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Fawkes The Phoenix
Dobby The House Elf
The Chamber Of Secrets
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Quidditch World Cup/the Foreigners Arrive
Harry In Winter
The Hogwarts March
The Potter Waltz
The Black Lake
Another Year Ends
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
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Here is what is going on around the web with some of my fellow Total Beauty bloggers. Check them out!
Lilan from The Daily Cookie contributes to The Beauty Ideal web magazine this month and gives you the skinny on lip plumpers!
Find out why HoT Scent Boutique body scrub is now a top fave for Casual Lavish.
A Mom in Red High Heels tries a cosmetic line that leaves her looking and feeling less than perfect. Find out which products she won't be trying again.
Makeup2Beauty shares tips on how to wear silver and gray eyeshadow. And shows you how you can try on your favorite stars "Hollywood Hair Styles".
Beauty's Spot has the secret on Clarisonic by mailorder!
The Muse features her very favorite, holy grail mascara from Japan (Nope, not Fiberwig!)!
Mischo Beauty has a fabulous reader who wrote in to share why she loves Sunsilk's De-Frizz 24/7 Crème.
The Beauty of Life hearkens back to her childhood with Bonne Bell LipSmackers. Check out her favorites!
Budget Beauty Love shares her thoughts on a makeup book full of eyeshadow inspiration.
Christine from Beauty in Real Life, gives us the lowdown on her favorite perfume. Can you guess what it is?
Joy from Makeup Junkie is doing a Three Custom Color Specialists Promo for April! Don't forget to check it out and check out her new online store Makeup Junkie Online Beauty Shop!
Monique at beauty girl musings recalls how her beauty addiction began...and still continues today
Toya from The Life of A Ladybug tries 100% Pure Cosmetics - with real fruit pigments!
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Finally! A Drugstore Brand I Like
I was hanging out in Rite Aid the other day waiting for my prescriptions to be refilled, and thought I would check out the latest offerings from the drugstore beauty brands. I had heard a lot about L'Oreal's Infallible Lipstick, most of it quite good, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
I picked Teaberry, thinking it would be a nice light summer color. The directions state to apply the color, wait for it to dry for two minutes, then apply the gloss. Easy enough. After following the directions, I settled in to wait and see how long it would actually last.
Eight hours later, it was still there, and looking quite good. It had gone through one caramel macchiato, one espresso shot (no comments about my coffee habit, please), one lunch of miso soup, three glasses of water, and a full day of work. I did touch up the gloss about midway through my day, but only because my lips were feeling dry, and I have a habit of always glossing my lips.
I am seriously impressed with this product. It lasted even longer than my Revlon, my MAC, and most of my lip stains. My only complaint is that the gloss smells like some sort of horrible cotton candy from circuses of my childhood, but that's a small price to pay for this kind of lasting color, and I don't imagine you have to use the included gloss if it grosses you out too much.
I will be going back for some other shades.
Photo via ulta.com, which has this product on sale for $8.99!
Summer Lovin': Emjoi Soft Caress Epilator
I never thought that I'd be able to handle epilation. Basically, these handheld battery-operated machines have a tweezing function that remove each individual hair from the root, usually from large areas such as legs, arms, underarms, even bikini lines. I knew logically that it couldn't possibly be much different than waxing or even tweezing, but I'd heard all the horror stories about the different brands, like EpiLady. Remember when you could buy that at Macys? No? I'm probably older than you.
At any rate, I started to notice that my "tan from a can" wasn't holding up well on my lower legs. It stood to reason that the reason why was that I was exfoliating that area every day by shaving, resulting in a rather uneven tan. I really didn't want to let the hair grow out and wax, nor did I want to incur that extra cost and time investment of heading to the salon every two weeks to get that done. So I did what any other product junkie would do and started checking out all the reviews on different epilators. I settled on the one that everyone seemed to like the best, the Emjoi Soft Caress. After much trepidation, I settled in to see just how bad this was going to be.
Are you waiting for my horror story? Well, there isn't one. The first time I used it it was a bit uncomfortable, but certainly nothing alarming. I quickly got used to the pulling sensation, and eventually it stopped bothering me at all. Probably because the areas I was going over were already smooth and didn't have any hair to remove. I did one shin and my bikini line the first time. The next day I went back and cleaned up the leg and did the other one. Uncomfortable, not that painful. Although, I will say, everyone has a different pain tolerance - I have a tattoo on my left calf, and it certainly wasn't anything near what I felt when I got that.
The best part about it is the time it lasts. Because it removes hair from the root and not just the surface growth, I'm getting well over a week with no maintenance, and best of all? An even fake tan. Bonus!
Available at folica.com, emjoi.com, and ulta.com.
Image courtesy folica.com.
Nordstrom.com Offers Free Gift
Spend $100 on a beauty or fragrance purchase at my favorite store, Nordstrom, and get this super cute pink tote filled with the following:
Bare Escentuals® RareMinerals™ Facial Cleanser (0.05 oz.)I'm tempted! It's online only, though.
Bliss The Youth as We Know It Moisturizer (0.1 oz.)
Clarins Advanced Extra-Firming Eye Contour Serum (0.1 oz.)
DKNY Delicious Night Eau de Parfum Spray (0.05 oz.)
Donna Karan Cashmere Mist Body Lotion (0.2 oz.)
Erno Laszlo TranspHuse Topical sample
GoSMILE AM/PM Whitening Protection Toothpastes samples
Juicy Couture Royal Body Crème (0.25 oz.)
Kinerase® Cream with SPF 30 (0.1 oz.)
Lancôme Rénergie Double Performance Anti-Wrinkle and Firming Treatment (0.5 oz.)
Lancôme Rénergie Night—Night Treatment (0.5 oz.)
L'Occitane Shea Hand Cream (0.3 oz.)
Missoni Acqua Eau de Toilette Spray (0.07 oz.)
Narciso Rodriguez For Him eau de toilette spray (0.04 oz.)
Origins Modern Friction™ Nature's Gentle Dermabrasion (0.17 oz.)
philosophy hope in a jar eye & lip cream (0.25 oz.)
Prescriptives Lash Envy Volumizing Mascara (0.08 oz.)
Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer Light (0.5 oz.)
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Need some inspiration? This video is composed mostly of amazing eye looks. While I couldn't carry most of them off, it certainly makes me want to step it up a notch!
Maidenform's Breakthrough Backless Bra
I am absolutely fascinated with this bra! The Breakthrough Backless Bra is made with silicone on the wire channeling to prevent slippage, and apparently works under a number of backless tops and dresses. I have a gorgeous Michael Kors dress that I have never been able to wear due to the backless aspect of it, and now I might actually get a chance to try it out. With backless becoming so popular this season, it certainly is a great time to come up with something inventive like this. And yes, it's for us larger busted girls too - the Maidenform press release claims that it was designed for "full figured females":
The Breakthrough™ Backless Bra features light-weight microfiber fabric that is soft to the touch, with seamless molded foam cups that deliver smooth shaping under clothes. Combined with a two-way stretch technology, the bra provides a maneuverable fit with excellent flexibility. Designed with the full-figured female in mind, the bra allows women with even large busts to flaunt their sexy backs like never before!I'm ordering one now, and will report back on the effectiveness of it.


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Justin Yu: the new chef at The Whole Ox Butcher and Deli
The Whole Ox Deli just celebrated its one-year anniversary with a new chef at the helm, Justin Yu. Bob McGee, the former chef, is no longer with the Ox, and he plans on spending some time away from the kitchen, getting more involved in agriculture and "working closer with the farmers and ranchers," he says.
Yu is 34, New York born and raised, "from the projects in Coney Island," he says. He spent the last few years working at some of San Francisco's and the Bay Area's top restaurants: Quince, Michelin-starred Commis and Hawker Fare. He was on his way to stage in Australia and The Willows Inn on Lummi Island, but a Craigslist ad for chef de cuisine at The Whole Ox caught his attention. He's been in Hawaii for about three weeks. And he sure as hell isn't afraid of change.
Ox regulars will immediately notice the difference in prices (the $11 burger is now $16, though it may ease up a bit soon), the change in recipes (that burger tastes a little different now), and a more refined dinner menu with scaled back meat portions. All the breads for the sandwiches are now made in house. Even the mayonnaise is now made from scratch (though that doesn't require 30-plus hour shifts from the pastry team like the bread does).
He's 86ed foie gras from the menu, citing a contradiction of serving humanely-raised, grass-finished beef topped with foie.
