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Today Lide Plowman concludes this installment of her memories of childhood, especially those of her mother Emily Crane. Lide's childhood was a happy one, some would say idyllic, but there was much hard work and struggle in pioneer Michigan. The family tree chart is at the end of this post.
Mother and Father used to make evening visits from one to six miles, in always took an ax along to clear the road from accidental trees and limbs fallen across the road. I have a vivid memory of their coming home rather late one night, when the children from Uncle Sammy's were over playing with us. I stood between the window and door saying something like this, "Here I stand, beside the door, come and kiss me three or four." And just as Ira Crane was to kiss me, Mother's hand with a dark glove on came between our faces. Can you imagine the exclamations and running of a lot of frightened children? Mother soon realized our fright and came in to assure us we were in no danger.
Mr. Bower who bought out Uncle Francis Crane had three boys and they would stop in their way to school to warm themselves before our fire. To plague sister Jule Mother would say, "John Bower has come to see my Julie".
She used her shoulders to keep her pins on and we children would reach for one she would always make a strange noise and quick motion of her head, which always made us jump.
She was a woman who lived for her family. No outside influences caused her to forget them and she always joined with them in a little fun or sports. She was self-sacrificing, I remember as I was getting up to a young lady of her giving me a dress she had bought for herself. Father rather objected to this. She had very good taste in selecting materials, to get good quality, fast color, and pretty figure. Aunt Ellen often spoke of the good taste she had in that way, and she also often remarked how nice and white her floor looked. Mother did not mop everyday but when she did there were no dirty corners or streaks on the floor, but we children stayed in another room or out of doors until the floor was dry. Now how do you think it looked after the night wood had been brought in on a cold, snowy, winter night? You could slide from the door to the hearth, but that was unavoidable so it had to be endured.
Saron and I took a great deal of pleasure in playing checkers but after several days we would have a disagreement, and if it continued our board went up on the "high shelf". A board as long as the room, nailed to the beams, which made a good place to keep things from the children, and was used for books and medicine. Father lathed and plastered after I can remember and he had some difficulty in getting the plaster to stay on, as it persisted in creeping down. After awhile we would have the checker board until it was taken from us for the same cause. Ivanhoe was kept on this same shelf and when I could find nothing else to read they would get it down for me again, I must have read it as many as ten times, as well as two or three times since I was a woman. I never could get interested in Thaddeus of Warsaw which Father thought was a great book.
For papers we had the Star in the West, a Universalist paper, the New York Tribune, the county paper (first the DeWitt Republican, later the St. John's Republican) and the Journal of Education. The first three were weeklies and gave us much good reading.
I wish I could make you see as I do the old German tinker who visited us once or twice a year. He was rather a small man with one leg shorter than the other and withered so that he had to use a cane. He was dressed in clothes he made himself from skins of animals, sheep, deer and coon. He had a coonskin cap, a sheepskin coat, and a fur garment for a shirt, with the fur on the inside. His shoes and pants were also made of fur.
In the winter he had a cutter fixed up or I should say made with anything he could find. He drove an ox whose harness consisted of rope, leather, string and a strap, he had picked up in his travels. He minted our tinware as we had no 10 cent store to get new and throw the old away. He usually stayed two or three days and it was as good as a circus to us children, for Mr. Medsker was as good as a clown. We would stand around and watch and listen to him by the hour and he was very funny if things went well, and if they didn't, we all kept our distance. His ox and rig was as curious to us as wild animals in a circus and I think the children here would be as interested as we were. His home was somewhere in Riley and he had two little girls. One of them came with him once, she was rather good looking. She had to sleep with Till, much to Till's displeasure.
The nearest doctor was at Lyons, but Dr. Hugg at Ionia was considered best but was twenty miles away in a new country. I think he was with Mother when Till was born. Later Dr. Seinol, a well educated doctor came. Father had great faith in him. He it was, who removed the cancer from Uncle Hiram Brown's lip with a pair of dull shears, after other doctors had eaten it out and he had suffered a great deal and spent much money. It never broke out again and he lived to be an old man.
It was a great blessing to have a good physician only two and one half miles from us. He lived one mile east of Westphalia, and was our dr. until the Civil War when he moved farther away and later went to the war. After this Dr. Dellenbough came.
I hope you have not tired of these reminiscences as I have enjoyed it and Pearl has insisted that I put in many things that may not interest you. She says next year it must be the children of the "House of Plowmans".
Hoping you may have many happy Christmases and that the New Years as they come may bring you many blessings.


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The memory of mountains
A long time ago, I climbed a mountain with my mother.
It was back in the early '80s, when she was only slightly older than I am now — hard for me to believe, even though I've done the math and know it's true.
The mountain was Pikes Peak in Colorado. We climbed it from its most affable angle, on the side you never see, and we used a private secret shortcut that would take us there and back in just one day. My husband and some friends made up the group; my mother, the oldest there, had never climbed a real mountain before. But she'd recently quit smoking and started hiking, and she was terribly proud of her new lungs.
I had — and still have, two years after her death — a complicated, protective, insecure, tender, and resentful relationship with my mother. She was charming, intelligent, manipulative, moody, stubborn and beautiful. I was in my early 20s, with no idea how young and stupid I was. Or still am, for that matter.
Anyway. Mom heard about the hike, and wanted to come. I had no idea in the world how to say no.
It was a bright midsummer day, all green and golden and deep blue sky, and we walked up over endless land that rolled in a rocky wave to the top of the peak. There were hardly any trees — we'd started out near timberline — just open meadows and great lumpy boulders splotched with whorls of electric-bright lichen. My mother, who could never do anything without talking, kept up a vivacious stream of chatter as she chugged uphill.
Oh, my dear mother. I had no idea how temporary that day was. There was nothing to show me the future — warn me that my marriage was doomed, I'd never have children, I'd end up walking crooked and with one crutch. I had no way of knowing what lay ahead for you, either, how far you would travel beyond even the memory of mountains.
That day, Mom refused to admit she was getting tired; she quickly figured out the "Oh, look at the view!" trick experienced hikers employ when desperate for breath. I stopped whenever she did, of course. "Beautiful view," she'd gasp, and I'd agree, and if sometimes I thought small, snarly thoughts, I kept them to myself.
But dark, deep clouds were surging above us, and we fell far behind the others. My mother began to lean on me. The view got more and more beautiful.
"I don't think I can make it," Mom finally said.
"We're almost there," I said, and this time it was true. "Look at the view."
Pikes Peak is the only 14,000-foot mountain that comes with its own parking lot, gift shop and restaurant. Though I'd climbed it many times, I was always surprised to find tourists at the top, gawking away. ("You mean you walked all the way up here? Don't you know there's a highway?") Mom was blind and goofy with exhaustion, limping, sunburned and in need of a restroom. She slumped onto my arm; I bullied our way to the front of the line.
