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Hello everyone! I've been dying to share this with you and finally have it all finished up. I was thrilled when Emily, of Once Wed asked if I'd contribute craft tutorials - of course there's nothing I like more than a creative assignment. Here's what I came up with, and I think it fits in nicely with Valentine's just around the corner, with all of its pale-pinkness and doily-esque detail.
A list materials and the full, illustrated instructions can be found at Once Wed - just click the button below and you'll be on your way!
The inspiration for this project came from an antiquing trip I took with my roommate over Christmas break. We trolled booth after booth of carefully arranged vintage goods, mischievously trying on hats from the 1940s and patiently perusing stacks of old postcards. My treasures of the day were a bouquet of pale, faded pink paper posies (a few are tucked amidst craft store paper flowers above) and a pair of old, petite and delicately embroidered gloves. All so ladylike and foretelling of springtime
Friday, February 13, 2009
Bouquet Boxes: A Craft Tutorial
Hello everyone! I've been dying to share this with you and finally have it all finished up. I was thrilled when Emily, of Once Wed asked if I'd contribute craft tutorials - of course there's nothing I like more than a creative assignment. Here's what I came up with, and I think it fits in nicely with Valentine's just around the corner, with all of its pale-pinkness and doily-esque detail.
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25 comments:
- Tiffani said...
Another beautiful creation Livy!
- February 13, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Casey said...
These are gorgeous! :) I can think of so many uses for such pretty boxes like this... Thank you so much for sharing how to make these! :)
- February 13, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Ashley L. said...
This is beautiful! You are always so wonderful and creative! I love this! :)
- February 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- LBB said...
So pretty & fresh! And so versatile too. Lovely tutorial, Livy!
- February 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
- Design Lovely said...
So pretty! I love how all the materials are layed out. Looks fun to make!
- February 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- cindy : quaint said...
livy, you are so good. just beautiful!
- February 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM
- Storybook Woods said...
How sweet, thank you. Clarice
- February 13, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- oh, hello friend. said...
this is simply LOVELY! and hurray, i can do it because I have that punch! ;) your pictures are beautiful. thanks for the inspiration!
- February 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- Jeannette said...
What a wonderfull box. Now I have to find ways to make my husband creative so he makes me this! Would be so great to get this on Valentines morning.
And thank you for your Valentines mail. I now have this beauty on my desktop. Just love it!
Have the most wonderful and romantic Valentine's Day, Jeannette
- February 14, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- LindaSonia said...
Gorgeous project!! I must compliment you on the 'look' of your blog - it's what i call serenely beautiful. The muted colors and your presentation is exquisite and appeals to my senses immensely. Love it!! Happy Valentine's Day!! LindaSonia
- February 14, 2009 at 7:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
Oh wow, that is just beautiful! Your work is always so amazing! Maybe I will be inpsired, LOL!
- February 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow Livy! So lovely. I especially like the photo with the vintage gloves. :)
- February 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM
- Laura said...
This is so superpretty that I had to post about it and let everybody I know come here and see this in all its splendor.
Hope you don't mind
- February 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- sara said...
Oh how pretty!! I'm now lusting after an eyelet lace punch. :)
- February 17, 2009 at 1:09 PM
- blushingjoy said...
Stumbled upon your blog and am loving this DIY favor box idea! It'll be perfect for a wedding too!!
- February 20, 2009 at 2:48 AM
- Jessica said...
OMG! This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen! GORGEOUS!
- February 22, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Teresa said...
What's more wonderful than a gift? A gift that is thoughtfully wrapped! This is a perfect idea!
- February 24, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Steppie said...
absolutely lovely!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
- pasadena said...
I love it! I linked this post on my blog... It's a so beautiful idea!
- February 25, 2009 at 2:00 AM
- jasmoon-butterfly said...
beautiful...thank you for sharing x
- February 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- ron said...
verry nice it looks great
- March 14, 2009 at 3:47 AM
- Tea said...
Gorgeous! The colors work so well together. I also linked to it on my blog :)
- March 25, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- gül said...
very elegant, great!
- June 30, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- SETT said...
Hello! I found your tutorial.
I would like to translate it into Russian and post it in my site. I will mention you and your site (let me know which one).
Is it possible? What will be your condition?
- August 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- jasmoon-butterfly said...
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing x
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Thor Took Some "Me Time", Lived With A Guy Named Darryl
Due to the fact that, every time we blink, there's another comic-based movie being released, you may have missed the fact that Thor AKA Chris Hemsworth was absent from the most recent Marvel blockbuster, Captain America.
Turns out that Thor went on a bit of a sabbatical, in search of himself and some "me time" - basically, the son of Odin took a gap year, and he did it in Australia.
We know this because Marvel have gifted us with a three-and-a-half minute mockumentary bringing us up to speed with dear old Thor and his exploits and introducing us to our new spirit animal, long-suffering housemate Darryl.
Hey, Darryl.
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Some of our highlights include:
1. "Hello." - Darryl.
2. Thor playing agony aunt - via an "electronic letter", typed by Darryl - to try and mediate between Captain America and Iron Man.
3. How insanely chuffed Thor is with the "Keep Out Darryl" sign on his bedroom door.
4. Thor's flowchart/ vision board with what he "likes to call little clues, speckled about the place."
5. Mjölnir (Thor's hammer) wearing sunglasses "because it sometimes gets bright on the rainbow bridge" and carrying a tiny version of Thor.
6. "Yep." - Darryl.
Petition for Marvel to make Darryl an honorary member of The Avengers or at the very least for the kid to make an appearance in Thor: Ragnarok.
