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eg news, reviews,how to, forums, advisor, videos, downloads.
Can we please amend the PCA web so that these only open up on click of a mouse please, finding it annoying everytime i run my mouse over these that they open the sub menu screen blocking part view of the forum page i am trying to open.
anyone else get this and find it a pain.
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Yes they do open as the mouse glides over them but they do not impede on any of the forum page/pages. Perhaps adjusting your screen resolution may help you.
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perhaps it is just me and i will soon adjust to it
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The menus should not block any of the page content. I've tested on four machines this afternoon, and all is well.
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France is planning to deploy a total of 2,500 troops in Mali, more than three times the number sent so far to its former colony, defence sources said.
The revelation on Tuesday suggests the government is ready to commit to a far bigger, and inevitably far longer, role in the campaign against al-Qaeda linked groups in northern Mali than previously indicated.
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A commander of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, one of the extremist groups controlling northern Mali, taunted the French.
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Big Kenny of the duo Big & Rich and record executive Scott Borchetta will join Naomi Judd as judges for the second season of CMT's popular series, Can You Duet.
Naomi served as a judge on the 2008 inaugural season of Can You Duet, which seeks to find the next hot duo in country music. Big Kenny and Scott, president and CEO of Big Machine Records in Nashville, are new judges for the 2009 edition. Can You Duet premieres Saturday, June 20, at 8 p.m. ET on CMT.
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Looking at seed catalogs AND poultry sites;)
As the chill of winter is coming on fast, I am looking at seeds, planning gardens, and looking at Ideal and McMurray for poultry. I felt that this year was our "learning" year for chickens and I fell in love. I feel more confident now and am looking forward to expanding my flock. I think I have about the right amount of layers, give or take. I figured 5 or so new layers next year would keep things going at an even keel, barring any major tragedy. I am planning on 20 meat birds and decided on the White Rocks for that purpose. I just didn't have good feelings about the Cornish Xs and this way it isn't a major rush to butcher them all by a certain age. I want to try 2-3 turkeys as well. I had a friend that kept a big old broad-breasted Tom in with the chickens and they all did fine. Was this just luck on her part? I'm prepared to keep them separate but it sure would be easier to mix them. Then, I'm also getting about 20 guineas of mixed variety. This property has almost always had guineas on it from what I understand and many of them met their demise on the road. We are in the "country" but the vehicles travel too fast down the road. I don't want to set them up for failure but I do want to cut the grasshopper and stink bug infestations that we have. So, I'm excited!!!! Has anyone raised their own turkeys for the table and what did you think? Lori
When I was a kid, we had an old-time farmer for a neighbor and he allowed his Bronze tom turkey to run with his chickens with never a problem. We ourselves had 5 white turkeys that lived with our chickens during the day (they roosted high on the horse corral fence at night, chickens in the coop) with no problems--but we raised them from poults so they were very tame & calm. They were for meat, and were processed at one year of age--3 females and two males.
I had a female Bronze turkey that we got as an adult a few years back, that blended in seamlessly with our existing flock, she even went into the coop with them at night, although she didn't roost with the chickens. Everything was fine for about a year and a half, until one day when I was out in the yard and witnessed her out of the clear blue, reach over and grab my favorite white cochin hen by the neck and shake her until she was dead--it took about 3 seconds. :( It was over before I even moved, and was an unprovoked attack. We got rid of the turkey after that.
I think the trick is to raise the birds together from babies. Guineas are supposed to be fantastic at bug control. And those turkeys we raised for our table were delicious...although two were so big they didn't fit in my mom's oven, and we had to cook our Thanksgiving dinners two years in a row over at the high school, which was luckily right next door. :) Hurray for small towns!
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A little less than a month ago CyanogenMod 9 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) was released with a lot of excitement, but now with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean being all the rave I can see an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM release being easily overlooked. Nonetheless, this is CM and their legions of fans will be happy to know that CM9 RC2 is now available for download including support for several new Samsung Galaxy devices:
AT&T's Motorola Atrix 2 Android 4.0 ICS Update Leaked
The last time we heard about an Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Motorola Atrix 2, it was supposedly due by Q3 of this year. It seems as if Motorola is working hard in keeping that promise as an ICS build has been spotted in Motorola's internal servers. The new build will bring the Atrix 2's software version to 67.21.123.
The Atrix 2 has been a forgotten phone these days, but I'm sure an update to ICS would be great for the phone and its owners. Although if you're a little impatient, the developers over at XDA are looking into this leaked build as we speak and could be releasing a flashable build in the near future. Hit up the source link for further information and progress the the developers are making on this leaked build.
source: XDA
Thanks to CyanogenMod team, Jelly Bean (CM10) preview now available for International Samsung Galaxy S III (I-9300)
Yesterday we reported that an early build of CyanogenMod 10 was released for several US Samsung Galaxy S III variants. The T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T Galaxy S III all got a taste of Jelly Bean and now it seems as if the international I-9300 S III has received the same treatment. So far WiFi tethering and the FM radio are quite buggy and still need some time to be worked on. While the camera works, it's quite unstable and FC's on occasion.
