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How many varieties are there? There are more than 3,000 varieties of heirloom or heritage tomatoes in active cultivation worldwide and more than 15,000 known varieties. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says there are 25,000 tomato varieties. The list is constantly expanding. One current group being added is the Indigo series of tomatoes!
Heirlooms are more lovely than words can say with their many shapes, sizes, and colors! But they are particularly susceptible to wilts and blights. Instead, get resistant hybrid varieties that have VFN or VF on the tag at the nursery. The V is for Verticillium, the F Fusarium wilt, N nematodes. Ace, Early Girl, Champion, Celebrity, are some that are wilt resistant/tolerant. In the Mother Earth News tomato survey, they found gardeners chose heirlooms over hybrids if their soil is wilt/blight free. Otherwise, the longer the gardener has gardened, they more they chose wilt resistant hybrid toms if their soil has the fungi. If you are gardening at home, you can strengthen your soil, and take practical measures to grow heirlooms successfully. If you are at a community garden that has the fungi in the soil, it's virtually unavoidable because the wilts are not only in the soil, but are windborne as well. See Wilts & Cucumber Beetles, Tomatoes & Cukes!
The other two main categories are Determinate and Indeterminate. Determinate get about 3′ tall, produce prodigiously all at once. They are grown for two main reasons. Since they produce when they are shorter, they produce sooner. Since they produce a lot at once, they are great for canning. If you want to can a lot, grow several of them at the same time. If you want a large steady supply plant successively, like more plants each month or so. You can do that if you have the space.
Determinates are great for container growing! Pick varieties that have patio, dwarf or mini in their names. These will be more compact. Small tomatoes doesn't necessarily mean the plant is small! Be sure you check that it is a determinate variety. Also check for height, that it will grow no taller than the support you will be putting it on. The Dwarf Tomato Project offers dozens of options, identified by gardeners from around the globe.
Indeterminate are vining tomatoes, grow 6′ to 10′! Grow them on a trellis or in a large substantial supporting cage; they will take up a lot less space. Or up against a wall, along a fence. But if they ramble, the fruits will be on or close to the ground, fungi and pest susceptible – slugs, mice, little birds. Indeterminates produce a little later, but continuously all season long! They have flowers, ripening fruit and mature fruit all at the same time. If you aren't canning, these are terrific because you plant just once. When they start producing, there is no waiting time like with determinates, while you wait to grow another plant if you don't have space to grow both at once.
In SoCal, spring's first choice, February, March, is cold hardy determinates that produce and ripen in cool weather! That's to get toms on your table soonest! When they are done, in their place, pop in some other favorite summer veggies that do better in that by then warmer weather. If you live in the north with a short growing season, go with these quick growers. Try Sophie's Choice, a Canadian variety that produces a heavy crop of six to eight-ounce fruits about 55 days after planting. The compact plants grow to about 24 inches tall, making this a good option for container growing. Siberian (NOT Siberia) sets fruit at 38°, but is still not very frost hardy – popular in Alaska! Considered a determinate, but grows 48 to 60" tall. Bush Early Girl and Oregon Spring are favorites. You can start indeterminate cherry toms like Sungolds, because cherry toms ripen soonest while larger varieties are still growing.
In SoCal start your indeterminates at the same time as the cool producing toms! They will come in with red fruits about the 4th of July or a tad sooner. Czech heirloom variety Stupice is cold tolerant and comes in early. Early Girl indeterminate gives you a head start and gives high yields!
Later, April, May, plant whatever toms you want to your heart's content! Just be sure you get resistant varieties if you have soil fungi. April is better if you are planting monster varieties like Big Boy – they need time to grow big! Big toms can grow to enormous proportions, winners can be up to 7+ lbs! The heaviest tomato was weighed in August 30 2016 at 8.61 lb, grown by Dan Sutherland, Walla Walla, Washington! The achievement was authenticated by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth (GPC).
June?! You betcha! Many tomato-loving gardeners wait until fungi laden soils are warmed and drying. Your plants have a better chance to get a healthier start. True that the Wilts are also windborne, but with less fungi in the soil your plant can better withstand the fungi.
In late summer, early fall, as most of your tomatoes are getting tired, southern gardeners can go back to planting quick growing cool type determinates. Weather in SoCal is starting to cool, day length is shorter, and the northern type varieties will do well again. Select petite varieties like bush, determinate cherries that mature more quickly.
Winter, though many toms may have tomatoes on them, they are slower to turn red if at all. Day lengths are shorter. Let go. Instead, plant other winter favorites that thrive in short day cold weather and are so nutritious! Kales and chards are prolific choices per their footprint. Start new vigorous tomatoes in spring.
In drought conditions, consider growing only indeterminates. If you are repeatedly growing determinates, there is the time it takes to regrow them, using water when there is no production.
There are super heat tolerant varieties of toms. Just look up those varieties at southern or desert locations. Check on local university recommendations, cooperative extension. See what the nurseries near you carry or what the farmers market farmers are growing successfully.
Humidity and wind are conditions to consider. You can open up an area to reduce humidity, or put in some shrubs to buffer winds.
Desert can be turned into an oasis using permaculture techniques! Jeff Lawton in Jordan
If your location is known for tomato hornworms, generously plant Borage and/or Calendula with your toms. They repel the worms!
Cherry and Grape tomatoes for buffets and snacks. Saladettes for salad bites. Texas huge for slicing. Romas for canning, sauce and paste. The bigger the tomato the longer it takes to mature.
At left is a fine SteakHouse Hybrid, a meal in itself! Steakhouse are the largest Beefsteak Tomato there is! It is available at Burpee. com. They refer to it as a tomato titan! If you love huge toms, these fruits are enormous, up to 10 inches wide and as heavy as 3 lbs! Each plant will yield nine to 11 fruits.
Poetically, in Jim Duncan's post Harvesting Sunlight he says 'Different carotenoids give such fruits their red, yellow and orange colors. In photosynthesis, they trap certain waves of sunlight and funnel their energy into the chlorophyll system. In this sense, different colored tomatoes are packed with different waves of sunlight. Artists can't look directly at the sun but tomatoes can and artists can look inside tomatoes.'
As an organic gardener you are an artist that looks to the health and wellbeing of us all. Your garden reflects who you are, tells your story. It creates beauty. It makes a difference.
There is no doubt color makes a difference. Blind people can feel which color it is! Colors have different frequencies. Just looking at them makes us change. We pick that color to wear today. Choose the colors that uplift your spirit!
Taste is often subjective. We know too that people genetically taste the same thing differently ie Cilantro! People describe different tomatoes as tasteless, robust, bland, mild, sweet, fruity, tangy, tart, mealy, meaty, watery, juicy, dry, firm, soft, mushy, smoky, musky, old-time, winey, perfect! Toms are like fine wine only in a different body! Taste is something you will need to try for yourself. While it was originally thought that certain regions on the tongue detected specific flavors, we now know this is not true. Smell is more predominant! So you smell it and swish the wine/tomato around in your mouth! Modern tasting techniques If you don't have space to experiment, to garden several varieties at once, stick with the standards at first – or go to the nearest Farmers Market and buy one of each, the fresher the better! Have your own tasting & smelling – you and the others who will eat them with you!
Tomato skin thickness varies a lot! They can be thin and easily damaged, or so thick you can hardly take a bite and if you manage, the juice squirts out! Some you seriously need a knife for. If you are canning or making tomato paste you need to remove the skins for a smooth consistency! Roma VFA, Amish Paste and Super Marzano are excellent sauce toms, meaty with low water content, and improved disease resistance and taste.
Tomatoes contain a good amount of vitamins A, C, and K, folate and potassium along with thiamin, niacin, vitamin B6, magnesium, phosphorus and copper, all of which are necessary to maintain good health. The best part is that tomatoes are naturally low in sodium, saturated fat, cholesterol and calories.
