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My Yucca shooting the flower stem. In December.
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Happy New Year
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Friday, 25 December 2015
Merry Christmas
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Wednesday, 2 December 2015
This is the earliest date ever recorded when they first appeared in the season. Usually, this particular bunch of snowdrops starts to pop out the ground around the new year.
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Summer Returns?
We have such a beautiful autumn weather here in Croatia. September and November were not so warm for more than fifty years. It was 20°C today. I finished clearing the flower beds last weekend and collected all the fallen leaves. But, I have to mow the lawn again. Never mind. That is the only thing I have to do before the winter.
Japanese anemone seed heads
I felt almost sorry to cut down some of the flowers because it still looked good. Japanese anemones bear seeds. I never tried to grow them from seed probably because they spread themselves well by roots. The Japanese anemone may be pretty invasive and persistent. I need to keep it under control.
See how warm it is? The Japanese Quince, Chaenomeles, is blooming again this year.
The two survivors out of seventeen. Soon, I will pick them up. I hope the next year will be better.
Mr. Squirrel keeps coming to my walnut tree. So hard to catch it with the eye of my camera.
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Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Frosty Morning
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Friday, 23 October 2015
History repeats
Remember the last year when I wrote about the cabbage butterfly caterpillars in October? Well, the history repeats. I found them in my garden again. In October. They are all over the kale and pak choi.
I only cannot explain why they don't appear during the spring and summer, but now when is supposed to be too late for them. I know, the daily temperatures are still around 14°C, but still.
This was the very first frosty morning this autumn. It was not much frost on the ground, just covered the roof of the garden shed.
And, some roses are still in bloom. I feel sorry to prune them for the winter. This one is called 'Acropolis'.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015
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Monday, 19 October 2015
Autumn Days
So far, the days have been warm with regular exchange of sun and rain. No wonder the flowers on my terrace still look so good. However, I started to move in the pots with the plants that cannot overwinter outside, the lemon, kumquat and oleanders.
I move in this trailing rosemary too. It has grown up a lot this summer and I just want it to stay alive. I mean, every rosemary bush I have planted out in the garden froze. I need to find the right variety of rosemary for the continental climate and find a good spot in the garden to plant it. I saw rosemary in other people's garden here, but they all have a sheltered position.
My walnut tree has quite a lot walnuts this year. I collected eight such bags so far and that is not all. I guess that is one of the most tedious jobs in autumn. Not to mention collecting the fallen leaves!
I had a little helper the other day, a squirrel from the park. Did not manage to take a picture of it, so clever in hiding on the other side of the tree trunk.
Asters are still in bloom, as well as the tall Sedums. This week is supposed to be warm and dry, so I am going to use the nice days to tidy up all the vegetable and flower beds. At least one lawn mowing is still in order and the garden will be ready for the winter.
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Friday, 18 September 2015
About a month ago I thought the chilli crop would be poor due to a very hot and dry summer. Watering the plants helps, but nothing can replace good rain showers. Finally, we had some rain in August and my chillies woke up.
I decided not to put them into vinegar but dry them in a hot air.
And they are hot just as I like.
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Monday, 14 September 2015
Working Hard
Six beautiful days are ahead and I tend to use them to tidy up my garden. I finally started to rearrange the south border. I chopped down the juniper tree because it tilted too much over the border. Then I dug out all the plants. I want to work the ground thoroughly before I plant them back. It is going to be a lot of hard work digging the entire ground over and adding compost and manure. Planning the border is the easy part. The thing is that I need to finish preparing the bed today and plant all the plants tomorrow. They have been staying in water for two days.
A part of the south border as it looks now. I need to level up the lawn and sow some new grass as well. How odd it looks now so bare. This is how it looked like in 1995 and 1997!
It is still the old neighbour's house wall behind and the juniper was so small.
The tall Sedum telephium 'Autumn Joy' justifies its name. It is not yet in full bloom but, it is already full of busy bees.
Walnut collecting is in order.
Liriope muscari
Fuchsia magellanica, the hardy one.
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Saturday, 5 September 2015
Rainy Day
This morning at 5.50.
It's been raining finally. I was only collecting slugs between the two rainfalls. I haven't killed too many of them. The slug pellets I distributed some days ago did the job.
But, what's with the birds? They ate all my endive seedlings a month ago. I planted the new set of seedlings yesterday. I did not have to cover the lettuce seedlings ever before.
The Chinese cabbage germinated very well.
The Japanese Persimmons grow bigger. There are only seven fruits left. I read that fruit shedding is a common problem in young trees.
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Saturday, 29 August 2015
Just a Few Garden Notes
I have to pick up the hazelnuts before the squirrels do!
Tomato harvest continues.
Autumn is knocking on the door.
The south border needs a total make-over. Lots of hard work. I am to take all plants out, dig the ground, add compost and organic manure. Finally, I am to plant a new border according the plan I made.
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Monday, 17 August 2015
Some Rain, Please
The scorched grass and Magnolia shedding the leaves.
