
The raffle will continue until October 20, 2012, when the winner's name will be drawn during Biketoberfest, Vic's favorite motorcycle event.
More information about how to register to become an organ donor is available at www.donatelifeamerica.org.


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Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said Saturday.
In a statement, London's Metropolitan Police said that they had submitted a file to Britain's Crown Prosecution Service "to consider whether any potential offenses may have been committed by making the hoax call." (AP)


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BOSTON (CBS) – A robbery that started on an Orange Line platform ended up on the train tracks Thursday.
Prosecutors say 40-year-old Joseph McCloskey was on the southbound platform at Downtown Crossing when he reached into the jacket pocket of a man and stole a handful of bills before running towards some stairs.
The victim, a 32-year-old from Arlington, went after McCloskey, who allegedly threw a punch and then pushed the man.
Both men then fell onto the tracks below.
MBTA officials immediately cut power to the third rail and stopped trains briefly.
Police arrived and arrested McCloskey, who was cut and bruised in the fall. The unidentified victim refused medical attention.
McCloskey was arraigned Friday in Boston Municipal Court on charges of unarmed robbery, assault and battery, and obstructing a railway track.
Bail was set at $5,000. He's due back in court January 19.


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On the stairs
"Tadaima!" (I'm home) Renji called out after he walked into the home he and Byakuya shared. Renij had been out visiting Ichigo and his friend's now, girlfriend Rukia.
"In here,"Byakuya answered from the living room where he was stretched across their leather couch." How are Ichigo and my sister?"
Good, Renji replied, lying on top of the black haired man, "she sends her nii-sama lo--"
Byakuya covered Renji's mouth with his own,
"I think you missed me…" he whispered before covering Byakuya's mouth with his own. Both tongues scoped every crevice of the other's mouth as if for the first time.
"Speaking of loving someone," Byakuya stated as he ground his hips upward into Renji's.
A moan of approval escaped Renji as the friction between the two erections became more intense.
Renji broke the kiss so as to move lower down his lover's body. He torturously licked his way down Byakuya's collar bone toward his nipples. Drawing one into his mouth, he began to lightly suck on it just to tease Byakuya. Swiftly he bit down enough to rip a scream of agony and bliss from Byakuya's lips. Byakuya knew in the end it would be Renji screaming.
Moving ever lower, Renji reached his navel and immediately stuck out his tongue to give his belly button some attention.
Byakuya hissed at the slick feeling so close to the one place that needed attention desperately.
Throwing his head back in passion, he stifled a groan as Renji skimmed his fingers lightly over the ever growing bulge in Byakuya's pants.
Satisfied with the reaction from the man beneath him, Renji decided it was time to move a little lower.
Renji sat up to undo the fasteners of his lover's jeans with skilled hands.
Once Byakuya's boxers were removed as well, Renji ran his nails up Byakuya's thighs, stopping just at the junction of his hip and thigh.
"What do you want?" Renji asked, blowing the head of Byakuya's cock lightly.
"Renji…nnh." Byakuya struggled to form the words as he writhed beneath the feelings of Renji's cool breath against the inferno that was his own skin
"Beg me for it!" Renji demanded. Byakuya always felt that begging showed weakness, and Renji knew this.
"Suck it, NOW!" Desperation and a little impatience were driving him near insanity but he dare not show it; but his cock was so painfully hard.
"Since you asked so nicely…"
And with that Renji swallowed Byakuya's entire cock from tip to base.
"Renji!" The name of his lover was ripped from him by the sensations of that hot mouth encasing him.
Renji quickly placed his hands on Byakuya's hips, pinning him to the couch. Byakuya's thrusting would've surely choked him otherwise.
"Renji! So close! I need to…" the passionate cries for release were quickly replaced with angry grunts of disapproval when Renji released Byakuya and took away the delicious suction his mouth was making.
"What are you doing!? Renji!" Not only was his chance at release taken away, but his dick had become more swollen and painful.
"You'll be fuckin me soon, and I wanted to make sure you wouldn't come before you were inside of me. Besides, I want the cum in me, not on the leather…" Renji stated to the man beneath him as he covered his lips in another heated kiss.
Renji ground his hips into Byakuya's causing him to groan into their kiss and bite Renji's lower lip.
"This leather is rather annoying. May I suggest a change in venue? Upstairs perhaps?"
"Okay." Renji breathed. He wrapped his legs around Byakuya's waist as he stood up to walk up the stairs. Byakuya gracefully made his way around the couch and to the stairs.
Renji leaned down and again sealed Byakuya's lips with another kiss. He poured everything he had into that kiss, he tried to tell Byakuya how much he loved him without saying a word. The kiss became hungry as the two began to claw at each other's skin after only having walked up 3 stairs.
"Byakuya!" Renji cried out as his lover slammed his back into the wall and began to bite and suck at his collar bone. Byakuya smirked into Renji's skin.
Not being able to stand being one upped, Renji used all his strength to push back and force Byakuya between him and the opposite wall. "Renji!" This time Renji went immediately for Byakuya's member. At the same time Byakuya grabbed Renji's. The friction between the two erections became overwhelming. Renji let out a desperate groan as he bucked harder into Byakuya's calloused hand.
