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Cheldric, and reduced the rest to surrender. John had now filled the papal chair two years.
Fourth victory of king Arthur.
In the year of grace 521, Boetius, after a long exile,
was put to death by Theodoric, king of the Goths. The same
year word was brought to Arthur that the Scots and Picts
were besieging king Hoel in the city of Alclud, where he
lay ill ; on which he hastened to his succour, to prevent
his being taken by the barbarians. Hearing of his approach,
the enemy fled to Mureif, followed by Arthur, and were
there besieged by him ; but making their escape by night,
they sought refuge in a marshy island of Loch Lomond.
Whereupon Arthur, collecting ships, invested the island,
and so straitened them for fifteen days, that they died of
hunger by thousands. After which, the bishops of that
country came to the king barefooted, and besought him with
tears to have mercy on the miserable people, and to permit
them to occupy a small portion of their country under the yoke of perpetual servitude. The king was moved by their tears, and granted their request.
Arthur rebuilds the ruined churches.
In the year of grace 522, Agapetus filled the Roman chair eleven months, and was succeeded by Sylverius for one year. A t this time, Arthur, visiting the city of York, j ust before the day of our Lord's nativity,' was exceedingly grieved at beholding the rdesolation of the sacred churches, and assembling the clergy and the people, he conferred the archbishopric on Pirannus, his chaplain. Throughout the whole of Britain he restored the churches from their ruins, and recalling the nobles of the kingdom who had been driven out by the Saxons, he restored to them the lands and possessions of their fathers.
Arthur's marriage-
In the year of grace 523, king Arthur, having restored the island of Britain to its former state, married a wife named Guenhumara, descended from a noble Roman family. She was educated in the family of the duke of Cornwall, and surpassed in beauty all the women of the island. Men


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In lower Manhattan, one of the trendiest neighbourhood in New York happens to take its place. Hundreds of artists open their galleries there, fashion designers have their boutiques and the people visiting New York? Well, they come to SoHo and shop there all day long.
The Subway
I got to SoHo by the famous New York subway after getting my morning black coffee. I got off at Prince Street. Mercer, Greene, Prince, Spring… All these street names were just waiting for me to walk and shop near them. First of all, the amount of shoes all the stores had was unbelievable. Any model, any color, ANY shoes you want, SoHo has it all.
A funny store we went into was called Balloon Saloon. A store only things to prank people with were in display such as fake poop, candies that turn into soap, and other ridiculous things that hides in books and balloons.
If you're lucky enough, you might stroll by movie directors and producers filming a movie scene in the streets of SoHo, one of the most common place to shoot in New York City obviously. Here are some shots I got from a movie scene, can I just be part of it too?
As I walked by, I couldn't help myself but stop at a booth that was outside where a guy was selling copies of scripts of all the best movies and TV show we all know. For lunch, I walked by Pinkberry and then again, couldn't help myself but get a large original frozen yogurt with kiwi, mango and strawberries as my toppings; it's simple and fresh, I highly recommend to anyone. It's a fresh snack after a day of walking.
All the art you will see on the street will leave you speechless. From graffitis on the walls, to designers drawing at a café, this neighbourhoods' 26 blocks and 500 buildings will last you the entire day to visit.


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Hubble Spies Huge Clusters of Stars Formed by Ancient Encounter
This stunningly beautiful image [right] taken with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the prototypical starburst galaxy M82. The ongoing violent star formation due to an ancient encounter with its large galactic neighbor, M81, gives this galaxy its disturbed appearance.
The smaller picture at upper left shows the entire galaxy. The image was taken in December 1994 by the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope. Hubble's view is represented by the white outline in the center.
In the Hubble image, taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, the huge lanes of dust that crisscross M82's disk are another telltale sign of the flurry of star formation. Below the center and to the right, a strong galactic wind is spewing knotty filaments of hydrogen and nitrogen gas.
More than 100 super star clusters -- very bright, compact groupings of about 100,000 stars -- are seen in this detailed Hubble picture as white dots sprinkled throughout M82's central region. The dark region just above the center of the picture is a huge dust cloud. A collaboration of European and American scientists used these clusters to date the ancient interaction between M82 and M81. About 600 million years ago, a region called "M82 B" (the bright area just below and to the left of the central dust cloud) exploded with new stars. Scientists have discovered that this ancient starburst was triggered by the violent encounter with M81.
M82 is a bright (eighth magnitude), nearby (12 million light-years from Earth) galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear).
The Hubble picture was taken Sept. 15, 1997. The natural-color composite was constructed from three Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 exposures, which were combined in chromatic order: 4,250 seconds through a blue filter (428 nm); 2,800 seconds through a green filter (520 nm); and 2,200 seconds through a red (820 nm) filter.
Credits for Hubble image: NASA, ESA, R. de Grijs (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)
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High upon the hill the air is fresh. For miles around the pale blue sky is clear and far below Moira can see a patchwork of fields, different shades of green knitted together like a blanket across the earth. Everything is still atop the hill, even the slight breeze is lazy, whispering gently past Moira's ears, nudging the tips of her short hair. She closes her eyes, breathing deeply. Slowly she bends her knees and lets her body sink to the soft grassy ground, laying out flat with her face to the ground, breathing in the deep earthy scent of the hill and letting her thoughts disperse like dandelion seeds on the wind.
She does not know how long she lays there for, but when she eventually opens her eyes the sun has moved across the sky. It is a pale yellow disc hanging in a pale blue sea and as she watches it Moira thinks that it is beautiful, possibly the most beautiful thing she has ever seen, so simple, so real.
As she carefully gets back on her feet she realises that she feels clear again, finally. She had been lost for such a long time, but now, upon this hill, there is nothing except herself and the beauty of the world around her. A smile flickers across her face, the clarity is a good feeling, one she will hold on to, nestled inside her like a tiny delicate secret, hers and only hers.


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Ottawa is the beautiful capital of Canada. Although it is one of the largest cities in Canada it continues to maintain its charm. You will be able to enjoy fantastic museums, a great selection of restaurants and miles of great walking paths that take you to interesting places.
One of the first things you will notice about Ottawa is how the city maintains its streets and parks. If you only have time to visit one park make your way to the Gatineau Park. Interestingly enough you will need to cross the Ottawa River into the province of Qubec. Although you crossed a provincial border to get there, it is not far from Ottawas city center. The park is a great place for cross-country skiing in the winter and hiking and biking when the spring and summer months are at their prime.A good way to understand the layout of the city is to know that the Rideau Canal divides the city into two halves. One of the highlights found in the Upper Town are the beautiful Parliament buildings. Some of what the Lower Town has includes Sussex drive and the National Gallery. The Canal itself is filled with activity throughout the year. It is used for canoeing, biking and jogging. When the snow falls you can skate on it, making it one of the longest skating rinks in the world. The Canal also hosts a fantastic winter festival during the month of February called the Winterlude so bundle up and enjoy the activities. Another great event is the Canadian Tulip Festival, which is held in May. Even if flowers just are not your thing, you will be impressed with the three million tulips that are on display throughout the city. Ottawa hosts more than 60 festivals throughout the year so anytime is a great time to visit.
The Canadian Parliament is a stunning collection of buildings. Prince Edward first laid its foundation in 1860 and building was completed in 1867. Although Canada is considered a young country, the copper roofs and towers show its historic beginnings. There are three buildings - the center block contains the Peace tower and houses the 53-bell carillon, the Memorial Chamber and a great observation deck. There is also a beautiful statue created out of marble of a young Queen Victoria. The West block houses the parliamentary offices. As a note, this building is closed to the public but the East block is available for tours.
Canada's National War Memorial, located in Confederation Square, was dedicated in 1939 to commemorate World War I. Since then it continues to remember the fallen heroes who have fought in wars since then. It also features the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and is a fantastic tribute to the soldiers who fought to protect their homeland. The worlds largest collection of Canadian art, as well as a great showing of European and American pieces can be found at the National Gallery of Canada, which was founded in 1880. If you have the time, explore more than 20 other museums found throughout the city.
For those interested in giving their wallets a workout, make your way to the Spark Street Mall and Rideau Centre. Or if you prefer going boutique-style, Sussex and Bank Street are right up your golden ally. Ottawa continues to showcase its local wares at the wonderful ByWard Market. Although a traditional farmers market, it is a great place to look for local foods and crafts. Spreading across two floors with more than 70 stalls, you will enjoy every inch of it. There are outlets to choose from as well so to sum it up the shopping opportunities in Ottawa are endless.
