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Which team do you support? They've always been your one and only right? Ever since whatever it was that occurred – your first match; seeing a cool kit on The Big Match whilst stuffing your face with Opel Fruits; copying your best mate – that sparked your lifelong love affair, this club has always held an exclusive place in your heart?
Or at least, for most of us anyway. Because if you were a small boy between the years 1954-2001 (like I say, most of us), and if you enjoyed comics (see previous brackets), then odds on there was another allegiance. A sort of trainer club, that taught you the discipline, loyalty and devotion required to follow the same outfit every week come rain or shine, miserable defeat or glorious victory.
Melchester Rovers first appeared in Tiger magazine in the mid-fifties and became a regular, much-loved fixture there for over twenty years until the eponymous Roy of the Rovers launched in 1976.
The early side contained two raw recruits from the reserves – schoolboy friends Roy Race and Blackie Gray – who would go on to become key figures at the club and were instrumental in leading the side to ten league titles, ten FA Cup victories, and three European Cup triumphs.
Roy certainly had an eventful life both on and off the pitch. During his time with the club – that spanned over half a century – he was shot, spent time in a coma following a helicopter crash, and lost his devoted wife Penny in a car accident. He also survived the atrocious terrorist explosion in Basran in 1986 that ripped apart his talented side that had only recently broken the league record of going twelve games without conceding a goal. Eight players died that awful day, several of whom came through Melchester's youth system, including Noel Baxter, one of the most naturally gifted defenders ever to grace the game.
Yet, although Roy Race came to symbolise Rovers, the club existed long before he was even an idea in the artist's pencil.
Founded in 1885 on the River Mel by the Crib Lane Freight Company they would secure their first piece of silverware twenty years later – a successful F.A Cup campaign skippered by none other than Billy Race, Roy's great grandfather.
Mel Park was built soon after, a ground that hosted countless nights of gripping drama and more stories than Dustin Hoffman could possibly eulogize about on top of a New York building. Sadly it succumbed to an earthquake in the late-eighties. Just six years earlier it had become Britain's first all-seater stadium, its 56,000 capacity often packed out with silent, but flag waving, supporters….apart from two quite chatty guys who clearly saw themselves as amateur commentators.
In 2001 Melchester Rovers, to all extents and purposes, quietly folded when the publication that housed its strips during the latter years, Match of the Day, also fell from existence.
In over a hundred years this incredible – often incredulous – club gave millions of children, bridging many generations, twenty minutes of joy every week before school. Weetabix hardening and forgotten in a nearby bowl they absorbed themselves in a world where one club never, not once, achieved mediocrity. It was either a title race or relegation. Where every foreign player sported a rather natty pencil-thin moustache. And where Geoffrey Boycott was chairman for several years.
Rovers were one of the most successful British club sides of all time and in tribute to this fine institution here is what we consider to be their finest XI.
GK – Tubby Morton
Although Charlie 'the cat' Carter pushes him close it can only be Tubby. A long-standing stalwart between the Mel Park sticks the England international kept the deadliest Tynecaster and Cranville attackers at bay for nearly twenty years.
Made an emotional return to first-team football several years after his retirement but alas the endearing chubbiness had ballooned by then to full-on fatty. In his prime though the safest two-dimensional hands around.
RB – Ben Galloway
In many ways Galloway's magnificent career was the prototype for Races. A lengthy and highly-acclaimed spell as player/captain (during the 1930s and 40s) before moving upstairs to guide the mighty Rovers to further glory. Although the club had other managers, most notably Tony Storme, the firm but fair Galloway will always be the 'gaffer'. He is included in this team entirely on playing merit however due to being an exceptional attacking full-back, forming a long and fruitful partnership down the right flank with Jimmy Potter.
LB – Duncan Mackay
It is a common misconception held by many that Johnny Depp based his character in Pirates of the Caribbean on aging rocker Keith Richards. In actual fact Depp, a renowned anglophile, was an avid reader of British comics during the eighties and was particular impressed by Rover's hot-headed and tenacious Scottish full-back. Transfer-listed on a number of occasions yet always thoroughly committed to the red and yellow cause.
CB – Noel Baxter
An exceptionally gifted stopper Baxter came through the ranks yet initially found his innate shyness hard to overcome. He once fled the city life and camped in the Brecon Beacons until Race tracked him down and persuaded him to return.
Once he'd matured and gained confidence however Baxter developed into one of the most natural and stylish defenders the British game had ever seen. In time he even became the dressing room joker.
The popular and likeable England international was killed in Basran alongside seven of his team-mates. Gone but never forgotten.
CB – Lofty Peak
Solid, tough as teak, and ever dependable, Peak began his career at Kingbay before establishing himself as the mainstay of the stubborn Melchester back-line throughout one of their most successful eras.
Very much in the John Terry mould of defending yet it is inconceivable to even imagine the rugged Peak crying like a little girl over a missed penalty.
RM – Mervyn Wallace
Even today there are cartoon full-backs who still have cartoon nightmares about the legendary 'Merv the Swerve'. Blessed with searing pace, trickery in abundance, and a strike ratio that was the envy of many a centre forward, Wallace had the lot.
Eventually retired to join the backroom staff at Melchester, twice stepping in as caretaker manager.
CM – William 'Blackie' Gray
Calmness personified Gray was a gentleman locksmith of defences for many years. A lifelong chum of Race, he began his career up front before settling into a deeper, more influential, role during the latter stages of his career. Never put a foot wrong apart from falling hopelessly in love with French film star Suzanne Cerise just prior to the 1964 European Cup final.
His name is even included in a line from the official club song – 'That was a sizzler from old Blackie Gray!' The preceding line has the crossbar fall onto the hapless opposition goalkeeper's head.
CM – Jimmy Slade
The playmaker of the side, Slade could also dish it out when needs must with a volatile temperament forged from his tough scrap-yard upbringing. His surname is quite ironic considering that he had hair like a Bay City Roller.
LM – Lord D'Arcy Plantagenet 'Jumbo' Trudgeon-Marclay
Would be worth a fortune in today's market though that would mean little to Jumbo who was already a multi-millionaire land owner. A genuine Lord he resided at Fallowfield Manor, on the outskirts of Melchester, and never took one penny in wages from the club. He played purely for the thrill and adventure, a probing and dangerous winger who liked to cut inside and get in on the glory. Was a prominent member of the great Melchester side of the early-seventies that secured two European Cup triumphs Jumbo is rightfully considered a club legend.
CF – Vic 'Superbrat'Guthrie
The initiation ritual for any new player at Mel Park was to bow three times to the bronzed statue of George Armstrong, the legendary manager of the 1930s. Guthrie refused and from there his reputation as a petulant trouble-maker was set for the remainder of his tragically short career. Blessed with sublime gifts he formed a brief prolific partnership with the avuncular Race before dying amidst the rubble of the Basran bomb attack.
In hindsight he probably should have bowed.