Mom was gone for a long time. I waited and fretted and wondered how we would ever get back down the mountain. At last she emerged and leaned weakly against the wall, closing her eyes.
But five minutes later, when I came out, my mother was laughing — standing in the center of a ring of admirers, straight and proud and glowing. "Oh yes," she was saying, "I do things like this all the time. It's not that hard, really. Everybody should climb Pikes Peak."
"Mom?" I hissed in her ear. "What happened? I thought you were done for!"
"Well," she replied, "I thought I was, too, but while you were in the bathroom, this lady came up and asked me if I'd really climbed this mountain. And I looked at her and realized, by golly, I really did do it. I climbed Pikes Peak all by myself! And suddenly I wasn't tired at all. Can we have our coffee now?"
So we had coffee and greasy hot donuts, and then we had some more adventures dodging thunderbolts on the hike down. By the end, Mom really was done for, and she spent the next few days in bed. But for years afterward, every time she told the story, she made a point of saying how easy it was. I always made sure to agree.
At the nursing home, not that long ago, I wheeled Mom's chair outside so we could look at the mountains. They were different mountains, of course. Everything was different. And all the changes had come so fast; sometimes I felt out of breath in a whole new way. But I remembered my old hiker's tricks. "Look at the beautiful view," I said. "Look at the mountains, Mom."
"Help," she said. "No. Help. Ma."
I chattered away brightly, sounding — oddly — a lot like she used to. Funny how that happens. "Mom," I said, "do you remember when we climbed Pikes Peak?"
"HelpNoNoNOHelpNo," she said, her voice starting to rise and shake and shiver and shriek in the endless heartbreaking wail of dementia.
Sometimes there's no way to help a person climb a mountain. Sometimes there's not much you can do about things at all. She didn't remember mountains, you see. She didn't, at the end, remember me, or even herself.
But I remember, Mom. And so I remember for us both. I guess that has to be enough for now. A long time ago, we climbed a mountain together. One of these days, perhaps, I'll meet you on the other side.
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Tim Thomas better not expend too much energy at the 2011 NHL All-Star Weekend.
The Bruins' star goaltender has a date with history after the All-Star Game, and if he can duplicate the numbers he put up in the first 50 games of the regular season, his haul of postseason hardware should be larger than what he brought home in 2009.
After the Bruins' breakthrough 2008-09 season, which ended disappointingly in the second round of the playoffs, Thomas left Las Vegas that June with the Vezina and the Jennings Trophy (which he shared with Manny Fernandez).
Thomas, as the league-leader at the All-Star break in goals-against average, save percentage and shutouts, is the hand's down favorite for this year's Vezina. With the Bruins ahead of the pack in goals against, Thomas and Tuukka Rask are in the driver's seat in pursuit of another Jennings. But with the type of numbers Thomas could wind up producing this season, and the Bruins again among the top six or seven teams in the NHL, the biggest award Boston's netminder should be in line for is the Hart Trophy as MVP.
Goaltenders winning the Hart is a rarity. It took 36 years between Montreal legend Jacques Plante's Hart win and Buffalo Sabres great Dominik Hasek's snapping of the goaltenders' drought in 1998 for goaltender's to get back into the argument. Hasek, of course, repeated as the Hart winner the next season, and then Jose Theodore of Montreal was the MVP in 2002.
Since Theodore's improbable season, goaltenders have been shut out of the Hart winner's circle. That should change. At the All-Star break, Thomas has a .9453 save percentage — which would be the best ever if the season ended today. Even with a slight drop-off in his play, Thomas should be able to snap the single-season save percentage record Hasek set in 1998-99 (.9366).
Thomas' GAA of 1.814 is also in some historic territory. The record is held by Miikka Kiprusoff from '03-04 (1.695) and on one has posted a GAA of less than 1.967 since the clutch-and-grab era ended after the lockout.
Barring a major injury epidemic on Boston's back end or a total reversal of team philosophy, Thomas should be able to keep his numbers at an elite level. And with Rask getting a little more time to stay sharp over the course of the season's final 2 1/2 months, Thomas should also be able to stay fresh.
The only thing that could keep Thomas from the Hart/Vezina daily double would be stiff competition from a non-goaltender. In Hasek's first Hart season, he beat out Paul Kariya, who wasn't even the leading scorer on his own Anaheim team (which made the jump from fourth to second in its division from the season before). Hasek led the Sabres to the division title with a 2.27 GAA and .930 save percentage.
In '98, voters deemed Hasek's 2.09 GAA and .932 save percentage for a third-place Buffalo team more Hart-worthy than Jaromir Jagr's league-leading 67 assists and 102 points for a division-winning Pittsburgh team. Jose Theodore only helped Montreal to a fourth-place finish in '02, but he was still able to impress voters with his 2.11 GAA and .931 save percentage to beat out the league's leader in goals (52) and points (96), Calgary's Jarome Iginla. That's one vote some might've wanted to do over.
This season, the competition for Thomas is comparable to that of Theodore. With Sidney Crosby having missed a bunch of games and still out indefinitely, that leaves Steven Stamkos as the biggest threat to Thomas' Hart hopes. As the league-leader in the ever-sexy goals score category, and points, Stamkos is on pace for 61 goals and 108 points for a resurgent Tampa Bay franchise. Sixty-one goals would be the most by a league-leader since Alexander Ovechkin won the Hart and scored 65. For another 60-goal season you have to go all the way back to Mario Lemieux in 1996.
Certainly, people that want to deny a goaltender can be MVP will look for other candidates, including two-way Vancouver star Ryan Kesler (the favorite for the Selke) and Atlanta's emerging blue-line force Dustin Byfuglien, who's on pace for 65 points and is a major factor in the franchise turnaround in Atlanta. But, really, only Stamkos has an argument that he's more valuable to his team than Thomas.
Of course, Stamkos gets to skate on a line with All-Star Martin St. Louis and on a team that also features Vinny Lecavalier and Ryan Malone. He benefits as much from the Lighnting's up-tempo style as Thomas does from the defensive demeanor that dominates the Bruins' strategy. Still, Stamkos is plus-12 on a team that's 23rd in 5-on-5 goals for/goals against ratio.
Thomas also benefits from a defense led by Norris Trophy candidate Zdeno Chara. Of course, as we all know, the Bruins' defensive corps after Chara isn't an all-world lineup. There have been at least eight to 10 nights this season that without Thomas performing at an unfathomable level, the Bruins wouldn't have emerged with two points.
There are always going to be voters that won't consider a goaltender for the Hart because netminders have the Vezina. For those with open minds, however, the Thomas-Stamkos showdown should go right down to the wire. And Thomas just might leave Las Vegas as the biggest winner in the league at his current rate of success.


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The navigation menu on the left provides information you need to participate in the SULI program. First click on "Preparing for Your Internship" and follow the instructions so you have all the forms filled out before you arrive.
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Bruins have the look of a champion
Mike Babcock knows a team built to challenge for the Stanley Cup year after year when he sees it — his Red Wings used to be one of them.
