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A science and engineering consulting firm that provides solutions to complex problems. The multidisciplinary team of scientists, physicians, engineers, business and regulatory consultants brings together different technical disciplines to solve issues.
I like EXPO over the long run. The business is producing strong cash flow, the company's bought more than $25 million in stock over the past two quarters, and no analysts are following the stock. At a reasonable P/E of 23.12, I think this is a good value.
The balance sheet is very strong as well, with $53.99 million in cash with no debt. Definitely an interesting story here, and I expect EXPO to beat the S


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Debian Women IRC Training
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In November, the Debian Women project started a series of online training sessions, which are held in IRC. The December 9, 2010 session covered how to use the bug tracking system and now the tutorial is available online. The next session will be held tomorrow (December 16th) and will cover Debian package information: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen/TrainingSessionscomments powered by Disqus
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Linus Addresses Criticism for Harsh Language
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Literature and Literacy Criticism Critical Reading Practice Exercises Set 3
Literature and Literacy Criticism Critical Reading
Questions 1–8 are based on the following passage.
In this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles, Mrs. and Mrs. Peters make an important discovery in Mrs. Wright's home as their husbands try to determine who strangled Mr. Wright.
MRS. PETERS: Well, I must get these things wrapped up. They may be through sooner than we think. [Putting apron and other things together.] I wonder where I can find a piece of paper, and string.
MRS. HALE: In that cupboard, maybe.
MRS. PETERS [looking in cupboard]: Why, here's a birdcage. [Holds it up.] Did she have a bird, Mrs. Hale?
MRS. HALE: Why, I don't know whether she did or not—I've not been here for so long. There was a man around last year selling canaries cheap, but I don't know as she took one; maybe she did. She used to sing real pretty herself.
MRS. PETERS [glancing around]: Seems funny to think of a bird here. But she must have had one, or why would she have a cage? I wonder what happened to it.
MRS. HALE: I s'pose maybe the cat got it.
MRS. PETERS: No, she didn't have a cat. She's got that feeling some people have about cats—being afraid of them. My cat got in her room and she was real upset and asked me to take it out.
MRS. HALE: My sister Bessie was like that. Queer, ain't it?
MRS. PETERS [examining the cage]: Why, look at this door. It's broke. One hinge is pulled apart.
MRS. HALE [looking too]: Looks as if someone must have been rough with it.
MRS. PETERS: Why, yes.
[She brings the cage forward and puts it on the table.]
MRS. HALE: I wish if they're going to find any evidence they'd be about it. I don't like this place.
MRS. PETERS: But I'm awful glad you came with me, Mrs. Hale. It would be lonesome for me sitting here alone.
MRS. HALE: It would, wouldn't it? [Dropping her sewing.] But I tell you what I do wish, Mrs. Peters. I wish I had come over sometimes when she was here. I—[looking around the room]—wish I had.
MRS. PETERS: But of course you were awful busy, Mrs. Hale—your house and your children.
MRS. HALE: I could've come. I stayed away because it weren't cheerful—and that's why I ought to have come. I—I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road. I dunno what it is but it's a lonesome place and always was. I wish I had come over to see Minnie Foster sometimes. I can see now—
[Shakes her head.]
MRS. PETERS: Well, you mustn't reproach yourself, Mrs. Hale. Somehow we just don't see how it is with other folks until—something comes up.
MRS. HALE: Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house, and Wright out to work all day, and no company when he did come in. Did you know John Wright, Mrs. Peters?
MRS. PETERS: Not to know him; I've seen him in town. They say he was a good man.
MRS. HALE: Yes—good; he didn't drink, and kept his word as well as most, I guess, and paid his debts. But he was a hard man, Mrs. Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him—[shivers]. Like a raw wind that gets to the bone. [Pauses, her eye falling on the cage.] I should think she would'a wanted a bird. But what do you suppose went with it?
MRS. PETERS: I don't know, unless it got sick and died.
[She reaches over and swings the broken door, swings it again. Both women watch it.]
MRS. HALE: You weren't raised round here, were you? [MRS. PETERS shakes her head.] You didn't know—her?
MRS. PETERS: Not till they brought her yesterday.
MRS. HALE: She—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself—real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. How—she—did—change. [Silence; then as if struck by a happy thought and relieved to get back to every day things.] Tell you what, Mrs. Peters, why don't you take the quilt in with you? It might take up her mind.
MRS. PETERS: Why, I think that's a real nice idea, Mrs. Hale. There couldn't possibly be any objection to it, could there? Now, just what would I take? I wonder if her patches are in here—and her things.
[They look in the sewing basket.]
MRS. HALE: Here's some red. I expect this has got sewing things in it. [Brings out a fancy box.] What a pretty box. Looks like something somebody would give you. Maybe her scissors are in here. [Opens box. Suddenly puts her hand to her nose.] Why—[MRS. PETERS bends nearer, then turns her face away.] There's something wrapped in this piece of silk.
MRS. PETERS [lifting the silk]: Why this isn't her scissors.
MRS. HALE [lifting the silk]: Oh, Mrs. Peters—it's—
[MRS. PETERS bends closer.]
MRS. PETERS: It's the bird.
MRS. HALE [jumping up]: But, Mrs. Peters—look at it! Its neck! Look at its neck! It's all—to the other side.
MRS. PETERS: Somebody—wrung—its—neck.
[Their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension, of horror. Steps are heard outside. MRS. HALE slips box under quilt pieces, and sinks into her chair. Enter SHERIFF and COUNTY ATTORNEY HALE. MRS. PETERS rises.]
- Based on the passage, the reader can conclude that
- Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale are old friends.
- Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale both know Mrs. Wright very well.
- Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale don't know each other very well.
- Neither Mrs. Peters nor Mrs. Hale like Mrs. Wright.
- Neither Mrs. Peters nor Mrs. Hale have children.
- Mrs. Hale says she wishes she had come to Mrs. Wright's house (lines 29–31 and 37–39) because
- she realizes that Mrs. Wright must have been lonely.
- she enjoyed Mr. Wright's company.
