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Today we're taking a nose dive into the salad bowl with a half-dozen varieties of dark leafy greens. These plants come from a few different plant families -- arugula, kale, and collards are Brassicas, spinach and chard are in the Amaranth family, and dandelion is from the family Asteraceae -- but they share certain essential characteristics in the kitchen: all can be enjoyed raw or cooked, and they're all hardier than the fragile salad greens of spring.
The Sturdy Ones 1. Kale: Kale has enjoyed a popular renaissance in the past few years, with cookbooks, tshirts, and more dedicated to the plant. Hearty, mild, and nutritious, kale is just as good sautéed as it is raw in a salad. (The realization that massaging vinaigrette into kale leaves wilts and tenderizes them revolutionized kale salads forever.) There are three types of kale, all equally interchangeable in recipes: curly kale, which is the most commonly available variety, and the two harder-to-find types shown below:
1(a). Lacinato kale, also called Tuscan or Dinosaur kale. Our senior editor Kristen describes its leaves as "dark, like beveled glass." Cavolo Nero is the name of a particularly dark-leaved variety of lacinato kale. 1(b). Russian kale, also called Winter kale. The purple accents that you sometimes see in curly kale are even more apparent in this variety.
2. Swiss Chard: Chard and beets are very close cousins, the difference being that the former is cultivated for its leaves while the latter is grown for its roots. (Chard leaves even look like beet leaves, but larger and better-developed.) Pleasantly tender with crunchy, edible stems (don't toss them!) and a mineral-y, slightly bitter taste, chard can be eaten both raw and cooked. Depending on the variety, the stems can be pink, red, orange, or white -- "rainbow chard" seed packets are actually just a mix of the different varieties. And why "Swiss," when the green originated in Italy? It's in honor of the Swiss botanist W.D.J. Koch, who gave the plant its scientific name.
3. Collards: Did you ever think about how collards are basically flattened cabbage leaves? The two are very close cousins -- in fact, the name "collard" is descended from colewort, a loosely-headed cabbage variety grown in the Middle Ages. Today, you'll find them in cuisines all over the world, from South America to Eastern Europe to the American South. (And a brief history lesson: collards aren't indigenous to Africa, but that signature long-simmered cooking method was brought over by African slaves in the 1800s.) Collards' sturdy leaves stand up to braises, richly flavored soups, and even raw wraps, but they're great steamed or sauteed just until bright green, too.
The Delicate Ones 4. Arugula: The target of many a joke about crunchy liberals, peppery, spicy arugula ("rocket" in the UK) is the quintessential spicy green. It has been around since Roman times (Virgil mentions arugula in Moretum, a short poem about a farmer preparing a meal!); today, you'll find it in many traditional southern Italian dishes. Arugula is perfect for amateur gardeners -- to go from seed to salad takes just 6-8 weeks, and the plants actually prefer sandy soil and hot temperatures. The spicy heat of arugula is a good contrast to the bitter flavors of other greens, making it a great addition to any salad mix. You can sometimes find bunches of "bolted" arugula, harvested from plants that have gone to seed, at farmers' market -- save these for sautés, where their extra-peppery, tougher leaves will shine.
5. Spinach: You can't really blame the children of yesteryear for not eating their vegetables: unless you're Popeye, blanched spinach in a can is nothing to write home about. It wasn't until the 1980s that vacuum-sealed bags of fresh spinach became widely available, ushering in a new era of salads (90s-era raspberry vinaigrette, anyone?) and changing the way we eat our greens. The most popular cultivar of spinach is Savoy, which produces crinkly leaves that are hardy enough to stand up to being bagged and transported. The bagged baby spinach you buy in stores is grown from flat-leaf spinach seeds, which have a much milder flavor. If your experience with spinach is limited to those smooth-skinned baby greens, you owe it to yourself to buy a bundle of wrinkly, fully-mature spinach, preferably with the roots still attached -- since spinach is a fast-growing, annual plant, many farmers sell the plant whole since the attached roots help them last longer. The deeper, more complex flavor of these leaves is the perfect match for the spices in Indian saag paneer or Iranian yogurt dip.
