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The American Soybean Association (ASA) this week pointed to the record-setting production of biodiesel from American soybeans, as well as the success of biobased products before a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the energy component of the upcoming Farm Bill. The hearing is the first of four convened by Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) in an effort to make progress on the legislation.
ASA President Steve Wellman, soybean farmer from Syracuse, Neb., stated that the industry's record production of 1.1 billion gallons in 2011 is evidence of biodiesel's pertinence to the nation's energy discussion. This production record supported more than 39,000 jobs, generated income over $1.7 billion, and created more than $3 billion in GDP, he pointed out.
All but a few of the approximately 170 biodiesel production facilities in the U.S. are located in rural areas, Wellman added. About half of the annual biodiesel production is from soybean oil and nearly all of the feedstock used to produce biodiesel is grown in or originates in rural areas.
Farm Bill energy programs have a direct impact on the soybean industry. The Biodiesel Fuel Education Program and the Biobased Market Program help expand marketplace acceptance and use of biodiesel as a low-carbon, renewable diesel replacement fuel, Wellman noted. It supports technical outreach efforts to engine manufacturers, truckers and fuel marketers that will eventually allow the use of higher biodiesel blends in conventional diesel applications.
"The Biobased Market Program continues and expands the federal biobased procurement program and voluntary labeling program," Wellman added. "This is an effective and important program for promoting the emerging biobased industry, which has significant potential to enhance agricultural markets, displace foreign petroleum and fossil fuels, and contribute new green jobs to the economy."
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack shared Wellman's points on the importance of the biobased products market, saying "A bioproducts sector marries two of the most important economic engines for rural America: agriculture and manufacturing. Today, there are more than 3,100 companies across the country producing more than 25,000 biobased products."
ASA, and its industry partners and allies on Capitol Hill have led efforts to promote federal support for biobased product development through the program. ASA is a founding member of the Biobased Products Coalition, a group of companies that make biobased products and ingredients, and agricultural organizations that represent the feedstock providers for the biobased products.


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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
My Christmas miracle came early
22 comments:
- whitneyingram said...
Oh my gosh! Really? I can't believe this. Our girls, a day apart. Walking pals for life.
Just too weird!
Next thing you need to get is a baby stroller. Violet has been pushing it around at every waking moment.
- November 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM
- Petie said...
I know exactly how you feel. When Ali walked at 2 years old, we cried with JOY and excitement. Life is good...
- November 8, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- jojo said...
AWESOME!! I think I'll go do a few karate kicks of my own for you and Davy and this amazing milestone!!
- November 8, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Betsi* said...
Woohoo! Awesome, beautiful, wonderful child. Thanks for giving me some joy today!
- November 8, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- Betsi* said...
Woohoo! Awesome, beautiful, wonderful child. Thanks for giving me some joy today!
- November 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- Sarah Hull said...
So incredible! So awesome!!!
- November 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM
This made me cry! A miracle indeed.
I agree with the baby stroller suggestion. My daughter was a late walker and the stroller really helped get her going.
- November 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- Tee said...
HOORAY! High five to Davy :)
- November 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Brynn said...
Seriously? That is the coolest video ever! That just made me so happy!
- November 8, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Christy said...
I totally just got choked up! So proud of Davy! That's awesome!
- November 9, 2011 at 12:48 AM
- ash said...
YES!!!! Way to go, Davy girl!!!
- November 9, 2011 at 5:28 AM
- Ora said...
Yay! That's awesome! What a little rockstar! Go Davy!
- November 9, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- Melany said...
yaaayyy! that is so exciting! it's only gonna get better from here. i haven't seen penny crawl in over a month, she completely walks everywhere now and it just tickles me to no end every time i see her do it. so happy for you!
- November 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- The Bogren's said...
We are getting all emotional over here. Mila is saying "Go Dabeeeee" and clapping!!!
- November 9, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Middle-aged Momma said...
what a wonderful blessing. thank you for sharing with the rest of us. love it.
- November 9, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- Reenie said...
Woot Woot goooo Davy!!
- November 10, 2011 at 7:19 AM
- Georgia said...
So proud of Davy.....and SO TRUE what you said about taking things for granted.
- November 10, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Jana Heller said...
that is truly awesome! way to go davy!!!! she is going to be everywhere now but at least her knees will be cleaner. she truly is a miracle!
- November 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Niki said...
Go Davy Go! That was awesome.
I love celebrating the smallest things. Like not having to be admitted to the hospital last night! We are weirdos in everyone else's eyes :) Neat, karate-kicking, tiger mom weirdos.
Before you know it, Davygirl will prove everyone wrong again and will be running. Hooray for Christmas miracles!
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In two weeks, if the worst transportation predictions come true, the streets of London will be clogged with hopeless Olympic gridlock, the venerable but tottering subway will be a nightmare of delays and overcrowding and commuter trains will slow to a crawl.
But luckily for the British capital, a river runs through it.
And for London's super rich, the River Thames will be an uncluttered highway to zip from party to party, from event to event in a flotilla of speedy yet breathtakingly expensive boats. Not for them the sweaty summer waits on the London Underground.


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Major League Baseball says it is "extremely disappointed" about a new report that says records from an anti-aging clinic in the Miami area link Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Gio Gonzalez and other players, to the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs.
The Miami New Times said in a story Tuesday that it had obtained files through an employee at a recently closed clinic called Biogenesis.
Colon, who was suspended for 50 games for testing positive for PEDs last season with the A's, re-signed with Oakland in the offseason. Cabrera, a former Giants All-Star, was also suspended for 50 games last year and has since signed with Toronto.
Gonzalez, a former A's pitcher, won 21 games for the Washington Nationals in 2012. The Washington Times reported that Gonzalez issued a denial through his representatives, saying "I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with (Biogenesis owner) Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie."
MLB responded to Tuesday's news with a statement that says "through our Department of Investigations, we have been actively involved in the issues in South Florida." The unsigned statement also says "we are always extremely disappointed to learn of potential links between players and the use of performance-enhancing substances."
Also included on the list of players mentioned is Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz.
Rodriguez has admitted using steroids from 2001-03 but insisted he stopped after that.


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Syngenta will market a new herbicide similar to Lumax that is targeted at the southern Corn Belt. The herbicide, called Lexar, recently received EPA registration for sale and use in the United States and will be available for the 2005 growing season. Syngenta plans to launch the new product in the central and southern Corn Belt market. The company received approval for use of the new herbicide on field corn, field production seed corn, silage corn and yellow popcorn.
Lexar is a bulk product with three active ingredients to ensure a broad-spectrum, consistent control of annual broadleaf weeds and grasses in corn. It combines S-metolachlor and atrazine with mesotrione, the active ingredient in Callisto. Syngenta claims the combination of the three ingredients provides season-long control of major weeds and grasses — including velvetleaf, waterhemp, common ragweed, foxtail, lambsquarter, pigweed, smartweed, nightshade, crabgrass and jimsonweed — in one application.
More atrazine
According to the company, southern cornfields with heavy weed pressure from giant ragweed, morningglory, sunflower and cocklebur will receive solid control from Lexar because it contains a higher rate of atrazine than Lumax, which was developed for the northern Corn Belt.