- she always felt at home in the Wright's house.
- she realizes how important it is to keep good relationships with one's neighbors.
- she had a lot in common with Mrs. Wright.
- According to Mrs. Hale, what sort of man was Mr. Wright?
- gentle and loving
- violent and abusive
- honest and dependable
- quiet and cold
- a strict disciplinarian
- In lines 60–62, Mrs. Hale suggests that Mrs. Wright
- had become even more like a bird than before.
- had grown bitter and unhappy over the years.
- was too shy to maintain an intimate friendship.
- must have taken excellent care of her bird.
- was always singing and flitting about.
- The phrase take up her mind in line 64 means
- worry her.
- make her angry.
- refresh her memory.
- keep her busy.
- make her think.
- It can be inferred that Mrs. Wright0
- got the bird as a present for her husband.
- was forced into marrying Mr. Wright.
- loved the bird because it reminded her of how she used to be.
- had a pet bird as a little girl.
- fought often with Mr. Wright.
- When the women share a look of growing comprehension, of horror (line 83), they realize that
- Mrs. Wright killed the bird.
- Mr. Wright killed the bird, and Mrs. Wright killed him.
- they would get in trouble if the sheriff found out they were looking around in the kitchen.
- there's a secret message hidden in the quilt.
- they might be Mrs. Wright's next victims.
- The stage directions in lines 83–86 suggest that
- the women are mistaken in their conclusion.
- the women will tell the men what they found.
- the women will confront Mrs. Wright.
- the women will keep their discovery a secret.
- the men had been eavesdropping on the women.
Questions 9–17 are based on the following passages.
In Passage 1, an excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein explains his motive for creating his creature. In Passage 2, an excerpt from H.G.Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Moreau explains to the narrator why he has been performing experiments on animals to transform them into humans.
Passage 1
I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be: listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery. Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibers, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking; but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect: yet, when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success. Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of my human being. As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature; that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination, and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.
No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs. Pursuing these reflections, I thought, that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.
These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour. My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize. One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself; and the moon gazed on my midnight labors, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
Passage 2
"Yes. These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that—to the study of the plasticity of living forms—my life has been devoted. I have studied for years, gaining in knowledge as I go. I see you look horrified, and yet I am telling you nothing new. It all lay in the surface of practical anatomy years ago, but no one had the temerity to touch it. It's not simply the outward form of an animal I can change. The physiology, the chemical rhythm of the creature, may also be made to undergo an enduring modification, of which vaccination and other methods of inoculation with living or dead matter are examples that will, no doubt, be familiar to you.
"A similar operation is the transfusion of blood, with which subject indeed I began. These are all familiar cases. Less so, and probably far more extensive, were the operations of those medieval practitioners who made dwarfs and beggar cripples and show-monsters; some vestiges of whose art still remain in the preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist. Victor Hugo gives an account of them in L'Homme qui Rit. . . . But perhaps my meaning grows plain now. You begin to see that it is a possible thing to transplant tissue from one part of an animal to another, or from one animal to another, to alter its chemical reactions and methods of growth, to modify the articulations of its limbs, and indeed to change it in its most intimate structure?
"And yet this extraordinary branch of knowledge has never been sought as an end, and systematically, by modern investigators, until I took it up! Some such things have been hit upon in the last resort of surgery; most of the kindred evidence that will recur to your mind has been demonstrated, as it were, by accident—by tyrants, by criminals, by the breeders of horses and dogs, by all kinds of untrained clumsyhanded men working for their own immediate ends. I was the first man to take up this question armed with antiseptic surgery, and with a really scientific knowledge of the laws of growth.
"Yet one would imagine it must have been practiced in secret before. Such creatures as Siamese Twins . . . . And in the vaults of the Inquisition. No doubt their chief aim was artistic torture, but some, at least, of the inquisitors must have had a touch of scientific curiosity . . . ."
"But," said I. "These things—these animals talk!"
He said that was so, and proceeded to point out that the possibilities of vivisection do not stop at a mere physical metamorphosis. A pig may be educated. The mental structure is even less determinate than the bodily. In our growing science of hypnotism we find the promise of a possibility of replacing old inherent instincts by new suggestions, grafting upon or replacing the inherited fixed ideas. [ . . . ]
But I asked him why he had taken the human form as a model. There seemed to me then, and there still seems to me now, a strange wickedness in that choice.
He confessed that he had chosen that form by chance.
"I might just as well have worked to form sheep into llamas, and llamas into sheep. I suppose there is something in the human form that appeals to the artistic turn of mind more powerfully than any animal shape can. But I've not confined myself to man-making. Once or twice . . . ." He was silent, for a minute perhaps. "These years! How they have slipped by! And here I have wasted a day saving your life, and am now wasting an hour explaining myself!"
"But," said I, "I still do not understand. Where is your justification for inflicting all this pain? The only thing that could excuse vivisection to me would be some application—"
"Precisely," said he. "But you see I am differently constituted. We are on different platforms. You are a materialist."
"I am not a materialist," I began hotly.
"In my view—in my view. For it is just this question of pain that parts us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick, so long as your own pain drives you, so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels. This pain—"
I gave an impatient shrug at such sophistry.
"Oh! But it is such a little thing. A mind truly open to what science has to teach must see that it is a little thing."
- In the first paragraph of Passage 1 (lines 1–10), Frankenstein reveals that the purpose of his tale is to
- entertain the reader.
- explain a scientific principle.
- teach a moral lesson.
- share the secret of his research.
- reveal his true nature.
- The word baffled in line 23 means
- hindered.
- confused.
- puzzled.
- eluded.
- regulated.
- During the creation process, Frankenstein could best be described as
- calm.
- horrified.
- evil.
- indifferent.
- obsessed.
- From Passage 2, it can be inferred that Dr. Moreau is what sort of scientist?
- artistic
- calculating and systematic
- careless, haphazard
- famous, renowned
- materialist
- These things that the narrator refers to in Passage 2, line 35 are
- Siamese twins.
- inquisitors.
- pigs.
- creatures Moreau created.
