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Thursday, May 26, 2016
Happy Memorial Day
Marking the graves of fallen soldiers with flowers, wreaths, or other tokens has been practiced throughout history, but it wasn't until the mark of the end of the Civil War that a special day was decided upon as the one to spend in remembrance. By 1890, every state in the country was observing Decoration Day. It wasn't until 1967 when the name formally changed from Decoration Day to Memorial Day, in order to encompass all fallen American soldiers in all wars and conflicts. In June of 1968, Congress moved the official date of Memorial Day to the last Monday in May in order to create a three day weekend.
Today, while there is certainly an air of remembrance on Memorial Day, it has become more a day of spending time with family, friends, and other loved ones. This day is also heralded as the start of summer, with many schools finishing for the year around this time. Our team at Braces By Grant remembers it as a day to take solace and remembered those lost.
Traditional observances of Memorial Day are still held, and they often involve raising the American Flag then lowering it to a half-staff position until noon, and then raising it once again to its full height afterwards. The flag is lowered to remember those who've lost their lives while in service to their country, and then it is raised to signify our willingness to not let their sacrifice be in vain.
From community parades in the San Diego, CA area, backyard cook-outs, and fireworks to formal ceremonies, Memorial Day is commemorated in many different ways. No matter how you choose to spend this day, take a moment to remember those who've lost their lives in an effort to preserve our freedom.
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Causes of Crooked Teeth
Can crooked teeth be prevented?
In most cases, underbites, overbites, and crooked teeth are genetically derived and can't be avoided. Orthodontic treatment with braces will be necessary to correct the condition once the child is old enough to wear them. However, certain early childhood behaviors may also contribute to the development of crooked teeth that can be avoided. These include:
- Thumb sucking and tongue thrusting
- Losing baby teeth to decay before permanent teeth have naturally pushed them out of their sockets
- Allowing pacifier use to continue after front teeth have erupted
In addition, excellent care of baby teeth is vital to having healthy permanent teeth free of discoloration or decay. Harmful oral bacteria can spread into the gums and reach permanent teeth still buried in the gums. Once attached to a tooth's enamel, bacteria will begin eroding the tooth even before it has a chance to take its first bite!
When to Start Orthodontic Treatment for Crooked Teeth
We suggest that parents bring your child to Dr. Allen Davis around age seven to rule out potential issues with permanent teeth eruption. If problems are discovered, it is not unusual to begin orthodontic treatment at that age. In fact, specific conditions such as crowding and gaps between teeth are easier to correct at an early age.
Early treatment also benefits from the growth process of the jaw, which helps move teeth to normal positions.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
Candy Bad for Braces
Caramel is a sweet and often exceedingly sticky and chewy type of candy that just does not mix well with braces. Caramel can cause a mess in regular teeth, but teeth with braces are a whole other story. The sticky candy can very easily get lodged and stuck between the teeth, gums, and braces, making for a difficult task of cleaning your mouth. And if your teeth don't get cleaned properly, cavities can easily form. If you get cavities while you have braces, that could mean additional orthodontic appointments and an extended treatment time.
Salt Water Taffy
Another sticky and chewy candy to avoid with braces is salt water taffy. For many of the same reasons as caramel, it is best to avoid taffy until you get your braces removed. It may be a long wait, but when it comes to the health of your teeth, and the purpose of your braces, it really is best to avoid taffy.
Popcorn of any kind is best to avoid when you have braces. The kernels can easily do damage to the braces as you chomp on them, and they can get stuck between your teeth and the braces causing discomfort and further complications. In this sense it does not matter which flavor of candy popcorn you eat, all popcorn is bad news until you get your braces off.
Generally speaking, any candy that is chewy, crunchy, or sticky is not a good idea to eat with braces in your mouth. These types of candy will make life wearing braces much more difficult than if you were to just wait until your braces come off. With a little patience you will be back to eating all your favorite candy again, and with straightened teeth at that.
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
How to keep a bright smile during vacation.
Everyone wants a glowing and radiant white smile when the sun comes around and we have a few reminders to keep your pearly whites healthy and beautiful over the summer! Try to stay away from drinks that will stain your teeth like coffee, soft drinks, or dark colored juices. Not only will drinks like this weaken your enamel but they will also darken that fabulous smile you're working on! Another tip is to try and focus on brushing your teeth; everyone knows that when busy schedules start picking up, getting a good brushing session in tends to take the backseat! A good tip for keeping your mouth safe from staining and other possible pitfalls is to rinse your mouth with water after any meal you can't fully brush your teeth after. Your teeth, inside and out, will benefit!
And remember, whether you are headed to a barbecue, a camping trip, or just having fun in the backyard this summer, we want to hear all about it! Make sure to let us know what you're up to below or on our Facebook page! We also encourage you to post any photos from your adventures!
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The Great Man
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Following the death of New York City painter Oscar Feldman, an artist known for his paintings of the female nude, two rival biographers set out to tell his life story, with the help of his wife Abigail, sister Maxine, and Teddy, his longtime mistress.
Awards and Recognition
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Excerpt: The Great Man
"It's amazing how well you can live on very little money," said Teddy St. Cloud to Henry Burke over her shoulder as she strode into the kitchen of her Brooklyn row house. She hoped he was noticing that her hips and waist were still girlishly slender, her step youthful, and that he'd describe her accurately instead of saying she was "gaunt but chipper," like that sour–faced squaw with the crooked teeth from The New Yorker who'd written the profile of Oscar a few years ago. "I hope you're a Reform Jew," she added. "I got prosciutto."
"I'm not Jewish," he said after a second of displacement. They stood somewhat awkwardly together in the kitchen, not sure suddenly where to go now that their short walk down the hall had disgorged them into their destination. "But people often think—"
"Burke," she said. "That's not the Ellis Islandization of Berkowitz?"
"No," said Henry. "It's English."
She leaned against the counter, her eyes fixed on some middle distance in her mind. She suspected that she looked much older in person than Henry had expected, but then, of course, she was seventy–four, and the person he'd no doubt been expecting, unconsciously, to meet was the young woman Oscar had fallen in love with. But she was proud of the fact that as old as she was, she still resembled her younger self. Her oval, narrow face had aged markedly, with shallow grooves running along both sides of her nose, slight hoods over her eyes, a subtle lengthening of the earlobes, a thinning of the lips, a network of extremely fine wrinkles around her eyes. But she held her small, well–shaped head very high, with the self–aware edge of mischief and manipulation Oscar had loved, eyes glittering foxily, as if she were about to snap out of her feigned concentration and laugh at her observer for being fooled into thinking she hadn't been watching him all along. This air of expressive, confident intelligence, Oscar had told her, was one of the sexiest qualities about her, the electric flame that ran almost visibly soft and licking over her skin, hinting at interesting flare–ups. Then he had added that having incredible boobs didn't hurt.
"Please sit down," said Teddy; she intended it as a command. She wasn't impressed by Henry. She guessed that he was forty or thereabouts. He looked like a lightweight, the kind of young man you saw everywhere these days, gutless and bland. He wore soft cotton clothing, a little rumpled from the heat and long drive in the car—she would have bet it was a Volvo. She could smell domesticity on him, the technologically up–to–date apartment on the Upper West Side, the ambitious, hard–edged wife—women were the hard ones at that age. Men turned sheepish and eager to please after about forty. Oscar had been the same way; he'd turned into a bit of a hangdog at around forty and hadn't fully regained his chutzpah until he'd hit fifty or so, but even then, she had never lost interest in him, and she was still interested in him now, even though he was gone.
Henry chose a chair facing her and sat at the table.
"Look at this melon," she said. "I asked my grocer to give it to me half price by letting him think it was a little soft. Well, it is, but just in one small spot."
She began slicing the cantaloupe in half on a cutting board, holding the knife in her small square hand. Her kitchen was a long, narrow galley–shaped room with glass-fronted cupboards and an old–fashioned stove and refrigerator, a deep cast–iron sink. The room, like the rest of the house, felt as if she were only temporarily inhabiting it. It had no particular odor. Most old houses were clogged with the olfactory remnants of years of living, the memories of long–ago meals, hidden mold, the strong scent of people. This wasn't the house she had lived in when she and Oscar were together, but the one she'd bought after his death five years ago, after selling the other one. This one had lost its history when the family who'd owned it for decades had moved out with all their stuff and Teddy had moved in with hers. Somehow, during the transfer, everything had discharged its freight of sediment, the walls of the house, her furniture and belongings, and now it all just smelled clean and impersonal. None of Oscar's paintings hung on these walls: Oscar had never given her one.
