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The ARS human nutrition monitoring program helps watch over the healthfulness of the country's food supply and diet. This includes determining the food consumption and dietary patterns of Americans as a whole and for a variety of subgroups based on characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, and income.
Unique national resources that contribute to the success of the ARS human nutrition monitoring program include the National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and the national "What We Eat in America" survey, which is the dietary intake survey component of the broader National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, commonly referred to as "NHANES."
Data on national dietary habits from this program serve as the foundation for many epidemiological (population) studies of diet and health. The information developed by the ARS human nutrition monitoring program provides invaluable information to policymakers, farmers, food processors, and manufacturers, as well as researchers.
Nutrition monitoring data identifies relationships between foods, nutrients, and disease occurrence. But such epidemiological information reveals only correlation—not proof of cause and effect. So when a trend is highlighted by nutrition monitoring data, the next step is to set up hypothesis-driven research to examine possible mechanisms that could be provoking the problem.
The nutrition monitoring data provides the foundation for many of ARS's nutrition research projects. New research questions are posed from the data to solve nutrition-related problems.
Laboratory research generates high-impact science that can change paradigms in nutrition management. ARS provides not only the state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for human nutrition research, but also the ability to carry out multidisciplinary long-term research crucial to understanding and improving the American diet from conception through old age.
The centerpiece of the nutrition monitoring program is "What We Eat in America," the only nationally representative dietary survey. ARS is responsible for the survey in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Service's National Center for Health Statistics.
The other part of the nutrition monitoring program is defining the nutrient content of foods. This is a challenging task because of a rapidly changing U.S. food supply, evolving consumer food choices, and growing demand for data on newly discovered, potentially health-promoting food components. ARS is the keeper of the food-composition databases, not only developing new data and new analysis techniques, but ensuring wide access to all of the data.
Partnerships are critical to accomplishing this work. ARS and the Department of Health and Human Services are partnering on the National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program to enable nutrient analyses of foods that are major contributors of health-promoting food components in the U.S. food supply. The Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database has also been created through this partnership.
Cutting-edge research on what we eat as a population and what nutrients are in those foods is critical for ensuring that people have the opportunity to plan diets that support optimal health.
"ARS National Program for Human Nutrition Monitoring" was published in the March 2012 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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Spring is officially here! FINALLY! So long Winter! And good riddance! Don't let the door hit you in the you-know-what on the way out! I feel like we've been waiting forever for sunshine and warmer weather. And these past couple weeks have been gorgeous. Blue skies. Warm weather. Absolute perfection. Well, except for those couple days of gloom and doom rain. But hey. I'll take rain over snow any day. After getting clobbered by 4 different storms that dumped almost 2 feet of snow (if not more… I kind of lost track after awhile) all within a couple weeks, I'll be happy if I don't see snow for another 8 months at least. But this is Ohio. You never put away your winter coat here. Mother Nature is slightly schizophrenic here. You never really know what you're going to get at any given time. And as they say, if you don't like it, wait 5 minutes. It might be different. So I'm going to enjoy my sunshine and 60s while it's here, and dream of a time in the very near future when little flowers start popping up all over and all the little bugs start buzzing around again.
I made these beauties for Cupcake Camp last weekend, and let me tell you, I've never been so proud of anything in my life! It was only my second time working with fondant, and the first time I've ever tried to color and shape anything with it. (My first attempt at fondant was years ago and all I did was cover a cake with plain white. And even that wasn't 100% successful!) I had seen the ladybug on grass idea in the Martha Stewart Cupcakes book (hers were actually marzipan) and thought it would be a totally adorable idea for the Spring Theme category at Cupcake Camp. Of course, I couldn't just stop at ladybugs. I had to make bees, flowers, and even tossed around the idea of butterflies too (which I still may try someday). I started making all my decorations 2 days in advance, completely terrified that I would screw them up royally and have to come up with a plan B at the last minute. Luckily, plan A worked out fantastically! When my first ladybug emerged fully decorated and looking completely adorable, I scared the cat with my high-pitched shriek of delight. By the end of the night, I had an army of perfect little ladybugs and bees, and an entire field of flowers made! (I got a little out of control and made far too many flowers… but I was on a roll! I was a flower making machine!)
The only bump in the road was my frosting. I wanted to make lemon buttercream. Easy task right? Well, apparently I did something wrong. More than once. On both my test batch and my final batch, even though they were different recipes, calling for different ratios of butter, sugar, and lemon juice, my frosting started to separate almost immediately. No matter how long or how many times I continued to beat it along the way, within minutes, I was piping out shiny, oily-looking, grainy grass again. It tasted fine (although it was a bit too lemony for my taste), but it just wasn't looking like the perfect blades of grass I had imagined. It was already pretty late at night, so I decided to suck it up and soldier on. By the end, they weren't looking that great at all, but I didn't have time to make another batch with my Vegan cupcakes still to go. I pulled out the few that looked absolutely terrible and packed up the rest.
My Vegan cupcakes? That's a whole different story. And to make that long story short, they didn't make an appearance at Cupcake Camp at all. They never even had frosting. My original idea was Strawberry Lemonade cupcakes, but after 2 unsuccessful lemon recipes (have I mentioned that I'm not too happy with lemon at the moment?) and a limited amount of time left, I scrapped the idea completely and decided on Cherry Almond cupcakes. My test batch of 6 came out great. My final batch? So moist, they literally squished in your hand when you picked them up. Not good. At that point, it was 11pm and I was in no mood to attempt another batch, so the Vegan cupcakes were crossed off the list, and I went to bed to get a full night's sleep for the first time in days.
