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|1997 Acura Integra RS 1.8L srs VIN: JH4DC4351V
hello all, i have a 97 integra here, with the srs light on, trouble code is: 9-02. internal malfunction of the power supply. i have checked the fuse it is ok. any one have any experience with this? any help would be appreciated. thanks vinnie
|1996 Honda Civic LX 1.6L Excessive Emissions, Surge, Stall, Misfire, MIL Lamp on VIN: 2HGEJ6670W
here is a tough one. I have a honda civic here that the customer put a long block in himself which he said only came with the head and block so he used his original intake and exhaust. he drove it for 5 days and he says it was driving ok at first and then it ... Trouble codes: P0301 (misfire 1), P0302 (misfire 2), P0303 (misfire3), P0304 (misfire 4), P0300 (misfire), P1399 (misfire)
|1997 Honda CR-V LX 2.0L No Start, Stall VIN: JHLRD1851V
I have this Honda CR-V that will start and idle/drive fine, then after 10+ min of running it will stall/shut down. It won't restart until it cools down for 5-10 min. It has no spark when it doesn't start. Here's what I know: The ignition switch has been replac...
|1998 Honda Prelude 2.2L Hesitation, Stall VIN: JHMBB6242W
this car came in for a check engine lite pulled codes and found p0401 and p0420 customer opted to have cat repaired first came back two weeks latter for E G R valve. the valve was replaced pulled the plugs on intake manfolid and cleaned all egr ports all ports... Trouble codes: P0401, P0420
|2001 Honda Accord LX 3.0L MIL Lamp on VIN: 1HGCG22511
I removed the intake and EGR valve to completely ream the passages with an old brake cable and drill. Cleaned up into the upper intake and down the lower intake passage to the EGR valve ports. Cleaned the EGR valve. Carb sprayed all passages and blew out with ... Trouble codes: P1491 (EGR control malfunction/insuffient EGR lift)
|2004 Honda Civic DX 1.7L No Start VIN: 2HGES16384
Customer was driving the car when it quit running and wouldn't restart. Was towed to my shop and everytime I crank it over it will start and run for one second then die. Thought it might be a security issue but checking through the diagnostic charts doesn't in...
|1998 Lexus ES300 3.0L Excessive Emissions, VIN: JT8BF2868W
HAD A CODE P0420,the front flex pipe was blown out REPLACED cat and flex pipe assembly, and now the convertor and heated converotor montiors will not become ready, and it was been thru the proper drive cycles, Also the front two o2 are sitting at 655mvs. I am ...
|1998 Mazda 626 ES 2.5L No Start VIN: 1YVGF22C2X
We need the immobilizer code to program the pcm since the immobilizer was replaced. Can any one help us in getting the code if we give the serial # of the new immobilizer? The Serial # is [...]. The part # is GE4T 67 5G2B. These other #'s are on it, Lucas...
|2003 Mazda Protege LX 2.0L Poor Idle Quality, Misfire VIN: JM1BJ22533
Hi fellow techs, this one drives me crazy. The car came in for no start. Find out it's been overheating and stalled on the highway. Pressure test coolant system found all 4 cylinders filled with coolant. Due to concerns of damaged piston rings/cracked block, w...
|2003 Mazda Protege ES 2.0L Excessive Emissions, Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Misfire, Poor Fuel Economy, MIL Lamp on VIN: JM1BJ22503
The car has a dead misfire on number 3 cylinder. I have 170 lbs compression. I put a rebuilt head tune up and same thing. I switched the injectors around no change. Trouble codes: P0303
|2004 Mazda RX-8 1.3L engine oil VIN: JM1FE17N04
this car had the engine replaced under mazda warrenty 31k miles ago 31 months ago. now when checking the oil it is yellow foamy. i changed the oil and filter and drove about 100 miles. still shows signs og coolanf mixed with the engine oil. not to familer with...
|2002 Mitsubishi Galant DE 2.4L charge nlight and batt light on at idle VIN: 4A3AA46G72
found previous harness repair to have broken wire to w/g at their repair connector and r/b wire corroded/broken repaired harness soldered and heatshrink tested charging system ..charging good 14.5 volts diode test good at idle charge and brake lights will illu...
|1989 Nissan Maxima GXE 3.0L Hesitation VIN: JN1HJ01PKT
thank for the help. car has a hesitation just off idle sometimes. dose not have to be under a load. some times it dose not.when it happens if i pinch off the fuel return the problem is gone but the fuel presser is around 60psi. check the injectors with the sco...
|2003 Nissan Maxima SE 3.5L a/t check light VIN: JN1DA31A83
90% of the time when the car is first started the a/t check light flashes for about one minute then goes out and does not come back on until shut off and restarted. there are no dtc stored confirmed or pending. the transmission operates perfectly. we exchanged...
|2005 Nissan Pathfinder SE 4.0L Stall VIN: 5N1AR18W85
Customers concern was intermittent stalls which I have seen once right after a cold start in the bay and backing out for test drive. It cut off like power had been removed completly, no stumble, hesitation, etc. Car started right back up as if it had not happe... Trouble codes: P0463 (Fuel level sensor circuit), U1000 (CAN comm), U1001 (Cqn comm), P1446 (vent control valve), P1212 (TCS circuit), P1612 (NATS malf)
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|1993 Acura Integra LS 1.8L clutch VIN: JH4DA9353P
first tahanks to all who replied to my post. i got a cable from honda and put it in and clutch is back to normal. cable from napa didn't seem to be bad after removal slid in and out with on resistance but new cable is a definite improvement and customer is hap...