Keep in mind that these are just "preview" builds and aren't meant for daily use just yet. One thing I have learned in my experience of rooting is that you never doubt these developers. In due time I'm sure they will iron out the remaining kinks and continue to refine the ROM. If you have an international Galaxy S III and interested in giving this a shot, then head over to the source link for instructions. Enjoy!
source: XDA
ClockworkMod Recovery Now At Version 6 For The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Smartphone
The greatest custom recovery has just gotten its latest update for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. ClockworkMod Recovery has just hit version 6 and is available for both the GSM and CDMA flavors of the phone. As expected, the new update will be some changes which includes the following features too:
- New backup format that de-duplicates data between backups.
- Faster backups.
- Fixed restores > 2GB.
- Minor UI tweaks (new background, animated Android)
If you're rooted and itching to get in on some custom recovery action, you'll find additional details once you check out the source link below.
source: Koushik Dutta+
Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean AOSP ROM now available for the Nexus S
Nexus S owners can now enjoy Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean AOSP courtesy of XDA member legolas93. All you have to do is download the files from the below links. After that, make a full wipe of data/system and flash in this order: the ROM, Superuser (Chains DD), and Gapps. As always, for more information, hit up the source link.
source: xda
Nexus Q Receives CyanogenMOD 9 Port [Video]
The Google Nexus Q has been quite the ambiguous device. Some just don't quite know what to make of it and what its true potential could be. I feel the sky is the limit on the Nexus Q's potential, and yesterday has proven just that with the first port of the much popular CyanogenMOD 9 ROM on the device.
With the Samsung Galaxy Nexus' source and repositories, the independent developer with the YouTube name of kornk00 was able to port the ROM right over. While WiFi, Bluetooth, and other things are working, sound is currently not working and the system UI crashes frequently. It is safe to say that this is still a work in progress and far from being ready. Surprisingly, Bluetooth pairing does work without the need of a third party hack and was able to pair speakers, keyboards, and use several remote control apps.
If the bugs and other things can be kinked out, this could be a huge step for the Nexus Q. Running apps and browsing through the internet directly from the Q would completely change the dimensions on what this device is capable of. Check out the video after the break to see CM9 on the Nexus Q.
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CM10 Progressing Nicely On LG Optimus 4X HD Smartphone
Since Jelly Bean's release to AOSP earlier in the week, developers have been busy at work porting the buttery OS to a variety of devices. Naturally, the famed CyanogenMod team would be among the first to get a functional ROM working on a device and so it comes that we see CM10 in all its glory on the sexy and powerful LG Optimus 4X HD. Superstud Ricardo Cerquiera posted a video on both his Google+ and YouTube pages which indicates CM10 working pretty well for the most part including the camera apps, phone app and multitasking looking topnotch. As with most early builds of ROMs, there are still a couple of kinks that need to be worked out— specifically the Google Search app that needs to be tweaked a little.
Naturally this is not available to the public just yet nor do we have an idea of when it will remotely be available. Still, considering the ROM looks smooth and solid for the most part, it's not unreasonable to think the CM10 port will be here sooner than later.
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HTC releases kernel source for both the T-Mobile One S and the Sprint EVO 4G LTE
HTC seems to be running a little slow with kernel releases, but better late than never. They just released the kernel source for both the T-Mobile One S and the Sprint EVO 4G LTE. Again these source codes don't mean much unless you're a developer, but if you own one of these phones, you can be on the look out for better performance from custom ROMs.
source: HTCDev
Samsung releases source code for AT&T Galaxy Note ICS kernel, CyanogenMod Nightlies already available
Samsung has been releasing a lot of source codes lately so it's no surprise the AT&T Galaxy Note Ice Cream Sandwich kernel was just released. In case you aren't aware of it, the ICS update hit Kies a couple of days ago. With the release of the source code, CyanogenMod Nightlies are now supported for the AT&T Galaxy Note. Just hit the source link to get started.
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Simple root toolkit now available for both international and U.S. versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III
I know there are a lot of you that might want to get into rooting and utilizing custom ROMs, but just don't know where to start. Although it's always best to do things the manual way, we can understand why some of you might want something that's quick, simple, and has everything in one place. That's exactly what toolkits do. They allow you to unlock and root your device as well as flash custom recoveries and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Well XDA member mskip has a toolkit available for the international Galaxy S III (i9300) as well as 3 of the 4 U.S. Galaxy S III's (AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint). Obviously Verizon isn't included since the bootloader is locked. The U.S. variants get one universal toolkit, while the international version has its own. Hit the break to see a list of all the features, download links, and forum links.


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I'm wondering about the proper way of allocating memory to a pointer (C/C++ style) from within C#. Then, holding onto that memory for an extended period of time. Also, this allocated memory is meant to be used for calls to DeviceIoControl(). Consider this class:
class Example {
const uint memCommit = 0x1000;
const uint pgReadWrite = 0x04;
[DllImport("Kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern IntPtr VirtualAlloc(IntPtr lpAddress, UIntPtr dwSize, uint flAllocationType, uint flProtect);
struct AStruct {
uint val1;
uint val2;
uint val3;
private static unsafe AStruct* pStruct = (AStruct*)VirtualAlloc(IntPtr.Zero, (UIntPtr)(sizeof(AStruct)), memCommit, pgReadWrite).ToPointer();
public static unsafe void ReadFromDevice() {
// setup the structure for the IOCTL call
pStruct->val1 = 70; //
pStruct->val2 = 0;
pStruct->val3 = 0x0f;
// call P/Invoked DeviceIoControl() here with pStruct as both the in/out pointers
// check that all is well
This whole thing doesn't "feel" right to me, but I've learned enough over the years to not immediately question implementation without studying it. That's what brings me to this forum. I'm seeing behavior I've never seen before.
