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Hitting age 30 isn't a big deal in many professions. But for a starting pitcher, it often signifies the beginning of the end — or at least that's the common perception.
Jon Lester is out to prove life at 30 isn't so bad. The Red Sox ace, who expressed optimism Friday regarding a potential contract extension with Boston, said he understands concerns about pitchers breaking down but that plenty of hurlers can succeed even as their approach changes later in their careers.
"The older you get obviously things start to decline. Then you just have to figure out how to go from there," Lester told WEEI.com's Alex Speier earlier this spring. "But I don't like the fact that people say, 'OK, you're 30, you're basically dead — all your good years are behind you.' I don't feel like that's the case.
"I still feel like I have a lot of years left. Obviously when things start to decline and you don't have 95 [mph] anymore, by then you should be able to know how to pitch, change speeds and location, all that stuff. I think each year for me I've learned something a little bit different."
Lester is coming off a strong 2013 campaign in which he pitched a career-high 248 innings between the regular season and playoffs. The lefty's average fastball velocity was down a tad — though he dialed it up a notch in the postseason — but Lester feels like he's able to compensate in other areas as he enters his ninth major league season.
"As a younger guy, you turn around and don't see 94, 95, 96, you say, '[Expletive] — what's wrong?' You start trying to get those numbers," Lester said. "As you get older, I think the pride goes down a little bit. You've got to be realistic. You don't have it all the time."
Lester might not have the same velocity all the time, but when experienced pitchers are able to execute pitches and find other ways to get guys out, velocity becomes just a number.
The same goes for age.
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Neillsville H. S. Class of 1946 & '45 Reunion (60th &
61st - 2006)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
Surnames: Middleton, Hemp, Van Gorden, Dierauer, Cook, Henchen, Lauscher, Neider, Karnitz, Pepper, Kissling, Harder, Elmhorst, Hagedorn, Shaw, Quicker, Opelt, Herian, Mott, Barrette, Urban, Neuhaus, Brager, Swann, Lipscy, Schlinsog, Brown, Bodamer, Tibbett, Diercks, Berger, Wilsmann, Trewartha, Bender, Dudei, Qualley, Meihack, Zank, Neperud, Rood, Holt, Poppe, Kroll. Wachholz, Lukas, McGrew
----Sources: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) September 20, 2006
NHS combined class reunion held (1945-1946)
A combined Class Reunion of the Neillsville High School Class of 1946 and Class of 1945 was held at Fannies Super Club on September 9, 2006.
The fellowship time to renew old friendships and talk about the good old days commenced at 2 p.m. and continued until 5 p.m. at which time a delicious family-style dinner was served. A welcome and a prayer were given by Jerry Opelt. After dinner, poetry selections were offered by Jean (Middleton) Hemp and Cyrena (Van Gorden) Dierauer. Later, in a discussion by the group, it was decided to have another Reunion in September, 2008. The Class of 1944 will be invited to join in. A list of names of the deceased members was displayed in their honor indicating 29 deceased of the Class of 1946 and 32 of the Class of 1945. Also displayed were pictures of previous reunions, yearbooks, and correspondence from those unable to attend. A good time was had by all.
Those attending from Wisconsin were: Wilbert and Dorothy (Cook) Henchen, Ed and Nora Lee (Lauscher) Neider, Virginia (Dux) Karnitz, Ernie and Jane (Pepper) Kissling, Bennie and Betty Harder, Ronald Elmhorst, Bob and Lorraine (Hagedorn) Shaw, Harris and Mary Dux, Jerry and Faye (Quicker) Opelt, Robert and Jeanette Herian, Alice (Mott) Barrette, Ione (Stevens) Urban, Marian (Neuhaus) Brager and daughter, Don and Hilda (Swann) Lipscy, William and Jeanette Schlinsog, Joan (Brown) Bodamer and Marguerite (Brown) Tibbett, Eugene and Wahnita Diercks, Arvid Berger, William Wilsmann, Helen Trewartha, Mae (Bender) Hemp and June (Bender) Dudei, Charles and Lou (Qualley) Neff, Ruby Meihack, Ronald and Betty (Zank) Meihack, Joyce (Neperud) Rood, Bob and Betty (Holt) Wilsmann, Wilmer and Ethel (Poppe) Kroll.
Attendants from out of state were: Bob and Jean (Middleton) Hemp, Universal City, TX, Bob and Cyrena (Van Gorden) Dierhauer, Bloomington, MN, Bill and Violet (Wachholz) Neuhaus, West St. Paul, MN, and Jim and Alice (Lukas) McGrew, Roscoe, IL.
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We had to document one of Melissa & Sam's favorite things to share toegther: coffee, of course!
There is nothing better than tickling your SUPER ticklish wife's feet until she is crying tears of laughter!
Melissa is a fabulous hair stylist/makeup artist here in Knoxville, you can check out her talents here.
Who else is in love with this bed?! Sam hand-built it himself! It even had built in drawers!
On their anniversary trip, they got matching tattoos of their wedding date. We loved catching Melissa's in this shot!
Melissa & Sam froze the cupcakes from their wedding and got them out one year later. At the end of their session, Sam & Melissa enjoyed them together! <3


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What was driving me crazy were the alphas! Now most mesh outfits require a certain amount of shape tweaking to get your curvy parts to fit the mesh. But in my case, no amount of tweaking to my boobs would hide some gaps between the alpha and the top.
You can see the little transparent spot above showing the gap. If I set my sliders so the gap would close, the tops of my boobs push through the top. Not a pretty picture (down guys, it looked stupid).
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|Lottie showing included hair wreath.
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NOTE - OMG I forgot to wear the hair wreath for my photo. Here's Inga's package photo showing the wreath!


