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Bean, Bush 'Jackson'
A brand new improved replacement for Rex with the long picking period from dark glossy green pods. Jackson handles hot and wet conditions better than its competitors. Improved disease package including resistance to summer death. Jackson has a superb flavour.
When to sow: Mid-October to early January
Where to sow: Direct into a prepared garden bed
Depth to sow: 2.5cm
Aspect: Full sun or as sunny a spot as possible.
Soil: Prepared, well drained, fertilised soil. Add lime if soil is too acid.
Spacing: Between plants 5cm Between rows 50 to 80cm apart
Directions: After frost danger is over plant bush beans 2.5cm deep and 5cm apart in rows 50 to 80cm apart in well drained soil. When the crop is ready it should be picked every couple of days or so. Plant from mid-October until early January.
Packet 40 seeds
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Thursday, 7th November
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. Through rotting kelp, sea cocoanuts & bamboo, the tracks led me to their maker, a white man, his trowzers & Pea-jacket rolled up, sporting a kempt beard & an outsized Beaver, shovelling & sifting the cindery sand with a tea-spoon so intently that he noticed me only after I had hailed him from ten yards away. Thus it was, I made the acquaintance of Dr Henry Goose, surgeon to the London nobility. His nationality was no surprise. If there be any eyrie so desolate, or isle so remote that one may there resort unchallenged by an Englishman, 'tis not down on any map I ever saw.
Had the doctor misplaced anything on that dismal shore? Could I render assistance? Dr Goose shook his head, knotted loose his 'kerchief & displayed its contents with clear pride. 'Teeth, sir, are the enamelled grails of the quest in hand. In days gone by this Arcadian strand was a cannibals' banqueting hall, yes, where the strong engorged themselves on the weak. The teeth, they spat out, as you or I would expel cherry stones. But these base molars, sir, shall be transmuted to gold & how? An artisan of Piccadilly who fashions denture-sets for the nobility pays handsomely for human gnashers. Do you know the price a quarter pound will earn, sir?'
I confessed I did not.
'Nor shall I enlighten you, sir, for 'tis a professional secret!'
He tapped his nose. 'Mr Ewing, are you acquainted with Marchioness Grace of Mayfair? No? The better for you, for she is a corpse in petticoats. Five years have passed since this harridan besmirched my name, yes, with imputations that resulted in my being blackballed from Society.' Dr Goose looked out to sea. 'My peregrinations began in that dark hour.'
I expressed sympathy with the doctor's plight.
'I thank you, sir, I thank you, but these ivories,' he shook his 'kerchief, 'are my angels of redemption. Permit me to elucidate. The Marchioness wears dental-fixtures fashioned by the aforementioned doctor. Next yuletide, just as that scented She-Donkey is addressing her Ambassadors' Ball, I, Henry Goose, yes, I shall arise & declare to one & all that our hostess masticates with cannibals' gnashers! Sir Hubert will challenge me, predictably, "Furnish your evidence," that boor shall roar, "or grant me satisfaction!" I shall declare, "Evidence, Sir Hubert? Why, I gathered your mother's teeth myself from the spittoon of the South Pacific! Here, sir, here are some of their fellows!" & fiing these very teeth into her tortoise-shell soup tureen & that, sir, that will grant me my satisfaction! The twittering wits will scald the icy Marchioness in their news-sheets & by next season she shall be fortunate to receive an invitation to a Poorhouse Ball!'
In haste, I bade Henry Goose a good day. I fancy he is a Bedlamite.
Friday, 8th November -
In the rude shipyard beneath my window, work progresses on the jibboom, under Mr Sykes's directorship. Mr Walker, Ocean Bay's sole taverner, is also its principal timber-merchant & he brags of his years as a master shipbuilder in Liverpool. (I am now versed enough in Antipodese etiquette to let such unlikely truths lie.) Mr Sykes told me an entire week is needed to render Prophetess 'Bristol fashion'. Seven days holed up in the Musket seems a grim sentence, yet I recall the fangs of the banshee tempest & the mariners lost o'erboard & my present misfortune feels less acute.
I met Dr Goose on the stairs this morning&we took breakfast together. He has lodged at the Musket since middle October after voyaging hither on a Brazilian merchantman, Namorados, from Feejee, where he practised his arts in a mission. Now the doctor awaits a long-overdue Australian sealer, the Nellie, to convey him to Sydney. From the colony he will seek a position aboard a passenger ship for his native London.
My judgement of Dr Goose was unjust & premature. One must be cynical as Diomedes to prosper in my profession, but cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues. The doctor has his eccentricities & recounts them gladly for a dram of Portuguese pisco (never to excess) but I vouchsafe he is the only other gentleman on this latitude east of Sydney & west of Valparaiso. I may even compose for him a letter of introduction for the Partridges in Sydney, for Dr Goose & dear Fred are of the same cloth.
Poor weather precluding my morning outing, we yarned by the peat fire & the hours sped by like minutes. I spoke at length of Tilda & Jackson & also my fears of 'gold-fever' in San Francisco. Our conversation then voyaged from my home-town to my recent notarial duties in New South Wales, thence to Gibbons, Malthus & Godwin via Leeches & Locomotives. Attentive conversation is an emollient I lack sorely aboard Prophetess & the doctor is a veritable polymath. Moreover, he possesses a handsome army of scrimshandered chessmen whom we shall keep busy until either the Prophetess's departure or the Nellie's arrival.
Saturday, 9th November -
Sunrise bright as a silver dollar. Our schooner still looks a woeful picture out in the bay. An Indian war-canoe is being careened on the shore. Henry & I struck out for 'Banqueter's Beach' in holy-day mood, blithely saluting the maid who labours for Mr Walker. The sullen miss was hanging laundry on a shrub & ignored us. She has a tinge of black blood & I fancy her mother is not far removed from the jungle breed.
Passing below the Indian hamlet, a 'humming' aroused our curiosity & we resolved to locate its source. The settlement is circumvallated by a stake-fence, so decayed that one may gain ingress at a dozen places. A hairless bitch raised her head, but she was toothless & dying & did not bark. An outer ring of ponga huts (fashioned from branches, earthen walls & matted ceilings) grovelled in the lees of 'grandee' dwellings, wooden structures with carved lintel-pieces & rudimentary porches. In the hub of this village, a public fiogging was under way. Henry & I were the only two Whites present, but three castes of spectating Indians were demarked. The chieftain occupied his throne, in a feathered cloak, while the tattooed gentry & their womenfolk & children stood in attendance, numbering some thirty in total. The slaves, duskier & sootier than their nut-brown masters & less than half their number, squatted in the mud. Such inbred, bovine torpor! Pockmarked & pustular with haki-haki, these wretches watched the punishment, making no response but that bizarre, bee-like 'hum'. Empathy or condemnation, we knew not what the noise signified. The whip-master was a Goliath whose physique would daunt any frontier prize-fighter. Lizards mighty & small were tattooed over every inch of the savage's musculature: - his pelt would fetch a fine price, though I should not be the man assigned to relieve him of it for all the pearls of O-hawaii! The piteous prisoner, hoarfrosted with many harsh years, was bound naked to an A-frame. His body shuddered with each excoriating lash, his back was a vellum of bloody runes but his insensible face bespoke the serenity of a martyr already in the care of the Lord.
I confess, I swooned under each fall of the lash. Then a peculiar thing occurred. The beaten savage raised his slumped head, found my eye&shone me a look of uncanny, amicable knowing! As if a theatrical performer saw a long-lost friend in the Royal Box and, undetected by the audience, communicated his recognition. A tattooed 'blackfella' approached us & fiicked his nephrite dagger to indicate that we were unwelcome. I enquired after the nature of the prisoner's crime. Henry put his arm around me. 'Come, Adam, a wise man does not step betwixt the beast & his meat.'

