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It takes a lot to feel bad for a strapping, 6'5" scion of a petroleum fortune, but this might just do it.
Poor Armie Hammer.
The guy has come so close…SO CLOSE…to superstardom he can taste it, and yet he once again has to go back to the bench to wait for the next stoppage of play before he can enter the game.
Consider his first two TV gigs. A single episode of the criminally euthanized "Arrested Development" followed by, yep, one measly episode of the fan-favorite-but-also-axed "Veronica Mars." Hell, the five episode stint he did of the short-lived CW series "Reaper" was starting to look like a career watermark.
But then it happened. He got something BIG. How big? How about Batman big? The single coolest superhero of all time, and Hammer was going to play him. The project was George "Mad Max" Miller's "Justice League" - which would have beaten Marvel's superhero all-star team The Avengers to theaters by almost 4 years. Hammer even got far enough to try on the actual batsuit.
Before he could growl a single perp-weakening threat, however, the project fell to pieces. No cowl for the Hammer.
Hammer was OK, though, because "Charlie's Angels" director McG was planning a reboot of "Superman" and he had two guys on his short list to play the Man of Steel. Hammer was, yes, one of them. Unfortunately, that project also fell apart, giving way to director Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns" starring dark horse candidate Brandon Routh.
The other guy McG had on his list? Oh, just some dude named Henry Cavill who is, yes, NOW PLAYING SUPERMAN.
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Armie was able to salve his wounded pride a little when he scored a role in David Fincher's prestige project "The Social Network." Playing both Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss - the real life Harvard twins who claimed Facebook was their idea - Hammer only ended up, tragically, upstaging himself. By the end of the day, while co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield were getting the acting laurels, everyone kept asking Hammer about the technical aspects of his role like he was Andy Serkis.
Adding insult to injury? Garfield leapt from "Social Network" to "Spider-Man." Curses!
Then a glimmer of hope: Hammer was going to get his franchise. His marquee character. His action figure. He was going to play The Lone Ranger. Suddenly, he learned that Jerry "Blow Up All The Things" Bruckheimer was producing, and that Johnny Depp was going to play his Tonto. There is no way…NO WAY….a project with that kind of money and prestige behind it, not to mention the instant iconic mass appeal, could be anything less than a sure thing.
Whoops. Disney has just announced that it is pulling the plug on "Lone Ranger," citing its ballooning budget. Back to the drawing board.
Poor Armie Hammer.


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The overnight
dexamethasone suppression test checks to see how taking a
corticosteroid medicine (called dexamethasone) changes
the levels of the hormone
cortisol in the blood. This test checks for a
condition in which large amounts of cortisol are produced by the adrenal glands
(Cushing's syndrome).
Normally, when the pituitary gland make less
adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), the
adrenal glands make less cortisol. Dexamethasone, which is like cortisol, decreases the amount of
ACTH released by the pituitary gland, which in turn decreases the amount of
cortisol released by the adrenal glands.
After taking a dose of
dexamethasone, cortisol levels often stay abnormally high in people who have
Cushing's syndrome. Sometimes other conditions (such as major depression,
alcoholism, stress, obesity, kidney failure, pregnancy, or uncontrolled
diabetes) can keep cortisol levels from going down
after taking a dose of dexamethasone.
The night before the blood
test, you will take a pill containing dexamethasone. The next morning, the
cortisol level in your blood will be measured. If your cortisol level remains
high, Cushing's syndrome may be the cause.
An ACTH
test is sometimes done at the same time as the cortisol test.
An overnight dexamethasone suppression
test is done to check for a condition in which large amounts of cortisol are
produced by the adrenal glands (Cushing's syndrome).
You will not be able to eat or drink
anything for 10 to 12 hours before the morning blood test.
medicines can change the results of this test. Be sure to tell your doctor
about all the nonprescription and prescription medicines you take. You may be
asked to stop taking some medicines (such as birth control pills, aspirin,
morphine, methadone, lithium, monoamine oxidase inhibitors [MAOIs], and
diuretics) for 24 to 48 hours before your blood is
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have about
the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will
mean. To help you learn about this test and how important it is, fill out the
medical test information form(What is a PDF document?).
The night before the test
(usually at 11:00 p.m.), you will swallow a pill containing 1 milligram (mg) of
dexamethasone. The next morning (usually at 8:00 a.m.), a health professional
will draw a sample of your blood. Take the pill with milk or an antacid to help
prevent an upset stomach or heartburn.
The health professional
drawing blood will:
Sometimes a more extensive dexamethasone suppression test may be
done. For this test, you will take up to 8 dexamethasone pills over 2 days and
then the cortisol levels in your blood and urine will be measured.
The blood sample is taken from a vein in
your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight.
You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or
There is very little chance
of a problem from having blood sample taken from a vein.
The overnight dexamethasone suppression
test involves taking a dose of a
corticosteroid medicine called dexamethasone to see
how it affects the level of a hormone called
cortisol in the blood. This test screens for
Cushing's syndrome, a condition in which excess
amounts of cortisol are being produced by the adrenal glands. Test results are
usually available in a few days.
An abnormal test result may mean that
further testing is needed to identify Cushing's syndrome. Likewise, a normal
test result means that you do not have Cushing's syndrome. Cushing's
syndrome can be hard to diagnose, so an
endocrinologist should be consulted if test results
are uncertain or if the test results do not help explain your symptoms.
The normal values listed here—called a reference range—are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
Cortisol level is less than 5
micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) or less than 138
nanomoles per liter (nmol/L).
High cortisol levels may be caused
Reasons you may not be able to
have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
Some people may quickly process (metabolize) the
dose of dexamethasone. In these people, cortisol levels will not drop unless a
higher dose of the medicine is given.
CitationsFischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Other Works ConsultedChernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis:
Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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With series tied, Mattingly focused on bouncing back
Dodgers' skipper not bothered by those who second-guess Game 2 decision
LOS ANGELES -- It was the day after.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly wasn't interested in talking about the night before.
His attention is on the next day and what could happen.
Mattingly, however, tried to be polite on Saturday afternoon, a workout day at Dodger Stadium between Games 2 and 3 of the NL Division Series in which the Dodgers and Braves split the first two games at Turner Field. Game 3 on Sunday will begin at 8 p.m. ET and can bee seen on TBS.
A media that enjoys the luxury of the second guess was waiting at the first chance to revisit the seventh inning of Friday's 4-3 loss, in which a series of moves and counter-moves left the Braves with the upper hand when left-handed-hitting Jason Heyward delivered a two-run single off Dodgers left-handed reliever Paco Rodriguez.
"I really don't feel like going through the game again," he said during the daily media session. "Honestly, I'm looking at Game 3. I think the situation in the game last night, no matter which way I go, it could be questioned."
Such is the life of a big league manager.
Dusty Baker manages Cincinnati to three postseason appearances in four years, but after losing the one-game Wild Card showdown with Pittsburgh on Tuesday, he is let go by the Reds even though he has another year at a salary believed in excess of $3.5 million. Hailed for his ability to motivate players, his failing is the uninspired play of his team in the final days of the season.
And the fact that Mattingly is in the last year of his contract, and no talks have begun on an extension, adds to the media unrest in his situation.
Baseball, more than any other team sport, is ripe for second guesses.
"The essence of any competition is the one-on-one, mano-a-mano confrontation," said Dodgers president Stan Kasten, who previously served as the general manager of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and president of the Hawks, Braves, the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers, as well as the Nationals. "And no sport has that like baseball has on every single pitch. Everything flows from the pitcher-batter confrontation.
"And we have discrete breaks in the action. Every pitch is a brand new situation from which a thousand things could follow. So each game has literally 200-300 separate ... confrontations. Multiply that by all the variables of every situation, and all the possible outcomes, [and it] makes for a lot of possibilities -- and a lot of second guessing."
Think about it.
An interception or fumble in football and the passer or ball carrier comes under fire.
A basketball player misses a free throw or a potential game-winning shot at the buzzer or turns the ball over at a crucial time and he's under the microscope.
But not in baseball.
"It ain't like football," Yogi Berra is credited with saying. "You can't make up no trick plays."
So when the left-handed Rodriguez served up the two-run single, the question was not over the pitch he threw or where he threw it, but rather why Mattingly brought him in to force Atlanta counterpart Fredi Gonzalez to send the right-handed Reed Johnson in for the left-handed hitting Jose Constanza, which prompted Mattingly to walk Johnson and load the bases for Heyward.
And the next thing Mattingly knows, he's under fire for his strategy, even though nobody knows what would have happened had he left right-hander Chris Withrow in to face the left-handed-hitting Constanza.
"If I leave Withrow in to pitch and give up a hit there, I'm going to question myself and I'm going to be like, 'Why didn't I use Paco?,'" said Mattingly. "So it's one of those things that if the move works, if the matchup works, it's good. If it doesn't, it's bad. So there is really nothing other than it not going the way I want it, that I would change."
As Detroit manager Jim Leyland has said on more than one occasion, "How do you know it would have worked if I had done it the other way?"
That's why the successful manager is one who makes a decision, lives with it and moves on. He doesn't worry what might be said. He doesn't prepare himself for what could go wrong. He is looking for what can go right.
The late Dick Howser was once asked how he was able to so calmly deal with being second-guessed.
"Never have been," said Howser, who was managing Kansas City at the time.
Never? Not even managing the New York Yankees, where he won 102 games in 1980, and then quit at season's end because the late George Steinbrenner fired third-base coach Mike Ferraro.
"Never," he said. "I have just had a lot of opportunities to educate the unenlightened."
Get it?
Self-confidence is crucial in decision-making, particularly in baseball, where there is such an immediate public dissection of every move.
Mattingly comes under fire for a Braves rally in the seventh that turns a 2-1 games into a 4-1 game, and there is even the assumption by some that had the seventh inning turned out differently the Dodgers would have won 3-2 because Hanley Ramirez homered in the eighth.
But if the Braves don't score, does Ramirez get that chance? If the Braves are nursing a 2-1 lead with six outs to go, does Gonzalez still bring in David Carpenter in the eighth, and if he is pitching, does Carpenter approach Ramirez differently in an at-bat with the lead on the line?
Don't forget, the Dodgers had runners on first and third with one out, thanks to Dodger reliever Luis Ayala failing to step on the bag when he covered first base on a ground ball Michael Young hit to first baseman Freddie Freeman, and then four pitches later, Luis Avilan, who replaced Ayala, gets Carl Crawford to ground back to the mound for the start of an inning-ending double play.
And what if, as Dee Gordon claims, he was safe on that stolen base attempt in the top of the ninth, ahead of a walk to Andre Ethier, giving the Dodgers two on with one out, instead of two out and one on?
"That's what you love about the game," said former manager, current scout Jim Fregosi. "It's not duplicate bridge. You don't get to play the game again with the same hand."
The decision has to be made in an instant.
The second-guessing can go on forever.


