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Since 2004 I have experimented with growing Lophophora williamsii in an unheated greenhouse in Denmark. During this period the plants have been repotted only once a couple of years ago.
Coldhouse grown Lophophora williamsii (SB 854; Starr Co, Texas)
The plants are growing in 11 cm (4.33'') clay pots and it might not be apparent from a superficial inspection that they are in need of being repotted again. But on closer investigation it turns out that the taproots are visible through the drainage hole in the bottom of the pots.
Taproot visible through drainage hole
I consequently decided to repot the plants. I'm usually not repotting plants in the coldhouse this early in the year as we still might get the occasional night with sub-freezing temperatures, but I figured that the plants are completely dormant – i.e. there are no actively growing roots to harm – and if repotted in bone-dry soil the plants will not notice they have been disturbed when the growing season starts in a few weeks. Anyway, that's my theory ;-)
Lophophora williamsii plants removed from the pots
Close-up of three Lophophora williamsii crowns
Close-up of exposed Lophophora williamsii taproot-ball
After removing the plants from their pots I could smell that some of the roots had been damaged; a broken Lophophora root gives off an easily detectable smell reminiscent (to me anyway ;-) of that of fresh green peas. This stressed the fact that the soil really had to be bone-dry before potting the plants, so I let them sit for a day in order for the broken roots to dry out a bit, and shoved the soil into the oven to remove every last bit of moisture it might hold (this gave off an... let's call it interesting... smell and I weren't popular at all with the rest of the house).
The soil ended up being so dry that I was literally working in a cloud of dust while repotting – my throat was still irritated the day after so I'll probably buy a dust mask to avoid this situation in the future (not that I expect to get pneumoconiosis or anything but it's annoying to go "ahem", "hrmph", "cough" for a day when it can be avoided ;-).
Freshly repotted Lophophora williamsii plants
The dry and dusty soil is also evident by the dusted fingerprints on the pots (12 x 12 x 20 cm, ideal for plants with large taproots) in the picture above.
Lastly I would like to make a note on the soil. I am adding unperfumed (and unused ;-) cat litter made from baked "moler" to my soil as this material is very lightweight and retains water easily without the soil getting soaked. I'm not quite sure how to translate "moler" into English but it is a diatomite deposit that Skamol, a "moler" processing plant, defines as:
Moler - a diatomaceous earth
Diatomaceous earth is a naturally occurring, soft, chalk-like sedimentary rock that is easily crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder. This powder has an abrasive feel, similar to pumice powder, and is very light, due to its high porosity. Moler is a special mixture of diatomaceous earth and bentonite clay, ca. 60% diatoms and 40% clay. The clay gives the raw moler a brownish colour, and due to a high iron oxide content the materials become pink, when baked.
The pinkish granules visible in the topsoil in the photo above is "moler" cat litter.
As I live within driving distance of where the "moler" is quarried I decided to get some raw and unbaked "moler" to mix into my soil. Last summer I collected a few bags in the, now defunct, quarry pictured below; the plants described in this post are the first to be planted in soil with chunks of raw "moler" mixed in (visible as large, grayish flakes in the above picture), so I'm eager to see how the plants agree with this new additive to their soil. Even though "moler" contains large fractions of clay (the Danish word "ler" means clay, i.e. a literal translation of "moler" would be mo-clay) it's a relatively stable material that doesn't dissolve in water, so it will not clog up the soil when watered.
Old moler quarry on the island of Mors
I'm a bit curious as to what effect diatomaceous earth has on insects. According to Wikipedia "diatomite is also used as an insecticide, due to its physico-sorptive properties. The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' exoskeletons, causing them to dehydrate", i.e. the diatomaceous earth in the "moler" might actively help me control pests.


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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's carefully constructed house of cards comes crashing down
So, that's it then: The Senate expense scandal is now a mortal threat to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's career, and the future electoral prospects of his Conservative government. And all it took, astonishingly, was two of the "accused," Sen. Mike Duffy and Sen. Patrick Brazeau, standing up in the Red Chamber and telling, just for a few minutes apiece, their side of the story.
Sen. Pamela Wallin is still to come. But the floodgates have opened. In a sense, this is now just the start. From a PMO tactical point of view, it is a calamity.
When the history of this tawdry episode is written, this decision — whether it was made by PMO officials, or Conservatives in the Senate, or Harper himself — to seek to cut Duffy, Brazeau and Wallin loose, without pay and without due process, may well go down as the very worst in a cascade of catastrophically bad decisions. Harper must now address allegations of corruption, conspiracy, and strong-arming by his office, tantamount to blackmail. The base, one suspects, will not be pleased.
Let's acknowledge first that no one gets away clean now, come what may. We have heard for months about profligacy in the Senate, and specifically about how Duffy, Wallin, Brazeau and the recently resigned Mac Harb padded their various expense claims. We've heard ad nauseam about the $90,000 cheque to Duffy from former PMO chief of staff Nigel Wright. Avarice in the Senate is now a deeply embedded narrative. Tuesday's motions have been a long time coming, and the senators' cris de coeur, however dramatic, are unlikely to rehabilitate them, much.
But there's a fair question here: Can it be a coincidence that the simple narrative of culpability by these three happens to suit the prime minister's needs so well? As Brazeau pointedly asked his colleagues Tuesday, his voice trembling with emotion: Are the rest really so clean?
Monday for the first time, driven by Conservative senators' move for suspensions without pay, a new narrative began to emerge, from Duffy's camp. Though not conclusive, it connected the dots in a way that hasn't happened before. It amounts to this: Duffy had sanction from the party's highest levels, including then Leader of the Government in the Senate, Marjory LeBreton, and Nigel Wright himself, to submit his expense claims as he did. Brazeau on Tuesday made similar assertions; everything he did, he said, was above board.
Extra: Read the full text of Mike Duffy's speech to the senate right here
But when the story blew up in the media, Duffy became a liability, and was ordered to pay up. He refused, pointing out he'd sought and received permission from his bosses at every turn — after which the PMO devised the Wright $90,000 plan, along with "lines" that would see Duffy publicly appear to willingly repay his expenses, thereby soothing anti-fat-cat passions among the Tory base. When Duffy balked, his lawyer, Donald Bayne, said, he was threatened with political summary execution — ouster from the party and the Senate. He caved, blabbed it around too freely and the rest is history. Meantime, Brazeau says, he was deemed expendable, and made a scapegoat. Wallin will doubtless tell a similar story when her turn comes.
It's all so strangely plausible, isn't it? And there's now certainly more to come. Bayne claims to have documentary evidence, in the form of emails, backing up Duffy's account. The pressure to release them, in some public forum or other, will soon become unstoppable. Even before Tuesday evening, this cried out for hard, frank answers from Harper — concrete, specific denials, or admissions. But the prime minister has been mum. Monday in question period he reverted to old talking points. Tuesday he repeated the same lines a couple of times before handing off to his parliamentary secretary, Paul Calandra, who was then filleted like a trout by NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. Harper cannot continue ducking this, without suffering irreparable harm to his own reputation.
Here's where this leads: If Duffy's story is true, and he can indeed prove it, then the entire senior Conservative power structure in Ottawa is on trial. And if, as Bayne has hinted, there's evidence the prime minister knew of the Wright-Duffy deal before May 15 — when he has said repeatedly he did not know — then Harper himself will be irreparably damaged.
There's just one way to get to the bottom of it. The principals — including Wright, Duffy, former PMO director of issues management Chris Woodcock, LeBreton, former PMO lawyer Benjamin Perrin and indeed Harper himself, as well as Brazeau and Wallin — must tell their stories under oath, in a public forum. Emails and documents must be made public. If there's been lying or other wrongdoing, those responsible must take their lumps — up to and including the PM himself. Absent that kind of decisive resolution, this will continue to rot away at the Conservative party, and eventually bring it down.
Here's why letting this fester further is not a path the Conservatives should choose, despite the obvious pain of facing up to it now: Their party's foundation is moral, in the Prairie populist and Baptist-inflected Reform Party. Conservatives won power in 2006 on a wave of popular disillusionment with Liberal arrogance and corruption. Tory loyalists, the rock-solid 30 per cent, will never desert en masse to the Grits or New Democrats. What they may do, though, if they perceive a serious moral and ethical deficit at the top, is take a break. The Liberals learned in 2004, and again in 2006, what effect that can have.
Bottom line: If Duffy and Brazeau can make an even semi-plausible case for their victimization by the PMO, then the government has a much bigger problem that any amount of deflection can possibly manage. The truth will out. Put the principals under oath, and get it over with.

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Dykking & Marinbevaring - Frivillig Arbeid i Thailand: Månedlige Oppdateringer
Månedlige Oppdateringer fra 2009
Despite having our lowest ever number of volunteers (no more than 3 and down to 0 when Elliott decided to take some time off and travel to Singapore), September was one of the busiest month for staff.