The herbicide may be applied from 14 days pre-plant through 12 in. tall. However, it must be applied before weed emergence to provide maximum weed control. It was designed to provide residual control up to six weeks from time of application.
Syngenta reports that the product manages weeds early when yield loss occurs. This is at the 2- to 4-in.-high stage. "Weeds that start out with the crop are the most damaging," reports Mike Johnson, Syngenta technical brand manager. "Lexar cuts these weeds off early."
The herbicide is applied at a rate of 3 qt./acre on soils with less than 3% organic matter and at a rate of 3.5 qt./acre on soils with more than 3% organic matter. It will be sold in a liquid formulation and may be tank mixed with a range of products, including Accent, Basis, Touchdown brands, Roundup brands, Gramoxone Max, Gramoxone Extra, AAtrex 4L, Nine-O, Steadfast, Princep, Caliber 90 and Warrior.
All types of corn, sorghum, cereals, soybeans, peanuts and cotton may be planted the following season after Lexar has been applied. Other crops require an 18-month interval between planting and Lexar use.
Cruiser for soybeans
Syngenta's Cruiser seed treatment may soon be available for use in soybeans. The company anticipates receiving registration of CruiserMaxx Pak for soybeans for the 2005 growing season. The product will be used with ApronMaxx brand seed treatment fungicide, including the new Rhizobia-friendly ApronMaxx RFC, which also has registration pending.
According to the company, CruiserMaxx Pak will protect against soybean aphid, bean leaf beetle, seedcorn maggot and wireworm, as well as damping off and seed rots due to Pythium, Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, early-season Phytophthora root rot, Phomopsis and seedborne Sclerotinia.
Syngenta says CruiserMaxx Pak helps protect the high investment in soybean seed by improving stand and vigor.
Cruiser has been used as an insecticide seed treatment on crops such as corn, sorghum, wheat, barley and canola.
Syngenta also is seeking registration for an additional Cruiser seed treatment combination for corn. Called Cruiser Extreme Pak, it combines Cruiser seed treatment insecticide and Maxim XL, Apron XL and Dynasty seed treatment fungicides. The company anticipates registration in time for the 2006 planting season.


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Teens and Technology
Early last spring Megan Gunder, of Wantagh, New York, found out exactly what technology's "cutting edge" means. While checking messages on her cell phone, she opened a text from her boyfriend that read, "Please don't call me anymore." Breaking up is always hard to do, but getting the boot from cyberspace made her humiliation even more excruciating. Who would be so thoughtlessly cruel?
A teen with a machine, that's who. Roughly half of kids between the ages of 12 and 17 now own cell phones and 9 out of 10 use the Internet — and the more wired they are, the ruder they get. Texting, e-mailing, and instant messaging virtually 24-7, teens are immersed in their own universe, where the normal rules of etiquette don't apply. "They feel as if they're wearing an invisible cape," says Parry Aftab, an Internet privacy and security lawyer and executive director of wiredsafety.org. "You can tell a kid who's standing next to you to watch her language or stop being mean. But the distance technology provides means that parents aren't on hand to witness, much less curb, bad behavior." What's more, in cyberspace kids never see their friends, or enemies, which emboldens them to get crude and crass in ways they wouldn't dream of doing to someone's face. It would be comforting to think these are the teens who are one step shy of juvenile hall, but no; they're the same kids who say "please" and "thank you" and hold the door open.
Rudeness, however, isn't inevitable. Remember that manners are not intuitive for teens. "Teaching teens how to behave in cyberspace is really no different from teaching them how to behave in society," says Aftab. "It's all about respect for yourself and others." Read on to find out how kids are acting up — and how to get yours to act nice.
Etiquette Errors and Remedies
Instant Messaging
Etiquette Errors: Seventy-five percent of online youth use IM, which has virtually taken the place of e-mail. It's become a substitute for personal interaction — which makes it easy to be insensitive to the point of cruelty when you can't see the look on someone else's face. Kids avoid people they don't want to talk to by messaging them instead. Some teens, especially girls, use the system's buddy list to ostracize others by agreeing as a group to block messages from people they don't like. With IM, rumors fly at the speed of light, and feelings get hurt and reputations ruined. Teens sometimes IM a friend using a made-up screen name, hoping they can get the person to say something revealing or embarrassing. They then pass the message to others. The brevity of messages doesn't leave much room for the niceties of grammar. Phonetic spelling is the norm ("wassup?" or just "sup?"), and there's a dictionary's worth of abbreviations (such as POMS, or "parents over my shoulder"), including those for obscenities in the event of a POMS situation.
Rudeness Remedy: While you can't monitor every moment of your child's behavior, you can set guidelines, says Aftab: Think before you type, respect others' privacy, don't pass on or post false information about someone, and don't use anyone else's screen name. "Remind kids that there is no such thing as anonymity," says Carleton Kendrick, PhD, a family therapist in Boston and co-author of Take Out Your Nose Ring, Honey, We're Going to Grandma's (Unlimited Publishing). "Every message leaves a trail, and what they say can come back to haunt them." Aftab also advises parents to learn how to use IM and become familiar with online language (see teenangels.com or webpedia.com). Remember, too, that your right — and responsibility — to know your children's friends includes their online buddies. To help kids check their impulses, Aftab suggests teaching them the "take-five" rule: Before sending an angry IM, take your finger off the "send" button and do something else for five minutes; chances are, you'll have cooled off by then.
In Cyberspace
Etiquette Errors: In chat rooms many kids quickly shelve their manners like last year's sweater from Grandma. "Under the cloak of a screen name, kids can say and role-play whatever they want, which is intoxicating," says Kendrick. Conversation routinely consists of brief exchanges sprinkled with the casual obscenities kids think are cool but would certainly edit in the presence of adults. On sites such as myspace.com they often post pictures of themselves in their underwear or less, and boys share ratings of girls' bodies. "These sites, which have become a constant environment for kids, can desensitize them to coarseness and obscenity," says Kendrick.
Rudeness Remedy: Ask your child to give you a tour of the chat rooms she frequents and show you her Web pages, suggests Aftab (check her computer's online history to make sure you're seeing all of them). If there are rude or inappropriate postings, ask her to take them down immediately, then follow up with occasional spot checks.
Cell Phones
Etiquette Errors: With almost half of all teens owning cell phones, loud conversations in public — also known as "cell-yells" — aren't the only problem. Kids can download special ringtones, called DisTones, which identify unwanted callers by assigning them songs (such as "American Idiot," "Shut Up," and "Naggin'") or voice announcements ("little ding dong") so they can avoid answering. There's also the silent ringtone, which sends callers straight to voice mail. And cell phones with built-in cameras allow teens to take compromising photos to pass around. "An up-the-skirt photo gets sent to everyone in a kid's posse, and by fourth period everybody knows what color panties Kristin is wearing," says Kendrick.
Rudeness Remedy: Give your kids a regular refresher course on cell phone etiquette — speak quietly, make the conversation brief, turn the ringer off at the library, the movies, the restaurant. Tell them that using a cell phone camera to take a compromising photo, known as video voyeurism, is a federal offense with potentially harsh penalties. Even if your teen's cell cam photos are perfectly innocent, instruct him always to ask permission before taking anyone's photograph and posting it online. Make sure there are consequences for transgressions; since most teens consider their cell phone a lifeline, confiscating the phone for a day or two is usually sufficient.
