• The Farmer Fred Rant, with local radio host Fred Hoffman, on why you should bring along the Sunset Western Garden Book (or another trusty reference) when plant shopping: I realize that “sticking to a garden plan” is, well … challenging, especially when you meet up with a comely beauty at a nursery. Still, arming yourself with a good reference book while nursery shopping might give you more incentive to drive home, alone
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Sacramento Connect: Gardening blogs
In the garden • May is prime time for planting summer vegetables. Among the veggies you can plant now from seed: lima and snap beans, carrots, chard, corn, cucumbers, melons, okra, pumpkins, soybeans, squash and watermelon. • Start setting out tomato transplants as well as seedling eggplants and peppers.
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Garden Checklist: What to do this week in the garden and around the home
DEAR CAROLYN: A longtime friend’s child is getting married halfway across the country. This friend and I had a really strong friendship until about five years ago, when she took a job that takes up a lot of her time, in addition to her personal travel and activities. She still considers me a good friend but I’ve been resentful since then that she has put little time and effort into the friendship (I’ve let her know this once or twice), other than meeting for a cup of coffee about twice a month
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Carolyn Hax: Friend harbors grudge over time spent together
MONDAY The Cancer Project is sponsoring a Cancer Prevention and Survival Cooking Series; the first class is an introduction to how foods can fight cancer. Natomas Crossroads Church, 1101 National Drive, Suite A, Sacramento; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; $70 for seven classes in the series, includes meals and a copy of “The Cancer Survivor’s Guide”; (916) 835-8132
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Health calendar: Events and workshops around Sacramento
Market basket for Mom With Mother’s Day just around the corner, why not surprise mom with one perfect handcrafted market basket? Woven from elephant grass by women in Ghana, these functional works of art support families in Africa while saving an estimated 6 shopping bags a week from ending up in our local landfill. That’s 288 bags a year, according to the nice folks who run the Davis farmers market, where you can find these bounteous baskets for a reasonable $20 each
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One Perfect Thing: Market basket for Mom
This variety called “First Yellow” is thought to be the first true yellow geranium to reach consumers. Mr
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Seeds: Rare yellow variety to be star of Carmichael Geranium Show
This house is one of several on the Sierra Oaks Garden Tour featuring homes on Crocker Road. May brings out the flowers – and the people who want to see them. Several garden and home tours are available this month.
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It’s the season for garden tours around Sacramento
Over the last couple of years, our sago palm has started getting blotchy yellow spots. It is planted near a swimming pool but doesn’t get any water splashed on it. We have another sago in a pot on the side of our house that shows similar discoloration.
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Garden Detective: Cycad scale feasts on sago palms
Friendship With God Romans 8: 35-39 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death
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Friendship With God – The Journey Starts Now
Isn’t it amazing that Americans worry more about the gas we put in our cars than the food we put in our bodies? I’ve been getting healthy with a very simple health plan: I eat God’s food instead of man’s food. You can read Dr.
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Top 12 Health Benefits of Juicing
Next Question: Part I Part II Part III Interview: From Cindi on April 5, 2010: Jesus was there with you so what a great interview. It touched me. I am constantly intrigued to know just how your husband supports you so much with this ministry but does not believe
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Get Real.. A Few More Questions:
Scriptures: Psalm 80:18-19; 85:6; 119:59; Lamentations 3:40; Habakkuk 3:2; Hosea 6:1-2; 14:4-5 We only pray for revival when we see the need for it. “All a man’s ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs the heart” (Proverbs 21:2). What would the Lord see if he weighed our hearts?
