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Elli and I dined at a nice little sushi restaurant called “Sushi Friend” located in the Tates Creek Center.

Monday evenings they offer $1 a piece sushi.  We tried their fried soft shelled crab, and the following sushi: Yellow Tail Tuna, Octopus, Smelt Roe, Freshwater Eel, Sea Eel ( Read more... )

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Here is our Cornb (Mapping) powerpoint presentation for BIO 315 Genetics (Spring 2009).

‘Children Of The Corn’ PowerPoint

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Just finished reading a few new reports on a potential cause and suggestive treatment for Colony Collapse Disorder… quite interesting.

Some research is pointing to a microsporidian (fungi), Nosema ceranae as a potential cause or  at least some  implication in Colony Collapse ( Read more... )

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Here is the first data collection from “The Children Of The Corn” along with some analysis of the data, part of our Genetics lab project.

Children Of The Corn - Data/Analysis I
Jacqueline Hegi, Robert Pace, Rachel Shockey, Stephanie Stepp
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I looked out our bedroom window and saw a racoon scrambling around our parking area.

Elli took this photo of the lil guy before he retired to the tree.


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The internet has been down for the campus for two days.  It was estimated that 26k people in Richmond were without electricity (that’s bad for a city of 30k).

Alumni Colliseum was turned into an emergency shelter for those who had no electrical service.

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EKU is closed again tomorrow due to this massive ice storm which swept through last night.

The big pine outside outside the kitchen window has fallen, and the one at our bedroom window has lost many large branchs.  Fortunately we moved our car earlier, as many a large branch ( ( Read more... )

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In celelebration of Australia Day, I made a delicious Kiwi/Strawberry/Blueberry Pavlova.

Pavlova (abbreviated ‘pav’) are a traditional Australian dessert made of a meringue disc topped with whipped cream and fruit, and is incredibly light.  A good pavlova’s texture will be ( Read more... )

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Here are the Chapter 10 Chemistry notes.
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