Ottawa is filled with fantastic restaurants that offer a wide range of culinary delights but dont freak out if someone offers you a beaver tail. This local dish is actually a whole-wheat pastry served up one of three ways - cinnamon, sugar and lemon, garlic, butter and cheese or all by itself with some jam. Whatever your taste buds are searching for, you will find it in Ottawa. When you are filled up to the brim, make your way to Elgin Street for a great night of music, clubs and pubs.
Whether you spend time at the many museums, explore the nature trails, find a great deal on the latest fashion trends or take part in one of its many festivals, Ottawa is a wonderful place to enjoy some of Canadas beauty and culture.


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AD Integration on Twitter March 28th, 2011 7 Kommentare
ADi: 1.0 Released / Upcoming Multisite Support / Sync Back & Bulk Import March 25th, 2011 9 Kommentare
On 23th of March I release version 1.0 which includes a lot of fixes and some new functionality. Among others you can now read any possible attribute from Active Directory and show their values on the user profile page. But there is still much to do.
Multisite Support
Mulitsite support is the most frequently requested feature and I will look very, very soon about. If you have special request you can drop a feature request on the official ADi Bugtracker http://bt.ecw.de/view.php?id=4.
Sync Back & Bulk Import
Right now I am working on two new features: Sync Back and User Bulk Import. Sync Back gives you the ability to change attributes read from Active Directory and write them back. So users can change informations like their phone number on their own.
The Bulk Import let's you import members of a security group (for example by use of a cron job) and create them in WordPress.
I hope the finish the work on these two features within the next days and release them in version 1.1. Then I start work on the multi-site support immediatly.
Stay tuned.
Bug tracker for ADI February 21st, 2011 keine Kommentare
At http://bt.ecw.de/ you'll find a bug tracker (Mantis) for Active Directory Integration (ADI). You can report bugs anonymously but it's recommended to create an account. Creating an account is easy, quick and you'll get feedback by mail on state changes of your reports.
New Release Candidate 1.0-RC2 February 12th, 2011 keine Kommentare
I have committed a new development version 1.0-RC2, which includes a fix for the recursive_groups bug. When a security group is a member of another security and vice versa, adLDAP got stuck in an infinite loop. I fixed this bug in adLDAP.php. I have also added some more debug informations in the Test Tool. You have to set WP_DEBUG to true in wp-config.php to get these informations:
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
Please give it a try and send feedback.
PS: The first commit included a stupid bug, which I have fixed today at 8:27 pm.
Translators for Active Directory Integration needed June 24th, 2010 keine Kommentare
As the release 0.9.9.9 of the WordPress plugin Active Directory Integration (ADI) now contains all the functionality I had planned for it, I believe it is time for a version 1.0. However, this one should be available in a few more languages than is currently the case (english, german, belarussian). For this, I am looking for talented people who would be willing to translate the plugin into other languages.
The technical aspect of the translation isn't hard. The plugin directory contains a file named ad-integration.pot, which is the starting point for any translation. The followng briefly describes the steps required to create a new language file.
- Copy the ad-integration.pot file and rename the copy to ad-integration-<language>_<COUNTRY>.po. Replace <language> with the abbreviation for the language, and <COUNTRY> with the abbreviation for the country. For example, the language file for italian would be called ad-integration-it_IT.po. The appropriate language and region codes can be found here.
- Download Poedit from here and install it.
- Launch Poedit and open the language file you created. (For example, ad-integration-it_IT.po)
- The original english text can be seen on the left hand side. Your translations will be on the right. If you click on a line, you can input your translation at the bottom of the program window. Please make sure to keep the %s and %d symbols in your translated text. They are placeholders that are replaced by values from the plugin at runtime. For example, the english text "Error deleting Setting Key `%s`" is translated in german to "Fehler beim Löschen des Schlüssels`%s`".
- In order to save your translations, simply click "File -> Save". This will automatically create a .mo file (i.e. ad-integration-it_IT.mo). This file contains the translated text in a binary form that is ultimately used in WordPress.
- When you are finished translating, send me the translation file (po) at email@example.com.
All translators will be mentioned in the readme.txt (and therefore also on wordpress.org) by name and, on request, also with an eMail address and homepage.
AD Integration Roadmap [Updated] June 22nd, 2010 142 Kommentare
Here the plans for further improvements of the Active Directory Integration WordPress plugin:
- WordPress MU compatibility (planned for 1.0) Rudimentary implemented since 0.9.9.8 but WordPress 3.0 MultiSite is supported.
- WordPress 3.0 compatibility
- tool for testing DONE 0.9.9-dev
- object-orientation redesign DONE 0.9.1
- code clean up DONE 0.9.1
- email notification of user and/or admin when a user account is blocked DONE 0.9.1
- drop table on uninstall or deactivation DONE 0.9.2
- adding more languages
- better user interface for role <> group assignment
- set different ldap ports per server
- help page DONE 0.9.2.
- determine WP display name from AD attributes DONE 0.9.3
- authenticate against multiple domains (perhaps, have to think about)
- enable/disable password changes for local (non AD) WP users DONE 0.9.8
- multiple authorization groups (as requested by Lori Dabbs) DONE 0.9.8
to be continued…
WordPress 3.0 compatibility 3 Kommentare
AD Integration is in principle compatible to WordPress 3.0. However there is a little problem with the changes made to wp_insert_user() in wp-includes/registration.php. Now WordPress prevents from creating users with email addresses that are in use by other users already in the database.
The current development version contains a workaround, so Automatic User Creation works as before. A new option will be introduced with the 0.9.9.9 release. Then you can decide how the behavior should be, when duplicate email addresses are found:
- The User will not be created (default, secure).
- The User will be created and you'll have 2 or more users with the same email address (unsecure).
- The User gets a new, partially random email address (partially unsecure).
The new version 0.9.9.9 will be released soon. Use the development version until then.
Active Directory Integration 0.9.9.6 released January 29th, 2010 2 Kommentare
I have released Active Directory Integration 0.9.9.6 today. kingkong954 reported a bug with the manual user creation. If the option "Enable local password changes" is unchecked, the passwords fields on user creation are not visible, so no passwords can be entered. Therefore a random has to be set in this case, so WordPress will not complain about missing it. The update to 0.9.9.6 is recommended.
Active Directory Integration 0.9.8 released October 26th, 2009 3 Kommentare
I released 0.9.8 today. Here are the changes:
- NEW: Deactivate Plugin if LDAP support is not installed.
- NEW: New Option "Allow users to change their local WordPress password."
- NEW: Multiple authorization groups (as requested by Lori Dabbs).
- FIX: Added missing CSS file (Thanks to ajay and BagNin for the bug report).
- FIX: Users e-mail address was never updated (Thanks to Marc Cappelletti for the bug report).
Security vulnerability in ADI 0.9.6 – new version released August 24th, 2009 keine Kommentare
There is a security vulnerability in the WordPress-Plugin Active Directory Integration. If set "Use TLS" to on as recommended, the communication between the blog server and the Active Directory was still unencrypted. This is fixed in version 0.9.7.
Thanks to Jim Carrier for the bug report.
Download 0.9.7 or use the automatic update.


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As winner of the prestigious Green Tourism Business Goldstar Award 2011, Lochranza Youth Hostel is ranked as one of the UK's top ten greenest businesses. Recently refurbished, our beautiful youth hostel is situated on the banks of Loch Ranza, opposite a 13th-century ruined castle in beautiful countryside. Spacious rooms and a range of facilities make Lochranza Youth Hostel a popular base for groups exploring the Isle of Arran.
We have 53 beds configured in a range of room sizes from 2-8 bedded rooms. Many rooms have en-suite facilities.
Reasons to stay
Close to some of the island's biggest attractions Lochranza Youth Hostel is an ideally situated. Visit Arran's only whisky distillery, enjoy hillwalking, mountain biking, pony trekking, golf and watersports. Other attractions include Brodick and Lochranza Castle, the Arran Brewery, the heritage museum and Ocean Breeze Rib Tours. The youth hostel is also located on the Cock of Arran trail, which provides a beautifully scenic low level trek and a great spot to watch wildlife, including red deer, red squirrel, grey seals, otters and golden eagles.


