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We woke to cloudy skies, wet grass, puddles, and a 20-degree drop in temperatures this morning — exciting stuff when you're living in a hot, drought-plagued region with a dwindling water supply! With more severe weather in the forecast, we headed outdoors right after breakfast to enjoy some fresh air while we safely could.
Little Bear observed that it was noticeably cooler outside — cool enough, in fact, that she was chilly. She noted that the wind was blowing and that the wet grass was filled with chattering birds. Baby Bear, meantime, observed a small puddle on the sidewalk and made a beeline for it. She splashed happily for a few seconds, then literally threw herself down into it, laying flat on her belly and slapping at the water with her little hands. I realized then that play time would need to be followed by bath time, and if you're going to have to bathe kids before lunchtime, you might as well make the extra baths worthwhile. I gave Little Bear the OK to dig for worms in the moist dirt, then followed Baby Bear as she hunted for more puddles. Suffice it to say, Baby Bear's puddle hunt proved more productive than Little Bear's worm hunt. (Apparently, Texas summers are too hot and dry to appeal to earthworms.) Little Bear soon joined the puddle hunt, and we splashed happily along until both girls were soaked through. Then, we headed in for baths, dry clothes, calendar time, and our morning Bible story.
I had some time-sensitive work to do, so I let the girls watch an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse while I took care of Mom Stuff. Then came story time. We've been learning about community helpers this month, so this morning's theme reading included …
We wrapped up our morning story time with several just-for-fun books, including Sandra Boynton favorites Tickle Time! and Fifteen Animals!. The final title paved the way for math, where we're working on identifying numerals. Little Bear can count with ease, but she struggles a bit with numeral recognition. Today, we drilled numbers 12-25 using both flash cards and our 1-100 chart. We wrapped up with a game, where I called a number, and she raced to find it before time was up.
We worked through a couple of Mind Benders Beginning Book 1 (PreK-K) puzzles, four riddles in Can You Find Me?, and two short lessons in First Time Analogies.
The girls played while I fixed lunch and took a break after lunch. Baby Bear eventually fell asleep, and Little Bear asked to play on the iPad. She spent some time on ABC Food, did several dot-to-dot puzzles, then played a rhyming word matching game.
The iPad game led into today's reading lesson. Yes, we've once again started formal reading instruction, this time at Little Bear's request. We started using The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons this week and are currently working with the sounds /a/, /c/, /o/, /s/, and /t/. I learned through brief experience with another popular reading program that Little Bear needs hands-on activity in order to focus on the task at hand, and The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons lends itself to such use. Today, we used buttons to cover target sounds, used Wikki Stix to match letters with pictures representing their sounds, and used a fun pointer to blend sounds from left to right. Little Bear ended today's lesson by writing all of this week's letters in her salt box.
By the time Baby Bear woke, an early afternoon thunderstorm had given way to a steady, gentle rain with no thunder or lightning. Little Bear had asked several times if we could go out in the rain, so I changed the girls into jeans, old shirts, crocs, and rain coats (although I'm not sure why I bothered with the latter) and took them back out. Little Bear hit the grass running, dancing in circles, and singing about how much she loved rain. Baby Bear, meantime, was pretty excited over the wet stuff falling from the sky as well … then, she discovered MUD.
When she first stepped off the sidewalk, the naughty mud stole her shoe.
She fussed for a minute, rescued her shoe, then decided to stick a dip a curious foot into the sticky brown stuff:
… It was love at first squish!
Little Bear splashed in puddles, rode her bike through the puddles, and tried to catch rain drops on her tongue.
Finally, she too made her way over to the mud, telling me all the while, "I don't like mud. Mud is yucky. I don't want to get my feet all yucky and dirty. OOOH! IT FEELS GOOD! MOMMY, I LOVE IT!"
Turned loose to play in the mud for the first time EVER, the girls would happily have played outside until nightfall. I didn't want them getting too chilly, though; so I finally lured them in with the promise of hot chocolate.
The girls were so dirty that they went straight into the shower, clothes and all. I rinsed raincoats, rinsed clothes, rinsed girls, scrubbed the tub, then refilled it with a warm bubble bath and two mostly clean girls while I and a bar of Fels Naphtha waged war on the mud stains.
Once clean, Little Bear helped me make "real" hot cocoa and "porridge" (oatmeal with apples, raisins, and cinnamon) for a warm easy supper on a cool end-of-summer night. She finished up her fine motor work for the day (a cutting activity, a pasting activity, a coloring page, and a couple of sticker puzzles) while I cleaned the kitchen. We wrapped up the day building with Wedgits, playing a game of Colorama (with Baby Bear rolling the dice), making pattern block animals, and reading at least a dozen just-for-fun books before bedtime — all in all a fun ending to a memory-filled day.
