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One Of The Royals Has Come Out As Gay
Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, has become the first member of the British royal family to come out as gay.
Mountbatten, who has three children with ex-wife Penelope Thompson, told the Mail on Sunday newspaper he had struggled with his sexuality but was happy to now be in a partnership with James Coyle, an airline cabin services director.
Lord Ivar Mountbatten (L) with Levi Strauss & Bo CEO Chip Bergh in 2014
"Penny was aware before we got married,"said Mountbatten, who is the great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
"I told her I was bisexual, that my attraction went both ways. She was understanding and I will always be grateful to her.
Lord Ivar Moutbatten (L) with a friend in 1994
"'Coming out' is such a funny phrase but it's what I suppose I did in a rather roundabout way, emerging to a place I'm happy to be.
"I have struggled with my sexuality and in some ways I still do; it has been a real journey to reach this point."
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The genealogist of the Greenleafs says: "From all that can be gathered it is believed that the ancestors of the Greenleaf family were Huguenots, who left France on account of their religious principles some time in the course of the sixteenth century, and settled in England. The name was probably transiated from the French Feuillevert.* Edmund Greenleaf, the ancestor of the American Greenleafs, was born in the parish of Brixham, and county of Devonshire, near Torbay, in England, about the year 1600." He came to Newbury, Mass., in 1635. He was by trade a silk-dyer. Respecting the family coat-of-arms the genealogist gives, on page 116, the following interesting statement: —
"The Hon. William Greenleaf, once of Boston, and then of New Bedford, being in London about the year 1760, obtained from an office of heraldry a device, said to be the arms of the family, which he had painted, and the painting is now in the possession of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Ritchie, of Roxbury, Mass. The field is white (argent), bearing a chevron between three leaves (vert). The crest is a dove standing on a wreath of green and white, holding in its mouth three green leaves. The helmet is that of a warrior (visor down); a garter below, but no motto."
Whittier has thus alluded to this surmise : —
"The name the Gallic exile bore,
St. Malo! from thy ancient mart,
Became upon our Western shore
Greenleaf for Feuillevert."
Extract from: John Greenleaf Whittier: His life, genius, and writings, The Werner company, 1895
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http://mmajunkie.com This past weekend's "UFC 118: Edgar vs. Penn II" event at the TD Garden
in Boston drew 14,168 spectators for a live gate of approximately $2.8
million, according to the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission.
MSAC officials today emailed the preliminary figures to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
Of the 14,168 fans in the arena, 11,205 purchased tickets and 2,963 were issued complimentary admission, according to the report.
Featuring a lightweight title rematch between champion Frankie Edgar and former title-holder B.J. Penn, as well as a "freak show" matchup between UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture and boxing champ James Toney, UFC 118 took place Aug. 28 and aired live on Spike TV and then pay-per-view.
The MSAC's numbers for UFC 118 represent a decline from the originally reported numbers of 15,575 spectators and a $3 million gate – figures UFC president Dana White shared at the evening's post-event press conference.
UFC 118 marked the promotion's first-ever show in Massachusetts.
With the MSAC's figures, the UFC generated an average revenue of $197.63 per ticket issued, while those that purchased tickets spent an average of $249.89.


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Astros select RHP Mark Appel with First-Overall Pick in 2013 MLB Draft
HOUSTON, TX - The Houston Astros have selected right-handed pitcher Mark Appel with the first pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow announced tonight.
Appel, 21, went 10-4 with four complete games and a 2.12 ERA (25ER/106.1IP) as a senior this season at Stanford University. He recorded 130 strikeouts in his 106.1 innings pitched and allowed just a .203 opponent's batting average. Appel is one of just 10 semifinalists for the National Pitcher of the Year Award as named by the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
HOUSTON, TX - The Houston Astros have selected right-handed pitcher Mark Appel with the first pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow announced tonight.
Appel, 21, went 10-4 with four complete games and a 2.12 ERA (25ER/106.1IP) as a senior this season at Stanford University. He recorded 130 strikeouts in his 106.1 innings pitched and allowed just a .203 opponent's batting average. Appel is one of just 10 semifinalists for the National Pitcher of the Year Award as named by the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
Appel's been highly decorated in his four seasons at Stanford, having already won the Pitcher of the Year award in 2012. He is also a two-time Louisville Slugger first team All-American and is a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and the Howser Trophy. Last week, he was named first team All-Pac-12 Conference. Appel is also a Senior CLASS Award finalist and was named Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week twice this season.
Appel finished his Stanford career as the program's all-time strikeout leader and his 372 career strikeouts rank second among active NCAA hurlers. The Pac-12 Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year this season is sixth in program history with 28 career wins and fourth with 377.2 innings pitched.
"We're absolutely thrilled that this came to a conclusion today and that we selected Mark Appel with the first selection in the draft," said Luhnow. "We believe he is a premium talent and we see him as a future potential ace. He's exactly the type of player that we need to be adding to the organization. He makes us significantly better and we believe this is a special player that is going to be a part of our championship team someday."
Appel becomes the third right-handed pitcher selected first overall in the draft in the last five years, joining Gerrit Cole (2011-PIT) and Stephen Strasburg (2009-WSH). He is also the third right-handed pitcher taken by Houston in the first round in the last five years, a list that also includes Lance McCullers (2012-supplemental) and Mike Foltynewicz (2010).
Position: Right-handed pitcher
Bats/Throws: Right/Right
Height/Weight: 6-5/215
Age: 21
College: Stanford
High School: Monte Vista HS (CA)
This year marks the fourth time that the Astros have had the first overall pick in the MLB Draft. The previous three times were in 2013 (SS Carlos Correa), 1992 (IF Phil Nevin) and 1976 (LHP Floyd Bannister). Houston has had the second overall pick once in their history, which came in 1969 (RHP J.R. Richard).
The Astros will make another selection tonight at pick number 40, which is the first pick in the second round (approx. 9:10 pm CT).
Tonight's portion of the draft included only the first and second rounds out of a scheduled 40, and will resume tomorrow beginning at 12 p.m. CT. Rounds 3-10 are scheduled for tomorrow and the draft will conclude with the final 30 rounds on Saturday, June 8.
ASTROS DRAFTS BY POSITION: Through 2012, the Astros have selected with their first pick: 19 pitchers, 13 infielders, eight catchers and eight outfielders.
LUHNOW AND THE DRAFT: This year will be the Astros second draft under General Manager Jeff Luhnow's watch. Prior to being named the Astros General Manager, Luhnow had success overseeing several drafts while with the St. Louis Cardinals. Luhnow, who last served as the Cardinals vice president of scouting and player development, produced 24 Major League players in his first three drafts (2005-07), which were more than any other club in that time frame. In 2013, Luhnow had more drafted players on Opening Day rosters than any other head of amateur scouting in MLB. From 2006-10, the Cardinals organization won five minor league championships and had the best combined system record in baseball in 2010. In 2011, the Cardinals were named Organization of the Year by Baseball America. In 2012, the Astros had the top combined minor league record domestically in all of baseball (were last in 2010-11) and are also #1 thus far in 2013.
NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: Although this will be Mike Elias' first draft as the Astros amateur scouting director, he played a significant role in last year's Astros draft while serving as a special assistant to the general manager, and was also involved in the draft while working under Jeff Luhnow while in the Cardinals organization (beginning in 2007). Elias, 30, is a graduate of Yale University, where he earned four letters as a left-handed pitcher on the baseball team.
ASTROS FIRST ROUNDER UPDATE: The Astros 2012 first-round pick SS Carlos Correa is hitting .282 at Class A Quad Cities with a club-best 33 RBI. At just 18 years of age, he is considered the Astros #1 or #2 prospect by most media outlets. Corpus Christi OF George Springer, a 2011 first-round pick, has been one of the top players in minor league baseball this season, leading all of the minors in HR with 17. He also leads the Texas League in RBI (47) and OPS (1.057) while hitting .310 with a club-best 17 steals. First-rounder 2B Delino DeShields (2010) is hitting .282 at Class A Lancaster with 14 SB. DeShields was the Astros 2012 Minor League Player of the Year after setting an organization record with 101 SB and was one of eight position players named to the 2012 Baseball America Minor League All-Star team. First-rounder Jiovanni Mier (2009), 22, is the everyday shortstop at Corpus Christi and leads Texas League shortstops in fielding pct. (.974) and double plays (35). First-rounder Jason Castro (2008) has been one of the top catchers in the American League in 2013, currently ranking first among backstops in doubles (15), second in HR (7) and third in batting avg. (.288). Last week, Castro became the first Astros catcher to be named Player of the Week since Craig Biggio in 1990.


