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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Body Image Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Body Image Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message 4B TeacherJoined: 26 Nov 2009Posts: 12Location: Australia Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject: Body Image There have been several articles in the Australian newspapers recently about body image, particularly the manipulation of photographs of models and famous film stars to make them look younger, thinner, more attractive. A common method is called 'air brushing'. Last month's issue of the Australian Women's Weekly included an interview with a famous former model who insisted on appearing in the magazine WITHOUT any air-brushing, and with minimal make up. Although you can see some lines on her face and skin blemishes, she still looks so beautiful. I think she looks like a REAL woman !!! What do you think about altering images of models and film stars ? Back to top stone-4bestJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 4 Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:47 am Post subject: body is my body When you flick through magazines,tv program,movie, it's pretty hard to escape all the so-called "beautiful people". Thin or muscly; pretty or handsome . one disavatege of altering images of models and film stars would be that, not a few of people compare themselves to models. It can affect the way we feel about our bodies which can lead to eating disorders and other health problems. the govermant should stamp out because they say they're not real. So it's gathered some of the best brains to help make us feel better about the way we look and help us feel a whole lot better about the real we're Back to top jjjkkkJoined: 31 Mar 2010Posts: 2Location: Taiwan Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 5:49 am Post subject: I watched some news about this issue. Though I had known that pictures would be changed a lot by some tools like Photoshop, I still couldnt believe that news. By air-brushing, models or stars can be thinner, have a perfect face or longer legs. Im so shock about that! Besides, these stars and models build a dream that ordinary people can dream of. Therefore, they have to be perfect. People would build their body images through images gave by celebrity. Gradually, people would pursue a perfect body then cause some health problems. Therefore, I think the way that models showed what they really are is great and helpful for altering peoples body images toward themselves. Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:24 am Post subject: //Though I had known that pictures would be changed a lot by some tools like Photoshop, I still couldnt believe that news // Yeah, seeing is believing. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/13/britney-spears-reveals-un_n_535981.html http://jezebel.com/278919/heres-our-winner-redbook-shatters-our-faith-in-well-not-publishing-but-maybe-god Back to top rachard1583Joined: 15 Aug 2010Posts: 10 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 3:47 am Post subject: Britney Spears is airbrushed She looks great in both versions, but after airbrushing her back tattoo is gone, her skin smoothed and she is slimmed down all over. However, my mind cannot able believe the which is original one. It is possible to make one person like this?_________________College Students & Recent Grads Resource Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current News All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group

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Trip Report: Caffè Amici Espresso @ Montgomery St.
Posted by TheShot on 04 May 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This is the sister café to the one on 15th Street in Potrero Hill by the same name. It just barely opened this week on the former site of a shut down Torrefazione Italia. It's so new, the cash register wasn't working when I visited, and the staff were making receipts with pencil and paper.
Inside, this café retained the same layout and many of the same features as the former "TI" on this site. There are five small indoor tables — and two outdoors along the sidewalk in the building shade, with displayed bags of Caffè Umbria beans and Deruta kettles.
One change from TI is that they replaced their dual two-group Elektra machines with dueling two-group La Spaziale machines. They serve espresso with a rich, darker brown crema that's somewhat thick and definitely persists. Impressive given their limited investments in equipment. Flavorwise, it has an almost tangy, pungent taste of clove, hints of pine, and a small bit of pipe tobacco. Also like TI, they serve espresso in hand-painted Deruta cups — though here with Caffè Amici branding.
So far, the replacements at former Torrefazione Italia locations have been a mixed bag of both good and bad. But this is a surprisingly good newcomer to the downtown area.
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[…] This is a nearly identical fate that befell the once-grand Torrefazione Italia chain. In 1998, it too was acquired by a larger conglomerate, Seattle's Best Coffee, and then proceeded to go down the tubes in terms of coffee quality, the skill level of staff, and even the amenities for customers. Then Starbucks bought the lot, dropping the quality even further into the gutter. Torrefazione Italia was almost unrecognizable before Starbucks finally rebranded them with the green mermaid and Pottery Barn CD collections (or closed them down entirely). […]


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MLB rumors: Veteran Michael Young may retire
Seven-time All-Star Michael Young is "strongly considering retirement" despite the interest of several teams in signing him, FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports .
"Young, 37, wants to spend more time at home with his wife and three sons," Rosenthal reports. "That would be his reason to retire."
The 2005 American League batting champion split last season between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers. He hit .279/.335/.395 in 565 plate appearances, with eight home runs. He also played all four infield positions.
The Dodgers, New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals are among the teams that reportedly have shown interest in the veteran.
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Graduate Association of Psychology
The Graduate Association of Psychology (The GAP) is a graduate student organization brought together to serve the community through its research and application of psychology as a human science. Activities for the organization include conferences, socials, guest speakers, lectures, and professional and volunteer service.
Membership of the Association is made up of current Duquesne University graduate students in psychology, its alumni members, and friends.
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Cluster air purifying plants to create a green scene.
After lengthy studies, the folks at NASA have definitively established that indoor plants can help astronauts breathe cleaner, less toxic air while in outer space.
What NASA found in a study, performed in conjunction with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America, is that houseplants can effectively remove chemicals that foul our indoor air, including formaldehyde and benzene, two known carcinogens.
In addition to adding beauty, texture and fragrance, houseplants also serve a vital role in keeping the air clean in our homes and workplaces. Here are a few tips for growing healthy houseplants that just might help keep us healthy.
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The key to growing air-purifying houseplants is proper placement and consistent care. In general, houseplants like to be placed in areas with humidity around 45 percent, which is a desirable range for most homes. What they don't like is an environment that is extremely dry, which is often the case when placed near indoor heat sources. Conversely, they won't thrive where cold drafts prevail, either.
Light Requirements
Not all houseplants have the same light requirements. Most prefer filtered light to direct sunlight. If a south-facing window is your choice for plant placement, a thin, partially transparent curtain will help filter the harsh light, especially in summer when our days are longer and the sun more intense. Some plants, such as geraniums and hibiscus, will actually thrive in the direct sunlight, while rubber plants will do better in a shady corner.
Many people often proclaim, "give me a houseplant and I'll kill it." Or, if a plant looks sickly or the leaves are turning yellow, they insist it needs fertilizer. Most likely the culprit is over- or under watering. More plants are killed with kindness than neglect. The ideal method to water most houseplants is to provide a good soaking of room temperature water, then let it dry out before watering again. There are exceptions to the rule: African violets and poinsettias enjoy a constantly moist—but not wet—growing medium.
Always provide good drainage! Remove any decorative baskets or plastic wrap your houseplants might have come in. Check to make sure that there are drainage holes in the bottom of the pot. Although it's fine to set plastic saucers or trays under the pots to catch excess water, don't let the plant sit in standing water for more than about an hour.
Root bound plants, like this wandering Jew (Tradescandia) should be transplanted to a slightly larger pot or split up into multiple plants.
Choose a time to water and try to stick with it. A weekly schedule is ideal; if you miss a week your houseplants won't die, but after several weeks of neglect you'll be accused of being a plant killer.
