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How to Have the Perfect Lawn: A Guide to Achieving a Lush and Healthy Yard
Having a perfect lawn is the dream of many homeowners. A lush and healthy yard not only enhances the aesthetic appeal of your property but also provides a pleasant outdoor space for relaxation and recreation. Achieving the perfect lawn requires proper care, maintenance, and some basic knowledge of lawn care techniques. In this guide, we will explore some essential steps to help you create and maintain the lawn of your dreams.
Step 1: Soil Preparation
Having fertile soil is a crucial foundation for a perfect lawn. Start by testing the pH level of your soil using a DIY soil test kit or by consulting a professional. If the pH is too high or too low, it can negatively affect the growth of grass. Adjusting the pH level using lime or sulfur can help create a more suitable environment for your grass to thrive. Aerating your lawn by removing small plugs of soil also encourages healthy root development and improves soil drainage.
Step 2: Grass Selection
Choosing the right type of grass for your lawn is essential. Different grass species thrive in different climates and environmental conditions. Research the grass varieties that are well-suited to your region’s climate and consider factors such as shade tolerance, foot traffic, and water requirements. Some popular grass types include Bermuda grass, Zoysia grass, Kentucky bluegrass, and Fescue. Selecting the right grass for your lawn will greatly contribute to its overall health and appearance.
Step 3: Seeding or Sodding
Once you have selected the appropriate grass variety, you have two options for establishing it in your lawn: seeding or sodding. Seeding is a more cost-effective method but requires careful preparation and regular watering until the grass reaches maturity. Sodding, on the other hand, provides an instant lawn but can be more expensive. Whichever method you choose, make sure to follow the recommended guidelines for proper installation and maintenance.
Step 4: Watering
Proper watering is key to maintaining a healthy and vibrant lawn. Water your lawn deeply and infrequently, preferably in the early morning or late afternoon, to minimize evaporation. Overwatering can result in shallow root growth and make your lawn vulnerable to diseases, while underwatering can cause stress and brown patches. Aim to provide about 1 inch of water per week, either through rainfall or irrigation.
Step 5: Mowing
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Step 6: Fertilizing
Applying fertilizer provides your lawn with the essential nutrients it needs for optimal growth. Use a slow-release or controlled-release fertilizer to ensure a steady supply of nutrients over a more extended period. Follow the recommended application rates and timings for your specific grass type. Too much fertilizer can burn the grass, while insufficient amounts can result in nutrient deficiencies. Applying fertilizer in spring and fall is generally beneficial for most lawns.
Step 7: Weed Control
Weeds can quickly invade and ruin the appearance of your lawn. Implementing an effective weed control strategy is crucial for maintaining a perfect lawn. Regularly inspect your lawn for weeds and remove them manually or use herbicides specifically formulated for your grass type. Pre-emergent herbicides can help prevent weed seeds from germinating, while post-emergent herbicides target actively growing weeds. Be cautious when using herbicides and follow the instructions carefully to minimize potential harm to your grass.
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Is tooth cavity a dental emergency?
Tooth decay can be considered as dental emergency situation especially when it causes pain, discomfort or compromises your aesthetic outlook.
At some point in your life you have probably experienced some degree of dental pain. It can range from temporary, minor pain to prolonged, excruciating pain. Generally mild sensitivity or discomfort could signify a cavity, but is not the sign of a serious dental emergency. Prolonged pain due to a cavity is simply a sign that you should visit your dentist, sooner rather than later. Because while a small cavity is not a dental emergency, it can progress to something worse if you do not seek treatment.
What are tooth cavities?
These are permanently damaged areas of the enamel. Also called tooth decay or dental carries, what starts off as just a weak spot on the hard surface can progress become a tiny opening that reaches all the way to the pulpy center of the tooth.
What causes dental cavities?
Cavities come from a combination of factors. There are millions of bacteria in your mouth. Some of the bacteria break down the sugar and starches from the food you eat and produce an acid byproduct. The acid gets trapped in plaque where it goes to work on the enamel of your teeth. This is why cavities often come from frequent snacking, sipping on sugary or acidic drinks, and not taking care of your teeth.
Signs and symptoms of tooth decay
Depending on the extent and location, the signs and symptoms of cavities can vary. As decay gets worse you may notice:
• Tooth sensitivity
• Spontaneous pain or toothache for no apparent reason
• Mild to sharp pain when eating and drinking
• Pain when you bite down
• Sensitivity when drinking something hot, cold, or sweet
• White, brown, or black staining on the surface of teeth
• Visible pits or holes in your teeth
How can I prevent teeth cavities?
Typically you should make an appointment with your dentist twice a year for exams and preventative treatment. Some patients who are disposed to dental decay may need more frequent visits every three or four months. You should also brush and floss your teeth twice a day. Ninety percent of dental diseases are preventable, and routine visits paired with regular oral hygiene practices will keep you ahead of dental decay and infection. But if you put off your dental visits you could suffer from periodontal disease, cavities, or much worse.
What happens if I have a tooth cavity and don't get treatment?
If you do not treat cavities the holes in the enamel can get larger and deeper. Not only could this result in a severe toothache, but can lead to infection of the dental pulp, an abscess tooth, or tooth loss. These situations are considered dental emergencies. If the pain is severe, you experience significant swelling, you have a fever, or pus or fluid drains from around the painful area, then you should seek emergency treatment as soon as possible. An emergency dentist will not only provide treatment for the pain, but will offer you options to correct the underlying issue, whether it be a filling, root canal therapy, or dental extraction.
How can I remedy dental pain until I see the dentist?
Pain is the leading reason why patients seek help from an emergency dentist. To remedy pain until you can get to the dental office you can use a cold compress, pain relieving gels, or over-the-counter pain medicine. Just be sure and tell the dentist what painkillers you have used prior to your appointment. And even if the pain goes away, you should still visit the dentist right away for treatment.
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NBA nets big Finals TV audience in San Antonio
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San Antonio’s love-hate relationship with Dallas may have helped spike television ratings for Game 1 of the 2011 NBA Finals.
The game, won by the Heat, generated a 9.0 television rating on ESPN’s sister network, ABC. It attracted nearly 15.2 million viewers.
The Alamo City had the highest TV rating for Game 1 outside of North Texas and South Florida.
“San Antonio ranked fourth among the metered markets with a 15.9 DMA (designated market area) rating,” says ESPN spokesman Nate Smeltz.
Miami topped all markets with a 31.9 rating.
According to ESPN’s Smeltz, Dallas ranked second with a 29.9 rating.
West Palm Beach, Fla., ranked third with a 17.1 rating, followed by San Antonio.
There are a couple of reasons that might explain the high TV rating in the Alamo City.
One camp has likely tuned in to watch Dallas lose.
These are folks who enjoy the fact that the Spurs have won four championships and the Mavericks have won none.
Then there is the Mark Cuban factor.
San Antonio has not forgotten the cheap verbal shots the Mavericks’ owner has taken at this city over the years.
They wouldn’t mind at all if Miami swept Dallas.
Finally, there are some fans in this city who are hoping that Dallas will win the series just because Big D is part of Texas and they support all things Texan.
There were readers who responded to one of my previous posts about these NBA playoffs who stated in no uncertain terms that if someone in San Antonio rooted against the Mavericks after the Spurs were eliminated that they could not possibly be native Texans.
This native Texan begs to differ.
In fact, there are some who question whether Dallas is, in fact, really part of Texas.
Dallas is down 0-1 in the series.
