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Two well-known media figures - both Geneseo graduates - will join the chair of SUNY Geneseo's political science and international relations department Wednesday, Sept. 19 for an on-campus forum to examine how national and local races are shaping up for the general election Nov. 6.
Curt Smith, '74, Karen DeWitt, '82, and Political Science Chair Jeff Koch will share their observations during the forum.
DeWitt is Capitol bureau chief for New York State Public Radio, a network of 10 public radio stations in New York state operated by WXXI in Rochester. She has covered state government and politics for the network since 1990. DeWitt also is a regular contributor to the statewide public television program, "New York Now." She appears on the reporter's roundtable segment during which she interviews newsmakers.
DeWitt previously worked for WINS radio in New York City. She is the past recipient of the prestigious Walter T. Brown Memorial Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Legislative Correspondents Association. She also was named Media Person of the Year for 2009 by the Women's Press Club of New York state.
Smith is well-known political observer, commentator, columnist, author and college lecturer. He joined the University of Rochester faculty in 1999, where he teaches public speaking and presidential rhetoric, focusing on how U.S. presidents communicate through language and delivery. Smith wrote more speeches than anyone for President George H.W. Bush.
Smith has written 15 books, most recently Mercy! A Celebration of Fenway Park's Centennial Told Through Red Sox Radio and TV. Raised in Upstate New York, Smith was a Gannett reporter and a senior editor for The Saturday Evening Post before joining the White Houseand Bush administration in 1989.
Koch has been chair of Geneseo's department of political science and international relations since 2003. He came to Geneseo in 1989 after serving as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside. He earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan.
Koch's areas of expertise are public opinion and American elections and has published widely on those topics. During the 2002-03 academic year, he served as a Fulbright lecturer in American politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.
"Countdown to Election Day: How the Races Stand," at 2:30 p.m. in Newton 204. The event is free and open to the public. Geneseo Associate Provost David Gordon will moderate.
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Flu Outbreak: Tips to Staying Healthy + Where You Can Get the Flu Shot
While it may be a brand new year and everyone is excited about a fresh start, there is something that comes along with this wintery weather that people don't like: The flu. Doctors have said this is the worst outbreak of the flu in more than a decade, especially for babies and older folks.
According to one report, "Every flu season is different, and even healthy people can get very sick from the disease and spread it to others. From 1976 to 2007, estimates of U.S. deaths each year due to flu ranged from 3,000 to 49,000."
Let's be honest, everyone hates getting sick. So, why not just take extra measures to prevent getting attacked by that nasty flu bug?
Here are a few simple tips to staying healthy and keeping the flu away this season:
- Get a seasonal flu shot. Understand your risk for the flu and, if recommended, get the vaccine when it is available.
- Wash your hands especially after you cough or sneeze. Frequent hand-washing kills germs and stops the spread of illness.
- Sneeze or cough into your elbow or a tissue to reduce hand-to-hand transfer of germs.
- Avoid contact with sick people.
- To reduce the spread of illness, it is recommended that you stay home for seven days after your symptoms begin or until you have been symptom-free for 24 hours.
Do you still need to get a flu shot? If so, don't wait! Here are a few places where you can get the shot in Tyler and East Texas:
- Your doctor's office
- The local pharmacy, such as Walgreens or CVS
- Northeast Texas Public Health District is offering flu vaccinations at 815 North Broadway in Tyler for $20 for the shot and $25 for the mist, and also accepts Medicare. Also, children who qualify for the Vaccines for Children Program can receive the flu shot for $8.

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NCLB Update
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Appropriations Bill
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NCLB Update (http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/)
Acknowledging that a significant number of high-poverty schools are not making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) because of challenges in mathematics education and instruction, the Department is developing a national strategic plan in mathematics. Department officials are operating on three basic assumptions: (1) teachers cannot teach what they do not understand; (2) students cannot learn what they have not been taught; and (3) students cannot perform well on high-stakes state assessment exams if they have limited access to high-quality curricula material. Also, to assist in the effort, the Title I and Mathematics and Science Partnerships program offices have formed a steering committee comprised of leading educators, policymakers, and researchers; the committee members have expertise in math, math education, Title I administration, educating children from impoverished backgrounds, and public policy related to No Child Left Behind. Over the next six months, the committee will conduct regional meetings with school district administrators, curriculum coordinators, and other school personnel to plan, develop, and review the strategic plan. A final draft of the plan will be available by September 2005. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/mathsci/titleimath.html. (Comments are welcome at email@example.com.)
Speaking of educators, paraprofessionals now have an additional semester to meet the No Child Left Behind Act's "highly qualified" standard. The law specifies that paraprofessionals with instructional duties in Title I schools have until January 8, 2006, to meet the standard. But, in a recent letter, Deputy Secretary Ray Simon shifted the deadline to the close of the 2005-06 school yearaligning it with a similar deadline for teachers. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/06/06172005a.html.
Five statesMaryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginiaare the first five states to submit evidence of compliance with No Child Left Behind's standards and assessment requirements. For comparison, their approval letters are posted online. It is expected each state will have more than one approval letter over the next year. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/nclbfinalassess/.
Caring About Every Child
On June 24, Secretary Spellings addressed the National Parent Teacher Association's annual convention, urging parents to be interested in the experiences of all children, including those who have slipped through the cracks. "We have double duty," Spellings, the mother of two daughters, said, "to advocate for all children, not just your own, and to make your community care about all children as well.... Achievement for all students must matter to all of us. At some point in the future, if 40 percent of Americans don't have the skills to hold a job, we'll see crime, hopelessness, and despair on the rise." Then, turning to the organization itself, the Secretary noted PTA's "unique role to play" in the success of No Child Left Behind. "You are a 'non-vested stakeholder.' You are not on the payroll. You are not captive to the system. You work outside the system to make the system better and are free to ask the toughest questions. You do what you do because you want to, because you believe that all kids deserve to be educated. You serve the kids in the system, not the grown-ups. Your mission explicitly states that your focus is on the parents and the children." Her request? In the next five years, the PTA reach twice as many parents as today. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2005/06/06242005.html.
Appropriations Bill
That same day (June 24), the House approved its FY 2006 education appropriations bill. In a statement (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/06/06172005.html), Secretary Spellings praised the creation of an $100 million Teacher Incentive Fund, which will reward teachers and principals who show progress in raising achievement and closing the achievement gap, and increased funding for Pell Grants (see more below). Attention now moves to the Senate. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/news.html#06action.
Paying for Higher Education
Earlier this month, the Bush administration sent Congress a set of recommendations for revamping student aid programs under the Higher Education Act. In total, these proposals would generate over $27 million in benefits to students over the next 10 years, including the following:
- providing greater access to disadvantaged students to pursue high-quality education (components include strengthening the Pell Grant program by eliminating its budgetary shortfall while increasing annual disbursements to qualified students; Enhanced Pell Grant funding of $33 million intended to encourage students to take demanding high school courses; and increasing loan limits for some undergraduate, graduate, and professional students);
- making permanent the expanded loan forgiveness provisions of the Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act of 2004, which forgive up to $17,500 in loans for highly qualified math, science, and special education teachers serving low-income communities);
- investing $50 million in a new Math and Science Scholars Program to encourage students to enter the vital fields of math and science; and
- providing $125 million for Community College Access Grants through the Department to expand dual enrollment programs designed to bolster college enrollment and completion, particularly among low-income students.
Over one million more low-income students are receiving Pell Grants this year than when the President first took office, and, under the President' FY 2006 budget request, funding for the Pell Grant program will have grown by $4.9 billion (or 56 percent) since FY 2001. Moreover, overall postsecondary student financial aid will have increased from $48 billion to $78 billion. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/2006-postsecondary-budget.html.
