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jdoggy72 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
StatDNA is a startup selling advanced sports data and streaming video access to professional sports teams to better analyze their team's performance, their players contributions and their opponents strengths and weaknesses.
We assign people to watch games and capture data on every single event during a game; we then create reports that provide quick, simple performance analysis. While our information is vast, we try to simplify it so coaches and players (not PhDs usually) can use it, focusing on visual reports. Also, all of the data is linked directly to videos (click on any number to see a video); so any moment from any match can be quickly found and watched right on the web.
One of our key advantages is in the sheer amount of time we spend in capturing so many details, but we also seek to be a step ahead of the crowd in terms of creating new analytical techniques to synthesize insights from the data. We have "big brains" pulling all from this data that they can.
The conventional wisdom on the sports we analyze (e.g. soccer, rugby, etc) is that the sport is too complex to use data-driven analysis. We think that we CAN analyze the game by isolating the important things going on, in this way can have a very distinctive product.
So key attributes: very deep data, insightful + easy to understand analysis, visually driven (both reports and videos), accurate
Our target audiences are: professional sports teams including coaches, players and general managers. Scouts and agents in different sports. Potentially the media eventually.
Also, we are in many markets across the globe (US, Brazil, Europe), so our logo should somehow be flexible to accomodate that.
Since we will cover a number of sports eventually (soccer), our logo should not cover just one sport.
We have a current logo on our website http://www.statdna.com and I have included a copy here. Note that we will be doing a complete website redesign, so you do not have to match the color scheme in our current website, we're flexible.
What I do not like about our current logo is that you can't really relate it to sports that much. I think its a bit overwhelming as well, it could be a bit simpler somehow.
I do like the tagline we use on our current logo "decoding the game" although its not strictly necessary to include it in our new logo. Decoding the game does speak to what we are trying to do, but perhaps if we had the right logo, this would be apparent (or we could just write it under the logo in regular text). In some ways it would be better not to include it in the logo because we are operating in a multi-language environment. I will let you choose to design the logo with our without this tagline to start.
Please send me any questions you might have.
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- 2 tsp. butter
- 1 lb. Pork tenderloin or round steak
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. ginger
- 2 tsp. soy sauce
- In small bowl, mix brown sugar, orange juice, soy sauce, garlic powder and ginger, stir.
- Set aside.
- Slice pork into 1/2 inch slices. If using beef, cut it into thin strips.
- In a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, melt butter.
- Add pork and cook just until no longer pink. 8-10 minutes.
- Drain meat if needed.
- Pour sauce over pork; cook and stir until mixture thickens and coats pork.
- Serve over rice.
Terri's Notes
~ Ginny says her family loves the sauce so much, she doubles it. I doubled everything!
~ Instead of draining the pork, I added the sauce to the juice and thickened it. Not quite the same caramely sweet, but delicious. Just spoon a couple Tablespoons of the liquid into a cup before you add the sauce mixture to the skillet. Let juice cool a minute and stir in one Tblsp. of cornstarch until smooth. Once the sauce starts to simmer, add the cornstarch mixture and stir until thickened.
~ Meat is easier to slice if you put it in the freezer for a bit. Will be firm, not frozen.
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Fitness Tips to Help Us as We Age
Many people feel that as they age they should slow or stop their fitness routines. However, it is not in your best interest to avoid exercise as you grow older. You may think that you are playing it safe because you feel as if you are too old or too out of shape to exercise without injuring yourself; however, the real danger to your health is not exercising at all. You can improve your health at any age, but the only way to do this is with a healthy diet and a regular fitness routine. So, you should never let your age be a factor in deciding if you should participate in a fitness routine.
Strength training is a great add-on
Most people head straight for the treadmill or stationary bike when they go to the gym. We keep our fitness routines centered on cardio; however, strength training is also important to add to your fitness routine at any age. Did you know that adults over fifty can lose approximately half a pound of muscle per year? Strength training is necessary to help you combat this. It can help you regain and maintain strength, and it can even improve your metabolism, which can help you burn calories even after your workout is done. Strength training is a great way to help you improve your health as you age, especially when you correctly combine it with your cardio routine.
Make sure you stretch
It is important to stretch, warm up and cool down in any fitness routine. It is even more important to do this as we get older. The older we get, the harder it is for our bodies to start up and slow down. You may notice that it takes a little longer for you to get going or to find your rhythm during your fitness routine. This is a normal part of the aging process that you have to take this into consideration. You need to plan your fitness routine accordingly to ensure that you do not injure yourself but still get the most out of your fitness routine. Before a full workout, most people over fifty should warm up for at least five minutes to get your body prepared and ready to work, so you need to set aside enough time to do this properly.
Eat a healthy diet
Most people can be a little unsure of where to start when it comes to achieving a healthy diet. This can make it next to impossible to stick to a healthy diet. As you get older, it is a top priority to stick to a balanced and healthy diet in order to keep our bodies functioning at their maximum potential. Where can you find all the necessary information needed to create and maintain a healthy diet? Your best bet would be to work with a registered dietitian. They can put you on a nutritional meal plan that is tailored to your specific needs and goals. You can ask your doctor or your fitness center to see if they can recommend one for you.
Never stop learning and gathering information
How can you make your exercise routine more effective, eat a healthy diet and improve your overall health? Fitness is constantly changing and evolving, and it is necessary to stay up to date on all the new fitness trends and breakthroughs to get the best results from our fitness routines. As we get older, our needs and goals are also changing. We need to look for new information in order to learn how to effectively achieve these new needs and goals. Some fitness centers offer seminars and workshops to help distribute any new information to its members. You can also look into health and fitness trends on the internet, ask your doctor or hire a personal trainer. There are so many ways to find what you are looking for these days. You should take full advantage of all of them to ensure you reap the maximum benefits.
It can be difficult for anyone to start or stick to a new fitness routine. This only gets harder as we age. It is important to find a proper and effective way to exercise, as we get older to ensure we get the maximum benefits and eliminate any easily preventable injuries. Exercise is a necessary component in order to maintain and improve our overall health, and we should make it an important and necessary part of our lives. We should never avoid or stop our fitness routine because of our age.