Game 2 is Thursday night.
If Dallas keeps losing and San Antonio continues to score high TV rating, the motivation in this market might become more clear.
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Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 60 (No. 3), pp. 519-530, 2004
Akihiko Tanaka1*, Motoaki Kishino2, Roland Doerffer3, Helmut Schiller3, Tomohiko Oishi4 and Tadashi Kubota4
1Nagasaki Industrial Promotion Foundation, Bunkyo Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
25-2-10-115 Nishibori, Saitama 338-0832, Japan
3Institute of Hydrophysics, GKSS Research Centre, Max-Planck Strasse 1, Geesthacht, D-21502, Germany
4School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, Orido Shimizu, Shizuoka 424-8610, Japan
(Received 1 April 2002; in revised form 9 June 2003; accepted 9 June 2003)
Abstract: An algorithm is presented to retrieve the concentrations of chlorophyll a, suspended pariclulate matter and yellow substance from normalized water-leaving radiances of the Ocean Color and Temperature Sensor (OCTS) of the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS). It is based on a neural network (NN) algorithm, which is used for the rapid inversion of a radiative transfer procedure with the goal of retrieving not only the concentrations of chlorophyll a but also the two other components that determine the water-leaving radiance spectrum. The NN algorithm was tested using the NASA's SeaBAM (SeaWiFS Bio-Optical Mini-Workshop) test data set and applied to ADEOS/OCTS data of the Northwest Pacific in the region off Sanriku, Japan. The root-mean-square error between chlorophyll a concentrations derived from the SeaBAM reflectance data and the chlorophyll a measurements is 0.62. The retrieved chlorophyll a concentrations of the OCTS data were compared with the corresponding distribution obtained by the standard OCTS algorithm. The concentrations and distribution patterns from both algorithms match for open ocean areas. Since there are no standard OCTS products available for yellow substance and suspended matter and no in situ measurements available for validation, the result of the retrieval by the NN for these two variables could only be assessed by a general knowledge of their concentrations and distribution patterns.

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John Scofield guitar transcriptions | Altered lines | "Wee" Bridge
Wee - Rhythm changes
Wee (a.k.a Allen's Alley) is a fast bebop tune composed by Denzil Dacosta Best, an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer. This is a "rhythm changes" chord progression in the key of Bb, 32 bars AABA form.
Basic rhythm changes form :
| Bbmaj7 G7 | Cm7 F7 | Bbmaj7 G7 | Cm7 F7 |
| Fm7 Bb7 | Ebmaj7 Ebm7 | Dm7 G7 | Cm7 F7 |
| I VI | II V | I VI | II V |
| II V | I IV | III VI | II V |
II-V-I in Eb major on bars five and sixth.
The bridge is based on a dominant cycle progression (cycle of fourth) that gives a III-VI-II-V chord progression :
D7 | % | G7 | % | C7 | % | F7 | % |
Wee ryhthm changes progression :
If we refer to the real book :
| Bb6 Gm7 | Cm7 F7 | Dm7 G7 | Cm7 F7 |
| Bb6 Bb7 | Eb6 E°7 | F F7 | Bb6 |
D7 | % | G7 | % | C7 | % | F7 | % |
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Nearly everyone of a certain age can muster memories of "The Ed Sullivan Show" on one Sunday evening in February 1964. The Beatles had arrived in New York City for this live broadcast and rendered the crowds of screaming teenage girls waiting for them at the airport senseless with adoration. Then 73 million more people joined the madness from our living rooms, twisting our televisions' rabbit ears in unison to bring the Beatles into our homes. We had no social media to alert us to something momentous trending on Ed Sullivan's show. But we sensed a cultural shift.
What could this have do with goings-on down in the Bluegrass horse country of Kentucky and the beginnings of a global shift in the horse industry? At the time no one could have made the connection except for Pete Best, and he was not immediately heard from: In late 1962, the Beatles had fired Mr. Best as their drummer, replacing him with Ringo Starr. Few, if any, Americans knew about the importance of Pete Best—and none could have guessed the role a horse played in the whole tale.
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Peel and finely chop the red onion and garlic cloves. Remove the seeds of the peppers for a milder version and finely chop the peppers. Season the chicken legs with pepper and salt.
Heat a dash of oil in a large skillet and cook the chicken legs a few minutes on each side. transfer the chicken legs to the slow cooker and sauté the red onion, garlic and pepper for a few minutes in the same skillet.
Add them to the slow cooker and pour a layer of chicken stock to the large skillet to collect all the flavours from the pan and transfer to the slow cooker.
Add a cinnamon stick, ketjap and nutmeg to the slow cooker and set to the lowest setting for about 4 hours. The chicken legs will be so tender they'll literally fall off the bone.
Remove the cinnamon stick and serve the chicken legs and sauce with rice and green beans. Enjoy!

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The Andes are Santiago’s backyard, and Cerro Pochoco is one of the most accessible routes to explore them. This short (but steep) walk brings trekkers a spectacular 1100m (3600ft) above central Santiago, and the barren landscape offers spectacular views at every point.
This post will give a quick picture of the geography around Santiago, then an account of the trek. Directions to the trailhead, by car and by public transport, are at the bottom.
Mountains around Santiago
Santiago is a flat, 40km wide valley hemmed in on both sides by mountains. Last week, we visited the Cordillera de la Costa which separates Santiago from the sea. This week we go east into the Cordillera Principal, which is the edge of the Andes. All of these Cordilleras (kȯr-di-yeh-ruhs) refer to large scale mountain chains stretching hundreds or thousands of kilometers along the edge of the continent. The figure below shows a cross-section of the Andes (red line), highlighting the two Cordilleras and the Central Valley around Santiago.
The Cordillera Principal is growing. At the edge of South America, two continental plates are colliding. The seam is a deep ocean trench 100km off the coast of Chile. There, the oceanic Nazca Plate is being subducted under the South American Plate. The force of the collision is buckling and thickening the South American plate to form the Andes.
The resulting uplift is large in geological terms: 0.3mm/year. In human terms, that’s an imperceptibly tiny number. That’s one skyscraper’s worth of height every million years. The construction of the Empire State Building was thirty thousand times that fast, and the Burj Dubai was fifteen times faster still. That’s something to remember next time your local contractors seem slow.
The Andes, however, are 100km wide and an unbelievable 7000km long. To lift an area that large, even by a fraction of a millimeter, means moving an enormous amount of mass. To use the skyscraper example, the Andes move the weight of about a million Burj Dubai’s per year (some of this is invisible under the surface). That’s something to remember next time a human city seems large.
Into the hills
I set out for Cerro Pochoco after a leisurely Saturday lunch. I took the Santiago metro, then the bus, and then walked for half an hour through the outskirts of the city between gardens full of aloe and flowering succulents.
Finally, I reached a dead-end gate at a small astronomical observatory. A dusty, unmarked path curved along the wall and up towards the hills. I started up. The climb is steep, and I’m out of shape after living in Santiago’s smog. I was overheating in my T-shirt before I even set foot on the trail. Two birds of prey circled overhead and I wondered if they were waiting for me.
The rocks underfoot were a pleasant mix of volcanic flows, in different colors and textures, and volcanoclastics. Those are volcanic flows which picked up broken fragments of other rocks as they were deposited.
