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NORWALK - Potential layoffs and safety concerns brought led dozens of Metropolitan State Hospital employees to march in protest Wednesday outside the facility's front gate. | VIDEO
In December 2011 the California Department of Mental Health (DMH) informed workers that it intended to reduce the ratio of treatment staff to patients by almost a third in the state's five hospitals beginning this January.
To date, 114 layoff notices have been sent out to the Metropolitan staff, including psychiatrists, psychologists, rehabilitation therapists, social workers and psychiatric technicians, according to the Safety Now Coalition of State Hospital Employees. The hospital has 600 patients and about 1,500 staff members.
"The reason everyone is out today is because employees are concerned, not just about worker safety, but about patient safety in the five state hospitals here in California," said Brady Oppenheim, spokeswoman for Safety Now.
"What they are facing currently is planned layoffs at the five state hospitals. While at the same time Cal/OSHA has told the state to increase staffing and safety programs in these hospitals."
Metropolitan and Napa State Hospitals were cited in 2011 for serious safety violations leading to several assault injuries, including the death of Donna Gross, a psychiatric technician at Napa, who was killed by a patient in 2010.
With patients and employees still experiencing attacks and injuries, and with DMH contesting the violations, layoffs are very disheartening, said Oppenheim.
"We don't want that to happen again and that's why everyone is out here today at Metro," she said. "At Metro, every day there is an average of four assaults on staff, and seven assaults on patients, so the concern is there for workers and patients alike."
According to the Safety Now! Coalition, two more DMH hospitals, Atascadero and Patton, were cited March 1 for serious assault-related safety concerns and Coalinga State Hospital employees are awaiting results of a recent Cal/OSHA safety tour.
In addition to several safety concerns Cal/OSHA has told DMH to increase staff for safety, said Oppenheim.
But according to DMH, while they are working to resolve the issues raised by Cal/OSHA, staff size wasn't an issue, said Kathryn Gaither, chief deputy director of the Department of Mental Health.
"Contrary to some reports, Cal/OSHA has never demanded that DMH increase staffing at the state's mental health hospitals for safety reasons," Gaither said in a statement. "They have noted other measures such as alarm systems, communication, and training as other components of an adequate injury and illness program to prevent workplace violence to staff at the state's mental hospitals."
DMH and Cal OSHA are developing and implementing plans for safety upgrades at the state's seven mental health facilities, she said.
"As we move forward to increase safe working conditions, there will be no reductions in the number of front-line nursing staff, nursing-patient ratios, or hospital police," she said.
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Flippo and Roper named December Sports Spot Student-Athletes of the MonthJanuary 12, 2011
Brevard, N.C. - Holli Flippo and Josh Roper of the Brevard College Women's and Men's Basketball teams have been named the Sports Spot Brevard College Student-Athletes of the Month for the month of December as recognized on WSQL 1240 AM on Wednesday afternoon. The award is presented by Sports Spot in conjunction with the Brevard College Athletic Department.
Flippo was voted the Female Student-Athlete of the Month by the BC Athletic Head Coaching staff over fellow nominees and teammates, Micheala Watkins and Amanda Whitaker.
Flippo led the Tornados in both games in the month of December, leading the Tornados in a pair of road competitions against Anderson University on December 4th and Tusculum College on December 30th. For the month, Flippo averaged 9.5 points per game and 3.5 rebounds per game, shooting 37.5 percent from the floor, 36.3 percent from behind the arc and 75.0 percent from the free throw line. She scored 11 points and pulled down three rebounds in the game against Anderson, while scoring eight points, hitting two three-pointers, while pulling down four rebounds against Tusculum. For the 2010-2011 season, Flippo leads the Tornados in rebounding with 4.9 per game. Flippo is also among the SAC statistical leaders in scoring, steals, three-point percentage and three-pointers made for the season.
Roper was voted the Men's Student-Athlete of the Month by the BC Head Coaching staff over fellow nominees and teammates, Gaither Hendrix and Drew Schauss.
Roper led the Tornados to 3-0 performance in the month of December, averaging 24.7 points per game, 5.0 rebounds per game and 2.0 assists per game, as well as 1.7 steals per contest. Roper achieved double-figures scoring in each game, including a month-best 30 points for Brevard on December 4th against Anderson in the Tornados come-from-behind victory. Roper also recorded two games scoring over 20 points on the month and pulled down a season-high nine rebounds against Anderson. For the season, the senior guard leads the SAC in scoring with 23.5 points per game and is among the SAC leaders in seven other statistical categories.
These two athletes will be presented with action shots recognizing their award, which will be displayed in the lobby of Boshamer Gymnasium for the entire school year. A total of nine female and male Sports Spot Athletes of the Month will be selected in the 2010-2011 academic year. The award is selected from qualified candidates each month by the athletic department staff.
2010-2011 Winners
September - Bailey Varley (Women's Soccer) & Kelvin Jeter (Football)
October - Alexis Decosimo (Cycling) & Tristan Cowie (Cycling)
November - Angela Canale (Cross Country) & Neville Bryce (Football)
December - Holli Flippo (Women's Basketball) & Josh Roper (Men's Basketball)

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Lottery dreamers check your tickets
You know that feeling of reaching into a coat or pants pocket and finding that $10 bill you had no idea was there? Now imagine finding a Lottery ticket worth $250,000!
Currently, the two largest unclaimed Oregon Lottery prizes include a $250,000 Mega Millions prize from September 17, 2013, and a $97,362 Keno prize from July 31, 2013. The Mega Millions ticket was purchased in The Dalles and the Keno ticket was purchased in Portland.
As is the case with nearly all Oregon Lottery games, players have one year from the date of the drawing to claim their prize. The expiration date for the Mega Millions is September 17, 2014, while the Keno prize will expire on July 31, 2014. There is still time to spare, but both prizes could alter holiday shopping lists significantly!
Each year, millions of dollars in unclaimed Lottery prizes are returned to the State to be used to help support Lottery-funded projects and programs statewide. In fiscal year 2012, nearly $6 million in unclaimed prizes were returned to the State.
If you or perhaps someone you know bought a Mega Millions or Keno ticket on those dates, it would be worth your time to see if they are the big winners. Players can go to the Lottery's website, www.oregonlottery.org, or to any Lottery retail location to check their tickets.
The Oregon Lottery reminds players to always sign the back of their Lottery tickets, regardless of the game. In the event of winning a jackpot, they should consult with a trusted financial planner or similar professional to develop a plan for their winnings. Prize winners of more than $50,000 should contact the Lottery office to schedule an appointment to claim their prize.


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Four Chicago residents have admitted to Torrance police detectives that they are a "Gypsy family" from Poland responsible for shoplifting crimes at electronics stores across the United States, pilfering some $3 million in property during the last year.
The suspected thieves arrested March 8 in Hawthorne are believed responsible for 17 crimes at Apple stores in Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, Canoga Park, Glendale, Brea, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Irvine, along with a MacMall in Torrance, a Microsoft store in Mission Viejo, and other businesses across Los Angeles and Orange counties, including Best Buy, Costco, PetSmart, Sam's Club, Sports Authority and Wal-Mart, Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt said.
In addition, the group allegedly victimized businesses in Colorado, Washington and Florida, Watt said.
"This is more than just shoplifting," Watt said. "This is an organized group that has targeted electronics stores for a long period of time and stolen a large amount of property that's well into the millions of dollars," he said.
Police identified the suspects as Ausra Bauzinskaite, 34; Adeliya Nassybullina, 30; Lukasz Karasinski, 37; and Przemyslaw Skiba, 31, all of Chicago. They are in custody in county jail, each held without bail and placed under a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.
The District Attorney's Office has charged them with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit commercial burglary and grand theft. Each pleaded not guilty March 12 in Torrance court.
Torrance detectives identified the group as suspects following a March 2012 crime at the MacMall on Hawthorne Boulevard. Surveillance cameras captured the group on video, Watt said.
During the crime and others like it, the men would stand in a position to block employees from seeing the women behind them. The men selected items from shelves and passed it to the women, who would hide it inside their oversized dresses and overcoats, and purses, Watt said.
The group targeted various items, but keyed on hard drives available on store shelves, he said.
"They are only in the store for about two to three minutes," Watt said. "They are conspiring together. ... They all appear to have some kind of role. "
After investigating for four months, detectives learned the group had flown into Southern California from Illinois on March 7 for a court appearance in Santa Monica related to an earlier theft.
"Torrance investigators conducted surveillance and observed the subjects commit additional thefts at Apple stores throughout both Los Angeles and Orange counties," Watt said. "Upon completing the thefts, the subjects attempted to mail the stolen property to various out-of-state locations. "
Once the suspects were arrested, police recovered more than $20,000 worth of Apple products, Watt said.
During interviews, group members identified themselves as a Gypsy family from Chicago that originated in Poland and admitted to shoplifting so they could pay off a $2 million debt their family had incurred several years earlier, Watt said.
Detectives described the group as a "retail theft ring" and said the arrests might lead to more evidence, suspects and victims. Investigators are working with police agencies throughout the country.
A store manager at the MacMall in Torrance said he recalled the theft and watching the video. The suspects took some high-end Thunderbolt external hard drives which sell for $600 to $700.