"The Whole Ox represents sustainability in Hawaii," Yu says. "Using whole animals in a responsible and sustainable way—that's what I see going forward." Yu's not into "slapping the Shinsato Farm name" on the menu. He says he's more interested in creating superior pork by purchasing a pig at suckling rather than at slaughter, so that he can work with Glenn and Amy Shinsato to develop a more local feed (rather than the current imported grain) and ultimately, more flavor in the pork. (If we're honest with ourselves, Shinsato Farm pork does not taste so different from some Mainland imports.) He's already started the process with Shinsato. Whereas McGee is stepping away from the kitchen to spend more time with producers, Yu is using his new position as chef at The Whole Ox to become more involved with Hawaii ag.
When I called Yu about the future of the Ox, I expected a five-minute soundbite. Instead, I got an hour-long manifesto on sustainability and agriculture in Hawaii, on the new culinary guard, and that "People don't like change too quick ... but Hawaii needs to change now."
But is it that people don't like change or they don't like Yu's changes? It's too early yet to tell, but there are certainly disappointments voiced on Yelp and among Ox regulars.
But bringing the Ox back to the way McGee ran it is not on Yu's broad-reaching, lofty to-do list. Yu says, "If all people want is Bob back, I feel really sorry for the Hawaii food scene."
The Whole Ox Butcher and Deli, 327 Keawe St., 699-6328, wholeoxdeli.com


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Happy Autumn everyone!
The beginning of this specific season is a little stressful for all us because it usually means that we return back to daily routine whatever that is, we may start new efforts, or set new goals in order to achieve our dreams. September always has this explosive mixture of overwhelmed anticipation and inner challenge.
From yesterday, I'm thinking the meaning of consistency in all these expectations. When I was younger at school, I used to deal with daily routines as tedious tasks that I had to accomplish in order to avoid the problems with my parents and my teachers. But, daily routines are much more powerful than keeping us away from troubles. Step by step, they built our character and our life.
So, if we want to achieve a goal at the end of the year, instead of feeling anxious and worrying, we should establish a daily routine of a few minutes in order to practice. It is so simple and it is like a muscle gym. You won't manage much with an exhausting program of ten hours, once per month. But, definitely, you will achieve more when you follow a thirty minutes program, four times per week.
"We become what we repeatedly do", the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote before a thousand years. That's why it is essential to establish the right habits and daily routines for our goals and stay consistent with them.
So, here my favorite quotes about daily routines and consistency:
I. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
II. Your true power is not in your difference but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.
Shannon L. Alder
III. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
VI. Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
V. It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Hope to inspire you for an amazing autumn … xoxo!!!
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From the RSPB's bright and beautiful selection of new nature guides comes this colourful look at mighty minibeasts. Fun facts and spotter's tips are presented in a child-friendly way, accompanied by clear illustrations to help young naturalists identify the mini marvels they spot. A great way to support your child's natural curiosity about the creepy-crawlies hiding in the grass, this fun guide links in to Key Stage 1 geography and science topics. Covering 35 species, the book includes a spotter's chart for children to fill in, plus links to internet-based activities that let you continue the fun online!
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Canada stands on guard for a lot, and that includes its beef.
I recently had a chance to travel to British Columbia for a conference with state and provincial legislators that chair their respective agriculture committees. On this trip, I encountered several kind, but candid, Canadians involved in their agricultural sector. At the tip of everyone's tongue was "country of origin labeling" and the devastating effect that it has on their livestock industry. They were madder than that time the Marines marched around with an upside-down maple leaf at the World Series.
Because turnabout is fair play, they were almost giddy at the proposed retaliations the Canadian government submitted to the World Trade Organization in response to the U.S.'s Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (mCOOL) rule. Another thing the Canadians should be giddy over is our First Amendment.
mCOOL has been flailing around, begging to be put out of its misery, since the 2002 Farm Bill. While mandatory labeling of meat products by country of origin has been required by statute since 2002, Congress has a habit of speaking out of both sides of its mouth. It restricted funds for implementing the law until 2008, when fears of tainted Chinese cat food ingredients tipped the scale in favor of putting mCOOL into effect.
In general, the law requires retailers to prominently display the country of origin for packages of beef, pork, chicken and other meat animals. mCOOL proponents argue that mandatory labeling is necessary to properly inform consumers of where their meat is coming from so that they can make informed choices about which products to purchase. Skeptics, myself included, argue that mCOOL's primary purpose is to disrupt international trade by imposing so many regulatory and practical burdens that it is simply easier for American packers to stick to processing American livestock.
mCOOL cannot be defended to our trade partners with a straight face and is not doing American farmers any favors. The WTO's Appellate Body rejected the first iteration of mCOOL in 2012, holding that it discriminated against Canadian beef and pork. As part of the WTO's ruling, USDA was ordered to either eliminate mCOOL or re-write the regulation so as to not discriminate against international commerce. This placed the Obama Administration in an awkward position wherein they had to concurrently re-write the mCOOL regulation while lobbying Congress to repeal the labeling law. It remains to be seen whether Congress will repeal mCOOL in the Farm Bill, but USDA did re-write the mCOOL rule. The new mCOOL rule is not much better than its predecessor; it requires additional burdesome labeling and is quite vulnerable to a WTO challenge for putting a technical trade barrier in place.
The new mCOOL rule is also vulnerable to a challenge under our First Amendment. As we know, the First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech. Encompassed in the right to free speech is the right to refrain from speech. Commercial speech, such as advertising and labeling, is also protected by the First Amendment.
Mandatory labeling laws force or compel companies to engage in commercial speech. We see compelled commercial speech on a daily basis. Product warnings, nutrition labels, and exit signs are examples of compelled commercial speech (come to think of it, the government really takes the fun out of silica gel packets). However, the government must clear multiple hurdles before it can compel commercial speech such as mandatory labeling laws. One of those hurdles is proving that the government has a substantial interest in requiring mandatory labels.
In this instance, USDA states that its interest in requiring mandatory labels is to "provide consumers with more specific information." USDA does not take the position that meat from one country is healthier than another, or that labels should be a warning to consumers. In other words, the primary interest served by mCOOL is satisfying consumer curiosity about the journey that meat has taken to get to their plate.
Unfortunately for USDA, federal courts have held that compelling commercial speech merely to satisfy consumer curiosity is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Such was the case in International Dairy Foods Assoc. v. Amestoy, where the Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Vermont's mandatory rBST-labeling law, which was predicated on the government's desire to satisfy consumer curiosity about whether their milk was produced by cows that received synthetic hormones.
My guess is that the courts will give mCOOL the same treatment and send this law to pasture. That will give us something to cheer about on both sides of the border.
John Dillard is an attorney with Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz P.C. (OFW Law), a Washington, DC-based firm that serves agricultural clients and clients with issues before federal and state courts, EPA, FDA, USDA, and OSHA. John focuses his practice on agricultural and environmental law. He occasionally tweets at @DCAgLawyer.


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The Neckarsteig starts in Heidelberg, and its enchanting Old Town and world-famous castle create a spectacular backdrop. Our path takes us upstream along both banks of the Neckar.
The Neckarsteig Trail retraces the steps of Mark Twain, who explored the Neckar on foot and on his raft. We see the vineyards along the river through the eyes of the American writer. Mark Twain used to mock the regional wine: "It is really popular. You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label." Just like Twain, we have the choice of switching between a hike and a river cruise as and when we like. There are plenty of points along the river where we can board a vessel.
We take the towpaths down by the river on the Neckarsteig Trail. Every so often, we have to climb the steep slopes along the 128 kilometre route. But once we reach the top, we can admire stunning views of the bends and loops of the Neckar river. The landscape lives up to its reputation for "soft and peaceful beauty" (as Mark Twain put it).
Manuel Andrack, editor, presenter, author and hiking blogger:
"The Neckarsteig Trail ends in Bad Wimpfen. The historic Old Town district of the spa town is a protected heritage site. The Imperial Palace was once the residence of the German Emperors of the Middle Ages. Definitely worth a visit!"
At a glance: Neckarsteig
Starts: Heidelberg
Ends: Bad Wimpfen
Length: 128 km
Number of stages: 9
Altitude variation: lowest point 116 m, highest point 575 m
Terrain: 37% unmade, 18% asphalt, 45% other, e.g. farm tracks
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Emergency management focuses on organising communities to respond to disasters, survive them, rebuild social structures and infrastructure, and sustain and preserve life.