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Oh, your post is full of so much joy of being a kid!!!! LOVE IT!
Julie, I can never tell you enough how proud I am of you and your work with the girls. I hope you are saving copies of all your posts. It would be great if you could make a book out of them to give to them(and grandparents, hint,hint) , when they are older. Just an idea. love to all, Grandma


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We've all asked ourselves at some point if we are "American Idol" worthy of being on the show. Maybe even making it to the next level or two on the hit television series.
Maybe you have even thought about winning the entire series yourself and being the next "American Idol" winner. This is not an uncommon dream just so your not too ashamed of thinking it. It is human instinct to have faith in your own personal talents.
It is very natural for a person to believe that their singing voice is as good as an actual great vocalist. Don't get me wrong, almost anybody can sing well with the correct training and lessons from professionals. A lot of artists with hit singles on the radio today don't have that great of voices. With the help of technology and vocalist coaches, you can make it pretty far.
I believe that there is a step of levels that a person must succeed at in order to make it to the next level. Go over these variables just in case you believe that you might be the next American Idol.
1. Natural Singing Talent
I would say this is the biggest step of all of the variables. You need an excellent voice and it's most important of all other aspects. No matter how you display yourself physically, you must have a decent voice naturally. Most of us are not naturally gifted, so you may strike out in this variable very easily.
2. Your Song Working With Your Voice
Choosing your song is a huge deal because it displays your voice in every aspect imaginable. It also describes the style of person you are and what style of celebrity you plan to be. If you do not choose the correct song to display your voice, you may wreck your chances. Having an excellent voice and singing the wrong song to your voice could heavily dampen your odds.
3. Physically Displaying Yourself
How you display yourself is a very important variable to the judges of "American Idol." They look at the next American Idol winner as someone that could be idolized. Also, to be a person for people to look up to. You can take that however you want, but how you represent yourself is a huge variable for the judges to determine. You may have the best voice in this world, but you will not make it to the next level if you did not display yourself to the judges properly to their liking.
4. Judges Mood At Your Performance
This variable may not seem like one of the top ones that should be in this list, but if you watch a lot of "American Idol" you will realize that the mood of the judges is a huge factor. There have been a lot of people that should not have gone to the next level but they said or did the right thing to the judges. That factoring them to have made it to the next level which means a lot. Even if you did not win American Idol, it still helps to make it up levels. It still means a lot to your resume and music career. Some of the best music artists have made it huge that only went a couple levels deep on the show.
That sums up our levels of variables when it comes to leveling up in the "American Idol" television series. Maybe you agree with the variables, maybe you disagree. Feel free to exchange thoughts or disagreements you have about the variables. I'm an "American Idol" guru and I have seen pretty much every episode available. This is pure opinion based so don't be afraid to share your opinion as well. Who knows maybe you're going to be the next American Idol.
The author Chris Weber doesn't write too much about television shows like this but made an exception for such a phenomenal craze like American Idol. It blows his mind at how popular such an idea can become like this. Check out other viral articles written by Chris for fun reading.


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Press for The Dog Went Over the Mountain
Check back after publication in September 2019.
Press for Rescued
"No 'Easy Answer' to the Growing Number of Stray Dogs in the U.S., Advocate Says," WBUR/NPR ("Here & Now"), December 29, 2017. (Listen to the interview here.)
"The Ultimate BuzzFeed Books Gift Guide," BuzzFeed, December 5, 2017.
Book Review: Rescued, The Bark, December, 2017.
Interview with Fox 9 Minneapolis, MN, December 5, 2017.
"Rescued," GoLocalProv.com (Providence, RI), December 1, 2017.
"To the Rescue: Giving Pets a Second Chance," Family Magazine, December, 2017.
Rescued featured on Pet Pals TV (syndicated feature), November 27, 2017.
"Who's Saving Whom?" The Winchester (VA) Star, November 16, 2017.
"Second Chance Dogs are 'Ready to be Loved,'" Gatehouse Media (syndicated feature), November 5, 2017.
"The Story of Man's Best Friend," Hometown Weekly (Walpole, MA), November 2, 2017.
"Disasters Worsen Plight of Homeless Dogs and Cats," WTOP (Washington, DC), October 25, 2017.
"Animal Writes," Pet Life Radio (podcast), October 24, 2017.
"Author Details His Transformation into a Dog Person" (Book Review), The Montgomery (WV) Herald, October 19, 2017.
"A Contract with Sadness: The Depth of the Grief That Accompanies the Loss of a Dog," ThriveGlobal.com, October 18, 2017.