Since then, employees have kept a closer watch on the merchandise and customers, the manager said.


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I am not entirely sure if this is the right section to post this up on the forum.
Basically I have a web template I've created but as I've used a wide variate of script I wish to compress them, including both CSS and JS preferably into a single file. What is the easier was to go about web compression outside a content management system.
Nah, not really a content question, so I've moved it to web design.
See if this helps:
I assume you mean combine CSS and JS into respective single files since cannot combine CSS and JS into a single file.
Are there different assets delegated to separate pages or are all the assets included on every page request?
If all the assets are included on every page you could write script to crawl the page and write the css and js to a single file. Than you might be able to copy and paste that into a compressor and save to a separate file. Though for ease of maintenance it is probably best to use a helper library such as; assetic or build something similar in whatever application language you are using.
Of course, this becomes much more difficult and involved if different scripts are delegated on a page by page basis.
I just did this to my site. Just copy and paste them all into two files. One for css and one for js. Keep them in the same order they currently are called in your working page. Don't erase any of the original files until you've tested that all is working.
Thanks guys for your feedback.
I thought of your method @PicnicTutorials; which would do what I want. The only issue is there would still be white spacing in the file.
It's for a fully featured theme so it would make sense to include them on all the pages. Currently they are included on all the pages. Thanks for the link, this would prove useful in this theme. Not sure if you can have this on the WordPress installation. My original intention is to have a single CSS and a single JS file which would run all the scripts on the website. I feel if I was to run assestic it would automatically give me the minify version of each.
The only trouble is some scripts are needed before the header and other before the body, so I would be a little puzzled on wether two files would be needed to make sure everything runs as it shou;d.
Just google "css compresser" and "javascript compresser". Google will have 100 online tools to remove the white space. This is my favorite javascript compressor http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/. I don't bother with compressing css. The speed difference would be in the 1/1000 of mil seconds. Not worth the effort of maintaining two separate files. In order to really see a huge difference in website speed, compress and cache it via htacces. Here is how. Just did that too. http://www.visibilityinherit.com/code/yslow-&-google-page-speed-htaccess-code-how-to-speed-up-your-website.php
Doesn't the WordPress SEO plugin aggregate asset files?
It's more for maintanability. With CSS I can have @import and place all the CSS together, which is okay, but when it comes down to the scripts, there is nothing much I can do, unless I go down the PHP path. For the WordPress version I will keep things in different files, as they can easily fix this on the WP file. I personally use W3TC for WordPress and it does an amazing job!
I just came across this - http://headjs.com/, I will play around with this a little to see what makes of it.
Why not just use mod_deflate and make it functional on all text based files?
I have solved my issue now. With the CSS I use a single file and within this file have a dozen or so imports to the various CSS files. For the scripts I now use head.js.


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Day 1: A picture of you and 5 facts.
Day 2: A picture of the father and 5 facts.
Day 3: Do you know the day you conceived?
Day 4: How did you find out you were expecting?
Day 5: What trimester are you in, and how do you feel?
Day 6: Baby's first picture. A picture of your first ultrasound.
Day 7: Do you have a birthing plan?
Day 8: What is your biggest food craving?
Day 9: What sex did/do you hope for?
Day 10: A picture of your baby bump, and how you feel about your look.
Day 11: THE BABY SHOWER! What do you plan for? Hope for?
Day 12: How did you tell your parents the big news? The dad?
Day 13: How are you preparing for the baby?
Day 14: A picture of a baby who you feel your baby will resemble.
Day 15: How are you FEELING?
Day 16: Parenting tips you've learned, from the internet or other moms.
Day 17: Who will help you the most when your baby is here?
Day 18: Do you plan on breastfeeding?
Day 19: Who will be in the delivery room with you?
Day 20: What are you looking forward to most about being a mother?


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I don't know if he was having a bad day with my appointment, but he was NOT helpful. I came in because i had some acne on my jaw line that wouldn't go away. It was cystic but the rest of my face was fine. I also had scars from a bad facial. He said that the only way to get rid of it was to take acutane and that i needed laser treatment to remove the scars. I was mortified! My acne was definitely not that bad for all of that. I ended up switching my BC to one that helps acne and it all went away. I also got some bleaching cream from another dermatologist and now my scars are gone. I don't know what he was thinking that day but I will never go to him again.
I've been going to Dr. Newman for over twenty years now. HE IS THE BEST!!! He has the best personality and is always very informative. I love that he and his staff always make you feel important. I would HIGHLY recommend him!
I have been a patient of Dr. Newman off and on for forty years. He is the best! You will not find a better dermatologist anywhere.
Moved away but always make sure i see Dr. Newman when I come home to visit. Wonderful bedside manner and thourough
My son went to Dr. Newman in the spring for skin cancer. I went back with him for a follow-up and to become a patient also. I was very impressed with his clinical skills, patience and his ability to relate to patients of different ages. I have been a practicing RN for over 30 years and can say that Dr. Newman is a class all by himself! His staff was all very competent and pleasant. I will continue to see Dr. Newman even though I live 3 hours away. Thanks again, Lisa Geduld, RN
Helpful, on time, knows exactly what your individual needs are.
I took my son to Dr.Newman,we both LOVED him! He's knowledgeable, funny, interesting,kind and knew exactly how to relate to my 16 year old. I wish he was a GP, so I could have him treat my whole family. And maybe some of his wonderful energy would rub off on us! Also, we did not wait, Dr.Newman was right on time, but if we had waited an hour it would have been OK with us. Dr. Newman is worth the wait! He makes you feel like you are his only patient!
Wonderful doctor! Very friendly and knowlegable. Assured me that my problem wasn't as bad as I thought. Free samples which was great! :) Would highly recommend him.
I wish Dr. Newman was a GP because I would not hesitate to see him for all medical needs. He has personality plus, extremely helpful, and ALWAYS gives you 100%. Calls, personally, with biopsy results and seems to thoroughly enjoy his work. A WONDERFUL, CARING DOCTOR...these days, hard to find!
Awesome dermatologist. Very energetic, personable, funny, and engaging. He calls personally with results, and when he prescribed a cream for my husband, and we had concerns about him wearing it around our newborn son, on two separate occasions, he was kind enough to call me to speak about it. I highly recommend him.
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I just can't seem to get this right!!!!
As far as I'm aware I have all the html and css in place but I've tried pplaceing the following code in numerous places, in the head, in the body etc etc and it just won't work.What Am I doing wrong still?
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sakeenaheducationcentre.com/wp-content/themes/StyleShop/js/modernizr.custom.79639.js"></script>
the page is here: Home school education
Can you be more specific about what is not working?How does the Javascript and Stylesheet relate? You can get 'hover' simply with CSS.
Your problem is unclear.
this is exactly how it should be:
hantaah, We could use a better description of the problem than "hovers not working". Are your images supposed to present one of the animated effects that are shown on the other page http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CircleHoverEffects/index5.html ? If so, which effect? FYI, the bottom image on your page is not loading.
have I not?
My page is here looking like this: http://www.sakeenaheducationcentre.com/games/they should be doing this: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CircleHoverEffects/index5.html
so on my page nothing happens when you hover over the circles. On the other page you can see the hover effect, that is what i'm trying to get
The CSS file you are referencing in your supplied code is not the CSS that the effect on your example page is using. Those demo pages are using CSS documents that are on their server and not provided by the Google API. They are common.css and demo.css.
If you are trying to reverse engineer the page, make sure you take note of all documents that are used to render it. Inspect all CSS, JS and other linked documents to be sure you are using the right ones. For example when I click on the Google API CSS document I get this,
@font-face { font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; src: local('Open Sans Light'), local('OpenSans-Light'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/DXI1ORHCpsQm3Vp6mXoaTXhCUOGz7vYGh680lGh-uXM.woff) format('woff');}@font-face { font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; src: local('Open Sans Bold'), local('OpenSans-Bold'), url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v6/k3k702ZOKiLJc3WVjuplzHhCUOGz7vYGh680lGh-uXM.woff) format('woff');}
Nowhere in this code are the hooks for the divs that your images are contained in. I'm not sure if you just didn't supply the code in your OP or if you didn't take it from the demo site.
Hope that helps,
There are two versions of jQuery on the page, also two versions of easing.js. That usually causes trouble. It would be better to gather all your scripts together at the bottom of the page and only add things in that you don't already have.
I placed all the css in their tutorial in my style.css so all the css is there. I think it is what Ralph is mentioning. I always have an issue with this. I see what i can find but wordpress stops me from seeing what is there. It's not easy to find it to delete it
I'm not sure how you're adding these scripts in, but the ideal would be to work out what file they should go in (footer.php?) and place them manually. I haven't used WP in ages, so can't remember, but I wouldn't use anything that inserts code automatically, if that's what's happening.
I think that is what is happening. I think perhaps widgets or plugins but also I think perhaps some functions or php code that I cannot see maybe. I'll try and get my head around it. I did get it to work on my othr pages tho such as here:
so it makes me wonder why they work on there and not here:
Hm, and they both use the same scripts? That's odd ... Maybe it's not the scripts then. But it would be worth making up a test page that has just what you need for it to work.