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Repentance: Considering my ways
What is the meaning of life ? Why are we here? What is the answer to life, the universe , everything? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Quite probably you have. Whether you were having some kind of crises in your life, or you just like exploring your own inner existentialism, the need to know, or at least feel better, about our existence is one that has plagued mankind since the beginning of time. At least, I assume it has. It sure as hell messes with my mind. You might be thinking that I am going through a crises, since I am obviously thinking about my existence. Well, I actually do enjoy thinking about my existence, and how it fits in with the big scheme of things. Do I have any answers? Of course not. I don’t believe in definite answers, at least where existence and the meaning of life are concerned. First off I would like to say that, in the big scheme of things, we are nothing. We are next to nothing. We aren’t even dust in the wind. Think about it. Think about the immensity of the universe, of everything. Supposedly, in our galaxy, there are two hundred billion stars. Just in our galaxy. And speaking of our galaxy, scientists estimate it is about thirty kiloparsecs in diameter and about one kiloparsec thick. Now one parsec is about 3.262 light years , or 19 trillion miles. So that would make our galaxy approximately ninety-seven thousand, eight hundred and sixty light years across. Ok, now, supposedly there are one hundred and twenty-five billion galaxies in the universe. These numbers are, to me, almost completely unimaginable. These are expanses that I can scarcely even conceive. And here we are. On one little planet in one little, microscopic solar system . To believe that we are all along in the universe, as far as sentient life goes, seems kind of ridiculous when imagining the awesome size of existence. But unlike other believers in aliens and what not, I don’t really think it has any bearing on us whether there is life out there or not. If there were aliens and they had the ability to cross vast reaches of space, then they would most likely have technology far in advance of ours that it might as well be magic. So why would they be interested in the strange, primitive, and mostly harmless creatures that rule over one little tiny speck in a vast vast ocean? The answer is: they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t care. They wouldn’t even slow down to dump their alien trash, assuming they were traveling in a manner where speed is actually relative. So for all intents and purposes, we are alone. Left to our own devices. When we reach a technological level where we have achieved faster-than-light travel , well, then maybe the aliens will stop by, but only to vaporize humanity and leave the earth a lifeless rock
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Existential Nonsense
For some unexplainable reason, surfing keeps finding its way into my life lately. I dreamt of surfing the other night. The following day, I sat down on the couch after straightening up our kitchen and the show Parenthood was ending by showing one of the show’s fathers sitting on a surfboard and smiling contently as he looked out to sea.
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Dropping In On A Killer Surf Art Blog
Easytone shoes help tone your butt and legs with every step – available in Lifestyle Sports stores nationwide! Reebok Easytones are an ultra-comfortable shoe inspired by balance balls so you can take the gym with you wherever you go. The balance pods built into each shoe causes a natural instability, toning muscles an additional 28% more in your glutes, 11% more in your thighs, and 11% more in your calves with each step.
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Lifestyle Sports Reebok Easytone – Reetone Campaign Ad
Karl Jo Seilern and Anton Waldburg, managing partners of theblogpaper.co.uk , seem to be swimming against the currents in the ever turbulent waters that are the publishing industry. While most print publications are moving more and more content online in order to reach an increasingly tech-savvy, internet-based and mobile readership, Seilern and Waldburg are taking blog content offline in the blogpaper–the UK’s first completely user-generated, free newspaper
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The Blogpaper, Moving Blogs Into Print
I have a theory about how we ended up here on Mother-Ship Earth . After all, isn’t almost everything about our precarious futures just a tad too ominous, seemingly set into a pattern of continuous lucid movement?
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Would You Jump Onto A Moving Planet?
