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Throwing a baby shower for the mom-to-be is a snap with these fun games, gifts, recipes and ideas.
Throwing a baby shower for a special mother-to-be? Let us help with great games, gifts and food ideas from Country Woman magazine readers.
Throwing a Baby Shower: Guide to Games
1. Now, That's Cute! "Cute" has to be the most common word you hear at a baby shower—so why not have fun with it? Give each arriving guest a diaper pin, a warning not to lose it if she wanted to win the prize, and a slip of paper with this verse, titled "Cute!": Place this pin upon your shirt (Don't worry, it's not going to hurt). And when you hear another say this special word here today — you get to take her pin away! Tons of fun, especially when people who've collected several pins forget, say the word and lose them all! —Bonnie Hawkins, Burlington, Wisconsin
2. Beanie Bottle Fill a baby bottle with jelly beans, and ask guests to guess the total, giving a prize to the one who comes closest. —Mary Hamilton, Baltimore, Maryland.
3. Savings Start. Instruct guests, on the invitation, to bring a handful of quarters. When each arrives, give her a tag printed not with her name but instead, an item associated with babies, like rattle, diaper or blanket. Throughout the shower, everyone is to call each other by that name on her tag—or forfeit a quarter into a brand-new piggy bank for the baby. Guests who lose all their quarters and use the wrong name have to sing a lullaby, which gets recorded for the baby. Entertaining, and a good start for the baby's savings account. —Wanda Anderson, Pikeville, Tennessee
4. Feeding Frenzy. This is great for a shower the expectant dad attends. The mom-to-be has to feed Dad a taste of each of seven jars of baby food, and he has to identify each. Of course, you've previously removed the labels. Guests predict how many answers Dad will get right. —Carol Krueger, Chicago, Illinois
5. Letter Perfect. Make your gift a guessing game. Fill a laundry basket with small, individually wrapped gifts, one for every letter of the alphabet. Make sure you label each wrapped gift with its initial. "R" might be "rattle" and "Q" could be "Q-Tips." ("L" is the laundry basket.) Guests make a list from A to Z guessing what each present will be. —Barbara Marchant, West Newfield, Maine
6. Time Capsule. Ask gifts to help bring items to fill a time capsule with small items to fill a time capsule. Direct the parents to seal the capsule on the baby's first birthday, with a "Do Not Open Until" label (indicating a special date in the future, such as the child's 16th birthday, high school graduation day or birth of their own baby) and tuck it away in a cool dry place like a closet.
Throwing a Baby Shower: Guide to Gifts
1. Basket Full. For a special niece's baby shower, I filled a large wicker basket with clothes, diapers and bedding, and wrapped the whole basket in a new crib sheet, the way you'd wrap an Easter basket. I secured it with large diaper pins and pinned rattles, pacifiers, baby shoes and hair bows all around the top. She was thrilled not just with the presents, but also with the pretty basket, which she used to hold clothes and diapers. —Barbara Stanley, Blairsville, Georgia
2. Keepsake Card. It's easy to recycle a shower invitation into a card to give the guest of honor. I cut out pictures from the invitation, glue them onto card stock and write a personal message, sometimes including a Bible verse. —Connie Tanner, Sturgeon, Missouri
3. Wrap Artist. The wrapping is always part of my gift for showers. A receiving blanket is the perfect "paper" for a baby shower gift, and a rattle makes a cute trim. —Calleen Dunfee, Jacobsburg, Ohio
4. Laundry Line. This is a good group gift. Buy a number of baby outfits in different sizes, then affix to a clothesline with tiny clothespins. Arrange in a laundry basket so that when the mom-to-be took out the first outfit, she pulls out a line full of clothes. —Shari Haskins, Roulette, Pennsylvania.
5. Get creative. Fold washcloths into chicks or bunnies, or crochet baby booties to make sweet, practical gift-toppers. Or wrap a baby in love with a handknit baby blanket, an angelic crocheted afghan or an adorable ducky bath towel. Find even more ideas here.
Throwing a Baby Shower: Guide to Remote Showers
When the mother-to-be can't travel back home to see friends and family, bring the party to her. Reader Lynda D. Koehler of Paupack, Pennsylvania, recalls asking guests to bring their presents, unwrapped, for everyone to exclaim over, then to wrap the presents at the party. Once the guests left, Lynda packaged up the presents, decorations, favors, disposable cameras and leftover plates, napkins and cups, then sent them to a friend who lived nearby. She invited mutual friends and the mother-to-be for a surprise shower.
Similarly, Janice Williams of Anniston, Alabama, held a "Backward Shower" for which guests brought unwrapped gifts and wrapping supplies. She took video of each guest holding her wrapped present and saying a few words to the expectant mom. When the guest of honor watched the video, just before opening the gifts, she saw her mom cut the cake and heard all her friends' warm wishes.
Throwing a Baby Shower: Guide to Food
In addition to the ideas pictured, consider making a specially decorated cake, cupcake rattles or tiny handprint/footprint cookies


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McKenzie Blake of Lewes honored by DAR
Worcester Prep Grade 5 state DAR winner McKenzie Blake of Lewes, center, was honored by the Daughters of the American Revolution's Levin Winder Chapter for her award-winning historical essay. Blake's essay, which won both Worcester County and state of Maryland honors, has been submitted to the district competition. With McKenzie are DAR Education Chair Sandy Quillin, left, and Levin Winder Regent Katie Gaskins Matthews.