I'm not sure, I've not found where exactly I'm just thinking that's what it might be. There's also an intergration part where you can add code to the head, body or bottom of body. I might try doing as you say and gather it all and put it in the body in the intergration part. So can I confirm if I have a link to say an older version of Jquery and a newer version, I can just use the new link and that will cover all codes which require jquey?
Hopefully, yes. The only rider is that jQuery does change over time, and some scripts written for an older version might not work with a newer one, so you need to test that.


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While Bloom's passionate wife, Molly, conducts yet another illicit liasion (with her concert manager), Bloom finds himself getting into arguments with drunken nationalists and wild carousing with excitable medical students, before rescuing Stephen Dedalus from a brawl and returning with him to his own basement kitchen.
In the hands of Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan, experienced and stimulating Joycean readers, and carefully directed by Roger Marsh, Ulysses becomes accessible as never before. It is entertaining, immediate, funny, and rich in classical, philosophical, and musical allusion.
Download the accompanying reference guide.
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"As ambitious and rewarding an audio production as any that exists, an audio experience that truly deserves to be cherished....Readers of Ulysses have long been encouraged to read out loud the more difficult sections for added comprehension and enjoyment of the language. Now, thanks to Naxos, the entire book is available in a performance to savor. It is safe to say that anyone wanting to experience the preeminent work of modern fiction has in this package the perfect audio companion." (AudioFile)
"Ulysses (Unabridged)"
This book was well worth the money and time invested - a master work which was read accurately and in keeping with the spirit and culture of the writer. The Irish accents of each character were deftly done and easy to identify for without the changes in irish dialect for different characters it would have been very difficult to follow - this book is like Shakespeare - easier followed when performed than when read. Some of the passages were in turn hilarious and disturbing - I was constantly impressed by the narrators skills. The book is NOT AN EASY LISTEN - it requires and deserves a lot of concentration which many folks wont be interested in giving it - it took me a long time to get through, but it was entirely worth it and I doubt if I would have had the stamina to read through the book. The narrators accents and infusion of life and character into the text were wonderful. I intend to listen to this one at least twice to get full richness of the work - Highly recommended.
Now living in Estes Park, Colorado.
"let it flow!"
The narration is flawless. NOT too fast... NOT mumbled...excellent modulation and everything...
The audio quality is excellent.
The writing is fascinating. It is not a novel which you try to "follow". If you do , you end up writing a negative review of it. The style is stream of consciousness, so you just let it flow in, through and around you.
I could never have read through the whole thing, so I'm grateful for this wonderful recording.
"More often discussed than read. I can see why..."
First things first, hats off to Jim Norton for an inspired interpretation of what is not an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. Norton at least makes it possible for the listener to, by and large, keep up with what's happening. Most of the time.
Look, I can see why people rave about the genius of the book. The wildly shifting narratives are blinding to keep up with, especially the stream-of-consciousness chapters, and it must be a special talent that can not only put us in these different peoples' heads, but also parallel Homer's Odyssey in the process. I'm not familiar with Homer and am not particularly inclined to investigate, but all this still could not distract me from the fact that very little of interest is ever actually happening. I think that might kind of be the point though.
At the end of the day, it was on my bucket list to get through this so I'm really glad that I did it. But I would never say this was even close to being a fun read or a riveting story, so I would only recommend this to people who want that sense of satisfaction you might get by having read the book that all that fuss was over.
I have never heard a better reading of a novel than this amazing version of Ulysses. What a great reading! The spoken word brings this work so vividly to life, with all its accents, inflections, stage directions, and the music of the language. It is actually easier to follow and understand than reading the book itself. An unforgettable, wonderful experience! Highly recommended.
Business Physicist and Astronomer
"Should be classified as art...."
This is probably as close to perfection as an audio book can be. The narration is excellent. The music tracks are perfect. The production values outstanding.
This is no easy piece of writing to grasp. It takes some background study---read Dubliners and Portrait of an Artist and the Odyssey first. Study them. Then pick up a couple good commentaries on this book---forget the quick notes.
A lot of work? Sure. Enjoyable? It's an experience more than a listen. The writing is beyond masterful. There are passages and chapters that will touch your core---some will leave a scar. It's that good.
This audio book isn't for everyone. But again, it could not be better.
Chris Reich
"Nothing could be finer"
This is an epic to savor, a recording of such quality, read with such care, that I am NOT looking forward to the day when I hear the final words. Jim Norton makes the work of comprehending the many-layered references palatable and enjoyable; his various accents and characterizations allowed me to differentiate the different narratives; and his warmth and elocution made it a riveting experience. I highly recommend this book. In addition, let me say that you will get even more from it if you also order, from The Teaching Company (online), a series of 24 lectures by Professor James Heffernan of Dartmouth College on Joyce's Ulysses. I won't give the URL here, but it's easy enough to find. WIth the unabridged Naxos audiobook and the lectures, you will have an enriching, if somewhat exhausting, educational experience.
"Musical in more than one sense"
I've listened to several versions of this novel (or parts of them), including one by Donal Donelly and the newer one by John Lee; and while they all have their points of interest, this one captures the music best. I mean that literally: when one of the characters sings, Jim Norton sings too, rather than repeating the lyrics in sing-song fashion; and period music, including a number of titles specifically mentioned in the text, are scattered throughout. Norton has an incredible ability to mimic different characters in dialogue.
There are two flaws, but I can't bring myself to detract from the overall rating for either of them. First, the text used is an older one and includes a few misprints. Second, Jim Norton's volume varies considerably between the narrative and the dialogue. At times the narrative is almost whispered, and at times the dialogue is almost shouted. I found myself reaching often for the volume button. Even with that, though, Norton has one of the most pleasingly vibrant voices I've heard on any audiobook.
If you're going to tackle this book, have some kind of study guide at hand. It doesn't have to be TOO scholarly -- even SparkNotes will get you through some of the rougher patches. Or have the text itself to read along.
And don't forget to laugh. Despite its apparently pointless meandering through the streets of Dublin, this is one of the funniest books ever written.
I love reading and listening to books, especially fantasy, science fiction, children's, historical, and classics.
"This First-Time Reader Was Intoxicated"
I???ll rap rapturously about Ulysses, one day in the Dublin life of Joyce???s Odysseus, Leopold Bloom, as divinely read by the inspired Jim Norton. Norton smoothly moves among myriad accents, from the mild educated Irish of Bloom to the thick Irish of drunken local cronies, while ably babbling in British (cockney and upper crust), French, German, Italian, and Spanish accents. He even barks as a dog, meows as a cat, clucks as a hen, burbles as a baby, laughs as a horse, and sings, too, in the voice of whatever character happens to be singing. And Marcella Riordan reads Molly Bloom???s mesmerizing closing monologue with perfect thought and feeling.
Many things in Ulysses flew by me: the phrases in Latin and modern Romance languages; the references to Irish culture and politics; the identity of the Man in the Macintosh; the stream of consciousness memories and allusions; and the gargantuan vocabulary, by turns lushly sensual, eruditely scientific, beautifully ringing, coarsely slangy, and amusingly anachronistic. It helped to listen first to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the prequel to Ulysses, to ease in to Joyce???s exuberant approach to life and language. And the Naxos notes to Ulysses (downloaded pdf from Audible) helped, giving the chapter-by-chapter Homeric Odyssey titles and brief summaries of the different scenes.
Finally, I had a weltering, ecstatic experience. Joyce laughs at his flawed, eloquent, and human characters with wry glee, but he also loves them. It's exciting to start each new chapter anticipating what narrative and stylistic antics Joyce will put his people up to next. The novel is an encyclopedic cyclopean paean to life and art: ugly, beautiful, earthy, sublime, sexy, spiritual, sad, funny, ironic, heroic, playful, philosophical, particular, universal, scientific, poetic, honest, artificed, vernacular, elevated, irreverent, moving, challenging, searching, rewarding, and humane.
A selected list of contents: mastication, alimentation, defecation, imbibition, micturition, expectoration, menstruation, masturbation, prostitution, fornication, copulation, reproduction, delectation, aromatization, introspection, retrospection, altercation, conversation, calculation, impersonation, imagination, hallucination, narration, enumeration, divagation, versification, harmonization, sanctification, transformation, affirmation--yes.
"I should hate this - but I don't."
This book has all the things which annoy me about supposed "great" literature.
It is excessively poetic. (Not a fan of poetry).
It is wordy for the sake of it. (Big fan of directness).
There is relatively little direct narrative. (I like a plain and simple central thread).
Its full of clever devices. (Like my English not mucked about with)
But it is magnificent! I'm pretty sure that I didn't properly follow a lot of it but it doesn't matter. Some of the words made no sense but the sounded beautiful. Some of the scenes were meaningless to me but they were magic to listen to. The whole thing was a joy to listen to.
One of the other reviewers suggest that you should be familiar with this book in print before listening to this but I disagree. I suspect that if I had tried to read this from paper I would have made it t about page 12 before throwing it out of a window. It was made to be read out loud and if there is a better version available than this I'm not sure I would be able to cope with it.