Besides righteous colors that feed your Soul, and taste for your palate, varieties do vary a tad health wise. Here are some choice points:
- The Kumato tomato is slightly higher in carbs than regular tomatoes. Compared to a standard red tomato, the Kumato contains a higher amount of fructose.
- Grape tomatoes, despite their similarities to cherry tomatoes, have a thicker skin, less water content and smaller amounts of fructose. As a result, these tomatoes are probably slightly lower in carbs.
- The colossal beefsteak Steakhouse, the largest variety of tomato, has more carbs as well as overall nutrients.
Colors and the different carotenoids associated with them give specific different benefits to our health. Indigo breeder Jim Myers says 'The red pigment in tomatoes is lycopene. Orange tomatoes have beta-carotene or prolycopene, while yellow ones may have other carotenoids such as delta-carotene. Carotenoids have antioxidant properties and are thought to have health benefits similar to flavonoids.'
From fighting cancer to fighting wrinkles, the goal of the Indigo series of tomatoes is to breed the antioxidant purple anthocyanins into the flesh as well as the skin. Oregon State's high-flavonoid breeding program breeder Jim Myers is almost there! Indigo Rose is the closest so far. It is an open pollinated variety, meaning seed saved from self-pollinated plants will grow true and not produce hybrids.
In the image below, is Blue Beauty bred by Bradley Gates of Wild Boar Farms in St. Helena CA. It is a self-pollinated variety, will grow fruit the same as the parent. The young blue tomato fruit appears amethyst purple and turns dark purple-black as it matures, with the skin of the darkest ones becoming almost jet black. Tomatoes hidden by leaves remain red. These are 'modest beefsteak-type slicers,' weighing up to 8 ounces. High in antioxidants. Brad says TOMATOES HAVE CHANGED MORE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS THAN THEY HAVE IN THEIR ENTIRE EXISTENCE. They are the Heirlooms of the Future! Check out Brad's Atomic Grape Tomato at Baker Creek! Outrageous, I swear!
Culinary Breeding Network! Meet some breeders from around the US! They are working for our health, production excellence and just plain gardening enjoyment! Working together, brainstorming, improves the quality of their work, their results.
Meanwhile, right here in your own garden…happiness is! Eating your favorite homegrown organic tomatoes at the garden! Cherry size poppers or huge drizzlers so big they are more than a meal! That beautiful color that just makes your heart sing! A shape that calls your name! This year I'm trying….
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara city community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are in a fog belt/marine layer area most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is. Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Jon Whitcomb: "I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm a manufacturer"
In the introduction to his 1947 Advanced course written by Alden Hatch, there is this exchange between Hatch and Whitcomb:
"How do you want to be presented?" [Hatch] asked Whitcomb. "That is, how do you think of yourself in relation to your public and the students you will teach?"
"You can say that I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm a manufacturer, supplying something editors want to buy. Somewhere I discovered what these people want and through a fortunate chain of circumstances I find myself able to produce it."
Then he pursued his philosophy, which combines a purely practical approach with his own enthusiasm for innovation. "You've got to be something new every year," he said. "As long as I can, I'll keep a non-static quality. I don't want to be dated. . . ."
" . . . The self analysis required in preparing a course makes me terribly aware of my limitations," he told me. "On the other hand, I believe that the things that make artists interesting to a buyer are their shortcomings. Flaws plus virtue add up to character . . . ."
. . . in answer to my question as to ambition for the future. Very serious for once, he replied slowly. "I haven't a sturdy ego or a good opinion of my work. Often I hate my pictures five minutes after I've finished them. Some day I like to go to where I can do things to please me. I have no ambition to paint for future generations. All I want is to be good right now."
In Al Parker's Advanced course, you can see how he delights in finding the novel idea, the fresh approach, the unexpected chord, just like the improvisational jazz he loved (and could play too). Parker said the hardest thing he had to do in his career was selecting which single idea out of ten or twenty he came up to settle on. I think of Parker like his musical namesake, Charlie Parker, one of the many jazz greats Parker's son remembers coming to Westport to jam with his dad. Dizzy Gillespie, another Be Bop revolutionary, said once you heard Bird play, as every musican of the era can recall, "you knew the music had to go his way."
For Whitcomb, on the other hand, "innovation", "a non-static quality" meant something far different than Parker. "Something new" meant forecasting what would be in fashion or popular in six months. That's what gave him his motivation, his kick. He believed that movies and the press had determined what a pretty girl looked like and how to stage action. So you don't see much change in how he idealized his women (and when you look at his reference photographs and compare them with the illustrations, you can see that his women were elaborately constructed confections) or the endless tight close ups.
But in his commentary to his pictures, he points out again and again with pride how he correctly guessed hemlines were going to be longer or shorter the following season, how women were going to wear their hair, what accessories were necessary or would be left home, forgotten for good in a drawer. This is what preoccupied him. Every chapter somehow returns to this theme.
His formula (as stated in the Advanced course):
A. Know what the public is beginning to like.
B. Know what you are beginning to like.
C. Know what you and public both like.
D. Take C and imagine what you would like even more.
E. Take a good guess as to the next development.
Whitcomb cared about what he did and he worked hard, 12-16 hours a day. He did make an enormous amount of money and had a lavish lifestyle. (It's hard to remember illustrators were once the highest paid professionals in the country, surpassing even the movie industry. His home in Darien Connecticut was amazing. I wonder if it still exists.) But turning down a job wasn't for him. But it came with a price. In his commentary, he often showed how his ideas were supressed or exaggerated by clients.
Finally, Whitcomb wrote this about what kept him motivated:
"An eminent illustrator whose reputation comes from work he did fifteen or twenty years ago told me once, 'You think you are working hard now, after three years in this business. Wait until you finish your first five thousand pictures and then tell me how you feel.'
He went on to explain that he was bored to death with sucess, with painting, with being a celebrity and with life in general. This attitude flavored his work and he is not seen these days in magazines.
Almost all creative imagination grows out of not being bored. The whole trick to maintaining a fresh imagination is to remain curious about life. If you stay interested, you stay interesting."
I imagine when Whitcomb no longer could trust his judgement "on what you and public both like" or maybe when he was no longer interested, he stopped, just like that.
According to Fred Taraba's "Jon Whitcomb: The Spirit of Beauty" (Step By Step Jul/Aug 96), Whitcomb characterized his wartime service as a Navy lieutenant as "Nobody had a more miscellaneous war than I did," since he served in variously in minesweepers, did recruiting and factory production morale posters, and served as a combat artist in the Pacific Theater.
But Whitcomb also admitted his most effective contribution was the WAVE recruiting pictures which convinced young girls "if they joined the Navy, they would look like a Whitcomb picture."
The portrait of the WAVE officer reproduced in the Advanced course,
...unlike his standard pretty girls of "Nurse Cadet" or "Join the Navy Nurse Corps" efforts,
seems to be a portrait with a idealized likeness of a real woman under his eye, foreshadowing Whitcomb's late career movie star illustrations...
...which accompanied his celebrity columns for Cosmopolitan and the society portraits he did after retiring from illustration.
What I find most interesting about the Community Silver step by step is threefold: look how closely "the rough" resembles the finished product;
...the reference photograph: although listed step 4, really might be his first step after he saw the agency layout--note how the spacing and arrangement between the hair and eyebrows, nose, and mouth are consistent through all the early examples.
Whitcomb applied his usual idealization formulas, tracing the photo with a Balopticon (a large scale projector); the pencil sketch shows the asymmetry in the jaw and mouth that Whitcomb felt was always necessary to show real beauty in the flat POV of a magazine, "the reason why absolutely perfect faces occasionally encountered in real life fail to be entirely satisfying"--and that countless artists later copied.