Using the debugger, I place a break point at the point the pointer is instantiated with the call to VirtualAlloc(). I make note of the address that's given to me (for example, 0x03bf78cc). I also have a break point placed at another function which calls the method, ReadFromDevice(), above. As I step through ReadFromDevice(), I notice that pStruct contains a different address than the one that was allocated when the program first began. The value of pStruct has changed from my number above to, let's say, 0x03cd9004.
I've worked with calling into the Kernel32 function DeviceIoControl() before and the method used there was to instantiate a pinned GCHandle to the data structure being used in the call to DeviceIoControl(), make the call, copy out the appropriate data and then free the handle. This approach seems less error prone and keeps in consistency with the model of allocating and freeing unmanaged memory as quickly as possible.
As I mentioned, the approach used in the code I'm into now just doesn't "feel" right, but I'm not sure about why. I've turned up nothing with searches on Google for things like "c sharp memory address changed after alloc" and so forth. Should this approach be changed? (In the past, I've used pinned GC Handles.) Is the above approach sound? Regardless, why would the pointer say one memory address during program startup and then another when the ReadFromDevice() call is actually performed? As I write this post, I'm wondering if the change in address is as "odd" as I first thought. Nevertheless, I'm still questioning this use of pointers. Please advise.
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In the summer of 1955 New England lay shimmering under one of the worst heat waves of the century. But don't try to verify this in any of the weather annals. No, this heat was intolerable not because of record-setting temperatures but because of what seemed like an unending succession of sweltering days. Swimming pools that summer were so swarming with people you couldn't swim a stroke, and beaches were so littered with bodies you couldn't walk fast enough to let the air move around you. Movie theaters, because they advertised their air-conditioning in icy blue letters, did record business, and stores that sold Popsicles, electric fans, or cold beer were certain to sell out. If you lived in a city and could leave, you left.
In 1955 my family was one of the lucky ones who could escape. My father, Robert Finley, was an editor at Harrison House, and he was not often required to be in his office during the summer. He frequently brought his work home to read and edit anyway. My mother, Doreen, taught English at Westcott College for Women -- as it was called then -- and always had the summer off. So, after the middle of June, when my sister, Janie, and I finished our week of French camp, our family headed for the cool green hills of Vermont and left behind our fellow Bostonians, stuck to the city and each other with their own sweat. That summer Janie was eight and I was eleven.
In Vermont we rented a large old Victorian house with a huge front porch that tilted toward New Hampshire. The house was in the middle of an empty, sun-struck field, and less than fifty yards away a stagnant pond steamed and stunk in the heat, but my sister and I were forbidden to mention the smell. Trees were ringed all around us, but not one was within a hundred yards of the house. Standing stupidly by itself, the house looked as if everything had been warned away from it.
My parents' friends, however, certainly heard no warning, for they came visiting in droves. From New York or Boston or Philadelphia, they ran toward Vermont and us like animals that know the forest is burning behind them. When they arrived at our house, they put down their bags, sighed, smiled, and set themselves to days and nights of unrelieved, slightly hysterical, drunken recreation.
Most of my mother's and father's friends were writers, artists, and intellectuals, and many of them were younger than my parents. The few who were married were childless. That naturally made Janie and me curiosities, yet still figures to whom obeisance had to be paid. These were people who worshipped the spirit of youth, if not children themselves. So when the visitors arrived that summer, they brought toys, games, or sporting equipment for us. The problem, however, was that these gifts quickly found their way into the hands of the adults. Late into the night they sat around the kitchen table and played with Janie's Chinese checkers; they used my football in the early evening touch football games; in the heat of the afternoon women and men pulled lawn chairs up to the small blue inflatable wading pool Avis Holman brought for us and sat with their feet in the water and sweating gin-and-tonics in their hands; they played badminton with our rackets and croquet with our mallets; three of my baseballs were hit into the pond; and others put as many miles on our bicycles as we did.
In the midst of all those adults having so much fun, Janie and I were never exactly sure of what to do. We were not invited to join in, and it was clear our presence would be inhibiting. Nothing makes adults more self-conscious about playing children's games than children standing on the sidelines watching.
So how did Janie and I behave that summer? Both of us were, to begin with, inclined toward silence and seriousness, and to that part of our natures we drifted even further. Janie began to lower her gaze (my memory of her is always of her walking with her head down), looking away from the faces of people and down to the earth's surface, to the grasses, plants, weeds, and wildflowers growing there. I, on the other hand, developed and practiced a skill that I continued to sharpen in all the years after: I watched others while trying to remain unnoticed myself.
But all this is backdrop and stage-setting, my attempt to set the time and place of that season's essential occurrence: in the summer of 1955 I met Laura Coe Pettit, and the moment of that meeting was the one from which I began a measurement of time. Clocks and calendars can try to convince us that time always passes in equal measure, but we know better. Our thirty-fifth summer passes five times faster than our seventh, and for years my life speeded up or slowed down according to my meetings with or departures from Laura.