Massey's Postgraduate Diploma in Emergency Management will give you a range of knowledge about theory and research in emergency management. It covers emergency management issues, practices and policies.
If you're a mid-to-senior level emergency manager, and are interested in expanding your emergency management competencies, this diploma is for you. It's an advanced coursework degree that builds on the core emergency management knowledge you've gained through industry experience and prerequisite qualifications. You'll build advanced knowledge of emergency management at both operational and strategic levels.
You'll work closely with professionals at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, an exciting collaboration between Massey University and GNS Science, based at Massey's Wellington campus.
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I became passionate about emergency management in the wake of the Rena oil spill. The CV Rena was carrying 1733 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 1368 containers when it ran aground on Astrolabe Reef, off the Bay of Plenty, in 2011. I spent the summer of 2011 to 2012 as a wildlife responder for Maritime NZ, cleaning large amounts of oil off the rocks around the penguin burrows at Mount Maunganui. I walked up and down Bay of Plenty coastlines picking up dead birds, and was involved in monitoring little blue penguins.
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Sports Birthdays for July 15 — Jesse Ventura and More
Here are some of the people in the sports world celebrating birthdays on July 15:
Alex Karras
Age: 77
Profession: Retired NFL Player / Actor
Best Known For: A four-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle, Alex Karras played with the Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1970. He was suspended in 1963 for placing bets on NFL games. Karras also wrestled professionally before his NFL career and during his suspension. He served as an analyst on 'Monday Night Football' broadcasts from 1974 to 1976. Additionally, Karras had a long acting career, including a role in the 1974 Mel Brooks' comedy film 'Blazing Saddles' and on the ABC sitcom Webster from 1983 to 1987.
Jesse Ventura
Age: 61
Profession: Retired Professional Wrestler / Actor / Politician
Best Known For: Known for audacious behavior and colorful speeches which would later aide his political career, Jesse Ventura was a professional wrestling star in both the American Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Federation from 1975 to 1986. He later served as an analyst for the WWF, before embarking on an acting career which included the 1987 action film 'Predator.' After serving as mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1991 to 1995, Ventura was elected as governor of Minnesota in 1998. He served from 1999 to 2003.
Carnell Lake
Age: 45
Profession: Retired NFL Player
Best Known For: A five-time Pro Bowl defensive back, Carnell Lake played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens from 1989 to 2001. Lake was elected to the NFL's 1990s All-Decade Team for his play with the Steelers. He was the AFC Defensive Player of the Year in 1997.
Eric Lacroix
Age: 41
Profession: Retired NFL Player
Best Known For: A solid NHL left wing, Eric Lacroix played from 1992 to 2001 for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and Ottawa Senators.
Jonathan Cheechoo
Age: 32
Profession: Former NHL Player
Best Known For: A high-scoring right wing, Jonathan Cheechoo has played in the NHL since 2002. Cheechoo has played with the San Jose Sharks and Ottawa Senators and currently plays in the St. Louis Blues' organization. He led the NHL in scoring in the 2005-06 season, scoring 56 goals while with San Jose.


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Eugen Richter (1838-1906) was one of the very few radical liberals in late 19th century Germany. As a member of the Reichstag, he consistently opposed the growing budget, German militarism and imperialism, and the rise of socialism.


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If you have waterlogged cropland, no investment will pay off faster than improved drainage, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. Today's high land and com-modity prices make the payoff even higher than it was a few years ago. Not surprisingly, many farmers are considering adding tile to their fields.
Here are six tips to help you make tiling decisions.
1. Now is the time. If you hurry, you might still be able to capture federal tax breaks for drainage work completed in 2011. If you miss the boat, keep your fingers crossed that the benefits are extended for 2012.
The 2011 federal tax rules included accelerated depreciation on drainage work and a higher expense election limit under Section 179 of the tax code, explains Steve Baker of Springfield Plastics Inc., an Auburn, Ill., manufacturer of drainage tubing.
"Historically, drainage systems have been written off over a 15-year period. That hasn't changed," he says. "For 2011, the bonus depreciation deduction was increased from 50% to 100%, and the expensing election was increased to $500,000."
Baker is optimistic that the tax incentives will be renewed for 2012. "If they are, they might be adopted by some states, providing additional savings on your state tax return," he says.
"Don't expect the tax incentives to purchase assets to last forever, though," Baker adds. "If you can complete drainage work in 2011, do so. Then check with your tax person to see if the new rules are extended through 2012."
2. Will drainage pay? First, you should confirm you have a drainage problem. Thanks to NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) photos and yield maps from your combine monitor, it's easier than ever to determine whether waterlogged soils are curbing yields, and by how much.
"The first step is to examine several years of NDVI photos, along with yield maps from a calibrated monitor," Ferrie says. "If the same low-yielding areas show up for several years, it's likely a drainage problem.
"If the problem is drainage, circle the area on your map and calculate how big an area is being affected. The area of poor drainage is likely to be larger than the area where water actually stood," Ferrie says. "Is it a one-acre pocket and a three-acre halo, or a five-acre pocket and a three-acre halo?"
"To quantify the benefits of drainage, compare the field to one of similar soil type, managed in a similar fashion, which has been systematically tiled, not just in the wet areas," says Dave Williamson of Williamson Farm Drainage Inc., in Bloomington, Ill. "The farmers of such fields can give you a good idea what to expect."
Not surprisingly, the payoff varies with soil type. "The economics aredifferent for more-productive and less-productive soils," Williamson says. "With a few exceptions, the most
productive soils tend to have the worst natural drainage." So they are likely to provide the greatest return from improved drainage.
3. Multiple benefits. Most of the return from your tiling investment will result from increasing yield in the wet area to match the rest of the field. But there are additional ways tiling might pay off.
You might be able to plant the entire field in a more timely fashion, since you probably don't plant any of it until the whole field dries out, Ferrie says. Even then, the wet portion might still be damp enough to provide a poor seedbed, which lowers yield.
The effects of a wet spot or improved drainage build on themselves, Ferrie continues. "If an area is wet, you miss the optimal tillage, planting and side- dressing dates on the dry part of the field, waiting for that wet part to dry out," he explains. "The whole field's average yield is dragged down.
"Say 80% of an 80-acre field is dry and 20% is wet. Tiling the 16-acre wet spot increases yield by 20 bu. per acre, for a total of 320 bu. Because you are more timely on the other 64 acres, you increase the yield in that area by 10 bu. per acre. That's another 640 bu. of corn for no increase in cost."
4. Outlet issues. "There are few fields where it's impossible to improve the drainage," says University of Illinois ag engineer Richard Cooke. "However, there are situations where the cost may be too high."
Often, the biggest cost issue is providing an outlet for your excess water—into a shared main, a drainage ditch or a stream. "Keep in mind that the cost of providing an outlet is in addition to the cost of the lateral lines that actually drain the field," Cooke says. "The farther you have to go to reach an outlet, the greater the cost."
"The cost of outlets can be reasonable where you have a drop in the landscape," Ferrie notes, "but in flat areas, they can cost as much as the laterals. If the cost of an outlet is an issue, consider installing the outlet this year and adding lateral lines later."
Finding an outlet might require crossing a neighbor's land or tying into his main line. "You probably won't be turned down if you want to connect to a creek," Williamson says. "But a lot of mains already are at full capacity."
Whenever you have to work with adjacent landowners, try to find ways that both of you can benefit.
5. Limited funds. If you have limited resources, consider spreading out the cost by draining only the areas that offer the greatest return. For example, if you have highly productive and
less productive soils in the same field, target your drainage to the most productive soil, Williamson advises. "But design the system for the entire field. If you decide to drain the other soils later, you'll save money and have a better drainage system by completing the design work now," he explains.
Another option is to invest a fixed amount of money in drainage each year, says retired Iowa State University ag economist Don Hofstrand. "However, the system should be designed for the entire field, with a portion of the system installed each year. You want to design the entire system in advance, so you don't end up with a patchwork system that is not optimum for the entire field."
6. Persuade landlords. If you don't own the land, you will have to persuade your landlord to make a major investment. With a crop-share lease, sharing the information from NDVI photos and yield maps and running cash-flow scenarios showing improved yields might help you make your case for drainage, Ferrie says.
Estate planning can be persuasive, Williamson adds. "If the landowner has cash and is subject to estate taxes, he can reduce the size of his estate while improving the land for his heirs."
