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As a newly-wed when people asked why Shaun and I were putting off children for a few years, our answer was always consistent. We wanted to set ourselves up to allow me to be a stay at home mom from the beginning. This is a goal that I in no way regret and I am grateful was able to come to pass. Part of that goal did not come to pass before having kids however, and that was to have my degree completed. The right timing finally presented itself shortly after the birth of my second son and in the middle of a rather intense internship for a part time position I hold on the weekends. So as a stay at home mom, who really does keep a fairly solid schedule, you would think that studying wouldn't be an issue… right?
Wrong. So how exactly does a parent figure out continuing their education without neglecting their first vocation as a spouse and parent? While I am not an expert on the matter, here are some of the tips and conclusions I have gleaned through experience and advice from friends and mentors.
- A deacon told me that to prioritize life deacons are taught to put their vocation first, their job second and their ministry third. This has been a godsend to me. My vocation and first service to God is my family. Then I need to figure out what is priority number two, which is my job and then school. I do not want my family to suffer because I have taken on too much. Then write out your goals in each of those and why they are important to you to motivate and keep you on track. It is important to my husband and me that our kids see us making our education a priority. If they see us working toward that using that information and passionate about what we are learning, they are that much more likely to follow our footsteps and love learning.
- Find an easy cleaning schedule. A little organization makes the housework much easier.
- Solicit help. Can your spouse take the kids for a few scheduled hours every week so you can focus? If so, do it. If they won't leave you alone, pack up the books and a laptop and make use of the library or a local coffee shop- suddenly school doesn't seem so bad does it? Sounds more like a mini vacation! If that doesn't work, find something else. A babysitter, a daycare, a relative, a mom's day out program at a local church- there are even some gyms who don't mind if you use their daycare as long as you are in the building (smoothie bar). You've got this!
- Wake up an hour or two before your kids do every day. This one is not possible for me as my kids basically don't sleep- ever. But once they hit that sweet spot, 12-15 months for mine, where they begin sleeping through the night regularly, this is the best time of the day even for a non-morning person. It's quiet and you can have your morning cup of coffee before anyone is making demands for their survival on you. Also, take advantage of those naps!
- If your kids are old enough have them play on their own. While children need supervision, letting them learn to play without our direct involvement for set times worked into a routine that is actually healthy for them. Setting specific (time consuming) toys they love aside for those times is a tip that I have gotten from several friends for the future.
- Tell your professor in advance if you know you will have a tough week coming up. They might be willing to give you an extension or open assignments early so you can be proactive and complete them early. Especially with online learning many professors are realistic with the fact that we have jobs and families and while they need to keep their standards they often will make allowances.
- Always hit spell check. If your little ones are anything like me, they LOVE to be active participants in everything I do- and that includes typing when I may not realize what they are doing. Along those same lines, save your work more often than you think is needed. Trust me.
The opinions expressed by the DPS blog authors and those providing comments are theirs alone; they are not necessarily the expressions or beliefs of either the Dead Philosophers Society or Holy Apostles College & Seminary.


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Religious motifs : Overview. Search. About religious motifs
See also Religion, The Holy Bible
Sacred book, islam, Allah, word
Koran: Arabic "recitation". The Koran is, according to traditions, given to Muhammad by Allah via the archangel Gabriel. The Koran is in Islam regarded as the final end complete words for humanity, as opposed to the writings and revelations of judaism and christianity, which are regarded as incomplete and in certain places distorted by tradition in time.
Muhammad had his first revelations in Mekka in 610 and continued having revelations until his death in 632.
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Meanwhile the Beetle had been traveling on, and had sailed across the ditch on a cabbage leaf. That morning two persons came by, and when they saw the Beetle they picked him up, turned him over and over, and both looked very learned – especially one of them, a boy.
"Allah sees the black beetle in the black stone and in the black mountain," he said. "Isn't that in the Koran?"

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Smart watches and Google Glass are two types of wearable technology that are producing a major splash suitable now. Time to study how to use the gadgets is a different situation facing consumers when they are deciding which brand to purchase. Ok ok. So final year, I mentioned that this new technologies from Google would be coming out this year On the bright side, I wasn't completely incorrect. Students believed of revolutionary new course offerings, created approaches to greater use our mastering spaces, and developed ways to improve school spirit. Then, of course there are all the developments in military tech which just about every sane citizen should remain abreast of. Men and women who blame technologies is just ungrateful to human marvels & civilization.
From January 2015 to April 2015, the list of higher-demand jobs in the USA remained the similar as for 2014, with Truck Drivers rising above Restaurant Jobs. Yes, we're dependent on technologies for points like health-related procedures, communications, or what ever else we are but it has so vastly improved all of those issues I do not see it as a bad thing. Lex Luthor gained the money to get new tech from his dead parents and whatever investments he is at present holding. If a tech is not productive in gaining the trust of the patient, the entire exam will be inaccurate.
Speedy forward ten or twenty years: Now you anxiously await the newest generation of your tablet, phone, or wearable tech, scouring ezines and tech guru blogs for hints about what the next version of your tablet, phone, or wearable tech will feature. Technologies doesn't enable us to slow down and stimulates us mentally in just about every portion of our lives.
A superior place to check out exactly where wearable tech is going in 2015 is last year's 'Make It Wearable' competitors from Intel. From January 2015 to April 2015, the list remained the exact same, with Truck Driving rising above Restaurant Jobs, with about 5.two million openings advertised all round. The 1st generation of this tech will demand a higher degree of concentration and may be clunky or unresponsive.
No, 1962) and the a lot more imaginative jetpack Sean Connery dons in Thunderball (1965) to the most current incarnation of James Bond's wristwatch in 2015's Spectre starring Daniel Craig (no, we won't give away what this a single does in case you have not seen the film but), gadgets have played a significant role in the 007 series. I do not know if we got the bid for the 2016 Olymics in Chicago but I hope we got/get it. Illinois is in such a terrible way due to the fact our former governer was a theif and overspender. Materialism and consumerism has been spurred on by the advent of newer, quicker and far better technical gadgets.


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The Parish Council will have its first meeting of the calendar year on Monday (that's the 14th January). The meeting is open to members of the public and starts at 7.30pm at the Hullbridge Centre in Windermere Avenue.
Items on the Agenda this month include
- A new logo for the Parish (this is free to the Parish as it has been done by a resident)
- The filling of a vacancy on the council, two applications have been received.
- Planning Applications which are for the redevelopment of Tyndale House and a Conservatory in Queens Anne Grove.
- The referral of a proposal made by Cllr Michael Hoy concerning the provision of a cycle path along Hullbridge Road, to the Footpaths Committee.
- Consultation on the Allocations Document (which is mentioned elsewhere on this blog). This is obviously the most important item on the agenda and residents will be allowed to speak on this at the meeting (there is a slot at the start of the meeting for residents to speak on any Agenda item)
Come along and see what your Parish Councillors do.


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If I can't dress Angelina Jolie... I'll dress her look-a-like trainer's client!
Several months back , I was thrilled when I got a phone call from a good friend of mine,Meaghan Murphy, who besides being a writer for "Star Magazine", also helped me out over a year ago in designing my nikolakidesign.com website (along with my good friend Mike Lucas who also helped with the graphics for the Top Chef Apron). We arranged a "trade" of sorts: I would design a gown for her, in return for her help on the site.
