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BEETS, GROWING AND COOKING Anne K Moore
I have lived in the South for more than 30 years but, since I grew up "up Noth", the only greens I was acquainted with as a youngster was spinach. Southerners have always used many different types of greens with their meals. One that is grown throughout most of the country mainly for its bulbous root is the beet. And yet, historically, beets were originally grown for their tops. If you use heirloom seed, you might be disappointed in the size of the root. Check descriptions carefully when purchasing seed if you want to have large bulbous roots.
Beet seed is actually a hard capsule that contains several seeds. If you soak the seed for 24 hours, you will get quicker germination. This misshapen "seed ball" usually contains two to four viable seeds.
Beets need a soft growing area so their roots will mature correctly. Prepare a seed bed deeply in a well-drained area. Add plenty of compost to improve both clay and sandy soils. The pH should be between 6.5 & 7.5.
Sow the beet seeds 1/2 to 3/4 inches deep, 3 inches apart, in rows 2 to 3 feet apart. Keep the soil moist but not wet.
The most critical thing to do when growing beets is to snip off all but one beet plant seedling so the bulb will have room to grow. Since beet seed is actually several seeds in a cluster, you have to thin the seedlings by cutting off all but the strongest plant in each planting hole. (Do not pull them; you can damage the roots of the plant you want to save.)
Begin thinning when seedlings are about 4 to 5 inches tall. Thin to 3 to 4 inches apart if you plan to harvest young, small, or cylindrical-shaped roots, or 6-inch spacing for larger roots. Don't waste the young tender thinnings, toss them in a salad.
Beets Tolerate temperatures to 40 degrees F. so plant them early in the spring. A late fall crop can be planted, too. Think about the coming temperatures. Beets will bolt (send flower stalks & be inedible) with temperatures as little as 50 degrees, if these temperatures last for more than 2 weeks.
Gardeners usually love or hate the earthy taste of beets. I love beets and usually eat them after oven roasting.
They are delicious served hot as a vegetable side or cold as a summer-time salad. To roast beets, trim the tops and root to about an inch long. Cutting them close can result in the red color "bleeding" excessively from the cuts. Don't peel them. Scrub them clean with a brush and warm water.
Pat dry and coat each beet with olive oil. Using a fork, prick the skin on the beet, then wrap in aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees fahrenheit. Roasting can take 1 to 2 hours, depending on the size of the beets.
Let them cool until you can safely peel them and remove the tops and root sections. They can be stored in the refrigerator and reheated in a pan or microwave.
When to Harvest Broccoli
Text & photos Anne K Moore
Successful vegetable growing has to be followed by harvesting at the peak of flavor. After all, that is one of the primary reasons for growing at home. Taste is everything.
Broccoli is a cool season vegetable and will quit producing and try to go to seed as soon as the weather warms up.
Broccoli florets should be cut off as a whole head just below where it fills out on the stalk. You will notice small, even tiny little side shoots below the primary first head.
Leave these and soon you will have filled out florets to harvest. As you harvest, leave any immature sprouts. You can harvest broccoli for a long period, often a month if the weather doesn't do a quick turn-around from cool to hot.
Once you have them in the kitchen, rinse off the head and cut it into bite size florets. A quick steaming, just a few short minutes, is all it takes to bring broccoli to the table. Serve it up when it is bright green and fork tender. You can add cheese or butter or just serve it plain. Delicious!
Once the air heats up, the broccoli will start to bolt, which is the word we use for going to flower. Even when the florets are swelling into buds, the taste will not be as good as when they are tight. Once the blossoms open, the broccoli is past its prime and anything you harvest from that plant will be bitter.
If you are not replanting a summer crop right away in the same spot, leave the blooming plants. Pollinators will be happy for the early meals.
Anne K Moore
Photograph Anne K. Moore
Early Caribbean Explorers discovered that if a pineapple was set outside an island village, then visitors were welcome. Slaves probably brought the pineapple as a symbol of welcome to the southern United States, and the symbol has flourished ever since.
Pineapples are carved into the columns of stately homes, into the columns of stately beds, into gates, and are used on many different fabrics and crockery. No self-respecting Southerner would think of leaving fresh pineapples out of their Christmas decorations.
Edible pineapples (Ananas comosus) are in the Bromeliad family. Many bromeliads are epiphytic, meaning that their roots cling to trees and take their nutrition from the air. Some in this family, like the pineapple, grow in soil.
It is possible to grow your own pineapple, even if you live where the winters are frigid. You can get a pineapple to thrive in a pot. And, this is one case where you can have your fruit and eat it too.
Purchase a pineapple with a good-looking green leafy top. It's okay if the tips are brown. It is often impossible to find a totally green top after the long shipment and lay about in the grocery store.
When you're ready to prepare your fresh pineapple, grab the base of the leaves near the top of the pineapple (Careful, the leaves are spiny, you might want to wear gloves.) and twist until you can twist it out, just as if you are unscrewing a lid from a jar.
Peel off the bottom leaves to expose the bottom one-third piece of stem. Lay the prepared stem on paper towels and let it dry out for 4 or 5 days. Then it will be ready for potting.
You can purchase a bromeliad potting mix, or you can mix one up using orchid bark, perlite, charcoal, and peat moss. Choose a pot that is quite small, one that is deep enough to plant the naked stalk up to the leafy top. The leafy top of the pineapple should overhang the sides of the pot. If it won't stand up, just sink the small pot into a larger pot and surround it with stones or gravel to hold it upright. Set it in a brightly lit area.
Bromeliads have a vase shape center in order to catch and hold water. Because of this, Bromeliads are watered differently than regular plants. Watering the center of other plants could quickly rot out the growing tip. Not so with bromeliads. They need water in the center portion to thrive. Water your pineapple in the middle of the top and at the root area. When you feed it, use a water-soluble fertilizer, either organic fish emulsion or a chemical fertilizer – your choice mixed at half strength-, and water the leaves, the top, and the root area.
Since the pineapple grows best in humid tropical regions, it will grow best in your home with daily misting to raise the humidity. Once the pineapple top shows new bright green growth, it's time to move it into a little larger pot.
It will also flourish if you move it outdoors during the summer months, after the temperatures reach 60° day and night. Be sure to acclimate it from indoors to outdoors by slowly moving it into a sunny situation for just a few minutes a day, increasing the time spent in direct sun. Just like you, it will sunburn unless you bring it into full sun slowly, over a matter of days. Move it back indoors before the temps fall below 55°. You will need to supplement the light in order to get it used to the dimmer indoor conditions again.
As your pineapple plant gets larger, be sure to move it into bigger pots. After 3 years, if it is a happy plant, you very well could have a pineapple fruit on a stalk above a substantial size pineapple plant, growing in a 5-gallon container. Pineapples have a very interesting flower. You can tell they belong to the bromeliad family when this blue on red flower spike appears. When you look at a pineapple fruit, you can distinguish just how the flower stalk looked. The outer segments were flowers; the inner core was the stalk.
Once the pineapple blossoms and sets fruit, the mother plant will die. Before hand, she should be putting out some little pups at the base of the plant, which you can remove and pot up to start the whole process over again. Harvest the pineapple you've grown and use it in one of Chef Linda's yummy recipes.
Another interesting pineapple tidbit: If you've ever added fresh pineapple to a gelatin dessert you learned that gelatin will not set up with fresh pineapple in it. Pineapple contains an enzyme, which is used as a tenderizer. This protein-eating enzyme is another reason why it makes a good meat marinade. It doesn't just add flavor, but also helps to tenderize meat. It digests protein, and that's why it cannot be used fresh in gelatins.
by Anne K Moore
Anne K Moore
Blueberries are extremists. They need intensely acid soil, a pH of 4.0-5.0. Add sunshine and a steady supply of water to the roots and you will produce a bumper crop of those tasty berries. To acidify soil that is too "sweet," use agricultural sulphur according to label directions. After you plant the blueberry bushes, use acid-producing organic mulches such as pine, oak, or hemlock leaves/needles at least 2 inches thick. You can also use a fertilizer formulated for acid plants.