Which, if you're curious, will be out in November next year. M
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Who needs pictures of Chris Froome looking like he'd be lost without Ritchie Porte when you come across something like this! We found these two guys about a third of the way up the Col de la Madeliene which, curiously, was about as far as we got up the mountain today. The plan had been to make a grand loop, but the weather forecast looked so bad that I gave serious thought to scrapping any riding at all. Fortunately when I got up, it didn't look like the weather forecast was correct, so we drove out to La Chambre and got as high as we could before overtaken by the race. Lots of photos coming soon… probably get a chance to edit them on the plane coming home on Monday. –Mike–
1 thought on "The 'Tour is going to the dogs!"
I didn't know Molly was going to the tour this year. Next year Jack will have to join her.


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Funding Strategy
The Funding Strategy for the Implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, was adopted in 2009 by the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
The objective of the Funding Strategy is to "enhance the availability, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of the provision of substantial and additional financial resources, and to strengthen international cooperation to support and complement the efforts of developing countries and countries with economies in transition in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action." It covers "all known and potential sources of financial resources" relevant to these objectives. It further recognizes that the main responsibility for its implementation lies with national governments.
It also recognizes important roles for FAO, other international organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.
The Global Plan of Action also states that "The major multilateral and bilateral funding and development institutions should be invited to examine ways and means of supporting the implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources."
It calls on the governments of developed countries to:
"attach due attention, including funding, to the implementation of activities within the Strategic Priority Areas of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources through bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation."
FAO Trust Account
As envisaged in the Global Plan of Action, an FAO Trust Account has been established for the receipt of voluntary contributions in support of the implementation of the Global Plan of Action. Procedures for the use of resources in the Trust Account – agreed priorities, eligibility criteria, operational procedures and information and reporting requirements – are set out in the Funding Strategy. All Trust Account funds are dispersed to countries to support implementation activities at national or regional level.
By 2011, 1 million US$ had been contributed to the Trust Account and the First Call for Proposals under the Funding Strategy for the Implementation of the Global Plan of Action was launched. In 2012, 13 projects involving 30 countries were chosen to receive funding.
A second call for proposals will be launched once a further US$1 million is available in the Trust Account.


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President Obama's speech from the oval office, only the second of his presidency, was surprisingly limp. With three momentous subjects to cover – Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. economy – Obama struggled to say anything new or interesting. It isn't just that the soaring rhetoric of 2008 has disappeared; Obama is now affirmatively boring.
In "turning the page" on Iraq, the Great Speechifier could find no words with which to give meaning to our epic struggle there. Let's give Obama the benefit of the doubt and assume this is because he thinks the struggle had no meaning, except as it related to domestic politics in the U.S. But then why give a speech about it?
Perhaps the idea was to signal our resolve going forward. The best he could do on this front was to say that after our troops leave at the end of 2011, we'll still have diplomats, aid workers, and advisors on the scene. But we have diplomats, aid workers, and advisors all over the world; what if Iraq needs more than that, given all of its challenges? If Obama signaled anything in this speech, it was his lack of interest in Iraq's past (Saddam who?), present, and future.
Despite the fact that Afghanistan has become Obama's war in a way Iraq never did, the president displayed no great interest in, or true sense of commitment to, that action either. In ten short months, Obama once again pledged, we will begin pulling out of Afghanistan too. These words can only comfort our terrorist enemies and cause sleepness nights for anyone in Afghanistan who has ever supported us.
When it came to the economy, Obama had nothing new to offer. So instead, he provided America with a pep talk, exhorting us to "honor" our troops by "coming together" with a great sense of urgency to "restore our economy."
Presumably, this means rallying around Obama's unpopular domestic agenda. In any case, Americans are unlikely to be impressed by a president whose answer to our economic woes sounds something like "hug a soldier and hope that some of his grit rubs off."
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Sheikh Tusi's Ghaybat: "Then there will be the rise of Hazrat Mahdi (as)... THROUGH HIM, ALLAH WILL ELIMINATE ALL THE LIES. THROUGH HIM [HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] HE WILL ELIMINATE VIOLENCE. He [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will lift the shame of of slavery from your necks."
(Kitab al Ghaybat, [Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 51], Ansariyan Publications, Collected by: Muhammad Baqr al-Majlis, Iran-Qum, 2003, p. 132)


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History: 1933, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1933
Sec. 1.
As used in this act:
The term "trust mortgage" means any trust mortgage, trust indenture or deed of trust given to secure bonds or other obligations issued and authenticated as therein set forth.
The term "trustee" means the trustee or trustees of any such "trust mortgage."
The term "bonds" means bonds or other obligations outstanding and secured by any such "trust mortgage."
The term "request" as used in sections 2 and 3 of this act means the written request filed by the trustee or holders of bonds for authorization of the trustee to bid for and acquire the mortgaged property as provided in section 2 of this act.
The term "non-concurring holder or holders" means such holder or holders as shall have filed written refusal to concur in said "request."
History: 1933, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 451.401
Sec. 2.
