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Lap quilt made for Jodie from fabrics left over from her bed quilt. Was intended as gift for her March birthday, but true to form, I finished it on 5-5-09. Actually, that was pretty good since it was at least the same year! She will use the quilt in her living room on her charcoal sofa or eggplant side chair.
Vanhempi on vastuussa lapsensa kasvattamisesta itsenäiseksi ja turvalliseksi liikkujaksi. Lapselle on opetettava oikea tapa kulkea ja lapsen toimintaa on myös seurattava.
Liikenneturva, kuva: Nina Mönkkönen
Vanhempi on vastuussa lapsensa kasvattamisesta itsenäiseksi ja turvalliseksi liikkujaksi. Lapselle on opetettava oikea tapa kulkea ja lapsen toimintaa on myös seurattava.
Liikenneturva, kuva: Nina Mönkkönen
Năm 1955,sau cuộc trưng cầu dân ý,Thủ tướng Ngô Đình Diệm phế truất Quốc trưởng Bảo Đại và lên làm Tổng thống. Ông quyết định đổi tên dinh này thành Dinh Độc Lập. Ngày 27 tháng 2 năm 1962, hai viên phi công thuộc Quân lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, Nguyễn Văn Cử và Phạm Phú Quốc, lái 2 máy bay AD6 ném bom làm sập toàn bộ phần chính cánh trái của dinh. Do không thể khôi phục lại, Ngô Đình Diệm đã cho san bằng và xây một dinh thự mới ngay trên nền đất cũ theo đồ án thiết kế của kiến trúc sư Ngô Viết Thụ, người Việt Nam đầu tiên đạt giải Khôi nguyên La Mã. Dinh Độc Lập mới được khởi công xây dựng ngày 1 tháng 7 năm 1962 và hoàn thành vào 31/10/1966. Dinh được xây dựng trên diện tích 4 .500 m², diện tích sử dụng 20.000 m², gồm 3 tầng chính, 1 sân thượng, 2 gác lửng, tầng nền, 2 tầng hầm và một sân thượng cho máy bay trực thăng đáp xuống. Hơn 100 căn phòng của Dinh được trang trí theo phong cách khác nhau tùy theo mục đích sử dụng bao gồm các phòng khánh tiết, phòng họp hội đồng nội các, phòng làm việc của Tổng Thống và của Phó Tổng Thống, phòng trình ủy nhiệm thư, phòng đại yến, v.v... chưa kể các phần khác như hồ sen bán nguyệt hai bên thềm đi vào chánh điện, bao lơn, hành lan...
Dinh cao 26 m, tọa lạc trong khuôn viên rộng 12 ha rợp bóng cây. Bên ngoài hàng rào phía trước và phía sau Dinh là 2 công viên cây xanh. Giữa những năm 1960, đây là công trình có quy mô lớn nhất miền Nam và có chi phí xây dựng cao nhất (150.000 lượng vàng). Các hệ thống phụ trợ bên trong Dinh hiện đại: điều hòa không khí, phòng chống cháy, thông tin liên lạc, nhà kho. Tầng hầm chịu được oanh kích của bom lớn và pháo. Mặt tiền của Dinh được trang trí cách điệu các đốt mành trúc phỏng theo phong cách các bức mành tại các ngôi nhà Việt và họa tiết các ngôi chùa cổ tại Việt Nam. Các phòng của Dinh được trang trí nhiều tác phẩm non sông cẩm tú, tranh sơn mài, tranh sơn dầu...
No. 160 sits in a biologist's lap. March 24, 2012
Camp Blanding bear cubs examined by FWC biologists
Their official names are “160” and “161.” But the words used most frequently to describe them were “too cute.”
They are two 6-pound, male black bear cubs born about eight weeks ago. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologists examined the cubs Sunday at the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Clay County.
Biologists Walt McCown and Brian Scheick, along with FWC Chairman Kathy Barco, went to the den to retrieve the cubs. According to McCown, who has been studying bears for 15 years, the female will generally leave the cubs temporarily when humans approach.
“During the time the females are nursing their cubs, they are usually very lethargic and not aware of their surroundings,” McCown said. “However, each bear is an individual, and we have to be ready for anything once we get to the den.”
And being prepared this time was a good idea. This time, Mama Bear didn’t want to cooperate.