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- An Important Position (Bronze): Placed all types of weaponry accessible in the episode on a single tile.
- A Natural Disaster (Bronze): Used all the different types of geo-charge on a level.
- A Stingy Warrior (Bronze): Sold 10 weapons on a single level.
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- The Best Place (Bronze): Unlocked a tile for i-volve on any level.
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Every 14 March (or 3/14 in US format) for the last few years I've noticed an increasing amount of joviality and excitement about the constant (). I assumed for a while that this was one of those internet-originating fads like Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 September) or the related Talk Like a Pilot Day (19 May): a bit of fun but (the adoption of Talk Like a Pirate Day as a religious holiday by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster notwithstanding) essentially a bit of annual silliness. But it turns out that Pi Day has a slightly more serious heritage: Wikipedia tells us that it was founded in 1988 by Larry Shaw, a physicist working at the Exploratorium, an amazing interactive science museum in San Francisco. A ceremony is held at 1:59pm on 14 March, culminating in the participants singing happy birthday to Albert Einstein (born on that day in 1879). In 2009, the US House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution recognising the date as National Pi Day.
I'm in two minds over whether this sort of thing has a net positive effect on public understanding of mathematics, or whether (like those tedious corporate PR-driven "magic equation" stories that keep turning up in newspapers, and on which Ben Goldacre has eloquently grumbled several times) it merely serves to trivialise the subject and present mathematicians as just interested in numbers and hard sums. I suppose it depends on how it's presented: the situation wasn't entirely helped by the recent news items about a supposed battle between the mathematical establishment and a small group of mavericks and renegades over whether or is the more natural constant to use in most circumstances. But by and large I think Pi Day is probably a good thing: it gets people thinking about mathematics and helps inspire some children to go and find out more (in particular this is the intention of the people behind the whole thing, and also explicitly stated as such in the resolution passed by the House of Representatives).
But today, 22 July, is Pi Approximation Day: a well-known rational approximation to is given by 22/7 (). Actually, 22/7 gives a slightly better approximation to the value of than 3.14; an even better one is given by but that hasn't easily translated into a date since the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantius II.
In my EC119 Mathematical Analysis exam this year I set a question requiring the students to calculate the Taylor-MacLaurin series for the function near up to fifth order and use this (together with the fact that ) to obtain a rational approximation to the value of .
I thought this was an interesting bit of a question, but relatively few of them attempted it (which, I guess, goes to show that examiners and students have different ideas about what constitutes an "interesting" exam question). Anyway, the fifth-order Taylor-MacLaurin expansion for is and so by setting and multiplying the result by 6 we should get a rational approximation to . As it happens, we get , which is clearly getting there but isn't as good as 3.14, 22/7 or 355/133. And although we can get a much better approximation by calculating more terms of the Taylor-MacLaurin series, it's clear that this isn't a particularly efficient way of doing things.
Fortunately, there are many better ways of calculating rational or decimal approximations to . In 1706, the English mathematician John Machin (c.1686-1751) published the identity and used it (together with the MacLaurin series for ) to calculate the first hundred decimal places of .
The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) discovered the formula which converges extremely rapidly. The best currently known formula (which I thank Arthur Clune for alerting me to) was discovered by the Ukrainian/American mathematicians Gregory and David Chudnovsky in 1989, based on Ramanujan's work. This formula , converges extremely quickly, with each additional term adding another fourteen or fifteen decimal places of accuracy. They used it in August 2010 to calculate to decimal places. ( is 5 billion or 5 trillion depending on whether you're using the long or short scales; being English I tend to use the former, and experience a faint sense of guilt on the increasingly common occasions I find myself using the latter.)
An apparently much less accurate approximation to turns up in the Bible. 1 Kings 7:23 says:
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
This verse, repeated almost verbatim in 2 Chronicles 4:2, implies the approximation . The other famous approximation to turns up in an infamous 1897 bill considered (but ultimately not passed) by the state legislature of Indiana. This includes various mathematical observations by the physician and amateur mathematician Edwin J Goodwin (c.1825-1902), such as
Furthermore, it has revealed the ratio of the chord and arc of ninety degrees, which is as seven to eight, and also the ratio of the diagonal and one side of a square which is as ten to seven, disclosing the fourth important fact, that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four
This indicates not only a value of 3.2 () for but also a value of for . The bill also includes Goodwin's "solutions" to the problems of squaring the circle, trisecting an angle and doubling the cube (three ancient unsolved problems known since the middle of the 19th century to be formally unsolvable). The bill was passed unanimously by the House but due to the efforts of Clarence Waldo, a Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University, enough members of the Senate were persuaded of the errors in Goodwin's work that the bill was stalled indefinitely in committee and never made it onto the statute book.


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As you may know, the giant schnauzer comes in two different colors, black or pepper/salt, just like the standard schnauzer.
The black giant is the most popular color in the breed. The pepper/salt in contrast is almost a rare color worldwide. If you search for breeders worldwide you will only find an occasional litter regardless of which country you are in.
One of my mentors and by far one of the best breeders of pepper/salt giant schnauzers in Europe was Mr. Cyril Meulenaere of Van de Havenstadt kennel. I knew him since I was fifteen years old, so many years ago he trusted me with his superb Int. Ch. Faust Van de Havenstadt. You can read Faust's story in a different place. I set out to breed the pepper/salt color. In order to widen the gene pool, I mixed them with the blacks. This turned out to be a huge success even if it took several generations to get it right. When you breed a black to a pepper/salt you get all blacks in the first generation. The European kennel clubs consider the two colors to be two different breeds so they cannot be bred together there.
In 2011 the top winning giant schnauzer in Canada was Skansen's Great Gatsby with the impressive titles of Canadian Champion and winner of the Canadian National as well. Gatsby is also an American Grand Champion, International Champion and winner of twelve All Breed Best in Shows. Janine Starink in Canada groomed, conditioned and campaigned Gatsby, making him the top winning pepper/salt giant worldwide. Gatsby is the result of five generations of mixing blacks with pepper/salt giants.
The pepper/salt is now a hardy, healthy, long-lived giant. He is a little softer in personality, I believe there is some Irish Wolfhound in the background.
Once somebody shares their life with a pepper/salt, they rarely switch off this breed. They are extremely devoted to their owner, generally calm and gentle as adults, get along great with other dogs and children. The pepper/salt giants draw a lot of attention on the street as they are so rare.
We have several excellent stud dogs besides Gatsby, see attached photos. We will have pups by Gatsby, Hopkins, & Gregory Peck summer/fall of 2012. Sometimes in a litter of pepper/salt we get a black/silver pup. This color is really rare and very beautiful. They are solid black with silver on the legs and beard. This is not an approved color to show at the AKC shows.
If you would like to get a giant schnauzer, consider the pepper/salt variety, they are unique, probably no more than a couple of hundred in the US.
Am. Can. & Int. GRAND Ch. Skansen's Great Gatsby–By Ch. Skansen's American President, retired (photo above right)