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This Salted Caramel Cheesecake is the best you'll ever have! The caramel sauce is my favorite and you'll find that it isn't simply drizzled on top, but it's actually layered inside the cheesecake as well! It's smooth, creamy and delicious!
This cheesecake is genuinely a compounding of two of my rattling challenger things – caramel and cheesecake. And when it comes to brown cheesecake, I didn't requirement to sink. A simplistic cheesecake with both brownness drizzled on top right wasn't enough. I impoverishment ALL the caramel in my caramel cheesecake. Treat, salt, unctuous brownness should be the main taste, not simply the superior.
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- 2 1/2 cups (518g) sugar
- 6 tbsp (49g) all purpose flour, sifted
- 10 tbsp (140g) salted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups (300ml) heavy whipping cream, room temperature
- 1/2 cup salted butter, melted
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 cups (268g) graham cracker crumbs
- 4 large eggs
- Toffee bits
- 1 cup (144g) light brown sugar
- 3 tbsp (24g) all purpose flour
- 1 cup (230g) sour cream
- 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 24 oz (678g) cream cheese, room temperature
- To represent the brownness sauce, pour the sweetener into an level stratum in a generous saucepan.
- Temperature on medium-high warmth, whisking the sweetening until melted. The sugar will agglomeration up premiere, but faculty eventually completely coalesce. This should abide roughly 10 minutes.
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- Add the butter and broom until joint. The combine will strategy up quite a bit, but resource whisking until all the butter has liquefied and composed.
- Easy swarm the soggy cream into the chromatic and scramble until incorporated. I learn it can provide to add retributive a bit at a measure until the sugar starts to cadaverous out, then you can add the sleep. Broom until cured merged and entire.
- Set most 1 1/2 cups of chromatic sauce aside for superior. Add the flour to the remaining sugar and set that aside.
- To achieve the cheesecake encrustation, preheat oven to 325°F (163°C). Pipe a 9-inch (23cm) springform pan with sheepskin report in the lower and grease the sides.
- Have the covering ingredients in a diminutive vessel. Mould the foodstuff into the nether and up the sides of the springform pan.
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- Rain the chromatic sauce with the flour into the lower of the encrustation and extended into an equal bed.
- To act the cheesecake fill, weary the toiletry mallow, brownish sweetening and flour in a titanic mixer dish on low motion until cured sorbed and smoothen. Be reliable to use low fastness to reduce the assets of air further to the hitter, which can cause cracks. Grate doc the sides of the ball.
- Add the ferment ointment and flavourer take and mix on low travel until asymptomatic compounded.
- Add the foodstuff one at a minute, mixing slow to feature after apiece constituent. Skin downcast the sides of the bowl as needful to modify trustworthy everything is rise cooperative.
- Teem the cheesecake batter into the encrustation, over the chromatic.
- Locate the springform pan wrong another larger pan. Modify the external pan with sufficiency fresh element to go near midway up the sides of the springform pan. The installation should not go above the top render of the aluminum transparency on the springform pan.
- Bake for 1 minute 45 proceedings. The halfway should be set, but ease jiggly.
- Metamorphose off the oven and yield the entree sealed for 30 minutes. The cheesecake will locomote to fix, but slowly act to coolheaded as asymptomatic.
- Sally the door of the oven for 30 transactions to afford the cheesecake to continue to nerveless easy. This writ helps forbid noise.
- Take the cheesecake from the oven and vanish the irrigate bath and wrapping.
- Refrigerate cheesecake until completely alter and house, 5-6 hours. When the cheesecake is chill and loyal, vanish it from the springform pan and space on a serving ply.
- Preceding to delivery, pour 1/2 a cup of the remaining sugar sauce over the cheesecake and shower with whatsoever candy bits. Deliver cheesecake slices with the remaining cup of chromatic sauce, for drizzling.
- Keep cheesecake in the icebox. Cheesecake is mortal for 3-4 days.


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As you can imagine the answer to this question depends on who you talk to. For me, I have personally experienced doing BPO's in a rural setting and talked with numerous agents all over the U.S. who work in very urban settings.
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text: What is your Hunger Games Story? (1) Find out what would happen if you took part in the Hunger Games. The results will be quite long. (Girls Version) DaNerdBird published on August 17, 201561 responses 3 4.9★ / 5 Questions in vertical order How did you do on the "Will you survive the Hunger Games?" test? (Be absolutely honest!) I passed. I failed. I failed, but only just. I haven't taken it. If you could be represented by an animal, what would you pick? Dormouse - gentle, easily scared. Tiger - strong and dangerous. Fox - cunning, sneaky, deceptively powerful. Owl - smart, unnoticeable, shy. On a scale of 1-5, how aggressive are you? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. You are reaped for the Hunger Games. How do you feel? Shocked. Just... shocked. I don't mind. It could have been worse - there are people who matter more to me than myself. YEAH! I am so pumped up! I'm gonna WIN! I don't know... crying maybe? What would you try to learn in the Training Centre? How to get food and water so that I survive as long as possible. Fighting. Attack is the best defence. Nothing. Just show off my skills to intimidate the others and get a good score. What's your interview angle? Likeable and humble. Fearless and determined. Mysterious and aloof. Tough and brutal. Calm and clever. The gong goes off and the Games begin. What do you do? Sprint quite far in, grab something good and run. Go straight to the Cornucopia and take the best weapon there. Just take something nice and close. You're alone in the forest. How do you fill in your time? Show off your skills so you get more sponsors. Practice fighting. Think about your strategy for the Games. You find an injured twelve-year-old. You... Put them out of their misery. Ally with them and ask both of your sponsors to get you some medicine. Help them in exchange for some of their supplies. You are trying to sleep in a tree when, suddenly, a group of tributes sets up camp below you. They soon fall asleep. What do you do? Steal some supplies and head back up the tree. If they stay, do the same thing again tomorrow. Attack them! Leave. You're no match for that many tributes. You and your friend are in the final two. What do you do? Kill yourself. I won't hurt them, no matter what. I'm sorry. I want to win. Run away. Let the Gamemakers choose the victor. May the odds be even in your favour. 1 2 3 4 5 6


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We've been digging more into the Mom Market this year. Just recently, we stumbled upon another aspect of the female phenomenon that could make sense as a way to get your camp name in front of moms.
There's an Internet niche called the Mommy Blogosphere. Tech savvy women with ideas and opinions, smart writing skills, and dynamic online personalities have become an advertising channel that some of today's biggest brands are plugging into. The Mommy Blogosphere has taken word of mouth to a whole 'nother level.
This is important because word of mouth from other moms is Mom's most trusted source of information. When a blogger with thousands of followers talks about a product, service or YOUR CAMP, the message goes out to those thousands of followers. But then, many of those followers may tweet, repost or share the blog post to their entire online community. That could be a lot of eyeballs on your camp's name.
The cost of sponsoring one of these bloggers to write about your camp directly correlates to the number of followers the blogger has, but the targeted, word-of-mouth factor makes this a far better value than traditional advertising.
Find out more by downloading our free resource: Best-Kept Camps Marketing Secret: The Mommy Blogosphere. You'll learn three ways to tap into the Blogosphere to market your camp, and a few tips to be aware of, if you decide to go in that direction.