CF – Roy Race
The main man. The guvnor. Roy overcame more traumas and heartbreak than a single individual should ever be expected to endure yet remained approachable, integrity intact, to the very end. His career drew to a close in 1992 when he lost his leg in a helicopter crash. He also lost his wife, was kidnapped on numerous occasions, and was shot by a failed actor named Elton Blake. Despite all this his hair remained luscious and blonde throughout. Kudos.
During his illustrious career he scored more goals than Pele and won every trinket under the sun before going on to manage Melchester twice, AC Monza, and England. Look up the word 'legend' in the dictionary and admire the blonde locks.
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Martin Kemp
Yes, that Martin Kemp. He of the dodgy quiff and weird, whispery voice. Melchester briefly signed two members of Spandau Ballet whilst they were at their popular peak in the mid-80s. So true, funny how it seems. Kemp was, by all accounts the better player than his band-mate Steve Norman
Rocky Race
Roy's only son who continued the closely-linked Melchester/Race legacy. Aptly, given his name, the young Race had a rather….erm..rocky relationship with his famous father, blaming him for the death of his mother in a car crash whilst on holiday. Roy was driving that day yet the circumstances were never fully resolved.


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An inlay restoration is a custom made filling made of composite material, gold, or tooth-colored porcelain. It is made by a professional dental laboratory and is permanently cemented into the tooth by your dentist.
Inlays can be utilized to conservatively repair teeth that have large defective fillings or have been damaged by decay or trauma. Inlays are an ideal alternative to conventional silver and composite fillings. Also, they are more conservative than crowns because less tooth structure is removed in the preparation of inlays.
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The Ely Igloo Snowmobile Club was organized in 1960 and became the first club of its kind in the USA. The Ely Igloos were also one of the founding members of the International Snowmobile Association (ISA), which later became known as today's Minnesota United Snowmobile Association (MnUSA).
Members of the club have developed trails in the Ely area, and each year in preparation for the upcoming snowmobile season, numerous club members volunteer their time to clear the trails of trees and branches.
An important mission of the Ely Igloo Snowmobile Club has been, from the very beginning, training of young snowmobile riders with a Snowmobile Safety Class taught each year. These classes teach boys and girls of at least 11 years of age about the proper etiquette of snowmobiling and the rules of the trail.
In recent years, the Ely Igloo Snowmobile Club has taken on the task of grooming the Ely area trails. The club receives funding from the state to maintain and groom the grant-in-aid Tomahawk Trail. Other local trails like the Bianchi Trail (off the Taconite Trail), the Ely/Winton Railroad Grade, and the 13 Corners Trail are also groomed by our club.
In addition, our club has taken on the task of staking and grooming numerous lake trails including Shagawa Lake/Fall Lake Trail, Burntside Lake Trail, Bass Lake Trail, White Iron Lake/Birch Lakes Trail, Little Long Lake Trail, Fall Lake/Cedar Lake Trail, Grassy Lake Trails and the Mud Lake Trail to Lake Vermilion.
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Shanghai Jahwa staff volunteer to assist teachers and students of Yumiao Foster Garden and carry out a charity biscuit sale event.
Shanghai Jahwa volunteer association launched the charity fundraising campaign.
From 2015 to 2016, Shanghai Jahwa donated 400 schoolbags to Libo County, Guizhou Province.
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Shanghai Jahwa donated 100,000 Liushen floral water and soaps to Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui flood areas.
Shanghai Jahwa carried out a "winter clothing donation" campaign, which collected more than 400 pieces of clothing and sent them to poor mountainous areas.
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Only 79 days until the first day of Spring! Get those seed catalogs and garden planning sheets out!
by OCMGA Master Gardener Tammy Borden
This article originally appeared in the winter 2009 OCMGA newsletter
In summer, the trees in front of my home shelter me from the view of the road, and I don't even notice the cars passing by. But now, only a few stubborn leaves remain tethered to a maze of branches and twigs. Not only can I see the road, but I can see beyond the hay field across the street, all the way to the neighbor's house a half mile away, a neighbor I've never even met. The dark silhouettes of tree trunks are a stark contrast against the gray winter sky beyond. It leaves me feeling somewhat exposed to the outside world. I much prefer my sanctuary in the heat of summer when passers-by have a difficult time even realizing a house exists beyond the expanse of maple, hickory and oak trees.
The long afternoon strolls through my yard have long since been a thing of the past. From my window I can see that the once glorious bed of hostas and Japanese painted ferns has faded into the landscape, now covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves. The only sign of a garden ever existing there are the random plant markers that occasionally pop up through the leaves, but those will soon be covered up by snow. Next to my driveway, I've cleared away the beautiful zinnias that drew so many compliments from visitors only a few months ago. All that remains is plain earth with a smattering of mulch.
Winter is here; another season has passed. All that once seemed so vibrant and full of life feels only like a memory now. The earth seems to have fallen asleep. As winter continues, I know I'll start to forget what green grass even looks like, or what the scent of a fresh rain smells like. I must confess that as autumn turns to winter I feel a sense of loss, almost mourning and grieving the beauty that no longer can be seen. All I can feel is an absence of what used to fill my life with so much joy. Winter reminds me that things of this earth are only temporary. Life is temporary. Or is it? It seems that way, doesn't it, and especially in the midst of winter when everything is still and a shroud of darkness covers the earth? But we know that in the natural world there are seasons, and we've come to trust that there will always be spring, and that with it will come new life, and that life will be more beautiful and more magnificent than the season before. Despite the struggle to watch those things we love fade away and die… there's hope. It's that hope that sustains us through winter. But there's not only hope, but a belief and trust that when spring arrives, we'll see life again, and it will be more beautiful than before.
It is winter, not only in the garden, but in many hearts that have experienced the loss of someone they love. Our hearts mourn what once was, and as time passes, we try to not forget the memories. But all too soon, we forget the sound of their laugh or the smell of their hair. The little quirks that once annoyed us are now what we sometimes miss the most, and we wish they were here to experience them together again with renewed appreciation and affection. But like watching a garden fade away, all we can feel is an absence of what used to fill our lives with so much joy. Our hearts feel exposed to the outside world that passes by, unaware of the ache inside our soul.
Winter seems to come early for some, as it did for our friend, Sally, who served faithfully as an Outagamie County Master Gardener volunteer for so many years. Sally's winter came when she succumbed to Leukemia in early October at the age of 53. She brought joy to so many with her serving heart, her unending zeal for life and a beauty that went beyond what anyone could see on the outside. But I believe that in the midst of such sadness there is still hope. You see, I believe that for those who remain, the winter will pass and there will be a spring, and we will get to see those we love again, more beautiful than before. Let that hope sustain you through the winter. The time in between is difficult; waiting and wondering what the next season will bring. We will still go through the mourning and grieving that winter brings.
Meanwhile, we'll wait with hope, trust and a belief that one day soon, our paths will cross again and we'll enjoy new life together. But for me, I believe that for those who have gone on, a season of new life has already begun. Hmmm… maybe winter didn't come early for Sally after all; maybe her spring has just begun.