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- Take your adorable nieces, ages seven and ten. Buy them the crazy Ed Hardy and Jack Skeleton ears that they want and have their names written on them.
- Take them to the Minnie and Friends character breakfast at the Plaza Inn and watch them go crazy getting autographs and pictures with all the characters.
- Go to the Blue Bayou for lunch, not dinner.
- Get lots of Fastpasses. Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain and Soaring Over California have the longest lines. (Also, if you can, use the Single Rider and child swap options - details here.)
- Go on the Matterhorn first, because they don't have Fastpass for that one.
- Wait until the major construction is done to go (unless you, like us, are using discounted tickets that expire April 12.)
- Watch the Electrical Parade and feel like you too are ten years old again.
- Eat their popcorn. It's laced with crack.
- Avoid Downtown Disney on Saturday night. And avoid the Rainforest Cafe at all costs.
- Spend the night (at least one) at the Grand Californian hotel and take the kids to the pool in the afternoon when the park gets hot and crowded. This also works for grownups.
- Don't wear jeans on Splash Mountain or the Grizzly River Rapids ride (and get a plastic bag beforehand for your purse and other belongings)
- Take a seven year old on the Tower of Terror and listen to her scream, then ask to do it again.
- Watch the "making of" video out in front of Captain EO - complete with Young George Lucas, Young Francis Ford Coppola, lots of 80s dancers and very large cameras.
- Get a fritter at New Orleans Square
- This one is from a friend: skip the line at Ariel's Grotto and go to the "bar" where you can have cocktails and the kids can split a pizza.
- Get the kids autograph books - we didn't realize it, but these days (for little kids anyway) it's all about meeting the characters and getting their autographs.
- Go up inside the Sleeping Beauty castle (entrance on the left as you go through)
- Look for Hidden Mickeys, like the gleam in Mr. Toad's left eye (statute in the queue) and the plates on the table in the Haunted Mansion.
- Eat at the Napa Rose at the Grand Californian instead of the overpriced options in the park. It's so much better and no more expensive.
- Go on the Monsters, Inc. ride and check out the hilarious upended sushi bar scene.
- Wear sunscreen and comfortable shoes.
- Scream your head off on every ride.
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How to have fun at Disneyland
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Congratulations! You survived! I can see this will be in my future with my 18 month old niece!ReplyDelete
Great post! We have annual passes and live in North County. Our son is 3 1/2 and Disneyland through his eyes is pretty amazing. My only bit of advice....bypass their food entirely (although not the popcorn, eat that). We pack backpacks every time and even though you have the checkpoint, they take 2 seconds and I've brought in everything from a bottle of syrah from Kenneth-Crawford (in a steel thermos) to salumi and cheese and a baguette and even a growler worth of Mongo IPA for Port Brewing in water bottles. It's the only way to go on It's a Small World seven times in one day.ReplyDelete
Lol nice tips... Really interesting.ReplyDelete
My bf bring his little niece to the first rock council. He said these days teenagers are crazy....:p
So sweet, love the "get a fritter at New Orleans square". If I weren't in Sydney I'd do that right now frankly. Maybe banana fritters for breakfast..ReplyDelete
- Scott J.4/11/10, 10:09 AM
Staying at the Grand Californian is the best. Park (or valet) your car and leave it the for the whole time. Walk right into California Adventure. I've stayed here once and would love to go again.ReplyDelete
Lucky for you that you got to go on all of those cool rides. These days we're stuck going to D-Land with a couple of shorties, so screaming hasn't really happened yet. Great tip about Ariel's Grotto!ReplyDelete


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Johnson, who first met Herjavec on the 20th season of Dancing With the Stars, looked absolutely radiant in her white "Mrs." swimsuit and adorable straw hat. She posted the photo on her Instagram account, which now has the handle @kymherjavec5678 awww, and gave shout outs to the companies who graciously gifted her with top-notch honeymoon style. Ya know, in case you want to rock that bathing suit on your honeymoon with bae.
It seems like Johnson isn't the only one enjoying soaking up the sun, either. Her new hubby couldn't help but flaunt his incredible, blue water view on his Instagram page saying, "No filter! Work hard, play hard — repeat!" We bet THAT makes the Shark Tank sharks puh-retty jealous, no? Whether or not they really are is up in the air, but it's hard to deny that Herjavec and Johnson's love isn't envy worthy.
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A) Is not as efficient as it would be under perfect competition.
B) Is always more efficient than a firm under perfect competition because it can maintain positive profits.
C) Is always efficient because it can choose any price/quantity combination it desires.
D) Is driven out of business due to inefficiency.
4) A firm that has increasing returns to scale can gain a natural monopoly because:
A) It is not subject to the law of diminishing returns.
B) It can obtain a patent to protect itself from any potential competition.
C) New competitors must enter the market at a large scale in order to compete efficiency, and the huge expense of doing so is a barrier to entry.
D) It can afford to undercut the competition by selling at a loss for a temporary period.
5) Which one of the following is not an example of artificially created market power?
A) Unions
B) Patents
C) Insider trading in the stock market
D) Increasing returns to scale
6) Rent-Seeking refers to:
A) The pursuit of a distributive share derived from advantage
B) The search for better technology
C) The use of the most efficient technique of production to gain a power advantage
D) The search for housing in urban areas.
7) Market failure:
A) Prevents effective government intervention.
B) Prevents firms with market power from making profit.
C) Hinders the efficient allocation of resources.
D) Encourages a more equitable income distribution.
8) Which of the following is not a public good?
A) The U.S. Army
B) The light from a lighthouse.
C) Disneyworld
D) Public Television.
9) Proponents of laissez-faire policy believe that:
A) Markets are self-adjusting and work very well.
B) Government intervention is necessary to ensure a Pareto optimal outcome
C) Society's initial endowment is equally divided among all.
D) Both a and c
10) Proponents of interventionist policy argue that:
A) Markets do work
B) Markets may not coordinate all decisions very well if the nice assumptions do not hold
C) Government intervention can be constructive.
D) Both b and c
11) A widget manufacturing firm releases large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, thus polluting the air. In order to ensure that the production of widgets does not exceed the socially optimum level, the government could:
A) Shut down the firm
B) Impose a tax on the firm equal in size to the MEC of widget production
C) Sell pollution licenses at a price equivalent to the MEC
D) Either b or c
12) One of the disadvantages of imposing a rent control is
A) The quantity supplied of rental housing will decrease
B) Rent controls encourage excess building
C) The demand for rental housing would fall
D) There will be a surplus of rental housing.


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This is my first post using mobile WordPress! Today was a bit hectic (hence the mobile post from the ferry on my SECOND trip into Manhattan), so I can't stay long, but must stick to the vow.
My pal Raia (first name Nicole) gave me a ride into the city this morning for my early meeting and to pick up her otoscope case (she's a crazy ear doctorate student and that's the tool docs use to check out your ear). I was supposed to ready at 6:30, but instead, that is when I woke up to vibrations from several text messages. She even threw pennies at my window to try to wake me up! I got dressed in 15 minutes after I read the "today is gridlock alert!!!" message.
Not too much traffic on the way in, had a great meeting, Raia couldn't score her ear tool case though, so it was kind of an early waste of time for her. We went food shopping for some last minute Thanksgiving necessities and surprisingly it wasn't a zoo.
When I got home, I went over health insurance with Dad—it's a bit of a headache and an administrative nightmare when you are unemployed. I'm going to post about that this week and explain all your options, especially if you are in NY.
Now we are on our way back into Manhattan (via public transportation this time) to meet my boyfriend Andrew and see the Macy's Parade Balloon Inflation. Promise to post some photos.
The moral of today's story is: I really need to get on a bit of a better schedule. Getting up 6:30, which should have been 5:45, was a bit too painful.
Oh, more freelance opportunities came in today! And go out and party kids, it's Thanksgiving eve.
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Armstrong Holds TechFest 2013
(April 3, 2013) Armstrong Atlantic State University's Department of Computer Science and Information Technology announces TechFest 2013. TechFest is presented with the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and Armstrong's Web Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (WebBSIT) program with the goal of building a stronger technology community in the area. The event will also showcase the potential for career development in the technology field available at Armstrong and in Savannah. TechFest will take place on Friday, April 19, from 12:00 to 4:00p.m. in Armstrong's Science Center, Room 1405, 11935 Abercorn St. The event is free and open to the public, and advance registration is required.
TechFest will kick off with Tino Mantella, president and CEO of TAG, who will give a report of key findings of the 2013 State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report. After the keynote address, Armstrong computer science and information technology students will hold a poster and demonstration session that will allow the community and local businesses the opportunity to see how Armstrong's Department of Computer Science and Information Technology is preparing students for the region's workforce. Awards for the three best poster and demonstration sessions will be presented.
During the second half of TechFest, Armstrong's Dean of the College of Science and Technology, Robert Gregerson, will give an overview of the university's WebBSIT degree, a convenient, entirely online alternative to the traditional IT degree program. With the WebBSIT, students can continue to work while earning a degree that will help them advance their career.
Business breakout sessions will round off the programming for TechFest. In the sessions, leaders from local tech businesses will discuss their companies with attendees to better inform them about the types of tech businesses in the area and the professional opportunities they may provide.
To register, visit the TechFest web site at http://www.armstrong.edu/techfest .