And now, after watching his current Detroit team bow out of an Eastern Conference quarterfinal with minimal resistance, Babcock sees some familiar signs of dynasty in the Boston Bruins.
"This team played like we used to in '07, '08, '09," Babcock said after his Wings scored just six goals in five games in a 4-1 series loss. "They're a legit contender with good depth and good experience.
"They're at the right time (in terms of payroll). I assume people are going to get paid around here and then that gets in the way."
Just what gets in the way of these Bruins in these playoffs, remains to be seen. But based on their performance against the Wings, coach Claude Julien's team has only legitimized its status of pre-playoffs Stanley Cup favourites.
Odds are partly hypothetical, of course, but in practical terms, there is a long list of reasons that the Bruins will not only return to the Cup final for a second consecutive spring, but will be hoisting the famed trophy when the gruelling playoff grind concludes.
"What's so special is that there's not any one thing," said veteran Jarome Iginla, who surely wishes he had landed with the Bruins a year earlier rather than orchestrating a deal to Pittsburgh at the 2013 trade deadline.
"I think it's a very close group, guys (who) have been through it before. They're a very hungry and very competitive group."
Following Saturday's 4-2 series-clinching win at the TD Garden, Iginla marvelled at the experience and leadership on his new team. Whether it's fourth-liners such as Shawn Thornton or an elite talent in the form of centre Patrice Bergeron, a behemoth blueliner in Zdeno Chara or the mix of physical brawn and talent of Milan Lucic, a proven leader is never more than two or three stalls away in the Bruins dressing room.
Then there is the Bruins' depth. A rarity in today's salary cap world, Julien is able to roll out four lines with effectiveness. In a long series, that can, and does, wear down an opponent, Thornton and linemate Gregory Campbell are prototypical role players who can be trusted to not be a liability while on the ice.
Throughout the series, Babcock moaned about how difficult it was to create open space against the Bruins, a credit to the system Julien implements, the way general manager Peter Chiarelli has sculpted a roster to make it work and ultimately the commitment of the players to enact it.
Perhaps future opponents won't lose as many battles for loose pucks as the Wings did, but don't bet on it. Once the opposition has the puck, good luck getting good scoring chances from high-percentage areas of the ice anyway. And on the rare occasions that they do, in Tuukka Rask, the Bruins certainly have one of the best goaltenders remaining in the playoffs.
After making short work of Detroit — following three consecutive years of seven-game series in the first round — the Bruins find themselves in what could be a favourable path to the title.
While the Montreal Canadiens will provide an emotional opponent in th second round, if the Bruins continue to improve as they did throughout the series with the Wings, they should have little difficulty advancing. Now look at the other bracket and try to make a strong case for any of the Penguins, Jackets, Rangers or Flyers prevailing against the B's in a seven-game series.
Next up would be the Western Conference champion, a team that in all likelihood will have had a much tougher road to the final than the Bruins.
Yes, it's just four wins down and 12 to go, but the Bruins have done nothing to lengthen their odds of winning the Cup. In fact, they have done the opposite.


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University of Delaware Cooperative Extension, in conjunction with the University of Maryland, is offering a series of classes focused on the business of agriculture, geared specifically to women.
The classes begin Jan. 26 and are part of a national program called Annie's Project. The registration deadline is Friday, Jan. 14.
"Annie's Project developed as a way to empower farm wives," says Tracy Wootten, Cooperative Extension horticultural agent for Sussex County. "It was designed for women who work with their husbands on family farms to help take them to the next level of knowledge. But the program is equally appropriate for those who have never been a part of agriculture but would like to be."
The eight-part series focuses on the myriad aspects of managing a farm or other agricultural operation. Topics covered include risk management, production, marketing, computer and other technological issues, financial affairs, and human resources.
Special guest lectures will be presented by Robin Talley, of the USDA Farm Service Agency, who will speak about updates to the agency's programs, and by Buck Smith, who will discuss effective estate planning.
Annie's Project encourages females in agriculture to build professional networks. The class format encourages such networking via a dinner and social networking period at the beginning of each three-hour class session.
The program runs from Wednesday, Jan. 26, to Wednesday, March 16. It will be offered at UD Extension's Paradee Center, 69 Transportation Circle, Dover. The cost of the course, including meals and materials, is $75. Registration ends Friday, Jan. 14.
The class is limited to 25 participants but late registrants will be accepted if any space is still available.
For more information, call Tracy Wootten at 302-856-7303 or email her at [firstname.lastname@example.com], or call Maria Pippidis at 302-831-2506 or email her at [email@example.com].


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By Ronnie Cohen
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The mother of a 9-year-old girl snatched from a Northern California street 24 years ago said on Thursday she believed DNA tests would show her daughter was buried in a well where a pair of serial killers dumped their victims.
A 3-inch bone fragment possibly belonging to Michaela Garecht was found in a bag of skeletal remains largely belonging to another victim of the "Speed Freak" killers, so named for the methamphetamine-fueled violence police say the two perpetrators unleashed during the 1980s and 1990s.
Police in Michaela's hometown of Hayward, California, across the bay from San Francisco, say they expect to get test results by the end of the month. Michaela was abducted outside a Hayward grocery store on November 19, 1988.
"I'm thinking it's probably Michaela. All the indications seem to point that way," her mother, Sharon Murch, told Reuters in an interview. "There's no happy ending. But if she's been in that well for all these years, I'd just like to bring her home."
Hayward police Sergeant Eric Krimm said that the fragment, which yielded DNA samples that were being studied by a Virginia laboratory, "has the potential to be a bone from Michaela."
The inquiry began when the mother of 16-year-old murder victim JoAnn Hobson asked for a forensic examination of remains found in an abandoned well linked to the Speed Freak killers and given to her by San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies.
A forensic anthropologist found that the bag contained parts of at least two other people, one of them a child between the ages of 5 and 14.
Authorities have recovered nearly 1,000 human bone fragments, along with a woman's ring, a purse, shoes and coats from the 50-foot well near a former cattle ranch in Linden, California.
Investigators were first directed to the well and four other burial sites by a map that convicted "Speed Freak" killer Wesley Shermantine gave a Sacramento bounty hunter who agreed to pay him $33,000 for information leading to the location of his victims' bodies.
Shermantine was convicted in May 2001 of four murders dating back to 1984 and is currently on California's death row.
Prosecutors said previously they believed Shermantine and his co-defendant, Loren Herzog, a childhood friend who was convicted of three murders, were linked to as many as two dozen killings.
Herzog committed suicide in January and Shermantine has begun to speak out about the crimes, asserting he and Herzog carried out six dozen murders.
If Shermantine's claims prove true, he and Herzog could end up responsible for 72 killings, ranking them among the most prolific serial murderers in U.S. history.