You can prune blueberry bushes into ornamental shapes so they will even fit into a street-side garden. They have little bell-shaped blossoms in the spring, which turn into plump berries, first a kind of pink and then the rich blue. You will know when the berries are ripe because they will easily spill into your hand when you gently tug on the clusters.
Northern gardeners can grow the Northern Highbush varieties that withstand the cold and snowy winters. If you live in a warmer climate, you'll want to seek out the Southern Highbush and Rabbiteye blueberries, which tolerate heat and humidity. Some of the newer varieties don't require a pollinator to produce fruit but you will have a larger crop if you plant two different cultivars. For cross-pollination, be sure to purchase two that bloom at the same time.
Anne K Moore
Sweet corn is a sun worshiper. It prefers to grow in the heat of summer, so don't plant it too early. The seed should go in the ground after the soil has warmed up and all danger of frost has passed. Sweet corn rows should be three feet apart and the seed two to three feet apart in the rows although you can plant 2 seeds per hole.
You should also plant just one type of sweet corn in your garden. Old fashioned rush-to-the-pot corn, sugar enhanced corn (SE), super sweet corn (SS), and the newest super sweet can all make a good backyard vegetable crop. You ought to choose only one type, although you can choose several cultivars of the same type.
For instance, it is all right to plant the different super sweets together. It is also OK to plant different named cultivars of sugar enhanced corn. However, you should not plant sugar enhanced corn and super sweet corn together. The reason is pollination.
Corn is wind pollinated. If you plant different breeds of corn in your garden, the resulting crop will be undesirable. Sweet corn, popcorn, field corn, and the new super and sugar enhanced varieties all will cross pollinate. If you plant them too close, you will end up with starchy, very un-sweet corn.
To keep your corn separate and sweet as advertised, you must have at least 70 feet between blocks of corn. It is safer, and you are more likely to harvest what you expected, by following the spacing suggestions. Another way is to plant them at least two weeks apart. This can still be risky if they decide to tassel all at the same time.
One of the biggest problems backyard gardeners have with growing sweet corn is getting the cobs to fill with kernels. Since sweet corn is pollinated by the wind, it cannot be planted in a single row. Even two rows of corn will not pollinate correctly. A plot 4 feet long by four rows wide is the minimum to getting good full ears of sweet corn. Sometimes you can get by with three rows.
Grow corn in good fertile well draining soil. The pH should be between 5.5 and 6.5. Keep the stalks watered throughout the growing season. The stalks need an inch of water a week so if the rains are sparse, you will have to irrigate. Fertilize with a balanced fertilizer every two weeks. If you are growing organically, use fish emulsion diluted according to package directions. If not, you can work in a 10-10-10 or 12-12-12 granular fertilizer around the rows.
One of the common problems of corn ears are earworms and/or armyworms. Both look very much alike: Brown caterpillars with a dark stripe along each side. These caterpillars eat the corn kernels, usually starting at the silk end. You can cut out the damage they cause and dispose of the worms themselves. The undamaged part of the ear is OK to eat.
To keep these pests out of your corn ears, try using one of these old remedies: When the silks on the ears have drooped and before they turn brown, pour about a tablespoon of mineral oil on the silks. On the other hand, you can sprinkle the same amount of sand on the silks of each ear of corn. Both additions discourage the female moths from laying her eggs on the ears, where they hatch and begin to feed on the corn. The larvae can also feed on the leaves and stems of the corn stalk. Get rid of any you find so that they don't mature into moths to start the cycle over again.
Raccoons love to raid sweet corn patches. To keep them and other marauding wildlife out, encircle your corn with two strands of electric fence. The bottom strand should be about five inches from the ground and the upper strand about seven inches above the lower. Follow all safety directions that come with the transformer.
Sweet corn straight from the garden is delicious. I think it is worth the little bit of trouble to grow it. My favorite is the old fashioned Silver Queen. If I want to eat it, I have to grow it.
With the advent of the sugar enhanced and super sweets, farmers don't grow the old timers any more. The newbies hold on to their sugar. They don't turn to starch for days, and in some cases weeks, making them perfect for markets and shipping. The only travel my Queen does is from the backyard to the boiling pot. Although, I do admit that the new sugar enhanced Silver King is pretty good, as far as SE corn is concerned.
Anne K Moore
In a restaurant, I am not a huge fan of cucumbers in a salad. I usually push them to the side. Fresh from the garden, though, is a whole 'nother story. Who knew even the lowly cucumber could taste this great fresh from the vine.
Don't be tempted to plant the cucumbers too early in the season when temperature fluctuations are most common. If the temperature varies by more than 20 degrees F., the fruit can turn bitter. Cucumbers grow best in temperatures of 75 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The soil should be good garden loam. To save space, construct a slanting trellis to hold the vines off the ground. This will help to keep the cukes clean, dry, and free of soil borne diseases, like mildew.
Trellising also helps to keep the cucumbers from running rampant down your rows. When it's time to harvest any vegetables, it's a lot easier to walk the rows than tiptoe through the vines.
Apply a balanced fertilizer next to the row or spray the plants with a water-soluble solution when the plants start to bloom.
Many of the first flowers may be male and won't set fruit. The female flowers do the fruiting. Male blooms connect straight to the vine, while female blooms have a small bulb at their end, which will develop into the cucumber, if pollinated. Misshapen fruit is often due to low fertility or poor pollination.
Bees are essential for pollination. Make sure you never apply an insecticide to a flower. That includes insecticidal soap, which is safe only after it dries. Bees are still killed by it if they touch it (or it touches them) when it is still wet. If the temperatures rise too fast or drop low overnight, fruit-set can fail. Or, maybe there are too few bees in the garden. You might not be able to "fix" the temperatures but you can invite the bees for a visit.
To increase bee activity in your vegetable patch, grow some wildflowers such as coneflowers, and flowering herbs like borage, which is a bee magnet. This will also add color and beauty to your patch along with drawing pollinators to the plot.
Cucumber plants are shallow rooted and need a steady supply of water. You don't want soggy soil but try not to let it dry out, either. Make sure you water to a depth of six inches. Place mulch, like straw or marsh hay, around the plants to keep down weeds and hold the moisture. Try to keep tap water off the leaves. These wide leaves are very susceptible to mildew. Good air circulation along with watering underneath the plants at the soil line will keep the plants in better shape. Healthy plants make for huge crops.
Slicing types include bush varieties for small gardens, which you can grow in pots; 'burpless' varieties, which are long and skinny and are just what their name implies; and heirlooms that are just as tasty now as in years past. There are also small-fruited types for pickling.
However you grow them or slice them, there is nothing better than freshly grown and picked by your own hand.
Anne K Moore
Once you successfully raise a plant from seed to garden, you are hooked. There isn't much in the world more rewarding than watching life sprout from a tiny dry seed and grow into a luscious vegetable or beautiful flower.
Sure, you can purchase plants ready for the garden but you are limited to what the market soothsayers' project will sell the most. If you want to grow an heirloom Russian tomato, for instance, you will probably have to raise the plants yourself. The newest to the market vegetables and fruits can be very hard to find, too, until they become mainstream offerings.
Seedlings raised in the house usually need to be stepped up into larger pots before they are set outside in the garden. Exceptions to the rule are the seedlings that emerge with thick stems and are stout enough to stand on their own, like squash vines or beans.