People take many things for granted, like rain, for example. But, the things are quite different. Even when the weatherman says it is going to rain tomorrow, it doesn't mean it will. So, I have been watching the cloudy skies ever since Friday night, but not a single drop fell until this very moment. It has just started to fall. I have never thought I would be so happy. Yesterday was the natural disaster declared because of the drought for my county. There will be significant damages in agriculture. Yes, the irrigation systems help but, one has to let water in. But, where is the water when we haven't seen the proper rain for months? Oddly enough, only this part of Croatia suffers such a dry weather. In my opinion, whoever denies the climate changes has wrong.
I hope the rain will fall long enough to water the garden properly.
I water my vegetable garden every other day. It keeps rather well all things considering. I harvest tomatoes every day. I cannot eat them all so, I am going to collect some more and cook tomato salsa for winter. Those big boys above weight about 700 g (20 oz) each.
As you can see, slugs don't mind the hot and dry weather. They ate this Hosta almost overnight. They prefer this one with tender leaves, Hosta plantaginea. The other Hostas in my garden looks well.
The Hibiscus I got last year is flowering for the first time. The flowers are really big - 20 cm!
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Squashes, Tomatoes and Aronia
I picked up the very first 'Hokkaido' squashes yesterday. The squash soup with some sour cream was my supper accompanied with toasted bread.
This morning I harvested tomatoes. I have several kinds and love them mostly in salads. I prefer to eat fresh raw vegetables as much as I can.
I finally picked up Aronia berries before the bird have noticed them. Last year they literally ate all of them overnight. They are very sour to taste, make your mouth pucker. I decided to process them and made some jam. Aronia is meant to be very good to one's general health being rich in pigments with high antioxidative activity.
From www.ncb.nih,gov
Our investigations have demonstrated a remarkable hepatoprotective, a very good gastro-protective and a pronounced anti-inflammatory effect of Aronia melanocarpa fruit juice in rats as well as a bacteriostatic activity in vitro against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli and an antiviral activity against type A influenza virus. Research of other authors has demonstrated that Aronia melanocarpa anthocyanins can normalize the carbohydrate metabolism in diabetic patients and in streptozotocin-diabetic rats, have an in vitro antimutagenic activity and exhibit a distinct immunomodulatory activity in human lymphocyte cultures and in patients with breast cancer, suppress the growth of human HT-29 colon cancer cells, inhibit the N-nitrosamine formation in rats and decrease the toxicity and cumulation of cadmium in liver and kidneys. Currently, there are no data in the literature about any unwanted and toxic effects of Aronia melanocarpa fruits, juice and extracts.
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Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook (New edition)By: Brett H. Riggs (author)Paperback
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DescriptionEnriched by Cherokee voices, this guidebook offers a unique journey into the lands and culture of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Every year millions of tourists visit these mountains, drawn by the region's great natural beauty and diverse cultural traditions. Many popular aspects of Cherokee culture are readily apparent; beneath the surface, however, lies a deeper Cherokee heritage - rooted in sacred places, community ties, storytelling, folk arts, and centuries of history. Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook is your introduction to this vibrant world. The book is organized around seven geographical hubs or communities within the original Cherokee homeland. Each chapter covers sites, side trips, scenic drives, and events. Cherokee stories, history, poems, and philosophy enrich the text and reveal the imagination of Cherokees past and present. The Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina, is the main interpretive center for the Cherokee Heritage Trails. Among the many other featured sites are Kituhwa Mound, origin of the mother town of the Cherokees; Junaluska Memorial and Museum, with a preserved gravesite and medicine plant trail; and Unicoi Turnpike Trail, part of the Trail of Tears and one of sixteen national millennium trails in the United States. The Cherokee Heritage Trails are a project of the Blue Ridge Heritage Initiative and its partners, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association, the North Carolina Folklife Institute, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Blue Ridge Parkway Division of the National Park Service.
About AuthorBarbara R. Duncan is education director at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina. She collected and edited the original Living Stories of the Cherokee and co-authored The Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook (both from the University of North Carolina Press).
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Pigeon fanciers are hoping to make it into the Guinness World Records after this year's annual show in Blackpool.
The British Homing World Show of the Year saw thousands of visitors go through the doors of the Winter Gardens over the weekend to see some of the world's finest racing and show pigeons.
This year's show featured a unique history exhibition in the Empress Ballroom, charting pigeons' involvement in the war efforts, on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Show chairman David Trippitt said: "We've had the largest collection of Dicken's Medals, the equivalent of the animals Victoria Cross, they were awarded to 32 racing pigeons after the wars and we had 12.
"We hope to get in the Guinness Book of Records. It really has been a first class event."
General manager Stewart Wardrop said: "The show has been very, very good. Pigeon racing is viewed as quite a quaint and niche sport but it's got some great people with great stories."
Attendance to the three-day event was up on last year's, after snow prevented fanciers from making the journey.
Organisers estimate as many as 15,000 visitors made it to the events in the Winter Gardens and the gala ball in the Blackpool Tower Ballroom, with visitors travelling in from across the globe.
Jim Jenner, 64, has flown in from Montana, USA, every year since the early 90s.