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Serena Williams today said matching Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova's 18 Grand Slam titles was in her sights and insisted she can cope with the searing heat expected at the Australian Open.
The 32-year-old enters the opening Grand Slam of the season next week in formidable form, losing just five matches last year and winning the Brisbane International earlier this month.
She is gunning for a sixth Australian Open crown, which would move her alongside Evert and Navratilova and further underline her reputation as one of the greatest women players ever seen.
Ahead of Melbourne, Navratilova said she expects Williams to match the record this month and go on to surpass Steffi Graf's 22 titles to become the most successful Grand Slam champion in the Open era.
Williams said it would be an honour to be in the same company as Evert and Navratilova, but she was taking nothing for granted after an injury-hit campaign last year ended with defeat to young fellow American Sloane Stephens in the quarter-finals.
"It would mean a lot to be on the same level as such great players as Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova," she said.
"I still have a lot of work to do. I obviously want to be able to reach that level, but I'm not there yet. Hopefully I'll get there."
The top seed, who opens her campaign against Australia's Ashleigh Barty, is in such hot form that her French coach Patrick Mouratoglou on Thursday said she could pull off the "exceptional" achievement of sweeping all four Grand Slams in 2014.
"It's happened just a few times in the history of tennis -- but she can do it and the goal is to do the best possible in all four Grand Slams," he said.
Williams completed a non-calendar Grand Slam in 2003 and last year won the French Open and the US Open.
To keep the dream alive Williams will have to deal with some extreme weather with temperatures set to soar above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) early next week.
She said she was not looking forward to the heat, but added that she could cope.
"I've been training my whole life in the heat. I think I'm pretty used to it," said the Florida-based American.
"I mean, obviously the heat in Melbourne is just completely different than any other heat.
"But it's okay. I just got to be ready to play under any circumstances."
Williams' preperations have been perfect, she said, with victory over world number two and defending Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka in Brisbane, then court time and acclimatisation in Melbourne over the past week.
"Right now I feel pretty good. Felt pretty good the last at least year," she said.
"I think it was great preparation. Brisbane I think is a great tournament to play to get prepared for Melbourne. And also I think it's a good time to have a week to train in Melbourne before the tournament actually begins."
She should have little trouble dispatching Barty first up, but said she never took anything for granted.
"She's extremely talented. She moves well. She plays well. She serves well. She has good returns. I saw her play a little bit at Brisbane. I was actually super impressed with her game," she said of the 153-ranked player in the world.
"I think it will be a great opportunity for us both. I take every match as it comes and see how it goes. I try not to put too much pressure on myself."
Williams is seeded to face Italy's seventh seed Sara Errani in the quarters before a potential semi-final clash with fourth-seeded Li Na.
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Sevilla Office in Sevilla, Spain
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Sevilla Office
ISA students studying in Sevilla will have access to the ISA office, located in the city center and surrounded by the María Luisa Park, which is the biggest park in town, the Plaza de España, and other beautiful pavillions from the 1929 Ibero-American Expo. Also, it is just a twenty to twenty-five minute walk from the Cathedral, the Alcazar Palace, the Universidad de Sevilla, and other historic buildings.
The office is located in a recently renovated, typical Andalucian-style building from 1926, with a spacious front yard that welcomes students to enjoy the diverse academic and social activities held there. The building houses seven classroom/meeting rooms, all equipped with multimedia equipment, resident director offices, computer/internet terminals, and even kitchen facilities. During normal office hours (Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.), students may come here to access the free computer/internet facilities, receive tutoring, utilize academic and other resources, check the ISA bulletin board for upcoming community and cultural events, or simply visit with the ISA staff.


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Development and Evaluation of Immersive Simulations for use in Response Training for Outbreaks of Infectious Disease
Funding Source: The Ohio State University, Office of Academic Affairs, Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Disease (PHPID) Targeted Investment in Excellence (TIE)
Principal Investigator: J. Mac Crawford, RN, MS, PhD, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, The Ohio State University College of Public Health
Co-Investigator: Don Stredney, OSC
Duration: 01/01/2008 - 12/31/2009
This collaborative project includes The College of Public Health, the Ohio Center for Public Health Preparedness (OCPHP), the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), the College of Veterinary Medicine, and the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. The effort includes the creation of a computer-simulation-based incident management training simulation laboratory for public health practitioners. Using a combination of remote electronic content delivery and an exercise/gaming scenario, OCPHP will use a multimedia, web-based module to train practitioners to develop plans of action to respond to simulated infectious-disease incidents. Trainees are randomized upon study entry to receive, in addition to the multimedia training, either a gaming-environment exercise simulation or a standard PowerPoint-based tabletop exercise. Six-month follow-up of satisfaction with the training and knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about the content will be compared to baseline across the two exercise groups. Additionally, 14 subjects (seven from each exercise modality) will be monitored for signs of physiologic stress (e.g., salivary cortisol, interbeat interval, galvanic skin resistance, and respiration rate) while performing in the exercise simulation to assess degree of "buy in" to the scenarios. This simulation laboratory will not only meet a critical training need for the region, but will provide a model for development of other training modules for first responders and other health professionals nationwide.


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Tomatoes are America's favorite garden vegetable. This vine plant is fairly easy to grow and will produce a bumper crop with proper care. Its uses are versatile, however, tomatoes are susceptible to a range of pests and diseases.
Plant type: Vegetable
USDA Hardiness Zones: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Sun exposure: Full Sun
Soil type: Loamy
Soil pH: Acidic
Recommended Varieties
Tomatoes grow in all sizes, from tiny "currant" to "cherry" to large "beefsteak." There are hundreds of varieties to suit different climates and tastes. Here are a few of our favorites:
'Amish Paste': Large paste tomatoes, good slicers.
'Brandywine': A beefsteak with perfect acid-sweet combination. Many variants are available.
'Matt's Wild Cherry': Foolproof in any climate, cherries bear abundant fruit in high or low temps and in rain or drought.
Broiled Parmesan Tomatoes
Deb's Fresh Tomato Sauce
Carrot-Tomato Bisque
Fried Green Tomatoes
Blue Corn Chips with Goat Cheese, Corn, and Tomato Salsa
Tomato Jam
Pasta with Tuna, Tomatoes, and Olives
If you're planting seeds (versus purchasing transplants), you'll want to start your seeds indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the average last spring frost date. See our post on "Tomatoes From Seed the Easy Way."
Select a site with full sun and well-drained soil. For northern regions, is is VERY important that your site receives at least 6 hours of sun. For souther regions, light afternoon shade will help tomatoes survive and thrive.
Two weeks before transplanting seedlings outdoors, till soil to about 1 foot and mix in aged manure, compost, or fertilizer.
Harden off transplants for a week before moving outdoors.
Transplant after last spring frost when the soil is warm. See our Best Planting Dates for Transplants for your region.
Establish stakes or cages in the soil at the time of planting. Staking keeps developing fruit off the ground, while caging let's the plant hold itself upright. Some sort of support system is recommended, but sprawling can also produce fine crops if you have the space, and if the weather cooperates.
Plant seedlings two feet apart.
Pinch off a few of the lower branches on transplants, and plant the root ball deep enough so that the remaining lowest leaves are just above the surface of the soil.
Water well to reduce shock to the roots.
Water generously for the first few days.
Water well throughout growing season, about 2 inches per week during the summer. Keep watering consistent!
Mulch five weeks after transplanting to retain moisture.
