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A Thousand Threads Life, love, and the little things Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:23:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 We’ve moved! /2016/02/24/weve-moved/ /2016/02/24/weve-moved/#respond Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:23:21 +0000 /?p=15529 Exciting things are happening. Come visit us at our new site, Holson House, and continue to follow along with us there! The post We’ve moved! appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> Exciting things are happening. Come visit us at our new site, Holson House, and continue to follow along with us there! The post We’ve moved! appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2016/02/24/weve-moved/feed/ 0 Giveaway // Everything Golden /2015/12/05/giveaway-everything-golden/ /2015/12/05/giveaway-everything-golden/#respond Sat, 05 Dec 2015 13:00:53 +0000 /?p=15498 Well hi there!! I’m excited to be popping in today with a special surprise — but also with a PROMISE that I’ll be back soon with a very big and looooooong overdue update. In the meantime, the special surprise! This year I’ve partnered (speaking of that update… can we just talk for a second about pregnancy […] The post Giveaway // Everything Golden appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> Well hi there!! I’m excited to be popping in today with a special surprise — but also with a PROMISE that I’ll be back soon with a very big and looooooong overdue update. In the meantime, the special surprise! This year I’ve partnered (speaking of that update… can we just talk for a second about pregnancy brain? I just wrote parnerted and patenred and every other option before I finally got around to the correct spelling… yeesh! but back to the point…) with the most ah-mazing group of women for the Dream Shop Collective, a collective of like-minded shops offering 9 giveaways, hosted by 9 blogs over 18 days. All of the shops are independently owned and primarily run by women who pour their heart and soul into what they do, with a focus on handmade, well-made and vintage… and I’m just obsessed with the shop I get to introduce you all to. Everything Golden speaks my language, with an ethos steeped in the belief that style runs much deeper than a visual quality – it comes from history and creative process. And basically everything they carry has found its way onto my Christmas list… So here’s the deal — we’re giving away all of the wonderful things in the top photo above. 1. Vintage Wood and Brass Beads $22 2. Handmade Ring Dish $38 3. Handmade Brass Jacket Earrings $68 4. Hand Painted Pouch $38 5. Palo Santo Incense Sticks $8 A total value of $174!! So quick, enter the giveaway below! And be sure to visit the Dream Shop Collective website to check out all of our amazing shops and giveaways. As an extra special treat, each will be offering 10% off this holiday season using the coupon code “DREAMSHOPCOLLECTIVE.” Click here to view this promotion. You need to enable javascript to enter this campaign! Powered by PromoSimple. Giveaways are open to US participants only. Gifts will be shipped within one week from the closing date of the giveaway and shipped by the applicable shop. This giveaway starts on Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 08:00 AM EST and ends on Monday, December 7 at 08:00 AM EST. Shop this post: Hand Knit Chunky Forest Hat //Handmade Tribal Purse // Found Botanical Sake Cups // Handmade River Rock and Jade Necklace The post Giveaway // Everything Golden appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/12/05/giveaway-everything-golden/feed/ 0 Finding the spark /2015/09/13/finding-the-spark/ /2015/09/13/finding-the-spark/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:00:38 +0000 /?p=15488 I’ve been writing you love letters in my sleep, dear readers… penning the most beautiful things I can only half remember once I’m awake. Blame it on the mess of a house, the morning sickness, or just a general feeling of malaise and repetition when I flip on my screen, but I’ve been searching for […] The post Finding the spark appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> I’ve been writing you love letters in my sleep, dear readers… penning the most beautiful things I can only half remember once I’m awake. Blame it on the mess of a house, the morning sickness, or just a general feeling of malaise and repetition when I flip on my screen, but I’ve been searching for the spark now for months… maybe a year. Feeling stuck and mostly uninspired… but longing for the same drive I’ve felt so many times before. While backed up against this roadblock, we’ve also set about searching for our next steps… and though maybe they’ve been clear all along, it took some time before we were ready to accept them and move forward. We stepped gingerly ahead, into a rebranding project we knew was the right move, but kept one foot in the past. That’s not the plan anymore. The sparks are coming… slowly, and sometimes while we sleep, but they’re there. And the next steps are clear. Holson House, which we’ll launch in the coming months, is the future. On the Holson House blog, we’ll share many of the things we do now, including our family and our own little house, but especially the hearty, healthy, whole food that is truly the center of our home. And we hope to do it with a fresh set of eyes. The success of Dough Uprising continues to percolate, but we know now that its real time is yet to come. With two full time jobs to keep up with, we’ve stepped back from our weekly farmers markets to focus on special events. We know that we love to bake more than anything, but we also know that we want to be available for those 3am feedings and take our littles on spur-of-the-moment trips to the mountains and the beach. Mark left his work in kitchens years ago because in the end, nothing is more important than time spent with family… in the home, around the table, and in the evenings when little ones long to be tucked into bed. Now is, sadly, not the time to take the leap into a full-time food business. We both hope to someday return to the kitchen full time, but our family has some growing to do before we do. In the meantime, we’ll continue to follow and grow our shared passion for food, family, community, and photography. Mark and I have created many beautiful things together, but we know the best is yet to come. It’s hard to be original on the internet… where so much beauty abounds and so much imitation persists. But we hope you’ll be there to cheer us on as we dive deeper into our passions and grow into the roles we were always meant to fill. The path forward, now, is clear… and I can see the spark up ahead. The post Finding the spark appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/09/13/finding-the-spark/feed/ 3 We have some news! /2015/08/20/we-have-some-news/ /2015/08/20/we-have-some-news/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:31:05 +0000 /?p=15479 I’m so thrilled to finally share that it’s going to be a very exciting winter for the Heeley clan – this February, we’re expecting an addition to our crew! Mark and I are just over the moon – and happy to report that Austin couldn’t be more excited. Lennon is still blissfully unaware of the […] The post We have some news! appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> I’m so thrilled to finally share that it’s going to be a very exciting winter for the Heeley clan – this February, we’re expecting an addition to our crew! Mark and I are just over the moon – and happy to report that Austin couldn’t be more excited. Lennon is still blissfully unaware of the chaos to come, but we’re sure he’ll be just as pleased as the rest of us when he realizes we’re about to go back to the days of dropped food. At sixteen weeks, baby is happy, healthy, growing steadily, and letting me know it. I’ve gotten a crash course in intense morning (otherwise known as all the time) sickness these past few months… nausea, headaches, vertigo, and all of the things I now know can come along with the first (and into the second, so far…) trimester. But I hear that means good things for the baby’s development, so for now, I’m sleeping a whole lot more, working a whole lot less, and rolling with the punches. Mark has, meanwhile, been a saint… keeping me awash in healthy meals, force-feeding me water, taking care of our home and our littles, and making sure I’m as comfortable as I can possibly be. I know it’s hard to be on the other side too, I can see the worry in his eyes and I know he must feel powerless to protect us both… but we feel so lucky to have him by our side. Mark and I have known for a long time that we wanted to grow our family, but I never knew I’d be quite so excited as I am to welcome this little person into the world. It’s such a good world, this little life of ours… I can’t wait to show this bundle around. The post We have some news! appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/08/20/we-have-some-news/feed/ 19 Homemade dill relish crostini with peaches and quark /2015/08/19/homemade-dill-relish-crostini-with-peaches-and-quark/ /2015/08/19/homemade-dill-relish-crostini-with-peaches-and-quark/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:10:02 +0000 /?p=15459 What’s the best thing a girl can do to a torn-to-pieces, totally pitiful construction zone of a house? How about boil a big pot of apple cider vinegar so it really smells like home… Okay, I don’t want to hear it — the smell only lasted a few days, at most. And if all goes […] The post Homemade dill relish crostini with peaches and quark appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> What’s the best thing a girl can do to a torn-to-pieces, totally pitiful construction zone of a house? How about boil a big pot of apple cider vinegar so it really smells like home… Okay, I don’t want to hear it — the smell only lasted a few days, at most. And if all goes according to plan, this little stockpile of freshly-made relish will be with us for months. Minus the flea beetles and, of course, what we’ll go ahead and call “the great squash scourge of 2015,” our first-real-garden adventure has been mostly successful. The blistering heat of late summer has us wishing, despite ourselves, that the rain would return… but the tomatoes are loving the sun. And we may even find ourselves with an eggplant or two by August’s end – having nursed them back to health in a post-beetle world. … we won’t talk about the squash. They were so healthy… it all happened so fast. Regardless, we’re still swimming in the stragglers… so I suppose if there was one thing we could spare…  But the bounty — of tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, and herbs — has allowed us to get a little more creative. … and that