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Announces New Country Manager for Mexico
Stockton Israel (STK), a leader in innovative crop protection based on botanical sources, today announced the appointment of Mr. Eduardo Quintero Ron as Country Manager of Stockton Mexico. This appointment completes the Stockton Group's new structure, whose objective is the creation of a new direction for the company, thus implementing an innovative strategy across Latin America focusing both on leadership as well as on the incorporation of a technical and professional team in agricultural industry.
Eduardo is an agronomist and son of farmers. He left farming to study Agronomy at the Chapingo Autonomous University of Mexico, specializing in Agricultural Parasitology and later earning as well a Master of Science in Plant Protection. Eduardo joins Stockton with over 30 years of experience in crop protection, mainly acquired working in R & D and in Technical Marketing and Sales with such companies as Syngenta and Bayer; in addition, he worked in Panama as Asset Manager for Northern Latin America.
"It has been a long, hard road for many of us. The decisions were not simple but had to be made. These strategic moves were made by Stockton in order to incorporate a professional team and fresh and innovative ideas," said Ziv Tirosh, CEO of the Stockton Group. "The addition of Eduardo to our company sets another important milestone for Stockton. He is part of our growth strategy, and we believe that Eduardo is not only an expert in his field, but that his business skills will help us build a successful relationship with our customers. "
As a leader in biopesticides innovation, STK Bio-ag Technologies (formerly Stockton) is pioneering a new generation of 'hybrid pest control' products that combine the powers of biological agents and synthetic chemistries, and which may present a new era in pest control. With recent partnership agreements with industry giants such as BASF, Syngenta and Seipasa, this seemed like a great time for Chemicals Knowledge to catch up with STK's Chief Scientist, Professor Moshe Reuveni. STK seems to be in a great place right now! How have the values and mission of the company led you here? STK was founded and is headquartered in Israel, the 'innovation nation'! Innovation and sustainable agriculture are in our DNA, and we are committed to the values of sustainable agriculture – from field to fork. This stems from our main mission to provide premium, highly effective products, with low chemical residues and novel and unique mechanisms of action (MOA). We also aim to provide additional yield benefits, and to ensure that our products are flexible and easy to apply, and chemically compatible with many other active ingredients. What are the main benefits of biopesticides? There are many advantages. Biopesticides come from nature – they may be plant extracts, like Timorex Gold, which effectively ruptures pathogen cells (Figure 1), or bacteriological, like Aviv, a powerful Bacillus subtilis requiring less than half the dosage of other biopesticides. In any case, biopesticides contain no synthetic chemicals. They are produced from renewable sources, and they leave minimal crop residue, making crops treated with biopesticides much more competitive in domestic and international markets. Regulators, consumers and retail supermarkets all want to reduce the chemical residue on their produce. The selectivity of biopesticides, which target only their natural enemies, also helps to maintain beneficial insect and mite populations, ensure worker safety and promote environmental safety. Today's biopesticides are as effective – or even more effective – than synthetic chemical pesticides, in terms of crop protection and increasing yields. Furthermore, biopesticides are an important weapon in managing pesticide resistance. They can help reduce the selection pressure for the evolution of resistance to synthetic pesticides, and the risk of pests and pathogens developing resistance to biopesticides is low, especially as these agents often have multiple modes of action. Switzerland recently announced that it is considering a total ban of synthetic pesticides – do you think it is feasible to have a world free of synthetics? The world's population is expected to grow from the current 7 billion people to 9 billion people by 2050. In order to feed all of these people and avoid mass starvation, mankind will need to double crop yields globally. This is a tall order, and to achieve this, growers will need effective tools for combating diseases – we think this will need to include biopesticides and synthetic chemical pesticides; or hybrid technologies that combine the two. The use of biopesticides is forecast to grow by 15% to 20% annually for the foreseeable future, while synthetic chemical use is predicted to grow at a slower annual rate of 3%. If those growth rates are maintained, eventually we will be in a situation where more biopesticides than synthetic pesticides are being used. We think this will be a good situation to be in, for the many reasons discussed above, but we still see a continued need for good synthetic pesticides. Can you tell us more about 'hybrid' technologies and how they expect to encourage uptake of biological agents? STK has introduced the world's first 'hybrid' pesticide, Regev – the 'pre-mix' of a synthetic pesticide with a botanical-based biopesticide. Specifically, it combined a Tea Tree botanical extract and difenoconazole in an easy-to-use formulation. The combination of a natural product with broad-spectrum activity and a traditional site-specific synthetic provides growers with the different modes of action of a botanical-based active ingredient and an effective chemical pesticide. The hybrid combination results in a reduced synthetic chemical load on the environment, compared with other traditional mixtures based on two synthetic chemicals. Regev is an effective and unique tool for resistance management, and it is clearly suitable for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs. This product is also a bridge for growers who have never previously tried a biopesticide. These growers can use Regev in exactly the same way as their current chemical pesticide: no mixing, no rotating, easy-to-use… and with the benefits of lowering chemical residues, improved resistance management and yield growth. Regev will accelerate the uptake of biological products by making it easy. Historically, biopesticides have been used largely on high-value crops, such as fruits and vegetables, but hybrids like Regev are not only being used on fruits and vegetables, but have proven to be a cost-effective approach for row crops like soy beans, and field and broad acre crops like corn. Regev is already being used in 10 countries throughout Latin America, Israel, Serbia and the Philippines. Plans for 2019 call for the global rollout of REGEV. How are you working with global majors to encourage global distribution of these technologies? To accelerate the distribution of STK's biological technologies for sustainable agriculture, we have entered into partnerships with various companies . In Brazil, Timorex Gold botanical-based biofungicide is co-distributed by both STK and BASF, which is proving to be very effective in this very large country. In the US, Aviv, our low-dose Bacillus subtilis biofungicide, is distributed by Syngenta. Not all of our distributors are the global majors, and STK is always open to partnerships with companies large, medium and small. What's next for STK? Beyond the continuing geographic distribution of Timorex Gold, Regev and Aviv, STK has a powerful pipeline of new biological products to provide new tools to help growers reach the goal of doubling their yields by 2050. This pipeline includes new biopesticides based either on powerful natural plant molecules or plant extracts to be used as bio-fungicides or bio-insecticides. In addition, new hybrids combining natural active ingredients and reliable synthetic active chemicals, to be used on wide range of crops and pathogens, are under development. Interview with: Professor Moshe Reuveni, Chief Scientist at STK bio-ag technologies, Ha'Mefalsim St 17, POB 3517, Petach Tikva 4951447, Israel
December 31, 2018 (Petach Tikvah, Israel) – STK bio-ag technologies, the innovative Israel – based leader in bio-ag technology for sustainable crop protection and aquaculture, hosted a group of 13 top wine growers and crop protection experts from France who are learning about botanical-based and hybrid technologies for sustainable grape growing for the creation of high quality French wines, champagnes and cognacs. Effective September 1, 2018 all Neonicontinoid pesticides have been banned from use in France, because they are believed to be killing the bee population. New French law also makes it illegal to use any chemical pesticide in any park or public place after 2020, punishable by a 30,000 Euro fine and 6 months in jail. According to the Telegraph (Henry Samuel, August 31, 2018, Paris), France is the first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides researchers believe are killing off the insects. Consequently, wine growers in France are in search of new tools for sustainable crop protection. STK VP R&D and business development Shay Shanan commented, "STK is happy to have welcomed these top French wine growers and crop protection experts. STK's botanical-based biopesticides and hybrid products are currently providing sustainable solutions for growers in over 30 countries, and there is no doubt these technologies can help growers in France to comply with the new regulatory environment and continue to provide their customers with the highest quality wines, with less chemical residues. For new users of biological products, Timorex Gold and REGEV are highly recommended, especially for wine grapes, for the control of Botrytis and Powdery Mildew. REGEV is a new hybrid product with a very easy approach, applied in exactly the same way as the growers' current chemical pesticides, with no mixing, resulting in much lower residue levels and much better resistance management ."