To help tomatoes through periods of drought, find some flat rocks and place one next to each plant. The rocks pull up water from under the ground and keep it from evaporating into the atmosphere.
Fertilize two weeks prior to first picking and again two weeks after first picking.
If using stakes, prune plants by pinching off suckers so that only a couple stems are growing per stake.
Practice crop rotation from year to year to prevent diseases that may have over wintered.
Tomatoes are susceptible to insect pests, especially tomato hornworms and whiteflies. Link to our pest & problem pages below.
Flea Beetles
Tomato Hornworm
Blossom-End Rot
Late Blight is a fungal disease that can strike during any part of the growing season. It will cause grey, moldy spots on leaves and fruit which later turn brown. The disease is spread and supported by persistent damp weather. This disease will overwinter, so all infected plants should be destroyed. See our blog on "Avoid Blight With the Right Tomato."
Tobacco Mosaic Virus creates distorted leaves and causes young growth to be narrow and twisted, and the leaves become mottled with yellow. Unfortunately, infected plants should be destroyed (but don't put them in your compost pile).
Cracking: When fruit growth is too rapid, the skin will crack. This usually occurs in uneven water or uneven moisture due to weather conditions (very rainy periods mixed with dry periods). Keep moisture levels constant with consistent watering and mulching.
Leave your tomatoes on the vine as long as possible. If any fall off before they appear ripe, place them in a paper bag with the stem up and store them in a cool, dark place.
Never place tomatoes on a sunny windowsill to ripen; they may rot before they are ripe!
The perfect tomato for picking will be firm and very red in color, regardless of size, with perhaps some yellow remaining around the stem. A ripe tomato will be only slightly soft.
If your tomato plant still has fruit when the first hard frost threatens, pull up the entire plant and hang it upside down in the basement or garage. Pick tomatoes as they redden.
Never refrigerate fresh tomatoes. Doing so spoils the flavor and texture that make up that garden tomato taste.
To freeze, core fresh unblemished tomatoes and place them whole in freezer bags or containers. Seal, label, and freeze. The skins will slip off when they defrost.
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What started out as just a small holiday celebration with a six-foot tree 24 years ago is now a large celebration boasting a 70-foot tree with 150,000 white lights.
What started out as just a small holiday celebration with a six-foot tree 24 years ago is now a large celebration boasting a 70-foot tree with 150,000 white lights.
Stroudsmoor Country Inn is presenting its annual tree lighting celebration on Sunday. What began as a celebration for the children of Stroudsmoor has turned into a day of holiday fun for the whole community.
"It originally started out when our children here at Stroudsmoor were really tiny. We lit one small tree and invited some neighbors and local guests. Each year, more and more people wanted to come, so it grew," said Linda Forte, director of event operations. "The event is indoors and outdoors. We have a lot of buildings here, and activities are planned inside and out."
Some of the day's activities include a petting zoo, pony rides, live entertainment, Christmas carols, gingerbread village, art show and boutique and, of course, a visit by Santa and Mrs. Claus.
"A Walk in the Woods" art show by Susan Bernadette Lebel will take place in the Auradell event facility. Lebel has an art show with a different theme each year.
"This is the fourth annual art show. 'A Walk in the Woods' is a metaphor for the stories in our lives," Lebel said. "We'll have over 50 pieces and a small boutique from 12 to 4 p.m."
Everything at the art show is for sale, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local charity. Lebel will also be on hand to answer questions during the show.
The kids in the family will have plenty of holiday fun to enjoy throughout the day.
"There will be horse-drawn wagon rides, a petting zoo and lots of characters walking around," Forte said. "There will also be an activity tent to make ornaments, and the bakery is bringing seasonal cookies and gingerbread."
The gingerbread village is created by Stroudsmoor Inn Towne and is 8 feet long by 4 feet wide.
"The gingerbread village is created by our bakers at Stroudsmoor Inn Towne. Jessica Hicks is the executive baker. She designs it, and all her elves create the different parts of it," said Lebel, who is also the lead floral designer for Stroudsmoor. "She also sells gingerbread houses by the hundreds."
Hicks and her team of 15 to 20 bakers each get a piece of the gingerbread village to construct. It takes about a week from start to finish for the individual pieces.
"Every year, we try to have something different. It's a traditional village with gingerbread men, houses, ski business, bakery and a few businesses," Hicks said. "It takes a week for all the pieces to be made, and then we all come together and set it up on plywood. It's nice that we can do something creative and as a team."
While kids know that Santa typically enjoys traveling by sled, his visit to Stroudsmoor will have him traveling by a different form of transportation.
"Schoch's Harley Davidson is providing transportation for Santa and Mrs. Claus," Forte said. "This year, they arrive by motorcycle."
Around 6:30 p.m., fireworks will light up the sky over Stroudsmoor.
"The fireworks are around 6:30, but it's weather-dependent," Forte said. "Make sure you arrive by 5 p.m. for photos with Santa, live Nativity by Faith United Methodist Church and the fireworks."
The event is free of charge. There will be food available for purchase. Toys for Tots will be at Terraview with Santa's elves collecting and distributing toys to every child who donates a toy.


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Leisure, Nov 2004, 5.99 ISBN: 0843954574 With the War Between the States over, weary Confederate Captain Jake Taylor returns to his Texas home, looking forward to starting anew away from the violence. On a trip to San Antonio, Indians attack him, leaving Jake for dead. While lying in dirt, he looks up to see someone peering down at him. With the American Civil War over, the German Mueller family crossed the ocean hoping to leave behind a sc...
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Leisure, Jul 2003, 5.99, 331 pp. ISBN: 0843951680 Growing up on a Texas plantation, the son of the overseer Bowie Beckett loved the owner's daughter Maria Taylor. However, though she followed him around the spread, he knew she was out of reach. During the Civil War Bowie runs the northern blockade that enables him to bring cotton to the market and in turn finance the Confederacy. His father feels Bowie is a coward for not joining the militar...


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High Desert Collection (PCGS Set Registry)
David Hall: The 1959-D, like all the later Denver Mint Washington quarter issues, was saved by the roll in large quantities.Even so, this issue is somewhat tougher to find in Gem condition than the ealier S-Mints. The Denver issues seem to suffer a lot more from marks and abraisions. A mark-free Gem, while not rare, is definitely a coin worth saving.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
summer vacation slide show
My memories of summer car trips are of my dad driving the red, Buick station wagon; my mom riding shot-gun, three older sisters occupying the middle seat and my brother and I, freely lounging in the way back on sleeping bags and pillows, playing Mad-Libs. No restraints, no seat belts just hanging out, thinking up gross adjectives and nouns while biding the time as we drove out West. About a week and a half ago, It was I who rode shot gun as the kids, tethered and strapped in place, scribbled out words like, 'stinky', 'gooey' and 'slimy' as we made our way East, stopping at the Grand Canyon (which we couldn't find for a good hour - how does one miss the Grand Canyon?) moving on North, through Utah, and then ending up in the badlands of Wyoming. For several days we rode helicopters, horses, white waters, saw bison and bear and generally found our inner cowboy. Then, on Thursday we made our way back: Utah to Nevada to California again. jiggity jig. And of course, what summer vacation memory is worth anything without the slide show with dust motes floating through the streaming light, the burny sweet smell of the hot carousel. I think I usually fell asleep. I'm not saying this show will be anymore exciting than those of my past. But if you're interested in what I did on my summer vacation, here ya go......oh, and I have no idea how to get that embarrassing ad off of the window. If any of you geniuses out there can help, let me know.
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There's something, inherently bad-ass about a man of the sea (and yes, because I'm still 12, I can't bring myself to write that the other way around ). The image of a burly sailor, throwing a fishing net over the side of a ship in a winter storm. Huge, black waves crashing up and over the side - Pea Coats + watch caps + scruffy unshaven beards. All of it = manly man hotness.
Very, Jane hotel - back in the day.
The line CXXVI Clothing seems influenced by this very lifestyle, while adding a touch of artistry - making it one of my favorite guy shopping stops these days.
Actually I'd wear or carry any of this.