Potting mix
Houseplants do best in a quality growing medium. The mix should be a loose, sterile blend of soilless ingredients — including sphagnum peat moss, perlite and vermiculite. I like to bulk up this mixture by tossing in a few of my own ingredients. Lately I've been adding a handful of fine clay, used for potting bonsai, to help retain moisture. A third of the mixture in my pots is a sterile compost or other organic amendment. This material results in improved water- and nutrient-holding capacity and better-looking houseplants.
A light feeding with houseplant fertilizer will keep your plants nice and green. It also will help the plant fend off insect and disease problems. A slow-release fertilizer will keep plants fed over a three-month period. Or use a light monthly feeding of a water-soluble fertilizer specifically formulated for houseplants. Always read and follow the label instructions.
Pests and Disease
The first line of defense for insects and disease is prevention. This is particularly true of disease problems, such as fungus and mildew, which are much easier to prevent than treat. Always use sterile mixes for potting and repotting and keep leaf litter cleaned up. Be careful when bringing plants in from outdoors, from a friend down the street or the garden center. Infestations are not uncommon from these sources and can be easily avoided.
These plants are easy to grow and will filter toxins, such as formaldehyde, xylene and even small amounts of carbon monoxide, from the air:
Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum)
Give new plants a shower or quarantine them for a few weeks of observation before introducing them to your other houseplants. Fungus problems, such as powdery mildew, can be controlled by treating with a fungicide as a preventative measure on plants susceptible to the disease.
Despite your best efforts, it is still quite possible to be plagued by insect and diseases. At least with insects we know who's showing up for dinner. There's about a half dozen insects that will try to undermine your efforts to grow nice houseplants.
Sucking Insects
Aphids, spider mites and scale are common sucking-type pests that will go after your houseplants. The telltale sign of an infestation of these critters is a sticky substance on the leaves. Aphids, a very tiny soft-shelled insect, will appear as a cluster under the leaves and around the stems. A spider mite infestation is evidenced by a thin webbing throughout the upper portion of the plant. Spider mites thrive in warm, dry conditions. Scale is a hard-shell insect that appears as brown spots, mostly on the leaves. Schefflera is particularly susceptible to scale. To a lesser degree you may encounter whiteflies and thrips—at least we did in the greenhouse. You can use a plant-based insecticide containing pyrethrum to control these bugs. Always read and follow the product's label instructions.
A good initial treatment for all of the above infestations is to take the plant outdoors in warm weather and wash the insects off with warm water. In cold weather, give the plants a shower in the bath tub, sink or shower. Once dry, spray the plant with a plant based insecticide.
Quarantine the infested plant from your other houseplants. Severe infestations may warrant discarding the plant in the dumpster.
A version of this article appeared in a January/February 2013 print edition of State-by-State Gardening.
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The carrots planted in our winter garden are still coming to fruition and the end of March has already passed. The carrot seeds, being so small, were sown directly into the prepared garden bed. We chose an heirloom mix with three different colored carrot roots: orange, purple and white. They have a mild and sweet flavor.
As beautiful as carrots are, it's the carrot tops that really get your attention. The lush, green, parsley like foliage is so gorgeous, it's a shame to just cast it into the compost pile like it doesn't have anything of value to offer. So before I decapitated those fluffy green tops from the long, stocky and stubby roots they were attached to I did a quick search on the internet to see whether they were edible. What was discovered is that indeed, carrot tops are quite edible and full of nutrition, especially vitamin K, but also minerals and proteins. Use caution however, especially if you have skin sensitivities, apparently there is some evidence that people can get a skin irritation from eating carrot tops called photo dermatitis.
The good news is you don't have to discard your beautiful carrot tops anymore, instead use them like any other green. Therefore they can be used either raw or cooked; in soups, salads, juice and green smoothies. I decided to use mine in our salad tonight as well as in a new recipe called mean greens I came across from the Happy Healthy Human raw food restaurant in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida at 1869 South Patrick Drive.
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Learn how Oracle HCM Cloud streamlined a merger of more than 40,000 new employees, simplified HR functions, and enhanced the employee experience.
Learn how this fast-growing Chilean nonprofit disability rehabilitation institution uses Oracle HCM Cloud to deliver real-time information and measure treatment productivity.
Achieve radically superior results, drive digital transformation, and grow confidently.
In today's healthcare environment, HR leaders in the healthcare provider industry must ensure that their organization is agile and ready for growth while supporting compliance and delivering excellent patient care. Oracle Modern Best Practice leverages mobile, social, analytics, the Internet of Things, big data, and the cloud for more efficient and responsive HR management, enabling you to engage and empower your staff, improve employee retention, and help them work more productively—anytime, anywhere—from any device. Gain a holistic view across the institution and understand current and future talent pipelines. Use workforce modeling and prediction to identify staffing needs and turnover trends. Promote social sourcing to accelerate and target top talent recruiting. Review this modern best practice to help you prepare for tomorrow's workforce needs.
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Horse-drawn carriage in Seville's Plaza de España square
How would you like to discover part of the city of Seville from aboard a luxury boat as you cruise the River Guadalquivir? You'll love the views of the city from the solarium on the deck. And on land, there are numerous options for taking an original tour of the city. One way is to have a horse-drawn carriage pick you up at your hotel and take you for a quiet ride through the most typical districts and charming green areas such as the María Luisa Park. To visit Seville's monuments in a unique way, why not book a private night tour of the Real Alcázar Palace and see it lit up? And to round off a perfect trip, what could be better than spending a day at the shops with advice from a group of stylists and a Personal Shopper to guide you to the trendiest stores in Seville?
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Precise load settings may vary due to: (1) the analogue nature of the calibrated spring tensioner and the precision with which the load is selected; (2) a small effect of inspiratory flow rate upon spring compression such that high inspiratory flow rates lead to greater spring compression, and a small increase in load.
This effect is common to all spring loaded devices, and its size is magnified by increasing spring range (it is larger in a spring with a maximum range of 90cmH2O compared with one with half this range), it is also greater at lower absolute load settings.
POWERbreathe is a scientifically proven Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) device, developed by leading scientists for improving the strength and endurance of the muscles used to breathe in, primarily the diaphragm and intercostals / rib cage muscles.
As with any other muscle, respiratory muscles can be trained so that they are more resistant to fatigue. This resistance to fatigue results in reduced breathlessness and enhanced exericse tolerance.
POWERbreathe Plus uses scientifically proven Pressure Threshold Training. This provides a specific and consistent pressure to train against. When breathing in through POWERbreathe the load calibrated spring provides the resistance.
POWERbreathe is drug free, suitable for almost anyone and should cause no harmful side effects when used properly. Please read the following precautions and contraindications to ensure that you use your POWERbreathe safely and appropriately.
If you have any doubts about POWERbreathe's suitability, or you have a medical condition, please consult your doctor.
Inspiratory muscle training, such as training with POWERbreathe, is not recommended for patients with certain conditions, including the following:
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The JPS Foundation serves as the bridge to connect community leaders and benefactors with JPS Health Network to create healthier communities, particularly those who are most in need. While JPS receives some property tax dollars, the care provided could never be done without additional funding. The JPS Foundation exists to secure philanthropic gifts, goods and grants, providing service and support to improve the health status of families receiving health care via JPS.
Click here to become a donor or call us at 817-702-7310.