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Here's a simple steps on how to set up POP3 and IMAP email accounts on your HTC wildfire S.
The Android-based smartphones include two email clients, one for Gmail and one for other types of email servers including Microsoft Exchange, IMAP and POP3.
The following guide will show you how to set up the built-in email application on the HTC Wildfire S to access an IMAP or POP3 email server for incoming email, and an SMTP server for outbound email. The setup for both IMAP and POP3 is the same.
- Tap the Home icon
- Tap the Grid icon so you can view all installed applications
- Tap the Email icon
- Enter your Email Address and Password for the account you are setting up and tap Next
- Select the type of account: POP3, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync; select either POP3 or IMAP, as appropriate (figure 4)
- Enter the Incoming server settings: Username, Password, POP3 server (ex: pop.yourdomiain.com), Port, Security type, and Delete email from server, then tap Done, and then Next
- Enter the Outgoing server settings: SMTP server (ex: smtp.yourdomain.com), Port, Security type, Require sign-in (check box), Username, and Password, then tap Done, and then Next
- You can now select Account options: Email checking frequency (15 minutes by default), Send email from this account by default (check box), and Notify me when email arrives (checkbox) -- make your selections and tap Next
- Your email account is now set up on your HTC Wildfire S and must be named -- also be sure to enter your name to be displayed on outgoing messages
- Account name
- Your name
- Email check frequency
- Default account (make the current account the default email account on your HTC Wildfire S)
- Email notifications
- Select Ringtone
- Vibrate
- Incoming settings (to modify IMAP or POP3 server settings)
- Outgoing settings (to modify SMTP server settings)
Oddly, if you want to add another email account to your HTC Wildfire S, it is done while viewing the message list of an account that has been previously setup. Tap the Menu icon -- which is directly to the left of the Home icon -- and then tap Accounts. Then start from the top of this guide to add another account.


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The consulting firm founded by Newt Gingrich on Monday night released a copy of its 2006 contract with Freddie Mac showing it was paid $300,000 to provide unspecified "consulting and related services" for one of the federally sponsored housing agency's top lobbyists.
The contract between the Center for Health Transformation, an arm of the Gingrich Group, and Freddie Mac shows that Gingrich reported directly to to Craig Thomas, who at the time served as the agency's director of public policy and was one of its registered lobbyists on Capitol Hill.
But a spokeswoman for the firm said it was unable to find an earlier contract dating to 1999 and renewed until 2002. The spokeswoman, Susan Meyers, also could not say whether Gingrich or any of its employees produced any written reports for Freddie Mac as part of the nearly $1.8 million in consulting fees it was paid.
"I have no idea if there were any written reports," she said. "This is all we are authorized to release."
The 15-page contract, signed with a Gingrich Group executive, sheds little light on what Gingrich actually did for Freddie Mac -- a question that has become an issue in the presidential campaign. It states only that the Gingrich Group will that provide unspecified consulting services for Thomas.
One of the provisions states that consulting "will provide status reports" to Freddie Mac on its work and supply it with copies "of any disclosures or reports it may be required to file by law, such as reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act."
Gingrich, who originally said he provided advice "as a historian," has adamantly denied he did any lobbying for Freddie Mac, an assertion repeated by Nancy Desmond, the CEO of the Center for Health Transformation.
"As noted under the scope of work section on Page 14, the contract was solely for consulting purposes and not lobbying," she said in a statement posted along with the contract on the group's website.
According to Meyers, the firm originally signed a contract with Freddie Mac in late 1999 for the same $25,000 a month, which was renewed until 2002. The firm was unable to locate that document and the renewals, she said. After lapsing, the Freddie Mac consulting agreement was signed again in 2006 and was renewed in 2007.
All Freddie Mac reports are now controlled by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The agency did not respond to requests for comment Monday. It recently rejected a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, for any and all records that Freddie Mac may have had on the Gingrich Group, stating in a Dec. 6, 2011 letter: "A search of FHFA records located no documents responsive to your request."


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Discussion Paper - Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project, Belfer Center
Water Consumption of Energy Resource Extraction, Processing, and Conversion
A review of the literature for estimates of water intensity of energy-resource extraction, processing to fuels, and conversion to electricity
Water as a Factor in the Energy Supply Chain
Water and energy are closely linked. The water industry is energy-intensive, consuming electricity for desalination, pumping, and treatment of wastewater. The energy industry is also water-intensive, which is the focus of this report. Water is used for resource extraction (oil, gas, coal, biomass etc.), energy conversion (refining and processing), transportation and power generation. Energy accounts for 27% of all water consumed in the United States outside the agricultural sector (Electric Power Research Institute 2008). Water, like energy, is a commodity but with very different characteristics. Water is almost always local where energy tends to be more of a global sector, linked to fungible commodities.
Constraints on water availability often influence the choice of technology, sites, and types of energy facilities. For instance, water has always been a potential constraint for thermal electricity generation, given the large volumes of water typically required for cooling. Water availability is thus of paramount importance when deciding on a suitable location of a power plant.
This paper provides an overview of water consumption for different sources of energy, including extraction, processing, and conversion of resources, fuels, and technologies. The primary focus of this paper is to summarize the consumptive use of water for different sources of energy. Where appropriate, levels of water withdrawals are also discussed, especially in the context of cooling of thermoelectric power plants.
The most comprehensive review of water consumption and energy production is a December 2006 report to Congress by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), titled "Energy Demands on Water Resources" (U.S. Department of Energy 2006). The DOE report was the starting point for this research effort, with additional sources used to increase the coverage of fuels (notably improved estimates for biofuels and shale gas production), additional processing technologies (coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids), and a more extensive review of water use in electricity from renewable sources, and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). The data compiled in this analysis is based on an extensive review of available literature for the U.S. market, with particular emphasis on capturing recent trends where there may have been significant changes (e.g., biofuels, shale gas, and solar technology) and further studies completed. To the best of the authors' knowledge, there are no individual reports that have integrated information of resource extraction, processing, and conversion since the 2006 DOE report.