Each piece is hand silk screened, dyed and numbered. And very reasonably priced.
Monday, August 23, 2010
winner, winner, and a little down tempo mixed music monday
First up are the *WINNERS* of the beachy, Seaton giveaway! This time, as they were brushing their teeth, I had my girls each pick a number. I figured, that's as random as any other method. They had no clue what the point of it was and wanted to see the 'drawing' when I was done with it.....clueless. So HERE'S who they, inadvertently, chose!!>> Anne of Annechovie Cristin of Simplified Beeboth happen to be fabulous bloggers that I admire. congrats my blog friends. And please stay tuned, I've got more fun giveaways lined up. next up....Mixed Music Monday (the last two are pretty down tempo and may, in fact, make you want to lay your cheek on the cool desk and doze ):
- Dr.Dog | Shadow People
- The Blow | True Affections
- Haruka Nakamura + Akira Kosemura | Nord
- Land of Leland | Macedoniaok, now wake up and be productive or something.
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Friday, August 20, 2010
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
This Week On The Skirted Round Table:: It's Us.
This week Linda, Joni and I discuss the 'musical chairs' that has been going on in the publishing world as of late. Join us as we get on a rant about Architectural Digest in particular. I, personally, can't wait to see the magic that Margaret Russell will do with this tired rag of a shelter mag. Because if anyone is up for the job, it is she. Actually, I can't wait to see how each of these incredible talents will add their own touch to their new appointments. Who do you think should fill the Editor In Chief position at Elle Decor? join us as we discuss, on The Skirted Round Table
And if you haven't entered the beachiest giveaway yet {seahorse beach towels + paisley beach hats} I'll be closing entries tonight. Also, today is the last day to use that discount over at Seaton- Beachbungalow20 gets you a nice little, 20% slice off of your purchase. more info here.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
red, polka-dot bike. [with an exceptionally cute model] here.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
white girl
In the past few weeks I've managed to take my richly colored home and turn it into a light, white, soothing, box of tranquility. Gone are the Taper Green walls and in their place Paladium Blue. It was time to lighten things up around here.
Gone are the dark, Clarence House, Greek Key inspired drapes and in their place, that fabric everyone went out and bought from Calico Corners {more on that later}
But the biggest change was what I spent last week doing, PAINTING THOSE FLOORS WHITE. actually it's a very pale gray, 'Vapor Trails' (this sample is completely inaccurate)
Hey. Anonymous. yes, you of uncouth manner. You who has told me in more ways than one, how boring you find me ..... you should probably get off the train now. Because I'm about to write an entire post on one of the things for which you find me to be the most boring. For the rest of you, who have been dropping me little messages of inquiry and urging via email, twitter and facebook- here we go......
I really didn't know what product to use. Oil? More deck paint? Somebody sent me a paint name that she had found in a magazine. But being in L.A. or rather, California, I was unable to buy it, as it was oil based and restrictions and blah, blah. So then, I was looking at my blogger friend, Camila's site and noticed she was planning on painting her floors~ ah! pick the brain of another blogger. The best way I know, to get good DIY info. Camila, told me about 'Break Through' paint.Immediately called the paint store up the hill and they were able to get it in for me on Wednesday.
This was such an easy project and the total cost for 2 gallons + some rollers, was around $100.00. I did it solo- Nick doesn't have much interest in these projects, and honestly, I sort of get yelly- so it took about 2 and half days to do three rooms and one long hallway.The paint I have down on the floor, is a deck paint that I bought at Sherwin Williams about 6 years ago. I didn't sand it and I think because of the wear and tear, the new paint adhered pretty well. There were a few areas, where the sheen was still on, and I noticed a bit of bubbling. not so good. So if you have any sheen to your floor, I'd suggest sanding it lightly. Also, I cut around the edges by hand first and then began to roll. No taping. easy peasy. I started in the kitchen, since I figured, that we would need that space back in working order the soonest. Actually Nick did help me haul the table out. and the fridge which, if you haven't cleaned under your fridge in 3 years, you should probably stop reading this and go right now, roll it out and check out your new collection of: dried cheese pieces (or plastic not sure which) baby barrettes, photographs, wads of dog hair from a dog no longer living, a syringe with needle attached (from fore mentioned dog's insulin) a ring from the dentist, magnets...it's like being on a dig.
all of the furniture pushed toward the middle of the room.
back to the painting. I probably did it the hardest way possible, because this is how I do everything. And because I did it solo. I moved what I could as far to one side of the room as I could and painted.smart: paint with white paint while wearing black. also smart: put self tanner on and then climb into your bed with white sheets.
This stuff dries so quickly, that after about an hour you can put down another coat and within 2 hours, move everything back on to that area. And so it went, moving everything back and forth and painting. I ended up leaving the last for the next day....kinda felt like a hoarder.
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Monday, August 16, 2010
yakuza lou chandelier::: eddie sykes
The mechanically, articulated chandelier by artist, Eddie Sykes is a cross between the 'cootie catchers' of gradeschool and modern-victorian, moving orgami, sculpture.
Ya, it's that complicated in its art form but simple in its concept: a controlled and beautiful source of lighting. Each limited edition piece, takes up to 4 months to craft. there's a great video here if you'd like to see more on that.
"When the chandelier is closed, the lights are off and hidden. When the chandelier is turned on, the source lights 'unfold' and begin to increase illumination in sync with the expansion of the piece. A special dimmer control increases lighting wattage so the level of light is related to the size and position of the chandelier itself." Translation:: you can program this incredible work of art to start shape shifting and light adjusting in a matter of seconds or with the setting of the sun. pretty cool. wonder if he knows Tord Boontje
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Friday, August 13, 2010
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photo by robert reader:: prints available here Don't forget about the Seaton Beach giveaway+ discount that started yesterday. There will be two winners this time, so make sure to enter. And I'm so proud of my friends at Poketo for their new collaboration launch with Target. I you're in NYC or LA this weekend, be sure to stop by Target for the Poketo Ice Cream social. Ice Cream Trucks will be providing great photo opps and lots of ice cream. in celebration. LA: 1-3:30 pm corner of La Brea + SMBlvd.NYC:12-2pmthe Target at Atlantic Sta. UNIQUE O.C. is this weekend too. Don't miss the outdoor event with indie designers, great foods, free drinks+beer, photo booth pictures, and diy workshops. UNIQUE O.C. Admission- $5 11-6 PM
location hereAnd in other news, I painted my floors these last few days. ya. Finally. If you care to hear any more about it or check out my pics. I'll be posting photos and tips next week.
that's it! now go have a weekend...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
my beachiest give away yet ~ from Seaton!!
This summer, it seemeth my give-away cup runneth over. Feels like every time I open my mail, I receive another great offer to share with those you who stop by here so diligently. But I gotta say, knowing what I like, I'm highly selective - if I wouldn't wear it, own it, or want it generally sitting around my space, I'm not going to promote it. Which brings me to a beachy and hip, Southern California, favorite, Seaton. Some of my very favorite board shorts, hoodies and throw-on-to-go dresses are by Seaton. The look is the perfect balance of beach girl / meets city girl.
Many of you know, founder Jill Roberts Freeman - a staple of the Los Angeles retail fashion world for years. Roberts- Freeman and partner Sara Emanuel have created Seaton; a beach driven, classic, luxury line made up of the perfect staples. Pieces that transport you to a vacation state of mind, no matter where you are {in fact, my bridesmaids wore Seaton's beautiful ivory, cashmere tanks in my mexican beach wedding. They were confections of perfection. }
So what's the beach bungalow 8 dealio? it's easy. If you want a chance to win this super cute, seahorse towel+hat combo {of which I have two sets to give away} >>
simply comment with a link to your email.
If you'd like to tweet this post, I will gladly add your name twice to the entries.And if you just can't wait to see if you've won, here's your 20% discount code: Bungalow20 {to be entered at check out} all offers end, Thursday, August 19, 2010 at midnight.