The next day, fully rested, fully dressed and made up, I walked out of my house, cupcakes in hand, a full hour before I was supposed to be at the North Market. A true miracle! And none of the drama of last time when I barely made it on time, and barely had time to dress myself! I even had to wait 15 minutes outside the event for them to finish setting up this time! The actual event? Fantastic! There were TONS of people! The place was packed! And I think everyone actually got to try things this time! There had been some issues at the previous event of people taking multiples of whole cupcakes with the intent to take them home before the event was even over, so a lot of people didn't get to try some of the flavors at all. This time, they solved that problem by cutting our cupcakes up into quarters so everyone could have some. Great idea, but heartbreaking to watch your 2 days of work get sliced up with a big knife in a matter of minutes. But I understand why. When it came time to gather up the goodies, Boyfriend and I split up for the feeding frenzy—I sent him to the alcoholic cupcakes on the Baileys/Bushmills and St. Patrick's Day tables, and I swooped around to gather the rest. Everything was absolutely delicious! By the time we left, I was a bit of a sugar coma zombie and had to sleep it off for a couple hours when we got home.
Overall, fun times were had by all! I got to see some Twitter friends and eat a ton of yummy cupcakes by some very talented local bakers. And I would most definitely do it again. And again. And again. Although, I think I'll stick with just 1 category from now on. There's too much stress trying to perfect 2 entries. Although, I wish they'd add an open category again, like the first one, where you could bake whatever you want and not be limited to certain ingredient or theme restrictions. It wouldn't have to be judged, just there for the enjoyment of everyone. I'd be all for that again! Is there a comment box for the Cupcake Camp Powers That Be?
Lemon Honey Cupcakes
Adapted from Women's Day Magazine
Makes 24 cupcakes
2 ¾ cups all purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup sour cream
¼ cup milk
Zest of 1 lemon
3 to 4 tablespoons lemon juice (from 1 lemon)
½ teaspoon lemon extract
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup honey
¼ cup sugar
3 large eggs
2 cups confectioners' sugar
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons lemon juice
¼ teaspoon lemon extract
Pinch of salt
Food coloring (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line two standard 12-cup muffin tins with liners; set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a small bowl, whisk together sour cream, milk, lemon zest, lemon juice, and lemon extract; set aside.
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer on medium speed, cream together butter, honey, and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined after each addition.
4. Reduce speed to low. Add flour and sour cream mixture alternately, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat until just combined.
5. Spoon mixture into prepared muffins cups, adding ¼ of a cup of batter to each cup, filling about 2/3 full. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, rotating pans halfway through, until lightly golden and a tester inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.
6. While cupcakes are cooling, make frosting: Cream together butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer until smooth and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add lemon juice, lemon extract, and salt, beating until fluffy. Add food coloring, if using. Transfer to pastry bag and pipe frosting onto cooled cupcakes.
*Note: My frosting ended up separating a bit, and had a grainy texture and an oily appearance. I'm not sure if this was my fault or the recipe's.
Buzzing Around in the Springtime (Lemon Honey Cupcakes)
on 3/19/2010
Category: Cupcake Camp, Cupcakes, Lemon
4 comments:
- Amanda said...
Adorable! Love the little bees and ladybugs!
- March 22, 2010 at 10:12 AM
- oneordinaryday said...
A sweet way to welcome Spring, for sure. I love that the cupcake liners look like a picnic blanket. You're so clever to bring the whole thing together like that.
- March 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Jannett said...
Great welcome to spring... they are adorable...:)
- March 30, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- bigchief said...
these were the bee's knees
- April 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM

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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Art/Photography combo
I've been wanting to combine some of my photos with some simple paint textures for a while. Stephane gave me this watercolor background that he did and I merged it with one of my photos. I like the result. If anyone has any cool simple paint textures that I could apply to a photo, I'd love to have them. Thanks.
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I had a mental image of Skull Knight sitting there, like a voyeur, watching everyone getting eaten.
This sure was very specfiic Skullcast. I also had a theory about the berserker armor. Since it has the shape of a skull when we first see it, could it be the manifestation of the wearer. Just like the beast of darkness has made it's shape in the armor.
I think my favorite part was around the 25 minute mark, where you guys talked about why Skull Knight didn't save anyone besides Rickert. I had a mental image of Skull Knight sitting there, like a voyeur, watching everyone getting eaten.
Like me burping in Griff's face
I would like to theorize an additional "clue" if you will, and that may be that cylindricality or circularity of both the tower and the vortex in that same place or in-fact the vortex making that crevice? I do not know that there is any proof that when a ceremony is completed that summons the God Hand that the vortex outside could be damaging to the outside world directly outside or the space within it, but I thought it was an idea.
Next, The idea that Zodd might have been a student of Skull Knight's once really stuck with me, like they may have once had a Master and Apprentice relationship.
And lastly was the talk of Skull Knight being a villain, which I thought was particularly interesting. I will always be apart of the group that thinks he is very cool and badass, but I respectfully disagree I think, that he is not a villain. I think he may only be an ally in the moment. I will not say Skull Knight is evil and out to destroy the world or anything, but I believe he may be pitted against Guts at some point, and this could be as simple as causal lines, and Guts maybe not being able to let do something after he does what Skull Knight thinks he should.
So basically what I am saying is that the causal lines Skull Knight enforces might lead him to face off against Guts if he is going to do something perhaps he is not meant to do.
I do not think Guts himself particularly trusts him fully yet, as evidence by volume 28 I believe when they speak on the beach.
I really enjoyed hearing Walter referencing the dreamcast game like he was. I know a lot of people discredit it, or do not like it, and do not like to refer to it as canon (which I can understand).