6. Dandelion: While the weeds in your neighbor's yard are probably sprayed with pesticides, the dandelion greens you find at market are perfectly edible. Dandelions are actually an invasive species, brought to North America by Puritans who used the plants for their medicinal value (high in potassium and vitamins A, B, and C, they were used as a cure for jaundice and hepatitis). As invasive species go, dandelion is fairly innocuous -- though it's the bane of homeowners with gorgeous lawns, it doesn't compete with local plants or damage local animal populations. In the kitchen, dandelion greens pair well with a sharp, fatty dressing to cut their bitter bite, or you can saute them as you would escarole or endive. And if you can get your hands on yellow dandelion flowers, they can be steeped and fermented into dandelion wine with a whopping 10% alcohol content! (Little-known fact: a section about dandelions I wrote for an article in Lucky Peach about invasive species was cut for length. I know a lot about dandelions)
All of these plants are wonderful candidates for your home garden. They can withstand a bit of cold, they reach maturity quickly, and they keep on giving all season, growing new leaves in place of the ones that you harvest. It's winter now, but don't mind the cold weather -- they all grow beautifully in greenhouses.
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I've spent a lot of time recently, much more than I care to admit, discussing the end-of-season awards with casual fans. I don't know why, but it's something I do. I think that baseball fans becoming generally more informed is a good thing for all concerned. I have no illusions that my ranting and raving actually accomplishes that, but I keep chasing that carrot (often in blatantly unproductive ways). Anyway, something good came out of it, because I've had an idea about how to improve this sort of discourse, from our sabermetrically-inclined end. It's not an entirely new idea—Bill James, for one, has talked about things like this quite a bit over the years—but it's one I think it's worth calling back to mind now and then, and I hope I might have a slightly different way of framing it.
You know what the big debate going on right now is—and, no worries, this post won't actually touch on that whole thing at all—and you can imagine that certain issues are coming up a lot. Things like the value of RBI and batting average. Elsewhere—in discussing David Price vs. Justin Verlander for the Cy Young Award, for instance—pitcher wins come up quite a bit.
The most common words statheads use when those types of statistics come up all end in "less": meaningless, useless, worthless. I've used them. It's easy. And in a way, I think it's totally right.
It's also terribly confusing to the uninitiated, though, and seems to create an extra barrier that really doesn't need to be there. The natural response to that sort of language, of course, is defensive and incredulous: "You're telling me a guy who drove in 120 runs didn't have a great season? Scoring runs is the whole point!" "When's the last time a bad pitcher won 20 games?" And that's understandable. It's not as though these stats don't tell you anything; if you see that a hitter has 100 RBI, odds are he's probably pretty good. The same is true for a pitcher with 17 or 18 wins. Besides, no one wants to hear that the things they've grown up paying attention to and caring about are "meaningless." The average fan, hearing that language, shuts down. Wants to fight back. I would, too, probably.
Yet, in a very real sense, those numbers (just to take the two most obvious examples) are totally meaningless. A VCR in good condition will still allow you to watch a tape; a floppy disk will presumably still keep copies of your Word documents or other small files (if you can find a device to read it). These things technically have a use, but are more or less worthless now. We've got other things that do their jobs better, and do more besides.
It's the same way with RBI and wins (and the like); these are "meaningless" and/or "worthless" only because we have other tools that do their jobs better, and more. A hundred-plus RBI might tell you that the hitter was probably good that year (not always), but also gives you a bunch of other information—opportunities with runners on, most obviously—and it's impossible to separate the two. It's like static or tracking problems on a VHS tape (to stretch that analogy to its very limits). We have many other ways of tracking things hitters do that lead to producing runs—ISO, TAv, and so forth—that also keep track of the good things, but that weed most of that other junk out. The same is true with wins; a lot of wins probably means a good pitcher, but also probably means a good team (or at least a good offense). Other stats do that better. None of them is perfect, of course, but better.
So it's not that RBI and wins are literally "useless," in the sense of having no actual utility. It's just that, in a world with so many tools that have the same use but are much better at providing it, the old stats are of no practical use to us. Citing those stats in the context of a value discussion has no meaning, as long as we have more advanced and nuanced information available.
So while it can be true in some ways to call them "meaningless," nobody wants to hear that, and the better and less confrontational point is that they're imprecise; 120 RBI, without more, tell you a hitter likely had a very strong season, but it won't tell you how strong, and it certainly won't tell you whether it was better or worse than another player with 100, or 140, or 75 RBI. A pitcher who has gone 21-5 has probably had an excellent season, but there's no way, without much more, to reliably compare him to another pitcher who went 16-10 or 14-13 (or in one case, 8-16). Our newer surrogates can tell us not only that a player was good or bad, but can go a much longer way toward telling us that Great Player A was even greater, or less great, than Great Player B. Wins and RBI can be interesting, but really can't do that at all.