New Nominations
President Bush has nominated Stephanie Johnson Monroe to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights and Terrell Halaska to be Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs. Recently, Monroe served as Chief Counsel for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Previously, she was Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Children and Families Subcommittee. Halaska currently serves as a Special Assistant to President for Domestic Policy. Earlier, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of Health and Human Services. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/06/06232005.html and http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/06/06302005.html
Research Priorities
The Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is inviting comments on developed priorities. The priorities were devised by Russ Whitehurst, the director of IES, and must be approved by the 15-member National Board for Education Sciences. Still, before proposing the priorities to the board, he is seeking public input. The long-term goals associated with IES' priorities are three-fold: first, to develop or identify a substantial number of programs, practices, policies, and approaches that are effective in enhancing academic achievement and that are widely deployed and implemented; second, to identify what does not work and what is problematic, and thereby encourage innovating and further research; and third, to develop dissemination strategies and sources of information on the results of education research that are routinely used by educators, policymakers, and the general public when making education decisions. IES' "over-arching priority" is research that contributes to improved academic achievement for all students. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/proprule/2005-2/061605a.html. (Comments must be received on or before August 16.)
Quote to Note
"I know how hard it is to compete for attention in the high-speed, interconnected, I-pod lovin', 24-7 media-rich world in which we are raising our children. I am living it.... It's not easy to stay involved in your child's school, especially if you're a single parent like I was, or a parent who doesn't speak English, or a working mom.... [But] No Child Left Behind gives parents information about their school's performance; gives parents options if their local school isn't serving their needs; and provides free tutoring for their children who are struggling. In fact, the word 'parent' is mentioned 651 times in No Child Left Behind. The law puts parents front and center! We as parents now know more about our schools than ever before and have many more options to ensure our children's success."
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (6/24/05)
Upcoming Events
Don't forget! There are two more public meetings scheduled to solicit feedback on proposed regulations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act: San Antonio (7/7) and Washington, DC (7/12). For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html.
Next month, both Secretary Spellings and Deputy Secretary Ray Simon will speak at the Education Commission of the States' National Forum on Education Policy (July 11-15). Also, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education Susan Sclafani and Mississippi Superintendent of Education (and Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education-nominee) Henry Johnson will participate in workshops focused on improving math and science education, and Special Assistant Alan Endicott will facilitate a roundtable on helping states implement the law. For more information, please go to http://www.ecs.org/nf2005.
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Transforming Cultures
|Some 60 percent of ecosystem services (e.g., climate regulation, fresh water, waste treatment, fisheries) is being degraded or used unsustainably. The damage is the result of cultural systems that encourage people to define their happiness and success in terms of how much they consume. This tendency, coupled with unsustainable population growth rates, is overwhelming our finite planet, threatening to cause significant disruptions to Earth's climate and ecosystems, and subsequently to human civilization.
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|About Transforming Cultures
Like a tsunami, consumerism has engulfed human cultures and Earth's ecosystems. Left unaddressed, we risk global disaster. But if we channel this wave, intentionally transforming our cultures to center on sustainability, we will not only prevent catastrophe, but may usher in an era of sustainability—one that allows all people to thrive while protecting, even restoring, Earth.
Worldwatch Institute's Transforming Cultures project turns a critical eye to how we can shift today's consumer cultures toward cultures of sustainability. The key to this transformation will lie in harnessing institutions that play a central role in shaping society—such as the media, educational services, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to instill this new cultural orientation.
The project also seeks to bring women into educational, economic, political and health equality with men. This will require the erosion of cultural norms that promote early and frequent childbearing and expanding women's capacity to choose when to bear children. Studies show that such advances slow and eventually end population growth, allowing for more sustainable development worldwide.
State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures — From Consumerism to Sustainability — Demonstrating the need for a shift to a culture of sustainability and illustrating how people around the world are already taking important steps
***Centre UNESCO de Catalunya, Worldwatch's Catalan partner, released its teen version of State of the World 2010, available in English, Spanish, French, and Catalan. New: Worldwatch Brazil and Institute Akuto have released the book in Portuguese as well. ***
Population and Gender — Encouraging health and educational investments that empower women to make their own family planning decisions
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|Recent Transforming Cultures Blog Entries
Wrapping up the year - and the Transforming Cultures blog.
Nurturing a Sustainable Childhood
Worldwatch Institute Europe's releases its newest report.
Governments Promote Planned Obsolescence, Too
The public as well as the private sector encourages overconsumption resulting from faulty products.
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|Related Links
|Watch the trailer for "Mother," a documentary that highlights the need to expand women's rights to effectively and equitably address world population problems. Read Worldwatch President Robert Engelman's review.
|Volume 6 of the the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability features the article "Population Indicators" by Worldwatch President Robert Engelman. In the article, Engelman calls upon policymakers to turn to key demographic indicators in crafting laws that help empower women and speed the progression towards a sustainable society for all.


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Fielder flubs it in Rangers loss to Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Texas Rangers took an 8-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in their first road game of the season Friday night, and it was an especially bad night for first baseman Prince Fielder and pitcher Joe Saunders.
"It was just one of those days," said Fielder, who had one of the Rangers' three errors and a base-running mistake that took Texas out of a possible big inning. "Everyone played hard, we made mistakes here and there. It just didn't go our way. It's nothing that you can't really see. We've just got to come back tomorrow and fix it."
Saunders (0-1) left in the fourth inning with a bruised left ankle after getting hit by Evan Longoria's liner. Saunders gave up five runs and six hits, including a three-run home run to Sean Rodriguez, in 3 2-3 innings.
"I think I was trying to be too fine early in the game," Saunders said. "The pitch to Rodriguez was a decent pitch; he just put a good swing on it. Probably the wrong pitch at the wrong time."
Rodriguez tied a career-high with four RBIs and Jake Odorizzi got his first major league win for the Rays (3-2).
Rodriguez was back in the lineup after missing Thursday night's 7-2 win over Toronto for the birth of his son.
Odorizzi (1-0) allowed three hits in six innings in his seventh big league start and 10th game overall. Ryan Hanigan hit a three-run homer during the fifth for the Rays.
Fielder got his first RBI since Sept. 22, a drought of 20 regular and postseason games, with a run-scoring single in the eighth. But the Rangers (2-2) wasted a great scoring opportunity in the fourth, when they were down 4-0.
With runners on first and second and one out, Mitch Moreland singled into the right-field corner, but Fielder got tagged out in a rundown between third and home.
"Prince just blew it. He just messed up. That's all you can say about it," said manager Ron Washington.
"I just didn't get a good jump," Fielder said. "It was my fault."
The inning ended when Donnie Murphy struck out.
Elvis Andrus and Adrian Beltre committed the other Rangers errors.
"It was obvious during training that every time we made a mistake it cost us," Washington said. "We certainly have to tighten down our defense. We don't have a pitching staff that strikes people out right now and we certainly can't have them getting four outs an inning. So that certainly has to get better, and it will."
Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon won his first replay reversal in the seventh after it was first ruled that right fielder Wil Myers didn't make the catch while sliding forward on J.P. Arencibia's two-out flare. After a 1-minute, 43-second delay, the umpires changed the call to an out.
NOTES: Texas RHP Nick Martinez will make his major league debut in Saturday night's game against the Rays. "Go out there and relax, and use his pitches," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Get us as many outs as you can. Be out there as long as you can. Believing in himself, believing in the stuff he has, and using it." … LHP David Price will start Saturday for the Rays. … Rangers LHP Matt Harrison (back) will make his next minor league start Tuesday. He went two innings in a rain-shortened outing Thursday for Double-A Frisco. … Tampa Bay sent RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo (elbow ligament replacement surgery) to Triple-A Durham on a rehab assignment.