creativity, thankfully, includes this big steaming pot of homemade relish and the sweet, sweet smell of apple cider vinegar in the air. Homemade dill relish crostini with peaches and quark 1 fresh baguette, sliced 2-3 fresh peaches, peeled and sliced 8oz quark Homemade dill relish (Recipe below) Few sprigs fresh dill, for garnish Butter Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spread baguette slices with butter and toast in the oven until golden brown and crunchy. Spread each toast with a generous bit of quark, then place peaches and relish on top. Garnish with dill. Homemade dill relish 2½ lbs cucumbers, peeled, diced, and seeds removed 1 large yellow onion, finely diced 1 small red bell pepper, finely diced 1 small green bell pepper, finely diced 1 banana pepper, finely diced 3 cloves garlic, finely minced ¼ cup salt 3 cups apple cider vinegar 1/4 cup sugar 2 teaspoons dill seeds 1 tablespoon yellow mustard seeds 2 teaspoons celery seeds ½ teaspoon turmeric 2 bay leaves Place diced cucumbers, onion, peppers, and garlic in a large bowl. Combine with salt and pour water over the mixture until covered. Let sit for at least 6 hours or overnight. Drain the cucumber mixture in a colander, rinse thoroughly with water, and drain again. In a large stock pot, add sugar, vinegar, and spices and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 5 minutes. Add drained cucumber mixture and return to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Discard the bay leaves. Ladle the hot relish into hot sterile jars, leaving 1/4 inch at the top. Wipe the rims of the jars clean and seal tightly with the lids. Process the jars in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Sealed jars will store in a cool, dark place for a year. If the seal is broken, the relish will keep in the fridge for at least a month. The post Homemade dill relish crostini with peaches and quark appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/08/19/homemade-dill-relish-crostini-with-peaches-and-quark/feed/ 1 Self portrait project // 15 /2015/08/18/self-portrait-project-001/ /2015/08/18/self-portrait-project-001/#respond Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:58:51 +0000 /?p=15450 Patience might be the name of our game, but that’s not to say I’m holding off on a happy dance every time we complete a small step. Cue the biggest happy dance of all time for these floors — which have been hanging out in boxes for weeks, just longing to replace that dirty, moldy […] The post Self portrait project // 15 appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> Patience might be the name of our game, but that’s not to say I’m holding off on a happy dance every time we complete a small step. Cue the biggest happy dance of all time for these floors — which have been hanging out in boxes for weeks, just longing to replace that dirty, moldy old carpet. We’ve only made it as far as the stairs (one whole bottom floor to go…) but oh the difference it’s made. Suddenly I’m reminded why we bought this poor little house in the first place… the one I’ve been so hard on for so many months. The thing is, when you walk through a place with a mind toward renovation, all you see is possibility. HGTV makes it all look so easy. Then you move in. You start ripping down walls, tearing out carpet, and suddenly you live in a construction zone. That HGTV team of construction workers is, sadly, not coming to the rescue. Meanwhile, you’re fighting off bugs, scrubbing off 40 years of dirt… and then there’s that mysterious itch. Day in day out, the beauty under all that rubble is a little harder to define. But the reward. It might be a slow process. I might’ve spent the entire day Sunday putting down just 10 (of ~60) rows of tile. My butt might hurt, my back might ache, but — little by little — our projects are coming together. And the reward is just that much greater because of the wait. P.S. Thank you JORD for the beautiful wood watches we’re sporting in this portrait on our beautiful new wood floor! We’re totally and completely in love! The post Self portrait project // 15 appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/08/18/self-portrait-project-001/feed/ 0 Buttermilk waffles with sweet summer plums /2015/08/13/buttermilk-waffles-with-sweet-summer-plums/ /2015/08/13/buttermilk-waffles-with-sweet-summer-plums/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:00:43 +0000 /?p=15419 August is a lesson in slowing down. The heat and humidity set in and, against our better judgement, we find ourselves sitting longer, stalling more… taking the time to savor each moment as the last few days of summer drip away. Would I love to have that guest bathroom back up and running after a […] The post Buttermilk waffles with sweet summer plums appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> August is a lesson in slowing down. The heat and humidity set in and, against our better judgement, we find ourselves sitting longer, stalling more… taking the time to savor each moment as the last few days of summer drip away. Would I love to have that guest bathroom back up and running after a month of staring at an empty room? I would. Would I like to eat a well-balanced dinner instead of a sweet, crisp, melt-in-your-mouth pile of buttermilk waffles with summer fruit and sweet cream? … well no, actually I’d much rather have the waffles. As our renovation drags on, slow as they come, the lessons in patience are piling up. But with the onset of August, it feels almost right that they should. The summer days are few, and the time left to savor them is fading by the day. Buttermilk waffles Adapted from Martha Stewart 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups low-fat buttermilk 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted 2 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon vanilla In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a second bowl, whisk together buttermilk, butter, eggs, and vanilla. Add to flour mixture, and stir until just combined (your batter should still be lumpy). Heat waffle iron and brush or spray with oil. Pour batter onto iron, close, and cook until waffles are golden brown and crisp. Top with sauteed plums and sweet cream (We love this recipe for crème fraîche whipped cream). Sautéed plums 5 plums, pitted and quartered 4 tablespoons maple syrup 3 tablespoons spiced dark rum Juice of 1/2 lemon Zest of 1 lemon On medium low heat, sauté plums with maple syrup and rum until tender — around 20 minutes. The mixture should begin to reduce and thicken. When this happens, remove from heat and add lemon zest and juice to finish. The post Buttermilk waffles with sweet summer plums appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/08/13/buttermilk-waffles-with-sweet-summer-plums/feed/ 2 Newport /2015/08/03/newport/ /2015/08/03/newport/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:40:47 +0000 /?p=15395 Our trip to Newport Folk Fest has become an annual tradition — and this year its arrival was especially welcome. As it stands now, the guest bathroom is stripped down to drywall and plaster, the floors are sometimes still carpeted, sometimes stripped to the subfloor… to say we’re living in a construction zone would be […] The post Newport appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> Our trip to Newport Folk Fest has become an annual tradition — and this year its arrival was especially welcome. As it stands now, the guest bathroom is stripped down to drywall and plaster, the floors are sometimes still carpeted, sometimes stripped to the subfloor… to say we’re living in a construction zone would be an understatement. And the weekends are short. We watch those home renovation shows now with more than a little envy of the team of construction workers and designers somehow able to finish a whole home renovation in 6 weeks. Right now our little two-person team is shooting for something north of 6 months… But it’s coming together, piece by piece. Our kitchen is organized, our garden is growing, we seem to have won at least the first few battles with the bugs, and the boxes are slowly beginning to disappear – replaced by newer, more exciting boxes filled with tile and vanities and the gosh darn prettiest wood floor I can’t wait to put down. So, we’ll get there. But I won’t lie — this little excursion provided a welcome escape. The post Newport appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> /2015/08/03/newport/feed/ 2 Squash blossom salad with blackberries and burrata /2015/07/20/squash-blossom-salad-with-blackberries-and-burrata/ /2015/07/20/squash-blossom-salad-with-blackberries-and-burrata/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:31:41 +0000 /?p=15370 As a little girl, I remember sitting for hours in the grass, making flower crowns from wild daisies, and occasionally from my mother’s nasturtiums… the first time I realized that flowers could be food, it seemed almost too good to be true. Despite a propensity to climb trees and roll around in the dirt, the […] The post Squash blossom salad with blackberries and burrata appeared first on A Thousand Threads. ]]> As a little girl, I remember sitting for hours in the grass, making flower crowns from wild daisies, and occasionally from my mother’s nasturtiums… the first time I realized that flowers could be food, it seemed almost too good to be true. Despite a propensity to climb trees and roll around in the dirt, the girly girl inside me knew that something truly special made it possible to put real rose petals on cake. Flowers are such a simple solution in a time when everything seems complicated… no matter how many obstacles arise – and arise, they do – in our home improvements, the garden continues to grow. Asbestos tiles? Have some squash. Warped walls? The tomatoes will be ready soon. Still battling bugs? Maybe they like all those vegetables on your counters. Hmm. We’d meant for this summer to be something of a return to normalcy, to a focus on each other and the little things that make summer so great… but the projects are piled high, and the weekends are filled to the brim. I wonder if we really have it in us to slow down… to sit for hours in the sweet summer air, grass stains on our fingers. … perhaps we’ll find out when the projects are done. One thing is certain; we’ll surely have a beautiful new place to sit. Squash blossom salad with blackberries and burrata Bunch arugula 2 Belgian endives 1 cucumber 1/2 pint blackberries Burrata cheese Freshly-picked squash blossoms Mix all ingredients in a bowl, serve with lemon vinaigrette. Lemon vinaigrette 3 tablespoons sherry vinegar 2 tablespoons olive oil Juice of 1/2 a lemon 1/2 tablespoon course-chopped chives Salt and pepper, to taste Mix all ingredients, to taste. Serve on the side or drizzle over salad just before serving.


