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Cosmos may not be hosts for larvae but I've seen loads of adult insects on mine looking for nectar and pollen. I'm not too fussed about them as plants and only use annuals as colourful fillers but OH loves them so it' s a win-win plant in our garden..
What kind of hydrangea and are they in the ground or in pots? In my experience they are much hardier than phormiums so maybe you got the moisture levels wrong.
My entire garden is former cow pasture that came right up to the back and side walls of the house. It was all very boggy but, after centuries of natural fertiliser it is very fertile loam over a clay subsoil. The front garden was tarmac poured over cobbles to make parking for tractors and so on.
We got a man with a bulldozer to dig us out a pond for drainage and then he scooped and levelled and smoothed and harrowed so we have a flat terrace, path and working area behind the house and gently rising land to our boundary. We made a large grass area and planted a row of shrubs for wind shelter and then, a bit later, widened that to make a deep border for perennials, a woodland corner and a damp bed next to the terrace where drainage is poorest.
The same man came back a while later to move the earth in the last part behind the house and make us a level veggie plot with railway sleepers as retaining walls. We then made raised beds for our fruit and veggies.
You can plant things on clay soil but you need to fork it over first to break it up and lay on loads of well rotted compost and manure - preferably in autumn so the worms and frosts can work together to break it up. Come spring, lay on another thick layer of manure or compost and plant in that. The same would apply if you do make raised beds.
Here are some interesting plants that will cope with poorly drained, clay soil - eupatorium, filipendula, lysimachia ephemerum, vinca minor, sympitum ibericum and dalmera peltata. Have a look also at astilbes, Japanese anemones, hostas, astilboides, primulas, especially the candelabra forms, ligularia and hemerocallis. If you like grasses, try molinia and hakonechloa.
You don't mention the aspect or exposure which will also affect your plant choices but, as it is the approach to your main entrance, I suggest a raised bed of some sort using local stone or solid railway sleepers that will last and look good when weathered. Either way, you do need to break up the pan of clay at the bottom or you'll always have drainage problems. I agree with Fidget about spraying persistent weeds with deep roots too - now and maybe again in spring if they re-emerge as these things can be very persistent.
The ticks are also a problem for cats and dogs so make sure any of your own pets get proper tick treatment from a vet to prevent bites - their stuff is more effective than Frontline form the pharmacy - and make sure you take medical advice yourself.
We're supposed to have loads of the things round here as there are wild roe deer and foxes in local woods and copses so I do regular treatments for the dogs so they're OK. We haven't been bitten ourselves yet.
You need to provide some sort of framework to train the stems if you can. Trellis or posts and wire or wires stretched against a wall on vine eyes.
They fruit on last year's growth so you keep the stems till they've fruited and then cut out those stems at the base once you've harvested. Meanwhile, new stems will be growing from the base form spring and thru the summer. You can tie these loosely to a vertical support to keep them out of teh way and then, once the old stems have been cut off, you release the new stems and train them along the supports to get maximum light and sun to make the next season's crop.
This way you automatically renew the vigour of your plant each year. Giving a generous handful or two of blood, fish and bone or pelleted chicken manure in spring and supplemented with liquid tomato fertiliser drinks from spring to mid summer will increase flower and thus fruiting power.
Chillies can be treated as house plants and grown on a sunny window sill. Turn occasionally to even up access to direct light.
Daphnes are really outdoor shrubs and mint can be grown on a window sill for a while but then gets rather large and needs to go outdoors in a pot or in a confined space in the ground. Outdoors, it will die down in winter and regrow next spring. Indoors it will get straggly as light levels reduce in autumn. It is a herbaceous perennial and really does need a period of rest in winter to maintain its flavour.
I have a gardening friend who tells me there is a sickness going round that kills acers. They start with die back, then lose leaves and struggle on for a season or two and then die.
It's happened to one of mine that was looking stunning till July but now is very very sad so will come out this autumn.