We have a new Lightweight Champion! Frankie Edgar defeated BJ Penn with a unanimous decision victory over the former 155lb Champion. What
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Underdog Becomes New Champion Frankie Edgar Wins at UFC 112
Movement Lifestyle exhibition at World of Dance 2010 in Pomona. Movement Lifestyle is a full service choreography management company founded by Shaun Evaristo
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Movement Lifestyle [HD] | WOD 2010 (Pomona, CA)
As I sit here in a comfy chair at Starbucks, typing away on my laptop, I think it odd that my thoughts drift to visions of destruction and desolation. Odd because my imaginings entail the loss of pretty much everything I enjoy as I sit here: my iced mocha, the wireless internet I am using, my car outside, even the sense of safety and security that I feel. Odd also because, while I entertain notions of what it would be like, a part of me is sure that I really have no concept of what I contemplate. No frame of reference. I could assume that since I have played numerous games, seen numerous movies, and read numerous books centered on the theme of the post apocalypse that I do indeed have plenty of vicarious experience to draw upon. But how much do I really know about something if what I know is solely based on things fed to me through popular culture . Just because I have watched as many war movies as I possibly could, and read as much as I could about military engagements and what not, does not mean that I have any idea of what it truly means to be in a war. An idea, maybe, but nothing more. Something tells me that if I were really and truly there, I would not be quite so into it. And yet, this idea of the end times fascinates me. Why? What is it about the end of everything that is so alluring? Is it some kind of species awareness that makes us afraid that something may happen to wipe us from history completely? Or, is it because Hollywood just wanted to make another bad disaster movie? There are so many ways we have envisioned the demise of our species. The pole shift that will occur in 2012, that was supposedly foretold by the Mayans is a good example. It sounds really exciting. But when you really research the whole 2012 thing, you get all bogged down in Mesoamerican Long Counts, and previous worlds that have been destroyed, or were they destroyed, some say no, and after a while, you don’t even care anymore. Did you know that the Aztecs believed that there were four “Suns,” or worlds previous to this one, all of which were ultimately destroyed? Then again, the Aztecs themselves were, for the most part, destroyed by European invaders, so maybe they were on to something after all. Let’s not forget the vikings. According to Norse mythology there were a series of events, called Ragnarok , that signaled the end of the world. A great battle between the gods, followed by a bunch of natural disasters , and eventually the submersion of the world under water. Then again, of course a sea-faring people would predict that eventually the oceans would cover there lands. It just makes sense. Even Christianity has its own doomsday predictions. The rise of the Anti-Christ, followed by the return of Jesus Christ , and ultimately, Judgment Day. Or something along those lines. I’m not quite sure about the particulars, but if you are really interested you could read the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye . I think there was even a movie starring Kirk Cameron.
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Reflections On The End Times
Semen is a subject that everyone can relate to or at some point has thought about it. This post is all about semen and the source is a wonderful website called onlineschools.org. Perhaps an alternative name for this terrific site could be, “Things they should have taught you in school but didn’t.” With the subtext being, ”learning in an interesting and exciting way.” What I learned about semen after visiting onlineshools.org: 1.
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A Semen Education
All these thoughts about a Zombie Apocalypse have got me thinking. Of course, the fact that the mini-series The Stand was on the other day might also have something to do with it. Plus I watched a teaser trailer for the up and coming Fallout game New Vegas. Ah, the end of the world. There’s nothing better to dedicate my thoughts to on a lazy day off than the end of the world. After writing my last blog, I have been thinking a lot about the apocalypse. Therefore, to fully purge my mind of all this nonsense I have decided to declare an unofficial Apocalypse week for my blogs. So, as the title implies, I am going to try and figure out the top ten things we would need to survive after the fall of man.
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Top 10 Things You Would Need To Survive The Post Apocalypse
Yes, that’s tongue in cheek headline. For those not ‘in the know’, Koot Hoomi was one of Blavatsky’s Masters . With his friend Morya he wrote a lot of letters that form some of the earliest theosophical literature.
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KH, Koot Hoomi and Katinka Hesselink
Two years ago the Hasbro Company released a pink version of the classic Ouija board, presumably to revitalize Ouija’s appeal and help it remain a slumber party mainstay.
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Beyond black and white – the new pink Ouija board
After high school and before college, I volunteered for an organization called Community Service Volunteers in London, England. For six months I lived with four developmentally delayed young men and assisted them with things like grocery shopping and preparing meals, and accompanied them on social outings. It was a period of immense personal growth on many fronts, and I will always remember those men and my time in England fondly
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The Theology of Service – an Interfaith Perspective
The chamber ensemble Citywater includes, clockwise from front left, Tim Stanley, Milun Doskovic, Ben Prima, Charles Spruill IV, Jennifer Reason and Cathie Apple.
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Musicians reach out to state workers
‘Concise masterpiece’ Re “Vigorous growth at Peaceful Valley” (Home & Garden, Jan. 16): My husband, Eric, and I were so amazed at how The Bee’s Debbie Arrington could take four hours of nonstop communication with us and our staff and turn it into such a concise and enjoyable masterpiece
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Letters: ‘Concise masterpiece’