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An option is a choice an investor has while dealing with stock market. The price of an option is intrinsically linked to the price of something else because of which it is considered as a type of derivative security. These are kind of contracts that offer the right but no obligation to sell or buy an asset, equity or index on or before a particular date at a set price. People buying options are known as holders and those who sell options are known as writers.
The privilege to buy is known as call option and to sell is known as put option. Options are different from futures or forwards since the latter confer both the right and obligation of buying and selling in the future. Platforms like Infinity App can be used to access options.
Call And Put Option
A call option can be considered as a deposit for the future. For instance, a land developer who wants the right to buy a land can purchase a call option from the owner of the land with a fixed price at any point in the next 2 years by paying a down payment to lock in the right. This cost is called the premium. Now, within the given duration the developer buys the land at the same price even if it has doubled. But if the developer does not buy the land within the given time slot then the option will expire and he will have to buy the land in the market price. Such call options can give you a long position in the market.
But a put option can be considered as an insurance policy. Say for example, if a land developer holds a large portfolio but concerned that a recession can take place in next 3 years. So, he will try to ensure that even if a recession hits the market, his portfolio should not bear a loss for more than 10-15 percent of its value. Such put options can give you a short position in the market.
So, basically while buying an option, you earn a right to do something with it but this can become useless if it crosses the expiration date. In such cases, you end up losing 100 percent of the money you invested for paying the option premium. It is just a contract dealing with an asset such as stock or stock index. These options are usually traded very actively on all types of financial securities like foreign currencies, commodities, bonds and other derivatives.


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Past Concerts
Sunday, October 23, 2-3 PM
FREE and open to the public
Pinnacle Performing Arts Complex, N. Denver
Select members of the Boulder Phil and GBYO Symphony young musicians are teaming up to present a side-by-side performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Arturo Márquez' Conga Del Fuego Nuevo with Andres Lopera, conductor.
Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras is the premier youth orchestra experience of Boulder and beyond, learn more at www.greaterboulderyo.org.

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Over the last few days, I've watched my bananas go from a bright yellow, worthy of wearing the leader's jersey in the Tour de France, to a soft brown, like a tattered and mud-splashed elementary school bus.
Banana bread and banana muffins are always easy options for an overripe bunch. But banana bread is – let's be honest – closer to cake than either bread or a trip to the bottom of the food pyramid. For that reason, I took my overripe bananas and turned them into real banana bread – not the quick kind. Indeed, if you know me, you know that I often enjoy taking the long and meandering route, passing through several culinary steps and preparation detours over what might have otherwise been a one-step, ten-minute trip, down the intercity highway (see curried couscous).
While this banana bread requires kneading and resting, rather than mixing and pouring, it is real bread with real taste. It's delicious and, dare I say it, even good for you.
*While the bananas do not overwhelm, the bread will have a distinct banana flavor to it. With the exception of a PBJ, this bread will probably not make a great sandwich bread. On the other hand, it will make a great side or snack. Simply slice, toast, and spread with butter, jam, or
especially even Nutella.
whole wheat banana yeast bread
PREP TIME: 40 minutes
DOWN TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes
COOK TIME: 35 minutes
YIELD: Makes 2 loaves (You can easily freeze the extra loaf)
1 1/2 cups low-fat milk
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats, plus more for topping
1/2 cup warm water (105-115° F)
2 tablespoons active dry yeast (about three packages)
1/2 cup mild honey
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus more for greasing
3 cups whole-wheat flour
2 to 3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
1 cup mashed, ripe bananas (about 2 1/2 bananas)
1 tablespoons Kosher salt
Vegetable oil
1 large egg, lightly beaten with 1 tablespoon water
1. Heat milk in a small saucepan over low heat until hot but not boiling. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the oats. Let stand, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until cooled to warm.
2. In a small bowl, stir together the water, yeast, and 1 teaspoon of honey. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. (If the mixture doesn't foam, you'll have to discard it and start over with new yeast.) Stir the yeast mixture, melted butter, and remaining honey into the cooled oatmeal.
3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the whole-wheat flour, 2 cups unbleached flour, and salt. Add the oat mixture then the bananas, stirring with a wooden spoon until a soft dough forms. Turn out onto the wet dough onto a well-floured surface. Knead the dough, with floured hands, until the dough is smooth, soft, and elastic, about 10 minutes (the dough will be slightly sticky). While you're kneading, add just enough unbleached flour to keep the dough from sticking to your surface.
4. Form the dough into a ball and transfer it to a large, oiled mixing bowl, turning to coat. Cover bowl loosely with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel. Let the dough rise at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 60 to 90 minutes.
5. Lightly butter two loaf pans. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead several times to remove air. Divide the dough in half, and shape each half into a loaf. Place each loaf in a buttered pan, seam side down, tucking ends gently to fit. Cover the loaf pans loosely with a kitchen towel, and let the dough rise at a warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 60 minutes.
6. Put the oven rack in the middle position and preheat the oven to 375°F. Lightly brush the tops of each loaf with some of the egg wash and sprinkle with oats. Bake the loaves until they are golden and they sound hollow when tapped on the bottom, about 30 to 35 minutes. (Remove 1 loaf from pan to test for doneness. Run a knife around the edge of the pan to loosen.)
7. Remove the bread from the pans and transfer to a rack to cool completely, about 60 minutes. Slice and serve! (I've found the loaves are easiest to slice when turned on their sides).


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The clowns just aren't funny anymore
The Outameni saga has developed into a full-blown comedy routine.
With Easton Douglas, Portia Simpson Miller and Sandrea Falconer as lead actors, punchlines keep on coming.
Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
Lest the perpetual spin confuses us, this was Easton Douglas on October 31: "When you look at … development in Trelawny, it's a whole lot of housing. So what we're doing is to engage in community development, providing a combination of facilities and a mix of uses that'll contribute to the development of our human resources."
As a proud member of the "articulate minority" expressly dismissed by supporting actor, Robert 'Chicken Feed' Pickersgill, as irrelevant, unnecessary nuisances, I'll remind the majority (no doubt considered "inarticulate", but useful as components of voter assembly lines) that "When you look at … development in Trelawny, it's a whole lot of housing. So what we're doing is … " is an express admission that the property was NOT purchased for housing. Subsequent stand-up routines can't change that. The comic timing's off.
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer,
losing my timing this late
in my career?
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.
