text:
Child Boards
The "War to End All Wars" -- The Great War... the reenactor's Reenactment. WWI is the most awesome of the time periods (okay, I'm biased) and it has something to offer everyone. From the historians to the poets, the arms junkies, to the militaria collector, WWI will give back at least as much as you give to it!
Normal Topic
Locked Topic

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Will Head necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 623 diseños de 137 diseñadores freelance.
Wake Up America
Wake Up America is a conservative movement, very much in line with the Tea Parties, yet we are corporate, too. Our independent representatives build their own conservative teams and help us to spread-the-word, and reps earn income as they build their teams. We should be professional, and we want people to trust us.
While our mission is serious as it defends the Constitution against threats such as Obama, MoveOn.org, and America's tilt towards socialism, we are going to incorporate humor and have some fun, whether it's with funny videos or at our own rallies and events.
Our audience is both men and women in the U.S., age 21 and up. They are frustrated with high taxes, federal spending, illegal immigration, and a large federal government that is increasingly trying to control our lives.
They respect our Constitution and the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. And many need to earn extra income because of our financial crisis. We provide a format for them to earn money as they help Wake Up America to raise money for national advertising campaigns.
Wake Up America would like a logo that is clean and distinctive. Ideas…it could be nautical, memorable, easily identifiable. Imagine it on signs and banners at rallies. It should not have a sun in it, or a coffee cup, or an alarm clock.
Foremost, we will use it on our website and all over the internet. It will also be used on hats and shirts, bumper stickers and signs, brochures and business cards. You may view our current logo on our website at http://www.wakeupamerica.com. Our new logo will be the first step in the re-design of our site, which will have more white space, and probably be more corporate.
Our current thought is that if any part of the logo is emphasized, it should be the Wake Up vs. the America……but we are open to any look.
We are not sure if we want an icon because it may distract from the name, but we are open to your interpretation (currently leaning against an icon).
Colors…we want to use navy and tangerine/orange, similar to the current site, and similar to the color scheme of UVA (University of Virginia).
We will need the logo for both print and web formats.
Thank you for your interest.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text:
Portrait & Freelance Photography by Jana Perenchio
Hi there.....I'm Jana, the brown-eyed girl behind Brown-Eyed Girl Photography! My love of scrapbooking, my family & 3 sons made me want to become a better photographer & now I've enjoyed providing pretty pictures for my clients in the New Braunfels/San Antonio area for over 10 years. My work has been published in Where Women Create & Where Women Create Business magazines & I've also provided photography for many prominent local businesses as well as Schertz Magazine. I specialize in high school seniors & wedding photography but also provide many other types of sessions so if you like what you see & are interested in more information or booking your own photo session with me, I'd love to hear from you!
Thanks for stopping by!!
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 40D
24-70mm f/2.8 lens
50mm f/1.2 lens
70-200 mm f/2.8 lens
15mm fisheye lens
Dr. Pepper
Duran Duran
Oklahoma State
my family & my faith <3
« Shaye's Bridals at Hideout on the HorseshoeHappy birthday, Shaye! {Hideout on the Horseshoe Wedding} »
© 2020 Brown-Eyed Girl Photography|ProPhoto Photography Blogsite | Template designed by The Autumn Rabbit
Follow me on Twitter


text:
Building Block Pie Chart
Let's be honest: pie makes pretty much anything better. Especially maths. Even if your child isn't ready for statistics, help him get his bearings around charts and graphs with these nonthreatening pie charts featuring cute, familiar illustrations.
Devour the rest of our piping hot pie chart worksheets Here.


text:
The Lyme Disease Network receives a commission from Amazon.com for each purchase originating from this site.
When purchasing from Amazon.com, please
Dedicated to the Bachmann Family
LymeNet needs your help:
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations.
© 1993-2020 The Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Use of the LymeNet Site is subject to the Terms and Conditions.
Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3
Home |
Flash Discussion |
Support Groups |
On-Line Library


text:
Welcome to the new CommScope.com experience. Need help? Get Help
CES is our annual showcase for ARRIS's vision of tomorrow's consumer entertainment and communications experiences. It brings 170,000 of the most important industry executives, media and influencers to Las Vegas for meetings and demonstrations of the future. And that makes it a very important event for setting the stage for the rest of the year.
This year, we're addressing security for all devices connected to the network including IOT, seamless services at the intersection of a new convergence of IoT devices inside and outside the home and more. Our demonstrations focus on the experiences that have come to exemplify those trends, including The Connected Home, Consumer Experience Management, IP Video Experiences, and HEVC Video Delivery. These experiences bring the spotlight to our solutions for 4K and IP video delivery, as well as managed platforms for user experience and the connected home.
Get ready for an exciting CES, and follow us on Twitter for the latest from the show!


text:
Mandarin Orchard Singapore, Singapore
- Free WiFi and free parking
- Collect nights
- Bar/lounge
During renovations, the hotel will make every effort to minimize noise and disturbance.
Mandarin Orchard Singapore, Singaporefrom $145
- Deluxe King Room
- Superior Deluxe King Room
- Room
- Meritus Club Premier King Room
- Regency Suite
- Premier King Room
- Family Room
- Executive Suite
- Connecting Room
- Deluxe Twin Room
- Premier Twin Room
- Superior Deluxe Twin Room
- Meritus Club Twin Room
- Mystery Room
- Deluxe Triple Room
- Superior Deluxe Triple Room
More great choices
What's around Mandarin Orchard Singapore, Singapore
- In Orchard
- Orchard Road
- Singapore Botanic Gardens - 29 min walk
- Bugis Street Shopping District - 35 min walk
- Raffles Place - 41 min walk
- Merlion - 42 min walk
- Mustafa Centre - 43 min walk
- Takashimaya Shopping Centre - 1 min walk
Getting around
- Singapore (SIN-Changi) - 19 min drive
- Singapore (XSP-Seletar) - 14 min drive
- Johor Bahru (JHB-Senai Intl.) - 43 min drive
- JB Sentral - 22 min drive
- Somerset Station - 8 min walk
- Orchard Station - 8 min walk
- Dhoby Ghaut Station - 18 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 1,077 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 39 floors
- Check-in time 2:00 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 11 AM
- Express check-out
Required at check-in
- Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
WiFi rated fast
- Great for browsing, email, gaming, and video chat
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
- Valet parking *
- Area shuttle *
Payment types at the property
In the hotel
- Local cuisine breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- 24-hour room service
- Outdoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Outdoor tennis court
- Number of meeting rooms - 13
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 30000
- Conference space size (meters) - 2787
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Year Built - 1971
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Terrace
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Chinese
- English
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 40-inch flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
DiningBar on 5 - Onsite bar. Happy hour is offered.
Chatterbox - This restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open daily.
Coffee and Crust - This café serves light fare only. Open daily.
Shisen Hanten - This restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Open daily.
Triple Three - This buffet restaurant specializes in Japanese cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open daily.
Mandarin Orchard Singapore, Singapore's small print
Also known as
- Mandarin Hotel Singapore Orchard
- Mandarin Orchard Singapore Hotel
- Mandarin Orchard Singapore Singapore
- Mandarin Orchard Singapore Hotel Singapore
- Mandarin Orchard Singapore
- Mandarin Singapore Orchard
- Mandarin Orchard Singapore Hotel Singapore
- Mandarin Singapore
- Meritus Mandarin Hotel
- Meritus Mandarin Singapore
- Singapore Mandarin
- Mandarin Orchard Singapore Hotel
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.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.Guests must contact this property in advance to reserve cribs/infant beds. Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 24 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
Deposit: SGD 100.00 per day
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge (subject to availability, amount varies)
Valet parking costs SGD 15.00 per day
Rollaway beds are available for SGD 150.0 per day
Local cuisine breakfast is offered for an extra charge of SGD 33 for adults and SGD 23 for children (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of SGD 110.00 per vehicle (one way)
Area shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Didn't find the right property?Continue searching for Singapore, Singapore
Recent reviews
Very Good 8.4 From 1,325 reviews
Excellent accommodations, location, and service
Took one hour to get my room key as their system was down.Took few hours to get our luggages.Couldn't get operation manager. Poor concierge.But the receptionist was very helpful.
The staff are amazing, each and every one in every way. The room was very clean and well kept during my over 10 day stay. The reservation staff very helpful when I had to extend my stay as they were booked and still made accommodation for me. The food in the M Club was ok, not great.
Very nice hotel with great service and amenities. The pool is OK but the rest of hotel is very nice and cant be in a better location for shopping, restaurants and things to do.
Is the description of this hotel not correct? Tell us