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IFA Toshiba has unveiled a range of HD LCD TVs with integrated DVD players.
Toshiba's DV series TV/DVD combo
The DV series is said to be suitable for the bedroom or the kitchen, which explains why Toshiba only offers 19in and 22in models.
Full HD fans will be disappointed by the DV series' 720p resolution, but the integrated DVD player does at least allow you to watch a DVD while cooking your dinner.
The DVs can also be used to display JPEG still images and play MP3 CDs - regular CDs too. Both models have a single HDMI port and a headphone jack, in addition to four pre-set picture modes, such as 'sport', and three colour presets.
Toshiba's DV series of LCD TVs with integrated DVD players will be available in October. Prices for either size screen haven't been unveiled yet.
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The secret, according to industry analysts, is that e-learning blends naturally into how our brains are wired to learn.
There have been a host of theories about how we absorb and incorporate learning, but none have had the impact of David Kolb's model of the learning cycle. In his 1984 book called "Experiential Learning: Experience as a Source of Learning and Development," Kolb explains the four conditions that must be present for our brains to engage in the learning process.
They are concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation. All four stages of the learning cycle are trapped by the presentation of online learning programs.
Concrete Experience:
Concrete experience means when the learner is assigned a task or theory to learn. Kolb pointed out that we don't learn by just watching or reading or even listening. Instead, we learn by doing.
The act of engaging in e-learning means the student has to take a more engaged role in the process of learning than if they are just sitting in a classroom setting and listening to a lecture. This triggers this first condition. The act of downloading the lesson and pulling it up on their computer screen, signing in and preparing to learn ignites the brains.
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St. Louis, Mo. - Retired Tennessee State University Sports Information Director Wallace Dooley accepted the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday afternoon in St. Louis, Mo.
In 2011, Dooley retired from TSU after spending over 25 years in the profession. His career began and ended at his alma mater. His interest in sports information was piqued when, as an undergraduate at Tennessee State, he assisted the intramural director with compiling statistics for football and basketball games. Eight years later in 1978, and after working as a part-time sportswriter at The Tennessean -- Nashville's a.m. newspaper -- and as an assistant in the sports information office at then-Memphis State University, he was named the first full-time sports information director at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville.
In 2006, after holding positions in sports information/media relations at several schools and two conference offices during a 28-year odyssey, Dooley completed a full circle when he returned to his alma mater on being named associate athletic director for media relations at Tennessee State. He retired this past October.
"As a founder of BCSIDA (Black College Sports Information Directors Association), Wallace has truly been a lifetime achiever," said Eric Moore, Executive Director of BCSIDA. "His personal accomplishments pale in comparison to the mentoring he has done over the years. He has left a long legacy and we are happy that he is being recognized by CoSIDA."
Dooley attended his first CoSIDA workshop in Chicago in 1979. He won 11 CoSIDA publications awards during his career and, last year, received the CoSIDA 25-Year Award. And, he counts this year's Lifetime Achievement recognition as one of his most cherished of his career.
"It is truly an honor to receive this (Lifetime Achievement) award from my CoSIDA peers," Dooley said. "All too often, the behind-the-scenes work of sports information professionals is overlooked or taken for granted, but I have always maintained that if you do your job and do it in a professional manner, the 'people who need to notice will notice.'"
Dooley's many years in the profession included tenures as SID at the University of District of Columbia (1981-1984), Virginia State (1984-88) and North Carolina Central (1988-92) as well as his time at Alabama A&M. He served the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1992-96) as PR Director, Tennessee State (1997-1998) as a part-time assistant, and the Southwestern Athletic Conference as assistant commissioner for media relations before returning to Tennessee State.
Along the way, he had an opportunity to promote some great teams and athletes, picking up honors and accolades for his work in the process.
While volunteering at Tennessee State in 1970, the Tiger football team finished 11-0 and the men's basketball squad went 24-3. From 1970 through 1975, TSU's football team was 55-8 with two undefeated season and the Tiger cage teams were 111-32 and participated in March Madness four times. And, during Dooley's second tenure at TSU, the Tiger basketball team won back-to-back Ohio Valley Conference football titles in 1997-98), including an undefeated regular season, and during his current tenure, TSU women's track teams have won three OVC titles.
At Alabama A&M, the soccer team won two Division II titles in three years; while at Virginia State, he was named SID of the Year in the CIAA twice and promoted several conference All-Americans. At UDC, he had an opportunity to promote Earl Jones, the Division II Player of the Year; during his tenure at NC Central, the Eagles won the NCAA Division II Basketball Championship (1989). While at the SWAC office, a football championship game was instituted in the league.
There have been other proud moments as well. In 1982, Dooley joined several other SIDs from HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) to partner with the National Association for Women's Sports (NAWS) in recognizing female student-athletes as All-Americans. In 1984 at the CoSIDA workshop in St. Louis, he teamed with 11 other SIDs to form the Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCSIDA). In 1996, he was a Venue Press Chief (Media Transportation Mall) at the Atlanta Olympics.
"Over many intervening years (35 plus), I worked to improve the exposure of student-athletes and programs at HBCUs," said Dooley. "It has also been my pleasure to see the improved opportunities afforded individuals in athletic media relations. Through the camaraderie and competitive spirit of this profession, I have forged a great many lifelong friendships over the years with members of CoSIDA and BCSIDA."
Dooley has worked with and trained a number of students who earned their niche in the profession, including Monique Morgan Smith (Associate Commissioner, CIAA), Tonya Walker (Associate AD, Winston-Salem State), Greg Goings (Bowie State SID and President of CoSIDA's Division II-SIDA group), William Bright (Stillman College SID), Marques Wilkins (University of Houston Communications Asst.), Zena Lewis (University of Michigan assistant) and Zekeya Anderson (Tennessee State assistant).
Dooley will still retain some connection to the field as he notes that his future plans include working with electronic media (radio/internet) to continue support of HBCU student-athletes and programs entities such as BoxtoRow and HSRN Radio.