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1870 Hand Painted Family Portraits Watercolor MaineAtti
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- Sold Date: Nov 21, 2006
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Four antique family portraits of five individuals professionally hand painted in meticulously detailed watercolor over prepared photographic outlines on paper, mounted to their original stiff board mounts and retaining their original old natural dry surface, as found . Maine ,1870's, possibly earlier. Guaranteed old and original; these are not a fake or reproduction. Actual weight 1/2 lbs. Each approx 9 3/4" tall by 7 ¾" wide. Four antique family portraits of five individuals professionally hand painted in meticulously detailed watercolor over prepared photographic outlines on paper, mounted to their original stiff board mounts and retaining their original old natural dry surface as found. Found in the attic, these are the family at one time in residence. The husband (center bottom), his wife (bottom right) and their daughter (bottom left) shared the farm with the top couple, presumably related. Sea faring income focused on off shore fishing & lobster while a full farm operated behind the home extending inland. The daughter married and moved into town. The farm declined from the apex of humanity captured in these portraits. Prior to photography, the camera obscura arrested the human outline to be defined by the silhouette or miniature watercolor portrait before the camera became easily applicable. we offer the moderately scarce transitional technique w a faint photographic image is prepared on watercolor paper and then the portrait painted by a local professional artist. This process was very short lived lasting about twenty years in popularity. For an artist this was a very small window of economic feasibility for the camera and it's image won out in the end. Returning to the portraits, one must comment on the solid coastal Maine stock. The wife could pull the dory up on the beach, stack traps, carry bait, milk the cow, stack the wood, plow the field and start the stove on a dark February morning. The daughter escaped this drudgery. The farm and it's spectacular ocean front location became a "summer place" for the family within twenty years of these portraits. These were probably painted in one of the larger communities along the coast; Rockland , Thomaston, Waldoboro or Damariscotta. Each is initialed and shorted dated by the artist distinguishing the sitter in pencil on the back. Very good as found condition. We don't believe these were ever framed. We found them loose in the attic. Probably a family gift, once received on the working farm, they were stored casually after their novelty wore off. Maine fishermen care little for having their portrait done and the family soon lived "in town" with this estate becoming a family "summer place" ever since. Please see photographs. As found last week in a coastal fishing farm near Friendship Maine . Seeking things fresh found in attics? Please see our other listings from this estate. These were in the attic. We have done nothing to them at all; they are just as we found them. They look like good ones to us! We offer these four classic Maine coastal fishing farm family watercolor portraits for $4.99 NR..


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May 27, 2016
Last week in Michigan, the Wolverines' band mocked rival Ohio State with a script "OHNO" during its halftime performance.
This week OSU fired back, during halftime of the Buckeyes' win over San Diego State Saturday.
The Buckeyes staged a game show called "Are You Smarter Than a Wolverine?"
The band learned the entire routine in just four days.
It included skits from "The Price Is Right", "Jeopardy", "Family Feud", and "Wheel of Fortune."
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Global Plants From Jstor
Global Plants From Jstor
The UCR Libraries now provide access to Global Plants, comprehensive database of plant type specimens and complementary content for the study of plant life.
The largest of its kind, Global Plants (plants.jstor.org) is community-contributed database that features more than two million high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of hundreds of herbaria around the world. It is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.
Through Global Plants, herbaria can share specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations.
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- Primary source content highlights include Carl Linneaus's annotated editions of Species Naturae and correspondence from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and foundational reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, Flowering Plants of South Africa, and illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
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Herbaria preserve plant type specimens that are used for the study of botany, ecology, and other plant science disciplines, and are essential as original vouchers for nomenclature. Due to their importance, such collections are frequently lent between institutions to verify the correct application of a plant name. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, along with leading experts in the field, therefore determined that the greater botanical community would be well served by the creation of a digital library of type specimen images and related material. Out of this idea, the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) developed. Over 10 years, GPI has grown into an international partnership wherein herbaria work together to create a shared database of information and images of plants worldwide. In partnership with JSTOR, GPI is building a self-sustaining resource that the international scientific community can rely upon.
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The Global Plants Initiative includes more than 300 contributing herbaria.GPI partners include the New York Botanical Garden; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Missouri Botanical Garden; Komarov Botanical Institute; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium; National Herbarium of New South Wales; the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Museu Botânico Municipal.
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Healthy Sausage McMuffin copycat
I've thought about making these egg and sausage sandwiches for quite a while now, ever since I saw Kim's post about them. I haven't gone so far so to make a large batch to freeze, but I bet they'd be just as delicious reheated in the microwave.
I don't eat the real Sausage McMuffins from McDonald's because I don't eat red meat or pork, but I do get regular McMuffins with no meat on them, and love it. So to be able to make them at home, and make them healthier, is a no-brainer.
I bought these egg rings at Wegman's and they've worked out really well. They're nonstick so they're easy to clean, and they are the exact right size for a Thomas' English Muffin. If you click the picture below, you can order them from Amazon (and I make about 2 cents from your purchase).
- 1 whole wheat Thomas' English Muffin
- 1 egg
- 1 slice American cheese
- 1 turkey sausage patty (I used the Jimmy Dean frozen ones)
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Microwave sausage patty for 30 seconds, or until defrosted.
- Toast the english muffin to desired darkness.
- Spray a nonstick pan with cooking spray and place your egg ring inside. Crack the egg directly inside the ring and use a fork to break the yolk. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Cook the egg until almost set on top, and then remove the ring. Flip the egg over and finish cooking the other side.
- Place sausage patty on the bottom of the English muffin, put the cooked egg on top, and top with cheese. Add the top of the English muffin and enjoy!