text:
Hall, Thomas Harmison
June 1773–30 June 1853
Thomas Harmison Hall, physician, planter, and congressman, was born in Prince George County, Va., and, after studying medicine, began a practice in Tarboro, N.C. In 1803 he married Mrs. Martha Jones Green Sitgreaves, the daughter of General Allen Jones and the widow, respectively, of James W. Green and John Sitgreaves. Hall was first elected to Congress in 1817 to take the seat previously held by James W. Clark. On Capitol Hill he always stayed at Dowson's No. 2, where he was closely associated with Nathaniel Macon, Weldon Edwards, John Randolph, and other Old Republicans of the Roanoke area. During the presidential campaign of 1824, the Old Republicans supported William H. Crawford; when the House selected Adams over Crawford and Jackson in February 1825, Hall cast his vote for Crawford. Later that year, that vote became the major issue in Hall's campaign for reelection and he was narrowly defeated by Richard Hines. In a rematch two years later, however, the physician regained his seat from Hines.
Hall was unopposed in 1829 and overcame strong opposition from Joseph R. Lloyd in 1831. Two years later Hall bested Richard Sullivan, but in 1835 he was defeated by a Whig, Ebenezer Pettigrew of Tyrrell County. In his eight terms in Congress, Hall consistently held to the convictions of the Old Republicans, advocating strict construction of the Constitution, economy in government, and states' rights. He served on House committees on Indians Affairs, Elections, and Foreign Affairs. During his second tour of duty, he was chairman of the powerful Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department. After his second defeat, Hall returned home to be elected by his constituents to a term in the 1836 state senate. He then resumed his medical practice and agricultural pursuits.
Hall's sister, Dorothy, was the wife of the Tory Ralph MacNair. One of their children, Edmond Duncan, practiced medicine in Edgecombe County, as did his uncle. Hall was buried in the MacNair Cemetery near Tarboro. His tombstone bears the inscription, "Friend of Macon and Randolph."
Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1971).
P. M. Goldman and J. S. Young, eds., The United States Congressional Directory (1973).
W. S. Hoffmann, Andrew Jackson and North Carolina Politics (1971).
Daniel M. McFarland, "Rip Van Winkle: Political Evolution in North Carolina, 1815–1835" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1954).
Additional Resources:
"Hall, Thomas H., (1773 - 1853)." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000072 (accessed March 26, 2014).
Lichtenstein, Gaston. Louis D. Wilson, Mexican war martyr, also, Thos. H. Hall, Andrew Johnson as he really was, and, Our town common; four articles. Richmond, Va.: H. T. Ezekiel, printer. 1911. https://archive.org/stream/louisdwilsonmexi00lichrich#page/8/mode/2up (accessed March 26, 2014).
Thomas H. Hall to John Gray Blount, H. Reps., Jan. 23, 1821. John Gray Blount papers: Volume 4. Raleigh [N.C.]:
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History. 1982. 329-330. http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p249901coll22/id/458151 (accessed March 26, 2014).
1 January 1988 | Mcfarland, Daniel M.
Thomas H. Hall (1773-1853)
Thomas H. Hall (1773-1853) was nephew of Dorothy Hall MacNair and Paulina Hall Telfair and Elizabeth Hall Thompson. All three were sisters of his father, also named Thomas H. Hall. Interestingly, all three females married to Tories who left the country during the Revolution. Alexander Telfair back to England/Scotland, Ralph MacNair went to NY which was controlled by British and John Thompson left country and apparently died in England.
Cong. Thomas Hall middle name
Cong. Thomas Hall middle name "Harmison." His Grandfather, lawyer Thomas Hall's spelled "Harminson" & ID'd as atty. of Pitt Co., in 5/1786 Edgecombe D (ECDB 4, p.384.) Document recorded by Edward Hall, CC, son of lawyer Thomas Harminson & 1st cousin of doctor Thomas Harmison. When doc. entered public record, Dr. Hall 13 y/o. Possible
Harmison/Harminson variants of same surname, results from clerical error, etc.
Some speculation that what
Some speculation that what has been translated as Harminson or otherwise, was actually "Harrison" which was the maiden name of Thomas Hall's grandmother.
Hello John,
Hello John,
Thanks for visiting NCpedia and taking time to post this additional information on the Hall and Harmison (or Harminson) names. We're glad when our users have information that they can add to the record of biographical entries. Your comment will stay with Thomas Hall's entry for future researchers to use.
Thanks very much and please visit NCpedia again!
Kelly Agan, NCpedia Staff
Add a comment
PLEASE NOTE: NCpedia will not publish personal contact information in comments, questions, or responses. If you would like a reply by email, please note thats some email servers are blocked from accepting messages from outside email servers or domains. These often include student email addresses from public school email accounts. If you prefer not to leave an email address, check back at your NCpedia comment for a reply. Please allow one business day for replies from NCpedia. Complete guidelines are available at http://ncpedia.org/comments.


text:
Education, domestic violence initiatives outlined in governor's state address
Governor outlines new goals for Maine following Tuesday's State of the State speech
Some of the new initiatives that Gov. Paul LePage announced during last night's State of the State address are scheduled to take effect Wednesday.
The governor is directing his education commission to develop a grading system for public schools.
"Each school in Maine will have a grade: A, B, C, D or F," said LePage.
He is also creating a new task force to address the problem of domestic violence.
The governor struck a conciliatory tone during his annual address last night.
His relationship with Democrats had been icy until both sides met Monday for the first time during this legislative session.
The governor also unveiled a new website that provides access to state government finances.
Rob Walker, executive director of the Maine Education Association, wants to know which factors will determine the letter grades.
"You can invent criteria that make everybody look like an A or everybody look like an F," said Walker.
The governor's officer said it will take 30 days to develop a grading system that will be based on existing public information and will take into account many different factors, including graduation rates.
LePage also wants to make Maine business-friendly.
"Folks, you want to create a job; I want to be there to help you," said LePage.
Kevin Simowitz, with the Maine Small Business Coalition, said to bring businesses to Maine, the government must offer better schools and roads, even if that means some people end up paying higher taxes.
"If we don't raise revenue and ask everybody to pay their fair share, it's going to be really tough to fund schools and roads the way small businesses need," Simowitz said.
Meanwhile, prevention advocates are optimistic after LePage announced he has created a new domestic violence task force. Advocates said recent national tragedies and the governor's push could actually help bring about some change.
"So what I'm hoping is that this task force will be able to do a good old Maine thing. It'll be able to look at these complicated issues in a way that is fair and just and respects the rights of gun owners and, at the same time, understands that there's a small group of people that we need to be able to protect others from protect from themselves," said Julia Colpitts, of the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence.


text:
A mid top shoe with a lightweight SUPRAFOAM midsole that is thicker in the heel for impact protection and thinner at the toe for better board feel. It rests upon a rubber outsole with sidewalls in the toe and ollie area. The mid top collar and molded, internal pods provide ankle support and a snug, comfortable fit. A SUPRAFOAM foot bed with a mesh sock liner provides impact protection while a herringbone tread pattern ensures superior grip.
-Navy Suede and synthetic upper
-White logo details
Navy cupsole


text:
About the Product
Shipping and Returns
A new trend in interior design, wall decals provide a quick, simple and inexpensive alternative to painting that is a uniquely modern way to decorate your space. They are reusable and repositionable and easy to install and remove in seconds. Dimensions represent size of decal sheet.
7854071Item #7854071
Recently Viewed
Easter Hens
OptionWall Decal
Ships in 24 Hours