Written in Loving Memory of Sally Jaeger-Altekruse
December 2009
We're entering winter and our green thumbs are itching to find a project, especially as the garden catalogs start filling the mailbox. What a great time to spend some time looking at your existing gardens and finding the weak spots! Do you have an area with little or no water so you've ignored it for too long? How about spending some of this long winter planning a drought tolerant garden?
Just because you're designing for low water requirements doesn't mean you can't mix up the colors and textures just like you do with your other flower beds. Also, be sure to factor in various bloom times and plant height to provide interest and beauty across the growing season.
As with any garden, well-drained soil is a key to a successful garden so, if you're stuck with compacted soil, dig compost into the bed before planing so the roots can grow deep. Though you may need to water it weekly to get it going (maybe the whole first year), plants with well-established roots will be better able to withstand drought.
Plants to consider that will provide height, texture, and color variety:
Don't let lack of water deter you from having color and butterflies to enjoy all summer!
by OCMGA Master Gardeners Barb Dorzweiler and Janet Carlson
True to the name "The Learning Garden", my team and I learned how to build a lasagna garden in the summer of 2014. We had never built a lasagna garden before, but we were definitely interested and we were up for the challenge. Far from being an expert, but knowing how to find information, I researched a little on the subject before we set out. I referenced the UW Extension publication, A4021 "Making and Using Compost in the Garden." Yes, there is a science to this. I also referenced another helpful article, "How To Create a Lasagna Garden" by R. J. Ruppenthal originally published in the May/June issue of Urban Farm. First of all, a lasagna garden is a no-till method of building a garden by adding layers of organic materials that will cook down over time not unlike what happens in your compost bins. It can also be referred to as "sheet composting". We had a designated plot in The Learning Garden and our first step was to dig up two inches of the topsoil on our plot to set it aside for the topmost layer so we could plant right away. The plan was to alternate layers of "green" and "brown" organic materials. Brown materials are rich in carbon and include dry leaves, shredded newspaper, straw, and even shredded toilet paper rolls. Green materials are rich in nitrogen and include green leaves, green grass clippings, coffee grounds, eggshells, fruit and vegetable scraps. Our building happened over two different dates in May in part to give the bed time to cook and because the spring weather was not as warm as we hoped. On May 2nd, we started the bed with a brown layer: straw, compost from the UW-Ext bins and newspaper. The second layer was a green layer of vegetable waste and coffee grounds. The third layer was brown with sawdust and shredded dry leaves. We covered this with a black landscape cloth and left it to warm up for a couple weeks. On May 19th, we added a layer of newspaper and watered it immediately with the garden hose to keep it in place and make it easier to work with. Then again more layers of brown and green materials: dry leaves, grass clipping, coffee grounds (free from Starbucks), and newspaper. Then we added back the topsoil as the topmost layer to use as the planting medium. The lasagna bed was now about 10-12 inches high. Our initial planting was one tomato plant and two rows of lettuce. We labeled our rows with cut venetian blind labels. In later weeks, another tomato plant was added along with carrots, radishes. As expected, the lasagna garden cooked down and lost some of it height. This told us the organic materials were being composted into a fertile, fluffy soil. With the heavy rains this summer, some of the material was washed away, but the mulching around the garden beds helped hold its borders. We were able to harvest bountiful lettuce, tomatoes and the other vegetables. We had concerns that the lack of green grass clippings would slow down the decomposition, but the "green" materials (kitchen scraps and coffee grounds) we used were sufficient so this wasn't an issue. As we cleaned up for the fall, this wonderfully fertile, loose soil can be spread and used over the adjacent garden plots or added to for another lasagna garden. It's definitely a sustainable way to keep your organic material out of the landfill and improve your soil at the same time. I definitely recommend this process. On to next year's plans; what will the next team do? It was a fun and learning experience for us!
Reprinted from the OCMGA member newsletter from the winter of 2014
by OCMGA Master Gardener Lynne Finch
Hardly has the last leaf tumbled from the trees when my husband starts waiting for the snows. That wouldn't be surprising if he liked skiing or other snow sports. It wouldn't be surprising either if he owned a winter resort, a plowing business or a tow truck. Or even a riding snowblower. What he does have is a long driveway, a lot of sidewalk and an obsession with keeping them immaculate. His only tools are a batch of shovels and some strange inner drive that makes him glow with pride when he finally leans on the handle to survey his cleared domain.
After a recent blizzard, as we both leaned on our shovels, he turned to me and said, "There's nothing like a shoveled driveway." He swung his arm to include all the snow-blown driveways along the street. "Notice how a snowblower leaves an untidy surface." He gazed dreamily down the 100-foot drive leading to our garage, "But a shoveled driveway is neat and clean. Definitely a thing of beauty, wouldn't you say?" I failed to appreciate the esthetics of shoveling. I was glad it was done–he was glad it was beautiful.
In all other respects he's quite a normal fellow. He growls in the morning, fusses about taking out the garbage, and complains that there are never enough apple pies in the house. He refuses to wash the ceiling and does windows only under protest. It's when Mother Nature plays the flip side of summer that he goes berserk. I began to suspect something when he gently caressed the handle of our first snow shovel and leered at its broad, steel-reinforced edge. From there his habit progressed to pushers, then on to chippers and brooms.
The path to our door was always immaculate. When we lived in apartments, he cleared whole parking lots, single-shoveled. Now he commands a motley collection of snow equipment that includes a hand-made wooden pusher, a grain scoop and a manure scraper. The steel-edged pusher that came with our old house scrapes a path as wide as the sidewalk. The grain scoop is lightweight and swoops easily through deep snow at amazing speeds down our 100-foot driveway and 130 feet of sidewalk.
My husband also is not one to let a puddle lie. He disperses them quickly with a broom; if one freezes he approaches it, ice chipper in hand, and smashes it to bits. He works carefully, never overexerting himself. Before shoveling he does warm-up exercises in the house. His shoveling form is flawless. A perfected swing and follow-through produce a smooth, steady rhythm of lift and toss. Knees bent to a precise angle relieve stress on his back. When he returns to the house, he is refreshed of body and spirit, glowing with accomplishment.
He is not one to wait out a storm before swinging into action. While other driveways may wait quietly beneath eight inches of fresh snow, ours may have already undergone two or even three strippings. Sometimes he even shovels in the dark of night, tossing snow that reflects the silvery moonlight. As the snowy walls grow taller, he treats them to occasional trimmings, much as a summer man shapes leafy hedges. But eventually they begin to shrink and the snow he so valiantly conquered sneaks into the ground or runs down the street. After all is said and shoveled, he's a handy man to have around in the winter. He doesn't need gas and never has been delayed at the repair shop.
Now if I could only convince him that a well-kept yard is a beautiful as a shoveled driveway, I'd have it made in the shade.
– Reprinted with permission. Copyright Lynne L. Finch.