He said: "Blackpool is really an important place to come to for pigeon fanciers.
"It's been a great weekend, Blackpool can be very proud."
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Creation of Garbage dump sites :-
So what if the government does not place dustbins in necessary locations.What if there is no proper man power to collect garbage from houses.Nothing stops us from taking our own initiatives.One such person from Chennai chooses a strategic position in the streets where he starts putting his garbage.Then another person follows suite.In a matter of two weeks ,the entire street throws its garbage in the same location.Hence we have got ourselves a garbage disposal place without the help of the government.So we continue this for years.The rains also play their part .The whole waste disposal place becomes a total unrepairable mess.The once garbage disposal place has now become a deterrent to all the people who cross the street,the people living near by ,and the shops near by. So one more person takes an initiative and forms a group and gets petitions signed from all the people in the streets asking the government to clean the place.Now,if everything goes good and if there is an election coming up ,this petition might please the government to look into what the issue is, let alone repairing it.
We Chennaites are no short of initiatives.But what if the initiatives are channelled in the right way.What if we dispose our wastes in a proper way.What if we take action and consult with our admins to maintain a proper waste disposal cycle instead of forming our own waste disposal site in the common area which will eventually make our own neighbourhood unlivable?
This post is a part the tablog - CBC Tablog II .CBC stands for Chennai Bloggers club,a group of bloggers connected by a common link-Chennai.The tag was passed to me by Sivaranjini - an ever enthusiastic blogger who blogs at Passionate Soul.I in turn pass it to Gokulane Ravi .


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Sunday, November 24, 2013
life after wedding.
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Yay, all the fun paperwork to change your name!! I found it wasn't as bad as everyone was telling me... the worst was having to pay full price for a new passport. Boo!!!
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Love the blonde!! Life after wedding looks pretty nice :) (minus the name change stuff. i hear that's awful!)
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Discussion in 'Radicons Customs' started by mattarmstrong, Jan 28, 2008.
Here he is, based on the late great TF Masters Energon Rodimus Prime
ALT Mode PICS Alone and with Trailer
Very nice. The only thing I would have tried to do is modify the crane to be a cannon instead, to give it more of a G1 trailer feel... actually I think the cannon from the original trailer might be big enough to just attach on there.
Just a thought.
Wow! That looks fantastic! I love what you've done!
Can we see pictures of the combined mode and the vehicle mode?
Another thought could be to use something like Armada Smokescreen's crane arm in place, so that it's got the cannon for its attack mode, but it can still be disguised as a crane for vehicle mode.
Very nice work; I'd just suggest that maybe it's lacking a little in the orange/gold department. It looks a bit too dull for my taste, although this may well have been your intention.
I decided to do away with the combined mode
This was one of my favorite Energon molds. Slick work, man.
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Traditional Indian wear with the latest trends dominated the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) in New Delhi. The Autumn/Winter 2014 edition showcased designers such as Tarun Tahiliani and Namrata Joshipira, with Rahul Mishra presenting a collection that won the Woolmark Prize in Milan in February.
Indian fashion for spring and summer 2014 we offer you Madam a painting filled with colors and embellished fashion embroidery in the form of roses and flowers Sttagayn out this spring, and as usual, this selection of Indian fashion adopted by Indian women for daily use, as well as on special occasions.


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Watch Brazil vs North Korea Live Streaming FIFA World Cup 2010 Online Broadcast tv coverage, June 15,2010
Watch Brazil vs North Korea Live Streaming FIFA World Cup 2010 Online Broadcast tv coverage, June 15,2010
Watch Brazil vs North Korea live stream online Tuesday June 15, 2010 – Information of the match between Brazil vs North Korea and schedule TV on Tuesday June 15, 2010 2:30pm EDT in the FIFA world cup 2010 Live . The Brazil vs North Korea meet in a matchup between two of the biggest surprises in the WOrld Cup. So guys, Which team will be the winner of this match? Brazil vs North Korea ? Check it out yourself ! WATCH IT LIVE HERE Okay guys don't miss to watch Brazil vs North Korea live stream on your PC. We hope The fans of both Brazil vs North Korea can enjoy with the live score, Brazil vs North Korea preview, recaps and highlights here.
Teams : Brazil vs North Korea
Competition : FIFA World Cup 2010
Date :Tuesday June 15, 2010
Time ( ) : 2:30pm EDT
Group – G
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The most successful side in World Cup history, Brazil are revered around the world for their free-flowing, attacking style of football that has allowed them to give the world the gift of players like Pele and Garrincha. But a new breed of Brazilian finds itself at this year's World Cup, under the tutelage of their defensive midfield general turned coach, Dunga.
Fitting, perhaps, that Brazil will find themselves up against North Korea in the first game, as the defensive mindset that that has taken over the Samba stars is employed to full effect in Asia as well. Of course, the gap between the two sides is huge. Conventional wisdom dictates that Brazil should walk away with a comfortable win, but they will have to break down some stubborn defending if they are to do so.