I have been using the little tablets that swell into a small peat containers for seeds. These biodegradable seed-starters fit into trays made especially for them. The little plugs are then easy to set into 4-inch pots with a minimum disturbance to the root systems.
To keep the potting soil from leaking out the bottom of the pots, I line them with coffee filters. I use new filters purchased for the job, but if you are into extreme recycling, you could rinse out and reuse your morning filters.
When potting up my seedlings, I still like to use purchased seedling mix, even though I plan to put the plants into garden soil eventually. This mix is sterile and will cut down on damping off disease, a fungal disease that kills overnight. Seedlings just collapse.
This malady can hit seedlings at any time. I always plant more than I can use so that when some collapse, I might still have a few left for the garden. One thing that seems to help me is a little topping of sand around the base of the seedlings right after they are potted up. It helps to keep the stem and top of the mix dry. Even though the top should stay somewhat dry, the roots should have moisture. They are delicate and should not dry out completely.
I also put at least 2 seeds in every cell since germination is seldom 100%. I do end up with a bunch of double plants. Although it is tempting to leave them both, don't do it. If they are duking it out with their neighbor, they use energy they could be putting into crops or flowers. Plants that try to grow too close together end up with fewer crops, not more. Wait a couple of days after you have transplanted your seedlings to be sure they all survive. Then, just pinch off the smaller or less vigorous twin in the pot.
Growing can be challenging. Succeeding brings huge rewards.
Gardener Anne K Moore
Pansies are a staple in the Southern garden. I used to plant them every fall and ended up with rangy plants that quit blooming for most of the winter. Why? Because I didn't fertilize them every week and didn't like deadheading (pinching off the dead and dying flowers) whenever they started to set seed.
Then I fell in love with Johnny-jump-ups. Here in the South we know them as Violas, even though that's the general family name of Pansies, too. Violas also go by the names Heartsease and Tufted Pansies. We grow violas as annuals. Don't confuse them with violets, which are a perennial and are welcome in cold-climate gardens but will self-seed with abandon in a Southern garden.
Violas will bloom in the shade. They are not finicky about soil, any decent garden soil will do. They even do well in my clay. They clean themselves after blooming so there is no need to deadhead. You don't even have to fertilize them unless they are looking peaked. They make a good addition to containers. Violas set off spring blooming bulbs or winter ornamentals in the flower borders. They come in pansy-like faces, in solid colors or multi-colors.
If you use them over daffodil or tulip bulbs, the bulb foliage will grow up through the violas. When the bulbs have quit blooming, the viola plants will help to camouflage the dying foliage of the bulbs.
Most violas are very fragrant. They are also edible. Since they hardly ever are bothered by insects or disease, they seldom require any pesticides. Since I don't use pesticides, I know my violas are safe to use as food.
Back when I had a very large vegetable garden, I liked to try something new every year. I guess that is what brought my first Daikon radish to my garden. It is a lovely vegetable, versatile in its simplicity. If your only thought of a radish is round and red, this one will amaze you. It is long and wide, shaped much a like a very large white carrot. The white flesh of the Oriental radish called 'April Cross' is very mild, with a most un-radish taste. Its crunch will remind you of water chestnuts. I grew Daikon 'April Cross' from seed ordered from Park Seed. Most Oriental radishes grow best in the cool days of fall. April Cross is quickly up and matures in 60 days to a huge white radish, often 8 inches long and 3 inches in diameter. It will withstand a light frost or two. Even if the tops are killed back, you can dig the roots.
Although many radishes can be hot, this one is not. This prize from the Orient is extremely mild. If it grows in too warm conditions or without enough moisture, it may bolt (form flower heads) just like any other radish. Bolting causes the flesh to become pithy and the flavor to become strong. If they bolt, just move them to the compost heap. They will not be worth eating.
Daikon radishes should be planted in early spring for an early summer crop, or in late summer for a fall/winter crop. If you have grown carrots and/or beets, then these radishes are grown at the same time of year in your area. To harvest a fall or winter crop, sow in midsummer to late summer. In spring, sow as soon as the ground can be worked.
The ideal air temperature to grow Daikon radishes is 40 – 65 degrees F. Planting dates in southern states are roughly either February or September. Northern area gardens should be seeded approximately in April or early to mid-August. Check with your local County Extension Service for exact dates for your area.
Given good, loose soil, kept evenly watered, and grown in cool days, this one will, as Spock says, grow and prosper – all the while keeping its tasty flesh mild.


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Officials say storm readiness vastly improved
When Tropical Storm Irene hit in August of 2011, the towns of Danbury and New Fairfield joined forces and rented a trailer truck.
It was the only way the towns could move a large quantity of emergency food supplies and bottled water to the area from the state depot at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The state was unwilling to waive its regulations on how big a load a smaller truck could carry.
"We asked if we could use town trucks and they said, `No,''' said Paul Estefan, Danbury's director of emergency services,
When Hurricane Sandy came 14 months later, Estefan -- while remaining a staunch critic of government bureaucracy that gets in the way of helping people in an emergency -- said the state trucked water, emergency meals and bag of ice to the greater Danbury area.
"It was a little better,'' he said.
In the span of those 14 months, the state had Irene, a tropical storm that set a state record for power outages and badly damaged the Long Island Sound coastline; the freak October nor'easter that broke the record Irene set for power outages, damaging tens of thousands of trees in the state; and Superstorm Sandy, which did even more damage to the shoreline while leaving some inland towns with roads badly blocked by trees that were completely overturned.
We also had, in February of this year, a blizzard of historic proportions.
And one by one, the storms taught towns how to respond.
"There's no question, we've gotten better,'' said Marc Dillon, chief of staff for Stratford Mayor John Harkins. "With each of those major storms, you learn and improve.''
In Ridgefield, First Selectman Rudy Marconi -- asked if the state had improved it emergency response and whether there are things he'd still like to see done, said, "the answer is yes and yes.''
But Marconi said he thinks the serious learning about emergencies in Connecticut really began a decade earlier.
"I really think it began with 9/11,'' Marconi said. "That's when we began to started considering the issue of preparedness.''
If there is a common theme when talking about the way things have improved, it is this: Everyone has learned to talk a lot more to everybody.
In Redding, First Selectman Natalie Ketcham said, Irene not only took out the town's electricity for several days it also damaged the cell towers.
"People were very frustrated because the cell service was so poor and spotty,'' Ketcham said.
The town then decided to make a much more concerted effort to get the word out about future emergencies.
During the nor'easter and in Sandy, she said, the town began relying on text messages sent to residents' home computers and smart phones. It encouraged people to sign up for CT Alert.gov, which allowed them to choose ways they can get emergency alerts.
"We were doing voice alerts that could be delivered as text messages,'' she said. "Our police department is on Twitter and email.''
As a result, she said, people in town were much more informed when Hurricane Sandy hit.
"We learned our lesson and took it to heart,'' she said.
In coastal towns, Irene and Sandy both required towns to issue evacuation orders to people who live on the Sound. Dillon said those residents learned from Irene -- when an evacuation order comes, find a way to leave.
"In any of these storms, there are some people who don't leave,'' he said. "But the response for Sandy was better than for Irene.''
In Bridgeport, Mayor Bill Finch said, the city has learned to think in both the long and short term on how to ready for coastal storms to come.
In the long term, he said, city officials have learned from Irene and Sandy where the storm surge will be, where the winds will concentrate.
That may mean the city will have to build a system of dikes and seawall to better protect itself
"We realize now the sea wall at Steel Point probably isn't high enough,'' he said of the structure that may need to protect the long-sought waterfront project the city has planned in hopes of revitalizing that neighborhood.