July 2018 In the Fall of 2017, STK signed an Agreement with Brometan for the distribution of Timorex Gold throughout Argentina. This replaced a previous distribution agreement STK had with Syngenta in Argentina. Brometan's initial results exceeded expectations with its first 1,500 L order shipped in December. Annual potential is now estimated at 5,000 – 6,000 L , mostly for wine grapes from the Mendoza region. Brometan was established in 1976 with headquarters in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. In 1985 Brometan opened branch offices in various regions of the country to better serve Argentinian growers. In 2005 Brometan made the decision to include more environmentally friendly products to its mix, including biopesticides. Today, Brometan's 100-plus employees provide Argentinian growers with expertise in plant nutrition, agronomy, biocontrol… and the world's leading botanical-based biopesticide, Timorex Gold.


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Tag: 'Buddhism'
April 12, 2010 at 7:51 am
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book to review.
Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life is a Buddhist guide to healthy living and weight loss co-authored by Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung. The former is a Zen master whose name looks like a word scramble of the phrase "Ninth hatch, hah!" Odd name aside, it must be pretty bad-ass to put the words "Zen Master" on your business cards, assuming Zen masters have business cards. Dr. Cheung is a lecturer and director of health promotion at the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition. It must be pretty bad-ass to put the word "Harvard" on your business card too. Dr. Cheung is also a student of Hanh, who is a well-respected Buddhist monk.
I'm always slightly hesitant to read diet books because many of them retread the same ground. If you're going to write a diet book, you'd better have something new to say or say it in a new way. Savor certainly meets those standards, presenting a plan for healthy living using […]

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Commissioners hear from both sides and say decisions will not be made hastily
Musicians are asking the city to preserve their livelihood. Condo residents are asking it to preserve their sleep. Both groups are asking each other to preserve a rational dialogue.
The conversation about outdoor music — and the future of downtown — has brought people of all ages and backgrounds to the bargaining table.
And it could be a long debate.
About 80 people attended a community workshop on the Sarasota noise ordinance Wednesday evening. Many said after the discussion that it had not changed their opinion of whether, or where, the city should get louder.
"We appear to be in the opening rounds of a polite street fight for the city's future," said Sean Duade, of the Sarasota Young Professionals Group.
At the end of the meeting, Commissioner Paul Caragiulo did not seem much closer to his goal of presenting a proposal for an improved noise ordinance to the City Commission in the next three to six months.
The debate over how Sarasota should regulate music has resurfaced repeatedly over the past two decades. The argument generally has pitted a younger crowd that wants more entertainment against older condo residents desperate to maintain peace.
Both sides have dissidents, and a multitude of views.
In the past few months, the Downtown Sarasota Condo Association supported pushing the limits on outdoor music an hour later and making it a bit louder in a certain area of downtown that, for now, is being referred to as an entertainment district.
But several residents of the condos at 100 Central and 50 Central Ave., and other condo dwellers near or in that area say the downtown condo association does not speak for them.
"What is the need you're trying to fill?" 100 Central resident Frank Brenner asked the community, noting that both sides have said they want a more "vibrant" downtown.
"Whatever that means," Brenner said. He believes an entertainment district would only create more problems. "This proposal, in my view, should be dead on arrival," he said.
As Brenner wrapped up, a man near the back of the room blurted out, "Go home."
The attendees were vocal, applauding or grumbling as dozens of people spoke. But many of them said it is a discussion that needs to continue.
It was the second community conversation on the topic. More than 40 showed up to the first, in October.
A couple of major concerns from that meeting — how to enforce decibel levels and measure the music — arose again Wednesday.
Currently, decibels must be measured from the property line of the business playing music, and people calling to complain can do so anonymously.
Condo residents voiced opinions on both sides of those issues, while many business owners and musicians wanted the noise to be measured at the source of a complaint and complainants to identify themselves.
There was a lot of confusion about decibel levels and how sound works. A couple of people suggested educating the public and commissioners — who will eventually decide whether an entertainment district is created — about sound.
Before the discussion even began Wednesday, Caragiulo assured the group the issue will be considered carefully and it is only in the initial stages of development.
"This is not something that's going to be done with a stroke of a pen. Nor should it," Caragiulo said.


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Feb. 27, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Senior day at the Thunderdome ended as it should - with the UC Santa Barbara senior quintet being saluted, smiles on each of their faces, a win in their final home game and a standing ovation from the crowd.
UCSB enjoyed perhaps its most complete game of the season, routing rival Cal Poly, 85-70, on Saturday afternoon and sending off the senior class with a huge win in their final home appearance. The Gauchos improve to 11-16 overall and 8-7 in the Big West while the Mustangs fall to 17-10, 10-5.
Cal Poly entered the game fighting for first place in the Big West, but the Gauchos demolished them which counts for UCSB's third straight victory - its longest winning streak of the season. The 85 points also count as the highest point total by the Gauchos this year as four players scored in double digits.
Keeping up her torrid pace was point guard Emilie Johnson, who followed up a 21-point performance on Wednesday, with 27 on Saturday, while dishing out a career-high eight assists. Meagan Williams had 14 points, nine rebounds and six assists while Mekia Valentine had 12 points, seven rebounds and seven blocks and Ariana Gnekow added 11 points.
It didn't start out so rosy for Santa Barbara, though.
The Mustangs jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the game's first 1:57 before Johnson hit one of her five 3-pointers of the day, helping turn the tide. UCSB finished the half on a 42-19 run, highlighted by 20 first-half points from Johnson.
Poly couldn't recover, never getting closer than 12 points the rest of the afternoon.
Obviously the Gauchos were playing with high spirits, saying farewell to Jordan Franey, Ariana Gnekow, Jessie Goble, Chris Spencer and Meagan Williams, but head coach Lindsay Gottlieb said "I thought we did a great job today of channeling all of our emotions into great basketball."
Late in the game, Gottlieb made sure all five seniors were on the floor together at once, then subbed them all out together, so they could all soak in one final standing ovation from the season-high crowd of 2,217.
Yet another reason to celebrate was that UCSB moved to one game over .500 in conference play for the first time since starting 1-0 with a win over UC Irvine, the Gauchos' next opponent. UCSB will play the Anteaters on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Irvine's Bren Events Center.
Saturday's victory over Cal Poly also gave UCSB one more point in the Blue-Green Rivalry series and it saw Barb Beainy honored as the fifth "Legend of the `Dome."
Some notes on sustainability as part of the Blue-Green rivalry, a series for sustainability:
- UCSB's trayless dining went into practice in Fall 2009. Across the UCSB residence hall dining commons system, the total waste per person per meal is down 37 percent, while the average waste per person overall is down 54 percent.
- Composting Program in the Residence Halls: In Winter 2009, UCSB implemented a pilot program for composting both pre-and post-consumer food in De La Guerra (DLG) Dining Commons. In 2008, an estimated 80 percent of DLG's waste was taken to landfills, while 20 percent was diverted. Thus far in 2009, an estimated 90 percent of the waste has been diverted, while only 10 percent winds up in area landfills.
- In November 2009, the Chancellor's Sustainability Committee approved the UCSB Climate Action Plan. The plan is intended as a tool to guide the campus in reaching its greenhouse gas emissions targets of: 2000 emissions levels by 2014; 1990 emissions levels by 2020; Carbon neutrality by 2050. The plan will be updated in August 2010 and biennially thereafter
- UCSB is one of the nation's leaders in green building. The campus now has four buildings certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership In Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construction (NC). Buildings Include: Bren Hall -LEED Platinum; Marine Science Building- LEED Certified; Student Resource Building-LEED Gold; San Clemente Villages - LEED Gold.
- Bren Hall was also the first building in the United States to receive a double platinum certification. "As the first project to receive LEED Platinum certification as both a new and existing building, Bren Hall demonstrates tremendous green building leadership," according to Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council.


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latitude 2013
According to efestivals, headliners are Foals, kraftwerk and bloc party.
Bloc Party supported by Foals
was my first ever gig. Alexander Palace late 2007 I think. LAWL.