- tyrants and criminals.
- From the passage, it can be inferred that Dr. Moreau
- does not inflict pain upon animals when he experiments on them.
- has caused great pain to the creatures he has experimented on.
- is unable to experience physical pain.
- is searching for a way to eliminate physical pain.
- has learned to feel what an animal feels.
- Based on the information in the passages, Dr. Moreau is like Victor Frankenstein in that he also
- used dead bodies in his experiments.
- wanted his creations to worship him.
- made remarkable discoveries.
- kept his experiment a secret from everyone.
- had a specific justification for his pursuit of knowledge.
- Frankenstein would be most upset by Dr. Moreau's
- indifference to suffering.
- arrogance.
- great achievements.
- education of animals.
- choice of the human form.
- Which of the following best expresses Frankenstein's and Moreau's attitudes toward science?
- Both believe science can be dangerous.
- Frankenstein believes science should have a tangible application; Moreau believes scientific knowledge should be sought for its own sake.
- Frankenstein believes scientists should not harm living creatures in an experiment; Moreau believes it is acceptable to inflict pain on other creatures.
- Both men believe scientists should justify their work.
- Both men believe the greatest discoveries often take place in secrecy.
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Oregon Food Bank distributes emergency food to hunger-relief agencies throughout Oregon and Clark County, Wash. And that's just the beginning.
Last year, Oregon Food Bank distributed 43.5-million pounds of food to hunger-relief agencies.
Last year, at OFB's two Portland area locations, volunteer hours were equal to 74 full time employees, valued at $2.4 million.
"My ex-husband and I, we try to do everything right. He is a disabled veteran and he can't work, so I pack meals to send to his house, where the kids stay half the time."
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My ex-husband read the blog I wrote about him being an increasingly absent father to our daughter. He asked that I take it down, so I have - I'm not looking for a war with a man I once thought was our home. He wasn't always this way.
Some people have questioned why I aired such intimate laundry with the world. I wrote it out of desperation for a little girl who is beginning to show anger at her seemingly uncaring dad. I guess I pulled the fire alarm. I wrote it to give him a chance to rectify the situation before she refuses to visit him, and he loses her completely. I also wrote it out of respect for myself - I have carried all this worry alone too long, like a heavy bag of groceries that was starting to go bad. It hurt my heart, it's hurting my back.
So I put it down, I wrote it down, I shouted it from the rooftops of blog land. But everything I wrote is something I have said, written, texted him, and I did so in every tone possible: gently, angrily, with hope and with disappointment, to no avail.
The message has not gotten through. He worries my blog hurt his public image even though his name is nowhere to be found. He refutes every thing I say, he argues against everything I know, and he feels pity for himself because he believes it's impossible for him to be a better dad, despite making more than many of us combined, and living an hour's flight away. He seems to believe that "feeling bad" about the situation somehow makes him a better parent. Like some seriously talented magician, he has somehow managed to make himself feel like the victim.
So I will ask for help from the men in my life, far away as they are: my brothers, my father, my friends. I will ask them to cheer my daughter on with me at her recitals, and to help me teach my daughter that men do not treat you like a hobby, do not make you feel small, do not make you feel that the only way you can be loved is if you behave like a perfect little doll all the time.
It's a lot to ask.
(this is my dad, with A. when she was a tiny newborn)
When my daughter and I moved to Montreal 8 years ago, she was just over a year old. I hadn't lived here in over 10 years, and I knew only 2 people in the entire city. I was 21 when I left, and I was coming back as a recently separated single mother.
I was so freshly separated that when I discovered my ex-husband's suit had been mistakenly packed with my things, I believed it was a sign that we would reconcile. I used to slide myself into it and pretend his arms were wrapped around me. Truly the worst of times, for me.
Those early days as a new mother in a new-ish city were overwhelming for us both. For weeks after we moved, A. took her Lambie everywhere - the stuffed animal she usually reserved for bedtime was her constant companion. And for those first few weeks, she was my Lambie.
The first time her father came to fetch her so she could spend a weekend with him in Ottawa, I felt like I'd lost a limb. I cried like a baby. Or the lost mother of one. I had no idea what to do with myself, and barely a clue as to who I was without her. So I signed up for the crazy hip hop class I used to take when I was 17, and danced my Saturday mornings away.
Slowly I tried to make Montreal mine. I forced myself to attend events at which I knew almost no one, just to connect and meet people. The hardest was the Kids for Kids ball where I knew only the brother of one of my best friends - and not well. Everybody knew each other - it was right out of one of those bad prom scenes from a 90s flick.
I'd spent the previous 10 years in 3 different countries, so my friends were everywhere but there that night. But I stayed, I smiled, I danced, I bumped into old acquaintances, and I made sure not to impose myself on anyone too long. That night vaccinated me against being afraid to put myself into alien situations. It was my social Ironman, and just as painful.
A.'s neediness was my burden and my salvation - it anchored me to myself. I signed us up for playgroups, for music classes during which I would sit in a circle with other mothers and sing songs, for swimming classes in the dead of winter. Anything to stay busy: these activities were as much for me as they were for her. And I'm still friends with the gorgeous Anny who I met in that singing circle, and the wonderful women I met in playgroup, in the basement of the Westmount Baptist church. They still tease me about the time I showed up at playgroup with a raging hangover from a dinner party the night before, and spent most of the morning not socializing with my friends, but vomiting in the men's bathroom, while my child sat sweetly singing something about the wheels on the bus.
The weeks of crushing sadness eventually let in a day or two of I'm ok, and then those ok days started to link one to another. Slowly I made friends who cared for A. and I as though they'd known us for years, and we needed that care so badly. And once in a while I felt so high with stomach-flipping-joy that I'd wonder if I was normal.
Now the grief rushed in less often, but always at unexpected moments. At the cottage, after we'd spent a week splashing in the sun by the lake with my girlfriends and their kids. The moment their husbands would show up to join their wives and kids for the weekend, the kids would run squealing to jump in their father's arms, and my friends' focus would shift to their families. A. had nobody to run to, and I felt like someone had hit me in the heart with a canoe paddle. We'd retreat to the cottage, my stomach curdled with sadness.
