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Consider the lions
Peter Campbell
- The House of Gold by Richard Goy
Cambridge, 304 pp, £60.00, January 1993, ISBN 0 521 40513 0
- The Palace of the Sun by Robert Berger
Pennsylvania State, 232 pp, £55.00, April 1993, ISBN 0 271 00847 4
Around 1421 Marin Contarini – a member of one of the ruling Venetian families – began building a house on a site across the Grand Canal from the Rialto. This new palace replaced another, on the same site, which he had bought from his wife's family. More than twenty years later the scaffolding came down to reveal the most resplendent domestic Venetian-Gothic façade of them all. The house was a place to live and do business. It was also, and more obviously, an advertisement for the power and wealth of the Contarini clan. It is still among the most splendid buildings in Venice. More than two hundred years later, Louis XIV built a monument to power on a much grander scale. His palace frontage is not the jolliest Classical building in Paris, but it is still the most impressive and among the most magisterially consistent.
Richard Goy and Robert Berger, in their respective accounts of the construction of the Cà d'Oro and of Louis XIV's Louvre, remove ambiguities which hang around the word 'built'. They ask who made decisions, who paid, and how much, and why each building took this form rather than that. Goy's information about the building of the Cà d'Oro is extracted almost entirely from contracts and the notebooks in which Contarini kept a day-to-day account of work done and payments made. Berger uses contemporary plans, elevations, committee minutes, theoretical writings, eulogies and memoirs. The aim in both cases is to increase understanding, not change the course of architecture; despite the fact that Goy is himself an architect, this is academic rather than practical history. Neither writer engages with his subject in the aggressive spirit of those who have added to (or at least commented on) the history of architecture while, at the same time, using old buildings as inspiration, crib, justification and propaganda for new ones. Proselytising is not a minor strand in architectural history. There have been active designers – Classicists like Adam, Goths like Pugin, Hellenists like Stuart and Modernists like Venturi, as well as historians (Ruskin, Pevsner, Banham) – who have had opinions on the future as well as the past of architecture. The emulating eye may be self-serving and envious, but it is also challenging and competitive.
Goy and Berger, because they are more disinterested, are also less interested in the look of the buildings they deal with. Sometimes they seem downright indifferent. Both use (among other illustrations) photographs of their own in which converging verticals or fuzziness do the buildings they write about a disservice. There is some excuse for printing an author's snaps when there are a lot of sites to be illustrated. One cannot, I guess, expect scholars to cart plate cameras around, obtain permissions and rise at dawn to get the right light. But to use (to take the worst examples) full-page colour illustrations of a detail of the façade of the Cà d'Oro and of the Porta della Carta which are so blurred that one must suppose them either to be over-enlarged details or bad originals, and to present the east front of the Louvre in pictures where the distortion caused by an upward-pointing wide-angle lens makes it look squat, is offensive. Architectural photography is a craft. If the author is not competent, if the publisher cannot afford two or three days' work by a professional and if old photographs (which, as a couple of plates in Berger's book prove, are often very good) are not available, it would be better not to illustrate buildings which are as well-known as these.
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Vol. 15 No. 14 · 22 July 1993 » Peter Campbell » Consider the lions
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A bit of background. I used to play when I was a teenager, I had a few coaching sessions with a coach called Brian Cox, great coach and he helped me improve greatly.
I stopped playing when I was 19 I think, and have just recently started playing again (27) after getting contact lenses. I am struggling to string a few balls together now. Had a session a few weeks back with a different coach from my area, he tweaked a lot in my approach and I feel that it's a lot steadier now, cue going straighter etc..
Anyway, using the routines I was given by Pete, I can pot a few decent balls together but I'm let down by either my positional play or simply missing the easier pots. I start to miss a few, get annoyed and just go to pieces really, missing straight balls, blacks off the spot etc.. It's really doing my head in that I can't seem to play like I used to, and I think a lot of it is down to me missing and then getting distracted by being peed off. Don't get me wrong, I was never a half decent player, 25-30s average break, 48 highest. Any advice from anybody regarding the temper please?

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A central New Jersey man died today after falling from an escalator at The Pier Shops at Caesars, an Atlantic City mall connected by a sky bridge to the casino.
The man, identified by relatives as James Vellanti, of Clinton Town in Hunterdon County, is the second person in 13 months to fall fatally from an escalator at The Piers.
Atlantic City police are investigating the most recent death, which took place at 1:20 a.m., said Sgt. Angelo Maimone. Further details were not immediately available.
The first death occurred in August 2008. In that case, 25-year-old Frank Gilbert, Jr., a Pomona resident, was sitting on the moving handrail of a third floor escalator when he tumbled backward, falling an estimated 40 feet, according to news reports.
Vellanti is in his early 40s, and is the married father of three, a relative said. A woman answering the phone at his Clinton Town home declined to speak to a reporter.
Michigan-based Taubman Company LLC manages The Piers. A spokeswoman for Taubman would not say whether there were common factors in the men's deaths, noting the investigation is in its early stages.
"We are incredibly saddened by this event," Karen MacDonald wrote in an e-mail tonight. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family."
A spokeswoman for Caesars Atlantic City referred comment to the Atlantic City police. A security official at The Piers declined to comment.
About 75 percent of injuries on escalators each year are fall-related, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. There were about 11,000 escalator-related injuries in 2007, the commission reports.
Rohan Mascarenhas contributed to this report.