In evolutionary terms, gardening purely for pleasure and decoration is very recent. Before then it was about growing herbs for medicines and food to eat. Gardening for pleasure took off when the growing middle classes wanted pleasure gardens which had, hitherto, been solely for the nobility with space and money to indulge.
Plants have been brought here for centuries and even millennia by invaders and migrants and traders and then by plant hunters and importers serving a market.
I spend hours weeding out creeping buttercup, fat hen, nettles, bindweed, thistles, bittercress, couch grass, groundsel, iris pseudocorus and boggy sedges because they are invasive and ugly and I want colour and form from plants with more visual interest throughout the year to provide food and habitat for wildlife.
I like hanging baskets in theory and window boxes and troughs and pots and other sorts of container planting - as long as they're not garish combos of colours or full of plants I loathe such as begonias and busies and painted heathers and so on.
However; I think I may well abandon summer hanging baskets on the sunny side of our house as they just get to hot and dry and windblown. I already use the two brackets by the garage doors for hanging bird feeders but I may decide to have one last go at a winter basket with variegated ivies and so on for the front door.
On the north side I've had success with baskets of trailing fuchsias which I love but fuchsia chappy wasn't at the plant fair in May so I've just had the old plants growing in a trough up on a shelf under the back kitchen window this year and peanut feeders where the baskets usually go either side of the French windows.
On the whole, rather more entertaining and a lot less bovver.
English lavender arrived with the Romans as did English apples and all sorts of other English fruit, veg and herbs.
In those days England and Wales were largely forested and I assume much of Scotland too but changing weather and human intervention has led to forest clearing, moorland creation for hunting partridge and grouse and deer, lowland draining for growing non native cereals and so on.
How far back do you want to go to get native and just have trees, bracken and brambles in your garden?


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I don't think folks know enough of Oracle's backstory, so I figure I should lay it out for you.
Our story begins in May of 1988, with the publication of Alan Moore's The Killing Joke.
In this much-hyped event, the Joker shoots and paralyzes Barbara Gordon, formerly known as the heroine Batgirl (Barbara had given up the identity in a Batgirl Special earlier that year by Barbara Kesel, to pave the way for the Killing Joke. The idea was to give her a quick presence before the Killing Joke so that the event would have more of an "impact," as it were).
Almost immediately, Kim Yale had a problem with the comic.
Discussing her dislike of the treatment of Batgirl in the issue with her husband, John Ostrander, the two formulated a plan to address what would happen next for Barbara. As Ostrander recalls, "There were no plans for her in the continuity at that time. We decided that if that happened, we weren't just going to make her better magically — we wanted to explore what happened when someone like her was crippled and how she would respond."
In late 1988, Oracle made her first appearance, but only as the NAME "Oracle," a hacker who aided the Suicide Squad, in Suicide Squad #23.
Oracle aided the Squad for the next year, with hints given to his/her identity piling up (and Oracle started appearing in Manhunter, also written by Ostrander and Yale).
Finally, in Suicide Squad #38, in early 1990, Oracle is revealed to the readers as Barbara Gordon!
After that, Barbara laid low for most of 1990, making a few appearances in various titles, such as Ostrander's Firestorm and Roger Stern's Starman (plus a quick appearance in Batman #451, reacting to the return of the Joker, believed dead after Jason Todd's death), but she made a big return in Suicide Squad #48, when Amanda Waller saves Barbara from the psychotic new Thinker, and asks Barbara (who she knows as the alias Amy Beddoes…does anyone know if that name has any significance?) to join the Squad full-time.
Barbara accepts.
At about the same time, Barbara Kesel becomes the first writer other than Ostrander and Yale to use this new take on Barbara Gordon extensively, as Kesel brings Barbara to the pages of Hawk & Dove to resolve some old plots from the Batgirl backups that Kesel used to write in Detective Comics.
Soon after, Barbara, for a time, even became the leader of the Suicide Squad when Amanda Waller became incapacitated.
However, when Suicide Squad folded in early 1992, Barbara's future was in real doubt.