|1999 Lexus SC300 3.0L Engine VIN: JT8CD32Z4X
Ok so this is what I figured out. When I initially went to tear down this pig, I set the intake cam/VVT-i to what I thought was in time but actually was not. When attempting to start after making repairs, thats when the damage occured. Once i pulled it back...
|2000 Nissan Altima GXE 2.4L Poor Idle Quality, Hesitation, Surge, Stall, MIL Lamp on VIN: JN1CA31D2Y
i have not fixed this vehicle. customer doesnot want to spend money on it. they still have do lot work with body, suspension. there were lot helpfull information. but i still could not make my mind. some people say check the intake leak smoke test it,no leak f... Trouble codes: P0172 (systm rich bank 1), P0325 (knock sensor).
|2000 Nissan Quest GXE 3.3L unknown VIN: 3N1CB51D3Y
the computer can not be reprogramed i am waiting to try with another computer i have check everything i check the solonoids and its ok and the battery is fine and and altenator volts is 14.30 as soon has i try one i ll let you know one more thing as soon sa i ...
|2007 Nissan Altima S 2.5L Ride Height VIN: 1N4AL21E37
First of all, thank you to the two members that considered helping me in my first request since joining. However only the obvious was suggested and was of no real value. For instance I had already looked in the trunk for heavy objects that would affect ride...


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documents of the day
"It is imperative that we distinguish between education and technical or industrial training."
"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks"
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
Published in High School Teachers Association of New York, Volume 3, 1908-1909, pp.19-31 and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 18:593-606
quoted from Woodrow Wilson's address to the New York Teachers Association in 1909;
at the time, Wilson was president of Princeton University. as it was a century ago, America's elite colleges like Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Princeton, continue their role atop the educational pyramid, training the teachers, credentialing its leadership, establishing the curricula and defining the purpose and intent of schooling in America.
as was the case then and remains today, standards and methods devised among them are delivered locally through public schools. the current institution of compulsory education was still propagating across the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. discussions among those steering its course were more candid as the documentation of the day presented here, suggests.
the superintendent of Middletown Public Schools offers an honest assessment of the industrialization of schooling in urban Ohio and the rest of nation in 1915.
"Now in my thinking, I regard all men as workingmen, except a few who have inherited great wealth, the care of which is entrusted to executors or guardians."
"So where the question is raised, what the schools are doing and can do for the workingman, it is simply another statement of the question, what all must know and be, to properly live the American life, whether in Industrial, Commercial or Professional pursuits."
"Public Schools of Middletown,
Their relation to the workingman and his children"
N. D. O. Wilson, Superintendent, Middletown Public Schools
The featured article published in the Armco Bulletin, September 1915 Vol. II No. 8
a century ago
as Middle America left the farm for the factory,
plans were prepared and set in motion to pacify the independent American spirit through schooling.
the success of American industrial development depended upon it.
the great tradition and promise of American free agency, where working for a wage was considered servitude, had to be subdued. the new industrial organization demanded obedience to authority over the economic autonomy rural America was so well accustomed. public schooling would be the mechanism to dislodge the independent mind of the farmer and mold the modern American workingman into his new role as submissive and compliant employee.
the plans put in place a century ago perpetuate today. America's educational institution continues to silently inculcate today's children for purposes that have little to do with learning – but all that's necessary to condition for control and conformance.
the process of establishing publicly funded schooling for the private use of the state by corporate interests occurred at both the national and local level in the early decades of the 20th century.
Superintendent N. D. O. Wilson's article written for the local steel company's newsletter, the Armco Bulletin presents a candid description for the purpose and intent of schooling delivered at the local level. He describes a school system built for the workingman and his family. He describes a system designed to set the path for a responsible citizen's contribution to his community. He believes in his cause and is resolute in its purpose: to create a population content with their economic position and earnest at striving for the favor of those in authority – the model employee.
the American public school system is often described as ineffective and dysfunctional and yet no matter what reform efforts are proposed and implemented, the essential structure remains untouched – a structure implemented a century ago.
for what purpose did this structure arise?
who devised its doctrine and how was it delivered?
does it continue today?
"To gain knowledge or understanding of, or skill in, by study, instruction, or investigation."
learning American life
learning the American life a hundred years ago in the Middletown Public School system was extended not just to school age students but adults, often new immigrants valued for their labor.
local steel manufacturing in Middletown, Ohio was growing rapidly and the American Rolling Mill Company was desperate to train new workers. nineteen fifteen was a very prosperous year for American steel manufacturing; the US remained a neutral supplier for Europe's war and fed both sides.
public schools became training centers filling the need for a desperate shortage of labor.
N. D. O. Wilson, Superintendent of Middletown Public Schools lays out the options for what a free, public education in America provided in 1915 to the workingman.
Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University in 1909, describes the liberal education for those who will lead and inspire the human production of America's public schools.
Professor Alexander Inglis, of Harvard University, presented several lectures on the topic of school design for industrial purposes. his Principles of Secondary Education written in 1918 is a dense, academic treatment of purpose and intent of public schooling as it came to be implemented across the nation.