"So," she said abruptly from the sideboard. "What can I tell you about the great man?"
"Well," said Henry, caught slightly off guard. "I was thinking we would start at the beginning. For now, just talk about him. We'll get down to the nitty–gritty of dates and times later. Maybe start with how you met him, how the two of you fell in love—"
"Wine?" she said with a glint of aggression. She reached into the refrigerator, the corkscrew already in her other hand. "It's a Sancerre, but not as expensive as it tastes, by far." She wrested the cork from its hole with a faintly savage twist of her wrist. She had been expecting someone Jewish like Oscar, someone ballsy, someone fun to banter and flirt with, not this twerp in rumpled khakis.
"Sure," he said with a puzzled sidelong look up at her.
"Henry," she said as she set his glass down with a snap in front of him, "let's establish one thing right now. This discussion is nonnegotiable. If you won't listen to what I have to say, you can drink your wine and eat a little melon and then you get up and leave. You've clearly arrived with some preconceived notions, and if you can't shake them loose out of your head like a lot of…moths, then I have nothing to say to you."
Henry blinked. "I have no preconceived notions," he said. "I'm here to listen."
"I want to see a flock of moths rising from your head," she said. "I'm going to roll the melon with prosciutto now, and when I next turn around, I want to see white fluttery little things rising from your hair and flying out the window."
She flung open the casement window over the sink and the room was immediately crowded with the sounds of tree leaves, birdsong, and the shouts of kids in a nearby backyard. Her back was turned to him. She could feel her body quivering like an arrow aimed at someone's heart as she worked.
"You're right about this wine," he said. "It's delicious."
"No man should ever use the word delicious," she said.
"Teddy," he said clearly.
She turned slowly to stare at him. Had he actually just called her by her nickname? They looked at each other blank–faced for an instant, and she imagined that he was also wondering this same thing.
"Claire," they both corrected at once.
"Yes?" she said.
"Talk to me about Oscar," he said. He took another taste of wine.
"The great man," said Teddy with a private inner smile, "was the biggest human baby in all of history. That's no secret: We all know how his women propped him up, me and his wife, Abigail, and sister, Maxine, and our daughters, not to mention every woman he met at an opening or on a train. He couldn't live without a woman around to look at and probe, by which I mean fuck but also investigate thoroughly."
Henry picked up his pen and glanced at his notebook but didn't write anything down.
"He couldn't live without a woman around," she repeated. She knew he wanted dates, knew his monomaniacal, orderly biographer's mind was lying in wait, biding its time, until it could spring forth like an anteater's tongue and cleanly extract the facts of her history with Oscar like a swath of ants from an anthill. She felt herself resist this with everything she had. No fact, no date—"Oscar Feldman first met Claire St. Cloud on October 7, 1958," for example—could convey anything of what had really gone on between them. "He saw women as the most powerful beings on earth. You can see it in his portrait of our daughter Ruby as a baby, the girl child with the knowing eyes of a brutal queen. He could catch that complex expression in a baby girl without undercutting her cuteness, without forgetting she was just a baby. But he wasn't Picasso."
She looked at him for a reaction. He smiled a little.
"Well, obviously no one is Picasso," she went on. "That's not what I meant. My point is, Oscar had no fear of women's power; he thrived on it. He got off on how strong the women in his life all were; it turned him on; he sucked on the nipples of all of us. That's where his strength came from. He went right to the source, and it always flowed. His electricity outlets. I think we all liked Oscar, really liked him, not only loved him—all of us in our own different ways, even his sister, Maxine, with whom he never got on at all. I think she secretly liked him, too."
"What's the difference?" he interjected. "Love, like."
"I imagine," she went on as if he hadn't interrupted, "that Picasso was erotic catnip, with his fear and arrogance and his cold sexual eye. But he didn't really like women, and I don't imagine women really liked him, although they may have felt no end of passion for him, the feckless need to conquer or submit. Oscar was needy and soulful, and he liked women without fear. He respected us; he let us be as powerful as we were capable of being. But he wasn't pussy–whipped, as the excellent expression goes, not by me, not by his wife, not by his mother when she was alive, although he adored her, too. He was fully independent of us. He came and went as he pleased and didn't let us control him…No, he was an appreciator. I liked him right back, more than I've ever liked anyone else, my own children included."
She stopped for a moment to think. This time, Henry didn't interrupt her. "Well, we women don't always like our children, not always; we love them with that primal mother instinct, and we love our power to take care of them, but sometimes we don't like them somewhere deep inside. I sometimes felt it toward my twin girls—I couldn't help it—maybe because I had them both at once, so it was intensified, and of course their father was no help whatsoever; I did it all alone. Which is completely preferable, please don't misunderstand me. I didn't want any help from Oscar. This way, I had all the power; I was in control. It was a fair trade–off, I thought. You haven't written anything down yet."
"Some women go off the opposite edge," said Henry. "My wife adores our baby son beyond all reason. I worry sometimes that she'll eat him alive. This morning, she kissed him with the predatory zeal of a succubus."
Teddy smiled at him, appreciating the phrase. "We all adore our babies beyond reason; it's the way we're made. And I didn't say I thought all women harbor a small amount of dislike for their children; obviously, I couldn't possibly know that."
"Abigail Feldman talked at length to me a few days ago about Ethan," he said. "How it feels to love someone who can't express love back…She talked about how pure her love for him has always been, untainted by resentment of any kind."
"That's love, Henry. You're not making the distinction. He's so deeply autistic he's locked up in his own mind; it's impossible to dislike someone who isn't fully there. Dislike requires presence."
"She was very open with me. You are, too. I appreciate that. I had expected it to be much harder to get you all talking."
"Then you didn't know Oscar. He always got us all to spill everything, hold nothing back, so we're well trained."
"In that case," said Henry gingerly but with a daring expression, as if he thought he was about to cross a line, "since the subject has been brought up, Maxine suggested to me that the reason Oscar stayed with you was that he felt displaced. That when Ethan was born, of course all Abigail's energy and time went to her son. Maxine suggested that Oscar replaced her with you."
"Did she say that?" asked Teddy, hoping she sounded calm; she'd never liked Oscar's sister one bit, and knew it had always been mutual. It enraged her that this version of her affair with Oscar might make it into Henry's book in any form. "I'm not surprised that Maxine would draw such a crude, wrongheaded, idiotic conclusion about why Oscar loved me."
"It's understandable that someone might draw such a conclusion…It seems like elementary psychology, doesn't it?"
"I was right," Teddy snapped. "Those moths are eating into your brain. Burrowing into the wet gray folds and gouging tunnels." She stopped and looked hard at him, something working in her expression. "I bet," she said, "you're one of those failed painters who think they can redeem themselves if they pay homage to Saint Oscar. And I bet you're projecting your own sexual frustration onto Oscar."
Henry coughed, probably with surprise.
"Here, have some melon," she said. "Trust me, the prosciutto is some of the best in Brooklyn."
"You were right about the wine, I'll give you that," he said.
"I'm always right," she said. "It would be much easier for both of us if you just accepted that now and proceeded accordingly. Oscar came to me, in short, because I was exciting. I always liked Abigail, by the way, when I met her at openings and so forth, but I never thought she had much juice. Oscar married her to please his family. He took up with me to please himself."
"Fair enough," said Henry.
She imagined he was probably thinking he should appease her, or else he was feeling sorry for her for just being Oscar's mistress all those years, and never his wife.
"Fair enough," he repeated.
Nettled, she turned to the window to look out at the pale blue Brooklyn sky, crisscrossed by wires and leaf–filled branches.
"This prosciutto is perfect," Henry blurted through a mouthful of cantaloupe. "I was going to say 'delicious,' but I was afraid you'd stab me."
"It's such a precious word," said Teddy. "No one should use it to refer to anything but food, and even then, with caution. My dearest, oldest friend uses it to describe her grandchildren, the summer morning, a cello sonata on 'Evening Music,' and the way her bare feet feel on the sands of Shelter Island. I can't believe she's still my friend, but we were college roommates, and then we raised our children together."