U.S. water consumption for energy
Water is becoming increasingly important in several aspects of U.S. energy production, including the expansion of biofuels, some sources of renewable energy, and cooling technologies for large power plants.
Absolute water consumption for energy production has been increasing in the United States, a trend that may continue if reliance on water-intensive fuels continues. Charts ES-1 and ES-2 summarize water consumption for fuel extraction and processing, and electricity production, respectively.
Thermoelectric power plant cooling accounts for between 3 and 4% of all U.S. water consumption, and has been increasing its share of total water use. New or modernized steam turbines and combined cycle gas turbine power plants being built predominantly use closed-loop cooling, a technology which has lower water intake but substantially higher net water consumption. Old power stations with once-through cooling are being updated or replaced with closed-loop cooling systems, (Chart ES-2). Consequently, water consumption from electricity production is likely to continue to increase even if production were to stay the same.
Biofuels are by far the most water-intensive source of fuel in the United States because of the extensive use of irrigation for corn production. The current generation of corn-based ethanol is particularly water intensive, consuming in excess of 1,000 gal/MMBtu on average, a water consumption one or two orders of magnitude greater than that of alternative sources of liquid fuels. A mandated move to advanced biofuels (cellulosic ethanol) could bring biofuels water-usage closer to other fuels, but these technologies are unproven on a commercial scale.
The recent shale gas transformation of the U.S. natural gas industry has also focused attention on the water-energy nexus, although the water consumption for the production of shale gas appears to be lower (0.6 to 1.8 gal/MMBtu) than that for other fossil fuels (1 to 8 gal/MMBtu for coal mining and washing, and 1 to 62 gal/MMBtu for U.S. onshore oil production). The increased role of shale gas in the U.S. energy sector could result in reduced water consumption (Chart ES-1). The water used for releasing the gas (hydraulic fracturing), however, has to be carefully managed at a local level. Concerns about potential contamination of freshwater supplies with hydrofracking fluids also need to be addressed. Natural gas-fired combined cycle power plants (CCGT) also have some of the lowest consumption of water per unit of electricity generated, helped by the relatively high thermal efficiency of CCGT plants (Chart ES-2).
Increased reliance on nuclear power, which has the highest water consumption of the thermoelectric technologies, and the potential for wide-scale CCS deployment, could also significantly increase water consumption (Chart ES-2). In contrast, some of the renewable energy technologies, in particular wind and solar photovoltaic, which have practically no water consumption (Chart ES-2), could contribute to reducing water consumption for the energy sector.
Finally, it is worth emphasizing that the wide range of water intensity estimates for the different processes investigated shows that, for each process, there are typically alternative technologies, which could reduce water consumption, albeit at a higher cost, with lower efficiency and/or reduced reliability.
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Actually, I recently learned that the St. Daniel venerated by the Armenians in early December is another Daniel, who was one of the Desert Fathers in Egypt. The book that said he was Daniel the Stylite was in error.
St. Jacob of Serugh
Quote from: CoptoGeek on August 27, 2012, 03:54:25 PMSt. Jacob of SerughI was not aware that the Eastern (Byzantine) Orthodox held up Mor Jacob of Serugh as a saint.
St. Mary of Egypt is another post-Chalcedonian Saint we both honor.
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
Quote from: CoptoGeek on August 28, 2012, 08:20:09 AMSt. Mary of Egypt is another post-Chalcedonian Saint we both honor.Was she an OO or an EO?
According to wikipedia she died in 421.
There is disagreement among various sources regarding the dates of St. Mary's life. The dates given above correspond to those in the Catholic Encyclopedia. The Bollandists place her death in 421, others give the date of her death as 522 (see Orthodox Wiki article, below), or 530 (see Prolog from Ohrid, April 1). The only clue given in her Vita is the fact that the day of her repose was April 1, which is stated to be Holy Thursday, meaning that Easter fell on April 4 that year.If one consults a perpetual calendar that is keyed to the Julian Calendar (the one in use at the time), one finds that there are 24 years[5] in the relevant centuries on which April 1 occurs on a Thursday.[6] Of these, the years on which Easter would fall on April 4 according to the Julian Calendar are: 443, 454, 527, 538, and 549.[7]It is notable that the Synaxarion states that Zosimas lived during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger,[8] who reigned from 408 to 450. According to tradition, Zosimas lived almost a hundred years, dying in the sixth century, and the Vita states that he was fifty-three years old when he met St. Mary.
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Sodor Island - A Thomas Fan Site
Thomas The Tank Engine was originally created as part
of the Railway Series books created by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry. The original book - THE THREE RAILWAY ENGINES
- was created as a set of three stories to occupy the mind of the Clergyman's three year old son, who
was stricken down with measles at the time of writing. It was published in 1945 and was shortly followed by THOMAS
THE TANK ENGINE in 1946, introducing what was to spark a new title published under Awdry's name every year until
1972, tallying up a total of 26 books in his Railway Series, later to be undertaken by the same son, Christopher, adding another
14 titles to the Series bringing it to a grand total of 40 in 1996, from which point, the Railway Series books were discontinued
and the Awdry family's involvement has been limited since sale of the copyright from the hands of the publishers, however,
winning one victory with a new publication in 2007 and in 2011 to celebrate the centenary of the Rev. Awdry's birth.
1984 brought us the arrival of a new incarnation
of Awdry's works in the form of the Television Series which has been in production across three incarnations of model and,
as of 2009, CGI animation, across 25 years. Holding 12
model based series, four in full CGI, a 13-episode spin-off
series, a theatrical feature film, five feature length specials and participation in a UK No.1 Charity
Single for BBC Children In Need (2009's Animated All-Stars release) to its credit, it is looking set
to continue for many years to come, and currently going through its biggest spat of popularity since the 1980s when it was
originally launched.