This happened at the park, it happened at the ski hill - the places where families do things together, where parents cheer their children on, where they live the public moments that glue their memories together. One glimpse of a father pushing his daughter on a swing, and I'd want to throw up with sadness.
It's taken me years not to be punched in the heart by the togetherness of families, and maybe that's one of the reasons I left the family cocoon that is Westmount, but it happened again yesterday, when I took A. skiing. I'd forgotten how it felt to be surrounded by dads helping their kids get up after they fell flat on their faces, sharing the carrying, cheering, dragging that is the real skiing-with-kids experience, with their spouses.
It's still just us, me and A. But it was a beautiful, fun day and I refuse to stop doing what we love just because it hurts a little. We've been through worse.
My little one, my bear, my sweet, my pumpkin. My bundle. Monkey. Sweetpea. My little love. I have more names for you than I need, and they slip out of my mouth unbidden, like those funny candies I used to love that popped around my mouth. You cross borders more than most business people, and as soon as I drop you off at the airport, my heart becomes a rosary, ticking off the prayers, aiming them at every deity I can think of, like a prayer bomb. Yes me - the same woman who once yelled at a Catholic priest that he was the reincarnation of the head of the Inquisition (he wasn't very nice).
Why aren't you here yet?
I haven't seen you in weeks and you're coming home any minute. I am as excited as you must be when you go to sleep the night before Christmas. Yes child, right now, you're my Santa, my presents, my turkey feast, all in one.
For 3 weeks I haven't taken care of anybody but my self, and I needed it badly: three months ago we sold our home, we left our neighbourhood, I started a job that was so new in so many ways. New job, new neighborhood, new lots of things: it's like a self-imposed witness protection program, minus the plastic surgery. I've enjoyed this time off without guilt, because I knew you were soaking up your daddy's love like a thirsty little sponge of a girl.
Enough of that, I want you back.
I want your voice to fill this house, I want your toys scattered all over the place, I want to trip over your stuffed animals having a tea party in the middle of the kitchen, I want to find your dirty clothes hidden in the corner of your room, I want you to sing Justin Bieber tunes til I roll my eyes, I want you to ask me to braid your hair just as we're rushing out the door in the morning, and I want you to call from your room to tell me you love me 4 times after I've asked you to go to sleep.
Tick, tock, are you here yet?
Your room is ready, your bed is full of little presents - a skirt I bought you yesterday, a keychain I brought you back from Mexico, a letter you received. I need to hug you.
Any minute now…
London beckons to me like that flirty guy who never makes a move: I enjoy it, but I can't take it too seriously. And yet going back reminds me that I miss living in Europe, and that I have more family living there than I do on the entire North American continent. Why do we live so far away from those we love?
Like my cousins - 2 of whom I had never met before: Nikita on left, and his father Magnus, on the right. And my cousin Joseph in the middle holding Lois, his little girl. They're interesting, fun, irreverent, good people who I would like even if we weren't (sort of) related. And yes Magnus, we will be visiting you in Portugal, once you've installed the septic system.
The last time I was in London was for my 36th birthday, with my boyfriend at the time. Two years later and the (ex) boyfriend lives in South America, my best friend is pregnant with her first child, my dad and my not-so-wicked stepmother have moved back to England after 5 years in Dubai, my brother Stefan has moved to Beirut, and my sister Daisy is in law school and wields her knowledge of EU law like a weapons-grade sedative.
And I have matured.
This trip was the first time since 2007 that I stayed at my parent's house in Letchworth - the house they shared before moving to Dubai, but don't share any longer. It feels like a lifetime ago: I was still married, living in Joisey, and my little one was small and round, still a baby.
I have so many good memories of that house.
I didn't grow up in a peaceful home, so this one meant a lot to me. I left home when I was 17, and never returned. Even now when I drive by the house I grew up in, I think the woman who bought it from us should have had an exorcism thrown in as a bonus, or at least a Feng Shui for Dummies consultation to rid her of the many bad memories it contains. Because just as I love Letchworth's pile of bricks, I still hate that other home's every brick.
The Letchworth house was a home, and knowing that it existed - even across the Atlantic - was important. My stepmother filled it with aromas of Lebanese food, and artifacts from the places she and my father had been, while my dad filled it with booming classical music and books. And along with my brother and sister, they filled it with love. Nobody chased anybody with a hammer or threw bowls of oranges at each other. We all have such happy memories of sitting at the kitchen table laughing, arguing, together (hammer-less and orange-less).
And perhaps there were less happy things going on under the surface, but it wasn't for me to notice: there I could regress and be a child, a daughter, a sister, and possibly a pain the ass.
Now the house is inhabited again, and it's turned into a home again. It's beautiful and comfortable. But only one of my parents lives there now, so at first it was a sadder visit than I'd expected. And even though I'm an unwilling expert in divorce, I realized that I hadn't understood the importance of what has happened to the people I love, and how difficult this has been for them all.
Rather than olfactory memory, I had an architectural memory - all the emotion associated with that building and the people who lived there and the people we all were when we were there together - came back, as I stood outside the front door with my little girl.
I'm so proud of the way my family has handled all this. I'm so happy that we came, we saw, we began to understand. And hopefully, we contributed to new and happy memories to fill the house anew.
PS: This brings me one step closer to falling for you, London. After all, I've just sold my own home…
I woke up this morning already grumpy at having to endure the dual punishment of both a snowy Monday and Valentine's day on the same day, because I'm not a fan of either one.
And then this image landed in my inbox, courtesy of Magnum Photos.
I love it for so many reasons. Because it's somewhere hot, because they're so into each other they don't care who sees them. Because it's so blatant that it's innocent. Because their friend keeps driving as though she's used to them snogging away in broad daylight, yet again. It's all about them - nobody else matters.
And it helps that his back isn't furry.
It reminds me of this photograph of my parents, taken in the 70s.