In Kaka, Robinho and Luis Fabiano, Brazil don't quite have the same attacking platform as the three Rs of Rivaldo, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho from the last time they lifted the trophy in 2002 – but they do possess a very similar midfield with Kleberson and Gilberto Silva employed in the holding roles. For Cafu and Roberto Carlos, read Maicon and Michel Bastos – full backs so impressive that Barcelona star Daniel Alves is left on the bench – but the criticism of their style under Dunga has not lifted despite the players on show. Make no mistake: they may have topped their qualifying group but, to the Brazilian public, they have a lot to prove.
Their opposition, North Korea, have already won the favour of their fans simply by qualifying for the tournament. With a pedigree that includes a shock run to the quarter-finals in 1966, beating Italy 1-0 in the process, the Koreans head into South Africa knowing that just a draw in the 'Group of Death' will make them global celebrities. The secret nature of the country, and indeed the team, have many guessing how they will set up, but a 5-4-1 formation looks likely with every man behind the ball.
Brazil player in focus: Kaka. After months on the sidelines troubled by injury for his club Real Madrid, Kaka holds the key for the creativity of this Brazil side. This squad is not overly blessed with the usual array of attacking talents, but Kaka stands alone as one of the best in the world on his day. He will be well rested after the season and should be raring to go.
North Korea player in focus: Jong Tae-Se. The only North Korean to make himself readily available to the media before the tournament, Jong, who was born in Japan, has talked of his ambition to score a goal a game at the tournament. 'The Asian Wayne Rooney', as he has been dubbed, is basically the only attacking outlet for his side and has proved himself a dangerous finisher in some of the pre-tournament friendlies.
Key battle: Robinho v Nam Song-Chul. Robinho has a lot to prove at this World Cup after being shipped off to Santos on loan. His pace and trickery will certainly provide a tough test for the Korean defence, especially with Nam Song-Chul filling in on the left-hand side of defence and attempting to get forward as much as he can. Most likely, Nam will avoid any attacking urges but Robinho's talent as he drifts around the final third could embarrass his opponent.
Trivia: Korea means 'Land of the Morning Calm' in Korean and the North Korean football team's nickname is Chollima, a mythical winged-horse popular in central Asian folklore. It is said to be "too swift to be mounted".
Stats: North Korea's biggest win came in 2005 when it stomped Guam 21-0. Don't expect the same attacking prowess against Brazil.
Odds: Brazil (1.10), the draw (9.00), North Korea (29.00) with Bet365. Jong Tae-Se to score anytime is 7.00
Prediction: No shock here, although the Koreans may win over a few doubters if they can avoiding haemorrhaging goals early. Brazil should put at least three past them.
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Local officials in western India have come under fire from child rights experts over a 700-year-old ritual that sees infants dropped from the roof of a mosque.
Resident in the region believe the fall – which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet – will ensure good health and prosperity for their families.
Each year hundreds of people, both Hindus and Muslims, take part in the ritual at the Baba Umer Durga, a Muslim shrine in Sholapur, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Mumbai.
This year though, India's National Commission for Protection of Child's Rights took umbrage with the tradition and issued a notice to the local administration and are investigating the ceremony.
Local reports say hundreds of infants, mostly under two years old, were dangled from the roof of the shrine, before being dropped about 50 feet (15 meters) onto a bedsheet held aloft by parents and other believers.
High child mortality rates, especially in India's rural areas, see many people resort to rituals which they believe will ensure their children's health.
Despite there being no reports of injuries, child rights activists expressed outrage claiming the event showed, "a complete failure of the local administration to prevent this practice and to create awareness about children's health".
This article was provided from The Indian News at http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/sholapur-officials-under-fire-for-baby-dropping-ritual_100227178.html
Bouncing babies in India-Horrific Ritual!!!!
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So far I've read five books this year. According to my Goodreads 'tracker' (see left side bar) I'm one book ahead. I don't feel like I'm one book ahead. I feel like I'm waaaaaaaaaaaay behind. I thought I would recap for some of my favorites so far for you.
What the Lady Wants, by Renee Rosen
I loved this book. I found out about it by doing a book swap. It was on the wish list of my partner. I did a review for it on the blog back in January (here), but I thought I'd remind you of how lovely the story was. It's set in Chicago after the Great Fire. A man and a woman fall in love, but it's not your typical love story. The man is Marshall Fields the big time department store mogul. The woman is Delia Spencer, twenty years younger than he. Marshall is married with children. Delia is high society fit for a good marriage. There were some places where it was slow, but the author was always good about picking it back up. I definitely recommend it if you're into historical fiction. I'm interested to read more of Rosen's books.
Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
I LOVED this book. I did a post for this book as well (here), but can't recommend it enough. The courage it took for Cheryl to go out there on her own with absolutely no experience, to me, is just amazing! I couldn't never do what she did. Power to the girl! WooHoo!
Maze Runner, by James Dashner
This is how Maze Runner made me feel. I didn't want to read it in the first place when the movie was being promoted. Well, book club picked it and I'm not one to turn down a book club book. I loved it. Of course I did! It wouldn't be right for me to not like a book that is one of four in a series. I already have book 2 at home to read by September when the movie comes out. It's a little like Lord of the Flies meets Hunger Games.