It's not discarding useless stats for useful ones, it's putting aside the somewhat telling but imprecise old stats for the much more reliable and accurate new ones. It's about a certain (imperfect, but greater) degree of precision, not "usefulness" or "meaning." Sweeping away the noise, getting right down to the good stuff. It's that simple!
Is phrasing things this way likely to convert the masses? Of course not. There are legions out there who will immediately discard anything they didn't see on the back of a baseball card when they were 10 years old, no matter how it's presented. But it's a more palatable, more easily relatable (and probably a bit more accurate) way of framing the way we tend to look at things, and might get more people listening eventually, especially as they're increasingly inundated with slightly more advanced statistics in mainstream articles and TV broadcasts.
I believe that a world with more knowledgeable baseball fans is a good thing, and that thoughtful discussions are better than screaming past each other. It might help quite a bit on both fronts if we started talking about sabermetrics as an attempt not merely to stamp out but to improve upon the precision of those old measuring sticks—which it is—and stopped treating the old stats as entirely useless or meaningless.
Even if they kind of are that, too.
Bill Parker is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Nice piece - and good points. I tend to think of the "classic" stats as being more narrative-related, but kind of in a good way. Pitcher wins and RBI don't tell you that much about the quality of pitcher or hitter, but they tell you more about what happened in the game than advanced stats do. And when it comes down to it, baseball is entertainment, so the narrative is part of the enjoyment for fans - and that's why I'm fine with using it to vote for postseason awards and the HOF, if one so chooses. By the same token, I'm fine with people choosing to ignore the "narrative" stats when it comes to those things. I sure as hell don't want my team's GM relying on RBI and Ws, but am fine with them - and the narrative in general - playing a role in the ephemera of the games awards and honors.
Oct 03, 2012 07:47 AM
I think we sometimes forget that not every fan actually cares about the "real" answer the way a more sabermetrically inclined person is obsessed with getting to the "truth". That is to say, for some people, the old school stats have value in and of themselves. It's not just that the new stats are unfamiliar and that you're asking them to give up something they understand. It's that you implicitly invalidating all of the fun they've had over the years following wins and RBI.
Oct 03, 2012 08:22 AM
It would really help if most sabermetric folks understood the difference between describing past events and predicting future events.
Oct 03, 2012 10:44 AM
This article and the intelligent comments that followed are the reason I enjoy BP so much.
Oct 03, 2012 13:40 PM
I guess being old I'm somewhat old school - I hate the DH but that's another discussion. There are lots of good points in this article but Joe Fan's eyes glaze over with talk of regression and advanced statistical formula. Somehow this has to be simplified so it can be understood. At the same time those who were born with a slide rule . . .calculator in their hand need to understand that a difference of .004 points isn't significant over 600 at bats. Those folks - the radical fringes of stat heads if you will - ignore what their eyes could tell them if they just watched the game.
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Guest Blog Posting – Post Penguin 2.00
Firstly I just want to start by saying this is NOT another blog post preaching that simply good content is the answer to guest blog posting, it's really much more than just that. What I want to talk about is how I've seen a shift in what works and what doesn't when using guest blog posting and hopefully those insights will help others deliver better results and not waste time in methods that no longer work. With Google's next big Penguin Update 2.0 on the horizon its going to be essential that these tips are implemented into your strategy otherwise you run the risk of devaluation or even penalties.
The way people guest post content on blogs has changed, for the better I think, recycled content is especially something I'm glad to see the back of – so for that I suppose we should thank Google. The way links appear in blog posts has also changed (still changing for some), no more service/product specific anchor text plastered multiple times on link networks increasing exact match percentages. While a minority will see these updates as obstacles in making their jobs harder others will see opportunity and progression in a tactic that's on the cusp of being "not allowed" by Google.
For me there will always be a need for guest blog posting, it's just part of the blogger community and spirit; it's like getting asked around to a friend's house for dinner – who turns down a free meal with people you like? So I firmly believe there will always be guest blog posts, but the way people use them for SEO will have to evolve.
Here are some of the ways I've already started to change the way I approach guest blog posting, not only do I get better results than before but I believe most of these points will future proof this method of link building.