Luckily, she had a new patron, one who would shape her destiny dramatically for the next decade. Go to the next page to find out what happened next…
Oracle is a really, really brilliant salvaging of a character, and it's a credit to Ostrander and Yale for coming up with that direction for Barbara.
I wish more creators — instead of doing the obvious and eventually returning things to the status quo — would instead take major developments, even those they don't like, and try to think up interesting places to take them. Lots of times we see major changes reversed out of a sense of inevitability as much as anything else, and I think that's silly. If Ostrander and Yale hadn't taken Barbara Gordon in the direction they did, it's likely the character would just be walking around like nothing had happened today, and I think her, and the DCU, would be worse off for it.
Patrick said it all!
(Nice post, Brian.)
Consider that comment seconded (thirded?), Patrick!
Great article, man!
.. And here we are in Sept. 2011, with Babs as Batgirl again! But at this point I don't know if it's with robot legs, some kind of surgery, or an editorial reduction of her original injuries.
And here we are in 2015, when some people think that women dedicated to a better representation of female characters are something new to Barbara Gordon, when they essentially made the character what she is.
Great summation of Oracle by Brian Cronin! Oracle became very important to the DCU, much more integral than Martian Manhunter ever managed to be. Although I'm solidly behind what Stewart, Fletcher and Tarr are doing with Batgirl, I still think that Oracle is the best take on Barbara Gordon: Oracle rocks!
I actually liked their TV show
Babs was lucky. She'd been retired before The Killing Joke and before that she'd barely appeared for years outside a few token appearances.
People who get worked up about TKJ tend to ignore the historical context.
@elbel01: Babs wasn't lucky TKJ happened to her. As Patrick said, Babs was lucky Yale and Ostrander happened to her after TKJ. DC didn't really know what to do with her in the 80's, as was evidenced by TKJ editor Len Wein's "Cripple the bitch!" response to Alan Moore's permission to paralyse her. Moore himself has gone on record explaining why he severely regretted doing that to Barbara.
TKJ has enormous problems in the way it uses Barbara. A story about a superheroine losing a fight with a villain and ending up disabled could be an interesting plotline. A story about a superheroine suffering permanent injury simply for the emotional reaction it elicits from the men in her life is horrific. TKJ has many things people understandably enjoy about it, but it seems entirely unaware that women are actual people with our own feelings and inner lives that exist independently from how men feel about us.
nice article it does the job of babs time as oracle perfectly including the most important part of her use the suicide squad and chuck dixon deciding this is too good a character to waste any more
Oracle is the best character to come out of a bad situation in the history of comics. I like Batgirl, but I kind of like Oracle better conceptually and story wise.
Should update article to include Oracle as an official member of Morrison's JLA.
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Whisenhunt coached six years for the Cardinals, compiling a 45-51 record, including two NFC West division titles and the franchise's one and only trip to the Super Bowl.
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President Barack Obama has announced plans for pay increases of one percent for both civilian federal employees and military personnel.
"Civilian Federal employees have already made significant sacrifices as a result of a three-year pay freeze," Obama wrote in letters to Congress released Aug. 30. The one percent increase for feds applies to those working under the General Schedule (GS) and for other pay systems not specified in the letter. Locality pay percentages will remain at 2013 levels. Obama can set an alternative plan for civilian pay under federal law.
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Well the president,congress and the senater,will get their raises but we don't.I have been shifted all over the place since I lost my husband.my kids can't hardly find jobs to support themselves and are taking care of me to.When will we ever get a raise so we can take care of us.Like everyone is saying quit giving so much money to other country's and start taking care of your own.All I want to do is end it all so some one else can collect my part of the little money we get.
LOL, how about this reality check, I've given myself an effective raise by actually stating to charge for overtime... Yeah, screw your 1%, until the ban overtime (which is just fine too), I'm making up for the lack of these pay increases by simply not donating my time. Fair's fair! Suck it Mr. President, your now paying me more for the same level of effort! And it's going to be even more in the coming year because I get to decide when certain work gets done. Yeah, you can't win Pal, keep trying.
