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I recently had my plumbing redone in copper originating from the street's main line.
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: The lab says it may be from chlorine in the water sitting in the pipes for a long period of time, causing copper chloride deposits to form, but I use the water daily, so that can't be the problem.
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posted at 8:48 am on March 31, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
If Jason Mattera's meeting with Tom Harkin made one feel momentarily sorry for the outfoxed Senator, one has to have some grudging admiration for Al Franken in this hilarious sequence. Unlike Harkin and most other members of Congress who mutter platitudes when challenged by a constituent with a camera, Franken gets angry — and lets Jason know it. Alyssa Cordova of the Claire Boothe Luce Institute must have had a tough time keeping up with Jason, Franken, and the two Franken aides that kept throwing themselves between the two until Franken got annoyed with them as well. Franken wanted to play, and Jason was happy to let him do so:
Franken spent enough time in New York to learn how to deal with Brooklyn speed-talkers, so the "You won't let me finish" complaint, while accurate in the beginning of this exchange, hardly amounts to a defense. When Jason finally does slow his delivery, all Franken can do is complain about the question rather than answer it. Heck, Jason forgot to ask Franken whether he would buy a copy of his new book, Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation. Franken's a big fan of political polemics, after all, having written a few himself.
At least Franken provides some fireworks for Mattera. The last match screamed for a referee to call a TKO.
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TheBlueSite on March 31, 2010 at 11:30 AM
..then hand me my white cane, buttercup. One grows less and less patient with the members of this congress who have wholly ignored the will of the American people and rammed this sh*t through using every ounce of political chicanery at their disposal.
They don't listen to us so why should we listen to them. And spare me your sanctimonious "two wrongs.." sermon.
Don't bother with AprilOrit, she's a well knwon concern troll, and BlueSite is a petulant little "let's all be civil" agitator.
Good Solid B-Plus on March 31, 2010 at 12:28 PM
..G.S. B+, you're my hero! Civil discourse died during these past 16 months, a victim of multiple stab wounds by The Chief Pantload (and crew), Reid, and Pelousy, plus the horde of slavering leftists miscreants.


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Jerry Buma, the 2007 International Chili Society World's Champion, lives in Northbridge, Massachusetts, in a house his grandfather built. Long before he dreamed of developing the recipe that would earn the award for best chili, his grandmother taught him to cook in that house.
"She was a great cook, a fantastic cook," he says, sitting in his square, pin-neat kitchen, where white cabinets gleam and the bare hardwood floor shines like polished furniture.
"Chowders, stews … Oh, I used to follow her around, see what I could learn. I always loved to cook … My grandmother spent practically her whole life right here in this room, and so have I."
Not quite. Jerry wasn't much for school, so he joined the Marines, hoping to become a cook. "They said that if I wanted to cook, I had to sign up for four years," he recalls. "So I did. But I never cooked a single meal." Even so, he served in Vietnam, got out, returned to his family home, found work as a glazier and later as a house painter, got married, and raised his children. After they left home, his wife found, as he puts it, "greener pastures," and Jerry was there alone. What to do?
"I heard about a chili competition. This was back in 1997," he says. "I decided to give it a try. I won third place! I was hooked." Now his bedroom is crowded with trophies and ribbons. The world-championship trophy is big enough to hold 10 gallons of chili, no problem. He's the first cook ever to win from New England.
Jerry's adventures in the world of chili have brought him more than he ever could have imagined: the pride of having beat out 154 of the best chili cooks from all over the world; then there was the $25,000, the purse for the world prize. "But it's not the money," he says. "It's all the rest." He has traveled widely with his like-minded friends, known as "chiliheads." They do everything together. The only thing they don't do is share recipes. Those are top secret. "I wouldn't even tell my grandmother the spices I use," he says, dead serious.
Jerry's even brought tears to the eyes of former president and proud Texan George H. W. Bush. "He came to our Maine cook-off," he remembers. "Barbara comes over to my booth. She shouts, 'George! Over here! He's got green chili!' So he comes over, and I give him a tasting cup. I tell him, 'Watch out, it's hot!' He says, 'Yeah, I know,' and he tosses it back … and, oh, he practically bends over double."
As we talk in his kitchen in early fall '08, Jerry's reign is almost over. "It's been like being Miss America for a year," he says. "Oh, it's been fun. I can't believe all that's happened to me because of chili."