text:
The Greatest Food Debates of Our Generation
One of the biggest memes of the last few years has been the new-age question: Is a Pop-Tart a ravioli? What seems like a joke that originated from a Tumblr post actually brings up a valid question. Is any sort of food item that has an outer shell that fully envelopes a filling a ravioli or a dumpling? Some claim yes, and have labeled as ravioli everything from toaster pastries to Uncrustables to humans. However, others stick to the dictionary definition of this dish and say it's strictly a small circle or square of pasta that is stuffed with meat or cheese. A Pop-Tart is a hand pie.istockphoto.com
Which chicken wing is better: drum or flat?
Not all chicken wings are created equal, even among the best Buffalo wings in America. Just how some people prefer a cake slice with a lot of frosting and others prefer an interior piece, some people like the little drums in a plate of chicken wings and others like the flats. Like many great debates, people took to Twitter to debate drums vs. flats. Drum proponents like the easier eating that comes with that shape, while flat proponents like the breading-to-skin-to-chicken ratio.istockphoto.com
How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Making a PB&J should literally be the easiest thing in the world. You take two pieces of bread, slather them in peanut butter and jelly and then move on. But apparently there is more than one way to do everything, including making a basic sandwich. Some people will take one piece of bread, add peanut butter, put jelly on top of the peanut butter and then add the final slice of bread. Others will put peanut butter on one slice of bread, put jelly on the second slice of bread and then bring the two pieces together.Shutterstock
How crispy should bacon be?
Bacon is delicious. Unless you're a vegetarian (or a monster), we can all agree on that. But how cooked should bacon be? Should it be like an all-you-can-eat buffet, where it's floppy and chewy, or should it be basically burnt to a crisp? Twitter debate queen Chrissy Teigen expressed that she likes a medium-well bacon, with chewy crispy fat and crispy juicy meat. But like all celebrity social media, the debate got out of hand, devolving into whether or not we should even eat pigs - which is its own debate.istockphoto.com
How do you take eggs out of the carton?
Twitter users have opinions on how to remove this breakfast staple from its container. Do you work from one side to the other? Do you grab equally from each side to keep the carton in balance or do you just grab whatever egg looks great? Yes, this is something people actually think about. As for us, as long as we're cooking up a delicious egg dish, we don't care where in the carton it comes from. All eggs taste the same.istockphoto.com
Does pineapple belong on pizza?
Everyone has their favorite pizza toppings. Some folks won't eat a slice without pepperoni, while others think that particular meat is too spicy. But no pizza topping has the internet quite as divided as pineapple. Some people think it's just fine when paired with ham, others need it on every single slice, and some people think pineapple on pizza is only for weirdos who don't understand the concept of dinner.istockphoto.com
Does ranch belong on pizza?
Speaking of things that do or do not belong on pizza: Is ranch a suitable dipping sauce or drizzle on a pie? New Yorkers hate ranch on pizza more than any other food, while Midwesterners feel that dipping crust in a little cup of ranch is as close to heaven as we can get on Earth.Shutterstock
How should you eat pizza?
What does the way you eat pizza say about your personality? A lot, apparently. Some people insist on folding their slices, while others just dive right in. More unorthodox pizza eaters will go for a sideways slice or choose to eat their 'za with a fork and knife. If you really want to go nuts, you can dive into pizza crust-first.istockphoto.com
Is deep dish a pizza or a casserole?
Pizza may just be the most debatable food out there. There are so many incredible pizzas across America, but some stoke controversy just by existing. Yes, we're talking about deep-dish pizza. Even the best deep-dish in the country is subject to scrutiny: Is a pizza that has a deep, thick crust actually a pizza pie or is it more like a casserole than a flatbread? New Yorkers and pizza purists will call it a casserole, while Chicagoans will defend this signature pie to the death.istockphoto.com
Should you eat mac and cheese with a fork or spoon?
You're pretty much always going to eat a bowl of ice cream with a spoon, and attempting to eat a steak with a spoon would result in some level of madness. But some foods fall in the in between, like macaroni and cheese. In 2018, a survey done by mac and cheese producer Annie's, 71 percent of adults eat their macaroni with a fork, while 28 percent work with a spoon. But fork users must answer one looming question: What do you do with all the cheese sauce?istockphoto.com
Does ketchup belong on a hot dog?
Chicagoans like a lot of things on their hot dogs. Mustards, onions, relish... all OK! Even more unorthodox toppings like pickles, hot peppers and celery salt are just fine in the Windy City. But ketchup? Never! In 2017, Heinz tried to market ketchup as "hot dog sauce" and sell it to Chicagoans, who were not buying it. But really, who is putting ketchup on hot dogs after age 12? Let's leave that sauce for the fries.istockphoto.com
Are burgers and hot dogs sandwiches?
What you put on a hot dog isn't the only questionable thing about that ballpark classic. Here's a bar debate for the ages: Are hot dogs and burgers sandwiches? From a classification standpoint, yeah, they are. Dictionary.com defines sandwiches as "two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair." Fair enough, at least when it comes to burgers. Hot dogs, however, are more akin to a sub sandwich, a.k.a. a hero. Speaking of which...istockphoto.com
Is it a sub, hoagie or hero?
There are a lot of regional food names around America, few of which cause the confusion and commotion of sub vs. hero vs. hoagie. Those long sandwiches with various meats, cheeses and peppers are a great lunch but are known by many names. Beyond sub, hoagie and hero, this food item also goes by grinders, wedges and zeps, among other names. And don't even get us started on pop vs. soda!istockphoto.com
What do you call the end slice on a loaf of bread?
If you're eating the butt of a loaf of bread, don't be alarmed. That's just the end piece. You know the one, with all the extra crust? This starter and final end slice is the cause of much discussion, and like a long sandwich, it goes by many names. According to Twitter, this piece of bread goes by butt, knob, heel, outside and so, so many other names.istockphoto.com
How do you pronounce caramel?
"Care-uh-mel" or "Car-mel?" This sweet, sticky treat should be easy enough to pronounce (unless you have a mouthful of it), but there's plenty of regional debate across America. The Western half of the country pronounces caramel with two syllables, completely ignoring that second "a." Meanwhile, Southerners and New Englanders embrace that second vowel and spread this candy out to three syllables.istockphoto.com
In-n-Out or Shake Shack?
Regional food debates aren't just limited to what to call something or how to pronounce it. It's also about cheeseburgers. So, what's best: In-n-Out or Shake Shack? While a handful of cities have both, In-n-Out is constrained to the West Coast and Texas, and Shake Shack is an East Coast establishment (though it's rapidly expanding). Both spots have budget-friendly burgers with special sauces and fries and milkshakes with cult followings. Why can't these burger chains get along? And even better, why can't these regional chains go national?istockphoto.com
Where do you put the cheese on a burger?
At its core, a cheeseburger has cheese, a patty and two buns. It should be simple! But, like anything, it is not. Where does the cheese go on said burger? Google sparked this particular food debate when they launched their burger emoji with the cheese on the bottom. Yes, it went bottom bun, cheese, patty, toppings then top bun. Madness! Everyone knows the cheese goes between the patty and the top bun, right? Apparently not. Cheese-on-the-bottom fans claim that keeping this portion of their burger where it is helps to keep the patty's juices from leaking to the bottom of the bun. Others, rightfully, insist this is crazy and that is lettuce's job.istockphoto.com
Should chili have beans?
If you ask a Texan, beans have no business with chili. And many of the best chili spots in the country fall in line to that. Other chili fans, however, feel like this classic game day dish is nothing without the added texture and flavor of a nice, red kidney bean.istockphoto.com
How do you slice bagels?
Up until very recently, the world thought it knew everything there was to know about how to eat bagels. You take the bagel, slice it in half, maybe toast it, then add your desired toppings and eat. Enter the city of St. Louis, where, for years, people have been slicing their bagels like a normal loaf of bread. This results in biscotti-shaped pieces of bagel that truly confound people outside of Missouri. Proponents of the "bread-sliced" bagel claim that it allows for maximum amounts of cream cheese per bagel, which, we have to admit is fair.istockphoto.com
Did millennials ruin everything?
Millennials love to debate food, but apparently this generation also likes to ruin food. American cheese. Casual chain restaurant dining. Mayonnaise. If the news reports are to be believed, people born between 1981 and 1996 are destroying all of these things. Is everyone just realizing cheddar is better than a cheese-like product or did millennials really kill all these popular food items?
More from The Daily Meal:
Why Are Pretzels Shaped Like That? And 17 Other Food Mysteries, Solved
Regional Dishes You've Never Heard Of
Regional Chain Restaurants We Wish Were National
The Best Food and Drink in Every State
The Weirdest Regional Slang Across Americaistockphoto.com


text:
On Friday the Democratic leadership of the Senate — Majority Leader Harry Reid, Assistant Majority Leader Richard Durbin, Conference Chair Charles Schumer, and Conference Secretary Patty Murray — wrote to President Obama urging him to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling in the event that Republicans either block such an increase or attempt to pass one "as part of unbalanced or unreasonable legislation."
"We believe that you must make clear that you will never allow our nation's economy and reputation to be held hostage," the Democrats wrote. "We believe you must be willing to take any lawful steps to ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a global economic crisis — without congressional approval, if necessary."
Put aside the picture of leading lawmakers, usually so jealous of their constitutional prerogatives, asking the president to ignore Congress. What is striking about the letter is that every one of its signers — Reid, Durbin, Schumer, and Murray — voted againstraising the nation's debt ceiling just seven years ago.
On March 16, 2006, the Senate held a vote on a measure to raise the debt ceiling by $781 billion — the fourth such vote of George W. Bush's presidency. Republicans controlled the Senate, and Democrats spent much of the debate railing against Bush's spending. "When it comes to deficits, this president owns all the records," said Reid. "The three largest deficits in our nation's history have all occurred under this administration's watch."
Declaring themselves outraged by such spending, Reid, Durbin, Schumer, and Murray all voted against raising the debt limit. So did every other Democrat — including Sen. Barack Obama. But on Friday, the four lawmakers urged now-President Obama not only to raise the ceiling but to do it in a constitutionally risky fashion by going over the head of Congress.
In the summer of 2011, during the last debt ceiling fight, Reid conceded his '06 vote was all about politics. "I shouldn't have done that," he told ABC's Jonathan Karl. "I'm kind of embarrassed I did. It was a political maneuver by we Democrats." But now, Reid and his colleagues have come up with yet another political maneuver — a possibly unconstitutional one — in urging the president to ignore Congress in a matter in which Congress has a critical role to play.


text:
Ben Harper Gossip
Ben Harper gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Dating Doppelganger
Jude Law has a new girl. Her name is Kim Hersov, 34 years old, the editor at large for UK Harper's Bazaar, and is what Sienna Miller will look like in 10 years if she doesn't drug and booze away her good looks. Compare and contrast…see? Anyway, Jude and Kim are supposedly on Holiday together in India and have been quietly seeing each other for a couple of months, finding much in common including their children – she has 2 aged 7 and 10. Full Story
The Daily Bitch … Please
Just admit it already!!! Ashlee Simpson in Harper's Bazaar looking wonderful, if not a little plastic and totally unremarkable. But that's what happens when you change your nose so that you blend in with everyone else. Generically pretty is the new Ashlee Simpson. Well done. Thing is, I like the nose. Full Story
Dina Lohan: the Diana Delusions
Some things are STILL shocking. And that's why, even though you're a gossip junkie, even though you think you've seen it all, you STILL won't believe Dina Lohan in her new interview with Harper's Bazaar. First – she compares Lindsay to Diana, says she'll die soon if the pappies don't chill, ignoring of course the fact that her kid practically invites photographers to ride along with her when she's out to be seen. Full Story
Cam & Kate: touched or untouched?
A gorgeous, gorgeous photo from the new Harper"s Bazaar. That dress Cam is wearing - Must.Have.It. But just a little, little, little item for discussion: You know how she said the other day, Kate I mean, that she abhored the new skinny? That it made her ill to see so many girls starving themselves, that she would never aspire to the same? Well. Full Story