In 2004, Thomas was bought out by HIT Entertainment,
home to Bob the Builder, which featurws Bob as the main character together with his group of friends and their vehicles which
possessed anthromorphic or human traits. This was essentially similar to those of Thomas and his group of friends in Sodor
Island and curently a line of Bob the Builder toys has gained popularity following the footsteps of the widely successful Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends line of merchandise
and children's toys and books.
This website looks at many different aspects of Thomas The
Tank Engine in depth, through essays, reviews, parodies, fan fiction, multimedia such as fan-dubbed episodes, music videos
and much more. I'd like to extend a debt of thanks to all who have contributed to its development, sent words
of encouragement and to all the good people who have visited and kept on coming back to see the latest updates!


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NVAPI is NVIDIA's core software development kit that allows direct access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers on all windows platforms. NVAPI provides support for categories of operations that range beyond the scope of those found in familiar graphics APIs such as DirectX and OpenGL.
Initially exposed only to OEMs and game developer tools, NVAPI is now available for download to all developers interested in building Windows applications on NVIDIA GPUs.
To request access to the NDA version of NVAPI please complete this application.
Application Types
NVAPI allows full access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers in any UI and non-UI application. Under Windows Vista, the application context using NVAPI must be launched in Session 1 or higher.
NVAPI Feature Categories
- Driver Management Initialization and driver version controls.
- GPU Management Enumeration of physical and logical GPUs. Thermal and Cooling controls.
- Display Management Enumeration of NVDIA displays, display postion and timings controls.
- GPU Topology Ability to enable SLI and Hybrid GPU topologies. Requires NDA Edition for full control of this feature.
- Frame Rendering Ability to control Video and DX rendering not available in DX runtime. Requires NDA Edition for full control of this feature.
- System Management Ability to query chipset and system specific information.
- HDTV Controls HDTV format and overscan controls. Requires NDA Edition for full control of this feature.
- Video Controls Extended video engine controls. Requires NDA Edition for full control of this feature.
- Connecting and Configuring Monitors Ability to set views on multiple target monitors.
- GPU Overclocking GPU overclocking APIs allows apps to run apps at maximum possible clocks. Requires NDA Edition for full control of this feature.
NVAPI Components and Documentation
NVAPI components includes the "lite" headers, grouping mostly often used functions by purpose, one header that includes all functions for power users, and lib files for 32 and 64 bit Windows.
NVAPI Support
NVAPI is constantly and rigorously tested not only for end-users, but for internal use at NVIDIA and our closest partners.


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The Wussification of America: How We Let Wall Street Become The New Schoolyard Bully
Blog post • Aug 02, 2012 18:30 EDT
As I worked out in the gym today and watched the Olympics, I realized that Americans as a whole no longer participate in the sports that we used to as kids. It used to be the case that regular kids would go to the local Y and do activities like archery and dodge ball.
Today, most high school students don't even get any physical activity, let alone participate in organized activities that can be perceived as violent or risky. Schools and the Y's no longer want to risk having the liability for kids to develop a little toughness. Instead, we have become a nation of couch potatoes that wusses out of the sports we used to do in summer camp as kids.
This wussification also explains why we have faced scandal after scandal on Wall Street.
Americans as a whole do nothing more than shrug their shoulders and grumble; even as the scandals only grow larger and larger.
It started with the savings and loan crisis in the '80's and '90's, and then came the overhyping of the tech bubble in 1999 and 2000.
Then it got really big, with the largest drop in economic output since the Great Depression, all because of Wall Street greed and government regulators asleep at the switch or coaxed into a drunken stupor by Washington lobbyists.
With the housing crisis, we have seen predatory lending, fraud, forgery, robo-signing, tax evasion, and the wrongful eviction of homeowners from their own homes in such large amounts that even the bankers should be blushing.


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I was first introduced to Thai Food when living in LA… and it was love at first bite!
Then I was introduced to Rama. And my love affair with Thai Food was taken to another level!
There is literally nothing I have eaten at Rama that has not been totally, irresistibly delectable. And as you'll see through the course of this post… I've had a lot of things!
Above you'll see their fresh tofu, vegetable spring rolls, a deliciously light way to start your meal at Rama, then, there it is, the absolute most delicious thing ever. Pan Fried Roti Bread with Yellow Curry Sauce. Holy cow, there is nothing I don't love about this simple, little appetizer!
I am so beyond grateful that my friend PK ordered this the first time I ever dined at Rama, now it's my go-to appetizer! It also inspired my first homemade curry sauce recipe in my Indian Chicken Curry Pitas!
When the owner found out I wanted to do a "Restaurant Rave" on the spot, he generously brought out some samples of his favorite dishes, in addition to my regular "go-to" items!
First was the Thai Steak Salad, thin slices of beef top delicious mixed greens, mint, scallions, green onions and thai chilies for one meaty, scrumptious salad!
Next, was the Vegetable Tofu and Eggplant with basil, garlic, bell peppers and onions. The perfect meal for all my vegetarian friends out there!
Next, he brought out a couple of tasty seafood dishes, the Coconut Lemon Grass Grilled Tiger Prawns and Pan Seared Scallops in Chili Sauce.
Is anyone else's mouth watering?
Both seafood favorites were packed with flavor, while still maintaining a light, fresh taste. I would highly recommend the scallops, like really highly!
Last but not least was my other "go-to" dish, the Drunken Noodles with Chicken. A simple Thai meal, turned into one of my favorite dishes of all time at Rama!
Now it's confession time.
- Confession #1: I was alone at lunch when all of this food appeared on my table.
- Confession #2: I was sitting on their sidewalk patio and people walking by looked at me really funny!
- Confession #3: I ate 90% of this food.
- Confession #4: I wish I had worn looser pants so I could have eaten 100% 😉
If you're in San Diego or visiting in the near future, do not miss this unforgettable Thai food!