"Book Review: Rescued," San Francisco Book Review, October, 2017.
"Good Reads," Ocala Style Magazine, October 17, 2017.
"Just Try Not to Cry While Reading These Sweet Rescue Dog Stories," BuzzFeed, October 5, 2017.
"The Page 99 Test: Peter Zheutlin's Rescued," The Campaign for the American Reader, October 5, 2017.
"Coffee with a Canine: Peter Zheutlin and Jamba," Campaign for the American Reader, October 3, 2017.
"Book Review: Rescued," Ottawa Life Magazine, October 3, 2017.
"Why You Should Adopt a Rescue Dog Instead of Going to a Puppy Mill," Signature, October 2, 2017.
"What is Peter Zheutlin Reading?" Campaign for the American Reader, October 2, 2017.
"Books We Love: 2 Sweet Reads for Shelter Dog Lovers," Parade Magazine, October 1, 2017.
"Fall Reading: Rescued," Spry Living (Magazine Supplement), October 1, 2017.
"Rescued: Peter Zheutlin," Pet Radio Magazine (podcast), October 1, 2017.
Radio Tour (October):WMT-AM (Cedar Rapids, IA), WKNY-AM (Kingston, NY), WTOP-FM (Washington, DC), KTOE-FM/AM (Mankato, MN), WBEL-AM (Madison, WI), WHEB-FM (Portsmouth, NH), WCBS-AM (New York, NY), WFIF-AM (New Haven, CT), WBEV-AM (Milwaukee, WI), KTRS-AM (St. Louis, MO), WPOC-FM (Baltimore), WBWL-FM (Boston, MA), WEBG-FM (Chicago, IL), WKCT-FM (Bowling Green, KY), WVXU-FM (Cincinnati, OH), WGVI-FM (Grand Rapids, MI), WBZ-AM (Boston, MA), WCBS-AM (New York), KVTA-AM (Ventura, CA), WPKN-FM (Bridgeport, CT and Montauk, NY), Pet Life Radio, Voice America Radio, KUCI-FM (Irvine, CA), SiriusXM Radio, RadioMD, Big Blend Radio & TV.
"The Healing Power of Dogs," Books for Better Living, September 28, 2017.
"Who Will Step up for the Dogs of Houston," The Boston Globe, September 1, 2017.
"Here's What We're Reading This Summer — How About You?" WBUR Boston, June 21, 2017.
Press for Rescue Road
"Adopted Dog Sends Author Peter Zheutlin on Unexpected Journey," PanhandlePBS.org, October 4, 2016.
"Ohio Man Logs 1 Million Miles to Save the Lives of 55,000 Dogs in the South," PeoplePets.com, April 26, 2016
"Miles To Go Home," The Merrimack Journal, April 21, 2016
"How Far Would You Go to Save a Life," Unity Online Radio, April 20, 2016
"On the 150th Anniversary of the ASPCA, Books on Animal Rights," The Boston Globe, April 10, 2016
"The Magical Story Behind One Rescue and All the 'Gotcha Days' They Bring to Life," BarkPost.com, April 3, 2016
The New York Times "Best Seller" List, April, 2016 (#4 in books about animals)
"Rescue Road," Modern Dog, Spring, 2016
The New York Times "Best Seller" List, March, 2016 (#5 in books about animals)
The New York Times "Best Seller" List, February, 2016 (#8 in books about animals)
"Author of New York Times Best-Seller Rescue Road to Speak at Halls," Charleston City Paper, February 4, 2016
The New York Times "Best Seller" List, January, 2016 (#3 in books about animals)
"Peter Zheutlin, Author, Rescue Road: On the Road with Greg Mahle," ThisisPawPrint (Podcast), February 3, 2016
"Greg Mahle, Rescue Road Trips:Trucking a Million Miles to Save Thousands of Dogs," ThisisPawPrint (Podcast), January 27, 2016
"The Dog Rescuer," Yahoo!News, January 10, 2016
"The Dog Rescuer," The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Magazine, January 10, 2016
"Love Stories You'll Love," Best Friends Magazine (book review), January/February 2016
"A Man with a Passion for Saving Dogs," The Walpole (MA) Times, January 3, 2016
"Trekking 4,200-miles Across the Country, There's No Distance Too Far to Save Man's Best Friend," The Baton Rouge Advocate, January 2, 2016
Rescue Road on "Topical Currents," WLRN (NPR/Miami), December 23, 2015
The New York Times "Best Seller" List, December, 2015 (#7 in books about animals)
"Sit, Stay for Mini-Reviews of Pet Books," The Columbian (Vancouver, WA), December 4, 2015
"This Good Samaritan Has Driven More than 1 Million Miles to Save 30,000 Dogs," TopDogTips.com, December 3, 2015
"Rescue Road Trips: Man Gives Dogs a Second Chance at Life," KRIV26 Fox News (Houston), December 2, 2015
"Man Spends Half His Year Driving to Save Dogs: Has Driven Million Miles and Saved 30,000 Dogs So Far," DogHeirs.com, November 27, 2015
"This Man Drove a Million Miles to Save 30,000 Dogs," Yahoo!Travel, November 25, 2015
"The Canine Ark," The Boston Globe, November 24, 2015
"This Man Drives Southern Pups Cross-Country For a Second Chance at Life," Boston.com, November 24, 2015
"Kindness on Last Hope Highway," WHRO (NPR/Hampton Roads, VA), November 24, 2015
"Great Gift Book Ideas That Salute Our Pets," The Bulletin (Bend, OR), November 22, 2015
"Rescue Me," Amherst Magazine, Fall 2015 (that's my Albie…cover model!)