I like Foals a lot but can't imagine getting riled up for their encore of Inhaler or whatever.
Then again, wonder who'll headline the other tents. When I went in 2010, The National and Grizzly Bear were amazing on the second stage.thekidswhopoptoday this'd this
at the time I was sure that Grizzly Bear show was the best thing I'd ever seen
they were so good that night
- Jordan_229_2 this'd this
Is that definite?
Or was that just Neil's comment in that thread on the EoTR forum? I wasn't sure if he meant those were literally the headliners, or if he meant those sort of bands, in response to Geof saying "Ha - you want to try the Latitude forum.......every year that is going to be headlined by David Bowie, Radiohead and Kate Bush".
The efests Latitude page just lists Foals as a strong rumour and the others as rumours: http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/latitude/2013/lineup.shtml
Said on the latitude thread that those were 100% the band's headlining
Can I just say here how shit Latitude 2012 was?
It was shit.
I had a brilliant time.
Sorry you didn't.eltham, suedehead, politelydeclined, and Morzan this'd this
^sat in a camper chair at the main stage all weekend
Probably wearing a trilby too.
and a Cath Kidston triple-tier cup cake display...
probably has a daughter called India who enjoys a Yakult on the sly.
Keep this quiet...
...but I heard Hope of the States are reforming especially for Latitude this year.


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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Shake it like you've seen them do it in the video
Okay, here goes...
I am actually a closet fan of super cheesy, pop music. Yes, it's true. My name is Jenni and I am addicted to manufactured music that I can shake my booty to. My cd collection contains, among others; Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, and yes folks, every one of Britney Spears' albums. In fact, even given Ms. Spears' recent downward spiral (let's face it, she went down fast and landed head first), I managed to get myself completely addicted to Gimme More and have been playing it on my 'running mix' repeatedly for weeks. Today, her new record Blackout hit the music store shelves and of course I popped into HMV to pick up my copy. Anybody who knows me well will not be surprised by this. I have been perfecting Britney's choreography in my bedroom for years and let me tell you, I do a mean version of I'm a Slave For You.
So you see, head shaving, custody drama, fender benders, gratuitous coochie shots, rehab and other non music related trainwrecks aside, I LIKE THIS ALBUM. There, I said it. I've been dancing around the apartment to it all night tonight. Is Britney a brilliant songwriter or vocalist? No. Is the new record overproduced and a masterpiece of studio trickery? Absolutely. Perhaps her days of remembering the dance moves and lip syncing on cue are over. But, is her name on some hot, fun music that I want to move to? It sure is. I admit that I am absolutely nauseated by the number of tabloid stories about the tarnished pop princess, but will I keep dancing my ass off to Blackout? You better believe it!
The secret's out. No judgement, please. (hehe)
Photo courtesy of Teen Hollywood
9 comments:
i bought it today as well. but i haven't listened to it cause i got Puscifer too.
- October 30, 2007 at 8:34 PM
- Jennifer Stoddart said...
Corinna, I LOVE that you bought it today too!
- October 30, 2007 at 9:28 PM
- PatZ said...
i'd shake my head more if it weren't for the fact that most of my cd collection used to comprise Backstreet Boys, Boyz 2 Men and Hootie and the Blowfish.
and now i have to go buy Puscifer because Maynard rules.
- October 30, 2007 at 11:14 PM
- Jennifer Stoddart said...
I hear Backstreet Boys are coming out with a new album in December...it's not too late to jump back on the bandwagon! haha
- October 30, 2007 at 11:31 PM
- Tawcan said...
I have been trying extremely hard to not to hear any music by Duff/Lohan/Spears by staying away from Z95.3 and Much Music. However, I was saddened that my virgin ears heard Gimme More when I went swimming tonight. Noooo!!! I had to wash them with soap so the lyrics wouldn't get engraved in my brain.
Ok I kid I kid. I'm not exactly a fan of the current manufactured pop music, but veryone has his/her own taste of music. I mean I'm a big Tool fan, some people love them, some hate them. It's all good. :)
- October 30, 2007 at 11:31 PM
- Scott said...
I haven't heard the CD yet, but I have heard from several places that it is actually pretty good. Good for her. Hopefully Britney can drag herself out of this rut she's in.
- October 31, 2007 at 12:27 AM
- Jennifer Stoddart said...
Suddenly, I feel the need to clarify...the bubble gum pop is definitely not my FAVOURITE genre of music, nor is Britney my favourite artist of all time. I just also have an appreciation for tunes that I can dance to (in addition to my quite diverse taste in music of all categories).
- October 31, 2007 at 6:25 AM
- melissa and chris said...
Loving Blackout as well. Downloaded it off iTunes last night and I'm currently memorizing the songs (and choreographing my moves). We'll have to have a dance-off one of these days.
- October 31, 2007 at 10:32 AM
- Jennifer Stoddart said...
Alright!! I LOVE dance offs! Melissa, I'm beginning to think you're my kindred spirit!:)
- October 31, 2007 at 3:27 PM


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In television's vast universe, there is perhaps no acquired taste that is more difficult to acquire than the taste for "Doctor Who," BBC's long-running sci-fi series about an alien dandy who navigates the time-space continuum in a phone-booth-style British police box. It's been on (and off, and then on again) for five decades, but despite its increased popularity, "Doctor Who" remains steadfastly niche.
And before fans come at me with their sonic screwdrivers bared, let's assume that "acquired taste" is meant as the highest compliment in this full-blown nerd era. The show's remoteness — and the way it has skirted the edge of mainstream success for so long — remains its strongest asset.
From its earliest episodes, "Doctor Who" has rewarded a certain stripe of viewer who can pay close attention while cerebrally forgiving the show for its low-budget, slapdash, resolutely episodic qualities. It's melodrama for Mensa. One of the main reasons "Doctor Who" thrived, in fact, was because its fans came to love it as much for its shabbiness as its exuberance and manic intelligence. The bells and whistles of the CGI era have caught up to "Doctor Who" and made it infinitely cooler to watch since 2005, yet it's still appreciably outre.
And so, to a growing list of 50th anniversaries, we must add the Nov. 23, 1963, premiere of "Doctor Who," a television show that, if nothing else, tells us a lot about the nature of TV (and the sentimental devotion of fans) on both sides of the pond.
Even if you've never seen the show or long since concluded that it's not your cup of tea, BBC America has several specials and retrospectives scheduled this week, offering ample opportunities for the casually curious to share in the anniversary mirth. It all leads up to a much-anticipated special episode of the current "Doctor Who" saga that will be globally simulcast on Saturday, Nov. 23.
Among these offerings, I'm most inclined to steer you to "An Adventure in Space and Time," an enjoyable dramatic movie about how the show was first made. This is perhaps your best chance to not only get the basic gist of the who but at least some hint of the why — and you can do so without having to watch an actual episode of "Doctor Who."
"An Adventure in Space and Time" is set in the BBC's "Mad Men" era, when a hyperbolic and creative network executive, Sydney Newman (Brian Cox), gropes around for a quick fix to an empty half-hour on his programming grid.
On the fly, it seems, Newman cooks up a concept for a kiddie science-fiction series about a "doctor" from another planet who has the power to travel across time and visit the past, present and future. But in the same excitable breath, Newman adamantly forbids the show from having robots or bug-eyed monsters. He wants it to be smart but silly, educational but goofy.
Newman promotes his ambitious assistant Verity Lambert ("Call the Midwife's" Jessica Raine) to helm the series; it's her first crack at running a show.
But Lambert and her ethnically Indian director, Waris Hussein (Sacha Dhawan), run up against the Beeb's prevailingly chauvinistic and mildly racist culture. Their production budget is deplorably low and their deadlines impossibly tight; their soundstage is cramped and outdated; the scripts are dreadfully wordy; the art department sloppily throws together a mod look for the extra-dimensional interior of the Doctor's police box, which writers christen the TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension in Space").