1. Creating good contact lists
There are some great ways of getting in contact with bloggers, such as My Blog Guest but the way I find most effective (by no means new) is just using simple Google commands – there are litrilally thousands of potential combinations for every industry. One in particular that works extremely well is to use "inurl:word1 intitle:word2":
What this command does is return results that includes "guest-post" in the URL, there are many other combinations you can use like "write-for-us" or "guest" etc. Then the second part of the command refers to a word that appears in the title of the page.
How this command differs from others is that you know that each blog that you contact will have done a guest blog post around the subject you've searched for – it's much less like cold calling than just approaching bloggers that just have content on the same subject as you. Bloggers will be familiar with the type of request, understand the principle of what you're after and be more inclined to participate.
2. Sending the right emails
Perhaps the most important part of guest blog posting process is actually communicating with the bloggers. Being a blogger myself I can tell you right now I get so many emails every day, most of them trying to sell me something or offer me a thingimijig I don't need. The best tip possible is "get to the point", seriously, that's it. I did a test last year looking at the type of emails I sent out and the success rate – you can see the results below:
During the test I got a much higher success rate (post live) when I sent emails to bloggers with just one sentence asking if they still offered guest blog posts. No fluff, no praise and no examples of previous posts and writing styles.
Besides writing short emails it is massively important you find out a bloggers name; it's really not that hard, it's often on the homepage, about us page or contact page – if not there then check the domain info out or read a number of the bloggers posts and comments.
The last point in this section could be controversial but don't mention you're an SEO/link builder/content marketer etc. Not everyone will be honest here but based on experience you will get better results if you just include your name along with company name and contact details on a signature.
3. Quality Control
This part of the process will require a certain amount of experience and self control. There are often occasions where you'll find blogs that very obviously offer guest blog posts to everyone (usually visible in the bloggers main menu). While this will increase your success rate considerably the best way to approach this is to look through the bloggers content archives and answer the following questions:
- Does the blogger upload more guest blog posts than his/her own content?
- Do the other guest blog posts link to commercial webpages?
- Do the posts use a lot of exact match anchor text?
- Does the blog charge for guest blog posts?
- Are there obvious paid links in the side bar?
If you answer "yes" to any of these questions I would personally not bother contacting a blogger as it's more than likely the content published on the blog will offer little or no value now, and almost certainly none in the future.
A list of criteria my team and I use will often concentrate on the following metrics as positive signals that a blog is worthwhile approaching:
- Does the blog have a limited number of other guest blog posts?
- Does the blogger have an active social following i.e. facebook, G+ or Twitter?
- Do the bloggers blog posts (and guest posts) receive genuine comments from readers?
- Does the blogger make a real effort in creating content for their users?
- Does the blogger have content indexed in Google?
If you answer 3 or more of these questions with a "yes" then I usually find you'll get a good quality guest blog post published that will not only generate a good link back to your site but also an array of positive social signals.
4. How to avoid Penalties from Guest Blog Posts?
While the "off the shelf" answer to avoid penalties is to "create great content" it's more complicated than that; a very good piece of content, given to an inexperienced link builder for outreach could lead to negative signals and be detrimental to your campaign. They could add too many links in the content, have a high percentage of exact match anchor text or even send out the same piece of content to multiple bloggers.
The way we should be approaching this type of activity is to create as many positive signals as possible in each blog post – making it hard/impossible for Google to think what you're doing is not valuable.
- Link to your competitors – as crazy as it sounds it makes sense. I'm not saying link to a competitor for the sake of linking but if there's a genuine reason then don't hold back. Whenever I write a genuine blog post it's very rare that I'll only link to one external website and it's ever rarer if I link to a page that's sales focused. A nice way of linking to competitors is to look at what content they've created that is community driven, such as blog content or social campaigns. If Google's algorithm does develop further to tackle links in guest blog posts then having 3-4 external links pointing to similar websites that are relevent to the page content shouldn't give a negative signal but a positive one.
- Create bespoke content – if you really want to create a blog post that will genuinely add value then include assets like videos, infographics and images that have been created specifically for your guest blog post. This will of course increase the cost of performing guest blog posting but making sure the content is bespoke for each blog will usually ensure good pickup, links and social signals – all strengthening the value of the link back to your website.
- Link to your Google+ profile – If you're writing good content then credit yourself (or your writer) – it shows authenticity to both users and search engines, also with the development with Google Authorship it just makes sense you start including the link.