"Sit and Stay for these Mini-Reviews of Books that Salute Pets," The St. Augustine Record, November 21, 2015
"Sit and Stay for these Mini-Reviews of Books that Salute Pets," The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 19, 2015
"Saluting Pets," The Lincoln (NE) Journal Star, November 19, 2015
"Mini-Reviews of Books that Salute Pets," The Daily Press (Newport News, VA), November 15, 2015
"Meet the Man Who has Saved 30,000 Stray Dogs," WFAA (ABC News, Dallas), November 12, 2015
"Die Hunderetter (The Dog Saver)," Documentary by ARD TV (Germany), November 2015
"Mini-Reviews of Books that Salute Pets," The Orlando Sentinel, November 11, 2015
"Top Shelf: Book Recommendations," The Columbus Dispatch, November 8, 2015
"We Talk to Greg Mahle About the One Million Miles He's Logged Transporting Rescue Dogs," Dogster.com, October 30, 2015
"Mini-Reviews of Pet Books That Salute Older Pets, Hardworking Cats and Dogs," The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2015
"Rescue Road," WHRV/NPR Norfolk ("HearSay"), October 29, 2015
"Brave Man Travels 4,200 Miles to Transport Rescued Southern Dogs to Their New Northern Families," HerePup.com, October 23, 2015
"Amazing Guy Takes Stray Dogs on Road Trip of Their Lives to Find Forever Families," TheDailyOrbit.com, October 22, 2015
Rescue Road reviewed in Shelf Awareness, October 20, 2015
"One Man's 4,200-mile Journey to Rescue Dogs in the South and Bring Them Up North," WBUR/NPR Boston ("All Things Considered"), October 19, 2015
"Rescue Road Shows Us Some Unsung Heroes," The Opelika-Auburn (AL) News, October 19, 2015
"Animal Rescuer to Read from New Book in Provincetown," Provincetown (MA) Banner, October 18, 2015
"Needham Author Chronicles Abandoned Dogs' Trip North," The Needham (MA) Times, October 14, 2015
"Amherst Reads," Amherst.edu, October 6, 2015
"The Amazing Story of One Man Who Has Saved 30,000 Dogs from High Kill Shelters," IHeartDogs.com, September 29, 2015
Rescue Road reviewed in The Bark, September 16, 2015
"CBR's Fall 2015 Preview," Chicago Book Review, September 5, 2015
"National Dog Day: 7 Paws-itively Inspiring Reads," Parade Magazine, August 27, 2015
"Cool New Tech & Books Bring You Closer to the Beauty of Pets," Beautifulnow.com, August 18, 2015
"Books for the Dog Days of Summer," Foreword Reviews, July 8, 2015
"2015 Book Expo: Books that Buzzed," Library Journal, June 1, 2015
Rescue Road reviewed in The Book Lover's Best Friend, May 20, 2015
"Puppy Rescuer Takes Dogs on 4,200 Mile Odyssey to Loving Arms," The Today Show, April 25, 2014
"Homeward Bound," Parade Magazine, March 2, 2014


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One can, of course, wish to condition people's emotions without in the least intending to determine which facts they shall absorb, and in what order or pattern. In 1815 Ludwig I of Bavaria engaged the architect, Wittelsbach, to design him a new sculpture gallery in Munich. 4 They were anxious to avoid being didactic. For this reason there was to be no 'cynical simplicity', but rather a calculated splendour 'which could communicate to the observer the concept of reverence which should be paid to the masterpieces of antiquity'.