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Jerry says that cumin is the most important spice in chili. "Use only the freshest and the best," he says. He recommends buying spices by mail order, from Penzeys (800-741-7787; penzeys.com) or Pendery's (800-533-1870; penderys.com). For chili powder, he looks for California or New Mexico brands. He also advises that if your chili powder contains any of the spices listed in the recipe presented here, adjust accordingly.
Jerry's favorite way to enjoy his chili is with "an abundant supply of saltines on the side–about half a rack per bowl–or over crunched-up corn chips. Rice is okay, but something about the crunchy aspect works well for me." If you like cheese, he says, go with a mild yellow cheddar and a sprinkle of onion. Lastly, serve your chili just a little more than lukewarm. "If you serve it scalding hot," he says, "the layered flavors are lost."


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Palm Ball, held Saturday, Feb. 9, was its usual always-elegant evening — the weather was fabulous and the guests dressed to impress! A few standouts of the night … the valet line was at a standstill for guests, giving them less time to mingle during the cocktail hour … there were many ex-couple run-ins (and their respective dates), which made people watching a little more exciting … Co-Chairwoman Pauline Joerger sparkled in her fabulous Donna Karan gown, not to mention her handsome arm candy, artist Rush Bowles … Lisa Merrill looked stunning in her Carolina Herrera gown … Hoby Buppert's palm tree pants were the perfect accessory for this event … Always colorful Bruce Lesser wore a hot-pink suit jacket that he had custom made in Hong Kong four years ago … it's the little things that matter — guests were raving about the property's new fancy restrooms (read: no more port-a-potties) … Bernice Hebda's vintage ring from Ana Molinari was to-die-for … a certain socialite headed to the restroom to ditch her uncomfortable bra in the trash can … the cutest couple had to go to Liebe Gamble and date, dad Patrick Smith, who flew from Pittsburgh to escort her because husband Billy is out of town … Dr. Heidi Anderson looked fabulous, despite the fact that when she went to pick up her dress from alterations, they had left a note of an emergency, so she wore a back-up dress and rocked it with her always calm and collected demeanor. Palm Ball definitely did not disappoint!
+ With every season comes a change
You may notice a new man socializing around town with Sally Schule — Sarasota, meet Joel Ellzey. Schule has recently moved into the role of marketing director at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Ellzey has taken the helm as general manager. He comes with 24 years experience with the retail company, most recently at the Tampa location.
After 16 years in this community, Schule is delighted to be doing what she loves in the marketing role, as the company gets ready to open its new location, in the University Town Center, debuting October 2014.
"To me, it's all about the community, the charities and making Saks local," says Schule. "I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to follow my passion as we move into the new store."
+ Like mother, like daughter
What goes better with warm Florida weather than the bright prints of Lilly Pulitzer, and what goes better with a model than her adorable daughter? The Boys and Girls Clubs hosted a luncheon and fashion show Wednesday, Feb. 6, featuring both. Lilly Pulitzer of St. Armands Circle presented "The Lilly Show," to benefit both the Robert and Joan Lee Boys & Girls Club of Venice and the Gene Matthews Boys & Girls Club of North Port.
Chaired by Golda Radefeld and Ann Hall, the show included Susan Hines with daughter Bailey; Victoria Stultz and daughter Andrea; Courtney Green and daughter Emma; Andrea Arnold and daughter, Tori; and sisters Sheryl Vieira and Sandy Albano. Also spotted at Plantation Golf & Country Club: Teri Hansen, Jessica Hays, Judy Green, Charlotte Hedge, Kelly Quigley, Kristy Cail with daughter Caitlin, Angie Stringer and many more.
+ The great adventures of Flat Ella
Bob Hanson and Jean Griffin brought along "Flat Ella" to the Town Hall lecture given by Dr. Robert Gates, Tuesday, Feb. 5, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. Flat Ella was sent by to them by their granddaughter, Eloise Griffin, 6, from Cincinnati. Griffin and Hanson have to take Flat Ella on adventures and daily errands around Sarasota and then report back about all the things Flat Ella experienced while visiting.
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February 14 2013 03:42PM
Following today's announcement that veteran Canucks centreman Manny Malhotra was going to be placed on Injured Reserve for the balance of the season, Mike Gillis addressed the situation with the media. The way Mike Gillis' comments leaked out slowly on Twitter from the mainstream Vancouver media was, I think, a little bit confusing. I don't blame Vancouver's sports reporters on this, because the point Mike Gillis was making was very nuanced. It dealt with quality of life issues, adaptability and risk management, and issues as complex as those don't really translate well to 140 character snippets.