Over a year passed and our hectic schedules never meshed. Until now. She told me that she was going to be on the Bravo hit show, "Work Out" , where she would be trained by Erika, the sexy Angelina Jolie-look-a-like trainer from Jackie Warner's "Sky Lab" gym.
Erika was going to whip her into shape and give her the body worthy of a Nick Verreos gown, or so she felt. The "Work Out" cameras caught everything, from the consultation to the final fitting. Our first meeting debuted in this week's episode (see Clip above).
You can also read an article about Meaghan's journey to a new and improved body (with a photo of her in the final gown) in this week's (April 30th edition) "Star Magazine. Look out for a more in-depth posting on Bravotv.com about my experience designing for Meaghan and my "brief" apperance on the show.


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A common criticism of the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who as it aired was that it wasn't coming up with any good recurring monsters. I think that's true... so far as it goes. There aren't any good recurring monsters in that era, because the show wasn't trying to create any. It went instead for the splashy thrill of having something new almost every week, and using standards like the Daleks and the Cybermen when it wanted an old enemy. Which is perfectly acceptable practice, but makes things awkward for Big Finish's latest New Series boxset, which throws the 20th-century Doctors up against monsters created for the RTD era. Most of these aren't monsters designed with multiple appearances in mind, which has interesting consequences for the boxset, both good and bad.
We begin with a monster that, whatever the original intention, has become recurring: the Weeping Angels. Fallen Angels is basically a remake of "Blink," but with the fifth Doctor instead of the tenth Doctor, and Michelangelo instead of Sally Sparrow. Which sounds goofily high-concept, but in the broad strokes it's reasonably successful. There's some neat stuff to do with how these Angels wound up on Earth and how they're achieving their ends. The problem is that the Weeping Angels don't work on audio. The first scene is effective, but that's about atmosphere and the over-the-top villain (with an over-the-top Italian accent to match), not about the Angels. Later on, when we're supposed to be terrified that they're closing in, the repeated use of the "It moved!" sound effect from "Blink," divorced from any visual experience, becomes amusing rather than menacing. You could play a drinking game.
The other issue is that the story takes too many of its cues, large and small (and some spoilery), from "Blink." There's only so much you can do with the Weeping Angels without changing the rules, as Steven Moffat did when he brought them back to TV, but this story is too content to say, "Did you like 'Blink'? Well, here's a version set in the Italian Renaissance!" The fifth Doctor reuses a tenth Doctor catchphrase at one point, and there's even an embarrassingly nudge-nudge-wink-wink callback to That Line. Come on, writers: if you're going to invoke That Line, at least extend the joke. Don't just turn to the audience and say. "Remember that joke? That was a funny one, eh?"
Whatever its limitations of concept, Fallen Angels is well-executed. The script speeds along as a one-hour Doctor Who story must. Peter Davison is on fine form here, bantering with one-off companion Gabby Finch, who can't quite believe that she's been transported from 2015 to 1511. Diane Morgan's performance as Gabby is the high point of a guest cast in which Matthew Kelly also does solid work as Michelangelo, playing the script's stock "temperamental artist" bits without turning him into a caricature rather than a character. The characterization of Michelangelo is a good synecdoche of Fallen Angels' shortcomings, actually: it takes an established trope and simply invokes it in a particular context, rather than adding the little twists that would be necessary to give it new life.
If the Weeping Angels only seemed suited to star in one type of story, the next monster is an even tougher sell: it was barely the star of its one meaningful television appearance. But Judoon in Chains takes that into account and pushes the boat out, evolving the Judoon in an effective way that's difficult to discuss without spoilers. This is probably the story from this box that has the most dramatic potential. The trouble is, it's a tale of two halves that don't quite mesh, and the interesting half isn't the one the story's ultimately built around.
The main plot is a standard Doctor Who story about a corrupt space corporation that is soon sorry it ever crossed paths with the Doctor. It's fine, though the villain is one-dimensional and not especially menacing, and the final confrontation is thus kind of flat. In the middle of the story, though, is an interlude where the Doctor and the amnesiac Captain Kybo of the Judoon are trapped in a Victorian circus, and befriend Thomasina Thumb, charmingly played by Kiruna Stamell. There's what I can only call a gentleness to this material, a quietly sentimental focus on character as Kybo becomes something more than the average, and I wish the audio had stayed with it, rather than dumping it in favor of the usual stuff. You could actually strip the space corruption element away entirely and tell a different, perhaps more tragic version of this story. Ah, well. What we got is more than good enough.
The Sycorax are another monster that wouldn't have seemed worthy of a return: they're scary looking and all, but they exist only to be shut down by the Doctor without a second thought. He even explains why they're not much of a threat. But Harvest of the Sycorax finds a way to make them dangerous again. This is probably the closest the boxset comes to an old-fashioned Doctor Who monster story, with an invasion and a base under threat. It's also the overall funniest story, despite having a tired and tiresome satirical context.
The society the Sycorax are invading is so over-medicated that people have personal computerized assistants who can prescribe something for the least twitch of emotion. This might have felt novel in, say, 2007, when "Gridlock" showed us mood patches, but nowadays all you can see is the glibness of it. I don't think overmedication is enough of a problem to deserve this kind of satire. There are instances of it, to be sure, but I suspect that when many people (not necessarily including writer James Goss) complain about the phenomenon, there's an implication that most of those on mood medication don't need it, which is an unfair and actively damaging attitude.
Anyway. Whatever the problems with the concept, the script uses it to good comic effect, as the assistant programs chime in at the worst possible moment. Sylvester McCoy is also pretty funny here, giving a restrained performance that works within rather than against the rhythms of the script. And Nisha Nayar, who was very good in the small role of the Female Programmer in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways," is equally good in the larger role of quasi-companion Zanzibar Hashtag (did I mention the satire here wasn't subtle?). After a wonderfully prickly introduction in which he's quietly irritable and she's thoroughly on edge, they get up to some good old-fashioned seventh Doctor scheming. As with the rest of the stories in the box thus far, there's nothing especially surprising here on the level of plot, but it's well-made and there's a zip to it that elevates it above standard fare.
The box closes out with an eighth Doctor story set in the Time War and featuring the new Sontarans. I have to admit that I've always found the Sontarans tiresome. Alien races obsessed with honor are dime-a-dozen in science fiction, and they're almost always one-note and boring. They're not necessarily interesting as a species here either, but excellent performances by Christopher Ryan and Dan Starkey keep them entertaining as a standard lone warrior revenge story plays out. (The Sontar-Ha chant is still awful, though.) The shifting alliances among that lone warrior, the Doctor, and the quasi-companion make for a story that's talky, but in a good way, as everyone is telling the truth, though not always for the right reasons. The Time War is used effectively here, kept offscreen yet shown to be devastating in its consequences. This bodes well for the eighth Doctor Time War boxset that's coming next year.
When the first Classic Doctors, New Monsters set was announced, I thought, "Really? That's what they picked for monsters?" Then I ran through the available options in my head and added, "Well, I suppose they took the best they could get." But having heard the set, I have to commend the writers on mostly finding interesting ways to revisit monsters who were conceived as one-offs, and weren't necessarily that exciting in those initial appearances. The biggest thing that works in the set's favor, though, is the single disc story format.