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Web addresses almost always begin with http://www. But Safari has a cool trick: If you just type a name, you usually get to the appropriate website that way without typing http, ://, or www. If you type apple in the Address field and press Return, for example, you go to Apple's website. Try it — it's pretty slick.
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Texas State Bison Herd to Once Again Freely Roam the Caprock
Sept. 17 Restoration Celebration Slated at Caprock Canyons State Park
QUITAQUE – Eighty descendants of the great Southern Plains bison herd that numbered in the tens of millions in the mid-19th century will once again roam the range of their ancestors at Caprock Canyons State Park.
That means that for the first time since remnants of legendary Panhandle pioneer rancher Charles Goodnight's historic herd were introduced to the park in 1998, visitors will be able to have an up-close, Yellowstone-type encounter with the shaggy beasts. Up until now, the official state bison herd, confined to a 300-acre area of the park, could only be viewed from a considerable distance.
The bison's new range will consist of more than 700 acres of restored native grass prairie in front of the Visitor Center and on the north and south sides of Theo Lake, where they will be fenced off from the campgrounds and day use area, according to park superintendent Donald Beard, who notes the bison will be in a "semi-free-ranging state" inside a perimeter fence.
"This is first and foremost a restoration project," Beard says, "not an exhibit. We're not just showing the bison, but are restoring an indigenous animal to its native habitat. For park visitors, it will be just like experiencing deer, roadrunners or any other wildlife in the wild. But it's important to remember that the bison have the right-of-way and need to be given a large buffer zone."
An official ribbon cutting marking the completion of Phase I – the release of the bison into an expanded range — is scheduled for 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 17 to kick off the Caprock Partners Foundation's Texas State Bison Herd Restoration Celebration. Weekend entry fees will be waived. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, living history exhibits, interactive displays and food and drink booths will be open. At noon, a $10 bison burger meal will be served, with proceeds going toward the bison restoration project.
Beard notes that when people drive into the park, they will be entering the bison's range so will have to stop to let them cross the road. New entry signs posted will warn visitors of the bison's presence and urge caution around the beasts that weigh up to 2,000 pounds. Rearview mirror-hanging park entry permits will remind motorists: "Warning: Bison are wild animals, do not approach."
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has made safety and education the watchwords for Phase I of the park's bison restoration project. At check-in, park customers will receive an informational brochure about the bison that reminds visitors to get no closer to the animals than 50 yards and to not feed or harass the bison. Any violation is a Class C misdemeanor and will be enforced.
Future phases of the bison project, which depend on adequate funding, have as the ultimate goal the restoration of the herd to the park's entire 15,000-acres.
The small Texas State Bison Herd is all that remains of the vast Southern Plains herd that prior to the 1870s numbered between 30 million and 60 million head. The American bison were almost totally wiped out when the last of the Plains Indians were driven from their homeland and the railroad brought hordes of buffalo hunters who slaughtered the animals for their meat, hides and horns.
The Goodnight Herd was one of the five foundation herds that supplied stock to save American bison from extinction and the only Southern Plains bison herd established. Caprock Canyons bison are the last descendants of the herd that supplied wild stock for Yellowstone National Park and some of the largest zoos and ranches in the nation. The bison donated to the state by JA Ranch owners Monte Ritchie and Ninia Bivins were sent to Caprock Canyons and genetically tested. TPWD kept only those which had no cattle DNA.
Through continued study and genetic mapping of the Texas State Bison Herd, researchers have isolated three unique genetic markers in their DNA. Found only in the Goodnight Herd descendants, presence of these genes supports the claim that these animals are all that remain of the Southern Plains subspecies and are separate from Northern Plains and Woods bison subspecies.
Concerned about an increasing high newborn mortality rate within the captive Texas herd, TPWD wildlife biologists have over the years brought in new bison bulls from out of state to introduce new DNA. Park officials and geneticists believe greater genetic diversity will result in a larger and healthier herd.
Caprock Canyons State Park is located about 50 miles northeast of Plainview on FM 1065 approximately 4 miles north of State Highway 86. For more information, call (806) 455-1492 or visit the TPWD Website.
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- http://tpwd.texas.gov/spdest/findadest/parks/caprock_canyons/
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My friend Katy Amory recently told me about a project that feels very Permanent Record-ish. Here's the deal: In the mid-1700s, a British philanthropist named Thomas Coram opened the London Foundling Hospital, where poverty-stricken mothers who couldn't care for their newborn babies could anonymously "donate" the babies for adoption. In each case, the baby's record at the hospital was accompanied by a small piece of fabric or cloth provided by the mother -- a sort of textile fingerprint that could later be used for identification purposes if need be. As you can see from the example shown above, the fabric swatches were sometimes accompanied by heartfelt (and heartbreaking) notes from the mother.
Two and a half centuries later, the Foundling Hospital is now the Foundling Museum. All of the hospital's records have been kept and conserved, including the little fabric swatches (which also serve as one of the best surviving collections of 18th-century textiles). In 2010 the museum ran an exhibition called "Threads of Feeling," which focused on the swatches. You can see the exhibit here, and there's some good background information here and here.
These records feel like cousins to the Manhattan Trade School report cards -- each one represents a story waiting to be told, and collectively they tell an even bigger story. Great stuff.


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Ultramarine is the standard warm blue, a brilliant blue pigment that has the most purple and least green in its undertone. It has a moderate to high tinting strength and a beautiful transparency. Synthetic Ultramarine is not as vivid a blue as natural Ultramarine. Ultramarine dries slowly in oil and tends to produce clean, though granular, washes in watercolor. French Ultramarine mixes well with Alizarin colors in oil and watercolor form to create a range of purples and violets. It can dull when mixed with white in acrylic form, but mixes well with other colors. The shade varies based on manufacturer. Considered a great color for glazes, it is not suitable for frescoing.
Ultramarine has excellent permanence, although synthetic Ultramarine is not as permanent as natural Ultramarine. It may discolor if exposed to acid because of its sulfuric content.
Ultramarine has no significant hazards.
The name for this pigment comes from the Middle Latin ultra, meaning beyond, and mare, meaning sea, because it was imported from Asia to Europe by sea. It is a prominent component of lapis lazuli and was used on Asian temples starting in the 6th century. It was one of the most expensive pigments in 16th century Europe, worth twice its weight in gold, and so was used sparingly and when commissions were larger. Ultramarine is currently imitated by a process invented in France in 1826 by Jean Baptiste Guimet, making blue affordable to artists and extending the range of colors on their palettes.
Artificial Ultramarine, French Blue, French Ultramarine, Gmelin's Blue, Guimet's Blue, Permanent Blue, Royal Blue, Synthetic Ultramarine. New Blue describes particular shades of Ultramarine. Armenian Blue and Lazuline Blue are names for genuine Lapiz Ultramarine. Sky Blue is a pale tone of Ultramarine.
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Phthalo Blues are completely lightfast and stable and are permanent for all paint uses. They are currently used in inks, coatings, and many plastics due to their stability and are considered a standard pigment in printing ink and the packaging industry.
Phthalo Blues have no significant hazards, although those made before 1982 contained some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).
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Cake Wrecks the Game Show?
Some cakes are like those ink blot tests you saw in grade school: baffling blobs of color open to interpretation. Well, not exactly; cakes are usually supposed to look like something in particular. Sometimes they taste better, too.
