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Photochromic Lenses: Transitions Lenses And Other Light-Adaptive Lenses
Photochromic lenses are eyeglass lenses that are clear (or nearly clear) indoors and darken automatically when exposed to sunlight. Other terms sometimes used for photochromic lenses include "light-adaptive lenses" and "variable tint lenses."
The most popular brand of photochromic lenses sold in the United States are Transitions Lenses (Transitions Optical). Because of this, some people — including some eye care practitioners — refer to photochromic lenses as "transitions lenses" or "transition lenses." But there are other brands of photochromic lenses available as well.
The molecules responsible for causing photochromic lenses to darken are activated by the sun's ultraviolet radiation. Because UV rays penetrate clouds, photochromic lenses will darken on overcast days as well as sunny days.
Photochromic lenses typically will not darken inside a vehicle because the windshield glass blocks most UV rays. Recent advancements in technology allow some photochromic lenses to activate with both UV and visible light, providing some darkening behind the windshield. Ask your optician for details.
Photochromic lenses are available in nearly all lens materials and designs, including high-index lenses, bifocals and progressive lenses. An added benefit of photochromic lenses is that they shield your eyes from 100 percent of the sun's harmful UVA and UVB rays.
Because a person's lifetime exposure to sunlight and UV radiation has been associated with cataracts later in life, it's a good idea to consider photochromic lenses for children's eyewear as well as for eyeglasses for adults. Polycarbonate is the safest lens material for kids, providing up to 10 times the impact resistance of other lens materials.
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Adding anti-reflective coating to photochromic lenses enhances their performance even further. AR coating allows more light to pass through photochromic lenses for sharper vision in low-light conditions (such as driving at night), and eliminates bothersome reflections of sunlight and other light from the backside of the lenses in bright conditions.
Though photochromic lenses cost more than clear eyeglass lenses, they offer the convenience of reducing the need to carry a pair of prescription sunglasses with you everywhere you go.
Photochromic Lens Brands
Popular brands of photochromic lenses sold in the United States include:
Photochromic lenses are clear (or nearly clear) indoors and darken automatically outdoors for comfort. Images: Transitions Optical
Transitions Signature (Transitions Optical) — Transitions Signature lenses with Chromea7 technology represent the latest advancement in Transitions adaptive lenses. They are available in gray, brown and graphite green. The lenses are fully clear indoors and are more responsive to sunlight, so they are darker when you need them to be, according to the company. Transitions Signature lenses are the fastest to fade back to clear indoors of all the Transitions products.
Transitions XTRActive (Transitions Optical) — These lenses were developed for wearers who are light-sensitive indoors and desire a darker lens when driving and outdoors. Transitions XTRActive lenses have slight tint indoors to keep your eyes comfortable when exposed to harsh lighting (fluorescents lights, digital devices). They also activate behind the windshield of a car and are available in gray, brown and graphite green tints.
Transitions Vantage (Transitions Optical) — These lenses have a slight tint indoors and polarize as they darken outdoors for greater glare control in bright, reflective conditions. This unique technology offers a high-definition visual experience since the polarization continually adjusts outdoors to match the level of reflective glare, according to Transitions Optical. Available in gray tint.
Sensity (Hoya Vision Care) — Introduced in the United States in April 2016, Hoya's Sensity photochromic lenses feature trademarked technology that insures the lenses perform consistently in varying climates and temperatures, according to the company. Sensity lenses are available in gray and contrast-enhancing brown colors and are offered in a variety of lens designs, lens materials and anti-reflective coatings.
LifeRx (Vision-Ease Lens) — LifeRx lenses are made of polycarbonate and are available in gray and brown photochromic tints in a variety of lens designs. The lenses take less than a minute to darken outdoors and fade back faster indoors than other photochromic lenses, according to the company.
PhotoFusion (Carl Zeiss Vision) — Made in Germany, PhotoFusion lenses are available in a neutral gray tint for accurate color vision in all lighting conditions, according to the company. The lenses darken up to 20 percent faster and lighten indoors up to twice as fast as previous Zeiss photochromic lenses.
ColorMatic (Rodenstock) — Also made in Germany, Rodenstock's ColorMatic lenses are available in gray, brown and green photochromic tints. The company also offers ColorMatic IQ Contrast photochromic lenses in contrast-enhancing shades of orange and green.
PhotoViews (Signet Armorlite) — PhotoViews lenses are made of lightweight plastic and polycarbonate and are available in gray and brown photochromic tints in a variety of lens designs, including Kodak progressive lenses.
SunSensors (Corning) — Corning's SunSensors are made of mid- and high-index plastic materials and are available in gray and brown tints in a variety of lens designs.
PhotoGray; PhotoBrown (Corning) — These glass photochromic lenses offer superior scratch resistance but are significantly heavier and less impact resistant than other photochromic lenses. Corning created the first mass-produced glass photochromic lenses in the 1960s and continues to produce glass photochromic lenses in gray and brown tints.
Thin & Dark (Corning) — Corning's Thin & Dark lenses feature a gray tint and are up to 30 percent thinner and lighter than conventional glass photochromic lenses, according to the company.
Photochromic Sunglasses
Photochromic sunglasses are primarily for outdoor wear. They are not as clear indoors as other photochromic lenses, but they provide extra comfort in bright sunlight and behind the wheel.
Light-adaptive lenses can be placed in just about any fashion frame. They're convenient for everyday use as well as travel.
Transitions Drivewear (Transitions Optical and Younger Optics) — These polarized adaptive lenses are designed specifically for the driving task. They adapt to changing light conditions when worn inside a vehicle, enhance contrast, and improve visual performance for driving, according to Transitions Optical.
Transitions Optical also has incorporated the company's photochromic technology into a line of adaptive sunglasses, motorcycle and bike helmet shields and snow goggles. These products enhance visual performance during outdoor activities by providing comfort in changing light conditions, enhancing contrast and offering the convenience of not having to switch products as light changes, according to the company.
Transitions Optical's photochromic technology is available in products from leading brands like Bell Helmets, Shoei, Oakley, Nike and Dragon Alliance in a variety of tint and color options, including clear to dark lenses, dark to darker lenses, and clear to dark helmet shields. Also, the photochromic performance of products made for snowboarding and other winter activities is optimized for cold temperatures, according to the company.
Medical Applications Of Photochromic Lenses
In addition to adjusting automatically to different lighting conditions, some photochromic lenses also have medical applications.
Corning's CPF family of glass photochromic lenses has specially selected red colors. These lenses sometimes are used to enhance the vision of patients who have various eye pathologies, including macular degeneration. Doctors who specialize in low vision are familiar with these lenses and can determine if they will be effective for specific vision problems.
Non-Photochromic Tinted Lenses
Alternatives to photochromic lenses for improving visual comfort are lenses with tints that remain constant at all times.
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Tints of virtually any color can be applied to eyeglass lenses. Lighter, fashion tints are used primarily for cosmetic purposes to enhance a wearer's looks. Darker tints allow the wearer to use the lenses as sunglasses.
Color can be added to a lens as a solid tint, where the entire lens has the same color density, or as a gradient tint, where the color density is darkest at the top of the lens and gradually fades to clear or nearly clear at the bottom.
Different colors can be applied to lenses for different purposes:
Yellow often is added to a lens to enhance contrast, especially in overcast conditions, making it a popular tint for hunters who desire "shooting glasses."
Green, or its cousin G-15 (the classic color of lenses in Ray-Ban sunglasses), is sometimes used as a sunglass tint, though brown and gray are the most popular sun shades.