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Phone: 817-702-7310
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Meet our Foundation board and staff.
JPS depends on you to invest in a healthier Tarrant County.
Please consider making a gift to make lives better for those who depend on JPS.
JPS Health Network provides outstanding compassionate care to Tarrant County residents which translates into over 1.8 million patient encounters each year. With more than 6,500 team members, JPS is dedicated to making lives better in the community it serves.
- JPS is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Tarrant County.
- JPS is the only public hospital in the nation certified for heart attack, sepsis, stroke and trauma care.
- JPS has the only Psychiatric Emergency Center in Tarrant County.
- JPS is ranked 51 out of 150 organizations nationwide in Modern Healthcare's 2017 Best Places to Work.
- JPS has 48 caregivers certified as Geriatric Resource Nurses who specialize in early recognition and prevention of delirium.
- JPS has 19 school-based clinics in Tarrant County.
- JPS received the 2017 Environmental Services Department of the Year award for large hospitals by the Association for Healthcare Environment.
- JPS ranks among the nation's top hospitals for employee engagement.
- JPS provides cutting-edge healthcare through its nationally recognized Behavioral Health Department.
- JPS has more than 60 unique sites of care in Tarrant County.


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The FL Studio 9.9 Beta introduces the 'Patcher' plugin. In this video the Guru runs though some basic operational principles. Patcher will load as an Instrument Channel or Effect and from there you can happily chain both instrument and effects plugins.
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Ellen Page
Ellen Page is the petite star of the 2007 comedy Juno (with Michael Cera). Raised in Nova Scotia, she began her career on the stage as a child. Canadian audiences got to know her through her television work, including Pit Pony in 1999, the television movie Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2003) and the sci-fi series ReGenesis (2004). She won international attention for her role in the pedophilia-laced thriller Hard Candy (2006), and that performance led to a part as Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, starring Hugh Jackman). Her turn in Juno, Diablo Cody's tale of a teen handling pregnancy with pluck and ironic humor, made Page a star and won her an Oscar nomination as best actress. She followed Juno with the 2008 film Smart People (with Thomas Haden Church). Page is also known for her many dark indie dramas, including Marion Bridge (2002), Mouth to Mouth (2005), An American Crime (2007) and Inception (2010, starring Leonardo DiCaprio).
Ellen Page announced publically that she is gay in February of 2014. She told a gathering of LGBT youth at the Time to Thrive conference in Las Vegas, "I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain"… Marion Cotillard (in La Vie En Rose) won the best actress Oscar the same year Ellen Page was nominated for Juno.
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Eastwood Guitars has opened up the time machine again. This time, they've brought the Airline Bobkat back to life.
Based on the Harmony Bobkat model, which was produced from 1963 to 1966, and was also branded by Airline, Supro, Kay and many others, the Bobkat is fun playing guitar that in its day was the "go to" model for students and pros. And the new Airline Bobkat, with a street price of less than $400 US is on target to hit that same market.
"The Bobkat is just way too much fun to play" says Mike Robinson, president and founder of Eastwood Guitars. "The single coil and the feel of this guitar are just so bang-on '60s, you'll think it's vintage."
The Airline Bobkat is a 25 1/2-inch scale solid basswood guitar with a bolt-on bound maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, dot markers and a 1 5/8-inch width at the nut. This retro-style guitar is true to the '60s vibe with a fixed adjustable wooden bridge and features the Airline Single-Coil Vintage Argyle Pickup with a solo/rhythm switch and a volume and tone control. Fans of the original model will be glad to hear that Eastwood has also added an adjustable truss rod to make this a truly playable guitar. The Airline Bobkat comes in a bright candy apple red and features a raised white Airline logo on the matching red headstock.
Eastwood Airline Bobkat features:
• Body: Basswood
• Neck: Bolt-on Maple
• Fingerboard: Rosewood, Dot Markers
• Scale Length: 25 1/2″ (648mm)
• Width at Nut: 1 5/8″
• Pickups: Single Airline Vintage Argyle
• Switching: Solo/Rhythm
• Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone
• Bridge: Fixed Adjustable Wooden
• Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
• Colors: Candy Red
For more about this and other Eastwood models, visit eastwoodguitars.com.


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Religious reforms and civil conflicts produced excitement, division, chaos, and horror during the European Wars of Religion. In this seminar, participants will explore the religious conflicts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the experiences of the people who lived through them. Participants will confront various faces of religious violence, from iconoclasm and book burning to executions of heretics and religious massacres, as well as the problems of peacemaking during religious conflict. The seminar also offers participants a chance to consider the difficult questions posed by religious violence outside the charged contexts of religious violence in contemporary societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Algeria, Palestine, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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so i'm having 3 for loops inside each other. First for loop will be for the panels creation, Second for loop is for the labels and the third for loop is for the JTextFields
I have a tabbedPane with tabs Monday - Friday. Under each tab i wish it to be set out like this:
MONDAY - TextBox
MONDAY - TextBox
MONDAY - TextBox
Tuesday will of course be TUESDAY etc.. here is the code for the for loop:
public void panelSetup(){ for(int i = 1; i <= 6; i++){ panel[i] = new Panel(); for(int f = 0; f < 5; f++){ panel[i].add(arrLabel[f][0]); for(int x = 0; x <= 8; x++){ txtBox[x] = new JTextField("", 10); panel[i].add(txtBox[x]); } } } }
The problem is that it seems to be adding up the ammount of text boxes per tab and displaying them in each tab. so instead of 9 textfields its displaying 45 per tab. and the JLabel is displaying only on the final tab which is displaying 1 of each day before that tabs 9 textboxes start. image provided below..
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text: Citing abysmal take rates of less than 1.5%, Chrysler is discontinuing the all-wheel-drive versions of the Dodge Avenger, Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Caliber beginning in 2009. Chrysler mentions lack of consumer interest and reduced fuel economy as prime reasons for dropping the option; Borg Warner, the AWD supplier, thinks Chrysler is jumping the gun, claiming that AWD penetration on small cars is on the upswing worldwide. We think Borg Warner is probably right about AWD overall, but Chrysler knows the Sebring and Avenger are already uncompetitive, so why mess with the added cost of offering an additional, rarely ordered option? [Automobile]


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Grouse, boar, patridge, hare.
They're the main attraction of a Feb. 20 wine-paired wild-game dinner at Palm Beach's Cafe Boulud.
The dinner, which begins at 7 p.m., includes five courses. The four gamey courses: rilletes of wild Scottish grouse with port wine and juniper gelee; wild boar venison-and-fois gras terrine; Scottish red-leg partridge with winter vegetables, black truffle and Brussels-sprouts tartlette; and civet of wild hare in red wine with gnocchi, wild mushrooms and braised kale.
Rhone Valley wines, ranging from Chateau de Manissy Tavel 2011 to Domaine Les Grands Bois, Cotes-du-Rhone Voignier 2011, will be served with dinner, which is $195 a person.
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Video of madtom foraging at night
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Posted 23 May 2008 - 05:44 AM
I just recently learned about madtoms and was thinking of getting one until I found out they don't live anywhere near me. And of course they are hard to breed and no one seems to be selling them.