Great podcast! I just wanted to mention, I looked at volume 10 and noticed that Gaiseric is drawn riding a horse on one of the flashback panels. I personally think that is a significant detail to take into account about where SK's horse came from. So yeah, I think it can be an indicator that they've been together for a long while now and even underwent similar transformations almost or simultaneously.
You do bring up an obvious, but overlooked point: SK can obviously be of great aid to Guts at many points, so why does he rarely intervene? We've only seen him step in with the Eclipse, Qliphoth, Flora's mansion, and Ganishka's death. Which, as I type it, sounds like a lot.
A tangent: what do you guys speculate happened at the tower of conviction after he dropped Luca off. We see Zodd approach him, and then we don't see either until after the tower falls.
Actually is the term occultation only reserved for the birth of a God Hand member?


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The Bills continued shuffling out veteran defensive players, cutting cornerback Terrence McGee.
The team announced the move Thursday, after cutting linebacker Nick Barnett and safety George Wilson earlier this week.
"Terrence has been a contributor to the Bills organization for 10 years and we thank him for his efforts on the field and off," general manager Buddy Nix said. "We wish him the best of luck in the future."
Knee problems landed McGee on injured reserve in November, marking the third straight year he struggled with injuries (playing 22 games the last three seasons).
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These Punxsy 4th-grade girls dominated Homer Center 23-2 in the
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Technovestor needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
We're looking for a modern, clean and crisp website template in the format of a psd. We're open to colors, layout and graphics but we want to make sure it matches fairly well with our new logo.
TurnKey Property Management
We're a property management company that specializes in managing residential properties and mortgage payments. We handle the entire rental process from advertising the available rental to the market to handling repairs for late night plumbing problems. We also provide tenant placement and accounting. We also collect loan and mortgage payments for private investors. We provide monthly and annual performance reports as well as overall market condition reports to our clients.
We've been managing rental property for over 10 years and are ready to make it a formal business and offer our services to the general public. Hence, the reason for a professional logo. We'd like to use our webpage to begin branding the marketplace with who we are and what we do here in Jacksonville Florida.
The ideal website will communicate our commitment for customer service, our no headache management style and our hassle free maintenance programs for tenants and landlords. We'd like an eye-catching but modern website that represents our professionalism in the business. Most of our competitors limit the areas they manage, the maintenance amount of work they perform or the types of property. They also have more of a "mom and pop" type presence vs. a corporate presence.
Our target market are landlords that recently became landlords due to the current market conditions and anyone who'd like to build a long term rental portfolio.
We're looking for a modern, clean, fresh design to use as a template. The webpage will have the following on the Top Menu navigation bar. There will be multiple submenus under each that will pull down once a cursor is move near each of the items below:
Available Rentals
Rent A Home
About Us
Header: We're flexible on this. We simply to make sure that our logo, our slogan "Offering Industry Leading Management and TurnKey Solutions for Residential Properties"
Bottom box: This box is not very important, but should contain contains the standard terms: copyright, terms of service, contact us and Sitemap.
We'd like to include the following logos wherever you think is best:
Equal Housing Opportunity
Realtor Logo
National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM)
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We at TurnKey Property Management have a combined 37 years of experience managing residential investment. And through our affiliates, we're able to provide expert full-service real estate solutions: buy, sell, or rent your home. When it is time to upgrade or downgrade, we're your 1 Stop Shop for all your real estate needs!
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We provide some of the best Jacksonville homes for rent on the Westside, Northside, Arlington Area, Orange Park, St. Augustine and Middleburg. We pride ourselves on maintaining quality properties and we allow you to make it your "Home". Be sure to read about our qualification process and criteria to rent a home.
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Do you own a home or investment property that you rent out? By choosing to have a professional property manager rent your home and handle the details, you'll save time, money, and hassles. TurnKey Property Management provides expert rental management services for new and experienced investors seeking to maximize the value of their rental home investments in Jacksonville.
We at TurnKey Property Management have been active residential real estate investors and rental property managers for over two decades. We maximize your income, reduce your risk and protect your investment. Not only are we professional managers, we manage our current portfolio of rentals. So we understand the value of a dollar and maintain this "value" whether we're managing our property or a client's property. We truly practice what we preach! And we know intimately the concerns new investors have. "Experience is the best teacher", someone said. Having a professional property manager who's learned what to do and, just as importantly, what not to do means not having to personally attend "The School of Hard Knocks". Our goal is to help you enjoy the benefits of owning residential rental property and to minimize the risks, freeing you to enjoy your busy life and watch your estate grow over time!
Also, you can download the logos at http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=…49b5870170.
- A modern, bright, clean, non-busy design with plenty of open space
- Final Output as a psd file
- We're flexible on the colors but the design should be consistent with the color of our current logo in the included
- If you'd like to look at other sites to get a feel for what we really like go to strategicprofits.com and makepeacetotalpackage.com. Both of these websites have a fair amount of graphics but they're not overwhelming. We're in favor of graphics and at this point, we'll simply use a box to the right, similar to the makepeacetotalpackage.com site and we'll rotate available rentals for now. Sometimes we'll have current specials here where we're offering 1 month of free rent for certain properties or rent credits, etc. We'd also like a Left Navigation Menu primarily for search engine optimization (SEO) like myweddingfavors.com and a2armory.com. This will not be the focus of the webpage, since its primary function will be for SEO
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Old client called today with a really good problem. This happens.
This time is was a really really good problem.
Boom – I mean BOOM – HyperV (Win2k8R2) VM went down and this guy was flustered and seeking some solace. Why? A virtual disk (dynamic) filled up the physical space it was placed inside and ran out of room to keep dynamically growing. Why? poor design in allocating physical drive space aka it was over-committed (the old adage about packing 4lb's of excrement into a 2lb bag comes to mind)
First Lesson – a VM will 'pause' automatically if every this condition is met.