There's a reason most drama nowadays is done at this length: it allows enough plot complication for stories to become involving, but not so much that they bog down, and requires strict economy of characterization. Big Finish really ought to do more in this format for classic Doctors who aren't Paul McGann or Tom Baker. It's still called the Main Range, but it's hard to deny that these days the urgency at BF is elsewhere. It's nice to see the stalwarts that are Davison, Colin Baker, and McCoy get to take part in an energetic, attention-grabbing release like this. I'm very much looking forward to a new set of classic monsters in the next boxset, including the just-announced Racnoss. Like the Sycorax, they're basically a panto villain on TV, but I hope they'll become something more in Big Finish's capable hands.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters
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To echo your last two paragraphs, I was frustrated when on the CD Extras, James Goss opined it was nice to be allowed to give a classic Doctor a fast-paced, character-driven story. Like, why aren't ALL Big Finish stories fast-paced and character-driven?ReplyDeleteReplies
It's just so easy to imagine the dull 4 x 25 minute versions of these stories. With each pre-credits scene stretched out to be the whole of Part 1.Delete
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Although it's still dreary and rainy outside, I've been following the S/S trend and wearing bright pink lipstick. Maybelline Fuchsia Flash is my current favourite, it has a creamy texture, smells amazing and is so pigmented!
I'm really impressed with Maybelline fuchsia flash lipstick, it doesn't dry out my lips and lasts a good few hours before fading on me. I don't normally brave a bright pink lip but this is such a pretty colour I couldn't resist!
This also works well if you dab a bit on the center of your lips and then use your finger to blend in to give a less intense look. I've been wearing this with a little bit of matte eyeshadow, winged liquid liner and an umbrella!


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The bottom line is Beyonce is a superstar. And superstars get traction. And everybody else is close to ignored. And you become a superstar by having a bunch of money and power behind you.
Name this year's big viral music video.
There isn't one. That game is gone too. And anything that moves is supported by the big boys, it's all about manipulation.
So you do the same thing Beyonce does. You drop your album with no advance publicity. Will that be news?


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Serbian Prince Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the most important dynasty in medieval Serbia, will take his stand at Savski Square by the end of 2018.
New plans for the city's Savski Square and the area surrounding the former central railway station have been up for discussion for the last year.
One of the most profound changes has been relocating the railway station to Prokop, the new central train station, close to Hyde Park in the city centre's Savski Venac Municipality.
But Savski Square is getting ready for more urban planning reforms, partly due to the construction of the controversial Belgrade Waterfront project.
Monument to an ancient prince
The most recent confirmed plans to reconstruct the area at Savski Square involve the erection of a monument to Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja [1165-1228], founder of the Nemanjic dynasty and a great contributor to Serbian culture and history.
The statue was initially intended for the area of the bombed Defence Ministry building, on Knez Milosa. However, last September, City Manager Goran Vesic reported that the statue would be erected at Savski Square and construction would finish by the end of 2018.
The city's Secretariat for Culture on March 16 announced the winners of the proposals that took part in the tender to decide the future look of Savski Square, shaped by the monument to the prince.
Russian sculptor Professor Alexander Rukavishnikov from Moscow and architect and professor Petar Arsic are the authors of the winning proposal for the statue.
The design proposal reflects a certain Russian flair for monumentality. The conditions for the design, however, included that the monument had to be realistic, and Stefan had to be portrayed in his middle years.
The architects have also taken into account the ambient of the area as a whole, keeping in mind that the former railway station building will become a museum of Serbian Medieval history.
Byzantine influence
As the photos indicate, Stefan Nemanja will be placed at an ancient, Byzantine helmet. Underneath the helmet and the monument, a space is left for the gathering of the Serbian people, alongside scenes from Nemanja's life.The outside will portray two of his most important legacies, the Studenica monastery in central Serbia and the Hilandar monastery on Mt Athos in Greece.
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Those who has been following my blog regularly, probably have noticed my eclectic style. Frankly, I don't know what to call it myself. If a few years ago a I had a distinctive love for black, now is my style more versatile. Not that I don't love black anymore, far from it. Those should also know that I have plenty of accessories, not even half of them have been on the blog. I really have them stashed in boxes...
But just sometimes, I grow tired of it all (just for a day or so) and try to go minimal. My minimal is mostly not so minimal for other people, but still.
I really like how this outfit turned out, black with a hint of color. Was also forced to take pictures inside, due to constant rain here. Really, this weather has been driving me mad. I'm afraid summer is gone forever!
This pictures were taken in the hall of MOMU, fashion museum of Antwerp. Me and my friend visited the exhibition of historical fashion.
Wearing: Manigance jacket, Zara top and bag, H&M shorts, Eram shoes, Michael Kors watch.
Ow, how I love this biker jacket. I have it for probably five years now, but still it looks splendide. I bought it at some outlet store for a ridiculous price. The quality is so great, it still looks new!
The shorts and the bag are two of my sale purchases. Shorts were just 5 euro at H&M and the bag 20 euro at Zara. The bag is big enough to hold my camera, major +++++ Btw, the matching nail color was accidental!
Also bought these loafers at the sales. They were also pretty cheap, 35 euro for leather shoes. I really needed a replacement for my other pair of black flats.


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Recently I had the pleasure of taking a few photos at at Nike Metcon Train & Trial. Hosted by Butchertown CrossFit in Louisville, Kentucky, this event brought the Nike Metcon […]
Photoshoot with Lindsey
Back in March, Lindsey and I met up at the gym to lift a few weights and take a few photos. I will have to admit that it had been […]
Black & white from a functional fitness photo shoot with Lindsey. Check out more here.
In The Open
Promotional graphic created for CrossFit Bluegrass promoting the CrossFit Open. More details on my Behance page.
Faux Nike Ad
I had some fun taking a photo that I took and converting it into a faux Nike ad. Go behind the scenes with how this was shot and created on […]
Erica Spitz, Crossfit Games athlete, at a jerk clinic at CrossFit Bluegrass in Louisville, Kentucky.
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CrossFit Bluegrass coach Matt Remaly in the middle of a split jerk. CrossFit Bluegrass, Louisville, Kentucky.
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Athlete Kelly Hayes on the final bar of the clean ladder in front of a packed house. CrossFit Bluegrass 2-Year Anniversary Competition in Louisville, Kentucky.
Coach Greg Glassman, founder and CEO of CrossFit, speaking to a group at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.


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The Diagnodent - Laser Cavity Detection
The Diagnodent, by Kavo, gives Dr. Daniels the ability to diagnose decay with over 90% accuracy. With the advent of water fluoridation, decay has become harder to detect in the enamel of teeth.
Is it a cavity or is it just stain?
The Diagnodent uses laser technology to detect the depth of decay. Here's the science (as stated by Kavo):
"Altered tooth substances and bacteria fluoresce when they are exposed to a specific wavelength of light.
The DIAGNOdent operates at a wavelength of 655 nm. At this specific wavelength, clean healthy tooth structure exhibits little or no fluorescence, resulting in very low scale readings on the display. However, carious tooth structure will exhibit fluorescence, proportionate to the degree of caries, resulting in elevated scale readings on the display of the DIAGNOdent.
An audio signal allows the operator to hear changes in the scale values. This enables the focus to be on the patient, not solely on the device. "
Using the Diagnodent in conjunction with visual examination and a dental probe, Dr. Daniels can make an extremely accurate diagnosis of decay. You can therefore be assured you are receiving the most conservative treatment available.


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CLEANING: My little sister is the housecleaner extraordinaire. Her place is always immaculate. Mine...not so much. It's clean, but please don't look closely at tables (which my kids dust sporadically) or baseboards, or heaven forbid—my blinds. Cleaning is another pebble that is easy to put off, until it becomes a big, menacing rock screaming for attention (DUST ME! PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU! AH-CHOO!).