**yes, this is where I get all yelly and tell you that if you can't play nice and be happy because you're getting something for free, you probably shouldn't play. The lovely ladies at Seaton will be sending out the winners' booty, in the most timely manner that they are able. Other than that, enjoy the loot. This is a good one.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
G&G and Young Southern Style
If you haven't received the latest issue of Garden & Gun....it's a great one. The cover features designer/blogger, Rachel Halvorson {who's 26, really talented and...stunning. god is good people}
Among the handful of young, shiny new faces of Southern style is artist Shelley Hesse, who creates these beautiful ocean animal themed watercolors :
Hesse, partnered with anthro to create a Spiny Lobster rug based on this painting-found hereMake sure to have a look at the other featured creatives. It's a great round-up. And if you're new to G&G don't let the name scare you. It's a beautiful magazine, celebrating the Southern life style. It's full of great photography, well written articles, some very 'Southern' food|drink recipe and always a good dog article thrown in .
**Update:: embarrassed to say, that I didn't realize my blogger friend, Stylecourt is a contributor to this feature. Courtney is responsible for introducing us to New Orleans designer and artist, Melissa Rufty and Shelley Hesse. Thanks Courtney, you always have treasured finds.
Generally, I don't do the circus. "Geek Love" didn't really help matters very much. I'm not good with loud noises. I feel sorry for the animals and nobody likes a clown. But I do sort of like the vintage imagery that goes along with the concept of the 'big tent'....
reds and whites stripes are always crisp and add a bit o' the whimsy I want this little ring to open, exposing a tiny little gold circus ring... here| circus print ish & chi circus wallpaper catherine martin| circus ring here
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Stanczyk last wrote a similarly named article, "Genealogy Consanguinity & DNA", on 25-August-2014. But in the last week, I read two blogs that made me rethink some of the comments that we received to the blog on the probabilities of autosomal DNA (the non Y-DNA and non mt-DNA). I also read a blog once by William Dollarhide that a Family Tree should represent the DNA, the Consanguinity (how much blood shared). Although I respect the tremendous body of work and prolonged expertise of Mr. Dollarhide, my immediate reaction was, "No, it does NOT"!
So today's blog is a mash-up of my August 25th blog, two recent blogs I read, and William Dollarhide's blog article on the Family Tree represents the DNA.
First off, let me state my bias up front, that I believe the Family Tree represents Legally Defined Familial Relationships as held out by the Family Tree's owner and that copies or derivative versions or edited/annotated versions are NOT valid! There has been a long history from at least the earliest dynasties of the Pharaohs and probably even older than that the "king", let me gender-neutral the term, the monarch decides who is family and who is erased from family histories and who inherits and who does not inherit. So we see a very early reason why family trees ARE legal based. If the wife of the monarchical family could not produce a LEGAL heir to inherit or continue the dynasty, one was often adopted or perhaps produced with a surrogate spouse. So we also have a new counter argument enter on very early in the history of families … adoptions. The adopted child may or may not possess some consanguineous blood (DNA). It was not unusual for children of siblings to be adopted if they were orphaned. Or perhaps we can view more upheaval from recent times producing ad-hoc adoptions of non-kin. We need not just accept the modern day gay-couples who adopt or couples with fertility issues who perhaps adopt an overseas child , who may or may not share any consanguinity with either parent, but are none-the-less, legal family members of a family and as such should be in the family tree. We can easily recall just the upheaval of World War II where children from Jewish families were often times ad-hoc adopted in order to save the child's life and perhaps raised to adulthood without the knowledge of their true DNA (until later). There have been many such stories.
DNA was a late 20th century discovery, so before its discovery, there was simply no way of knowing for sure that a baby arriving from its mother's womb, was the sire of any man in particular. Here, again we find examples of mistakenly assumed child of both parents, has the DNA of the mother, but none of the father. Yet in most cases, the family tree shows the child with the couple who raised the child and were held out to be its parents (legally).
We have also seen people use a last name to pretend or to get others to think they are from a family. I am thinking now of a man who used the Rockerfeller name when he had no consanguinity with the famous family. There have also been people who claim to have been a long-lost member of the executed Romanov family. But these people are not legally related to the more famous families by their covert or overt claims of familial ties. They are not to be represented in any LEGALLY sanctioned family tree of their creation, nor anyone else's with those famous families. These faux family members could be EXCLUDED on the basis of DNA in all probability.
We come back to the PROBABILITY portion of this article. DNA and what are the probabilities of consanguineous relatives in the autosomal DNA (not in the direct paternal or maternal lines which can be mathematically determined with reasonable accuracy). When I wrote the blog article from August 25th, people began to immediately take issue with the data visualization that I had sourced on the autosomal boxes. For example, should siblings be 50% consanguineous? In most probabilities, yes. Now let me limit probabilities where by the mother and father are both known for certain — otherwise the mathematics goes out the window.
So siblings share 50% correct? What about identical twins? Who may or may not be 100% identical in DNA. What about fraternal twins or any of the other myriad multiples that can be conceived of? Oh, their DNA probabilities are likely much higher than siblings born from separate births, maybe approaching 100% shared DNA. So now the probabilities of consanguinity are skewed for future generations depending on which child you are in direct lineage from.
What is the accepted standard for probabilities? I recently read a blog by Iowa DNA Project. She included a chart from The International Society of Genetic Genealogists. I have included that chart in this article.
The chart answers most of the questions from people on my first blog that I was not able to answer definitively. Notice one caveat to those probabilities ! These are what we can EXPECT as the probabilities for shared consanguinity.
Why are they not guaranteed? Well the first answer occurred to me because of my knowledge of genetic algorithms (and high school science). The first answer is Mutations. Sometimes when the genes copied from one parent or the other, an inexact copy results in the DNA sequence. There are also a few other things that can go wrong in the sequence.
That is perhaps a nice segue to the second blog I read recently, "Why Your DNA Might NOT Match Your Parents". This article is actually from July 3rd of this year, but which I read last week. What happens when the mother has a rare condition called Chimerism? A short explanation is the mother has two fertilized eggs in her womb, but then one twin fuses to the other and only a single baby develops and is born. In this case, the baby does NOT share DNA with the mother who is in fact the biological mother but technically shares zero consanguinity with the baby. Now Chimerism is rare but since it has happened recently, it is likely it has happened in the past (albeit rarely) of humankind. Well that really screws up the DNA. Now if you were a direct line descendant from a Chimera baby, your DNA does not match the DNA of the rest of the family. Let that sink in.
Now without even discussing surrogate mothers or other elaborate fertility techniques or even parthenogenesis, I believe I have completely destroyed the William Dollarhide notion of a family tree being a representation of DNA (or consanguinity). I did not even touch upon infidelity, "kings-privilege", rape/incest/forced insemination or other known or unknown "ad-hoc adoptions" that occur in family trees with/without knowledge of the family members [since DNA and its use is recent and not widely used]. Nor did we discuss legal dis-owning or disinheritance until this sentence. Those too would impact a family tree.
Perhaps all Family Trees really are Legally Defined Familial Relationships as held out by the family tree owner! Whether we agree or not or whether we know/believe it or not, the long process of DNA replication and historical/legal edicts have irretrievably altered all of our family trees.
The author wishes to include a post-scriptum on his own Legally Defined Familial Relationships (aka my Family Tree). As for my dear wife, Teréza & I, we felt the need to utilize extreme fertility techniques in our personal life to produce our own biological children. We have also used legal disownments, disinheritance, name changes and an annulment to separate ourselves from others who have sought to make fraudulent claims of familial status … asserted fraudulent relationships in their own utterances: for purposes of past, present and/or future schemes to possibly gain money from me, my wife, Teréza or any future estate and/or cause us harm and other damages!


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CLAREMONT, Calif. – A 13-yard touchdown run by junior Justin Wallace (Palatine, Ill.) midway through the fourth quarter gave MIT the lead for good as the Engineers held off Pomona-Pitzer College, 28-26, in the 2013 football season opener for both teams. The trip to the West Coast was the farthest that MIT has ever travelled for a football game in the history of the program.