Fred also makes a very fine point about Whitcomb's lifelong philosophy of "living in the present." Quoting from a Society of Illustrator's bulletin that was published when Whitcomb passed away in 1988, the bulletin quoted Whitcomb as saying:
"About the time I put on long pants I developed an aversion for antiques. This particular prejudice extends to anything older than five or six minutes. I admire new hats, new actresses, new architecture, new plays, and new gadgets. Fate has played a trick on me . . ."
*Whew!* Many thanks to Armando Mendez for this exhaustive presentation on Jon Whitcomb. I'd say that if there was still any doubt about Whitcomb's motivations as a commercial artist they've been laid to rest.
* Thanks also to Charlie Allen for providing some of today's images.
* My Jon Whitcomb Flickr set.
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- Anonymous9:18 PM
Wonderful! Thanks Armando (and, as always to you Leif) for putting that together for us.ReplyDelete
Yeah...good show, Professor!ReplyDelete
I think the evaluation of Jon Whitcomb's illustrations is somewhat like evaluating illustration versus fine art. Whitcomb focused on beauty, fashion and high style, while other illustrators were beginning to experiment with new and creative approaches, daring color schemes and innovative compositions. There were excellent fashion and glamour oriented illustrators like Carl (Eric) Erickson and John Lagatta in the 30's, but Whitcomb seemed to me to be the glamour king of the 50's. By the 60's, the Hollywood glamour and elegance of the past, was considered out dated and didn't apply to the new gathering storm of social changes ahead. Whitcomb may have loved anything new and modern, But, ironically his taste rapidly became antiquated in the eyes of a changing America.ReplyDelete
My very early art training embraced the idea of refinement, elegance and glamour, but by the time I started my illustration career, Whitcomb was nearly forgotten, and illustration was on it's way to a grittier more earthy look... bra less women with long hair, styled by the result of mere gravity, little or no makeup, and the young clean cut, fresh faced, handsome man no longer fit into the new unpolished look of the new generation.
I guess you could say that in spite of Whitcomb"s desire to stay modern, he was a "one note Jonny" in a world of improvisation.
I still admire and appreciate the illustrations depicting the beauty and glamour of those elegant women of the 30's, 40's and 50's illustrations.
Tom Watson
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
I'm so freaked out!
You can learn about Julia Bonatti, my San Francisco astrologer at Connie di Marco's website, at Facebook.com/Connie di Marco (Author) and Twitter @AskZodia.
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I'm going to have to side with Sage on the baby name debate. Juliette, Elizabeth, and Laura are all lovely choices. And I love the name Rene for a boy! Sorry I can't help more; I've only ever had to name cats! email@example.com
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My daughter is pregnant, due on the 20th. She is naming her baby Kane.ReplyDelete
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I like Rebecca, Elizabeth, or Laura. All are good names. Love this series. firstname.lastname@example.com
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I think Zoe is cute girls name.ReplyDelete
I like that name too, Kiki. It's become more popular in recent years, but still not a name you hear every day. Good luck today!Delete
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If I had a daughter we were going to name her Avalon Skye. Perfectly mystical. ;-)
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Enjoyed your post greatly. I love classic names like April, Diane, Esther for biblical. Thanks for your lovely giveaway. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)comReplyDeleteReplies
I always loved the name Esther. Another name I liked was Enid, apparently it's Old Welsh and means "dear soul." Isn't that a lovely meaning?Delete
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Hi Sharon- Names really do go in waves through time, both boys' and girls' names. And as an author, it's hard to choose characters' names too! Best of luck today!Delete
- Ashley CateJune 15, 2017 at 12:10 PM
I love coming up with baby names! We picked my oldest child's name from a tv show that we both enjoyed. I would agree not to stress over picking a name to much. The right name will come to you. acate9(at)utk(dot)eduReplyDeleteReplies
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Names seem like such a responsibility. After all, the kid is stuck with it forever!ReplyDelete
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Hi Libby - When I told my daughter some of the names I had been considering before she was born, she screamed. She didn't like any of them, but I'm glad she's happy with what I did pick!Delete
I love the name Juliette. That's my daughter's favorite. My granddaughter is Elizabetta Sophia and my daughter's friend named her youngest Gwen. Good luck with those names.ReplyDelete
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Juliette is absolutely beautiful, so is Elizabetta and Sophia, not names you hear all the time. Julia is the name of my protagonist in the Zodiac Mysteries, and I liked it so much I just had to name her that!Delete
I'm very partial to Emma, but also love Meredith, and if you want something to kind of tie in with Sage, how about Willow? Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of one of your books! email@example.com
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Why not use a biblical name and a name your husband chooses ? You both win. My mom let her mom name me,she named me Yvonne Elizabeth after Yvonne Decarlo and Elizabeth Taylor. Lol my grandpa didn't like it and always called me Diane.ReplyDeleteReplies
Diane? That must have been confusing! I guess that was his choice, right? But Yvonne Elizabeth is a great name! Good luck today!Delete
Baby names can be tricky. I think you'll be fine as long as you don't name a boy Sue lol. You are another new to me author so I'd be thrilled to win anything.ReplyDelete
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I like Emma too, and I've found some babies named Ella, which is very pretty. We have Liam Neeson to thank for the popularity of that name, but I do like it. Best of luck, Jana!Delete
- taurusJune 15, 2017 at 3:15 PM
When my uncle was born, the nuns wanted his parents to name him Pius after the Pope - fortunately, my aunt and uncle decided that Thomas would be better.ReplyDelete
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LOL! I quite agree. What a terrible name to stick a baby with! That's a great story though. Best of luck today!Delete
How about Rhoda? Your character can tell him it's Greek. It means Rose. AND. She doesn't have to tell him it's also Biblical. [Acts 12:13]. Shortly after my daughter Rhoda was born. The movie Rhoda came out. When she was a little bit older and started getting around. She didn't crawl. She scooted on her behind. So I started calling her roto-rooter. Not to long after that the ads for that plumbing service came out "Roto-Rooter" Needless to say. I stopped using that word. Sigh. I have not read any in the Soup Lovers Mysteries and would love to do so. Thanks for the chance to get one sooner. Rather than later. Della at deepotter (at) peoplepc (dot) comReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Della ~ thanks for stopping by! I really like that name -- Rhoda, and Rhona too. I have a friend whose middle name is Rhea and wasn't Rhea the original earth goddess? Great names! And best of luck!Delete
Choosing names is very important. I do love very feminine names for girls.ReplyDelete
Hi Mary ~ nice to hear from you! I guess Sage will get his way! Good luck!Delete
If you're looking for actual suggestions, what about Eden? It's from the Bible, one of the meanings I found was delight (which a baby would be), and I think it's feminine. I'm not necessarily sure of some other name that works with both of your preferences, but please remember one thing. Even if you choose a commonish name, you can always spell it differently. Meg is short for exactly what most people think it is short for, I just spell it M-e-a-g-h-a-n. Thank you for participating in the month of giveaways. robbfan141729(at)yahoo(dot)comReplyDeleteReplies
Oooh, I like that. Eden, it's short but has a nice ring to it. Reminds me of Aiden for a boy's name. Best of luck, Meg!Delete
Congrats on your good news. I think sometimes you pick out a name and then you see the baby or pet and you realize the name doesn't fit and another name will come to mind and ends up their forever need.ReplyDelete
I know what you mean, Dianne ~ maybe it's the baby who really chooses the name. Maybe by telepathy? Who knows? Best of luck today!Delete
Congrats on your good news. I think sometimes you pick out a name and then you see the baby or pet and you realize the name doesn't fit and another name will come to mind and ends up their forever need.ReplyDelete
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- Dianne BJune 15, 2017 at 5:52 PM
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For girls I like the name Angela. I read THE MADNESS OF MERCURY and it was great--when will the next one come out in that series?ReplyDelete
Hi Sue ~ how nice to see you here! And thanks for stopping by. All Signs Point to Murder will be out on August 8th. I can't wait for it to see the light of day! That's #2 in the Zodiac Mysteries. Hope you get to enjoy it! And best of luck!Delete
For a girl's name, how about Valerie? and I would love to win The Madness of Mercury. The zodiac mysteries are intriguing to me. Thanks for the chance to win! aut1063(at)gmail(dot)comReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Autumn ~ Valerie's a great suggestion, but I really love your name! Maybe Sage will like it too. And I hope you get to enjoy the Zodiac Mysteries soon!Delete
Congratulations!! How about Lily? That's my niece's name so I admit I am a bit biased. You could use a biblical name for her middle one--or vice versa.. I'd love to win a copy of Broth of Betrayal. Thanks for the chance to win.. salvatoresmom71(at) yahoo(dot)com.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Amy ~ what a pretty name! I like that! So many great suggestions today! Thank you and good luck!Delete
Good evening Connie! You're a new-to-me author so I would certainly love to win the debut book in your Soup Lovers series. I named my oldest daughter after the famed actress Maggie Smith and my youngest daughter after my husband's ex-girlfriend Drucilla. sxygrndma48{at}yahoo{dot}comReplyDeleteReplies
Drusilla? Your husband's ex-girlfriend? Really??? You're pulling my leg, right? Very funny! Best of luck, Sandy!Delete
I just adore the Soup Lovers Mystery series. I am very unhappy that there will no longer be any more books in this series.ReplyDelete
As for girl's names, I think Suzanne or Meghan would be nice.