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Our Mission: The Outdoor Adventure Conservation Fund (OACF) connects people with the outdoors and encourages their active participation through hunting, fishing, shooting, camping, hiking and other traditional outdoor activities and pursuits. OACF creates and sponsors events, and provides grants that support events, programs, activities and other efforts by like-minded groups, organizations, agencies, companies and entities that create and conduct such activities in a safe, positive environment and, overall, seek to develop a caring conservation ethic for the outdoors.
OACF was the idea of founder and current president, Chris Chaffin, who was working as a communications consultant with Dream Giveaway Group, Inc. (www.dreamgiveaway.com) and their developing Outdoor Dream Giveaway (www.outdoorgiveaway.com) national sweepstakes program. The associates wanted a way to help people be active in the outdoors, and with the financial support of Dream Giveaway Group, OACF was funded and became a reality.
The OACF team is small and our beginning activities have focused on working with organizations that get wounded and injured mililtary veterans out fishing for sailfish, dolphin fish, grouper, mackerel and other great saltwater game fish. We look forward to expanding our programs into other areas that will share the outdoors with veterans and others who can benefit from participating in the great outdoors.
Like other small organizations trying to do something worthwhile, we are always in need of addtional funding and volunteers who can lend a hand and are willing to help. If you are one of those individuals (or part of a group) and would like to help then please don't hesitate to contact us. The need is huge and a helping hand is always needed...and greatly appreciated!
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Imbc How Cold Should The Butter Be?
Decorating By fourfelinefriends Updated 15 Apr 2008 , 11:35am by FromScratch
I made my first batch of IMBC last night - a soupy mess, I beat and refridgerate, beat and beat and nothing. I think I had either of 2 problems. I tried to half the recipe because half way into my bake session I realized I didn't have enough eggs - so I used too many egg whites (3). OR my butter was too cold or warm.
How do you guys do your butter? Do you take it out of the fridge, cut it and put it back in until you make the sugar like it says in the recipe? I am not sure what semi-cold butter is supposed to mean
How long do you beat the thing before it starts to be fluffy?
Help, I am trying again tonight!
First.. what was your exact amounts you put in? How many eggwhites, how much sugar, how much butter?
When I add my butter I make sure that it's room temp. It takes a little while to beat it all in and have it get fluffy. Normally I do 10 egg whites, 2 cups of sugar, 6 sticks of butter, and flavoring. (I make SMBC but the proprtions are teh same making IMBC you just need water for the sugar syrup). So let me know what you did and I'll see if I can hlpe you salvage it.
I did 3 egg whites (probably part of the problem). 1/2 +1/8 cup sugar. one half of a third (i am awesome at fractions, can you tell?) of water, 1 1/2 sticks of butter...this recipe was a pain to half (halve), so that could have been a problem.
Yeah.. that's a doozey..
I'd scrap it and try again. I think looking at that you might not have enough butter.. a 5 eggwhite recipe should have 3-4 sticks.
If you want to stick with IMBC try this for proportions.. 5 egg whites, 1 cup sugar 1/3 of a cup of water, and 3 sticks of unsalted butter and then add some vanilla to taste. Follow the directions you have and it should work. Do be aware that the meringue based BC's go through odd little phases when youare mixing them. First the meringue is beautiful and pollowy and then you add some butter and it turns to soup and then you add more butter and it can look lumpy and curdled and then you add the rest of the butter and let it mix and it magically comes together.
When you chill it you must let it come to room temp before re-beating it and even then you will probably have what looks like a soupy curdled mess on your hands.. don't worry.. just heat it up a little (I use my culinary torch but placing it over a pot of boiling water will do more than fine) and keep beating it.. it will come back together.
HTH's a bit and if you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.
OMG what a world of difference! I definitely didn't get my sugar hot enough. And my butter was too cold and hard still. This time it never went soupy, but stayed fluffy the whole time! Yey! now I just need to get the technique down to smooth it out and I will be good to go!
awesome! I love meringue buttercreams.. SO much nicer than the powdered sugar based stuff. You should try adding some things to it.. Lemon curd.. strawberry puree.. chocolate ganache.. mmmmmmm.


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The Earth's equatorial circumference is 24,901.55 miles. However, when taking measurements passing through the poles, that number decreases to 24,859.82 miles around.
The Earth's shape allows for slight variations in its circumference. Instead of having a perfect sphere shape, the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Due to its shape and the variations in its circumference, it is faster to fly around the Earth passing through its poles rather than flying around its circumference. The Earth's size is dwarfed by other planets in the solar system, including Jupiter, with an equatorial circumference of 279,118 miles, and the sun, which has an equatorial circumference of 2,720,000 miles.


