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Radishes (Large)
Fennel Bulb
tablespoons Fresh Dill
teaspoons Sesame Seed (Black)
tablespoons Feta Cheese (Optional)
Valencia Orange
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cup Apple Cider Vinegar
cup Olive Oil
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- Using a mandolin, shred the fennel and radishes as if you were making a slaw. If you don't have one just julienne the radish an cut the fennel into fine strips and place in a bowl. Discard the stems and frond of the fennel or reserve for another recipe.
- Coarsely chop the dill and add to the radish and fennel mixture.
- Add the sesame seeds and toss into the mixture.
- In a small jar squeeze the juice from 1/2 of an orange. If the oranges are in season they will be sweet enough such that the honey is not necessary.
- To the OJ add the vinegar, olive oil, honey (if using) and salt and pepper. Place a lid on the jar and shake to blend.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss lightly until the dressing has been evenly distributed.
- If you like you can top this salad with some crumbled feta. I find a sharp feta works better than a creamy or salty cheese.
- Serve immediately and enjoy.
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I am looking for information about planting floating emergent plants (e.g., water shield, yellow pond lily) in natural ponds. If planting young plant material in the soil, what is the recommended water depth? Is it okay to submerge the entire shoot? If yes, what is a safe depth from top of shoot to water surface?
There are several different types of plants that are grown in ponds. A great resource on planting floating plants is The Water Gardener's Bible: A step-by-step guide to building, planting, stocking, and maintaining a backyard water garden by Ben Helm and Kelly Billing (Rodale Inc., 2008). In the book they explain that floating plants will either float on the pond surface or be slightly submerged. The most popular floating plants are Frog's bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae), Water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), Water chestnut (Trapa natans), and Water soldier (Pistia stratiotes). They also explain submerged plants that will inhabit a pond at all levels, from those whose roots sit on the bottom to those that emerge from the pond, getting only their feet wet. For planting a water lily, place on a stack of bricks in the position where the lily will be sited, so that the top of the planted basket is no more than 1 inch (3 cm) below the surface. As the leaves start to extend, remove the bricks until the basket is on the pond bottom.
Another great book is Plants for Water Gardens: The Complete Guide to Aquatic Plants by Helen Nash and Steve Stroupe (Sterling, 1998). The book contains a huge list of a variety of lily plants and specifications for planting and survival.
Texas A & M Extension has a website on water gardening with useful information on planting aquatic plants. You may want to check your local list of invasive species before planting.
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Emmy has been sent the cutest pair of ankle boots this month.
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On Memorial Day, Monday May 27, some of the Daytime soap operas will not be seen.
ABC's "General Hospital" will air a repeat of its April 2, 2013 50th Anniversary episode.
CBS' "The Bold And The Beautiful" and "The Young And The Restless" will air new episodes.
NBC's "Days Our Lives" will not be seen, due to The French Open.
So far Hulu will air a new "All My Children" online episode as planned.
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Perfectly fine with me. I'm still 13 episodes behind on both All My Children and One Life to Live so I'm gonna try to do some binge-watching and get at least halfway caught up today.
Was considering a Young and the Restless marathon today but probably won't, that show is so bad. There are days when I actually watch the local 11 a.m. news as opposed to that soap because Y&R is such a waste of one's brain cells.
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Slovakia has become the only European Union country to reject a crucial bailout fund for debt-strapped countries. Slovakian lawmakers are expected vote again on the measure even as the fallout of Europe's high debt continues to spread, with tens of thousands of people protesting austerity measures in France.
After 10 hours of debate, Slovakian lawmakers failed to approve a measure to expand the E.U. bailout fund. The fund aims to help shaky economies like Greece and help stop a growing sovereign debt and banking crisis that threatens to spread well beyond Europe's borders.
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My 16 year old daughter, who has had type 1 diabetes since she was three years old and has been on the insulin pump for almost four years, is in good control. She is a very pretty girl, and looks to be a lot older than just 16. Because of this, she gets a lot of boys coming on to her. She enjoys the attention she gets but is not interested in dating. All of her friends are boy crazy, and my daughter had rather be outside with her pets. She had a male best friend who she hung out with for almost a year. He finally gave up on her and started dating someone else when she refused a good night kiss. She thinks kissing is just gross.