"OH fuck, I need you so bad right now!" Renji pleaded. They were barely half way up the stairs but he couldn't take it any longer. He needed to be filled more than ever.
"On the stairs?" A bewildered but still desperate Byakuya asked.
"Yes, on the fuckin stairs!" He could really care less if they were in the middle of the street. All Renji knew was that if he didn't find release soon, it was going to be a rough night for Byakuya.
"I don't think I can make it upstairs anyway." Byakuya answered. His hard on was making him more and more exhausted.
He slammed Renji against the wall once again. Renji braced himself against Byakuya's shoulders as Byakuya positioned himself at Renji's waiting entrance.
Without so much as a warning Byakuya slammed into Renji with all the strength he had, hitting Renji's prostate dead on. The mixture of ecstasy and torture ripped a scream from Renji's over-sensitized body.
"Fuck! Byakuya!" He screamed.
Byakuya pulled almost all the way out and slammed back in with such force that Renji slammed his head against the wall. Again and again Byakuya crashed back into Renji.
The white hot pleasure from his prostate being repeatedly struck was finally starting to get to Renji. His eyes were going in and out of focus and he could feel the tension coiling like a snake at the base of his cock.
Byakuya was starting to see stars as well. He was near the point of blacking out when he felt Renji's muscles clench around him. He looked up to find Renji's auburn eyes glazed over in lust.
"Come, koibito." That was all the direction Renji needed. He cried out Byakuya's name as he came. "Renji!" Byakuya called out as he came just seconds after his lover.
The two slowly slid down the wall completely sated. Painfully Byakuya pulled out of Renji and laid across his chest with arms draped to the side. Renji ran his fingers through Byakuya's hair as their heavy breathing melted into silence.
"Maybe we'll make it to the bedroom later," Renji commented.
"Hopefully," Byakuya replied," I was thinking maybe there could be a less painful round two."
Renji laughed and said," I don't know, I kinda liked it rough. It just made the pleasure that much better."
"You're strange…" Byakuya joked.
"we call that a freak, Byakuya" Renji said.
Byakuya looked a little confused as he tried to "talk slang" as everyone else did. "Well then, someone's a freak." He said, sounding a little awkward.
"You wanna see how much of one I am?"
Without a second to spare, Byakuya grabbed Renji by the hand and they bolted upstairs to the bedroom.


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Study suggests fuel cell hybrid with supercapacitors for energy storage the most fuel efficient
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An evaluation of different fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV) powertrain designs—such as fuel cell/supercapacitor (FC/SC), fuel cell/battery (FC/B), and a combination of supercapacitors and batteries (FC/SC/B)—and different control strategies by researchers in Belgium concluded that the FC/SC HEV has slightly higher fuel economy than the FC/B HEV and FC/B/SC HEV powertrains.
This, the researchers suggested in a paper presented at the recent EVS 27 conference in Barcelona, was due to the use of the efficient supercapacitors for the majority of the transient-power requirements (the SC can be charged or discharged at a high current, at which the battery cannot function). The fuel economy of the supercapacitor fuel cell hybrid, they noted, is higher despite the vehicle being heavier and more expensive.
They also pointed out that the combination of supercapacitors and batteries (FC/B/SC HEV) may provide a good solution for FCHEVs from the point of view of battery lifespan, component sizing and transient periods.
A stand-alone FC [fuel cell] system integrated into an automotive powertrain is not always sufficient to satisfy the load demands of a vehicle. Although FC systems exhibit good power capability during steady-state operation, the response of fuel cells during transient and instantaneous peak power demands is relatively poor. Consequently, the high cost and slow dynamics of the FC systems are the major challenges for the commercialization of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).
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Omar Hegazy, Joeri Van Mierlo, Philippe Lataire, Thierry Coosemans, Jelle Smenkens, Mohamed Abdel Monem, Noshin Omar, and Peter Van den Bossche (2013) "An Evaluation Study of Current and Future Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles Powertrains." (EVS27-8920681)
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Sounds an ideal use for the graphene supercapacitors being developed in Korea:
''They say it has a specific capacitance of over 150 Farrads per gram can store energy at a density of more than 64 watt-hours per kilogram at a current density of 5 amps per gram.
That's almost comparable with lithium-ion batteries, which have an energy density of between 100 and 200 watt-hours per kilogram.'
Presumably the Hyundai engineers leading the way in fuel cell cars are all over this.
The power density of those graphene supercaps is surprisingly low. 64 Wh/kg = 216 J/g; at 150 F/g, I get a peak voltage of 1.7 volts, holding 250-odd coulombs per gram peak. 5 A/g is 1/50 of full charge per second. Even figuring that the useful charge range only goes down to half, that's 25 seconds,
I'm waiting for the superflywheels to come along to compete with the supercaps. They're already proven in racing, it's a question of how practical they can be made and how cheaply.