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9-Day Multi-City Tour of China with Stops at Shanghai, Beijing, and Great Wall
Included in this China tour package:
- Round-trip airfare on Air China
- 3 nights at 4-star Broadway Mansion Hotel Shanghai
- 4 nights at 4-star Beijing International Hotel
- Ground and air transportation and transfers in China
- Guided tour of Tian Zi Fang in Shanghai
- Guided city tour of Beijing
- Full-day trip to Great Wall of China with lunch
- Seven American buffet breakfasts; one lunch
- English-speaking tour director and local guides
- Entrance fees, per itinerary

Click here to see the full itinerary.

Days 1–4: Shanghai
An overnight flight takes you to the megalopolis of Shanghai, which has a population almost three times bigger than New York City's. On the way to the hotel, you'll take a panoramic tour of Tian Zi Fang district, a neighborhood with an artsy, almost Parisian vibe.
You'll spend the next two days at leisure, discovering for yourself why Shanghai is known as the "Paris of the East."
Optional tours:
- Day 2: An acrobatic show and dinner ($35 per person)
- Day 3: A cruise along Suzhou's scenic canals ($85 per person, includes lunch)
- Day 4: Shanghai escorted city tour, which highlights The Bund architectural district and the Shanghai Museum ($60 per person; lunch included)

Days 5–9: Beijing and Great Wall
After a morning flight to Beijing, you'll visit Tiananmen Square, one of the world's largest city squares, and catch a glimpse of the enormous Forbidden City. In addition to two days of leisure time, this part of the trip includes a tour of the Great Wall of China. Stretching across thousands of miles, the wall is made up of many separate sections extending through mountains as well as desert regions.
Optional tours:
- Day 5: Peking duck dinner, accompanied by a Kung Fu performance depicting Chinese history ($53 per person).
- Day 6: After the Great Wall tour on Day 6, enjoy an optional dinner and Chinese foot massage ($45 per person).
- Day 7: Beijing Forbidden City and Gaobeidian Village with lunch & dinner ($65 per person).
- Day 8: Tai Chi lesson, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and its classical gardens, a local panda zoo, and lunch ($70 per person).
- Day 8: Enjoy a traditional Mongolian hot pot dinner and a visit to the Peking Opera ($53 per person)

Days 9–12: Optional Hong Kong Extension (extra fee)
For an additional fee, you can stick around in China to explore Hong Kong, which Frommer's likens to a movie set for its sweeping mountain views and glitzy skyscrapers. You'll set up shop in the Golden Mile shopping district near the scenic harbor at the 4-Star Park Hotel Hong Kong, where you'll be staying, and spend the next day touring the city. Highlights include a ride to the summit of Victoria Peak, which Time named the number one thing to do in Hong Kong.
Take an optional dinner cruise to sail through Hong Kong's bustling harbor or try your luck at one of nearby Macau's Vegas-style casinos during the final two days of your tour.
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Corn futures ended the Friday session with most contracts 2 to 2 3/4 cents higher, with March 1.24% lower on the week. Turkey is seeking 342,000 MT of optional origin corn, with the tender due on January 18. The Chinese Ag Ministry updated their 18/19 corn crop estimate at 257.33 MMT, which is compared to 259.07 MMT last year. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange estimates that 86.1% of the Argentine corn crop is planted, slightly below a year ago. Of the crop that is emerged, 51.1% is in gd/ex condition, compared to 29.3% last year. An updated estimate from Safras & Mercado shows Brazil's 18/19 corn crop at 93.366 MMT, down 1.53 MMT from their prior estimate.
Mar 19 Corn closed at $3.78 1/4, up 2 cents,
May 19 Corn closed at $3.86 3/4, up 2 1/4 cents,
Jul 19 Corn closed at $3.94 1/4, up 2 cents
Sep 19 Corn closed at $3.97 1/4, up 2 1/4 cents
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Soybean futures closed the week with 3 to 4 cent gains as yesterday's sellers took some profits off the table ahead of the weekend. January was down 1.13% this week. Soymeal futures were down $2.20/ton to weigh on the product values, with soy oil up 23 points. Argentina's soybean crop was reported at 96.1% planted according to BAGE, vs 94.3% in 2018. They show 29.1% of the crop blooming compared to 33.3% last year, with condition ratings 8.6% above a year ago at 48.8% gd/ex. Safras & Mercado slashed their 18/19 Brazilian soybean crop projection by 6.5 MMT to 115.72 MMT. That comes after CONAB trimmed their estimate to 118.8 MMT on Thursday. AgRural pegs the 18/19 Brazil soybean harvest at 2.1% complete, outpacing the 0.4% average. The Chinese Ag ministry left their soybean import projection at 83.65 MMT, down 10.48 MMT from last year on assumed lower use due to ration changes away from soy meal and hog herd losses due to ASF.
Jan 19 Soybeans closed at $8.99 1/4, up 3 3/4 cents,
Mar 19 Soybeans closed at $9.10 1/4, up 3 1/2 cents,
May 19 Soybeans closed at $9.23 3/4, up 3 1/2 cents,
Aug 19 Soybeans closed at $9.41 1/4, up 4 cents,
Jan 19 Soybean Meal closed at $310.40, down $2.20,
Jan 19 Soybean Oil closed at $28.17, up $0.23
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Wheat futures saw 5 to 6 cent gains in most nearby contracts on Friday. CBT was up 0.48% on the week, with KC down 0.3% and MPLS 1/4 cent lower since last Friday. Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan are all active in the market after Egypt made their big purchase earlier in the week. DTN reported their HRW cash index at $4.73 on Thursday evening, 93 cents above the same time at year ago. The Argentine wheat crop is 95.6% harvested as reported by BAGE, 0.4% below this time in 2018. Total harvested production has totaled 17.948 MMT. Paris wheat milling futures were up 0.61% on the day.
Mar 19 CBOT Wheat closed at $5.19 1/2, up 5 3/4 cents,
Mar 19 KCBT Wheat closed at $5.04 1/2, up 5 3/4 cents,
Mar 19 MGEX Wheat closed at $5.70, up 6 cents
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Live cattle futures settled Friday with mixed trade, as most contracts were steady to 45 cents higher. Fed cattle futures were 2.5% higher this week. Feeder cattle futures were also mixed on Friday, with contracts 62.5 cents lower to 12.5 cents higher. Jan was up 0.85% on the week. The CME feeder cattle index was down 9 cents on January 10 at $145.46. Wholesale boxed beef prices were lower on Friday afternoon. Choice boxes were $1.50 lower at $212.46, with Select down the same amount at $206.27. USDA estimated WTD FI cattle slaughter at 626,000 head through Saturday. That was 14,000 head above the same week last year. Most of Friday afternoon's cash trade was around $124, with a few $123 live and $197 dressed sales thrown in the mix.
Feb 19 Cattle closed at $124.975, up $0.100,
Apr 19 Cattle closed at $126.375, up $0.450,
Jun 19 Cattle closed at $117.200, down $0.175,
Jan 19 Feeder Cattle closed at $146.125, down $0.625
Mar 19 Feeder Cattle closed at $144.900, down $0.175
Apr 19 Feeder Cattle closed at $145.750, up $0.075
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
Lean Hog futures posted 50 cent to $1.425 losses in most contracts on Friday, but Feb was still up 1.13% on the week. The CME Lean Hog Index was up 89 cents from the previous day @ $55.99 on January 9. The USDA pork carcass cutout value was up 50 cents on Friday afternoon at an average weighted price of $70.96. The national base cash hog carcass value was 20 cents lower in the PM report, with a weighted average of $50.88. This week's FI hog slaughter through Saturday is estimated at 2.565 million head, which would be 125,000 head larger than the same week last year.
Feb 19 Hogs closed at $62.650, down $1.425,
Apr 19 Hogs closed at $67.350, down $0.500
May 19 Hogs closed at $72.875, down $1.025
--provided by Brugler Marketing & Management
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On the Street.....Kristin Rawson, Teen Vogue fashion editor
I can hear it in some of the comments on my blog and from some people I meet on the street - they are inspired by fashion editors but they also feel a little disconnected from them.
Well, you shouldn't.
By far the majority of editors I have met over the last year are very much real women, just like you - they come in a whole range of sizes, ages, races, and ,depending on their management level, they make a very wide ranging scale of money.
What they all seem to have in common is a great style - thats why they are fashion editors.
I bring this up because yesterday I ran into Kristin Rawson, a fashion editor at Teen Vogue, ( disclaimer: you all know I'm a big Teen Vogue fan) and she looked so great - as you can see.
She was very happy and confident in telling me her dress was from Zara.
I thought that was really cool.
I'm sure (no, I know) many young editors or stylists ,trying to make a name for themselves, feel the potential pressure to always wear designer labels to prove they "fit in" with the fashion crowd. Thats why when I see someone like Kristen , looking great in Zara, I feel doubly inspired because she not only looks so cool but because she is doing it on her terms and in a way that works for her.
She seems to care about the result not the label.
I think that is one of the reasons Teen Vogue looks so good right now because the editors are not just dictating something to you but they are really living it - that's them on those pages.
Their style and attitudes are so clearly reflected on the pages.
Same with Paris Vogue, that's them, the editors, on those pages.
That is a major reason I like shooting the editors (and not the models) at the shows , they are the Derek Jeters of fashion.
Bravo Kristin.