To put it as briefly as I can from listening to the audio on the Team 1040, Mike Gillis made a judgement call. After wrestling with this decision for nearly a year (at least) Vancouver's General Manager ultimately decided that Malhotra's lack of vision put him at risk on the ice at the NHL level. It was a risk that Mike Gillis " wasn't prepared to live with," in his own words.
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In his comments to the media on Thursday afternoon, Mike Gillis gave a couple of fascinating quotes. He called the decision to shut Malhotra down "the hardest thing I've done in this job" and he also sang Malhotra's praises as a competitor, as a teammate and as a spokesman. He affirmed without hestitation that he wants Malhotra around the club (he said the two sides would dilineate Malhotra's precise role with the club going forward over the next couple of days), and that he hopes to retain Malhotra's services in some hockey ops. or coaching capacity following this season.
His most revealing comments however, concerned the process by which the team came to this decision:
"You know, we felt strongly last year that there was a risk with him out on the ice and I spoke to him at the end of last season and he felt very strongly that if he had a full summer of training that there would be improvement in a variety of ways but most importantly that he would alleviate my fear about his vulnerability on the ice. I agreed that he could have the summer to train and I was going to give him a period of time this year, and if things didn't change that I was going to have this conversation with him. I observed and watched and I didn't feel there had been a change and I felt he was at risk."
It really sounds like Mike Gillis wrestled with this. Based on his comments, he wanted to give Manny Malhotra a chance to "adapt" to his new range of sight, but he also felt responsible for protecting him. Gillis was also asked whether or not Manny Malhotra - who clearly overcame an awful lot to get back on the ice in the first place, and fought Mike Gillis to give him more time to improve and adapt - had accepted that his playing days were over. Gillis' response:
"Um [long pause] I can't answer that. You know Manny is an extremely proud guy who is very stubborn. A lesser person wouldn't have even come back from what he's endured. So there's points where I felt he shared my opinion and points where I felt he didn't. I have to make the decision and I wouldn't put anybody in a position where I was uncomfortable with their ability to protect themselves or function out on the ice and be at a higher risk than normal. Particularly in today's game where it's so fast and the players are so big. Even a player not trying to injure or hurt him, an innocent collision could be really damaging if you're unaware. I wasn't prepared to live with that."
Thinking critically (and cynically) here, the Canucks are ultimately shelving Manny Malhotra - after discussing the possibility since last season - immediately in advance of Ryan Kesler's return from multiple offseason surgeries. So the timing of this alltruistic decision certainly seems convenient. But you know what, based on Mike Gillis' experience as a player (he's said that injuries were poorly looked after by the clubs he played for) and the sincerity of his comments this afternoon, I really do buy that the Canucks General Manager wanted to give Malhotra time to prove him wrong - including some time this season.
I'm reminded of a quote Mike Gilis gave Cam Cole earlier this season. Mike Gillis, in talking about what makes his job so challenging, told Cole that in Professional Sports, "you're aways dealing with human frailty." I'd imagine this is a very tough pill for Manny Malhotra and the organization as a whole to swallow. Damn.
I heard Mike Gillis' comments on the Team 1040 , so a big sticktap to them for making that audio available.
Looking at this dispassionately, Manny's departure really hits our depth at C. Almost puts an onus on Gillis to trade Lui (every canuck story can be related to Luongo) sooner rather than later. Not convinced AV's system will work well with Kesler having to do a lot of defensive work. Would put a lot of pressure on the Schroeder line to provide secondary scoring.
Sounds like Manny doesn't want to retire though. I wonder if other GMs would share Gillis attitude.
February 14 2013, 05:33PM
I'm torn on this whole issues. Of course you don't want somebody out on the ice be at (an extreme) risk. But so far this season, I haven't really noticed any dangerous situations that Malhotra found himself in due to his injury. That being said, rather safe than sorry, and I salute Gillis for making the hard decision in the player's interest. Because this decision is definitely not in the Canuck's interest.
One point of criticism would be the following. I wish they had taken a bit more time between deciding this and announcing it publicly. I feel that Malhotra, as a person and player, deserves to be at that press conference and announce his own retirement. Maybe he would have accepted it if he had had a bit more time.