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Tim Hayden and I devoted an entire chapter of The Mobile Commerce Revolution to the issue of trust. Indeed, as entities such as Apple Pay, Square, PayPal and others plot to take over the mobile payment world, their biggest obstacle isn't the competition, but how much (or little) consumers can trust these entities with access to their finances.
Consider this: the mobile phone is the key to a direct, one-to-one relationship between a brand and a consumer. We are intimately connected to our smartphones, and our mobile number is the modern day social security number (I doubt I'll ever change mine--will you?) But it's important for brands to think of that relationship as...well...a relationship. A courtship, if you will. If I give a brand my email address, that's essentially letting that brand get to "first base" with me--but no further. Not unless you buy me dinner, at least.
The ultimate goal for many businesses is the mobile wallet. Think about this: if I walk into a local restaurant and pay the check with a Visa or MasterCard, that business sees me as a transaction, but the relationship lies with the credit card company. But if I walk into that same business, and pay using an app that is tied to me, my phone, my purchase history, and my previous transactions with that business, then all of a sudden that relationship is with the business directly, and they can more effectively "court" me with direct communications and relevant offers.
This, of course, is getting to home plate.
I'm willing to "go all the way" with a few brands. Really. But if your brand is trying to woo me, the commitment required for me to round third base is far, far greater than the commitment required for me to give you my email address. We're talking about my money, here. If I am going to give your brand that level of trust, and (financial) intimacy, then you can't keep acting like we're just dating. I've got trust issues.
Take customer service, for example. If I have a problem with your product, and I contact you, I expect you'll get back to me in a reasonable period of time if you want to keep dating. But if I have shared my most intimate financial details with you, well, you'd better have me on speed dial, because I'm not going to be IGNORED, Dan!
I'll give you a more concrete example. If you've ever used an app and had a technical issue, you might have written the developer and expected a response in the next day or two. But what if that app just deducted money from your bank account without warning?
That's exactly what happened to me a week ago with the Starbucks app. On November 9, somebody hacked into my Starbucks account, changed the email, and loaded $100 onto the card from my PayPal account (and, hence, my bank account). I deleted PayPal from the app immediately, and contacted Starbucks on November 9th to resolve the issue.
I finally got my reply on November 16th. One week later! And rather than resolving the issue, they punted it to PayPal, who as far as I can tell is utterly blameless in the affair.
If your bank mistakenly deducted money from your account, would you wait in line for a week? Stay on hold for a week? Of course not. Your relationship with a bank is dramatically different than your relationship with Flappy Birds. But when an app puts its hands directly in your wallet, it treads that territory for the first time. And, like many failed relationships, that app might not really be ready for that level of commitment.
All of this means that once your brand tries to "step up" your relationship with me, the days of "I'll call you sometime" are over. I don't want to hear that you're seeing other customers. Access to my wallet is the most special form of love I can show you. Don't betray that love, OR I WILL BOIL YOUR RABBIT.
As for Starbucks, well, we've decided to see other people.


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David Ripley insists David Willey is fully focused on bringing trophies to Northants amid reports that the England star could move on at the end of this campaign.
One national newspaper suggested that Willey was attracting interest from County Championship Division One sides Yorkshire, Durham and Middlesex.
It was reported that he could be granted early release from his contract, which still has another year to run, if the move represented a step up and Northants were remunerated.
The County are now unlikely to win promotion from division two after falling 64 points behind second-placed Surrey with just five games to go. And that means Willey, who recently starred in a one-day series win and a T20 victory against New Zealand, could look to move on in a bid to further his Test ambitions.
"There's a marked difference between some of the division one teams and their resources and some of the division two teams," said Northants head coach Ripley.
"We're all jockeying to get promotion, it doesn't happen very often and when it does it's proven very hard to stay up there.
"There is a difference in quality and in depth and that's where it comes out mainly, in Championship cricket, because in 16 four-day games you need as much quality and depth in your squad as some of those sides like Yorkshire have.
"We're about opportunity and developing players. David Willey's had a good opportunity with Northants, he's taken it and we've been very good for each other.
"He's under contract for next year and if that changes it won't be without strong dialogue. At the moment, David really is fired up to help us win one-day trophies. That's what's on his mind and this next two weeks are so important."
And on the subject of a fee - a price tag of £50,000 was mentioned in the national newspaper report - should Willey move on, Ripley said: "It doesn't happen a lot in cricket, there's no transfer fee system.
"Most people see out their contracts and then either leave or sign a new contract.
"Sometimes there's a strong desire for a player to leave for personal reasons, to move close to family or to play a higher level of cricket, but we're really concentrated on the next two weeks.
"We'll know more about that (Willey's future) at the end of the season.
"David's contracted so there's no rush on anything really."


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String Patio Lights, have a way of creating a serene mood on your patio or deck.
You can wrap them around posts, you can string them across the patio, or on an umbrella, or if you are using a gazebo, they can highlight the gazebo, for a beautiful effect. Just make sure to purchase lots of string patio lights, to get the effect you are looking for.
There are two option when it comes to string patio lights, and the mood you are setting. You can purchase a funky string of patio lights, that are colorful and brightly colored and larger bulbs, or you can get the small twinkle lights, almost like Christmas lights, but in plain white. These can have a great effect when attached to a gazebo or the railing of your patio. You need lots of strings to create the effect.
String Patio Lights (electrical)
If you have access to electricity outside, with a outside patio outlet, then you can use the electrical strings of patio lights. There are lots to choose from, and depending on the mood you are creating, you can get all kinds of different colors. You can also get rope lighting which can give a great effect too. Take a look online, and there are thousands of styles of string patio lights. You can get plain little bulbs, or shapes with colored glass.
Solar String Patio Lights
This is the most popular way to purchase patio lights now. With everyone thinking green and wanting to save some money, the solar string patio lights have been created to give off as good a light as the former electrical ones, but with a big savings to your wallet.
When solar lights first came out, they were very limiting in the amount of light they gave off, and needed larger solar panels to absorb the sun, but with such popularity, they have been getting better and better with their size, and now you can get solar string patio lights.
Tiny bulbs, just like the electrical ones, and in different colors and shapes. They can highlight bushes, trees, your deck railing, and especially look nice when used in a gazebo or umbrella.
You don't need to turn them off, and they absorb light during the day, and come on automatically for you as soon as it is dark. You just leave them up, as long as the small solar panel is in a spot where it can absorb sunshine during the day, then your solar string patio lights, will do well, and keep lit for your entire party and beyond. They do have switches if you prefer to turn them off, but many people just leave them on as outside lighting. They can even absorb light on a cloudy day.
Take a good look around, when you go shopping for your string patio lights, and maybe consider the solar ones this time. They have lots more to choose from than before, and they not only sell the solar string patio lights, but some really neat lighting for your garden. Just think of the money you will save, with NOT having to have wires and conduit run underground to all your lighting features in your yard.
You can take the solar string patio lights, and any other solar light anywhere with you. When you change around your garden, you can move around your lighting features. Just don't block the little solar panel that comes with these solar lights. If you purchase a lighting feature for your garden, quite often the solar panel is close to the spike where you put your decorative solar light into the garden, be careful not to bury it, or it will not absorb the lighting.
String patio lights look stunning in the shrubs and trees. This is a great way to gently light up your yard, without the flood light effect. It is gentle lighting. Just make sure to purchase enough length and you can light up your entire house and yard!