They are sitting in the back of a car. I think this was taken in Rome, where they met when they were both journalists, before I was born. Perhaps even before they realized they weren't right for one another, though they both tell me they knew it early on. Or were they on the way to their wedding day? It doesn't matter. I'm grateful for photographs like this, because although I've long made peace with their horrid divorce, it's good to see that I and my brothers came from such a gorgeous if temporary tenderness.
It comforts me to know I came from love. Which is what I was telling my own child the other day - that she came from two people who loved each other very much when they chose to have her, even though her dad and I are now divorced. Her response was, "wow mama, thanks for sharing", but her 7 year-old cheekiness is another story.
I hope it comforts her to look at photos of her dad and I one day, photos of us before we knew that we too would one day be victims to temporary tenderness. She comes from so much good and so much happiness. And no regrets whatsoever (other than leaving the Cayman Islands, where this was taken).
Maybe that's all we can hope for when we love someone: good leftovers when and if that love ends. A tenderness that yields something good, whether it's a child, a memory or a photograph that ends up in someone's inbox and makes them smile.


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"Painkiller Jane" Recaps: Episode 1.3 "Piece of Mindâ€
Touched by a neuro — On her way home from work, a man asks Heartbreaker Maureen for some change. She gives it to him, and in the brief moment when their hands touch, we hear the zapping sound that tells us the man is the naughty neuro and that he may have just stolen some of Heartbreaker Maureen's memory.
Cut to Joe at Headquarters, who's fast asleep. Someone enters the room, wearing the telltale magical bracelet — and lightly touches his arm, eliciting the zap of memory theft. Joe's eyes flutter open, but no one is there. Joe gets up to check on Riley, but finds nothing amiss.
The morning after — The next morning, the Geek Squad is gathering for breakfast. Riley is playing a computer golf game (and sucking at it) when Maureen notices that someone has breached their security. The Squad draw their guns and watch in stunned silence as an older man hobbles into their complex like he owns the place.
He tells them, "Your security system isn't working because I shut it down,†and lets loose with a smug, evil villain laugh. While he does have a mustache, he mercifully resists the urge to twirl it. Now I'm watching in stunned silence.
Mr. Mustache: Well I suppose I should be flattered. An entire team devoted to finding people like me. [to Andre] Your friend Riley, his mind's a vault of information. Neuros, that's what you call us. At least I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in my uniqueness.
The Ugly One: That's OK pal, 'cause I'm about to arrange for you to meet the rest of the freaks so that you don't feel so lonely.
He draws his special neuro gun on Mr. Mustache, who tells him, "If you ever want to see your friend again — intact — that might not be the wise thing to do.â€
Andre doubts that Mr. M can do anything to help Riley, but Mr. M tells him, "Oh, I can. I can steal knowledge, I can transfer knowledge, and I can restore knowledge.â€
McDorky magically appears and tells them:"He can. I just got a call from Paula Rafferty. It seems that Dr. Rafferty has made a full recovery.â€
Mr. M says they should consider it an act of good faith — and proof of his abilities. But wait, there's more. In exchange for the return of all of Riley's marbles, Mr. M wants the help of the Geek Squad. He wants them to help him rob a train!
Driving that train — The man's name is Simon Connolly, and there's something that he wants. And, oh yeah, it's "important.†"It†is being shipped in a high-security container by rail the next day.
Simon: If the robbery is successful and I get to do what I want, I'll restore Riley's mind. I'm also prepared, when all this is over, for you to chip me.
Jane: Andre, this may be our only chance to save Riley!
Andre: Even if we agreed to do this, what makes you think we have the expertise to rob a train?
Simon executes some stupid human tricks, asking each of the Squad members random train technology questions, and they surprise even themselves by knowing the answers.
Hmm. It seems that with all that inappropriate touching he was imparting knowledge, not stealing it. But he never laid a hand on Jane. Why is that? He tells her, "You won't be needing any additional knowledge, Agent Vasco. You'll be handling the most physically challenging part of the operation.â€
Simon helps himself to the Squad's computer system, rapidly typing in information and doing "what Riley would have done: manipulating the system to the team's advantage.†Simon tells Jane that she has "an amazing gift†and that he just didn't feel right zapping her like the others. He tells her: "I'm on your side. And to be honest, I'm a bit saddened that you're not on mine. Did you ever wonder which side might be the right side? Is being different such a crime?'
Jane reminds him that his "uniqueness†has a body count. Simon says (heh) that he regrets the loss of life, and it was never his intention. Jane tells him that this merely puts him "on the road to hell with a lot of other people.â€
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U.N. Urged to Reaffirm Reproductive Rights in Post-2015 Agenda
Purnima Mane, president and chief executive officer of Pathfinder International, told IPS, "We are delighted the final set of [proposed] SDGs contains four critical targets on SRHR: three under the health goal and one under the gender goal. But we have not reached the finish line yet. We must all continue to raise our voices to ensure these SRHR targets are intact when the final version is approved."
Anti-LGBT Law Struck Down in Uganda
Reproductive Rights Take Centre Stage at U.N. Special Session
"I would hope the upcoming U.N. session will highlight the need to include sexual and reproductive health and rights upfront as a core component of the Sustainable Development Goals as the Open Working Group continues to develop its proposal," said Purnima Mane, President & CEO of Pathfinder International.
The Tragedy of False Honor: Why Violence Against Women Must Stop
"There is no honor in these vicious acts and so-called 'honor' killings. They are just dire reminders that violence against women is alive and well. They diminish women to nothing more than disposable property, devoid of rights. This must come to an end."
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In terms of a general time theory which addresses time-elements as typed point-based intervals, a formal characterization of time-series and state-sequences is introduced. Based on this framework, the subsequence matching problem is specially tackled by means of being transferred into bipartite graph matching problem. Then a hybrid similarity model with high tolerance of inversion, crossover and noise is proposed for matching the corresponding bipartite graphs involving both temporal and non-temporal measurements. Experimental results on reconstructed time-series data from UCI KDD Archive demonstrate that such an approach is more effective comparing with the traditional similarity model based algorithms, promising robust techniques for lager time-series databases and real-life applications such as Content-based Video Retrieval (CBVR), etc.