Posted 24 May 2008 - 08:40 PM
I've always wanted Madtoms, but of course they are not allowed into the U.K. for fear of being released into our waters but we can always admire from afar As far as I know you may have to have permission in some States to catch them as some are protected.
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Posted 25 May 2008 - 04:45 AM
Very true--some are quite rare and not allowed to be taken. However, other types are caught using a seine and then used as bait because they are so plentiful. I find that practice to be extremely tragic and disturbing. So I wanted to "save" one or two but as I said they live far away in the eastern states and I'm in the Pacific NW.
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DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, Denver police said on Wednesday.
The Russian-born Varlamov, who has led the team to first place in the National Hockey League's Central Division this season, turned himself into police after an arrest warrant was issued for second-degree kidnapping and third-degree assault, Denver police spokesman Sergeant Steve Warneke said.
Warneke said the incident happened on Tuesday, and he did not know if the alleged victim was a wife, girlfriend or someone else.
Varlamov, 25, is being held in the Denver County jail.
"In domestic cases, a suspect can't bond out until they see a judge," Warneke told Reuters.
Varlamov is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, according to the Denver County Sheriff's Department website.
The Avalanche issued a statement on its website, saying the team's management was aware of the allegations.
"At this time, and until the conclusion of this investigation, the Avalanche organization will have no further comment on this situation," the statement said.
The kidnapping charge is a felony and the assault charge is a misdemeanor, police said.
The Avalanche, who finished in last place in the Western Conference last season, are off to a 10-1 start under new coach Patrick Roy, the Hall of Fame goaltender who won two Stanley Cup championships when he played for the Avalanche.
Seven of Colorado's wins this season have come with Varlamov as goalie.
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It's nearly impossible to beat four aces, which explains why the third-ranked Chico State baseball team has yet to lose a series in 2013. Kagen Hopkins, last year's undisputed ace but playing the role of fourth starter this season, threw seven shutout innings as the Wildcats salvaged a series split against UC San Diego with a 3-1 victory Sunday at Nettleton Stadium.
Hopkins has now compiled 20 consecutive scoreless innings (Or Eggo's if you like, since his twitter handle is KegoMyEggo) while improving to 7-0 and lowering his ERA to 1.97. His career winning percentage of .789 (15-4) is the fifth highest in school history among pitchers with at least 18 decision.
Hopkins, Nick Baker, Troy Neiman, and Mike Botelho – the team's current starting rotation – is a combined 25-6 with a 1.79 ERA. The fearsome foursome has held opposing hitters to a .212 batting average and boasts a combined WHIP of 0.97.
So no, Head Coach Dave Taylor hasn't been working out. He just has four aces up his sleeves.
All of that has helped the Wildcats win seven series (five via sweep) and split the other three.
Third-ranked Chico State improved to 32-8 overall and 25-7 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) and is now one win or one Cal State East Bay loss away from clinching its 17th postseason berth in the past 18 seasons. The top four teams in the final conference standings advance to the CCAA Championship Tournament, which the Wildcats have participated in 13 times in their 14 years in the conference.
The team's 32 wins are the program's most through 40 games since winning 32 in 2007 and tied for the fourth most ever. The 2002 team started 35-5, the 2000 squad started 34-6 and the 1997 team started 33-7.
Chico State got all the offense it would need in the first inning. Eric Angerer led off with a walk, and after Cody Webber reached on a wild pitch after striking out, Blake Gibbs drove in the game's first run with a single to center. Austin Prott then peeled a single through the right side for a 2-0 lead.
The Wildcats finally added to their lead in the eighth on Jon Peters' pinch-hit double that made it 3-0.
Morgan Yee pitched the final two frames to earn his first save as a Wildcat. He allowed a hard-luck run in the ninth after Gibbs and Ryne Clark miscommunicated on a catchable ball in right-center leading off the ninth.
Yee got a grounder to short to end the ninth, and when Eric Angerer squeezed the final out at first, the defending CCAA-Champion Wildcats' conference lead over Cal State L.A. was officially two games with eight to play.
Chico State will play a four-game series against Sonoma State next weekend and then wrap up the regular season at home against Cal State L.A. May 3-5.
UC San Diego, the team the Wildcats tied with for last year's conference title, was officially limited from championship contention. The Tritons, now 22-20 overall and 16-16 in the CCAA, are three games behind Sonoma State for the all-important fourth spot.
Story courtesy Rory Miller-Chico State Sports Information
ROHNERT PARK – The Chico State softball team has been burned several times this season when opponents staged rallies late in the game to deny the Wildcats a victory – but Saturday in Rohnert Park, it was the Wildcats' turn to apply some late-inning heartbreak. The 'Cats posted a pair of dramatic wins over No. 16 Sonoma State, scoring a run in the eighth inning to nip the Seawolves 2-1 in the opener of the twinbill, then in the nightcap plating three runs in the sixth inning to pull out a 3-2 win and complete the doubleheader and series sweep.
Saturday's wins not only improves Chico State's season record to 23-21, but moves the Wildcats into third place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) standings with a 20-12 conference mark. With the doubleheader loss, Sonoma State slips to 32-16 overall and into fourth place in the CCAA with a 19-13 conference record.
With Cal State Dominguez Hills completing a four-game weekend sweep of Cal State Monterey Bay – effectively knocking the Otters out of postseason contention – Chico State's magic number for securing one of the four CCAA Championship Tournament berths is now two. Any combination of Wildcat wins and Toros losses totaling two next weekend, and Chico State will be playing in Stockton May 3-5 with a chance to win the conference tourney and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship Tournament.
Sonoma State opened the scoring in game one of Saturday's double dip, as Ali Palermo led off the bottom of the second inning with a double and came home on a base hit by Hayley Condon. Chico State answered in the top of the third when Keefe singled and scored on a two-out double by Gonzalez.
Pitchers Kayla McConnell of the Wildcats and the Seawolves' Samantha Lipperd matched each other zero for zero for the next four frames, forcing the contest into extra innings. In the top of the eighth, Chico State would take the lead when Gonzalez reached on an error, advanced to second on a pinch-hit single by Molina, and scored on Cordeiro's double to left field.
Sonoma State made it interesting in the bottom of the eighth, getting the potential tying and winning run on base with two outs, but McConnell struck out Holli Brown to end it, giving the Wildcats the 2-1 victory.
McConnell improved to 7-10 on the season with the complete game win, allowing just six hits while striking out four. Keefe and Cordeiro each delivered two hits to pace the 'Cats' six-hit attack.
Molina and Sonoma State's Amanda Llerena hooked up in an impressive pitcher's duel early in the nightcap – Llerna, in fact, allowed just one Chico State hit – a third inning double by Taylor Hanamaikai – through the first five frames. The Seawolves used the long ball to jump on top in the bottom of the fourth – with Vanessa Currie aboard, Palermo launched her 12th home run of the season over the left field fence, giving Sonoma State a 2-0 lead.
It stayed that way until the top of the sixth inning, when the Wildcat offense came alive. Singles by Keefe and Alli Cook set the stage for Gonzalez, who laced a two-out double to right-center to plate both runners and tie the score. Molina followed with a single to right to drive in Gonzalez to put Chico State in front 3-2.