MIT had the upper hand for most of the first half as the Engineers built a 19-7 halftime lead. After holding Pomona-Pitzer to a three-and-out on the first possession of the contest, MIT drove 60 yards in 15 plays on its first drive that resulted in a 29-yard field goal by freshman Tucker Cheyne (Avon, Conn.).
Back-to-back sacks by senior Joel Santisteban (Lawrence, N.Y.) and sophomore Alex Noakes (Watkinsville, Ga.) thwarted the next Sagehen drive, setting the Engineers up on another scoring drive. Junior Peter Williams (Portland, Ore.) hit sophomore Seve Esparrago (St. Louis, Mo.) for 33 yards on the first play of the drive, with Wallace capping it off with a one-yard plunge that put MIT up 9-0 after the extra point attempt hit the left upright.
Pomona-Pitzer got on the board in the second quarter when quarterback Peter Ianelli hit Duncan Hussey with a 20-yard scoring strike at the 9:20 mark. MIT, which scored on four of its five first-half possessions, answered the Sagehen score with another one-yard run by Wallace and a 25-yard field Cheyne field goal that made it 19-7.
Defense was the name of the game in a scoreless third quarter, as MIT managed just 77 yards and Pomona-Pitzer 83. Early in the fourth quarter the momentum switched over to the Sagehens when Hussey caught a ball in the end zone only to have it jarred away by junior Cameron Wagar (West Richland, Wash.) on a hard hit. Wagar was called for a personal foul, however, and Pomona-Pitzer overcame a penalty to convert on a 12-yard Ianelli to Hussey play. With the momentum on their side, the Sagehens held MIT on its next possession and came back with another Ianelli-Hussey scoring play, this time from four-yards out that put Pomona-Pitzer on top for the first time in the game at 20-19 after a failed two-point conversion.
MIT came back on its next possession and regained the lead and the momentum after driving 63 yards in just five plays. Williams and Esparrago hooked up again on another long play, this time for 27 yards, with Wallace finishing things off on the next play with his 13-yard run that made it 25-20 with 8:17 left. The Engineers then held the Sagehens on their next possession, getting a key sack from sophomore Matt Hole (Santa Maria, Calif.). MIT then put together a seven-play, 62-yard drive that resulted in Cheyne's third field goal of the day, another 27-yard boot that made it 28-20 with 2:20 to go. With that kick Cheyne set a new MIT record for field goals in a game in his first collegiate outing.
Pomona-Pitzer was not done, however, as the Ianelli to Hussey connection worked again, this time from 33 yards out as the Sagehens closed to 28-26 with 1:29 left. The key two-point attempt failed, however, setting up an onside kick attempt. The attempt was covered by the Engineers, however, and with Pomona-Pitzer out of timeouts MIT was able to run out the clock and preserve the win.
Wallace finished with 156 yards on 32 carries for MIT, scoring three times. Williams hit on 19 of his 30 attempts for 288 yards, with Esparrago hauling in six for 103 yards. Ianelli was 20-of-30 for 217 yards and four scores, with 11 of those completions and all of the scores going to Hussey who totaled 145 yards.
MIT will stay on the road next week, just a bit closer to home this time as it travels to Becker College for a 1:00 p.m. game on September 14.


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About Us
Hawthorne Wellness Center features a beautifully remodeled clinic, a movement studio, and gardens, located in the heart of the Hawthorne neighborhood. Free offstreet parking for both cars and bicycles is available.
Facilities Tour
Reception and waiting room
Hallway to practitioner rooms
Chiropractic room
View of the studio from the garden
A view of the garden
Flowers in the garden
Front of the clinic
Reception desk
Acupuncture room
Acupuncture room
A class in progress inside the studio
Foliage in the garden


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Zarjaz Presents... Judge Dredd: At The Polls Episode 8
And remember: Zarjaz #23 is available to buy from The FutureQuake Web Shop now!
Mansion Of Madness is a collection of horror stories, curated by myself and Dan Hill, and is available from Comixology priced $3.99.
Joe Pineapples: Thirty-Seven by me, Alex Paterson and Bolt-01 is available in Zarjaz #32, available from FutureQuake, priced £3.00 (+ shipping).
Anderson, Psi Division: Bring Me A Dream is a free-to-air daily strip by me, Chris Askham and Bolt-01, produced for the FutureQuake Blog.
Torquemada: Heads You Lose by me and Steven Denton features in Zarjaz #31, available from FutureQuake Press, priced £3.00 (+ shipping).
"How Long...?" is a short story written by me and available in Debris, a short story collection from Alfie Gallagher, currently available via Alfie's Etsy shop, Orbital Comics in London and Big Bang Comics in Dublin.
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Ice cream program gives a taste of responsibility
Villager photo by John Wendle
Samantha Crespo making a batch of ice cream at Alphabet Scoop.
By Audrey Tempelsman
Just desserts are served at Alphabet Scoop, an ice cream store run by The Fathers Heart Ministries that employs Alphabet Citys at-risk \youth.
Carol Vedral, director of The Fathers Heart Ministries, and her husband, Chuck, founded the faith-based, nonprofit organization, at 543 E. 11th St., in 1998. Their mission is to break the cycle of dependency and poverty by providing hunger relief, job training and referrals to those in need.
The Vedrals began the youth program at Alphabet Scoop in 2005, believing that a combination of employment and mentoring would help reduce violence and gang involvement among local teenagers.
The street is such a big pull in teens lives today. We need to reorient them toward a path of success, said Carol Vedral.
The nine youths recruited to work in Alphabet Scoop also attend The Fathers Heart Ministries KidZone program, which takes place Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Most participants hail from the nearby Jacob Riis Houses and Campos Plaza.
At KidZone, the church sponsors a meal for young children, teens and families. After eating, kids can play board games, take free guitar lessons or self-defense classes, do arts and crafts or create nutritious snacks at the Fun With Food table. The program keeps a lot of kids out of trouble, according to Samantha Crespo, 18, a three-year veteran of Alphabet Scoop.
Like many of her co-workers, Samanthas life has experienced a significant turnaround over her years of being involved in the program.
My freshman year of high school, I didnt pass any classes whatsoever, she said. I wasnt taking it seriously. School starts at 9, and Id come at 12. If I felt like going to class, Id go to class. If I didnt, I didnt go. I didnt care at all.
But her attitude began to change when she started at Alphabet Scoop.
If youre working, you learn more respect, how to be patient. You learn theres no explanation for being late, she said.
Now, after having worked at the store for three years, Samantha not only supervises the younger employees, but also frequently makes the ice cream herself. At the end of her shift, shell use her own key to close up the shop.
Pastor Carol and Chuck give me so much responsibility. They trust me a lot, she said. I dont even know how it happened, but I started stepping up to the standards I need to step up to.
Samanthas academic performance has steadily improved.
I saw that failing all my classes, I wasnt getting anywhere, she said. Working here, I realized before I go on to bigger and better things, I need school first.
After completing high school this spring, Samantha hopes to pursue a career in basketball or criminal justice. But her years at Alphabet Scoop havent killed her sweet tooth.
Working in the store has made me really want to become an ice cream flavorer, she said. Its so much fun to come up with weird, wacky flavors.
To make the ice cream, Samantha explains, she runs a high-quality, chocolate or vanilla base through the stores industrial ice cream-making machine, adding flavored mix-ins.
For the stores top seller, cookies n cream, a vanilla base with vanilla flavoring is combined with Oreo cookies. When the ice cream emerges from the machine and into the white, plastic tubs, more Oreos are added in for an extra kick.
It just flies out the door, Carol Vedral said.
Peanut butter ice cream involves a chocolate base with peanut butter and chocolate peanut butter cups swirled in.
Flavors also vary with the seasons. With the coming of fall, customers flock in for scoops of apple pie ice cream or pumpkin pie ice cream.
Though Samanthas flavor of choice is classic pistachio, her favorite creation was her first: Banana stampede, a mix of chocolate ice cream, banana pureé and animal crackers.
By getting a good foundation in work experience, we believe the kids develop the confidence and training to either further their education or get a better job or series of better jobs so they can provide for themselves, Vedral said. Were very excited about where the kids are in their lives right now.