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I was given some advice years ago about penciling in eyebrows (just regular makeup, not permanent mind you) that I obey. I was told not to attempt to match the brows to each other, but to follow the natural arch of the brow line for each eye. We are not perfectly symmetrical, so trying to create two perfectly matched brows often looks unnatural. That being said, of course they need to be pretty darn close, because too much off & they look pretty bad. If you follow the natural brow line you aren't fighting with nature.
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Art attracts the unseen
Erica (an alias) was the first of three earthbound spirits to come forward…but that's how she is; bold, outspoken and expressive. She was quick to tell me that as a California artist, she enjoyed bold expression. "Breaking boundaries" was her passion. Erica succumbed to breast cancer in 1968 at the age of 43. In 1993, her earthbound spirit attached to the Kelowna Art Gallery because of its contemporary architectural design. "It isn't stuffy looking like the museum galleries," she says.
Erica then tells me why she stayed behind (that is, why she chose not to crossover into the light at the time of her death). During life, she didn't believe in 'heaven' and was quite vocal with her opinion "that here was no afterlife", therefore, chose to stand firm to that conviction at the time of her death. She has since decided she is ready to reincarnate because she says…"life is grand".
All the years that Erica remained at the gallery, she was never aware of another earthbound spirit who attached to the building in 1997. This unnamed female spirit tells me she died in Buffalo, New York in 1978 at the age of 53. When I asked how she died she shared the picture with me - as if she invited me momentarily into her living room. I watched as she used a paperclip to dig lint out of an electrical outlet and witnessed the electrical jolt that flung her across the room. She tells me "No home is worth losing your life just to keep it clean!" She expressed her concern about how her husband would react upon discovering her dead in their apartment and remained behind because of her desire to comfort him during his grief. She knew he sensed her presence but never spoke to her. As time went by, she realized her husband needed to move on with his life and she stepped away, eventually attaching to the Kelowna Art Gallery because of her appreciation of art.
One more earthbound spirit roamed the property – that of a young woman who died in 1886 at the age of 25 while giving birth and chose to remain to try to help the children she left behind. Her story was that of the hardships experienced by many pioneer women.
Earthbound spirits seem to retain the personalities they developed during their lifetime and the connection with them can feel as close as talking to the person next to you in the grocery line. This particular day, we met the spirits of three very different women from equally diverse lifestyles who all chose to settle on the same property because of their one commonality, a love of art.
Interestingly, each of the three female spirits, 'occupied' the same property for more than a decade, yet neither was aware of the other until we connected with them for the purpose of helping them to cross. Once a spirit chooses to be Earthbound, they apparently cannot cross into the light without some help. With our assistance, these three spirits were able to find peace and reconnection as they crossed over to complete the journeys they started long ago.
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Bob Evans is currently in the process of remodeling 27 area restaurants.
The renovated stores will include new "Taste of the Farm" bakeries; dedicated carry-out areas; redesigned retail areas; and decor changes, including murals in the entryways, more modern furnishings and light fixtures, and brighter color schemes in the fabric, carpet and walls.
The Colerain Avenue, Fort Wright, Milford, West Chester (Schulze Road), Beechmont, North Bend Road, Kenwood, Hamilton (Main Street), Lebanon, Sharon Road, Cincinnati, Newport, Middletown, Fairfield (Kolb Drive) and Cold Spring stores have already completed their remodels. Stores still to remodel will close for about a week to complete the work. Their expected closing and reopening dates are:
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West Chester (Dudley Road; closes 3/25; reopens 4/7)
Hamilton (Indian Meadows Drive; closes 3/25; reopens 4/1)
Amelia (closes 3/25; reopens 4/1)
Hillsboro (closes 4/1; reopens 4/8)
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Deerfield Twp (closes 4/15; reopens 4/22)
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Eastgate (closes 4/22; reopens 4/29)
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Recently, someone asked me off-handedly if I was a hypochondriac. I'm pretty sure he expected my answer would be "no." He doesn't know me that well yet. My answer was actually, "Well, sure. Not about everything. Just about the things that can kill me. Like, I'm not worried about Lyme disease, but I am worried about rabies." What I was trying to tell him, I guess, is that I am not a classic hypochondriac in the sense that I'm worried about my health all the time. I don't worry about my life, exactly. I worry about my death. I really don't want to die. So, naturally, I am obsessed with all things death and all the different ways that I might possibly die.
I am not alone in this. Woody Allen recently wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times in which he wrote, "I am always certain I've come down with something life threatening. It matters little that few people are ever found dead of chapped lips. Every minor ache or pain sends me to a doctor's office in need of reassurance that my latest allergy will not require a heart transplant, or that I have misdiagnosed my hives and it's not possible for a human being to contract elm blight." He then went on to talk about how his wife still gives him hickeys, which made me VERY UNCOMFORTABLE, but I guess it's good that old people have sex? I should grow the fuck up. No doubt about it.
But so anyway, I personally don't worry about chapped lips. I worry about other stuff. And, it's actually stuff that just about everyone with any imagination at all should be worried about too. I've put together a list for you, so we can worry together. Us and Woody and his hickey-giving wife.


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Underutilizing its talented cast, The Pink Panther 2 is little more than a series of lame slapstick gags.
Pink Panther 2 is one of those movies that I can not sit through. Not because it's gross or violent, no the movie is so bad and so unfunny; I can't sit through it.
Same script writer as The Spectacular Now.
There was really no need for a second installment of the Pink Panther. The jokes were all the same, it just felt like I was watching the same movie all over again except this time with more sophisticated actors such as Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, and John Clesse which only reminds us of what a waste these talents are in this film. I cant say however that I was bored to death watching this and I did laugh several times thanks to Steve Martin and Jean Reno. I have always enjoyed Steve and he is funny in this role, but it just feels more of the same and even the classic hamburguer joke was used here which only reminded me…
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Soy fan del humor absurdo sano, con actores comportándose de forma ridícula y algún que otro golpe, y concretamente soy fan de Steve Martin. Para mí películas como La Pantera Rosa 2 siempre van a ser un visionado de lo más entretenido.