John Taylor Gatto, Teacher, NYC Public Schools from 1961-1991, is one of America's most dedicated researchers on the history of pubic schooling in the US. his analysis of Inglis' work is distilled into The Six Functions of Schooling. he summarizes his analysis in this section of an article published by Harper's Magazine in September 2003 entitled "Against School, how public education cripples our kids, and why."
six functions of schooling
Inglis, for whom a lecture in education at Harvard is named, makes it perfectly clear that compulsory schooling on this continent was intended to be just what it had been for Prussia in the 1820s: a fifth column into the burgeoning democratic movement that threatened to give the peasants and the proletarians a voice at the bargaining table. Modern, industrialized, compulsory schooling was to make a sort of surgical incision into the prospective unity of these underclasses. Divide children by subject, by age-grading, by constant rankings on tests, and by many other more subtle means, and it was unlikely that the ignorant mass of mankind, separated in childhood, would ever reintegrate into a dangerous whole.
Inglis breaks down the purpose – the actual purpose – of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl the hair of those innocent enough to believe the three traditional goals listed earlier:
1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course, precludes critical judgment completely. It also pretty much destroys the idea that useful or interesting material should be taught, because you can't test for reflexive obedience until you know whether you can make kids learn, and do, foolish and boring things.
2) The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force.
3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role. This is done by logging evidence mathematically and anecdotally on cumulative records. As in "your permanent record." Yes, you do have one.
4) The differentiating function. Once their social role has been "diagnosed," children are to be sorted by role and trained only so far as their destination in the social machine merits – and not one step further. So much for making kids their personal best.
5) The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit – with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments – clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain.
6) The propaedeutic function. The societal system implied by these rules will require an elite group of caretakers. To that end, a small fraction of the kids will quietly be taught how to manage this continuing project, how to watch over and control a population deliberately dumbed down and declawed in order that government might proceed unchallenged and corporations might never want for obedient labor.
John Taylor Gatto, "Against School" Harper's Magazine, September 2003
implanting the myths of the state
it took years for this system to make its way into every American public school district.
after a hundred years, it might be a good time to reflect on the origins of a system where half of all teachers leave after 5 years;
where state funding comes tethered to ineffective standardized testing;
where the status of academic achievement lags an aptitude for sports;
and, where student debt is trapping a generation of talent into servitude, to name just a few of its deficits.
what the superintendent of public schools said a hundred years ago sounds innocent enough. the fact it's offered in a periodical published by the local steel company establishes a mutually beneficial relationship. this is a relationship that's worth exploring.
it's offered here with actual text written by national, academic and local leadership of the period with the intent that an honest understanding of the origins of modern compulsory schooling can be brought to light.
Subsequent posts will explore how this system was implemented and how these six functions continue to be the real purpose and intent of American public schooling: to implant the mythology of the state.

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St. Lucia is a SIDS located to the north of Trinidad and Tobago. Its economy depends on tropical commodity crops. The terrain is varied with volcanic and mountainous terrain as well as fertile valleys. Most of the population in St. Lucia lives on the north coast, close to national capital Castries. The island is prone to hurricanes and volcanic activity. The later provides the island with a strong geothermal potential.
Tourism is the main source of income on the island, and also responsible for 65% of its GDP. However, St. Lucia is vulnerable to volatile tourism receipts and the fluctuation of oil prices, because the country energy production still depends on fossil fuels. Also, its production of bananas has been highly impacted by competition in the region. These external shocks combined with the 2008 world financial crisis were have had a lasting impact on St. Lucia's economy.
According to the CIA, 16,446 people in St. Lucia don't have access to electricity. In 2012, its domestic energy production was 361.7 million kWh, the 167th largest worldwide. Close to the Equator Line, St. Lucia has an average temperature of 28ºC (82.4ºF) resulting in a high solar potential for both electricity production and water heating. St. Lucia is also in the path of north-easterly trade wind belts, which is an ideal location for wind power generation. As aforementioned, St. Lucia lies a volcanic area with great geothermal potential. Most of its volcanic activity is found in the south-west part of the island, specifically in the town of Soufriere. However, regarding hydroelectric potential, there is not much as St. Lucia only has minor rivers. The Roseau dam would be the only one with any potential to produce energy.
An Energy Efficiency Guide has been developed by the Ministry of Physical Development and the Environment in a partnership with PPA to provide guidance to the hotel industry as well as the households that are interested in reducing energy consumption through increased efficiency. LUCELEC (St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited) is the only energy company – natural monopoly, due to St. Lucia's small size.
Government of St. Lucia is working to install solar panels on the public residence of the Governor-General, Government House. The project will save thousands of dollars in energy costs and is representative of the country's long-term goal of running 100% on clean energy and mid-term target of 35% of energy coming from renewable sources by 2020. St. Lucia government is also looking forward by installing a 3.2 megawatt solar power plant in the south of the island. Citizens are expected to obtain cheaper energy after the power plant implementation. In 2015, tests were made in Soufriere to assess the possibility of installing a 12 megawatt wind farm. This would be a joint project of St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) and Windtex Energy. Four turbines would be placed close to Bordelais Correctional Facility. The new wind plant operating under full capacity would be able to provide energy to more than 19,000 homes. If built, the wind farm will reduce the amount of fuel purchase by LUCELEC by 10%.