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The instruction was as dismissive as it was blunt. It was a steamy Sunday afternoon at Sepang for the Malaysian Grand Prix in March, and Sebastian Vettel was fed up at being behind teammate Mark Webber in a race he'd started from pole and expected to win.
"Get him out of the way," ordered Vettel to the pit wall over his team radio, and we all know what happened next. Webber led after the final pit stops, at which time Red Bull's drivers were asked not to race one another. One heeded the order, and one didn't. Commenting about the one who didn't, the one who did said: "Seb made his own decision, and he will be protected as usual." And the latest chapter in in the long-running story of animosity between the two "teammates" was born.
Fast-forward five months as the cars lined up for last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix. Vettel second on the grid, Webber third. Vettel made a brilliant start, passed pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton on lap one and strolled to his fifth victory of the season. Webber? Another wretched getaway, another poor first lap, another race fighting with cars he shouldn't have been anywhere near and another recovery job to a solid if unspectacular points finish.
After Belgium, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said the team needed to look into Webber's inexcusable start issues, which had the conspiracy theorists shaking their heads. And reaching for the facts.
Fact #1: Sebastian Vettel is a brilliant racing driver. At 26, he has three world titles, is close to a lock for a fourth, and surpassing the seemingly-untouchable career records of his compatriot, mentor and friend Michael Schumacher is in play.
Fact #2: Mark Webber is a Grand Prix-winning driver who, but for an untimely crash in teeming rain in Korea in 2010, may well be a world champion to sit alongside fellow Australians Jack Brabham and Alan Jones.
Fact #3: Mark Webber is a poor starter. Always has been, right back to his Formula Ford days. His stint at Jaguar in 2003-04 was punctuated by brilliant one-lap qualifying efforts where he hauled the green machine much further up the grid than it had any right to be before falling backwards in races. Dropping spots when the lights go out has been a frustratingly common occurrence across his 200-plus race career.
Fact #4: Along with Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel is the only driver not to lose a position on the opening lap of a Grand Prix this season.
Fact #5: There have been nine Grands Prix this season since Malaysia and the 'Multi 21' fiasco, and for those of you keeping score at home, Webber has had issues in six of them. Vettel? Five fewer than that.
A summary:
The race after the Malaysia blow-up. After being quicker than his teammate in the opening two practice sessions, Webber is 0.4 seconds faster than Vettel in the first part of qualifying before having to stop the car in Q2 with a fuel pressure problem. He starts last, and retires when a rear wheel isn't correctly affixed to his car in a pit stop.
Webber makes an atrocious start from seventh on the grid at a circuit where (a) he's typically been strong and (b) has the longest run of the season into Turn 1 (730 metres). Was 14th at the first corner and recovered to fifth. Vettel finished fourth from third on grid.
Webber started fourth, next to Vettel, made an appalling start, and fell to 15th on lap one. His recovery drive back to second was aided when Vettel had his one and only DNF of the season while leading. This was, remember, the same weekend Webber announced he was leaving Red Bull at season's end, telling a clearly miffed Horner at the last minute. "I didn't have a clue what happened off the line," Webber said. "We have to have a look at why these pop up from time to time …"
Vettel is second on the grid, Webber third. Webber makes a good start and stays out longer in the first stint, leading the race at a circuit where he took his maiden victory four years previously. He pits from the lead on lap nine only for a rear wheel – again – to not be correctly attached. Rejoins last and, aided by a safety car allowing him to unlap himself, fights back up to seventh. Vettel wins despite suffering from some intermittent KERS problems late in the race. Some cynics suggest Webber would take an intermittent KERS rather than one that doesn't work at all …
Webber is within two-tenths of his teammate in FP1 and FP2 before electronic issues in qualifying hamper his KERS and gearbox, seeing him miss Q3 altogether. "It's stupid, it's embarrassing and it's a brutal circuit to be out of position. We should be challenging for the front row and we're bloody tenth," was his comment afterwards. Damage done, he recovers to finish fourth in the race, with Vettel third. With his teammate four rows ahead of him on the grid, Webber, interestingly, makes a good start.
As detailed above.
Which brings us back to Christian Horner at Spa last weekend.
"We approach each race as they come, we try to get the best out of the car, we keep pushing in all areas, but there are things we need to improve," he said.
"We particularly need to address the start issue with Mark, and have to get on top of that. It has cost us too many points so far."
Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap. Let's see if a team competent enough to win the last three drivers' and constructors' titles can "address" those recurring problems before the end of the year or before its other driver wins the world title, whatever happens first.


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Food And Drink Policy, King Library
Statement of Policy & Text
Consumption of food and drink is allowed in designated areas of the King Library under specific conditions. (See Requirements and Guidelines below.)
Need for the Policy
- To preserve library resources and protect library facilities, the King Library must regulate the consumption of food and beverages in public areas of the building.
- Appropriate signs are posted and maintained throughout the Library to clearly explain the Food and Drink Policy.
Requirements & Guidelines
- Specified food and drink items are allowed in public areas of the King Library if these items are consumed responsibly.
- Food must be snacks or wrapped items that are consumed by an individual.
- No group meals (e.g. pizza parties) are allowed in public areas.
- Covered drinks are allowed on all floors, but only if they are in closed containers, such as covered cups, soda cans, or water bottles.
- Food may not be consumed or left set out while using library computers. Covered drinks are allowed.
- In Program Rooms (e.g. Special Collections, Rooftop Terrace, Cultural Heritage Center, and others), food and drink are permissible for special functions, authorized by the Library.
- King Library users must:
- Immediately report spills to staff.
- Dispose of trash in appropriate containers.
Applicable Personnel/Departments
All Library employees and library security personnel.
|Reviewed and approved by:
|Date of Approval
|University Library Board
|Ruth Kifer, Rae Ann Stahl, Mary Nino, Luann Budd, Jill Bourne, Neil Rufino, Katie DuPraw, Angie Miraflor, Jon Worona
History & Dates
Category of Policy: Administration/Operations
Author(s): SJPL Supervising Librarian: Lisa Rosenblum
SJSU Associate Dean: Jo Bell Whitlatch
Authorized by: Core Team; University Library Board
Date Written: 3/10/03
Date Effective: 8/1/03
Date(s) of Revision(s): 7/31/03, 12/12/03; 2/23/05; 4/28/15