(Editing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Peter Cooney)
(This story has been refiled with a new headline)


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- Prune summer-blooming shrubs: abelia, althea, peegee hydrangea, St. John's wort, crape myrtle and chaste tree.
- During dry periods, plant or transplant dormant trees and shrubs.
- Cut back and clean up perennial borders and top dress with aged manure or compost.
- Start cool season veggies from seed to set out on Valentine's Day.
- Sow cool-season annuals in beds.
- Cut back ornamental grasses and Liriope.
- Plant and prune roses toward the end of the month; good varieties for Atlanta include: Mrs. Oakley Fischer, Knockout, and Old Blush.
- Fertilize fescue lawns.
- Divide and move perennials and groundcovers.
- Root-prune difficult-to-move woody plants for fall transplanting.
- Delay planting summer annuals until April.
- Select native azaleas when in bloom early this month.
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- Sod or seed warm-season turf such as Bermuda, Zoysia or Centipede.
- Weed, then mulch to minimize re-growth of weeds and water loss.
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- Plant water lilies and lotus in pots of heavy, rich clay soil and mulch with pebbles to keep pond water clean.
- Aquatic plants are heavy feeders, so push fertilizer pellets into the soil bi-weekly.
- Take greenwood cuttings of your best azaleas, forsythia and daphne.
- Replenish organic mulch to slow water loss.
- Order fall-blooming crocus and colchicum this month for blooms in October.
- Start seeds of choice cultivars of pansies, foxgloves and hollyhocks.
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- Prune and fertilize roses for the flush of bloom expected next month.
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- Test your garden soil, send to the Cooperative Extension Service in your county, then lime soils as required.
- Container-grown, fall-blooming perennials such as aster, goldenrod and pineapple sage will add color to the autumn garden.
- Divide and replant perennials.
- Plant trees and woody ornamental shrubs.
- Plant pansies now for color throughout fall and winter.
- Plant spring-blooming bulbs.
- Restore flower and vegetable gardens by digging in compost before replanting.
- Dig and store tender bulbs and tubers.
- Continue to plant trees and woody ornamentals.
- Begin a compost pile with raked leaves.
- This is the ideal planting time to plant balled and burlapped woody ornamentals.
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- Mulch all new plantings.
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Major impacts of climate change on human health are likely to occur via changes
in the magnitude and frequency of extreme events (see Table
3-10), which trigger a natural disaster or emergency. In developed countries,
emergency preparedness has decreased the total number of tropical cyclone-related
deaths (see Section 7.2.2). However, in developed countries,
studies indicate an increasing trend in the number and impacts (deaths, injuries,
economic losses) of all types of natural disasters (IFRC, 1998; Munich Re, 1999).
Some of the interannual variability in rates of persons affected by disasters
may be associated with El Niño (Bouma et al., 1997a). The average
annual number of people killed by natural disasters between 1972 and 1996 was
about 123,000. By far the largest number of people affected (i.e., in need of
shelter or medical care) are in Asia, and one study reveals that Africa suffers
60% of all disaster-related deaths (Loretti and Tegegn, 1996).
Populations in developing countries are much more affected by extreme events.
Relative to low socioeconomic conditions, the impact of weather-related disasters
in poor countries may be 20-30 times larger than in industrialized countries.
For example, floods and drought associated with the El Niño event of
1982-1983 led to losses of about 10% in gross national product (GNP) in
countries such as Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru (50% of their annual public
revenue) (Jovel, 1989).
Figure 9-1: Diagrammatic illustration of vulnerability to disasters
(McMichael et al., 1996b).
Disasters occur when climate hazards and population vulnerability
converge. Factors that affect vulnerability to disasters are shown in Figure
9-1. The increase in population vulnerability to extreme weather is primarily
caused by the combination of population growth, poverty, and environmental degradation
(Alexander, 1993). Concentration of people and property in high-risk areas (e.g.,
floodplains and coastal zones) also has increased. Degradation of the local
environment also may contribute to vulnerability (see Chapter
The health impacts of natural disasters include (Noji, 1997):
Extreme weather events cause death and injury directly. However, substantial
indirect health impacts also occur because of damage to the local infrastructure
and population displacement (see also Section 9.10). Following
disasters, fatalities and injuries can occur as residents return to clean up
damage and debris (Philen et al., 1992). Bereavement, property loss,
and social disruption may increase the risk of depression and mental health
problems (WHO, 1992). For example, cases of post-traumatic stress disorder were
reported in the United States up to 2 years after Hurricane Andrew (Norris et
al., 1999).
Floods are associated with particular dangers to human populations (Menne et
al., 1999). Climate change may increase the risk of river and coastal flooding
(see Chapters 4 and 6). The health
impacts of floods may be divided into the immediate, medium, and long terms.
Immediate effects are largely death and injuries caused by drowning and being
swept against hard objects. Medium-term effects include increases in communicable
diseases such as those caused by ingestion of contaminated water (e.g., cholera,
hepatitis A), contact with contaminated water (e.g., leptospirosissee
Section 220.127.116.11), or respiratory diseases resulting
from overcrowding in shelters. A study in populations displaced by catastrophic
floods in Bangladesh in 1988 found that diarrhea was the most common illness,
followed by respiratory infection. Watery diarrhea was the most common cause
of death for all age groups under 45 (Siddique et al., 1991). In rural
Bangladesh and Khartoum, Sudan, the proportion of severely malnourished children
increased after flooding (Woodruff et al., 1990; Choudhury and Bhuiya,
1993). Also, in the aftermath of flooding, molds and fungi may grow on interior
surfaces, providing a potent stimulus to allergic persons (American Academy
of Pediatrics, 1998).
In China, floods experienced over the past few years have been particularly
severe. In 1996, official national statistics showed 200 million people affected
by flooding: There were more than 3,000 deaths, and 363,800 people were injured;
3.7 million houses were destroyed, and 18 million houses were damaged. Direct
economic loses exceeded US$12 billion (IFRC 1997). In 1998, official national
statistics showed 200 million people affected by flooding, more than 3,000 deaths,
and 4 million houses damaged; direct economic losses exceeded US$20 billion
(National Climate Centre of China, 1998). Nevertheless, the vulnerability of
the Chinese population has been reduced by a combination of better preparedness,
including sophisticated warning systems, and relief efforts. In the longer term,
reforestation may reduce the risk of flooding in these regions.
In developed countries, physical and disease risks from flooding are greatly
reduced by a well-maintained flood control and sanitation infrastructure and
public health measures, such as monitoring and surveillance activities to detect
and control outbreaks of infectious disease. However, the experience of the
central European floods of 1997, when more than 100 people died, showed that
even in industrialized countries floods can have a major impact on health and
welfare. In Poland, 6,000 km2 were flooded, and 160,000 people were evacuated
from their homes. The cost of the damage was estimated at US$3 billion [2.7%
of 1996 gross domestic product (GDP)]. In the Czech Republic, 50,000 people
were evacuated and damage was estimated at US$1.8 billion (3.7% of GDP) (IFRC,
1998). There was an increase in cases of leptospirosis in the Czech Republic
(Kriz et al., 1998). Floods also have an important impact on mental health
in the affected community (WHO, 1992; Menne et al., 1999). Increases
in suicide, alcoholism, and psychological and behavioral disorders, particularly
among children, were reported following floods in Poland in 1997 (IFRC 1998).