St. Lucia was also mentioned as part of GSEII's partners following projects:
- CCCCC Coastal Protection for Climate Change Adaptation in the Small Island States in the Caribbean (KfW)
- Rocky Mountain Institute LED Street Lighting Project
- Rocky Mountain Institute 3.2 MW St. Lucia Utility Solar
- Rocky Mountain Institute Geothermal Project
GSEII Events in St. Lucia
April 2006. St. Lucia Energy Policy Stakeholders Meeting
September 2005. Caribbean Solar Financing Program Training Session


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Body recovered after Indonesia landslide
Rescue teams using heavy equipment have recovered another body from a landslide that swept into a village on Indonesia's main island, bringing the number of retrieved bodies to three.
Officials estimate between 28 and 38 villagers are missing and believed buried by the landslide on Saturday, which engulfed farmers harvesting ginger in Banaran village in East Java province's Ponorogo district.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said the landslide stretched 1.5 kilometres (a mile) long and up to 20 metres (66ft) high, and buried houses, overturned vehicles and left a massive scar on a hillside where lush vegetation was torn away.
Seventeen people were taken to hospital, while about 100 others were able to escape.
Mr Nugroho said a total of 1,655 rescuers from the disaster agency along with soldiers, police and volunteers searched on Monday for the missing.
Seven excavators were being used to dredge the mud, sand, rocks and fallen trees.
"Only one body was recovered on Monday," said Ponorogo army chief Lt Col Slamet Sarjianto, who earlier estimated that about 38 people were buried by the landslide.
"It was a man but his identity is still not known."
The search was suspended earlier because of heavy rains and will be resumed on Tuesday morning, said Sumani, the head of the local disaster agency, who uses one name.
Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to landslides during seasonal rains.
Many of the country's 256 million people live in mountainous areas or on fertile, flood-prone plains near rivers.
Press Association


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The Mariners have been playing well for weeks now and they're trying to get to the .500 mark. With the defeat on Friday the Mariners now sit right around that mark and will look to strive for it as the season comes to a close. Tonight they will send his Sasahi Iwakuma to the mound who has been impressive lately. In 26 innings of work he has allowed just one run in four starts.
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The Court of Appeal in Lam Pik Shan v Hong Kong Wing On Travel Service Limited confirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance which held that tips for a tour guide fall within the definition of "wages" in the Employment Ordinance ("EO").
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The claimant, Lam Pik Shan ("Lam"), was a tour guide employed by the respondent, Hong Kong Wing On Travel Service Limited ("Wing On") since April 1997. Wing On terminated Lam's contract of employment in February 2003. Lam commenced proceedings against Wing On for her outstanding statutory entitlements which she alleged should be calculated including the tips she received.
It was accepted that, in the 12 months preceding February 2003, Lam's basic monthly salary was HK$2,200 while the amount of tips and service charges she received varied from a few thousand to HK$10,000 per month.
The Court of First Instance ("CFI") held that tips and service charges were part of the wages of tour guide for the purpose of determination of statutory benefits under the EO. Please refer to our previous Legal Update: "Hong Kong: More about 'Wages' - When Are Tips included? (20 August 2007)". The employer appealed to the Court of Appeal.
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The only issue the Court of Appeal was required to consider was whether a workable mode of calculation exists for working out the net tips and whether it can be said to accrue daily. Since both the rate of recommended tips for each tour and the duration for each tour were determined by Wing On, the Court held that net tips received by Lam were readily calculable and could be said to "accrue" on a daily basis.
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Don't Pack Away the Shovels Yet
September 16th, 2014
We're heading down the gardening home stretch now, that time of year when we're tempted to dig in a few mums and call it a season.
Not so fast. We should have another 6 to 8 weeks of decent gardening conditions – weeks that happen to be some of the year's best for planting.
"Fall is for planting" isn't just garden-center hype to get rid of plants the stores don't want to overwinter. Fall really is a good time to plant most things. Here's why:
* The soil temperatures are warm enough to support good root growth at least through the end of October.
* The shorter days, less intense sunlight and cooler temperatures of early fall mean less stress (i.e. "transplant shock") for plants being evicted from their cozy pots into the untamed ground.
* Newly planted plants lose less moisture through their leaves in fall than summer, which lowers water demands.
* We usually get more rain in fall than summer, which further reduces the hose duty that new plantings require.
* Fall-planted plants will have two growing seasons under their belts instead of one (now and next spring) before having to face the grueling challenge of a summer in central-Pennsylvania clay.
* The bugs are mostly gone.
* A lot of plants go on sale from here on out.
* And, last but not least, it's a heckuva lot more pleasant to be out there digging in late September than in an August furnace.
When plant-shopping this time of year, you'll run into both fresh fall stock from the growers as well as spring leftovers that may not have had immaculate care over the summer.
Check the leaves and branches for bug damage, leaf spotting, leaf streaking and other signs of trouble. I'd pass on those.
If the leaves are just tired and browning, or if the spent flower stems just haven't been snipped, or if the plant is a bit gangly or ratty from spending the summer in a small pot, don't worry about that… especially if the price tag says 40 or 50 percent off.
What really counts is the condition of the roots. Gently slip the plants out of their pots and look for roots that are fleshy and white or creamy, not black and mushy or brown and shriveled.
The latter means the plants were either over- or under-watered.