My aunt was recently in town for a conference and said this was the best Thai she has ever had. One of my best friends that lives in Miami said this is his favorite restaurant in all of San Diego. So if you don't believe me, take their word for it 😉
Rama is located at: 327 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA. 92101 (Between J & K St.)


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Saturday, April 27, 2013
The Plot Is in the Characters
by Kay Kendall
Author of Desolation Row
I don't give a fig how a car works. Or electricity.
Or a computer. They all might as well be black boxes, as far as I'm concerned, inside which mysterious things happen. Poof! The car turns on. Poof! Electricity powers the air conditioner. Poof! The computer recalls everything you type into it.
What I do care about is how people work. Why they do the things they do. I discovered this passion one teenaged summer when my boyfriend dumped me and I drooped into churlishness. After a week my mother tired of my moping around the house and suggested I work at one of her charities.
I ended up volunteering at the county's psychiatric clinic, helping with rudimentary clerical tasks. As I typed up forms and patients' reports, I was shocked to see so much pain appear on the pages. But later I was gratified to see the clinic's psychiatric social worker help some of those patients whose woes I'd typed up. Sometimes they left our office with springier steps. I fancied I could see their anxieties and depression lift, if only a little.
That same summer my favorite cousin began exhibiting behavioral problems. Merle was super bright but troubled. I never saw him act out or be mean to someone, but I began to hear stories. I wanted to help him but didn't have the skills. Ah-hah, I thought! I'd study psychology in college and become a psychiatric social worker so I could fix him.
Please note that I never aspired to be a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Perhaps that was because I'd only seen a psychiatric social worker in action and therefore could imagine being one. But also note the date was 1962, the year before Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. And eight years before I became an ardent feminist.
When I entered college in 1963, most courses I took fascinated me, including for a short time even geology and astronomy, subjects taken only to fulfill liberal arts distribution requirements. Psychology, however, was a letdown, a huge bore.
I wanted to learn about people. All we studied were rats. While two friends in my class did manage to cope with rodentia behavior, I couldn't. These women went on to earn their doctorates in psychology and help countless people. For me, however, the gap between the actions of rats and people was too great a leap. I never took another course after Psych 1.
I toyed with various majors, but English literature was my mainstay. Fiction encompassed everything about humanity, and I'd always been a ferocious reader. Writing was a joy. After getting a graduate degree in history—real crimes that happened in the past, I now say—I fell back on writing and developed a solid career as a corporate communicator.
I never felt I'd found my niche, however. My heart did not sing.
When I began writing fiction a decade ago, I finally responded to an inner compulsion. What I had to explore is why people do the things they do. Character development and plot are almost synonymous to me. It's like attending another high school reunion and seeing old friends again after ten years. I'm reading the newest chapters in their lives. People are walking, ongoing stories. Curiosity drives me to learn everything I can and then fictionalize it—showing their behavior and uncovering their motives.
The mystery comes in when good people do bad things. Anne Perry was the first mystery author I noticed whose killers weren't thoroughly evil, but I didn't know what to make of this. And then the film Heavenly Creatures came out in 1994, exposing her secret. As a teenager she had helped murder a friend's mother. Maybe Anne Perry has been trying to fathom her motives ever since? No wonder the killers she devised—especially in the first half of her career—are complicated, unfathomable people, jolted into acting horribly in bad situations.
Each of us is a mysterious black box. Inside are so many factors all jumbled up—memories, desires, hurts. How can other people ever hope to understand us? How can we hope to understand ourselves?
Yet still we try. We must try. I was never able to decode what caused my cousin Merle to derail. I did solve part of the puzzle but was helpless to alter his sad trajectory. Alas, after living for twenty years in a hospital for the criminally insane, he wandered off into a field while on furlough and simply lay down and died. He was forty.
As a mystery author, though, I can put characters into extreme peril and see if they'll sort out their own complicated lives as well as the sometimes vile things that others do. Solving the puzzles of people living only on pages (or in E files) is a full-time job. After I figure out one set of interconnecting lives, then I go on to develop another set, another, and another. This is a job I relish. You can call me a contented Sisyphus.
Kay Kendall's debut mystery, Desolation Row, is set in 1968 and features 22-year-old Austin Starr, homesick Texas bride of a Vietnam War draft protester. When her husband is accused of murdering a fellow draft resister, the black sheep son of a U.S. Senator, Austin must prove her husband's innocence. Learn more about Kay and her writing at http://www.kaykendalauthor.com.
14 comments:
- Sheila Connolly said...
Welcome, Kay! I completely agree with your search for the "why." Otherwise a mystery is just a pretty puzzle with no subtlety or depth. And a really lazy writer would simply say, "he was a sick person" and leave it there.
- April 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM
- Elizabeth Zelvin said...
Welcome to PDD, Kay. Your post resonated with me. As a clinical social worker/psychotherapist and a fiction writer (and poet and singer-songwriter), I've always said that everything I do is of a piece. It's all about human connection, whether I'm listening to a client, writing about (or listening to!) my fictional characters, giving a poetry reading, or singing to an audience. And ardent feminist, yes! I grew up in the Fifties, and I can remember when the connections between women were not considered particularly interesting. The "important" conversations went on among men, and we were lucky if we got to sit in on them. Thank goodness that's changed!
- April 27, 2013 at 9:46 AM
- Kay Kendall said...
Sheila and Elizabeth, thank you for the welcome. I am so happy to be here among you wonderful deadly daughters of the great Poe.
Yes, back in the day when women got together to talk it was just chit chat, deemed inconsequential meaningless stuff.
What puzzled me was hearing men talk ugly or sexist in a way that was sure to upset women in the room. As a youngster I didn't understand why the men would risk the women's ire. But the women just sat there, saying nothing.
I know the answer now. It's called POWER or the lack thereof.
I'm going to a fundraiser on Tuesday at which the superb Gloria Steinem will speak. I am so excited that I am practically levitating. The mystery I'm working on now is set in a women's liberation consciousness raising group in 1970...titled RAINY DAY WOMEN--sequel to my DESOLATION ROW. Yes, my amateur sleuth is a big fan of Bob Dylan.