Red is a bold fashion color and also is popular among people who enjoy seeing the world through "rose-colored glasses."
About the Author: Gary Heiting, OD, is senior editor of AllAboutVision.com. Dr. Heiting has more than 25 years of experience as an eye care provider, health educator and consultant to the eyewear industry. His special interests include contact lenses, nutrition and preventive vision care.
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Dick took these photos in a bit of a hurry as we were on our way to the UPS store to overnight them.
I've finished three sweaters in the past two weeks. The first two were commissioned by a fellow member of FUSP and had to be complete and in her hands before Christmas. I thought I'd be able to finish the two on the cruise but they ended up taking much longer than I thought. I overnighted them to her on December 23 and the shipping tracker said they arrived on the 24th around 10 AM. It was pretty pricey but I had promised.
Today I finished Helena, a baby sweater I started back in October. I was drawn to it because another member of my NJ knitting group was making one and it looked like a fun knit. I got caught up in other projects and it languished for a while. When I looked at it yesterday I realized it only needed the neckband, a button and button loop. I worked on it as we drove down to Brooksville to catch a movie. Note the rosebud button. I think it's perfect for the sweater. Today I got some photos and posted it on etsy.
I think my next project will be the Laughing Carrots sweater, also for a fellow UU member. She bid on a sweater at the annual service auction. It's coming along but still needs sleeves and a button band. I don't think it will be finished in 2009 but early 2010 seems realistic. I know the recipient has been waiting patiently.


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Millennials, transportation, and housing
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But what about bikes? The graph above also shows how insignificant that transportation "mode" really is.
Rob Anderson's commentary on San Francisco politics from District 5
|New Geography
And it's unfortunately all about driving up the time to drive a car versus driving down the time to take public transit. Because making driving inconvenient better aligns with making bicycling more convenient.
Yes, we've known for a long time that implementing the Bicycle Plan on city streets will delay not only those devilish motor vehicles but also a number Muni lines, which is what the EIR on the plan found.
The city even admitted in one of its briefs that cyclists would be the main beneficiaries of the Bicycle Plan. In reality, they will be the only transportation "mode" to benefit.
That's clear in both the Masonic Avenue bike project and the Polk Street bike project. The city has adopted the Bicycle Coalition's approach: if cycling is to increase, then everyone who drives in the city must be punished with more congestion and more expensive traffic tickets and parking meters.
That's what makes the missing bicycle count report important: If the latest count of cyclists was disappointing, riding bikes in SF has peaked, much like it has in Portland, which makes it harder to justify those projects.
What if after city streets are radically redesigned on behalf of cyclists---making traffic a lot worse for everyone else, including Muni---and cycling is still stuck at less than 4% of commuters, much like Portland is stuck at 6%?


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I am leaving for Oklahoma tomorrow! FOR 12 DAYS! Can you believe that? It's such a long time. I get home sick for Brian so I'm sort of nervous about this trip. So excited to see my sister though! I've got a bunch of awesome guest bloggers lined up for you- so play nice! I'll be around to check in on how things are going. Miss you! MUAH
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Love this hairstyle. Dutch side braid into a ponytail. Easy peasy and so cute!
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This would be such a fun gift! I love it! Speaking of books... any good ones out there I should read?
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Jun 16, 2012
Review of Crater Lake, by Steve Westover
Steve Westover asked me to review the advance review copy of his middle-grade adventure and fantasy-fiction, Crater Lake: the Battle For Wizard Island.
Crater Lake was a fun and interesting read. It will appeal to its intended audience, and it is a rarity; a story directed to middle-grade boys. We need more of those.
I felt that the legend, geography, mythology and overall imaginative conceptualization of the world of Crater Lake were very well done. The characters are perfect—a quarreling pair of siblings, a jock/bully, a cute girl, the good boy scout. Any kid who picks this up will find someone to identify with. I enjoyed the interactions between the characters. I appreciated that they were generally consistent, without improbable changes in personality or behavior.
My favorite thing about this story is the sense that it's not a cozy little world Westover has created; there is real danger. Overall there was a feeling of eeriness and impending adventure (or doom) throughout the story, which drives the reader in spite of the disturbing tragedies that occur in the course of the story. I did feel that there was a little bit more of that than I'd expect in a middle-grade book (tragedy, particularly as one of the tragedies remains unresolved at the end) but the violence isn't such that I would keep my children from reading it. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone with grade-school aged children, boys in particular—they will love it.
You can buy a copy of Westover's book here.
2 comments:
- JoAnn Arnold said...
I just read your review of Crater Lake. Now I've got to read it. I do have a copy and think I'll get started tonight.
- June 16, 2012 4:35 PM
- David McKnight said...
Hi Sarah!
I've been reading your blog and wanted to see if I could offer you a free copy of my soon to be released novel Tongue of Fire in exchange for a fair and honest review on your blog. The plot synopsis is as follows:
The charismatic new preacher at the local mega-church is drawing followers by the hundreds. There's only one problem. He's a Mormon, and nobody knows it.
John Peterson tries to follow the Spirit, but it tells him to preach, and preaching only seems to get him into trouble. His strident defense of the Mormon Church has gotten him fired again, forcing his family to move for the third time in as many years. Looking for a fresh start in Mayfield, John agrees to keep his head down. But when the owner of the local mega-church loses his pastor, he invites John to preach without asking the name of his church. After a spiritual prompting, John decides to preach, but as his following explodes, his new-found fame threatens to expose his religion and shatter his family's hopes for a new life.
The town of Mayfield is growing impatient with high school football coach Paul Connelly. The former pastor was hired to help save the football program after the greatest scandal in school history, but after four straight losing seasons, his time is running out. With John Peterson's meteoric rise, the town appears to have found a new moral authority, and an excuse to find a new coach. When Paul discovers that John is a Mormon, he finds the key to restoring his moral standing—all he has to do is expose and destroy John Peterson.
You can see the cover art at the Tongue of Fire facebook link and like the page for further updates and news.
Thank you for your time!
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- July 06, 2012 1:22 PM


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Good Idea Backfires
Two weeks ago, Aurora Elementary instituted a great program in which students were rewarded for eating healthy foods. Teachers and volunteers would go around during lunch, and give tickets to students eating a healthy food. Our kids loved it, they insisted on having healthy snacks for lunch, and came home everyday bragging about getting tickets.
Fastforward to this morning...
Our normal morning routines consists of waking the kids up around 7am, so that they can eat breakfast, get ready, make their own lunches, and then leave at 8:30 to catch the bus. Normally, I am around to oversee this since I get home from my grave shift at around 730am, right before my wife leaves for work.
This morning though, my wife and I decided to take our toddler to day care together at around 8am. The kids were already ready, all they had to do was make their lunch, and head out the door. They had a full half hour to complete this simple task.
We pulled up to the house at around 9am after stopping off for coffee, looking forward to coming inside and relaxing in an empty house. Imagine our surprise when we walked into the house, and our kids were still there.
Seems like they "couldn't find any healthy snacks" so just decided to miss the bus. This is two 10 year olds and an 8 year old.
After we chewed their little behinds and dropped them off at school, my wife and I laughed our asses off, at how dedicated to healthy snacks they were.
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As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
President Donald Trump has inherited a vampire jet program from the Obama regime called the F 35. To put it plainly, the F 35 was perfectly sound, but once Obama and the cash whores at the Pentagon were set loose, the jet became an albatross.