Hi Annette ~ me too! But I'm so glad you could stop by today! Best of luck in the giveaway!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 15, 2017 at 9:47 PM
I never relly wanted to know what sex our kids were. Suprise after labor I guess. Hope I win. Thanks for the chance.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, you're welcome. I felt the same, it didn't matter as long as they were healthy! Best of luck!Delete
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- AnonymousJune 15, 2017 at 11:55 PM
Those babies are too cute...thanks for the chance.ReplyDelete
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Aren't they adorable? I had lots of fun looking for baby pictures for this post! Best of luck, Marilyn!Delete
Alice is a older name Allie is cute for short! I want to read a clue in the stew! Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm partial to my granddaughter's name, Aubree. But I have always loved the names Loralei and Chantal for girls, also. Thanks for the great giveaway!ReplyDelete
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Hi Ellie - those are great names! I really love Chantal, not a name you think of every day!Delete
I like names that have a nice nickname, and if a family name is used it is the middle name. That way - to my thinking - the baby can be an individual and not have anything/anyone they have to live up to.ReplyDeleteReplies
That's something to think about. You wouldn't want to burden a child with family history, knowing it is one thing, but living up to is quite another!Delete
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Hi Karen - got it, thanks!Delete
We named our children after relatives who have passed. It's a Jewish tradition to keep their memories alive. We didn't use the exact names, but names with the same meaning. Cheers (at) MarjimManor (dot) comReplyDeleteReplies
I have heard of that, Margo. And by the way, I've always loved the name Margo! It's a lovely tradition.Delete
My daughter's name is Rachel Leigh. Our son who was thought to be a girl was going to be Rebecca Louise but when he came out a boy was named Rhett Lyndon. Much like my daughter I love the new trend to use unique names for babies. I love Dahlia, Poppy, Lydia, or to be exotic Chai or China. Babies are scary in the beginning especially if you have little to no experience with younger siblings or nieces or nephews but once they're yours you learn to go with the flow and just do your best. Thanks for the opportunity to enter this giveaway. robeader53(at)yahoo(dot)comReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Robin - You've brought up. Whole bunch of really unique names! I love Poppy, and Rhett and China, even India! Good choices!Delete
Congratulations. Choosing a name is very hard and done, you actually have to see your baby and hold him or her to finally decide. Our daughter was named Amy up until the last few hours of labor and suddenly, Melissa was our choice! Our 3 three old granddaughter is Isabella and we call her by that name. Best wishes!!ReplyDelete
Hi Connie - All those names are lovely! And I always thing of Queen Isabella of the ?15th century when I hear that name!Delete
Congratulations on your good news. I also like Biblical names. My 3 sons are Paul, Jonathan, and Matthew.ReplyDelete
I'm starting to like names like Sophie and Zoe. My new granddaughter is Madison Marie.
Hi Darlene - I agree. Biblical names for boys are really nice, even David or Michael or Noah, a name I've heard in recent years.Delete
I Love the feminine names for girls. My Given is Meredith and I was the only one at the time so teachers weren't sure the first day if it was a girl or boy's name (Meredith Wilson-Music Man). I love the name Everleigh or Aleyna they're so melodic. Thank you for the chance to enter this wonderful giveaway! Merry email@example.com
I like that name too! Meredith has a certain gravitas, doesn't it? Not old fashioned, but very dignified!Delete
Don't pick a name with a goofy spelling! Nothing too complicated-maybe think about favorite characters you've enjoyed.ReplyDelete
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Hi Kathy - you bring up a good point about characters. Naming a baby's one thing, but choosing names for characters can be just as hard! Best of luck this month!Delete
The perfect name would be Laurel! Thanks for the great giveaway! doward1952(at)yahoo(dot)comReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Doward - that's a good choice too, kinda reminds me of Willow, but I'll definitely add Laurel to my list!Delete


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Rick Massimo, wtop.com
WASHINGTON – Lafayette Square, behind the White House, plays host to a typically Washington bustle of high-powered staffers and tourists circulating through the park, heading to meetings and holding impromptu photo shoots among the statues.
But two walking-tour guides in the city feel darker resonances among the monuments.
Carolyn Crouch, of Washington Walks, runs various tours of the city, including the Most Haunted Washington tour; Carol Bessette, a retired Air Force intelligence officer, leads Spies of Washington tours, one of which centers on the square as well.
Crouch calls the haunted-Washington tour "one of our more popular ones." Bessette says her tours draw up to 20 people at a time. Both say the real appeal of a walking tour, for the audiences and the guides themselves, lies in the stories. And at two hours-plus for each tour, each guide tells dozens of fascinating tales.
"I want the American public to watch the evening news and put it in perspective," Bessette says. Crouch calls her tour "a nice combination of an entertaining evening walking through Lafayette Park, but when you go away, you've actually learned something that you hadn't known."
Both tours stop at the east end of the park, at what is now the U.S. Court of Claims. Crouch tells of Henry Adams and the ghost of his wife, Clover, who went unmentioned in Adams's memoirs and whose ghost would be seen in the nearby Hay-Adams House, rocking in a chair and sobbing. A copy of the Adams memorial is in the courtyard.
Carol Bessette, leader of the Spies of Washington Tours, stands outside of the White House Friday. (WTOP/Rick Massimo)
On the west side of the park, Crouch tells of Henry Rathbone, the Army officer who was staying at what is now 712 Jackson Place when he and his fiancee went to Ford's Theatre with the president and Mary Todd Lincoln. Rathbone's career and life fell apart afterward, and he eventually killed his wife in Germany and spent the rest of his life in an institution. His wife's spirit is said to haunt the Jackson Place site, and it was considered bad luck to walk past the building for many years.
And Bessette uses the west end to tell the story of a succession of Civil War spies, including Thomas Nelson Conrad, a Confederate sympathizer who would simply sit in the park, slowly reading a newspaper and listening to the young officers heading from one headquarters to another.