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As part of the NBN Conference in Cardiff we were delighted to bestow Honorary Membership upon Dr Mark Hill and Professor Helen Roy.
Professor Helen Roy of Biological Records Centre CEH Wallingford
Helen Roy was given Honorary Membership of the NBN Trust to recognise her unique contribution to biological recording since having taken on the running of the Ladybird Recording Scheme, as well as recognising her important role in the wider NBN data-provision process.
While her professional role at CEH Wallingford has inevitably ensured that her work is central to the acquisition of biological data, in particular, for use within the NBN, we would especially want to draw attention to her extra-curricular work. She supports a wide range of biological recording activities, and is a great advocate, especially through ladybird monitoring encouraging engagement with 'citizen science'.
Over the last ten years or more, she has been a tireless enthusiast for pubic engagement in biological recording. She has pioneered development of online recording, and been a primary advocate at meetings, conferences and public engagement events. She has championed the uptake of modern systems of recording, particularly iRecord and its associated developments. Her high public profile, especially in the area of insect recording, has benefited the NBN through engaging with very disparate groups of people.
Her academic work has also demonstrated to a wide audience, and not just academics, the value of broad-scale NBN data in analyses of biodiversity functions and impacts. She has an enthusiastic willingness to share her insights with a wide range of people, amateur as well as professional. This has included frequent engagement internationally with other scientists, especially developing standards and analytical methods relating to biological recording and the data it produces.
Her advocacy for, and support of the NBN's long-term aims has been crucial in maintaining engagement with the NBN through a period of change, when so much especially invertebrate data might not have made its way to the NBN Gateway and more recently the NBN Atlas.
Dr Mark Hill
Mark has been recording bryophytes for over 50 years in association with the British Bryological Society, which he joined in 1965. For much of this time he worked as a professional ecologist and his recording was a spare-time activity.
He was appointed head of the Biological Records Centre in 2003 and from then until (and beyond) his retirement in 2010 he made major contributions to the techniques for analysing biological records.
Mark's recording of bryophytes is reflected by his 48,580 records (including determinations and confirmations of specimens collected by others) which are freely available on the NBN Atlas at full resolution; there are probably at least as many more which have been made on local or national field meetings and are therefore not credited to him personally.
He has been a key member of the Cambridgeshire BBS group since 1986, enthusiastically running its excursions and the BBS week-long meetings. He acted as BBS recorder of Mosses between 1977 and 1986, vetting all new vice-county records, and even those whose records were rejected as misidentifications were usually encouraged by his prompt and cheerful letters.
Mark has been co-author of the three most recent bryophyte checklists and census catalogues covering Britain and Ireland (1981, 1998, 2008). He was one of several British authors who produced a checklist of European mosses in 1981, and in 2006 he led a group of European authors to produce an updated checklist. He is also our national expert on the large and important genus Sphagnum, contributing the accounts to the standard flora and writing a field guide (1992) which was at one stage JNCC's best-selling publication. These publications, and his informal tuition on many meetings, have done much to make this group, hitherto thought of as difficult, much more accessible to British and Irish bryologists.
Mark's enthusiasm was instrumental in ensuring the successful publication of the first BBS bryophyte atlas (1991-94). Mark was appointed BBS Recording Secretary in 2004, at a stage when the Society had scarcely engaged with the computerisation of records. He helped this transition by devising practical tools, such as an electronic recording card which provided an easy way to input records, and set up standard procedures for vetting incoming records. He was a joint author of the proposal for a new BBS atlas and processed some 1,959,888 records during the run-up to its publication (2014), a massive personal commitment of time and expertise.
Always an advocate of making data openly available, he welcomed the development of the NBN Gateway and considered that it should display the BBS data in full. The easy acceptance by BBS of the recent transition to the NBN Atlas owes much to his influence over many years.
While head of BRC, and in his prior role within CEH, Mark developed techniques for the analysis of biological records. His papers have devised methods to analyse the patterns of occurrence of flowering plants in Europe and of both flowering plants and bryophytes in Britain and Ireland, and to tease out the relative importance of air pollution, habitat loss and climate change in the changing distribution of British flowering plants and bryophytes. He often led the field in the use of biological records to address environmental issues – he worked on the impacts of climate change in the early 1990s and non-native
species in the late 1990s, before both fields became 'fashionable' and the focus of numerous research projects. For example, Mark led an audit of all non-native species in England in 2005, extending this to Great Britain in 2010. A particularly notable contribution has been the program FRESCALO (2012), devised to identify trends in species frequency using biological recording data. This has subsequently been applied to both plant and animal groups both in Britain and elsewhere in western Europe.


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The Man of Our House
Let's start with the first of my boys that I fell in love with and who gave me the rest of them- my husband of, going on, 8 glorious years - Austin. I've known Austin for almost 12 years and we've been together almost 12 too. He is the strings to my guitar - the sweet to my tea - the peanut butter to my jelly - you get the idea:) I like to say that we complement each other. We have the same values and beliefs, almost the same moral compass:), and a common desire to glorify God and raise our children in a Godly home. Austin is a morning person who talks in the mornings as if he's speaking through a megaphone even though his wife likes to ease her way into the day. In everyday occurrences we bring balance to each others' lives. We are each others' sounding boards. While he strives to provide for our family and be the best Dad ever, I strive to make our house a home and take care of all my boys. We both strive to be Godly examples for our children. I am so blessed to have this man as my husband. God knew he was the perfect fit for me. And one other little thing people find funny about Austin and I - he grew up an avid FL fan, me UK. Sooooo, we made a compromise when we married that during football season we'd both be Gator fans and during basketball season we'd both be Wildcat fans. Gotta love college sports!
The First Little Man of Our House
This is my little Westen. He is 3 years old and the apple of my eye. It has been such a wonderful fulfilling journey since the day I found out I was first pregnant. Children really are miracles and such blessings. Westen is so funny! He's a shy kid but when at home talks all the time! He makes me and Austin laugh daily and seems to be growing into a little man much quicker than I anticipated. As a baby I would've said he was more like me with a laid back personality. Now, I think I'd say he's more like Austin. He seems to have Austin's energy and silliness. He is such a sweet child and I hope he continues to be. I can't wait to see what God has in store for him.
The Second Little Man of Our House
And this is my sweet Baron! Baron is 15 months old. I seriously adore this little child! After having such an easy time with Westen as a baby, Baron opened up a whole new can of worms for us. He is fearless and feisty! We can't take our eyes off him for a second because he's so adventurous and seems to be tough as nails. He's aggressive and seems to be passionate. Yes, I'm making him out to be a tough guy because he is, BUT, he is also super affectionate and loves to cuddle! I can't get enough of his kisses and hugs which he gives to us often. At 15 months, I expect in the next 6 months or so he'll be talking more and more and I can't wait! I look forward to seeing more of his little personality shine through! I expect he'll bring us many laughs!
The True Eldest Child
And here's Cousey, of course. Cousey is almost 6 years old and spoiled rotten. Although, he'd probably disagree. I'm not sure if he'll ever get used to the fact that we've had children and that they must come first. He is such an emotional dog - obnoxiously frightened by storms, always aware when we pack up to go somewhere, acting out when he's offended. We've always claimed he's half human and we believe it. He is sooooo tolerant of Westen and will be of Baron too, I'm sure. We love him like a child too and are blessed to have his companionship.
The Brownlee Family
Sorry, I don't have a good pic of all of us with Baron, yet. I'll update this soon.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. -1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. -1 Corinthians 13:4-8
And the Lonesome Girl in the House Full of Boys
I wouldn't have it any other way. I always say maybe God knows I just wouldn't have the patience for girls. And I ADORE my boys. I loved being a teacher before I had kids, but after I had Westen, I felt like a part of me was fulfilled that I never knew was missing. I love being a mom and know without a shadow of a doubt I was meant to be one. I am blessed that I get to stay home and raise my children myself - all the time. I'd like to maybe even have at least one more, maybe two kiddies if I can talk Austin into it. And yes, I'd be fine with more boysl (I just pray one of them marries a girl who'll take care of me when I get old and gray). I didn't start this blog until Westen was about a year old and even then it was just pictures of him for my family to see. But, I've found that I also enjoy using this as a creative outlet for me. I'm a doer. I don't come up with lots of creative ideas on my own, but I can follow instructions and I LOVE do-it-yourself projects. That's me. I like being thrifty (which works out perfectly for my husband). So, as I've read other blogs and enjoy getting new ideas from them, I hope I can be a source for you to get ideas from too (not necessarily mine, but ideas nonetheless). I hope you enjoy this blog and may God bless you.