President Trump has requested that perhaps a super jet off of the existing American platforms in the F 14 F 15 be produced much cheaper and be just as effective. The Lame Cherry has the following suggestion though and calls this the Yeager Option.
What I suggest is two jet systems to deal with the F 35, in the F 20 Tiger shark from Northrup and the F 22 Raptor from Lockheed, both programs cancelled for the wrong reasons.
In the Reagan era, the F 20 was produced as an alternative to the F 16, because the F 20 was cheap to operate. The F 20 had no limitations except a lower ceiling than the F 16, but the amazing thing is that if the Air Force just strapped hotter missiles which could fly higher, that solves the flight ceiling, which was never a problem.
The F 20 was promoted by General Chuck Yeager as the best plane designed ever, and it was. It was a superior platform, it was effective and it was cheap to operate. This is what the US requires as after the Obama spending spree, America needs low cost, highly effective fighters to fill in, for the 3rd wave of warfare as high tech, expensive systems degrade.
For the first wave, President Trump should order the F 22 Raptor, the operational stealth fighter which the Obama regime cancelled for the F 35 which is a fighter that eats money on maintenance, which it was designed to do......that is where you keep contractors in the billion dollar profits in expensive maintenance.
The F 35 was designed to be a jump jet, a carrier jet, and an Air Force jet. It is not functional. So the alternative is to provide the Marines with a Harrier design jump jet if they think they need a fighter and then create a catapult version of the 22 for the Navy, in which carriers are becoming obsolete. The more effective carrier is for the Navy to create airborne refueling platforms in the lag, and then just space plane the problems with titanium rods to do the deed.....which they already have.
So put up a wing of F 35's to keep the allies buying the expense, and instead mainline the F 22 and use the F 20 as the operational base structure for third state warfare.
This reactivating programs was accomplished when Ronald Reagan reactivated the B 1 bomber after Jimmy Carter cancelled it for the expensive B 2. As a suggestion, I would retire the B 52's and convert to B 1's, and then expand the B 1's munitions load. I would suggest a womb rider, a sort of mother ship mach 5 rocket that would be deployed from the bomb bay, rocket to orbit and then deploy their titanium payloads of 250 rods, all at speed which would strike with a nuclear payload of energy.
My suggestions on how to solve the Obama designed disaster of the F 35.
I would point out to the President, that disarming America happened before two world wars to involve America in wars. That is what image Obama was engaged in for the power elite. Ruin American systems to appear weak, antagonize select Eurasians and the war of wars begins as no other alternative exists.
Once again the by God's Grace the problem is solved and America is not sucked into another global war.
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Writer Lionel Wigram meant for the Sherlock Holmes movie to deviate from Doyle's writings, and it does; but this is not why I disdain the film. I disdain it because it is a typical acerebral, modern Hollywood superhero movie.
Elementary Plot, My dear Watson
Lionel Wigram is a comic book writer whose script is based on his comic book understanding of Holmes. Wigram says he found an allusion to Holmes's boxing past and an instance of Holmes using a martial art in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories--so Wigram decided to focus virtually his entire script on kung-fu action.
Snatch 2 ?
When every scene is an action scene, there is no noticeable action scene. As I sat in the theater, I grew weary of all the sensationalized Kung-Pow action, the near escapes, and the slow-motion explosions. Maybe all that slow-motion was what made the movie seem so long. Four monotonously long fighting scenes are spliced by tense scenes of conflict--usually involving Holmes arguing with Watson or with some minor character. When he's not arguing he's hurrying off to some place. Of course, as is typical in a Guy Ritchie film, there abound annoying swooshing sounds and disorienting camera work which together are tasked with depicting transitions into flashbacks, dreams, and the like.
In several fight scenes, Holmes does this ridiculous Mortal Combatesque combo-move in which he envisions a list of sequentially-planned jujitsu moves that he will do on his opponent--in slow motion. He then uses his predetermined combo-move to destroy his foe in real-time. For any nerdedly stricken fan of Pokémon, World of Warcraft, Zelda, Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy, etc, Wigram's Sherlock Holmes is right up his alley.
Not only is the new Holmes more deadly than Chuck Norris, he's an expert scientist too. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes uses little science beyond simple clue gathering* because science was not as prominent nor as developed in Doyle's day. But Wigram's celluloid Sherlock uses primarily forensic science to solve his crime rather than impressive deductive reasoning. Because there is not much focus on Holmes's thought processes throughout the movie**, the end scene in which all is revealed seems disappointing, leaving the viewer wondering whether "this is it?" It is unrealistic to expect the ending to be as good as Doyle's, but it could still be a little more substantive. Overall, Holmes simply discovers the type of scientific cooking Moriarty uses to fool people.
There might be a cryptic sub-plot concerning science triumphing over religion or superstition in Sherlock Holmes. Professor Moriarty tries to chicane the public into thinking he wields the devil's power.¹ Christian protesters are portrayed briefly as morbid lunkheaded doomsayers. Holmes, of course, uses his scientific knowledge to expose Moriarty's feigned death and bogus resurrection. A Christian could interpret this event in a positive way, as meaning that no man other than Christ can be resurrected. Or, he could simply glean a subconscious doubt for any resurrection in the presence of scientific scrutiny.² Overall however, at least the bad guy is associated with the devil.
Finally, Sherlock Holmes resembles a James Bond film because Sherlock's nemesis puts him in many an "easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death." There is even a doomsday device that Holmes and his cohorts must stop. Where would a modern Hollywood movie be without such unique treasures?
Wigram wanted to emphasize the quirky dysfunctional side of Holmes, but he did so to the extreme--in comic book caricature fashion. Holmes spends days in a dark room designing more contraptions than would Dexter in his la-boratory. In this way, Sherlock Holmes is almost interchangeable with Downey Jr.'s Iron Man character. Holmes is definitely an ubermensch--or super-duper character we're all supposed to be imbued with, and Sherlock Holmes is a character-driven film.³ Nonetheless Downey plays the quirky role well.⁴
The quality of ubermenschia is not only confined to Holmes: Watson, played by Jude Law, is also a ninja expert, supposedly justified as such by Wigram because Doyle once mentions his military past. Much has been said about Jude Law's and Downey Jr's "chemistry," but unless we're talking in terms of tag-team fighting tactics, the two really didn't have a whole lot of time together on set for any grown-up interaction--which wasn't really their fault.
Rachel McAdams plays a Holmes' villainess love interest, a character entirely Wigram's. Doyle's Holmes was unconcerned with women, having lost his true love early in life to an illness. Perhaps Wigram felt he could better the movie by giving a lady a prominent role. Perhaps he added the McAdams's character as an Insignificat.⁵ The female character, also an ubermensch, is nearly as smart as Holmes, and beats up a man 3 times her size. I suppose McAdams plays the role well, but, on a lesser note, she should go back to her natural blonde hair color.
Scenery and Music
In keeping with its comic book motif, the film paints a slightly grotesque and grim picture of Victorian London. The dark streets are laden with mud, the skies always cloudy, and the street characters exotically hideous. Notwithstanding this, the costumes are accurate, as are the carriages, rooms, and buildings. Insofar as Sherlock Holmes orthodoxy is concerned, Holmes wears not his typical hat, but a cowboyish hat with dark spectacles. Downey Jr. doesn't have the Rathbonesque aquiline nose either. Throughout the film a Halloween-like ragtime piano arrangement plays. There is also a banjo piece in the movie which isn't too bad.
Everything is just a bit overdone in this film, besides dialogue and plot which are barely done. The apocalyptic setting, ostentatious special effects, and ubermensch characters make Sherlock Holmes reek of idolatry. But hey, at least it won't leave you Avatarred and Feathered.