First Lesson Pt B – defragmenting a VM is dumb for many reasons …in this case it took a small dynamically expanding hard drive and inflated it as it performed reads on every block to determine what was/wasn't fragmented data
First Lesson Pt C – expansion is one directional – expanded virtual HD's don't auto deflate …ever ever ever
Second Lesson – physical limits force all spacial designs – a HD space exceeded genie might be able to go back into the bottle …a little bit. What I mean is that you can actually 'shrink' a Windows partition if you have unused contiguous space inside it (well the defragmentation helped in this way at least – wasn't all bad)
Second Lesson Pt B – even if you can shrink your vHD, the physical file is the same damn size – duh! (more to do) To subsequently shrink the space inside the VM you will have to run a boot CD partition manager aka Gparted …etc or try the free AOMEI Partition Assistant which run inside Windows
Third Lesson – you really ultimately need to 'Compact' your .vhd and so subsequently shrink its footprint in the physical partition it is sitting in on the Parent hypervisor OS.
Third Lesson Pt B – you can't compact a vHD if there are ANY shadow copies on the partition inside it. There are a lot of Google results pointing to the errors you will get if you try and fail. In the end you need to delete all 'Shadows' – vssadmin delete shadows /all (elevated CMD)
Third Lesson Pt C – If you have a third party backup software that leverages the VSS writers/engine …ensure it is disabled. I had StorageCraft's ShadowProtect kicking off a backup once the VM started up each time and consequently created a new 'Shadow'. This resulted in more failure. This one wasn't found through Google and it took me a little to realize and resolve this last obstacle.
Fourth Lesson – Actually one of my first steps was to move the smaller C:\ drive's fixed vHD file off to an external drive. The goal was to start the VM up so to gracefully shut it down. Later to find and remove the 'Shadows', disable the ShadowProtect backup jobs …etc. I moved the file over to a large 3TB format drive. In the end once all was good and small with the other vHD then I moved it back.
Fourth Lesson Pt B. – you can't boot a VM when one of its vHD's is on one of these big whopper drives …well at least as natively formatted. Why? The underlying sector sizes need to use 512 Bytes
Fourth Lesson Pt C – How do you find out what your disks geometry is? Run a nifty utility: fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo X: (where X is the drive letter of the target) elevated command prompt


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These clarifications raise more questions than answers for me. For example, it appears that the strong moral rights that are part of CC licensing may negate the "free unrestricted use" that many think CC licensing implies. Also, it appears to me that CC licensing involves stronger moral rights than under automatic copyright. If this is the case, is it possible that using CC licensing actually takes away rights that scholars currently have under fair dealing?
From the Creative Commons clarifications:
CC licenses contain a number of additional mechanisms designed to protect an author's reputation. These include a "no endorsement, no sponsorship" clause, which is a standard feature of all CC licences. This clause prohibits users of a work from implicitly or explicitly asserting or implying any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the author of that work without express, prior written consent.How is it possible to create a derivative, with attribution, without implying any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the author of that work? If the first author objects, the second author has an obligation to the integrity of the first author. In other words, it is not clear that one should assume that it is safe to use CC licensed material without express, prior written consent - in which case, what is the point of the CC license?
Glyn Moody blogs about another problem with using CC licenses - the ease with which the original creator can change or remove the license. It is true that the author cannot take away the CC license on a copy you already have - but how can you prove that the work was issued under a particular license? Details can be found on techdirt.
This reinforces my argument that it is premature to decide on a license for open access, a point that I make in my submission to the UK's Business, Innovation & Skills Committee's inquiry into open access.


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Feb. 12, 2011
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The Cal State Northridge softball team (2-2) split its second day at the Kajikawa Classic. In the first game, CSUN rallied for six down to topple Western Michigan, 8-6. In their second game of the day, the Matadors fell 8-0 in five innings to No. 12 California.
The story early on in the CSUN-Western Michigan game was the calling of illegal pitches. CSUN starter Leann Lopez and WMU starter Meredith Whitney were each subjected to numerous illegal pitches that had a direct influence on the outcome of the game.
The Broncos jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first and then added five runs in the top of the second. That tally chased Lopez from the circle and the Matadors, who brought in Ashley Aratow to finish up the second inning.
However, Northridge was undeterred and rallied for seven runs in the bottom half of the frame. Tanna Bindi started the rally by reaching on a two-base error by the Bronco right fielder. Her at-bat was extended by an illegal pitch which negated a pop-out. She would come around to score on an illegal pitch as well.
Madeline Sale then walked and Karla Chaparro also walked. With two outs, Samantha Sloniker and Jaci Carlsen connected on RBI singles to make the lead 6-3. Tracy Allen then reached on a fielder's choice on another at-bat extended by an illegal pitch to load the bases. That set up Kristen Mihm, who cranked her first home run of the season and CSUN's second grand slam of the weekend to give CSUN a 7-6 lead.
The pitchers carried the load the rest of the way for the Matadors. Aratow earned the first win of her collegiate career, tossing 2.2 innings and allowing three hits and one earned run.
"I think I still have a lot to learn, but the girls make it easy to back me up," Aratow said. "I think having Mikayla as my catcher gave me confidence. That and a great infield backing me up allowed us to rally for the win."
Carly Wade also gave CSUN and head coach Tairia Flowers a strong outing. She went two innings, giving up only one hit and striking out one.
Hannah Fraijo then closed out the seventh for Northridge to earn her first save of the season and third of her career. That ties her with several other Matadors for the 10th most in school history.