What have you been reading lately? Anything good, bad, amazing?!?!?!
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Introduction: Scope and coverage
This is the Export Shops Assurance Guidance. It provides guidance on good practicetechniques. These may be applied to identify non-compliance and to perform assuranceactivity on traders who operate Export Shops
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HMEXSH2000 is a general introduction. This section providesinformation on the general structure and nature of the Export Shop warehousing regime.
HMEXSH3000 contains guidance on assurance activities settingout objectives and describing areas where risks may be encountered. It is intended toassist in the formation of audit plans under systems based control and in accordance withdepartmental audit standards. This information is intended to assist officers in problemcases, targeting techniques, effective assurance practices and credibility checking.
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HMEXSH6000 contains an aide memoir to assist SIFT officers inselecting visiting assurance
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Ashley Sims
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What better way to get a feel for the service I offer than to read the testimonials from our customers.
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12:22 AM: Ollie says that he never had a girlfriend until he was 27.
12:24 AM: Dan misses his girlfriend from home. Keesha misses her dog.
12:58 AM: Angie, Brian, Memphis, and Steven made sock puppets of some of the HG using nail polish and other personal tools. They later acted out this week's live show using the puppets.
2:50 AM: Brian and Dan want to surprise Jerry with a tied vote.
2:58 AM: Brian and Dan are the last ones in bed for the night.
8:50 AM: Jerry is the first HG up. Jessie and Renny wake up shortly later.
9:43 AM: BB wakes the rest of the HG up.
11:21AM: Keesha cries because she is unable to "go"
11:55AM: Brian and Dan head upstairs to play a little chess and talk game. Brian is unable to concentrate on the game because he has a lot on his mind. He is afraid he won't have a job when gets home and also he wants to get back with his ex but his ex is seeing someone else. They want to force a tie and then promise Jerry a couple weeks.
11:58 AM: Brian cannot stand listening to Keesha and says that she sounds like "nails on a chalkboard."
12:45 PM: Michelle got mad at Jessie because he hasn't been doing his part in doing the dishes. Michelle then got mad at Steven for the same thing. Renny agreed. Libra tried to settle the argument. Michelle then apologized and agreed that she needs to think before she speaks. Steven says that he will need therapy after the game from all the drama.
1:25 PM: April is suspicious of Angie because she has been hanging around Dan a lot recently.
2:19 PM: BB gave the HG pizza.
3:52 PM: Brian says that if he gets evicted this week, he will be able to attend his sister's wedding in August.
4:40 PM: Michelle tells some of the HG about a Portuguese tale that if you eat watermelon and drink wine at the same time, you will die. She also believes that you will get bad luck if you put your shoes on the table.
Between 5:00PM and 10:00PM nothing happens. Houseguests play games and tell random stories.
10:30PM: April and Keesha have a fight in the backyard! Keesha hates April because every time she turns around April is talking shit about her. April runs inside and begins to cry. She says she is being embarrassed on national television! After a while April announces she is on her period and is very emotional.
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OMG....Michele is the most annoying girl. Nobody can have a conversation with her because she never shuts up and won't stop interupting them. I am appalled that Angie felt like she needed to explain why she "talked" to Brian and not her. The nerve of that girl. Such entitlement!
- July 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM
She reminds me of WAAAAMBER FROM BB8.. Everything about her annoying ass.
- July 16, 2008 at 7:54 PM
I argree...can't wait until Michelle is GONE!!!
- July 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM
I can't stand Michelle either, I agree she reminds me of Amber as well. I would love for Dan, Renny, Kesha,or Jerry to win the next HOH. I would love to see either Michelle, Libra, or Jessie Nominated and evicted.
- July 20, 2008 at 7:37 PM
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I really enjoyed this book. At first, there are far too many characters to get to know but it settles down into a tale of two families and how their lives are intertwined.
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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.
Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it?
Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.
This was my first novel by Zadie Smith and I found it very enjoyable and really easy to get into. I will be grabbing White Teeth as soon as possible.
This novel is illuminated throughout with glorious, deep, sparkling prose, but I didn't "like the tomato." Most of the characters were unlikable and the plot somewhat unbelievable. What was supposed to be a satire of academia just seemed ridiculous in places; it's a stretch of the imagination to believe that a professor could get an archivist's position created just to placate an unqualified undergraduate who might make trouble, and that the university would both approve such a thing and let an undergrad fill it without doing a search for, oh, I don't know, somebody with at least a master's in library and information science. For all of the focus on race and social justice in the book, I found it disappointing that a plus-size character, one of the only sympathetic ones in the story, was so often reduced to her size. The rambling details of the plot also took far too long to relate to each other. This is the kind of work you read if you want to study writing, but not necessarily if you want to enjoy it.
On Beauty" is that rare comic novel about the divisive cultural politics of the new century likely to amuse readers on the right as much as those on the left. (Not that they'll necessarily be laughing in the same places.) Yet Smith is up to more as well: she wants to rise above the fray even as she wallows in it, to hit a high note of idealism rather than sink into the general despair. How radical can you be? Blame it on her youth.