text:
Also: "disappointment", "ineptitude" and "impotence". (Stash that last one away for a couple of decades kiddies.)
B.J. Ryan continued to hand out free trips to first base like he was Jonathan Carroll from iTravel2000.com (Call 1-866-WOW-DEAL! And get away for less!), walking Ichiro (oops) and Miguel Frickin' Cairo (double oops) in the ninth. And while it sounded as though he was being squeezed, maybe the Beej should have put on his big boy pants and stopped nibbling around the corners, looking for calls.
(Yeah, you read that right. We're down on the Beej now. Dude needs to stop arguing with umpires and start getting outs. And soon.)
Of course, all of that ninth inning drama could have been avoided if the Jays had only picked up a run in the sixth when (stop us if you've heard this one before) they left runners on the corners with one out.
One good thing about today's game: Jamie Campbell wasn't broadcasting it, so he didn't get to go apeshit crazy on the air when the Mariners went ahead in the ninth. (Although he probably did so at home in stately Ginger Manor, with all of his Richie Zisk cards displayed in front of him.)
Ladies and Gentlemen - Your 2008 Toronto Blue Jays: Crushing your spirit, shredding the crushed remains, then lighting the whole shredded heap into blazing inferno. Rinse. Repeat.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Blue Jays teach school kids the meaning of "misery"
5 comments:
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
i am in serious need of an adult beverage.
- June 11, 2008 at 5:30 PM
"Rinse. Repeat" ... ???
I appreciate the sentiment but there's no rinsing around that will get the shit-like taste out of my mouth.
- June 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM
If there's a silver lining to this Mariners debacle, it's the last few entertaining postings. Tao is back!
- June 11, 2008 at 6:10 PM
- The Ack said...
at this point, I'd have probably been entertained by our guy Jamie Campbell hysterically screaming "AND THE SEEEEE-ATTLE MARINERS TAKE THE LEAD!!!!!"
- June 11, 2008 at 6:51 PM
- Andrew said...
"stately Ginger Manor"
Gold, Jerry! Gold!
Go Jays!
- June 12, 2008 at 9:17 AM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
- Pièce
Business section in Nanaimo Chinatown.
464 résultats avec objets numériques Afficher les résultats avec des objets numériques
Business section in Nanaimo Chinatown.
Business section in Nanaimo Chinatown
Building in Nanaimo Chinatown.
Parade in Nanaimo during the Depression era.
Photo taken on Hecate St. in Nanaimo.
Resident of Nanaimo at work.
Lower Chinatown
Chinese Soup Bowl (Food Service T&E)
The soup bowl, lid, and saucer were used for formal dinners at the Rendezvous Restaurant in Nanaimo.
Wong, Chuck
cloth Baby Carrier (Clothing-Accessory)
Part of collection. No provenance but probably from local Chinese family
Soya Sauce Container (Container)
Found off of Holland Road near East Wellington by Lorraine Burley 27 years ago.
Burley, Lorraine
Imported from China by the manager of the Lun Yick Chinese Opera House on Pine Street in Nanaimo's Chinatown. Lun Yick translated as 'group will benefit' and was the name of the group which bought the land to build the theatre in 19...
Lee, Ed
Used in Nanaimo Chinatown for carrying pots over a shoulder yoke.
Spowart, William
Chinese Spoon (Food Service T&E)
From Nanaimo's Chinatown.
Spowart, William
Chinese Teapot (Food Service T&E)
Nanaimo Chinatown.
Spowart, William
Herb Infuser (Medical & Psychological T&E)
Used in Nanaimo's Chinatown. Boiling water is poured in to steep herbs.
Spowart, William
Chinese Bowl (Food Service T&E)
Used in Nanaimo Chinatown.
Spowart, William
Chinese Teapot (Food Service T&E)
Found in Nanaimo Chinatown after the fire in 1960.
Spowart, William
Used in Nanaimo Chinatown.
Lee, Ed
Medicine Bottle (Medical & Psychological T&E)
Found in Chinatown in 1967.
Chambers, P., Dr.
From B.C. but not Local. Found in Cumberland.
Chambers, P., Dr.
Used in Nanaimo Chinatown.
Chinese Teapot (Food Service T&E)
No provenance.
Strange, Les, Mrs.
Strange, Les, Mrs.
Medicine Bottle (Medical & Psychological T&E)
From Nanaimo Chinatown.
Grant, Robbie


text:
Cotton Bow Tie Midi Heart Dress Pink
CODO Cotton Bow Tie Midi Heart Dress Pink
Condition:New with Tags
New with Tags: Never worn, with plastic on hardware or tags attached.
Like New: Item appears new and may have the faintest signs of wear due to shelf life or storage conditions, but is otherwise unused and in new condition.
Very Good: Item is pre-loved but in very good condition, clean and ready to use. Imperfections and signs of wear are scarce; any flaws are clearly pictured and described in the listing.
Good: The item may show some signs of prior use. Common imperfections may include creases and slightly worn corners on handbags, or moderate tarnishing of hardware. Every imperfection is clearly pictured and described in the listing.
- Conscious Choice learn more
- 100% authentic or money back
- Free 30 day returns
- Free US shipping


text:
Stop here if you've ever wanted to improve daily life in your family! Using a straightforward, upbeat "Driver's Manual" format, Chaya Ginsburg counsels you on relationships in marriage, with your siblings, your parents and children. Her premise is that interpersonal situations should trigger "driver's" responses. Just as you anticipate possible danger as you drive toward an intersection and take necessary precautions, you can train your mind to read the signals in family situations. After reading this manual, "Caution!" "Yield!" and "No-U turn," will take on new meaning and form indelible images in your mind. A fabulous gift for engaged or newly married couples - not to mention old-timers in the happiest marriage - it will bring new life to all sorts of relationships.
Collections: All Books, On Sale
Type: Book
Category: artscroll, Marriage, PocketScroll, Psychology


text: ICTI-certified Factory for the Production of Baby Soft ToysWoodfield Toys has been manufacturing baby products since 2009. Our products include soft toys, activity toys, playmats, rattles, chimes, teethers, blankets, bibs and bedding products. We also built sounds and lights into many of our products, making them popular items in our target markets. All our products are exported to Europe and the US, and are highly appreciated by many renowned companies such as Tommy and Wal-Mart.Monthly Capacity of 150,000 PiecesOur factory covering an area of 5,000 sq... [Details]


text:
Who Do You Love Lyrics by Ke$ha
Ke$ha Lyrics
Who Do You Love Lyrics
Feel it in my bones,
Feel it till I turn green,
Gettin me a pissy cuss to see you watching
The vixen in the black
The seductive girl,
Follow back and forth
Dominating your world
You look at her,
You talk to me,
I talk to you,
You're not LISTENING!
You never listen,
God you're so obviously staring I can't sit and watch
Hey baby, who do you love
I gotta know (I gotta know)
Oh Oh! (oh baby baby!)
Baby, baby,
If you want my love,
I wanna know
Baby baby, who do you love,
I wanna know!
(Oh baby baby)
Can I ask you
What exactly are you doing?
She is foxy but I see you drooling
All over yourself watching your little siren
In the shadows like an evil lion
I look at her
I wanted you
To disappear (go away.)
Into midair (go AWAY!)
I want to claw her!
I want to bite her!
I want to tear her up in pieces AH!
Hey baby who do you love,
I gotta know
Oh oh! (oh baby baby)
Baby, baby,
If you want my love,
I wanna know
Hey baby, who do ya love,
I wanna know
Inside of them,
It's eating them inside out,
Well be following them out
Girls, can I hear you shout?
Oh, were gonna kick your ass,
Baby, if you go and look at another lady,
Keep your eyes off her dirty tuti,
Or I'll show you who the muthaf*ckin boss is!
I'm with you, and your staring at her!
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who do you love? tell me!
Back to:
Ke$ha Lyrics
Top Hits
One Hit Wonders
TV Themes
Song Quotes
Lyrics On Demand
All lyrics are property and copyright of their respective authors, artists and labels.
All lyrics provided for educational purposes only.
Please support the artists by purchasing related recordings and merchandise.


text:
Steampunk Goes Wilde
Ellowyne Wilde - Letting Off Steam (LE300)
Amber Stanhope - Steamrolled (LE150)
Rufus Rutter - Steam Punked (LE125)
Effanbee's 100th Birthday PartyAttendees received "Centennial Patsyette" who is a hard plastic doll with blink eyes. (LE 150)
The Browncoats Breakfast
See this link for more information about this former TV series.
->>>Watch Robert Tonner do Mr. Rogers and Beyonce - not exactly at the same time but watch anyway.
Thr images in this post are the property of Tonner Doll Co.