The month of August was action packed, with between 6 and 13 volunteers getting down and dirty in the local mangroves, lending helping hands at the Krabi Fisheries Department, bird watching at the beautiful Emerald Pool, helping clean up neighbouring beaches and diving locally and around Koh Phi Phi. Volunteers also undertook activities such as marine salvage, coral and fish surveying, and a buoy monitoring project.
The beginning of the year has been very active here in AoNang with no less than 10 volunteers and up to 16! These volunteers were full of energy and imagination and have come up with a new tradition: everyone has to dress up (or down!) for a volunteer's last dive. It started with some pretty pink dresses and other outfits and we then had a random selection of animal hats, underwear and other Thai Boxing outfits!


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Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
|Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
View of the New York State Pavilion and the Unisphere in July 2006.
|Public park
Queens, NY
United States
|897 acres (363 ha)
|Operated by
|Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Conservancy
|Open all year
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in New York City. Located in the borough of Queens, it is between I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) and the Grand Central Parkway, and stretches from Flushing Bay, at the southern edge of LaGuardia Airport, to Union Turnpike. It contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the U.S. Open tennis tournament; Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets baseball team; the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, the Queens Theatre in the Park, the Queens Zoo, and the New York State Pavilion. It formerly contained Shea Stadium, demolished in 2009.
The fourth largest public park in New York City, it was created as the site of the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair and also hosted the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. It was long believed to be 1,255 acres (508 ha) in size, but a survey concluded in 2013 found its actual size to be 897 acres (363 ha) when accounting for major roads and other exclusions within the park's perimeter.[1] This does not take into account a disputed claim, which entails that the neighborhood of Willets Point, at the north edge of the park, is part of the park.[2]
It is owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and maintained by the Flushing Meadows–Corona Park Conservancy, a private non-profit. The park is at the eastern edge of the area is encompassed by Queens Community Board 4.[3]
History 1
- World's Fairs 1.1
- Post-World's Fairs 1.2
- Description 2
- In popular culture 3
- References 4
- External links 5
World's Fairs
The park was created from the former dumping ground, which was characterized as "a valley of ashes" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The site, known at the time as the Corona Ash Dumps, which was being filled with ashes from coal-burning furnaces, as well as with horse manure and garbage, was cleared by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses in preparation for the 1939-1940 World's Fair. The original name for the new parkland was "Flushing Meadow Park."[4] Faced with having to dispose of the mountains of ashes, Moses strategically incorporated a significant portion of the refuse into the bases of the Van Wyck Expressway running along the eastern side of the park, the nearby Interboro Parkway (now Jackie Robinson Parkway), and the Long Island Expressway that divides the park into north and south halves. The Grand Central Parkway separates a western lobe from the main part of the northern half, while the east-west Jewel Avenue bisects the southern half.
Some of the buildings from the 1939 Fair were used for the first temporary headquarters of the United Nations from 1946 until it moved in 1951 to its permanent headquarters in Manhattan. The former New York City building was used for the UN General Assembly during that time.[5] This building was later refurbished for the 1964 Fair as the New York City Pavilion, featuring the Panorama of the City of New York, an enormous scale model of the entire city.[6] It is one of two buildings that survive from the 1939-40 Fair, and the only one that remains in its original location. (The other is the Belgium exhibition building, disassembled and moved to the campus of Virginia Union University in 1941.) It is the home of the Queens Museum of Art, which still houses, and occasionally updates, the Panorama. The Unisphere, built as the theme symbol for the 1964/1965 World's Fair, is the main sculptural feature of the park. It stands on the site occupied by the Perisphere during the earlier Fair.
In early 1964, the New York City Council added "Corona" to the park's name, so that the park was named "Flushing Meadows-Corona Park", in preparation for the World's Fair. Councilman Edward Sadowsky explained that this was intended to correct an injustice: "The people of Corona have long lived in the aroma of a junkyard or a dump named for their community. Now, when there is something beautiful to be seen, there is no mention of the name Corona."[7]
Post-World's Fairs
Since 1978, the US Open tennis tournament has taken place in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. After "Flushing Meadows" became the (secondary) name of the tennis tournament itself, that portion of the park was subsequently named USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Its center court is Arthur Ashe Stadium, and its secondary stadium court is Louis Armstrong Stadium. Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets since 2009, sits at the north end of the park. Shea Stadium, the Mets' previous home, once stood adjacent to the area now hosting Citi Field.
Since the early 1990s, the pavilion's ledges, steps, and fountain grates have been utilized by skateboarders and featured in famous east coast skateboarding videos. In 2010 a skate plaza was built nearby to host the Maloof Money Cup, a skateboarding competition.
By the early 2000s, the park had become the residence of a number of homeless people,[8] who received attention after five abducted, raped, and threatened to kill a woman who had been sitting with her partner at Mets – Willets Point, a nearby subway station.[9]
The $66.3 million Flushing Meadows Natatorium, encompassing an Olympic-sized public indoor pool and an NHL regulation-sized skating rink, opened in 2008. The facility, utilized by schools, leagues and community members of all ages, is the largest recreation complex in any New York City park, at 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2). The complex incorporates features for the physically disabled.[10]
Rental boats are available for rowing and paddleboating on the park's Meadow Lake, which feeds northward into the Flushing River and thence into Flushing Bay. Meadow Lake is the site of rowing activities for non-profit Row New York, with teams practicing on the lake for much of the year.[11] Meadow Lake also hosts the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York, and teams from New York practice in Meadow Lake during the summer months. The American Small Craft Association[12] (TASCA) also houses a fleet of over a dozen 14.5-foot sloop-rigged sailboats, used for teaching, racing and recreation by the club's members. Bicycling paths extend around Meadow Lake and connect to the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway. Paths around Willow Lake, the smaller and higher of the two lakes, in a natural wetlands area in the little-used far southern section of the park, are currently closed to the public.[13] The many recreational playing fields and playgrounds in the park are used for activities that reflect the wide ethnic mix of Queens; soccer and cricket are especially popular.
The park is also the home of Queens Theatre in the Park[14][15] the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, and Terrace on the Park (a banquet and catering facility, the Fair's former helipad).
The New York State Pavilion, constructed as the state's exhibit hall for the 1964 World's Fair, is also a feature of the park. However, no new use for the building was found after the Fair, and the structure sits derelict and decaying.
Other buildings that remained for a while after the Fair's conclusion to see if a new use for them could be found, such as the United States Pavilion, have subsequently been demolished. One such parcel became the site of the Playground for All Children, one of the first playgrounds designed to include handicapped-accessible activities. The design competition for the playground was won by architect Hisham N. Ashkouri; the facility was completed in 1984, and it was refurbished and reopened in 1997.[16]
The Flushing Meadows Carousel operates in the northwestern part of the park.
Major League Soccer established a second team in the New York metropolitan area, New York City FC, and proposed to build a 25,000-seat stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park by 2016.[17] After heavy community opposition, the team changed its plans and currently plays at Yankee Stadium.
This park also contains three MTA maintenance facilities such as the IND Jamaica Yard, IRT Corona Yard, and the Casey Stengel Bus Depot as well as two stations providing subway and train service to serve this park, one for the IRT subway at Mets-Willets Point, and the LIRR Station also at Mets-Willets Point.
In popular culture
- In the 1997 movie Men in Black, the saucer-shaped restaurant atop the New York State Pavilion was used as an escape spaceship.
- During the 1997 episode of The Simpsons titled The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Homer is stranded at the original World Trade Center and needs to use the bathroom, a bus marked 'Flushing Meadows' passes by and Homer has a vision of a lush green meadow full of toilets while classical music plays.
- In the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV and its expansions, a park based on Flushing Meadows known as Meadows Park is present, it features replicas of the New York State Pavilion and the Unisphere, these are known as the Liberty State Pavilion Towers and the Monoglobe respectively.
- In the events of Iron Man 2, released in 2010, the fictional Stark Expo is portrayed as being held at Flushing Meadows, simply referred to in the film as "Flushing, New York". The New York State Pavilion was used as the location of several scenes in the film and the Unisphere is used as a plot element at several points during the film's events.
- ^ Foderaro, Lisa W. (May 31, 2013). "How Big Is That Park? City Now Has the Answer". The New York Times. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- ^ Honan, Katie (February 11, 2014). "Suit Seeks to Quash Willets West Mall Project". DNA Info. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
- ^ Queens Community Boards, New York City. Retrieved September 3, 2007.
- ^ "Great World Fair for City in 1939 on Site In Queens;...City to Lend New Park". The New York Times. September 23, 1935.
- ^ "Building History". Queens Museum. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- ^ The Panorama of the City of New York. Queens Museum of Art. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ "Bill Adds 'Corona' to Fair Site's Name". The New York Times. February 5, 1964.