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按標籤顯示項目： 域名轉入 - 100hub.com 日本虛擬主機 域名註冊 SSL憑證 專業服務 - 100hub.com 日本虛擬主機 域名註冊 SSL憑證 專業服務 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:55:20 +0800 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management zh-tw 我們如何選擇域名類型(後綴)？ /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E6%88%91%E5%80%91%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E9%81%B8%E6%93%87%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E9%A1%9E%E5%9E%8B-%E5%BE%8C%E7%B6%B4-%EF%BC%9F.html /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E6%88%91%E5%80%91%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E9%81%B8%E6%93%87%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E9%A1%9E%E5%9E%8B-%E5%BE%8C%E7%B6%B4-%EF%BC%9F.html 我們常常聽到一些非常奇怪的說法例如網站在台灣 要選用 com.tw 或 tw 排名才會高？網站要給大陸看得到 就要選用 cn 域名？網站在日本 co.jp 比起 jp 還受人信任？ 以上這些奇怪的說法 在我們的認知是完全否定的！請勿道聽瞎說！ 不論在哪裡 我們首推 .com .net 以及 新頂級跟你產業有關的後綴！如果是非營利機構 則是 .org 首選. 最早 .com 是指 公司 .net 是指網路提供者相關產業,但是到了後期 越來越多 .net 被運用在非網路產業上慢慢變成 xx網 都在使用 .net例如 www.ettoday.net 就是媒體業 非網路資訊產業 所以 .net 也慢慢模糊成為一般公司會選擇的類別之一 我們非常不建議選擇 有地域性的域名 例如 tw jp …等等除非你在 .com .net 或新頂級找不到滿意的名字 才會退而求其次選擇 tw jp 之類的地域性域名.因為 網路是無國界的 何必畫地自限？ .com 比 .com.tw 還短還要好記 為何還要多加個 .tw ？選用 .tw 不能代表愛國！ok? 至於 域名會不會讓人信任 並不是看後綴 而是看內容以及經營方式！如果後綴會影響信任 那詐騙集團買一大堆受信任的後綴 你就會被騙了吧？ 再來就是 新頂級的概略說明例如 你是補習班業者 就可以選擇 .school 這類的後綴可以很容易讓客戶一看就知道你是哪類的相關網站！會讓人很好記憶！ 最後還是要強調 就是網站要有人氣 不是選個好域名就一定成功 用心經營才是王道！ 有好的內容 再爛的域名 也會有人為你去輸入到網址列！沒內容的網站 再厲害的域名 你可能看10次都記不起來！這是絕對不變的真理！ 總結 .com .net & 新頂級 > .tw 或 com.tw .jp .... 以上是 我們選擇域名的準則！那你呢？ 謝謝收看 下次再見！]]> service@100hub.com (Gary Shen) 虛擬主機 Thu, 26 May 2016 23:11:06 +0800 如果域名經銷商 倒了 我的域名怎辦? /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E5%A6%82%E6%9E%9C%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E7%B6%93%E9%8A%B7%E5%95%86-%E5%80%92%E4%BA%86-%E6%88%91%E7%9A%84%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E6%80%8E%E8%BE%A6.html /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E5%A6%82%E6%9E%9C%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E7%B6%93%E9%8A%B7%E5%95%86-%E5%80%92%E4%BA%86-%E6%88%91%E7%9A%84%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E6%80%8E%E8%BE%A6.html 常常有人會有這種疑問 域名經銷商 倒了 會不會有風險？其實是質疑我們 怕我們倒了啦 因為我們賣域名不算第一也算第二便宜了很多人會怕我們是詐騙集團 小人之心？君子難為啊！ 先來說說程序吧 如果 域名經銷商倒了 怎辦？ 首先查詢 域名的 Whois 看看域名註冊商是誰因為就算 經銷商不見了 域名註冊商也會存在就算 註冊商倒了 ICANN (最高網際網路名稱與IP地址分配機構) 也會存在 國際域名架構大致為 ICANN(IANA) -> 域名註冊商 -> 域名經銷商 -> 域名註冊人TW域名架構大致為 ICANN(IANA) -> TWNIC -> 域名註冊商 -> 域名經銷商 -> 域名註冊人 以下以我們 100hub.com 域名為例 Whois 查詢結果如下Domain Name: 100HUB.COMRegistrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COMSponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 303Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.comReferral URL: 由上得知 我們域名是註冊商是 PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM如果 經銷商 倒了 跑路 這時候 您就可以向 註冊商 提出您是域名所有人要求更換經銷商 或者 要求域名轉出 到別的註冊商或經銷商 但您要證明你是域名所有人 這時候 您在註冊時留下的 Whois 資料就格外重要特是註冊時留的聯絡信箱 千萬要可以收到往來信件 以上狀況通常 必須是確定經銷商 無營運狀態 不然 註冊商大多不會直接受理一般用戶的問題如果經銷商還聯絡得到人 註冊商會請您找所屬經銷商處理域名問題 以下為常見最高管理單位官網連結ICANN 官網 <- 通常不會這找到這層 除非你域名的註冊商不見了IANA 官網 <- 通常不會這找到這層 除非ICANN倒了TWNIC 官網 <- 此為TW域名最高管理單位 除非台灣不見了 才找更高單位 事實上 註冊商 或 經銷商 只是 經手與服務只要您有合法付費註冊使用域名 最高單位 ICANN 或 IANA 都必須為您負責到底以上說明 如有錯誤 請自行 Google 謝謝]]> service@100hub.com (Gary Shen) 虛擬主機 Sun, 27 Mar 2016 01:55:45 +0800 註冊域名 登記資料亂填 可以嗎？ /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E8%A8%BB%E5%86%8A%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D-%E7%99%BB%E8%A8%98%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E4%BA%82%E5%A1%AB-%E5%8F%AF%E4%BB%A5%E5%97%8E%EF%BC%9F.html /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E8%A8%BB%E5%86%8A%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D-%E7%99%BB%E8%A8%98%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E4%BA%82%E5%A1%AB-%E5%8F%AF%E4%BB%A5%E5%97%8E%EF%BC%9F.html 或許 很多人 會認為應該可以吧！？ 但是 真的沒事嗎？ 其實 就算你要亂填 也請你 假裝得像一點！裝的一點都不像 很容易被踢下床！例如 你姓名填 abc efg 或者 電話 填 123456789 這種連假裝都不願意 那你很有機會遭人檢舉 導致域名被暫停最嚴重 域名可能會被直接刪除 且完全不會退還費用以上處罰 皆遵循 ICANN 明文規定 域名登記人必須確保登記資料正確性 事實上 如果你有得罪人 或者 有人真的閒閒無聊去投訴質疑你的whois登記資料為造假那你就真的一定要提出書面證明你登記的資料為真實資料例如 掃描或照相電話帳單 上頭有您的姓名地址電話 或者 身份證 之類的文件證明且要說明你為何要申請該域名 作為何種用途 手續非常麻煩 所以沒事 請你還是不要亂填寫假資料若真的不想讓人知道您的個人資料 請購買 ID隱私保護功能 很多註冊商都可以加購ID隱私保護功能但有部份域名不支援ID隱私保護功能 例如 tw 系列域名皆不支援 總結如下 你可以三擇一1.如果可以 請完全填寫真實資料 2.如果真的想填假資料 也請裝得像一點 但最少email一定要填寫真實資料若剛好沒被發現檢舉 你會偷笑 省下ID隱私保護費用 3.最安全的做法 完全填寫真實資料 並加購ID隱私保護 因為日前 我們接到幾個客戶域名被投訴 資料造假結果發現 大多是 連假裝都懶得假裝 電話竟然敢填 000000000那域名被投訴造假也是自己活該剛好而已！ 不要不相信 網路上 無聊人士真的很多 謝謝！  ]]> service@100hub.com (Gary Shen) 虛擬主機 Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:19:39 +0800 Webnic中招?!不願見到的事情真的發生了! /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/webnic%E4%B8%AD%E6%8B%9B-%E4%B8%8D%E9%A1%98%E8%A6%8B%E5%88%B0%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%8B%E6%83%85%E7%9C%9F%E7%9A%84%E7%99%BC%E7%94%9F%E4%BA%86.html /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/webnic%E4%B8%AD%E6%8B%9B-%E4%B8%8D%E9%A1%98%E8%A6%8B%E5%88%B0%E7%9A%84%E4%BA%8B%E6%83%85%E7%9C%9F%E7%9A%84%E7%99%BC%E7%94%9F%E4%BA%86.html 日前於 2015年2月26日 許多媒體報導 報導網址如下 Webnic Registrar Blamed for Hijack of Lenovo, Google Domains Lenovo.com hacked – Superfish vigilante attack? Lenovo vows 'cyber attack' investigation but won't discuss all damage hackers did China Based Lenovo Victim of Cyber Attack Report: Hack of Malaysian Company Reason For Google, Lenovo Redirects China's Lenovo becomes victim of cyber-attack 所有報導指出 域名系統商 Webinc 疑似遭到駭客入侵 直指駭客可能可以直接將 域名轉移過戶 或者 隨意更改域名的DNS伺服器導致出現錯誤的網站內容我們看到此報導時 只能用震驚來形容! 其實我們也是擁有 Webinc 經銷身份 但我們從未採用他們的系統替我們客戶註冊域名!首要原因 是資安考量 次要原因 則是成本考量 因為幾年前 該公司 也遭到駭客攻擊 導致許多域名暫時失效 或 無法轉址.所以我們一直將其列入觀察名單 看來這次是件將導致 Webinc 會被我們列入拒絕往來戶. 其實我們也不願意看到任何一家系統商 遭到如此惡劣的攻擊或入侵 因為這會搞的大家人心恍恍.誰也不敢保證 下一個 受駭者 是誰! 也有可能是我們其中一家域名系統商! 目前我們所知 台灣有許多域名註冊經銷商 有部分採用的域名系統商就是 Webinc.例如 匯x PxHOME x邦 亞x電信 捕x網 等等 部分或全部域名採用 Webinc 不論 是國際 .com .net 或 台灣 .com.tw .tw 等等... 如何知道 自己域名系統商是否為 Webinc 提供 可以透過 查詢自己的域名如果查詢結果 有任何 Webinc 或 Web Commerce Communications 以及 WebCC 字樣 就表示 你的域名是透過 Webinc 公司註冊. 是否要提早轉移 到其他系統商 就請各位看官 自行斟酌了!]]> service@100hub.com (Gary Shen) 虛擬主機 Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0800 域名隱私保護基本說明 /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E9%9A%B1%E7%A7%81%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E5%9F%BA%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%AA%E6%98%8E.html /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E9%9A%B1%E7%A7%81%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E5%9F%BA%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%AA%E6%98%8E.html 域名隱私保護 坊間有好幾種英文名稱如下Domain PrivacyPrivacy ProtectionPrivate Registration 域名隱私保護有價值嗎？當然有價值 最少在外國 啟用此功能 每年每個域名 都需額外付費 5 ~ 10 美元不等 GoDaddy 則是每年每個域名 249 台幣。而我們是以超低市場價格 100元 / 年 提供此服務。 為什麼要隱私保護？當購買一個域名，你必須提供正確的個人資料，否則您的域名可能會被終止使用權，因為這將違反域名註冊協議。ICANN規定該資料必須登記在公開的 Whois 資料庫中供任何人查詢，你可能因為個資被公開而受到垃圾信件騷擾和身份被竊取以及被詐騙集團利用。隱私保護可以確保您的個人資料不被使用在 Whois 資料庫登記中。 它是如何工作的？ 當您啟用隱私保護的域名，將會把公開的個人資料替換成隱私保護系統商的聯絡資料，以確保您的資料不會被公開。你依然擁有該域名的全部所有權，並可完全控制該域名。 由下圖可以可以輕易了解左邊是未啟用隱私保護的狀態 個人資料一目了然右邊則是已啟用以私保護的狀態 只顯示資料是隱私保護系統商的公司資料   至於哪些域名種類有支援隱私保護功能 請參閱我們的域名價格表 謝謝!]]> service@100hub.com (Gary Shen) 虛擬主機 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:02:21 +0800 常用域名價格比較! /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E5%B8%B8%E7%94%A8%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E5%83%B9%E6%A0%BC%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83.html /blog/%E8%99%9B%E6%93%AC%E4%B8%BB%E6%A9%9F/%E5%B8%B8%E7%94%A8%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E5%83%B9%E6%A0%BC%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83.html 網址種類 常用域名續費+ID保護 價格比較 (2014-09-13) 1年 2年 3年 5年  續費總價 續費總價 續費總價 續費總價 Privacy Protection(隱私保護) 本站:免費支援GoDaddy:249 / 每個域名 / 每年網路中文:官網未見支援說明PChome:官網未見支援說明亞太電信:官網未見支援說明 .com (勝)本站:385GoDaddy:475網路中文:720PChome:720亞太電信:648 (勝)本站:770GoDaddy:950網路中文:1,360PChome:1,360亞太電信:1,224 (勝)本站:1,140GoDaddy:1,425網路中文:1,920PChome:1,920亞太電信:1,728 (勝)本站:1,875GoDaddy:2,375網路中文:2,750PChome:2,750亞太電信:2,475 .com+隱私保護 (大勝)本站:385GoDaddy:724 (大勝)本站:770GoDaddy:1,448 (大勝)本站:1,140GoDaddy:2,172 (大勝)本站:1,875GoDaddy:3,620 網址種類 1年續費總價 2年續費總價 3年續費總價 5年續費總價  .net (大勝)本站:325GoDaddy:505網路中文:720PChome:720亞太電信:648 (大勝)本站:650GoDaddy:1,010網路中文:1,360PChome:1,360亞太電信:1,224 (大勝)本站:960GoDaddy:1,515網路中文:1,920PChome:1,920亞太電信:1,728 (大勝)本站:1,575GoDaddy:2,525網路中文:2,750PChome:2,750亞太電信:2,475 .net+隱私保護 (大勝)本站:325GoDaddy:754 (大勝)本站:650GoDaddy:1,508 (大勝)本站:960


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100K Pathogen Genome Project Genomes for Public Health & Food Safety Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:07:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fda_genome4-150x150.jpg 100K Pathogen Genome Project 32 32 Multidrug-resistant abortive Campylobacter jejuni draft genome from Northern California /2017/04/multidrug-resistant-abortive-campylobacter-jejuni-draft-genome-from-northern-california/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:06:42 +0000 /?p=354 Weis, Allison M., Kristen A. Clothier, Bihua C. Huang, Nguyet Kong, and Bart C. Weimer. 2017. Multidrug-resistant abortive Campylobacter jejuni draft genome from Northern California. Genome Announcements 5(15):e 00171-17. (DOI:10.1128/genomeA.00171-17) ]]> Congratulations to Narine Arabyan on her newly published paper /2016/07/congratulations-to-narine-arabyan-on-her-newly-published-paper/ Mon, 11 Jul 2016 21:16:28 +0000 /?p=348 Congratulations to Narine Arabyan on her recent paper published in Nature.  The paper,  Salmonella Degrades the Host Glycoalyx Leading to Altered Infection and Glycan Remodeling, can be read here. ]]> Coffee has a microbiome that alters flavor /2016/03/coffee-has-a-microbiome-that-alters-flavor/ Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:53:51 +0000 /?p=330 contributed by Bart Weimer: A fuel that keeps people and science moving is coffee. Humans have had a fascination with coffee for over 9000 years! We have long recognized that coffee flavor is extremely different among regions f the world, but also by brewing method. The exact same coffee variety can have different flavors depending on the soil, cultivation elevation, region of the world, roasting method, extraction temperature, and contact with metal during the brewing process. The popularity of coffee has boomed in recent years. Until recently, the microbiome of coffee was not widely characterized. Most knew that it was a fermentation process that altered the flavor, but a recent study by Ludlow et al. (2016) demonstrated that the flavor can be manipulated and tracked based on the fungal microbiome. This is a great step forward in the coffee world since the industry largely depends on the native biota to ferment the beans right after harvest. This could enable use of starter cultures to alter the microbiome so that it can direct the community diversity. Ludlow et al. demonstrated that the microbiome of coffee (oh and by the way, cocao) is directed by Saccharomyces cerevisiae – the common bread yeast!! They also demonstrated the the genomic variation was distinct between regions of the world and aligned with human migration around the world as we trekked out of Africa. Since coffee is native to Ethiopia they postulated that humans distributed coffee and variations in the microbiome around the world and that the microbiome adapted to the new locals. As a coffee snob, this work is fascinating because it starts to describe a microevolution for a commodity that humans have persisted with for thousands of years. Ludlow, Catherine L., Gareth A. Cromie, Cecilia Garmendia-Torres, Amy Sirr, Michelle Hays, Colburn Field, Eric W. Jeffery, Justin C. Fay, Aimée M. Dudley. 