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Let the rosé sippers think pink and the Grüner Veltliner-lovers raise their chilly glasses to clink—we're not willing to relinquish red this summer. With grills, smokers and coal-stoked hibachis operating on all cylinders, we find our taste buds salivating for something a little lustier; a little more apropos for skin-baring, under-the-stars, sizzling summery feasts—like the soft and lovely signature grape of Spain: Tempranillo. From the younger, cheery fruit in joven versions to easy-going, affordable crianzas and savory, serious reservas, Tempranillo isn't just one of the most food-friendly wines—it's also one of the best values you'll find; and come summer, it's one of the most reliable reds around.
Tempting Tinto
It's no wonder that Spain's favorite grape goes so well with summer's foods. After all, this is the culture that brought us tapas, pinxtos, gazpacho and jamón. And this thick-skinned, early ripening (temprano literally means early in Spanish), high-acid grape has for hundreds of years been the staple of some of Spain's most venerable producers, often blended with smaller amounts of other indigenous varietals like Garnacha and Mazuelo.
Today, Tempranillo is the most widely grown grape in Spain, with plantings in the Rioja region alone taking up nearly 80% of its vine land, and with more and more regions planting it, too—from Ribera del Duero to Toro to Navarra and Catalunya. It's so widely grown, in fact, that several regions even have their own nickname for it—Ull de Llebre in Catalunya, Cencibel in La Mancha, Tinto Fino and Tinto del Pais in Castile and León, and it even has a few nametags in neighboring Portugal (Tinta Roriz and Aragonêz).
But no matter what you call it, Tempranillo is the ultimate food-friendly red. "It's medium-bodied, not high in alcohol and doesn't have rough tannins," says Ana Fabiano, the trade director for Vibrant Rioja and author of an upcoming tome on the topic, The Wine Region of Rioja, due out in spring 2012. "Whether you're looking for a version with a bigger expression of fruit, more balance or more acidity, its versatility with food is incredible."
And within that innate versatility of the grape, there are different styles, allowing for ever-more menu choices for summertime soirees:
The word means "young," and that's exactly what joven-style Tempranillos are. Fresh, fruity and meant to drink early, these wines are allowed to spend up to 12 months in oak, but often the case is far less or, more often than not, none at all. These are great wines for light appetizers like grilled vegetables, simple suppers like trout or wild salmon on the grill, or just casual sipping.
These wines are typically aged for at least one year in the barrel and at least one year in the bottle—but sometimes more on either end. In crianzas, you'll still get to experience the grape's super-fresh fruit, but with a mellowed sophistication that belies their general price-point: usually, you can find them for $15 or less. Incredibly versatile at the table, they can hang at a meal with everything from surf to turf.
These wines rest for at least a year in the barrel (often more) and no less than two years in the bottle. And they're often incredible values for the time and care that go into making them. Says Fabiano, "There are reservas in the market from the greatest centenary bodegas at pricing that is half of what you'd see for a California Cabernet or a Tuscan reserve." Dried or grilled sausages make a great match for reservas because they beautifully tease out each other's inherent smoky flavors.
Reserva As Sinatra says, it was a very good year—and that's the only kind of year for a gran reserva. In addition to exceptional vintages, these wines patiently sleep for at least two years in oak barrels and three or more in the bottle. They're stunning, elegant and sought-after collectibles for the Tempranillo devotees. "These wines are very classic, and more serious," says Barcelona-based sommelier Meritxell Figueras. "They have more oak than fruit and smell like cigars. They are wines with high acidity and come from the Rioja Alta sub-region." If you've got a gran reserva you want to open, stick with something that can stand up to oak aging and lets the wine sing, suggests Gil Avital, wine director for New York's Boqueria. "Gran reservas need foods that are not overwhelming, and not too spicy. They do well with grilled meat that's not over-seasoned, which is very important," he says, adding that the myriad flavors in rubs and sauces can overwhelm a gran reserva's nuance.
'Nillo Know-How
Back in the mid-19th century when a little pest called Phylloxera nearly decimated the vineyards of France, many French winemakers took their talents on the road and headed to Spain to keep the wine flowing. Spanish grape growers and producers learned the ways of Bordeaux and Burgundy and, most notably, the importance of blending and long-term barrel aging, which has stuck with them since.
In the last couple of decades, a new generation of producers in Spain has been tinkering with the old ways, kicking the blending grapes to the curb and going straight-up with Tempranillo-centric versions and using French oak (prior, the Spanish—and many fans of Rioja to this day—preferred the effects of American oak on the grape), or a combination of both French and American, for aging, and some of that can be credited to the discovery of the charm of Spanish wines outside of Spain, with Tempranillo's popularity breaking through like a bull charging into the ring.
Which style is better remains a topic of hot debate. Some like letting Tempranillo's fruit-centric juiciness shine on its own; many others prefer the complementary effects that blending allows. "People can argue for days—or months!—about which style they like better, but both have a place in our world," says Avital. "The main difference is that Old World wines are meant to age. The main influence on Rioja specifically, and Spanish wine in general, is the French, who crossed the Pyrennes when Phylloxera killed their vines. Bordeaux and Burgundy are meant to be produced in a way to reach their peak in 10, 15 or even 25 years. This is what old-style Rioja is based on. A good example is [the classic Tempranillo producer] López de Heredia; they release later than anyone else. A gran reserva is to be aged a minimum of five years; López's current gran reserva release is 10 years old."
Still, says Avital, there are modern-style Spanish Tempranillos that have more than enough merit. "The main thing is these wines are approachable on release. For example, I don't think you'd enjoy Vega Sicilia [a famed Tempranillo-based producer from Ribera del Duero] if you drank it on first release. It would be too chewy, too big, too overwhelming. The tannins and fruit and acid need time in the bottle." For younger, more modern-style Tempranillos, the Navarra region, on the eastern border of Rioja, is a good place to look. "Navarra is closer to Rioja in style, but they tend to do 100% Tempranillos instead of blends. They're good summer reds. They don't use tons of oak, so they're much lighter and fresher.
Avital points to Señorío de Sarría as a great example, and he's also a fan of producers like Bodegas Roda in Rioja Alta. "They make wines that are silky and fruit-forward, but also dry and with great acidity. Also, the producer Dominio de Atauta [in Ribera del Duero] makes a modern-style Tempranillo that's chocolaty and all about the fruit and concentration. You can drink it because it's soft enough on first release."
Tempranillo has long been a grape that adapts. That's not to say that it's a Zelig of a varietal; it's more like someone who brings a few things into the dressing room and comes out looking good in all of them. And because of this, it's thriving all over Spain. For example, in both Ribera del Duero and Toro, Tempranillo grapes tend to be smaller and thicker-skinned, adapting and mutating over the years to the warmer climates there, yielding a more powerful and intense style of wine. "Sometimes Tempranillo in Ribera del Duero, which they call Tinta Fina, becomes more [wild]," says Figueras. "But it always has this incredible red mature fruit—like marmalade." The wines from Rioja, on the other hand, tend to be lighter in style.
True enough, from Rioja to Ribera del Duero to Toro, Pago, La Mancha and Catalunya, the essence of Tempranillo's food-friendliness and bright, cherry core stays constant, despite its location. Even New World spots, like the McLaren Vale region of Australia, the Central Coast of California, southern Oregon, and Texas Hill Country are having a go at the grape, with encouraging results. But it's still the allure of España that is unquestionably, now and forever, the benchmark that makes us raise our forks, sticky ribs or glasses in the air and declare: "Viva la Tempranillo!"