I've become so used to criticism and disrespect from our president, congressmen, and news media that I don't remember how to accept anything remotely positive. Wasn't it supposed to be .5% last year? I'm thinking zero again...
It'll be another thing to get this passed / past congress' gridlock unless htere is a benefit for them (re: resotring FAA funding just in time for their holiday). He can do this, but congress holds the power to authorize (or not) all spending. If he doesn't get them on it, it won't really fly, and may backfire.
@lostFaith. When we start getting significantly larger pay raises, then you can worry about inflation. Remember, inflation means more money for all. Everyone likes inflation....to a point. QE isn't causing inflation because money is not being printed. Money is being shifted from the federal reserve banks "excess reserves" to the fed to buy bonds with. To the point of the raise, 1% after being absolutely frozen at 2010 level is pathetic. Meanwhile, the CSRS retirees get the FULL CPI COLA every year. Sad that CSRS retirees get more of an increase than active working productive folks. This 4 year freeze will permanently reduce lifetime earnings significantly. Why in the heck did I think I wanted to work for the gvot those 29 years ago??
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Quite a good many of the chapters dwell on the rise of Islam in the desert of the Arabian peninsula, the life of Muhammad & its strife, the power struggles after Muhammad's death, the expansion of Islam to far away corners beyond its humble Arab origins, & the consolidation of the ways & practices into codified religion. It further does a great job of articulating both the evolution & description, if not definition, of the various sects - namely the Sunni, the Shia, & the Sufi.
The tales continue into the modern nineteenth, twentieth & twenty first centuries - the story of Iran is a gripping one - & the book continues its journey into the many ideological branches that evolved in this period - the politics of Islam at battle with colonialism & a fast modernizing world, & the divergent pulls of reformist agendas against fundamentalist ones. Finally, the author speculates a little on the future of Islam, its diaspora in the western world with deep connections to each other & the larger community using the internet.
For me, the chapters on what defines a Muslim, to the extent possible, & the related symbolism of such practices was an eye-opener. Refreshing, & reinvigorating too, was the chapter on the Sufi - I think the author deliberately changed the tone of his writing in this chapter to sound more mystical - as was the content & commentary on the evolution of the Shia sect, its beliefs & symbols.Read more ›
In his book No God but God the reader is given the benefit of this thoughtful man's years of study. The majority of this book is a readable and systematic description of the theology and history of the Muslim religion. One of my favorite old Bible stories is that of the "Still Small Voice". The lesson from this story is to ignore the storms and bombast the world can give us and listened to the quiet internal logic of real inspiration. Dr. Aslan would never claim to be the still voice of God, but the tone of his book is that of a calm, confident, and knowledgeable instructor.
In reading the biography of Mohammed we meet a man whose divine inspiration may be a matter of debate in the West; but who lived a life remarkable for his ability to succeed in building one of the world's great religions. Along the way he would negotiate alliances and conduct warfare with and without the advantages that would normally guarantee diplomatic or military victory. The collections of his sayings that would be later assembled into the Koran appear to reflect the co-mixture of the words needed to inspire an Army, promote cooperation from allies and to inspire fear in enemies.Read more ›
The only downside is that Aslan's skill as a writer allows him to overemphasize the positive. Somehow in the midst of massacres, assassinations, rivalries, oppression of women, modern extremism, and the dogmatic and even wicked Ulama, Aslan manages to present an idealized Islam that seems downright liberal, like it was born from the European Enlightenment rather than pagan tribalism.
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This is not an easy read but it is a history of the Islamic faith. Bio of Mohammed also. RecommendPublished 13 days ago by L Shelton
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Eric Zhang 5d swept all four games to win the at the 2016 North Carolina Spring Go tournament "on a beautiful Sunday," reports Tournament Director Jeff Kuang. A total of 28 players turned out May 15 to enjoy the competition.