2016. Independent Origins of Yeast Associated with Coffee and Cacao Fermentation. Current Biology () ]]> 100K Genome Project named in GenomeWeb Article /2016/01/100k-genome-project-named-in-genomeweb-article/ Mon, 11 Jan 2016 14:54:51 +0000 /?p=264   Outbreak Tracking, Infectious Disease Diagnostics Becoming Key Applications for NGS Dec 28, 2015 | Monica Heger Premium NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In 2011, experts predicted that within five to 10 years, clinical microbiology labs would routinely sequence microbial genomes on a next-generation sequencing instrument, and that it would cost less than €100 ($109) to generate a complete bacterial genome. Four years later, those predictions are starting to bear fruit.  “NGS is becoming more and more routine in clinical microbiology labs,” Ted Pak, a graduate student in Andrew Kasarkis’ lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told GenomeWeb. His lab recently sequenced serial isolates of a patient with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection in order to determine whether the hospital’s recent uptick in infections was an outbreak or separate transmission events. NGS offers a level of granularity that other technologies, like PCR or traditional strain typing methods like pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, do not. It is more comprehensive than PCR, able to analyze not just known genomic sites but the entire genome. And it has a much higher resolution than pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, which cannot say whether two hospital patients infected with the same bug acquired their infections separately, or whether their infections are related — a key difference that can impact measures the hospital takes to control the spread of infection. In the US, there are a number of signs that point to the adoption of the technology within hospitals. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, has set aside $2.3 million in fiscal year 2016 to roll out NGS and bioinformatics technologies for the detection of infectious disease outbreaks in certain states. The CDC has also been actively involved in a number of research projects. For instance, it collaborated with the Translational Genomics Research Institute to sequence multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains that produce carbapenemase enzyme, which confers resistance to the antibiotic carbapenem. These so-called KPC-producing organisms are fortunately still rare, although Brandi Limbago, deputy director of the CDC’s Division of Healthcare and Quality Promotion’s Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch, previously referred to them as “nightmare bacteria.” By focusing efforts to study the mechanism by which they’ve acquired drug resistance now, the hope is to stem the spread of these strains before they become problematic. The CDC is also involved with a large-scale project to sequence the genomes of 100,000 foodborne pathogens. The University of California, Davis is spearheading the 100K Genomes Project in order to build up a public database of genomes to help identify genes associated with antibiotic resistance, persistence, and pathogenesis, as well as genes that provide information about the strain’s location, serotype, and its associated host. The National Institutes of Health is also playing a significant role. Its interest in using the technology to sequence pathogens responsible for infections and hospital outbreaks was piqued in 2012, when NIH researchers used NGS to figure out how 18 patients at the NIH Clinical Center became infected with drug-resistant K. pneumoniae. Comparing the genomes from all 18 patients helped determine a likely transmission route in which the first patient transmitted the bacteria to other patients on two different occasions. The sequencing results were even able to determine that transmission occurred from two different parts of her body. Now, NIH researchers are testing whole-genome and amplicon sequencing-based protocols to diagnose microbial infections. Initially, they plan to test the methods on discarded portions of 250 samples that have received standard testing in the clinical microbiology lab in order to evaluate the utility of NGS for infectious disease diagnostics in the context of a routine hospital clinical microbiology lab, Karen Frank, chief of the microbiology service at the NIH Clinical Center, told GenomeWeb. “Initial results are very promising,” she said in an email, and the team has now progressed to testing primary specimens. Nonetheless, she said, there are still a number of challenges for integrating NGS into clinical microbiology labs, including the “expertise required for data analysis and interpretation, the absence of commercially available push-button diagnostic systems, and regulatory issues relating to validation, quality control, reporting to the medical record, and genetic privacy.” Modern microbiology Across the Atlantic, researchers and public health officials in the UK are taking a systematic approach to moving NGS into clinical microbiology labs. For the last several years, members of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration have been sequencing pathogen genomes to build up genomic databases of various bugs. Recently, a group led by the University of Cambridge published a database of over 1,000 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusgenomes. The genomes came from 46 laboratories that had submitted clinical isolates to the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. The database can now be used as a resource for future surveillance and outbreak investigations of MRSA, the authors wrote. Aside from MRSA, the research team is building up databases of other pathogens, including vancomycin-resistant Streptococci, Sharon Peacock, a clinical microbiology professor at the University of Cambridge, previously told GenomeWeb. Other researchers within the Modernising Medical Microbiology group at the University of Oxford are working on developing an NGS-based test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The group published a validation of the test in The Lancet this month, demonstrating that it was accurate, faster than traditional testing methods, and would cost about 7 percent less than current diagnostic tests. Public Health England is now conducting a feasibility study on 2,000 samples to see if the test can be implemented in routine diagnostics, and the Modernising Medical Microbiology team is working on developing NGS-based tests for Escherichia coli and S. aureus. Real-time tracking Last summer, researchers put NGS technology to the ultimate test, deploying it in the midst of an ongoing outbreak of a rapidly spreading pathogen in mostly rural areas of Western Africa without major medical laboratory infrastructure. In the midst of the Ebola outbreak, researchers with the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research and the US Army Medical Research of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) set up a genome sequencing laboratory to help manage outbreaks of the virus. Earlier this month, the team published whole-genome sequencing results of 140 Ebola isolates collected during the second wave of the outbreak in Liberia. The data indicated that most Liberian infections came from an isolate from Sierra Leone. The researchers also noted that the results suggested the second wave of the outbreak may have been different from the first wave, which began in March 2014, but fizzled out much more quickly than the second wave that began in May 2014. Understanding the origin of an outbreak and how it spreads is important for figuring out how to manage and stem transmission, and could help better manage future outbreaks. Some groups are pushing to implement newer nanopore sequencing technology that could generate whole-genome sequence data faster and in the field. Two groups from Europe and the US took the USB stick-sized MinIon from Oxford Nanopore Technologies to Guinea and Liberia to sequence Ebola isolates. Joshua Quick, a graduate student in Nick Loman’s lab at the University of Birmingham, set up three MinIon devices, a PCR machine, and four laptops at a Guinean hospital with no lab equipment aside from a refrigerator, freezer, and a back-up generator. Quick was able to generate Ebola sequence data from samples shipped in from sites just a few hours north of the hospital, and analyzed over a dozen samples in a couple of weeks. Challenges Despite the progress made this year, a number of challenges remain. First, although the MinIon is especially promising for tracking outbreaks in resource-poor areas in real time, the technology is still new and needs further validation before it can be routinely used. Perhaps a more crucial hurdle will be to ensure that the vast amounts of pathogen sequence data are publicly available, according to Andrew Kasarskis, co-director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai Hospital. His team is now sequencing clinical isolates of Clostridium difficile infections in attempt to develop a workflow for tracking infection in the hospital. One problem with clinical data is that it is proprietary and often contains sensitive patient information, he said. But, if the hospitals and research groups work in isolation, the real insights into how pathogens spread and get transmitted, what types of antibiotic resistance elements are becoming more common, and detecting the start of an outbreak early will not be possible, he said. For instance, if a patient with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae was previously hospitalized in one state, but then a patient a different state becomes sick with the same strain, “you can say you’ve imported the bug from here to there,” he said. “But if those groups  keep their data siloed, you wouldn’t know.” Aside from data sharing, another challenge will be managing the sheer amount of data that is produced. Hospitals and clinical microbiology labs will “have to get used to the generation, storage, and interpretation of all that data,” Kasarskis said. “It’s not simple.” These challenges are starting to be overcome though, Kasarskis said, as more and more clinical microbiology labs start testing NGS protocols. He predicted that such testing will be done both in large centralized laboratories as well as in hospitals. Pak added that although PCR is a promising technology for rapid diagnostics, it “won’t give you as much information as sequencing.” Click here for GenomeWeb ]]> UC Davis 100k Genome Project co-PI in Genome Canada’s $10 mil. grant /2015/07/uc-davis-100k-genome-project-part-of-genome-canadas-10-mil-grant/ Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:58:24 +0000 /?p=254 Researchers from McGill and Laval universities will receive close to $10 million over the next four years for work that is designed to both identify and find natural solutions for the reducing the growth of the salmonella strains that cause human disease. This is one of two Quebec-based research projects that will receive funding from Genome Canada and Génome Québec under the program Genomics and Feeding the Future.” To read the full article, click here. ]]> FDA Demo Days Announced /2015/06/fda-demo-days-announced/ Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:31:06 +0000 /?p=244 The FDA Demo Days for the first ever Food Safety Challenge have been announced.  Join us via live webcast on July 7, 2015 to see finalist UC Davis’ team presentation. The starting time is 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)   Please notice the link below to sign in, (meeting ID: 278 279 836, meeting password: 07072015).  