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Thalictrum and Cimicifuga, Jonathan Galassi
Thalictrum and Cimicifuga,
married for life:
"I love your filigreed purply curls."
"I love your pompous white spikes."
Look at them swaying there out in the wind,
bowed by the nastiest weather:
always reverting to genus
and always together.
This poem references two plant genera: Thalictrum and Cimicifuga, both from the family Ranunculaceae. Each genus has numerous different species, literally hundreds.
My interpretation: Thalictrum and Cimicifuga enjoy a lasting love because they appreciate the differences between them. Despite the pressures and challenges they face, when stressed so that their dissimilarities become wide or difficult they step up the ladder from their widest differences (species) and focus on their smallest differences, just below their common denominator/point of similarity/connection (genus).
I would love to hear your interpretation of this poem!.


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More than a year ago, a new threat to African wildlife surfaced. Plans were being drawn to pave a highway that would bisect Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. "The Road" would cut right across the Serengeti, connecting the coastal ports of eastern Tanzania to the resources and settlements around Lake Victoria and central African nations to the west.
While a new government statement announces the stretch across the Park will not be paved, conservationists' concerns remain–focused on the traffic, not the tarmac.
The Background
Wildebeest and other mammals, in what is certainly the most famous terrestrial migration on Earth, seasonally move up the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara in Kenya and back. Laid in the path of these migration routes, The Road would interrupt some of the most important and well-known natural cycles in Africa. Enabling hundreds of vehicles to cut through the park per day, the plan not only puts individual animals at risk from direct roadkill impacts, increased poaching or smuggling, and greater exposure to traffic pollution, it has the potential to disrupt the natural functioning of the ecosystem as a whole, which is home to roughly ten percent of the world's lions.
In June of 2010, shortly after this issue went public, Nat Geo News Watch, the NG Big Cats Initiative, and advisor Prof. Stuart Pimm published "The Serengeti Road to Disaster." In September 2010, 27 more scientists of international renown published an article in Nature entitled "Road Will Ruin Serengeti." A massive collective of organizations, institutions, universities, and individuals have hammered this issue at every turn. The intensity of criticism has not substantially waned over the past year, nor has the prominence of those voicing concern.
This Week's News
The government of Tanzania issued a statement Wednesday on the "State of Conservation of Serengeti National Park." It states "The 53km section traversing Serengeti National Park will remain gravel road…" and declares that the "proposed [tarmac] road will not dissect the Serengeti National Park and therefore will not affect the migration and conservation values of the Property" … but there's a lot of wiggle room in there.
While many are celebrating the statement as a declaration that the road is "scrapped" or "stopped," others are more cautious. The other roadbuilding plans outside the Serengeti are proceeding, and the gravel road into and across the park would still be met a few kilometers past its borders at either end by a major tarmac highway. Traffic through the park likely could still rise considerably.
The preferred solution for conservationists is to have the road avoid the park altogether. In recognition of this, the government said that it is "also seriously considering the construction of a road … running south of Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Serengeti National Park." However, past experience keeps some experts skeptical.
Dr. Paula Kahumbu, a Kenyan conservationist who is founder and director of the NGO WildlifeDirect, a National Geographic Big Cats Initiative Grantee, and winner of a 2011 National Geographic Society/Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation is one of them. "We would like to see a stronger commitment that defends the Serengeti in to perpetuity. As it now stands, there is no promise not to go ahead with preexisting plans once the heat is off. It's happened before."
The Future
Whether the government's statement is a permanent promise, or an effort to temporarily relieve international pressure remains to be seen. I am hopeful that we'll soon receive word of a commitment to pave an alternate route south of Serengeti National Park.
Until then, we're still just kicking the can down "The Road."