One of the easiest and most helpful houseplants to grow: aloe vera. It is also known as Barbados aloe because it is widely grown on that island, even thought it is believed to be native to the Mediterranean and South Africa. In warm climates, the plants grow outdoors and reach immense sizes.
The plant's fleshy, somewhat spiny leaves contain rows of enlarged cells that are filled with a translucent yellow mucus. As early as the first century A.D., the Greek physician Dioscorides wrote of the benefit of using this substance as a healing herb for burns. The practice, which continues to this day, entails snapping off one of the spiky-looking leaves, slicing it down the middle with a fingernail, and spreading its gelatinous interior over the burned skin. [Personal story: I severely burned my lips last summer while using lip balm without SPF protection. Knowing of aloe's properties, I used the gel on my lips. NEVER, EVER do that — it's absolutely the worst tasting thing I've ever had the displeasure to encounter and it took forever to get it out of my tastebuds. I don't even know if the healing properties worked because I was too busy trying to rid myself of the awful taste!]
This sculptural-looking, easily grown plant prefers full sun but also tolerates as much as a half day of shade. Since the plant is a succulent, designed to withstand dry conditions, watering should be on the spare side, particularly through the winter, and well-drained soil is essential. Small aloe plants are frequently available at garden shops as well as dime stores, florists, and some supermarkets.
by OCMGA Master Gardeners Becky Hengel and Linda Adams
We started out by planning various beets and their companion vegetables and/or herbs. Another goal was to do successive plantings. Next, we made seed tapes from newspaper strips and alternately planted a lettuce/ radish and a type of beet, spacing the beets 6" apart, with some nasturtiums and marigolds for eye candy. The rationale was to pick the lettuce and let the beets get larger. The seed tapes were time consuming but easy to furrow a line and cover the tape. Overall, the seed tapes are not worth the trouble. The arugula got too big, some seeds fell off the tape and some did not germinate leaving gaps. The first beets were good but few. The corn lettuce was mild and interesting. The cylinder beets never got too big and the gourmet beets also were small or did not mature. What went wrong? As you remember the winter was brutally cold and long. Linda, not having lived in Wisconsin for 40 years decided that she would put something already growing immediately in the garden and as soon as possible. She planted four tiny marigolds and four small Brussel sprouts. They looked nice while nothing else was coming up, BUT took over and instead of going straight up, laid down and covered the second plantings. Ugh!! Well, it's a learning garden. The cherry bell radishes were particularly good. We also had many friendly tomato plants emerge from previous years which also shaded the garden. So many plants, so little space; but it was fun!
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text: Sleeping Dave Report post Posted May 31, 2014 (edited) ****s sake. I'm close to tears. Not a huge surprise but I had hoped all parties could have come to an agreement. Legend doesn't even begin to justify what he's done for us. At least he got to break to goalscoring record and that will stand for some time yet. I just hope and pray he'll be back one day in some capacity. That's all I got right now.Edit: seems to me Lamps done the honourable thing and left on a reasonable high. I think he knew his days were numbered and he didn't want to lumber on and sit on the bench. Significantly lower pay at New York apparently than what was on offer from Chels. Seems like he wanted to leave on his conditions. Well done Frank and good luck!Edit II: some sources saying Chelsea did not offer a new deal at all? Edited May 31, 2014 by Sleeping Dave Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Job combines love for food, gardening, teaching and baseball
There's a lot more than baseball at San Francisco's AT&T Park. Hannah Schmunk, above, manages an outdoor nutrition and culinary education program for kids in the ballpark's 4,320-square-foot garden behind center field, below. The garden's bounty is also served to baseball fans at two on-site bistros.
The San Francisco Giants hit a home run when they partnered with Bon Appétit Management Co. to create a garden behind center field at their ballpark. More than 60 different fruits, vegetables and edible flowers grow in the 4,320-square-foot area, which opened in 2014. Hannah Schmunk is Bon Appétit's community development manager for the garden, and she shares how this job combines her favorite pastimes and passions.
How did you get this position and what is your role?
I oversee all community events and outreach that takes place in the Garden at AT&T Park. I came on board shortly after the garden's launch to begin designing the outdoor nutrition and culinary education program for kids hosted by the Giants and Bon Appétit.
How are the crops used?
During baseball season, the garden's bounty is harvested at peak ripeness and served in our two bistros: Hearth Table and Garden Table. It's not uncommon to see our chef step out of the bistro to pick leafy greens or herbs midgame. When the bistros get busy, our chef often asks me to do the harvesting.
How have fans embraced the garden?
The great thing about the garden is that it's open to anyone with a ticket to the game, no matter where their seats are. People love it. For some, it's a place to grab a healthy bite to eat before returning to their seats, and for others, it's a place to spend the entire game.
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When the garden isn't full of Giants fans decked out in orange and black, it serves as a living, learning classroom for kids. Through hands-on activities, children see firsthand where food comes from and how it grows, learn lessons in healthy eating, and roll up their sleeves for cooking classes. For weekly kids' visits, we've partnered with community organizations that support underserved children, many of whom live in economically challenged neighborhoods. While harvesting carrots one day, I had an 8-year-old girl ask me, "Why did you bury the carrot in the garden?"
What's your favorite part of your job?
Seeing the space come alive each week as eager kids roll up their sleeves for activities in gardening, healthy eating and cooking. For many of the kids, it's their first time planting a seed and it fills my entire being with joy to be a part of these moments.
Giants outfielder Hunter Pence reportedly loves kale and catcher Buster Posey professes the virtues of eating vegetables on the garden's social media page. How are other ways in which the players are involved?
We begin most field trips with a video message from Hunter Pence welcoming the kids to "one of (his) favorite places at AT&T Park." We often use Hunter's love of kale as motivation for kids who are hesitant to top their pizzas with the vitamin-rich green. The garden is definitely a team effort and has been embraced by the countless people who make the San Francisco Giants baseball experience so unique. From Giants broadcaster and former major league second baseman Duane Kuiper visiting the garden for a banana kale smoothie and popularizing the "kale smoothie 'stache," to pitcher Sergio Romo filming a Save Our Water public service announcement in the garden, we've seen participation across the board.
How does San Francisco's climate impact the garden?
The mild climate enables us to grow food year round. Some crops have grown better than others but, in general, things grow really well. Kale loves growing at the ballpark! It likes the bay breeze and chilly air and grows all year long in our garden. Ultimately, I think our garden demonstrates that gardens can live and grow in unexpected places and that urban agriculture can be incorporated into a city's design through creative thinking.
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EAST PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Finjan Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNJN), and its subsidiary, Finjan, Inc. ("Finjan"), today announced that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("the Court") affirmed the USPTO, Patent Trial and Appeal Board's ("PTAB") findings in two inter partes reviews that Palo Alto Networks, Inc. ("Palo Alto Networks") failed to carry its burden of demonstrating that any of the challenged claims of Finjan's U.S. Patent No. 8,225,408 (the "'408 Patent") is obvious over certain prior art. The Court held that the PTAB's findings were supported by "substantial evidence" and found no error. The Court also awarded costs of the appeal to Finjan.