Text Messaging
Etiquette Errors: About one-third of teens regularly use their mobile phones to send text messages. Because texting demands a minimalist approach — most systems have a maximum of 150 characters, compared with about 512 for instant messaging — there's a wealth of abbreviations, symbols, and shortcuts, and the resulting messages can be brusque and harsh. Swift, silent, and irresistibly seductive, texting also encourages kids to retreat into their own world. "It's an odd thing to see hundreds of kids between classes messaging or phoning friends, who may be just down the hall, and ignoring the people around them," says Arthur Dulong, PhD, principal of Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts.
Rudeness Remedy: TM lingo is even more compressed than that of IM, so it's important to teach teens to avoid unintentional rudeness. Explain that humor, particularly sarcasm, is often misunderstood. As Dulong points out, "Without gestures and facial expressions, something the sender considers benign may seem cruel to the recipient." Remind your kids that any message too hurtful to say in person shouldn't be sent. If your teen's texting gets out of hand — you'll know, since every incoming and outgoing message is listed on your phone bill — limit or exclude that feature, or get him a phone with parental controls.
Technomanners for Parents
Your kids learn how to behave — or not — from the adults around them. Here, five ways to set a good example.
- Silence is golden. Turn your phone off in restaurants, museums, movie theaters, and public bathrooms. If you must be on call — for example, you're waiting to hear about a job — use the vibrate feature and take the call in private.
- Be discreet. Steer clear of inappropriate conversations, both on cell phones and when e-mailing at work. "See you at 8" or "Please take the roast out of the freezer" are within the bounds of good taste. Arguing with your spouse is not.
- Be polite. Don't say anything in a phone message that you would not normally say to someone in person.
- Send your regrets. Always use regular mail for condolence cards or letters. And no typing allowed — take the time to write them by hand.
- No multitasking. Don't answer e-mail or check your voice messages and stock portfolio while chatting with your kids or watching their soccer match or school play.


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Two young girls from Evansdale, Iowa have disappeared and the people in that area are searching far and wide to find them. The local sheriff's department have been looking for more than two weeks and there's a $50,000 reward being offered. But they're getting exactly the wrong kind of "help" from dozens of 'psychics.'
Deputies say they've taken 80 tips from psychic mediums claiming to know the girls location.
"They are all giving their opinion," Chief Deputy Rick Abben said, "No two are having the same vision I guess you could say."
Laura Henderson is a self-professed psychic from Cedar Rapids. She says it's common for mediums to get involved in a missing persons cases."No psychic can answer every question," Henderson explains, "Certainly you can get impressions, if someone's alive their energy comes across stronger and feels different to a psychic in terms of how it comes across."
In other words, it's completely useless. And if one of those 'psychics' is even in the ballpark, that will be hailed as proof of their 'psychic' power; the 79 misses will be deemed irrelevant.


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Dr. David Cortright will present the address "The power of nonviolence: Why peaceful methods are more effective than the use of force" on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music through the A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture Series at Hope College.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Cortright is the director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies of the University of Notre Dame and chair of the board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. He is the author or editor of 17 books, most recently "Ending Obama's War" (Paradigm, 2011) and "Towards Nuclear Zero" (Routledge, IISS, 2010) and also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc's online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net.
Other recent works by Cortright include the second edition of "Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age" (Paradigm, 2009), "Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas" (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and "Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat" (MIT Press, 2007), co-edited with George A. Lopez. Over the past decade, Cortright and Lopez have written or co-edited a series of major works on multilateral sanctions, including "Smart Sanctions" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), "Sanctions and the Search for Security" (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and "The Sanctions Decade" (Lynne Rienner, 2000). Cortright also is editor of "The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
Cortright has written widely about nonviolent social change, nuclear disarmament, and the use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking. He has provided research services to the foreign ministries of Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland, and has served as consultant or advisor to agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war. As an active duty soldier during the Vietnam War, he spoke against that conflict. In 1978, he was named executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, which under his leadership grew from 4,000 to 150,000 members and became the largest disarmament organization in the United States. He also was actively involved in the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. In November 2002, he helped to create Win Without War, a coalition of national organizations opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
After graduating with a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame in 1968, Cortright earned an M.A. degree in history from New York University. He completed doctoral studies in political science at the Union Institute in residence at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
The A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture Series began in 1985 to commemorate the life and work of A.J. Muste, an alumnus of Hope College (1905) who became a tireless activist for the causes of peace and justice.
Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson, Muste's biographer, presented the inaugural lecture. Subsequent lectures have been given by theologians, peace activists, labor organizers and prison reformers.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th Street between College and Columbia avenues.


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Flubbed chain replacement this weekend. I normally go with 106 links, but am now at 104. 106 is what the shop that initially assembled the bike used so I've just been blindly replicating that. I can still shift into big-big (hanging in a stand) but I'm wondering if it is cutting it too close given how extended the rear derailleur is. Still a little play in it, but not sure it is sufficient when actually riding if I were to try and hit that combo.
Pics in big-big and small-small below for reference. What do you think? I'd obviously not regularly use either extreme, but don't want to risk damage if I'm not paying attention. Chalk it up to a lesson learned on being more careful before trimming the chain and just put on a new one at 106 links? Think the shop's length was not ideal anyway?
In any case, fine for an easy ride after work as long as I stay out of the extremes until I can pick up and put on a replacement?


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Fall Family Day at Tryon Palace invites visitors of all ages to experience life in the 18th century with cooking, lawn games and take-home crafts on Saturday.
Fall Family Day at Tryon Palace invites visitors of all ages to experience life in the 18th century with cooking, lawn games and take-home crafts on Saturday.
It also includes free admission for teachers and discounts for their family members.
The Palace�s historical interpreters will make colonial cuisine across the site from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Visitors with a sweet tooth can start the day with chocolate and ice cream making demonstrations in the North Carolina History Center, or visit the Kitchen Office for traditional dinner recipes and medicinal cooking.
Created as an event for all ages, Fall Family Day inspires its school-aged visitors with 18th-century lawn games, take-home crafts like cornhusk doll making, and interactive exhibits in the Pepsi Family Center. All visitors are also encouraged to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the South Lawn, where they�ll have waterfront views of the Trent River.
Teachers with a valid ID can attend Family Free Day at no cost and family members will be given discounted admission. This special offer gives teachers an opportunity to explore Tryon Palace�s museums and educational programs, and discover how Tryon Palace programs can be linked to Common Core standards in the classroom.
As an added attraction, the Kitchen Office is a featured stop on the Kitchens of New Bern Tour, a fundraising event for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
The Kitchens of New Bern Tour is a unique opportunity to visit the �heart of the home� in six residences across historic downtown New Bern, including the Palace and gardens.
Tickets to the Kitchens of New Bern Tour are not included with Tryon Palace admission and must be purchased through the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. For more information about the Kitchen Tours of New Bern, visit newbern.foodbankcenc.org.
The Craft and Garden Shop, located behind the Stable on the western side of Tryon Palace, will also be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
For more information about Fall Family Day call 639-3500 or on the web: tryonpalace.org.


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How to wash wool
Original story via Woolmark.com
Wool is one of the most hardwearing fabrics, with a natural stretch and breathability that allows it to dissipate any moisture it might absorb.