Also, for anyone in the DC area who would like to go to demo days, it is now open to the public, you can register by clicking on the eventbrite link. Live Webcast information Eventbite public registration ]]> UC Davis/Mars Inc. FDA Food Safety Challenge Finalist News Articles /2015/05/uc-davismars-inc-fda-food-safety-challenge-finalist-press-releases/ Thu, 14 May 2015 21:04:26 +0000 /?p=221 FDA Announcement Food Safety News Article Daily Democrat Article The Packer Article   ]]> UC Davis/Mars Inc. team advances to finals of FDA Food Safety Challenge /2015/05/uc-davismars-inc-team-advances-to-finals-of-fda-food-safety-challenge/ Wed, 13 May 2015 21:12:29 +0000 /?p=215 May 12th, 2015 @ 4:17 pm by Andy Fell     A team from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and scientists from Mars, Inc. has been selected as a finalist for the Food and Drug Administration Food Safety Challenge competition. UC Davis and four other finalists will travel to Washington D.C. this summer to participate in a technology “demo day” where the final winner will be selected. The finalists were selected for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially Salmonella in fresh, minimally processed produce. The FDA is also looking for solutions that can test for other microbial pathogens in other foods. Food poisoning affects one in six Americans every year, according to the FDA. Salmonella alone causes over a million illnesses, thousands of hospitalizations and some 450 deaths a year. Yet identifying a small amount of harmful bacteria on produce, among many more that are harmless or even potentialy beneficial, is difficult. Team members are: from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Professor Bart Weimer, graduate student Azarene Foutouhi and postdoc Dylan Storey; and Bob Baker and Peter Markwell, both senior scientists at Mars, Inc. The UC Davis-Mars Inc. team entry features patented “high throughput captured concentration” technology invented by Weimer and further demonstrated through a research partnership with Mars Inc. for use in many foods. The test uses fluidized bed technology and beads that grab the bacteria from the food, and can recognize, detect and verify bacteria in less than four hours without the need for growing the microbes. This will provide the food industry with a test that reduces the time from about one week to less than one day. “Our technology is sensitive, fast and accurate and allows us to test large sample volumes, which is needed by large food processing operations and has been lacking in the past,” said Weimer. “It doesn’t require the growing of bacteria which is time consuming.” This first-ever FDA Food Safety Challenge was developed under the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, which grants all federal agencies broad authority to conduct prize competitions to spur innovation, solve tough problems, and advance their core missions. A panel of food safety and pathogen detection experts from the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture judged the submissions, determined finalists, and will select a winner. The UC Davis-Mars Inc. team was awarded $20,000 from a total prize pool of $500,000, with the remaining pot to be distributed to the winner. ]]>


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:13:27 +0000peachesdisappointingbouldersuccesslegends of eating101 peachesepicmetaphorsminneapolisnewsorganicovereatingpicturessupermarkettragictraveltwin citieswill it nog100 peachesbattleboards of tourismbruisedcafecharitycoffeecomplaintscookinggirlsmeatballsparodypreviewrecipiereviewrulessandwichsponsor a reviewsweetstim tamsunripe100 Peaches Projectnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-5491111147532270497Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:26:00 +00002008-02-04T12:28:15.281-08:00Peaches In HistoryDid you know that basketball was first played with <a href=" baskets</a>?<br /><br />Found this thanks to Kate Beaton, who is my favorite person on the internet.2008/02/peaches-in-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-3543662414973636861Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:55:00 +00002008-02-03T10:56:47.360-08:00peaches24,000 Peaches<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="; alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Made outta peaches. From <a href=" Hunter</a>.2008/02/24000-peaches.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-3036265513701545046Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:52:00 +00002007-12-14T15:53:05.653-08:00coffeewill it nogWill Coffee Nog? Yes!Nog here goes in the place of cream, making your morning coffee a thick, frothy holiday-flavored beverage. The cinnamon and nutmeg flavors complement fresh coffee, and the nog thickens the broth up, making your morning coffee-nog a hearty treat. Nothing says Christmas-themed sweaters and holiday cheer like a big steaming glass of nog in the morning.2007/12/will-coffee-nog-yes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-1250661981682314706Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:34:00 +00002007-12-14T14:44:02.916-08:00will it nogNew Feature: Will It Nog?It's "the season" again - the season for egg nog. Dairy department employees the world over start stocking the shelves with the thick, creamy, liquid that is as mysterious as it is tasty. What the hell is it? Why does it mingle onto our supermarket shelves only in winter, to go mosey off once the Christmas trees are migrating out to their January dumpsters? It is pointless to ask these questions. They have no answer. It is simply the Rhythm of the universe, enshrined in tradition as surely as the movement of the stars or the passage of the seasons.<br /><br />To celebrate the glorious winter brew I'm taking this blog out of hiatus. We'll be starting a new section: <span style="font-style: italic;">Will it nog? </span>I'll test popular foodstuffs and ask the important question the MAINSTREAM MEDIA are afraid to ask: will it taste good with nog?<br /><br />Suggestions for foodstuffs can be left in the comments.2007/12/new-feature-will-it-nog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-4509578614707636858Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:01:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:32.578-08:00100 peachesdisappointingepiclegends of eatingminneapolisnewspeachespicturessuccesstragicPeach # 100: Peaches in the summertime, apples in the fall.After my dinner, I had the perfect idea for desert. It's a really simple recpie, and I haven't seen it anywhere before, so here you go, passed from generations of Mackies straight to you:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Ingredients<br /></div>1 peach<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Instructions<br /></div>Eat peach.<br /><br />I've had really great experiences with this recipe. People always ask me for it and I tell them I can't give away my secret. But there was a problem with this night's peach. This peach sucked.<br /><br />The skin felt rubbery, and when I bit in, I found a green and grainy peach, one with no flavor, edible only to the really desperate. It was par on course for the tasteless, over-priced peaches I've become used to in Minneapolis.<br /><br />But this wasn't just any peach. I looked at it, a gash in the fruit from where I'd bitten, a medallion of flesh dangling from a couple threads of skin. And I felt such a surge of bother and worry, the same sort of feeling I get when my room's not clean and I know there must be something I can do to set things right, only I didn't know what to do. Here I was, my hundredth peach in hand, and it sucked, the peach of all peaches, the culmination of a summer's worth of eating.<br /><br />And the feeling reminded me of how summer itself was slipping away. Now when I wake up and the mornings are gray as pencil shavings, I can't help but turn my sleepy mind towards the passing summer. And more than the heat or anything, I think about the sheer possibility in an American summer. The season whispers a promise both of laziness and growth. We get to slack off in our jobs, go on vacation, be free. But at the same time, we face a world wealthy with possibility and girls in swim suits. While we've toiled all winter, now we get to harvest, now we get to eat.<br /><br />But now - it's no longer summer. Winter will soon be here, the girls will put away their camisoles and bundle themselves up. We'll forget the barbeques, the beers; we'll forget the holidays; we'll watch the snow and wait until Christmas.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111732003306658994" border="0" /></a><br />And here I am, with a bad peach.<br /><br />Look at the photo above. Notice how the flesh looks a bit dull. That's not a trick of the light - in real life, the peach looked almost ashen. And tasted that way. And look at my poor face! This was one bad peach.<br /><br />I wanted to be angry. I wanted to be able to blame somebody. But the worst part was that I couldn't do any of that. I could only sit there, feeling like I had lost out, that I had finally gotten invited to the biggest, coolest party ever and I'd left at two or three in the morning after hanging out awkwardly on the sidelines, knowing that I was out of place - that I didn't belong.<br /><br />So that's it, my hundredth peach. A success of sort.<br /><br />So keep your eyes open because soon I'll be posting a little peach retrospective, and give some clues about what will happen to this blog now that the peach project is finished. And thanks for sticking with me for this long!2007/09/peach-100-peaches-in-summertime-apples.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-2339729279021418311Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:10:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:32.781-08:00peachespreviewPeach # 100: Preview?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111276756627841042" border="0" /></a>Is this Peach 100? I don't know. I thought it might be. It sat in its paper bag for a day, two days, and today I reached in to touch it. The flesh felt almost elastic, the skin had a couple unsightly discolorations to it - and worst of all - the peach had no smell. I've found that fragrence is the most reliable measure of quality in a peach. A peach that you can't smell when you stick your nose right up to the skin usually isn't a good peach. So now I'm worried. I don't want this peach to be horrible. I want it to be a good peach. So maybe tonight, after work, I'll go to the produce asile and search for a new peach. Or maybe I'll bit the bullet and realize, hey I'm trying to get peaches in mid-September. Of course they'll suck. Even if it is the ultimate peach, the crowning piece of stone-fruit in my peach-blogging empire.2007/09/peach-100-preview.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-1696277134662380597Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:28:00 +00002007-09-10T15:36:17.408-07:00legends of eatingsuccesssupermarketThe Wedge: Alright In My BooksIf you've been following this blog closely, you'll have noticed that I've been molested by some really truly bad peaches recently. The past two batches - both bought from the same supermarket - turned out brown, mealy, and just about as rancid as you could imagine, every single one of them. I ate a lot of bad peaches, which for me - well, really puts me in a bad mood. It's like I've been on bad date after bad date after bad date - so many that I now don't know what a good date, or, er, a good peach looks like! (Got tangled up in metaphors for a second there, sorry!)