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Dale Swinburn is well aware of the fragile characteristics of the natural resources that make the Texas Plains a good place to grow cotton.
The soil is fertile; the climate is warm enough in summer to generate adequate heat units; it's cold enough most winters to stifle pest insects' efforts to rule the world; and underground water has been, if not always abundant, at least available to supplement rainfall with timely irrigation.
But Mother Nature can be a temperamental hostess, especially when demands on her largesse consume resources faster than she can restore them.
Growing cotton puts soil in jeopardy of water and wind erosion; intense irrigation depletes what was once believed to be an almost limitless aquifer; and the vagaries of weather create havoc of one kind or another on crops through drought, cold, hail, flood and the High Plains' ubiquitous wind.
Swinburn says making cotton under such challenging yet promising conditions demands that growers balance high yield against production efficiency and conservation. His ability to accomplish those goals earned him the 2003 Farm Press High Cotton Award.
Swinburn has grown cotton near Tulia, Texas, since 1966. He made his first crop just after receiving an agronomy degree from Texas Tech, on land his schoolteacher parents had bought as investments. The investments continue to pay dividends.
"We've made progress since then," Swinburn says. "Farming has been good to us, even though the past five or 10 years have been difficult."
Since the early 1990s he's concentrated on conservation to save soil and water and to improve efficiency. "A benchmark for our conservation efforts was a field day in Turpin, Oklahoma, sponsored by Kansas State and Oklahoma State Universities. The program concentrated on methods to conserve water in dryland sorghum and wheat."
Swinburn has adapted those techniques to cotton, which, he maintains, offers the best profit potential for his area, which pushes the northern boundary for cotton production in Texas.
He credits Roundup Ready technology with easing the transition from conventional to reduced tillage.
"I also realized that this area was running out of water," he says. "We have to do a better job of using it."
Swinburn rotates cotton and wheat and plants his cotton crop in wheat stubble. "That's a common practice now," he says. "We see a lot of advantages from crop residue. Limiting wind damage to cotton seedlings heads the list. I hate fighting sand."
He says the wheat stubble protects young cotton from winds strong enough to turn soil into a sandblaster that shears cotton off at the ground.
He admits that a cover crop requires water and that farmers often walk a fine line between allowing the cover to draw too much water from the soil and getting adequate growth to develop enough residue.
"In theory, we're supposed to get rain in June and July to bring the cotton along," he says. "That doesn't always happen."
He irrigates a good portion of his cotton acreage, some with limited water and some from wells deep enough to make a crop.
"With full irrigation, we'll apply from 10 inches to 15 inches a season," Swinburn says. "With adequate water, I like to apply one inch per week during the growing season. That's about all we can do and it's enough if we get some rain."
Technology helps him save water. "All our irrigation systems are low energy precision application (LEPA) units with bubblers on the ground. When I bought them, a salesman tried to get me to buy sprinkler heads, but I wanted the LEPA system. I was convinced that it was the best system and all the research showed it to be the most efficient."
He thinks the farm bill passed last summer may encourage farmers to improve irrigation efficiency.
"If it's like I think it's going to be, the legislation will offer incentives to upgrade irrigation," he says. "That could be a great help in switching to a LEPA or drip system. Also, we need assistance to replace some underground concrete with poly pipe." Swinburn says a few farms still rely on furrow or side-row irrigation, but "less every year."
He's also interested in drip irrigation. "It intrigues me," he says. "Some farms simply don't mesh with center pivot irrigation. The configuration or size may be wrong. But a farmer could install drip systems in those fields or under parts of them. That's one way a grower could concentrate resources on his best land. We don't have a shortage of land in this area."
He's changed philosophy over the years, from a commitment to maximum yields to one of "maximum profit. I have some cotton that will make 1,000 to 1,200 pounds per acre."
Other fields, he says, will make three-fourths of a bale.
"I have mostly Pullman clay loam soil. It has high clay content and I'd actually like a bit more sand, but it's extremely productive if it gets enough water. When it dries out, it's hard to replace moisture. In 2002 we didn't get any rain from Memorial Day, when we got a hard rain, until August. Those August rains saved us."
Swinburn says the boll weevil eradication program, now in its third year in this zone, limits insect losses. "We're ecstatic about the progress," he says. "We were getting 100 weevil trap counts and are down to almost nothing. That many weevils took a lot of our top crop."
He says seed technology also improves efficiency. He plants Roundup Ready varieties on about 90 percent of his acreage.
"I use some Stoneville, Paymaster, FiberMax and All-Tex varieties. I'm excited about the companies' new stripper varieties developed for the High Plains. And FiberMax has a picker variety that shows promise."
He says stacked gene or just Bt varieties have not caught on as much as Roundup Ready. "We sprayed everything we had last year for worms, but we can treat fairly cheaply."
He says the perfect variety for the Texas High Plains would offer excellent yield and quality characteristics already available but also would "use water very efficiently. We've already discovered that most good varieties work well in reduced tillage systems.
"I like to try new varieties. I'm not married to a certain one and am always looking for something better. We've had some really good ones come along in the past few years."
He uses his interest in variety development as chairman of the Plains Cotton Growers Association variety improvement committee.
Swinburn believes technology still offers potential to improve cotton production. "I believe plants are out there with better growth potential and an ability to use water more efficiently."
He says researchers have found pine trees, for instance, that are 20 percent more efficient water users. "That's amazing. John Gannaway (Texas A&M cotton breeder at Lubbock) is looking for that characteristic in cotton."
Swinburn sees cotton as a strong economic force in the High Plains and understands why it's pushing northward, out of it's traditional production zone. Water demands for grain crops may limit how long farmers can depend on them, he says. Cotton gets by with less moisture.
"Growers in this area lost sugar beets a few years ago. That was a good mix with grain and wheat."
He says cotton can fill the gap. "We'll plant shorter-season varieties and will have to manage carefully. Earliness will be critical. Pix and harvest aids will help farmers produce excellent yields and high quality lint."
He's convinced that cotton has a place here and with about a dozen partners in Windstar, Inc., built the northernmost gin in the state, the Top of Texas Gin, a few miles north of Dawn.
Swinburn has been a partner in Windstar, a closely held corporation, since the late 1970s. They own four gins, including Top of Texas, which opened last year.
'We'll run from 35,000 to 40,000 bales through Top of Texas this year," Swinburn says. "Cotton has increased significantly here in the past five years and we decided producers deserved a gin close to home. Farmers are enthusiastic about cotton here."
In addition to cotton, Swinburn also raises wheat for grain and grazes cattle on wheat.
"Next to cotton, that's the best enterprise we have in the Texas High Plains," he says.


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ATHENS, Texas � Fishing and hunting licenses go on sale in Texas August 15, and hunters and anglers will be lining up to buy. Many will also pick up a copy of the latest Texas and Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) publication summarizing Texas hunting and fishing regulations, the Outdoor Annual.
Few people probably understand how and why all the regulations contained in the Outdoor Annual came to be. Some would probably prefer to have fewer regulations.
But there are science-based reasons for the regulations, said Greg Binion, a TPWD Inland Fisheries biologist stationed in Mathis. "Proper management of fisheries resources is critical in meeting angler desires and expectations. While angler desires and expectations vary, one fisheries management objective at TPWD remains the same: to provide a diversity of high quality fisheries and world-class fishing opportunities. Fisheries management emphasizes providing protection to fishery resources so that sustainable utilization of fish populations can be realized. This often requires a delicate balance of fish, ecosystem, watershed, and stakeholder needs."
At the basis of fisheries management is data which forms the cornerstone for management decisions and recommendations at TPWD. Every spring and fall, TPWD fisheries biologists use different collection gears in various water bodies throughout the state in efforts to monitor the status of important sport fish populations.
"These survey data provide biologists with valuable insight into fish population dynamics such as recruitment (i.e. reproductive success), growth, and mortality," Binion said. "Surveys help TPWD staff index relative abundance, determine if sport fish populations are stable and balanced, verify if sufficient forage is present and typically reveal if management or regulatory action is needed to better manage our fishery resources."