Here are the tournament results. Open section: Eric Zhang 5d (4-0), Brian Wu 1d (3-1). 1-7kyu: Daniel Evan 1k (3-1), Adam Bridges 3k (3-1), Bob Bacon 6k (3-1). 8-12kyu: S. Y. Teague 8k (3-0), Alex Kuang 10k (3-1). 14kyu and up: Justin Su 21k (3-1), Ganning Xu 15k (2-1), John Schollenberger 14k (2-2).
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Eric Zhang's beautiful sweep in North Carolina
Saturday May 21, 2016
Eric Zhang 5d swept all four games to win the at the 2016 North Carolina Spring Go tournament "on a beautiful Sunday," reports Tournament Director Jeff Kuang. A total of 28 players turned out May 15 to enjoy the competition.
AlphaGo Updates: What the AI Behind AlphaGo Can Teach Us About Being Human; A glimpse inside AlphaGo? Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo Game 1 Go Commentary; Lee Sedol overtaxed?
Saturday May 21, 2016
What the AI Behind AlphaGo Can Teach Us About Being Human: AJA HUANG DIPS his hand into a wooden bowl of polished black stones and, without looking, thumbs one between his middle and index finger. Peering through wire-rim glasses, he places the black stone on the board, in a mostly empty zone, just below and to the left of a single white stone. In Go parlance it is a "shoulder hit," in from the side, far away from most of the game's other action. Across the table, Lee Sedol, the best Go player of the past decade, freezes. He looks at the 37 stones fanned out across the board, then stands up and leaves…Read the rest of Cade Metz' report in Wired. photo by Geordie Wood
A glimpse inside AlphaGo? "Here's a picture of the machine Google used in the match against Lee Sedol," writes Steven Schmeiser. "It turns out that they were using custom designed chips that are optimized for machine learning."
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Go Commentary: Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo – Game 1: If there's any recent game that needs no introduction, it's this one. On March 9, 2016, the computer Go program 'AlphaGo' defeated Lee Sedol 9p in the first game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match. Go Game Guru's Youngil An takes a look at the game.
Lee Sedol overtaxed? In a related story, Gordan Castanza reports that "I just learned from KBS News (Korean Broadcast System) this morning that Lee Sedol has left the Korean Baduk Association over the issue of its imposing a 20% 'tax' on him." Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
Strong Open Section for Upcoming Maryland Open
Saturday May 21, 2016
Pre-registration for next weekend's annual Maryland Open has topped 20 and will feature a strong Open section, including Xinying Jiang 7D, Zhaonian Chen 7D, Zhengbokang Tang 7D, Calvin Sun 1P, Shiyao Qiao 1P, Xiaocheng Hu 6D, Willis Huang 6D, Edward Zhang 6D and Justin Teng 6D.
One of the oldest chapters in the American Go Association, the Gilbert W. Rosenthal Memorial Baltimore Go Club has sponsored the Maryland Open go tournament every Memorial Day weekend for 43 years. Details and register here.
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Three Years of Colors Chosen for Santa Monica Coffee Cup; 2016 Tourney is June 11
Wednesday May 18, 2016
The design committee of the Santa Monica Coffee Cup has finally chosen this year's theme color, along with the colors for the next two years after. The eponymous "Coffee Cup" to be awarded to the first place winners in each division, as well as the tiles awarded the placers, for the 10th Annual Santa Monica Coffee Cup will be painted "fulvous," a kind of dark yellow with some brown in it, said tournament organizer and AGA president Andrew Okun. "There were good arguments for mikado and sarcoline, but fulvous won the day." The 2017 theme color will be something between glaucous and Nattier blue, followed by sang-de-boeuf in 2018.
Oh, and the tournaments itself will be June 11. The three-round AGA-rated go tournament is held, courtesy of owner Pam Stollings, at the UnUrban Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, CA. Check in starting at 9 a.m., rounds at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., prize giving around 5:30 p.m. Prizes will also include coffee, go books, bacon-flavored toothpicks and UnUrban T-shirts. Help is gratefully accepted for setting up and clearing up. Preregistration is essential as the field must be held to 64 players at most. Please register immediately.The 2017 and 2018 tournaments have not had their dates fixed yet, but the organizers will seek to hold them on the usual middle weekend of June. Please contact Okun at email@example.com if you know whether or not "mikado" should be capitalized in the sentence above, or have other questions about the tournament.