Civil War spy Rose Greenhow. (Courtesy Carol Bessette)
Crouch's tour also includes the Octagon – the building a few blocks from the square that President James Madison and First Lady Dolly Madison lived in after the White House was burned during the War of 1812, and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war.
Carolyn Crouch, the leader of Washington Walks and the Haunted Washington tour, explains the legends of the Tayloe family outside of the Octagon in downtown D.C. Thursday. (WTOP/Rick Massimo)
None of the legends are true – none of the Tayloe children died in the house – but it didn't stop people from telling the stories about the house, which at the time, Crouch explains, was built at an eerie remove from the square, the "mover and shaker place" in Washington until the early 20th century.
Still, she says, some staffers of the American Institute of Architects, the current tenants, who don't want to be the last person left in the building at night.
Bessette uses the Post Office Plaza to tell the story of Michael Straight, a friend and confidant of Jacqueline Kennedy who fed information to the British spy ring known as the Cambridge Five before he headed the National Endowment for the Arts, first headquartered in the Post Office building. Her tour also stops by the FBI building to discuss Robert Hanssen, who fed information to the Soviets and Russians for more than 20 years before his arrest in 2001.
Both say that Washington is a fertile setting for the stories they tell.
"There's always been a certain amount of jockeying for power, tension, disagreements. … And a ghost is someone who is not at rest, who has had a very troubled or even violent death, and they're not able to move on to where they need to move on to," Crouch says.
Bessette, who says she likes to explore what could lead someone to betray their country, simply says, "I could probably be para-dropped blindfold anyplace in downtown Washington, take the blindfold off and start telling spy stories."
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Suppandi's misunderstanding of situations often gets him in trouble and lands him out of work. It's no wonder that Suppandi has taken it upon himself to master the English language. Will he fail or succeed? Find out in this funny video.
Suppandi's misunderstanding of situations often gets him in trouble and lands him out of work. It's no wonder that Suppandi has taken it upon himself to master the English language. Will he fail or succeed? Find out in this funny video.
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One would think buying a TV would be a simple affair! But when Suppandi is involved, nothing is ever simple - except probably Suppandi himself! Will Suppandi manage to buy his TV without causing anyone else to short circuit? Watch to find out!Read More +
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Everyone loves a good day at the mall. A day of retail therapy and oodles of fun, that is unless Suppandi is visiting! Up is down, down is up, right is wrong and everyone in between is left fuming at Suppandi and his latest antics. Don't believe us? We have the CCTV footage! See for yourself!Read More +
Shambu is in Singapore to catch a glimpse of the world's most photogenic orangutan. But before Shambu can snap a selfie, however, the orangutan goes orangacrazy! It's up to Shambu to save the day before it's too late! Will Shambu help the great ape "snap" out of his madness? Watch now!Read More +
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Poor Shambu! All he wants to do is sleep! But Shanti's not going to let him till he calms down a wild elephant terrorizing the nearby village. Will Shambu manage to save the day and nap peacefully or will the elephant be the one putting him to sleep? Watch to find out!Read More +
If you were sick, who would you trust Suppandi or a qualified doctor? What if we told you Suppandi would protect you from injections and evil doctors? Changed your answer? Watch Suppandi go all out to keep a patient safe, at the cost of everyone else's safety in the bargain!Read More +
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It's sale season and Suppandi isn't one to miss out on a good deal. However, when the shop's assistant tries to get the better of him, Suppandi takes matters into his own hands.Read More +
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Watch Suppandi in this funny video! His latest job has him working in an automobile repair shop and he's enjoying himself quite a lot. His latest boss is jovial enough but it shouldn't take too long before he 'tyres' of Suppandi's antics. After all, our Suppandi does know how to "drive" people crazy! Tread carefully, Suppandi!Read More +
It's the New Year and Suppandi got a brand new resolution to keep. He's decided to join a gym and become ripped, six-packs and all! Is this the end of the stick-thin Suppandi or will our hero pull a muscle in the process? We're betting it's going to be the trainer pulling his hair out by the end of it! Watch Suppandi in this funny video!Read More +
When Shambu and Shanti discover a nest of baby crows on their terrace, it becomes Shambu's responsibility to protect the little critters from malevolent forces of nature, be it the cold or pesky predators! Enter Iron Shambu! Will Shambu's new suit help him in mission? Watch to find out.Read More +
When Shambu and Shanti discover a nest of baby crows on their terrace, it becomes Shambu's responsibility to protect the little critters from malevolent forces of nature, be it the cold or pesky predators! Enter Iron Shambu! Will Shambu's new suit help him in mission? Watch to find out.Read More +
Shambu better know his scales because he's about to come face to face with a slippery snake! A nefarious snake charmer has hatched up a truly evil plan in order to pick the pockets of the unsuspecting audience. Will Shambu manage to stop the snake charmer or will he let the chance slither through his fingers? Watch and find out!Read More +
In the village of Stickypur, the villager's crops are constantly under attack by a swarm of rowdy locusts. So they call the one man who they know will deal with the pests - Shambu! Our portly hero has a cohesive plan to get rid of these pesky insects but will he get stuck in his own trap is the question!Read More +
Far away from bosses and work, Suppandi is spending his day off at a local fair. However, fate has other plans for our favourite simpleton when he crosses paths with a fortune teller. Will the mysterious mystic's predictions come true or will Suppandi's luck hold out? Watch and find out!Read More +
The school Suppandi is working at is doing a fancy dress competition, themed around Halloween! Everyone's been asked to dress up as something scary! Ever wondered what scares Suppandi the most? Now is your chance to find out!Read More +
You've got post! Well, that's something you may never get a chance to hear if Suppandi is in charge of sending you a parcel. How hard can posting something be, right? Well, watch as Suppandi visits the post office and puts his unique stamp on the proceedings.Read More +
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, M.F. Hussain… and Suppandi? That's right, Suppandi has enrolled himself in an art class in the hopes of becoming one of the greats. Will he succeed and get his name drawn in history books forever? Or will he be kicked out before the paint dries? Watch to find out!Read More +
In this funny new video, Suppandi is all packed up and ready to set sail. His new job has him working aboard a ship as a sailor. Of course, this might lead to his captain walking the plank out of sheer frustration. After all, Suppandi can't tell left from right, let alone port and starboard! Anchors aweigh!Read More +
Pick out your best outfit, comb that stray strand of hair and get ready for a mindbending night!Suppandi's taking you out on a date!Read More +
Hands in the air, this is a stick-up. There are a lot of things that can go wrong if you decide to rob a bank. The vault could be empty, the cops could arrive too soon or worst of all, you would have to deal with Suppandi.Read More +
Keep off the roads; in fact, it's probably better if you stay indoors altogether! Suppandi learns to drive and we can't guarantee the safety of you or anyone else, once he puts the pedal to the metal.Read More +
Watch Suppandi boarding the flight. Just ask Suppandi, wherever he goes Suppandi brings chaos with him. Amidst all the chaos Suppandi never forgets to make you all laugh. Try not to laugh!Read More +
Suppandi is suffering from a cold and has to visit the doctor. Will he get treated for his illness or will the doctor end up needing a doctor himself? Watch the episode to find out!Read More +
Suppandi is working as an assistant to a detective and they've just been informed about a robbery. Will they be able to solve the case or will Suppandi end up complicating things even more?Read More +
Ranjha, a wild bear, has escaped the jungle and is a threat to the people living in Rampur. Meanwhile, Shambu is at Rampur School and has no clue about what's in store for him. Will luck be in Shambu's favor or will the bear end up creating havoc in Rampur? Watch to find out!Read More +
Shambu has been called by some locals to catch an elephant who's creating chaos all over the place. But he isn't the only person who was called for this purpose. Will Shambu emerge as the hero of Rampur? To find out, watch this episode.Read More +
Shanti is panicking because of a monkey around her vicinity, but Shambu seems to be calm. Will Shambu be able to maintain this calm state for long? Watch this episode to know more.Read More +
A director wants to shoot a movie on Shambu's bravery. Shambu has been introduced to a stuntman who will be wearing a gorilla costume for the shoot. But little does Shmabu know that he will soon encounter a real gorilla What happens next? Watch this episode to find out.Read More +
Shambu is fed up with Ram and Shyam as they are constantly mispronouncing his name and wants them to fall asleep as soon as possible. The kids love hearing and reciting ghost stories but Shambu is clearly afraid of such tales. What's meant to happen with Shambu now? To find out, watch this episode.Read More +
Shanti thinks that Shambu goes for a 40-minute walk every day, but the truth is that he spends most of this time napping. In this episode, he finds a house in which birds have been caged. Will he be able to free the birds by any chance?Read More +
Shambu has to judge a fancy dress competition and Raju horrifies him with his costume way before the competition could start. But things unfold in such ways that Shambu ends up saving a real fox from a lion. How did this happen? Watch now to get the answer.Read More +
Shambu is with one of his companions for an adventurous day in the water. But he isn't wasn't aware of a threat to his life. What will happen next? To know how this story unfolds, watch the episode.Read More +
Shambu's neighbour has got a new rooster and Shanti loves it because she wakes up early due to its crowing. But Shambu hates it and wants to get rid of it. What will he do now? Will he succeed in his plans? Watch this episode to know what happens.Read More +


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Nogizaka Under Construction (乃木坂工事中) is Nogizaka46's current weekly variety show. It is hosted by the comedy duo, "Bananaman," and airs every Sunday night on TV Tokyo at 2400 JST. It was the immediate successor to their previous variety show, Nogizakatte, Doko? and began airing on April 19, 2015.