To improve in this area, I made a list to keep me on task. It's important to set measurable goals. So I decided to do 15 minutes of cleaning a day (that doesn't include meal prep/kitchen cleanup or laundry).
15 minutes is not very long...and I wondered initially if I might have to increase it. But WA-LAH! Magic! That quarter of an hour was very productive. I worked like a horse (not a lazy horse, but a mighty Clydesdale) and was amazed at all I accomplished.
One day I organized my whole closet. Another time, I got the laundry room looking immaculate and then tidied the kitchen. After just a week, I had made a lot of progress. Through small and simple things, great things were brought to pass!
ORGANIZATION: I'm the Queen of making big plans and never accomplishing them. I print off recipes that look good on blogs and then stuff them in my cupboard and never make them. My pile of recipes is about 3 inches thick, but I never feel like taking the time to copy those recipes onto cards to file away and actually use. When I do remember a recipe in my pile, it takes me a few minutes to dig through my papers one at a time to find it. Frustrating.
I decided to break it into manageable chunks. My goal each day is to copy ONE recipe onto a card and the ingredients needed on my grocery lists (that I posted about here). It only takes a couple minutes to copy a recipe. I can do that.
Over the last month, I've whittled my pile down by over 30 pieces of paper. Yea! The good thing about making sand-size goals is that many times doing the small act will lead to more. One day I copied 5 recipes down; another day I decided to clean out my recipe file and threw away at least 50 old recipes I haven't made in years (nor do I want to make ever again; I've found better meals to replace them).
There are lots of things to organize—photographs/scrapbooks, my writing files, genealogy, old letters and books. Now I have a plan to conquer them...little by little. The war is not always won by the mightiest...but the persistent (if that doesn't make sense...forgive me. I haven't gotten around to organizing my thoughts yet—I have all the other stuff to do first).
TIME is our most precious commodity. Our days are filled with lots of tiny spaces of 'waiting.' You wait in the car for kids practices to get over, or at the doctor's, or for school to get out, etc. Make use of these little snippets of TIME. Fill them with sand. Keep a book with you to read, or write a letter, make a list of things to do or ideas to write about...or to talk to with your teen when you get a chance. Often, we waste precious moments complaining or doing nothing. Make use of these filler moments and you will amaze yourself with all you squeeze into your daily jar.


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ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. There are two different types of ALS, sporadic and familial – sporadic is the most common (90-95% of cases) and can affect anyone, familial means the disease is inherited genetically. ALS usually affects people between the ages of 40 and 70. One of the most famous individuals diagnosed with ALS is baseball legend Lou Gehrig, causing some to nickname the condition Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Symptoms of ALS
ALS typically involves a gradual onset and both the first warning signs and the rate at which the disease progresses will vary from person to person. Everyone diagnosed with ALS eventually experiences progressive muscle weakness and paralysis. Some of the more common early warning signs of ALS can include:
- Abnormal fatigue of the appendages
- Breathing difficulties
- Changes in vocal pitch
- Difficulty grasping or lifting objects
- Dropping things
- Muscle cramps and twitches
- Slurred speech
- Tripping
- Uncontrollable laughter or crying
ALS is difficult to diagnose and virtually impossible to treat. There are several diseases that have the same symptoms as ALS, so it is imperative that you seek treatment from an ALS expert and that you get a second opinion regarding any potential diagnosis. The average life expectancy for an ALS patient is only two to five years from the time of diagnosis. Only 10% of ALS patients will survive for ten years. Less than 1% of patients with ALS will have significant improvement in function lasting 12 months or more.
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By Tami Utley
I use Knox gelatin. If you use a higher grade of gelatin you might need to adjust the amount of water, but don't fret, this is not a fussy recipe so different proportions of water to gelatin will still get the desired effect.
I use a 2:1 ratio of water to gelatin. Put 2 T water into a microwave safe glass bowl and sprinkle 1 T gelatin into it. *Tip – if your gelatin is too yellow, add just a tiny touch of violet food paste color/gel to whiten it, however, you will find that the yellow won't be noticeable anyway.
Let this sponge for 5 minutes.
Pop it into the microwave for about 10 seconds to melt the gelatin (some microwaves require less/more time due to power differences). Stir and remove any un-dissolved gelatin. Let cool a little, remove any foam and then heat again if needed in 5 second bursts to dissolve the gelatin completely. Let sit again for the bubble/foam to rise if necessary. You want the gelatin very fluid and runny so don't wait too long.
While the gelatin is still warm , pour into the chocolate mold and coat the inside completely. At any time, you can re-heat the gelatin to liquefy it with a 5 second burst in the microwave.
Use a soft brush to paint up over all the edges of the mold and make sure the entire inside is coated. This is because the gelatin will shrink as it dries and will pull away from the mold possibly causing a wrinkle in your desired shape. Any bubbles in the mold can be brushed away quickly.
Pour the excess gelatin out and brush the excess off.
Let the gelatin in the mold sit for 2 minutes or so (depending on your weather and humidity) to firm up. Once you can touch the gelatin in the mold and it won't stick, re-heat the gelatin in the bowl (about 5 seconds in the microwave) and re-coat the mold a second time. You will need to work a little faster, as the gelatin gets cool as it dries and will firm up faster on the second coat.
Pour off the excess and brush any areas needing touch up. Don't continue to keep brushing the inside too long, as the gelatin will get sticky and rubbery. Turn the mold over to let the excess drip off. Let dry overnight or, use a fan on low, blowing over the mold to speed up drying time to a few hours.
If your gelatin starts to get 'gummy', 'rubbery' or sticky as you brush, it's getting too cold and will ruin your piece. You can heat this up with a hair dryer to warm up the gelatin again. Or wait, re-heat the gelatin in the bowl and re-coat the mold. Any imperfections will shrink as the slipper dries so will most likely not be noticeable.
Once dry, the gelatin will release from the mold and will just lift out. Trim both sides of the slipper with a small pair of scissors.
You can leave the slipper closed at the top, but I marked mine with a felt tip marker and cut an opening on each slipper half. Clear tape can be used to hold the slipper together temporarily to mark it evenly.
Then pull the tape off to cut the opening.
Re-heat any leftover gelatin and paint it onto one side of the slipper and attach to the other half of the slipper. Let this dry a few minutes until the two sides stay stuck together. Depending on the weather, it may take more time to set.
Use piping gel to paint over the seam of where the slipper halves where joined together.
Pour rainbow disco dust over the gel to hide the seams. Use a soft brush to brush away any excess dust.
Take a look at these beauties!!! Cinderella shoe on a pillow cake? Can you picture it??? Jen :-)
This can also be done with the larger 8 ½" mold, however, there is a bigger chance of the gelatin getting a 'wrinkle' since the gelatin shrinks as it dries. Depending on where the wrinkle is, it can be hidden with the disco dust. It is also harder to cover the surface of the larger mold before the gelatin starts to cool too much and 'gums' up, so you must work much faster.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Tami, for this FANTASTIC guest tutorial! I'm sure everyone is ooohhhhing and ahhhhing out there reading this :-)
Sugar Delites carries both the large and small shoe molds. Here's links to both:
Large shoe mold ($6.00)
Small shoe mold ($3.00)
Here's a link to the rainbow disco (LOVE this stuff!)