Beautifully observed details of clothing, weather, cityscapes and the bustling human background of drivers, shoppers and passers-by are constantly being folded into the central flow of thought, feeling and action, giving even the most mundane moments - Levi riding a bus into Boston, Howard setting up a projector - a dense, pulsing life.
On Beauty is quieter. There is a complicated story making up by richness of implication what it lacks in exuberance. The culture of the Boston campus is set among the other cultures such a city harbours. Carl, the outsider who enters the story because of the muddle at the concert, is far from being a replica of Leonard Bast. He's an exponent of rap culture – and it is a culture, unlike Bast's pathetic aspirations. The power of his rap has to be explained, and indeed the author intervenes personally to endorse it: 'the present-day American poets, the rappers'. The mufflered pink-cheeked charm of a New England campus in winter is very agreeably rendered. The row between Professor Belsey and Kiki when she finds out he's been cheating is as deft as anybody could make it, he with his stumbling, evasive academic dialect and she with her 'personal' language and naturally inflexible notions of fidelity and honour.
In a late scene Kiki is sorting out her children's accumulated belongings. As she is carrying two bags of her elder son's 'pre-growth-spurt clothes', we are told:
Last year, she had not thought she would still be in this house, in this marriage, come spring. But here she was, here she was. A tear in the garbage bag freed three pairs of pants and a sweater. Kiki crouched to pick these up and, as she did so, the second bag split too. She had packed them too heavy. The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
What makes this passage brilliant is that the sententia at the end, though it may be true, is somehow made ironical because it is Kiki, there among all the random evidence of her love, who is uttering it, and not some cheat, some intellectual, some person of recognised authority. She is the measure of Zadie Smith's powers at 30, Forster's age when he published Howards End.
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Howard Belsey is a middle-class white liberal Englishman teaching abroad at Wellington, a thinly disguised version of one of the Ivies. He is a Rembrandt scholar who can't finish his book and a recent adulterer whose marriage is now on the slippery slope to disaster. His wife, Kiki, a black Floridian, is a warm, generous, competent wife, mother, and medical worker. Their children are Jerome, disgusted by his father's behavior, Zora, Wellington sophomore firebrand feminist and Levi, eager to be taken for a "homey," complete with baggy pants, hoodies and the ever-present iPod. This family has no secrets--at least not for long. They talk about everything, appropriate to the occasion or not. And, there is plenty to talk about.
The other half of the story is that of the Kipps family: Monty, stiff, wealthy ultra-conservative vocal Christian and Rembrandt scholar, whose book has been published. His wife Carlene is always slightly out of focus, and that's the way she wants it. She wafts over all proceedings, never really connecting with anyone. That seems to be endemic in the Kipps household. Son Michael is a bit of a Monty clone and daughter Victoria is not at all what Daddy thinks she is. Indeed, Forster's advice, "Only connect," is lost on this group.
The two academics have long been rivals, detesting each other's politics and disagreeing about Rembrandt. They are thrown into further conflict when Jerome leaves Wellington to get away from the discovery of his father's affair, lands on the Kipps' doorstep, falls for Victoria and mistakes what he has going with her for love. Howard makes it worse by trying to fix it. Then, Kipps is granted a visiting professorship at Wellington and the whole family arrives in Massachusetts.
From this raw material, Smith has fashioned a superb book, her best to date. She has interwoven class, race, and gender and taken everyone prisoner. Her even-handed renditions of liberal and/or conservative mouthings are insightful, often hilarious, and damning to all. She has a great time exposing everyone's clay feet. This author is a young woman cynical beyond her years, and we are all richer for it. --Valerie Ryan
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Making cards for me is somewhat of a dilemma, especially when I make a card that I really like and then have to give it away. It is also a challenge to balance between the fine line of the card being too simple or overly embellished. So here is my version of the cards that I needed over the weekend and thus quickly whipped them up.
Yes I used my silhouette for all the titles of the the cards as they were all similar and using up the same letters The miser in me didn't want a pack of thickers to disintegrate and be "useless" due to the 'S' and 'E's being used up.The Crate Paper rose is a classic, I feel, and can be used for any card or delicate feminine project.
Next up , another birthday card, this time for a boy.
As the white words were not standing out from the background behind as much as I wished that they would, I layered the birthday word on a teal patterned paper and cut around it, while inking the other title with a teal chalk ink from prima.
Again I used banners as it's a birthday (: and I absolutely love the camera from echo park, that whole piece of paper, my only comment being that I wished that the cameras were bigger on the patterned paper.
Last, but not least, a graduation card.
My obsession with the wooden veneer stars lives on, and I think that they are really appropriate for a graduation card. I'm still loving woodgrain and this particular woodgrain from the Crate Paper Christmas line of 2011 has my heart. I used it to cut out one of my favourite butterfly shapes from the silhouette store.
That's all I have to share today and I'm liking the card making, so I might make more to store and share them too.