Of course Manny is a great guy ...but the Nux are trying to win a cup not receive, "The Nobel Peace Prize." It's great that the team treats their players with respect but this HAS to be balanced with the pressure to perform & win. The franchise is facing an embarrassing 40+ years without winning the ultimate Goal. It is great to see GMMG has not let his personal feelings interfere with what is best for the club 'on the ice'. However, there is significant risk that this has happened in other areas of team evaluation. Its common knowledge that it is harder to be objectively accurate when friendships are involved. GMMG is on record that he is "close friends' with coach AV. Has this influenced his evaluation in the past? Will it moving forward? It's awesome that Sedins are great guys, are easy interviews and give to charity but are they able to still get the job done in playoffs moving forward. Professional sports is a competitive cutthroat business - Today's decision demonstrates that Mike Gillis can overlook loyalty & make the necessary tough decisions - Canuck fans hope this continues moving forward.
February 19 2013, 02:53PM
I think Manny was Playing fine. Every time a player comes back from a serious eye injury, people watch them closely and magnify their mistakes. His ice time was cut to the point it was non existent. Bryan Berrard's vision was far worse than that of Malhotra's and yet he still played at a level that was better than most D-men in the league. Yet every little error he made, people blamed it on his bad eye.It must have been hard on him psychologically. Dany Heatley's vision is also impaired and he still plays at a high level(You can learn to adapt within reason)


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|then by setting out to survey the site of the
|Hessian fly's earliest depradations. He travelled
|Hessian fly's earliest depredations. He travelled
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|observed an adult fly laying her eggs, and
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|recorded details of a minute anatomy-presumably
|recorded details of a minute anatomy--presumably
|with the aid of a microscope, as the
|with the aid of a microscope, as the
|fly was "between the size of a gnat & musketoe." He recorded the eight saffron-colored
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|committee chairman, and had made his own
|brief foray into entomology-but nothing followed.
|brief foray into entomology--but nothing followed.
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|This is particularly puzzling because
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|were finally made public. Jefferson's son-in-law [[Thomas Mann Randolph]] read before the
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When Thomas Jefferson opened his mail on October 22, 1791, he found a small packet of dried stubble from the wheat fields of Long Island. Inside, according to the accompanying letter, was a thriving population of the most infamous insect of the 1790s. Hessian Flies [1] had arrived at 274 Market Street, well ahead of the rest of their tribe, still working their way south through the farms of New Jersey.
This was not Jefferson's first encounter with the diminutive enemy of wheat. He had examined some "in the worm state" along the Hudson River the previous May, and throughout the rest of his month-long tour of New York and New England he questioned farmers, tavernkeepers, and roadside blacksmiths about their experiences of the winged pest. Jefferson had taken to the field in his role as chairman of a new committee of the American Philosophical Society , charged with the mission of collecting materials "for forming the natural history of the Hessian fly" and finding "the best means of preventing or destroying it."
The adult Hessian fly is a delicate and harmless member of the gall midge family, in the Order Diptera. Its larval form, however, attacked wheat with such voracity that the appearance of the insect was considered by some American preachers a divine judgment for political sins. The effect of its destruction was captured in an article in the American Museum in 1787: "It is well known that all the crops of wheat in all the land over which it has extended have fallen before it, and that the farmers beyond it dread its approach; the prospect is, that unless means are discovered to prevent its progress, the whole continent will be overrun--a calamity more to be dreaded I than the ravages of war."
In the spring of 1791 Jefferson bad decided to take an active part in repelling the invaders, first by creating a committee and then by setting out to survey the site of the Hessian fly's earliest depredations. He travelled the entire length of Long Island, eventually reaching the very spot (now under Brooklyn) where American farmers had first watched their wheat stalks shrivel and break in 1777.
In the first years of its ravages, the insect was viewed as an immigrant, a stowaway in the straw for the Hessian troops who disembarked at Flatbush in 1776. George Morgan of Princeton claimed the honor of providing the sobriquet "Hessian." Linking the marauding midge to the German mercenaries provided, he thought, a "useful National Prejudice."
By the 1790s, however, students of the subject were beginning to absolve the Germans of responsibility. Richard Peters declared that "the appellation was bestowed during our revolutionary excitements, when every thing we disliked we termed Hessian." And Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill, a Long Islander himself, attributed the name to the country people, "ever fond of ascribing every thing disagreeable to the Germans." This professor of agriculture and natural history at Columbia College, after consulting European scholars and scientific works, believed that the fly was an American native.