Superflywheels and supercaps are ideal to recover braking energy and for almost unlimited number (1,000,000+) of short (30 seconds or so) burst of energy. That would be enough for normal accelerations but not the best for long hill climbing.
It may or may not be easier to fit and control half a dozen supercaps into a small car?
Cost may be a challenge but not impossible to manage.
Please pack my future hydrogen car with all the necessary amenuities like super caps, batteries, software, rectifiers, connectors, efficient compact fuelcell, tanks, valves, carbon fibers, etc. Lets do this in a modern state of the art way at a good price. If not i will buy a used small manual gasoline car like the one i have right now. A 2016 used gasoline ford fiesta 1 liter that i might buy in 2023 can do the trick.
They don;t say how much each of the 3 scenarios weigh or cost.
I wonder why the FC-SC combo is better than the FC-SC-Ba combo - is it the extra weight of the battery ?
all this is a simulation - the real world might be a bit different.
What does this suggest for ICE hybrids - would they be better with SCs or batteries (or both), and at what cost.
What is the minimum amount of sc that you need to have a big impact - do you need to be able to accelerate a car from 0-30/40/50/60 mph ? [ my guess is about 40 ]
Why is the FC-SC combo better than FC-Ba and FC-SC-Ba?
This is due to the absent of internal resistance of the SC, in comparison to battery. Let's compare this to the Prius battery: 1300 Wh weighing 41 kg, or 32 Wh/kg, but is capable of only 21 kW in Prius Gen II and 27 kW in Gen III, or 0.5 to 0.65 kW/kg. THe Prius' battery only uses up to 40% of its capacity to preserve battery life, so only 520 Wh of energy maximum is deposited or removed from the battery. The battery is never charged above 70% and never drained below 30%. At high rates of current flow, batteries' efficiency decrease significantly, and significantly heat up the battery, requiring active cooling.
By contrast, a SC has no internal resistance, so the power capacity is only limited by the power of the inverter, which is ~100kW in a typical FCV. No loss of energy due to having no resistance within the SC therefore efficiency increase. Plus, a SC can be charged to near 100% and drained until near empty without impacting lifespan, so, if 520 Wh is need for power buffering, only ~600-800 Wh of capacity of SC is needed. So, with specific energy of 64 Wh/kg, only ~9 kg of SC will be needed, not the 41 kg of battery weight like in the Prius.
Battery will age significantly within 5-10 yrs regardless of use, faster with higher ambient temperatures. SC will last longer, 10-15 years or so and thus more cost effective in the long run, with nearly unlimited cycle life.
However, typical specific energy of SC commercially-available at the present is in the low tens of Wh/kg, and this is still perfectly OK.
All right, back-of-the-envelope time:
150 F/g supercap material, useful voltage range 0.85-1.7 V, current capacity 5 A/g. 5 A/g at 0.85 volts is 4.25 kW/kg. If you need 150 kW for acceleration at minimum voltage, you need 150/4.25 = 35.3 kg of material.
That is a LOT of material (you can cut it somewhat by not using the bottom of the voltage range, but that cuts your power surge duration). It's as much as a hybrid battery. And it doesn't include packaging or connections.
I bet that the FC came out on top because the stack size was reduced a lot more by off-loading the peak power demand to the supercap than a battery pack was, and regeneration improved (may have been the opposite on a highway driving cycle). There's no link to the report so I can't judge right away about the assumptions made for the supply chain.
The positive side of the new higher performance supercaps is that they:
1. weight 10 times less than before and improving.
2. can be charged and discharges very quickly for 1,000,000+ times.
3. can recover more braking energy than batteries.
4. ideal for stop and go FC vehicles of all size.
5. will weight less and less year after year with new technologies.
The price per kWh is currently higher than batteries but mass production could make them competitive?
FC city e-buses already use super caps.
Atomic batteries are not for tomorrow.
Actually from a dim memory of a discussion I had with a guy who was very knowledgeable on capacitors, I believe they they were looking at specifying around 300wh capacity for capacitor assist.
They were looking at small cars with nothing like 150kw on tap, and some of the power comes from the normal battery use, just topped up by the capacitors.
Davemart: at 5 A/g, the numbers work out as I wrote them. 64 Wh/kg is 230.4 J/g. Energy in a capacitor is ½CV². At 150 F/g, this comes out to 1.75 volts max and about 260 coulombs per gram from zero to full charge. That's 52 seconds to charge or discharge the thing.
If it isn't rate-limited to 5 A/g, performance would be better.
Our old sun and distributed wind can supply more than enough 'good electricity' at reasonable cost in the near future. Using some of it to cleanly produce H2 for FC vehicles and for rainy days may not be such a bad idea.
Safe, affordable nuclear plants may be another possibility by 2050+ but not in the short term.
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Cabrera is expected to fly from the East Coast to the Bay Area for a physical early this week, and if all goes well, he'll likely report to Spring Training with Oakland by Thursday or Friday.
Contacted by MLB.com early Monday afternoon, A's general manager Billy Beane declined comment, citing his policy against discussing free agents.
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The A's deal with Cabrera is worth $4 million. He was said to be looking for about $9 million earlier in the offseason.