- April 27, 2013 at 12:56 PM
- Sheila Connolly said...
Your next book sounds like a treat. If you need any "women's fiction" titles from back in the day, I kept them all, and they even have their own bookshelf. The Women's Room? It's there.
Love Gloria Steinem. I've had the privilege of meeting her a couple of times, most recently when she gave the commencement address at Smith College the year my daughter graduated.
My mother always said the men's conversations were more interesting and hung out with them at parties, which is probably why the wives hated her and she had few female friends, back in the '50s.
- April 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Thanks for a delightful blog entry, Kay. The late 60s and early 70s were such a rich a time, filled with turmoil and change, but surprisingly few writers have explored the era in fiction. It's far enough away in time now to feel "historical" -- although some us just think of it as "when I was young" :-)-- and I hope you'll find an appreciative audience for your books.
Speaking of Gloria Steinem, the oddest bit of trivia I know about her is that she was briefly Christian Bale's stepmother.
- April 27, 2013 at 8:56 PM
- Kay Kendall said...
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to connect with your readers, Sandra. It was great.
I was stunned to read that Ms. Steinem's younger husband died suddenly only three years after their marriage, and here I'd been thinking of her as happily married since 2000. What a shame.
Then Wikipedia went on to say that she was the stepmom of Christian Bale…surprising all the way around!
- April 28, 2013 at 8:13 PM
- Steven M. Moore said...
Hi Kay,
While I'm an incurable people-watcher and my characters are often strong alloys of personalities I have met over many years, I disagree with your thesis: story is king (I'm talking about fiction). I've reviewed many books and am very disappointed when an author has a lineup of interesting characters but basically no story. Maybe one day I'll write a spoof of Pirandello's famous play and call it "Six Characters in Search of a Story." :-)
To paraphrase Tom Clancy, I think the best advice for an author is to just tell the damn story. Fiction started out as a story-telling and vocal tradition. For me the story defines the characters (you might be saying that, but that's not what I perceived).
I'm not disagreeing with everything you say. But if one is not telling a good story, why write it down?
Oh, and I welcome you here too. I'm just this ye olde male lurker for this interesting blog, all too often admiring the Deadly Daughters and their intelligent manipulations of the written word.
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It has taken me all summer to find the time to upload my pictures, and actually post about my cute Chad's 5th Birthday SHARK party! I figured no better time than now, since it is shark week of course!
I can't believe it was 5 year ago since my little Chad made his presence in the world.
5 years goes faster than I ever imagined it would.
I had a great friend tell me that she allows BIG birthday parties for important birthday milestones. So she does a birthday for the years they turn 5, 8, 12, 16, and 18. The other years are set aside for family and a few friends. SO I decided to try this ... and so far, it has been GREAT!
I saw a few years ago on a friends blog, her little boys "shark" party. With Chad's birthday being a summer birthday ... I knew that this was the party that I wanted to throw for Chad's 5th.
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Then played fish, fish, shark (aka ... duck, duck, goose)
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We invited 18 little ones to the party, and to our surprise ... we had 18 kids show up!! I luckily have the most darling babysitters that love kids, and they came to my rescue ...
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LOVE LETTERS Features Two Casts at Street Theatre, 2/1 & 2
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Street Theatre Company opens its 2013 season with two special performances of Love Letters. Love Letters by A. R. Gurney was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is a unique and imagiNative Theatre piece that is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. Evocative, touching, frequently funny, as the actors read the letters aloud, they chronicle over nearly 50 years of hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.
Today's February 1st show features endearing local actors, Layne Sasser and Ken Jackson. Between the two actors, they have over 60 years of stage experience. Jackson notably played the title role in Tuesdays with Morrie for STC, and recently playEd Thomas Edison in Camping with Henry and Tom, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor award. He is also a professional artist. Sasser has won 16 acting awards, including the First Night Honors in 2011 and a First Night Acting award in 1994. She appeared in Toby Keith's "Trailerhood" as well as numerous commercials, print ads, and films, including "Two Weeks" with Sally Field and "Changing Hearts", with Tom Skerritt, Faye Dunaway, and Lauren Holly.
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The great thing about the minitruck community is that over time you gain friends who share the same passions as you, and what first starts as a group of friends becomes a tight-knit family. For some like Brandy Booton, what starts as a hobby becomes a passionate lifestyle that can change any person's life.
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Special Thanks From Owner "Thanks to Mike McKinney, Dave Belzer, and Von Chounlamany for all the great work and inspiration."
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July 30, 2004
sorbet with monkey
Thursday, July 29
I am not counting how many times I have written this here by now, but it was another hot, sweaty day. The hot and sweaty weather defininately made me want something nice and cold, refreshing, and easy to make, when it is a busy day for me like this.
It meant that this is time to try that one - the one I had found quite some time ago and went back over and over again - this one; sorbet in a sack!
For the procedure, I recommend you definately rather check out the original recipe site linked above because it is very cute and funny, so I am not going further in detail. And what I did was, instead of following the direction, I threw my ziploc bag of fruit juice into the freezer! Ehhhhhh, I know it was a whole lot of deal-breaking, but that was what I did, and it still worked and the sorbet was tasty.
In place of mango juice used in the recipe, I mixed some mango nectarines (yes, I still had some left) with hand-squeezed orange juice. You'd probably like it dosed with sugar, but I preferred not this time. My sorbet thus wasn't sweet like the ones we usually eat, yet very very fruity and was like real fruit - well, it was!
11 comments:
- Santos said...
coinkidinkily, i looked at the same recipe last night (hi monkey!) and i made mandarin sorbet in a sack....
- 2:15 PM, July 30, 2004
- chika said...
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- 3:06 PM, July 30, 2004
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- 3:07 PM, July 30, 2004
- chika said...