Biologists also use other data collection methods such as creel surveys (angler interviews) to gauge angler success by gaining insight into angler effort, catch, and harvest lending valuable information which helps in more sound management of our fisheries resources.
TPWD Inland Fisheries biologists actively manage 17 sport fish species in inland waters including; all black bass (largemouth, smallmouth, spotted, Guadalupe), striped and hybrid striped bass, white bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, flathead catfish, white and black crappie, saugeye, rainbow trout, walleye, red drum, and alligator gar. Consult the 2011-2012 Texas Parks and Wildlife Outdoor Annual for a complete list of daily bag and size limits.
"Each and every one of us has a stake in the management and conservation of our state's abundant fisheries resources," Binion said. "While we as TPWD employees strive to enhance and preserve our natural resources, the hunters and anglers of Texas also serve as stewards of conservation by participating in creel and harvest surveys, complying with regulations and helping keep our lands and waters clean. We must all work together to ensure the natural resources of Texas are conserved for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations."
And there's one more role anglers play in the management of Texas fisheries: They pay for it through their purchases of fishing licenses and gear. "Anglers fund the work we do," said Dave Terre, TPWD's chief of research and management. "Purchasing a fishing license is critical to sustaining our fisheries management programs and the great fishing that results. So buy a license, and thank you!"
The Outdoor Annual is available wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold and may also be viewed online at http://txoutdoorannual.com/.


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Eric Knutson starts as LepNet Curatorial Assistant
Collection mow part of global biodiversity data
Collection of author of Kaufman field guide now at DMNS
... and are here to stay
donated by Department Associate Barbara Bartell
Visit from founder Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh
At the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
New Species of Cave Worm Discovered in Steamboat Springs
Hemicyrthus blaffarti from New Caledonia described
Great Citizen Scientist success
This Year's Teen Science Scholars started at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Nathrop's Jeffrey Johns Roberts finds first Colorado specimen of the figeater beetle
Paper analyses major publisher's policies
New DMNS Annals presents our collection of wonderful Russian gem-carving sculptures
Group Photo Available for Download
First issue of Denver Museum of Nature & Science Reports published
to the Illinois Natural History Survey
Move into new state-of-the-art facility has started
First delivery arrived in Denver on Monday
Call for papers and memories
Making more of our specimens publicly available
DMNS Annals 5 published
The elusive type specimens of John Witt Randall rediscovered
The common red-winged dung beetle is two species
Increasing number of journals banned from receiving Impact Factor
NSF grants make collections data publicly available
New species from Colorado named after Zoology Collections Manager
Comprehensive history of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science published
Landmark meeting of the Commission in Singapore
Ernst Jünger's beetles on exhibit at CU Boulder Library
Zoology's Flickr page online
Becky Krell starts serious volunteering before kindergarten
Chris Grinter joins Entomology Program
Identification keys for world dung beetle genera in preparation
3668 insect specimens arrived safely in Denver
Zoological nomenclature meets the 21st century - BMC published
interview with Frank Krell
National Science Foundation funds new cabinetry and an assistant (David Bettman)
National Science Foundation funds a major regional digitization project.
Point of View paper published in "Learned Publishing"
Essay published in "European Science Editing"
Snowmass mammoth moved to Paleo Lab
Enio Cano from the University del Valle de Guatemala visits the Entomology Collection
New paper on secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles published
on the Bison Beetle Project
Dr Dean Fanara donated 98 Colombian Lepidoptera
New DMNS Science Bite posted
Phil Tates donated beetle collection
A new paper on beetle fossils from Laetoli
On 1 November, Chris Grinter started as the Databasing Assistant in the NSF funded SCAN project (Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network), a consortium of ten Museums and Collections of the American Southwest. He worked his first months for Paula Cushing in the arachnology collection cleaning up almost 30,000 spider and solfugid data sets, which are now accessible through SCAN's Symbiota portal.


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#1 Poll: Wisconsin's Walker to survive union recall drive
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Poll: Wisconsin's Walker to survive union recall drive
So much for that recall effort. According to a new Rasmussen poll of likely Wisconsin voters, Gov. Scott Walker should survive an effort to throw out his 2010 election, a campaign driven by pro-union activists angered that he limited collective bargaining rights for public employees in a budget-cutting move.
Its a huge and positive switch for Scotts fortunes. Opponents made headlines when they easily collected 1 million signatures on a recall petition. Walker this week said he would not challenge the signatures-including names like Donald Duck-because there isnt enough time before the May recall election.
Rasmussens poll is the latest done on the election and finds that 54 percent of likely Wisconsin voters at least somewhat approve of the governors job, while 46 percent somewhat disapprove. He does good with independents, as 58 percent approve of his performance. The telephone poll of 500 likely voters conducted Monday shows a pro-Walker move, coming days after a Public Policy Polling survey conducted February 22-26 that found the state divided 49 percent-49 percent on the recall.
Helping Walker has been the states improving budget, according to a Rasmussen analysis. A victory in the recall would be a huge blow to liberal union groups whove made the Republican governor the GOP posterboy for union busting.
I know, from a rag. Just posted to get it out there.Star Member southernyankeebelle (4,378 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Rasmussen is a rightwing polling company.stopbush (10,369 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Correct. 2. The people who come out to vote in recall elections are the pissed off people.
Much harder to motivate people to get out to keep things the same than it is to motivate people who are pissed off.
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2. yes, let's make it sound like a recall is not going to happen--keep people away from the polls.
expect we will see a lot more of the same.SWTORFanatic (6 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. It's even bad for Rasmussen and here's why:
Look at question #2 - no candidate is listed! They might as well have asked "would you vote to recall Scott Walker and put a shoe in his place?"
Wisconsin Survey of 500 Likely Voters
Conducted February 27, 2012
By Rasmussen Reports
1* How would you rate the job Scott Walker has been doing as Governor do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job hes been doing?
2* A special election will be held to see if voters want to recall Governor Scott Walker and remove him from office. If the special election were held today, would you vote to recall Governor Walker and remove him from office or would you vote against the recall and let him continue to serve as Governor?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
A Rocky Start for Wisconsin's Two Democratic Candidates for Governor
Who will be the Democratic challenger to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker when the recall petitions are finally verified and an election is scheduled? So far, there are two candidates who have officially announced for the Democratic nomination - Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and current State Senator Kathleen Vinehout. Neither has looked sharp out of the gate, unfortunately.
Suck on it, DUmmies. Embrace the humiliation.
Walker has done very well in rising above the riff-raff on this. It would've been easy to get in the trenches and mix it up with the DUmmies, but Walker's not done that -- to his credit.U.S. Army, Retired
02-29-2012, 04:23 PMEducation without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. (Are you listening Barry)?:mad:
Ayn Rand
The recall Snyder movement in Michigan has pretty much died out, even with the UAW.
Snyder won by a landslide, however, I really don't think the recall movement was going anywhere. On top of that, he's been pretty decent to us state employees. He's been more honest than the previous governor-I appreciate a governor who goes in to negotiations and says "Well, we don't have the money for this, but we can give you that" than one who makes false promises she can't keep.
so the unions bus in rable to rouse, out-of-staters drive in to show their disapproval of something that doesn't concern them. now the left is "suprised" that walker will survive the recall....
clue-by-fourtm time. you can fake the support you claim to have only so long, then you have to use it
wouldn't true supporters of your position have helped your cause in the beginning? the left is truly dain-bramaged....Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
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We could say they are spending like drunken sailors. That would be unfair to drunken sailors, they're spending their OWN money.
Ronald Reagan
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People put walker in office for a reason. Despite the union propaganda the state as whole is doing better since Walker took office and the people know that and therefore see no reason to replace him.
The people thankfully see this recall for what it is.
Too bad the DUmmies have figured it out so soon. Would be much better if they were surprised by a failed Walker recall. There would be much head explody and claims of election fraud.
Well, we found at least one poll DU didn't spikeCU's Paranormal Expert.
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