In the 183os, a German art expert, G. F. Waagen, made an extensive tour of collections in Britain. He visited, among many others, Lord Cowper's collection of pictures at Panshanger and found nearly everything very much to his satisfaction. The glowing summer's sun had heated me exceedingly, but I was soon revived by the refreshing coolness of these fine apartments, in which the pictures are arranged with much taste. The drawing-room, especially, is one of those apartments which not only give great pleasure by their size, the convenience and elegance of the furniture, but likewise afford the most elevated gratification of the mind, by works of art of the noblest kind.
Peale's tastes were exceedingly catholic. Among the hundreds of items added to his collection between I 790 and I 792 were a chicken with four legs and four wings, an So-pound turnip, the trigger-finger of a convicted murderer, and a tiny piece of wood from the Coronation chair in Westminster Abbey. The success of the appeal for new exhibits proved something of an embarrassment and Peale realised that his museum, if it were to survive, would have to be transformed into something much more like a public institution.


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Jo-Anne Brechin's passion for filmmaking was recognized early in her career by the Cockatoo Island Film Festival, where she was named Young Filmmaker Of the Year for 2013. Since then, she has an impressive array of short films, documentaries and music videos which have screened across Australia and around the world. A graduate of AFTRS, Jo-Anne has been able to attract funding for her projects, including films which have won Official Selection screenings at St Kilda Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival, Los Angeles IndieFEST Awards and more. Last year, Jo-Anne was awarded Best Documentary at the Nova Focus On Ability short film competition. As a freelance writer, director and producer, Jo-Anne continues to partner with nonprofits and community organisations to create online videos and social media content.
Claire is a writer in exile who has spent the last decade travelling, working and writing around the world. This is not nearly as glamorous as it sounds and usually involves scraping by on a diet of muesli and cheap wine. Her short fiction, travel stories and creative non-fiction have been published in Australia, the US and the UK. Claire is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and has worked in television and news production in New York.
Emma is a young cinematographer based in Sydney. Emma's love of film began in the darkroom, developing an eye for lighting and composition from black and white photography. Since graduating with a Graduate Diploma in Cinematography from the Australian Film, Television and Radio school in 2011 she has further specialised in shorts, music video, fashion film and branded content. She recently won both Gold and Silver Awards and the Golden Tripod from the Australian Cinematographers Society, in the Web Content and New Media category
Tim Lloyd has over four decades of experience as a sound recordist with his company Sound Asleep. He has worked on many major overseas and local feature films, including 15 Amore, Reckless Kelly, and Newsfront, with acclaimed directors such as Phillip Noyce and George Miller. Tim's extensive work in television includes McLeod's Daughters and Dance Academy 1, 2 and 3. His film and television projects have frequently been nominated for Best Sound at the AFI awards. Tim's career has been driven by a genuine passion for sound and a dedication to mentoring the next generation of filmmakers.
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Christine Cheung is a Sydney based editor. She got her first break as an Assistant Editor on the animation film Happy Feet. Gaining further experience working on feature films such as Australia, Animal Kingdom, Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Tomorrow When the War Began, The Great Gatsby and The Water Diviner. She has cut the short films Cryo and Le Petit Chef, and most recently Red Rover which was a finalist for the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival.
David works professionally as a Multimedia Producer and is currently studying Screen and Media at Sydney Film School. Prior to working with us he's been involved in community theatre and trained with Darlo Drama, NIDA Open (Screen Acting) and AFTRS Open (Production). He brings a wealth of experience from the corporate production space where he has won awards for his video work. He also whips up a mean espresso martini.
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Potato Storage Facility: Hotel Or Hospital?
The U.S. potato industry estimates losses during storage at right around 7%. Much of this is due to lost water, which is one of the reasons that high relative humidity (RH) is recommended for storing potatoes.
Most weight loss also occurs during the first two weeks in storage, before the tuber skin has completely matured. Unfortunately, little to none of this moisture loss can ever be recovered, but there are some things you can do to minimize it.
Many storage problems are directly related to the somewhat violent act of harvesting. During this operation, tubers are subjected to conditions that cause nicks, cuts, scrapes, and bruises. Management tools include proper harvester adjustment, recommended moisture content in the soil, and careful attention to drops and other potentially severe impact areas on the harvester and handling equipment.
Don't Harvest In The Heat
One of the most frequent mistakes growers make is to harvest potatoes when conditions are too warm. Quite simply, tuber pulp temperatures above 65°F are to be avoided. This is because every single one of the potato storage diseases mentioned below become much harder to control when tuber temperatures are too high. Avoiding these conditions might require shutting down your operation during times when pulp temperatures exceed this upper limit.
On the other end of the temperature scale, temps below 42°F also are to be avoided. The physical properties of the potato tuber are such that a severe form of damage called "shatter bruising" occurs very readily when tubers are too cold. The large, complex wounds characteristic of this type of bruising heal slowly and erratically, and are an easy entry point for diseases, such as Fusarium dry rot, to enter the tuber.