For a while, "An Adventure in Space and Time" somewhat mirrors "The Hour" (also seen on BBC America), in that it captures the chaos and experimental vibe that dominated early TV production. By 1963, metrics were in place to measure a show's success with viewers; "Doctor Who," we learn, was initially just a grab at key adolescent demographics.
Though the circumstances of "Doctor Who's" shaky beginnings are well documented and firmly part of fanboy/fangirl lore, the film (with a screenplay by current "Doctor Who" writer Mark Gatiss) nevertheless overplays and glosses over the against-all-odds magic that made the show a surprise success. Because it's a film both by and for the devoted, "An Adventure in Space and Time" tends to too easily revel in its own creation myth, veering quickly into a tidy, Hallmark-like ending.
The Doctor himself provides a sobering (though not exactly teetotaling) presence, as Lambert and Hussein coax an aging stage and TV actor named William Hartnell (David Bradley) to star in their weird little show. "He's C.S. Lewis meets H.G. Wells meets Father Christmas — that's the Doctor," Lambert tells the actor.
Bradley (you may know him as Red Wedding host Lord Walder Frey on HBO's "Game of Thrones") plays Hartnell as a lovably sour and embittered grump who signs on mainly for the paycheck. A rough cut of the pilot episode flops in the front office; Newman orders Lambert and her crew to rewrite it and reshoot it. Rushed to the airwaves, "Doctor Who" premiered disastrously — steamrolled by news from the United States of John F. Kennedy's assassination the day before.
Doubling down, Lambert defies Newman's "no robots" edict with an episode that introduces the Daleks — killer creatures who exist in robotic shells that look like salt shakers on wheels, shouting "Exterminate! Exterminate!" in shrill electronic bursts.
Big hit. In no time at all British schoolchildren are chasing one another in Dalek outfits and shouting "Ex-ter-min-ate!" The BBC orders a full season and then another; Hartnell brightens and accepts that this part — not Shakespeare — will probably be his permanent legacy. His health fails and he forgets his lines and before we know it, the makers of "Doctor Who" come up with one of the show's smartest innovations: The Doctor, being an immortal Time Lord, can regenerate his body when faced with death (or contract renewal). Thus, by 1966, another actor took over the part — as would 10 more Doctors, and counting.
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It's all very dear and respectful, but by the end of "An Adventure in Space and Time," we still don't know why children — and a steadily growing horde of adults — ate up this bowl of oatmeal and pronounced it a gourmet banquet.
It would be a hard task for a movie like this to achieve cultural analysis without lapsing into a tedious a voice-over essay — and anyhow, there are piles and piles of theses on the Internet about what makes "Doctor Who" tick. It would take another 50 years to read everything ever written about the show and watch old episodes.
Dipping into the archives, I found myself most drawn to a video compilation of every iteration of Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire's collaboration on the catchy theme music for the show, which harnessed the high-tech ideals and low-tech execution that became the show's stock in trade. The years go by and the synthesizers get more ridiculous and Moog-ish — up until the modern era, which turns the theme into something more serious, more appropriate, more stylized.
There you have the "Doctor Who" problem for those of us who could take it or leave it: The concept and feeling of the show (the music, the strangeness) seem so inviting at first, both as a story and as a worldview; but then, a couple of episodes in, "Doctor Who" still feels dauntingly remote and lacking in soul.
It comes all the way back around to the scene in "An Adventure in Space and Time" of Verity Lambert trying to explain to William Hartnell what kind of guy the Doctor is. It feels like all 50 years of the show have conspired to make sure we never know. Even his real name is never to be revealed.
The answer, obviously, is that he's not a guy at all. He's an alien — given to moodiness, wacky fits and bizarre non sequiturs. Each of the men who succeeded Hartnell brought his own interpretation to the Doctor's quirks — as did the writers — but only recently, with David Tennant (who played the 10th Doctor from 2005 to 2010) and his successor Matt Smith (who will now hand the role over to Peter Capaldi), has the Doctor flowered as a more humanlike entity. I side with fans who spent the summer hoping, before Capaldi was chosen, that the Doctor would finally morph into a woman.
The show assiduously treats the Doctor as empathetic but essentially asexual and averse to romance; fans argue about this a lot, especially since both Tennant and Smith exuded high doses of charisma.
The Doctor certainly grew fond of the 50-year parade of comely women (and handsome men) who've traveled with him as seasons came and went. It can feel, after so much time spent with the Doctor, that one is also wasting too much time with the Doctor. He morphs and morphs but never really changes. Which means that even now, slicked-up and improved as it is, "Doctor Who" can still feel like a show designed to hold a place on the schedule.
Fans certainly don't see it that way. For them, the show has never been anything short of a marvel. It's also an old friend to American sci-fans of a certain age who remember (as I do) when our local PBS affiliates started importing "Doctor Who" reruns in the late 1970s and early '80s (during the Tom Baker years) along with reruns of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." With that unlikely pairing, a nerdy adolescent in, say, Oklahoma could have an almost orgiastic exposure to a certain British sensibility; it was like discovering another planet, a place where you might belong.
In that same spirit, "Doctor Who" is still an occasionally terrific (and reliably comforting) show, no matter what season you're watching or on what continent. I envy the people who give the Doctor their unconditional love, even if he is incapable of returning it.
(two hours) airs Friday, Nov. 22, at 9 p.m. on BBC America.
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Nicholas Biddle Jr. died peacefully at his home in Gladwyne, Penn., on April 26. He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Mary Hopkins Biddle; their four children, Charlotte Hopkins Biddle, Nicholas Biddle III (wife Linda Erle), Elaine Biddle Whitman (husband Bradford F. Whitman) and Lydia Biddle Thomas; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Mr. Biddle was born in Jamestown in 1917 where he spent nearly every summer of his life. He is survived by his sister, Sarah Lee Stokes (Mrs. William S. Stokes), and his brother, Wharton Biddle; and predeceased by his sister Joanna Biddle Johnson (Mrs. Lewis Johnson) and brother John Scott Biddle.
During the many years that he enjoyed summer life in Jamestown, Mr. Biddle participated in the civic pride of restoring storefronts along Narragansett Avenue. He was a member of the Jamestown Historical Society and Jamestown Philomenian Society. A life-long member of the Conanicut Yacht Club, he was a trustee from 1981 to 1988, vice commodore from 1983 to 1985, and commodore from 1985 to 1987.
Mr. Biddle made his residence in Gladwyne, Penn. He was involved in local politics and was elected township commissioner in 1964. He was on the board of the Philadelphia Zoological Society in 1976 and became director emeritus in 1985 until his death.
He was commander of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, Pennsylvania Commandery, 1961-62; chairman of the MOFW Committee to save Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, 1957-73; and chairman of the Historical Committee MOFW, 1973-97.
Mr. Biddle was the founding chairman of Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, 1986-2011, and became director emeritus in 2011 until his death.
Mr. Biddle attended St. George's School, Newport, graduated from Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, Penn., in 1936, and earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1940.
A WWII veteran, Mr. Biddle served from 1940 to 1942 with the 108th Field Artillery Battalion of the 28th Infantry Division; and from 1942 to 1945 with the 909 Field Artillery Battalion of the 84th Infantry Division.
He served in the European Theater of Operations as artillery liaison officer (captain) with the infantry, earning three battle stars for engaging in the Battle of the Rhine, the Battle of the Ardennes (Bulge) and the Battle of Central Europe.
He served from 1946 to 1953 in the U.S. Army Reserve and retired having attained rank of major.
A memorial service will be held at All Saint's Episcopal Church in Wynnewood, Penn., on Saturday, May 11, at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Mr. Biddle's memory to Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, Fort Mifflin Road, Philadelphia, PA 19153.


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Next week-February 14/15- marks the 135th Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) Dog Show in NYC, and Babylon marks the site of the historic WKC clubhouse and kennels plus the grave of Sensation the Pointer who has always been the symbol of the famous dog show. For the last five years I have been trying to pinpoint that exact spot. About 30 "Pets" columns later, this timeline highlights important dates during Westminster's stay in Babylon:
1874- Sensation (aka "Don"), lemon & white English Pointer, soon to be Westminster emblem, born in England.