For one of the very few times this season, there would be no late-inning drama, as Molina retired the last six Sonoma State batters she faced, setting down the Seawolves in order in the bottom of the sixth and bottom of the seventh to secure the Wildcats' 3-2 win and completing the doubleheader and series sweep – the first time since 2004 that Chico State has swept a season series against Sonoma State.
Molina registered her 16th complete game of the year, raising her season record to 13-6. Chico State tallied six hits in the contest – five coming in the decisive sixth inning.
The Wildcats conclude the regular season next Friday and Saturday, hosting UC San Diego for a four-game series at University Softball Field. Cal State Dominguez Hills wraps up regulation play next weekend at home versus Cal State Stanislaus.
(AP) — Barry Zito (ZEE'-toh) and Chad Gaudin combined on a six-hitter, Buster Posey homered and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 5-0 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Zito (3-1) bounced back from the worst start of big league career to defeat the Padres for the first time in nearly two years. He allowed five hits in seven innings, struck out four, walked one and did not give up run for the third time in four starts.
Posey's first home run of the season was just the 11th this year for the power-starved Giants.
Before the two-out, two-run drive off Eric Stults (2-2) in the fifth, Hunter Pence, Pablo Sandoval and Brandon Crawford had accounted for all of San Francisco's homers. The Giants open a three game set against the Arizona Diamondbacks at AT & T tonight. Game time is at 7:15 with our pre-game on 101.7 FM and AM 1340 Fox Sports Chico at 6:45pm
(AP) — Roberto Hernandez pitched six effective innings Sunday for his first win since he was known as Fausto Carmona, and the Tampa Bay Rays complete a three-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with an 8-1 victory.
Hernandez (1-3) allowed one run, three hits, three walks and had seven strikeouts in his first win since Sept. 20, 2011, while with Cleveland.
The 32-year old right-hander was arrested in January 2012 in the Dominican Republic on false identity charges — as Carmona. They were dropped after he completed a work program.
Oakland starter Tommy Milone (3-1) had his season-opening three-game winning streak end.
The left-hander gave up six runs and eight hits over 6 2-3 innings.
(AP) — The Golden State Warriors got a double dose of bad news Sunday.
They learned All-Star forward David Lee had torn his right hip flexor, as feared, ending his season.
So, they'll have to continue their playoff series against Denver without the NBA's leader in double-doubles.
Making that task all the more difficult will be the return of the Nuggets' top rebounder and energizer, Kenneth Faried, from an injured ankle.
Faried sat out the opener Saturday, when the Nuggets edged Golden State 97-95 despite getting outrebounded 55-45.
(AP) — Ryan Johansen scored the tiebreaking goal with 1:37 remaining to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a big boost in their push for the playoffs with a 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.
Mark Letestu scored twice and Vinny Prospal also scored for the Blue Jackets, who moved into a tie for seventh place with Minnesota in the Western Conference with 51 points. Columbus has played one more game than the Wild and two more than the ninth-place Detroit Red Wings, who are three points back in the race for the final playoff spot.
Marty Havlat, Andrew Desjardins (day-zhar-DAN') and Joe Pavelski scored for the Sharks, who needed only to take the game to overtime to clinch a ninth-straight playoff berth.
Antti Niemi (AN'-tee nee-YEH'-mee) made 18 saves.
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'Abe Trade' Is Expected to Flourish in Japan
Fresh from a landslide election victory, Japan's next prime minister, Shinzo Abe, pressed ahead with his top priority of reviving the sickly economy, vowing a hefty spending package and increasing pressure on the central bank. Photo: Bloomberg News.
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The Athena lacrosse team rallied from two goals down with under a minute remaining in overtime and went on to beat the Ducks of Stevens Institute of Technology 11-10 in the sudden-victory second overtime. CMS improved to 3-3 with the win.
CMS dominated the first 20 minutes of play and led 6-1 with just under 10 minutes remaining in the first half and 7-4 at halftime. The teams traded goals in the early minutes of the second half, but Stevens scored three straight goals over three and half minutes midway through the half to tie the game at eight. Neither team was able to score a game-winner over the final 14:19 of the game and the game headed into a six minute overtime period.
Stevens scored midway through the overtime and looked to secure the victory with 1:12 remaining when the Athenas launched their comeback. Izzy Laterzo scored with 47 seconds remaining to cut the deficit to one and Christina Coffin tied the game on a free position shot with seven seconds remaining. Coffin also scored the game-winner for CMS 1:19 into the second overtime.
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AFTER careful consideration, Jessica Hanff has found the ideal spot for the art that her 4-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, brings home from preschool: the trash can.
"We're getting two to four pieces of crayon drawing a day," said Ms. Hanff, a 36-year-old operations manager for an academic research institute. On a recent Tuesday, Ms. Hanff began sorting through a few dozen of Elisabeth's drawings, stacked in the mudroom of the family's Washington home.
"These are printouts off the computer, colored in," she said. "C is for Cat! And she's scribbled some things on it. This is Dora the Explorer." Ms. Hanff stopped to observe the purplish rings that Elisabeth had marked around Dora's eyes. "It looks like someone slapped her in the face. She's got these big shiners."
Ms. Hanff is always on the lookout for "exceptional" drawings. But this entire batch would soon be archived in the rubbish bin. "I'm not sentimental about those at all," she said. "It's my job to avoid raising a hoarder, and I'm leading by example."
But Elisabeth has been known to fish her drawings out of the trash and present them to her mother. "I'll say, 'Oh, thank you,' " Ms. Hanff said. "We'll have a discussion. I'm not callous. But once she turns away, often I'll toss it out again."
Elisabeth's creative work, it should be noted, can be found all over the house. (At this point, her 2-year-old sister, Charlotte, doesn't claim as much wall space.) Elisabeth started embroidering last year. And her grandmother gave her a grown-up watercolor set. In a vaguely Dadaist spirit, Elisabeth used a floret of broccoli to paint the pointillist color study that hangs in her bedroom.
"I do think my kids are awesome," Ms. Hanff said. "I tell them how great they are. But we're not going to build an addition on the back for every piece of crayon art they've ever done."
We all want our children to be creative. But do they have to be so prolific? Once children enter nursery school, every day produces another masterpiece. Presidents' Day brings a cotton ball wig; Purim means a bean-box rattle.
Forget about organizing the pieces in a storage bin. This is a job for a shipping container.
All this art may or may not tell us something about the nature of the child. But it reveals plenty about the parents. Do they lavish praise on every piece or barely glance up from the iPhone? Do they frame art for the grandparents or turn it into wrapping paper? In the plainest sense, is the parent a keeper or a chucker?
No one has quantified just how much art children create at school, said David Burton, a professor of art education at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. But having worked in the field for more than 40 years, Dr. Burton rebuts the notion that present-day parents have coddled and attaboy-ed their children into overproducing.
Art classrooms of the 1960s and '70s followed "a philosophy of make and take," Dr. Burton said. That is, at the end of every 40-minute class, an art project would be ready for Mom and Dad. Art educators today have been trained to encourage a deeper exploration of material, process and theory.
At the same time, Dr. Burton said, tots now start scribbling with ergonomic crayons by the age of 18 months: "Years and years ago, people — even art educators — believed that children would just waste materials when they were really toddlers."