Jim Norton gives each character just enough depth to make him distinguishable wthout creating any cartoon Irishmen in the process. There are a few sections read in a female voice. (Marcella Riordan - who should get a narrators credit). Double handed narration can be clumsy but this is perfectly judged. Overall - an excellent listen.
"Fantastic !"
I have been thinking about tackling this book for years and this audio finally gave me courage. I cannot imagine to going through it with out it. I listened to each chapter first following the text in the book and then second time just listening and enjoying poetry of the language. Highly recommend.
"Monumental Achievement"
"Grant me, Lord, the courage and the joy / I need to scale the summit of this day", wrote Jorge Luis Borges of "Ulysses" in one of his sonnets. Both are needed, courage and joy, since the most challenging works of literature should be enjoyable in their difficulty. When it comes to Joyce's great work, a colossus among the colossals, it's quite impossible to write about the reading experience succintly, to the point, and well. I'm trying, though.
I like reading "Ulysses", but equally I love listening to it. There is something about Joyce's language and his way of expressing things that lends beautifully to performance. His words float, soar and swerve, and I think we are incredibly lucky to have an audiobook of the work that is without equal. Narrated by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan, it is an unabridged recording (27 hours and 21 minutes) that has not only been expertly read, it's actually recorded and mixed wonderfully, and it's amongst the best audiobooks I've ever encountered. This is a monumental achievement in audiobook recording that cuts no corners, takes all the time it needs in the right places, and uses technology and vision to create an unforgettable listening experience.
One of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to.
I've listened to 30+ books from Audible now and a few of them have needed a bit of persistence. I was keen to listen to Ulysses as I reasoned that I may be unlikely to finish the book in print if I attempted it.
It seems to me that the audiobook format is excellent for this incredible book. I can see why the book is rated so highly. The narrator is excellent and I found his characterisations worked very well. The pace was just right - quite hard to keep up but I don't think this is the book to read aloud slowly.
Did I understand everything? No. I had to review an online source at the end of each episode to keep up. But it is well worth it and I feel like I have experienced a very special piece of literature.
"Ulysses brought to life"
This is audio books at their absolute best. I'm only a quarter of the way through but this is completely captivating. The range of voices Jim Riordan can produce is amazing: it brings the characters to life and helps the listener keep track of what is obviously a difficult 'plot'. He also brings a range of tone to the characters, distinguishing speech and thoughts very helpfully. Perhaps not the best bed-time listening - a fatal combination of mellifluous accents and aimless ramblings that has me dozing off in minutes - but there the fault is entirely my own.
"Well worth the effort!"
The audio version makes this complex, many layered novel accessible and enjoyable.
This is incomparable to any book I have read to date.
The ability ot the narator to create different voices, accents and sounds was brilliant.
This book needs concentrated time to absorb, but I was always delighted to return to it and did so again and again and got more out of each reading.
I was surprised with how much enjoyed this book. Even after 3 readings, I feel there is still a rich vein to be excavated so I know I will return for more.
"Perfect rendering of a towering masterpiece"
This reading opened this wonderful, wonderful book to me. I, Seán Holden, have started what's always been called a hard read several times. Jim Norton has led me effortlessly through Bloom's journey. The depth of Joyce's understanding of language, mind and body is as profound as Shakespeare's and as beautiful. And he is funny and and he is learned. Having done the 27 hours I'm going to start all over again. Jim Norton's own understanding of the narrative and the distinctive presentation of the vast swirl of characters is perfection. It sounds just as I imagine it swooshing out of Joyce's head. The last chapter, read by Marcella Riordan, is a joy of pure eroticism with her enticingly beautiful voice taking us intimately inside Molly in every way. This is the best audio book performance I have ever heard. It gives us with ease the book we should all have.
"A book for grown-up people"
Jim Norton's performance is the greatest triumph of reading-aloud that I ever expect to hear.
Looking at some of the earlier negative reviews, I feel like inviting these people to grow up a little. It is the rhetoric of the playground to dismiss something as rubbish merely because you yourself do not appreciate it.
"Forget about multitasking"
I really wanted to read/listen to this book. Declared by many to be one of the most important novels ever written, it was sort of my personal ambition to read it.
Unfortunately, this book requires your full attention and as someone else observed, even listening to it while walking is too distracting to follow Joyce's thick narrative, turn gibberish.
He lost me, couple of hours into the story so entangled and impermeable, that in moments I didn't understand what I am listening to.
Perhaps I will go back to it, when I am so grown up, I have absolutely nothing else to do, than submerge myself to every word of this story.
For now, I will keep listening to books that are written for pleasure, rather than for mental work out.
This is a superb performance - not merely a reading - of an extraordinary book. For those of us who would never have managed to get through it as a written text, a real eye-opener and a very worthwhile investment of your time.
"I have done it; with a little help"
I listened and read on Kindle at the same time. If It was under my own steam I would never have made it. The combination worked well for me and is highly recommended.
This is an important book and to gain access to it to observe the way Joyce turns words over in his hands and plays with the form of language is awesome.
I can see me repeating this over the years.
There were some dull and inaccessible episodes in the middle (memorable for the wrong reasons) but overall the pictures that Joyce paints of life in Dublin are what stand out. The various interactions as the day goes on are deep, comedic and give a good insight to the life of the time.
What a fantastic performance. If you need a sense of his artistry read a section out aloud to someone and then play Norton's performance of the same passage. What skill!
The numerous accents and various pace of reading are just brilliant.
I also loved Marcella Riordan's contribution at the end of the book; very philosophical, sad and sensual at the same time.
No Far too long for one sitting
This has to be the best way to access this classic. Highly recommended
"Wonderful book, brilliantly read."
It helped that I'd read this book previously and had done some study on how it has been interpreted. Once you have a grounding you really appreciate the full force of its brilliance.
Bloom: an outsider, cuckold and under-dog, but persistent and dogged, he wins through in the end.
Jim Norton's (and Marcella Reardon) reading adds immensely to an appreciation. Wonderful characterisation, pace, humour, accents and invective. It is difficult to imagine it will ever be bettered.
The last section as Molly describes why she married and has stuck with Bloom. But almost every chapter has some brilliant passage.
If you've never read it before do at least skim the basics of the story first so you appreciate the basic structure - and then plunge in and enjoy and imbibe the language and scatological humour. Every reading will bring out more subtleties and enjoyment. This really is one of those books worth coming back to. I will certainly be returning to this reading!
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10.12 NASSELLA (Trin.) E. Desv.
Mary E. Barkworth
Plants usually perennial, rarely annual; cespitose, occasionally rhizomatous. Culms 10–175(210) cm, sometimes branched at the upper nodes, branches flexible; prophylls not evident, shorter than the sheaths. Leaves mostly basal, not overwintering; sheaths open; cleistogenes sometimes present; auricles absent; ligules membranous, sometimes pubescent or ciliate; blades of basal leaves 3–60 cm long, 0.2–8 mm wide, apices narrowly acute to acute, not sharp, flag leaf blades 1–80 mm, bases about as wide as the top of the sheaths. Inflorescences terminal panicles, sometimes partially included at maturity. Spikelets 3–22 mm, with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the floret; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the floret. Glumes longer than the floret, narrowly lanceolate or ovate, basal portion usually purplish at anthesis, color fading with age, (1)3–5-veined, sometimes awned; florets usually terete, sometimes slightly laterally compressed; calluses blunt or sharp, glabrous or antrorsely strigose; lemmas usually papillose or tuberculate, at least distally, sometimes smooth throughout, glabrous or variously hairy, strongly convolute, wrapping 1.2–1.5 times around the caryopses, apices not lobed, fused distally into crowns, these often evident by their pale color and constricted bases; crowns mostly glabrous, rims often bearing hairs with bulbous bases; awns terminal, centric or eccentric, deciduous or persistent, usually twice-geniculate, second geniculation often obscure; paleas up to 1/2 as long as the lemmas, glabrous, without veins, flat; lodicules 2 or 3, if 3, the third somewhat shorter than the other 2; anthers 1 or 3, if 3, often of 2 lengths, penicillate; ovaries glabrous; styles 2, bases free. Caryopses glabrous, not ribbed; hila elongate; embryos to 2/5 as long as the caryopses. x = 7, 8. Name not explained by Desvaux (1854), but possibly from the Latin nassa, a narrow-necked basket for catching fish.
Nassella used to be interpreted as a South American genus of approximately 14 species. It is now interpreted as including at least 116 species (Barkworth and Torres 2001), the majority of which are South American. The additional species were previously included in Stipa. There are eight species in the Flora region, one of which is introduced; two additional species treated here were found in the region at one time, but have not become established. The strongly convolute lemmas distinguish Nassella from all other genera of Stipeae in the Americas and, in combination with the reduced, ecostate, glabrous paleas, from all other genera in the tribe worldwide. Molecular data (Jacobs et al. 2006) support the expanded interpretation of Nassella. Relationships among the species have not been explored.
Many species of Nassella develop both cleistogamous and chasmogamous florets in the terminal panicle. The cleistogamous florets have 1–3 anthers that are less than 1 mm long; the chasmogamous florets have 3 anthers that are significantly longer. In addition, some species develop panicles in the axils of their basal sheaths. Spikelets of cleistogenes have reduced or no glumes, and florets with no or very short awns.
