“And how does her garden grow? - Johnson City Press” plus 4 more |
- And how does her garden grow? - Johnson City Press
- Brashear hears the boos in Garden debut - New York Post
- Claude Monet's home, gardens at Giverny offer stunning display - Detroit Free Press
- Club high on pigeon racing - FreeportJournal Standard
- Cocoa, tea and coffee make a tasty tropical trio - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
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| Brashear hears the boos in Garden debut - New York Post Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:33 PM PDT For the first time since home-opener pregame ceremonies became a fixture, the Rangers opted not to introduce players individually during the festivities that preceded last night's 5-2 victory over the Senators. This surely was a pre-emptive strike by management to avoid booing of Donald Brashear, if not Michal Rozsival, as well. The decision had micro-managing head coach John Tortorella's fingerprints all over it. The fans may not have been given the opportunity to boo before the game -- the club was introduced en masse prior to delivering a center-ice salute to the crowd -- but they let their feelings be known during the match, booing Brashear pretty much whenever he was on the ice and Rozsival pretty much whenever he touched the puck. Management and the head coach were foolish not to recognize the controversial nature of Brashear's free-agent signing. The reaction from the crowd is certainly not making life easy for No. 87, who was jeered even after engaging Matt Carkner in a fight late in the third period. * Sean Avery, who has missed the opening two games of the season with a sprained knee, is targeting Thursday night's game in Washington for his 2009-10 debut. "I'd have loved to play in [last night's] Garden opener or Monday in Jersey, but I have to be smart about this and not rush back too soon, especially with a knee," Avery told The Post between periods of Friday's opening 3-2 defeat in Pittsburgh. "I don't want to put myself or my team in the situation where I come back before I'm completely ready and then suffer a setback that's going to keep me out for a month." Avery, who sustained the injury in a collision with Ryan Callahan during a Sept. 21 practice, has skated every day since Tuesday, but he's yet to engage in contact. "A couple of days of practice and drills will be good for me," Avery said. "I am really looking forward to getting out there." * Marian Gaborik had five shots on net after getting eight the previous night in Pittsburgh. Including blocked shots and those that went wide, Gaborik has attempted 17 shots in two games. Gaborik's linemates, Brandon Dubinsky and Vinny Prospal, each scored on two-on-ones while Gaborik scored on a rebound of a Dubinsky breakaway try that hit the post. Dubinsky, of course, played the second half of his 2006-07 rookie season with Jaromir Jagr, who couldn't be more different stylistically than Gaborik. "Certainly [Gaborik] has the same skill level, but they're very different players," Dubinsky said. "With Jags, he wanted the puck a lot so I tried to get him the puck as much as I could. "With Gabby, I find myself with the puck a lot more and I just try to get it to him. He has bursts of speed. It is a little bit different but obviously both have tremendous skill." * Brian Boyle had an encouraging night on the penalty kill. . . . Ales Kotalik struggled again at even strength. Indeed, the Kotalik-Artem Anisimov-Enver Lisin unit has had issues in each of the first two games. . . . Marc Staal got a team-high 24:06 of ice while Rozsival played 21:50 and Wade Redden 21:43 as Tortorella and assistant coach Mike Sullivan shortened the defensive bench. Michael Del Zotto took only three brief even-strength shifts after the midway point of the second period while Matt Gilroy was pulled from the power play in the third period and was used sparingly at even strength. The Blueshirts went primarily with the Staal-Dan Girardi and Redden-Rozsival pairs in the third period.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Claude Monet's home, gardens at Giverny offer stunning display - Detroit Free Press Posted: 04 Oct 2009 07:53 PM PDT GIVERNY, France -- I want my house to look like this. I want Claude Monet's luscious yellow dining room. I want his green Japanese bridges. I want his water lilies in bloom. Others have said it, but it's true: Visiting Giverny is like walking into a Monet painting. Monet was a master artist of the French Impressionism era, and this village 45 miles northwest of Paris was his home from 1883 until his death in 1926. Giverny is not where Monet did all of his work, but it is where he did his most iconic work -- the water lily paintings. These gardens and this house still reflect the artist's taste, sensibilities, wishes and passions. Personally, I'd recommend visiting in late summer or fall. Why? Some may prefer the dreamy pastel scenes of spring, but fall is when the undiluted brilliant colors are best. Restored to Monet's eraVisiting Giverny is an easy day trip from Paris, by train, car or half-day tour bus. The property is run by the Claude Monet Foundation, which did extensive restorations on the home left to it by Monet's son in 1966. The house has been restored to appear as it did when Monet lived there. You can see his airy, enormous original studio. In the dining room, every single thing is painted varying shades of yellow, except for the terra-cotta colored floor. A separate building that was Monet's second studio is now the giftshop, featuring everything from Monet erasers to coffee-table books. But the heart of Monet's home, as any painting fan knows, is its gardens. The main garden, called Clos Normand, is 2 1/2 acres of flowers in front of the house. This time of year, it swoons with color. Sunflowers and dahlias soar to about 15 feet high, with blooms as big as dinner plates. A series of decorative arches cover a crazed profusion of red and orange nasturtiums that creep from their beds and tiptoe across the path. Behind Clos Normand is the water garden. Its curving pond, weeping willows and water lilies look familiar -- of course they do, because you've seen them in Monet's art.