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Is everyone looking forward to the Easter break?? We are going to my daughter's Easter service this afternoon, where she is receiving a Headmasters commendation, which should be a lovely start to the Easter holidays. My clever little button! We are busy the first week, travelling 'Up North' to stay with Daddy bear's family for the Easter weekend, then on the way back breaking the journey for a two night stay in a travel lodge to visit Thomas Land at Drayton Manor (as long as it's not too cold!!!). It should be lovely, and the children will have a great time although secretly I am rather looking forward to the second week where we have no plans and can just relax and shake off these bugs we keep coming down with!! I know some people dread the holidays, but I love not having to get up and do the rush to school for a couple of weeks!!
Planning our trip in this cold weather, got me thinking about previous journeys we have made, and I'm hoping the journey will go better than one of our previous ones. Daddy bear was off a sandy 'trip' with work and I decided to take my then two baby bears, then 2 and 1, on the 4 hour journey 'Up North' to see the in laws. The journey went great, and we had a lovely time, the children were so well behaved. It was all much easier than I imagined. Repacking the car wasn't too bad, I'd packed too much stuff as always, and of course it was really necessary to bring two push-a-long trikes, which had to go in last to fit in. My father in law also very kindly took the car to fill it up whilst I bathed the children ready for the journey home!
Well we were all wrapped up, children in their PJ's and thermal suits (as it was January), DVD player on and lots of nursery rhyme CD's at the ready. Well we said good bye, and I started the car. It didn't start first time which was unusual, but I thought no more about it when the car started fine on the second try. The children were so good on the journey, the traffic was great, and the journey so smooth, too smooth......
On turning off the M4 to make our way through the countryside home, the car broke down on the roundabout, and wouldn't start again. It's not an old car, so not something it usually does at all. So quick as a flash I got the children out of the car and on to the roundabout. Obviously being 1 and 2, they were at the age where they are hard to constrain, especially when Mummy needs to make important phone calls to the RAC!! So the quickest thing to get out of the boot was the two trikes. So we are sat there on a roundabout in the dark at 9 at night, pretending we are 'In the night garden' in our florescent jackets, children in trikes eating my emergency supply of chocolate, looking like complete maniacs!!
Luckily our wait was a short one, the lovely RAC man took 30 minutes, followed closely by my parents (all good to call Dad like a 12 year old!!) Well Dad very kindly went with the RAC man to drop the car at the garage, and Mum drove me and the children home. It appeared that my father in law, in his kindness to help, put petrol in my car by accident! Whoops. Luckily it wasn't a disaster, and the car only needed the tank draining and we had it back the next day. But still makes me giggle to think of us sat on the roundabout like that!!
Anyway, I really had better get the rest of or things packed ready for the trip. We'll definitely pack extra warm things for breakdowns and I'm not taking trikes, and will pack the pushchair on the top. I have already filled up the car making sure I used Diesel!! :)
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Vega Zaishi Wang's "Alpha Lyrae" collection wouldn't look out of place on the set of TRON 3. Named for one of the celestial bodies in our night sky, the eight-piece lineup harnesses electroluminescent technology to evoke the haunting beauty of the cosmos. The garments made their official debut in September at The Creators Project event in Beijing, where Wang teamed up with UFO Media Lab, electronic musician Zhang Shou Wang, and the lighting wizards at Top Right Optoelectronics to create an immersive, three-dimensional environment for her otherworldly designs. Consider this one small step for a fashion designer, one giant leap for fashion design.
Vega Wang is fashion designer based in Beijing with a BA in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins. Upon graduation in 2008 she began her fashion line, Vega Zaishi Wang, which is known for purity of tone, exceptional handicraft, and a quiet charm. Her latest project sponsored by VICE and Intel is an exploration of the universe and its vastness as seen through fashion. Taking inspiration from space, her own name and the constellation Lyra (goddess of wearing in Chinese astronomy), Wang designed the Alpha Lyrae line.
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Proceeds from the Great Walleye Weekend contest go to the Easter Seals of Iowa.
A Spencer man has caught a $1,600 walleye on Big Spirit Lake in northern Iowa.
Joe Larson caught a tagged fish that was part of a contest sponsored by the Iowa Great Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce.
In early May, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources released six tagged walleye in Big Spirit Lake, West Lake Okoboji and East Lake Okoboji for the contest.
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Larson caught his fish Thursday and the Chamber of Commerce released details on Tuesday.
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Any idea how to sexup a cheap and easy to prepare romantic dinner for two, please, using the vegetables I'm growing in my glass house (lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes). I do eat meat. Thanks.
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Post subject: Any idea how to cook a cheap easy to cook dinner for 2?