In the second game of the day, Northridge faced its second ranked opponent in as many days. Although the Matadors managed four hits against the Golden Bears, they ultimately dropped an 8-0 decision.
Cal jumped on Wade right out of the gate, roughing up the freshman for three hits and seven earned runs in just over an inning of work. Fraijo closed out the final two-plus innings for CSUN, scattering four hits with one earned run and two walks.
On offense, four different Matadors had a hit. Tracy Allen had a double, Jaci Carlsen had a single and a stolen base and Tanna Bindi collected the first hit of her collegiate career. Jennifer Mosier had the other hit for the Matadors.
Wade took the loss for CSUN, her first of the season. Jolene Henderson went four innings with two strikeouts to earn the win for the 12th-ranked Golden Bears.
CSUN closes out its time at the Kajikawa Classic Sunday morning with a game against Portland State. The game between the Matadors and Vikings will start at 10:30 a.m. (MT) / 9:30 a.m. (PT) and will be played at South Mountain Community College. The game was moved due to travel issues for both teams.


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This year, Green Valley Christmas Trees kindly treated me to a mail-order tree to decorate and share with you here. I chose a 4 ft Fraser Fir and it's just stunning, even at this small size. I love the neat definition of the branches in this particular type of tree. I knew it deserved some first rate trims. I decorated it with some store-bought finds as well as 32 handmade ornaments (whew!), in five styles (one of each is pictured below). I know, Christmas day has come to a close, but I wanted to provide templates and brief/informal tutorials just in case you'd like to try these next year.
Click the photo above for a larger view.
The Felt Pinecones, were inspired by my mom's friend Denise who made little brown ones to top off a woodsy s'mores kit. I also used Suzonne Stirling's tutorial for Family Circle as guide (she has a much tidier method for transferring the pattern to the felt, and other great tips). Here's how I made mine: Gather the template, scissors, a pen, felt, fabric glue and a wooden skewer. Use the template to trace and cut 6 small, 8 medium and 12 large felt pinecone layers. Then stack them on the skewer in the following order 1 S, 3 M, 12 L, 5 M, 5 S. Stagger the points to make the pinecone look realistic and dab a little glue between some of the layers to help secure it - especially top and bottom layers. Trim away excess skewer. Form the point of the pinecone by pinching it at the bottom and securing with glue. Finish the top by cutting a felt circle about the size of a nickel. Poke a hole in the center and thread ribbon through for hanging. Attach to pinecone with glue.
For the Paper Cone, download the template and trace onto patterned card stock. Cut out, then score and fold along the dashed lines. Glue closed using the tab and let dry. Decorate with desired trims. For mine, I sewed a crepe ruffle from a party streamer (this makes a great garland as well; set your machine to the longest stitch and it should gather as you sew). I also added velvet ribbon, a wired pom pom handle and holly leaves made from cut paper, velvet flocking powder and a bead.
The little putz-style Church Ornaments are my absolute favorites! The template I used is from the Little Glitter Houses site (scroll to the bottom of the page for the church). I scaled the template down a bit in order to make it appropriately sized for an ornament, and used thin white cardboard and Tacky glue to construct them. Poke a hole in the roof of the steeple and thread with a loop of string for hanging before completely assembling. Also, cut an "X" with a craft knife in the back wall of the church, so you can poke a light through when you hang it. I free-handed the windows and cut them out with a craft knife, adding window frames cut from card stock as well as a door. The rest is just painting, glittering and decorating. For the pipe cleaner wreath, bend a pipe cleaner over on itself and twist it together, then wrap around a circular object to give it its shape, and glue to church. Cover the seam with a bow.
For the Glitter Ice Skates, I used watercolor paper because it's sturdier than card stock, and I happened to have a pad of it that was going unused. I find it works well though. Using the template, cut two skate shapes and one blade for each ornament. Glitter the skates with iridescent white glitter and the blade with silver glass glitter (I gave the blades a coat of silver paint and let it dry first). Once the glitter is dry poke holes through one side of the skate with a sturdy pin and sew on "laces" with silver embroidery floss and a needle. To complete the ornament glue together the two skate shapes with the blade and a loop for hanging sandwiched in between. Place under a heavy book or clamp together with clothespins as it dries. As a final touch, glue on a 1" pom pom as shown
For the Glitter Leaf, use the same method as the ice skate. The leaf shape is provided on the template. Cut two and glitter the sides that will face out (leaves are not symmetrical). You can give them a base coat of paint the same color as the glitter if desired. String a loop of ribbon through a bead before gluing between two glittered leaf shapes. Clamp and let dry.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
O Christmas Tree
This year, Green Valley Christmas Trees kindly treated me to a mail-order tree to decorate and share with you here. I chose a 4 ft Fraser Fir and it's just stunning, even at this small size. I love the neat definition of the branches in this particular type of tree. I knew it deserved some first rate trims. I decorated it with some store-bought finds as well as 32 handmade ornaments (whew!), in five styles (one of each is pictured below). I know, Christmas day has come to a close, but I wanted to provide templates and brief/informal tutorials just in case you'd like to try these next year.
23 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I adore your handmade ornaments and will definitely give them a try next year! Thanks for sharing.
- December 26, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- Stacy's Designs 88 said...
Livy, it's just spectacular! Love it...as always. Your special touch is just priceless. Have you considered working at Martha Stewarts? Your work seems to be a perfect fit. Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year! Hau'oli Makahiki Hou/Happy New Year from Hawaii, Stacy
- December 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Emom said...
Everything is beautiful.....I am tired of the holidays...but your tree made me smile....
- December 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Kathy Martin said...