“We came up on the den, and she refused to leave,” Scheick said. “We made noise and got extremely close to her before she left her cubs.”
McCown and Barco carried the cubs out to where they could be examined and fitted with their own radio collars. The cubs were also measured, weighed and injected with a microchip.
“The collars are designed to ‘grow’ with the cubs and will eventually fall off in six to eight months,” McCown said. “During this timeframe, we will be able to gather quite a bit of information about their movements with their mother.”
McCown follows a very strict time schedule when dealing with bear cubs, and the animals were returned to their mother within 45 minutes.
“Mom was waiting. She went back to the cubs,” McCown said.
The cubs and their 180-pound mother, “154,” are part of a bear project on the Florida National Guard base, according to McCown. In January, No. 154 gave birth to the two males, the first documented bears born on the base.
The project is gathering data about the bears on Camp Blanding, the 72,000-acre training center between two large bear populations in the Ocala National Forest and the Osceola National Forest. Seven bears have been caught and fitted with radio collars since June 2011.
“We want to see how the bears are using Camp Blanding as a part of the corridor between the two national forests,” McCown said.
My first attempt and I think it worked out pretty well! There was a nice crispy crust on the bottom of the clay pot.
This is what I did:
I slowly heated some slices of Chinese sausage (pork and the pork with liver kind) in about 2t of sesame oil until just warm. Took the sausage out of the pan, then added a chopped clove of garlic and soon after that rinsed rice (for two) and sautee for a bit. I guess like you do with risotto. Transferred the rice to a clay pot and add enough chicken stock (1,5 times the rice). Put the sausage and airdried duckleg (that I rinsed with boiling water) on top. Put the lid on, put on the stove on medium high heat and waited for the water to boil. Then turned down the heat and after 15 minutes, then use a metal plate thingie to diffuse the heat. Waited another 15 minutes in which there is supposed to form nice crust.
Sprinkled with spring onion and sauce of
1T oystersauce
1T dark soy sauce
2t sesame oil
1t fish sauce
Not bad at all. Rustic, wintery, dark, earthy.
Served with water spinach, stirfried on high heat, then added some chopped garlic and a little paste/sauce made of white fermented tofu with a little bit of shaoxing ricewine and chickenstock. Too bad I didn't make a photo because it was really tasty and what better way to remember a recipe than uploading a photo to flickr. :-)
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This place reminds me of Diagon Alley in Harry Potter, but with sex shops and lap dancing clubs instead of magic shops.
(And yes, I know the focusing is all wrong)
Lap grabs a quick slice of pizza from this place than ruined (and binned) two slices before finally serving him his.
Happy Mothers' Day.
Clint, James, Grandma.
sitting, sitting on lap, standing.
from Dad.
Nanny and Grandad's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
May 24, 1974.
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James Bernard L, my grandfather (dad's dad). Born 2/18/1922 in Fairmont, WV. Died 12/18/2001 in Arlington, VA.
Son of James and Minnie
Husband of Maria Clara ("Ronnie")
Father of Victor (dad)
Brother of Arnold Ray, Lena May and Charles
James Bernard L was a long-serving member of the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, and its Association. He joined the National Guard in 1936, then the 16th Infantry in 1940 at Fort Jay, New York. In the Allied landings in Africa in November, 1942, he was the Regimental Sergeant Major. He fought in Sicily and later, in the Normandy Invasion, as a Warrant Officer under General Omar Bradley. He continued with the 16th Infantry through France, the Battle of the Bulge, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
After the war, he served at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Ft. Sam Houstin in San Antonio, TX, and the Adjutant Generals School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where he retired in 1960 as a CWO-4.
James then became one of the strongest supporters of the Regimental Association, writing many articles and booklets produced by the Association, and was a contributor, editor, and participant in the production of the recent volume of the regiment's history, "Blood and Sacrifice."
James was also an avid flag collector and member of NAVA, and a longtime philatelist.
Ronnie L, born Maria Clara Rechen, is Clint's grandmother (dad's mom). Born 10/25/1918 in Lvov, Poland. Died 11/13/2003 in Alexandria, VA.
Daughter of Jozefa and Jacob, she was the only survivor of the holocaust in her family. She was liberated from a work camp by Clint's grandfather (James Bernard L.), who stormed Normandy 20 minutes into the D-Day invasion.