Let's be clear. A statutory authority isn't like you and me. We're born of man and woman with the divine gift of free will. We can do anything once we set our minds to it. Statutory authorities like NHT don't and can't exist save by way of the statute that gives them 'life'. They don't have free will although staffed by humans who do. Created by statute, a statutory authority has no 'mandate', a word that's been loosely thrown around by those wanting to spin NHT excesses into NHT compulsion. Statutory authorities can only do what they're authorised to do by the statute that gave them birth.
The NHT's statute allows it to add to, and improve, the existing housing supply (by building, lending to prospective homeowners, or the like) AND improve housing production. So, surprise, surprise, the HOUSING Trust is in the business of making HOUSES available. Because a statutory body can do NOTHING unless authorised, it's not enough to merely set out its functions. The authority must have tools (powers) to undertake these functions. Otherwise, it won't be able to accomplish its purpose.
So, the Trust is allowed to borrow and lend money; open bank accounts; invest, etc. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to build a single house. To 'invest' includes putting money in interest-bearing accounts or CDs or whatever until it can be used to provide mortgages, build houses or buy land for housing development – all related to its core functions.
The statute gives NHT power to "administer and invest the money of the Trust". Do you need a legal expert to tell you this power isn't given at large? Do you need a complicated legal opinion to understand this does NOT mean the Trust can buy Caymanas Park, or Iberostar, or "land and buildings" whose owner informed NHT has limited usage except as a bankrupt "heritage attraction"?
The Trust can buy property ONLY if its purpose is further-ance of its core functions. The Trust can buy property as a bare investment but ONLY if it intends to convert capital appreciation (projected, using sound commercial analysis, to be better than the interest a bank would offer) into cash AND if such realised capital appreciation is intended for the purpose of increased housing solutions or reinvestment to that end.
Easton Douglas insisted NHT bought Outameni "lock, stock and barrel". The PM says NHT only bought property, which Sandrea Falconer, the de facto information minister who refuses to answer questions she doesn't like, says means "lands and buildings". Are they trying to confuse the inarticulate majority?
Most people think great God will come from the sky;
take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.
But, if you know what life is worth,
you would look for yours on earth
and, now you see the light,
you stand up for your right ...!
But Easton Douglas specified the purchase's PURPOSE had NOTHING to do with housing, which is an admission the purchase was, at least prima facie, ultra vires the act. He said the purchase's purpose
was "to engage in community development, providing a combination of facilities and
a mix of uses ...." This is inconsistent with investment for capital appreciation to be realised and used for housing.
In Parliament, PM Portia said no houses would be built there. No problem IF the plan is to resell and build elsewhere. But, Douglas repeatedly rejects this. His most recent spin is an attempt to distinguish the purchase from being one of a "tourist attraction" to one used for "heritage". But, NHT isn't allowed to use property for heritage. If that's the case, the purchase remains ultra vires and improper. But, Easton's spin is illusory. Lennie Little-White's letter described the "tourist attraction" as "a heritage attraction". So, Easton's distinction doesn't compute. It only further entangles the web.
You can fool some people sometimes
but you can't fool all the people all the time.
So, now we see the light,
we gonna stand up for our right.
So, without having to detail the commercial suicide this deal exemplifies, it's pellucid it was NOT a proper exercise of NHT's powers. In my opinion, because the purchaser is a statutory corporation which, to the vendor's knowledge (the statute is public), abused its powers, the sale can be set aside and the people's money returned to NHT.
But this isn't even a possibility with an NHT board persistently insisting it has done nothing wrong. The only way such an avenue can be explored is by a completely new board freed from a need for self-defence. Four "new" members won't cut it. I can't imagine they believed they'd make a difference on a board retaining eight of the original directors involved in buying Outameni "lock, stock and barrel". Their only purpose could be to legitimise and enable that board to do it again.
How can a director who believes anticipated capital appreciation is "profit" remain? How can a director who believes it's NHT's "best buy" remain? How can a chairman who tacitly admits NHT exceeded its authority, then digs his heels in and pre-empts his own prime minister by vowing not to resign before she can make any pronouncement remain? How can a director who accepts paper valuations as gospel when the property couldn't even raise a bid at public auction remain?
Performances by this tragicomic production's leading players, Easton, Portia and Sandrea, remind me of the 1960s story of two friends discussing one's second-hand car purchase. One said to the other, "I bet you got a Faulkner." "No," was the reply. "I got a good deal." Did Jamaica get a good deal? Or a Faulkner?
So you'd better get up, stand up! Stand up for your right.
Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight.
Send in the Clowns, written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical, A Little Night Music, was first sung in the play by Glynis Johns but made Sondheim's most popular song when Frank Sinatra and Judy Collins recorded it in 1973 and 1975. My favourite cover version is by the brilliant Welsh songstress, Cleo Laine, who performed it live at Carnegie Hall in 1974. Get Up, Stand Up, made famous by Bob Marley and the Wailers, was written by Peter Tosh and Bob. Apologies for taking liberties with their lyrics:
We sick and tired of your ism schism game
tryin' to go to Heaven in Portia's name
Jamaicans mustn't permit 'Chicken Feed' Pickersgill to create self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't "thaw out". NHT is a cash-rich statutory body during a time of severe austerity. We're approaching elections. Are we going to allow NHT to become a political slush fund, or are we going to get up, stand up and insist public servants who've lost our confidence pack their bags and go?
Peace and love.
n Gordon Robinson
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Summer 2010
What you need to know:
"What do you get when you cross an engineer with a geneticist?"
While that may sound like the opening line for a joke, it's actually an emerging field of science known as synthetic biology. This area has received a lot of recent news coverage, with the announcement by an American institute that they had created the first bacterial cell with a genome designed by a computer and made entirely in the lab. This announcement quickly prompted a congressional hearing examining the implications of synthetic biology. In this edition of Biotech Basics, we'll explore the ideas behind the field, highlight some of the most recent discoveries and look at possible applications and concerns related to synthetic biology.
What is synthetic biology?
Synthetic biology seeks to apply engineering principles to biology. It has an ultimate goal of designing and building biological systems for specified tasks (e.g. drug development, material fabrication and energy production). The field is a collaborative effort between not only engineers and biologists, but also chemists and physicists.