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Security Gives Back in 2017
Lauttamus Communications & Security, Weirton, W.V., president Paul Lauttamus spearheaded a Mardi Gras gala event that raised more than $50,000 for the Weirton Medical Center's state-of-the-art Breast Care Center. Lauttamus led the way by donating...
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By Bill Philips, WTOV-9/Steubenville, Ohio The world as we see every day can be a very dangerous place. To stay safe, people are willing to pay for security. According to industry experts, global home security will be a $100 billion business by 2020. Today's home...
Lauttamus Acquires Interstate Communications
(Weirton, WV) Lauttamus Communications & Security has purchased Interstate Communications and Electronics. Interstate Communications & Electronics is located in Beaver, Pennsylvania and has been in business since 1975, providing two-way radio sales,...
New Pittsburgh Location for Lauttamus Communications & Security
Lauttamus Communications & Security has outgrown the previous Pittsburgh location and will now be operating out of the new facility at 29 Noblestown Road in Carnegie, PA. The new facility, chosen for its convenient location, spans 28,000 square feet to accommodate...
Brooke Hills work to begin soon
Brooke Hills Park will name a building in honor of our founder, Al Lauttamus, whose donation helped make this project a reality.
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WEIRTON, W.Va. — A non-profit group is teaming up with Lauttamus Communications and Security to help people struggling with addiction. The pairing was announced Tuesday afternoon at Lauttamus Communications and Security's office in Weirton. The company will be...
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Lauttamus Communications and Security announces acquisition of Pittsburgh-based JR Alarms in a move to expand and offer further services into Western Pennsylvania. The purchase ensures stability for existing JR Alarms customers and staff, keeping jobs and services in the local area.


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PeaceHealth is a well-established financially stable multi-specialty provider group looking for an experienced Nurse Practitioner interested in outpatient Family Medicine opportunities and to BE A PART OF THE EXCITING FUTURE OF PEACEHEALTH.
Diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care for patients who have a wide range of problems associated with internal organs. Examine patients using up-to-date medical instruments and equipment. Order and/or execute various tests, analyses, and diagnostic images to provide information on the patient's condition. Analyze reports and findings of tests and examinations, and diagnose conditions. Administer or prescribe treatments and drugs. Advise patients concerning diet, hygiene, and methods for prevention of disease; and document care. Prepare and complete records, work with team members for the efficient and orderly flow of patients.
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Despite all the classes we take, degrees we get, documentaries we watch, most of us never get the word about a remedy as key to health and happiness as watching cholesterol or eating the right food. It's the invisible cure for a host of our problems, from stress to obesity to loneliness.
Stanford Medical School's Mark Cullen found out what happens to people who ignore this over-the-counter tonic. He found in his research that successful men were reduced to feeling "they were nothing," once they walked out the door to retirement. They had no worth beyond job performance, and they were missing a resource they couldn't live without. "They had no leisure skills," said Cullen. They didn't know how to live. Single-minded focus on production left them unequipped to enjoy the life they theoretically worked for. Many died early deaths.
Leisure skills? What's that? Microwave popcorn popping? Isometric finger exercises for the remote? That's probably what many of these execs would have thought and had a good guffaw over in the myopia of their working days. That attitude doomed them to a life without living.
When you don't have leisure skills, what do you do? Flip on the TV. The average state of someone watching TV is a mild depression, reports Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, author of "Finding Flow" and the pioneering authority on optimal experience. A sedentary lifestyle is a major risk factor for heart disease and other serious health problems. A recent study in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise reported that men who spend 23 or more hours a week sitting, watching TV or glued to car seats, had a 64 percent greater chance of fatal heart disease than those who only logged 11 hours or less per week on their butts. That could well be a bigger problem, since some 78 percent of Americans over age 30 don't get any exercise, according to Census Bureau statistics and Seppo Iso-Ahola of the University of Maryland.
The root of the problem? Missing leisure skills, something we don't know we need. The assumption is that leisure is a vegetative condition, and therefore there are no requirements aside from batteries for the remote. But it's actually the exact opposite. As Aristotle saw it, the non-work arena is a realm of engagement, of self-fulfillment and learning. Today, off-hours have been relegated to spectator sport.
In one of the not-so-great ironies of the modern world, we're trained to make a living, but not how to do the living we're making. That's left to others -- the stars with the production values, the tabloid train-wreck of the moment. We wind up without the skills to do what is essential for physical and mental health -- participate in our lives through engaged experience.
The link between leisure and health is plenty clear to researchers. A study by Tim Kasser, who heads the psychology department at Knox College in Illinois, found that as work time increases and leisure time decreases, health problems and negative emotions increase. Leisure experiences have been found to reduce stress by buffering setbacks and building coping mechanisms. They also build self-esteem and confidence and improve mood through increased self-control and social support.1 Aerobic exercise and vacations have both been shown to reduce depression. The more active leisure life you have, the higher your life satisfaction, says Iso Ahola.
I saw this vitalizing force first-hand in the course of my new book, "Don't Miss Your Life", on the power of engaged experience. I met people whose health and worth had been transformed by active living. Philadelphia breast cancer survivor Kathy King barely had the strength to put a paddle in the water when she went to her first dragon boat paddling practice. Now she's in the front of the boat, leading the charge during races and has rebuilt her life. Her teammate Karen Lynch told me that "life before paddling was just breast cancer and being alone." She says the camaraderie and challenge of paddling "complete my life."
Former Marine Oz Sanchez found his life finished at the age of 25 when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the waist down. After 18 months in a body cast and a long period of despair, he discovered a hand-cycle one day. It brought him to wheelchair racing and back to life. He won a hand-cycling gold medal at the 2008 Paralympics. Many others I met had no physical barriers, but passionate play overcame their mental blocks. Aikido banished insecurity for Montreal resident Erica Gipson; kayaking turned Chris Joose from an insular person to a leader and initiator; rock climbing helped Sara Lingafelter overcome her fears and find strengths and talents she never knew she had.
Passions and the active leisure skills that create them work wonders for your health and outlook because they satisfy core psychological needs for autonomy, competence and connection with others. This makeover show happens where it matters: inside. Yet this power of this health resource doesn't filter down to us because of the ingrained notion that recreation and leisure are little removed from outright vagrancy, since they don't produce anything (unless you want to call living a productive endeavor).
We concentrate all our skill-building and education on the work side, where we believe all the value is. Work skills -- getting results, micromanaging, staying in the comfort zone -- get you nowhere when it comes to activating your life, which is about input, not output, experience over results, letting go and getting out of the straitjacket of habit.
It takes another skill-set to create a fulfilling life outside the professional world. Here are some of the key leisure skills that get your life going:
- Intrinsic motivation. Pursuing and enjoying experiences off the clock takes a different motivation than the work reflex of external results: intrinsic motivation. You do it for the inherent interest, fun, learning or challenge. Research shows we enjoy what we do and remember much more of it (critical to memory, which is what tells you that you like your life or not) when the goal is intrinsic. Expect no payoff, and you get a big one, internal gratification.
- Initiating. Instead of being told what to do or watching others doing the living, we have to break out of spectator mode and self-determine our lives to feel gratified. We need to research and plan activities and vacations, seek out and try new things, invite others to get out and participate -- and if they don't reciprocate, go alone.
- Risk-taking. The real risk is not risking. Security is a red flag for the brain, which is built to seek out novelty and challenge. Make the risk intrinsic (the result doesn't matter), and you're able to venture much more because, instead of having anything on the line, you're just exploring.
- Pursuit of competence. Since competence is one of your core needs, it's a handy thing to build and sublime to feel. The idea here is that you want to get better at something -- not to show off, not for anyone else but for your own gratification. Pursuing competence leads you to build your skills at an activity to the point where it can become a passion. It's a fabulous self- and life-sustaining skill.
- Attention-directing and absorption. The work mind wants to get everything over with ASAP. The key to optimal experiences is being 100 percent engaged in what you're doing now. That means losing the electronic devices and distractions and putting all your concentration on the activity at hand. The more absorbed you are, the more your thoughts and deeds are the same, and the happier you are. It's called harmony.
