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The saguaro (/səˈwɑroʊ/) (Carnegiea gigantea) is an arborescent (tree-like) cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea, which can grow to be over 20 m (70 ft) tall. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Sonora, and the Whipple Mountains and Imperial County areas of California. The saguaro blossom is the State Wildflower of Arizona.
The common name saguaro came into the English language through the Spanish language, originating in the Mayo language.
Saguaros have a relatively long lifespan. They may grow their first side arm any time from 75-100 years of age, but some never grow one at all. A saguaro without arms is called a spear.
The arms are grown to increase the plant's reproductive capacity (more apices lead to more flowers and fruit). The growth rate of saguaros is strongly dependent on precipitation; saguaros in drier western Arizona grow only half as fast as those in and around Tucson, Arizona. Some specimens may live for more than 150 years;[2] the largest known saguaro is the Champion Saguaro growing in Maricopa County, Arizona, and is 13.8 m (45.3 ft) tall with a girth of 3.1 m (10 ft). These cacti can grow from 40 to 60 ft tall. They grow slowly from seed, and never from cuttings. Whenever it rains, saguaros soak up the rainwater. The cactus will visibly expand, holding in the water. It conserves the water and slowly consumes it.
The spines on saguaro having a height less than 2 m grow rapidly, up to a millimeter per day. When held up to the light or bisected, alternating light and dark bands transverse to the long axis of spines can be seen. These transverse bands have been correlated to daily growth. In columnar cacti, spines almost always grow in areoles which originate at the apex of the plant. Individual spine growth reaches mature size in the first season and then ceases to grow. Areoles are moved to the side and the apex continues to grow upwards. Thus, the older spines are towards the base of a columnar cactus and newer spines are near the apex. Current studies are underway to examine the relationship of carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in the tissues of spines to the past climate and photosynthetic history of the plant (acanthochronology).[3]
The night-blooming white and yellow flowers appear April through June and the sweet, ruby-colored fruit mature by late June. Saguaro flowers are self-incompatible, thus require crosspollination. Large quantities of pollen are required for complete pollination as there are numerous ovules. A well-pollinated fruit will contain several thousand tiny seeds.
The major pollinators are bats, primarily the lesser long-nosed bat, feeding on the nectar from the night-blooming flowers, which often remain open in the morning. A number of floral characteristics are geared toward bat pollination: nocturnal opening of the flowers, nocturnal maturation of pollen, very rich nectar, position high above the ground, durable blooms that can withstand a bat's weight, and fragrance emitted at night. One additional piece of evidence is that the amino acids in the pollen appear to help sustain lactation in bats. The flowers remain open into the daylight hours and continue to produce nectar after sunrise. Doves and bees appear to be the primary daytime pollinators.
The ruby red fruits are 6-9 cm long and ripen in June. Each fruit contains around 2000 seeds plus sweet fleshy connective tissue. The fruits are edible and prized by local people.
The fruits cannot be picked by hand, but must be harvested using a pole (often a saguaro rib) 2 to 5 m long, to the end of which is attached another pole.
The O'odham tribes have a long history of saguaro fruit use.[4] The Tohono O'odham tribes celebrate the beginning of their summer growing season with a ceremony using a fermented drink made from the bright red fruit to summon rains, vital for the crops.
Native birds such as Gila woodpeckers, purple martins, house finches, and gilded flickers live inside holes in saguaros. Flickers excavate larger holes higher on the stem.[5] The nest cavity is deep, the parents and young entirely hidden from view. The saguaro creates callus tissue on the wound. When the saguaro dies and its soft flesh rots, the callus remains behind as a so-called "saguaro boot", which was used by natives for storage.
The Gila woodpeckers (Melanerpes uropygialis) create new nest holes each season rather than reuse the old ones, leaving convenient nest holes for other animals, such as elf owls, flycatchers, and wrens.[6] In recent years, early-breeding, aggressive, non-native birds have taken over the nests to the detriment of elf owls that breed and nest later.
Harming a saguaro in any manner, including cactus plugging, is illegal by state law in Arizona, and when houses or highways are built, special permits must be obtained to move or destroy any saguaro affected.[7] There are exceptions to this general understanding. For example, a private landowner whose property is ten (10) acres or less, where the initial construction has already occurred, may remove a saguaro from the property. This is common when the cactus falls over in a storm, its location interferes with a house addition, or it becomes a potential hazard to humans. Specifically, Arizona Revised Statutes, A.R.S. 3-904.(H) defines this exemption.