SELECTED REFERENCES Barkworth, M.E. 1990. Nassella (Gramineae: Stipeae): Revised interpretation and nomenclatural changes. Taxon 39:597–614; Barkworth, M.E. 1993. Nassella. Pp. 1274–1276 in J.C. Hickman (ed.). The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. 1400 pp.; Barkworth, M.E. and M.A. Torres. 2001. Distribution and diagnostic characters of Nassella (Poaceae: Stipeae). Taxon 50:439–468; Brown, W.V. 1952. The relation of soil moisture to cleistogamy in Stipa leucotricha. Bot. Gaz. 113:438–444; Desvaux, E. 1854. Gramineas. Pp. 233–469 in C. Gay. Flora Chilena [Historia Fisica y Politica de Chile], vol. 6. Museo Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile. 551 pp. [1853 on title page; printed March 1854]; Dyksterhuis, E.J. 1949. Axillary cleistogenes in Stipa leucotricha and their role in nature. Ecology 26:195–199; Hamilton, J.G. 1997. Changing perceptions of pre-European grasslands in California. Madroño 44:311–333; Jacobs, S.W.L., R. Bayer, J. Everett, M.O. Arriaga, M.E. Barkworth, A. Sabin-Badereau, M.A. Torres, F. Vázquez, and N. Bagnall. 2006. Systematics of the tribe Stipeae using molecular data. Aliso 23:349–361; Jacobs, S.W.L., J. Everett, and M.E. Barkworth. 1995. Clarification of morphological terms used in the Stipeae (Gramineae), and a reassessment of Nassella in Australia. Taxon 44:33–41; Love, R.M. 1946. Interspecific hybridization in Stipa: I. Natural hybrids. Amer. Naturalist 80:189–192; Love, R.M. 1954. Interspecific hybridization in Stipa: II. Hybrids of S. cernua, S. lepida, and S. pulchra. Amer. J. Bot. 41:107–110.
For an interactive dichotomous key, click here; the interactive, multientry key is not yet available.
1. Florets 1.5–3 mm long; blades 0.2–1.5 mm wide, usually tightly convolute ... 2
1. Florets 3.4–13 mm long; blades 0.4–8 mm wide, flat to convolute ... 4
2. Florets widest about midlength; awns 45–100 mm long, almost centric ... N. tenuissima
2. Florets widest near the top; awns 7–35 mm long, eccentric ... 3
3. Awns 15–35 mm long; lemmas strongly tuberculate, particularly distally ... N. trichotoma
3. Awns 7–10 mm long; lemmas smooth ... N. chilensis
4. Terminal segment of the awns cernuous ... 5
4. Terminal segment of the awns straight ... 6
5. Awns 12–55 mm long, 0.1–0.2 mm thick at the base ... N. lepida
5. Awns 50–110 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm thick at the base ... N. cernua
6. Florets 3.4–5.5 mm long; lemmas not constricted below the crown; awns 19–32 mm
long ... N. viridula
6. Florets 6–13 mm long; lemmas constricted below the crown; awns 30–120 mm long ... 7
7. Lemmas hairy between the veins at maturity ... N. pulchra
7. Lemmas glabrous between the veins at maturity ... 8
8. Crowns usually wider than long, the rims with hairs to 0.5 mm long; florets widest just below the crowns ... N. neesiana
8. Crowns usually longer than wide, the rims with hairs 1–2 mm long; florets widest near or slightly above midlength ... 9
9. Florets 6.5–13 mm long; crowns often flaring distally; plants native to Texas and adjacent states ... N. leucotricha
9. Florets 6–8 mm long; crowns more or less straight-sided; plants introduced, established in California ... N. manicata
1. Nassella neesiana (Trin. & Rupr.) Barkworth
Uruguayan Tussockgrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 30–140 cm tall, 1–1.8 mm thick, erect or geniculate, internodes glabrous; nodes usually 2–4, exposed, sericeous, hairs to 1.2 mm. Sheaths glabrous or slightly hispid, basal leaf sheaths often with cleistogenes; collars glab-rous, often brown or purple-tinged, with tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 0.5–1.2 mm; ligules 1–4 mm, glabrous or pubescent, truncate; blades to 30 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, flat to convolute, sometimes scabrous, sometimes with hairs. Terminal panicles 5–40 cm, exserted, erect to nodding; branches 2.5–8.5 cm, with 2–5 spikelets; pedicels 1–8 mm, angled, scabrous, pubescent. Glumes subequal, 10–22 mm long, 1.8–2.3 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, 3–5-veined; florets 6–13 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, terete, widest just below the crown; calluses 2–4.5 mm, sharp, strigose; lemmas often purple, finely rugose-papillose, particularly near the crown, constricted below the crown, midveins pilose proximally, glabrous between the veins at maturity; crowns 0.4–1.6 mm, usually wider than long, sides usually flaring somewhat distally, rims with hairs to 0.5 mm; awns 50–120 mm, clearly twice-geniculate, terminal segment straight; anthers 3–3.5 mm, penicillate. Caryopses 3–5 mm. 2n = 28.
Nassella neesiana is native to South America, growing from Ecuador to Argentina, primarily in steppe habitats. It was found on ballast dumps in Mobile, Alabama but has not persisted in the Flora region. It has become established in Australia, where it is considered a noxious weed.
2. Nassella leucotricha (Trin. & Rupr.) R.W. Pohl
Texan Nassella, Texan Needlegrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 33–120 cm tall, 1–1.2 mm thick, erect, internodes glabrous; nodes 3–5, usually pubescent. Sheaths often conspicuously hairy, sometimes glabrous, basal leaf sheaths often with cleistogenes; collars glabrous, often brown or purple-tinged, with tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 0.5–1 mm; ligules 0.2–1.2 mm, glabrous, truncate, sometimes longest at the sides; blades 10–35 cm long, 1–3.6 mm wide, flat to convolute, abaxial surfaces sparsely coarsely hairy, adaxial surfaces glabrous. Terminal panicles 5–55 cm, open; branches 3–7 cm, ascending or spreading, angled, scabrous, glabrous or hairy, with 1–4 spikelets; pedicels 4–9 mm. Glumes subequal, 10–21 mm long, 0.7–3.2 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, 3–5-veined; florets 6.5–13 mm long, 1.1–1.4 mm wide, terete, widest near or slightly above midlength; calluses 1–5.5 mm, sharp, strigose; lemmas straw-colored to light brown, papillose distally, constricted below the crown, veins pubescent proximally, particularly the midveins, glabrous between the veins; crowns 0.75–2 mm, usually longer than wide, often flaring distally, rims irregular, with 1–2 mm hairs; awns 40–90 mm, clearly twice-geniculate, terminal segment straight; anthers 3 and 3.5–5 mm in chasmogamous florets, 1–3 and shorter than 0.7 mm in cleistogamous florets. Caryopses about 4 mm. 2n = 28.
The range of Nassella leucotricha extends from the southern United States, where it was once one of the dominant species, into northern Mexico. It is now established in Australia (Jacobs et al. 1995). In North America, N. leucotricha grows mostly in open grasslands, but it is also found in woodlands. It provides good spring forage and increases in abundance with moderate grazing, primarily because of its cleistogenes. It resembles N. manicata, but has longer florets and less strongly developed crowns.
The sharp callus easily sticks to skin and clothing, and can cause wounds, especially in the mouths of grazing animals. The wounds often retain the fruit, which may require surgical removal for proper healing.
Individual plants produce both chasmogamous and cleistogamous florets in their terminal panicles, with the terminal florets usually being cleistogamous. The proportion of cleistogamous florets is influenced by soil moisture, a higher proportion being produced if the soil moisture content is low (Brown 1952). Spikelets of the axillary panicles usually mature before those of the terminal panicles (Dyksterhuis 1949).
3. Nassella manicata (E. Desv.) Barkworth
Andean Tussockgrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 40–80 cm tall, 1.5–2.5 mm thick, erect, internodes glabrous; nodes 2–3, pubescent. Sheaths glabrous; collars mostly glabrous, with tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 0.5–1 mm; ligules 0.1–0.3 mm, glabrous, truncate; blades 12–25 cm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, flat to convolute, pubescent. Panicles 10–20 cm, open; branches 1–3 cm, ascending to somewhat spreading, scabridulous, with 1–8 spikelets; pedicels 1–8 mm, pubescent. Glumes subequal, 10–15 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, 3-veined, keeled, keels scabrous; florets 6–8 mm long, 0.9–1.1 mm wide, terete, widest near or slightly above midlength; calluses 1.5–2.5 mm, sharp, strigose; lemmas papillose-tuberculate, constricted and purplish below the crown, midveins and exposed marginal veins pubescent over the proximal 2/3, glabrous between the veins at maturity; crowns about 1 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, conspicuous, more or less straight-sided, purple, rims with 1–1.5 mm hairs; awns 30–50 mm, clearly twice-geniculate, terminal segment straight; anthers 3–4 mm in putatively chasmogamous florets, 0.3–0.5 mm in cleistogamous florets, both ranges sometimes present within a panicle. Caryopses about 3 mm. 2n = unknown.