Anyway, since I've gotten a few of these "ink blot" type cakes submitted, I thought it'd be fun to add a little suspense to your daily dose of Wreckage. That's right, boys and girls, now it's time to play...
Everyone ready? Ok, clear your mind of all thoughts. Now, scroll down and tell me what you see:
"What's that? Ah, you see the moon cooking on the grill in a paper bag? [scribbling on notepad] Interesting, veeery interesting... [looking over glasses] And tell me, how IS your relationship with your mother?"
Check back tomorrow for the "answer": I'll post a picture of what the cake was supposed to look like. In the mean time, let's see who can come up with the most outrageous explanation. I may even post the top 3 guesses here, so bring on the funny, folks; fame and fortune await!*
Thanks to Dana W. for inspiring a brand new category! Oh, and Dana? Don't go giving away the answer just yet, k?
*By "fame" I mean a shout-out to your posting name, and "fortune" is used more in the "destiny" sense of the word than the "wealth or riches" sense. So in other words, no, you won't be getting any money*. Unless someone sends it to you, of course. But that someone would not be me. So probably not.
* Or begetting any money, either; 'cuz that'd just be weird. And wrong. But mostly weird.


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In what even Reuters admits sounds like the script of a "daring crime movie", a group of around 20 armed criminals in Brazil have got away with $US36 million worth of Samsung gear after robbing a factory.
First, having waited for the sun to go down, seven of the thieves stole a company shuttle bus, taking two of the employees inside hostage. Using those hostages as cover, they drove in past security and rounded up the rest of the staff - we're talking around 100 people - and "made sure none of them could communicate with the outside."
That's when a further 13 criminals drove inside the factory in trucks. Seven trucks. Over the course of four hours they loaded as many phones, tablets and laptops as they could, then took off into the night.
Brazil bandits steal $US36 million of Samsung phones, computers [Reuters]


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Griffin leads Clips past Cavs to 11th straight win
Chris Paul had 15 assists and scored 11 of his 16 points in the final 6:04 for the Clippers, who haven't lost since Feb. 21.
Los Angeles matched the longest winning streak in the NBA this season, equaling 11-game runs in November by Portland and San Antonio.
Luol Deng scored 23 points and Dion Waiters had 15 for the Cavaliers, who lost Kyrie Irving in the first quarter to a left biceps injury. Cleveland had won on its first two stops of a three-game West Coast road trip, but never led against the Clippers.
Reggie Bullock scored a career-high 14 points on his 23rd birthday as Los Angeles matched the 1974-75 Buffalo Braves for the second-longest winning streak in franchise history.
DeAndre Jordan added 15 points and 11 rebounds for the Clippers, who won 17 straight games during their unbeaten run through December 2012.
Griffin threw himself quite a party with yet another dynamic game on both ends of the court. He has scored at least 20 points in 26 consecutive games, a mark exceeded only by Kevin Durant this season.
The crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to Griffin during a dead ball in the second quarter, and he gave a sheepish grin and a wave while waiting to inbound the ball.
Jarrett Jack scored seven straight points during a 12-0 Cleveland run early in the fourth quarter, trimming the Clippers' former 21-point lead to seven. But Paul shook off a rough shooting night with three jumpers in quick succession, and the Clippers closed out their sixth straight home victory.
Irving, Cleveland's leader in scoring and assists, went to the Cavs' locker room late in the first quarter and didn't return. The All-Star Game MVP missed all five of his shots against the Clippers and was injured shortly before he left the game.
The Clippers were short-handed as well: Jamal Crawford missed his fourth straight game with a strained left calf, and fill-in starter Darren Collison was ruled out 15 minutes before tipoff with a stomach virus. Los Angeles already is without J.J. Redick, who hasn't played since early February.
Los Angeles scored the game's first 11 points and jumped out to a 17-3 lead just 6 minutes in when Cleveland missed nine of its first 10 shots. Deng kept it close with 12 first-half points, but the Clippers' remaining bench players came up big, with Bullock and Danny Granger scoring nine points apiece.
Griffin even scored while Spencer Hawes flagrantly fouled him in the final minute of the first half, muscling the ball home in a remarkable display of strength. His three-point play put the Clippers up 52-38 at halftime.
NOTES: Hawes got his second technical foul and an ejection with 1:19 to play while standing by Cleveland's bench. Hawes, who scored 14 points, sarcastically waved goodbye to referee Scott Wall as he left. ... Metta World Peace watched the game from a baseline seat next to the Cavaliers' bench. The erstwhile Ron Artest won a ring in this building in 2010 with the Lakers, who let him go last summer. ... Cleveland had won four of its previous five road games against the Clippers.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Talk about getting a spit shine.
The seemingly unending series of disgusting and reprehensible antics that's been caught on tape in the New York City subway system recently has racked up yet another entry.
This time, a man with either the world's worst foot fetish or in desperate need of a shoe shine is caught on tape vigorously licking his black shoe clean.
Video: Man Licks Shoe Clean
We're not talking about a slight, "A Christmas Story"-like sticking of a tongue against something.
This is more like a tongue-lashing.
The foot-in-mouth incident was apparently taped on the 5 train Wednesday, May 11.
What's going on the New York City subways lately? Is this business as usual or has it gotten worse? If you saw someone doing this on the subway, what would you do? Sound off in our comments section.


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I am looking for some examples, and hopefully some short biographies on mathematicians who lost interest in Math along the way, and somehow got rejuvenated again. (Better still, who managed to do something interesting)
I hope to gather these examples to encourage myself. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!


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MARTINEZ, Ga. – The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) recently announced its PBC Men's Golf All-Academic Team, with No. 6 Georgia College & State University taking half of the six spots on the squad.
Senior Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) joined juniors Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) and Billy Shida (Berkeley Lakes, Ga.) on the six-member team. All three Bobcats were on the inaugural PBC All-Academic Team in 2009.
Yonz owns the Georgia College athletic department's best GPA at a 3.95 in chemistry. Johansson keeps a 3.42 in management with a minor in international business. Shida has a 3.36 in accounting.
The teams are part of a season-long program recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of PBC student-athletes in the classroom as well as on the field. To be eligible for the All-Academic team, a student-athlete must 1) participate in at least half of his/her team's events and be either a starter or significant contributor; 2) achieved a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and 3) completed at least one full academic year at his or her current institution. The Peach Belt Conference Sports Information Directors oversee and select the teams.
The 2009-10 season was another great one for the Bobcats, one featuring three tournament wins, including the 2010 Peach Belt Championships. Senior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was chosen PBC Player of the Year, with Johansson, Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) and Shida also taking all-conference honors.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama bluntly told doctors Monday he is against their highest legislative priority — limiting malpractice awards — and earned a smattering of boos from an audience he was here to court for his health care overhaul plans.
Pushing anew to reshape the nation's health care delivery system and extend coverage to the millions who don't have it, Obama went before the annual meeting of the American Medical Association and took on others who take issue with parts of his plan as well.
Calling them "naysayers," "fear-mongers" and peddlers of "Trojan horse" falsehoods, Obama warned interest groups, lobbyists and others against using "fear tactics to paint any effort to achieve reform as an attempt to socialize medicine."
"There are those who will try and scuttle this opportunity no matter what," Obama said.
GOP Rep. Tom Price of Georgia — a former orthopedic surgeon — reacted preemptively to Obama's speech by accusing him of seeking a "government takeover" of health care. Speaking to reporters on a conference call organized by the Republican National Committee, Price said a committee that Obama's administration has established to study the effectiveness of various medical treatments would turn into a "rationing board" to overrule doctors and deny patients care.
And Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and other Republicans introduced legislation to ban the rationing of care on such a basis.