Upon filing in any circuit court in chancery a report of the proceedings had in relation to the sale under a decree of said court for the foreclosure of any trust mortgage given to a trustee to secure bonds issued and authenticated as therein set forth, if it shall appear from said report that no bid was made for the mortgaged property or if a bid therefor was made and it shall, in the manner hereinafter set forth, be made to appear to the court that the sum so bid does not represent the then fair and reasonable value of the interest of the holders of such bonds secured thereby, and, in either event, that no bid for a sum representing such fair and reasonable value of said interest appears to be obtainable, the court may authorize the trustee to bid for and acquire said mortgaged property as hereinafter set forth. Such authorization to bid for and acquire such property shall be made only upon written request therefor to said court by said trustee, or the holders of not less than a majority of the amount of such bonds then secured by said trust mortgage. The request by such holders may be executed by said holders in person, or by agent or attorney. Upon the filing of such request the court shall make an order requiring all interested persons to appear at a time to be designated in said order and show cause, if any, why the court should not authorize the trustee to bid for and acquire the mortgaged property as above provided. The trustee shall cause said order to be published in some newspaper designated by the court and printed in the county where such foreclosure proceedings are pending, and/or in such other newspaper as the court may direct, once in each week for 15 successive weeks prior to the return day of said order to show cause and shall mail or cause to be mailed a copy thereof to the mortgagor, to all other parties in said foreclosure proceedings and to each holder of said bonds secured by said mortgage insofar as the names of such holders are known to the trustee, at least 12 weeks prior to the date specified in said order, such notice to be mailed in each instance to the last known postoffice address. Proof of such publication and of such mailing shall be filed in said proceedings on or before the return day of said order, and proof of mailing shall be sufficient if made by affidavit of the trustee, or by an agent, employee or representative of the trustee having knowledge of the facts, merely avering [averring] that a copy of said order was so mailed. Neither the validity nor the regularity of proceedings under this act shall be affected by the fact that any mortgagor, party, holder of said bonds or interested person may not have had actual notice of said order to show cause or by the fact that a copy of said order may not have been mailed to, or, for any other reason, may not have been received by such mortgagor, party, holder of said bonds or interested person. Any interested party shall have a right to be heard and may offer testimony upon the hearing on said order to show cause. On or before the return day of said order to show cause any holder of bonds secured by said trust mortgage may file in writing a refusal to concur in such request. An order authorizing but not requiring the trustee to bid for and acquire the mortgaged property for such sum as shall, in the judgment of the court, represent the fair and reasonable value of the interests therein of the holders of the bonds may be entered if, upon said hearing, the court shall find either that no bid was made for the property offered for sale under said decree or that the sums so bid therefor did not represent the fair and reasonable value of the interests of such holders in said property and that no bid for a sum representing such fair and reasonable value of such interest appears to be obtainable: Provided, however, That no such order shall be entered where the request has been made by the trustee unless the holders of not less than a majority of the amount of such bonds then outstanding shall, prior to the entry of said order, have joined in said request, by a writing filed in said proceedings executed by said holders in person or by agent or attorney. The trustee may make said bid in open court or may file said bid in writing in said proceedings within 30 days after the entry of said order. Such bid for and acquisition of said property by said trustee shall be for and on behalf of all holders of bonds secured by said trust mortgage who shall not, in the manner herein set forth, have filed in said proceedings their written refusal to concur in the request whereon said order to show cause was entered, according to respective pro rata interests, and every holder of said bonds shall be conclusively presumed to have assented to such acquisition of said property and to the use of such bonds of such holders therefor unless such holder shall have filed such refusal to concur. Any such acquisition by the trustee shall be subject to all rights of redemption of the mortgagor and other parties. The subsequent transfer of any bond in respect of which any request, assent or action under any provision of this act shall have been made, presumed or taken shall not affect such request, assent or action. To the extent of the net amount which would have been distributable on the bonds secured by said trust mortgage if such bid were fully paid in cash, the bid shall be satisfied by a pro rata credit deemed to have been made on each such bond. The court shall make provision in said order for payment to non-concurring holders of their pro rata share of the net amount to which each of said holders shall be entitled by reason of said bid and acquisition.
History: 1933, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 451.402
Sec. 3.
The court may in its discretion provide in said order that such payment to non-concurring holders may be made in installments, or otherwise deferred for a period of time if the amount so deferred shall not exceed 25 per cent of the net amount of the bid: Provided, however, That the full pro rata to be paid said non-concurring holders hereunder shall, in any event, be made within 18 months from the entry of said order. The sum so deferred shall bear interest at the rate borne by said bonds. No personal obligation for such deferred payment shall be imposed upon the trustee but such deferred payment shall be secured upon the right, title and interest acquired by the trustee as a result of such acquisition and shall be enforced as herein provided. If payment to said non-concurring holders shall not be made as provided in said order, the court may, upon application of any non-concurring holder to whom such payment shall not have been made, order the trustee to sell the property so purchased by the trustee, or such part thereof as may be necessary, either at public or private sale after notice thereof shall have been given to all interested parties in such manner as the court shall direct, and out of the proceeds of said sale pay the sums due said non-concurring holders, the balance, if any, to belong to the beneficiaries of the trust hereafter provided for and to be held and dealt with by the trustee as the court shall direct.
History: 1933, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 451.403
Sec. 4.