- ^ Feuer, Alan (March 25, 2011). "Who Calls Central Park Home? Census Counts 25". The New York Times.
- ^ Wilson, Michael (December 28, 2002). "Squalid Site of Queens Rape Unnoticed by Public Nearby". The New York Times.
- ^ "Flushing Meadows Corona Park". nycgovparks.org.
- ^ "Strokes of Genius". United Federation of Teachers.
- ^ "About TASCA". The American Small Craft Association.
- ^ http://www.fmcpconservancy.org/mission.htm Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Conservancy: mission.
- ^ http://www.queenstheatre.org Queens Theatre
- ^ "Theater Takes a 180-Degree Turn".
- ^ "Playground for All Children". NYC Parks. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- ^ David Picker (December 5, 2012). "M.L.S. Promotes Stadium at a Town Hall Meeting".
External links
- Official website
- The Playground For All Children
Entities within the park:
- New York World's Fair 1964/1965
- Flushing Meadows Speedskating Club
- Saving the New York State Pavilion
- Tent of Tomorrow - New York State Pavilion
- World's Fair Carousels
- New York State Pavilion Project
- Use mdy dates from June 2015
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- All articles with unsourced statements
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- Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from June 2012
- Commons category without a link on Wikidata
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Parks in Queens, New York
- Robert Moses projects
- World's Fair sites in the United States
- 1939 New York World's Fair
- 1964 New York World's Fair
- Urban public parks
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park


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NORTH LIBERTY– North Liberty Optimists will hold their 40th Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, March 2, from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the North Liberty Community Center.
All proceeds go to the youth of North Liberty. Some of what they support includes:
• North Liberty baseball and softball leagues.
• Scouting programs and 4-H.
• North Liberty library, parks and community center.
• North Liberty schools and family resource center.
• Kid friendly holiday food baskets.
• North Liberty Food Pantry.
• Heart Connection (send kids with cancer to camp).
• Youth scholarships.
NORTH LIBERTY– The City of North Liberty is having an ice-cream recipe contest to celebrate the community's 100th birthday. Submit your own ice-cream recipe for a chance to have it featured for all your friends and neighbors to enjoy at Isaac's Creamery. Pick amazing base, sweet swirl-in, and a great mix-in and email your recipe by March 1 to: email@example.com, or send it to: Ice Cream Contest, c/o Tracey Mulcahey, City of North Liberty, 3 Quail Creek Cr., North Liberty, IA, 52317. For more information, visit the centennial website at northliberty100.org.
NORTH LIBERTY– The North Liberty Community Library is hosting a wine tasting with the Brick Arch Winery of West Branch on Thursday, Feb. 28, from 8 until 9:30 p.m. Adults 21 years and older may attend and must have valid photo ID to participate in the wine tasting. Bottles of wine will be available for purchase. Come join the fun, taste new wines and enjoy an evening out. Contact adult services staff, Elaine or Laura, at 319-626-5701 with questions.
CORALVILLE– The Clear Creek Watershed Enhancement Board public meeting to be held at the Coralville Public Library, 1401 5th St., Coralville, IA 52241 at 5 p.m. on Feb. 28.
The purpose of the meeting is to provide information to the public concerning the accomplishments of the watershed board to make Clear Creek clear again and to welcome input for further priorities in the watershed.
The featured speaker will be James Martin of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, who is regional basin coordinator for southeast Iowa.
SOLON– The Solon trapshooting team will hold a can drive on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., and the drop-off point will again be the North Liberty American Legion (Club 76), one mile out of North Liberty.
Contacts for pick up or questions will be Scott Rath, 319-626-6809, Gerald Chaloupka, 319-624-2825, or Al Ziskovsky, 319-350-5362 The team will accept all 5¢ Iowa deposit containers and will be happy to pick them up from either North Liberty or Solon or anywhere in between. They may also be dropped off at the Legion (by the storage units).
By Lori Lindner
North Liberty Leader
TIFFIN– Some on the Tiffin City Council don't agree with putting most of the city's eggs in one basket, even if it is the best basket around.
At the council's Feb. 13 meeting, a tie vote shot down City Administrator Michon Jackson's suggestion to amend the city's investment policy in order to keep a balance of about $7 million in Solon State Bank until bond proceeds designated for capital improvement projects could be spent down. The current policy puts a cap on deposits of no more than $2.5 million in any one of three local financial institutions.
OXFORD– The facilities committee tasked by the Clear Creek Amana (CCA) School Board of Directors to explore options for dealing with the district's continued enrollment growth took a major step toward making a recommendation.
NORTH LIBERTY– Apparently, North Liberty residents are completely satisfied with the way the city proposes to spend their money.
The North Liberty City Council offered a special agenda item last Tuesday, Feb. 12, to allow the public to ask questions and offer input on the city's proposed 2014 fiscal year budget.
Nobody came.
DES MOINES– People who do not know Solon 195-pound wrestler Lance Evans would have given him little chance of even qualifying for this year's state wrestling meet, let alone placing in the tournament.
He sustained a severe knee injury this past summer, which required surgery, and was only cleared to start practicing during the week prior to the sectional tournament.
Evans went on to win both sectional and district championships in qualifying for the state wrestling tournament in Des Moines and won four matches, bringing home a fifth-place medal.
His match results were as follows:
MARION– Marion's Amanda Sahm was trying to bring the ball upcourt, but Rylee Smith was applying pressure all the way.
Just over half court, Smith made a swipe at the ball, jarred it out of Sahm's hands, and dove after it onto the floor.
It must've seemed like it was that way all night for the Marion Indians.
Solon's Lady Spartans knocked Marion out of postseason play Thursday with a 64-50 win on the Indians' home court in the first round of the Class 4A girls' basketball playoffs.


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Winn-Dixie Recalls Instant Chocolate Drink Mix Sold in Florida
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 12, 2014 - Winn-Dixie today announced an immediate recall of the 30 oz. canister of Winn-Dixie Instant Chocolate Drink Mix, with expiration date code of JUL 14 15B, from shelves in all stores throughout Florida. The recall does not affect stores in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana or Mississippi. The reason for the recall is the potential that the product may contain an incorrect formula mixture, which could result in an undeclared milk allergen.
"We advise customers who have a milk allergy to throw it out immediately to ensure they do not experience any health issues," said Brian Wright, Winn-Dixie's vice president of communications and community.
Winn-Dixie has received no reports of any issues associated with consumption at this time. The recall only pertains to canisters with the expiration date code of JUL 14 15B. The product UPC code is 2114022031.
Consumers who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk products are urged not to consume and return products to the store for a full refund. To receive the refund, customers may present proof of purchase through a receipt or the product-packaging label.
Symptoms of a milk allergy reaction can range from mild, such as hives, to severe, such as anaphylaxis.
Customers with questions about the recalled products may contact the Winn-Dixie Customer Call Center toll free at 866-946-6349, Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. EDT, and Sat., 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. EDT.


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All ex Yankees kill the Yankees
The Yankees are currently on a cold streak that makes Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance as Mr. Freeze in the god-awful Joel Schumacher film "Batman & Robin" look like an Oscar-worthy portrayal. The Bronx Bombers have become the Bronx Bums, losing four straight, however they did snap the losing skid by beating the Oakland A's 2-1 this afternoon. The Yanks have dropped six of their last 10, falling to third place in the AL East standings in the process.
Six games out of the division lead behind both first place beasts the Toronto Blue Jays and second place contenders the Baltimore Orioles, the Yanks obviously have some catching up to do. What's unfortunate about some of their recent bad luck has been, specifically, the players who have been beating up on them.
A slew of former Yankees have come back to burn the Yankees – and as a junior baseball historian (if I may call myself that) I've noticed the evident concept of former Yankees punishing the Yankees, and it's not a series of random isolated incidents; rather a pattern that's developed over time: all ex-Yankees kill the Yankees.
Allow me to demonstrate.
April 27, 1982 – Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson became one of the most beloved Yankees in the late 1970s, helping carry the team to two World Series titles in 1977 and 1978. With three home runs in (the series clinching) Game 6 of the '77 fall classic, a candy bar named after him, and a tremendous amount of popularity, his legions of Yankee fans were disappointed when management didn't bring him back for the 1982 season.
So, in his first at-bat in his return to Yankee Stadium, Mr. October showed them what they'd lost.
As a California Angel, he hammered a home run off former teammate Ron Guidry. Yankee Universe was so upset that he wasn't in pinstripes anymore, that as he rounded the bases they chanted "REG-GIE! REG-GIE! REG-GIE!" in support of its old flame.
George Steinbrenner would later say, "letting him go was the biggest mistake I made as Yankee owner."
This is where it started.