Art can be valuable to the development of even the youngest children, Dr. Burton said. Drawing, for instance, helps build cognitive and fine motor skills. And it teaches children to observe and discriminate when it comes to color, shape and form. Young children can sometimes draw emotions that go beyond their words, he added.
But how much does a 4-year-old boy really care about his 50th portrait of Thomas the Tank Engine? "Once they're through with it, they may lose interest in it very quickly," Dr. Burton said. "The process is more important than the product for the child."
Still, the curator of the refrigerator door can't be too ruthless. When Dad de-accessions a new finger painting overnight, Dr. Burton said, "the child quickly learns that this art that they're making is very ephemeral." In other words, worthless.
TRACY MILLER, a 44-year-old mother of two, hardly needs to be sold on the value of art. She is a painter herself, with a solo show this month at the Feature Inc gallery on the Lower East Side. The basement studio of her family's 1,400-square-foot row house in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn is stuffed with 6-by-6-foot canvases.
Yet however challenging it can be to edit her own work, Ms. Miller finds it even harder to pare down the yield of her kindergartner, Josie. The 5-year-old seldom leaves home without a sketchbook. She can easily create a dozen pictures a day. While Ms. Miller took measure of her daughter's art, in fact, Josie was finishing up a life drawing of the school rabbit, her houseguest for the weekend.
Ms. Miller has framed the watercolors Josie made of her dearest stuffed animals. And she stores the pieces that Josie has crafted on buck-a-page art paper. But the collection is reaching unmanageable levels.
"I don't know what we're going to do with it," Ms. Miller said. Some 20 paper grocery bags full of Josie's art already occupy the storage room, the basement and the closet. "Logically, if we kept everything, there just wouldn't be room in the house."
Meanwhile, Josie has made it clear that she does not care to part with her pictures. "Throwing things away has to be done without her knowing about it," Ms. Miller said, her voice dropping to a conspiratorial register.
"I'm getting better about not recycling" the paper, which leaves Josie's art sitting out where it can be discovered and retrieved, she said. These days, "it goes into the garbage."
Ms. Miller has heard of mothers who document their children's art with a digital camera or a scanner, then shed the bulky originals. She can almost imagine doing that herself when she has a spare moment — five years from now, maybe, when the family moves.
In this fashion, Dr. Burton conceded, "You could save every scrap of paper that the child ever made." But don't. A better plan, he said, is to store a child's art in two boxes.
The first one is a temporary file for recent creations. The second is a kind of permanent vault, which holds a few selected works, spanning the course of 5 to 10 years. Each piece can include a makeshift museum card. Write the title of the piece, the age of the artist and the date. While parents are at it, they may want to add the story behind the picture in a sentence or two.
In his 2006 book "Exhibiting Student Art," Dr. Burton discusses an annual fifth-grade art show in Concord, Mass., that features a chronological sampling from each young artist. At the exhibition, he said, a child can look and say, "This horse is much better than my horse from three years ago."
To create such an anthology at home, Dr. Burton suggests sifting through the boxes with a child, maybe twice a year. Try talking about each piece. Then, together, pick some favorites.
The discarding "has to be done respectfully," he said with a laugh. "There's a ritual to disposing of a flag — a formal way to burn it."
When Julie Wolfson's two daughters, Vivian, 7, and Sofia, 11, were at their most artistically fruitful, Ms. Wolfson arrived at an even tidier storage solution: skip the in-box. Ms. Wolfson, a 42-year-old freelance journalist and arts educator in Los Angeles, wouldn't even let her children's coloring reach the car.
"I was the mom who opened her child's school folder at school, walked to the office and recycled 9 out of every 10 pieces," Ms. Wolfson said.
Vivian and Sofia's samizdat would sometimes manage to reach their father's "art gallery." That would be the corkboard that Steven Wolfson, a 44-year-old teacher and writer, uses to map out screenplays.
Mr. Wolfson appreciates his wife's will to cast off worksheets of long division, he said. But artifacts like the girls' self-portraits somehow "become sacred" to him.
"I can't bear to throw that into the garbage," he said. "From when Sofia was very young, it's been easier for Julie to let go of stuff."
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Haley Gibson, 26, tries to send home artwork just twice a year from the pre-K classroom she leads at the Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House, in the West Village. As art critics, she observed, New York parents seem to share one criterion: the less glitter the better.
Ms. Gibson's experience in the classroom has given her the rare ability to answer a question every parent has: Is my child a budding artistic genius or what?
The answer is typically the latter, with a few qualifications. "At this age" — around 4 years old, Ms. Gibson said — "it really depends on the development of their fine motor skills and their ability to draw representationally."
Still, each class of a dozen students seems to have one standout. This young artist's work may be elaborately detailed or emotionally complex.
"The parents of these children are definitely very supportive of their children's artwork," Ms. Gibson said. Yet she sees "lots of parents who do the same thing, and their children don't seem to show that gift."
ULTIMATELY, when parents save the treasures of their little artists, they are stocking a hope chest of the imagination. In less poetic terms, someday Mom and Dad will try to give the junk back.
Anne Phyfe Palmer's mother stored sheaves of her juvenilia for decades. It wasn't easy. Ms. Palmer's mother owned a small house in New Orleans without a basement or an attic. Five years ago, she packed the entire contents of her home into a truck and moved to Seattle. That's where Ms. Palmer, 40, owns a small chain of yoga studios and lives with her husband and two daughters.
Ms. Palmer knew what was coming. Her mother was a committed "memorabilia collector," she said. And yet somehow Ms. Palmer still didn't know what to do with the four giant portfolios she found one afternoon, deposited outside the house.
"They were literally on the porch for a week, leaning over there sadly," she said.
Eventually, Ms. Palmer sorted through the folders. The drawings were legion, she said: some meaningful, some forgettable and forgotten. But the more intensive projects in the time capsule — like the fishbowl made of plastic wrap — sent her mind gamboling back to elementary school.
Eventually, Ms. Palmer winnowed down her collection to "one plump portfolio, which still needs to be edited," she said. At this point, she realized, no one else is going to do it.
"There was this thought, 'Oh, my mom's not the keeper of my art anymore,' " she said.
Apparently, if you want to own your childhood, you have to throw it away.


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Alexandria "What is the most environmentally destructive thing most of us do in our lives?" environmental activist Chris Jordan asked students at last week's Students for Sustainability Conference.
"It's eating meat. Seventy percent of all the green that is grown in the U.S. goes to feed cattle so that we can eat meat. If you take that green, you can feed 800 million people which is almost all the people in the world who lack food," he said.
About 150 students from 21 high schools and middle schools in the D.C. area, Baltimore and Richmond, along with 33 students visiting from Asia who were traveling with the East-West Exchange Center in American schools, participated in the fifth annual Students for Sustainability Conference (S4S) hosted by St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School on Thursday, Nov. 13. The conference was a day of education and discussion where students learned to make a difference for environmental sustainability in their schools, communities and in their own countries.
As the keynote speaker, Jordan used photos to show the impact of people's behaviors on the environment.