Finch also said the city is working with planners from the University of Connecticut to look at two aging housing projects -- P.T. Barnum Village and Marina Village. If these can be moved to higher ground, he said, the space they'd vacate might be used as a sort of flood plain to hold a storm surge.
On the short term, Finch said, the city has begun to organize bother emergency medical teams and emergency response teams that can work within different neighborhoods to help those who need medical attention at shelters, and to spread information and give directions.
"We realized that people depend on cell phones, but if there's no electricity, cell phones can't be charged,'' he said. "Communication becomes much more person to person.''
Matt Cassavecchia the director of emergency services for Western Connecticut Health Network -- which includes Danbury and New Milford hospitals -- said that by the time Sandy hit, the hospital was communicating with many different city agencies and other towns to coordinate its work.
"Let's say we were releasing a woman who lived in Ridgefield who needs oxygen,'' Cassavecchia said. "We'd call the Ridgefield emergency center before we released her to see if there was power in her neighborhood.''
If not, he said, the woman might stay temporarily stay in the functional needs center the hospital created for people who need things like electricity to power a medical device but who otherwise don't need to be hospitalized.
"Then, the Ridgefield people would call us and say, `The power's back on in that neighborhood,''' Cassavecchia said. "We'd get an ambulance and send that woman home. There was unprecedented communication.''
Throughout all three storms, the power utilities -- the companies responsible for restoring power -- were often vilified for what people considered their slow response.
But Mitch Gross, spokesman for Connecticut Light & Power Co., said the company analyzed what it did and learned from its mistakes.
He pointed to a report issued by the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority that concluded CL&P "has clearly improved its Emergency Planning and Organization functions since the 2011 storms."
That's included a much stronger effort to communicate with the towns and its customers.
"All the town officials now know who to go to,'' he said. "We are weekly, daily in communication with them.''
And, Marconi said, the storms have forced town leaders to talk, to share information, equipment and supplies. In this year's blizzard, towns in the greater Danbury area sent workers and equipment to towns in the Naugatuck Valley to help them dig out simply because they knew there was a need.
"All of us have gotten to know each other better,'' he said.
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For my basket I started with a double sided 12x12 patterned piece of paper. I used the 2 scalloped nestability for the top flap found on each side that is white. I cut these in half and then placed them around all four sides. Before placing them on the sides I punched holes in the scallops to give it more of an eyelet lace look. I wove my basket with the other side of the patterned paper (see instructions below). I gathered lace the length of my handle and glued it on and placed the ribbon on top of that and attached my handle after the basket was put together. I added the tiny pink poms poms around the top edge and then added the pretty bows to each side of the handle. I placed an image on each side and then layered flowers on the other two as well. I found that cute little pink humming bird at Michael's and thought it would be so pretty sitting on the handle and found the cute fuzzy chicks at Hobby Lobby which I might add that Avery just loved!
I also made my first side step card to go with my little basket. I carried the theme of the basket to the card. I have seen these type of cards many times and I have always loved the ones I have seen so I gave it a try. The end result was much smaller then I expected, but I was still pleased with the card. You can find the instructions for this card here.
Quick Woven Basket Tutorial:
This is a picture how I divided my paper and of the lines I cut to make this quick woven paper basket. The finished basket ends up measuring 4x4 square.
1. Start with either a 12x12 piece of card stock or a doubled sided piece of atterned paper.
2. Score into nine 4x4 inch squares.
3. Cut along the lines that say cut (4 times the middle squares). They measure one inch each across. This will be the part you weave with the other paper.
4. (Note) The flaps/squares on each corner will fold inward to be the inside of your basket. The lines that don't say cut will be the lines you fold.
5. Cut 16, 1x4 inch pieces of paper that you want to weave with. I used the other side of my patterned paper. You will need 4 strips for each side.
6. Weave each side. Pay close attention with the first woven piece when moving on to the second side, because if you are using a different color or another pp you will want it to be alternated on the next flap so the weave looks like it is carried on the next side when you close up the basket. (does that make sense?)
7. After all sides are woven, glue all the ends on those pieces to secure them in place. (do this on both sides of the paper; inside and outside).
8. Now fold the flaps upward to start forming your basket and the large squares found on the corners that were not woven fold in so that they become the inside of the basket. I placed glue on the flaps before folding in so I could hold them in place while the adhered. I always use Aleene's quick dry tacky glue, it adheres really quickly... I love that stuff. Do that on all four sides.
9. This is where I cut 2 large scalloped nestibilities and cut them in half and used them for the top edge of the basket under the pink pom poms. You of course could finish off your basket however you want.
10. Cut handle the desired length that you would like. I cut mine about 1x11. I glued mine to the basket as well, but you could certainly attach with brads or ribbons or anything creative. I glued on my gathered lace and let it dry before attaching it to my basket.
11. Embellish however you want, have fun!
I think this would make a fun project for a child. If a younger child did this you could make all the cuts for them and let them do the weaving and gluing. These would also be fun to make and maybe place some spring flowers in and give as a gift if you were visiting someone on Easter Sunday as well.
I had a lot making my basket and card! My children are on spring break this week, so I imagine this week will fly by!!
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From Yasser Salhab's rooftop in the Old City of Hebron, there is a view of the Cave of the Patriarchs, also known as Ibrahimi Mosque. The disputed site, holy to both Muslims and Jews, is just a few meters away.
Yasser looks at his neighbours' houses and sighs. On January 21, a Thursday, settlers entered the buildings next to his home, claiming they had purchased the houses from Palestinians. However, the owners of the occupied buildings denied the claims, and filed a complaint to the Israeli Police to demand the settlers' eviction.
The few dozen settlement's residents who broke into the homes that day stated they had bought the buildings which would expand the settlement in the city. They named the homes "Beit Rachel" and "Beit Leah," after the biblical wives of Jacob, and raised an Israeli flag on the roof.
Malachi Levinger, the head of the Kiryat Arba settlement local council in Hebron, told Haaretz they were "redeeming two more buildings" and thus joining a "long line of land redeemers of the land of Israel."
But the settlers were evicted by Israeli forces the next day on the orders of the Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who cited the failure to obtain the permit of transaction required under military orders.
From his rooftop Yasser looks at his neighbours' houses.
Yasser's rooftop stands over Shuhada street, where two soldiers guard the entry of the disputed houses, to make sure no one enters until the procedure to determine ownership is cleared.
Shuhada street, which was formerly an important artery of the Old City and a busy market, was closed to Palestinians during the second intifada in 2000. It is part of the area in Hebron under Israeli control.
All the shops were closed and the street was emptied. Today, Palestinians can only access the street if they are granted permission by Israeli forces, while they are completely banned from entering some parts of the street.
The area used to be a commercial hub in the West Bank, but over the years of Israeli occupation, many settlements were established in and around the Old City, imposing a regime of segregation and harsh restrictions for Palestinians.
The expansion of settlements in Hebron led to a large-scale abandonment of the area by Palestinian residents and a paralysis of commercial life. Since November last year, restrictions were reinforced following an increase in Palestinian attacks against Israeli forces and settlers in the region.
"Redeeming the land"
"We have the desire and intention to create a contiguity of settlement around the Cave of the Patriarchs, and from the cave all the way to Kiryat Arba," Shlomo Levinger, a member of a Israeli NGO which acquires Palestinian real estate for Jewish settlements, told Ynet News.
In an article published recently, the Israeli news website described how the buildings were secretly purchased from a Palestinian seller, who is said to be hiding in Israel. The negotiations reportedly began years ago and included several secret meetings.
"The seller put his property on the market and there were no buyers," Shlomo Levinger explained. "A representative on our behalf tested the waters with him to see whether he'd be willing to sell to Jews. The representative of course told [him] he will get a lot more than the market price."