- Going for the experience. Observation and hanging back don't satisfy the engagement mandate of your brain neurons. To activate a fulfilling life, we have to participate in the 40 percent of our potential happiness (the rest is inherited or due to circumstance) we can actually do something about -- intentional activities. That's the realm of experience. Experiences make us happier than material things because they can't be compared with anyone else's experience. They don't lose value through social comparison. They are personal events that engage our self-determination needs.
These skills take us inside the participant dynamic essential to a healthy and extraordinary life. They show us that the good life comes from a place quite a bit different than the recliner, and that the script of nonstop production is about as accurate a route to satisfaction and aliveness as a divining rod.
1. Chalip, L., Thomas, D. R. & Voyle, J. (1992). Sport, recreation and wellbeing. In D. Thomas & A. Veno (Eds.), Psychology and social change: Creating an international agenda. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
Joe Robinson is author of the new book, Don't Miss Your Life, on the science, spirit and skills of activating the fullest life. He is a work-life balance and stress-management speaker, trainer, and coach at Work to Live.


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India's biometric attendance push meets resistance from rural priests – One World Identity
India's national biometric ID program has been embraced in a number of sectors, including attendance tracking at schools and among government employees. But opposition to the system from rural priests has led to special exemptions for some.
Priests in small temples contended that the new biometric attendance system would hurt morale, as they lack the flexibility that some employ, according to The Hindu.
Specifically, many priests work long hours that go well beyond typical time periods for clocking in and out. And there is no process for when a priest leaves town on business or must leave due to illness, or when a replacement must fill in at the last minute.
As a result, the Archaka Welfare Fund Trust passed a resolution that will implement the biometric system in major temples, but will exempt some 3,000 priests from needing to participate. The AWFT plans to revisit the issue at a later date, when it can solidify more comprehensive service rules.
The biometric system is tied to India's Aadhaar system — a unique 12-digit identity number assigned to each resident. Aadhaar can be tied to an Indian citizen's fingerprint, iris, or both, allowing users to securely access services or verify their presence.
The Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System, or AEBAS, is used to track the work attendance of government employees. By requiring workers to log in and out with a fingerprint or iris scan, the government has worked to improve efficiency, ensuring that employees arrive on time and do not leave early.
To push the system, India's government has gone as far as to require colleges to track biometric attendance, or else lose their federal funding. Biometric attendance is also used in the nation's hospitals.
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The toy itself has been under development for more than a year, and is finally available for purchase – if you can find one. It's an unusual amalgam of a physical toy and a voice operated choose-your-own-adventure game, and because it's partly web based, it's constantly evolving and growing.
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ZYRA I. YOUNGBLOOD, Plaintiff,v.CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant.
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Before the Court is the Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Charles H. Weigle. (Doc. 17). The Magistrate Judge recommends affirming the Commissioner of Social Security's decision to deny Plaintiff Zyra I. Youngblood's application for benefits. The Plaintiff has objected to the Recommendation (Doc. 19), and the Commissioner has responded (Doc. 20). The Court has reviewed the Recommendation and has made a de novo determination of the portions of the Recommendation to which the Plaintiff objects. The Plaintiff's objection largely reiterates the arguments made in her initial brief: the administrative law judge ("ALJ") erred in discounting (1) the opinion of Dr. Woody, a consultative examiner; (2) the opinion of Dr. Southerland, a treating physician; and (3) evidence regarding the Plaintiff's alleged side effects from medication.
The Plaintiff initially argues the ALJ erred in failing to find that she suffered from "severe" impairments other than asthma. However, the Eleventh Circuit has noted that failing to find a particular impairment "severe" at step two of the analysis is generally harmless as long as "at step three, the ALJ... demonstrate[s] that it has considered all of the claimant's impairments, whether severe or not, in combination." Heatly v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec., 382 F.App'x 823, 825 (11th Cir. 2010). It is apparent the ALJ considered all of the Plaintiff's impairments at step three by finding the Plaintiff did not have "an impairment or combination of impairments that meets or medically equals the severity of" a listed impairment. (R. 24). See Jones v. Dep't of Health and Human Servs., 941 F.2d 1529, 1533 (11th Cir. 1991). Thus, reversal is not warranted on this ground.
Regarding Dr. Woody's opinion, the Plaintiff continues to argue the ALJ erred by failing to discuss Dr. Woody's individual findings. However, an error[1] to assign weight to every portion of a medical opinion when rejecting it is harmless as long as the ALJ's "rejection of the portions of [the] opinion that are inconsistent with the ALJ's ultimate conclusion [is] based on substantial evidence." Newberry v. Comm'r, Soc. Sec. Admin., 2013 WL 3397672, at *1 (11th Cir.). The Court agrees that the ALJ's decision to reject portions of Dr. Woody's opinion is based on substantial evidence for the reasons stated in the Recommendation.
The Plaintiff also continues to argue that the ALJ erred in discounting the limitations proposed by Dr. Southerland. However, the Court agrees with the Recommendation that the ALJ properly articulated "good cause" for discounting Dr. Southerland's opinion regarding limitations and that substantial evidence supports her decision.
Finally, the Plaintiff argues the Magistrate Judge improperly found there was no medical verification for the Plaintiff's alleged medication side effects. The Plaintiff takes issue with the Magistrate Judge's conclusion that the ALJ properly rejected Dr. Southerland's questionnaire which indicated the Plaintiff suffered from constipation and drowsiness as side effects. As stated in the Recommendation, the ALJ discounted Dr. Southerland's opinion because it was "grossly inconsistent with his own treating notes and the evidence as a whole, " thus articulating "good cause" to discount the opinion. (R. 26).[2]
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Twilight Canada Day by Eric Oberhauser (2014).
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The aerial photo at twilight depicts strong civic engagement with thousands of people gathering on Canada Day (July 1st) at Mississauga's Celebration Square anticipating fireworks.
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I was recently taking part in an online discussion about Creativity and Innovation when one of the contributors posted something that just stopped me in my tracks. There were a few words about how Creativity and Innovation are not the same (about the only thing we did agree upon) and some very logical and left brained words about how Innovation can be managed and then the line "Creativity cannot be managed".
How come you cannot manage Creativity, but you can manage Innovation (which contains Creativity)? The rest of the article led me to believe that the author did not have a realistic grasp of the situation. As the person was obviously keen on following manuals to the letter, I had to agree that there is no manual for Creativity (one of my slogans as it happens), but we know enough to be able to manage creative and idea generating processes very successfully indeed.


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Xperiel, a Sunnyvale, California-based Internet of Things (IoT) company formed by a group of former Google engineers, received $7 million in funding from several high-profile Silicon Valley investors. Those investors include Sun Microsystems' co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Stanford president John Hennessy, Intuit's Scott Cook, Google board member Diane Greene, and Uber founder Garrett Camp.
Xperiel founders — brothers Alex Hertel, CEO, and Philipp Hertel, CTO — say they will use the funding to grow the company's sales and marketing organization and to recruit engineering and leadership talent for the team.
Xperiel's founders say the company is different from other IoT startups because its platform provides an orchestration layer for what it calls the "Real World Web" and makes it possible to connect cloud-based applications and deliver "mixed" reality experiences to any operating system or connected device.
In an interview with SDxCentral, CEO Alex Hertel explains the Real World Web is a way of making the real world digitally interactive. "We are pushing the Internet to the real world," he says.
Specifically, the company is using technology developed by the Hertel brothers when they were working on their Ph.D's at the University of Toronto in 2008. The technology will connect digital and physical assets – such as connecting a stadium scoreboard to digital signage to social channels and the television, and it will deliver interactive marketing experiences to fans in a stadium.
The Hertel brothers do have a history of making successful technologies. They created Walleto, which was acquired by Google to form the basis of Google Wallet.
Because of the consumer marketing angle, the company is initially targeting many sports teams with its technology and so far several are interested in Xperiel. The LA Dodgers are strategic investors in the firm as is the Major League Baseball and basketball star Carmelo Anthony.
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Xperiel joins a number of Silicon Valley startups that are focused on the IoT space. And it's no surprise that so many are devoting time and resource to IoT. According to research firm Strategy Analytics, IoT will be a $150 billion market this year and will grow to $550 billion in 2025.