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Club high on pigeon racing - FreeportJournal Standard Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:21 PM PDT Sterling, Ill. - These aren't your garden-variety pigeons. Let these birds go, and they'll fly 300 miles straight home in a half-day. Norbert Padilla has been breeding and racing homing pigeons for about 70 years ever since the Belgian population in Kewanee introduced him to the birds during his childhood. Now Padilla, 79, of Sterling, is the oldest among an aging population of Sauk Valley residents who are looking to promote the sport of racing pigeons and attract a new generation of pigeon fanciers. About 30 people meet at the Rock River Racing Pigeon Club, on Sterling's west end, on Fridays during the summer. They send their birds to a designated drop point often 300 miles away or more. When released, the homing pigeons shoot straight into the air, then circle for 2 or 3 minutes. "And all of a sudden, they'll make a straight beeline for the direction their home is," Padilla said. "It's something no scientist has ever been able to figure out: how these birds find their way home." Some attribute the homing to the sun, others to the Earth's magnetic field. Some say the pigeons can sense tidal movements and adjust accordingly. Whatever it is, retired Dixon schoolteacher Devoe Manning calls the phenomenon "an amazing thing to see." Manning, 58, started racing pigeons after leaving work, and although he got into birding late in life, he's taking the opportunity to learn from their experiences, he said. "I got into it later than most of these guys," Manning said. "But I love watching these birds. They're athletes." "A good pigeon man knows his pigeons, knows how they react to their training, knows how they react to their mates," Padilla said. "You have to train them, you have to condition them ... for a pigeon to fly 500 miles in 12 hours, they have to be in pretty good condition." For all the devotion to the pigeons and the sport, the racers' attitude at the club is relaxed. Most sip beers in the old cinder block building on Griswold Avenue. They chat, and take turns stuffing pigeons into squat metal containers, and putting water into the shipping crates. They inspect each other's birds, as the race secretary scans a radio-tagged ankle band. As the pigeons return to their lofts, they pass over a scanner that checks them in. The owners then return to the club with a cartridge containing the race data, and compare results. Pigeon fanciers call the birds "racehorses of the sky," and some put the same amount of thought into breeding as do horse owners. "My champion, he's 16 years old ... I retired him about 9 years ago," Padilla said. "I keep him for breeding. He has produced some of the best pigeons I have now." But, like horses, "just because they're really good racers, doesn't mean they're good producers," Padilla said. According to Padilla, the longest flight recorded from the Sauk Valley was 1,100 miles, from Rock Falls to Boston, achieved when a local birder bought a pair of pigeons from a Boston breeder, and they got loose and flew back to their original loft in Beantown. To the lay person, there appears to be little difference between common pigeons and homing pigeons. But homing pigeons are the result of thousands of years of selective breeding of the common rock pigeon, which has a latent homing tendency, Manning said. For pigeon racers, though, a world of difference exists between common and homing breeds of pigeon. "It's like putting a mule next to a racehorse," Padilla said.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cocoa, tea and coffee make a tasty tropical trio - Hawaii Tribune-Herald Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:17 AM PDT Many years ago, cocoa and tea were considered commercial crops in Hawaii, along with coffee. They grew well and produced very good quality, but could not compete on the world market. High labor costs were probably the limiting factor. However, as we look at new and interesting ways to garden, we sometimes find a new look at old crops gives us a different perspective. Cocoa -- or Theobroma cacao, as it is known scientifically -- is ornamental as well as useful. Cocoa and tea both grow well on the Big Island. Even though cocoa is thought to be a native to the Amazon area just north of the equator, it may have been grown in Mexico for thousands of years. In Borneo, I saw thousands of acres in production where the climate was steamy and wet like East Hawaii, but it is also found in many gardens growing well in Kona. However cocoa plants do not like drying winds or beach locations. Tea plants may also be found in Big Island gardens. Most folks believe tea is a crop grown in and confined to equatorial countries. This however is a misconception. Tea grows in a wide range of climates and may be grown in areas extending from equatorial to temperate zones. For example, it grows in Southern Russia near the Caucasian mountains on the latitude of 40 degrees north, and in Argentina near the latitude 30 degrees south. It grows well up to 5,000 feet in elevation in Kaloko mauka. Tea belongs to the camellia family. Its correct botanical name is Camellia sinensis, and is closely related to horticultural varieties which bloom magnificently in many home gardens and public parks. The tea plant is an attractive evergreen shrub native to Assam. There are about 1,000 varieties known which differ in flower and shade of green leaves as well as flavor when brewed. The stimulating drink was originally used medicinally but since the fifth century has been the chief beverage in China. It became popular in Europe in the 17th century and was America's chief beverage until the Boston Tea Party. An alkaloid, like caffeine, and a volatile oil give tea its flavor. Long brewing extracts tannin, which is bitter and not considered beneficial. You can visit the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Web site at http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu.
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