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A blog entry about Ltk, and a quick introduction on how to use it. Ltk is a Lisp interface to the Tk gui kit.
A Guided Tour of the Common Lisp Interface Manager
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A specification for a standard multi-threading Common Lisp API. It has been superseded by Bordeaux-Threads.
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CDR 2: A generic hash table interface specification for Common Lisp
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CLIM Screencast - Installation and Hello World
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An operating system in which knowledge, rather than files or tables, is the primary representational basis. Used to implement BioBike.
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Lisp Style and Efficiency
Introduction to efficient coding style in Common Lisp.
Lisp and Web Development
A web site with a collection of essays on why or why not use Lisp for web development, and what Lisp needs to "come from behind in the web application development language race".
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Revisiting the Visitor: the "Just Do It" Pattern.
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Shared State Concurrency for Common Lisp
SSC is a specification and test suite for a low-level, standardized Common Lisp interface for running multiple threads of control in a single Lisp image,
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a lot of random bits of lisp code. (Parsers, plotters, SMTP, and more...)
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A tutorial which describes how to develop a blogging framework in Common Lisp based on TBNL and Hunchentoot.
The Common Lisp Object System MetaObject Protocol
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Tutorial for Gigamonkeys Markup
Explains how to use Gigamonkeys Markup, a typesetting language from Peter Seibel that was successfully used to document large amounts of Lisp code in his book "Practical Common Lisp."
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A tutorial on the UnCommon Web application framework. It covers installation, configuration, the environment, basic techniques, templates, and more.
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Screencast by Marco Baringer. It demonstrates using the UnCommon Web application framework and the Emacs-based SLIME IDE to create a simple, "hello world" web application. It is based on the interacti...
Understanding Mel-Base Folders
A blog entry explaining the concept of folders of the Mel-Base email library. Mel-Base folders are an abstraction of sinks and sources of messages, on which a number operations, such as copying or mov...
Using Common Lisp to Build Web Applications
"Using Common Lisp to Build Web Applications - Can a 40 year old Computer Language do Web Applications?". Paper by Nicky Peeters, 20 June 2003. After a short introduction to Lisp, the document discuss...
Using a waiting protocol to separate concerns in the mutual exclusion problem
Paper by Frode V. Fjeld, Department of Computer Science, University of Tromso (Norway) Technical Report 2003-46, 21 November 2003. It proposes a separation of concerns in concurrent systems between mu...
How to embed ECL into Visual Basic.
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An article explaining how to validate the PGP signatures of software packages, and establish a weak but reasonably secure web of trust when establishing an uninterrupted one is not practical. This is ...
What read-delimited-list will and won't do, and changing the reader syntax in CL
A short article on the Common Lisp reader that explains what READ-DELIMITED-LIST actually does, which is not what is usually expected, and how to change the reader syntax.
Wiki list of websites powered by Lisp
List of websites and other web applications built using Lisp. Entries are strongly encouraged to be listed with the other software components used to build the site such as the web framework used or o...
cmucl and multiprocessing
An introduction to the CMUCL multiprocessing facilities. It documents the external symbols of the MP package and provides links to additional resources.
A mailing list for discussing the use of languages in the Lisp family, including Common Lisp, for web development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, interfacing Lisp runtimes with we...


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Senate rules that establish a 60-vote threshold for defeating filibusters.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington ruled that the plaintiffs lack the legal right to sue, and that if the court took up the case, it would offend the separation of powers among the different branches of government.
The suit was brought by Common Cause, a citizen lobby group; Democratic Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson of Georgia, Michael Michaud of Maine, and Keith Ellison of Minnesota; and Mexican-born Erika Andiola, Celso Mireles and Caesar Vargas. The Mexican-born plaintiffs, who live in the United States, contend that a GOP-led filibuster in 2010 prevented the Senate from voting on a bill, known as the DREAM Act, which would have given them a legal path to citizenship. They say the now risk being deported because of the filibuster of that legislation.
"Plaintiffs identify no authority for the proposition that an individual has a 'procedural right' to any particular form of congressional consideration or debate on a bill," Sullivan wrote. He added that "plaintiffs' assertion that the bills are likely to be reintroduced does not demonstrate that the bills will ever be enacted by the House and the Senate and signed by the president."
Sullivan also expressed reservations about wading into a political dispute.
"The court is firmly convinced that to intrude into this area would offend the separation of powers on which the Constitution rests," wrote Sullivan, an appointee of President Bill Clinton. "Nowhere does the Constitution contain express requirements regarding the proper length of, or method for, the Senate to debate proposed legislation."
He said that Article I of the Constitution reserves to each chamber of Congress the power to determine the rules of its proceedings.
"Absent a rule's violation of an express constraint in the Constitution or an individual's fundamental rights, the internal proceedings of the legislative branch are beyond the jurisdiction of this Court," Sullivan wrote.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is considering changing Senate rules to narrow the use of filibusters. Reid has complained that Republicans are using the maneuver to block Democrats from advancing President Barack Obama's agenda.
Reid wants the ability to bring a bill before the Senate with the approval of a simple majority of its 100 members. Forty-one opponents could still resort to a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the bill itself, but only by talking continuously about it on the Senate floor.
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ALLENTOWN -- Since being promoted in late July from Double-A Reading, right-hander Jonathan Pettibone has been dominant for Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Pettibone continued his successful run at Triple-A with Tuesday's 1-0 win over the Toledo Mud Hens, in the first game of a doubleheader at Coca-Cola Park.
Since the teams have two games scheduled, they are just seven innings.
Pettibone pitched a complete-game three-hitter, striking out four and walking three, while throwing 103 pitches, 59 for strikes.
The 6-foot-5, 200-pound Pettibone is now 4-0 with a 1.69 ERA in five starts for the IronPigs.
Pettibone, who turned 22 on July 19, is The Inquirer's No. 3 ranked Phillies prospect.
What Pettibone's teammates have to like is that he is one of the fastest workers and he made quick work of the Mud Hens, the Detroit Tigers affiliate.
The game took just 1 hour and 36 minutes, the quickest game in Iron Pigs history.


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Val Staples, "Pixel Dan" Eardley, Emiliano Santalucia and Eamon O'Donoghue are back to discuss He-Man and She-Ra.
First we cover fan e-mail!
After that, we discuss a couple more MOTUC bios. This time, Adora and Battle Cat.
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And as always, you'll enjoy some extra seasoning with this episode's Fanart of the week, Collectible of the week and Fansite of the week!