Any property acquired by the trustee as aforesaid shall be managed and administered by the trustee under and in accordance with the rules and principles of law and equity pertaining to express trusts generally subject to the jurisdiction of said court to be exercised in said cause by proceedings subsequent to the decree therein. The trustee shall be allowed all proper expenses and disbursements and reasonable compensation to be approved by the court. The trustee shall have power and authority to repair, maintain, protect, preserve and operate or lease the property until such time as a sale or other disposal thereof shall be approved or directed. The trustee may borrow money for any of said purposes, to discharge prior liens, taxes, assessments or other incumbrances against said property or for any other purpose of the trust and may secure such money so borrowed by mortgage of said property or by pledge of the income thereof. Any such mortgage or pledge shall be superior to and binding on the interests of the beneficiaries of said trust. It shall be the duty of the trustee to negotiate and effect a sale or other disposal of the property and make distribution of the proceeds of such sale or disposal to the beneficiaries of the trust at the earliest time at which the same can be done without sacrifice of the fair and reasonable value of such property. Any sale, unless for cash, shall be upon such terms as the court may approve after notice shall have been given to all beneficiaries of the trust in such manner as the court shall direct. No operating contract which is for more than 2 years or borrowing of money, mortgage, sale or other disposal shall be made except by and with the approval and authorization of the court upon notice in such manner as the court shall direct to the beneficiaries of said trust. The court may provide such other terms and conditions of the trust and powers, duties and authority of the trustee, not inconsistent with the foregoing, as to the court shall be deemed to be to the interests of the beneficiaries of the trust as a whole. Upon the complete consummation of a sale or other disposition of all of the trust property the trustee shall render in writing a full and complete report and account of the administration of said trust and of the distribution of the assets, income and proceeds thereof upon which a hearing shall be had after such notice to the beneficiaries of the trust as the court shall direct. If any such trust shall continue for more than 1 year an account and report of the administration of such trust shall be rendered at such times as may be required by the court but at least annually and when any such report shall have been made the final account and report aforesaid shall be required to cover only from the date of the then last account and report.
History: 1933, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 451.404
Sec. 5.
This act is intended to be remedial and to be liberally construed and to be supplemented by rule of court if necessary or expedient to the accomplishment or furtherance of the intents and purposes thereof. This act shall be applicable to and in all foreclosure proceedings of the nature aforesaid pending at the time of the coming into effect hereof in which the sale shall not then have been confirmed as well as to and in all such proceedings begun after the coming into effect hereof. If any provision hereof shall be found invalid or unenforceable the remaining provisions hereof shall not be affected thereby.
History: 1933, Act 210, Imd. Eff. July 3, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 451.405
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In Master Data Services (MDS), I received a strange error when I was calling a stored procedure (stg.upd_name_Leaf) to batch a staging table, which will load data from the staging tables into the appropriate MDS tables:
[Execute SQL Task] Error: Executing the query "declare @versionName nvarchar(50) set @versionNam…" failed with the following error: "MDSERR310029|The status of the specified batch is not valid.". Possible failure reasons: Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
Turns out, this error means that there is already a batch running with the BatchTag that I passed into the stored procedure (the BatchTag was "Owner"). This is explained in the Microsoft KB article MDS entity-based staging may fail when a duplicate Batch Tag value is used in SQL Server 2012. I had a few batch's indefinitely stuck in the Running status which had the "Owner" batch tag that was due to a few bugs of mine as I was building out an SSIS package to load source data into the MDS tables.
To see what batch's are in the running state, use "select * from mdm.tblStgBatch where batchtag='Facility' and status_id=3" (or from the MDS website by clicking Integration Management and then selecting the model to view the status). From the KB article, the solution is to pass in a different BatchTag (i.e. "Owner2") or to stop the batch process. It says to stop the batch process, run the following SQL statement: "Exec [mdm].[udpStagingBatchQueueActivate]". However, I have found that statement does not change the status of the running batches. Instead, you can change the status to completed via "Update mdm.tblStgBatch set status_id=7 where batchtag='Facility' and status_id=3".


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Who knows if Jack Nicholson, one of Hollywood's coolest actors ever, is calling it quits. But the mere possibility had a lot of people worried on Wednesday.
Celeb gossip site Radar Online started the chatter with an "exclusive" report saying the 76-year-old, three-time Oscar winner has retired from acting because his memory isn't what it used to be. "Jack has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him," a "well-placed" insider says.
Several other sites, including USA Today and the New York Daily News, picked up the story, too.
Radar says the legend hasn't worked since 2010's How Do You Know, co-starring Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson. In addition, the star reportedly wanted to retire as quietly as possible. So much for that.
Reports suggest producers for the upcoming film Nebraska wanted Nicholson to play an alcoholic father, but he turned the role down and it subsequently went to Bruce Dern.
As expected, his fans mourned his "retirement" on Twitter, with one calling it "sad sad news" and another urging the actor, who has enjoyed a 50-year career, to "rest easy."
But like most rumors in Hollywood, this story has been denied, but not by Nicholson.
NBC News' Maria Shriver told E! Online that the rumor is false, and he doesn't suffer from memory loss or dementia. An unnamed source says Nicholson is still reading scripts.
Whether he is or isn't, his career is legendary, and we'll likely still see him courtside at Lakers games. Take a look back at the best of Nicholson.


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Be glad you're not a male emerald ash borer out looking for a mate. If one of them could sit down next to you on a barstool and talk, he might complain about the artificiality of today's females."Why, it's as if some of them were built in a lab," he might say. The truth is, that's because some of them were.
But more about that later.... Building fake female emerald ash borers is just one of the technologies currently being employed to help trees fight off some of their biggest little enemies: insects. Whether they're chewing leaves, sucking sap or boring through trunks, these pests damage and kill ornamental trees by the thousands and cost homeowners, cities and states millions of dollars. They blight landscapes and decimate national forests.
The emerald ash borer isn't the only pest out there, of course. There are gypsy moths, Asian longhorned beetles, Japanese beetles, rugose spiraling whitefly, pine bark beetles, hemlock wooly adelgids, gum lerp psyllids, erythrina gall wasps, various species of mites and many, many more.