However, for all its considerably resilience, wool can still require some occasional care to keep it looking its best. Here are some easy-to-follow maintenance rules to keeping your wool clothing in optimum condition.
Hand wash, machine wash or dry clean?
It sounds obvious, but reading the care label of your garments will prevent any accidents such as washing for dry-clean only or dry-cleaning for hand wash only.
Unless specifically stated, hand washing, or a gentle machine wash, is by far the preferable cleaning method for wool.
Hand washing is essentially a slow soak for ten minutes followed by a rinse in warm water. To get rid of excess water, roll your garment up in a towel and gently press to absorb. Then, using a fresh towel, lay your garment out flat, preferably in the sunshine. After machine-washing, gently shake and reshape and lay out flat to dry.
Should you find yourself dealing with a potential stain, immediately apply a solvent-based stain remover such as eucalyptus oil. Apply it in small amounts, working inwards on the stain to avoid it from spreading. For specific stain removal, read The Woolmark Company's detailed guide to potential mishaps and how to treat them.
Whilst most people prefer to care for their wool clothes at home, some items are labelled as Dry Clean Only. These must be taken to a professional dry cleaner to help retain your wool clothing's as-new look and feel.
While pilling is more common amongst man-made fibres, it can still occasionally occur with wool. Washing your clothes inside out will help prevent pilling from occurring and investing in an electric de-piller will help safely remove them. However, if left alone, it will eventually pull away on its own accord with no trouble.
When not wearing your woollen garments, always fold them to store. Hanging will cause stretching and cause sweaters to lose their shape. If the only option is to hang, then buying hangers specifically designed to hang woollen clothing will help maintain their shape.
Tips for washing wool
- Should a sweater or jacket lose its shape, turn it inside out and place it in a small amount of water with a small amount of detergent for roughly 10 to 15 minutes. Press dry, then lay out flat and arrange back into the original shape.
- Always aerate your clothes after wearing – this allows any moisture to evaporate, prevent odours and eliminate the need for excess washing or cleaning.
- If a hole occurs, address it immediately otherwise it will only get larger. Use a hooked needle or "knit-picker" to draw yarn from outside of the garment to the inside where it can be sewn in. Or, take it straight to a professional who can do it for you.
Head to Woolmark.com for more details on how to best care for your favourite wool clothes.
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Smartbook done to death by Apple iPad
Tablet frenzy claims victim
Wondering what happened to all those ARM-based netbooks we were promised last year would be the Next Big Thing? According to the boss of chip maker Qualcomm, the iPad killed 'em.
Not in so many words, of course, but CEO Paul Jacobs, speaking at the company's IQ conference in London this week, did say that tablets, as effectively pioneered by the Apple gadget, have delivered the always on, always connected, run for a full day functionality that ARM-based netbooks - aka 'smartbooks' - were designed to, Slashgear reports.
In short, with so many tablets in the offing, there's less need for smartbooks. Why are there so many tablets on the way? Because everyone wants to emulate the success Apple has had with the iPad. Ergo, iPad killed the smartbook.
Which is, of course, why Lenovo, for one, appears to have canned its smartbook, the Skylight, in favour of an Android-based tablet, LePad.
The Skylight was originally due to go on sale in the US in April. It didn't appear, and in May Lenovo said it was putting the project on hold, at least in the form shown up to that point. Two months later, Lenovo was trumpeting the late 2010 release of LePad, and Skylight hasn't been mentioned since.
Tablets were all the rage at Europe's IFA consumer electronics show last week, with only Toshiba's AC100 standing up for the smartbook category.
Toshiba, of course, now has a tablet in the works too, the Folio 100.
Qualcomm doesn't really care one way or the other since its chips will sit as happily in a tablet as a smartbook. And since early suggestions show that the netbook market has peaked - whether at the hand of the iPad or not - it doesn't look like there's as much demand for smartbooks now as originally thought. ®


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This line of dry-type low-voltage (less than 600VAC) distribution transformers includes single-phase and 3 phase models. The 3-phase version features input/output voltages 480VAC Delta — 208V Y/120V, 240V/120V at 60Hz, or 1:1 ratios. Mounted inside a rectangular steel enclosure with an epoxy powder-coated finish, power ratings range from 5KVA to 37.5KVA for the single-phase model and from 15KVA to 112.5KVA for the 3-phase model. According to the company, the products exceed NEMA's new PremiumEfficiency Transformer Programguidelines and offer a 50% reduction in enclosure dimensions as well as 40% less weight compared to other brands on the market.
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What: BeadforLife Opportunity Tour Launch Party
When: Friday; 6 p.m. meet and greet, 7 p.m. performance by Maya Azucena
Where: eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder
Cost: $35 meet and great, $10 general admission
Info: beadforlife.org
DENVER — With all the enthusiastic jumping and joyful screaming, you would never know that Joan Ahimbisibwe and Teddy Namuyiga had just come off a 28-hour flight.
The two Ugandan women were treated like celebrities when they were met at Denver International Airport on Tuesday afternoon by a contingent of greeters from Boulder-based BeadforLife. BeadforLife co-founder and Executive Director Devin Hibbard said the organization worked for six years to secure visas to bring over women from Uganda.
"We have something to learn and something to gain from the women of Uganda," she said. "They have amazing stories of hardship and suffering and overcoming the odds."
BeadforLife teaches women living in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, to become entrepreneurs. The women start by rolling beads from recycled paper, earning money to improve their living conditions. Many go on to start their own businesses with the help of BeadforLife training.
Ahimbisibwe and Namuyiga will tour six cities over next three weeks — Boulder, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. They'll tell their stories to BeadforLife volunteers and donors, along with getting a chance to see mountains, the ocean and national landmarks.
In Boulder this week, their plans include a visit to a retirement home and to Horizons K-8. Their tour officially kicks off with an event at eTown Hall on Friday. For both women, this is their first opportunity to travel outside Uganda.
"We are so, so happy," Ahimbisibwe said. "We are excited to see America."
She said she wants to share her story of how joining the BeadforLife program was a "turning point."
"My life was bad," she said. "They taught me how to run a business. They changed my life. I'm now a happy woman and a successful woman."
When Ahimbisibwe's husband died from AIDS, her land and home went to her two brother-in-laws — who also expected to "inherit" Ahimbisibwe as their new wife. She fled with her two young children to Kampala, where she made mud bricks. She earned less than $1 a day and lived in a shack in a swamp.
Making beads, Ahimbisibwe used her first income to buy a piglet she fed on scraps and later sold for a profit. She moved to a storefront, selling rice, soap and sodas to the local community. Now, the 40-year-old owns land and a home and can send two of her three children to a boarding school.
She said she's looking forward both to this trip and to sharing her experiences with other women in Uganda.
"When we go back, we'll tell them a very long story," she said.
For Namuyiga, her life fell apart when her husband left after she refused to give away her youngest daughter, who is deaf. She washed clothes and dug on a farm to survive, making less than $12 a month.
Within three months of joining BeadforLife, she bought a cow and continued to save money. Realizing there wasn't constant water supply in her community, she invested in a huge water tank and began selling water to her neighbors. She also built a pigsty and began rearing pigs and then chickens.