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As you may know, AMD has just launched their brand new PC platform solution, codenamed 'Spider'. Spider is really an ecosystem consisting of the AMD Phenom processor, AMD 790FX chipset and the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics. AMD is banking on these new components to revitalize its position in the consumer PC market. However, it is quite unfortunate that the one component with the biggest hype and the most promise - the AMD Phenom processor - is the only product we're missing to complete AMD's trifecta. While we aren't really one to speculate, AMD's inability to provide seeding units is troubling indeed. So while we have graphics cards and motherboards stacking up, we're left twiddling our thumbs without so much as a whiff of a CPU to test on.
Still, moving on, let's just have a look at what the new AMD 790FX chipset has to offer. The main features of the 790FX chipset is really to upgrade the backbone support of AMD's platform in order to fully take advantage of the AMD Phenom processor and ATI Radeon HD 3800 series GPUs. These features come in the form of HyperTransport 3.0, split power planes and PCI Express 2.0. The AMD 790FX also officially supports DDR2-1066, but since the memory controller is embedded in the processor, this is more of a CPU upgrade than chipset.
With HyperTransport 3.0, the 790FX will effectively double the bandwidth available between the Northbridge and CPU from 1GHz of the previous generation chipsets running with HyperTranport 2.0 to 2GHz today. Split power planes is also a new feature supported by AMD Phenom (and above) processors where the there will be two power planes feeding the CPU, one for the CPU cores and another for the memory controller. This is a highly anticipated feature since AMD features a built-in memory controller. With separate power planes, users can better tweak their systems. This should theoretically help power consumption and efficiency as well. Because of the upgrade to HyperTransport 3.0 and split power planes, the 790FX chipset will support what AMD calls Socket AM2+.
Basically, Socket AM2+ is fully pin-compatible with Socket AM2 and vice versa, so you can technically run a Phenom on any current Socket AM2 motherboard or run a current Athlon 64 X2 on the 790FX. However, running a Phenom on an AM2 will mean running in compatibility mode, without the benefits of HyperTransport 3.0 or split power planes (which consequently affects the memory controller's performance potential). Similarly, an older Athlon 64 X2 processor will not benefit from Socket AM2+ as it does not support the new features.
As expected, AMD has also moved towards PCI Express 2.0 and the 790FX chipset features a total of 42 PCIe 2.0 lanes. 32 lanes are dedicated for graphics with two full speed PCIe x16, each of which can split again evenly into four PCIe x8. This will facilitate the new CrossFireX design, which can support 2, 3 or 4-way CrossFire setups. For the remaining ten lanes, six are dedicated PCIe x1 lanes for peripheral connection while the last four seem to be reserved to form the interconnect between the North and Southbridge. In this light, AMD's solution trumps Intel's 3-series chipset because AMD is boasting PCIe 2.0 for almost the entire system, top to bottom, whereas Intel only offers PCIe 2.0 on their high-end X38 chipset, limited again to supplying the GPU lanes and nothing else.
However, there is a weak link in the AMD 790FX chipset, and that happens to be the Southbridge. It would seem that AMD has not been able to roll out their next generation SB700 Southbridge yet, which means that the current batches of 790FX motherboards will still be paired with the older SB600 Southbridge, which doesn't support PCIe 2.0. Compared to chipsets today, the SB600 is also slightly lacking in features with only four SATA 3.0Gbps ports and no built-in Ethernet MAC.
Lastly, the AMD 790FX is supposed to feature great power efficiency. Built on a new 65nm process technology, AMD claims that the 790FX runs with a nominal 8W and a maximum power draw of 10-12W at full load. Because of this, the chipset can even be passively cooled with a simple heatsink. Though from what we've seen, motherboard manufacturers are still sticking to their heat-pipe designs for enthusiast boards.
So in a nutshell, the AMD 790FX and Socket AM2+ isn't all that different from previous generation AM2 motherboards. It serves as an interim before AMD can roll out AM3. Current AM2 users have no real reason to upgrade to the new chipset unless you are investing in the complete Spider platform - motherboard, CPU and GPU. It is only then, will the Spider platform perform at its peak. However, having seen the workstation platform equivalent from AMD with their Barcelona processors, so far there doesn't seem to be much in the way of expectations in either performance or power savings with all the new features on the processor end. So as we've pointed out, this is just a platform renewal for AMD, but don't expect anything exceptional. With that said, we share with you a couple of new motherboards bracing the new AMD 790FX platform on the following pages.
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Can anyone confirm if they are still able to control any Z-wave devices in a group?
I've added 3 Leviton Switches to my home, and can control them each individually with the Wink App. However, when adding them a group, the group on/off of the lights will not work.
I think the latest Wink app update may have broken it. but I can't seem to confirm that.
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Saddle Rock is bordered by Smokey Hill Road to the North, Arapahoe Street to the South, E-470 to the East, and Liverpool Street to the West.
Designed by award winning environmental planner David Clinger, Saddle Rock's island-like neighborhoods "float" in a sea of emerald fairways, parks, parkways, and green space marked by trails and dotted with mature trees. More than one-third of Saddle Rock is devoted to recreational uses.
The gated, master-planned community is centered on the Saddle Rock Golf Course. Named the eighth "Best New Affordable Public Course" in the country by "Golf Digest" when it opened in 1998, Saddle Rock features bluegrass fairways, natural wetlands, and native cottonwoods. Many homes boast fairway frontage, while dramatic mountain views abound throughout the area.
Family activities often begin at the indoor pool, kiddie pool, sundeck, tennis and basketball courts, and lodge-style clubhouse at the Saddle Rock North recreation center where ample picnic facilities include shade shelters, shaded eating areas, and a playground.
|Myriad housing choices - custom single-family homes at various price points, patio homes, townhomes, and condominiums - can accommodate almost any lifestyle, from first-time buyers to young professionals, growing families, and empty nesters.