Reviewing the basics
Living systems are composed of several basic key components that are critical for growth and replication. The function and structure of many of these components are known in great detail, thanks to our understanding of the relationship between DNA, RNA and proteins. The genetic code, contained in the DNA sequence, provides the instructions for making all the proteins needed by a cell. These instructions are converted from the DNA sequence into a temporary "working document" called RNA, which then directs the assembly of amino acids into the required protein.
Bioparts, devices and systems
Synthetic biology aims to use engineering methods to build novel and artificial biological tools. This is done using an established engineering approach – defining the specification for a device or system and then using a set of standard parts to create a model that meets that specification. The basic building block is a biopart – a fragment of DNA with a specific function such as producing a protein or activating a "start/stop" switch. Bioparts are combined into devices that carry out a desired activity, like producing fluorescent protein under a given condition. Multiple devices can be connected into a system, which performs more complex, higher-level tasks.
Powerful computers offer in-depth modeling and simulation to predict the behavior of the part, device or system before it is assembled. The relevant DNA instructions are then artificially synthesized and inserted into a biological cell, such as bacteria. The bacterial cell is the "chassis" or vehicle that interprets the DNA instructions. If the synthesized information is read and processed correctly, then the specification and design were appropriately crafted. If not, the original design is modified, continuing the design-modeling-testing cycle. Once complete, the device or system becomes a component created from standard bioparts, rather than constructed each time from scratch.
The BioBricksTM Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, uses this methodology. Developed by scientists and engineers from MIT, Harvard and UCSF, it maintains The Registry of Standard Biological Parts – a collection of several thousand open-source bioparts known as BioBricksTM. For example, there are BioBricksTM that produce plastics, control cell movement, or produce odors; they can be mixed and matched to build synthetic devices and systems. Each conforms to a standard format, allowing a developer to assemble systems that can integrate into other BioBricksTM-based creations, much like snapping together sets of LEGO© plastic bricks.
Synthesizing and organism from scratch
Rather than creating individual devices or systems that can be inserted into existing bacteria, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have pursued a different approach – creating the entire bacterial genome from scratch. This team recently synthesized the 1.08 million basepair genome from Mycoplasma mycoides, a bacteria that often infects goats, but is not dangerous to humans. The genome was created by synthesizing DNA fragments from bottles of chemicals in the laboratory, assembling fragments into an entire genome and inserting it into a host Mycoplasma cell whose own DNA was destroyed. When the host cells grew and divided, they did so under the direction of the synthesized genome.
The ultimate aim of the JCVI researchers is not simply to replicate a synthetic version of the genome, but to produce a "minimal cell" with the smallest number of genes needed to support growth and replication. The minimal cell then serves as a biological chassis, into which user-designed devices and systems can be inserted – producing more complex organisms with useful properties.
What lies ahead?
The rise of synthetic biology has been compared to that of synthetic chemistry, a field that developed and matured during the past century as chemists learned how to synthesize compounds that previously only existed in nature. Early examples, such as dyes and medicines like aspirin, gave way to the creation of plastics, semiconductors and complex pharmaceuticals. Many supporters believe that synthetic biology has the potential to achieve equally important results, including:
Challenges and concerns
Given that synthetic biology involves creating novel living organisms, it isn't surprising that security, safety and ethical concerns have been raised. Like many other "dual use technologies," synthetic biology offers the potential for great good, but also for harm. There are concerns that the increasing accessibility of this technology may spawn a new era of "biohackers" leading to the accidental or deliberate creation of pathogenic biological components.
Several options have been put forward in response, such as establishing a regulatory body to oversee and establish guidelines for the developing community. Safety measures taken by the research community include incorporating genetic signals that prevent uncontrolled spreading outside the lab environment. It is worth noting that in many ways, these mechanisms are already in place as part of the guidelines developed for recombinant DNA techniques that are currently in widespread use worldwide. From this perspective, the advances in synthetic biology may be viewed as a natural extension of this research, rather than a great leap into unchartered scientific territory.
– Dr. Neil Lamb
director of educational outreach
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
For more information:
iXpressGenes (iXG) is a resident associate company supporting life sciences organizations and research laboratories worldwide with all aspects of synthetic biology and genomics. iXG scientists and engineers have pioneered bioautomation solutions for gene synthesis, protein engineering, production of novel recombinant enzymes and protein crystallization.
J. Craig Venter Institute. Click on the link for First Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial Cell to learn more about the synthesized Mycoplasma.
The Registry of Standard Biological Parts provides access to the catalog of BioBrickTM parts available to the synthetic biology community.
This is a recent report on synthetic biology published by the British Royal Academy of Engineering. It includes an excellent overview of the science and potential future applications.
- Synthetic biology uses engineering principles to design and create biological systems that carry out specified functions.
- The basic building blocks are fragments of DNA.
- The DNA components are combined in new ways to produce more efficient products such as medicines, energy sources or environmental sensors.
- Synthetic biology is an emerging field with a number of technical, ethical and security issues still to be addressed.
- Health: The Gates Foundation is working to develop a semi-synthetic version of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. By incorporating the necessary genetic information, the drug can be crafted inside a bacterial cell, leading to large-scale production methods. If successful, this endeavor will have a major impact on the treatment of malaria.
- Environment: Biosensors have been created which detect contaminants, such as arsenic, in the water. These biosensors may be coupled to bacterial purification processes to produce clean water for drinking and agriculture.
- Biofuels: Current methods of biofuel production make ethanol from sugars or biodiesel from vegetable oils, however these methods waste nearly 90 percent of the organic plant matter (called biomass). Synthetic biology derived biofuels are being designed to use a much higher proportion of the biomass, significantly increasing yields.


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Jessica Alba: Christmas Dinner Grocery Run
Jessica Alba carries her adorable daughter Honor as they head to Trader Joe's on Friday (December 24) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 29-year-old Little Fockers star brought along her mom and did some last-minute grocery shopping.
"#MerryChristmasEve tweeples. Presents wrapped now onto Xmas din shopping. Who else is cooking an organic X-Mas din? What's on ur menu?" Jess tweeted.
The day before, Jessica paired her Tory Burch Peton Coat with Decades Denim "Sophia" stretch twill leggings while shopping at Opening Ceremony with her mom.
In case you missed it, check out Jessica in last week's hilarious Saturday Night Live digital short "I Just Had Sex."


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Irregular Verb Conjugation
Irregular Verb Conjugation
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Irregular verbs often pose a special challenge to many young writers! Get them up to speed with this fun worksheet, which gets kids acquainted with the past and past participle forms of irregular verbs such as swim, eat and drink.