Some, like the Asian longhorned beetle and the emerald ash borer, are illegal aliens, exotic species from foreign lands that were accidentally transported here. Most have been here for centuries.
And for just as long, arborists, landscape professionals and anyone with a tree in his yard have all wondered: How do you fight these tiny, yet highly effective killers and maimers of trees?
Knowing exactly how they hurt trees is a good start. Like so much of life, it's all about eating. Chewing insects, such as beetles and caterpillars, munch leaves, flowers and twigs. If they eat too many of its leaves, a tree will suffer malnourishment and even death.
Sucking insects, such as aphids and mealybugs, feed on sap, a tree's lifeblood, causing leaves to wilt and droop. Most destructive of all are the boring beetles—the ash borers, bark beetles and others. Their larvae kill by tunneling through the layers just under the bark to the phloem and the vascular cambium. This is where all the nutrients and moisture are drawn up from the ground into the tree. When they girdle the trunk, the nutrients can no longer get up into the tree and it starts to die from the top down.
You don't have to become an arborist to learn some basic things about trees and the pests that bug them. It can only make you more valuable to your clients. Also, this could be an additional revenue stream that could be very worthwhile looking into.
Spray, soil drench or organics
There are a number of ways to treat these problems. Some insects can be stopped or controlled without chemicals.
There are barrier methods that gird tree trunks with a non-toxic glue. It simply keeps bugs that migrate up the trunks of trees, especially caterpillars, from crawling into the canopies where they feed.
There are products that use nature against itself, so to speak. Bacillus thuringiensis is a natural fungus found in soil that disrupts an insect's digestive system when it eats leaves that have been sprayed with it. Other organic pest control methods include traps, insecticidal soaps and natural pyrethrins. You can also release a bug's natural enemy, another bug, against it, such as using ladybugs to kill aphids.
Then we have chemical treatment. But bugs won't die until they get poison in them or on them. Spraying has its place; it will kill many bugs (including the good ones) but it won't touch bugs that have burrowed under bark.
"There were studies done decades ago on the effectiveness of spraying," said Nate Dodds, president and general manager of Mauget, Inc., in Arcadia, California, a manufacturer of injectible pest and disease control products. "Those studies showed that only .1% of canopy sprays reach target pests. So you have to put a lot more material into the air. Obviously, with wind drift, you have to use a lot more pesticide to effectively cover trees with a canopy spray." Not to mention the obvious environmental exposure issues.
Another, more direct way to stop tree-killing pests is to use a soil drench. The chemical is poured onto the root area of a tree, and is then taken up into the tree. "It's kind of the traditional way of treating trees," said Eric Bristol, marketing manager for Woburn, Massachusetts -based Arborjet, another provider of injectable disease and pest control products.
Soil drenches are less expensive than some of the other methods; however, with a soil drench, "You've got to pump a lot more chemical into the soil, because competitive plants and turf will take up some of it," says Dodds. "You'll also be putting it in some areas where there's no root zone." And the method can be slow.
The "nuclear option"—direct injection
And then there's injection. This gets the pesticide right into the tree itself. Just as we might go to the doctor and get a shot, in this case, a "house call" is made right to a tree's trunk. This technology was first patented in 1958 by Mauget.
"The chemicals go directly into a tree's vascular system," says Dodds. "You're getting the insecticide into a living part of a tree, and you're assured of good distribution and commensurate control. In addition, you're using a lot less of the chemical. A hundred percent of it goes through the tree, 'mainlined' into its sap system." Injections can be done preventatively, before the fact, or therapeutically, after a tree has been infested.
Charles Boos, a certified arborist and owner of Mystic Natives Consulting Services, LLC, in Mystic, Connecticut, agrees with Dodds, at least on one point. "In my opinion, there are some distinct advantages to injectables," said Boos. "It's a very efficient system, because you use much less of the chemical."
As an arborist and sustainable landscape professional, Boos doesn't really like to kill insects. "A major portion of my business is habitat restoration and rehabilitation. Ninety-nine percent of insects don't bother anybody, and they're a vital component of the food chain—no bugs, no birds."
In Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, Jim Sieger is maintenance account manager for Kenosha Grounds Care, a full-service landscape company. He'd been keeping an eye on the spread of the emerald ash borer until it finally appeared in Kenosha County. Last year, they showed up in a business park that the company maintains.
"We're not a full-fledged tree service; we don't own a chipper or a bucket truck, but we do feel a responsibility for our clients and their trees. We wanted to be able to offer our clients something that would help save their trees," said Sieger.
The company turned to Arborjet.
Kenosha Grounds Care sent two of its licensed pesticide applicators to one of their seminars. In addition, they received onsite hands-on training from representatives of Arborjet and Midwest Arborist Supply in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In the end, they were confident that they knew how to use the product correctly.
"I make two offers to my clients," says Sieger. "I can do a soil drench. It's less expensive, but lasts just one year. Or, I can inject. That costs more, but lasts two years." He gets takers for both approaches.
Once a tree starts exhibiting symptoms, it may have been infested for several years. By that time, it may be too late to save it. So, just as humans get vaccinated during flu season, Dodds suggests inoculating trees before the bugs come. "If you know that there is an impending infestation that occurs every year at a certain time on certain species, you can pre-treat the tree. We go by the old axiom, 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.' In major infestations, the best performance we get or anybody gets in protecting trees is before the pests arrive."
Don't stress
It's possible that some of the things we're doing as landscape professionals are inadvertently stressing out the trees. Try to be aware of the status of the trees while you're working on other parts of the landscape.