- The saguaro is an important source of food and shelter for the Tohono O'odham. Saguaro spines are sometimes used as sewing needles and the ribs are used to make harvesting tools.
- The ribs of the saguaro were used for construction and other purposes by Native Americans. A fine example can be seen in the roofing of the cloisters of the Mission San Xavier del Bac on the Tohono O'odham lands near Tucson.
- The Seri people of northwestern Mexico used the plant, which they call mojépe, for a number of purposes.
The saguaro is often used as an emblem in commercials and logos that attempt to convey a sense of the Southwest, even if the product has no connection to Arizona or the Sonoran Desert. For instance, no naturally occurring saguaros are found within 250 miles (400 km) of El Paso, Texas, but the silhouette is found on the label of Old El Paso brand products. Though the geographic anomaly has lessened in recent years, Western films once enthusiastically placed saguaros in Monument Valley of Arizona, as well as New Mexico, Utah, and Texas. There are no wild saguaros anywhere in Texas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, or Nevada, nor in the high deserts of northern Arizona.
Saguaro gallery[edit]
Needles of a saguaro, Paradise Valley, AZ
Saguaro flowers, Scottsdale, Arizona
Unusually formed saguaro near Kino Bay, Sonora
See also[edit]
- ^ "Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2014-09-19.
- ^ "Life Cycle of the Saguaro" (PDF). Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2008. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
- ^ English NB, Dettman DL, Sandquist DR and DG Williams (2007) Annual and sub-annual variations of δ18O, δ13C and F14C in the spines of a columnar cactus, Carnegiea gigantea. Oecologia 154:247-258. DOI 10.1007/s00442-007-0832-x.
- ^ A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Edited by Steven J Phillips and Patricia Comus, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000, p. 193
- ^ Mark Elbroch; Eleanor Marie Marks; C. Diane Boretos (2001). Bird tracks and sign. Stackpole Books. p. 311. ISBN 0-8117-2696-7. "Cavities in saguaro cactuses in the Southwest are common. Both gilded flickers and gila woodpeckers make these cavities for nesting but they often choose different locations on the cactus. The stouter bills of the gilded flickers allow them to cut cavities through the wooden ribls near the top of the cactus where the ribs converge. Gila woodpeckers stay at midlevel on the cactus where the ribs are separated enough to cut a cavity between them. Cavities in saguaros are cut out by these birds the year before they are inhabited. The excavated cactus secretes a fluid that hardens into a scab, thus preventing water loss, which could kill the cactus, as well as waterproofing the inside of the next cavity."
- ^ "Gila woodpecker". Nature Conservancy. Retrieved 2011-01-24. "Although they do not use them immediately, waiting first for the sap to harden, Gila woodpeckers excavate cavities in cacti and trees as nesting sites. Females typically lay two broods a year of three to five eggs, which incubate for 14 days. Once abandoned, the cavities are occupied by reptiles, rodents, and small birds like kestrels, elf owls, flycatchers and wrens. In the desert, the woodpeckers perform the important ecological function of removing unhealthy flesh from the saguaro cactus. Some insects on which it feeds carry diseases, harmless to the bird, which damage the cactus and leave discolorations. The marks signal larvae to the bird, and as it excavates the insects, it also cuts away the diseased tissue. As the sap hardens, the cactus is healed, and the excavation becomes a convenient nesting site."
- ^ "Arizona Department of Agriculture".
- Benson, L. (1981). The Cacti of Arizona. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-0509-8.
- Felger, Richard; Mary B. Moser. (1985). People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Drezner TD (2005) Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea, Cactaceae) growth rate over its American range and the link to summer precipitation. Southwest Nat 50:65–68.


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the name of the little lake, where she dreamed to escape towards the West,
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Troll is an identity of another world.
Exploiting the power of the client name, a singular and figurative universe is created, with its own personality. A brand character.
TROLL the magical figure.
The identity is based on the Troll figure. We use typography as a figurative element and give it personality and expression. A logo that is reactive, moody and charismatic.