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Verbs and adverbs are the action heros of the language arts world. Third graders will be learning how to use these parts of speech this year, and you can support them with this guided lesson. Written by curriculum experts, this lesson provides kids with grammar instruction and plenty of examples of verbs and adverbs. For more printable practice with verbs and adverbs, check out the accompanying worksheets.
Verbs and adverbs are the action heros of the language arts world.
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Specify how Manual and Auto Exterior Dimension lines locate both interior and exterior walls in the Dimension Defaults dialog.
Have dimensions only show inches by changing the options on the format tab of the dimension defaults.
Floor Defaults allow you to set the floor height, ceiling height, molding, and overall structure of any given floor.
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I realize I am so very NOT up-to-date on documenting our preschool, book club, and after school activities. This is sad for numerous reasons, most of them only important to me, but especially for extended family who never got a chuckle out of seeing my kids doin their educational 'thang'. So, for the grandmas. And anyone else that doesn't mind going BACK a couple months. This post about dragons, knights, and princesses is for you!
Dragon week was right around Lunar New Year (otherwise known as Chinese New Year, but that smacks of exclusivity for a holiday celebrated all over East Asia and parts of SE Asia and, frankly, my Korean sensitivity forbids me from using that phrase!). Our dragon week was NOT about the holiday, though we DID read some books about it. Gwen really likes How to Train Your Dragon and I knew her Toothless obsession would play well into fun 'generic' dragon activities. We were ill in one form or another for about 3 weeks, so I didn't take as many pictures of all our adventures. But here's a skimming of our activities!
We used 3Dinosaurs free printable medieval (includes lots of dragons) pack to play a little ABC game together.
of course the rainbow writing
We made our very own dragons out of TP. Originally I wanted to do a plastic cup version because they are so much cuter, but in the end, I opted for cheap (free).
first the painting
Gwen was meticulous with her painting.
glue on a little tissue paper fire and you're done!
They didn't 'blow' their fire quite the way I'd hoped, but the girls loved them anyway!
You've got to check out this video to see the jewel details Gwen put on her dragon and to see what Caroline decided her dragon looked like!
ha ha! squid! (she's right, though! Don't you agree?)
Caroline's dry-erase coloring of a 'water' princess. Every day she drew a few different 'themed' princesses. It was fun to see what she came up with!
We did some jewels on the ABCs (focus on phonics that time) bc princesses need their bling!
Then some jewel patterns, which were a big hit with both girls.
Gwen was very proud of her 'advanced' patterning.
For 2 out of the 3 weeks, we had to cancel book club because of illness. So for the 3rd we kind of did a 'combo' dragon-knight-princess theme and our friends came dressed up as one of the three! See the cute dragon to the right, there? And on the left you've got a 'knight-ninja'!!!
handprint castles that we made. Idea credit goes here.
The girls begged Eric to dress up as a prince and play with them. He's such an accommodating daddy! :)
Caroline's origami frog became 'queen' and held court with her retinue... that's when you know your kids really enjoyed the theme!
You see the amazing crown-bed Caroline designed for...
...princess lizard!
We survived the less-than-ideal three weeks of illness and managed to have some fun along the way. It was during one of Gwen's 'sick' days that she had to stay home from Kindergarten and got to play with us. Apparently it made a lasting impression, prompting this journal entry months later:
(translation: "I like to be at my sister's preschool. I like to draw pictures. I also like to put jewels on letters.")
and THAT is why I love preparing learning activities, even when it would be easy to say 'not today'. Carpe diem, right? Keeping up preschool when we were all so tired--- and tired of each other--- for all those weeks was challenging. But seeing Gwen's opinion book made it all worth it. Now if only I could go back in time and take more pictures. But we were not at our best, so I am grateful for the pictures we got at all. :) Hope this inspires you (and me!) to keep up the learning activities when we'd rather just plop em in front of the tv!
(though we do that too).


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I have never been a huge fan of soup, which is why this was my first ever attempt at making soup. I tend to like things that are creamy and rich, so I thought a chicken and corn chowder would be a great beginning soup. I searched online for recipes and none of them seemed to be what I was looking for. I had this perfect vision in my mind of what my soup was going to be like and what was going to be in it, so I decided to just throw a recipe together and see what would happen. The result is a delicious, creamy, flavorful, magnificent soup. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but this soup is probably the best soup in the entire world. Once you have all of your ingredients cut and chopped it comes together pretty quickly! After you have made this chowder you will be a much happier person and your family will thank you.
Chicken Corn Chowder Recipe: |Print Recipe|
3 slices bacon
6 tablespoons butter
1 onion (minced)
4 potatoes (diced)
1/4 cup flour
1.5 pounds cooked boneless skinless chicken breasts (cut into 1" cubes)
1 package frozen corn kernels
1/4 cup green onions (sliced)
3 cups chicken broth
1 cup half and half
1 cup milk
salt and pepper to taste
Cut bacon into small pieces and fry in a large saucepan (dutch ovens are awesome!) When bacon is fully cooked, add onions. Sautee over medium heat and throw in 3 tablespoons of butter and cook onions for about 3 minutes.
Add diced potatoes and 3 more tablespoons of butter and cook until potatoes are beginning to soften (about 6-8 minutes).
Sprinkle flour over potatoes and stir until coated. Stir in chicken, corn and green onions and mix together. Add chicken broth, half and half, milk and salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes.
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Therefore my question is, having seen phablets introduce a pretty clever and ajustable "screen shrinking" feature to phablets [it's called "tiny screen mode" on Samsung's Note 3 and "Mini View" on LG's G2 pro] could anyone port it to our beloved LG G2?
Even if that weren't possible, I'm sure that in the same way that mods allow to change the screen's apparent resolution, some people could instead keep the same DPI and simply shrink to one side our 5.2in fullHD to a 3.6in HD and have black bars on the other edges.
I've already seen plenty of features ported from the G2 pro such as the multiwindow, so I'm hoping this wouldn't be that hard to do, and I'm sure a lot of people would love a way to access basic features on their phone properly when biking for example, without risking their phone's life too much.
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There are many days when I am not working where I just want to be alone. Nursing takes such a toll on me mentally and emotionally that I crave a few hours where no one is asking something of me. Lately, I have been having dreams about work which tells me that the stress is mounting. I dream about patients, about giving the wrong medication, about someone dying. I wake up startled and sweaty, convinced I am going to be fired.