Jefferson, who heard Mitchill's "Short Memoir on the Wheat-Insect" read at an August 1791 meeting of the Philosophical Society, came to the same conclusion in 1792. Back in 1791, when transmitting news of the Hessian fly committee to Thomas Mann Randolph, he had recommended that his son-in-law take up the study of the resident southern wheat pest, the grain weevil. Contemplating such an activity from a desk cluttered with letters of vice-consuls and notes on national debts, Jefferson was moved to lament, "I long to be free for pursuits of this kind instead of the detestable ones in which I am now labouring without pleasure to myself, or profit to others."
His chance came in June of 1792, when he was given a second batch of pupating Hessian flies (the fate of the first is unknown). For two weeks he watched over the flaxseed-like chrysalises, was present at their "hatching," observed an adult fly laying her eggs, and recorded details of a minute anatomy--presumably with the aid of a microscope, as the fly was "between the size of a gnat & musketoe." He recorded the eight saffron-colored "annuli" on its abdomen, its two "moniliform" antennae, and two "balances like the plectrum of the sticcada," a keyed instrument he had seen Benjamin Franklin play in France.
Certainly at hand were his zoological reference works, since he wrote to Randolph on June 15, "The examination of a single one which hatched a week ago, gives me reason to suspect they are non-descript, and consequently aboriginal here." When the Hessian fly finally received a scientific name in 1817, its describer, Thomas Say, also believed it indigenous to North America. Modern efforts to determine its nationality have resulted in disagreement (most favor Europe, some Asia), but all authorities now concur that Mayetolia destructor is an introduced species.
Since April 1791, when he had moved for the formation of the select committee on the Hessian fly, Jefferson had looked like the answer to Samuel L. Mitchill's call for a hero to defend American crops. "We are almost entirely in the dark respecting the history of the insects injurious to our useful plants," the learned doctor told a meeting of the Agricultural Society of New York in January 1792, "and that man would be laudably and beneficially employed, who should collect what is knowable concerning the different moths, burs. flies and worms, which infest our fields and gardens."
That man was not to be Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had made avid investigations on the fly's breeding grounds, had been all active committee chairman, and had made his own brief foray into entomology--but nothing followed. This is particularly puzzling because throughout 1792 responses were trickling in to the committee's widely published questionnaire about the wheat pest. These answers still lie unpublished in the chairman's papers. Jefferson seems never to have made his own conclusions known and his committee published no final report. He turned instead to combatting an infestation of Hamiltonian notions and the Hessian fly continued its southward progress.
It was observed "crossing the Delaware like a cloud." In 1797 it invaded the fields of Mount Vernon. In 1801 it was "laying waste" all the wheat near Washington. And in June 1803 Jefferson received specimens of the fly "in three stages" from his son-in-law John Wayles Eppes in Chesterfield County, Virginia. "I have examined your Hessian flies and find them very genuine," he replied from the President's House, "on which I condole with you."
His own fields at Monticello seem not to have been affected until 1811, after which there were bad years and worse. He lost one third of the wheat crop to the fly in 1813 and in 1817 was provoked to write: "We, of this state, must make bread, and be contented with so much of that as a miserable insect will leave us. This remnant will scarcely feed us the present year, for such swarms of the Wheat fly were never before seen in this country." Jefferson may then have wished that increasing social duties and the barbs of Hamilton had not distracted him from completing his fly research. Other factors had probably contributed to his retirement from the cause. The cyclical pattern of the Hessian fly's assaults caused some observers to believe it was on the decline in 1792. He may also have felt that some articles published in that year sufficiently cleared the good name of American wheat, by demonstrating that the fly never infested the grain. He had been incensed by a British Order in Council in 1788 prohibiting importation of American wheat which, it was feared, might harbor the new pest. Although Jefferson had no interest in sustaining Englishmen with American produce, he dreaded the effects of the British action on trade with nations he favored. "It is a mere assassination," he declared, a libel founded on faulty information.
It is just as well that the bug committee was dormant during Jefferson's presidential years. Federalist journalists had enough fun with the "bone committee" of the American Philosophical Society, considered a hotbed of Jeffersonians. The sight of politicians peering into the secrets of nature offended Jefferson's opponents. "Science and government are two different paths," observed one author. "He that walks in one, becomes, at every step, less qualified to walk with steadfastness or vigour in the other." Honored for his breadth of vision by his friends, Jefferson was convicted by the Federalists for his curiosity. The philosopher-president was viewed as an irresponsible visionary, subject to "philosophic fogs."