"There is an interesting phenomenon that all we see is the waste we create and our family creates," said Jordan. "We never get to see the collective waste we all create together. Every day we read these numbers — 210 billion plastic bottles we used in the U.S. last year, 130 million cellphones in the U.S. thrown out every year, 925 million people in the world right now who are starving — these numbers are far far beyond the ability of human minds to comprehend."
To enable people to comprehend those abstract numbers, one of Jordan's projects is taking pictures of a small amount of everything, such as cellphones recycled at one facility. Then he stitches them together by using Photoshop, and creates an image to show what 130 million cellphones look like. He also showed students pictures of 1.14 million brown paper bags used in the U.S. every hour, 2 million plastic bottles consumed every five minutes in the U.S.
"Shocking, right?" Jordan said. "When we really feel something, that's when we act. That's why I create these images that illustrate the statistics of the mass consumption. This process allows me to raise an issue I'm really interested in: the relationship between the individual and the collective. If you take one of those bottles, no one will notice the difference. Every single individual does make a difference if we do them collectively."
Jordan also showed students a film he made at Midway Atoll, where he witnessed plastics and trash inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses. These baby birds are fed by their parents who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the polluted Pacific Ocean.
"I felt so sad for those birds," said Nouchee Bee, a junior high student visiting from Laos. "I was crying when I saw that film. I learned how to protect environment from that speech."
Has Gunewen, a biology teacher from Singapore, felt the same way. "It was very moving. It taught us how to minimize waste. We need to think globally, not just think about our own country. I will bring this idea to my class, and teach my students how to protect the Earth."
After the conference, students experienced 13 breakout sessions where they were taught to make a wind turbine to generate electricity, learned why safe drinking water matters for children in Africa, how technology can connect with nature, and explored two kinds of electric cars.
"I'm interested in learning about those environmental organizations," said Matthew Mccormaca, an 8th-grader who just joined the Greenpeace session. "The speech is very inspirational. What strikes me is how much waste we create every year. It's just astounding. I'll try to recycle more and stop using wasteful things."
In the afternoon, students attended the Green Forum, where they worked in teams to weigh in on environmental issues during a fun competition for prizes.
"This is our fifth year of hosting S4S Conference," said Linda Stratton, director of communications at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School. "It's grown every year. Environmental sustainability is a big part of our school culture and a part of our curriculum. We're really trying to encourage our students not only to be aware of different environmental issues, but to be educated and to take action. And so this conference is a great way for our students to get involved, take the leadership role, host other schools, host other students to our campus to show them what we're doing here and expose them to all different facets of environmental sustainability."


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A day after 17 student squatters were released after spending the weekend in jail, UVA's top administrator has evicted the tent city erected on the lawn outside the office of the president. A notice from chief operating officer Leonard Sandridge gave tents and sleeping bags until 10am to be off the lawn of Madison Hall. As of 9am today, when the Hook snapped this photo, the tents had dwindled from a high of over 20 to just seven still standing.
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RAYMOND WEIL experienced a highly eventful first part to the year, and will continue its activities with equal drive and dynamism. In the early part of 2011, RAYMOND WEIL has opened a very prestigious shop in le Printemps, participated in musical events such as the BRIT Awards and the Classic BRIT Awards, sponsored the anniversary of the legendary rock group Queen, the Nordoff Robbins event and the concert of Jamie Cullum in Turkey, supported upcoming artists with the RAYMOND WEIL new music talent competition and the American Idol contest and finally partnered with a famous Australian footballer.
RAYMOND WEIL now at the Printemps Haussmann in Paris
After the opening of its new point of sales situated at the heart of the watch area in the Galerie Lafayette in November 2010, RAYMOND WEIL is proud to announce its introduction in the prestigious Printemps Haussmann. The historic center of fashion and lifestyle is an undeniably prestigious meeting place, with the most famous luxury brands. The French market is currently in full development for the Brand, following the opening on first January of some fifteen sale points.
For the fourth consecutive year, RAYMOND WEIL participated in the United Kingdom's most glamorous musical event, the "2011 Brits Awards", as the "Official Watch of the Awards".
On February 15th, RAYMOND WEIL had the pleasure of being the official sponsor of the famous "Brit Awards" ceremony. On this occasion, the Swiss watch brand awarded 30 freelancer Limited Edition watches and 30 noemia to various artistes.
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After the success of the Brit Awards, RAYMOND WEIL went on stage again
On May 12th, RAYMOND WEIL supported the prestigious Classic BRIT Awards, as an official partner. The event included the presence of great British musicians such as Alfie Boe, Russel Watson and Mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins.
RAYMOND WEIL new music talent competition
With over 35 years of dedication to the music scene, RAYMOND WEIL is constantly cultivating and supporting new and upcoming artists across all music genres. This year, RAYMOND WEIL invited all aspiring musicians to harness their inspiration and let their passion flow. Artists from all around the world were asked to submit one original musical creation and one creation inspired by RAYMOND WEIL, on eYeka's website. RAYMOND WEIL and the Youtube personality, Marie Digby, selected the Jury's Pick and top entries for the Brand's fans to vote online, on Facebook and Tudo, for the Most Popular Talent. The Jury's Prize, Sam O'Neill, won $5,000, a RAYMOND WEIL watch and a dedicated page on raymond-weil.com and the Most Popular Talent, Chiranjeevi Rathnaala, won $1,500 and a dedicated page on raymond-weil.com.
RAYMOND WEIL is affirming again its presence in the world of music through its sponsoring of the 40th Anniversary of Queen in London
To mark the 40th anniversary of the legendary rock group Queen, RAYMOND WEIL offered four unique watches, for each of the group's members during the anniversary evening on February 24th. Paying homage to Freddie Mercury, a watch will be auctioned in the month of September, to mark what would have been his 65th birthday. The proceeds of this sale will be donated to charity.
The American Idol winner Scotty McCreery wears a RAYMOND WEIL Freelancer
On May 26th, Scotty McCreery was selected as the 2011 American Idol winner. After a record year in votes for the premiere singing contest, it was no wonder that news of Scotty wearing of a RAYMOND WEIL timepiece reached over 2 billion people. With great pride Scotty wears his personal selection of a freelancer while runner up Lauren Alaina sparkles in her choice of a noemia.
This is the second year RAYMOND WEIL has had the opportunity to work with American Idol and further equate the brand with music and arts across the globe.
RAYMOND WEIL sponsors Nordoff Robbins 02 Silver Clef Award
On July 1st RAYMOND WEIL supported the 2011 Nordoff Robbins 02 Silver Clef lunch for the 11th consecutive year. The brand sponsored the RAYMOND WEIL Best International Artist Award and also provided a limited edition BRIT Awards 2011 watch, which rose over £2,000 at the auction for the charity.
The RAYMOND WEIL Best International Artist Award for 2011 was awarded to "Swedish House Mafia" who has enjoyed a hugely successful year so far. David Munns, Chairman of Nordoff Robbins, said: "We are excited to be honoring Swedish House Mafia with the RAYMOND WEIL International Award. Their success in the dance world has not only taken Ibiza by storm but has spread across the UK and Europe and this is only the start."
Other awards were presented to Annie Lennox, Status Quo, Liza Minnelli, Biffy Clyro, Arcade Fire and Alfie Boe.