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Every company is – by necessity – going to have its own unique sales process. There are simply too many variable for one size to ever fit all. However, the best sales processes are built on a strong foundation of tried and tested methods so that they can consistently deliver the best results.
When the right foundational elements are working together, your sales team will find it much easier to guide their leads from the initial discovery phases all the way through to the final deal. This Four-Part Foundation is one of the most common and effective ways to build out your sales process. It includes:
- Prospecting
- Qualifying
- Presenting
- Closing
How you incorporate each of these activities, though, will depend on you and your company's own individual situation.
In other words, now that you have the basics in place, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty details. You need to define every step of the sales process and try to answers as many questions as you can, before they come up.
These four basic steps can act as a milestone for every prospect. You just need to determine the most effective way to move someone between each of those steps. For example, prospecting will require that you engage with the potential client and determine if they have a need for your products and services. You can then qualifying them by assessing whether or not they're in a place to make a purchase. If your assessment is positive, you develop a proposal to present their options, and, finally, close the deal by making sure the check is in the mail and providing avenues for any support they may need after the purchase.
It's a simple thing, really. But like many simple things, every step is important. Build on a strong foundation to define your sales process and really start growing your business.


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This superb and stylish lodge sits on a small park of around a dozen lodges in the pretty and unspoilt village of Newton Ferrers a favourite for sailors with a slipway and mooring for boats as well as a great pub, shop and tea room.
The lodge is close to an array of popular beaches and sheltered coves. Numerous attractions include historic Plymouth, with its Hoe, Barbican, cinema, theatre and shops and the English Riviera, Buckfast Abbey, The Garden House and more, all within a short drive.
Stroll to the local pub which overlooks the beautiful Newton Creek and serves good food. Try River Yealm mussels or a lovely fish stew. A glass of wine and some sun equals a perfect afternoon.
Walkers can also walk across the estuary at low tide to Noss Mayo where there is a further selection of pubs and eateries, a truly idyllic spot.
The contemporary accommodation offers THREE bedrooms: 1 king-size double with en-suite shower room with WC and dressing area, 1 twin and 1 further twin, 2'6" beds. Bathroom: bath and WC.
Lounge/kitchen/diner: open-plan with TV/DVD and electric remote control fire. Kitchen area is well-equipped with electric oven and gas hob, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, washer dryer and microwave. Dining area comfortably seats 6.
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Julianne Donaldson
Shadow Mountain
September 9th 2013
Adult | Historical | Romance
From the description in the synopsis I wasn't quite sure I wanted to read this book. Mostly due to the fact it didn't sound like something I would enjoy. But Edenbrooke was such a delight I felt I just had to see what else Julianne Donaldson could write.Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead—if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate's meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured—and rejected—three marriage proposals.
Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free?
Set in Northern England in 1820, Blackmoore is a Regency romance that tells the story of a young woman struggling to learn how to follow her heart. It is Wuthering Heights meets Little Women with a delicious must-read twist.
The opening came across very melancholy and left me rather concerned the whole book would be sad and depressing.
Henry is such a sweet character. I absolutely loved the friendship between Kate and Henry. In fact I think Henry really is the best thing about this book and without him it would really be hard to read. He is the ray of sunshine through all the gloom and unhappiness.
It was hard at first to separate Edenbrooke and Blackmoore in my mind. I would just keep comparing everything Kate said or did to Marianne and they sort of blended. But after a bit even if there are similarities, both trapped and very unconventional society wise plus the male leads are both in a tight bind as to expressing their feelings, it was easy to see Blackmoore as its own story and characters. I think it took longer to get hooked into Blackmoore than Edenbrooke but inevitably I was hooked. A one day 4:30 in the morning read. So lovely! Such a delight. I am definitely picking up a copy for myself and some gifts for others.
A friend of mine shared that the family situation for Kate is very similar to that of Elizabeth from Pride and Predjudice. Ridiculous mother and sister and rather absent father. There were definitely time when Kate annoyed me but thankfully Henry would come around to lighten the mood.
The only reason this did not get five stars in my mind had to do with the ending. It just wasn't quite the traditional happily ever after. More of a semi-realistic vague happily ever after. Meaning it wasn't the one my mind was building up to. Still it was good.


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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name in the Philippines of Michelia Champaca, a tree whose fragrant, magnolia-like flowers together with those of Canangium odoratum, yield an essential oil highly valued for perfumery, and when digested in cocoanut-oil yield the Macassar oil of commerce. See champak and Michelia.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Sacred flowers such as champaca, rose, saffron, bakula, and others have been hydrodistilled into sandalwood oil with the use of degs for perhaps five thousand years.
So I will stick to the traditional jasmine, rose, orange blossom, tuberose et al for now, and indulge in exotic scents such as champaca, osmanthus, boronia, kewda and other aromas that I wasn't exposed to until I became a perfumer.
But I suppose that what it shows is that you can take champaca out of the wild but you can't take the wild out of champaca.
It truly is a gorgeous, couture version of champaca.
I just received a sample of champaca essence from a supplier, and was shocked at its wonderfully wild, raggedly complex edge and a lurking filthiness under the surface.
I suspect that what gives the silken blend of champaca, jasmine and orchids that ragged, dry, windswept edge is the broom note in Beige, it was hawthorn.
I love champaca absolute but have never bought any to play with because it's so...complex.
I have champaca essence from a different purveyor and it is narcotic, sweet and lush, but nothing at all like the one I got yesterday.
It is just a little too pretty and little too simplified for champaca, but if that would make the West understand and appreciate champaca more - perhaps it is a good thing.
At the same time, it is way fruitier than champaca absolute is, which make the name a bit misleading.