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Ed Stefanski, the 76ers' president/general manager, will speak again today with Leon Rose, Allen Iverson's agent, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The plan is for Stefanski and Rose to re-visit the various topics that were covered in a two-hour session Monday in Dallas. Both sides are trying to determine whether Iverson should re-join the Sixers, who have lost seven games in succession and are without the injured Lou Williams and Marreese Speights.
It also appears as if both sides want to resolve the situation as quickly as possible, rather than allow it to linger.
Meanwhile, ESPN.com is reporting, citing two sources, that if the Sixers reach a deal with Iverson that he would debut Monday night at home against Denver, the team the Sixers traded Iverson to in 2006. Sixers assistant coach Aaron McKie, a former Sixers teammate, is tentatively planning to return early from the Sixers' current road trip to work out Iverson in advance of his debut, ESPN.com said.
The Sixers were also represenrted Monday by senior vice-president/assistant general manager Tony DiLeo, coach Eddie Jordan and McKie. Iverson was also joined by personal manager Gary Moore.
If Iverson were to join the Sixers, it is likely he would be given a contract for the remainder of the season at a pro-rated $1.3 million, the veterans' minimum for players with at least 10 seasons of experience; a portion of that money would be paid via an NBA pool.
Iverson has already cleared about $470,000 in a settlement with the Memphis Grizzlies, for whom he appeared in three games earlier this season.
Iverson spent the first 10 seasons-plus of his career with the Sixers and has since also logged time with the Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons.


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The Confidential Clerk
Colby has just been named the confidential clerk of Sir Claude. Colby is the bastard son of Claude, and Claude wants him to accept him after many years of cold relations. However, Claude's wife, Lady Elizabeth, soon believes that Colby is the son who she lost decades ago in a previous marriage. When Claude reveals her that Colby is his son from a previous relation and not hers, Elizabeth refuses to believe so. The plot gets more difficult as an inquiry t...


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Sarah Long Bridge repair will take longer than expectedBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
April 17. 2013 9:55PM
PORTSMOUTH -It appears the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic longer than initially anticipated.
Bill Boynton, spokesman with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, said Wednesday they are confident the bridge can be repaired and reopened by May 25, hopefully sooner.
"That is longer than previously estimated due to a number of factors, including the need to build in-water support staging, and the decision to perform heat straightening work on the bent lower chord," Boynton said.
The "middle" bridge connecting Portsmouth with Kittery, Maine via the Route 1 Bypass was badly damaged on April 1 when a 473-foot long tanker came loose from the state pier and collided with the bridge.
The NH DOT has estimated the damage at $2.5 million and expects to be reimbursed by the company responsible for the tanker.
Repair work has been ongoing since the collision.
A barge, crane and materials will be floated into the site today and the in-water work will also begin soon to build a temporary support to allow for repair work.
The "heat-straightening" of the lower chord of the bridge will be used in addition to damaged steel replacement.
Lead paint removal also continues at effected locations in need of repair.
Engineering design and steel fabrication work is ongoing by Cianbro of Pittsfield, Maine and Sunday work will begin this weekend.
NH DOT bridge maintenance crews have been performing bridge deck repairs.
"Safety, time and cost are being evaluated with every scheduling decision," Boynton said.
Currently, the I-95 high rise bridge is the only functioning bridge connecting Maine and New Hampshire through Portsmouth. The new Memorial Bridge is under construction and expected to be open in July.
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The Ottawa Senators know they have something special in defenseman Erik Karlsson. So that's why they wasted little time in making sure the blueliner will be with them for the rest of this decade.
The Senators Tuesday signed Karlsson, who's just 22, to a seven-year deal worth $45.5 million — a $6.5 million cap hit, which is just a little less than Drew Doughty got from the Los Angeles Kings last season. The difference is, Doughty held out last year during training camp without a contract as a restricted free agent, while the Senators have taken care of Karlsson before he could become a RFA July 1.
Even though the Bruins got the better of Ottawa five out of six times last season, the recent games with the Northeast Division rivals have been highly competitive. Karlsson, a Norris Trophy finalist along with Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara tonight in Las Vegas, has been a big part of Ottawa's rapid overall turnaround and their battles with Boston.
Last season, Karlsson posted 3-3-6 totals in six games against the Bruins. He scored the game-winning goal in Ottawa's lone win in the season series. He's recorded just one assist in 11 games against the Bruins previous to the 2011-12 season.
Over the years Ottawa's been entangled in several bitter contract disputes with players, and the Canadian capital hasn't exactly been a highly popular destination of choice for free agents. That they were able to get a young budding star like Karlsson, who seemingly might even be better than he showed during his 78-point season, is a positive sign for those Bruins backers that savor a hotly contested race for the division title, and bad news for those hoping that Ottawa might become a pushover in the years ahead.


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Ouachita Parish Schools announced Tuesday the winners of the 2016-2017 Ouachita Parish Students of the Year Awards program. Three outstanding students were chosen from elementary, middle and high school levels. All of the students of the year from each of the parish schools were recognized in a ceremony attended by students, parents, teachers, principals and community leaders.
The Student of the Year Awards program is a statewide competition for students in fifth, eighth, and twelfth grades. Students are first chosen at their respective schools through nomination and voting by fellow students. Then, the school representatives undergo an interviewing and testing process in competition for the top parish titles. Once chosen at parish level, the students will again test and interview for regional and then state honors.
The 2016-17 Elementary Student of the Year for Ouachita Parish is Alli Beach of Claiborne Elementary School. Also named at elementary level were 1st Runner-Up Bailey Harrist from Kiroli Elementary and 2nd Runner-Up Ben Powell from Highland Elementary.
The 2016-17 Middle School Student of the Year for Ouachita Parish is Madison Nelson of Ouachita Junior High School.
The 2016-17 High School Student of the Year for Ouachita Parish is Drew Thomas of West Ouachita High School.
Superintendent Don Coker stated, "We are extremely proud to recognize these top-notch students. All of our Ouachita Parish students do a terrific job of representing us across the state and nation. Judging by today's honorees, our community has a great future!"
2016-17 Ouachita Parish Students of the Year Honorees
Elementary Level – 5th Grade
Boley Elementary
Samarah Myles
Central Elementary
Adyson Roberson
Claiborne Elementary
Alli Beach – District Winner
Drew Elementary
Caroline Joslin – 2nd Place Portfolio Winner
George Welch Elementary
Davanee Lowery
Highland Elementary
Ben Powell – 2nd Runner Up
Jack Hayes Elementary
Jacob Green – 1st Place Portfolio Winner
Kiroli Elementary
Bailey Harrist – 1st Runner Up
Lakeshore Elementary
Victoria Gray
Lenwil Elementary
Elise Terrebonne
Pinecrest Elementary
Ashlynn Hicks – 4th Place Portfolio Winner
Riser Elementary
Blair Minnard
Riverbend Elementary
Isis Price
Robinson Elementary
Cur'Dericka Rice
Shady Grove Elementary
Ziyun Johnson
Sterlington Elementary
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The Fusion Super Wings form part of a wide range of cycling specific eyewear from Catlike. We have been ticking through the reviews since last summer with some Catlikes scoring pretty high. Unfortunately, a peculiar fit and poor eye protection mean the Fusion Super Wing just don't hit the mark.