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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Travelling Copic
Hello everyone, today I have a card for some challenges; Copic Marker Europe are celebrating their first birthday and Krista Smith has created this fabulous image for the occasion, she is called travelling copic and was being given away on the Copic Marker Europe blog, Papertake has a theme of girly, Totally Papercrafts Challenge 125 has a theme of layers, and Saturated Canary Challenge 21 has a theme of bling.
For my card I coloured up this fabulous image with copics (of course!) and I used a doohickey to cut the decorative edge on my image layer. The DPs are from Basic Grey, the sentiment from Cats Life Press and I finished off with some ribbon and jewels.
Card/Paper: Red and white card. Basic Grey - Sugar Rush
Stamps: Saturated Canary - Travelling Copic, Sentiment - Cats Life Press
Colouring: Copics
Embellishments: Ribbon, jewels
Tools: Trouvaille, nesties, doohickey die, sewing machine
Thanks for looking x
18 comments:
Gorgeous card Liza, you have coloured her so beautifully and I love the papers and layout tooReplyDelete
Oh I just adore Kristas images and you colored this little sweetie just perfecty. Love it. hugs! MojcaReplyDelete
What a fabby card Liza, I love it!ReplyDelete
this is so great Liza!!ReplyDelete
So beautiful card,I love the image and the colours.ReplyDelete
So gorgeous papers.
Hugs Riet.xx
Gorgeous card Liza and so adorable.ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous, love the sweet image,fabulous colouring....Thanks for joining us at Totally Papercrafts this week.ReplyDelete
Wendy xx
Liza this is just adorable hun,that punched edge looks awesomeReplyDelete
thank you for sharing it with us over on the saturated canary challenge blog
hugs Lou xxx
Love your card Liza. Love the paper, stitching and the colouring. Guess I love everything about it. Thanks for joining the Papertake Weekly Challenge. Love Sharon (GDT). xReplyDelete
So pretty, awesome colouring.ReplyDelete
I have candy if you're interested
BIG HUGZ Fleur xXx
Your card is so beautiful Liza ! Love the image - stunning colouring as always - the papers and the layout. Simply perfect ! Hugs, blessings and love from CatherineReplyDelete
Hi sweetie, love your creation its beautiful, thank you for joining us at Saturated Canary this time, hugs Pops x x xReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Absolutely gorgeous, beautifully coloured!ReplyDelete
Helen x
utterly gorgeous thanks for playing at SC! Hugs Rebekah xxReplyDelete
What a fabulous card Liza! You've done a beautiful job on this SC image! Great job!! Thanks for joining us this time at Saturated Canary Challenge.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Denimo
Your card is beautiful! I love that picture and those paper and colours are fab. Thanks for joining the Friday Sketch Challenges and Papertake Weekly. Hugs, JacquelineReplyDelete
Stunning creation Lisa, so very pretty.ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing along with PTW
Anne x
Wow, amazing colouring. Hopeyou're doing ok. xxReplyDelete


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John Pumphrey
Samling Artist Programme: 2010
Born in Scotland in 1979, John Pumphrey read German and Russian at Oxford University (1998-2002), where he was a scholar at St. Edmund Hall. He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Modern Languages, and before taking up singing full time was a school teacher for several years and Head of German at Winchester College in Hampshire.
He studied singing on a full scholarship at the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (2007-2009), where his main teacher was Stephen Robertson, and at the Flanders Opera Studio in Belgium (2009-2010). From 2010 – 2012 he was a member of the Opera Studio program at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Operatic roles he has performed include: Ferrando, Così fan Tutte, Truffaldino, For the Love of Three Oranges, Brighella, Ariadne auf Naxos (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama), Gobin, Prunier La Rondine (British Youth Opera, Prunier in cover cast), Oronte, Alcina (Flanders Opera Studio), Spoletta, Tosca (Wedmore Opera), Ernesto, Don Pasquale, Nadir, Ali Baba et les Quarante Voleurs by Luigi Cherubini, the Marquis de Carabas in Le Chat Botté by César Cui, Gravedigger, Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, Don Eusebio in Rossini's L'Occasione fa il Ladro, Faninal's Majordomo in Der Rosenkavalier, Pasek in The Cunning Little Vixen, Spoletta in Tosca (Opéra National du Rhin), Remendado in Carmen, Normanno in Lucia di Lamermoor and Cherubino in Cherubino Mischt sich Ein (Theater Zwickau-Plauen).
As a concert singer while at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama John was a winner of the Tony and Tania Webster Prize for Russian song and the Hugh Robertson Award for Scots Song. He was a soloist in Vaughan-Williams Serenade to Music at the BBC Proms in 2010 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles. He has sung the tenor roles in a number of oratorios, including Handel's Messiah and Puccini's Messa di Gloria with choral societies in the UK. He has a broad repertoire of art song in various languages, and sang in a thanksgiving service for the life of Robert Burns broadcast worldwide from Glasgow Cathedral as part of the Homecoming Celebrations in 2009. In October 2013 he won the Gabriel Fauré-Déodat de Séverac prize at the Concours International d'Interprétation de la Mélodie Française in Toulouse.
He has participated in masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Sarah Walker, Christoph Prégardien, Thomas Quasthoff, Ian Storey, Françoise Pollet, Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles and Graham Johnson. He is a Samling Scholar. His studies in Scotland and Belgium were generously supported by the Sir James Caird Trust, the Katherine Trust, the William Barry Trust, the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust and the Rooibus Foundation.
For the coming two seasons (2014/2015 and 2015/2016) John will be a member of the permanent ensemble of soloists at the Stadttheater Zwickau-Plauen in Saxony, where forthcoming projects include Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro and Graf Stanislaus in Der Vogelhändler by Carl Zeller.