"Lila Scofield," said Henry, taking another piece of melon.


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Hello! here I am again, late as usual. I'm sorry it takes me so long to get around to writing reviews, but life doesn't always go as planned. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
But you aren't here to see me apologize, you want to read something at least a little more interesting… 😉
"The Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"
I actually took the time to write some coherent notes that i'm not guessing what in the world I wrote.
I loved the beginning,
"You're like one of those guys who can't go out with a girl unless his mother approves."
All of the bickering about the TARDIS, I wonder how long it will be until the TARDIS and Clara get along? or will they ever get along?
I thought it was kind of fun that there was talk about buttons.
"Please, tell me there's a button you can press to fix this!"
"Oh yes. Big friendly button!"
when five years ago the button mentioned wasn't quite to friendly,
"And how am I going to react when I see this? A great big threatening button. A great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances, am I right?"
(From the Christmas Invasion)
Times have changed haven't they?
but sadly since the Doctor didn't find the big friendly button the first time around in the wibbly-wobbly circle of time that this episode was, the TARDIS was caught and thrown into a trash heap. I must say, I was not happy about this, the TARDIS should never be thrown into a scrap heap and be beat on as selfish people try to break into it. I wanted to say a few things to them, the inconsiderates! That ship is far more amazing than they would ever understand and it should never be treated so brutally.
But that's how the story went.
The Doctor is very clever, I like him! 🙂 his way of sort of advertising the brothers to help him find Clara was fun to watch. She really is the "salvage of a lifetime", even if at least to him, "You are the only mystery worth solving." .
And I hope that I wasn't the only one that thought of The Empty Child when the Doctor saw the respirators, "Are you my mummy?" yes, the joke is worn out, been patched up and worn out again, but it's one of the best episodes in the early days of "New Who".
In the TARDIS with Clara
Once again Clara is wearing red. Either there's something important about the color red and Clara, or the costume designer is going on a red craze, I don't know, but I find it curious so I will keep mentioning it whether you like it or not. there.
She was wearing red once again, for the millionth time, okay, maybe the sixth or seventh time… but even then, when she's not wearing it there are red lights around her! In Cold War there were red lights, and in this episode there were both red lights and a red dress.
When she stood in front of the door with the flashing light it reminded me of The Snowmen when she was dying, there was a light flashing at the same speed then as well as now. Maybe it means something, maybe it doesn't. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Back with the Doctor and company
I thought that the Doctor seemed very much like a pirate when finally got the others into the ship, "My ship, my rules!"
"Don't get in a spaceship with a mad man, didn't anyone teach you that?" Rule #1: The Doctor lies. I don't think the ship is his at all, or else he would have been able to control her better, he is hers. She throws the huffy parties and makes it impossible for everyone to get around. It's herself and her rules.
and for getting in a space ship with a mad man,well isn't that the whole show? Although it sounds to me like he's beginning to regret bringing so many people in the ship with him, no one ever leaves the same, they get lost, they leave as a soldier, they forget him, they die. He has changed so many lives, I'm sure he regrets it over and over again, but never enough to stop. He's a lonely monster.
Back to Clara
Clara went into a room filled with old things, stuff from his past, things the Doctor never forgets, he brings all his baggage with him, everywhere he goes in his infinite ship, his home.
I loved seeing his baby cradle! But then when Clare picked up the paper TARDIS I was hit with feels, the Doctor wouldn't make a little TARDIS, but Amy Pond would. He doesn't leave anything behind, and with all of the things that he keeps are stories that follow him, haunting him. the poor fellow.
But to bring this to a happier note and out of feely-weely land of stupid poeticness,we FINALLY got to see the swimming pool! and it looked like he snagged the telescope that was in the Torchwood house back in Tooth and Claw, even the Doctor likes star gazing.
I wished I could go to that library and read everything! oh my goodness! the "bottle books" as I have started calling them– they are genius, something a Time Lord would make. Makes you wonder, if while the words pour out of the bottle, if they give a smell that matches what the words are describing. so, say one of the Gallifrey Encyclopedias begins to describe the red grass and silver trees on Gallifrey if suddenly the air around you would start to smell like it would have if you were actually there in a field of red grass standing beneath an enormous silver tree. I wonder if the Doctor would go and listen to the words and close his eyes and go back home for just a little while… *sigh*
Then there's the big deal in the library, inside of "The History of the Time War" is the Doctor's name.
It's surprising that a name that must be kept such a secret is simply sitting inside of a book in the TARDIS that anyone can read…
I thought Clara's reaction to finding his name was interesting, she wasn't scared, and it didn't seem to be a very big name, after all she read it pretty quickly, and to her I suppose it wasn't that big of a deal, since she didn't even mention it to the Doctor until a long time later. His name must not be that scary, what's so secretive about it? it didn't hurt Clara any to know what it was.
Onto monsters!
So the crispy monsters were interesting, yes? I thought so. At first I thought they were some sort of mummy… but as it went on I actually guessed right! I was like, "hmm, I wonder if that's Clara…".
Although, I do have some questions about the monsters and the tear in time making things from their past come to life again and then things from the future. If the people from the past weren't real, then how were the monsters real and able to see and chase down everyone? In my brain it doesn't make sense. The past people were only echoes, yes, you can't touch them, that makes sense, but if they were all echoes, there were just echoes of the into the future as well, the burned monsters, how could they notice everyone? they weren't real.
Also, wouldn't it make a paradox if the monsters from the future attacked themselves from their past? If they killed them before they were burned then they would never exist, therefore making the monsters never exist and well, round and round it would go.
can someone explain this to me? what are your thoughts on the monsters and this whole thing?
Just a little more about Clara
In the very end I had a thought (surprise!). When the brother was explaining to his other brother who thought he was an android that he was human he mentioned that he got in a salvage accident, and there was a big explosion making him lose his memory and all that jazz. I thought of Clara. Clara was in an ENORMOUS explosion in Asylum of the Daleks, maybe she just forgot her memory? she could be an echo that forgot all about herself…? I don't know.. I just thought there might be a connection. but maybe there isn't. I'm a bit crazy sometimes. Because, she's "just Clara", but have a "just Clara", would that mean that there are "special" Claras as well? maybe "echo" Claras?
Well with that strange theory, I will bid you all goodnight! I hope you enjoyed this post! It was a fun one to write! I would love to hear your thoughts about it and maybe what you liked or didn't like about it.


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This has been a busy week in the garden. I have divided and transplanted daylilies and Japanese irises. I have pulled annuals that were spent, or had to be removed to make room for fall seed sowing. I have moved plants from holding areas into their new homes in the garden. I've been amending soil as I go since these tasks remove soil. I mixed new garden soil with organic compost to boost the existing perennials and refresh the soil for sowing seeds.
I moved a crepe myrtle that had been in a holding area to the fence line outside the cottage garden. Yes, I dug that big hole and moved that tree all by myself! I don't plant many things in rows, but we need some shade relief and front porch privacy, so there are now three crepe myrtles planted outside the front fence. I added Japanese irises and finished adding nepeta that was in holding for the area after a Lady Banks was removed.
In an effort to rid the garden of anything that has been bothering me - I dug out that overgrown Lady Banksia Rose at our front gate. The deer could reach it and it was just out of scale for that gate. I was constantly trimming it. There is another Lady Banksia over the gable gate that I'm going to have to trim by reaching outside the window of an upstairs room!
Since I've been writing about the changes that I'm making to the garden, Gail at Clay and Limestone asked if I had any photos taken from above.
This morning, I went upstairs and took photos. I also took photos on the ground so you can follow along two sections of the garden - the front, deer resistant garden and the cottage garden that is inside the fence. These gardens are in front of the house. Between the gardens and the road is our large meadow that must remain in grass (and kept mowed below 9").
Keep in mind that this is mid-October, so there isn't a lot in bloom. Zinnias, marigolds, salvias, a few mums and swamp sunflower are providing the only color right now. Also, I have removed so much to make the changes that there is a lot of empty soil, awaiting seeds, bulbs or future pots of plants.
The first set of photos was taken as I stood at the top edge of the front deer resistant garden, looking back to the cottage garden.
The next set of photos was taken from the upstairs windows.
Gail asked about the diagonal planting space that I mentioned when describing my seed-sowing plans.