In our rented house my bedroom was right over the kitchen, the room where my parents and their partying friends always ended up because it was the one room where air moved -- the night breeze from the north blew in through the small window over the sink, fluttered the lace curtains, and fanned out through the big, brightly lit space before traveling out the screen door and past the porch where those people who couldn't fit in the kitchen sat. The scene was always noisy; a porch-sitter would tell a story loudly enough so a cupboard leaner could hear it. Laughter was constant, and ranged from one man's slow bass "huh-huh-huh" (a sound like heavy boots climbing the basement stairs) to a woman's staccato, soprano "ih-ih-ih-ih" (a giggle that reminded me of a birdcall). After the phonograph was moved into the kitchen, it never returned to the living room. Beer bottles clinked, glasses rattled, ice tinkled, the refrigerator door opened and closed, and I did my best to sleep through it all.So why, if I could sleep through that commotion, would someone's silence wake me?
When I opened my eyes she was standing in front of my window, gazing out toward the pond. She was smoking a cigarette, and as she exhaled, the smoke billowed through the screen so it looked as though the night were steaming right outside my window.
Though I tried not to, I must have made a sound -- a whisper of sheets as I jerked awake or perhaps my snoring stopped -- and she turned to me quickly and said, "Please. Don't tell anyone I'm here." Her voice had that low, reedy sound of exhaustion in it.
Her request was so urgent I immediately told her I wouldn't say anything, though I didn't know whom I could tell even if I wanted to.
"The door wasn't locked," she said. "I just ducked in here to get away from the party awhile. I thought I could hide here without bothering anyone. I didn't mean to wake you."
I was afraid, but I knew I wasn't threatened, so my fear was the type that people -- children, especially -- feel in the presence of something that mystifies and confuses them. And, of course, I couldn't go back to sleep, so I lay quietly in bed and tried to study this person who had found her way into my bedroom. The moon shone on that warm, clear night, and my narrow, floor-to-ceiling window let in enough light for me to get a look at her.
It's difficult for children to judge someone's height (every adult is tall) without standing next to that person or seeing him or her in a group, but by the way she was framed in my window I could see she was not much more than five feet. I could also tell she was extraordinarily pale because she wore a white shirt and both the shirt and her face had the same bluish-white luminescence in the moonlight. The sleeves of the shirt were rolled to her elbows. Her dark hair was very short, and with the hand not holding the cigarette she ruffled her hair over and over again, a motion so agitated and methodical it seemed she was trying to work an unpleasant thought out of her mind. I couldn't see her features clearly, but I could tell they were small and fine. If it weren't for her voice, I might have thought another child was in the room with me.
She bent over and crushed out her cigarette in the space between the window ledge and the screen. Then, slowly and carefully, as if she were worried that in the dark she might step on a piece of glass, she walked over to my bed.
"Are you Paul?" she asked. "Have I stumbled into Paul's room?"
"Yes," I answered, concerned about how she knew my name when we hadn't met.
"You're going to let me hide in here for a while?"
"Yes, yes, oh, yes -- is that all you can say? Are you going to do anything I ask?" She laughed, a low, soft sound almost like a cough.
I didn't want to say "yes" again. "I guess so."
"You guess so. Well, I guess so too. We all guess so." She sighed and sat down heavily on my bed.
Asleep, I had slid down toward the middle of the bed, but now I pushed my way back toward the top, pulling my pillow under my head.
"What's the matter?" she asked when I moved. "Are you afraid of me, Paul?"
"Not really."
"You're not? That's good. I don't want people to be afraid of me. But maybe you should be. Maybe you should be a little afraid. Just a little."
She was drunk. She wavered as she sat on the bed, as if, without something to support her back, her spine couldn't hold her head straight, and her head moved back and forth slightly, nodding in time to music only she could hear. I could smell the liquor on her breath, that heavy aroma like something sweet about to go sour. I had learned to identify the smell from my father. He often tucked me in at night, and as he bent over to kiss me, I would sniff his breath and ask, "What's that?" "A fine scotch," he would say. Or "Gin, clear as water," "Vodka, Russia's only current contribution to civilization," "Beer -- and here's one of its kids," and he would belch. To this day I like the aroma of liquor on a man's or woman's breath. For some reason, it reminds me of death, but of a natural, welcome dying, like leaves decaying.
Her speech also told me how drunk she was. I had heard enough examples to know drunken talk when I heard it -- the repetitions, riddles, and pointless revelations, the wide loops and short circles of conversation, the way drunks will grab on to your name and wave it around to show how strong their grip is. It was important, I knew, to be patient with them and polite, and soon they would lose interest and leave you alone.
However, I did not want her to leave me alone. As bewildered, apprehensive, and uncertain as I was about her presence, I still wanted her to stay. At eleven, though baseball and the Boy Scout manual dominated my life, another part of me escaped their rule. This was the part interested in, among other things, romantic novels about errant knights and endangered maidens. And I did more than read about the subject. More than once I had climbed the stairs with an imaginary sword in my hand and a cascade of bloodied foes behind me. When I reached the tower (my room) I burst through the door, ready to rescue the diaphanously gowned woman who was lashed to a chair just the way the woman was on the cover of Montaldo's Revenge, a paperback lying around the house that summer. (The ropes crossed her breasts in an X, and high on her bare arm was the red mark of the lash.) No doubt this play was part of my awakening sexuality, but I wasn't yet aware of it. And now a peculiar version of my fantasy was coming true. A beautiful young woman was in my room, though I, without sword or shield, was probably the one in need of rescue. I slept in my underpants, and I tried to pin down the sheet that covered me by unobtrusively pressing down on one of its folds with my forearm.