Federalist satirists found the minute examinations of natural history particularly worthy of ridicule, and made Jefferson's study and measurement of fossils a frequent target. Fourteen-year-old William Cullen Bryant dismissed his chief of state with the rhyme:
Go search, with curious eye, for horned frogs,
'Mongst the wild wastes of Louisianan bags;
Or, where Ohio rolls his turbid stream,
Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy theme.
Jefferson's reputation as an observer of insects was not forgotten, at least by Washington banker John P. Van Ness, who in 1806 sent to the President's House two worms just plucked from his Lombardy poplar tree. Wondering if this might be the poisonous "reptile" lately exciting comment, Van Ness supposed that it would be "gratifying" to Jefferson "to observe the worm particularly."
Whether the Federalist journalists had any idea of the president's interest in insects, they could not resist portraying him in an entomological mode. Joseph Dennie, whose Port Folio adopted Jefferson as "our political Mammoth," published a supposed fragment of his diary, found on the banks of the Potomac. In it, Jefferson suffers writer's block after irritating public business interrupts his composition of a "dissertation on cockroaches." In 1807, a youthful Washington Irving created a fictional Tripolitan tourist, who hears that the president is "a very plain old gentleman--something they say of a humorist, as he amuses himself with impaling butterflies and pickling tadpoles."
Jefferson's amusement at the schoolboy satire of the opposition party was no doubt faint, but if he did not collect butterflies he did make a scrapbook of the poems, squibs, and caricatures of the Federalist press. His vexation surfaced later when he wrote that his opponents saw "even science itself as well as my affection for it as a fit object of ridicule and a disqualification for the affairs of government."
The explosion of the Hessian fly population in 1817 brought forth another burst of publications. Thomas Say gave it a proper scientific description and name in the journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo, in the American Farmer, described for the first time the hatching of its egg. Samuel L. Mitchill returned to the subject in the American Journal of Science, and his brother-in-law Samuel Akerly opened his own article with a reference to the greater scope offered to all manner of insects by the new immensity of the agricultural nation. He also recommended changing the fly's name, which had been "saddled upon the poor Hessians, who are innocent of the charge."
Akerly closed by reviewing the commonly used methods for evading the worst injuries of the insect: sowing late in the fall; using bearded wheat; manuring well; and ploughing in or burning the stubble after harvest. Jefferson's own optimistic view in 1792 had been that "a particularly vigorous species of bearded wheat and good husbandry seem to he a perfect preservative." In 1803 he still advocated manuring well and sowing the yellow bearded wheat, and actually considered the Hessian fly "a great blessing" because it drove American farmers to adopt improved agricultural habits.
As for sowing later in the fall, he once declared it "a poor remedy," but seems to have been forced to adopt it by 1814, when he recorded in his Farm Book the proper seeding time as October 10 to November 10. "What is sown either earlier or later is subject to the fly." Interestingly, the current "fly-safe" sowing date for Albemarle County is October 9. The Hessian fly, who now lives wherever wheat is grown in the United States, is kept in check by the very techniques practiced by the observing farmers of Jefferson's time: late planting, fertilizing, and cleaning the fields after harvest. And the search still goes on for a resistant wheat species.
In 1818, twenty-five years after Chairman Jefferson had gathered in letters and questionnaires, the findings of the American Philosophical Society committee on the Hessian fly were finally made public. Jefferson's son-in-law Thomas Mann Randolph read before the Agricultural Society of Albemarle "An Historical and Physiological Notice of the Hessian Fly" (published in 1825 in the American Farmer). Randolph summarized in turn the observations of each correspondent, whose reports had lain so long undisturbed in one of the cartons in Jefferson's cabinet. He concluded with the recent observations of General Cocke, whom he credited with being "the first to discover the locomotive power of the young caterpillar."
Federalists were forgotten and entomological investigations left to others when Jefferson contemplated the cosmos in 1823. To John Adams he wrote: "It is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction of design, consummate skill, and indefinite power in every atom." He knew what he was talking about when he itemized the movements of celestial objects, the structure of the earth, animals and plants "examined in all their minutest particles," and "insects mere atoms of life, yet as perfectly organised as a man or mammoth."
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Brick-and-mortar retailers have been battling with online stores for years, but
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Best Buy announced that it will match the prices of online competitors like Amazon in order to attract more customers. This is huge for Best Buy, considering it has
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Right now, only about 40 percent of Best Buy shoppers leave the store with a purchase in hand, but the retailer wants to bump this percentage up a bit this holiday season.