If the landlord pays for the tile, he probably will expect a higher rental rate as a return on his investment, Hofstrand points out. Another approach is for the tenant to pay for the tile while holding the rental rate stable.
In a crop-share situation, landlords and tenants can share the cost of tiling. This route requires a long-term lease or annual lease with a formal buy-out contract to protect the tenant if he gives up the land, Hofstrand adds.
Drainage Compromises
Sometimes, financial considerations or the lack of an adequate outlet might force you to compromise in the design of a drainage system.
"Your objective with drainage is to pull the soil saturation line down 5" or 6" below the surface within 24 hours after a saturating rain event," says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. "Your drainage contractor can tell you the spacing of tile required to do that, based on your soil type.
"What if you don't have the money to put in lines at the ideal spacing? One option is to put tile at a wider spacing, then add more tile later as funds become available," Ferrie adds. "For example, tile at 120' intervals now, and later split the intervals to 60', or 30' if necessary."
What if you can't find an outlet adequate to carry off the water after a big rain event? "In that case, you might want to put the tile deeper, so you can draw the water table down ahead of time," Ferrie says.
If unseasonably dry conditions follow a wet spring, a well-drained field might be even more advantageous, says University of Minnesota Extension engineer Gary Sands. "The crop might tolerate the drought better because drainage enabled it to build a deeper root system, potentially
giving it access to moisture deeper in the profile."


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Shareology was in a nostalgic mood this holiday weekend; she journeyed to Uptown Minneapolis, where she had lived for 17 years across from the Uptown Theater. My, oh, my: the changes! Of course, she remembered MAC, but now Victoria's Secret and NorthFace add retail zing to Hennepin Avenue. But the biggest retail zing on Hennepin is definitely the new Apple store.
Shareology admired the outside and then ventured inside:
Shareology understands that Apple strongly prefers she not take photos inside the Apple stores….still…..can't hurt to ask politely one more time. Well, dear Shareology readers, she didn't get photo permission, but she did get a tour of the first-ever-in-the-world Apple Briefing Room! It's tucked away on an upper floor in the new Apple location in Uptown. Basically, it's an executive conference room loaded with Apple gear. Fronting Hennepin Avenue, off the Briefing Room are two patios, with table and chairs for 4, plus a grass area. (Hmm, real grass? Forever grass? Shareology didn't ask…) These patios surround a skylight that floods the main sales area below with light.
The Briefing Room includes a conference table seating 16, and every Apple product imaginable: iPhones, iPads, big screen….. So: got a business problem you want to solve? Come in to the Apple folks, bring your staff, and have Apple help you and your business. For information call the Uptown Apple store at (952) 229-1463, or email them at email@example.com.
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The video review:
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A delicious fruity liquid with a touch of slightly sweet cream. A real treat, really surprising!
Vape & Enjoy 😉
Characteristics of the juice tested
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- Price of the tested packaging: 22.90 €
- Quantity: 50 ml
- Price per ml: 0.46 €
- Price per liter: 460 €
- Juice category according to the price per ml previously calculated: Entry level, up to 0.60 € ml
- Nicotine dosage: 0 mg / ml
- Proportion of Vegetable Glycerin: 60%
- Presence of a box: No
- Presence of a seal of inviolability: Yes
- Material of the bottle: Flexible plastic, usable for filling, if the bottle is equipped with a mouthpiece
- Cap equipment: Nothing
- Tip Feature: End
- Name of the juice present in bulk on the label: Yes
- Display PG-VG proportions in bulk on the label: Yes
- Wholesale nicotine dosage display on the label: Yes
Vapelier's note for packaging: 3.77 / 5
Legal, security, sanitary, and religious compliance
- Presence of a child safety on the cap: Yes
- Clear pictograms on the label: Yes
- Presence of relief markings for the visually impaired on the label: No
- 100% of the juice compounds are indicated on the label: Yes
- Presence of alcohol: No
- Presence of distilled water: No
- Presence of essential oils: No
- Compliance HIDE: Do not know
- HALAL compliance: Do not know
- Indication of the name of the laboratory producing the juice: Yes
- Presence of contacts needed to reach a consumer service on the label: Yes
- Batch number on the label: Yes
Vapelier's note regarding the respect of various conformities (except religious): 5 / 5
Appreciation of the packaging
- Is the graphic design of the label and the name of the product in agreement? Yes
- Global correspondence of the packaging with the product name: Yes
- The packaging effort is in line with the price category: Yes
Vapelier's note regarding packaging with regard to juice category: 5 / 5
Sensory appreciations
- Is the color and the name of the product in agreement? Yes
- Is the smell and the name of the product in agreement? Yes
- Definition of odor: Fruity, Sweet, Pastry
- Definition of taste: Sweet, Fruit, Pastry chef
- The taste and the name of the product, are they in agreement? Yes
- Did I like this juice? Yes
- This liquid reminds me: Loosely a sweet guacamole
Vapelier's note on sensory experience: 5 / 5
Tasting recommendations
- Recommended power for optimal taste: 23 W
- Type of vapor obtained at this power: Dense
- Hit type obtained at this power: Light
- Atomizer used for the review: Squape n Duro DL
- Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.44Ω
- Materials used with the atomizer: Nichrome, Holy Fiber
Recommended Moments
- Recommended Moments of the Day: Morning, Morning - Coffee breakfast, Morning - Chocolate breakfast, Morning - Tea breakfast, Aperitif, Late lunch / dinner with coffee, Early evening to relax with a drink, Late night with or without herbal tea
- Can this juice be recommended as an All Day Vape: Yes
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The world in which we live in is becoming less and less formal as each decade proceeds. The fact that I did not have to wear a business suit to work today for example, despite being a member of the white-collar world, is something which my grandfather's generation would have found unthinkable. Yet even though for the most part Western society has become much more familiar and informal than previously, there are still vestiges of formality which remain in practice of which we should take note, and which I see as a good thing. At the same time we also have to be careful not to put a too-rosy glow on the past. Human society always needs to continue to try to do better, if indeed it is to continue at all.
Yesterday afternoon I was in court for some preliminary matters involving a case coming up for trial, and during the course of the meeting, the judge had to come in and out of the courtroom several times. As is customary, the other attorney and I stood and sat when she entered or left the room, or when she addressed us, or when we had to address her. While this may sound a bit odd, even though I have conformed to this practice before a judge many times, there was something about it yesterday which particularly struck me, and touched my heart a bit. Keep in mind that there is no law which mandates that we show this level of deference to the judge, and we are not doing it because of who she herself is, but rather out of respect for the law, which is what she represents.
There is something patently civilized in recognizing the fact that another is worthy of a physical demonstration of respect, which unfortunately has been watered down in contemporary society. The feminist movement for example, left us in a quandary as to whether we should pull out a chair or hold a door open for a lady. And an increasing level of rude behavior and bad manners across the political spectrum appears to be de rigueur these days not only within the government, but also when government officials or foreign dignitaries are visiting a particular place. In some cases it seems that new and social media are responsible for promoting a kind of public boorishness which has, frankly, little or nothing to do with exercising personal freedom, and everything to do with crass selfishness.
However this is not to say that in the past, everyone loved their neighbor as themselves and was generally well-behaved. For example, if you are a fellow student of history you no doubt find it ironic, as I do, that people today complain about a lack of decorum in Congress. The truth is that compared to how things used to be, shouting out "You lie!", or wearing a hoodie on the floor of the House, is nothing compared to what some of the Founding Fathers got up to.
Congressman Matthew Lyon holds the dubious distinction of being the first member of the House of Representatives – though certainly not the last – to have ethics charges brought against him. In the winter of 1798, he spit in the face of Congressman Roger Griswold, after Griswold had called him a scoundrel and referred to his dismissal from service during the Revolutionary War for cowardice, while they were in session. Griswold later attempted to beat the tar out of Lyon with his cane on the floor of the House, and Lyon defended himself with a pair of tongs he grabbed from a fireplace in the chamber. However before my European readers begin to think that this sort of behavior is an American one, allow me to point out that American politicians are not the only persons who have sometimes lost their sense of office and dignity during the course of history.
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, served as 1st Lord of the Treasury – in effect, as Prime Minister – to Queen Anne toward the end of her reign. Unfortunately, he did not seem to be able to rise to the dignity of his office, nor show the proper deference due to the monarch. During a meeting of her Privy Council on July 27, 1714, we are told that the Queen complained that Lord Oxford had "neglected all business; that he was very seldom to be understood; that when he did explain himself she could not depend upon the truth of what he said; that he never came to her at the time she appointed; that he often came drunk; lastly, to crown all, that he behaved himself towards her with bad manners, indecency, and disrespect."