The economic stimulus legislation that passed over the winter provides funding for "comparative effectiveness research," and the GOP proposal would block the government from using the results to "deny coverage of an item or service" in a federal health care program.
Addressing the AMA
Addressing the doctors in Chicago, the president said for the first time publicly that health care reform, including covering the almost 50 million Americans who have no insurance, would cost about $1 trillion over 10 years.
Video: Biden on health care reform "That's real money, even in Washington," he said. "But remember: That's less than we are projected to have spent on the war in Iraq. And also remember: Failing to reform our health care system in a way that genuinely reduces cost growth will cost us trillions of dollars more in lost economic growth and lower wages."
Aides had said previously that the administration wants to keep the cost around $1 trillion, while also acknowledging it might go higher.
Obama has taken steps in recent days to outline where money could be found.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
He wants to cut federal payments to hospitals by about $200 billion and cut $313 billion from Medicare and Medicaid over 10 years. He also is proposing a $635 billion in tax increases and spending cuts in the health care system as a "down payment" for his plan.
The president traveled to Chicago to talk to the 250,000-physician group in hopes of persuading doctors not to fight him on reform. The nation's doctors, like many other groups, are divided over the president's proposals. Many are skeptical of his plan to create government-sponsored insurance as an option alongside private coverage.
Malpractice caps
They also want limits on jury awards in medical malpractice lawsuits — caps that Democrats, including Obama, have long opposed and Republicans led by former President George W. Bush long pushed for.
Video: Compromise on health care? Obama drew hearty applause with a focus on the particular concerns of the medical profession: telling them any system that relies on them "to be bean-counters and paper-pushers" is out of whack and that his push to investigate best-practices and eliminate unnecessary procedures "is not about dictating what kind of care should be provided."
"I need your help, doctors," he said. "To most Americans, you are the health care system. The fact is, Americans — and I include myself, Michelle, and our kids in this — we just do what you tell us to do."
But the malpractice issue is the most provocative with this audience, which chafes at the heavy expense of malpractice insurance.
Obama started by sympathizing with doctors "who feel like they are constantly looking over their shoulder for fear of lawsuits" and said he recognizes any health overhaul will be hard to accomplish without changing that. The crowd burst into loud support.
"Don't get too excited yet. ... Just hold onto your horses here, guys," Obama said as he prepared to deliver what he knew would be disappointing news.
Video: San Francisco mayor discusses health care "I want to be honest with you. I'm not advocating caps on malpractice awards," the president said, greeted by a smattering of boos, a remarkable public response to a popular president accustomed to cheering audiences.
He added, without offering specifics, that "excessive defensive medicine" that is conducted out of fear of lawsuits and that increases health costs should be curbed.
Though he offered no support for limiting lawsuits, Obama raised the antennae of trial lawyers' groups just by mentioning the issue.
The Center for Justice and Democracy, which says it advocates for injured consumers, attorneys and others, released a letter to Obama signed by 64 survivors of medical malpractice saying they were "extremely concerned that the rights of medical malpractice patients may be stripped away as part of your national health care proposal."
"The notion that 'defensive medicine' is leading to higher health care costs is not supported by empirical data or academic literature," Les Weisbrod, president of the American Association for Justice, the main lobby for trial lawyers.
Obama co-sponsored legislation with Hillary Clinton when both were in the Senate in 2005 that would have created a program to allow patients to learn of medical errors and establish negotiated compensation with the offer of an apology.
'Trojan horse'
The president directly took on criticism from former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, though not by name. On Sunday, Romney, widely expected to consider another run at the White House in 2012, called Obama's support for public insurance a "Trojan horse" to create a single-payer system like Britain's.
"When you hear the naysayers claim that I'm trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: They are not telling the truth," Obama said.
The president repeated that he is "open" to a mandate requiring all Americans to have health insurance. But he said that any plan must address the rising costs of a system he called a "ticking time bomb" for the federal budget.
"A big part of what led General Motors and Chrysler into trouble," he said, "were the huge costs they racked up providing health care for their workers — costs that made them less profitable and less competitive with automakers around the world."
"If we do not fix our health care system," Obama said, "America may go the way of GM -- paying more, getting less, and going broke."
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[DONE, needs editing and pics]Winemakers Calendar - June
In progress... Apologoes for this being late. Should have all my recipes in here today and tomorrow, anyone else got any for this month?
June is here. Summer at last, most years at least. And finally it's the start of what I think of as wine making
. With fruit.
Not the very prime of fruit wine season yet, but it's when I hope to get at least a couple of batches on the go. When exactly you'll do this rather depends on where you are in the country; here in Cambridge the strawberry glut is big and early, followed by summer raspberries and currants shortly afterwards. Even gooseberries hit their prime in June.
But there are also other wines to make this month; summer herbs, and the first vegetable wines are do-able, including the famous (if you remember the classic comedy
The Good Life
) pea pod 'burgundy'.
(my first batch of the month, rose petal)
Gil says : Here in
, the start of June marks the last chance to make
wine (see April recipes) until the autumn's new growth. They're starting to flower and getting a bit coarse, so just pick the very tips, including the flower bud. Although the gorse is past its best, the
is looking good, and a wine can be made from its flowers using the Gorse Flower wine recipe from the May Winemakers Calendar. Not as coconutty as gorse, but an awful lot less prickly to pick.
Hawthorn blossom
wine is another one for early June (up here) - they're in full flower now, though may have finished down south. Elder trees are coming into blossom in the valleys, though not yet up in the hills : you can make
wine (see May for recipes). The classic wine for midsummer has to be
- the leaves are a good size now, so picking 8 pints volume of them for a gallon of wine doesn't take as long as earlier in the season, but they're not too tannic either (see May for recipe). The wild roses are in bloom : rosa canina (the big-petalled bright pink ones); rosa spinosissima (the smaller creamy yellow ones) and the pale pinky-white ones : you could make a
Rose Petal
wine from them, using the recipe in this article.
Gooseberry Wine
3lb to 6lb gooseberries
2 1/2 lb to 3 lb sugar
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 gallon water
1 cup strong tea
1 tsp wine nutrient
Champagne yeast
(gooseberries growing wild in Cambridge; alas, that bush is no more)
Gooseberry wine is, quite simply, as good as anything you can make. Gooseberries make a fabulous wine, in a good year indistinguishable from a good champagne gone a little flat.
Now, I know that I've covered a big range of gooseberry quantities there... I usually use about 3 1/2 lb, but you can really push this as far as you like. 6lb of very ripe berries with 3lb of sugar gives you a sweet dessert wine, 3lb of dry berries with 2 1/2 lb of sugar gives you a light, crisp table wine. Take your pick.
Put the gooseberries in a straining bag, in a sterile bucket. Boil up your water with the wine nutrient, sugar, and lemon juice, and pour onto the gooseberries. Let them cool, and when cool squish them up with the end of a sterilised rolling pin (or something), add a teaspoon of pectinase and also the activated champagne yeast.
Leave it in this primary ferment for a week, then decant into a demijon and progress as usual.
Now, gooseberries on their own make a superb wine, but don't stop there. Why not try gooseberry and elderflower, gooseberry and redcurrant, or even a gooseberry mead?
Strawberry Wine
4lb strawberries
3 lb sugar
1 gallon of water
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
1 cup strong tea
1 teaspoon citric acid
1 teaspoon pectinase
champagne yeast
Strawberry wine is gorgeous, but you have to do this right...
Put the fruit into the straining bag, and put that into a sterile bucket. Boil the water along with the tea, citric acid, yeast nutrient and sugar. Pour this on to the fruit, and when cool add the pectinase and yeast.