text:
Noah Webster was wrong. In his dictionary, he defined desert as "a desolate or forbidding area." Clearly, the famed lexicographer had never traveled through this country's Southwest. If he had, he'd have been amazed by the vast palette of colorful, vibrant perennials, shrubs and trees that are native to our Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave deserts--plants that present a softer, gentler vision of desert landscapes.
Yet it's difficult to fault Mr. Webster. Many gardeners who live in this part of the country are also largely unaware of the many landscape possibilities these native beauties provide. The typical home landscape in desert communities, from El Paso to Palm Desert to Las Vegas, falls into one of two categories. It either duplicates a Back East look, dominated by a labor-intensive thirsty lawn better suited to the Carolinas or it is a stark gravel-and-cactus display that emphasizes the harshest aspects of a desert, using the kind of thorny, prickly plants that Webster probably had in mind. This all-too-common landscape is at best a caricature
The true desert landscape is a combination of many types of plants, a large percentage of which are very showy and put on a dazzling display of color. The ones featured in this article, as well as numerous others, are available at local nurseries and are being promoted and used by a growing number of landscape designers, not just for their drought tolerance but for their beauty.
Blackfoot daisy (Melampodium leucanthum)
Plant size: 6 to 18 inches high, 1 to 4 feet wide.
Where it grows: Rocky hillsides, mesas, eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert, southwestern quarter of Great Plains, below 5,000 feet in Chihuahuan Desert.
Flowers: White 1 fragrant daisies.
Maintenance: Minimal. It is a short-lived plant, so let flowers mature, scatter seed and self-sow.
Native in the Chihuahuan Desert, as well as the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert, this daisy is at home in whatever kind of soil your garden offers -- thin limestone, sandy, slightly acid, even rich loam. But it insists on being well drained. It seems to produce a finite number of 1 white daisies, either all in the first year or spread out over two or three years. The plant stays short, blooms all summer and remains green as long as it is alive. In a desert landscape, tuck its roots under rocks to increase its drought resistance. The stems are very fragile, so be careful when planting; if they are damaged, the newly planted roots won't resprout.
Calylophus (Calylophus hartwegii)
Plant size: 18 inches high by 24 inches wide.
Where it grows: Throughout the Southwest; El Paso to Mt. Lemmon to Las Vegas.
Flowers: Yellow 1 to 2 flowers open at sunset and remain open until noon the following day.
Maintenance: Cut back in winter to promote new growth that begins in late winter or early spring.
Calylophus (pronounced ka-lee-LOW-fuss) is kin to evening primroses. Its 2 to 3 translucent golden flowers open on spring evenings and remain open until the sun gets too hot in the morning. The whole plant stands 12 to 18 high and is slightly wider than it is tall. It is native to the High Plains and the desert mountains, so it requires more water than chuparosa and globe mallow but can grow nicely with blackfoot daisy, Goodding's verbena and all the penstemons. Its slightly trailing growth habit drapes becomingly over the edge of a retaining wall or a planter. One Calylophus can fill a 14 patio pot.
Chuparosa (Justicia californica)
Plant size: Typically 5 feet high and wide, but can reach 8 feet.
Where it grows: Washes and arroyos below 4,000-foot elevation in Sonoran and Colorado deserts.
Flowers: Red, occasionally yellow, occur spring through fall.
Maintenance: Prune -- but don't hedg -- in early spring to maintain size. Cut away stems damaged by cold (below 25?F) to encourage regrowth from roots.
This is a big favorite with hummingbirds, as well as home who use it in their gardens. Because it is spineless, reliably evergreen, well-mannered (it's long-lived and won't roam) and in bloom from spring to fall, chuparosa should be put in a conspicuous spot, such as near the front door. It puts on its biggest show from March through May. Gardeners often use it as a low evergreen shrub, but it can also qualify as a flower or a vine; it drapes itself nicely in a planter or patio pot, and can climb into a tree or trellis. A Mexican relative, sold as Justicia sonora, is messier, scattering seeds all over.
Desert marigold (Baileya multiradiata)
Plant size: 3 feet.
Where it grows: Common annual or short-lived perennial throughout the Southwest.
Flowers: Yellow 2 daisies on 18 stems appear in spring, or later after rains; excellent cut flowers.
Maintenance: Allow some flowers to mature and scatter seed before cutting them off.
This short, neat evergreen blooms virtually all year long. It is easily the most dependable and useful of the desert flowers, and can be the mainstay of a flower bed or the unifying color in a patch of existing or revegetated desert. Individual plants live an average of only two years, but if you let the seed ripen and scatter naturally, you'll always have this pretty bloomer in your garden. The multilayered daisies make excellent cut flowers, and the pale blue-gray foliage is attractive even on those rare bloomless winter days. This is also a great butterfly plant.
Dorri sage (Salvia dorrii)
Plant size: 18 inches high by 2 feet wide, sometimes slightly more.
Where it grows: Desert slopes and washes between 2,500 and 6,000 feet in southern Mojave Desert.
Flowers: Blue and purple.
Maintenance: Cut back after bloom in spring and allow new leaves to develop before summer's heat; water sparingly.
Also known as desert sage, this plant is native to the southern Mojave Desert. Its soft, silver-blue leaves, which often stay on all winter, are very handsome, but the two-toned flowers are what really get your attention: bright blue with yellow stamens emerging from balls of reddish purple fuzz. Dorri sage is a spring bloomer and very popular with hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. In a small garden, this sage looks terrific next to a boulder along with a tree yucca, a clump of New Mexico feathergrass, and some low-growing ephemerals or flowers such as blackfoot daisy.
Globe mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua)
Plant size: 4 feet tall by 3 feet wide.
Where it grows: Throughout the Southwest, below 3,500 feet in the Mojave, Colorado and Sonoran deserts.
Flowers: Numerous orange (occasionally white, lavender, pink, red, or magenta) 1 to 2 flowers come on stalks 2 to 3 feet tall in spring.
Maintenance: Cut to ground after flowering to maintain compact plant.
Also known by the names desert mallow and apricot mallow, this small shrub is often cut to the ground after flowering to get fresh, compact growth. The translucent petals seem to cup themselves around sunlight, giving them an inner glow. The flowers come in a wide range of orange and pink pastels along with white and a few darker shades. If you have the room, a drift of a dozen or so globe mallows, planted about five feet apart, can be very exciting. In smaller gardens, place two or three along with brittlebush and some desert ephemerals for a big show in the spring. Globe mallows live only a few years, so let yours mature and scatter their own seed to provide a renewing patch of color.
Goodding's verbena (Verbena gooddingii)
Plant size: 2 to 4 feet high by 3 to 4 feet wide.
Where it grows: Desert scrub below 6,200 feet in Chihuahuan Desert and Rio Grande Plains.
Flowers: Pale lavender-blue blossoms are very fragrant and bloom February to November.
Maintenance: Let flowers mature and scatter seed to ensure new plants. Cut to ground if foliage goes dormant.
Like all verbenas, this one does best in disturbed ground, such as farmland or construction sites, or in a garden that is frequently weeded and dug up. Goodding's (no, it's not a typo!) verbena has a long bloom time -- February to November -- and is quite fragrant. The lavender-colored flowers are almost luminescent, while the leaves are pale and velvety. For best results, plant it in the fall. It self-sows, so treat it like an ephemeral in a desert landscape.
Parry penstemon (Penstemon parryi)
Plant size: 3 to 4 feet high by 2 to 3 feet wide.
Where it grows: Native throughout southern Arizona.
Flowers: 3-foot flower spikes adorned with bright pink flowers appear spring through summer, depending upon available moisture.
Maintenance: Supplemental water in late spring will prolong bloom. Cut off spikes after flowers mature and ripen seed.
In just a few years this native of the Sonoran Desert has become very popular throughout the Southwest. It is hot pink -- a real traffic-stopper when planted in masses. You can see a particularly spectacular display in springtime at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Another penstemon worth noting is the red firecracker penstemon (P. eatonii), which is native from the San Bernardino Mountains in California to the Mojave and Great Basin deserts. Other penstemons come in pale pink, orange, blue, purple and white. All have evergreen leaves and bloom in the spring. Let the flower go to seed before cutting back the bloom stalk.
Pink fairyduster (Calliandra eriophylla)
Plant size: 3 feet tall and wide.
Where it grows: Hillsides between 2,000 and 5,000 feet in Sonoran and Colorado deserts and Rio Grande Plains.
Flowers: Pink-white flowers in clusters summer to fall.
Maintenance: Prune lightly every two or three years to encourage new growth.
You can see this gorgeous evergreen or sometimes deciduous shrub thriving in the hills north of Phoenix. A good place to plant fairyduster is against an earth-toned wall, but its fluffy pink blooms are especially stunning when backlit by the sun. Also called mesquitillo, fairyduster gets only knee-high in the wild, due to stunting from browsing deer and droughts. But in a garden it will get larger, and can be pruned into either a light, airy shape, or a rounded, compact shrub. Baja fairyduster (C. californica) is native to Baja California, and also does well in sparsely irrigated gardens. Both shrubs are evergreen if they don't get too dry or too cold.
Sierra cenizo (Leucophyllum revolutum)
Plant size: Typically 3 feet tall by 4 feet wide, sometimes 6 by 6 feet.
Where it grows: Below 4,000 feet in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Flowers: Deep purple, appearing mostly after rains and in the fall.
Maintenance: Prune once per year, in early spring or early fall, to maintain a small shrub. Or prune only dead wood and allow the plant to grow larger.
The entire cenizo group of dense, silvery shrubs is very popular, thanks in large part to a number of cultivars -- L. candidum 'Silver Cloud' and 'Thunder Cloud' among them -- developed by Benny J. Simpson at Texas A&M. Sierra cenizo was introduced to the market by Ron Gass, owner of Mountain States Wholesale Nursery in Glendale, Arizona. Also known as 'Sierra Magic Mix', it is a sophisticated blend of pale to extremely vivid dark purple flowers which, in the wild, appear after rain -- usually in spring and especially in autumn. These flowering shrubs are evergreen and carefree as long as you don't overwater them.
Turpentine bush (Ericameria laricifolia)
Plant size: Typically no more than 1 by 2 feet, but can reach 6 by 4 feet in irrigated gardens.
Where it grows: Between 2,000 and 6,000 feet in Chihuahuan, Sonoran and eastern Mojave deserts.
Flowers: Golden blooms in fall; scented foliage, especially after rains.
Maintenance: Keep compact by cutting in half in early fall.
This is a beautiful evergreen ground cover in desert foothills around El Paso, Tucson, Phoenix and Las Vegas. About knee-high, it is scattered thickly among the taller, more widely spaced desert shrubs and trees. In an irrigated garden, turpentine bush will quickly get much taller -- possibly to 6 feet -- and can be pruned into a hedge. If you're bothered by deer and rabbits, turpentine bush has aromatic oils in the leaves and rubber in the stems that seem to discourage them.
Shared by Richard Emanuele of Team Emanuele / Simply Vegas Real Estate
"Expect Excellence"
702-480-1533 / Office: 702-570-0073
Property Search
RSS Feed
Search Blog
Recent Blogs
VALENTINES DAY VEGAS STYLE - Romantic Things to Do in Las�
Benefits To Selling Your Home In Los Angeles And Moving To Las Vegas - Pros and cons of moving to Nevada
IT IS OFFICIAL - Las Vegas Raiders - Silver and
GET OUTSIDE WITH YOUR FOUR LEGGED FRIEND - 5 Best Places
Our Bloggers
This is a list of your favorite properties. We will email you if a property is reduced or leaves the market.Click 'Save' to add a property to this list.
New & returning visitors please enter your information to login.
This message will go directly to the head of our team.


text:
I am a DONA certified doula serving Oklahoma City, Ok, and the surrounding areas.
I specialize in first time births, and VBAC births. I have been working as a doula for nearly 5 years, and love every bit of my job.
Things you should know about me:
I am a Christian and where possible and acceptable I like to pray and sometimes sing during births.
I believe that mom's goals and wishes for the birth of her child are the most important factor in the room when things are going well and everyone is healthy.
I prefer to see babies born without intervention but am absolutely one hundred percent committed to honoring the mother and father's wishes for the birth of their child and do not let my personal ideals get in the way of that.
I offer a meet and greet (free) to anyone interested in my service.
If hired I offer two prenatal meetings, continual care during labor, phone support leading up to the birth and for a few weeks after it, and one or two postpartum visits depending on need (one absolutely, two depends on the situation).
I also offer photography as a part of my birth 'package' at no additional cost, I only ask that the parents please provide an SD card for my use during the birth so that your confidential pictures remain you confidential pictures.