Why diagonal? I discovered, through trying to get good photos of the deer resistant garden, that if I stood at the top left edge of the garden and looked diagonally down to the front gate, I had a better view. (As an example, see the photo at the top of my left sidebar.)
The garden is long, so strolling the path, it isn't easy to get a good view. By planting diagonally, I hope to alter the view as I walk the path at the bottom of the garden.
That said, the meadow is south of the garden. Therefore, the blooms face south. Taking photos from the top of the garden means that most of the blooms are looking at me! Not so, from the path at the bottom. This is why we start our daily garden walk around the top of the meadow and loop back around on the paths.
There are more gardens than shown here, and all are deer resistant. Those include the dry stream garden (being renovated), the parking island bed (it has been a catch-all and will be renovated in spring), the butterfly garden (hot colors, but includes some large plants that need to be moved), the waterfall garden, and the fragrance garden. Much to be done...
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Day 1
Arrived at Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok from Johor Bahru after 2 hour and 20 minutes flight.
Immediately we took a metered taxi to our hotel at Pratu Nam. However the journey was not so smooth as the driver was not too familiar with the location of the hotel. He stopped and asked the road-side hawker and then called the hotel several times. I was not too sure whether he was taking us for a ride or not! I thought taxi drivers are mostly familiar with hotel locations especially if it is an airport taxi.
Anyway, we were not too bothered or unhappy with him. In fact we just took it as a city tour as he took us through the crowded streets of Bangkok! Finally we arrived at our hotel, Tango Vibrant Living Hotel after slightly more than an hour! It costs us 280 ฿.
This was our second trip to Bangkok. Our first trip was in 1986! Of course nothing was familiar to us after so many years!
Immediately after checking-in, we were on our way to the night market nearby to explore. It was really crowded with a lot of tourists!
Day 2
After breakfast, we walked to Baiyoke Gallery and Pratu Nam Wholesale Market. It was quite hot at the market place. Here you can find a lot of cheap apparels especially for ladies. Little wonder why a lot of ladies like to visit Bangkok!
From Pratu Nam, we proceeded to Platinum Wholesale Mall. Here it is air-conditioned, so it was more comfortable. It claimed to be the largest shopping mall in the world. I have no doubt about it! We had lunch at the food court there.
Then we walked to Central World and Siam Paragon. Both are high-end shopping complex. Here you can find a lot of branded goods. Nevertheless, it was not very crowded.
Actually we had walked altogether 8 hours including lunch! So we were too tired to walk back. We decided to take a cab to Chocolate Ville, which took us about 45 minutes there. The taxi driver offered to wait for us for the return trip. The total cost was 800 ฿. We accepted the offer.
To me Chocolate Ville was a total let-down. There's not much to see, just some man-made lakes and themed house scenery, nothing spectacular. Actually this place is more popular for tourists to dine-in. I was not too sure of the food as we didn't stay back for dinner.
After that we went for foot massage to relax our fatigue legs near our hotel! It wasn't very good as the two boys were not very experienced! Apparently, they are rookies in this trade!
Dinner was at Kluay Seafood Restaurant, just next to our hotel.
Day 3
Today was supposed to try out the BTS Sky-train and MRT in Bangkok. We checked-out the hotel and walked to Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel in Bangkok with 88 floors. It's just about 8-minute walk from Tango Vibrant Living Hotel to check-in as we didn't want the monotonous breakfast if staying in one hotel. As check-in time was at 2.00 pm, so we kept our luggage at the hotel and walked to the nearest rail link station at Ratchaprarop which was only about 5- minute walk. Then we took the rail link to the next station at Phaya Thai to switch to BTS.
From the map at the station, we saw there is a floating market quite near to Udom Suk. So we took the BTS to Udom Suk. We got down and walked around the town to look for information centre, but were disappointed to find any. The people there also can't communicate in English. We dared not ask the taxi drivers there as we were scared to be brought to unknown destinations! Udom Suk is a small town at the suburb of Bangkok.
So we took the BTS back again, but this time we stopped at Siam to explore the area. We went to Siam Paragon again to have a closer look. We found that there's an undersea World inside the Mall. But we didn't go in as we had just visited 3 Sea-world for the last two years, one in Auckland, one in Singapore and last one was at The Shore, Malacca. We then took the BTS back to our hotel.
At the hotel, we were delighted to find that there's a fruit court at the 18th floor, next to Baiyoke Sky Hotel lobby. Eat as much as you can for a fee of 280 ฿ per pax for hotel guests. For non-hotel guest it is 360 ฿ per pax. So we indulged ourselves in fruits buffet instead of the normal afternoon tea! It's not bad as they serve local as well as imported fruits. Of course we didn't miss the chance to try out durians as it was durian season at that time. They also have fresh fruit juice and home-made fruit ice-cream. However, for certain fruits, you need to pay extra for it.
After that, we went up to the Sky Observation Deck on at the 82nd floor to get a panoramic view of Bangkok City. For non-hotel guest, you need to pay 350 ฿ to go up.
In the evening, we went for a swim at the hotel pool on the 20th floor.
At night we walked to Pratu Nam again to explore the night market. We had Thai authentic duck flat noodles at the road side. It really tasted good! So much better than the one we had at the food court.
Day 4
After breakfast, we walked to Indera Square to do more shopping. At 4.00 pm, we took a taxi to the airport to take the flight back to JB. It costs us 500 ฿.
Bye Bangkok. Sure we will back again for more ![RM 1 = 8.4 ฿ at that time]


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Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores an incredible goal when training with Paris Saint-Germain !
Incroyable but de Zlatan lors de son entraînement avec le PSG !
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Fresh chutney are very common in my house. Brinjal is one of the vegetables I use frequently to make this chutney. Raw brinjal is known for its bitter taste. The bitterness can be eliminated by roasted the brinjal with its skin in a oven or on a stove top.
3-4 Medium Brinjals
1 medium onion finely chopped
4-5 Green chilles finely chopped
2-3 Tbsp tamarind paste
1 Tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Few curry leaves
Salt for taste
For seasoning –
2 Tbsp oil
2 whole dry red chillies
1 Tsp Channa dal
1 Tsp Urad dal
1/2 Tsp mustard seeds
few methi seeds
pinch of hing
pinch of turmeric
On stove top: Clean and pat dry the brinjals. Brush them with oil and roast it on a stove top ( gas) over medium heat. Keep turning the brinjals, until fully roasted. When the skin of the brinjal is fully charred, that means the brinjal is fully roasted. Once done, sprinkle some cold water and let it sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Once it is cooled down peel off the charred skin. Mash the flesh and keep it aside.Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a small kadai. Add channa dal, urad dal, methi seeds, red chillies and fry over medium heat until the dals turn light golden brown. Now add mustard seeds, hing and fry for couple of minutes and remove from heat. Keep this seasoning aside.
In the same kadai heat the remaning oil. Add curry leaves, chopped onions and turmeric and fry for few minutes. Just to remove the raw smell of onion.
In a pestle add the fried seasoning and pound it coarsely. Now add the mashed brinjals, tamarind paste, salt, green chillies , chopped coriander leaves and pound all toghter well. Adjust the seasoning, add the onion mixture and mix well. Remove it into to serving bowl. This can be served as a side dish with rice or roti and also can be served as a dip.
In oven: Preheat oven at 350 deg, prick the brinjals with fork and brush them with oil. Roast them in the oven till done. Small brinjals cook very fast (12-15 mins). If its a big one then roast for about 30-45 mins. Follow the rest of procedure as mentioned above.
You can use lemon juice instead of tamarind pulp. And also you can grind it in blender/ food processor. Do not add water and also do not grind too much as this will turn the dish into a paste. Just pulse for few seconds if you are using a food processor.


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In the latest Chanel + Lisa Eldridge video, Lisa Eldridge creates an enchanting makeup look with Chanel's Fall 2013 "Collection Superstition," inspired by the good-luck charms and the magic of bronze.
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Speaking after General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the Army, said that forces' marriages and families had suffered, John Hutton acknowledged that the simultaneous operations had created tension.
"I agree with what the General has said and I think we have accepted that the strain of mounting two major operations - one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan - is creating very substantial strain and stress on our military forces," Mr Hutton told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
"I think the withdrawal of forces from Iraq will certainly allow us to create a better operational tempo in terms of the strain on servicemen and women and their families."
However, he maintained that there would be no drop in the intensity of the campaign in Afghanistan.