*I'm wrong about this since Doyle's Holmes was actually an expert chemist and did use a lot of forensic science. In my opinion, however, the movie focuses too much on the "Dexter's Lab" portrayal of Holmes.
**For a better explanation of this see this, see this Buzzine article.
¹ However, Moriarty does seem to commence over a genuine satanic ritual in the beginning of the film.
² Jewish producer Joel Silver probably would have no problem with debunking any resurrection. Nor would director Guy Ritchie who married Madonna who is perhaps the most notorious committer of sacrilege in human history.
³The Ancient Greeks believed stories should be foremostly plot-driven, as do I. Thanks to Ted Baehr and Tom Snyder for putting this insight in their Avatar article so I could copy it.
⁴Robert Downey Jr. is in good standing with the Nothington Post, not only because he's a decent actor but because he defended Mel Gibson during Mel's anti-semitic tirade crisis. Mel is esteemed here because he dared stand up to the atheistic Hollywood cabal by making a movie, not just about an Old Testament Bible story, but about Our Lord's passion.
⁵The Insignificat is an offertory casting to Feminism by placing a woman in an awkward role previously not designated for a female. The lady character usually does manly things like beat up monsters, etc. It is common in Hollywood films today.


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"Put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up" This isn't the type of lime Mike put on his fields. Last week he put the powdered lime on 300 of the 1000 acres he farms. The reason you have to put lime on the ground is so it nuetralizes the ground. Plants take lime out of the ground and after so many years there is none left. The acid in the ground will burn the plant and it will not grow. (The lime is similar to taking tums for indigestion)
That is why you need to apply lime every 3 years. The cost this year is $12.50 per ton and you need to apply 3 ton per acre. $37.50 per acre. The 300 acres cost $11,250. That is why Mike does only 300 acres each year. Next year he will do a different 300 + acres and the following year the other 300+ acres and then it will be time to start all over again.
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2014 is a year which has revealed something which was already clear for those in the media who do not act like government mouthpieces: That the government in Turkey has many media outlets under its direct control, while others behave as if they are state-run.
To top it all, a voice recording leaked over the Internet shortly after two sweeping graft probes went public in December of last year revealed that the government even collected money from pro-government businesspeople to buy a leading media group.
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said during a parliamentary group meeting of the CHP in February that then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had collected a total of $630 million from businesspeople to buy the Sabah media group, a pro-government media outlet that owns dailies and television stations.
According to the CHP leader, Mehmet Cengiz, Celal Koloğlu, Nihat Özdemir and İbrahim Çeçen each contributed $100 million to the $630 million pool.
Hard-pressed by the corruption investigations which came to light on Dec. 17 and 25, in 2014 the government further increased its pressure over the media, a substantial part of which was already a "tool" for the government's use. Following the corruption probes, Erdoğan claimed that the probes were a "coup attempt" against the government and began to target the critical media that covered the claims of high-level corruption in the government.
Apart from mainstream media outlets such as the Zaman, Sözcü and Bugün dailies and Samanyolu, Halk TV and Bugün television channels, many in the industry feel that the whole media has to toe the government's line because they are aware that otherwise, they would be made to suffer the consequences.
Businesspeople under threat
After the December 2013 probes went public, leading to four Cabinet ministers leaving their posts, Erdoğan signaled a number of times that "those who do not take sides [with the government] will be eliminated." The meaning was clear: The government had decided to give a hard time to those who do not support the government in its struggle against those who criticize it. It also meant that the allegations of widespread corruption in the government would be swept under the carpet.
The message is obviously aimed at businesspeople and is particularly aimed at those who also own media outlets, something which has surely dealt a lethal blow to the freedom of the press in Turkey. Without providing any solid evidence, Erdoğan and the government claimed that the Hizmet movement was behind the probes as part of an international plot against the government and vowed to target media outlets affiliated with Hizmet, which is inspired by Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Islamic scholar.
Then, shortly before the anniversary of the graft probes, a police operation was launched against top executives of the Zaman daily and the Samanyolu television channel, both of which are critical of the government and are affiliated with the Hizmet movement.
Critical media labeled as terrorists
Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of Turkey's best-selling daily Zaman, and Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca were detained almost two weeks ago on charges of being part of a terrorist organization. Dumanlı, who was detained for nearly four and half days -- in violation of the legal detention limit -- before being released pending trial, was accused of "establishing and administrating an armed organization" based on two op-ed pieces and one article published in his newspaper five years ago. Karaca was arrested on the grounds of alleged membership of a terrorist group. The only evidence for this is the script of a soap opera which was broadcast several years ago by Samanyolu TV. This is, perhaps, the first time in history that a TV manager has been imprisoned for airing a soap opera.
Following the operation, the European Council said that police raids of an independent media outlet and the detention of a number of journalists and media representatives call into question the respect for the freedom of the media in Turkey.
The media -- sometimes described as the "fourth estate" in democracies due to its role as a guardian against abuses of power -- is unable to properly serve its purpose in Turkey because it is largely dominated by the government. And, in addition to controlling a major portion of the mainstream media through outlets which are owned by businesspeople closely linked to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the government keeps the rest of the media under pressure to toe the line. The Sabah, Akşam, Star, Yeni Şafak dailies and ATV, A Haber, 24, Kanal 7 television channels are just some of the outlets owned by pro-government businesspeople.
'Fourth estate' of democracy in pieces
Unfortunately, the fourth estate has been heavily crippled in Turkey over the past couple of years. A remark made just this week by the main opposition leader reveals the extent to which the media is controlled by the government. Following his press meeting on Tuesday, Kılıçdaroğlu -- forgetting that his microphone was still on -- whispered to a CHP official sitting at his side that he doubted whether television channels would convey his message to the public.
Derya Sazak, the editor-in-chief of the Yurt daily, said in a recent interview with the Bugün daily that it was Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan who had him and some columnists fired from the Milliyet daily last year. "The operation targeting Milliyet was Akdoğan's doing," Sazak, who was editor-in-chief of the daily, said in the interview. The claim was immediately denied on Twitter by Akdoğan, who was at the time chief advisor to Erdoğan. Akdoğan accused Sazak of lying and slander. But Sazak stood his ground. Following Akdoğan's statement, Sazak said: "Yalçın Akdoğan is lying. I stand by my words. After I published the İmralı documents, he not only rang me to threaten me but also put pressure on the Demirören family [the owners of Milliyet]."
Sazak was fired from Milliyet after he published documents concerning a meeting on İmralı Island between the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, and pro-Kurdish deputies. The meetings were sanctioned by the government as part of the settlement process launched to resolve the country's ongoing Kurdish issue.
Gov't bans critical media from attending state-held events
Following the graft probes of December 2013, the government has extended the scope of the intimidation against the media, introducing an accreditation ban on several media outlets that it considers to be its "enemies." The Cihan, Samanyolu and Zaman media groups and several other newspapers have been systematically barred from attending events held by government institutions and from reporting from the new presidential palace, a practice that violates the freedom of the press as guaranteed by Article 28 of the Constitution.
Furthermore, after the judiciary was restructured by the government in line with its needs, several courts affiliated with the government issued gag orders on critical political debates, such as the crisis which erupted when Turkish diplomats were taken hostage by Islamist extremists in Iraq in the summer. The gag order limited public understanding of the course of events and blocked the public's right to information.