<br /><br />So I went down to the offending supermarket today, the Wedge. The Wedge is an upscale hippy-de-doo-dah place abou a block away from my house. I approached the customer service desk with a bit of hesitation, but once I told them my story, they were really nice and understanding - they said they'd gotten a lot of similar complaints and had changed supplier. They weighed up the number of peaches we I'd bought and gave me a full refund. Which is nice. I mean, it sure as hell doesn't make up for the awful peaches I forced into my gastric system, but it's something. I picked up some victuals and a block of chocolate for my roomie, because sometimes it's just nice to have chocholate given to you at inopportune times.<br /><br />I nearly bought a new batch of peaches, too - but I stopped myself. The next peach I eat will be that special number 100. And while the people at the Wedge assured me that they'd switched suppliers, I'm not going to run the risk of eating another bad peach. Not again.2007/09/wedge-alright-in-my-books.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-2409010247358538645Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:51:00 +00002007-09-09T20:06:23.584-07:00101 peachescomplaintsdisappointingtwin citiesPeaches #s 96-99: Same Old Song And I Sure Don't Like The TuneSo here's the tune: I get a bunch of peaches, wait until they seem ripe. I wait until they look like your usual tasty peach: the flesh firm, but the skin has a bit of give to it. Then I find the inside of the peach is the worst possible peach-inside you can imagine. The word to remember is grainy. The flesh is often deep red and even gray. They taste, these peaches, nastier than any other peach I have eaten in my entire life. One peculiar phenomena - their skin breaks easily, like wet paper. They are disappointing, icky peaches - peaches from hell.<br /><br />The last twenty or so peaches I've had have been like this. Now, it may be that the peaches in Minneapolis are horrible. It may be that the growing season is ending and so I'm eating the worst of the corp. But I also bought every single one of these peaches from a local organic grocery store. This particular grocery store, The Wedge, is a hip and pricey cooperative a block away from my house. Tomorrow, in investigative peach-blogger fashion, I'll go down to the customer service desk and talk to them about their horrible peaches and try to find out where the come from and why they're more nasty than peachy. I mean, there are other peach lovers out there who have been burned by this batch, and someone needs to stand up for them. Expect citizen-peach-journalism at its finest.<br /><br />I'll also head down to another grocery store and find the best looking peach I can find. It will be the last peach of the season. I mean really, I love peaches more than any other food. But I haven't eaten an orange this summer, or strawberries, or even an apple. I'm looking forward to some variety!<br /><br />If anybody out there has any ideas of how I can celebrate this legendary peach, or record it, drop it in the comments box. This might also be a good time to say hello.<br /><br />So in the next couple of days keep a look-out for peach 100. It'll be a grand affair. I'm thinking fireworks, live videoblogging, excessive use of internet thesauruses, pictures, flash animations, the whole works. I will leave no gimmick unturned in recording the 100th peach. That's what you can expect from this, the clearinghouse for peach-blogging news.2007/09/peaches-s-96-99-same-old-song-and-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-8797673904474384221Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:16:00 +00002007-09-07T14:22:06.268-07:00newspeachesPecach Contraband<a href="; just in from <a href=" /><br />A Massachusetts State Senator and his family were held up by boarder security. Why? Were they carrying pudding? did they refuse to take off their shoes? were they taking illegal immigrants in their suitcases?<br /><br />No. Peaches.<br /><br />His daughter was carrying three peaches.<br /><br />Their passports were taken and they were given a three hundred dollar fine.<br /><br />That 100 dollars a peach.<br /><br />I hope they were worth it!2007/09/pecach-contraband.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-5568624182163262758Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:54:00 +00002007-09-06T20:04:42.714-07:00disappointingepicpeachestragicPeaches #s 89-95: The Great Peach Massacre of September, 2007Oh, my friends I write today a broken and desperate man: my dreams are shattered, my cities in ruins, life - which was once such a sweet symphony - is now nothing but a low, depressed drone. I do not know how it came to this, how I have been so reduced!<br /><br />The thing is, I ate peaches today.<br /><br />They were the worst batch of peaches I had in my life.<br /><br />Every single one of them was grainy, near putrid mess of guck. They should not be called peaches. They certainly should not have been sold to me. They were dark red and sloppy. They were unsweet and left a horrible residue on my mouth, not a lot different from how your palate feels after you've just vomited.<br /><br />Five peaches left. And this, this is what I get for dawdling and forcing myself to gorge on the last of the year's crop. I get the worst peaches in the universe.<br /><br />I can't even explain to you how bad these peaches were. They didn't taste like peaches - the best of them didn't taste like anything, at all more than soft guck. But they were so bad, towards the end I was almost thankful. These peaches, the good ones, were so bad that I would write angry angry blog posts about them in the past. Now. Well, the worst of them... I think, literally, I might be sick.<br /><br />I am actually really upset. If you were waiting for a time to go out and buy me chocolates or anything, now would be it.<br /><br />I hope that I eat one more good peach before the end. Just one is all I'm asking.2007/09/peaches-s-89-95-great-peach-massacre-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-6500094639168660322Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:05:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:32.991-08:00disappointingpeachesPeaches #s 87-88: Bad Omens<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106762144256129762" border="0" /></a><br />Image from <a href=" Ambiguous</a>' Flickr page.<br /></div><br />In preparation for the final peach stretch I got myself a huge bag of peaches, put them in an out-of-the-way place so they could ripen, and warned my roommate (who is very nice by the way) not to touch them on pain of a slow death. Last night, getting more and more excited about eating the peach 100, I checked the newest batch for any that felt ripe enough to be edible. To my surprise I found two that were perfect. Just the right amount of softness, and I could catch a heady fragrance to them when I sniffed. So I took these two peaches to my room for an after-dinner snack.<br /><br />The first peach was unpalatable and, worse, grainy. I've only had one or two peaches in the past 86 that have been grainy, and it's the absolute worst thing a peach can do. It's like a peach getting into death metal. Eating a grainy peach is like eating a bag of slimy sand. I started spitting and didn't stop spitting until I couldn't taste the bad peach anymore.<br /><br />So number 87 sucked. There was always 88.<br /><br />But this peach was even worse! It, too was grainy. And what made it even more horrible was that it tasted okay - it tasted, for all intents and purposes, like a real peach. I could tell that if it hadn't gone all bad on me it might've been a decent peach. But no such luck.<br /><br />I wonder if this means that, this late in the growing season, I'll have nothing but bad peaches until I reach the very end. Here's hoping that doesn't happen.2007/09/peaches-s-87-88-bad-omens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-1383668662832926889Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:59:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:33.280-08:00cafedisappointingreviewsandwichThe Truth About Cafe Food<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106040344937265874" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Photo from <a href=" Lunar</a>'s Flickr page.<br /></div><br />I've just taken my brekkie at a local caffeine-hawkery called the Boiler Room, and I have come up with a new rule for myself: never eat in a cafe, or if you do end up eating in a cafe - you'd better have a good excuse. Cafes are for coffee, and flirting, and flirting over coffee, and maybe wifi access, and even perhaps flirting about wifi. But they are not places to have lunch, if you want anything more substantial than a stale bran muffin.<br /><br />I ordered a ham and cheese sandwich and a large coffee. The sandwich amounted to three or four slices of ham, a little cheese, and some spicy mustard melted together all quirkily on a waffle iron. A waffle iron! That's all fine and dandy. But with a price-tag over five dollars, the place should really throw some bougie thing on there to fool me that I might possibly be getting my money's worth - like a sprig of fucking parsley, maybe, or a side-dish that's a little more interesting than stale potato chips. Hasn't the Boiler Room ever heard of goat's cheese? Or arugula? I think that if you're going to rip me off, you can at least put in a good-faith-effort to gussy the dish up so I don't feel like a complete chump. All up my breakfast came to over seven dollars. For that price, if I went to a decent greasy spoon, I could have ordered enough eggs to send me into a coma. I've had better food cooked by hungover high-school students.<br /><br />The menu at the Boiler Room is less focused on food and more an assholey attempt at twee gimmickry. Their specialty is eggspresso! It's eggs cooked on an espresso machine! (Geddit?) And instead of bacon or ham they offer - get this! - they have spam! How hilarious! Everyone knows that spam is not even legally classifiable as food and nobody would ever want to eat it who's in their right mind! This cafe is so fucking ironic and cool for serving it!<br /><br />Look, irony might be a cool conceit when you're hanging out at your indie art openings oggling the pretty girls or when you're thinking about what to get your latest face tattoo ("A celtic symbol? Or maybe a 1980s pixelated video-game character?"). But I don't want ironic food. I want something that tastes good. Preferably, I want a dish that surprises me, that overcomes my expectations, that is served with creativity and flash. Whatever you do, don't make my food <span style="font-style: italic;">cool</span>. Or if you make it cool, at least make it taste good, or look good, or have some quality to it above-and-beyond coolness.<br /><br />But don't give me spam and then charge me over five dollars for that spam because you're creative and edgy. Bad food - even when it preciously admits that it's bad food - is still bad food.2007/09/truth-about-cafe-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-4349578470401681433Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:32:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:33.411-08:00boards of tourismepicminneapolispeachesPeach # 86: Epic Peach<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105664891781151426" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I was sitting on the floor of my new apartment yesterday, finishing off a pretty massive peach gorge. I was eating with a sense of purpose. Every pit I threw into the garbage I was one step closer. Every bite I took I bit closer - to triumph.