"Finjan is gratified to have the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision rejecting Palo Alto Networks' challenges to Finjan's '408 Patent," stated Julie Mar-Spinola, CIPO and VP, Legal Operations for Finjan. "While this allowed Palo Alto Networks to delay Finjan's day in court for nearly four years, we believe we are due and will seek past and accrued damages for that period until resolution, which is not insignificant."
The appeal by Palo Alto Networks (CAFC No. 2017-2059) was from PTAB Nos. IPR2015-02001, IPR2016-00157, IPR2016-00955, and IPR2016-00956, the latter two of which were petitions filed by Blue Coat Systems (now Symantec), which settled with Finjan earlier this year.
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Lancaster County (PA) – Cherry Crest Adventure Farm kicks off its Spring Season Saturday, May 26th. Every Saturday through June 30th (as well as Memorial Day Monday), Cherry Crest's Barnyard will spotlight over 35 of its most popular Farm Fun activities and rides – from the three-lane Straw Bale Racer, Giant Hay Chute Slide and Giant Jump Pillows to the Animal Grove, Singing Chicken Show, and Farm Tour Wagon Ride. Spring Season hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Barnyard sports two new additions included with general admission – including a new miniature town to explore called "Sproutsville", plus a new and enhanced Corn Crib with farm toys to play with. Guests also get a sneak preview of the 2018 "Board Game Madness" Amazing Maize Maze® during its growing and grooming stages.
Spring Season admission fees (age 3 and up) now offer several options. The $12 Farm Fun Day Pass includes 35+ activities. The $22 Shootn' Special Pass adds the Apple Blasters, Paint Ball Range and Battle Zone, while the $25 Hog Wild Pass includes all above activities plus the Twisted Tail Rope Make or Gem Mining plus the choice of Kettle Corn or a Souvenir Cup. Children age 2 and under are admitted free.
Back by popular demand is the $30 Bounce Back Pass that includes unlimited admission to all Farm Fun Pass activities, including the Amazing Maize Maze and Sept. 14th Flashlight Maze, every day the farm is open May 26 to Sept. 14. The Shootin' Gallery can be added to any visit for $10.
The maze opens July 3, along with all of the Summer Season activities featured in the Barnyard and Courtyard areas. Cherry Crest Adventure Farm is located at 150 Cherry Hill Road, Ronks (PA) – about 12 miles east of Lancaster off of Rt. 741. For complete details, seasonal schedules and tickets-on-line visit CherryCrestFarm.com.
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Just how traditional are you?
I can't help laughing when I see and hear restaurants and grocery stores promoting their "traditional" Thanksgiving dinners and the ingredients thereof. Unless you were around, helping out in the kitchen before the 1950s, you might have the impression the ready-to-cook, pre-basted, Butterball frozen turkey has been around long enough to be called "traditional." Let me tell you some of the truths about Thanksgiving turkeys before that time.
The earliest turkeys in my memory did not come dressed from a grocery store. They originated on farms, having been produced by some farmer or his wife who were known to have good luck with the difficult-to-raise birds. The turkey would have been purchased about a month before Thanksgiving and housed in a small pen barely 4 feet square. He was then fed a diet rich in corn which, in conjunction with the enforced inactivity of the small pen, was meant to insure, when cooked, the meat would be tender. While thus confined, the turkey was in danger of being given a name and turned into what the children of the family looked upon as a pet. When this happened, the turkey was sometimes spared from becoming the centerpiece of the Thanksgiving day table and lived to see another day. This turkey, by the way, would have been of the dark, speckled variety, closely resembling the American wild turkey which is, in fact, part of its ancestry. The turkeys we see in the grocery store today are sleek and white, hardly resembling the plump, fan-tailed, colorful turkey we have been taught to visualize since kindergarten.
My grandmother's cookbook, published in 1930, four years before I was born, gives the following instructions for roasting a turkey. These basic instructions were the norm for quite some time, until the frozen Butterball turkey and its ease of preparation won over enough cooks to banish the old traditions. Read on, and you will soon understand why.
First, you are to clean, singe and draw the turkey much as you would a chicken. The cookbook gives no hints about how to accomplish that. Most housewives were accustomed to killing and cleaning their own chickens, ducks, geese and small game. (I remember my mother, not having a gas or wood-burning stove, dealing with the pinfeathers on a turkey she was preparing. Since she could not singe the pinfeathers over her electric stove, she shaved some with an electric razor and finished up with tweezers.) Stuff the turkey and tie down the legs (again, it is assumed you know how to do that) then rub the entire turkey with salt. Mix together 1/3 cup of butter and 1/4 cup of flour and spread over the breast, legs and wings. Put in a covered roaster and roast in a 500-degree oven for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 275-degrees for 3 1/2 hours or until tender, baste every 15 minutes. Alternate methods include covering the breast, wings and drumsticks with a layer of bacon or pork fat, or covering the whole thing with a fat-soaked cloth which is kept moist by frequent basting.
Having watched his mother and grandmother roast turkeys in much that same manner, my husband insisted the only way to have a "traditional" Thanksgiving turkey was the old fashioned way, so I acquiesced, getting up well before dawn to get the turkey stuffed and into the oven. Eventually, the pre-basted, pre-seasoned, frozen turkey prevailed, but I still hoped for some way to avoid the mess of all those turkey bones. They were too big for the garbage disposal and too smelly to leave in the trash until pick-up day. I was greatly tempted to buy one of those boneless turkey rolls, so I could avoid the whole mess. I got soundly voted down every time I mentioned it. The outcry amounted to a plea for "tradition."
I ask you why it is only the cook who is expected to stick to tradition? The hunters no longer go out and flush out wild turkeys for the feast. They aren't interested in dealing with all those turkey innards and pinfeathers. They've long since learned not to give the bones to the family dog.
They haven't planted pumpkins among the corn stalks and harvested them to be cut up and cooked down for pulp for those "traditional" pies. Nor have they raised and butchered the beef for the "traditional" mincemeat. And I didn't notice anyone wading around in the bog for those "traditional" cranberries.
Tradition, I guess, comes with a caveat– "As long as it isn't too inconvenient." For everybody except the cook, that is. This cook has finally prevailed in her struggle for simplicity. One of my sons cooks the turkey and I buy a nice bottle of wine.


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Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews
Book of the Year 2018 (see all)
The first in a new trilogy, set after Magic Binds, book 9 in the Kate Daniels series, Iron and Magic is wonderfully, brilliantly, finally…. all about Hugh. Hugh d'Ambray, Roland's former Warlord and all round murder boy. First introduced during Magic Strikes and responsible for all kinds of bad things in the Kate Daniels series, he was sidelined (by spoilery events I won't recount here) until Ilona Andrews jokingly put out the idea of his story on her blog and everyone lost their damn minds. Until recently, I thought it really was some kind of mean jest, a tantalising dream, a piece of wishful thinking. You get the idea. But lo…some prayers are answered. Of course, there was the not so insignificant problem of a main character who was a serious player for Team Evil, but what must have become increasingly clear to Ilona and Gordon is that a good deal of their readership did not give two shits about any of that. Yes, he's slaughtered thousands, hundreds of thousands maybe, and was directly or indirectly responsible for some main character deaths, kidnappings, torture, maiming, and more, but… he's just so goddamn hot. In case you hadn't guessed it by now, I am one of the many Hugh Fangirls and this book delivers everything we could have wanted and more. So below is my review, which I put together with absolutely no impartiality whatsoever.