The Doğan Media Group, which has come under strong pressure from the government in 2014, did not publish an article of one of its columnists because it was feared that the article would anger Erdoğan. Yılmaz Özdil, the columnist in question, also had to part ways with the Hürriyet daily in August after the daily censored a column he had written about corruption. Two journalists for the same media group's other dailies, Radikal and Milliyet, were also fired at the time.
In May, Erdoğan publicly threatened Doğan owner Aydın Doğan, telling him to sack Özdil and Yazgülü Aldoğan, both columnists who are critical of the government. Directly targeting Doğan in a speech, Erdoğan said, "You [Doğan] are of the same mindset [as those columnists]." In early August, a day after Erdoğan targeted the media group -- the country's largest -- Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Enis Berberoğlu resigned.
As is clear from Erdoğan's attitude, he took the corruption investigations personally. Some voice recordings leaked over the Internet revealed that he and his son Bilal may also been involved in corruption. In a voice recording leaked in February, a voice allegedly belonging to Erdoğan can be heard intervening with Habertürk TV's reporting, ordering Fatih Saraç, a former deputy chairman of the Ciner Media Group -- which owns Habertürk -- to stop the broadcast of a speech by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli.
In another leaked phone conversation claimed to be between Erdoğan and Saraç, the prime minister is heard instructing Saraç to remove a Habertürk TV news ticker quoting Bahçeli, who had called for then-President Abdullah Gül to step in and ease the tensions during the Gezi Park protests of last summer. Erdoğan later admitted that he had called Saraç to censor the news ticker. Claiming that he had made the call to stop slander against him, Erdoğan seemed to admit that he might have called other media outlets from time to time.
The scandal reached new heights when Habertürk's then-Editor-in-Chief Fatih Altaylı claimed in a TV interview with journalist Cüneyt Özdemir that Habertürk is under excessive government pressure, just like the entire Turkish media. Last month, Altaylı was not only forced to leave his post, apparently under government pressure, but also stopped writing a column for the daily.
Turkey 154th globally in terms of freedom of information
The government's repression of the media has been much criticized by national and international platforms.
According to a study conducted by the Basın-İş union, an affiliate of the Confederation of the Revolutionary Workers' Unions (DİSK), a total of 981 members of the press were dismissed in the first six months of 2014, while 56 members of the press had to resign due to various reasons.
According to the World Press Freedom Index issued for the year 2014 by Reporters Without Borders, Turkey ranks 154th globally in terms of freedom of information, a ranking which places Turkey below countries such as Afghanistan, Russia and Jordan. In its report, the world's leading press advocacy body said that as of end of 2013, Turkey "continues to be one of the world's biggest prisons for journalists." Noting that 153 journalists were wounded and 39 detained during the Gezi Park protests of summer 2013, the report also said that "the Gezi Park revolt highlighted the repressive methods used by the security forces, the increase in self-censorship and the dangers of the prime minister's populist discourse."
US-based watchdog Freedom House said that there had been a "significant decline" in press freedom in Turkey in its "Freedom of the Press 2014" report, released in May. The watchdog, which downgraded Turkey from its "Partly Free" to its "Not Free" category, stressed that the biggest decline in Europe took place in Turkey.
Journalists dismissed due to gov't pressure
Below are some of the media members who were forced to leave in the past year:
Nazlı Ilıcak, a columnist for the pro-government Sabah daily, was fired after she criticized the government for having decided to close down prep schools (dershanes) and for saying that the four ministers allegedly involved in corruption should resign.
Süleyman Yaşar, a columnist for Sabah who wrote about economic issues, was allegedly fired for not criticizing the Hizmet movement in his column.
Meliha Okur, a columnist for Sabah writing on business topics, was allegedly dismissed for not defending the ruling party following the graft probes.
Yasemin Taşkın, the Rome correspondent for Sabah, was sent packing when her husband conducted an interview with Fethullah Gülen.
Nur Batur, a veteran diplomacy correspondent also with Sabah, resigned and said that the daily had lost its prestige because it did not allow different opinions to be expressed. She described the changes as "a pity for Sabah."
Murat Aksoy, who was a columnist for the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily, was dismissed shortly after he made remarks critical of the government following the graft probes.
Mahir Zeynalov, a journalist for Today's Zaman, was expelled from Turkey on the grounds of "insulting" Erdoğan on Twitter. Zeynalov was forced to leave Turkey for his native Azerbaijan in February 2013 and has since been put on a list of foreign individuals who are barred from entering Turkey under Law No. 5683.
Yavuz Semerci, a columnist for the Habertürk daily, announced his resignation in his column in September, saying he "would not apologize for the discomfort he caused."
A number of columnists and reporters also resigned from the pro-government Türkiye daily shortly after starting work at the newspaper. Deniz Ülke Arıboğan, a professor of international relations, and columnist Balçiçek İlter are among those who chose to leave, apparently due to the daily's very pro-government attitude.
YouTube, Twitter banned
In an effort to stifle material that would reveal corruption or the government's alleged intended involvement in the civil war in Syria, the government briefly banned You Tube and Twitter in early 2014. However, the Constitutional Court lifted the bans shortly after, describing the bans as unconstitutional.
In November, Twitter blocked access in Turkey to two accounts belonging to Today's Zaman Managing Editor Celil Sağır after a Turkish court ruled that the accounts' content "tarnished the reputation" of government officials, the latest in a government crackdown on Twitter accounts which are critical of the government.
Dozens of Twitter accounts have been either shut down or their content withheld within Turkey at the requests of Turkish courts in the past year alone; Sağır, however, is the first censured journalist who openly writes using his real name. Despite being the target of a criminal complaint in September by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his son Bilal and daughter Sümeyye as well as the president's adviser Mustafa Varank, Sağır has defied the court ruling and vowed not to remain silent in the face of growing government pressure. Followed by nearly 55,000 Twitter users, Sağır is an influential and outspoken voice, highlighting the government's wrongdoings in sarcastic fashion.
Early in the year, Erdoğan described Twitter as a "menace to society" and vowed to shut down it after a series of leaked voice recordings that appeared to incriminate him and members of his inner circle surfaced on the platform. The president is having difficulty controlling the relatively free online world and has recently said he is "against the Internet." The AK Party government recently adopted a law that makes it possible for authorities to shut down any website they deem to be problematic without a court order.
Representatives of foreign media also face defamation campaign
Journalists including Amberin Zaman, Ivan Watson, Ceylan Yeğinsu and Ceyda Karan are among those who have been targeted by Erdoğan and those who follow in his footsteps on social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
In early August, Erdoğan accused Zaman -- a correspondent for The Economist -- of belittling the voting public in Turkey. In a rally held as part of Erdoğan's presidential election campaign in Malatya in August, Erdoğan insulted her by saying that she should know her place. Erdoğan also accused Zaman -- who had expressed the opinion that voters in Muslim-majority countries in general and AK Party voters in particular are not critical or questioning -- of insulting Muslims and Islam. He also called Zaman "a shameless militant journalist."
Karan, the foreign news editor of the Cumhuriyet daily, was targeted by a campaign of insults from social media users after she made remarks critical of the government. She was attacked when, after Erdoğan's victory in the 2014 presidential election, she implied that voters had been manipulated.
In another instance, AK Party Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek launched a Twitter campaign against BBC Turkish journalist Selin Girit for her Twitter reports on a protest at Yoğurtçu Park in İstanbul, accusing Girit of being a "British agent" and of engaging in "treachery to her nation."