Hi Santos,
Serious! Monkey must have been busy hopping around, whipping up sorbet here and there... ;)
- 3:13 PM, July 30, 2004
Ooh, neat technique - gotta try this some time soon. (It's almost August. which means that in the San Francisco Bay Area we're due for hot summer weather any day now... Our weather usually lags 3 months behind what's normal in the rest of the western US. We get our hottest weather in October and our coldest in March.) Mmm, frozen fruity goodness.
Reading one of the other recipes, I was tickled to notice that Monkey and I have the same citrus juicer. :-)
-- EmilyB
- 4:09 PM, July 30, 2004
- Reid said...
Hi Chika,
I think I'm going to try to make this...especially since it's been so hot AND humid here lately. It finally got up to 90 in the last couple of days. Is it really hot and humid in Hilo too?
- 2:16 AM, July 31, 2004
you have moved me to haiku!
a tasty sorbet
refreshes and soothes the spirit!
let's make some right now.
i'm so glad to see that my little recipe is so accepted by the culinary elite such as yourselves. the use of the freezer, dry ice or liquid nitrogen are perfectly acceptable alternatives for the freezing step and offer various levels of frostbite danger.
emily! isn't our little citrus juicer wonderful? perfect for lemonade, limeade, or other small citrusy need. i still have the matching grater!
mahalo for the mention of "sorbet in the sack!"
- 11:26 AM, August 01, 2004
- chika said...
Hi there,
EmilyB - Now I see why it was so cold when I visited SF in March a few years ago, expecting it should be almost spring... Well, enjoy the summer!
*BTW, are you the same Emily who requested the recipe for the mock eel? You've got it, check the comments to that post. (I'm sorry in advance if I'm addressing the wrong person!)
Reid - yes, yes, yes, it's been VERY hot AND humid here, too!
And Hi, Monkey!
Wow, a great honor to have you here and thanks for your Haiku :-)
My next project to cook with you would be guacamole & chips - come help me then!
Thanks again :-)
- 3:33 PM, August 01, 2004
- Santos said...
monkey magic!
- 7:47 PM, August 01, 2004
i would love to drop by, don my wee chef hat and whip up the tasty and oh so festive guacamole and chips!i'll bring the mariachi band!
- 3:50 AM, August 02, 2004
- chika said...
thanks monkey, can't wait to see you again! :-)
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I wanted so badly to get home early Monday evening so that I could have this post ready in time for Tuesday morning as a recap, but of course, we stayed at work a little bit later that night. The good thing about writing this post now though is that I feel like I'm not under a time crunch and I can really take my time with it.
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Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I spent it with my husbands family in Las Vegas. There was not much of dressing up since it was freezing cold. The tempeture there was below 50 degrees at times and for us Californians anything below 60 degrees is freezing. Regardless of the cold weather I ended up having a very fun and enjoyable Christmas. Experiencing just a tad of lightly colder weather makes one appreciate the wonderful sunny, warm days in California (today not so much...coldest day in decades).
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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Teachers speak out of turn
This article also reveals elementaryhistoryteacher's real identity. She is shown to be:
"Lisa Cooper, 44, a teacher in Atlanta who blogs under 'elementaryhistoryteacher,' says her blog helps her gather her thoughts and speak for herself."
Lisa is a a fourth-grade teacher at Villa Rica (Ga.) Elementary. My congratulations to Lisa for getting such excellent exposure. I hope it brings her lots of new readers who keep coming back.
Several other history teachers/bloggers are also covered. This includes an example of what not to do when blogging. Note this bad example:
"They may make good reading, but do blogs make schools better? The blogosphere split over that question last spring, when the anonymous teacher-blogger at Chicago's Fenger High posted a series of rambling, caustic narratives titled Fast Times at Regnef (Fenger spelled backward). He painted a picture of a dangerous, chaotic school where students showed up stoned, skipped class to sell drugs, trashed teachers' cars and had sex in the hallways. As it turned out, the blogger, who quit after students learned his identity, was a history teacher who had helped a group of students make it to the county finals of a mock trial competition."
It is always a bad idea to be negative about your employer in a blog. Using a pseudonym is always a good idea if you value your privacy and still want to blog. But eventually, every pseudonym gets revealed. I encourage all history bloggers to use common sense when blogging about work!
This is a great article and I hope it brings even more K-12 history bloggers into the history blogosphere. My thanks to Greg Toppo for writing it.
2 comments:
- sumir said...
Hi Miland,
Congratulations to Lisa Cooper.
I have learnt about her blog from your references. I have learnt about her name earlier also. She really looks cute in her original self. She should display her real photograph on her site then the digital art which I suppose, is her own creative work.
By the way, what is your actual name? I just missed to join in when you received an invitation from Britannica. Actually I thought of making a comment on the use, purpose and direction of blogging as well as using Internet as a teaching tool and research tool. I was just held back because there was another post titled "What we need now is a Good Trolling Engine" on the Digital History Hacks which also referred to what I desire to comment upon. I wanted to incorporate the suggestion and the activity of Turkel in that write up. But it was intriguing to learn that Miland Brown is not your actual name. Secondly, Miland Brown is also active on some other site. I have gathered only this much that you have to do something with university of Wisconsin or Michigan.
I may be out of place here but it was just that two people whom I have come to know through Internet are in news.
Congratulations to you also for the invitation by Britannica. When are they allowing you to quote from their storehouse? Well in India, Britannica is still a standard of academic excellence. That is other thing, that after watching you people, I am using more of net than such conventional sources. I do not know how they will react after reading the last line.
- Miland said...
"Congratulations to you also for the invitation by Britannica. When are they allowing you to quote from their storehouse?"
They are already allowing me to do this. I have one post on the history of Moldova that links to the Britannica and the whole text of the article is available to readers. I will link to Britannica when it is appropraite.
"By the way, what is your actual name?"
I would rather not post that here. However, if you leave me a comment with your e-mail address I will send it to you via e-mail. You are a long standing contributor to this blog and I do not mind sharing with you. (I will decline the comment so that your e-mail address does not get posted here online.)


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A specialist brewery has pledged 1p to the Hawk and Owl Trust for every bottle of its Barn Owl Ale sold through Tesco supermarkets in the Southwest.