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The direct selling profession is, by nature, driven by emotion. We hear words like passion, fire, burn, desire, dreams, enthusiasm, and excitement.
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We often have had clients describe these emotions: fear, hurt, disappointed, angry, frustrated, and sad.
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February 18, 2010
The De Soto United Methodist Church will have its annual Bingo Bash from 6 to 9 p.m. March 6. Children can plays games all night at the event for a donation of $5 and adults for $10. Food and drinks will be offered. The event is a fundraiser for the church's youth group.
The De Soto United Methodist Church Women are in touch with its missionary in the Caribbean for needs in Haiti.
The De Soto United Methodist Church is still seeking volunteers to help serve the De Soto Rotary Club at 7 a.m. Fridays at the church's Fellowship Hall.
The De Soto Baptist Church A.B. Women with Mary Jo. McDaniel as leader made beautiful Valentines for senior citizens in the church. They had a little pocket with mints in them. I was fortunate to receive one that Joe Woywod delivered.
The De Soto Baptist Church annual Sweetheart Banquet was Sunday with a five-course dinner served by the church's boys and girls. The men were in charge this year. The king and queen, or the longest married couple, were Jim and Reta Ellis. They received a bouquet of roses. The couple married to the least amount of years was Karl and Barbara Beasley, who also received roses. David Edwards of First Baptist of Leavenworth was the guest speaker, and music was provided by Karen Wall and Tami Reeves.
The Rev. Richard Copeland read a thank-you note Sunday from the family of Mittie McPherson for the food, memorial donations, cards and sympathy expressed at her passing last week.
Among those celebrating birthdays this week are Leona Robinson, Kristen Mills, Patti Plummer, Gill Stephens, Tabitha Plummer, Mark Hansen, Quinn Miller, Richelle Hodges, Derrick Schupp, Casey Fitzgerald, Debbie Manez, Carey Bowers, John Adams, Cody Towner, Junior Maness, Lindsey Thompson, Bob Karashin and my son Carlin Nalley of Illinois.
Those celebrating anniversaries this week include Gene and Phyllis Dettmer, Joe and Betty Kessler, and Charles and Willetta Lawhead.
The needs this week at the De Soto Multi-Service Center Community Food Pantry are canned tuna and chicken, pasta, paper towels and bath tissue. Next week's need in canned soups. There is always a need for baby items.
The need in the community are for children's coats, gloves, stocking caps, socks and jeans.
On the sick list is R.B. Jones, who is now in rehab in Shawnee Mission Medical Center but is doing better. Joyce Pannel is in St. Luke's Hospital with heart problems and may need a pacemaker. Jason Weese asked for prayers for the 3-year-old son of his friend. Linda Lane's father needs prayers, as does Ginger Gambino. Kim Salyer was in the hospital and had tests. She's now on a special diet.
I went to the eye doctor and need to see an orthopedic doctor about the pain and swelling in my legs.
The Wildcat Booster Club's silent auction will be Friday evening Feb. 26. Donations of such things as baked goods, crafts, gift certificate are being sought. To donate or learn more, call Toni Caldwell at 583-1315.
I got a lot of Valentines form my children with family pictures enclosed. I sent one to them, too, of a newspaper article on Luther and my 1934 wedding. I got phone calls from my sons in Oklahoma and Texas for Valentine's Day. I told them I was working on my income taxes.
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By REBECCA TORR, Posted on » 20 October 2009
MANAMA: Tadhamon Capital, one of the newest Islamic investment companies in Bahrain, officially opened its new corporate headquarters at GBCORP Tower, Bahrain Financial Harbour yesterday.
The event was held under the patronage of Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Governor Rasheed Al Maraj, who noted that the launch of the company was testimony of Bahrain's strong economy.
"Bahrain manages to attract and will continue to attract financial institutions to the country," he told members of the Press at the launch.
"Last week we also had the launch of the Bahrain-Malaysian joint venture investment company.
"We think because of the diversity of financial services in Bahrain we withstood the crises and this gives us hope for the future.
"Bahrain and GCC economies are on a strong footing going forward. During the global economic crises we witnessed a good strength test for our economy and have shown that we will emerge on a much greater footing going forward."
Tadhamon Capital was licensed by the CBB as a category 1 investment company last year and commenced operations during the last quarter of 2008.
It is the first investment company in Bahrain fully owned by Yemeni shareholders and is poised to open the doors to greater two-way investments between GCC and other MENA countries and Yemen.
The opening of Tadhamon Capital offices was attended by Yemeni Ambassador Dr Ali Mansour bin Safa, Tadhamon International Islamic Bank, Yemen (TIIB) and Tadhamon Capital chairman Abdul-Gabbar Hayel Saeed, Tadhamon Capital chief executive officer and board member Waleed Rashdan and Tadhamon Capital board members and leaders in the regional Islamic investment industry.
"We are delighted to be launching Tadhamon Capital's headquarters and first GCC office in the kingdom of Bahrain, which signifies our confidence in Bahrain as the region's principal financial hub, and in the dynamic growth prospects of the region's Islamic investment industry," said Mr Hayel Saeed.