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Last year my husband left for a few weeks to Colombia, taking with him my little one. It was his first time there and first time meeting his grandfather. So I decided to go to Paris with my older one for a few days. Again this year my husband has gone to visit his family, so I thought, Paris for a few days? Why not. And off we went.
street art and sitting in cafes (not something we can do when the little one is around). Only this year he found his favorite store in the whole wide world (his words, not mine), and he wanted to be in there every day.
This is an excellent place to find a photo booth near you. Our favorite, is the one in Bon Ton because it has wigs, hats and glasses.
Notre Dame (there was always an excuse, or a very big line). This time we finally went in after my son suggested that we go, and also there were no lines.
Pompidou to see Roy Lichtenstein's exhibition, which I think was just perfect, and my son was quite taken by it all as well.
macaron was eaten outdoors because the weather couldn't have been any better.
As much as I love all the stores there and walking and eating, I wouldn't want to do this by myself. I enjoyed being with him again, -it is not as if we never cross words or anything like that at home- but traveling is a different kind of story. It is just us, and I like it very much.
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Divided France braced for vote
Centrist Emmanuel Macron extends his poll lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen on the final day of a presidential election campaign that has turned French politics upside down. Ciara Lee reports
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" and..."Resist" Greenpeace's message to the French people urging them to vote against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. The final face-off between Le Penn and centrist Emmanuel Macron takes place on Sunday - with Macron extending his lead in the polls and expected to win 62 percent of the vote. The election is seen as the most important in France for decades. A poll on Friday showed French voters to be among the most polarised in the EU, with one in five describing themselves as "extreme" and only about a third as "centrist". (SOUNDBITE) (French) PARISIAN FLORIST FOR 37 YEARS, CAROLE, SAYING: "There is one candidate who is a bit mad and a bit scary even, and the other, we are not sure that he is for the small people, he's more for the bankers and those sorts of things, so I admit that I am very scared." Le Pen was booed by protesters on her last day of campaigning. She's used her final speeches to slam independent Macron, who has never held elected office and wants closer European cooperation. Markets remain buoyed by the latest polls, with investors pinning their hopes on stability in the bloc. But could they be celebrating too soon? (SOUNDBITE) (English) LCG SENIOR ANALYST, JASPER LAWLER, SAYING: "Markets not really positioning for any risky event here so it doesn't look like Le Pen is going to win. But should she win, I think the reaction in markets could be a bit more violent because the protection hasn't been taken out the caution hasn't been used beforehand." How Macron would rule France is the next big question. The 39 year old previously served as as Francois Hollande's economy minister. Le Pen says he's a clone of the unpopular outgoing President. An association he might be keen to shake if in office.


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I found another snow scene with Peter Rabbit that I haven't seen before. We can never get enough images by Beatrix Potter, can we? via
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No, never.
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Nor, can I. Your recent Potter postings have been unfamiliar to me, too. You are so right. Can never get enough of them. Pure delight.
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You don't need a gym membership or your own expensive equipment to develop strength and muscular endurance anywhere on your body. For example, body-weight exercises can efficiently target the hamstring muscles, located on the backs of the thighs. Perform two to three sets of 15 to 20 repetitions to get the best results.
Hamstring Curl
The hamstring curl strengthens your hamstring muscles while gently stretching the quadriceps. Stand with your feet slightly apart and grab a wall or sturdy chair for balance. Contract your abdominal muscles and stand with your torso erect. Transfer your weight to your left foot and then slowly lift your right heel toward your glutes by contracting your hamstring and bending your knee. Pause at the top of the movement and then, with control, lower your foot back to the floor. Complete the desired number of reps and then perform the curl with your left leg.
You can also perform this exercise lying down. Lie face down on the floor with your legs extended. Slowly bring your right heel toward your glutes, pause, and then lower back down. Repeat the exercise with your left leg.
Reverse Plank
The reverse plank isolates the hamstrings and glutes while strengthening your abdominal muscles. Sit on the floor with your legs extended to the front and your toes pointing up. Place your hands on the floor on either side of your hips with your fingers pointing to the front. Stabilize your core and push your heels and hands into the floor. While you maintain this position, slowly lift your butt off the floor to straighten your hips. Allow your toes to move forward with each lift. Squeeze your glutes at the top of the movement and then return to the floor.
Air Squat
Air squats work the majority of the lower body muscles, including the hamstrings, quadriceps and glutes. Stand with your legs shoulder-width apart and your toes pointing forward or slightly out. Stabilize your abdominal muscles and straighten your back. Position your arms to the front to use them for balance. Slowly bend your hips and knees to lower into a squat position, keeping your torso erect. Push through your heels to straighten your legs and return to the starting position.
Floor Hip Extension
The hip extension targets the hamstrings and the gluteus maximus muscles. Begin on all fours with your elbows directly below your shoulders and supporting your upper body. Your knees should be aligned directly below your hips. Pull your belly button into your spine and stabilize your core muscles. Extend your right leg straight behind you. Keeping your leg straight, lift it as high as possible without twisting your hips. Pause at the top of the movement and then lower your leg back to the floor. Complete the desired number of reps and then switch to your left leg.


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Jiah back in her ever-so-sexy avtar
Her debut film NISHABD may have come and gone but Jiah Khan is hardly feeling down.
In fact after being appreciated unanimously for her work even in the presence of Amitabh Bachchan, she continues to enthrall the audience. How? Well, the music video of her track TAKE LITE that was surprisingly not found in the film, has finally found it's way on the music channels.
Jiah had not just appeared in the music video of the track but had also sung for it. But strangely the song wasn't promoted at all with only Big B's 'Rozana' being the focus of film's promotion.
Nevertheless the wait has been worth it with Jiah living up the hype of being a stunner as she creates a sizzling impact on the screen. Not just she looks terrific and hot, she also gains brownie points for sheer confidence with which he makes her moves.
Appearing as a video straight from the West [watch out for the cinematography, dance moves and overall setting], it has that sensual effect that justifies the term 'erotic'. Add to that Jiah's shapely curves at just the right places and you know that she would be ruling the tinsel world soon


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THETFORD — Middlebury Union High School junior Max Moulton and Vergennes senior Shep Carter posted the top local finishes on Saturday at the 22nd annual Woods Trail Run in Thetford cross-country race, a major regional event that drew hundreds of runners to Vermont from dozens of high schools from all six New England states.
Moulton finished 29th among roughly 600 competitors on the challenging, hilly 5-kilometer course in 18:01.30, and Carter was 78th in 18:44.99.
By the time my nephew Michael was 13 years old, he was not only tying his own flies but was selling them to a local fly-fishing store. These were functional flies; they were tied with the intention of being used to catch fish. But Michael was an artist. He took great pride in his work. He subscribed to a magazine devoted not to fly-fishing but just to the tying of flies.
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BRANDON — Visiting Fair Haven on Tuesday gave the Otter Valley Union High School boys' soccer team a tougher challenge than the Otters expected on their Senior Day, but ultimately OV's relentless pressure gave them a 2-1 win.
The victory was the Otters' fourth in five games, including a 6-0 victory over the Slaters in Fair Haven on Oct. 1.
Senior striker and co-captain Jeff Corbett said they didn't play as well this time, despite OV's advantages of 32-8 in shots at goal and 8-1 in corner kicks.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited David G. Kloepfer, 34, of Middlebury, for driving under the influence of alcohol, following their investigation of an accident off Lower Plains Road on Oct. 2. Police allege that Kloepfer left the accident scene to return home. Police said they measured Kloepfer's blood-alcohol level at 0.182 percent.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
• Served a no-trespass order on a man who was acting strangely and who allegedly threw a cup of water at a worker at a Court Street business on Oct. 1.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on Oct. 3 went to Middlebury to arrest a city man for heroin possession.
The arrest was triggered when Middlebury police stopped Mark Kennedy, 25, on Creek Road in Middlebury. Middlebury police had been told by Vergennes police that Kennedy was a drug suspect, and asked to search the vehicle. He did not give consent, but the owner of the vehicle, who Vergennes police described as Kennedy's girlfriend, did give consent.
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George Allen's widow has been the caretaker of items from the late coach's decades-long career. Now, though, it might be time to sell.
He never could give it up.
George Allen was 71 when he took over the football team at Long Beach State. That was nearly 20 years ago. He coached just one season, resurrecting a nearly extinct program. Allen died on New Year's Eve, 1990–suffering a heart attack just weeks after being drenced with a Gatorade shower by his happy players who were enjoying their first winning season in years.