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You have made such beautiful cards! It might be hard to do, but my favorite part in the end, is giving them away!ReplyDelete
i am absolutely in love w/ the butterfly card - so pretty!ReplyDelete
These cards are gorgeous, I love all the different shaped layers. I want a silhouette!ReplyDelete
I make most of the cards I need too. It does seem wrong not to when I have so much stash. Plus I always hope recipients will get the hint, and buy me craft stuff for my next birthday! x
Cute cards!! Love the happy colours you've used.ReplyDelete
Great cards! The title/sentiment is nice and big - mine are always tucked away or small. Next time I will need to go bigger! LOL!ReplyDelete
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XKCD captures the story of my life (aka, if I had a nickel...)
3 Jan 2011
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I'm going to steal that idea for a website. :)
- 3 Jan 2011, 19:42:00
- Anonymous said...
My team did a natural gas marketing potential study in 1985 that resulted in the eventual merger of SDG&E and SoCalGas and the creation of Sempra Energy International to market natural gas to Baja and the construction of a new LNG terminal down there. I turned in a SDG&E suggestion award at the time but never heard a peep back from SDG&E brass. I also co-founded Sempra Energy Solutions back in 1997, which company Sempra just sold for $137 million. Strangely enough, they haven't contacted me offering me a cut of their profits.
Funny how that sort of thing doesn't work.
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By Monica Heger
Microarray company Oxford Gene Technologies is moving into the next-gen sequencing space, offering targeted capture and sequencing services on Illumina's HiSeq, Life Technologies' SOLiD, and Roche's 454 GS FLX.
OGT does not currently own any sequencing machines, but is looking to purchase one by the end of the year. For the time being, it is contracting out its sequencing to academic and commercial partners while doing the capture and bioinformatics in house.


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The complete kind of IELTS is "International English Language Screening System"
IELTS exam is developed in such a way that it relatively evaluates an individual's proficiency in English language based upon 4 factors: Listening, Reading, Composing and Speaking. These sections are typically called modules. IELTS test is conducted in more than 600 test centers around the world.
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How to prepare for IELTS test?
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Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument - Aggregation of Colloidal Solutions (SODI-Colloid) - 05.17.18
Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument - Aggregation of Colloidal Suspensions (SODI-Colloid) will study the aggregation, or mass, phenomena of colloids in the microgravity environment onboard the International Space Station. Science Results for Everyone
In this microgravity-based investigation of colloids (mixtures of evenly distributed particles), researchers were able to change the strength of particle interactions by using a binary mixture solvent and increasing the temperature. Fractal structures formed through diffusion-limited aggregation even at the lowest strength of attraction, while complexity of patterns decreased with increasing attraction. Ground experiments produced only one type of aggregate with a constant pattern, formed by a reaction-limited process. These results demonstrate that it is possible to fine-tune colloid interaction forces by changing the temperature and to investigate aggregation mechanisms and the resulting structure of colloidal solids.
Information provided courtesy of the Erasmus Experiment Archive.
Principal Investigator(s)
Gerard Wegdam, Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, Institute of Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theyencheri Narayanan, Ph.D., European Synchroton Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
Marco A. C. Potenza, Ph.D., University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Peter Schall, Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, Institute of Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Verhaert Design and Development, Antwerp, Belgium
Sponsoring Space Agency
European Space Agency (ESA)
Sponsoring Organization
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Research Benefits
Information Pending
ISS Expedition Duration
March 2010 - March 2011
Expeditions Assigned
Previous Missions
21/22 is the first Expedition for the SODI-Colloid investigation.
Experiment Description
Research Overview
- One of the most promising applications of colloidal engineering is the fabrication of photonic devices. These devices must possess structures whose scale length is comparable to the wavelength of light, and that are ordered in three dimensions.
- Unfortunately gravity plays a disturbing role. Sedimentation causes the tips of growing crystals to break, limiting crystal size and greatly modifying their morphology. This deleterious effect is exacerbated when producing binary colloidal crystals using particles of mixed materials, the ones having most promise for applications.
- Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument - Advanced Photonic Devices in Microgravity (SODI-Colloid) seeks to study the properties of a peculiar, solvent mediated aggregation of colloidal particles.
The focus of Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument - Aggregation of Colloidal Solutions (SODI-Colloid) is on materials that have a special interest in photonics, with emphasis on nano-structured, periodic dielectric materials, known as photonic crystals, which possess appealing properties and make them promising candidates for new types of optical components. Since the key property of photonic crystals lies in the periodic variation of refractive index in two or three dimensions on a length scale that is equivalent to that of visible wavelength, the building block are (often mixtures of) colloidal particles of micrometric dimension. SODI-Colloid will study aggregation phenomena of colloidal systems, trying to tackle the puzzling and still not fully understood mechanisms of this phenomenon, with the benefit of a reduced gravity environment. Within such framework, the experiment here proposed is focused on a peculiar type of aggregation that received quite recently a notable interest in the scientific community. The system is composed of spherical colloidal particles suspended in a solution of two coexisting phases in near critical conditions. The interest of such a configuration lies in the fact that, in the homogeneous phase, the adsorption of one of the two species depends on temperature that is on the distance from the critical point. The exact nature of the interaction is still debated. According to the classical picture, the preferential adsorption of one component on the colloidal particles modifies the interparticle interaction, by weakening the repulsive contribution of surface charges. The resulting stability is strongly perturbed, turning from repulsive to attractive as soon as the distance from the two phase region is approached. The advantage of this system lies in the fact that the interparticle interaction is tuneable by controlling a macroscopic parameter such as the temperature. The specific goal of the SODI-Colloid experiment is to observe nucleation and the early stages of aggregation, where the first nuclei with supercritical size are formed, studying the growth rate and size distribution over time.