The Salhab family was also approached by Israeli buyers in the past. "A few years ago, three Israelis came and offered us three million dollars for our house", says Samer Salhab, who lives in the Old City with his father Yasser. His family is used to the constant harassment of Israeli forces and settlers that make life in the neighbourhood very difficult for Palestinians.
Many of the houses in the Old City are empty, since most families who can afford it prefer to move to the new part of Hebron under Palestinian control. Although the houses remain empty, selling Palestinian land to Israelis in the West Bank is considered a very serious offense by the Palestinian Authority.
The offence could result in the death penalty, as it is considered an act of "treason" by Palestinian courts. The measure was described as necessary by Palestinian authorities "to ensure the founding of a future state."
In the old market of Hebron, a shopkeeper and resident in the Old City believes the houses were sold by one of the members of the large al-Zaatari family. She shakes her head disapprovingly. "How can people sell their houses like that?" she asks. "Just for money? Money isn't everything." But she adds that according to Palestinian law and traditions, all the members of the family own the house, and just one family member is not entitled to sell it.
Muhanned al-Zaatari, a member of the family who owns the disputed houses, sits in his office in Hebron's city center. The houses occupied on January 21 have been in his family for over 70 years. He looks tired and visibly concerned. "Our family hasn't been able to sleep," he tells us.
"The houses belonged to my grandfather. When he died, in 2007, they were left to 14 people, nine uncles and five aunts," he says. "We have many family members, some of them live abroad, and their permission is also needed to sell the house. One person is not enough."
Muhanned talks with concern about one of his uncles, who disappeared on the same day the houses were occupied, and hasn't been seen by family members since then.
"We fear he got himself into trouble", says Mohanned. They haven't been able to contact him and don't know where he is. "He is a rich man, he doesn't need more money," Muhanned points out, with a trace of exasperation in his voice. He insists that all his uncles' permission is needed to sell the houses, but fears the legal issues might take many years to be solved.
The local organisation Hebron Rehabilitation Committee is giving the family legal support, gathering the necessary documents to prove the houses still belong to the family, who are determined to not sell them.
When Mohanned's grandfather was still alive, he was approached by Israeli buyers several times. "They came with an empty check, saying they would buy the houses for any price," he says. But the offers were always vehemently rejected.
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Iraq attacks leave 31 dead, mostly security forces
Insurgents in Iraq launched two days of bloody assaults at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that killed at least 31 people, most of them members of the security forces serving in restive Sunni-dominated areas, authorities said Thursday.
The killings are the latest in a wave of bloodshed that has claimed the lives of more than 2,600 people since the start of April. The months-long eruption of violence - Iraq's worst in half a decade - is raising fears the country is again returning to the brink of a civil war pitting its Sunni and Shiite Muslim sects against one another.
The deadliest attack happened at sundown Wednesday as Iraqis were marking the end of the first day of Ramadan fasting, though it took authorities time to learn of the killing and they only provided details the following morning.
Gunmen launched their assault on an army checkpoint near Barwana, which lies across the Euphrates River from the town of Haditha, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad in the largely Sunni province of Anbar. Barwana's mayor, Meyasser Abdul-Mohsin, said three soldiers were killed and four were wounded in that attack.
The attackers then made their way to a trailer not far away that is used by special oil industry police assigned to protect a nearby pipeline. The men inside were sitting down to have the iftar meal that breaks the daytime Ramadan fast at sunset, Abdul-Mohsin said.
The gunmen shot up the trailer and then set it on fire before making their getaway, the mayor said. Eleven police there were left dead, with some of their bodies badly burned and making them difficult to identify, he said.
A security official in nearby Haditha gave a similar account and confirmed the death toll. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
"This is a crime carried out by terrorists during iftar on the first day of Ramadan," Abdul-Mohsin said. "It just proves what a cowardly act it is."
Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC and other international oil companies have flocked to Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion to capitalize on Iraq's vast oil wealth. The country is now the second-largest producer in OPEC, after Saudi Arabia. Oil revenues account for 95 percent of the country's budget.
Insurgents unleashed more attacks Thursday.
A police station in Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi came under attack in the morning in an assault that left two policemen dead, provincial council member councilman Talib Hamadi and deputy provincial governor Dhari Arkan said. Arkan said gunmen opened fire on the police station after a car bomb exploded nearby. Ramadi is 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad.
Militants turned their sights on the local police headquarters in the nearby city of Fallujah, also in Anbar province, later in the day.
A car bomb explosion kicked off that attack. Then gunmen exchanged fire with police as other militants launched mortar rounds at the facility. Another attacker then drove an explosives-laden car into the police post.
By the time it was all over, seven police officers were killed and 17 other people were wounded, all but two of them police, according to police and hospital officials.
A roadside bomb later exploded in central Fallujah, killing a police officer and wounding two others.
Anbar is a vast Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad and bordering Syria. It has been the center of months of protests by Iraq's minority Sunnis over what they believe is second-class treatment by the Shiite-dominated government. Sunni militant groups have tried to tap into that anger and link their cause with that of the protesters.
A car bomb rocked Baghdad's commercial district of Karradah late Thursday afternoon, killing two police officers and two civilians, police and health officials said. They said another 13 were wounded.
Insurgents also struck in the volatile city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of the capital. Gunmen in speeding cars there shot and killed an off-duty solider and a civilian in two separate attacks, police and health officials said. Another policeman was killed when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the city.
Authorities provided details of the Fallujah, Baghdad and Mosul attacks on condition of anonymity because they weren't allowed to brief reporters.
Elsewhere, a parked car bomb went off Thursday morning near a courthouse in the northern city of Tuz Khormato, wounding 30 people, mayor Shalal Abdool said. Tuz Khormato sits in a band of territory contested by Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad.
Another parked car bomb exploded in a village outside the nearby ethnically disputed city of Kirkuk, wounding seven civilians, provincial police chief Maj. Gen. Jamal Tahir said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the series of attacks. Sunni militants, including al-Qaida's Iraq arm, frequently target security forces and the country's vital oil infrastructure in an effort to undermine the Shiite-led government.
Associated Press writer Sinan Salaheddin contributed to this report.
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RENO, Nev. -- It's taken a little longer than expected, but catcher Tony Sanchez, who was drafted fourth overall by the Pirates in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, thinks his performance on Wednesday night at the Triple-A All-Star Game is a sign of his future.
Sanchez blasted a three-run home run into the right-field stands in the second inning to power the International League (IL) to a 4-3 victory over the Pacific Coast League (PCL) on Wednesday at Aces Ballpark.
"I ended up getting just enough to get it over [the fence]," said Sanchez, who won Top Star honors. "You're trying to do your best against these guys not knowing how they throw."
Sanchez drilled Astros prospect Jarred Cosart's belt-high fastball just over the right-field wall to put the IL ahead, 4-2.
"Obviously, Tony with the big home run [was crucial]," said IL starter Greg Reynolds, who earned the win. "It's just fun to see all that talent on the field."
Sanchez said he was unsure if the ball would get over the fence, but he knew right away that he had "at least a double."
"It's been a long road these last few years," Sanchez said. "Just to be an All-Star really is a testament to the offseason."
After struggling with a .233 average after earning a promotion to Triple-A Indianapolis last season, Sanchez focused on improving his at-bats during the offseason. This year, he's batting .282 with a .364 on-base percentage and more home runs (nine) than all of last year.
The only problem for Sanchez, who appeared in two games with the Pirates earlier this season, is that Pittsburgh possesses one of the top pitching staffs in the Majors, and he is well aware that teams rarely entrust a rookie catcher to handle a staff during a postseason race.