- Invest in big content – If you invest 30 minutes into a piece of content it's highly likely that the returns are going to be low, if any. If you have a resource at your disposal then spend anywhere up to a few days creating something worthwhile. Content that has been heavily invested in looks like it's been heavily invested in and readers are smart enough to realise this – while your output in terms of quantity might be less, the returns will be much higher
- Anchor text strategy – simply put, exact match links strategically placed around content (even good content) looks unnatural and is likely to raise flags with Google, not to mention too many exact match links are likely to trigger Penguin devaluing the links anyway. Link using brand terms, keyword + brand terms, every day phrases and URL combinations – again it's actually what you'd do naturally anyway.
5. Maintaining Blogger Relationships
An area often overlooked by smaller companies and agencies but if you create a good piece of content for a blogger and they receive lots of visits, social shares and links then they will want to work with you again. While the SEO value of another link from the same domain may be less than from a new domain it is again a positive signal to Google that your website is trusted (and being re-linked to over and over again) – this kind of behaviour is also a pattern that happens naturally.
Don't keep your relationships with your bloggers to that of online only, host offline events and invite the ones you've worked with. Meeting bloggers face to face and involving them in your brand will lead to much more than the occasional link and while many will deny it a large number of bloggers will still ask for money or incentives – offline events are a way of getting around that problem (and keeping within Google's guidelines). To me the initial guest blog post is similar to a first date – you want to leave a good impression, you want to be liked and you don't want to be the one that does all the chasing!
It will take you more time but your results will be far more valuable and sustainable
Taking all these points into account, which is by no means quick or easy, you will start to see much more value come from guest blog posting. Not only that but you should be future proofing a link building technique to help increase your organic visits/revenue and rankings.


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Oeland - My place of birth
Right from the beginning Oeland was an island in the northern part
of Limfjorden in North Jutland, Denmark (not to be mistaken with
the very large island in the Baltic Sea which belongs to Sweden).
Like so many other landscapes in Denmark Oeland was created when
the Ice Age ended 15,000 years ago.
For as long ago as 4-5,000 years there have been people living on
Oeland. This is prooven by several findings of flint tools and
several thousand year old settlements in this area. Local history
records tells about a poor, but very active community which through
hundreds of years have made their living from farmery and
In this little community I was born as the youngest son of merchant
Valdemar Nielsen who had everything from grocery to animal feeding
stuffs and tools for farming in his store.
I love this area. I have always been fascinated by the nature and
the sea and have enjoyed both ever since I was a little boy helping
my father to bring out the groceries to his customers.
All my life Oeland has been connected to the main land and has in
many ways an interesting past that historically is a part of
Denmark's history.
In the years 1160 - 75 a benedictine convent was built on the
island by the bishop Thyge - who was born on Oeland - he had the
convent built so a mother superior and other sisters could serve
"The Allmighty" in a regular lifestyle. To be honest the real
reason for the bishop´s deed was the concern for his own
soul and salvation, and that he with this good deed would change
the earthly with the heavenly and the perishable with the eternal.
Anyhow he gave his fatherly belongings on the island to the convent
shortly before his death.
Later in the year 1500 the Oe convent with a nearby church was
built - today this convent and church serve as Oeland church.
Before that time the convent had its premises in wooden
buildings. Oe convent became richer and richer and as time went on
it owned almost the whole island. At that time it was almost common
practice that the farmers ascribed their properties to the convent
which in return provided them with necessities and food for the
rest of their lives. Of course they had to work hard but they
remained copyholders until they died.
At the Reformation in 1536 Oe convent went to the Crown. For the
next 25 years the convent was managed by Knud Gyldenstjerne (known
from Denmark's history) who was one of Chr. II´s eyeservants.
In 1573 Oe convent was taken over by Frans Banner who was married
to Anna Oxe who again was sister to national butler Peder Oxe.
Frans Branner was so courteus to his wife that he renamed Oe
convent to Oxholm Estate due to the dimensions of its belongings
with landownership outside Oeland.
A statement of ownership outside the estate in 1568, meaning
outside of Oeland was as follows:
161 farms
68 settlements
3 churches
Since then the estate has had many wellknown owners noble of birth
and well respected - amongst them the founder of The East Asian
Company, councellor of state H.N. Andersen who bought it for his
A gold finding
The community on Oeland was not totally isolated prooven by an
event in 1857. A farm-hand from the area on his way to visit his
girlfriend went - to cut off the distance - across "Vejlerne"
surrounding Oeland which he knew very well. Suddenly he got
something heavy around his one foot, he picked it up and
it turned out to be a neck ring of 2 pounds of pure gold.