Ashton darling, of course, we can sexup your meat and two vegs...(OOPS!!! cough, cough) I meant... and your 3 vegs, babe! We'll try to make it really easy for you. And not to call it a cheap dinner, darling! Let's call it a down-to-earth dinner instead, shall we, Ashton babe? After all, you are going to use the vegs you've been growing in your garden, arn't you, darling?
Arrange lettuce leaves, cucumber slices and tomato slices onto 2 large dinner plates. Slice lean beef very thinly into bite size slices. We need a big handful of sliced beef. Fry crushed garlic in little cooking oil. Add beef. Stirfry quickly. Add some sliced white onions. Stirfry quickly to keep beef a little bit pink. Season with a bit of salt and ground pepper. Spoon meat onto 2 salads. Mix 4 tablespoons boiling water, 2 teaspoons vinegar, 4 flat teaspoons sugar and 1 flat teaspoon salt together. Spoon over salads. Scatter half handful of roasted, crushed peanuts over salads. Serve with hot garlic bread/ warm baguette slices.
I hope you two will enjoy this simple, yet delicious tea.
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:26 pm
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I like to throw a little ethnic flair wherever I can. Go Mediterranean-Cut about 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken (breasts or thighs-whatever you can afford) and marinate with 1 clove chopped garlic, the juice of 1 or 2 lemons, a tablespoon of olive oil, and 1 tablespoon of ground cumin for a few hours. While that marinates, whip up some taboulleh. You already have fresh cucumbers and tomatoes, just pick up some fresh parsley (curly) and bulgar wheat at the store. The bulgar is very good for you and prepped with just some boiling water and about 5 minutes of time. Mix chopped parsley, diced tomato, diced cucumber, bulgar, a squeeze of fresh lemon and a dash of olive oil. Chill till ready to use. Skewer chicken pieces and grill or broil til done. Serve chicken with taboulleh and also some rice or in pita as a sandwich. Most importantly-HAVE FUN!!
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 2:59 am
Post subject: Any idea how to cook a cheap easy to cook dinner for 2?
I can suggest a salad that can go with your lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes. 1 bot Tuna Tuscan Sauce, 100g lettuce, cleaned, 1 pc. med cucumber, sliced
1 pc med carrot 2 pc any sized tomato, quartered. Mix all vegetables in a salad bowl. Drizzle with tuna tuscan sauce. Voila easy tip for you.
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I broiled what I thought was London Broil. It turns out it was "top round london", (whatever that means) on high for ten minutes on each side. I let it sit for a few minutes and sliced it thinly. It still was a little chewy. I think I overcooked it. Is there anyway to make it more tender? I have a good bottle of wine I could use in the sauce. I guess I could slice it and cook it in gravy. But will that help?
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Fresh Herbs is a great way to make something look and taste special.
Even hamburger Helper looks classy with a leaf or two of basil as a garnish.
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if you are not cooking inclined, just buy read made meals and add your own flare. Costco has already marinated meats(salmon my favorite) cook it and add some fresh herb or a salad to make the dish look more colorful. Don't be afraid of simple dishes. some of the best dates I had was over simple dishes I prepared in less than 20 minutes.
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Hi Asthon,
You are great to plant yourself the vegetables from glass house.
Here I suggest you try to cook the vegetables with Chinese cooking method which is simple, tasty and most important healthy way.
Here is the lettuce recipes, you may refer below link:
Hope you enjoy cooking
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Late Blue Devil surge tops Bears in women's basketball
FREDONIA, N.Y.—Fredonia State (9-7, 4-6 SUNYAC) used a late burst to pull away from the SUNY Potsdam women's basketball team (1-16, 0-10) for a 75-57 victory on Friday night. Jaime Warren scored a game-high 27 points to lead the Blue Devils, while teammate Becky Hebert added 18 more. Senior guard Katy Briedis led the Bears with 16 points and junior forward Jessica Kouzan finished with 10 points and 10 boards for a double-double.
A free throw from Grace Moore gave Fredonia a seven-point, 17-10 advantage with 12:35 left in the first half. Potsdam answered with a 14-3 run over the next seven minutes to grab a 24-20 lead. Briedis capped the comeback with a three-pointer at the 5:37 mark. The momentum swung back in the opposite direction as the Blue Devils finished the period on a 12-2 run. Two free throws from Warren gave Fredonia a 32-36 advantage at the break.The second half looked much like the first early on. A Nikole Lindquist layup just over three minutes into the period gave Fredonia a 38-30 lead, but again the Bears rallied. An 8-2 run got Potsdam to within 40-38 with 14:11 remaining. Potsdam hung tough over the next seven minutes. A Briedis jumper with over seven minutes left closed the gap to 53-49. Fredonia seized control of the contest after the basket and closed the game on a 22-8 steak for the 75-57 victory.