To say that Hugh starts out at rock bottom hardly does justice to his current existence- determinedly lost in alcoholic stupor, desperately trying to keep the emptiness of his severed bond with Roland at bay, his whole reason for being destroyed, everything gone. Or almost everything. His Iron Dogs remain, their loyalty to him and each other safeguarding the brotherhood, but his fall from grace has left them scattered and unprotected, easier pickings for the Legate of the Golden Legion, Landon Nez, Roland's remaining right-hand man. His Dogs need Hugh to lead and defend them, he needs the reason they give him, a cause to hold himself together and prevent his downward spiral into the void created the absence of a man that was father, teacher, God to him over lifetimes. Enter Elara Harper, a beacon of hope in multiple forms, offering a physical base in exchange for a promise of protection, as well as something of which he is initially completely unaware, the possibility of a true ally. Both have pasts that have singled them out for fear and hated. It allows them a kind of warped equality, a shared foundation on which they could build something more than just a convenient alliance. His separation from Roland starts the process of Hugh's increasing self-awareness, but it is his and Elara's compact and their need to rely on each other that paves the way for real understanding- she offers a fresh perspective, a new way of looking at himself and others that allows so much of what we saw in past books to be redefined. It's done exceptionally well, never shying from or trying to explain away Hugh's actions, instead reframing the way the reader comprehends the world he lived in. When you are found a scared child, trained to obey one man, to follow his word as that of a God, to be bathed in his magic, and to live for his praise, what other way is open to you but to follow? Do you have a choice when your will is influenced by powerful magic? Indeed, his recently developed perception of Roland's mistakes and his newfound ability to criticise his old master is almost childlike in its wonder. Don't get me wrong, Hugh is not de-fanged, there's no softening, but it's a question of choice. Whatever comes from here is truly of his own making, and it's a point that hits hard. Of course, in this instalment the focus is squarely on Hugh since he's the one most needing a bit of a spit and polish, whereas Elara's powers are selectively revealed and her past that much more mysterious. The story teases with a few reveals but holds enough back that we are left seriously wanting. I can't wait to see what she's got hidden. Warn the cows.
As always, the action scenes are top quality, full of blood and magic. The Andrews writing team have a talent for imaginative monster making as well as utilising creatures from the mythic past to great effect, whether for comic or murderous means. I wondered if this being a redemption story would negatively impact the humour so beloved in the Kate Daniels books, but it really doesn't. Not only does Elara have some real snark, Hugh shows a capacity for attitude beyond superior self-congratulation. Their hate-hate relationship is hugely reminiscent of the early Curran-Kate one, heated exchanges full of spiked insults and sexual tension. And just when you thought you couldn't love him anymore, the sexy time stuff proves him capable in every sense. Phew. I'm blushing and everything. The switch in perspective, away from Atlanta and the Pack, gives the entire world a novel feel, familiar yet wildly different. There are some fun appearances from well-known faces, meetings that go exactly as you'd expect, until they don't, but the new characters do more than just hold their own. It's all really well balanced, but leaves room for so much more.
This book isn't just for Hugh fans, there's enough here to reveal another side to him, to offer reasons, and not simply empty justifications, for his past actions, as well as suggesting a future in which him and Kate might even, one day, be on the same side. Unthinkable, right?? Wrong. The climax certainly provides such tantalising possibilities for Magic Triumphs, out in August, as well as setting up dramatic and thrilling things for the next two Iron Covenant books. Yes, this could technically be read as a standalone trilogy, but why would you deny yourself the experience of two great linked series? Once again, Ilona and Gordon Andrews prove they are at the very top of the UF game, writing stories that you'll want to read again and again.
This Iron and Magic book review was written by Emma Davis
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Pest Control Tips for Homeowners and Consumers – BUGCO Podcast #3
In this episode of the BUGCO Pest Control Podcast, John Onofrey and Chris Millward talk about homeowner pest control tips to help you prevent pest problems. BUGCO Pest Control will help you with professional pest control service, but we also want to share tips to avoid pest infestations. Call us at 281-240-2157 for more information.
Transcription of Homeowner Pest Control Tips
John: Well hello and welcome to the latest edition of the BUGCO podcast. This is John Onofrey and I'm the phone with Chris Millward of BUGCO also. Chris, how's it going buddy?
Chris: It's going pretty good. It's a little hot outside.
John: Oh man, so the summertime in Houston Texas, always a fun time for us. Just make sure you bring plenty of shirts with you to change throughout the day, right?
Chris: And water.
John: And lots of water. Chris, we were toying with the idea of trying to put together a homeowner pest control tips list that consumers can benefit from of the types of things that they can do on their own to control pests and … you and I had several ideas we thought, "Hey, let's put this on a podcast. Let's get it out there to the people. Maybe they can find a couple., one or two items that might be of use to their particular application." Without any further ado, I'm just going to turn it over to you. What was the first one that comes off of the top of your head?
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Eliminate Standing Water & Clean Gutters
Chris: Eliminating standing water in or around the house is probably a huge one, especially with the mosquito population we have out here.
John: Right.
Chris: It also will help reduce rodent activity, because rodents really need water, and it will also reduce tree roaches and other pests. So overall, reducing or eliminating standing water period is going to be great for you.
John: Exactly. So, mosquitoes breed in the water and of course it's not good for your foundation to have water close to your house anyway. Something along the lines with water are your gutters. I think we talked about gutters. And cleaning those out. Why don't you talk a little bit about that?
Chris: Let's go back to the water around the house, too, if you have water standing by the house, there's mosquito rodents, also increases termites, your chance of getting termites. That's something not to forget about. But back to the gutters, yeah. The gutters build up debris. What's that hold? That holds standing water, so you also have more rodents possibly getting up there. I have actually find termite colonies starting on roofs before and even ant mounds starting on roofs and gutters before because the gutters are never cleaned.
John: Right.
Chris: That'd be another crucial thing to do, keeping the gutters clean.
John: So many times when the gutters get full and they overflow, they actually … they might overflow towards the front of the gutter, that's not a big deal, but they can overflow towards underneath the shingles, under the roof covering.
Chris: Yeah, and that would cause some wood rot and some structural issues too. That's just a big no no all the way around. Keep your gutters clean.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Seal Cracks Around Windows and Doors
John: Opportunity for those termites to move in around the gutters at the roof line. That's a good tip. So, the other one we were talking about, in line with that was seal up the windows and door entry ways around the house. Why don't you speak to that?