June 14, 2003 – Tino Martinez
Tino Martinez was not re-signed after the Yankee Dynasty fell in the 2001 World Series, getting supplanted by powerhouse Jason Giambi (to play first base). He went to the St. Louis Cardinals, and was pleasantly surprised when a trip to Yankee Stadium appeared on the 2003 MLB schedule.
When the "Bam-Tino" returned he was greeted with open arms by the Yankee fans; cheers and fond memories abounded the night of June 14.
He dug in to a chorus of applause in the second inning, and took his former teammate Andy Pettitte deep for a two-run homer – much to the delight of all in attendance.
After the game Martinez lightheartedly said, "Andy Pettitte was a little flustered because, here I hit the home run and they're giving me a standing ovation. He's like, I really love you, but c'mon!"
And he wasn't done.
In the ninth inning he clubbed yet another two-run tater, showing the Yankees what they'd been missing. He accounted for all four runs the Cardinals scored, albeit it was a 13-4 Yankee win.
"My teammates were like, this is the greatest place I've ever seen," Martinez continued. "And I said, I told you – this is the greatest place of all to play."
It's also worth noting that Martinez smacked his 300th career homer on March 30, 2004 against the Yankees as a member of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He touched up Felix Heredia for the milestone home run in an 8-3 Rays win.
It's no wonder the Yankees brought him back in 2005.
July 10-12, 2009 – Bobby Abreu
Bobby Abreu was a stellar trade deadline pickup in 2006, filling a void the Yankees needed to plug in right field. He may not have been the best when it came to defensively playing the outfield wall, but man could he swing the bat.
And when the Yankees didn't return him for the 2009 season, he made them pay.
Like Jackson, Abreu went to the Angels. When the Halos hosted the Yankees for three games right before the '09 All-Star break, he slammed his former 'mates hard. The numbers tell the whole story.
In those three games, Abreu went 6-for-14 (.428) with six RBIs and three runs scored. He played a huge part in the Yankees losing all three games – getting swept before a few days off. The Angels beat the Yankees 10-6 in the first game, 14-8 in game two of the series, and 5-4 in the finale.
Abreu also smacked a grand slam on April 13, 2010, the day of the Yankees' 2009 ring ceremony, off now-Yankee closer David Robertson. He nearly spoiled the day, crushing the slam in the ninth inning, but the Yanks held on for a 7-5 win.
April 15, 2010 – Hideki Matsui
The man known as "Godzilla" pieced together quite an amazing career in pinstripes. Coming over from the Far East in 2003, he was a Yankee through 2009, when he went out with a bang: winning the World Series and collecting MVP honors of the '09 fall classic.
Yet, like Jackson and Abreu before him, the Angels came calling when the Yanks didn't bring him back for 2010.
The night of April 15 in his first year not playing Major League Baseball in pinstripes, Matsui took his former teammate Phil Hughes deep in the second inning.
Hughes watched the ball sail over the right field wall at the big ballpark in the Bronx with the countenance of a stiffened corpse.
More from Hughes later.
May 10, 2010 – Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon was one of the Yankees best turncoats, putting on the pinstripes after becoming a revered player in Boston. Following Matsui's example, he helped the Yankees reach and win the World Series in 2009, stealing two bases in one deft move in Game 4 to damage the morale of the Philadelphia Phillies.
The proverbial "man of steal" went to the Detroit Tigers after 2009, and was pitted up against his old team on May 10 the following season; the Yankees in MoTown for a four-game set.
In his first game facing off with his old friends, Damon blasted a solo home run off starter Sergio Mitre. His round-tripper proved to be significant, being that the Tigers beat the Yankees by one run, 5-4.
Damon wound up collecting four hits on his former team in the four-game series while scoring two runs.
May 14-15, 2013 – Raul Ibanez
Raul Ibanez was as clutch and as solid as they come in 2012 for the Yankees, seemingly creating magic on a nightly basis in the '12 postseason. Time after time he came up to bat in key spots, and always delivered.
The Yanks let him go after 2012, and he signed with the Mariners for 2013 – and he basically wasted no time showing the Yankees what they were missing.
On May 14 Ibanez teed off on CC Sabathia, warping a two-run homer. He finished the night 2-for-4 with the tater and a run scored, although the Yankees escaped the night with a 4-3 win.
The next night, however, Ibanez stuck it to the Yankees big time.
In the first inning he took Phil Hughes deep for a grand slam, and ended the night with six RBIs and two runs scored. The Mariners went on to win in a squadoosh, 12-2.
April 4-6, 2014 – Melky Cabrera
Melky Cabrera spent 2005-2008 up and down with the Yankees, but in 2009 found a permanent home on the 25-man roster. Like Damon and Matsui he left after winning the '09 title, getting traded for Javy Vazquez.
One of radio announcer John Sterling's quirky calls for Cabrera (whenever he did anything positive as a Yankee) was, "the Melk man always knocks twice."
At the beginning of this season, the Melk man knocked his old team three times as a Toronto Blue Jay.
On Friday April 4 he welcomed newcomer Masahiro Tanaka to the bigs with a leadoff home run; a rude welcome to MLB for the Japanese import. The Yanks had the last laugh, however, beating the Jays 7-3.
The next day he gave David Phelps something to think about, taking him deep in the eighth inning. His solo job paid dividends, because the Jays won 5-4.
The third time was the charm on April 6 – the series finale. Cabrera punished the Yankees yet again, homering off his former teammate CC Sabathia. The Yankee offense picked the big man up, and the Yankees went on to win 6-4.
The Yankees may have won the series, yet three homers in three consecutive days – off the bat of a player they gave away for a lousy pitcher (Vazquez) – is enough to make any Yankee fan face-palm.
May 11, 2014 – Mark Reynolds
Mark Reynolds was acquired by the Yankees on Aug. 15 last year after being designated for assignment by the Cleveland Indians. The Yanks may have thought they could catch some lightning; perhaps get a much-needed offensive spark from an unlikely source.
In all, Reynolds played 36 games in pinstripes. He finished his short-lived Yankee career with six homers, 19 RBIs, 15 runs scored and with a .236 BA. However, combining his numbers with the Indians, he finished 2013 overall with 21 home runs, 67 RBIs, a .220 BA and 55 runs scored.
Not too bad, but maybe his low batting average and his strikeout count from '13 (154) was too much for the Yankees. Whatever the reason, they allowed him to walk and he caught on with the Milwaukee Brewers.
On Mother's Day this year, as fate would have it, Reynolds had a chance to remind the Yankees what they let go of when he was at the plate with a runner on third in a 5-5 game at Miller Park in the bottom of the ninth.
Reynolds wrapped a single to left field to plate Rickie Weeks, giving the Brew Crew a walk-off, 6-5 win over the Yankees.
A former player burned the Yankees yet again, and something else to chew on: Reynolds has 13 homers this year and 28 RBIs – more than the Yankees' team leader in both categories. Mark Teixeira leads the Yanks in homers with 10 and RBIs with 27.
May 12-13, 2014 – Curtis Granderson
Not long after Reynolds made the Yankees remember him, Curtis Granderson gave them a grim reminder of how deadly he can be. Granderson, a Yankee from 2010-13, became a fan favorite while in pinstripes. His stroke was perfect for Yankee Stadium, and it showed.
When his four-year Yankee career was all said and done, Granderson finished with 115 homers (for the Bronx Bombers, not counting his time in Detroit) and 307 RBIs. Yet a cumulative batting average of .242 – and an injury plagued 2013 – most likely made the Yankee brass shy away from bringing back the "Grandy Man."
That's when the cross town Mets came calling. Granderson answered for four years and $60 million.
When he returned to Yankee Stadium May 12, Granderson took his old buddy Hiroki Kuroda deep in the sixth inning, a two-run bomb that proved significant: the Mets beat the Yanks by two, 9-7.
The very next night he showed the Yankees up again, this time with a three-run tater in the top of the first off Vidal Nuno. The Mets wound up winning 12-7, taking two Subway Series games at the big ballpark in the Bronx.
Lucky for the Yankees he cooled off when the Subway Series took the Citi Field: Granderson went 0-for-7 in the final two rivalry games with three strikeouts.
June 1, 2014 – Phil Hughes and Eduardo Nunez
Phil Hughes came up in 2007, dubbed by The Sports Illustrated the "next Roger Clemens" or in SI's own words, "the pocket rocket." Hughes was anything but, finishing his tenure in New York with a record of 56-50. Last year alone, his final year in pinstripes, he went 4-14 with an ERA of 5.19, letting up 170 hits in 145 2/3 innings.
Altogether he allowed 112 home runs as a Yankee pitcher, so naturally the Bombers had a chance to chastise him for all that grief this past Sunday, when he made his return to Yankee Stadium as a Minnesota Twin.
No such luck.
Hughes tossed eight innings of two-run ball on just three hits. He walked only two and struck out six, on the way to his sixth win of 2014. The Yanks couldn't figure out their former middle-of-the-rotation hurler.