After peering around the room, she said, "Are we going to keep this in the dark or can we have some light?"
"I don't care."
She reached over to my bedside table and groped around the lamp until she found the little chain that turned on the light. At the sudden brightness, she covered her eyes and turned her head. "Oooh," she said painfully, "maybe that wasn't such a good idea."
Wanting to please, I asked her if she wanted me to turn it off.
"No," she said, lifting her head, "I'll learn to live with it."
When she uncovered her eyes, I noticed something I hadn't seen in the dark. Under her right eye she had a thin red scar, a crescent that followed perfectly the bone of the eye socket. On another face, one not as unlined as hers, it might not have been as noticeable, since it was right where circles form. But on her small, pale, unblemished face it drew my attention and would not let it go. I liked the scar immediately; it was not disfiguring, and it gave her a look of danger and worldly experience. Here was someone, no matter how young she may have looked, to whom things happened, and she had a scar to prove it.
Does it go without saying I was already in love? Why wouldn't it have been so? Consider what elements worked together to move my heart. Here was an adult who had left the company of other adults to be with a child (that was my interpretation anyway). A pretty woman teetering on the ledge of who-knew-what drunken impulse. Moonlight. The sound of revelry below. My near nakedness. Sleep still in the corner of my eyes. How could I have resisted?
"Now that you've got me here," she said. "What are you going to do to entertain me?"
"I don't know." I had reached the point where my tongue-tiedness was the result, not of nervousness at saying the wrong thing, but of the fervent wish to say the right thing. The responses in either case might have been the same -- timid monosyllables and phrases of uncertainty -- but the motives were completely different, one rising from fear and the other from love. The truth was, I was shy, though that fact usually caused my parents more consternation than it did me. In fact, I had caught on to using it as an excuse to get me through uncomfortable situations. Rather than make the awkward attempt at conversation with people I had newly met, I held my tongue and waited for Mother or Father to say, "You'll have to forgive Paul, he's shy." But, oh, how I wanted now to be one of those unself-conscious, glib children who could yammer his way to endearment.
From the floor beside my bed she picked up my copy of Boy's Life. "Is this yours? Are you a Boy Scout?"
"And are you honest and trustworthy and loyal and true and always prepared, and do you help old ladies across the street?"
"Sometimes. If I'm around, I mean."
"But if you're not around, then they're on their own, right?" She began to page through the magazine.
"I guess."
She stopped when she came to the section in the magazine about a heroic deed a Scout had performed. The feature, printed like a comic strip, was my favorite in the magazine.
"Look at this," she said. "This boy rescued three of his friends when their boat tipped over. Wasn't that brave of him?" She closed the magazine but kept her finger inside on the page.
"Would you do that, Paul? What if I were drowning -- would you rescue me?"
"I don't have my Lifesaving Badge." What a terrible answer! Once again, I had allowed my literal-mindedness to get in the way of the heroic gesture.
"So you'd let me drown?""No...I'd try.""What if I pulled you down with me? What if we both drowned? What then?"
I hated the turn this talk had taken. It had become the kind of conversation designed to show children they were wrong to be certain of anything. My father was a master at this -- the series of unanswerable questions that left you unsure of your own existence, which was exactly what he wanted.
"There are things you can do," I said, struggling to show her my authority, "if the person you're trying to save isn't...is fighting you -- "
She interrupted, "The best thing you can do is let go. Just let go and save yourself." She opened the magazine again and tapped the page where the Boy Scout was saving his friends. "And you can tell them I said so."
She flipped through the magazine until she got to the back pages and the advertisements for official Scout products.
"I love these," she said, pointing to a picture of a canvas belt with a gold buckle that had the Boy Scout fleur-de-lis stamped on it. "Do you have one?"
"I don't have it here. It's at home with my uniform."
"Your uniform? Oh, I bet you look wonderful in it. Men always look wonderful in uniforms. Soldiers. Baseball players...Mailmen...Boy Scouts...Milkmen...Janitors..." She let the magazine fall to the floor. "You can tell I'm running out of things to talk about, can't you?" She rubbed her eyes with the heels of her hand, and then she smiled apologetically at me.
Another unanswerable question. "I guess."
"I want to talk to you. I want to be able to talk to children, but I can't, I just can't. I don't know what you care about. I never know." She pushed the sleeves of her shirt further up her arms. "You don't understand what I'm talking about, do you?"
At some point I realized I was, in a strange way, in charge of her and her emotions. With my new power I knew it was important for me to be careful about how I responded to her. "I think I understand," I said. Indeed, I believed I did. One of the ways I thought I was different from other children was in an ability to understand the problems of others, including grown-ups. It was not only a mistaken notion, but also an arrogant one.
"Do you?" she said. "I wish you did, but I don't believe you do. You can't."
Then, to show her I was capable of grasping adult difficulties, I said, "Our cleaning lady told me her husband's an alcoholic. She said he drinks every penny she earns." As I said that I imagined, as I always did, Ray, the cleaning woman's husband, emptying rolls of pennies down his throat.
Solemnly, she asked, "And did you advise her on how to handle this situation?"
"Sort of. I told her she should be patient with him."
"Oh, you did? Well, wasn't that wise. Maybe I should tell you one of my problems, and you can see what advice you have for me."
"Okay," I said.
She sat up primly, folded her hands on her lap, and looked straight ahead. "My problem is very simple. It's this: I came to Vermont to be alone with your father, and I can't seem to manage this arrangement."