This is the sweetest little tree! I love that you made so many of the ornaments! Thank you for the templates and links!
- December 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- postcards and pretties said...
that is one of the prettiest tree I've seen in a long time
- December 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- Craftiness NOW said...
gorgeous tree and ornaments, love them all, happy holidays!
- December 26, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Suzonne said...
Beautiful, Livy! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!
- December 27, 2010 at 7:06 AM
- Michelle*G said...
This is lovely! Thank you for the inspiration!
- December 28, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- Cynthia L. H. said...
Thank you for sharing!!!
- December 28, 2010 at 9:45 PM
- Lian said...
O Christmas tree, indeed! :)
Hope you had a merry little Christmas, Livy! :D
- December 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM
- Kirsten said...
I can't believe you made those!!! Stunning, and looks like a fun afternoon craft to spread over a few days. Wish I had known about this earlier!
- December 29, 2010 at 7:10 AM
- Bespoke Letterpress Boutique said...
My goodness, your so talented! your tree looks amazing!!!
- January 4, 2011 at 2:07 AM
- amanda jane said...
the pinecone ornament is my favorite. :)
- January 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Antoinette said...
Absolutely stunning! I can't stop reading your blog.
- January 11, 2011 at 3:13 AM
- Joy Burkhart said...
Hi Livy,
I love your ornaments and thank you so much for providing the templates and directions!
- October 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Aimee said...
What a sweet little church/house, I think Im going to do that one with my little daughter this year. Thanks for the inspiration!
- November 12, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Mel M. M. McCarthy said...
Your tree is perfection! We're buying artificial this year for the first time. We used to buy potted & plant it out. I'm so excited to try making some of your ornaments. Thank you so much for sharing all the details & templates. :o)
- November 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Kelley said...
These ornaments are beautiful! I've put a reminder on my calendar for next year for my granddaughter (she's 2) and me to make them.
- November 25, 2011 at 6:50 PM
- Sarah B. said...
These are all stunning. I think I'll try making the paper cone first. Thank you so much for the template! What talent you have.
- November 30, 2011 at 2:42 AM
- Cuscini said...
The style of my Christmas tree is a similar to yours, with woodsy accents like pinecones and forest animals. Yours is making me swoon as I start to plan for Christmas 2012. Can you tell us more about your garland? I'm thinking of making it from either a gorgeous ribbon gathered in the middle or a serged and gathered length of muslin, and wondered if you'd made yours as well. Thanks for the lovely inspiration!
- October 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM
- Livy said...
Yes, I did make my garland by sewing a crepe paper streamer down the middle on a long stitch with loose tension — the sewing machine with gather it for you!
- October 16, 2012 at 10:12 PM
- aimee said...
I love your tree your decorations are beautiful xxx
- December 6, 2012 at 7:02 AM
- Avant-Gardenist said...
★ This post is now two christmases old, yet it sparkles as fresh and new as ever! ★
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Chair Thompson began the meeting by asking for a motion to approve the minutes from the October 23 meeting. Trustee Hodges moved the acceptance of the minutes and Trustee Gibbs seconded the motion. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.
Chair Thompson began her report by announcing that Trustee Virginia Hall had submitted a letter to Governor Bush stating that she would be unable to continue to serve on the University of North Florida Board of Trustees. Chair Thompson thanked Trustee Hall for her service on the Board. The Board will wait to hear from the Governor regarding a replacement.
In her report, Chair Thompson spoke about the Board of Regents' rules and Chancellor's memoranda that had been transferred to the Florida Board of Education. She explained that these had been reviewed by the universities with focus on which might be eliminated, transferring the responsibilities to the local boards of trustees. Chair Thompson also commented about the fact that Janet Owen has contributed significantly to this effort and done a tremendous job in representing the University of North Florida.
Chair Thompson shared two handouts with the members of the Board: (a) Proposed Changes in the State University System under the new K-12 Governance Model and (b) The School Code Rewrite Workgroup Recommendations Related to the State Universities. These documents point to potential changes in legislation and in Florida Board of Education rules as transferred from the former Board of Regents. Board members will be kept informed of the progress that is made during the legislative session on these issues.
Chair Thompson closed her report by announcing that she would ask Dr. Homer Bates, a faculty member in the College of Business and a member of the UNF Faculty Association's Finance Committee, to join the Board's Finance and Audit Committee. Chair Thompson also announced that she would ask Ms. Kathleen Cohen, Associate Director of the UNF Library and President of the UNF Faculty Association, to join the Board of Trustees' Educational Policy Committee.
There were no requests to make public comments on the Board's agenda items.
Trustee Halverson reported on the meeting of the Finance and Audit Committee. The committee met at 1:00 p.m. on November 28, prior to the full Board meeting. There were three items on the committee's agenda: (1) a review of the audit report for the University of North Florida Foundation, Inc., (2) a review of the audit report for the University of North Florida Training and Service Institute, Inc. (TSI), and (3) a proposed increase in the fees for the University of North Florida Child Development Research Center. In preparation for the committee meeting, Trustee Halverson had been given a briefing of UNF's two direct support organizations (DSOs) and attended the November meetings of the Foundation's Finance Committee and TSI's Board of Directors.
In his report, Trustee Halverson told the Board of Trustees that President Hopkins, and Vice Presidents Pierre Allaire and Robert Fagin provided the Finance and Audit Committee with overviews of the functions of the Foundation and TSI. After the overview of the DSOs, Robert Labenski, a partner with KPMG Peat Marwick, presented the committee with the audits for the two DSOs. The members of the committee voted unanimously to accept the audit.