"It was awesome," Sanchez said of his Major League debut. "They're playing really well. I've caught them all, but still, I know it's hard to throw another catcher out there with a No. 1 staff. To go in there and expect to be the top catcher is unrealistic."
So with Russell Martin firmly entrenched as Pittsburgh's top catcher, Sanchez said he is focused solely on improving with Indianapolis, but he did soak in this week's All-Star festivities.
"These are guys you've never faced before," Sanchez said.
Sanchez is hoping it's just a matter of time before he has the opportunity to face them all, regardless of which level it's at.


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Jessica Allen is an assistant editor at Maclean's magazine where she writes and edits for the website in the areas of arts and culture, and makes podcasts and videos. After work, she maintains her personal food blog, Foodie and the Beast, and is the editor-in-chief of T Magazine, a bi-annual publication put out by Terroni restaurant, a Toronto Italian restaurant that she worked at for nearly a decade. During that time she completed a Master's degree in the history of art at the University of Toronto and spent a year teaching art history in Florence, Italy. Jessica's TIFF coverage in 2011, her first time reporting on the festival, earned Maclean's a National Magazine Award nomination.
always want to be in the media? If not, what other careers were on the horizon?
cashier, a waitress or a writer because I loved cash registers and typewriters.
I was very good at pressing buttons. Some might even say gifted. I also used to
host my own radio show that I'd tape on a little cassette recorder from the
living room floor, in private, when I was seven. Topics included: Why does my
brother like Star Wars so much? How
do you make musical instruments from stuff you find in the kitchen? How do they
make those Strawberry Shortcake dolls smell so good? And…Holy s- – t. I just
realized I've been a cashier, a waitress, a writer and a podcast host, which is
kind of like being on the radio. I have achieved all my childhood dreams.
would you like to be five years from now?
intimate, modest book launch. And maybe the book would have my byline. Or maybe
not. But it would still be a lovely evening
with wine, cheese (fancy kinds) and crackers that would all be FREE.
advice for people getting started in your industry?
started. But for freelancers, I'd suggest avoiding emailing an editor with,
"I'd love to write for you. What are you looking for?" It's just a bit vague.
Do a little homework and see what sort of stories are making the cut and then
pitch a specific idea. And ideally, those queries should reflect who the writer
is, that they can write and that they have a clear idea for a solid story. If
the pitch is vague, boring and poorly written, chances are, the story will be
are your favourite media outlets, not including your own?
publications: the New Yorker, the National Post and Bon Appétit.
My dad suggested to me 15 years ago, when I was probably reading Sassy, to start reading the New Yorker: if you want to be a better
writer, he said, then read good writing and cross your fingers that some of
that fine craft on the page will be absorbed. I don't read each issue
cover-to-cover, but man, does it manage to both entertain and enlighten. I love the ritual of first looking at the contents
and mapping out what I'll read. I'll usually jump to something by my favourite
contributors, like Amy Ozols, Tad Friend or Calvin Trillin. And I especially
love that the stuff I might resist reading at first, usually ends up being my
favourite. Reading the National Post
is my morning ritual. I like to think that it keeps me sharp because I don't
always agree with the positions of the columnists and trying to articulate—or
at least think about—why that is, is a nice little exercise with morning
coffee. And since Adam Rapaport from GQ
came on board as editor-in-chief at Bon Appétit,
I've been thrilled with that magazine. And I do love television but don't have
cable so I just keep watching my favourite shows in rotation: The Sopranos, Deadwood and Northern
interview you've ever had?
the red carpet of a movie called Quartet,
directed by Dustin Hoffman and starring Maggie Smith and Billy Connolly. We had
a chance to talk with all three of them on the red carpet for the film's
premiere at TIFF. And man oh man did
they bring it! That is how you do a
red carpet. And their enthusiasm, humour and professionalism made me feel a
little less sympathetic to other celebrities who slinked their way down the
carpet, with little verve or vigour, giving one word answers.
with a Toronto chef of international renown. He didn't answer my first three
calls. He picked up on the fourth though, but asked if I could call back in an
hour. There were a couple of more no answers. By the time I got him, he was
talking to three or four other people in the background at the same time as me.
That was a tough one.
advice you've ever been given?
I'm almost embarrassed to tell you: First, I was doing a video with Maclean's colleague Brian D. Johnson,
who's covered TIFF for 27 years now and appears on CityTV every Friday to talk
about the newest movies to hit theatres. I kept flubbing a take and he told me
to slow down and pause if I didn't know what to say, instead of blabbering on.
GENIUS! Second, Philippe Gohier, a former editor at the magazine who now works
at enRoute, told me not to be afraid
to focus on what I think the best bits are in a story: think about the stuff
I'd be most excited to tell my friends about.
And finally, my boyfriend, after being appalled over how many times I
interrupted celebrities on
my first TIFF red carpet—think Anna Faris, Chris Pratt and Brad Pitt—told
me maybe to stop interrupting people in interviews. It's just that I don't like
making people uncomfortable and would always fill in the awkward silences. If
you let them do it instead, sometimes magic will happen.
rule(s) do you live your life by?
I wish I had more
rules to live my life by, but here's one: Be nice to people. And hopefully not
because your motivations are selfish: be nice to people, including the security
guard, the cashier, the sales clerk or the taxi driver, because
being polite and nice are just good things to be in a world that sometimes
lacks those basic courtesies.
the most important tip you can give PR pros?
emailing a press release or pitch: For example, while I'd love to cover a media
scrum on the Hill in Ottawa that you've emailed me a press release about, there
are probably far more capable reporters at Maclean's
to do the job, even ones who actually work in Ottawa. Also, peg the person,
place or thing you're promoting to a specific section of the magazine or
website that you know would be a good fit for your pitch. And don't be alarmed
if I choose not to write about those chipotle-yogurt-acai berry gluten-free
chips that you've sent. I'm sure they're amazing, but our readers might not
understand why I just dedicated 500 words to them.
experience you've had with a PR pro? We love to hear about #wins.
TIFF. I was so naïve and had to count on the kindness of PR strangers
(including you fine folks! But it might be considered gauche to recount here.) I
managed to connect with Jennifer Love of Duet PR, who practically held my hand
after I flat out admitted that I was new to TIFF and usually wrote about food. She
did her best to include me at events that might have a culinary focus. One was
a private dinner for a movie called The
Artist where the star, Jean Dujardin, director
Hazanavicius and producer Harvey Weinstein would be
in attendance. Media wasn't supposed to be there but I promised to behave and
be a fly on the wall. I ended up sitting with two of the smartest people I've
met working in media—Anne Thompson and Dana Harris of Indiewire—and had the time of my life. Hearing Thompson over dinner
confess that: "I've been quoted in print as saying
Ewan McGregor has the most beautiful penis I've ever seen. Well, the title now
goes to Michael Fassbender," was especially memorable, not to mention watching
the Weinstein brothers work the room, or rather, the room working them, and
being privy to New York PR sensation Peggy Siegel doing her thing, were like
scenes out of a movie on the business of making movies. And I
got a great little story out of it to boot.
I hate?
strawberries in rhubarb pie.
in heels (don't recommend.)
re-watched the Ivory-Merchant film), Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound, and a food history called Consider the Fork.
on earth?
clothes, fire going (in fireplace), one of the above-mentioned TV shows
playing, with my feet on my boyfriend's lap and a glass of Sancerre resting on
my tummy. (I will take a cheap Italian white, if funds are limited, which is
more often than not.)