Mr Rashdan said the company had expertise in identifying and evaluating attractive investment opportunities based on a solid understanding of the market, strong fundamental research and analysis, and extensive experience, which it could now offer to local and regional investors.
"We are looking forward to cultivating many new relationships and lucrative investment opportunities for our valued current and prospective clients, whilst ensuring superior returns with well managed risk," he said.
"In this regard, I am delighted to announce that our client assets under our management have already exceeded $400 million.
"The company has a strong pipeline of attractive and well diversified investment solutions in asset management, private equity, real estate, and treasury."
Tadhamon Capital, with a capital of $10m and $400m under management, is a 100pc owned subsidiary of Tadhamon International Islamic Bank, Yemen (TIIB).
Focusing initially on the management of existing assets of its shareholders, the company aims to structure, launch and manage new investments and products across its main business lines which include asset management, private equity, real estate, treasury and wealth management.
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The original Cord hangers set by Hay gives the inside of your wardrobe a new, fresh look. The textile coated hangers come in a striped design, two hangers have broad stripes and one has narrow stripes. With this outfit, the hangers are especially suited to be hung openly on a clothes rail, where they work as genuine decorative elements.
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Sorry to be away so long but Monday I suffered another severe attack as I was mowing the lawn in 90* heat. Started to feel weak in my legs so came inside, sat in my recliner and started to get chest pains. I knew what that meant because I had an attack in 98 so I called 911 and they were here in minutes and lucky for me they were. Just got home from the hospital and have orders not to strain myself or go out in the heat of day as I now have an irregular heartbeat when exerted. Never thought it could happen again after losing all that weight? 130 lbs but the doctor said it was my cholesterol and I got another stent and was told that the weight loss definetely saved my life!
Anyway yesterday and today before I left they allowed my family to bring my dog to the hospital and she cheered up a lot of patients as I was able to take her around to visit the patients. Of course I was in a wheelchair and she on my lap occasionally jumping off to greet someone. She is a Shih-Tzu and her name is Scooter and I believe she gave hope and love to a lot of patients as per the Nurse Manager's opinion. Memorial Regional Hospital is a huge hospital and they are useing dog and cat therapy for their patients. I know we helped to save at least one life if just mine.
Had a Heart Attack (MI)
Sorry to be away so long but Monday I suffered another severe attack as I was mowing the lawn in 90* heat. Started to feel weak in my legs so came inside, sat in my recliner and started to get chest pains. I knew what that meant because I had an attack in 98 so I called 911 and they were here in minutes and lucky for me they were. Just got home from the hospital and have orders not to strain myself or go out in the heat of day as I now have an irregular heartbeat when exerted. Never thought it could happen again after losing all that weight? 130 lbs but the doctor said it was my cholesterol and I got another stent and was told that the weight loss definetely saved my life!
oH Paw!
So glad you're ok! Please follow doctor's orders TO THE LETTER, because we need you healthy and whole! Do I need to come to Florida?
Ted glad your doing okay..Take it slow & easy
Ted I am glad you had a happy outcome! Take it easy and get plenty of rest :)
whatever I can do, just call. Be well !!
I can't do much from here on! No heavy lifting and definetely no mowing the lawn as that plus my cholesterol is what put me in the hospital. Must not go out during the heat of the day and will be on plavix and a few other blood thinners for the rest of my life. I tell you it was a shock to me as I thought I was in great shape although I know my cholesterol was high @ 220. The zocor plus my special diet will relieve that problem plus another stent they put in me. That makes two!
This will not stop me from gardening as per my doctors, all four of them, told me as long as I don't lift. Lucky I grow in EBs or I'd be out of business. Looking into an electric wagon that I can use in my garden to carry stuff and also me if necessary as I am afraid the stress of my attack will increase the problems of my Post Polio as far as my legs are concerned. In 98 I had my first attack and within days my hair turned completely gray and shortly after PPS was confirmed as my legs were getting weak.
One thing for sure you don't get rest in the hospital and I had a great sleep last night from 3pm to 8:30am this morning without anyone waking me up to draw blood.
TPlant: It's hot right now down there, do what I do, little stints, then come in and rest before going back out hear? I know you, you are pushing it, and don't do that, especially in this heat.
T, take it easy and please take care of yourself.
TPlant, glad to hear you are recovering. Please take care of yourself--you can get your gardening "fix" by sitting in your cool air-conditioning and sharing all of your expert advice with us newbies.
By the way, your little dog is adorable...one of my golden retrievers did therapy work at a local hospital, and I know how beneficial it was for both the patients and staff. I'm sure Scooter made a lot of patients happy with her visit.
As someone who is a memeber of the 'zipper club'. Just b careful and let everyone else do the work. Altho this is some oppresive heat right now, nothing says you still cant enjoy watching a garden grow......even if its not yours right now. As a matter of fact, the soul needs it to help you stay better!!! Glad your on the mend. I am in such shock they let you bring the dog in, that is fantastic.