Matters then came to a head when Lord Oxford and the Queen got into what an eyewitness described as a "personal altercation", which went on and on until 2 o'clock in the morning. At the end of what must have been an absolutely fascinating, if incredibly uncomfortable, battle of wills, the Queen had had enough. She took back the White Staff, a kind of ceremonial mace which was the emblem of office traditionally given to her 1st Minister, and gave it to Lord Bolingbroke, dismissing Lord Oxford from her service. The Queen died several days later and her successor, King George I, had Lord Oxford impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and imprisoned in The Tower of London for several years.
Civilization only works when its members agree that there are situations in which it is better to put others ahead of ourselves, whether because of the power they hold, or their age/infirmity, or their role in our society, and so on. If there is no such deference, then it is an every-man-for-himself situation, and you eventually end up with utter chaos. Look at what happened in places like Russia or Spain last century, when anarchy led to protracted Civil War, and you will find it not a pretty picture to be "liberated" from rules of decent behavior.
Of course, those who rail against conventions and hierarchies as somehow enslaving human beings and preventing freedom ought to consider the alternative: a world in which anyone can rob from you or physically abuse you, and against which actions you would have no recourse, unless you were physically capable of fending them off. No rational person wants to live for any extended period of time in a society as strictly regimented as North Korea, I would wager, but on the other hand no rational person would want to live in the middle of a permanent war zone, either. We are flawed creatures, with a spark of divinity veiled by an inherent tendency of all fallen creation to look out for itself, first. This often leads to our treating others poorly, whether out of deliberate malice or out of careless disregard.
The rules which we have put in place with respect to how we behave in the course of our interactions are there to counteract our natural tendency to behave selfishly and badly toward one another. Standing up when the judge comes into the room, or politely shaking hands with the President of the United States – even if you virulently disagree with his policies – is a way of demonstrating that you believe civilized behavior is not just an end unto itself: it is a means for keeping our civilization going.
All from the most highly placed to the most lowly find themselves in situations where they must defer to someone else in this way. Even the Pope washes the feet of the faithful on Holy Thursday, just as you must wash your hands before appearing at someone else's dinner table. While we should avoid unnecessarily obsequious behavior, perhaps next time you find yourself interacting with another, it is worth considering whether you are behaving in a way which keeps our culture a civilized one, or whether you are chipping further away at its foundations.
"The Grey Eminence" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1873)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


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loving this new kit by AliceApple over at Kitschy Digitals!
wouldn't it be great if all packaging were this neat-o and groovy anymore???
get a hint america. . . nostalgia sells!
i would buy food just because of the packaging. . .
i HAVE bought food just because of the packaging! (^0^)
am i the only one folks?
kits used: 70's Grocery, Vintage Bedding, Happy Home
new digi page featuring my cute jude with all this retro food love.
jude *loves* to rub the yarn that his "babies" (aka: blankies) are tied with. . .
calms him down EVERY TIME he is in a hot mess mood.
it is a hoot to watch!


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Kl�¶ckner gets biggest crowd ever
The #1 ranked UVA Men's lacrosse team fell to Duke 13-9 Saturday night, but there was a victory off the field, as Kl¶ckner Stadium had its largest crowd ever, if the announcer and the jam-packed stands are to be believed.
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3 comments
batman April 21st, 2010 | 4:41pm
did they really fill all 62 seats?
Kyle Hanni April 20th, 2010 | 11:40am
UVA baseball set an attendance record as well. The spring time is the right time for UVA sports.Winning is fun.
ken jamme April 19th, 2010 | 5:58pm
Saw the game on ESPNU, great coverage. While on the subject, does anyone know if there will be summer league games on this field and how can I get hold of a schedule?


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Backcountry travelers have a long list of things to fear. Here are my ten favorites:
- Animal attacks by mosquitoes, bears, snakes, ticks, wolves, or locusts.
- Drinking water poisoned with giardia, crypto, amoeba, typhoid, or the bird flu.
- Running out of toilet paper and having to wipe with snow, rocks, pine cones, or spruce sprigs.
- Having to build a fire when it really counts.
- Having to push the 911 button on their SPOT because they failed to build a fire when it really counted.
- Getting their feet wet, and then having them fall off after a progression of suprahydration, maceration, epidermal separation, fissurization, staphylococcal infestation, gangrene, and rot.
- Accidentally leaving something behind, or having to justify to everyone on the Internet (in the lightweight backpacking community, at least) why they can't leave something behind, like their Sling-light, Crocs, Frisbee, iPod, Newcons, or box of E&J.
- Hiking with other people.
- Hiking solo.
- Running out of coffee.
Of course, only #10 is a justified fear.
For the rest of you, you may be fearing the wrong things.
What you should be fearing is facilitating the transportation of fecal hitchhikers from your exhaust pipe orifice to your fuel filler neck orifice.
This article discusses how to stop these illegal immigrants en route, because we all know you can't close the border.
The Relationship Between Hand Sanitation and GI Illnesses
The problem is an age old one: minimize gastrointestinal (GI) illness that results from backcountry activities.
The two most commonly perceived GI illnesses are (1) those acquired by drinking contaminated water, and (2) those acquired as a result of poor hygiene. This article addresses the hygiene issue, and specifically, hand sanitation.
Tod Schimelpfenig, Curriculum Director at the Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), believes that hand sanitation may play a more important role in illness transmission than drinking untreated water. "Hand washing is very important but poorly and infrequently done," says Schimelpfenig. "It's inconvenient and must be a disciplined habit." Over a period of several years, NOLS made intentional changes to their hand sanitation practices and curriculum which resulted in significant reductions in GI illnesses (Leemon and Schimelpfenig, 2003). Currently, NOLS uses alcohol gel hand sanitizers because they are readily available and inexpensive – key decision factors for sizable programs like NOLS.
My own personal experiences are deeply rooted in a desire to keep my hands clean in the wilderness.
When I was an institutional wilderness guide in the 1980s, we cared very little about and had no policies regarding wilderness hygiene. Some of our practices included:
- Everyone eating out of the same pot, with the same spoon (to save weight, increase simplicity, and… to improve camaraderie perhaps?!)
- Leaving soap out of our kits and believing that simply washing hands and scrubbing vigorously with water was enough.
- Never washing cookware, and believing the probable lie propagated by some "lightweight backpacking enthusiasts" that it will sterilize itself the next time you boil water in it.
If these are some of your practices, a careful read of Boulware (2006) might be a wise investment of your time.
What I thought I learned during my years of institutional guiding was that we really needed better water treatment technologies, because almost all of the guides, and many of the students, experienced GI illnesses at some point during or shortly after their treks.
What I really learned, looking back, is that our poor hygiene was probably a far greater contributor to our GI distress than contaminated water, and that specifically, I can look back and be genuinely horrified at our hand sanitation practices.
Upon reviewing much of the research that began to emerge about this topic in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I realized that especially with groups of people sharing cooking and other gear, hand sanitation would be an important part of staying healthy in the wilderness.
Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers
I've been an aficionado of using alcohol-based (EtOH) sanitizers for years, for the same reason that Tod Schimelpfenig stated above: they are cheap and easy to find. However, I've also discovered the nasty unspoken risk of using them: the dehydration of hand skin that leads to cracking. Some companies add moisturizers into these mixes, but I've found them to be marginally effective and to leave greasy residues.
Some ultralight backpackers like EtOH-based sanitizers because they can serve double duty (by disinfecting the skin around wounds for first aid treatment, or as a firestarting aid). However, I never found the weight savings to be worth it, and I've always preferred the more robust disinfecting potential of a sterile alcohol wipe, and more efficacious methods of firestarting using dedicated supplies.
In response to skin cracking, I've tried a number of reactive measures to control it, including hand lotions, Hydropel, those thin fingerless "sun gloves" that saltwater fly fishermen wear, using less sanitizer, and rubbing oils from my own forehead into the skin! I wasn't happy with any of these solutions and instead found myself caught in the vicious downward spiral of pain and discomfort by successively applying stinging alcohol gels to my cracked hands.
In addition, while I was working in the area of biofilm research in the 1990s, we discovered that cracks in the skin served as protective environments for bacterial growth, with the resulting colonies of pathogens remaining more resistant to disinfection than bacteria attached to the outside surfaces of the skin. Dyer et al. (1998) also suggest that the organic-solvent properties of EtOH strip away skin chemicals (e.g., sebum and lipids) that play a role in impeding bacterial infection.