Final rounds of the AGA City League this Sunday
Wednesday May 18, 2016
The last round of the Pandanet AGA City League is this Sunday, May 22nd. Each of these teams has played six exciting rounds so far with one more and the finals to go. Play starts at 3pm EST/12pm PST on Sunday unless otherwise noted on the schedule pages. Schedules: A League / B League / C League
Vancouver has climbed slightly ahead of Greater Washington in the A League. They are 5-1 each against the rest of the field. With two professionals for each team (Chinese and American professionals), play has shown the strength of their players. Los Angeles has been hot on their heels all year with Boston one game behind them.
Washington DC 2 has taken a commanding lead all year with their undefeated streak. Edmonton has taken one loss this year. We'll have to see who leads the middle of the pack between Washington DC 1, New Jersey, and San Francisco 1.
The C League is led by Atlanta 2, followed by Boston 3, and Atlanta 1.
Go Photo: AlphaGo sparks interest at Brooklyn Cherry Blossom Fest
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Monday May 16, 2016
US Go Congress tournaments: Old favorites and new excitement
Saturday May 14, 2016
Tournament details for this year's US Go Congress — July 30-August 7 in Boston — are still in development, but in addition to the US Open and US Open Masters, players can already look forward to favorites like the Diehard, Lightning, Crazy Go, and Pair Go tournaments. Some new excitement has been added for all levels in the form of Relay Go tournaments, where teams of players will switch off playing games of pair go, with an added element being that the teams that are currently not playing are able to discuss and strategize. One tournament will be open to all, and one will be an exciting US-China team showdown featuring professional and very strong players that promises to be an exciting addition to Go Congress events. A new Evening League will be a week-long ladder tournament, combining elements of the Self-Paired tournament and Midnight Madness and giving players the opportunity to self-pair and play rated games throughout the day. Stay tuned for further updates as we get closer to game-time.
- Karoline Li, EJ Congress Team (if you're interested in being on this year's team, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com)
photo: at the 2015 US Open; photo by Chris Garlock
Go Classified: Go Books/equipment for sale
Saturday May 14, 2016
GO BOOKS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SALE: Solid Kaya bowls $160, Two sets of semiprecious stones (yellow and green) $320, 33 English Go books $80, 18 Asian language Go books $50. All prices include free shipping and insurance to the 48 states of the USA. Email email@example.com for complete photos and descriptions. Payment by Paypal only.
Your Move/Readers Write: Catching up
Saturday May 14, 2016
(Things got extra busy here at EJ Central and we fell behind a bit in posting your letters and tips; here's a batch of recent items sent in)
"On page 331 of 'Caliban's War' by James Corey, "It's like playing Go. It's all about exerting influence. Controlling the board without occupying it." - Peter Freedman
"Sam Hinkie, the controversial GM of the NBA's Philadelphia 76′ers, just announced his resignation with a 13-page letter that references AlphaGo at one point." Hinkie wrote "Watch what's happening with the collaboration between IBM's Watson and M.D. Anderson or
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo. It won't be just an ancient board game that's disrupted. It's also anything but a game to Lee Sedol." Here's a link to the full letter." - Freeman Ng
"Although this is a chess article — Historical Chess Ratings – dynamically presented — there is also a short film on Go," writes Michael Bacon.