Get better quick!! And start the Olive oil.
Check out www.lef.org, good info on health, but a little heavy on suppliments. I do take sups and can't imagine being without. They have a great book, kind of pricey, but it's about healthy living. I buy olive oil by the gallon, and eat butter about once a month. My cholesterol is low, and my b. pressure is too.
And 90 is too hot for anyone!
Great dog, and cute kid.
Get better quick!
After I posted Friday I went to bed at 3:30pm and slept until 8:30am the next morning. All I did yesterday was complete rest and went out on my deck in the evening when it was much cooler as it usually is here in my part of the country. Sure glad BocaBob set me up with that self-watering system as I don't have to do anything until August 15 when I start my tomato seeds.
I still am in shock that I had another M.I. and recieved another stent. The medication that is given intravenously today breaks the clot within hours plus the stent keeps it open. I could actually feel the clot breaking up and the blood flowing to my heart. It was a tingleing sensation across the chest. The average stay in hospitals today because of that medication is four or five days depending on the cooperation of the patient.
Another good gardening practice for me is no weeding thanks to my EBs so I'll soon be doing some light puttering around the garden such as fertilizing and watering some of my open container plants such as figs and Jasmine trees that I trained in fifty gallaon containers. The rainy season is here now so that helps a lot! Meanwhile Thank You everyone for your concern especially you, Joy, as I thought you disliked me. Life is to short to hold a grudge!!!
Happy Gardening Everyone
Yikes! What an out of the blue setback, Tplant.
On a good note though, just think...no need to weed, no need to water (except with your timer system), no need to set up EB's and fight a time-frame ("gotta get these seeds started now!").
Keeping that in mind it seems to me now is the perfect time to be able to sit back and enjoy your garden and recuperate, eh? Of course now you'll need to get out there and pick some of that heart-healthy good food you're growing but I imagine your grandson will gladly help with that!
Rest up! And with all the heat and rainy season right now 'tis the best time to garden in Daves Garden!
Ted, that must have been quite a shock for you. I am glad you are home where you can get some good rest. I swear hospitals are just no place for sick people needing rest. I hope you are staying cool and feeling better.
Oh my goodness, Ted, you be careful now, you hear? I'm so glad you are (apparently) doing what you're told.
Ted: Never hold grudges they are bad for you. You might want to try gardening on tables next time, it will help a considerable amount I think, won't have to stoop and they are right at your elbows. It is so hot here, I can only imagine how hot it is in south FL right now. Some pointers I heard, is do not go right from the heat right to the A/C, and drink something warm like tea or coffee instead of iced drinks, it really does cool you down and the sudden change of temperature is not good for us. I remember when I worked in an office in the summer, a bunch of people would have the a/c cranked up so high you had to wear a sweater, and my concern was someone having a stroke going from the ice cold A/C right out into the heat in the summer.
Doris' Italian Kitchen sells extra virgin olive oil that is cold pressed and from Italy for just under $20 for the 3 ltr. can. If you must use oil or butter, use extra virgin olive oil instead ok? I even use it to fry in. Garlic and onions also breaks down the high cholesterol also.
Ted, I'm so glad you're alright and I'm sure you'll take care of yourself-- you can't let your plants or your puppy down! :-) By the way, I think it was really great of the hospital to let you bring her in AND share her with the other patients. It's nice to know that there are facilities out there that recognize that the answer to everything isn't always just drugs and surgery... pet love does wonders!
Scooter made a lot of patients actually "come to life." They were depressed but when they saw her and when she greeted them with tail wagging and big smile the patients seemed to perk right up and the same thing happened to the nurses. As a matter of fact the whole place cheered up.
I have a complete list of foods and the only real difference between my past and present food was butter? I'm now on several meds including zocor. The temps today are going to be bad according to the Emergency e-mail network it may go as high as 100* which is most unusual as we never go more than the low 90's and only at midday and soon after it would cool down.
Oh Tplant, so glad you and Scooter are home and recuperating! My husband has had two stents (1995, and another one three years later ) and is also on statins. He's been doing well ever since.
Wow, you're having 100+ degree weather, and we're in the midst of a Nor-easter up here! My 'maters will never get ripe!
Do take care of yourself. We all appreciate you and your positive attitude so much!
Somebody can confirm this. I read somewhere that olive oil was only heart healthy in a COLD state and loses most of its bennies when heated up for cooking with...I don't mind being corrected if this is not the case. I just want Paw around til I'M 70! Linda
Will have to research that! I know they say to buy the 'cold pressed' olive oil. I didnt know you couldnt heat it tho.
Gymgirl: How else do you use it dear? LOL I use it cold for salad dressings, I like to make my own vinegrette; but you might have a point there also, I read that microwaving does change the chemical balance of things; but, that is because of the microwave itself, I thought cooking was entirely different? Now that I need to know also. For a while everyone was pushing the canola oil and I found an article where it said that canola oil was synthetic and was not as good as proclaimed, in fact, it was bad for you.