text:
China's new leaders have an opportunity to transform international media relations as they assume power in 2013. But their predecessors spent the previous year ensuring that reforms would take years to manifest--even if the new generation shows the political will to implement them.
In 2012, Chinese leaders appeared less concerned than they had in some time with how their treatment of the foreign press corps was perceived internationally. The government forced a foreign correspondent out of the country for the first time since 1998 and allowed anti-foreign popular sentiment to flourish, to the detriment of international correspondents. Obstruction of reporting seemed particularly stark when looking back to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when leaders tried to appease international media companies concerned about lack of access. The restrictive measures on the mainland came even as the Chinese Communist Party pushed an unprecedented expansion of its own news media into global markets.
In November, seven new members of the party's leading Politburo Standing Committee were selected at the 18th Party Congress, completing the long-planned ascension of Vice President Xi Jinping to the head of the party and positioning him to take the presidency at the March 2013 legislative session. Liu Yunshan, longtime leader of the propaganda department, was among the new lineup, which analysts described as conservative.
"Nothing should be ruled out," Robert J. Barnett, who watches China as the director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program at Columbia University in New York, told CPJ. "This is a new leadership, going through an unprecedented transition upheaval, facing unparalleled challenges from social and economic tensions in China."
But the press received little encouragement to chart these upheavals, with restrictions on visas and accreditations tightened ahead of the Congress and hotel owners instructed to report guests whose resident permits identify them as journalists, according to the translation of a notice by the California-based China Digital Times. It wasn't clear how Xi and his cohort might transition from this dismal beginning. To make the media globally competitive and functional as a domestic watchdog--especially as economic growth slows and wealth discrepancies continue to reverberate--reforming media policies in line with international norms is a necessity. Though many observers believe the new leadership recognizes the need for change, there's little hope this can be achieved within existing frameworks or with any urgency.
"Many people are hoping the new team will move towards greater transparency and a deeper commitment to freedom of the press, but it's premature to say if this is likely anytime soon," Melinda Liu, Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek/Daily Beast and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, told CPJ.
A significant marker in 2012 came when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to renew the accreditation of Al-Jazeera English correspondent Melissa Chan, forcing her to leave Beijing after five years. Delaying and denying visas--or threatening to revoke them--is a long-standing technique for discouraging critical reporters. But this de facto expulsion was the most egregious example CPJ had documented since the 1990s, and it cast a chill over the entire press corps because the motivation was unknown. When correspondents pressed spokesman Hong Lei for more information about the decision at a Foreign Ministry press briefing, he said, "With regard to the relevant issue, I think relevant media and journalists are clear about that." They weren't. Chan told CPJ she remains unclear about why the government would not renew her credentials. "The Chinese have not been entirely forthcoming," she told CPJ. "I guess we just won't be able to know." Under relatively unknown new leaders, foreign journalists will need to continue to guess which lines cannot be crossed.
Those who retained permission to work found their access eroded. In May, security officials summoned for questioning a dozen journalists covering the treatment of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng in a Beijing hospital. At least two journalists' press cards were temporarily confiscated because the hospital parking lot was supposedly off-limits to reporters. Similarly, in 2011, police told international reporters seeking to cover anti-government protests--the Jasmine uprising that was crushed before it began--that they required advanced authorization to report, even though they were in one of the busiest shopping districts in the capital.
Nor were journalists able to get substantive information through official channels. In the digital media age, Foreign Ministry news conferences appeared particularly archaic. After Chen garnered global media attention for fleeing house arrest for the sanctuary of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai told reporters he had "no information" on the case. In September, Xi Jinping's absence from public events prompted speculation about his health, with one journalist asking at a regular ministry news conference whether the official had died unexpectedly. "I hope you can ask a serious question," was Hong's response.
Officials' interactions with journalists on overseas trips were also characterized by suspicion. President Hu Jintao's refusal to schedule news conferences overseas drew strong criticism on a June trip to Denmark. Organizers of a September EU-China summit in Brussels canceled the post-meeting news conference, an established tradition at the event, after Chinese participants tried to vet attendees and limit the number of questions, according to The Associated Press. On a high-profile visit to the U.S. in February 2012, future president Xi didn't hold any news conferences, which may be an indication of the approach he will take in office.
This was "especially disappointing" to Melinda Liu, who headed the Foreign Correspondents Club of China during a window of openness shortly before the start of the Olympics in 2008. After the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, Liu said, "Premier Wen Jiabao held a press conference for foreign media near the epicenter of the quake where unscripted questions were asked and answered." International diplomacy also had some effect in promoting openness at the time. "During the year before the Games, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China had regular liaison with foreign embassies in Beijing to brief diplomats on changing regulations and events on the ground. It helped when foreign governments raised their concerns about press freedoms to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. And the ministry itself wanted to appear responsive to foreign journalists' concerns," Liu said. "However, the pendulum swung back toward greater restriction of media access."
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China faces its own share of restrictions. In August 2012, it issued a statement condemning four attacks against international reporters, but its activity was muted in comparison to past years. Though the group formerly logged incidents involving foreign correspondents on its website, the information has been circulated to a members-only list since mid-2010. A Foreign Ministry official threatened the organization with "serious consequences" should it continue to post such material, said Peter Ford, the club's president. He said the group interpreted the "vague and ambiguous threat" to mean that the authorities might close the club, officially an illegal organization, or make it hard for its leaders to work in China.
Foreign officials appeared to have limited ability to influence press conditions. Twenty-six German correspondents working in China wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel asking her to intervene on their behalf during a visit scheduled in August. Some reports said she raised the issue privately, but there was no public result. CPJ appealed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to raise the issue in their travels to Beijing, but the effort met with no apparent success. It's unclear if new leaders wanting to start off international relations on a fresh footing will be any more approachable.
Broad censorship of foreign news reports remained in place in 2012; international satellite channels, for example, were largely unavailable to the public. China Digital Times published a government listing, circulated in advance of the November Congress, that said 33 such channels were permitted in "domestic hotels serving foreigners rated three stars and above." Encoded signals from the channels are under the sole control of the state-owned China International Television Corporation. The government's notice said that no other venue could broadcast the signals without approval, according to China Digital Times.
The authorities blocked a June report by the U.S.-based Bloomberg news agency that examined the financial assets held by Xi Jinping's family and associates. Just months ahead of Xi's expected designation as the next president, this was an especially sensitive report. Bloomberg's terminal service, which provides real-time financial data, was unaffected by the censorship, although Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported in September that the Chinese market for the service shrank in the aftermath of the report. In October, the website of The New York Times was blocked within an hour of the paper's publication of an exposé on the family wealth of outgoing Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Earlier in the year, the Times reported that a Sina Weibo microblog account linked to its newly launched Chinese-language edition was censored within a week of being activated. Tight restrictions applied to Chinese journalists, too: Jian Guangzhou, who broke the story of contaminated Sanlu milk formula for the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post in 2008, quit the paper in October. "I definitely couldn't do [that investigation] today," Jian told the McClatchy news service.
Censorship and obstruction were accompanied by a rise in anti-foreign sentiment, as the party used state media to manipulate public anger. As the dispute with Japan over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands in the East China Sea intensified in mid-September, propaganda officials withheld the habitual orders to suppress reporting on "mass incidents," the party's phrase for public disturbances. Violent anti-Japanese protesters took to the streets across major Chinese cities, encouraged by saturation media coverage. The repercussions were severe: Several Japanese companies temporarily halted production in China as thousands looted factories, and one man was beaten and partially paralyzed while driving his Toyota Corolla, news reports said. When police in southern Guangzhou resorted to tear gas to contain protesters, domestic media changed course and urged restraint. Censors blocked videos and search terms related to the demonstrations, according to The Associated Press. The Tokyo-based Overseas Courier Service Co. told the English-language Japan Times that Chinese customs officials seized at least two entire October issues of Japanese newspapers delivered by air for distribution in China, because they contained reports on the developing dispute. The report did not identify the newspapers by name.
If Xi Jinping and other new Communist Party leaders persist in this attitude toward foreign correspondents on home soil, they may find other states unwilling to cooperate with Chinese media expansion around the world. The conflict with Japan provided a small illustration when China protested the Japanese coast guard's detention of two journalists who had accompanied Chinese activists planting flags on the unoccupied islands--a rare instance of a foreign government obstructing the Chinese press. Japan promptly released the two reporters.
In June, a U.S. Congressional subcommittee on immigration met to consider the proposed Chinese Media Reciprocity Act of 2011, which would restrict the number of U.S. visas granted to journalists working for Chinese state media. The bill was based on a faulty analogy between American news outlets with state backing, like Voice of America, and the complex system of licensing in China that mandates some level of state sponsorship for all media. The bill's drafters identified only 13 state outlets, and hoped that China's fear of limited access for those outlets would prompt Beijing to offer more visas to their U.S. counterparts. CPJ opposed the act, which had not been passed by late 2012, on grounds that it would likely goad China into retaliation, not reciprocity, at the expense of journalists in both countries. But the bill served as a measure of the resistance Chinese journalists might encounter if their leaders refused to grant them independence.
An episode in Canada bodes ill for China's effort to create global media networks. Mark Bourrie, a 55-year-old Canadian who worked for the Xinhua news agency, publicly resigned in April after his employer asked him to report an event involving the Dalai Lama as an internal briefing, not as public news. Bourrie also said he had been told to gather names and addresses of anti-China protesters in Canada. Xinhua's Ottawa bureau chief denied his account, according to the Canadian Press, but the details rang true for analysts familiar with Xinhua's two-tier domestic publication system, which reserves sensitive content for government-only distribution. Linda Jakobson, East Asia program director of Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy, highlighted another concern on the organization's blog in October, saying a Xinhua reporter had misquoted her as praising China's role in facilitating talks with North Korea. She had actually commented critically on China's involvement more than a year earlier, she wrote. "The official media continues to either censor or intentionally misconstrue any stance which does not conform to what the propaganda officials have deemed as the correct interpretation," Jakobson said.
Other factors undermine China's effort to find a global audience for its state media, such as the behavior of Yang Rui, the high-profile host of "Dialogue," a CCTV English-language talk show structured around debate with international guests. Encouraged by viral media stories about badly behaved foreign nationals and the launch of an official public campaign to tighten visa checks, Yang published a series of comments about "foreign trash" on his personal microblog, culminating in a reference to Melissa Chan's dismissal. "We kicked out that foreign bitch and closed Al-Jazeera's Beijing bureau," Yang wrote in May, according to a Wall Street Journal translation. After foreign guests boycotted his show, Yang grudgingly conceded that his choice of wording was "incautious." Select posts from his microblog archive--including one saying that U.S. journalists are "afraid of getting fired by their Jewish bosses"--were deleted, according to the Shanghaiist website, which published them in translation. Even in his belated October apology, Yang stressed that "foreign correspondents in China united" against him, which "proves the influence of our program."
Though Yang's language prompted widespread debate, the offensive post about Chan went unrebuked by propaganda officials. In fact, state media amplified it: The Global Times reprinted the language in a special section titled, "Foreign Devils or Angels?" This was particularly troubling since, like "Dialogue," the Times is geared to an English-speaking audience perfectly positioned to mediate between the Chinese state and the world. If these outlets continue to adhere to the state's disdain for their audience, they are unlikely to achieve commercial success. Blogger Charles Custer, who was based in Beijing at the time, described Yang as "one of the faces of China's soft power push" on his site, China Geeks. "The fact that [Dialogue's] host is apparently a racist xenophobe is probably indicative of how successful China's soft power push is likely to be," Custer wrote.
It apparently has not occurred to outgoing Chinese authorities that courting international journalists at home would be the surest way to kick-start soft power. If new leaders have a different view, it has yet to manifest. Even the announcement of the date for the Congress just before the National Day holiday seemed intended to elude, or at least annoy, the foreign press. "Announcement of ... Nov 8 Party Congress date is Chinese equivalent of the Friday afternoon document dump, before a weeklong holiday," The Washington Post's Keith Richburg complained on Twitter, one of 13 similar reactions compiled by the China-based blog, Beijing Cream.
Also slipped quietly into the news cycle that Friday was the announcement that Bo Xilai, the ousted Chongqing Communist Party leader, would be prosecuted for abuse of power and other crimes related to the 2011 fatal poisoning of British citizen Neil Heywood over an alleged "economic dispute" with the erstwhile anti-corruption czar's family. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, was given a suspended death sentence for that murder in August, though at least one Chinese forensic expert has disputed the evidence used in her trial, according to The Wall Street Journal. The story, and the corruption allegations surrounding it, rocked the nation when they were exposed earlier in the year--thanks in good part to a push by highly motivated international correspondents. Local journalists had long been stymied in their own efforts to reveal Bo's wrongdoing. A former CPJ award winner, Jiang Weiping, served six years in jail for anti-graft reports published in Hong Kong that implicated Bo when he was governor of Liaoning Province. A Chongqing freelancer, Gao Yingpu, was handed a three-year sentence in a closed-door trial in 2010 after criticizing Bo on his personal blog.
The decision to charge Bo was a victory for all those whose relentless pursuit of the story forced the party to investigate one of their own. Yet announcing the charge in a way intended to minimize overseas news coverage implied that his prosecution would take place on the party's terms, and not to appease critics of China's entrenched political corruption. It also underscored the ambivalence leaders have toward the foreign press corps, a community they still treat as agents of hostile powers, regardless of their essential role in the country's information culture. On November 1, China Digital Times reported that Chinese environmental protesters in southwestern Ningbo applauded international correspondents as "family" after domestic media refused to cover their concerns, clustering around reporters to protect them from police and spontaneously hoisting a cameraman above the crowd for a better perspective. China's new leaders might take heed.
Madeline Earp is senior researcher for CPJ's Asia Program. She has studied Mandarin in China and Taiwan, and graduated with a master's in East Asian studies from Harvard. She is the author of the 2010 CPJ report, "In China, a debate on press rights."