"It was a lot of hard work," she said. "We put in a lot of effort. We're now successful businesswomen who can support ourselves and our families. We want to prosper and prosper."


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Get an overview of this hotelRiverwalk Bristol hotel in Bristol City Centre, walk to Bristol Theatre Royal
Popular highlights
Located in Bristol City Centre, this hotel is steps from Baldwin Street, Bristol Theatre Royal, and St Nicholas Market. St. Peters Church and Queen Square are also within 10 minutes. Bristol Temple Meads Station is 15 minutes by foot and Bristol Bedminster Station is 21 minutes.
Hotel Features
A restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a snack bar/deli are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a conference center, coffee/tea in a common area, and 24-hour room service.
Room Amenities
All 116 rooms boast deep soaking tubs and offer free WiFi and MP3 docks. Free wired Internet and 24-hour room service are standard, as are flat-screen TVs with satellite channels.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Mercure Bristol Brigstow Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This 4-star property offers access to a business center.
Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities measuring 1323 square feet (123 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, coffee/tea in a common area, and concierge services.
Mercure Bristol Brigstow Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- 24-hour front desk
- Business center
- Express check-out
- Meeting rooms
- Restaurant
- Free WiFi
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 123
- Luggage storage
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Concierge services
- Conference space size (feet) - 1323
- Conference center
- Snack bar/deli
- Banquet hall
- Laundry facilities
- Total number of rooms - 116
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
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- MP3 docking station
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Daily housekeeping
- Room service (24 hours)
- Down comforter
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 9:30 AM.
Ellipse - This restaurant specializes in regional cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Late night fare is available from 24-hour room service.
Start your morning with a full breakfast, available each day from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM for a surcharge. You can order up room service around the clock.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
- Fee for full breakfast: GBP 12 per person (approximately)
- Nearby parking fee: GBP 15 per night
Hotel Name
- Brigstow
- Brigstow Bristol
- Brigstow Bristol Hotel
- Brigstow Mercure
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Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Despite the fact that sitemaps are simply lists of canonical URLs submitted to search engines, it's amazing how rare it is to come across a perfect one. Issues often arise when large site owners use sitemap auto generation tools that aren't configured properly. These sites typically come with challenges for search engine crawlers like pagination and URLs generated by faceted navigation.
Spiders decide what pages to crawl based on URLs placed in a queue from previous crawls and that list is augmented with URLs from XML sitemaps. Therefore, sitemaps can be a key factor in ensuring search crawlers access and assess the content most eligible to be seen in search engine results.
The following is a quick overview of search engine sitemap guidelines and limitations followed by a technique to help identify crawling and indexation issues using mutiple sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools.
Bing & Google Guideline & Limitation Overview
The sitemap protocol has been a standard adopted by search engines in 2006. Since then Bing and Google have developed useful Webmaster Tool dashboards to help site owners identify and fix errors.
Out of the two search engines, Bing particularly has a low threshold, or at least they outwardly state they begin devaluing sitemaps if 1 percent of the URLs result in an error (return anything but a status code 200).
Google provides clear guidelines, limitations, and a more robust error reporting system when using their webmaster dashboard. In addition to submitting quality sitemaps, ensure that files stay within the following hard limits applicable to Google.
- Limit sitemaps to 50,000 URLs
- File size should be under 50MB
- 500 sitemaps per account
Both search engines support sitemap index files. Rather than submitting multiple sitemap files individually, the sitemap index file makes it easier to submit several sitemap files of any type all at once.
Basic Sitemap Optimization
Basic sitemap optimization should include checking for pages that are:
- Duplicated (multiple URLs in different sitemaps are OK)
- Returning status code errors – 3XX, 4XX, and 5XX
And any pages that specify:
- Meta rel canonicals that are not self-referential
- Noindex meta robots tags
There are tools to quickly parse URLs contained within XML files and find this information like the Screaming Frog SEO crawler.
Using Google Webmaster Tools
Once comprehensive and quality XML sitemaps have been submitted to Google and Bing, breaking up sitemaps into categories can provide further insight into crawling and indexation issues.
A great place to start is by breaking up sitemaps by page type. Sitemaps can be diced up in any way that makes sense to provide feedback, the main goal being to expose any areas of a site with a low indexation rate.
Once an area has been identified, finding the source of the issue can begin. Using Fetch as Googlebot to identify uncrawlable content and links is often very helpful.
Another particularly useful technique is to use multiple sitemap indexation identification (or MSII, an acronym I just made up…) in combination with advanced search operators in an attempt to find excess indexation.
So for example, hypothetically speaking, if your website is having trouble getting posts indexed, it would be helpful to create a XML sitemap containing only blog posts. From this, an indexation rate can be calculated and an advanced search can be used to see what other pages might be diluting the crawling and indexation of post pages.
The search below shows that tag and author pages could be the hypothetical hindrance.
Additional advanced Google searches like site:example.com/blog/ inurl:tag AND inurl:author could then be done to determine the scale of potential excess crawling and indexation. The same concept can be applied to dynamic parameters contained within URLs generated by faceted navigation, pagination, sorting products, etc.
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Your search engine marketing success hinges upon your site's UX. Two elements of UX that are particularly relevant to SEO.
The ultimate guide to strengthen your local SEO strategy
Local SEO tactics that can help you generate high-quality traffic and drive conversions. It can also help you compete with big brands and stay relevant.
Five backlink analysis tools agencies should try out
Tools that can help benchmark your clients' link quality against competitors, monitor backlinks, and discover partnership opportunities with other websites.
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Companies rely on "reputation", followers, and engagement. Social Chain opened marketers' eyes to the murky world of follower deception.


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Can you believe it is November already? The year has flown. In the following weeks, I will be sharing some tips with you on how to stretch those holiday dollars.
This time of year, you will start to see many good sales on household items and necessities. Even though holiday shopping is on everyone's mind, this is the perfect time to stock up on linens, towels and other items that may be needed. Watch for those clearance aisles as the stores make room for new merchandise.
Paper delivers new ways to save
Be sure to check the Savannah Morning News daily for special sales and promotions from local stores and businesses as well as holiday happenings around our area. You can pick it up at select locations for only 75 cents Monday through Saturday, and $2 on Sunday. Better yet, sign up for the All-Access Membership package and receive a seven-day subscription for $18.63 a month. As a subscriber, you will now have access to the Readers Reward program as part of your membership and will have access to valuable coupons to local businesses. These offers can be sent straight to your smartphone or you may print the coupon.
I was excited to see that Lips Pizza is participating in the Readers Reward program, and I scored a coupon for 20 percent off a purchase of $20 or more. A Sunday-only membership also gives you access to the Reader Reward program and it is available for just $11.63. Both the seven-day and Sunday-only subscriptions give you unlimited access to the content on savannahnow.com plus e-edition, mobile phone and iPad apps for up to four people. Convenient EZ-Pay monthly payments and discounts on multiple Sunday papers are still available; email me at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
Midweek savings
Some of the store circulars found during the middle of the week have some valuable store coupons in them. Be sure to check within the newsprint for special offers that select merchants may be offering throughout the season. Veterans Day and Black Friday sales are right around the corner. Check Facebook at Savannah Savvy Shopper as I announce the store circulars, coupons and deals that I find each day. Please note that some stores only distribute circulars to designated areas; be sure to check the page just in case that circular was not distributed in your area.