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Joined: 11 Mar 2005
Posts: 696
Location: israel
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:55 pm
Post subject: nostalgia
Mulberry tree- I remember , but I remember also white mulberries, or do I confound trees? I hove no brothers or sisters, so we kids just ate them , we picked them from the ground.
But I do remember stealing lilac . We climbed the fence into the courtyard of a small villa , and brought the trophee to our mothers. As I left Romania when I was 11 years old, I was propably a 9-10 thief.
Another childhood nostagia is the "dolls fashion show" we organized, four girl friends and a nanny. We designed and made ourselves the various doll's outfits and then we invited the parents ( poor parents) to admire our creations ( none of us became a designer later in life!!) . One of my girlfriends, descendent of Romanian grand bourgeois- lived in a private villa ( a vey rare thing in communist Romania those days) , which of course had been nationalized and other families moved to live with them. But they still had the big Loiuis XVI style living room left, complete with chandeliers and beautiful furniture - a perfect setting for our fashion shows. And then, there was the attic with "grand aunt Sofia" clothes ( she was 90 in the 50"), hats and accoutrements from another times!!! My favourite was a big black hat with black feathers....In the then very austere communist regime, we succeeded to live, if only rare moments, in a fantasy world. Children... But i'll stop now. Otherwise I won't be able to stop...
I really like this forun, and hope we all continue to remember. It feels good!!
No more war, more nostalgia!
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Posts: 861
Location: Paris
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:29 am
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Mulberry trees! What a mess they used to make. My friends sister was much older than us and a doctor. She used to dress us in the paper surgical clothes and put surgical gloves on our hands and shower caps on our hair and then we would climb the mulberry tree and feast. We were supposed to be collecting the fruit to make jam, but I seem to remember most of the fruit being eaten and having purple tongues and lips. For 2 little fair haired "girly" girls, we certainly knew how to make a mess of ourselves!
Simona, maybe you had a different type of mulberry? Our ones where a pale whitish colour until they ripened, but I don't think they were palatable until ripe. I am sure there would have to be different cultivars of mulberry, justlike with other fruit. Your doll fashion shows sound great! Isn't imagination a wonderful thing!
Lilac is something which I have discovered since being in Paris. It is wonderful. The perfume is so strong and the flowers are really quite pretty. I actually quite like the tree it grows on too.
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:47 pm
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Nostalgia ....
I am in the midst of looking for a cookbook that we had growing up, which was a permanent fixture in every Canadian kitchen:
5 Roses Flour Good Cooking Cookbook (or something to that extent)
I remember it so well, the tattered pages just barely hanging on, the metal spiral binding, the stains that ran through from front to back.
Having a bit of a cookbook collection bug that I can't rid myself of, I am having great luck finding it at
Used and new booksellers around the world. Don't you just love the internet!
So, I am off to purchase a piece of my childhood nostalgia ....
Oh yeah, and for those that are Southern Ontario, Canada natives ...
Mackie's, Port Stanley, Ontario
My family has 5 generations of memories of eating french fries smothered in their undescribable, mystery ingredients, sweet tomato "ketchup" sauce on the beach, looking out at Lake Erie.
I can taste it now!
In the whorehouses of the bakeries, I was serially, gluttonously, irredeemably unfaithful to all those chapatis-next-door waiting for me back home. East was East, but yeast was West.
On Leavened Bread - Salman Rushdie
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Location: New York City
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:12 pm
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My grandfather, who grew up pre-WWII in the Lower East Side of NYC, had one gas light in the kitchen that all the kids would gather around to do their homework. He used to tell me stories about it and could never understand why people would want to eat by candlelight!
I'm a young 'un and a city kid, so I have no fun memories like all of you, unfortunately. I'll have to join Erin in being nostalgic for Mr. Rogers. OO, and those rainbow-marzipan cookies my grandfather always brought home. I'm sure they're still around but I haven't had any since he died.
Don't forget the cannolis!
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:27 pm
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Seastar--the Five Roses Cook Book by Elizabeth Driver was first published in 1915 and apparently was ubiquitous across the land! Glad abebooks.com has been helpful. The book is available again new at $16.95 Canadian. It is part of Whitecap Books, "Classic Canadian Cook Book Series" and the specific ISBN is 1551109956. So in the end if you don't have any luck getting a decent used one get your local independent book store to order you one!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Posts: 696
Location: israel
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:59 pm
Post subject: nostalgia
I made a little "research" in the forum topics and I found out that the most popular one was "Comfort food" (119 entries). I have a feeling Nostalgia will catch up with Comfort food. Thanks David for both these topics ( and the other 10 or so you proposed). I have learned a lot about our friends from them , because we talk about ourselves. I feel I know a litttle bit better the persons behind the names/nicknames.
Which reminds me of another personal nostalgia item: the smell of the Goyava fruit. This pungent and very distinctive smell is associated in my mind with my first month in Israel, when, as an 11 years old ex- city girl ( I was born in Bucharest), I had to walk through an orchard full of Guyava trees to the 2 miles far-away from home school. This smell, and this fruit, you either love it or hate it. I loved it and still do. After two months we moved to Tel -Aviv and I became a city-girl again, but I'll never forget my first "sensual" encounter with my new homeland.
I hope this forum will continue to live, i love to read it, and I'll certainly try to keep it alive.
No more war, more nostalgia! ( This Motto, is a paraphrase of a moment which became, unfortunaly, nostalgia: When Anwar Saadat came to Israel in 1977, he declared : "no more war, no more bloodshed!". Amen!)
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:33 pm
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My gosh simona! Sensuous is certainly the way to describe that fruit! I did a quick google first to make sure we were talking about the same thing and it came up guyava-guayaba-goyave-guava. It is by the latter that I know it. My very first trip to Hawai'i I discovered thiat amazing little pulpy fruit--what a joy. Thanks for tingling my memory.
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:27 pm
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In my youth (I'm a 46 girl) I was in Mozambique, where I was born. There was no fresh milk, we used condensed or powdered. My dad was posted to a small administrative post in the middle of nowhere and stapples like milk, butter, salt, flour, had to be bought in quantity enough for 6 months. During the rain season the Zambeze river overflowed and the dirt roads became nice lakes and we could not go anywhere.
In the backyard we had chickens, ducks, a pig or two and goats. We had plenty of eggs and to this day chicken is my favourite. I ate it just about every day. Fish was salted codfish or canned sardines or tuna.
The backyard also had plenty of fruit, guavas, magoes, cherimoya, papayas, bananas, oranges, tangerines, tamarind, cashews, and others for which I do not know an English name. Have never seen them here. When I was there I used to dream of strawberries and cherries. Today I long for tropical fruit. The taste of what we get here does not compare.
Thanks David! What a delightful idea
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Posts: 14
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:02 am
Post subject: Thanks David!
Thanks so much for the info David! How very exciting! I think that I am going to order a used one, for nostalgia's sake....
Happy cookbook cruisin' !
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The Department of Justice has hired its old anti-trust boss from private practice to head up a probe into Google's advertising business.
Sandy M Litvack ran the DoJ's antitrust division under President Jimmy Carter. He left in early 1981.
Litvack was working as a partner at private law firm Hogan and Hartson for both plaintiffs and defendants, and has also been vice president at Walt Disney and a board member at Compaq.
It is still not clear if the DoJ's interest goes beyond an investigation into Google's advertising partnership with Yahoo! or will be a wider anti-trust probe, Dow Jones reports.
The formal investigation into the advertising deal is already unusual - the DoJ normally requires a full merger before such an investigation. At the same time though, the DoJ's antitrust division's overall remit is to enforce US antitrust laws and promote competition.
A US Senate committee is also looking at Google. The search giant has also skirmished with Europe on privacy issues. ®
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On various occasions I've been asked what growing media I'm using for my cactus plants. I don't have a set soil mix recipe as such – the mix is a continuous work in progress influenced by earlier results combined with input from friends, articles, etc (and sometimes laziness drives me to use whatever ingredients I have readily at hand ;-) Anyway, a few weeks ago I mixed a large batch of growing media and decided to document the details. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement, please let me know.
Cactus soil mix
As mentioned, I'm not religious regarding soil ingredients as long as the mix meets a few simple criteria. Good drainage and aeration is essential in any growing media used for raising cacti, still the growing media must have adequate moisture retention properties in order not to dry out too fast after you water it. Depending on the type of cacti you are growing you might vary the amount of organic matter (or omit it completely). I don't worry too much about nutrients in the soil – if you are using a pure mineral soil you'll have to supply most nutrients via fertilizers anyway. Finally it is also important to tailor the mix to the environment you grow the plants in, i.e. you have to factor in if your pots are clay or plastic, the climate you live in, your water regimen, etc.
I've heard it said that there are probably as many soil mixes as there are cacti growers. This post is the current take on my recipe for a cactus soil mix ;-)
The ingredients
Below you'll find the list of ingredients that I'm currently using for my cactus soil mix.
Unprocessed, raw moler
Unprocessed moler
Moler is a naturally occurring mixture of diatomaceous earth (a soft, chalk-like sedimentary rock) and bentonite clay, approximately 60% diatoms and 40% clay. Moler is quarried not too far from where I live, so once in a while I swing by one of the defunct quarries that are open to the public and fill up the car ;-) Instead of moler you could use chunks of granite or whatever rock is available to you – the advantage of moler is that it is very lightweight, but it is probably not very easy to obtain outside of Denmark. These larger pieces of rock are added to keep the soil open and allow air to get to the roots, furthermore the rock will reduce the volume of water a given amount of soil can hold.
Sharp sand
Sharp sand
Sharp or coarse sand (grit) should be readily available everywhere (otherwise ask your mason ;-). The sand reduces the soil's ability to retain water.
Limestone gravel
Limestone gravel
Many cacti, including Ariocarpus and peyote (Lophophora), are native to limestone areas, often growing within cracks in the limestone boulders themselves. For such species I'm adding a bit of limestone gravel to the soil mix – please note we are talking limestone and NOT lime which will scorch your plants. The limestone gravel also reduces the volume of water a given amount of soil can hold
Cat litter, baked moler
Cat litter, baked moler
It almost goes without saying that the water absorbing and retaining qualities of this product are excellent ;-) Still, this type of cat litter don't feel soaked even when fully wet. To the best of my knowledge this product is widely available, but watch out for the scented variety – unless you want your plants to smell of cheap perfume ;-) If you can't find this type of cat litter you can try substituting it with crushed brick.
I once used small LECA pellets but stopped as they have a tendency to float on top of the soil and also they don't retain much water.
Cat litter, bentonite clay
Cat litter, bentonite clay
Another water absorbent. I read somewhere that peyote and Ariocarpus enjoy pellets of clay in their soil, so I decided to try adding some of these bentonite clay granules.
The clay granules do not dissolve when watered, i.e. the bottom of the pot will not clog up because of the clay pellets.
The mix
I recently repotted a handful of newly acquired Ariocarpus plants in the following mix:
- 4 parts unprocessed moler
- 3 parts sharp sand
- 2 parts limestone gravel
- 2 parts baked moler (cat litter)
- 2 parts betonite clay (cat litter)
If you want your soil to hold more water you can add coir (a product made from coconut fibers). I used to add peat moss (sphagnum) but nowadays I prefer coir for several reasons. First of all completely dry coir is easy to wet while completely dry sphagnum moss seems to almost repel water. Also, peat moss is mined out of bogs, and takes years to renew. Avoiding peat and going for coir will make a bog somewhere very happy ;-)
What others say about soil mixes
Soil mixes were also recently discussed on the cacti_etc mailing list resulting in some interesting replies, like:
Now pretend that I also gave you 500 additional words explaining why this mix, or any other general mix, may or may not kill all of your plants. The appropriateness of any mix depends on so many things, like what plants you're growing, what kind of pots you use, the size of your pots, your local climate, whether or not you have a greenhouse or are a windowsill grower, your watering habits, etc.
And the slightly more humoristic approach:
Just keep in mind that, for succulents and cacti, you want a pot and soil mix that dries out in about 5-7 days after you water it. You can't control the humidity and temperature but you can control the soil mix, the size of the pot, whether the pot is clay or plastic, and how often you water. (Well, some people can control how often they water--others can't. Those are the same people who can't stop giving their dogs treats.)
If you are looking for general information on cactus growing the cacti_etc mailing list is a good place to go.