His real fame, though, came in the 1960s and 70s when he was considered one of the NFL's best coaches, heading up the Rams (three times) and the Redskins. Washington was a great place for Allen, who was a friend to presidents throughout his life.
Allen's considerable accumulation of memorabilia and coaching artifacts is still hanging where he left it. His wife Etty, however, is considering the possibility of turning it over to auction.
The Long Beach Press-Telegram was there when she gave a tour to SCP Auctions and other friends.


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Help these fruit trees recover from two bad winters
The winter of 2013-'14 killed the stems of most of the figs in southern Maryland. However the roots were still very much alive and generated an abundance of new stems from the ground. The robust roots produced stems that were able to produce a few figs. But most stems produced no fruit. They would have this year, except for another killing winter this past year.
At the northernmost range for growing figs, we have to face the fact that extremely cold winters can mean no fruit.
Don't expect to harvest any figs this summer. If the winter of 2015-'16 is equally severe, it is unlikely that roots will be able to generate new growth.
If your fig plants were killed back again overwinter, by now you should see an abundance of new sprouts originating from the roots. Help your fig recover by pruning out dead stems as close to the ground as possible. To encourage the development of strong sturdy stems, break off all weak, thin stems growing from the roots. It's better to break off the stem than to prune it. If you cut away the stem with pruners, chances are a vegetative bud will develop in the axis of the stump of the stem and the root, resulting in the growth of a new stem. Allow at least ___ feet between the best-growing stems.
To break a stem from the roots, I use a four-inch-wide board that's three to four feet long. I place the end of the board near the weak stem and kick it. This causes the weak stem to shear from the roots, making it highly unlikely that another stem will grow in the same area. Do this while the young stems are green. The roots will be pushing up new stems, so you'll have to repeat at least twice monthly to remove the previous weeks' spindly stems.
Once the stems have started to grow, they will benefit from an application of fertilizer at the rate of approximately one pound per 100 square feet. I generally do not recommend fertilizing figs because it makes them grow too tall, producing less harvestable fruit.
Plant fig trees on a slope facing south or against the south wall of a building to provide maximum winter protection. I have all of my figs growing again the south wall of a brick house. This exposure provides more warmth from reflective heat from the building and early warming of the soil, especially when the ground is not covered with snow. The soil in a slope facing south always warms sooner than the soil on a slope facing any other direction.
Ask Dr. Gouin your questions at [email protected] Please include your name and address.
It's harvest time
If you planted garlic last fall, the tails should be at least 24 inches tall, and you should be seeing the tops of the bulbs by now.
If you, like me, planted elephant garlic, flower heads will now be developing at the end of its tall cylindrical stem.
Most German, Italian and other soft-neck garlics do not flower.
On hard-neck garlic, look for swelling and a pale ring forming near the tip. As soon as the swelling appears, remove the flower head using a sharp knife. A friend removed the flower buds by giving the tail a quick snap. In so doing, he pulled the bulbs partially out of the ground, causing his elephant garlic to produce only small cloves. The cloves and entire bulbs were no larger than those of the Italian white garlic growing next to the elephant garlic.
As soon as the foliage starts turning yellow-green, push it to the ground using the back of a rake or by dragging a log or timber over the plants. This will help prevent neck rot, which can result in substantial loss in storage.
Whether hard-neck elephant or German, Italian and other soft-neck varieties, garlic can be harvested for cooking at any time after the stems have fully developed. Cloves will be smaller when harvested early.
Garlic will be fully developed as soon as the foliage starts turning from yellow to brown. If you intend to store some, delay harvesting until most of the foliage has turned brown.
Braid soft-necked garlic and hang for drying. It is impossible to braid hard-neck garlic, so it is best to tie the stalks in bundles of three and create a chain of them to hang for drying. I hang my garlic in a shady area in an open garage so air can circulate freely. Allow three or four weeks for drying before placing them in storage.
All garlics are short-day plants, which is why they have to be planted in the fall when they can be exposed to short-light days after initiating growth. If you wait to plant garlic in the spring, you won't harvest much of a crop.
Poor crops are why this will be the last year I try growing short-day onions. Over three years, I've found the harvest unworthy of the expense, time and effort. Last fall, I planted some in an outdoor bed, some in a cold frame and some in my greenhouse. Only the plants in the cold frame produced decent-sized bulbs.
Our winters are much too cold for growing short-day onions outdoors without some protection. A deep cold frame or tunnel is required. Nor do short-day onions perform well in a heated greenhouse. My recommendation is to grow long-day or intermediate onions, planting in the spring and harvesting in August.
If you planted either this spring, the tails should be at least 12 inches long and growing.
Of the long-day onions, I find Copra to be the best keeper. Our crop of Copra harvested last August lasted through March. Candy and Superstar are sweet and mild but not good keepers. Big Daddy is the best variety for onion rings.
As with garlic, push the foliage to the ground to prevent neck-rot and help your crop store better. After harvest, braid the onions and hang — mine are in the garage with the garlic — until the weather turns cold in the fall.
Help please! The stems of my garlic and of a friend's have fallen this year and are lying limp on the ground.
The garlic should have been harvested as soon as the stems started turning yellow green. It has a bad case of neck rot. Harvest the garlic ASAP and separate the cloves from each bulb, dry them at room temperature and store them in the top shelf of the fridge.
There are better ways than mulch
Do you think the only method of controlling weeds is mulching?
If so, you're likely to add another layer of mulch every time you see weeds growing through the last layer. From there on, mulching becomes a habit.
Mulches control weeds by suffocation and by shading the soil, thus denying the weed seeds the red waves of sunlight. The red wave band of the sun's spectrum stimulates weed seeds to germinate.
But thick layers of mulch also prevent oxygen, necessary for good plant root growth, from entering the soil. Thick layers of mulch also absorb the first quarter-inch of rain or irrigation, keeping it from reaching the soil.
Never apply a layer more than an inch or two deep each per year. Before applying a new layer, always incorporate the previous year's mulch into the surface soil. Where azaleas, rhododendrons and mountain laurels are growing, it is best to remove the old layer. Pine bark is the exception; incorporating it with a steel rake may be adequate.
If the color of the old mulch is not satisfactory, consider spraying it with liquid mulch. Liquid mulches in the same dies used to color the raw wood chips are available from suppliers such as A.M. Leonard.
If weeds are a severe problem, consider covering the ground with landscape fabric before applying mulch. However, if Bermuda grass, pigweed or nutsedge are present, these must be irradiated before applying the landscape fabric because they will grow through the fabric, making it impossible to remove.
Avoid using black plastic around shallow-rooted plants. Unlike landscape fabric, plastic inhibits the movement of oxygen into the soil.
Small weeds in the landscape can be controlled by spraying with horticultural vinegar. Horticultural vinegar contains 20 percent acetic acid and will kill weeds up to about three inches tall. It is also available from A.M. Leonard. If the acetic acid accidently comes in contact with the foliage of desirable perennials, it will not cause any permanent damage.
Before you use an herbicide, know how it works. Preen, for example, is a preemergent herbicide you can use only on clean cultivated soil. As it contains only fluoride, it kills primarily germinating seeds of grass and only a few broadleaf weeds. So it is safe to use near and around ornamental plants, but it is effective for no more than six weeks. Always follow manufacturer's recommendations when applying any herbicide.
What's good and bad for what
Never use colored mulches near annuals, shallow-rooted trees and shrubs or herbaceous perennials. These mulches are made using raw wood that serve as a source of food for microorganisms once it comes in contact with the ground. Microorganisms are better able to absorb nutrients in wood than are the roots of plants. As a result of the competition, plants — including weeds — starve and die.
Use colored mulches only around well-established deep-rooted trees and shrubs, for making pathways, sitting areas and playgrounds.
Use hardwood bark mulches with caution.
Unlike pine mulches, hardwood bark mulches contain up to 60 percent cellulose, which means they will decompose and rob nutrients from plants. They will also raise the pH of soils, making them less acidic. Repeated applications of hardwood bark can also result in the accumulation of manganese. When this occurs, the roots of the plants lose their ability to absorb iron and plant growth declines. Over the years I have seen numerous instances where the manganese and pH levels in the soil were so high that the only solution was total replacement of the soil.