Nassella manicata is native to Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, growing on the foothills of the Andes Mountains. It is established in three California counties, growing in disturbed sites, including grazed meadows and old gold tailings. It has also been recorded from Mississippi; it is not known whether the Mississippi population has persisted.
Nassella manicata resembles N. leucotricha and N. pulchra. It differs from both in its shorter florets and more strongly developed crowns. It was misidentified as Nassella formicarum (Delile) Barkworth in the Jepson Manual (Barkworth 1993).
4. Nassella lepida (Hitchc.) Barkworth
Foothills Nassella, Foothills Needlegrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 35–100 cm tall, 0.7–1.2 mm thick, erect, bases sometimes decumbent, internodes glabrous, or the lower internodes pubescent just below the nodes or throughout, varying within a plant; nodes 3–4, pubescent. Sheaths glab-rous or coarsely hairy, sometimes scabridulous, margins glabrous; collars hairy, particularly towards the sides, hairs at the sides 0.2–0.5 mm; ligules 0.1–0.6 mm, glabrous, truncate to rounded; blades 12–23 cm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, flat to convolute, lax, abaxial surfaces scabridulous, adaxial surfaces coarsely hairy. Panicles 9–55 cm, open; branches 1–8 cm, ascending to spreading, with 1–6 spikelets; pedicels 1–5 mm. Glumes subequal, 5.5–15 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate; florets 4–7 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide, terete, widest near or slightly above midlength; calluses 0.4–1.6 mm, sharp, strigose; lemmas papillose, initially evenly pubescent, becoming glabrous between the veins at maturity, tapering to the crown; crowns 0.25–0.3 mm long, 0.15–0.2 mm wide, straight-sided, rims with 0.3–0.6 mm hairs; awns 12–55 mm long, 0.1–0.15 mm thick at the base, first geniculation distinct, second geniculation obscure, terminal segment cernuous; anthers 3, 2–2.5 mm, penicillate. Caryopses 3–4 mm. 2n = 34.
Nassella lepida usually grows on dry hillsides in chaparral habitats, from California into northern Mexico. It is most likely to be confused with N. cernua, but differs from that species in its shorter, thinner awns and more numerous spikelets. It occasionally hybridizes with N. pulchra.
5. Nassella pulchra (Hitchc.) Barkworth
Purple Nassella, Purple Needlegrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 35–100 cm tall, 1.8–3.1 mm thick, erect or geniculate at the lowest nodes, sometimes scabrous below the panicles, internodes mostly glabrous, lower internodes sometimes pubescent below the nodes; nodes 2–3, pubescent. Sheaths glabrous or hairy, sometimes mostly glabrous, sometimes the distal margins ciliate, varying within a plant; collars with tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 0.5–0.8 mm; ligules 0.3–1.2 mm, glabrous, truncate to rounded; blades 10–20 cm long, 0.8–3.5 mm wide, flat to convolute, abaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely pilose. Panicles 18–60 cm, open; branches 3–9 cm, spreading, flexuous, often pilose at the axils, with 2–6 spikelets; pedicels 3–10 mm. Glumes subequal, 12–20 mm long, 1.1–2.2 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous; florets 7.5–11.5 mm long, about 1.2 mm thick, terete; calluses 1.8–3.5 mm, sharp, strigose; lemmas papillose, evenly pubescent at maturity, constricted below the crown; crowns 0.6–1.1 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide, straight-sided to slightly flared, rims with 0.8–0.9 mm hairs; awns 38–100 mm long, 0.3–0.45 mm thick at the base, strongly twice-geniculate, terminal segment straight; anthers 3.5–5.5 mm, penicillate. Caryopses 4.5–6 mm. 2n = 64.
Nassella pulchra grows in oak chaparral and grassland communities of the coast ranges and Sierra foothills of California, extending south into Mexico. It probably never formed extensive grasslands (Hamilton 1997), flourishing primarily in moderately disturbed areas. It resembles N. manicata, but has longer florets and less strongly developed crowns. Nassella pulchra and N. cernua sometimes hybridize.
6. Nassella cernua (Stebbins & Love) Barkworth
Cernuous Nassella, Nodding Needlegrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 30–100 cm tall, 1–2.2 mm thick, erect or geniculate at the basal nodes, internodes pubescent below the nodes, lowest internodes some-times pubescent throughout; nodes 2–3, glabrous. Leaves usually glaucous; sheaths mostly glabrous, throats ciliate; collars mostly glabrous, with sparse tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 1–1.6 mm; ligules 0.2–1.6 mm, glabrous, truncate to rounded; blades 3–26 cm long, 0.4–1.2 mm wide, flat to convolute, abaxial surfaces scabridulous, adaxial surfaces hairy. Panicles 15–80 cm, open, often partially enclosed at maturity; branches 1–6 cm, flexuous or cernuous, with 1–8 spikelets on the distal 1/2; pedicels 3–9 mm. Glumes glabrous, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lower glumes 12–22 mm long, 0.9–1.7 mm wide; upper glumes 3–4 mm shorter that the lower glumes; florets 4–9 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm wide, terete; calluses 1.4–3.6 mm, sharp, strigose; lemmas minutely papillose, tapering to the crown, the proximal 1/4evenly pubescent, the distal 3/4 pubescent only over the veins; crowns 0.2–0.5 mm long, 0.3–0.35 mm wide, straight-sided, rims with 0.8–1.1 mm hairs; awns 50–110 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm thick at the base, first geniculation evident, second geniculation obscure, terminal segment cernuous; anthers 3.5–5.5 mm, penicillate. Caryopses 4.5–5.5 mm. 2n = 70.
Nassella cernua grows in grasslands, chaparral, and juniper associations of the inner coast ranges of California and Baja California, Mexico. Small specimens resemble N. lepida, but have longer and thicker awns and fewer florets. Large specimens resemble N. pulchra, but have thinner awns with cernuous, rather than straight, terminal segments. It is superficially similar to Achnatherum eminens, but differs in its shorter ligules, strongly overlapping lemma margins, glabrous paleas, and geographic distribution.
7. Nassella tenuissima (Trin.) Barkworth
Fineleaved Nassella
Plants perennial; tightly ces-pitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 25–100 cm tall, 0.4–0.7(1.1) mm thick, usually erect, basal nodes sometimes geniculate, internodes mostly glabrous, pubescent just below the lower nodes; nodes 2–4, glabrous. Sheaths glabrous, even on the margins, sometimes scabridulous; collars glabrous, without tufts of hair at the sides; ligules 1–5 mm, glabrous, acute; blades 7–60 cm long, 0.2–1.5 mm wide, usually convolute, stiff, glabrous, scabridulous. Panicles 8–50 cm, loosely contracted, often partly enclosed at maturity; branches 2–8 cm, glabrous; pedicels 1–11 mm. Glumes subequal, 5–13 mm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, aristate; florets (1.5)2.5–3 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, widest at about midlength, somewhat laterally compressed; calluses 0.2–0.5 mm, blunt, strigose, hairs reaching to about 1/4–1/3 the length of the lemmas; lemmas finely tuberculate, rounded to the crown, midveins pubescent on the proximal 1/2; crowns 0.1–0.2 mm long, 0.2–0.25 mm wide, straight-sided, rims with hairs shorter than 0.5 mm; awns 45–100 mm, almost centric, cernuous throughout, twice-geniculate, usually both geniculations obscure; anthers 3, 1.2–1.5 mm. Caryopses about 2 mm, linear, dark brown. 2n = 40.
Nassella tenuissima grows on rocky slopes, frequently in oak or pine associations but also in open, exposed grasslands. Its native range extends from the southwestern United States into northern Mexico. It is now also established in the San Francisco Bay area, having been introduced as a garden plant. It is an attractive species, available through some horticultural outlets, but it readily escapes from cultivation into nearby disturbed sites.
8. Nassella trichotoma (Nees) Hack. ex Arechav.
Serrated Tussockgrass, Yass Tussockgrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 20–60 cm tall, about 1 mm thick, erect, internodes glabrous; nodes 2–4, pubescent. Sheaths glabrous, smooth; collars glabrous, without tufts of hair at the sides; ligules 0.5–2.5 mm, glabrous, obtuse; blades 15–45 cm long, 0.2–0.6 mm wide, convolute, stiff, scabridulous. Panicles 8–25 cm, open, lax, sparse; branches 2–6 cm, with 1–8 spikelets; pedicels 3–12 mm. Glumes subequal, 4–10 mm long, 0.9–1.2 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, scabridulous, apices aristate; florets 1.5–2.5 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide, terete, widest near the top; calluses 0.1–0.3 mm, acute, strigose, hairs reaching to midlength on the lemmas; lemmas strongly tuberculate, particularly distally, mostly glabrous, narrowing abruptly to the crown, midveins pubescent proximally; crowns about 0.5 mm long, about 0.2 mm wide, straight-sided, rims entire or irregularly lacerate, glabrous; awns 15–35 mm, eccentric, straight to twice-geniculate; anthers 3, 1–1.5 mm. Caryopses about 1.2 mm, oblong, dark brown. 2n = 36.