This morning was particularly stressful as our family made the decision to put one of our beloved cats to sleep. She was 16 years old and had suffered an acute medical crisis. When I went to our veterinarian for an update she looked terrible – lethargic and cold and unresponsive except for a few feeble mews. Given my feelings about prolonging the suffering of humans, there was little doubt in my mind that Libby should be released from this world. It was a peaceful event and she was gone in seconds. Probably to her brother, Rudy, who died a few months ago.
I decided that the afternoon called for lunch at Terrain – one of my favorite places to be on a bright, sunny day. The property used to be home to several nurseries and greenhouses established by Jacob Styer in 1890. The business became famous for its cut flowers, especially peonies. Spring is in full bloom there and you are greeted by a glorious riot of color from the many plants they offer. Their cafe is housed in a green house where the tables are surrounded by a bounty of verdant leaves of all shapes and sizes – ivies and staghorn ferns and mosses. It didn't hurt that I had $100 to burn on a gift card that I had been saving since my birthday in January. I took a few photos with my Instax camera, too, so I could get an idea of how it handles color and bright light. I was pretty pleased with the overall quality and how the photos had an ethereal, vintage quality to them. Obviously, those shots are not digital, so you won't find them here.
Welcome! These bright green signs sit below planters filled with seasonal flora. The entrance was lined with an array of colorful flowers just waiting for a home.
These spectacular blooms belong to a shade-loving plant called "Fuschia". No, really, that is it's proper name. Obviously, you can see why. I hemmed and hawed over whether or not to add this to my collection of plants at home (I already have two succulent terrariums, a tuberous begonia, and numerous vegetable seedlings taking root). In the end I grabbed one to take home and will hang it on the deck. The buds are these plump, tomato-shaped balls that burst open to reveal curly purple-pink petals and fringe-like stamens. It's so beautiful to see up close and makes me immensely happy.
Terrain is known for their whimsical and stunning design aesthetic. They import magical pieces of furniture and such from all over the world. If I won the lottery I would a) get married on Terrain's property and b) have them landscape my entire home. Not only can you purchase this beautifully rustic meditation temple for your backyard, you can also have them erect a canvas tent for outdoor entertaining, too. All you need is, you know, a few thousand dollars in spare change. Wouldn't you like to sit on one of those benches with a cup of tea while the sun rises? Me too.
This door-within-a-door with it's iron rivets makes me think of a medevial castle gate. You wouldn't want to be opening a portion of your defenses against the world, so you make a small entryway. The small door is part of a set of tall, peaked wooden gates that act as entryway to the nursery for fruit trees and shrubs.
Did you knwo that there are many different types of Hydrangeas? Hydrangeas are one of my favorite species of flower (ranunculus and peonies being next in line). This particular variety is more ornamental and short-lived than their shrub-by counterpart. The petals are pointed rather than round, but their configuration still reminds me of studying fractals in grammar school.
Of course, no trip to Terrain should be without a meal in their cafe. Life isn't complete until one has tried their freshly baked bread pots. Yes, fresh bread in a terracotta pot! I ordered the spring gnocchi with brussel sprouts, fiddlehead ferms, turnip greens, and morel mushrooms. I could have easily downed several plates full of this! Especially with their "Blue Eyes" iced tea – a white tea with hints of blueberries and wild flowers. Instead, I saved room for dessert and my favorite hot beverage: strawberry rhubarb tart and a honey tea au lait. Then I let myself run a little wild in their shop where I picked up a bar of peony soap (doesn't it make your morning a bit better when you was with a lovely soap?), my fuschia hanging basket, a linen apron I've been coveting for months now, and a set up hanging bud vases. Considering the start to the day, it was a wonderful afternoon – filled with beauty and life and the simple joy of having time to myself.


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Z-84 Flying Wing
Part List
- Z-84 Plug n' fly or kit (one of these):
- Electronic speed controller (one of these):
- Recommended spare parts:
- 1 cm diameter O-ring (Hobbyking International Warehouse
- 125×110 mm prop (Hobbyking)
- ADD GPS option
- ADD RADIO option
- ADD AIRSPEED option
- 1800 mA 2S LiPo Battery
As the image below shows its a really tiny plane, which easily could be strapped the helmet mount of a bike backpack.
Build Log
The Wing Wing is pretty easy to build - it does come with foam glue, but the author of the build log prefers Pattex Hot glue. Using hot glue allows a fast build, but requires some experience in getting the timing right and being really fast.
Glue the wings to the main body, then glue the wing spar into the wing (fill lots of glue into the slot for the spar, then press the spar in) and ensure the wing becomes level.
Add a layer of hot glue on top of the spar to fix it well in all directions.
Mount the prop - done!
This is the raw airframe with hood completed.
Remove the ESC and add the PX4IO power connector - replace the battery connector with your favorite connector.
This is the end result soldered.
Insert the pitot tube and silicon tubing - the 3D print model is on this page: PX4 Airspeed Sensor.
Screw on the front part.
Place the PX4 FMU in the back, arrange the remaining components in the payload bay and on the wing. The presented layout shows a perfect center of gravity.
The result with hatch on.
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'Pietersen did not have support from teammates'
Kevin Pietersen's sensational resignation from the post of England captain was a fallout of lack support from his teammates, especially all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, in the bitter row with coach Peter Moores.cricket Updated: Jan 08, 2009 14:10 IST
Kevin Pietersen's sensational resignation from the post of England captain was a fallout of lack support from his teammates, especially all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, in the bitter row with coach Peter Moores, British media said on Thursday.
Leading daily 'The Guardian' wrote that the captain's exit was "inevitable" as the England and Wales Cricket Board "realised the extent of the dressing-room antipathy towards him".
"The enforced resignation of Kevin Pietersen, it was asserted on Wednesday, was inevitable because he had conducted his campaign against the England coach Peter Moores, in the public domain. Except that is pure baloney. Pietersen had done no such thing," the paper said.
"Pietersen's intention was to undertake a silent revolution against Moores and he might just have pulled it off. But the rift became public on New Year's Eve... And ECB (Managing Director Hugh) Morris was obliged to take soundings from senior players.
"He (Pietersen) had wrongly assumed that he had earned enough professional respect among England's senior players that he would gain support," it said.
Pietersen, who was cynosure of all eyes after England returned to India following the Mumbai terror attacks, could have stayed on as the captain despite Moores' removal if the team had backed him, feels the press.