Cotleigh Brewery, based in Wiveliscombe, Somerset has been a supporter of the Trust since the early 1990s. Most of its beers are named after birds of prey and owls. Trust conservation officer Chris Sperring accompanied Cotleigh Brewery's promotional tour of Tesco stores across the region.
"Visiting Tesco supermarkets has been a really interesting way of meeting new people, whilst promoting both the Hawk and Owl Trust and Cotleigh Brewery. The idea was so unusual that it has created a lot of interest for the Trust, and we have gained several new contacts and members," he said.
As well as promoting the Trust through information on beer mats and collecting tins in pubs, Cotleigh has also promised to brew commemorative 'Long-eared Owl Ale' to mark the first year of the Trust's Long-eared Owl community projects on the Quantock and Mendip Hills.
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Cat walking on my bed?
Posted 18 June 2003 - 11:07 AM
i have for cats and i love em all very much...but there is cleo who is always in my room and sleeping on my bed and all...so anyway...the other day, cleo was on the floor of my bed, and i laid down on my bed and put the pillow over my head.
then i felt a cat walking on my bed...i went to pet her and there was nothing there. cleo was still sitting on the floor in the same spot. i just felt it again while i was playing video games and listening to my gc cd.
what do ya think?
Posted 21 June 2003 - 02:05 AM
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Posted 25 June 2003 - 09:30 AM
I once lived in an apartment where I would always see a dark colored cat out of the corner of my eye. It drove me nuts because I could never see it straight on. And I knew it was a ghost because I didn't have any cats during that period of my life.
Posted 25 June 2003 - 03:37 PM
I had adopted a cat several years ago from an animal shelter, who wound up dying of a respiratory virus that he had contracted from the shelter. For months after that, we would sometimes catch a glimpse of red fur out the corner of our eyes or feel something warm curled up on our bed. (We had no other animals at this time.) When we finally decided to get another pet, we would catch him at night frolicking with something that wasn't there. I'm pretty sure it was our deceased feline.
I've also had friends tell me similar stories about their pets playing with "invisible furry friends". Who knows? If people can come back to where they were happy, why can't animals?
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Posted 06 July 2003 - 03:35 PM
this is a little off the subject but... 2 years ago i lost my loved cat. I was missing him badly. I would lay in bed with my hand under my head and my elbow out flat on the bed and that cat would jump up and lay down next to me and put his head on my elbow. No other cat that i had ever had would do that. I missed that most about him.
Anyways, a 'gifted' friend of mine said that this particular cat would return to me...
Last week, my sisters friend had found some wild kittens across the street from their home. We went over to try and catch some and this one little guy came up and let my neice hold him. All the others were running around, unholdable.
I brought him home with us that night. I fell instantly in love. Guess what he did...
Yup, he jumped up on my waterbed and laid with me just as my other cat had done.
So, do animals have souls? I think so. Do they miss us just as badly as we miss them? I think so. I think they would come and visit us just as anyone else would.
Posted 06 July 2003 - 05:01 PM
Cats?...............ehhhhh..................maybe them too.
I did see a black cat running past when I was investigationg Soop cemetery. It disappeared so fast I was confused as to where it went............The interesting thing was that my wife was in the motel 6 that night. She heard a cat meow and felt something with weight jump on the bed. Nothing was there-at least that she could see *LOL*.
Interesting that I had told the spirits in the cemetery that they had to do better than that to spook me (several incidents happened including the disappearing cat). Coincidence? I don't know, but Sharon won't come with me on a hunt anymore (even to stay in the motels). ;D
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Posted 21 August 2003 - 03:45 PM
Cats definately dream. It looks very much like dog dreaming. I've even seen mine go into REMs.
I volunteer at a wildlife center, a place where people bring in all sorts of sick and/or injured wild animals. I don't get to spend a whole lot of time just observing-there are never enough volunteers so we keep really busy. However, I have seen sleeping squirrels display dream-like behavior. It looks very much like the twitching that a dreaming cat or dog does.
Posted 04 September 2003 - 10:04 AM
General Board/Ghost Cat
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Prior to Megan's death another one of my cats was hit by a car in front of my house. For a long time every now and then I would still feel the pressure of his feet on the matress as he walked behind my pillows in the same way he did in life to remind me it was getting late and he wanted his breakfast.
My sister and I have also both felt our beds being bumped in the night by each of our dogs after they passed on.
I've always believed animals had spirits.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."- Ghandi, In Philosophy
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According to a HomeGain.com survey, one of the most effective ways to boost the curb appeal and value of your home is by having nice landscaping. But summer's hot temperatures and high humidity can wreak havoc with gardens, but experts say with a little knowledge even novice gardeners can survive the season.
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Tim Guy, a manager at Merrifield Garden Center in Merrifield, VA, explains that plants and lawns don't need as much moisture as you might think. In general, he advises, deep soak lawns once a week—as opposed to watering in several short sessions—to encourage deep plant roots.
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The same rule of less watering also applies to veggies, Guy says. Just give them a good weekly soak.
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400+ horsepower turbo 2012 Audi S7 spotted undisguisedWe knew the Audi S7 was coming from leaked documents detailing the motors going in upcoming models. Spyphotos of camoflauged cars have been circulating the web but now we have undisguised photographs. Nothing shocking here, basically what we expected. A quad exhaust and a more aggressive front fascia on a slightly lowered suspension featuring larger wheels. The car is likely to be unveiled at the Frankfurt show and rumors suggest an RS7 sharing the RS6 powertrain is in the works.
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I've been very tempted to go look at audi's... I don't have a7 money but a fully loaded a4 is a nice ride for the money... They have really stepped it up starting in 09
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I don't know what I will have to do to have one of this model. It is really cool.
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Should Stupid Dogs Be Banned From Crowded Public Places?
At a street fair in DC last week, a police officer shot and killed some guy's dog. Some called it "cowboy gunslinging"; others said it was necessary. What we know for sure: it's time to argue about dogs in public.
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