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This is a blog that I started in october 2010, mainly for discussing my ideas on the economy, taxation and politics. Please add comments - I'll do my best to reply. If you are new, I would recommend watching one of my YouTube presentations (in French or English). You can download a fully indexed pdf version (over 800 pages) here.
10 Apr 2013
The cost of public sector borrowing in the UK
I'd already found one graph showing how UK taxpayers had been handing over 3.5% of GDP to the banks in the form of interest payments on government debt for most of the 60s and 70s - see my piece called "How long has this been going on?"
But in this short document, you not only get a more up to date graph, they also give you all the numbers. Here's the graph, which is actually a bit different from the previous version, but it still shows how the UK taxpayer has been saddled with massive interest payments for borrowing all of my life.
And here's the table with the real numbers (the document actually provides some numbers as far back as 1946-7.
It's already impressive, and you can see that the % of GDP that is wasted on paying the banking sector interest for creating money out of thin air and then lending it to the government is currently 3.1% and is set to increase to 3.5% in the next few years. But, as you can see from the footnote, "borrowing and debt figures exclude effect of financial sector interventions".
The Guardian has a complete set of data, including the financial interventions, that shows that while the level of debt is 73.5% of GDP if you exclude financial interventions, it increases to 137.6% of GDP if you include them. So we can increase the full debt level to something like £2066 billion.
Now here's a £64 billion question. Did the government borrow the money for the bank bailout? If so, how much is being paid in interest? If not, and the Bank of England provided £1 trillion of funding interest free to bail out the banks, why the hell can't it provide the same sum to bail out the UK government?
By the way, I'm desperately trying to get an equivalent set of figures for other countries including France. Unfortunately, numbers on the % of GDP used to pay the interest on government debt are mysteriously missing from the datasets at the INSEE - I've asked them to provide the numbers, but only figures from 1995 seem to be available. Oh well....
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According to Wikipedia, the UK's annual interest payments are about the same as its Defence budget* (although their number for the national debt as % of GDP is a bit different to the Guardian's ... mind you, the Guardian has a lot of numbers....it's easy to get overwhelmed.ReplyDelete
I'm sure you saw this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/04/britain-not-broke
and the corresponding NEF article. http://www.neweconomics.org/mythbusters-britain-is-broke
(* so an incentive for Tory hawks might be "reform deficit financing and you can double the defence budget!" :-} )
"It's already impressive, and you can see that the % of GDP that isReplyDelete
wasted on paying the banking sector interest for creating money out of
thin air and then lending it to the government is currently 3.1%..."
Simon if you think that the establishment is going to contemplate a second look at fractional reserve banking think again. Will Hutton repeatedly has it rammed in his face on the Guardians CiF but there's never an attempt at a reply - nothing to see here - move along.


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Anna Sew Hoy (born 1976, Auckland, New Zealand, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received her MFA from Bard College in 2008. Solo presentations of Sew Hoy's work have been mounted at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Koenig & Clinton Gallery, New York; the Aspen Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; LAXART; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the California Biennial 2008 at the Orange County Museum of Art. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. She was awarded a Creative Capital Grant for Visual Art in 2015 to support her public sculpture Psychic Body Grotto. She was awarded the California Community Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists in 2013, and the United States Artists Broad Fellowship in 2006. She is represented by Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, and Koenig and Clinton, New York.
Selected Press
Teplitzky, Alex, Creative Capital Blog, 2017
Wagley, Catherine, LA Weekly, 2017
Jaffe, Tali and Slenske, Michael, Cultured, 2016
Plagens, Peter, The Wall Street Journal, 2016
Schwendener, Martha, The New York Times, 2016
Smith, William S., Art in America, 2016
Miranda, Carolina A., The Los Angeles Times, 2015
Gill, Jenny, Creative Capital Blog, 2015
Wagley, Catherine, LA Weekly, 2014
Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Artillery, 2014
Knight, Christopher, The Los Angeles Times, 2014
Guillen, Bianca, San Francisco Art Quarterly, 2013
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2013
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2013
Koll, Juri, The Huffington Post, 2013
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 2011
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 2011
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2011
Hodge, Brooke, T Magazine, 2010
Myers, Holly, The New York Times, 2010
Miles, Christopher, Artforum, 2008
Cheng, Scarlet, The Los Angeles Times, 2008
Berardini, Andrew, Artforum, 2007
Pagel, David, The Los Angeles Times, 2007
Myers, Holly, Art Review, 2007
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Lithotripsy is a medical procedure that uses shock waves to break up stones in the kidney, bladder, or ureter (tube that carries urine from your kidneys to your bladder). After the procedure, the tiny pieces of stones pass out of your body in your urine.
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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy; Shock wave lithotripsy; Laser lithotripsy; Percutaneous lithotripsy; Endoscopic lithotripsy; ESWL
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Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the most common type of lithotripsy. "Extracorporeal" means outside the body.
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Sledgehammer Games' Call of Duty: WW2 has made some rather nice changes for fans of the Gun Game and Prop Hunt modes. Though meant as time-limited modes, these will now be permanently available in multiplayer going forward. You can find them in the "Featured" playlist tab when accessing the multiplayer menu.
Gun Game starts players off with a pistol and changes your weapon every time you score a kill. If you're killed with a melee, you go back to the previous weapon. The first player to reach the last weapon in the line wins. In order to address players being AFK in Gun Game, you'll now be booted from the game if you deal no damage for five minutes.
As for Prop Hunt, it's a mode that sees one team hiding as different map objects like barrels and sandbags. The other team has to find them before the timer runs out. What are your thoughts on the modes being a permanent addition to Call of Duty: WW2? Let us know below.
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Faculty Salary Adjustment Program
Each year the Faculty Salary and Budget Committee (FSBC) recommends to the University Academic Senate (UAS) how funds, as available for faculty salary increases, are to be administered. The document wherein the resulting salary increase process is described is titled the Faculty Salary Adjustment Program. It is distributed to teaching members of the faculty during the initial stages of the process, usually by the end of the winter term.
The pool of available funds each year is characterized as a percent of current faculty base salaries, i.e., X.X% in the "generic" copy.
Questions about the process should be directed to your unit head. Suggestions for the improvement of the process should be communicated to your college's representative on the Faculty Salary and Budget Committee as early as possible during the Fall Semester. The Committee considers revisions each year.
The Board of Trustees approves annually an increase in funds available for salary increments.
1. Fund Allocation.
a. 15% of the total increment funds available are retained by the Provost for special salary adjustments. All of these funds will be expended for these purposes.
b. 85% of the total increment funds available are allocated to the appointing officers. The current appointing officers are:
Dean of the Seidman College of Business
Dean of the College of Community and Public Service
Dean of the College of Education
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dean of the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing
Dean of the College of Health Professions
Dean of the Kirkhof College of Nursing
Dean of the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Dean of the University Libraries
2. Range of Salary Adjustments
Recommendations for individual salary adjustments to the Provost must fall within the following ranges. These ranges are based on performance over the past academic year.
a. Less than satisfactory performance: 0 to 55%.
b. Satisfactory performance: 70% to 100%.
c. Exemplary performance: 105+%.
In addition, the Appointing Officer may also make a request for a special salary adjustment (see 3.c below) to the Provost. Adjustment by the Provost can result in individual salary increment percentages, based on the total increment funds, being higher for certain individuals.