Jason Bourne and Brad Pitt as Tristan from
Legends of the Fall. And if there was room, Russell Crowe as Gladiator. Okay, and Daniel Craig as
007. They would arrive in costume, and be in character the whole night. After
dinner, which I'd prepare at my place, we'd all go sit on the couch with
glasses of bourbon and watch the movies they're in, or maybe deconstruct
episodes of Girls, and eat a Deep and
Delicious cake out of the container. I've said too much.
hilarious, but it also, for me, blurs the line between high and low culture. If
I'm ever feeling lazy, I think of how much she works, and how she manages to
pump out copy on pop culture that is often so acute and illuminating that I
wonder why she's not a f–king university professor. (Probably because having
your own gossip website is more fun, and you still get to do TED Talks on the
app (or whatever you are downloading these days)?
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Maple Leafs Sign Trevor Smithby Staff Writer / Toronto Maple Leafs
David Nonis, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, announced Thursday the hockey club has signed forward Trevor Smith to a one-year contract. The Leafs also announced the signing of their third-round draft pick in 2014, defenceman Rinat Valiev, to a three-year entry level contract.
Smith, 29, played 28 games for the Maple Leafs last season, collecting nine points (four goals, five assists) with four penalty minutes. The 6-1, 195-pound forward also collected 10 goals, 16 assists, 26 points and 10 penalty minutes while serving as captain of the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies in 2013-14.
Smith made his Maple Leafs debut October 8 against Colorado, becoming the 900th player in franchise history. The native of Ottawa, Ontario, also missed 24 NHL games (Dec. 19-Feb. 8) due to a broken hand.
Valiev, 19, posted five goals and 23 assists for 28 points with 68 penalty minutes and a plus-27 rating in 55 games with the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League last season. The 6-1, 205-pound defenceman also appeared in 13 playoff games with Kootenay, collecting nine points on a goal and eight assists with 16 minutes in penalties.
A native of Nizhnekamsk, Russia, Valiev was selected 68th overall by the Maple Leafs at the 2014 Entry Draft in June.


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Three mayors to visit Glenugie to support constituents
UPDATED 9am: THREE Northern Rivers' mayors will visit the coal-face of the national CSG debate today that has seen dozens of their constituents arrested in the past fortnight.
Byron Shire mayor Simon Richardson, Tweed Shire mayor Barry Longland and Lismore City mayor Jenny Dowell will travel to the Glenugie CSG blockade south of Grafton tomorrow to show their support to protesters and see the site for themselves. They plan to arrive at 10am and stay until late afternoon.
Cr Richardson said he would speak to the campaigners who are "putting their bodies on the line" so that the residents of the Northern Rivers could "continue to have clean water, sustainable agriculture and a vibrant tourism industry".
"With the spectre of CSG on the horizon, these three vital economic, social and environmental attributes within our region are threatened. To the campaigners, I say your actions are appreciated and honoured by the residents of Byron Shire and we thank you," he said.
Cr Dowell said other Northern Rivers' mayors had been contacted but she believed they were still away on holidays.
"Simon suggested the visit late last week because we're not only concerned about coal seam gas, but we're also concerned about the wellbeing of the protesters, she said.
"We'd just like to be able to give them a bit of moral support and encourage them in their non-violent direct action.
"Good People from all walks of life are putting their lives on hold and taking a stand against CSG. The only way we will protect our communities from this incompatible industry is by standing strongly united until mining companies realise they are not welcome here.
"I suggested asking the other NOROC mayors, and also to let (Clarence Valley mayor) Richie (Williamson) know as a courtesy as it's on his patch, though I understand he is on holidays."
Tweed Shire mayor Barry Longland said he wanted to add his support to the stand taken by "those concerned citizens of the Northern Rivers who have placed themselves at the front line in united stand opposition to CSG mining in our region".
"Our communities have expressed overwhelming opposition to any expansion of these activities and they are supported by their elected representatives who, in the case of the Tweed Shire, have adopted a 'CSG free' declaration for the whole Shire," he said.


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Obama: I'll introduce my own immigration bill if Congress doesn't move
President Barack Obama unveiled his vision for immigration reform in a speech on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Nev., telling Congress that he will send them his own bill and call for a vote if they don't move fast.
"If Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away," Obama said to applause from students at Del Sol High School.
"It looks like there's a genuine desire to get this done soon, and that's very encouraging," Obama said, mentioning a blueprint put forward by a bipartisan group of eight senators on Monday. "But this time action must follow."
Obama's speech was the latest move in a chess match between the White House and some Republicans in Congress to craft an outline for reform that can both be enacted into law while meeting the expectataions of the growing population of Hispanic voters who now overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
Some Republicans want to support immigration reform in part to combat the party's demographic challenges, but the more involved the president is with the bill, the politically riskier it becomes to support it.
In his speech, Obama laid out "markers" for reform, saying any comprehensive immigration bill must give most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants a chance to earn their citizenship gradually if they pay a fine, learn English and pass a background check. Immigrants would also have to get to "the back of the line," which means people who have already applied for green cards would have their applications processed first.
The president's bill would also include an employment verification system, more border security and a revamping of the legal immigration system to provide more visas for top graduates of U.S. universities and to reduce lengthy wait times for visas for relatives of U.S. citizens.
The president mentioned the blueprint for reform laid out by senators including rising Republican star Marco Rubio of Florida and John McCain of Arizona, Obama's 2008 GOP presidential rival.
The principles of that outline "are very much in line with the principles I've proposed and campaigned on for the last few years," Obama said.
The senators pre-empted Obama's speech by a day to release a blueprint that differs from Obama's earlier immigration proposal in some respects.
Both Obama and the senators agree that the nation's illegal immigrants should be given a chance to legalize and eventually become citizens if they meet certain conditions, but the senators' bill includes a spate of border security requirements that must go into effect before the immigrants are eligible for green cards. Rubio said on Tuesday that he will not sign onto a bill that does not include these border enforcement triggers.
Another potential difference between the plans is that the president believes same-sex partners should be able to sponsor their immigrant husband or wife for citizenship in the same way heterosexual married couples can do now. The Senate proposal does not mention same-sex couples.
Obama said he recognized that immigration is an issue that inflames "passions," but he called on Americans to remember that they belong to a nation of immigrants.
"It's easy sometimes for the discussion to take on a feeling of 'us' versus 'them,'" Obama said. "When that happens a lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them. ... Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from some place else. Somebody brought you."
Welcoming immigrants has made the country stronger, he said. "That's how we will ensure this century is the same as the last, an American century, welcoming of everybody who aspires to do something more, is willing to work hard for it, is willing to pledge allegiance to our flag."
Leaders in the Republican-controlled House have not yet released a significant blueprint or proposal for immigration reform. In response to the speech, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner urged the president to keep his distance while Congress undergoes what will likely be a lengthy legislative process to reach a final bill addressing immigration reform.
"There are a lot of ideas about how best to fix our broken immigration system. Any solution should be a bipartisan one, and we hope the president is careful not to drag the debate to the left and ultimately disrupt the difficult work that is ahead in the House and Senate," said Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck in a statement.
McCain said in a statement after Obama's speech that despite the "differences" in their approaches, he is "cautiously optimistic" that a bill will go forward.
Immigrant groups and labor organizations are rallying behind the new push for reform. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told Yahoo News on Tuesday that organized labor is "entirely behind" comprehensive immigration reform and will mount a "full-fledged" campaign to help drive it through Congress.
—Olivier Knox, Rachel Rose Hartman and Chris Moody contributed to this report.


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Thanks to her success first on Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off, Private Practice, Kate Walsh has been in the spotlight for years.
However, many fans may still be surprised to learn the actress did a night behind bars back before she moved to Los Angeles. Fortunately, she was totally game to dish on the harrowing experience on the latest episode of Rove LA, airing Saturday at midnight/11c on TV Guide Network.