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The letter to the 15,000 was first posted on my blog spot in 2015 and has since had nearly 200,000 views across 27 countries. It was written for Sports Science students aspiring to work in the field of elite sport, but the lessons translate to grass-roots sport, coaching, health and exercise science, in fact has…Read More


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Ukraine significantly decreased its gas import from Russia last year due to diversification from European countries. "It is very good news that Ukraine is able to diversify its gas supply. The worrying news is that this diversification again comes from imports instead of increased domestic production" says Nicholas Tymoshchuk, Director of the Representative Office of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in the EU and formerly working for Chevron and TNK-BP in Ukraine, in an exclusive interview with Slovak energy analyst Jozef Badida.
JB: Ukraine has been trying to reduce its domestic gas consumption since the beginning of the price dispute over Russian gas. Consumption decreased in 2014 by 16% from 50.4 to 42.6 bcm. Moreover Ukraine has been successfully replacing Russian with European gas. Is this good news?
NT: Yes, it is good news. Ukraine has been one of the most inefficient gas users in the world for the last two decades. Its usage of gas in relation to its GDP has been the highest in Europe and among the highest in the world. We consumed up to 60 bcm per year generating far less GDP than, for instance, neighbouring Poland, which is of comparable size, or other big European countries like Germany, France or the UK.
In general, the reduction of gas consumption in Ukraine is a positive fact, but the underlying reason is not that the government has implemented a successful energy efficiency policy or found replacement for gas. This difference is the result of our plummeting economy. We have a contracting GDP and a war in Eastern Ukraine. This region was a huge, huge gas consumer because of the high number of industrial enterprises situated there.
JB: I see your point, not energy efficiency measures but lower productivity led to the decline of gas consumption. But what about the replacement of Russian with European gas? Is that a positive change?
NT: I think that competition and diversification are, in general, good things. Any sane person and especially any businessman would like to have several sources of supply. So it is definitely very good news that Ukraine is able to diversify its gas supply. The worrying news is that this diversification comes again from imports instead of increased domestic production. Our European partners made a lot of efforts and faced difficulties with Gazprom in their attempt to provide Ukraine with alternative sources of gas supply. And they did with some success. We should be grateful to the EU and we are. At the same time we must realize that it is just a temporary solution. A long-term sustainable solution should be boosting domestic production.
JB: Actually that is my next question. You've said elsewhere that oil and gas fields are a key factor to ensure Ukrainian energy security but we haven't seen growth of production volumes. Why? What are the challenges?
NT: It is because the hydrocarbon sector in Ukraine is not market driven. It is not a market as such. It is dominated by state controlled monopolies that have proved, over 20 years of Ukraine's independence, to be disastrous. They are not able to take the Ukrainian oil and gas industry forward. I am not criticising any individual politicians, managers or companies, but the system in which these monopolies, like Naftogaz and its subsidiaries, operate. The biggest cancer of this system is cross-subsidies. They have been subsidised for subsidising their consumers. It is a vicious circle that must be undone. Though it is very painful for the population it is what the government is now forced to do under pressure from the international financial institutions.
JB: I will return to this question later on but first I would like to go into the oil and gas drilling industry which is capital intensive. In order to reduce fiscal deficit, Ukraine has increased gas royalty – a tax paid by companies producing natural gas. Is it sustainable? How can the business environment be improved with regard to production of hydrocarbons?
NT: We have to acknowledge and live with simple facts. To start with, Ukraine does not have tremendous hydrocarbon resources like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Iraq, UAE or the USA. Moreover, hydrocarbon production in Ukraine is plagued by inefficiency, lack of new technologies, high taxes and a very difficult entry to market for private investors. Ukraine has potentially enough hydrocarbons to be self-sustainable, but they are not easy to access. They are either small, scattered, shallow fields like those in Western Ukraine or they are deep, difficult to access, high pressured fields like in the Poltava region, or they are hydrocarbons trapped in special formations like tight sands, shale or coalbed horizons in some regions of both Eastern and Western Ukraine. Basically, all those reserves are expensive to explore and develop. This means that the only reason why an investor would come and take the risk of a 3 to 7-year exploration period to assess whether these reserves are recoverable or not and then be ready to spend 10 to 50 years for a production period, is because you incentivise them. You provide financial conditions under which investors would be ready to take the risk and bring in (or bring up in Ukraine) skilled workforce, experience, know-how, advance technologies, etc. For instance, subsoil fee increase in Ukraine in 2014 was meant to be a temporary measure to cover the budget deficit of a country being in a state of war. But in the end private producers in Ukraine were fooled, since this temporary solution turned out to be a permanent one. I am not sure whether a reduction or even reinstatement of previous rates would encourage new investors to come because they have been faced with outrageous instability and unpredictability.
JB: Have you observed any companies leaving the country due to this situation of instability and unpredictability?
NT: Yes, I have seen companies leaving the market or at least putting their production or exploration projects on hold. Both local producers and international companies have done that. But I do not want to name any of them due to sensitivity of the issue. It might cause them some legal and reputational problems.
Nicholas Tymoshchuk serves as Director of the Representative Office to the EU for the Ukrainian League of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) – the biggest association of the Ukrainian business – based in Kyiv and Brussels. Prior to ULIE, Nicholas managed Government Affairs activity for the world's second biggest public energy company Chevron in Ukraine. Before Chevron, he spent five years in Russian-British oil and gas giant TNK-BP on a position of Director for International Affairs, and before that five years in American-based political and charitable NGOs.
JB: In the second part of the interview we will speak, among other things, about a potential privatisation of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian oil and gas Champion and Mr. Tymoshchuk´s sceptical view on Russia's intentions to route gas flows intended for Europe via Turkey to bypass Ukraine. In this respect he believes the Ukrainian corridor "remains the cheapest, shortest and most convenient route for Russia to transport its hydrocarbons to the EU". Regarding a progressive phasing out of gas subsidies, a hotly debated topic in Ukraine, he admits that "Ukraine has no other way than increasing its tariffs" incentivising citizens to become more energy efficient.
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The Jungle Book 2
The Jungle Book 2, Disney's latest reincarnation, tries to squeeze a few more drops of milk from a sacred cow, 1967's "The Jungle Book" — which has the disadvantage of being a marvelously complete and sequel-resistant fable. Nonetheless, the same money-minded dreamers who found a way to "Return to Neverland" have hacked a path back to Baloo heaven: Jungle-weaned Kipling stripling Mowgli (voiced by Haley Joel Osment) misses his scat-man papa bear (John Goodman, a natural successor to late Ursa Major Phil Harris) and skips out on his adoptive man-village for what amounts to a highlight reel of "JB1" — including the obligatory recap of "Bare Necessities."
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It's downhill from there: By the time Phil Collins joins the "fab four" vultures of the original (heresy!) and Smash Mouth covers "I Wan'na Be Like You" over the end credits, the whole enterprise starts to feel like a sheer con.
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The revamped Taste of Chicago may have shown initial success, but new numbers suggests the festival is even deeper in the red.
Following reports last year that the festival did not come close to breaking even, Taste of Chicago reported a $1.3 million loss Wednesday.
The losses came despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hope to turn a profit after a $1 million loss in 2011 by shortening the festival from the traditional 10 days to five days and moving it away from the Fourth of July weekend. Attendees were also charged for concerts and exclusive meals throughout the festival.
However, cultural affairs Commissioner Michelle Boone told the Chicago Sun-Times in October that while restaurants saw profits, the Taste may never turn a profit again.
Boone noted the city paid $6 million to host the festival, shelling out at least $655,000 for big names such as Jennifer Hudson and Death Cab for Cutie who played shows at the festival in July.
City officials declared an initial success after the festival brought in an estimated 1.2 million people; a total Emanuel said was an increase of 5,000 per day over 2011.
The reported success was attributed to the festival's decrease in violence, and the administration plans to continue its focus on safety.
"The whole thing is, we wanted to make sure it was the safest, most family-friendly event possible," city spokeswoman Eve Rodriguez said Tuesday while discussing Taste revenue numbers.
Boone admits last year's changes "reversed the downward trend" but it's not clear whether the gap was closed, especially considering the increased cost of city services.
Despite the festivals losses, Emanuel plans to repeat its five-day festival, though he said it must continue to evolve.
In addition, the city plans to continue charging attendees $25 for reserved seats to concerts at the Petrillo Music Shell and $40 a ticket for "Celebrity Chef du Jour" sit-down meals, city spokeswoman Kathleen Strand told Sun-Times.