3. Guidelines for Increments
a. Appointing officers are required to recommend salary adjustments to the Provost. The appointing officer will consider the summary of peer evaluations as the most important factor in determining the recommendation for salary adjustment.
b. The Provost will consider individual salary adjustment problems that cannot be resolved within an appointing officer's allocation. Appointing officers must prepare written justification to support such requests.
c. The funds retained by the Provost (15% of total increment funds) are intended to address outstanding performance, extraordinary circumstances, and market conditions. These are allocated based on written requests from appointing officers for salary adjustments that cannot be resolved by the appointing officer's allocation and cases identified by the Provost which require special adjustment. In making these adjustments, the Provost should consider salary compression as an important factor. Promotional increments are not included in these funds.
4. Evaluation Criteria. Evaluation criteria for faculty performance reviews are specified in the Board of Trustees' Policies BOT 4.2.9.
5. Unit Peer Evaluation
Peer evaluation is part of the salary adjustment process.
a. Every member of a unit will be given the opportunity to evaluate his/her colleagues based on the evaluation criteria unless a two-thirds majority of the faculty vote each year to waive that option. This decision must be communicated in writing to the appointing officer.
b. The unit head will collect relevant Faculty Activity Plans, Faculty Activity Reports, and current vitae not later than February 1. The faculty member is responsible for submitting these materials in a timely manner to permit peer evaluation to take place.
c. The unit head is responsible for distribution of these materials corresponding to the evaluation criteria in a timely manner to enable peer evaluation to take place.
d. The unit head shall summarize peer evaluations and forward such summary to the appointing officer. However, unit faculty peer evaluations of the unit head shall be sent directly to the appointing officer.
e. If peer evaluation does not take place, the unit head shall evaluate each faculty member against the evaluation criteria and transmit a recommendation to the appointing officer.
6. Communication with faculty
The determination of recommended salary ranges will ordinarily be completed by the end of the winter semester/term. However, the actual dollar amount of the range may not be determined by that time.
a. Unit heads must communicate salary adjustment ranges and a summary of performance in writing to each faculty member by the end of the winter semester. The written performance summary will include the unit head's summary, in writing, of the peer evaluations (or the unit head's recommendations if peer evaluations are not done). The written performance summary will also discuss the faculty member's performance in teaching (or professional effectiveness), scholarship, service and significant focus as it relates to teaching, scholarship, and service as reflected in the FAP and FAR, and will, for tenure-track faculty who are untenured, address any departmental concerns regarding contract renewal, tenure, and promotion. The unit head will also discuss each faculty member's performance for the past year in a personal meeting held ordinarily by the end of the winter semester/term.
b. Appointing officers are required to see that faculty members are advised of their recommended salary adjustment and this recommendation should be communicated to faculty by the end of the winter semester/term.
i. For tenured faculty members, written justification is not required for recommendations within the satisfactory range. However, appointing officers must prepare a written justification to the Provost to accompany salary adjustment recommendations in the ranges for "less than satisfactory performance", "exemplary performance," and "special salary adjustments." A copy of the justification for these adjustments needs to be provided to each affected faculty member ordinarily by the end of the winter semester/term.
ii. For tenure-track faculty members who are untenured, written justification is required for recommendations in all ranges. Appointing officers must provide a written justification to the Provost to accompany all salary adjustment recommendations, a copy of which needs to be provided to each faculty member ordinarily by the end of the winter semester/term.
c. If the actual dollar amount of the increment is known at this time, this will also be communicated by unit heads. This is in addition to, and does not replace, the annual salary letter.
d. The annual salary letter will communicate both the percent and actual dollar amount of the salary adjustment, including a breakdown by category of adjustment (merit, promotional increment, and special salary adjustments). This letter will be mailed to faculty when the actual dollar amounts are known.
e. The annual salary letter will also communicate both the percent and actual dollar amount of the total faculty salary adjustment as compared to the previous year.
7. Appeals.
Faculty who disagree with the salary adjustment may appeal using pertinent supporting material according to the procedure specified in the Board of Trustees' Policies BOT 4.2.18 .
8. Promotional increments.
As provided in the Board of Trustees' Policies BOT 4.2.20, faculty who are promoted shall receive, in addition to their regular salary increase, the indicated promotion increment or no less than the minimum of the salary range of the new rank if the combination of the regular increase and the promotion increment fall below the minimum.
Refer to the Promotional Increments table.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
6 comments:
- LV said...
Same to you my friend. May you and family have a very blessed and healthy holiday season.
- December 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM
- Perfectly Printed said...
Merry Christmas to you too!!
- December 13, 2012 at 9:16 PM
- Liz said...
Timely reminder! Thanks.
Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger
- December 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM
- Doris C said...
A merry Christmas Sue and family and a Happy New Year.
- December 15, 2012 at 3:20 PM
- Chenille Cottage said...
Dearest Sue,
This Christmas season with all that has gone on this past week I am so grateful for your post. It's such a poignant reminder of the HOPE we have in our Lord, Savior, Messiah and Redeemer.
Thank you for sharing the most important message of the season, my friend.
Blessings to you and your family,
Carolynn xxx
- December 16, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- Parfum pas cher said...
Same to you, So lovely post, like it
- December 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM
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Q: I've heard that since Mosquito Dunks contain BT (Bacillus thuringiensis), they will also work against China Mark Moths?
There are two different subspecies of BT that are used for different pests on aquatic plants. Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis (BTI) is the active ingredient in both Mosquito Dunks and Mosquito Bits. BTI is not effective against China Mark Moth. It is effective against a fly larvae commonly referred to as the Muck Midge. It is a tiny worm, clear in color to whitish and approximately Ľ in length and about the diameter of a straight pin. It chews a distinct random pattern on the leaves of Water Lilies (Nymphaea). The larvae hide themselves in a sheath of tissue at one end of the random line of destruction and make difficult to find. Most of the damage occurs in late summer and early fall. A heavy infestation can easily defoliate lilies in a short amount of time and severely weaken the plants if left untreated. The Mosquito Dunks are a better preventative treatment, but if an infestation occurs we find the Mosquito Bits are better for the quick kill. These naturally occurring bacteria will not harm anything else in the pond except mosquito larvae. Not a bad side effect. For large nurseries BTI can be purchased from Summit Chemical under the brand name of Aquabac in 40-pound bags. For more information, or for a dealer near you, contact them at 410-282-5200. Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (BTK) is the active ingredient in Dipel. BTK is very effective against the China Mark Moth Larvae. Sometimes referred to as Sandwich Man, the moth larvae chews off oblong pieces of Water Lily leaves, fastens them together and hides inside. This floatation device allows the larvae to float around the pond and eat off of the lily leaves. They are sometimes found attached under the leaves or they will bore a hole in the stem of the leaf for an inconspicuous hiding place Dipel is available as a dust or wettable powder. The dust can be applied in the evening when the sun is lower and should be rinsed off in the morning. Most of the chewing by the larvae is done at night. Applications may have to be repeated at 7-10 day intervals to get control. The wettable powder should be mixed according to the label directions and should also be applied in the evening at the same intervals as the dust. A spreader/sticker (Silwet) can be used to help the Dipel adhere to the leaf surfaces. Both products are easily available from Horticultural or Farm Supply Companies.