This genuinely feels like a continuation of The Pink Panther. It's just as good, just as bad.
Cool to watch another movie by the Norwegian director Harald Zwart.
Pink Panther 2 is one of those movies that I can not sit through. Not because it's gross or violent, no the movie is so bad and so unfunny; I can't sit through it.
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I kind of enjoyed the first of the Steve Martin Pink Panther movie, but this one is completely unfunny.
Martin's reprise as Inspector Clouseau is not quite as funny as the original, neither his nor Sellers', but still very laughable. The scene with the Pope is a real gut-splitter. John Cleese does Dreyfuss well, although the part is limited. Andy Garcia plays the Italian detective perfectly, complete with a bit of butt grabbing. But my favorite new element in this episode was Lili Tomlin, trying to teach Clouseau how NOT to be a racist, male chauvanist xenophobe, and his reactions. Quite entertaining.
Passable, good-natured caper comedy, featuring some inspired slapstick by a surprisingly agile Steve Martin (and Alfred Molina in a pink tutu).
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Southeast Alaska stretches down from the rest of the state like the tail of a kite. It is a world of soaring glaciers, steep-shouldered islands, cliff-rimmed fjords, and snowcapped peaks. Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, one of the region's most prized attractions, is home to the largest concentration of coastal glaciers on Earth.
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Verse: Psalms 1:1–3
Without strong roots, a tree won't grow and produce fruit. Deep roots are a source of sustenance and an anchor in storms. You need to be strongly rooted in God for the same reasons. So, how do you develop roots? Absorb God's Word daily. As life gets busier, this may require creativity. During your child's soccer practice, memorize Bible verses you keep on cards in your purse. Use your lunch hour to read your Bible. Listen to the Bible on CD while you drive. Look for every opportunity to soak up God's truth and send down those roots.
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Similar scenes were repeated frequently during the three-day California Naturalist conference in October. The legless lizards and gopher snake brought in by a Fort Ord Dunes State Park ranger, a family of raccoons under the dining hall deck, deer browsing among the cottages and a beautiful sunset drew quick attention from participants. It is this enthusiasm that defines California Naturalists, a community with more than a love of nature, but a strong inclination toward gaining new knowledge, conserving the natural world and sharing their passion with others.
"We are in a room full of early adopters," said Adina Merenlender to certified California Naturalists, instructors and aspiring naturalists at the conference. "It's amazing to see the seeds we planted growing into a real community. Everyone here has helped start this new community of practice."
"This is exactly what we are doing," said Merenlender, co-director of the California Naturalist statewide program and UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley.
At the conference, California Naturalists learned from world-class experts about engaging with nature and interpretation, coupling science and art, taking part in citizen science, preparing for global change, and protecting the state from invasive species. But perhaps the most important outcome was the opportunity for kindred spirits to share the weekend, forge lasting relationships and set future collaborations in motion.
"We're building a movement here," said one of the conference speakers, nature writer and artist John Muir Laws. "We want to be strengthening ourselves. Our strength comes from the strands of the web between us."
California Naturalists from around the state will reconvene in 2016. In the meantime, plans are being formulated to further develop the program, both in numbers and form, by reaching out to new audiences that will enhance the community of practice.
Sabrina Drill, co-director of the California Naturalist program and UC Cooperative Extension advisor in LA County, is reaching out to the Los Angeles Conservation Corps to see if the California Naturalist curriculum can be used to enrich the training now offered to young people enrolled in the program.
"The LACC participants learn important practical skills, like how to fell a tree and how to use a chain saw," Drill said. "They have told me they would like to provide environmental background to participants so they learn why they are thinning forests and why they are removing invasive plants. We would provide them with the environmental science context."
Another area where the California Naturalist program is poised to grow is with organizations that connect with regional, state and national parks.
"We can work with these groups to increase capacity in resource management at parks," Merenlender said. "Government agencies can accomplish the nuts and bolts of local operations, but they can rarely provide the scientific and environmental literacy training for staff and volunteers."
A third initiative aims to reach out to teachers. Drill and Merenlender are exploring a host of potential partnerships that can connect the California Naturalist community of practice to children, including UC's Project Learning Tree, the long-running Forestry Institute for Teachers, the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum, and the UCCE 4-H Youth Development program.
"If teachers take part in the California Naturalist program, they will bring what they learned back to the classroom," Merenlender said. "As a community of practice, we are committed to helping our teachers ensure youth the environmental literacy intended by the increasingly popular slogan, 'No child left inside.'"
For more information, see the California Naturalist website.
Make it a healthy Halloween!
It's not too late to mix things up this year, by bringing one of many creative fruit and vegetable goodies to your spooky bash.
What about healthy ideas for children's parties? Think outside the wrapper! Consider handing out non-food items this Halloween. You can purchase many of these items for the same price as sweets. Pro tip: check out your local dollar store or hit up the party favor aisle at most department stores for bulk buys at low prices.
Here are a few non-food ideas:
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- Yo-Yo
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For more ideas about healthy holiday celebrations, visit ChooseMyPlate.gov, or contact your local University of California Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program.
Two creative and healthful Halloween party ideas.
Is that a light brown apple moth?
Light brown apple moth is currently under a California Department of Food and Agriculture quarantine that regulates the interstate shipment of plants to keep the moth from spreading to new areas. It has been quarantined in various counties throughout coastal California ranging from Mendocino to San Diego.
An exotic and invasive pest from Australia, light brown apple moth has a host range of more than 2,000 plants. It is a pest to a wide range of ornamental and agricultural crops, including caneberries, strawberries, citrus, stone fruit, apples, and grapes. The caterpillars eat leaves and buds, leading to weak or disfigured plants. They also can feed directly on fruit, causing the fruit to be unmarketable.
Correct field identification of the light brown apple moth is the first step in containing the spread of this moth. Unfortunately several other leafroller caterpillars, including the orange tortrix, omnivorous leafroller, avocado leafroller, and apple pandemic moth, look similar to light brown apple moth caterpillars. This makes photo identification tools that can go into the field with workers, like the Field Identification Guide for Light Brown Apple Moth in California Nurseries, a useful resource for nursery workers.