"If you're doing excavation (installing hardscape or irrigation pipes, for instance), ripping up roots under a tree, you could stress that tree and invite insects in," said Bristol.
"Trimming too much off of a tree so that it can't produce much carbohydrate, that's a stressor," said Boos. "So is someone driving over its roots—that is going to stress the hell out of a tree."
He has some other advice for those taking care of landscapes. "Make sure the trees have enough water," said Boos. "Fertilize them, but don't give them too much. If you over-fertilize trees, they grow too fast and get soft and tender. They have natural defenses, but if they're growing too quickly, they can't develop them. They grow long, gangly shoots and may look lush, but in reality, they can't stop themselves from growing." Soft, tender trees…hmmm, if you were an insect, isn't that where you'd want to dine?
If a tree has a dual diagnosis, both infested and infected, you can't just focus on getting rid of the pest. "Diseases and insects don't necessarily go together, but in some cases they can," said Dodds."If that's the case, you may want to use two products, an insecticide along with a fungicide." Arborjet, Mauget and other companies sell combo products that treat diseases and insect infestations at the same time.
There are many things that can stress trees, but drilling into their trunks to inject pesticide isn't one of them. "Some people worry about drilling holes in trees," said Bristol. "They think it hurts them, but our company has been doing this for more than ten years, and Mauget for more than 50 years. If drilling killed trees, we wouldn't be in business." He cites the example of the maple syrup industry. They've been drilling holes in maple trees—the same ones—over and over, for years. Trees do a good job of callousing over drill holes.
Look for the signs
"The biggest mistake landscape contractors make is that they typically look at the ground," says Dodds. "They don't look up." Remember that old song, I Talk To The Trees? The next line is, "But they don't listen to me." Well, the trees are talking, and if you're not looking up, you're not listening to them.
As a full-service landscape contractor, you're already familiar with plant diseases and insect infestations. In any given region, there are a limited number of trees that people normally have in their landscapes, depending upon what growing zone you're in, according to Dodds. "Let's say there are about ten common species found in your area. In some places, you get a lot of conifers, in others, hardwood trees of various types. Get comfortable with those species." Find out which insects plague them.
There are signs we can look for to see if we've got suckers, borers or hungry caterpillars at work. "Insect damage is generally the easiest to identify," said Dodds. "Sooty mold or unusual or severe defoliation starts to appear. Look at the leaves and the debris on the ground." Scalloping on leaves is a sign of caterpillars. When there are scale bugs or aphids at work on leaves, the insects excrete the sap and deposit the sticky gunk on the ground, on cars, on pool decks. That tells you you've got a sucking insect problem without necessarily seeing any change in the quality of foliage.
Fake females and paratroopers
The case of the emerald ash borer is a good example of just how devastating an invasive species can be. First detected in July, 2002, in southeast Michigan and neighboring parts of Ontario, Canada, this hitchhiking beetle from Asia has spread to 14 states, mostly in the Midwest. It's killed 50 to 100 million ash trees so far, and threatens all 7.5 billion throughout North America. This bug is considered one of the most destructive nonnative insects in the United States.
It and its other wood-boring brethren cause an estimated $3.5 billion in annual damages in the U.S. alone.
Researchers are working on how to save our ash trees. One of them is Dr. Thomas C. Baker, distinguished professor of entomology at Pennsylvania State University. He says, "Back in 2006, with some funding from the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture), I sent my graduate student Jon Lelito to Brighton, Michigan, to observe the beetles 24/7."
Equipped with night vision goggles and ultrasonic detectors to pick up any chirping, Lelito observed that as the females sat on ash leaflets, males flying around would spot them, then drop down on them from about a meter above. He called it 'paratrooper copulation.' "We actually got that into the title of our first manuscript," Baker noted with amusement.
Once they ruled out ultrasonic chirps or pheromone releases, they tested their 'paratrooper' theory by affixing dead male and female emerald ash borers to leaves.
They found the same phenomenon. The males dropped down and attempted to mate with the dead beetles of both sexes. Now they knew for sure that it was a visual cue the male beetles were following.
Baker then learned that another Penn State faculty member, Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, professor of engineering science and mechanics, had been able to artificially replicate certain biological materials, such as fly eyes and butterfly wings. Lakhtakia and other researchers were eventually able to find the right combination of polymers and numbers of layers in order to refract light and create a color similar to the beetle's iridescent green wings.
The decoys are easy to mass produce and less fragile than dead beetles. With stickum applied to them, the decoys can be used to trap males. "It's an early warning system that lets you know the pests have arrived in the area," said Baker. "That way, you can take proper measures at an early stage."
In its native Asia, the emerald ash borer is hard to find, kept in check by several natural predators such as parasitic wasps that feed on their larvae. Researchers, of which Lelito (now a Ph.D) is one, are breeding some of these natural enemies now. They've already been released into areas where the beetle's been found. It's hoped that these biological deterrents will multiply and eventually reduce or eradicate this destructive pest.
Scientists like Dr. Baker will continue to work on the problem of pest control. And we in the green industry will keep working on maintaining landscapes, and the trees that are a part of them, healthy. Keeping trees healthy using our best practices is the best way to ensure that nasty bugs stay away. That's good for the trees, and good for business, too.


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A topping off ceremony marked the end of steel frame construction for the new West Tower at Sentara Leigh Hospital and the beginning of closing in the building. A topping off ceremony involves team members signing a white-painted steel beam that is then hoisted by crane to the top of the structure and placed for posterity. The beam also had an evergreen tree attached, which is a tradition among steelworkers.