My daughter is a very good student and does not show any psychologic problems at all. Does her diabetes have anything to do with her attitude and slow approach toward the opposite sex? Don't get me wrong, I don't want my daughter to be sexually active, but I wonder what is going on with her. She has a 18 year old body, with a 10 year old mind when it comes to boys. Is this normal?
You have not said much in your question about how your daughter feels about having type 1 diabetes and wearing an insulin pump. Despite her good control, she may be wary of allowing closeness and explaining her pump to possible boyfriends. She may think it is a "turn off" or that she could be rejected.
Perhaps she is developing at her own pace and in her own way in terms of intimate relationships, and it may have nothing at all to do with diabetes. Is it worrying her? Is her lack of a guy friend more worrisome to you? It would be a mistake to think that diabetes is at the root of all variances in behavior. Why not invite your daughter out to lunch and tell her you are happy to have her company before some fella steals her away and monopolizes all of her time!
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In the Thomas gospel that was dug up in Egypt some forty years ago, Jesus says, "He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am, and I shall be he." Now, that is exactly Buddhism. The word "Buddha" means "the one who waked up." We are all to do that ‑ to wake up to the Christ or Buddha consciousness within us.
Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Adventure
Survival of the fittest: a pitiless struggle for domination between individual and individual, between group and group. Who is going to devour whom? . . . Such is the fundamental law of fuller being. In consequence, overriding every other principle of action and morality, we have the law of force, transposed uncharted into the human sphere. External force: war, therefore, does not represent a residual accident which will become less important as time goes on, but is the first agent of evolution and the very form in which it is expressed. And, to match this, internal force: citizens welded together in the iron grip of a totalitarian regime.
It is against this barbaric ideal that we have spontaneously rebelled: and it is to escape slavery that we too have had to have recourse to force. It is to destroy the 'divine right' of war that we are fighting.
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War, organized war, is not a human instinct. It is a highly planned and cooperative form of theft. And that form of theft began ten thousand years ago when the harvesters of wheat accumulated a surplus, and the nomads rose out of the desert to rob them of what they themselves could not provide. The evidence for that we saw in the walled city of Jericho and its prehistoric tower. That is the beginning of war.
J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
Genghis Khan and his Mongol dynasty brought that thieving way of life into our own millennium. . . Yet that attempt failed. And it failed because in the end there was nothing for the Mongols to do except themselves to adopt the way of life of the people that they had conquered. . . . The fact is that agriculture and the settled way of life were established steps now in the ascent of man, and had set a new level for a form of human harmony which was to bear fruit into the far future: the organization of the city.
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People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable, provided that it is a victorious war and there is not too much interference with rape and plunder. This is a great help in persuading people that wars are righteous. . . . If we could feel genuinely that we are the equals of our neighbors, neither their betters nor their inferiors, perhaps life would become less of a battle, and we should need less in the way of intoxicating myth to give us Dutch courage.
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After instinct and intellectual ferment have done their work there is a decision which determines the mode of coalescence of instinct with intelligence. I will term this factor Wisdom.
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Wisdom is persistent pursuit of the deeper understanding, ever confronting intellectual system with the importance of its omissions.
Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas
These three elements, Instinct, Intelligence, Wisdom, cannot be torn apart.
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The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.
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Campbell believed in a "point of wisdom beyond the conflict of illusion and truth by which lives can be put back together again."
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"Tests and Experiments Not Admissible Unless Substantial Similarity is Shown," The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (November 2007).
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Cordless phones nowadays are available in a number of different types, analogue, digital, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz, DECT, etc., so familiarity with, at least, some of the technology, and the technological terms bandied about, can be extremely helpful when it comes to choosing the cordless phone that is right for you. Whilst we often start by looking for cheap cordless phones it is usually the right features that drive the actual sale.
Cordless Phone Features, Benefits & Considerations
The base station and handsets of a cordless phone system are effectively small radio transmitters and receivers – a.k.a. transceivers – which communicate via RF, Radio Frequency, signals. The actual frequency at which a cordless phone operates affects the amount of interference to which transmissions are susceptible – and, therefore, the overall quality of the sound – and its range, or the distance from a base station at which can be used satisfactorily.