The rocks here are some 25 million years old, which means they were laid down as the Andes were rising. Yet the forces which lifted them a kilometer into air have left surprisingly few marks. The bedding planes are all straight, with little visible fracturing or folding. The only evidence of the compression the region is experiencing are large, gentle folds on neighboring mountains. The picture below shows a 300m section of Cerro Provincia. Bedding planes are clearly steeply inclined on the mountain flank, but near-horizontal on the top, indicating that the mountain is formed by a large open fold.
Rocks bend under pressure, like cloth or card. The greater the compressing pressure, the tighter the resulting fold. If the rock is strong (like card under gentle pressure), it will fold once with a consistent curve. This is what we see above. If the rock is weak (like paper), then under gentle pressure it may form many smaller folds. Rocks fold more easily when they are hot or buried deep underground. Since these rocks didn’t fold easily, we can assume that they were not deeply buried. This fits with their history. 25 million years ago, lava poured out onto the surface of Chile, one layer after another. As the Andes rose, they folded slightly under pressure. But that’s it. They weren’t buried or twisted along the way.
While thinking this through, I scrambled up to the summit of Cerro Pochoco (top photo). The hike up til now had been pretty. Here, it became spectacular. The glacier-bitten edge of Cerro El Plomo and the interior Andes began to peek out in the distance. The ridge ahead was blissfully flat. I spent a few minutes drinking tea and taking in my last sight of Santiago, then set off. The Cordillera is charming in winter. I walked in my T-shirt down a dusty, desert-like path with cacti at my elbows and snowy mountains on either side.
My target was a low peak at the end of the ridge. I had set myself a strict turnaround time of 5:45 to make sure I made it down before dark. With lots of huffing and puffing and a little bit of last minute sprinting, I made my summit at 5:44.
The view was thrilling. Unlike the mountains I’d been walking on, which had straight slopes and rounded ridge tops, the Precordillera has been glaciated many times. Its slopes are curved and its ridges are knife-edged. I marveled, and meditated… and then spent a happy half hour trying to take the perfect summit selfie.
Do you think I got it? (Read on for directions to the trailhead) Reaching the trailhead By public transport: Take Metro Line 1 to Manquehue. You will exit onto Las Condes, a major road. Go to nearby bus stop Parada 4, and catch the C01 bus west. Ride the bus for twenty-four minutes (give or take traffic) to Plaza San Enrique. This stop is easily recognizable because it is the last stop on Las Condes. The bus heads straight west-northwest towards the mountains until the Plaza, then it turns sharply left. The trailhead is at the Pochoco Observatory, 3.2km from the plaza. Wikiexplora has a useful map with driving directions. From the plaza, follow Paster Fernandez to the west. You will cross a small bridge, then turn north and follow a deep gorge. Make a very sharp left onto Camino El Cajon. The next turn (~400m) is a steep stairway on your right, marked with a small brown sign. At the top of the stairs are two Catholic shrines. This is Camino El Alto. Turn left, and follow the road until it ends in the Observatory parking lot. The trail is just past the Observatory, and begins its climb along a barbed wire fence. The trail unmarked, but well worn. It ascends directly on a ridgeline and is easily followed.


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The Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Victoria is a telephone helpline that gives advice, information, counselling and referrals to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex GLBTI people in In the above case, the parent was being supportive to her gay son while the school officials were not. Excellent Good Average Fair Poor. Having a vasectomy does not affect a man? Doing this research not only made me realize the intense discrimination suffered by LGBT youths but also had an impact on me. As a result, they are deprived of the full education that their heterosexual, cisgender peers enjoy. For example, a lesbian student reported that several months of harassment and verbal threats grew to physical abuse.
Gay men, lesbians and health professionals Research suggests that gay men and lesbians have reduced access to medical care compared to heterosexuals. Gay and lesbian youths are 2 to 6 times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual youth. The impacts of bullying on youth can be severe, and legislatures across the US have recognized that bullying is a serious and widespread problem that merits intervention. I believe that parents should embrace their children no matter what their sexual preference is. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.

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text: My found poem is based off the words of Norma Fox Mazer in the story “Tuesday of the Other June”. The conflict in the found poem was the Other June (antagonist) bullying June (protagonist). When June joined a new swimming class, she found out that there was another girl with the same name as her (the Other June). The Other June was not happy at all about them sharing a name and started bullying June and gave her insulting nicknames. June did not like the Other June’s bullying, but her mum told her to not get into trouble. In June’s opinion, fighting back would cause her trouble so she took in the Other June’s bullying silently. I used short phrases where it showed the Other June physically bullying June, words such as punch and pinch are verbs that showed the physical aspect of the Other June’s bullying (“The other June shoved me into the pool.”). I also included a phrase about June’s internal struggles, Character vs self, (“I didn’t know what to do.”). This showed that the Other June was torturing June both mentally and physically which was a major external conflict between the two characters (character vs character) and an internal conflict showed June struggling to decide whether she should put up with the Other June’s bullying or fight back. Towards the end of the poem the conflict was resolved through the falling action. June’s mother decided that they were going to move to a new place where she found a better job and June finally escaped the Other June. The last two sentences showed June’s excitement about leaving the Other June, (I ran past her, singing, “Goodbye…goodbye…goodbye, good riddance to bad trash!”). The last sentence summed the whole poem up and, in the end, June escaped the Other June, both internal and external conflict was resolved. The background of the swimming pool indicated the setting and the two signs on top signified the Other June pushing June into the pool when she was not meant to and bullying June when she shouldn’t.

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Fall is honestly my favorite time of year. I love the cooler weather because it means I can wear cozy sweaters and sit by the fireplace wrapped up in warm blankets eating warm treats.
To complete the perfect night in, my friend and I made marshmallow topped brownies and hot chocolate from scratch.
First, I gathered my ingredients needed to make the brownies:
- Ghirardelli brownie mix (w/ ingredients from instructions)
- Jet-Puffed marshmallows
- mini M&Ms
Next, mix up your brownie mix in a medium size bowl with the specified ingredients, pour out the mix into a pan and bake the brownies for about 20-25 minutes.
Here are the plain baked brownies!
Right when the brownies come out of the oven, start placing the marshmallows in rows on top of them. This way, the marshmallows can begin to melt on top of the brownies.
Once you cover the whole brownie pan with marshmallows, place it back in the 350 degree oven for an extra 3-4 minutes until all the brownies get golden brown.
Finally, broil them for an extra minute so that the marshmallows brown like s’mores in a fire! Keep an eye on the marshmallows so that they don’t burn!
I took out the brownies when they were about this dark in color, but if you prefer them lighter or darker adjust the cook time accordingly.
Finally I added M&Ms on top to make the treat a little more colorful!
Yum. These were perfect “indoor s’mores”to indulge in by the fire.
In addition to the brownies, I also made some delicious hot chocolate, with the following ingredients:
- 2 cups 2% milk (or more depending on how many cups you want to make)
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
Start by measuring milk in the mug you will eventually drink from. Then pour the milk into a small or medium sauce pan. I was making hot chocolate for my friend and I, so I used two cups of milk.
Next, start to warm up the milk by turning on the gas to medium-low heat. Once it begins to simmer and small bubbles begin to form, pour about a 1/4 cup of semisweet chocolate chips
As the chocolate starts to melt, mix it into the milk, and you will see little specs of chocolate float on the top.
Then, finally add in the vanilla extract once the mixture gets browner.
Lastly, pour the hot chocolate through a tea strainer to drain out the leftover specs of chocolate.
To top off the hot chocolate, chop up the leftover marshmallows from the brownies and add them atop your hot drink!
Enjoy your hot chocolate right by the fireplace to warm your body and mind.