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Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Kevin Durant poured in 41 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, as the streaking Oklahoma City Thunder downed Atlanta, 100-92.
Russell Westbrook added 27 points with 11 assists, as the two-man show combined for 68 points, 16 rebounds and 14 assists. The Thunder have now won 12 in a row and haven't lost in nearly a month. Their last loss came at Boston, 108-100, on November 23.
Jeff Teague led Atlanta with 19 points and nine assists, while Josh Smith posted a double-double of 17 points and 12 rebounds. Lou Williams and Al Horford each scored 13 in the setback, Atlanta's second in three games.
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Corruption is a deceptively good bad investment
Filthy rich, clean richer
A new list of the world's most corrupt countries includes some of the past decade's most lucrative growth markets, such as China and the Philippines. Corruption may not scare investors in the early days. But that doesn't mean it can't come back to haunt them later.
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Bank shares on Thursday rose sharply by over 21 per cent after new RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan announced a slew of measures related to the sector. Yes Bank shares skyrocketed by 21.55 per cent to Rs 287.35 at the BSE and it was the best performer among the 13 stocks on the BSE banking index.
Axis Bank shares rallied 15.63 per cent, while Federal Bank soared by 12.38 per cent.
Among bluechips, SBI surged 9.74 per cent, while ICICI Bank was up 9.20 per cent, HDFC Bank (7.53 per cent) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) (7.23 per cent).
Following the smart rally in these stocks, the BSE banking index settled the day at 11,014.99, up 9.30 per cent and was the top gainer among the 13 sectoral indices.
ICICI Bank, State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC Bank together added 244.6 points to the BSE Sensex gain.
The benchmark Sensex ended the day with a gain of 412.21 points at 18,979.76.
The Reserve Bank yesterday allowed banks to swap funds mobilised through foreign currency deposits to attract overseas funds.
"It has been decided accordingly to offer such a window to the banks to swap the fresh foreign currency non-resident (banks) FCNR(B) dollar funds, mobilised for a minimum tenor of three years and over at a fixed rate of 3.5 per cent per annum for the tenor of the deposit," RBI said in a notification yesterday.
It said based on requests received from banks, it has also been decided that the current overseas borrowing limit of 50 per cent of the unimpaired Tier I capital may be raised to 100 per cent.
Raghuram Rajan, who yesterday took charge as the 23rd Governor of the central bank, said the new bank licences will be issued around January next year.
Also, banks will soon no longer need RBI's permission to open branches, while foreign lenders will be encouraged to operate through wholly owned subsidiaries, Rajan said as he unveiled his reform agenda for the banking sector.


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The choice on whether to purchase a home is based mostly or your financial status. When you become unemployed (retired) you will have a more difficult time securing a loan to purchase a home. If your plan is to pay cash then this will not be an issue. Most lenders will require you to have an income that will support a loan on property.
While you have permission to remain in the home after death of your parents you also need to look at whether they will have debts or other obligations that will force a sale of the home. For example if your parents are forced into a nursing home. You should consult an attorney about modifying the deed to the house to reflect the agreement you have with you parents and siblings.
Other considerations what your expectation for housing values are in the area. If housing prices are increasing waiting could make any future purchase costly.
If you do not have cash to pay for a home, then you can consider the tax benefits of home ownership, the appreciation of a home over time.
Having said all that my impressions are that if your parents have a nice home, and you are getting along well with their situation. Living rent free for at least 5 years and potentially substantially longer is hard to pass up.
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Undercover cop show, starring Dylan McDermott, lasted two seasons
TNT has cancelled the Dylan McDermott undercover-cop drama "Dark Blue," the network said Tuesday.
The show, which premiered in July 2009, lasted two seasons and bowed Sept. 15 with an episode that earned 1.8 million viewers.
It was produced by Warner Horizon Television, and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Danny Cannon, Doug Jung, Rick Eid and Jonathan Littman.


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Goat Cheese & Ham Omelet Recipe
As a busy working mom, my breakfast needs to require minimal prep. I often combine the egg mixture beforehand and refrigerate overnight. Then all I have to do in the morning is heat up my skillet. My favorite part is the goat cheese filling, which gets nice and creamy from the heat of the omelet. —Lynne Dieterle, Rochester Hills, Michigan
- 4 egg whites
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 slice deli ham, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped green pepper
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons crumbled goat cheese
- Minced fresh parsley, optional
- 1. In a small bowl, whisk egg whites, water and pepper until blended; stir in ham, green pepper and onion. Heat a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Pour in egg white mixture. Mixture should set immediately at edges. As egg whites set, push cooked portions toward the center, letting uncooked egg flow underneath.
- 2. When no liquid egg remains, sprinkle goat cheese on one side. Fold omelet in half; slide onto a plate. If desired, sprinkle with parsley. Yield: 1 serving.
Nutritional Facts
1 omelet equals 143 calories, 4 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 27 mg cholesterol, 489 mg sodium, 5 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 21 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1/2 fat.
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Might take a read thru this thread viewtopic.php?f=44&t=18706
I am looking to pull apart my clutch tomorrow on my CL350 to sort out an ongoing issue with not being able to use a 5/16th #10 steel ball on the clutch lifter rod side as it's too large a diameter. It should fit, but doesn't, so something's amiss. I'm hoping to sort out the internals and have new EBC friction plates and springs, as well as a new OES pressure plate, 1x Clutch Plate A and 2x Clutch Plate B (out of a total of 7). I also have new OES springs as the EBC ones are a bit longer than stock (and hence supposed to be 10% stronger to prevent slip).
I have to disassemble the oil filter as part of clutch removal. The workshop manual part 3.3.E (p. 36) mentions, after removing the right crankcase cover, oil filter circlip and filter cap, to "straighten the tongue of the spring washer pawls and remove the 16mm lock nut but using the T-handle lock nut wrench. The filter rotor can then be removed. (fig. 3-69).
Do I require a specialty tool? Is that T wrench so special or can I use a normal 16mm socket on an extension from a regular ratchet set?
Anything else I should be wary of as I go ahead? We're just hitting above freezing temperatures here so I'm trying to get everything done over the next week or so before the snow really starts to melt.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
Might take a read thru this thread viewtopic.php?f=44&t=18706
Jim O'Brien
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1978 CB400T1 restored
1972 CL350 survivor restoration
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Aha -- thanks so much for the link. It's clear from the images Jphoenix provided that it's a specialty tabbed tool.
Motion-pro sells the socket. About $20
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I just learned about this! I ordered my tool off ebay from these guys:
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Got very quick service and I managed to bust that nut loose although it did require my super sized cheater bar.
plus a DR650, a Connie 14, an X6 on the shelf, a 77 Wing I need to sell, and a Bimota SB6R also for sale (-:
On the CB360, does the retainer that the T-handle wrench engages with have a left-hand or right-hand thread?
Andy Clark
They are RHT....Left (CCW) is loose.....Right (CW) tightens.....
There ARE folded locking tabs in your way that MUST be folded down (out of the way)....
"I have a mind like a steel trap.....Old and rusty, of antiquated design, and hard to get stuff back out of...."
Thanks for that. Didn't know about the tabs. Sorta hard to unscrew it with the tabs "up and locked".Originally Posted by 66Sprint
Andy Clark
Don't be embarrassed....You aren't the only one to attempt it that way.....
"I have a mind like a steel trap.....Old and rusty, of antiquated design, and hard to get stuff back out of...."
Hi Guy's
Do I need this tool for my CB350 as well?
I am about to attempt my first oil change.
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May 30, 2016
Three days after a ticket sold in Lapeer won a $337 million Powerball drawing, another Michigan lottery player won a big jackpot.
The Michigan Lottery announced Monday that a ticket sold in Plymouth won $1 million in Saturday's Powerball drawing.
The player matched five numbers. The ticket was sold at Hiller's Market.
Spokeswoman Andi Brancato says the Michigan Lottery is waiting to hear from the $1 million winner as well as the person who purchased Wednesday's $337 million jackpot winner at a Sunoco station in Lapeer.
Powerball has paid out nearly $340 million to Michigan winners in the two drawings starting Wednesday.
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News Release: FAMU
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida A&M University (FAMU) alumnus Dion Paul has been selected to participate in Google's Information Technology Residency Program. The 26-month rotational program provides training on Google's corporate infrastructure and is designed to help participants get a jump-start on their careers in technology.
While in residency, Paul will have opportunities to work with some of the most sophisticated and popular desktop and mobile operating systems, including: Windows, OS X, Linux, Chrome OS and Android. He will help Googlers from around the globe with challenging end-user support cases. Additionally, he will complete two long-term rotations – one with an operations team and one in a Google office, domestic or abroad.
According to Paul, he was offered a chance to apply for the position after meeting with a Google representative during the STARS Celebration 2013 Conference, which serves to grow a diverse, 21st century technology workforce. After successfully passing the application and interviewing process, he was selected for a position with the August 2014 cohort in New York.
Paul, a FAMU presidential scholar, says he feels that FAMU has sufficiently prepared him for the Google position.
The Trinidad and Tobago native graduated with his Bachelor of Science in electronic engineering technology (EET) in 2008 and completed his Master of Science in computer science in August 2013.
"FAMU has definitely allowed me to pursue any research interest I could possibly have," he said. "The foundation provided by FAMU's EET program complimented my natural ability to (understand) electronics. The Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) program also provided solid theoretical and practical perspectives of information technology."
During his time as a student at FAMU, Paul served as a tutor, research assistant, graduate assistant and on-air radio personality at WANM 90.5 FM. He currently serves as an adjunct professor in FAMU's Department of Computer and Information Sciences. In addition, Paul has published "GPU-Based Simulation of Body Area Network," which was presented in Germany at the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference.
"Dion was an enthusiastic, creative, energetic and exceptionally well-organized graduate student," said Hongmei Chi, Paul's adviser. "He is willing to explore new technology in information technology."
According to Chi, Paul is the first graduate student to use GPUs (graphics processing units) as a part of a research project. His work has been presented at several international and national conferences.
Dr. Verian Thomas, dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research, expressed her pride in Paul's accomplishments.
"He is one of our highly qualified and competent CIS graduates, who has demonstrated that our graduates are highly competitive in the workforce," she said. "His new position with Google is a testament to the high quality of training that our students receive at FAMU."