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JetBlue Encourages New Yorkers to Steal in Latest Fun Stunt
NYCTakeoff Stunt Rewarded the Sly with Nets and Jets Tickets, Free Flights
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JetBlue has made a name for itself delighting NYC 9 to 5-ers with its fun out of home stunts, including a deceptively keen talking billboard and a Coke vending machine that rewarded the generous with free flights. This time, the company is encouraging New Yorkers to outright steal to promote itself as "New York's Hometown Airline."
With the help of its agency Mullen Lowe, this week brand placed 185 gift vouchers in public spots all over New York's five boroughs. But they were kind of hiding in plain sight--the vouchers were giant peel-off posters that people literally had to tear down in order to redeem.
The #NYCTakeoff ad, created in both English and Spanish, urged people to rip them off their bus shelters and promised some pretty impressive swag -- roundtrip flight vouchers, NY Jets and Brooklyn Nets tickets, a scoop of Brooklyn's Blue Marble Ice Cream.
Once people peeled off the ads, they revealed others with snarky lines: "Snooze You Lose," "Takers Gonna Take," "Report This Ad Stolen."
Some who swiped the flight vouchers got an added treat -- a surprise visit from a JetBlue crewmember. According to the agency, New Yorkers have already helped themselves to all 185 of the ads. Fortunately, JetBlue will be running the promotion again beginning on October 5, so keep your eyes peeled NYC.
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- Chief Creative Officer:
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- Executive Creative Director:
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- Executive Creative Director:
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- Vice President/Creative Director:
- Enrique Camacho
- Chief Creative Officer:
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- Executive Creative Director:
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- Executive Creative Director:
- Dave Weist
- Vice President/Creative Director:
- Enrique Camacho
- Senior Vice President, Associate Creative Director:
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- Associate Creative Director/Technologist:
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- Senior Art Director:
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- Art Director:
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- Copywriter:
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- Designer:
- Han Na Jung
- Designer:
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- Designer:
- Tony Frusciante
- Production Supervisor:
- Kristine Ring-Janicki
- Content Producer:
- Eric Skvirsky
- Editor and Videographer:
- Nick Brecken
- Assistant Editor and Videographer:
- Jake Stafford
- Project Manager:
- Molly McKeown
- Senior Vice President, Group Account Director:
- Drayton Martin
- Vice President, Account Director:
- Meredith Frisco
- Senior Account Executive:
- Vishal Chandawarkar
- Copy Editing Manager:
- Ashley Rumery
- Strategic Planning Director:
- Ellie Gogan-Tilstone
- Senior Brand Strategist:
- Sloane Beaver
- Senior Vice President, Group Digital Director:
- Jade Watts
- Digital Media Supervisor:
- Kelly McGowan
- Media Planner:
- Lauren Meyers
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Me and my PINK hairRead Now
So for all of you who don't know me yet.... This year I decide to have a PINK hair... I'm not sure until when but so far I still like my pink hair.
I'm not sure if my pink hair change my attitude but some people said that it is change my attitude a little bit (I hope it change to be better one) ....
But I know that this girl right now just want to have FUN before hit 40 !!! I want to enjoy my journey to 40 .... So LEAVE ME ALONE !!! LOL ..... I want to do whatever I want :-P ..... When I hit 40 then I will start thinking for my future (can I???)
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No kids... No responsible... Nothing... My responsibility is only My mother because I only have one mother and I love her to death ..... That's it ;-)
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Contemporary Church Joining Tips
The church can be termed as both a place and the people and it can be called a gathering of people who have the same believes in a supernatural being and practices the same beliefs. Christians are people who believe in Jesus Christ and the other followers who gather in our church worship. One of the reasons why Christianity is becoming one of the most known religion in the world is because there is a lot of effort that has been taken by the followers of Jesus to preach the gospel to many nations and people. The gospel has been preached many people and nations and that is why they Christian fraternity has been increasing in number daily.
When you give your life to Jesus therefore, you should not be worried about the journey because you will not walk alone as the church takes the responsibility of nurturing new believers to work in the ways of God. When it comes to church, it is believed that they must because stand for their beliefs but the environment has changed a lot and that is why there is the contemporary church. For instance, the way of worship in music has changed a lot with the current gospel musicians adopting the new styles of singing and playing instrument making it contemporary worship. Therefore, that is why many people have come up with many criticisms trying to pull down the contemporary church because to the world it seems that they are lowering their standards.
Although the styles of delivering the gospel might have changed, they are still consistent believes that can help you grow as a Christian. Consider the following therefore when you're choosing a contemporary church to join.
A Christian can only grow in an environment of Christians because it is an avenue where you are challenged and encouraged to move on when the journey is not easy. The church you should join therefore should be organized enough to have such fellowships apart from the Sunday fellowship where all the believers gather. The church is also adapting to the new technology and that is why getting to know more about the church is easy because you can visit this site that belongs to a specific church and you will discover more about the church when it comes to fellowships.
Even before you start looking for a church that has fellowship platforms, consider a Bible-believing church. Additionally, you can use referrals from people you meet around and also an online site can be of great help in giving you the info you need to know if a church is a Bible-believing church.


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Hello and welcome to the first ever post on the Garrett Johnston Writing website! It's getting official y'all; that's right, I bought the domain name and everything.
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This website is dedicated to my never ending quest to live my life as a storyteller, and more specifically, a creative writer for young readers. I wanted to create a place for any interested parties to get a glimpse at what i'm up to and follow my creative journey!
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Pelican: "The Most Versatile Pro-Grade Flashlight In The World, With Magnet Clip"
The 3410M (magnet version) is the ultimate compact work light. Molded from "glow in the dark" photoluminescent material, this light is easy to find even when it's off. The 3410M is equipped with both a spot and flood LED for close-up as well as distance, so you can have wide area light in the immediate work area and still penetrate darkness hundreds of yards away. It can be activated to run one or both LEDs with 3 levels of brightness. The articulating head and built-in clip allows the light to be directed wherever it is needed, while a heavy duty magnet allows the light to be snapped to steel surfaces.
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The year 2017 celebrated 50 years of TMC Nancy's Afternoons held here at the Takapuna Methodist Church. This afternoon occurs on the 3rd Tuesday of each month April to November, and is an afternoon of entertainment for older adults in the community, living independently or in residential care. It is hosted by people from TMC and an afternoon tea is provided. Transport can be arranged for guests.
It is an enjoyable and varied programme offered on these afternoons and offers of help are gratefully accepted.
Contact the TMC Office on 489 4590.