And it only got worse.
Earlier this year the Yankees opted to designate shortstop Eduardo Nunez – the untouchable piece they wouldn't let go of in a deal that would've sent ace Cliff Lee to the Yankees in a potential 2010 trade that fell through. Nunez was acquired by Minnesota on April 7.
On Sunday the Twins took a 3-2 lead in the ninth – doable, perhaps, for the Yankees to battle back from. But Nunez came up and doubled in Aaron Hicks and Brian Dozier, padding the Twins' lead. Thus, the game was out of reach and the Yanks ended up falling 7-2.
A double dose of former Yankee torture.
April 29, May 1, & June 2, 2014 – Robinson Cano
Robinson Cano is not welcome at Yankee Stadium anymore, as evidenced by these three games. After inking a lucrative deal with Seattle this offseason, leaving Yankee fans high and dry, it seemed, Cano made his return to Yankee Stadium on April 29.
An RBI and a run scored on Cano's part helped the Mariners win a 6-3 game against the Yanks.
A rainout pushed the second game of the series back a day, and on May 1, Cano snatched another hit off his old team and drove in two more runs. Seattle won 4-2.
The makeup of the rainout happened this past Monday night; Cano went 1-for-3 with a run scored and two walks. Seattle once again bested the Yankees, 10-2.
The numbers don't exactly leap off the page, but looking at the box scores closely, the former beloved second baseman quietly helped slam the Bombers down in the Mariners' games vs. New York this year. Cano still has a chance to do more damage on his former 'mates next week, when the Mariners host the Yanks June 10-12 at SafeCo.
And more damage was exactly what Cano did. The slugging second baseman once adored by Yankee fans and now reviled homered off Masahiro Tanaka in the ninth inning to break up a shutout, although the Yankees won 4-2.
After all this proof one has to wonder what's next. When the Yankees host the Tigers Aug. 4-7, is Joba Chamberlain going to record some saves on the Yankees?
Will Hughes throw a perfect game vs. them when the Bombers go to Target Field on July 3? Is Cabrera going to smack three more home runs off Yankee pitching on June 17, when the Yankees get back from their upcoming road trip and host the Blue Jays?
It wouldn't be shocking if they did. Because it's as factual as it gets.
All ex-Yankees kill the Yankees.
July 10 – UPDATE!
As I typed this blog up on June 4-5, I continually had to go back and keep adding to it. Now, a little over a month later, (not thinking it was possible) I am returning to pile on even more pain caused by former Yankees.
Here goes.
Steve Pearce – June 20-22, 2014
If you blinked at all during the 2012 season, you may have missed Steve Pearce. He was acquired by New York from the Astros for cash on Aug. 27 and designated for assignment on Sept. 25, probably going hardly noticed bysome fans.
A journeyman, he made his way to the Orioles this year – and made sure the Yankees knew what they'd willingly given up not even two years ago.
On June 20 Pearce went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored in what would've been an Orioles win over the Yanks had it not been for some late-game heroics off the bat of Carlos Beltran.
The next day Pearce duplicated his performance from the day before; in fact he did it in more spectacular fashion. Pearce homered off Vidal Nuno, a two-run tater that helped lead the O's to a 6-1 win over the Yankees.
In the series finale he finished off his assault with a 2-for-4 clip. In that three-game set, overall he went 6-for-13 with a homer, four RBIs, two runs scored and two walks.
Not bad for a guy the Yankees axed right before the playoffs. He'll have a chance to leave more of a lasting impression on his old team this weekend, as the O's host the Yankees right before the All-Star break.
Nick Swisher – July 7-10, 2014
The "Swisher Salute" was a staple of every roll call at the outset of every Yankee home game from 2009-2012, but when Nick Swisher got offered a huge deal from the Cleveland Indians, it was time to say goodbye to the beloved right fielder.
This week Swisher darn sure made the Yankees pay for giving him up.
On Monday night he took a mighty hack and broke up Shane Greene's no-hitter in the fifth inning, homering over the big wall in left-center field.
That's right. One Swisher swing; no-hitter gone, shutout gone. Yet it made little difference, because the Yankees went on to get the better of the tribe, 5-3.
However Tuesday night, he took another swing that surely made a difference.
Off Tanaka, the Yankee ace, Swisher smacked a go-ahead two-run homer over the wall in right-center to give the Indians a 4-3 lead. Cleveland would go on to hand the Yanks a 5-3 loss, playing to win from behind.
If that wasn't enough, on Wednesday Swisher was at it again; knocking in two runs with a single right away in the first inning off new Yankee starter Brandon McCarthy. The Yankees would fight back and take that game 5-4 in 14 long innings, but just for good measure, Swisher added a base hit in the series finale tonight – which ended in a 9-3 victory for the Indians
Chris Dickerson – July 7-10, 2014
Believe it or not, Chris Dickerson was originally drafted by the Yankees in 2000, but opted for college instead of pro ball. He was good enough to be drafted again, the second time by the Cincinnati Reds. After making his MLB debut in Cincy in 2008 and enjoying a stint with the Brewers, he was eventually picked up by the original team that drafted him in a deal that sent Sergio Mitre to Milwaukee.
Dickerson was up and down with the Yankees throughout 2011 and 2012, but they ultimately designated him for assignment and released him.
The reason? An overabundance of left-handed hitters.
Great reason to cut somebody, right?
A free man, he went to the Orioles and Pirates before finding a home recently with the Indians. In this past four-game set this week, Dickerson collected seven hits and scored four runs on the Yankees.
That's not even the best part.
In an even funnier story, last year when he was with Baltimore, he clubbed two homers off Phil Hughes on May 21 – this of course being in 2013, when Hughes was still wearing pinstripes.
Dickerson gets bonus points: he went back-to-back; killed the Yankees last season and this season.
I'm just going to go ahead and end this post with,
To be continued….
UPDATE! Sept. 23
Yes. There is more.
Kelly Johnson – Sept. 14, 2014; Sept. 23, 2014
Kelly Johnson, we barely knew ye. This year Johnson became the first player ever to put on the uniform of every team in the AL East. In fact, in 2014 alone he's played with three of the five beasts from the east. He started with the Yankees in New York, where he played 77 games and hit .219 with six homers and 22 RBIs.
At the trade deadline Brian Cashman swapped him for Stephen Drew, shipping him over to Boston. Johnson played in just 10 games with the reigning champs and batted .160 with no homers and just one RBI.
The Red Sox let him go and the Baltimore Orioles took him from there.
On Sept. 14, in a Sunday night game the Yanks needed to take from the O's for the sake of the standings, Johnson delivered the death blow in a 2-2 game; an RBI double capping a ninth inning Orioles rally to finish off the pinstripers by a count of 3-2.
Johnson proved yet again that all ex-Yankees kill the Yankees Sept. 23 in the Bronx when he homered off Brandon McCarthy. He finished the night 3-for-5 with the round-tripper, in what turned out to be a 5-4 Baltimore win over New York.


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Very discusting or vile. Derives from the word Lurch which means to throw up.
Yo i gave Julie a Cleavland Steamer last night for the first time and she loved it. Although she loved it i thought it wus so lurchid, the smell and the sight and everything in between.


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Quick Slipcover Sofa Revamp
Can you spy what I'm obsessing about now:
{Design by Kemble Interiors}
{Design by Palmer Weiss}
{Design by Ruthie Sommers}
Of course it's the borders on the seat backs and sometimes cushions.
Love the crisp square trim on all of the cushions. What a custom look! So easy to recreate the look yourself if you have a slipcovered sofa and want to give it new life!
You could go for a classic square box trim or try your hand at a little fretwork pattern. Since you will be sitting on the sofa I would reinforce the ribbon run it through the sewing machine.
You could also purchase solid colored fabric and have your local tailor/dry cleaners sew on a 2″ square border on each cushion. I can get this town in my town for $20 a cushion. Not bad for a totally new look for your slipcover.
Totally tempted now to try it out on my sofa. Hmm wonder what Jon would think about that? Are you a fan?


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Rare western bumblebee creates a buzz
When University of Colorado Boulder junior Cole Steinmetz first begins a bumblebee hunt, he walks slowly, listening for the bee's persistent, rumbling buzz, which Steinmetz has learned is usually lower and less singsongy than the noises made by flies and other insects.
When he's zeroed in on the buzz and found his fuzzy target he readies his net, which he drops gently on the bumblebees he finds nose-deep in blooming purple bee balm, loco weed, musk thistle or other wildflowers.
Steinmetz and his fellow bee hunters, four other student researchers under the direction of CU-Boulder biologists Carol Kearns and Diana Oliveras, have spent their summer netting bumblebees near Boulder and in the mountains above campus. Their efforts have paid off.