Tabloid 'Daily Mirror' also echoed the views as its headline screamed 'Knifed in the Back'.
The paper said Pietersen quit before he was pushed after a "startling vote of no confidence from his own players" left him with "no room for manoeuvre". 'The Ego with Egg on his Face' was another title in the paper which felt Pietersen paid the price for taking such a public stand against Moores.
Star all-rounder Flintoff was blamed for favouring Moores over South Africa-born Pietersen as a 'Daily Mail' headline read 'Flintoff leads a mutiny'.
A report in the 'The Sun' also was on similar sentiments as it splashed headlines 'Flintoff and Co stuck in knife' and 'England cricket is ripped apart from hatred' while saying the entire episode had left "England divided and demoralised".
"Kevin Pietersen was forced into resigning as England Test and one-day captain after all rounder Andrew Flintoff and new skipper Andrew Strauss refused to back him and ECBs Managing Director Hugh Morris hinted at divisions in the team.
"The role of Andrew Flintoff in his downfall will be keenly discussed. Flintoff and Strauss named KPs replacement are understood to have stuck the knife in.
"And England boss Morris hinted at divisions in the team when he said: Kevin recognised that, in the present situation, it was impossible to restore dressing-room unity," the paper read.
The Times blamed Moores's "aggressive style of management" but said Pietersen "cannot issue an ultimatum to his employers at the first sign of disagreement, especially when he does not have the full backing of his own players".
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As an undergraduate, Nora Heimann came face-to-face with the transformative power of art. She was ready to graduate as a studio artist and as a pre-med major when she took an art history course and fell in love with it.
Christendom College in Front Royal launched its 40th anniversary year with a new record enrollment, raising the total student body to 494 students. College President Timothy O'Donnell made the announcement during his opening address to the student body, encouraging them to strive for greatness during this upcoming year.
Father Mike Kuhn, a native of Manassas and a founding member of the Youth Apostles, was named assistant chaplain at Marymount University in Arlington in June, and Ashton Mallon has been promoted to director of Campus Ministry. More
The Counseling Department at Paul VI Catholic High School in Fairfax recently hosted a College Application Academy for 50 rising seniors. During the week in early August, students gathered in the library to get a head start on different aspects of their college applications before the school year begins. More
This summer, six students from Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington attended a two-week study abroad program at the University of Salamanca in Spain with Spanish teacher Faryde Yanine. More
Carl Patton is assistant head of school and director of curriculum and instruction at Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington. Last year, he engaged teams of faculty and administrators in a comprehensive curriculum audit. More
As the 2017-18 school year begins, Seton School in Manassas will
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Grant Joseph Mantooth, a recent graduate of Seton School in
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Those who have been following the development and progress of
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The Diocese of Arlington welcome seven new principals and a
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Coping with a birth-related injury is traumatic and overwhelming to a family.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has found that 3% of all newborns have some form of a birth defect and these account for close to 20% of all newborn fatalities.
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A birth injury is an event that occurs during the pregnancy or birth that causes harm to the mother, baby, or both. Some birth injuries are minor, while others can alter the course of your baby's life before it even begins. There are preventable birth injuries that are so severe they can lead to death. Any number of circumstances can cause a birth injury, including negligence by the doctor and/or the medical team either during the pregnancy, during labor and delivery, or in the moments following the birth.
Preventable Birth Injuries
- Cerebral Palsy – An irreversible injury to the brain characterized by muscle spasms, weak muscle development, and lack of motor skills. This is a condition that will result in your child needing life-long special care.
- Spinal Cord Injury – Often caused by the misuse of forceps or a meningeal tear, neurological problems and even paralysis can occur.
- Clavicle Bone Fracture – Although this will typically heal over time, a clavicle bone fracture is painful for an infant and is usually caused by a traumatic delivery.
- Brachial Plexus Injuries (BPI) – This type of injury affects the bundle of nerves at the upper spine that radiate to the neck, shoulder, arm, and hand of an infant. Approximately 10% of BPI results in a permanent disability, which occurs from excessive forceps use.
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We are working with PP(SEA)CL in Bangkok helping market Myanmar's first arts, culture and lifestyle festival, which will take place in Yangon in November 2018, featuring a plethora of international celebrities from the arts, music and dance - including David Foster and Friends featuring Katherine Jenkins, Michael Bolton accompanied by the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra from Singapore. Subject to change.
Spread across 10 days, The Dawn Festival Yangon 2018 will attract over 100,000 visitors in a celebration of music, visual arts and dance under one cultural umbrella - injecting a new vibrancy and freshness to Myanmar's emerging communities through the arts.
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• Attract local and international investments
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I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty. Very thrifty.
"You're cheap!" The words hurt me, especially coming from a friend I've known for years. She wanted to go out one Friday evening, but I was trying to save money and wanted to stay in with a pizza and a movie instead. So she called me cheap. And it hurt, and we fought, and we


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A Look Back on the 2016 Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks
My favorite comment from our Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks, hands down: "I listened to Eye of the Tiger while reading this judgment." (The rest of you: You still have two days—we're posting the final judgment tomorrow—to top ariel a.)
This comment was in reference to Phyllis Grant's record-breaking she-tested-how-many-recipes? decision on The Food Lab vs. Zahav—and I loved it for how perfectly apt it was then. But I also loved it because that song—all full of winner cliches, a stampeding herd of power chords—could easily be the soundtrack for the whole Piglet season. That song, in all of its overwrought glory, is how I feel when I edit; it's how I feel when each day's judgment goes up. It's how I feel the moment before we announce the last known survivor.
Before we do, I wanted to take a quick look back on The 2016 Piglet. What were the upsets? (There were a few.) The highlights? (Plenty.) The books you thought were unfairly disqualified? I'd ask you to tell me your answers in the comments, but I have a feeling you already will.
Here are mine:
- Brooks Headley kicked off the tournament beautifully—and declared his affinity for glossy food photos. (Really, Brooks?) A number of you—judges, included—went on to decry them. Could this be our next face-off?
- Co-founder Charlotte Druckman and I made an attempt to elucidate parts of The Piglet we thought might not be registering with certain readers. We tanked.
- Undeterred, we tried again. We haven't heard much about how our second attempt went, perhaps because the request I sent my producer to disable all iTunes reviews went through.
- I met Esther, of Read It & Eat bookstore in Chicago; she was kind enough to share her (very adept) predictions with you, too.