As you shop for pine bark mulch, be aware that not all bark mulches contain 100 percent bark. Some are made by blending one part pine bark and two parts wood chips. These blends are kept moist and turned periodically until the entire mass turns brown like bark.
The truth is revealed if a piece of its wood reveals a yellow to light-brown center when broken. Once applied, fake bark mulches are more easily identified: After they have weathered a few weeks, the tannin-treated raw wood begins to lose its dark brown color.
If that's what you've got, the brown-colored raw wood will feed microorganisms, not plants.
I was once called to investigate problems resulting from a mulch sale sponsored by a grocery chain. A large trailer load of double-shredded hardwood bark mulch had been trucked in and sold at cost. Buyers were immediately returning the mulch, complaining that it was killing their plants instantly. Inspecting the load of mulch remaining in the trailer, I found it contained wood alcohol. I proved the presence of alcohol by cutting open a bag and throwing in a lighted match. The mulch immediately caught on fire. The mulch had been bagged while it was composting under anaerobic conditions, resulting in the formation of wood alcohol.
Marble chips should not be used around plants that require acid soils. Marble chips are essentially chunks of limestone rich in calcium oxide, which will result in making the soil less acidic and eventually alkaline. That will be the death of acid-loving plants such as azaleas, rhododendrons, mountain laurels, andromeda, skimmia and Japanese hollies.
Marble chips are safe around alkaline-preferring plants such as junipers, yews, pines, spruce and cherry laurel.
Avoid using bluestone. I have seen numerous cases where plants have been killed after bluestone mulching. Like marble chips, bluestone contains high levels of calcium oxide. It may also contain metal contaminants, including nickel. The symptoms often go undetected for several years, by which time the damage is irreversible.
It's not there just to look pretty
Good mulch should be dark brown, persist for at least one growing season, be compatible with all the plants in the landscape and control weeds by suffocation only. Superb mulch does all that plus providing slow-release nutrients to feed the plants it is mulching.
Mother Nature provides us with an abundance of mulches every fall. Fallen leaves and pine needles are excellent mulches satisfying every standard except being dark brown. I have never purchased a bag of mulch in my life. Leaves are my mulch. When they decompose, nutrients are released into the soil, thus feeding the roots of mulched plants.
Bark mulches do not contain any of the major nutrients used by plants except for calcium. But bark can contain essential trace elements, such as manganese, that can accumulate in the soil and cause problems. Thus it is important to choose mulch that is compatible with the species of plants being mulched.
If you insist on purchasing brown mulch, I recommend pure pine, spruce or fir bark mulches. These contain 90 to 100 percent lignins, a source of carbon not easily digested by microorganisms. Thus they do not decompose readily and last on the surface of the ground one to two growing seasons. These mulches also contain polyflavanoids, which are beneficial because they help make essential trace elements available to the roots.
Pine bark is available as nuggets, ground or as pine fines. The nuggets and ground mulches are the most preferred. Pine fines are generally only recommended as a soil amendment to increase the organic matter and help in lowering the pH of soils. Pine mulches are acidic in nature.
Pine needles can be used as mulch but have a limited life, lasting only two to three months.
Pea stone makes good mulch providing it is laid over landscape fabric. Brick chips, volcano slag or crushed granite are also usable mulches. But because of their density, they will sink into the soil unless they are placed over landscape fabric.
In the vegetable garden, straw — not hay — works as mulch. Even newspapers can be used, applied in 10 to 15 layers and soaked with water immediately to stop them from being blown away. I use shredded paper because it is easier to spread and, once soaked with water, remains in place better than sheets of newspaper. You need not worry about the ink because most black ink is made from soy while the colored inks are organic. I would prefer the old zinc ink because most of our soils here in the East are low to deficient in zinc, a mineral important in our diet.
Shredded cardboard also makes good mulch. The advantage of using straw, newspapers, shredded paper and cardboard is rapid decomposition without creating nutrient stress. As they are opaque, they control weeds by the shade they create.
Black plastic and landscape fabric also make good mulch. Black plastic mulches prevent the loss of water by evaporation. But these must be removed at the end of the growing season. Landscape fabric has another drawback in that weeds such as Bermuda grass, pig weed and nut sedge can grow through the fabric, making it impossible to pull them without damaging the fabric. Removing the fabric at the end of the season is also harder because of weeds that have grown through it.
Next week, I'll give you more reasons to avoid other mulches.
Oh the harm it causes!
In 1976, I wrote "Over-Mulching, A National Disaster" for a national trade journal. Nasty letters came from as far as Oregon and California. Forty years later, over-mulching has become a monkey-see-monkey-do calamity.
Earlier this spring, I spent several days diagnosing plant problems for several landscape architects. In all but one, the problems were caused by excessive use of nutrient-robbing mulches.
In several instances, well-established plantings of pachysandra were being suffocated by excessive mulch or starved by mulches containing raw wood. Where raw wood was applied around pachysandra, the plants were yellow green and the vegetation sparse. In the areas where four inches or more of mulch was applied, the pachysandra was dead and the stems rotten.
In one landscape, several hundreds of square feet of what was once a well established planting of English ivy was killed after having been mulched with Big Red. About three inches had been applied last year, follow by another application this year. I am frequently asked to recommend an herbicide for killing English ivy; from now on I will recommend a heavy mulching with Big Red. Guaranteed to give 100 percent control, organically.
I saw azaleas with sparse distribution of small purple leaves and struggling in what appeared to be two to four inches of shredded hardwood bark. Soil tests indicated in excess of 300 pounds of manganese. Any level in excess of 80 pounds per acre is considered toxic to the roots of plants. It's clear from the soil test results that shredded hardwood bark had been applied repeatedly for several years. Since the property owner had hired several yard maintenance firms over the years, she was not aware of what kind of mulch had been applied.
In one yard I examined a large planting of boxwood with severe symptoms of decline. Digging around the base of the plants, I saw that they had been mulched several times. Over the years I have seen numerous once-healthy and hardy boxwoods killed by mulch. Boxwoods are shallow-rooted plants and should never be mulched. They are drought tolerant, and enzymes emitted by the roots and leaves prevent many weed species from growing around them.
Most of the landscape maintenance companies were blaming poor drainage for decline or death. However, as I walked on the lawns adjoining these plantings and in the plantings, I saw and felt no symptoms of poor drainage. I augured holes in these areas and found the soil to be well drained.
The only landscape where I did not see mulch problems was in a yard where water coming from a newly installed copper roof had flowed. Here, the decline in growth and the loss of plants was due to copper toxicity. I could easily follow the flow of water from the downspouts and areas where the water pooled. The solution to this problem was to divert the water away from the plants until the surface of the copper sheeting oxidizes to a brown or gray-green color.
More on mulch next week …
Telltale signs, and how to fight back
That black and white bird with a red cap and yellow belly is not a traditional woodpecker looking for bugs hiding beneath bark. At work making numerous holes all in a circle around the trunk of your tree is a yellow-bellied sapsucker, who then sucks sap from those wounds.
In early spring, sap migrates to the phloem, the region just beneath the bark, and these birds are eager to suck those juices. Warm days and cool nights make the sap flow hard and furious, and the sapsuckers know it.
Sapsucker damage is easy to identify because the birds make one-half-inch diameter holes that penetrate through the bark into the cambium region. The holes are one-half to an inch apart and circle the trunk, starting from about eight feet above the ground up to where the diameter of the trunk is about six inches. Sapsuckers generally do most of their damage before sunrise and in the evening.
They generally attack smooth bark trees such as magnolia, maple, cherry, apple, crab apple and ash. But I've also seen their telltale signs on pine and cedar. The damage they do can be fatal to some species. I've seen a southern magnolia so severely damaged that it had to be cut down.
Why sapsuckers attack some trees more than others is not known. I have frequently seen two southern magnolia growing side by side, one showing severe damage while the other showed no damage.
It is not uncommon to see hummingbirds feeding on the sap oozing from the holes as well as bees and wasps when the sapsuckers are feeding in the summer.
Since sapsuckers tend to be skittish, the most effective remedy is to suspend shiny objects to the branches of trees being attacked. Cut 18-inch-long strips of foil six inches wide; twist the foil into long spiral tubes and tie the streamers loosely on branches with cotton string 10 inches to a foot away from the trunk. Space the foil strips two to three feet apart around the trunk. Use cotton string; if you forget to remove it, the cotton will decompose and fall to the ground. Wire or nylon could girdle the branches as they grow larger in diameter.