1876- Sensation imported to America by Westminster member-G.D. Grant (who later would participate in pigeon shoots at WKC clubhouse in Babylon).
1877- First WKC dog show; WKC incorporated. Sensation's image is on first and most every Westminster Kennel Club dog show catalog cover.
1879- WKC began searching for shooting grounds in Babylon as part of revival of sport of pigeon shooting. Primarily a Pointer club, plan is also to breed dogs here. Both the WKC pigeon grounds and the dogs become internationally acclaimed.
1880- WKC (led by charter member C.D. Wagstaff who also owned Tallulah kennels in W. Islip) leased 64 acres in Babylon west of Southards Pond for 2 years at $300 a year with option to buy at the end of lease for $5,500. Property already has old buildings including an 18th C. farmhouse which becomes the WKC clubhouse while old barns were converted into temporary kennels.
1881- Sankey, Spaniel, saves Wasp, Skye Terrier, from drowning in Southards Pond. Sankey gets lifesaving medal. Both dogs had been entered in first WKC dog show.
1882- WKC purchased Babylon property for $5,500.
1884- Moved old farmhouse, to be used by Superintendent (most likely to NW corner of property, NE side of Livingston Ave.); erected new Victorian clubhouse (cost $8,000) designed by Wagstaff on former site of farmhouse near Southards Pond. Some unknown year later, farmhouse moved again to the other side of street- where it still stands at 358 Livingston.
1885-James Mortimer became resident Superintendent of Babylon WKC and kennels (until 1892 when WKC moved all the dogs except for stud dogs). He lived in the old farmhouse. He also was the WKC Show Superintendent at Madison Square Garden through 1915 (year of his death).
1886- Sensation (WKC logo Pointer) retired and given to WKC former show chairman- Robert C. Cornell.
1887- (June) Sensation died in Babylon- buried at foot of flagpole in front of WKC Babylon clubhouse. Flagstaff had a weather vane with a Pointer figure on top.
1887-(Fall) - new Babylon kennels built- at various times house up to 200 dogs.
1895 (Feb.17) - Mortimer's 17-year-old son dies after short illness. Buried in Babylon, but where?
1895- LIRR features Westminster Kennel Club clubhouse in Babylon in railroad guide book.
For Babylon WKC pigeon shoots, LIRR had a special train that left LI City by 10 a.m. and had guests back in NYC by 5:30 p.m.
1902- WKC clubhouse Superintendent George Mott and Thomas Wood of N. Babylon lease 404 more acres of land on their own in N. Babylon to use for field trials with their Pointers.
1904- Pigeon shooting and duck hunting become illegal in NYS.
1904- (April 12) - WKC clubhouse sold to James L. Ewell as homestead, orchard and place to raise Shetland ponies. WKC dog show people move to Tenafly, NJ; pigeon shooters go to Aiken, S. Carolina.
1915- Ewell leases clubhouse to Max MacLevy, a controversial physical culturist and body builder, as a health resort (and pig farm). 1916-MacLevy publishes his book- Tobacco Habit Easily Conquered- while living at former WKC clubhouse. Smoking warning pre-dates Surgeon General by 50 years.
1918 (Oct.14) - Former WKC clubhouse (then MacLevy health farm) and shooting house (then MacLevy residence) burn to ground during fire that starts in clubhouse chimney.
1919- C. D. Wagstaff dies. Buried in Babylon Rural Cemetery.*
1923- Huge brush fire may have destroyed the former kennels and prompted the second move of the old farmhouse, the original WKC clubhouse, across the street to 358
* Principal players also buried at Babylon Rural Cemetery-WKC superintendent George S. Mott, the Downs who sold the 64 acres to WKC in 1882, James B. Southard, owner of the pond and mill and Jeremiah Robbins, realtor for WKC 1904 sale of property to Ewell.
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Natalya wrote:Err it is just a missile launcher, I was just describing it lol.
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Natalya wrote:Err it is just a missile launcher, I was just describing it lol.
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Obviously excluding the weapons and stuff, here is some information about both...
S-143 White Widow Spider Tank:
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Size: 8
Propulsion: 12" per turn when driving, 6" per turn when walking.
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Structure Level: 3
Size: 12
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Today has been an organising day! (Inbetween the usual daily chores and looking after the baby of course!)
I now know what I've got, what I haven't got, printed copies of documents I only had on the pc and added another list of things to find to my to do list. I've also created a mini folder with summary info to take with me to Who Do You Think You Are Live at the weekend.
But there is definitely something satisfying looking at a nice clean folder with everything filed away.
All I need now is someone to ask me a question so that I can go to my newly arranged files and swiftly provide the answer!
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Organising, organising and more organising...
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Hi, Jo! I just bought some supplies today for organizing. I am devoting thirty minutes to scanning tonight, then I will move on to organizing. I think I've come up with a new filing system (the third one). That's cool that you are an accountant too:). My blog has been kind of quiet lately b/c our financial statement audit is this week, and I had the end-of-month work to finish up last week (I usually have end-of-month done by the 15th but I've been behind with year-end).ReplyDelete
Was WDYTYA fun, and was your minifolder useful? I'm guessing you now have lots more things and ideas to add to your To Do List!ReplyDelete
(and I'm another accountant, so that makes at least three of us :)
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No Go with USB pen drive
Baptism of fire! Hadn't tried this before - no need. Bought a clone device, dirt cheap. Tried all the options offered including SuperFloppy, FAT16, FAT32, ext2, ext3, all the mbr methods and dozens of undocumented experiments. Zippo - won't boot, despite correct BIOS setup. Now GPartEd won't even recognise it, although all the files seem to be present and correct. Fat12 was mentioned once?
Any more suggestions? Gather this situation is not uncommon? The original files provided said something curious about not deleting something, but it was written in sino-english so ignored it!
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Like you, I've had very inconsistent results with bootable flash drives. I've seen BIOS's that claimed to have USB boot support, but didn't work. I even saw a recent one that would boot to GRUB's Stage 2, but then wouldn't let GRUB find its own menu.lst file. I've decided that the only reliable method is a combination of GRUB boot CD and Puppy on the flash drive. Since many machines are already set with the CD as first boot device, you don't need to change the BIOS to launch Puppy off the USB drive.
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Maybe something here.
" There have been plenty of discussions on the CD Forums..
to do with booting Ultimate Boot CD for Windows from a USB drive.
I have mentioned this somewhere before.
Some success has been achieved by setting the hard drives to LBA. "
I find that many on the 911 CD forums are a pretty smart bunch.
I assume that you tried other USB ports.
If you PM me I will send you my favourite HP USB formatter,
V2.0.6.........which is hard to get...but small...just an exe file.
Gparted always shows after formatting that it is LBA and can boot.
Interesting page here:
from this similar post.
Hope that you find a cure somewhere...have always enjoyed your
comments....you're a shocker.
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Thanks for your comments, guys - most appreciated. I shall PM ctb and try these additional suggestions. I propose we transfer further discussion to orbis' thread:
as this is already running well and likely to assist most?
And thanks for your kind words, chris. Most folk aim to please - I aim to shock. As any academic will tell, it's the only way to drag folks out of torpor and get the grey matter functioning. One of my colleagues used to slip in a holiday slide of his late-teen daughter sunbathing during his lecture. Attendance, attention and discussion was always so much better than the rest of the morass...
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It's in your inbox I hope..now 8.10PM Sydney time.
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I guess, if other attempts have failed, the thing to try is formatting it as it was from the factory. Then make it bootable per that format.
For example; if it was FAT16 or FAT32, which it probably was, you'd want to format it accordingly, make the boot partition active and have your MS-DOS boot tiles on it.
The Theory
The idea here is find out what (if anything) does work, then proceed tweaking and pushing the envelope 'til you find out what doesn't work, knowing you can revert to what does work.
Also, I think I played with my USB stick to the point that disk utilities wouldn't cooperate. Resolved this by:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=100
My 2GB stick seems to want to be FAT16, its purpose is carrying files from one computer to the other. FAT is not a good filesystem for Linux files, so I package them before the copy, to keep the attributes intact.