The Blue Devils shot 50 percent from the floor, while the Bears finished at 38.9. Fredonia closed the game with a 37-30 advantage on the boards. Fredonia's Lindquist posted a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds and Moore contributed 10 points. Bears sophomore forward Margaret Wall scored eight points on the night.
Potsdam is back in action tomorrow afternoon as the Bears battle Buffalo State at 2 p.m.


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Explore how fossils are created. What parts of animals become fossilized? How old are the earliest fossils? Families will discover how fossil casts are made in the museum by making their own casts to take home. This short program offers something for all ages – exciting information about fossils and fun, hands-on exploration of fossil casting! These 20-30 minute interactive programs take place on the 2nd floor of the U-M Museum of Natural History. They include both brief presentations highlighting university research and engaging hands-on activities. They are suitable for adults and children, ages 5 and up.


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December 21, 2012
Thanks to the Chavez Middle School band and the Thomas Elementary school children's choir. Thank you for that beautiful music.
It's a bittersweet day today. We need to listen carefully to the voices of children at this moment. We need to savor their innocence, and applaud their unquenchable appetite for self-expression and renewal.
December 19, 2012
Statement by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Teachers, Principals, and School Administrators in the Aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings
At this time of unbearable grief over the senseless slaughter of 20 first-graders and six school staff members, I want to take a moment to thank the extraordinary educators, school leaders, and school staff who protected children at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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As I listened to [IDB] President Moreno's remarks, I was struck not by how different the U.S. education system is but rather by how many educational challenges the U.S. shares with Latin America and Caribbean nations.
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Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the Fourth White House Tribal Nations Conference
Thank you, Mr. Hill, for delivering that wonderful opening invocation. I can't tell you how pleased and honored I am to join you again for the fourth White House Tribal Nations Conference.
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This is a day of celebration in so many ways. I'm thrilled for our nation, and I'm thrilled for our nation's school children, that President Obama has been re-elected.
October 19, 2012
It's great to be at the TIME Summit on Higher Education with such a distinguished group of leaders. All of you have thought long and hard about the future of higher education. And I'll try to be brief before we turn to the panel discussion.
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Three weeks ago, we began a cross-country bus tour in California to visit schools, meet with educators and students, get feedback and listen, and generally take the pulse of people after nearly four years in office.
September 18, 2012
Thank you for that generous introduction, Dennis [Van Roekel].
One of the most extraordinary opportunities in my job is that I get to visit hallowed ground. I get to stand in the footsteps of giants who fought and won battles for equal educational opportunity. And so it is today.
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How are you pressing the reset button for 2014? Take a glimpse into the pros' world for some ideas—and laughs.
by Matt Lieto
It's that time of year again—the end of a year past, and a blank slate ahead. It's a time when we hear a lot of chatter about setting resolutions, aptly named after the holiday. Triathletes are a generally a highly motivated crew and rarely need a reason to set new goals, but many of us use the January 1st milestone to focus on a new season ahead. It can be a great reset button after holiday indulgences, not to mention a time to kick off a higher level of commitment. Do you need a little kick in the pants after stretching your belt and giving your bike a rest? There's no better way then a hard and firm New Year's resolution to get you on the right track.
As for me, I usually partake in New Year's resolutions in some way, but it tends to be something fun, or that could improve my health or break a bad habit. Last year I made two: One was to never swim 75's or 125's in a swim workout. Why? Mostly because I hate that end of the pool, and partly because I like being high maintenance in group swims. The result? Besides annoying my training partners it was my fittest and most consistent swim year ever. Coincidence? Yes, of course. The second was to see if I could quit—cold turkey—my terrible habit of putting two sugar packets in my coffee. In a year I figured that it all added up. It did. Total sugar avoided? 1.5 cups of coffee a day (more like 2) x 2 tsp = 23 cups or 2 x 5 lb bags of sugar. Now that is a worth while resolution!
We asked the IRONMAN Facebook community for their 2014 resolutions and you can view the answers on the IRONMAN Facebook page. In the meantime, I asked a few of my fellow pro triathletes what they thought of such resolutions in general, and whether they had any for the coming season. Here's what they had to say.
Paul Mathews: "I don't necessarily have New Year's resolutions, but I do sit down at the end of each season and reevaluate my goals for the next year/season. I don't write them down though, they are all sorted upstairs!"
Linsey Corbin: "I am personally not a huge New Year's resolution person, but I do believe in utilizing what works for you. So if setting a goal to "lose 5 pounds" or "lift weights" are great motivators for you, then I am all for using resolutions. I do think the start of the year is a good time to briefly reflect on the prior year and focus on some things you'd like to change moving forward. For me, it's more learning and goal setting versus the traditional resolutions."
→Resolution: "Get one day better every day."