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By Joan PowellWellington
Dear Editor:
I know, you know, most likely, even better than I, what a mess this world that we live is in. You probably wonder, much as I do, if there is something, if anything, that we can do about it. I know that most of this mess is bigger than my poor brain can comprehend. Questions like, how could it get to this point, why aren't there people in our elected offices doing something about it, but mostly, what can I, Joan Powell, do about it, if anything?
I know, most of you know, that I've been following the "environmental movement" as much as my time, and my understanding, at this point of my life will let me. A lot of you feel the same way I do, it makes us very, very angry, that these people have positioned themselves to a point that they have so much power in our government.
I have been reading a book entitled, Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin. He is a lawyer, and a talk show host. Even though I have to keep a dictionary close by, to look up words I don't understand, I have come to learn how these people, (environmentalists) have set themselves up to be in the positions they are in, and what their primary goal is. This movement started getting a stronghold back when Franklin Roosevelt was president, and how he threw out most of what was traditional, and started changing the meaning of the Constitution to accomplish his goals, starting with being the longest serving president evet. It was no more, by the people, for the people. It was the beginning of "big government", and being in control. Anyway, I would urge you to get your hands on this book. I'm only in chapter six, and my eyes have been opened.
I know a lot of you know that the environmentalists are not going to stop until they reach their goal of 9 million more acres of wilderness to be taken away from us. One of the Carbon County commissioners, in the short time he had to talk to me, and he invited me back to talk some more, was worried. He had just returned from Washington D.C., and he said it's grim. Our county is being held ransom, while SUWA and BBC (Bill Barrett Corporation) try to make some sort of agreements. Agreements that should not have to be made, if our government was allowed to function as a government. I have shed tears over this, as I know what is the right thing, and what we stand to lose if it comes to pass the way they, (BBC and SUWA), get their way. I also know what we stand to lose if BBC pulls out. I wish there was a way to have BBC stand with us for a little while longer. President Obama is on the verge of signing away a section of public land that is 40 miles wide and 75 mile long, from the San Rafael Swell to Duchesne County, for the new national monument. It's looming, like dark clouds from a major storm.
Some of you know that the Wilderness Bill, that was submitted from Washington County, and was returned after it was "reviewed" wasn't anywhere near what was originally submitted. Why? Because of government pressure from environmental pressure. Even though Emery County is doing the same thing, in good faith, it won't come back the same. Why? Let me quote from a SUWA press statement in the Emery County Progress paper, dated Tuesday, June 29, 2010. "Today, the county is moving forward on crafting their own land use bill. We feel that our being directly involved at this point would put us in the difficult situation of needing to object to everything we disagree with, which could potentially be quite a bit. We've recently sent the county a letter advising them that since it seems that the process has moved beyond the 'information gathering' stage, while in no way are we abandoning the process, we are stepping back until their proposal is complete."
(Or, in other words, in my mind, we (SUWA) don't want to listen anymore to what the local people want, we'll just wait until it gets to the federal government stage, where they are set up to override the locals, and then they'll (SUWA) get what they want). (Continuing the quote)... "Our interest is and always has been (Thank You Mr. Wayne Owens)...America's Red Rock Wilderness Act-protection of large wild landscapes in the San Rafael Swell, Desolation and Labryrinth Canyons. Once Emery County has completed their bill, we look forward to comparing it to ARRWA and working directly with them to address the differences. Until then, we remain interested in their proposal, (I wonder...why bother...other than to laugh at what the locals want), and will fully reengage whenever the county is ready to begin negotiations." Quote, unquote. That about says it all, doesn't it?
Read the Salt Lake Tribune, dated Friday, July 9, 2009. Front page, no less. I'll bet you couldn't pay the Tribune enough money to run on the front page, any kind of rebuttal to the lies that SUWA permeates the general public with. Unfortunately, most Utahn's get what SUWA wants them to know, and you and I are left to suffer the consequences.
Last year, we had a TAKE BACK UTAH rally at the State Capitol Building. It was very well attended. I even ran into friends that came from as far away as Blanding and Monticello. I guess I'm asking, no, I'm begging you to set Aug. 28 aside, to attend this year's rally, and make it even bigger in attendance than last year. It's only a few hours out of your day, but can send a powerful message. It is what you can do.
I have two other places that I could be, and would probably be a lot more fun, as far as the word fun is concerned. But I also believe, there is strength in numbers, and we can pressure our elected officials also, if we are in the right places at the right times. It's our state, it is our lives, that all this crap has do with, I believe we live in the greatest nation in the world, and there is a lot at stake in the next few years.