Early cordless phones, for example, operated in the relatively low frequency 27MHz, and 46-49MHz, bands, but the pursuit of higher quality ultimately led to 900MHz cordless phones and, more recently, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz and DECT 6.0 cordless phones. Please note that the "6.0" in "DECT 6.0" is simply a version, or revision, number; it has nothing to do with frequency. DECT 6.0 actually utilises frequencies in the 1.9GHz band of the radio spectrum, so DECT 6.0GHz – a common mistake, perpetuated across the Internet – is erroneous.
2.4GHz cordless phones support multiple handsets from a single base station, caller ID, speaker phone and other features, but, because they operate in the same frequency band as microwave ovens, baby monitors – like the BT 150 and BT 200 – and WiFi wireless networking equipment, are still subject to a fair amount of interference. The 5.8GHz frequency band, on the other hand, is less congested, leading to a plentiful supply of fully featured, yet affordable, cordless phones operating in this frequency range. So if you are using a baby monitor, we'd recommend you buy a 5.8GHz cordless phone or a DECT phone.
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In Figure 4 there is shown a preferred embodiment of the invention, in which the induction manifold 41 is a common manifold and is connected, as in the preceding embodiment, to both the compressors of the two turbo-compressor units, whilst the induction duct 42 is a common duct for the first part of its length where the injectors 43 and butterfly valves 44 are positioned, and then splits into two ducts 45 and 46 connected to the induction valves 47 and 48.
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"These are so good! The sauce that accompanies them is a must (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce (Nuoc Cham)). Sugar cane is usually in the produce section of my grocery store and it is also sold in the Asian section in cans. Wonderful served on a bed of rice and drenched in the Dipping Sauce! Recipe adapted from grill master, Steven Raichlen."
Vietnamese Grilled Jumbo Shrimp on Sugarcane Sticks
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 3 shallots, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup asian fish sauce
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
- 3 stalks fresh lemongrass, tender inner white bulbs only, thinly sliced crosswise
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil, plus more for brushing
- 24 large shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 12 sugar cane swizzle sticks
- 5 tablespoons chopped peanuts
- 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped cilantro
- Using a food processor, puree garlic, sugar, shallots, fish sauce, lime juice and pepper. Add lemongrass and the 1/4 cup of oil; process to a puree. Place shrimp in a large shallow container with lid and pour marinade over shrimp to cover. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 1/2 hours.
- Light a grill.
- Cut each sugarcane stick in half on a sharp diagonal so each piece has a sharp point. Scrape off marinade. Make a slit near the shrimp's tail and one near the head with a sharp knife. Thread a sugarcane stick through the slits; the shrimp should lie flat.
- Grill the shrimp over a hot fire, brushing them once or twice with oil, until lightly charred and just cooked through, about 3 minutes per side.
- Place shrimp on a serving platter and sprinkle with peanuts and cilantro.
- Serve the shrimp with the Vietnamese Dipping Sauce.
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Some of the best restaurants in St. Tropez lurk in the lavish hotels. Le Byblos may be the most famous, but l'Olivier in Bastide de St. Tropez is marvelous as well. La Scala, part of l'Hôtel le Baron, has some truly delicious fish and meat dishes to be enjoyed in the intimate indoor dining room or outdoors on the porch.
There are other less-expensive, less-exclusive but still tasty options in town, especially if you wander along some of the narrow cobbled streets in the old section. Emiliano Restaurant offers some well-presented Asian fusion dishes, served on a patio, covered terrace or indoors.
Chez Fuchs is a cozy Parisian-style bistro with some delicious French fare. Through the open kitchen you can see the all-women chef contingent preparing wonderful mainly-seafood dishes.
By the way, don't short change lunch. Try La Table du Marché, where the menu changes everyday. You can dine in or buy baked goods at the patisserie and take them with you back to your villa.
Another fabulous lunch spot ~ in a setting even more appealing ~ is Bistro des Lices on the square of the same name. Eat outside and watch locals play boules or shop at the market (Tuesdays and Saturdays), or enjoy a relaxed meal indoors in what amounts to a sumptuous dining room. Light lunches, such as tuna carpaccio or goat cheese terrine with vegetables and fresh basil, are quite wonderful here.
Historic Café de Paris benefits from a prime outdoor location along the quay. People-watching here remains fabulous after all these years, and as such the restaurant relies on its reputation and location—but don't dine here expecting speedy service or memorable food.