She must have seen in my eyes what she had done, because immediately she said, "Oh, Jesus, did I say that? Oh, shit!" For myself, I wasn't sure what she had revealed, but from her alarmed reaction, I knew it must have been a revelation both imprudent and profound.
She slid off the bed -- I held on to the sheet -- and landed heavily on the floor. She thumped down so hard I thought they might hear her downstairs and someone might come. In spite of everything, I still did not want that to happen. She clapped her hand to her mouth so hard it seemed she was trying to stop her breath.
Then, quickly, she turned to me. "I didn't mean to say that, Paul. Believe me. I'm always opening my mouth and letting the worst, most outrageous things out. Do you know what I think of sometimes?"
I shook my head.
"Have you ever seen pictures of baby snakes? Of those crawling nests of newborn snakes?"
"Sometimes I think that's what lives in my mouth. A nest of snakes. Right under my tongue." She opened her mouth and lifted her tongue. I looked in, not expecting to see anything but wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to peek in where sight was usually not allowed. The talk of snakes and this furtive look into her pink mouth brought inexplicably to my mind blood and heat, the body's interior elements. She quickly popped her mouth shut and then went on talking. "See, I can't keep them from crawling out. Especially when I drink. When I drink I simply cannot keep them in. That's why I write. If I write I can keep them in, or I can let them out one at a time. But you shouldn't listen to me when I say certain things. You shouldn't."
"I won't," I lied.
"I did come here to see your father," she said in a blandly cheerful, unconvincing voice. "But I came because I work for him, in a way. He's my editor. Or he's going to be. He wanted me to come here so we could start working on the book I might do for him." She stopped abruptly and stared down at the floor for a long time. When she looked up again, it was with a different expression, very placid, almost blank. She put her elbows up on the bed like a child saying her bedtime prayers. "I think I'll stop now, Paul. I don't want to say any more, and I don't want to start lying either."
Downstairs someone whooped and shouted, "Azure! Triple word! Thirty-seven!" and I knew they were playing Scrabble, one of the few games I was good at.But right now, my thoughts were hopelessly scattered, like the tiles on a Scrabble board that will not line up to form a single word....
Even if I had the letters, I couldn't have made the word "extramarital" and perhaps not even the word "affair." They were not part of my child's vocabulary or comprehension. Yet for a while I had felt that something was not right in my parents' marriage. Now, with this woman's remark about wanting to be alone with my father and her subsequent consternation over letting that bit of information out, that "not rightness," like a photograph in the first stages of development, began dimly to define itself. I was not sure of the answers, but I thought I knew the questions: Did my father love someone other than my mother? Did he have girlfriends? Was this young woman one of them?
She pushed herself slowly up from the floor and sat again on my bed. She looked carefully around the room as if she had set something down and now couldn't find it. Finally, she looked back at me and let her gaze rest on me for so long I was almost forced into nervous speech.
"You can be quiet," she said softly. "That's good. So many people can't stand silence and they have to fill it any way they can. So we have all this talk, talk, talk." She sighed tiredly. "Don't ever be afraid to be quiet."
I wasn't sure if she was trying to make me feel better about my shyness, or if she was trying subtly to caution me not to tell anyone what she had said about her and my father. I remained quiet.
"Look at your hair," she said. "You must have slept on it funny. It's sticking straight up." She reached out and put her hand on the cowlick at my hairline. She didn't pat the hair or brush it down with her fingers; she simply held her hand there and exerted the slightest pressure. Her hand, like a child's, was small, damp, soft, and cool. I closed my eyes.
She took her hand away and stood up. "I better go downstairs before they start looking for me." She turned out the light. "And you better get back to sleep. Thank you for letting me hide in here."
Before she opened the door, I found my tongue in time to ask, "Are you staying here tonight?"
She didn't give me a satisfying answer; instead she issued an impossible command. "Forget me," she said, her voice even rougher in its whisper. "Forget everything."
* * *
Not knowing that the greatest danger lay in darkness, not in light, I got up early the next morning to protect my family. I wet my hair down so it was stuck to my head, put on a pair of gym shorts and a white T-shirt, and went downstairs. It was Sunday, and everyone in the house was still asleep, everyone except Hal Davenport, who sat at the kitchen table drinking coffee, smoking, and working a crossword puzzle.
The house had that quiet, morning-after-a-party feel that I always loved, perhaps because it meant my sister and I would have the place to ourselves. In the kitchen someone had lined up all the empty beer bottles on the cupboard, and in the bright morning they glistened like brown jewels. On the other side of the sink were the house's ashtrays, all of them full. They were a sign not of slovenliness but of concern. My father would never let anyone dump an ashtray into the garbage before bed. A live ash might begin to smolder while everyone slept. The sink was heaped with dirty glasses, and the room smelled of spilled beer and cigarette smoke.
When Hal Davenport saw me, he said, "Hey, Judge. What's the good word?" "Judge" was my family nickname, awarded to me in infancy because I never smiled.Hal Davenport and my father grew up together in Beckwith, a small town in upstate New York. Hal was starting forward and my father the center of their high school basketball team that took second place in the state their senior year. They were roommates at Dartmouth, and when the war broke out, my father was classified 4-F because of a perforated eardrum, and Hal Davenport was shipped to France, where he lost his right arm in a Jeep accident. After the war he moved to a small town in Maine, where he was sports editor for the local newspaper. "He's a damn good sportswriter," my father often said. "If he'd get out of there, he could do something."