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Tried the native format, first Bruce. Otherwise, my philosophy is much the same as your - envelope pushing. Now I can't get FAT formatting back (it crashes 'doze machines when plugged in and the HP utility doesn't work out of DOS). PUI just fills up the memory till it overflows unless I select Superfloppy. I've seen more error messages with this project than in the last thirty years. Will try the dd command. You'd be amazed at what I've tried, but we are only a whisker away from the lump hammer....
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then the REAL
, not the one what comes with 2.17, if you have it, then
cdfisk -z /dev/sda
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Yes, indeed! The 2.17 "cfdisk" was a BBIIIGGG mistake. Not entirely BK's fault, esp. as I don't believe he's a regular user? The alternative is mis-promoted; their blurb clearly indicates that their fdisk includes cfdisk - it doesn't. Only rarely does the real cfdisk fail me - it is a 'best friend' for processing the humongous throughput of old kit passing these portals.
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Well, we're sitting on the edge of our chairs, waiting to see if you get the pen drive working. And if so, how you did it!
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Here's what got me back to where I started! Formatted as SuperFloppy with 2.17. Then this was visible with a friend's XP and enabled me to format to Fat16, which turned out to have the boot flag set (GPartEd now sees it, too!), even though I didn't ask for it!
Then I used 2.20alpha to copy the four 'frugal' files and create the /boot/grub stuff.
Of course, it still doesn't boot on anything......
2.20 looks interesting so far and saves wearing out my fingers typing en_GB. The VESA option refused to reset to 800x600 from 640x480, although the XOrg works.
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As far as what you did on the XP machine.
* did you fdisk it then format it?
If not please explain.
Also, if you can make it MS-DOS bootable, booting Linux would be easy with GRUB for DOS or your preferred bootmanager.
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Just format. The XP version is inferior to W3.x/W9y, though. Hardly surprising since the DWIntel cartel wants to phase out the FDD. I only used XP because W9y crashed when the stick was inserted and DOS can't see USB devices.
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It's all Gospel as you say. Where do we put this stuff, after Revelations or before Genesis?
A flash stick inserted in my W98SE experience will cause boot failures, lockups and general failure!
MS-DOS won't see it and that's too bad, because it would be a good way to use DOS based tools to work with it.
I wonder if PQMagic (DOS version 8) would be able to see a USB?
There are supposedly USB storage device drivers for DOS. Worth looking at.
As for your stick...
I don't however think formatting it changes it from superfloppy to a partitioned storage device. How could it?
Presuming it's a superfloppy, you would want to install GRUB on the superblock. The duplicative use a 'super' here is just coincidence.
Also like to look into DOS drivers.
Here's one link, but doesn't say it supports Flash, (not our beloved moderator), USB Flash. The link is important, because its reminiscent of the color themes used in the days of warez sites.
nuther link here
I'm off to test pqmagic. And as MY California Governor (AKA The Governator) says, "I'll be back."
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Nary a whisker between us on this one, Bruce!
Get the distinct impression that I can do better things with my time!
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County Executive Rob Astorino outlined the county's shared services plan at the Fire Training Center in Valhalla, joined by 50 career firefighters. Astorino used the fire training center as an example of the benefit of sharing services.
"Can you imagine how expensive it would be if all 58 fire departments had to pay for 58 different emergency training centers?" Astorino said. "The cost would be prohibitive, the training less effective and lives would be put in jeopardy."
The shared services plan was recently approved by a bi-partisan vote of 29-0 of municipal leaders.
Initiatives to share services include having the county assist some localities with IT management, document scanning and storage and technology and software purchasing, among others, that can reduce costs on a local level.
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. – Shenandoah University completed its USA South Conference football run with a 28-7 league victory over N.C. Wesleyan Saturday afternoon in the season finale for both schools.
Senior wideout Rico Wallace helped the Hornets (6-4, 5-2 USA South) to a 21-0 halftime lead with six receptions for 125 yards and two touchdowns.
Wallace scored the squad's first TD on 36-yard strike from classmate Daniel Wright at the 5:07 mark of the first before taking a screen pass 51 yards midway through the second quarter to make it 14-0.
Wright, who finished the day 23 for 32 for 307 yards and two touchdowns, closed out the first half scoring with a 2-yard run 35 seconds before the halftime gun.
The Hornets outgained NCWC (2-8, 2-5) 310-65 in the first half, including 229 to 36 through the air.
SU also held the ball for 21:11 of the first 30 minutes.
The victory completes Shenandoah's football membership in the USA South. The Hornets finish 11 years of USA South Conference football play with 32 wins and two championships (2003 and 2004) and are one of three schools to have won at least one game in all nine* league venues.
Next year, SU joins the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in all sports.
The sixth win of the season also gives the Hornets a winning season football record for the first time since earning that second USA South co-championship in 2004.
Wallace, an All-America candidate, had eight receptions for 154 yards and two TDs in his final game in a Shenandoah uniform. He holds every major game, season and career receiving record at SU.
John Redmond and Josh Rogers both had six tackles with Nick Erdman adding two sacks to lead the defense.
SU outgained the Bishops 433 to 153 with 307 of the Shenandoah yardage coming through the air. Wright completed balls to five different receivers.
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When Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell presented his consolidated county government budget proposal last week to county commissioners, he made an important change that may have upped the amount of new revenue available for the consolidated school district.
His budget includes just more than $4 million in additional funding for the Sheriff's Department to provide resource officers to replace Memphis Police officers in what are now Memphis schools once the merger begins.
Because Luttrell's budget proposal is balanced, that means if there is a county property tax hike of 40 cents there is $4 million extra in county funding for schools.
"The mayor's inclusion of $4 million in the county's budget gives us essentially about $9 million for the schools if the math we've shared stays in place," said County Commission Chairman Mike Ritz. "I'm pretty confident it will. That doesn't mean there aren't some other things happen."
Ritz said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines" he remains confident there are the seven votes on the commission needed to pass a 40-cent property tax hike. That includes 33 cents to compensate for the $53 million in revenue the county loses with the 2013 property reappraisal.
Anything more than 40 cents would require a nine-vote, two-thirds majority.
Ritz expects opponents of a property tax hike to ask Luttrell for a budget that cuts the $53 million and keeps the tax rate at $4.02.
Commissioner Terry Roland has been particularly vocal about his opposition to any tax hike including just one to produce the same amount of revenue.
Ritz said because most of the county's budget is personnel, such a budget would include "a significant cut in the numbers of sheriff's deputies and jailers and people at the health department."
Neither Luttrell nor Ritz have really harped on the distinction made in past budget years between a property tax hike and an increase in the recertified property tax rate. The distinction is not expected to be part of the discussion as the commission's budget committee starts looking at specific line items Wednesday, April 17, starting with the District Attorney General's office.
"This is the worst year ever for making tough decisions," Ritz said. "We've got to make a lot of tough decisions a lot of people aren't going to be happy with."
Commissioner Melvin Burgess, who chairs the budget committee, is also the audit director of Memphis City Schools and a member of schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson's transition cabinet.
The schools budget proposal that Burgess is working on with the rest of the cabinet comes to his committee May 22.
Hopson has said he hopes to have a budget proposal ready by the end of April.
He became interim superintendent of both school systems last month with the exit of Shelby County Schools superintendent John Aitken. He has told his cabinet to work on a budget that assumes there will be only $5 million in new county funding for the consolidated school system.
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"Right now people are panicking and they are concerned. And there are a lot of things on the street that are just not correct," Burgess said of parents reacting to word of cuts at the school level. "We had to take some cuts but we are going to make sure every child's education is what it needs to be."
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Dollar Works 2 is a Personal Financial Education Program that provides participants with information and tools on how to manage their financial resources, achieve goals and increase their financial stability. Dollar Works 2 is a money management program developed by the University of Minnesota. This 3-part series will provide information on Making Money Decisions, Creating and Managing Spending Plans, the Importance of Savings and Investing, Credit Use and Paying off Debt.