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of the five most trafficked conservative blogs (over 200,000 page views per week), only one […] even allows comments…
Community moderated blogging platforms […] have provided us with an excellent means of finding new voices, and these are the voices that are generating the accelerated growth in the liberal and progressive blogosphere when compared to the right-wing blogosphere.
Chris Bowers may have a point. He's certainly got the numbers and I suggest taking a look at the links above to get the full weight of the story.
Though I've had my own frustrations with comments here, I keep them open because I believe that honest debate is the center of democracy. I keep them open despite my concerns about the tone of comments in stories like this, and despite the comments from conservative snipers in a number of my political stories. Republicans are working hard to stifle debate in our traditional news media and our universities, it's no surprise they're doing the same for new media too.
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry Heather Patrick
Live and let learn
By Alec T. Young 03Ox 05C
Off Highway 278 East near Oxford College, a Kroger grocery store anchors a strip mall filled with small specialty shops and restaurants. The parking lot drops off to a gully through which runs a modest stream. The water cuts through overgrown grass and flows out of sight into the woods; a rusty shopping cart is half submerged among floating cans and bobbing trash.
The ten-year-old girl at my side scrunches her face in disgust.
"We drink that?" she asks.
I look at her and try not to lose my footing on the muddy hill.
"We do," I reply.
She bends down, reaches her little fist out over the water and dangles a thermometer just barely over the surface.
"Like this?" she says and pauses.
"Yep, place it halfway in."
She does and counts out thirty seconds just as I instructed her. The two boys in my group start to fight over the yellow pencil to write the temperature on the clipboard.
Along this section of the stream, twelve students from Assistant Professor of Chemistry Heather Patrick's Chemistry 100 lab have joined two van loads of kids from the local Boys and Girls Club. In teams of two, the Oxford students lead the elementary school children through the process of testing the water quality of the stream.
When Patrick assigned the teams, she placed my lab partner and me in charge of two African-American boys tugging at their T-shirts and a young girl with braids who assured me she was more mature then her two fellow classmates. Standing in front of my group, sun glaring in my eyes, I attempt explain exactly what it is we are doing.
"Okay," I tell the kids. "We are here to run tests on the water and report our findings to the mayor of the city."
The boy with a red-and-black basketball outfit shakes his head.
"The city is going to look at experiments we do?" he asks. "We're kids."
"Someone has to do it," I reply.
Explaining to fifth graders how chemistry is involved with ensuring water quality is Patrick's way of helping me understand why I was required to pass what I felt was a completely irrelevant class (I had already planned to be a creative writing major at Emory). Faced with the challenge of teaching the importance of the water quality to a fifth grader, Patrick says, "you're suddenly learning on a much deeper level."
Patrick believes chemistry traditionally has been considered an "emotionless field" where the professor's job has been to merely put forth the facts, which students are expected to cram into their brains.
While attempting to teach Chemistry 100, a course requirement for non-science majors, she knew the majority of the students were taking the course only to fulfill the requirement. The atmosphere for learning was dreary.
"It's incredibly hard to reach students who think what they are doing is a waste of time," says Patrick.
She explains that many times students develop a phobia about the subject and are convinced they cannot understand the material.
"Students shut down before the teaching even begins," she says.
To engage her students, she set out to illustrate chemistry's place in the real world. For a lab experiment involving the testing of water quality, Patrick pulled her students out of the laboratory and took them to a water source that just happened to feed directly into Oxford's drinking water. Patrick took surveys of the students' feelings towards chemistry before and after their experiences with this teaching method, known as Theory Practice Service Learning or TPSL.
"The results were astounding," she says. The surveys revealed dramatic changes in attitudes toward the study of chemistry as well as improved self-confidence. She has now taken her research to conferences all over the country, and the scholarship of teaching continues to be a large part of the research she does at Oxford.
TPSL is not new to colleges and universities, but Oxford is trying to make the methodology a fixed part of undergraduate education. Professor of Psychology Patricia Owen-Smith introduced TPSL to Oxford in 1996 after reading an article in a research journal. TPSL is now a part of courses in the fields of English, psychology, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, chemistry, math, and music, with roughly 80 percent of Oxford students participating.
"These practices help students see the material come alive," Owen-Smith says. "If all we are doing is giving students facts that they can't apply to the world, I'm not sure we're educating them."