The field guide was created by Steven Tjosvold, Neal Murray, University of California Cooperative Extension; Marc Epstein, Obediah Sage, California Department of Food and Agriculture; and Todd Gilligan, Colorado State University with the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM).
For more information on light brown apple moth and other leafrollers found in nurseries, see the UC Pest Management Guidelines for Floriculture and Nurseries.
UCCE helps span the boundary between fire science and fire management in California
"It is a classic disconnect," said Susie Kocher, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in the Central Sierra office. "That's why Cooperative Extension was formed almost 100 years ago. Policymakers could see that research advances weren't being implemented on farms. The same thing has happened in natural resource management."
For example, Kocher said, scientists have known since the 1960s that systematic fire suppression has many negative consequences, but it took a very long time to get that message into practice by agencies charged with managing wildfire.
"After the Great Burn of 1910, which killed 87 people, there was a public clamor to attack fire and treat it as an enemy," Kocher said. "We've come a long way since then. Now land managers have a good understanding of how important it is to have low-intensity fire in Sierra forests."
Fire agencies are now beginning to understand that they must pay attention to technology transfer. Kocher believes UC Cooperative Extension is a logical player in the process.
"Cooperative Extension is the exemplar," Kocher said. "We try to get new and evolving understanding into the hands of people who use the information to made decisions – not just land managers, but the public and policy makers as well."
Beginning in 2009, the federal Joint Fire Science Program created 15 regional fire science exchanges to accelerate awareness, understanding and use of wildland fire science. Scott Stephens, professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, leads the California consortium. Stacey S. Frederick serves as the consortium's full-time coordinator. Other UC academics involved are Kocher and Yana Valachovic, UCCE advisor in Humbolt and Del Norte counties.
Since its inception four years ago, the consortium has hosted webinars, conferences and symposia, and offered field consultations, field trips, tours, demonstrations and expertise. Another significant role of the group has been distilling academic fire science research reports into easy-to-read one-to two-page research briefs. To date, well over 100 briefs have been written by the consortium on a wide range of topics.
The California Fire Science Consortium maintains a comprehensive website that contains links to the research briefs, webinar recordings and information about upcoming events. The consortium also offers a twitter feed @cafirescience and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaFireScienceConsortium and you can sign up for their monthly newsletter here.
Pests make it challenging to grow chile peppers
"Tomato spotted wilt virus spread by western flower thrips is a big problem for peppers," said Shimat Joseph, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Tomato spotted wilt can cause a plant to produce discolored fruit that is unmarketable and it can kill the plant. Joseph advises pepper growers on integrated pest management methods to control insects.
"We believe it is critical to manage thrips early in the season because when the plants are small, they are more vulnerable," Joseph said, "and the disease may not show until later in the season."
He is currently studying the effects of applying insecticides a month after transplanting to discourage thrips from feeding. He also recommends removing weeds, which can host the virus.


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As an adult I found the game to be repeating in nature, but a child would be happy to play it. The good thing about the whole game is you can't really get lost. The Disney princesses help you throughout the game, as there are gems scattered throughout the kingdoms. I really enjoyed playing this game since my kids have made me a man-version of a Disney Princess at heart. I enjoyed discovering the worlds with my favorite princess, although the game is fairly short and I had no desire to replay the game; I just enjoyed the adventure. The game is rated E for everyone and a totally agree with that rating. However younger fans might need some adult help in playing this game. My verdict on the game: Cute none the less, Easy for girls and boys to play! Everyone really enjoyed the easy controls and the customization of your own room, Character and much more.
Controls are actually a very interesting part for this game, as normally I do not like playing games like this on the Wii. However, the controls actually flowed rather well for the game itself, and I forgot that I did not enjoy Wii controls during the time I played this game. For the most part the configuration is exactly what you would expect out of this type of game on the Wii, but again they were easy and fun to use.
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I think that hun or sweetheart are typical nick names when someone is attracted to you, I say don't get too excited and wait some more time in case you want something "serious" with this person. In my experience that is only to check if you are really available. Just go with the flow and see what happens =)
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It's a done deal, just not in the direction that Broncos Country wanted. Elvis Dumervil has signed with the Baltimore Ravens.
This comes from Mike Klis of the Denver Post, who is reporting that the defensive end has agreed to a multi-year deal.
From here, the Broncos will look to sign John Abraham, who had 10 sacks and 6 forced fumbles last season. If they can't sign Abraham, they will look to sign Dwight Freeney.
Dumervil's departure was a bigger headache for the Broncos front office than anyone imagined. It took him a while to decided whether to take a pay cut. He decided to 35 minutes before the 2:00 p.m. deadline last Friday. However, the Broncos did not receive the veteran's faxed paperwork in time. Thus, the team had to release him in order to avoid paying him his $12 million base salary. This cost the Broncos nearly $5 million in dead money. The team offered Dumervil another contract last week, but as a free agent, Dumervil was free to talk to other teams in the meantime. He talked with the New England Patriots, the Tennessee Titans, and the Ravens.
As we have from the start of this process, we worked diligently over the last week to find a way for Elvis Dumervil to remain a Denver Bronco. Although we made multiple contract offers to Elvis after being forced to release him, we were unable to reach an agreement and are now moving forward without him.
Elvis was a team captain and a talented player who made a great impact during his seven seasons in Denver. I appreciate all of his effort on the field and the work he did in the community.
I wish Elvis all the best as he continues his NFL career. – John Elway
Former Broncos defensive coordinator Don "Wink" Martindale is the Ravens' linebackers coach, so I'm sure that was a big draw for Dumervil.
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(by Thinking-Silence)
"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." - David Bowie
photo by Baron Wolman
Black Orchids
Nude with skeleton by Marina Abramovic, 2002-05 [crop]
(Thanks to fette for the link)
calvin klein s/s 1994, kate moss on the runway
Russian photographer Sergey Semenov stitched together panorama pictures he took during a helicopter ride in New York City.
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