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MILWAUKEE -- All right stop, collaborate and listen. Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks brought Vanilla Ice and the 1990s back to the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Performing at halftime of Saturday's game between the Bucks and Thunder, Vanilla Ice played a three-song set starting with his remix of "Play that Funky Music" and continuing with "Ninja Rap" before concluding with his iconic hit "Ice, Ice Baby." "I'm totally an NBA fan," Vanilla Ice said prior to his performance. "I'm from Miami (home of A1A Beachfront Avenue), so I pull for the Heat, but I'm happy to be here and bring the heat tonight to the Milwaukee Bucks. "This is a great town. I love the Cheeseheads, I love everything about Wisconsin. I used to race jet skis back in the day here, I have lot of friends here." His performance marked the conclusion of Milwaukee's throwback to the '90s month. The Bucks wore their alternate uniforms from 1995-96 10 times over the course of the month. Vanilla Ice isn't performing much anymore, as his efforts have been focused on his reality television show "The Vanilla Ice Project." On the show that airs on the DIY network, he fixes and flips houses. The show is in its third season. Though he may have had just two top-five hits in his music career, Vanilla Ice is having fun being known as a symbol of 1990s hip-hop. "The greatest thing is that the music is timeless," he said. "I appreciate people who appreciate it. I'm having a great time out here. My TV show takes up a lot of time. When I do get out on the weekends and I get to enjoy myself with a little throwback, it's a lot of fun." When asked if he was a big Vanilla Ice fan in the Bucks locker room before the game, center Larry Sanders said his lasting memory of the rapper was Ices pet kangaroo going missing a few years back. While Sanders was answering the question, teammate Samuel Dalembert chimed in and started singing the famous riff of Ice, Ice Baby and Queen's "Under Pressure." These days, Vanilla Ices music is far from a brand new invention, but Saturday night proved the man can still light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle. Well, that first part at least. Not sure what the rest means and, really, it didn't matter to the thousands of Bucks fans, who like Dalembert sang along. Follow Andrew Gruman on Twitter.
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(May 7, 2012) -- For Jessica Jimenez, graduating from college meant breaking the mold for what many of her peers in Hidalgo, Texas considered the norm. With graduation rates for Hidalgo County hovering below 16 percent, many stop at a high school diploma. But, she didn't stop.
While in high school however, Jimenez started paving a different path by participating in the Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy. Through the program, she did her high school coursework in the morning at the Science Academy of South Texas and did college-level coursework at South Texas College.
By maintaining this rigorous schedule, she graduated in 2009 with a high school diploma and associate degree in engineering. Now, three years later, Jimenez will earn her UTSA bachelor's degree in civil engineering and in the fall will begin work toward a master's in civil engineering with a structural engineering emphasis at Stanford.
Fully aware of the high cost of a college education, Jimenez applied for a Dell Scholarship and was awarded $20,000 to assist with her undergraduate studies. Additionally, she was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship that has covered additional expenses during her time at UTSA and will provide funding as she continues her studies at Stanford. The scholarship will fund her studies all the way to a doctorate if she chooses. So as not to take for granted the value and expense of a college education, she set her sights on making the most of it.
As a member of the Honors College, she was active in various student organizations including the Society of Hispanic Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Additionally, she studied abroad in China on two separate occasions, first in an honors seminar and the second time studying the history and culture of Chinese society and politics.
Jimenez also made research a part of her college experience and last summer did research on "Castle Hills: Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Options." The research was conducted at the UTSA Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics working with Steve Ackley, UTSA associate professor of research, under the Minority Opportunities for Research Experience in Earth Science and Environmental Engineering Program (MORESE) funded by the U.S. Department of Education Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP).
"Jessica personifies what we expect to be a trend in the College of Engineering here at UTSA," said Mauli Agrawal, College of Engineering dean. "With females making up only 14 percent of the College of Engineering, Jessica is a role model for those wanting to excel in the field not only at the university level but professionally."
During her time at UTSA, Jimenez saw the importance of internship experience and worked for Exxon Mobil two summers in a row. The first summer, she worked in the development company studying the decommissioning of offshore oil platforms. During her second internship, she did oil remediation in California, where she studied oil and gas extraction from the ground. Throughout her internships, Jimenez worked alongside students from M.I.T., Berkeley and Harvard.
"Exxon recruited students from high-caliber schools and I saw that I was able to perform at the same level as the other interns," Jimenez said. "At times, people my age underestimate schools like UTSA, and they shouldn't. With my education here at UTSA, I was more than prepared to work alongside the students from other schools and am prepared to continue my education at Stanford."
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