- It can't be overstated: Phyllis Grant dropped the mic during her decision. Here is a margin note of mine from her drafts in the weeks before we published, highlighting the line "I am proud to say that my kids and I managed to cook over 20 recipes from each of your books": You are an animal.
- Receiving this text from friend (and ace contributor Erin McDowell): "We keep seeing these all over Powell's and had to show you!" She meant Powell's Bookstore, in Portland, Oregon, and here's what she saw:
- That time Julie Klam posited a question almost too real, while referring to flipping back and forth to recipes-within-recipes: What am I, made of bookmarks??
- Daily text color commentary from Piglet co-founder Charlotte Druckman's mother. Such as: Lovely review today. Near & Far doesn't entice me. You really have good reviewers this year. All have been consistent and diligent except for the one who should have made more recipes but still wrote a good review."
- Remember when Chris Schonberger compared leading a baking book with "Bloombergian finger-wagging" about sugar to opening the Kama Sutra with a warning about genital warts? Let me remind you.
- You won't remember this one, but a personal highlight: My family sending me, mid-Piglet, this scan of a watercolor my grandfather did over 20 years ago. It's got to be some kind of sign, right?
We'll see you back here tomorrow.
Seriously though: Tell us your favorite moments of this year's tournament!


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This's the concept currently on a roll in Jama Masjid. I'd earlier predicted a meteoric rise for the Butter Cream Chicken in this part of Delhi, but the cult of the BCC which I also call the Mughlaification of Butter Chicken hasn't spread beyond Aslam, Anmol and a couple of more shops. Whereas it's one of the older albeit lesser known stalwarts of Matia Mahal selling Shahi Tukra, which's now spreading its wings
Shahi Tukra at Jama Masjid
Cool point started as a small counter on the Matia Mahal road close to Jama Masjid in Old Delhi, selling Shahi Tukra in a big parath and vanilla and mango ice cream as accompaniments. I think they're been here for more than 20-30 years if not more and their hand churned ice cream is pretty decent. Even though the mango one reeks of pure essence
The Shahi Tukra comes with a thick layer of corn flour custard and nuts on top and the bread's fried in not just any ghee, but Mohan Ghee, a world-famous-in-Karol-Bagh ghee brand, the tins of which have always been displayed quite proudly at Cool Point as a point to make that their bread has been fried in nothing less than Mohan Ghee. The ghee's quite decent btw
I really don't think that Cool Point does an exceptional Shahi Tukra. But they do serve it piping hot. The ice cream doesn't come automatically with the Shahi Tukra and you've to ask for this. The combination of the hot Shahi Tukra with the chilled dessert is quite magical on a cold Delhi winter evening and a must-have when you're in the Jama Masjid area
Last I counted there are now four Cool Points between Matia Mahal and Urdu Bazaar (at least the ones I know about)
May the force be with them and their tribe multiply !!
Though the Cool Point outlets in Matia Mahal are quite visible, here's the location and other details of one of their locations on Zomato, in case you have any difficulty finding them
And here's the GPS location to their original outlet in Matia Mahal


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(This is a cross-post from my devlog on tumblr.)
This is a concept image for a procedurally-generated gas-giant-like planet in the game.
Right now, planets are rendered as a single circle filled with a radial gradient that is offset from its center. This is pretty effective for giving the illusion of a sphere, but it's a boring non-textured sphere.
Currently what I'd need to add to the game would be an extra layer or two of inverted radial gradients for "atmosphere effects" (the blue lighting) and an overlay texture that is either canned or also procedurally-generated. When I figure out how to do this I'll make a technical post explaining my technique.
Oh and yeah, I realize that the lighting is unrealistic — gas giants have clouds that align perpendicular to their axis of rotation, which corresponds to their axis of orbit around their star. Unless the axis of the planet got thrown off bigtime — which does occasionally happen with planets like Uranus — it doesn't really make sense. Our camera would have to have been rotated, too.
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Title: Fire from Heaven
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Before Thomas Ogren wrote Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping, he wasn't particularly sympathetic to those who suffer from allergies, including his wife and other family members. "I had read that allergies were psychosomatic, so I believed that," he states. That erroneous belief started changing 20 years ago while Ogren was teaching horticulture to prison inmates in California. "I asked a big, muscle-bound gang member to pull Pride of Madeira weeds," he remembers. The inmate wanted a different job because he had gotten a terrible rash the last time he pulled the weeds. Ogren rubbed some of the prickly leaves on his own arm. "It flamed up, so I gave the inmate another job."
The next week Ogren drove to the Bay Area from his home in San Luis Obispo, on freeways lined with acacia in full bloom. "I had always liked the monoculture look of mass plantings, but when I arrived in Berkeley, everyone was sneezing except me," he describes.
These back-to-back experiences gave him the idea to do "sniff" tests with his class to determine if certain plants created problems. "We went outside and sniffed everything," he explains, "and a third of the class started sneezing uncontrollably from bottlebrush." Intrigued, he continued the sniff tests for a year with anyone who would volunteer, learning which plants typically triggered reactions. He stopped when a few people became ill.
"I felt so bad about the lack of empathy I had shown my wife that I replaced all the plants in our yard that seemed to cause problems." There was significant improvement in her allergies. Ogren's brother-in-law also replanted his yard. "For the first time in his adult life, he wasn't taking antihistamines," recalls Ogren. Fascinated by these results, Ogren talked to botanists, horticulture professors, and allergists, but there was little data available on plant allergies. His research led him to develop OPALS (Ogren Plant-Allergy Scale) to categorize plants numerically from 1 to 10. The higher the number, the more likely that the plant will cause allergy symptoms. Writing a book was the next step. "I ended up writing the book that I had wanted to buy," he states. "I received 326 book rejections over a 12-year period, but I kept working on it because the topic fascinated me."
Ogren became hooked on gardening at a young age. He started sowing seeds when he was 5 years old and remembers his grandfather giving him a strawberry guava tree when he was 7. He obtained a Master's degree in agriculture and horticulture from CalPoly-San Luis Obispo, later co-owning a retail nursery in Minnesota, and selling grape vines through a mail-order nursery in Los Angeles. Plants have never made him sneeze.