Later investigations has shown that such rings were worn by
chiefs as a necklace in the years 10-1100 to show their status. How
the ring - now in possession by The National Museum - ended up in
"Vejlerne" will probably forever remain a mystery. The best
part of this story is that the farm-hand who handed over the ring
to right place got himself a reward so large that he could marry
his girlfriend and buy a farm on Oeland. Here he lived with his
wife and children to the end of their lives. The farm is still
there and is inhabbited even today by descendants to the
A witch was to be burned
On November 23rd in 1616 Kirsten Thomasdatter from Oesterby (East
Village) on Oeland was put on trial when 12 churchgoers had sworn
fidelity for her having witchcraft. Now The Middle Age, with its
brutal sense of justice for independent women with their own minds,
had also reached Oeland. Whether the sentence ever was executed or
not there is no proof but let us hope that Kirsten made it. All
this is past time, but exciting to think back on.
The connection to the main land
In the year 1803 Oeland was connected with Brovst and the island
mentality was rapidly changing. The harbour of the island was
fading and all trade and traffic was now sent via road. Later on in
1919 the dam between Oeland and Gjoel was built and in 1921 they
finished the work with the Oeland - Attrup dam. Now great areas in
the northern part of Limfjorden was diked so the area could be
drained and cultivated and the society changed the way of life and
The country side
To live next to an inlet gives you some relations to sea, inlet,
and forrest, and marks you in your everyday lifestyle for the rest
of your life. In the summer it was a natural thing to go for a
daily swim with your family or go catch some fish for the
household in the rich fish stock of the Limfjord.
Basically all of Denmark is represented here in these few square
miles in nature as well as in landscape. My joy of being out door
has been passed on to my whole family. A great passion for my son
and I is playing golf on the lovely golf course on Oeland
which was founded by ARBOGA A/S.
The industry of Oeland - The Fience factory
Naturally in a community this isolated with a poor farm- and
fishing population there is no foundation for great industrial
development. Therefore it is remarkable that as early as in the
year 1814 a fience factory was founded on Oeland. A production with
10 employees could produce up to 40.000 pieces of pots and
other fience a year. It was the owner of Oxholm together with a
master of pottery from Bornholm who started the production to make
economic improvement in the area. A month after the start the owner
of Oxholm died, so the pottery maker went along on his own and got
himself a good market for his pots on the markets in the northern
part of Jutland.
The fience was shipped for Copenhagen and other big cityes directly
from Oeland. Thereby the fience from Oeland was known all over the
country, even in The West Indies there was later on found some
items which probably has been exported directly from
Oeland fience factory ended its production for unknown reasons in
1840. Oeland fience is today a valuable collecting object. The most
valuable examples are though placed in museums in Hjørring, Aalborg
and Copenhagen.
The Mills
To make full use of the corn-growing on Oeland for food for men and
beasts, it was necessary to have mills. As early as in 1662
the first mill was ready and since then 5 more was built, and
through times they have produced flour and grits to the population
on the island. In accordance to nature law the mills were placed
very high in the landscape and at the same time they became
landmarkw for the fishermen doing their occupation on Limfjorden.
One mill has survived until today and in 1985 some local
citizens ended a rebuilding and restoreration of the Oxholm
Mill so today it makes the settings for a local historical
The Fishing
Fishing has always ment a great deal to the life on Oeland. It gave
the extra money for living to the people for things farming could
not give. Herrings were at times caught in big numbers in the
inlet. A more or less systematic salting of the herrings in barrels
could in some times of the year look tend a production. They
were sold on markets in Northern Jutland and at the herring market
in Nibe. The eels were also in big numbers especially in the
wintertime and people walked out on the icecovered inlet, made a
hole and caught this highly appreciated meal with an
My place of birth
As the busy merchant my father was he lived up to the necessary
competitiveness in the local community that influenced our daily
life. He adjusted himself to the demands of the time and he ran his
business until his death in the middle of the 1970's. Luckily I was
able to take over my home of birth and then I was ready to start up
my business producing wet grinders. This was the foundation of
Scantool´s future activity. Later on the production was moved
to Brovst and my place of birth became our present head
My family
My family has always been a very important part of my life -
without them nothing works for me. That is why my
family is an integrated part of my business. My wife, two
of my children and two of my sons in law have their daily activity
here, and two of my children are also living on Oeland. I have
three children and seven granchildren already. In this way, the
change of generations is already ensured, and I can confirdently
look forward to my "third" age with an inner peace.