Further indulge your senses by lighting a beautifully smelling fall candle. My choice is the Marshmallow Fireside candle from Bath & Body Works. It smells just like the brownies I made, so it was the perfect pairing!
Ahh, just seeing this picture makes me feel so warm inside.


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I don’t have a lot of time to get this written up tonight so this is a speed post, half an hour flat out. I wasn’t going to bake this weekend but I found myself drawn into cake making, maybe by Mitchdafish’s delectable version of this cake here. I scoured the garage for tinned peaches and came up with September’s home bottled pears and a tin of cherries. I checked with the others on Twitter what the drained weight of the peaches in the recipe should be, a great advantage of baking with other people even at the distance of the internet is that you can ask away and someone will say something helpful. Thinking about it afterwards, you just use what you have as the fruit goes on the top of the cake and doesn’t make a difference to the texture of the cake itself, providing you drain it, I am sure fifty grams more or less of fruit topping wouldn’t matter much.
I managed to locate the saffron that my friend Tom had brought me from Barcelona and activated it in boiling water. The saffron that I grew one year has long since been used. It has given the crumb of the cake a lovely pale yellow colour and I can’t detect any particular taste. Either the saffron is too old or I lack the saffron gene. I have noticed that before when I have used it, I don’t really know what saffron is supposed to taste like, if that makes any sense.
I added a couple of drops of a new bottle of almond essence from Bakery Bits. Some people like it, including Brian who voted to add it to this one when I waved it under his nose. I am never that sure, it still reminds me of synthetic tasting cakes from my childhood, some people like that reminder maybe? I found a big 1kg bag of ground almonds in Licata’s, much fresher than the stuff that comes in the little bags from the supermarket and probably better value too. Whole almonds are always better bought in bulk if you are going to be using a lot of them.
The cake itself was easy enough to mix, though I still managed to curdle the eggs. I should have warmed them up in a bowl of warm water first. ( I know the theory, but oh I am so lazy) It doesn’t have that many ingredients or bowls and I hope I baked it right, I have cut it while still warm and had a corner so I can tell you that it tastes of almonds and has a nice slightly dense texture, (maybe due to cutting it while warm, underbaking, curdled eggs, or maybe that’s how it is?) a bit like a lightweight Bakewell tart, which is kind of what you would expect. If you imagine it with peaches on top, golden fruit and golden crumb and a swirl of thick cream. I do apologise for the photos as the cake would glow more fetchingly if I waited till the morning and sunshine to snap it, but time marches on and I have to make risotto.
We are having it for pudding to follow a little mushroom risotto and steamed purple broccoli. There may be custard ! Edit: In fact, we had the cake with some of the pears from the bottle, chilled and swoony delicious in their amaretto syrup with a little soya cream. Small grunts of delight emanated from Piglet at the other end of the table…..
Forgot to say this recipe is in Short & Sweet by Dan Lepard. The original version of the recipe appeared in The Guardian called ‘Saffron Peach Cake’ and if you don’t have the book you can search online for it.
Hope you all had a lovely weekend! What have you been baking?
It looks good and moist, I really do prefer moist cakes. Though I am on the truncated celi diet for a bit, I had a terrible time trying to fit my going-out jeans on last night. So no cake for me for a while, or bread!! or potatoes (do you detect the whine in my voice?).. c
It’s a lovely moist little number and I have cut it into teeny weeny fingers, as if that makes its calorific load any better :) It may go out with me to my class tomorrow and get distributed if I can sneak it out of the door :)
just as well fat cells are not affected by visual stimulation joanna because i had a lingering longing look at your cake..:)
i love the bitter flavour of almond essence..i put a few blanched apricot kernels into some jam i made over the weekend to add that extra bitter scent note and help balance out the sweetness of the jam..
i made barm bread from dan’s bible yesterday too..it was a bit of a marathon because i didn’t finish baking til 10 pm but my was it worth it! crunchy, light, tasty..and, yes, i was eating a slice of warm bread with melted butter and apricot jam at 10 pm last night..:)
I have some kernels in the garage that I bought in a Chinese supermarket and every so often I think I should do something with them. Good idea, I could have ground a few up for this cake. So pleased to hear the barm bread was a success, I love that one, haven’t made it in a while but it is just as you describe it. Fortunately I am too full to even think of eating anything again until tomorrow :)
I think it looks beautiful, particularly the last photo which is quite an art shot, with its swirly deco style topping! :) And it’s always good when you can use up some old bottlings found in the garage! xxx
I think that is the effect of the icing sugar, cake not quite cool so it sort of melted on the pear bits. I have had my eye on those pears lately, trying to figure out the best way to use them, as we did quite big bottles and you don’t want to keep them that long once the bottle has been prised open. They should be good for a few months more, I have two or three left so I might well be making this cake again :)
It looks gorgeous, and I love the look of that crumb in the last shot – really, really delicious. It sounds like a great recipe to adapt to what you have available. Love the help you can get from Twitter too – so interactive :-) Your dinner sounds lovely, and this looks like it would be perfect with custard.
I’ve been baking soda bread (again!), chocolate cake and a banana cake…. all yet to be cut into.
Has anyone figured out a good sub for ground almonds yet? There must be something that can be used to give that nice nubbly texture. Because they aren’t big on flavour in a cake. What about polenta? Have you tried making those lemon polenta cakes? I had a piece the other night when we went out for a meal and the texture was something similar to this, a bit coarser and denser but very good.
Sounds like you’ve had a big baking day today, two cakes ! Excellent :D
What a great looking cake. I love anything with pears.
Me too, pears and almonds, pears and chocolates, pears in madeira, pears in red wine…. :)
Ach, looks delightful.
Oddly enough, knowing this was going to neighbours, I didn’t use saffron. Mostly because I find saffron very bitter and find it difficult to accept that other people don’t – so wasn’t too sure that I could adapt/adjust this batter if there were any problems. I used almond extract to make up for the lack of the hint of taste from the saffron and because I had no idea of how the tinned peaches would emerge from the baking.
I’ll have to check when I do the compilation but I think our crumb was roughly comparable.
It’s a store cupboard cake that would also be good as a pudding, or, as you suggest, for a good afternoon tea (or even morning coffee break).
It was better once it had cooled right down and set. It was very soft on coming out and I put it back for five minutes but then let it cool in the tin almost and it seems OK. It’s funny how you turn to the book for that ritual reassurance of ‘put the skewer in and… it comes out clean, or has a few crumbs adhering or whatever’ and when it isn’t there I feel bereft, like a safety blanket has been taken away from me.
I do hope your neighbours liked it. As I said I don’t think I can taste saffron. But I wonder if this simply isn’t fresh enough, another of those mysteries :)
Beautiful Joanna! That last picture is divine.
Thanks Kari – if the sun is out tomorrow morning I’ll see if I can get a sunshine shot, it makes such a difference. I have low energy lights everywhere and they tend to cast a bluish tint over the photos, I can lighten and warm them up a bit in the photo programme. Natural daylight is still my favourite. I get these long shadows at this time of year, the sun is so low in the sky.
Joanna, I am so glad I saw your little sidebar about the Ronald Searle drawings of Mrs Mole in the Guardian. They are utterly charming. Needless to say when i was at boarding school we were all great fans of St Trinian’s!