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If you've never had to go visit your parents "down South," after they sold your childhood home after graduation because the condo will be so much easier to take care of with just two people, you're probably unfamiliar with the massively popular chain of "Perkins" family-style restaurants. Don't feel bad; for the purposes of this review, all you have to imagine is a less-meticulously maintained Denny's or Cracker Barrel restaurant, with giant laminated picture-based menus, indoor/outdoor carpeting lining the dining room, dark-colored leather booths, and someone sitting at the counter that will inevitably be both "eating biscuits and gravy" and "being a racist."
It makes perfect sense, then, that on the strength of this brand, the Perkins chain would launch a new line of microwaveable breakfast sandwiches, including the aptly-named "Big Stack," which features both sausage and bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches between two maple-flavored pancakes, the "Triple Stack," which boasts two sausage patties sandwiched between three pancakes, and our favorite, the "Ham Stack,"* which includes black forest ham, provolone, and egg, between two maple-flavored pancakes.
*"Ham Stack" was my nickname in college.
The first thing that you notice about the "Ham Stack," and really, each of these microwaveable breakfast sandwiches, is that the people at Perkins didn't even have the common decency to package this product in any kind of normal, civilized way, such as in a box, or even shrink-wrapped. Instead, these sandwiches are packaged in some kind of rigid-topped bag, where the ingredients tend to get kind of roughed up during shipment. The label promises "No Hassle Restaurant Quality," which is a plus, because if there's one thing we won't tolerate on a busy morning, it's being hassled by a breakfast sandwich.
We couldn't have been less impressed by the individual components of this sandwich prior to cooking, which all have the feeling of being mass produced in ungodly quantities in different factories and then sent somewhere to be hastily assembled by nonviolent juvenile offenders enrolled in some kind of alternate sentencing agreement.
After wrapping in a paper towel and microwaving for the prescribed 50 seconds, things started to take a turn for a worse. We don't want to go as far as to say that the Perkins "Ham Stack" violated its "No Hassle" guarantee, but the paper towel did stick to the sandwich a bit, and prove a little tricky to get unwrapped, especially once everything was microwaved to a blistering 240 degrees.
Admittedly, the sandwich did taste better than expectations and appearances would lead you to believe, though it never quite managed to reach peak "this is definitely food" levels. The pancakes contained a faint whiff of maple flavoring, more akin to "smelling a scented candle" than "eating a delicious breakfast." The egg was a non-player, an insipid yellow disc of fake-scrambled bullshit that quite frankly, isn't fooling anyone. Most of the cheese seeped out during microwaving, and wasn't discernible at all. In terms of flavor, the biggest contributor seemed to be the ham, whose contribution consisted solely of "burningly intense saltiness."
So, yeah. If you're pressed for time on a hectic morning, are devoted heart and soul to the majesty of the Perkins brand, and are determined to eat something that is hot, fluffy, vaguely sweet smelling, has lots of layers of textures but not flavors, and tastes overwhelmingly of salt, Perkins has finally made it easy, provided you have a paper towel, a microwave, 50 seconds, and a pathological aversion to getting hassled. Everyone else can skip this one.
Perkins "Ham Stack" Microwaveable Breakfast Sandwich
Overall Taste
An oddly-packaged breakfast product that serves a narrow niche: consumers who love fluffy hot flavorless breakfast, and who otherwise hate being hassled.


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Former Mayor, Civic Leader Dies at 91
Charlton Phillips "Charlie" Boyd, a former mayor who endeavored to improve Laguna Beach during his 50 years as a resident, passed away in Dana Point on Feb. 3, 2011. He was 91.
Boyd was born June 5, 1919, one of eight children born to Jennie and Richard Boyd of Chelmsford, Mass. The son of a carpenter and rural New England home-builder, Boyd graduated from Chelmsford High School in 1937 and from Harvard University with a business degree in 1941.
Boyd also enrolled in Navy ROTC and entered active duty prior to the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor. Assigned in Washington D.C., Boyd was involved in the initial wave of communications regarding the attack. Boyd served in Africa, France and Italy as a Naval communications officer. During the invasion of Southern France, he served as the American communications officer to Sir Winston Churchill aboard the HMS Largs.
In 1942 Boyd married Jane Fernald of Presque Isle, Maine. They met at a party. After the war, the Boyds moved to Hartsdale, N.Y., where he worked for Bigelow Sanford Company in the Empire State Building. The couple had two sons, Scott and Alan, born in 1946 and 1948, respectively. In 1953, Boyd moved his family to San Carlos, Calif., where he joined his brother Milton in the carpet business. Daughter Lucy was born in Redwood City in 1954.
In 1957, the family moved again to Laguna Beach. Making a career change, Boyd entered the aerospace industry, then growing in Southern California. Working primarily for Hughes Aircraft and North American Aviation, he took pride in working on the Landing Module (LEM) for the first Apollo moon landing, but was laid off with others in its aftermath.
In 1971, he and his wife bought and managed the Adventure Travel Service agency, located in a building that served as Laguna's first post office.
The couple both immersed themselves in the local community. Jane served on several school boards and PTA while Charlie was involved with numerous organizations as well as the Laguna Beach City Council, serving both as vice-mayor and mayor during the 1970s and '80s. He was most proud of his part in the redevelopment of the Main Beach park area.
Boyd retired from Adventure Travel in 1982 and spent five years tending to Jane, who had Alzheimer's and died in 1987.
Boyd also participated with the Harvard Club of Orange County, PTA, Boy Scouts, Boys Club fund raising, Citizens Town Planning Association, Village Laguna, St. Mary's Church vestryman, Orange County Travel Assoc., Friends of the Library, Exchange Club and Laguna Greenbelt.
Boyd is survived by Scott, of Redding, Calif;, Alan of Kailua, Hawaii; Lucy of Moraga, Calif., five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
If desired, donations may be made in Boyd's memory to the Laguna Beach Historical Society (949 939-7257) http://lagunahistory.org.
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LAKELAND – Twice on Wednesday night, in its 2016 home opening doubleheader with Spring Hill (AL), Florida Southern found itself on the wrong end of 1-0 scores. Held to just two hits in the first 12 innings of those two games, the outlook may have looked bleak for the Moccasins, but as it turned out, it made what happened next all the more thrilling – not once, but twice. Maggie Roberts and Dana Mackiewicz delivered a pair of 1-out RBI singles in the bottom of the seventh in game one, and the Mocs scored two runs on a dropped throw at first base in game two to rally for a pair of 2-1 wins over the Badgers.
All of the Moccasins got their running in Wednesday night, sprinting out of the dugout during both ends of the doubleheader to celebrate the two walk-off wins that evened their record at 2-2. Many of the Moccasins' 12 newcomers played a vital role in one win or the other, including Mackiewicz, a junior college transfer from Pasco-Hernando, and freshman Hannah Whisman, who were responsible for the winning runs, albeit in different fashion. Then there was senior Jordan Alexander, one of the veterans, who was involved in both uprisings and broke up a no-hit bid by Spring Hill All-American Caroline Sagrera in the bottom of the seventh in game one.
Both wins were made possible by the brilliant pitching of juniors Brandi Jones and Sydney Koch, who each limited the Badgers (2-7) to only five hits in their respective starts. The Mocs have seen a lot of that from Jones over the last two-plus seasons, but Koch was making her first appearance in the circle after arriving from Johnson County Community College this year.
Sagrera was working on a no-hitter for Spring Hill in game one, with the Mocs' only base runner coming on an error in the fifth inning. That runner was erased on a double play, meaning the 2-time All-American had faced the minimum of 18 batters over the first six innings. However, Alexander opened the bottom of the seventh with a triple and two batters later came home on a bunt single that Roberts pushed between third baseman Rene Kausin and shortstop Carmen Byrd.
The Mocs then got a double from junior Erica Morrissey that moved sophomore pinch-runner Jordan Sheppard to third, and freshman Zierra Flodman was hit by a pitch to load the bases for Mackiewicz. The junior outfielder from Spring Hill, Florida came through by looping a ball over Byrd, who was drawn in from her shortstop position. Unable to get back on it, the ball dropped in and allowed Sheppard to score the winning run.
In the second game, the Mocs were held to two hits through six innings by Danielle Clark before again coming back in the bottom of the seventh. Freshman Jessica Trana started this rally by drawing a 1-out walk and freshman Makayla Deuberry followed with a bunt single that was almost identical to the one put down by Roberts in game one. Clark was able to get the second out, but Alexander extended the inning for Florida Southern by drawing her third walk of the game.
That brought Whisman to the plate with the bases loaded and two out for her first career at-bat. The freshman from Naples hit a grounder to third that was fielded by Madeline Burchell who threw over to Makayla Herrin at first. But with Whisman racing down the line and closing in on the bag, the ball popped out of the glove of Herrin as Sheppard again scored as a pinch-runner, and it rolled far enough away that freshman Annemarie Tracey was also able to score for the 2-1 Florida Southern win.
Picking up the wins for Florida Southern were Jones and Koch, who had nearly identical pitching lines with one run on five hits and two strikeouts. Jones did not walk a batter, and Koch walked just one. Jones needed only 63 pitches to win the opener, and Koch threw only 78. Each pitcher also allowed a run in the top of the first inning.
Jenna Charnock drove in Spring Hill's run in game one, and Mary Glass had the Badger RBI in game two. Charnock went 3-for-4 with a walk in the doubleheader, and Byrd also hit safely in each game.
Florida Southern will play another doubleheader at home on Friday night at 5 p.m. when it hosts Colorado Christian.