Reporting from the stores
I am going to do my best to get out in the stores on a daily basis and report special bargains I find. Several store managers work closely with me already to give me the inside scoop on bargains that can be find at select locations. I will be reporting those finds on my blog at savannahnow.com/savannahsavvyshopper and also on the Savannah Savvy Shopper Facebook page, facebook.com/savannahsavvyshopper. Spread the word to your friends and have them "like" the page. Readers are encouraged to share special deals that they find, ask questions and post photos of their shopping trips. Many readers share markdowns that they find on grocery items and clearance deals. It's a friendly community made up of over 6,000 savvy shoppers; the more eyes around town, the more bargains we can all scoop up.
Sunday savings
Be sure to look closely at the entire stack of coupon inserts in Sunday's paper for special offers, rebates, contests and printable coupons. This week the SmartSource insert has announced that you can receive over $50 in savings by clicking on the coupon tab at woundedwarriorproject.org. These coupons are for popular brands like Heinz Ketchup, Sunny D, Brawny and more. There is also an announcement that Harveys and Food Lion will offer a Veterans Appreciation day Sunday, Nov. 11. Active and retired military personnel will receive a 12 percent discount. Delmonte has advertised that you can print a coupon for Delmonte green beans for 50 cents off four or $1 off eight. The coupon is available online at delmonte.com from Nov. 4-30 while supplies last.
Stay focused on saving, and watch my blog and Facebook page for great deals!
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Caregiving blogger Sherri Snelling spoke to actors Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker about their journey in caring for Jill's mother who has dementia. At the heart of their story is family and how "eat, pray, love" may be their new catchphrase when it comes to caregiving.
What struck me the most when I spoke to Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker – her partner in marriage, career and life – was that in all things they are a team. We even did the interview with the two of them together, at their suggestion, and it gave me a glimpse into how their special bond of support, respect and caring for each other is a recipe for all couples who face a tough caregiving situation. In fact, their story is about love of family and food and the ingredients needed to keep it all cooking. Jill and Mike are like salt and pepper shakers – two distinct personalities and characters – but you never pass one without the other.
We all watched them as one of our favorite TV couples in the 80s and 90s in their roles on the Emmy-winning series L.A. Law (what boomer woman can forget the famous Venus Butterfly episode?). Since then, both Mike and Jill have thrived as solo artists – Mike as an actor and as an acclaimed author, and Jill as a continually sought-after star on stage and screen with her latest turn in the movie, Young Adult. However, it is when they are performing together – whether it is playing the couple in Broadway's Love Letters, or caring for Jill's mother with dementia – that they really are at their best.
Our House in Umbria
For many years, New York City-based Jill and Mike, have been vacationing with friends – sometimes for weeks, other times for months – in the lovely Italian countryside in the Spoleto Valley of Umbria, Italy. This is where the couple recharges – the sumptuous food that infuses Mike's meals, the chilled wine, the warm people, the beauty of the olive trees and the vineyards versus the urban jungle – it is their version of Cinema Paradiso.
It was on one such trip about six years ago that Jill and Mike went from the calm of their Italian reverie into the storm of caregiving. Jill's mom, Lora, was 87-years-old at the time and had been living in a Santa Barbara, Calif., assisted living facility for several years with her husband, Ralph. Although Lora had been hard of hearing for more than 40 years and had been experiencing some memory lapses, she was in pretty good health for an octogenarian. But Jill had recently grown worried. Her mom had started having paranoid fantasies according to Ralph and she had survived a fall, which according to the Centers for Disease Control puts 2 million seniors into emergency rooms every year, and Ralph was not in good health. Just a few days into their latest Italian sojourn, Jill and Mike got the call that Ralph had died.
"All of a sudden I felt so far away," says Jill. She had been anxious of leaving her mom before this trip and now the guilt washed over her for not being by her mom's side. As the weeks rolled by after Ralph's funeral, Jill's daily phone calls to her mom could no longer bridge the 3,000-mile distance. After a few in-person visits and more falls, it became clear to Jill that her mother needed more care. But, moving her into the assisted living's dementia care center seemed wrong. Jill still was not sure Lora was "there yet," Lora would be isolated from neighbors and friends and as Jill says, "It just wasn't family."
While at first Mike felt some resentment as his Umbrian dreams were put on hold and his concerns mounted about the toll this would take on his wife, he said, "Jill's focus was on her mom but my eye was on Jill. My new job was to help her do the right thing."
Mamma Mia!
One of the toughest decisions for caregivers, especially those 7 to 8 million long-distance caregivers of older parents, is wondering whether it is better to have them live in a special facility that can provide the care they need or move them into your home or closer to you so that you can care for them.
"My mom was calling people at all times of the night, wandering off and eventually it got to a point where she was physically attacking the nurses caring for her after a bad fall," says Jill. "One night we went to dinner with our son Max, and he said what I had been in denial about, 'you have to move Lolo to New York City.' At that moment I looked over at Mike and he just nodded and I knew this is what we had to do."
Many caregivers of older parents, even those who are married or who have siblings who can help, often tell me they feel "all alone." While Jill is an only child, the secret ingredient in her caregiving situation is that she never had that feeling – she had Mike.
"It was a huge moment in that restaurant when I looked at Mike and I just knew no matter what, he was going on this journey with me," says Jill. "Believe me, the last thing Mike wanted to do was have my mother in our lives every minute. Even though he loved her, Mike felt my personality changed, and not for the better, when I was around my mother." Now, not only would Mike have Lora in the same city but he would have to live with the "two Jills."
What came next is something almost all caregivers face because so few families have that essential caregiving conversations before a crisis hits. (In fact, only one-third of all caregivers have had any conversation with their older loved one about long-term care.) Jill and Mike had to look for the paperwork to close Lora's bank and other accounts; they had to deal with Lora's expired passport and driver's license to get her on the plane to New York. They also needed to find a memory care facility in New York City, and the list didn't stop there. After the move to New York, it eventually became clear that although Lora needed almost constant care, the facility that Jill and Mike found for her was not a good fit.
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The solution came when the apartment literally across the hall from Jill and Mike became available and they moved Lora (whom the family calls Lolo) in. Around the same time both son, Max, and their daughter, Alison, from Mike's first marriage, found themselves living in New York and helping out with caregiving duties. Alison, who is a chef and personal caterer, cooks most of Lora's meals, Max gives his parents some respite by playing companion to his grandmother (when he is not playing drums in his band) and two professional nurses round out the "a la famigla" that Mike had always envisioned as part of their Italian excursions but is actually now playing out in the Big Apple.
"We could not have planned it better but going through this experience really brought us together as a family," says Mike. Besides the familial ties, Mike believes his gifts from caregiving are that he and Jill have become even closer and that he is now more realistic about his future and how he will want his family to care for him. Jill told me that she feels caregiving has taught her to "just let things happen and to not be in denial because it doesn't serve you." She also feels it has improved the communication she and Mike have and his support has allowed her to really discover who she was through this experience.
As the "Tuckerberry" family gathered recently for Lora's 93rd birthday, Jill and Mike have proven successful as both co-stars on screen, in life and in caregiving. When I think of Jill and Mike, I think of Julia Child's quote, "…nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should."