They've captured and identified hundreds of bumblebees and found, among them, more than a dozen Bombus occidentalis, the rare western bumblebee. Since the late 1990s, the western bumblebee, identified by its characteristic white rump, has been in steep decline in its native range, which stretches across the western United States and Canada.
While reports of a few western bumblebee sightings on Colorado's Western Slope have flown around the bee community, the bees have been noticeably absent along the Front Range.
The first western bumblebee was captured by last year's undergraduate bumblebee researchers. But Oliveras and Kearns, both of whom teach in CU-Boulder's Baker Residential Academic Program, wanted to wait to see if the bumblebees could be found two years in a row before announcing that B. occidentalis might be making a Colorado comeback.
"Last year, one of our students caught one and he said, 'This is occidentalis! This is occidentalis!" Kearns said.
"We pooh-poohed him," Oliveras said. "But sure enough, it was a western bumblebee. We actually found them in two plots last year, and this year we've been getting them in multiple plots."
In all, the survey team has found more than 20 western bumblebees over two summers, and the bees were found at multiple locations between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, suggesting that there are several colonies in the area.
The discovery that western bumblebees have indeed returned to the Front Range was really just a bonus for the bumblebee researchers. The real purpose of the five-year CU-Boulder bumblebee survey, which will wrap up next summer, is to better understand the diversity of bumblebees in the area and their population numbers. Each summer, undergraduates, nets in hand and vials in pocket, have been employed to hunt for the pollinators.
This summer's undergraduates, all of whom participated in one of CU-Boulder's residential academic programs, said the experience of surveying bumblebees has taught them a lot, from a broader understanding of what it's like to do real research to the finer techniques of catching and identifying bumblebees. (For example, shooing the netted bee into a vial and then cooling it down in an insulated lunchbox containing an ice pack slows the bee down, allowing for the insect to be accurately identified before being rewarmed and safely released back to its meadow.)
Sarah Niemeyer, a junior majoring in integrative physiology, was driven to get involved with the bumblebee survey by a general concern about the decline of pollinators. But during the course of the summer, her education has expanded beyond the insects.
"I'm not just learning about bees," she said. "I'm learning about the whole ecosystem they're surrounded by." Niemeyer said hours spent slowly walking across research plots in search of insects has also taught her to appreciate the details in nature, and she finds herself noticing the little things—like tiny blooms on the side of the trail— when she's out hiking for fun.
The student researchers—who include Benjamin Bruffey, Sam Canter and Zoe Praggastis, along with Niemeyer and Steinmetz—also agreed that the field locations for the bee survey, which include some high-alpine locations in the Indian Peaks wilderness near the Continental Divide, were one of the best parts of the project.
"CU has a really great biology program," said Praggastis, a sophomore majoring in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. "There are a lot of really great opportunities to go out and do research in one of the most beautiful places in the world. I think just about anybody would enjoy fieldwork here."
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Coop and Cami Ask the World - Season 2 Episode 24
Centers on two middle school siblings who make nearly all of their decisions crowd sourcing opinions from the millions of followers of Cooper's online channel Would You Wrather?
Actor: Paxton Booth , Ruby Rose Turner , Rebecca Metz , Dakota Lotus , Albert Tsai
Director: Boyce Bugliari , Jamie McLaughlin
Country: USA
Episode: 24/45 eps
Duration: 30 min
Quality: HD
Release: 2018
IMDb: 5.6
Season 1 - Coop and Cami Ask the World
"Coop and Cami are preparing for the school dance when they learn their mother is ready to start to dating again, now that it's been two years since their father passed away. Much to their dismay, the date is their school principal."
"Cami's chances of winning the class election for social chair are at stake when accidentally reveals that he still sleeps with his childhood stuffed Hippo named Ho-ho during one of their live segments."
"In his dad's absence, Cooper starts to take on projects around the house only to find out he is a horrible handyman and Cami has been fixing his mistakes secretly."
"Charlotte enlists the help of Coop and Cami in an effort to become a member of the school's popular a Capella group, The Glamtronics."
"Cooper is shunned at school after his classmates think he\u2019s becoming friends with Principal Walker."
"Jenna warns Coop and Cami they have to start taking better care of their little brother Ollie or he won\u2019t be able to be their test pilot on the show anymore. The duo tries to step up but wind up losing Ollie at the mall."
"When Charlotte backs out of their annual \u201cSnowling\u201d tradition for a sleepover with her friends, Cami sets out to sabotage her sister\u2019s sleepover."
"The kids work together to try and make Jenna's wish of a classic Wrather Christmas come true but a major snowstorm and a disgruntled moose disrupt their holiday."
"Inspired by his favorite telenovela, Fred enlists Ollie to help him devise a big romantic surprise for Cooper and Peyton\u2019s reunion."
"Cooper uses an escape room game as a way of forcing Cami and Fred to hash out their issues."
"When Cooper and Cami learn that their local ice rink is going to be sold and torn down, they try to devise a plan to encourage the owner to keep the place but can't agree on the best tactic."
"Cooper is upset to learn that Peyton is moving to Canada and doesn\u2019t seem sad to be leaving."
"When Cami inadvertently loses the money for the upcoming school dance event, the only person willing to help her is a quirky new classmate named Delaware."
"When Charlotte\u2019s unexpected bad grade on her report card puts the family trip in jeopardy, Coop and Cami come up with a plan to hide their sister\u2019s grade from their mom."
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"Thanks to Coop and Cami's latest \"Would Your Wrather\" stream, the duo must go to school as hip-hop leprechauns. Meanwhile, Charlotte enlists her sister to help her break up with her boyfriend."
"Cami loses her confidence when Minty gets in her head during an archery contest."
"When Coop and Cami learn there is one spot left for the drama elective, they fight over who should get the remaining slot."
"Cami and Delaware try out for the dance team, but when Cami discovers Delaware makes a goofy face when she\u2019s dancing, Cami worries that they won\u2019t make the team."
"When Cami learns Tara didn\u2019t choose her for the dance team because she spends too much of her time on \u201cWould You Wrather,\u201d she is determined to prove she can do both. Meanwhile, Coop tries to enlist famous school alum Tracey Kruger to join his 500th \u201cWould You Wrather\u201d show."
"Cooper struggles to complete \u201cWould You Wrather\u201d challenges without Cami, now that she has quit to focus on dance full time."
Season 2 - Coop and Cami Ask the World
"When a new online show, run by a person in a bunny costume, \"Which Would You Prefer\" threatens Would You Wrather, Coop, Cami, and Fred set out to find who is behind the mask. Meanwhile, Charlotte gets Jenna on social media."
"Charlotte asks Coop to be a part of her singing group for the week, which temporarily takes him away from Would You Wrather and causes Cami to struggle with the idea of sharing her brother."
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Round Table 6
|Round Table 6
| Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 11:30-13:30 CET
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|Transition in Eastern Europe - 15 Years After
The sixth Round Table on Transition in Eastern Europe - 15 Years After, discussed the special problems and experiences of the Eastern European countries in their efforts to transform themselves from planned to market economies.
In particular, UNIDO's experience in various areas - such as small enterprise development, the role of the business community and the private sector and technology foresight activities - provided the backdrop for discussion on those subjects. Again the objective was to identify key elements and UNIDO's role in strengthening those elements, which help in alleviating the structural impediments to economic growth and to the realization of the MDGs.
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The Way Things Are in America
Barbara, 46, and Kevin Lowe, 52, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The cell phones were canceled; so were all subscriptions and outside entertainment. We didn't go skiing this winter, and we won't be golfing over the summer. No more wine. We used our severance and some savings to pay off Kevin's 2008 Saturn and pay down the house. We debated whether to cancel the local newspaper, but in the end kept it for the Sunday coupons. We now eat every single item in the house until it's gone. If that means we have curly pasta and penne and spaghetti all mixed up, so be it. I have 101 ways to use half-eaten boxes of pasta. We're much more careful shopping — no more running in to get one or two things. We wait until we have a big list, and then buy only what's on that list — and at the local grocery warehouse, not the food boutique.
You'd be amazed at how you don't even know where your money goes. It took us a couple of months to get a firm handle on our expenses. There are some things you only pay a few times a year and you forget them, and then they crop up and you don't have $40 for the water bill or veterinarian. I distributed flyers around the neighborhood offering babysitting and elder-care services. I can take care of an infant for a few hours as well as any high school girl. I'm tired of waiting for someone else to offer me a job.
It's hard to invite people for dinner, so we don't accept many invitations. We went to the art show on the day tickets were discounted, and told friends we'd brown-bag our lunches. One of them said we could go to a cheap restaurant, but I can't. I'm not sure they really understand how it is. I know I didn't until it happened to me".
Another news item that I came across and it is also disturbing.
"People were picking the bodies up last year," says Albert Samuels, chief investigator at the medical examiner's office in Wayne County, Mich., which includes Detroit. "Across the board, I'm finding the numbers are on the rise of either families who are not coming forward to claim bodies or they're signing releases saying they can't afford to bury someone, which taxes the county resources because then the county is responsible for burying these people."