They touched my heart those little private drawings. Such love and so wonderfully expressed. i”m so glad you found your way to them Ann ;)
Joanna I’m not sure I have the saffron gene either. It just sort of bypasses me. I just googled the recipe, looks like a lovely one that I could easily make… and maybe, just maybe switch the almond essence for a little amaretto? :-) And your pears in amaretto syrup?… swoonable surely.
As the recipe originally calls for peaches you can safely add or subtract any of the spices or flavourings to suit your palate.I think the recipe was written with the idea of adding flavour to relatively bland baked peaches. As Evidence Matters says, it’s very much a store cupboard cake, making the most of what you have.
Another person to whom saffron is a mystery flavour :)
That cake looks perfect!
I don’t have any pears canned, but I do know where I can get some!
I haven’t baked anything much this week.
But I plan on baking some goodies starting tomorrow!
After I get the pears!
it’s dead easy Heidi and if you have peaches that would be excellent too :)
Your slice of cake looks wonderfully delicious. I don’t know that I would have gotten to making the cake. I’d have eaten all the pears from the jar before I got started. I love, love pears especially home canned ones. I’ve never bought saffron before, just not impressed w/ its smell enough to shell out that kind of money.
It is expensive, isn’t it more expensive than gold? I watched a series of programmes about spices last year and the process of producing it is very labour intensive. I rarely use it, but I was given this lot by a friend. I have grown saffron croci though. Violet flowers with long blood red stamens which you have one day to pick and dry for saffron. They came up two years in a row, but I think they have been eaten by mice now. Iti is entirely optional in this cake :)
Polenta. Stands in for almonds very well. And I use di Saronno a lot, is that amaretto liqueur? And as for saffron, well I must share that gene with you among others, can’t taste it at all. Am now eyeing up the jar of pears in the cupboard from your Christmas care package with evil intent. Currently rationing your lime marmelade which is not only beautiful, thin threads suspended in jelly the colour of your nephew’s eyes, but utterly delicious. Will have to hide it from marmalade monster Swithun.
I think the pears you have aren’t in amaretto, we only did the one jar like that and then we did the rest in plain syrup, But I recommend tipping a slosh of di Saronno over them or in the cake, good combination, as you say. So pleased you like the marmalade, I think it might just be the best I’ve ever made (for my taste anyway) xx
Do you have a polenta cake recipe so I can compare to this one ? I am quite interested to try it out and see how it goes ….
Holy smokes – that looks downright melt in your mouth, moist and scrumptious!
It’s also very filling, and despite my intentions of giving most of it away, I wasn’t fast enough as Brian has consumed most of it :)
I’d love a hot of piece of cake with some tea. Looks beautiful. I bet it tastes as good. Nice one :D
Thanks ! It is a tasty cake :)
It looks delicious Jo and the sound of your pears in amaretto is nearly making me swoon. Saffron has quite a delicate taste (try Cornish saffron cake to get the flavour) so could easily have been swamped by the almond extract. I think I’m going to have to make this cake now – this is the 2nd one I’ve seen and I want a slice of both.
Thanks Choclette, I do like the di Saronno or amaretto as I call it here, prefer it to almond extract by far.
I am sure if there was any flavour left in my elderly saffron it would have been swamped by the almond extract, though I literally only waved the bottle at it, one or two drops at the most. But in all seriousness I have used saffron as the only flavouring in other dishes, with rice, I think I made some saffron bun of Dan’s at one point too and have never noticed a distinctive taste or smell. But this is a great base recipe and easily adaptable to all sorts of fruits and toppings :)
Lovely looking cake – all the more special for having home bottled pears in it!
Saffron has quite a strong taste (to me). Perhaps you are not using enough or the stuff you are using is stale/questionable quality. I did notice that you used boiling water on the saffron – I have always been told that barely warm milk is the best for this. The saffron almost dissolves into the milk and it is easier to distribute the flavours through the dish. Most of it is probably in the aroma (like most ‘tastes’). After it has soaked in the warm milk check to see if the colour has leached through the milk and if you can get a good strong smell of saffron before you add it to the dish. Don’t give up on it, it is such a wonderful spice!
Hiya! Thanks for that advice, I was following the recipe re the saffron in boiling water and I suspect mine was pretty old. I will try to hunt down some fresher stuff and see if I can ‘pick up’ the unique qualities of saffron.
I think you are absolutely right that most of whatever it is must be in the aroma. I have never heard it described in terms of the tastes, sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami.
I don’t think my palate is that good. I am getting older, an ex smoker (twenty years ago this year) had a serious bump on the head in a nasty car accident when I fractured my pelvis (again in my early thirties). . Head injuries alter one’s palate too, medicines, viruses, all sorts. Our senses are fragile and far from immutable. So it could be something to do with that, or genetic. :)
If you have the saffron gene it should have a pungent aroma and an earthy bittersweet taste.

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Reading the latest news, it seems as if the actions taken by Apple in its earlier attempts at price fixing have always been obvious. It may come as a shock to some that this has not always been the case.
The events that played out at the beginning of the post-Kindle e-book era have been tumultuous at best and downright ugly at their worst. There was a clear and concerted effort on the part of our country’s largest publishers and one of its largest tech companies to underhandedly force artificially high price points on customers.
In the past, the story may very well have ended there, with potential customers powerlessly taking the price increases. It did not, however, play out the way that the large publishing houses and Steve Jobs envisioned. Instead, what occurred is that a divided customer base, with disparaging interests, united in an open revolt of these corporate tactics. Their complaints resonated with such force that one of the largest retailers in the world–Amazon–single-handedly picked up its cross and ran with it as far as a publicly traded company could possibly carry it.
This movement proved to be controversial to some people at the time. Cynics quickly weighed in on the boycott’s characteristic tactics of calling out books that should not be purchased and of also giving price-based one-star reviews. They labeled these methods as destructive to not only freedom of speech, but to also the concept of a free market. They stated that these actions inherently interfered with the relationship between publishers and customers. The reactions that these criticisms garnered were equally harsh, with many boycotters actively pushing accusations that critics were in some instances members of an insidious publishing astroturf campaign.
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The guys pulled in just at daylight after another successful fishing trip (despite mother natures attempt at sabotage) – bluefin and yellowtail will be the main course for the passengers going home today for quite some time. A big thanks to John Grindley from Catchy Tackle for sponsoring and look forward to next year!
Congrats to the jackpot winners below (picture will be posted later – pic on boat camera, oops)
1st place: Donny Askar 72.5lb Bluefin 2nd: Gary Sullivan 60.0lb Bluefin 3rd: Gary Sullivan 42.0lb Yellowtail Honorable Mention: Ron Adamson 38lb Yellowtail
Pictured below are a couple of shots from during the trip – regulars Tony&Karen, the gang with a sample of the day and Mas. Thanks everyone on the trip and look forward to seeing you next time!
The boat departed with the Danny Kadota group – check back for reports


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Nothing annoys servers, embarrasses dining companions, and evokes side-eyed judgments from neighboring tables quite like the perfect food pic does. But if I didn’t snap a photo, did I even eat the meal? Naturally my first blog post on Japan is about food. I’m fortunate to have been surrounded by Japanese food growing up and have leaned on my family and friends who speak Japanese fluently to order for me, but if neither of those apply to you, going out to eat can be intimidating.
If you’re traveling to Japan for the first time, these are my go-to orders:
I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
This was my favorite dish to date, Shio Asari Soba from a noodle shop in Ichinomiya, the town the Tokyo 2020 Olympic surfing games will take place. The clams, the broth, the leeks… Still dreaming about this one.