TROLL an (e) motional figure.
How could we give life and articulated movement to a figurative logo? That was the challenge that was carried a conceptual step forward. A brand character. From the use of motion capture technology (used in films like Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Tintin ...) it was possible to replicate actual movements and link hem to the typography used in the identity, approaching the performance of an actor to a character.
Motion capture is the process of recording movement and implement it in a digital model.
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Optimus D' Bandada invades the night of Porto, with free concerts in unexpected places, creating
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Its a brand born in the world without being based on a space or location. The brand is for a sophisticated and stylish target, that recognizes originality and uniqness. The logo is the outward expression of the brand.
Olhamar is a 40 years old specialized factory for fashion accessories.
In the recent years, the fashion accessories are associated with brands of clothing. Those brands have expanded their portfolio to accessories, fragrances and other products to expand their image, their target and their profit.
We are witnessing a big increase of the accessories search as a style statement. The indiviaduality afirmation and the customization of the look became more relevant than the "full brand look". The fashion accessories play a role as much as important as the clothing. Each season every designer and brands come up with a top of must haves.
The opportunity arises from the idea of creating a new brand that provides accessories that will enrich and personalize the look of a stylish target that cares about uniqueness.
Create a new accessories brand with an international look and profile with a strong perception of quality - manufacturing experienced.
– To build a consistent and solid positioning that can be extendend on other products by cross selling accessories.
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Pacifica created the entire brand reflecting the shape and the colors of the fields wich is the most visible aspect on the space and allows to reinforce the social and leisure environment. The brand is based on the structure and shape of the fields in order to transmit the precision (by using guidelines) and the colors to transmit the joy of the game. As part of the applications Pacifica developed a specific typography to reinforce the uniqueness of the club and all the signage icons that orients the visitors. The visual universe is very consistente and playfull at the same time. The brand emerges as a playground on a top view and its applications stand to be far more dynamic than the logo showing a non static–identity wich is pretty expressive on the website, flyers, vouchers, flags and clothes. 2013 Art Direction, Branding, Graphic Design
35 FITEI — Global project
Pacifica seeks to develop every new edition of FITEI as a visual statement. This year we wanted to show an attitude of social responsibility.
We developed the image of the 35th FITEI
based on the following points:
- Maximum visibility and originality. To create a moment that persists for a year.
- Create a stimulating and flexible but consistent language.
- Budget limitations: only 2 colors print.
— The concept rises from the desconstruction of cheap and dispensable materials .
Plastic Bag
We chose the plastic bag as the main material.
It is an analogy with current cultural Portuguese situation (no fundings, "cheap" culture) and the way culture unfortuantely tends to be undervalued and treated like a futility.
- "Empty bag" or "full bag" - popular expression that suits the intellectually intervention about the state of mind.
Black Border
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The plastic bag was explored throughout the communication materials including silkscreen and stamping, highlighting the plasticity and empowering the message.
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Opposite and complementary
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Diário de Noticias — Website DN.PT
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The Project
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The newspaper had three editions that would contain the daily schedule of the event.
The Daily News had interviews, highlights, schedule of the portfolio area / work sample and daily presentation of elements of Staff OFFF.
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Supplying CAS to set_multi() or replace_multi() ...
Neither set_multi() nor replace_multi() appear to have a way for me to supply them a CAS value per item. delete() does supply such a mechanism. It is documented in the Python SDK connection.delete() section:
Remove multiple keys with CAS:oks = cb.delete({ "key1" : cas1, "key2" : cas2, "key3" : cas3 })
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set_multi does allow a CAS. However this is currently not supported or documented (it will likely be exposed in future versions). The key issue is allowing the "idiomatic" way of setting values using a dictionary, and also being able to supply the CAS.
There's actually support for this. The key issue with not being able to supply CAS to set_multi is because of the ambiguity of "is it a value? or is it a set of parameters". For this reason there is an 'Arguments' class designed for this purpose. Unfortunately it has not been documented in the current version, as tests still need to be written for it.
It's available from
couchbase.Arguments; and it's a dict subclass which accepts "value", "cas", and "ttl" fields. You use this as a dictionary value for each item you pass into the dict for set_multi.