This time of year you might also run into roots that have grown to fill the pots and begun circling around the inside. A little of that is fine. Just fray out the circling roots before planting or even make two or three vertical cuts through the roots to break up a too-tight mass.
If the roots are so badly circled that you can't even get the plant out of the pot, that's more of a problem. It doesn't mean the plant won't transplant and live happily ever after… but it lowers the odds.
If the garden center is guaranteeing the plant, you have nothing to lose. But be aware that year-end closeouts are usually not guaranteed, and neither are some of the more borderline-hardy plants that would rather not face a cold winter first thing after being planted.
Among those that would rather wait until spring: crape myrtle, cherry laurel, nandina, Southern magnolias, camellias, variegated hollies, most roses (shrub types are OK in fall), abelia, mahonia, falseholly (Osmanthus), blue Atlas cedar, vitex and crocosmia.
Here are ideas on plantings you can tackle now and in the coming weeks:
1.) Things you can plant now to enjoy right away
* Fall-blooming perennial flowers such as mums, asters, sedum, Japanese anemone and leadwort.
* Perennial flowers with colorful foliage that'll look good until frost and then bloom next year, such as variegated liriope, variegated Jacob's ladder, variegated brunnera, coralbells, foamflowers, foamybells, leadwort, hardy geraniums, hosta, Japanese painted ferns, ajuga, lamium and yucca.
* Hardy herbs with colorful foliage, such as purple or pineapple sage, golden oregano and golden or silver thyme.
* Cold-hardy annuals, such as pansies, violas and if the winter isn't too bad, dusty miller, annual phlox and annual dianthus.
* Cold-tolerant fall foliage plants that you toss at winter's end, such as ornamental cabbage and kale.
2.) Things you can plant now that will peak in fall
* Trees with great fall foliage, such as maple, stewartia, sweetgum, blackgum, dogwood, Persian parrotia and sourwood.
* Shrubs with great fall foliage, such as fothergilla, burning bush, dark-leaf ninebark, Virginia sweetspire, witch hazel and viburnum.
* Trees and shrubs with colorful fall berries, such as crabapple, dogwood, hawthorn, junipers, hollies (both evergreen and winterberry types), beautyberry, chokeberry and viburnum.
3.) Things you can plant now to enjoy next spring
* Spring-blooming bulbs, such as snowdrops, crocuses, Siberian squill, chionodoxa, daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, grape hyacinths and alliums.
* Winter-hardy, early-blooming perennial flowers, such as Lenten rose, brunnera, creeping phlox and pulmonaria.
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In this collection of short works that defy easy categorization, Margaret Atwood displays, in condensed and crystallized form, the trademark wit and viruosity of her best-selling novels, brilliant stories, and insightful poetry. Among the jewels gathered here are Gertrude offering Hamlet a piece of her mind, the real truth about the Little Red Hen, a reincarnated bat explaining how Bram Stoker got Dracula all wrong, and the five methods of making a man (such as the "Traditional Method": "Take some dust off the ground. Form. Breathe into the nostrils the breath of life. Simple, but effective!") There are parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, reconfigured fairy tales, and other miniature masterpieces--punctuated with charming illustrations by the author. A must for her fans, and a wonderful gift for all who savor the art of exquisite prose, Good Bones And Simple Murders marks the first time these writings have been available in a trade edition in the United States.From the Hardcover edition.
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The first story that made me sit up and go 'huh.' was called 'Unpopular Gals' – it was a few vignettes written from the perspective of female fairy tale villains. The evil queen in Snow White, the wicked stepmother in Cinderella – it was delightful in the way that Gregory McGuire's Wicked is delightful with reimagining these one dimensional women, giving them depth, and making them sympathetic.
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This week, the California Quail returned, en masse. We had about two dozen adults and teenagers in the common area behind our yard. And then someone told them the finches and sparrows drop lots of seeds in our yard, and so they dipped through the openings in our gate and made themselves at home. I took over 150 photographs (don't you love digital cameras, knowing that it won't cost you to have bad shots developed?). Here are just four of them.
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Mike is the self proclaimed "most interesting politician in the world." I like his platform enough that I'd vote for him, but man, he really needs to rethink his strategy; taking a Dos Equis commercial and plastering a variation of it all over his website.... It's like seeing someone's dad wearing skinny jeans and an ironic fedora. Awkward.
Here's the thing: Mike is getting up in the years. He looks like a combination between Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. I can understand how he wouldn't want to fall into that "old white male" stereotype the GOP has found themselves. But come on. He's trying way to hard. What he needs to remember is, for many of us 20's to 30-somethings, Ron Paul is freakin' Yoda. Libertarianism doesn't need a gimmick. Dry, clean cut freedom from an ever-expansive, ever-intrusive government is more then enough to excite the crowd hungry for change that won't turn our country into a dictatorship who's currency is virtually worthless. Young voters eat that shit up like it's go-gurt!
All a lame, awkward and hastily put together rap video does is delegitimize him to the rest of the crowd, turning him into a fringe candidate. Seen it too many times already and honestly I'm getting tired of it. Here in Oklahoma, for example, a few months ago a good man named Chad Moody ran against Mary Fallon for governor. In case you don't know, Fallon is loathed by lots and lots of people on both the left and the right. Chad Moody's politics could have had garnered enough support to knock her out on her ass, even considering the staggering neo-con crowed that exists in the state. Besides funds, his largest downfall was his slogan: "God, grass and guns".