<br /><br />But the peaches that I was eating, well, they were not terribly triumphant. To say the least.<br /><br />Here's a sad fact that the Twin Cities Tourism Board will not tell you when you're planning a trip here: I haven't yet eaten a good peach here. I'm happy when I eat a peach and it doesn't make me want to die. And that's rare enough. Maybe it's getting too late in the season, or maybe it's just that the Minnesota peaches suck. I don't know. But I was sitting on my floor yesterday, finishing up a nice batch of five peaches, when I realized that I hadn't really enjoyed any of them. But then again, I'm getting close to my goal.<br /><br />So here's the question I'm going to pose to you guys, and I'll seriously follow the best one: WHAT SHOULD I DO FOR MY FINAL PEACH? Should I have a party? Should I invite people over for dinner? Should I do it naked? At work? While swimming? Should I do it in a boat? Would I could I in a moat? These questions are important. Help me answer them.2007/09/peach-86-epic-peach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-8664133052585238346Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:58:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:33.616-08:00charitydisappointingmetaphorspeachesPeach # 81: A Helping Peach<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105087923054475938" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Photo from <a href=" Romans</a>' Flickr page.<br /></div><br />It was a day scraped from the bottom of the barrel of hot August days, gritty and lazy. I decided to beat the malaise by taking a walk down to a nearby lake, dribbling along in the water for a while, and having a snack of peaches after I was done.<br /><br />I haven't had too many good peaches lately. Most have been so bad that they're almost bitter, and when I've chanced on a good peach, it's never been delicious, only edible - which is a change, certainly, but nothing to jump up and down and scream about. But that day, in the last of the August heat, I knew that I was going to have a good peach. I had to - everything else was perfect, so I was going to have a good peach.<br /><br />On my way to the lake I saw a homeless man standing in the middle of the street holding a cardboard sign up to passing drivers. I turned away and didn't bother to read what the sign said. It was hot out,r andin the middle of the busy street your atmosphere was a thick soup of charred exhaust fumes and mingling with the ozone of rush-hour-angry traffic. The man had a modern prosthetic leg and an overgrown soul-tash. He looked like he could have stumbled out the back door of any college dorm or frat house, ready to make an inappropriate joke about a girl's breasts or sing along to a 311 song desperately out of tune, but then had a couple too many pitchers and somehow gotten lost for a couple days and fallen on some hard times. But here he was, missing a leg, begging on the street. They must have been <span style="font-style: italic;">some</span> hard time.<br /><br />I usually don't give anything to homeless people for a simple reason: I'm so poor myself I never have spare change. But something about this guy touched me. I had to give him something. So I handed him a peach. He smiled, revealing decayed stumps of teeth.<br /><br />And then after my swim, when I was laid out on my bath-towel, a good book cracked open across my bare chest, mottled sunlight falling on me - in as picturesque position you could hope for, is what I'm saying - I took a bite of my eighty-first peach. It was another disappointment: chalky, and so bitter it almost made me pucker. I spat the rest of it out into the trash can and didn't bother to even try to eat the rest of the peach. But then, as I was settling back on my towel to peer through another chapter or two, I realized: that homeless guy probably doesn't have the luxury of spitting out his bad peaches. Which is sad. It's sad if life makes you eat a bad peach.<br /><br />Last night I devoured a burrito at a bus-stop on my way to say goodbye to a friend who's moving country today. A couple minutes after the burrito had been masticated and deposited in my stomach I realized that I hadn't spent the time to actually taste it. I lingered, then, over my memory of that burrito - I recognized that the salsa had an overpowering oniony taste to it, that the flour tortilla was too soft, I felt the chicken against my palate again, sweet and soft - I tasted the burrito again, but really tasted it, and it felt like I was tasting it for the first time.<br /><br />There can be so much beauty in eating. But when we're so poor that we survive only on cans of tuna or animal crackers, eating can be a flat annoyance, on the same level as a bad cough that creeps up on you when you're not thinking about it. So I think it is one of the better comforts in life to be able to be picky about your food, to be able to savor it, love it, and when the time comes - to spit it out if it sucks.2007/08/peach-81-helping-peach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-7306128461531790888Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:02:00 +00002007-08-29T20:04:39.169-07:00peachesDesecration!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="; alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href=" wasps. </a>Via <a href=";.2007/08/desecration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-662099218679291338Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:44:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:33.785-08:00101 peachessupermarketA Peachy Meeting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102092900625054338" border="0" /></a>Three peach lovers stood around the peach-pile at a supermarket. They circled the fruit, squeezing them and then only occasionally lifting them to their nose to take in a deep whiff at which point they would inevitably put the fruit back and look for riper prey.<br /><br />“Have you had these peaches?” One of the peach-lovers asked.<br /><br />“From Colorado? They’re good.” The second chimed in.<br /><br />“A bit expensive,” number one said. “But they’re out of the California peaches.”<br /><br />“I was just in Colorado,” the third piped up. “The peaches there were fantastic.”<br /><br />The three went back to selecting their fruit in silence for a moment. The first peacher sniffed a peach, and for a moment it looked like she would put it in her plastic bag, but she hesitated, sniffed again, and then put it back in the pile with a bit of disdain. “Not ripe,” she said.<br /><br />“Didn’t think they had peaches in Colorado,” the second said.<br /><br />The third nodded. “They grow good peaches up there, the Western slope.”<br /><br />This was serious business, and another thirty seconds or so before any of them broke the silence of their work to talk.<br /><br />“It’s just so hard,” the third stuttered, “because when you eat a bad peach.”<br /><br />“Yeah,” the first peach lover said, “the peach, among all fruits, is the one that is most temperamental. When you eat a bad peach…”<br /><br />The second peach-aficionado picked up the thread: “It is like you have lost your job. A good one.” But she just shook her head and, in a sudden impulse, put another peach in her plastic produce bag after only barely sniffing it.<br /><br />“A good peach,” the third said, “then it’s like nothing else, you can’t believe it.”<br /><br />And with that, they returned to their task.2007/08/peachy-meeting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-4356138730376621276Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:13:00 +00002007-08-19T08:47:59.627-07:00Peach # 66: This Is What It's All AboutThere was a single peach left in the glass bowl propped amid the clutter of my desk, and the peach - swelling, round, with its burnt red skin touched in places with beams with sunset yellow - reminded me of what this peach project was all about. Instead of going straight up to the peach and gobbling it down, knowing that it would be peach number 66, I instead just looked at it.<br /><br />Then I took slow, calm bites, watching the juice swell from the exposed flesh, bead, and then fall down the peach's skin. I tore off bites of peach and looked at the texture of the flesh, how it looked like fabric, almost. And then I slid them into my mouth.<br /><br />And it was a good peach. But maybe one of the things about eating a peach that I've forgotten about is that a peach can be good or bad, sure - but it's up to you when you eat the damned thing to realize that what you're eating is actually tasty. What I'm talking about is tasting the peach actively, energetically, felling your mouth wrap around each and every bite. That a good peach eaten badly will not be a good peach; and likewise? would a bad peach eaten well be a good peach?2007/08/peach-66-this-is-what-its-all-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-4728036120233640711Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:30:00 +00002007-08-16T19:12:48.157-07:00disappointingpeachestwin citiesPeach # 61: Morning PeachI wanted to start the morning right. So, finding that a couple of my peaches had ripened, I thought to supplement my breakfast with some nice stone-fruit. But, just a couple feet outside my door I bit into this - only my second peach in the Twin Cities - and found it unripe, sour, and inedible. Which meant that I held the damned half-bitten thing in my hand for a couple blocks, embarassed, until I could find a trashcan. And what's worse, the taste of it would not leave my mouth until I basically gargled with coffee, so I spent the entire bus-ride to work with the nasty peach juices marinating my tongue.<br /><br />Now, a lot of my friends think I'm a bit wimpy for counting these horrible peaches in my peach-tally. They think that, in the interest of peach-ography, that I should eat the whole damned thing. But I can't imagine that. I have nothing but pity for people who, on eating a nasty peach, think that they have to finish it. If I did, then I would just vomit. Everywhere.<br /><br />The Twin Cities peaches suck. I don't know, maybe it's the hot weather, or my house, of something, but my peaches go from being unripe inedible hard things to rotten inedible muhsy messes without ever lingering in-between for an hour to actually be tasty ripe peaches. I'm getting fed up. So far I've eaten two bad peaches, and thrown out seven rotten peaches. This has to end. Now.2007/08/peach-61-morning-peach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-84737632636876921Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:14:00 +00002007-08-11T11:19:32.118-07:00Too Many Vietnamese Places!Seriously. The Corner near my house has not one, not two, but three Vietnamese places on it. It's crazy! I wonder if the owner's are all friends and play cards together, swapping economical recipes, or whether they all hate each other, or simply think that having three Vietnamese places on one corner is just, you know, normal.2007/08/too-many-vietnamese-places.