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cub scout outreach
Posted 10 April 2013 - 02:02 PM
This is my first outreach that is anything more than here look at Jupiter...next. So, it's got me a little nervous that I need to think about what I'm going to say ahead of time.
I think my talking points were going to be to simply talk about how a reflector telescope works, but there's not a lot to that without getting math involved.
So this dobsonian reflector, blah blah blah
basically the cheapest aperture per inch.
I might talk about importance of letting the scope cool, but mention that my not needing to do any computerized alignments it allows it to be a faster grab and go scope.
Is there any major talking point I'm completely overlooking?
I think\assume there will be some Q&A either during the inside presentation or (skies permitting) afterwards when we let them look through it. I don't know that kids care about price, but I'm willing to discuss what I paid if asked.
Anything you guys get asked often that I should volunteer to chew up a little more time?
Posted 10 April 2013 - 04:07 PM
Also if you have never dealt with Cubs the sign for quiet and attention is two fingers raised (the listening ears.) You will likely need that . . . they have gobs of energy.
Posted 10 April 2013 - 04:48 PM
This LINK has the requirements for the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program Astronomy Belt Loop and Pin. This should give you an outline of what to talk about that will also help the boys earn the Astronomy awards.
Posted 10 April 2013 - 10:22 PM
Matt's link to the pin requirements should give a good basis for the evening's agenda.
For the telescope talk, stress that a steady mount is at least as important as the optics (and more so than magnification!) Everything is a trade off, and different designs have different strengths, but the Dobsonian reflector is simple to make (so it's relatively cheap) yet steady and easy to use, which makes it very effective.
Mention that a lot of the designs are named after their originators (Newtonian reflectors [Sir Isaac himself], Dobsonian mounts; Bernhard Schmidt and Laurent Cassegrain were both opticians). That makes the terms more than just random, hard to remember, words.
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Posted 11 April 2013 - 02:58 AM
A couple of suggestions (I've been involved with cub scout outreach, belt loop, and pin presentations):
* Best is if you can ascertain the expected ages; cubs range from 1st to 5th grade, and that can greatly affect your presentation imo. You might also inquire if they are working towards any awards; generally belt loops for 3rd grade and under, 4th and 5th may work towards their Pin award.
* keep it basic, they mostly only need to know the two main type of scopes (reflector, refractor), and a general idea of how to use them - better yet if you have a spare scope for them to try out (RDF finder, I have either a 70/80mm refractor or 4" dob) - but you will have to have someone standby at the scope for sure.
* Other than looking through the scope, if conditions allow (it gets dark much later these days, and how much sky you can see), imo the best outdoor presentation would be a constellation guide with a GLP and short mythological stories (eg, at this time of the year, you have Orion (uses a lion skin (Leo) as a shield, it was said to be impenetrable to spears so he had to strangle it), Orion's companions (Canis Mj/Mn), the Rabbit in the field (Lepus), Gemini twins, etc - and since they are scouts, definitely go for Big Dipper and pointing the way to the North. imo naked eye presentation is more important (if available), as it's something you can encourage the kids to do themselves in their own homes (hopefully, even with all the LP) - telescope views adds to the icing on the cake.
Posted 11 April 2013 - 09:46 AM
Remove the eyepiece from your Dob and place a piece of white paper across the drawtube. Now mount a green laser pointer at the front of the scope, aimed down to the primary near one edge. (Hold a piece of 1x2" lumber across the mouth of the scope and tape the GLP to this, leaving some flexibility. Do this demo with the scope away from vertical so nothing can fall on your primary.)
Look for the green dot on the white paper.
Move the piece of 1x2" lumber around while keeping it in contact with the front of the OTA. The green dot should stay close to the same place on the paper no matter where the light hits the primary, as long as the light is parallel to the tube.
If you are brave, take a can of "dust off" from Staples, turn it upside down and spray some into the tube with the GLP on. The GLP beam will be come visible. NOTE - this may deposit junk on your primary! We do it with our demo scope, but it has been "sacrificed" to this demo with big holes cut in the sides of the sonotube so the kids can see the beams bouncing around. I am not suggesting you do this to your scope!
Actually, if you can find an old 4" reflector that you don't mind sacrificing, this makes a great demo and then you can spray the dust off can all you want. Note however that there is a compound in it to make it smell bad, to keep kids from "huffing" the stuff, so don't let them get their heads too close and smell the stuff. It's yukky. Because of this, we switched to using a theatrical smoke generator. Now the place smells like vanilla!
Have fun!
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Posted 12 April 2013 - 09:38 AM
In order of decreasing interest, they will be most excited about your green laser, telrad, and views of Saturn.
Try to make it real, not about the gear.
...father of 3 Cub/Boy Scouts and ex-Scoutmaster
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Posted 17 April 2013 - 02:22 AM
The discussion on how a refractor works is good; they won't listen .
There will be a 'techy' kid who will be more into the stuff than the objects you observe.
Follow the guide!
Posted 22 April 2013 - 04:31 PM
I think sometimes we're all a little too technical and while I don't like to lie to a kid, when I do public solar observing, I show them my Lunt scope and I ask them if they can see the explosion on the side of sun. Because to me, that is something a kid understands, that's something an adult understands. A filament and prominence to a 7 year old mean nothing in the 30 seconds we can hold their attention.
And Chris, YES there was absolutely a techy kid. I was impressed just how much this kid knew.
We were clouded out, so after the presentations it was mostly parents saying they thought about getting xyz scope for their kid, or how much should they expect to spend. Most were very surprised that my dob was the cheapest thing up there.
I might need to take the other volunteers into consideration before I agree to do one of these again.
Posted 13 May 2013 - 01:51 PM
Should be interesting to say the least!
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Posted 15 May 2013 - 07:26 PM
Brett, if you mean you have Solar filters for the 15x80 binoculars, that scares the heck out of me. I refuse to let our club members use solar filters for binos any time the public is around. From the side or back, or from a distance, you cannot tell they are protected by filters, and I'm petrified someone will see us from a ways away and say to their family member, "See, I told you binoculars are ok to look at the sun - go run back to the car and get ours from the back seat" and before you know it somebody has an accident.
Good point...I'll save the bino's for nighttime. I'll use my Astroscan for some solar viewing.
Thanks for the advice!
Posted 19 May 2013 - 08:04 PM
We had a decent view east and north east but we had some trees to overcome.
I started with Saturn, always a crowd favorite. I just love hearing the reactions when they finally are able to see through the eyepiece. Lots of OMG's and other amazed exclamations. Viewing wasn't the greatest but that didn't stop the great reactions.
I only had a narrow view but I was able to jump from m13, m5 and m3 as the clouds rolled around. M13 really got great reactions. The moon prevented me from looking at the galaxies around Ursa major...so it was the night for globular clusters.
All the scouts and parents had a lot of fun. The scoutmasters wife said the views where the highlight of the trip.