When I was surfing that morning, there were fisherman wading in the shallow waters scooping up clams the waves swept in. Unreal.
Zaru Soba are cold soba noodles and perfect on a hot day with tempura (battered and deep fried shrimp, fish, or vegetables). The noodles and tempura each have a dipping sauce for their respective items.
Shoyu ramen (soy sauce flavor) is my preferred style but there’s also Miso (fermented bean paste flavor), Shio (salt flavor), and Tonkatsu (pork broth base). I eat ramen so often I’ve stopped taking photos of it.
Tonkatsu & Chicken Katsu
Deep-fried, breaded pork or chicken cutlets. I like katsu with Japanese curry (katsukare) or just simply with katsu sauce and rice, pictured below. Karaage, Japanese fried chicken is also a must.
You’ll generally find noodles, cabbage, seafood, and vegetables in these fried pancakes. There are many variations, especially depending on the local traditions of the town you’re in. Most okonomiyaki restaurants have a large grill you sit around so you can watch the magic happen.
At a nice place? Order the course meal. Everything comes out beautifully plated and you’ll try traditional dishes you wouldn’t know to order. I wasn’t sure what I was eating half the time, but it looked pretty and tasted delicious. Live a little.
Thankful to have been with my mom who’s motto is to eat dessert before dinner. Can’t go wrong with soft serve ice cream, cheesecake, or anything matcha.
If you’re in Ginza, Tokyo, go to the Salon de Cafe in the Shiseido building for a coffee & dessert break from shopping. You won’t regret it.
- Be mindful of cultural practices. Japanese funerals involve leaving food out for the deceased with chopsticks sticking straight into the food. Don’t stick your chopsticks in and don’t pass food chopstick to chopstick if you’re trying to share bites with your friend.
- How to use automated machines at a ramen shop. The automated machines process your order and receive payment, taking out the middle man of a server. I’ve found that some ramen shops have English options, but sometimes I’ve just pressed random buttons and waited to see what’s brought to me. I’ve never met a bowl of ramen I didn’t like. Once processed, the machine prints out tickets you’ll hand to the attendant/food runner. If you’re pressing buttons and nothing happens, some machines require you put in the money first.
- Wear socks or bring socks in your purse to the restaurant. Weren’t expecting that one, huh? If you’re at a Izakaya (Japanese style pub), they may have you take your shoes off as there are seating arrangements on tatami bamboo mats.
- Say thank you! When you’ve finished your meal, saying “gochisosama deshita” to the server and/or person who paid for the meal is the equivalent of “thank you for the meal” or “that was delicious.” Say it while bowing for the full effect.
- If all else fails. A lot of Japanese family restaurants have plastic food depictions in their display window and menus with photos. I may or may not have asked a server to follow me outside so I could point to my choice behind the glass. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.
Remember, pics or it didn’t happen. Happy


An exhibition of photographs organized by ČTK at the Prague Old Town Hall will remind viewers of Václav Havel from the time when he was the Czechoslovak, and subsequently Czech, President. From June 15th through July 6, 2012, photographs by photographers of the Czech Press Agency (ČTK) depicting Havel not only performing his presidential office, but also in personal situations, will be on display. Some photographs have not yet been published and general public will be able to see them for the very first time. The exhibition captures the period from 1988 til 2011, including the periods shortly before and after Havel held office. However, the main objective of the exhibition is not to illustrate historical events, but to honor and express heartfelt emotion for the famous Czech president, after whose death one half-year will have elapsed on June 18, 2012. Visitors to the Old Town City Hall can look forward to about one hundred large format photographs in the President (subtitled Václav Havel) exhibition.
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Federal study on Dakota Access pipeline to move forward
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If you seek attention, paint attention-seekers. That’s what artist Nic Rad has done with PeopleMatter, 99 portraits of bloggers and media personalities. Visitors to the collection, which debuts April 3 at Rare Gallery in New York, should be able to identify the likes of video blogger Gary Vaynerchuk, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and gossip gadfly Perez Hilton.
But Rad is doing more than just promoting the self-promoters. He chose subjects whose ideas have been passed to him for free, and toward the end of the monthlong show he plans to give all the works away. “I’m trying to capture a moment,” Rad says. “‘Free’ is a feature of this moment as much as a nose might be. My aim is to paint a portrait of that.” Our advice: Be sure to charge money for something else — that’s part of the business model.
Tom Shannon’s paintings bustle with life — neon polymers suggest rampant vines, moist lips, and teeming coral reefs. But the multimedia artist generates these complex forms with a simple machine, a pendulum of his own design that swings over the canvas, releasing pigment from six radio-controlled paint guns. “The process is full of surprises,” the 62-year-old artist says. “The pendulum lets me step outside to observe nature as it produces layer after layer of detail.”
Shannon made his MoMA debut in 1969, at age 22, with a robot-philodendron cyborg that writhed when you stroked its leaves. In more recent years, he has wowed audiences with magnet-and-metal sculptures that hover in the air. As inspirations for his new work, which critic Raymond Foye described as making “the invisible forces of gravity and mass palpable and visible,” Shannon cites physicist (and pendulum builder) Léon Foucault, Dadaist Max Ernst, Renaissance master Fra Angelico, and the “indelible reference point of LSD.” A six-week show of the paintings opens April 15 at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art gallery in midtown Manhattan.


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Soundcheck: The 12 Best Music Releases Of The Week
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Every weekend, we’re bringing you #SOUNDCHECK—your new destination for the best of the best new music that hit the web over the course of the week. Because you should always be prepared when someone passes you that aux cord. This week’s round features 12 of our favorite emerging and established artists including Tinashe, Danny L Harle, James Vincent McMorrow, and so many more. Turn up, tune in, and tune out.
"Superlove" - Tinashe
Tinashe is serving some serious "bae watch" vibes in her latest video. The bouncy track features the R&B singer rescuing a variety of men pretending to drown in the ocean. (Honestly, we'd do the same if Tinashe was our lifeguard). Synchronized dance numbers, slow-running sequences, and colorful costume changes inspired by chic early '00s vibes make "Superlove" a contender as one of the songs of summer.
"Super Natural" - Danny L Harle feat. Carly Rae Jepsen
Pop's most underrated chanteuse makes her grand entrance to PC Music with
's high-octane orchestration. Jepsen's wide-eyed optimism is amplified to cosmic heights as Harle's synths bounce around her. She sounds right at home within Harle's universe. Ride this high for as long as you possibly can.
"Rising Water" - James Vincent McMorrow
As per usual, this Dublin-bred singer-songwriter has us clutching our hearts as every beat flutters in our chest. The visual for his latest single isn't your typical beach day as lovers convey their feelings through the art of dance. In a
, McMorrow said that it captures "the things we will do in order to move through loss." His forthcoming album,
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"Come On" - Sunflower Bean
Julia Cumming's vocals practically float straight to heaven, or whatever place is reserved for the pure. This song is truly a pleasure to listen to, period.
“Free Lunch” - Isaiah Rashad
So smooth, so fresh, so clean. This is the perfect song to have playing in the background if you have company over to set the mood for a chill evening.
“Set The Roof" - Rae Sremmurd feat. Lil' Jon
That pink fur coat is everything. The song is also pretty fly too. Definitely a roof raiser.
"Heaven" - Alpines
The atmospheric sound, R&B melodies, and African-inspired beat make this track a subtle banger.
"How You Want It" - Kamaiyah
If you need a new song for all your bottle-popping activities, this is it. Pour one out before summer sixteen is over for good.