Eneko Llanos: "Yes they are useful to keep the motivation. For me it's usually the same, be the best I can be. For the new year I prefer to focus on my personal life and be happy with my wife, family and friends."
→Resolution: "I'm going to be a father at the end of January so my resolution this year is to be the best parent I can be!"
Leanda Cave: "I don't really make New Year resolutions. I generally just use the new year to press the reset button and do the best I can to start on a clean slate physically, mentally and emotionally."
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Rachel Joyce: "I'm not a big setter of new year resolutions but January 1 works for me as a day to really get my head down and start training properly, especially as I like Christmas to be more about spending time with family and friends over being anal about my training schedule. The new year also kicks me back into good habits, whether that's making sure I am diligent with my strength program or keeping the house tidier!"
→Resolution: "To try and cook up a new dish every couple of weeks. I like cooking but get stuck in a bit of a rut."
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Buck Back to top Tiger BeerJoined: 08 Feb 2003Posts: 778Location: Hong Kong Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject: Buck Turgidson wrote: I was there for two days before I got on the Trans Siberian RR It struck me as a typically dreary medium sized city (it was in March just after the spring thaw). It is unique in that there is access to Japan by ferry. Were you offered a job there? I wasn't offered a job there.. but I live in Korea.. there is a cheap boat from Soekjo, Korea to Vladivostok. I'm most interested when my contract is finished, to go and check it out, look around, and then 'think about teaching' if its a place that gives me a good feel. Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:31 am Post subject: a couple of links Dear Tiger Beer: Never been to Vladivostok but I did spend a year in Chonju, South Korea. Since I can't offer any first-hand info, here are a couple of links that may be helpful. The first one contains general information; the other three links may help you land that elusive EFL job. At the very least, the people you meet there will know where and to whom you could apply. http://talesmag.com/rprweb/the_rprs/europe/realposts_vladivostok.shtml http://www.dvgu.ru/rus/partner/education/feelta/info.htm http://www.amcorners.ru/acr/site.asp?ID=52&lang=eng http://www.dvgu.ru/dip/Catalog/UD.htm Good luck keNt PS: See the master links index at the top of this forum for several more links related to Vladivostok. Back to top marussJoined: 18 Mar 2003Posts: 1144Location: Cyprus Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:15 pm Post subject: Vladivostok English First have a school there(or at least they did have) and you should be able to find the details via their general website.But as regarding the place itself,Rusian people I know that have been there quite recently told me that things are not very encouraging from an economic viewpoint or in many other ways-they have power shortages in winter etc. and unfortunately it's not the "San Francisco" of the far-east as some people tried to pretend in order to attract investment and tourism,although it does have the hills and picturesque coastline etc.But that's about all I know,apart from the fact that it was closed to foreigners before because of the naval base etc. Back to top Buck TurgidsonJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 96 Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:52 pm Post subject: As I remember, there is an international school there too. Check Kent's links. Buck Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 5:46 am Post subject: QSI Hello Buck et al: Yes, there is an International School in Vladivostok [QSI International] but be warned: According to their website, "they expect to hire non-smoking, married teaching couples" and apparently they are not hiring at the moment. Here's the link anyway: http://www.qsi.org/VLV_HOME/ Have a nice weekend keNt Back to top Micro67Joined: 29 May 2003Posts: 297Location: HCMC, Vietnam Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:58 am Post subject: Vladivostok I'm currently living in HCMC, Vietnam but hope to be making the Trans-Siberian trip in January. The www.trans-siberian.org is a good site for info. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. 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You would "think" that since it is a state law that it would be applied equally in all parts of the state.
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Eduard Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz
Modernism in art fully arrived in the United States in 1913 with the Armory Show, an exhibition of over 1,300 European and American works of art in New York, portions of which later traveled to Chicago and Boston and were viewed by approximately 300,000 people in the three cities. The exhibition generated great publicity and unprecedented U.S. interest in artistic modernism.
Modernism is a challenging term to define. In general, modernists—those artists practicing modernism—sought to create symbols to represent modern life, shake up perceptions of the world by using these symbols in new kinds of art objects, and encourage new ways of looking at them.
Both before and after the Armory Show, photographers Eduard Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz promoted European and American modernist painters, sculptors, and photographers at their New York galleries, the "Little Galleries of the Photo Secession" and "291." Painters included Americans Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove, in addition to Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, and Henri Matisse before they rose to fame.
Both Stieglitz and Steichen worked to raise the art of photography to the status enjoyed by painting and sculpture through gallery exhibitions and the journal Stieglitz founded and edited, Camera Work. The journal presented photographs as individual works of art and kept text and advertisements on separate pages. Camera Work documented the transformation of photography from the "misty and romanticized" style of the Pictorialists to the modern aesthetic of sharply focused, often-harsh images of everyday life and urban landscapes found in the unmanipulated pictures of Paul Strand.