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Well, they check by inserting 1 or 2 fingers into the vagina up to the cervix. You will probably also have a pap smear or normal pelvic exam during your pregnancy at some point so the hymen would most likely have already been torn before you get to labor. Now, I assume you are talking about AI here because there really isn't another way to get the sperm into the uterus unless you either have sex, or you have medical help. During the AI process, they would use a speculum to be able to see in there, so the hymen would have already been torn. Unless this is an immaculate conception OR you used an eye dropper to put sperm in there while standing on your head, I would be reasonable sure your hymen is torn already. Did you know that you don't have to have sex to rupture the hymen? It can happen riding a horse or jamming your crotch on the bar of a bicycle, or any one of a million little accidents.posted 05/23/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
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Floyd vs JMM at 140. Would you buy it?
We know the money fights for JMM at the moment are PBF or Pac. Pac fight seems like a forgone conclusion that JMM wins again. KOs like that change people and Pac can only really do worse here IMO.
PBF i feel was so one sided solely because of the weight. JMM said it himself. He couldnt even push him with his punches. If they made the fight at 140 I dont feel PBF would have such a huge weight advantage. By fight night both would be at about 150 or a little more. Also I dont think it is impossible for PBF to get down there if he really did lose 15 pounds in jail. I have always felt that PBF bulks up to 160 for his WW fights. The difference in size from his weigh ins to the actual fight are pretty noticeable and definitely not the 4-5 pounds his fans would have you think.
I in no way am saying that JMM wins this fight but it would level out the playing field and with JMMs new strength and conditioning coach it can only be a better fight. Besides who else is JMM going to fight now and collect the type of check he deserves? Pac? Nahh I want JMM to have a chance at redemption.
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As we've mentioned before, 3D printing technology is threatening to send the gun law industry the way of the buggy whip. And technology continues to march on. Defense Distributed has released their latest CAD files for an improved AR lower receiver.
Previous versions failed after a few rounds, but proved the concept: Printed guns are not something limited to world of CSI.
From Ars Technica:
Last year, [Defense Distributed] famously demonstrated that it could use a 3D-printed "lower" for an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle—but the gun failed after six rounds. Now, after some re-tooling, Defense Distributed has shown that it has fixed the design flaws and a gun using its lower can seemingly fire for quite a while. (The AR-15 is the civilian version of the military M16 rifle.)
The lower, or "lower receiver" part of a firearm, is the crucial part that contains all of the gun's operating parts, including the trigger group and the magazine port. (Under American law, the lower is what's defined as the firearm itself.) The AR is designed to be modular, meaning it can receive different types of "uppers" (barrels) as well as different-sized magazines.
"This is the first publicly printed AR lower demonstrated to withstand a large volume of .223 without structural degradation or failure," [Defense Distributed founder Cody] Wilson wrote on Wednesday. "The actual count was 660+ on day 1 with the SLA lower. The test ended when we ran out of ammunition, but this lower could easily withstand 1,000 rounds."
As you can see in this video, it's the shooter's trigger finger that's getting the torture test, not the lower…
The key to success for this and future printed firearms designs is, as Wilson puts it, "not to print components for guns that are, but the guns that will be". That first design was based on the AR lower as it exists today; a part designed with 1950s machine shop technologies in mind. But a printed firearm isn't being made in a shop of yesteryear. Thus the shapes being used in the part need not be confined to shapes that your grandfather could make with his old Bridgeport mill.
Which brings us back to that old fashioned concept called the gun law. The legislative mechanisms in place today are designed around Grandad's old Bridgeport. They assume a world where the secrets to building a gun are confined to a few, easily regulated manufacturers. That isn't the case anymore. Anyone with access to a 3D printer can make their own. Furthermore, with FOSS CAD tools, such as FreeCAD, available, they can come up with, and build, their own designs. There is no reason to be limited to what traditional manufacturers can offer.
How does one outlaw that?!
And that's the motivation for Wilson. He describes himself as a crypto-anarchist. "I believe in evading and disintermediating the state," he told Ars Technica. Thus a goal of his project is to promote technologies that make legislation impossible; that makes the very concept of regulatory legislation unworkable. This in turn makes it harder and harder for the State to interfere in the affairs of its citizens.