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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. LeGuin
This is a good thing to remember when doing crafts with kids. Especially as we approach Valentine's Day. Whether you make or buy valentine cards is personal – we are all too busy to judge. I'm a designer, so making things is what I do. However, 2 boys making valentines for 4 grandparents and 20 classmates becomes a mathematical equation not meant for the attention span of my kids.
Last year my great idea was to stamp large pieces of paper with sponges and paint. Then we'd cut out simple hearts and sign them. Well, after one of my sons (age 4) stamped his paper and I showed him how we'd cut out the hearts – he said emphatically "NO! I like my painting just like this. I want to keep it. If you cut out the hearts you will not see the shapes anymore!" Well he did have a point – the paintings we did were pretty interesting. We made a compromise…they didn't cut their painting and I cut hearts out of different paper. My son signed his painting and gave it to his dad for a Valentine's day present.
DIY | Stamped Valentines
– white paper
– washable paint (pink, red, purple, blue)
– household sponges (cut in half)
– paper plates
– newspaper to protect table
Squeeze paint onto paper plates. Wet sponge (get rid of all excess water) and dip in paint. Press sponge onto paper in any pattern you like (stamp pattern all the way to edge). When paper is dry, trace hearts on back side of paper. Cut out hearts and sign name.
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"Moooom, I need your help for a school project." To make a poster, specifically. "I have all the research on it done and all the pictures, so it's just cutting out stuff and gluing..."
Persis takes pity on her daughter and agrees to help. "What's the project about, anyways?"
"Cellular respiration. We have to make a poster showing the aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration processes."
Persis is glad she isn't in school anymore.
The feeling is only affirmed as she listens to her daughters discuss math tests and Simlish presentations.
The conversation turns towards more interesting topics.
"You know Keith Chandra?"
Xara nods. Keith Chandra is the only child of Vallari Chandra, and one of Kanoa Parrott's many, many children.
"He asked me out on a date." It was after chemistry class. They were cleaning up their experiment and were the last ones in the room. He asked her if she'd be free to go to Mick's sometime, just the two of them.
Xara's eyes widen. "Seriously? But isn't he dating Lucia?"
Tulip shrugs. She doesn't keep up with school gossip much. "No idea."
"And what did you say?"
"I said yes."
Xara smiles, and then frowns. "What if he's still dating someone else though?"
Tulip considers this. "I'll ask him about it. If he is dating someone else, then I'll just not go on anymore dates with him."
Xara nods. "And I'll ask around too. In case he lies."
"Good idea."
They definitely have each other's backs.
Marko couldn't help overhearing the conversation and takes a selfie with Tulip.
"The last memory of my daughter being a little girl," he sniffs.
"It actually looks pretty good," Tulip ignores her father's cliche.
Paolo isn't so little anymore either. He approaches his father for dating advice.
"Just be yourself. And smile!"
"Dad, I can't do both."
Marko sighs. "You're not that bad. C'mon, loosen up a little!"
Paolo stares at him blankly.
"You have much to learn, my son."
Later that evening, Tulip goes to Mick's for the aforementioned date.
"Hey Keith, before we start hanging out, I just wanted to know...are you seeing anyone right now? Just so everything's out in the open."
There is a long...
Long... silence.
Keith sees no other option and bolts for the door. Tulip tries to mask her disappointment as she stares at his retreating figure.
"Keith is a loser," she informs Xara over dinner, "A lying stupid loser."
"That seems harsh."
"He did lie, and he couldn't even admit it!"
Xara nods in agreement. What is it with the boys in their school? First Pablo, then Keith... next thing they know Paolo will be some kind of casanova.
Tulip's date has made Persis realize her kids are growing up, and fast. She rushes to preserve their childhood in some way and starts with her oldest, Xara. Since painting that yeti toy, her portrait skills have improved.
Xara comes home very late in her formal clothes.
"How was drama club?" Marko asks.
She yawns. "We all had to give a monologue. Some of them were very, very long." She yawns again as she remembers the dozens of speakers- some funny, some serious, some trying too hard, some barely prepared. She's not sure which category she fits into, but she's glad it's over.
When Tulip gets home from work, Persis wastes no time in capturing her likeness.
"Mom, I'm going to be young for a super long time. Do you really need a painting of me?"
"You'll be a young adult for a super long time," Persis corrects, "But you're only a teen for so long..." she sighs wistfully. Tulip wonders if this is some delayed midlife crisis.
Chess is a very important game for department heads.
Persis makes lunch for the family. Paolo is seriously considering taking over cooking for the household, if for no other reason than wanting to eat something other than peanut-butter jelly sandwhiches, salad, and macaroni.
Xara has a play, so the whole family comes to watch. She might only have four lines but it's the principle that counts, right?
It turns into an impromptu homework and tutoring session. Marko helps out an elementary schooler with her science homework while the teens idly chat and write in answers.
The new garden gnome knocks the grey flamingo out of his way, effectively establishing its dominance. In other words, it's summer and Marko bought more tacky lawn ornaments.
The interior of the house also gets a new gnome. Might as well get one to keep the green gnome company, right?
Marko gets an offer to make some extra money by becoming a part-time tutor. His employer is Oriole Bird whose son, Nicky, is struggling in class. Marko accepts and goes to the Bird house (ha ha, bird house....like a- yeah, you guys get it) to explain the mysteries of physics and calculus.
Nicky is not stupid, but he certainly feels like it whenever he looks at his science homework. How can something written in simlish still make no sense?
Marko breaks it down for him as simply as possible, but it's clear that Nicky is far behind the lesson material and doesn't understand most of the fundamental concepts his homework is based off of. Marko wonders why he waited this long to ask for help.
"I thought I could do it by myself," Nicky confesses, "I tried going to the after school help sessions and studying with friends and looking it up online, but it still doesn't make any sense." He frowns at his half completed worksheet, almost all of the answers at least 75% done by Marko.
Marko nods sympathetically, "It's ok, you'll get it eventually. Just remember when you see a complicated problem, break it down into simpler concepts." Marko scribbles some words on a piece of paper and hands it to Nicky. "Here are some websites and books that might help you."
Nicky glances at his phone screen. "It's been two hours, I need to do my other homework. Thanks, Mr. Winterly."
"Always happy to help!"
The next day the summer festival is open. Persis throws on her flame hoodie and walks down to the festival grounds.
Mmm, snow cone.
Also, her hair matches her snowcone. Just sayin'.
Persis also gets her face painted. In the spirit of the festival, she gets a sun painted her cheek.
She gets bored of the festival activities pretty quickly, so Persis decides to liven the place up a little.
That's better.
Xara and Paolo get home from their after school activities. Xara pulls out her homework while Paolo pulls out dinner.
"Don't you have homework to do?" Xara grumbles.
Paolo shakes his head, "Did it in study hall."
Xara snorts, "You actually do your homework in study hall?"
Paolo furrows his brow. "Isn't that what it's for...?"
"You don't talk to your friends or- you know what, never mind," Xara stops herself from bringing up her brother's friendless status at school.
Then a smile slowly spreads on her face. "So what's this I hear about you and Krista Parrott?"
Paolo's cheeks redden slightly. "It's not a big deal."
"Uh huh."
"Seriously, we just went on one date."
"Uh huh."
"Is that all you can say?"
"Uh huh."
Xara snickers at her brother's annoyance before asking in a slightly more serious tone, "So you got any ideas for your next date with her?"
Paolo considers it for a moment. Krista's in different classes than he is so he hasn't seen her since their last date. He should ask her to go somewhere with him... but where?
Finally he shrugs and takes a bite out of his sandwich. "I dunno, I'll think about it some more."
Xara scoffs. "Wow, you're such a romantic."
Paolo ignores her comment, "Is mom still at the festival?" she sent them a text before leaving the house today.
"Mom probably decided to go fishing or something on the way home."
Her children know her so well.