My solution in 2008, after one particularly cold and windy spring trek with bleeding cracks on my hands, was to finally bag alcohol hand sanitizers altogether and simply use soap and water, even if it had to come from my water bottle if I wasn't near a water source.
Alternatives to Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers
After reviewing a variety of research discussing various hand washing methods, I've reverted back to the time honored practice of good old soap and water. I carry a MiniVial containing highly concentrated castile soap (my favorite is Dr. Bronner's), and always wash my hands after bowel movements and upon arrival into camp prior to preparing the evening meal.
The efficacy of vigorous handwashing with soap relative to other methods cannot be underestimated (Simonne, 2008).
However, sometimes, washing hands with soap and water is simply inconvenient, so I do carry a benzalkonium (BAK) chloride-based hand sanitizer that is easy on the hands and has shown good efficacy in sanitization relative to alcohol-based products (Dyer et al., 1998).
A number of companies market BAK hand sanitizers, but finding them in a form useful for the ultralight backpacker has been problematic, until Adventure Medical Kits' recent introduction of a 0.5 fl. oz. pump bottle. The form factor is small (pocketable), simple to use (just pump to spray, no lids or caps to fiddle with), and lightweight (a full bottle weighs an ounce). The manufacturer claims that the bottle holds "150 Sprays" and that it should be "applied liberally". This latter point is important with any hand sanitizer, be it soap, EtOH, or BAK: if you don't coat and scrub the entire surface of your hands, it's not going to be effective.
In practice, I find that six sprays deliver enough liquid for me to wash the entire surfaces of both hands, which suggests that I can get 150 / 6 = 25 full hand washings out of the bottle. If I wash with soap and water twice a day, and use hand sanitizer 3X / day (my normal routine), then the Adventure Medical Kits 0.5 fl. oz. pump bottle is enough for an eight-day trek for me. Plus, and my wife will agree, my hands aren't "all scratchy" when I come home.
Washing with soap and water is still my preferred method of hand sanitization. It leaves my hands feeling cleaner than with any other method, and science has shown repeatedly that it remains the most effective method. I'd be awfully nervous if I saw my surgeon grab a scalpel after only a quick application of a dollop of EtOH onto the palm of his hand!
While a variety of non-soap (waterless) methods of hand sanitization exist, few of them are accessible or easy to use by wilderness backpackers. EtOH and BAK are the two primary methods available in small, light, and simple to dispense form factors. Between the two, I prefer BAK for its ability to preserve the health of my skin when used over a long period of time, and of the BAK products, I've found the Adventure Medical Kits 0.5 fl. oz. pump spray bottle to be an ideal product that fits in with my own philosophy of "simple, light, and effective."
- Wilderness Injury, Illness, and Evacuation: National Outdoor Leadership School's Incident Profiles, 1999–2002, by Drew Leemon and Tod Schimelpfenig, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 14, (pp. 174-182), 2003.
- Influence of Hygiene on Gastrointestinal Illness among Wilderness Backpackers, by David R. Boulware. Journal of Travel Medicine, 11:1 (pp. 27-33), 2006.
- Hand Hygiene and Hand Sanitizers, by Amy Simonne, University of Florida IFAS Extension, http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/FY/FY73200.pdf.
- Testing a New Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitizer to Combat Infection, by David L. Dyer, Kenneth B. Gerenraich, and Peter S. Wadhams, AORN Journal, 68:2 (pp. 239-251), 1998.


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Space-time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes - 3B
Speaker(s): Freddy Cachazo, Nima Arkani-Hamed
Abstract: This mini-course will review recent developments in our understanding of scattering amplitudes in gauge theories, particularly N=4 SYM in four dimensions. We will discuss a dual theory for these scattering amplitudes associated with contour integrals over Grassmannians, where the remarkable symmetries of the theory are manifest, but space-time and unitarity emerge as secondary concepts.
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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Hope by a factor of x
First, a bit of background. It's been a rough couple of days around here. A major storm blew into our area yesterday and the low pressure system that accompanied it wreaked havoc on Bud's system, the way that low pressure systems often do. Coincidentally, Bud had an appointment with the doctor who does his medication management yesterday, so the doctor got to see first-hand the extreme behavior that these kinds of systems can cause. We were able to talk through some strategies regarding the timing and dose of medications when these situations arise.
But, today, the storm continued to rage outside my house and inside my boy, and though I had a plan for medication (which was ultimately successful, I think), I knew early this morning that I would not be able to send him to school today. Instead, we had a sort of home-spun homeschool day, just the two of us, for better or worse (and, frankly, we experienced a little bit of both).
It's been exhausting - and I imagine it's been twice as hard on Bud as it's been on me. And it's been frightening. When I see extremes in behavior, there is always some small part of me that fears it's a shadow of things to come - that this is not merely a blip on the radar caused by barometric pressure, but is, in fact, an emerging issue.
It was right in the middle of the day today that I remembered an e-mail I'd received a couple of days ago. It was titled "Hope?" and it was from Sharon, the mom of a young man with Aspergers. She'd attached a video clip and said she was sending it to remind me to never give up because the fight is worth it. I couldn't open the video link on the computer I was using when I'd opened my mail, so I'd saved it in my inbox until I could watch it from home.
I clicked the link today, and I "met" Sharon and her son Scott. The video was made when he was 21, following a period of about seven years when he was so uncomfortable around people that he rarely left his home.
But on the day this video was made, Scott took a risk and left home. He did it, he says, because "a lot of people have a lot of pre-judgment against autistic people and I'm here to try to break it."
And break it, he did.
It was just what I needed to see today - a day when Bud and I weren't able to leave our house, a day that didn't seem full of hope.
But this filled me up.
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I'm so sorry you guys are having a rough time. I've been thinking about you and your guiet and wondering how things have been. Sending hugs and a little more hope your way. And I'm here if you ever want to talk. xxk
- October 16, 2010 7:11 AM
- *m* said...
What a clip -- hope-inspiring, indeed.
I hope the storm passes for you and Bud soon.
- October 16, 2010 7:16 AM
i wish i had words, but i am completely overwhelmed by emotion.
holding you and bud close.
- October 16, 2010 10:10 AM
- KAL said...
Oh, wow. that was so so great to see. I'm sorry things have been rough, thinking of you and hope the cloudy days pass soon. Hugs.
- October 16, 2010 10:58 AM
- Drama Mama said...
you unraveled me.
i'm saving this and watching often.
thank you - and hope things get better soon.
- October 16, 2010 11:00 AM
I have tears in my eyes watching that clip. Sometimes I wish I could come over during moments like that and wrap my arms around you both and give you a hug.
Mrs. Nee
- October 16, 2010 11:20 AM
wow. on a day that we were stuck in the house, this was...beyond words. Thank you, Bud and Scott for sharing this with all of us.
- October 16, 2010 11:22 AM
- Stimey said...
I see clips like this more and more often. People with autism standing up and being themselves and being successful and showing the world part of what it is like to be autistic and it makes me happy. I am so happy to see our people representing. Thanks for sharing it.
I hope things smooth out for you guys.
- October 16, 2010 4:51 PM
- Valerie Foley said...
I'm proud to say that Scott has recorded my song Through My Eyes, and the job he has done is unbelievable.
Both Scott and Sharon inspire me every day, and remind me, too, that one foot in front of the other, with love and compassion will take you a long way.
Hope there's more sun peeking through today.
- October 16, 2010 5:15 PM
- kristina said...
I am hoping today has been better.
We went through so much storminess with Charlie in the past couple of years, I am in awe when there are a string of quiet good days. And they will return.
Every time i see a display of pumpkins (quite a bit of late, given the season), i think of Bud and you.
Warmest vines emanating from here to you.
- October 17, 2010 12:36 AM
thank you. so much of our sanity depends on our perspective. thank you.
- October 17, 2010 6:30 AM
- Stephanie said...
That must have been terrifying! And he sang so well. He was awesome!
That is definitely an uplifting moment, and an uplifting song! Thanks for sharing.
- October 17, 2010 4:03 PM
- Kerri said...
Thank you for posting this. It was amazing! I will be sharing it with everyone I know to show how amazing our kids can truly be if you give them that chance. What an amazing man and Mom!
I know the days when it just doesn't pay to go anywhere with my daughter. It's tough, but we get through them. I hope you and Bud can return to quieter days soon.