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By Helen Ellerman
Jewell and Helen Ellerman and Connie Locke worked at the Schell City United Methodist Church getting ready for the UMW spring rummage and bake sale on Tuesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 24. They ate lunch at Madalyn's Kitchen afterward. Ruth Ijams worked in the basement.
Connie Locke visited her dad, Ben Locke, in Nevada several different days this past week.
Those having dinner at Madalyn's Kitchen after church Sunday, April 27, were Jewell and Helen Ellerman, Ruth Ijams, Frances Lewis, Gary Joe and Gayle Dunn, Joe Dunn and Matthew Morrill.
Frances Lewis's cousin, Bob Roe, of El Dorado Springs picked her up and took her to Madalyn's Kitchen for lunch Friday, April 25.
The Schell City/Harwood United Methodist Women will hold their rummage and bake sale Friday, May 9, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bake sale is Friday only. Most items are 25¢ except for the baked goods. It will be held at the Schell City United Methodist Church basement on the south side of the church.
Church service was held at the Harwood Baptist Church Sunday, April 27. Brother Jon Caudle's sermon "The Lone Man is Healed," was taken from Acts 3:1-10.
Church service was held at the Schell City United Methodist Church Sunday, April 27. Pastor Connie Locke was gone. Lawrence Cripps, lay speaker from the Horton and Metz United Methodist churches, had the service. His sermon "The Sunday After Easter," was taken from John 20:19-29. Lawrence played a special on the piano, "Go Down in Pease." Sunday School was held before church. Gary Joe Dunn led the lesson "Rom Suffering to Gory," taken from Isaiah 53:5-8 and Luke 24:25-27, 48-87.


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December 1, 2003
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December 1, 2003
Two of America's most popular authorities on healthy eating and cooking join forces in this inspiring, easy-to-use cookbook. This is not a diet book. It is a lively guide to healthy cooking, day-by-day, packed with essential information and, above all, filled with enticing food.
Andrew Weil, medical doctor and best-selling author, turns his attention to home cooking with the tempting recipes and useful advice in THE HEALTHY KITCHEN. Teaming up with Rosie Daley, also the author of the best-seller IN THE KITCHEN WITH ROSIE: OPRAH'S FAVORITE RECIPES, Weil presents here not just a cookbook, but a guide to virtually every aspect of the eating experience. Chock-full of delicious recipes, THE HEALTHY KITCHEN also provides suggestions for how and what to eat for optimum health, as well as full explanations as to why these foods work best. Weil and Daley inspire the reader to reach for health by presenting highly delicious and diverse cuisine, and they include with colorful photographs and plenty of hints, tips, and anecdotes, all delivered in a neighborly tone that makes it feel almost as though the two authors were right there in the kitchen with the reader. Widely varied in food styles, and based in a firm scientific background, THE HEALTHY KITCHEN belongs in the home of everyone who thinks about health when they plan menus, and will delight the health-minded cook as a gift on any occasion.
Sub-Genre: Health + Healing / General
- Subgenre: Health + Healing / General
- Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
- Pages: 368
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Release Date: December 1, 2003
- Author: Andrew Weil , Rosie Daley
other Info.
- Online Item #: 11396329
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 248-01-6033
- Item can be gift wrapped.
- Made in the USA or Imported