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Festival Raises Money for Blind Boone Home
COLUMBIA - Mid-Missourians celebrated the life and music of J.W. "Blind" Boone at the 2013 Blind Boone Ragtime & Early Jazz Festival Monday night.
The Columbia City Council voted last week to give money to the J.W. Blind Boone Home at 10 N Fourth St. The City Council appropriated money from the city's 2012 budget surplus. That money will be used to renovate the inside of the Blind Boone Home.
Festival organizer Lucille Salerno has organized the festival since 1991. She said this year's proceeds will go to the Blind Boone Home's maintenance.
"Since the actual project of completion will be coming from Convention and Visitors bureau tax income, it's likely that it will be used for maintenance," Salerno said.
Salerno also said the timing of this year's festival is perfect with the City Council's decision last week.
"In a sense we were way ahead of what happened last week but hoping, praying, working that it could come about, and it was incredibly moving to see our mayor, the honorable Bob McDavid. He was the first to make a statement about the use of the funds. It's a culmination of something we started in 1997 as a foundation, and culminating last Monday night in the City Council with those wonderful, wonderful memories of our city government endorsing it's importance," Salerno said.
Salerno said she hopes the city will appreciate the value of the home, and its significance.
"Every year we have celebrated this great man who lived among us in an attempt to raise the consciousness of the wonderful citizens here in Columbia, and our government, about the treasure we have here, and its importance, even in terms of economic development," Salerno said.
Tuesday is the last day of the festival with a concert at 7:30pm at the Missouri Theater.


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Report: Building playgrounds can spark community change
INFOGRAPHIC AND REPORT: www.knightfoundation.org/kaboomreport
MIAMI – May 23, 2012 – While the nonprofit KaBOOM! helps communities build playgrounds in a matter of weeks, the impact goes beyond a healthy play space for kids. A new Knight Foundation report finds that the projects help volunteers and local organizations cultivate the skills, confidence and inspiration to get more involved in their communities.
KaBOOM!: Playgrounds that Build Communities provides lessons for groups seeking to engage volunteers in community change efforts. Key to the success is the non-profit's approach. KaBOOM! offers a highly structured playbook that yields a quick, achievable win motivating people to become more engaged in improving neighborhoods.
"So often, people looking to create community change struggle with the question, how do we get people involved, how do we get them to care? Most groups focus on long-term strategies. KaBOOM! is showing that a quick win can provide the confidence boost communities need to tackle more projects and create more engaged communities," said Paula Ellis, vice president for strategic initiatives at Knight Foundation.
For example, at Detroit's St. Jude Family Childcare Center, participants in the KaBOOM! project have since taken on other improvement projects like landscaping and repairs. Community members have taken such ownership of the playground they built, that on the weekends when the center is closed, a local resident comes by each day to open and close it to let neighbors play.
"By learning and using the KaBOOM! playground build process I have become more efficient and effective when planning and organizing other volunteer events," says Choyce Harris of the Jude Family Childcare Learning Center. "I use the tools and methods for almost every event I organize now."
"This evaluation confirms what we at KaBOOM! have known for years: the process is as important as the product," said Darell Hammond, founder and CEO of KaBOOM!. "People care deeply about their communities and given a little support, they will step up and make big changes."
Knight Foundation, which funded 13 playgrounds in 2010, also announced today it is providing $1.5 million in support for nine additional play spaces in Akron, Ohio, Miami and Detroit. "Our new support cements the lessons from this research by providing KaBOOM! with more capacity to engage citizens before and after the build," said Damian Thorman director of Knight's National Program. KaBOOM! will hire consultants to work with partners for a year after the playground projects, to help them capitalize on their newfound skills and inspiration.
The independent evaluation on KaBOOM! was conducted by Public/Private Ventures for Knight Foundation. It focused on 13 playground builds in Akron, Ohio, Detroit, Miami, Washington, D.C., Macon, Ga. and Philadelphia.
The full report, executive summary and infographic are availaable at knightfoundation.org/kaboomreport.
About Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
About KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to saving play. Children today spend less time playing outdoors than any previous generation, a fact that is having disastrous consequences on their health, achievement levels, and overall well-being. To fight this Play Deficit, social entrepreneur Darell Hammond founded non-profit KaBOOM! in 1996 in Washington, D.C. with a vision of creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. Since then, KaBOOM! has mapped over 85,000 places to play, built more than 2,000 playgrounds, and successfully advocated for play policies in hundreds of cities across the country. KaBOOM! also provides communities with online tools to self-organize and take action to support play on both a local and national level.
Stephanie Bowen, Director, Communications, (202) 464-6186, [email protected]
Andrew Sherry, Vice President/Communications, (305) 908-2677, [email protected]