Hal Davenport was one of the few of my parents' friends with whom I felt comfortable. He was talkative, sad, funny, and friendly, and since he didn't fit in particularly well with the rest of their group, he always had time for my sister and me. He wasn't married, and he loved to talk to children in ways that their parents wouldn't approve of, which of course endeared him to children. He had the ability to ask questions that encouraged you to talk about yourself, and he was interested in your answers. And he remembered what you said. If I told him I was playing third base for my Little League team, then the next time I saw him he would ask me how things were on the hot corner.I sat down at the table across from him.
"What's the matter? Couldn't sleep?" he asked. "Was I making too much racket down here?"
Hal Davenport was freshly shaved, and among the room's stale, morning-after smells his aftershave was like perfume. He wore a long-sleeved white shirt, and he had the right sleeve neatly folded and pinned with a small gold safety pin to the front of his shirt. The left sleeve was buttoned at the wrist. On the table next to him were two horseshoes. Even after losing his arm, he continued to play what sports he could; he bowled, he pitched horseshoes, he ice-skated, he even played one-armed golf. When my father introduced Hal Davenport to people, my father called him the world's fastest one-handed typist.
I was tempted that morning to tell Hal Davenport what had happened in my room the night before and to see what advice he had to offer. I decided against it, not because I didn't think he would be sympathetic, but because I still wanted to hoard the experience. Walking about in the sunlight with the previous night's secret gave me a sense of romantic self-importance. I felt very adult that morning, and the scene -- two men sitting at the kitchen table with the remnants of the previous night's party all around them -- only heightened that feeling.
For a while we talked about baseball, inevitably coming around to our favorite topic: who was the better center fielder -- Mantle or Mays? I argued in favor of Mantle; he played in the American League, and I was an American Leaguer through and through. Hal Davenport, a lifelong Giants fan, argued for Willie Mays. "Better arm and more speed on the bases," he said.
Gradually I left baseball in order to creep up on the subject in which I was more interested. (I must have passed, without knowing it, a threshold -- something actually interested me more than baseball.) Pointing upstairs in the direction of the household's sleeping occupants, I casually asked, "Who's here?""I'm not sure. I arrived late last night. I had to cover an American Legion doubleheader. The party was already going pretty good when I got here. Some folks were planning to stay over in Hartley."
Hartley, a small resort town, was twelve miles away.
I said, "There were a lot of people I didn't know either."
"That bother you? Strangers in the house?"
"Not really."
"It would me. But maybe I don't adjust as easily as you do."
"There was one person I was wondering about. She was real short...." I tried to say this as nonchalantly as possible, hoping Hal Davenport would answer without thinking there was anything unusual about my inquiry.
"Short, you say?" He was looking intently at his crossword puzzle, and I was afraid he wasn't paying attention to me at all.
"I bet she wasn't much over five feet."
"I never saw her before. I was just wondering if you knew who she was."
"Oh, yeah." He was still staring at the paper.
"You do? You know who she is?"
He set his pencil down deliberately, picked up his pack of Chesterfields, and shook one up to his lips. He took a book of matches from his shirt pocket, bent a match in half, and scratched the match aflame without removing it from the book. It was a routine I had enjoyed watching him perform many times; now it seemed a delaying operation calculated to torment me.
"I think you are talking about Laura Coe Pettit."
He exhaled smoke through his nostrils, and I let her name run through my mind as many times as I could before he spoke again. Laura Coe Pettit, Laura Coe Pettit, Laura Coe Pettit, Laura.
"And," Hal Davenport said, "she will soon be famous across this land, known by everybody. Well, perhaps not everybody. Everybody who reads poetry. A hundred, two hundred people, maybe."
"She's a writer?"
"Not a writer, Judge. I'm a writer. I get paid for what I write. She's a poet.
That's different. Much higher class. Poets don't get paid for what they write, and nobody reads their stuff. You can see what an exalted plain that puts them on."
I must have looked both pathetic and uncomprehending, because he changed his tone and said, "Okay, I was having a little joke. Don't pay any attention. Yeah, she's a poet. Very hot right now, I guess. Big write-up in The New York Times and even an article in Time, and Time never writes up poets unless they're the old, lovable kind. I can't remember the name of her book; Dreams Women Have, or something like that. I haven't read it, but a lot of folks are talking about it."
"She looks so young."
"Well, she is. Twenty-two, twenty-three, something like that. A real child prodigy. And that's what I thought when I first met her -- a cute, quiet kid. Then she got into it last night with Leonard Shelter, and that changed my mind about her pronto."
I was eager to hear what happened, yet I was a little hurt, too. I wanted her only performance to have been for me. "What happened?"
"You know who Leonard Shelter is?"
I had a vague recollection of meeting a skinny man with a pencil mustache and a big Adam's apple, but mostly I knew him as a name in my parents' conversation.
"He's a writer too, isn't he?"
"Judge, you know too much. Is your dad his editor? No, that wouldn't be right. Leonard's with Random House." Hal Davenport stubbed out his cigarette and got up to get himself more coffee.