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If you feel, as I do, that women are superior beings, it is painful to open a novel categorized as "chick lit."
The authors generally write as badly as James Patterson. Their characters are shallow as glass -- given a choice between world peace and a new pair of Manolos, they'll take the shoes, every single time. And their conflicts make "The Real Housewives of Whoville" look like Ingmar Bergman.
So I was delighted to read The Recessionistas, a first novel by Alexandra Lebenthal. [To buy it from Amazon, click here. For the Kindle edition, click here.] Disclosure: I know her. We are both contributors to NewYorkSocialDiary.com. In December, if I am a good boy, I get to sit next to her at the site's holiday lunch.
Lebenthal's book is about a world I know well and she knows better: very rich people in Manhattan and the Hamptons. Standard chick lit setting. But the first thing that makes her novel more than chick lit is its time frame. It is set during those awful weeks in September, 2008, when Lehman Brothers melted down and billions of dollars in stock valuations were lost.
To be factual about it, investors did most of the losing, but they're faceless, anonymous people who live on Main Street and have boring little lives, so there's no point caring about them. The second-generation Masters of the Universe who worked at Lehman or had big deals with Lehman -- that's another story. This story. Or, to be more precise, the story of the women married to those men.
The second reason this isn't just chick lit is that Alexandra Lebenthal knows how Wall Street really works. She's of those Lebenthals --- her father is the guy in the old TV commercials who urged you to buy... bonds. (Back then, you snored. Now you wish you had a batch of munis.)
Alexandra Lebenthal is President and CEO of Lebenthal & Co, and its wealth management division, Alexandra & James Inc. A woman running anything on Wall Street -- your first reaction is to wonder if that's a typo. The CEOs of only 15 Fortune 500 companies are female; compared to Wall Street, that's huge. Wall Street is a boys' club. Always has been. Probably always will be. Ms. Lebenthal had an edge -- her father -- but I'm sure she knows what it's like to have men at meetings look right though her. She'll never not be an outsider.
That's how Sasha Silver feels in Lebenthal's novel. She's a Wall Street CEO. Or was. In 2005, she sold her company, Silver Asset Management, to BridgeVest Financial. It was a big deal, but it was the wrong deal. Her partners cashed out and retired, leaving her to be hassled and ignored by her owners. She has her satisfactions -- a loving if overly busy husband, good kids, big apartment and the aforementioned shitload of money. And she has something just as valuable: a good reputation.
Not that a good name means much these days.
In the fall of 2008, the game ended for most of the characters in this book. Lebenthal explains credit default swaps and tranches of mortgages so simply that her novel is a useful primer. Even better, she explains how it happens that men who earn as much as a million a year in salary live from bonus to bonus, financing this year's excesses with a loan against next year's spoils. When Lehman went out of business and the market tanked, so did their bonuses.
Grisgby Somerset, spoiled and stupid, refuses to believe it when her banker husband tells her they're broke. She snaps at him: "Don't you dare talk to me in all these technical terms. It's your job to make sure we have enough money to live our lives. So I will continue living as we have and will expect the bills to be paid."
The bills -- in this crowd, they're not small. The schools, of course, are private, and cost $33,000 a year. Then there are the charity events. $1,000 a ticket -- but you're nobody if you don't buy a table for $10,000-50,000. Add clothes. And jewels. And the second house -- and the third. What's the grand total for a year in The Life? In a riveting piece, Lebenthal did the math.
Blake Somerset is no dreamboat, but when you see what he's signed up for, you really want -- well, I really want -- to smack his wife. Yes, Grigsby is that awful: disloyal wife, terrible mother, shallow friend. And she's not the only horror show in these pages. With the exception of Sasha -- and an African-American woman who jumped from private school scholarships to a good college to Wall Street -- all the women of The Recessionistas are short-sighted and morally deficient.
I'm not sure that Alexandra Lebenthal intended to write a book that can be taken this seriously. Her alter ego does, after all, seem to like shoes and clothes and bling almost as much as the villains do. And in addition to the occasional leaden metaphor, she's tacked on one of those "where are they now?" endings that's rushed and forced. Balzac did it better.
And yet this is a book Balzac would have enjoyed.
In the 1980s, for those who were busy elsewhere, New York society was shocked when Michael Milken helped Henry Kravis, Saul Steinberg, Ronald Perelman and a handful of other socially unacceptable Jews get their hands on great fortunes. That new money laundered itself brilliantly; those men, and others like them, went on to give hundreds of millions to New York institutions. Now their names are on buildings.
Blake and Grigsby Somerset would get their names only on a wall of shame. Which is exactly why they're so much fun to read about -- hating them is almost an act of civic virtue. I loved every minute of their spectacular fall.
[cross-posted from HeadButler.com ]


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BMX Team Report 11-19-03
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Nov 19 2003 / Wednesday
Mike Escamilla
has been at Woodward West for the last few days in serious training with living legend and good friend Dave Osato for the upcoming LG Action Sports event in Pomona, California this week. He has also been on Osatos golf schedule, playing daily as well as attending hockey games Canadian-style. Mike also got a new truck and the Samurai video is going to be available in two weeks from TIP Distribution.
Taj Mihelich
finished filming his etnies commercial for the 2003 year-end issue of Props
video magazine. He also shot photos with Jeff Zielinski for a double-sided poster (etnies' Joe Rich is on the other side) in an upcoming issue of Ride BMX
magazine. The BBQ that Taj put on at the T1 ramp was fun. Slayer played in town this past weekend and
Taj was there to witness the satanic insanity. As usual, he has been also riding the ramp at T1 and working more than he should. Taj heads out to California on Tuesday November 18 to attend the LG Action Sports event in Pomona on November 19-20.
Joe Rich
got done finishing an edit of etnies team mate Taj Mihelich's etnies commercial for the 2003 year-end issue of Props
video magazine. He also shot photos with Ride
magazine's Jeff Zielinski for a double-sided poster due out in a future issue of said magazine. Joe also rode his dirt bike this past week with some friends and has also been riding the ramp at T1, the skatepark of Austin and working at the office a bunch.
Ruben Alcantara
has been enjoying his time at home in Spain riding with friends, spending time with his family and just basically relaxing. HeҒs heading out to Austin on November 17, then onto California the next day to attend the LG Action Sports event in Pomona, where he will be competing. Ruben's shoe on etnies is coming soon. So keep an eye out.
John Heaton
has been riding at the X Dreams park in Rochester, New York, where hes in training for this week's LG Action Sports event in Pomona,
California. In fact, John will be in California 'til the end of the month. He has also been playing Hockey lately and claims that he hasnҒt been fighting and even scored a couple of goals. A yearly ritual for most Northeast Canadians is setting your car up for winter by changing out your good Summer wheels for crappy winter wheels, which is how John spent his Sunday.
Nate Wessel
is in England building ramps at the Seventies warehouse for etnies teammate Ian Morris, who just so happens to be the Seventies company owner.
Sandy Carson
is home in Austin enjoying a decent level of normality in his new apartment, He has been, as always, working on Dig
magazine, riding as much as he can at the T1 offices and the 9th street trails. Sandy is still working a little on getting footage for the federal video and recording some of his own music.
Josh Stricker
has been slowly but surely moving his and his girl's belongings into their new place in New York from Philly. He went on a short road trip up to Providence, Rhode Island this past week with some friends and rode Skater Island, as well as some other parks, and is currently enjoying the surprisingly good weather to its fullest by riding trails with his crew. Josh has also been riding with etnies teammate Edwin Delarosa in the city.
Garrett Byrnes
is still down with a broken wrist and wearing a cast. He goes to the doctor this Wednesday to get X-rays and to see if it started healing. If yes, then he gets a new cast and its all good. If no, then heҒll take the cast off and start riding his bike again until he has to get surgery on it. Besides playing the waiting game, Garrett has been taking pictures and skating a little. Hes planning on going to Austin this coming Friday to hang with etnies team rider Joe Rich and friends.
Edwin Delarosa
has been chilling at home in New York. The weather has been decent, so he has been enjoying riding outdoors with etnies teammate Josh Stricker in the city. He has been finishing up his interview for Ride UK
magazine. Edwin got a ticket for riding his bike on the sidewalk right outside his apartment in New York on Sunday. He may be moving to Brooklyn in the near future. Edwin's wrist is feeling good enough for him to ride lately. In fact, he is going to Vegas this coming week for Red Bull to do some TV stuff, but is unsure what itҒs all about. Any opportunity to go to Vegas is worth taking.