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Exciting week in the land of Chemo.
During my June 4th treatment, I had an allergic reaction to the Taxotere (a.k.a Docetaxel). I was itchy and had watery eyes. The charge nurse immediately stopped the Taxotere and brought in two oncologists to consult. I was given Solu-Medrol, a steroid, and benadryl to stop the reaction. Then my oncologist was called and it was determined that I would not receive the rest of the Taxotere, nor the Carboplatin. I was, however, administered the Herceptin.
Taxotere is the synthesized Pacific Yew bark. Carboplatin is platinum bases. Herceptin is a protein inhibitor.
I have no idea why I had an allergic reaction the second time I received the Taxotere but not the first. I am curious to hear what my oncologist has to say.
The fun part of the day was all my visitors! My friends Tracy, Joy, Kelly and Tanya all stopped by during my treatment.
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My next chemo treatment is June 25th. I wont' be sure until I after I speak with my oncologist on Monday what the course of treatment will be. But what I do know, is that I will feel great on Saturday June 21st, so I decided to form a walking team, called Battling Bertha, of course, for the Pink 5K in The Woodlands, Texas. I signed up for the 1 mile walk, as I know 5 k is more than my body can handle right now.
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If you'd like to join my walking team, or donate, visit my Pink 5K fundraising site.
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I've decided to share some compelling information regarding Vitamin D. My good friend and aromatherapist, Kelly Taylor, sent over this article Top Tips to Reduce Your Breast Cancer Risk from Mercola.com, and I found this article about Vitamin D on the Breast Cancer Charities of America Website. The research shows that women who are deficient in Vitamin D have a 222% increased chance of developing breast cancer.
Our bodies absorb Vitamin D from sunlight. More and more of us do not spend enough time in the sun, even though just 20 minutes per day is all we need. So it makes sense that a myriad of health problems could result from our sedentary indoor lifestyles.
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Guest Post: Hiking in Patagonia
Sam, a native of London, has been living a semi-nomadic life for the last four years, teaching English around Europe and travelling to Asia and the Middle East. Finally, after seven years together, his partner Zab joined him and they left on one-way tickets to Buenos Aires in January 2013. You can follow their journey on their blog Indefinite Adventure.
Easy Hiking in El Chalten
Tucked away just past the far west end of Lake Viedma in Argentina's second southern-most province, Santa Cruz, on the other side of the border from Chile's famous Torres del Paine National Park, is a small town surrounded by mountains and a great place for easy day hikes. It's called El Chalten.
While Torres del Paine does offer some spectacular views of the surrounding mountains, the hiking there is not so easy, and often requires multiple day trips and carrying one's own tent.
El Chalten is a great alternative. The town itself is an unremarkable street lined with the usual (and slightly overpriced) hotels, hostels, restaurants, cafes and convenience shops, but it is the setting that attracts so many hikers.
Mounts Torre and Fitzroy loom over the town, which despite only being in the 3,000m range, weren't ascended until the 1950s. While many people now travel to El Chalten specifically to climb them, that certainly doesn't count as easy hiking!
What does, however, are many of the trails starting in the town and going out towards the base of the mountain range, the most popular of which is probably the route to Laguna Torre, a lagoon at the base of Mount Torre.
It's an all day hike, lasting at most 4 hours in each direction with only 200m of up and down over the whole route, most of it at the beginning where you must ascend from the valley where the town lies up one side. There are a few points where the path narrows, and force you to walk in single file, but it is mostly a very easy path with great views along the way.
Finding the trailhead in town is easy; there is basically only one and it clearly indicates that it leads to Laguna Torre. If in doubt, just follow all the other hikers!
Once you begin the relatively easy ascent up out of the valley, you'll get lovely views over the town, the river flowing through it and over the other side of the valley. As you press on and the path flattens out, you'll start to get views of the top of Torre Glacier in the distance.
After about two hours, including some up and down, you'll come to a viewpoint (mirador, in Spanish) out over the river valley and an unobstructed view of the glacier.
Then you'll begin to descend slightly, passing an eerie dead forest and coming down beside the river itself. Here the path is flat and at its easiest for just over an hour.
The last twenty minutes or so are probably the hardest, with a shallow ascent up a path of loose, volcanic rock. It is also the most desolate at this point, with almost nothing growing except for some moss. But once you reach the lagoon, the views of Mount Torre and its glacier can be spectacular.
Unfortunately, on the day we were there, there was a lot of very low cloud and we couldn't actually see the peak! It was also very windy as is often the case in El Chalten and the surrounding area in summertime due to its location right next to the Southern Andean ice field and the cold wind coming off it meeting the warm air in the valleys below.
This meant that although we didn't need our coats for most of the hike, we definitely needed them for the area around the lagoon, as well as our hats and gloves. However, the views, despite the cloud, were definitely worth it.
If you are planning a visit to Argentine Patagonia, and would like to fit in some easy hiking to take in all the beautiful mountain scenery without actually going up the mountains, El Chalten is definitely the place for it.
Click here for more information (in Spanish) about the hike in El Chalten, including a basic map. Have a read, too, of what I wrote about visiting the Perito Moreno Glacier near El Chalten in El Calafate, which is much bigger and more impressive than the glacier I mention in this post.