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Sisters come second
Dinah Birch
- Thicker than Water: Siblings and Their Relations 1780-1920 by Leonore Davidoff
Oxford, 449 pp, £35.00, November 2011, ISBN 978 0 19 954648 0
You can't choose whether or not to have siblings. Many children would change their situation, if they could. Some long for company, others are bent on ridding themselves of rivals. But the connection is often the most enduring of all social relationships. Friends, lovers and spouses come and go. Parents die: children arrive when we're adults, if at all. But siblings can never be divorced, and even estranged, they are seldom forgotten. Not only do they share our genes, they are woven into our earliest memories. Loving, tiresome, indifferent or disapproving, they represent our past.
It's tempting to think that such family feelings are timeless. Perhaps some of them are. 'No one can hate like a brother' was a favourite adage in my family, pronounced with gloomy satisfaction whenever news of some violent fraternal rift reached us – which, in our small farming community, was often. We were unconsciously echoing Aristotle's verdict in the Politics: 'There's no hate like brothers' hate.' We had heard of Cain and Abel, the first pair of brothers. 'Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.' We knew about Jacob and Esau too, and thought Esau entirely in the right. 'And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.' These were not encouraging precedents.
Despite such hatreds, alliances between siblings have framed economic and cultural life for centuries. But this may be changing. Used to exercising consumer choice in all circumstances, younger people are (we're told) increasingly likely to spend time with their friends, rather than sticking to siblings. The supply of brothers and sisters has also shrunk. Contraception and career options for women have diminished the size of families, while easier separation means that they often fragment. Family life was very different in the 19th century. What Leonore Davidoff calls the 'long family' – a succession of children with birthdates spanning a period of twenty years or more – was common. The change has been radical, and its consequences far-reaching. Yet, as Davidoff reminds us in her study of sibling relations in the long 19th century, this has not been a popular subject with social historians: everyone had siblings and so it hardly seemed to merit attention. Everybody could claim experience, if not expertise. From an academic point of view, specialising in domestic history didn't offer much in the way of career advancement. The ramifications of family life were often assumed to be the territory of women researchers, while men got on with more meaningful work. Fundamental shifts in the assumptions that underlie historical scrutiny have meant that historians now recognise the significance of the emotions in the lives of men as well as women, and begin to acknowledge links between 'psychic processes and public life', as Davidoff puts it.
Her study is largely (though not entirely) confined to Britain, and she confesses that she is mostly concerned with the middle classes, but these are the territories she knows best, and her work is the stronger for building on her monumental Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850, written with Catherine Hall and published in 1987. It would be good to know more about family traditions among labourers in the 19th century, but their lives have left fewer traces and Davidoff admits that her decision to leave out the working classes was largely dictated by 'the practicalities of historical research'.
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Image credit Artcyclopedia, who linked to Victoria and Albert Museum, A Turkish School in the Vicinity of Cairo, John Frederick Lewis, 1865, watercolor on paper, 13" x 17", held by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
And the kitty close-up, from over there at the right foreground:
Bugler's comments:
The familiar Victorian schoolroom scene is transposed to Egypt, where the cat had ruled supreme for millennia, so it is only right that the animal should be accorded pride of place, in a sunny spot next to the schoolmaster.
My thinking is, well, duh--of course the cat gets to sit up front! But moreover, this painting is a busy kaleidoscope of colors and themes. It is simply a busy, busy scene...whose fervor is so nicely tempered by the serene presence of the kitty up front with the master.
[Gary note: With my Cats in Arts posts, I encourage you to scope out the art appreciation site Artsy (I have no financial interest in the site, I just like it), where you can explore many aspects of the world of art. You'll certainly be entertained and enlightened!]