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Red Pork Sinigang. The addition of tomato sauce to the Pinoy popular soup dish sinigang, has made a lot of Pinoy households trying the sinigang twist for some time. The tomato sauce can of course be used as ingredient to sinigang, traditionally fresh tomatoes are used in most sinigang recipes. In fact there are some Pinoy that uses a lot of tomatoes to their sinigang.
For my version of Red Pork Sinigang I chosen not to use the tomato sauce, instead I used the instant tomato soup that come in cup size sachet and are usually sold in 3 to 4 sachet in a box in most supermarkets.
I thought using the tomato soup instead of tomato sauce, would result a creamier broth similar to a sinigang with gabi and the tomato soup flavour infused to the sinigang broth added another dimension.
Cooking is fairly straight forward, it is basically similar to any one's sinigang recipe except the addition of the tomato soup ingredients, however please reduce your souring ingredient since the tomato soup is already sour not unless you prefer a very sourly sinigang.
Here is the recipe of my version of Red Pork Sinigang using tomato soup.
1 kilo pork belly, cut into serving pieces
3 to 4 sachet, instant tomato soup mix
1 bundle kangkong, trimmed, separate the leaves and stalk
1 medium size labanos, skinned, sliced diagonally
2 medium size eggplant, trimmed, sliced diagonally
2 medium size tomato, quartered
1 medium size onion, peeled, quartered
3-4 pcs. red long chili
1-2 tbsp. tamarind sinigang mix
Cooking procedure:
Place the pork in a large pot and add water to about 1 inch above the meat. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 to15 minutes. Scope out all scum that rises to the surface. Add the onion, tomato and instant tomato soup mix diluted in 1- 1 1/2 cups of water, continue to simmer for 30 to 35 minutes or until the pork are tender. Add in the sinigang mix and continue to simmer for 3 to 5 minutes. Season with salt to taste. Add in the vegetables except the leaves and continue to cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Then add in the kangkong leaves and green long chili. Cook for another 2 to 3 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked. Serve hot with a dipping sauce of patis, kalamansi and siling labuyo.


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Ahoy fantastic people, newbie from Chicago seeking some great fun games singles or doubles. I'm a happy player, so no john mcenroe exhibitions here! =p
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My name is Kim Tan. I usually play at Mar Vista Rec Center. I can hit this evening if you can make it.
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Cop Tackles Pregnant Woman In Labor At Hospital For Running A Red Light! (Settles A Lawsuit Out Of Court For $65K)
"In 2005, Melanie Williams was seven months pregnant when she began bleeding. She promptly called 911 and asked for ambulance, fearful that she might faint - or worse, lose her child. But before she could give them her address, dispatchers lost the call. That's when Williams decided she had no time to spare and decided to drive herself to the hospital. More concerned with her immediate medical condition, Williams didn't bother to stop at a red light, forcing a Jacksonville police officer to pull her over. Williams stopped and when the officer approached her car, she told him what was going on. Unfortunately, she wasn't graced by the most understanding of police officers. As he dilly dallied with paperwork, Williams's bleeding grew worse. Instead of waiting for him to finish writing up her ticket, she took off for St. Vincent Hospital. When Williams finally made into the waiting room, the officer followed her inside, threw her to the ground and then put his foot on her neck in order to keep her on the ground. He then removed Williams from the emergency room and placed her in his squad car as she cried and screamed for help. "
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"We were confident that she'd go far," said trainer Jones in the winner's circle following the Silverbulletday about Believe You Can's first race around two turns. "I've probably trained more (Proud Citizens) than anyone," speaking of his latest female star. "If they are good sprinting, they are better going long."
With her Silverbulletday score, Believe You Can increased her career earnings to $187,284 with her fourth win in six lifetime starts and returned mutuels of $7, $3.20 and $2.20 following the withdrawal of Ramona Bass's odds-on morning line favorite Applauding, owned by Ramona Bass, at scratch time Saturday morning due to a mild case of colic.
"With the key scratch out of here it set up the race a little bit differently, but I've been working this filly a few times and she's really impressed me," Napravnik said. "Larry (Jones) was telling me if she's anything like Proud Spell, she'd be a fighter and she absolutely was. She wasn't giving an inch."
After setting early fractions of 23.82 and 47.98, Believe You Can accomplished the mile and 70 yard-Silverbulletday distance in 1:42.34.
Gillian Campbell et al.'s even-money favorite Summer Applause prompted the pace of the winner throughout, could not catch that one but gamely held the place, paying $2.60 and $2.10 while finishing a nose in front of Jake Ballis's Inny Minnie, who returned $2.20 to show.
The second leg of Fair Grounds' sophomore filly series – the Grade III Rachel Alexandra Stakes – is to be contested Feb. 25 on Louisiana Derby Preview Day.
MR. VEGAS SURVIVES INQUIRY TO WIN GRADE III BRADLEY HANDICAP – Andrews T & S Racing's Mr. Vegas assumed an easy lead and held on to win the Grade III Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap by 1 ½ lengths over David P. Halloway Racing's Dubious Miss, who steadied slightly when the winner came in with a sixteenth of a mile to run, but it wasn't enough for the stewards to change the order of finish. For older turf horses, the 1 1/16-mile Bradley kicks off a three race series that will also include the Feb. 25 Grade III Fair Grounds Handicap and the April 1 Grade II Mervin H. Muniz Memorial Handicap.
Jockey Miguel Mena piloted Mr. Vegas through fractions of 24.30, 49.41 and 1:13.84 before stopping the timer in 1:43.49. The 5-year-old Freud gelding kept his Fair Grounds record a perfect three-for-three while improving his overall record to 7-5-0 in 21 starts and increasing his career earnings to $260,331.
"I saw it again and he did come out a touch, so I wasn't sure if it was enough to change the outcome, winning trainer Richie Scherer said after surviving a stewards' inquiry that lasted nearly 10 minutes. "He did come out a little bit. I'm glad the stewards saw it my way."
Mr. Vegas paid $12.40, $6.40 and $4.40, while Dubious Miss returned $8.60 and $6. Chester Miller & Patrick Dupuy's Strike Impact was 2 ¼ lengths back in third and paid $4.80.
GANTRY NIPS CASH REFUND IN $75,000 F. W. GAUDIN MEMORIAL STAKES – Brittlyn Stable's Gantry, winner of Fair Grounds' $75,000 Thanksgiving Handicap by a nose on Opening Day Nov. 24, came back to win Saturday's $75,000 F. W. Gaudin Memorial Stakes with that same margin by getting up in the last jump to foil the bid of Richard, Bertram and Elaine Klein's Cash Refund, who won this race two years ago but also finished second by a nose to Gantry on Thanksgiving Day.
Trained by Ron Faucheux and ridden by Richard Eramia, Gantry increased his career earnings to $194,850 with his fifth victory in 10 lifetime starts, accomplished the six-furlong distance in 1:09.56 and returned mutuels of $6.40, $3.20 and $2.20.
"This horse has got a big heart and he really tries hard," said Eramia in winner's circle ceremonies following the race.
Cash Refund, who pressed the pace of Whispering Oaks Farm's Joe Hollywood, gained the advantage in upper stretch, could not withstand the winner but was easily second best, finishing 5 1/4-lengths to the good of that rival, who recorded early splits of 21.61 and 44.59.
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ROCHESTER, N.H. — During regular business hours in October, The Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts will feature an exhibit called "Alzheimer Forgets," a collection of multimedia abstracts by artist Pamala Crabb, of Springvale, Maine.
The gallery is located at 60 Wakefield Street in Rochester.
Through these artworks, which are highly emotional and rich in color, texture and mood, Crabb has found an imaginative and caring way to explore the depth of her feelings about her father's protracted battle with Alzheimer's disease — a battle with which a disturbing number of people whose relatives have the disease are all too familiar.
She was inspired to mount this exhibit by her own intensely personal feelings about her father's illness — what it must be like for anyone to slowly lose oneself to Alzheimer's disease.