How to plant spring's flagrant bloomer and its similars
As you continue your spring planting and transplanting, remember that many popular species perform best in acid soils. Among them are the now-blooming beauties azalea, rhododendron, mountain laurel, andromeda, Japanese hollies, deciduous hollies and blueberries. Oak and sweetgum trees also like acid soils.
The best time to transplant these species is early spring and, even better, fall, when they've stopped growing new stems and leaves and are starting to generate and elongate roots.
Pruning is best done just after blooming, but never on new transplants.
Success in transplanting these species can be guaranteed if you follow the following guidelines.
1. Know the Ph of your soil before planting. I rely on A&L Eastern Agricultural Laboratories in Richmond for all of my soil testing. Each soil test should be made from a composite of five or more core samples. Find directions at al-labs-eastern.com.
2. Select a spot where the soil is well drained. None of these species will grow in poorly drained soils.
3. All of these plants — except the trees — are shallow-rooted. The depth of the planting hole should not exceed 90 percent of the height of the root ball. In other words, 10 percent of the root ball should be above grade.
4. Add one-third to one-half compost by volume to the soil you removed when digging the hole. Do not bring in imported soil.
5. Acid soils are generally low in calcium. Incorporate one rounded tablespoon of gypsum (calcium sulfate) to the compost-amended soil and mix thoroughly.
6. If roots are tightly meshed around the outside edge of the root-ball after you remove it form the container, take a sharp knife and slash the roots at least one inch deep from top to the bottom of the root ball at three- to four-inch intervals around the entire root ball. Cutting the roots hastens root growth into the new soil.
7. Water the plant well, even if it is raining, and repeat watering at four- to five-day intervals. Never water plants daily.
To test drainage, dig a hole about a foot deep. Fill with water. Fill it again (some sources say immediately; some say the next day).
Measure the depth with a ruler. In 15 minutes, measure again. How many inches has it dropped? Multiply by four to determine drainage per hour.
Below one inch is poor drainage; over six is excessive. Anything in between is good drainage.
Fruiting plants need feeding
As you move tomato plants into your garden, here's some advice to help improve your harvest.
First, limit the amount of fertilizer and compost you apply when you transplant your tomato plants. Applying too much high-nitrogen fertilizer or high-nitrogen compost will produce extra-large plants and few late tomatoes.
It's in the production cycle that tomatoes need nitrogen.
A fruiting plant must absorb nutrients sufficient not only to produce fruit but also to continue growing, producing more foliage, flowers and fruit. In other words, a mature tomato plant is much like a pregnant woman, eating for two to remain healthy and produce healthy offspring.
That's when the tomato plant is most nutritional needy, too. And that's when early blight strikes.
For a decade I have been studying methods of preventing early blight. Since 2009, I have had no early blight symptoms. I attribute that success to keeping my tomato plants nutritionally happy. Nitrogen is the key to a plant's nutritional health.
Nitrogen passes to upper-growing points or fruit from older leaves. Losing nitrogen makes those leaves susceptible to blight-causing microorganisms. If you supply tomato plants with sufficient nitrogen for the bottom leaves to remain strong and healthy, they are less likely to succumb to infection.
Thus for the past five years, I've scattered a rounded tablespoon of calcium nitrate 15.5-0-0 around the base of each plant as soon as I see the first cluster of tomatoes form. During the growing season, I watch the bottom leaves of the plants closely. When those leaves start to turn yellow-green, I make a repeat application of calcium nitrate. Generally only two applications are needed per growing season.
I selected calcium nitrate because mature plants absorb nitrate nitrogen more efficiently than they do other sources of nitrogen. Plus, the calcium in calcium nitrate helps build stronger cell walls and prevent blossom-end rot. There is lime in the soil, but the calcium in lime is only four percent soluble while the calcium in calcium nitrate is 100 percent available. Calcium is as important in plants for making strong cell walls as it is in humans and animals in making strong bones and teeth.
If you are an organic gardener, apply at least two inches of compost around tomato plants as soon as you see the first flowers. Lobster waste or crab waste compost has the highest levels of calcium of all composted products available. Irrigate through the compost.
Prune buddleia, forsythia, weigela and privet with a heavy hand
To rejuvenate, some plants must have their stems pruned near the ground. The plants I'm describing each have a large root system, so the crowns will send up numerous new stems.
The butterfly bush (buddleia), for example, should have all its branches cut down to within inches of the ground every year in early spring. Severe spring pruning encourages the development of strong stems that will flower more profusely. I use a chainsaw to prune my buddleia at the beginning of March, which encourages the plant to flower sooner.
Forsythia needs proper annual pruning. I make it a habit to prune one-third of the branches on my forsythia plants every year as soon as the petals fall. I start by removing the older stems with gray bark. I then remove all branches originating from the base that are smaller than a pencil in diameter as well as branches that are arching toward the ground. If you allow arching branches to touch the ground, they will root, and before you know it your mother plant will have produced daughter plants, and soon you will have more forsythia plants than you know what to do with. Forsythia grown without pruning will often die because of over-crowding of the branches.
If you've fallen behind on the job, prune both species close to the ground as soon as most of the flower petals have fallen. If you prune now, new vigorous stems will emerge from the roots within a few weeks. Allow these stems to grow all summer long without further pruning. If the plants are in good condition, the new stems will grow to a height of five to six feet by mid July, and their bark will be brownish-yellow.
Weigela also blooms better if one-third of old branches are cut out each year. Use the same approach as described for forsythia, removing the biggest woody branches. Shaped forsythia plants look awful, but weigela can be pruned for size, branch by branch as far back as one-third. Cut them back to a point where two branches meet. Untended weigela can take hacking, cutting all branches back to about four inches above ground level.
Privet hedges that are old or have not been properly shaped often lose their bottom branches and leaves, making them appear top-heavy. Such hedges can be rejuvenated by simply cutting all of the stems very close to the ground and allowing new young stems to grow. The earlier in spring you prune them the better.
The training of a new hedge begins as soon as the majority of the stems have grown 12 to 16 inches. To build a uniform hedge, pull a string the length of the hedge 10 inches above the ground, and prune away all stems that are above the string. Repeat after the new stems have grown another 12 to 16 inches, this time cutting them back to 20 inches above the ground. Continue until the hedge has achieved the desired height.
To retain foliage from top to bottom, always shape the hedge so that the top is narrower than the bottom. If you allow the top of the hedge to grow wider than the bottom, the top will shade the lower branches, which will lose their leaves.
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Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is a viral infection that usually affects babies and children. It can lead to fever, a blistering rash on the hands and feet, mouth sores, sore throat and a poor appetite.
HFMD (hand foot and mouth disease) is contagious and often causes illness within 3 to 7 days after exposure to an infected person. Proper hand-washing, avoiding close contact and cleaning contaminated surfaces and items can help reduce the spread of the disease.
HFMD is caused by a group of viruses known as Enteroviruses. The Enteroviruses called Coxsackie Virus A16 is the most common cause of HFMD. However, in some cases, other Enteroviruses can also cause HFMD.
Symptoms and complications of HFMD
HFMD is highly infectious. It can spread from one person to another through direct contact with discharge from the nose and throat, saliva, infected stools, or fluids from a blister. It takes up to a week for symptoms to appear once a person is infected, though not all infected people develop symptoms.
HFMD usually begins with a low grade fever and general fatigue. A rash of tiny, painful red spots will appear within a couple of days and will soon begin to blister and sometimes form ulcers. These spots may appear:
- Inside the mouth (on the tongue, gums, or cheeks)
- On the palms of the hands or on the fingers
- On the soles of the feet or on the toes
- On the buttocks
The rash is not generally itchy and in some cases, may develop on other parts of the body. Lymph nodes in the neck may also become swollen. The virus can cause the throat to feel sore and painful.
Dehydration may occur as the pain due to the blisters in the mouth can make drinking difficult.
Until the blisters dry, a child is infectious and must therefore stay at home.
Fluid from the blisters contains the virus.
Recovery from the virus is usually within 7 to 10 days. There is no specific treatment for HFMD; however medication may be given for relief from fever and pain.