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National Baseball Congress
At A Glance
110 S Main, Suite 600
Wichita KS
Ph: (316) 977-9400
Fx: (316) 462-4506
National Baseball Congress
The National Baseball Congress and its now well-established World Series were the brainchild of Wichita sporting goods salesman Hap Dumont in the midst of the Depression. Dumont hatched the idea after watching a Sunday baseball game between circus clowns in Wichita for the week and local firemen. While the circus wasn't allowed to perform on Sunday due to the blue laws of the day, the clowns in the baseball game drew a large crowd. Dumont figured he had stumbled onto something. That's when he created the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress Kansas State Tournament, played for the first time in 1931 on Island Park in the middle of the Arkansas River, just north of Second Street. He made a few bucks on the event and made it bigger the next several years, until a cigarette was left burning in the wooden bleachers of the old park, burning it to the ground. Never one to be defeated, Dumont hatched an even bigger idea. If the City of Wichita would build him a new stadium, he would put on a national semi-pro tournament, drawing teams from coast to coast. The city built the stadium on the west bank just south of the old park and named it after Wichita pioneer Robert Lawrence, who once owned a mansion where the Masonic Home now sits at Seneca and Maple. Even though semi-pro national tournaments had failed on both the east and west coasts, Dumont figured a central location might be the key to success in an age of teams that barnstormed by train or bus. But he figured he needed a hook.
So he offered Satchel Paige, considered the greatest pitcher of the day and perhaps the best in baseball history, an impressive sum of $1,000 to bring his touring team from Bismarck, N.D., to compete in the first NBC tournament, in 1935. In that day, a lawyer made $4,000 a year and a doctor about $3,500, so $1,000 was a huge amount for two weeks of play. In fact, Dumont didn't have the $1,000 when he made the offer. He figured he would make it at the gate. The tournament was a huge success from the start. Paige struck out 60 batters and won four games, which both still stand as tournament records. His Corwin-Churchill team beat Duncan, Okla., 5-2 in the finals. Dumont made enough money to pay Paige as well as all the bills, and he even had money left over. The Sporting News, baseball's bible of the day, gave the event significant coverage. Thus, the national tournament was born. Thousands of young prospects and hundreds of ex-major leaguers have since played in the tournament, which has continued to be played at the stadium Hap built. In the first few decades, most of the teams were either barnstorming semi-pro clubs or town teams sponsored by local factories. The typical star was an ex-professional, and quite a few of the players had played major league ball. In the mid-70s, the typical team makeup shifted significantly. Young college players for teams in Alaska and Boulder, Colo., started dominating the scene. With the resurgence of minor league baseball, semi-pro leagues dried up. By the mid-80s very few factories sponsored teams anymore. Now, the tournament is mostly comprised of summer collegiate amateur athletes. For an excellent history of Hap Dumont and the National Baseball Congress, read "Baseball's Barnum - Ray "Hap" Dumont, Founder of the National Baseball Congress" available from the NBC for $10 by calling 316-977-9400.
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I promised I would play "catch-up" today, so let's start with the remaining pages of the unique paperdoll set from yesterday:
Butterfly Dancers
Isn't this FREE paperdoll set just fabulous?
I downloded it from OrigamiBears web.
I just can't thank her enough for all her wonderful downloads.
I think I like this set a little more because it is a ballet one.
One of my favorite paper doll sets when growing up was one
of 5 sisters (different ages) that had all matching ballet outfits
for many different ballets.
The cover of the book was in purples, titled something like "Ballerinas",
and it was by Whitman from the 1960's I believe.
vintage clip
I have lost all my paper dolls.
Very sad.
It was hard enough in all my moves to be able to keep things.
We moved alot!
On the back of our camper, we had the words:
the TROUPS at ease
My mom came up with that one!
We received lots of chuckles from passers-by and fellow KOA campers.
Next is the promised fun things to do with pansies, and other flowers too!
a perfect no-fuss cupcake topper
Let's start off with which flowers are edible,
and some fun tips:
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Some popular edible flowers include nasturtiums, pansies,
snapdragons, flowering maple, bachelor's buttons, dianthus,
scented geraniums, chrysanthemum daisies, violets,
margarita daisies, hibiscus, marigolds, and calendulas.
Bachelor Buttons
To start with, eat only the petals of edible flowers, and always remove any trace of the pistils and stamen. So your digestive system has a chance to get used to it, introduce flowers into your diet one at a time, in small quantities. And always be sure you like the taste of a flower before adding it to a recipe.
'Lemon Souffle' dianthus
Use only flowers that are grown without pesticides.
Remember, just because a flower is served with food,
it is not necessarily edible.
'Lemon Gem' edible marigold
Sugared Pansies
Pansies can have a mild, fresh flavor or a more prominent wintergreen taste, depending on the variety and on how much of the flower you eat (a whole flower tastes stronger than the petals alone).
Eat only pansies that are grown organically, without chemical pesticides; this rules out almost everything from florists, garden centers, and nurseries. If you plan to eat pansies, it's a good idea either to grow them yourself or to order them from an edible-flower source.
Johnny Jump-Ups from my garden
From what I can find out,
Johnny Jump Ups can be equally exchanged for pansies.
Sugared or fresh flowers on top of sorbet - mmmmm
Use the pansies to garnish cocktails, soups, and desserts.
Here's the recipe how-to:
- Egg white from 1 large egg
- Fresh pansies, organically grown and stems removed
- Superfine sugar
- In a small bowl, whisk together the egg white with 1/2 teaspoon water. Using tweezers, hold a pansy and lightly brush both sides of the petals to coat. Sprinkle with sugar, shaking to remove any excess sugar. Let dry on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet until pansies feel crisp, about 8 hours. May be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 year.
The above photo looks to me like home-made chocolates, poured into foil cups.
Top with a white chocolate tinted-with-food-paste to a lovely lilac.
While still wet, add sugared pansies to top.
Cook's Note:
Raw eggs should not be used in food prepared for pregnant women, babies, young children, the elderly, or anyone whose health is compromised.
Please be considerate of others' health concerns.
I wonder if we couldn't substitute the dried egg whites
found in a can in the baking department?
Let me know when you make these - I would love to hear of your experiences, successes, (failures) and comments!
'Max Frei' geraniums
purnima_girouard lady w violets
Well, that is enough for today.
I have some sticker weeds to dig out of my flower garden, and some dead heading on my columbines and the last of the tulips also.
I am so grateful that I am able to do some gardening now.
Kate Greenaway illustration
Thanks Dr. Agarwala - you're a great back surgeon!!!
( Panorama Center, Westminster/Golden, CO)
Tomorrow we will have some more
Language of Flowers Fun!
Enjoy the day.
Revel ln the weather, whether sunny, fair or cloudy!


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A Storybook You Can Color
Sometimes, you just want to blend in with the crowd. A monocle, a mustache, and a bowler hat are obviously the way to do that. Download The Giraffe's disguise and see who you can fool.
This collection of photos shows kids (of the small and large varieties) playing with their giraffes, dressing up in disguises, and reading books.
This week's favorite photo of you and your giraffe! Or you in your tshirt, or you in disguise, or of your amazing fan art! Or maybe your bumper, bike, or water bottle with a sticker or two in tow?!


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The petition lodged by fuel campaign group FairFuelUK on the Government's new ePetition website calling for cuts in fuel duty is to be debated in Parliament. The ePetition passed the 100,000 signature count on September 30th and the decision that it would be debated was made at a meeting of the Back Bench Business Committee of the House of Commons earlier today, 11thOctober 2011.
Speaking shortly after the meeting, Peter Carroll said, 'We are delighted that the issue of crippling high fuel prices will soon be debated in the Chamber of the House of Commons. We understand the precise date and other procedural considerations are yet to be determined. The combined support of many individual members of the public and of businesses all across Britain will mean that this issue is put before Parliament. We thank Robert Halfon MP for his sterling work in leading the All Party Working Group on FairFuelUK and every single person who signed the petition. With the economy stagnating, cutting fuel duty represents an effective and fair way of boosting growth, creating jobs and reducing inflation. Petrol and diesel prices are crucifying families and businesses. This issue needs to be debated and action taken'.