text:
It was a morning much like any other: the rush out of the front door, the web of motorbikes as they wove through traffic on the highway, the handbag clutched tightly to her body as Saysunee Jana, then 17, rode pillion to work.
Then, in an instant, everything changed.
In Thai, Jana's first name, Saysunee, means "lightning", an appellation seemingly prophetic for the crash – swift and powerful – that would knock her off the motorbike, crack her skull, smash her front teeth, break her back and leave her legs paralysed.
"Until my accident, I never thought about my future," says Jana, who, at 38, is Thailand's only female Paralympic gold medallist, a wheelchair fencer whose rivals call her "practically unbeatable".
"All I knew was that I had just started being able to provide for my family. I thought, If things were tough before, they're only going to get worse."
Jana is now national hero in Thailand, regularly shining at the regional Fespic and Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Para Games. Of the 50 Thai athletes competing in the Paralympics this year, the Chiang Mai native is but expected to bring home another gold – this one in the épée division at the Excel Arena today.
Twenty years ago, however, such a task would have seemed impossible.
Jana fell into a deep depression after the accident. Her family, whose richer neighbours used to chuck water at the children to shoo them away, had incurred massive debts after Jana's rounds of surgery and was struggling to stay afloat. For four years, Jana refused to leave the house, then resolved to kill herself by throwing herself out of a window.
"But I spent a full hour just trying to lift myself out of the wheelchair," says Jana. "It filled me with such frustration, to be too weak to kill myself."
Her failed suicide attempt forced her to embrace the change wrought on her body. A high-school dropout, she enrolled in a distance-learning course and then attended a government-run institute for disabled people, where she was encouraged to try wheelchair sports, spurred on by the promise of prize money: "All I thought was, I just have to win so I can earn some money for my family."
It has been 13 years now since her first international fencing tournament, and Jana's record is watertight: she's won every single one of her past 12 tournaments, but not by a very large margin, she admits.
Jana's greatest challenger at this year's Paralympics will be Hong Kong's Chan Yui Chong, a 29-year-old épée and foil contender and five-time Paralympic gold medallist. "She is very good," says Jana. "I can't say for sure I'll win [against her]."
Yet Jana is known herself for being a tough contestant, says long-time rival Yao Feng, a Chinese wheelchair fencer who, like Jana, lost the use of both legs in a traffic accident.
"Jana is practically unbeatable in the epee competition," Yao Fang told CNTV in 2010. "Her long arms give her the advantage."
Jana has used her prize money wisely, paying off family debts, buying family homes, supporting her sister through university and completing her own bachelor's degree. She married a fellow disabled national fencer, and has also used her celebrity wisely, working as a reporter on a public TV programme about disabled sports, and serving as a mentor to other disabled athletes.
"Sports help people recognise those with disabilities, especially here, where there is a real lack of facilities for disabled people," says Jana, stressing that wheelchair ramps are nearly non-existent, disabled parking spots often filled by non-disabled drivers, and public transportation void of access for the disabled.
This will be Jana's third Paralympic Games – she won gold and bronze in 2004 in Athens, and bronze four years later in Beijing – and her first trip to the UK. While the Thai Paralympics' delegation chief, Osot Pavilai, recently worried about the impact of London's cold weather on his athletes, Jana aims to wrap up warmly and, after the Games, head to Manchester United football club to pay her respects.
"I hope to meet David Beckham, somewhere, some day," says Jana. "But my very next goal is to win this gold."
This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk


text:
By Celina, mother of two sponsored children in Colombia
My goal has always been to have my own house. That was my biggest dream, but I could never save enough money to buy a home.
When my children joined the program, Elvia, an Unbound staff member, started to talk about mothers groups and how we could develop our skills.
We made a poster with our dreams, and I chose to use a picture of a house. Elvia told us that we can reach our goals as long as we establish clear goals.
After that meeting, I started to think about the first step in reaching my dreams. I started to attend Unbound workshops frequently to gain motivation.
I was unemployed, and we needed to have a bank account with money before we qualified for government-subsidized housing. I had just 50.000 pesos (about $28 US) in my pocket. I asked the bank about the process and learned I needed 60.000 pesos (about $33 US) to open a bank account.
I was not working, so I found a job growing flowers. I saved my money for four years until I finished my work growing flowers.
It wasn't until I spoke with Elvia that I learned I could start my own business selling products to my neighbors and friends. Unbound supported me and gave me a microwave and two canisters to sell coffee.
I learned to make delicious empanada pies, and I started to sell my empanadas and cups of coffee to my neighbors. That was how I started my own business. I would keep my goal in mind as I saved the money I earned.
When I start to work I do not have a coin in my pocket, but when I come home my pocket is full. Now, I have a little store where I sell food.
After saving money for four years, I had the chance to buy a house. I feel glad because my friends and family said that I could never afford a house, but I worked hard, I built my own business and God helped me.
My husband and I were able to reach our goal by saving our money. We are so thankful for Unbound's support, like school items and groceries, because we were able to save money to pay for our house.
My children bring me energy to get ahead in life, and sometimes they walk to work with me. I feel their support. Now I can make a better life for my children.
My message for other mothers is to fight for your dreams. God brings us the strength we need to do the impossible.
Related links:


text:
Heritage Inn
- 34521 Postal Ln
- Lewes, DE 19958
- Phone: (302) 644-0600
- Toll-free: (800) 669-9399
- Visit Website
Conveniently located within three miles of Rehoboth Beach and Lewes, The Heritage Inn boasts a rich, elegant look at affordable prices. Enjoy a room and take advantage of all of our amenities for the perfect getaway. The Heritage Inn is the first "themed" property in the area. Each room is named for a state, territory, national park or other American Tradition. Relax in our beautiful pool or take a stroll at a nearby beach. Enjoy our fitness center, breakfast area, wet bar and refrigerator, meeting rooms, free parking, and guest laundry services.