How come manifest destiny of a nation fails both living and the dead?It seems to me someone or groups of people in their positions of trust have been waving the flag and beating the drum too often to think of the nation's most precious commodity-people.


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'I Felt That It Was My Duty': Dick Morris Speaks Openly About Why He Predicted a Romney Landslide
At the end of October, disgraced former Clinton adviser turned Fox News contributor Dick Morris predicted Mitt Romney was going to win in a landslide. "Pollster John McLaughlin and I went through the actual results of the last four elections and on average, the Republicans had 1 percent more than the Democrats," Morris said in an interview with Bill O'Reilly about the New York Times' poll. "So that poll is off by a factor of 8. So instead of Obama winning by 1, Romney would win Florida by 7."
As we know now, Romney did not win in a landslide, with Obama even beating the Republican nominee in Florida. So, how did Morris get it so wrong? Simple: He was just saying what he had to say to delude the conservative base.
Here's what Morris, who is frequently touted on Fox News as "an analyst," a title connoting objectivity, told Sean Hannity in an interview last night (emphasis mine):
Sean, I hope people aren't mad at me about it… I spoke about what I believed and I think that there was a period of time when the Romney campaign was falling apart, people were not optimistic, nobody thought there was a chance of victory and I felt that it was my duty at that point to go out and say what I said. And at the time that I said it, I believe I was right.
Never underestimate the destructive power of a stupid man with a sense of duty.
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By the hammer of Thor!
For the second week in a row, "Thor" proved to be the most powerful earner.
The raunchy comedy "Bridesmaids" didn't do too badly though—it earned a very respectable $24.6 million opening weekend to "Thor"'s $34.5 million.
U.S. & World
The total for the Paramount 3-D superhero flick? An estimated $119.2 million. Though, as the Associated Press reports, that's not nearly as impressive as the revenue "Iron Man 2" was bringing in after two weeks in the box office this time last year—a hefty $211.2 million.
Other openers this weekend didn't fare so well. "Priest," the 3-D horror/action hybrid brought in an unenthused $14.5 million, though it cost Sony's Screen Gems a whopping $60 million to make.
Will Ferrel's limited release dramedy "Everything Must Go" brought in a respectable $825,000 from 218 theaters.
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One of the scariest examples of the world economic melt-down is the experience of Iceland. Yes, the tiny but proud country with the Björk-based economy likely did themselves no favours relying on the quirky but prolific pixie-like recording artist for over 45% of their GNP.
(I know that's true cuz I saw it somewhere in an Onion article once...)
All kidding aside, Iceland's real problem was that their banks' finances were way too heavily beholden to the Bullshit Bush financial model, where carefully concealed Bullshit is repackaged to become the investment option of choice for organizations worldwide.
It wasn't Björk's fault the Icelandic banks found themselves holding six times as much debt as real capital to cover it late last year.
The relative health of Canadian financial institutions should be a source of comfort for those of us lucky enough to live here, right? Well, not entirely:
Lost in Traslation?
Apart from the obvious need for political cover, I really don't see the point in Quebec Premier Jean Charest's decision yesterday to haul the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec onto the carpet after suffering its worst year on record.
"As with all other investors, the first element that explains our return this year is the global financial crisis that broke out in the fourth quarter," said Caisse president and CEO Fernand Perreault.Of course, the decision to go so heavily into asset-backed commercial paper can be easily explained by the usual Quebec excuse of the unfair language barrier sticking a knife in our backs. (Mais Jean, c'n'est pas juste! We thought they said "acid-backed paper". We thought it had industrial applications, hôtie...)
However, he said the fund's decision to delve heavily into asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)also cost it dearly. The Caisse invested $12.6 billion in the form of short-term debt, making it the largest holder in Canada.
With the market for the debt frozen, ABCP accounted for $4 billion of the Caisse 's total losses in 2008.
Perreault now admits investing so heavily in ABCP was a bad idea.
"In hindsight, we placed too much confidence in these securities …. It was a mistake to accumulate so much ABCP," said Perreault.
"We mistakenly believed that these products were as safe, or almost as safe, as other money market instruments."
[Note to Icelandic bankers looking for some kind of excuse: you're welcome, and don't worry, we won't bill you.]
What knee-jerk Quebec media don't understand is that mammoth funds like the Caisse handles are too big not to be a reflection of the underlying economy on the whole. Yes, Quebec lost 25% of the supposed value of its nationalized pension fund (if you choose the highest benchmark as your relational point), but what else did we expect? Of course the fund managers did the same things as their counterparts worldwide who were using paradigms for risk that assumed triple-a securities were rated accordingly.
From there, the need to get in the game and follow the other lemmings takes over naturally. If everyone else is doing it, it must be okay, right? Over the cliff with us!*
The Bush Trickle-down Bullshit Model
Not if the "assets" on the backs of all that paper amount to utter Bullshit.
It all boils down to the Bullshit right-wing deregulation of the financial markets in the United States. The United States under their Bullshit President and their Bullshit Republican-controlled Congress became a bastion of utter Bullshit generally. And if the right-wing "trickle-down" concept applies to anything, then surely it applies to Bullshit (especially when coupled with governmental leadership).
Because as Bullshit ruled the White House, so did Bullshit rule the way American financial markets were run.
As did it rule the way American companies were run.
Right down to American household economies, where buying a house with nothing down and a 40-year amortization on a mortgage with no principal paid-down in the first few years became common-place. And then, they get a new flat-screen TV and cable and end up watching home renovation shows where the illusion is propagated that 22 minutes later you've got a beautiful, modern kitchen gleaming in the morning sunlight. Add some happily-scrubbed children's faces, munching on microwaved pizza pops and you're in the Promised Land.
So it becomes normal to not just over-leverage your household income, but to dream about over-leveraging it even more (like all the other lemmings in your neighbourhood), and go to that beautiful church-like Home Reno warehouse store and get a Home Reno Platinum Card (fine print showing 28.75% interest, compounded daily, subject to change at the issuer's discretion), and spend, spend, spend to make your own home the temple You Deserve since you don't have any other spirituality to cling to and make sense of your daily existence.
That's what it meant to be a good little consumer in the consumer-driven economy of the Bullshit George W. Bush America.
Dead Stop
And what are we left with? A world where the Bullshit has trickled down world-wide. Hence Iceland. Hence pension funds exposed to have little real value. Hence world-wide panic that filters down to a financial and economic dead stop.
No one is paying anyone for anything unless they absolutely have to. So the new economy is a collection-based economy. At least that is how it appears when I look in my email inbox, where I see the hard-working little application at Workopolis.com has sent me links to the day's new job postings - and more and more of them are related to people trying to lean on other people to pony-up (three out of four today):
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Meanwhile, with the unknown effects of what's looking more and more like runaway global warming, will all this seem quaintly anti-climactic a generation from now?
Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than previously thought, which could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels, scientists said Wednesday.
The warming of western Antarctica is a real concern. "There's some people who fear that this is the first signs of an incipient collapse of the west Antarctic ice sheet," said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Sea levels will rise faster than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Summerhayes said.
An IPCC panel in 2007 predicted warmer temperatures could raise sea levels by 76 centimetres to 120 centimetres this century, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions to flee.
"If the west Antarctica sheet collapses, then we're looking at a sea level rise of between one metre and 1.5 metres," Summerhayes said.
Researchers found that the southern ocean around Antarctica has warmed about 0.36 F in the past decade, double the average warming of the rest of the Earth's oceans over the past 30 years, he said.
Obama doesn't have a monopoly on change. A complete shake-up of society is upon us.
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*Turns out the meme of lemmings mindlessly running over a cliff to their deaths is another piece of US-propogated bullshit - this one exposed long ago by the Canadian CBC. The staged lemming "mass suicide" part comes just over a third of the way in.


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For a delicious cooling drink, try this 'old-fashioned' recipe.
Sarsaparilla is a great blood purifier. It is said to be helpful in cases of rheumatism, skin disorders, sexual impotence, general weakness, and to detoxify the body after taking a strong poison. (Do not attempt to use as an antidote.) It is also used as a natural stimulant of the male and female sex hormones.
Make a large batch of the syrup and then just add it to sparkling water whenever you want a cooling drink.
7 cups honey
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4 1/2 cups hot water
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To make the syrup, dissolve the honey and sarsaparilla in hot water and stir until thoroughly blended. Add 2 Tbsp of this syrup to sparkling water and drink.