Kate Walsh? Ian Somerhalder? Make your picks for TV's sexiest eye candy now!
"I was a little bit bullied. I had to ride in the back of a cop car with a repeated offender," Walsh says of her night in jail. "[The offender] asked me if I had any warm clothes because she told me it was going to be very cold in prison."
So what happened behind bars? And, more importantly, how did she end up in the slammer in the first place? Watch this sneak peek to find out:
Rove LA airs Saturdays at midnight/11c on TV Guide Network.


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Learn about the U.S. historical period known as Western Expansion during the late 18th century through mid-19th century. This semester-long course will guide students from the Appalachians to the Far West reading noted authors such as James Daugherty, Edwin Tunis, and Genevieve Foster.
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For me, it's a given in life that nothing is more important than the happiness of my children. That's the "big issue" that trumps all other concerns, including personal finances and wealth management. And yet…family and wealth are not mutually exclusive. The financial well-being of our loved ones is often an important component of their happiness and success—and we all strive to ensure that our children receive an inheritance that puts them in an advantageous position for the life challenges ahead.
But as wealth passes from one generation to the next, do today's forward-thinking financial advisors recognize the opportunity that is at hand? And are they philosophically prepared to alter their business models to accommodate the needs of inter-generational wealth management?
From my perspective, a good way to answer these questions is by tapping into my experiences serving the financial services industry. But I'd also like to tap into something else—namely, my experiences as a husband and father who is very cognizant of the issues that surround inter-generational wealth management (and who has an advisor who understands and responds to these needs). There are eight recommendations I'd like to make to financial advisors:
Step 1: It's all about building relationships that last.
It's fine to be a financial advisor who wants to manage the assets of your client's children. But how much more useful it is to be an advisor who is willing to take the time to advise and educate them, and who thoughtfully assists them in improving all aspects of their lives? That's the difference between being a financial advisor and a family advisor.
Let me give you an example: In my family, at each child's 18th birthday, we set up an IRA for them with $1,000 in it. Furthermore, on each ensuing Christmas, we invest half the money each child receives from relatives into the respective IRAs. The kids work with the advisor to make investment decisions—for example, one child invested in Apple and Sony because those were companies he knew, and his portfolio is doing quite well!
As my kids enter their 20s, they've learned to rely on our advisor for all sorts of great advice on financial and life matters. For example, when the time comes, I fully expect they'll be asking him for advice on what real estate they can and cannot afford, or whether a certain pricey car fits with their lifestyle and budget.
By helping my children make thoughtful, well-reasoned decisions that improve their lives, my advisor adds value that you can't put a price on.
Step 2: Don't offer a substitute for parental advice—rather, augment it.
As a father, I've given my share of advice to my kids. But I never think that our advisor's contributions are infringing on my parental prerogatives. Our advisor is the expert on financial matters; he's the one to ask. And as far as him giving advice that extends beyond the financial realm, no problem. My kids see him as a resource—not a parental replacement. This is an important point for you to make to your clients as you take a more active role as a family advisor.
Step 3: Encourage two-way communication at comfortable intervals, with no data overload
You do not want to be an advisor who cranks out report after report and sends them off to clients who do not have the time or inclination to sift through reams of data. Rather, when managing inter-generational wealth, it's the quality of your communications that matters, not the quantity.
Send the occasional article that takes a controversial stand on wealth management (and perhaps your role in it)—and be prepared to discuss it. Call when you have a constructive suggestion or recommendation that truly adds value, not because you feel obligated to check in once a week, or once a month or six months. Make every point of contact a worthwhile one for your clients. And always encourage them to call you with questions. As it turns out, in our household, we call our advisor at least as often as he calls us. It's an arrangement that serves us all well.
Step 4: Train your clients that the plan is the key—and that they shouldn't write a check without one.
A quick aside that's about family assets, rather than inter-generational wealth per se. My wife recently had a question about making a charitable donation, so she called our advisor. He asked her what she was trying to achieve with the donation—and equally importantly, what we were trying to achieve with our overall giving as a family.
These questions were illuminating, not only because we were prompted to analyze precisely why we say "Yes" to certain charities, but also because we understood why we need to say "No" to others. We now have a carefully thought-out plan—and we're sticking to it.
Step 5: Set your clients up with other like-minded clients.
If Client A has college-aged children and lives in Wealth-ville, set him and his wife up with Client B who has college-aged children and lives in Wealth-ville. They have lots in common and lots to discuss—and may even become friends. This is a great value-add that will enhance your status as a family advisor, and focus your clients on issues such as transferring wealth (and wealth management resources) to their offspring.
Step 6: Move away from performance as the centerpiece of your business model.
It's a fact: when you give valuable guidance to the adult children of your clients—and act as an "extra" member of the family—your clients are going to care less about the performance of their portfolios. Sure, performance matters—and you have to measure up. But your clients will care far more about the wisdom of your advice on a wide range of personal/financial matters, as opposed to a straight-up numbers crunch. Besides which, when passing wealth from one generation to the next, aren't we talking about preserving capital, as opposed to taking on the risks of maximizing performance?
Step 7: Charge the fees you deserve—you're earning them.
You're helping to make your clients' children happy and successful. Philosophically, you can't put a price on that. But in the day-to-day world of wealth management, you can charge a fee for it. If your fees are reasonable, your clients will be more than willing to pay them. After all, these are their kids we're talking about.
Step 8: Use technology as a tool that allows you to do what you do best.
When you offer great advice, you're doing something that can't be done online. There's no automated way to "Wow!" your clients with incisive analysis and commentary. There's no great software program that can build your reputation for personal integrity.
Rather, technology is a tool that frees you up for the unique, personal contributions you make to your clients' lives. With ByAllAccounts' software, for example, you have a data aggregation service that allows you to report on all your clients' assets, including held-away accounts such as 401(k)s and 403(b)s. That gives you the efficiency, scalability and ultimately the freedom to focus on the big issues that matter most.


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LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UQM Technologies, Inc. (NYSE MKT: UQM), a developer of
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callers should dial 1-480-629-9868.
Eric R. Ridenour, UQM Technologies' President and Chief Executive
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fiscal year ended March 31, 2012.
For anyone who is unable to participate in the conference, access to a
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UQM Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of power-dense,
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Seagate enters solid-state drive market with PulsarBy Jose Vilches
It's been a long time coming but today Seagate finally entered the flash storage market with the launch of its Pulsar solid-state drive. As expected, the company is initially targeting the enterprise market, where it is already a big player and users are more likely to pay the price premium for higher speeds and longevity.
Available in capacities ranging up to 200GB, the new Pulsar series uses single level cell (SLC) flash memory and fits into a standard 2.5-inch drive bay. Using a 3Gbit/s SATA II interface the drives can reach peak sequential speeds of 240MB/s when reading and 220MB/s while writing -- sustained write speeds are much lower though: 160MB/s for the 200GB model, 80MB/s for the 100GB and only 40MB/s with the 50GB version.
Seagate also quotes peak read and write IOPS with 4KB blocks at 30,000 and 25,000, respectively, as well as enterprise-friendly features like data protection in the event of power loss, 0.44% annualized failure rates, and a five-year limited warranty coverage. However, the company hasn't disclosed the sourcing of the NAND chips used or the sourcing of any aspect of the controller technology.
Though they are formally announcing their first SSDs just now, Seagate says it began shipping Pulsar drives for revenue to select OEMs back in September, so the drives might be available from some server vendors already. No word on when or if they expect to target mainstream users with an MLC-based line, but at least in the short to medium term it doesn't seem that way. The company recently said it expects SSDs to make up less than one tenth of the market even three years from now, with most mobile PCs transitioning to 7200 RPM hard drives.


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