Chris: Yeah, this isn't really scientific but imagine that bugs have thermal sensors and they can sense temperature variations so when you have little cracks or gaps around windows or doors, it's putting out that cool air, so they think it's a moisture source, which attracts them to it. What follows is insects usually spiders, lizards and other things. You'll have numerous pests now coming through this entry point. It's just like you and I, if we're out in the middle of the heat in Houston, we want to go somewhere cool and the bugs can find it and they always do.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Check Weep Holes
John: Right. That might explain why we find an occasional lizard inside our houses. They come in the gaps that are around the doors and they may be chasing insects into your house too. I found a few lizards in the house too and the wife is not real happy to see them and she wants them out of the house immediately. So, as long as we're talking about structures, one of the things we do at BUGCO Pest Control to keep insects from penetrating that building envelope is to stuff weep holes. The brick weep holes and the stone weep holes that are at the bottom course around your house if it's a brick veneer or stone veneer home. These weep holes are absolutely necessarily, you don't want to block them up, because they do weep moisture from behind the veneer, and get that out of your building envelop but the problem with it is bugs will enter into these entry points. Even rodents will come in through these entry points. And snakes.
Chris: And snakes.
John: So, we do that as a service, but customers can do this theirselves. I think there's a couple of important things to remember. Chris why don't you touch on that when they're trying to do their own weep hole stuff.
Chris: Yeah, you're going to want to use a stainless steel mesh or like a Brillo pad type thing and really make sure it doesn't rust, otherwise you're going to have rust stains coming out.
John: It will just rust out, then it will be ineffective, you think you've done something and its' not really good at all. So we use a copper mesh at BUGCO and that's not going to deteriorate and that does the job, but there is stainless steel mesh that won't rust out either. You can find that probably at your local hardware store.
Chris: It takes a little bit more work too to cut it and make it fit properly, but yeah absolutely.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips – Don't Leave Pet Food Out
John: Right. Okay, so are the other things we were talking about, I think with … homes is just general sanitation. Not leaving your pet food outside, or even indoors. So many times we see pet food that's just left indoors for the dogs to kind of graze or the cats graze. The problem with that is the ants are coming to graze too.
Chris: Not only ants, it will attract rodents, possums, raccoons, even rats. Now you're introducing fleas to the yard which means the puppy's getting fleas, which means you're getting fleas in the house. That turns into another nightmare, which is easily preventable by just not keeping food outside or in accessible areas.
John: So many customers we see, they have open food containers outside and they have pest problems. You're exactly right, you bring in these feral animals, they have the fleas and then the fleas get transferred to your pets. Suddenly you have multiple problems.
Chris: I've even seen it with ticks. Stray animals bringing ticks in. You do not want ticks in your house, believe me. It happens usually from people that feed the stray animals.
John: Yep, so speaking of food. Either people food or dog food. This is a major attractant to all kinds of pests. How do we suggest that customers take care of their food stuff, Chris?
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Cover Your Trash
Chris: Obviously, you want to use a sealed trash bag and make sure you put it in a sealed container and make sure the lids on it. A lot of people like to put the trash bag just siting in the garage. Believe me, animals can smell it, and they will find a way in, or they put it in the trash can on the side of the house, but there's no lid on it. So now, the animals know every night there's a food source there. I'm pretty sure they know when the garbage truck even comes, so they know when to come by. That's a big thing. They go for an easy food source. Kind of like how they tell you not to feed the bears at the park. Same thing.
John: Food is food to a rat, right? Trash is not food to us, but it's food to a rat. And food in your pantry is food to them too. Good advice. Get the plastic containers, don't have any open boxes, open chip bags or cereal boxes, what have you, in your pantry and seal up your trash outside.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Use Yellow Light Bulbs Outside
You had a suggestion about outdoor light bulbs. Why don't you explain that one?
Chris: Yeah. Bugs only see in a certain color spectrum. So like flies and stuff, you notice you have your patio light on, it's a white light, nice and bright so it helps illuminate your house, well that actually attracts the flies to you. So, a better thing to do is switch to a dark yellow light bulb where it kind of dims your patio a little bit, but it will be less attractive to these flies. Or, if you do want to light up your backyard, place the light away from the house, not right on the house so the flies will actually go that way. What's the biggest predator of lies is spiders, so this way you're actually attracting the spiders away from your house too. So it's really good overall.
John: Good point. So many times we see spiderwebs all around the lights at our customers and there's a good reason for that. That's where all the food and the small flying insects are and they get trapped by the spiders and … suddenly everybody is feasting away there. So … one thing we didn't touch on here that …
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Move Soil and Mulch Away from the Foundation
In relation to homes again and structures was high soil and high mulch. This is a big mistake that a lot of people make when they do their landscaping. The mulch gets piled up over the weep holes, it gets piled up over the top of the slab and a lot of these older homes, the drainage is bad, but there's high soil. So this is a condition that can be worked on. Sometimes it's very hard to correct and you might need a treatment, but pulling that mulch back and keeping your high soil down is a good way to avoid termites and other insects from getting into your home, wouldn't you agree?
Chris: Oh, absolutely. There's two things. It's usually not the homeowners fault. They hire somebody to do it, landscaper, they don't know anything about structures and weep holes, they don't know anything about termites. So they just pile it right up against the house and make it look pretty and I will tell you, let's say 70-80% of the time, where we find subterranean termites on a home is because the mulch is stacked up over the weep holes or there's no gap from the weep hole on the foundation. It's just like, "Hey, come on on guys." And you don't even know you have them until they do damage.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Don't Allow Trees to Touch Your Structure
John: So … very good. The other thing that goes along with structures here that we didn't touch on yet, very important would be trees and foliage touching your structure, with regards to rodents, wood destroying insects, just insects in general. That's a problem and that should be taken care of by people. And it's easily taken care of.
Chris: Yep.
John: Alright. What else you got in your bag of tricks?
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Use Box Fans to Reduce Flying Insect Problems
Chris: I know what I like to do, I mean … I like to sit outside on my back patio and man you can not stop flying insects from coming at you out in Houston. Little tricks you can do is put up some box fans or some kind of fan so it disturbs the air current so the bugs cannot really fly towards you and the wind kind of pushes them away, so you can actually enjoy your back patio a lot better just by having a fan blowing on you.
John: I know you like to have cookouts and friends over for beers and stuff outside. So you … have these things in mind when you're having your barbecues and such. You told me about something about dry ice. I don't know that that's proven, I mean it makes sense to me. Why don't you explain that one.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Use Dry Ice to Lure Mosquitoes Away
Chris: I got a good old hillbilly friend, he swears by it. He'll get dry ice and put it in a cooler with the cooler lid open and he'll place it away from where we're all sitting. And supposedly the carbon dioxide comes off the dry ice and the mosquitoes are actually attracted to carbon dioxide, so they'll start going away from us to go towards that source. I've experienced it, it actually seemed to work, but I haven't really done my research on it. It's one of those wive's tales that I think might actually have some science or truth to it because it's been successful. Kind of like the blue roof idea that you had.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Paint Outdoor Porch Ceilings Sky Blue
John: Well, it sounds possible to me. It's like that … paint your outdoor porch ceilings sky blue to confuse wasps and … presumably that will cut down on the mud daubers and the wasps that … and even the spiders that would venture up into those areas.