The Tanglewood neighborhood provides spectacular settings and golf course frontage, while Ironwood's luxury custom homes enjoy mountain views. Patio homes in wide variety of styles can be found in the Cottages, Star Pass, Turnberry, and Shadow Creek neighborhoods.
|For the price-conscious, Moonshadow and Homestead feature economically priced townhomes and condos. At Troon Creek, Panorama Point, Oak Hill, and Bay Hill, luxury single-family homes abound at prices ranging from affordable to upscale.
Children attend school in the acclaimed Cherry Creek School District, among the very best in the country. Among the district's latest, sparkling Grandview High lies within walking distance.
|Saddle Rock's airy heights belie its proximity to the new Southlands shopping district, fine restaurants and retail stores, offices, and major highways and throughways to Downtown Denver, DIA, Denver Tech Center, Park Meadows Mall, and mountain parks and resorts. Saddle Rock Village, which spans E-470, includes JoAnn Fabrics, Office Max, PetSmart, and Super Target.
At the nearby Smoky Hill Road interchange, "Main-Street" style Southlands overflows with lifestyle and entertainment retailers anchored by a Colorado Cinema 16-Screen Theater, Gart Sports (Sports Authority), Barnes and Noble, Sam's Club, and Wal-Mart. Of course, there's a wealth of tempting eateries.


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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is currently the leading cause of death in urban and rural India, killing three million people each year. India is also home to more than 60 million diabetics more than any other country.
"Chronic diseases have reached epidemic proportions in India," said Prof. K. Srinath Reddy of the Public Health Foundation of India, who spoke with Dr. Gayle at a Sept. 21 press briefing. "Less than half of the people living with these diseases are diagnosed and receiving treatment. A concerted effort toward addressing this burden of NCDs requires strengthening the health system through an innovative, multi-sectoral approach."
On Sept. 20, the Medtronic Foundation convened a group of community health experts, non-profits, academia and the private sector in New Delhi.
Among those attending were several Medtronic Foundation grantees in India including Dr. D. Prabhakaran from the Centre for Chronic Disease Control in New Delhi and Dr. Nikhil Tandon from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who recently launched a pilot program funded by the Medtronic Foundation in Himachal Pradesh using high-tech healthcare tools and community health worker training to better screen, diagnose and treat diabetes and CVD patients.
Using a "continuum of care" framework to guide the conversation, participants identified barriers and gaps within the current health system in order to collectively explore solutions to strengthen health systems.
A full report on the Medtronic Foundation's India grantmaking is available upon request.
Since 2010, the Medtronic Foundation has committed more than $7.5 million (U.S.) in NCD-related grants, including $1.2 million (U.S.) to NCD-related efforts in India. Moving forward, the Foundation will continue to increase global funding to expand access to NCD care for underserved communities, specifically focusing on efforts to recruit, train and equip frontline health workers, and to help reinforce patient-centered approaches to health promotion.
With NCDs accounting for more than 60 percent of all deaths worldwide, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called upon the world's businesses to help address NCDs, which are expected to increase by 50 percent in developing countries by 2030. NCDs account for roughly 75 percent of healthcare costs in both advanced and developing economies, according to the World Economic Forum.
About the Medtronic Foundation
The Medtronic Foundation (www.medtronicfoundation.org) is committed to improving the lives of people around the world living with chronic disease, with a majority of grant making thoughtfully aligned with Medtronic's commitment to expand access to quality healthcare among underserved populations. In addition, grants support heath initiatives in communities where Medtronic employees live and give.
About Medtronic Medtronic, Inc. (www.medtronic.com), headquartered in Minneapolis, is the global leader in medical technology alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life for millions of people worldwide.
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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Perennial, subshrub, often from long, thick caudex, silky; hairs basally forked, attached off-center; herbage dotted with resin glands
Leaves alternate, often crowded at base; simple and entire or 3-lobed to 13-pinnately dissected
Inflorescence: heads disciform, fewmany; involucre hemispheric; phyllaries in 23 overlapping series, scarious-margined and -tipped; receptacle hemispheric, naked or hairy
Pistillate flowers few, marginal; corolla cylindric to lance-ovoid
Disk flowers more numerous; corolla tubular to bell-shaped; anther tips ovate, bases rounded or ± cordate; style branches truncate, tips shrub-like
Fruit cylindric, generally 510-ribbed; pappus generally 0 or a narrow crown
Species in genus: 9 species: w. North America
Etymology: (Greek: spherical division)
Reference: [Holmgren et al. 1976 Brittonia 28:255272]
Segregated from Tanacetum.
Stems 1530 cm, leafy, generally branched from base
Leaves 512 mm, basal and cauline, sessile; basal and lower cauline generally 34-lobed, upper entire
Inflorescence: heads generally 38, in dense clusters (rarely solitary); receptacle glabrous
Fruit < 2 mm, 10-ribbed; pappus 0
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Uncommon. Rocky places, ledges, trails, talus near or above timberline
Elevation: 30004000 m.
Bioregional distribution: c&s High Sierra Nevada, East of Sierra Nevada, n Desert Mountains
Flowering time: JulAug
Synonyms: Tanacetum c. D.C. Eaton
Sage-like smell sometimes reported
Horticultural information: DRN, DRY, SUN: 1, 2, 3, 15, 16; DFCLT.


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By Cheri Russo
For many, the word "bully" brings back horrible childhood memories of being mentally, physically or verbally tortured in school. But, Ohio University Lancaster Communication Studies Assistant Professor Nicole Blau is making a difference in the community by taking away the power of bullies in one local middle school.
Three years ago, Blau incorporated a service-learning project in her conflict management class. She gave students a group project to work with local elementary and middle schools on dealing with the issue of bullying.
"I wanted my students to really get an idea about how to deal with conflict and what was going on in the real world," said Blau. "What resulted was a very successful anti-bullying day at Diley Middle School in Pickerington, and we've continued working at that school every year since."
Blau and her students now plan and conduct the "Anti-Bullying Day" at Diley Middle School each fall. The event includes a keynote speaker, middle school students performing skits reflecting the types of bullying that are happening at their school and group reflection sessions to talk about the issues at hand.
"We're trying to get inside their heads and reframe them psychologically. We're trying to get them to stop thinking that the bully is with the cool crowd so they're just going to do what the bully says so they won't get bullied," said Blau. "We're trying to reframe that so socially the bully is the one who is seen as the person who has no friends. The bully is not the cool person and no one wants to be around them. Just changing how they look at this has really decreased the incidences of bullying."
"It has been a pleasure partnering with Ohio University Lancaster | Pickerington students in addressing our anti-bullying efforts at Diley Middle School," said Heather Hedgepeth, principal of the middle school. "Students have become knowledgeable about how to address bullying situations in a positive manner. Many of our students have joined the Anti-Bullying Club and have developed monthly activities to keep this topic in the forefront of the minds of students. One of our goals is to equip students with resources that will assist them if they are experiencing any type of bullying."
In May, Blau received one of the Pickerington Education Association's Friend of Education Awards. She was selected for the award for the work she and her students have done at Diley Middle School. The PEA Friend of Education Award is given to a person or group of people who genuinely help to improve the schools.
"It's an amazing feeling. When I first started this, I thought I just wanted my students to learn something – real life experience. I thought that we were going to go into this school and help this school, while teaching my students," said Blau. "My students loved it so much. Seeing them learn was amazing to me, but then this turned into something so much bigger than I had ever planned. I thought it would be a one semester project and that's it. But, it's turned into several years of hard work."
Blau and a graduate student are collecting data from the school to measure how well the anti-bullying program is working. So far, they are very pleased with the results.
"The incidents of bullying have gone down," said Blau. "We've shown that, at least in this particular school, bullying has gone down. Bullying is framed negatively and people just don't want to be involved in it."