Give it a day or so, then mash the fruit up with a sterilised rolling pin or something, then one more day in primary ferment. Rack into a demijon and keep it in the
, or you'll lose the colour. Ferment out as normal, and drink it young. It's better younger than older.
Broad Bean Wine
4lb of old broad beans (shelled weight)
4 oz raisins
2 1/2 lb sugar
1 lemon
1 gallon water
General purpose yeast
Funny one this one. I mean, who would have 4 lb of old broad beans? Well, you'd be surprised. Go wandering along by allotments towards the end of the month and it ain't unlikely that you can swap something for a binbag full of old beans that are going past their best.
Anyway... Weight the beans, out of their shells, and put them into a thumping great big pan. Add the water, and boil them for an hour. Some of the old recipes now say you can eat the beans, but generally speaking, don't. If they're old and tough enough to withstand an hour boiling, theres nowt you can put them in to hide how nasty they'll be by now. This is the important part;
don't break them
. Don't mash them up at all.
Scoop out the beans, add the sugar, raisins, and juice of the lemon, bring back to the boil and pour into a sterile bucket. Add the yeast whem cool, and leave in primary ferment for a week, then rack into a demijon and progress as normal. Good to drink in about 8 months.
Lettuce Pray
3lb lettuce
1/2 lb raisins
2 oranges
1 lemon
3 lb sugar
1 gallon water
general purpose wine yeast
I know, tacky name.
It's in June that the first spring lettuces are starting to bolt. Again, either pick your own spares that you didn't eat or go scavenging down on the plots, someone will have some lettuce going to seed. You can either compost your old lettuce, use it to feed to snails to purge them, or make it into wine. Your choice.
Pluck off any bad or dirty leaves, and boil the lettuce for about 20 minutes. Take out the lettuce gloop, add the sugar till dissolved, and pour into a sterile bucket into which you have squeezed the lemon, oranges, and tossed the fruit rinds in too, and of course the raisins. When cool also add the activated yeast. Give it a week in primary before decanting into a demijon.
Peapod Burgundy
3lb peapods
2 1/2 lb sugar
1 gallon water
2 teaspoons citric acid
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
1 teaspoon pectinase
1 cup strong tea
Champagne yeast
Remember the stuff in the Good Life that always had Margo acting like she'd be all over Tom if she had any more of it? Well, this is it, although this recipe is I think better than the one Tom Good would have used (if I'm any judge, he'd be using the one from CJJ Berrys 'Winemakers Companion').
Peapods can be saved whenever you have them and frozen till you have enough; heres my current 'stash', I'm about half way to havnig enough for a batch.
Boil your peapods with the sugar, citric acid, tea and yeast nutrient for about 20 minutes, then pour the whole schebang into a sterile bucket. Add the pectinase and activated champagne yeast when cool.
Give it a couple of weeks in primary, then strain into a demijon. Takes a good while to clear, longer to be drinkable, longer still to be good. But what
are you going to do with your peapods?
Thyme Flower Mead
4 cups fresh thyme (sprigs and flowers)
3 lb honey
1 gallon wine
1 cup strong tea
juice of 2 lemons
champagne yeast
The above is an orange thyme plant in my garden. Along with its sisters, I hope it'll provide enough for my next batch.
Gently simmer the honey in the water, with the tea, lemon juice and yeast nutrient, until no more scum floats off (usually 30-40 minutes). Keep skimming the scum off.
Put the thyme into a straining bag in a sterile bucket, pour on the water/honey mix, cover, let it cool. Add the activated yeast, and stir it once a day for four days. Remove the straining bag and decant the liquid into a demijohn, ferment out as normal.
Apricot Wine
4lb apricots
juice of 1 lemon
3 lb sugar
1 gallon water
1 cup tea
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
1 teastpoon pectinase
white wine or general purpose yeast
Keep your eyes open for some time in late June when the price of apricots in the shops plummets. There'll be a day or two when the local market is practically giving them away. Then
Half and stone the apricots, put them into your straining bag in a sterile bucket. Boil the water with sugar, yeast nutrient, tea and lemon juice, pour on to the fruit and add the yeast and pectinase when cool. Give it about a week in primary.
Good to drink when surprisingly young. The wine, not the drinker.
Gil's Broom Flower Champagne
(kaboom, kaboom, kaboom...)
4-6 pints broom flowers
1lb 9oz sugar
juice of 1 lemon
1 litre white grape juice
1/3 mug black tea (pot dregs)
OK, here's the proper method to do a flower champagne. Requires a bit of forethought, because you start the fermentation, and add the flowers after (rather than both at the same time). But you can add the flowers as you start, so don't worry.
1. Boil 2 pints water and dissolve the sugar in it. Allow to cool to finger-warm.
2. Put into a plastic fermentation bucket, and add the grape juice, lemon juice and tea.
3. Make a yeast starter, and add to bucket
Making a yeast starter
Does everyone know what a yeast starter is ?
If not, it's this :
a. Boil some water, and fill a mug about 1/4 full.
b. Add a teaspoon of sugar and stir to dissolve
c. Add cold water to about 1/2 mug
d. Stick your finger in - it should feel tepid
e. If it is, add 1 teaspoon of yeast, and put in a warm place for 30 minutes to start working
f. Add it to your wine mix in the bucket
Back to the recipe...
4. When the yeast is working, leave the bucket in a warm place for 2-3 days to get the most vigorous bit over with.
5. Go and pick the flowers.
6. Put them in a muslin bag / jelly bag or what ever, tied up with string, and suspended in the liquid.
7. The bag will float. Sterilise a heavy plate and put it on top to weight it down.
8. Leave to ferment for 5 more days
9. Take the plate and bag out
10. Strain the must through another jelly bag or whatever into a demijohn, put an airlock on, and leave to ferment out.
11. Rack as usual.
12. Leave for a couple of months.
13. Rack again, as usual
Then see instructions for Nettle Champagne in May Calendar for turning what you have into a sparkling wine.
You could make an ordinary non-sparkling wine using broom flowers : just increase the sugar to 2.5lbs per gallon. After second racking (13. above), leave for 2-3 months, then bottle.
Gil's Rhubarb Wine
Use same method but the following ingredients per gallon if you want a drier wine :
2.75-3lb rhubarb
1kg-2.5lb sugar
small piece of bashed ginger
juice of 1 lemon
1 litre white grape juice
1/2 mug black tea
For general principles of rhubarb wine, see the April article. Here in the South we get our rhubarb earlier than Gil does, where the chill wind rushing through the passes keeps things a little behind. And the weather is colder too.
If you use 3lb rhubarb or less per gallon, you don't need to bother with precipitated chalk to neutralise the oxalic acid - it also neutralises the flavour.
Clover Wine
1 gallon of clover blossoms, red and white
1 gallon water
3lb sugar
1 teaspoon citric acid
juice of 1 orange
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
1 cup of strong tea
general purpose wine yeast
Put the clover blossoms into your nylon straining bag, and that into a sterile bucket.
Boil the water with the sugar, orange juice, tea, citric acid and yeast nutrient. Pour that on to the flowers, cover tightly, add the yeast when it is cool. Give it a week in primary, then ferment out as normal. Makes a surprisingly aromatic wine that is good to drink about 3 months after bottling.
Redcurrant Wine
3lb red (or white) currants
3lb sugar
1 gallon water
1 cup strong tea
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
General purpose wine yeast
Make this wine by exactly the same method as the strawberry wine (above). You're aiming at a medium pale rose here, unless you're using white currants, so keep it in the dark. Don't add any acid to this wine; it won't need lemon jucie or citric acid.
Surprise (or what to do with tayberries, loganberries, raspberries...)