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-7715160602556875342Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:22:00 +00002007-08-10T14:16:37.164-07:00And Then There Were NoneSo this, my most recent haul of peaches - sucked. Every time I looked at the pile of peaches, every single peach was still unripe. Except, that is, for the one peach that was - inevitably - rotten. And this morning I had one peach left. was going to eat it on my way to work and write about how wonderful it is to eat a peach first thing in the morning, on your way to work, and how it made your entire day wonderful. But I couldn't. Because guess what? when I went downstairs I found the peach - which was completely unripe yesterday - covered in nasty mold. This means, out of a batch of five peaches, I ate one peach which sucked and threw away four. This, my loyal peach-readers, does not bode well for Minnesota's peach haul. Neither does it bode well for my peach project. I have, what? Forty peaches to munch on before the end of the season, right? And not much season left.<br /><br />This means it's time for some serious peach-eating.2007/08/and-then-there-were-none.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-4807342404583946455Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:09:00 +00002007-08-07T18:19:41.840-07:00disappointingmetaphorspeachesPeach # 60: DO NOT WANTThings take on a certain delicacy when you're a newcomer. There is so much unknown that anything from getting a bite to eat to your first day at work can feel like a discovery; and so, after a while you are tired of the new discoveries, and you just want something whose dimensions are familiar. Because you do not need much delicacy when dealing with familiar things. You can, you know, let it all hang out.<br /><br />And then at the same time, you have days full of firsts. Your first breakfast in the new place, your first newspaper - your first peach.<br /><br />I ate my first peach of the Twin Cities in the pristine kitchen of the Utne offices, as part of an extended snack that covered for my lunch. I had bought five peaches from the local hippy grocers, but one had not survived the car-ride home, so I picked the softest, ripest peach from the bunch, put it in a plastic bag with the rest of my meager lunch and headed out.<br /><br />I first cut out the bruises and then took my first bite, nervous, for one, because it was a peach; also nervous because I'm new to the office and feel - quite rightly - that I am acting the proper part of an awkward but cheerful intern. I was also kinda hoping that my peach obsession had filtered around the office and someone would come up to me and say: Oh wow, you are eating a peach, how is it? and I would get to act authoritative, like a real blogger.<br /><br />The peach tasted fine. It was sweet, but with an almost bitter aftertaste. The problem was that the peach was incredibly grainy. It had the consistency of mishandled Styrofoam. I tried to continue eating the poor peach, but I just couldn't do it, and so I threw the offending stonefruit half-eaten into the trash.<br /><br />But what does this say for my life in the Twin Cities? I am trying my best, this time around, to be very open and social - to have, frankly, a peachy time. But it's hard, especially since these first couple days afford me a whole bag of excuses why tonight I can't go out, why today I can do a little bit less than I want to. I hope that this does not become a metaphor.2007/08/peach-60-do-not-want.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-8621305592865280004Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:40:00 +00002007-08-06T17:41:10.530-07:00peachesPeaches # 54-59: Not As Bad As I Thought. Not Bad At All.So after those horrible, soul crushing peaches I gave a small shudder whenever I passed the fruit bowl and tried to ignore the batch of peaches as best I could. But my grandma, watchful as she is, kept on reminding me that the peaches were getting riper and riper and that soon they wouldn’t be good anymore.<br /><br />Well. The last ones could never be good. But I was stuck. I had to eat them sometime. The surprising thing was that they were good. Every single peach was good. And I’m not saying that they were okay, or that they were good compared with the last couple of peaches – I’m saying they were some damned good peaches.<br /><br />The first peach of this batch I ate and kept on telling myself that it was a bad peach, too mushy, almost disintegrating in my mouth. But then, about halfway through, I realized that I was just being squeamish, and the peach was nicely ripe, if a bit soft around the skin.2007/08/peaches-54-59-not-as-bad-as-i-thought.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-3651308728008955238Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:17:00 +00002007-08-04T13:28:20.235-07:00disappointingpeachestravelPeaches # 52 and 53: MONSTER PEACHMy grandma, whose tastebuds have been napalmed from a whole life of cigarettes, told me that the peaches she’s been getting in Florida this summer have been really really amazing. I went and believed her, because I like to believe in amazing peaches, and so as soon as I landed in Florida I scurried over to the local supermarket’s produce section to see what I could see. I mean, I’m staying with my grandmother, in a place with cable TV and no internet, so I was expecting to do nothing but eat. And being a peach maven, I should damned well eat some peaches.<br /><br />Well. These particular peaches did not look enticing at all. Especially after the heavenly peaches I had been gobbling from Morton’s. They were bigger than apples, and I felt them – and while the little sign said TREE RIPE, READY TO EAT they were hard I could tell they’d have about as much taste as peach-flavored water. I brought each peach up to smell them, and they smelled like nothing. But hey, they were on sale. So I bought ten.<br /><br />Yesterday, two of the peaches seemed ready. But they weren’t. Because these peaches would never be ready. Saying these peaches are ready is like saying you’re ready for a colonoscopy. Sure, it might be time to eat these peaches: but it will never ever be right. The first peach was bad enough. It was mealy without being soft, and tasted almost fermented without being sweet. After I was done the taste – the gassy, sour taste of failure – just would not leave my mouth.<br /><br />But nothing could prepare me for the next peach.<br /><br />I felt it, and while the skin had a bit of give, I could tell that the flesh itself wasn’t yet soft. But whatever. I bit into it.<br /><br />And I was mistaken, for a moment, into thinking that I had bit into a plastic peach. It had no flavor to speak of. It was like chewing plastic. It was like chewing flavorless gum.<br /><br />Well, when I eat a bad peach, it does something to me, and this morning I woke up and just couldn’t bare the idea of getting out of bed, because I knew I would have to try to eat one of the next eight peaches. And they, too, would probably suck.<br /><br />There is a lesson in this, that I will expound upon later: ORGANIC FOOD REALLY – for some reason – TATES A LOT BETTER THAN THE CRAP YOU GET IN MOST GROCERY STORES.<br /><br />You see, I have pity for all of those overly-tanned Floridians who have never eaten a peach better than these monster peaches, who think that peaches are meant to make you want to kill yourself, who have never actually felt the joy of biting into a peach and having all the juices run down your hands an have it be so beautiful you can’t stop smiling. It’s like they haven’t really lived.2007/08/peches-52-and-53-monster-peach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-2916216103778745810Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:16:00 +00002007-08-04T13:17:47.432-07:00boulderpeachestravelPeaches # 50 and 51: The GoodbyeAlison, an old friend from college and her boyfriend Michael watched as I tossed two overstuffed bags into the backseat of their car. The bags had just about everything that I owned in them. This does not amount to much more than a bunch of clothes, a computer, and some books. It didn’t seem so small when they were in my room, but taken out of my room, folded up into bags, zipped up, and in the back seat of an old station wagon, my life seemed so tiny that it could be upset by just a small breeze. We drove away, and with that my apartment of two and a half months was emptied of everything except dirt.<br /><br />But before we left, we each ate a peach from Morton’s. My peach was sweet, smooth, and just about the most wonderful peach I could imagine. I waved goodbye to my neighbor’s peach tree, the peaches still green and inedible, and then got in the waiting car.<br /><br />My next peach I ate I shared with Alison at five in the next morning, as that same car was idling in the terminal of the Denver International Airport. Alison brought along some of her peaches and we ate one each. I felt like the peach I had should be amazing. But while it had a nice texture, and a good, if watery taste, I knew that for that particular peach to really be amazing, it would need to wait a couple days. But of course, it couldn’t wait: I was leaving. When I was done I threw my pit into the garbage can and hoisted my bags on my shoulders, and went through the automatic door that led into the airport, the taste of peach on my tongue.2007/08/peaches-50-and-51-goodbye.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8867173203451301987.post-2268588102404321455Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:54:00 +00002008-12-12T15:48:34.094-08:00boulderdisappointingpeachesPeaches 40-48: The Last In Boulder<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href=" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="; alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5092249061298234450" border="0" /></a><br />This morning, my last in Boulder for a long while, I did not pack my things, or visit some scenic location, or say goodbye to my friends. I had a paper bag on my desk, and before I did anything else - before the bags were zipped up, the keys returned, or the dishes washed, that bag would have to have its contents emptied. Into my stomach.<br /><br />This was the bag of peaches that I bought about a week ago. I'd been waiting all this time for the peaches to get ripe, but today I had to eat them right away, because I don't believe they ;et you take peaches in as carry-on baggage. \I found about three out of four of the peaches were sour and lacked a peachy sweetness. Two peaches from the nine I ate this morning were really beautiful tasting.<br /><br />I keep on trying to construct a metaphor out of this. Leaving is incredibly hard. And not just the annoying practical things like putting my things away and transporting them a couple states away. It's so difficult to pick up everything that I've known for the past couple months and leave it behind the airport gates. I will close my eyes, take a nap on the plane, and leave in a different world. I don't think that's too much of a stretch or anything.<br /><br />I suppose I should feel a certain urge to sum up my life here. But as I was watching some cartoons on my computer this morning, cutting away the bruised parts of the latest peach with a plastic knife, depoisting the segments of discarded peach on a sheet of newspaper already havey with peach pits and damp with juice, I didn't think about much. Maybe because there is so much to think about, and so much to do. Maybe it's because right then - I was just eating peaches.<br /><br />I'll be out of internet contact for about a week, but I will be able to check my e-mail intermittently. I will not be out of peach contact, though. I will return, of course, with more peach adventures.2007/07/peaches-40-48-last-in-boulder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)

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