But the research has also shown something else – something that Blau did not expect and something that has national implications.
"We're focusing on the wrong thing so to speak. That's what our research has shown," said Blau. "A lot of people think that most of the bullying these days is going on in cyberspace. Bullying is definitely happening on Facebook, social networking, Instagram, and places like that. But, the majority of it is still not cyber bullying like we all think it is. The majority of it is still going on in the school bus. It's still going on at recess. It's going on in the bathrooms at schools. It's still happening at school."
Blau said she plans to go back to Diley Middle School this spring and collect more data. She is already making plans for the "Anti-Bullying Day" next fall. Blau would like to reach out more to parents and get them involved in the bullying discussion.
"We've really touched the lives of the middle school students, the faculty, staff, and administrators at Diley, and my students. We're starting to reach out into the community of Pickerington," said Blau. "I'm really excited to see what the future holds."
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Restoring a classic Corvette can be both a highly rewarding pursuit and a frustrating endeavor. To be sure, bringing a muscle car that has fallen into disrepair back to its former glory provides immeasurable satisfaction. But the challenges that often arise during such a resurrection can prove a test of one's mechanical mettle as well as one's sanity-and some cursed cars require far more effort than others.
Russell Long's '80 Chevrolet Corvette is a testament to the dual nature of automotive restoration. The C3 earned the nickname "Evil '80" not only for its menacing appearance, but also for its painful resurrection process. When Long found the car in the local classifieds in 2000, he was enticed by the Stingray shape to forego the conveniences afforded by more-modern fare. "I like the shape of the C3s, [as] they have more of a muscle-car look than the newer ones," he says. Intrigued by the low asking price, he decided to check it out.
Despite having little background with third-gen Vettes, Long decided to buy the car. But while he had grand long-term aspirations, his Corvette was initially in a poor state and had to be towed home. "It was a bucket of crap before I resurrected it," he concedes. As the owner of Performance World, a speed shop in Brisbane, Australia, Russell felt he was well equipped to initiate a Corvette renaissance, but he did not yet apprehend the true scope of the task ahead of him.
A closer inspection of the car turned up little cause for elation, and Long began to feel he had been ripped off. In fact, the more he looked, the more he was astonished at the number of serious problems the Corvette presented. He explains: "After getting the car home, [I found a] dodgy right-hand conversion, engine mounts tack-welded from about 15 pieces of scrap steel, the latest cardboard-and-fiberglass mix all through the car, the power-steer ram bent . . . It went on and on." While these challenges may have been a source of trepidation for many people, Long committed to making something of his tatterdemalion C3.
Long first sought the assistance of Drift Body Works in Caboolture, Australia, to address the car's damaged body. Revitalizing the fiberglass proved to be no small task, with the process ultimately consuming more than 2 1/2 years. All that hard work paid off, however, as the C3's current pristine body and paint job offer no hint of its once-dilapidated condition. An L88-style hood was added to give the Vette a more intimidating countenance, and the resulting sinister look complements the car's checkered background. The restoration process also called for fresh lights and lenses as well as various other trim items.
After the extensive body repair, Long began to breathe new life into the powertrain. He decided to abandon the lackluster original engine and begin with a clean slate. A rare (in Australia, anyway) four-bolt SBC block was chosen for the foundation. Inside, a set of Probe forged pistons were united with a Scat forged crankshaft and Scat steel rods.
Crowning the potent small-block is an Edelbrock Super Victor intake manifold that is fed by an AED 750 carburetor and topped with a K&N 3-inch air cleaner. The top end benefits from a pair of AFR 195cc aluminum cylinder heads equipped with Milodon valves and Crane Gold roller rockers. The camshaft is a rowdy solid roller with a custom grind and confidential specs.
Ignition-system components include an MSD Pro distributor, a Proform alternator, and Queensland Ignition Leads plug wires. All of the action is supported by a Holley Dominator fuel pump, a custom aluminum radiator, and a High Energy oil pan. Exhaust gases exit through custom headers and a 3-inch exhaust system built by Fat Pipes.
The snorting small-block delivers impressive results despite its relatively diminutive displacement. While Russell is coy about the exact details, he will divulge that on 98-octane fuel the C3 produces more than 500 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque.
With the powerplant successfully resuscitated, a Tremec five-speed manual transmission was installed to handle the new bounty of power. The drivetrain is bolstered with a heavy-duty Exedy Button clutch and a custom driveshaft.
Not content to retain the Vette's "crappy gray interior," Long decided to infuse the cockpit with some American spirit. "I didn't want to go back to the plain-Jane standard interior, so I made up my own-custom Yankee red, white, and blue." Nundah Auto Upholsterers covered the original seats with the American-flag pattern and swapped the dull carpeting for brilliant red. "It's a good thing black paint goes with everything," he says. Modern audio amenities include an Alpine CD-player head unit, a 10-inch subwoofer, and 6x9-inch rear speakers.
The Americana theme is carried into the engine bay with various components painted red and blue. The spotless compartment also contains an assortment of chrome-plated accessories and braided stainless steel hoses. The effect is to combine the custom look of a show car with an air of serious old-school muscle.
Suspension in later-year C3 Corvettes skewed toward a softer, grand-touring car ride, and the cars accordingly lost some of their edge. Long installed Koni shocks and a faster steering rack from a Toyota Cressida to counter the luxury orientation. The aging braking system was enhanced with DBA slotted rotors and Racing Brakes pads, and all four corners received chrome 15x8-inch Eagle Alloys wheels shod in Road Hugger 255/60-15 tires.
With Long spending most of his time overseeing his busy performance shop, the Corvette sees road time only about once a month. Still, he insists that it's not merely a show car. "I built this car to be driven, so it is not a show pony. It just looks nice and neat with some bling and a lot of go," he says. The car is mostly employed as a weekend cruiser, but it also pulls occasional duty at the dragstrip.
With the tribulations of the restoration behind him, Long is happy to finally enjoy the product of his labor. "The car is finished after seven years-thank God," he says. While he describes the Vette as fantastic to drive, with heaps of power, he does plan to add a nitrous system at some point in the future.
Russell Long's Corvette is a demonstration of both the highs and the lows of Corvette restoration. The process was protracted and extremely demanding, but the astounding finished project is well worth the effort. More than just a restomod, Long's "Evil '80" is evidence of a hard-won victory over automotive wickedness.


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Man held in Ottawa slayings has criminal history
Kyle Flack shot former boss in 2005
Kyle Flack, the Franklin County man investigators are holding in connection with the bodies found on an Ottawa farm, has served time in prison before.
Flack was convicted on attempted murder charges after shooting another Ottawa man, Steve Free, in 2005. Free had been Flack's boss and had fired him from his job as a handyman's helper earlier in the day of the shooting.
Free survived the shooting but died of cancer in 2011. His family thinks the shooting contributed to his health problems.
Flack went to prison for the shooting and was paroled in 2009 after serving about three-quarters of his sentence. Had he served the entire term, he would have been released last year.
Free's sister, Stephanie Ingram, still lives in the home where her brother was shot. She said she doesn't think Flack was given an adequate prison sentence. She said she thought Flack was headed for more trouble.
"I think they should have seen it coming. I think it all could have been prevented," Ingram said. "I'm just mad."
She said Flack was a troubled kid that she believes had mental health problems. She said she believes he was on various medications for his condition.
She said Flack should not have been free and in a position to hurt anyone else.
"If they would have done their jobs, when Kyle unloaded a gun into my brother, and convicted him and prosecuted him they way he should have been prosecuted, he wouldn't have been out to kill these people," she said.
No one at Flack's home Thursday evening was willing to discuss him or the story with KMBC 9 News.