More recently a product called Conserve SC has become available that is excellent for the control of lepidopterous larvae (such as: cutworm, sod webworm, gypsy moth larvae, bagworm, fall webworm and others), sawflies, leaf feeding beetles, midges, thrips and leafminers). It has proven much more effective at controlling the China Mark Moth and Muck Midge larvae's than either of the above. In addition to its effectiveness on Water Lily's (Nymphaea) it works on Lotus (Nelumbo) leaf chewing larvae and Canna leaf rollers among other pests in the nursery. This also simplifies the process rather than using multiple treatments. It is available from most Horticultural Supply Companies. Conserve is not a consumer recommended product. Dipel and Conserve are not labeled for use in water, but the plants could be removed, treated and returned to the water. As always, take care to follow all label instructions on any pesticide or insecticide.Manual removal of the larvae is always the first reccomendation but take care to remove the insect pests from the pond area and place them in closed container for disposal. Otherwise they will climb back into the pond and require removal again.
Q: What is the best recommendation to my customers for the control of aphids?
We have tested Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Herbal Aphid control. It has proven extremely effective for for the treatment of aphids. It is a contact killer. If it hits them, it kills them. I have even used it on my roses at home. It is critical to rinse the plants after use to wash off residue and to remove the dead aphids. A few plants like Taro and Water Lettuce do not tolerate it well and will show some foliage burn. As always follow label directions carefully.
Q: I've been noticing some dense weeds growing in the aquatic plant pots in my display water gardens in my garden center. How can I control them without getting into the pond and manually pulling them out? Are there any safe products that will kill th
Weeds can surely be a problem in a water garden. Prevention is the best defense. When potting water plants, use topsoil that is free of plants debris that may contain weed seeds. Don't use soil from a compost or soils containing uncomposted cow or horse manure. These soils can be full of weed seeds. Once potted, place the top of the pot at least 2 inches below the surface of the water. This depth should prevent the germination of terrestrial weeds. There are such weeds that do just fine in water as long as they are not covered with water. At the nursery, we have two kinds of weed grass that love to grow in pots that are just out of the water. One grass will literally consume the pot while the other will insinuate itself into the resident plant and become impossible to remove without removing everything and sorting one from the other.
Perhaps the worst weeds in the pond are waterweeds. There is no easy defense against these plants. In fact, one man's attractive plant may be another man's weed. Alisma for example, is very attractive in the pond but spreads everywhere via seeds. For this plant and others like it, cut the seed heads off before they mature.
Underwater weeds, e.g., hydrilla and sago can be particularly tenacious. For these, chemicals herbicides may be your only defense. The chart associated with this article prescribes various herbicides, many of which may not be available to the home gardener. We have tried a combination of diquate and cutrine to good effect against underwater weeds but found it difficult to guage the dosage rate. In our case, the weeds died and so did many of the fish. The water lilies were unaffected. Probably, for most backyard ponds, hand removal of underwater weeds and a thorough cleaning of the pond once a year is best.
Q: I've been having problems with a native horsetail growing around my display ponds. I assumed that they needed to be in a constantly wet media, but it's thriving in my mulch and terrestrial plantings. How can I get rid of it? It has spread dramatic
Equisetum – Horsetail has been around since the dinosaur days and doesn't give up easily. I have seen it growing along rivers 8-10 feet above water level in nothing but sand as well as 6 feet under water covering a pond bottom. I have seen it grow under heavily driven gravel roads and pavement to prosper on the other side. It is not terribly particular about what conditions are present. Full sun or full shade has little or no effect on the aggressive growth habit. The best control is to never give it access to the garden, not even through the drain hole in the bottom of a pot. All of the horsetails can be grown in containers for extended periods with little care. I have an 18" wide 24" tall decorative planter in my garden with E. hyemale 'Robustum' that is 2 years old and a good 4 feet tall. It is a beautiful specimen, standing taller than myself.
We carry four varieties of horsetail, all of which offer ornamental appeal. Bear in mind that Equisetum has excellent properties when confined. The E. hyemale - up to 3' tall and E. hyemale 'Robustum' – up to 6' have a strong cylindrical habit. The 'Robustum' develops side shoots on the upper joints in the second and third year that give it a slightly fern-like appearance. Equisetum scirpoides is a dwarf variety that is dark green and wiry growing only 6-8" tall. E. diffusum 6" has soft sweeping stems giving it an almost fern-like appearance as well and it is the only deciduous one we have. In a lined pond a container without holes is not critical. They will grow out of the drain holes in the bottom but not with the aggressive habit they display in the garden.
We have had many customers tell us what doesn't work to eradicate horsetail but never one to tell us what did.
Wyman's Encyclopedia notes – Horses have been poisoned from eating this plant, usually cut with hay in moist ground. Another species E. arvense or the Field Horsetail is frequently found as a weed in gardens and must be vigorously dug out.
Botanica, R G Turner, Jr. - They rarely exceed 10 ft tall and grow from vigorous creeping rhizomes. Although quite ornamental, their use in gardens is limited because they become invasive and are difficult to eradicate. Horsetails have been used since Roman times to scour pots and medically as a general tonic and astringent.
Hortus Third – The siliceous stems are sometimes used in polishing. Occasionally used as an ornamental in moist places including pool margins. Easily propagated by division.
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According to Weeds of the US & Their Control by Harri Lorenzi and Larry Jeffery, Equisetum spreads by spores and rhizome borne tubers. It is cultivated (plowed) regularly to remove nutrient and moisture. Young seedlings can be treated with 24D or MCPA, adult growth would be treated with an herbicide called Bromacil.
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Anita Nelson fron Nelson Water Gardens in Texas said the best way to get rid of Horsetail is to move!!!
Q: I'm getting more and more frustrated by uncertain and conflicting information about invasive plants. It seems that governments, both Federal and State, are starting to crack down on individual businesses. However often there is only incomplete inform
You're right, frequently there is conflicting, incomplete, or out-dated information. Even worse, there is no single source for accurate listings. Since our industry definitely needs this kind of resource, I was motivated to compile something that would be helpful and accurate. It wasn't long before I realized that creating a master list for publication was definitely a bigger challenge than I had ever imagined. Uncertainties and obstacles arouse almost immediately.
Let's start with the Federal level. The Federal Noxious Weed List (FNWL) was last updated in September 2000 and can be easily found at www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/permits/noxiousweed_list.html under the Plant Protection and Quarantine page. This seems simple enough, except that the FNWL found at http://plants.usda.gov/plants/cgi_bin/federal_noxious.cgi is an invalid list last updated in 1999. Go figure … it pays to be careful when checking sources since some sites have invalid or outdated lists.
Most State lists also include the Federally prohibited plants while some States use only the Federal list. Other States have not officially adopted the FNWL but require a permit from the USDA before plants on the list can be moved into their State. Plants listed on the FNWL are not State regulated or enforced unless also included on the State list.
Obtaining complete and accurate State Lists was, on the other hand, a more difficult task for many reasons.
The formal chain of command for State legislation as it applies to noxious weeds is as follows:
1. The State Government determines a plant to be prohibited from sale or have restrictions on import, distribution, or possession (except by permit) within their boundaries, sighting it as a noxious weed.
2. The updated plant list for that state is to be forwarded to the National Plant Board (NPB) for posting on their website www.aphis.usda.gov/npb/statenw.html. (This is the responsibility of the individual States.)
3. The NPB site is supposed to be THE authoritative source for ALL State Nursery Inspectors across the country.
Unfortunately, that's not always what happens. For example, Alabama has prohibited the sale of Myriophyllum aquaticum in their state since August 2000. Check the NPB site and it is not listed as prohibited even though the NPB updated in December 2000. Alabama's own web site does not have an available list of noxious weeds. They are not alone; many of the State sites do not post a list.
Remember, ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse. Our State of Maryland Inspector did say he would go to bat for us in the event we did ship Myriophyllum aquaticum to Alabama unknowingly and that we would more than likely win the battle.