3lb berries
2 1/2 lb sugar
1 gallon water
1 cup strong tea
1/2 teaspoon citric acid
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
You might have a few fruit bushes here and there producing loganberries, raspberries, tayberries (like those above), salmonberries, dewberries, etc. And if you do, this is a general purpose
recipe that'll work for nearly any of them. Bear in mind that if you're using a very strongly flavoured berry you may end up with a rather overpowering wine, so blending berries together is always a good idea. I like to keep a few of different sorts in the freezer till I have enough to make a batch of wine.
Other than not having to stone the fruit, make exactly the same way as for apricot wine (above).
Rose Petal Wine
Dark red roses like the one above (from my garden) will make dark rose wine.
Make using exactly the same recipe as for thyme (above), using either 2 1/2 lb of sugar or 3 lb of honey. Use the blossom that falls from any really aromatic roses, as long as you know they haven't been sprayed (some rose growers go a bit mad fighting aphids!).
EDITED by Gil for missing apostrophes.
AND I'll cut and paste something about wines to do in Scotland in June, as we are clearly way behind you, and are still making April and May wines in June. Gooseberries and currants don't happen till August.
See thread Wines to make in June in Recipes Preserving....
gil wrote:
See thread Wines to make in June in Recipes Preserving....
Cool, ta. Haven't had time to keep up with all the threads here for a week or two
Okay... Still to come would be generic 'raspberry and cousins', redcurrant, rose petal, thyme... What else?
If I've got time this evening I'll add pics, otherwise thats ready.
I've added a bit at the start about Scottish stuff that's in season.
Excellent. Its always an issue with the monthly articles, whether its wine, foraging, on the plot or whatever; regional variations make any of these things a bit vague.
I think I'm happy with those pics and the article now.
here's more pix
they okay where I've put 'em?
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Neo-Urbanizing India: Coming Full Circle at the End of a Journey
By Erin Harrison
Hopefully, you have been an avid follower of the Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Market & Consumer Insight (MCI) team's recently concluded three-week journey across urban and rural parts of the states of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and the National Capital Region (NCR). As it came to a close, the group culled several important insights on neo-urbanization:
- How it has been unfolding
- The impact it is having
- The role of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a driver
As seen through all of the posts from the team members, and the series of items I have described in previous blogs, neo-urbanization is modernizing many areas of the world that were previously without access to healthcare, education, employment – and technology. In particular, parts of India are becoming networked hubs that are oriented and planned around smart functionality and sustainability.
Based on preliminary findings, each of the three locations – Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and the NCR – represents different stages of neo-urbanization. However, combined, they have allowed the MCI group to capture neo-urbanization in most of its gradations, according to a the final blog post that summarizes highlights of the three-week journey.


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World Bank Report Lists the Company and Describes the Pressing Need for Small-Scale Gas-to-Liquids Plants to Monetize Vast Quantities of Flared and Stranded Natural Gas
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 27, 2012) - Carbon Sciences Inc. (
Flared and stranded natural gas is abundant and available. The World Bank estimates that 134 billion cubic meters of gas was flared worldwide in 2010, equivalent to almost 5 trillion cubic feet. If all this gas were converted to liquid fuels, it would equate to around 500 million barrels each year. To avoid flaring, trillions of cubic feet are re-injected back into wells every year at a cost. Further, vast shale gas reserves have been discovered in North America and the majority of gas reserves worldwide are not big enough to make conventional GTL, LNG and CNG economic.
"In its recent natural gas analysis, the World Bank declared that 'small is beautiful' and listed Carbon Sciences as one of the players in the miniGTL field," said Byron Elton, CEO of Carbon Sciences. "Large producers, such as Shell and Sasol, have built and operate world scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants for large natural gas fields. However, the prospects for miniGTL plants in the U.S. are strong and getting stronger, providing a significant financial opportunity."
"As the world searches for the security of new energy and fuel sources, miniGTL operations have the potential to unlock a vast quantity of natural gas that is either wasted or less accessible. We believe that flared gas could generate around 3 million barrels per day of synthetic fuel, and 'problem' gas, either stranded reserves or that associated with crude oil which would currently be re-injected, a further 20 million barrels per day," concluded Elton.
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A former dairy farm and cottage on the edge of the busy Shropshire border market town of Cleobury Mortimer are to go under the auctioneer's hammer later this month.
Redthorne Cottage and Redthorne Dairy Farm are being sold separately by auctioneers Halls and each has a guide price of £100,000 to £150,000. The public auction will be held at Gainsborough House Hotel, Bewdley Hill, Kidderminster on Wednesday, June 20 at 6pm.
Redthorne Cottage, which is in need of renovation, has three bedrooms and a wc on the first floor while the ground floor comprises a rear hall, kitchen, inner hall, shower room with low level wc, sitting room with exposed ceiling timbers and lounge with a tiled fire place.
Outside there is a slabbed patio to the rear with a well stocked raised flowerbed, a lawn, parking area and a brick and corrugated store shed Redthorne Dairy Farm, located off Lion Lane and Bayton Lane, extends to just over 26 acres of fertile and productive pastureland with a range of former dairy buildings.
The buildings comprise a Nissen hut, a steel portal frame building, a lean-to, a grain silo, a dilapidated brick and corrugated iron shed, two cowsheds, lean-to timber and asbestos former cold store, two former dairies and a bottle store, a milking parlour with adjoining collecting yard and a cattle yard with adjoining stock yard and feed passage.
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Marriage bonds and allegations for London and Surrey, between the years 1597 and 1921, are now accessible at Ancestry. As the website explains:
Before civil registration began in 1837, most people in England during the timespan of these records married by banns or by licence, as required by law. The process of requesting a licence included providing a written allegation stating a couple's intent to marry and asserting that there were no legal obstacles to the marriage. From 1604 until 1823, the allegation was made sure by bond. Two witnesses, one of them typically the groom, swore to the bond, which would be forfeit if the claims of the allegation proved false and a legal impediment to the marriage, such as consanguinity, arose.
Marriage allegations and bonds often exist where licences don't because, while the licence was given to a member of the wedding party to present to the officiant at the ceremony, the allegation stayed with the authority who issued it.
Yesterday I came across two documents relating to the first marriage of my great-great- great-great-grandfather James Blanch to Jane Barlow. The first document is an allegation, reproduced below:
Here is a transcription:
London Diocese
3d September 1779
Appeared personally James Blanch and made Oath, that he is of the Parish of Saint Ann Westminster in the County of Middlesex and a Batchelor aged twenty one years and upwards and intendeth to marry with Jane Barlow of the same Parish a Spinster aged also twenty one years and upwards and that he knoweth no lawful Impediment, by Reason of any Pre-Contract, Consanguinity, Affinity, or any lawful Means whatsoever, to hinder the said intended Marriage and prayed a Licence to solemnize the same in the Parish Church of Saint Ann Westminster aforesaid and further made Oath that the usual place of Abode of him the Deponent has been in the said Parish of Saint Ann Westminster for the Space of four weeks last past
James Blanch
Sworn before me
Jos. Simpson
The second document is in the form of a bond, reproduced below:
Here is a transcription:
Know all Men by these Presents, That We James Blanch of the Parish of Saint Ann Westminster in the County of Middlesex Heelmaker and John Doe Gentlemen are hereby become bound unto the Right Reverend Father in God Robert, by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of London, in the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great-Britain, to be paid to him the said Right Reverend Father in God, or his lawful Attorney, Executors, Successors or Assigns; For the good and faithful Payment of which Sum, we do bind ourselves, and both of us, jointly and severally, for the Whole, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly by these Presents, Sealed with our Seals, Dated the third Day of September in the Year of our Lord 1779.