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Alternate names: Vrbové, Verbó, Werbau. town image [February 2009]
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Vrbove is located in Trnava, W of Piestany.
Caretaker is Mr. Niznansky.
The urban hillside, separate but near other cemeteries, has no sign or marker. Reached by crossing private property, access is open to all via a masonry wall and locking gate. 500-5000 18th-20th century marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone flat shaped tombstones (some with carved relief decorations), finely smoothed and inscribed stones, or double tombstones with Hebrew and German inscriptions are in original locations. The site is Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are residential. Occasionally, private visitors stop. Restoration: patching broken stones, re-erection of stones, and clearing vegetation. A regular caretaker now cares for the cemetery. Within the cemetery limits is a pre-burial house. No threats.
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If you've ever tried to find a black doll at your local toy store, you may have noticed they usually come with tamed, straightened hairstyles. But one California mom, fed-up with that status quo, started a business making dolls with a fabulously diverse spectrum of natural hairdos — and her products are proving to be pretty popular.
Karen Byrd, founder of Natural Girls United, customizes dolls to give them natural hairstyles not typically seen on those sold in stores. As a child, Byrd remembers wondering why she didn't resemble her straight-haired, white dolls.
"I had dolls that were gorgeous, but they didn't look like me. When I looked in the mirror, I would be confused — like, am I beautiful?" Byrd told The Huffington Post.
While toy shopping for two of her daughters, now 14 and 12, Byrd was stunned to discover the same lack of diversity in contemporary toy stores. It was time to do something about it; she started her own business in 2011.
Byrd, whose company was recently featured on StyleBlazer, takes straight-haired dolls of different skin shades and customizes them with ornate handmade hairstyles. Each style takes up to three days to craft, though she won't reveal anything more about the process behind the painstakingly detailed 'dos.
Due to high customer demand, Byrd's current stock of dolls is almost sold out, and she's working hard to satisfy a 51-person-long waiting list. She has plans to hire more employees to provide for a customer base that has expanded to the United Kingdom, Africa, and Australia.
"People are excited that the dolls look like themor their children or the people in their community," she told HuffPost. "It makes them feel good about themselves."
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Alexander and Winona Birondo have spent the last year gazing and waving at each other through a small opening that allows sightings among residents of different detention blocks in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City.
For seven months after their March 2015 arrest, the couple managed to share soft-diet weekend breakfast meals in Camp Crame. Once they were transferred to Bagong Diwa, however, court hearings were the only opportunities for the couple to see and briefly touch each other.
"Aldub na aldub ang dating namin," jokes Alexander, following their release as the Philippine government and Asia's longest running insurgency prepare to resume stalled peace talks.
The Birondos are middle-aged. Both suffer from diabetes and have been released on humanitarian grounds.
Hardly the spry, coy youngsters of the country's most popular television variety show segment.
But Alexander says he identifies with the young lovers' frustration at obstacles that stand in their way.
"Nasa magkabilang building lang kami, pero bawal kaming magkita," he said. "Sa rooftop lang kami nagkikita, kaway, kaway." (We were assigned to adjoining buildings but refused to let us meet. We could see each other only on the rooftop, waving at each other.)
"Ito yung masasabi mong napakalapit pero malayo," he adds. "Talagang aldub na aldub ang dating." (We were so near, yet so far. We could have been the stars of Aldub.)
In his excitement to finally see his wife, Alex's blood pressure shot up. The reading during the mandatory medical examination required for release was 180/90.
"I had to reassure the doctor that it would easily do down," said Alex , whose affectionate gestures towards wife draw grins from comrades.
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Mid-afternoon of Wednesday, August 17, Christina Palabay holds up a two-page document filled with dense text that detail the 46 criminal raps filed against Tirso Alcantara.
The secretary general of human rights group Karapatan is checking several mobile phone units for blow by blow updates on efforts to secure the 22 political prisoners who are covered by safety and immunity guarantees.
It is the third, nerve-wrecking day for Palabay and an estimated 100 lawyers and para-legal workers tasked with ensuring the releases. The hard work started on August 5, when the Supreme Court ruled that lower courts had jurisdiction on arrest proceedings.
"They actually camped out in the courts," jokes Alcantara.
The military calls the 62-year-old detainee the deputy of Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, the late chief of the Southern Tagalog Melito Glor Command of the New People's Army.
Arrested on Feb. 14, 2011, Alcantara was incarcerated in isolation at the Philippine Army's maximum security area at Fort Bonifacio.
He was eventually transferred to Bagong Diwa. There, he adopted a cat that once reportedly belonged to Rizal Alih, a leader of a rebellious separatist faction.
."It's my child," says Alcantara. "It's also my food taster," he quips with black humor.
But the wisecracking Southern Tagalog rebel leader could not have imagined the coincidence that allowed him to reunite Wednesday with a grand-daughter he hadn't seen in 12 years.
The last time Alcantara saw Nica, she was a rambunctious four-year-old visitor to the guerrilla front.
The revolution, however, separated him from family. His daughter, based in Palawan, spent eight years in jail. Alcantara lost touch with the child.
Nica grew up with an aunt with very little affinity for politics. She doesn't even know about the peace talks. But on the wayto school at dawn, Wednesday, she saw a banner with a familiar name.
"She went up to the speaker. She said, 'lolo ko yan'."
It was dusk when Nica saw the tall, sturdy figure of her grandfather alight from a the van.
She charged at him, past alarmed security escorts, hurling herself into his arms with the cThere are some 500 political prisoners nationwide. Membership in the Communist Party of the Philippines is no longer outlawed, but most detainees are charged with common crimes.
Camp Bagong Diwa hosts the most number of political prisoners.
Ruben Saluta says conditions there are not much different from shocking photos of the Quezon City jail.
"Sometimes it gets so hot that my blood pressures goes up to 170/90," Saluta noted. "We're mixed with common criminals in areas that are so congested that we take turns sleeping or resting. If one of us stands up to use bathroom, someone will take our place."


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I don't have to go in depth on my thoughts on this. I'm going to let scripture speak for it self.
Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
John 15:7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 "Pray without ceasing.."
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words.
Matthew 6:6 "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
Matthew 6:7 "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words."
Luke 11:9 "And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."


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The priestess Olena asked for our help, so Esme and Tycho examined the library. They learned that committing murder was essentially making a mockery of the gift of the afterlife, and we would need to make amends by bringing the murdered spirit (i.e., Inge) back.
As the priests explained this to the crowd, Ivan (the new leader of the rebel spirits) said that the priests were lying. In fact, they needed to rid the island of the living!
Esme stepped forward, apparently to hug Ivan. Gwendolyn told Ivan to stand down, or he'd turn to dust like Theodore. Unfortunately, he was blood thirsty and crazed, and wouldn't listen to reason. He attacked Esme, but Virginia stepped up to her defense. Ultimately, Esme knocked Ivan out with a well-placed knife-hilt to the head. In addition, Tycho cast a barrier, which kept some of Theodore's minions from attacking us.
Esme then crafted a tiki out of a breadfruit tree, and Malcolm cast a ritual to bring Inge's spirit back. Amazingly, Inge returned much younger than when she died. The last thing she remembered was the "misunderstanding" with her crew. Life on the island will certainly be interesting for a while….
Tycho cast another ritual to return us to the world of the living, and we returned to the Sirocco. We thought we'd been gone a day or two, but we'd actually been gone about a week.
We briefly explored the step pyramid on the big island, MOUS. The tikis have magical energy, but Malcolm can't figure out how to communicate with any spirits that may be bound to the tikis. We've taken 4 tikis with us. In addition, Esme found a library full of blank scrolls and took about a dozen with her.
Lady Gwendolyn said that we need to contact Count Mecklengar with a report, but she agreed that we should take a tour around this archipelago to see if other islands appear to have any magical energies. If not, she says that we should head north, to search for the area where the people who made these wooden tikis come from. We may find clues there that may lead us to the culture that made the stone tiki in our homeland.