Space Applications
The colloidal engineering process will contribute to the creation of new materials and products in space.
Earth Applications
SODI-Colloid will improve such colloids as paints, food products, drug delivery systems and ceramics by providing a better understanding of colloidal behavior.
Operational Requirements and Protocols
Downlink of data is required to quickly assess the integrity of the liquid sample and to characterize the presence of aggregates in the sample volume. The structure of the aggregates will be measured by Near Field Scattering
Crewmembers will install the SODI ancillary equipment and the Colloid experiment container (equipped with 1 array consisting of 5 cells). After installation, the next steps consist of the optical processing of the experimental cells followed by probing the phase diagram near the critical point and observing the aggregation mechanisms of colloidal particles by way of the Near-Field Scattering optical technique. After processing the Colloid cells, the SODI instrument should be stowed.
Decadal Survey Recommendations
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Results Publications
Ground Based Results Publications
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Maureen Dowd: The Washington Post does not deserve all the credit for the Pentagon Papers.
Tom Hanks: True. Confirm. And when you see our movie, The New York Times gets all of its due.
There is nothing better in this world than being Tom Hanks.
Ah, no. Deny. There's better things.
David S. Pumpkins is your greatest work.
Confirm! Any questions?
Typewriters are making a comeback.
I'm going to confirm that. And I'll tell you why: because you will not lose your data and no one can hack your typewriter.
Seeing typewriters as chic hotel décor is annoying.
That actually pisses me off.
Every time "You've Got Mail" is on cable TV, you stop to watch it.
No. Deny.
Dave Chappelle's best work was in "You've Got Mail."
I'm going to have to deny that because I've seen his work since. But that was Nora to a T. She was always ahead of the curve. You know who was a reference in "Sleepless in Seattle"? Seinfeld's Soup Nazi! There's a scene with Meg and Rosie, where Meg says about him, "he's the meanest guy in the world, but he makes the best soup you've ever eaten."
You want to run for president.
Deny. Because I wouldn't want to answer the phone calls. I'm not trying to be flip. What would I have to offer other than I can make a speech every now and again? I mean, Clooney's a guy to run. Talk to him. Oprah!
You get upset when Oprah is on David Geffen's yacht and you are not.
That's a deny. I control nobody's guest list.
The scariest thing about President Trump is that he doesn't read books.
Ah, deny, because there's plenty of other scary things there. I think that he has no sense of history. He has no curiosity about history. So that's the scariest thing.
You love little Polish cars called Maluchs.
Oh, the Fiats! Yeah, well, I love any goofy Communist car. The Communists just fascinate me.
You managed to get an apology and a retraction out of the National Enquirer.
You once wrote that Gary Cooper's career could be summed up in one word: "Yup." Your career can be summed up in one word, too.
Ah, Wilson. That's what people yell at me.
You like posting on Instagram when you find a single glove or shoe.
That's an absolute confirm! I think they are little visual haikus that have great potential stories.
You are part of the Illuminati.
Deny. Don't believe it exists.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I will confirm that.


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The Daily Goodbye
Simple rewards -- a hug, a word of praise -- have power beyond reckoning. That's the insight Sidney W. Bijou applied to treating troubled children. His insight and techniques helped establish modern behavioral therapy for childhood disorders like autism and attention deficit disorder. He died on June 11 at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 100.
Bankruptcy cases are difficult, but Judge Harold C. Abramson, who died at 80 Saturday in Atlanta of complications of kidney and heart disease, kept things simple. "In my court we take cash, gold and sweet Texas crude," he told plaintiffs who wanted to pay off debts with complex financial instruments.
Teachers know you can change the world, and others, with enthusiasm. That lesson was never absent from the life of Cary Girod, a 31-year-old teacher and outdoorswoman who was killed while bicycling along the Pacific Coast July 8. Her life was on the other coast, in Boston, and she took her attitude from a bit of graffiti she saw that said "Smile, life is rad."
The man convicted of the 1976 murder of an Arizona reporter, a crime that triggered the careers of many investigative reporters, died in prison this week. Max Dunlap, 81, was serving a life sentence for dynamiting the car of Don Bolles, an Arizona Republic reporter who was investigating organized crime in the state. A group of reporters from around the country descended on Arizona to continue Bolles' work in the year after his death. Those reporters, members of Investigative Reporters and Editors, have gone on to uncover countless misdeeds and miscreants all over the world.
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