A childhood dream
My childhood dream has come true. I have succeded in building a
business where I was born. This can form the basis of our active
life also for my descendants so they can remain in this beautiful
part of Denmark.
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ContractR necesitaba un nuevo diseño de animación en Flash y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 63 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Using our existing branding we want a funky, easy to navigate, creative but not crypic website. A Newsletter template is also required which we can add text to and which can be embedded into an email for subscribed users. THEME: Communication
Those Two Girls PR - Please see http://www.thosetwogirls.com for existing logo which will remain. Body Text will change.
The Dedicated PR Company
Desired Color Scheme:
Our logo is prodominently a purple/pink with lime green (?) Pantone reference available. However design does not have to follow this colour scheme but still be complimentry
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Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png)
Using our existing branding we want a funky, easy to navigate, creative but not crypic website.
We need our exsiting branding to evident perhaps by using the tie element featured in our logo and colours. The theme throughout will be Communication (perhaps using design icons/elements which protray communication)
The website size will be 8 - 10 pages with a page for Case studies which will show some of the media coverage we have gotten for clients. Case studies page entitles Our Work will show logo of client name of publications and other media our client has featured in, plus some photos.
We need an impressive 'Wow' Intro so Flash welcome screen would be required.
We would like to see submissions for a template page and template Our Work page.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Flash Animation
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Woman Successfully Grows Ear From Arm
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An anonymous reader writes "In 2008, Sherrie Walters, now 42 years old, discovered that she had rapidly spreading basal cell cancer in her ear. The disease is a type of skin cancer. The doctors pursued an aggressive treatment to combat the destructive disease, removing her ear, part of her skull, and her left ear canal. Though Walters was left without an ear, she was still able to hear with the help of a special hearing aid. A few months ago, doctors from the renowned Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore decided to try a new procedure on Walters. Using cartilage from her rib, the doctors stitched a new ear to match her right one. Then their creation was implanted under the skin of her forearm, where the ear grew for months. …Doctors attached the ear and blood vessels surgically. Another surgery, conducted this week, gave the ear shape and detail. Dr. Patrick Byrne, a revered plastic and reconstructive surgeon, says that after the swelling goes down and the ear heals, Walters will have an ear that both looks and functions normally."
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31 HORROR STORIES -- "Casting the Runes" (1911)@ 12:00 PM
M.R. James, besides being even more fascinatied with the Apocalypse than I am, was one of the greatest ghost story writers who ever lived. He's also got one of the best "creepiest titles" ever for a story -- "O Whistle And I'll Come To You, My Lad" -- even though the pay off of the tale itself isn't that great. And I almost picked "A Warning to the Curious", especially for its description of a ghoul's footprints on a misty, dawn beach, and for the phrase "a lungless laugh".
But "Casting the Runes" (made into the superlative movie CURSE OF THE DEMON in 1958) is his best. It's about a spiritualist/diabolist -- Carswell -- and his knack for slyly cursing his enemies with demon attacks. Carswell himself is based on Alistair Crowley, but James makes him so much more dangerous and threatening than the Old Beast. I love the scene where he terrifies children with a VERY graphic magic lantern show. Also, the slow manfestations of the oncoming demon attack in his latest victim (what's waiting under a pillow one night is unforgettable). You'll never look at a pile of coats the same way again. Or maybe you knew all along...


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Canzler provides pop at Triple-A ASG
Rays prospect smacks three-run homer to lead IL to victory
By Jared Ravich / MLB.com | July 13, 2011 10:20 PM
The International League scored three unearned runs and shut out the Pacific Coast League on three hits Wednesday to claim victory in the 24th Triple-A All-Star Game presented by Zions Bank.
Durham's Russ Canzler (Rays) was named IL Top Star after providing the game's only scoring with a three-run homer to left-center field in the second inning off PCL starter and losing pitcher Brad Mills (Blue Jays) of Las Vegas. All three runs were unearned, however, as the inning began with a costly error at third by Salt Lake's Jeff Baisley (Angels) on a ground ball off the bat of Charlotte's Dayan Viciedo (White Sox).
How tough was it to hit the IL pitching? First baseman David Cooper of the 51s was named PCL Top Star after managing a single and a walk. This, in a ballpark where two nights earlier, high school junior Kayden Porter hit a ball 545 feet in the Home Run Derby.
"I expected to see a lot more offense than there was tonight," said IL skipper Mike Sarbaugh of Columbus. "But it was a well-played game. Our pitching staff did a great job starting with Zach [McAllister]."