Pro-government media outlets also targeted Yeğinsu, a reporter for The New York Times, after the US daily came under attack from Erdoğan over a report focusing on the alleged recruitment of Turkish citizens by the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in an Ankara neighborhood. The US daily ran the story in late August with a photo of Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu leaving a mosque in Ankara's Hacıbayram neighborhood, which the report said has become a recruitment hub for ISIL. It later removed the photo and published a correction but this did not stop the verbal attack on Yeğinsu.
Erdoğan also accused CNN International's İstanbul correspondent Ivan Watson, who was detained live on air during the Gezi anniversary protests on May 31, of being a foreign "agent," an accusation that was strongly criticized by press freedom advocacy groups in Turkey.
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If you follow sports at all, you know that this week the NFL handed down the punishment for Ray Rice, who was caught on camera dragging his then-fiancee/now-wife's unconscious body out of an elevator after he had beaten her unconscious. The punishment was a suspension of two games. To put this is in perspective, Browns WR Josh Gordon is suspended the entire season for testing positive for marijuana use a second time. To put it really into perspective, the punishment for a first failed test for marijuana is 4 games. Or to put it into sickening perspective, the NFL believes that the recreational use of marijuana is at least twice as bad as beating your wife unconscious.
As a feminist I'm obviously pretty opposed to beating a woman into unconsciousness (though to be fair, as a bleeding-heart hippie I'm opposed to beating anyone into unconsciousness). But I'm also uncomfortable with a lot of the sports world reaction that views this as bad because the victim was a woman. Never hit a woman for any reason I've seen about a million times. If it was "never hit anyone for any reason," I'd be fine with it, but it's not. Instead, so many are denouncing one sexist act with a different (albeit more of an opposite side of the coin type of thing) sexist worldview, one in which women are tiny, delicate flowers unable to fend for themselves and must be protected by big, strong men.
As you can tell from my disdainful tone, I obviously don't buy that line of logic, albeit obviously agreeing with those folks that Rice never should have done this. But it's not because she's a woman, it's for two reasons -- 1) she was his intimate partner, and 2) there's an amazing difference in physical size between the two.
On the first point, while all violence is bad, intimate partner violence is especially pernicious for many reasons. Obviously there are the physical effects, but also the psychological effects of someone you believe to love you and have your best interests at heart treating you in such a manner. And of course, we know this was not an isolated incident. Sure, I don't know either of these people, but I do know about intimate partner violence, as one of my close colleagues is among the leading experts in North America on the subject. And what we've learned from the scientific study of intimate partner violence is that it does not come out of nowhere and is never a single, isolated incident. By the time it gets to the point where you think nothing of beating your partner unconscious, you've already hit them multiple times. So to put Rice's slap on the wrist into even more context, this was the punishment meted out to someone we have every reason to believe (and no reason not to believe) is a repeat abuser.
But the second point is really where I diverge from the "don't hit girls" (these folks almost always use the term "girls" instead of "women," which I think speaks volumes about how they view the situation). And not disagree in the incredibly disgraceful way ESPN commentators have in which they keep raising the issue that maybe she was asking for it. Because some troglodytes defending Rice have suggested that maybe she hit him first, apparently justifying him beating her unconscious. But look at any picture of the two and you'll notice something obvious: Rice, the professional football player, is a big, muscular dude (5'9", 195 lbs, to be exact). His wife, on the other hand, is normal human size. This is why it goes from simple assault to a much more pernicious problem; if his partner was someone who could actually kick his ass, like say Ronda Rousey, and she was punching him, then sure it makes sense for him to defend himself physically. But the sheer size difference between Rice and his partner is what makes it so horrible, the gender doesn't really matter. It would be just as shockingly horrible had Rice beaten a man (or anyone of any gender) that much smaller than him.
tl;dr: It's not horrible just because he hit a woman. It's horrible because he beat his partner who was much physically smaller than him. We can condemn his violence without having to imply (or explicitly state, as many have) that women are incapable of defending themselves and need to be protected by men at all times.


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to steal the wine glass in this painting so that I could complete SILK EGG!
Which is to say, here's the first draft of SILK EGG's "book description" below -- but first let me share that ...
...generally, I've written books to learn something. But SILK EGG: Collected Novels (2009-2009) is the first book where I feel everything I'd learned to that point of creation all melded together into some rapturous birthing, which is why I also can say I wrote these dozen novels in a limited period of time--I think a month). Anyway, perhaps the book description will elucidate (somewhat):
SILK EGG: A Book Description:
Last century, I temporarily borrowed Jorge Luis Borges' chatelaine. I slipped off a certain key and made a copy before I returned it to its chains and the old man (OMG: can he ever snore!). Since then, I've been able to slip into Jorgie's Library of Babel whenever I wished—that permanent stain on the 7th floor's limestone windowsill was from the d'Yquem I'd carelessly spilled from my treasured wine glass (stolen previously from Vermeer). About a year after I wrote all of the novels that comprise SILK EGG, I returned to the Library of Babel's 7th floor with a bottle of Ajax cleanser ("stronger than dirt!") that I'd hoped would work this time in erasing proof of my unpermitted visitations: that hardened pool of "nectar of the gods" ever winking out a small sun from the bibliophilic dimness. It was during this yet again failed attempt at the domestic arts that I also stumbled across a book whose spine mirrored the color of the sweet liquid I'd spilled; I do love this wine's color—an apt symbol of enlightenment among Buddhists. I pulled out the book from the shelf, blew off the dust, opened it, and discovered there the same words that comprise SILK EGG. However, the novels were contextualized by the book's title: INEVITABLE GIBBERISH. I dispute the Library of Babel's context—but there's no need to take my word for it: I've decided to release SILK EGG to the public and have readers judge whether these novels are more than the leavings from more acceptable narratives as authors strive to use every letter, space and punctuation mark in every possible combination.
--Eileen R. Tabios
Jean, if no one else, might appreciate the subtitle "Collected Novels (2009-2009)"...so: what facet of the literary world does this (affectionately) critique? There's that trickster in Moi!
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Clementine Fest
Clementine Fest 4x6 oil on canvas. Ahhh, Fall. Autumn. October. It's raining and dreary which makes for a super cozy retreat in the studio. I love my fort. And apparently so do the local insects. I find a few here and there now that the cold weather is setting in. Heard some wind and thunder today but was far to engrossed to know if there was lightening first. Who cares? All I need now is one of those fake fireplaces to really cozy up the joint.... Hmmm.
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By Tom Perry
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Work Areas & Projects
Hunting in Europe is affected by many different factors.
Our work is organised into 12 main themes which provide the main building blocks of FACE's work and encompass over 100 dossiers which require insight, monitoring and expertise from the FACE Secretariat and Members.
Member support is the first theme for FACE, our primary concern.
FACE has 6 technical themes:
- Nature Conservation
- Wildlife Conservation
- International Agreements
- Animal Welfare & Health
- Firearms & Ammunition
- Hunting Methods & Culture
These 6 focus areas are supported by 5 structural themes such as Strategic Partners or Communications & Development.
FACE undertakes specific projects in relation to our 6 focus areas. Here are some of our most recent Projects:
The FACE Biodiversity Manifesto in the Mediterranean
FACE and Members from the Mediterranean region will embark on a project to contribute towards the implementation of the main objectives of The Biodiversity Manifesto in the Mediterranean region.The project will be co-financed by the MAVA Foundation (http://en.mava-foundation.org/). Until July 2013, a set of workshops are intended to exchange expertise on biodiversity conservation and experience on how to influence environmental policy making. The main output will be a publication of good practice by hunters in the Mediterranean which will demonstrate how this group helps the EU and governments to deliver on biodiversity conservation targets.