"The Season / Carry Me / The Waters" - Anderson .Paak
Feed your soul with this song that's rich with flavor and flow. This dope visual looks like a collage, cut and pasted from a family scrapbook.
"Round Whippin'" - A.CHAL
This dizzying, monochromatic visual pairs perfectly with A.CHAL's slow-winding, hypnotic R&B single.
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Singaporean pianist and producer et aliae brings in the whispery vocals of Japanese pop singer Cuushe for “Feel Me.” The resulting collaboration from these two female artists will send you into a late-summer dream state.
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After an outstanding Chainsmokers feature, Tritonal continues to put out stellar electronic music. This time, the American duo teamed up with Jenaux and got Adam Lambert to lend his vocal talents to a buzzy dance song. It's not often you come across a song as perfectly mixed as this. Go cry on the dance floor, it's okay.

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Hayes / UK. (ub) United Biscuits (UB), owned by Blackstone and PAI Partners, announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase all the assets of the Rana Confectionery Products business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The acquisition will be undertaken jointly with UB´s long-standing partner in the Saudi Arabia, Ali Zaid Al-Quraishi + Brothers Company. UB will have a majority stake and will manage the production facility.
Jeff van der Eems, UB´s Chief Executive Officer for international said: «UB has been working hard over the last five years alongside our strategic partners, such as Ali Zaid Al-Quraishi + Brothers Company, to establish McVitie´s as a leading brand in the Middle East. Acquiring a Saudi based manufacturer of branded sweet snacks furthers our ability to serve consumers and customers in the Middle East with a wide range of preferred snacks».
Yousef Al Quraishi, Managing Director of Ali Zaid Al-Quraishi + Brothers Company said: «Ali Zaid Al Quraishi + Brothers Company enjoys a number of long-standing relationships with respected international market leaders and this acquisition marks a new level of partnership with UB. We see this acquisition as an opportunity to bring world-class product quality and manufacturing capability to the Kingdom; in line with our group´s vision».
«We see immense opportunity for local value addition by going beyond the traditional distribution model and to provide Saudi and Middle Eastern consumers locally manufactured sweet snacks, produced at similar quality standards to what they would expect to experience in Europe. By shortening the shipping lead times, the products are in the hands of our customers faster and fresher. For our customers, this would also mean availability of a wider choice of quality snacks locally at attractive price points».
While UB is the market leader for biscuits in the UK and number two in France, Belgium, Holland and the Republic of Ireland it has a rapidly growing presence in the wider international arena. UB currently sells in over 100 countries with nearly 15 percent of its sales coming from markets outside of the UK and North West Europe – up from five percent five years ago. International markets are the largest source of growth for UB.


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Today things just got more interesting.
Besides the Chevy Volt, GM has been developing a 2-mode plug-in hybrid vehicle program since 2006. Originally set to debut in 2010 as a Saturn VUE, that particular vehicle was dropped along with the sale of the Saturn brand.
That didn't stop the development though. A few weeks ago GM-Volt.com learned the new host vehicle would be an as yet unseen new compact Buick crossover.
Today GM has confirmed this and released a teaser image of the upcoming vehicle.
“Buick has always been at the forefront of new technology, so it is only fitting that the brand should debut our new plug-in hybrid technology in a beautiful new crossover,” said GM vice chairman Tom Stephens. “This will firmly put Buick, and GM, front and center in the advanced technology game.”
The unnamed car will be launched in 2010 with a Ecotec 2.4L direct-injected four-cylinder engine or an optional 3.0L direct-injected V-6 engine, and expectations of more than 30 MPG on highway driving.
The plug-in hybrid version will follow in 2011 and is expected to be the first commercially available plug-in hybrid SUV produced by a major automaker.
The hybrid will have an 8 kwh lithium-ion battery pack, using the same lithium manganese spinel cells as the Volt, supplied by LG Chem, who will be building a lithium-ion battery factory in Michigan set to open in 2012.
“LG Chem – the supplier of our battery cells for the Volt – has also been selected to supply the lithium-ion cells for the new Buick plug-in hybrid, and its Troy, Mich.-based subsidiary Compact Power will supply the pack,” said Stephens.
The plugin hybrid can operate on either gas, electricity or both depending on the driving conditions. It differs from the Volt in that the gas engine can be in operation at any time, not just after 40 miles. Using this technology the vehicle is expected to achieve at least double the efficiency of a gas version of that car. This could amount to more than 70 MPG.
The engine for the plug hybrid will be a 3.6L V-6 flex-fuel, and the car will also contain two powerful electric motors and sophisticated electronic controls.
The car can be recharged in 4 to 5 hours at 110V, and tests show it is capable of up to 10 miles of pure electric driving at low speeds.
Press Release below:
New Buick Crossover Will Feature Plug-In Hybrid System
* Five-passenger crossover arrives in 2010 with family of fuel-efficient direct-injected gas engines
* Plug-in hybrid model debuts in 2011
* Expected to be first commercially available plug-in hybrid SUV produced by a major automaker
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – General Motors’ plug-in hybrid technology will be introduced in a new Buick crossover vehicle in 2011, Tom Stephens, GM vice chairman of product development, announced here today during the Management Briefing Seminars.
The yet-to-be-named Buick crossover will launch in late 2010 offering a family of fuel-efficient direct-injected gasoline engines, followed in 2011 by the plug-in hybrid model.
“Buick has always been at the forefront of new technology, so it is only fitting that the brand should debut our new plug-in hybrid technology in a beautiful new crossover,” said Stephens. “This will firmly put Buick, and GM, front and center in the advanced technology game.”
A new Buick for a new customer
The new five-passenger crossover will build on the success of the Buick Enclave, offering the brand’s finely crafted execution and premium driving experience in a fuel-efficient package.
“Some customers who have been drawn to the Enclave were looking for something a little smaller, but they didn’t want to give up craftsmanship or a quiet ride to get there,” said Susan Docherty, general manager of Buick-Pontiac-GMC. “We believe this new Buick will excite those customers, and will continue to broaden the appeal of the brand.”
The Buick crossover will be powered by an Ecotec 2.4L direct-injected four-cylinder engine with an optional 3.0L direct-injected V-6, and is expected to deliver 30 miles per gallon or more on the highway. Final fuel economy estimates, as well as additional vehicle details such as name and pricing, will be announced later.
Plug-in hybrid model
The Buick plug-in hybrid is expected to be the first commercially available plug-in hybrid SUV produced by a major automaker.
The Buick plug-in hybrid has the potential to achieve double the fuel economy of comparably-sized SUVs on short trips. This significant boost is achieved by combining a modified version of GM’s proven 2-Mode Hybrid system with advanced lithium-ion battery cells and charging technology developed for GM’s Voltec system, which will debut in the Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle in late 2010.
“LG Chem – the supplier of our battery cells for the Volt – has also been selected to supply the lithium-ion cells for the new Buick plug-in hybrid, and its Troy, Mich.-based subsidiary Compact Power will supply the pack,” Stephens said.
The Buick plug-in hybrid will use the same manganese-spinel based chemistry and polymer battery cells as the Volt. The 8 kwh battery – containing half the energy of the Volt battery pack – will be packaged in a rectangular-shaped box under the cargo floor.
The lithium-ion battery can be fully recharged in four to five hours by simply connecting the vehicle to any standard 110V household electrical outlet. By recharging rather than refueling, the Buick plug-in hybrid significantly improves fuel economy and reduces petroleum use. In early testing, the plug-in hybrid is capable of electric-only propulsion for more than 10 miles at low speeds.