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Big time: Charlottesville company heeds Call of Duty
Since launching their Shredhed product in 2008, Charlottesville entrepreneurs Eric Braun and John Keefe have seen demand soar for their product–- a multi-faceted trapper-keeper style folder printed with sheet music. But in a Hook cover story last month, Keefe hinted that the versatile folder was about to hit the big time with a non-musical product–- what Keefe referred to as "one of the most anticipated video games of 2009."
He wasn't kidding.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 detonated launch records for any entertainment medium on release day, November 10, raking in $310 million in American and the UK alone. On one day.
Keefe and Braun's product–- also dubbed The Big Fold–- is part of that history, thanks to its inclusion in the expanded "prestige edition" of the game, which includes a strategy guide as well as the duo's three sided folder offering laminated maps used in the multi-player game.
Keefe hopes to see the Big Fold appearing in future video game launches, calling it a "perfect fit." But in the meantime he and Braun are enjoying the Call of Duty success.
"It's very exciting," he says.
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way to turn a positive story about a local business into a forum for political mudslinging people. congrats go John and Eric!
"Blaming Obama is like blaming the musicians on the deck of the Titanic for the sinking ship."
No, if Obama were on the titanic his idea would have been to drill another hole to let the water out.
Don't forget to give Obama his cut so he can give to all the people who didn't invent anything.
Tax rates were set by Bush as was the oncoming debt crunch. Blaming Obama is like blaming the musicians on the deck of the Titanic for the sinking ship.
But that's pretty off topic. It's awesome that these guys are so successful with their new idea. Just the kind of 21st innovation our country needs.
Trainwreck try to consider the facts first and find some help with where the hostility is coming from that you feel in your heart and then maybe you can begin to understand whats really troubling you.
Blaming Obama for the rain will drive you insane~peace out.
Obama wouldn't drill a hole in the other side to let the water out...
He would be too busy throwing all the old people out of the life boats to make room for people too lazy to swim.
Go Obama, Go!
I'm one of those who would be lazy to swim!! :)
trainwreck, I don't think Obama has been giving anybody anything. All I hear now is whining and moaning from people that didn't receive some sort of promised check from him once elected. It's almost as if Obama bought votes.... for free! :)
Great idea guys ! good luck .
As for the jokes . you should be ashamed to make me belly laugh on a Holiday .
OMG throwing old people overboard and drilling holes .
Sounds par for the course


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ON THE FRINGE: Final observations from the Ryder Cup
MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) -- The PGA Tour supplied the best tonic possible Tuesday to cure the Americans of a Ryder Cup hangover.
It staged a press conference to mark the official one-year countdown to the Presidents Cup, the one team event that Americans still seem capable of winning. Then again, it was held at Muirfield Village, where in 1987 they lost the Ryder Cup on home soil for the first time.
It hasn't been the same since.
These days, the closest the Americans ever get to that 17-inch trophy is the emblem of it stitched on their team uniforms.
Europe now has won seven of the last nine times in the Ryder Cup, and the only reason the dominance isn't even greater is because Justin Leonard knocked in a 45-foot putt on the 17th hole at The Country Club. The other win was in 2008 at Valhalla, even though the Americans didn't have Tiger Woods. Or maybe they won because he didn't play.
The immediate question is who the PGA of America will select as the next captain, but that's assuming the decision will have a bearing on the outcome. In some corners, the captain's role is overrated -- until a team loses, and the fans and media need someone to blame.
The next Ryder Cup will be in 2014 in Scotland, which officials referred to as the home of golf. That's true, although the bagpipes surely will sound a little different on a golf course at Gleneagles designed by Jack Nicklaus.
Before looking ahead, it's worth looking back with a few observations about one of the best Ryder Cup competitions ever:
-- Was this really the "Miracle at Medinah?"
The best slogans are built around alliteration, and this could be called the "Meltdown at Medinah," depending on your colors. It was remarkable, no doubt, because six of the 12 singles matches could have gone either way. By the numbers, Europe matched a Ryder Cup record by rallying from a 10-6 deficit on the final day, same as the Americans at Brookline in 1999. The difference is that Europe did this on the road. And the American comeback was easier because Europe had three Ryder Cup rookies who did not hit a shot until Sunday singles.
This Ryder Cup had 24 of the top 35 players in the world. Throw in 18-hole matches, and there's no such thing as a sure thing. Remember, Europe had a three-point lead going into the final day at Wales before a home crowd and it came down to the last match. The lesson going forward is that no lead is safe.
The only "miracle" reference should be to Saturday afternoon, when the Americans had a 10-4 lead and was ahead in the final match. It looked as though they would have an 11-5 lead at worst until Ian Poulter birdied his last five holes and Europe picked up an invaluable point -- and the momentum.
-- Rory McIlroy is a sure thing.
Boy Wonder might be the only guy who can roll out of a bed and win a singles match at the Ryder Cup. McIlroy didn't sleep in, he just got the time zones mixed up. But there was a feeling that whoever the Americans had facing him didn't stand a chance. Jim Furyk referred to McIlroy as the "present day Tiger Woods," and he might be right. Even with the match all square, there was never a sense that McIlroy was going to lose.
-- Man of the match.
Martin Kaymer holed the putt that clinched the Ryder Cup for Europe, but there was no mistaking its star. Ian Poulter became the first captain's pick to go 4-0, and he might have won them all if Jose Maria Olazabal had not held him out Friday afternoon. There were only four matches all week when a team or a player was behind at any point on the back nine and rallied to win. Poulter was involved in two of them.
His career record is now 12-3, the highest winning percentage of any European player in history. Poulter effectively locked up a spot on the team for the next several years, and Lee Westwood even went so far as to jokingly suggest a change to the qualifying process for Europe.
"It's nine spots, two picks, and Poults," he said.
-- Tiger Woods as the anchor.
Curtis Strange was criticized in 2002 for sending out Woods in the 12th and final match Sunday at The Belfry for two reasons. His point might be irrelevant at that stage (it was) and he would not be able to contribute to any momentum from an earlier spot in the lineup. Davis Love III did the same at Medinah.
Woods actually was in the right spot. He just didn't deliver.
The Americans needed to see Woods take control of his match against Francesco Molinari, knowing they would be assured a point in that anchor match. Woods fell behind two holes early. He took the lead for the first time on the 13th hole, and the match was still square with two holes remaining. The last time Woods was in that spot, in 2002, he built a 2-up lead early against Jesper Parnevik, didn't put him away and actually trailed after 15 holes.
His half-point was irrelevant as far as who won the cup. It could have, and perhaps should have, meant something.
-- Rookies.
The PGA of America devotes an entire page to rookie records in the Ryder Cup. Love said all week, and the PGA of America should take note, that there really are no rookies in the Ryder Cup. Webb Simpson (U.S. Open) and Martin Kaymer (PGA Championship) had won majors the year they made their Ryder Cup debut. Yes, the pressure is more intense at the Ryder Cup than any tournament, but it's that way for the veterans, too.
The four American "rookies" went 9-6. Two of their best players were rookies -- Jason Dufner and Keegan Bradley, both of whom were 3-1. Dufner might have won all four of his matches except for Poulter finishing a fourballs match with five straight birdies.
-- The next captain.
Paul McGinley is the leading candidate for Europe, a decision with strong influence by the players. Nothing is clear for the U.S. team, a decision by the PGA of America.
There seems to be a template for the U.S. team that captains be former major champions in their late 40s. That would point toward David Toms, who played on three losing teams. Fred Couples gets a lot of attention, but the Presidents Cup is far less stressful than the Ryder Cup, and he doesn't have a lot of support from within the PGA of America. Larry Nelson is a popular choice because he was overlooked. He'll be 67 in 2014. And there is some thought to let Paul Azinger be captain again.
The last American who was captain more than once was Jack Nicklaus. That was in 1987 at Muirfield Village, and that didn't turn out very well.