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In 1923, Vanity Fair magazine praised Steichen as "the greatest of living portrait photographers." Condé Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, and House & Garden, offered Steichen the position of chief photographer of all of his publications. Stieglitz criticized Steichen for his turn to commercial photography, but the job provided Steichen the financial security he needed, and soon he completely embraced commercial photography as a means of artistic expression. Steichen became a pioneer in magazine and commercial portrait photography, both through his ability to capture the essence of an individual in a click of the shutter and his use of electric lighting and dramatic backgrounds. Through his innovative fashion and celebrity photographs, he helped bolster the popularity of the Condé Nast publications through the 1920s.
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Port Arthur started out as a timber station in 1830, named after the Lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman's Land, George Arthur. From 1833 to 1877 it was used as the penal colony that Port Arthur is widely known for, the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals.
Port Arthur was said to be an inescapable prison due to it being surrounded mostly by shark infested waters, and the 30m isthmus of Eagle Hawk Neck was the only connection to the mainland, which was fenced and scattered with man traps, and guarded by soldiers and half-starved dogs.
Physical punishment was commonplace within Port Arthur, but they also took to psychological punishment, forcing prisoners into constant silence throughout their punishment to allow them time to reflect on their crimes. With this, they were also forced to attend church, which is where our next spirit comes in.
The Reverend George Eastman was a huge man with a terrifying presence while he was alive, often described as 'a true fire and brimstone preacher' and known for his savage and energetic sermons.
After he died in an upstairs bedroom in the parsonage, it was too difficult to remove his coffin via the stairs, so it was decided that they will attach a rope to a pulley and remove it through the upstairs window. Unfortunately the rope snapped, sending the coffin crashing to the ground bellow. Since that event, people have reported smelling rotting flesh coming from the gutter in front of the parsonage.
His figure has been seen many times standing in one of the windows looking out, and in the 1980's a group of tradesmen were performing renovations in the parsonage when one of them said he experienced the feeling of being pinned down by an invisible entity.
One of the tour guides at Port Arthur has had a number of close encounters with Reverend Eastman, and if you ever join one of their nightly ghost tours, you may get to experience one of them yourself!
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HELP crap looking night jasmin (jasminoides nocturnum)
oh this sucks, my poor night jasmin will never flower again at this rate.
now this poor thing, it is about 15-20yrs old, it was taken as a cutting from a very special friends mothers house, it was then grown by wonderful friend in a pot, it is now in a huge pot and has been for a very long time... it grows in the centre of the pot and is surrounded by native aussie violets that grow in a carpet and flower purple, very pretty and i have looked and their roots dont seem to be interfering with the jasmins roots.
well stupid mel went and cut it back a few years ago, i cut it right back, now it is all straggly and stringy and has lost its bulky beauty, it has also not flowered in 2yrs....
it jsut does not look full and bright, has any one got any suggestions for this poor plant, how cna i get it back to its former glory?? this is a very special pot plant to me simply because of the wonderful friend that gave it to me, he entrusted me with it andi dont wnat to kill it, it would be very very sad...
any advice will be wonderful, thanks
REDUCE, RETHINK, REUSE, RECYCLE.. "We only Conserve what we love, We love only what we understand, we understand only what were taught"- David Suzuki....NO WAR.
Melsie I don't know what you can do for that other then just wait?
Cats only have nine lives because they stole them from dogs!Teehee
when cutting things back should i cut it all the way back or half way??
perhaps i should jsut leave it alone for a few yrs, its getting plenty of water as im bucketing water to it about every 3 days, i dont know, poor thing. how awful
i was thinking about contacting one of our many celebrity gardeners here, and getting their help, it truly is that special aplant, and my friends mum originally had the parent plant for about 30yrs, so all up this plant has 50yrs of history. ny friend is so special to me, he is like my older brother he is so sweet and i will always love him, so its jsut very special to me.... i msut save it i will see...
REDUCE, RETHINK, REUSE, RECYCLE.. "We only Conserve what we love, We love only what we understand, we understand only what were taught"- David Suzuki....NO WAR.
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Your climate is so much different then ours
There are bushes I only trim back and at certain times of the year. Others you can cut back fully and they rebloom lovely the following season. But we have months and months of dormancy so I 'm at a loss to say what else to do?
Cats only have nine lives because they stole them from dogs!Teehee
Try cutting back some of the stringy parts, I wouldn't cut them back more than half way and make cuttings out of them. That way you will have more plants, you could give some away or keep them incase this one dies. That should help thicken up the one you have as it will reshoot.
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thanks guys, i will try that. spring will be sprung here soon so i will try it then, agina thanks heaps forthe help, i love that plant...