The West Tower will be a mirror image of the East Tower, which opened to patients in November of 2013. The East Tower is the site of the world's largest clinical trial on whether copper-infused hard surfaces and linens will help prevent hospital-acquired infections. The West Tower will also be outfitted with copper materials when it opens in 2015.
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It turns out that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was not waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators, as the liberal MSM widely reported. Instead, according to Joseph Abrams of Fox News, 183 represents the number of times water was poured onto Mohammed's face — not the number of times the CIA applied the simulated-drowning technique on him. Abrams cites a 2007 Red Cross report which states that the terror mastermind was subjected to a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment."
Unfortunately, readers of the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. now have a vastly distorted picture of what the CIA did to KSM. However, I doubt that the public as a whole much cares how many times, or in what manner, we doused this killer in order to cause him to tell us what he knew.
Still there is merit to Abe Greenwald's take on the liberal myth-making surrounding this issue:
George W. Bush's critics spent eight years feverishly accusing the administration of crimes. They had it easy because there was no serious burden of proof. But the prospect of an actual investigation means they can no longer play fast and loose with the facts. Convicting a party of federal crimes isn't like making a paranoid "documentary" or writing a best-selling hit job. The charges have to jibe with reality, for a change.


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Newswise — Medical physicists at the University of Virginia have created a novel way to kill tumor cells using nanoparticles and light. The technique, devised by Wensha Yang, an instructor in radiation oncology at the University of Virginia, and colleagues Ke Sheng, Paul W. Read, James M. Larner, and Brian P. Helmke, employs quantum dots. Quantum dots are semiconductor nanostructures, 25 billionths of a meter in diameter, which can confine electrons in three dimensions and emit light when exposed to ultraviolet radiation.
Yang and his colleagues realized that quantum dots also give off light when exposed to megavoltage x-rays, such as those used in cancer radiotherapy. That property, the scientists realized, makes quantum dots an ideal mediator in therapies employing light-activated compounds to treat cancer.
A compound called Photofrin is the only photosensitizer currently approved by the FDA. Photofrin is absorbed by cancer cells and, upon exposure to light, becomes active and kills cells. It is currently used to treat certain kinds of shallowly located tumors, but Yang and his colleagues realized that combing Photofrin with quantum dots could create an efficient method to kill even deeply seated cancer cells. Upon exposure to high doses of radiation, the dots become luminescent and emit light; that light triggers the cancer-killing activity of the Photofrin. In theory, the process, which so far has been studied only in cancer cells grown in culture, could work on tumors located too deep within the body to be reached by an external light source.
To prevent normal tissues from being affected by the treatment, the toxicity of the quantum dot-Photofrin conjugate is only activated when radiation is applied. Also, the area to be treated is targeted with conformal radiation, which is delivered with high precision within the three-dimensional contours of the tumor, with minimal spillover to surrounding healthy tissues. As a result, Yang says, "the toxicity of the drug is substantially lower in the lower radiation dose area" outside the boundaries of the tumor. In tests on human lung carcinoma cells, the process resulted in a 2-6 times lower tumor cell survival compared to radiation alone, but with minimal toxicity to nearby cells.
Yang will describe the technique in his talk, "Enhanced Energy Transfer From Mega-Voltage Radiation to the Tumor Cell Killing Singlet Oxygen by Semiconductive Nanoparticles," on Tuesday, July 29, during the 50th annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the largest medical physics association in the world. The meeting takes place from July 27 to July 31, in Houston, Texas.
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In a raid the other day, a guildie whispered me, "How does your runic power always stay full?"
As most of you know, your runic power (rp) decays very quickly, and as you're waiting to engage a boss, any rp you have will disappear if you just sit there. Now, you don't need to have 100 or so rp at pull - you only need about 40 rp to ensure your rotation is intact. However, I like to Death coil a time or two from range along with my Icy Touch while I charge into melee range. Over time, the damage adds up.
So, a quick tip or two on how to keep your toon full of Runic Power.
- CONSTANTLY hit Horn of Winter. Whenever you get out of melee range, hit HoW. When running between trash, hit HoW.
- When waiting for a boss pull, I:
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WALNUT CREEK — Police and the Contra Costa Times are investigating how a newspaper hold list ended up in the hands of suspected burglars who used it to target homes while families were on vacation.
The list was recovered in Livermore earlier this month inside a car stolen from a Walnut Creek home. It included addresses of subscribers who had requested the temporary suspension of newspaper delivery while they were out of town on vacation.
The Walnut Creek home was included on the list. Two men were arrested in Livermore in connection with the incident, and police say they were outside a second home they intended to burglarize.
The time frame covered on the vacation-hold list recovered in the car is unclear, and it is unclear how many homes on the list were possibly targeted by burglars.
The recovered list is the first time police have been able to firmly connect burglarized homes with Times' vacation-hold lists, but police are investigating whether thieves have been using the internal lists to target homes for as long as three months, said Lt. Steve Gorski of the Walnut Creek Police Department.
Investigators are working to determine how the list got into the wrong hands. The newspaper also has started an internal investigation, said David Rounds, vice president of circulation for the Bay Area News Group.
"We want to find out what happened," Rounds said.
Rounds added that changes to the company's internal system have been made so that delivery lists do not state whether subscribers have temporarily stopped delivery service or if they are on vacation. Lists will only state that a subscriber has asked to stop delivery and distributors will be notified of resumed service the day of. Gorski said the two men arrested in Livermore were not employees of or contractors for the newspaper. The men were arrested about a week ago, he said. They were driving the car stolen in Walnut Creek when they tried to steal a second car that was idling in a driveway next door to the Livermore home they intended to burglarize, Gorski said. Livermore police were called and arrested the men.