In general; the
set() family of methods accept more than a single parameter for each key; for example there is "ttl", "flags", "format", "value", and "cas" (the former is not applicable in
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Jeremy joined the Swanson staff in 2004 and was involved with the merging of the Swanson-Lundquist Funeral Home in 2006. Currently he is the business owner of both, Fassbender and Swanson-Lundquist Funeral Homes. Born in Marquette, Jeremy is a graduate of the Marquette Senior High School. He later enrolled at Wayne State University graduating in 1997 where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mortuary Science. Jeremy resides in Marquette, currently serves as District 10 Vice President for Michigan Funeral Directors Association and serves as member of the Marquette General Hospital Pastoral Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Marquette Noon Kiwanis Club and St. Michael Catholic Church in Marquette. In his spare time Jeremy enjoys biking, golfing, and skiing.
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John joined the Swanson staff in 1974, receiving his license in 1978. He is a 1978 graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and a member of St. Christopher Catholic Church, Marquette.
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A Smith County Jury has found David Ford guilty of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, and has sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
The punishment range for this crime was 5 to 99 years or life.
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Ersan Ilyasova is a fantastic rebounder, one of the best in the league at drawing charges and was able to consistently make 3-point shots last season. That's why he is so good.
Other searches since this last time we played this game.
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Your guess is as good as mine, friend. He seems a fairly small bit of the Bucks fairly triumphant history, but he must have made quite an impact in his eight years in Milwaukee. Here's the scoop from the 2012-13 Milwaukee Bucks Media Guide:
A two-time Bucks All-Star, in eight seasons he helped the team achieve six postseason berths. Upon retiring in 1983, Winters was the leading playmaker in Bucks history (now 3rd, 2,479 assists). He is among the Bucks all-time leaders in scoring, games played and steals.
- alando tucker to the bucks?
Yes, Tucker is on the Bucks, friend. But he's seen only a couple of minutes in one preseason game. He has two points. He has a local connection. And he has the tough task of trying to win a spot on a roster that was, for all intensive purposes, set before he arrived. The Milwaukee Bucks have 15 guaranteed contracts. The limit on roster spots come regular season is 15. The Bucks would need to pay a player to go away in order to keep Tucker, who, again, has only played a couple of minutes this preseason. Sorry gang, but Tucker won't be a Buck this year, barring some incredibly unforeseen development.
About the Author (Author Profile)Jeremy Schmidt writes the Milwaukee Bucks blog Bucksketball. He founded it in January of 2009 because he hated his job. It's like basketball, but with Bucks instead of basket. I know ... I'm sorry. He might come off as a bit negative, but I'm really not so bad. He just wants the Bucks to succeed, so he points out areas where they are coming up short. Someone has got to do it and he's ornery and opinionated enough to take on that task. He isn't sure if this should be in third person or not. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com if you must use e-mail.
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) - The man accused of raping and murdering a woman that lived in the same apartment building was in court Tuesday. 32-year-old Jose Luis Flores Aca made an initial appearance in Portage County Circuit Court. Flores Aca allegedly killed 36-year-old neighbor Jamie Koch after sexually assaulting her August 7th.
Flores Aca appeared by video connection from the jail along with his interpreter. He is charged with first degree intentional homicide, first degree sexual assault causing great bodily harm, and hiding a corpse. Defense attorney Sean Drury moved to waive the time limits for his client's preliminary hearing. That hearing is scheduled for September 11th at 8:30 a.m. before judge Thomas Flugar.
The defendant remains in jail, unable to post a one million dollar cash bond.
According to the complaint, Flores Aca had a conversation with Koch outside of her apartment at 2551 Chestnut Drive in Plover. At some point, they ended up inside of her apartment, where Flores Aca allegedly punched and strangled Koch before assaulting her. He is accused of wrapping Koch's body in bed sheets, and putting her in the backseat of her car. Investigators say Flores Aca drove the victim's car to a Waupaca county farm field and lit the car on fire to destroy evidence, and then had friends give him a ride back to Plover.
Although he used a Spanish interpreter for court proceedings, Flores Aca answered investigators questions after Koch's death in English. He has also helped other Spanish speaking workers with their English.
If convicted, Flores Aca could spend the rest of his life in prison. If he's not convicted, he could be deported to Mexico.