-Kerri :)
- October 18, 2010 9:21 AM
- traceybeth said...
Thank you for sharing this -- it was wonderful to see. (FYI -- Have you ever watched Matt Savage play piano? Also awe-inspiring.) So often you write about things we're dealing with too (our son is almost ten), and you manage to articulate what I've been struggling with in my own mind and then take it to a whole new level. Can't thank you enough for that! I often have to remind myself that a bad day is just that, and not a predictor of the future. And we're having a lot of conversations about death - they range from terrifying to hilarious. But after so many years of therapy, I am grateful we can have our wonderful, quirky, utterly original conversations.
Best to you and Bud.
- October 18, 2010 11:24 AM
- MKosmicki said...
WOW! I can't wait to show this to my 15 year old after school.
I hope you and Bud are doing better once the weather passes.
- October 18, 2010 1:21 PM
- Maddy said...
Shivers - thank you, just what the doctor ordered.
- October 18, 2010 4:04 PM
- Ange said...
bawling for so many reasons. I know exactly what you speak of regarding if the new is a glimpse of the forever as we deal with challenges that we haven't dealt with at this extreme for years. I just think to myself I can't do this again *I can't*. He's bigger than me, stronger than me, and god I love him so much and can't stand seeing the confusion and rage in his little-boy face. And then something wonderful happens--like at the moment he has motivation to learn to tie his shoes. A stupid milestone I never ever forced him to meet because, well, I thought it was stupid when he could wear velcro and still be completely independent. Anyhow the amazing part is that he chose to work at something that is really hard for him but that HE wants to do...and to keep trying. The other reason this movie got me bawling is that Bub started guitar lessons...he loves music. Anyhow, I watched him struggle with the motor planning and I realized eventhough I talk a good game, I am still holding out for some sort of golden ticket. Like someday we can say he went through so much but look who he is now. It pisses me off because I want to love who he is RIGHT NOW. And I do, god I do. But the future scares me so much that sometimes it gets in the way.
*sorry for blubbering. cold meds must've kicked in!*
- October 18, 2010 10:24 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Ange, I hear you. The combination of "bigger & stronger" with "confusion & rage" is frightening. One day at a time. One step at a time. If we get too far ahead of ourselves, we'll unravel.
And thanks, all, for thinking of us as we weathered the storm. As soon as the low pressure system passed, Bud was back to his happy self. As I told his doctor, 80% of the time, things are good, and when they're good, they're fantastic.
The other 20% of the time, well... not so fantastic.
- October 19, 2010 9:07 PM


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Family Pictures Fall 2014
We had out family portraits done by Erica Shurter in October. She had to work her tail off to get our kids to look at her. Here are some of the best images:
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Baby Chase's arrival video.
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Put together video and stills of our trip to the hospital for baby Chase being born
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Fun in the pool!! You gotta see at least the first 45 seconds of this video: New Playhouse/Playground at Nana and Papa's house:
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Catch Up
Whew, time to play catch up on the 'ol blog! My parents drove all the way down from Moscow, Idaho to visit my little family and my sisters here in Arizona in March. It was a great visit! I'm so grateful they came! They are so great to help us out with projects around the house. There are so many awesome things they did for us, there is just to many to list! It was so nice to see them and I always miss them tons when they leave. I only see my family once a year (unless I'm having a baby) so it's just so sad to see them go. The last day of their visit Chris took some portraits of them. I'll admit, I had a giggle or two when Chris would pose them sweet little love bird poses.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
A couple new video's
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
6 Months
Camden is six months! Time has gone by much to quickly with this little one. He is always happy and smiling (as long as his tummy is nice and full). He loves his Mommy bunches and coos, 'ma ma ma ma ma' throughout the day. Camden loves Daddy's kisses and watching his brother play toys. He is just starting to get up on all fours and propel himself forward to get where he wants to go. He is truly our little angel baby and we LOVE him TONS!
Crew loves his baby brother and likes to 'help' me with him. The boys are sick right now and Crew has been so sweet to try and comfort Camden while he isn't feeling well.
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TORONTO — The child soldier saga "Rebelle" has nabbed an Academy Award nomination for best foreign-language film, putting Canada in the race for Oscar glory for the third year in a row.
The nod is the first for Montreal filmmaker Kim Nguyen, who focused his lens on the grim lives of child soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
"Rebelle," also known as "War Witch," will face off against Austria's "Amour," Norway's "Kon-Tiki," Chile's "No" and Denmark's "A Royal Affair."
Meanwhile, Toronto-based composer Mychael Danna is up for two Academy Awards — for best song and best original score for his work on "Life of Pi."
Canada got a pair of nominations in the best live-action short category: the National Film Board is up for "Buzkashi Boys" while Quebec actor Yan England is in the running for "Henry."
The nominations were announced this morning from Los Angeles. The Academy Awards will be handed out Feb. 24.
Last year, Canada competed in the foreign-language category with "Monsieur Lazhar," while "Incendies" was in the race the year before.
Nguyen worked on "Rebelle" over the course of a decade, inspired by an article about nine-year-old Burmese twin brothers who led an army of rebels.
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A new hero is quietly taking our nation by storm, capturing the adoration of children everywhere. He doesn't battle villains or save the world, in fact he's just a wimpy kid.
The "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is currently the best selling book on Amazon.com, and #1 New York Times Bestseller. Libraries can't get enough copies, and the publisher, Amulet Books, increased their initial printing of the latest book, "Dog Days," from three to four million.
So what does Greg Heffley, the wimpy middle-schooler, do that makes him so popular with millions of American children? Nothing much, besides cheating, lying, stealing, picking on any kid even smaller than him, and making fun of everybody in the process.
To get a good feel for the Wimpy Kid series, I opened up to a random page to see what our hero was up to. Chirag, a little Indian kid in Greg's class, was supposed to move back to India over the summer. Despite a big goodbye party, the family ended up staying. Greg decides that it's a great opportunity to play a trick and pretends like Chirag doesn't exist anymore. Soon he gets the whole class to go along with him and little Chirag becomes a living non-entity to the entire class. When Chirag tries to entice a classmate into admitting that he exists by promising him a corn dog, Greg says, "Hey, there's a corn dog floating in the air," grabs it, and eats it in two bites.
Greg defends himself and says:
"Before you go and say I'm a bad friend for teasing Chirag, let me just say this in my own defense: I'm smaller than about 95% of the kids at my school, so when it comes to finding someone to pick on, my options are pretty limited."
The running theme of the series is that Greg is little kid who gets picked on, so anything he does to others is understandable under the victimhood license. That license, parenthetically, is the same justification given by terrorists, people who commit widespread fraud, and sexual predators.
Parents are outraged at the book's moral underpinnings, while PhDs are praising it for "its fresh look at the authentic challenges of middle school youth."
In another episode, Greg and his friend Rowley decide to make a haunted house. They put up signs advertising that there will be real sharks, with admission at 50 cents. A big group of gullible little kids show up, so they tell them that 50 cents was a typo and it really costs two bucks. When the first little kid pays up, they tell him to crawl under a bed and then start screaming at him from both ends of bed until the kid rolls up in a ball crying. By now, Rowley's father comes down and breaks up the whole venture. The moral of the story?
"The good news is, since Rowley's father didn't believe us, [that they were running a haunted house] he didn't make us refund Shane's money. So at least we cleared two bucks today."
Trail of Controversy
Following the spectacular success of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series is a trail of controversy. Parents are outraged at the book's moral underpinnings, while PhDs are praising it for its "realism" and "its fresh look at the authentic challenges of middle school youth." To excuse himself from the uproar, the author, Jeff Kinney, claims that he really wrote the books for adults and was surprised by how children took to it. However, even after its popularity amongst 8-12 year olds became clear (these books are in the juvenile section in every library I called), he kept writing them with the same tone and flavor.
In a recent New York Times article about the series, Dr. Joshua Sparrow, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, said "It really captures the struggle of a child that age trying to figure out what it means to be a person. I think it can help parents tune into what kids know and how they think. It captures what a child is able to get and what's beyond their reach, and how you have to adjust your expectations because they are still a work in progress."
He's joined by Dr. Lawrence Rosen, a pediatrician who founded the Whole Child Center in Oradell, N.J., who says he has talked about the series with his third-grade daughter, who says she likes that the main character is "not perfect."