Learn More:
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- Stress Management Tips for Caregivers
- Find a Alzheimer's Association Caregiver Support Group
- Music, Art and Other Therapies
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About Blog Author Sherri Snelling
Sherri Snelling, CEO and founder of the Caregiving Club, is a nationally recognized expert on America's 65 million family caregivers with special emphasis on how to help caregivers balance "self care" while caring for a loved one. She is the former chairman of the National Alliance for Caregiving and is currently writing a book about celebrities who have been caregivers.


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The Best of Your Worst Gift-Giving Stories
We asked for your stories about receiving horrible gifts for Christmas, and they turned out to be even worse (or is that better?) than we ever expected. Here are some of our favorites, and the well-deserved winner.
Yes, Christmas gift giving produces all sorts of anxiety, but we had no idea about the Pandora's box of passive aggressive mothers-in-law, wretched gift-giving fathers, and ungrateful bratty children we'd be opening when we started this contest. Here are the honorable mentions. All of the commenters were given a star (if they didn't have one already). The titles are ours, but the horror stories are all theirs. Click on the commenter's name to read their tale.
- What's Inside Is Worse by Harlemite
- Father Christmas by Lady Chatterly
- The Old Spice of Life by Hydroceph
- The Plot Thickens by Honorabright
- Absentee Grandma by AnnieGetYourFun
- Doll Parts by Kern_Cerned
- Alexandra the Great by BoozyFloozy
- Hot but Goofy by WoodyTheCowboy
- Buried Alive by DeltaU4Eva
- Toaster Torment by JulThumbScrew
- Penthouse View by ShoreditchTwat
- Poster Child by O-Line
- Gutsy Grandma by SorciaMcNasty
- Pronounce Yow-ee! by CrimsonM
- Long Wok off a Short Pier by GypsyPirate
- Fresh Step in the Wrong Direction by AnneBeaDavisAsMalice
- PFLAG Grandma by BDG3255
- Kiss Off by Ditsy Blonde
- In Russia, Presents Unwrap You by Janele
- Otherwise Engaged by AlbertaGirl
- A Very O.J. Christmas by Monkeyfied
Before we get to the winner, a special thanks to commenter Spirit Fingers whose story inspired this whole contest. You can check it out here.
Even with all those horrible stories, there was one that was far worse than any of the others. Usually for the winner I like to pick something that is both devastating and has at least a little bit of humor in it. This time, well, this is just horrible. Congratulations, MyLadysHouse, you win for your story "The Dog Days of Christmas." Here it is in all of its horrible wonder:
Christmas eve, 1992, I'm eight years old and desperate for a puppy. I'd been pestering my parents since Thanksgiving, dropping hints at every opportunity. My parents had me go to bed VERY early that evening and I heard my dad rev up the car and head out towards one of the neighboring farms before a brewing snowstorm iced up all the roads.
I hear him return, I hear yaps, I hear my dad stuffing hay in a box and poking holes in the lid. I almost want to pee my pants I'm so excited.
The moment dawn breaks on Christmas morning I rush down the stairs and head for the tree. There are only tiny boxes under it, no puppy in sight. I notice through the window that there is a large, brightly colored box on the front porch, nearly sunken in the snow from last night's storm. I bound outside in my pajamas.
Heart pounding, hands shaking, I open the box.
Dead puppy. There is a dead, eight week old fox terrier puppy in the box. I later learned that my mother had not wanted to bring the dog into the house, for fear that it would mess up the living room. My dad stuffed the box with hay in an attempt at insulation, but failed to realize that 8-week old puppy vs Ohio snow storm is not a fair battle.
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MONTPELIER — The overwhelming majority of Addison County lawmakers on Tuesday voted with the majority in a successful override of Gov. James Douglas's budget veto, thereby setting in stone a spending plan for fiscal year 2010.
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MIDDLEBURY — It's not unusual for a student to bring in a poster, picture, letter or some other prop to bring a moment in time closer to reality for a history class.
Middlebury Union High School student Evelyn Hill last week brought her uncle to class — a man who not only experienced the Vietnam War, but whose self-professed greatest contribution is etched in history in one of the most iconic photographs of the fall of Saigon.
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Okay, another clarification - can Metaphysical Points be spent on any Supernatural Qualities, or only Gifted? Gifted is the only one that says you can, but can you also spent them on, say, Essence Channeling or Improved Essence Pool?
Okay, that makes a teeny bit more sense.I'm pretty much finished Qualities now, and moving on to Skills.
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COVER- Under the radar and dreaming: Who's the next big band from Charlottesville?
In March 2007, the Hook asked a few veterans of the local music scene to predict which up-and-coming artists might break into the big time and become the next famous band from Charlottesville. A little more than a year later, some of those upstarts have done just that.
Since gracing last year's cover, popsters Sparky's Flaw inked a deal with Mercury Records and have been jetting from Charlottesville to Minneapolis and Los Angeles to put the final touches on their soon-to-be-released debut album. All the while, they've closely followed the model of fellow Red Light Management artists Dave Matthews Band by playing every college bar and club from Miami to Hoboken, winning an increasing legion of fans, including enough MySpace friends to fill John Paul Jones Arena.
The much-praised country rockers Sons Of Bill also seem poised to make the leap to the big time. In addition to being signed by Red Light Management, the band of brothers and two others have played for increasingly bigger audiences, earning a loyal following with a tour playing for our fighting men and women in Asia, and opening for heavy hitters Gretchen Wilson and Robert Randolph and the Family Band.
Members of both Sparky's Flaw and Sons Of Bill– in addition to a bevy of other tastemakers, houserockers, and veteran chart-toppers– are on this year's panel. We asked them, who's next?
Will Anderson
...on 6 Day Bender: Luke Nutting is a great frontman, to say the least. It's a unique sound, the way they mix country, bluegrass, and rock 'n roll. They're so much fun.
...on Tim Be Told: For a band that just started at the beginning of the school year, they're incredible. They blew me away the first time I heard them open for us, and they still do every time, because they just keep getting better and better.
...on Alex Mejias: One of my favorite singer-songwriters. He could slay at higher levels than Charlottesville. He has the songs and the looks and the talent.
...on Six Chasing Seven: Dickey Redding has one of the best voices I've heard locally, and the band is one of the tightest I've ever seen.
...on John Carden: Epic. That's all I have to say.
Brad Savage
...on Tim Be Told: They won the UVA Battle of the Bands this year, which has also been won by Sparky's Flaw and Sons Of Bill. They're keyboard-driven power pop in the vein of Maroon 5 or the Fray. There's some terrific songwriting going on there, and if they keep playing more gigs, they'll gain a following really quickly.
...on Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun: We've had a lot of success on our station with Rodrigo y Gabriela, and I think this has the same appeal in that they're an acoustic duo with really catchy, memorable songs despite the fact that it's mostly instrumental.
...on Birdlips: Their EP is excellent, straight-ahead indie rock. I was surprised to find an upstart with such a good live sound. You'll be hearing a lot more from them.
...on Marianna Bell: She's been recording in New York and LA since the summertime, and we're really excited by her new material.
...on the Sometime Favorites: They're a UVA band, but there's a song in particular called "Can't Stop Fighting" that could definitely lead to something else. Their stuff is wonderfully hooky.