REDUCE, RETHINK, REUSE, RECYCLE.. "We only Conserve what we love, We love only what we understand, we understand only what were taught"- David Suzuki....NO WAR.
Has it got good soil? High phophorous fertilizer to encourage blooming. Blooms Plus is 10-60-10.
mel -- I haven't had much luck with night jasmine but a friend of mine recently told me WHY this could be...
One - I always thought night jasmine was a type of jasmine.. but it's not! It's actually in the nightshade family. And what do I know about nightshade? Sooo.. She told me not to prune it all the way back but just do 'shaping' trims now and then -- particularly of any upward twining stems. THEN to get it to bloom.. Leave it alone! If you happen to be fertilizing -- stop. Apparently this is one of those plants that prefers downright crappy soil to bloom. Aha! In a nutshell - this is one of those plants you can love to death... so love it from a distance and leave it alone some.
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oh guys yoru the greatsest, thank you soooo much. yes i have definatly been loving it to death then, jsut like my dog (bad habbit that). it is in totally crap soil, due to its size its almost impossible to repot, and its surrounded by violets and its so pretty so i have never wanted to disturb it.
see ive been hassling the poor thing for years, abotu 5 yrs ago it was perfect and flowered every year, its the msot amazing smell to go to sleep to just dreamy... so i am going to stop hassling it straight away, thank you all so much, im so grateful, i love this plant...
and interesting to know its not a jasmin, a friend of mine swears its jasminoides nocuturnum, but i suppsoe it could be perhps in refernece to the similar smell, botanical names are a bit like that at times, jsut odd...
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Sorry to jump in late, but I would consider repotting it or top-dressing it this spring.
If you want to keep it in the same pot, pull out the whole root bulb and such and wash it off with water.
With sharp scissors cut off 2 inches of the rootbulb all the way around.
Put new fresh soild and compost and such (not too heavy, add some perlite to a ration of 1/3 compost, 1/3 black earth, 1/3 perlite), add the roots back in, the top with more fresh soil. Water deeply until water comes out the bottom of the pot.
If you have Super Thrive there, add a few drops to the water to help with transplant shock.
Make sure you water once a week with a 10-50-10 fertilizer (or numbers close to that) and you should get blooms this year.
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A man who jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro has been identified as Brad Dean Dodd, 47, of Long Beach, coroner's officials said Thursday.
Dodd drove to the apex of the bridge Sunday night and then climbed up a 10- to 12-foot high security fence and jumped to the harbor below, according to port officials.
Witnesses on the bridge reported seeing a man in his 40 s stop and get out of his car just after 8 p.m., leaving the engine running and headlights on. He then quickly scaled the fence and jumped into the water, where a passenger boat retrieved him and contacted port police.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises of all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia such as the labia majora, labia minora, clitoris and other injuries to the female genitalia for non-medical reasons as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Proponents of this act often engage in these behaviors to adhere to and preserve an ongoing cultural tradition that failed to take into consideration the dignity, physical trauma, emotional trauma, and human rights of young girls and women.
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Back in June, the Mineta Transportation Institute(MTI) released a survey that delved over the course of four years into probably the thorniest issue confronting transportation infrastructure funding efforts today: how much public support truly exists for higher taxes of some sort to pay for transport needs? Especially for new highway construction, roadway and bridge repairs, etc.?
This is no doubt a ticklish and often very sore subject for many readers, especially truckers, as many are convinced (with good reason) that fuel taxes already generate plenty of money – it just must get spent more wisely.
For example, C. Kenneth Orski– a noted public policy consultant and 30-year veteran transportation expert – noted in his coverage of the latest Congressional hearing on the state of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) late last month that a six-year transportation bill would require roughly $320 billion or $53 billion annually to maintain current spending levels, yet HTF revenue and interest over the same period are only expected to bring in some $240 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); leaving an unfunded shortfall of $80 billion.
"Even a stop-gap one-year bill would require an extra $15 billion and increasing amounts in subsequent years to prevent future shortfalls if spending was maintained at the 2013 levels," Orski said.
But is John Q. Public willing to pay more in taxes to support such increased HTF expenditures? Let's see what MTI's survey – saddled with the unbearably clunky title "What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year Four of a National Survey" – purports to reveal.
"A number of the results may surprise legislators," noted Asha Weinstein Agrawal, PhD, (seen at left), director of the MTI's National Transportation Finance Center. "Some taxes received very little support, while others are far more acceptable. For example, a ten-cent gas tax increase to support undefined transportation needs received 23% support. But if it was spread over five years, it received 40% support."
She added that increasing the gas tax rate had significantly more support if people received more information about how the revenue would be used as compared to an increase to be spent for undefined transportation purposes.