Not all of us can afford Oakleys, and equally not all of us want Oakleys. Thankfully, the choice of cycling-specific sunglasses across a range of prices is expanding. Catlike carry an appealing price tag of around £75, making them a premium, Pro Tour associated brand for substantially less than other big names. What's more you can get a helmet to match, if you are that way inclined, completing your road look with style.
Sunglasses are one of the most important pieces of kit, and as much so in winter as summer. Over four hours on a sunless but cold and blustery winter's day it is just as important to look after your vision as it is riding in bright sunlight; same body part, different enemy. Lack of eye protection is unfortunately a major downfall of these sunglasses. The fit of the nose piece means the lenses sit too high, which not only looks peculiar but means about 30% of the lens is protecting your eyebrows, not your eyeballs. Due to a non-adjustable nose clip it is seriously worth checking the fit before purchase.
My gripes don't stop there. The arms of the frames are both pointed at the end, and the fit is slightly too tight for my head, despite only requiring a medium lid. Over the duration of a ride the Fusion Super Wings actually became quite uncomfortable. When taking them off, the arms firmly spring back into place. This means you can easily stab yourself in the eye with the ends of the frames. To double check this I gave these to a third party to try. Without mentioning my problems with the sunglasses he diagnosed exactly the same troubles within seconds. They can be removed without harm if you pull out the arms to guide them away from your face, but whilst riding and racing you are often in a situation where that is not possible. For me one handed operation is essential. I simply found this aspect dangerous.
Looks are subjective and will often divide opinion. I doubt it here. The Fusion Super Wing's large plastic clip-on sideburns are 'different' and completely unnecessary; more sci-fi than cycle-sport. A quick Google image search of the product will reveal no pictures of people actually wearing them. Interesting.
It's not all bad news for Catlike; there are some good features. The Fusion Super Wings come with a range of lens options, included in the price, and they are not too difficult to change, although not fully confidence-inspiring. The well-made storage zip-case is a nice feature too. The lenses and frames are well protected and easy to store without risk of scratching or damaging anything; plus convenient enough to chuck in a kit bag.
Poor eye protection and tightly fitting frames - just not their finest effort.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Catlike Fusion Super Wing eyewear
Size tested: Black/white
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Sunglasses to wear when you ride your bike. With Catlike's Pro-Tour credentials you can expect these to be performance orientated.
Not shabby for the price, but do feel a little plasticky and weak in comparison to more expensive alternatives.
Bad fit, bad protection, bad looks.
Feel reasonably secure when changing the lens, which is often when these kind of sunglasses are most at risk.
Tight fitting despite only a medium head size.
Take a look at the other Catlike products which from our tests perform better.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The case and lens options in the price tag of £75.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
The bad fit, poor eye protection and pointy arms which feel dangerous at times.
Did you enjoy using the product? No.
Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? No.
About the tester
Age: 23 Height: 5\\\'11\\ Weight: 78kg
I usually ride: Canyon Ultimate CF My best bike is: Canyon LUX MR/ Grand Canyon CF
I've been riding for: 5-10 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Semi pro
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, time trialling, mtb,


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Bring herb plants indoors for a winter culinary treat
Sandra Mason
State Master Gardener Coordinator
Some years the weather has provided an excuse for not planting spring flowering bulbs, cleaning up the vegetable garden, planting trees and shrubs and all the other fall chores. No excuses this year. All that is left is the dog ate the directions.
However as nice as the weather has been, I can guarantee it won't last. So if you want to bring a little of your garden into the house for the winter, herbs are good candidates. Herbs can be attractive as well as tasty in the home.
Basil will be the first to succumb to the cold so don't delay in digging it or harvesting the leaves. Many other herbs still look nice in the garden and can be dug for use indoors. Some herbs such as rosemary, bay and lemon verbena are tender perennials and must be brought indoors for the winter. Other herbs such as chives and thyme will also live indoors as houseplants. It is not too late to dig a bit of thyme, or chives for use during the winter or to rescue the rosemary.
To bring some living herbs into your home, dig a small portion of the herb. Wash the leaves and roots with a gentle stream of water to remove any unwanted creepy crawly hitchhikers. Don't use the garden soil in the pots. It will quickly turn into a brick. I often use soilless mixes such as Sunshine mix. Or you can mix potting soil with peat moss and perlite or vermiculite in a one third mix of each.
Herbs appreciate plenty of light indoors and a cool spot. A fluorescent shop light on a table in the basement or unused room works just fine for most herbs.
Chives are a common herb relative of onions. Chives grow to about 12 to 18 inches tall. They produce a lovely round lavender flower in the summer. Both the leaves and flowers may be eaten. Although chives won't flower this winter, the bright green hollow leaves can be chopped into sour cream, yogurt or salads for a mild onion flavor. Garlic chives have flat leaves and add a hint of garlic to dishes.
There are many different varieties of thyme. One of my favorites for fragrance, cooking and beauty in the home and garden is lemon thyme. The small leaves have a distinct lemon fragrance. Leaves may be green or variegated green and yellow. The evergreen plant will grow to about 8 to 12 inches high. It enjoys a well-drained spot in the garden, since it tends to die out in wet areas. In the home it can be grown for use all winter. Place a few washed sprigs on chicken before baking. You will look like quite the gourmet.
Rosemary has a lovely distinctive fragrance of pine. Just rub your hands over the plants periodically to perfume the air. The Greeks and Romans once used it as a strewing herb. Herbs were thrown on the floor so as people walked, the air was filled with the fragrance of the herbs. Rosemary was thought to have disinfectant properties. You may not want to throw sprigs of rosemary on the floor but throw a few sprigs in stews or meat dishes, in potpourris or on a wreath.
Rosemary needs well-drained soil, high humidity and a cool sunny spot in your home. Rosemary really doesn't like the dry air of our winter homes, so any way you can add some humidity will help. Humidifiers help our plants and us. Plants may be placed on pebble trays with water to increase the humidity in small areas. Grouping several plants together will also help.
Enjoy the remaining nice weather and bring a few herbs indoors for a winter treat.


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Fluid, Evanescent Images
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
Brooklyn Museum
Through July 28
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Watercolor doesn't respond well to revisions, so it may well be the most unforgiving art medium. But that isn't evident in the glowing exhibition of watercolors by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) now on view at the Brooklyn Museum. Drawn primarily from the extensive, and historically important, holdings of both the museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—and perhaps slightly larger than necessary—the show presents 93 watercolors and some oils from this agile artist that are wholly different from the lush late Victorian and Edwardian portraits that brought Sargent fame and fortune.