"We are capable of mounting very substantial operations in Afghanistan - we have been for a considerable time - and we have got very significant resources committed to this campaign," Mr Hutton said. "We need to do that because this is vital for UK national security."
Earlier, Gen Dannatt announced that soldiers will have the gaps between foreign operations extended by six months, in a major overhaul of the military intended to keep families together.
Gen Dannatt said action had to be taken to avoid the break up of families and prevent the exodus of experienced soldiers, after constant operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last six years.
He announced that the time between fighting on operations would be increased from two years to two-and-a-half years by re-ordering the Army's brigade structure into larger units that could be sent away less often.
In a speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, during which he addressed the issues of equipment, troop numbers and training, Gen Dannatt said: "Many families and marriages have unfortunately fallen victim to the relentless pace of operations.
"A gap of one year between operational deployment is not unusual. Often soldiers are spending much of the year before deployment away from home in training and preparation. This is unacceptable."
It was a question of how much could be asked of soldiers, he said, adding: "We have seriously stretched our soldiers - both their good will and their families'."
Under the new plans, called Future Army Structure Next Steps, the Army's fighting brigades of about 4,000 men each are going to be streamlined from 10 to six, mainly configured to fight counter-insurgency warfare.
Gen Dannatt said Afghanistan was "likely to consume our Armed Forces for foreseeable future".
In the most outspoken speech since he became Chief of the General Staff in 2006, Gen Dannatt said more equipment was needed for training. He criticised the policy of taking specialist kit off soldiers when they returned from operations to give to those deploying abroad.
The policy had affected tactics and procedures and was both "counter-intuitive and counter-productive" with soldiers "wasting time retraining" on different equipment.
He gave an example of a Royal Engineer who had the telescopic and laser sights removed from his rifle that was reduced to "iron" sights after returning from operations.
Although there had been a "slow start" from the Treasury in properly funding operations and while troops had "never been so well equipped" there was some way to go in getting enough helicopters and surveillance assets.
He was also critical of the delays to the Army's new armoured vehicle programme called Future Rapid Effects System that will give soldiers modernised transport.
"Much of what the Army travels in today harks back to '60s and '70s" he said. The "key message" was "no further delays to critical equipment programmes".
The Army commander warned that the ability of having a division of 25,000 men ready for major combat operations "is becoming increasingly difficult".
With the Army almost 4,000 troops short of the 102,000 required total, he suggested that more men and women should join the Army because it was a "fine and honourable thing to be a British soldier".
The new brigades will consist of a battalion of Challenger 2 tanks, one of armoured reconnaissance, an armoured infantry battalion in Warriors, a mechanised infantry battalion in Bulldog armoured vehicles and two "light role" infantry battalions. These units would be deployed on operations for six months in every three years.


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44 Amazing Book Tattoos for Literary Lovers
Tattoos are a form of self-expression that lasts for a lifetime. So, why not pick an illustration or quote from your favorite book? Literature has been a great source of inspiration for tattoo lovers for many decades. These books are crammed with numerous captivating illustrations and unforgettable quotes that can be used to create Amazing… Read More »


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|February 7, 2007 10:15 PM EST
It has come a long, long way since February 2005 when Jesse James Garrett coined the now universally used term for it: the rise and rise of 'AJAX' has been meticulously reflected in the pages of SYS-CON Media's magazines and web sites. We take an end-of-year look at its first 22 months.
February 2005
Garrett, President and a founder of Adaptive Path, writes his seminal essay offering a new approach to Web applications, goes away on vacation, and comes back a week later to a mountain of e-mail from around the world asking for more details about this new way of thinking about the architecture of web applications using certain technologies like CSS, DOM, and XMLHttpRequest.
January 2006
SYS-CON announces that the world's first-ever full One-Day AJAX Seminar, "Real-World AJAX," has already attracted a full complement of sponsors.
February 2006
AJAXWorld Magazine is conceived, just 12 months after the creation of the term "AJAX."
March 2006
"Real-World AJAX," a full One-Day AJAX Seminar, takes place in The Roosevelt Hotel in New York, New York, with speakers such as: the creator of the term 'AJAX," Jesse James Garrett; David Temkin, founder and CTO of Laszlo Systems; and Douglas Crockford, Creator of JSON.
"Real-World AJAX" also offered insights from:
"Real-World AJAX" reconvenes, this time on the West coast, to deliver a One-Day AJAX Seminar, with a speakers such as the CTO of Laszlo Systems and Creator of JSON, "Real-World AJAX" offers insights from:
October 2006
SYS-CON Events stages AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006, in Silicon Valley - the world's biggest full-fledged AJAX-specific conference. The 85 speakers included some of the top domain experts in the world…
Adam Sah - Architect of Google Gadgets
Ajit Jaokar - Chair of Oxford University's Next-Generation Mobile Applications panel
Ajay Ramachandran - CTO and VP of Raining Data's XML-Centric Applications and Platforms group
Alan Lewis - Technical Evangelist, eBay Developers Program
Alex Russell & Dylan Schiemann - Co-Founders, Dojo Foundation
Alex Bunardzic - Developer, Rails
Andrew C. Oliver - Software Developer
Ash Parikh - Director of Development & Technology, Raining Data Corporation
Bill Scott - Co-Founder of Rico, AJAX Evangelist of Yahoo!
Billy Hoffman - Lead Security Researcher for SPI Dynamics
Bob Buffone - Chief Architect, Nexaweb Technologies
Bob Zurek - Director of Advanced Technologies, IBM Information Integration Solutions
Charles Fiesel - Leader, RIA Practice at Roundarch
Christophe Coenraets - Sr. Technical Evangelist, Adobe
Coach Wei - Founder & CTO, Nexaweb
Craig McClanahan - Programmer and original author of the Apache Struts framework for building Web applications
Dan Theurer - Technical evangelist, Yahoo! Web services
Dave Hanley - Director of Product Management for Rhapsody Web Services
Dave Hoover - Lead Agile Practices Consultant at Obtiva Corp and author of the upcoming "Acceptance Testing Rails"
Dave Johnson - Co-Founder & CTO of eBusiness Applications
Dave Wolf - VP of Consulting, Cynergy Systems
David Boloker - CTO, Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM
David McFarlane - Chief Operating Officer (COO) at IM Logic, Inc
David Temkin - Founder & CTO, Laszlo Systems
David Van Couvering - Committer for Apache Derby; member of the Apache DB PMC
Dion Hinchcliffe - Editor-in-Chief, AJAXWorld Magazine
Douglas Crockford - Creator of JSON
Dror Matalon - Founder of Zapatec
Eric Hodel - Programmer and Systems Administrator, The Robot Co-op
Eric Pascarello - Co-author of Ajax in Action
Florian von Kurnatowski - Director of Technical Services, Scalix
Francois Orsini - Sr. Staff Engineer, Database Technology Group, Sun
Greg Murray - Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the AJAX architect for Sun
Hakon Wium Lie - Co-Inventor of CSS
Inderjeet Singh - Sr. Staff Engineer with Sun; architect for Java BluePrints
James Adam- Developer of Rails Engines, Author of "Rails Plugins"
James Ward - Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe
Jeremy Chone - Director, Product Management & Strategy, Enterprise & Developer Solutions Business Unit, Adobe
Jesse James Garrett - Father of the term "AJAX"
Jim Phelan - Chief Architect, Stream57
Jochen Krause - CEO, Innoopract; Member of the Eclipse Board of Directors
Joe Orbman - Chief Architect, Midnight Coders
Joe O'Brien- Co-founder of EdgeCase, LLC
John Bennett - Adobe Consulting, Eastern Region
John Crupi - CTO, JackBe
John Fallows - Former lead developer for Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client; Co-author of "Pro JSF and AJAX"
John F. Andrews - President, Evans Data Corporation
Jon Ferraiolo - Web architect within IBMs Emerging Technologies Group
Jonas Jacobi - Java EE Technology Evangelist at Oracle, Co-author of "Pro JSF and AJAX"
Joshua Gertzen - Primary architect, ThinWire Ajax Framework
Jouk Pleiter - Co-Founder & CEO, Backbase
Juho Rishu - Founder of Helmi Technologies
Kevin Hakman - Co-Founder, TIBCO General Interface
Kurt Cagle - Author & software developer
Laurence Moroney - Author of Foundations of Atlas
Louenas Hamdi - SAP Research Team, SAP Labs
Luis Polanco - Senior Product Manager for Apollo at Adobe
Luke Birdeau - Lead Software Engineer for TIBCO General Interface
Matt Quinn - Heads Product Strategy and Product Management, TIBCO Software
Mark Pillar - TheMidnightCoders with Joe Orbman
Martin Frid-Nielsen - CEO & Founder, SoonR
Michael Buffington - Ruby on Rails + AJAX
Mike Nimer - Mike Nimer is a partner, Nimer and Associates
Milos Glisic - Senior Developer, ComponentArt
Nate Koechley - One of the first Web developers at Yahoo!