"Today my father did not recognize me," she wrote after an especially poignant encounter with her father. "I felt invisible; all that connected me with my dad was gone."
Crabb has had the good fortune to exhibit her multimedia works, including her ever more sophisticated works in encaustic, in a wide variety of galleries and other venues during nearly 20 years as a working artist. She has exhibited several times at the Galleria Municiple in LaMaddalena, Italy. She also has exhibited at venues in Provincetown and Lawrence, Massachusetts, as well as at Hartford Community College in Hartford, Connecticut, and the 12 Gallery in Boston. Also, her work has been displayed at many Seacoast and Southern Maine locations, including the Ethel M. Weymouth Gallery in Wells, Hartwood College and River Tree Arts in Kennebunk, The Portsmouth Public Library, the Saco Art Museum and the Kittery Art Association.
Crabb has taken an impressive array of classes and workshops with well-known New England artists, including Kim Bernard (encaustics), Cari Hernandez (encaustics and fiber), David Clark (monoprints) and Miles Conrad (3-D sculpture). In 2009, she drew an Honorable Mention for her works in the Annual Awards Show of the Sanford-Springvale Art Association.
To learn more about Pamala Crabb and her art, visit online www.pamalacrabb.com.
The Franklin Gallery and Ben Franklin Crafts are open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
Gallery exhibiting Crabb's artwork this month
ROCHESTER, N.H. — During regular business hours in October, The Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts will feature an exhibit called "Alzheimer Forgets," a collection of multimedia abstracts by artist Pamala Crabb, of Springvale, Maine.


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About 50,000 years ago, a huge meteorite smacked into our planet, gouging a hole more than a mile wide and 790 feet deep in India. Of the roughly 150 known meteorite impact sites on Earth, Lonar Crater is the only one that hit in an area layered with volcanic rock—a massive plateau of ancient lava flows called the Deccan Traps.
That makes Lonar Crater a unique and relatively convenient place for earth scientists to study how meteors scar the volcanic surfaces of other crater-dented planets, such as Mars. In January 2006, Adam Soule, a volcanologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, joined researchers from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton on a nine-day expedition to map and study Lonar Crater.
But while his colleagues compared the landscapes of the crater and Mars, Soule focused on Earth history. He looked for clues to learn how the Deccan Traps formed. He is also investigating whether the dinosaurs' extinction was caused by the massive volcanic eruptions that created the Deccan Traps—rather than, or perhaps in addition to, another larger asteroid that collided with Earth 65 million years ago.
At about that time, one of the greatest episodes of volcanism in Earth history occurred in what is now western India. Huge eruptions of lava flooded onto Earth's surface, coating and recoating more than a million square miles, like layers of paint, to form a vast terraced plateau.
Even after eroding over millions of years, the Deccan Traps are still 1 1/2 miles thick and cover 200,000 square miles (518,000 square kilometers), roughly the size of the states of Washington and Oregon combined. The eruptions that created the Deccan Traps would have released huge quantities of particulates and heat-trapping greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and water vapor—that could have caused catastrophic global climate changes.
The key scientific debate, Soule said, is whether the Deccan Trap lava flows erupted too fast for the Earth to absorb the excess gases, or whether they erupted much more slowly as lava does today on a much smaller scale in Hawaii, for example.
The Lonar Crater meteorite drove deeply into the Deccan Traps, giving Soule access to ancient lava layers that might provide answers. He returned to Woods Hole with about 100 pounds of rock samples, which he'll slice and examine under a microscope. By looking at variations in their textures, Soule hopes to determine if they erupted gradually, or more quickly to hasten the dinosaurs' extinction.
Soule's research is supported by the WHOI Geology and Geophysics Department and the Mars Fundamental Research Program at NASA.
Lonar Crater, photographed via satellite, is more than 1 mile wide. It was created about 50,000 years ago by a meteorite traveling about 12 miles (20 kilometers) per second when it hit the Earth. (Image courtesy of Google Earth)
Even after eroding over millions of years, the Deccan Traps in India still cover 200,000 square miles (518,000 square kilometers), roughly the size of the states of Washington and Oregon combined. They are formed from lava layers 1 1/2 miles thick.
WHOI volcanologist Adam Soule explored a crater in India formed by a meteorite.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Nothing Ventured ...
Well, I had a full Monday off (yay! two down, two more to go!). Sometimes, I love my work schedule.
ANYWAY, so, first, I went for a 3.51 mile run. Then, I showered, ate, and headed off to the dentist.
Now, I have CLEAN TEETHEZ! and, no cavities or major issues (other than the possible root canal which has been lingering since last year and removal of wisdom teeth. however, with careful brushing/flossing/general teethez care, my dentist does not seem overly concerned about the wisdom teeth. yay).
While at the dentist, it started to snow. WTF? I mean, ok, it is January, but, over the weekend, it was, like, 60 degrees. GAH! This is the kind of weather that gives you the cold/flu/crud/ick/ague.
So, I wandered through the snow to the Trader Joe's. I did crazy shopping (and used a gift card I got for Xmas from the Parental Units). Then, more snow-trudging, stopping at Subway for a very late lunch, more snow-trudging, finally homing, napping, eating, drinking, and ironing.
Oh, and watching "Bad Teacher." Cute movie.
BUT, the point of this whole post (other than a synopsis of my SuperFabulous-You-Wish-You-Had-My-Life Day) is that, whilst at Trader Joe's, I purchased the Tofurkey Slices (pictured above). Today, at lunch, I will be eating a sandwich of the Tofurkey Slices (along with lettuce, tomato, mustard) on some sort of organic sprouted wheatberry bread.
And, what will I think? Tofurkey Slices = delicious deli meat substitute or disgusting pile of vomit?
Tune into my twitter and/or facebooks for the final verdict!
Isn't this exciting?
Have a great day! and enjoy your lunch!
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Hallelujah! I'm not the only person over 40 with their wisdom teeth still intact! I saw one dentist who felt they should be removed, and another who looked at x-rays and the hook-like roots, and said, "Naw... You're just asking for trouble if we take those out." I'm glad I'm not the ONLY weirdo in the world. You're on your own on the Tofurkey Slices, though. :-)ReplyDelete
-Dr. Liz, and not Fiona the dog, who has all her teeth, and has them brushed once a week, whether she likes it or not (which means she hates it - even with chicken-flavored toothpaste involved...)
I have never had to have my wisdom teeth extracted either. My mouth seemingly had room for them according to the dentist.ReplyDelete
Tofurkey slices are probably neither great nor a horror show is my guess. They probably have more salt, though, than the Dead Sea.
Just got my teeth cleaned today! I have never had tofurkey. And much like non-alcoholic beer and masturbation without orgasm, I don't see the point. But then not being a vegetarian, I had no need to try it. Hope you liked it!ReplyDelete
I never grew wisdom teeth. I'm a mutant.ReplyDelete
Hmmm. I don't even think a good review of tofurkey would make me want to try it. But I'll tune in anyway.
Ooh - the ague. Yuck! But that reminds me - are you watching the new season of Downton Abbey?


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Chainsaw Productions Presents the World Premiere of Shaun Palmer "The Miserable Champion" to Headline X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival SATURDAY January 14, 2012
Chainsaw Productions brings the greatest action sports documentary to life and to the big screen at the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival Salt Lake City, Utah. Meet the Legendary Shaun Palmer himself with the films director Brad Holmes as they celebrate the World Premiere of their film that took a lifetime to make.
[North Lake Tahoe, CA] January 6th, 2012 – The Miserable Champion is a shocking portrait of one of the most notorious athletes of all-time, action sports hero Shaun Palmer. This tell-all movie reveals Shaun from birth to the near fatal overdose to his comeback to make the 2006 Olympic Team. Palmer – The Miserable Champion is an intense look at Shaun's ups and downs, background of growing up with no father figure, evolution from rags to riches and his experiences with sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. Shaun's story is like no other athlete's in history. He has been at the top of Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Skiing and Motocross. USA Today asks the question "Is This The World's Greatest Athlete?"
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