But … Washington State added new plants to their prohibited list, effective January 2001, that are still not posted to NPB site. Since they are posted on Washington's site, we would be liable for shipping prohibited plants to Washington because the information has been made available to the public. (What exactly constitutes "made available"?)
And … Florida publishes a list of Most Wanted 'Outlaw' invasive aquatic and wetland plants. The unsuspecting consumer, retailer, or grower (myself included) might be led to believe that they are on Florida's prohibited list. In fact some are and some aren't. Florida is not alone; other States publish similar plant pest/weed lists. Pay careful attention to the wording of information when researching.
The most difficult part of this seemingly never ending project was weeding out the inaccurate information. Wyoming shed some light on another reason for confusion. Their own web site (as well as many others) produces different lists from different queries. The reason is some plants have restrictions by county and/or by State. The list will also vary depending on whether the restriction is a ruling, statute, or law, and which branch of government it falls under. Additionally it may depend upon whether the noxious weed restriction is for the plant or the seed.
Even more problems are created because noxious weed lists are not always maintained by the States' Department of Agriculture. Sometimes they fall under the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Natural Resources, or another branch of government.
More conflicts arose from 'comprehensive' sites that seemed to have everything in one place. The noxious weed list on Maryland's web site is a link to the INVADERS Database System posted by the Agricultural Research System and the USDA. I was sure I had a great find since I could search every State from a single site. So I printed a few for comparison and found that most of the lists did not match or even come close to the list faxed to me by that State. (Could that be because the ruling, statute, law, seed, or plant "thing" generated mixed information for the queries?)
To get around all these ambiguous situations I faxed a request to the States without current information available on their web site. My request to them was to provide a confirmed list of aquatic plants they regulate as noxious weeds. The replies I received provided the core of my "Regulated Noxious Aquatic Weeds" list. When clarification was needed, I chose the faxed information as the official version.
A complete accounting of the researched information has been compiled into two lists. The first is the "State & Federal Contacts for Invasive Aquatic Plant Information." The second is a list of "Regulated Noxious Aquatic Weeds" and their restrictions by State. I cannot assure absolute accuracy, but I am confident this is a far better accounting than previously available. Both lists can be found in PONDKEEPER Magazine's Annual Buyers' Guide and PONDKEEPER has generously offered to post a perpetual work in progress list on their website, www.pondkeeper.com.
This raises some interesting questions to the industry as a whole:
How often is the USDA and National Plant Board site updated?
If the industry makes every effort to regulate itself, how much effort will be placed on each company that ships interstate? Will each have to come up with a complete and accurate accounting of prohibited or restricted plants to individual states if the formal chain of command is not followed in a timely manner?
Can we rely on industry volunteerism to be the source of current information for new plant restrictions in various states?
Could a corner of Pondkeeper magazine be dedicated to announcing new additions to the list/s?
Editor's note: Yes, consider it done. As information is faxed or emailed to us, it will be published.
Should the same information be published in other trade magazines and/or journals?
Would the publicity of prohibited and restricted plants have an impact on their sales in states where they are not prohibited? How could it effect the industry's reputation?
How involved in the process does the industry want to become?
Now I seem to have raised more questions than I answered. Any feedback out there????
Kelly Billing
Nursery Manager
Maryland Aquatic Nurseries, Inc.
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Steve Malan
Maryland Department of Agriculture
Q: Many floating aquatic plants are prohibited in our state, like water hyacinth (Eichhornia) and water lettuce (Pistia). What non-invasive substitutes do you suggest we recommend and sell to our customers?
The numbers of prohibited plants, not just floaters, are increasing at a rapid rate. (See the January/February issue of Pondkeeper and the associated Buyer's Guide.) We find that these two plants in particular are a favorite of customers to accomplish two things. First, to add them to a natural or biological filtration system for the purpose of clearing water. Second, to provide quick surface coverage in the pond.
Water hyacinth and lettuce are not the only two plants that can accomplish either of the above. While it is true that they are effective we are uncertain how the myth among consumers began. As water gardening becomes more popular the demand for both of these tropical plants comes earlier and earlier. A warm week in February or March will send the phone a flutter with retail customers in search of both. We are still trying to figure that out.
As a general rule the worst times of year for pea soup algae blooms are in the early spring before the plants in the pond are active and in the late summer when the plants are resting from the extreme heat and are transitioning to the fall season. Since both water hyacinths and lettuce require warm temperatures to start growing, they are not effective at removing accumulated nutrients from the pond in the early spring. We strongly suggest you recommend that your customers purchase some plants that prefer colder temperatures to do the job early before the algae gets the upper hand.
Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Flag Iris) and Iris versicolor (Blue Flag Iris) are an excellent choice that can be added to the biological or natural filter either potted or bare root. Both of these varieties are more clump-habited than some of the Louisiana hybrids. If either is added as a bare root plant it needs to be anchored to keep it from floating toward the overflow area. It may lay sideways for a few days but it will find up. It will soon form a dense root mat that will keep it in position and help trap sediment. Simply lift and rinse periodically as you would your biological filter media. I. pseud.
Prohibited to VT.
Oenanthe javanica (Water Celery) and Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo' (Variegated Water Celery) both thrive in cool weather and in southern climates are evergreen, performing best during the late Winter and early spring. They will grow well potted or floating if in moving water. Both plants are on the racy side but are not listed as prohibited.
In areas where hyacinth and lettuce are not prohibited they are an excellent addition to the filter, when the water gets warm, to help combat the late summer algae bloom and to the pond to provide shade and cover for fish. In your case try some plants like Aeschynomene fluitans (Giant Sensitive Fern) or Neptunia aquatica (Sensitive Plant). These plants, like Water Celery, benefit from being potted if not in moving water. They creep quickly across the water's surface and can be pruned liberally to keep them in check. They have the added attraction of folding their leaves when touched. Yellow Sweet pea-like flowers add decoration to the foliage when it really gets warm.
Bacopa caroliniana (Lemon Bacopa), Bacopa lenagera "Variegata' (Variegated Bacopa), and Bacopa 'Monnieri' (Moneywort Bacopa) are all great choices to serve both purposes. Each of these creepers has it's own attributes. The Lemon Bacopa foliage has the distinct aroma of lemons when broken. The Variegated Bacopa has bright yellow veins on crisp green foliage and both have delicate blue flowers in summer. The Moneywort Bacopa tolerates cold temperatures better and has a continual display of delicate white blossoms all summer long.
Ludwigia peploides (Primrose Creeper) is another choice that will work. It has creeping shiny ovate foliage with bright yellow flowers throughout the summer months. It grows to a height of 2 feet with a much faster spread than the others listed and should be reserved for larger ponds.
It can be given a swift haircut as needed.
Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea' (Creeping Jenny) will brighten up a shady area with its golden yellow flowers and even brighter yellow flowers. Creeping Jenny along with the Bacopa are the best choices for dense creeping foliage that will help conceal a filter or soften the hard look of a lot of stone around the pond.
There are also the old stand-bys Mentha aquatica (Water Mint) and Myriophyllum aquaticum (Parrot Feather) that work wonders in a pond to help filtrate and offer quick surface coverage. Mint is prohibited in ID, MT, NE & WY due to some risk associated with the huge Mint industry there and Parrot Feather is prohibited in AL, ME, NV, NH, VT & WA.
Educating consumers is an endless job, but giving them as much information and selection as possible will help maintain loyalty and keep them coming back.
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