For frying, sauteeing, heating, use grapeseed oil. Olive oil has a 'low smoke point', meaning it burns easily. (I'm getting this out of one of my cookbooks)
"Most supermarket oils are a clear golden color and free from taste and aroma. This is because they've been extracted using hexane as a solvent, degummed, bleached, and deodorized." Some of these processes use high heat, which destroys nutrients and destroys oil's antioxidants.
Virgin and extra virgin refers to first run through the press, and second, using no heat, 'cold pressed'.
Zat nuff? There's more, but I'm tired of typing!
Ted, so glad you recognized the symptoms and took immediate action. Way too many people take the "wait and see" route. My prayers are with you for a speedy recovery. With Scooter there to offer love and support you'll be back to puttering in the garden in no time!
Molamola: I try to stay all natural without man messing things up with their little processes. LOL I heard that unprocessed butter is not actually bad for you, it is the processed butter that is bad for you. But then again, things change from one moment to the next, first they tell you to stay away from the yellow part of the egg, and eat just the whites, then they tell you it's ok to eat eggs and bacon? If they would all get it straight first then we could all get it right then correct? I love fried foods; ie. catfish, green tomatoes, okra, fries; so therefore, use the olive oil and just watch it that it doesn't get too old before dumping it and replacing it. Is grapeseed oil good for your cholesterol too? I have not really thought about or heard about that one.
I do believe I read on the Health forum that heated olive oil is not as beneficial as unheated. Yes you would use it in a salad. It would be great to know if it is still good for you if you cook with it. I cook with olive oil because I like it.
Ted, I hope you're feeling better and better!
For cholesterol info, read this:
Just kind of skip over the Big Words, and you'll learn a lot. And don't depend on reporters to tell you what you need to know, such as TV, noospapers, Reader's Digest. They're trying to sell articles and make money, not inform. Bacon has zero positive nutrients, period. rant done...
Molamola -- I am 6'1" and weigh 222lbs with a body mass of 24 or so, so weight loss was not my problem as cholesterol is the culpurt. I now read all labels before purchasing. By the way our temp hit 105* today. This is most unusual and a very bad forboding to our hurricane season. The warmer the ocean the worse the hurricanes and I live in a mobile home. Even though we are well insured I would not like to lose our home. As it is now I can not venture outside because of the heat but that is OK as I am sleeping a good part of the day and night and am up at dawn which is 6am
and drink decaf coffee. I can't believe this heat! We don't live in the deserts of Arizona?
Yes, early for such awful temperatures! Poor you! (I didn't say you're fat, did I? I'm the fat one!!)
So much food has the bad oils in it. To still have a little of the flavor of commercial salad dressings, I've saved one of the squirty bottles, and when I get a new bottle of -- say, Bleu cheese dressing, I'll put just a little in the empty container, and fill it with olive oil. Sometimes I'll add a bit of lemon juice, from a real lemon, not a bottle, directly to the salad, or vegetables. Get those HDL's up!
For hurricanes, there's a huge blob of Sahara dust coming off Africa right now. The more of that, the less storms.
Stay good,
Molamola, a strange looking fish.
And right now, even the deserts of Arizona aren't that bad (but let's not talk about later this week, okay?)
Tplant, take it easy and take care of yourself, okay? We want you with us for many more gardening seasons to come!
All you poor people. I'm having 87 dys and 78 nights.
Ted, I want to thank you for this thread. I'm looking much more closely at my lifestyle, and making some changes.
I'm very happy to hear that my attack has concerned others and proven that we are not invulnerable to heart disease. I am feeling like my old self but MUST take it slow and easy. No heavy lifting and must watch my cholesterol intake. I tell you that stuff just sneaks up on you if you are not careful plus working out by mowing the lawn in 90* heat was not to clever on my part but I never feel my age which will soon be 72. Where have the years gone?
TPlant: I have had 3 friends in south FL having problems with their breathing and hearts due to this heat I think, it is miserably hot here also. I bought a double wide Horton mobile home myself and bought the double lot to put it on also, with well water. It's been settling since it's now 5 years old and everytime a train or huge truck goes by it shakes the whole thing. I have a 4 bedroom, and the master has an office off of it, don't know why I bought such a huge one. LOL I have mine insured though. I'm finally going to get a AWS hooked up to everything outside, that will be nice. Your landscape looks beautiful since you have made all the changes. Just take short stints if you do go out and check on your plants. I do mine in stints, and far as I know my heart is ok.
LOL, where have the years gone? Go to the Jokes forum and read the one called Body Parts.
My mother, when she was well into het eighties said that time goes by faster and faster, that a year just disappears. I'm beginning to experience that, being in my early sixties. ME??? Sixty??? Good Lord, I never thought I'd live this long, so many of my high school friends passed on young.
Our Department of Motor Vehicles was put into trailers after Hurricane Hugo, and they're still there. To help with the airconditioning, they built roofs over them.
Ah, well, to go look at the durn calendar and see what's up for today!
Cheers, and take it easy and smart, everyone.