After the potatoes have been gently placed in storage, suberization and wound healing are key tools in the battle to prevent storage losses, both from outright moisture loss and losses due to disease. Wound healing requires three conditions: Temperatures 50°F to 55°F, high air volumes (oxygen is required), and very high relative humidity (95%). Two to three weeks are required for wounds inflicted during harvest to completely heal. After the healing period, you can reduce temperatures to the range required to meet your desired market.
Storage Wars
Besides water loss, other major contributing factors to storage losses are tuber diseases. While late blight, pink rot, early blight, and Fusarium dry rot all can be responsible for loss, perhaps your No. 1 enemy in storage is bacterial soft rot.
Caused by the Pectobacterium species, the disease is quite capable of infecting potatoes in the field under extremely wet conditions. But, it does the majority of its damage as a secondary decay organism in storage by invading tubers through lesions caused by any and all of these other diseases.
Soft rot is perfectly suited for the role of secondary invader because it is able to thrive with or without oxygen. Storage problems can readily snowball because soft rot in tubers tends to generate wet and slimy conditions that are perfect for further disease development.
Soft rot metabolic activity also generates heat, another factor that can exacerbate the problem. Under these warm, wet, slimy anaerobic conditions, the soft rot bacterium can even invade intact tubers through the lenticels. Disease progress can be alarmingly quick once the bacterium gets a toehold. Condensation and dripping within the storage can readily create the perfect environment for soft rot and are to be avoided.
I can't take credit for this phrase, but it pretty well sums up the challenge of storage management: "A potato storage is a hotel, not a hospital." In other words, you can't improve the condition of your potatoes during storage. However, with good management, you can keep them from getting any worse.


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1 Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;
2 But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
3 With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.
4 But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.
5 For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen.
6 But yet for this they are the less to be blamed: for they peradventure err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.
7 For being conversant in his works they search him diligently, and believe their sight: because the things are beautiful that are seen.
8 Howbeit neither are they to be pardoned.
9 For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?
10 But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them gods, which are the works of men's hands, gold and silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.
11 Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man's life;
12 And after spending the refuse of his work to dress his meat, hath filled himself;
13 And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, hath carved it diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and formed it by the skill of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man;
14 Or made it like some vile beast, laying it over with vermilion, and with paint colouring it red, and covering every spot therein;
15 And when he had made a convenient room for it, set it in a wall, and made it fast with iron:
16 For he provided for it that it might not fall, knowing that it was unable to help itself; for it is an image, and hath need of help:
17 Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and children, and is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life.
18 For health he calleth upon that which is weak: for life prayeth to that which is dead; for aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: and for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:
19 And for gaining and getting, and for good success of his hands, asketh ability to do of him, that is most unable to do any thing.
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This is a fantastic book that plainly sums up discipline to wisdom with riches being the resulting factor. It further talks about spiritual, intellectual and material wealth in addition to divine protection. I really loved this book and learned a lot from it. It is clear the wicked will be punished in like manner to their sins and that was a great revelation together with canivalism, child sacrifices that we are seeing today. I was doing some research on strongs and came accross sea monsters and solomon describes quite amazing beasts so I wonder what is the correlation with Leviathan if there is any?
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Earlier this morning I signed up for a new service called Poncho that will do something new and awesome when telling me via text or email the day's weather each morning. I guess. They must be hard launching during SXSWi.
When I got my first weather forecast from Poncho, I was surprised to see that it would be 71 degrees today. Then I remembered it's SXSW. It's always beautiful during SXSW. It's part of the reason people who visit during this time want to move here. They don't foresee the 110-degree days to come. That's all fine and good. Let 'em have it.
I've alternately mooned over and bitched about SXSW — depending on the year, whether I was attending or not, if I needed to be downtown for work or business during the event and other variables. The only constant is being able to make fun of the self-important douchebags. That has transferred over to the SXSWi portion of the festival now. It was previously the stamp on the foreheads of music industry types. That's what you get for getting bigger — and producing outsize personalities who maybe shouldn't be as outspoken as they are.
If there's one thing tech bros are good at (aside from making money and misunderstanding the role of government), it's putting their feet in their mouths.
This year, we're not really attending. I (with Misty) plan to have drinks or dinner with Golden Krishna of #NoUI fame, but beyond that, I believe we are laying low. With the job search, Misty flying out to Pittsburgh and then Seattle for interviews late next week/beginning of the week after and, oh, being broke, we've got other things to focus on and take care of. The weather will be beautiful, though.