Trustee Halverson, as chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, pointed out to the Board that they had been provided brief summaries about the UNF Foundation and TSI, and with copies of the audit reports for these two DSOs. He asked if there were any questions about the audit report for the UNF Foundation. Hearing none, he moved acceptance of the audit report for the Foundation. Trustee Gonzalez seconded the motion. The Board unanimously accepted the report.
Trustee Halverson then asked if there were any questions on the audit report for TSI. Hearing none, he moved acceptance of the report. Trustee Hicks seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
The Board then took up the issue of increasing the fees for users of the UNF Child Development Research Center. President Hopkins provided the trustees with an overview of what the Center did and how it provided day care services for the children of UNF students, the faculty and staff, and the community. As committee chair of the Finance and Audit Committee, which had reviewed the proposed fee increases, Trustee Halverson moved adoption of the new fee schedule. Trustee Douglas seconded the motion. The Board voted unanimously to increase the fees. Notice of the fee increases will be sent to the Chancellor for State Universities.
Trustee Hicks presented a proposal that would limit access to the Graphic Design and Multimedia tracks offered through the Department of Communications and Visual Arts. As stated in the proposal, these programs would have a maximum combined enrollment of 175 students. To be considered for admission into the program students would need to have a minimum grade point average of 2.0 and would need to submit a portfolio for review by a faculty committee.
Trustee Hicks spoke of the need to limit access to the program due to accreditation standards and available resources. She also spoke about how these standards would help ensure the quality of the programs and the graduates.
During discussions on the proposal, Trustee Gonzalez read a statement from a colleague that supported the fact that the proposal would help ensure the quality of the programs. Ms. Cohen asked when the proposal would take effect. Provost Kline said that it would go into effect during the Spring 2002 term.
Trustee Hicks moved the proposal, with Trustee Twomey seconding the motion. The motion was approved unanimously.
President Hopkins began her report by announcing that she had asked Ms. Karen Stone to serve as the Assistant Corporate Secretary for the Board of Trustees. The President then moved to the budget.
The Legislature was again in special session attempting to figure out how to make up for the projected $1.3 billion tax revenue shortfall. All indicators were that UNF would have somewhere between $3 to $4 million dollars in call backs as a result. This represented just under 5% of its budget.
President Hopkins assured the Board that as the University decided where to cut its budget, she would work to keep intact the funds needed to provide instruction. She also stressed that the University would not be cutting back on its summer school program.
The President had asked the vice presidents to begin planning for next year's budget and the anticipated reductions in this budget. They were to determine where they could cut up to 10% of recurring commitments. She told the Board that she did not want to lay people off, but that they should know that approximately seventy percent of the budget was in personnel costs.
In working on the necessary budget cuts, the President emphasized the importance of finding ways to do things better with less resources. She also spoke about how this process was an important element in strategic planning.
After the President's report, Trustee Douglas commended the President for her firm grip on the reality of the situation. Trustee Gibbs commended the President for providing quality leadership.
President Hopkins began her presentation on strategic planning by discussing the mandate stating that the Board had to adopt a strategic plan during the course of the year. She spoke about the work on planning for the State as a whole that was being done by the Florida Board of Education and the Council on Education Policy Research and Improvement (CEPRI).
In beginning the discussion of UNF's specific plan, President Hopkins reviewed the University's mission and its importance in the strategic planning process. She also spoke of her desire to develop a plan that addressed broad and critical issues.
President Hopkins suggested that the information presentations during prior Board of Trustees meetings are part of a broad-based environmental scan of the University. She then presented a set of possible strategic questions the Board would want to consider in developing UNF's plan.
President Hopkins told Board members that more briefings would be forthcoming and that these would help inform decisions about each question.
Mr. Robert Fagin, Vice President for Administration and Finance and Mr. Phil Turner, Director of Facilities Planning, gave the Board briefings on UNF's Campus Master Plan and its Capital Improvement Plan. Mr. Fagin began with a discussion on the campus planning process and the elements that are considered in developing a 10-year master plan.
Mr. Fagin then proceeded to provide information on the current plan, which was approved in May 2001. At present, UNF's buildings and parking lots cover 33% of the campus's land, 33% is designated as wetlands, and 34% stands as undeveloped uplands. In terms of square footage, discounting parking garages, 46% of UNF's buildings are used for academic purposes, 45% are student residence halls. The remaining 9% are used for offices and support services.
In his report, Mr. Fagin showed the members of the Board the ongoing and future building projects and proposed possible uses for different areas of the campus.
Mr. Turner began his report with a discussion of the different funding sources used to support capital improvement projects: Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO), Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grants (Courtelis), the Capital Improvement Trust Fund, Foundation funding, auxiliary enterprises, bond revenues, and General Revenue. He also described how each of these different funding sources could be used and provided the Board with a 3-year history on how much money UNF used in each of these categories. Mr. Turner then focused on PECO and this past year's statewide allocation, as well as historical allocations under this category.
Mr. Turner then spoke about UNF's current capital improvement plan. He provided the Trustees with a listing of the projects currently on the list and showed a map detailing their proposed locations.
During the discussion on this presentation, Trustee Twomey talked about the University's ability to build upon existing parking lots. Trustee Gibbs asked that she be introduced to the individuals who attend the meetings of the Northeast Florida Regional Planning Commission Metropolitan Planning Organization and Jacksonville Transportation Authority Board on UNF's behalf.
Chair Thompson offered closing remarks and extended an invitation to Board members to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Science and Engineering Building. She then adjourned the meeting.
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OAKLAND — Whatever concerns the Warriors had about expelling a three-day-old bad taste in their mouths ended when Stephen Curry hit his first shot. Then his second and third.