Police did not release the names of the men, and Gorski said they are still looking for at least one other suspect.
Details on the Walnut Creek theft were not available.
Rounds, however, disputed that the home in Livermore was on the vacation hold list, saying police had informed the company that only Walnut Creek addresses were involved.
While the Bay Area News Group publishes many papers, police believe only subscribers to the Contra Costa Times were affected. Anyone with information about the incidents may contact Walnut Creek police at 925-943-5844.
Vacation hold lists have been used to target subscribers before.
The Los Angeles Times announced Jan. 30 that four men were arrested and that police were seeking a fifth suspect for burglarizing homes after the men obtained lists of subscribers who had submitted vacation holds from a vendor that distributed the newspaper.
At least 25 people were burglarized and more than $1 million in property was stolen.
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I would normally start this post with an apology and an excuse for my absence but I don't have an excuse, I've just been lazy.
Anyway, I'm just gonna get straight into this article.
So Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punky band, there are 11 members and in March earlier this year 3 members were arrested for 'hooliganism', I believe that 1 member got on on bail or something and the other two were later on sent to prison camps and remain there.
I should prolly tell you why I'm starting this post like this, well, it's because on Saturday i watched a documentary on the artist Marina Abramovic which followed her as she did a large art performance in MoMA for three months in which she sat on a chair for 7-8 hours everyday for three months, on top of this she is 60 AND she managed to complete the installment as well as induce onlookers to tears. The exhibition was titled 'The Artist is present', not only will she go down in art history for this but she also was visited by actors such as James Franco and Orlando Bloom an has done hundreds of other performance art peices including setting a giant star on the floor on fire and lying in the middle until she passed out from lack of oxygen (below) and walking across the great wall of China to meet her boyfriend half way, only for him to tell her he had been cheating on her for almost 8 years and was having a baby with the other woman. Hardcore, I know.
I must confess, that i'm not all that sure if Marina was a feminist, but for some reason whenever I saw her work I couldn't help but think of Pussy Riot and people with hairy armpits, so, yeah. I guess thats the whole point of this article or whatever you would call this post; WHY SHOULD GIRLS SHAVE THEIR ARMPITS IF GUYS DON'T? A while back on my facebook I posted this photo of Charlotte Free as my cover photo-
Only to be confronted by small minded girls and boys asking 'wtf?', 'She needs shave her armpits!'
BUT WHY? WHY SHOULD SHE SHAVE HER ARMPITS? I don't think I've ever seen a Male ask a girl why she's wearing a push-up bra, so why be so curious about hair under your arms? Personally I can never really be bothered to shave my armpits, I only do if I'm wearing something sleeveless and I want to look un-hairy, but sometimes I can't be bothered so I just embrace it. Like seriously, girls need to stop being so prehistoric in thinking that guys won't love you if you have hairy armpits or hairy anything elses, it's not very distracting, it's just like having hair on your head and if a boy doesn't like you for having hairy armpits/legs/youknowwhat (FANNY) then, well. FUCK IT FUCK HIM FUCK SEXISM.
Here are some of my hairy armpited girls:
So I guess my challenge to you is to grow your armpit hair (hey, it keeps you warm and Xmas is like 35 days away) AND if you complete this challenge and send me a picture (you can inbox it me on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter ANYWHERE) then I promise to take a picture of me doing the same and i will make it my profile picture on facebook (not like it's a big deal anyway, just proof i'm not a hypocrite)
Oh and uhmmm


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sharp drop in auto sales caused largely by a calendar quirk lowered U.S. retail spending in September. But Americans spent more on most other goods, showing some confidence in the economy before much of the government shut down.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sharp drop in auto sales caused largely by a calendar quirk lowered U.S. retail spending in September. But Americans spent more on most other goods, showing some confidence in the economy before much of the government shut down.
Overall retail sales dipped 0.1 percent, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That was the weakest showing since March.
Auto sales fell 2.2 percent, the largest decline since October 2012. But the drop occurred largely because the sales calendar pulled Labor Day weekend activity into August, automakers have said. That means the drop was likely temporary.
Excluding autos, gas and building supplies, sales rose 0.5 percent in September, up from 0.2 percent in August. Economists exclude those categories because they tend to be volatile.
Outside of autos, nearly all retailers reported higher sales, including furniture stores, electronics and appliance retailers, and grocery stores. Sales at clothing stores and department stores were the only others aside from autos to decline.
Retail sales are closely watched because they're the government's first report each month on consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.
Americans have increased their spending modestly this year. But slower job growth and minuscule pay raises could make them less inclined to open their wallets.
Consumer confidence fell in September to a four-month low, according to the Conference Board. In addition to a weaker job market, higher interest rates and a drop in stock prices may have also weighed on Americans' outlook.
The Conference Board will release the October consumer confidence report on Tuesday as well. Economists expect it will fall even further, reflecting concerns last month about the partial government shutdown.
Employers added an average of just 143,000 jobs a month from July through September. That's down from 182,000 a month from April through June and 207,000 in the first three months of the year.
Sluggish spending is likely to weigh on growth. Most economists predict growth slowed in the July-September quarter to an annual rate of about 1.5 percent to 2 percent, down from a 2.5 percent rate in the April-June quarter. And the shutdown is likely to keep growth at a sluggish pace for the final three months of the year.
The retail sales report was delayed by the shutdown. It was originally scheduled to be released Oct. 11.