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Around 2 millions lost their lives during partition of India and creation of Pakistan in 1947. Thereafter hundreds of soldiers have lost their lives while defending Pakistan. If the corruption scandals in defence purchases are true, which seems to be so its most unfortunate. The corrupt people are getting wealthy at the cost of blood of millions of innocent patriotic Pakistanis. .......... If Mr.Zardari is innocent he must conduct an independent inquiry to clear himself from this serious allegation !
Asif Ali Zardari is blamed to have looted Millions of Dollars of Bribes Paid to him in French Submarines Corruption Deal Pakistan's Zardari 'Pocketed Millions' in French Subs Deal By Michael Streeter, Graham Tearse, Fabrice Arfi and Fabrice Lhomme Paris, France, 13 January 2011 (MediaPart) - Official Pakistani documents detailing how the country's president, Asif Ali Zardari, benefited from massive, secret payments connected to the sale of French submarines to Pakistan have been seized as evidence by a Paris magistrate investigating a suspected widespread scam surrounding the deal. The documents, revealed here for the first time by Media Part, show that the payments to Zardari and others took place on the fringes of the sale of three Agosta-class submarines by the French defence contractor, the DCN, to Pakistan in the 1990s. The French sale succeeded against rival offers by Swedish and German contractors.
Asif Ali Zardari is blamed to have looted Millions of Dollars of Bribes Paid to him in French Submarines Corruption Deal Pakistan's Zardari 'Pocketed Millions' in French Subs Deal By Michael Streeter, Graham Tearse, Fabrice Arfi and Fabrice Lhomme Paris, France, 13 January 2011 (MediaPart) - Official Pakistani documents detailing how the country's president, Asif Ali Zardari, benefited from massive, secret payments connected to the sale of French submarines to Pakistan have been seized as evidence by a Paris magistrate investigating a suspected widespread scam surrounding the deal. The documents, revealed here for the first time by Media Part, show that the payments to Zardari and others took place on the fringes of the sale of three Agosta-class submarines by the French defence contractor, the DCN, to Pakistan in the 1990s. The French sale succeeded against rival offers by Swedish and German contractors.
Increasing evidence suggests that cancellation of the commissions, ordered by former French President Jacques Chirac, was decided after it was discovered they were in part re-routed back to France to fund political activities of Chirac's principal political rival, Edouard Balladur.
The documents, now in possession of Paris-based judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke, were found during a French police search in June 2010 of the home of Amir Lodhi, one of the intermediaries involved in securing the Agosta contract. Lodhi held a copy of a report by a Pakistani anti-corruption service, the Ehtesab [Accountability] Cell.
Lodhi, 61, the brother of a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States [Maleeha Lodhi], is a close friend of Zardari, who [illegally] became president of Pakistan in 2008 one year after the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto.
The raid on Lodhi's home in the French capital [Paris] was carried out by detectives from the French police national financial investigation division, the DNIF, (Division nationale des investigations financiers). The Ehtesab Cell documents were the object of a formal report by the DNIF, established on June 17th, 2010, and reveals that Zardari received backhanders worth 6,934,296 euros between October and December 1994. That report is now among the evidence collected by Van Ruymbeke in his investigations launched last autumn into the financial aspect of the Agosta submarine sale, and in particular whether commissions paid abroad were re-routed to fund political activities within France.
Originally written in English, the Pakistani document was translated by the DNIF investigators and now provides the first clear details about the scale of the payments made to Zardari, amounting to several million euros, as well as the channels used, including offshore companies, bank accounts and a British tax haven.
Bank Transfers to the Virgin Islands.The Agosta submarine contract was signed between the two countries [France and Pakistan] on September 21st, 1994, just weeks before the first payments began.
At the time, Zardari was a minister in the Pakistani government then led by his wife, [corrupt] Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Importantly, Zardari was the key figure for all public contracts signed with foreign countries. That position earned Zardari the unflattering nickname in his own country of "Mister 10%".
The main document seized by French investigators is a photocopy of an original dated November 9th, 1997, concerning a request by Pakistan to Switzerland for cooperation in a judicial investigation.
The request by the Pakistani authorities to Switzerland aimed, according to the officer, "to obtain all the necessary information to pursue a criminal investigation and to try the former prime minister of Pakistan, Madame Bhutto, her husband, Monsieur Asif Ali Zardari, her mother, Begum Nusrat Bhutto and the other members of the Bhutto government, public servants and civilians implicated in the conspiracy of Madame Bhutto and/or her husband to misappropriate public funds for their own profit."
The French police report said the document explicitly referred to the Agosta contract: "This request concerns several cases of malpractice including that of the purchase of French submarines." According to the DNIF investigators "the chronology and the currency [of the sums paid] suggest that these payments are secret commissions paid by the DCN-I [the commercial arm of the submarine builders DCN] to Monsieur Zardari and Monsieur Lodhi for their considerable service in assuring that DCN-I got the contract."