"For example, [we] found much stronger support if the funds are to be used for highway maintenance or air pollution mitigation," Agrawal noted. "This was true for every demographic surveyed."
MTI's survey – conducted by the Social Science Survey Center at California State University, Fullerton, and polling 1,501 adults nationwide by telephone in either English or Spanish between March 4 and April 4 this year – found that a majority of Americans would support higher taxes for transportation but ONLY under certain conditions.
For example, the researchers found that a gas tax increase of 10 cents per gallon to improve road maintenance garnered support from 67% of respondents, but quickly dropped to 50% if the revenues were to be devoted to reducing global warming and then plummeted to just 23% if the revenues were to support "undefined" transportation purposes.
As for tax options where the revenues were to be spent for "undefined" transportation purposes, pollsters fond support levels varied considerably by the type of tax proposed, with a sales tax much more popular (58%) than either a gas tax increase (24%) or a new mileage tax (19%).
Another interesting facet of MTI's survey centered on comparing public support for two alternative versions of the mileage tax and eight versions of a gas tax increase.
In this scenario, variations on the two taxes increased support substantially over that for the base case of each (a flat-rate mileage tax of one cent per mile and a 10 cent per gallon gas tax increase proposed without any additional detail) with such "boosts" in support ranging from a low of 17 percentage points to a high of 44 points.
It's interesting to note, too, that MTI tested 11 different tax options via this survey – eight variants of a gas tax increase, two variants of a new mileage tax, and one new sales tax option. MTI's Agrawal stressed, too, that when interpreting the survey results, it is important to keep in mind that the questionnaire described the various tax proposals "in only general terms," she said, so the results cannot be assumed to reflect support for any actual proposal put forward.
Nevertheless, Agrawal thinks the results show likely patterns of support and, more importantly, the public's likely relative preferences among different transportation tax options.
Here are some other interesting finds from MTI's survey:
- Of those 11 different transportation tax options presented, six had majority support.
- Linking tax increases to safety, maintenance, or environmental benefits substantially increased support among virtually all socio-demographic groups.
- Support levels varied considerably by the type of tax. When taxes were described with no information other than the tax type, a new sales tax was much more popular than either a gas tax increase or a new mileage tax.
- Some 80% said that better transit is an important priority for their state.
- The majority did not support increasing gas taxes or transit fares to improve transit, but 64 percent supported spending current gas tax revenues on transit.
- Less than half the respondents – 46% – understood the federal government's role in funding public transit.
Hilary Nixon, PhD, an associate professor of urban and regional planning at San Jose State University and one of the key researchers for this survey, noted that careful program design can increase support for higher gas taxes or a new mileage tax – and that support for taxes can be increased by "modifying how the tax is structured and the way it is described," she said.
"For example, support increases when revenues are dedicated to specific purposes popular with the public, when the tax increase is spread out over several years, or when information is provided about how much the increase will cost drivers annually," Nixon (seen at right) pointed out.
In addition, stressing the environmental, safety, and maintenance benefits will increase support for transportation taxes, including those for transit, she added, while devoting revenues to maintenance and safety can increase support levels substantially across the entire population.
Also, linking a transportation tax to environmental benefits can strongly increase support among most population subgroups, while linking transit with environmental benefits may be a particularly successful way to increase support for transit revenues, Nixon emphasized.
Still, raising transportation-related taxes of any sort remains a hard sell not only on Capitol Hill but for U.S. citizens, too – requiring new funding approaches, mayhap.
That subject, however, must wait for another post on another day.


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- What I Love About My Small Home:
- My studio apartment is an extension of myself and a reflection of who I am so it is filled with little details here and there that just make me smile. It's a happy, bright, and pretty little dwelling that I'm quite proud of.
- Biggest Challenge of Living in a Small Space:
- When I first moved into my studio apartment it also doubled as my work space and storage for my online vintage shop. I moved from a 1900 sq ft apartment to a studio, so I needed to be able to live/work all the while dealing with major downsizing. One of the reasons I chose this apartment above any others was the plentiful storage space the studio offered, but even then, it wasn't enough. (My kitchen cupboards were all filled with vintage bags and accessories!) I finally just dove in and rented out another studio for all my vintage stock so now live/work are separate, but I still do have vintage dresses hanging here and there.


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I've just uploaded a new version v0.4.1 of HaskellForMaths, containing three new modules and a couple of other improvements. The additions are as follows:
This module was already present: it defines the quaternion algebra on the basis {1,i,j,k}, where multiplication is defined by:
i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = -1
This is enough information to figure out the full multiplication table. For example:
ijk = -1
=> (ijk)k = -k
=> ij(kk) = -k (associativity of multiplication)
=> ij = k
It turns out that the basis elements i,j,k anti-commute in pairs, eg ij = -ji, etc.