text:
Two months after hip replacement surgery, Scott Ebert's leg started giving way. His joint began slipping. Razor blades of pain pierced his foot. An inexplicably large bruise grew along his calf. An excruciating burning feeling filled his hip. His ears rang. Doctor after doctor didn't know why. Finally, blood tests showed the metal from Ebert's artificial hip was leaching into his bloodstream.
Six months after it was installed, Ebert's new joint had to be replaced. He's left with chronic pain.
Ebert's Stryker Rejuvenate hip prosthesis was supposed to have been the latest and greatest, a new modular design fitted perfectly to his anatomy, with a choice of stems to be planted into his thigh bone and a choice of necks to support a choice of artificial balls and sockets.
Instead, Stryker's Rejuvenate and ABGII modular systems were recalled in July. They are the latest entries in a gallery of recent hip implant product failures, failures that are shining a light on the need for a system that detects quickly when medical devices go wrong.
The failures appear to have metal and friction in common: metal-on-metal balls and sockets, metal-on-metal stems and necks. Friction appears to cause wear that exposes bare metal to blood and nearby tissues. These traveling metal ions can promote inflammation, tumorlike swellings, and muscle and bone degradation, according to physicians and research reports.
An FDA panel last summer found almost no good reason to use metal-on-metal hip implants after reviewing 17,000 reports of problems in about 500,000 patients with metal balls and sockets.
Common procedure
For a generation of baby boomers growing old and arthritic, total hip replacement is an increasingly common need. More than 1 million of the procedures are performed in the United States each year, and the number is projected to quadruple by 2030, propelled by the graying and fattening of America.
Research shows that for patients with severe hip arthritis, joint replacement can improve quality of life and reduce pain. More than 90 percent of new hip recipients still have their artificial joints after 10 years, the industry reports. But consumers and their doctors alike are still unclear about which materials and surgical techniques are best. Lack of data leaves marketing campaigns and paid surgeon-consultants to tout their ideas.
Revisions can devastate
Dianne Pingel, 66, used to exercise at the YMCA and go for long walks with her husband. Now, she said, she is lucky to walk to the mailbox.
She is recovering from five surgeries related to hip implants in succession. Her left hip was replaced in July 2011 with a Stryker Rejuvenate modular stem. Her right hip was replaced 14 weeks later, in October, also with a Rejuvenate device. The right one has since been removed, but the left hip device remains. It needs to come out.
Removing an existing artificial hip and putting in another one is much more extensive than a first hip replacement. It requires a larger incision, and the sawing away of significantly more bone. Surgeons are forced to pull out a device often firmly cemented into what's left of the patient's femur, attempting to minimize damage to what bone is still there. If the problem joint is surrounded by dead muscle and tissue, that must be removed too.
"It's a lot for a person to go through, "Pingel said.
Growing number of lawsuits
Pingel is the first Rejuvenate patient in the nation to sue Stryker, but she's hardly the last. Pingel's suit is one of nine that have been filed in Bergen County, N.J., where Stryker is based. The company, in its court response, denied the allegations. A company spokeswoman had little to add.
"As a matter of company policy, we don't comment on legal matters," said Stryker's Jeanine Guilfoyle.
Since taking Pingel's case, the attorneys have added 300 clients, Pingel's attorney said. Faced with a barrage of liability lawsuits, Stryker isn't saying what percentage of its joints have failed.
Obstacles to joint registry
Today, the FDA asks companies to track their products and report back. But there is a lag time, and it's unclear what the failure rate is, because the data don't include the total number sold.
A national joint registry could enable doctors to know with certainty that they were matching the right type of prosthesis to the appropriate patient because they could sort data based on patient characteristics. They could then assess product life and revision rates for their type of patient. Regulatory agencies such as the FDA could move quickly when problems arose. And it would cover not just artificial hips, but knees and other joints too.
Medical device makers argue that a voluntary product registry is the right approach. The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons has given seed money to launch a nonprofit, the American Joint Replacement Registry.
The voluntary registry's executive director said the goal is to create the largest registry in the world, one similar to Australia's mandatory system. But the project has been thwarted by the lack of a uniform method for hospitals to scan data, such as a bar code. Instead, hospitals must assign a staff person to enter data. In 18 months, 116 hospitals have agreed to participate. The group hopes to attract more than 3,000. In addition, device makers need to develop a plan for adding serial numbers to actual devices without increasing risk of corrosion or metal exposure.
"Everybody says, 'Why haven't we done this in the past?' But really technology is just being brought up to speed where we can do it," said registry Executive Director Jeffrey Knezovich.
Recent prosthetic hip recalls
The FDA encourages patients who have metal-on-metal hip replacements to follow up with their surgeons and seek regular blood tests.
2008: Zimmer Durom Acetabular Component ("Durom Cup") label recall, because of surgical technique instruction issues. On the market with updated instructions, but, according to a company spokesman, no longer for sale in the United States due to lack of demand.
2010: DePuy ASR Total Hip System, because of higher-than-anticipated revision rates according to non-U.S. joint registries. Off the market.
2012: Stryker Rejuvenate and ABGII modular neck-stems because of corrosion. Off the market.
2012: DePuy Orthopaedics unused custom hip and knee replacement implants; a warning letter from the FDA said that they had not been properly approved for use in patients, DePuy disagreed. Off the market.
Latest Health
Source: FDA/DePuy/Zimmer
Alerted late
The problems with Stryker's Rejuvenate and ABGII modular hip joints were revealed first not in the U.S., where at least 20,000 were implanted over almost three years, but in Australia, where far fewer were implanted. Australia picked up the problems first because of its national joint replacement registry.


text:
Keep the Story GoingSwitch between listening to an audiobook and reading on your Kindle with Whispersync for Voice.
When you can't read, listen.
Now you can switch between reading and listening to your Kindle books with the simple tap of a button.
Just pop in your headphones, tap the button, and keep the story going...in the car, in the gym, in the kitchen, wherever your day takes you. Whenever your eyes are occupied but your mind is free, your story is ready for listening.
How it Works
Buy the Kindle book
Add audio companion
Switch between reading and listening on the Kindle App or tablet
Experience Immersion Reading
Read and listen simultaneously with real-time highlighting. It's called Immersion Reading and that's what it does: immerse you in a story by narrating and highlighting the text as you read. It sparks an extra connection that boosts engagement, comprehension, and retention, taking you deeper into the book.
Available on Kindle App for Android and iOS, Fire HD 6 Tablet, Fire HD 7 Tablet, Kindle Fire HDX Tablet, and Fire HDX 8.9
Read. Listen. Repeat.
You can switch from reading to listening within the Kindle Fire Tablet or Kindle app. Or, you can switch between reading on one device and listening on another. For example, you can read on your tablet and then listen on your smartphone, and, thanks to Whispersync for Voice, you'll never lose your place.
Read with: Kindle Apps, Kindle, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle Touch, Kindle Paperwhite, Fire Tablets, Fire Phone, Kindle Voyage
Listen with: Kindle App for iPhone, Kindle App for Android, Fire Tablets and Phone, Amazon Echo, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle Touch, Audible for iPhone, Audible for Android, Audible for Windows Phone
More than 100,000 titles and growing
Free this month
Try one on us! We have hand-picked a free title to show just how engaging reading and listening can be.
Read and listen to a title for free
60,000+ Shop the collection
Choose from inspiring biographies, intriguing mysteries, sci-fi sagas, business insights, and more best sellers.
Browse all Kindle books with audio companions


text:
Australian Dairy celebrates FTA with the world's largest dairy import market
The Australian Dairy Industry Sustainability Framework provides an opportunity for us to demonstrate our commitment to sustainability - our people,
animals and planet. Since the Framework's implementation, we have produced two progress reports. Click below to see the 2015 report. The 2016
report will be launched early 2017.
read more download report
The Australian Dairy Vision is a statement by which the industry aims to be known for and proud of by 2025. The vision and priorities will help our industry organisations to work together, in order to grow in confidence and prosperity throughout the dairy industry, locally and nationally.
To join Australian Dairy Farmers, simply download the Membership Form and follow the
instructions on the form to fill it in to return to ADF.
Keep up-to-date with latest industry news, recent and upcoming events, key policy issues, and new development within the advocacy space here.
Published bi-monthly "The Australian Dairyfarmer" is the official voice of the Australian dairy farmer.
Australian Dairy Farmers Ltd, the national policy development body for the dairy industry, contracts Rural Press to publish the magazine.


text:
Software saves your recipes, including those found online, and uses them to create meal plans, shopping lists, and publish family cookbooks
Customer Reviews
What You'll Get
Recipes guarantee chefs always remember how much sour cream to put in mashed potatoes or how many shakes it takes to turn a jug of milk into a wedding cake. Never forget with this voucher.
Choose Between Two Options
- $20 for Cook'n Recipe Organizer Version 10 (a $79.95 value)
- $39 for Cook'n Recipe Organizer Version 10 and $30 to spend on eCookbooks (a $109.95 total value)
The software works on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/NT/2000/ME/Windows 98 and Mac v10.6 or higher; see the website for more information. eCookbooks ($0.95–$29.95) can be downloaded and integrated with the Cook'n Recipe Organizer, and are available from brands such as Taste of Home, Weber, and Gooseberry Patch.
Click here for a list of features and system requirements. Click here to see images of the software at work.
The Fine Print
Promotional value expires 180 days after purchase. Amount paid never expires. Limit 3 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per order. Valid only for option purchased. Online only. Valid toward digital download of Cook'n Recipe Organizer. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
About Cook'n Recipe Organizer Version 10
Recipe cards tucked into boxes, links bookmarked on computers, recipes shared via email—now, home cooks can save and organize all their recipes with Cook'n software. The program comes preloaded with 500 recipes to start out. From there, you can enter your own heirloom recipes and Internet finds, compiling them in the same spot and keeping them safe from spaghetti-sauce explosions. The software can organize the recipes into digital cookbooks with their own chapters, or print recipe cards and custom cookbooks with personalized colours and styles.
After you've rounded out your gastronomy anthology, you can search based on the ingredients you have on hand, or create meal plans with shopping lists that are automatically organized by aisle. To help home cooks tailor their meals to their family's dietary needs, the program's nutrition database enables it to estimate nutrition information, even for user-inputted recipes.


text:
Qu'ran, Surah 5, Verse 32
towards the cost of lifesaving
dialysis treatment and machines..."
"...All administrative costs are
personally borne by volunteers of
The Noor Foundation UK...."
The Noor Foundation UK - A UK registered charity providing free kidney dialysis centres & free dialysis treatment to the poor & needy since 1998, the first focus being in Pakistan.
Our vision is that no kidney disease sufferer should die due to lack of funds or lack of available kidney dialysis facilities.
Get the latest news and updates by email or post.
You are viewing the text version of this site.
Need help? check the requirements page.