PCL manager Lorenzo Bundy had hoped his offense would solve the IL pitchers, even though he knew they wouldn't have the luxury of making adjustments against hurlers coming in for just an inning or two.
"You look down your bench and you look at your lineup and think, 'Oh, it's just three runs.' But their pitching did a great job. ... You have to give the IL a lot of credit for pulling this one out."
Columbus' McAllister (Indians) started for the IL and picked up the win. He allowed the game's first single, a one-out, clean line drive to center off the bat of Omaha's Johnny Giavotella (Royals) and also issued a walk to Reno's Cody Ransom (D-backs), but got out of the first unscathed and retired the side in order with two strikeouts in the second. He then handed the ball over to a bullpen that allowed just two singles in front of a defense that turned three double plays.
"That was the biggest thing, being aggressive," said McAllister. "Just trying to pitch how you normally would during the season. That's what I did, I think that's what everyone did on the pitching staff.
"Throughout the game, guys were making great plays, left and right. The errors happen, but you pick them up as a pitcher and say, 'Here's the next one for you' and hopefully they've got your back. For the most part, they always do."
Meanwhile, one of the game's few pitching mistakes proved to be the difference. Mills had recovered from a leadoff walk to the Clippers' Jason Kipnis in the first to face the minimum, thanks to a 6-4-3 double play turned by Ransom on a grounder by the Bulls' Brandon Guyer. But his second walk -- to Indianapolis' Matt Hague (Pittsburgh) -- set the stage for Canzler to do all the damage the IL would need to claim the win.
"I was in a position coming up to bat with runners in scoring position," said Canzler, his jersey spotted with shaving cream splashed on him by a celebratory Ray Olmedo. "I was a little nervous at the start of the game. I just tried to remind myself to stay aggressive."
Canzler turned on a 1-0 fastball and sent it just over the wall and into a young fan's glove, an estimated 370 feet away.
"It was middle-away, a good pitch to drive."
It looked like the scoring might continue when Kipnis added the game's only double, but Mills retired Guyer to end the threat.
"They scored that a double," Kipnis asked in a jubilant IL clubhouse.
Well, the hitters would have to take what they could get. The next five innings were a pure pitching exhibition.
After Mills departed, the PCL sent Omaha's Luis Mendoza to the hill for a scoreless frame, despite singles by Reds prospects Jeremy Hermida and Devin Mesoraco of Louisville. Then, four straight hurlers -- Albuquerque's Dana Eveland (Dodgers), Fresno's Andrew Kown (Giants), Nashville's Sam Narron (Brewers) and Round Rock's Cody Eppley (Rangers) -- turned in a perfect inning apiece.
"We were good, I dunno," said Eveland. "Guys just went out and did their job. It was fun, laid-back. We weren't worried about the score, just trying to get outs."
Tacoma's Josh Lueke (Mariners) and Colorado Springs' Jim Miller (Rockies) combined on a scoreless eighth, as did Iowa's John Gaub (Cubs) and Sacramento's Willie Eyre (A's) in the ninth.
The IL kept pace, though. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's Adam Warren (Yankees) followed McAllister with two scoreless innings, despite a pair of errors behind him in the infield. Buffalo's Chris Schwinden (Mets) was perfect in the fifth, conjuring up three straight routine grounders. Tom Milone of Syracuse (Nationals) allowed only the single by Cooper in a scoreless sixth.
Things did get interesting in the bottom of the seventh, when Tucson's Aaron Cunningham (Padres) coaxed a leadoff walk from the Knights' Shane Lindsay. Cunningham took second on a wild pitch and reached third on a groundout by the Bees' Gil Velazquez. A two-out walk to Aces catcher Konrad Schmidt put runners at the corners.
IL skipper Mark Sarbaugh called on Rochester's Chuck James (Twins) to face Oklahoma City's J.B. Shuck (Astros), who worked the count full and ultimately drew a walk to load the bases. But James recovered to fan Reno's Tony Abreu and preserve the IL's suddenly vulnerable 3-0 lead.
James recorded an out in the eighth before handing the ball to Lehigh Valley's Michael Schwimer (Phillies). Fellow Iron Pig Mike Zagurski retired two PCL batters in the ninth, and Norfolk's Mark Worrell (Orioles) got New Orleans' Vinny Rottino (Marlins) to ground out to short to end the game.
Jared Ravich is a Senior Technical Producer at MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JaredRavich This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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