Nassella trichotoma is a native of South America, and has been accidentally introduced into the United States. Because it is on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's noxious weed list, all known populations have been eliminated. New populations should be reported to the Department.
9. Nassella chilensis (Trin.) E. Desv.
Chilean Tussockgrass
Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous, appearing cespitose, rhizomes slender, somewhat woody. Culms 30–100 cm tall, 0.4–0.7 mm thick, bases some-what bulblike, erect, geniculate and often branching intra-vaginally at the lower cauline nodes, internodes glabrous; nodes 5–8+, glabrous. Sheaths mostly glabrous, throats sometimes ciliate; collars sparsely hairy, with tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 0.5–1.3 mm; ligules 0.2–0.3 mm, truncate, usually ciliate; blades 3–10 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, strongly convolute, stiff, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces with coarse hairs. Panicles 2–20 cm; branches 0.4–1.2 cm, with 1–4 spikelets; pedicels 0.5–4 mm. Glumes subequal, 3–4.5 mm long, 1.1–1.6 mm wide, ovate, 3-veined, glabrous or puberulent, acuminate; florets 1.6–2.2 mm long, 0.6–0.9 mm wide, obovate to oblong, terete, widest near the top; calluses 0.2–0.3 mm, obtuse, glabrous; lemmas glabrous, smooth, lustrous, transition to the crown not evident; crowns about 0.1 mm long and wide, not differing in texture from the lemmas; awns 7–10 mm, eccentric, rapidly deciduous; anthers about 1 mm or 0.3–0.4 mm, florets with longer anthers presumably chasmogamous, those with shorter anthers presumably cleistogamous. Caryopses about 1 mm. 2n = 42.
Nassella chilensis is an Andean species that was once collected from a ballast dump in Portland, Oregon. It is not established in the Flora region.
10. Nassella viridula (Trin.) Barkworth
Green Nassella, Green Needlegrass
Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 35–120 cm, erect or geniculate basally, internodes mostly glabrous, pubescent below the lower nodes; nodes 2–3, glabrous. Sheaths mostly glabrous, margins usually ciliate; collars of basal leaves hispidulous, with tufts of hair at the sides, hairs 0.5–1.8 mm, collars of flag leaves glabrous or sparsely pubescent; ligules 0.2–1.2 mm, glabrous, truncate to rounded; blades 10–30 cm long; 1.5–3 mm wide, flat to convolute, abaxial surfaces scabridulous, glabrous, adaxial surfaces glabrous. Panicles 2.9–7.2 cm, loosely contracted; branches 1–4 cm, appressed or ascending, with 3–7 spikelets; pedicels 1–9 mm. Glumes subequal, 6.8–13 mm long, 1–2.1 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous, apiculate; florets 3.4–5.5 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide, terete; calluses 0.7–1.4 mm, moderately sharp, strigose; lemmas papillose, evenly pubescent, not constricted below the crown; crowns 0.4–0.5 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, not conspicuous, straight-sided, rims with 0.5–0.75 mm hairs; awns 19–32 mm, evidently twice-geniculate, terminal segment straight; anthers (0.8)2–3 mm, sometimes penicillate. Caryopses about 3.5 mm. 2n = 82, 88.
Nassella viridula grows in grasslands and open woods, frequently on sandy soils. It is the most widespread species of Nassella in North America. Its morphology, distribution, and high chromosome number suggest that it may be an alloploid between Nassella and Achnatherum. It is included in Nassella because it resembles Nassella more than Achnatherum in the characters distinguishing the two genera. It differs from Achnatherum robustum in its tightly convolute lemmas and in having glabrous to sparsely pubescent collars on its flag leaves. It differs from the hybrid with Achnatherum hymenoides, xAchnella caduca, in its less saccate glumes, shorter lemmas hairs, and shorter paleas.


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The former Homeland Security Secretary announced the initiative in her first public address since she became head of the 10-campus university system a month ago — an evening appearance in San Francisco organized by the Commonwealth Club. She also pledged $10 million for recruiting and training graduate students and research fellows.
"Let me be clear. UC welcomes all students who qualify academically, whether they are documented or undocumented," she said in prepared remarks released by her office before the speech. "Consider this a down payment — one more piece of evidence of our commitment to all Californians."
Napolitano said the money would be used "to support these students with resources like trained advisers, student service centers and financial aid," but did not immediately offer details about its source or possible conditions on its use.
University officials estimate that out of a total student population of 239,000, the system enrolls about 900 students who were brought into the country illegally as children, a group of immigrants known as "Dreamers" because of the stalled U.S. Dream Act that would give certain youth a path to permanent residency.
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Since her surprise appointment as the university's 20th president in July, Napolitano has devoted energy to alleviating the concerns of campus activists who worried she would be hostile to such immigrants because of her background in
She met with student groups representing so-called dreamers on the day she was confirmed and during her first day on the job.
In her prepared remarks, Napolitano also addressed faculty skeptics who have questioned her qualifications to lead the
"I believe my selection was, in good measure, a result of my experience running large, complex institutions, such as the third-largest department of the federal government and the state government of
Napolitano said that, going forward, she sees her job as ensuring that the university continues to fulfill its mission of both educating students and serving as an incubator for important research, and that the extra $10 million she is investing in graduate students is a way to do that.
"Graduate students and post-docs are the essential links between teaching for
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Everything the waterfront, the city center, the historic center and pedestrian area have to offer is at your doorstep! Whether you are looking for a beach to walk on the beach, cultural visits, typical or modern restaurants, shopping or nightlife, everything is in walking distance!
The apartment was renovated in 2013 with new materials and furniture. It is very well equipped, bright, elegant, clean, has a nice bathroom, a fully equipped kitchen, high ceilings and can accommodate up to 4 people. Linen, towels, water, electricity and heating included in the price.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Hoping that our apartment allows you to make the most of our beautiful city of Nice, see you soon!
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The apartment is located above Rue Alexandre Mari on a 3rd floor with elevator. It is easily accessible by most forms of transport. By car, take the exit for Acropolis from the fast lane. By train, we are two tram stops. By plane, take bus 98. Then, either by car, tram, bus or on foot, it very easy for you to go around Nice as the area is well served. Visit Nice and all its magnificent surroundings (Monaco, Cannes, Antibes, Italy etc.) is a breeze!
House rulesSecurity Deposit: €250
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Die Fotos entsprechen der Wahrheit, es ist ein schönes Apartment. Sehr zentral, liegt parallel zur Shoppingmeile, welche zur Place de Masséna führt. Sehr lebendiges Quartier, in der Nacht viel los, deshalb ist es am Wochenende auch entsprechend laut.
Bei unserem Aufenthalt Mitte Juli war es sehr heiss, der kleine Ventilator hat da längstens nicht für genügend Abkühlung in der Wohnung gesorgt. Die Küche war ziemlich arm ausgestattet.
Der Gastgeber hat sich aber grosse Mühe gegeben, eine eigen zusammengestellte Reiseroute auf einer Karte aufzuzeichnen, welche zusammen mit einem ebenfalls selbstgemachten Heft voller Ausflugs-, Ausgangs und Restauranttipps für Nizza und Umgebung im Apartment vorliegt.
Great apartment with the best view of the ocean and a friendly staff welcoming their guests. The only downside was that they don't have a system to take care of guests luggage after checkout time at 10am. If your flight is later but still want to have a relaxed day before the flight, you must find lockers for a fee in the city or the airport (14 euros per bag in Terminal 2 or 1 euro per hour in the city). It should be included for the money spent. Other than that, great place.
Thrilled with these past three days in Nice: we appreciated the quality of this apartment, bright, quiet, immaculate sharpness, and offers free Wi-Fi and air conditioning; the sea and the bus stop nearby, and many shops at the foot of the building, and parking in a congested city where parking is complicated, it is appreciated!
Enchantés de ces 3 jours passés à Nice : nous avons apprécié la qualité de cet appartement, clair, calme, d'une netteté impeccable, et doté de la Wi-Fi et air conditionné ; la mer et l'arrêt de bus à deux pas, et de nombreux commerces au pied de l'immeuble, ainsi qu'un parking dans une ville engorgée où le stationnement est compliqué, c'est appréciable !
Nice place for a family witht 4 people
Everything worked out perfectly. Salvatore was immediately after we arrived to show us as the really great apartment and hand over the keys. It was rundrum a perfect holiday.
Es hat alles perfekt geklappt. Salvatore war sofort da nach dem wir eingetroffen sind um uns die wirklich tolle Wohnung zu zeigen und den Schlüssel zu überreichen. Es war rundrum ein perfekter Urlaub.
The keys of the apartment worked fine. It was all very clean and spacious terrace is an ideal place to linger. The location was ideal for us. (Train station, supermarket, sea, beach and bus station all in the immediate vicinity). We would definitely come back, in a possible next Nice stay.
Die Schlüsselübergabe der Wohnung hat bestens geklappt. Es war alles sehr sauber und die grosszügige Terrasse ist ein idealer Ort um zu verweilen. Die Lage war für uns ideal. (Bahnhof, Supermarkt, Meer, Strand und Bushaltestelle alles in unmittelbarer Nähe). Wir kommen gerne wieder, bei einem allfälligen nächsten Nizza-Aufenthalt.