Nathan Jakubiak - Software Team Leader, Parasoft
Neil Sequiera - Venture Capitalist, General Catalyst Partners
Patrick Grady - Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Rearden Commerce
Paul Rademacher - Creator of HousingMaps.com (Google)
Rama Gurram - Research Scientist, SAP Labs
Riccardo La Rosa - Principal Consultant, Engineering, Molecular
Rob Rusher - Certified Flex 2 instructor, one of only a few in the world
Robby Russell- Founded PLANET ARGON
Robert Smik - Director of solutions engineering of Raining Data's XML-Centric Applications and Platforms group
Robert Brewin - Co-CTO Software Group, Sun
Ryan Davis - Founding Member of Seattle Ruby Brigade
Sahil Malik - Evangelist, telerik
Samir Raiyani- Director of Homeland Security Research, SAP Labs
Samisa Abeysinghe - Architect of the core of the Apache Axis2/C Web services engine
Scott Isaacs - Architect, Microsoft Windows Live; Father of DHTML
Shanku Niyogi - Product Unit Manager of the UiFX Team, Microsoft
Stephen Baker - Creator and Lead Developer of R-Spec
Steve Mulder - Principal Consultant in user experience at Molecular
Tony Parisi - Co-Creator of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Zeki Mokhtarzada - Co-Founder & CTO, Freewebs.com
- A Cup of AJAX? Nay, Just Regular Java Please
- Who Are The All-Time Heroes of i-Technology?
- Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?
- How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for Rich Internet Applications
- i-Technology Predictions for 2007: Where's It All Headed?
- "Real-World AJAX" One-Day Seminar Arrives in Silicon Valley
- i-Technology 2008 Predictions: Where's RIAs, AJAX, SOA and Virtualization Headed in 2008?
- AJAXWorld Conference & Expo to Take Place October 2-4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California
- AJAX Sponsor Webcasts Are Now Available at AJAXWorld Website
- AJAXWorld University Announces AJAX Developer Bootcamp


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We've not had confirmation of this, but it appears that after almost six months after the event that the sports governing body, the UCI, have taken away Nigel Page's Masters World Championship title. We'll give you the full low down when we have it, but it seems that Nige was registered as a member of a trade team as an Elite rider and this has meant that he was ineligible to ride in the Masters World Champs.
Like we say, this isn't confirmed as of yet, but if it is true then it is gutting.
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The McDaniel softball team will be offering a variety of softball clinics this fall and winter, starting with the Fall Softball Clinics on October 8 and 9.
Fall Softball Clinics
Saturday, October 8: The team will offer a youth softball clinic for grades 4-8.
Sunday, October 9: The squad will hold its "Fall Prospect" Clinic for grades 9–12.
The clinics will be held at the Green Terror Softball Field on the campus of McDaniel College.
Fall/Winter Pitching Clinic:
The team will also be offering its pitching clinic this fall and winter; this is an eight-week clinic on Saturday mornings, starting on November 12. The clinic is for beginner-, intermediate- and advance-level pitchers. The clinic will be instructed by McDaniel's pitching coach, Rick Eyler. Tiffani Smith (Liberty '11) will be joining the clinic this year too. The Clinic will be held on the McDaniel campus in the indoor facilities of the softball team.
Winter Skills Clinic:
On Sunday mornings, February 5 and 12, the team will conduct its softball Skills Clinic for ages 7-18. The Clinic will be held on the McDaniel campus in the indoor facilities of the softball team.
The registration forms for ALL clinics are located on the softball web site. More information on each clinic can also be found off the Camps and Clinics link under the Athletics Department tab at the top of the page. Registration is limited so make sure you reserve your spot today. For further information, you may contact Coach Smith at 410-857-2568 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A hacker broke into the Chilean government computer network and stole addresses, phone numbers, and other personal data of 6 million citizens, the Associated Press reported.
The hacker, who identified himself (or herself) as "Anonymous Coward," then posted the data briefly on the Internet, saying he (or she) wanted to demonstrate how poorly protected consumer data in Chile is, according to daily newspaper El Mercurio, which first reported the news on Sunday.
The data, stolen from military, election, and education department servers, included consumer ID card numbers and e-mails, among other information. Among the victims was one of the daughters of Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, the wire service reported.


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36-21C-1 Definition of terms.
36-21C-2 Commission to license or register home inspectors.
36-21C-3 Home inspectors to be licensed or registered--Violation as misdemeanor.
36-21C-4 Application for license--Requirements.
36-21C-5 Application for registration--Requirements.
36-21C-6 Promulgation of rules for licensing and registration.
36-21C-7 Exceptions to home inspector licensing requirements.
36-21C-8 Issuing of license to persons licensed elsewhere.
36-21C-9 Initial provisions for licensing experienced home inspectors.
36-21C-10 Expiration and renewal of license or registration--Applications--Penalty for late filing.
36-21C-11 Suspension, revocation, reprimand, or fine for violation of chapter.
36-21C-12 Fees and fines paid to commission fund.
36-21C-13 Grounds for refusing, suspending or revoking license or registration.
36-21C-14 Applicants for licensure and registration and licensees under disciplinary investigation to submit to criminal background check.
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Cost: Students: $40 Professionals: $80
Date: 11/18/2015 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Organizer/Facilitator: Dr. Jaida Kim Samudra
What makes your workshop a "must attend" event for the 2015 meeting?
This workshop is a must for any academic who has stalled on submitting or revising an article to a peer-reviewed journal. Everybody knows that to get hired, meet requirements for tenure, and earn merit promotions, one must get published frequently, preferably in prestigious journals. But newly-minted professors are often isolated in their teaching positions. They are under tremendous pressure to publish, but are no longer receiving useful feedback on their work. Furthermore, few young scholars have much practice writing specifically for publication. And many junior academics are intimidated by the peer review process itself, uncertain how to respond to reviewers' suggestions for revision. This workshop fills in some of these experiential gaps by providing explicit guidelines on producing manuscripts that will get forwarded to peer review and require minimal revision after acceptance for publication (thus shortening the time to publication). Most importantly, the workshop gives participants a chance to concentrate on their manuscript for a full day, analysing its component parts, isolating what needs to be changed, and receiving the feedback they need to finish and submit it.
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How to structure your article in alignment with the logic of your argument. And related to that, how journal articles written to be read by your professional colleagues differ from student papers written for instructors.
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Junior professors who are highly motivated by the sound of the ticking tenure clock to finally finish and send out that journal article they've been revising over and over.
And advanced graduate students who have already completed their fieldwork and written one or more dissertation chapters or given substantive presentations on their research.
What makes your workshop "Familiar/Strange?"
Probably the most common issue I run into as an editor is lack of clarity in scholarly writing. One reason for this is that authors are so familiar with their own research that they don't have any distance from it. They often fail to provide readers with signposts guiding them through the logic of their analysis because it just seems too obvious. Some even let their data stand in for arguments and interpretations. This workshop provides scholars with techniques for examining their own writing as if it were strange to them so they can figure out how to make it more accessible to readers and hence more likely to be accepted for publication. Peer reviewers also reject manuscripts when 'strange' new data are not appropriately linked to old 'familiar' theory. This is also addressed during the workshop.