Curry scored 39 points, and Golden State bounced back from one of its most disappointing losses of the season with a 125-98 rout of Portland on Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd of 19,596 at Oracle Arena.
"We are witnessing one of the great shooters that have ever played this game," coach Mark Jackson said of Curry, who had his most prolific scoring game since erupting for an NBA season-best 54 points against the New York Knicks on Feb. 27.
The Warriors also got help from their bench, led by Carl Landry, who scored a season-high 25 points and sparked a 23-6 first-half run after the teams virtually traded baskets the first 10 minutes.
After losing Wednesday at home to Sacramento — owner of the NBA's worst road record — Golden State recovered to maintain its game-and-a-half lead over Houston for the sixth spot in the Western Conference. Bidding for their first playoff spot since 2007, the Warriors trimmed their magic number to five to clinch a postseason berth.
Curry, who shot 5 for 18 against the Kings, made all five of his first-quarter attempts against Portland, three of them from 3-point range.
"Nice to see the ball go in after how rough it was against Sacramento," Curry said. "This is huge. Everybody played well. This is a big win for us considering what happened last game."
Jackson wasn't surprised by Curry's bounce-back performance.
"He's been great for us all season long, but he is on the floor like he is the baddest dude in the building," Jackson said. "He's playing with a chip, an edge, with a belief and with a swag that the great ones played with."
Teammate David Lee said watching Curry perform never gets old.
"We have confidence he can have nights like that," Lee said, "but it's still unbelievable to be out there when he gets in a groove like that."
Curry finished 14 for 22, including 7 of 12 from behind the arc.
The Blazers hung around until late in the third quarter when Curry scored on a scoop shot, then drilled a 3-pointer in transition, pushing the lead to 90-70.
The night was less successful for Oakland native and Blazers rookie point guard Damian Lillard, who returned to Oracle two months after lighting up the Warriors for a career-high 37 points.
Lillard had 16 points and eight assists but shot just 4 for 11. Portland, out of the playoff chase, played without star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge.
His absence allowed Landry to muscle up inside for Golden State. Landry scored 11 straight Warriors points during one stretch spanning the first two quarters, finishing with a 9-for-10 shooting night and 10 rebounds.
"He gave us scoring punch, he rebounded, he defended, he battled, and he played with great force," Jackson said. "When he plays like that, we are a different team."
The former Oakland High and Weber State star called his Jan. 11 NBA visit to Oracle "one of the most unforgettable times in my life," even in defeat.
The fastest rookie to reach 1,200 points and 400 assists since Allen Iverson in 1996-97, Lillard has been so good, Jackson said, "They should give him the Rookie of the Year award before the season ends."


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Although I started publicly blogging at TheWayoftheWeb on a blogspot account back in 2006, it was only in 2008 that I switched to WordPress and installed my current Google Analytics account, so May 1 is kind of an anniversary. Technically I really started blogging back in about 1999 with a Homestead website, but that didn't progress further than some horrific design decisions and a couple of extremely half-hearted business ideas, such as a database of pub reviews (I still occasionally wonder how much revenue the likes of FancyAPint make!)
Either way I've constantly veered between writing about marketing and journalism, with the occasional posts about blogging and more personal topics. I've invested about $300 in the site over the years, including domains, hosting and themes, and I've apparently published 1,299 posts, so an average of 20 per month.
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The real value of this site:
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- Leads for my digital content and marketing business – I don't need to reach a million people, if I reach 20 or 30 that want to hire TheWayoftheWeb to provide content, marketing or training.
- It keeps me writing – If there's a time when I'm focused on other work, this place is the one where I can write whatever I like, whenever I like, although as it's the only form of marketing for my business, I'm probably doing that slightly less now!
- It's entirely mine – All the content is mine, all the data is mine, and I set the rules regarding privacy. 2 minutes of tweaking domain settings and I can move it wherever I want, whenever I want.
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- It gets me referenced – Not only does it provide proof of my identity to the likes of Google+, but it's also been linked to from the likes of The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal.
Blogging dying?
In the time I've been blogging, it's been pronounced dead at least 3 or 4 times, and the latest eulogies are probably the strongest yet with numerous studies suggesting corporate blogging in particular is fading fast.
And personally I think that's great – because the more my competitors and my client's competitors ignore the benefits of regularly publishing fresh and quality content on their own domains, the easier it is for me to succeed.
I've seen client sites grow massively over the last 12 months. And I've seen some of my own sites which are more focused and targeted on mass audiences go from a couple of thousand readers per month to 70 or 80,000 per month.
So although I share some of the fears that others have written about regarding the future of the open web ( For example, see John Naughton and Brendan Cooper in the last couple of days), there's still a lot of success to be had before the opportunities may start to close.
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U.S. Military Helping African Militaries Confront HIV/AIDS Epidemic
December 5, 2013
"U.S. Africa Command [Africom] is making headway in helping militaries across Africa confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic through a program focused on prevention, care and treatment, a senior command official reported [Wednesday]," the American Forces Press Service reports. Mike Hrshchyshn, chief of humanitarian and health activities for Africom's Security Cooperation Programs directorate, spoke at "a web chat commemorating World AIDS Day earlier this week," the news service notes. "The office oversees the strategic direction of the Defense Department's HIV/AIDS Prevention Program in Africa," the news service writes, adding, "Of more than 70 nations that participate in the DOD program, 45 are in Africom's area of operations, Hrshchyshn reported." According to AFPS, "The effort has reached nearly a half-million troops and their family members with educational programs about prevention and treatment, provided about 4,000 health care workers trained in HIV/AIDS care and treatment, and provided support to about 75,000 people living with the disease" (Miles, 12/4).
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