Born in Florence to American expatriate parents, Sargent studied in Paris and by the early 1880s was already showing in the Salon. By 1886 he had joined the ranks of Americans in London—among whom were also Henry James, Stephen Crane, James McNeill Whistler, Mark Twain and, later on, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Robert Frost. The lure of Italy, Spain, the Alps and the Middle East is seen throughout the exhibition.
In the show's watercolors, which mostly date from 1902 to 1913, Sargent seems hell-bent on instinctively and swiftly capturing light with paint at the very time when photography—the mechanical arrest of light—is in rapid development. But that's only one of the subtle ironies on display. While the plein-air paintings of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists seem studied in comparison with the informality of these watercolors, we search the Sargents for evidence that their creator was aware of the developments in abstract art during the first decades of the 20th century. It is easier to see J.M.W. Turner's watercolors and their proto-abstract sensibility as precursors to Sargent's, which often include their own nondescriptive forms, scattering and reforming themselves into depictions of places and things.
Nowhere is this more magically evident than in Sargent's Venetian paintings. In contrast to the 18th-century vedutisti painters (Canaletto, Guardi and others) who capture images of Venice down to the last detail, Sargent imparts an evanescent place, where shimmering light constantly changes not just the water but even the supposedly immobile structures. Two views in the show of the Santa Maria della Salute (1904, 1909) make Baldassarre Longhena's imposing building seem fragile. "Venice: Under the Rialto Bridge" (1909) is almost equal parts dark shadow and blinding light. It's as if an artist whose fame rested on creating images of permanence—which surely his grand portraits were meant to be—needed to demonstrate for us the very opposite: the ephemeral in nature. Meanwhile, the position and lighting of "The Bridge of Sighs" (1903-04) suggests we've never before seen this familiar sight.
In "Simplon Pass: At the Top" (1909-11), figures resting in a mountain field meld into the meadow and the distant mountains. Several 1911 views of the marble quarries at Carrara might be showing us ice blocks that will melt, rather than the weight and presumably majestic purpose for which this stone is soon destined.
Sargent is most consistently at his best here in works with pale washes and overlays of other washes, rather than where the color saturation is dense. And yet there's a virtuosity throughout that suggests the same sure hand we recognize from his brilliant, if occasionally fawning, portraiture.
He's everywhere the master of white, calling our attention to its many options. We already know that from the 1882 painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" (incongruously, a 1908 oil portrait of their father is included here). So it's exciting to have Sargent show us the ranges of white in a simple stucco house in Corfu (1909) and the tower of Venice's Dogana (1911), as well as in garden sculptures in Florence and lots of water views. White can be the paper on which he paints or any number of delicate washes in which we almost feel the painter making certain that the barest amount of pigment will mix with water on his brush.
What could be more straightforward than a view of sheets hanging out to dry in the sun? But the breathtaking "La Biancheria" (1910) sums up the many qualities of this satisfying exhibition, with its hints that Sargent has a knowing grasp of the modernity that would soon push him from the limelight.
There may be an irony in Sargent's often taking a backseat to Winslow Homer (1836-1910) as America's most masterly watercolorist, but that may have more to do with the latter's primary focus on American themes as compared with Sargent's expatriate life and subject matter. All of this and more is explored in the wide-ranging catalog edited by organizing curators Teresa A. Carbone (Brooklyn Museum) and Erica E. Hirshler (MFA, Boston). The addition of wonderful analytical text panels and video demonstrating the complexities of this medium add to our understanding of its wonders.
That both museums purchased entire exhibitions of Sargent watercolors—in 1909 and 1912, respectively—demonstrates not only their early collecting acuity, but also the artist's important place at the time. Seeing these watercolors assembled in this glittering array reassures us that Sargent remains a singular talent whose works still dazzle us a century after their creation.
Mr. Freudenheim, a former art-museum director, served as the assistant secretary for museums at the Smithsonian.
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According to this piece on MLSsoccer.com, Jeremiah White is leaning on his teammates, particularly Benny Feilhaber, as he adjusts to the style of play in MLS. Kyle McCarthy talks about what White can bring to the table for New England as he gets closer and closer to being game fit.
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When on assignment, David creates powerful images that convey the hope and dignity of children, and the vulnerable and oppressed for the international NGO community. When creating the art he so passionately shares, David strives to capture the beauty of the natural world, with a particular interest in conservation issues.
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Herb Reiter, founder and president of eda2asic, has been in the semiconductor and EDA industry for 30+ years, including stints at Barcelona Design, Viewlogic, Synopsys, VLSI Technology, and National Semiconductor. In the last few years, Reiter's work has focused on SOI, 2.5/3D ICs, and FinFET topics in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Straightforward enough, until you realize that these are significantly different '3D' technologies, where '3D' means different things to different people.
In a recent phone call, I asked Reiter to distinguish between what he calls the "three legs" of technology choices and to weigh in on which "leg" is most likely to succeed.
Fully-depleted SOI …
Per Reiter, "The original technology was partially-depleted SOI, a fairly thin film of silicon on top of a thin insulating layer. IBM came up with the idea, because substrate capacitance was slowing their chips down. They realized if they put in the insulating layer, they wouldn't have to worry about substrate capacitance, because the oxide layer would insulate things.
"The planar transistor gate cannot reach all of the electrons in an 80-nanometer channel, cannot fully control the flow, and causes what we called 'body-effect' and 'kink-effect' design challenges. That's why partially-depleted SOI was not widely used. So fully-depleted silicon on insulator, FDSOI, was introduced. It only has about a 20-nanometer active film on top of the oxide layer. The gate is sitting on top of the active film and can control all of the electrons passing through the source/drain channel, which is why it's called fully-depleted SOI.


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Members of 100+ Women Who Care meet on a quarterly basis to nominate, advocate and select a nonprofit organization to collectively support. Each member agrees to donate a total of $500 per year of membership. The first $100 is added to the 100+ Women Who Care Endowment fund in the Community Foundation. The remaining $400 is used to support the four nonprofit organizations selected throughout the year ($100 at each meeting).
Please note that members 40 years of age and younger may choose to join at a reduced-cost of $250 per year ($50 for the endowment; $50 each quarter).
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Each member can put her name and the name of an organization she would like to have considered in a drawing at each meeting. Three members' submissions will randomly be selected to give a 5 minute presentation advocating for their agency, followed by 3 minutes for questions. At the end of the presentations, members will vote on which organization they would like to see funded. The organization with the most votes will be announced as that quarter's grant recipient. Each member will then make a $100 contribution to the selected organization. Once an organization has been selected, it is not eligible for funding for 2 years.
Note: To be eligible for consideration, the organization must be a 501(c)3 or government entity. Nonprofits affiliated with religious organizations are eligible as long as the services address a societal need and are not restricted based upon religious affiliation. Only nonprofits that serve Vigo County are eligible. Controversial and political nonprofits will not be considered.
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