Homeowner Pest Control Tips — Install a Mosquito Misting System
Hey Chris, one last thing I want to mention and that is … we talked about this too, was that of all of our customers that we service at BUGCO Pest Control, the ones that have the least amount of problems, the people that we rarely have to go back and do a re-treatment on, are our customers that have mosquito misting systems. I know I have a mosquito misting system at my house. And I just noticed that the bug population is almost nonexistent. Why don't you speak to that for a moment?
Chris: It makes perfect sense why that is. It's a system with nozzles that go around the structure of the home, the fence line and it's set on an automated timer that goes off when bugs are usually the most active. So we have … honestly, I love those customers. We only see them every three months. It really does greatly reduce problems with the mosquitoes in the Houston area. I guess it's because it's always applying chemical. It has a great feature too with the wireless remote so if you want to go outside, you hit it, it will blast everything for 30 seconds then you can walk out and enjoy your back patio in the middle of the day. But yeah, that's true. We definitely have … per customer, the ones with misting systems by far … by far, hardly have any problems with insects.
John: Well, in our business in the bug business, no news is usually good news. If an automatic system can help keep away those bugs, then more power to it. That's really … probably going to be the topic of our next podcast I think because we can dedicate a whole podcast to mosquito misting systems, and their effectiveness and how they operate. I think we'll do that, but in the meantime, I hope that anyone that would listen to this podcast can make use of one or two of these little tips that we've given out here. And … that kind of wraps it up for today, but join us next time when Chris and John talk about mosquito misting systems. Hey, Chris, thanks again for joining me today. And I'll check you later.
Chris: Yes, sir. Have a good day.
John: You too. Bye, bye.
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We are currently away interning with Illustrator/Maker Mike Perry in Brooklyn, New York so as we are Tourists we thought it would be apt to blog for Tourist Magazine this summer, to follow our escapades and adventures click HERE.
p.s. once we get back we will be posting more frequently on this blog as we feel we have been a touch neglectful, it will be more fun stuff, things in the process of being made and things we like as we now have a fully functioning website which can be found at WWW.DR-ME.COM, so we now have somewhere for people who want to hire us to look at wink, wink!


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I still can't believe it's 2018 already. There were hundreds of promises I made to myself the same time last year and i failed terribly at most of them. Most importantly, I promised myself not be the same person I was 12 months ago and I became even worst than that I guess 🤪lazier, laid back n so on and am absolutely not proud about it. I skipped most of my posts, like Diwali followed by Fall and yes even the Christmas… 😥 Well, I don't want to concentrate on the excuses for not doing what I supposed I love the most.This particularly what I am writing was supposedly for my Fall post which dint happen therefore, I decided now's the time to write before it hits Spring 😂😂
So, someday back I happen to go shop for myself after a long time. These days to be honest I have just been buying stuff for my Home, something's gotten in me I 've been so inclined towards the decor and the furnishings. It's just like " Am ditching Fashion over Furnishings"😂🤪.In search of some decor pieces I stumbled upon "Forever 21" . The one who knows me , knows my love for Forever 21 for I get my size, some trendy stuff which doesn't let me tear my pocket too. Am such a loyal customer 🙂 I hope they're listening 🤪😜
My eyes laid on this extraordinary Hoodie dress and I knew I had to own it with no second thought. Guess what ?? It was only for INR 999 after a discount I guess. The best part is "It's just the way I wanted to own something like this for quite sometime now".
Again Fun fact, the ones who knows me by now knows that I really hate to wear clothes which are on the heavier side . I love clothes that are lighter, effortless, chic and doesn't speak loud and this one is definitely that kinds. It's lighter yet warmer, sporty yet sexy in its own way and this one now is my current favourite. I 've been crushing and wearing them almost every alternative day ..You won't be surprised if you bump into me and find me wearing this. 🤪 Although Fashion comes with no boundaries these days, You can wear anything and everything with a bit of confidence and you are good to go. I chose to team this up with my old pair sneakers 👟 . Few years ago If I was asked one thing I'd never wear was a pair of sneakers and now you'll see me in them most of the time. Never say never " Lesson learnt yet again"
Comfort is the new Trend isn't?and this pair of sneakers is the one. Well, Sneakers are one of those Trends now I hope never goes out of style because they're the shoes I want to throw on whenever am running errands, meeting a friend , walking around , shopping and so on. I sometimes feel I have almost given up on wearing the Heels 😜.
So , this was my fall post , too late to call it one however, all I'd say is " if this is the kind of clothes and shoes I get to wear regardless of the season being Spring, summer , winter or fall I don't mind falling over and over again 😜.
No promises made on the quick post next , but until then keep being fierce and keep it stylish…
Outfit Details
Hoodie Dress : Forever 21
Sneakers : Nihao Fashion
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What began as an investigation over a fire on October 20, 2011 at the New England Wood Pellet LLC has now resulted in $147,000 worth of proposed safety fines after it was discovered the manufacturer did not take proper repercussions in using OSHA-approved explosion-proof vacuum equipment and enacting proper combustible dust housekeeping measures to eliminate the risk of an accident.
According to the official OSHA citation issued on April 17, 2012, the New Hampshire-based wood pellet maker was issued a serious repeated offense after they were found to be using three regular shop-vac style vacuum cleaners in hazardous locations within their facility to remove combustible dust off of the floor and from machinery. None of these vacuums were intrinsically safe nor were they rated for wood pellet dust removal. OSHA had previously issued this same offense to New England Wood Pellet back in March of '96, and their failure to fix this issue has now amounted to a hefty $70,000 worth of fines.
In other instances of the citation, New England Wood Pellet was levied with another $7,000 worth of fines for irresponsible housekeeping methods. Instead of using certified explosion-proof vacuum cleaners to remove dust particulates off surfaces, they used 30psi compressed air to blow down and clear away the dust. This method only spreads the hazardous material throughout the workspace and into the air instead of containing it, thus increasing the risk of an explosion.
OSHA inspectors also detected numerous fire and explosion hazards including the absence of a spark detection system to prevent embers and fires from spreading from the pellet conveyor to the dust collection systems. This likely set off the October 20th fire, which started in the pellet mill and traveled to the dust collector, triggering multiple explosions. Luckily, there were no casualties or injuries.
Had New England Wood Pellet decided to invest their resources in certified explosion proof vacuum and maintaining proper combustible dust housekeeping measures, they very likely would have avoided the initial fire at their facility alongside the subsequent OSHA investigation and proposed fines that came along with it.
You can read OSHA's entire official citation on New England Wood Pellet LLC here.