Huge sums are recorded at the end of 1994 alone, when a company called Marleton Business Inc. was set up through a lawyer in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands for use by Zardari. A first payment of some of 5.5 million francs (about 838,000 euros) took place in October 1994 "of which 70% goes to Monsieur Zardari (AAZ) and 30% to Monsieur Lodhi (AL)," noted the French police report.
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A second transfer took place two months later, in December, for an altogether larger sum of 59.48 million francs, (about 9.06 million euros) "divided into 41.636 million [francs] for Monsieur Zardari and 17.844 million for Monsieur Lodhi". That represented 6,934,296 euros for the current [unlawful] president of Pakistan, and 2,971,841 euros for his partner.
According to the French investigators, the official Pakistani documents seized in Lohdi's Paris home also explain that "Messieurs Lodhi and Zardari received their bribes in the bank accounts of a series of offshore companies."
The report says they are all based in the Virgin Islands and they are identified by the DNIF as: Marvil Associated Inc., Penbury Finance, Oxton Trading, Crimities Holding and Dustan Trading.
The banks involved in the payments were also recorded in the Pakistani documents, as well as the bank accounts used. "The commissions paid into the accounts, notably opened by these companies at the Pasche bank and the bank of Piguet et Cie, in Switzerland, were probably supplied by transfer from the Banque francaise du Commerce exterieur [French bank of Foreign Trade], account number 2700 0008358 or IV10000083580."
Several high-profile witnesses questioned in November and December 2010 by judge Van Ruymbeke have insisted that the bribes paid in 1994 were perfectly legal and were approved by France's then-Defence Minister, Francois Leotard, and its budget minister, now France's President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
In a statement he gave to Van Ruymbeke on November 9th, 2010, former DCN-I Finance Director, Gerard-Philippe Menayas, said "the total volume of the commissions was validated, contract by contract, by the ministers of the budget and defence."
In a statement given to judge Van Ruymbeke on December 7th, 2010, Jacques Dewatre, who in 1994 was head of the French foreign intelligence service, now called the DGSE, testified that "The approval for commissions is the responsibility of services which depend upon the Minister of Defence and the Minister of the Budget."
MediaPart has learnt Van Ruymbeke's investigation has already established that, in order to convince the Pakistani authorities to choose the French submarines, a very structured network of corruption was established by a French state company dedicated to such activities. This was the Societe francaise de materiels armement, the SOFMA, which partnered the designers and builders of the submarines, the DCN.
Van Ruymbeke has evidence that the SOFMA set aside the equivalent in francs of 51.6 million euros for bribes to be paid out in the Pakistan deal.
Influential agents working with the SOFMA used the money to gain the favours of numerous Pakistani dignitaries, in both military and political spheres. While the practice of commission payments was then legal for France, the reception of bribes was illegal in Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari was one of the main benefactors of the paid bribes, according to a former SOFMA Managing Director, Henri Guittet. He evaluated the sum paid to Zardari as being 4% of the total value of the sales contract, which amounts to a value of 33 million euros. "I believe there was one percent paid upon the signature of the sales contract, which means at the moment when everything can get underway and when notably the deposit and [partial] down payment has been paid, and one percent later," he said in a formal statement. "The remaining two percent was pro rata with the payment of the clients."
But French judicial investigators are investigating whether the Agosta contract also involved illegal payments in France. It was in the summer of 1994, despite the fact that negotiations with Pakistan over the sale were already successfully concluded, that the government of then-Prime Minister Edouard Balladour imposed two Lebanese intermediaries in the contract, Ziad Takieddine and Abdulrahman El-Assir.
They were promised supplemantary commission payments worth more than 30 million euros. Both judge Van Ruymbeke and judge Marc Trevedic, who is heading investigations into the murders of the French engineers, have collected evidence suggesting that part of the supplementary commissions was destined for Balladur's 1995 presidential election campaign.
Trevedic's investigation has discarded the theory touted by the Pakistani authorities that the engineers were targeted by al-CIA-da. He is now centering on suspicions that the bomb attack was directly or indirectly linked to the secret financial arrangements surrounding the Agosta deal. More precisely that it was in retaliation for the non-payment of commissions promised to Pakistanis after they were all blocked by Balladur's rival Jacques Chirac, after he won the 1995 elections.
Allah knows best.
BY PETER GILL: Allegedly one of Pakistan's most corrupt politicians, Asif Ali Zardari has been elected president by the Pakistani parliament and provincial assemblies. All remaining corruption charges against him were ...


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