Many yogic recipes come from ancient yogic tradition and many of them contain potent herbs, botanicals and naturally occurring ingredients which have traditionally been used to support the structure and function of the human body. Nothing in this text should be construed as medical advice. Always check with your personal physician or licensed health care practitioner before making any significant modification in your diet, and before using any of these recipes, to insure that the recipes and ingredients are appropriate for your personal health condition and consistent with any medication you may be taking.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Banking group HSBC (HSBA.L) has settled a case brought by a fund over losses it suffered during the collapse of fraudster Bernie Madoff's financial empire, potentially paving the way for more claims against fund custodians.
The London-based bank said it had settled its dispute with Kalix Fund, which was suing the bank in Dublin for $35.6 million.
"HSBC confirms that it has reached an amicable settlement with Kalix Fund Limited, subject to obtaining any necessary approvals," the bank said in an emailed statement on Monday, without disclosing terms.
British Virgin Islands-registered Kalix Fund was an investor in Thelma International Fund, for which HSBC, as custodian, was responsible for managing its deposits and payments. Thelma had invested money with Madoff.
Thelma was a so-called Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Fund, a European Union regulated investment fund.
Madoff, arrested in December 2008, pleaded guilty in 2009 to running a giant Ponzi scheme and is currently serving a 150-year prison sentence.
His victims included several prominent investors who had given money to the swindler.
The settlement could encourage others to pursue claims against banks which acted as custodians for investors in Madoff.
"This settlement is an important development in the recovery process for investors in UCITS Madoff "feeder-funds" established in Ireland or Luxembourg," said Deminor, a Brussels-based investor services firm advising around 2,500 non-U.S. investors who lost money in the Madoff scandal.
"Even though the terms of the settlement are not known, it shows that a custodian bank has been willing to compensate the true victims of the Madoff fraud, i.e. the final investors."
Reporting by Tommy Wilkes


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A Western state of mind
Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
Edited by James Thomas and D. Seth Horton
286 pages, softcover: $19.95.
University of Texas Press, 2009.
This impressive anthology of contemporary short fiction grounded in the American West showcases 18 stories from emerging writers and literary stars, selected from publications as diverse as The New Yorker and Hayden's Ferry Review.
Part of the pleasure in reading it arises from reflecting on what "The West" really means. What characterizes a Western story, beyond simply being set in the vast and varied lands west of the Missouri River? In their introduction, editors James Thomas and D. Seth Horton thoughtfully observe that "the West is as much a state of mind as a geographic region." And author Rick Bass asks in his foreword, "Is it my imagination, or are there extra teaspoonfuls of loneliness in these stories, extra pinches of desperation?"
Well, no, it's not his imagination. Many of these stories are inhabited by outsiders, rebels and misfits, living on the edge, clinging to it by their fingernails and sometimes losing their grip. Characters are skillfully captured without sliding into hero-or-villain caricatures, like the people in "all those TV Westerns where heroes drew first and bad guys died without bleeding," as Ferrell says in Mitch Wieland's story, The Bones of Hagerman. They linger in the mind long after the book is finished. Witness Dagoberto Gilb's innocent aspiring car salesman, Lee K. Abbott's sensitive, half-heartedly suicidal drunk, and Ernest J. Finney's well-meaning illegal alien Raul, who ignores his uncle's advice to "Use your head, not your huevos." Antonya Nelson's protagonist David is cunning — but not cunning enough — in her breathtakingly twisting "Or Else," and Don Waters' degenerate missionary is a lost soul spreading the word for the Mormons simply because they returned his call before the Jehovah's Witnesses did. The lead character in Annie Proulx's gleefully creepy "The Sagebrush Kid" is not even human at all.
Many stories evoke the frontier spirit with little sign of the modern West — no shiny Las Vegas casinos, Dallas fund-raisers or Hollywood glitz. A few are set in the past, others resonate with it or evoke a sense of legendary timelessness. Nearly a quarter mention the Bureau of Land Management, itself a clue to Western concerns, although Wieland's character Ferrell "cringes whenever the term management is used with nature."
No single story can convey the complexities of either the real or the mythical West. But this anthology brims with wit, grit and tenderness, hopes fulfilled or dashed, and sheer survival-of-the-fittest endurance. These are substantial and satisfying stories, written in prose as muscular as the land they describe.


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Commemoration of the Precious Cross that appeared in the sky over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.
On this day in the year 351, not long after Cyril had succeeded Maximus as Archbishop of Jerusalem, during the reign of Constantius, the son of Saint Constantine the Great, on the day of Pentecost, the sign of the Cross appeared over Jerusalem. Saint Cyril, in his letter to the Emperor Constantius, says, "At about the third hour of the day, an enormous Cross, formed of light, appeared in the heaven above holy Golgotha and reaching to the holy Mount of Olives, being seen not by one or two only, but manifest with perfect clarity to the whole multitude of the city; not, as one might suppose, rushing swiftly past in fancy, but seen openly above the earth many hours in plain sight, and overcoming the beams of the sun with its dazzling rays" (PG 33:1 16q).
Apolytikion of Appearance of the Sign of the Cross
First Tone
The image of Thy Cross at this time shone brighter than the sun, when Thou didst spread it out from the holy Mount of Olives to Calvary; and in making plain Thy might which is therein, O Saviour Thou didst also thereby strengthen the faithful. Keep us always in peace, by the intercessions of the Theotokos, O Christ our God, and save us.
Kontakion of Appearance of the Sign of the Cross
Fourth Tone
Making its rays to shine above in the heavens, the spotless Cross dawned on the earth, bright with splendour; for it had opened Heaven, which was shut of old. Granted the effulgence of its divine operation, we are surely guided to the unwaning resplendence. In battles we possess it as a true weapon of peace and a trophy invincible.


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While India has promised swift justice in the case of the woman who died Saturday after a brutal gang rape, human-rights groups say the problem is much thornier than punishing the six men accused in this case.
The country won't make progress in combating rape until there's a wholesale shift in the way men, including those in power, treat woman, they say.
Indian women have made it to the tops of their professions in India. There's been a female Indian president, women run multi-billion-dollar enterprises and Sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress party, is the most powerful politician in the country.
But on the peripheries of big cities and rural areas of the nation, women continue to fight for equal rights – and this is reflected in how authorities treat rape victims, human-rights groups say.
Human Rights Watch, in a report released Sunday in India, points to the so-called "two-finger test" as evidence of how India had failed to take rape seriously, often blaming women's behavior for the offense.
In the test, which appears in Indian jurisprudence textbooks and is admissible in court, a doctor inserts two fingers into a women's vagina to determine its laxity and whether the hymen is broken, signaling previous sexual activity.
The test perpetuates stereotypes of rape survivors as loose women and often is used by defense counsels to achieve acquittals, human-rights groups say.
Comments by politicians that most rape is actually consensual sex, has deepened this way of thinking.
There were 24,206 rape cases registered in India in 2011, according to the National Crimes Record Bureau. But the number of convictions of alleged rapists occurred in only a quarter of cases, the statistics show.
Many more cases are not reported due to pressure from families and the idea that the victim has experienced "shame," activists estimate.
The case of the woman who died Saturday, a 23-year-old student whose name has not been released, has become a rallying point for people – many of them young students - who want to see change.
The woman was gang raped for over an hour on a moving chartered bus on Dec. 16. Authorities say they will soon formally charge the six suspects with murder, which carries the death penalty.
On Sunday morning, the woman's body was flown back from Singapore, where she had been treated. The plane was met at Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi by Ms. Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and soon after cremated, local media reported.
The city remained in security lockdown Sunday to make sure protesters could not get near central areas housing government offices. Protests last weekend in that zone led to violence between police and demonstrators, injuring 85 people.
The government's response so far has been to promise a quick trial for the alleged rapists in this case. New Delhi also has appointed a panel headed by a former chief justice to look into ways to mete out swifter and harsher punishment to convicted rapists. The panel's report is due in January.
Human-rights groups welcomed the move. But activists say there needs to be an overhaul in the way authorities respond to allegations of rape.
"For politicians, supporting the death penalty is an easy but ineffectual way out," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "It is much harder, but more effective, to revamp the response of police, doctors, forensic specialists, prosecutors, and judges to sexual violence. Survivors deserve an effective, coordinated response to sexual assault."
In its report, Human Rights Watch pointed to reports in the local media last week that a woman alleging gang rape in Punjab state had killed herself after police refused to register the case.
In other cases, police themselves have been complicit in rape. This has occurred in areas where the government is fighting insurgent groups, such as Chhattisgarh. (Human Rights Watch points to these examples, here and here.)
But it also has occurred in suburbs of the capital. Amnesty International, in its 2012 review of India's human-rights situation, pointed to a case of rape allegedly involving police in Noida, outside Delhi.
Seven women from two villages near Noida allege they were raped in May 2011 by police officers as a reprisal for protesting over government land acquisition in the area. Two policemen and two farmers died in the protests.
A court in Noida over a year ago ordered charges to be filed against 30 police officers in the case. The officers involved deny wrongdoing. The trial has yet to begin.
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