The French National Hunters' Association FNC (Fédération Nationale des Chasseurs, FACE Member) received support from the Ministry of Ecology and the Foundation of the House of Hunting and Nature (Maison de la Chasse et de la Nature) to coordinate a mediation and communication project: Medialoup, to address the return of the wolf in France and Europe. FACE is part of the Steering Committee and coordinating the organisation of 3 workshops by FACE Members, notably from Italy, Sweden and Spain.
Invasive alien species in Northern Europe
Read more here.
EU Contract on Scientific and Technical Assistance Supporting Species Protection under the Birds Directive
FACE assisted BirdLife International, recommendations were made to the European Commission for a new methodology aimed at improving the production and implementation of Action Plans (Annex I), Management Plans (Annex II), and updating of the Key Concepts document on Article 7§4 of the Birds Directive. To test a new methodology for collecting data from different sources, a specific task was undertaken to produce population assessments for species where there was an identified knowledge gap. FACE was responsible for this task in relation to Rock Partridge Alectoris graeca and Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus and organised 2 workshops to address this challenge.
The outcome of this work showed worrying declines through much of the species range but stable populations in France and Greece.
Transactional Environmental Support System was a research project supported by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The project began in October 2008 with the aim of designing a decision support system that will make it easy for policy makers to integrate local knowledge into their decision making whilst guiding and encouraging local activities that restore and maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services. In this respect, the aims of TESS are more ambitious than only supporting central policy.
The ultimate aim is to aid restoration and maintenance of biodiversity and natural resources in the European countryside, by reversing the processes that caused so much degradation.
FACE, as one of the project's partners, enabled hunters to contribute to the project by participating in surveys and providing information for case studies. The dynamic engagement of hunters in the provision of information reflects their motivation to be involved in improving the practices, methods and support systems available for biodiversity restoration – from the local level right through to the pan-European.
An optimistic future for hunters and other local actors to continue to inform environmental policy, enhancing the paths towards a better state of nature.


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I ran across an article at Deadspin, excellently written, that I'd like to pass along today. The article is from June 7, written by Ryan Goldberg, and concerns horse racing, specifically the 2008 Triple Crown season. The three things you might know going in from that year are that A) Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby, B) the filly Eight Belles broke her leg and had to be put down, and C) still no Triple Crown win which is pretty much the only thing the general public cares about anymore regarding horse racing.
Part of horse racing's image problem revolves around general corruption, and Goldberg's piece is not going to help matters. It tells the story of an investment scheme that promised to pay investors from the horse's winnings, a poor investment strategy given how uncertain a revenue stream that is. It tells the story of a horse frequently given steroids. It tells the story of an owner, Rick Dutrow, who treated the rules as things that didn't apply to him and even if they did, didn't matter enough to worry about. Everything collapsed during the Triple Crown, and Big Brown not only failed to convert at the Belmont, he came in stone dead last and DNF'ed.
To the horse racing community's utter delight.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Big Brown Stain... ...Yeah, Let's Go With That
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A week ago I was still catching up on my sleep after getting back from my eighth ReenactorFest (aka Military History Fest, but some of us are too used to the old name to change now).
ReenactorFest is the reason I made the move from renaissance faire playtron with an interest in history to 16th century reenactor. I went to my first ReenactorFest with Stephen, Alena, and Tom and a couple others in 2006. Amanda joined us for the trip the next year. And in May 2009 the five of us had the meeting that led to the founding of The Guild of Saint Moritz/Das Geld Fӓhnlein.
Over the past five years, my favorite reenactment events have been timelines. There's just something about getting to geek out with other reenactors, hearing about what they're researching, seeing what interesting little bits of material culture they're collected, and seeing how they've chosen to present their little slice of history to the general public. I always come back from ReenactorFest feeling energized and psyched up to dive back into some research.
But one of the coolest things about the trip to ReenactorFest this year was getting to chat with my friend Kass McGann, proprietress of Reconstructing History and her fabulous husband Bob (pictured). Kass gave me a little advance peek into her plans for a Golden Age of Travel dream birthday. I still remember her descriptions of her trip on Cunard back in 2010 (which totally made me want to run out and book a cruise! If only I could arrange to have vacation time and extra money at the same time….).
I spent a lot of time reading Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers myself, and I'm getting ready to finally start watching Downton Abby on Netflix. It's going to be a whole lotta fun watching her research the 1930s, construct her wardrobe, and plan this trip. I hope to see the occasional blog post from Bob too. I never did find out his verdict on whether or not his new dry cleaners did an acceptable job on his dress shirts. He does wear that tux rather nicely, doesn't he?
How can you not love a couple who plan to cruise in proper style? Damn, now I wanna reenact the 1930s too.
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I said hello to my furry friend who was not in a hurry and closed in while he examined my not so woodchuck-like face, which was neither-bird-nor-ant – not ants that crawled very close on the belly of the earth, close enough for him to sniff them whenever there was a shifting sunlight that took all of us from place to place in search of food fuel shelter or things like warm hands or soothing sights – my face
not bird-like because I had stopped shaping my mouth into a beak since long and cooed lesser than usual for I was distraught that winter could still creep in soon like army ants on their strong bellies and shove me indoors
only, I'd stay inside my hay-baled walls, he residing beneath the floorboards of my snap-together pre-fabricated housing unit. Truthfully enough, we had already spent some winters together, I baking my potatoes in a smelly electric oven cautiously dripping drops of olive oil on their curled up skins while he (possibly) enjoying the aroma and munching on seeds he stole the previous spring from my fancy plastic lantern porch bird feeder
no, that's fine, I tell him I'm not upset because the seeds are taken by you dear woodchuck and are not in the bellies of fickle-minded birds who might have considered hunting grasshoppers by the creek. Of course, the grasshoppers were all extinct because some grass got pulled out by mistake with the predator weed this last summer when school kids invaded the creek
the woodchuck smooths his coat counts his furs while listening to me, nodding and smiling like an otter that eyes flighty fish in front of him, sleepy sunlight shining like rare fish in this hemisphere where we were still allowed to run about for it really was spring
if you wish, do come and sun your back on my porch I tell him because I too am interested in counting his pollen-like furs or the number of times his tail flaps. No I'm fine he says, living beneath your wooden floor during my off hours, he assures me, although your invitation is tempting… he thinks, then
see, right now I'm coiling inside your half-open and unused cauldron of a barbecue grill, rubbing my back on charcoal remnants and eyeing an interfering chickadee that got off the group in order to put a tab on me. I'm showing her my gooey back – oh now you may think it is goo-like with all that charcoal soot – and waiting for her to know I prefer my own company
well, I am so happy, I say. You and I to that effect can now roll on the ground and sniff the grass and tell the world we're talking, talking, in between I'm throwing sunflower seeds in my mouth as well as towards you. We are talking woodchuck, although I don't speak in bird trill or have antennas like communicative restless ants. I do understand though that all we love is a pizza-hot sun and blowing away of the dandelion flakes that get inside our nostrils making us both sneezy, and now we're talking … Yes, we are talking, we are, says the woodchuck, turns his snoozy belly up to the warmth dripping like syrup from the afternoon sky, waiting for me to throw him the sunflowers seeds and roll over to sleep with the words while I keep throwing words towards him on the lawn … one two three.
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Some interesting bits in the BLK collection from White Moutaineering. Makes me wonder if there's any design links between WM and Nike ACG, lots of similarities here...