For over 50 years Nordoff Robbins has been widely respected as the benchmark for using music to improve health and wellbeing. Patrons of the charity include David Bowie, Coldplay, Roger Daltry and Mick Jagger.
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If you're passionate about cars, you attend the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where you "See the cars today that the rest of the world will be talking about tomorrow." To view upcoming trends in the clothing by American fashion designers, you make an appearance at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park in New York City. One of the best places to discover new plants is the New Varieties Showcase at the Farwest Show in Portland, Ore. It is a wholesale-only trade show where green industry professionals like myself gather to see first-hand the plant stars ready to rock the U.S. I'm pleased to share with you a few of the new introductions that stood out and will be available soon through your local growers, landscapers and retailers.
"Best in Show" went to Flutterby Grande Peach Cobbler Nectar Bush (Buddleia x 'Podaras #5'). It grows 4 to 6 feet tall and wide with bright pink, full-sized (14 to 16 inches long) inflorescences. The fragrant and prolific flowers mature to a peach-pink blend, blooming from early summer to frost on silvery-colored foliage. It is hardy to Zone 5.
The Flutterby series are distinctively unique in two ways. First of all, and perhaps most importantly, the series are sterile, which means you do not have to worry about them becoming invasive. Secondly, this Buddleia series actually contains four groups that accommodate any size landscape or container; Flow are short and spreading like a ground cover; Petite are dwarf and upright; Flutterby are compact and upright; and Grande are full sized.
Street Keeper honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos 'Draves' ) was named "Best Tree." Honeylocust are known as good urban-tolerant trees, but this cultivar gives you a tight narrow form that is about half as wide as other cultivars. It is hardy to Zone 4 and matures to around 45 feet in height by 20 feet in width. Its foliage is deep green, turning yellow in the fall. The mother tree is practically seedless.
Little Rascal improved holly (Ilex x meserveae 'Monnieves' PAF) was chosen "Best Shrub." It is a slow-growing, upright, compact holly reaching just 4 feet in height, making it great for today's smaller foundation plantings or containers. Additionally, its dark, spiny evergreen foliage matures to a burgundy red in the autumn, it is hardy to Zone 5, and what I like most is that it is deer resistant.
"Best Perennial or Grass" at the show was 'Blonde Ambition' blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition' PAF). This is so unlike most grasses you know! Big, showy chartreuse flowers are suspended horizontally on 2½-to 3-foot stems and eventually mature to long-lasting blonde seed heads. This fast grower produces neat 18- to 24-inch high by 10- to 12-inch wide blue-green clumps. It prefers full sun, well-drained soils and is hardy to Zone 4. This drought-tolerant variety is perfect for xeriscaping. It can be used in a mixed border, mass plantings, rock gardens or containers.
Bountiful Blue blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum 'FLX-2' PAF) gobbled up the "Best Edible" category. Because of its ornamental qualities you can incorporate it right into the landscape versus placing it in the "garden." It has pink to purple-blue new growth, white flowers, bluish summer foliage which turns purple in the fall. Of course berry set will be more abundant if planted with another blueberry and it prefers acidic soil. It will get approximately 3 to 4 feet tall and wide and is hardy to Zone 6.
'Georgie Red' monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus 'Georgie Red' PAF) was voted "Best Annual or Tender Perennial." It features large, deep-red blooms with an orange edge that flowers from April through the fall. It will get 24 to 36 inches tall and 18 to 36 inches wide. It too is drought tolerant and needs minimal water. It will also attract hummingbirds and butterflies to your yard.
Itoh Peony
A few other show-stopping plants hardy in Zones 5 and 6 included Misaka Itoh peony (Paeonia x 'Smith Opus 1' PAF). The name translates to "beautiful blossom." It boasts 8-inch, mildly fragrant flowers that are a rare orange-amber upon opening before fading to a peachy-yellow with prominent dark-red central flares.
A hybrid between an herbaceous and a tree peony, Itoh peonies were first bred by Tioichi Itoh in the 1940s. They were slow to multiply and far too expensive to bring to market, so they weren't widely known to the gardening public. In 2004, they were successfully reproduced via tissue culture and introduced by Monrovia Growers. They are hardy to Zone 4.
In fact, in 2010 Keiko (Adored) peony took the "Best in Show" honor. It has large, clear pink, semi-double to double flowers with mounding, dark green foliage approximately 24 to 30 inches tall. 'Bartzella', which was an absolute smoker in the 2009 showcase, has large, 6- to 8-inch double yellow flowers with a spicy scent and can have up to 50 blooms in a single season.
I'm fond of bellflowers so Campanula 'Viking' immediately caught my eye — especially since it does not spread by rhizomes (like its parent) and the seeds are sterile so it is non-invasive. It is short and compact reaching 18 inches high and creating a 2-foot-wide clump. It has large lavender, tubular, bell shaped flowers, which are lightly fragrant. They attract butterflies and hummingbirds and also make good cut flowers. Plant 'Viking' in a sunny location in moist, well-drained soils.
Weeping Cherry
Weeping Extraordinaire (Prunus 'Extrazam') is a weeping cherry with large, double, light-pink blooms set off by glossy, hunter green foliage with coppery new growth. Flowers appear full and fluffy due to their extra petal count and serration. Leaves turn burgundy in the autumn and hold on for an extended period. A vigorous tree, it will grow to 15 to 20 feet tall and wide.
Spreading Rose
I'm all about low maintenance, so I find Icy Drift rose (Rosa 'Meipicdevoj' PAF) pretty appealing. Drift roses are a cross between full-sized ground cover roses and miniatures. They inherited the best traits from each parent, creating a tough rose with a low, spreading habit and re-blooming nature. This one has pure white double blooms, which can brighten up a hillside, create a border or fill in just about any area.
Dwarf Hydrangea
Lastly, it's hard to resist Little Lime (Hydrangea paniculata 'Jane' PAF) from Proven Winners. It is a dwarf of the popular 'Limelight', growing 3 to 5 feet high but with the same lime-green flowers that turn pink and burgundy in the autumn. It will grow in sun or part shade.
For more information on the 51 new plants featured in this year's New Varieties Showcase at the Farwest Show, visit www.farwestshow.com/vnvs.
You Can't Live Without
The variety of annual choices can be overwhelming. To learn which new annuals perform well with little or no care, I rely on The Ohio State University and their Extension trial plot in Springfield, Ohio. Assistant Professor Pam Bennett and the Master Gardener Volunteers have been trialing annuals since 1998 in the Gateway Learning Gardens. Here are three of their consistent performers in the trials. For details on other great annuals, visit go.osu.edu/fieldtrials.
Double Wave petunia. Today's spreading petunias have a consistent growth habit and fill in quickly, providing a blanket of color in beds or containers. Deadheading is not necessary and one fertilization at the time of planting and a little water keep them going during dry periods.
Diamond Frost, Breathless Blush and 'Hip Hop' euphorbia. These are excellent border plants in beds as they develop into rounded mounds of airy white flowers.
Senorita Rosalita cleome keeps her knees covered while exploding on top with large purple flowers that bloom from mid-June on.
1: Photos courtesy of the Oregon Association of Nurserymen
2: Photos courtesy of Pam Bennett, OSU Extension
(From State-by-State Gardening January/February 2012.)


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