The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if hereafter there shall not appear any lawful Lett or Impediment, by Reason of any Pre-Contract, Consanguinity, Affinity, or any other lawful Means whatsoever, but that the above bounden James Blanch a Bachelor and Jane Barlow of the same Parish a Spinster may lawfully solemnize Marriage together, and in the same afterwards lawfully remain and continue for Man and Wife, according to the Laws in that Behalf provided: And moreover, if there be not at this present Time any Action, Suit, Plaint, Quarrel, or Demand, moved or depending before any Judge Ecclesiastical or Temporal, for or concerning any such lawful Impediment between the said Parties: Nor that either of them be of any other Parish or Place, nor of any better Estate or Degree, than to the Judge at granting of the Licence is suggested.
and by him the said James Blanch sworn to
And lastly, if the said Marriage shall be openly solemnized in the Church, or Chapel in the Licence specificed, between the Hours appointed in Constitutions Ecclesiastical confirmed, and according to the Book of Common Prayer, now by Law established, and the above bounden James Blanch do save harmless and keep indemnified the above-mentioned Right Reverend Father in God, his Chancellor and Surrogates, and all other his Officers and Ministers whatsoever, by Reason of the Premises; then this Obligation to be void, or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
James Blanch
Signed and Delivered in the Presence of
R Parker
While these two documents do not provide any startling new revelations about my ancestor, they do contain a couple of interesting snippets of information. The first is that, in 1779, James described himself as a 'heel maker'. In the Westminster poll book for the following year, he is said to be a patten maker – someone who made wooden or metal under-shoes – an occupation he shared with his father-in-law, William Barlow. I'm not sure whether heel-making was a specialist refinement of this trade, or whether the two descriptions are synonymous.
Either way, this description of James' occupation has made me realise that the occupation of shoemaker followed by his son, my great-great-great-grandfather John Blanch, might not have been so surprising after all. Until recently, I wondered why John became a shoemaker in Stepney and Bethnal Green, when his older brothers worked together in the family coach-making business in Soho and Chelsea. But it's possible that their father James continued working as a patten or heel maker for much of his adult life, only becoming a Custom House Officer – the occupation given on his death certificate – in later years, and that his son John was simply following in his father's footsteps. He might even have learnt his trade from him.
The other tantalising piece of information is the name of the person who stood as a witness for James. We are told that his name was John Doe and that he was a 'gentleman': unfortunately, we're not given details of his home parish, or of his connection to James. If we could find out more about Doe, it might provide further clues as to James' origins and background.


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"They've grown accustomed to the leaky way that the web handled content"
How is it that the web should be responsible for handling content? And who exactly is the web anyway?
"Then look at the youngsters like Louis CK. They're embracing paywalls and new techniques that help the crowd actually fund new content."
Are you telling me that someone found a way to make money on the internet? They can fund the creation of new content too?? Someone at the MPAA/RIAA should give him a job so he can show them how to do that too!!
If you are somewhere small enough that there are NO big boxes around, I'm not sure you have a big enough population that would support a niche retailer like a record store. The big boxes are pretty much in most towns of any size.
That's what I was thinking. Can't only the patent owner sue? If Altitude only is a licensee then how can it sue?
The article is bullshit. EA purchased a license from the NCAA. It isn't their problem after that. I am quite certain that when a player agrees to play for a school they sign an agreement covering this type of thing. If players have an issue they can take it up with the school or choose not to play.
I don't think its all that novel an idea. It seems pretty common sense to me.
Either way it seems like this is an idea. You can't patent ideas. Did Facebook/Zynga copy some invention or even some code of the plaintiff's that made this possible?
These types of patents make no sense to me. It talks about methods of doing this without being specific to what that method is. It seems is all you need to get a patent is a few pictures and some super general descriptions of how you wish something would work.
No to the DRM! I'd like to be able to stream it from my NAS to my Boxee box. Or play it on my mobile phone. Or play it next year on whatever device I decide to buy.
Over-complicating this with DRM, special shops, etc is just going to make illegal measures more appealing. Especially if there is no good reason why making a copy with my pc is illegal. I already own the disc in this scenario so why does it matter?
Why do we give a shit if someone wants to play some online poker?
It is very sad that use of a public speech would ever be a copyright issue like this. The entire idea behind Dr. King's speech's was to spread his message of equality and tolerance to any that would listen.
I think Dr. King would be very disappointed.
That makes no sense. If the SS was collecting data then I don't believe for one second that Jotform would have not known what was going on at some point.
Besides if they wanted data, whats wrong with a warrant or subpeona?
The lawyers sue who their client asks them to. Mike's point is that Disney/Marvel already won. There was no need to kick him while he's down. That sends the message that they don't give two licks about the artists.
Common sense filter? I doubt it. This kind of thing makes me wonder if these aren't automated arrests- some software picks up certain phrases and issues an order to have someone arrested. Then they bother with details like facts and such AFTER the arrest.
Lol, exactly what I thought.
Someone does research, examines the data, and forms an opinion backed up by that data surely is biased!
Sureley this could be said of the pro-SOPA experts as well. That is why it is important to scrutinize sources of the data, and the methodology used to obtain and analyze that data.
"But at the 11th hour, a flood of e-mails and phone calls to Congress stopped the legislation in its tracks. Was this the result of democracy, or demagoguery?"
So a lot of people learned of this and chose to take the time to tell there Congressman to put a stop to it? And he's not sure if that's democracy? That is EXACTLY what democracy is supposed to be. The people make their wishes know to their representatives in Congress and that Congressman acts on their behalf like he was elected to do!
This is what these folks are really afraid of. The internet gives people the ability to discuss things, get information, and speak out about it if they choose. They can make their voice heard to their elected officials instantly. Instead of seeing this as a boon to democracy they are scared to death.
What are they trying to do here? Are they trying to get some type of favorable court ruling to set future precedent? There is no way that they think this could get them any payment- there's nothing left. This move has to be costing them money in legal fees
How do they determine the identity of who is making the claim?
A $1 penalty for infringement? Bring it on! That's a way better deal than what the MAFIAA currently tries to extort!
I've seen a few articles around on other sites. I'm hoping that the SOPA/ACTA stuff recently has helped shine some very bright light on the dirty dealings that are going on. Only time will tell tho.
Are you for real? There are thousands of people willing to take to the streets and voice their outrage about this! How often does that happen?
Attempting to marginalize the outcry is pathetic.
"It's still lazy as hell, and the "statement" is not improved by it. It isn't parody, it isn't some sort of grand political statement, it's someone doing a quicky thing in photoshop and pretending to be an artist.
The second work would be much better if the artist took the time to find a similar subject, to locate a suitable location, to dress the person up with perhaps funny cardboard cutout blue glasses, and then taken the image home to "add" the guitar. it would have allowed them to focus on what in fact they were choosing to make a statement about, and focus on it."
All of this is your opinion. The thing about art is that it is very subjective to each person. While you don't see anything more than some jerk playing around with Photoshop, perhaps the artist and others in his audience see some type of meaningful social commentary. This commentary would be possible without using the existing photo.
The whole point of commenting on something in this fashion is that the existing work already has a social or cultural message associated with it. Getting someone to model for a new photo isn't going to work because that photo doesn't have the same meanings associated with it.
Besides, trying to make meaningful social commentary on your own stuff is usually hubris more than it is art.
So why doesn't NBC stream the game to everyone, everywhere and collect additional revenue from that?
The streaming available this year is pitiful. Only mobile devices on Verizon? Really??
No wonder folks turn to unauthorized streams- the options for legit ones are terrible


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