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I have been to Florida several times but never in July - just wondered what the weather temperature and rainfall was like in July on Holmes Beach. thanks
The weather on July on the island will be hot and humid, not as much as in August or September but if you like hot weather you will have it. There will be storms just about every afternoon but the come quick and you will be thankful for them, they cool things off.
The good thing is July is not as busy and you will have lots of space on the beaches.
One thing to add is that the gulf water is warm warm warm. For those who have rarely experience warm ocean water these summer months are the time to enjoy. The water is so warm it is not really refreshing but still a blast to play and soak in.
See you soon
Just be careful and do the "stingray shuffle" during this time...
The gulf is soooo warm and the rays will be right there breeding! :-)))
Don´t step on them... They don´t like it that much!
floridianer - there is a joke there somewhere ....but ill keep my class and pass on commentin ;)
We were there last July. I don't recall a drop of rain. Hot and humid, but that's how I like it. Fall in the water or hit the a/c if you feel too hot. This year 2 weeks. I'm so happy. My arthritis seems to fade away on AM.
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I was very impressed by this artist and especially by her works that you can see below. Unfortunately, there are not so many information regarding the artist but I will contact her for an interview as soon as possible to find more about her art and inspiration. All I could find is that she is moving between Pressburg, Berlin, Slovakia and that she studied
at University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria), Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava (Slovakia) and Germany.
Andrea Jancovicova: to create means "to testify". I reflect my surroundings, my era. For me it is necessary. I take metaphors, symbols, codes, molding material in my hand to express "urgency of testimony".


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His funeral will be held immediately after the visitation and will begin at 7 p.m.
Baker had just arrived to the Mapco station on Donelson Pike and was sitting in his truck when the gunman fired multiple shots at him around 2 a.m. Sunday.
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Time tracking data may give you the total time consumed and the total tasks completed. This may not be the complete picture. Every team lead must closely observe the tasks being completed by the team members and share his inputs. The expectations from each task must be set at the beginning and it should be ensured that these are met. Unless a task is successfully completed the time logged on that task is in fact void. we had tremendous feedback on this article : Attendance Management Software – Enhancing the Efficiency of your Organization.
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A 2010 Scottrade survey of 1,000 Americans age 18+ (485 male, 515 female) found that our attitudes of concern and of financial conservation that so dominated the last few years in the run up to the Great Recession have relaxed considerably. Simply put, Americans are far less worried about their finances having come through the Recession than they were in the middle of it. Even retirement fears are fading away, along with the focus on retirement planning, saving, and even debt reduction … unless you're under 29 years of age. That demographic is as concerned as ever.
While the trends toward declining concerns and financial conservation DO span all generations, the Scottrade study found a surprising exception for Generation Y (born 1983 to 1992). Surprisingly, it is that generation whose concerns are growing the most!
Why the continued (and growing) financial concern amongst the younger generation?
Although the study didn't specifically address that, perhaps they see the older generations plunging them into more and more government debt and the ensuing bailouts. Perhaps they "got it" during this last go-around with a dip in the economy. Perhaps their 20 percent un/under-employment rate has caused them to see the light that the fully employed Boomers and Gen X'ers can't fathom.
But perhaps most disturbing trend was the 40 percent increase in those claiming that they are "doing nothing" to address any financial concerns. Failing to plan? We all know where that leads.
The Five Key Financial Trends
- America's financial and retirement concerns have substantially relaxed
- The belt tightening of 2009 – 2009 is subsiding
- The focus on planning, saving, and debt reduction is fading
- Seniors breathed a sigh of retirement relief
- Americans' faith in the market weathered the storm
America's financial and retirement concerns seem to have relaxed
Despite all our continued economic uncertainty, despite record unemployment, despite record numbers of business closings and foreclosures, Americans seem to feel that the worst of the economy's setbacks are over, and their relief is so pronounced that many financial concerns have dropped to a four-year low, including:
- Getting a good Return On Investment (ROI)
- Managing day-to-day expenses
- Affording personal/family education expenses
- Protecting wealth
- Protecting family from premature death/disability
- Paying off credit card balances
- Saving enough for a major purchase
- Having too much debt
- Controlling the urge to spend
- Improving credit rating
Concerns specific to retirement also have faded.
The number of Americans who feel nervous or afraid about retirement dropped dramatically since last year (from 55 to 40 percent). As fears faded away, so did concerns, which declined for 9 out of 13 key issues surrounding retirement.
Will Social Security still be there?
One topic that remains a top concern is the future availability of Social Security. Doubts about its solvency just won't go away – more than half of Americans (54 percent, ME included) remain worried that Social Security will not be enough to live on. Some of us are convinced that the old girl won't even be recognizable from her current form when we decide to retire. Ironically, Social Security wasn't designed as the sole source of retirement funds but it has certainly evolved to that end in the minds of many Americans. Gen Y is especially worried about this issue, and their fears hit a four-year high of 53 percent this year. This increase is a significant jump from last year, when 40 percent of Gen Y expressed concern.
What to do?
Buck the trend! STAY concerned about your financial health. Continue to invest in your future whether through a savings account or through investing with a brokerage like Scottrade. Pay off your debt, especially that high interest debt and refuse to use your credit card unless you can absolutely pay it off within the grace period. Make SMART money moves today, regardless of your age, so that when tomorrow comes you're better prepared than your peers.