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
White Mountaineering - BLK
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As I grow older I learn not to take everything for granted, but I still fail at times. I realize that I have a very good life, and it's all thanks to the man who died for me, Jesus Christ. Without him nothing I have accomplished spiritually would have any value. Without him, the awesome people who have helped me spiritually would really matter. Although it has been a cold Easter, I know that the gorgeous weather will return, and I will continue to enjoy it! Has your heart been touched this Easter or maybe another occassion or just anytime? God has a plan for me and everyone else, and that plan is going to be awesome!
Awesome God
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SQL Server Compact Edition and Synchronization Updates
Steve Lasker's Creating your SQL Server Compact Edition database and schema in code post proposes to create your local SSCE database on the fly from T-SQL commands that you store as an application resource. SSCE's DDL doesn't accept multiple (batched) commands but SQL Server Management Studio [Express] (SSMS[X]) SP2 hides this limitation from you by allowing GO to separate batched commands.
Steve suggests the neat trick of adding the batch file that you tested and saved in SSMS[X] to the project's resources, and then use String.Split in code like the following to obtain an array of commands:
Dim commands() As String commands = My.Resources.DatabaseCreation.Split( _ New String() {"GO"}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
If you use Orcas's Sync Designer to generate the local database cache from the server database's metadata, you must add foreign key and other constraints, as well as indexes, to SSCE with code. So Steve's approach applies to the SSCE Sync Framework, too.
Click here for a table that describes the most important SQL Server 2005 [Express] features that are missing in SSCE. My "Lighten Up Your Local Databases" article from the March 2007 Visual Studio Magazine issue shows you how to take full advantage of SSCE as a local data cache.
SyncGuru Rafik Robeal's sixth Sync Framework demo, Decoupling of Change Tracking Metadata, separates tracking information (for example, CreationDate, LastEditDate, and ClientID fields) into a separate tracking table. Using a separate tracking table minimizes the effect of synchronizing client caches on a production database's schema. Rafik says:
The good news though is that the building a decoupled change tracking layer is not a big deal. In the decoupled model, the base table schema remains intact. As the demo shows, three triggers (insert, update, and delete) and separate tracking table are enough to build equivalent change tacking model. Although, the sync commands need to change since it needs to grab corresponding tracking information by joining the base table with the tracking table, the changes are simple and easy to understand.


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Imagine drinking rather than eating a big lunker salmon.
In all, it took the Wasilla distiller nearly 50 attempts to perfect the recipe for his new Smoked Salmon Flavored Vodka, now available in liquor stores, bars and restaurants in Alaska and in some locations in the Lower 48.
Salmon vodka is the costliest and most stressful product that Foster's 8-year-old company, the Alaska Distillery, has produced since its inception, he said.
I haven't tasted it and don't know that I would; I guess I'm just not adventurous enough. Weird? Interesting? Disgusting?
Not for me to decide, but something about it sounds fishy.
Oh, come on - you knew I was going go there, right? Right? So now, let the piscatorial puns prevail!


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Shirtless man in SNF billboard campaign draws eyeballs
In today's social media-minded culture, any advertiser worth their salt knows going viral equals gold. One Connecticut provider achieved that landmark thanks to a sexy billboard for its new all-female skilled nursing wing.
Cheshire Regional Rehab Center in Cheshire, CT, put up a billboard featuring a hunky shirtless "nurse," along with the tagline "Who's Caring For Your Mom?" last week. The ad worked, a Cheshire spokeswoman told Cosmopolitan.com, and the facility has been inundated with calls for its soon-to-open wing.
As for the eye candy? Alas, he's a stock photo model, not a real nursing home employee, the spokeswoman said.
Click here to see Cheshire's conversation-sparking billboard.


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Actress Zoey Deutch, star of the TV show Ringer, wore jewelry from Renee Sheppard at the 2012 Kid's Choice Awards in Los Angeles on April 2nd 2012. Zoey accessorized her outfit with sterling silver pave diamond disc earrings (retailing for $612), pave diamond bangle bracelets (retailing for $3,780 each), a pave diamond octagon band ring (retailing for $1,860), and a pave diamond band ring (retailing for $1,320).
The collection from Renee Sheppard is available in Los Angeles at Nina at Fred Segal, Madison, Theodore, and other specialty stores nationwide; as well as online at ReneeSheppard.com.
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It was a little after seven this evening. Mama Wordbones and I had just finished our Friday cocktail hour. We were hungry.
Lately our Friday routine has revolved around getting seated at a HoCo loco restaurant by six thirty. On Friday nights, in
, getting a table for two on a Friday night at a tier one establishment, without a reservation, after six thirty, is challenging. Howard County
As we drained our happy hour drinks, we laid out a strategy. Our first stop would be the long shot, our first choice, the
. Experience told us to expect a one hour wait. We were seated, in our favorite spot, within minutes. That Friday the 13th mojo was seemingly working for us. Tomato Palace
"It is slower than usual tonight," the host guy admitted.
Indeed it was, and we were the luckier for it.
As we settled into an elevated booth, beneath the star lit skylights, with glasses of wine in our hands, I mentioned to Mama Wordbones that I hadn't written a post on To2C today.
"That's not like you," she noted.
True. I've been otherwise occupied today as they say. Sometimes it is difficult to juggle being a dad, a partner, and a blogger. The blog has the weakest position in that three way contest.
"I could always just write about getting into
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live out loud
here's to the journey...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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We're doing it again. From Spokane to Tennesee. Tennesee to Spokane. And now back again.
Some things on the agenda already (and this is prelimanery planning, mind you.):
1. Grand Canyon
2. Fruits. Veggies. Nuts.
3. Couch surfing
Dear Collegedale,
We'll be seeing you on the 19th.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Oh, how He loves us.
Just... watch it.
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I've been feeling lots of things lately. I've got this picture in my head, or maybe I actually saw it in a movie, of this person who is just being dive-bombed by birds. The birds just keep coming, from all angles. When she turns to try to take care of one, another one comes and pulls at her hair, so she turns around again, never really able to deal with any of these death birds properly.
I've been going for weeks now. And been barely able to brush the surface of lots of thoughts and feelings I've had lately. My feelers feel exhausted from feeling. I love it here. I love my job, my team, the interns, living with the Blasers. I went to camp this last weekend. I love the smell of that place, the people, the LIFE that oozes from there. I miss being creative, silly, and just SERVING kids. I set my end date for my internship yesterday. August 13, and it's done. Next chapter. Back to Tennessee where I have amazing roommates, great classes, great friends, and a super promising semester. But it'll be different. And so many people I love have left. And after that? Next chapter. Then add the present day stuff of figuring out relationships, yourself, and your life path and goals... and you've got quite the collage of feelings.
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I thought I'd do something a little different and do a "how I made...", tutorial type blog post. Here's the card I made using the Sew Lovely collection from Docrafts
What you need:
- 12"x12" Sew Lovely Paper pack
- Lucy Cromwell clear stamp set
- acrylic block
- black ink
- metal ruler
- craft knife
- scissors
- double sided tape
- foam squares
- self adhesive rhinestones
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Cut yourself a 4 1/2" x 6 1/2 inch piece of patterned paper. I used these measurements because I wanted a white border around the edge, but you could cover the card in your patterned paper if you wish.
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Next I took the 12"x12" paper that was covered in bobbins and cut out 3 of them in various sizes and colours to use as my embellishments.
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I then added double sided tape to the sentiment, and two of the bobbins. On the third bobbin I added a foam square, just to create that little bit of dimension in the card.
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