On the road, GM’s 2-Mode plug-in hybrid system can use any combination of electric or gasoline engine power to move the vehicle, depending on the driving conditions. This differs from GM’s Voltec technology, which provides the Volt with up to 40 miles of emissions- and petroleum-free electric-only propulsion, and an overall range of more than 300 miles with its flex-fuel engine-generator.
In addition to the lithium-ion battery pack, the Buick plug-in hybrid’s powertrain features two powerful electric motors, sophisticated electronic controls and battery management systems and an efficient direct-injected 3.6L V-6 flex-fuel engine.
About General Motors: General Motors Company, one of the world's largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 235,000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 34 countries, and sell and service these vehicles through the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM's largest national market is the United States, followed by China, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and Germany. GM's OnStar subsidiary is the industry leader in vehicle safety, security and information services. General Motors Company acquired operations from General Motors Corporation on July 10, 2009, and references to prior periods in this and other press materials refer to operations of the old General Motors Corporation. More information on the new General Motors Company can be found at www.gm.com.
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Announcing the publication of Jaguar Sun — my third novel in the series, The Path Of The Jaguar
In 1967, the year we were married, Linda took me to San Ignacio, Cayo in Belize where she had taught English for over a year. It had been a profound experience for her. And it was for me. We arrived late at night to stay with her dear friend and family. Being a city kid I was freaked by the biggest roach I’d ever seen—in my bed. Then when the fluttering overhead in the “bathroom” turned out to be a bat, I wanted out. Phone service and transportation were minimal and on a schedule, so I was stuck for at least another day.
The next morning I awoke to the sights and sounds of a lush jungle. After photographing the dripping wet greenery, parrots and clapboard houses I was hooked. Days later, while riding an open jeep over a pitted dirt road I asked about a tall bump on the horizon. Linda explained that it was a Maya ruin. I’d never heard that word, so she explained that the area was once home to an ancient civilization. I thought nothing of it. Later, back home in Cincinnati, I was in the library and a title caught my eye—The Ancient Maya by Sylvanus Morley. Reading it ignited a spark that led to a deep immersion into the subject.
For thirty-one years I read every book and scholarly paper I could get my hands on. I fed hundreds of dimes into copy machines, took courses in anthropology, archaeology and primitive religion to name a few. I attended archaeological symposiums, corresponded with scholars and visited Maya museums and sites—all the while wondering why. I knew I didn’t want to make a scholarly contribution to the field. And I wasn’t particularly interested in making a documentary film about the Maya. So why was I devoting so much time, energy and money and building a series of image and information databases? The answer came on the night of August 2nd in 1998. Around midnight I had the idea for a series of stories. It came to me so clearly that I got up and wrote until eight in the morning. Long story short, that same day I told Linda I was going to learn how to write a novel. I didn’t entertain the prospect of publishing, I just wanted write the stories that came to me. Thus was born the idea for a series of novels entitled The Path Of The Jaguar. From the outset I was determined to make each story historically accurate, plausible and an immersive read.
Up until then I hadn’t realized that prolonged and focused study of history can result in an immersion into its times, people and places. As I read, I was easily transported into the mentality, lifestyles, rituals and environments of the ancient Maya. In order for the stories to carry the impact of direct experience, I needed a context that would justify a first person point of view. I found it in the theory of reincarnation. What if my narrator—not myself—had the capability of recalling past life experiences? And what if he or she was able to write them down in a continuous stream of detailed remembrances?
Each story is narrated by the same person recollecting the challenging and growthful experiences of three different lifetimes, male and female personalities, within the context and background of major events in Maya history. By combining historical characters, their perception of the cosmos and it’s representation in ritual, with the everyday lifestyles of commoners and tradesmen in a rich jungle environment dotted with scores of cities and villages, I hoped to immerse readers in the realities of Central America between 35 B.C.E. and 700 C.E. The series title derives from a convergence between a common phrase, “the path of the soul” and the significance of the jaguar in Maya mythology. The word “jaguar” in the title of the series and in the novels is a reference to the soul. The Maya called it ch’ulel. So in essence, the stories depict the journey of a single soul—the narrator—through three incarnations. Although there is a natural progression featuring soul initiations, the stories can stand alone.
Book One: Jaguar Rising: A novel of the Preclassic Maya
It took me twelve years and fifteen drafts to complete this story. Currently I am revising it in order to reduce the extensive use of Maya vocabulary. (Readers were too often consulting the glossary). The revised edition will become available in the Fall of this year. If interested, I recommend waiting. I will post an announcement.
35 B.C.E. By this time Maya civilization was already flourishing in the jungles of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. K’akich B’alam, “Fire Eyes Jaguar,” is a young man who, on the threshold of manhood, learns that the long-distance merchant who raised him is not his father. Rather, his blood father is the ruler of large city far to the south. While the youth’s prophecy at birth said he would “rule as a powerful warrior,” his heart is set on apprenticing to his uncles who are builders and painters. It’s a tug of war between the demands of society and his passion to paint murals. K’akich engages this struggle at a time when charismatic rulers and innovators were building cities and giving form to their ideology in art, architecture and religious spectacle.
Book Two: Jaguar Wind And Waves: A novel of the Early Classic Maya
378 C.E. Lady Jaguar Claw, daughter of the Tikal ruler, fulfills her father’s promise to the lords of Teotihuacan by marrying one of their sons. Her husband of seven years has been chartered to deliver a prophecy and establish a new order throughout the lowland jungles with Tikal as his base of operations. Battered by wave upon wave of emotional turmoil created by her husband and his enforcer, Lady Jaguar descends into an abyss of depression and despair. Suffering from soul-loss, she looses herself. The light has gone out of her. She sits and stares out the doorway watching the rain. A shaman tries to help, but the smoke surrounding her heart, continuously fed by the fires of anger, bitterness and guilt resist treatment. Her birth prophecy foretold that she would battle a mighty demon amidst “powerful winds and waves.” This is the story of that battle and her rise from the abyss.
Book Three: Jaguar Sun: The journey of an Ancient Maya storyteller
695 C.E. It was a time when the nature of warfare changed dramatically in the jungle cities. Where before, rulers raided neighboring kingdoms to capture members of ruling families for blood sacrifice to sustain the sun god, they are now conducting large-scale raids and forced migrations to acquire men, women and children to bolster their armies and increase the labor force for building projects. A climate of fear has gripped the lowland cities. Seeking entertainment and distraction, people gather around storytellers in great numbers, eager for true and made-up stories about raids and valiant warriors. Seeing the faces of misery, fear and hopelessness in the places he visits, Raised Up Heron—an aspiring storyteller—presents stories intended to inspire hope, courage and self-determination. He attracts very few listeners. Surrounded by the clash of cities, the protagonist confronts battles that rage within. How could he draw crowds in the big cities like other storytellers? Is that even desirable? Must he be satisfied telling his kind of stories in the marketplaces of small villages? Could there be a rightful place for him? To answer these questions he must first discover his deeper identity and purpose.
“Jaguar Sun” is an incredible journey. It takes you deep into the richness of an advanced ancient civilization portraying one boy to man’s struggle with finding his own identity in a culture that doesn’t often fit with his own values. The story is rich in cultural detail and brings you fully into this young adult’s life and challenges. The characters are complex and memorable. It enriched my life. Congratulations on this accomplishment! I highly recommend this book!

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