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The swift and poignant response I received after a recent post linking the cause for spiraling marriage rates in the black community to the steeply declining numbers of young, educated, and professional black men unleashed a long-simmering anger of outrageous ferocity.
As I began to receive calls and read emails regarding the posting, it did not take me long to realize that black men had long ago tired of being blamed for the failings of the black community, particularly failed marriages and the unprecedented increase of single female-headed households. Put simply, accomplished black men are no longer willing to silently carry the bulk of those social maladies alone, if at all. The emotional intensity of the alluded to responses was so significant that I felt compelled to revisit this topic sooner, rather than later.
The public protestations regarding my earlier posting emanated from a cross-section of Black America, male and female, young and old, formally educated within the academy and those who earned their stripes via the school of hard knocks. I personally knew a few of those who responded, others I had no prior exposure to beyond sporadic social media postings. Nevertheless, engagement with this highly diverse population of Black America made one thing painfully clear, this conflict over love and matrimony is Black America's latest internal Civil War, a conflict that has raged uncontrollably over the past fifty-plus years.
It may have been my pre-existing relationship with many of the responders that led me to consider their impassioned protestations over the data included in my earlier posting as more than irrational complaining. The referenced data base that pointed to young, educated, and professional black men as the primary reason for declining black matrimony rates raised the ire of all responders in an uncommon way.
After pondering on this matter, it is obvious that black men feel that the conclusions presented by the Brookings Institute presents a partial portrait of why so many educated black women are not marrying black men. One of the most poignant responses emanated from a former student who took significant issue with the insinuation that he, and those like him, held any responsibility for black women's failure to find everlasting love.
There are plenty of single (gainfully employed) black men actively looking for black women…(I have found that) It's nearly impossible to meet and develop a meaningful relationship with a woman that's outside of your social circle. Most people I know that got married met their wife through friends or friends of friends.
As for collegiate women, I know some (grown) women that would club them over the head for complaining about their inability to find marriage-minded educated and professional black men. From ages 16-23 women hold ALL the cards. Men don't really get the upper hand in the dating game until about age 26 and up. I think these women are just hopping on a convenient bandwagon to take the light off themselves and their poor choices in men.
The above sentiments were echoed by a Brooklynite school teacher. "C'mon, black women need to stop all of this complaining about there not being any good black men available" the educator lamented. "The truth of the matter is that for many of the sisters who are supposedly seeking an educated black man, they are their own worst enemies. I cannot tell you how many sisters that I dated prior to getting married (to a black woman) who quite simply were impossible to get along with, particularly if you displayed genuine interest in them without any significant problems. I mean after a while, who wants to be bothered with someone who is being difficult for the sake of being difficult. Oh, I forgot. They aren't being difficult, they are being STRONG black women. Well, if that is what a strong black woman is, I don't want any parts of it."
As I read through the litany of comments, it became obvious that the experiences of so many educated black men are not reflected in data used by the previously referenced Brookings Institute study.
Yet another brother communicated his utter disbelief in what he termed the consistent lie that there are gangs of educated black women who are actively seeking educated, professional, and financially stable black men as husbands.
Please don't mistake me, I'm not arguing the validity of math, but with so many of my patnas' (sic) with college degrees, no kids, making good money and actively searching for a black wife it seems odd whenever I read things like this. If they're in such high demand they'd be off the market, no? I won't throw shade at the sistas, after all, they're not some homogeneous hive mind but it's worth noting that the attentions of some are usually grabbed by another "type"… IJS
Although many relationship experts attribute much of the discord between black men and women to "bad timing", many African-American men refuse such escapism. A former college roommate offered the following analysis.
"I have learned that far too often, black women are not seeking the good guy until they have been psychologically damaged, given a couple of children, and then decide that such associations are not working for them. When you think about it, there is no greater sign of a flawed set of priorities than the decisions that so many black women make regarding their personal lives. I actually had a female friend tell me that she would never settle in regards to her selection of a mate. However, over the past fifteen-years I have watched her select men that even Stevie Wonder could see did not represent any of the things that she wanted for her life. There was some type of disjointing that had occurred in her statements regarding what type of man she desired and the type of man that she welcomed into her bed. For her, settling meant finding a gainfully employed, educated, and professionally successful brother who was not about the B.S. Just crazy, I tell ya!"
The black men who contacted me regarding the previous posting all agreed that researchers who focus solely on data bases are missing the mark and should turn their lens toward examining the socialization and priorities of black women prior to using numbers to explain such matters. "It is in this arena that they will find the actual reason that so many educated black women have failed to find suitable mates" according to a Houston-based Engineer. Indicative of such thoughts was the following litany I received from an anonymous brother who asserted that "in their own pursuit of success, black women have been socialized into believing that they need neither marriage nor black men. So it is predictable that women who have been raised to believe that they must be prepared to take care of themselves, by themselves, would hesitate, if not outright refuse to rely on black men in any situation. I know married sisters who have secretly hidden money from their husband, just in case things go awry. When you think about it, they are only married on paper, not in the truest sense of the word."
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once communicated the following. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." After hearing and reading the responses of many accomplished black men regarding their culpability, if not outright responsibility, for the declining rates of marriage for educated black women, I am certain that they agree with Disraeli's quip.
And that most certainly ain't no lie.
Dr. James Thomas Jones III
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