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I'm guessing the majority of fans would rather pull their eyes out than attend an over priced pre-season friendly. They are normally turgid affairs and generally nobody gives a rats arse about the result aside from a few nutters. Hi ya.
To further cement how football is in a period of eating itself, Grays recently charged £20 for the 'privilege' of seeing West Ham reserves and Barnet asked for a whopping £27 to see and Arsenal XI. Madness, madness they call it madness.
After a bit of fun this week on European Football Weekends with articles on Aberdeen and Seattle Sounders (a piece that sparked off a new American Civil War between the residents of Seattle and Portland) it was back to the bread and butter in the form of a trip to Park View Road, Welling.
Gillingham may be Kent's only football league club but if you think that's all they've got to offer the world of football you'd be very wrong. Dartford, Dover Athletic, Maidstone United, Tonbridge Angels, Ebbsfleet United, Welling United to name but a few all reside in the garden of England. It's a chuffing footballing hotbed.
The week before this match, Welling United's annual friendly with Charlton Athletic attracted a crowd of 2,200 which is four or five times their average for a Conference South game. With that in mind it's not surprising the club try and shoe horn in as many friendlies as possible against league opposition. Fair play to them. The way Charlton Athletic are sliding down the divisions, it won't be long before the are playing them in the same division.
This was one of the best days in the sporting calendar. The Open was taking place in Scotland, England were dishing out a spanking to the Aussies at Lords here in Kent we had sultry day in which to enjoy an afternoon of football. Such is the set up at the stadium, when the football got boring you could pop your head over the wall and watch a bit of cricket in the adjacent Bexleyheath Sports Ground. Buy one get one free. What's not to like!?
Prior to match, Cynical Dave and I met up with Mr Fuller for some welcome beers. The public house of choice was the Nags Head in Welling High Street which was cheap as chips AND had a working hand drier in the latrines. A winning combination in my book. I'm not sure how many beers Cynical had but upon leaving said pub and entering the ground, the first thing he did was start waving the corner flag around.
Gills trialist Jordan Parkes poses for a photo.
EFW man of the match. Wings keeper Charlie Mitten.
Nice day for it.
Lino on the line(o).
Corrugated iron roof stand (tick).
Bit arty after a few pints - Ed.
Hands up who wants to hear about the actual match (silence - Ed). Just briefly then; both keepers had outstanding matches performing flying acrobatic saves willy nilly. You expect wholesale changes in terms of substitutes during these games but kits!? Welling changed theirs at home time from white to blue. It seemed to do the trick because in the second half they dominated their most illustrious visitors and ran out easy winners courtesy of two goals from Sanchez Ming and Jake Hobbs respectively.
This was The Wings last pre-season game before they fly off to Shanghai for a lucrative four team tournament.....probably. They looked a good bet for promotion into the Conference on this showing but as we all know, we shouldn't read too much into these games. After a post match pint to celebrate my touch of the match ball and another on the pitch photo it was back to HQ in Brighton for our first elongated session of the season. Here's to many more. Cheers.


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China Power List: Tsai Not Wanting for Attention
Taiwan's biggest media magnate has been generating plenty of headlines of his own lately.
Tsai Eng-meng, the famously persistent chairman of Want Want China Holdings Ltd., recently tightened his grip on the Taiwanese media market after he and a consortium of buyers finally struck a deal with longtime rival Jimmy Lai of Hong Kong to buy the Taiwan print and television operations of Mr. Lai's Next Media empire. Mr. Tsai, ranked No. 1 on Forbes' list of Taiwan's richest people with an estimated net worth of $8 billion, is a controversial figure on the island for having once said he hopes for eventual reunification with mainland China. His involvement in the Next Media purchase has sparked fears over editorial independence in Taiwan – Mr. Tsai already owns a TV station, three newspapers and several magazines on the island – and helped earn the top spot on this month's China Power List, a ranking of top corporate newsmakers in the world's second-largest economy compiled using data from Dow Jones Insight.
Eccentric Alibaba founder Jack Ma, no stranger to the Power List, maintained his grip on the second spot, followed in third by Liang Wengen, chairman of Changsha, Hunan-based Sany Heavy Industry Co., who moved up from No. 7 following a recent flare-up in his company's long-running public feud with hometown competitor Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co.
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A quick and delicious pizza!
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Spread a layer of the tomato paste onto the pita bread. Scatter the remaining ingredients, except the spinach leaves, over the top.
Bake in a hot oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until the pizza base is crispy and the top is heated through. Scatter torn spinach leaves over the hot pizza and serve.
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Been awhile since I've wrote I know,
just keeping busy with things at Home.
Believe me, I have not forgotten about a single,
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I think of you all, a lot of times.
This may/may not Rhyme,
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(To Everyone--Wishing You All, a Very,'Happy Turkey, Day".)
Not so far away-kind of had to push myself this year, into baking,
even doing it, but am trying to Keep the Spirit', of it, Alive.
God Bless You, One and All"..Much Love to All.
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Eugene Bolling, Confederate officer, was born in 1832 in Tennessee to Yelverton de Mallet Bolling and Sophia Sully of South Carolina. The family relocated to Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1850. Bolling married Carolina E. Gayle in 1853, then moved from Edgefield County, South Carolina, to settle in Galveston County, Texas. He worked as a farmer prior to the Civil War.
Bolling's service record indicates that he enlisted on June 7, 1861, with a rank of captain.
On June 30, 1862, his company and twelve others were mustered into Confederate service at Brenham, Texas, in Washington County. Bolling held the rank of captain in Company G of Nichol's Ninth Regiment but soon commanded Company A of the First Battalion of the First Texas Infantry, known as Waul's Texas Legion.
On May 17, 1863, Waul's Legion was ordered into the confines of Vicksburg and assigned to Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson's division. Captain Bolling was slightly injured during the defense of the city and sometime after was promoted to the rank of major in command of the First Battalion of Waul's Legion following the death of Maj. A. Cameron.
On July 4, 1863, Bolling and his unit surrendered to Union forces at Vicksburg and were paroled on July 5, 1863. Following parole the members of Waul's Texas Legion were returned to Texas where they were reorganized. Bolling then applied to be relieved from field duty for the remainder of the war as a result of a surgeon's opinion that a heart condition affected his service. Bolling's request was granted, and for the remainder of the war he served as major of companies F and S of Timmons's Regiment in the confines of Texas.
He surrendered on June 2, 1865, with the other soldiers under the command of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.
After the war Eugene Bolling married Mary Bolling, who survived him in Galveston County and later moved to Grayson County. In 1866 he served as a director of the National Bank of Texas in Galveston. The last known location of Eugene S. Bolling was in Galveston County in 1869. [SIC] According to his findagrave memorial page, he died 02 August 1870 in Cross Keys, Alabama.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Texas, NARA microfilm series M323, roll 263, National Archives, Washington D.C. Robert A. Hasskarl and Leif R. Hasskarl, Waul's Texas Legion, 1862–1865 (Ada, Oklahoma: Robert A. Hasskarl, 1985). L.L. Knight, comp., Their Last Full Measure: Texas Confederate Casualty Lists, Volume II, 1863 (Arlington, Texas: G.T.T. Publishing, 1997). Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Texas (New York: Facts on File, 1995). Laura Simmons, "Waul's Legion From Texas to Mississippi," Texana, VII (Spring 1969). Brett J. Derbes
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Brett J. Derbes, "BOLLING, EUGENE S.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbobd), accessed May 08, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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I have to start out by saying that I resent the telephone. It sits there on my desk, interrupts my train of thought, and brings nothing but trouble. It requires me to engage with real, live people, which makes me uncomfortable. I much prefer to deal with email, because it's more efficient, and because I can do what I am comfortable with — looking intelligent, answering questions, and solving problems. The phone makes me face my shyness with people, my insecurity, and my fear of emotional involvement.
So, why did I answer the phone the other afternoon?
I was rushing — as usual — between one meeting and another, from one task that I considered very important to another I thought was just as important. That's me, Mr. Too Busy and Important to Answer the Phone. When it started to ring, and I didn't recognize the number, I knew that answering it would make me late, and would throw me off my train of thought. It was a most inconvenient time for a phone conversation of indeterminate subject and length.
So, why did I answer the phone?
When I picked up the receiver, the young lady started out with a very relieved sound in her voice. She explained that she had happened upon one of my earlier blog posts, in which I mentioned how we need to do more to help pregnant women in crisis, for example by providing more day care.
She then went on to tell me that she was in exactly that position. She was pregnant, alone, and was having a hard time figuring out how she was going to take care of her child and return to work. She wasn't sure if I could help her, because she didn't live in the Archdiocese, but instead was in upstate New York. But she was scared, and a little bit at the end of her rope. She was asking me for help — real, concrete help, in the here and now.
So, why did I answer the phone?
I talked to her for a while, telling her how there was definitely help out there for her. I then gave her the best advice I could think of.
I suggested that she call the Sisters of Life. Their Visitation Mission specializes in helping women and men deal with the difficulties of a pregnancy, and they have innumerable connections all around the nation. I have heard stories about their work that have moved me to tears. So that was the first smart thing I did. I told her about the Sisters.
The second thing I did was to tell her that she should get in touch with her local diocese's Catholic Charities. Here in the Archdiocese, our Catholic Charities helps hundreds of pregnant women every year. I know this, because their Maternity Services office is on the same floor as mine, and I'm constantly seeing moms, dads and babies. They also work miracles.
I then told her how great it was that she was doing the right thing, and that she would be able to do this with a little help. I told her "God bless", we said goodbye, and I offered a small prayer for her. Afterwards, I realized that I never even asked her name. But I believe she'll be alright.
So, why did I answer the phone?
I don't know. But I think that the Holy Spirit, who moved my heart and will, and my guardian angel, who was whispering in my ear, know the answer to that one. And maybe, someday, I'll meet a young lady and a baby, and I'll know the answer too.