Unfortunately, allergies are on the rise in this country. In 1959, 2 to 5 percent of the population suffered from them. In 1984, the number was 12 to 15 percent. In 1999, it spiked to 38 percent. Ogren attributes these increases to major changes in our landscaping practices, in particular, the exclusive use of male plants, and monocultures - mass groupings of the same type of plant. Plant breeders developed male clones to avoid the clean-up required with growing female plants, which bear messy seed pods or fruit. However, males produce prodigious amounts of pollen, which causes allergy symptoms when the microscopic grains are inhaled. Monocultures aggravate the problem by increasing the opportunity to be overexposed to an allergen.
Ogren has some suggestions for reducing the allergens in your landscape:
For more information on allergy-free gardening, visit Ogren's Web site at www.allergyfree-gardening.com/articles.php


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In the chocolate world there is a bit of a split between those who make chocolate and those who don't. The Americans describe it as 'makers versus melters'.
Within the makers sphere you've got the big industrial companies and the smaller craft producers, who are often referred to as bean-to-bar makers – the only large maker in New Zealand is Whittakers and there are five smaller craft makers.
The melters, on the other hand, buy in their chocolate in bulk and use it to produce their products. At the more industrial end of this scale the melters buy plain (unsweetened and partially refined) chocolate mass or liquour and add their own ingredients and finish the refining process before making bars and other products. At the more artisan end of the scale they buy finished couveture (white, milk, and dark of various percentages and origins) and perhaps add flavours and make bars, or use it to coat their own truffles, and pralines. Generally this bulk chocolate is made in big factories, with the best being very good and the worst not worth eating. There are a lot of artisan melters - perhaps more politely called artisan chocolatiers - in New Zealand and most of them use Barry Callebaut chocolate.
The inaugural NZ Chocolate Awards have recently been announced. Awards have become quite the phenomena of the times, with a plethora of them in the food and beverage industries from the well-established to the newly minted. There's no doubt that consumers take note of who wins what and a medal sticker is good for morale and always good for sales. Kathie and Nic from Marvellous Marketing deserve their own medal for taking the plunge and setting up the NZ Chocolate Awards. Organising the process, selecting judges, collecting samples, and managing the judging process is no mean feat especially the first time around.
Next year it would be good to see the Awards split into two categories to recognise the difference between the chocolate makers and the artisan chocolatiers. This year there was only one category for bean-to-bar chocolate (plain bars) and so in the inclusion bar section most of the bars were made with the same base chocolate and just a range of different flavours.
To use an analogy from the world of ceramics, this is like comparing a machine made dish that has been individually painted and fired, with a one-off dish that's been thrown on the potter's wheel or hand built. The machine-made dish will always be more perfectly made, but will not have the character of the hand-made. Ten people could decorate a machine-made dish and they will all look different, but the medal will go to the best painter, not the best potter.
OCHO was delighted to receive gold, silver and bronze medals in the Chocolate Awards for our Salted Caramel, Beekeeper and Solomons 70% Cacao bars respectively. We also received a special award for the best packaging, which we were especially happy about and think it is well-deserved recognition of the talent of our Dunedin-based designer Luke Johnston of BrandAid.


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May in Ohio is a beautiful time to trail ride and one of my favorite places to go is Mohican State Park. Spring flowers and ferns are still sneaking up and because the leaves are not fully out yet it is possible to see further than you can in full summer. This day it was almost 85 degrees out but under the cover of the trees we stayed nice and cool.
One of my favorite parts of this ride are the multiple water crossings. The horses love to drink and play in the water before we head back up and down the many hills. This trip was also special because a good friend joined us and took her mare out for her first trail ride. I do have to admit that my pants were very wet and not very clean by the time I got done…and my inner legs were a bit sore…but I plan on doing it again as soon as possible!


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Dr. Romaine organizes symposium at Art Institute of Chicago
Posted by Fernando.Arzola on Thursday December 12, 2013
On February 11, 2014, the Art Institute of Chicago will host the symposium "Envisioning the Eucharist: Transcending the Literal in Medieval and Byzantine Art." This symposium, organized by Dr. James Romaine and the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA), will included an international roster of scholars. Dr. Romaine, Associate Professor of Art Histiry, is the president of ASCHA.
For more information and registration for the symposium can be found on the website of the Art Institute of Chicago:
http://www.artic.edu/event/symposium-envisioning-eucharist-transcending-literal-medieval-and-byzantine-art and the ASCHA website,christianityhistoryart.org.
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The Texas Department of Agriculture has extended the cotton stalk destruction deadline until November 1 for Pest Management Zone 3 (Upper Coastal Bend) because of unavoidable harvest delays.
Timely stalk destruction is critical for the state's Boll Weevil Eradication Program (BWEP) to help prevent weevil reproduction on viable plants after harvest. Section 20.22 of the Texas Administrative Code provides that the department may grant a blanket extension of the destruction deadline covering an entire cotton stalk destruction zone or a portion of an entire zone under certain circumstances.
Zone officials requested the delay in a September 21 letter that asked for all of Zone 3 to be extended to November 1 for the 2010 crop year only. The request was made on the basis of excessive rainfall that had occurred over several different periods of time, with the latest rains continuing into the week of the request.
The request noted that exceptional wet fall, winter and early spring weather had delayed some plantings and that rain in July had contributed further to a delayed harvest, as boll rot at that time forced many producers to push the cotton to produce a top crop with delayed maturity.
The Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (TBWEF) noted that slightly more than 125,111 acres of cotton were planted in Zone 3 in 2010. Also, as of September 22, just more than 50,295 acres (40.3 percent) had been harvested and some 74,815 acres (59.7 percent) was un-harvested. TBWEF summarized that for 2010, boll weevil captures in Zone 3 have been very low.
National Weather Service data confirm above normal 30 day precipitation in Zone 3 areas 1, 2 and 3. In some cases, precipitation was three times normal or higher.
Pest Management Zone 3 (Zone 3) consists of three areas:
- The standard deadline for cotton stalk destruction in Zone 3, Area 1 is October 1.
- The standard deadline for cotton stalk destruction in Zone 3, Area 2 is October 15.
- The standard deadline for cotton stalk destruction in Zone 3, Area 3 is October 20.


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Infinite Hope Necklace and Bracelet Set by Oombawka Design
Crochet jewelry can add that special and unique touch to an outfit. This pretty set by Rhondda of Oombawka Design is so elegant. I love the colors and there is something calming in the rhythmic repeat of the rings. Click the button below for more information on the pattern.
Infinite Hope Necklace and Bracelet Set
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