Shortly after sunrise this morning when I let my dog out I decided to take a short walk to my back garden where all my veggies are and picked some Silver Queen corn but they do need a spraying as one of them had been chewed at the tip but it will just have to be as the walk BACK WAS VERY SLOW for me as my legs are still weak and I tire easily at this time but am getting stronger each day. It was nice to see my melons growing so healthy and I'll bet they will be delicious in another month if they survive this crazy constant 95* heat? Never have we had such consistant heat! Thank goodness for the afternoon storms or it would be impossible with the heat plus humidity. The evenings are pleasant most times but the humidity last night was very high. Even my dog didn't dilly dally. She did her duty and scrambled right back in to the house. Normally she likes to sniff around and take her time but not this time. I wish I would have had her intelligence the day of my attack!!!
Good thinking, Tplant. The very early morning hours should allow you some short excursions before the heat sits in. I have taken to doing my garden duties very early and very late. Its not humid here in the central hill country but the mid day heat is really baking things. I have all my stackers set up with 1/4 inch water lines and control all of them with a manual timer. I just twist the knob of the timer and set the number of minutes I wont to water.
Yep, dogs are smarter than we are about not overdoing it in hot weather. I take my dog walking and if she thinks it is too hot for that kind of foolishment, she just trots from tree shade to tree shade and waits there in the shade for me as I keep slogging along out in the sunshine. When we get close to the car, she goes and sits in the shade of the car untill I get there. Dang smartalec dog!
TPlant: We got just a minute of rain today, just enough to make the plants even more thirsty than they were to start with. I've been watering twice daily, early in the AM and then in the evening. My bigger tomatoes are starting to finally turn red!! Of course, with the heat comes the bugs, an uphill battle. Glad my corn was ready before it got too hot, they were spared.


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Hi Meg - yes, we're on different ends of the business I think, but I am also in the healthcare industry - pharmaceuticals, so I am interested in physiology/health aspects of the sport as well. Have been mulling the idea of contributing a B/R article on steroids - one of my pet peeves, as you might guess from my profile pic ;-).
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I'm in the middle of remodeling h-e-l-l. Actually, I shouldn't complain, because it hasn't been too bad, since we started with a small project first – the kids' bathroom. Yet it seemed as soon as my husband and his friend, Guy, started working on one thing, they would break another. Like cutting into a pipe and flooding the bathroom, which meant that the living room ceiling had to be repaired and repainted. Then they, along with the plumber and electrician, used my two vacuums like shop vacs, and broke them both. Then the bathroom lighting had to be done twice. The toilet that wasn't supposed to be installed by the plumber, was indeed installed, and was broken in the process. I'm not even going to tell you about the fight with the painter regarding his quote and the trim.
Then the kitchen remodeling started with a reminder call. But I didn't even know we were on the schedule to get our counter tops done that day! First, I had to reschedule my daughter's hearing test appointment. No biggie. Then I had to camp out with my dog, Nellie in our bedroom, because as soon as the workmen left to get something from their truck and came back into the house, she'd growl at them like they were breaking in. Such a silly dog!
It also meant no cooking for a few days, since we had to wait for the plumber to come and hookup the sink and the electrician to hook up the stovetop. Luckily, I have another wonderful recipe from the April 2014 issue of Martha Stewart Living to fill in while my kitchen is closed for a few days. This one is perfect for Easter, parties, and picnic season – Beet Picked Quail Eggs with an amazing picture by Jennifer Causey.
Just because it's Easter doesn't mean you have to stick with chicken eggs. Any sort of eggs will do. Martha Stewart Living suggests getting quail eggs at dartagnan.com, but I've had good luck finding fresh and canned quail eggs at Asian markets. (My mom puts quail eggs in salads and quail eggs in pho soup are amazing.) Canned quail eggs are pretty affordable, too.
I love the idea of dying the egg whites with the beets. Some people use beets or other foods to dye eggs shells. Or they gently crack the hard boiled egg before dyeing to form a cracked pattern on the egg white. They use foods such as:
- Blueberries or red cabbage for blue
- Skins of red onions or yellow apples for green
- Skins of yellow onions or paprika for orange
- Carrots, turmeric, chamomile, green tea or orange peel for yellow
- Coffee or black tea for brown
- Grape juice for purple
If you're interested in using foods or plants as natural food dyes, About.com has instructions on how to do so.
Beet Pickled Quail Eggs
- 1 small red beet, peeled and coarsely grated
- 1 cup white balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon juniper berries 1 dried bay leaf
- 24 quail eggs
- Hot sauce, celery leaves, and flaky sea salt, for serving
- Bring beet, 1 cup water, vinegar, sugar, coarse salt, juniper berries, and bay leaf to a boil in a small pot, stirring until sugar and salt are dissolved. Let cool completely. Pass through a fine sieve; discard solids.
- Cover eggs with 1 inch of water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; remove from heat, cover, and let sit 3 minutes. Transfer to an ice-water bath until chilled. Drain and peel eggs.
- Place eggs in a container. Top with beet vinegar. Cover; chill 4 to 5 days. Slice in half and serve with accompaniments.
- Serving size: 3 quail eggs
Recipe and photography used with permission.