Please come and encourage your children and grandchildren to come also. It's their future that is being shaped. Will they have freedoms, or complete government control to look forward to, it's up to us to stand steadfast and immovable in the right things, and not succumb to pressure.


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Never occurred to me till recently there would be a forum for all things Christmas, so I am happy to find this site.
Many years ago a family member started painting the Wee Crafts and California Creations plastercraft Christmas village pieces. Over time, we collected quite a few pieces. In the late 80s (don't recall exact year) we started a small display at a local nursing home during the holiday season. The residents and their visitors really enjoyed it. For several years, it was displayed and grew larger every time.
Several residents suggested the village needed model trains, so one Christmas I placed a short piece of HO scale model train track across the village, and placed a small train set on the track. If I recall correctly, this was the first time the Christmas village was displayed on white styrofoam instead of the regular snow blanket. This was done so the train track would lay securely.
LOL, that was a PROBLEM! the train just sat their blocking a crossing, something you can see whenever you want in town (the town here is notorious for trains blocking an important street). The residents wanted the train to move!
The following Christmas, I brought some more track and made a loop for the train to run on. This went over quite a bit better with the visitors. We also added some store bought ceramic Christmas village pieces, and some plastic HO scale buildings. I had bought a rather large amount of styrofoam, and we needed more buildings to fill up the display.
Sometime in the early 90s, we came up with a name for our village, Winterview. Every year it was bigger, with more accessories and more buildings.
When I was out looking at model train items at a small hobby store in South Omaha, (Trainman's) the proprietor, Ron Beranek suggested we make a small portable version of Winterview for an up coming train show he was sponsoring at the Southroads Shopping Mall in Bellevue, Nebraska.
We talked it over, and thought a 4X8 foot version would be doable (and fun).
It was. The public really liked Winterview. We had an HO scale train run around the edge of the village, and it portrayed a town square and some residences and businesses.
We had so much fun doing the train show, I then contacted the Great American Train Show organizers and arranged for Winterview to be displayed at an upcoming event in Lincoln Nebraska. For that display, Winterview doubled in size to 4X16 feet.
Again, it was very well received, and we really enjoyed the people we met at the model train show.
For the show, we would 'pre-fab' Winterview. I would lay the train track and streets onto the sytrofoam and pin them down. We would mark where buildings would go, and when we got to the show, we would lay out the styrofoam pieces, and then just put out the buildings, trains, cars, accessories and trees. The Great American folks allowed several hours Friday afternoon and Saturday morning to get the displays and the sellers set up for the train show. It was all very exciting and very much fun.
We noticed immediately Winterview was very different from other model train displays
and layouts in the model train world. Winter portrayals and Christmas themes just weren't modeled then, and generally still aren't modeled even now. It is unusual to see even an autumn themed layout.
(an interesting exception is the enormous model train layout at the Clay County fairgrounds in Spencer Iowa. That layout portrays all 4 seasons, although without the total emphasis on the Christmas theme in the winter portion)
Our plaster buildings were also unusual, and as noted by several viewers, we do have some scale problems. (we acknowledge that, and as everything 'looks' good, we really don't worry about scale)
We use the 'brush' type evergreen trees (thank you Department 56 and Lemax) and in that time frame, we also used bare branch trees I fashioned from some wild shrubs that grow in this area.
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GRENADA, St. Andrew's
Known as the "Island of Spice," this part of the world boasts spices found in everything from food and drink to ointments and soaps. See workers choose, grade and package nutmeg at the Gouyave Nutmeg Processing Station for $1. In the stencil room you can get a customized jute bag adorned with personalized text.
For a sample of the island's rich history, visit the Grenada National Museum for live cultural performances.
MORE INFORMATION: grenadagrenadines.com
INDONESIA, Maluku Islands
White sand beaches and impressive coral gardens attract people to this archipelago, known for its nutmeg, cloves and mace, among others.
The small volcanic Banda Islands, within the archipelago, were once the only source of mace and nutmeg in the world. Today the hillsides are covered with nutmeg trees. Be sure to visit the former Dutch Governor's mansion, the History Museum in Neira and the large nutmeg plantation.
MORE INFORMATION: indonesia-tourism.com
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- Faux leather and crochet fabric upper
- Lace-up
- Stitched cap toe
- ¾" stacked block heel
- Synthetic sole
- Imported
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