I was always fascinated with the way Hal Davenport did things, how the simple, everyday actions that other people were able to perform simultaneously, he had to do serially: first, put the coffee cup down; pick up the coffeepot; pour the coffee in the cup; put down the pot; pick up the cup. Ordinary routines received a special emphasis when he did them, like someone speaking your native language with a foreign accent. Sometimes when no one was around, I would put one hand behind my back and do everything the way Hal Davenport would.
Back at the table he continued with his story. "Someone asked your friend Miss Pettit if she'd read Leonard's stories. She was standing right over there by the sink. Smoking a cigare
Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: "Forget me."
Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, Laura is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.
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511 mix or raybo 3-2-2 for peppers
I have 3 half wine barrels (each barrel can hold 30 gallon or 4 cubic foot ) that i plan on growing numex peppers in (sandia and big jims). 4 plants per barrel.
I have been hearing great things from Al Tapla, Greenmans', and Raybo's mixes. I've decided this year to test them out. Would love to hear feedback and tips. Here is what i have so far.
Ingredients list:
left over peat
turface 50lb
napa dry
granite (tri city rock, granite yield was 70% if you scoop from the top of the piles, fines tend to be at the bottom)
fir bark (osh pathway bark, tri city rock bark fines, yield about 60%)
dolomotic lime
foliage pro
I screened the turface, napa dry, granite in insect screen to remove dust.
I screened the bark through 1/8 hardware cloth found at OSH. I know i screened it for gritty mix but i can throw the bark fines in for 511 mix?
location: eastbay/fremont,ca
511 mix:
could i use 5 parts bark, 1 part turface/napa dry, and 1 part granite?
would there be any hydropohobic issues or moisture retention?
or 5 parts bark, 1 part peat, 1 part granite?
1 tbsp dolomitic lime for each gallon of mix, wait one week for it to be reactive.
Raybo 3-2-2 mix:
I think Raybo uses 3 parts potting soil (sunshine mix), 2 parts bark, 2 parts perlite
I can probably use miracle grow, bark, and sub perlite for granite?
I couldn't find Raybo's fertilizer source:
"I am using a Simplot product called "Landscape Color". It is a 14-14-14 CRF like Osmocote, but it also contains several Micros such as Cu, Mg, S, Fe, etc. While Osmocote costs about $4.00 per pound, the Landscape Color costs about $0.80 per pound in a 50 pound bag."
I think i will try this fertilizer that advetises micros, anybody have any experience with this?
I think the gritty mix would be great as well but it would cost too much, i did test out that mix on a jade plant a neighbor gave me and yesterday transplated some peppers into it. (the green stuff is mg crf, which i prob didnt need as it has no micros and i am using FP)
If your container is going to be on the ground, which technically turns it into a mini raised bed, you can use either soil. If you are going to grow as a conventional container, some version of the 5:1:1 would be better (reduced water retention, which the peppers will appreciate). Whether or not it's wise to include some peat depends on how fine the bark you're using is. Remember that you want to have good water retention with a minimal PWT.
If you have the FP 9-3-6, I don't think you'll be able to beat it by trying various combinations of other fertilizers. If you had to amend it at all, a little KCL is likely all you'd need.
Hey, Bob! Howdy, Al!
Bob, I agree with Al. For the self-watering containers, Ray's mix wicks well.
For traditional containers (even large ones), I go with the less water-retentive 5-1-1.
It looks as though your peppers might be staying a bit too wet...?
Thanks Al and Josh,
I'll be mixing up my first 511 mix this weekend and report back.
Al, KCL is potassium chloride/potash?
Josh, i took those photos right after i had watered that morning and thank you kindly for posting that video on making the 511 mix. Josh, I might try your mix out when i run out of turface as its easier on the pocket book. Where did you get coarse perlite?
Thanks Josh,
Your right, i watered every morning and then set them in the sun. The peppers in the gritty mix has greened up after i skipped watering every day (every other day now). I still have 20 plants that are in the seed start kit that needs to be transplanted.
I was able to mix 25 gallons of the 511 mix with the stuff i have on hand. Good enough to fill 1 half wine barrel and a start on the 2nd.
Josh and Al, do you have any tips on fertilizing? the 511 mix i have is made up of turface, bark, and granite.
do i soak it thouroughly with hose, wait 30 mins then fertilize? If i have 15 gallons of the mix in each container, do i pour about 5 gallons of water, 1 tsp of fp for each gallon?
I will post pics this weekend once I have transplanted the peppers into it.


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Category: Breakfast Idea | Serves: 1
Nutrition Information:Calories: 287
Protein: 32 g
Carbs: 23 g
Fat: 13 g
Saturated Fat: 5 g
Sodium: 1091 mg
Fiber: 15 g
A crunchy and colorful breakfast wrap is ideal for a satisfying breakfast on the go! Your kids will love it, too!
|In a medium non-stick skillet cook bacon until crisp.
|Add green pepper, cumin and crushed red pepper, if desired. Cook for 3 minutes.
|Add egg whites or egg product; cook for 2 minutes.
|Stir in tomato, green onion and cheese. Spoon onto tortilla and roll up. Top with salsa if desired.
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Reviewed By: Vickilb42
This will become a morning staple. Great for an on-the-go breakfast!
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I am making this tomorrow morning. Breakfasts can get a bit boring and "safe" for me. This sounds delicious.
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My boys loved this breakfast wrap. It was easy to make & they can eat it on the way to school. On weekend mornings when ...
|Aug 25, 2008
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I made this for my husband and he said I thought you were on a diet, this doesn`t taste like diet food!!!
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