Tucked away in rural Newton County, thirty-eight miles southeast of Emory's Atlanta campus, Oxford College houses a student body that hovers around six hundred students. The college focuses on what Dean Dana Greene 71G considers "the first two crucial years of undergraduate education" and offers a personal and close-knit community as an alternative to Emory's much larger undergraduate program.
Oxford's signature mission is to serve Emory as a "laboratory of teaching and learning." The school encourages professors to make their teaching the subject of scholarship, as well as to conduct research in their respective disciplines.
For the past five years Oxford has been one of twelve cluster leaders for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a national and international center whose sole purpose is "to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education." As a cluster leader, Oxford joins a pool of much larger institutions, among them Georgetown University, Indiana University, and the University of Notre Dame.
"We are one twentieth the size of the next smallest university," says Dean of Academic Affairs Kenneth Linville. "Our [area of expertise] is the relationship of the cognitive and affective, but it's really the relationship between the heart and the head.
"The instructor is haunted by the gap of what is being taught and what the student is learning," says Linville, who also is a professor of philosophy. "And what the scholarship of teaching and learning does is to help us identify that gap and then figure out ways to narrow it and ideally close it."
Oxford College revolves around the Quad, which unites the campus. As the bell chimes in the Seney Hall clock tower, students flood off the Quad and into classrooms in the surrounding buildings. Dean for Campus Life and Community Affairs Joseph Moon is frequently spotted hiking from building to building, stopping occasionally to sit under a tree and converse with a student. The small size of the school allows Moon to know most of the students. "I at least recognize all their faces," he says.
Moon spends the rest of his time in his office on the second floor of the Card Student Center. Throughout his years with the school he has come to believe that Oxford breeds a relationship that encourages excellence.
"The environment here lends an appreciation for learning and also for the teacher, so when they go to the Atlanta campus they are not intimidated by their professors--I hope--and they'll go and talk to them during office hours."
Oxford's intimacy, he believes, fosters this sort of confidence.
"Learning occurs in the classroom and out," he says. "This is a community of living and learning. It's important for students to see their professors as more than just faculty, but also people with families and different political views."
Oxford's status as a two-year school allows student life to be more accessible and generates a rapidly changing environment. Students have the opportunity--and responsibility--to tackle leadership roles very early in their academic career.
"At a four-year school, new students make up little more than a fourth of the student body, and they are learning the traditions of one that has preceded them," Moon says. "At Oxford new students are the majority. They still look up to the sophomores, but they aren't bound by that model."
Students at Oxford have a strong hands-on sense of ownership towards the school, and from the moment they hit the ground they are taking up leadership roles. Moon notes that "the sophomores lead everything from student government, social clubs, to serving as RAs, and the freshmen join everything."
Between 85 and 90 percent of Oxford's graduating class continue to one of the undergraduate programs at Emory. Out of those, only one percent leave Emory for academic reasons. Dean Greene believes that is "proof positive of what we are doing here." While many students choose to go to Oxford because of the smaller class size and easier access to leadership opportunities, some are accepted who were denied access to Emory University or were wait-listed and have SAT scores lower than Emory's average range.
"But when you leave this program," Greene says, "you are prepared to compete with students at Emory. . . . We know that a whole slew of our student go on to become Phi Beta Kappa, Kenneth Cole and Bobby Jones scholars."
Greene is impassioned when she speaks of the achievements and success of Oxford students and wants to pinpoint what exactly it is about Oxford that breeds a disproportionate number of leaders and exceptional scholars for the school's size.
Three leads in Emory's 2004 fall production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum were filled by Oxford continuees. The 2004 Student Government Association (SGA) president, Jimin Kim, got her start in student government as a freshman senator at Oxford. Shortly before her, Euler Bropleh 04C served as SGA president.
Reflecting on the student body at Oxford, Moon says he is constantly "on his toes. You can't relax and say that's the way we've always done things. That's just not the way it works at Oxford."
The biggest change that Moon has witnessed over his fifteen years at Oxford is the increased ethnic and religious diversity of the student body.
"Today we are Emory's most diverse school, which has added a lot of richness to this program," Moon says.
But even with Oxford's changing student culture, Moon stresses that he could speak to a student from ten years ago and they would "talk about the quality of the experience, personal interactive classes and availability of professors after hours. The student today would still recognize that."
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