Not perfect? The kid is totally diabolical! Everything he does is just plain bad. He treats his parents with contempt, his friends as "morons, jerks, nerds, and dorks," has no compunctions about stealing, lying, or hurting anyone's feelings, and never makes a single good judgment call. He's vindictive, jealous, malicious, lazy, and insensitive. If this book "captures what a child is able to get and what is beyond their reach," it might be time for all parents to clock out, because we need to lower our expectations to the point where we can't even expect the least bit of integrity, sensitivity, or goodness from our children.
Stop selling our children short!
There are also many parents who say, "Well, at least my kids are reading." The internet is filled with testimonials about children who were frustrated readers until they got their hands on a Wimpy Kid book. This is also disturbing since people are settling for mediocrity, "I'd rather he not read it… but at least he's reading." Why settle? We can give our children the best of both worlds. There are books that are both interesting and moral, they just take time to find. (See below for a few recommended books.) People can also help their child learn to love reading when they are young, so that the child will be interested in reading quality content on their own.
One episode from the latest book is particularly instructive in understanding the whole phenomenon. Greg wants money, so he starts a lawn mowing business. Being lazy, he does a haphazard and incomplete job. When the customers complain, his father re-mows the lawns for free. Of course, Greg insists he's done nothing wrong. "I'm trying to find a way to earn money without doing any actual work," he explains.
Perhaps this episode aptly describes author Jeff Kinney. Sure, a guy with his talent could work a bit harder and come up with books that would be interesting and compelling without giving our kids a terrible role model, but, "he's trying to find a way to earn money without doing any actual work." The same goes for the theory of "well at least my kid is reading." That can be translated as, "I'm trying to find a way to get my kid literate without doing any actual work."
It's sad to think that libraries, often elementary school libraries, across the nation are buying multiple sets of the Wimpy Kid Diary series. As a parent whose oldest child is just beginning to read, it reminds me of how important it is to monitor what my child is reading, and what messages she'll be subconsciously absorbing.
All children need heroes, people they can emulate. Let's be proactive in deciding who they are.
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Hello Again (film)
1987 film by Frank Perry
Hello Again is a 1987 romantic fantasy-comedy film, produced and directed by Frank Perry, written by Susan Isaacs and starring Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward, Austin Pendleton, Carrie Nye, Robert Lewis, Madeleine Potter, Thor Fields and Illeana Douglas.
- Kevin: Are you trying to get me to fall in love with the dog... and then with you?
- Zelda: Are you crazy?
[points to squished fly]
- Zelda: You just killed a transmigrating soul. I mean that could have been Beethoven, Boticelli... Jack Benny.
- Lucy: [strugling to get into a dress] Argh! I feel like I'm caught in a Trojan! A pleated Trojan! With fringe!
- Kevin: That look has real possibilities.
- Lucy: You clean? This is cleaning, right? My son is cleaning? I never thought I'd live to see the day... actually I didn't.
- Kim: Isn't this party absolutely sublime?
- Lucy: Beats a cesspool backup.
- Kim: Slim pickings this afternoon. They're married, or they dribble, or they're *otherwise engaged*.
- Lucy: To each other?
- Kim: Right!
- Lucy: Will you lighten up? You didn't marry Hastings for his money!
- Kim: Of course I did! What else do you get married for? Love? Love last 6, 8 months top. Money is forever.
- Zelda: You should never help a human being who makes his living suctioning thigh fat.
- Lucy: He's a brilliant doctor, and so creative!
- Lucy: So, it's a not a sonnet.


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Updated: Columbia Public Schools Discuss Changing Start Times
COLUMBIA - Columbia Public Schools will discuss a proposal next week that could result in changes for student's morning routines. A Columbia school board transportation committee recommended a proposal this week to the district to switch from the current two-tier bell system to a three-tier system. Under the three-tier system high schools would start at 7:20 a.m. instead of 7:45 a.m., and end at 2:30 p.m. instead of 2:50 p.m..
Elementary school students would start at 9:10 a.m. instead of 8:50 a.m. and dismiss at 4:10 p.m. while the current dismisal time is 3:45 p.m..
Middle school students will also have new times, starting at 8:10 a.m. instead of 8 a.m. and dismiss at 3:20 p.m. instead of 3 p.m..
Although some parents are upset with the proposed time changes, the new system is supposed to eliminate some current problems.
For instance, because of the introduction of Battle High School and the removal of junior high schools, some middle school children would have to share a bus home with high schoolers.
Columbia Public Schools board member Christine King said, "Parents like the two-tiered system because of the start times, but what they don't like about it is that we have middle schoolers, junior high and high school kids all sharing buses, and that's not good. So this system allows us to keep our high schoolers separate and then our middle schoolers and elementary kids all in a different tier."
Earlier end times for high schoolers would better accomodate after-school activities and part-time jobs, despite many parents complaining of struggles to wake their kids that early.
A three-tier system would also save the school district on transportation and make the system more efficient. With more efficient routes and staggered times for all three tiers, the district will need less buses and can offer current bus drivers more working hours.
The system change is expected to save the school district a million dollars per year.
Once a three-tier system is established, exact start and close times for schools could be tweaked as needed, but no matter what it will be difficult to work out a proposal that will make everybody happy.
"Honestly no matter which way we go whether we keep it the same...whether we take middle school, high school- elementary, high school- elementary- middle school, we are not gonna please more than 50 percent, of our patrons...staff. It's just, there's too many variables", said King.
Michelle Baumstark, Columbia Public Schools community relations coordinator, added that although the current proposal has high schoolers in the first tier, that could change based on community feedback.
She also said that the proposal used feedback from a Columbia Public Schools survey of parents.
The school board will discuss the proposal at its meeting next Monday but won't take any action yet.


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When there was the possibility of a female Link about half of the internet raged over the prospect. Some people cried out in support of she-Link, but a troubling number of people were outraged by the possibility.
They didn't understand why there was a need for change. "Zelda is already a badass." That's almost a true statement, but there are caveats to it. Broken down by game there are major problems with her role. Zelda has historically been a princess in need of salvation. The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (wherein she requires saving not once, but twice), The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: oracle of Seasons, The Legend of Zelda: the oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (need saving twice again), The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword all feature her as a character in need of rescue from the (occasionally) big strong man. There are a few instances wherein Zelda is "badass," but it's always in the context of a support role for the male protagonist, Link.
In Ocarina of Time, Sheik works to lead Link in the right direction... only to end up captured by Ganon. Tetra is a pirate ship captain! She gives Link a lift here and there. (Taxis are badass? sure?)… And she's then capture by Ganon. In Skyward Sword she's the reincarnation of the Goddess! That's cool, right? But then she's capture by Demise's forces and requires saving. At the end of some games she fires off some light arrows at Ganon, but it's always Link and his impressive phallus of justice that saves the day in the end. It's the same thing over and over again. The female "love" interest has some marginal skill before being turned to stone, possessed, or just plain old kidnapped. I'm kind of shocked she was never tied down to railroad tracks while Snidely Whiplash cackles just off screen wringing his hands. The only time Zelda even holds the title of sidekick in these games is when she's removed from her own female body and made to possesses giant suits of armor (presumably made for men).
Sheik holds a special place in gamer's hearts. She's this awesome example of how cool Zelda can be to the world at large, but I'd like to point out something troubling to everyone out there. Zelda as Sheik is pretty lame. What does she do? She teaches link to play his ocarina, and then she's captured.
She's the Boba Fett of the Legend of Zelda Universe. She doesn't do anything.
But let's dissect this a little bit further. Why is she so much cooler than the rest of Zelda's incarnations? It's because she's androgynous. That's right ladies and gentlemen. People latched onto Sheik because they thought she was a dude at first.
Please tell me you all see the issue with this.
There's no reason why Link cannot be a female character. He's a genderless "every-man" with no inherent personality or character traits. Eiji Aonuma states that "I don't want people to get hung up on the way Link looks because ultimately Link represents the player in the game." So why, pray tell, are we completely ignoring roughly half of the globe's population? How can Link represent the player when so many players aren't male?
Super Mario Bros 2 allowed players to select peach. She was on par with Mario and luigi and could do everything they could do. That was in 1988. The original legend of Zelda came out in 1986. The first Zelda game to give you a playable and truly badass Zelda character is the upcoming Hyrule Warriors. (Smash Bro's doesn't count. It's not canon.)
Why has it taken 28 years for this to happen? And why did it take Nintendo allowing another company to make their game for it to happen? And why do I seem to be the only one out here that has a problem with this?