In this release I've added a couple of new things.
First, the quaternions are a division algebra, so I've added a Fractional instance.
Specifically, we can define a conjugation operation on the quaternions (similar to complex conjugation) via
conj (w+xi+yj+zk) = w-xi-yj-zk
Then we can define a quadratic norm via
sqnorm q = q * conj q = w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2
Since the norm is always a scalar, we can define a multiplicative inverse by
q^-1 = conj q / sqnorm q
For example:
$ cabal install HaskellForMaths
$ ghci
> :m Math.Algebras.Quaternions
> (2*i+3*j)^-1 :: Quaternion Q
(If you leave out the type annotation, you'll be working in Quaternion Double.)
Second, the quaternions have an interesting role in 3- and 4-dimensional geometry.
Given any non-zero quaternion q, the map x -> q^-1 x q turns out to be a rotation of the 3-dimensional space spanned by {i,j,k}. To multiply rotations together (ie do one then another), just multiply the quaternions. This turns out to be a better way to represent rotations than 3*3 matrices:
- It's more compact - four scalars rather than nine
- They're faster to multiply - 16 scalar multiplications versus 27
- It's more robust against rounding error - whatever quaternion you end up with will still represent a rotation, whereas a sequence of matrix multiplications of rotations might not be quite a rotation any more, due to rounding error.
If you're curious, the function reprSO3 converts a quaternion to the corresponding 3*3 matrix:
> reprSO3 (1+2*i) :: [[Q]]
(Exercise: Figure out why we got this matrix.)
Quaternions can also be used to represent rotations of 4-dimensional space - see the documentation.
This is a new module, providing an implementation of the 8-dimensional non-associative division algebra of octonions. I follow Conway's notation [1], so the octonions have basis {1,e0,e1,e2,e3,e4,e5,e6}, with multiplication defined by:
ei * ei = -1, for i in [0..6]
ei+1 * ei+2 = ei+4, where the indices are taken modulo 7.
The octonions are not associative, but they are an inverse loop, so they satisfy x-1(xy) = y = (yx)x-1. This is enough to enable us to deduce the full multiplication table from the relations above.
Like the quaternions, the octonions have conjugation and a norm, and multiplicative inverses:
> :l Math.Algebras.Octonions
> (2+i0+2*i3)^-1
The octonions are an exceptional object in mathematics: there's nothing else quite like them. They can be used to construct various other exceptional objects, such as the root lattice E8, or the Lie group G2. Hopefully I'll be able to cover some of that stuff in a future installment.
[1] Conway and Smith, On Quaternions and Octonions
The main function in this module is
isPrime :: Integer -> Bool, which tells you whether a number is prime or not. It's implemented using the Miller-Rabin test.
The basic idea of the test is:
- If p is prime, then Zp is a field
- In a field, the equation x^2 = 1 has only two solutions, 1 and -1
- Given an arbitrary b coprime to p, we know from Fermat's little theorem that b^(p-1) = 1 (mod p)
- So if p-1 = q * 2^s, with q odd, then either b^q = 1 (mod p), or there is some r, 0 <= r < s with b^(q*2^r) = -1 (mod p)
The idea of the algorithm is to try to show that p isn't prime by trying to find a b where the above is not true. We take several different values of b at random, and repeatedly square b^q, to see whether we get -1 or not.
The advantage of the Miller-Rabin test, as compared to trial division say, is that it has a fast running time even for very large numbers. For example:
> :m Math.NumberTheory.Prime
> :set +s
> nextPrime $ 10^100
(0.09 secs, 14904632 bytes)
The potential disadvantage of the Miller-Rabin test is that it is probabilistic: There is a very small chance (1 in 10^15 in this implementation) that it could just fail to hit on a b which disproves n's primeness, so that it would say n is prime when it isn't. In practice, at those odds it's not worth worrying about.
The main function in this module is
pfactors :: Integer -> [Integer], which returns the prime factors of a number (with multiplicity). It uses trial division to try to find prime factors less than 10000. After that, it uses the elliptic curve method to try to split what remains. The elliptic curve method relies on some quite advanced maths, but the basic idea is this:
- If p is a prime, then Zp is a field
- Given a field, we can do "arithmetic on elliptic curves" over the field.
- So to factor n, pretend that n is prime, try doing arithmetic on elliptic curves, and wait till something goes wrong.
- It turns out that if we look at what went wrong, we can figure out a non-trivial factor of n
Here it is in action:
> :m Math.NumberTheory.Factor
> pfactors $ 10^30+5
(0.55 secs, 210033624 bytes)
> pfactors $ 10^30+6
(2.31 secs, 883504748 bytes)
I love the way it can crunch through 12-digit prime factors with relative ease.