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|Hurricane Resistant Trees for Your Landscape
Well, now that the storms have passed and we have had a chance to survey the damage the major hurricanes of 2004 have wrought on our gardens and landscapes across the Florida peninsula, it becomes apparent what trees will and will-not stand-up to hurricane force winds. Below is list of trees suggested for replanting in hurricane damaged areas and those recommended to be removed before the next category storm crosses the state. This list is not exhaustive and is culled from various lists of recommended storm resistant trees for Florida and the south as well as personal observation. Certain wind, placement, soil and pruning factors must be taken into account in cases where this list conflicts with other published lists and personal observation.
Native trees, particularly those with wide spreading branches, low centers of gravity, strong deep penetrating root systems, and small leaf size seem to hold up better in tropical storms especially if they are found growing in mixed groves of trees. Lone growing solitary specimens have less wind resistance than massed trees.
To prepare your trees for a category storm remove weak and diseased trees as well as any large trees within one hundred feet of your home or car. Prune and thin trees to give them a lower center of gravity and to lessen leaf mass. Sculpting a tree will allow wind resistance to increase. Lightly fertilize annually and be sure that all trees are growing where their root zones are covered with good healthy soil. Watering during drought periods will allow the roots of the plants to maintain their turgor and their holding power. Plant trees in groves and add ample shrub mass to deflect wind upwards. This places what is called the "point of overturning pressure" farther from the root zone into the area of the tree with more flexibility. Remove non-native over story vegetation, keeping in mind that canopy trees in any community are composed of native trees that have withstood coastal storms in the past and will do so in the future.
Further Reading: Wind and Trees: Surveys of Tree Damage in the Florida Panhandle after Hurricanes Erin and Opal; Storm Damage, Forest Health Guide for Georgia Foresters


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Hello Blog friends! How are you? Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was quite good, especially today. I could even say it was the best Sunday I've had in a long time (hence the title).
We didn't do anything that special but I just took time to relax and did things I like.
This morning, I woke up at about 9am and made myself a nice breakfast. I then went to the gym for my body pump class. And I even brought Boyfriend with me. It was his 1st class ever! Not sure he enjoyed it though :s I did. I really like body pump and the instructor, Fiona is really good.
After the class, we showered and had our Sunday roast with Boyfriend's parents. I quite enjoyed it. As I'm typing, I'm realising that I enjoy my roast dinner when I go to body pump – coincidence???
After lunch, Boyfriend decided to hoover the car so that was the perfect time for me to bake! Yay!
I made Nigella's "My mother in law's Madeira cake". You can find the recipe in "How to be a domestic goddess".
It was my very 1st Madeira cake (don't think we have it in France – or maybe it's called something else) so this will be one of my New year's resolution which was to make at least 1 new cake a month ;)
The recipe was really easy!
As usual, I prepared all my ingredients
Then I made the cake
and here it is, after 1 hour in the oven.
This is a delicious cake! I'll definitely do it again!
While the cake was in the oven, I just lied down with a coffee and my Kindle and just enjoyed some ME time.
Oh my God. This was fantastic. I feel so good and relaxed now! I'm ready for the upcoming week!
Now, I'm finishing getting ready for tomorrow and then, Boyfriend and I are gonna watch Arctic with Bruce Parry.
Oh, on Saturday, we went to the little village where we bought the flat. We love it as there are quite a few little independent shops. As we were walking down the street, we passed a little shop called Fabulicious Cakes. I had to stop! It is a tiny tiny little shop where Helen works. She makes and decorates cakes. Mainly wedding cakes I think. She also sells a few little things. We chatted with her for a little while and maybe in the future, she'll be doing some workshops. I'm really excited about it!
And you, how was your weekend? Did you bake anything nice?


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text: WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. officials say two U.S. Marines have been killed and several other troops wounded in an attack on a British air base in southern Afghanistan. The assault was carried out by heavily armed insurgents. Britain's Prince Harry is stationed at the base. There was no word about his whereabouts at the time of the . Meanwhile, an elite Marine rapid response team is headed to Sudan to provide security at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. Similar teams had already been dispatched to Yemen and Libya, where there was a fatal attack on the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Violent protests around the Muslim world claimed at least four lives Friday.