Jenn Rhubright
...on Nice Jenkins: In terms of style, they have a little bit of everything. They're really into harmonies, and they never take themselves too seriously. Some of it reminds me of the Beatles, some reminds me of Brian Wilson, and some of it is jokey like They Might Be Giants.
..on Thismeansyou: There aren't enough girl-fronted bands in Charlottesville, and Kim Dylla is one of the most amazing live performers I've ever seen. So rock 'n roll. Her stage presence just keeps getting more and more over-the-top, and her voice is getting better and better. They're being courted by a lot of the metal labels right now. It's nice to see a band that's been around for a few years but not stuck in a rut.
...on Jway: He does ambient techno stuff, which we got really into toward the end of Clare Quilty. The loops he chooses work so well with the way he plays guitar and keyboard.
...on the Falsies: When Lance Brenner went from Naked Puritans to putting on a chicken suit and sitting behind the drums, I didn't know if it was going to take off, but it's so much fun.
...on Phoenix Noir: Another girl-fronted band featuring my old bandmate in Clare Quilty, Juliet Trail, plus Wally Worsley from Navel. I saw them open for Bella Morte, and they have a great, goth, Tori Amos-kind of vibe.
Jim Waive
...on the (All New) Acorn Sisters: It's Sarah White from Sarah White and the Pearls and Sian Richards. I love their tight country harmonies on everything from old Carter Family songs to their own stuff. They have classic Grand Ole Opry stage presence, too, the way they joke around and bring people in.
...on 6 Day Bender: I guess you'd call it mountain rock, but they're just a great, very uptempo party band.
...on Barling & Collins: Brandon Collins is probably the best cello player I've ever heard, and Stephen Barling writes really funny songs, which is impressive because it's so hard to be funny in any other medium than comedy.
...on Kings of Belmont: A lot of those guys were in Peen, the Ween tribute band, and there's that same element to this band in the way that you can't tell if they're being serious or funny.
...on Accordion Death Squad: I love their whole gypsy, klezmer vibe and how I can't tell if their stuff is original or centuries old.
Maxine Jones
...on the Blackout Project: They're a must for purchasing. I want to hear more.
...on Nice Jenkins: They're very cool alternative with great lyrics.
...on the Hamiltons: Great harmonies, and I love their acoustic/soul mix.
...on Kate Starr: "Little Miss Liberty" is a hit with the right exposure.
Sam Wilson
...on Andy Thacker: I'm choosing to focus more on individual, unsung musicians than bands, and this is one of them. He's the mandolin player in Old School Freight Train, and he plays in Peyton Tochterman and High Society. Not just an amazing bluegrass player: he also has a great sense of melody.
...on Charlie Bell: He's the dobro and pedal steel player from Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees. He adds great depth to that band, and I've really enjoyed playing with him on my solo project.
...on Sarah White and Ted Pitney: Normally, she's with the Pearls, but I played a double bill with them recently, and the two of them really work well together. She's a great songwriter with an old soul, but she brings a modern twist to it. He used to be in King Wilkie, and he adds a lot to what she does.
...on Shannon Worrell: Sorry to self-promote again, but I just finished playing on her album, and while she's not an up-and-coming artist per se, this will be the album that introduces her to a whole new group of fans and brings her back onto the scene the way she was 10 years ago.
...on Darrell Muller: He's one of the most solid bass players in town. He plays with Helen Horal, he plays with me, he plays with Seshinn, and he covers all styles. His work in the studio is always fast and flawless.
Adam Gottschalk & Nick Noe
...on Under The Flood:
Adam: They had 3,000 plays on their MySpace stuff during one single day this week, they're already making the Billboard rock charts, and nobody in Charlottesville has even heard of them!
Nick: Other bands are are seeking them out to tour with them because of the national following they've built. Their next tour is a package tour with Nonpoint and the Exies, putting them in some big venues, in front of some influential people.
...on 6 Day Bender:
Adam: Incredible talent mixed with real depth to the lyrics.
Nick: They clearly have fun playing music together anywhere. They'd play on street corners.
Adam: As a matter of fact, they have played on street corners.
...on Tim Be Told:
Adam: Tim Ouyang is, quite simply, absurdly talented. Their music and pop sensibilities put them in line to become the next Sparky's Flaw very soon.
Nick: What are pop sensibilities? Are you just trying to sound educated?
Adam: I think it's a kind of food.
...on the Blackout Project:
Adam: Their studio stuff is some of the best music we've heard in a long time. They just need to tighten the screws and get out there and start putting it in front of people.
Nick: And just for the record, the last three winners of UVA's Battle of the Bands were Sons of Bill, The Blackout Project, and Tim Be Told. Not bad.
...on Kate Starr:
Adam: This high-energy rocker has become an indie superstar in New York but still calls Charlottesville home. Radio-friendly sound, too.
Nick: And you have to believe she has karma on her side; her bassist is an actual monk of the Order of Ishaya.
...on Sparky's Son:
Adam: This band doesn't actually exist yet. But Nick and I are gonna start one to capitalize on this wave of local music.
Nick: We're gonna be good. I think a keytar will be critical.
NOTE: In the print edition, we mixed up Brad Savage's comments about the Sometime Favorites with those about another band. They have been corrected in this online edition.
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nice, except that's not Andy Thacker in the picture.
Great article.
Thanks, anon, for pointing that out. The REAL Andy Thacker can now be seen above and we'll be running a correction in next week's issues. Apologies to Andy.
Lindsay Barnes
Was each panelist given a list of bands or were these bands that the panelists picked themselves?
Excellent question. We really just called up each panelist and asked them who they thought was ready to be the next big thing. As it was last year, it's amazing how, despite the diverse musical backgrounds of the panelists, there always seems to be some agreement among our experts on a few bands, as you can see this year with 6 Day Bender and Tim Be Told in particular.
Also, I'm pretty sure Pete Frostic (the guy whose picture was originally posted) is the mandolinist in Old School Freight Train, not Andy Thacker. Unless that's changed recently, he's misidentified in the story.
yes, pete IS indeed the mandolinist for osft, but that might have been sam wilson's mistake? though, he does play with andy, so i don't know what's up
also, i've never seen the hamiltons play acoustic either, i think the en vogue singer is thinking of acoustic groove trio, what you all think? i don't think ezra hamilton even lives here or plays here much...
Why no Doofgoblin love?
Yeah, Tim Be Told is the real thing. They totally blew me away the first time i heard them too. Can't wait for them to become huge
Without question Tim Be Told is the real deal. Mature songwriting and musicianship from this band.
The song writing for 6 day bender is terrific, and they have a strong stage presence to boot.
What ever happened to Monticello Road? They seemed to be on the right track a few years ago and they introduced me to some of these listed groups. I thought they were a shoe in and they seemed to have gone away.
I'm really surprised that no one mentioned UVa favorites Sweetbriar. Not only are they hands-down the best party band in Charlottesville, but they have talented musicians as well - dueling guitar melodies and tight three-way harmonies. Tim Be Told definitely deserves the kudos, but I think Sweetbriar could go places as well.
Once again no one mentions Dreaming Isabelle, who continue to be Charlottesville's best-kept jazzy-pop-rock secret.


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