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This was our Super Bowl Food. I didn't want to do a bunch of appetizers or a ton of work, but still wanted it to be "fun food." This sounded like a reason to eat a whole bunch of Doritos, which would be a hit with our family.
My husband was sneaking Doritos the whole time I was trying to whip this up. He commented that he thought the chicken mixture, before being layered in the casserole, tasted like it could be a dip by itself. The grown-ups really liked this dish, while the kids picked around the chicken to get out the chips.
The next time I make this, I will heat up the chicken mixture without the crushed chips and serve it over the Doritos and give that a try.
Dorito Chicken Casserole
recipe adapted from The Taylor House
2 cups diced cooked chicken
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, divided
1 (10 oz) can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sour cream
1 can Rotel tomatoes, drained (I used Mild)
1 packet taco seasoning
1 large bag Doritos, crushed into bite-size pieces
Optional toppings:
Shredded lettuce
Diced tomato
Black Olives
Pico de galo
Avocado or Guacamole
Jalapeño slices
Preheat the oven to 350º. In a large bowl, combine the chicken, 1 cup of the cheese, the soup, milk, sour cream, Rotel, and taco seasoning.
In a greased 2 quart casserole dish (I used too big of a dish - don't be like me), add one layer of chips, then half the chicken mixture, another layer of chips, then the rest of the chicken. Top with the remaining 1 cup cheese.
Cover the pan and bake for 30 minutes, or until the cheese is melted, and the casserole is bubbly. Spoon onto plates, and top with your preference of toppings.


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One weekend a year anything goes!
This was my third year at Glastonbury & I still haven't seen it all. Glastonbury has everything from dancing all night to hippy massage tents. Huge bands playing such as the amazing Rolling Stones, craft workshops, theater performances, eco phone charging and just about anything else you can think of.
These are my BEST BITS.
Delicious Yeo Valley yogurt just £1 a pot with a free pot of muesli in the mornings AND a free tote bag if you desire.
Beautiful police horses dressed for the occasion.
Make your own hair garment with ringaringaroses! Just £5 each & you can sit in the sunshine choosing flowers, ribbons, buttons, feathers & other crafty bits to make a lovely hair piece.
Cake & smoothies - Smooth Criminals
A brilliant girl band from Sweden - First Aid Kit
Sisters with beautiful voices, I predict they will be big this summer.
General playing in the mud when it rains.
My favourite stage, you can watch the sunset & rise in the park. It's very relaxing if you wanted to get away from the crowds for a while. The park also has a great view point to look over the rest of the festival.
SugarRush Fudge! A great quick fix sugar hit & so many flavours! You'll find it just around the corner from the Pyramid Stage.
CAT POWER. She headlined The Park on Sunday night & was spectacular!
Playing lots of tracks from her new album, a really fun summery vibe.
The Rolling Stones of course! 50 years on & they are still going.
Bravo guys, it was amazing to see you play all the classics.
Thank you Glastonbury & see you next year!
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Over the span of history, numerous civilizations have tried to obliterate pain. Various methods have been applied, some with success, others with failure. However, from Ancient China to Ancient Greece, the basic belief that a higher being was responsible for ailments remained stable. People mistakenly believed that illnesses were caused by superstitions, a disfavor of the gods, or possession of evil spirits. People believed that man was not responsible for medicine and therefore, had no power to cure illnesses. These early people believed that ailments were caused by forces out of mans reach. These diseases were therefore "prevented and treated by magic directed against supernatural forces" (Haggard 10). These beliefs gave rise to the shaman and medicine man; spiritual men who tried to rid the patient of demons through herbal concoctions. This way of thinking was changed in the 5th century during the Dawn of Hippocrates, by the Greek physician Hippocrates.
Hippocrates, known as the "Father of Medicine," was born on the island of Cos, Greek in 460 BC. He is regarded as the founder of medicine and argued against the theory that illness was caused by supernatural forces, thereby freeing ancient medicine from superstition and shifting it towards science.
"Under his influence, the shackles of mysticism, which had bound medicine for so long, were at last cast off. With Hippocrates, medicine entered the stage of Reason based upon observation, and for the first time it acknowledged the unknown. By...careful, painstaking observation and inquiry, the physician became a servant of nature- a doctor instead of a sorcerer" ("History of Medicine" 3).
Hippocrates taught physicians to base their knowledge on their careful observation of their patients, and by seeing how they responded to certain medications (Martin 145-146). He believed that by studying enough patients, a doctor could predict the course of...


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I adore this phrase from the Studio 12 stamp range and can't stop using at the moment and have made another project using it.
OH recently received a package which had a stiff board enclosed (to protect the item) and it was too good to throw away, so I have turned in to a plaque. I have used a selection of Studio 12 stamps and the "must have" Stamp Slab range.
I didn't want to take up too much of yor time so have put the full details of how I made my plague on my blog HERE.
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In this month's issue of American Salon magazine, Ted Gibson and I got the chance to work with shapes and color to create "alter ego images." L'Oreal Professionel challenged me to come up with two unique INOA (the new ammonia free permanent haircolor from L'Oreal Professionel) that would emphasize the complexities of every woman – her soft feminine side and her edgy aggressive side.
When Ted and I started talking about the concept, we loved the process of taking soft, sexy, pretty "Gibson Girls" and turning them into their own nemeses! We wanted to transform them into the kind of women who reminded us of the villains from a comic book or super hero movie – stong, beautiful and gorgeous – but in an "I'm gonna kick your butt" kind of way!
It was easy to do the pretty hair color on the models – how could I mess those up? For the alter ego looks, we had to turn to wigs – not many real life girls want to look like super villains! It was a lot of fun and really inspiring to work with hair color looks using INOA in this unconventional way.
Follow the link to see some behind the scenes images and the formulas for the color I did. I'm anxious to hear what you think! LMK -Jason
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Ben Kingsley, Tom Payne ("Luck") and Stellan Skarsgard have joined the cast of "North Face" helmer Philipp Stoelzl's medieval period drama "The Physician" for Beta Cinema and Ufa Cinema says THR.
Based on Noah Gordon's best-selling novel, Payne plays a 11th century European physician who searches for the scientific truth of illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition.
Kingsley will play Ibn Sina, the "doctor of all doctors", while Skarsgard will play Barber, the physician's first mentor. Olivier Martinez is already signed to play the Shah Ala ad-Daula.
Jan Berger ("The Door") is adapting the script while shooting kicks off in Morocco and Germany next month.