Very gracious host. Salvatore is friendly and courteous, everything was well organized. The apartment was great, spacious and well maintained. We had a really good break. Many Thanks!
Sehr toller Gastgeber. Salvatore ist freundlich und zuvorkommend, alles war gut organisiert. Die Wohnung war Genial, grossräumig und gepflegt. Wir hatten einen richtig guten Kurzurlaub. Vielen Dank!
Salvatore was very helpful to us during our stay and the apartment was very well planned. It's really close to gare SNCF, the shopping street jean-medecin and just a 10 min walk to the beach.
The place is well equipped and really central. The light in the living room didn't work and they never came to fix it. Overall the place is really good in price-quality. If I come again to Nice I would definetly rent it again. Not good for more than 2 people.
A great place to stay - a little away from the main action in Nice but everything is close by when using the buses. Catch a bus to the in train station and before you know it you can be in Cannes, Monaco and beyond.
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The Band Perry will be taking part in tonight's "American Idol" finale. "The Hollywood Reporter" says the country trio is slated to perform with season 12 hopeful Janelle Arthur, who finished her run on the show in fifth place.
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Anticipated graduation year: 2014
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What is your best experience on campus? "The best experience I have had here at UC Davis was during one of our community service visits to Shriner's Hospital in Sacramento. The Women's Tennis Team goes to Shriner's once every year to play games and interact with the patients. The children are usually very young, and some only know how to speak Spanish. My Spanish-speaking has become highly proficient after taking two years of Spanish courses at UC Davis, so I enjoy communicating with the kids during our visits."
What do you hope to be your legacy here at UC Davis – what marks have you made or changes that you hope will continue? "I feel extremely grateful to have played for the UC Davis Women's Tennis Team for all of my four years. We received our first National Team Ranking my sophomore year. But even with this prestigious honor, I strive to make a more substantial mark on the level of support and integrity of my team."
Tell us about one person at UC Davis who has enhanced your life or your work? "The one person that has positively affected my life here is my tennis coach Bill Maze. His outlook on life has taught me to live in the present and be open to anything life throws my way. He has never stopped supporting me, both on and off the court, I know I can always talk to him about anything, and he is always there to listen. If there was one piece of advice I could take from Bill Maze (even though all his advice is great), it's never take yourself too seriously, life is too short for that."


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Dave from North Pole AK writes:
Every time I need to reboot I have to hit ESC to get to the boot menu, then click on the default location and again on the operating system. If I don't do this I get a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner and a black screen. I am running Windows 7 Professional as the only operating system on the computer.
I believe the problem began after installing an external (My Book) hard drive. The default boot location was changed to a virtual drive that did not exist. I was able to change the default back to my hard drive, but my computer will not boot properly without going through the above mentioned steps.
Thanks for any help you may be able to give me.
Dave, you're a smarter man then I am! I read your question and rememberd a similar situation when I left a USB flash drive in my computer and the next time I rebooted it went to a blinking cursor. I nearly pulled my hair out going through every possibly problem till I finally said "Ok, I give up, what's changed?" and realized it was simply my new USB device messing up the boot.
So why does this happen? Booting off a USB drive was added to modern BIOS software to allow you to use external drives to recover your PC, host a second operating system or install firmware updates. The BIOS can get stuck on reading the flash drive and not realize no operating system exists to skip to the next boot device.
How do you fix it? The easiest way is to disable booting from USB devices in the computer's BIOS. When you first start your computer you should be prompted with a screen that says hit F2, F10, Del or any number of other keys (though those 3 are the most common) to enter setup. Press that key a few times right when the computer comes on to get into the BIOS setup. Once in the BIOS setup, look for Enable USB booting and change the setting to disabled. Exit and save settings and you should no longer have this problem.
If your BIOS does not an option to disable USB booting you can also remove USB devices from the boot order list, which will result in the device no longer attempting to boot. Find boot devices, then remove any reference to USB HDD or USB device then exit and save settings.
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Operators using Revive's self-checkout terminals can now link their credit and debit card processing with their other cashless locations supported by Malvern, PA-based USAT to streamline their business processes and technologies.
USAT's QuickConnect Web service provides developers that already have an application with Internet connectivity and a display mechanism, such as a kiosk or smartphone, with PCI-compliant certification to USAT's ePort Connect cashless payment system.
"Since we started selling the Revive Self Checkout in 2011, the No. 1 question we received from customers in this regard was if -- and when -- the customer could integrate their other cashless vending locations that were utilizing USAT's ePort Connect service with our micromarket solution," said Adam Arthur, founding partner and chief developer at Revive.
Arthur said his company is recommending USAT as a preferred cashless solution because of the ease of setup its approach offers.
Revive Self Checkout point-of-sale kiosks feature real-time bill validator and inventory status, automated condition notifications, remote video feeds, price adjustment options, an advanced rewards system and a mobile inventory system.


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How much would you pay for that last Sheryl Crow CD you need to make your collection complete? $12? $15? How about $4.99? That's what we paid for one of her older discs on a recent trip to Tempe's Zia Record Exchange, the music mecca for starving artists and broke college students. The store carries thousands of used titles, from death metal to country, plus the hot new albums in each category. Fat Joe? Got it. Nine Inch Nails? Check. Vanilla Ice? Sadly (and not unexpectedly), there's a whole row of that one. Not only are the prices super cheap, but you don't even need money to make a purchase. Just bring a few CDs for trade (come on, we know you have some Weezer lying around gathering dust) and you can get store credit toward that killer Snow Patrol disc you've been dying for.
When we wanted to rent an Australian Jungle Carpet python, we knew where to go. Rich Ihle has been collecting, studying and breeding reptiles for more than 30 years, and he's happy to lend some of them out, for a fee and with supervision, for which we're thankful. We're not sure we want a python all our own (who knew they peed!), so we'll stick to the rental option, thanks to Reptile Adventures.
To be honest, we thought hydroponics was just a method to grow better dope plants inside your closet. That was before we stepped foot in Tempe's Sea of Green. Turns out it's actually a real science, dude. Who knew? Contrary to popular belief, hydroponics isn't about growing a plant in water. Heck, we all did that as kids with pineapples and potatoes, so who would need fancy supplies for that? Most hydroponic gardens are cultivated in a stiff substrate, like floral foam or Perlite, soaked with water and placed under a UV light. Sea of Green offers everything you need to set up an indoor hydroponics garden. There are seeds, pots, herbs and full kit systems with catchy names like Ebb & Flow. The bulk of the place's business is mail order, but hey, there are probably just a lot of model citizens out there growing organic plants. Yeah, that's it. Big, leafy, green, er, vegetables.
You'd think it would be easy to find good desert plants in the actual desert. Think again. We scoured nurseries (limited selection), souvenir stops (tacky) and gardens (pricey) before stumbling upon this little gem of a shop hidden in Old Town Scottsdale. Cactus Hut proprietor Jeffrey Shaw has been quietly importing and grooming desert plants for 30 years. His tiny storefront has a stellar variety of unusual succulents and cacti, from the spiny echinocactus, also called a barrel cactus, to the more welcoming hildiwinteria with its fuzzy yellow coat. Popular gifts include magnets with miniature live specimens and prepackaged cactus kits ranging from $7.95 to $26.95. Shipping service is available on most items. It's hard to kill a cactus, but don't get too cocky. Occasionally, a customer will come back after a few days with a dead aloe, says Shaw, wondering how that could have happened when it was watered faithfully twice a day.
We're cheating a little, because the truth is that High Spirits Prickly Pear Flavored Vodka is actually brewed in Flagstaff, at the Mogollon Brewing Company. Yeah, we know, Valley sprawl being what it is, Flag is practically north Phoenix . . . Maybe by next year. In any case, we feel justified in giving this vodka a Best of Phoenix not only because it's so good, but because when we finally did locate it, it was in a Bashas' in Ahwatukee, not at the brewery in Flagstaff. (You can't buy it at the Mogollon Brewery. We know that because we drove all the way to Flagstaff, walked into the brewery with a toddler in tow and asked to buy it. They can't sell it by the bottle, the kind bartender explained, because it's brewed on site. Whatever. We were annoyed, but glad no one commented on the child.) In any case, you can find High Spirits Prickly Pear Flavored Vodka at your local Bashas' here in the Valley, if it's not sold out, and it might well be because although it costs almost $30 a bottle, this stuff is gooood! We sipped it straight (warm, even, we were that eager to try it), but we prefer it over ice, or, as a friend suggested, it might go well over ice cream. We can't think of a better use for a prickly pear.
All year long, we keep a folder full of ideas for Best of Phoenix awards menus, newspaper clippings, notes scribbled on cocktail napkins. This year, that folder also contains a bar of soap. Yes, it makes the folder a little bulky, but we've found it's not enough to keep a bar of Wild Women Soaps prickly pear on the bathroom counter we like to keep it by the computer, and sniff it often. It smells that good. If you want your own bar to keep by the computer (and maybe one for the sink, too), you can buy it at the gift shop at the Desert Botanical Garden, or shop online.