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I wanted to swing by the I'm just sayin... offices today to wish my good friend Ashley a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she has a GREAT day! Since I'm a gentleman, I won't tell you her age... but I will say she is two years older than me. So, you do the simple math.
Anyway, she is a dear friend and I hope this is the best birthday ever (until the next one).
Recap: WU @ Radford
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"The Devil Woman" (La Diabla), regarded as the most dangerous woman in Columbia, is suspected of 14 murders, half of the victims being police officers. Yuri Patricia Sánchez, 22, was arrested Monteria, in Cordoba province on June 5, 2016 and accused of carrying out contract killings, collecting and providing information to extort victims, and hiding weapons used in crimes. She is believed to have been working for the powerful Usuga Clan (also known as Los Urabenos), a gang with 3,000 members and tentacles in neighboring countries. Sanchez attracted the cartel's attention by participating in street fights, a form of entertainment for cartel bosses. She was recruited for the Two Cobras gang, part of Usuga Clan. [Robert St. Estephe]
[Chris Summers, "'Devil Woman' arrested in Colombia: Cops detain 22-year-old assassin who they believe carried out 14 contract killings," Mailonline, Jun. 11, 2016]
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Masterbatch (MB) is a solid or liquid additive for plastic used for coloring plastics (color masterbatch) or imparting other properties to plastics (additive masterbatch). Masterbatch is a concentrated mixture of pigments and/or additives encapsulated during a heat process into a carrier resin which is then cooled and cut into a granular shape. Masterbatch allows the processor to colour raw polymer economically during the plastics manufacturing process.
The alternatives to using masterbatches are buying a fully compounded material (which may be more expensive and less open to e.g. color variability of the product), or compounding from raw materials on site (which is prone to issues with achieving full dispersion of the colorants and additives, and prone to preparing more material than what is used for the production run). In comparison with pure pigments, masterbatches require more storage space and their lead times are longer. Another disadvantage is additional exposure of heat ("heat history") to both the carrier and the additive; this may be important e.g. for marginally thermally stable pigments.
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|El Hamhashri
Al Mannar channel "Owned by Hezbollah" claimed that Dr. El Hamhashri was arrested along with two Syrian ladies after the Lebanese customs found with them Satellite transmission devices used for live televised broadcast. The channel also added that the two Syrian ladies intended to smuggled these devices to Syria !!
According to El Hamhashri's friends online , he was arrested after it was found that he brought some sort of a device that strengthens the internet signals to Lebanon along with two Syrian doctors. It seems that this device is not allowed in Lebanon and that's why El Hamhashri is being arrested. Of course I am concerned about the news of that military trial , it seems that we have to fight military trials for civilians in Egypt and Lebanon at the same time.
El Hamhashri is neurological and psychiatric disorders doctor and he is working in the psychiatric hospital in Heliopolis , Cairo besides his work in the Arab Medical union , which is one of the biggest relief organizations operating under the umbrella of LAS regionally. His family already contacted Dr. Abdel Moneim Abu El Fotouh, the former Presidential candidate and politician who heads the Medical union asking for his help. Of course Abu El Fotouh called the Egyptian ambassador who promised him that El Hamhashri will be fine.
Abu El Fotouh and the Arab Medical union issued a statement condemning the arrest of El Hamhashri and demanding his immediate release.
Some claim that he is going to be released and deported today, hopefully he will.
Activists and friends of Hamhashri are planning a protest in solidarity with him demanding his release at 6 PM in front of the Presidential palace to demand his release. His friends have already launched a Facebook Group in solidarity with him naming it "We are all Mohamed El Hamhashri"
The Arab Medical Union already supports and collects donations in Egypt to set up field hospitals in Syria as well to help Syrian refugees outside the country. Of course according to some sources most donations go to inside Syria. Already the Union sends doctors in the hot zones to operate in the field hospitals. Some claim that the Union also collect donations for the FSA.
Here is the #FreeHamhashri hashtag which was launched by his friends last night on twitter.


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September 10, 2010 by Lori Freeland
Filed under Faith, Faith Articles
By Lori Freeland –
I have a love/hate relationship with the month of September.
Strolling the Back to School aisles of Target, tossing twenty-five cent crayons, pencils and glue sticks into my cart, gets me giddy. Pretty folders decorated with kittens and flowers beckon to me, while the notebook aisle disperses that new paper smell and packages of dollar markers, with their untouched ink-filled tips, whisper of new beginnings.
Yet in the midst of my back-to-school euphoria, lurking just around the corner is heaviness, a foreshadowing of all the labor that is to come, and it slips down around my shoulders like a mantle, harnessing me until Spring.
For the last three years, since my homeschooling career began, I have wrestled with all that September offers.
September offers an end to chaos, re-instating organization, neatness, schedules, activities and goals. Skyrocketed bedtimes plummet back to earth. Family dinner hour resurfaces. My calendar, filled with weekly repetition, makes expectations clear.
September also offers an end to spontaneity, stifling my impulsive nature. No more sleeping in or late night TV. No more ordering out or yelling, "Get your own!" No more spur of the moment afternoon movies and days at the pool—there are too many things on the schedule for that!
It's love/hate because it's hard to pick a side. Chaotic "make up your own rules" days vs. "consistent know what to expect" days. I love order and structure—but not if I'm tied to them!
Does God understand my war?
He does! The Bible promises He is always the same, never changing, and dependable without fail. In Revelation 1:8 (NIV) God tells me that He is the "…Alpha and the Omega…who is, and who was, and who is to come…" And Hebrews 13:8 (NIV) assures me that, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
Yet, God's character is still filled with novelty and my relationship with Him never needs to be idle. There is always a fresh start. "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland" (Isaiah 43:18-20, NIV).
As I press on through September, going from one extreme to another, I know that I am not walking this path alone and I love that God understands me, even in all my strangeness and contradiction. He sprints beside me through my chaotic impulsiveness and marches evenly alongside me through my structured organization. And one day when my kids are grown and gone, we will make a brand new path together. Although, I think September may always lure me in with its nostalgic memories and my desire to reconcile the two sides of myself.
Lori Freeland is a freelance author from Dallas, TX, with a passion to share her experiences in hopes of connecting with other women tackling the same issues. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a full time homeschool mom. In addition to the articles she is writing for The Christian Pulse, she is currently working on her first novel, based on the journey her family has taken in the world of pediatric cancer.


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I made this cake for a best friend of mine. She is in the jewelry and accessories industry and recently just had a successful bazaar. So in order to celebrate her birthday and the success of the bazaar, the boyfriend and another best friend of hers thought of making this cake. The cake itself is chocolate cake with coffee mousse filling and then covered with chocolate ganache. The result is wonderful, if I may say so myself. The making of the jewelries were fun and tedious at the same time. I had to arrange them one by one, pearl by pearl, sprinkle by sprinkle. But in the end, it was all worth it!
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Wow! Fabulous – she must have been very happy :) x
Great idea!!! Looks great!!
Thanks all… She was very happy… :D She kept all the fondant jewelries…