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Monday, June 29, 2015
Book Review: The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Author: Jandy Nelson
Enjoyment Rating: *****
Source: Personal Copy
Content Alert: Swearing, acknowledgement of teen sex
Seventeen-year-old Lennie has always been okay with being second. She's the second clarinet in band at her Northern California high school, the one her best friend is always encouraging to live a little, and the younger, quieter of two sisters being raised by their uncle and grandmother. When her older sister Bailey suddenly dies, Lennie doesn't know how to grieve, doesn't know how to be alone, and feels uncomfortable with all of the attention she's getting. To make matters worse, she's feeling attracted to two boys, Bailey's boyfriend Toby, maybe the only person on earth who understands how Lennie feels, and Joe, the gorgeous French horn player who just moved to town and doesn't understand that Lennie is supposed to be a sidekick. The Sky is Everywhere is a hard, lovely story about a girl who's trying to put her own mind back together after it's been rocked in the worst way possible.
I think most people who read my blog know how much I loved Nelson's 2014 second book, I'll Give You the Sun, when I read it last year (The Sky is Everywhere is her first book). Annie is reading it now, and it's all I can do not to go into her room every day and grill her about what she thinks about it. So the bar was set high, really, really high, for The Sky is Everywhere. Did it succeed? In many ways, I think it did. Nelson does a great job making Lennie a rounded character, someone I felt like I knew and understood. She does incredibly stupid things during the course of the novel and matures a lot in the process. The supporting cast of characters is also pretty great, and the way Nelson intersperses dozens of poems and notes that Lennie writes to Bailey in the months after her death (and finally ties them into the narrative) is also lovely. It wasn't quite as moving for me as I'll Give You the Sun, but I think that was mainly because I loved the way she focused on the brother-sister relationship in that novel, and redeeming people who thought themselves too broken for redemption, while The Sky is Everywhere is more of a totally rocking, very thoughtful, teen romance.
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|I'm posting a couple pics. of one of my favorite house plants: the Mitriostigma axillare to show what I incorrectly did to it. I over fed it without realizing the instructions from Logees said it only required low fert. usage about once a month. As you might be able the see, some of the leaves have turned brown and starting to fall off.
When I spoke to Logees yesterday, I told the woman that it was putting out new growth on the top and she said that was a good sign and suggested I try to leach out as much fert. as I could.
This has been one of my favorites as it is so easy to grow and the flowers smell wonderful, so I hope I've not killed it but I wanted this to NOT happen you any of you. Lee.
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Jul 8, 2011 9:54 AM CST
|You are welcome Lee Anne, Just trying to get my good deed in for the day. Seriously though, I did want to show people the results of overfeeding. Stupid me, I had the book from Logees where I bought it but just didn't consult it.
Hope your plants are doing well.
I see you are from Ontario. How's the weather there today? Here in Mississippi, it's hot, humid, and overcast. Typical Summer weather for us. I've lived in the South all my life and I've NEVER gotten used to the heat/humidity.
I used to spend a couple weeks each Summer in Detroit when I was a kid ( I'm now 54) and we'd take the Boblo (Sp?) boat cruise up the St. Claire River into Canada and it was lovely. Are you familiar with the cruise? Lee
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| Quote | Post #1772 (3)
Jul 8, 2011 9:58 AM CST
|I'm not familiar with that cruise...around here we have cruises up the St. Lawrence river to see the Thousand Islands.
The weather today is beautiful!! Low 80's with no humidity I hate humidity!
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Jul 8, 2011 1:35 PM CST
|Lee Anne, thanks for replying about the cruise. I'm not familiar with the St. Lawrence but I'll e-mail my cousin who now lives in Atlanta, GA and ask her as it's been so many yrs ago since I last went on the cruise.
You are having lovely weather. Oh, what I wouldn't give for those temps. I think my northern European genes just haven't acclimated either to the heat/humidity. I hate humidity, too. The combo. of heat/humidity makes my asthma flair up and it's not pleasant.
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Jul 9, 2011 10:47 AM CST
|I love Canadian summers! the winters though, that's a whole 'nother story
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Jul 9, 2011 11:03 AM CST
|I guess the Winters are harsh but I think they'd be beautiful, too. L.
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Jul 9, 2011 11:05 AM CST
|Beautiful they are indeed!
When it gets to be -45F the beauty gets lost behind a scarf, hat and ear muffs...
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Jul 9, 2011 3:38 PM CST
|Oh yes, Lee Anne, indeed -45F wouldn't work for me either. Maybe I should try to settle for a little cottage on the coast of maybe Maine.
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| Quote | Post #17585 (9)
Jul 9, 2011 4:38 PM CST
|Bob Lo!! A sweet childhood memory. That, and Cedar Point - did you ever go there, Kevin?
In the end, only kindness matters.
Science is not the answer, it is the question.
Jul 9, 2011 4:53 PM CST
|Sheryl, Do you mean the cruise in the river in Detroit? I couldn't remember how to spell it as it's been so long. I remember (sp?) Ferrells Ice Cream Parlor.
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Jul 9, 2011 6:21 PM CST
| Hi Lee!
Woman on the eastbound train
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Jul 10, 2011 6:06 AM CST
|Hey J. How are things? L.
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Jul 10, 2011 7:04 AM CST
|Oh yeah - did you ever have a "Zoo" at Farrells? I got one for my birthday one year - took 8 of us to eat it.
Yup, the Bob Lo boat was/is the river boat - with dancing on the top level, that was so much fun. I think the boat was more fun than the park rides.
In the end, only kindness matters.
Science is not the answer, it is the question.
Jul 10, 2011 3:53 PM CST
Welcome to the "How to make a plant look sick" club. I think most of us if we will admit it, has over fed something. I killed and I mean killed a few by trying mixtures that someone online said was great. I just can not do that. I am one of these people who needs to buy it already mixed. I love Miracle Grow for that. I usually research the new plants carefully regarding how much do they like to be fertilized. One thing people do not think about is the contents of any potting soil they may use. Some already has certain minerals, etc. in it and then if you feed on top of that. You get beautiful brown leaves just like you have.
I am reading your post regarding weather. Do not get me started on the weather. We have had the worst Winter and Spring (there was very little) , now we are fighting the 90 deg. heat again.