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In recent years British politics has seemed increasingly unpredictable. The Conservative Party's return to single-party government in 2015 surprised commentators and the electorate alike, and Labour's choice of Jeremy Corbyn...Show More
In recent years British politics has seemed increasingly unpredictable. The Conservative Party's return to single-party government in 2015 surprised commentators and the electorate alike, and Labour's choice of Jeremy Corbyn as its leader marked a striking change in direction for the party. Cuts to public welfare and spending have led to growing dissatisfaction among sections of the public, and the increasing popularity of parties critical of the government's immigration, economic and social policies appears to represent a call for fundamental change in British politics. With a question mark hanging over the country's global standing following the EU referendum, and with further calls for Scottish independence, Britain's immediate future seems uncertain.In the 10th edition of this highly acclaimed text, leading authorities reflect on the latest developments in British politics. Drawing on current research, the chapters provide a state-of-the-art, yet accessible, account of British politics today. All the chapters are newly commissioned for this edition and together they provide a systematic analysis of key trends, issues and debates. Topics covered include the legacy of Cameron's governments, the politics of austerity, immigration, and the question of what, if anything, is distinctively 'British' about the British political system.Show Less
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In human resource management, total compensation package is referred to not only money but also other benefits received by an employee for providing services to his employer. Today we will learn about the components of whole compensation package. An ideal compensation package may identify its various components as follows:
1. Fixed Pay or Base Pay
Base Compensation is one type of Compensation that refers to the basic salaries and wages given to he employees. It is normally constant at a given amount irrespective of the difference in work performance.
Salary and Wage
Salary and Wage refers to the largest cash component of the compensation package. Wage is referred to as remuneration to workers particularly, hourly-rated payment. Salary refers to as remuneration paid to white-collar employees including managerial personnel. Wages and salary are paid on the basis of fixed period of time and normally not associated with productivity of an employee at a particular time. It is normally a fixed amount which is subject to changes based on annual increments or subject to periodical pay hikes. It is structured based on the position of an individual in the organization and differs from grades to grades.
Cost of Living Adjustment Allowance
Cost of Living Adjustment Allowance refers to the allowance given to the employees when sent on temporary assignment or posting outside of their home country, to compensate for difference in cost of living between the host and home countries.
Family allowance or Dependent Allowance
Family allowance, children or dependent Allowance are given to the employees to support employees in their child care by providing a flat amount every month for every dependent child or disabled person of family.
2. Incentives:
Incentives are the additional payment to employees besides the payment of their base pay. Often these are linked with productivity, either in terms of higher production or cost saving or both.These incentives may be given on individual basis or group basis. Variable pay offered can be categorized into following two categories:
Short-term incentives—including annual incentives, bonuses, commissions, gain-sharing, and the like—reward the individual employee for achieving certain goals over a short period. The measurement period for short-term incentives is most often quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. Short-term incentives can be measured based on the individual's own performance, a group's performance, or the company's overall performance. This depends on the organization, the incentive plan, and the level of the individual within the organization's hierarchy.
Long-term incentives—including restricted stock, stock options, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, performance units, and the like—measure organization-wide performance, typically over several years. The intent of such plans is to provide incentives for employees to improve the overall performance of the organization by linking the employees' long-term rewards to the organization's long term results.
3. Benefits
Employee benefits or Fringe Benefits (also called perks) are indirect and non-cash compensation paid to an employee in addition to their normal wages or salaries. Some of these benefits are mandated by law (such as social security, unemployment compensation, and workers compensation), others vary from organization to organization (such as health insurance, life insurance, medical plan, paid vacation, pension, gratuity).
Legal Employment Benefits
It includes,Family and Medical Leave Act.,COBRA, FLSA (minimum wage, overtime), Colorado Wage Act Issues, Employee/Independent Contractor Issues, Employment Agreements, Confidentiality and Non-Compete Agreements, Separation Agreements, Maternity leave and paternity leave.
Insurance provided by companies usually falls into Health Care. These types of insurances can include: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability. Employers usually pay all or part of the premium for employee insurance. In case of medical insurance, there are options to include the family members or dependents of the employee under the insurance coverage. Some companies may also include life insurance in its benefit package.
Retirement Benefits
Retirement benefits are funds set aside to provide people with an income or pension when they end their careers. The most common forms are Pensions and Gratuity. A pension, also known as a defined benefits plan, is a plan in which the benefit amount is pre-determined on the basis of salary and years of service. When the employee retires, he or she will receive the determined amount of payment each month. Gratuity is an additional financial benefit given to employees of organizations irrespective of salary or status, when their services end because of superannuation, retirement or resignation or death, or disablement (Section 4). The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 act provides for gratuity payment to all employees at the prescribed rates (currently 15 days for every year of service).
Time Benefits
Time benefits include paid time off and flexible working hours. Paid Time Off (also referred to as PTO) is earned by employees while they work. The three common types of paid time off are holidays, sick leave, and vacation leave.Flex time is a variable work schedule that allows employees to set the time when they work. Instead of mandating work time 9-5, employers who use flex time allow the employees to come and go when they please, as long as the work gets done.Time benefits also includes work from home and paid for vacation benefits.
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In the space of all real matrices with dimension $n$, find the maximal possible dimension of a subspace $V$ such that $\forall X,Y\in V,\, \operatorname{tr}(XY)=0$.
If $V$ is a subspace of real matrices of size $n$ with the property that $\operatorname{tr}(XY)=0$ for all $X,Y\in V$, then $\operatorname{tr}(X^2)=0$ for all $X\in V$.
Let $W$ be a subspace of real matrices of size $n$ with the property that $\operatorname{tr}(X^2)=0$ for all $X\in W$. Then $\operatorname{tr}((X+Y)^2)=0$ for all $X,Y\in W$. But $\operatorname{tr}((X+Y)^2)=\operatorname{tr}(X^2)+\operatorname{tr}(Y^2)+2\operatorname{tr}(XY)$. It follows that $\operatorname{tr}(XY)=0$ for all $X,Y\in W$.
This shows that the problem reduces to the following: Investigations about the trace form which is already solved.
(This is not a difficult problem, but it is also not an easy homework problem. I wonder if the original problem is much simpler and the OP has copied the problem statement wrongly.)
Note that $\operatorname{tr}(XY)=\operatorname{vec}(Y^T)^T\operatorname{vec}(X)= \operatorname{vec}(Y)^TP\operatorname{vec}(X)$, where $P$ is the symmetric permutation matrix defined by $P_{(j-1)n+i,\ (i-1)n+j}=P_{(i-1)n+j,\ (j-1)n+i}=1$ for $i,j\in\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and other entries zero. Since the matrix $P$ is orthogonally similar to $I_p\oplus (-I_q)$, where $q=n(n-1)/2$ and $p=n^2-q$, a maximal matrix subspace $V$ such that $\operatorname{tr}(XY)=0$ whenever $X,Y\in V$ can be identified with a maximal subspace $W\subset\mathbb{R}^{n^2}$ such that $u^T(I_p\oplus(-I_q))v=0$ whenever $u,v\in W$.
We now claim that $\dim W\le q$. Suppose the contrary. Then there exists a set of $q+1$ linearly independent vectors $u_1,\ldots,u_{q+1}\in\mathbb{R}^{n^2}$ such that $u_i^T(I_p\oplus(-I_q))u_j=0$ for all $i,j=1,\ldots,q+1$. Hence there exists a nonzero linear combination $x=\sum_i c_iu_i\not=0$ such that the last $q$ entries of $x$ are zero. Write $x^T=(\tilde{x}^T,0_{1\times q})$. Then $x^T(I_p\oplus(-I_q))x=\|\tilde{x}\|^2\not=0$ because $\tilde{x}\not=0$, but we also have $x^T(I_p\oplus(-I_q))x=0$ because $x$ is a linear combination of $u_1,\ldots,u_{q+1}$. So we arrive at a contradiction. Therefore $\dim W\le q$.
Finally, the dimension $q$ is attainable. For example, consider the set of all strictly upper triangular matrices. Hence the required maximal dimension is $q=n(n-1)/2$.
$\begingroup$ @YACP The OP has asked several problems in last few hours, and all but this one are typical homework problems. $\endgroup$ – user1551 Jan 7 '13 at 16:19
$\begingroup$ seems very elegant $\endgroup$ – dineshdileep Jan 8 '13 at 8:52


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Howls from the Mountain
May, 2013
From the President's Pen
Happy Spring!
Well, the March winds were in April and the April rains have been in May, but the calendar says SPRING!
Last November, Full Moon Farm was approved by the folks at Global Giving (www.globalgiving.org) for fundraising on an international level. We created Habitats for Howlers (the month of December), which was a year-end success! I am happy to report that the first of the enclosures has been completed, and Achilles is now in his new Habitat! We still have to tweak a few things, but he is a happy boy. Many thanks to all who donated, and the wonderful students at Warren Wilson College who put in many service hours helping make this happen.