I am too old for this. I like the old fashion Spring, Summer Fall and Winter. No sudden changes, not too much rain. My greenhouse is full of cuttings and all I do is water. They just may not dry out. The temp in there today got as high as 100 deg.
Jul 10, 2011 4:59 PM CST
|Kevin, I wanted to show you my Mitriostigma axillare but thought I would put it up in my blog instead. I have a story about this plant also. The first one I owned I did almost the same as you did. I have no idea what I gave it that it did not like. I also have no idea how it happened. I had it in the bird room with my little flock and one day I looked at it and all the leaves were off the entire plant except for a few on the top. I could not believe my eyes. One day I am enjoying the beautiful sweet blooms, next day I have a stem with a few leaves on it. I usually throw this kind of thing away, but I love this plant and I decided to bring it back if possible. It is still living, still has only leaves on the top and it is a good 16 inches tall. It is really funny looking and yet I see signs of new growth on the stem at the bottom.....I think.....In the meantime I bought another one and that is the one I cherish and keep in my bedroom with my special Schlumbergera. It is cool in there and has a Southern window. It seems very happy. Please take a second and check out my blog so you can see how pretty it is. I will take a picture of the sick one in a few days and show that to you. I just want you to know you are not the only person who has a sick "African Gardenia".
Jul 11, 2011 1:38 PM CST
|Sheryl, Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Zoo. They'd turn on something that sounded like a siren. Is my memory correct on that? Yes, there was dancing on the boat. Kinda like what a person might think of a boat being like in the 1800's. What IS the word I'm looking for regarding the STYLE of the boat. I want to say something like paddle-wheeler.
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Jul 11, 2011 2:02 PM CST
|Hey Jacquie, I'm sorry I'm late responding to yours and Sheryl's posts but I'm still trying to get used to this new site and I've been thinking that I should be getting alerts if someone had responded and it wasn't 'til I read Boojum's recommendations on how to set the pages up so that I could tell when someone had responded and I didn't I realize you and Sheryl had indeed done so.
Jacquie, I think the only way I learn is through messing something up. It seems it really takes that for me, for it to get through my being so bull-headed, stubborn.
See, when you got your Mitriostigma you were just caring for it the way you thought it should or had you done research? Well, I've no excuse, really, for almost murdering this one as I have the book written by Byron E. Martin and Laurelynn G. Martin,"Logees' Grenhouses Spectacular Container Plants" which has the Mitrio. listed, among many others, is is detailed about water, light, temp. and fertilizer. I'm looking at the book right now.
I prefer to mix my own orchid mix but all other things, I'm with you, have it made, mixed, minced etc. up for me.
You must be an optimist to see the possibilities of the first Mitrio. to at least maintain a vestige of its former beauty. When the woman at Logee's asked me if I had growth on the top of the Mitrio. and I said yes then she said that it will probably be alright but to 'leach, leach, leach.' Today, I leached, tomorrow I'll leach, and I'll probably leach Wednesday. I'll try to remember to take a pic. of it since I've cut off the dessicated leaves and trimmed it up some. Remind me it I don't send it to you.
Heat: I was telling Owen last week that people can love Summer all they want and I guess there are some aspects that are nice but I hate the heat/humidity of the South and I've lived here all my 54 yrs. I've never gotten used to it. I just looked at the thermometer and it's already 98. It will certainly get to or over 100 before sundown.
Ok. Off to take the pic., see if anyone else has been kind enough to respond, make a salad, then just lounge around the rest of the afternoon. I'll not bore you with all the things I've done today. What I will say is they were all tedious.
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Jul 11, 2011 2:22 PM CST
|Jacquie, here are the pics. Do you think it looks a little better?
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Jul 11, 2011 5:48 PM CST
|Oh Lee, yes, much better.. How did you do that? I want to do it .....NOW.....!
I am going to bite the bullet and try and propagate these little suckers. I took cuttings today. I should put them into the soil immediately I guess, but my way is to put them in water for a day or two and then put them into the coir or the starting soil. We will see what happens. I also took cuttings from the Star and Royal Jasmine tonight. I am going to do the Camellias tomorrow if the heat is not over 90. I have plants to ship that I postponed until Wed. because we are having another stupid heat wave. My customers are great about that and we keep in touch until the plant is safely at their house and inside and unwrapped. They seem to love the extra attention.
. I am tired and want to go to bed. My dog was sick all day and that makes me very tired. He is 14 and every day he is alive is another gift for me. He is my best friend since most of my friends are gone or in nursing homes. My husband is a deceased Marine Capt. and I miss that man big time. Nuff of that stuff. Have a good evening my new friend. JB
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Sunday night's final of the Radio Forth 'One to Watch' competition was a fun night for all and the young band who won, Dirty Modern Hero, were great guys. I was delighted for them although obviously disappointed for myself. They'll definitely fit the Forth One profile and playlist a bit better than any of us other finalists anyway. It was great to be one of five finalists chosen from a submission of around 700.
Off to London tomorrow to play the Troubadour Club there on Friday, 6th, so looking forward to that. Sending me off with a smile is the four star review I got in today's List.
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Many have asked how to make this smoothie, and I've tried lots of variations, and so far this is the easiest and best. For moms, you should know, when you juice kale, it has a bit of a chocolately taste, in my opinion. So you can splash a little chocolate protein powder in it if you'd like. My kids LOVE it, it tastes like Chocolate Banana to them :) enjoy!
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Located in Choengmon Gardens resort, just past the main pool, an end town house backing on to a coconut grove, furnished in a contemporary Thai style, having a lounge with terrace and dining area and a fully fitted kitchen. Both bedrooms are en-suite and have a private balcony. Wardrobes. a safe for your valuables, flat tv, electric oven, gas hob and ceiling fans in every room. Guest toilet downstairs.
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Woo Hoo, I'm so excited! Today sparks the kickoff of the Los Angeles summer of bugs-- this is an amazing collaboration by the folks at the Getty, the California Science Center, Kidspace, the Los Angeles Zoo, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Public Library and Wells Fargo!!
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