We have been land clearing for Isabelle's new habitat too, and measuring up to rebuild habitats for Coal and Indy as well as River.
We are thankful for your continued support. Please know that your tax deductible donations make a difference in the lives of all the residents at Full Moon Farm. We currently have a food drive listed on Facebook, as well as our Lil Woofer's program. Donations to the General Fund for food, bedding, vet care and operating expenses are also needed, and appreciated.
We do what we do, because of you - our supporters.
Hugz and Howlz from the Mountain,
May 25th Howl In!
Our May Howl In was a "howlin' success!" It was a beautiful day and we had an excellent turnout! Many thanks to everyone who came out to support us and learn more about our wonderful sanctuary!
Be sure to join us at next month's Howl In on June 22nd.
Sponsor Spotlight - Kate Shawgo
Wolfdog Sponsor Spotlight- Kate Shawgo
It was the year 2004 when Kate Shawgo had recently moved to Black Mountain. She was looking for something to do when her friend, the late Sandy Rector, of Bone-a-Fide Bakery, took Kate out to visit Full Moon Farm. Little did Kate know this trip up the mountain would lead to a lifetime of love.
When she first met Coal, he was new around here, too, and very skittish, frightening easily at every little movement or sound around him. Kate spent many hours either sitting outside his enclosure, or laying in the grass across from it, reading to Coal and just letting him know that she was there for him. She also decided to join FMF's Wolfdog Sponsorship Program so she could help with the cost of his care. After a while of patiently waiting, Coal decided to honor Kate with a sniff of her hand, then a few tentative kisses, and then finally allowing her to scritch on him a little bit. The long-legged black Prince was hers!
Indy, Coal and Kate
A short time later, Coal got to have a lady friend, Indy, paired up and living with him. Kate knew this was a good match for him, and decided to sponsor both as a pair. Being one of our longest-term sponsors, Kate has been able to enjoy many happy times with Coal and Indy, such as coming out every Thanksgiving for the annual "Chicken Chucking", and visiting with them on many other special occasions.
When you stop in at her shop, Mountain Spirit Cards and Gifts, in the Cherry St. courtyard in Black Mountain, ask to see her big black Bragbook so she can show you pictures of her times with the special pair. Kate also has two doggie dogs of her own, Bella, who is now retired and at home, and Trooper, her special needs guy who keeps her company at the shop.
Without folks like Kate Shawgo and our other wolfdog sponsors, our residents would not have the level of care they are able to get at Full Moon Farm. It takes 8 sponsors per wolfdog to provide the amount needed for their costs each month. If you would like to sponsor one, or more, of Full Moon Farm's wolfdogs, please see our website at here or contact Sarah Hallback at firstname.lastname@example.com, or give Nancy Brown a call at 828-664-9818. We currently also have a special, one-time, Gift Sponsorship of $50, which makes for a wonderful graduation or birthday present!
Thank you!
Thank you to all who participated in the Silpada Jewelry Fundraiser and the Flower Power Fundraiser for Full Moon Farm over the past month! The funds raised will go to help take care of the needs of the animals in the sanctuary! We appreciate your continued support and look forward to future opportunities to bring you interesting and exciting options to participate in going forward.
Your Full Moon Farm Board of Directors
President: Nancy Brown
Vice President: Sarah Hallback
Secretary/Treasurer: Donna Wiedrich
Director at Large: Tamara Nesbit
Director at Large: Cheryl Brown
Director at Large: Jennifer Prouse
Business Advisor: Bob Traktman
Animal Medical/Behavioral Advisor: Beverly Hargus, DVM firstname.lastname@example.com
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Previous Newsletter Issues
You can find our back issues here.
In this issue:
Gwenny's Gift Den
Wolfer Spotlight - Buddy
Upcoming Events
First of all, we need to send a big THANK YOU to volunteers Pam and Dave for making our new sign! They come all the way from Waynesville, NC almost every Thursday to volunteer at the sanctuary and have also been making signs for all of the wolfdogs, and our Memorial Garden. Please send them howls of love!
This month's featured merchandise comes from Glass Scratchers in Ohio. They do custom engraving work on a wide variety of items, and can accommodate one-of-a-kind, or multiple item orders. John has been making merchandise for our gift den for two years now, and loves to deliver our items to us personally so he has a reason to visit with the wolfdogs. He can also send orders individually to your home or work address, so we ask that you place your request of items directly with Glass Scratchers, unless you are planning to come and see us in person at an event. This will save time and shipping cost all around.
or email@example.com
*Please remember, we must add NC state tax, and shipping charges, onto all listed pricing.*
Metal Water Bottles w/ Logo $10
Beer Stein sm $10 lg $15
Drinking Glass $10
Wine Glass w/ Logo $10
Crystal Key chains w/ Logo $10
Clear or Frosted Shot Glass w/ Logo $5
You can have your choice of either FMF's logo, or choose from other Wolf designs on most of your glassware, too!
John can also imprint a photo of your favorite wolfdog onto glass items, such as Sun Catchers and Crystal Orbs of various sizes and shapes.
Suncatchers Small $12 Large $16
Small Sunflower Crystal $17
Medium Arrowhead or Square Crystal $20
Large Sunflower or Square Crystal $24
Little Red/Shango, Xlrg Landscape Crystal $30
Please click here to go to the PayPal link on our website
Enter item description and quantity in the comment area when ordering.
Buddy came to Full Moon Farm in 2010. Buddy was picked up as a stray in the Hot Springs area of Madison County, NC. He is a bit of a folk hero, having eluded capture for months! Buddy is shy and reserved around strangers, but is very social and loving to regular volunteers. We are hoping to pair Buddy up with Isabelle in a new enclosure this summer. He is a low content Malamute and German Shepherd mix with a birthday around September 1, 2007.
Sponsorships are an important part of our success. The funds raised in sponsorships help provide food and medical care for the resident wolfdogs. We appreciate each and every one of our sponsors and thank you for everything you do to help us take care of the wolfdogs. Many of the wolfdogs are still in need of sponsors; please let us know if you would be interested in sponsoring one or more of our beloved residents. You can find information on our website for the sponsorship packages but please email us if you have any questions or need further information. We have monthly, bi-annual and annual options available to meet all budget needs! To sponsor an animal visit our website here.
Hi, I'm Buddy! There is a great photo of me staring cross-eyed at a bumble bee, inches from my nose! When you sponsor me, you can request it!
Friday, June 21, 6p to 9p - Bike Night at Harley Davidson of Asheville, in Swannanoa, NC - Live bands, free food, entertainment, vendor booths. We will be there with River doing hands-on education, and will also have some of our Gift Den merchandise for sale! http://www.hdofasheville.com/event_calendar.asp
Saturday, June 22- Howl-In at FMF- Tours start at 3p, BBQ Potluck Dinner at 4:30p. We provide the main entrée and drinks ($5 donation requested to help cover cost).
Monday, June 24- Tattoo Fundraiser at Diamond Thieves in Marion, NC. All day fundraiser, with your choice of 4 designs. Will have River walking Nancy and lots of other fun stuff! More details yet to come! http://www.diamondthieves.net
Thursday, 6-27- Tattoo Fundraiser at Diamond Thieves in Asheville, NC. All day fundraiser, with your choice of 4 designs. Will have River walking Nancy and lots of other fun stuff! More details yet to come! http://www.diamondthieves.net
Other special events to schedule now!
Saturday, July 6, 4p to 9p- Family and Doggie Eye Scream Social- Eye Scream Parlor in Swannanoa. Doggie ice cream, dog activities, kid's activities, local food truck, and live acoustic music. Fenced in area for kids and dogs for fun, food, and music! Will include a raffle for a Bissell Cleaner!
Thursday, August 15, 11a to 9p - Dog Days of Summer at Mayfel's in Asheville. River will be walking Nancy around downtown, and we will have a small info table with some merchandise for sale. Very dog friendly, too! 10% of the day's proceeds are donated to us, so come by to see us while you enjoy lunch or dinner!
Sunday, August 25- Rafting with River! at French Broad Rafting Company in Walnut, NC- $40 per person, pre-pay, details soon to be announced!